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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At%20Home%20with%20Gary%20Sullivan | At Home with Gary Sullivan is a weekly home improvement talk radio program hosted by Gary Sullivan. The program is distributed by Premiere Networks.
Availability
The program is syndicated to radio stations around the United States.
The program is also available as a podcast.
External links
Program website
Program page at Premiere Networks
American talk radio programs
Radio programs on XM Satellite Radio
Home improvement talk radio programs
2001 radio programme debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean%20operations%20on%20polygons | Boolean operations on polygons are a set of Boolean operations (AND, OR, NOT, XOR, ...) operating on one or more sets of polygons in computer graphics. These sets of operations are widely used in computer graphics, CAD, and in EDA (in integrated circuit physical design and verification software).
Algorithms
Greiner–Hormann clipping algorithm
Vatti clipping algorithm
Sutherland–Hodgman algorithm (special case algorithm)
Weiler–Atherton clipping algorithm (special case algorithm)
Uses in software
Early algorithms for Boolean operations on polygons were based on the use of bitmaps. Using bitmaps in modeling polygon shapes has many drawbacks. One of the drawbacks is that the memory usage can be very large, since the resolution of polygons is proportional to the number of bits used to represent polygons. The higher the resolution is desired, the more the number of bits is required.
Modern implementations for Boolean operations on polygons tend to use plane sweep algorithms (or Sweep line algorithms). A list of papers using plane sweep algorithms for Boolean operations on polygons can be found in References below.
Boolean operations on convex polygons and monotone polygons of the same direction may be performed in linear time.
See also
Boolean algebra
Computational geometry
Constructive solid geometry, a method of defining three-dimensional shapes using a similar set of operations
Geometry processing
General Polygon Clipper, a C library which computes the results of clipping operations
Notes
Bibliography
Mark de Berg, Marc van Kreveld, Mark Overmars, and Otfried Schwarzkopf, Computational Geometry - Algorithms and Applications, Second Edition, 2000
Jon Louis Bentley and Thomas A. Ottmann, Algorithms for Reporting and Counting Geometric Intersections, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. C-28, No. 9, September 1979, pp. 643–647
Jon Louis Bentley and Derick Wood, An Optimal Worst Case Algorithm for Reporting Intersections of Rectangles, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. C-29. No. 7, July 1980, pp. 571–577
Ulrich Lauther, An O(N log N) Algorithm for Boolean Mask Operations, 18th Design Automation Conference, 1981, pp. 555–562
James A. Wilmore, Efficient Boolean Operations on IC Masks, 18th Design Automation Conference, 1981, pp. 571–579
Thomas Ottmann, Peter Widmayer, and Derick Wood, "A Fast Algorithm for the Boolean Masking Problem," Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, 30, 1985, pp. 249–268
External links
UIUC Computational Geometry Pages
Constructive planar geometry, by Dave Eberly.
Software
Michael Leonov has compiled a comparison of polygon clippers.
Angus Johnson has also compared three clipping libraries.
SINED GmbH has compared performance and memory utilization of three polygon clippers .
A comparison of 5 clipping libraries at rogue-modron.blogspot.com
A commercial library for 3D Boolean operations: sgCore C++/C# library.
The comp.graphics.algorithms FAQ, solutions to mathematical problems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT%20Wholesale%20and%20Ventures | BT Wholesale and Ventures was a division of United Kingdom telecommunications company BT Group that provided voice, broadband, data, hosted communication, managed network and IT services to communications providers (CPs) in Great Britain. It was merged with BT's Business and Public Sector division to form BT Enterprise in October 2018.
Wholesale and Ventures provided services to BT's other divisions: BT Consumer, BT Business and Public Sector and EE. It also offered services to media companies and broadcasters, and its ventures side offered a range of products and services. It provided the voice services to UK customers via 999, 118 500 and Next Generation Text Service, which helps those who can’t hear or speak on the phone.
In April 2018, Gavin Patterson, then BT Group's CEO, announced Wholesale and Ventures was to be combined with the group's Business and Public Sector division into a newly-formed division, BT Enterprise. It came after BT's decision to undertake a streamlining of its operations, in a bid to strengthen its offerings as a business.
Prior to its merger with Business and Public Sector, Wholesale and Ventures was formerly known as BT Wholesale, taking on the name following BT's new organisational structure that took effect in April 2016 after its acquisition of EE, and comprises the existing BT Wholesale division along with EE's mobile virtual network operator business as well as some specialist businesses such as Fleet, Payphones and Directories. Its ventures side included the following businesses at time of its restructuring:
BT Redcare – protects homes and businesses in the UK against intruders, accidental fire or arson
BT Cables – supports and supplies a range of cables and accessories
Directory Solutions - the sole distributor of the UK’s directory information to producers of directory products and services
BT’s Phone Book – the only UK directory that includes business and residential listings
Payphones (Red telephone box, KX series, LinkUK) – handles telephone calls and provides additional services such as advertising, cash machines, Wi-Fi and small cell mobile hotspots
BT Supply Chain – provides supply chain management for both Group businesses and its external customer base
Products
Wholesale Broadband Connect
Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) is BT Wholesale's up-to-24 Mbit/s ADSL2+ offering in the UK. WBC replaced the ADSL Max product.
It also refers to BT's native fibre-to-the-premises service.
IPstream
IPstream is the most highly used wholesale broadband Internet service in the UK. BT Wholesale sells the service to ISPs and IPTV providers, who use it to provide ADSL services to customers over Openreach telephone lines.
The IPstream product covers the transport of data between the end-user's premises and an interconnect point of the ISPs choice, such as their main colocation facility, which is served by one or more links called BT Centrals. BT has operational control of the network for tasks such as load |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim%20Inc. | Minim, Inc., formerly Zoom Telephonics, is an American networking company that develops software and designs hardware for Internet security. Headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire, the company offers a mobile app, cable modems, gateways, WiFi routers, mesh WiFi systems, and other home networking products with an emphasis on home automation.
History
Zoom Telephonics was founded in 1977 as a home networking product manufacturer, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The company was founded by Frank B. Manning and Bruce Kramer, two fellow roommates and graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who had known each other since the late 1960s. The company's first product was a modification kit for telephones that turned off the phone's ringer with the flick of a switch. Branded the "Silencer", it generated $200,000 in the first few years of Zoom's existence and prompted the founders to release more telephonic gadgets. The pair released an automatic dialer, called the "Demon Dialer", in 1980. Developed for customers of independent phone companies wanting to make long-distance calls, which required dialing call prefix and feature group digits, the product helped Zoom grow to $6 million in annual sales. The practice of demon dialing lends its namesake to this product. The "Demon Dialer" proved short-lived in usefulness after the breakup of the Bell System, which allowed these independent companies to harness so-called 1+10 dialing, so Zoom turned to developing dial-up modems for microcomputers such as the Apple II and the IBM PC. Their first modem, introduced in 1983 and called the Networker, was so popular that the company had difficulty finding enough shelf space in retail outlets, so Zoom's executives turned to mail order as an alternative sales channel. By 1987, the company had enough brand recognition to convince personal computer manufacturers, enterprise distributors, and high-volume retailers to stock Zoom's modems, and the company abandoned direct mail. In 1990, Zoom went public on the Nasdaq.
With the spread of the Internet in the mid-1990s, Zoom became a market leader in the modem business. Although the company contracted the manufacture of some of their cheaper products offshore at this time, some were still manufactured in their factory in Boston. Zoom's dominance waned with the advent of affordable broadband Internet in the early 2000s, however, and despite contracting factories in Mexico to manufacture Zoom-branded cable modem, most broadband customers were complacent with the ones provided by their ISPs. Between then and 2015, Zoom stagnated. In 2015, the company reached a five-year licensing agreement with Motorola Mobility beginning 2016, to use the Motorola brand on its home network and cable products. Motorola had divested its existing Motorola Home business to Arris Group in 2013 (following the sale of Motorola Mobility to Google), but this primarily included a transitional license to the Motorola trademark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigaritis%20schistacea | Cigaritis schistacea, the plumbeous silverline, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Sri Lanka, south India and Myanmar.
Description
Notes and references
Biodiversity data portal
Cigaritis
Butterflies of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Olympiad%20Foundation | Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF) is an educational foundation, established in 1998, based in New Delhi, India which promotes science, mathematics, general knowledge, introductory computer education and English language skills among school children in India and many other countries through various Olympiads. However, they are not the official organizer of Olympiads in India.
Olympiads
Every year over 68000 schools from 48 countries register for the 7 Olympiad exams and millions of students appear in them.
Current
Annually, about 5 million students take part in each of the following Olympiad exams:
National Cyber Olympiad (NCO) is a single level exam. It was the second Olympiad conducted by SOF. It has been conducted since 2000. Students from class I-X may participate in the examination.
National Science Olympiad (NSO) is conducted at two levels each year. It was the first Olympiad conducted by SOF. It has been conducted since 1998. Students from class I-XII may participate in the examination.
International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) is conducted at two levels each year. Students from class I-XII may participate in the examination.
International English Olympiad (IEO) used to be a single level exam each year, but since 2017–2018 it is conducted at two levels. Students from class I-XII can participate in this Olympiad.
International General Knowledge Olympiad (IGKO) is a single level exam. Students from classes I-X may participate in the examination. This Olympiad was introduced in the 2017–2018 academic session.
International Commerce Olympiad (ICO) is a single level exam. Students from classes XI and XII may participate in the examination. It is conducted in partnership with ICSI. Under The Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
SOF International Social Studies Olympiad (ISSO) is a single level exam. Students from classes III-X may participate in the examination.
Former
National Cyber Olympiad Level-2 (NCO) was formerly a two-level exam, but it has been converted to a single level exam since 2017–18.
International Sports Knowledge Olympiad (ISKO) was conducted only once, during the 2016–2017 session. It was a single level exam conducted in partnership with Star Sports in which students of classes 1 to 10 could participate.
Eligibility and pattern
Students from classes 1 through 12 can participate. The exams consist of 35 multiple choice questions of 40 marks for classes I to IV, and 50 multiple choice questions for classes V to XII of 60 marks, to be answered in one hour. Five questions that are part of the 'Achievers' section' carry three marks (and for primary classes excluding 5th, it has only two marks) each whereas the remaining questions carry one mark each. Students are required to mark their answers on an OMR sheet. Results are announced for every student and they include the student's international rank, regional rank (since 2020-21), zonal rank, city rank and school rank and winners are awarded with cash prizes, medals, trophi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Google | Criticism of Google includes concern for tax avoidance, misuse and manipulation of search results, its use of others' intellectual property, concerns that its compilation of data may violate people's privacy and collaboration with the US military on Google Earth to spy on users, censorship of search results and content, and the energy consumption of its servers as well as concerns over traditional business issues such as monopoly, restraint of trade, antitrust, patent infringement, indexing and presenting false information and propaganda in search results, and being an "Ideological Echo Chamber".
Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its Google Ads (formerly AdWords) program.
Google's stated mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"; this mission, and the means used to accomplish it, have raised concerns among the company's critics. Much of the criticism pertains to issues that have not yet been addressed by cyber law.
Shona Ghosh, a journalist for Business Insider, noted that an increasing digital resistance movement against Google has grown.
Tax evasion
Google cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the period of 2007 to 2009 using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and The Netherlands to Bermuda. Afterwards, the company started to send £8 billion in profits a year to Bermuda. Google's income shifting—involving strategies known to lawyers as the "Double Irish" and the "Dutch Sandwich"—helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization, according to regulatory filings in six countries.
According to economist and member of the PvdA delegation inside the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D) Paul Tang, the EU lost, from 2013 to 2015, a loss estimated to be 3.955 billion Euros from Google. When comparing to other countries outside the EU, the EU is only taxing Google with a rate of 0,36 – 0,82% of their revenue (approx. 25-35% of their EBT) whereas this rate is near 8% in countries outside the EU. Even if a rate of 2 to 5% – as suggested by ECOFIN council – would have been applied during this period (2013-2015), a fraud of this rate from Facebook would have meant a loss from 1.262 to 3.155 billion euros in the EU.
Google has been accused by a number of countries of avoiding paying tens of billions of dollars of tax through a convoluted scheme of inter-company licensing agreements and transfers to tax havens. For example, Google has used highly contrived and artificial distinctions to avoid paying billions of pounds in corporate tax owed by its UK operations.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%20Destroyer | is a rail shooter video game released by Taito in 1985 as an arcade game as well as for the Family Computer. Controlling a Japanese World War II monoplane, the player assumes the role of the pilot of the respective naval aircraft who is required to destroy enemies to clear stages.
Gameplay
In Sky Destroyer, the player controls a plane, equipped with machine guns and torpedoes and ammunition is unlimited.
The color of the sky changes according to the time of the day (afternoon, evening, night). F6F Hellcats (F4U Corsairs in the Arcade Version) are common enemy fighter planes the player will encounter. Occasionally, the player would run into a B-24 bomber and has to shoot each of its four engines before the B-24 flies away. Sometimes when player has shot down a number of B-24s, they would encounter a falling satellite across the screen. A high number of points would be rewarded if the satellite gets destroyed. There are bonus stages in this game.
Enemy resistance comes not only from the air, but from land and sea as well. Sometimes, an American naval destroyer or submarine would try to down the player's plane with anti-aircraft fire. Aircraft carriers can sometimes be seen in the distant horizon (but can still be sunk with torpedoes). At the end of a stage, the player faces a mobile shore battery on an island. This battery must be destroyed in order to complete the mission. If the player is hit even just once by enemy fire, his plane crashes and he loses one life point. The game is over when all life points are used up.
Sky Invader
A hacked version of this game made by Inventor is known as Sky Invader. The differences between the original and the hacked version are:
Different title screen.
Different music.
Different planes (both the player's and the enemies are modified).
The sky is pink.
The water color is different.
The player starts with nine airplanes instead of three.
The stages are called "WAR".
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Sky Destroyer on their December 15, 1985 issue as being the third most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
References
1985 video games
Arcade video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Magical Company games
World War II video games
Taito arcade games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIAN%20%28disambiguation%29 | GIAN may stand for:
Give it a Name, an annual rock music festival in Britain
Geneva International Academic Network, founded by the University of Geneva, subsumed in 2007 by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS), which assumes its mission, rights and responsibilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Computer%20Music%20Association | The International Computer Music Association (ICMA) is an international affiliation of individuals and institutions involved in the technical, creative, and performance aspects of computer music. It serves composers, engineers, researchers and musicians who are interested in the integration of music and technology. Areas of interest include artificial intelligence, music informatics, synthesis, analysis, digital signal processing, intermedia, multimedia, composition, human–computer interaction, representation, acoustics, aesthetics, education and history.
Each year the ICMA organises the International Computer Music Conference for computer music researchers and composers. The peer-reviewed conference includes concert performances, paper presentations, panel discussions, sound installations, poster presentations and other formats for presentation of research and creative activity. Each year, or every other year, its online journal ARRAY is published for its members, containing reviews, interviews and articles.
A diversity statement was adopted in June 2019.
References
External links
ICMA website
Computer music
Music-related professional associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan%20Kelley | Nan Kelley (born Nan Sumrall, born c. 1965) is a former Miss Mississippi (1985) who later became a host and correspondent for the Great American Country (GAC) cable television network.
Early life and career
A native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Kelley initially finished first runner-up in the 1985 Miss Mississippi pageant to Susan Akin, but became Miss Mississippi when Akin was named Miss America that year. Following her service, she received her degree from college in Communications, and then worked as an entertainer for the United States Department of Defense. While at the Defense Department, Kelley entertained troops in the Middle East, Europe, Alaska, and the Caribbean.
Move to Nashville
Kelley moved to Nashville, Tennessee where she performed at Opryland. Later, she worked for record producer Blake Mevis, the first producer for 2006 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee George Strait. After spending time in the recording studio and on stage, Kelley moved to broadcasting working for Dick Clark Productions as a producer for Prime Time Country on The Nashville Network (Spike TV since August 2003.) Later Kelley worked as a host for the Shop At Home Network before joining GAC as host of Grand Ole Opry Live on October 4, 2003.
Work at GAC
In addition to hosting Grand Ole Opry Live, Kelley also hosts GAC's Top 20 Country Countdown which deals with the top twenty videos in country music on the network for a particular week that is voted on by GAC viewers. She also hosts a show called My Music Mix where they interview an artist's favorite music video, both of their own and others. When Hurricane Katrina hit Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi on August 29, 2005, Kelley hosted a benefit concert that was simulcast on two other E.W. Scripps' television networks (DIY Network and Fine Living) titled Country Reaches Out: An Opry and GAC Benefit for the American Red Cross.
Personal life
Kelley is married to Grammy-nominated record producer Charlie Kelley and lives in Nashville. The couple owns two dogs.
Kelley revealed in May 2008 on GAC's Top 20 Country Countdown that she had Hodgkin lymphoma. In November 2008, she announced on GAC's Top 20 Country Countdown that she has made a complete recovery from her cancer.
References
GAC TV profile
External links
Miss Mississippi 1985 photograph; accessed March 9, 2007.
1960s births
Living people
American television personalities
Miss America 1980s delegates
People from Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Miss Mississippi winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus%20Project%20%28computing%29 | The Bauhaus project is a software research project collaboration among the University of Stuttgart, the University of Bremen, and a commercial spin-off company Axivion formerly called Bauhaus Software Technologies. The Bauhaus project serves the fields of software maintenance and software reengineering.
Created in response to the problem of software rot, the project aims to analyze and recover the means and methods developed for legacy software by understanding the software's architecture. As part of its research, the project develops software tools (such as the Bauhaus Toolkit) for software architecture, software maintenance and reengineering and program understanding.
The project derives its name from the former Bauhaus art school.
History
The Bauhaus project was initiated by Erhard Ploedereder, Ph.D. and Rainer Koschke, Ph.D. at the University of Stuttgart in 1996. It was originally a collaboration between the Institute for Computer Science (ICS) of the University of Stuttgart and the Fraunhofer-Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering (IESE), which is no longer involved.
Early versions of Bauhaus integrated and used Rigi for visualization.
The commercial spin-off Axivion was started in 2005. Research then was done at Axivion, the Institute of Software Technology, Department of Programming Languages at the University of Stuttgart as well as at the Software Engineering Group of the Faculty 03 at the University of Bremen.
Today, the academic version of the Bauhaus project and the commercially sold Axivion Suite are different products, as development at Axivion since 2010 is based on a new infrastructure which allowed Axivion to add new applications such as MISRA checking.
Bauhaus Toolkit
The Bauhaus Toolkit (or simply the "Bauhaus tool") includes a static code analysis tool for C, C++, C#, Java and Ada code. It comprises various analyses such as architecture checking, interface analysis, and clone detection. Bauhaus was originally derived from the older Rigi reverse engineering environment, which was expanded by Bauhaus due to the Rigi's limitations. It is among the most notable visualization tools in the field.
The Bauhaus tool suite aids the analysis of source code by creating abstractions (representations) of the code in an intermediate language as well as through a resource flow graph (RFG). The RFG is a hierarchal graph with typed nodes and edges, which are structured in various views.
The toolkit is licensed at no charge for academic use (but this is a different product than the Axivion Suite).
Axivion and the Axivion Suite
For commercial use, the project has created a spin-off company, Axivion. Axivion is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany and provides licensing and support for the Axivion Suite. While the Axivion Suite has its origins in the Bauhaus project, it today is a different product with a much broader range of static code analyses, such as MISRA checking, architecture verification, include analysis, defect d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotic%20hacking | Patriotic hacking is a term for computer hacking or system cracking in which citizens or supporters of a country, traditionally industrialized Western countries but increasingly developing countries, attempt to perpetrate attacks on, or block attacks by, perceived enemies of the state.
