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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froyo | Froyo may refer to:
Frozen yogurt, a dessert
Android Froyo, version 2.2 of the mobile operating system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SinoVision | SinoVision () is a U.S.-based Chinese language television network. SinoVision has offices in Lower Manhattan, Flushing, and Brooklyn. It has correspondents in Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Houston.
SinoVision was founded in 1990 by personnel dispatched to the U.S. from the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office and its China News Service to counter negative perceptions of the Chinese government following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. SinoVision is formally owned by Asian Culture and Media Group, which also owns the newspaper The China Press.
According to academics Larry Diamond and Orville Schell, "SinoVision’s content echoes China’s official media. The vast majority of its stories about China, Sino-American relations, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other important issues for the PRC government are taken directly from official Chinese media outlets or websites, including CCTV, Xinhua, and the People’s Daily."
See also
The China Press
China News Service
References
External links
Television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1990
Chinese-language television
Chinese-language mass media in the United States
Mass media in New York City
Entertainment companies based in New York City
Organizations associated with the Chinese Communist Party
United front (China) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic%20number%20system | A logarithmic number system (LNS) is an arithmetic system used for representing real numbers in computer and digital hardware, especially for digital signal processing.
Overview
A number, , is represented in an LNS by two components: the logarithm () of its absolute value (as a binary word usually in two's complement), and its sign bit ():
An LNS can be considered as a floating-point number with the significand being always equal to 1 and a non-integer exponent. This formulation simplifies the operations of multiplication, division, powers and roots, since they are reduced down to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, respectively.
On the other hand, the operations of addition and subtraction are more complicated and they are calculated by the formulae:
where the "sum" function is defined by , and the "difference" function by . These functions and are also known as Gaussian logarithms.
The simplification of multiplication, division, roots, and powers is counterbalanced by the cost of evaluating these functions for addition and subtraction. This added cost of evaluation may not be critical when using an LNS primarily for increasing the precision of floating-point math operations.
History
Logarithmic number systems have been independently invented and published at least three times as an alternative to fixed-point and floating-point number systems.
Nicholas Kingsbury and Peter Rayner introduced "logarithmic arithmetic" for digital signal processing (DSP) in 1971.
A similar LNS named "signed logarithmic number system" (SLNS) was described in 1975 by Earl Swartzlander and Aristides Alexopoulos; rather than use two's complement notation for the logarithms, they offset them (scale the numbers being represented) to avoid negative logs.
Samuel Lee and Albert Edgar described a similar system, which they called the "Focus" number system, in 1977.
The mathematical foundations for addition and subtraction in an LNS trace back to Zecchini Leonelli and Carl Friedrich Gauss in the early 1800s.
Applications
In the late 1800s, the Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo conceived a series of analogue calculating mechanical machines and developed one that could solve algebraic equations with eight terms, finding the roots, including the complex ones. One part of this machine called an "endless spindle" allowed the mechanical expression of the relation , with the aim of extracting the logarithm of a sum as a sum of logarithms.
A LNS has been used in the Gravity Pipe (GRAPE-5) special-purpose supercomputer that won the Gordon Bell Prize in 1999.
A substantial effort to explore the applicability of LNSs as a viable alternative to floating point for general-purpose processing of single-precision real numbers is described in the context of the European Logarithmic Microprocessor (ELM). A fabricated prototype of the processor, which has a 32-bit cotransformation-based LNS arithmetic logic unit (ALU), demonstrated LNSs as a "more accu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salary%20calculator | A salary calculator is an online application that provides salary information to the user. The majority of websites offering salary information use a salary calculator function to present this data. The salary calculator will request a search term, city, and state or zip code as an input. Post entry, the application returns a list of job titles that most closely match the search terms. Once the user selects a job title, the application will generate salary information, typically in the form of a graph.
Salary calculators are usually used by employees to evaluate a salary offer, negotiate a pay raise or calculate their post tax income
References
Calculator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Broadcasting%20Company | Eastern Broadcasting Company (EBC; ), originally called Eastern Television (ETTV), is a nationwide cable television network in Taiwan that is operated by the Eastern Broadcasting Group, which also operates the online news site ETtoday. ETTV began channel syndications in the United States in 2003 under the name of ETTV America. As of 2007, Eastern Television has sister channels in South America (as ETTV South Central America) and the People's Republic of China (as ETTV China). In November 2015, Eastern Television renamed as Eastern Broadcasting Company.
EBC Channels
Eastern Broadcasting Company operates several channels:
EBC Variety ()
EBC News ()
EBC Financial News ()
EBC Drama ()
EBC Movie ()
EBC Foreign Movie ()
EBC Super TV ()
ETMall 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 ()
EBC Yoyo ()
EBC America ()
EBC Asia ()
EBC China
EBC Global
EBC Match!
EBC Teenz!
Defunct Channels
ETTV Entertainment ()
ET Today
Media Broadcasting in Singapore
EBC Asia on Singtel TV Channels 13 (HD; Complimentary access) and 521 (HD; Jingxuan+)
EBC Asia News on Singtel TV Channel 561
Media Broadcasting in Hong Kong and Macau
EBC Asia on Cable TV Hong Kong on Channel 331
EBC Asia News on Cable TV Hong Kong on Channel 114
EBC Asia Yoyo TV on Cable TV Hong Kong On Channel 502 (Still available despite the channel went offline)
EBC Asia on now TV on Channel 162
EBC Asia News on now TV on Channel 371
EBC Asia On Macau Cable TV Channel 22
EBC Asia News on Macau Cable TV Channel 26
Media Broadcasting in the Philippines
EBC Movies on G Sat Channel 16
See also
List of Taiwanese television series
External links
EBC
ETTV America
ETTV Asia
ETtoday (Traditional Chinese)
Television stations in Taiwan
Chinese-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent%20Pascal | Concurrent Pascal is a programming language designed by Per Brinch Hansen for writing concurrent computing programs such as operating systems and real-time computing monitoring systems on shared memory computers.
A separate language, Sequential Pascal, is used as the language for applications programs run by the operating systems written in Concurrent Pascal. Both languages are extensions of Niklaus Wirth's Pascal, and share a common threaded code interpreter. The following describes how Concurrent Pascal differs from Wirth's Pascal.
Language description
Several constructs in Pascal were removed from Concurrent Pascal for simplicity and security:
Variant records
Goto statement, and labels
Procedures as parameters
Packed arrays
Pointer types
File types, and associated standard input/output procedures
These omissions make it possible to guarantee, by a combination of compile-time checks and minimal run-time checking in the threaded-code interpreter, that a program can not damage itself or another program by addressing outside its allotted space.
Concurrent Pascal includes class, monitor, and process data types. Instances of these types are declared as variables, and initialized in an init statement.
Classes and monitors are similar: both package private variables and procedures with public procedures (called procedure entries). A class instance can be used by only one process, whereas a monitor instance may be shared by processes. Monitors provide the only mechanism for interprocess communication in a Concurrent Pascal program.
Only one process can execute within a given monitor instance at a time. A built in data type, the queue, together with operations delay and continue, are used for scheduling within monitors. Each variable of type queue can hold one process. If many processes are to be delayed in a monitor, multiple queue variables, usually organized as an array, must be provided. The single process queue variable gives a monitor full control over medium-term scheduling, but the programmer is responsible for unblocking the correct process.
A process, like a class or monitor, has local variables, procedures, and an initial statement, but has no procedure entries. The initial statement ordinarily executes forever, calling local procedures, class procedures, and monitor procedures. Processes communicate through monitor procedures. Language rules prevent deadlock by imposing a hierarchy on monitors. But nothing can prevent a monitor from erroneously forgetting to unblock a delayed process (by not calling continue) so the system can still effectively hang up through programming errors.
The configuration of processes, monitors, and classes in a Concurrent Pascal program is normally established at the start of execution, and is not changed thereafter. The communication paths between these components are established by variables passed in the init statements, since class and monitor instance variables cannot be used as procedure parameters.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe%27s%20Battle%20%28TV%20programme%29 | Sharpe's Battle is a 1995 British television drama, the seventh of a series screened on the ITV network that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. It is somewhat based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell, though the film is set in 1813 on the Spanish-French border, rather than in 1811 on the border with Portugal.
Plot
While on patrol, Sharpe (Sean Bean) and his men rout some French soldiers who have raped and murdered the inhabitants of a Spanish village. Two are captured alive. Their commander, Brigadier General Loup (Oliver Cotton), attempts to bargain with Sharpe for the lives of his men, but Sharpe has them shot in front of him. Loup vows revenge as he departs.
Meanwhile, Wellington (Hugh Fraser) receives unwanted reinforcements from the King of Spain. His Most Catholic Majesty sends his personal bodyguard, the Real Compania Irlandesa (Royal Irish Company), composed of poorly trained men of Irish descent under the command of the inexperienced Lord Kiely (Jason Durr). Wellington does not trust them, not least because of reports in American newspapers that the British are committing atrocities against the Irish people. So he orders the unreliable men to garrison a fort near the French lines, where it will be easy for them to desert if they want to. He assigns Sharpe to train them and puts him under the command of former Wagonmaster-General Colonel Runciman (Ian McNeice).
Kiely's wife, Lady Kiely (Allie Byrne), and his mistress, guerrilla leader Doña Juanita (Siri Neal), both show up in camp. In the meantime, Sharpe has enough time to train the men and strengthen the fort's defences, so that when Loup finally attacks, he is repulsed. Afterwards, Sharpe proposes a quick surprise assault on Loup's headquarters, which is approved by Kiely, Runciman and Juanita.
When Kiely learns that his wife is pregnant, he sends her away, out of harm's way, but she is captured. Juanita reveals herself to be a French agent by giving Kiely a secret ultimatum from Loup. He is to let Sharpe and his men commit themselves to the attack, then abandon them in exchange for Lady Kiely's life.
It almost goes according to plan. Sharpe's men are trapped, though he himself manages to reach Kiely. When Kiely refuses to act, Sharpe fights him, only to be shot in the arm by Juanita. At that point, Kiely finally rebels. He kills Juanita and shows that she had distributed fake newspapers to undermine the Irishmen's loyalty. Together, he and Sharpe lead the attack against the French. Meanwhile, Harper, in temporary command of Sharpe's company, tricks the French by pretending to be dead. The British win the fight - although Harper is devastated by the death of his youngest rifleman, Perkins (Lyndon Davies), killed by a rebel in the Irish Company, who Harper, hungry for revenge, ultimately kills. As the battle draws to a close, Kiely is killed by Loup when he tries to free his pregnant wife. Loup is slain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicru | Unicru was a United States computer software company which produced a human resources software line built to aid companies in evaluating job applicants and their suitability for particular positions by giving them personality tests. Many of their customers were large retailers such as Big Y, Lowe's, Hollywood Video, Hastings Entertainment, Albertsons, Toys R Us, PetSmart, Best Buy, and Blockbuster Video. According to its vendor, Unicru was used in 16% of major retail hiring in the United States as of early 2009.
History
Unicru was founded in 1987 as Decision Point Data and is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. It acquired two other software companies: Guru.com in 2003 and Xperius (formerly Personic) in 2004. The Guru.com URL and logo were subsequently sold to eMoonlighter.com which now operates under the Guru.com brand. In August 2006, Kronos announced it had acquired Unicru.
According to The Wall Street Journal, cheating on the tests, using answer keys available online, became more common during the late-2000s recession, though Kronos denies that cheating is common or significantly affects the test's validity.
See also
Industrial and organizational psychology
References
2006 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States
Software companies established in 1987
Software companies disestablished in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto%20Maturana | Humberto Maturana Romesín (September 14, 1928 – May 6, 2021) was a Chilean biologist and philosopher. Many consider him a member of a group of second-order cybernetics theoreticians such as Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Herbert Brün and Ernst von Glasersfeld, but in fact he was biologist, scientist.
Maturana, along with Francisco Varela and Ricardo B. Uribe, was known for creating the term "autopoiesis" about the self-generating, self-maintaining structure in living systems, and concepts such as structural determinism and structural coupling. His work was influential in many fields, mainly the field of systems thinking and cybernetics. Overall, his work is concerned with the biology of cognition. Maturana (2002) insisted that autopoiesis exists only in the molecular domain, and he did not agree with the extension into sociology and other fields:
The molecular domain is the only domain of entities that through their interactions give rise to an open ended diversity of entities (with different dynamic architectures) of the same kind in a dynamic that can give rise to an open ended diversity of recursive processes that in their turn give rise to the composition of an open ended diversity of singular dynamic entities.
Life and career
Maturana was born in Santiago, Chile. After completing secondary school at the Liceo Manuel de Salas in 1947, he enrolled at the University of Chile, studying first medicine in Santiago, then biology in London and Cambridge, Mass. In 1954, he obtained a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to study anatomy and neurophysiology with J. Z. Young (who later wrote the foreword to The Tree of Knowledge) at University College London. He obtained a PhD in biology from Harvard University in 1958.
He worked in neuroscience at the University of Chile, in the Biología del Conocer (Biology of Knowing) research center. Maturana's work has been developed and integrated into the work on ontological coaching developed by Fernando Flores and Julio Olalla.
In 1994, he received Chile's National Prize for Natural Sciences.
Maturana established his own reflection and research center, the Instituto de Formación Matriztica. In 2020 he was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Cybernetics Society.
Maturana died in Santiago on May 6, 2021, at age 92, due to pneumonia.
Work
Maturana's research interest concerns concepts like cognition, autopoiesis, languaging, zero time cybernetics and structural determined systems. Maturana's work extends to philosophy and cognitive science and even to family therapy. He was inspired by the work of the biologist Jakob von Uexküll.
His inspiration for his work in cognition came while he was a medical student and became seriously ill with tuberculosis. Confined in a sanatorium with very little to read, he spent time reflecting on his condition and the nature of life. What he came to realize was "that what was peculiar to living systems was that they were discrete autonomous entities such that a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20Leadership | The Sydney Leadership program is an initiative of the Benevolent Society, and was started in 1999, with the aim of creating a network of committed individuals working together to bring about social change. It is based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Overview
Each year about 50 individuals from all walks of society, many working at the cutting edge of their communities, join the Sydney Leadership Program. They then embark on a year of intensive courses and activities, which aim to provide participants with
more in-depth knowledge of a range of social issues,
clarity of values and purpose,
greater skills and confidence to act and increased resilience,
greater ability to partner and collaborate successfully,
a broader network across corporate, community and government sectors,
capacity to exercise leadership in challenging environments.
At the end of the year, participants join the Sydney Leadership Alumni Network. Together with alumni from the partner Rural, Community and Youth Leadership programs they form the Social Leadership Network, whose 300+ members form a network of committed individuals extending through key positions in society.
In 2009 the program cost $14,800 per participant.
Achievements
Projects initiated by graduates of the Sydney Leadership Program include:
Cultural/sports event for young refugees
New humanities learning programs in prisons
Rural business development in remote regions
Teaching employable skills to disadvantaged youth
Literacy in Prisons program
Indigenous Leadership Programs
Rural community futures - Moree 2020
Community safety in Armidale
Community Service Volunteer program in Lightning Ridge
Youth unemployment in Wollongong
Women on Boards
Establishing a youth council in Leichhardt
Bridging Generations in Penrith
Uniting Christian & Muslim youth in western Sydney
Building public housing estate networks
Domestic violence – building family support networks
Rural education in North West NSW
Impact on community leaders
Sydney Leadership has a high profile, and has been addressed by many prominent leaders such as the former Prime Minister, John Howard . For example,
Marie Bashir, Governor of New South Wales, said that Sydney Leadership has an enviable reputation for innovative approaches in addressing critical social issues.
Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of Sydney, said Sydney Leadership makes an important contribution to the life of Sydney, working at many levels and across sectors of difficult social issues that lie beneath the surface of any large city.
Bob Carr, as Premier of New South Wales, said We need leaders who have the ability to share information and ideas, to build strong and effective networks, and to engage the community. Sydney Leadership provides an ideal forum for such individuals to broaden their horizons and challenge accepted wisdom.
References
Challenge yourself, change your world : Sydney Leadership 2007. publ: Benevolent Society, Sydney, NSW. State Library o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W227BF | W227BF (93.3 FM) is a translator broadcasting Black Information Network programming from the HD2 subcarrier of iHeartMedia's KQQL. Licensed to Shoreview, Minnesota, it serves the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area inside the I-494/I-694 beltway. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. All the offices and studios are located in St. Louis Park and the transmitter is atop the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis.
History
On April 25, 2006, Clear Channel announced that KQQL's HD2 subchannel will carry a format focusing on hit music from the 1980s. The HD2 station, called Kool 1-0-80s, showcased every song to ever hit the Top 40 in the 1980s.
During summer 2011, the HD2 subchannel changed programming to a simulcast of AM radio station KFXN ('The Score'). On September 8, 2011, the "Score" sports format began airing exclusively on KQQL-HD2 as their former signal (690 AM) was flipped to Asian programming.
In August 2012, the HD2 subchannel was changed back to Kool 1-0-80s, now iHeartRadio's "My 80s", with the same 1980s hits format it had before.
On May 23, 2014, KQQL-HD2 changed their format to urban adult contemporary and began simulcasting on FM translator W227BF (93.3 FM), licensed to Shoreview. Soon after, it started stunting with several types of music, changing every few days.
On June 13, 2014, KQQL-HD2 changed their format to modern rock, branded as "ALT 93.3". The format competed against locally owned KQGO "GO 96.3" as well as Minnesota Public Radio's non-commercial adult album alternative KCMP "89.3 The Current."
KQQL's Kool 1-0-80s format eventually moved to KQQL's HD3 channel, in addition to translator W244CS (96.7) in the Southeast metro. On June 12, 2015 KQQL-HD3 and W244CS changed their format to an LGBT-oriented dance format, branded as "96.7 Pride Radio."
On April 18, 2018, the St. Paul Saints announced that “ALT” would be their new radio home for the 2018 season.
Effective May 30, 2019, Educational Media Foundation sold W227BF and five other translators to iHeartMedia, which already supplied programming to the translators, in exchange for WEKL, WSFF, WSNZ, and WLRX.
On June 29, 2020, fifteen iHeart stations in markets with large African American populations, including W227BF/KQQL-HD2, began stunting with African American speeches, interspersed with messages such as "Our Voices Will Be Heard" and "Our side of the story is about to be told," with a new format slated to launch on June 30. That day, W227BF/KQQL-HD2, along with the other fourteen stations, became the launch stations for the Black Information Network, an African American-oriented all-news network.
References
External links
BIN 93.3
Radio stations in Minnesota
IHeartMedia radio stations
Radio stations established in 2014
2014 establishments in Minnesota
Black Information Network stations
All-news radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-file.lu | e-file is an electronic filing and communication platform in Luxembourg for secure transmission of data, documents and regulatory reports between financial institutions and Luxembourg authorities. It is broadly equivalent to the SEC’s EDGAR system in the USA or the FSA’s GABRIEL platform in the UK.
E-file was conceived and developed by Luxembourg Stock Exchange and Fundsquare in cooperation with the CSSF, Luxembourg’s financial regulatory authority.
Data transmission
It allows both automatic and manual transmission of data.
The e-file platform permits the transmission of formatted documents as well as data flows in XBRL or XML format. This flexibility and the modular architecture make transmission independent from the types of data and documents.
Secure transmission
E-file transmissions take place in a secure environment complying with the European and domestic regulatory requirements through data encryption, 1024/2048 bits SSL certificates and HTTPS connection.
Such secure transmission is used for mandatory transmission of regulatory bank reports to the Luxembourg Central Bank (BCL) and the CSSF.
Bank reporting
E-file is also used for electronic bank reporting required under Basel II, IRFS and MiFID as well as for other legal and statistical reporting to the Luxembourg Central Bank (BCL) and the CSSF. Automated reports are transmitted in XBRL or XML format.
