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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette%2050 | Cassette 50 (released in Spain as Galaxy 50 - 50 Excitantes Juegos) is a compilation of games published by Cascade Games in 1983 for multiple 8-bit home computers. It was promoted based on the quantity of games included, all of which were programmed in BASIC and were of poor quality. According to the instructions, "the games will provide many hours of entertainment for all the family at a fraction of the cost of other computer games". The compilation was heavily advertised in home computer magazines. Buyers received a Timex digital calculator watch with each purchase.
In an interview, Matthew Lewis, the author of Galaxy Defence, said he wrote the game when he was 14 and submitted it in response to a small, anonymous ad in a local newspaper. He was paid £10 for his game, but he had to give up all rights to it. Galaxy Defence took 12 hours to code and the graphics were done by his father, Ernest Lewis.
Content
The games featured differed depending on the platform, all of which were written in BASIC. Some like Star Trek and Maze Eater appeared on all versions. Others like Lunar Lander were ports or clones of very early or popular games, while others were sourced from independent developers. Some games that had the same title were entirely different depending on which version. Some games also had playability issues.
Acorn Electron / Commodore 64 / Dragon 32 / Oric-1 / Oric Atmos / ZX81
Attacker
Barrel Jump
Black Hole
Boggles
Cannonball Battle
Derby Dash
Do Your Sums
Dynamite
Exchange
Force Field
Galactic Attack
Galactic Dog Fight
Ghosts
Hangman
High Rise
Inferno
Intruder
Ivasive Action
Jet Flight
Jet Mobile
Lunar Landing
Maze Eater
Motorway
Nim
Noughts and Crosses
Old Bones
Orbitter
Overtake
Parachute
Phaser
Planets
Plasma Bolt
Pontoon
Psion Attack
Radar Landing
Rats
Rocket Launch
Sitting Target
Ski Jump
Smash the Windows
Space Mission
Space Search
Space Ship
Star Trek
Submarines
Tanker
The Force
Thin Ice
Tunnel Escape
Universe
The games Exchange and The Force, although listed on the inlay, are missing from the Acorn Electron version, meaning only 48 games actually appeared on the cassette. There was a second release of the Dragon 32 version which had different versions of some of the games. Tunnel Escape on the C64 version is credited as such in the game's inlay but is credited as "Escape or Bust" in the actual game.
Amstrad CPC
3-D Maze
Attacker
Backgammon
Colony-9
Craps
Creepy Crawley
Cylons
Day at the Races
Dragona Maze
Draughts
Dungeon Adventure
Dynamite
Evasive Action
Exchange
Fantasy Land
Fighter Command
Fireman Rescue
Ghosts
Handicap Golf
Hangman
High Rise
Hopping Herbert
Inferno
Intruder
Jet Flight
Lunar Lander
Maze Eater
Motorway
Nemesis IV
Noughts & Crosses
Planets
Play Your Cards Right
Pontoon Bet
Rally 3000
Rats
Rush Hour Attack
Royal Rescue
Sitting Target
Solit
Space Base
Space Mission
Space Pod Rescue
Space Ship
Star Trek
Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20radio-frequency%20channel%20number | In GSM cellular networks, an absolute radio-frequency channel number (ARFCN) is a code that specifies a pair of physical radio carriers used for transmission and reception in a land mobile radio system, one for the uplink signal and one for the downlink signal. ARFCNs for GSM are defined in Specification 45.005 Section 2. There are also other variants of the ARFCN numbering scheme that are in use for other systems that are not GSM. One such example is the TETRA system that has 25 kHz channel spacing and uses different base frequencies for numbering.
Different frequencies (ARFCNs) are used for the frequency-based component of GSMs multiple access scheme (FDMA — frequency-division multiple access). Uplink/downlink channel pairs in GSM are identified by ARFCN. Together with the time-based component (TDMA — time-division multiple access) the physical channel is defined by selecting a certain ARFCN and a certain time slot. Note not to confuse this physical channel with the logical channels (e.g. BCCH — Broadcast Control Channel) that are time-multiplexed onto it under the rules of GSM Specification 05.03.
ARFCN table for common GSM systems
This table shows the common channel numbers and corresponding uplink and downlink frequencies associated with a particular ARFCN, as well as the way to calculate the frequency from the ARFCN number and vice versa.
Observe this table only deals with GSM systems. There are other mobile telecommunications systems that do use ARFCN to number their channels, but they may use different offsets, channel spacing and so on.
Other versions of ARFCN
TETRA uses different channel spacing compared to GSM systems. The standard is 25 kHz spacing and the center frequency of each channel may be offset in a number of fashions such as ±12.5 kHz or even ±6.25 kHz. This makes it more tricky to correlate the ARFCN strictly to a pair of frequencies, you need to know the specifics of the system. Also the duplex spacing is generally 10 MHz in TETRA although other versions are available for certain applications.
In TETRA the ARFCN is always given for the downlink frequency, the uplink is by standard 10 MHz lower in frequency than the downlink frequency.
In UMTS for 3G and 4G mobile telephone systems, ARFCN is replaced with UARFCN and EARFCN which are simpler and always has a direct relation between the frequency and the channel number.
Example ARFCN for TETRA
In many countries in Europe there is a standardised set of frequencies used for blue light services i.e. the police, firebrigade, rescue and so on. This set of frequencies correspond to ARFCN with a base of 300 MHz and an offset of 12.5 kHz.
To calculate the ARFCN from frequency the following method is used:
Where:
f is the actual frequency [MHz]
fb is the base frequency [MHz]
fo is the offset frequency [MHz]
fc is the channel spacing frequency [MHz]
The range of frequencies used in these tetra systems are defined by 380-385 MHz for the uplink (mobile to radio base statio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20Data%20Archive | The UK Data Archive is a national centre of expertise in data archiving in the United Kingdom. It houses the largest collection of social sciences and population digital data in the UK. It is certified under CoreTrustSeal as a trusted digital repository. It is also certified under the international ISO 27001 standard for information security.
Located in Colchester, the UK Data Archive is a specialist department of the University of Essex, co-located with the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER). It is primarily funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the University of Essex.
Many of the data services formerly hosted by the UK Data Archive joined the ESRC-funded UK Data Service, established 1 October 2012.
The UK Data Archive is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org.
Scope and purpose
The UK Data Archive supports social science research and teaching by acquiring, developing and managing data and related digital resources for secondary use.
The Archive hosts and manages the UK Data Service, which provides free research access to over 6,000 social science data sets, including quantitative data and qualitative data from a wide range of disciplines. Access to the data catalogue, including online documentation such as questionnaires, is completely open. The Archive removes data access barriers wherever possible, however registration is required to download data where there are disclosure risks.
A large part of the UK Data Archive's data collection consists of publicly funded data, especially large-scale statistical surveys such as the Labour Force Survey and Crime Survey for England and Wales. Another important source of data is the academic community, sponsored by the ESRC and other funding bodies. In this category belong studies such as Understanding Society and the Millennium Cohort Study. The Archive also provides access to important international macrodata series (aggregate data) such as those held by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank via its partnership with Mimas.
The UK Data Archive ensures that the data will be available not just to current researchers but also to future researchers through digital preservation and migration to new storage media as technology evolves.
To promote the use and re-use of its data, the UK Data Archive provides technical support and advice to users on how to access and use the data, and on data management issues. The UK Data Archive also works closely with national and international partners on data-related projects and initiatives.
History
The UK Data Archive was founded in 1967 on the campus of the University of Essex as the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Data Bank. (The SSRC was the original name of the ESRC.) Four years prior to that, in 1963, the SSRC co-funded the Social and Economic Archive Committee (SEAC) which was set up to investigate and propos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20and%20Computing%20College | Mathematics and Computing Colleges were introduced in England in 2002 and Northern Ireland in 2006 as part of the Government's Specialist Schools programme which was designed to raise standards in secondary education. Specialist schools focus on their chosen specialism but must also meet the requirements of the National Curriculum and deliver a broad and balanced education to all their pupils. Mathematics and Computing Colleges must focus on mathematics and either computing or ICT.
Colleges are expected to disseminate good practice and share resources with other schools and the wider community. They often develop active partnerships with local organisations and their feeder primary schools. They also work with local businesses to promote the use of mathematics and computing outside of school.
In 2007 there were 222 schools in England which were designated as specialist Mathematics and Computing Colleges. A further 21 schools were designated in combined specialisms which included mathematics and computing, and 15 had a second specialism in Mathematics and Computing.
The Specialist Schools programme ended in 2011. Since then, schools in England have to either become an academy or apply through the Dedicated Schools Grant if they wish to become a Mathematics and Computing College. As of 2021 there are few Mathematics and Computing Colleges left in the United Kingdom.
References
External links
Vision for Mathematics and Computing Colleges, The Standards Site
Specialist Schools Programme
Computer science education in the United Kingdom
Mathematics education in the United Kingdom
2002 introductions
Specialist schools programme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEANTSA | FEANTSA, the European Federation of National Organisations working with the Homeless (), is the only major European network that focuses exclusively on homelessness at European level and receives financial support from the European Commission for the implementation of its activities. FEANTSA also works closely with other EU institutions, and has consultative status at the Council of Europe and the United Nations.
It monitors the scope and nature of homelessness in Europe, and national and local homeless policy-making in Europe in the framework of the European Commission's strategy on social protection and social inclusion. The organization's website offers information on the measurement of homelessness, health and homelessness, employment and homelessness, housing rights and homelessness, among others.
FEANTSA Annual Themes
Each year, FEANTSA's Administrative Council designates a theme that will be woven into the work of FEANTSA for the coming twelve months. The concrete outcomes that FEANTSA produces on the annual theme are a policy statement, a report and a conference. In general, one of the editions of the FEANTSA magazine Homeless in Europe is also dedicated to the same issue.
Research
FEANTSA established the European Observatory on Homelessness in 1991 to facilitate research to promote better understanding of the complexity and the changing nature of homelessness. This network is composed of eleven national research correspondents from different EU countries who have built up extensive experience in the field of homelessness and housing exclusion.
The Observatory produces the European Journal of Homelessness and the European Review of Statistics on Homelessness. The Journal provides a critical analysis of policy and practice on homelessness in Europe for policy makers, practitioners, researchers and academics. The aim is to stimulate debate on homelessness and housing exclusion at the European level and to facilitate the development of a stronger evidential base for policy development and innovation. The European Review of Statistics has two main objectives. First, it collates the development of ideas relating to the measurement of homelessness and housing exclusion in Europe that were presented in previous publications of the European Observatory on Homelessness. Second, it updates information on homelessness and housing exclusion for all those member states for which information is available.
The research outcomes of the Observatory have been put together in the European Journal of Homelessness since 2007. From 2002 - 2006, reports were produced under the following headings:
European Statistics (2002–2006)
Policies on Homelessness in Europe (2003–2006)
Homelessness Research in the European Union (2002–2004)
European Thematic Reports (2003–2006)
Between 1995 and 2004, transnational reports in book form, were published on a number of subjects:
Immigration and Homelessness in Europe (2004)
Access to Housing (2002)
Women a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEDAT | SEDAT ("Space Environment DATa System") provides access to near-original satellite data on the space environment in order to perform analyses and queries needed for evaluation of space environment hazards.
History
The development was performed between 1999 and 2001 by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) and funded by the European Space Agency via its Space Environments and Effects Section.
Description
The aim of the SEDAT project is to develop a new approach to the engineering analysis of the spacecraft charged-particle environments. The project assembled a database containing a large and comprehensive set of data about that environment as measured in-situ by a number of space plasma missions. The user is able to select a set of space environment data appropriate to the engineering problem under study. The project developed a set of software tools, which can operate on the data retrieved from the SEDAT database. These tools allow the user to carry out a wide range of engineering analyses.
This approach differs from traditional space environment engineering studies. In the latter the space environment is characterised by a model that is a synthesis of previous observations. However, in SEDAT the environment is characterised directly by the observations. This approach offers several advantages to the engineering analyst:
The data used in the study can be tailored more precisely to the engineering problem under study.
The analysis is not constrained by selection effects within the model used.
The analyst may tailor the processing of the data to the problem under study.
The analysis is not constrained by binning or other processing effects that were used to generate the model.
New data are readily incorporated in the database and thus made available for engineering analyses.
The traditional approach would require the production, validation and dissemination of an updated model, which is a far more time-consuming activity.
The SEDAT concept foresees access to distributed datasets, capture of processing methods and openness in analysis tools.
SEDAT implementation
The implementation of SEDAT is divided into three main parts:
Construction of the SEDAT database, based in the STPDF.
Production of the analysis tools to be used in conjunction with the SEDAT database, based on IDL routines.
Execution of four small exercises, using the SEDAT database and tools, to demonstrate that these functions operate correctly.
Four demonstrations of the SEDAT system were performed in the original study:
Update of solar proton model (RAL-SED-TN-0301)
Radiation dose calculation for interplanetary mission (RAL-SED-TN-0302)
Correlation of electron fluxes with spacecraft anomalies (RAL-SED-TN-0303)
Electron fluorescence on XMM (RAL-SED-TN-0304)
References
External links
Spaceweather
SEDAT Project Description
Environmental science databases
European Space Agency
Research institutes in Oxfordshire
Space science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20marketing | Digital marketing is the component of marketing that uses the Internet and online-based digital technologies such as desktop computers, mobile phones and other digital media and platforms to promote products and services. Its development during the 1990s and 2000s changed the way brands and businesses use technology for marketing. As digital platforms became increasingly incorporated into marketing plans and everyday life, and as people increasingly used digital devices instead of visiting physical shops, digital marketing campaigns have become prevalent, employing combinations of search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), content marketing, influencer marketing, content automation, campaign marketing, data-driven marketing, e-commerce marketing, social media marketing, social media optimization, e-mail direct marketing, display advertising, e-books, and optical disks and games have become commonplace. Digital marketing extends to non-Internet channels that provide digital media, such as television, mobile phones (SMS and MMS), callbacks, and on-hold mobile ring tones. The extension to non-Internet channels differentiates digital marketing from online marketing.
History
Digital marketing effectively began in 1990 when the Archie search engine was created as an index for FTP sites. In the 1980s, the storage capacity of computers was already large enough to store huge volumes of customer information. Companies started choosing online techniques, such as database marketing, rather than limited list broker. Databases allowed companies to track customers' information more effectively, transforming the relationship between buyer and seller.
In the 1990s, the term digital marketing was coined. With the development of server/client architecture and the popularity of personal computers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications became a significant factor in marketing technology. Fierce competition forced vendors to include more services into their software, for example, marketing, sales and service applications. Marketers were also able to own online customer data through eCRM software after the Internet was born. This led to the first clickable banner ad going live in 1994, which was the "You Will" campaign by AT&T and over the first four months of it going live, 44% of all people who saw it clicked on the ad.
In the 2000s, with increasing numbers of Internet users and the birth of the iPhone, customers began searching for products and making decisions about their needs online first, instead of consulting a salesperson, which created a new problem for the marketing department of a company. In addition, a survey in 2000 in the United Kingdom found that most retailers had not registered their own domain address. These problems encouraged marketers to find new ways to integrate digital technology into market development.
In 2007, marketing automation was developed as a response to the ever-evolving marketing climate. Mar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asim%20Siddiqui | Asim Siddiqui (born 1976 in Kettering, England) is a British Pakistani chairman and a founding trustee of the City Circle, a network of young British Muslim professionals established in 1999. In addition to running local educational and welfare projects, the City Circle organises weekly public discussion forums providing a grassroots outlet for debate on issues of mutual concern between British Muslim communities and wider society. Asim is responsible for the strategic direction of the City Circle. All of the City Circle projects are committed to inculcating constructive citizenship and building bridges between communities.
Siddiqui is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and has spoken at numerous think tanks including the Royal United Services Institute, Demos and the Fabian Society. He was appointed to the Iraq Commission by the Foreign Policy Centre. Asim is regularly interviewed by the BBC, Sky news and various radio stations. Asim contributes to The Guardian and New Statesman web blogs. Time magazine placed Asim on its front page in 2008 as part of a cover piece on "Europe's Muslim Success Story".
Siddiqui is a member of the prime minister's UK-Indonesia Islamic Advisory Group. He has participated in Foreign & Commonwealth Office international delegations projecting British Muslims. Asim has been nominated to take part in the United States' International Visitor Leadership Program.
Siddiqui graduated at University College London and qualified as an accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is now a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a qualified member of the Securities & Investment Institute. He works full-time for a major Arab bank in the city.
Siddiqui is married with two sons. His father, Ghayasuddin Siddiqui is leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain.
Awards and nominations
In January 2014, Siddiqui was nominated for the Services to Finance and Accounts award at the British Muslim Awards.
References
External links
The City Circle
Commentisfree - Asim Siddiqui blog Guardian
NS - Asim Siddiqui blog New Statesman
"Panorama", BBC, August 21, 2005. Accessed September 26, 2007.
"Islam, Race, and British Identity", Guardian, November 30, 2004. Accessed September 30, 2007.
1976 births
Living people
Muhajir people
English people of Pakistani descent
English Muslims |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahead-of-time%20compilation | In computer science, ahead-of-time compilation (AOT compilation) is the act of compiling an (often) higher-level programming language into an (often) lower-level language before execution of a program, usually at build-time, to reduce the amount of work needed to be performed at run time.
Most often, It is associated with the act of compiling a higher-level programming language such as C or C++, or an intermediate representation such as Java bytecode or .NET Framework Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code, into a native (system-dependent) machine code so that the resulting binary file can execute natively, just like a standard native compiler. When being used in this specific context, it is often seen as an opposite of just-in-time (JIT) compiling.
Speaking more generally, the target languages of an AOT compilation are not necessarily specific to native machine code but are defined rather arbitrarily. Some academic papers use this word to mean the act of compiling the Java bytecode to C or the timing when optimization pipeline are performed. An academic project uses this word to mean the act of pre-compiling JavaScript to a machine-dependent optimized IR for V8 (JavaScript engine) and to a machine independent bytecode for JavaScriptCore. Some industrial language implementations (e.g. Clojure and Hermes JavaScript engine) use this word to mean the act of pre-compiling the source language to VM specific bytecode. Angular (web framework) uses this word to mean converting its HTML template and TypeScript to JavaScript.
In fact, since all static compilation is technically performed ahead of time, this particular wording is often used to emphasize some kind of performance advantages over the act of such pre-compiling. The act of compiling Java to Java bytecode is hence rarely referred to as AOT since it is usually a requirement, not an optimization.
Reduced runtime overhead
Some programming languages with a managed code runtime that can be compiled to an intermediate representation use just-in-time (JIT) compiling. This briefly compiles intermediate code into machine code for a native run while the intermediate code is executing which may slow an application's performance. Ahead-of-time compiling eliminates the need for this step by occurring before execution rather than during execution.
Ahead-of-time compiling for dynamically typed languages to native machine code or other static VM bytecode is possible in a limited number of cases only. For example, the High Performance Erlang Project (HiPE) AOT compiler for the language Erlang can do this because of advanced static type reconstruction techniques and type speculations.
In most situations with fully AOT compiled programs and libraries, it is possible to remove part of a runtime environment, thus saving disk space, memory, battery life, and startup times (no JIT warmup phase), etc. Because of this, it can be useful in embedded or mobile devices.
Performance trade-offs
AOT compilers can per |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20safety%20network | Public safety agencies at various levels of government have joined together to share information and communicate when faced with public safety incidents. Interagency collaboration initiatives of this nature result in the creation of public safety networks. Public safety networks may originate at any level of government, and their user base may span a single or multiple geographies. Such a network of public safety agencies, supported by an information and communications technology infrastructure, emerges from the individual and collaborative behaviors of their member agencies.
This description focuses on public safety networks in the United States. Public safety networks have received more attention and priority as the country deals with increasing threats from terrorism and natural disasters.
Public safety networks are defined differently as seen from different perspectives. From an organizational systems perspective a public safety network is an information technology (IT) enabled collaborative, inter-organizational system. From a communications network perspective it is a wireless network used by emergency services. Both definitions are accepted within the public safety sector.
Organizational perspective
Public safety organizations are limited in their ability to communicate and share information with other agencies even though they have the technology in place to do so within their own boundaries. Public safety networks help agencies realize the value of joining together to design, develop and deploy information and communications technologies to support policing, criminal justice, public safety and homeland security.
From the organizational perspective a public safety network is an interagency collaboration focused on the development and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to support the information sharing and functional interoperability needs of public safety organizations engaged in law enforcement, criminal justice, and emergency response. As such a public safety network is a specific form of the broad class of inter-organizational information sharing systems (IOS) supporting information sharing among police and other public safety agencies.
As an IOS a public safety network has an inherent complexity due to the wide range of factors that compromise the network. The formation, structure and operation of public safety network can be affected by any number of factors including rational choices made by public safety officials, political priorities, institutional considerations and capabilities of enabling ICT. The number of potential factors lending themselves to the explanation and understanding of public safety network is considerable. Organizational perspective on public safety networks have used frameworks from rational choice, institutional, and complexity theory to understand their formation and operations.
