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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9am%20with%20David%20%26%20Kim | 9am with David & Kim is an Australian morning show which premiered on Monday 30 January 2006 on Network Ten. It aired live from 9am - 11am weekdays, and was hosted by musician and former Getaway reporter David Reyne and former National Nine News presenter and journalist Kim Watkins. Fill in presenters have included Ann-Maree Biggar, Christi Malthouse, Corinne Grant, Kathryn Robinson, Stephen Quartermain and music mogul Ian Dickson.
The program replaced long time morning program Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton, which finished in late 2005, after Bert Newton returned to the Nine Network. Sandy Paterson was the executive producer of the program. Throughout its run the show had struggled behind competing programs The Morning Show and Mornings with Kerri-Anne, averaging around 50,000 viewers an episode.
Demise
In August 2009, Reyne announced that he will be leaving 9am at the end of the year, after 4 years with the show and Ten. On 7 December 2009 Watkins also confirmed she had also quit the show, with Ten programmer David Mott announcing a brand new concept for the timeslot next year. It is unclear whether Watkins has left the network altogether. The final ever show aired on Friday 11 December 2009 due to a strong competition with Seven's The Morning Show. 9am Summertime concluded on 5 February 2010. The following week after the demise the 9am website was removed.
On 16 January 2010, it was announced The Circle would be the replacement show, which started on 9 February 10am-12pm following the new time slot for the Ten Morning News hour 9am-10am.
Segments
9am included a mix of lifestyle, cooking and interview segments along with advertorials. The advertorials were for products from home-shopping companies such as Danoz Direct and Global Shop Direct, and were mostly presented by Marianne van Dorslar & Ann-Maree Biggar.
Regular segments and their hosts included:
Family Matters: John Irvine
Your Garden: David Kirkpatrick
Fashion, style, beauty and home: Dhav Naidu
Health and Fitness: Christi Malthouse and Craig Harper
Entertainment: Benjamin Hart
Your Pets: Julie Summerfield
Your Health: David Spencer
Music: Ian Dickson
Cooking: Chef Arianne Spratt
Your Place: Ann-Maree Biggar
Lifestyle Travel: Shannon Watts
At the start of the program Kim Watkins read the news headlines, and at 10.15am Ten News presenter Natarsha Belling presents a news update. At the end of each show, Reyne used his trademark sign-off - using a different adjective in place of "nice" as in "Have a nice day" (for example, "Have a colossal day").
Celebrity fill-ins
Martin Short (Monday 25 May 2009)
Nia Vardalos (Friday 10 July 2009)
Frank Woodley (Friday 23 October 2009)
9am Summertime
Over summer Ann-Maree Biggar presented a pre-recorded show of highlights throughout the year.
Although the program was pre-recorded the advertorials shown were live.
See also
The Circle
List of programs broadcast by Network Ten
List of Australian television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed%20top-level%20domain | The Domain Name System of the Internet consists of a set of top-level domains that constitute the root domain of the hierarchical name space and database. In the growth of the Internet, it became desirable to expand the initial set of six generic top-level domains in 1984. As a result, new top-level domain names have been proposed for implementation by ICANN. Such proposals included a variety of models ranging from adoption of policies for unrestricted gTLDs that could be registered by anyone for any purpose, to chartered gTLDs for specialized uses by specialized organizations. In October 2000, ICANN published a list of proposals for top-level domain strings it had received.
Geographic proposals
– Generic geographical locations.
and – Currently being sold by Dennis Hope's "Lunar Embassy Commission" alongside , , , , , , , , . People who purchase novelty deeds for outer space property from him are also given free domains. None of these TLDs are supported at present by root servers.
– was proposed by City of Toronto officials.
Internationalized country code top-level domains
The following ccTLDs (country code top-level domains) have been requested using a procedure known as Internationalized Domain Name (or IDN) ccTLD Fast Track Process.
The following countries have national languages that use other scripts than Latin, but have no internationalized country code top-level domain, and none proposed in the above list:
Afghanistan
Bhutan
Cambodia
Cyprus
Eritrea
Ethiopia
North Korea
Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon
Maldives
Myanmar
Nepal
Tajikistan
Language and community
These proposals are centered on creating an independent Internet identity for linguistic and cultural communities. They are mostly inspired by the success of the domain created for websites in the Catalan language or about the Catalan culture.
Note: The dotCYMRU, dotEUS, dotSCOT and dotBZH have formed the ECLID, the European Cultural and Linguistic Internet Domains umbrella group to lobby for the successful and speedy application for the bids.
Technical domain name themes
– A domain for e-mail networks, proposed to facilitate fighting e-mail spam.
– A domain for general use on the World Wide Web.
Specialized and professional topics
– environmental causes – Limited existence in 2016 and full launch in 2017.
– medical practitioners and organizations – exists from 2016.
– electronic commerce sites – exists from 2016.
– sport sites
See also
List of Internet top-level domains
Generic top-level domain – New top-level domains
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20House%20of%20Morecock | The House of Morecock is a gay pornographic adult cartoon created through computer-generated animation. It was the first American-made gay adult animation, and was created by Joe Phillips, a comic book artist and freelance illustrator who has created art for companies such as DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics and Bud Lite. It is Phillips' first DVD movie after the first release of Phuckamon; a second, unrelated film titled Stonewall & Riot: The Ultimate Orgasm was released in late 2006 and a sequel was announced in August 2008.
Overview
The House of Morecock debuted in 1999 on the gay porn website AbsolutelyMale. It was originally a short Flash animation featuring Jonas Morecock, a blond-haired, blue-eyed gay twenty-something who investigates mysterious or supernatural goings-on. The stories always end with Jonas engaged in comical gay sex with apparitions, vampires, and other spooky entities.
Due to its initial success, Phillips followed up the original episode with a complete set of shorts, all featuring Jonas in various scary situations which always subsequently turn sexual. Following their popularity online, the episodes were released on DVD in 2001 under the full title The House of Morecock: The Animated Misadventures of Jonas Morecock. In 2002, the DVD won a GayVN Award. TLAvideo.com lists the film as one of its best-selling DVD titles ever.
In 2005, following on the success of the DVD, two sets of comic strip books were released, titled Tales From The House Of Morecock and Tales From The House Of Morecock Vol. 2, along with a set of postcards featuring the titular character. The series is considered pornography, but its content is lighthearted and is depicted in short skits. It is only considered hardcore because of graphic gay sex scenes. The stories are always comic and are intended to entertain as much as they are to arouse.
Plot
The movie starts off with the live-action sequence of two real-life men lying in bed watching Saturday morning cartoons. The two guys are obviously a gay couple. They then find The House of Morecock on television, and the viewer then watches what the twosome can see on their TV. We are then introduced to Jonas Morecock, and we then follow him on a series of adventures, including meeting Bigfoot, a chance encounter with a merman and being face to face with the Loch Ness Monster. All of the situations end up with Jonas having sex with at least one other guy.
The film parodies a lot of mainstream television and films, including The Little Mermaid, The Blair Witch Project, Godzilla, The X-Files, Titanic, Psycho and Jaws. There are a total of ten episodes contained on the DVD, each featuring a different story involving Jonas.
Reception and reviews
The House of Morecock was widely praised upon its release. IN TOUCH magazine said it was an "original work that remains innocent even at its most explicit... a sexy and humorous collection". Out Front Colorado stated "[It] sets new trends in exotic animation". The Virgini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20interactive%20thresholding%20algorithm | The Swedish interactive thresholding algorithm, usually referred to as SITA, is a method to test for visual field loss, usually in glaucoma testing or monitoring. It is combined with a visual field test such as standard automated perimetry (SAP) or short wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP) to determine visual fields in a more efficient manner.
Standard automated perimetry determines how dim of light (the threshold) can be seen at various points in an individual eye's visual field. Various algorithms have been developed to determine this threshold in the dozens to over a hundred individual points in a single visual field. The SITA algorithm optimizes the determination of perimetry thresholds by continuously estimating what the expected threshold is based on the patient's age and neighboring thresholds. In this manner, it can reduce the time necessary to acquire a visual field by up to 50%, and it decreases patient fatigue and increases reliability. SITA mode is now widely used in many computerized automated perimeters.
The testing mode interrupts testing when measurement error is reached. This results in a shorter test time with reportedly equal accuracy as other automated threshold visual fields.
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Blindness
Diagnostic ophthalmology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20B.%20Bennett | Peter B. Bennett (12 June 1931 – 9 August 2022) was the founder and a president and CEO of the Divers Alert Network (DAN), a non-profit organization devoted to assisting scuba divers in need. He was a professor of anesthesiology at Duke University Medical Center, and was the Senior Director of the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology at Duke. Bennett is recognized as a leading authority on the effects of high pressure on human physiology.
Bennett was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. He was employed at the Royal Navy Physiology Laboratory near Portsmouth for 20 years, beginning in 1953. During this time, he formed and headed the Defence and Civil Institute for Environmental Medicine in Canada.
Education
University of London, 1951, B.Sc.
University of Southampton, 1964, Ph.D.
University of Southampton, 1984, D.Sc.
Research
As a researcher, Bennett performed studies of nitrogen narcosis, oxygen toxicity, submarine escape, decompression illness, ascent rates, and the effects of flying after diving. Bennett described helium tremors in 1965 and coined the name of high pressure nervous syndrome (HPNS), a diving disorder resulting from breathing a high-pressure mixture of helium and oxygen known as heliox at depths greater than about . Bennett was a consultant on the James Cameron underwater science fiction film The Abyss, in which a character experiences HPNS.
Bennett is credited with the invention of trimix breathing gas. In 1981, at Duke University Medical Center, he conducted an experiment called Atlantis III lasting 43 days, which involved compressing divers to an equivalent depth of , and slowly decompressing them to surface pressure, setting a world record in the process. In 45 years, Bennett published over 200 scientific papers and six books.
Retirement
Dr. Bennett received the 2002 Diving Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) Reaching Out Award for his contribution to the diving industry, and the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2002 award for contributions to business in the life sciences. He stepped down as President of the Divers Alert Network of America on 30 June 2003, after 23 years at the helm. Bennett was pressured by board members to step down, in reaction to alleged improprieties in his handling of the organization's finances.
From 2004 to 2007, Bennett served as Executive Director of the International Divers Alert Network.
From 2007 to 2014, Bennett served as the executive director of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society.
See also
Divers Alert Network
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society
References
External links
Background at Duke University Medical Center
UHMS and DAN Publications
1931 births
2022 deaths
20th-century English medical doctors
British medical researchers
English chief executives
People from Portsmouth
Alumni of the University of London
Alumni of the University of Southampton
Duke University faculty
Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formac%20Elektronik%20GmbH | Formac is a European-based manufacturer of various PC devices. Formac is most widely known for its TFT Display range, desktop and portable data storage products, or historically for its advanced Graphics cards and video conversion products.
Displays
Their high specification Gallery Range of TFT displays has dominated the European design market, and has continued to be popular since its launch in 2004.
Portable storage
In 2006 Formac launched the Disk Mini range of portable data storage for Windows and Mac computers. The first models were equipped with FireWire (IEEE1394) and USB 2.0 ports to cater for fast data transfer speeds. The Disk Mini range has received numerous awards and award nominations both from IT industry press and from public. In 2007 a USB 2.0 only version was released sending the Disk Mini in to the mainstream data storage arena.
References
Semiconductor companies of Germany
Fabless semiconductor companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brienne%20Pedigo | Brienne Pedigo is an American auto racing pit reporter, formerly employed by ESPN and ESPN on ABC for the Indy Racing League and currently working for the Motor Racing Network as pit reporter.
Career
In 2007, Pedigo took over as a pit reporter for Jamie Little, who moved to ESPN's
NASCAR coverage. She was formerly a pit reporter for The Outdoor Channel's
USAC sprint and midget car races, and a reporter for CBS' coverage of the NCAA Final Four. In 2022, she joined the Motor Racing Network as a pit reporter for the NASCAR Cup Series.
Personal life
Her father, Gary, was the owner of Pedigo Chevrolet in Camby, Marion County, Indiana (now part of Indianapolis), and was a former joint owner of Panther Racing, an IndyCar Series team.
Pedigo and General Hospital star Tyler Christopher publicly announced their engagement in October 2006. Pedigo and Christopher married September 27, 2008. The couple had their first child, Greysun James Christopher on October 3, 2009. In October 2014, it was announced that Christopher and his wife were expecting their second child due in May 2015. On May 3, 2015, Christopher confirmed on his official Twitter that Pedigo had given birth to a baby girl, Boheme. Pedigo filed for divorce in February 2019.
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American sports announcers
Place of birth missing (living people)
American reporters and correspondents
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetRadio | NetRadio (Net.radio, NetRadio, NetRadio Network) was an Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based company founded by Scott Bourne and radio veteran Scot Combs in 1994. NetRadio helped pioneer online radio and was the world's first Internet-only radio network. NetRadio began using RealAudio 1.0 in November 1995 to stream their music. It started out with four formats and expanded to more than a dozen two years after. The radio network was included as a preset in RealAudio (aka RealMedia) 2.0 and later players. NetRadio was the first Internet radio network to receive an experimental license from ASCAP which later became a standard license for all online radio stations.
At its height, NetRadio offered more than 125 online radio stations and attracted more than 50 million unique IP's per month. When Arbitron began rating Internet radio sites, NetRadio consistently held 8 of the top 10 ranks. In 1997, the Navarre Corporation completed the purchase of all outstanding shares of NetRadio and merged the company into one of its subsidiaries. In late 2001 it discontinued operations.
World's First live Internet Concert Series
In July 1996, NetRadio accomplished another first by offering the first weekly live Internet-only concert series hosted by NetRadio Webmaster Nathan Wright. Some of the shows included:
Dr. Mambos Combo 1/16/96 (first live concert via internet out of Minnesota?)
Dr. Mambos Combo 5/18/96
Tribe of Millions 5/18/96
Tommy Babarella 5/18/96
Innocent 5/18/96
Paul Metsa 6/19/96
5 Guys Live 6//19/96
Gutta Percha 6/12/96
Michael Nelson 6/26/96
Ride Ruby Ride 6/26/96
Six Day Lane 7/3/96
Sadie Foster 7/3/96
Scott Laurent 7/10/96 (possibly The Billy's also?)
Joint Chiefs at the Hangout (8 songs) 7/17/96
Hindu Rodeo 7/24/96
Stuart Davis 7/24/96
GB Leighton 7/31/96
Johnny Clueless 7/31/96
Cartoon Water 8/7/96
Mango Jam 8/7/96
Trailer Trash 8/14/96 may be unlabeled.
Honeydogs 8/14/96 may be unlabeled.
Charlies Cafe 8/21/96
Hillcats 8/21/96
Punchdrunk 8/28/96
Rank Strangers 8/28/96
Wood circa 1996
Medium
References
Online mass media companies of the United States
Companies based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Mass media companies established in 1994
Telecommunications companies established in 1994
Technology companies disestablished in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQRE-LD | KQRE-LD (channel 20) is a low-power television station in Bend, Oregon, United States, serving Central Oregon as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) alongside dual NBC/CW+ affiliate KTVZ (channel 21) and Class A Fox affiliate KFXO-CD (channel 39). The stations share studios on Northwest O. B. Riley Road in Bend, while KQRE-LD's transmitter is located on Grizzly Mountain northwest of Prineville, Oregon.
Although it identifies as a separate station in its own right, KQRE-LD is officially licensed as a translator of KFXO-CD.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
KTVZ
Telemundo network affiliates
Deschutes County, Oregon
News-Press & Gazette Company
QRE-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1982
1982 establishments in Oregon
QRE-LD
QRE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITRAN | HITRAN (an acronym for High Resolution Transmission) molecular spectroscopic database is a compilation of spectroscopic parameters used to simulate and analyze the transmission and emission of light in gaseous media, with an emphasis on planetary atmospheres. The knowledge of spectroscopic parameters for transitions between energy levels in molecules (and atoms) is essential for interpreting and modeling the interaction of radiation (light) within different media.
For half a century, HITRAN has been considered to be an international standard which provides the user a recommended value of parameters for millions of transitions for different molecules. HITRAN includes both experimental and theoretical data which are gathered from a worldwide network of contributors as well as from articles, books, proceedings, databases, theses, reports, presentations, unpublished data, papers in-preparation and private communications. A major effort is then dedicated to evaluating and processing the spectroscopic data. A single transition in HITRAN has many parameters, including a default 160-byte fixed-width format used since HITRAN2004. Wherever possible, the retrieved data are validated against accurate laboratory data.
The original version of HITRAN was compiled by the US Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (1960s) in order to enable surveillance of military aircraft detected through the terrestrial atmosphere. One of the early applications of HITRAN was a program called Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) for the US Department of Energy. In this program spectral atmospheric measurements were made around the globe in order to better understand the balance between the radiant energy that reaches Earth from the sun and the energy that flows from Earth back out to space. The US Department of Transportation also utilized HITRAN in its early days for monitoring the gas emissions (NO, SO2, NO2) of super-sonic transports flying at high altitude. HITRAN was first made publicly available in 1973 and today there are a multitude of ongoing and future NASA satellite missions which incorporate HITRAN. One of the NASA missions currently utilizing HITRAN is the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) which measures the sources and sinks of CO2 in the global atmosphere. HITRAN is a free resource and is currently maintained and developed at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge MA, USA (CFA/HITRAN).