UCI reporting
In September 2008 the Luxembourg’s financial regulatory authority CSSF issued a circular 08/371 resulting in the official adoption of the e-file platform for the mandatory transmission of UCI simplified and full prospectuses and annual and semi-annual reports both to the CSSF and to the electronic reference database of the financial centre’s investment funds set up by Fundsquare.
The platform allows the final validation of the documents that are to be sent.
See also
CSSF Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (Luxembourg)
Banque Centrale de Luxembourg Regulatory reporting
References
External links
Luxembourg Stock Exchange
e-file.lu website
Fundsquare Fundsquare website
CEBS Committee of European banking supervisors
Financial services in Luxembourg
Financial regulation
Regulation in Luxembourg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVCC%20%28disambiguation%29 | NVCC is an initialism that may refer to:
Northern Virginia Community College, a network of community colleges throughout Northern Virginia
Naugatuck Valley Community College, a community college in Waterbury, Connecticut
NVIDIA CUDA Compiler, a compiler for parallel CUDA codes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Orange%20Bowl%20broadcasters | Television network, play-by-play and color commentator for the Orange Bowl from 1953 to the present.
Television
ESPN televised the Orange Bowl game from 2011–2014, as part of the cable network's $500 million broadcast deal with the BCS. ESPN will continue to televise the Orange Bowl through December 31, 2025 as part of its broadcast deal with the College Football Playoff. The Orange Bowl and Fiesta Bowl are the only two bowl games ever to air on all the "big 4" broadcast television networks in the United States (ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox).
Spanish
In 2013, ESPN Deportes will provide the first Spanish U.S. telecast of the Orange Bowl.
Radio
Local radio
References
Broadcasters
Orange
Orange Bowl
Orange Bowl
Orange Bowl
Orange Bowl
Orange Bowl
Orange Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20programming | A geometric program (GP) is an optimization problem of the form
where are posynomials and are monomials. In the context of geometric programming (unlike standard mathematics), a monomial is a function from to defined as
where and . A posynomial is any sum of monomials.
Geometric programming is
closely related to convex optimization: any GP can be made convex by means of a change of variables. GPs have numerous applications, including component sizing in IC design, aircraft design, maximum likelihood estimation for logistic regression in statistics, and parameter tuning of positive linear systems in control theory.
Convex form
Geometric programs are not in general convex optimization problems, but they can be transformed to convex problems by a change of variables and a transformation of the objective and constraint functions. In particular, after performing the change of variables and taking the log of the objective and constraint functions, the functions , i.e., the posynomials, are transformed into log-sum-exp functions, which are convex, and the functions , i.e., the monomials, become affine. Hence, this transformation transforms every GP into an equivalent convex program. In fact, this log-log transformation can be used to convert a larger class of problems, known as log-log convex programming (LLCP), into an equivalent convex form.
Software
Several software packages exist to assist with formulating and solving geometric programs.
MOSEK is a commercial solver capable of solving geometric programs as well as other non-linear optimization problems.
CVXOPT is an open-source solver for convex optimization problems.
GPkit is a Python package for cleanly defining and manipulating geometric programming models. There are a number of example GP models written with this package here.
GGPLAB is a MATLAB toolbox for specifying and solving geometric programs (GPs) and generalized geometric programs (GGPs).
CVXPY is a Python-embedded modeling language for specifying and solving convex optimization problems, including GPs, GGPs, and LLCPs.
See also
Signomial
Clarence Zener
References
Convex optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HECToR | HECToR (High End Computing Terascale Resource) was a British academic national supercomputer service funded by EPSRC, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and BBSRC for the UK academic community. The HECToR service was run by partners including EPCC, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG).
The supercomputer itself (currently a Cray XE6) was located at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The first phase came on line in October 2007, and, by the time it was decommissioned, it had been upgraded to Phase 3 configuration, with a peak performance of over 800 teraflops. Its successor is called ARCHER.
Hardware
HECToR's hardware configuration has been progressively upgraded since the system was first commissioned.
Phase 1
HECToR's initial configuration, known as Phase 1, featured 60 Cray XT4 cabinets containing 1416 compute blades, giving a total of 11,328 2.8 GHz AMD Opteron processor cores, connected to 576 terabytes of RAID backing storage, later increased to 934 TB. The peak performance of the system was 59 teraflops.
In August 2008, 28 Cray X2 Black Widow vector compute nodes were added to the system. Each node had 4 vector processors, giving a total of 112 processors. Each processor was capable of 25.6 gigaflops, giving a peak performance of 2.87 teraflops. Each 4-processor node shared 32 gigabytes of memory.
Phase 2a
In the summer of 2009, the XT4 cabinets were upgraded with quad-core 2.3 GHz Opteron processors with 8 GB memory each. This doubled the number of processor cores to 22,656, and increased total system memory to 45.3 terabytes. Peak performance was increased to 208 teraflops.
Phase 2b
The Phase 2b upgrade, performed in 2010, involved installation of a new 20-cabinet Cray XT6 system featuring 12-core Opteron 6100 processors, giving a total of 44,544 cores and a peak performance of over 360 teraflops. At the same time the existing XT4 system was reduced to approximately half its original size. A further upgrade took place later in 2010 to replace the SeaStar2 interconnect with a new interconnect technology, codenamed Gemini.
Phase 3
The Phase 3 upgrade took place in November and December 2011. It involved extending the XT6 system to 30 cabinets containing 704 compute blades, and upgrading the processors to 16-core, 2.3 GHz Interlagos Opterons, giving a total of 90,112 cores. The operating system was also upgraded to CLE 4.0.
Software
HECToR's operating system is Cray Linux Environment (CLE), formerly known as UNICOS/lc. A variety of applications, compilers and utilities are available to users.
HECToR supports four compiler suites:
PGI compilers (v7.1-4) - pgf90, pgf77, pgcc, pgCC.
Pathscale compilers (v3.1) - pathf90, pathcc, pathCC.
GNU compilers (v4.2.3) - gfortran, gcc.
Cray compilers.
Compilation for the HECToR backend nodes is facilitated through the Cray compilation scripts: ftn, cc, and CC.
References
External links
Computer science instit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20database | In computing, an active database is a database that includes an event-driven architecture (often in the form of ECA rules) that can respond to conditions both inside and outside the database. Possible uses include security monitoring, alerting, statistics gathering and authorization.
Most modern relational databases include active database features in the form of database triggers.
References
Types of databases
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20National%20Rail%20Administration | The Norwegian National Rail Administration () was a government agency responsible for owning, maintaining, operating and developing the Norwegian railway network, including the track, stations, classification yards, traffic management and timetables. Safety oversight was the duty of the Norwegian Railway Inspectorate, while numerous operating companies run trains on the lines; the largest being the state owned passenger company Vy (formerly NSB) and the freight company CargoNet.
The administration operated all railways in Norway, except public station areas and freight terminals built before 1997 and private sidings. All track is standard gauge, with a total of , of which is electrified, and is double track. The Norwegian Railway Museum was a subsidiary of the rail administration.
On 1 December 1996, NSB was split up; formally NSB and the inspectorate were demerged from the National Rail Administration, and NSB made a limited company. All three became subordinate to the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications. The administration got its own chief executive, Steinar Killi, from 1 July 1999.
On 31 December 2016, as a result of the rail reform of the Conservative lead government coalition, the administration was dissolved and all tasks were transferred to Bane NOR or the Norwegian Railway Directorate. Bane NOR took over ownership of the infrastructure from 1 January 2017.
History
State ownership of railways was initially through partial ownership of the many lines built during the 1860s and 1870s; by 1883, the authorities decided to create the Norwegian State Railways (NSB) that would own and operate most lines. By the 1960s, passenger transport on private railways was abolished, and only a few private lines remained; the last, the Kirkenes–Bjørnevatn Line, was closed in 1997. Since then the agency has operated all railway lines in the country, except tramways and the Oslo T-bane, that are operated by their respective counties.
During the 1990s, multiple rounds of reforms and restructurings were enacted upon NSB and the Norwegian railway sector, one of which saw the rise of a new organisation model in 1992 under which infrastructure activities were organised principally under regional managers, which were given more responsibility and consequently reinforced by technical and administrative support functions. On 1 December 1996, the National Rail Administration was created via the division of Norges Statsbaner into two agencies, the Norwegian National Rail Administration and the Norwegian Railway Inspectorate, as well as one limited company, NSB BA. Prior to 1 July 1999, NSB and the administration continued to have the same board and the same director, Osmund Ueland.
An early issue for the Administration to address was appropriate scaling of its workforce against it activities. Due to the inhospitable winter climate in Norway, many infrastructure activities become unfeasible for months at a time, leading to temporary overcapacity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20agility | Network Agility is an architectural discipline for computer networking. It can be defined as:
The ability of network software and hardware to automatically control and configure itself and other network assets across any number of devices on a network.
With regards to network hardware, network agility is used when referring to automatic hardware configuration and reconfiguration of network devices e.g. routers, switches, SNMP devices.
Network agility, as a software discipline, borrows from many fields, both technical and commercial.
On the technical side, network agility solutions leverage techniques from areas such as:
Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
Object-oriented design
Architectural patterns
Loosely coupled data streaming (e.g.: web services)
Iterative design
Artificial intelligence
Inductive scheduling
On-demand computing
Utility computing
Commercially, network agility is about solving real-world business problems using existing technology. It forms a three-way bridge between business processes, hardware resources, and software assets. In more detail, it takes, as input: 1
the business processes – i.e. what the network must achieve in real business terms;
the hardware that resides within the network; and
the set of software assets that run on this hardware.
Much of this input can be obtained through automatic discovery – finding the hardware, its types and locations, software, licenses etc. The business processes can be inferred to a certain degree, but it is these processes that business managers need to be able to control and organize.
Software resources discovered on the network can take a variety of forms – some assets may be licensed software products, others as blocks of software service code that can be accessed via some service enterprise portal, such as (but not necessarily) web services. These services may reside in-house, or they may be 'on-demand' via an on-line subscription service. Indeed, the primary motivation of network agility is to make the most efficient use of the resources available, wherever they may reside, and to identify areas where business process goals are not being satisfied to some benchmark level (and ideally to offer possible solutions).
Network agility tools are then in a position to optimize the existing hardware to run software assets as needed to achieve the business process goals. As network usage is never linear, the hardware/software mix requirements will change dynamically over various time segments (weekly, quarterly, annually etc.), and step changes will be required from time to time when business-process goals change/evolve/are updated (e.g. during/after a company re-organization).
The benefits to business of the network agility approach are obvious – cost savings in software licensing and higher efficiency of hardware assets – leading to better productivity.
See also
Service-oriented analysis and design
Object-oriented design
Design patterns
SOA governance
Business-driv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBD | KBD may refer to:
K-B-D, a Semitic triliteral root meaning "be heavy"
KBD algorithm, for simulating spin models
Kabardian language (ISO 639 code), North Caucasus
Kaiser–Bessel-derived window, in digital signal processing
Kashin–Beck disease, a bone disease
Kentucky Bourbon Distillers
King's Bench Division
, the HTML element for keyboard input |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%20Lloren%C3%A7%20Savall | Sant Llorenç Savall is a municipality of the comarca of Vallès Occidental, in Catalonia.
Churches
Sant Jaume de Vallverd
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Vallès Occidental |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granera | Granera is a municipality of the comarca of Moianès, in Catalonia. Until 24 May 2015 it was part of Vallès Oriental.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Moianès |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlaNet | InterPlaNet (IPN), not to be confused with InterPlanetary Network, is a computer networking protocol designed to operate at interplanetary distances, where traditional protocols such as the Internet Protocol break down. It is the base for Interplanetary Internet. It has been under development by Vint Cerf and NASA since 1998 and a permanent network link to Mars was planned by 2008 until the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter was canceled in 2005. The protocol was expected to be space-qualified and ready for use by around 2010.
IPN Protocol Stack
The distance between the planets and their constant motion impose long and variable delay on the communications. Thus, the traditional protocol stack doesn't function properly. Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) is implemented to address these constraints. DTN inserts a new set of protocols, called Bundling Protocols (BPs), to the traditional protocol stack. BP is a standard method of transmitting data using store-and-forward, where data are stored for a period of time at
intermediate nodes along a network path, and forwarded to the next station when a link is available. Licklider Transmission Protocol (LTP) is a BP and a transport protocol that functions in deep space. For an example of a dataflow with an intermediate space satellite between the deep space and the earth, see the figure. The intermediate node has two transport protocols, LTP (for data transmission over deep space communication links), and TCP (for transmission over earth communication links). The intermediate node turns the received data from LTP packets into TCP packets using their underlying convergence layer protocols. The protocols in the lower layers might change to support the corresponding communication and network.
See also
Intergalactic Computer Network
Interplanetary Internet
Delay-tolerant networking
References
External links
InterPlanetary Internet Special Interest Group
https://web.archive.org/web/20090426064555/http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/nost/wwwclassic/documents/pdf/CCSDS-B10.0-Y-17.pdf
Network protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency%20management%20information%20system | An emergency management information system (EMIS) is a computer database for disaster response that provides graphical, real-time information to responders.
EMIS and emergencies
Four phases of an emergency are Readiness, Risk Mitigation, Response, and Replay. An EMIS shall enable emergency managers or any emergency stakeholder (affected civilians, police, fireman, Non Government Organizations (NGO), etc.) make their required activities in any phase of an emergency in an easy and speedy way.
EMIS for Readiness
Preparation of contingency plans for different types of emergencies
Creating checklists that can be easily reached by any related emergency management stakeholder
Resource management
EMIS for Risk Mitigation
Determine possible risk areas and/or risk types. Often supported by a geographical information system (GIS).
EMIS for Response
Executing and tracking the contingency plan
EMIS for Replay
Review the events of the emergency
Various kind of reports (supported by tables, graphs, etc.)
An EMIS interacts with many other early alert systems and communicates with many legacy systems.
See also
Emergency management
Emergency management software
Emergency Communication System
Logistics Support System
Wireless Emergency Alerts
References
Applications of geographic information systems
Emergency management in the United States
Emergency management software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative%20Wonders | Creative Wonders was an educational software corporation from 1994 to 1999. It created computer games based on children's characters like Sesame Street, Madeline, Schoolhouse Rock!, Arthur, Little Bear, Dr. Seuss and ABC World Reference. It was a joint-venture between Electronic Arts and ABC.
History
Creative Wonders started out in 1994 as a division of Electronic Arts called EA Kids before renaming to Creative Wonders. Creative Wonders was responsible for creating popular games like the Sesame Street and Madeline series, and took over publishing of "EA 3D Atlas" which had been created by The Multimedia Corporation in London (a BBC company). In 1995, Creative Wonders teamed with ABC to create the ABC World Reference Series, a series of encyclopedias and atlases on CD-ROM based on "EA 3D Atlas", produced by The Multimedia Corporation and incorporating content and branding from ABC.
In 1998, Creative Wonders' assets were purchased by The Learning Company, and sold ABC and Electronic Arts to that company, and, later in 1999, it was folded into the latter, and later Mattel Interactive.
Products
Sesame Street (1994–1999)
Madeline (1995–1999)
Schoolhouse Rock (1995–1999)
ABC World Reference Series (1994–1998)
The Baby-Sitters Club (1997-1999)
Arthur (1999)
Little Bear (1999)
Dr. Seuss (1999)
Software
Sesame Street
Numbers (1994)
Letters (1994)
Let's Make a Word! (1995)
Elmo's Art Workshop (1995)
Get Set to Learn (1996)
Elmo's Preschool (1996)
Search and Learn Adventures (1997)
Sesame Street Reading Is Fun Toddler (1997)
Grover's Travels (1998)
The Three Grouchketeers (1998)
Elmo's Reading Basics (1998)
Elmo's Reading Preschool (1998)
Elmo Through the Looking-Glass (1998)
Baby and Me (1999)
Madeline
Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show: A Learning Journey (1995)
Madeline European Adventures (1996)
Madeline Thinking Games (1996)
Madeline Preschool & Kindergarten (1997)
Madeline 1st and 2nd Grade (1997)
Madeline Rainy Day Activities (1998)
Madeline 1st and 2nd Grade Reading (1999)
Madeline 1st and 2nd Grade Math (1999)
Schoolhouse Rock!
Schoolhouse Rock!: Grammar Rock (1995)
Schoolhouse Rock!: Math Rock (1996)
Schoolhouse Rock!: America Rock (1996)
Schoolhouse Rock!: Exploration Station (1997)
Schoolhouse Rock!: Activity Pack (1997)
Schoolhouse Rock!: 1st & 4th Grade Math Essentials (1997)
Schoolhouse Rock!: 1st & 2nd Grade Essentials (1997)
Schoolhouse Rock!: 3rd & 4th Grade Essentials (1997)
Schoolhouse Rock!: 5th & 6th Grade Essentials (1998)
Schoolhouse Rock!: Money Rock (1998)
Schoolhouse Rock!: Thinking Games (1998)
ABC World Reference Series
3D Atlas (1994–1997)
3D Atlas 97 (1994)
3D Atlas 98 (1997)
Wide World of Animals (1995–1997)
Wide World of Animals '99 (1998)
World News Insight (1995)
ABC NewsLinks (1996)
Wide World of Dinosaurs (1998)
The Baby-Sitters Club
The Baby-Sitters Club: Clubhouse Activity Center (1997)
The Baby-Sitters Club: 3rd Grade Learning Adventures (1998)
The Baby |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20Impact%20Database | The Earth Impact Database is a database of confirmed impact structures or craters on Earth. It was initiated in 1955 by the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, under the direction of Carlyle S. Beals. Since 2001, it has been maintained as a not-for-profit source of information at the Planetary and Space Science Centre at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.
, the database lists 190 confirmed impact sites.
Other lists are wider in scope by including more than just confirmed sites, such as probable, possible, suspected and rejected or discredited impact sites on their lists. These are used for screening and tracking study of possible impact sites. Sites will appear first in these lists while under study and may be incorporated into UNB's Earth Impact Database after confirmation and collection of enough information about the site to satisfy the database's strict entry criteria.
A previous list was maintained by the Impact Field Studies Group at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The Catalogue of the Earth's Impact structures is maintained at the Siberian Center for Global Catastrophes.
See also
List of impact craters on Earth
List of possible impact structures on Earth
References
External links
Impact geology
Online databases
University of New Brunswick
Scientific databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20basis%20function%20network | In the field of mathematical modeling, a radial basis function network is an artificial neural network that uses radial basis functions as activation functions. The output of the network is a linear combination of radial basis functions of the inputs and neuron parameters. Radial basis function networks have many uses, including function approximation, time series prediction, classification, and system control. They were first formulated in a 1988 paper by Broomhead and Lowe, both researchers at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
Network architecture
Radial basis function (RBF) networks typically have three layers: an input layer, a hidden layer with a non-linear RBF activation function and a linear output layer. The input can be modeled as a vector of real numbers . The output of the network is then a scalar function of the input vector, , and is given by
where is the number of neurons in the hidden layer, is the center vector for neuron , and is the weight of neuron in the linear output neuron. Functions that depend only on the distance from a center vector are radially symmetric about that vector, hence the name radial basis function. In the basic form, all inputs are connected to each hidden neuron. The norm is typically taken to be the Euclidean distance (although the Mahalanobis distance appears to perform better with pattern recognition) and the radial basis function is commonly taken to be Gaussian
.
The Gaussian basis functions are local to the center vector in the sense that
i.e. changing parameters of one neuron has only a small effect for input values that are far away from the center of that neuron.
Given certain mild conditions on the shape of the activation function, RBF networks are universal approximators on a compact subset of . This means that an RBF network with enough hidden neurons can approximate any continuous function on a closed, bounded set with arbitrary precision.
