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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skovlunde%20station | Skovlunde station is a commuter railway station serving the suburb of Skovlunde west of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located on the Frederikssund radial of Copenhagen's S-train network.
See also
List of railway stations in Denmark
References
S-train (Copenhagen) stations
Railway stations opened in 1882
1882 establishments in Denmark
Railway stations in Denmark opened in the 1880s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmparken%20station | Malmparken station is a station on the Frederikssund radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark.
See also
List of railway stations in Denmark
External links
S-train (Copenhagen) stations
Railway stations opened in 1989
1989 establishments in Denmark
Railway stations in Denmark opened in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A5l%C3%B8v%20station | Måløv station is a station in Måløv on the Frederikssund radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Måløv station was built by Det sjællandske Jernbaneselskab (the Railway Company of Zealand, now Danish State Railways) and opened 17 June 1879 between Frederikssund and Frederiksberg.
The railroad became electrified in 1989 and the traffic was transferred to the S-train network. In 2002, the railroad became double tracked in its whole length.
The station building is also from 1879 when 3 stations were built according to the same plan: Herlev station, Måløv station and Veksø station.
Services
See also
List of railway stations in Denmark
References
S-train (Copenhagen) stations
Railway stations opened in 1879
Railway stations in Denmark opened in the 1870s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kildedal%20station | Kildedal station is a station on the Frederikssund radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The station opened on 25 November 2000 in expectation of nearby urban development. It is still surrounded mostly by fields and has failed to attract any significant number of passengers. Since 23 September 2007 trains only stop at Kildedal on Monday through Saturday in the periods when service C is extended from Ballerup to Frederikssund. It was the only S-train station not to have service every day of the week. Since December 2012, this station has restored weekend service, and no train stops there on weekday evenings.
Weekday traffic stops here to unload employees who work in a nearby industrial park area, which is the site of the head offices and production facilities and of companies which include Oticon, Falck, Eva Denmark, Cidex, Formula Tryxager, Vangsgaard and Novo Nordisk.
Services
References
External links
S-train (Copenhagen) stations
Railway stations opened in 2000
Railway stations in Denmark opened in the 2000s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Xevious%3A%20GAMP%20no%20Nazo | is a 1986 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Namco for the Family Computer in Japan. It is the sequel to Xevious, a popular arcade game released in late 1982, and the fourth installment in the Xevious franchise overall. The player controls a spaceship named the Solvalou in its mission to destroy a powerful supercomputer named GAMP, which took over Earth during an ice age. GAMP no Nazo features a heavy focus on puzzle-solving, with each of the game's 21 levels posing a puzzle that must be solved to progress.
Created in response to the overwhelming success of the Family Computer port of Xevious, GAMP no Nazo was not designed by Masanobu Endo, the creator of the original game. Endo, who left Namco in 1985 to form Game Studio, opposed the idea of a sequel to his creation, as he felt it was unnecessary. Though they share a similar title and gameplay, GAMP no Nazo is not the same as the arcade game Super Xevious.
GAMP no Nazo was a commercial failure, and its changes to the gameplay of the original received backlash from fans. Critics disliked the difficulty level for being too high and its usage of secrets for being poorly-implemented and overly-complex. This led to a rethinking of the series' direction, with future Xevious sequels omitting many of GAMP no Nazos design choices. The game was re-released for the Nintendo Vs. System arcade game hardware in 1987, and through the Namco Museum Archives Vol. 2 collection in 2020.
Gameplay
Super Xevious: GAMP no Nazo is a vertical-scrolling shooter video game, and the sequel to Xevious. The plot involves a supercomputer, General Artificial Matrix Producer (GAMP), taking control of Earth after an ice age freezes the planet and its population. The player's ship, the Solvalou, is deployed to destroy GAMP and the Xevious forces. The game contains 21 levels, referred to as "areas" in-game. Levels scroll automatically as the player is given a free range of movement. Each level has a puzzle that must be solved in order to progress. Puzzles include destroying a certain type of enemy and flying into a specified portion of the screen. If the player fails to complete the puzzle, they are sent back to the beginning of the level.
The Solvalou begins the game with two weapons: a forward-moving projectile that is used to destroy air-based enemies, and an air-to-ground bomb to destroy ground-stationed enemies. A reticle is displayed above the Solvalou that marks where its bombs will land. The Solvalou is able to collect power-up items, indicated by specifically-colored orbs, by rescuing a ship named the Phantom in the second level. Black orbs give the Solvalou a shield that protects it from enemy fire; yellow orbs increase the size of the bomb receptacle and blast radius; and blue orbs allow the Solvalou to shoot forwards and backwards. The Solvalou can also find a special item called the Super Zapper later in the game. The Super Zapper allows the player to destroy enemies known as Bacura |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veks%C3%B8%20station | Veksø station is a station on the Frederikssund radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located to the south of the town of Veksø.
The station was designed by Simon Peter Christian Bendtsen. He has also designed some other stations such as: Herlev, Måløv and Ølstykke.
History
On 5 June 1879, the first train rolled into the station. On 15 June 1879, it was inaugurated.
Services
References
S-train (Copenhagen) stations
Railway stations opened in 1989
Railway stations in Denmark opened in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egedal%20station | Egedal is a station on the Frederikssund radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2011 it changed name from Gl. Toftegård Station to Egedal station.
Services
See also
List of railway stations in Denmark
S-train (Copenhagen) stations
Railway stations opened in 2002
2002 establishments in Denmark
Railway stations in Denmark opened in the 2000s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GridApp%20Systems | GridApp Systems, Inc. was a database automation software company. It was purchased by BMC Software in December, 2010.
Founded in 2002 and headquartered in New York City, GridApp Systems was the brainchild of five former employees of Register.com, Rob Gardos, Shamoun Murtza, Matthew Zito, Dan Cohen, and Eric Gross. The five realized that 85% of the routine tasks performed by database administrators could be automated, decreasing critical errors and improving productivity; all five functioned as GridApp's CEO, CTO, Chief Scientist, Director of Development, and Mr. Database respectively.
GridApp's flagship product is GridApp Clarity, which has won the following awards and recognition:
SearchSQLServer ― 2006 ― "Performance and Tuning" Category ― Silver
ServerWatch ― 2008 ― "Automation and Compliance" category ― Silver
CODiE ― 2008 ― "Best Database Management Software" category ― Finalist
EMA ― 2008 ― "EMA Rising Star"
References
Software companies established in 2002
American companies established in 2002
Software companies based in New York (state)
2002 establishments in New York City
2010 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States
Defunct computer companies based in New York (state)
BMC Software acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Mary%27s/Duluth%20Clinic%20Health%20System | SMDC Health System (St. Mary's/Duluth Clinic Health System) was a hospital network with hospitals and clinics in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin and also serving parts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The four hospitals were St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth, Minnesota, SMDC Medical Center in Duluth, St. Mary's Hospital of Superior, Wisconsin and Pine Medical Center in Sandstone, Minnesota. SMDC included the Duluth Clinic, a group of physicians who provided care at several locations.
In 2004, SMDC merged with Benedictine Health System, and became part of Essentia Health, initially the parent company of the partnership between the Benedictine Health System and SMDC. In 2010, Essentia Health integrated the resources of all of its various member organizations and united them under the one name, Essentia Health, and SMDC Health System ceased to exist.
References
Healthcare in Minnesota
Hospital networks in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%20Agenda | Philippine Agenda is a 2007 Philippine television public affairs show broadcast by GMA Network. The show focuses on the 2007 Philippine general election. Hosted by Jessica Soho, Mel Tiangco, Vicky Morales, Mike Enriquez and Arnold Clavio, it premiered on March 25, 2007. The show concluded on May 13, 2007 with a total of 8 episodes.
Episodes
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoLanguage | NanoLanguage is a scripting interface built on top of the interpreted programming language Python, and is primarily intended for simulation of physical and chemical properties of nanoscale systems.
Introduction
Over the years, several electronic-structure codes based on density functional theory have been developed by different groups of academic researchers; VASP, Abinit, SIESTA, and Gaussian are just a few examples. The input to these programs is usually a simple text file written in a code-specific format with a set of code-specific keywords.
NanoLanguage was introduced by Atomistix A/S as an interface to Atomistix ToolKit (version 2.1) in order to provide a more flexible input format. A NanoLanguage script (or input file) is just a Python program and can be anything from a few lines to a script performing complex numerical simulations, communicating with other scripts and files, and communicating with other software (e.g. plotting programs).
NanoLanguage is not a proprietary product of Atomistix and can be used as an interface to other density functional theory codes as well as to codes utilizing e.g. tight-binding, k.p, or quantum-chemical methods.
Features
Built on top of Python, NanoLanguage includes the same functionality as Python and with the same syntax. Hence, NanoLanguage contains, among other features, common programming elements (for loops, if statements, etc.), mathematical functions, and data arrays.
In addition, a number of concepts and objects relevant to quantum chemistry and physics are built into NanoLanguage, e.g. a periodic table, a unit system (including both SI units and atomic units like Ångström), constructors of atomic geometries, and different functions for density-functional theory and transport calculations.
Example
This NanoLanguage script uses the Kohn–Sham method to calculate the total energy of a water molecule as a function of the bending angle.
# Define function for molecule setup
def waterConfiguration(angle, bondLength):
from math import sin, cos
theta = angle.inUnitsOf(radians)
positions = [
(0.0, 0.0, 0.0) * Angstrom,
(1.0, 0.0, 0.0) * bondLength,
(cos(theta), sin(theta), 0.0) * bondLength,
]
elements = [Oxygen] + [Hydrogen] * 2
return MoleculeConfiguration(elements, positions)
# Choose DFT method with default arguments
method = KohnShamMethod()
# Scan different bending angles and calculate the total energy
for i in range(30, 181, 10):
theta = i * degrees
h2o = waterConfiguration(theta, 0.958 * Angstrom)
scf = method.apply(h2o)
print "Angle = ", theta, " Total Energy = ", calculateTotalEnergy(scf)
See also
List of software for nanostructures modeling
References
Nanotechnology
Computational science
Computational chemistry software
Physics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malminkartano%20railway%20station | Malminkartano railway station (, ) is a railway station on the Helsinki commuter rail network located in northern Helsinki, Finland. It is located approximately eleven kilometres to the north of Helsinki Central railway station.
The station is served by circular lines I and P, between the stations of Kannelmäki and Myyrmäki.
History
While most of the Martinlaakso line was opened in June 1975, Malminkartano was not one of its original stations as the suburbs around it were still under heavy construction around the time. Unlike the other stations on the line which had long platforms, the ones at Malminkartano were built longer at , in anticipation of increases in passenger numbers, leading to a need to use Sm1/Sm2 combos longer than four units. The station was opened just under three years later, on 28 May 1978. It became the first station in the country to be located in a tunnel.
Trains initially stopped in the south side of the tunnel. As the construction of residential buildings in Malminkartano reached the plots north of the tunnel, the stopping point was moved to its midway point to function as a compromise between the original residents south of the tunnel and the new users of the station to its north.
In 1982, the tunnel's walls were painted with the country's first artistic graffiti, and then again in 1995 as part of a project with the participation of over 40 local artists. The works were eventually covered by illegally painted graffitis, which prompted the city of Helsinki to cover the entire wall with grey paint in 2004. The graffitis returned in October 2017 as part of a project arranged by the city, Helsinki City Transport and several other municipal actors, along with three sponsors from the paint industry.
External links
References
Railway stations in Helsinki
Railway stations opened in 1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management%20features%20new%20to%20Windows%20Vista | Windows Vista contains a range of new technologies and features that are intended to help network administrators and power users better manage their systems. Notable changes include a complete replacement of both the Windows Setup and the Windows startup processes, completely rewritten deployment mechanisms, new diagnostic and health monitoring tools such as random access memory diagnostic program, support for per-application Remote Desktop sessions, a completely new Task Scheduler, and a range of new Group Policy settings covering many of the features new to Windows Vista. Subsystem for UNIX Applications, which provides a POSIX-compatible environment is also introduced.
Setup
The setup process for Windows Vista has been completely rewritten and is now image-based instead of being sector-based as previous versions of Windows were. The Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) has been updated to host the entire setup process in a graphical environment (as opposed to text-based environments of previous versions of Windows), which allows the use of input devices other than the keyboard throughout the entire setup process. The new interface resembles Windows Vista itself, with features such as ClearType fonts and Windows Aero visual effects. Prior to copying the setup image to disk, users can create, format, and graphically resize disk partitions. The new image-based setup also reduces the duration of the installation procedure when contrasted with Windows XP; Microsoft estimates that Windows Vista can install in as few as 20 minutes despite being more than three times the size of its predecessor.
Windows XP only supported loading storage drivers from floppy diskettes during initialization of the setup process; Windows Vista supports loading drivers for SATA, SCSI, and RAID controllers from any external source in addition to floppy diskettes prior to its installation.
At the end of the setup process, Windows Vista can also automatically download and apply security and device-driver updates from Windows Update. Previous versions of Windows could only configure updates to be installed after the operating system installation.
System recovery
The new Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) detects and repairs various operating system problems; it presents a set of options dedicated to diagnostics including Startup Repair, System Restore, Backup and Restore, Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool, Command Prompt, and options specific to original equipment manufacturers. WinRE is accessible by pressing during operating system boot or by booting from a Windows installation source such as optical media.
Startup Repair
Startup Repair (formerly System Recovery Troubleshooter Wizard) is a diagnostic feature designed to repair systems that cannot boot due to operating system corruption, incompatible drivers, or damaged hardware; it scans for corruption of operating system components such as Boot Configuration Data and the Windows Registry and also checks boot s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20nature%20conservation%20statuses | In Britain, a variety of status categorisation schemes exist, for sites, species and habitats. These include, for species and habitats, Red Data Book threat categories, national rarity and scarcity assessments and Biodiversity Action Plan statuses, and for sites, statutory statuses such as the SSSI concept, and non-statutory statuses such as county wildlife sites.
The most widely established assessment system for rarity and scarcity is based around presence of species in the hectads (i.e. 10 x 10 km grid squares) of the Ordnance Survey National Grid. Nationally Rare is conventionally defined as species which are found in 15 or fewer hectads. Nationally Scarce (also termed Nationally Notable) relates to species which are found in between 16 and 100 hectads. This category is subdivided into Nationally Scarce (Nationally Notable) A—species found in 16 to 30 hectads, and Nationally Scarce (Nationally Notable) B—species found in between 31 and 100 hectads. A status of Local is also sometimes used, referring to species found in between 101 and 300 hectads.
Sites of Special Scientific Interest are sites which are of importance for their biological or geological interest, and are protected from damage under legislation such as the Wildlife and Countryside Act.
A Special Protection Area is an area of importance for birds, protected under European legislation.
Conservation in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet%20Canada | Fleet Canada Inc., the successor to the Fleet Aerospace Inc division of Magellan Aerospace Inc, is a manufacturer of aerospace structures, component parts, and assemblies to approved design data. It is located in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, where it has operated from the same site for more than 85 years, during which the facility has grown to over . Capabilities include tooling, detail fabrication, bonding, and finishing, chemical processing, heat treating, and NDT (LPI).
Established in 2006, Fleet Canada Inc. has not been affiliated with Magellan Aerospace Inc since the closure of Fleet Aircraft in 2003.
History
The company was formed in 2006, but its history can be traced back to Reuben Fleet, who commenced manufacturing operations of Fleet Aircraft on March 23, 1930. A state-of-the-art facility for the day, the plant promptly began turning out complete aircraft for military and civilian training. By 1938, Fleet had enlarged the factory to ten times its original size and the Fleet Finch Trainer had become the primary training aircraft for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. After the war, Fleet produced a successful light civilian 2-seater, the Fleet Canuck. The making of complete aircraft ceased in the early 1950s and the manufacture of quality structural components became the core business.
Clients
Fleet Canada's products are sold to various aerospace clients:
Boeing — parts used for CH — 47 Chinook Helicopter
Bombardier Aerospace — parts used for Bombardier Q series
Viking Air — parts used for Twin Otter 400 Series
DeHavilland Aircraft Canada — parts used for CL-215, CL-415 & DHC-515 Waterbombers
Products
Tail Boom for helicopters
Airframe structural assemblies
Longerons/Stringers
Bulkheads
Floor Panels
Airframe structural assemblies
Rib Doubler
References
External links
Fleet Canada Inc website
Aerospace companies of Canada
Aircraft manufacturers of Canada
Companies based in Ontario
Manufacturing companies established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%20hoc%20wireless%20distribution%20service | Ad hoc Wireless Distribution Service (AWDS) is a layer 2 routing protocol to connect mobile ad hoc networks, sometimes called wireless mesh networks. It is based on a link-state routing protocol, similar to OLSR.
Principle of operation
AWDS uses a link-state routing protocol for organizing the network. In contrast to other implementations like OLSR it operates in layer 2. That means no IP addresses must be assigned because the unique MAC addresses of the WLAN hardware is used instead. Furthermore, all kinds of layer 3 protocols can be used, like IP, DHCP, IPv6, IPX, etc. The protocol daemon creates a virtual network interface, which can be used by the kernel like a typical LAN interface.
Alternatives
The list of ad hoc routing protocols contains a large set of alternatives. However, most of them
are academic and do not exist as practical implementations.
References
External links
An implementation for Linux is available at https://web.archive.org/web/20070504155750/http://awds.berlios.de/
Analysis of Mesh Architectures Why all mesh technologies are not created equal.
What is Third Generation Mesh? Review of three generation of mesh networking architectures.
Is Multi-radio mesh worthwhile? Cost and performance considerations of multi-radio mesh.
Wireless networking
Ad hoc routing protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Portland%20Group | PGI (formerly The Portland Group, Inc.) was a company that produced a set of commercially available Fortran, C and C++ compilers for high-performance computing systems. On July 29, 2013, Nvidia acquired The Portland Group, Inc. As of August 5, 2020, the "PGI Compilers and Tools" technology is a part of the Nvidia HPC SDK product available as a free download from Nvidia.
Company history
The Portland Group was founded as a privately held company in 1989, using compiler technology developed at and acquired from Floating Point Systems Inc. The first products, pipelining Fortran and C compilers, were released in 1991, targeting the Intel i860 processor. These compilers were used on Intel supercomputers like the iPSC/860, the Touchstone Delta, and the Paragon, and were the compilers of choice for the majority of i860-based platforms.
In the early 1990s, PGI was deeply involved in the development of High Performance Fortran, or HPF, a data parallel language extension to Fortran 90 which provides a portable programming interface for a wide variety of architectures. PGI produced an HPF compiler, called PGHPF, until its last release, version 15.10, on October 28, 2015.
In 1996, PGI developed x86 compilers for the ASCI Red Supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories, the first computer system to sustain teraflop performance. In 1997, PGI released x86 compilers for general use on Linux workstations.
The Portland Group was acquired by STMicroelectronics on December 19, 2000. During STMicroelectronics ownership, PGI operated as a wholly owned subsidiary producing high-performance computing (HPC) compilers and tools for Linux, Windows, Mac OS, and STMicroelectronics ST100 series of embedded DSP cores.
PGI has been deeply involved in the expansion of the use of GPGPUs for high-performance computing, developing CUDA Fortran
with Nvidia and PGI Accelerator Fortran and C compilers
which use programming directives. PGI and NVIDIA have both participated in the specification of the new standard OpenACC directives for GPU computing since it was first announced on November 3, 2011. On May 21, 2013, PGI released a compiler for the OpenCL language on multi-core ARM processors.
Nvidia acquired PGI from STMicroelectronics on July 29, 2013 and offered the PGI technology under the "PGI Compilers and Tools" product line. On August 5, 2020, Nvidia announced that the "PGI Compilers and Tools" product line has evolved into a new NVIDIA HPC SDK product available as a free download from Nvidia. The Nvidia HPC SDK includes rebranded PGI compilers and added features for developing HPC applications.