HITRAN is the worldwide standard for calculating or simulating atmospheric molecular transmission and radiance from the microwave through ultraviolet region of the spectrum. The HITRAN database is officially released on a quadrennial basis, with updates posted in the intervening years on HITRANonline. There is a new journal article published in conjunction with the most recent release of the HITRAN database, and users are strongly encouraged to use the most recent edition. Throughout HITRAN's history, there have been around 50,000 unique users of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernot%20Heiser | Gernot Heiser (born 1957) is a Scientia Professor and the John Lions Chair for operating systems at UNSW Sydney, where he leads the Trustworthy Systems group (TS).
Life
In 1991, Heiser joined the School of Computer Science and Engineering of UNSW Sydney, originally as a lecturer, reaching the rank of full professor in 2002, a position he retains to date.
Also in 2002 he joined the newly created research organisation NICTA as one of its initial Program Leaders, in charge of the Embedded, Real-Time and Operating Systems (ERTOS) program. After a re-organisation in 2011 ERTOS became the Software Systems Research Group (SSRG) which he led. When NICTA was absorbed into CSIRO in 2016, Heiser stepped back from management of the group, which was then called Trustworthy Systems (TS). In 2021 CSIRO abandoned TS, at which time Heiser took the group back to UNSW and re-assumed its leadership.
Since April 2020, Heiser serves as the Founding Chairman of the seL4 Foundation.
Research
Heiser's research focuses on microkernels, microkernel-based systems, and virtual machines, and emphasizes performance and reliability.
His group produced Mungi, a single address space operating system,
for clusters of 64-bit computers, and implementations of the L4 microkernel with very fast inter-process communication.
His Gelato@UNSW team was a founding member of the Gelato Federation, and focused on performance and scalability of Linux on Itanium. They established theoretical and practical performance limits of message passing inter-process communication (IPC) on Itanium.
After joining NICTA at its creation in 2002, his research shifted away from high-end computing platforms, and toward embedded systems, with the aim of improving security, safety, and reliability via use of microkernel technology.
This led to the development of a new microkernel, called seL4, and its formal verification, claimed to be the first-ever complete proof of the functional correctness of a general-purpose OS kernel.
His work on virtualization was motivated by the need to provide a complete OS environment on his microkernels. His Wombat project followed the approach taken with the L4Linux project at Dresden, but was a multi-architecture paravirtualized Linux running on x86, ARM and MIPS hardware. The Wombat work later formed the basis for the OKL4 hypervisor of his company Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs).
The desire to reduce the engineering effort of paravirtualization led to the development of the soft layering approach of automated paravirtulization which was demonstrated on x86 and Itanium hardware.
His work on virtual non-uniform memory access (vNUMA) demonstrated a hypervisor which presents a distributed system as a shared-memory multiprocessor as a possible model for many-core chips with large numbers of processor cores.
Device drivers are another focus of his work, including the first demonstration of user-mode drivers with a performance overhead of less than 10%,
an approach to driver de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boingo%20Wireless | Boingo Wireless is an American company that designs, builds and manages wireless networks. Its public and private networks include distributed antenna systems (DAS), small cells, macro towers and more than one million Wi-Fi hotspots around the world. The company operates networks for airports, transit stations, stadiums, military bases, hospitals and commercial properties. In December 2022, the company announced it was moving its headquarters to Frisco, Texas, and would maintain regional offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Las Vegas. The company was listed on the Nasdaq until it was acquired by investment firm Digital Colony Management LLC in 2021.
History
In 2001, Earthlink co-founder Sky Dayton founded Boingo to address the then-fragmented state of Wi-Fi networks. He said he saw how Wi-Fi "could help make the Internet as ubiquitous as the air we breathe".
In March 2007, Boingo acquired Concourse Communications Group, which extended Boingo's services into Wi-Fi and cellular DAS networks at airports.
On November 10, 2008, Boingo acquired Opti-Fi Networks’ Wi-Fi holdings, adding another 25 airport Wi-Fi networks to its portfolio of managed locations and bringing its total of airport Wi-Fi networks to 55.
On May 4, 2011, Boingo Wireless went public, giving the company a market cap of approximately $439 million. The stock price dropped soon afterward, and Boingo's IPO was initially viewed as "less than auspicious", but the stock recovered a year later to its IPO price.
On August 8, 2012, the company acquired Cloud Nine Media, thereby adding advertising services for sponsored Wi-Fi.
On February 21, 2013, the company acquired Endeka Group, a provider of Wi-Fi and IPTV services to military bases and federal law enforcement training facilities.
In November 2013, Boingo announced contracts with the US Air Force, US Army, and US Marines Corps to install IPTV and broadband access networks on their posts.
In September 2013, Boingo announced the acquisition of its largest competitor, Advanced Wireless Group (AWG). At the time of the announcement, AWG operated networks at 17 US airports, including Logan Airport (BOS), Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW), Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and Miami International Airport(MIA). Boingo announced that the combined entity would operate in 60 percent of North America's top 50 airports and more than 40 percent of the world's top 50 airports, reaching more than 1.4 billion passengers annually.
In February 2014, Boingo launched Passpoint Secure hotspot service at 24 US airports, including LAX, Chicago's O'Hare, and New York's JFK and LaGuardia airports. In June 2014, the company partnered with American Express to offer its Platinum card holders free wireless access.
In April 2015, Boingo struck a deal with wireless carrier Sprint Corporation to offload the carrier's customer traffic onto Boingo's Wi-Fi networks at 35 US airports. The deal was reportedly struck to improve Sprint's network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC%20Electronic | TC Electronic (sometimes stylized as t.c. electronic) is a Danish audio equipment company that designs and imports guitar effects, bass amplification, computer audio interfaces, audio plug-in software, live sound equalisers, studio and post-production equipment, studio effect processors, and broadcast loudness processors and meters. In August 2015, the company was purchased by Music Group, a holding company chaired by Uli Behringer.
Company history
TC Electronic was founded by two musician brothers, Kim and John Rishøj. Their SCF, ("Stereo Chorus + Pitch Modulator & Flanger") was a successful early product. After initial success with guitar effect pedals, they developed 19" rack mounted processors, including the TC2290 delay released in 1985.
TC Electronic formed the current TC Group in 2002 after acquiring TGI plc. TGI consisted of Tannoy, GLL Goodman, Lab.Gruppen and Martin Audio. Martin Audio was sold quickly after the merger and Goodman Loudspeakers closed. TC Works (software development), based in Germany, was once part of the TC group, but reintegrated with TC Electronic in 2005.
The current TC Group is a holding company of five individual brand companies consisting of Tannoy, (speakers and studio monitors), Lab.Gruppen (amplifiers), TC Electronic, TC-Helicon (harmonisers and vocal processors) and TC|Applied Technologies (digital-audio semiconductor development) and the sales-companies TC Group|International, TC Group|Americas, TC Group|Japan, TC Group|China, and TC Group|Middle East.
TC Electronic also co-develops products with Dynaudio Acoustics (studio monitors) and their European sales arm TC Group|International distributes Blue Microphones outside of the US.
In August 2015, the company was purchased by Music Group, a holding company chaired by Uli Behringer. The parent company has since been rebranded as Music Tribe.
Products
System 6000
System 6000 is an audio mastering system built around the Mainframe 6000. It houses DSP-based electronics for processing and provides audio inputs and outputs. The Mainframe 6000 connects via Ethernet to either the Remote CPU 6000 and the TC ICON hardware controller, or to a computer running TC ICON emulation software.
The System 6000 comes in two versions—Reverb 6000 and Mastering 6000. The two differ in included processing algorithms:
Reverb 6000 comes with reverb and delay effects for stereo and multi-channel purposes, while Mastering 6000 comes with algorithms suited for stereo and multi-channel audio mastering, and includes pitch-shifting tools. Several optional algorithms are available separately. The System 6000 series was upgraded to MK2 in 2010.
Finalizer
The Finalizer is an audio mastering tool available two versions: Finalizer 96K and Finalizer Express. Both Finalizers have a compressor, limiter, equaliser and a Gain Maximiser. The Finalizer Express is a less-functional version of the Finalizer 96K that does not perform 96 kHz processing.
Guitar products
Since the company be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing%20Application%20Framework | The Swing Application Framework (JSR 296) is a Java specification for a simple application framework for Swing applications, with a graphical user interface (GUI) in computer software. It defines infrastructure common to most desktop applications, making Swing applications easier to create. It has now been withdrawn.
Features
The JSR 296 specification defines the basic structure of a Swing application. It defines a framework as a small set of extensible classes that define infrastructure common to most desktop applications:
management of application life-cycle, startup and shutdown;
support for loading localized resources;
persistent session state;
support for loosely coupling actions to their presentation.
Status and roadmap
Development of an open-source Reference Implementation called "appframework" began in 2006. It was originally expected that this implementation would be the means for integrating JSR 296 into the upcoming Java SE 7 (Dolphin) version of Java, and the project was scheduled to be included in milestone 5 of the Java Development Kit JDK7 development. However, in August 2009, it was announced that the project would not be included, due to an inability to reconcile design flaws and achieve consensus among the JSR 296 team before the milestone 5 deadline.
The original Swing Application Framework implementation has been put on hold indefinitely. It was later withdrawn at the Spec Lead's request in June 2011. The last public release of the appframework project was version 1.03.
Forks and alternatives
Several forks of the original implementation have been started by open-source communities, and several other application framework libraries have been created to achieve goals similar to those of JSR 296.
Better Swing Application Framework
The Better Swing Application Framework project, or BSAF, is a fork of version 1.03 of the original appframework project. BSAF was created at Project Kenai in September 2009 and is currently the most active of the forks. Its goals are to eliminate bugs and execute small design fixes on the original appframework implementation while maintaining compatibility with version 1.03.
Last release BSAF 1.9.1 was 2012. BSAF is still available at SourceForge, which has a button that says "This project can now be found here," that takes you to the now defunct project Kenai.
Guice Utilities & Tools Set
The Guice Utilities & Tools Set, or GUTS, is an implementation of JSR 296 that combines the appframework with the Google Guice Dependency Injection library. Like BSAF, it is also hosted at Project Kenai. Unlike BSAF, GUTS is making a break-away from the "problematic singleton" pattern. This project began in June 2009, and is currently not active (version 0.1 stuck 2010).
Swing Application Framework Fork
The Swing Application Framework Fork, or SAFF, is a fork of appframework 1.03. It is currently hosted at GitHub. However, this project has been dormant since October 2009.
TreasureMap
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohr%20Somayach%2C%20South%20Africa | Ohr Somayach in South Africa is an affiliate of Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem, a network of Haredi yeshivas and Synagogues. Like its parent institution, it focuses on educating baal teshuvas ("returnees" to Orthodox Judaism). It has branches in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Johannesburg's main campus, in Glenhazel, was founded by Dayan Boruch Rapoport, Rabbi Shmuel Moffson and Rabbi Larry Shain. it includes a full-time Yeshiva, headed by Rabbi Shimon Wolpe. Its Bet Midrash was established in 1990, and its Kollel, Toras Chaim, in 1996 which is currently headed by Rabbi Yechezkil Auerbach and Rabbi Yoel Smith ; it operates the Ma'ayan Bina Midrasha.
In other locations, Ohr Somayach has a minyan in nearby Savoy Estate, while the Sandton branch (est 1991) under Rabbi Ze’ev Kraines, is a “Shtiebel-like” shul and Bet Midrash, and also houses a nursery school. The Shaarei Torah Primary School is based on the main campus.
Ohr Somayach Cape Town is a community located in the heart of Sea Point.
"Ohrsom" is the young adults' division with its own Shul in Glenhazel, as well as a satellite campus in Sandton. The Sunny Road Shul is an affiliated community, comprising mainly young families.
The Meshech Chochmah Yeshiva , currently headed by Rabbi Shimon Wolpe, is based in the Ohr Sameyach Bet Midrash and is a fully functioning Yeshiva with three learning sessions a day.
Rabbi Michael Olitzki is the current Mashgiach and also serves as the second Rabbi.
Joining them currently is Rabbi Golombik who serves as the current afternoon Rabbi.
See also
Jewish education in South Africa under History of the Jews in South Africa
Orthodox yeshivas in South Africa
References
External links
Ohr Somayach International
Ohr Somayach Johannesburg
Ohr Somayach Sandton
Ohr Somayach Cape Town
ohrsom.com
Ma'ayan Bina
South Africa
Baalei teshuva institutions
Orthodox yeshivas in South Africa
Jews and Judaism in Cape Town
Jews and Judaism in Johannesburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona%20Metro%20line%209 | Line 9 (Línia 9 in Catalan) is a completely automated line of the Barcelona Metro network that is currently under construction, with 24 stations open in Barcelona and El Prat de Llobregat, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Badalona and Santa Coloma de Gramenet suburbs, since December 2009. The line is currently disconnected in two branches, with a connecting part between the two yet to be built. The Aeroport T1 – Zona Universitària section is called L9 South (L9 Sud in Catalan), and the La Sagrera – Can Zam portion L9 North (L9 Nord in Catalan). Upon completion, it will be the longest underground metro line in Europe.
Lines 9 and 10
The complete project encompasses an underground line with two branches spanning a large portion of the metropolitan area of Barcelona, crossing Barcelona, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Badalona, l'Hospitalet de Llobregat and El Prat de Llobregat. Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona is the company operating the line.
The name line 9 (L9) can refer either to the whole project of L9/L10 or to the common trunk plus the L9 branches. The total system will have a length of , of which will be underground and will be on viaducts. L9/L10 will be the deepest line in the Barcelona network, with tunnels up to below the surface, and some stations with platforms up to below.
Line 9 shares its route with L10 for a large part. Its commercial speed is .
Construction
Autoritat del Transport Metropolità approved the plan for metro and light rail lines in the Barcelona metropolitan area that included line 9 in 1999. The next year ATM began planning and design with construction starting in 2002.
Originally expected to be ready by 2008, ongoing problems with its construction delayed its expected completion until as late as 2013–2014. It was subsequently further delayed to 2016.
On 13 December 2009, the section between Can Peixauet and Can Zam, with the exception of Santa Rosa station, opened to the public. A further station, Bon Pastor, opened on 18 April 2010; as the first section of L10 was opened. The section from La Sagrera to Bon Pastor (except Sagrera | TAV station) opened on 26 June 2010.
On February 12, 2016 the El Prat branch opened from Aeroport T1 to Zona Universitària stations. This is a section with 15 stations, however three stations – Aeroport Terminal de Càrrega, La Ribera and Camp Nou – did not open, as they were built to serve future developments or for technical reasons.
Line 9 is being bored by a single tunnel boring machine (TBM) – where other metros bore a pair of tunnels, one for each direction, Line 9's wider tunnel is broad enough to stack two lines of tracks and for the route's stations.
Because the route passes through different geological conditions, the TBM is designed to replace the cutterheads with heads suited for the current conditions. In June 2010 the TBM's hard rock cutterhead was replaced with its original cutterhead, designed to bore through clay.
List of stations
(Stations under construction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickLOAD | QuickLOAD is an internal ballistics predictor computer program for firearms.
For computations apart from other parameters,
the cartridge
the projectile (bullet)
the gun barrel length
the cartridge overall length
the propellant type and quantity
must be entered for calculating an estimated maximum chamber gas piezo pressure, muzzle velocity, muzzle pressure and other relevant data.
QuickLOAD database
QuickLOAD has a default database of predefined bullets, cartridges and propellants. The database of the more recent versions of QuickLOAD also include dimensional technical drawings of the predefined cartridges and for most cartridges photographic images. Data can later be imported or entered by the user to expand the programs database. The default database contains more than 2,500 projectiles, over 1,200 cartridges, over 225 powders and dimensional drawings and photos of many cartridges. The default database however contains some errors, so measuring sizes, weights and case capacities of components intended for use and if appropriate correcting default provided data is wise to avoid surprises and make the predictions more accurate.
Some default data is incomplete, since it was not released by the manufacturer or when components that are neither officially registered with nor sanctioned by C.I.P. (Commission Internationale Permanente Pour L'Epreuve Des Armes A Feu Portative) or its American equivalent, SAAMI (Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute) come into play. Such wildcat cartridges have no official dimensions nor other performance related specifications.
Cartridge case volume establishment
Besides the standard entered information, the actual internal volume or cartridge case capacity of the used cases is an important parameter for QuickLOAD to obtain usable predictions. The internal case volume has to be established by weighing empty once-fired cartridge cases from a production lot, then filling the cases with fresh or distilled water up to the point of overflowing and weighing the water-filled cases. The added weight of the water is then used to establish the liquid volume and hence the case capacity. This liquid volume measurement method can be practically employed to about a 0.01 to 0.02 ml or 0.15 to 0.30 grains of water precision level for firearms cartridge cases. A case capacity establishment should be done by measuring several fired cases from a particular production lot and calculating their average case capacity. This also provides insight into the uniformity of the sampled lot.
A water case capacity test measurement of 4 fired .35 Whelen Remington cases resulted in:
The case capacity of different cartridge brands of a particular chambering can significantly vary between cartridge case manufacturers and even production lots. The default database of QuickLOAD for example contains 5 different .300 Winchester Magnum case capacities for 5 different cartridge case manufacturers.