Recent media attention has focused on efforts related to terrorists and their own attempts to conduct an online or electronic intifada - cyberterrorism. Patriot hacking is illegal in countries such as the United States yet is on the rise elsewhere. "The FBI said that recent experience showed that an increase in international tension was mirrored in the online world with a rise in cyber activity such as web defacements and denial of service attacks," according to the BBC.
Examples
At the onset of the War in Iraq in 2003, the FBI was concerned about the increase in hack attacks as the intensity of the conflict grew. Since then, it has been becoming increasingly popular in the North America, Western Europe and Israel. These are the countries which have the greatest threat to Islamic terrorism and its aforementioned digital version.
Around the time of the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay, which was marred by unrest in Tibet, Chinese hackers claim to have hacked the websites of CNN (accused of selective reporting on the 2008 Lhasa riots) and Carrefour (a French shopping chain, allegedly supporting Tibetan independence), while websites and forums gave tutorials on how to launch a DDoS attack specifically on the CNN website.
Indian hackers in 2015 took down thousands of Pakistani websites including pakistan.gov.pk and Right To Information Pakistan under the attack named as #OPvijaya under the leadership of In73ct0r d3vil. This attack is considered to be a patriotic move by Indian hackers. Government of India and India's NSA Ajit Dhoval showed support to the attack on his Twitter account.
The official websites of 10 different Indian universities were hacked and defaced in 2017. A group going by the name of ‘Pakistan Haxor Crew’ (PFC) claimed responsibility for the breach, saying it was retaliation for Pakistan’s railway ministry website being hacked by an Indian crew few days before this breach.
See also
2007 cyberattacks on Estonia
Black hat hacking
Exploit (computer security)
Cyber spying
Cyber Storm Exercise
Cyber warfare
Grey hat
Hacker (computer security)
Hacker Ethic
Hack value
Hacktivism
Internet vigilantism
IT risk
Metasploit
Penetration test
Vulnerability (computing)
White hat (computer security)
References
Hacking (computer security)
Politics and technology
Cyberwarfare
Cyberattacks
Cybercrime in India
India–Pakistan relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSAF | OpenSAF (commonly styled SAF, the Service Availability Framework) is an open-source service-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management. OpenSAF is consistent with, and expands upon, Service Availability Forum (SAF) and SCOPE Alliance standards.
It was originally designed by Motorola ECC, and is maintained by the OpenSAF Project. OpenSAF is the most complete implementation of the SAF AIS specifications, providing a platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application services across clusters of hosts. It works across a range of virtualization tools and runs services in a cluster, often integrating with JVM, Vagrant, and/or Docker runtimes. OpenSAF originally interfaced with standard C Application Programming interfaces (APIs), but has added Java and Python bindings.
OpenSAF is focused on Service Availability beyond High Availability (HA) requirements. While little formal research is published to improve high availability and fault tolerance techniques for containers and cloud, research groups are actively exploring these challenges with OpenSAF.
History
OpenSAF was founded by an Industry consortium, including Ericsson, HP, and Nokia Siemens Networks, and first announced by Motorola ECC, acquired by Emerson Network Power, on February 28, 2007. The OpenSAF Foundation was officially launched on January 22, 2008. Membership evolved to include Emerson Network Power, SUN Microsystems, ENEA, Wind River, Huawei, IP Infusion, Tail-f, Aricent, GoAhead Software, and Rancore Technologies. GoAhead Software joined OpenSAF in 2010 before being acquired by Oracle. OpenSAF's development and design are heavily influenced by Mission critical system requirements, including Carrier Grade Linux, SAF, ATCA and Hardware Platform Interface. OpenSAF was a milestone in accelerating adoption of Linux in Telecommunications and embedded systems.
The goal of the Foundation was to accelerate the adoption of OpenSAF in commercial products. The OpenSAF community held conferences between 2008-2010; the first conference hosted by Nokia Siemens Networks in Munich (Germany), second hosted by Huawei in Shenzhen (China), and third hosted by HP in Palo Alto (USA). In February 2010, the first commercial deployment of OpenSAF in carrier networks was announced. Academic and industry groups have independently published books describing OpenSAF-based solutions. A growing body of research in service availability is accelerating the development of OpenSAF features supporting mission-critical cloud and microservices deployments, and service orchestration.
OpenSAF 1.0 was released January 22, 2008. It comprised the NetPlane Core Service (NCS) codebase contributed by Motorola ECC. Along with the OpenSAF 1.0 release, the OpenSAF foundation was incepted. OpenSAF 2.0 released on August 12, 2008, was the first release developed by the OpenSAF community. This release included Log service and 64-bit support. OpenSAF 3.0 rele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back%20to%20the%20Future%3A%20The%20Pinball | Back to the Future: The Pinball is a 1990 pinball machine designed by Joe Kaminkow, Ed Cebula and released by Data East, based on the Back to the Future film trilogy.
Background
Released a month after the third movie's theatrical run ended, the game features four songs from the three films. The Power of Love and Back in Time (by Huey Lewis and the News), Doubleback (by ZZ Top) and Alan Silvestri's orchestral theme.
Michael J. Fox refused to permit his image to be used to adorn the back glass of the game, so the replacement image of his character Marty McFly wearing sunglasses on the game's backglass and playfield was portrayed by Brad Faris, son of Data East pinball artwork designer Paul Faris.
Joe Kaminkow, one of the pinball game designers, also appeared as Fox's character on the advertising flyer and Gary Stern, former president of Data East Pinball and current CEO of Stern Pinball, was in Christopher Lloyd's role as Doc Brown in the flyer as well.
Back to the Future Pinball is also significant because it was one of the final mass production Data East made using a numeric display. In 1991 games would have a "Dot Matrix Display" beginning with "Checkpoint" and games like Batman, Star Trek and Ninja Turtles.
See also
List of Back to the Future video games
References
External links
1990 pinball machines
Pinball
Data East pinball machines
Pinball machines based on films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Login | In computer security, logging in (or logging on, signing in, or signing on) is the process by which an individual gains access to a computer system by identifying and authenticating themselves. The user credentials are typically some form of username and a matching password, and these credentials themselves are sometimes referred to as a login. In practice, modern secure systems often require a second factor such as email or SMS confirmation for extra security. Social login allows a user to use existing user credentials from a social networking service to sign in to or create an account on a new website.
When access is no longer needed, the user can log out, log off, sign out or sign off.
Procedure
Logging in is usually used to enter a specific page, website or application, which trespassers cannot see. Once the user is logged in, the login token may be used to track what actions the user has taken while connected to the site. Logging out may be performed explicitly by the user taking some actions, such as entering the appropriate command or clicking a website link label as such. It can also be done implicitly, such as by the user powering off their workstation, closing a web browser window, leaving a website, or not refreshing a website within a defined period.
A login page may have a return URL parameter, which specifies where to redirect back after logging in or out. For example, it is returnto= on this site.
In the case of websites that use cookies to track sessions, when the user logs out, session-only cookies from that site will usually be deleted from the user's computer. In addition, the server invalidates any associations with the session, thereby making any session-handle in the user's cookie store useless. This feature comes in handy if the user is using a public computer or a computer that is using a public wireless connection. As a security precaution, one should not rely on implicit means of logging out of a system, especially not on a public computer; instead, one should explicitly log out and wait for the confirmation that this request has taken place.
Logging out of a computer, when leaving it, is a common security practice preventing unauthorized users from tampering with it. There are also people who choose to have a password-protected screensaver set to activate after some period of inactivity, thereby requiring the user to re-enter their login credentials to unlock the screensaver and gain access to the system. There can be different methods of logging in that may be via image, fingerprints, eye scan, password (oral or textual input), etc.
History and etymology
The terms became common with the time sharing systems of the 1960s and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) in the 1970s. Early home computers and personal computers did not generally require them until Windows NT, OS/2 and Linux in the 1990s.
The noun login comes from the verb (to) log in and by analogy with the verb to clock in. Computer systems keep a log of users' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked%20On | Locked On may refer to:
Locked On Podcast Network, also known as Locked On Sports, an American sports podcast circle
Locked On Records, a music recording sales company
Locked On (novel), a novel by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney
"Locked On", a song by Jerry Cantrell from Degradation Trip Vol 1 & 2
See also
Lock-on (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure%20theorem | Structure theorem may refer to:
Structured program theorem, a result in programming language theory
Structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain, a result in abstract algebra (a subject area in mathematics)
Structure Theorem of Bass-Serre theory, a result in Geometric group theory. (another subject area in mathematics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truss%20%28Unix%29 | is a system tool available on some Unix-like operating systems. When invoked with an additional executable command-line argument, makes it possible to print out the system calls made by and the signals received by this executable command-line argument. As of version IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, is not part of the Single UNIX Specification (POSIX).
The command was originally developed by Roger Faulkner and Ron Gomes as part of the development of Procfs for System V Release 4. While several names were considered, “” was chosen for being non-ambiguous and easily pronounceable, with multiple meanings, including as an abbreviation for TRace Unix Syscalls and Signals or in the sense of “If your program doesn’t work, put it in a truss.”
See also
ktrace
strace
References
External links
FreeBSD truss man page
Solaris truss man page
UnixWare truss man page
Unix programming tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CineMagic%20%28Sirius%20XM%29 | CineMagic, currently branded as Cinemagic, is an Internet-only channel on Sirius XM radio, accessible via computers and mobile devices. Before July 1, 2011, the channel was not Internet-exclusive; it had its own XM satellite radio bandwidth in addition to the online channel. It is devoted to film scores, and originally also featured source music and dialogue from movie soundtracks. Dave Ziemer was the channel's founder, and its programming director from February 2001 to February 14, 2013, when he was laid off. Chris Panico served as Cinemagic's music director from November 2004 to November 2008, at which point he was laid off. Paul Bachmann is the channel's current host, though Cinemagic is mostly automated now due to its Internet-only status.
Programming summary
Sirius XM once described the channel as follows:
Cinemagic captures the movie experience via score music, soundtracks and film clips. It's also a destination for movie news and information, plus interviews with stars and directors.
The current channel description reads:
Relive exciting, dramatic, comedic and romantic movie moments through the magic of movie music.
The channel's original mission statement, as drafted by Dave Ziemer, was to build the world's largest library of scores and soundtracks, and to create shows detailing behind-the-scenes information of various films. According to Ziemer, "We had a slogan in the early days of XM called AFDI (Actually F****** Doing It), which meant if you had a great idea go ahead and make it happen no matter what. Don't be afraid because it doesn't fall within the realm of normal radio, just make it happen. That was something I strived for and I hope I was able to achieve it . . . with Cinemagic."
At one point, the managers of Cinemagic had a library exceeding 30,000 film audio clips and 20,000 songs to be utilized within the channel. However, after the 2008 merger of XM and Sirius, disputes over legality caused the integrated clips to be dropped from the lineup.
Under Dave Ziemer's management, Cinemagic produced weekly features highlighting movie news, Blu-ray reviews, and theatrical film reviews. In addition, Ziemer developed and maintained relationships with film studios, publicists, and recording industry professionals. As a result, Cinemagic often played tracks from new film scores, sometimes before they were officially released. The relationships Ziemer maintained also opened the door for the Reel Time interviews of major filmmakers. All of the channel's playlists were created, maintained, evaluated, and scheduled through the Powergold scheduling system. Ziemer would often personally respond to emails and song requests when on-the-air.
Additionally, the channel maintained seasonal playlists for holidays. Halloween was a particular favorite of the Cinemagic staff. It was celebrated via the Annual Halloween Horror Festival, first held in 2004, and Big Scare, an uninterrupted horror movie soundtrack marathon taking place on Halloween nig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrivener%20%28software%29 | Scrivener () is a word-processing program and outliner designed for writers. Scrivener provides a management system for documents, notes and metadata. This allows the user to organize notes, concepts, research, and whole documents for easy access and reference (documents including rich text, images, PDF, audio, video, and web pages). Scrivener offers templates for screenplays, fiction, and non-fiction manuscripts. After writing a text, the user may export it for final formatting to a standard word processor, screenwriting software, desktop publishing software, or TeX.
Features
Features include a corkboard, the ability to rearrange files by dragging-and-dropping virtual index cards on the corkboard, an outliner, a split screen mode that enables users to edit several documents at once, a full-screen mode, the ability to export text into multiple document formats (including popular e-book formats like EPUB and Mobipocket for Kindle, and markup languages such as Fountain, HTML, and MultiMarkdown), the ability to assign multiple keywords (and other metadata) to parts of a text and to sort the parts by keyword (such as characters, locations, themes, narrative lines, etc.), hyperlinks between parts of a text, and "snapshots" (the ability to save a copy of a particular document prior to any drastic changes).
Scrivener allows photos, URLs, and multiple other file formats, to be dragged into its interface as well. Because of its breadth of interfaces and features, it has positioned itself not only as a word processor, but as a project management tool for writers, and includes many user-interface features that resemble Xcode, Apple's integrated development environment (IDE). One computer programmer has called Scrivener "an IDE for writing".
Platforms
Keith Blount created, and continues to maintain, the program as a tool to help him write the "big novel", allowing him to keep track of ideas and research. It is built mostly on libraries and features of Mac OS X from version 10.4 onward. In 2011, a Windows version of the software was released, written and maintained by Lee Powell.
iOS
Scrivener for iOS was launched July 20, 2016. Current version is 1.2.2 and requires iOS 12+.
Linux
There is no official release for Linux; there is a public beta version which has been abandoned, but still is available to use.
Macintosh
The latest version of Scrivener for Mac is version 3.3.4, and requires macOS High Sierra or newer. Scrivener can be obtained from the Mac App Store, but since the Mac App Store application is only usable on OS X 10.6.6 and later, users of earlier versions of OS X must buy it directly from the developer's website instead of the Mac App Store.
The company also makes Scrivener 2.5 available for earlier version of Mac OS X, but claims it is the final version of the software that was built to run on both PowerPC and Intel systems running Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.8. This version is available on the direct sale page in the sidebar titled "Mac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Kuck | David J. Kuck, a graduate of the University of Michigan, was a professor in the Computer Science Department the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1965 to 1993. He is the father of Olympic silver medalist Jonathan Kuck. While at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign he developed the Parafrase compiler system (1977), which was the first testbed for the development of automatic vectorization and related program transformations. In his role as Director (1986–93) of the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development (CSRD-UIUC), Kuck led the construction of the CEDAR project, a hierarchical shared-memory 32-processor SMP supercomputer completed in 1988 at the University of Illinois.
He founded Kuck and Associates (KAI) in 1979 to build a line of industry-standard optimizing compilers especially focused upon exploiting parallelism. After CSRD, Kuck transferred his full attentions to KAI and its clients at various US National Laboratories. KAI was acquired by Intel in March 2000, where Kuck currently serves as an Intel Fellow, Software and Services Group (SSG), Developer Products Division (DPD).
Kuck was the sole software person on the ILLIAC IV project in contrast to all the other hardware-oriented members. Kuck is responsible not only for developing many of the initial ideas of how to restructure computer source code for parallelism but also trained many of that field's major players around the world.
Honors
Kuck is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1991 for pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of parallelism in scientific computation. He has won the Eckert-Mauchly Award from ACM/IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award. Kuck is a major contributor in creating OpenMP, a cross-platform, directive-based parallel programming approach which is especially friendly in multi-core environment. In 2010 Kuck was selected to receive the Ken Kennedy Award, given by ACM and the IEEE Computer Society for Innovations in High-Performance Computing.
References
External links
David Kuck's Bio at Intel
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Living people
University of Michigan alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taup%C5%8D%20railway%20proposals | There have been a number of proposals to build a Taupō Line as a branch railway linking the township of Taupō in the central North Island of New Zealand to New Zealand's rail network. One proposal proceeded as far as the construction stage before being stopped.
Background
By 1952, nearly every main centre in New Zealand was served by a railway, the exceptions being Kaitaia, Queenstown and Taupō. Taupō is one of New Zealand's biggest forestry centres and is a very popular tourist destination.
Proposed routes
North Island Main Trunk line
The first time consideration was made to link Taupō with a railway was in 1884 when routes for extending the North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) railway south from Te Awamutu to Wellington were being explored and surveyed. One of the proposed routes was from just south of Te Awamutu following the course of the Puniu River inland through to Taupō, and onwards east to link at Hastings with the proposed Palmerston North - Gisborne Line. This route did not eventuate and the present route via Taumarunui was chosen.
Mokai Tramway
In 1903 the Taupo Totara Timber Company (TTT Co) constructed the 82 km Mokai Tramway to link their milling centre at Mokai with the New Zealand Government Railways line (NZR) at Putāruru. The line was built over the former Lichfield Branch line, which was originally built by the Thames Valley and Rotorua Railway Company to be part of the line to Rotorua. The TTT Co line then went onwards south of Lichfield through what are now Tokoroa and Kinleith and crossed the Waikato River at Ongaroto.
In general the TTT Co line was constructed to a fairly high standard for a bush tramway, with 1 in 30 grades and 30 metre radius curves. This reflected the company's ultimate intention to sell the line to NZR.
In 1911 the TTT Co put forward a proposal to extend their line from Mokai into Taupō township via Oruanui. The station, and terminus of the line, was to be on Spa Road where Taupo-nui-a-Tia College now stands. This would have required another bridge across the Waikato River.
The proposal was quickly endorsed and praised by many in Taupō, and to support the extension the Taupo District Railway League was formed with powers to support the scheme and ensure it succeeded. The TTT Co proposed running the railway as a private trust-owned company.
However, considerable objection was made to this proposal by the people of Rotorua, in particular the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce. They believed that any railway to Taupō should be from the railhead at Rotorua, running south via Waiotapu. The Rotorua Chamber of Commerce lodged a complaint to Parliament regarding the proposal. The Taupo District Railway League consequently lodged a complaint to the Member of Parliament for the district, Mr MacDonald, protesting the opposition being made by the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce.
As time passed the proposal for the TTT Co scheme was eventually shelved, largely due to the outbreak of World War I and due to the considerabl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20Resource%20Characteristic | In IETF specifications, a Uniform Resource Characteristic (URC) is a string of characters representing the metadata of a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), a string identifying a Web resource. URC metadata was envisioned to include sufficient information to support persistent identifiers, such as mapping a Uniform Resource Name (URN) to a current Uniform Resource Locator (URL). URCs were proposed as a specification in the mid-1990s, but were never adopted.
The use of a URC would allow the location of a Web resource to be obtained from its standard name, via the use of a resolving service. It was also to be possible to obtain a URC from a URN by the use of a resolving service. The design goals of URCs were that they should be simple to use, easy to extend, and compatible with a wide range of technological systems. The URC syntax was intended to be easily understood by both humans and software.
History
The term "URC" was first coined as Uniform Resource Citation in 1992 by John Kunze within the IETF URI working group as a small package of metadata elements (which became the ERC) to accompany a hypertext link and meant to help users decide if the link might be interesting. The working group later changed the acronym expansion to Uniform Resource Characteristic, intended to provide a standardized representation of document properties, such as owner, encoding, access restrictions or cost.
The group discussed URCs around 1994/1995, but it never produced a final standard and URCs were never widely adopted in practice. Even so, the concepts on which URCs were based influenced subsequent technologies such as the Dublin Core and Resource Description Framework.