Product and market history
Compilers
PGI compilers incorporate global optimization, vectorization, software pipelining, and shared-memory parallelization capabilities targeting both Intel and AMD processors. PGI supports the following high-level languages:
Fortran 77
Fortran 90/95/2003
Fortran 2008 (partial)
High Performance Fortran (HPF)
ANSI C99 with K&R extens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20desktop | In computer science, the semantic desktop is a collective term for ideas related to changing a computer's user interface and data handling capabilities so that data are more easily shared between different applications or tasks and so that data that once could not be automatically processed by a computer could be. It also encompasses some ideas about being able to share information automatically between different people. This concept is very much related to the Semantic Web, but is distinct insofar as its main concern is the personal use of information.
General description
The vision of the semantic desktop can be considered as a response to the perceived problems of existing user interfaces. Without good metadata, computers cannot easily learn many commonly needed attributes about files. For example, suppose one downloads a document by a particular author on a particular subject - though the document will likely clearly indicate its subject, author, source and possibly copyright information there may be no easy way for the computer to obtain this information and process it across applications like file managers, desktop search engines, and other services. This means the computer cannot search, filter or otherwise act upon the information as effectively as it otherwise could. This is very much the problem that the Semantic Web is concerned with.
Secondly there is the problem of relating different files with each other. For example, on operating systems such as Unix, e-mails are stored separately from files. Neither has anything to do with tasks, notes or planned activities that may be stored in a calendar program. Contacts might be stored in another program. However, all these forms of information might simultaneously be relevant and necessary for a particular task.
Related to this, a user will often access a lot of data from the Internet which are segregated from the data stored locally on the computer and accessed through a browser or other program. As well as accessing data, a user has to share data, often through e-mail or separate file transfer programs.
The semantic desktop is an attempt to solve some or all of these problem by extending the operating system's capabilities to handle all data using Semantic Web technologies. Based on this data integration, improved user interfaces (or plugins to existing applications) can give the user an integrated view on stored knowledge.
Some operating systems such as BeOS have database filesystems which store metadata about a document natively in the filesystem, which is a move towards a more semantic desktop.
A definition of Semantic Desktop was given (Sauermann et al. 2005):
A Semantic Desktop is a device in which an individual stores all her digital information like documents, multimedia and messages. These are interpreted as
Semantic Web resources, each is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and
all data is accessible and queryable as Resource Description Framework (RDF) graph. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation-based%20access%20control | In computer security, organization-based access control (OrBAC) is an access control model first presented in 2003. The current approaches of the access control rest on the three entities (subject, action, object) to control the access the policy specifies that some subject has the permission to realize some action on some object.
OrBAC allows the policy designer to define a security policy independently of the implementation. The chosen method to fulfill this goal is the introduction of an abstract level.
Subjects are abstracted into roles. A role is a set of subjects to which the same security rule apply.
Similarly, an activity is a set of actions to which the same security rule apply.
And, a view is a set of objects to which the same security rule apply.
Each security policy is defined for and by an organization. Thus, the specification of the security policy is completely parameterized by the organization so that it is possible to handle simultaneously several security policies associated with different organizations. The model is not restricted to permissions, but also includes the possibility to specify prohibitions and obligations. From the three abstract entities (roles, activities, views), abstract privileges are defined. And from these abstract privileges, concrete privileges are derived.
OrBAC is context sensitive, so the policy could be expressed dynamically. Furthermore, OrBAC owns concepts of hierarchy (organization, role, activity, view, context) and separation constraints.
See also
External links
OrBAC site
MotOrBAC site (OrBAC simulation and conflict detection tool)
Computer access control
Access control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Retrieval%20Specialist%20Group | The Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) or BCS-IRSG is a Specialist Group of the British Computer Society concerned with supporting communication between researchers and practitioners, promoting the use of Information Retrieval (IR) methods in industry and raising public awareness. There is a newsletter called The Informer, the annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), an annual event called Search Solutions aimed at researchers and practitioners, and continual organisation and sponsorship of conferences, workshops and seminars. The current chair is Professor Udo Kruschwitz.
European Conference on Information Retrieval
Organising ECIR is one of the major activities of the Information Retrieval Specialist Group. The conference began in 1979 and has grown to become one of the major Information Retrieval conferences alongside SIGIR receiving hundreds of paper and poster submissions every year from around the world. ECIR was initially established by the IRSG under the name "Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research", and held in the UK until 1997. It was renamed ECIR in 2003 to better reflect its status as an international conference. ECIR is currently ranked A in the CORE conference rankings.
References
External links
IRSG website
Information retrieval organizations
BCS Specialist Groups
Organizations established in 1979 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing%20mix%20modeling | Marketing mix modeling (MMM) is statistical analysis such as multivariate regressions on sales and marketing time series data to estimate the impact of various marketing tactics (marketing mix) on sales and then forecast the impact of future sets of tactics. It is often used to optimize advertising mix and promotional tactics with respect to sales revenue or profit.
The techniques were developed by econometricians and were first applied to consumer packaged goods, since manufacturers of those goods had access to accurate data on sales and marketing support. Improved availability of data, massively greater computing power, and the pressure to measure and optimize marketing spend has driven the explosion in popularity as a marketing tool. In recent times MMM has found acceptance as a trustworthy marketing tool among the major consumer marketing companies.
History
The term marketing mix was developed by Neil Borden who first started using the phrase in 1949. “An executive is a mixer of ingredients, who sometimes follows a recipe as he goes along, sometimes adapts a recipe to the ingredients immediately available, and sometimes experiments with or invents ingredients no one else has tried."
According to Borden, "When building a marketing program to fit the needs of his firm, the marketing manager has to weigh the behavioral forces and then juggle marketing elements in his mix with a keen eye on the resources with which he has to work."
E. Jerome McCarthy, was the first person to suggest the four P's of marketing – price, promotion, product and place (distribution) – which constitute the most common variables used in constructing a marketing mix. According to McCarthy the marketers essentially have these four variables which they can use while crafting a marketing strategy and writing a marketing plan. In the long term, all four of the mix variables can be changed, but in the short term it is difficult to modify the product or the distribution channel.
Another set of marketing mix variables were developed by Albert Frey who classified the marketing variables into two categories: the offering, and process variables. The "offering" consists of the product, service, packaging, brand, and price. The "process" or "method" variables included advertising, promotion, sales promotion, personal selling, publicity, distribution channels, marketing research, strategy formation, and new product development.
Recently, Bernard Booms and Mary Bitner built a model consisting of seven P's. They added "People" to the list of existing variables, in order to recognize the importance of the human element in all aspects of marketing. They added "process" to reflect the fact that services, unlike physical products, are experienced as a process at the time that they are purchased. Desktop modeling tools such as Micro TSP have made this kind of statistical analysis part of the mainstream now. Most advertising agencies and strategy consulting firms offer MMM services t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Simulation |
System Simulation (SSL) is a software engineering company now specialising in text and multimedia information systems, based in Covent Garden, central London, England, and founded in 1970.
Under the chairmanship of John Lansdown, following collaborative research work at the Royal College of Art, System Simulation carried out pioneering computer animation work, applying computer graphics techniques in TV and film creating many advertising sequences, the flight deck instrumentation readouts on the Nostromo spaceship for Ridley Scott's Alien, and the animation of Martin Lambie-Nairn's original Channel 4 logo.
More recently System Simulation has specialised in museum information systems, commercial and archival image library systems, information management and delivery for publishers, news services and professional and commercial organisations. MuseumIndex+, the museum information management system, supports collections management, digital archives and interactive public access. Clients include the British Museum, London Transport Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Getty Images, SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network) and Culture24. They develop content management systems, and CD-ROM/Web products and services for the publishing sector and for information service providers.
The company provides technical support for the online services of Culture24, the UK's leading virtual museum resource.
The company has often hosted meetings of the Computer Arts Society.
Awards won by company and their clients
British Computer Society IT Award Winner 1994: PLATO-UK with Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Trust and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
British Computer Society IT Award Medallist 1995: ROCKnROM with Michael Wadleigh and Penguin Books
British Computer Society IT Award Medallist 1996: Index+ software system.
BT/New Statesman - Best education website 2001: The 24 Hour Museum http://www.culture24.org.uk/
American Association of Museums Silver Muse Award 2001 - Excellence in the use of media and technology for collections database and research resource: SCRAN http://www.scran.ac.uk
Institute of Information Scientists Jason Farradine Award 2001 - an outstanding piece of work in the information field: SCRAN http://www.scran.ac.uk
National Library for the Blind Visionary Design Award 2002: The British Museum COMPASS website for accessibility to the visually impaired. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass
IVCA Biz Net Award Winner - Best public information website 2002: The 24 Hour Museum (since rebranded as "Culture24") http://www.culture24.org.uk/home
BECTA/The Guardian UK Education Website Awards 2002 - shortlisted :SCRAN http://www.scran.ac.uk
Museums and the Web, Culture 24 Best of the Web Winner in the category "long-lived" April 2010
Europeana Foundation, Hack4Europe, Casual Curator winner in the category "Social Inclusion" June 2011
References
External links
British animation studios
Companies based in the London Borough of Isli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Data%20Protection%20Supervisor | The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is an independent supervisory authority whose primary objective is to monitor and ensure that European institutions and bodies respect the right to privacy and data protection when they process personal data and develop new policies.
Wojciech Wiewiórowski has been appointed European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) by a joint decision of the European Parliament and the Council. Appointed for a five-year term, he took office on 6 December 2019.
Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 describes the duties and powers of the European Data Protection Supervisor (Chapter VI) as well as the institutional independence of the EDPS as a supervisory authority. It also lays down the rules for data protection in the EU institutions.
Activities
The duties and powers of the EDPS, as well as the institutional independence of the supervisory authority, are set out in the "Data Protection Regulation". In practice the EDPS' activities can be divided into three main roles: supervision, consultation, and cooperation.
Supervision
In the "supervisory" role the EDPS' core task is to monitor the processing of personal data in European institutions and bodies. The EDPS does so in cooperation with the data protection officers (DPO) present in each European institution and body. The DPO has to notify the EDPS about any processing operations involving sensitive personal data or likely to pose other specific risks. The EDPS then analyses this processing in relation to the Data Protection Regulation and issues a "prior check" opinion. In most cases, this exercise leads to a set of recommendations that the institution or body needs to implement so as to ensure compliance with data protection rules.
In 2009, for instance, the EDPS adopted more than a hundred prior check opinions, mainly covering issues such as health data, staff evaluation, recruitment, time management, telephone recording performance tools, and security investigations. These opinions are published on the EDPS website and their implementation is followed up systematically.
The implementation of the Data Protection Regulation in the EU administration is also closely monitored by regular stock-taking of performance indicators, involving all EU institutions and bodies. In addition to this general monitoring exercise, the EDPS also carries out on-site inspections to measure compliance in practice.
The supervisory role of the EDPS also involves investigating complaints lodged by EU staff members or any other individual who feels that their personal data have been mishandled by a European institution or body. Examples of complaints include alleged violations of confidentiality, access to data, the right of rectification, erasure of data, and excessive collection or illegal use of data by the controller.
The EDPS has also developed other forms of supervision, such as advice on administrative measures and the drafting of thematic guidelines.
Consultation
In the "consultativ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDE | JDE may refer to:
Java (programming language) Development Environment
Jacobs Douwe Egberts, a Dutch coffee and tea company
Journal of Development Economics
JD Edwards, a software company
Jiangdong'er Road station, a station on the Line 7 of Hangzhou Metro in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Katz | Andrew D. Katz (born April 7, 1968) is a college basketball analyst for the Big Ten Network and a college basketball correspondent for the NCAA. He formerly worked as a senior college basketball journalist for ESPN.com, and was a regular sports analyst on College GameNight on ESPN. Katz earned a B.A. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1990), and began working for ESPN in 2000.
Career
Before Katz joined ESPN, he was a sports reporter for The Fresno Bee (1995–1999); the Albuquerque Journal (1990–1995); and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1989–1990).
On April 26, 2017, Katz was among over 100 employees laid off by ESPN. After leaving ESPN, Katz did color commentary for the Paradise Jam tournament held in Lynchburg, VA.
Katz is currently a college basketball studio analyst for the Big Ten Network (BTN).
References
Sources
Andy Katz ESPN Bio
External links
Living people
1969 births
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
College basketball announcers in the United States
ESPN people
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel people
People from West Hartford, Connecticut
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists
Newton South High School alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomonas%20vranovensis | Pseudomonas vranovensis is a Gram-negative soil bacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Pseudomonas vranovensis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Pseudomonadales
Bacteria described in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrative%20bioinformatics | Integrative bioinformatics is a discipline of bioinformatics that focuses on problems of data integration for the life sciences.
With the rise of high-throughput (HTP) technologies in the life sciences, particularly in molecular biology, the amount of collected data has grown in an exponential fashion. Furthermore, the data are scattered over a plethora of both public and private repositories, and are stored using a large number of different formats. This situation makes searching these data and performing the analysis necessary for the extraction of new knowledge from the complete set of available data very difficult. Integrative bioinformatics attempts to tackle this problem by providing unified access to life science data.
Approaches
Semantic web approaches
In the Semantic Web approach, data from multiple websites or databases is searched via metadata. Metadata is machine-readable code, which defines the contents of the page for the program so that the comparisons between the data and the search terms are more accurate. This serves to decrease the number of results that are irrelevant or unhelpful. Some meta-data exists as definitions called ontologies, which can be tagged by either users or programs; these serve to facilitate searches by using key terms or phrases to find and return the data. Advantages of this approach include the general increased quality of the data returned in searches and with proper tagging, ontologies finding entries that may not explicitly state the search term but are still relevant. One disadvantage of this approach is that the results that are returned come in the format of the database of their origin and as such, direct comparisons may be difficult. Another problem is that the terms used in tagging and searching can sometimes be ambiguous and may cause confusion among the results. In addition, the semantic web approach is still considered an emerging technology and is not in wide-scale use at this time.
One of the current applications of ontology-based search in the biomedical sciences is GoPubMed, which searches the PubMed database of scientific literature. Another use of ontologies is within databases such as SwissProt, Ensembl and TrEMBL, which use this technology to search through the stores of human proteome-related data for tags related to the search term.
Some of the research in this field has focused on creating new and specific ontologies. Other researchers have worked on verifying the results of existing ontologies. In a specific example, the goal of Verschelde, et al. was the integration of several different ontology libraries into a larger one that contained more definitions of different subspecialties (medical, molecular biological, etc.) and was able to distinguish between ambiguous tags; the result was a data-warehouse like effect, with easy access to multiple databases through the use of ontologies. In a separate project, Bertens, et al. constructed a lattice work of three ontologies (for a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion%20News%20Network | Onion News Network is a parody television news show that ran for two seasons of ten episodes each, both during 2011, on the Independent Film Channel.
History
In March 2007, The Onion launched The Onion News Network, a daily web video broadcast that had been in production since mid-2006. The Onion invested about $1 million in production and hired 15 staffers to focus on the venture. Carol Kolb, former Editor-in-Chief of The Onion, was the ONN's head writer, and Will Graham and Julie Smith were the executive producers. Season 1 aired on Friday nights at 10 pm. It was implied on-air that the ONN show "FactZone with Brooke Alvarez" is "simulcasted" on IFC Friday nights at 10 pm ET.
For Season 1, the series was the only scripted live-action comedy series in the US to employ non-union writers. However, the writers unionized between Seasons 1 and 2 in the midst of a strike threat.
IFC renewed Onion News Network for a second season, which was sponsored by Acura. Season 2 aired on Tuesdays for the first three episodes, and then moved back to Friday nights beginning with the November 18, 2011, episode. In March 2012, IFC publicly announced that they had not renewed ONN for a third season. Some time after the show's cancellation, a pilot for a new Onion Studios series titled Onion News Empire premiered on Amazon.com, which presented a fictitious "behind-the-scenes look" of The Onions "newsroom". It was not successfully picked up for a full series.
Cast
Suzanne Sena – Brooke Alvarez
Todd Alan Crain – Tucker Hope #8 (Season 1)
Ryan Blackwell – Tucker Hope #9 (Season 2)
Matt Oberg – Tucker Hope #10 (Season 2)*
Brad Holbrook - Jim Haggerty
Tracy Toth - Tracy Gill
Brian Huskey – Duncan Birch
Julie Brister – Lauralee Hickock
Klea Blackhurst – Shelby Cross
Dorothi Fox – Nancy Fichandler
John Cariani – Michael Falk
Malachy Cleary – David Barrodale (whose opinions are sponsored by Acura)
Esther David – Jane Carmichael
Peak Kwinarian – Brandon Armstrong (former ONN Newsroom anchor; died on October 25, 2011, episode)
Chaunteé Schuler – Angelique Clark
Michele Ammon – Jean Anne Whorton
Kyla Grogan – Andrea Bennett
Jill Dobson – Madison Daly
George Riddle – Joad Cressbeckler
Aaron Lazar – O'Brady Shaw (season 2)
Michael Torpey – Dan Carlysle, political expert
Oberg was the only actor to appear on two different television shows produced by The Onion. Oberg portrayed Mark Shepard in Onion SportsDome, which aired on Comedy Central until its cancellation in June 2011, and portrayed the "tenth" Tucker Hope on Onion News Network.
Guests
Rachel Maddow and Mike Huckabee appeared as themselves in the fourth episode. Ben Stiller appeared as himself on episode 9, in a fake PSA for "Shaken Man-Child Syndrome". Glenn Beck appeared as himself on the November 1, 2011, episode involving a fictional PBS Frontline documentary about Brooke Alvarez's checkered past which in part may explain her on-air icy demeanor. Beck stated that while auditioning for the p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX%20%28disambiguation%29 | MSX is a computer standard.
MSX may also refer to:
MSX, a disease caused by the Haplosporidium nelsoni pathogen of oysters
Metal Slug X, a video game
Midcourse Space Experiment, an infrared satellite telescope
MSX, IATA code for Mossendjo Airport in the Republic of the Congo
Stanford MSx, a management program at Stanford University, formerly known as the Sloan Fellows Program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%21%20Hollywood%20Hold%27em | E! Hollywood Hold'em is a poker television program. It aired in 2005 on the E! television network. The show featured young celebrities (including co-executive producer Laura Prepon and brothers Chris and Danny Masterson) hosting single table Texas hold em tournaments at their homes. The winner of each tournament pocketed $10,000. Professional poker player Phil Laak served as host and dealer, offering occasional tips to the players and home viewers.
External links
Official Website
Television shows about poker
Poker in North America
E! original programming
2005 American television series debuts
2005 American television series endings
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldcell | Moldcell is a Moldovan mobile network operator and is a subsidiary of Nepalese company CG Corp Global. It works in GSM, UMTS and LTE standards.
General information
Moldcell is a mobile telecommunications operator in Republic of Moldova, part of the CG Cell Technologies DAC group located in Nepal. In February 2020, the former owner of Moldcell, Telia Company, announced the sale of 100% of the shares held in Moldcell to CG Cell Technologies DAC, wholly owned by CG Corp Global. The transaction was completed on March 25, 2020, and CG Cell Technologies DAC is now officially the new owner of Moldcell.
Moldcell launched its commercial activity in 2000. At present, Moldcell has over 1 million subscribers.
History
On April 28, 2000, Moldcell opened its first sales office in Chisinau, at the address: 55, Tighina Street. The same year, the mobile operator launched for the first time in Moldova the SMS service and the first prepaid package. The first logo was representing a friendly deer and the first slogan, which subsequently became famous, was „Waiting for us? Here we are!”.
On its fifth anniversary, Moldcell launches the twenty four/seven Call Center service (dialing 444 from mobile phone and 022 444 444 from fixed phones). In 2005, Moldcell introduced in premiere the EDGE technology. The first rate plan for people with hearing impairments was launched by Moldcell in 2006. Alocard Alternativ was based on text and internet services and had a specialized Call Center Service. In 2007, Moldcell became the first mobile telephony operator to accept electronic payments. In less than a year, the percentage of electronic payments reached 17% and in 2014 – this figure grew to 63%. In 2008, Moldcell commercially launched the 3G services and also this year, it made the first video call from its network.