Practical use and limitations
Quick |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walang%20Tulugan%20with%20the%20Master%20Showman | with the Master Showman () formerly known as Master Showman Presents, is a Philippine television variety show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by German Moreno, along with John Nite, Shermaine Santiago, Jackie Lou Blanco, and Shirley Fuentes, it premiered on February 8, 1997. The show concluded on February 13, 2016, with a total of 977 episodes.
The show is known for its tagline "Walang Tulugan!" It is the longest running late night variety television show in the Philippines.
History
Early years
The show was originally titled Master Showman Presents. It premiered as a late-night variety talk show similar to GMA Supershow in the late 1970s. It had some elements similar to American talk shows. Master Showman was German Moreno's trademark moniker during his reign as one of television's top TV hosts in the early '80s and '90s, thanks to his hosting stints in GMA Supershow and That's Entertainment.
When GMA Network decided to make a title out of his famous moniker, Moreno introduced the catchphrase/tagline "Walang Tulugan!" (No Sleeping!) during the show. Since then the catchphrase has attracted majority of the viewers.
From live to taped
Master Showman originally aired live from the GMA Broadway Centrum at Aurora Blvd. in Quezon City, Philippines. Airing time varies from 11:05 pm at the earliest to 1:05 am at the latest on Saturday night going to Sunday morning. Running time was usually two to three hours, depending on the availability of big-name guests. When the show moved to its present home at GMA Network Center, it had to do away with live broadcast and instead presented taped episodes. The taping usually occurs every other Friday, shooting two episodes from 5 pm to 2 am, depending on the number of guests. The taped episodes now run from one and a half-hour to two hours, ending not later than 3 in the morning.
Re-branding of the show
In 2005, Walang Tulugan was incorporated in the show title. The move was welcomed since through the years, Master Showman has been always identified by the public as the "show na walang tulugan" (the show that does not sleep).
Master Showman's death
German Moreno died on January 8, 2016, due to cardiac arrest. A special live tribute episode was aired at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Shrine in Quezon City on January 9, where his wake is being held.
Nora Aunor, a popular Philippine actress, singer, and close friend of Moreno became the temporary main host of the show. In an interview with GMA News, Aunor said that she is willing to continue the advocacy of her close friend and to help establish the careers of young aspirants that wish to join Philippine showbiz.
After more than 19 years of its long-run, Walang Tulugan aired its final episode on February 13, 2016, after a month since Kuya Germs' death.
Cast
German Moreno
Co-hosts
John Nite
Mariz Ricketts
Billy Crawford
Shalala
Shermaine Santiago
Shirley Fuentes
Hero Angeles
Martha Joy
Jackie Lou Blanco
Mico Aytona
Jake Vargas
Marlo Mortel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapwa%20Ko%20Mahal%20Ko | (international title: My Brother's Keeper / ) is a Philippine television public service show broadcast by GMA Network. Originally hosted by Rosa Rosal, Orly Mercado and Antonio Talusan, it premiered on December 1, 1975. Produced by Kapwa Ko, Mahal Ko Foundation, Inc., it is the longest running program and the first television program to use sign language interpreters in Philippine television. Mercado and Connie Angeles currently serve as the hosts.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Overview
It was first broadcast on GMA Network on December 1, 1975, with Rosa Rosal, Orly Mercado and Antonio Talusan serving as the hosts. In June 1976, the Kapwa Ko Mahal Ko Foundation was established. In the 1980s, Boots Anson Roa, Susan Valdez, Connie Angeles, and Cielito del Mundo joined the show as hosts. Two doctors, Susy Pineda and Nonoy Zuñiga also joined the show. In the 1990s, Mildred Ortega, Rose "Manang Rose" Clores, and Toni Rose Gayda became part of the show.
Hosts
Orly Mercado
Connie Angeles
Camille Angeles
Former hosts
Rosa Rosal
Antonio Talusan
Nonoy Zuñiga
Boots Anson-Roa
Tina Monzon-Palma
Rosemarie Gil
Susan Valdez
Helen Vela
Juan Flavier
Cielito del Mundo
Rose Clores
Mildred Ortega
Gina de Venecia
Toni Rose Gayda
Production
In March 2020, production was halted due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Accolades
References
External links
1975 Philippine television series debuts
Charities based in the Philippines
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television shows
Sign language television shows
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Terrible%20Thunderlizards | The Terrible Thunderlizards is a segment that aired in the United States as part of Eek! Stravaganza on the Fox Kids programming block, and in Canada on YTV. It aired from November 20, 1993, to July 28, 1997. The series was originally intended as a spin off from Eek! The Cat. The segment was supposed to air at the start of Eek's second season in September 1993, but due to production delays, it began in November. Like Eek!, the segment was also a co-production of Nelvana and Fox Kids in association with Savage Studios Ltd. Dee Snider, from the band Twisted Sister composed the show's theme song.
Ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide.
Plot
The series chronicled the misadventures of a trio of dinosaur mercenaries released from incarceration after they were falsely accused of helping an enemy Thuggosaur in a time of war when they actually found it injured. They are charged by General Galapagos with the task of eliminating two primitive human beings after scientists realize that if humanity is allowed to multiply it will mean the end of dinosaur supremacy. However, despite their superior size and firepower and the obliviousness of their targets, the mercenaries always fail to kill the humans with comic results. Their usual preferred method of attacking the humans was throwing bombs full of bees, which upon impact would usually then go after the dinosaurs; forcing them to run to water to get away from the bees. Although the mercenaries failed to eliminate the humans, they had better luck in defending Jurassic City from enemies, and had been successful in dangerous missions such as rescuing the kidnapped daughter of the president, which might explain why the team was allowed to continue working and not returned to prison.
Characters
Doc Tari
Doc Tari or "Doc" (voiced by Savage Steve Holland), is the leader of the Thunderlizards team. He is a Parasaurolophus only with a hole in the center of his crest that contains many gadgets such as a buzz-saw and a grappling hook. More often than not, he is the team's most focused member, but is every bit as unfocused as Kutter and Squatt when not chasing the humans or performing missions. Doc, both in voice and mannerisms is a parody of various Arnold Schwarzenegger film characters such as John Matrix from Commando, Dutch from Predator, and with a bit of the Terminator. His catch phrase is "We move!".
Day Z. Kutter
Day Z. Kutter or "Kutter" (voiced by Bill Kopp), is the second-in-command of the team. He is a Styracosaurus, although he was mis-addressed as a Triceratops. As his name suggests, he is good with knives, being the master of the knife fight, and wears a skull T-shirt. Kutter is smarter than Squatt, but less intelligent than Doc. He is often shown fooling around with Squatt and at times requires Doc's quick wit and strength to help him focus.
Bo Diddley Squatt
Bo Diddley Squatt or "Squatt" (voiced by Jason Priestley in 1994-1996, Corey Feldman in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sound%20of%20San%20Francisco | "The Sound of San Francisco" (or "San Francisco Dreaming'") is a song by the Austrian house group Global Deejays. It was released in November 2004 as the lead single from their album, Network. The song was one of the first Austrian dance songs to reach the top ten of more than 10 charts worldwide.
It samples the Scott McKenzie song "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)".
Music video
The music video for the song is the group in a school bus as they tour the list of cities listed at the beginning of the song.
Chart performance
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
2005 singles
Global Deejays songs
2004 songs
Number-one singles in the Czech Republic
Number-one singles in the Commonwealth of Independent States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative%20Arts%20Academy | Creative Arts is a four-year magnet public high school that focuses on fine and performing arts programs in addition to academic programming for students in ninth through twelfth grades in the City of Camden, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Camden City Public Schools. The school opened in 1999 with a freshman class of under 50 students, as one of three magnet schools in Camden, along with Brimm Medical Arts High School and MetEast High School. As of 2011, the academy added a middle school program for grades 6-8. Camden residents entering sixth or ninth grades are eligible to apply and must demonstrate interest in a particular field of the arts as well as meet minimum grade and attendance standards. Admission is based on a combination of criteria including auditions, academic scores and interviews.
As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 198 students and 32.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 6.1:1. There were 129 students (65.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 1 (0.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Awards, recognition and rankings
Creative and Performing Arts High School was selected by U.S. News & World Report as a Bronze Medal school winner in its ranking of "Best High Schools 2008".
The school was the 180th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 117th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 196th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 187th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Extracurricular activities
Creative Arts does not offer its own athletic programs, but students are still able to participate in athletics as part of the teams of Camden High School and Woodrow Wilson High School.
The Creative Arts Jazz Band and Vocal Ensemble are award-winning as well. The Vocal department traveled to Puerto Rico, Italy, California, New Orleans, Poland, and Nashville where they have won supreme, and gold rating. The Jazz Band has won consistently at the Berklee College of Music Jazz Festival, and has won first place in the state in 2006, 2008, 2013, and 2014.
Screening process
Each year around May, about 100 students are chosen out of the applicants to audition for the school. Out of those 100, around 40 students are chosen. These students are chosen based on their elementary school academic record, a test taken during the audition process, and their overall audition in the fields of Instrumental and Vocal music, Dramatics, Creative Writing, Visual Arts, Dance, and Costume Design.
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:
Davida L. Coe-Brockington
Notable alumni
Khris Davis (born 1987), actor
References
External links
Creative Arts Academy Web Site
Camden City Public |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20railway%20technical%20manuals | The railway network of Great Britain is operated with the aid of a number of documents, which have been sometimes termed "technical manuals", because they are more detailed than the pocket-timetables which the public encounters every day. Historically, they were classified PRIVATE and not for publication, however since rail privatisation they are now more widely available, mostly in digital form, because they are produced centrally and not by the regional rail operators.
Documents of relevance to passengers
Distributed by National Rail Enquiries
The National Rail Conditions of Travel, which set out the customer's rights and responsibilities when travelling on the National Rail network. Every ticket purchased is a contract, and this document is the terms of that contract. It is produced by the Rail Settlement Plan, part of the Rail Delivery Group. It must be available for inspection at any ticket office selling tickets otherwise its terms may not be enforceable.
National Fares Manual, which contains all available fares on the network, primarily of use for tracking cheaper ticket combinations. This is now published and sold by TSO (formerly The Stationery Office) as a CD-ROM, rather than as a set of printed manuals.
The Rail Links Manual, for combined rail and bus/ferry fares, means the volume of the National Fares Manual entitled "Rail Links Information" produced by the Rail Delivery Group three times each year.
Produced by the Rail Delivery Group
This body represents 26 train operating companies that provide passenger railway services
The National Routeing Guide, which defines which tickets are valid on which routes.
Produced by Network Rail
Network Rail owns and operates Britain's rail infrastructure
The National Rail timetable. This was available to the public in printed form until May 2007, and is now available from Network Rail in PDF format only.
Produced by The Stationery Office with permission from Network Rail
GB Rail Timetable, published from December 2007 (originally as "UK Rail Timetable", although Northern Ireland was not included). New editions are normally published every Spring and Autumn.
Available on the UK Government website
The railway by-laws, which exist under the Transport Act 2000.
Documents which relate solely to the operation of the network
Also by Network Rail
Train Planning Rules. Used by those who plan the logistics of operating the network
Network Rail standards. Documents that specify requirements directed towards securing the safe and efficient operation of the rail infrastructure. Track standards were supported by the 'Business Critical Rules Programme' pilot in June 2012.
The Sectional Appendix is the definitive source of information on UK railway infrastructure for specific regions.
The Weekly Operating Notice (WON) provides information of Safety Notices, Temporary Speed Restrictions, Engineering Arrangements, Signalling & permanent Way alterations and General Instructions & notices for spe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch%20conjecture | In mathematical programming and polyhedral combinatorics, the Hirsch conjecture is the statement that the edge-vertex graph of an n-facet polytope in d-dimensional Euclidean space has diameter no more than n − d. That is, any two vertices of the polytope must be connected to each other by a path of length at most n − d. The conjecture was first put forth in a letter by to George B. Dantzig in 1957 and was motivated by the analysis of the simplex method in linear programming, as the diameter of a polytope provides a lower bound on the number of steps needed by the simplex method. The conjecture is now known to be false in general.
The Hirsch conjecture was proven for d < 4 and for various special cases, while the best known upper bounds on the diameter are only sub-exponential in n and d. After more than fifty years, a counter-example was announced in May 2010 by Francisco Santos Leal, from the University of Cantabria. The result was presented at the conference 100 Years in Seattle: the mathematics of Klee and Grünbaum and appeared in Annals of Mathematics. Specifically, the paper presented a 43-dimensional polytope of 86 facets with a diameter of more than 43. The counterexample has no direct consequences for the analysis of the simplex method, as it does not rule out the possibility of a larger but still linear or polynomial number of steps.
Various equivalent formulations of the problem had been given, such as the d-step conjecture, which states that the diameter of any 2d-facet polytope in d-dimensional Euclidean space is no more than d; Santos Leal's counterexample also disproves this conjecture.
Statement of the conjecture
The graph of a convex polytope is any graph whose vertices are in bijection with the vertices of in such a way that any two vertices of the graph are joined by an edge if and only if the two corresponding vertices of are joined by an edge of the polytope. The diameter of , denoted , is the diameter of any one of its graphs. These definitions are well-defined since any two graphs of the same polytope must be isomorphic as graphs. We may then state the Hirsch conjecture as follows:
Conjecture Let be a d-dimensional convex polytope with n facets. Then .
For example, a cube in three dimensions has six facets. The Hirsch conjecture then indicates that the diameter of this cube cannot be greater than three. Accepting the conjecture would imply that any two vertices of the cube may be connected by a path from vertex to vertex using, at most, three steps. For all polytopes of dimension at least 8, this bound is actually optimal; no polytope of dimension has a diameter less than n-d, with n being the number of its facets, as before. In other words, for nearly all cases, the conjecture provides the minimum number of steps needed to join any two vertices of a polytope by a path along its edges. Since the simplex method essentially operates by constructing a path from some vertex of the feasible region to an optimal poi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%27y%C5%8D%20Expressway | The (Asian Highway Network ) is an expressway in Japan, running from Kobe through Hiroshima along the Inland Sea and terminating in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The entire length of the expressway was opened in 1997. The main line has a total length of 405.6 kilometers.
List of interchanges and features
IC - interchange, SIC - smart interchange, JCT - junction, SA - service area, PA - parking area, BS - bus stop, TN - tunnel, TB - toll gate, BR - bridge
Bus stops labeled "○" are currently in use; those marked "◆" are closed.
Main Route
Kimi Branch
Hayashima Branch
Ube-Shimonoseki Route
See also
West Nippon Expressway Company
AH1
Expressways in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%ABgoku%20Expressway | The (part of Asian Highway Network ) is an expressway in Japan, which extends from Suita, Osaka to Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi. It connects Kansai and Chūgoku regions in western Honshu, Japan's main island. Other major cities along the expressway are Tsuyama, Kobe, and Hiroshima. It was opened in 1970, and has a total length of .
It is connected with many other expressways, including the Meishin Expressway at Suita Junction and Kanmon Bridge at Shimonoseki Interchange through to the Kyushu Expressway.
List of interchanges and features
IC - interchange, SIC - smart interchange, JCT - junction, SA - service area, PA - parking area, BS - bus stop, TN - tunnel, TB - toll gate, BR - bridge
Bus stops labeled "○" are currently in use; those marked "◆" are closed.
Accidents
On 5 October 2013, comedian and singer Yakkun Sakurazuka died in an accident on the Chugoku Expressway in Mine, Yamaguchi, while en route to a concert in Kumamoto Prefecture. He was hit by another car and killed after exiting his car following a crash.
References
AH1
Expressways in Japan
Roads in Hiroshima Prefecture
Roads in Hyōgo Prefecture
Roads in Okayama Prefecture
Roads in Osaka Prefecture
Roads in Shimane Prefecture
Roads in Yamaguchi Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slum%20Dwellers%20International | Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI), is a global social movement of the urban poor that started in 1996. It forms a network of community-based organisations in more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
The SDI secretariat is located in Cape Town, South Africa. The current chairperson is Joseph Muturi. Most of SDI's members are poor urban households squatting on the edge of cities in order to access employment possibilities and SDI aims to ensure that the needs of its members are integrated and not marginalised by city administrations.
SDI distributes community-generated data on cities and slums through the 'Know Your City' campaign, which is run in association with United Cities and Local Governments and Cities Alliance.
Global solidarity
SDI's former president Jockin Arputham said in 2012: "Global solidarity of the urban poor has been a long-term dream for many of us in the SDI network. This dream began to take shape in the early 1990s when shack dwellers from South Africa’s informal settlements began to visit pavement dwellers living on the streets of Mumbai. Since those days the network has grown steadily in numbers, in influence and in its impact on the everyday lives of millions of urban poor families. Practical, face-to-face learning remains the main driving force of the SDI network that now stretches from Asia, through Africa to Latin America and the Caribbean. With its women-centred savings collectives at the heart of its practice in 34 countries, SDI is forging a new system of community organising that runs in an unbroken thread from the household to the settlement, from the settlement to the city, from the city to the country and from the country to the global stage."
Support
SDI works closely with the following international agencies: UN Habitat (especially its Global Land Tools Network Program, where SDI co-chairs its International Advisory Board); Cities Alliance (SDI currently serves on its executive committee; Union of Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) with whom it has launched the high-profile Know Your City campaign.; the Santa Fe Institute with whom it is developing a data platform of informal settlement information.