The parameters , , and are determined in a manner that optimizes the fit between and the data.
Normalized
Normalized architecture
In addition to the above unnormalized architecture, RBF networks can be normalized. In this case the mapping is
where
is known as a normalized radial basis function.
Theoretical motivation for normalization
There is theoretical justification for this architecture in the case of stochastic data flow. Assume a stochastic kernel approximation for the joint probability density
where the weights and are exemplars from the data and we require the kernels to be normalized
and
.
The probability densities in the input and output spaces are
and
The expectation of y given an input is
where
is the conditional probability of y given .
The conditional probability is related to the joint probability through Bayes theorem
which yields
.
This becomes
when the integrations are performed.
Local linear models
It is sometimes convenient to expand the architecture to include local linear models. In that case t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Workspace | Google Workspace is a collection of cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools, software and products developed and marketed by Google. It consists of Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, Meet and Chat for communication; Currents for employee engagement; Drive for storage; and the Google Docs Editors suite for content creation. An Admin Panel is provided for managing users and services. Depending on edition Google Workspace may also include the digital interactive whiteboard Jamboard and an option to purchase add-ons such as the telephony service Voice. The education edition adds a learning platform Google Classroom and today has the name Workspace for Education.
While most of these services are individually available at no cost to consumers who use their free Google (Gmail) accounts, Google Workspace adds enterprise features such as custom email addresses at a domain (e.g. @yourcompany.com), an option for unlimited Drive storage, additional administrative tools and advanced settings, as well as 24/7 phone and email support.
The suite was first launched in February 2006 as Gmail for Your Domain, before being expanded into Google Apps for Your Domain in the same year, later rebranded as G Suite in 2016, then rebranded again in 2020 as Google Workspace.
As of April 2020, G Suite had 6 million paying businesses, and 120 million G Suite for Education users.
History
From February 10, 2006, Google started testing a version of the service at San Jose City College, hosting Gmail accounts with SJCC domain addresses and admin tools for account management. On August 28, 2006, Google launched Google Apps for Your Domain, a set of apps for organizations. Available for free as a beta service, it included Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and the Page Creator, which was later replaced with Sites. Dave Girouard, then Google's vice president and general manager for enterprise, outlined its benefits for business customers: "Organizations can let Google be the experts in delivering high quality email, messaging, and other web-based services while they focus on the needs of their users and their day-to-day business". Google announced an edition for schools, then known as Google Apps for Education, on October 10, 2006.
On February 22, 2007, Google introduced Google Apps Premier Edition, which differed from the free version by offering more storage (10 GB per user), APIs for business integration, 99.9% uptime for Gmail, and 24/7 phone support. It cost $50 per user account per year. According to Google, early adopters of Google Apps Premier Edition included Procter & Gamble, San Francisco Bay Pediatrics, and Salesforce. Additionally, all editions of Google Apps were then able to use Documents and Spreadsheets, users could access Gmail on BlackBerry mobile devices, and administrators gained more application control. Further enhancements came, on June 25, 2007, when Google added a number of features to Google Apps, including mail migration from external IMAP servers, shared |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer%20computing | Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which people donate their computers' unused resources to a research-oriented project, and sometimes in exchange for credit points. The fundamental idea behind it is that a modern desktop computer is sufficiently powerful to perform billions of operations a second, but for most users only between 10–15% of its capacity is used. Common tasks such as word processing or web browsing leave the computer mostly idle.
The practice of volunteer computing, which dates back to the mid-1990s, can potentially make substantial processing power available to researchers at minimal cost. Typically, a program running on a volunteer's computer periodically contacts a research application to request jobs and report results. A middleware system usually serves as an intermediary.
History
The first volunteer computing project was the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, which started in January 1996. It was followed in 1997 by distributed.net. In 1997 and 1998, several academic research projects developed Java-based systems for volunteer computing; examples include Bayanihan, Popcorn, Superweb, and Charlotte.
The term volunteer computing was coined by Luis F. G. Sarmenta, the developer of Bayanihan. It is also appealing for global efforts on social responsibility, or Corporate Social Responsibility as reported in a Harvard Business Review.
In 1999, the SETI@home and Folding@home projects were launched. These projects received considerable media coverage, and each one attracted several hundred thousand volunteers.
Between 1998 and 2002, several companies were formed with business models involving volunteer computing. Examples include Popular Power, Porivo, Entropia, and United Devices.
In 2002, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) project was founded at University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, funded by the National Science Foundation. BOINC provides a complete middleware system for volunteer computing, including a client, client GUI, application runtime system, server software, and software implementing a project web site. The first project based on BOINC was Predictor@home, based at the Scripps Research Institute, which began operation in 2004. Soon thereafter, SETI@home and climateprediction.net began using BOINC. A number of new BOINC-based projects were created over the next few years, including Rosetta@home, Einstein@home, and AQUA@home. In 2007, IBM World Community Grid switched from the United Devices platform to BOINC.
Middleware
The client software of the early volunteer computing projects consisted of a single program that combined the scientific computation and the distributed computing infrastructure. This monolithic architecture was inflexible. For example, it was difficult to deploy new application versions.
More recently, volunteer computing has moved to middleware systems that provide a distributed computing infrastructure independent from t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20Health%20and%20Nutrition%20Research%20Initiative | Founded in 2001, the Child Health Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) is a network of interested partners supported by the Global Forum for Health Research, based in Geneva, Switzerland. CHNRI efforts support the Millennium Development Goals of:
Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger
Reducing child mortality
Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and diseases in children
CHNRI is helping to set research priorities in child health, development and nutrition, and resolve related methodological issues. It also sponsors research into priority child health and nutrition problems, especially in low- and middle-income countries, with a focus on research to inform policies for scaling up effective interventions.
CHNRI focuses on increasing the level of communication and discussion amongst players devoted to research on child health and nutrition; such as nutritionists, child health specialists, and child development specialists. It provides a platform to initiate and maintain debate on the importance and direction of the research, bringing scientists together and implementing bodies to discuss issues relevant to the current status of knowledge and the requirements for the future.
The secretariat of CHNRI is now located in The INCLEN Trust International. The board is chaired by Dr Robert E. Black, Professor and Chair, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States.
References
External links
Organizations established in 2001
Organisations based in Geneva
International medical and health organizations
Children's health-related organizations
Child-related organisations in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sugar%20Bowl%20broadcasters | Television network, play-by-play and color commentator(s) for the Sugar Bowl from 1953 to the present.
Television
Starting with the 2010–11 season, ESPN started airing the games, out bidding FOX for the rights to the games.
Spanish
In 2013, ESPN Deportes provided the first Spanish U.S. telecast of the Sugar Bowl.
Portuguese
In 2015, ESPN Brasil did the broadcast of the game in Brazilian Portuguese.
Radio
Local radio
References
External links
Ratings/viewership for the Sugar Bowl since '96
Sugar
Broadcasters
Sugar Bowl
Sugar Bowl
Sugar Bowl
Sugar Bowl
Sugar Bowl
Sugar Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cotton%20Bowl%20Classic%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Cotton Bowl Classic throughout the years.
Television
Notes
During the 1980 game, CBS announcer Lindsey Nelson was stricken with laryngitis and had to leave the telecast after the first quarter. Sideline reporter Frank Glieber took over the play-by-play for the remainder of the game.
Spanish
In 2013, Fox Deportes provided the first Spanish U.S. telecast of the Cotton Bowl Classic. Fox Deportes returned for the game in 2014. In 2015, ESPN Deportes becomes the Spanish-language home of the Cotton Bowl Classic.
Radio
National Radio
In 2013 and 2014, the game will be broadcast by ESPN Radio and ESPN Deportes Radio. Brad Sham, who called the game for Westwood One in 1996, and from 1998 to 2012, will continue as play-by-play announcer for ESPN Radio. 2013 marks the first Spanish radio broadcast of the game.
Local radio
References
Cotton
Broadcasters
Cotton Bowl
Cotton Bowl
Cotton Bowl
Cotton Bowl
Cotton Bowl
Cotton Bowl
Cotton Bowl
Cotton Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BA%20CityFlyer | BA CityFlyer is a British regional airline, and a wholly owned subsidiary of British Airways with its head office based in Didsbury, Manchester, England. It operates a network of domestic and European services from its base at London City Airport. All services operate with BA's full colours, titles and flight numbers. BA Cityflyer Limited holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence, meaning that it is permitted to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats.
History
British Airways' sale of BA Connect to Flybe in 2007 did not include the London City Airport operations and its associated fleet of ten Avro RJ100 regional jet aircraft. This led to British Airways' decision to resurrect erstwhile Gatwick-based CityFlyer Express (which BA had integrated into its Gatwick mainline short-haul operation in 2001, following the acquisition of CityFlyer Express in 1999) as a new wholly owned subsidiary to take over this operation, . BA Cityflyer was awarded an Air Operators Certificate on 8 February 2007, and started operations on 25 March 2007.
In summer 2008, two Avro RJ85 aircraft were added to the fleet for performance and economic reasons - this included overcoming payload restrictions in the summer that could limit existing aircraft to 60 passengers on some days.
In the second half of 2008, BA CityFlyer announced an order for 11 aircraft from the Embraer E-Jet family compromising of six 76 seat Embraer 170 and five 98 seat Embraer 190SR aircraft, plus options for three additional 190SRs with the first aircraft due in the second half of 2009. The first Embraer 190SR was received in 2010.
In February 2016, BA CityFlyer announced that it would commence operating flights from London-Stansted in May 2016. In January and February 2017, it announced that it would commence summer seasonal services from Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Dublin and Birmingham to a variety of destinations in Spain, Italy, Greece and France. This marks the return of BA to the regions after an absence of nearly 10 years. Flights will also operate in the summer between London City and Manchester, operating with Embraer 190SR aircraft.
In 2018, the airline reported nearly doubled profits, with profits increasing 28% and revenue up by 18%. Recently, the airline has pulled out from operating at both Birmingham and Bristol on weekends and has made several changes to its schedule increasing frequency and adding new services to Rome.
In July 2020, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic it was announced that the crew base at Edinburgh Airport would close on 31 October 2020, with the loss of several ground based office jobs and the option for cabin crew and pilots to relocate to London City Airport. On 9 December 2020, it was announced that BA Cityflyer would operate from Southampton Airport starting in May 2021 with flights to 14 European destinations mostly operating on weekends.
Destinations
In addition to their scheduled flights from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phred%20quality%20score | A Phred quality score is a measure of the quality of the identification of the nucleobases generated by automated DNA sequencing. It was originally developed for the computer program Phred to help in the automation of DNA sequencing in the Human Genome Project. Phred quality scores are assigned to each nucleotide base call in automated sequencer traces. The FASTQ format encodes phred scores as ASCII characters alongside the read sequences. Phred quality scores have become widely accepted to characterize the quality of DNA sequences, and can be used to compare the efficacy of different sequencing methods. Perhaps the most important use of Phred quality scores is the automatic determination of accurate, quality-based consensus sequences.
Definition
Phred quality scores are logarithmically related to the base-calling error probabilities and defined as
.
This relation can be also be written as
.
For example, if Phred assigns a quality score of 30 to a base, the chances that this base is called incorrectly are 1 in 1000.
The phred quality score is the negative ratio of the error probability to the reference level of expressed in Decibel (dB).
History
The idea of sequence quality scores can be traced back to the original description of the SCF file format by Staden's group in 1992. In 1995, Bonfield and Staden proposed a method to use base-specific quality scores to improve the accuracy of consensus sequences in DNA sequencing projects.
However, early attempts to develop base-specific quality scores had only limited success.
The first program to develop accurate and powerful base-specific quality scores was the program Phred. Phred was able to calculate highly accurate quality scores that were logarithmically linked to the error probabilities. Phred was quickly adopted by all the major genome sequencing centers as well as many other laboratories; the vast majority of the DNA sequences produced during the Human Genome Project were processed with Phred.
After Phred quality scores became the required standard in DNA sequencing, other manufacturers of DNA sequencing instruments, including Li-Cor and ABI, developed similar quality scoring metrics for their base calling software.
Methods
Phred's approach to base calling and calculating quality scores was outlined by Ewing et al.. To determine quality scores, Phred first calculates several parameters related to peak shape and peak resolution at each base. Phred then uses these parameters to look up a corresponding quality score in huge lookup tables. These lookup tables were generated from sequence traces where the correct sequence was known, and are hard coded in Phred; different lookup tables are used for different sequencing chemistries and machines. An evaluation of the accuracy of Phred quality scores for a number of variations in sequencing chemistry and instrumentation showed that Phred quality scores are highly accurate.
Phred was originally developed for "slab gel" sequencing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20K%C3%B6lling | Michael Kölling is a German computer scientist, currently working at King's College London, best known for the development of the BlueJ and Greenfoot educational development environments and as author of introductory programming textbooks. In 2013 he received the SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education for the development of the BlueJ.
Education and early life
Kölling was born in Bremen, Germany. He earned a degree in informatics from the University of Bremen. In 1999, he was awarded a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Sydney, for research on the design of an object-oriented programming environment and language supervised by John Rosenberg.
Career and research
From 1995 to 1997 he worked at the Sydney University, followed by a position as a senior lecturer at Monash University and, from 2001, a post as an associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark. He worked at the School of Computing at the University of Kent, UK, until February 2017. He is now a professor of computer science at King's College London, where he also occupies the role of vice-dean for education.
Kölling is the lead designer of 'Blue', an object-oriented programming language and integrated environment, BlueJ, and Greenfoot. All are educational development environments aimed at teaching and learning programming. BlueJ and Greenfoot are widely used in many schools and universities.
Kölling co-wrote Objects First with Java with David J. Barnes, and wrote Introduction to Programming with Greenfoot.
At the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) of Computer science education (SIGCSE) 2010 conference, held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his work was referenced as one of the most influential tools in the history of computer science education. This paper described Kölling's work on the Blue programming language, which preceded BlueJ.
Microsoft patent issue
On 22 May 2005 Kölling entered the BlueJ website in response to a post on Dan Fernandez's blog (Lead Product Manager – Visual Studio Express). Fernandez described a new feature of Visual Studio 2005 that "helps you understand objects at Design Time, rather than runtime." This feature had striking similarities to how the object test bench functions within BlueJ.
Kölling did not act on the discovery. However, on May 11, 2006 Microsoft attempted to patent the idea. As the object test bench is essential to the way it functions, had Microsoft's patent been granted, it was likely that BlueJ would have had to have been discontinued.
Kölling spoke to Microsoft, namely Jane Prey, and eventually the patent was dropped.
Fernandez posted a response on his blog saying "the patent application was a mistake and one that should not have happened. To fix this, Microsoft will be removing the patent application in question. Our sincere apologies to Michael Kölling and the BlueJ community."
Awards and honours
His awards and honours include:
SIGCSE Test of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanlih%20E-Television | Sanlih Entertainment Television or Sanlih E-Television (SET; ) is a nationwide cable TV network operated in Taiwan which was founded in May 1993. It also produces Taiwanese drama that are broadcast on free-to-air channels e.g. Taiwan Television (TTV).
In terms of political orientation, Sanlih leans heavily towards the Pan-Green Coalition.
SET channels
SET currently offers eight subsidiary channels:
SET International (began airing March 2000)
SET Taiwan (began airing December 1996)
SET News (began airing March 1998)
SET Metro (began airing September 1995)
SET Drama (began airing December 1996, relaunched June 2013)
SET iNews (began airing May 2011)
SET Variety (began airing June 2012)
MTV Taiwan (started operating by Sanlih since November 2011)
Productions
SET Taiwan Productions Drama
SET Metro Productions Drama
See also
List of dramas broadcast by Sanlih E-Television
List of Taiwanese television series
Sanlih Drama Awards
SET News
References
External links
SET official website |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20memory | Genetic memory may refer to:
Genetic memory (psychology), a memory present at birth that exists in the absence of sensory experience
Genetic memory (computer science), an artificial neural network combination of genetic algorithm and the mathematical model of sparse distributed memory
ar:ذاكرة وراثية
es:Memoria genética
pl:Pamięć genetyczna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log%20management | Log management (LM) comprises an approach to dealing with large volumes of computer-generated log messages (also known as audit records, audit trails, event-logs, etc.).
Log management generally covers:
Log collection
Centralized log aggregation
Long-term log storage and retention
Log rotation
Log analysis (in real-time and in bulk after storage)
Log search and reporting.
Overview
The primary drivers for log management implementations are concerns about security, system and network operations (such as system or network administration) and regulatory compliance. Logs are generated by nearly every computing device, and can often be directed to different locations both on a local file system or remote system.
Effectively analyzing large volumes of diverse logs can pose many challenges, such as:
Volume: log data can reach hundreds of gigabytes of data per day for a large organization. Simply collecting, centralizing and storing data at this volume can be challenging.
Normalization: logs are produced in multiple formats. The process of normalization is designed to provide a common output for analysis from diverse sources.
Velocity: The speed at which logs are produced from devices can make collection and aggregation difficult
Veracity: Log events may not be accurate. This is especially problematic for systems that perform detection, such as intrusion detection systems.
Users and potential users of log management may purchase complete commercial tools or build their own log-management and intelligence tools, assembling the functionality from various open-source components, or acquire (sub-)systems from commercial vendors. Log management is a complicated process and organizations often make mistakes while approaching it.
Logging can produce technical information usable for the maintenance of applications or websites. It can serve:
to define whether a reported bug is actually a bug
to help analyze, reproduce and solve bugs
to help test new features in a development stage
Terminology
Suggestions were made to change the definition of logging. This change would keep matters both purer and more easily maintainable:
Logging would then be defined as all instantly discardable data on the technical process of an application or website, as it represents and processes data and user input.
Auditing, then, would involve data that is not immediately discardable. In other words: data that is assembled in the auditing process, is stored persistently, is protected by authorization schemes and is, always, connected to some end-user functional requirement.
Deployment life-cycle
One view of assessing the maturity of an organization in terms of the deployment of log-management tools might use successive levels such as:
in the initial stages, organizations use different log-analyzers for analyzing the logs in the devices on the security perimeter. They aim to identify the patterns of attack on the perimeter infrastructure of the organiza |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-pass%20verification | Two-pass verification, also called double data entry, is a data entry quality control method that was originally employed when data records were entered onto sequential 80-column Hollerith cards with a keypunch. In the first pass through a set of records, the data keystrokes were entered onto each card as the data entry operator typed them. On the second pass through the batch, an operator at a separate machine, called a verifier, entered the same data. The verifier compared the second operator's keystrokes with the contents of the original card. If there were no differences, a verification notch was punched on the right edge of the card.
The IBM 056 and 059 Card Verifiers were companion machines to the IBM 026 and 029 keypunches, respectively. The later IBM 129 keypunch also could operate as a verifier. In that mode, it read a completed card (record) and loaded the 80 keystrokes into a buffer. A data entry operator reentered the record and the keypunch compared the new keystrokes with those loaded into the buffer. If a discrepancy occurred the operator was given a chance to reenter that keystroke and ultimately overwrite the entry in the buffer. If all keystrokes matched the original card, it was passed through and received a verification punch. If corrections were required, then the operator was prompted to discard the original card and insert a fresh card on which corrected keystrokes were typed. The corrected record (card) was passed through and received a corrected verification punch.
Modern use
While this method of quality control clearly is not proof against systematic errors or operator misread entries from a source document, it is very useful in catching and correcting random miskeyed strokes which occur even with experienced data entry operators. However, it proved to be a fatally tragic flaw in the Therac 25 incident. This method has survived the keypunch and is available in some currently available data entry programs (e.g. PSPP/SPSS Data Entry). One study suggests that, at least in simulated circumstances, a single-pass data entry with range checks and skip rules might not significantly alter the reliability of outcomes compared to studies using two-pass data entry; however, it is desirable to implement both systems in a data entry application.