In 2009, Telia, at that time by name TeliaSonera group, became the first operator at global level to commercially launch the 4G services. In 2012, Moldcell became the first 4G operator in Moldova. Also this year, the company launched, for the first time in Moldova the mSănătate (mHealth) services for several categories of beneficiaries, including pregnant women and young mothers. In 2012, Republic of Moldova became the eighth country in the world to introduce the mobile signature. Moldcell had a strategic contribution in this project, sharing with the local implementers the relevant experience of the Baltic companies from the TeliaSonera group.
The communication platform „Născut în Moldova” (Born in Moldova) was launched by Moldcell in 2013, together with the introduction of the number portability service at national level. Also in 2013, Moldcell offered, for the first time on the local market, an option with unlimited national calls.
In 2015 Moldcell received the title of “Remarkable employer”.
Products and services
Cartelă Moldcell – prepaid tariff plans, where the subscriber does not have the obligation to sign contracts or to pay monthly fees.
bum – it's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial%20Images%20National%20Database | The Facial Images National Database (FIND) was a project managed by the United Kingdom's National Policing Improvement Agency. The database was a collection of mugshots both from still and from video image sources. It was also designed to keep track of scars, tattoos, and similar markings on persons within the database to increase efficiency in identification. It was intended that FIND would provide national access to images of individuals who have been arrested for a criminal offence, linking the image with the criminal data held on the Police National Computer.
The pilot went live on 6 November 2006, with Lancashire, West Yorkshire and Merseyside contributing and viewing images. Greater Manchester, North Wales, Devon and Cornwall, Thames Valley, British Transport Police (BTP) North Eastern Region, as well as one of the Metropolitan Police specialist units and eBorders had read only access to the system.
The forward plan for FIND included the addition of facial recognition software (much like the United States' FERET database) to the system. Due to budget pressures, the project was cancelled in early 2008 but this decision was under review in October 2008.
References
Biometric databases
Datasets in computer vision
Facial recognition
Government databases in the United Kingdom
Law enforcement in the United Kingdom
Law enforcement databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REANNZ | The Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand Ltd (REANNZ), once known as the Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN), is a high-capacity, ultra high-speed national research and education network (NREN) connecting New Zealand's tertiary institutions, research organisations, libraries, schools and museums, and the rest of the world. REANNZ is a Crown-owned not-for-profit company.
Commissioned in late 2006, REANNZ links to other established regional and national research and education networks, notably to JANET in the UK and to the Pacific Northwest Gigapop in Seattle.
E-research
New Zealand researchers and educators can use REANNZ to participate in e-research:
to exchange large volumes of data quickly
to gain access to large-scale national and international infrastructure
to collaborate better on research and education projects at a distance.
REANNZ aims:
to enable leading-edge e-research
to facilitate universal connectivity throughout the New Zealand and international research and education communities
to encourage broad participation by the research and education sector in New Zealand through accessible technology and reasonable pricing
to connect the research and education sector to the broader innovation community for pre-commercial research and development based collaboration
to facilitate participation by multiple telecommunications-sector partners to ensure the greatest possible flexibility for ongoing evolution.
Topology
REANNZ consists of a high-speed optical network connecting points of presence (PoPs) throughout New Zealand. A PoP provides an interconnection point between member sites around the network. Members may connect at one or more POPs. REANNZ links universities and Crown Research Institutes within New Zealand via One.NZ (Vodafone) fibre-optic cable and Vocus Communications, at speeds up to 100 gigabits per second.
International links to Sydney and to Seattle (Pacific Northwest Gigapop) via the Hawaiki Cable connect REANNZ to other national research and education networks in Australia and the United States, and through them to Asia and Europe for Research and Education traffic.
A distinguishing feature of any NREN is its flexibility to meet the diverse needs of all its users. The numbers involved, coupled with increasing sophistication of personal applications, mean that managing demand and maintaining performance require the use of a hybrid Ethernet and Internet Protocol (IP) network architecture.
Uptake
The research community, driven by the development of various e-science grids, has developed large-scale applications that will individually use high amounts of bandwidth and can in some cases also have strict demands on the network that may require defined resources allocated temporarily to meet performance demands.
REANNZ will need to continually evolve so the range of production and development demands can co-exist. This means taking into account the collaborative nature of the deve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey%20Dog%20Software | Grey Dog Software is a computer games development company, based in Phoenix, Arizona, and specializing in sports text simulations. Notable games released by Grey Dog include the Total Extreme Wrestling series and the Wrestling Spirit series.
History
On September 7, 2004, Arlie Rahn founded Grey Dog. Gary Gorski and Adam Ryland came to the company with Rahn.
All three developers had worked under the same company, .400 Software Studios, but when that company dissolved due to an ownership dispute, the three developers formed Grey Dog Software under the ownership of Rahn.
Gorski left Grey Dog in May 2006 to create his own company, Wolverine Studios.
Brian Nichols joined the company in December 2006 in order to be the lead developer of the basketball product line.
Games Released
Arcadia: Guild of Heroes
Bowl Bound College Football
Comic Book Hero: The Greatest Cape
Fast Break College Basketball
Fast Break Pro Basketball
Fast Break Pro Basketball 2
Fast Break Pro Basketball 2013
Imperium: Arena of Death
Total Extreme Wrestling 2005
Total Extreme Wrestling 2007
Total Extreme Wrestling 2008
Total Extreme Wrestling 2010
Total Extreme Wrestling 2013
Total Extreme Wrestling 2016
Total Extreme Wrestling 2020
World of Mixed Martial Arts
World of Mixed Martial Arts 2
World of Mixed Martial Arts 3
World of Mixed Martial Arts 4
World of Mixed Martial Arts 5
Wrestling Spirit
Wrestling Spirit 2
Wrestling Spirit 3
Developers
Products are categorized into product lines: basketball, football, wrestling/MMA and other.
References
External links
Grey Dog Software Official Site
Video game development companies
Video game companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20change | A network change is when a television series moves from one network to another. Generally this term only refers to original episodes of a series; repeats of a long-running series will usually be picked up by other channels in syndication, often before the series ends production.
Network changes are uncommon occurrences; in most cases, pickup by a network is made conditional on giving that network the first opportunity to order additional seasons. Generally a network change will only occur if either the original network cancels the series, or the show's producers choose to move to another network for financial reasons. The latter circumstance is rare, partly because the producers would typically have to wait out an exclusive negotiation window with the original network, and—especially in the 21st century—partly because of vertical integration (specifically, major networks ordering most of their series from companies under the same corporate umbrella).
Only 4% of US television shows changed networks between 2000 and 2012, excluding the one-off merger of UPN and The WB to form The CW.
References
Network switched |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20MovieFest | Campus MovieFest (CMF) is the world's largest student film festival. Created in 2000 by four Emory University students, and originally called iMovieFest, Campus MovieFest utilizes Apple Computer laptops, iMovie, Final Cut Pro and Adobe Creative Cloud to give college and university students with all levels of filmmaking experience the opportunity to create short films. The equipment is provided to students for free for one week to create a 5-minute film.
History
Originally named iMovieFest, the competition changed its name to Campus MovieFest in 2003 with the expansion of the program to Georgia Tech and now includes all the major Atlanta-area schools.
Campus MovieFest became a worldwide film festival with the addition of Scotland in 2003 at The University of St. Andrews. CMF expanded to Boston and Florida in spring 2005. San Francisco area was added in the fall of 2005 with a UC Berkeley partnership.
Notable Participants
UbseyMovies (of EarthBound Saga internet fame) won Best Comedy for their short film Bobby's House at the 2008 CMF National Grand Finale in New York City.
In October 2010, their film Elliot Kane won Best Picture at San Jose State University.
Rod Stewart's Ambition (the film company created by Dan Rickmers) was featured in the 2010 International Grand Finale in Tribeca for their film Deuce. In April 2011, Rod Stewart's Ambition's Nick Caruso won the first ever prize for Best Actor at New York University for their short film When Sally Met Harry. and their film Yellow Fever was featured in the International Grand Finale for that same year.
In 2011, Emory University filmmaker Ien Chi won the awards for Best Picture and Best Director awards for his short film Tick Tock at the International Grand Finale. The film is currently the most viewed and highest rated film of Campus MovieFest of all time. The film went viral and collectively has approximately 1.7 million views online and has been featured in various media sources.
Participating Schools
The following schools have participated in Campus MovieFest:
United States
Alabama
University of Alabama (2007–Present)
Arizona
Arizona State University (2009–Present)
University of Arizona (2009–Present)
California
Bay Area
University of California - Berkeley (2005–2013, 2016)
San Jose State University (2006–Present)
Sonoma State University (2006–Present)
San Francisco State University (2009–Present)
California State University, Monterey Bay (2010–2011)
University of California, Davis (2007–2008)
California State University, East Bay (2007–2012)
Stanford University (2006–2008)
University of the Pacific (2007)
Santa Clara University (2006)
SoCal
University of California, Los Angeles (2007–2013)
University of Southern California (2007–2010)
Whittier College (2007–2013)
Cal Poly Pomona (2007–2012)
California State University, Northridge (2008–2009)
California State University, Long Beach (2009–2012)
San Diego State University (2009–Present)
Colorado
Colorado State University ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20%26%20Smarter | "Smart & Smarter" is the thirteenth episode of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 22, 2004. When Maggie takes an IQ test, she is informed that she may be smarter than Lisa, who worries that her life will go nowhere. The episode was written by Carolyn Omine and directed by Steven Dean Moore. Simon Cowell also has a guest-voice appearance, playing the role of a brutally honest judge (who in fact is shown as a caricature of himself).
Plot
The family visits Wickerbottom's Pre-Nursery School, where Apu and Manjula are sending two of their octuplets. Homer and Marge have a talk with Dr. Hibbert about getting in, and decide to have Maggie go in. However, Maggie fails the initial screening because she cannot talk, until Lisa discovers some traits of intelligence. Henry accepts Maggie after the second screening. The results show that not only is Maggie brilliant, but her IQ of 167 is higher than Lisa's IQ of 159. Lisa is no longer considered "the smart one" of the Simpson family, much to her chagrin. Lisa attempts to prove everyone that she is smarter than Maggie and teaches Maggie false information. However, Marge, realizing this, scolds her for trying to sabotage her sister's education and that if that is how she really feels, then she should not be her sister's role model.
Heartbroken, Lisa leaves the house and hides in the Natural History Museum, where there is no chance of Homer and Marge finding her, until Chief Wiggum, Lou and Eddie find her belongings in there. The family goes into the human body exhibit, but Maggie gets distracted and accidentally presses the swallow button, swallowing Homer, Marge and Bart. Maggie presses many buttons until she finally presses the evacuate button, following a visual cue from an apologetic Lisa as to its red color.
After the family returns home and wonders why Maggie did not press the red button first, Henry arrives and tells the family Maggie is no longer welcome at the school. The family watches a video tape of Maggie's audition and it turns out Lisa was showing her answers, which Lisa does not remember doing, but it is explained she subconsciously did that as she wanted Maggie to succeed. Henry starts criticizing Maggie which leads an angry Homer to start punching him, while Henry criticizes his punches until he is knocked unconscious.
In the end, Lisa assures Maggie she does not care what anyone else thinks of her and that she is brilliant to her. However, Maggie plays Lisa's saxophone perfectly, showing another sign of intelligence. A shocked Lisa reclaims her saxophone and tells her that it is "not for babies".
In the credits, Simon Cowell criticizes everyone who had worked on the show.
Cultural references
The episode's title is a reference to the 1994 film, Dumb and Dumber. In this episode, Henry quotes, "She's as common as an angry woman in an Ibsen play," perhaps referencing Nora in A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessen/Hunt%20technique | The Bessen/Hunt technique is a way of identifying software patents within the patent database of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) by using keyword searching. It was proposed by James Bessen and Robert M. Hunt in a 2004 working paper discussing the impact of software patents on research and development.
Publication
Bessen and Hunt's working paper was published in 2004 while the debate in Europe concerning the proposed directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions was ongoing and received attention from various commentators.
The completed paper was published in 2007 but has not received the same attention.
Details
The technique proposed by Bessen and Hunt involves conducting a keyword search within the USPTO patent database as follows:
(("software" in specification) OR ("computer" AND "program" in specification))
AND (utility patent excluding reissues)
ANDNOT ("chip" OR "semiconductor" OR "bus" OR "circuit" OR "circuitry" in title)
ANDNOT ("antigen" OR "antigenic" OR "chromatography" in specification)
An actual query that may be submitted to the USPTO database to retrieve patents granted in 2005 is as follows:
ISD/(1/1/2005->1/1/2006)
AND SPEC/(software OR (computer AND program))
AND APT/1
ANDNOT TTL/(chip OR semiconductor OR bus OR circuit OR circuitry)
ANDNOT SPEC/(antigen or antigenic OR chromatography)
Proponents
This technique is used by the Public Patent Foundation to track software patents granted by the USPTO and shows that the number of software patents being granted is generally increasing year on year.
Critics
Robert Hahn and Scott Wallsten of the American Enterprise Institute wrote a paper in November 2003 directly criticising the Bessen/Hunt technique. Bessen and Hunt wrote a reply in 2004.
A 2006 paper by Michael Noel and Mark Schankerman of the London School of Economics and Political Science also mentions the Bessen/Hunt technique and suggests that keyword searching can be difficult since many patent applications may contain the word software or other related words but not be primarily about software itself. Noel and Schankerman instead define a software patent as any patent classified by the (European) Patent Office in International Patent Classification G06F ('Electric Digital Data Processing').
See also
List of software patents
Software patents
Software patent debate
References
Software patent law |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBIGEO | Ubigeo is the coding system for geographical locations (Spanish: Código Ubicacíon Geográfica) in Peru used by the National Statistics and Computing Institute (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática INEI) to code the first-level administrative subdivision: regions (Spanish: regiones, singular: región), the second-level administrative subdivision: provinces (Spanish: provincias, singular: provincia) and the third-level administrative subdivision: districts (Spanish: distritos, singular: distrito). There are 1874 different ubigeos in Peru.
Syntax
The coding system uses two-digit numbers for each level of subdivision. The first level starts numbering at 01 for the Amazonas Region and continues in alphabetical order up to 25 for the Ucayali Region. Additional regions will be added to the end of the list, starting with the first available number.
The second level starts with 0101 for the first province in the Amazonas region: Chachapoyas Province and continues up to 2504 for the last province Purús in the Ucayali Region. The provinces are numbered per region with the first province always being the one in which the regions capital is located. The remaining provinces are coded in alphabetical order. Additional provinces will be added per region to the end of the list, starting with the first available province number.
The third level; starts with 010101 for the first district in the first province in the Amazonas region: Chachapoyas District and continues up to 250401 for the last district in the last province of the Ucayali region: Purús District. The districts are numbered per province with the first district always being the one in which the province’ capital is located. The remaining districts are coded in alphabetical order. Additional districts will be added per province to the end of the list, starting with the first available district number.
Examples
Regions
01 Amazonas Region
02 Ancash Region
03 Apurímac Region
Provinces
0101 Chachapoyas Province in the Amazonas region.
0102 Bagua Province in the Amazonas region.
0103 Bongará Province in the Amazonas region.
0104 Condorcanqui Province in the Amazonas region.
0105 Luya Province in the Amazonas region.
0106 Rodríguez de Mendoza Province in the Amazonas region.
0107 Utcubamba Province in the Amazonas region.
0201 Huaraz Province in the Ancash region.
Districts
010101 Chachapoyas District in the Chachapoyas province.
010102 Asunción District in the Chachapoyas province.
010103 Balsas District in the Chachapoyas province.
010104 Cheto District in the Chachapoyas province.
010105 Chiliquín District in the Chachapoyas province.
Recent additions
See also
Census in Peru
References
External links
INEI website
Geocodes
Geography of Peru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%3A%20Block%20Party | Cartoon Network: Block Party is a 2004 arcade-style party game released for Game Boy Advance, developed by American studios Monkeystone Games and One Man Band LLC, and published by Majesco Entertainment. It features characters from Cartoon Network original animated series such as Johnny Bravo, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Cow and Chicken. Critical reception was mostly negative.
Background
Cartoon Network: Block Party was announced by Majesco on April 15, 2003. Upon its announcement, Vice President of Marketing for Majesco Ken Gold stated, "Cartoon Network Block Party complements our upcoming release of Cartoon Network Speedway and is a strong addition to Majesco's line up of quality licensed titles for the Game Boy Advance audience."
The game was released in the United States on August 5, 2004, and in Europe and Oceania on September 15, 2004. In retail, the game was frequently bundled with Cartoon Network Speedway.
Gameplay
The gameplay is similar to Nintendo's Mario Party video game series. Players can experience places from Cartoon Network shows in a board game style. They can also play up to 30 mini-games based on the Cartoon Network shows. Players can choose any of the Cartoon Network characters they like.
Plot
First, Cow and Chicken have gone to a farm, and after eating too many potatoes, their parents suggest that they have some protein. Cow and Chicken both want their favorite protein food: pork butts. In this board the player has to get four pork butts before returning to the start and winning.
Second, in the Ed, Edd n Eddy world, Eddy wants to win a skateboarding competition. Double-D doubts Eddy has a chance. The player must collect three trophies and 50 dollars before returning to the start and winning.
Then, in the world of Johnny Bravo, Johnny is trying his luck with the ladies, when Carl arrives. It turns out he has a date, and Johnny wants to help him prepare. The player must collect a pie, hair goo, a corn dog, a black shirt, and at least 50 dollars before returning to the start and winning.
Last, in Courage's world, Eustace and Muriel are trapped in the mansion of the evil Katz. Courage is in the mansion and is attempting to save them. The player must collect three spiders and 75 cobwebs before returning to the start and winning.
References
External links
2004 video games
Block Party
Game Boy Advance games
Game Boy Advance-only games
Party video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by Yannis Brown
Multiplayer hotseat games
Monkeystone Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape%20Server%20Application%20Programming%20Interface | The Netscape Server Application Programming Interface (NSAPI) is an application programming interface for extending server software, typically web server software.
History
NSAPI was initially developed by Rob McCool at Netscape for use in Netscape Enterprise Server. A variant of NSAPI can also be used with Netscape Directory Server.
Because there is no formal standard, applications that use NSAPI are not necessarily portable across server software. As of 2007, varying degrees of support for NSAPI are found in Sun Java System Web Server and Zeus Web Server.
NSAPI plug-ins
Applications that use NSAPI are referred to as NSAPI plug-ins. Each plug-in implements one or more Server Application Functions (SAFs).
To use a SAF, an administrator must first configure the server to load the plug-in that implements that SAF. This is typically controlled by a configuration file named magnus.conf. Once the plug-in is loaded, the administrator can configure when the server should invoke the SAF and what parameters it should be passed. This is typically controlled by a configuration file named obj.conf.
Comparison with related APIs and protocols
NSAPI can be compared to an earlier protocol named Common Gateway Interface (CGI). Like CGI, NSAPI provides a means of interfacing application software with a web server. Unlike CGI programs, NSAPI plug-ins run inside the server process. Because CGI programs run outside of the server process, CGI programs are generally slower than NSAPI plug-ins. However, running outside of the server process can improve server reliability by isolating potentially buggy applications from the server software and from each other.
In contrast to CGI programs, NSAPI SAFs can be configured to run at different stages of request processing. For example, while processing a single HTTP request, different NSAPI SAFs can be used to authenticate and authorize the remote user, map the requested URI to a local file system path, generate the web page, and log the request.
After Netscape introduced NSAPI, Microsoft developed ISAPI and the Apache Software Foundation developed Apache API (or ASAPI: Apache Server API). All three APIs have a number of similarities. For example: NSAPI, ISAPI and Apache API allow applications to run inside the server process. Further, all three allow applications to participate in the different stages of request processing. For example, Apache API hooks closely resemble those used in NSAPI.