SDI has an advisory board made up of slum dwellers from India, Philippines, Kenya and South Africa, housing or urban development Ministers or high officials from South Africa, Uganda, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Norway and Sweden.
SDI'S commitment to work with local and national Governments, bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies is based on the principle of militant negotiations. This approach comes from a perspective that the problem of urban poverty cannot be addressed at scale without direct collaboration between organised communities of the urban poor and formal actors in the sector, especially local Governments. However certain human rights activists and academics have interpreted this as proof of co-optation by state institutions and international agencies and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20Lavery | Duke Lavery is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network, primarily portrayed by Ian Buchanan. The role was created by executive producer Gloria Monty and co-head writer Norma Monty. Duke is introduced as the mysterious owner of a local night club who falls in love with police chief Anna Devane (Finola Hughes). Unbeknownst to the rest of Port Charles, Duke is laundering money for the mob but when his criminal ties cost him Anna, he teams with her ex-husband Robert Scorpio (Tristan Rogers) to bring down the mob. Duke and Anna's romance becomes quite popular among fans achieving supercouple status and rivaling Anna's romance with Robert. In 1988, Duke's feud with the Jerome crime family leads to Anna miscarrying their unborn child. Duke and Anna's story comes to a tragic end in 1989 when Duke is presumed dead. The producers would recast the role with Greg Beecroft as Jonathan Paget who was revealed to be Duke with plastic surgery only for the character to be killed off in 1990 – dying in Anna's arms due fan disapproval.
In 2012, Buchanan reprised the role of Duke and the recast was retconned as Paget is revealed to be an impostor. However, Duke's return turns out to be a similar ordeal when it is revealed that Anna's longtime foe Cesar Faison (Anders Hove) has been posing as Duke in an attempt to seduce Anna. The real Duke is rescued and reunited with Anna and they soon renew their feud with the Jeromes with Duke teaming up with Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) to bring down Julian Jerome (William deVry). Duke is killed off in 2015 thanks to a botched hit on Julian's orders, leaving Anna devastated and craving justice.
Storylines
1986–1989
Duke is introduced as a night club owner who is immediately smitten with police chief Anna Devane (Finola Hughes). Having fallen for Anna, Duke is torn between their budding romance and his ties to "Operating Tumble Dry"—a money laundering operation for the mafia. The arrival of his associate Damon Grenville (Will Jeffries) puts pressure on Duke to eliminate Anna's fellow officer Frisco Jones (Jack Wagner) who has become suspicious of the operation. Duke maintains his innocence when Frisco and his wife Felicia (Kristina Wagner) skip town after the organization frames her for theft. On the orders of one of his superiors Mr. Big—Duke proposes to Anna and she accepts only to break it off when her ex-husband Robert Scorpio (Tristan Rogers) exposes Duke's mob ties. Hoping to distance himself from the underworld, Duke appeals to Mr. Big's boss, fellow Scotland native Angus McKay (Guy Doleman) and Guy assures Duke that he will soon be free to marry Anna. Duke proposes to Anna again only for Grenville to bomb her home leading to Duke making a full confession to Anna's co-chief Burt Ramsey (Bob Hastings) – who secretly operates as Mr. Big—hoping to protect Anna and her daughter Robin (Kimberly McCullough). After he is falsely convicted of Ramsey's shooting and imprisoned, Du |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Media%20Player%20Playlist | WPL (Windows Media Player Playlist) is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It is a proprietary file format used in Microsoft Windows Media Player versions 9–12. The elements of WPL files are represented in XML format. The top-level element, smil, specifies that the file's elements follow the SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) structure.
The file is saved with the "wpl" filename extension and its MIME type is application/vnd.ms-wpl.
Example
Here is an example of a wpl file.
<?wpl version="1.0"?>
<smil>
<head>
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Windows Media Player -- 11.0.5721.5145"/>
<meta name="AverageRating" content="33"/>
<meta name="TotalDuration" content="1102"/>
<meta name="ItemCount" content="3"/>
<author/>
<title>Bach Organ Works</title>
</head>
<body>
<seq>
<media src="\\server\vol\music\Classical\Bach\OrganWorks\cd03\track01.mp3"/>
<media src="\\server\vol\music\Classical\Bach\OrganWorks\cd03\track02.mp3"/>
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See also
Other playlist file formats
ASX - Windows media
M3U - The most common playlist format
PLS - SHOUTcast
XSPF - Xiph.Org Foundation
References
Playlist file formats
Digital audio
Microsoft Windows multimedia technology
Playlist markup languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showbiz%20Central | Showbiz Central is a Philippine television talk show broadcast by GMA Network. Originally hosted by Raymond Gutierrez, Pia Guanio and John Lapus, it premiered on April 29, 2007 replacing S-Files. The show concluded on July 29, 2012 with a total of 275 episodes. Gutierrez, Guanio, Lapus and Jennylyn Mercado served as the final hosts. It was replaced by H.O.T. TV: Hindi Ordinaryong Tsismis in its timeslot.
Segments
MRT: Most Requested Talent
Showbiz Central Live!
Don't Lie to Me!
Sweet Fire
Central Map
Correct or Reject
The Story of Your Life
Dateline SC
The Killer Question: Seal it or Reveal it?
Star Leveling
Intriga Crossfire
Ka-FaceMuk
Be Scene
Hosts
Raymond Gutierrez
Pia Guanio
John Lapus
Mo Twister
Rufa Mae Quinto
Jennylyn Mercado
Recurring host
Jolina Magdangal
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the final episode of Showbiz Central scored a 9.5% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2012 Philippine television series endings
Entertainment news shows in the Philippines
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AA | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat%20Sports%20Radio%20Network | The UNH Wildcat Sports Radio Network is an American radio network that carries New Hampshire Wildcats sports, the athletic division of the University of New Hampshire.
Sports coverage
Football
Men's and women's Basketball
Men's and women's college Hockey
Stations
Flagship
WGIR 610 AM Manchester
WQSO 96.7 FM Rochester
WPKX 930 AM Rochester
Affiliate stations
WNTK-FM 99.7 FM New London (streaming at (their website)
WCNL AM 1010 New London
WUVR AM 1490 Lebanon
WASR AM 1420 Wolfeboro
Former stations
WFEA 1370 AM Manchester
WTSN Dover, former flagship.
External links
UNH Sports website
TV/Radio schedule
University of New Hampshire
Sports radio networks in the United States
College football on the radio
College basketball on the radio in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AC | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STB%20%28TV%20channel%29 | STB () is a Ukrainian commercial television network. Today, the coverage area of the network is 85% of Ukraine's territory. It is broadcast in all Oblast centers and all Ukrainian cities with a population greater than 50,000. It occupies the 1st place in the list of the leading TV networks in Ukraine.
The channel is a part of Starlight Media broadcasting group, created by Viktor Pinchuk.
History
The founders of the networks were Ukrainian and American companies: International Media Center, Shachar Enterprises, Inc., Internews Netouron K. The STB was launched on 2 June 1997. Since 1997, STB was controlled by Volodymyr Sivkovych, a Ukrainian businessman and politician. He was the one, who decided to create the TV channel. Since September, 1996, the crew of STB broadcast news under the title Vikna (, "Windows") on the frequency of UT-2.
In 1999, STB fell under the influence of companies of the Russian Lukoil Group through its Norcross Corporation because of pro Russia pro Kremlin pro Putin Leonid Kuchma's support for aggressive actions taken against STB management's independent position in early 1999 resulting in Oleksiy Fedun, who made STB into a very pro Kuchma platform, becoming the executive president of the network on September 6, 1999.
In 2000, the popularity of the channel rose. The most popular programs are Vikna. News., Vikna. Business., Vikna. Capital-city., Vikna. Crimes., Vikna. Sport. and Vikna. Midnight. STB becomes an info-channel.
In 2000, Vikna was registered as a trademark of STB. In 2001 STB became a registered trademark. STB became the first Ukrainian television network that got a domain name and website — stb.ua.
In 2002, the administration of STB changes its brand as an info-channel. There are more entertaining programs on air, such as, National Striptise Championship of Ukraine, reality-shows The House and Starving, and the scandalous talk show Restricted Zone. The popularity of STB falls. Lukoil tries to sell STB.
In 2004, STB becomes the property of one of Leonid Kuchma son in law Viktor Pinchuk's StarLightMedia Group.
Through 1997 to 2007, many famous television personalities have worked at STB. The most popular of them are Georgiy Gongadze, Myroslava Gongadze, Yurii Horban, Oleksii Mustafin, Kateryna Nesterenko, Osman Pashayev, Tetyana Ramus, Roman Skrypin, Ihor Tatarchuk, Iryna Vannikova, Mykola Veresen, Alena Vinnytska and Natalka Yakymovych.
STB today
Since 2005 the programs of STB were changed. The group of news programs called Windows got a better look (They began to look very close to BBC News). New popular shows were introduced. Thanks to the format change, STB entered the top 5 Ukrainian channels by share in 2006, and in 2007 it became the 3rd largest Ukrainian channel by audience share (appr. 8% for 18+ audiences).
STB's most popular programs are "Paralelnyi Svit" (Parallel World) and "Bytva Ekstrasensiv" (Psychic Challenge). In 2008 STB launched the "Tantsuyut Vsi" (So You Think You Can Dance) talent s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20of%20Health%20Promoting%20Hospitals%20and%20Health%20Services | The International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services (HPH) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization that was initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1988. It is also known simply as HPH, or "Health Promoting Hospitals." HPH is based on the settings approach to health promotion philosophy of the WHO as outlined in the WHO Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (WHO 1986). The organization's main aim is to improve the health gain of hospitals and health services by a bundle of strategies targeting patients, staff, and the community.
History
Based on the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, the first conceptual developments on HPH started in 1988. A first model project "Health and Hospital", was initiated in 1989 at the Rudolfstiftung Hospital in Vienna, Austria, and successfully finished in 1996. 10 model documents (in German language) summarise the learnings from the pilot project and are available online to guide hospital projects related to health promotion.
In 1990, the WHO International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals was founded as a multi-city action plan of the WHO Healthy Cities Network. In 1991, the HPH network, which was in the beginning an alliance of experts, launched its first policy document, the Budapest Declaration on Health Promoting Hospitals. This document introduces the HPH concept and target groups - patients, staff, community - as well as related HPH strategies and action areas.
In order to implement HPH on a broader basis, a European Pilot Hospital Project of Health Promoting Hospitals was initiated in 1993, and finished in 1997. 20 hospitals from 11 European countries participated, 19 of which finished the project successfully.
Also in 1993, the first international HPH conference was organised, and the first international HPH Newsletter was published.
Since 1995, national and regional networks of HPH, all coordinated by their own national or regional coordinating centres, are being implemented and developed in order to disseminate HPH to as many hospitals and health care institutions as possible. The development of the HPH networks called for a new policy document: The Vienna Recommendations on Health Promoting Hospitals were launched in 1997.
In 2009, HPH has become a global movement with national and regional networks, individual member hospitals and health promotion initiatives on all continents. There are currently around 600 member hospitals in the HPH network from over 20 countries.
Concept
HPH combines a vision, a concept, and a set of 18 core strategies and 5 standards.
In accordance to health promotion theory, the HPH standards and strategies are based on the principles of the settings approach to health promotion, empowerment and enablement, participation, a holistic concept of health (somato-psycho-social concept of health), intersectoral cooperation, equity, sustainability, and multi-strategy. This reflects a salutogenic approach.
In order to realise the f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20Kamison | Magic () is a 2007 Philippine television drama fantasy anthology broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Gladys Guevarra, it premiered on February 4, 2007. The show concluded on June 17, 2007 with a total of 19 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Story One: The True Lindsay
Cast and characters
Nadine Samonte as Ava
Alfred Vargas as Jaren
Loudres Valera as Mimi Lazo
Iwa Moto as Lindsay/Laura
Carmi Martin
Joy Viado
Plot
Lindsay (Iwa Moto) is an ugly girl who works in a car shop together with her best friend Ava (Nadine Samonte), she was always ignored by the customers compared to Ava who always has a customer. As Chuchay (Gladys Guevarra) arrives in her life, she was given a chance to be beautiful. Chuchay let Lindsay borrow the Kamison in order to be beautiful. As Lindsay, she resigned from the car shop but when she wears the Magic Kamison, she turned into a beautiful girl, changing her name from Lindsay to Laura. Laura goes to the car shop to get a job. When Jaren (Alfred Vargas) meets her, Jaren changes his treatment with Ava as he falls for Laura. When she starts wearing the Kamison, her attitude changes from nice to evil, just to be with Jaren. But then Ava was left by Jaren, she and Lindsay fight. But in the end, Jaren was supposed to be killed by a man but instead, Laura takes the bullet for him. After she was shot, she transformed from Laura to Lindsay and they learned that Laura and Lindsay were one.
Story Two: Little Big Rufo
Cast and characters
Dingdong Dantes as Rudy
Karylle as Rianne
Mura as Rufo
Daniela Alvarado as Ava
Mimi Lazo as Evia
Yayo Aguila
Girlie Sevilla
Marcus Madrigal
Plot
The story begins when Chuchay returns to her Auntie. As she returns, she met a new helper of her Aunt named Rufo (Mura). When she learned that Rufo is falling in love with Rianne (Karylle), Chuchay let him wear the Kamison and he transforms into a tall man and handsome so that he changes his name from Rufo to Rudy (Dingdong Dantes), he begins to pursue to get the heart of Rianne. In the end, Rufo learns that his mother is the mom of Rianne (Yayo Aguila) but Rianne is just an adopted child.
Story Three: My Ghost Bride
Cast and characters
JC de Vera as Adrian
LJ Reyes as Misty
Sunshine Garcia
Benjie Paras
Beverly Salviejo
Goyong
Kris Martinez
Neil Ferrera
Plot
The story begins when Chuchay arrives in Baguio due to that her Aunt asks her to find her friend. But Chuchay was just so unlucky as she loses her wallet where the address was written. She then meets a ghost at the church named Misty (LJ Reyes), Misty was supposed to marry a man named Adrian (JC de Vera), but she didn't arrive at the wedding because she died so Chuchay let her borrowed the Kamison so she could talk to Adrian. Adrian thought that she didn't arrived at the wedding because Lizet (Sunshine Garcia) tells that she ran away with another man. When Adrian saw Misty, he gets very angry because she didn't arrive. Pancho (Benjie Paras) is another ghost who died also in the chu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20police | Cyber police are police departments or government agencies in charge of stopping cybercrime. Examples include:
Chinese Internet police, internet crime division of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in China (website domain: cyberpolice.cn)
Jingjing and Chacha, cartoon police mascots and the provincial Internet Content Provider license requirement for website domains registered in China
FBI Cyber Division, internet crime division of the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch (CCRSB), of Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States
Iranian Cyber Police, a unit of the Islamic Republic of Iran Police
Cyber Crime Investigation Cell, of Mumbai Police, India
Cyber Police, the Hi-Tech Crime Enquire Cell of the Kerala Police
Cyber police or Cybercops may also refer to:
On the Internet
Internet police, usually referred to as means of enforcing censorship on the Internet
Internet forum moderators
The Jessi Slaughter meme
In the arts and entertainment
Cyber Police, a fictional organization in the 1990 original video animation Cyber City Oedo 808
Cyber Police ESWAT, a 1989 video game
"Cyberpolice", a track in Balance, a 2004 album by Kim-Lian
Dennou Keisatsu Cybercop, a 1988 Japanese television series
Corporation (video game) (1990), released as Cyber-Cop in the North America (1992)
COPS (animated TV series) (1988), shown in reruns on CBS Saturday mornings under the new name CyberCOPS (1993) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Hodgson | Dame Patricia Anne Hodgson, (born 19 January 1947) is a British broadcasting executive, competition regulator, and academic administrator. She is a board member of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, and served as Chair of Ofcom from 2014 to 2017. She is also a trustee of the Policy Exchange and is Chair of the School Teachers' Review Body. From 2006 to 2012 she was Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.
Personal life
Hodgson was born on 19 January 1947. She was educated at Brentwood High School for Girls, a grammar school in Brentwood, Essex. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree: as per tradition, her BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree. She also studied at the Royal Academy of Music, completing the Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM) in drama in 1968.
In 1979, Hodgson married George Donaldson. They have one son.
Career
She joined the BBC as a producer and founder-member of the distance learning team for the Open University. Between 1970 and 2000 she worked in a variety of positions, moving from production onto the executive Board (see below). She served as a part-time Member of the Mergers and Monopolies Commission between 1993–99 and returned as a non-executive Member of the Competition Commission (the successor body) between 2004 and 2011. From September 2000 to the end of 2003, Hodgson was Chief Executive of the Independent Television Commission and led the organisation into the integrated telecoms regulator, Ofcom, where she was chairman from 2014 to 2017.
Hodgson's non-executive roles include Director of GCapMedia plc (2004–06), member of the BBC Trust (2006–2011), Chair of the Higher Education Regulation Review Group (2004–06), Member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (2005–2011), Member of The Wellcome Trust (2004–08), Member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (2004–08) and of the Statistics Commission (2000–06). Upon leaving Newnham in 2012, she became Chair of Ofcom and Chair of the School Teachers’ Review Body.
From 1 April 2021, she starts a three-year appointment to the UKRI Science and Technical Facilities Council and will join the STFC Innovation Board.