References
External links
IETF URC working group charter
History of the Internet
Technical specifications
URI schemes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUCX-FM | WUCX-FM, 90.1 FM in Bay City, Michigan, is a public radio station licensed to Central Michigan University and operated jointly with Delta College. It airs programming (both local and syndicated) separate from WCMU-FM between 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays, from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Saturdays, and from 6 a.m. until 12 p.m on Sundays. The station simulcasts WCMU for the remainder of the time. WUCX, which went on the air in September 1989, identified as "Q90.1" (with the "Q" standing for "Quality," after its television counterpart, WDCQ) until 2020 during non-simulcast day parts. Programming offers a mixture of news and talk (including programming from NPR, PRI and APM), as well as several types of music. WUCX-FM is the only station in the Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area that broadcasts in HD.
References
Michiguide.com - WUCX-FM History
External links
UCX-FM
NPR member stations
Central Michigan University
Radio stations established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala%20railway%20station | Masala railway station (, ) is a station on the Helsinki commuter rail network located in the Masala district of Kirkkonummi, Finland, between the Kauklahti and Jorvas stations. The station is served by Helsinki commuter rail lines Y, U and L. Westbound trains towards Kirkkonummi and Siuntio use track one, while eastbound trains to Helsinki use track two.
The station underwent a significant renovation in 2005. The old station building, built in 1963, was destroyed in a fire on January 14, 2011.
The Masala station has high platforms and platform displays. There is an announcement system at the station. The station has 140 free-of-charge bicycle parking places and 80 free-of-charge car parking places. There is a taxi station and bus stop near the station.
Connections
Y-line trains (Helsinki-Siuntio-Helsinki)
U-line trains (Helsinki-Kirkkonummi-Helsinki)
L-line trains (Helsinki-Kirkkonummi-Helsinki, nighttime)
References
Kirkkonummi
Railway stations in Uusimaa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-Link%20Switching | Data-Link Switching (DLSw) is a tunneling protocol designed to tunnel unroutable, non-IP based protocols such as IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) and NBF over an IP network.
DLSw was initially documented in IETF RFC 1434 in 1993. In 1995 it was further documented in the IETF RFC 1795. DLSw version 2 was presented in 1997 in IETF RFC 2166 as an improvement to RFC 1795. Cisco Systems has its own proprietary extensions to DLSw in DLSw+. According to Cisco, DLSw+ is 100% IETF RFC 1795 compliant but includes some proprietary extensions that can be used when both devices are Cisco.
Some organisations are starting to replace DLSw tunneling with the more modern Enterprise Extender (EE) protocol which is a feature of IBM APPN on z/OS systems. Microsoft refers to EE as IPDLC. Enterprise Extender uses UDP traffic at the transport layer rather than the network layer.
Cisco deploy Enterprise Extender on their hardware via the IOS feature known as SNAsW (SNA Switch).
See also
Microsoft Host Integration Server
Synchronous Data Link Control
Systems Network Architecture
References
External links
RFC 1434 Data Link Switching: Switch-to-Switch Protocol
RFC 1795 DLSw Standard Version 1.0
RFC 2166 DLSw v2.0 Enhancements
Tunneling protocols
Data-Link Switching |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20description%20language | In artificial intelligence, action description language (ADL) is an automated planning and scheduling system in particular for robots. It is considered an advancement of STRIPS. Edwin Pednault (a specialist in the field of data abstraction and modelling who has been an IBM Research Staff Member in the Data Abstraction Research Group since 1996) proposed this language in 1987. It is an example of an action language.
Origins
Pednault observed that the expressive power of STRIPS was susceptible to being improved by allowing the effects of an operator to be conditional. This is the main idea of ADL-A, which is roughly the propositional fragment of the ADL proposed by Pednault, with ADL-B an extension of -A. In the -B extension, actions can be described with indirect effects by the introduction of a new kind of propositions: ”static laws". A third variation of ADL is ADL-C which is similar to -B, in the sense that its propositions can be classified into static and dynamic laws, but with some more particularities.
The sense of a planning language is to represent certain conditions in the environment and, based on these, automatically generate a chain of actions which lead to a desired goal. A goal is a certain partially specified condition. Before an action can be executed its preconditions must be fulfilled; after the execution the action yields effects, by which the environment changes. The environment is described by means of certain predicates, which are either fulfilled or not.
Contrary to STRIPS, the principle of the open world applies with ADL: everything not occurring in the conditions is unknown (Instead of being assumed false). In addition, whereas in STRIPS only positive literals and conjunctions are permitted, ADL allows negative literals and disjunctions as well.
Syntax of ADL
An ADL schema consists of an action name, an optional parameter list and four optional groups of clauses labeled Precond, Add, Delete and Update.
The Precond group is a list of formulae that define the preconditions for the execution of an action. If the set is empty the value "TRUE" is inserted into the group and the preconditions are always evaluated as holding conditions.
The Add and Delete conditions are specified by the Add and Delete groups, respectively. Each group consists of a set of clauses of the forms shown in the left-hand column of the figure 1:
The R represents a relation symbol
τ1, ..., τn represents terms
ψ represents a formula
The sequence z1, ..., zk are variable symbols that appear in the terms τ1, ..., τn, but not in the parameter list of the action schema
x1, ..., xn are variable symbols that are different from the variables z1, ..., zn and do not appear in τ1, ..., τn, ψ, or the parameter list of the action schema
The Update groups are used to specify the update conditions to change the values of function symbols. An Update group consists of a set of clauses of the forms shown in the left column of the figure 2:
Semantics of ADL
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quang%20Trung%20Software%20City | Quang Trung Software City (), also known as Quang Trung Software Park, is a business park in District 12 of Ho Chi Minh City, approximately from District 1. The park focuses on the computer software industry, hosting a number of software companies and schools such as the Saigon Institute of Technology. Established by government decree in June 2000, it officially began operations on 16 March 2001. The initial idea for the park was the brainchild of Nguyễn Thiện Nhân, the Minister of Education, and the design of the park was funded with a grant from the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) through the efforts of Pacifica Solutions, LLC, a US-based technology company. The facility was designed through a collaboration of the HCMC Educational Committee, Pacifica Solutions and IndoChina Capital, with assistance from the then-current US Ambassador, Pete Peterson.
Notes and references
External links
Quang Trung Software City
Business parks
Economy of Ho Chi Minh City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Fran%C3%A7ois%20%28systems%20scientist%29 | Charles François (5 September 1922 – 31 July 2019) was a Belgian administrator, editor and scientist in the fields of cybernetics, systems theory and systems science, internationally known for his main work the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics.
Biography
Charles François was born in Belgium in 1922, and studied consular and commercial sciences at Brussels Free University.
After the Second World War he emigrated to the Belgian Congo, where he stayed from 1945 to 1960, at first as an administrative officer in government and later on creating and developing his own commercial business, also exercising journalism and the socio-political chronicle. Later, he moved to Argentina in 1963, and managed the commercial Office of the Belgian Embassy in Buenos Aires from 1966 to his retirement in 1987.
François inspired and founded the Group for the Study of Integrated Systems, Argentine National Division of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, in 1976, and was its honorary president. He was an honorary member of the International Federation for Systems Research European Systems Society, and founding editor of the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, editions of 1997 and 2004 in two volumes.
He encouraged its work in progress in course of organization through the Bertalanffy Center of Systems and Cybernetics, member of the International Academy of Systems and Cybernetics Sciences, honorary president of the Latin American Association of Systemics, Honorary Professor of ITBA, and was a visiting professor at various universities and educational institutions in Argentina, Mexico, Perú, Colombia, Venezuela and Brasil, where he encouraged the creation of many study groups. He became a member of systemic boards and integrated the editorial boards of various journals on systems and cybernetics.
In 2007 he received the Norbert Wiener golden medal from the American Society for Cybernetics as a tribute for his work on cybernetics. He inspired the "Charles François Price" at the International Academy of Systems and Cybernetics Sciences, intended to promote contributions and participation of young systematists at their international meetings. François died on July 31, 2019.En su honor, el Grupo de Estudio de Sistemas Integrados (GESI) y colaboradores, editó en 2020:Charles François;pionero y mentor de instituciones sistémicas y cibernéticas en América Latina; un homenaje colectivo.
Work
In 1952 François came in contact with cybernetics through Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics. In 1958 he joined the Society for General Systems Research now the International Society for the Systems Sciences. Since 1970, François has participated in numerous meetings of various systems and cybernetics societies.
Many courses and seminars on systemics and cybernetics were given by Charles François in Argentina and also in Perú at the IAS; the last edition of them is his "Curso de Teoría General de Sistemas y Cibernética con represen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OptimFROG | OptimFROG is a proprietary lossless audio data compression codec developed by Florin Ghido. OptimFROG is optimized for very high compression (small file sizes) at the expense of encoding and decoding speed, and consistently measures among the highest compressing lossless codecs. OptimFROG comes with three compressors: one lossless codec for integer LPCM format WAVE files, one for IEEE_754 floating-point WAVE files, and a DualStream format with a lossy part and a correction file for losslessness.
OptimFROG DualStream
OptimFROG DualStream is a lossy codec, aimed to fill the gap between perceptual coding and lossless coding as OptimFROG DualStream has an option to produce a correction file. This file can be used, in combination with the main lossy-encoded file, for lossless decoding, but not, unlike Wavpack hybrid for instance, for playback.
This correction feature is also offered by MPEG-4 SLS and DTS-HD Master Audio.
Technical details
Metadata
The OptimFROG file formats use APEv2 tags to store the metadata. ID3 is also possible.
References
External links
OptimFROG at Hydrogenaudio Wiki.
OptimFROG at the Multimedia Wiki.
Lossless audio codecs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet%20in%20TV | Pet in TV, known in Japan as , is a pet-raising simulation developed by MuuMuu Co. Limited and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game was released in Japan in May 1997, and later in Europe in August 1998. Pet in TV consists of teaching a virtual pet known as a PiT (Pet in TV) tricks, getting it new costumes and learning what items are edible in the wild along with solving random puzzles around the PiT world.
Pet in TV on release gained very bad reviews for its lack of gameplay, storyline and lasting appeal. It was re-released on the Japanese PlayStation Network for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable on February 22, 2007. The game and its Japan-exclusive sequel, Pet in TV with my dear Dog, were developed by the same team responsible for the Jumping Flash! series.
Gameplay
The player can choose from a selection of PiTs and name it. It is then up to the player to nurture their PiT and allow it to explore the 3D world, learning from its encounters with scenery and objects through trial-and-error. Once these behaviours are learned, the PiT will know how to respond to those objects in the future (such as a Flower, or a Spike). Whenever the PiT becomes injured, or tired, returning it to its home will allow Dr. Y to fix it.
The objective then becomes for the player's PiT to solve puzzles on its own - for which it will be rewarded with AI upgrade chips.
Reception
PlayStation Power gave the game a rating of 59%, and said it was "dull for adults" and "a bit bland".
References
1997 video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games about robots
Video games developed in Japan
Virtual pet video games
Single-player video games
MuuMuu games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20gelechiid%20genera%3A%20U | The large moth family Gelechiidae contains the following genera:
Untomia
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Gelechiidae
Gelechiid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20gelechiid%20genera%3A%20V | The large moth family Gelechiidae contains the following genera:
Vadenia
Virgula
Vladimirea
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Gelechiidae
Gelechiid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dealer%20Business%20System | Dealer Business System (DBS) is a supply-chain management / dealership management system application developed with Accenture on AS/400 minicomputers in the 1990s. Caterpillar dealers have been using this application to manage their internal problems as well as external connections to CAT. The main modules include:
Order processing
Parts inventory
Service
Rental
Equipment management system
Versions
Accentures role
In June 2002, Caterpillar and Accenture announced a 10-year agreement to build and provide support for DBS
In May 2009, dealers approved the transition of DBS support to the Accenture Dealer Management Services group.
High 5 software's role
In May 2012, High 5 Software announces support to replace the DBSi system after feedback that many of the other software vendor systems are faltering.
Ending of CAT support
In April 2008, Caterpillar announced a change in vision.
In developing the new DBSi system strategy, multiple areas were considered such as:
A thorough review of dealer needs five to seven years into the future
An assessment of the long-term financial viability of continuing DBSi development for 80–100 dealers
A review of 3rd party dealer management systems offered in the marketplace
Recent dealer evaluations and decisions to leave DBS/DBSi
With this accomplished, consensus from all parties involved resulted in the completion of a new DBSi system strategy. Together, it was concluded that systems from outside providers such as Microsoft, Infor and SAP could meet Caterpillar dealers needs and that continued investments in DBSi to compete with these systems is no longer a viable option for either Caterpillar or the dealers. Since this time Accenture has taken over development of DBS / DBSi.
This application runs on AS/400 minicomputers locally in dealers' data centers, and connect to CAT systems to place orders.
References
Supply chain management
Caterpillar Inc.
1990s software
Mainframe computer software
Proprietary software
Business software
Custom software projects
AS/400 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20gelechiid%20genera%3A%20X | The large moth family Gelechiidae contains the following genera:
Xenolechia
Xystophora
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Gelechiidae
Gelechiid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20gelechiid%20genera%3A%20Z | The large moth family Gelechiidae contains the following genera:
Zeempista
Zelosyne
Zizyphia
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Gelechiidae
Gelechiid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20simulation%20software | The following is a list of notable computer simulation software.
Free or open-source
Advanced Simulation Library - open-source hardware accelerated multiphysics simulation software.
ASCEND - open-source equation-based modelling environment.
Cantera - chemical kinetics package.
Celestia - a 3D astronomy program.
CP2K - Open-source ab-initio molecular dynamics program.
DWSIM - an open-source CAPE-OPEN compliant chemical process simulator.
EFDC Explorer - open-source for processing of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC).
Elmer - an open-source multiphysical simulation software for Windows/Mac/Linux.
Facsimile - a free, open-source discrete-event simulation library.
FlightGear - a free, open-source atmospheric and orbital flight simulator with a flight dynamics engine (JSBSim) that is used in a 2015 NASA benchmark to judge new simulation code to space industry standards.
FreeFem++ - Free, open-source, multiphysics Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software.
Freemat - a free environment for rapid engineering, scientific prototyping and data processing using the same language as MATLAB and GNU Octave.
Gekko - simulation software in Python with machine learning and optimization
GNU Octave - an open-source mathematical modeling and simulation software very similar to using the same language as MATLAB and Freemat.
JModelica.org is a free and open source software platform based on the Modelica modeling language.
Mobility Testbed - an open-source multi-agent simulation testbed for transport coordination algorithms.
NEST - open-source software for spiking neural network models.
NetLogo - an open-source multi-agent simulation software.
ns-3 - an open-source network simulator.
OpenFOAM - open-source software used for computational fluid dynamics (or CFD).
OpenModelica - an open source modeling environment based on Modelica the open standard for modeling software.
Open Source Physics - an open-source Java software project for teaching and studying physics.
OpenSim - an open-source software system for biomechanical modeling.
Physics Abstraction Layer - an open-source physics simulation package.
Project Chrono - an open-source multi-physics simulation framework.
Repast - agent-based modeling and simulation platform with versions for individual workstations and high performance computer clusters.
SageMath - a system for algebra and geometry experimentation via Python.
Scilab - free open-source software for numerical computation and simulation similar to MATLAB/Simulink.
Simantics System Dynamics – used for modelling and simulating large hierarchical models with multidimensional variables created in a traditional way with stock and flow diagrams and causal loop diagrams.
SimPy - an open-source discrete-event simulation package based on Python.
Simulation of Urban MObility - an open-source traffic simulation package.
SOFA - an open-source framework for multi-physics simulation with an emphasis on medical simulation.
SU2 code - |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCOS%20%28computer%20sciences%29 | rCOS stands for refinement of object and component systems. It is a formal method providing component-based model-driven software development.
Overview
rCOS was originally developed by He Jifeng, Zhiming Liu and Xiaoshan Li at UNU-IIST in Macau, and consists of a unified multi-view modeling notation with a theory of relational semantic and graph-based operational semantics, a refinement calculus and tool support for model construction, model analysis and verification, and model transformations. Model transformations automate refinement rules and design patterns and generate conditions as proof obligations. rCOS support multiple dimensional modeling: models at different levels of abstraction related by refinement relations, hierarchy of compositions of components, and models of different views of the system (interaction protocols of components, reactive behaviors of components, data functionality, and class structures and data types). Components are composed and integrated based on their models of interfaces to support third party composition.
Bibliography
Ruzhen Dong, Johannes Faber, Wei Ke, Zhiming Liu: "rCOS: Defining Meanings of Component-Based Software Architectures". Unifying Theories of Programming and Formal Engineering Methods – ICTAC Training School on Software Engineering 2013, LNCS 8050: 1-66, Springer (2013)
Wei Ke, Xiaoshan Li, Zhiming Liu, Volker Stolz: "rCOS: a formal model-driven engineering method for component-based software". Frontiers of Computer Science in China 6(1): 17-39 (2012)
Zhiming Liu, Charles Morisset and Volker Stolz. "rCOS: Theory and Tool for Component-Based Model Driven Development, Keynote at FSEN09", Technical Report 406, UNU-IIST, P.O. Box 3058, Macau, February 2009.
Zhenbang Chen, Zhiming Liu, Ander P. Ravn and Volker Stolz (2009). "Refinement and Verification in Component-Based Model Driven Design". UNU-IIST Research Report 381. Science of Computer Programming, 74(4):168-196, 2009.
Liang Zhao, Xiaojian Liu, Zhiming Liu and Zongyan Qiu (2009). "Graph transformations for object-oriented refinement", Formal Aspects of Computing, 21(1-2):103-131, 2009.
He Jifeng, Xiaoshan Li, and Zhiming Liu. "Component-based software engineering". In Pro. ICTAC’2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume 3722. Springer, 2005.
He Jifeng, Xiaoshan Li, and Zhiming Liu. "rCOS: A refinement calculus for object systems". Theoretical Computer Science, 365(1–2):109–142, 2006.
He Jifeng, Zhiming Liu, and Xiaoshan Li. "A theory of reactive components" Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 160:173–195, 2006.
Xin Chen, He Jifeng, Zhiming Liu and Naijun Zhan. "A model of component-based programming". Proc. FSEN 2007, Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4767, pp. 191–208.
Xin Chen, Zhiming Liu, and Vladimir Mencl. "Separation of concerns and consistent integration in requirements modelling". In Proc. Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science]. Spring |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiming%20Liu%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Zhiming Liu (, born 10 October 1961, Hebei, China) is a computer scientist. He studied mathematics in Luoyang, Henan in China and obtained his first degree in 1982. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1988), and a PhD degree from the University of Warwick (1991). His PhD thesis was on Fault-Tolerant Programming by Transformations.
After his PhD, Zhiming Liu worked as a guest scientist at the Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby in 1991–1992. Then he returned to the University of Warwick and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow on formal techniques in real-time and fault-tolerant systems till October 1994 when he became a university lecturer in computer science at the University of Leicester (UK). He worked at UNU-IIST during 2002–2013 at UNU-IIST as research fellow and senior research fellow. He joined Birmingham City University (UK) in October 2013 as the Professor of Software Engineering. In 2016, he moved to a new professorial post at Southwest University in Chongqing, China, with funding through the Thousand Talents Program.