See also
NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface)
References
External links
Oracle iPlanet Web Server 7.0.9 NSAPI Developer's Guide
Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 NSAPI Developer's Guide
Zeus Web Server Introduction to NSAPI (archived version)
Netscape
Application programming interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAPI | NSAPI may refer to:
Netscape Server Application Programming Interface, a technology for extending web server software
Network Service Access Point Identifier, an identifier used in cellular data networks
See also
NPAPI, Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroSky | NeuroSky, Inc. is a manufacturer of brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies for consumer product applications, which was founded in 2004 in Silicon Valley, California. The company adapts electroencephalography (EEG) and electromyography (EMG) technology to fit a consumer market within a number of fields such as entertainment (toys and games), education, automotive, and health.
NeuroSky technology allows for low-cost EEG-linked research and products by using inexpensive dry sensors; older EEGs require the application of a conductive gel between the sensors and the head. The systems also include built-in electrical “noise” reduction software/hardware, and utilize embedded (chip level) solutions for signal processing and output.
Neurosky primarily works as an original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, collaborating with industry partners, developers, and research institutions to deploy the technology into their own products and systems. When NeuroSky has released direct-to-consumer products, such as the MindSet and the MindWave, they are typically designed for maximum flexibility of use through third party and open source content.
Company timeline
1999: The work behind NeuroSky technology began
2004: NeuroSky inc. was incorporated in Silicon Valley
2006: Received early first funding from angel investors
2007: First round of Venture funding from San Francisco-based WR Hambrecht + Co., Japan-based Marubeni Corp. and Taiwan-based TUVC. So far, the company says it has received nearly $19 million in backing from investors.
2009: Mattel launches the Mindflex toy
2009: Uncle Milton launches the Star Wars Force Trainer
2009: NeuroSky launches the MindSet, research and developer multimedia headset and free SDK/developer tools
2009: In NeuroSky's first two years it raised 6.8 million.
2010: the company has raised 11.8 million in its third round of venture funding.
2011: NeuroSky launches the MindWave, a headset catering directly to the consumer market
2011: neurowear demonstrates necomimi, a headband with motorized cat ears based on a MindWave headset.
Technical background
The human brain is made up of billions of interconnected neurons; the patterns of interaction between these neurons are represented as thoughts and emotional states. Every interaction between neurons creates a minuscule electrical discharge; alone these charges are impossible to measure from outside the skull. However, the activity created by hundreds of thousands concurrent discharges aggregates into waves which can be measured.
Different brain states are the result of different patterns of neural interaction. These patterns lead to waves characterized by different amplitudes and frequencies; for example waves between 12 and 30 hertz, Beta Waves, are associated with concentration while waves between 8 and 12 hertz, Alpha Waves, are associated with relaxation and a state of mental calm. (The contraction of muscles is also associated with unique wave patterns, is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20exchange | Data exchange is the process of taking data structured under a source schema and transforming it into a target schema, so that the target data is an accurate representation of the source data. Data exchange allows data to be shared between different computer programs.
It is similar to the related concept of data integration except that data is actually restructured (with possible loss of content) in data exchange. There may be no way to transform an instance given all of the constraints. Conversely, there may be numerous ways to transform the instance (possibly infinitely many), in which case a "best" choice of solutions has to be identified and justified.
Single-domain data exchange
In some domains, a few dozen different source and target schema (proprietary data formats) may exist. An "exchange" or "interchange format" is often developed for a single domain, and then necessary routines (mappings) are written to (indirectly) transform/translate each and every source schema to each and every target schema by using the interchange format as an intermediate step. That requires a lot less work than writing and debugging the hundreds of different routines that would be required to directly translate each and every source schema directly to each and every target schema.
Examples of these transformative interchange formats include:
Standard Interchange Format for geospatial data;
Data Interchange Format for spreadsheet data;
Open Document Format for spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents;
GPS eXchange Format or Keyhole Markup Language for describing GPS data; and
GDSII for integrated circuit layout.
Data exchange languages
A data interchange (or exchange) language/format is a language that is domain-independent and can be used for data from any kind of discipline. They have "evolved from being markup and display-oriented to further support the encoding of metadata that describes the structural attributes of the information."
Practice has shown that certain types of formal languages are better suited for this task than others, since their specification is driven by a formal process instead of particular software implementation needs. For example, XML is a markup language that was designed to enable the creation of dialects (the definition of domain-specific sublanguages). However, it does not contain domain-specific dictionaries or fact types. Beneficial to a reliable data exchange is the availability of standard dictionaries-taxonomies and tools libraries such as parsers, schema validators, and transformation tools.
Popular languages used for data exchange
The following is a partial list of popular generic languages used for data exchange in multiple domains.
Nomenclature
Schemas – Whether the language definition is available in a computer interpretable form
Flexible – Whether the language enables extension of the semantic expression capabilities without modifying the schema
Semantic verification – Wheth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Louisiana%20parishes%20by%20French-speaking%20population | The list of Louisiana parishes by French-speaking population was created from the 2000 Census of the United States. Census collects data on languages spoken at home by inhabitants of Louisiana five years of age or more. Responses "French" and "Cajun" are included.
Statewide, out of a population 5 years and older of 4,152,122, some 179,750 people reported French as their home language, while 14,365 reported "Cajun". A further 4,465 who reported French Creole are not counted below.
Today, the French speakers in Louisiana stands at approximatively between 250,000 and 300,000 which equates to 7% of the state population.
Complete Parish listing
See also
French language in the Americas
Notes
References
Geography of Louisiana
French-American culture in Louisiana
Frenchspeakingparishes
French language in the United States
Languages of Louisiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul%20District | Kabul District is a district of Kabul Province, Afghanistan. The seat lies at Kabul.
References
AIMS District Map
Census Data
Districts of Kabul Province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biostar | Biostar Microtech International Corp. () is a Taiwanese company which designs and manufactures computer hardware products such as motherboards, video cards, expansion cards, thermal grease, headphones, home theater PCs, remote controls, desktops, barebone computers, system-on-chip solutions and industrial PCs.
Awarded Taiwan's Top 20 Global Brand in 2008, Biostar, with an estimated brand value of US$46 million, was ranked No. 1 as the top motherboard brand for internet cafés in China. Biostar is an independent company listed on the main floor of Taiwan Stock Market, stock ID number .
History
The company was founded in 1986, manufacturing XT form factor mainboards and in later years add-on cards. In 1999 Biostar was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange & also certified ISO 9001 standard within the same year. Biostar has shifted from the SI/OEM market to the channel market with the portion of branded products closer to 100 percent.
On 1 August 2004, having already had a successful collaboration of Nvidia nForce based motherboards, Biostar announced it was to become a first tier partner with Nvidia of graphics solutions.
Biostar was the first manufacturer to launch a motherboard with built-in Wireless LAN back in May 2003, the P4TCA, which is based on at the time Intel's flagship i875P “Canterwood” chipset. Biostar introduced the first AM2/AM2+ motherboard in the world (TF560 A2+) in June 2007, which was able to host Socket AM2 Athlon 64 and AM2+ AMD Phenom processors.
Biostar was awarded “Top 20 Taiwan Global Brand” in 2008 conducted by Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) with an estimate brand value of US$46 million. Only three companies had a chance to crack the Top 20 list for the first time – and Biostar was among them.
Biostar was also the first manufacturer in the world to launch a motherboard readily available with integrated USB 3.1 in February 2015, the Gaming Z97X, which is based on Intel's Z97 “Wildcat Point” chipset.
Biostar has the distinction of being the first to allow end-users to modify voltages and frequencies of the video card's GPU and memory to boost performance to extreme limits (overclocking). Those cards are either called "V-Ranger" or "V-Series".
Their mainboards, notably the "T-Power" and "T-Series", have been widely reviewed to be highly overclockable achieving world record FSB overclocks.
Products
ethOS
It's an operating system, a premium 64 bit linux distro for cryptocurrency mining motherboard rig, it mines Monero, Ethereum, etc. it was developed in 2016.
Mainboard chipset
Location
Biostar is located in New Taipei City, Taiwan and is represented in many continents throughout the world through its 5 regional headquarters.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
ASRock
Asus
DFI
Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS)
EVGA Corporation
Gigabyte Technology
Micro-Star International (MSI)
References
External links
Companies based in New Taipei
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Graphics hardware c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPSO | SPSO may refer to:
Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, an ombudsman responsible for looking at complaints made about public services
SportSouth, a regional sports network in the Southern United States
Airport code for Capitán FAP Renán Elías Olivera Airport in Peru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxMCE | LinuxMCE (Linux Media Center Edition) is a free and open source software platform with a 10-foot user interface designed to allow a computer to act as a home theater PC (HTPC) for the living-room TV, personal video recorder, and home automation system. It allows control of everything in the home, from lighting and climate to surveillance cameras and home security. It also includes a full-featured VoIP-compatible phone system with support for video conferencing.
Levels of implementation
LinuxMCE may be used as a standalone home theater PC (without any other home network connectivity), but it may also serve as a complete home LAN system in a server/thin client configuration. In such a configuration, a central core server (a standard PC running Kubuntu) does most of the storage and processing functions, while peripheral PCs (and other devices) provide input and output services. Thin client PCs can netboot over the LAN to serve as "Media Directors", which stream media content from the core to audiovisual devices which are connected to these thin clients.
This home automation/multimedia LAN can be expanded to include home automation systems, surveillance cameras, high-tech remote controllers (called "Orbiters"), and telephone PBX systems. The core server co-ordinates the functions of all the devices on the home LAN. The advanced networking capabilities of the Linux OS allow this high level of network co-ordination.
History
LinuxMCE was begun by Paul Webber as a fork of the PlutoHome home automation software project. It was adapted to run on top of a standard Linux distribution, Kubuntu, as its base OS, rather than to exist as a custom Linux distribution.
Most of the core components, including the Orbiter (remote control) user interface, have undergone significant improvements, and are licensed under the GPL.
Architecture
A LinuxMCE setup consists of two parts – one Core and one or more Media Directors. The Core is the central server and provides services throughout the home. It acts as the central media storage and catalog, it routes home automation messages and commands, and it provides net boot images for the Media Directors. Each Media Director is connected to a screen (TV, computer screen or projector) and optionally to other A/V equipment. All media are presented through a Media Director. If the Core is also a Media Director (connected to a TV), it is called a hybrid system. Media Directors can be booted over the network from the Core. That way, only the Core needs to be updated and backed up to keep the whole system up-to-date.
Most of the CPU-intensive processing is done on the Core. Thus, the system requirements for a Media Director are relatively small. This makes it easier to build a Media Director that is small and silent, and that fits in a living room. The Core, on the other hand, can be placed anywhere in a house. Accordingly, it may be built with a focus on price and performance instead of silence and appearance.
This modular arc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona%20Metro%20line%202 | Line 2 is a metro line in Barcelona operated by TMB, coloured purple and sometimes called línia lila. It is part of the city's ATM fare-integrated transport network.
As of 2013, its termini are Paral·lel, in the Sants-Montjuïc district, and Badalona Pompeu Fabra, in Badalona. Plans are underway for a southern extension to Poble-Sec and Montjuïc, and eventually to El Prat airport.
Line 2's architecture bears resemblance to older lines, with its characteristic simplicity and lack of ornament. However, the stations enjoy noticeably better lighting and do incorporate some more modern architectural principles, a symbol of its construction in the 1990s.
Overview
Portions of Line 2 commenced in the 1950s as line II, now part of Line 5, initially running from La Sagrera-Meridiana station to Vilapicina station. The current L2 was planned in preparation for the 1992 Summer Olympics, to be held on the then-underserved Montjuïc. Delays, however, resulted in an opening dates in 1995, three years after the Games. L2 is the third-newest Metro line in the network, after L11 and the combined L9/L10. All of its stations are underground.
The formation of the modern L2 first began in 1968, when construction commenced to extend the original line II from Sagrada Família station to Poble Sec station, with expected completion in 1971. However, poor planning resulted in significant difficulties in the tunnel's construction. In 1970, it was decided to redirect the original Line II westward and rename it L5, concurrently abandoning the construction of Line II's Gaudí station near the present-day Sagrada Família station. Construction of the tunnel from Sagrada Família station to Sant Antoni halted in 1973. The project was restarted in 1991, which included reconstructing and remodeling stations and tunnels. The reconstruction was completed in 1995, and the following year L2 was extended to Paral·lel station.
Plans for western extension
Plans for L2 to reach Montjuïc and Zona Franca in the southwest of Barcelona were first discussed as early as 1971, and another proposal for L2 to terminate near the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys was made in 1987. In May 1999, a new master plan was adopted which raised the possibility of L2 potentially being extended to El Prat Airport, and in 2006 the plan was later modified for L2 to share L9 Sud's tracks after Parc Logístic station. L9 Sud is El Prat's first connection to the Metro system, supplementing its current connection to the Rodalies commuter rail system. Under the 2006 plan, L2 and L9 will share the same route from Terminal entre pistes (Aeroport T1) to Parc Logístic, at which point they will diverge. L9 will then continue to the north toward Zona Universitària station, and L2 will travel to the east, entering the city centre. However, the construction of the western extension of L2 has still yet to take place as of 2019.
Chronology
1995 – Sant Antoni-Sagrada Família section opens.
1996 – Sant Antoni-Paral·lel section open |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona%20Metro%20line%204 | Line 4, also known as Trinitat Nova – La Pau, usually called "línia groga" (yellow line), is a line in the Barcelona Metro network operated by TMB, and part of the ATM fare-integrated transport network. It serves the northern districts of the city, and it is being extended to the new major metro and rail stations Estació de la Sagrera and Sagrera-Meridiana.
Overview
Opened to the public in 1973, it serves the northern half of Barcelona using part of the infrastructure of Barcelona's first metro line the Gran Metro de Barcelona, covering a wide C-shaped area stretching from La Pau (in la Verneda) to Trinitat Nova, where it is linked with the recent L11. The that make up the whole line are underground.
Although in 1966 it was planned for line 4 to be a loop line connecting Trinitat Nova and La Pau stations with three intermediate stations, in 1974 the plan was subsequently changed such that it became a C-shaped line of today, with provisions for two extensions northeast of Trinitat Nova (to link it with line 3 at the border of Barcelona and Santa Coloma de Gramenet) and La Pau stations (intended to penetrate inside Santa Coloma de Gramenet) that have never been realised.
Chronology
1973 – Joanic-Jaume I section opened (part of it had been part of L3 previously)
1974 – Joanic-Guinardó section opened
1976 – Jaume I-Barceloneta section opened
1977 – Barceloneta-Selva de Mar section opened
1982 – Guinardó-Via Júlia and Selva de Mar-La Pau sections opened.
1985 – La Pau-Pep Ventura section opened
1999 – Via Júlia-Trinitat Nova section opened.
2002 – La Pau-Pep Ventura section closed (and moved to L2)
2003 – El Maresme-Fòrum station opened.
Stations
References
External links
4
Transport in Ciutat Vella
Transport in Eixample
Transport in Horta-Guinardó
Transport in Nou Barris
Transport in Sant Martí (district)
Railway lines opened in 1972
Standard gauge railways in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauklahti%20railway%20station | Kauklahti railway station (, ) is a station on the Helsinki commuter rail network located in Espoo, Finland. The station is served by Helsinki commuter rail lines Y, X, U, L and E. The station has three platform tracks. Westbound trains towards Kirkkonummi use track one, while eastbound trains to Helsinki use track two. Some of the E-line trains however use track three.
There used to be a request stop called Pelto whistle stop on the eastbound line towards Espoo and Helsinki, but this stop was closed in 1995 due to lack of use. There also used to be a little halt, Mankki, on the westbound line towards Kirkkonummi. This halt was closed in 2016 due to low passenger amounts.
Connections
Y-line trains (Helsinki-Siuntio-Helsinki)
U-line trains (Helsinki-Kirkkonummi-Helsinki)
L-line trains (Helsinki-Kirkkonummi-Helsinki, nighttime)
E-line trains (Helsinki-Kauklahti-Helsinki)
External links
References
Railway stations in Espoo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSDoc | JSDoc is a markup language used to annotate JavaScript source code files. Using comments containing JSDoc, programmers can add documentation describing the application programming interface of the code they're creating. This is then processed, by various tools, to produce documentation in accessible formats like HTML and Rich Text Format. The JSDoc specification is released under CC BY-SA 3.0, while its companion documentation generator and parser library is free software under the Apache License 2.0.
History
JSDoc's syntax and semantics are similar to those of the Javadoc scheme, which is used for documenting code written in Java. JSDoc differs from Javadoc, in that it is specialized to handle JavaScript's dynamic behaviour.
An early example using a Javadoc-like syntax to document JavaScript was released in 1999 with the Netscape/Mozilla project Rhino, a JavaScript run-time system written in Java. It included a toy "JSDoc" HTML generator, versioned up to 1.3, as an example of its JavaScript capabilities.
All main generations of "JSDoc" were headed by micmaths (Michael Mathews). He started with JSDoc.pm in 2001, a simple system written in Perl, in cooperation with Canadian programmer Gabriel Reid. It was hosted on SourceForge in a CVS repository. By JSDoc 1.0 (2007) he rewrote the system in JavaScript (again for Rhino), and after a set of expansions JSDoc 2.0 (2008) gained the name "jsdoc-toolkit". Released under the MIT License, it was hosted in a Subversion repository on Google Code. By 2011 he has refactored the system into JSDoc 3.0 and hosted the result on GitHub. It now runs on Node.js.
JSDoc tags
Some of the more popular annotation tags used in modern JSDoc are:
{| class="wikitable"
! Tag !! Description
|-
|@author || Developer's name
|-
|@constructor|| Marks a function as a constructor
|-
|@deprecated || Marks a method as deprecated
|-
|@exception || Synonym for @throws
|-
|@exports || Identifies a member that is exported by the module
|-
|@param || Documents a method parameter; a datatype indicator can be added between curly braces
|-
|@private || Signifies that a member is private
|-
|@returns || Documents a return value
|-
|@return || Synonym for @returns
|-
|@see || Documents an association to another object
|-
|@todo || Documents something that is missing/open
|-
|@this || Specifies the type of the object to which the keyword this refers within a function.
|-
|@throws || Documents an exception thrown by a method
|-
|@version || Provides the version number of a library
|}
Example
/** @class Circle representing a circle. */
class Circle {
/**
* Creates an instance of Circle.
*
* @author: moi
* @param {number} r The desired radius of the circle.
*/
constructor(r) {
/** @private */ this.radius = r
/** @private */ this.circumference = 2 * Math.PI * r
}
/**
* Creates a new Circle from a diameter.
*
* @param {number} d The desired dia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuomarila%20railway%20station | Tuomarila (Finnish) or Domsby (Swedish) is a station on the VR commuter rail network located in Espoo, Finland.
The station serves the E commuter line from Helsinki to Kauklahti; and the U and night train L lines between Helsinki and Kirkkonummi. The station is located between Koivuhovi and Espoo Central. It is approximately nineteen kilometres from central Helsinki.
The station has two platforms, and was opened in 1931. The station is unmanned. The old station building is no longer open to the public, as it is in private ownership and as of 2021, used as a private home.
References
Railway stations in Espoo
Railway stations opened in 1931 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Entertainment%20Pack%3A%20The%20Puzzle%20Collection | Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection is a collection of 10 puzzle computer games developed by Mir - Dialogue and published by Microsoft Games. The creator of Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov, designed some of the games featured in the pack. It was released on CD-ROM for Windows 95. It was also bundled as part of the Microsoft Plus! Game Pack which was released after Windows Me.
A version was made for the Game Boy Color. It features six of the games from the PC version; Fringer, Charmer, Mixed Genetics, and Muddled Casino have been omitted.
Presentation
Each game in the collection runs in a window using 256 colors. They use MIDI background music and digitized sound effects. Controls vary from game to game - each game uses either the keyboard or the mouse.
Games
Fringer - Untie all the knots in a stage before a knot is pushed to the bottom of the screen, at which point the game ends.
Finty Flush - Fill a 4×4 grid with predetermined combinations of marbles before the screen fills up with too many marbles.
Mixed Genetics - Breed mutated animals in groups of three to create pure animals.
Rat Poker - Coloured rats enter and walk clockwise around a playing area. Rats will only exit if they line up in specific patterns such as three in a row of the same colour. The player lifts rats off the 'conveyor belt' onto rotating spokes, and then releases them again in the best order so that they will exit and the playing area is not overrun.