Politics
Hodgson's first job upon leaving university was working as a desk officer for the Conservative Research Department. From 1974 to 1977 she was a Conservative member of Haringey Borough Council . From 1975 to 1976 she was also Chair of the right-wing think-tank the Bow Group.
BBC
Hodgson worked in production between 1970 and 1983 on arts programmes for the Open University, as a producer on Tonight and briefly as a presenter on the Today programme. She became Deputy Secretary of the BBC in 1983, quickly moving to become Secretary. She was subsequently Head of Policy (1987–1992) and then Director of Policy (1993–2000) a main board position. As Director of Policy & Planning, Hodgson developed the original concept for the BBC's international co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMD%20Group | CMD Group, formerly Reed Construction Data and Construction Market Data, is a provider of business information for the North American construction industry. CMD is owned by ConstructConnect. Its historical roots lie in Construction Market Data, founded in 1982 to publish construction leads and market data. In 2000, London-based Reed Elsevier purchased this original CMD Group, transitioning the company to Reed Construction Data.
In October 2014 private equity firm Warburg Pincus in New York purchased a majority stake in the company, and Reed Construction Data changed its name to CMD. CMD said the new name is a nod to the company's original name: Construction Market Data. The new brand includes an updated logo and website.
The company tracks data on hundreds of thousands of projects per year, providing coverage of construction projects in both the United States and Canada. The company provides monthly analysis and data for all aspects of the construction industry. CMD also provides a detailed view of construction activity, including historical data, current-year projections and a five-year forecast. Their research helps customers forecast to find those market segments experiencing the greatest growth and plan tactical marketing strategies.
Lawsuits
In October 2009, Reed Construction Data filed suit in federal court against McGraw-Hill Construction, charging that the company's Dodge Report had unlawfully accessed confidential and trade secret information from Reed since 2002 by using a series of fake companies to pose as Reed customers. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, sought an unspecified amount in lost profits and punitive damages, trial by jury, and injunctive relief as a result of Dodge's misuse of proprietary construction project information, and that Dodge allegedly manipulated the information to create misleading comparisons between Dodge's and Reed's products and services in an effort to mislead the marketplace.
Merger
In 2016, CMD Group became a part of ConstructConnect as part of a merger with iSqFt, BidClerk, Construction Data.
References
External links
Official website
Business intelligence companies
Companies based in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8800 | 8800 may refer to:
The year 8800, in the 9th millennium.
NVIDIA GeForce 8800, a computer graphics card series
The Altair 8800, an early, experimental desktop-sized computer.
Nokia 8800, a luxury mobile phone
Intel iAPX 432, initially named the 8800 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted%20web%20interviewing | Computer-assisted web interviewing (CAWI) is an Internet surveying technique in which the interviewee follows a script provided in a website. The questionnaires are made in a program for creating web interviews. The program allows for the questionnaire to contain pictures, audio and video clips, links to different web pages, etc. The website is able to customize the flow of the questionnaire based on the answers provided, as well as information already known about the participant. It is considered to be a cheaper way of surveying since one doesn't need to use people to hold surveys unlike computer-assisted telephone interviewing. With the increasing use of the Internet, online questionnaires have become a popular way of collecting information. The design of an online questionnaire has a dramatic effect on the quality of data gathered. There are many factors in designing an online questionnaire; guidelines, available question formats, administration, quality and ethic issues should be reviewed. Online questionnaires should be seen as a sub-set of a wider-range of online research methods.
Using online questionnaires
There are several reasons why someone would utilize online questionnaires as their preferred testing method. A few of the advantages and disadvantages of this method have been summarized below:
Advantages
The administrator has greater flexibility in displaying questions. Questions can be displayed with:
Check boxes
Pull-down menus
Pop-up menus
Help screens
Sub menus
An online forum allows responses to be received more quickly from subjects.
This method is also cheaper to administer, as there are no costs associated with purchasing paper or other materials for printing. Postage costs are also mitigated.
Since data is collected into a central database, the time for analysis is subsequently reduced.
It is easier to correct errors on an online questionnaire, since the administrator does not have to reprint all the questionnaires for distribution.
Disadvantages
Not everyone has access to the Internet, so the response rate is limited.
Many people are not receptive to completing questionnaires online.
Studies indicate that the demographic that responds to online questionnaire invitations are generally biased to younger people.
Questionnaire design
An online questionnaire needs to be carefully thought through before it is launched. There are several important paradigms that should be considered when creating an online questionnaire.
Collection and prioritization of data
The objectives of the initial inquiry need to be reviewed to determine what information needs to be gathered.
Online questionnaire format
The questionnaire should begin with a short introduction that informs the subject why the questionnaire is being conducted.
Questions for questionnaire should be created in the most appropriate type of format that facilitates understanding.
In creating the layout of the online questionnaire, “smart branching” should b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Federation%20for%20Housing%20and%20Planning | The International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) is a world-wide network of professionals founded in England representing the broad field of housing and planning. Its membership is drawn from corporate organisations, professional individuals and those with vocational interests in its activities.
The Federation organises a wide range of activities and creates opportunities for an international exchange of knowledge and experience in the professional field. Among these activities, the most prominent event is the annual congress devoted to a topical theme.
History
IFHP was founded in London in 1913 by Ebenezer Howard. Howard was the father of the 'garden city', a combined housing and planning concept designed to solve the problems of ever-expanding metropolitan cities and to create better living conditions for the people. Howard had established the Town and Country Planning Association in 1899 to promote these 'garden city' ideals. The establishment of IFHP with its principle of international exchange of knowledge and experience was a significant step forward for the planning profession, as the international arm of the garden city movement, enhancing the promotion of housing and planning and improving the general standard of the profession.
Its evolving areas of interest have been reflected in the changing titles of the organisation:
1922 International Garden Cities & Town Planning Federation
1924 International Federation for Town & Country Planning and Garden Cities
1926 International Federation for Housing and Town Planning
1958 International Federation for Housing and Planning
Along with the title changes, the Headquarters has relocated 16 times through five countries: UK, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands and now Denmark. Its present address is
Fæstningens Materialgård, Frederiksholms Kanal 30, st. mf., 1220 Copenhagen K. Denmark.
IFHP promotes and stages international conferences and congresses, often on several occasions in a year. It promotes global communication and cross fertilisation of ideas and solutions amongst members, professional, corporate and governmental interests. Several working groups are sponsored to address specific global issues. As an organisation it remains neutral on party political and religious issues.
The United Nations and the European Union have both sought its representation on their environmental groups.
Over its hundred years of existence, the Federation has been led by no less than 21 Presidents, the first being Sir Ebenezer Howard who held the stewardship for 15 years from 1913 until his death in 1928. Others have come from Europe, Asia and North America.
The current Federation President is Flemming Borreskov (Denmark). The Federation marked its centenary with the theme “A Tomorrow for Cities”.
Notable past presidents
Ebenezer Howard, UK (1913–1928)
George Pepler, UK (1935–1938, 1947–1952, thereafter President for Life)
Karl Strölin, D (1938-1945)
See also
Eastern Regional Organ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20appliance | A computer appliance is a computer system with a combination of hardware, software, or firmware that is specifically designed to provide a particular computing resource. Such devices became known as appliances because of the similarity in role or management to a home appliance, which are generally closed and sealed, and are not serviceable by the user or owner. The hardware and software are delivered as an integrated product and may even be pre-configured before delivery to a customer, to provide a turn-key solution for a particular application. Unlike general purpose computers, appliances are generally not designed to allow the customers to change the software and the underlying operating system, or to flexibly reconfigure the hardware.
Another form of appliance is the virtual appliance, which has similar functionality to a dedicated hardware appliance, but is distributed as a software virtual machine image for a hypervisor-equipped device.
Overview
Traditionally, software applications run on top of a general-purpose operating system, which uses the hardware resources of the computer (primarily memory, disk storage, processing power, and networking bandwidth) to meet the computing needs of the user. The main issue with the traditional model is related to complexity. It is complex to integrate the operating system and applications with a hardware platform, and complex to support it afterwards.
By tightly constraining the variations of the hardware and software, the appliance becomes easily deployable, and can be used without nearly as wide (or deep) IT knowledge. Additionally, when problems and errors appear, the supporting staff very rarely needs to explore them deeply to understand the matter thoroughly. The staff needs merely training on the appliance management software to be able to resolve most of problems.
In all forms of the computer appliance model, customers benefit from easy operations. The appliance has exactly one combination of hardware and operating system and application software, which has been pre-installed at the factory. This prevents customers from needing to perform complex integration work, and dramatically simplifies troubleshooting. In fact, this "turnkey operation" characteristic is the driving benefit that customers seek when purchasing appliances.
To be considered an appliance, the (hardware) device needs to be integrated with software, and both are supplied as a package. This distinguishes appliances from "home grown" solutions, or solutions requiring complex implementations by integrators or Value-added resellers (VARs).
The appliance approach helps to decouple the various systems and applications, for example in the data center. Once a resource is decoupled, in theory it can be also centralized to become shared among many systems, centrally managed and optimized, all without requiring changes to any other system.
Tradeoffs of the computer appliance approach
The major disadvantage of deploying a computer appli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bob%20Morrison%20Show | The Bob Morrison Show is an Australian sitcom that screened on the Nine Network in 1994.
The Bob Morrison Show is the story of an ordinary family from through the eyes of their pet dog, Bob Morrison. Bob is an adorable stray that is welcomed by the youngest member of the Morrison clan, Ben, but he has a tough time winning over the rest of the family.
Cast
Andy Anderson as Steve Morrison
Nikki Coghill as Lizzy Morrison
Christopher Lyons as Ben Morrison
Elissa Elliot as Maxine Morrison
Matt Day as Jake Duffy
Stig Wemyss as the voice of Bob
See also
List of Australian television series
External links
The Bob Morrison Show at Australian Television
1994 Australian television series debuts
1994 Australian television series endings
Australian television sitcoms
Nine Network original programming
Television series by Endemol Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFRU | KFRU (1400 AM) is a radio station located in Columbia, Missouri. Its programming format consists primarily of news, talk and sports. The station is licensed to Cumulus Media. The station is also audible on translator K255DJ 98.9 FM in Columbia.
History
KFRU was founded in Bristow, Oklahoma, by E.H. Rollestone, in January 1925. That fall, the station was purchased by Stephens College and moved to Columbia (with Rollestone going on to found KVOO, now KTSB).
On September 24, 1935, the Federal Communications Commission approved transfer of the station from Nelson R. Darragh, of St. Louis, to Luther L. Hill, of Des Moines. Several owners later, the station was purchased by the St. Louis Star-Times newspaper, mostly for its regional broadcast frequency of 630 kHz, later moved to its St. Louis radio station, KXOK. In 1940, KFRU became an affiliate of the Blue Network. The station was assigned its current 1400 kHz frequency in 1941.
Mahlon Aldridge, Jr. was appointed manager in 1945, purchasing the station in 1948 in partnership with the publisher of the Columbia Daily Tribune. In 1957, the station's format consisted of a mixture of country music, news and sports.
Aldridge sold his interest to his partner's son in the 1980s, and competition caused the station's audience share to fall. After another change in ownership, KFRU was purchased by a local ownership group headed by Al Germond, who moved the studios into the broadcast complex with their KARO-FM (now KPLA) station. The group formed and purchased additional stations in the Columbia and Jefferson City markets under the name of Premier Marketing Group.
In 2004, KFRU and the other Premier Marketing Group stations were sold to Cumulus Broadcasting. In August 2017, KFRU applied for an FM translator at 98.9 as part of the FCC's AM revitalization project. The translator signed on for the first time on August 18, 2019.
Network affiliations
ABC Radio Network
When KFRU was purchased by the Star-Times, it became affiliated with the NBC Blue Network, now the ABC Radio Network. KFRU switched to Westwood One News in 2014. After Westwood One ended their newsfeed, KFRU returned to ABC News Radio on August 31, 2020.
Missouri Tiger Network
KFRU was the longtime flagship station of play-by-play broadcasts of Missouri Tiger football and basketball teams. On December 22, 2009, Mizzou Sports Properties (owned by Learfield Sports) announced it would move Tiger broadcasts to Zimmer Radio's mid-Missouri cluster, fronted by 99,000-watt KCMQ, starting in 2010.
With KMOX-AM in St. Louis as a network affiliate, the network has had many regional and national broadcasters providing play-by-play and color commentary for MU sports broadcasts, including:
Jack Buck (member of the Baseball and Radio Hall of Fame)
Harry Caray (member of the Baseball Hall of Fame)
Bob Starr
Bob Costas (NBC Sports)
Kevin Harlan (CBS Sports)
Tom Dore (Chicago Bulls)
Joe Buck (Fox Sports)
John Rooney (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Cardinal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse%20Genome%20Informatics | Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) is a free, online database and bioinformatics resource hosted by The Jackson Laboratory, with funding by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). MGI provides access to data on the genetics, genomics and biology of the laboratory mouse to facilitate the study of human health and disease. The database integrates multiple projects, with the two largest contributions coming from the Mouse Genome Database and Mouse Gene Expression Database (GXD). , MGI contains data curated from over 230,000 publications.
The MGI resource was first published online in 1994 and is a collection of data, tools, and analyses created and tailored for use in the laboratory mouse, a widely used model organism. It is "the authoritative source of official names for mouse genes, alleles, and strains", which follow the guidelines established by the International Committee on Standardized Genetic Nomenclature for Mice. The history and focus of Jackson Laboratory research and production facilities generates tremendous knowledge and depth which researchers can mine to advance their research. A dedicated community of mouse researchers, worldwide enhances and contributes to the knowledge as well. This is an indispensable tool for any researcher using the mouse as a model organism for their research, and for researchers interested in genes that share homology with the mouse genes. Various mouse research support resources including animal collections and free colony management software are also available at the MGI site.
Mouse Genome Database
The Mouse Genome Database collects and curates comprehensive phenotype and functional annotations for mouse genes and alleles. This is an NHGRI-funded project which contributes to the Mouse Genome Informatics database.
Mouse gene expression database
The Gene Expression Database is a community resource of mouse developmental expression information.
History
MGI evolved from a project funded by the National Center for Human Genome Research in 1989 to combine the databases of several Jackson Laboratory scientists and create a tool for visualizing data on the mouse genome. The result of that project, led by Joseph H. Nadeau, Larry E. Mobraaten, and Janan T. Eppig, was called the "Encyclopedia of the Mouse Genome" and distributed via floppy disk semi-annually to around 300 scientists around the world. In 1992, that group joined with the team responsible for developing the "Genomic Database for Mouse", led by Muriel T. Davisson and Thomas H. Roderick, to start the "Mouse Genome Informatics" project. That project resulted in the first online release of the "Mouse Genome Database" in 1994.
See also
FlyBase
Rat Genome Database
Saccharomyces Genome Database
WormBase
Xenbase
Zebrafish Information Network
References
External links
Mouse Genome Informatics home pag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Genoud | François Genoud (26 October 1915 – 30 May 1996) was a noted Swiss financier and a principal benefactor of the Nazi diaspora through the ODESSA network and supporter of Middle Eastern militant groups during the post-World War II 20th century.
In 1992, Genoud told a London newspaper "My views have not changed since I was a young man. Hitler was a great leader, and if he had won the war the world would be a better place today."
His friends included terrorist Carlos the Jackal, one-time Gestapo agent and Interpol head Paul Dickopf, SS general Karl Wolff, Nazi Economy Minister Hjalmar Schacht, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini and Palestinian terrorist Wadie Haddad.
Early life
Genoud was from Lausanne, Switzerland. He met Adolf Hitler in 1932 as a teenager in a hotel while studying in Bonn. He joined the pro-Nazi National Front in 1934, and two years later he travelled to Palestine where he met the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin el-Husseini. Working for both Swiss and German intelligence agencies, Genoud travelled extensively in the Middle East.
World War II
Genoud travelled to Berlin frequently during the war "to see his friend the Grand Mufti," and visited him afterward many times in Beirut. The Grand Mufti allegedly "entrusted Genoud with the management of his enormous financial affairs".
In 1940, together with a Lebanese national, he set up the Oasis nightclub in Lausanne to serve as a covert operation for the Abwehr. In 1941, Abwehr agent Paul Dickopf sent Genoud into Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Belgium. Genoud befriended several top Nazis, including Karl Wolff, "supreme SS and police leader" in Italy. At the end of the war, Genoud represented the Swiss Red Cross in Brussels.
Post-war
Genoud is notable for having been the executor of last will and testament of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, and for reportedly making a fortune from publishing Goebbels' diaries, which he held the posthumous rights for along with Hitler and Bormann's works. This enterprise suffered a setback in 1960 when Paula Hitler died without his securing the full rights to the literary works of Adolf Hitler.
Nazi hunters such as Serge Klarsfeld and Simon Wiesenthal, journalist David Lee Preston, and others have asserted that his role as a benefactor for surviving National Socialist interests goes much deeper, offering evidence that Genoud was no less than the principal financial manager of the hidden Swiss assets of the Third Reich after World War II.