Communications perspective
From the communications perspective a public safety network is a wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing%20Link%20%28TV%20series%29 | Missing Link was a retrospective sports program that aired on the American network ESPN Classic. It debuted on March 7, 2007 and aired every Wednesday night at 10 p.m. Eastern time and was hosted by the host of ESPN Radio's The Herd, Colin Cowherd.
Missing Link is best described as a version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon involving famous athletes, coaches, and other sports figures. Each end of the chain is seemingly the exact opposite of the other in some way, but are somehow connected. The length of each chain varies between five and seven names. In a television-worthy twist, one end is connected, then the other, with a middle link revealed only at the end, following a commercial break.
Missing Link was pre-empted on April 25 for a replay of the heavyweight boxing championship match between Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno, but the show returned the following week, amidst a blog report that indicated that ESPN Classic would halt all original programs. It was then quietly dropped again two weeks later and did not return. ESPN Classic now fills the hour once taken up by Missing Link (it aired in a two-episode block) with various programs like Who's No. 1?.
Example
The first chain on the premiere episode was Lou Gehrig to Mike Tyson, as follows:
One of Gehrig's teammates with the New York Yankees was Leo Durocher.
Durocher was Willie Mays' first manager when Mays played for the New York Giants.
Mays was once represented by attorney Howard Cosell.
Cosell and Muhammad Ali conducted many memorable television interviews.
Ali lost to Trevor Berbick in his final professional fight, in 1981.
Berbick lost to Tyson in a 1986 title fight; this completes the chain.
Highlight issues
On episodes on which this was applicable, the National Football League was represented by still photography, while other sports were represented by videotape. There has been no official information explaining the omission, but NFL Network debuted NFL Top 10, a new Wednesday-night countdown-style documentary series, several weeks after this show's first episode, so the network may have demanded exclusivity. The omission is similar to the snub the league gave to ESPN25 in 2004 in the aftermath of the Playmakers series. Similarly, despite the recent return of NASCAR to ESPN, only pre-2001 footage of Dale Earnhardt Jr. was shown on the episode on which he was linked to Carl Lewis. 2001 was the year NASCAR began to centralize its TV contracts.
Episodes
Below is the list of episodes from season one of Missing Link.
Season One
March 7, 2007 – Iron Horse Lou Gehrig to Iron Mike Tyson, Joe Paterno to Anna Kournikova and Alex Rodriguez to Chi Chi Rodriguez.
March 14, 2007 – Cy Young to Vince Young, Bobby Jones to Bobby Knight and Jake LaMotta to Dennis Rodman.
March 21, 2007 – Ty Cobb to Tiger Woods, Dick Butkus to Dick Button and Muhammad Ali to Wayne Gretzky.
March 28, 2007 – George Herman Ruth to George Foreman, Ricky Bones to Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Maurice Richard to Roger Clem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech%20camp | A tech camp is a summer camp which focuses on technology education, sometimes referred to as a computer camp. These camps often include programs such as video game design, robotics, and programming. These camps first began to appear in the United States in the late 1970s. National Computer Camps was the first computer camp established in 1977.
U.S. News & World Report April 23, 2001, p. 41.
Computer World, No 16, April 17, 1978, p. 16.
References
Computing and society
Summer camps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Precision%20Airdrop%20System | The Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) is an American military airdrop system which uses the Global Positioning System (GPS), steerable parachutes, and an onboard computer to steer loads to a designated point of impact (PI) on a drop zone (DZ). The JPADS family of systems consists of several precision airdrop systems, ranging from extra light to heavy payloads. JPADS is used in conjunction with mission planning software that resides on a laptop. The function of this mission planning software includes computing release points, weather forecasting, acquiring measurements of wind velocity, altitude, air pressure, and temperature. It can also receive weather updates and en route mission changes through satellite links.
History
U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) was the primary developer for JPADS, which meets several requirements: increased ground accuracy, standoff delivery, increased air carrier survivability, and improved effectiveness/assessment feedback regarding airdrop mission operations. The U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force began jointly developing this system in 1993. The U.S. Air Force made its first operational/combat use of the system in Afghanistan in 2006.
Operation
The steerable parachute or parafoil is called a "decelerator," and gives the JPADS system directional control throughout its descent by means of decelerator steering lines attached to the Autonomous Guidance Unit (AGU). They create drag on either side of the decelerator, which turns the parachute, thus achieving directional control.
The AGU contains a GPS, a battery pack, and the guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) software package. It also houses the hardware required to operate the steering lines. The AGU obtains its position prior to exiting the aircraft, and continues to calculate its position via the GPS throughout descent.
The Mission Planner software gives the aircrew the ability to plan the mission, in flight if necessary, as well as steer the aircraft to its Computed Air Release Point (CARP), where the load is released.
Increments
JPADS involves four increments, categorized by the weight of the cargo to be dropped:
Increment I: JPADS-2K / applies to loads up to 2,200 lb / classified as the “extra light” category / commensurate with Container Delivery System (CDS) bundles.
Increment II: JPADS-10K / applies to loads up to 10,000 lb.
Increment III: JPADS-30K / applies to loads up to 30,000 lb.
Increment IV: JPADS-60K / applies to loads up to 60,000 lb.
Accuracy
JPADS is reported to be accurate to , drastically reduces drop zone size requirements; significantly increasing the number of locations which can be used as a drop zone. This reduces both the risk of hostile fire to aircraft and aircrews and the amount of cargo that misses a drop zone.
Benefits
JPADS offers several main benefits, including an increase in the number of available drop zones and an increase in the cargo's precision, which benefits the user. JPA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MycoBank | MycoBank is an online database, documenting new mycological names and combinations, eventually combined with descriptions and illustrations. It is run by the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute in Utrecht.
Each novelty, after being screened by nomenclatural experts and found in accordance with the ICN (International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants), is allocated a unique MycoBank number before the new name has been validly published. This number then can be cited by the naming author in the publication where the new name is being introduced. Only then, this unique number becomes public in the database.
By doing so, this system can help solve the problem of knowing which names have been validly published and in which year.
MycoBank is linked to other important mycological databases such as Index Fungorum, Life Science Identifiers, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and other databases. MycoBank is one of three nomenclatural repositories recognized by the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi; the others are Index Fungorum and Fungal Names.
References
Further reading
External links
Mycology
Online taxonomy databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem%20Z.%20Rosensaft | Menachem Z. Rosensaft (born 1948) is an attorney in New York and the founding chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, is a leader of the Second Generation movement of children of Holocaust survivors. He has been described on the front page of The New York Times as one of the most prominent of the survivors' sons and daughters. He has served as national president of the Labor Zionist Alliance, and was active in the early stages of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. As psychologist Eva Fogelman has written: "Menachem Rosensaft's moral voice has gone beyond the responsibility he felt as a child of survivors to remember and educate. He felt the need to promote peace and a tolerant State of Israel as well. He wanted to bring to justice Nazi war criminals, to fight racism and bigotry, and to work toward the continuity of the Jewish people".
Menachem Rosensaft is general counsel emeritus of the World Jewish Congress, the umbrella organization of Jewish communities around the world based in New York. In September 2023, he stepped down as the WJC’s general counsel and associate executive vice president after serving in these positions since, respectively, 2009 and 2019..
Since 2008, Menachem Rosensaft has been adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School, and was formerly a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Syracuse University College of Law. In 2011, he was appointed lecturer in law at Columbia University Law School where he teaches a course on the law of genocide. In May 2022, he was elected chairman of the Advisory Board of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation which oversees World War II memorial sites throughout the German state of Lower Saxony, including the site of the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. He is the editor of God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, and The World Jewish Congress: 1936-2016. In April 2021, a volume of his poetry, Poems Born in Bergen-Belsen, was published by Kelsay Books.
In July 2023, he was awarded an honorary PhD by the University of Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina in recognition of his “contribution to raising awareness of the genocide against Bosnians in Srebrenica and the Holocaust, through the fight against the denial of crimes and the falsification of historical facts, and for contributing to peace building and the development of a culture of remembrance.”
Early life
The son of two survivors of the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, Menachem Rosensaft was born on May 1, 1948, in the Displaced Persons camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany. From 1945 until 1950, his father, Josef Rosensaft, was chairman of the Jewish Committee of the Bergen-Belsen DP camp and of the Central Jewish Committee in the British Zone of Germany. His mother, Dr. Hadassah Bimko Rosensaft, was a member of President Jimmy Carter's Commission on the Holocaust, and a founding member of the United States H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OIOXML | OIOXML is a project by the Danish government to develop a number of reusable data components serializable in various formats, although currently the only method of serialization for OIOXML data is in the XML format. This project was undertaken so as to ease communication from, to and between Danish governmental instances. It was made as part of the Danish government's transition to what they refer to as an eGovernment, in which communication between governmental instances, companies and the public should be paper-free. There has been some confusion as to what OIOXML is as the most prominent OIOXML format, the Danish Efaktura format which is a localization of UBL is also referred to as OIOXML by many governmental documents. It is currently a requirement for all invoices given to a Danish governmental organization to be in the Efaktura format.
Sources
The interoperability framework
OIO - Offentlig Information Online (public information online) - english main page of the site
Reference to the OIOXML markup language
Validator for OIOXML
Examples of OIOXML invoices in comparison with regular invoices (danish)
Markup languages
Science and technology in Denmark
XML |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Matic | Otto Matic is a 2001 action-adventure video game developed by Pangea Software and published by Aspyr Media for Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. It came bundled with iMac G3 and G4 computers. The game was later ported by Ideas From the Deep to Microsoft Windows in 2004. An iPhone OS port, titled Otto Matic: Alien Invasion, was released by Pangea in 2009.
Otto Matic parodies the retro science fiction genre in a whimsical style. Its gameplay resembles that of Pangea's previous titles like Bugdom and Nanosaur.
In September 2021, the game as well as other Pangea software titles received a free, open source re-release for Windows, modern macOS, and Linux.
Gameplay
The gameplay of Otto Matic is level-based, and the player's success on a level is measured with points. Levels typically begin with Otto landing his rocket ship on a planet controlled by the Brain Aliens. As soon as Otto has disembarked, the rocket ship promptly takes off again and lands at the end of the level. To progress to the next level, the player must return to the rocket ship with enough fuel for take off. The majority of the game's points are scored by saving humans from abduction, although some points are also awarded for finding weapons and ammunition.
The levels include power-ups such as weapons, health, rocket fuel and jump-jet fuel, and occasionally brief vehicle sections. The level design tends towards the whimsical: enemies include enormous walking vegetables, clowns, and miniature robotic wrecking balls, and the landscapes are usually cartoonish and warped.
Plot
Otto Matic takes place in the year 1957, as the Earth is being conquered by the evil Brain Aliens from Planet X. The people of Earth are being systematically abducted by the flying saucers of the Brain Aliens, who wish to transform the humans into new Brain Aliens, subject to the will of their leader, the Giant Brain.
The player takes on the role of Otto Matic, one of a line of robots charged with policing the galaxy, as he attempts to defeat the Brain Aliens and restore the independence of the Earth. Otto travels to eight planets and rescues the humans, defeating the Giant Brain in a final confrontation.
References
External links
Otto Matic page on Pangea Software
2001 video games
IOS games
Classic Mac OS games
MacOS games
Pangea Software
Platformers
Science fiction video games
Windows games
Aspyr games
Alien invasions in video games
Video games about police officers
Video games about robots
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the 1950s
Video games set in outer space
Video games set on fictional planets
Fiction set in 1957
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProLiant | ProLiant is a brand of server computers that was originally developed and marketed by Compaq and currently marketed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. After Compaq merged with Hewlett-Packard (HP), HP retired its NetServer brand in favor of the ProLiant brand. HP ProLiant systems led the x86 server market in terms of units and revenue during first quarter of 2010. The HP ProLiant servers offer many advanced server features such as redundant power supplies, Out-of-band management with iLO or Lights-out 100, Hot-swap components and up to 8-Socket systems.
Product lines
Modular Line (ML)
ML server models are tower-based. They aim towards maximum expandability.
Density Line (DL) and RISC Line (RL)
DL server models are rack-based. They aim towards a balance between density and computing power.
Available models through product generations
Scalable Line (SL)
SL server models are rack-based. These models are mostly used in data centers and environments where a maximum of computing power is desired.
Blade Line (BL)
BL server models are enclosure-based. They are made specially for use in a blade enclosure and cannot be used without such. Blade systems aim towards maximum density and manageability at limited rack space.
There are two models of blade enclosures: HPE BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure (8 Bays for Blades), and HPE BladeSystem c7000 Enclosures (16 Bays for Blades).
One advantage of HP/HPE Blade Enclosures compared to competitors (such as IBM Blade Systems) has been that the older generation enclosures have been able to accommodate new generation BL servers just by upgrading the firmware for OA in the enclosure (Onboard Administrator). However improvements to back-plane of the enclosure in the new generation enclosures have enabled faster I/O capabilities (such as 10Gbit/s Ethernet adapters and switches, and Infiniband). The physical design of the enclosures has not changed since the first versions (other than the larger LCD screen at the front compared to the first generation enclosures, and new plastic covers and HPE branding on the 3rd generation enclosures).
ProLiant MicroServer
The HPE ProLiant MicroServer line of products are entry-level, low power, compact, and affordable servers meant for small business, home office, or edge computing. They offer user upgradable components and easy access to hard drives. There is the option to purchase the server with ClearOS installed in order for users to be able to enable applications via an easy-to-use web-GUI with minimal effort.
Details
ProLiant servers are separated into four main product lines - ML, DL, BL, SY, and XL (Apollo) - which generally denote form factor. The ProLiant ML line comprises tower-based servers (convertible to rack mount) with capacity for internal expansion of disks and interconnects, while the DL line comprises general purpose rack mount servers. The BL line comprises blade servers which fit within the HP BladeSystem, the SY comprises the Synergy Blades, and the XL (al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%20You%20Think%20You%20Can%20Dance%20%28American%20season%201%29 | So You Think You Can Dance is an American television dance competition that airs on the Fox network. The first season premiered on July 20, 2005, with Lauren Sánchez in her only season as host, Nigel Lythgoe as the main judge, and Mary Murphy, Dan Karaty, Mia Michaels and Brian Friedman as most frequent guest judges. Nick Lazzarini was crowned America's Favorite Dancer on October 5, 2005, with 37.7% of the votes.
Auditions
Locations
The main auditions for this season were held in following cities:
Format
Auditioners had one minute to impress the judges. A contestant deemed to be not good enough was sent straight home, otherwise, they were sent to a choreography round. After that, the judges decided the fifty dancers that got through to the Hollywood week.
Minimum age for contestants was 18; maximum was 30.
Hollywood week
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Dan Karaty, Mia Michaels, Brian Friedman, Alex Da Silva
Hollywood week was held in Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. 25 females and 25 males were invited to participate in the callback auditions. This number was cut down to 8 females and 8 males, a total of 16 dancers that came through to the live shows. Hollywood week included the following rounds, cuts were made at the end:
Finals
Top 16 contestants
Male contestants
Canadian-born McGrath has since become lead choreographer and occasional third judge for So You Think You Can Dance Canada ; he is choreographer for those contestants who are sent to choreography.
Female contestants
Elimination chart
Performance nights
Week 1 (August 17, 2005)
Judges: Brian Friedman, Mia Michaels, Nigel Lythgoe and Dan Karaty
Couple dances:
Bottom 3's solos:
Eliminated:
Sandra Colton
Jonathan "Jonnis" Tannis
Week 2 (August 24, 2005)
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Dan Karaty and Brian Friedman
Couple dances:
Bottom 3's solos:
Eliminated:
Michelle Brooke
Craig DeRosa
Week 3 (August 31, 2005)
Judges: Mia Michaels, Brian Friedman, Mary Murphy and Nigel Lythgoe
Couple dances:
Bottom 2's solos:
Eliminated:
Snejana "Snow" Urbin
Allan Frias
Week 4 (September 7, 2005)
Judges: Brian Friedman, Mia Michaels, Nigel Lythgoe and Dan Karaty
Couple dances:
Bottom 2's solos:
Eliminated:
Destini Rogers
Ryan Conferido
Week 5 (September 14, 2005)
Judges: Dan Karaty, Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and Brian Friedman
Couple dances:
Bottom 2's solos:
Eliminated:
Melisa Vella
Artem Chigvintsev
Week 6 (September 21, 2005)
Judges: Mia Michaels, Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and Dan Karaty
Couple dances:
Top 6's solos:
Eliminated:
Kamilah Barrett
Blake McGrath
Week 7 (September 28, 2005)
Judges: Brian Friedman, Mia Michaels, Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and Dan Karaty
Duo dances:
Top 4's solos:
Freestyle round: Top 4: "Music"—John Miles
Week 8 (Finale) (October 5, 2005)
Judges: Brian Friedman, Mia Michaels, Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and Dan Karaty
Group dance: Top 16: "Pump It"—The Black Eyed Peas (Hip-Hop; Choreographer: Shane Sparks)
Guest dancers:
Top |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%20You%20Think%20You%20Can%20Dance%20%28American%20season%203%29 | So You Think You Can Dance is an American reality television program and dance competition airing on the Fox network. Season three premiered May 24, 2007.
Cat Deeley returned for her second consecutive season as host. Nigel Lythgoe returned as a permanent judge, joined this season by choreographer Mary Murphy. The remaining third—and during Vegas Week, fourth—judging spot was filled by a guest judge (see main article).
Auditions
Open auditions were held in the following locations:
Vegas week
As in the previous season, those making the cut moved on to an intensive week of dance training in Las Vegas, Nevada. This season, Vegas week included hip-hop choreography taught by Shane Sparks, samba choreography taught by Mary Murphy with assistance from season two finalist Dmitry Chaplin, and contemporary choreography taught by Mia Michaels. The contestants that survived the cuts following those rounds were divided into groups, asked to randomly select from a box a CD containing one of five possible music types, and choreograph a routine to the song on their chosen disk. The dancers remaining after the group choreography round were asked to perform one last solo, following which the group was whittled down to 34 contestants—17 male, 17 female. From this 34, the judges chose their top 20.
Finals
Format
As in season 2, the finals began with 20 contestants, ten male and ten female. After partners are assigned, couples pick a dance style out of a hat, are rehearsed by a choreographer, and perform their routine, which is taped two days prior to airing. Following the airing of the performances, home viewers vote for their favorite couple. The bottom three couples (six dancers overall) are then liable for elimination by the judges on the live, or broadcast on tape delay in the western United States, results show. All six dancers perform a solo, after which the judges eliminate one male and one female contestant. If the eliminated dancers are not from the same couple, their respective partners form a new pair for the following week's performances. Once the field of dancers is narrowed down to the top 10, permanent partnerships dissolve and contestants draw their new partners from a hat each week. The judges no longer have any say in the elimination process; viewers call in to vote for their favorite individual dancer, and the male and female with the lowest number of votes are eliminated each week.
Recurring theme
Mary Murphy's loud, high pitched scream, reserved for performances she liked best, made a reappearance this season, along with the added element of the "hot tamale train", which can make the viewers have the ability to keep dancers safe from elimination. On the first performance show, Murphy enjoyed Anya Garnis and Danny Tidwell's jive performance so much, she made a metaphor of a "hot tamale train" having "just pulled up and let Anya off the train, special delivery." Two weeks later, she gave Sabra Johnson and Dominic Sandoval "two tickets on the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNN%20Bloomberg | BNN Bloomberg (formerly Business News Network and Report on Business Television) is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel owned by Bell Media. It broadcasts programming related to business and financial news and analysis. The channel is headquartered at 299 Queen Street West in Downtown Toronto.
Since April 30, 2018, the network has operated as a partner of the U.S. business channel Bloomberg Television, although BNN still produces a large portion of its business day programming in-house. Much of the channel's programming is also simulcast on radio, branded as BNN Bloomberg Radio, by CKOC in Hamilton and formerly by CFTE in Vancouver.
History
As Report on Business Television (RoBTV)
The network was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 1996 to a joint venture of Thomson Corporation (50%), Western International Communications (25%) and Cancom (25%). It launched on September 1, 1999 as Report on Business Television (although using the abbreviation ROBTv); it was co-branded with Report on Business, the business news section of the Thomson-owned The Globe and Mail.
In 2000, Canwest acquired WIC and its interest in ROBTv. As part of the agreement transferring WIC's interests in Cancom to Shaw Communications, Canwest acquired Cancom's share of the channel as well.
The same year, the owners came into conflict with each other: Canwest acquired the Southam newspaper chain, including the National Post, the Globes chief rival, while Thomson transferred the Globe and its shares of ROBTv to Bell Globemedia, a newly formed media company which also included CTV, in which Thomson held a 20% interest.
Following threats of legal action from both sides, in 2001 CanWest agreed to sell its 50% interest to Bell Globemedia, in exchange for carriage of a proposed competitor aligned with the Financial Post on Bell Expressvu.