Lineup - Various pentominoes composed of sports balls must be placed on the playing field to form a continuous row from one end to the other. When this is done, all shapes used to form the row will disappear. The game continues until the queue of shapes waiting to be placed fills up.
Jewel Chase - Steal as much loot as possible before the other, computer-controlled robber does and get to the exit first or the player loses. The playing area is a colour maze. At any time a robber occupies a square made up of up to 4 different colours. When the player selects an arrow-key, the robber will move to the nearest square if available in that direction that has a colour in common with the current square. The game can be played in a training mode which allows you to walk the 100 colour mazes collecting all gems without a time limit.
Color Collision - Control a ray of light and hit sun-like discs of matching colour. Bonuses are scored for hitting discs when they are smiling, "turned on", or about to explode, etc. depending on the level.
Charmer - Charm snakes to a vine to make their pots disappear, without letting the lids fall and create another pot.
Spring Weekend - Arrange the garden critters into a certain pattern before your moves run out. The playing area is a hexagonal grid. By right-clicking or left-clicking on a hexagon position, all 6 adjacent hexagons will rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise respectively.
Muddled Casino - Figure out how to move the cards off the table in the correct order to beat the hou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 16, 2007, honoring the best in U.S. prime time television programming at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was televised live on Fox at 8:00 p.m. EDT for the first time in high definition (on tape delay three hours later on the West Coast of the United States at 8:00 p.m.). It was also the most recent Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony to be held at the Shrine Auditorium, as it was then relocated to the Nokia Theatre from the following year (PDT/3:00 UTC). The ceremony was hosted by Ryan Seacrest.
The ceremonies were supposed to be produced by Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick, executive producers of American Idol, but because of their heavy work load with Idol, Ken Ehrlich, last year's producer, resumed the producer's role for the fourth time. Ratings plunged further down to a near an all-time low as an estimate 12.87 million, 19% lower than the past year, making it the second smallest television audience in Emmy history, behind the 1990 telecast.
The nominations were announced on July 19 at 5:40 a.m. PDT (12:40 UTC) by Jon Cryer and Kyra Sedgwick.
Meanwhile, the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, hosted by comedian-actor Carlos Mencia, were presented eight days earlier on September 9.
Freshman series 30 Rock defeated defending champion The Office to claim Outstanding Comedy Series; this was the only major award for 30 Rock.
Going into its final ceremony, The Sopranos needed just three major awards to tie the drama series record of 18 major wins set by Hill Street Blues. It was nominated in ten major categories coming in and ended the night with three wins, including its second win for Outstanding Drama Series. This tied the record and gave both shows identical résumés—18 major wins and 74 major nominations. This win for The Sopranos was also the first time any show's sixth season had won for the Outstanding Drama award, later achieved by Game of Thrones as well, another HBO drama.
AMC, a smaller cable network, won big with Broken Trail winning three Emmys. It won Best Miniseries and the network's first Acting wins, for the series' stars, Thomas Haden Church and Robert Duvall.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold:
Programs
Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Individual performances
Directing
Writing
Most major nominations
Most major awards
Notes
Presenters
The awards were presented by the following:
Interactive TV
Al Gore's Current TV was presented with the Interactive TV Emmy by Masi Oka of Heroes with the help of MySpace's president Tom Anderson. This was the first year the Emmy was presented during the Primetime awards ceremony.
In Memoriam
Jane Wyatt
Tige Andrews
Joseph Barbera
Roscoe Lee Browne
Edward Albert Jr.
Yvonne De Carlo
Mike Evans
Sidney Sheldon
Calvert DeForest
Glenn Ford
Arthur Hill
Bob Carroll Jr.
Beverly Sills
Ed Friendly
Mel Shavelson
James Glennon
Don Herbert
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML%201.1 | Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. SAML is a product of the OASIS (organization) Security Services Technical Committee.
SAML 1.1 was ratified as an OASIS standard in September 2003. The critical aspects of SAML 1.1 are covered in detail in the official documents SAMLCore and SAMLBind. If you are new to SAML, you should probably read the introductory SAML topic first, and then the SAMLOverview document from OASIS.
Prior to SAML 1.1, SAML 1.0 was adopted as an OASIS standard in November 2002. SAML has undergone one minor (V1.1) and one major revision (V2.0) since V1.0, which itself is a relatively simple protocol. SAML 1.0 is of more than historical interest, however, since the US Federal E-Authentication Initiative has adopted SAML 1.0 as its core technology.
Versions 1.0 and 1.1 of SAML are similar. See SAMLDiff for specific differences between the two standards. This article concentrates on SAML 1.1 since it is an important standard upon which many other standards and implementations depend.
Warning: Implementers and deployers should note well that all code examples in this article are non-normative and for illustration purposes only. Consult the OASIS SAML specifications for normative requirements.
SAML 1.1 Assertions
SAML assertions contain statements that service providers use to make access control decisions. For instance, authentication statements assert to the service provider that the principal did indeed authenticate with the identity provider at a particular time using a particular method of authentication. Other information about the principal may be disclosed in an authentication statement. In the authentication statement below, for example, the e-mail address of the principal is asserted to the service provider:
<saml:Assertion
xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion"
MajorVersion="1" MinorVersion="1"
AssertionID="buGxcG4gILg5NlocyLccDz6iXrUa"
Issuer="https://idp.example.org/saml"
IssueInstant="2002-06-19T17:05:37.795Z">
<saml:Conditions
NotBefore="2002-06-19T17:00:37.795Z"
NotOnOrAfter="2002-06-19T17:10:37.795Z"/>
<saml:AuthenticationStatement
AuthenticationMethod="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:am:password"
AuthenticationInstant="2002-06-19T17:05:17.706Z">
<saml:Subject>
<saml:NameIdentifier
Format="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress">
user@idp.example.org
</saml:NameIdentifier>
<saml:SubjectConfirmation>
<saml:ConfirmationMethod>
urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:cm:bearer
</saml:ConfirmationMethod>
</saml:SubjectConfirmation>
</saml:Subject>
</saml:AuthenticationStatement>
</saml:Assertion>
An e-mail address (as in the above example) will suffice in a large number of situations. In some cases, however, additional information is needed befo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purkinje%20Incorporated | Purkinje Incorporated pioneered pen computing for comprehensive clinical management of patients by physicians in 1991 with the "PureMD" ontology-anchored medical record was later rename Dossier that allowed physician order entry, knowledge-based clinical decision support, and billing from clinical note-taking (e.g. medical history) recorded on a tablet computer. In1994 and 2007, "Dossier" was respectively awarded the "OCTAS of excellence" and the "TEPR award for standalone eprescribing systems". Dossier's impact of on clinical redaction was evaluated in two peer-reviewed studies.
"Purkinje software and services" currently serve over 13,000 physicians in clinics, community health centers, and hospitals throughout North America. The company provides health software and related services in the areas of practice management, electronic health records, personal health records, and electronic prescribing. In addition, Purkinje provides a series of professional services to physician practices including billing services, transcription, and medication dispensing.
References
Electronic health record software companies
Medical technology companies of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWG%20%28AM%29 | KWG (1230 AM) is a radio station licensed to Relevant Radio, Inc. in Stockton, California. It carries that company's Catholic talk radio programming.
History
KWG is one of the oldest broadcasting stations in the United States, and the first radio station in the Stockton-Sacramento area. It was initially licensed to the Portable Wireless Telephone Company on December 7, 1921, as the second formally licensed broadcasting station west of the Mississippi River. In addition, it traces its history to an earlier amateur station operated by Paul Oard.
Oard was the principal engineer for Oard Radio Laboratories, a small radio equipment company owned by George Turner and located at 1218 North Union Street in Stockton. The company's apparatus was sold through the Atlantic-Pacific Radio Supplies Company of San Francisco.
In the spring of 1921, Oard installed a receiver in an automobile, and as part of the demonstrations picked up music transmitted by his amateur station, 6FI. Shortly thereafter, arrangements were made with the Stockton Record newspaper to make regular broadcasts over 6FI. A debut program was presented at 8:00 p.m. on November 22, 1921, which featured contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink singing "At Parting" and "The Rosary". During this broadcast it was also announced that Oard Radio Laboratories had been renamed the Portable Wireless Telephone Company.
In late 1921, radio stations in the United States were regulated by the Department of Commerce. Initially, there were no formal regulations specifying which stations could make broadcasts intended for the general public, and 6FI was one of a number of amateur and experimental stations in California making regular broadcasts. However, in order to provide common standards for the service, the Commerce Department issued a regulation effective December 1, 1921, that stated that broadcasting stations would now have to hold a Limited Commercial license that authorized operation on two designated broadcasting wavelengths: 360 meters (833 kHz) for "entertainment", and 485 meters (619 kHz) for "market and weather reports".
On December 7, 1921, a broadcasting station license with the randomly assigned call letters KWG was issued to Portable Wireless Telephone Company, for operation on 360 meters. This authorization marked the second formally recognized broadcasting station in the West; at the time the December 1, 1921, regulations were adopted, a small number of stations already held licenses that met the new standards, including KQL, licensed to Arno A. Kluge in Los Angeles.
KWG adopted the slogan "Voice of the San Joaquin Valley". The station's studios were originally located on the third floor of the Record building, with an antenna constructed on the roof. In 1924 the Record ended its affiliation with KWG, and the station moved to the Hotel Stockton. In 1927 it moved to the basement of the Medico-Dental Building, where it stayed until 1936. On November 11, 1928, under the provisions of a swee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Spyware%20Prevention%20Act | The Internet Spyware Prevention Act, also known as I-SPY, is an act by the United States Congress to impose penalties and punishments on creators of computer spyware. The act was first introduced in the House of Representatives in 2004 () and passed the house in 2005. The bill was reintroduced in March 2007 to further prosecute makers of spyware.
History
On June 23, 2004, Representatives Bob Goodlatte, Zoe Lofgren, and Lamar S. Smith introduced the Internet Spyware Prevention Act as an amendment to Title 18 of the United States Code.
Criticisms
Members of the Interactive Advertising Bureau claim that the provisions of the act would prohibit all but one form of data collection on computers, cookies. They say that advanced programs (involving JavaScript) in the future that utilize data collection would be criminalized under this act.
See also
Spyware
United States Congress
References
External links
|The Library of Congress Search on HR 4661
Proposed legislation of the 109th United States Congress |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld%20Stadtbahn | The Bielefeld Stadtbahn is a metre gauge light rail (i.e. Stadtbahn) network in the German city of Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The system does include some segments built to rapid transit standards. It is operated by moBiel, a subsidiary of the Bielefeld municipal authority (Stadtwerke), and integrated in the Westfalentarif transport association. It served 32.77 million passengers in 2012.
History
The old tram (Straßenbahn) network was rebuilt into a three-line Stadtbahn (light rail) network between 1978 and 1991, with the official inauguration of the Stadtbahn in 1991. A fourth line was built to the university area and added to the network in 2002. Until 31st of July 2021 four more supplemental lines were operated, which are now labeled with the normal line numbers. At the 1st of August 2021 the tram lines 3 & 4 changed its destinations. Line 3 ends at Dürkopp Tor 6, Line 4 in Stieghorst.
Operations
Hours of operation and frequencies
Trains run until 1 a.m. every day, with service starting at 4:30 a.m. every weekday, at 6:00 a.m. on Saturdays, and at 8:30 a.m. on Sundays and public holidays. Trains run every 5–10 minutes during the day and at least every 15 minutes late night and Sundays. On weekend nights, there is an hourly service, so there is a proposal for 24-hour service.
Lines
The Bielefeld Stadtbahn is made up of four lines, with a total track length of . The mainline network operates over a total route length of , serving 62 stops, of which seven are underground stations.
Future service
In 2013 the municipal council decided to build a new Line "5" from the Kunsthalle Bielefeld via Jahnplatz and Kesselbrink to Heepen, with an opening planned for 2019. However, a citizens initiative voted against proceeding with this extension in 2014.
Gallery
References
Inline references
Bibliography
External links
moBiel - official site
Track plan of the Bielefeld Stadtbahn
Tram transport in Germany
Underground rapid transit in Germany
Bielefeld |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JonnyX%20and%20the%20Groadies | JonnyX and the Groadies is a Portland, Oregon Cybergrind band. Members consist of JonnyX (vocals/beatbox), Travis West (guitar, drum machine programming, lyrics), "invisibletouch" (8-string bass) and Professor Romagna. JonnyX and the Groadies' music usually contains high tempo drum beats, heavily distorted guitar at high tempo, and bass playing medium-tempo semi-melodic riffs.
Live Concerts
Their live shows incorporate black lights, strobe lights, lasers, and fog machines.
Members
Current members
JonnyX (Jonathan Chard) - Guitar (1996-2000), Vocals (1996–present)
Travis West - Vocals (1996-2000), Guitar, Guitar Synth, Programming (1996–present)
invisibletouch (Nathan Backous) - Bass guitar, Synthesizer (1997–present)
Professor Romagna (Jeremy Romagna) - Master control (1999–present)
Former members
David Fuccillo- Drums (1996–1997)
Greg Chapel - Bass guitar (1996–1997)
Kevin Millard - Guitar (1996–1997)
Scott Noben - Drums (1997–1999)
Kristopher Whitley - Guitar (1997-1998)
Dyanne Sekeres - Drums, Synthesizer 1996
Discography
References
External links
JonnyX and the Groadies official website
JonnyX and the Groadies official Uvumi profile
Musical groups from Portland, Oregon
1996 establishments in Oregon
Musical groups established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel%20Opportunities%20Radio%20Network | The Gospel Opportunities Radio Network is a group of non-commercial FM radio stations, based in Marquette, Michigan at 130 Carmen Drive.
Gospel Opportunities, Incorporated was formed in 1975 to provide religious radio programming in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. WHWL became its first station when it went on the air in April 1976. WHWL is a Christian station with a focus on Bible teaching programs and traditional, conservative music. Their current station manager, Andy Larsen, has been in the position since 2016 when he took over for the late Curt Marker. The station usually has between 8-10 on-air radio personalities, highlighted by Kathy Kantola who runs the children's storytime program "Kathy's Kids Korner" weekdays from 1:30-4pm.
Stations
The main station of the Gospel Opportunities Radio Network is WHWL, is based in Marquette, Michigan and operates on 95.7 MHz with 100,000 watts. The station has two full-power repeater stations:
WEUL, which is licensed to Kingsford, Michigan, operates on 98.1 MHz with 1,000 watts and began operation in 1990.
WHWG, which is licensed to Trout Lake, Michigan, operates on 89.9 MHz with 1,000 watts and began operation in July 1999 as a replacement of translator W293AG on 106.5. Upon launching, WHWG was the first Christian radio station serving the Sault Ste. Marie/Newberry radio market.
Translators
Additionally, WHWL has 10 translator stations of its own:
Sources
Michiguide.com - WHWL History
Michiguide.com - WEUL History
Michiguide.com - WHWG History
External links
Radio stations established in 1976
Christian radio stations in Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Omohundro | Stephen Malvern Omohundro (born 1959) is an American computer scientist whose areas of research include Hamiltonian physics, dynamical systems, programming languages, machine learning, machine vision, and the social implications of artificial intelligence. His current work uses rational economics to develop safe and beneficial intelligent technologies for better collaborative modeling, understanding, innovation, and decision making.
Education
Omohundro has degrees in physics and mathematics from Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa) and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Learning algorithms
Omohundro started the "Vision and Learning Group" at the University of Illinois which produced 4 Masters and 2 Ph.D. theses. His work in learning algorithms included a number of efficient geometric algorithms, the manifold learning task and various algorithms for accomplishing this task, other related visual learning and modelling tasks, the model merging approach to machine learning (including the learning of Hidden Markov Models and Stochastic Context-free Grammars), and the Family Discovery Learning Algorithm, which discovers the dimension and structure of a parameterized family of stochastic models.
Self-improving artificial intelligence and AI safety
Omohundro started Self-Aware Systems in Palo Alto, California to research the technology and social implications of self-improving artificial intelligence. He is an advisor to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute on artificial intelligence. He argues that rational systems exhibit problematic natural "drives" that will need to be countered in order to build intelligent systems safely. His papers, talks, and videos on AI safety have generated extensive interest. He has given many talks on self-improving artificial intelligence, cooperative technology, AI safety, and connections with biological intelligence.
Programming languages
At Thinking Machines Corporation, Cliff Lasser and Steve Omohundro developed Star Lisp, the first programming language for the Connection Machine. Omohundro joined the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, California, where he led the development of the open source programming language Sather. Sather is featured in O'Reilly's History of Programming Languages poster.
Physics and dynamical systems theory
Omohundro's book Geometric Perturbation Theory in Physics describes natural Hamiltonian symplectic structures for a wide range of physical models that arise from perturbation theory analyses.
He showed that there exist smooth partial differential equations which stably perform universal computation by simulating arbitrary cellular automata. The asymptotic behavior of these PDEs is therefore logically undecidable.
With John David Crawford he showed that the orbits of three-dimensional period doubling systems can form an infinite number of topologically distinct torus knots and described the structure of their stable and uns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu%20Chuanzhi | Liu Chuanzhi (; born 29 April 1944) is a Chinese entrepreneur. Liu is the founder of Lenovo, the world's largest personal computer vendor by unit sales. He remains one of the leaders of the company.
Business activities
Lenovo
By the early 1980s, Liu had achieved relative success as a computer scientist but still felt frustrated with his career. While his work on magnetic data storage was important, it lacked direct practical applications. He said, "We were the top computer technology research organization in China. We developed the first electron-tube computer and the first transistor computer. But we only produced one of each. Then we went on to develop something different. The work was just filed away." Liu was also anxious about his economic circumstances; in 1984, Liu had a growing family but an income of only 100RMB per month.
Liu founded Lenovo (originally called Legend), in 1984 with a group of ten other engineers in Beijing with 200,000 yuan and an office roughly 20 square yards in size. Liu came up with the idea to start Lenovo in response to a lack of funding at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Liu's superior arranged for the academy to loan him and the other co-founders the afore-mentioned 200,000 yuan. Of this time, Liu said, "It wasn't easy. The lowest thing you could do in the early '80s, as a scientist, was to go into business. China had a strict planned economy and there was barely room for a freewheeling company like ours."
Liu emphasized developing an effective working relationship with his superiors at the CAS from the very start. Despite its rhetoric of market-oriented reform, the Chinese government was reluctant to relax state control of the economy. Liu feared that his company might fail due to government micro-management. Liu also worried about dealing with local government officials and party cadres. He said, "We were totally immersed in the environment of a planned economy. I didn't care that the investment was small, but I knew I must have control over finances, human resources and decision-making." Liu's superiors immediately granted his request for autonomy.
Lenovo's founders, all scientists and engineers, faced difficulty from their lack of familiarity with market-oriented business practices, traditional Chinese ambivalence towards commerce, and anti-capitalist communist ideology. During this period many Chinese intellectuals felt that commerce was immoral and degrading. The fact that in the 1980s entrepreneurs were drawn from lower classes, and often dishonest as well, made the private sector even more unattractive. This was readily apparent to Liu and his collaborators due to their proximity to Zhongguancun, where the proliferation of fly-by-night electronics traders lead to the area being dubbed "Swindlers Valley."
Their first significant transaction, an attempt to import televisions, failed. The group rebuilt itself within a year by conducting quality checks on computers for new buyers. Lenovo soon in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Bromwich%20Network%20Church | West Bromwich Network Church is a new Christian church that was planted in January 2007 by Rev. Evan Cockshaw, working on behalf of the Church of England's Lichfield Diocese, in partnership with West Bromwich & District YMCA and the Walter Stanley Trust. The role of West Bromwich Network Church (WBNC) is to create new forms of church for the 20-30s generation across the deanery of West Bromwich. It has no pre-defined criteria, other than to reach out to a generation unconnected to Christian faith.