Friendship with Paul Dickopf
The fact that Paul Dickopf went on to become Interpol Head is not disconnected from his friendship with Francois Genoud, for it was Genoud who had lobbied Arab governments on his behalf to help him achieve the role. The implications are understood to have so far that when the Munich massacre occurred in 1972, Interpol limited its investigation into it, with a spokesman from Interpol stating that, "Interpol was an agency designed to handle criminal, not political mat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footy%20Classified | Footy Classified (also known as Footy Class) is an Australian television program broadcast two nights per week on the Nine Network, which discusses pressing issues relating to the Australian Football League and Australian rules football. It debuted on Monday 2 April 2007. Its presenters are well known football analysis personalities Craig Hutchison, Caroline Wilson, Matthew Lloyd and Kane Cornes on Monday nights, while Eddie McGuire, Damien Barrett and Jimmy Bartel replace Hutchison, Wilson and Cornes respectively on Wednesday nights.
Overview
The show was originally known by the working title Footy Confidential, before Foxtel later announced a gossip news show it was producing called Confidential, causing Nine to rename the show to Footy Classified.
Footy Classified consists of four panellists: Craig Hutchison, Caroline Wilson, Chris Judd and Matthew Lloyd. Following discussions on controversial events during the weekend of football, a special guest will arrive in the studio for an in-depth chat – usually a high-profile coach or player.
During its first season, Wayne Carey was the fourth panellist but was axed by Channel 9 after allegedly assaulting his girlfriend and police.
The show was known for its confrontations between Wayne Carey and Craig Hutchison, and between all panel members in general. One notable stoush consisted of Craig Hutchison making a sign for Wayne Carey to hold up saying that he was "wrong" regarding Dean Laidley. Carey had previously stated that he wanted Laidley sacked because his poor media manner meant that he was not diplomatic enough to lead the club, North Melbourne. The team responded by winning four consecutive games and, eventually by making the Preliminary Final.
Wayne Carey was sacked from the program and Channel Nine on 30 January 2008 after allegedly smashing a wine glass into his girlfriend's face causing lacerations to her mouth and neck. Carey was replaced by recently retired ex-teammate Glenn Archer.
For the 2009 season, Glenn Archer was replaced by former coach Grant Thomas. After leaving the show, Archer has continued his media work, writing for a variety of newspapers.
It was reported on 21 September 2012 that Grant Thomas would not be returning in 2013. Nine announced on 28 November 2012 that former Essendon Captain Matthew Lloyd would replace Thomas in 2013.
In March 2016, it was announced that Damian Barrett would join the panel on a full-time basis. He replaced Garry Lyon, who was addressing personal issues.
In 2020, it was announced that the show would air on both Monday and Wednesday nights, with Eddie McGuire and Ross Lyon joining the Wednesday night edition as host and panellist respectively, while Sam McClure joins the show as resident news-breaker.
In February 2023, it was announced that Jimmy Bartel will join the show and replace Ross Lyon.
Segments
Good Call, Bad Call – introduced in 2009, this popular segment involves one of the panelists making a statement, followed by another re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20mathematics | Computational mathematics is an area of mathematics devoted to the interaction between mathematics and computer computation.
A large part of computational mathematics consists roughly of using mathematics for allowing and improving computer computation in areas of science and engineering where mathematics are useful. This involves in particular algorithm design, computational complexity, numerical methods and computer algebra.
Computational mathematics refers also to the use of computers for mathematics itself. This includes mathematical experimentation for establishing conjectures (particularly in number theory), the use of computers for proving theorems (for example the four color theorem), and the design and use of proof assistants.
Areas of computational mathematics
Computational mathematics emerged as a distinct part of applied mathematics by the early 1950s. Currently, computational mathematics can refer to or include:
Computational science, also known as scientific computation or computational engineering
Solving mathematical problems by computer simulation as opposed to analytic methods of applied mathematics
Numerical methods used in scientific computation, for example numerical linear algebra and numerical solution of partial differential equations
Stochastic methods, such as Monte Carlo methods and other representations of uncertainty in scientific computation
The mathematics of scientific computation, in particular numerical analysis, the theory of numerical methods
Computational complexity
Computer algebra and computer algebra systems
Computer-assisted research in various areas of mathematics, such as logic (automated theorem proving), discrete mathematics, combinatorics, number theory, and computational algebraic topology
Cryptography and computer security, which involve, in particular, research on primality testing, factorization, elliptic curves, and mathematics of blockchain
Computational linguistics, the use of mathematical and computer techniques in natural languages
Computational algebraic geometry
Computational group theory
Computational geometry
Computational number theory
Computational topology
Computational statistics
Algorithmic information theory
Algorithmic game theory
Mathematical economics, the use of mathematics in economics, finance and, to certain extents, of accounting.
Experimental mathematics
See also
References
Further reading
External links
Foundations of Computational Mathematics, a non-profit organization
International Journal of Computer Discovered Mathematics
Applied mathematics
Computational science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20caves%20in%20Western%20Australia | This is a list of karst features in Western Australia. It includes all named features that occur in the Australian Speleological Federation Karst Index Database (KID). The term "karst feature" is an umbrella term for topographical features formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. While the majority of features in the list below refer to cave entrances, some other features include cliffs, gorges and a calcified wooden water wheel.
Karst Features
Each feature is given a unique identification number, and many are also given a name. This list is restricted to named features. For conservation reasons, the precise locations of features are not made available to the public. However, most features are allocated to an area.
The list shows karst features (e.g. a cave entrance), not cave systems, so caves with 2 or more entrance points will appear multiple times in the list.
References
Further reading
Watson, J.R. (editor) 1982 Australian Conference on Cave Tourism and Management (4th : 1981 : Yallingup) – Proceedings of the fourth Australian Conference on Cave Tourism and Management : Yallingup, Western Australia, September 1981 . hosted jointly by Busselton Tourist Bureau and Australian Speleological Federation. Perth: National Parks Authority, Western Australia and The Federation Series Cave management in Australia, 0159-54 15 ; 4
See also
List of caves in Australia
Western Australia
Caves
Caves |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address%20translation | Address translation or address resolution may refer to:
Address Resolution Protocol or ARP, a computer networking protocol used to find out the hardware address of a host (usually a MAC address), when only the network layer address is known
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol or RARP, a protocol used to find the network layer address of a host, based only on the hardware address. This protocol has been rendered obsolete by both BOOTP and DHCP
Domain name system or DNS, which is used to translate network addresses to human-recognizable domain names
Virtual-to-physical address translation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboMind | RoboMind is a simple educational programming environment with its own scripting language that allows beginners to learn the basics of computer science by programming a simulated robot. In addition to introducing common programming techniques, it also aims at offering insights in robotics and artificial intelligence.
RoboMind is available as stand-alone application for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It was first released in 2005 and was originally developed by Arvid Halma, a student of the University of Amsterdam at the time. Since 2011, RoboMind has been published by Research Kitchen.
The simulation environment
The application is built around a two-dimensional grid world in which a robot can move around, observe neighboring cells, or mark them by leaving a paint trail. The world may also contain so-called beacons that can be carried around by the robot in order to clear its way.
Since version 4.0, it is possible to export RoboMind scripts to robots in the real world directly. Currently, Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 are supported.
The scripting language
RoboMind offers a basic scripting language that consists of a concise set of rules. Apart from commands to make the robot perform basic movement instructions, the control flow can be modified by conditional branching (if-then-else), loops (while) and calls to custom procedures.
Example script to draw square:
paintWhite
repeat(4) {
forward(2)
right
}
Recursive line follower example:
follow
procedure follow{
if(frontIsWhite){
forward(1)
}
else if(rightIsWhite){
right
}
else if(leftIsWhite){
left
}
else{
end
}
follow
}
The programming environment offers an integrated text editor to write these scripts, with syntax highlighting, autocompletion and line numbering.
Modifications to the environment, such as painting grid cells, are used to store a runtime state. This shows the robot in its environment is directly related to 2D Turing machines. Since version 5.0, the language does allow the declaration of variables and functions (procedures that return values).
The scripting language itself is currently available in 22 languages: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian. All instructions and keywords can be translated. This makes it easier to learn for non-English speakers than most other programming languages that are constrained to English syntax and Latin alphabets.
Relation to other educational software
RoboMind is somewhat similar to Karel the Robot but its syntax is closer to C/C++ while Karel is closer to Pascal.
RoboMind can be related to the Logo, at which a turtle can be moved around to create geometric shapes. The syntax of RoboMind however is different and corresponds more directly to mainstream scripting languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%27s%20Pi | Scott's pi (named after William A Scott) is a statistic for measuring inter-rater reliability for nominal data in communication studies. Textual entities are annotated with categories by different annotators, and various measures are used to assess the extent of agreement between the annotators, one of which is Scott's pi. Since automatically annotating text is a popular problem in natural language processing, and the goal is to get the computer program that is being developed to agree with the humans in the annotations it creates, assessing the extent to which humans agree with each other is important for establishing a reasonable upper limit on computer performance.
Introduction
Scott's pi is similar to Cohen's kappa in that they improve on simple observed agreement by factoring in the extent of agreement that might be expected by chance. However, in each statistic, the expected agreement is calculated slightly differently. Scott's pi makes the assumption that annotators have the same distribution of responses, which makes Cohen's kappa slightly more informative. Scott's pi is extended to more than two annotators by Fleiss' kappa.
The equation for Scott's pi, as in Cohen's kappa, is:
However, Pr(e) is calculated using squared "joint proportions" which are squared arithmetic means of the marginal proportions (whereas Cohen's uses squared geometric means of them).
Worked example
Confusion matrix for two annotators, three categories {Yes, No, Maybe} and 45 items rated (90 ratings for 2 annotators):
To calculate the expected agreement, sum marginals across annotators and divide by the total number of ratings to obtain joint proportions. Square and total these:
To calculate observed agreement, divide the number of items on which annotators agreed by the total number of items. In this case,
Given that Pr(e) = 0.369, Scott's pi is then
See also
Krippendorff's alpha
References
Scott, W. (1955). "Reliability of content analysis: The case of nominal scale coding." Public Opinion Quarterly, 19(3), 321–325.
Krippendorff, K. (2004b) “Reliability in content analysis: Some common misconceptions and recommendations.” in Human Communication Research. Vol. 30, pp. 411–433.
Inter-rater reliability |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AD | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katia%20Sycara | Ekaterini Panagiotou Sycara () is a Greek computer scientist. She is an Edward Fredkin Research Professor of Robotics in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University internationally known for her research in artificial intelligence, particularly in the fields of negotiation, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. She directs the Advanced Agent-Robotics Technology Lab at Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. She also serves as academic advisor for PhD students at both Robotics Institute and Tepper School of Business.
Education and early life
Born in Greece, she went to the United States to pursue advanced education through various scholarships, including a Fulbright (1965-1969). She received a B.S. in applied mathematics from Brown University, M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and PhD in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Research and career
Sycara is a pioneer in the field of semantic web, case-based reasoning, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.
She has authored or co-authored more than 700 technical papers dealing with multi-agent systems, software agents, web services, semantic web, human–computer interaction, human-robot interaction, negotiation, case-based reasoning and the application of these techniques to crisis action planning, scheduling, manufacturing, healthcare management, financial planning and e-commerce. She has led multimillion-dollar research effort funded by DARPA, NASA, AFOSR, ONR, AFRL, NSF and industry.
Through an ONR MURI program and though the COABS DARPA program, Prof. Sycara's group has developed the RETSINA multiagent infrastructure, a toolkit that enables the development of heterogeneous software agents that can dynamically coordinate in open information environments (e.g. the Internet). RETSINA has been used in multiple applications including supporting human joint mission teams for crisis response; creating autonomous agents for situation awareness and information fusion; financial portfolio management, negotiations and coalition formation for e-commerce, and coordinating robots for Urban Search and Rescue.
Sycara is one of the contributors to the development of OWL-S, the Darpa-sponsored language for Semantic Web services, as well as matchmaking and brokering software for agent discovery, service integration and semantic interoperation.
Academic service
Sycara is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; Editor-in-Chief, of the Springer Series on Agents; and Area Editor of AI and Management Science, the journal "Group Decision and Negotiation." She is a member of the Editorial Board, the Kluwer book series on "Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies and Simulated Organizations"; member of the editorial board, the journals "Agent Oriented Software Engineering", "Web Intelligence and Agent Technologies", "Journal of Infonomics", "Fundamenda Informat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AE | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Thrift | Thrift is an interface definition language and
binary communication protocol
used for defining and creating services for numerous programming languages. It was developed at Facebook for "scalable cross-language services development" and as of 2020 is an open source project in the Apache Software Foundation.
With a remote procedure call (RPC) framework it combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build cross-platform services which can connect applications written in a variety of languages and frameworks, including ActionScript, C, C++, C#, Cappuccino, Cocoa, Delphi, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Elixir, Rust, Scala, Smalltalk and Swift. The implementation was described in an April 2007 technical paper released by Facebook, now hosted on Apache.
Architecture
Thrift includes a complete stack for creating clients and servers. The top part is generated code from the Thrift definition. From this file, the services generate client and processor codes. In contrast to built-in types, created data structures are sent as a result of generated code. The protocol and transport layer are part of the runtime library. With Thrift, it is possible to define a service and change the protocol and transport without recompiling the code. Besides the client part, Thrift includes server infrastructure to tie protocols and transports together, like blocking, non-blocking, and multi-threaded servers. The underlying I/O part of the stack is implemented differently for different languages.
Thrift supports a number of protocols:
TBinaryProtocol – A straightforward binary format, simple, but not optimized for space efficiency. Faster to process than the text protocol but more challenging to debug.
TCompactProtocol – More compact binary format; typically more efficient to process as well
TJSONProtocol – Uses JSON for encoding of data.
TSimpleJSONProtocol – A write-only protocol that cannot be parsed by Thrift because it drops metadata using JSON. Suitable for parsing by scripting languages.
The supported transports are:
TSimpleFileTransport – This transport writes to a file.
TFramedTransport – This transport is required when using a non-blocking server. It sends data in frames, each preceded by length information.
TMemoryTransport – Uses memory for I/O. The Java implementation uses a simple internally.
TSocket – Uses blocking socket I/O for transport.
TZlibTransport – Performs compression using zlib. Used in conjunction with another transport.
Thrift also provides a number of servers, which are
TNonblockingServer – A multi-threaded server using non-blocking I/O (Java implementation uses NIO channels). TFramedTransport must be used with this server.
TSimpleServer – A single-threaded server using standard blocking I/O. Useful for testing.
TThreadedServer – A multi-threaded server using a thread per connection model and standard blocking I/O.
TThreadPoolServer – A multi-threaded server u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon%20%28novel%29 | Daemon is a 2006 novel by Daniel Suarez about a distributed persistent computer application that begins to change the real world after its original programmer's death. The story was concluded in a sequel, Freedom™, in 2010.
Plot
Upon publication of the obituary for Matthew A. Sobol, a brilliant computer programmer and CTO of Cyberstorm Entertainment, a daemon is activated. Sobol, dying of brain cancer, was fearful for humanity and began to envision a new world order. The Daemon becomes his tool to achieve that vision. The Daemon's first mission is to kill two programmers Joseph Pavlos and Chopra Singh who worked for CyberStorm Entertainment and unknowingly helped in the creation of the Daemon.
The program secretly takes over hundreds of companies and provides financial and computing resources for recruiting real world agents and creating AutoM8s (computer controlled driverless cars, used as transport and occasionally as weapons), Razorbacks (sword-wielding robotic riderless motorcycles, specifically designed as weapons) and other devices. The Daemon also creates a secondary online web service, hidden from the general public, dubbed the Darknet, which allows Daemon operatives to exchange information freely. Daemon implements a kind of government by algorithm inside the community of its recruited operatives.
What follows is a series of interlocking stories following the main characters:
Detective Pete Sebeck is called in to investigate the death of Pavlos. However, when a connection is made between the two programmers and Cyberstorm, the FBI takes over led by Agent Decker. For being the first authority figure in the investigation, the Daemon selects Sebeck against his will to serve the Daemon, which frames Sebeck for its creation as a multi-million scheme and a hoax. The US government, though knowing the truth, fasttracks Sebeck's trial and executes him eight months later. Sebeck makes peace with his wife, who loves him despite the fact that Sebeck is having an affair, but his son Chris remains estranged, and he proclaims his innocence while dying from lethal injection. However, Sebeck later awakens to learn that the Daemon faked his death and assigned him the task to prove that humanity deserves its freedom from the Daemon. Joined by a fellow operative named Laney Price, Sebeck vanishes into America.
Jon Ross, a Russian hacker and identity thief, is questioned by the FBI and brought into the investigation by Sebeck. Unfortunately, traditional investigation methods are useless against Sobol's Daemon program. Ross eventually deduces that the Daemon can anticipate their every move, seemingly one step ahead of anyone who tries to interfere with its operation. Even after being named in the Daemon hoax (and put on the FBI's most wanted list), Ross willingly helps the US government to stop the program. Assigned to the NSA's anti-Daemon task force, with Agent Phillips, he is a firsthand witness to Loki's attack on the installation and barely survive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognio | Cognio, Inc. was an American company that developed and marketed radio frequency (RF) spectrum analysis products that find and solve channel interference problems on wireless networks and in wireless applications. Cognio’s Spectrum Expert product was designed for common frequency bands such as RFID and Wi-Fi. It was sold primarily to network engineers responsible for security for wireless networks or applications that run on wireless networks. Cognio was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007.