Bell Globemedia assumed full control of ROBTv in late 2001; the channel was then rebranded as Report on Business Television, discontinuing use of the abbreviated "ROBTv" brand.
As Business News Network (BNN)
On March 12, 2007, the channel was renamed Business News Network. The name change occurred to give exclusive rights to the "Report on Business" name to The Globe and Mail and for the channel to have its own identity. It also alleviated a common problem with the ROBTv name: other media and viewers called it "Rob TV", rather than sounding out the ROB acronym as preferred by the network.
BNN relocated its operations from 720 King Street West to 299 Queen Street West on December 6, 2010, the building in which CTV's Much and Toronto's 24-hour news service CP24 are based.
The Thomson family reacquired control of the Globe (and therefore Report on Business) in late 2010, and CTVglobemedia's broadcasting assets were sold to Bell Canada; as a result, the channel and the newspaper are no longer co-owned, although Bell retains a 15% interest in the paper. Following the merger |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konoe%20Motomichi | was a Kugyō (high-ranking Japanese official) from the late Heian period to the early Kamakura period. His father was Motozane, the founder of Konoe family, and his mother was a daughter of Tadataka. Among his sons is Iezane. His wife is the sixth no Sadako.
In 1179, Motomichi was promoted to kampaku, regent, as a result of the coup led by Kiyomori, the father of his stepmother who also his father-in-law. In February of the following year he took the position of sesshō, regent-ship for Emperor Antoku.
In 1208, he ordained as a Buddhist monk and took the Dharma name Gyōri (行理).
Parents
Father: Konoe Motozane
Mother: Fujiwara no Tadataka
Wife: Taira no Sadako, daughter of Taira no Kiyomori (平完子)
Concubine: Daughter of Minamoto no Akinobu
Konoe Iezane (近衞家実; 1179-1242), first son
Concubine: Taira no Nobuko (平信子 )
Konoe Michitsune (近衞道經; 1184-1238), second son
Concubine: Daughtjer of a monk
Takatsukasa Kanemoto (鷹司兼基), third son
Motonori Fujiwara (藤原基教; 1196-1213), fourth son
Unknown Concubine
Enchu (円忠; 1180-1234)
Enjō (円浄; 1189-1256)
Enki (円基)
Shizuchu (静忠; 1190-1263)
Nisumi (仁澄)
Minobu (実信)
Mitoko (尊任)
References
Fujiwara clan
Konoe family
1160 births
1223 deaths
People of Heian-period Japan
People of Kamakura-period Japan
Kamakura period Buddhist clergy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsudono%20Moroie | , third son of Matsudono Motofusa, was a kugyō (high-ranking Japanese official) from the late Heian period to the early Kamakura period. Regent Fujiwara no Tadataka and Buddhist monks Gyōi and are his stepbrothers.
Though he was not first-born, in 1179 aged eight he was promoted to gon-chūnagon, one of Daijō-kan due to the political tension between Emperor Go-Shirakawa and Taira no Kiyomori. However, this caused backlash from Kiyomori, leading to the Jisho coup in the same year.
In 1232, he ordained as a Buddhist monk and took the Dharma name Daishin (大心).
1172 births
1238 deaths
Fujiwara clan
Matsudono family
People of Heian-period Japan
People of Kamakura-period Japan
Kamakura period Buddhist clergy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20in%20Suriname | According to the official data, the Muslim population of Suriname represents about 13.9 percent of the country's total population as of 2012, which is the highest percentage of Muslims in the Americas. Though the majority belong to the Sunni sect of Islam, there are some Shi'a, and a small population of Ahmadiyyas.
Some speculate that Muslims first came to Suriname as slaves from West Africa and then were converted to Christianity over time, even though there is little proof for these speculations. The ancestors of the actual Muslim population came to the country as indentured laborers from South Asia and Indonesia, from whom today most Muslims in Suriname are descended.
Because Islam came to Suriname with immigrants from Indonesia (Java) and South Asia (today India, Pakistan and Bangladesh), who brought their local form of Islam to Suriname, it is strongly influenced by these regions. Apart from descent, most Surinamese Muslims also share the same culture and speak the same languages. Suriname has a small number of Afghan Muslims and their native-born children.
East-west divide
The first Javanese Muslims to come to Suriname built their mosques facing west as they did in Java. It was only until contact with Hindustani Muslims in the 1930s that people realized that Mecca is east of Suriname. This created a divide between Muslims who prayed to the east (wong ngadep ngetan) and west (wong ngadep ngulon). The east-worshipping Muslims were more orthodox in their religion, whereas those who worshipped to the west were Javanese and clung more to their traditional Javanese culture.
Demographics
There are 75,053 Muslims in Suriname, according to the 2012 census. This number is up from 66,307 Muslims in 2004. However, the share of Muslims declined from 19.6% to 13.9% in the last half-century. The main reason for the declining share of Muslims in Suriname is the mass conversion of Ahmadi to Christianity in the last years. Between 1971 and 2012 the share of
Christianity among ethnic Javanese people grew from 9% to 21% (+12%), while that of Javanese Muslims decreased from 85% to 67% (-18%). The share of Muslims of Indo-Surinamese descent decreased from 17% to 13% in the same period (-4%), mainly because of emigration to the Netherlands and declining fertility rates. The share of Muslims among Maroon people doubled from 0.1% to 0.2%.
Ethnic groups
Islam is the main religion among Javanese Surinamese people (67%) and the second largest religion among Indo-Surinamese people (13%) and multiracial people (8%).
Geographical distribution
Commewijne District has the highest share of Muslims (mostly Javanese Surinamese), followed by Nickerie District and Wanica District (mostly Indo-Surinamese).
International
Suriname (since 1996) and Guyana (since 1998) are the only countries in the Americas which are member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Notable Muslims
Rashied Doekhi, politician
Paul Somohardjo, politician
See also
Islam in Guy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Architecture%20Network | Open Architecture Network was the world's first online open source community dedicated to improving global living conditions through innovative and sustainable design. It was developed by Architecture for Humanity and incorporated Creative Commons licensing within the project management tools.
History
Open Architecture Network was formed after one of its founders, Cameron Sinclair, won the 2006 TED Prize from the Technology Entertainment Design conference. The prize awards each recipient 'one wish to change the world'.
The Beta Version launched at TED2007 on March 8, 2007. Shortly after the launch, AMD announced the sponsoring of the 2007 Open Architecture Challenge, an open design competition to develop technology facilities in the developing world.
Purpose
The aim of the network is to allow architects, designers, innovators, and community leaders to share innovative and sustainable ideas, designs and plans. View and review designs posted by others. Collaborate with each other, people in other professions and community leaders to address specific design challenges. Manage design projects from concept to implementation. Protect their intellectual property rights using the Creative Commons "some rights reserved" licensing system and be shielded from unwarranted liability.
See also
Open source architecture
External links
Archived version of OpenArchitectureNetwork.org
Humanitarian Goals, Tech-Savvy Solutions
Framing Open Source Architecture
Web 2.0 Goes To Work
Architecture organizations
Organizations established in 2007
Open content projects
Open-source hardware
Development charities based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis%20II | Anubis II is an 2005 action game from British developer Data Design Interactive. The game was published by Conspiracy Entertainment in the United States for the Wii, PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows.
Gameplay
Set in ancient Egypt, the player controls Anubis, the guardian of the Underworld, in his quest to lift the Curse of the pharaohs. The Nunchuk controls Anubis while the Wii Remote swings the Scepter of Ra and throws Canopic Bombs.
Reception
The game has received overwhelmingly negative reviews, in which it holds a rating of 19/100 on review aggregate site Metacritic, it also has a 1.5/10 rating from GameSpot, the second worst score it is possible to receive with the new rating system, and a 2/10 rating from IGN. The Wii version of Anubis II was also nominated for Flat-Out Worst Game of 2007 by GameSpot. Many critics have called it a carbon copy of Ninjabread Man, due to the identical music, gameplay and level layout, the same basic attacks, and enemies (as well as having most of the same bugs and glitches).
See also
Ninjabread Man, a similar Data Design Interactive game
Rock 'n' Roll Adventures, a similar Data Design Interactive game
Notes
References
2005 video games
3D platform games
Data Design Interactive games
PlayStation 2 games
Video games based on Egyptian mythology
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set in Egypt
Wii games
Windows games
Single-player video games
Conspiracy Entertainment games
Metro3D games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Berson | Thomas Alan Berson (born 1946) is a cryptographer and computer security researcher. His notable work includes several cryptanalytic attacks, and research in the practical use of cryptographic protocols, particularly in computer networks.
A founding member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, Tom Berson has been one of its officers since 1983, and was the first person selected as an IACR Fellow. He served as editor of the Journal of Cryptology from 1986 to 2001. At ASIACRYPT 2000 he delivered the IACR Distinguished Lecture, Cryptography Everywhere.
Berson was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for contributions to cybersecurity in the commercial and intelligence communities. He serves on the advisory board of Salesforce.com.
References
External links
Tom Berson's home page at Anagram Laboratories
Tom Berson on LinkedIn
Bret Taylor, the likely successor to Marc Benioff, has quietly taken over important parts of Salesforce’s business — here’s who reports to whom at the highest levels of the company
1946 births
Living people
Modern cryptographers
Computer security academics
International Association for Cryptologic Research fellows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter%20Hunted | Hunter Hunted may refer to:
Hunter Hunted (band), an indie pop band from Los Angeles
Hunter Hunted (video game) - a platform computer game released in 1996 by Sierra Entertainment
Hunter Hunted (TV series) - a documentary series on the National Geographic Channel
Hunter/Hunted - a 1978 episode of The Professionals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scieno%20Sitter | Scieno Sitter is content-control software that, when installed on a computer, blocks certain websites critical of Scientology from being viewed. The software was released by the Church of Scientology in 1998 for Church members using Windows 95. The term "Scieno Sitter" was coined by critics of Scientology who assert that the program is a form of Internet censorship.
Background
The program was started in the late summer of 1998. Scientologists were mailed software on CDs, and told that the program would help members build Web sites which would then link to Scientology's main site. However, recipients of the program were not told that it also had a censorship program, which blocked critical sites from being viewed on the user's computer, if the sites were deemed dangerous. Critics of Scientology have referred to the program as "cult mind-control for the 21st century", and asserted that it stifles freedom of speech. One software developer stated that though he thought spam filters in general were a good idea, he found it "disturbing" that "a huge number of the terms that are banned are completely unrelated to the stated goals."
However, a vice president of the Office of Special Affairs branch of Scientology stated that Scientologists "make a personal choice" on whether or not to use the filtering software. A different spokesperson claimed that members of Scientology asked for the software, stating: "many of our parishioners want to use the Internet but asked for a filter protection from those elements that have sought to twist and pervert the religion." The packaging on the CD mailed to users who specifically request the filter states: "By popular demand from Scientologists, a program has been developed to prevent you from being subjected to 'entheta' and hate mail on the Internet. This filter allows you direct access to our sites rapidly, without being dev-t'd by vilifying material, forgeries, and hate messages. In this fashion your attention can remain focused on dissemination and setting people's feet on the Bridge to Total Freedom."
Functionality
In order to gain access to the software, the Scientologists must first sign a contract. Section 7 of this contract states that the members must agree to "use the specific Internet Filter Program that CSI has provided to you which allows you freedom to view other sites on Dianetics, Scientology or its principals without threat of accessing sites deemed to be using the Marks or Works in an unauthorized fashion or deemed to be improper or discreditable to the Scientology religion."
The program works by preventing the user from accessing sites with certain keywords which Scientology has identified as being objectionable material for viewing by their members. This use of keywords functions as a way to prevent members from learning of guarded Scientology doctrine, such as Xenu, OT III, and other material relating to Space opera in Scientology scripture. Other keywords on notable topics which are blocked |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle%20%28disambiguation%29 | A puzzle is a type of mental challenge.
Jigsaw puzzles are a type of puzzle.
An economic puzzle is where the implication of theory is inconsistent with observed economic data.
A puzzle video game is a video game genre.
Puzzle or The Puzzle may also refer to:
Film
Puzzle (1974 film), an Italian film
Puzzle (1978 film), an Australian television film
Puzzle (2006 film), a Korean film
Puzzle (2010 film), an Argentine film
Puzzle (2014 film), a Japanese film
Puzzle (2018 film), an American film
Puzzle (Narnia), a character in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia
Music
Artists
Puzzle (artist), electropop artist based in London, UK
The Puzzle (band), Hungarian indie rock band
Puzzle, a solo project by Fletcher Shears
Albums
Puzzle (Amiina album), 2010 album by Amiina
Puzzle (Biffy Clyro album), the 2007 fourth album by Scottish group Biffy Clyro
Puzzle (Dada album), the 1992 debut album by the rock band dada
Puzzle (Gianna Nannini album), the 1986 album by Gianna Nannini
Puzzle (Kanjani Eight album), by the Japanese boy band Kanjani Eight
Puzzle (Mandrake Memorial album), 1969 album by the American psychedelic group Mandrake Memorial
The Puzzle, a 2021 album by Devin Townsend, released as The Puzzle / Snuggles
Puzzle 1999 album by the pop band Tahiti 80
The Puzzle, 2016 album by Dark Sarah
Songs
Puzzle (Mai Kuraki song), a 2009 song by Mai Kuraki
"Puzzle" (CNBLUE song), a 2016 song by CNBLUE
"Puzzle", a 2014 song by Fernando Milagros
"Puzzle", a 2017 song by Band-Maid from Just Bring It
"Puzzle", a 2017 song by Loona from Choerry
See also
Thomas Samuel Kuhn's concept of normal science regards science as a process of "puzzle-solving" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%20Meitian | He Meitian (born 2 December 1977) is a Chinese actress and former gymnast. She was previously a contracted artist under the Hong Kong television network TVB. After her contract with TVB ended, she returned to mainland China and continued her career with the talent agency Feiteng ().
Filmography
Television series
State of Divinity (1996)
Journey to the West (1996 TV series) (TVB, 1996)
Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (1997)
Smart Kid (2001)
Lian Cheng Jue (2004)
The Patriotic Knights (2006)
Ben Xiao Hai (ATV, 2007)
Young Hero Fong Sai Yuk (2001)
Chess Warriors (2001)
Films
Protégé (2007)
Beauty Pageant (2011)
East Meets West 2011 (2011)
The Flight of Youth (2012)
The Extreme Fox (2014)
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20111004144830/http://asiacue.com/persons/He_Mei-Tian.html
http://www.video4asian.com/celebs?n=He_Mei_Tian
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2566912/
1975 births
Actresses from Guangdong
Chinese female artistic gymnasts
Living people
People from Chaozhou
Gymnasts from Guangdong
Hong Kong film actresses
Hong Kong television actresses
Chinese film actresses
Chinese television actresses
20th-century Chinese actresses
21st-century Chinese actresses
20th-century Hong Kong actresses
21st-century Hong Kong actresses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combin | Combin may refer to:
Néstor Combin
COMBIN, various computer implementations of the mathematical sets-and-their-subsets-related "combinations" function
See also
Peaks in Pennine Alps of Switzerland:
Grand Combin
Petit Combin
Combin de Corbassière
Combin de Valsorey
Combin de Boveire
Combin de la Tsessette |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insight%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29 | Insight is a current affairs television programme with a live participating audience, broadcast on the SBS network. Each programme covers a single issue and has studio guests participating in the discussion.
History
Debuting in 1995, Insight started out as a national domestic current affairs program dealing primarily with Australian issues, while Dateline covered international ones. It was hosted from 1999 until 2001 by Gael Jennings. After that, Jenny Brockie, coming from the ABC, began to host the programme.
Soon thereafter, the format was transformed to "a discussion forum focusing on a single issue with the participation of a studio audience". In the course of the programme, there are sometimes live satellite links to experts from around the globe, but the main focus in recent times () is on the studio guests who talk about their personal experience of various issues, with contributions by selected audience members. Recent episodes have focused on more personal issues and challenges faced by ordinary people. Topics have included Indigenous issues, endometriosis, school bullying, ME/CFS, transgender people, etc.
Jenny Brockie quit the programme in October 2020, with no immediate announcement of a new host for 2021, although it has been stated that the show will continue. In November 2020, Kumi Taguchi was named as the new host of Insight.
Janice Peterson, Marc Fennell, Alice Matthews and Anton Enus are fill-in presenters.
References
External links
Australian television news shows
Special Broadcasting Service original programming
1995 Australian television series debuts
2000s Australian television series
2010s Australian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QtiPlot | QtiPlot is a cross-platform computer program for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis. It is similar to Origin or SigmaPlot.
QtiPlot can be used to present 2D and 3D data and has various data analysis functions like curve fitting. Plotting of 3D data can be rendered using OpenGL using the Qwt3D libraries.
The program is also extensible to a considerable degree via muParser and Python scripting language, which allows adding the arbitrary user-defined functions with access to graphs, matrices and data tables.
Older QtiPlot versions up to 0.9.8.9 were released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and are available also as binaries for Linux distribution repositories as well as for Windows.
Starting with version 0.9.9 the source code is not available from the author anymore. Compiled binaries are available for Microsoft Windows, several Linux distributions and Mac OS X, including the new ARM M1 chips; downloading binaries from the author's website requires purchase of an annual maintenance contract. Files saved by version 0.9.9 cannot be loaded by version 0.9.8.
Alternatives
SciDAVis, forked from QtiPlot in 2007
LabPlot, free, open source and cross-platform
Fityk, MagicPlot more focused on curve fitting
peak-o-mat, similar to Fityk
HippoDraw, focussed on graphing
Veusz, written in Python
ParaView, for visualizing huge datasets
gnuplot, command-line program for two- and three-dimensional plots
References
Plotting software
Regression and curve fitting software
Software that uses Qt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misszhouia | Misszhouia is a genus of small to average sized (up to long) marine arthropods within the Naraoiidae family, that lived during the early Cambrian period. The species are M. longicaudata, from the Maotianshan Shales, described in 1985, and M. canadensis, from the Burgess Shale and described in 2018, although later species may belongs to genus Naraoia instead.
Etymology
Misszhouia was named after "Miss Zhou" (Zhou Guiqin), to honour her for her skilled preparation of Chengjiang fossils.
Description
Misszhouia longicaudata is almost flat (dorso-ventrally). The upper (or dorsal) side of the body consists of a non-calcified headshield (cephalon) and tailshield (pygidium) without body segments between. The body is narrowed at the articulation between cephalon and pygidium. The long many-segmented antennae are directed forward. There are no eyes. The gut has a relatively small diameter, and there are four pairs of relatively small digestive sacs (or caeca) in the cephalon only, and no branches towards the edge of the cephalon (unlike Naraoia). There are 25 limb pairs with two branches on a common base, like Naraoia and trilobites. The outer branch (or exopod) has many parallel long fine flattened side branches (setae) that probably functioned as gills with a large surface area. This exopod is attached along the whole length of the base segment (coxa) and at least the proximal part of the first segment of the inner branch (endopod). The shaft of the exopod tapers gently towards its tip. The endopod is composed of seven podomeres including a terminal claw.
Differences from Naraoia
The sister genus Naraoia differ from Misszhouia longicaudata in having the following characteristics:
A large, ramifying anterior pair of digestive branches (or diverticula) almost reaching the cephalon edges.
A bloated, mud-filled gut.
Laterally deflected antennae.
Distribution
Misszhouia longicaudata has been collected from the Lower Cambrian (late Atdabanian) of China (Yu'anshan Member of the Heilinpu Formation at Maotia’shan, the classic Chengjiang locality) and also been found in the Niutitang Formation. Misszhouia canadensis is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale in the Marble Canyon (Kootenay National Park).
Ecology
All Naraoids were probably marine bottom dwellers. Misszhouia probably lived as a predator or scavenger. This can be deduced from the robust and spiny basal segments of the legs, which resemble the gnathobases of trilobites. These were likely used for chewing. Such carnivorous behaviour is confirmed by the relatively small digestive system, that indicates high nutrition value food.
Taxonomy
Misszhouia longicaudata was formerly considered a member of the genus Naraoia, originally known as "Naraoia longicaudata", until separated in 1997. A cladistic analysis conducted in 2021 suggested that Misszhouia represented a monophyletic subgroup within Naraoia as traditionally broadly defined.
References
External links
Misszhouia longicaudata T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching%20Control%20Center%20System | The Switching Control Center System was an operations support system developed by Bell Laboratories and deployed during the early 1970s. This computer system was first based on the PDP-11 product line from Digital Equipment Corporation and used the CB Unix operating system and custom application software and device drivers that were developed and maintained by Bell Labs in Columbus, Ohio USA. SCCS was ported to the AT&T 3B20 and 3B5 computers running UNIX System V Release 2 in the early 1980s.
Prior to the SCCS, many telephone company switching centers were staffed 24 hours a day 365 days a year. With SCCS, telephone companies could significantly reduce the number of technicians and dispatch them as required to resolve problems or perform routine maintenance operations.