Zhiming Liu's main research interest is in the areas of formal methods of computer systems design, including real-time systems, fault-tolerant systems, object-oriented and component-based systems. His research results have been published in mainstream journals and conferences. His joint work with Mathai Joseph work on fault tolerance gives a formal model that defines precisely the notions of fault, error, failure and fault-tolerance, and their relations. It also gives the properties that models of fault-affected programs and fault-tolerant programs in terms of model transformations. They proposed a design process for fault-tolerant systems from requirement specifications and analysis, fault environment identification and analysis, specification of fault-affected design and verification of fault-tolerance for satisfaction of the requirements specification. In collaboration with Zhou Chaochen and Anders Ravn, et al., he also developed a Probabilistic Duration Calculus for system dependability analysis. His recent work with He Jifeng and Xiaoshan Li on the rCOS theory of semantics and refinement of object-oriented and component-based design is being developed into a method with tool support for component-based and model-driven software development.
Zhiming Liu is the founder of International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC), the International Symposium on Formal Aspects of Component Software (FACS), and International Symposium on Foundations of Health Information Engineering and systems (FHIES). He has served as a PC chair for a number of conferences and PC members of a number of conferences. He has also edited a number of books.
Zhiming Liu is married to Hong Zhao with two sons, Kim Chang Liu and Edward Tanze Liu.
References
External links
Southwest University home page
UNU-IIST |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic%20Man | Fantastic Man is a 2007 Philippine television drama action fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 2003 Philippine film of the same title. Directed by Zoren Legaspi, it stars Mark Herras in the title role. It premiered on April 14, 2007. The series concluded on November 10, 2007, with a total of 31 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Mark Herras as Fredo / Fantastic Man
Supporting cast
Ryza Cenon as Wena / Fantastic Girl
Joey Marquez as Manalo
Gloria Sevilla as Cedes
Miguel Tanfelix as Tikboy
Ariel Rivera as Danny / Tadtad
Patricia Ysmael
Jackie Rice as Helen
Beth Tamayo as Linda
Paolo Contis as Tisay
Benjie Paras as Gobo
Rez Cortez as Elvis
Pen Medina as Singkit
Keempee de Leon as Budol
Nicole Anderson as K
Ana Lea Javier as Faith
Patrick Garcia as Lloyd
Valerie Concepcion as Belle
Chuck Allie
Alvin Aragon
Jewel Mische as Vicky
Dion Ignacio as Dexter / Fire Man
Cristine Reyes as Kate / Screamer / Sylvia (special episode)
Ryan Yllana as Jopet / Lava Man
Arci Muñoz as Candy / Ice Candy
Rainier Castillo as Arman
Kevin Santos
Kirby de Jesus
Mike Tan as Bornok
Mart Escudero
Sherilyn Reyes as Elektrika
Maureen Larrazabal as Juliet
Jennylyn Mercado as Super S
Nadine Samonte as Super T
Marco Alcaraz as Ivan
LJ Reyes as Binhi
Luis Alandy as Draxor
Jose Manalo and Wally Bayola as Super Dings
Paulo Avelino
Vivo Ouano
Bugz Daigo
Boy 2 Quizon as Cardo
Special episode
Mark Herras as Fredo/Fantastic Man
Ryza Cenon as Wena
Miguel Tanfelix as Tikboy
Joyce Jimenez
Villains
(in order of appearance in the TV series)
Boss Elvis (played by Rez Cortez)
a trigger-happy syndicate leader
Singkit (played by Pen Medina)
an entrepreneur whose Chinese restaurant is a front for his illegal business. He is involved in smuggling and drug trafficking. He uses chopsticks as his deadly weapons. Another special ability of Singkit is he can summon animal spirits.
Budol (played by Keempee de Leon)
a con artist and an illegal dealer of counterfeit goods who uses hypnosis on his victims
Madam Tisay (played by Paolo Contis)
is a loud club owner who uses witchcraft to get her way. Madam Tisay is involved in prostitution and white slavery, and employs a coven of witches as performers for her club.
Gobo (played by Benjie Paras)
a circus freak with an unnatural strength and an impossibly feeble mind. Gobo is the leader of a pack of midget-thieves posing as circus performers. He can crush rocks with the use of his head, bend metal with his bare hands and does other extreme acts.
Tadtad (played by Ariel Rivera)
the main antagonist of Fantastic Man in the first season. He is the head of a crime syndicate and who is really Fredo's father Danny. He is a master of disguise and uses it to hide the scars and burns of his face. He also has molten fire powers. He sacrifices his life to save his son from two alien invaders working for the warlord Draxor.
In season 2, a clone of his father who is being held in stasis by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS%20management%20software | DNS management software is computer software that controls Domain Name System (DNS) server clusters. DNS data is typically deployed on multiple physical servers. The main purposes of DNS management software are:
to reduce human error when editing complex and repetitive DNS data
to reduce the effort required to edit DNS data
to validate DNS data before it is published to the DNS servers
to automate the distribution of DNS data
Background
In 1995, there were only 70,000 domains in existence. The way to register them was by email and the way to publish them was BIND. By mid-1997, the domain count was 1.3 million. As the number of domains and internet hosts skyrocketed, so too did the quantity of DNS data and the time required to manage it. Sysadmins responded by writing Perl or Shell scripts that helped automate DNS changes. These scripts were mostly in-house tools. The closest thing to widely available DNS management software was the BIND module in webmin, which provided web tools for editing BIND zone files.
During the late 1990s, the sheer quantity of DNS data was overwhelming the tools available to manage it. The cost of managing the data instigated the birth of DNS management software. The costs can best be explained by illustration. In 1998, three of the largest web hosting companies (HostPro, Interland, and Vservers) each hosted about 100,000 DNS zones. DNS changes were made by telnetting to a BIND master and editing zone files with a text editor. A staff of several DNS admins performed this task all day, every day. Their changes would only take effect after a BIND reload. Because disks were slow, it took several hours for BIND to do a full reload. If a DNS admin made a typo in a zone file, BIND would fail to parse that file and die. Often after hours of processing. Whoever noticed BIND wasn't running would have to read the logs, find the zone file with the error, manually review the file, fix the error, and then try starting BIND back up. Once up, the changes could propagate to the DNS slaves via zone transfers. Changes often took more than 24 hours to fully propagate.
DNS and databases
While struggling with the challenges of editing zone files, more than a few sysadmins noticed that SQL is a terrific place to store DNS data. By moving the Single Source of Truth from text files into SQL, DNS data could be validated and constrained before acceptance into the database. Export scripts could convert the SQL to zone files. Rsync could replace named-xfer for distribution, increasing security and reducing propagation time. Among large hosting providers, it became fashionable to store DNS data in SQL and build a custom interface for managing it. mysqlBind is one such DNS manager. It provides a web interface for data input and exports the data to BIND zone files.
In 2000, Daniel J Bernstein released Djbdns. One of the novel features was that tinydns, the included authoritative DNS server, served DNS directly from a CDB database. The cdb had to be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Bell | Douglas Bell may refer to:
Douglas John Bell (1893–1918), South African World War I flying ace
Doug Bell (game designer) (born 1961), American computer game developer
Doug Bell (sportscaster) (born 1961), American sportscaster
Dougie Bell (born 1959), Scottish footballer
Douglas Bell (athlete) (1908–1944), English athlete
Douglas Bell (politician) (1926–2021), Canadian politician
L. Douglas Bell (born 1958), American physicist
See also
George Douglas Hutton Bell (1905–1993), British plant breeder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodac | European Dactyloscopy (Eurodac) is the European Union (EU) fingerprint database for identifying asylum seekers and irregular border-crossers. After the European Parliament approved the last Eurodac reform proposed by far-right party Vox (December 2022), asylum applicants and irregular border-crossers over the age of 6 have their fingerprints, pictures, and other biometric data taken as a matter of EU law, which discriminatorily considers biometric data as a "special category of data" just in the case of EU citizens. These are then sent in digitally to a central unit at the European Commission, and automatically checked against other prints on the database. This enables authorities to determine whether asylum seekers have already applied for asylum in another EU member state or have illegally transited through another EU member state ("principle of first contact"). The Automated Fingerprint Identification System is the first of its kind on the European Union level and has been operating since 15 January 2003. All EU member states currently participate in the scheme (Denmark via a bilateral agreement due to its opt-out), plus three additional European countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.
See also
eu-LISA
Schengen Information System
Frontex
Dublin Regulation
References
Biometric databases
European Union law
Fingerprints
Government databases of the European Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbert%20linearization | The Hubbert linearization is a way to plot production data to estimate two important parameters of a Hubbert curve, the approximated production rate of a nonrenewable resource following a logistic distribution:
the logistic growth rate and
the quantity of the resource that will be ultimately recovered.
The linearization technique was introduced by Marion King Hubbert in his 1982 review paper. The Hubbert curve is the first derivative of a logistic function, which has been used for modeling the depletion of crude oil in particular, the depletion of finite mineral resources in general and also population growth patterns.
Principle
The first step of the Hubbert linearization consists of plotting the yearly production data (P in bbl/y) as a fraction of the cumulative production (Q in bbl) on the vertical axis and the cumulative production on the horizontal axis. This representation exploits the linear property of the logistic differential equation:
with
k as logistic growth rate and
URR as the ultimately recoverable resource.
We can rewrite (1) as the following:
The above relation is a line equation in the P/Q versus Q plane. Consequently, a linear regression on the data points gives us an estimate of the line slope calculated by -k/URR and intercept from which we can derive the Hubbert curve parameters:
The k parameter is the intercept of the vertical axis.
The URR value is the intercept of the horizontal axis.
Examples
Global oil production
The geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes applied this technique in 2005 to make a prediction about the peak of overall oil production at the end of the same year, which has since been found to be premature. He did not make a distinction between "conventional" and "non-conventional" oil produced by fracturing, aka tight oil, which has continued further growth in oil production. However, since 2005 conventional oil production has not grown anymore.
US oil production
The charts below gives an example of the application of the Hubbert Linearization technique in the case of the US Lower-48 oil production. The fit of a line using the data points from 1956 to 2005 (in green) gives a URR of 199 Gb and a logistic growth rate of 6%.
Norway oil production
The Norwegian Hubbert linearization estimates an URR = 30 Gb and a logistic growth rate of k = 17%.
Alternative techniques
Second Hubbert linearization
The Hubbert linearization principle can be extended to the first derivatives of the production rate by computing the derivative of (2):
The left term, the rate of change of production per current production, is often called the decline rate. The decline curve is a line that starts at +k, crosses zero at URR/2 and ends at −k. Thus, we can derive the Hubbert curve parameters:
The growth parameter k is the intercept of the vertical axis.
The URR value is twice the intercept of the horizontal axis.
Hubbert parabola
This representation was proposed by Roberto Canogar and applied to the oil depletion proble |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat%20Pictures | Automat Pictures is an American film and television production company based in Los Angeles, focusing on the production of independent films, original television programming, EPK, and Blu-ray and DVD added value. It was founded in 2000 by producer/director Jeffrey Schwarz.
History and production
References
External links
Official website
Film production companies of the United States
Television production companies of the United States
Companies based in Los Angeles
Mass media companies established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20E.%20McMahon | Lee Edward McMahon (October 24, 1931–February 15, 1989) was an American computer scientist.
Family and education
McMahon was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to father Leo E. McMahon and mother Catherine McCarthy. He grew up in St. Louis and attended St. Louis University High School. In 1955 he received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from St. Louis University. McMahon was awarded a regular graduate fellowship from the St. Louis University for study in psychology at Harvard University, where he then obtained a Ph.D. in psychology. His Ph.D. thesis at Harvard University was published in 1963 with the title "Grammatical analysis as a part of understanding a sentence".
He was married to Helen G McMahon, and they had two children, Michael and Catherine.
Bell Labs
McMahon worked for Bell Labs from 1963 up until his death in 1989. He worked initially as a Linguistics Researcher and focussed around a language called FASE (Fundamentally Analyzable Simplified English) with the goal of improving communication between humans and computers.
McMahon officially joined the Bell Labs Computing Research Center in 1975.
A project which attempted to clarify the authorship of The Federalist Papers connected him to Robert Morris and began his involvement with early Unix development.
McMahon is best known for his contributions to early versions of the Unix operating system, in particular the sed stream editor. McMahon contributed to the development of comm, qsort, grep, index, cref, cu, and Datakit.
McMahon's system tournament
McMahon worked on the creation of a pairing system to go together with Bob Ryder of Bell Labs in the early 1960s.
The system was widely used in go tournaments - for example in the U.S. Championship tournaments of 1986.
References
Unix people
Go (game) researchers
Harvard University alumni
American computer scientists
1931 births
1989 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avantix%20Mobile | Avantix Mobile ("AVB") is a portable railway ticket issuing system used across the British railway network from 2001 to 2017.
Development
Development started in 2000 by Sema Group plc, an IT services company which was acquired by Schlumberger Ltd in 2001 and became SchlumbergerSema. (The company has since been acquired by France-based IT group Atos, SA.) Atos now continues to develop and maintain the system. The first machines were bought and put into use by train operating companies (TOCs) in 2002. By late 2005, market penetration had reached 80%, and as of 2007 SPORTIS has been superseded completely.
The Avantix Mobile system was designed for the Sema Group plc by Printer Systems Limited this included the technique of printing and encoding the magnetic stripe at the same time, the Z-fold ticket pack and the electronic control system with interface to a Casio PDA. The Avantix Mobile housing was designed, developed and engineered by Hyphen Design Ltd, of London. Particular design and engineering challenges were a tamper-resistant PDA retention and ejection mechanism, and a secure loading door latch, to prevent the device spilling ticket stock or batteries if dropped. Hyphen Design also developed a cartridge design for holding Z-fold or fan-fold ticket stock. With the horizontally mounted cartridge, a stack of 3 or more of the fan-fold stock could easily be drawn into the print head and jam it. The solution was a pad of fine silicone rubber fingers, stuck to the top and bottom internal surfaces of the cartridge, to provide just enough grip on the uneven ticket stack, without putting too much load on the print head.
Avantix Mobile was the successor to the SPORTIS system which had been developed in the mid-1980s for British Rail. SPORTIS was the first fully computerized portable ticketing system for use by on-train staff and Revenue Protection Inspectors, and in other situations where mobile ticket-issuing facilities are required. However, by 2002, the machines themselves were up to 15 years old, with their underlying technology being several years older, and they lacked the storage capacity for the increasing variety of fares and promotions available on the post-privatisation British railway system.
Avantix Mobile machines were first adopted by TOCs owned at the time by National Express; however, they are now in use across all National Rail-controlled TOCs with the exception of Merseyrail who continued to issue paper tickets until TVMs had been installed at the last few stations on the Wirral line, which did not have any ticket issuing facilities.
Arriva Trains Wales announced in January 2016 that their Avantix machines will be withdrawn after March 2016. The replacement machines will produce paper tickets with no magnetic stripe; instead they will carry a bar code which can be read by some National Rail ticket barriers. As they are not compatible with barriers on the London Underground they will not be accepted for cross-London services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perst | Perst is an open source, dual license, object-oriented embedded database management system (ODBMS). Both the Java programming language, and the C# programming language versions are compact and Perst has been implemented on smart phones running the Android and Windows Phone (WP7) operating systems.
History
Perst was launched in 2003, in Russia. It was designed to achieve high-performance by tightly integrating the database with the programming language: Perst directly stores data in the language objects. In 2006 McObject LLC, based in Issaquah, WA took over the development of Perst. It continues to offer free downloads and has added commercial license options.
Perst was first written in Java, and ported to C#. Although originally designed for desktop- and server-based software, Perst has also found usage in providing database management for mobile applications running on devices such as smartphones. These mobile devices typically have hardware constraints, with limited RAM and few CPU cycles available and non-standard (for database systems) operating requirements (such as support for Java ME, or Silverlight in the Windows Phone 7 mobile platform).
Versions
Currently available versions of Perst are Perst for .NET, Perst for Java and Perst Lite. Perst for Java and Perst Lite are bundled in a single software distribution.
Perst for .NET supports C# versions 1.0 and 2.0 with the same source code. Support for specific C# 2.0 features (such as template classes) is provided at compile time. It is compatible with both standard and compact .NET frameworks, as well as Silverlight, and can operate on both Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP7) and Windows Embedded Compact (formerly Windows CE).
Perst for Java supports J2SE/J2EE versions 1.3 and 1.4, as well as J2SE/J2EE version 5. It is compatible with the Android smartphone environment.
Perst Lite is the Perst for Java implementation that runs on devices (such as BlackBerry smartphones) based on the Java ME (J2ME) mobile device platform. It has a memory footprint approximately 30 percent smaller than standard Perst.
In detail
Size
The Perst engine’s size is 5,000 lines of source code, and its run time random-access memory (RAM) needs range from 30K to 300K.]
Transactions
Perst transactions support the ACID properties (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) with automatic recovery.
Querying
Perst provides a subset of SQL for filtering elements of a container class. For access to stored objects, Perst implements specialized collection classes including:
B-tree indexes
R-tree indexes
In-memory database container classes based on T-trees
k-d tree indexes
Radix tree (Patricia trie) indexes
Time series class to deal efficiently with small fixed-size objects, such as stock quotes
Specialized versions of collections for thick indexes (indexes with many duplicates) and bit indexes (keys with a restricted number of possible values)
Schema evolution
To facilitate changes to an existing database de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20of%20Basic%20Aviation%20Skills | The Test of Basic Aviation Skills (TBAS) is a computerized psychomotor test battery used as a tool for the selection of United States Air Force pilot candidates. It was created as a replacement for the Basic Attributes Test (BAT) which was in use from 1993 to 2006. TBAS scores are combined with the candidate's Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT) scores, and flying hours to produce a Pilot Candidate Selection Method (PCSM) score. The PCSM score provides a measure of a candidate's aptitude for pilot training and is a significant part of the selection process. As of August 14, 2006 the TBAS is operational at all testing sites and the BAT has been retired.
Development and Field Testing
In 1999, the Air Education and Training Command directed the Studies and Analysis Squadron to develop a new skills battery to incorporate the latest advances in psychomotor and cognitive research. The Studies and Analysis Squadron partnered with the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory and the US Air Force Academy to develop the TBAS as a possible BAT replacement.
The Air Force Research Laboratory, released a report on the "Development and Validation of the
Test of Basic Aviation Skills (TBAS) " in November 2005. According to the report, the TBAS was fielded to 994 Air Force pilot trainees. The testing showed strong correlations between TBAS scores and potential success at pilot training.
TBAS equipment was shipped to testing locations by July 2006 and was operational at all sites on August 14, 2006.
The test equipment consists of a computer, keyboard, mouse, joystick, rudder pedals, and headphones. During the validation of the TBAS the test apparatus was:
Whether the same equipment has been deployed at all testing sites remains unclear.
Test Structure
The TBAS is composed of 9 subtests each of which either introduces a new skill area or tests a combination of the previous skill areas. Total time to administer the test is less than one hour.
Directional Orientation Test
"Measures spatial orientation abilities: The participant must determine a UAV’s position relative to a target. The test simultaneously presents a "tracker map” which shows the location and heading of the UAV; and a forward field of view, as seen through a fixed, forward pointing camera of a UAV, which shows a single building surrounded by four parking lots. The task is to click on the parking lot that a computer generated voice instructs. There are 48 questions."
3-Digit and 5-Digit Listening Tests
"Participants are presented with auditory letters and numbers. They must squeeze the trigger when they hear any of the three or five specified numbers. The test lasts approximately three minutes."
Horizontal Tracking Test (HTT)
"Participants use rudder pedals to keep a box over an airplane as it moves horizontally along the bottom of the screen. The airplane moves at a constant speed and changes direction when it “hits” the side of the screen or if a participant successfully targe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit%20certificate | In cryptography, implicit certificates are a variant of public key certificate. A subject's public key is reconstructed from the data in an implicit certificate, and is then said to be "implicitly" verified. Tampering with the certificate will result in the reconstructed public key being invalid, in the sense that it is infeasible to find the matching private key value, as would be required to make use of the tampered certificate.