History
Cognio was founded in 2000 and was originally called Aryya Communications. It first announced a "cognitive link processing" technology, and was located in Waltham, Massachusetts near Boston. In February, 2001, Gary Ambrosino became Interim CEO to work with the founding team in commercializing the product and raising additional capital. In March 2003 it announced $12.5 million of venture capital funding from North Bridge Venture Partners and ABS Ventures as round B. In January 2005, Thomas McPherson became chief executive officer. Cognio was headquartered in Germantown, Maryland (near Washington, DC), United States, and had an additional investments that included Avansis Ventures as a fourth round in April 2007, for a total of $30 million.
Products
In June 2003, Cognio announced "intelligent spectrum management" technology, sometimes called cognitive radio. Cognio shipped its Wi-Fi management software in the spring of 2005. Cognio was granted 12 patents, and submitted 172 patent applications for its RF analysis technology.
IEEE 802.11 wireless network protocols (the standards which are marketed under the "Wi-Fi" brand) operate in an unlicensed spectrum. That is, their frequency bands are not licensed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) or other organizations exclusively for 802.11 traffic. Instead, the spectrum is shared with many other types of devices, such as cordless phones and Bluetooth devices. Because of its shared spectrum, an 802.11 device will shut itself out of communications if the airwaves are crowded with other radio signals.
Other spectrum management tools do not measure or analyze RF interference problems. They monitor only Layers 2 and up in the OSI model, and report that performance is slow, but are typically unable to report that slow performance is caused by interference. Network engineers could make use of scientific spectrum analyzers. But these tools, which were designed for use in laboratory settings, are often too large and heavy for use by network administrators moving throughout a building during the course of a day.
Many spectrum analyzers cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Cognio sold Spectrum Expert for WiFi and Spectrum Expert for RFID. (In its product naming, Cognio omits the hyphen that officially appears in the trademark Wi-Fi.) The product consisted of a PC CardBus card that included a built-in antenna and hardware designed to rapidly analyze RF activity. Spectrum Expert for WiFi scans the radio s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Sterling%20%28computing%29 | Thomas Sterling (born December 18, 1949) is a full professor for the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering (ISE) at Indiana University (IU) Bloomington. At IU, he is the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Computing Systems Laboratory (AICSL). He received his Ph.D in 1984 at MIT. For more than four decades, Thomas Sterling has dedicated his professional contributions to research for advancements in parallel high-performance computing. Dr. Sterling is best known as the “father of Beowulf” clusters. Among his other early accomplishments, Dr. Sterling was Principal investigator for the multi-agency multi-institution Hybrid Technology Multi-Threaded Project (HTMT) for advanced research on Petaflops computing systems. Professor Sterling currently leads advanced research in non-von Neumann parallel architecture, ParalleX execution model, and HPX+ runtime system for scalable dynamic irregular graph-based knowledge-oriented artificial intelligence applications. Thomas Sterling is also President and co-founder of Simultac LLC, an advanced computing technology engineering company. Professor Sterling is the co-author of eight books and holds seven patents. Thomas Sterling is a Fellow of the AAAS and winner of the Gordon Bell Prize.
Education
Sterling began his undergraduate studies in 1968 at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn completing his BSEE degree in 1972 (Summa Cum Laude) from the Old Dominion University. Upon separation from the US Navy in 1977, he matriculated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Thomas Sterling earned his SMEE from MIT in 1981, his EE in 1983, and his Ph.D in 1984 as a Hertz Fellow under the supervision of Prof. Robert H. Halstead.
External links
Bio Page at Indiana University
Bio Page at CCT
ParalleX Website
Living people
Free software programmers
Indiana University faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Computer science educators
1949 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline%20matrix | In scientific computing, skyline matrix storage, or SKS, or a variable band matrix storage, or envelope storage scheme is a form of a sparse matrix storage format matrix that reduces the storage requirement of a matrix more than banded storage. In banded storage, all entries within a fixed distance from the diagonal (called half-bandwidth) are stored. In column-oriented skyline storage, only the entries from the first nonzero entry to the last nonzero entry in each column are stored. There is also row oriented skyline storage, and, for symmetric matrices, only one triangle is usually stored.
Skyline storage has become very popular in the finite element codes for structural mechanics, because the skyline is preserved by Cholesky decomposition (a method of solving systems of linear equations with a symmetric, positive-definite matrix; all fill-in falls within the skyline), and systems of equations from finite elements have a relatively small skyline. In addition, the effort of coding skyline Cholesky is about same as for Cholesky for banded matrices (available for banded matrices, e.g. in LAPACK; for a prototype skyline code, see ).
Before storing a matrix in skyline format, the rows and columns are typically renumbered to reduce the size of the skyline (the number of nonzero entries stored) and to decrease the number of operations in the skyline Cholesky algorithm. The same heuristic renumbering algorithm that reduce the bandwidth are also used to reduce the skyline. The basic and one of the earliest algorithms to do that is reverse Cuthill–McKee algorithm.
However, skyline storage is not as popular for very large systems (many millions of equations) because skyline Cholesky is not so easily adapted for massively parallel computing, and general sparse methods, which store only the nonzero entries of the matrix, become more efficient for very large problems due to much less fill-in.
See also
Sparse matrix
Band matrix
Frontal solver
References
Sparse matrices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPRD | GPRD may refer to:
General Practice Research Database, a large United Kingdom medical record database from 1994 to 2012
Greater Pearl River Delta, a major Chinese economic region
See also
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), an EU regulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20EDIS | The Ford EDIS or Electronic Distributorless Ignition System is a computer-controlled ignition system developed by Ford that uses an ignition coil for each pair of cylinders (wasted spark). All the coils are placed in a single module called a coilpack.
Vehicles with EDIS
Ford used the EDIS module on a number of vehicles from 1988 to 199X.
EDIS-4
The EDIS-4 module is used on the following vehicles equipped with the Ford HCS engine, and the 1.9-liter straight-4 Ford CVH engine, between 1988 and 1993:
Ford Escort / Mercury Tracer
Ford Fiesta (Europe)
Ford Escort (Europe)
Ford Sierra (Europe)
Ford Scorpio (Europe)
Ford Mondeo (Europe)
This system was also used on the 1995–2001 4-cylinder Ford Rangers and 1995–2001 Mazda B2300, B2500. But was incorporated into the EEC-V ECU, so there is no external module.
EDIS-6
The EDIS-6 module is used on the following vehicles equipped with the 4.0L Ford Cologne V6 engine and 3.8L Ford Essex V6 engine between 1990 and 1997:
Ford Ranger / Mazda B-Series
Ford Explorer / Mazda Navajo
Ford Aerostar
Ford Mustang (3.8L V6)
Ford Thunderbird Supercoupe
Ford Taurus SHO V6 (1989–1995)
Ford Windstar
The European Ford Scorpio 2.9 V6 24V Cosworth also uses the EDIS-6 module.
EDIS-8
The EDIS-8 module is used on the following vehicles equipped with the 4.6-liter V-8 Ford Modular engine between 1990 and 1997:
Lincoln Town Car, Mark VIII
Ford Crown Victoria / Mercury Grand Marquis
Ford Thunderbird / Mercury Cougar
Ford Mustang
The EDIS-8 Module was also used in Some later 5.0L Ford Explorers until around 2002
Aftermarket use in non-Ford vehicles
The EDIS system's relative simplicity, in particular the fact it does not require a cam sensor, makes it a popular choice for custom car builders and classic car owners looking to retrofit a modern ignition system to their vehicle. The crankshaft-mounted trigger wheel, VR sensor, EDIS Module and an ignition control computer can all be easily fitted to most older engines that originally used a traditional distributor for ignition.
See also
Profile ignition pickup
References
US Patent Number 4,661,778: Ignition diagnostic monitor
US Patent Number 4,922,874: Automobile electronic control modules communicating by pulse width modulated signals
US Patent Number 5,014,676: Ignition system with repetitive sparks
Ford EDIS technical information
MegasquirtnSpark-extra EDIS mode
US Patent Number 6,115,665: Memory Efficient Computer System And Method For Controlling An Automotive Ignition System
E-Type UK EDIS/Megajolt Ignition Support Thread
Ford Motor Company
Automotive technology tradenames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Environmental%20Satellite%2C%20Data%2C%20and%20Information%20Service | The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) was created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to operate and manage the United States environmental satellite programs, and manage the data gathered by the National Weather Service and other government agencies and departments.
History
In August 1980, the National Earth Satellite Service (NESS) was removed from the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Services and became a principal agency line organization in NOAA with an Assistant Administrator who reported directly to the Administrator. This move reflected the increasing importance of satellite observations to NOAA's environmental science and service responsibilities. It was largely precipitated by a decision by the Carter Administration in November 1979 to assign NOAA management responsibility for all civil operational remote sensing from space. NESDIS was formed in 1982 with the merger of NESS and the Environmental Data Service.
NESDIS has managed operational polar orbiting satellites (POES) since 1966. Additionally, NESDIS has managed operational geosynchronous satellites (GOES) satellites since 1974. New generations of satellites are being developed to succeed the current polar orbiting and geosynchronous satellites: the Joint Polar Satellite System) and GOES-R. The first satellite in the GOES-R series is scheduled for launch in October 2016. JPSS-1 successfully launched on November 18, 2017.
In 1979 NOAA's first polar-orbiting environmental satellite was launched. Current operational satellites include NOAA-15, NOAA-18, NOAA-19, GOES 13, GOES 14, GOES 15, Jason-2, and DSCOVR. Since May 1998 NESIDS has operated the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites on behalf of the United States Space Force.
Organization
NESDIS's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) archives data collected by the NOAA, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, the Federal Aviation Administration, and meteorological services around the world. NCEI is a merger of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC), National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), and National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)).
NESDIS also runs the:
Office of Projects, Planning, and Analysis (OPPA) formerly the Office of Systems Development (OSD)
Office of Satellite Ground Systems (OSGS) formerly the Office of Satellite Operations (OSO)
Office of Satellite and Project Operations (OSPO) formerly the Office of Satellite Data Processing & Distribution (OSDPD)
Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) formerly the Office of Research & Applications
Joint Polar Satellite System Program Office
GOES-R Program Office
International & Interagency Affairs Office
Office of Space Commerce
Office of System Architecture and Advanced Planning (OSAAP)
Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP)
Coral Reef Watch (CRW)
Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS)
In 1960, TIROS-1, NASA's fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Micro%20Inc | Space Micro Inc is an American company that designs and manufactures high-reliability space and satellite subsystems. Space Micro focuses on radiation-hardened Single Board Computers, Image Processing Computers, Software Defined Radios, Radio Frequency Transceivers and Transponders, Optical Terminals, Space Cameras, Star Trackers and Sun Sensors.
Space Micro leverages commercial technologies, and modifies these to meet defense, scientific and commercial space requirements.
History
Space Micro was founded in 2002 by David J. Strobel and David Czajkowski as their second entrepreneurial venture following the successful sale of their first company, Space Electronics, Inc., to Maxwell Technologies in 1999.
Since 2002, the company has designed, manufactured and launched hundreds of subsystems into space, accumulating millions of hours of space flight heritage. Subsystems have flown on spacecraft for NASA (LADEE, IRIS, TESS), JPL, Department of Defense, aerospace primes (Lockheed Martin, Boeing) as well as Airbus, ULA, Dynetics, Moog, Raytheon, and commercial space entities such as Astrobotic and Astroscale.
In 2022, Space Micro was acquired by Voyager Space Holdings.
Facility
Space Micro headquarters comprise offices, laboratories and manufacturing in a 43,000 sq. ft. facility in San Diego, CA. Design, fabrication, testing and qualification are completed at this facility which includes seven clean rooms, digital, optical, radio frequency and lasercom labs, as well as environmental test labs and equipment such as TVACs, Thermal Cycling, Vibe Tables, Temperature and Thermal Cycling.
Accomplishments
First computer and image-processing subsystem launched to space (2006) within 4 years of their founding in 2002
Advanced Software Defined Radios (SDRs) were developed for, and flown on, NASA IRIS, LADEE, and TESS.
Delivered four 3U CubeSat spacecraft with RF payloads for multiple DoD customers.
Key supplier to many lunar missions ranging from NASA LADEE, Google Lunar X Prize (Beresheet), and NASA Artemis programs.
Products
Electro-Optics
Electro-Optics subsystems include space-qualified SpaceCams™ built to withstand harsh environments while delivering high-performance and long-term reliability. SpaceCams will be used on Artemis programs including lunar landers and rovers. The Electro-Optics product line also includes Star Trackers and Sun Sensors which utilize flight-tested components and proven radiation mitigation techniques. These products are designed to support precise spacecraft attitude determination and space domain awareness, and can be customized for specific orbit and mission life.
Communication Systems
Communications Systems include the µLCT™ Laser Communication Terminal utilizing dual or single aperture optical head assemblies and providing data rates up to 100 Gbps. A full suite of high-reliability Radio Frequency (RF) products includes mission-proven SGLS, STDN and X-Band Transponders, X-, Ku-, and Ka-Band Mission Data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona%20Metro%20line%208 | — Line 8, coloured pink (termini: Plaça Espanya – Molí Nou-Ciutat Cooperativa) and operated by FGC, is part of the Barcelona Metro network, and therefore of the larger ATM fare-integrated transport system. It joins Plaça Espanya, in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona with metropolitan area municipalities of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Cornellà de Llobregat and Sant Boi de Llobregat.
Overview
The pink line, mostly underground, links Plaça Espanya, in Barcelona proper, with Sant Boi de Llobregat, through L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. It opened in 1912 as a narrow gauge train line (hence predating the first metro Line 3 by 12 years), and was known as S3 until 2003, hence the name of its suburban extended line (S33). It's also part of the Llobregat-Anoia and Metro del Baix Llobregat railway networks run by FGC, from which trains continue from Molí Nou-Ciutat Cooperativa onwards. There is also a freight-only branch line before Sant Boi station that connects to the Port of Barcelona.
The line first took on its current form between 1985 and 1987 when the section Cornellà-Riera – Sant Josep was first moved underground, followed by the section Sant Josep – Espanya. In 1997 Magòria-La Campana station opened, followed by Molí Nou – Ciutat Cooperativa station in 2000.
An extension of the line further into central Barcelona, with a new station in Plaça Francesc Macià, has been discussed since May 1999. The project was finally approved by the government of Catalonia in 2021, with the final alignment serving the stations Espanya, Hospital Clínic, Francesc Macià and Gràcia.
It will link both the metro and suburban services of the line with Trambaix routes T1, T2 and T3, Line 5 of the Barcelona Metro and the Vallès line. Preliminary works have already started as of 2022, with tunneling slated to begin in 2023. The extension is expected to be operational by 2028.
The line is also projected to extend further towards the Besós river, serving stations such as Joanic, Sagrada Familia and Glòries.
Technical details
Colour on map: pink
Number of stations: 11
Type: Light metro (mixed traffic with suburban commuter train lines)
Length:
Rolling stock: Series 213
Journey time: 30 minutes
Track gauge:
Traction: Electricity
Electrification: Overhead wire, 1,500 V DC
Open-air sections: Yes (Between Cornellà-Riera and Molí Nou-Ciutat Cooperativa)
Mobile phone coverage: All line
Depots: Martorell (on Llobregat–Anoia line), Sant Boi sidings
Operator: FGC
Current stations
Plaça Espanya (L1, L3)
Magòria-La Campana
Ildefons Cerdà
Europa-Fira (L9)
Gornal (RENFE)
Sant Josep
Avinguda Carrilet (L1)
Almeda
Cornellà-Riera
Sant Boi
Molí Nou-Ciutat Cooperativa
References
External links
Article on the Catalan Wikipedia
Line 8 at Trenscat.com
Line 8 at TransporteBCN.es
8
Llobregat–Anoia Line
Transport in Sants-Montjuïc
Transport in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Transport in Cornellà de Llobregat
Transport in Sant Boi de Llobregat
Metre gauge railways in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomonas%20cremoricolorata | Pseudomonas cremoricolorata is a Gram-negative bacteria found living on plants.
References
External links
Type strain of Pseudomonas cremoricolorata at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Pseudomonadales
Bacteria described in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerreStar%20Corporation | TerreStar Corporation (TSTR), formerly Motient Corp. (MNCP - 2000–2007) and American Mobile Satellite Corp. (AMSC - 1988–2000), was the controlling shareholder of TerreStar Networks Inc., TerreStar National Services, Inc. and TerreStar Global Ltd., and a shareholder of SkyTerra Communications.
TerreStar Networks was a Reston, Virginia-based company that operated integrated satellite and terrestrial telecommunications systems. The company declared bankruptcy in 2010 and is now owned by Dish Network.
XM Satellite Radio was a spin-off of American Mobile Satellite Corp.
TerreStar-1
Arianespace launched TerreStar-1 on the morning of July 1, 2009. With a launch mass of 6,910 kg, it has been deemed "the largest commercial telecommunications satellite ever launched." It was built by Space Systems/Loral and was launched from the Guiana Space Center with an Ariane 5 rocket in French Guiana. TerreStar-1 with the plan of providing mobile voice, messaging and data communications services to North America.
Terrestar system is based on GMR standard.
Terrestrial network
On January 14, 2010, TerreStar announced that the Federal Communications Commission had approved the company's deployment of a terrestrial wireless network using the same S-band frequencies used by TerreStar-1.
Bankruptcy Restructuring with EchoStar
In October 2010, TerreStar filed for a "prepackaged" bankruptcy, led by its largest secured creditor, EchoStar. Together the secured creditors exchanged $940 million of debt for about 97 percent of the company. The plan, along with $75 million of debtor-in-possession financing, was approved in November 2010.