A Fresh Expression
Fresh Expressions is the name of the controversial joint Church of England And Methodist venture whose aim is to produce "a form of church for our changing culture, established primarily for the benefit of people who are not yet members of any church." The presumption is therefore that the "form of church" is the problem, rather than the substance (see "Critique" below). West Bromwich Network Church is one of the foremost examples of this project. The Diocese of Lichfield advertised nationally for a new Pioneer Leader and committed to a seven-year funding programme for the experimental work of West Bromwich Network Church. West Bromwich Network Church is one of four Pioneer Leader posts created by Lichfield Diocese since 2004. The full title of these posts is generally "Pioneer Leader for new missional communities." The other three posts are in Stoke (Rev. Gordon Crowther), Telford (Mark Berry), and Wolverhampton (Rev. Richard Moy). These four posts have been commissioned to explore new ways of being church in four different contexts over a sustained period, in order that sustainable communities of faith might be developed in each place, and so other churches can learn from their experiences. The BBC has recently produced a programme called "The Most Godless Town in Britain" featuring the work of Mark Berry. The Archdeacon of Walsall, Bob Jackson, author of "Hope for the Church" and "The Road to Growth" is the senior member of the management group directly overseeing the work of West Bromwich Network Church.
Influences
A number of influences can be discerned. WBNC uses a cell church model for its structures: it has developed a network of small groups meeting in homes, work places and social gathering points in which people share their faith and their lives together. It also is influenced by a book called The Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren, and the "Seeker Friendly" approach of Bill Hybels and Willow Creek Community Church. A further influence is Rob Bell and Mars Hill Bible Church.
Critique
Fresh Expressions like this have yet to respond to a number of methodological critiques. It is unlikely that the cultural location of the church signified by organisational aspects and reference points is the only reason for church decline, even in a context like West Bromwich. The church like any other organisation, is a complex environment with many relevant factors. According to leadership theory, a gifted leader can often make |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20%28TV%20series%29 | Freedom is an American science fiction television series that aired on the UPN network from October 27 to December 22, 2000. There were 13 episodes filmed, including the original pilot, but only 9 episodes were aired in the United States.
Plot
After war breaks out in the Middle East, combined with an economic downturn that causes mass unemployment and homelessness in America, the President of the United States travels extensively to resolve the matter but Air Force One crashes and the President is presumed dead. The United States is taken over by the US military in what becomes an invisible coup, and the faction label themselves the "Regime". Four military personnel, from different sections of the uniformed services are arrested for unknown charges - one later reveals he was ordered to assassinate the President and refused, resulting in false charges being brought against him - and remanded to prison, where they are later freed by unknown rebels. The four join up with a wider resistance movement against the military government in order to restore the Constitution and bring freedom back to the people.
Cast
Holt McCallany as Owen Decker
Scarlett Chorvat as Becca Shaw
Bodhi Elfman as Londo Pearl
Darius McCrary as James Barrett
Georg Stanford Brown as Walter Young
James Morrison as Colonel Tim Devon
Françoise Yip as Jin
Nigel Johnson as Billy
Production
The original pilot was reshot with the eventual series cast.
Episodes
Broadcast
The episodes that were unaired in the United States aired internationally, and the full series is still occasionally broadcast in Brazil. Sci-Fi Channel began airing reruns of the show in 2006. The unaired episodes would be aired for the first time in America in 2008.
References
External links
2000s American science fiction television series
Military science fiction
2000 American television series debuts
2000 American television series endings
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
Dystopian television series
UPN original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ora%20Lassila | Ora Lassila is a Finnish computer scientist who lives in the U.S. and works as a technologist at Amazon Web Services. He has been conducting research into the Semantic Web since 1996, and was co-author, with Tim Berners-Lee and James Hendler, of the article "The Semantic Web" which appeared in Scientific American in 2001, now the most cited paper in the Semantic Web area. His early work in this area included proposing the original RDF Specification with Ralph R. Swick and he has been an elected member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Advisory Board since 1998. He also belongs to the steering committee of the Semantic Web Science Association.
In 1996–1997, he was a visiting scientist at MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, working with W3C, and has also held positions at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, as a Research Scientist at the CS Laboratory of Helsinki University of Technology, and a research fellow at the Nokia Research Center in Cambridge, MA.
His work includes a frame-based Knowledge Representation system (dubbed "SCAM") that he developed (first at HUT and later at CMU) and which flew on board the NASA Deep Space 1 probe that passed the asteroid belt in 1999. The system served as the KR substrate for an on-board planner used in an experiment to have the probe perform its functions autonomously.
Bibliography
Programming Semantic Web Applications: A Synthesis of Knowledge Representation and Semi-Structured Data, dissertation, 2007
References
External links
The original Resource Description Framework specifications, RDF Model and Syntax (1999 Recommendation)
The W3C Advisory Board
The Semantic Web Steering Committee
Nokia Research Center
Antics with Semantics: The Innovation Interview with Semantics Pioneer, Ora Lassila
Living people
Finnish computer programmers
Artificial intelligence researchers
Semantic Web people
Finnish expatriates in the United States
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSMZ%20%28AM%29 | WSMZ (850 kHz) is an AM radio station in Muskegon, Michigan. It is the oldest radio station in Muskegon. The station is part of the contemporary Christian-formatted Smile FM network.
History
The station was first authorized on November 3, 1926, under the call sign WKBZ, to Karl L. Ashbacker in Ludington, Michigan. The call sign was randomly assigned from a sequential roster of available call letters. The station initially broadcast on 1170 kHz, moving to 1500 kHz in June 1927.
Following the establishment of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), stations were initially issued a series of temporary authorizations starting on May 3, 1927. In addition, they were informed that if they wanted to continue operating, they needed to file a formal license application by January 15, 1928, as the first step in determining whether they met the new "public interest, convenience, or necessity" standard. On May 25, 1928, the FRC issued General Order 32, which notified 164 stations, including WKBZ, that "From an examination of your application for future license it does not find that public interest, convenience, or necessity would be served by granting it." However, the station successfully convinced the commission that it should remain licensed.
In March 1941, most of the stations on 1500 kHz were moved to 1490 kHz, with the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement. The station relocated to Muskegon in 1934, establishing studios in the Continental Hotel. (The Ashbackers later built another station in Ludington, starting up WKLA in 1944.)
In 1947, the station moved to 850 kHz. The Ashbackers owned WKBZ until December 1951, when Arch Shawd acquired the Ashbacker Radio Company. Shawd sold the station in 1958 to Walter Patterson, who sold his WKBZ Radio Corporation to Frederick Allman and Robert Richards in 1963. Reams Communications Corporation bought WKBZ in 1968 and owned it until 1986, when the station was sold to KBZ Broadcasting.
WKBZ and WKBZ-FM 95.3 in Whitehall were donated to Grand Valley State University by Robert Jewell and Daniel Thill in 1995; the university elected to sell the stations to WLC Communications, Inc., in early 1997. In November 1998, however, WLC returned WKBZ-AM-FM to Grand Valley State, which converted the stations to public radio as WGVS-AM-FM. (The WKBZ call letters moved to 1520 AM, which went silent in 2002, and are now on 1090 AM.)
On August 27, 2009, WGVU and WGVS flipped to an oldies format—a first for a public radio station. The station's playlist encompassed hits from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s and featured many seldom-heard songs not typically played on commercial oldies stations, including some titles by local Michigan artists. Big band, traditional pop, and easy listening songs from the 1940s through the 1970s were featured on Sunday mornings during the Sunday Morning Standards program. Also airing on Sundays was the West Michigan Top 40 show, which counted down the songs on a histor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datam%20Polystar | was a Japanese media company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo.
After the release of the album Takemoto Izumi Uta Kore in 2009, the company became dormant until it was fully dissolved and liquidated on February 7, 2019.
Video games created by Datam Polystar
Super Famicom
Cacoma Knight (English version was published by SETA Corporation)
Makeruna Makendou (English version was published by SETA Corporation)
Makeruna! Makendō 2: Kimero Youkai Souri
Musya (English version was published by SETA Corporation)
Youchiensenki Madara (also titled Madara Saga)
Sega Saturn
Dragon Master Silk
Sugoventure! Dragon Master Silk Gaiden
PlayStation
Makeruna! Makendō 2
Pocke-Kano: Aida Yumi
Pocke-Kano: Houjouin Shizuka
Pocke-Kano: Ueno Fumio
Dreamcast
Pocke-Kano: Yumi - Shizuka - Fumio
PlayStation 2
Trizeal (Japanese PlayStation 2 version)
Pure Pure Mimi to Shippo no Monogatari
References
External links
Datam Polystar
Video game companies of Japan
Mass media companies of Japan
Publishing companies of Japan
Video game companies established in 1990
Japanese companies established in 1990
Video game companies disestablished in 2019
Japanese companies disestablished in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIAA%20%28FM%29 | WIAA (88.7 FM) is a radio station in Interlochen, Michigan. The station is owned by Interlochen Center for the Arts, and is an affiliate of the Interlochen Public Radio's "Classical IPR" network, consisting of classical music.
History
WIAA is the flagship station of the IPR Music Radio network, and began broadcasting in 1963 at 88.3 FM. Interlochen Center founder Joe Maddy had long dreamed of bringing a fine arts station to Northern Michigan, in part as a way to increase exposure to performances at the National Music Camp (now Interlochen Arts Camp). WIAA was a charter member of NPR.
In 1989, WIAA moved from 88.3 FM at 115,000 watts to 88.7 FM at 100,000 watts. WIAA's signal covers a large portion of northwestern and west-central lower Michigan, from Howard City to Gaylord and beyond.
Interlochen Center for the Arts acquired and launched sister station WICA in 2000 to feature a news- and talk-oriented format, and since that time WIAA and its two satellites (WICV and WIAB) have devoted almost all of their broadcast schedule to classical music and have not aired NPR news shows such as "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered", although they do feature hourly news updates from NPR. NPR news shows are, however, available over a portion of IPR Music Radio's listening area on CMU Public Radio, and within the coverage areas of the IPR News Radio stations (see below).
WICA programming is also heard in on WLMN Manistee, Michigan and on WHBP Harbor Springs, Michigan. WIAA also formerly operated a translator station in Traverse City, W264AC (100.7 FM), meant to fill in dead spots in the main signal's coverage in Traverse City; this translator went off the air in 2000.
Studios for WIAA and other Interlochen Public Radio stations have always been located on the Interlochen Center for the Arts campus in Interlochen, Michigan.
Sources
Michiguide.com - WIAA History
External links
Classical IPR
IAA
NPR member stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIAB | WIAB (88.5 FM) is a radio station in Mackinaw City, Michigan. The station is owned by Interlochen Center for the Arts, and is an affiliate of the Interlochen Public Radio's "Classical IPR" network, consisting of classical music.
History
The original call sign for 88.5 FM's construction permit was WAAQ, but the station was never on the air with those calls. It signed on as WDQV, "88-Dot-5 Dove FM," airing a satellite-fed contemporary Christian music format from Salem Communications ("Today's Christian Music"). Interlochen purchased WDQV in March 2005, and after a brief period of silence, 88.5 FM became WIAB, simulcasting WIAA, in July.
WIAB was formerly simulcast on a translator in Mackinaw City, W237CF (95.3 FM), which was formerly owned by Xavier University and then Cincinnati Classical Public Radio as a translator of WVXU 96.7 FM (now WRGZ) in Rogers City, Michigan. W237CF, now on 95.1 FM as W236BZ in St. Ignace, is now owned by Baraga Broadcasting and simulcasts Catholic radio station WTCK in Charlevoix.
References
Sources
Michiguide.com – WIAB History
External links
Classical IPR website
IAB
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 2000
2000 establishments in Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-objective%20optimization | Multi-objective optimization or Pareto optimization (also known as multi-objective programming, vector optimization, multicriteria optimization, or multiattribute optimization) is an area of multiple-criteria decision making that is concerned with mathematical optimization problems involving more than one objective function to be optimized simultaneously. Multi-objective is a type of vector optimization that has been applied in many fields of science, including engineering, economics and logistics where optimal decisions need to be taken in the presence of trade-offs between two or more conflicting objectives. Minimizing cost while maximizing comfort while buying a car, and maximizing performance whilst minimizing fuel consumption and emission of pollutants of a vehicle are examples of multi-objective optimization problems involving two and three objectives, respectively. In practical problems, there can be more than three objectives.
For a multi-objective optimization problem, it is not guaranteed that a single solution simultaneously optimizes each objective. The objective functions are said to be conflicting. A solution is called nondominated, Pareto optimal, Pareto efficient or noninferior, if none of the objective functions can be improved in value without degrading some of the other objective values. Without additional subjective preference information, there may exist a (possibly infinite) number of Pareto optimal solutions, all of which are considered equally good. Researchers study multi-objective optimization problems from different viewpoints and, thus, there exist different solution philosophies and goals when setting and solving them. The goal may be to find a representative set of Pareto optimal solutions, and/or quantify the trade-offs in satisfying the different objectives, and/or finding a single solution that satisfies the subjective preferences of a human decision maker (DM).
Bicriteria optimization denotes the special case in which there are two objective functions.
Introduction
A multi-objective optimization problem is an optimization problem that involves multiple objective functions. In mathematical terms, a multi-objective optimization problem can be formulated as
where the integer is the number of objectives and the set is the feasible set of decision vectors, which is typically but it depends on the -dimensional application domain. The feasible set is typically defined by some constraint functions. In addition, the vector-valued objective function is often defined as
If some objective function is to be maximized, it is equivalent to minimize its negative or its inverse. We denote the image of ; a feasible solution or feasible decision; and an objective vector or an outcome.
In multi-objective optimization, there does not typically exist a feasible solution that minimizes all objective functions simultaneously. Therefore, attention is paid to Pareto optimal solutions; that is, solutions that cannot be improv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid%20unit%20modes | Rigid unit modes (RUMs) represent a class of lattice vibrations or phonons that exist in network materials such as quartz, cristobalite or zirconium tungstate. Network materials can be described as three-dimensional networks of polyhedral groups of atoms such as SiO4 tetrahedra or TiO6 octahedra. A RUM is a lattice vibration in which the polyhedra are able to move, by translation and/or rotation, without distorting. RUMs in crystalline materials are the counterparts of floppy modes in glasses, as introduced by Jim Phillips and Mike Thorpe.
The interest in rigid unit modes
The idea of rigid unit modes was developed for crystalline materials to enable an understanding of the origin of displacive phase transitions in materials such as silicates, which can be described as infinite three-dimensional networks of corner-lined SiO4 and AlO4 tetrahedra. The idea was that rigid unit modes could act as the soft modes for displacive phase transitions.
The original work in silicates showed that many of the phase transitions in silicates could be understood in terms of soft modes that are RUMs.
After the original work on displacive phase transitions, the RUM model was also applied to understanding the nature of the disordered high-temperature phases of materials such as cristobalite, the dynamics and localised structural distortions in zeolites, and negative thermal expansion.
Why rigid unit modes can exist
The simplest way to understand the origin of RUMs is to consider the balance between the numbers of constraints and degrees of freedom of the network, an engineering analysis that dates back to James Clerk Maxwell and which was introduced to amorphous materials by Jim Phillips and Mike Thorpe. If the number of constraints exceeds the number of degrees of freedom, the structure will be rigid. On the other hand, if the number of degrees of freedom exceeds the number of constraints, the structure will be floppy.
For a structure that consists of corner-linked tetrahedra (such as the SiO4 tetrahedra in silica, SiO2) we can count the numbers of constraints and degrees of freedom as follows. For a given tetrahedron, the position of any corner has to have its three spatial coordinates (x,y,z) match the spatial coordinates of the corresponding corner of a linked tetrahedron. Thus each corner has three constraints. These are shared by the two linked tetrahedra, so contribute 1.5 constraints to each tetrahedron. There are 4 corners, so we have a total of 6 constraints per tetrahedron. A rigid three-dimensional object has 6 degrees of freedom, 3 translations and 3 rotations. Thus there is an exact balance between the numbers of constraints and degrees of freedom.
(Note that we can get an identical result by considering the atoms to be the basic units. There are 5 atoms in the structural tetrahedron, but 4 of there are shared by two tetrahedra, so that there are 3 + 4*3/2 = 9 degrees of freedom per tetrahedron. The number of constraints to hold together such a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Food%20Network%20Awards | The Food Network Awards are a United States television production awards ceremony, focused on giving awards to chefs, cities, restaurants, and other notable food related institutions.
The first ever Food Network Awards took place as part of the Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival in Miami on February 23, 2007. Emeril Lagasse served as Master of Ceremonies for this awards show honoring achievements in the world of food and entertaining. The event was taped live at the festival and aired on the Food Network April 15, 2007.
Categories
Favorite Comfort Food Combo (Viewers’ Choice)
Most Delicious Destination
Best Ball Park Eats (Viewers’ Choice)
Play With Your Food: Artwork With an Edible Twist
Icy Innovations, awarded to innovators in the world of frozen treats
Tasty Technology, (as above)
Professional Grade Kitchen Appliance You Can't Live Without (Viewers’ Choice)
Hot Chocolate List
Food Hall of Fame: Tribute to Julia Child, television and food pioneer
Share Our Strength Food Humanitarian Award
Culinary Dreams Can Come True
Favorite Childhood Classics (Viewers’ Choice)
Not Your Grandmother's Food of the Month Club, given to the most unusual food of the month club
SUPER Market
Best Better Burger
Favorite Coolest Cocktail (Viewers’ Choice)
Edible Entrepreneurs
Funniest Food Festival
See also
Food Network
American television awards
Food and drink awards
Food Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash%20%28computing%29 | In computing, the trash, also known by other names such as dustbin, wastebasket, and others, is a graphical user interface desktop metaphor for temporary storage for files set aside by the user for deletion, but not yet permanently erased. The concept and name is part of Mac operating systems, a similar implementation is called the Recycle Bin in Microsoft Windows, and other operating systems use other names.
In the file manager, the trash can be viewed by the user as a special file directory, allowing the user to browse the files and retain those still wanted before deleting the others permanently (either one by one, or via an "empty trash" command). It may still be possible using third party software to undelete those that were deleted by mistake. In Microsoft Windows and macOS, the Trash folder links to hidden folders on each mounted drive where the files are actually stored.
Within a trash folder, a record may be kept of each file and/or directory's original location, depending on the implementation. On certain operating systems, files must be moved out of the trash before they can be accessed again.
Whether or not files deleted by a program go to the recycle bin depends on its level of integration with a particular desktop environment and its function. Low-level utilities usually bypass this layer entirely and delete files immediately. A program that includes file manager functionality may or may not send files to the recycle bin, or it may allow the user to choose between these options.
History
Bill Atkinson began developing the Apple Lisa user interface in late 1978. In March 1982 he reached the stage of changing to an icon-based file manager, and produced a mock-up with a trash can icon (including buzzing flies) for deleting files. The release version of Lisa was launched in 1983 with a "Wastebasket", its icon "an alley-style garbage can [with] vertical lines to indicate a ribbed surface .... an open lid and a handle on the front of the can." Apple advertised "If you can find the trash can, you can run a computer."
Following this, the Magic Desk I ROM cartridge for Commodore 64 presented a primitive representation of office furniture, with a wastebasket or trash bin under the desk. This lacked functionality and was not taken further.
In 1983 Susan Kare designed the core visual design language of Classic Mac OS System 1, launched in January 1984. This incorporated some elements of the Lisa interface, including a refined version of the icon, now labelled Trash, with "a closed lid with a handle on top." An ad supplement in Newsweek introduced the Mac interface, with its "pictures of objects you'll have no trouble recognizing ... Even a trash can." A subsequent update to Lisa renamed its Wastebasket icon "Trash". In "International English" localizations of Classic Mac OS, Trash was named "Wastebasket".
In 1985, Amiga Workbench 1.0 was released. This took much inspiration from Mac OS, including trash bins. When formatting a floppy di |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Biggest%20Loser%20Australia%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the Australian version of the original NBC American reality television series The Biggest Loser premiered at 7pm each week night on Network Ten for 10 weeks from 13 February to 27 April 2006. The eventual winner, as decided by percentage of weight lost, was Adriano "Adro" Sarnelli, who won . The host was announced as Ajay Rochester, who had previously gone through weight loss herself. American trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels reprised their roles from the previous American version. Applications closed on 11 November 2005 with over 6,000 Australians having applied to take part. The finale was watched by 2.310 million Australian viewers.