During the early 1970s, telephone companies began to phase out the older electromechanical switching systems such as the Number 1 Crossbar, Number 5 Crossbar, and step-by-step circuit switching systems and replace them with newer electronic switching systems that were controlled by proprietary computers but still used analog switch fabrics such as Bell-proprietary ferreed switch devices.
The SCCS system was phased out during the late 1990s and replaced by an OSS known as Network Monitoring and Analysis or NMA that was developed by Bell Communications Research now Telcordia Technologies. AT&T developed additional products based on SCCS software, such as Compulert.
The primary purpose of the SCCS system was to provide operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAMP) functions for telephone company network operations staff. The SCCS accepted as input the slow 110 baud Teletype messages from circuit switching systems such as the Number 1 ESS, Number 2 ESS, Number 3 ESS, Number 5 ESS, and Traffic Service Position System (TSPS) network switches and provide analysis, reports, troubleshooting support, and other functions using newer faster DataSpeed-40 terminals.
This system was documented in the Bell System Technical Journal and AT&T internal Bell System Practices during the 1970s.
References
Telephony |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATN%20B4U%20Movies | ATN B4U Movies is a Canadian Category B specialty channel owned by Asian Television Network International. It broadcasts programming from B4U Movies and Canadian content. Programming consists of Bollywood movies and other Bollywood film based programming in Hindi.
History
ATN B4U Movies was originally launched as a pay service in March 2001 using the following license. However, on September 25, 2012, this license was revoked at ATN's request. The channel subsequently re-launched as a regular specialty service on June 17, 2012, under the following license: ATN Hindi Movie Channel 3.
References
External links
B4U Movies
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Movie channels in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Hindi-language television in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Coletti | Alex Coletti is an executive producer and director. He is a Brooklyn native and graduate of Brooklyn College, and formerly worked for MTV Networks. He now heads Alex Coletti Productions. Alex produced MTV’s Unplugged series, was a five-time producer of the VMAs, and served as a producer for Super Bowl XXXV and Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime shows.
Work
Coletti was in charge of filming Celtic Woman: Songs from the Heart at the Powerscourt Estate in Ireland in 2009 for PBS. He was EP and Director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony for HBO, from 2015-2019, and producer of the Audible series Words & Music (2020). He was director of the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon for most of 2021, and executive producer of One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga for CBS/Paramount+.
Coletti has also directed many concert performances featuring, among others, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Ed Sheeran, and Coldplay.
He has been nominated for 3 Emmy Awards for his work with Unplugged.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Brooklyn College alumni
Lafayette High School (New York City) alumni
MTV people
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https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1218502/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Lightning%20%28computing%29 | Green lightning originally referred to random flashing streaks across the screen of IBM 3278-9 computer terminals, which were produced by a hardware bug when a new symbol set was being downloaded. Instead of fixing the fault, IBM suggested that it was useful because it let the user know during the download that something was in progress.
Later IBM colour graphics terminals were microprocessor driven and would not have produced flashing streaks. IBM decided to program them to re-create the "green lightning", since the bug had become a feature - a phenomenon known as a misbug.
This is one of many terms from the Jargon File that are widely quoted but have little or no everyday usage.
References
Computer jargon
Hardware bugs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consultant%20Plus | Consultant Plus () is an assistance system to work with the legislation of Russia. Consultant's centralized database is updated daily. It is distributed via a network of partners.
Its major competitors are Garant and Codex and Techexpert, both proprietary.
The full federal law database includes over 3 million documents; regional acts are distributed in a separate database with over 4 million documents.
The information contained in the system is structured into several notions, including:
legislation
jurisprudence
financial advice
legislation commentaries
document forms (templates)
legislation drafts
international legal acts
health protection legal acts
technical standards and rules
Every class mentioned above consists of several information banks to simplify the search throughout the database by manually excluding the classes and banks inappropriate for each current search.
The database includes:
normative legal acts of Russia and its federal subjects, as well as international
commentaries and explanations for them, precedents from the common practice
articles and books from periodicals and text collections
forms of account correspondence
forms of the documents (officially standardized and approximate)
other helpful information (accountant calendar, exchange rates, bank rate, etc.)
analytical reports
External links
Official site of Consultant Plus
Artiks - Consultant Plus information center web-site
Internet-based version of ConsultantPlus
Non-commercial projects of ConsultantPlus (for schools, universities, etc.)
Consultant Plus app for Android
Legal software
Law of Russia
Windows-only proprietary software
Law databases
Databases in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20EA%20class%20locomotive | The New Zealand EA class (later reclassified as EO) of electric locomotives were used on the New Zealand rail network between 1968 and 1997 on the OtiraArthur's Pass section of the Midland line in the South Island, through the Otira Tunnel. Following reconditioning, three were used by KiwiRail's Tranz Metro in Wellington from 2008 to 2011 to top and tail Metlink suburban passenger trains as an interim measure before new rolling stock arrived. Four of the five locomotives were scrapped in 2013 with one being set aside for preservation.
Introduction
The class replaced the EO class of 1923, by then largely worn out, on Otira Tunnel duties in 1968. Like their predecessors, the EA class operated as a group of three, with two on standby at Otira. They were more powerful at 1,290 hp than the original EO class at 680 hp, and so could handle heavier trains. This was to prove useful when West Coast coal exports began in the late 1970s using trains of dedicated LC high side coal wagons.
Standard operation of the EAs would see three in service at any one time hauling trains between Otira and Arthur's Pass. The other two locomotives would remain at the Otira electric locomotive depot, although any one of the two spare units could be sent to Addington Workshops for an overhaul as required. They were mostly used to haul freight trains, although they did occasionally haul passenger trains either on their own or in multiple with the diesel locomotive pulling the train.
Originally the locomotives were classified as the EA class until the early 1980s when they were reclassified into the EO class.
Withdrawal
In 1987, demand for export coal necessitated the introduction of the CB class bogie hoppers on Ngakawau-Lyttelton export coal trains. These hoppers were heavier than the dedicated LC high side coal wagons previously used, and this led to a reduction in the amount that three EOs could haul through the tunnel.
In 1988, NZR began experimenting with the use of diesel traction through the Otira Tunnel, with the reallocation of DX class diesel locomotives from the North Island, redeployed following the opening of the North Island Main Trunk electrification. The experiment was unsuccessful, but it was found by modifying the DX class locomotives with low-level intakes and modified drawgear (locomotives modified in this manner were later reclassified DXC) and adding giant extraction fans and tunnel doors would be sufficient to allow diesel operation. The decision was made to decommission the Otira electrification which was no longer capable of meeting modern requirements and was also largely worn out after 74 years of heavy use.
The OtiraArthur's Pass electrification was decommissioned in 1997. As a result, the EO class was withdrawn and placed into storage. A farewell excursion was held on 1 November 1997, with two EO units at one end, and two DC locos at the other end. EO 45 and EO 74 were moved to the Ferrymead Railway in June 1998 while EO 39, 51, and 68 were |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Mairson | Harry George Mairson is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science in the Volen National Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. His research is in the fields of logic in computer science, lambda calculus and functional programming, type theory and constructive mathematics, computational complexity theory, and algorithmics.
His Ph.D. thesis, The Program Complexity of Searching a Table, won the Machtey Award at the 1983 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS). Mairson was a Postdoctoral researcher at INRIA Rocqencourt from 1984 to 1985, at Stanford University in 1985, and at the University of Oxford in 1986. He held a visiting professor position from 1999 to 2001 at Boston University. From 2005 to 2007, Mairson has served as the Chair of the Faculty Senate at Brandeis. He is currently an Associate Editor of the journal Logical Methods in Computer Science and Information and Computation, and sits on the editorial board of Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation.
Mairson's contributions to the theory of programming languages include proving that type inference for the ML programming language, so-called Hindley–Milner type inference, is complete for exponential time and that parallel beta reduction is non-elementary.
Education
Mairson received a B.A. in mathematics from Yale University in 1978 and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1984 under the supervision of Jeffrey Ullman.
External links
Harry Mairson at Brandeis University
Brandeis University Faculty Guide: Harry Mairson
DBLP: Harry G. Mairson
The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Harry Mairson
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Yale University alumni
Stanford University alumni
American computer scientists
Programming language researchers
Brandeis University faculty
Theoretical computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langworthy%20tram%20stop | Langworthy is a tram stop on the Eccles Line of Greater Manchester's light rail Metrolink system. It opened to passengers on 12 June 1999, as part of Phase 2 of the network's expansion, in the Langworthy area of Salford, in North West England.
Langworthy Metrolink stop is located on the corner of Langworthy Road and Eccles New Road (the A57). The area to the south and west of the station is largely commercial and industrial. The area to the north along Langworthy Road mostly comprises terraced buildings. The area to the east of Langworthy Road is currently undergoing intensive redevelopment.
This stop lies within ticketing Zone 2.
Services
Service pattern
12 minute service to Ashton-under-Lyne (via MediaCityUK at offpeak times).
12 minute service to Eccles.
Connecting bus routes
Langworthy station is served by Go North West service 33, which runs to Manchester and to Worsley via Eccles.
Also, stopping nearby is Stagecoach Manchester service 50, branded as City Connect linking Salford Shopping Centre in Pendleton, Salford Crescent railway station, Salford University, Salford Central railway station, Manchester and East Didsbury with Salford Quays and MediaCityUK.
References
External links
Langworthy Stop Information
Langworthy area map
Tram stops in Salford
Tram stops on the Eccles to Piccadilly line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaste%20tram%20stop | Weaste is a tram stop on the Eccles Line of Greater Manchester's light rail Metrolink system. It opened to passengers on 12 June 1999 as part of Phase 2 of the network's expansion, and is located the Weaste area of the City of Salford, in North West England.
Weaste tram stop is close to the M602 motorway and The Willows, the former home stadium of Salford City Reds.
Services
Service pattern
12 minute service to Ashton-under-Lyne (via MediaCityUK at offpeak times).
12 minute service to Eccles.
Connecting bus routes
Weaste station is served by Go North West service 33, which runs between Manchester Shudehill and Worsley via Eccles
References
External links
Weaste Stop Information
Weaste area map
Tram stops in Salford
Tram stops on the Eccles to Piccadilly line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara%20no%20Tadataka | , first son of regent Matsudono Motofusa, was a Kugyō (high-ranking Japanese official) of the late Heian and Kamakura periods.
Despite being first-born, he was treated as if he were not, while his stepbrother Moroie inherited the male-line. Hence, he called himself , avoiding the use of the name Matsudono. In 1220, just before the Jōkyū War, he retired from politics, becoming a Buddhist monk.
In recent years scholars have suspected that he is actually the author of .
References
1163 births
1245 deaths
Matsudono family
People of Heian-period Japan
People of Kamakura-period Japan
Kamakura period Buddhist clergy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance%202 | Resistance 2 is a 2008 science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. The game was released in North America on November 4, 2008, in Australia on November 27, 2008, and in Europe on the following day. Resistance 2 is the sequel to the best-selling PlayStation 3 launch title Resistance: Fall of Man.
Resistance 2 sees protagonist Nathan Hale travel to the United States in order to once again battle the Chimera, who have launched a full-scale invasion of both the east and west coasts. In this game, Hale is part of an elite force of soldiers called "The Sentinels", who, like him, are infected with the Chimeran virus, and must keep it under control through regular application of inhibitors.
Resistance 2 was released to generally positive reviews, with praise for its visuals, multiplayer modes and scale of the single-player campaign. However, there was some criticism of the story and aspects of the campaign, while the game's overall changes from its predecessors drew polarized reactions from critics and fans. A sequel, Resistance 3, was released in 2011. The game, along with its predecessor and sequel, had its online servers shut down on April 8, 2014. Digital versions of the first two games were released after the servers' closure, exclusively in Europe.
Gameplay
Resistance 2 is a single-player campaign, with the player controlling protagonist Nathan Hale. The game includes many of the weapons from Resistance: Fall of Man, as well as new weapons such as the "Marksman" and a mini gun called the "HVAP (High Velocity Armor Piercing) Wraith". The weapons are a mix of 1950s human technology and more advanced alien technology. Unlike the first game, where there was no limit on the number of weapons carried, Resistance 2 limited the player to only two weapons at any given time, as well as a more limited number of grenades. Resistance 2 also does not use a health bar in the single player campaign as it did in the first, but instead it uses an automatic regenerative health system, whereby players must keep out of the line of fire in order to recover health. This system of health recovery is also common in other first-person shooters like Halo, Battlefield and Call of Duty.
Multiplayer
Resistance 2 features multiplayer in two variations. Both multiplayer modes track the player's performance, gaining experience and leading to benefits and rewards, as well as assigning the player a skill ranking.
Resistance 2 does not offer co-op for the single player campaign. Cooperative mode features a separate campaign mode set in 1952–53 in the gap in the time line of the single-player campaign. The cooperative campaign supports anything from two to eight players, taking the role of a special forces group called "Spectre Team". Players are tasked with many randomized objectives around the map, while defeating hordes of Chimera in the process. The strength of the enemy f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20%28TV%20series%29 | Chuck is an American action comedy/spy-drama television series created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named Chuck Bartowski, played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working for the CIA. The message embeds the only remaining copy of a software program containing the United States' greatest spy secrets into Chuck's brain, leading the CIA and the NSA to assign him handlers and use him on top-secret missions. Produced by Fake Empire Productions (known as College Hill Pictures during the first three seasons before folding afterwards), Wonderland Sound and Vision, and Warner Bros. Television, the series premiered on September 24, 2007, on NBC, airing on Monday nights at 8:00 p.m./7:00 p.m. Central. The opening theme song is a wordless edit of "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" by the American rock band Cake.
As the second season finished, flagging ratings put Chuck in danger of cancellation, but fans mounted a successful campaign to encourage NBC to renew the show. The campaign was unique in that fans specifically targeted a sponsor of the show, the Subway restaurant chain, leading to the chain striking a major sponsorship deal with NBC to help cover costs of the third season. The series' renewal was uncertain in each subsequent season. The fifth season was the last, beginning on October 28, 2011, and moving to Friday nights at 8 p.m./7 Central. The series concluded on January 27, 2012, with a two-hour finale.
Episodes
Series summary
Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) is in his mid-twenties and works at Buy More, a Burbank, California, consumer-electronics chain store. He is an intelligent, but unmotivated, computer service expert and works alongside his best friend, Morgan Grimes (Joshua Gomez). He had been expelled from Stanford University on false charges that he cheated in one of his classes, which likely damaged his drive and morale. He lives with his sister, Ellie (Sarah Lancaster), and her boyfriend, Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb (Ryan McPartlin), who are doctors that constantly encourage Chuck to make progress in his professional and romantic life.
Bryce Larkin (Matthew Bomer), Chuck's former Stanford University roommate and now a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent, steals the Intersect, the entire merged database of the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA), and destroys the computer storing it. The sole surviving copy becomes subliminally embedded in Chuck's brain via encoded images when he opens an email from Bryce. The NSA's Major John Casey (Adam Baldwin) and CIA Officer Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski) are dispatched to investigate.
Chuck is recruited to use the knowledge he now possesses to help thwart assassins and international terrorists, upending his previously mundane life. The Intersect causes Chuck to receive involuntary "flashes" of information from the database, activated by triggers such as faces, voices, objects, and key |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens%202004%20%28video%20game%29 | Athens 2004 is the official video game of the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, hosted by Athens, Greece in 2004. Developed by Eurocom and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (Eidos Interactive for PC), it was released for the PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows.
List of events
Following is a list of events in the game. By default, all events are available for both sexes unless otherwise noted:
Track
Sprints: 100 metres, 200 metres and 400 metres
Middle distance: 800 metres and 1500 metres
Hurdles: 100 metres hurdles for women and 110 metres hurdles for men
Field
Jumping: Long jump, triple jump, high jump and pole vault
Throwing: Discus throw, javelin throw and shot put
Swimming
100 metres breaststroke, freestyle, backstroke and butterfly
Gymnastics (PS2 version only)
Artistic: Floor exercise (separate gameplay for male and female), still rings (men only) and vault
Equestrian (PS2 version only)
Show jumping (mixed gender event)
Weight lifting
+105 kg. clean and jerk (male only)
Archery
70 m individual (female only)
Shooting
Skeet shooting (male only)
Playable nations
A record 64 countries were able to be played on the game. They are:
Reception
The PlayStation 2 version of Athens 2004 received "mixed" reviews, while the PC version received "unfavorable" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the PS2 version was ported for release on 29 July 2004, Famitsu gave it a score of one seven, two sixes, and one seven for a total of 26 out of 40.
References
External links
Athens 2004 at Eurocom
2004 video games
2004 Summer Olympics
Summer Olympic video games
PlayStation 2 games
Video games set in 2004
Video games set in Greece
Windows games
Eurocom games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Eidos Interactive games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent%20Systems | Torrent Systems, originally named Applied Parallel Technologies (APT), was a parallel computing software company founded in 1993 by Edward Zyszkowski, with the first employee being Rob Utzschneider. Torrent received initial funding from the NIST Advanced Technology Program.
Products
The company's product was a parallel flow-based programming system called Orchestrate. The product enabled users to assemble a program using predefined components (called operators) connected by virtual datasets in a manner similar to Unix pipelines. Here is a simple example:
generator
-records 50
-schema record (recNum: int32;
firstName: string[max=20];
lastName: string[max=30];)
|
peek
-name -all
This script contains two operators: the generator operator (which creates test data) and the peek operator, which displays the contents of the records it receives. The generator will create 50 records, each with three fields; the peek operator will display their contents.
Torrent was acquired by Ascential Software in late 2001 for about $46 million; Orchestrate became part of Ascential's DataStage data integration system, which became part of IBM's Information Server product when Ascential was acquired by IBM in mid-2005. Torrent technology became the Parallel Engine in the Information Server architecture.
References
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saigon%20station | Saigon station is a railway station in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The station is a major hub in the national railway network. Located about 1 km from the city center, Saigon railway station is the final station on the North–South railway, and the southernmost point of the Vietnamese railways. Despite the city being named Ho Chi Minh City after the Vietnam War, the name of the station has remained the same.
History
The original station, which opened in 1885, was located across from Bến Thành Market in District 1. The current station, originally a baggage holding and shipping centre, was constructed by the French colonists in the early 1930s, as part of the Hanoi-Saigon Railway.
Every year, one or two months before Tết, thousands of people queue all day at the station to buy tickets home, because it is the main booking office of Vietnam Railways. Though electronic booking machines have been adopted, the queues continue, due to the monopoly of the railway.
The head office is in 136 Ham Nghi Boulevard, Ben Thanh ward, district 1, Ho Chi Minh city.
Binh Trieu station
Due to the requirements of urban planning, the city government is considering the relocation of the station to the city outskirts at Binh Trieu (Binh Trieu Railway Station).
References
External links
Saigon Railways Official Website
Transport in Ho Chi Minh City
Railway stations in Vietnam
Buildings and structures in Ho Chi Minh City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Affairs%20Councils%20of%20America | The World Affairs Councils of America is a network of 93 autonomous and nonpartisan councils across 40 states.
History
The World Affairs Councils of America was founded in 1918. It is the largest nonprofit international affairs organization in the United States.
In mid-February 2011, Chairman of the Board Ambassador Marc Grossman stepped down to become the United States Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, replacing Richard Holbrooke. In June 2011, Ambassador Paula Dobriansky filled the position of Chair of the National Board. In June 2015, WACA announced that Ambassador Roman Popadiuk who served as the first United States Ambassador to Ukraine under George H. W. Bush, from 1992 to 1993, has been elected the new chairman of the national Board of Directors. Following a three-month co-chair period, Glenn Creamer succeeded Popadiuk as chairman in November 2020, chosen for his work as chairman of the Catholic Relief Services Foundation.
In 2014, the World Affairs Councils of America won the Diversity and Inclusion (DANDI) Award in the international category.
Programs
The World Affairs Councils of America supports a group of 93 councils who present programs annually. The Councils sponsor international exchanges, school programs, teachers workshops, foreign policy discussions, national opinion polls, travel programs, young professionals’ programs, conferences, and corporate programs.
The national association organizes an annual conference, leadership missions to other nations, a speaker referral system, international speaker exchanges, people-to-people diplomacy missions, educational workshops, book tours, subscription discounts, operations workshops, and video-conferences. It has also run national program series such as World Bank Town Meetings, Two Koreas, Future of Russia, Western Hemisphere, Human Rights Worldwide, the EU, Rising Anti-Americanism, American Security, UN Reform, and The People Speak.
WACA has four flagship programs: Academic WorldQuest, Leadership Missions, the annual National Conference, and the Engage America speaker series. The National Conference is an annual event that engages diplomats, experts, members from the business, civic, and education communities with leading policy. Academic WorldQuest is an annual team-based international affairs, geography, history, and culture competition for high school students sponsored by the World Affairs Councils of America. The WorldQuest has been held every year since 2003. WorldQuest was created in 1995 by Jennifer Watson Roberts of the World Affairs Council of Charlotte.