By comparison, traditional public-key certificates include a copy of the subject's public key, and a digital signature made by the issuing certificate authority (CA). The public key must be explicitly validated, by verifying the signature using the CA's public key. For the purposes of this article, such certificates will be called "explicit" certificates.
Elliptic Curve Qu-Vanstone (ECQV) is one kind of implicit certificate scheme. It is described in the document Standards for Efficient Cryptography 4 (SEC4).This article will use ECQV as a concrete example to illustrate implicit certificates.
Comparison of ECQV with explicit certificates
Conventional explicit certificates are made up of three parts: subject identification data, a public key and a digital signature which binds the public key to the user's identification data (ID). These are distinct data elements within the certificate, and contribute to the size of the certificate: for example, a standard X.509 certificate is on the order of 1KB in size (~8000 bits).
An ECQV implicit certificate consists of identification data, and a single cryptographic value. This value, an elliptic curve point, combines the function of public key data and CA signature. ECQV implicit certificates can therefore be considerably smaller than explicit certificates, and so are useful in highly constrained environments such as Radio-frequency Identification RFID tags, where not a lot of memory or bandwidth is available.
ECQV certificates are useful for any ECC scheme where the private and public keys are of the form ( d, dG ). This includes key agreement protocols such as ECDH and ECMQV, or signing algorithms such as ECDSA. The operation will fail if the certificate has been altered, as the reconstructed public key will be invalid. Reconstructing the public key is fast (a single point multiplication operation) compared to ECDSA signature verification.
Comparison with ID-based cryptography
Implicit certificates are not to be confused with identity-based cryptography. In ID-based schemes, the subject's identity itself is used to derive their public key; there is no 'certificate' as such. The corresponding private key is calculated and issued to the subject by a trusted third party.
In an implicit certificate scheme, the subject has a private key which is not revealed to the CA during the certificate-issuing process. The CA is trusted to issue certificates correctly, but not to hold individual user's private keys. Wrongly issued certificates can be revoked, whereas there is no comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing%20mode | Data processing modes or computing modes are classifications of different types of computer processing.
Interactive computing or Interactive processing, historically introduced as Time-sharing
Transaction processing
Batch processing
Real-time processing
See also
Methods of production
References
Computing terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight%20Network | Fight Network is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned by Anthem Sports & Entertainment. The network broadcasts programming related to combat sports, including mixed martial arts, boxing, kickboxing, and professional wrestling.
History
The channel was originally conceived in Canada, when it was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on January 30, 2004. The channel, tentatively known as "TFN – The Fight Network", was described as "a national, English-language Category 2 specialty television service devoted to programming related to the arts, skills and science of combatants."
The channel launched as The Fight Network, commonly abbreviated as TFN, was created and founded by Mike R. Garrow, on September 22, 2005, initially on Rogers Cable in Ontario and New Brunswick. Prior to the network's launch, Fight Network also acquired wrestling radio show Live Audio Wrestling, syndicating it under the banner Fight Network Radio.
BlackOut Communications originally owned The Fight Network, but after several organizational restructurings, Fight Media Inc. assumed ownership.
In December 2010, former Canwest CEO Leonard Asper made a "significant investment" in Fight Network, marking his return to the media industry after the bankruptcy and wind-down of Canwest. Asper stated that it was "an exciting opportunity — not without its challenges, but also of course one with significant potential." The following April, to coincide with UFC 129 in Toronto, the network re-branded as simply Fight Network, with a new logo and an associated marketing campaign to promote the network's expanded lineup. A high-definition feed launched in March 2013 initially on Rogers Cable.
On December 22, 2014, Fight Network announced that it had sub-licensed portions of the UFC's new Canadian rights agreement with Bell Media and TSN, including coverage of non-PPV preliminaries, international UFC Fight Night events, as well as other UFC archive programming, and the possibility of collaborating on other ancillary programs with TSN.
In March 2015, Fight Network acquired Canadian rights to TNA Wrestling programming, including Impact Wrestling, TNA Xplosion, and TNA's Wrestling Greatest Matches. In June 2015, Fight Network announced a broadcasting agreement with the World Series of Fighting, covering Canada and other EMEA markets. In March 2016, TNA expanded its relationship with Fight Network to offer its programming internationally through Fight Network's streaming platforms.
Acquisition of TNA and subsequent cuts
In January 2017, Fight Network's parent company, Anthem Sports & Entertainment, acquired a majority stake in TNA. Under Anthem, the promotion was renamed "Impact Wrestling" after its flagship program. Following the acquisition, Fight Network began cutting its studio programming; in March 2017, long-time Fight Network personalities Robin Black and John Ramdeen were laid off by Anthem. Further layof |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMB1 | SMB1 may refer to:
Super Mario Bros., a 1985 video game
Server Message Block version 1, a network protocol
See also
SMB (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20normal%20bundle | In surgery theory, a branch of mathematics, the stable normal bundle of a differentiable manifold is an invariant which encodes the stable normal (dually, tangential) data. There are analogs for generalizations of manifold, notably PL-manifolds and topological manifolds. There is also an analogue in homotopy theory for Poincaré spaces, the Spivak spherical fibration, named after Michael Spivak.
Construction via embeddings
Given an embedding of a manifold in Euclidean space (provided by the theorem of Hassler Whitney), it has a normal bundle. The embedding is not unique, but for high dimension of the Euclidean space it is unique up to isotopy, thus the (class of the) bundle is unique, and called the stable normal bundle.
This construction works for any Poincaré space X: a finite CW-complex admits a stably unique (up to homotopy) embedding in Euclidean space, via general position, and this embedding yields a spherical fibration over X. For more restricted spaces (notably PL-manifolds and topological manifolds), one gets stronger data.
Details
Two embeddings are isotopic if they are homotopic
through embeddings. Given a manifold or other suitable space X, with two embeddings into Euclidean space these will not in general be isotopic, or even maps into the same space ( need not equal ). However, one can embed these into a larger space by letting the last coordinates be 0:
.
This process of adjoining trivial copies of Euclidean space is called stabilization.
One can thus arrange for any two embeddings into Euclidean space to map into the same Euclidean space (taking ), and, further, if is sufficiently large, these embeddings are isotopic, which is a theorem.
Thus there is a unique stable isotopy class of embedding: it is not a particular embedding (as there are many embeddings), nor an isotopy class (as the target space is not fixed: it is just "a sufficiently large Euclidean space"), but rather a stable isotopy class of maps. The normal bundle associated with this (stable class of) embeddings is then the stable normal bundle.
One can replace this stable isotopy class with an actual isotopy class by fixing the target space, either by using Hilbert space as the target space, or (for a fixed dimension of manifold ) using a fixed sufficiently large, as N depends only on n, not the manifold in question.
More abstractly, rather than stabilizing the embedding, one can take any embedding, and then take a vector bundle direct sum with a sufficient number of trivial line bundles; this corresponds exactly to the normal bundle of the stabilized embedding.
Construction via classifying spaces
An n-manifold M has a tangent bundle, which has a classifying map (up to homotopy)
Composing with the inclusion yields (the homotopy class of a classifying map of) the stable tangent bundle. The normal bundle of an embedding ( large) is an inverse for , such that the Whitney sum is trivial. The homotopy class of the composite
is independent of the choice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphistephanites | Amphistephanites is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the ammonite subclass.
References
The Paleobiology Database
Ammonite genera
Noritoidea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagymnites | Anagymnites is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass.
References
The Paleobiology Database - Anagymnites entry Accessed 7 December 2011
Gymnitidae
Ceratitida genera
Anisian life |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco%20%28TV%20series%29 | Disco was a pop music program that aired in West Germany on the ZDF network from 1971 to 1982. It generally aired on the first Saturday of each month at 7:30PM, each show running 45 minutes. 133 shows were produced. The show was hosted by German actor and comedian Ilja Richter. Its lesser known predecessor on ZDF, 4-3-2-1 Hot & Sweet was aired between 1966 and 1970, presenters included Ilja Richter and Suzanne Doucet. Disco generally served a younger pop-oriented audience compared to ZDF's own Hitparade show, and until 1972, its main competitor was Beat-Club (originally patterned after the pure live-act show Ready Steady Go! in the UK, from the late-1960s turning more and more into psychedelic music videos made especially for the invited acts), followed by Musikladen, both on ARD.
Starting in 1984, reruns Disco were shown regularly on ZDF Musikkanal and, after the 1989 closedown of the latter, on 3sat, lasting for a full 25 years. The ZDF Theaterkanal (which is now zdf.kultur) aired repeats of the entire series between 2004 and 2012. In 2007, ZDF Dokukanal began to air reruns, starting with episodes from 1975. Multiple repeats of the series have also been shown on hit24.
The show focused on chart hits current at the time of airing, giving about equal airtime to international pop music and German Schlager. Despite its name, it did not particularly focus on disco music although it featured many disco hits as long as they were chart relevant. (The name of the show was devised before disco as a musical style existed).
References
External links
1971 German television series debuts
1982 German television series endings
German-language television shows
Pop music television series
ZDF original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20stump | A decision stump is a machine learning model consisting of a one-level decision tree. That is, it is a decision tree with one internal node (the root) which is immediately connected to the terminal nodes (its leaves). A decision stump makes a prediction based on the value of just a single input feature. Sometimes they are also called 1-rules.
Depending on the type of the input feature, several variations are possible. For nominal features, one may build a stump which contains a leaf for each possible feature value or a stump with the two leaves, one of which corresponds to some chosen category, and the other leaf to all the other categories. For binary features these two schemes are identical. A missing value may be treated as a yet another category.
For continuous features, usually, some threshold feature value is selected, and the stump contains two leaves — for values below and above the threshold. However, rarely, multiple thresholds may be chosen and the stump therefore contains three or more leaves.
Decision stumps are often used as components (called "weak learners" or "base learners") in machine learning ensemble techniques such as bagging and boosting. For example, a Viola–Jones face detection algorithm employs AdaBoost with decision stumps as weak learners.
The term "decision stump" was coined in a 1992 ICML paper by Wayne Iba and Pat Langley.
See also
Decision list
References
Decision trees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley%20Webber | Lesley Webber is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network. Actress Denise Alexander played the role from March 13, 1973 through February 28, 1984, as a series regular, and from 1996 to 2009 in a recurring status. Alexander returned to the series briefly in 2013 to celebrate its 50th anniversary, and has made subsequent appearances in 2017, 2019, and 2021.
Casting
Actress Denise Alexander started playing the role of Lesley in March 1973. In 1976, although TIME magazine panned General Hospital at the time, Alexander's character Lesley was noted as the serial's saving grace. When Alexander and the network could not agree to contractual negotiations, the character was axed in March 1984. Angry fans picketed the studio because they were upset that Lesley died off the show. In 1996, the series wrote the character back in, and Alexander appeared in a recurring status airing from December 5, 1996 until October 2009. In 2013, Alexander returned to the role from May 16 to December 13. In November 2017, it was announced she would reprise her role, returning for a one-off visit on December 22.
In March 2019, Entertainment Weekly announced that Alexander would again return as Lesley, in celebration of the serial's 56th anniversary. She made her appearance during the April 2 episode. In January 2021, it was announced she would once again return as Lesley. She returned for episodes from January 8 through February 26.
Storylines
1973–84
Lesley came to Port Charles in March 1973 and joined the staff at General Hospital to replace Dr. Tom Baldwin. Lesley was haunted by memories of her past. She admitted to Lee Baldwin, Tom's brither, she was a widow while she was taking care of Lee's wife, Meg, who suffered hypertension. Meg was paranoid and was sure Lee had an affair with Lesley behind her back. Lesley was getting close to Meg's son, Scott, which infuriated Meg. Lesley resigned as Meg's doctor and was replaced by Dr. Steve Hardy. During a confrontation with Lee, Meg had a stroke and died in July 1973.
When she met Augusta McLeod, R.N., who had arrived in Port Charles to stay with her cousin, Jane Dawson, R.N., Lesley was horrified. Augusta used to have an affair with Bruce, Lesley's former husband. After Lesley and Bruce's child died from cot death, Bruce committed suicide. Lesley and Augusta had a long talk and Augusta assured Lesley that she was not to blame for anything. Bruce had told Augusta he was responsible for his marriage's break-up just before he killed himself. Augusta and Lesley called a truce and Lesley helped Augusta gain a job at General Hospital.
Florence Gray became one of Lesley's first patients. Florence blames her stomach ulcers on her troubled marriage with Gordon Gray. She started seeing psychiatrist Peter Taylor. Florence told Peter about her husband's affair with one of her students years earlier and how he had gotten her pregnant but unfortunately the child died at birth. Peter told Le |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s%20Court%20Clinic | The Children's Court Clinic in New South Wales, part of the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, is a medico-legal clinic established pursuant to Section 15B of the and the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 (NSW) which prepares independent reports on children for legal proceedings before the Children's Court of New South Wales.
Constitution
The clinic is established under the and its function is further specified according to sections 52-59 of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 (NSW). As of 1 July 2011 the Minister for Health was required to establish the clinic in accordance with the Children's Court Rule 2000 (NSW).
An assessment report by the clinic is taken to be an independent report to the Court rather than evidence tendered by a party (section 59, the Care and Protection Act). The Children’s Court Clinic authorised clinician who prepares a report is nevertheless available to the court for cross-examination. Under the Court's rules, the clinic is composed of the Director of the Children’s Court Clinic and any other persons appointed by the Attorney General. Those other persons are persons considered by the Attorney General to be suitable to prepare and submit assessment reports for the court. This is in the process of changing as the clinic is gradually transferred to the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network.
The clinic currently employs a team of senior psychologists based in Parramatta and Broadmeadow NSW to do its work. It also has a list of authorised clinicians who perform work on a contractual basis. They are experienced clinicians in psychiatry, psychology or social work.
Jurisdiction
The clinic is required to make clinical assessments of children and families in care matters and report to the Children's Court on those assessments. The report is given to the court ordering the assessment, which then determines whether to release it to the parties in the case.
Location
The clinic has two locations in New South Wales; in Parramatta, Sydney and in , .
See also
Children's Court of New South Wales
List of New South Wales courts and tribunals
References
External links
Children's Court Rule 2000 http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_reg/ccr692000203/
Homepage of the Clinic
Parramatta clinic's at Google maps
Broadmeadow clinic's at Google maps
New South Wales courts and tribunals
Australia, New South Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXIP | DXIP (900 AM) was a radio station owned and operated by Southern Broadcasting Network. The station's studio was located at the 3rd Floor, Lachmi Shopping Mall, Bolton, Davao City.
History
The station was established in 1977 as an affiliate of GMA Network under the call letters DXSS. In 1988, it changed its call letters to DXIP. In 1994, after it severed ties with GMA, it rebranded as Radyo Alarma. It was part of the Bantay Radyo network from 2006 to 2009, when it went off the air.
References
Radio stations in Davao City
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1977
Radio stations disestablished in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Davis%20%28disambiguation%29 | Terry A. Davis (1969–2018) was an American programmer who created and designed the operating system TempleOS.
Terry Davis may also refer to:
Terry Davis (American football), American football player
Terry Davis (author) (born 1947), American novelist
Terry Davis (basketball) (born 1967), American former professional basketball player
Terry Davis (politician) (born 1938), British Labour Party politician and Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Terry Davis (priest), Dean of St George's Cathedral, Georgetown, Guyana
Terry Davis (rower) (born 1958), Australian rower and beverage industry executive
Terry Acebo Davis (born 1953), Filipino-American artist and nurse
See also
Terence Davis (born 1997), American basketball player
Terry Davies (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20Sports%20Spectacular | CBS Sports Spectacular is a sports anthology television program that is produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network in the United States. The series began on January 3, 1960, as The CBS Sports Spectacular, and has been known under many different names, including CBS Sports Saturday, CBS Sports Sunday, Eye on Sports and The CBS Sports Show.
The program continues to air on an irregular basis on weekend afternoons, especially during the late spring and summer months. Normally it airs pre-recorded "time-buy" sports events produced by outside companies, such as supercross or skiing competitions, or sponsored documentaries.
Hosts
Hosts of the program have included John "Bud" Palmer, Jack Whitaker, Brent Musburger, Pat Summerall, Jim Kelly, Dick Stockton, Tim Brant, John Tesh, Greg Gumbel, Pat O'Brien, Andrea Joyce, and Michele Tafoya.
Under its current format, the program does not have a regular host.
Sports featured
The earliest surviving telecast may be of the Twin 100 qualifying races before the second Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in 1960. NASCAR has a kinescope of it. In 1994, CBS had a new series of boxing bouts on Saturday or Sundays under the Eye on Sports banner. Tim Ryan (blow-by-blow) and Gil Clancy (color) were the commentators during this period. CBS continued airing boxing on a somewhat regular basis until 1998, by which time they had the NFL (after acquiring the American Football Conference package from NBC) and college football back on their slate. As of early 2020, the series airs mainly on the CBS Sports Network.
Currently, the most frequent sports that have been featured are the PBR Bull Riding series, the Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series and Major League Fishing. Other events include the Deer Valley Celebrity Skifest, the Arete Awards for Courage in Sports, Year in Review shows and various documentaries. In 2018, it carried the first and only edition of the Gamers' Choice Awards.
By 2008, this was a partial list of the events that were featured:
Tennis: Sony Ericsson Open
Tennis: Cincinnati Masters
Tennis: Penn Pilot Open
Snowboarding: Jeep 48Straight Championships
Freestyle Skiing: Jeep 48Straight Championships
Track & Field: Reebok Grand Prix (from New York)
Action Sports World Championships
Memorable moments
1960 Monaco Grand Prix (which took place on May 29) is broadcast on June 11. This was first broadcast of the Monaco Grand Prix in the United States.
1973 Tennis – Bobby Riggs defeats Margaret Court 6–2, 6–1 on Mother's Day in first Battle of the Sexes match.
1977 World's Strongest Man – The inaugural event featured the likes of Bruce Wilhelm, Lou Ferrigno and Ken Patera
1978 Belmont Stakes – Affirmed defeated Alydar to become the final horse racing Triple Crown winner until American Pharoah in 2015.
1979 Daytona 500 – The first 500-mile race to be broadcast in its entirety live on national television in the United States.
Game 6 of the 1980 Stanley Cup Finals – The Ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%20group | Hacker groups are informal communities that began to flourish in the early 1980s, with the advent of the home computer.
Overview
Prior to that time, the term hacker was simply a referral to any computer hobbyist. The hacker groups were out to make names for themselves, and were often spurred on by their own press. This was a heyday of hacking, at a time before there was much law against computer crime. Hacker groups provided access to information and resources, and a place to learn from other members. Hackers could also gain credibility by being affiliated with an elite group. The names of hacker groups often parody large corporations, governments, police and criminals; and often used specialized orthography.
See also
List of hacker groups
References
Underground computer groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wedding%20Bells | The Wedding Bells is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on Fox from March 7 to April 6, 2007. The series was greenlighted after the network became interested in a series centered on wedding planners. The network approached David E. Kelley to create the show, and he essentially remade a rejected pilot he created for ABC in 2004 entitled DeMarco Affairs which starred Selma Blair, Lindsay Sloane, and Sabrina Lloyd as three sisters who inherit a wedding planner service. Though the show had a moderately strong premiere, it faded in the ratings and was cancelled after seven episodes had been produced and five episodes were aired.