At the beginning of the season, all contestants were given one 'last meal' of their favourite meals such as steak, spaghetti, chocolates, lasagna, lollies, alcohol, and other items.
Season overview
Game variations
Final 4 at finale: Adro was invited back in a rather odd twist that was seemingly forced into the show after Bob and Jillian complained that it was "unfair" for Adro to be knocked out by Harry, because Harry was allowed to take vitamins in the time that he was out of the house while the contestants inside the house were not allowed to take vitamins.
Returning contestants: All contestants previously voted out were given the chance to compete against each other to be returned into the game. Tracy declined the opportunity to return and Wal gained weight meaning he had to leave the competition. Harry made the final spot and in turn knocked Adro out of the game with a vote from Kristie and Harry.
Super Challenge: The several eliminated contestants returned to the show to compete in a "Super Challenge" in which they trekked through 3 km of sand dunes to then make a choice of meals from a table of varied calorie meals. The contestant to choose the lowest three calorie meals would have a chance to be in the final 4. Harry completed the Super Challenge first, and chose the meal second lowest in calories (canned Roma Tomatoes). Jo was second to complete the challenge and chose the lowest calorie meal (Ribena Light), and although coming in last place, Cat chose the third lowest calorie meal (Tuna in Oil). A weigh in decided who was a part of the final 4; Cat lost 0.9 kg, Jo lost 2 kg, Harry lost 10.7 kg which was enough to award his place in the final
Teams: Contestants were initially divided into two teams of red and blue by their trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels. The red team consisted of Adro, David, Jo, Kristie, Shane and Ruth and the blue team consisted of Cat, Artie, Harry, Fiona, Tracy and Wal.
Pairs: When only eight contestants remained, they were broken into pairs. Wal won the power to decide who would be paired together, which were Artie and Tracy, Fiona and Shane, Adro and Ruth, Wal and Kristie. After one week of pairs, contestants competed individually.
Final four: The final four contestants were Kristie, Fiona, Harry and Adro
Game elements
The Weigh-Ins
The follo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Channel%20%28Italian%20TV%20channel%29 | Disney Channel was an Italian pay television channel that was owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company Italy. It was launched on 3 October 1998, and its programming consists on original Disney Channel series (either American, European or locally produced) and third party programming acquired by the network.
Disney Channel and its timeshift ceased broadcasting on May 1, 2020 due to Disney failing to renew a deal with Sky Italy, with content moving to Disney+.
History
On October 3, 1998, Disney Channel officially began broadcasting in Italian on TELE+ Digitale. The channel used the slogan "Libera la tua Immaginazione" (English: "Free your imagination"). Among the first programs on the channel were Disney animated television series, such as Timon & Pumbaa and Aladdin: The Series. It also showed Disney films and some Disney Channel Original Movies on "Il Fantastico Mondo Disney" (The Wonderful World of Disney) each evening at 20.30 (8:30 pm). A new film was shown every Saturday at the same time slot. In January 1999, Disney Channel launched its original live presentation show: Disney Channel Live (later called Live Zone). In this program, hosted by Isabella Arrigoni and Massimiliano Ossini, viewers interact with the hosts and join games. Other popular programs were Live Zone – Musica, Live Zone – Sport, Live Zone – Da scoprire, Live Zone – Da ridere and Una stella per te (A Star for You).
On November 7, 1999, Disney Channel adopted the new "Circles" logo and idents of Disney Channel UK (created by GÉDÉON).
In 2002, Disney Channel launched two new programs: Quasi Gol and L'ora della magia.
The channel had been available since 2003 on Sky Italia, after the merger between TELE+ Digitale and Stream TV.
In June 2003, Disney Channel adopted the American Disney Channel's new logo (designed by CA Square), along with new graphics and idents.
Live Zone ended in September 2003; it was replaced by Prime Time, led by the hosts of Live Zone, Isabella Arrigoni and Massimiliano Ossini. Even programs secondary to Live Zone were replaced by newer ones like Tok, Eta Beta, and Skatenati. Another program was added, Scooter.
On December 24, 2004, Disney introduced Disney Channel +1, where all regular programs from Disney Channel are postponed an hour.
In 2006, almost all live shows were taken off air.
Prime Time got a refresh in September 2005, with a new logo, new computer-generated graphics, and Arrigoni being the voice-over host who presented the programs.
In 2005, Disney Channel launched a new series called Quelli dell'intervallo, which led to the similar versions in the UK, US, Australia and other countries under the title As the Bell Rings. In 2006, Disney Channel began airing many English language series from Disney Channel US. These versions were moved to a new channel called Disney in English in 2008.
In January 2007, Prime Time changed its logo once again, and Patrizio Prata became its new voice-over host, although the set design and cartoons re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Biggest%20Loser%20Australia%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the Australian version of the original NBC American reality television series The Biggest Loser premiered on Sunday 4 February 2007 at 7pm on Network Ten, with the finale on 26 April 2007. The show features 14 overweight contestants competing for A$200,000 and the title Australia's Biggest Loser for 2007. The eventual winner was Chris Garling, one of "The Outsiders", who lost 70.1 kg (46.89% of his start weight). Eliminated contestants also had the chance to compete for a runners-up prize of $50,000, which was won by Michael losing 70.0 kg (42.37% of his start weight). Five episodes were screened each week night, with a sixth episode introduced on Sunday nights. Industry experts were skeptical of its success screening on this competitive night. The show averaged more than 1 million viewers each night, peaking at 1,995,000 viewers for the finale and 1,560,000 viewers for a weigh-in show. Over 10,000 Australians applied, 2,000 more than the 2006 season. The show is licensed and produced by FremantleMedia Australia in association with Reveille.
14 contestants (2 more than the previous season) competed in 2 teams, later becoming pairs and then playing individually. An additional four being introduced throughout the game as part of twists or as replacement contestants. In the first two weeks, one contestant voluntarily quit and one withdrew on medical advice.
Two new Australian trainers, Michelle Bridges and Shannan Ponton, were introduced to replace the previous American trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels who reprised their role temporarily. Although Michelle states she doesn't like the format of the reality television show, she feels in the end it is helping change people's lives. Jillian was ridiculed for participating in the Australian version and not the American version, she stated that the Australian show represented her more accurately. Contestants were also introduced to former SAS soldier Steve Willis, dubbed "The Commando". Bob and Jillian left at the end of the second week, revisiting in the eighth week for a final time.
Two main new elements were introduced to the game including "The Walk" which gave contestants power to change the outcome of the game and a further two contestants were "secretly" trained outside the house and entered as "The Outsiders".
Before going to air, there were various allegations that Australian Idol winner Casey Donovan had applied to be a contestant and had been rejected. Network Ten argued that Donovan had simply not survived the application process. Further criticism was received by exercise experts, saying the show promoted risky weight loss techniques and may endanger the show's viewers. There was also much criticism of contestants leaving on medical advice after multiple health scares.
Season Overview
Game variations
Immunity: A small change to immunity was that the contestant to win immunity retained it for the following week if no other contestant gained immunity.
"The Wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM%20Parade | MGM Parade is a documentary television series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and broadcast by the ABC network during the 1955–56 season on Wednesdays at 8:30pm (E.S.T.), under the alternate sponsorship of American Tobacco (Pall Mall), and General Foods (Instant Maxwell House).
The 30 minute MGM Parade, one of MGM's first TV programs, was produced by MGM's trailer department as one of the compilation and promotional shows that imitated Walt Disney's Disneyland.
Background
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer first used television for promotional purposes having a tie in with The Ed Sullivan Show (on CBS) in the early 1950s. The Sullivan Show, however, switched to 20th Century Fox in the mid-1950s, so MGM attempted to have a promotional agreement with NBC, but could not come to terms on the specifics. Instead, MGM's trailer department produced what became MGM's first television series, which was called the MGM Parade. Within three years after its cancellation, the company then launched what became MGM Television.
History
MGM Parade premiered on ABC in the fall 1955. Hosted by George Murphy (September 14, 1955 – March 7, 1956), Walter Pidgeon (March 14–May 2, 1956) and other MGM stars, the series went into the MGM vaults to offer segments extracted from such past productions as Good News (1947) and The Pirate (1948); in December, a condensed edition of the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol was presented for the first time on television. Exploring the inner workings of the MGM studios, it featured interviews with prominent MGM stars to promote current and upcoming releases. The program also presented "selected short subjects" from the studio's library (Carey Wilson's Miniatures, John Nesbitt's Passing Parade, Pete Smith's Specialties, Tex Avery's cartoons, Robert Benchley, etcetera).
After Walter Pidgeon became the host, the format was slightly altered to include edited multi-part versions of "classic" MGM feature films, including Captains Courageous and The Pirate, as well as a tribute and biography of Greta Garbo.
An example of its use as a promotional tool can be seen in the 2008 DVD release of the 1955 musical film Kismet, which includes two episodes of MGM Parade in which actors from the film are interviewed, along with excerpts from the film plus behind-the-scenes footage.
Episodes of the series sporadically air between features on the Turner Classic Movies network in the United States.
See also
The 20th Century Fox Hour
References
External links
1955 American television series debuts
1956 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
1950s American documentary television series
Television series by MGM Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACEnet | Established in 2003 as a shared service to provide advanced computing support and services to the Atlantic Canadian research community, ACENET was a consortium of five universities. Since then, its membership has grown and so has its mission. ACENET has 14 Atlantic university and community college members, and provides access to advanced computing infrastructure, technical support, and digital skills development to academic researchers and their students at any post-secondary institution in the region, as well as government departments and industry.
Publicly funded through the federal and provincial governments, it provides these services at no charge to researchers and students. Through its federally incorporated not-for-profit, ACENET Solutions Inc., it serves government departments and industry in the region on a cost-recovery basis. It is the only organization in Atlantic Canada providing these resources, expertise, support and training with the depth of scientific and technical expertise demanded by researchers and industry. ACENET currently support more than 300 projects totaling over 1000 users in Atlantic Canada.
ACENET connects users in the region to digital research infrastructure (DRI) resources across the country through its partnership with the national Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) and the four other regional consortia - Calcul Quebec, Compute Ontario, DRI Prairies and DRI BC. The Alliance was created as a result of the federal government’s 2019 investment of $572M in a new Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy for Canada. It assumed the national responsibility for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) from Compute Canada on 1 April, 2022, with an expanded role that also includes Research Data Management (previously under the Portage Network) and Research Software (previously under the domain of CANARIE).
The Alliance and its five regional partners together comprise the Alliance Federation. Through the federation, ACENET represents regional needs and priorities at the national table.
ACENET Members
The 14 member institutions include: Acadia University, Cape Breton University, College of the North Atlantic, Dalhousie University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Mount Allison University, Mount St. Vincent University, New Brunswick Community College, Nova Scotia Community College, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University, Saint Mary's University, St. Francis Xavier University, University of New Brunswick, and the University of Prince Edward Island.
ACENET Compute Resources
ACENET currently has one regionally focused compute system, Siku.
See also
Grid computing
High-performance technical computing
Distributed computing
Parallel computing
References
External links
ACENET official webpage
Academic computer network organizations
Scientific organizations based in Canada
2004 establishments in Newfoundland and Labrador
Organizations established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koivuhovi%20railway%20station | The Koivuhovi railway station (, ) is a station on the Helsinki commuter rail network, located between the stations of Kauniainen and Tuomarila.
The station serves the E commuter line from Helsinki to Kaukalahti; and the U and night train L lines between Helsinki and Kirkkonummi. The station is approximately from central Helsinki.
The station has two platforms, and was opened in its current form in 1997.
References
Railway stations in Uusimaa
Railway stations opened in 1997
Kauniainen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Strothotte | Thomas Strothotte is a German-Canadian computer scientist and university administrator living in Germany.
Strothotte was born in 1959 in Regina, Canada, and raised in Vancouver. His first degrees were taken at Simon Fraser University (a B.Sc. in Physics (1980) and an M.Sc. in Computer Science (1981)). His further graduate work was done in Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart, McGill University in Montréal/Québec and the University of Waterloo/Ontario, leading to a Ph.D. in 1984. He also holds an MBA from Columbia University (New York) and an MBA from the London Business School (UK).
After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at INRIA Rocquencourt near Paris, he went to the University of Stuttgart as an assistant professor in 1985, earning a D.Sc. (habil) degree in Computer Science in 1989. From 1989 to 1990 he was a visiting scientist at the IBM Scientific Center in Heidelberg, working in the Software Ergonomics Department. From there he went to the Free University of Berlin in 1990 as a professor of computer science.
He moved on to the University of Magdeburg in Germany in 1993, where he was the head of the Computer Graphics and Interactive Systems Laboratory. He was the dean of his faculty from 1994 to 1996 and again later on from 2005 to 2006. From April 1996 until September 1998 he was a vice-president of academic planning and budget development of the University; from July until September 1998 he was also president pro tem of the University. He was also the initiator and one of the scientific responsibles for the new degree programme in Computational Visualistics.
From March 2001 to December 2002 he served as the director of IT for the government of the State of Saxony-Anhalt.
From 2006 until 2008 he was the rector of the University of Rostock and from 2009 to 2013 he served as the new Rector of the University of Regensburg in the State of Bavaria (Germany).
From August 2013 until 2022 he was president of the Kühne Logistics University, a private, state-recognized and independent university based in Hamburg, Germany.
He is the founder of two private schools in Magdeburg.
See also
List of University of Waterloo people
References
1959 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Rostock
Columbia Business School alumni
Alumni of London Business School
Canadian expatriate academics
Canadian expatriates in Germany
Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin
Simon Fraser University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-coded | In econometrics and statistics, a top-coded data observation is one for which data points whose values are above an upper bound are censored.
Survey data are often topcoded before release to the public to preserve the anonymity of respondents. For example, if a survey answer reported a respondent with self-identified wealth of $79 billion, it would not be anonymous because people would know there is a good chance the respondent was Bill Gates. Top-coding may be also applied to prevent possibly-erroneous outliers from being published.
Bottom-coding is analogous, e.g. if amounts below zero are reported as zero. Top-coding occurs for data recorded in groups, e.g. if age ranges are reported in these groups: 0-20, 21-50, 50-99, 100-and-up. Here we only know how many people have ages above 100, not their distribution. Producers of survey data sometimes release the average of the censored amounts to help users impute unbiased estimates of the top group.
Example: Top-coding of income at $30,000
Top-coding is a general problem for analysis of public use data sets. Top-coding in the Current Population Survey makes it hard to estimate measures of income inequality since the shape of the distribution of high incomes is blocked. To help overcome this problem, CPS provides the mean value of top-coded values.
The practice of top-coding, or capping the reported maximum value on tax returns to protect the earner's anonymity, complicates the analysis of the distribution of wealth in the United States.
Implications for ordinary least squares estimation
If the lower bound of the top-coded group is used as a regressor value (30000 in the example above), OLS is biased and inconsistent since the regressor's highest values are reported with a systematic error.
The top-coded observations can be omitted from the regression entirely. Provided there are no systematic differences between the omitted group and the included groups, OLS is consistent and unbiased.
The Tobit procedure is robust to top coding, and gives unbiased estimates.
See also
Tobit model
Heckit model
Truncated data
Censoring (statistics)
Further reading
Jenkins, S. P., Burkhauser, R. V., Feng, S., & Larrimore, J. (2009). Measuring inequality using censored data: a multiple imputation approach, ISER Working Paper Series 2009-04, Institute for Social and Economic Research.
References
Statistical data coding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept%20%28disambiguation%29 | A concept is an idea, something that is conceived in the human mind.
Concept may also refer to:
Computing
Concept (generic programming),
In computational learning theory, a subset of the instance space; see Concept class
Concepts (C++), an extension to C++'s template system
Concept virus (disambiguation), the name of two pieces of malware
Conceptualization (information science), organizing principles and objects underlying an abstract, simplified view of the world selected for a particular purpose such as information access
Music and Arts
Concept (band), an Italian progressive power metal band
Concept (album), a 1981 album by The Sylvers
Concepts (album), a Frank Sinatra album
The Concept (1978 album) funk album by Slave
The Concept (1991 song) alt-rock song by Teenage Fanclub from the album Bandwagonesque
Concept album, a popular music album unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical
Concept Records, a record label
DJ Concept, DJ, producer from Long Island, New York
Concept (board game), a 2014 board game
Technology
Concept car, a prototype design
Concept map, a method for visualizing concepts
Concept phase, in product life-cycle management
Sport
Concept, Gridiron football offense.
Other uses
Berkshire Concept 70, an American sailplane design
Concept 40, an American sailboat design
Concept (journal), an interdisciplinary journal of graduate studies
See also
Concept S (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marker-and-cell%20method | The marker-and-cell method is commonly used in computer graphics to discretize functions for fluid and other simulations. It was developed by Francis Harlow and his collaborators at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
See also
Immersed boundary method
Stokesian dynamics
Volume of fluid method
Level-set method
References
External links
Fluid flow for the rest of us, an explanation of fluid simulation (including the MAC grid)
Computational fluid dynamics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gio | Gio or GIO may refer to:
Science and technology
Gi/o, protein subunits
GIO, a computer bus
GIO (software), a library for accessing virtual file-systems
11084 Giò, a main belt asteroid
Gibioctet, a unit of digital information
Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis
Samsung Galaxy Gio, a mobile telephone
Other
Gío, a parish in Asturias, Spain
Gio (Black Clover), a character in the manga series Black Clover
GIO General, an Australian insurance company
Giò lụa, a Vietnamese pork sausage
Gio Ponti (horse), an American Thoroughbred race horse
Ibanez GIO, a series of guitars
General Inspection Office (Iran)
Government Information Office, a former agency of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Dan language or Gio, spoken by the Gio people
See also
Geo (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Colorado%20Avalanche%20award%20winners | This is a list of Colorado Avalanche award winners. It also includes players and data from the previous incarnation of the franchise, the Quebec Nordiques.
League awards
Team trophies
Individual awards
All-Stars
WHA First and Second Team All-Stars
NHL first and second team All-Stars
The NHL first and second team All-Stars are the top players at each position as voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.
NHL All-Rookie Team
The NHL All-Rookie Team consists of the top rookies at each position as voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.
All-Star Game selections
The National Hockey League All-Star Game is a mid-season exhibition game held annually between many of the top players of each season. Thirty-three All-Star Games have been held since the Colorado Avalanche entered the NHL as the Quebec Nordiques in 1979, with at least one player chosen to represent the franchise in each year except 2012. The All-Star game has not been held in various years: 1995, 2005, and 2013 as a result of labor stoppages, 2006, 2010, and 2014 because of the Winter Olympic Games, and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Colorado has hosted one of the games. The 51st was held at the Pepsi Center.
Selected by fan vote
Selected by Commissioner
Selected as one of four "last men in" by fan vote
All-Star Game Most Valuable Player
All-Star Game replacement events
The Quebec Nordiques hosted Rendez-vous '87 at Le Colisée.
Selected by fan vote
Career achievements
Hockey Hall of Fame
The following is a list of Colorado Avalanche and Quebec Nordiques who have been enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Lester Patrick Trophy
The Lester Patrick Trophy has been presented by the National Hockey League and USA Hockey since 1966 to honor a recipient's contribution to ice hockey in the United States. This list includes all personnel who have ever been employed by the Colorado Avalanche in any capacity and have also received the Lester Patrick Trophy.
United States Hockey Hall of Fame
Retired numbers
The Colorado Avalanche have retired six of their jersey numbers. The four numbers retired by the franchise when they were in Quebec – J. C. Tremblay's number 3, Marc Tardif's number 8, Michel Goulet's number 16, and Peter Stastny's number 26 – were un-retired and put back into circulation when the franchise moved to Colorado. Also out of circulation is the number 99 which was retired league-wide for Wayne Gretzky on February 6, 2000. Gretzky did not play for the Avalanche franchise during his 20-year NHL career and no player in franchise history had ever worn the number 99 prior to its retirement.