In order to compete at the national WorldQuest competition, teams must first win at their regional council level (usually held from November to March). Every year, 4,000 high school students across the country participate in local competitions hosted by their World Affairs Council.
Leadership missions
For more than a decade, the WACA has been invited to bring small delegations of council leaders to learn ab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit%20conflict | An edit conflict is a computer problem that may occur when multiple editors edit the same file and cannot merge without losing part or all of their edit. The conflict occurs when an editor gets a copy of a shared document file, changes the copy, and attempts to save the changes to the original file, which has been altered by another editor after the copy was obtained.
Resolution
The simplest way to resolve an edit conflict is to ignore intervening edits and overwrite the current file. This may lead to a substantial loss of information, and alternative methods are often employed to resolve or prevent conflicts:
Manual resolution, where the editor determines which version to retain and may manually incorporate edits into the current version of the file.
Store backups or file comparisons of each edit, so there are the previous versions of the file can still be accessed once the original is overwritten.
File locking, which limits the file to one editor at a time to prevent edit conflicts. Computer writer Gary B. Shelly notes that many wiki systems "will block the contributor who is attempting to edit the page from being able to do so until the contributor currently editing the page saves changes or remains idle on the page for an extended period of time."
Merge, by determining if the edits are in unrelated parts of the file and combining without user intervention.
Occurrences
The problem is encountered on heavily edited articles in wikis (frequency higher in articles related to a current event or person), distributed data systems (e.g., Google Sites), and revision control systems not using file locking, as well as other high-traffic pages. If a significant amount of new text is involved, the editor who receives an "edit conflict" error message can cut and paste the new text into a word processor or similar program for further editing, or can paste that text directly into a newer version of the target document. Simple copyediting can be done directly on the newer version, and then saved.
See also
Concurrent Versions System
Apache Subversion
Git (software)
References
Wiki concepts
Version control
Distributed computing problems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Douglas%20C-47%20Skytrain%20operators | List of C-47 Skytrain operators includes the country, military service, known squadrons, and related data. The Skytrain or Dakota is a military transport that was developed from the Douglas DC-3 airliner. The C-47 has served with over 90 countries outside of the United States:
Operators
Current operators
Bolivia
Bolivian Air Force
Colombia
Colombian Air Force
El Salvador
Salvadoran Air Force
Guatemala
Guatemalan Air Force
Malawi
Malawi Air Force
Mali
Mali Air Force
Mauritania
Mauritania Islamic Air Force - started operating one C-47 donated by France in 1960. Five additional aircraft were bought from France in the first half of the 1960s. Currently operates one Basler BT-67.
South Africa
South African Air Force
35 Squadron SAAF: Still in use, flying the Turbo Dakota
Thailand
Royal Thai Air Force
Former operators
Argentina
Argentine Air Force - 55 (DC-3 and C-47)
Argentine Naval Aviation - 13 (4 DC-3, 9 C-47) ex US
Australia
Royal Australian Air Force
The RAAF impressed civil DC-3s in September 1939 at the outbreak of World War II. The first C-47s were delivered in 1942 under Lend-Lease and the first built specifically for the RAAF entered service in February 1943. RAAF had received 124 by 1945 which were used during World War II, the Korean War the Malayan Emergency and in Occupied Japan. Most were transferred to civilian government agencies in Australia and New Guinea or sold to airlines in the 1960s. 7 were transferred to Papua New Guinea Defence Force in 1973. A handful survived in RAAF service into the 1990s with the last two (A65-94 and A65-95) being retired from the Aircraft Research and Development Unit in March 1999. These two are now operated by the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society.
Royal Australian Navy
Four ex-RAAF aircraft were transferred to the RAN post-war.
No. 723 Squadron RAN
No. 724 Squadron RAN
No. 725 Squadron RAN
No. 851 Squadron RAN
Bangladesh
Bangladesh Air Force - all retired.
Belgium
Belgian Air Force
Brazil
Brazilian Air Force
Real Transportes Aéreos
Cambodia
Royal Cambodian Air Force
Received ex-RAAF C-47s as foreign aid.
Canada
Buffalo Airways
Canadian Coast Guard - operated by Transport Canada
Canadian Forces
Environment Canada (ex-CAF)
Royal Canadian Air Force Last served with 402 Squadron in Winnipeg and was retired in 1988.
103 Search and Rescue Squadron
Royal Canadian Navy
VU-32 Squadron
Chad
Chadian Air Force
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakian Air Force operated C-47s and Soviet-built Li-2.
Denmark
Royal Danish Air Force
Ethiopia
Ethiopian Air Force
Finland
The Finnish Air Force operated nine from 1960 to 1984. One was involved in the Finnish Air Force's deadliest crash on 3 October 1978, when the aircraft crashed soon after takeoff, killing all 15 aboard.
France
The French Air Force operated Skytrains from September 1944 on, when Lend-Lease C-47Bs were delivered to the Groupe de Transport 1/15. After the war, they were the only transport aircr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gstock | GStock was a distributed computing project formed in 2006 for stock market analysis. It was enabled by users that volunteered to download and run a software client and donate some idle capacity of their computer processing unit (CPU). The gathered computing power was used to search for an investment strategy that historically worked best for each individual stock.
Information
GStock applied technical analysis models in its calculations. The investment strategies found to work best for each stock produced periodic BUY and SELL trading signals. These signals were publicly available on the GStock.com website along with past statistics and charts with the BUY and SELL signals plotted on them for visual comparison by users.
GStock scanned over 1 billion investments strategies on over 4,000 US publicly traded stocks.
See also
Distributed computing
Parallel computing
Grid computing
External links
GStock Website (Archived)
Penny Stocks Today Website
Biotech Stocks Searching Platform
Stock market
Distributed computing projects
Technical analysis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve%20C%2B%2B%20Parallel%20Programming%20System | The Sieve C++ Parallel Programming System is a C++ compiler and parallel runtime designed and released by Codeplay that aims to simplify the parallelization of code so that it may run efficiently on multi-processor or multi-core systems. It is an alternative to other well-known parallelisation methods such as OpenMP, the RapidMind Development Platform and Threading Building Blocks (TBB).
Introduction
Sieve is a C++ compiler that will take a section of serial code, which is annotated with sieve markers, and parallelize it automatically. The programmer wraps code they wish to parallelise inside a lexical scope, which is tagged as 'sieve'. Inside this scope, referred to commonly as a 'sieve block', certain rules apply :
All side-effects within the sieve block are delayed until the end of the scope.
Side-effects are defined to be any modifications to data declared outside the sieve block scope.
Only functions annotated with sieve or immediate can be called.
Delaying side-effects removes many small dependencies which would usually impede automatic parallelization. Reads and writes can be safely reordered by the compiler as to allow better use of various data movement mechanisms, such as Direct Memory Access(DMA). In addition, alias analysis and dataflow analysis can be simplified . The compiler can then split up code within the sieve block much easier, to exploit parallelism.
Memory Configuration
This separation of scopes also means the Sieve System can be used in non-uniform memory architectures. Multi-core CPUs such as the Cell microprocessor used in the PlayStation 3 are of this type, in which the fast cores have local memories that must be utilized to exploit performance inherent in the system. It is also able to work on shared memory systems, like x86, meaning it can run on various architectures. Sieve blocks can also be nested for systems with a hierarchy of different memories and processing elements.
Parallelization and Scalability
The sieve compiler can split code within a sieve block into chunks either implicitly or explicitly though a 'splithere' statement. For instance, the following example shows parallelizing a loop:
sieve
{
for (iterator i(0); i<length; ++i)
{
R[i] = A[i] * B[i]
splithere;
}
}
The compiler will implicitly add a splitpoint above the for loop construct body, as an entry point. Similarly one will be added after as an exit point.
In the Sieve System, only local variables to the sieve block scope may have dependencies. However, these dependencies must not cross splitpoints; they will generate compiler warnings . In order to parallelize this loop, a special 'Iterator' class may be used in place of a standard integer looping counter. It is safe for parallelization, and the programmer is free to create new Iterator classes at will . In addition to these Iterator classes, the programmer is free to implement classes called 'Accumulators' which are used to carry out reduction operations. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%20A%20Day%20Adventures | 5 A Day Adventures is an educational entertainment computer product developed by eMotion Studios.
Purpose
The software teaches third-grade students to eat fruits and vegetables daily. It features singing and rapping partially-clothed cartoon fruit and vegetables that explain how their actual counterparts are grown, nutritionally valued and cooked.
Publication history
The program was published and produced by the Dole Food Company, in collaboration with the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior. It was given to more than 18,000 schools across the United States and bundled with the Macintosh Quadra 630 series. In all, 270,000 copies were distributed.
See also
Preventice
References
External links
Society for Nutrition Education
Dole 5 a Day Adventures
(cannot be opened unless connected to the Virginia Tech campus networks)
1993 software
Health software
Windows software
Macintosh software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads%20Fund | The Crossroads Fund is a Chicago-based public foundation that supports community organizations working for social and economic justice in the Chicago area. It is a member of a national network of grantmakers called the Funding Exchange [www.fex.org], all of whom share the motto, "change, not charity." This motto speaks to a shared commitment by Funding Exchange members to support grassroots organizations in their efforts towards system change. Crossroads Fund sees direct service as important, but recognizes that it has a critical role to play in supporting groups working to change the world we live in. . Crossroads Fund has four standing grantmaking programs, including: the Seed Fund, which targets new, emerging, and risk-taking groups working for social change across issues; the Technical Assistance Fund, which support technical and training needs of eligible grantees; the Emergency Fund offers assistance to groups faced by sudden and unexpected problems; and the donor-advised fund provides a way for donors with a specific interest in an issue to pool their resources for concentrated impact.
The Crossroads Fund is a left-liberal-progressive organization that gives money to many different kinds of projects in Chicago. Advocacy, arts and activism, radical education, and public health are some of the areas. Many of its grantees have been groups working with the poor or with ethnic and sexual minorities. It has been a frequent supporter of immigrant-rights groups in Chicago and also of LGBT groups. For example, in 2007, it co-sponsored the Tubeho Project Exhibit on the Survivors of the Rwandan genocide at Northwestern University . But Crossroads has also supported other kinds of projects, for example ones aiding senior citizens at Jane Addams Hull House. In international affairs, the group has sponsored Chicago Palestine Film Festival and Committee for a Just Peace in Israel & Palestine.
Bibliography
Davis, Andrew and Amy Wooten, "Taking Charge: What was Happening in 1985", Windy City Times,
Hemmady, Neena, "Neena Hemmady Remembers",
Society for Non-Profit Organizations
Fraternal service organizations based in Chicago
Non-profit organizations based in Chicago
Community-building organizations
Political advocacy groups in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolsa%20railway%20station | Tolsa railway station (, ) is a railway halt on the Helsinki commuter rail network located in the town of Kirkkonummi, Finland, between the Jorvas and Kirkkonummi stations. The station is served by Helsinki commuter rail lines U and L. The westbound trains to Kirkkonummi stop at track 1 and the eastbound trains to Helsinki use the track 2. Some trains to Kirkkonummi, however, use the track 2, if they are meant to arrive on tracks 2 or 3 at the Kirkkonummi station.
History
First halt
Tolls was opened as a halt on 1 December 1905 as a pysäkki (a station of lower significance, translating to stop, as prompted by recreational residences being built in the area after the opening of the railway. In the same year, a type väntskjul small station building was constructed; it was replaced by a new design by Thure Hellström in 1928. The station had its Finnish name, Tolsa, officialized in the same year on 24 May.
The station was on the area of the territory of the Soviet Porkkala Naval Base, established as a result of the Moscow Armistice in 1944. Upon the return of Porkkala to Finnish control in 1956, Tolsa was re-established as an unmanned halt on 15 August.
Second halt
The Tolsa station had been planned to be moved from its initial location slightly towards Helsinki for a long time. The reasons were the upgraded section of the highway 51 from Kivenlahti to the Munkinmäki interchange in Kirkkonummi, improved safety at the station, and a better population base at the new location. A 2009 study by the Finnish Rail Administration and the municipality of Kirkkonummi explored various options for entirely rebuilding the station with high and long platforms, as well as removing the cross-platform level crossing in favor of an underpass.
In August 2013, the renovation of municipal infrastructure was started next to the track, along Tolsantie. The original plan was to move the station entirely to the Laajakallio side, but it was eventually decided to move the station to the east only slightly, to the bridge over Tolsantie. Work on the relocation of the station started in May 2014; on 15 November 2014, part of Tolsantie was closed from 19:00 onwards, when the old railway bridge over Tolsantie was demolished to make way for the new one. The new bridge, weighing 1,000 tonnes, was moved into place on 16 November 2014, and a new section of the railway was built over the bridge. The bridge relocation and track work was completed on the morning of 17 November 2014. The new station was opened on 15 August 2015. The project cost approximately €4 million, 76% of which was paid by the Finnish Transport Agency and the rest by the municipality.
Services
Tolsa is served by lines U and L to Kirkkonummi and X to Siuntio on the Helsinki commuter rail network. The station has a HSL ticket vending machine, and although it lacks an elevator, it has high platforms and ramp routes for accessibility.
HSL bus connections are provided with stops on the Tolsantie street that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADctor%20Varela | Víctor Varela (born 1955) is a Venezuelan-Swedish composer based in Gothenburg. His compositions include works for orchestra, vocal and instrumental chamber music, with electronics and computer devices.
Education
Varela was born in Caracas where he studied musical composition, electronic music and piano at the National Conservatory of Music Juan José Landaeta, obtaining a degree in composition in 1987. Afterwards, he studied composition at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (Composition Prize in 1993) and electronic music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Among his teachers are Antonio Mastrogiovanni, Eduardo Kusnir, Geert van Keulen, Ton de Leeuw, Louis Andriessen, Theo Loevendie, John Coolidge Adams and Trevor Wishart.
Career
Varela's music has been performed at festivals and events in major cities worldwide, including festivals like ISCM World Music Days, San Juan’s Biennial of Contemporary Music, Caracas Latin American Music Festival, Inter American Music and Dance Festival, Green Umbrella Series, Stockholm New Music, and Gothenburg Art Sounds.
In Venezuela he received the National Composition Award and the Caracas City Municipal Award. In 1996 his Second String Quartet was selected to represent Venezuela at the ISCM Festival in Copenhagen, and in 2005 his Axle-asimétrica II was selected to represent Sweden at the ISCM festival in Zagreb. He has written works commissioned by the Teresa Carreño Opera Theatre, the Venezuelan Society for Electronic Music, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Swedish Arts Council, Caracas Ensemble, Nova Musica Ensemble, STIM, the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Gageego!, Ars Nova, and Concerts Sweden.
Varela taught at the National Conservatory of Music J.J. Landaeta and at IUDEM, both in Caracas. He has also been a lecturer at the Universities Central de Venezuela, Simón Bolívar, Stanford, and Gothenburg.
Varela became a Swedish citizen in 2001.
Selected works
Orchestral
El Cántico de Khronos for full orchestra (1987)
Two articulations for chamber orchestra (1992)
Gemini Delta for full orchestra (2012)
Concertante
Axle-Asimétrica I for cello soloist and chamber orchestra (1997–98)
Syntax for flute, oboe soloists and chamber orchestra (2005)
Instrumental solo
Archipiélago for organ (2002)
Batacumbele for bass clarinet (2000)
Crystals for clarinet (2000)
Luna en refracción for flute (2001)
Otoño-Occidente for piano (1994–95)
Jeux de dispersion for piano (2007)
Sabines Spiralis for piccolo (1995–96)
Viola pomposa for viola (2006)
Exit/entrée for double bass (2019)
Chamber music
Axle-Asimétrica II for harp, vibraphone and marimba (1997)
Claro/ Obscuro for bass clarinet and harpsichord (1996)
Equinox for saxophone quartet (2002–03)
In between silences for trombone and percussion player (2003–04)
Miró-epsilon for alto recorder and marimba (1996–97)
Second String Quartet (1994)
Canciones de solitud y utopía for flute soloist and ensemble (2004)
à trois for violin, French horn and piano (2005)
Online for bas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullbrook%20School | Fullbrook School is a secondary school and sixth form in north west Surrey, England. The school has held Specialist Science, Technology, Mathematics and Computing College status since 2002. The school gained Grant Maintained status in the mid-1990s and was then given foundation status in 1999. In 2011, the school became an academy. Its main catchment areas are Byfleet, West Byfleet and New Haw with some pupils coming from Addlestone, Woking, Goldsworth Park and Sheerwater. The school has around 1550 students and there are about 250 students in the school's Sixth Form. In January 2017, Mrs. A Turner retired as head of Fullbrook School, and was succeeded by Mrs. K Moore. In 2022, Mr. A McKenzie was appointed as head of the school, coinciding with his lead as principal at King's College, Guildford.
History
Fullbrook was first established on its present site in 1954, when West Byfleet County Secondary School was divided into two as numbers at that school, due to post-war expansion, reached 747 in September 1953. Pupils living to the north of the line from Sheerwater Road, the Basingstoke Canal and then along the railway to West Weybridge (now Byfleet and New Haw) transferred to Fullbrook County Secondary School.
Above the main entrance is a stone plaque that was loaned to the school from the London County Council (LCC) during the building programme in the early 1950s. The Sheerwater Estate was being built to provide over spill housing for Londoners. The school there, now Bishop David Brown, had not yet been built and so the plaque came to the just completed Fullbrook School. The Headteacher and Governors used it to inspire the school badge. The plaque features an eagle and a squirrel. It was decided that as an eagle was often used on badges, to use choose the squirrel as it was different. The Festival of Britain was held at that time and celebrated contemporary design. The original Fullbrook building is in a typical 1950s style and perhaps the plaque was placed over the main entrance to decorate an otherwise plain architectural design. The plaque design is very much in the Art Deco style and it is possible that it came from a London building destroyed during The Blitz.
Mr. W. H. Bean, the school's first headmaster retired in 1968.
In 1976, West Byfleet County Secondary School closed and its pupils and teachers joined Fullbrook, merged to create the mixed school we are familiar with today.
Houses
The houses of the school were originally named after British Royal Houses - Tudor, Stuart, Hanover and Windsor and then later famous battles - Alamein, Blenheim, Agincourt, Hastings, Trafalgar and Waterloo and were formed from an entire school vote on a list of 50 house name ideas which were themed around the idea of Maths and Computing (the school's Specialist Subjects). The six that won were Newton (yellow), Cyber (blue), Enigma (red), Fibonacci (purple), Galileo (orange) and Matrix (green). In 2017, another vote was held, updating the house names wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIU%20College%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Computing | The Florida International University College of Engineering and Computing, located in Miami, Florida in the United States is one of the university's 26 schools and colleges and was originally established in 1973 as the School of Technology. The College of Engineering and Computing offers bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees within the college's 8 separate schools, departments and institutes. The college offers online and distance learning courses and programs through the Office of Distance Education. This office was previously known as FIU FEEDS, a statewide distance learning initiative adopted by the college in 1985.
The College of Engineering and Computing currently offers bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in Biomedical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Construction Management, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Information Technology, Networking & Telecommunications, and Mechanical Engineering.
There are currently over 2,800 undergraduate and 700 graduate students in the college split into various academic departments and schools:
Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences
Moss School of Construction, Infrastructure and Sustainability
Moss Department of Construction Management
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
School of Universal Computing, Construction and Engineering Education
School of Electrical, Computer and Enterprise Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Enterprise and Logistics Engineering
School of Biomedical, Materials and Mechanical Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
The College of Engineering and Computing houses 25 facilities, including research centers, institutes and laboratories. Research is conducted both independently and in cooperation with industry leaders and academic institutions, with nearly $50 million in external funding over the last five years from a variety of government and corporate sources
Accomplishments and rankings
The team from the ABC/FIU Student Chapter in Construction Management won the Grand Champions Award at the 6th Annual Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Construction Management Competition, held in March in Las Vegas. FIU also won first place in estimating (in a tie with University of Washington) and second place in project management/scheduling.
The College's Solar Decathlon student team Won #1 in the Energy Balance Competition, was Voted Most Popular in DIY Network, and finished #13 overall in an unparalleled solar competition to design, build, and operate the most attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered home. FIU was the only university from Florida and the entire Southeast to compete.
IEEE Student Branch won the first place of the Annual Software Competition beating major schools in the Southeast USA at the 2005 IEEE Regions Southeast Conference.
ACM Student Chapter is a pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright%20House%20Networks%20Open | The Bright House Networks Open was an annual golf tournament for professional women golfers on the Futures Tour, the LPGA Tour's developmental tour. The event was part of the Futures Tour's schedule from 1998 through 2008. From 1998 through 2003, it was played at The Club at Eaglebrooke. From 2004 to 2008, it was played at Cleveland Heights Golf Course. Both courses are located in Lakeland, Florida.
The most recent title sponsor was Bright House Networks, a cable television and digital services provider with headquarters in Syracuse, New York.