References
Data quality
Punched card |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung%20T%27ien%20Television | Chung T'ien Television (CTi TV; ), is a nationwide cable TV network based in Taiwan. It belongs to Want Want China Times group, which also owns China Television (CTV).
History
Founded in 1994, CTi TV was originally called the Chinese Television Network (CTN; ). CTN had two main channels, Chung Tien () and Da Di (). On January 30, 1997, ownership switched from Yu Pun-hoi (于品海), the current chairman of Nan Hai Corporation Limited (南海控股有限公司), to the Koos Group.
In 2000, ownership changed once again from KG Group to the Wisdom Group (象山集團), which, at the time, also operated China Television (CTV). Hsiang Shan merged CTN with CTV Satellite to form Power TV (). As part of Power TV, CTV Satellite became Chung T'ien Entertainment, while CTN's Chung Tien split up into Power TV News () and Power TV Variety (). Power News eventually changed its name to Chung T'ien Information, which then became Chung T'ien Main in January 2004. After the He Hsin-Hsiang Shan ownership transfer, Da Di was granted some degree of autonomy as Da Di Television; however, Da Di eventually became part of Videoland Television Network, and changed its name to the Videoland Drama Channel. In June 2002, ownership of Power TV changed once again from Hsiang Shan to the China Times; Power TV changed its name to present-day Chung T'ien Television (CTi TV).
In April 2019, The Nikkei reported that CTi-TV parent company received millions in subsidies from the Chinese government. In November 2019, Wang Liqiang, a self-proclaimed PRC spy who defected to Australia, claimed that CTi TV had received Chinese funding in return for airing stories unfavorable of the Taiwanese government. The Want Want China Times Group denied these allegations.
On 22 April 2019, during a news report on the last episode of Taiwanese television drama, The World Between Us, it was discovered CTi TV used a pirated source of the drama during the report while putting a watermark claiming to be recorded from Public Television Service, who broadcast the drama.
In November 2020, the National Communications Commission (NCC) announced that it would not renew CTi TV's broadcast license for CTi News as it found multiple violations against the network for bias and disinformation. CTi News ended its final cable broadcast at 23:59 on December 11, 2020. however, CTi News continues to broadcast on its YouTube channel and its own app, while its sister channels CTi International (abroad only), CTi Entertainment and CTi Variety also continues to broadcast on cable and satellite. CTi TV had also been fined a total of NT$11.53 million (US$400,932) for 25 breaches of media regulations between 2014 and 2020.
Incidents
In the 2012 Anti-Media Monopoly campaign, National Yang-Ming University's post graduate Lin Ting An invited Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, Noam Chomsky, an American linguist, philosopher and activist, to hold a placard with the campaign slogan in Chinese, loosely translated as Against media monopoly, ref |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide%20of%20Ryan%20Halligan | Ryan Patrick Halligan (December 18, 1989 – October 7, 2003) was an American student who died by suicide at the age of 13 after being bullied by his classmates in person and cyber-bullying online. According to the Associated Press, Halligan was repeatedly sent homophobic instant messages, and was "threatened, taunted and insulted incessantly".
His father, John P. Halligan, a former IBM engineer, subsequently lobbied for laws to be passed in Vermont to improve how schools address bullying and suicide prevention. He has also given speeches at schools in other states about the story of his son.
Halligan's case has been cited by legislators in various states proposing legislation to curb cyber-bullying. In Vermont, laws were subsequently enacted to address the cyberbullying problem and the risk of teen suicides, in response. In 2008, his suicide and its causes were examined in a segment of the PBS Frontline television program entitled "Growing Up Online." His suicide has also been referenced in many other news stories on bullying.
Biography
Early life
Halligan was born on December 18, 1989, in Poughkeepsie, New York, the son of John P. and Kelly Halligan. His family moved to Essex Junction, Vermont, where Halligan attended Hiawatha Elementary School and, later, Albert D. Lawton Middle School.
He was described by his father as a "gentle, very sensitive soul," who experienced some developmental delays affecting speech and physical coordination in his early school years. Although he overcame those difficulties by the fourth grade, "He still struggled; school was never easy to him, but he always showed up with a smile on his face, eager to do his best," said his father.
Bullying
2000–2001
When Halligan was in 5th grade, he started to suffer bullying at the hands of a group of students at his school because of his learning disorder, his passion for music (drums and guitar), and his love for drama. His father said that when Halligan told him he was being picked on, his initial response was to ignore the boys, as they were just bullying him with words. The family later said in a short documentary that Halligan enrolled in counseling, with little success. After that he moved up to middle school, where the bullying continued when Halligan was in 7th grade.
2002–2003
In December 2002, Halligan told his father that the bullying had started again. He asked for a Tae Bo Kick Boxing set for Christmas in order to learn how to defend himself. At first, his father wanted to go to the school principal and sort things out, but Halligan insisted that he wanted to learn how to fight, believing that complaining to the school about the boys would make things worse. After Christmas, Halligan and his father developed a routine of practicing downstairs in the basement for 2 hours every night. After he had learned to defend himself, his father told him not to pick fights at school, but said that if any student ever touched him aggressively, Halligan had his father's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musya | is a 1992 platform game developed by Jorudan for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was released by Datam Polystar in Japan on April 21, 1992, followed by English localized version produced by SETA USA and released in North America in December 1992. The title, which translates to "Warrior", is romanized in the Kunrei-shiki style (Musya) instead of the Hepburn romanization style (Musha), likely to avoid confusion with the unrelated Sega Genesis game MUSHA.
Gameplay
Imoto, bearing 16 units of health (Qi (気 Ki, meaning "life energy")), dies when the health is depleted. He carries up to three lives (命 Inochi). The game starts with three lives; once the life count is zero and Imoto dies, the game ends. When Imoto defeats a boss, the words "monster defeated" (怨霊調伏 Onryō Chōfuku, "Vengeful Ghost Submitted") appear and the player gains a scroll containing a new spell.
Plot
Musya follows a pikeman (described as a spearman in the Japanese version) named Imoto (Jinrai (神雷) in the Japanese version), who must descend to the abyss to save Shizuka, a maiden. After Imoto survives a battle in which all other combatants perish, he travels to Tengumura Village, where he collapses. The mayor, Akagi (who is not named in the Japanese version), greets Imoto and tells him that Shizuka (しずか) needs to be rescued. Imoto heads into Tengumura Cavern (known in the Japanese version as Kihōshōnyūdō (鬼宝鍾乳洞)).
Regional differences
The game received several edits for the North American edition. For instance, the large testes of the tanuki character were removed for the North American edition. In addition, the manji (卍) shown to reveal the amount of spell scrolls held was edited away.
The Japanese version of the game is one of the few games that uses Japanese numerals. The English version uses Arabic numerals.
Japanese dialogue is replaced with English-language dialogue. In addition, Musya uses Japanese kanji characters in various parts of the game to represent modes and levels. For instance, in the Japanese version of the game, the English-language word "Pause" is not used; instead the word Ippuku (一服, meaning "break" or "to take a break") appears from both ends of the screen. In the English-language version, the word "Pause" forms under the word "Ippuku," with the "Pa" under the "一" and the "Use" under the "服."
The tagline for the Japanese version is "Japanesque Horror Action" (ジャパネスク・ホラー・アクション), which was changed to "The Classic Tale of Japanese Horror" for the U.S. version.
Reception
External links
1992 video games
Dark fantasy video games
Datam Polystar
Horror video games
Jorudan games
Platformers
SETA Corporation games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Video games based on Japanese mythology
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in feudal Japan
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STRIDE%20%28algorithm%29 | In protein structure, STRIDE (Structural identification) is an algorithm for the assignment of protein secondary structure elements given the atomic coordinates of the protein, as defined by X-ray crystallography, protein NMR, or another protein structure determination method. In addition to the hydrogen bond criteria used by the more common DSSP algorithm, the STRIDE assignment criteria also include dihedral angle potentials. As such, its criteria for defining individual secondary structures are more complex than those of DSSP. The STRIDE energy function contains a hydrogen-bond term containing a Lennard-Jones-like 8-6 distance-dependent potential and two angular dependence factors reflecting the planarity of the optimized hydrogen bond geometry. The criteria for individual secondary structural elements, which are divided into the same groups as those reported by DSSP, also contain statistical probability factors derived from empirical examinations of solved structures with visually assigned secondary structure elements extracted from the Protein Data Bank.
Although DSSP is the older method and continues to be the most commonly used, the original STRIDE definition reported it to give a more satisfactory structural assignment in at least 70% of cases. In particular, STRIDE was observed to correct for the propensity of DSSP to assign shorter secondary structures than would be assigned by an expert crystallographer, usually due to the minor local variations in structure that are most common near the termini of secondary structure elements. Using a sliding-window method to smooth variations in assignment of single terminal residues, current implementations of STRIDE and DSSP are reported to agree in up to 95.4% of cases. Both STRIDE and DSSP, among other common secondary structure assignment methods, are believed to underpredict pi helices.
See also
DSSP
References
External links
STRIDE - includes web interface, a print of the original STRIDE paper, and software documentation
Paper on the original webserver implementation
Protein structure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety%20Network%20International%20e.V. | Safety Network International e.V. is an association that is based in Ostfildern and is registered at Esslingen district court.
Origin
Safety Network International e.V. was established by eight founding companies: ASK Systems GmbH, Dürr AG, Daimler AG, EMG Automation GmbH, Festo AG & Co.KG., SICK AG, Pilz GmbH & Co.KG. and Volkswagen AG. It was established in 1999 under the name SafetyBUS p Club International e.V. In 2006 the association changed its name to Safety Network International e.V. Almost 70 companies and institutions are now members of Safety Network International e.V. (as of 2013).
In addition to the headquarters in Germany there are also the following regional organisations of the Safety Network International e.V.
Safety Network Japan – established in 2000
Safety Network International USA – established in 2001
Objectives
The purpose of the association is to promote the use and dissemination of the safety-related bus system SafetyBUS p and the industrial communication system SafetyNET p . A further objective of the association is to promote integration of the safety-related bus system SafetyBUS p and the industrial communication system SafetyNET p into existing and future automation technologies. Members of the association work together in the Security Workgroup, Infrastructure Committee and Implementation Committee. This is where members discuss common viewpoints, define standards and formulate recommendations. Since 2007 Safety Network International e.V. has been a "Liaison D" member of the IEC and is committed to working on standards. The association publishes its own magazine on safety and automation under the name “Connected”.
Industrial automation
Safety organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazpacho%20%28band%29 | Gazpacho are an art rock band from Norway. The original core of the band consisted of Jan-Henrik Ohme (vocals), Jon-Arne Vilbo (guitar), and Thomas Andersen (keyboards, programming, production). They started making music together in 1996, and the band has since expanded with Mikael Krømer (violin, co-producer), Robert R Johansen (drums), and Kristian Torp (bass).
History
Early years (1996–2001)
Childhood friends Jon-Arne Vilbo and Thomas Andersen had played together in a band called Delerium before, which in their own words "whittled away". After several years of separation, the two friends met again and started making music together again. Andersen had met Jan-Henrik Ohme through his work as radio commercial producer and brought him into the jam sessions, which laid the foundation for Gazpacho as it exists today.
The band name comes from an attempt to describe their music.
Andersen: "We are a very unlikely mixture of people really, not the average types you'd expect to see in the same band… so we thought Gazpacho, which really is the bastard of soups (meshed up vegetables served cold), was the perfect name for our group(...)With Gazpacho you get a surprise, something unexpected, something out of the norm, a 'positive' contradiction. We feel this describes our band very well.".Roy Funner played bass on the finished recordings of the band, though he wasn't part of the writing process. For the drum tracks, a computer was used.
For two years, the band worked on a concept album, Random Access Memory; a piece of work which they discarded altogether when they felt they had not yet reached the level of musical maturity for such an ambitious project.
Make-A-Star and Bravo (2002–2003)
All three members of Gazpacho were involved with the Scandinavian branch of Marillion's The Web fanclub. This led to Ohme being invited to sing the Marillion track Afraid of Sunlight at the Swap The Band show of the first Marillion Convention Weekend. At this convention, the band handed out free four-track promos called Get It While It's Cold to anyone interested. These promos also found their way to several internet magazines, which gave the band almost unanimous acclaim, with one reviewer calling the music "expertly-crafted and truly inventive".
In May 2002, Gazpacho entered a song contest on Make-A-Star with the song "Sea of Tranquility", and won. Their second entry, "Ghost", made it to second position, and this was enough to gain them the opportunity to release an album through MP3.com. Get It While It's Cold (37°C) contained three tracks of the promo EP and three new tracks. One of these new songs, "Nemo", saw the band winning the Make-A-Star contest for a second time.
The release of the EP continued to garner them international acclaim.
In 2003, Gazpacho released their first studio album, Bravo, which contained five of the six tracks off the MP3.com album, and six new compositions. Utilizing the possibilities of the internet, the band had teamed up with the Amer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Weidler | Danny Weidler is an Australian sports reporter He regularly appears on camera for the Nine Network delivering rugby league stories and does pieces for Nine's Footy Show (rugby league football). He contributes a weekly column for Sydney's Sun-Herald newspaper.
In 2006, Weidler won a Walkley Award in Sport News Reporting for a piece on National Nine News entitled, "Russell's Rabbits".
References
Australian television journalists
Walkley Award winners
Australian television presenters
Living people
Australian people of German descent
Australian rugby league journalists
People educated at Sydney Boys High School
1966 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20drift | In computer simulations of mechanical systems, energy drift is the gradual change in the total energy of a closed system over time. According to the laws of mechanics, the energy should be a constant of motion and should not change. However, in simulations the energy might fluctuate on a short time scale and increase or decrease on a very long time scale due to numerical integration artifacts that arise with the use of a finite time step Δt. This is somewhat similar to the flying ice cube problem, whereby numerical errors in handling equipartition of energy can change vibrational energy into translational energy.
More specifically, the energy tends to increase exponentially; its increase can be understood intuitively because each step introduces a small perturbation δv to the true velocity vtrue, which (if uncorrelated with v, which will be true for simple integration methods) results in a second-order increase in the energy
(The cross term in v · δv is zero because of no correlation.)
Energy drift - usually damping - is substantial for numerical integration schemes that are not symplectic, such as the Runge-Kutta family. Symplectic integrators usually used in molecular dynamics, such as the Verlet integrator family, exhibit increases in energy over very long time scales, though the error remains roughly constant. These integrators do not in fact reproduce the actual Hamiltonian mechanics of the system; instead, they reproduce a closely related "shadow" Hamiltonian whose value they conserve many orders of magnitude more closely. The accuracy of the energy conservation for the true Hamiltonian is dependent on the time step. The energy computed from the modified Hamiltonian of a symplectic integrator is from the true Hamiltonian.
Energy drift is similar to parametric resonance in that a finite, discrete timestepping scheme will result in nonphysical, limited sampling of motions with frequencies close to the frequency of velocity updates. Thus the restriction on the maximum step size that will be stable for a given system is proportional to the period of the fastest fundamental modes of the system's motion. For a motion with a natural frequency ω, artificial resonances are introduced when the frequency of velocity updates, is related to ω as
where n and m are integers describing the resonance order. For Verlet integration, resonances up to the fourth order frequently lead to numerical instability, leading to a restriction on the timestep size of
where ω is the frequency of the fastest motion in the system and p is its period. The fastest motions in most biomolecular systems involve the motions of hydrogen atoms; it is thus common to use constraint algorithms to restrict hydrogen motion and thus increase the maximum stable time step that can be used in the simulation. However, because the time scales of heavy-atom motions are not widely divergent from those of hydrogen motions, in practice this allows only about a twofold increase in time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOICA | is a rechargeable contactless smart card ticketing system for JR Central railway network which was introduced in the Chūkyō Area (Greater Nagoya) of Japan on November 25, 2006.
The name is an acronym for Tōkai IC Card. Just like JR East's Suica or JR West's ICOCA, the card uses RFID technology developed by Sony corporation known as FeliCa.
As of December 2007, 350,000 cards have been issued. In the Nagoya area, 50% of the riders, or 70% of the commuter pass holders, use the card.
Usable area
As of 2022, TOICA is currently accepted on JR Central lines in the following area:
Tōkaidō Main Line, between Atami and Maibara (the whole line of JR Central operation)
Includes branch between Ōgaki and Mino-Akasaka
East of Atami and west of Maibara, stations are served by Suica or ICOCA, see below on limitations when using
Gotemba Line, between Kōzu and Numazu (the whole line)
East of Kōzu, stations are served by Suica
Minobu Line, between Fuji and Nishi-Fujinomiya
Iida Line, between Toyohashi and Toyokawa
Taketoyo Line, between Ōbu and Taketoyo (the whole line)
Chūō Main Line, between Nagoya and Nakatsugawa
Kansai Main Line, between Nagoya and Kameyama (the whole line of JR Central operation)
West of Kameyama, stations are served by ICOCA
Takayama Main Line, between Gifu and Mino-Ōta
Taita Line, between Mino-Ōta and Tajimi (the whole line)
TOICA is also supported, since 2018, by Aichi Loop Line.
Integrated services
TOICA is also usable in Suica accepting area (Greater Tokyo Area, Sendai, and Niigata) and ICOCA accepting area (Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto and Okayama-Hiroshima) and SUGOCA accepting area (Fukuoka-Saga). Suica (including Mobile Suica), ICOCA and SUGOCA are usable in TOICA accepting area as well. However, a card has to be used within a single area, unless for some periodic cards which may support cross-area travelling within specific section; for instance, it is not possible to use a card for the trip between Tokyo and Nagoya. The integrated service with Suica and ICOCA started in March 2008 and with SUGOCA in March 2011. Use in the PASMO, SUGOCA, or Kitaca service areas is valid since national integration of IC cards.
Smart card systems in Shizuoka Prefecture, namely LuLuCa (Shizuoka Railway) or NicePass (Enshu Railway) are yet to be integrated.
References
External links
Official website by JR Central
Fare collection systems in Japan
Contactless smart cards
Rail transport in Nagoya
Rail transport in Aichi Prefecture
2006 introductions
2006 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey%20Meng | Joey Meng Yee-man born 2 October 1970 is a Hong Kong actress, model and beauty spokesperson. She is best known for her roles with television network ATV before moving to network TVB in 2013. Her contract with TVB ended in 2020.
Life and career
After middle-school, Meng participated in the 1989 Miss Asia Pageant and emerged as first runner-up. She joined Hong Kong television station ATV on a contract that year. Meng is best known for her role as "Ma Siu-ling" in the My Date with a Vampire television series trilogy. In August 2000, she married Chan Sap-sam (the screenwriter of the My Date with a Vampire trilogy) in Las Vegas, the United States after dating for about four months.
By 2012, after over twenty years working with ATV, Meng didn't renew her contract and transferred over to ATV's competitor, TVB.
Her first television drama was Inbound Troubles, which is 2013's highest-rated television drama for the first half of the year. By February 2015, Meng completed her contract with TVB and decided not to renew for some personal time away. Due to deteriorating health, she decided to work with TVB on a per-series basis to give herself the time and freedom to choose between projects and balance personal life. She returned for one final series with TVB, 2021's Shadow of Justice, which was filmed in 2019. She officially left the network in 2020 and has resided in mainland China with her husband since her departure.
Personal life
Meng is married to Robert Chan who is the creator of My Date With A Vampire.