Defunct team awards
O'Keefe Cup
The O'Keefe Cup was an annual award given to the player who earned the most points from Star of the game selections throughout the regular season. It was discontinued when the franchise moved to Colorado in 1995.
Other awards
Notes
Shared with Patrik Elias of the New Jersey Devils.
References
Colorado Av |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotiv%20Systems | Emotiv Systems is an Australian electronics innovation company developing technologies to evolve human computer interaction incorporating non-conscious cues into the human-computer dialogue to emulate human to human interaction. Developing brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) based on electroencephalography (EEG) technology, Emotiv Systems produced the EPOC near headset, a peripheral targeting the gaming market for Windows, OS X and Linux platforms. The EPOC has 16 electrodes and was originally designed to work as a BCI input device.
Emotive Systems Pty Ltd was founded in 2003 by technology entrepreneurs Tan Le, Nam Do, Allan Snyder, and Neil Weste.
Emotiv Research Pty Ltd was founded in 2011 also by Tan Le. Nam Do, Allan Snyder, and Neil Weste are not affiliated with this business. This business has operated in America under the name Emotiv Lifesciences Inc until December 2013 when it became Emotiv Inc. It is not affiliated with Emotiv Systems.
See also
Electroencephalography
Neurofeedback
Comparison of consumer brain–computer interfaces
References
External links
Tan Le: A headset that reads your thoughts
Brain control headset for gamers, By Darren Waters, 20 February 2008, BBC News
Reality Bites -- Emotiv -- Mind Reading Device, By David H. Freedman, 1 December 2008, Inc. Magazine profile
Brain–computer interfacing
Companies established in 2003
2003 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Wars%3A%20The%20Clone%20Wars%20%282008%20TV%20series%29 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an American computer-animated children's and young adult's television show created by George Lucas. It is part of the Star Wars multimedia franchise, and is set during the time period of its prequel trilogy, with seasons 1-6 set during the three years between the prequel films Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) and Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), whilst the first eight episodes of the final season take place during the same time period and the last 4 episodes of season 7 takes place concurrently with Revenge of the Sith. Lucas, who closely collaborated with supervising director Dave Filoni on the series, called it a continuation of the previous Genndy Tartakovsky-produced 2003 Clone Wars series. The series began with a theatrical feature film that was released on August 15, 2008, and debuted on Cartoon Network two months later on October 3, 2008. Episodes had a running time of approximately 22 minutes to fill a half-hour time slot (compared to the 3–15 minute episodes of the previous series). The seventh season was released exclusively on Disney+, where it no longer needed to fit specific time slots, and run times were approximately 24 to 26 minutes.
In early 2013, Lucasfilm announced that The Clone Wars would be "winding down". Thirteen episodes comprising a new sixth season were made available in the U.S. for streaming on Netflix, along with the entirety of the series, beginning March 7, 2014. A project known as The Clone Wars Legacy adapted unproduced story arcs into other formats, such as comics and novels. The series was revived for a seventh and final season of 12 new episodes, which premiered on Disney+ on February 21, 2020.
The Clone Wars received at first mostly positive reception and later acclaim from critics and became a significant ratings success, becoming the Cartoon Network's highest-rated show during its initial run. The series was also nominated for numerous industry awards, including the Daytime Emmy Awards and the Annie Awards.
Some characters created for The Clone Wars have gone on to appear in other works, including the animated series Star Wars Rebels (2014–2018) and Tales of the Jedi (2022–present), and the live-action series The Mandalorian (2019–present), The Book of Boba Fett (2021–2022), and a spin-off of the former focused on one of The Clone Wars''' main characters, Ahsoka Tano.
A spin-off sequel series, titled Star Wars: The Bad Batch, premiered on Disney+ on May 4, 2021.
Series overview
Setting The Clone Wars is set during the Star Wars prequel trilogy era, taking place over a span of three years in between the films Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. The protagonists comprise returning characters from the films, including Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padmé Amidala, Yoda, and Mace Windu, as well as new characters created specifically for the series, such as Anakin's Padawan Ahsoka Tano and clone Captain Rex of the 501st Legion.
The series is ce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morfik | Morfik Technology Pty Ltd. is an Australian software company that was acquired by Altium in 2010.
The company is known for developing a set of visual designers, compilers and a Framework combined in an Integrated development environment (IDE) aimed at developing Ajax applications in a high-level language such as Java, C#, BASIC or Object Pascal. Morfik includes visual design tools for Web interfaces, database structure, and queries. It supports the classic client–server model, however like all Ajax applications, the client-side code runs within a browser. The Morfik development tool converts the forms that the user draws into DHTML, compiles the client-logic into JavaScript, and builds the application and database server engines to house the server-side code.
Company history
Morfik Technology was a privately funded company that was founded in 2000 in Hobart, Tasmania by Aram Mirkazemi and Shahram Besharati. The company later (2009) moved to Sydney, New South Wales, before being acquired by Altium Limited in November 2010.
In April 2019, the Morfik project was closed and the project was taken offline.
Timeline
In September 2005, it demonstrated a pre-beta version of its flagship product, Morfik at the Web 2.0 Conference. Morfik was a major sponsor of this conference. Rumors spread just before the conference that Robert Scoble, Microsoft's lead evangelist, thought that Microsoft should buy Morfik, however, this was quickly laid to rest by Scoble himself. At the conference, Morfik showed how web applications could be designed for both online as well as offline use, via its 'Unplugged' vision, by demonstrating an 'unplugged' version of Google's Gmail that could function offline.
Two months later, the SD Times wrote "Morfik IDE Simplifies AJAX Development" and the first version of the Morfik was released for public evaluation and testing. This was followed by the opening in February 2006, of a website called Morfik Labs which was designed to showcase Ajax applications that were created using Morfik.
March 2006, marked the first time Morfik was presented at a conference presentation, when Paul Ruizendaal, Managing Director of Janus Software presented a review of Morfik at Software Development GigaCon, Poland.
A month later, Morfik Chess was made available on Morfik Labs. Although a few other browser-based Chess games had already been released (the most notable by Douglas Bagnall), Morfik's was the first that allowed both single and multi-player modes. Further, the single-player mode utilized one of the first Javascript-powered chess engines that could calculate moves beyond 3-ply.
In May, 2006, Google released Google Web Toolkit. Due to the significant similarity to Morfik's JavaScript Synthesis Technology, significant media and blogsphere discussion commenced as commentators debated the possible relationships and partnerships between Morfik and Google. GWT's manager, Bret Taylor offered a direct response to the technology issue, by saying t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtext%20%28disambiguation%29 | Subtext is that content of a text or performance which is not announced explicitly but is implicit.
Subtext may also refer to:
Subtext (programming language), a moderately visual programming language and environment, for writing application software
Subtext Weblog Software, blog-publishing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaved%20memory | In computing, interleaved memory is a design which compensates for the relatively slow speed of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) or core memory, by spreading memory addresses evenly across memory banks. That way, contiguous memory reads and writes use each memory bank in turn, resulting in higher memory throughput due to reduced waiting for memory banks to become ready for the operations.
It is different from multi-channel memory architectures, primarily as interleaved memory does not add more channels between the main memory and the memory controller. However, channel interleaving is also possible, for example in freescale i.MX6 processors, which allow interleaving to be done between two channels.
Overview
With interleaved memory, memory addresses are allocated to each memory bank in turn. For example, in an interleaved system with two memory banks (assuming word-addressable memory), if logical address 32 belongs to bank 0, then logical address 33 would belong to bank 1, logical address 34 would belong to bank 0, and so on. An interleaved memory is said to be n-way interleaved when there are banks and memory location resides in bank .
Interleaved memory results in contiguous reads (which are common both in multimedia and execution of programs) and contiguous writes (which are used frequently when filling storage or communication buffers) actually using each memory bank in turn, instead of using the same one repeatedly. This results in significantly higher memory throughput as each bank has a minimum waiting time between reads and writes.
Interleaved DRAM
Main memory (random-access memory, RAM) is usually composed of a collection of DRAM memory chips, where a number of chips can be grouped together to form a memory bank. It is then possible, with a memory controller that supports interleaving, to lay out these memory banks so that the memory banks will be interleaved.
Data in DRAM is stored in units of pages. Each DRAM bank has a row buffer that serves as a cache for accessing any page in the bank. Before a page in the DRAM bank is read, it is first loaded into the row-buffer. If the page is immediately read from the row-buffer (or a row-buffer hit), it has the shortest memory access latency in one memory cycle. If it is a row buffer miss, which is also called a row-buffer conflict, it is slower because the new page has to be loaded into the row-buffer before it is read. Row-buffer misses happen as access requests on different memory pages in the same bank are serviced. A row-buffer conflict incurs a substantial delay for a memory access. In contrast, memory accesses to different banks can proceed in parallel with a high throughput.
The issue of row-buffer conflicts has been well studied with an effective solution. The size of a row-buffer is normally the size of a memory page managed by the operating system. Row-buffer conflicts or misses come from a sequence of accesses to difference pages in the same memory bank. The study |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%20majorization | Stress majorization is an optimization strategy used in multidimensional scaling (MDS) where, for a set of -dimensional data items, a configuration of points in -dimensional space is sought that minimizes the so-called stress function . Usually is or , i.e. the matrix lists points in or dimensional Euclidean space so that the result may be visualised (i.e. an MDS plot). The function is a cost or loss function that measures the squared differences between ideal (-dimensional) distances and actual distances in r-dimensional space. It is defined as:
where is a weight for the measurement between a pair of points , is the euclidean distance between and and is the ideal distance between the points (their separation) in the -dimensional data space. Note that can be used to specify a degree of confidence in the similarity between points (e.g. 0 can be specified if there is no information for a particular pair).
A configuration which minimizes gives a plot in which points that are close together correspond to points that are also close together in the original -dimensional data space.
There are many ways that could be minimized. For example, Kruskal recommended an iterative steepest descent approach. However, a significantly better (in terms of guarantees on, and rate of, convergence) method for minimizing stress was introduced by Jan de Leeuw. De Leeuw's iterative majorization method at each step minimizes a simple convex function which both bounds from above and touches the surface of at a point , called the supporting point. In convex analysis such a function is called a majorizing function. This iterative majorization process is also referred to as the SMACOF algorithm ("Scaling by MAjorizing a COmplicated Function").
The SMACOF algorithm
The stress function can be expanded as follows:
Note that the first term is a constant and the second term is quadratic in (i.e. for the Hessian matrix the second term is equivalent to tr) and therefore relatively easily solved. The third term is bounded by:
where has:
for
and for
and .
Proof of this inequality is by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, see Borg (pp. 152–153).
Thus, we have a simple quadratic function that majorizes stress:
The iterative minimization procedure is then:
at the step we set
stop if otherwise repeat.
This algorithm has been shown to decrease stress monotonically (see de Leeuw).
Use in graph drawing
Stress majorization and algorithms similar to SMACOF also have application in the field of graph drawing. That is, one can find a reasonably aesthetically appealing layout for a network or graph by minimizing a stress function over the positions of the nodes in the graph. In this case, the are usually set to the graph-theoretic distances between nodes and and the weights are taken to be . Here, is chosen as a trade-off between preserving long- or short-range ideal distances. Good results have been shown for .
Ref |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%20Institute%20Computer | The Rice Institute Computer, also known as the Rice Computer or R1, was a 54-bit tagged architecture digital computer built during 1958–1961 (partially operational beginning in 1959) on the campus of Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States. Operating as Rice's primary computer until the middle 1960s, the Rice Institute Computer was decommissioned in 1971. The system initially used vacuum tubes and semiconductor diodes for its logic circuits; some later peripherals were built in solid-state emitter-coupled logic. It was designed by Martin H. Graham.
A copy of the machine called OSAGE was built and operated at the University of Oklahoma.
Memory
Memory was implemented using a variety of technologies over the lifetime of the R1. Originally a cathode ray tube or "Williams tube" array, RCA core memory was introduced in 1966, followed by Ampex core memory in 1967. Following those two upgrades, the R1 had reached its full 32k word capacity, although the original electrostatic memory was soon decommissioned due to falling reliability in its old age.
Architecture
The R1 had seven memory-mapped general-purpose processor registers, each 54 bits in size, in addition to a constant zero register. For memory addressing, seven 16-bit "B-Registers" were used. The program counter was also held in a writable "B-Register". See the table below for conventions and hardware-enforced usage of these registers.
See also
List of vacuum-tube computers
References
External links
An entry at http://ricehistorycorner.com/2012/01/31/new-info-on-the-rice-computers/ ("New Info on the Rice Computers") by Melissa Keane has some historical information about the Rice Computer (R1) ("and" the R2 also) and it offers at least one photo (with a link to a larger copy of the photo). It also offers at least one old document – the document dated "1 July 71" can be seen at http://ricehistorycorner.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/r1-3.jpg
YouTube video "The Completed Computer"
Early computers
Rice University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Tighe | Tommy Tighe is a sports radio broadcaster who previously worked for the Westwood One radio network. He had been employed by the network since CBS radio days, hired in 1987 as a reporter and a commentator. He currently does work for ESPN Radio as a sportscenter anchor.
Career
Tighe can currently be heard on 790 the Ticket doing the pre- and post-game Miami Heat broadcasts. Tommy also has a Saturday morning show form 9am - 11am on 790 the Ticket.
Tighe was Westwood One's primary studio host for its sports broadcasts. He hosted the pre- and post-game studio shows for The NFL on Westwood One and has since been replaced by Scott Graham. Tighe also hosted the network's coverage of NCAA college basketball and football (except for Westwood One's Notre Dame football coverage, which was produced separately from the weekly college football package Westwood One airs). In addition, he hosted the Westwood One recap show NFL Sunday, which aired an hour prior to the Westwood one Sunday Night Football broadcast.
Also, prior to 2004, Tighe hosted the pre- and post- game shows for Monday Night Football on the network, but was replaced by Jim Gray.
Tighe's other credits for Westwood One include U.S. Open tennis coverage, a weekday sports recap show called "Sportstime", and a weekend sports report segment known as "Sports Central USA," which he did prior to taking over as pre-game host for nearly all sports broadcasts on the network. Mr. Tighe is also the captain of the five-time champion Thursday Night Bowling team 'Tommy's Tools.'
References
American radio sports announcers
American television sports announcers
National Football League announcers
College football announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
Tennis commentators
Living people
National Basketball Association broadcasters
Miami Heat announcers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLEFIA | CLEFIA is a proprietary block cipher algorithm, developed by Sony. Its name is derived from the French word clef, meaning "key". The block size is 128 bits and the key size can be 128 bit, 192 bit or 256 bit. It is intended to be used in DRM systems. It is among the cryptographic techniques recommended candidate for Japanese government use by CRYPTREC revision in 2013.
Standardization
CLEFIA is included in the following standards.
ISO/IEC 29192-2:2019, Information security - Lightweight cryptography - Part 2: Block ciphers
References
Further reading
External links
CLEFIA website
256bit Ciphers - CLEFIA Reference implementation and derived code
Sony Introduces CLEFIA
Implementation of 128-bit CLEFIA codec and hash function
Block ciphers
Digital rights management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Rose%20Forest | Red Rose Forest is the previous name for the charity City of Trees, the charity underwent a rebranding in 2016. City of Trees is the community forest for Greater Manchester, part of a national network of community forests across England - www.communityforest-trust.org
Red Rose Forest was founded as a community forest in western and central Greater Manchester, England. It was established in 1991, as the Greater Manchester Community Forest – one of 12 community forests across England. In 1994 the Red Rose Forest Plan was approved by Government and launched to the public. It aimed to be a mechanism for the economic, social, and environmental regeneration of the countryside around our towns and cities.
Achieving this by involving communities in creating and preserving a woodland flora for the future. The population within the forest boundary amounted to 2.5 million, at the time the community was founded, making it the largest urban community forest in the United Kingdom.
The main aim of Red Rose Forest was to get greenery where people can appreciate it every day. This included street trees, green roofs and green spaces. Red Rose Forest's Green Streets team worked with local communities on unique and innovative greening projects to improve the quality of life for urban communities. The value of greening as a means of tackling a range of social, health and economic issues is huge. Red Rose Forest offered many ways for the people to get involved in their environment including the general public through their Friends of the Forest scheme, businesses through sponsorship and communities through the Green Streets project.
Area covered
The forest area under Red Rose Forest covered and took in the districts of Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Trafford and Wigan.
The population within the forest boundary amounts to 1.5 million, making it the largest urban community forest in the UK.
Cost
Over the 40-year projected lifespan of the project it was planned to plant 25 million trees. For new woodland the costs of planting is between £7 - £10 for each tree as compared to £300 in an urban area. Since the scheme started, as of 2007, 1,183 hectares of woodland had been planted in the forest area.
Partnership bodies
See also
Community Forests in England
References
External links
Greater Manchester parks to get 2,000 new trees
Moo-ve over lawnmowers!
Forests and woodlands of Greater Manchester
Conservation in the United Kingdom
Parks and open spaces in Greater Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20algorithm | The Lee algorithm is one possible solution for maze routing problems based on breadth-first search.
It always gives an optimal solution, if one exists, but is slow and requires considerable memory.
Algorithm
1) Initialization
- Select start point, mark with 0
- i := 0
2) Wave expansion
- REPEAT
- Mark all unlabeled neighbors of points marked with i with i+1
- i := i+1
UNTIL ((target reached) or (no points can be marked))
3) Backtrace
- go to the target point
REPEAT
- go to next node that has a lower mark than the current node
- add this node to path
UNTIL (start point reached)
4) Clearance
- Block the path for future wirings
- Delete all marks
Of course the wave expansion marks only points in the routable area of the chip, not in the blocks or already wired parts, and to minimize segmentation you should keep in one direction as long as possible.
External links
http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~haizhou/357/lec6.pdf
References
Electronic engineering
Electronic design automation
Electronics optimization
Remzi Osmanli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtesting | Backtesting is a term used in modeling to refer to testing a predictive model on historical data. Backtesting is a type of retrodiction, and a special type of cross-validation applied to previous time period(s).
Financial analysis
In the economic and financial field, backtesting seeks to estimate the performance of a strategy or model if it had been employed during a past period. This requires simulating past conditions with sufficient detail, making one limitation of backtesting the need for detailed historical data. A second limitation is the inability to model strategies that would affect historic prices. Finally, backtesting, like other modeling, is limited by potential overfitting. That is, it is often possible to find a strategy that would have worked well in the past, but will not work well in the future. Despite these limitations, backtesting provides information not available when models and strategies are tested on synthetic data.
Backtesting has historically only been performed by large institutions and professional money managers due to the expense of obtaining and using detailed datasets. However, backtesting is increasingly used on a wider basis, and independent web-based backtesting platforms have emerged. Although the technique is widely used, it is prone to weaknesses. Basel financial regulations require large financial institutions to backtest certain risk models.
For a Value at Risk 1-day at 99% backtested 250 days in a row, the test is considered green (0-95%), orange (95-99.99%) or red (99.99-100%) depending on the following table:
For a Value at Risk 10-day at 99% backtested 250 days in a row, the test is considered green (0-95%), orange (95-99.99%) or red (99.99-100%) depending on the following table:
Hindcast
In oceanography and meteorology, backtesting is also known as hindcasting: a hindcast is a way of testing a mathematical model; researchers enter known or closely estimated inputs for past events into the model to see how well the output matches the known results.
Hindcasting usually refers to a numerical-model integration of a historical period where no observations have been assimilated. This distinguishes a hindcast run from a reanalysis. Oceanographic observations of salinity and temperature as well as observations of surface-wave parameters such as the significant wave height are much scarcer than meteorological observations, making hindcasting more common in oceanography than in meteorology. Also, since surface waves represent a forced system where the wind is the only generating force, wave hindcasting is often considered adequate for generating a reasonable representation of the wave climate with little need for a full reanalysis. Hydrologists use hindcasting for model stream flows.
An example of hindcasting would be entering climate forcings (events that force change) into a climate model. If the hindcast showed reasonably-accurate climate response, the model would be considered successful.
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