The tournament was a 54-hole event, as are most Futures Tour tournaments, and included pre-tournament pro-am opportunities, in which local amateur golfers could play with the professional golfers from the Tour as a benefit for local charities. Charities benefiting from the Bright House Networks Open included The First Tee of Lakeland.
Tournament names through the years:
2002–2003: Florida Futures Golf Challenge
2004–2007: Lakeland Duramed Futures Classic
2008: Bright House Networks Open
Winners
*Tournament won in sudden-death playoff.
Tournament records
References
External links
Futures Tour official website
Cleveland Heights Golf Course official website
The Club at Eaglebrooke official website
Former Symetra Tour events
Golf in Florida
Sports in Lakeland, Florida
Recurring sporting events established in 1998
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2008
1998 establishments in Florida
2008 disestablishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi5 | hi5 is an American social networking service based in San Francisco, California. It is owned by The Meet Group.
Users can create a profile and provide personal information including interests, age, photos, and hometown. Users can also send friend requests via e-mail to other users. When a person receives a friend request, he may accept or decline it, or block the user altogether. If the user accepts another user as a friend, the two will be connected directly or in the 1st degree. The user will then appear on the person's contact list and vice versa. Some users opt to make their profiles available for everyone on hi5 to view. Other users exercise the option to make their profile viewable only to those people who are in their network.
In a 2009 redesign, hi5 added features oriented toward gaming and entertainment. The site featured over 200 games in a variety of genres, and was adding games at a rate of 2-3 per week. It is targeted to users that are interested in flirting, dating, and making new friends. In order to join hi5, users must be age 18 or older. Due to hi5's shift in focus to social gaming, comScore reclassified hi5 as an online gaming site in early 2011. According to comScore, hi5 ranked as the 6th most trafficked online gaming site.
History
The company was founded in 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi.
It was profitable in its first year.
By 2006, it had become the 8th largest social networking service.
Prior to 2004, the company had raised $250,000 from angel investors.
By 2007, it was the 2nd largest social networking service after Myspace.
In 2007, the company raised $20 million in a series A round from Mohr Davidow Ventures, as well as $15 million in venture debt.
In 2008, comScore reported that hi5 was the third most popular social networking service in monthly unique visitors behind Facebook and MySpace. It was also the fastest growing social network. However, international growth of Facebook later hurt hi5. It was most popular in Latin America.
The company had gained significant market share in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, and Mary Meeker had cited hi5 as the 10th largest site in the World in her 2007 Technology / Internet Trends report.
Bill Gossman was appointed CEO in April 2009, and at that time, hi5 refocused itself as a social-network game platform and opened itself to new game developers.
In early 2010, hi5 acquired social gaming company Big Six.
In 2010, it announced it had raised $3 million convertible note from existing investor Mohr Davidow, bringing the funding up to $38 million.
In October 2010, hi5 announced Sociopath, a set of developer tools designed to make it easier for developers to bring their game to the hi5 platform. A major part of the program was the implementation of Facebook compatible APIs, which simplified the process of bringing games already developed for Facebook to hi5. Sociopath also introduced anonymous play to the site, making it easier for gamers to play games immediately without first |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1%20Srbija | A1 Srbija d.o.o. (formerly Vip mobile) is a Serbian mobile network operator owned by A1 Telekom Austria Group. As of 2020, it is the third largest mobile telephony operator with market share of 25.67%.
History
On 1 December 2006, the mobilkom Austria group became the owner of the third mobile telephone license in Serbia for GSM 900/1800 and UMTS networks, through a payment of €320 million. The license was legally transferred to A1.
Considering the great potential of the Serbian telecommunications market, the mobilkom Austria group has planned to invest up to €570 million in its first four years of operations, including the €320 million it spent on acquiring its operating license in Serbia in 2006. This makes A1 the biggest Greenfield investment in Serbia so far. In 2008, A1 became general sponsor of Serbian national volleyball team.
According to the 2015 annual financial report, company had revenue of €206.8 million, with 2.1 million customers it held a market share of 22,5%. In December 2019, the company announced the change of name during 2020 to "A1".
The rebrand from Vip mobile to A1 was completed on 7 April 2021.
Network information
The IMSI - Network Code of A1 is 220-05 and MSISDN Network Codes are 060 (international: +381 60), 061 (international: +381 61) and 068 (international: +381 68).
Network technology
2G (GSM, GPRS, EDGE up to 250 kbit/s) on 900 MHz and 1800 MHz
3G (HSPA+ up to 42 Mbit/s) on 900 MHz and 2100 MHz
4G (LTE up to 225 Mbit/s) on 800 and 1800 MHz
A1 previously used national roaming with mt:s and Telenor.
License obligations for the end of 2010 require A1 to cover 80% of territory and 90% of population with its own quality signal. So far, all requirements in terms of coverage given by the license are achieved and A1 signal is available all over Serbia.
See also
Telecommunications in Serbia
References
External links
Telecommunications Market of Serbia for 2016 at ratel.rs
Companies based in Belgrade
D.o.o. companies in Serbia
Mobile phone companies of Serbia
Serbian companies established in 2006
Telecommunications companies established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXNY-LD | WXNY-LD (channel 32) is a low-power television station in New York City, owned and operated by the Daystar Television Network.
History
As W63AS and W38AM
WXNY originally began as W63AS on channel 63, and for a while it was an out of market translator of WVIA-TV for local schools. Like its sister station WNYX-LD, it later became a translator to the then WLIG. Due to interference to and from WMBC-TV, which is also on channel 63, it moved to channel 38 as W38AM. It became an affiliate of The Box in 1991.
As WXNY-LP
In 1994, call letters were changed to WXNY-LP and the station moved to channel 39. Around this time, it became an affiliate of the Spanish network LTV; it continued to carry The Box on a part-time basis.
In 2002, WXNY-LP moved to channel 32 and became an affiliate of the Home Shopping Network, at the same time, its sister station, WNYN-LP, moved from channel 51 to channel 39 and became an affiliate of Azteca América. When W60AI became the HSN affiliate for the area, WXNY-LP became an affiliate of America's Store.
After the closing of America's Store, WXNY-LP began to air programming similar to that seen on public-access television cable television channels, including several hours per afternoon and overnight of a locally produced music video call-in request show hosted by young men and women in their late teens and early twenties. Callers would pay approximately $3.00 per call and could request up to two music videos per call. They could also briefly discuss issues going on in their personal lives. Other programming fare included a TV psychic. Programming during this time was often simulcasted on co-owned LPTV station WNYX-LP.
In summer of 2007, the station suspended operations as the studio moved to its new location in Times Square. By late November, it went back on the air as a relay translator of WNYX-LP. In April 2009, WXNY-LP once more suspended operations, due to a lack of technical personnel to operate the station.
As WXNY-LD
In late 2010, WXNY returned to the air for the third time with a religious and Infomercial format under the LMA agreement with Jacobs Broadcasting. However, early that year, Jacobs ceased operation due to a fraud investigation and WXNY began to switch into a test pattern temporarily. In Spring 2011, Island Broadcasting agreed to sell WXNY to NY Spectrum Holdings Company. The station was sold to NY Spectrum Holdings Company and operated by NY Broadband LLC in 2010. In 2011, WXNY switched to a new format in Chinese news programming as CGTN English on DT1, CCTV-4 America on DT2, and CGTN Spanish on DT3. In 2013, a fourth sub channel was added, 32.4, as infomercials under the WXNY call. In October 2013, WXNY-LD moved from Channel 32 to Channel 26, but still used Channel 32 as their virtual channel. Also, in the fall of 2013, the CCTV programming simulcast moved from WNYX 35 (which eventually went dark) to WXNY sister station WNXY 43. By December 2013, WXNY left Channel 26 and returned to Channel 32. As of 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20P.%20Stritter | Edward P. ("Skip") Stritter, engineer and entrepreneur, was the chief architect of the Motorola 68000 microprocessor (used in the original Apple Computer Macintosh), a co-founder of the first commercial RISC company MIPS Computer Systems, the founder of Clarity Wireless, (acquired by Cisco Systems for $157 million) and founder of NeTPower. He also served on the Board of Overseers of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. He was nominated by the United States Justice Department to serve on a three-member technical board of overseers to ensure that Microsoft complied with the judgements of United States v. Microsoft.
He received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1968 and his master's degree (1969) and PhD (1976) from Stanford University.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Dartmouth College alumni
Stanford University alumni
Motorola employees
MIPS Technologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring%20algorithm | Scoring algorithm, also known as Fisher's scoring, is a form of Newton's method used in statistics to solve maximum likelihood equations numerically, named after Ronald Fisher.
Sketch of derivation
Let be random variables, independent and identically distributed with twice differentiable p.d.f. , and we wish to calculate the maximum likelihood estimator (M.L.E.) of . First, suppose we have a starting point for our algorithm , and consider a Taylor expansion of the score function, , about :
where
is the observed information matrix at . Now, setting , using that and rearranging gives us:
We therefore use the algorithm
and under certain regularity conditions, it can be shown that .
Fisher scoring
In practice, is usually replaced by , the Fisher information, thus giving us the Fisher Scoring Algorithm:
..
Under some regularity conditions, if is a consistent estimator, then (the correction after a single step) is 'optimal' in the sense that its error distribution is asymptotically identical to that of the true max-likelihood estimate.
See also
Score (statistics)
Score test
Fisher information
References
Further reading
Maximum likelihood estimation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NQC | NQC may refer to:
Not Quite C, a programming language
National Quartet Convention, of musicians in Louisville, Kentucky, US
North Queensland Cowboys, Australian rugby league team
North Queensland Company of the Queensland University Regiment
Net qualifying capacity, power of the electrical generation plant that can be relied on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TTUSB | The Numark TTUSB is a belt-driven turntable with a USB audio interface. This allows the user to transfer music from a record onto a computer, from which it can then be burnt onto an audio CD. Introduced in December 2005, the TTUSB was the first turntable of its kind to have been released to the consumer market. A near-identical model called the iTTUSB was also manufactured under the Ion Audio brand name.
Product features
Anti-skating control
33-1/3 and 45RPM playback speeds
±10% adjustable pitch control
RCA line outputs
USB output
1/8" stereo minijack input
Moving magnet phono cartridge
Notes
External links
TTUSB on the Numark website
Turntables |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Health%20Sciences%20Centre | London Health Sciences Centre is a hospital network in London, Ontario and is collectively one of Canada's largest acute-care teaching hospitals. It was formed in 1995 as a result of the merger of University Hospital and Victoria Hospital. In affiliation with the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario, it trains more than 1,800 medical and care professionals annually. It operates two hospital facilities, University Hospital and Victoria Hospital which includes the Children's Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre.
History
Donald Alexander Macdonald, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, officially opened the London General Hospital in 1875. Its legacy as a teaching hospital dates from 1882, when the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Western Ontario was opened at St. James Street. In 1887, there were 60 students, too many for the original site, and a new building was constructed at Waterloo and York Streets.
The biggest of changes came in 1921 after a new building was opened at South and Waterloo Street and in 1965 when the faculty moved to the university campus.
The London General Training School for Nurses opened in 1883 with total of three students. It was the third nursing school opened in Canada. All students were living in the hospital until the Nurses' Residence was opened in 1905. In 1975, the nursing program was transferred to Fanshawe College. Today, with the amalgamation of both the University Hospital campus and Victoria Hospital campus within London Health Sciences Centre, both are educational sites for nursing students from both Fanshawe College and the University of Western Ontario, in addition to public-health, dentistry and medicine students at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and the broader University of Western Ontario Faculty of Graduate Studies.
In January 2021, President and CEO Paul Woods apologized for travelling to the United States five times since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario – including over the Christmas holidays – contrary to public health advice against non-essential international travel. Woods is a Canadian citizen and lives in London by himself, while his family lives in Michigan. All of his trips were approved by the London Health Sciences Centre Board. In November 2020, during a COVID-19 outbreak at University Hospital which killed 26 people, Woods had sent a memo to health workers under him admonishing them for not strictly following public health advice and stating that they should be held to a higher standard. Upon CBC News breaking the story, Woods issued a statement saying that he would respect public health advice on non-essential travel in the future. On January 11, Woods was fired as CEO, and the board retracted earlier statements that it had approved Woods's trips.
In 2021, Jackie Schleifer Taylor was appointed CEO.
References
External links
Hospitals established in 1995
Hospital networks in Canada
1995 establishments in Ontar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel%20%28disambiguation%29 | A funnel is a pipe with a wide mouth, good for feeding, often conical mouth and a narrow stem.
Funnel may also refer to:
Funnel (ship)
Funnel (concurrent computing)
Funnel (software), a Swedish software company
Purchase funnel (sales and marketing)
Conversion funnel (web analytics)
Funnels, fictional drone units in the fictional Universal Century timeline of the Gundam Franchise.
See also
Funneling (disambiguation)
Funnel cake, a fried batter desert
Funnel chart
Funnel cloud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven%20testing | Data-driven testing (DDT), also known as table-driven testing or parameterized testing, is a software testing methodology that is used in the testing of computer software to describe testing done using a table of conditions directly as test inputs and verifiable outputs as well as the process where test environment settings and control are not hard-coded. In the simplest form the tester supplies the inputs from a row in the table and expects the outputs which occur in the same row. The table typically contains values which correspond to boundary or partition input spaces. In the control methodology, test configuration is "read" from a database.
Introduction
In the testing of software or programs, several methodologies are available for implementing this testing. Each of these methods co-exist because they differ in the effort required to create and subsequently maintain. The advantage of Data-driven testing is the ease to add additional inputs to the table when new partitions are discovered or added to the product or system under test. Also, in the data-driven testing process, the test environment settings and control are not hard-coded. The cost aspect makes DDT cheap for automation but expensive for manual testing.
Methodology overview
Data-driven testing is the creation of test scripts to run together with their related data sets in a framework. The framework provides re-usable test logic to reduce maintenance and improve test coverage. Input and result (test criteria) data values can be stored in one or more central data sources or databases, the actual format, organization and tools can be implementation specific.
The data comprises variables used for both input values and output verification values. In advanced (mature) automation environments data can be harvested from a running system using a purpose-built custom tool or sniffer, the DDT framework thus performs playback of harvested data producing a powerful automated regression testing tool.
Automated test suites contain user's interactions through the system's GUI, for repeatable testing. Each test begins with a copy of the "before" image reference database. The "user interactions" are replayed through the "new" GUI version and result in the "post test" database. The reference "post test" database is compared to the "post test" database, using a tool. Differences reveal probable regression.
Navigation through the program, reading of the data sources, and logging of test status and information are all coded in the test script.
Data driven
Anything that has a potential to change (also called "variability," and includes elements such as environment, end points, test data, locations, etc.) is separated out from the test logic (scripts) and moved into an 'external asset'. This can be a configuration or test dataset. The logic executed in the script is dictated by the data values.
Keyword-driven testing is similar except that the logic for the test case itself is encoded as data values |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter | X, formerly known as Twitter, is an online social media and social networking service operated by the American company X Corp., the successor of Twitter, Inc. On X, registered users can post text, images and videos. Users can also like, repost, quote repost, comment on posts, direct message, video and audio call, bookmark, join lists and communities, and join public Spaces with other registered users. Registered users can also leave Community Notes to add context to posts by other registered users. Under the name Twitter, the terminology used was tweeting, retweeting and quote retweeting.
Twitter, as it was known, was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. It was launched in July of that year. Its former parent company, Twitter, Inc., was based in San Francisco, California and had more than 25 offices around the world. , more than 100 million users produced 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". , Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. In practice, the vast majority of tweets are produced by a minority of users. In 2020, it was estimated that approximately 48 million accounts (15% of all accounts) were not genuine people.
In October 2022, billionaire Elon Musk acquired Twitter for US$44 billion, gaining control of the platform and becoming CEO. Since the acquisition, the platform has been criticized for facilitating an increase in hate speech. Linda Yaccarino succeeded Musk as CEO on June 5, 2023, with Musk remaining as Chairman and CTO. In July 2023, Musk announced that Twitter will be rebranded to X and that the bird logo will be retired. At the end of October 2023, Fortune magazine estimated the company's value at $19 billion, based on the company's $45 stock compensation plan.
History
2006–2007: Creation and initial reaction
Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then an undergraduate student, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. The original project code name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr and the five-character length of American SMS short codes. The decision was also partly due to the fact that the domain twitter.com was already in use, and it was six months after the launch of twttr that the crew purchased the domain and changed the name of the service to Twitter. The developers initially considered "10958" as the service's short code for SMS text messaging, but later changed it to "40404" for "ease of use and memorability". Work on the project started in February 2006. Dorsey published the first Twitter message on March 21, 2006, at 12:50 p.m. PST (UTC−08:00): "just setting up my twttr". Dorsey has explai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Minneapolis | The demographics of Minneapolis are tracked by the United States Census Bureau, with additional data gathered by the Minnesota State Demographic Center and the City of Minneapolis itself. Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County.
As of the 2020 United States Census, the city's population was estimated to be 429,606. The racial composition of the city is predominantly non-Hispanic White, making up approximately 58.1% of the population, followed by African Americans at 18.9%, and Asian at 5.8%. Hispanic or Latinos of any race constitute around 10% of the city's inhabitants.
Minneapolis has a growing immigrant population that includes communities of Somali, Hmong, and Latino immigrants, among others.
The age distribution within the city is relatively balanced, with a median age of 31.7 years. Economic factors also play a significant role in the demographic landscape, with a median household income of $58,993 as of 2020, and a poverty rate of 20.7%.
Educational attainment in Minneapolis is higher than the national average, with 87.9% of adults 25 years and older holding a high school degree, and nearly half have a bachelor's degree or higher.
Population and age
Early years to mid-20th century
In its infancy, Minneapolis experienced rapid population growth due to industrialization, immigration, and the city's strategic location near the Mississippi River. This early exponential growth saw a moderate stabilization during the first half of the 20th century. Despite facing significant challenges such as the Great Depression, Minneapolis exhibited resilience, with its population growing to 464,356 by 1930 — a noteworthy increase of 22.0%.
Post-war period
The years following World War II presented a new set of challenges for the city. Population growth peaked at 521,718, after which Minneapolis experienced a gradual decline. The exodus to suburban areas was in part due to factors like "white flight," urban decay, and increased automobile ownership. By 1980, the city had lost a considerable number of residents, with the population dipping to 370,951 — marking a 14.6% decrease from the previous decade.
Late 20th century to present
The narrative changed in the latter years of the 20th century and into the 21st century as Minneapolis began to regain its population. Initiatives to rejuvenate downtown areas, improved public transportation, and an influx of younger professionals and immigrants contributed to this renewal. Although the population remained fairly stable from 2000 to 2010, it experienced a significant increase of 12.4% by 2020, reaching 429,954 residents. Downtown Minneapolis has also seen a resurgence, thanks in part to increased housing production, boasting over 30,000 inhabitants.
Metropolitan area dynamics
The Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area also witnessed notable transformations. While the metropolitan area doubled in population since 1950, the proportion of me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20API | An open API (often referred to as a public API) is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a (possibly proprietary) software application or web service. Open APIs are APIs that are published on the internet and are free to access by consumers.
Alternative Definitions
There is no universally accepted definition of the term "Open API" and it may be used to mean a variety of things in different contexts, including:
An API for use by developers and other users with relatively few restrictions. It may require registration or enforce quotas and rate-limits, but registration is free and open to all; or
An API backed by open data. Open data is freely available for everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control; or
An API based on an open standard, which specifies the mechanism by which a consumer queries the API and interprets its responses.
Open API versus private API
Private API
A private API is an interface that opens parts of an organization's backend data and application functionality for use by developers working within (or contractors working for) that organization. Private APIs are only exposed to internal developers therefore the API publishers have total control over what and how applications are developed. Private APIs offer substantial benefits with regards to internal collaboration. Using a private API across an organization allows for greater shared awareness of the internal data models. As the developers are working for (or contracted by) one organization, communication will be more direct and therefore they should be able to work more cohesively as a group. Private APIs can significantly diminish the development time needed to manipulate and build internal systems that maximise productivity and create customer-facing applications that improve market reach and add value to existing offerings.
Private APIs can be made "private" in a number of ways. Most commonly the organization simply chooses not to document such an interface, such as in the case of undocumented functions of Microsoft Windows, which can be found by inspection of the symbol tables. Some Web-based APIs may be authenticated by keys, both discoverable by analysis of application traffic. macOS furthermore uses an "entitlement", granted only by digital signature, to control access to private APIs in the system.
Private APIs are by definition without any guarantee to the third-party developer choosing to uncover and use them. Nevertheless, the use of undocumented functions on Microsoft Windows have become so widespread that the system needs to preserve old behaviors for specific programs using the "AppCompat" database.
Open API
In contrast to a private API, an open API is publicly available for all developers to access. They allow developers, outside of an organization's workforce, to access backend data that can then be used to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Gibson%20%28presenter%29 | Daniel Gibson (born in Victoria) is an Australian television presenter and is seen weeknightly across Seven as newsreader and weatherman in the role of network presenter.