Filmography
Films
Television dramas
References
External links
Hong Kong Cinemagic
1970 births
Living people
20th-century Hong Kong actresses
21st-century Hong Kong actresses
Hong Kong film actresses
Hong Kong television actresses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barend%20Mons | Barend Mons (born 1957, The Hague) is a molecular biologist by training and a leading FAIR data specialist. The first decade of his scientific career he spent on fundamental research on malaria parasites and later on translational research for malaria vaccines. In the year 2000 he switched to advanced data stewardship and (biological) systems analytics. He is currently a professor in Leiden and most known for innovations in scholarly collaboration, especially nanopublications, knowledge graph based discovery and most recently the FAIR data initiative and GO FAIR. Since 2012 he is a Professor in biosemantics in the Department of Human Genetics at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in The Netherlands. In 2015 Barend was appointed chair of the High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud. Since 2017 Barend is heading the International Support and Coordination office of the GO FAIR initiative. He is also the elected president of CODATA, the standing committee on research data related issues of the International Science Council. Barend is a member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation(ACTI). He is also the European representative in the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) of the National Academies of Science for engineering and medicine in the USA. Barend is a frequent keynote speaker about FAIR and open science around the world, and participates in various national and international boards.
Education
Mons was awarded a Masters (1981 Cum Laude) and a PhD (1986) from Leiden University on cellular and molecular biology of the malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei, and has worked for more than ten years on the genetic differentiation of malaria parasites and vaccine research, publishing over 45 research articles. After switching to biosemantics he published some 80 papers on this area, many of them highly cited.
Past career
In 1993 Mons joined the European Commission as a Seconded National Expert with the task to develop and support international scientific networks, especially with developing countries as partners. While at the EC, in the early days of the internet, he pioneered one of the first electronic interactive communication systems for science networking with developing countries, SHARED, for which he started to (co-)design thesaurus-based concept extraction technologies in order to match across languages and jargon. From 1996 to 1999 he served the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (The National Research Council, NWO) as a senior advisor on International Health Research. After leaving NWO he co-founded the SME Collexis B.V. (later acquired by Elsevier Science) and also started the first Biosemantics Group at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. In addition to his research and teaching responsibilities, Mons has remained involved in international scientific management and networking at various levels. After leaving Collexis in 2005 he co-founded Knewco, Inc. in 2006, and mor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20to%20Coast%20Trail | The Capital to Coast Trail is a cross-state multi-use trail network that is designed to span the U.S. state of New Jersey (west to east) from the state capital of Trenton on the Delaware River to the beach front town of Manasquan on the Atlantic Ocean. The cross-state trail concept was conceived in 2000 by Fred Lockenmeyer and Rudy Buser, of Manasquan, the founding members of the Friends of the Capital to the Coast Trail. When finished the trail will be the third longest in the state, behind the Delaware and Raritan Canal Trail and the Appalachian Trail.
Trail segments
The trail roughly runs along the route of Interstate 195 as part of a proposed greenway across the central section of New Jersey. The trail consists of the following public land segments from east to west):
Edgar Felix Bikeway – The initial developed section added to the trail system.
Allaire State Park
Manasquan River Reservoir
Turkey Swamp Park
Assunpink State Wildlife Management Area - Might be removed by realignment
Robbinsville - Possible next segment of development
Mercer County Park - Might be removed by realignment
Mercer Votech campus - Second section of trail
D&R Canal Trail
Current trail status
As of August 20, 2008 the Capital to Coast Trail is incomplete, existing mostly on paper; however on June 16, 2006, the initial segment was dedicated with a ribbon cutting ceremony at Allaire State Park where the existing 30+ year old Edgar Felix Bikeway became the first segment.
On August 20, 2008, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held to open a second section in West Windsor off Old Trenton Road. The Trenton Times reports that the trail is expected to be completed in the summer of 2010.
References
The Messenger-Press, Aug. 3, 2006
External links
Friends of the Capital to the Coast Trail Facebook group
Canoe Travel
Rail trails in New Jersey
Hiking trails in New Jersey
Protected areas of Mercer County, New Jersey
Protected areas of Monmouth County, New Jersey
Protected areas of Ocean County, New Jersey
Bike paths in New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat%20detection | In signal analysis, beat detection is using computer software or computer hardware to detect the beat of a musical score. There are many methods available and beat detection is always a tradeoff between accuracy and speed. Beat detectors are common in music visualization software such as some media player plugins. The algorithms used may utilize simple statistical models based on sound energy or may involve sophisticated comb filter networks or other means. They may be fast enough to run in real time or may be so slow as to only be able to analyze short sections of songs.
See also
Pitch detection
External links
Beat This > Beat Detection Algorithm
Audio Analysis using the Discrete Wavelet Transform
Signal processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outage | Outage may refer to:
Network outage
Outing
Power outage
Sun outage
See also
Outrage (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQL | As an abbreviation, CQL can refer to:
Chess Query Language, a query language for interrogating chess databases
Contextual Query Language (or common query language), for information retrieval
Cassandra Query Language, for Apache Cassandra
Classora Query Language, for Classora Knowledge Base
Clinical Quality Language, a high-level, domain-specific language focused on clinical quality and targeted at measure and decision support artifact authors.
CIM Query Language, a query language for the Common Information Model (CIM) standard from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
Cypher Query Language, a declarative graph query language that allows for expressive and efficient querying and updating of a property graph.
Confluence Query Language, for Atlassian Confluence
Chén Qíng Lìng (陈情令), The Untamed, a Chinese TV series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKS%20X/Server | MKS X/Server, a commercial X server developed by MKS Inc., allows users to access Unix/Linux systems from a PC computers which run a Microsoft Windows operating system. The product offers both a full 32-bit X server and a native 64-bit X server (for x64 based systems) that operate on various versions of Microsoft Windows.
History
Since 1995 MKS has distributed the SCO/Tarantella XVision Eclipse PC X server product to its customer base as part of its MKS Toolkit product line. In 2006 MKS acquired the source code rights XVision giving the company the ability to maintain and enhance the product as needed by the market and its customers.
MKS X/Server is available as a standalone product, bundled with various versions of the MKS Toolkit product and available as a runtime option to UNIX/Linux applications ported to Windows using the MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers application.
Functional overview
Flexible desktop shortcuts to start UNIX programs remotely (with direct import settings of previously installed X servers)
Secure Shell (SSH) is built into terminal emulators, Unix Neighborhood and Remote Program Starter
Cut and paste between UNIX and Windows applications
Zones Desktop manager
X keyboard mapper
Multi-monitor support
OpenGL/GLX extension
English and Japanese support
Hummingbird Exceed compatibility
Supported standards
Full X11 compliance
Native Windows X servers (32 bit and 64 bit)
Latest internet standards like IPv6 and Secure Shell
AF_UNIX support with the MKS NuTCRACKER platform and tunneled SSH connections
System OS requirements
Windows Vista, Windows Vista 64 bit
Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2003 Server x64 Edition
Windows XP, Windows XP x64 Edition
Windows 2000
External links
MKS website
MKS X/Server homepage
See also
X-Win32 - A commercial alternative
Exceed - A commercial alternative
Xming
X servers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split%20tunneling | Split tunneling is a computer networking concept which allows a user to access dissimilar security domains like a public network (e.g., the Internet) and a local area network or wide area network at the same time, using the same or different network connections. This connection state is usually facilitated through the simultaneous use of a LAN network interface controller (NIC), radio NIC, Wireless LAN (WLAN) NIC, and VPN client software application without the benefit of an access control.
For example, suppose a user utilizes a remote access VPN software client connecting to a campus network using a hotel wireless network. The user with split tunneling enabled is able to connect to file servers, database servers, mail servers and other servers on the corporate network through the VPN connection. When the user connects to Internet resources (websites, FTP sites, etc.), the connection request goes directly out the gateway provided by the hotel network. However, not every VPN allows split tunneling. Some VPNs with split tunneling include Private Internet Access (PIA), ExpressVPN, and Surfshark.
Split tunneling is sometimes categorized based on how it is configured. A split tunnel configured to only tunnel traffic destined to a specific set of destinations is called a split-include tunnel. When configured to accept all traffic except traffic destined to a specific set of destinations, it is called a split-exclude tunnel.
Advantages
One advantage of using split tunneling is that it alleviates bottlenecks and conserves bandwidth as Internet traffic does not have to pass through the VPN server.
Another advantage is in the case where a user works at a supplier or partner site and needs access to network resources on both networks. Split tunneling prevents the user from having to continually connect and disconnect.
Disadvantages
A disadvantage is that when split tunneling is enabled, users bypass gateway level security that might be in place within the company infrastructure. For example, if web or content filtering is in place, this is something usually controlled at a gateway level, not the client PC.
ISPs that implement DNS hijacking break name resolution of private addresses with a split tunnel.
Variants and related technology
Inverse split tunneling
A variant of this split tunneling is called "inverse" split tunneling. By default all datagrams enter the tunnel except those destination IPs explicitly allowed by VPN gateway. The criteria for allowing datagrams to exit the local network interface (outside the tunnel) may vary from vendor to vendor (i.e.: port, service, etc.) This keeps control of network gateways to a centralized policy device such as the VPN terminator. This can be augmented by endpoint policy enforcement technologies such as an interface firewall on the endpoint device's network interface driver, group policy object or anti-malware agent. This is related in many ways to network access control (NAC).
Dynamic split tunneling
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama%20%28company%29 | Hama GmbH & Co KG is a German distributor of accessories specialising in a number of areas including photo, video, audio, multimedia, computer and telecommunications. The company also acts as a distributor of various product ranges. Hama employs around 2,500 people worldwide, 1,500 employees work at the headquarters in Monheim, Bavaria, Germany. Hama is represented by 17 subsidiaries and numerous commercial agencies in Europe and beyond.
Among the products Hama manufacture are:
Filters
Tripods
Memory cards
Camera bags
Headphones
Flash and studio accessories
AV cables (coaxial and SCART)
along with various computer accessories including peripherals and USB, FireWire, and Ethernet cables and other miscellaneous items.
History
Formation
In 1923, the 18-year-old photographer Martin Hanke founded the Hamaphot KG (limited partnership) in Dresden, which specialized in photo accessories. When Dresden was bombarded in the Second World War, the company was destroyed. It was rebuilt in Monheim in 1945. In 1958, the first synchronized flash powder device was presented, in 1972 the world's first automatic film splicer. Three years later, the "Hamafix" slide mounting system came onto the market. In 1990, Hama established their UK branch Hama PVAC Ltd. (Hama Photo, Video, Audio, Communications) and are UK distributor for Celestron, Tasco, Sandisk, Vivitar and Koss products. In 1991, Hama launched the "Videocut 200" which - according to company representatives – was the most frequently sold video editing device in Europe at that time. In 1993, the company name changed from Hamaphot to Hama. Two years later, the "MobileSafe" mobile phone holder was put on the market. In 1998, the company celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary.
Today, the product range does not only comprise articles for photo and video applications, but also accessories from the areas of audiovisual, multimedia, game console, telecommunications and from a number of more areas.
Scandals
In early 2008, over 30,000 flash drives built by a fraudulent Chinese supplier were distributed by Hama. The flash drives were manipulated to overreport their capacity to the computer, possibly leading to data loss upon attempted writing to physically nonexistent sectors, which usually initially is unnoticed by users. Upon discovery, a product recall was launched.
Well-known Hama products
References
External links
Hama website
Photography equipment
German brands
Photography companies of Germany
Companies based in Bavaria
Companies based in Dresden
Videotelephony
Manufacturing companies established in 1923 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push%20It%20Baby | "Push It Baby" is the second single of the album Late Night Special by Pretty Ricky. It was released in March 2007. The single was also featured in television network BET's 2007 Spring Bling event during their performance. Pretty Ricky has performed this song live on BET's video countdown show 106 & Park on May 16, 2007. The official remix features Sean Paul.
Remix
A promotional CD was leaked onto the internet containing a remixed version of the song. This version featured Sean Paul, and is the version actually used in the video. It is the only "official" remix of the song.
Charts
References
2007 singles
Pretty Ricky songs
Sean Paul songs
2007 songs
Atlantic Records singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20van%20Oorschot | Paul C. van Oorschot is a cryptographer and computer security researcher, currently a professor of computer science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Authentication and Computer Security. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC). He is best known as co-author of the Handbook of Applied Cryptography (), together with Alfred Menezes and Scott Vanstone. Van Oorschot was awarded the 2000 J.W. Graham Medal in Computing Innovation. He also helped organize the first Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) workshop in 1994.
Van Oorschot received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Waterloo.
He was recognized (2016) as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for "contributions to applied cryptography, authentication and computer security." He is also a Fellow of the IEEE (2019).
His most recent book is Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin (2nd edition, 2021; Springer International).
See also
List of University of Waterloo people
References
External links
Paul van Oorschot's page at Carleton University
Handbook of Applied Cryptography home
Bio at On the Identity Trail
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Modern cryptographers
Public-key cryptographers
Canadian computer scientists
Canada Research Chairs
Academic staff of Carleton University
University of Waterloo alumni
J.W. Graham Medal awardees
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20resource%20locator | Internet resource locators, described in RFC 1736, convey location and access information for resources. Typical examples of resources include network accessible documents, WAIS databases, FTP servers, and Telnet destinations.
Locators may apply to resources that are not always or not ever network accessible. Examples of the latter include human beings and physical objects that have no electronic instantiation (that is, objects without an existence completely defined by digital objects such as disk files).
A resource locator is a kind of resource identifier. Other kinds of resource identifiers allow names and descriptions to be associated with resources. A resource name is intended to provide a stable handle to refer to a resource long after the resource itself has moved or perhaps gone out of existence. A resource description comprises a body of meta-information to assist resource search and selection.
An Internet resource locator is a locator defined by an Internet resource location standard. A resource location standard in conjunction with resource description and resource naming standards specifies a comprehensive infrastructure for network-based information dissemination. Mechanisms for mapping between locators, names, and descriptive identifiers.
Network-based information resource providers require a method of describing the location of and access to their resources. Information systems users require a method whereby client software can interpret resource access and location descriptions on their behalf in a relatively transparent way. Without such a method, transparent and widely distributed, open information access on the Internet would be difficult if not impossible.
See also
Uniform Resource Identifier
References
External links
DNS servers : The fact that nowadays effective work on the Internet is impossible without DNS servers
Identifiers
Internet Standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Heys | Howard M. Heys is a cryptographer, a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research includes the design and analysis of stream and block ciphers and efficient hardware implementations of them; he participated in the design of CAST-256 and has published cryptanalyses of such block ciphers as RC5 and CIKS-1. He has served twice as co-chair of the Selected Areas in Cryptography workshop: with Carlisle Adams in 1999, and with Kaisa Nyberg in 2002.
Heys received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Queen's University. He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland with his wife and two children.
References
External links
Howard Heys's page at MUN
Living people
Modern cryptographers
Academic staff of the Memorial University of Newfoundland
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/70%27s%20Rock%20Must%20Die | 70's Rock Must Die is an EP by Lard, released in 2000.
Track listing
Personnel
Lard
Al Jourgensen – guitars, keys, programming, production
Paul Barker – bass, keys, programming, backing vocals (1), production
Jello Biafra – Vocals, production
Additional Personnel
Jeff Ward – drums (1)
Bill Rieflin – drums (3)
Mike Scaccia – guitars (3)
Chuck McMillan – backing vocals (1)
Dirk Flanngan – backing vocals (1)
Jeff "Critter" Newell – engineer, backing vocals (1)
Keith Robbins – backing vocals (1)
Matt Schultz – backing vocals (1)
Steve Silver – backing vocals (1)
Brad Kopplin – engineer
References
2000 EPs
Albums produced by Al Jourgensen
Alternative Tentacles EPs
Lard (band) EPs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCC%20Interim%20Linux | MCC Interim Linux was a Linux distribution first released in February 1992 by Owen Le Blanc of the Manchester Computing Centre (MCC), part of the University of Manchester. It was the first Linux distribution created for computer users who were not Unix experts and featured a menu-driven installer that installed both the kernel and a set of end-user and programming tools.
The MCC first made Linux available by anonymous FTP in November 1991. Le Blanc's irritations with his early experiments with Linux, such as the lack of a working fdisk (he would later write one), the need to use multiple FTP repositories to acquire all the essential software, and library version problems, inspired the creation of this distribution.
Le Blanc claimed he referred to the distributions as "interim" because "...they are not intended to be final or official. They are small, harmonious, and moderately tested. They do not conform to everyone's taste -- what release does? -- but they should provide a stable base to which other software can be added."
History
Prior to its first release, the closest approximation to a Linux distribution had been H J Lu's "Boot/Root" floppy disk images from early 1992. These were two 5¼" diskette images containing the Linux kernel and the minimum tools required to get started. So minimal were these tools that to be able to boot from a hard drive required editing its master boot record with a hex editor.
The first release of MCC Interim Linux was based on Linux 0.12 and made use of Theodore Ts'o's ramdisk code to copy a small root image to memory, freeing the floppy drive for additional utilities diskettes.
He also stated his distributions were "unofficial experiments", describing the goals of his releases as being:
To provide a simple installation procedure.
To provide a more complete installation procedure.
To provide a backup/recovery service.
To back up his (then) current system.
To compile, link, and test every binary file under the current versions of the kernel, gcc, and libraries.
To provide a stable base system, which can be installed in a short time, and to which other software can be added with relatively little effort.
Indeed, no attempt was ever made to distribute it with a wide range of software or even the X386 windowing system.
Successors
Soon after the first release came other distributions such as TAMU, created by individuals at Texas A&M University, Martin Junius's MJ, Softlanding Linux System and H J Lu's Linux Base System. These in turn were quickly superseded by Slackware, Red Hat Linux and Debian, the oldest surviving distributions.
The 1.0 distribution of MCC Interim pointed out that Debian was "five times the size of MCC, and quite comprehensive", and the final distribution encouraged users to switch to Debian by providing transitional support.
Included software
Version 0.95c+
As discussed in an email dated 23 April 1992, the boot and utilities disk pair included:
bash
compress
elvis
gawk
The GNU shell/fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomedian | In statistics, the pseudomedian is a measure of centrality for data-sets and populations. It agrees with the median for symmetric data-sets or populations. In mathematical statistics, the pseudomedian is also a location parameter for probability distributions.
Description
The pseudomedian of a distribution is defined to be a median of the distribution of , where and are independent, each with the same distribution .
When is a symmetric distribution, the pseudomedian coincides with the median; otherwise this is not generally the case.
The Hodges–Lehmann statistic, defined as the median of all of the midpoints of pairs of observations, is a consistent estimator of the pseudomedian.
Like the set of medians, the pseudomedian is well defined for all probability distributions, even for the many distributions that lack modes or means.
Pseudomedian filter in signal processing
In signal processing there is another definition of pseudomedian filter for discrete signals.
For a time series of length 2N + 1, the pseudomedian is defined as follows. Construct N + 1 sliding windows each of length N + 1. For each window, compute the minimum and maximum. Across all N + 1 windows, find the maximum minimum and the minimum maximum. The pseudomedian is the average of these two quantities.
See also
Hodges–Lehmann estimator
Median filter
Lulu smoothing
References
Means
Summary statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20Technical%20Implementation%20Guide | A Security Technical Implementation Guide or STIG is a configuration standard consisting of cybersecurity requirements for a specific product. The use of STIGs enables a methodology for securing protocols within networks, servers, computers, and logical designs to enhance overall security. These guides, when implemented, enhance security for software, hardware, physical and logical architectures to further reduce vulnerabilities.
Examples where STIGs would be of benefit is in the configuration of a desktop computer or an enterprise server. Most operating systems are not inherently secure, which leaves them open to criminals such as identity thieves and computer hackers. A STIG describes how to minimize network-based attacks and prevent system access when the attacker is interfacing with the system, either physically at the machine or over a network. STIGs also describe maintenance processes such as software updates and vulnerability patching.
Advanced STIGs might cover the design of a corporate network, covering configurations of routers, databases, firewalls, domain name servers and switches.