Plot
The Bell sisters, Annie (KaDee Strickland), Jane (Teri Polo) and Sammy Bell (Sarah Jones), inherited "The Wedding Palace" after their parents' divorce. David Conlon (Michael Landes), photographer for The Wedding Palace and ex-boyfriend of Annie's whose tension-filled dealings with her are clearly the result of pent-up sexual chemistry; and Russell Hawkins (Benjamin King), Jane's husband and the company COO; round off the cast.
Then there's wedding singer Ralph Snow (Chris Williams), who always aspired to be the next Lenny Kravitz, but instead is stuck crooning endless cover songs and retro medleys for unappreciative wedding guests. Amanda Pontell (Missi Pyle) adds to the frenzied scene as a former bridezilla client who becomes a board member of The Wedding Palace.
B-plots through the brief run of the series
The relationship between Wedding Palace assistant Debbie (Sherri Shepherd) and another wedding singer (Cleavant Derricks in a recurring role). Her biological clock is ticking and he is cautious about getting married again, as his first marriage ended badly.
The very rich (but socially awkward) Amanda Pontell's efforts to fit in with the three Bell sisters.
Sammy Bell's (Sarah Jones) efforts to be seen as a whole woman, not just as a sexy woman.
Sibling rivalry between Jane (Teri Polo) and Annie (KaDee Strickland) -- there is a history of Jane's boyfriends becoming attracted to Annie—and Jane and Sammy—Sammy has read in Jane's diary that Jane is jealous of Sammy's breasts.
Had the series gone on, another secondary plot might have been about Russell's efforts to franchise the Wedding Palace. Christopher Rich played a potential investor with Las Vegas connections in the last aired episode.
A couple of episodes had Heather Tom and Nicholle Tom as buxom blonde sisters who would crash weddings. Debbie would inevitably throw them out.
Cast
KaDee Strickland as Annie Bell
Teri Polo as Jane Bell
Sarah Jones as Sammy Bell
Michael Landes as David Conlon
Benjamin King as Russell Hawkins
Chris Williams as Ralph Snow
Missi Pyle as Amanda Pontell
Costas Mandylor as Ernesto
Sherri Shepherd as Debbie Quill
Episodes
Reception
The first two episodes of The Wedding Bells garnered poor reviews and low ratings. Critics cited the superficial relationships between the sisters as a weakness. Some claim that Kelley |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saints%20%26%20Sinners%20%282007%20TV%20series%29 | Saints & Sinners is a telenovela which premiered on March 14, 2007 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on the American television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced this limited-run serial, based on the a 2000 TV Azteca telenovela titled La Calle de las Novias (Brides’ Avenue). Two hour installments aired on Wednesday evenings through April, when the show moved to a one-hour slot on Wednesdays at 9 p.m.
The network dropped the serial from its time after the July 18, 2007 broadcast. Most episodes were left unaired in the U.S.
All 65 episodes aired overseas, and as of 2021, the entire series can now be seen on TubiTV.
Story
This modern-day Romeo-and-Juliet story revolves around two Miami Beach families – the Capshaws and the Martins – who are plagued by a long, bitter rivalry. Julia Capshaw (Tyler Kain) falls is in love with Roman Martin (Scott Bailey), the man accused of killing her father. They find themselves caught between their feuding hotel-owner families, who will stop at nothing to succeed. Meanwhile, a handsome stranger who works for the DEA poses as a priest Marcus Pitt. But a darker force is at work. A powerful drug-running kingpin nicknamed "The Guerrero", has not only murdered Julia Capshaw's father Howard, but is on the loose and killing more people every day. The climax of the series features Julia and Roman finally reuniting just in time to unmask the Guerrero, who turns out to be Roman's mother, Diana Martin.
Mel Harris plays Sylvia Capshaw, Julia's mother. María Conchita Alonso and Charles Shaughnessy play Roman's parents, Diana (who was secretly "the Guerrero" and made Bo Derek's character from Fashion House, Maria Gianni, look like a saint) and August Martin. Natalie Martinez plays their daughter, Pilar Martin. Robin Givens plays Kelly Dodd, a New York City fashion designer who develops a crush on Roman. Michael Duvert and Joe Tabbanella are also in the cast.
Initially, the Capshaw and the Martin clans were named the Oliveras and the Mazzonis. In the Mexican original, they were the Sánchez and Mendoza families. Joe Tabbanella played Marco Manetti on another MyNetworkTV telenovela, Desire, while Natalie Martinez portrayed Michelle Miller on MyNetworkTV's Fashion House.
Development
The limited-run serial was originally intended to run in syndication as A Dangerous Love under the "Secret Obsessions" umbrella title. Next, MyNetworkTV planned to air 65 one-hour episodes on weekdays with a Saturday night recap. Then the network, facing low ratings, decided to cut back on telenovelas and cancel them.
Initially, new episodes ran on Wednesday nights as a two-hour block, then were cut to one hour per week. While MyNetworkTV stopped development on future telenovelas, Saints and Sinners had already finished shooting before the decision was announced. This show's final broadcast marks the end of the new network's experiment with serialized dramas.
While the show is set in Florida, it was filmed at Stu Segall Productions in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putrajaya%20Sentral | Putrajaya Sentral is a bus hub and a train station on the Express Rail Link (ERL) in Presint 7, Putrajaya, Malaysia. It is served by the ERL KLIA Transit Line under the name Putrajaya & Cyberjaya. On 16 March 2023, the MRT Putrajaya Line began operations under the name Putrajaya Sentral.
Putrajaya Sentral also comprises other multimodal transport services apart from the ERL & MRT stations, which includes the unfinished Putrajaya Monorail station (abandoned as of now), a taxi centre, and a bus hub (currently utilised by RapidKL and Nadi Putra buses) that has city buses serving Putrajaya, express buses serving the city and scheduled intercity buses. The station complex also contains a couple of restaurants and shops selling clothes.
In the future, it will be integrated with the proposed Putrajaya Monorail.
Station layout
A common concourse exists for both the KLIA Transit platforms and the Putrajaya Monorail platforms. The new MRT station is located on the eastern side of the complex and is connected to the main building via a pedestrian walkway.
Gallery
Bus services
Express bus and shuttle to Heriot-Watt University Malaysia branch remain located in Terminal B.
Trunk and Feeder Buses
All trunk and feeder buses are located in Terminal D near the MRT station. With the opening of the MRT Putrajaya Line, five feeder buses also began operating linking the station with areas in Putrajaya. Bus route 503 (Causeway Link) and all BET buses were terminated as of 2023.
Direct Buses
Additional bus services are available with the limited trial period and available during peak hours on weekdays.
References
Express Rail Link
Rapid transit stations in Putrajaya |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowhere-zero%20flow | In graph theory, a nowhere-zero flow or NZ flow is a network flow that is nowhere zero. It is intimately connected (by duality) to coloring planar graphs.
Definitions
Let G = (V,E) be a digraph and let M be an abelian group. A map φ: E → M is an M-circulation if for every vertex v ∈ V
where δ+(v) denotes the set of edges out of v and δ−(v) denotes the set of edges into v. Sometimes, this condition is referred to as Kirchhoff's law.
If φ(e) ≠ 0 for every e ∈ E, we call φ a nowhere-zero flow, an M-flow, or an NZ-flow. If k is an integer and 0 < |φ(e)| < k then φ is a k-flow.
Other notions
Let G = (V,E) be an undirected graph. An orientation of E is a modular k-flow if for every vertex v ∈ V we have:
Properties
The set of M-flows does not necessarily form a group as the sum of two flows on one edge may add to 0.
(Tutte 1950) A graph G has an M-flow if and only if it has a |M|-flow. As a consequence, a flow exists if and only if a k-flow exists. As a consequence if G admits a k-flow then it admits an h-flow where .
Orientation independence. Modify a nowhere-zero flow φ on a graph G by choosing an edge e, reversing it, and then replacing φ(e) with −φ(e). After this adjustment, φ is still a nowhere-zero flow. Furthermore, if φ was originally a k-flow, then the resulting φ is also a k-flow. Thus, the existence of a nowhere-zero M-flow or a nowhere-zero k-flow is independent of the orientation of the graph. Thus, an undirected graph G is said to have a nowhere-zero M-flow or nowhere-zero k-flow if some (and thus every) orientation of G has such a flow.
Flow polynomial
Let be the number of M-flows on G. It satisfies the deletion–contraction formula:
Combining this with induction we can show is a polynomial in where is the order of the group M. We call the flow polynomial of G and abelian group M.
The above implies that two groups of equal order have an equal number of NZ flows. The order is the only group parameter that matters, not the structure of M. In particular if
The above results were proved by Tutte in 1953 when he was studying the Tutte polynomial, a generalization of the flow polynomial.
Flow-coloring duality
Bridgeless Planar Graphs
There is a duality between k-face colorings and k-flows for bridgeless planar graphs. To see this, let G be a directed bridgeless planar graph with a proper k-face-coloring with colors Construct a map
by the following rule: if the edge e has a face of color x to the left and a face of color y to the right, then let φ(e) = x – y. Then φ is a (NZ) k-flow since x and y must be different colors.
So if G and G* are planar dual graphs and G* is k-colorable (there is a coloring of the faces of G), then G has a NZ k-flow. Using induction on |E(G)| Tutte proved the converse is also true. This can be expressed concisely as:
where the RHS is the flow number, the smallest k for which G permits a k-flow.
General Graphs
The duality is true for general M-flows as well:
Let the be face-color |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WARP%20%28information%20security%29 | Warning, Advice and Reporting Point (WARP) is a community or internal company-based service to share advice and information on computer-based threats and vulnerabilities.
WARPs typically provide:
Warning - A filtered warning service, where subscribers receive alerts and advisory information on only the subjects relevant to them.
Advice - An advice brokering service, where members can ask and respond to questions in a trusted secure environment.
Reporting - Central collection of information on incidents and problems in a trusted secure environment. The collected information may then be anonymised and shared amongst the membership.
On average, WARPs cost much less to set up than a Computer Emergency Response Centre, as in CERT/CC or US-CERT.
See also
Information security management system
British cyber security community
External links
UK WARP Official homepage with downloadable toolbox
Computer security organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON | DRAKON () is a free and open source algorithmic visual programming and modeling language developed as part of the defunct Soviet Union Buran space program in 1986 following the need in increase of software development productivity. The visual language provides a uniform way to represent processes in flowcharts.
There are various implementation of the language specification that may be used to draw and export actual flowcharts. Notable examples include free and open source DRAKON Editor (September 2011).
History
The development of DRAKON started in 1986 to address the emerging risk of misunderstandings - and subsequent errors - between users of different programming languages in the Russian space program. Its development was directed by Vladimir Parondzhanov with the participation of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Academician Pilyugin Center, Moscow) and Russian Academy of Sciences (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics).
The language was constructed by formalization, ergonomization and nonclassical structurization of flowcharts described in the ISO 5807-85 standard and Russian standard «Гост 19.701-90».
The goal was to replace specialized languages used in the Buran project with one universal programming language. Namely PROL2 (ПРОЛ2), used for developing inflight systems software for the computer system Biser-4 (Бисер-4), DIPOL (ДИПОЛЬ), used for developing software for the ground maintenance computer systems) and LAKS (ЛАКС), used for modelling.
The work was finished in 1996 (3 years after the Buran project was officially closed), when an automated CASE programming system called "Grafit-Floks" was developed.
This CASE is used since 1996 in: an international project Sea Launch, Russian orbit insertion upper stage Fregat (Russian: Фрегат, frigate) for onboard control systems and tests, upgraded heavy launch vehicle (carrier rocket) Proton-M.
Overview
The name DRAKON is the Russian acronym for "Дружелюбный Русский Алгоритмический [язык], Который Обеспечивает Наглядность", which translates to "Friendly Russian Algorithmic [language] that illustrates (or provides clarity)".
The word "наглядность" (pronounced approximately as "naa-glya-dno-st-th") refers to a concept or idea being easy to imagine and understand, and may be translated as "clarity".
Unlike UML's philosophy, DRAKON's language philosophy is based on being augmented if needed, by using a hybrid language, which can be illustrated as "incrustating code snippets from text language used into shape DRAKON requires". This way, DRAKON always remains a simple visual language that can be used as an augmentation for a programmer who is interested in making their own project code easier to support or other long-term needs for example improving the ergonomics of the coding process or to making code easier to review and understand.
The DRAKON language can be used both as a modelling/"markup" language (which is considered a standalone "pure DRAKON" program) and as a programming langua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation%20hypothesis | The simulation hypothesis proposes that what humans experience as the world is actually a simulated reality, such as a computer simulation in which humans themselves are constructs. There has been much debate over this topic, ranging from philosophical discourse to practical applications in computing.
The simulation hypothesis, as formulated by Nick Bostrom, is part of a long tradition of skeptical scenarios. It was presented by Bostrom as not merely a philosophical speculation but an empirical claim with quantifiable probabilities. The hypothesis has received criticism from some physicists, such as Sabine Hossenfelder who has called it pseudoscience and cosmologist George F. R. Ellis, who stated that "[the hypothesis] is totally impracticable from a technical viewpoint" and that "Late-night pub discussion is not a viable theory." Versions of the hypothesis have also been featured in science fiction, appearing as a central plot device in many stories and films, such as The Matrix.
Origins
Human history is full of thinkers who observed the difference between how things seem and how they might actually be, with dreams, illusions and hallucinations providing poetic and philosophical metaphors. For example, the "Butterfly Dream" of Zhuangzi from ancient China, or the Indian philosophy of Maya, or in Ancient Greek philosophy Anaxarchus and Monimus likened existing things to a scene-painting and supposed them to resemble the impressions experienced in sleep or madness.
In the Western philosophical tradition, Plato's Allegory of the Cave stands out as an influential example.
Aztec philosophical texts theorized that the world was a painting or book written by the Teotl.
René Descartes' Evil Demon philosophically formalized these epistemic doubts, to be followed by a large literature with subsequent variations like Brain in a Vat.
Simulation Argument
Nick Bostrom's premise:
Nick Bostrom's conclusion:
Expanded Argument
Bostrom attempted to assess the probability of our reality being a simulation. His argument states that at least one of the following statements is very likely to be true:
Human civilization or a comparable civilization is unlikely to reach a level of technological maturity capable of producing simulated realities, or such simulations are physically impossible to construct.
A comparable civilization reaching aforementioned technological status will likely not produce a significant number of simulated realities (one that might push the probable existence of digital entities beyond the probable number of "real" entities in a Universe) for any of a number of reasons, such as diversion of computational processing power for other tasks, ethical considerations of holding entities captive in simulated realities, etc.
Any entities with our general set of experiences are almost certainly living in a simulation.
Humans are living in a reality in which post-humans have not developed yet, and current humans are actually living in reality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20memory | Environmental memory is the sum of explicit, persistent and structured data of knowledges, models and scientific expertise linked to an environmental observation system to ease long-term access, sharing and reusability of the information.
Diverse environmental memory is embedded in different regions and this "spatially distributed environmental memory" can be shared via interpersonal networks and social learning.
The open-source project Emios is an implementation of environmental memory.
References
Environmental data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20games%20and%20Linux | The operating system Linux can be used for playing video games. Because many games are not natively supported for the Linux kernel, various software has been made to run Windows games, such as Wine, Cedega, and Proton, and managers such as Lutris and PlayOnLinux. The Linux gaming community has a presence on the internet with users who attempt to run games that are normally not supported on Linux.
History
Linux gaming started largely as an extension of the already present Unix gaming scene, which dates back to that system's conception in 1969 with the game Space Travel and the first edition in 1971, with both systems sharing many similar titles. These games were mostly either arcade and parlour type games or text adventures using libraries like curses. A notable example of this are the "BSD Games", a collection of interactive fiction and other text-mode amusements. The free software philosophy and open source methodology which drove the development of the operating system in general also spawned the creation of various early free games.
Popular early titles included Netrek and the various XAsteroids, XBattle, XBill, XBoing, X-Bomber, XConq, XDigger, XEmeraldia, XEvil, XGalaga, XGammon, XLander, XLife, XMahjong, XMine, XSoldier, XPilot, XRobots, XRubiks, XShogi, XScavenger, XTris, XTron, XTic and XTux games using the X Window System. Other games targeted or also supported the SVGAlib library allowing them to run without a windowing system, such as LinCity, Maelstrom, and SABRE. As the operating system itself grew and expanded, the amount of free and open-source games also increased in scale and complexity, with both clones of historically popular releases beginning with BZFlag, LinCity, and FreeCiv, as well as original creations such as Rocks'n'Diamonds, Cube, The Battle for Wesnoth, and Tux Racer.
1994–1997
The beginning of Linux as a gaming platform for commercial video games is widely credited to have begun in 1994 when Dave D. Taylor ported the game Doom to Linux, as well as many other systems, during his spare time. Shareware copies of the game were included on various Linux discs, including those packed in with reference books. From there Taylor would also help found the development studio Crack dot Com, which released the video game Abuse, with the game's Linux port even being distributed by Linux vendors Red Hat and Caldera. The studio's never finished Golgotha was also slated to be released by Red Hat in box. Ancient Domains of Mystery was also released for Linux in 1994 by Thomas Biskup, building on the roguelike legacy of games such as Moria and its descendent Angband, but more specifically Hack and NetHack.
id Software, the original developers of Doom, also continued to release their products for Linux. Their game Quake was ported to Linux via X11 in 1996, once again by Dave D. Taylor working in his free time. An SVGALib version was also later produced by Greg Alexander in 1997 using recently leaked source code, but was later m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV%20Vaccine%20Trials%20Network | The HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) is a non-profit organization which connects physicians and scientists with activists and community educators for the purpose of conducting clinical trials seeking a safe and effective HIV vaccine. Collaboratively, researchers and laypeople review potential vaccines for safety, immune response, and efficacy. The HVTN is a network for testing vaccines, and while its members may also work in vaccine development for other entities, the mission of the HVTN does not include vaccine design.
The HVTN is the only HIV vaccine research network sponsored by the American government. It also manages the only large-scale HIV vaccine research trial network in Africa. The HVTN collaborates with the Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (DAIDS). Funding comes from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and National Institutes of Health, which oversee DAIDS. HVTN is headquartered at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. The vaccines being tested come from various producers, both commercial and non-profit.
Community involvement
Typically, researchers conduct clinical research on human subjects by asking volunteers to give informed consent to participate in an experiment by taking drugs that have not always been proven safe or effective in humans, though their safety has been tested (usually in animals) prior to any human trials. At the HVTN, many current vaccine studies are using products with a safety record that has been established in previous human trials.
The Nuremberg Code, the Declaration of Helsinki, and the Belmont Report are legal documents written in layman's terms which local governments use to model their laws for establishing rules for conducting clinical trials, and all contemporary clinical trials of international worth follow all the rules set by these precedents.
However, HIV vaccine research requires more than just these protections, and because of this, from the inception of their research the HVTN has instituted a "community advisory board" (CAB) system in addition to the usual controls. The CAB is similar to an Institutional Review Board (IRB) in that the researchers facilitate the granting of public data to both entities, but the difference is that the IRB consists of a professional ethics committee and the CAB consists of any community member who wants to supervise the safety, ethics, efficacy, or any other aspect of the research.
The researchers of the HVTN deemed the creation of the CAB necessary for HIV vaccine research when it has not been necessary for other clinical research because the HIV epidemic is especially urgent, new research techniques are available now that did not exist before recent major advances in genetic engineering, the public is generally overly-willing to volunteer to receive experimental vaccines for this cause, and yet the educational infrastructure already in place to disseminate information about the inherent risk in participa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Staff%20Record | The Electronic Staff Record or ESR is an Oracle-based human resources and payroll database system currently used by 586 units of the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Wales to manage the payroll for 1.2 million NHS staff members. The Electronic Staff Record application is managed by IBM for the NHS.