Gibson started his career in radio in the early 1990s at 2PK in Parkes NSW, before moving on to radio stations in Victoria including 3WM Horsham and ending up in the nation's capital, Canberra doing talkback on 2CC and then hosted the breakfast show on 2CA.
Gibson has been part of Seven since May 2000.
In 2007, Gibson joined the V8 Supercar telecast as pit lane reporter for the Seven Network. He is teamed up with Matthew White, Neil Crompton as well as Mark Beretta and Grant Denyer. Gibson was also part of MMM's broadcast of the Melbourne Formula 1 GP. He supports the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League.
After gaining a reputation as "the wacky weatherman", he made the transition to newsreader in 2011.
References
1972 births
Living people
People from Victoria (state)
Weather presenters
Seven News presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrie%20Dunsmore | Barrie Dunsmore (1939 – 26 August 2018) was a Canadian journalist who covered foreign affairs for ABC News, the American television network, for 30 years.
Dunsmore was born in 1939 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. From 1965 to 1995, Dunsmore reported from Washington and more than one hundred countries on virtually every major international event: from wars, to summits, to the policies of seven U.S. presidents from Johnson to Clinton. From the height of the Cold War until its end, Dunsmore was regularly present when American presidents and Soviet leaders met. He was with Israeli troops when they captured the Suez Canal from Egypt in 1967 and when General Ariel Sharon put the city of Suez under siege in 1973. He was on Henry Kissinger's Middle East Shuttles in the aftermath of the 1973 war and was with President Jimmy Carter in the Middle East six years later when he finally cemented the historic Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. Dunsmore covered the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, conducted the first American television interview with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and was with three former presidents (Nixon, Ford and Carter) who attended Sadat's funeral. He watched SCUD missiles fall on Saudi Arabia during the 1991 Gulf War. He had a worldwide scoop on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and he did the first American television report on the destruction of the Amazon rainforests in 1988.
As ABC's senior foreign correspondent from 1984 to 1991, Dunsmore focused on events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union as the Iron Curtain began to disintegrate. Throughout 1989, he witnessed dramatic moments in the collapse of communism and reported live for ABC News Nightline from the Berlin Wall the night it began to fall. After retirement in 1995, Dunsmore became a Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He received the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University's Edward Weintal Prize in 1995.
Barrie Dunsmore was the author of "There and Back: Commentary by a Former Foreign Correspondent," published in 2011 by Wind Ridge Publishing, Inc.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said of Dunsmore's book, "This compilation of essays dating from the weeks when he accompanied me on the Mideast shuttles in the early 1970's, to his commentaries on the Arab Spring will mark Dunsmore firmly as one of the significant journalists of our era."
Dunsmore moved to Charlotte, Vermont, after retirement, and wrote a Sunday column for the Rutland Herald. He died on Sunday, August 26, 2018, at the age of 79.
References
1939 births
2018 deaths
American television journalists
Canadian emigrants to the United States
Harvard Kennedy School staff
Journalists from Saskatchewan
People from Regina, Saskatchewan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20de%20Neumann | Frederick Bernard de Neumann (known in Austria and Germany as Bernhard von Neumann; (15 December 1943 – 18 April 2018) was a British mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, and naval historian.
He was educated at the Royal Hospital School and Birmingham University, and was Professor of Mathematics at The City University.
He was a descendant of Johann Andreas von Neumann, nobleman of the Holy Roman Empire, Vienna, 29 March 1797, and of Johann Heinrich von Neumann, nobleman of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Munich, 20 January 1824.
References
John Wonnacott, 2005. Prof Bernard de Neumann – The Mathematician. 2005 Ondaatje Prize-winning portrait of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
Genealogisches Handbuch des in Bayern immatrikulierten Adels, Vol XXII, 1998, p. 681, Degener Verlag. Neumann family.
External links
Prize for mathematician portrait — BBC News, 26 April 2005.
Prize for Mathematician’s Portrait — London Mathematical Society Newsletter
1943 births
2018 deaths
20th-century British mathematicians
21st-century British mathematicians
British computer scientists
British inventors
British naval historians
Von Neumann family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa%20Television | , also known as OTV, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the FNN/FNS. Their headquarters are located in Okinawa Prefecture.
It is the first commercial broadcaster to operate within Okinawa during the American occupation in the prefecture. In addition to airing Fuji TV programs, it also airs some of the Nippon TV output, and also represents Okinawa in the 24-Hour Television telethon. Okinawa has no NNN affiliate of its own, but there was a failed plan to introduce such an affiliate on UHF in the early 90s, the plan was eventually halted.
History
American administration
The American Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS), which began airing in 1955, was Okinawa's first television station. Because the initial transmission power was just 250 watts, it was virtually unknown in Japan outside of the US military. In July 1956, the administrative chairman of the Ryukyu Government, applied for the establishment for a television station; the preparatory license was granted in February 1958, and the inaugural meeting was held in April of the same year.
At that time, when Okinawa was under the rule of the United States, Okinawa TV was subject to restrictions in terms of foreign ownership, which made it difficult for them to operate. It then resulted in the forming of "Tokyo Okinawa TV Corporation", a joint company between Fuji TV and OTV, to attract advertisers from Tokyo. This is one of the reasons why OTV joined as a Fuji TV affiliate.
On October 16, 1959, Okinawa TV began test broadcasts; on November 1 of the same year, Okinawa TV officially launched, with the call sign KSDW-TV, becoming Okinawa's first private TV station. In 1963, Okinawa TV began to broadcast programs during the day, and the average daily broadcast time was extended to 11 hours; in the same year, Okinawa TV's turnover exceeded US$670,000, making a profit for the first time. The following year, with the completion of the microwave relay line between mainland Japan and Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawa TV started the real-time broadcast of programs from mainland Japan. At that time, the NHK did not have a branch in Okinawa, so Okinawa TV broadcast some NHK programs such as asadoras from 1964 to 1968. After the Okinawa Broadcasting Corporation started broadcasting in December 1968, Okinawa TV used Fuji TV programs fill the gaps left by NHK programs that moved to OHK. On May 5, 1968, Okinawa TV began to broadcast color TV programs, initially broadcasting 2 hours of color programs daily; in the same year, Okinawa TV's turnover exceeded US$1.2 million. In 1970, Okinawa Television realized stock dividends for the first time.
Post-reversion
After the reversion agreement of Okinawa in 1972, the call sign of Okinawa TV was changed from KSDW-TV to JOOF-TV, the channel number was changed from channel 10 to channel 8 (192–198 MHz in both systems), and the proportion of color programs increased to 91%. This year, Okinawa TV's turnover increased by 43.3%, reaching 950 million yen. In 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho%20Chi%20Minh%20City%20Television | Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV; ) is a Vietnamese television network owned by the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City.
History
The old name of HCMC Television was Saigon Liberation Television that began broadcasting on 1 May 1975. Until April 30, 1975, the name was Saigon Television (Republic of Vietnam), founded in 1965, broadcast from February 2, 1966, to April 29, 1975. At the time, in Saigon, there were two different TV stations immediately adjacent in downtown: the TV station of the US military and Saigon Television. While in South Vietnam there were five TV stations (Saigon, Cần Thơ, Huế, Nha Trang and Quy Nhơn), television in the North Vietnam was still in the testing period.
After the opening of the center building in early 2006 with modern equipment and technology, HTV begins its switch to digital operations.
Operations
The station's main headquarters are located at the corner of Nguyen Thi Minh Khai and Dinh Tien Hoang Street. It also has an office in Ha Noi. HTV has two main analog channels - HTV7 and HTV9. The station started digital television at the end of 2013 using two to three multiplexes that transmit a total of 17 HTV-owned channels.
HTV7 and HTV9 also began broadcasting on the satellite in 2005, which covers the Southeast Asian countries and some other Asian countries. HTV has 17 channels:
Services
HTV has:
TFS, a TV studio, specializing in producing movies and documentary films.
TV Service Center (TSC), a venue to contact the services and advertisements.
Programme Production Centre (PPC), a production company, specialize in producing television programs.
Ho Chi Minh City Television Cable Center (HTVC) brings quality programming to the audience in Vietnam and worldwide. The main programs include science, education, sports, movies, entertainment, etc.
HTV's cable system has various channels where HTV has rights to rebroadcast such as:
National: Vietnam Television, An Viên Television, People's Police Television, Hanoi Radio Television, HTV3, Yan TV, among others.
News: Cable News Network (CNN IAP), France 24, FOX News, BBC World, CNBC Asia, Channel NewsAsia, Bloomberg, NHK World TV.
Documentary: Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo People, BBC Earth, Da Vinci Learning, Discovery Asia, Asian Food Channel.
Sports: Fox Sports, Fox Sports 2, Fox Sports 3.
Movies and series: HBO, Cinemax, Fox Movies, AXN, Cinema World.
Kids: Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Animax, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Baby TV, CBeebies.
Music: Channel V, MTV Asia.
General Entertainment and Worldwide Promotion: E!, Star World, Fashion TV, Arirang, KBS World, TV5 Monde, DW-TV, tvN, ABC Australia, Warner TV, NHK World Premium, Outdoor Channel, BBC Lifestyle.
Featured programs
Prizes, tournaments, contests
Miss Television Contest 1967: THVN9 organizes the first contest of Vietnam & Southeast Asia.
National bicycle race for Ho Chi Minh City Television Cup (since 1989): The first bicycle rac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sort%20Merge%20Generator | The Sort Merge Generator was an application developed by Betty Holberton in 1951 for the Univac I and is one of the first examples of using a computer to create a computer program. The input to the application was a specification of files and the kind of sort and merge operations to use, and the output would be machine code for performing the specification.
See also
History of programming languages
History of computers
References
Notes
Text-oriented programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20St.%20Lucia | Radio St. Lucia was a radio station on Saint Lucia, located on the Morne Castries, which operated from 1972 to 2017. For a long period it was the only radio station on the island. Its programming featured a mixture of news, music, and talk. They were once wholly owned and operated by the Government of Saint Lucia but were later privatised. The government shut the station down on 31 July 2017 citing financial losses and unpaid taxes.
References
External links
Official website (archived)
1972 establishments in Saint Lucia
2017 disestablishments in Saint Lucia
Radio stations disestablished in 2017
Radio stations established in 1972
Radio stations in Saint Lucia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Enterprise%20Agreement | EA/SA (Enterprise Agreement/Software Assurance) is a volume licensing package offered by Microsoft. It primarily targets large organizations which have 500 or more personal computers. The minimum quantity was increased from 250 to 500 on 1 July 2016, but it remains at 250 for public sector customers. Other programs, including Open Value, Open License and Select License, are geared towards smaller organizations.
The Enterprise Agreement, whose price is tiered to the number of computers or users being licensed, is a three-year contract which covers all software licensing and updates for one client system. An option is given at contract termination to renew for one or three additional years.
Software products licensed under the contract include Windows 10, Microsoft Office and the core Client Access Licenses for Windows Server, Exchange, System Center and SharePoint, which allow the computer to legally access Microsoft servers over a network.
See also
Microsoft Software Assurance
References
Microsoft initiatives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IManager | iManager is a web-based Configuration Manager for Unix-based servers.
It comes with Open Novell Enterprise Server software and it can be downloaded to different Operating Systems (Linux, Windows). It can be used to monitor and configure software and hardware in servers, over the network.
File managers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline%20Surface%20Radiation%20Network | Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) is a project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) and as such is aimed detecting important changes in the Earth's radiation field at the Earth's surface which may be related to climate changes. The central archive of the BSRN is the World Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC) which was initiated by Atsumu Ohmura in 1992 and operated at ETH until 2007. Since 2008 the WRMC is operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany.
Objectives
To monitor the background (least influenced by immediate human activities which are regionally concentrated) shortwave and longwave radiative components and their changes with the best methods currently available.
To provide data for the calibration of satellite-based estimates of the surface radiative fluxes.
To produce high quality observational data to be used for validating the theoretical computations of radiative fluxes by models.
See also
Global dimming
External links
Baseline Surface Radiation Network
BSRN information
Climatological research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cyberpunk%202020%20books | This is a list of Cyberpunk role-playing game books.
CyberPunk 2013
R. Talsorian Games
The core books for the game were published by R. Talsorian Games.
Cyberpunk, by Mike Pondsmith (boxed set) (1988) [CP3001] - Includes View from the Edge (core rules booklet), Friday Night Firefight (combat rules booklet), and Welcome to Night City (gameworld sourcebook booklet)
Hardwired, by Walter Jon Williams (1989) [CP3201] - Sourcebook about the novel Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams.
Near Orbit: Space Supplement for Cyberpunk, by Mike Pondsmith, David Ackerman, Glenn Wildermuth, and Derek Quintanar (1989) [CP3301] - High Orbit sourcebook and space travel rules.
Rockerboy, by Colin Fisk, Will Moss, Scott Ruggels, and David Ackerman (1989) [CP3401] - Rockerboy character class sourcebook.
Solo of Fortune (Journal of the Corporate Mercenary) (1989) [CP3101] - Solo character class sourcebook.
CyberPunk 2020
R. Talsorian Games
Corebooks
Cyberpunk 2020, by Mike Pondsmith, Colin Fisk, Will Moss, and Scott Ruggels. (boxed set) (1990) [CP3002] - Includes Cyberpunk 2020 version 2.0 core rules and Screamsheets booklet.
Cyberpunk 2020 version 2.00, Mike Pondsmith, Colin Fisk, Will Moss, Scott Ruggels, Dave Friedland, Mike Blum (1991) [CP3002]
Cyberpunk 2020 version 2.01 ("Features New Artwork" written on front cover), Mike Pondsmith, Colin Fisk, Will Moss, Scott Ruggels, Dave Friedland, Mike Blum (1993) [CP3002]
Deep Space: The Interplanetary Supplement, by Chris Young and Scott Hedrick (1993) [CP3211]
Listen Up, You Primitive Screwheads!!!!: The Unexpurgated Cyberpunk Referee's Guide, by Mike Pondsmith (1994) [CP3291] - Referee's Guide.
Sourcebooks
Blackhand's Street Weapons 2020, by Derek Quintanar (1994) [CP3461]
Chromebook, by Colin Fisk (1991) [CP3701]
Chromebook 2, by Benjamin Wright, Mike Roter, Scott Taylor, Marcus Pregent, Craig Sheeley, Mike MacDonald, Ross Winn, Mike Pondsmith, Colin Tipton, and Michael Todd (1992) [CP3181]
Chrome Compilation A: Chromebook 1/2, (2000) [RT3521]- Reprint of Chromebook and Chromebook 2 in one volume.
Chromebook 3, (1994) [CP3331]
Chromebook 4, by Derek Quintanar (1996) [CP3471]
Chrome Compilation A: Chromebook 3/4, () [RT3511] - Reprint of Chromebooks 3 and 4 in one volume.
Corporation Report 2020, Vol 1, by William Moss (1991) [CP3111] - Arasaka & International Electric Company.
Corporation Report 2020, Vol 2, by William Moss (1992) [CP3151] - Lazarus Group & Militech.
Corporation Report 2020, Vol 3, by William Moss (1992) [CP3161] - Petrochem & SovOil.
Edgerunners, Inc., (1995) [CP3391] - A graymarket temp agency for the characters. Details companies, NPCs and scenarios.
Eurosource, (1991) [CP3901]
Eurosource Plus, (1995) [CP3421]
Home of the Brave, by Michael MacDonald and Doug Anderson (1992) [CP3221] - Sourcebook detailing America in 2020.
Live & Direct, (1996) [CP3431] - Media character class manual.
Maximum Metal by Mark Colborn, Craig Sheeley, and Derek Quintanar (1993) [CP3191] - Mili |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundige%20station | Hundige station is a station on the Køge radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is situated close to the WAVES shopping center.
Hundige station opened along with the extension of the Køge radial from Vallensbæk station to Hundige in 1976: Since then, it has been the terminus of the S-train service A, and a stop on all other lines on the Køge radial. Hundige station is however now only an occasional terminus for service A, since in the daytime on weekdays, every second train in the service continues to Solrød Strand station.
Hundige station is a hub for public transportation in its area; right next to the platforms and tracks, is an array of designated bus stops for each of several bus lines serving the area, a pick-up and drop-off zone for taxis and private vehicles, and a parking lot.
See also
List of railway stations in Denmark
References
External links
S-train (Copenhagen) stations
Railway stations opened in 1976
Railway stations in Denmark opened in the 1970s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20M.%20Day | James M. Day is an American game designer best known for military based board games, computer games, card games, and miniature rules. He is also an accomplished historian and military weaponry subject matter expert.
His first published title was the board game Panzer from Yaquinto Publications in 1979. This was followed shortly by the board games 88 and Armor from the same publisher.
After leaving a 25-year career in healthcare administration, he spent eight years in the computer gaming industry (1990-1998). Six of those years were spent as a game designer and producer for MicroProse Software, during which he was responsible for the games Gunship 2000, Gunship 2000: Islands & Ice, F-15 Strike Eagle III, and Across the Rhine.
During the next several years, Day continued to contribute to a number of game and historical publications, as well as designed the board games MBT and IDF for the Avalon Hill Company and wrote the user manual for Jane's F/A-18.
Day returned to his original interest in miniatures designing the Panzer Miniatures Rules for StrikeNet Games. The card game The Kaiser’s Pirates was published in 2007 for StrikeNet Games—included in Games Magazine's top 100 for 2008. The Kaiser's Pirates was re-published by GMT Games in 2009. It was nominated for a Charles S. Roberts award in 2010.
The World War II tactical combat board game Panzer was published in 2012 by GMT Games. It was nominated for a Charles S. Roberts award in 2013.
It was followed by two expansion sets in 2012, Panzer Expansion#1: The Shape of Battle - The Eastern Front and Panzer Expansion#2: The Final Forces on the Eastern Front. The third expansion set followed in 2014, Panzer Expansion#3: Drive to the Rhine - The 2nd Front. Panzer Expansion #1 was nominated for a Charles S. Roberts award in 2013. The fourth expansion, Panzer Expansion#4: France 1940 was released in 2018.
A stand-alone World War II tactical combat board game Panzer North Africa is currently in development with publication planned for 2023.
Day went in a different direction from tank oriented games in designing the American Civil War tactical naval game Iron & Oak. It was published in 2013 by GMT Games.
Day designed a new version of the modern tactical combat board game MBT in 2016; its three companion expansions FRG and BAOR were released in 2018, followed by 4CMBG in 2019 by GMT Games.
References
External links
James M. Day at MobyGames
StrikeNet Games
GMT Games
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American video game designers
Board game designers
MicroProse people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%20of%20War%3A%20Chains%20of%20Olympus | God of War: Chains of Olympus is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed by Ready at Dawn, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). It was first released for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld console on March 4, 2008. The game is the fourth installment in the God of War series, the second chronologically, and a prequel to the original God of War. It is loosely based on Greek mythology and set in ancient Greece, with vengeance as its central motif. The player controls Kratos, a Spartan warrior who serves the Olympian gods. Kratos is guided by the goddess Athena, who instructs him to find the Sun God Helios, as the Dream God Morpheus has caused many of the gods to slumber in Helios' absence. With the power of the Sun and the aid of the Titan Atlas, Morpheus and the Queen of the Underworld Persephone intend to destroy the Pillar of the World and in turn Olympus.
The gameplay is similar to the previous installments, with a focus on combo-based combat, achieved through the player's main weapon—the Blades of Chaos—and secondary weapons acquired throughout the game. It features quick time events that require the player to complete game controller actions in a timed sequence to defeat stronger enemies and bosses. The player can use up to three magical attacks as alternative combat options. The game also features puzzles and platforming elements. The series' control scheme was reconfigured to compensate for the smaller number of buttons on the PSP compared to the PlayStation 2's controller; Ready at Dawn's solutions for the controls were praised by critics.
Chains of Olympus was acclaimed by critics, becoming the highest-rated PSP title on Metacritic and GameRankings. The game's graphics were particularly praised, with 1UP declaring the game was "a technical showpiece for Sony, and arguably the best-looking game on the system." It won several awards, including "Best PSP Action Game", "Best Graphics Technology", and "Best Use of Sound". As of June 2012, the game has sold 3.2 million copies worldwide, making it the seventh best-selling PlayStation Portable game of all time. Together with 2010's God of War: Ghost of Sparta, Chains of Olympus was remastered and released on September 13, 2011, as part of the God of War: Origins Collection for the PlayStation 3. The remastered version was included in the God of War Saga released on August 28, 2012, also for PlayStation 3.
Gameplay
God of War: Chains of Olympus is a third-person single-player video game viewed from a fixed camera perspective. The player controls the character Kratos in combo-based combat, platforming, and puzzle game elements, and battles foes who primarily stem from Greek mythology, including cyclopes, Gorgons, satyrs, harpies, minotaurs, hoplites, and sphinxes. Morpheus beasts, shades, banshees, fire guards, fire sentries, hyperion guards, and death knights were created specifically for the game. Platforming elements require the player to climb walls, jump |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2043 | National Cycle Network, Route 43 is part of the National Cycle Network and the Celtic Trail, which connects Swansea with Builth Wells. Most of the route is still awaiting development. As of June 2006, there is a 13-mile section out of Swansea that is open and signed.