See also
CIA triad
Information Assurance
Security Content Automation Protocol
References
External links
NIST Security Configuration Checklists Repository
Security Technical Implementation Guides and Supporting Documents in the Public Area
Online STIG search
Configuration management
Security compliance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang-Jie%20Zhang | Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang () is a computer scientist, a former Research Staff Member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Senior Vice President, Chief Scientist, & Director of Research at Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited, and previously a director of The Open Group.
Liang-Jie Zhang received his Ph.D. on Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Control from Tsinghua University in 1996. He joined IBM China Research Lab as a Staff Research Member in 1996. He then joined Polytechnical University as a postdoctoral scientist (May 1997 – March 1998) before joining the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in March 1998. He chaired the Services Computing Professional Interest Community at IBM Research from 2004 to 2006. He also chaired the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Services Computing from 2005 to 2008. He was the lead IBM researcher on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, web services, and interactive media systems. More specifically, he was the designer of HyperChain Framework and a lead architect for the IBM HotVideo Hyper Video technology (which won the CNET/PC Expo's "Best of Show Software Award" in 2000.)
Zhang has served as the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Web Services Research since 2003 and is the founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing.
Zhang was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE in 2011, and in the same year won the IEEE Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering contributions to Application Design Techniques in Services Computing".
Publications
LJ Zhang is co-author of PL/M Program Design Skills & Examples For Intel Micro-controller, by Liang-Jie Zhang, Sheng Lin, Cun-Kui Fan, Science Press (China Academy Of Science), ,. 1996, and editor of five published books of IEEE and other major conference proceedings on web services:
Liang-Jie Zhang, Mario Jeckle (ed.), Web Services, Proceedings of the 2004 European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2004), Sept. 28–29, 2004, Erfurt, Germany, Springer.
Liang-Jie Zhang, Minglu Li, Amit P. Sheth, Keith G Jeffery, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2004), IEEE Computer Society Press, 2004
Mario Jeckle, Liang-Jie Zhang (ed.), Web Services Computing, Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Web Services – Europe (ICWS-Europe’03), Spring-Bergle, LNCS 2853, Sept. 23–24, 2003, Erfurt, Germany.
Liang-Jie Zhang, et al. (eds.): Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS’03), CSREA Press, , (2003)
Jen-Yao Chung, Liang-Jie Zhang, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce (CEC’03), IEEE Computer Society Press, 2003
Zhang is also the author of 74 book chapters and other technical papers on his subject. He also holds over 35 patents. His tutorial on Grid computing applications has been widely cited.
References
External links
Zhang's SOA Innovations Blog on ibm.com
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside%20Romeo | Roadside Romeo is a 2008 3D computer-animated musical romantic comedy film written and directed by Jugal Hansraj in his directorial debut., produced by Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra of Yash Raj Films and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in the United States, the United Kingdom and India. The film follows a dog living in Mumbai, voiced by Saif Ali Khan, and his girlfriend, Laila, voiced by Kareena Kapoor. This was the first voice-over in an animated film for both actors.
It was released on 24 October 2008 in the United States and India. This was the second Bollywood film to receive a North American release by a Hollywood studio, following Sony Pictures' Saawariya (2007). The film received negative reviews.
A racing video game based on film was released by UTV Indiagames for mobile devices.
Plot
Romeo is a dog who once lived in luxurious surroundings. One day his owners decide to migrate to London and he is left at the mercy of the servant of the house, who dumps him on the streets of Mumbai. Left to fend for himself, he is soon cornered by the local gang – Guru, Interval, Hero English and a dog-wannabe-cat, Mini, who tell him that this is their domain. Romeo does not know the street lingo and is at a loss for words at first, but he manages to win the gang over with giving them haircuts. They love their new looks and accept Romeo as part of their gang. Together, they set up a successful dog-grooming business until Chhainu, the right-hand of gangster-dog Charlie Anna, arrives to collect "weeklies" (weekly protection money) in the form of bones. Romeo throws Chhainu out, and the others, terrified, go to Charlie to plead their case. Charlie threatens them with his trio of female ninja dogs, whom he calls his Angels, but Romeo tricks Charlie into allowing his friends to leave unhurt.
Romeo then meets Laila, who is singing from a rooftop, they dance and he falls in love. To win her over, Laila tells Romeo he must dance with her in front of everyone at the "Moonlight Club" where she performs. Romeo says yes, unaware that Charlie has long wanted her, and anyone who dares go near her is punished. However, Romeo braves the odds and dances with Laila to win her heart. As Laila starts falling in love with him, Charlie, in a fit of rage, captures and terrorizes Romeo. Romeo then promises that he would make Laila fall in love with Charlie. Romeo does not intend to lose Laila but plans to deflate Charlie's ego by having a disguised Mini pretend to be Laila and make it clear she's not interested. This only ends up exacerbating Charlie's ire, and Romeo promises him a second meeting with Leila.
The night of the appointment, however, Chhainu catches Romeo kissing Laila, who then shouts at Romeo telling Laila of Romeo's deal with Charlie and she angrily and violently slaps him and after she sees what Romeo had done says she never wants to see him again despite Romeo's pleas for forgiveness. In a pursuit, Charlie's Angels are wooed by Guru, Inte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%27s%20Next%20Topmodel%20%28season%201%29 | Germany's Next Topmodel Cycle 1 is the first season of Germany's Next Topmodel (often abbreviated to GNTM) that aired on German television network ProSieben. The show started airing on 25 January 2006 with twelve girls in the competition. 18-year-old Lena Gercke came off as this season's winner. She became a successful model after the show and the host of Austria's Next Topmodel. IMG Models manages the winner and also managed first runner-up and second runner-up for one year.
The first season copied many photo shoot ideas from America's Next Top Model, especially from the first season. It has also gone with almost three episodes with a double-elimination for the models. The show was hosted by top model Heidi Klum. The international destinations for this cycle were New York City, Los Angeles and Paris.
Episode summaries
Episode 1: Der Sprung ins kalte Wasser
Original airdate:
From over 11,000 applicants, 32 girls were selected to enter the competition. For their first challenge, the girls had to put together an outfit from the clothes they had packed for a meeting with the judges. After the challenge, twelve girls were eliminated, leaving twenty to compete for the twelve places in the finals.
Eliminated: Alexandra B., Franziska, Isa, Julia-Theresa, Katrin, Martha, Missy, Monika, Myriel, Ramona, Sarah K. & Swetlana
For the next challenge, the 20 remaining models were taken by bus to the Zeche Walsum, a coal mine in Duisburg, where they had to walk down a runway for an audience of miners. After this, the twelve finalists were selected. Heidi then announced that they would be going to New York City.
Eliminated: Alexandra F., Bettina, Britta, Dina, Irina, Karolina, Sarah L. & Sina
Episode 2: New York
Original airdate:
Luise was anxious about flying to New York City, due to her fear of flying. After arriving, the girls had their first runway lesson with Bruce atop a skyscraper. The girls met up with Heidi at a rehearsal for a Victoria's Secret fashion show, where they met models such as Tyra Banks and Gisele Bündchen.
The first photo shoot took place on the rooftop of a skyscraper, where the girls were shot by Russell James in Victoria's Secret lingerie. For their first official challenge, the girls were given $100 each to buy an outfit to wear to the Victoria's Secret Show. Jennifer was chosen as the winner by Gisele Bündchen, and as her prize she got to watch the show. She chose Luise to share the prize.
At the first elimination, Andrea and Anne were sent home.
Eliminated: Andrea Lichtenberg & Anne Mühlmeier
Featured photographer: Russell James
Episode 3: Trau dich
Original airdate:
The contestants returned to Germany. Since there were only eight beds available in their new house, the girls had to compromise.
The girls were taken to a hair salon to have makeovers. Lena G. had her hair cut short, while Janina refused to let her hair be cut the way the stylist proposed. Heidi's husband Seal visited the girls at the salon. Only Célin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20bus%20routes%20in%20Westchester%20County%2C%20New%20York | The Bee-Line Bus System, the bus system for Westchester County, operates a network of bus routes throughout Westchester County, serving destinations throughout much of the county and parts of The Bronx in New York City. Routes are sometimes identified with a "W" prefix for Westchester County (ex: W60), following the same system used by the MTA. This is most evident at bus stops in the Bronx and on some maps and other publications from the MTA and the New York City government. They are also sometimes identified with the "BL" prefix (ex: BL60 or B-L60) on some MTA maps and signage. Bee-Line does not officially use this nomenclature, with the exception of the BxM4C. These routes are listed below.
This table gives details for the Bee-Line routes. For details on non-Bee-Line routes, see the following articles:
List of bus routes in the Bronx: Bx16
List of express bus routes in New York City: BxM3
Connecticut Transit Stamford: 971 Stamford-White Plains Express
Leprechaun Lines: Poughkeepsie–White Plains Commuter
Transport of Rockland: Hudson Link
Routes
The Bee-Line's routes can be classified in several categories, as shown below. All Bee-Line routes accept MetroCard.
Connections to New York City Subway stations at the bus routes' terminals are also listed where applicable.
Service type
Local
Limited-stop and express
Westchester-Manhattan Express
Commuter
Shuttle Loops
Seasonal
These routes provide seasonal service to and from Playland (New York) during summers only. There is no service on Mondays, excluding certain holidays.
History of the current routes
Proposed new bus routes
In December 2020, a re-design was announced for the county bus system. The draft plan was released on July 19, 2022, with system-wide changes which are outlined below. These changes also bring in 100 series routes, which partially replace former portions of modified lines. If a bus route is not shown here, it was discontinued with the new plan, with the exception of the 75 and 91 routes, which were not part of the redesign due to being seasonal-only routes. Several discontinued bus routes are being replaced with on-demand "microtransit" lines.
Local
Limited-stop and express
Discontinued service
References
External links
official website
Bus transportation in New York (state)
Transportation in Westchester County, New York
Lists of New York (state) bus routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUDI | FUDI (Fast Universal Digital Interface) is a networking protocol used by the Pure Data patching language invented by Miller Puckette. It is a string based protocol in which messages are separated by semicolons. Messages are made up of tokens separated by whitespaces, and numerical tokens are represented as strings.
Format
FUDI is a packet oriented protocol.
Each message consists of one or more atoms, separated by one or more whitespace characters, and it's terminated by a semicolon character.
An atom is a sequence of one or more characters; whitespaces inside atoms can be escaped by the backslash (ascii 92) character (see Examples below).
A whitespace is either a space (ascii 32), a tab (ascii 9) or a newline (ascii 10).
A semicolon (ascii 59) is mandatory to terminate (and send) a message.
A newline is just treated as whitespace and not needed for message termination.
Implementations
pdsend / pdreceive
Those command-line tools are distributed with the software Pure Data. They are meant to be used with their counterparts, the classes [netsend] / [netreceive] of Pd.
[netsend] / [netreceive]
Those classes can be used to transport Pd-messages over a TCP or UDP socket. Both are part of Pd-vanilla.
[netserver] / [netclient]
Those are part of maxlib and allow bidirectional connections of multiple clients with one server.
Example messages
test/blah 123.45314;
my-slider 12;
hello this is a message;
this message continues
in the following
line;
you; can; send; multiple messages; in a line;
this\ is\ one\ whole\ atom;
this_atom_contains_a\
newline_character_in_it;
References
External links
https://archive.today/20100704034430/http://wiki.puredata.info/en/FUDI
Network protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HWW%20Limited | HWW was an Australian-based organisation which supplied television and movies metadata to a broad range of clients across new and traditional media including: online publishers, subscription television providers, IPTV providers, HbbTV providers and print publishers.
HWW data powered recording, navigation, discovery and recommendation functions across a range of devices and platforms including web, mobile and set top boxes. HWW was the official provider of Foxtel listings in Australia. Customers include Foxtel, Freeview, Samsung, Telstra and Beamly.
HWW also licenses its proprietary data management software, DataGenius, to operators internationally to customers including Integral and Multichoice.
History
HWW was founded by Philomena Horan and Stephen Wall in 1974 and first traded as Horan and Wall, The Information Agency in Peter Day's Kirk Gallery in Surry Hills, in the inner city of Sydney. Their first client was the then new youth radio station 2JJ. It was here that the founders met Tony Walker and he soon joined the partnership. The partnership began to trade as Horan Wall and Walker in 1974. The proprietary limited company became known as HWW Limited when it was floated on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in 1999. HWW was acquired by Mi9 (previously ninemsn) under a scheme of arrangement in 2006 and was delisted on the ASX. . HWW was purchased to support a focus on mobile content with HWW producing, aggregating and syndicating content to many of the major mobile carriers including Telstra, Optus and Vodafone. In October 2014, HWW was acquired from Mi9 by Gracenote.
HWW syndicated a range of national content including television listings, movies listings, live music listings, restaurant and bar listings, horoscopes and humour.
HWW won the Foxtel EPG contract in 2004 and worked with the subscription television provider on the launch of its digital television service.
In 2014, HWW was the leading supplier of movies and television data in Australia.
In October 2014, HWW was acquired by Gracenote, then a division of Tribune Media.
Gracenote, Inc. provides music, video and sports metadata and automatic content recognition technologies to entertainment services and companies, worldwide. As of February 1, 2017, Gracenote became a Nielsen company.
Product
HWW's first content management system was called SPACE (Sales Prospects And Client Environment). It grew into the basis for handling all of the company's data and content in all of its content domains. After HWW was taken over by NineMSN it built its next content management system, DataGenius, to manage schedule and metadata for its Australian clients. Content editors used DataGenius to standardise and enhance TV and movie metadata for display across a wide range of platforms. The data provided to clients in the Australian market included features such as real times for accurate recording, which were specific to local time zones and locations with, at that time, 718 unique channels confi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20recurring%20Neighbours%20characters | Neighbours is a long-running Australian television soap opera that was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. The following is an alphabetical list of recurring characters and cast members that have appeared in the soap. Recurring characters who later became regular characters are not included, neither are characters that were regular and returned as recurring.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
See also
List of regular Neighbours characters
References
External links
Cast and characters at the Internet Movie Database
Lists of Neighbours characters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20disk | A logical disk, logical volume or virtual disk (VD or vdisk for short) is a virtual device that provides an area of usable storage capacity on one or more physical disk drive(s) in a computer system. The disk is described as logical or virtual because it does not actually exist as a single physical entity in its own right. The goal of the logical disk is to provide computer software with what seems a contiguous storage area, sparing them the burden of dealing with the intricacies of storing files on multiple physical units. Most modern operating systems provide some form of logical volume management.
Levels
Logical disks can be defined at various levels in the storage infrastructure.
Operating system
An operating system may define volumes or logical disks and assign each to one physical disk, more than one physical disk or part of the storage area of a physical disk. For example, Windows NT can create several partitions on a hard disk drive, each of which a separate volume with its own file system. Each floppy disk drive, optical disc drive or USB flash drive in Windows NT becomes one volume. Windows NT can also create partitions that span multiple hard disks drives. Each volume is identified with a drive letter.
Storage area network
Storage area networks (SANs) consolidate inhomogeneous storage devices. As such logical disks or vdisks allow computer programs to access files stored on a SAN.
Storage subsystem
A hardware-level redundant array of independent disks (RAID) exposes itself to the operating system as one logical disk while the array itself consists of several disks. The operating system either does not know that the hardware with which it is interfacing is a RAID, or knows but still does not concern itself with intricate details of storage. In case of the latter, specialized management, maintenance and diagnostics software dedicated to that specific RAID may run on the operating system.
Motivation
When IBM first released the magnetic disk drive in the 1956 IBM 305, a single disk drive would be directly attached to each system, managed as a single entity. As the development of drives continued, it became apparent that reliability was a problem and systems using RAID technology evolved, so that more than one physical disk is used to produce a single logical disk.
Many modern business information technology environments use a SAN. Here, many storage devices are connected to many host server devices in a network. A single RAID array may provide some capacity to one server, and some capacity to another. Therefore, logical disks are used to partition the available capacity and provide the amount of storage needed by each host from a common pool of logical disks. The IBM SAN Volume Controller uses the term "vdisk" to refer to these logical disks.
Today, the rationale for the logical disk approach starts to be questioned and solutions that offer more flexibility and better abstraction are increasingly needed.
See also
Storage virt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTcl | OTcl usually refers to an object oriented extension of Tcl created by David Wetherall at MIT (hence the name OTcl—short for MIT Object Tcl). It is used in network simulator (NS-2) and usually run under Unix environment. This was later extended into XOTcl.
OTcl may also refer to the unrelated IXI Object Tcl extension by Dean Sheenan.
These object Tcl extensions predate the more popular incr Tcl.
Syntax Introduction
The reserved word Class is used to represent class and method of class are declared using word instproc. The variable self is pointer to the class it is used in and is equivalent to variable this of C++/Java. The keyword -superclass is used for defining hierarchy. For example, Class Son -superclass Father means that class Son inherits from class Father. To create an instance of class son we can write set new_inst [new Son]. Following is a simple example of code.
Class HelloWorld
HelloWorld instproc hello {} {
puts "Hello world"
}
set helloworld [new HelloWorld]
//to run
$helloworld hello
TclCL
TclCL (Tcl with classes) is a Tcl/C++ interface used by Mash, vic, vat, rtp_play, ns, and nam.
It provides a layer of C++ glue over OTcl.
See also
XOTcl
incr Tcl
Tcl
Tcllib
Itk
Tk
References
Object-oriented programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemonium%20architecture | Pandemonium architecture is a theory in cognitive science that describes how visual images are processed by the brain. It has applications in artificial intelligence and pattern recognition. The theory was developed by the artificial intelligence pioneer Oliver Selfridge in 1959. It describes the process of object recognition as a hierarchical system of detection and association by a metaphorical set of "demons" sending signals to each other. This model is now recognized as the basis of visual perception in cognitive science.
Pandemonium architecture arose in response to the inability of template matching theories to offer a biologically plausible explanation of the image constancy phenomenon. Contemporary researchers praise this architecture for its elegancy and creativity; that the idea of having multiple independent systems (e.g., feature detectors) working in parallel to address the image constancy phenomena of pattern recognition is powerful yet simple. The basic idea of the pandemonium architecture is that a pattern is first perceived in its parts before the "whole".
Pandemonium architecture was one of the first computational models in pattern recognition. Although not perfect, the pandemonium architecture influenced the development of modern connectionist, artificial intelligence, and word recognition models.
History
Most research in perception has been focused on the visual system, investigating the mechanisms of how we see and understand objects. A critical function of our visual system is its ability to recognize patterns, but the mechanism by which this is achieved is unclear.
The earliest theory that attempted to explain how we recognize patterns is the template matching model. According to this model, we compare all external stimuli against an internal mental representation. If there is "sufficient" overlap between the perceived stimulus and the internal representation, we will "recognize" the stimulus. Although some machines follow a template matching model (e.g., bank machines verifying signatures and accounting numbers), the theory is critically flawed in explaining the phenomena of image constancy: we can easily recognize a stimulus regardless of the changes in its form of presentation (e.g., T and T are both easily recognized as the letter T). It is highly unlikely that we have a stored template for all of the variations of every single pattern.
As a result of the biological plausibility criticism of the template matching model, feature detection models began to rise. In a feature detection model, the image is first perceived in its basic individual elements before it is recognized as a whole object. For example, when we are presented with the letter A, we would first see a short horizontal line and two slanted long diagonal lines. Then we would combine the features to complete the perception of A. Each unique pattern consists of different combination of features, which means those that are formed with the same features |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeanCMMI | LeanCMMI is an approach to software engineering process improvement that integrates agile computing methods with process design and deployment for organization's wishing to improve software engineering capability and achieve a maturity level two or three rating based upon the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).
Developed by Broadsword, LeanCMMI is based on Lean Engineering and the same concepts that spawned Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, and Crystal, and traces its roots back to Edward Demings' "Theory of Profound Knowledge." Based upon the principle of "Just Enough Not Too Much," LeanCMMI maps the software process improvement journey across three major releases, each with seven iterations based on three "dimensions" of software process improvement each with equal weight and with equal importance to the success of the program.