Implementation
Starting in 2006, groups of around 50 units were implemented every two months. Implementation of ESR was completed in March 2008 when the last of twelve groups went live.
The implementation of ESR is one of the largest I.T. implementations in the world and replaced 29 payroll systems and approximately 38 human resources systems used throughout the NHS. The NHS is fifth largest employer in the world as of March 2012.
Supported versions of software to access ESR
The ESR solution is based on Oracle's e-Business suite R12 which is certified to run with most Windows desktop operating systems currently supported by Microsoft. In general Oracle's certification of third party client operating systems and browser products are aligned to the respective vendor's lifetime support cycle.
Access to ESR is tested and supported on an ongoing basis against the following versions of software :-
Windows 7 (32-bit)
Internet Explorer version 8
Microsoft Office 2010
JRE version 1.6.0_39
Flashplayer 10.3
Accepting that user organisations may wish to run more up to date versions of these software components, they are recommended to run at least one “Base” workstation on the supported levels above. The Base workstation should then be used to replicate any ESR access issues, before an access related support call is logged on the ESR Service Desk. The ESR Support Team will then work with the site to resolve the access issue on the Base workstation.
References
External links
ESR Official Web Site
National Health Service Official Web Site
National Health Service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20wind%20%28disambiguation%29 | Solar wind is a stellar phenomenon of the Sun
Solar wind may also refer to:
Stellar wind, gas ejected from the atmosphere of stars
Solar Winds, a computer game
SolarWinds, a network management software company
Solar Winds hack, a nickname for the 2020 United States federal government data breach, in which the network management company was a target
Solar Wind (comic), a British comic
Hearing Solar Winds, an album of composer David Hykes
"Solar Wind", a song by Snowkel which is also the second ending theme for Japanese anime series Kiba
Solar Wind (album), a 1974 album by pianist Ramsey Lewis
See also
Stellar wind (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorvas%20railway%20station | Jorvas railway station is a railway halt on the Helsinki Commuter Rail network located in the town of Kirkkonummi, Finland, between the Masala and Tolsa stations. The station is served by Helsinki Commuter Rail lines L, U and X. The train station has two staggered platforms. Westbound trains to Kirkkonummi use track one, while eastbound trains to Helsinki use track two.
Connections
U-line trains (Helsinki-Kirkkonummi-Helsinki)
L-Line trains (Helsinki-Kirkkonummi-Helsinki, nighttime)
References
Railway stations in Uusimaa
Kirkkonummi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANIAC%20III | The MANIAC III (Mathematical Analyzer Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer Model III) was a second-generation electronic computer (i.e., using solid-state electronics rather than vacuum tubes), built in 1961 for use at the Institute for Computer Research at the University of Chicago.
It was designed by Nicholas Metropolis and constructed by the staff of the Institute for Computer Research. Its design was changed to eliminate vacuum tubes, thus it occupied a very small part of a very large and powerfully air-conditioned room. It used 20,000 diodes, 12,000 transistors, and had 16K 48-bit words of magnetic-core memory. Its floating-point multiplication time was 71 microseconds, and division time was 81 microseconds.
The MANIAC III's most novel feature was unnormalized significance arithmetic floating point. This allowed users to determine the change in precision of results due to the nature of the computation.
It weighed about .
References
1961 BRL report
See also
MANIAC I
MANIAC II
One-of-a-kind computers
48-bit computers
Transistorized computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LittleBigPlanet%20%282008%20video%20game%29 | LittleBigPlanet is a 2008 platform game developed by Media Molecule and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. The first game of the LittleBigPlanet franchise, the player character is Sackboy, a brown ragged doll with the ability to create. The level editor is the main focus of the game, allowing the player to create levels and publish them online. The premade levels in the story mode are built around Sackboy's basic control scheme. They are grouped into areas, each centring around a theme. The story mode revolves around Sackboy helping various Creator Curators around LittleBigPlanet before facing the Collector, who has been kidnapping and stealing creations.
Media Molecule was formed by four former Lionhead Studios employees after the release of Rag Doll Kung Fu (2005). The concept of a game that allowed the player to be creatively ambitious for the console was envisioned after a movie trip to Howl's Moving Castle. After a prototype called Craftworld was created in 2006, it was pitched to Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison. Harrison lauded the concept and agreed to fund the project. LittleBigPlanet was first announced by Harrison at Game Developers Conference 2006. After a marketing campaign and beta access, the game was slated for release in October 2008. After being delayed for a week to remove in-game song lyrics that could be offensive, it was ultimately released worldwide between late October to early November 2008.
LittleBigPlanet was met with universal acclaim and was nominated for and won many awards. Praise went to the gameplay, creative, and community aspects of the game. While sales initially dwindled for LittleBigPlanet, the game was ultimately a commercial success; reaching four million sales. It is considered among the greatest video games of all time. It is noted for its influence in the play, create, share genre. Although there were initially no plans to release a sequel, LittleBigPlanet became a franchise with LittleBigPlanet 2, spin-offs and LittleBigPlanet 3 and Sackboy became a mascot for Sony. The release of LittleBigPlanet coincided with the rise of user-generated content and helped launched a genre of level-editing games. Its online functionality was discontinued on 13 September 2021, alongside services for LittleBigPlanet 2, LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, and the PlayStation 3 version of LittleBigPlanet 3.
Gameplay
LittleBigPlanet is a physics-based platform game that is designed around the tagline "Play. Create. Share". The player can play the levels in the game, create levels, and share them online. The pod, which takes the form of a cardboard ship, serves as a hub to these options. The ability to play other levels is on the planet known as "LittleBigPlanet", where story mode and published levels are available. The level editor is on MyMoon, which also allows the player to publish levels onto LittleBigPlanet. The player character is a brown rag doll named "Sackbo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabenna | Tabenna is a Christian community founded in Upper Egypt around 320 by Saint Pachomius. It was the motherhouse of a network which, at his death in 346, already had nine establishments for men and two for women in the same region, with two or three thousand "Tabennesites". Considered the first major model of cenobitic monasticism in the Christian Church.
Name and location
Tabenna (also Tabennae, Tabennisi, Tabennesi, Tabennese) is a Coptic name. The name and location of this monastery have long been the subject of great uncertainty. In the various manuscripts of the Lausiac History of Palladios (§ 32), the following Greek forms are found: Ταϐέννησις, Ταϐέννησος, Ταϐενίσιος and Ταϐένη. In Sozomene (III, 14), one manuscript gives (correctly) “έν Ταϐεννήσῳ”, but another incorrectly reads “έν Ταϐέννη νήσῳ” in two words (with the word νῆσος, “island”). It is apparently that this cacography inspired Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos (fl. 14th century) the following phrase: "ἔν τινι νήσῳ, ἣ Ταϐέννη ώνόμαστο", "in a certain island called Tabenne". Hence comes the tradition according to which the monastery was installed on an island, which in fact does not appear in any ancient document. In Coptic manuscripts, the forms are as follows: Tabennêsi (the most frequent), Tabênise, Tabnêse, Tabsinêse, Tabsênisi and others. In the Arabic texts: Tabanessin, Tafnis, Tafânis, Tafnasa, and also Dounasa are found. In Latin, the form Tabennen is found in the Latin Life of Pachomius by Dionysius Exiguus. As for the derivative designating the occupants of the place, in Greek it takes the forms Ταϐεννησιώτης, Ταϐινισιώτης, Ταϐισιώτης; in Latin Tabennensis (with the usual suffix -ensis), Tabennesiota (tracing from Greek), Tabennensiota (mixture of the two).
History
Starting as an abandoned village along the Nile river, the monastery at Tabennese is considered to be the first cenobitic monastery and is credited with sparking the Pachomian monastic movement. One day while collecting wood at this village, it is said that Pachomius was shown a vision that told him to build a monastery at this location. The monks at Tabennese first built a church for the village itself. As the village grew, they went on to build a church for themselves. This all began as a sort of communal experiment that quickly became overpopulated. Not only would the monastery go on to be formed there, but it also turned into a sprawling village that was separate from the monastery itself. Although sprawling, it rarely attracted the visitation of pilgrims as it was so remote. Regardless of this, it did not fail to draw the attention of local authorities. There are records of Tabennese taxation from the Hermopolite nome that were dated 367 C.E. Although Tabennese was located within the Tentyrite nome, the Hermopolite nome, which was a considerable distance away, was responsible for taxation of its land. In the fall of 329, the monks were visited by the new archbishop Athanasius of Alexandria, who ordained |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Corera | Gordon Corera (born 1974) is a British author and journalist. He is the BBC's Security Correspondent and specializes in computer technology.
Early life
Corera was born in London; his father was from the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India and his mother is German. The family has a home near Cavelossim, in the state of Goa in western India, which he says he has a deep affection for, and visits regularly.
Education
Corera was educated at University College School, an independent school for boys in Hampstead in northwest London, followed by St Peter's College at the University of Oxford, where he studied Modern History, followed by graduate studies in US foreign policy at Harvard University.
Life and career
Corera worked on the re-election campaign of President Bill Clinton. He joined the BBC in 1997 as a researcher and later became a reporter. He has worked on Radio 4's The World Tonight, BBC2's Newsnight, and worked in the US as the BBC's State Department correspondent and as an analyst for the BBC's coverage of the 2000 US presidential election. In 2001 he became the foreign reporter for Radio 4's Today programme. He was appointed BBC News' security correspondent in 2004.
Corera presented the 2009 Radio 4 programme MI6: A Century in the Shadows, a three-part history of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service.
Books
Corera wrote The Art of Betrayal: Life and Death in the British Secret Service (Orion 2011) about MI6, and Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network (September 2006) , about Abdul Qadeer Khan and Pakistan's nuclear programme.
He wrote Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies, also Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage.
Corera wrote the introduction to Omar Nasiri's book Inside the Jihad: My Life with al Qaeda, a Spy's story.
Corera most recently wrote Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putins Spies. The book covers the FBI and CIA investigation into the Russian Illegals programs.
References
External links
Audio discussion with Gordon Corera, ABC New South Wales, Australia
Journalisted - Articles by Gordon Corera
Living people
Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford
BBC newsreaders and journalists
British male journalists
People educated at University College School
Harvard University alumni
1974 births
British people of Tamil descent
British people of Portuguese descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTN | PTN may refer to:
Harry P. Williams Memorial Airport (IATA/FAA code PTN)
Paramount Television Network (1948–1956), U.S.
Partido Trabalhista Nacional (National Labour Party) - a mid-ranking party of the Fourth Brazilian Republic, best known as the party of Jânio Quadros from 1954 to 1965
Partido Trabalhista Nacional (National Labor Party), former name of Podemos (Brazil)
Pleiotrophin, a protein |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Intelligence%20%28John%20Cale%20album%29 | Artificial Intelligence is the tenth solo studio album by the Welsh rock musician John Cale, released on 6 September 1985 by Beggars Banquet Records.
Background and recording
Artificial Intelligence was originally titled Black Rose. The title and some changes to the tracks delayed the album being released for five weeks.
Having produced Nico's sixth and final studio album Camera Obscura (1985), Cale recorded this album in three weeks at Strongroom Studios with her backing band, the Faction, with a couple of additional musicians. The duo of Gill O'Donovan and
Susie O'List who performed backing vocals on this album had previously performed backing vocals on tours with Eurythmics.
Following the chaotic period during which the album (and the previous two) were recorded, John and Risé Irushalmi Cale's daughter Eden was born, which promptly caused Cale to kick his addictions to alcohol and cocaine, and to temporarily abandon recording studio albums and performing live in favour of other projects (until 1989's Words for the Dying).
Release
Artificial Intelligence was released on 6 September 1985 by Beggars Banquet Records. "Dying on the Vine" was released as a single in the UK and "Satellite Walk" (Remix by Carl Beatty) in the UK and Germany. The otherwise unavailable instrumental track "Crash Course in Harmonics" on the B-side of "Dying on the Vine".
Critical reception
In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic Stewart Mason described the album as "an encouraging partial return to form." Trouser Press wrote: "Moody and contained, but energetic and occasionally stimulating, A.I. is a reasonable if unspectacular addition to Cale’s extensive catalogue."
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Artificial Intelligence liner notes.
Musicians
John Cale – vocals; bass guitar; guitar; keyboards; viola
David Young – guitar
James Young – keyboards
Graham Dowdall – percussion
Gill O'Donovan – backing vocals
Susie O'List – backing vocals
Production and artwork
John Cale – producer
David Young – associate producer
Dennis P. Nechvatal – design; artwork from the painting Warrior
Karin Preus – artwork; graphics
Phil Bodger – mixing; recording
Alan Jakoby – recording
See also
List of albums released in 1985
John Cale's discography
References
External links
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Albums produced by John Cale
Beggars Banquet Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViEWER | ViEWER, the Virtual Environment Workbench for Education and Research, is a proprietary, freeware computer program for Microsoft Windows written by researchers at the University of Idaho for the study of visual perception and complex immersive three-dimensional environments.
It was created using C++ and OpenGL, and has been used by Dr. Brian Dyre, Dr. Steffen Werner, Dr. Ernesto Bustamante, Dr. Ben Barton, and their undergraduate and graduate researchers in visual perception, signal detection, and child-safety experiments.
References
External links
, Archived
Graphics software
Scientific simulation software
Windows graphics-related software
Science software for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURIE | In computing, a CURIE (or Compact URI) defines a generic, abbreviated syntax for expressing Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). It is an abbreviated URI expressed in a compact syntax, and may be found in both XML and non-XML grammars. A CURIE may be considered a datatype.
An example of CURIE syntax: [isbn:0393315703]
The square brackets may be used to prevent ambiguities between CURIEs and regular URIs, yielding so-called safe CURIEs.
QNames (the namespace prefixes used in XML) often are used as a CURIE, and may be considered a type of CURIE. CURIEs, as defined by the W3C, will be better defined and may include checking. Unlike QNames, the part of a CURIE after the colon does not need to conform to the rules for XML element names.
The first W3C Working Draft of CURIE syntax was released 7 March 2007.
The final recommendation was released 16 December 2010.
Example
This example is based on one from the W3C Working Draft 7 March 2007, using a QName syntax within XHTML.
<head>...</head>
<body>
<p>
Find out more about <a href="">biomes</a>.
</p>
</body>
</html>
The definition ("<html xmlns:wikipedia="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/">") is highlighted in yellow
The CURIE ("[wikipedia:Biome]") is highlighted in green
See also
QName
Notation3
RDF/XML
Turtle (syntax)
References
External links
W3C Candidate Recommendation 16 January 2009
World Wide Web Consortium standards
Computer-related introductions in 2009
URI schemes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago%20Library%20System | The Santiago Library System (SLS) is a state-funded network of nine public library jurisdictions and two associate member libraries in Orange County, California. The system seeks "to promote cooperation and coordination of library collections and services so as to meet the informational, educational, cultural and recreational needs of all residents of the Orange County area."
History
First 40 years
On October 14, 1969, the Orange County Cooperative Library System was formed. Twenty years later on December 29, 1989, the Orange County Cooperative Library System was converted into a California Library Services Act agency and renamed the Santiago Library System.
The SLS was a cooperative arrangement designed to maximize resources by providing programs and services jointly where it is mutually beneficial to the local population.
An important SLS role was facilitating the sharing of local collections by providing delivery of materials among the nine member libraries. The System enhanced the reference capabilities of these libraries by furnishing additional resources and expertise when needed to meet patrons' requests. SLS presented workshops, arranged staff training programs, and aided in the development of additional reference tools and services.
Dissolution
On July 1, 2009, SLS and the Metropolitan Cooperative Library System (MCLS) of Los Angeles County were combined and renamed the Southern California Library Cooperative (SCLC). The web site lists staff directories, committee meeting dates, publications, useful links and upcoming workshops. The Reference Center, with offices at the Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library, provides member libraries with second-level reference support services.
Restoration
On June 30, 2013, the former SLS members withdrew from SCLC and reestablished SLS. The Huntington Beach Public Library and the Orange County Public Law Library joined SLS as associate members.
The reconstituted SLS seeks "to promote cooperation and coordination of library collections and services so as to meet the informational, educational, cultural and recreational needs of all residents of the Orange County area."
Members
The nine original members of SLS also joined the reconstituted SLS:
Anaheim Public Library
Buena Park Library District
Fullerton Public Library
Mission Viejo Public Library
Newport Beach Public Library
Orange County Public Libraries (county library system)
Orange Public Library (city library)
Placentia Library District
Santa Ana Public Library
Yorba Linda Public Library
Upon its reestablishment in 2013, SLS gained two associate member libraries:
Huntington Beach Public Library
Orange County Public Law Library
References
External links
Santiago Library System
Southern California Library Cooperative
Member libraries
Anaheim Public Library
Buena Park Library District
Fullerton Public Library
Huntington Beach Public Library
Mission Viejo Public Library
Newport Beach Public Library
Orange County Public Li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element%20name | Element name may refer to:
A data element name in a database
A name of a chemical element (Chemical_element#Element_names)
See also
Systematic element name
List of chemical elements
List of chemical element name etymologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame%20%28artificial%20intelligence%29 | Frames are an artificial intelligence data structure used to divide knowledge into substructures by representing "stereotyped situations". They were proposed by Marvin Minsky in his 1974 article "A Framework for Representing Knowledge". Frames are the primary data structure used in artificial intelligence frame languages; they are stored as ontologies of sets.
Frames are also an extensive part of knowledge representation and reasoning schemes. They were originally derived from semantic networks and are therefore part of structure-based knowledge representations. According to Russell and Norvig's Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, structural representations assemble "[...]facts about particular objects and event types and arrange the types into a large taxonomic hierarchy analogous to a biological taxonomy".
Frame structure
The frame contains information on how to use the frame, what to expect next, and what to do when these expectations are not met. Some information in the frame is generally unchanged while other information, stored in "terminals", usually change. Terminals can be considered as variables. Top-level frames carry information, that is always true about the problem in hand, however, terminals do not have to be true. Their value might change with the new information encountered. Different frames may share the same terminals.
Each piece of information about a particular frame is held in a slot. The information can contain:
Facts or Data
Values (called facets)
Procedures (also called procedural attachments)
IF-NEEDED: deferred evaluation
IF-ADDED: updates linked information
Default Values
For Data
For Procedures
Other Frames or Subframes
Features and advantages
A frame's terminals are already filled with default values, which is based on how the human mind works. For example, when a person is told "a boy kicks a ball", most people will visualize a particular ball (such as a familiar soccer ball) rather than imagining some abstract ball with no attributes.
One particular strength of frame-based knowledge representations is that, unlike semantic networks, they allow for exceptions in particular
instances. This gives frames a degree of flexibility that allows representations to reflect real-world phenomena more accurately.
Like semantic networks, frames can be queried using spreading activation. Following the rules of inheritance, any value given to a slot that is inherited by subframes will be updated (IF-ADDED) to the corresponding slots in the subframes and any new instances of a particular frame will feature that new value as the default.
Because frames are based on structures, it is possible to generate a semantic network given a set of frames even though it lacks explicit arcs. References to Noam Chomsky and his generative grammar of 1950 are generally missing from Minsky's work.