The route
The existing developed part of the route uses existing cycleways and canal Paths and follows the River Tawe.
Swansea
The route begins in the Maritime Quarter near the Swansea Bay barrage. It runs alongside the Tawe west bank past the Sainsbury's store where cyclists have to cross via a pedestrian crossing at the Quay Parade bridge. Once across the road, the route turns right over the Quay Parade bridge. Once over the bridge, there is an immediate left turn into a dedicated path which follows the west bank of the River Tawe as far as the Pentre-Chwyth traffic junction, in the White Rock area. To the left of this path the Hafod copper works are visible.
Signage for the route is poor at the White Rock area and there are a number of alternate routes northwards that can be taken there. The most traffic free route from the Pentre-Chwyth junction continues left into the Morfa Retail Park, over the Liberty Stadium foot bridge, then right again following the east bank of the River Tawe past the Liberty Stadium, then under the Landore viaduct.
Clydach
The main route through Clydach follows the direction of the Swansea Canal, and is flat all the way, however there are several barriers which require cyclists to dismount. Kingfishers can be seen, especially close to Pontardawe. The path in the area can be busy with dog walkers.
Trebanos
The path continues from Pontardawe Leisure centre and the Trebanos stretch begins behind the Colliers Arms / post office in Trebanos and follows the canal down towards Clydach. It comes out in Coedgwilym Park.
Pontardawe
In Pontardawe the splits into two sections at the rear of Pontardawe leisure centre. One cycle path goes to the east of the leisure centre alongside the River Tawe. The other path keeps following the canal tow path to Ystradgynlais. The cycle path continues through the Pontardawe recreation ground alongside the river.
Ystalyfera & Ystradgynlais
Takes a little detour on to the public road, but reconnects at "Starving Hill" and has a tarmacked section all the way to the "Heads of the Valleys" road.
Brecon Beacons
The route soon connects with Route 46 at the Heads of the Valleys road, and travels over the Fforest Fawr mountain range to Trecastle at the northern boundary of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Builth Wells
The route continues on minor roads across the west flank of Mynydd Epynt, to Tirabad and Llangammarch Wells, then on to Builth Wells where it joins Route 8 (Lon Las Cymru).
External links
Sustrans Route 43
Cycleways in Wales
Transport in Swansea
Transport in Neath Port Talbot
Cycleways in Powys
Fforest Fawr
Epynt
Swansea Valley |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight%20programming%20language | Lightweight programming languages are designed to have small memory footprint, are easy to implement (important when porting a language to different computer systems), and/or have minimalist syntax and features.
These programming languages have simple syntax and semantics, so one can learn them quickly and easily. Some lightweight languages (for example Lisp, Forth, and Tcl) are so simple to implement that they have many implementations (dialects).
Compiled languages
BASIC
BASIC implementations like Tiny BASIC were designed to be lightweight so that they could run on the microcomputers of the 1980s, because of memory constraints.
Forth
Forth is a stack-based concatenative imperative programming language using reverse polish notation.
Toy languages
Brainfuck
Brainfuck is an extremely minimalist esoteric programming language.
Scripting languages
Io
Io is a prototype-based object-oriented scripting language.
Lisp
Lisp-like languages are very simple to implement, so there are many lightweight implementations of it.
There are some notable implementations:
newLISP
PicoLisp
uLisp
Derivatives of Lisp:
Pico
Rebol
Red
Scheme
Tcl
Tcl-like languages can be easily implemented because of its simple syntax. Tcl itself maybe not so lightweight, but there exists some, if not many, lightweight implementations of languages which have Tcl-like syntax.
Embedded languages
ECMAScript
There are many embeddable implementation of ECMAScript like:
Duktape
Espruino
JerryScript
jsish
MuJS
QuickJS
Derivatives of ECMAScript:
Squirrel
Lua
Lua is a small (C source is approx. 300 kB tarball, as of version 5.3.5), portable and embeddable scripting language (with LuaJIT as a JIT compiler improving speed). It can be embedded in applications such as computer games to provide runtime scripting capabilities.
Wren
Wren is a small, fast, object-oriented scripting language.
References
See also
Lightweight markup language
Lightweight software
Computer programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottschalk%20v.%20Benson | Gottschalk v. Benson, 409 U.S. 63 (1972), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that a process claim directed to a numerical algorithm, as such, was not patentable because "the patent would wholly pre-empt the mathematical formula and in practical effect would be a patent on the algorithm itself." That would be tantamount to allowing a patent on an abstract idea, contrary to precedent dating back to the middle of the 19th century. The ruling stated "Direct attempts to patent programs have been rejected [and] indirect attempts to obtain patents and avoid the rejection ... have confused the issue further and should not be permitted." The case was argued on October 16, 1972, and was decided November 20, 1972.
Prior history
The case revolves around a patent application filed by inventors Gary Benson and Arthur Tabbot, for a method for converting binary-coded decimal (BCD) numerals into pure binary numerals on a general-purpose digital computer. The patent examiner at the United States Patent Office, now called the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or PTO, rejected the patent application as being directed to a mathematical expression. Pure mathematical expressions had been held to be unpatentable under earlier patent laws in Mackay Co. v. Radio Corp. The applicant appealed to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, which affirmed the examiner's rejection. The applicant further appealed to the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. The Court reversed the Board. Finally, Commissioner of Patents Robert Gottschalk filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court.
The case
The law which is applicable to this case is section 101 of the Patent Act of 1952. The question was whether or not the claimed invention was a "process" under the law. An older precendent held, that " a process was patentable if it brought about a useful, concrete, and tangible result."
The Court held that because the claim was not limited to any particular type of programmable digital computer and neither involved special purpose implementing machinery nor a transformation of substances, as in all prior cases holding processes patentable, the claim would effectively preclude use of the method for any currently known or future invention in any field. Thus the claim was directed to an algorithm alone and therefore was not patentable.
In its brief to the Supreme Court, the government asked the Court to hold that no process could be patented, unless it claimed either a transformation of substances or was implemented with a newly devised machine. This approach is known as machine-or-transformation test. The Court held that those criteria were "clues" to patent eligibility but declined to hold that they were necessary conditions for patent-eligibility in all cases, even though every case in which the Supreme Court had approved a process patent thus far had involved such a process.[reference needed]
Impact
This decision was widely seen as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample%20mean%20and%20covariance | The sample mean (sample average) or empirical mean (empirical average), and the sample covariance or empirical covariance are statistics computed from a sample of data on one or more random variables.
The sample mean is the average value (or mean value) of a sample of numbers taken from a larger population of numbers, where "population" indicates not number of people but the entirety of relevant data, whether collected or not. A sample of 40 companies' sales from the Fortune 500 might be used for convenience instead of looking at the population, all 500 companies' sales. The sample mean is used as an estimator for the population mean, the average value in the entire population, where the estimate is more likely to be close to the population mean if the sample is large and representative. The reliability of the sample mean is estimated using the standard error, which in turn is calculated using the variance of the sample. If the sample is random, the standard error falls with the size of the sample and the sample mean's distribution approaches the normal distribution as the sample size increases.
The term "sample mean" can also be used to refer to a vector of average values when the statistician is looking at the values of several variables in the sample, e.g. the sales, profits, and employees of a sample of Fortune 500 companies. In this case, there is not just a sample variance for each variable but a sample variance-covariance matrix (or simply covariance matrix) showing also the relationship between each pair of variables. This would be a 3×3 matrix when 3 variables are being considered. The sample covariance is useful in judging the reliability of the sample means as estimators and is also useful as an estimate of the population covariance matrix.
Due to their ease of calculation and other desirable characteristics, the sample mean and sample covariance are widely used in statistics to represent the location and dispersion of the distribution of values in the sample, and to estimate the values for the population.
Definition of the sample mean
The sample mean is the average of the values of a variable in a sample, which is the sum of those values divided by the number of values. Using mathematical notation, if a sample of N observations on variable X is taken from the population, the sample mean is:
Under this definition, if the sample (1, 4, 1) is taken from the population (1,1,3,4,0,2,1,0), then the sample mean is , as compared to the population mean of . Even if a sample is random, it is rarely perfectly representative, and other samples would have other sample means even if the samples were all from the same population. The sample (2, 1, 0), for example, would have a sample mean of 1.
If the statistician is interested in K variables rather than one, each observation having a value for each of those K variables, the overall sample mean consists of K sample means for individual variables. Let be the ith independently drawn observat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered%20highways%20in%20Indiana | The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is responsible for the establishment and classification of a state highway network which includes Interstate Highways, U.S. Highways, and State Roads. There is no rule preventing the same numbering between state roads, U.S. routes, and Interstate highways, although traditionally, INDOT has avoided state road numbers which are the same as those on U.S. routes within the state.
Indiana has a mileage cap of for its highway system.
History
Business Routes in Indiana
Many Indiana cities have business routes, but by law they are maintained by local governments, not INDOT.
County Roads in Indiana
Most Indiana counties use a numbering system for designating county roads based on a grid. The system is similar to latitude and longitude on the globe, where numbering begins at the Equator and Greenwich Prime Meridian, respectively.
Typically, the north–south road that divides the county into east and west parts is named "Meridian Road", or "Base Road", and the east–west road that divides the county into north and south parts is named "Division Road", just as the north–south street that divides Indianapolis between "east" and "west" is named Meridian Street. However, roads along the baselines are given a variety of names in different counties. For example, Rush County designates them both as Base Road. Howard County designates the east–west baseline road as 00 NS. Some Counties, like Gibson, use state roads or other highways as baselines. Gibson County uses US 41 and most of Indiana 64's route in the county as base roads.
Other roads in the county are identified by the distance (in miles) from the baseline, multiplied by 100, followed by the compass direction from the baseline. For example, road "200 E" would be a north–south road located east of the meridian line, and road "350 N" would be an east–west road located north of the division line. Roads along a county line may be given a grid designation or may be referred to as County Line Road.
Some county roads still run diagonally, or do not run in straight lines, even in gridded counties; these roads are usually given names rather than numbers. Such roads may also be given an arbitrary numeric designation: an example is NE 80 in Decatur County.
Roads in gridded counties also change names due to jogs in the road, although small jogs less than about are usually neglected. Road numbers using the ordinary system are seldom seen with digits other than 0 or 5 in the units place (hundredths of a mile); indeed, roads whose numeric designation is not divisible by 25 (one-quarter mile) are not common. Some counties, such as Hendricks end a county road's number with the digit of 1 if the road dead ends or has no outlet.
One reason for implementing this grid-based numbering system related to the 9-1-1 emergency system. The grid system allows a location to be identified much more quickly and accurately than the old system of road names and rural |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte%20Vall%C3%A9e | Brigitte Vallée (née Salesse) (born 6 June 1950, in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a French mathematician and computer scientist. She entered the École Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles in 1970, and received her PhD in 1986 at the University of Caen (Lattice reduction algorithms in small dimensions). Her doctoral advisor was Jacques Stern.
Vallée has been Director of Research at the French CNRS at Université de Caen, since 2001 and specialized in computational number theory and analysis of algorithms. Amongst the algorithms she studied are the celebrated LLL algorithm used for basis reductions in Euclidean lattice and the different Euclidean algorithms to determine GCD. The main tool used to achieve her results is the so-called dynamical analysis. Loosely speaking, it is a mix between analysis of algorithms and dynamical systems. Brigitte Vallée greatly contributed to the development of this method.
In the early 90s, Brigitte Vallée's work on small modular squares allowed her to hold the fastest factorisation algorithm with a proved probabilistic complexity bound. Nowadays, other factorisation algorithms are faster.
She was appointed a knight of the Legion of Honor by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research on 12 July 2013.
Selected publications
According to zbMath, Vallée has authored 88 publications since 1986, including 3 books.
Brigitte Vallée, Generation of Elements with Small Modular Squares and Provably Fast Integer Factoring Algorithms, Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 56, No. 194 (Apr., 1991), pp. 823–849.
Brigitte Vallée, Algorithmique en géométrie des nombres. Applications à la cryptographie et à la factorisation des entiers (A geometric approach to the reduction of small-scale networks), 1986 [University thesis]
References
External links
Website
List of Publications
French mathematicians
Living people
1950 births
Academic staff of the University of Caen Normandy
French women mathematicians
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAN | ICAN may refer to:
Organizations
Informed Consent Action Network, a US antivaccine group.
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Namibia
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nepal
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
International Children Assistance Network
International Christian Academy of Nagoya, a defunct school in Japan
International Commission for Air Navigation, the predecessor of the International Civil Aviation Organization
Nationalist Canarian Initiative, a former political party in the Canary Islands
Other uses
Icán River, a river in Guatemala
ICAN: Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition, a medical journal
Interim Capability for Airborne Networking, a system operated by the US Air Force
International Code of Area Nomenclature, a universal naming system for areas of endemism used in biogeography
See also
I Can (disambiguation)
Icahn (disambiguation)
ICANN
ICAN-II (spacecraft)
JCAN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Bunny | Super Bunny is a platform game written by Vic Leone for the Apple II family of home computers and published by Datamost in 1983. Ports to the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64 followed in 1984.
Gameplay
The player starts as a defenseless rabbit, hopping from the left side of the screen to the right on scrolling platforms. The goal is to avoid the creatures that appear on the platforms and reach the carrot at the right side of the screen. Landing on ("eating") the carrot turns the rabbit into Super Bunny, at which point he must return to the starting position, dispatching creatures and earning points.
The game has a different saying and song for each level (e.g., "crunch those critters" and the song "Here Comes Peter Cottontail!"). Super Bunny is credited in the game's splash screen as Reginald Rabbit.
Credits
Programmer: Vic Leone
Game concept: Bill Russell
Super Bunny concept: Gary Koffler
Graphics: Thomas Spears
Executive producer: Dave Gordon
Story: Dale Kranz
Music: Jon Rami and Dale Kranz
Cover art and illustrations: Martin Cannon
Cover copy: Dale Kranz
Art Director: Art Huff
See also
List of fictional rabbits and hares
References
External links
1983 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Datamost games
Platformers
Video games about rabbits and hares
Video games developed in the United States
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval%20Network%20Warfare%20Command | Naval Network Warfare Command (NAVNETWARCOM) is the United States Navy's information operations, intelligence, networks, and space unit. Naval Network Warfare Command's mission is to execute, under Commander TENTH Fleet Operational Control, tactical-level command and control of Navy Networks and to leverage Joint Space Capabilities for Navy and Joint Operations.
History
In 2002, some 23 organizations from several commands, including the former Naval Space Command, Naval Computer and Telecommunications Command, Fleet Information Warfare Center, and Navy Component Task Force - Computer Network Defense were brought together to form Naval Network Warfare Command, emphasizing the organization's focus on the operation and defense of the Navy's networks.
In 2005, with the disestablishment of Naval Security Group (NAVSECGRU), NETWARCOM brought the former Naval Security Group Activities (NSGAs) under its umbrella, designating them Naval Information Operation Center(s) (NIOC) and Naval Information Operation Detachment(s) (NIOD). The mission of the command fundamentally changed, making it the Navy's lead for Information Operations, as well as Networks and Space.
The assumption, alignment, and integration of Fleet Intelligence Type Commander duties, responsibilities and functions at NETWARCOM in 2008 began a measured and evolutionary process to improve integrated Fleet Intelligence and ISR readiness. This alignment provides a single Fleet champion for ISR and positions Fleet Intelligence for better and timelier support to fleet operations.
In 2009, the Secretary of Defense directed the establishment of U.S. Cyber Command. Each of the services was also directed to establish a supporting command to U.S. Cyber Command; as a result, the Naval Informations Operations Centers (NIOC) were moved to the reestablished Tenth Fleet to help form U.S. Fleet Cyber Command. Naval Network Warfare Command was reorganized and its mission revised to "operate and defend the Navy's portion of the Global Information Grid and deliver reliable and secure Net-centric and space war-fighting capabilities in support of strategic, operational and tactical missions across the Navy".
The headquarters is at Navy Cyber Forces in Norfolk, Virginia.
Organization
Naval Network Warfare Command acts as Combined Task Force 1010 (network operations & defense) for Tenth Fleet
CTF 1010 - Naval Network Warfare Command
CTG 1010.3 - NCTAMS PAC
CTG 1010.4 - NCTAMS LANT
See also
United States Tenth Fleet
U.S. Navy Information Dominance Corps
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Command
Navy Information Operations Command, Hawaii
References
External links
History of NAVNETWARCON Archived
Commands of the United States Navy
Military globalization
Military units and formations established in 2002
Cyberinfrastructure
Net-centric
Military units and formations in Virginia
Military communications units and formations of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroMed%20Rights | EuroMed Rights, formerly the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network is a network of 68 human rights organisations, institutions and individuals based in 30 countries in Europe and the Mediterranean region. It was established in 1997 in response to the Barcelona Declaration, which led to the establishment of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.
The members of EuroMed Rights admit to universal human rights principles and are convinced of the value of cooperation and dialogue across and within borders. EuroMed Rights promotes networking, cooperation and development of partnerships between human rights NGOs, activists and a wider civil society.
Aims and achievements
EuroMed Rights was created in relation to the existence of the inter-governmental Euromediterranean Partnership (EMP), and in particular, the Barcelona Process proposed by the EMP. EuroMed Rights' role is primarily as an intermediary between governmental institutions and grassroots human rights organisations. It received most of its funding during its first years from governmental sources and is closely linked to the EuroMed Civil Forums that constitutes a relatively government-linked alternative to the grassroots Alternative Mediterranean Conference that was organised in 1995. As of 2008, EuroMed Rights had become well recognised both by European Union (EU) institutions and NGOs. Its activities range from communication among NGO members and activist campaigning through to lobbying of institutions.
EuroMed Rights describes itself as a regional forum for human rights NGOs and a pool of expertise on promotion, protection and strengthening of human rights. Its online library is an important collection of press releases, statements, open letters and reports about the Euro-Mediterranean region.
It states that it brings people together in inter-cultural settings to promote dialogue and understanding, with stress on the following subjects:
lobbying human rights mechanisms within the European Union (EU) and the Euromediterranean Partnership, especially concerning the association agreements with the Mediterranean Partners and the European Neighbourhood Policy
supporting reform processes in the Arab World by strengthening democratization processes originating from the civil society
working towards transforming the non-European Mediterranean region into states of law, especially by backing movements for the enforcement of the freedoms of speech and assembly
bringing human rights values and principles as well as women rights and the idea of public education to the public in order to achieve a broad popular participation in changing the living conditions where human rights are abused or denied
sending of delegations and observers, and publishing urgent alerts in cases of deterioration of human rights and when members are in danger or imprisoned
close and critical monitoring of the own efforts of the EU
information on human rights violations in North Africa and the Middle East by publishing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore%20custom%20software%20development | In software engineering, offshore custom software development consists in offshoring the software development process in a country where production costs are lower, thus decreasing budget spending.
Background
Early days
Since the 1960s and the early days of the Silicon Valley, technology pioneers developed offshoring centers in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. In 1996, General Electric offshored its IT for the first time when it opened its own center in India. Given the rapid growth of this sector, several companies have started to use offshore development in China, India and other countries with a lower cost per developer model. In the early 2000s, the leading countries in offshore custom software development were Russia, India, Ukraine and China. The time difference when working with India and China for the Western world allowed work to be done round the clock adding a competitive advantage.
2008 Recession
During the Great Recession, offshore software development spending lowered. During his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama stated «I will stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship job overseas and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America.» This led to a $3,000 tax break for US companies per hire onshore instead of offshore. In 2010, the market picked up again. In 2011, General Electric, whose CEO had a seat at the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, announced the creation of 11,000 onshore IT jobs.
Globalization
By the mid-2010s, the debate onshore/offshore was becoming irrelevant, as all major software outsourcing providers had shifted to worldwide operations and integrated offshoring into a seamless offer for their clients.
New agile and DevOps development models called for a tighter relation between the client and the offshoring provider, making major long-distance offshoring destinations (Russia, India, China) unfit for the job. Nearshoring, offshoring to a very nearby country, has gained increasing popularity among the CIO and CTO community. The USA is increasing its IT shopping in Latin American countries, and Europe in Poland and other small Eastern European countries such as Lithuania. North Korea appeared on the map of IT offshoring destinations, having great engineering resources and an excellent price/quality ratio.
By 2010, India started to consider China as a threatening competitor. In September 2010, the French company Capgemini bought the Brazilian software developer CPM Braxis for $330 million to significantly grow its offshore capacity. In November 2010, Hewlett-Packard confirmed a $1 billion investment to develop 6 major offshore centers in Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, India, Malaysia and the Philippines.
In 2013, China's offshore software market reached $5.05 billion. By 2015, India was considering repatriating most of its outsourcing activities to move to a new generation of automated software development. In February 2016, Apple Inc. opened its first |
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