Three Dimensions of Process Deployment
Dimension 1: Design - Design and build the process along with all of its artifacts
Virtual teams develop a set of common, standard process deliverables that meet the requirements of their process area
Dimension 2: Communicate - Determine who received what message when
Virtual teams develop a strategy for communicating their work including identifying what message is delivered to each stakeholder group
Dimension 3: Educate - Determine who receives what training, at what level, at which time
Virtual teams develop training strategy and materials including identifying what level or training is delivered to each stakeholder group
Acceptance Test
LeanCMMI uses a series of CMMI SCAMPI B and C Appraisals to be performed at the end of each Release in order to validate the contents of the Release and identify any gaps in the processes as it relates to the CMMI model. This additive approach reduces risk and helps to ensure that a successful SCAMPI A Appraisal can be performed at the conclusion of the program.
Virtual Enduring Teams
LeanCMMI requires an enduring virtual organization approach that levels the effort across all stakeholders with a five percent re-direct effort estimated for the duration of the program. Organized into virtual teams called Special Interest Groups, or SIGs, these teams are Encapsulated Process Objects that own responsibility for the process, its data, maintenance, training, and communications. An enduring virtual Software Engineering Process Group, or SEPG, serves as the Process Owner, and provides oversight, direction, and authority for the program.
Membership in the SIGs and SEPG is by opt-in and can rotate but the organizations endure as owners of the process. This approach is designed to speed cultural adoption of the process by including as many practitioners as possible in the design and deployment phase.
References
Software development process |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20in%20Belize | The road network in Belize consists of over of roads, of which approximately is paved.
Highways
Belize has five major asphalt-paved two-lane roads:
Thomas Vincent Ramos Highway from Dangriga to Punta Gorda (97 miles or 157 kilometres)
Hummingbird Highway from Belmopan to Dangriga ()
Coastal Highway, also known as the Manuel Esquviel Highway, from Dangriga to La Democracia, Belize
George Price Highway between Belize City and the Guatemalan border near Benque Viejo del Carmen ()
Philip Goldson Highway between Belize City and the Mexican border north of Corozal ()
Other roads
John Smith Airport Link Road, a road from Western Paradise that allows access to Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport without passing through Belize City.
References
External links
Drivers Guide To Belize
Belize Bus Schedules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFSN%20National%20League | The Gay Football Supporters Network National League (often referred to as the GNL) is an amateur league competition for gay football clubs across the United Kingdom. The league is associated with the Gay Football Supporters Network (GFSN) – football supporters group catering for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community. The league was formed in 2002 with four founder members, and has steadily grown to fifteen teams since its inception plus five associate members who play in the GFSN National Cup. It is the only national LGBT league in the world.
There is a strong feeling of community across the league, born out of the GFSN. Over a match-day weekend, it is likely that both teams will socialise before (and after) the match, which has led to close friendships, friendly rivalries, maybe more. This community-ethos and friendliness of the league is an important factor in its success, although in recent times a very definite competitive edge has started to appear.
History
In the middle of the 1990s a number of gay football clubs were forming across the United Kingdom, primarily to offer LGBT people in their local region the opportunity to play football in a welcoming and friendly environment. As the teams grew in size, 5-a-side tournaments and 11-a-side friendly fixtures were organised between teams.
Eventually in 2002, a competitive league was formed, founded by four teams; Yorkshire Terriers F.C, Leicester Wildecats F.C, Leftfooters F.C. (based in London), and Bristol Panthers F.C. The first GNL fixture kicked off on Sunday 29 September 2002, with Leicester Wildecats defeating Yorkshire Terriers 5-1.
The GFSN National League has no affiliation with the Football Association (FA), and is not linked to the National League System, although the GFSN itself does have a relationship with the FA in its attempts to eradicate discrimination and homophobia from football.
Format and rules
The GFSN National League does not require teams to "register" players in advance of a season/match. A team can field players of any sexuality or gender, making the league unique in that both woman and men take part together. Players do not have to be pre-registered before they play, unlike normal local amateur leagues.
The competition rules are exactly the same as normal 11-a-side FA rules, with one alteration to Law 3 – The Number of Players. Teams are permitted to make rolling substitutions, and players are permitted to be substituted back on to the field of play even if they have been earlier substituted off the pitch.
Inaugural 2002/2003 Season
The season ended in exhilarating (and some say controversial) style with the Bristol Panthers becoming the first GNL Champions, after defeating Leftfooters FC 16-0. Bristol needed to win the match by 13 clear goals to grasp the championship, and rumours consumed the league that Bristol had fielded 'ringers' to ensure the result.
As the league does not register players this rumour was impossible to p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo%20railway%20station | Kilo is a station on the VR commuter rail network on the Rantarata line located in Kilo, a district of the city of Espoo in Finland. It is situated between Leppävaara railway station and Kera railway station, approximately northwest/west of Helsinki Central railway station.
History
Kilo station has had three station buildings. The first was merely a small wood-heated cabin. The second was a larger wooden building and also included the white house of the track guardian, which still stands between the Kilo and Kera stations. This larger building was torn down in the early 1980s and replaced by a smaller sheet-metal building that served as the station's third station building. This latter building, which had been used as a kiosk since VR stopped selling tickets in Kilo at the beginning of the 2000s, has now been moved to a field across Lansanpurontie from the train station.
In the 1980s, there was a small factory south of the tracks, right next to the station, but it was torn down, and many low-rise apartment buildings have been built in its place. The level crossing to the west of the station was removed in the middle of the 1990s and replaced by a tunnel east of the station.
Bus connections
114 (Leppävaara Station-Tapiola)
114N (Leppävaara Station-Kamppi, nighttime)
225K (Leppävaara-Kilo-Viherlaakso-Hognäs)
References
Railway stations in Espoo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohjois-Haaga%20railway%20station | Pohjois-Haaga railway station (, ) is a railway station on the Helsinki commuter rail network located in northern Helsinki, Finland. It is located about eight kilometres to the north/northwest of Helsinki Central railway station.
The Pohjois-Haaga station is located in the district of Lassila, between the stations of Huopalahti and Kannelmäki. It is the first station after the split between the Vantaankoski track and the rantarata track towards Turku.
Near the station, from underneath the track on the bridge, is a light traffic route, which can be used to follow the train tracks all the way to the city centre. On the other hand, the tracks cannot be followed to the north towards Kannelmäki, because after Pohjois-Haaga, the tracks continue on a narrow bridge. Sometimes, pedestrians use the bridge anyway to get to the other side of Kehä I. This has caused dangerous situations.
The Helsinki City Transport takes responsibility of the station.
History
During the planning phases of the Helsinki Metro in the 1960s, it was planned to build a line to the east of what became the Martinlaakso line; a station was planned to be placed in the very center of the district of Pohjois-Haaga. However, as the decision to replace this metro line with a local traffic railway under the ownership of the Finnish State Railways was made, the station was instead built in a sparsely populated area between Lassila and Pohjois-Haaga. Construction of housing and offices around the station took off only after the line was opened for traffic, in June 1975.
As with numerous other stations only serving local traffic, ticket sales at Pohjois-Haaga were ceased in June 2004.
Architecture
The Pohjois-Haaga station building was funded by and came to be owned by the city of Helsinki, and was completed in October 1975, four months after the line itself; until then, the ticket office operated in a temporary building. The station building, is made of rebar and brick with a facade of ceramic tile, and the final ticket office was situated on the ground level, from where passengers ascend to the side platforms via a stairwell. The platform shelters are made from steel profiles. The building has a total area of , and was designed by architectural firm Arkkitehtitoimisto Lehtovuori–Tegelman–Väänänen.
Services
Pohjois-Haaga is served by circular lines P and I on the HSL commuter rail network. P trains towards the Helsinki Airport use track 1, while I trains bound for Helsinki via Huopalahti use track 2. The station has a HSL ticket vending machine, as well as elevators and high platforms for accessibility.
Exchanging onto HSL buses is possible at the Pohjois-Haagan asema terminus on the eastern side of the railway on the Hopeatie street; additionally, several bus lines use the Lassila stops on its western side on the Kaupintie street. On the western side is also a city bike terminal, and park and ride is provided in a parking lot under the northern side of the platforms. The Pohjoi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Big%20House%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Big House is an American prime time television sitcom starring actor/comedian Kevin Hart. It ran on the ABC television network in April 2004, lasting for only six episodes.
The series represents a mirror-opposite of the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Kevin Hart is a wealthy, pampered student from Malibu. After his father is arrested and imprisoned for embezzlement, Kevin moves to Philadelphia to live with his working-class aunt, uncle and cousins (the Cleveland family), and enrolls in Drexel University.
Cast
Kevin Hart as Himself
Faizon Love as Warren Cleveland
Arnetia Walker as Tina Cleveland
Yvette Nicole Brown as Eartha Cleveland
Aaron Grady as C.J. Cleveland
Keith David as Clarence Cleveland
Episodes
Home media
Olive Films, under license from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, released the entire series on DVD in Region 1 on January 13, 2015.
In 2022, the series was made available for streaming online on Fox Corporation's Tubi.
References
External links
2000s American black sitcoms
2004 American television series debuts
2004 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
English-language television shows
Television series about families
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
Television shows set in Philadelphia
TGIF (TV programming block)
Television series by Imagine Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netco | Netco or NETCO is the name or acronym for several companies and products
N.E. Thing Co., a Canadian art collective from 1967-78
Netco Government Services, a network infrastructure company in the United States
Netco (Somalia), a telecommunications company in Somalia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20time | Block time may refer to:
Eternalism (philosophy of time), also called "block time philosophy"
Block time of blockchains, the average time taken to create each block
Block time (aviation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVDXpress | DVDXpress is a media company that owns and operates a network of DVD rental kiosks in supermarket locations across North America. The company, now the second largest player in the DVD kiosk sector after Redbox, was founded in 2001 by entrepreneurs Greg Meyer and Jason Tanzer as a way to fill the need for a more efficient and cost-effective method to provide DVD rentals in existing retail establishments. DVDXpress was acquired by Coinstar, Inc. in late 2007, subsequently merged with their Redbox division in 2009, and ultimately spun out as an independent entity.
Locations
DVDXpress has many of its domestic kiosks in Kroger, Bashas, Lowes, Albertsons, Haggen, Acme, The Markets, Safeway Inc., ShopRite and WinCo Foods supermarkets. DVDXpress kiosks offer DVD rentals at a price point between $1.50 and $2.00 per day.
Technology
The DVDXpress kiosks utilize RFID technology to identify the DVDs that it dispenses and wireless technology to communicate to the Internet. The DVDs are dispensed in their original studio cases from the kiosk. Customers have the ability to browse availability of titles real-time via the company's website and reserve movies to be picked up at the kiosk at a later time.
See also
Competitors include Redbox.
External links
DVDXpress US website
DVDXpress Adds Online Reservations
Bi-Lo Rolls Out RFID DVD Rental Kiosks
Video rental services
Retail companies established in 2001
Coinstar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Starter%20Wife%20%28miniseries%29 | The Starter Wife is a 2007 USA Network television miniseries, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Gigi Levangie Grazer. Its title is derived from the concept of a starter marriage. Filmed over four months in Queensland, Australia, the plot focuses on Molly Kagan (Debra Messing) who, after years of marriage to a Hollywood film mogul, is forced to redefine herself and her role in society when her husband leaves her for a younger woman.
The mini-series premiered with a two-hour presentation on May 31, 2007 at 9:00 pm ET. The premiere attracted 5.4 million viewers, with 2.8 million of them being adults aged 25–54 (the network's target demographic). Ratings steadily decreased as the series progressed. The series is available for purchase on iTunes (to American customers only) and was available for DVD purchase starting September 11, 2007.
The miniseries was nominated for ten Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Miniseries, Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Debra Messing), Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (Joe Mantegna), Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Judy Davis), and Writing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special (Josann McGibbon & Sara Parriott). Davis was the sole winner, while Messing was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie.
Although initially intended as a one-shot miniseries, USA subsequently ordered The Starter Wife as a new series for the 2008 spring season. Production on the series first ten-episode season was delayed due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, and began airing October 10, 2008.
Characters
Molly Kagan (Debra Messing) is a 41-year-old wife and mother of five-year-old daughter Jaden (Miniseries: Bethany Whitmore; Series: Brielle Barbusca). Soon after the characters are introduced, she is abandoned by her husband and is forced to rebuild her life and assert herself within the film community, most of which ignores her after the split.
Joan McAllister (Judy Davis) is Molly's oldest friend and an alcoholic socialite who lends Molly her beachfront Malibu home when she pretends to jet off to Paris but actually enters a rehab center in Ojai. She later calls upon Molly to impersonate her non-existent sister "Bambi", upon whom she has placed all blame for her failings, when her therapist insists the two confront each other and work out their hostilities.
Cricket Stewart (Miranda Otto) is one of Molly's friends whose allegiance to her is tested when her film director husband, a business associate of Kenny's, demands she break all ties with her. When she discovers him in a compromising situation with their children's nanny, she orders him to leave the house and reconnects with Molly. She later takes him back but has difficulty forgetting the image of her husband with the nanny. After she discovers she is pregnant she tells Molly that she has finally found the image to replace the one of her hus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered%20highways%20in%20New%20York | The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) is responsible for the establishment and classification of a state highway network which includes Interstate Highways, U.S. Highways, and state routes. U.S. and Interstate Highways are classified as state routes in New York; however, a letter ("U" or "I", respectively) is suffixed to the number of the route. As a result, there is apparent duplication between U.S. Routes, Interstate Highways and state routes.
The New York state highway system is supplemented by the state's county route system, which comprises a series of highways numbered and maintained by the individual county highway departments. While neighboring New Jersey employs a statewide numbering system, no such system exists in New York. Instead, each county numbers its highways independently of other counties. As a result, county routes typically change numbers when they cross county lines.
In some cases, the state highway and county highway systems overlap. More specifically, some portions of U.S. Routes and state routes in New York are signed as U.S. Routes or state routes but are maintained by the county that the route lies within. These county-maintained segments also carry a county route designation that may or may not be posted alongside the U.S. or state designation, depending on the signing practices of the county. Some state routes, such as New York State Route 148 in Niagara County, are entirely county-maintained.
History
Lists of routes
Thruway
Highways maintained by the New York State Thruway Authority lack any signed numbers apart from Interstate Highway designations. While the vast majority of the Thruway system is part of the Interstate Highway System, some sections, such as the Berkshire Connector between Interstate 87 and Interstate 90, are unsigned reference routes. There are no standard NYSDOT reference markers on any of the highways; instead, the Thruway Authority posts their own mileposts, which (aside from the mainline) bear special Thruway codes.
See also
Transportation in New York
List of New York State Bicycle Routes
External links
New York State Department of Transportation
Numbered Highways |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitware |
Kitware, Inc. is a technology company headquartered in Clifton Park, New York. The company is involved in the research and development of open-source software in the fields of computer vision, medical imaging, visualization, 3D data publishing, and technical software development.
History
The company was founded in 1998 by Will Schroeder, Ken Martin, Lisa Avila, Charles Law and Bill Hoffman to support the Visualization Toolkit (VTK). VTK was initially created in 1993 by Schroeder, Martin and Bill Lorensen as companion software to “The Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics," originally published by Prentice-Hall. As VTK was released open source, a user community developed around the software and the founders of Kitware took this opportunity to start the business. Later, the company expanded its focus and offerings to include development in other areas such as biomedical imaging, large data visualization, quality software process, informatics, and data management.
The company has four additional offices: Carrboro, North Carolina; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Arlington, Virginia; and Kitware SAS, the European office, in Lyon, France.
Kitware contributes to many popular open-source projects, such as VTK and CMake.
References
Companies based in New York (state)
Data visualization software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQC | IQC may refer to:
Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Instituto Questão de Ciência, a Brazilian non-profit organization
Intuitionistic predicate calculus, the subsystems for only propositions being called
Itaquaquecetuba (CPTM) (station code: IQC), a train station in Itaquaquecetuba, São Paulo, Brazil
See also
IQCE, IQ domain-containing protein E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical%20features%20new%20to%20Windows%20Vista | Windows Vista (formerly codenamed Windows "Longhorn") has many significant new features compared with previous Microsoft Windows versions, covering most aspects of the operating system.
In addition to the new user interface, security capabilities, and developer technologies, several major components of the core operating system were redesigned, most notably the audio, print, display, and networking subsystems; while the results of this work will be visible to software developers, end-users will only see what appear to be evolutionary changes in the user interface.
As part of the redesign of the networking architecture, IPv6 has been incorporated into the operating system, and a number of performance improvements have been introduced, such as TCP window scaling. Prior versions of Windows typically needed third-party wireless networking software to work properly; this is no longer the case with Windows Vista, as it includes comprehensive wireless networking support.
For graphics, Windows Vista introduces a new as well as major revisions to Direct3D. The new display driver model facilitates the new Desktop Window Manager, which provides the tearing-free desktop and special effects that are the cornerstones of the Windows Aero graphical user interface. The new display driver model is also able to offload rudimentary tasks to the GPU, allow users to install drivers without requiring a system reboot, and seamlessly recover from rare driver errors due to illegal application behavior.
At the core of the operating system, many improvements have been made to the memory manager, process scheduler, heap manager, and I/O scheduler. A Kernel Transaction Manager has been implemented that can be used by data persistence services to enable atomic transactions. The service is being used to give applications the ability to work with the file system and registry using atomic transaction operations.
Audio
Windows Vista features a completely re-written audio stack designed to provide low-latency 32-bit floating point audio, higher-quality digital signal processing, bit-for-bit sample level accuracy, up to 144 dB of dynamic range and new audio APIs created by a team including Steve Ball and Larry Osterman.
The new audio stack runs at user level, thus reducing impact on system stability. Also, the new Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) model has been introduced, replacing WDM audio, which allows compliant audio hardware to automatically work under Windows without needing device drivers from the audio hardware vendor.
There are three major APIs in the Windows Vista audio architecture:
Windows Audio Session API – Very low-level API for rendering audio, render/capture audio streams, adjust volume etc. This API also provides low latency for audio professionals through WaveRT (wave real-time) port driver.
Multimedia Device API – For enumerating and managing audio endpoints.
Device Topology API – For discovering the internals of an audio card's topology.
Audio sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20TV%20Land | This is a list of television programs formerly and currently broadcast by TV Land.
Current programming
Former programs
Originals
Syndicated
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!Title
!Premiere date
!Source(s)
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|227
|2006–2007
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|30 Rock
|2013
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|3rd Rock from the Sun
|2008–2010
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|The A-Team
|2000–2002; 2006–2007
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers%3A%20Animated | Transformers Animated is an American superhero animated television series based on the Transformers toy line. It was produced by Cartoon Network Studios and Hasbro Entertainment and animated by The Answer Studio, Mook Animation, and Studio 4°C (shorts). The series debuted on Cartoon Network on December 26, 2007, and ended on May 23, 2009; running for 42 episodes across three seasons. In Japan, the show debuted on April 3, 2010, on both TV Aichi and TV Tokyo.
The show is set in its own stand-alone continuity, separate from any other previous Transformers continuities. Despite this, the series features many references to the other continuities; such as footage from the Generation 1 series being used as a historical film.