The simplified structures of frames allow for easy analogical reasoning, a much prized feature in any intelligent agent. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20SystemPro | The SystemPro from Compaq, released in November 1989, is a computer capable of running server-based computer operating systems and was arguably the first true PC based server. It supports Intel's 486 chip, a 32-bit bus, RAID disk and dual-processor support well before its main rivals.
Features
The SystemPro, along with the simultaneously released Compaq Deskpro 486, was one of the first two commercially available computer systems containing the new EISA bus. The SystemPro was also one of the first PC-style systems specifically designed as a network server, and as such was built from the ground up to take full advantage of the EISA bus. It included such features as multiprocessing (the original systems were asymmetric-only), hardware RAID, and bus-mastering network cards. All models of SystemPro used a full-height tower configuration, with eight internal hard drive bays. As well as the provision for an 80387 maths coprocessor chip, the processor card also included a socket for a Weitek maths coprocessor chip. Support for the Weitek function needed to be especially provided in the application, it did not use the same instruction set as the 80387 chip. The Weitek socket (empty) is the multi-pin triple-row socket to the right on the CPU-board closeup.
Multiprocessing
At its initial release in November 1989, the SystemPro supported up to two 33 MHz 386 processors, but early in 1990, 33 MHz 486 processors became an option (the processors were housed on proprietary daughterboards). Because the system was asymmetric, 386 and 486 processors could be mixed. Single processor configurations were also available.
The only operating system which fully supported the SystemPro's asymmetric multiprocessing was a custom version of SCO Unix, sold by Compaq. However, when running OS/2, certain applications (notably Sybase SQL Server) could be offloaded to the second processor, and later, Novell NetWare SFT-III was able to offload its I/O engine. The original versions of Windows NT (3.1) included a hardware abstraction layer specifically for the SystemPro; despite NT's symmetric multiprocessing design, this HAL could offload some kernel tasks to the second CPU. This made Windows NT 3.1 the only version of Windows to support multiprocessor 386-based machines.
System/Memory Architecture
The system used a state-of-the-art shared memory bus design, called Tri-Flex Architecture, to facilitate its multiprocessing capabilities. The original SystemPro shipped with 4MB 80ns DRAM, expandable up to 256MB using proprietary memory modules.
RAID
The SystemPro also offered one of the first implementations of RAID (including RAID 5) available on a PC-based system. The original RAID card, called the IDA (Intelligent Drive Array) used a proprietary form of IDE, supporting up to 4 drives internally. At its release, the largest drive available was 210 MB. Two IDA cards could be installed, allowing all 8 hard drive bays to be filled (each IDA controller array would appear as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReachMD | ReachMD helps healthcare professionals discover, participate in, and share medical education and clinical information through on demand programming and 24/7 streaming broadcasts. Its content is offered on air, online, and via mobile apps and includes video, audio, slides, and text-based formats. The ReachMD distribution network includes websites and mobile apps of ReachMD, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, Stitcher, iTunes, and more. ReachMD has produced more than 10,000 medical broadcasts featuring clinical research, medical practice, disease management, and patient care strategies.
ReachMD launched on 26 March 2007 and was originally broadcast on XM Satellite radio, brought to XM Satellite in cooperation with Premiere Networks. On December 21, 2011, ReachMD was acquired by US HealthConnect Inc. with the intent to become an Internet Radio broadcaster. Effective October 18, 2013, ReachMD joined Clear Channel's iHeartRadio platform and became exclusively an Internet Radio broadcaster offering its content on air, online, and on mobile devices through Internet platforms. In 2014 ReachMD joined Tunein's platform, and in 2015 it joined Stitcher's platform (both of which are digital radio stations).
Format
ReachMD offers pre-recorded programs in three categories: (1) continuing medical education (CME) content, which offers credit to participating healthcare professionals; (2) editorial content, which is curated by ReachMD's editors and medical staff; and (3) industry features, which are developed by enterprises in the life sciences industry.
ReachMD has more than 60 named series of pre-recorded programs (such as Lipid Luminations and Diabetes Discourse). The channel's original content is produced in the ReachMD headquarters in Fort Washington, PA, or is captured during live medical meetings nationwide.
Disclaimer
ReachMD emphasizes that the channel is made exclusively for medical professionals and not consumers. While website registration is not required to access content, if users register they receive customized content that matches their profession and specialty. Website registration is required to obtain CME or CE credits.
Featured Series
AudioAbstracts: Combining quick-read audio synopses with links to source material, AudioAbstracts is the smarter, faster way to stay current on medical literature.
Book Club: Join ReachMD hosts as they explore various genres in medical literature either for intellectual sustenance or for joy and entertainment.
Clinician's Roundtable: Interviews with the top thought leaders in medicine exploring the clinical and professional issues that are foremost in the minds of the medical community.
Conference Coverage: Conference Coverage brings to life medical conferences from around the world.
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Perspectives: providing the latest information on research, treatments, and management of IBD, produced in collaboration with the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation.
Diabetes Discourse: Features renowned healthcare prof |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travellerspoint | Travellerspoint is a travel and social networking site for people who want to learn from or share experiences with other travellers. Members of the site participate through forums, blogs, photo galleries and a wiki travel guide, similar to Wikivoyage.
Features
Forums: members discuss their travel experiences in several destination and topic related forums.
Travel guide: a custom built wiki in which users can edit information to help assist potential visitors; contributors are able to share in the revenue from advertising, or opt to use their share to lend through Kiva.
Blogs: an integrated blogging system allowing users to post content to their own Travellerspoint subdomain.
Photography: users can upload unlimited photos of their trips; the best photos are manually featured and displayed throughout the site.
Maps: a mapping system that allows users to plot their trip's itinerary on a world map. It is interlinked with the photos and blogs. A user's map integrates their photography and blog entries through geotagging. In March 2007, Travellerspoint travel maps were nominated in the category of 'Best Use of Social Media' for the Travolution Awards.
Travel planner: a travel planning tool that integrates with the above mapping tool; allows the planning of future trips and collaboration with other members.
Travel helpers: an early addition to the Travellerspoint set of services was a Travel Helper system, which allowed members to sign up as travel helpers for any number of countries. There are currently over 3000 travel helpers.
See also
List of social networking websites
References
Australian travel websites
Wiki communities
Internet properties established in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saigon%20Port | Saigon Port is a network of ports in Ho Chi Minh City. It is a major main port for Vietnam (which has six main sea ports), and the only able to handle post-Panamax ships. The port name is derived from the former name of the city. In 2013, it became the 24th busiest container port in the world.
History
Saigon Port played an important role in the foundation and development of the city of Saigon. During the era of French Indochina, the port played a significant role in the import and export of materials from the colony.
Today, this port network is the hub for the export and import of goods in south Vietnam – the economic hub of the nation, which accounts for more than two-thirds of Vietnam's economy, and the Mekong delta farming as one of the more productive in the world, and the main producer of cereals (rice) and shrimp in Vietnam.
Operations
In 2006, Saigon Port handled more than 35 metric tons of cargo and 1.5 million TEU of containers. By the end of 2012, Saigon Port now handled 3.5 million TEU of containers, an increase of 14% from 2011.
From the Saigon port there is inland waterway navigation into Cambodia.
The other container ports of Vietnam are Hai Phong Port, Da Nang Port, Nha Trang and Quy Nhon.
Relocation
Due to urban planning, the network of Saigon Port has been relocated from the city center to the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, specifically to the Hiep Phuoc New Urban and Port Area, Cat Lai New Port area and especially to Thi Vai Port and Cai Mep Port in Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, 60 km South-East of Ho Chi Minh City, 30 km northwest of Vũng Tàu. The Thi Vai Port with the capacity of handling ships up to 50,000 tons will be the leading deepwater port of this region.
References
External links
Official website
Web railway Company of Vietnam
Web with export cost from Vietnam
Ports and harbours of Vietnam
Buildings and structures in Ho Chi Minh City
Economy of Ho Chi Minh City
Transport in Ho Chi Minh City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin%20McCarthy | Caitlin McCarthy (born 1989) is an American actress and producer, best known for playing Caroline Krieger, daughter of bio-terrorist Michael Krieger (Marc Menard) on the My Network TV telenovela Watch Over Me.
Biography
A native of Boulder, Colorado, McCarthy started acting at 4 in primary school. At age 13, McCarthy was a member of a teen pop band MallRATZ. At 15, she persuaded her mother Jan, her father and older sister Keeley to move to Los Angeles to become an actress. In 2006, she founded Part of the Art Productions, Inc., to produce, write and direct movies, and landed the role of Caroline Krieger, recurring character on the telenovela Watch Over Me.
She is black belt of taekwondo. Before moving to California, she attended Summit Middle Charter School and Boulder High School. In March 2011, she graduated in design at FIDM in Los Angeles.
Filmography
References
External links
Caitlin's Watch Over Me bio page
American child actresses
Living people
1989 births
American child singers
Actresses from Boulder, Colorado
Date of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXUM | DXUM (819 AM) is a radio station owned and operated by UM Broadcasting Network through its licensee, Mt. Apo Broadcasting System. It serves as the flagship station of UMBN's News & Public Affairs network, formerly known as Radyo Ukay. The station's studio is located at the UMBN Media Center, C. Bangoy St. cor. Palma Gil St., Davao City, while the transmitter is located near the University of Mindanao Matina Campus, Davao City.
History
DXUM was launched in 1957, 8 years after Atty. Guillermo Torres launched DXMC and the same year UMBN was founded. While DXMC broadcasts news and variety programming, DXUM airs music programming.
During the Martial Law era (and due to a new law that a broadcast company does not allow more than one station in the same market), the ownership and licensee of DXUM was transferred to Mt. Apo Broadcasting System of the Mt. Apo Science Foundation (MASFI), another institution also owned by Torres and is a sister association to the UM.
In November 1978, due to the switch of the Philippine AM dial from the NARBA-mandated 10 kHz spacing to the 9 kHz rule implemented by the Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975, the station's frequency was transferred to 936 kHz.
During the 1970s and the 1980s, DXUM was the top music station in Davao City.
In 1988, two years after EDSA People Power Revolution, the disc jockeys of DXUM were transferred to DXMC, which would eventually be migrated on the FM band and became known as Wild FM. Following the changes in the landscape of AM radio now dominated by rival stations, DXUM transferred to its present frequency and reformatted as a news/talk station under the brand Radyo Magasin. After a few years, it rebranded as Radyo Peryodiko, and then Radyo Balita until settling with the Radyo Ukay branding in 2000. Radyo means radio and Ukay means to dig. It aims to dig issues and reports and it is known to many as "Investigative" radio.
On June 15, 2020, management decided to retire the branding as it has run its course. DXUM, along with its other AM stations, started carrying their perspective call letters in their brandings. The yellow highlighted in the "X" of their logos means to move forward.
References
Radio stations in Davao City
College radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1957 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preprocessor%20%28CAE%29 | In computer aided engineering (CAE) a preprocessor is a program which provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to define boundary conditions, materials, other physical properties and simulation control settings.
This data is used by the subsequent computer simulation.
Steps that are followed in Pre-Processing
1> The geometry (physical bounds) of the problem is defined
2> The volume occupied by the fluid is divided into discrete cells (meshing)
3> The physical modeling is defined - E.g. equations of motion + enthalpy + radiation + species conservation
4> Boundary conditions are defined. This involves specifying the fluid behavior and properties at the boundaries of the problem. For transient problems, the initial conditions are also defined.
5> The simulation is started and the equations are solved iteratively as a steady state or transient
6> Finally a post-processor is used for the analysis and visualization of the resting solution
References
Computer graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity%20Dog%20School | Celebrity Dog School was a short-lived Australian reality series which aired on Network Ten. It was based on the original version aired in the UK. The show was hosted by Larry Emdur, who also hosted The Price is Right on the Nine Network, and Wheel of Fortune on the Seven Network. It was a Pett Productions format for BBC Worldwide, produced by Freehand Group Pty Limited.
The show involved six celebrities and their dogs given an obedience task, an agility task, and they must train them throughout the week. At the end of the week, they would perform these tasks in front of the other celebrities and the expert judges.
Home viewers had the option to vote for their favourite celebrity and dog pair via text message, with proceeds from each vote going to the RSPCA.
Towards the end of the series, there was to be a 'Grand Final Best in Show Spectacular' where they were to perform in front of a live audience. The most popular couple who was not eliminated would have won the 'Best in Series'. Bootsie scored a perfect score from all three judges; sadly, no such thing happened. After only three episodes, Network Ten placed the show in 'hiatus', and it ended up never returning.
Celebrities
The six celebrities in the show included:
Kim Watkins - Co-host of 9am with David and Kim and host of Saving Babies, which both aired on Network Ten
Robert 'Dipper' DiPierdomenico - AFL legend
Ajay Rochester - Host of The Biggest Loser, which also aired on Network Ten
Adam Richard - Comedian
Michael Bevan - Ex Australian Cricketer
Bianca Dye - Nova 96.9 radio host
Expert Judges
The expert judges on Celebrity Dog School were Steve Austin, who is Australia's premier dog trainer, and Dr Julie Summerfield, who is a qualified veterinarian and is currently the resident vet in the program 9am with David and Kim.
See also
Pooch Perfect
References
External links
Network 10 original programming
2000s Australian reality television series
Television shows about dogs
2007 Australian television series debuts
2007 Australian television series endings
Australian television series based on British television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-National%20Equivalent%20File | The Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) contains data from general population household-based panel surveys fielded in Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Korea, Russia, Switzerland and the United States. Each of these countries fields a longitudinal survey of households and their inhabitants. All of the surveys follow the set of people living in the set of households surveyed initially. With the exception of the Japan Household Panel Study, all of the surveys also follow the members of the original households, labeled as "original sample members" when they move away and form new households. Almost all of the surveys also follow people who joined a household of an "original sample member" (through marriage or cohabitation). Researchers at institutions in each country collaborate with CNEF to harmonize a subset of the data from each survey. The harmonized data get used, individually or as a set, by researchers who compare social and economic outcomes over time and across countries. Researchers exploit a cross-national design to understand whether differences in observed outcomes can be explained by differences in policies, social, and economic situations one observes across countries. The CNEF is managed by Dean Lillard and Temur Akhmedov at the Department of Human Sciences at The Ohio State University (US).
Participant surveys
British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), UK
Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), UK
Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA), Australia
Japan Household Panel Study (JHPS), Japan
Korea Labor Income Panel Study (KLIPS), Korea
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), USA
Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), Germany
Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID), Canada
Swiss Household Panel (SHP), Switzerland
Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS-HSE), Russia
External links
Official website URL accessed 5 December 2019.
Economic data
Household surveys
Panel data
Ohio State University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad%20Metro | The Hyderabad Metro is a rapid transit system, serving the city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It is the third longest operational metro network in India after Delhi Metro and Namma Metro (Bengaluru), and the lines are arranged in a secant model. It is funded by a public–private partnership (PPP), with the state government holding a minority equity stake. Hyderabad Metro is the world's largest elevated Metro Rail system based on DBFOT basis (Design, Built, Finance, Operate and Transfer). A special purpose vehicle company, L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad Ltd (L&TMRHL), was established by the construction company L&T to develop the Hyderabad metro rail project.
A stretch from Miyapur to Nagole, with 24 stations, was inaugurated on 28 November 2017 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This was the longest rapid transit metro line opened in one go in India. It is estimated to cost . As of February 2020, about 490,000 people use the Metro per day. Trains are crowded during the morning and evening rush hours. A ladies only coach was introduced on all the trains from 7 May 2018. Post-COVID, 450,000 average daily passengers were travelling on Hyderabad Metro by December 2022. On 3 July 2023, Hyderabad Metro Rail achieved milestone with the ridership clocking 5.10 lakh on that day.
History
Metro Rail Project was approved by Union government, in 2003. As Hyderabad continued to grow, the Multi-Modal Transport System (MMTS) had insufficient capacity for public transport, and the Union Ministry of Urban Development approved construction of the Hyderabad Metro Rail Project, directing the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation to conduct a survey of the proposed lines and to submit a Detailed Project Report (DPR). To meet rising public transport needs and mitigate growing road traffic in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, the state government and the South Central Railway jointly launched the MMTS in August 2005. The initial plan was for the Metro to connect with the existing MMTS to provide commuters with alternate modes of transport. Simultaneously, the proposals for taking up the construction of MMTS Phase II were also taken forward.
In 2007, N. V. S. Reddy was appointed Managing Director of Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited, and the same year, Central Government approved financial assistance of 1639 crore under a Viability Gap Funding (VGF) scheme. The option of an underground metro system in Hyderabad was ruled out by L&T due to the presence of hard rocks, boulders and the topography of the soil in Hyderabad. Hyderabad Metro initially began under the Andhra Pradesh Municipal Tramways (Construction, Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2008 and later on, it came under the Central Metro Act which permitted revision of fares. On 26 March 2018, the Government of Telangana announced that it would set up an SPV "Hyderabad Airport Metro Limited (HAML)", jointly promoted by HMRL and HMDA, to extend the Blue line from Raidurg to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Shamshabad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Molecule | Media Molecule Ltd. is a British video game developer based in Guildford, Surrey. Founded in 2006 by Mark Healey, Alex Evans, David Smith, and Kareem Ettouney, Sony Computer Entertainment acquired the firm in 2010. It became part of SCE Worldwide Studios (now PlayStation Studios). The company is best known for developing the LittleBigPlanet series, 2013's Tearaway, and 2020's Dreams for PlayStation consoles.
Before the company's formation, the co-founders, led by Healey, developed Rag Doll Kung Fu, whilst working at Lionhead Studios. They left Lionhead in 2005 and presented an early precursor of LittleBigPlanet to Sony. Sony was interested, so in January 2006 they secured their funding from Sony for six months and Media Molecule was incorporated. The studio signed a deal with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe in June. This allowed Media Molecule to create LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation 3, with Sony owning the intellectual property. Soon after, LittleBigPlanet began production; it was released in October 2008 to critical acclaim. Sony acquired Media Molecule for an undisclosed sum two years later.
In 2011, the developer released a sequel, LittleBigPlanet 2. LittleBigPlanet spawned a series of games developed by other studios, often in collaboration with Media Molecule. The studio developed 2013's Tearaway and its extended remake, Tearaway Unfolded. In 2016, they opened a small studio in Brighton, East Sussex. Dreams was released in February 2020. The studio has won numerous awards, including Studio of the Year from the 2008 Spike Video Game Awards. Media Molecule's philosophy is to have as few employees as achievable.
History
Background (2005–2006)
Four former Lionhead Studios' employees—Alex Evans, Kareem Ettouney, Mark Healey, and David Smith—founded Media Molecule, incorporating it on 4 January 2006. Chris Lee and Mags Hardwick are also among the founding team. Evans and Smith were both technical directors until 2020 when Evans left; Healey was the creative director whilst Ettouney was the art director. Healey left the company on 17 April 2023.
Before the founding of Media Molecule, Evans and Healey worked at Bullfrog Productions for its co-founder Peter Molyneux. Molyneux later went on to co-found Lionhead Studios, with Evans and Healey being two of its first employees. Soon after, the co-founders, led primarily by Healey, developed Rag Doll Kung Fu in their spare time whilst working at Lionhead Studios. Healey demonstrated the game at the 2005 Game Developers Conference (GDC). Valve employees were in the audience because the firm was interested in the game. They were looking for a "low risk, low cost" third-party game to test on Steam; it became the first non-Valve game to be released on the platform in October 2005.
Also in 2005, whilst at Lionhead, the co-founders were working a game called The Room using clay tubes and portals. In retrospect, the founders noted it had similarities to 2007's Portal. They also demonstrated it a |
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