Synopsis
Series overview
The series began with a three-part movie-length episode called "Transform and Roll Out!". Stellar cycles (years) after the Autobots won the great war for Cybertron against the Decepticons, an Autobot maintenance crew led by Optimus Prime and consisting of Ratchet, Bulkhead, Prowl, and Bumblebee discover the legendary AllSpark buried on an asteroid. The Autobots take the AllSpark back to their ship, but are soon confronted by a crew of Decepticons led by the notorious warlord Megatron and consisting of Blitzwing, Lugnut, Blackarachnia, and Starscream. Megatron attacks the Autobot ship and tries to retrieve the AllSpark, but when an explosive planted on Megatron by the treacherous Starscream detonates, the ship crashes on Earth. The Autobots go into stasis to survive the crash, while the scattered remains of Megatron are discovered by a human scientist named Isaac Sumdac.
Half a century later, Professor Issac Sumdac is the CEO of a robotics company known as Sumdac Systems, which is based in a futuristic version of Detroit in the 2050s. Optimus Prime and the Autobots awaken from stasis and defend the people of Detroit from a monster, resulting in them becoming local celebrities. They befriend Professor Sumdac's young daughter Sari, who teaches them about Earth customs, and whose security card is transformed into a metallic toll which possesses a fraction of the AllSpark's vast cosmic power. Starscream arrives on Earth and tries to take the all-powerful AllSpark for himself, but the Autobots successfully stop him and save the Earth once again.
Season One
The Autobots settle into their new home and learn about Earth culture and customs, all of the while defending Detroit from various threats. Megatron's disembodied head, which has been in Professor Sumdac's laboratory since the ship crashed, comes back online and manipulates Sumdac into building him a new body, pretending that he is an Autobot. Blitzwing and Lugnut arrive on Earth searching for Megatron, while Blackarachnia targets Optimus Prime, blaming him for her techno-organic mutation. New Transformers introduced in the first season include the Autobot Arcee (who only appears in Ratchet's flashbacks), the Decepticon Soundwave, the bounty-hunter Lockdow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse%20image | A sparse image is a type of disk image file used on macOS that grows in size as the user adds data to the image, taking up only as much disk space as stored in it. Encrypted sparse image files are used to secure a user's home directory by the FileVault feature in Mac OS X Snow Leopard and earlier. Sparse images can be created using Disk Utility.
Unlike a full image file (), which takes up as much actual space as the real disk it represents (regardless of the amount of unused space), a sparse image file () takes up only as much actual disk space as the data contained within, up to a maximum of the capacity assigned during creation.
Limitations
Two limitations are therefore worth noting regarding the use of this image file format:
A customized ".sparseimage" image file can be assigned a larger total capacity than the physical volume (or HD partition) on which it originally resides. While the virtual volume will seem to make that capacity available, attempting to exceed the physical capacity of the underlying volume will result in a disk error: "ran out of space". The file must first be moved to a larger physical disk or partition.
As noted above, while mounted image files automatically expand to their preassigned limit when data is added, they cannot be arbitrarily resized without the use of Disk Utility, , or other such software.
Sparse bundle disk images
Mac OS X Leopard introduced the concept of the sparse bundle. Instead of a single big file, a sparse bundle is a bundle (directory) containing a number of files called bands, each on the order of 8 MB in size. This means even though to the end user the sparse bundle appears as a single file, it is composed of smaller files. As of Mac OS X 10.8, the bands are 8 MiB () each. When the content of the image changes, one or more band files is changed, created, or deleted. This allows easier shrinking of the amount of space used on the underlying filesystem when a large amount of data is deleted inside the disk image, as long as the code supporting the filesystem inside the image notifies the kernel of the "releasing" of blocks, as happens in filesystems that support SSD "trim" operations to be triggered automatically for de-allocated filesystem blocks.
Sparse bundle advantages over non-diskimage backup for Time Machine:
the backup destination no longer needs to be an HFS+/HFSX volume (for the hard links to work and to preserve metadata), but can be any shared folder, on any server, connected using any protocol and using any file system to store the actual files
the entire sparse bundle is replicable from one location to another; this is particularly useful when upgrading the backup storage and when the on-site backup storage needs to be replicated to an off-site backup storage. A tool such as rsync may be used to keep one or more disk images consistent across various systems.
References
External links
- a FUSE filesystem for reading macOS sparse-bundle disk images
MacOS
Disk images |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Sept | La Sept was a French free-to-air television network and production company created on 23 February 1986 to develop cultural and educational programming for transmission via the TDF 1 satellite. In French, the word "sept" means the number seven; it not only represents the seventh network to have signed on in France, but it also serves as a backronym, for Société d'édition de programmes de télévision (Television Programme Production Corporation).
History
In 1985, Georges Fillioud, French Minister of Transport, charged Pierre Desgraupes with creating programmes for one or more of the five channels of the high power satellite TDF 1 launched in 1988. On 27 February 1986, La Société d'édition de programmes de télévision was created by Bernard Faivre d'Arcier, cultural adviser to the Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and began to develop a stock of programmes. It was chaired by historian George Duby.
In March 1989, the full name of La Sept changed, becoming La Société européenne de programmes de télévision (European Television Programme Corporation). In April 1989, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel granted permission to broadcast on one of TDF 1's channels, and it began transmission on 14 May 1989. The station broadcast three hours and 30 minutes of programmes per day, each programme broadcast twice. In June, an agreement was reached to broadcast La Sept's programmes on cable television, and on 3 February 1990, FR3 gave the La Sept a window on their terrestrial broadcast channel every Saturday from 15:00 to midnight.
On 30 May 1992, La Sept lost its role of broadcaster to Arte, a Franco-German EEIG group created on 2 October 1990. On 27 September 1993 it changed its name to Sept-ARTE, and became ARTE France on 1 August 2000.
Soundtrack
Michael Nyman released a promotional album, La Sept, containing music recorded for the network.
References
Defunct television channels in France
Television channels and stations established in 1986
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1992
1986 establishments in France
1992 disestablishments in France
Mass media in Paris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sliders%20characters | This is a list of Sliders characters, a science fiction television show that aired on the Fox network for three seasons and the Sci Fi Channel for two seasons. The show starred Jerry O'Connell as Quinn Mallory, a college student who builds a device that can transport himself and others to parallel worlds. Due to the nature of the show's similar (yet always slightly different) worlds conceit, several actors appear as different versions of the same character. The following is a list of actors who have appeared on Sliders.
Main cast
Quinn Mallory
Quinn R. Mallory is a fictional character on the science fiction television show Sliders, played by Jerry O'Connell.
Quinn was born in 1973 and raised in San Francisco, California, the son of Michael and Amanda Mallory. The driver's license shown in the episode "Summer of Love" indicates his birthday is January 24, but in the same episode, Wade says that Quinn is a Libra, which would put his birthday between September 23 and October 22.
Quinn was skipped ahead two grades in school at some point before 1984. He was bullied in junior high, and being skipped ahead two grades made him smaller and physically slower than his classmates. His father died in 1984. The week after his father's death, several students, including Rex Crandall, bullied Quinn at school, which ended in an incident where he hit Rex with a baseball bat. Quinn shattered Rex's kneecap, and Rex walked with a limp for the rest of his life. In the episode "The Guardian", on a world where events occurred as they did on Earth Prime twelve years ago, Quinn prevented history from repeating itself.
In "Summer of Love", Quinn confesses to Arturo that he was starting quarterback in high school (indicating that despite being slower than his classmates in junior high, he became an athlete in high school, probably driven by a in this case healthy inferiority complex). In the episode "Slide Like an Egyptian", Quinn meets his father in the afterlife while being used for life after death experiments. They discuss how they enjoyed playing American football together.
Invention of sliding
Quinn attended the fictional California University during the early 1990s to earn his master's degree in physics, specializing in superstring theory. In 1994, he invented a device that allows people to travel from one parallel dimension to another. Quinn referred to this technology as "sliding." On September 27, he went through the vortex with Wade Welles and Maximillian Arturo. Rembrandt Brown happened to be traveling in the area and was accidentally pulled into the vortex.
The four of them landed on a parallel world where San Francisco was in an ice age. They holed up in Rembrandt's car until a deadly tornado headed their way. Because of the way the sliding technology functioned, the group's only choices were to reset the timer and potentially lose the possibility to go home, or to wait for the timer to hit zero and go home then. Since the tornado was likely to kill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence%20Network | The Florence Network is a cross-nation European co-operation of nursing and midwifery departments from 18 different countries. It includes a total of 38 institutions across Europe. It focuses on international cooperation over educational and scientific issues, with the aim to develop and increase the quality of higher education in nursing, midwifery and health care. In this way the organization works to improve the image of the profession and to raise the profile of nursing and midwifery within Europe.
Primary goals
The Florence Network's stated goals are principally concerned with European nursing and midwifery. They include organising student and lecturer exchange between network members, improving curriculum quality and facilitating research collaboration.
It is hoped that the network will help with identified issues in nursing, such as an aging workforce, nursing shortages in higher-income EU countries, workplace dissatisfaction in lower-income countries, and a need for more culturally sensitive healthcare.
Member Countries
Institutions join the network by invitation only, but do not pay membership fees. As of 2019, forty higher education institutions (HEIs) from the following European nations are members of the network:
Belgium
Czech Republic
Denmark
England
Finland
Germany
Greece
Italy
Latvia
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Scotland
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Annual meeting
Every year one of the partners - institutions of higher education (Universities of applied Sciences) is the host institution for the annual meeting.
1995 Start of Florence Network - Groningen - Netherlands
1996 Copenhagen, Oslo,
1997 Stockholm, Aalst, Belgium
1998 Bremen, Germany
1999 Rovaniemi, Finland
2000 Prague, Czech Republic
2001 Lahti, Finland
2002 Edinburgh, Scotland
2003 Porsgrunn, Norway
2004 Udine, Italy
2005 Leuven, Belgium
2006 Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
2007 Halmstad University, Varberg, Sweden
2008 Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
2009 The Hague University, The Hague, Netherlands
2010 Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
2011 ESEL, Lisbon, Portugal
2012 Malmö University, Sweden
2013 Hanzehogeschool, Groningen / NHL, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
2014 TurgutOzal University, Ankara, Turkey
2015 Metropolitan University College, Copenhagen /University College Zealand, Roskilde, Denmark
2016 University of Verona & Trento Campus, Italy
2017 Bern UAS, Zurich UAS & St. Gallen UAS, Bern & Winterthur, Switzerland
2018 Odisee, Belgium
2019 Coventry, England
References
External links
The Florence Network
Medical and health organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocities | Eurocities is a network of large cities in Europe, established in 1986 by the mayors of six large cities: Barcelona, Birmingham, Frankfurt, Lyon, Milan, and Rotterdam. Today, Eurocities members include over 200 of Europe's major cities from 38 countries, which between them represent over 130 million people.
Eurocities is one of the major city networks in the EU. It is an example of how city diplomacy is seeking influence and prominence in the established world of international relations. At the EU level, Eurocities promotes the implementation of the European Union's subsidiarity principle. This offers multiple opportunities to engage and influence EU initiatives and policies, especially on urban development and more recently the European Green Deal. Eurocities is sometimes seen as an interest group more focused on re-establishing the power of the city over the nation-state, rather than connecting EU citizens across cities and borders. Recently, EU mayors of the network have tried to raise their global profile for their efforts to tackle climate change.
Strategy and activities
Eurocities coordinates multiple projects in the field of mobility, environmental transition, social inclusion, and digital innovation.
The Eurocities secretariat is based in Brussels, Belgium. The network is led by an executive committee composed of 12 elected cities and their mayors. The executive committee meets at least three times a year and oversees the annual work programme, internal rules and budget, as approved by the annual general meeting (AGM). Thematic work is coordinated in six forums and a number of related working groups covering, among other topics, culture, economic development, environment, knowledge society, mobility, and social affairs.
Eurocities activities include:
Advocacy: representing the voice of cities at EU level, to bring about change on the ground
Insights: Monitoring and communicating to cities the latest EU developments, funding opportunities, and trends affecting them
Sharing of best practices: Facilitating the exchange of knowledge, experience and good practices between cities to scale up urban solutions
Training: develop the capacity to face current and future urban challenges
Membership criteria
Membership of Eurocities is open to any European city with a population of 250,000 or more. Cities within the European Union become full members, and other European cities become associate members. Local authorities of smaller cities, but with a population of more than 50,000 can become partners. Companies and businesses can become associated business partners.
Members
Notes
References
External links
Lists of cities in Europe
Municipal international relations
Cross-European advocacy groups
1986 establishments in Europe
Organizations established in 1986
Urban planning
Diplomacy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Bedol | Brian Bedol is an American television executive, entrepreneur, and founder of the sports television channels Classic Sports Network and College Sports Television. Bedol owned CSN from 1995 to 1997 and CSTV from 2003 to 2006.
Bedol has since sold off both channels, to ESPN and CBS respectively, who have renamed the channels ESPN Classic and CBS Sports Network. He served as president and CEO of both companies. He left CSTV Networks in January, 2008. In 2009 he announced the formation of Bedrock Venture Partners to invest in early-stage media and technology businesses. In addition, in August 2010, Major League Soccer announced it had hired Bedol as a consultant to help the league determine what to do with its media rights. In 2012, he founded Bedrocket in partnership with Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer. Bedol currently serves as the company's president and CEO.
Early career
Brian Bedol is a "maverick entrepreneur in an increasingly mature industry dominated by conglomerates", according to Mediaweek. He began his career as an advertising writer in Chicago writing McDonald's commercials, but soon after moved to New York as an on-air promotion producer for the not-yet-launched MTV. After returning to Harvard Business School he continued to work with MTV's parent company, Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, and during the summer of 1984 was part of a small team that developed the business concept for Nickelodeon's evening programming block, Nick at Nite.
After receiving his MBA from Harvard University, Bedol joined MTV founder Bob Pittman, as a partner overseeing television and home video at Quantum Media Ventures, where he created and executive-produced the ground-breaking and controversial Morton Downey Jr. Show. He was also the creator and executive producer of the Fox Network's first reality show, Totally Hidden Video. His other television credits include creator and co-executive producer of the television game show Pictionary, hosted by Brian Robbins and creator of the 1990 Fox comedy show Haywire. He also executive produced the home video of Hagler vs. Leonard: The Superfight,
the top-selling sports home video of the year.
While an executive at Quantum, Bedol, Pittman, and another partner, Mayo Stuntz, developed and launched Court TV with Steven Brill's American Lawyer Media. He also served on the board of directors of Quincy Jones Entertainment, the creator and producer of the hit television show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In 1986, Bedol, along with his partners, also led a secret effort to buy the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. Although ultimately outbid by Martin Sorrell, Quantum had accumulated enough stock to earn over $10 million for two weeks of effort.
In 1990, Quantum was sold to Time Warner, and Bedol, Pittman, and Stuntz became the executive team for Time Warner Enterprises, the company's entrepreneurial ventures unit. The division's highest profile activity was its purchase of Six Flags Theme Pa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashnet | Cashnet is an interbank network in India managed by Euronet Services India Pvt. Ltd. which is a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide.
Banks can join the Cashnet shared ATM network whereby each member banks’ cardholders can perform transactions at other member banks’ ATMs. Member banks will allow their customers to perform transactions at other member banks ATMs ("Issuing Bank") and allow other member banks’ cardholders to perform transactions at their ATMs ("Acquiring Bank"). All member banks are expected to be both Issuing Banks and Acquiring Banks.
Euronet India provides the central switching and processing centre for the shared ATM network by establishing a host-to-host connection to each member bank, facilitating daily settlement between each participant and providing settlement reports. Switching and gateway services to international card organisations such as Visa, MasterCard, Amex and Diners Club will be provided.
History
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has granted the following approval on 8 April 2003. Cashnet was officially launched in Mumbai on 21 May 2003, and is the first Independent nationwide-shared ATM network in India.
Cashnet is India's largest private shared ATM network with IDBI Bank acting as the Settlement Bank.
Members
The network has 14 member banks with an approximate network strength of 10,700+ ATMs. The member banks of Cashnet are:
Axis Bank
Barclays Bank
Citibank
Corporation Bank
Dena Bank
Deutsche Bank
Development Credit Bank
Dhanalakshmi Bank
HDFC Bank
HSBC
IDBI Bank
ING Vysya Bank
Standard Chartered Bank
Kotak Mahindra Bank
Competitors
CashTree
MITR
BANCS
References
External links
Cashnet India
Interbank networks in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20Computing | Motion Computing, Inc., was a developer of slate Tablet PC computers located in Austin, Texas. Motion Computing focused on vertical markets such as healthcare government, public safety, and construction. It was the first company to introduce Gorilla Glass, Bonded displays, built-in array microphones, and UV light-based disinfection stations for clinical environments.
History
Motion Computing was founded in 2001 by a team of former Dell executives including David Altounian and Scott Eckert, who served as CEO of Motion. In 2002, it launched its first product, the Motion M1200, a tablet designed as a successor of pen slates from the 1990s. The M1200 was the first slate tablet available in a 12-inch size. That same year, Motion raised $6.5 million in funding. Its second funding round in 2003 raised $11.2 million, and the 2004 Series C round raised $25 million. In 2003, Motion launched the M1300, which was the first 1 GHz tablet using Intel Centrino mobile technology. The M1400, released in 2004, was the first 12-inch slate tablet to have a View Anywhere display.
Through its independent software vendor partnership program, Motion paired with companies including Active Ink and Mi-Co to advance the development of tablet PC applications. In 2007, Motion released the first mobile clinical assistant (MCA), the C5, at UCSF Medical Center.
Through a Series D funding round in 2008, the company closed $6 million. In 2009, Motion secured $5.6 million in a round of financing from eight investors. That same year, Motion announced that its C5 and F5 tablets would be the first rugged tablet PCs to use Corning's Gorilla Glass.
In February 2011, Motion introduced ReadyDock, the first chemical-free disinfection stations using ultraviolet technology, for the C5 tablet. In 2011, Motion Computing announced the Intel Atom "Oak Trail"-powered CL900 running Windows 7, a fully rugged 10" screen ultra-light Tablet PC, weighing 2.1 pounds. The company then announced the CL910 tablet in July 2012 and the CL920 in October 2014. Motion also released the LINCWorks RDA (Remote Data Access) series.
In April 2015, Xplore Technologies Corp. purchased Motion Computing Inc. for $16 million. At the time, Motion was the world's second-leading provider of rugged tablet PCs.
Products
F5m, 2015
C5m
R12, 2014
CL920, 2014
F5te, 2013
J3600, 2013
C5v, 2011
F5v, 2011
J3500, 2011
CL900, 2011
J3400, 2009
F5, 2008
LE1700, 2007
C5, 2007
LE1600TS (Touch Screen), 2006
LS800, 2005
LE1600, 2005
M1400, 2004
M1300, 2003
M1200, 2002
All devices listed can be used as digital art tablets. However, only the J3600 and prior devices feature Wacom active digitizer pen technology. This offers a high degree of pressure sensitivity thus mimicking the feel and nuance of pen and paper.
References
External links
Official website
2001 establishments in Texas
2015 disestablishments in Texas
2015 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 2001
American companies disestablishe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omer%20Reingold | Omer Reingold () is an Israeli computer scientist. He is the Rajeev Motwani professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and the director of the Simons Collaboration on the Theory of Algorithmic Fairness. He received a PhD in computer science at Weizmann in 1998 under Moni Naor. He received the 2005 Grace Murray Hopper Award for his work in finding a deterministic logarithmic-space algorithm for st-connectivity in undirected graphs. He, along with Avi Wigderson and Salil Vadhan, won the Gödel Prize (2009) for their work on the zig-zag product. He became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014 "For contributions to the study of pseudorandomness, derandomization, and cryptography."
Selected publications
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References
External links
Omer Reingold's personal homepage
Omer Reingold's homepage at Simon's Institute, Berkeley
Omer Reingold's homepage at Weizmann Institute
Omer Reingold's homepage at Stanford University
His Grace Murray Hopper award
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Grace Murray Hopper Award laureates
Academic staff of Weizmann Institute of Science
Theoretical computer scientists
Gödel Prize laureates
Israeli computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
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