In December 2010, an NPO called "A Human Right" mounted an effort to buy the satellite for use over Africa, with basic free internet service for those who don't have it, and internet access for nations that have cut off international internet connections.
After successfully bidding $1.375 billion for the acquisition of the TerreStar-1 satellite in a bankruptcy-court auction, Dish Network on August 22, 2011, asked the Federal Communications Commission to let the company utilize the wireless spectrum of TerreStar to offer its own wireless broadband service.
See also
Mobile-satellite service
Satellite phone
TerreStar Networks
Gonets
ICO Global Communications
O3b Networks
EchoStar Mobile
SkyTerra
References
External links
Terrestar Corporation
TerreStar Networks
Terrestar Global
NSDDC Master Catalog - TerreStar 1 - 2009-035A
NSSDC SPACEWARN Bulletin - TerreStar 1 - 2009-035A
AT&T Integrated Cellular-Satellite Solution
AT&T Announces Agreement with TerreStar to Offer Integrated Cellular/Satellite Solution
Buy This Satellite - website for A Human Right
Companies based in Reston, Virginia
Satellite telephony
Defunct mobile phone companies of the United States
Dish Network
Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level%20marketing | Multi-level marketing (MLM), also called network marketing or pyramid selling, is a controversial marketing strategy for the sale of products or services in which the revenue of the MLM company is derived from a non-salaried workforce selling the company's products or services, while the earnings of the participants are derived from a pyramid-shaped or binary compensation commission system.
In multi-level marketing, the compensation plan usually pays out to participants from two potential revenue streams. The first is based on a sales commission from directly selling the product or service; the second is paid out from commissions based upon the wholesale purchases made by other sellers whom the participant has recruited to also sell product. In the organizational hierarchy of MLM companies, recruited participants (as well as those whom the recruit recruits) are referred to as one's downline distributors.
MLM salespeople are, therefore, expected to sell products directly to end-user retail consumers by means of relationship referrals and word of mouth marketing, but more importantly they are incentivized to recruit others to join the company's distribution chain as fellow salespeople so that these can become downline distributors. According to a report that studied the business models of 350 MLM companies in the United States, published on the Federal Trade Commission's website, at least 99% of people who join MLM companies lose money. Nonetheless, MLM companies function because downline participants are encouraged to hold onto the belief that they can achieve large returns, while the statistical improbability of this is de-emphasized. MLM companies have been made illegal or otherwise strictly regulated in some jurisdictions as merely variations of the traditional pyramid scheme.
Terminology
Multi-level marketing is also known as "pyramid selling", "network marketing", and "referral marketing".
Business model
Setup
Independent non-salaried participants, referred to as distributors (variously called "associates", "independent business owners", "independent agents", "affiliates", etc.), are authorized to distribute the company's products or services. They are awarded their own immediate retail profit from customers plus commission from the company, not downlines, through a multi-level marketing compensation plan, which is based upon the volume of products sold through their own sales efforts as well as that of their downline organization.
Independent distributors develop their organizations by either building an active consumer network, who buy direct from the company, or by recruiting a downline of independent distributors who also build a consumer network base, thereby expanding the overall organization.
The combined number of recruits from these cycles are the sales force which is referred to as the salesperson's "downline". This "downline" is the pyramid in MLM's multiple-level structure of compensation.
Participants
The overwhelming m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovem%20Pan%20FM | Jovem Pan FM is a large Brazilian Radio Network, with 25 million listeners and 87 broadcasters, it is the largest FM radio network in Brazil, Latin America and the Southern Hemisphere, and is also one of the largest radio stations on the planet.
The name is derived from the word jovem, which means "young", and Pan-american. The latter comes from the name of Radio Panamerican, which began broadcasting from São Paulo on May 3, 1944 and was purchased in November of the same year by entrepreneur and sports executive Paulo Machado de Carvalho.
History
The idea to start an FM station began with Antonio Augusto Amaral de Carvalho Filho, (better known by his nickname, "Tutinha"), and began transmitting on July 1, 1976. The name "Jovem Pan", however, was coined in 1965 by Tutinha's father, Paulo.
Tutinha's ideas were new to Brazilian FM radio. These ideas included new approaches to the DJ's delivery and the scope of music programming. They quickly put Jovem Pan near the top of the ratings.
In July 1994, Jovem Pan started syndicating via satellite. The service (known as Jovem Pan SAT) was an immediate success and currently has over 87 affiliated stations.
Programs on Jovem Pan FM Sat
Pânico: Since 1993, it is currently the most famous Brazilian radio program that is displayed every day at 12:00, the success of the program is so great that in 2003 it won its TV version continuing until 2012, soon after signing with another broadcaster of radio until 2017. Currently, the program is transmitted only by radio and internet through YouTube, by the application of the radio station or also by the site of Jovem Pan, in the hourly time of 12h. The program is a leader in Brazil.
Hit Parade Brazil: Presented every Sunday from noon to 1:00. This show presents the top 20 songs as voted on by the listeners during the past week, the Top 5 current songs (with flashbacks to previous hits), the Top 5 American and European hits, the Top of the Billboard Charts and special promotions. Between 1996 and 2000, the program was sponsored by the Bob Fernandes. Since 2001 the DJ has been Rome Jingles. In the Jovem Pan USA edition, the program is called "Hit Parade USA".
The 7 Best: At random times, a block of seven hits will be played. This is followed by a contest called The Better 7 Winning Edition. Listeners who have registered for the contest are called by the DJ and asked to identify the names of the songs or the singers to win prizes. Occasionally, the listeners themselves are asked to call, with the first (or other randomly selected callers) eligible to compete. The feature is hosted by Telma Emerik and Sérgio Ígor.
One after another: one hour of commercial-free music, this program is one of the most popular on this station, and is broadcast several times during the day, from Sunday to Sunday.
In the Ballad (Na Balada): Friday, at 9:00 PM, with contributions from the local DJs. On Saturday, the program is called Special In the Ballad, with DJs from the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Meta%20Network | The Meta Network (TMN) is a free online community that describes itself as being "dedicated to learning and creative freedom". Founded on March 28, 1983, by Frank Burns, TMN was one of the first, public online communities. TMN was one of the consortium of online communities and networks that banded together to form the Electronic Networking Association in 1985.
Moderation and organization
The community forums, known as Conferences are supervised by conference hosts who guide conversations and may enforce conference rules on civility and/or appropriateness. All hosts are selected by TMN moderators.
Overall support and supervision of the conferencing services is by core unpaid members, often referred to collectively, as conference organizers. Conference organizers have more system operational powers than conference hosts, along with the additional social authority of selecting featured conference hosts and (rarely) closing accounts for abuse.
TMN requires registration and use of one's real name. TMN can only be accessed by registered users. TMN members use a consistent login name when posting messages, and a non-fixed pseudonym field alongside it. The pseudonym defaults to the user's real name, but can be changed at will but this is neither common nor is it encouraged. Although TMN is name based, the user's real name can be easily looked up using their login name. TMN members are not anonymous.
TMN is divided into general subject areas known as conferences, which reflect member interests. Within conferences, members open separate conversational threads called topics for specific items of interest. "Public" conferences are open to all members, while "private" conferences are restricted to a list of users controlled by the conference hosts. Some private conferences (such as "Spirit" for women and "Fire" for men) are listed in TMN's directory, but are access restricted for privacy or membership-restriction reasons. Members may request admission to such conferences. Membership in private conferences is by invitation. TMN members may open their own new public or private independent conferences.
External links
The Meta Network
Register for The Meta Network
The Navigator - Live T R A N S C R I P T - Live chat interview with Frank Burns about TMN.COM
Caucus open source software
Bulletin board systems
Internet forums
History of the Internet
Pre–World Wide Web online services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakushin%20Line | The is a Japanese railway line which runs between and stations in the cities of Niigata and Shibata in Niigata Prefecture. It is part of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) network.
Basic data
Operators, distances:
East Japan Railway Company (JR East) (Services and tracks)
Niigata – Shibata:
Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight) (Services only)
Kami-Nuttari Junction – Shibata:
Double-tracking: Niigata – Niizaki
Railway signalling: ATS-Ps
Services
Limited express, Rapid
, the following services are operated.
Local
Niigata - : every 20 minutes
Toyosaka - Shibata: every 60 minutes (every 20 minutes during peaks)
Station list
All stations are located in Niigata Prefecture.
Symbols:
◇ - Single-track; station where trains can pass
^ - Double-track section starts from this point
∥ - Double-track
∨ - Single-track section starts from this point
Rolling stock
Present
E129 series 2/4-car EMUs (since December 2014)
E653 series 7-car EMUs (Inaho limited express, since September 2013)
Former
115 series 2/3/4-car EMUs (until March 2018)
E127 series 2-car EMUs (until March 2015)
485 series 6-car EMUs (Inaho, until July 2014)
165 series
70 series
History
The first section opened on 23 December 1952 was the 12.3 km line between Shibata Station and Kuzutsuka Station (now Toyosaka Station). On 15 April 1956, the line was extended 14.9 km from Kuzutsuka to Niigata.
The line was electrified at 1,500 V DC in 1972, and double-tracked in sections between 1978 and 1981.
References
External links
Stations of the Hakushin Line (JR East)
Lines of East Japan Railway Company
Rail transport in Niigata Prefecture
Railway lines opened in 1952
1067 mm gauge railways in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUND-FM | KUND-FM (89.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Grand Forks, North Dakota. It airs a format consisting of jazz, classical music and news and talk programming. KUND-FM and sister station KFJM share their coverage area with Minnesota Public Radio outlets KNTN and KQMN, both licensed to Thief River Falls, Minnesota. This makes Grand Forks one of the smallest markets with competing NPR stations.
History
KUND-FM's first license was granted, as KFJM-FM, on June 17, 1976, operating on 89.3 MHz. It was the second station licensed to the University of North Dakota, joining the original KFJM, an AM station that dated to 1923.
In 1995, the university's third station, KFJY, began broadcasting on 90.7 MHz. On August 15, 1997, all three University of North Dakota stations changed call signs. KFJM-FM became KUND-FM, while the original KFJM became KUND and KFJY on 90.7 MHz inherited the historic KFJM call letters.
In September 2018, KUND-FM, along with KFJM, was sold by the University of North Dakota to Prairie Public Radio.
References
External links
Prairie Public radio website
FCC History Cards for KUND (covering 1975-1980 as KFJM-FM)
UND-FM
UND-FM
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 1976 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20Link | The Interactive Link is a suite of hardware and software products designed for application within areas where network separation is implemented for security reasons. Manufactured and marketed by Tenix Datagate, the Interactive Link hardware products have been evaluated to the highest level under international security criteria with a strong focus on maintaining the confidentiality of the secure network. The technology underlying the products is drawn from Starlight Technology, developed by the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group.
History
The Interactive Link product suite is a commercialized version of Starlight Technology. This technology, developed as a way to transfer data from a lower classification (Low Side) network to a highly classified (High Side) computer without compromising sensitive information, was formed inside the Australian DSTO as a research project. The technology also allowed users to view and interact on a Low Side network from a High Side computer. The Starlight Technology included a data diode, accompanying server software and Desktop-based equipment. Seen as having commercial merit and after a prototype was developed, the technology was licensed to Vision Abell (later acquired by Tenix) in 1996 for development and supply to Australian government under the brand “Interactive Link”. The objective of these products was to increase productivity and to reduce the deskspace required by users working on more than one network, while not compromising the existing security.
In 2002, DSTO signed a long-term agreement for the newly formed Tenix Datagate division of Tenix to market, manufacture and further develop the Interactive Link product worldwide. Tenix Datagate subsequently set up offices in the UK and US in addition to their Australian presence. Tenix Defence was acquired by BAE Systems Australia in 2008, including ownership of the Interactive Link products.
Due to its high level of certification, the Interactive Link product suite has been deployed to numerous western nations.
Products
The Interactive Link Product Suite includes the following:
The Interactive Link Data Diode Device (IL-DD) – a trusted platform providing a strictly unidirectional data path between two networks. The device allows the transmission of information from Low Side to High Side networks but not vice versa. Data is transmitted by means of optical fibre technology that reduces the risk of data interception by TEMPEST attack.
The Interactive Link Keyboard Switch (IL-KBS) – The IL-KBS is a desktop device that allows users of a High Side computer to access a Low Side Thin Client session. Used in conjunction with the IL-DD, no High Side Data is sent down to the Low Side network. Users are able to view and interact with the Low Side inside a window on their High side computer.
Interactive Link Multiple Computer Switch (IL-MCS) – a highly secure KVM to switch between two desktop computers of differing security classification levels f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamori%20Club | was a late-night variety program hosted by comedian Kazuyoshi Morita, better known as Tamori. It was broadcast in Japan on the TV Asahi network. It aired from 8 October 1982 to 1 April 2023, and is one of the longest-running programs in Japan. This program deals with social phenomena from original, maniac viewpoints. Due to its "low budget" (not really true, but a running joke on the show), it has no stage sets, and almost all of the shooting is done on location.
Guests
Though this is a midnight program, many celebrities are fond of this program and want opportunities to appear on it. The show's regular feature “Soramimi Hour” where misconstrued song lyrics are set to amusing videos is hosted by Tamori and Hajime Anzai, has also become famous in its own right.
Opening
In a famous opening video, many women with shorts shake their hips along with "Short Shorts" by The Royal Teens. Then the program is introduced by Tamori with his customary speech, Instead of a single theme overlying the entire series, various topics are addressed in each episode; this “no principle” is one of the program's main attractions. However, most topics that have been picked are subcultural matters such as vehicles (especially railways), sex culture, technologies, foods and so on.
See also
Tamori
Soramimi, a term for a type of comedy pioneered by the "Soramimi Hour" segment of Tamori Club
References
External links
Official Website
Japanese variety television shows
TV Asahi original programming
1982 Japanese television series debuts
2023 Japanese television series endings
1980s Japanese television series
1990s Japanese television series
2000s Japanese television series
2010s Japanese television series
2020s Japanese television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AF | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AG | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webb%20Miller | Webb Colby Miller (born 1943) is an American bioinformatician who is professor in the Department of Biology and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University.
Education
Miller attended Whitman College, and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Washington in 1969.
Research and career
He joined Penn State in September 1985. Prior to that, he had held a position as permanent staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and served on the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Arizona. He is a fellow of the ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology).
Miller has been developing algorithms and software for analyzing DNA sequences and related types of data from molecular genetics. He is one of the authors of BLAST. He also develops methods for aligning long DNA sequences and extracting functional information from them. Webb Miller has made important contributions to the analysis of many vertebrate genomes. He is regarded as one of the pioneers in the field of computational biology.
Webb Miller's recent research interests include the bioinformatics of species extinction, collaborating with Stephan Schuster, who is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State. In November 2008, they published a paper in Nature that described a draft sequence for the woolly mammoth genome.
Awards
Miller was awarded the ISCB Senior Scientist Award and elected an ISCB Fellow by the International Society for Computational Biology in 2009. He is also among The 2009 Time 100. Together with Gene Myers, he received the Inaugural IEEE Frances E. Allen Medal "for pioneering contributions to sequence analysis algorithms and their applications to biosequence search, genome sequencing, and comparative genome analyses".
References
American bioinformaticians
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Living people
University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
University of Arizona faculty
Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology
1943 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ethanol is a chemical and intoxicant with the formula .
Ethanol (data page)
Ethanol may also refer to:
For ethanol specifically as a drug, see alcohol (drug)
Ethanol fuel, used to power vehicles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmarchives%20online | filmarchives online is a web gateway providing easy access to moving image collections from various European film archives. It allows the search throughout a growing number of individual archival databases. Since February 2007, catalogue information on around 25.000 film works – mainly non-fiction material – is searchable in various languages – among them English, German, French, Italian, and Czech. The database is constantly growing. Where available, streaming videos and screenshots are provided with the respective film work entry.
As locating moving images often is a complex, time consuming, and costly process, filmarchives online aims at simplifying the access and distribution of archival films in Europe. The portal addresses user groups ranging from the professional media and film production domain to the area of scientific research. Moving images can be searched by content, filmographic data and physical characteristics. Search results provide available information about existence and location of the materials. In addition to the search function, the website provides contact information to facilitate the access to the moving image items and, if available, links to digital content available for online viewing.
filmarchives online is the result of the MIDAS project (Moving Image Database for Access and Re-use of European Film Collections). MIDAS was initiated in January 2006 as a pilot project in the MEDIA Programme of the European Commission and ended in January 2009. It was coordinated by the Deutsches Filminstitut together with other institutions dedicated to collecting and preserving the European film heritage. The consortium comprises eighteen institutions – among them the British Film Institute, Národní Filmový Archiv (Prague), the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (Brussels) and the DEFA Foundation.
External links
filmarchives-online.eu - Web Gateway
MIDAS Project (Moving Image Database for Access and Re-use of European Film Collections) - Project Information
EFG - The European Film Gateway - Project website
Europeana.eu - Web Gateway
German film websites
Film archives in Germany
Online film databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-stream%20access | Bit-stream access refers to the situation where a wireline incumbent installs a high-speed access link to the customer's premises (e.g., by installing ADSL equipment in the local access network) and then makes this access link available to third parties, to enable them to provide high-speed services to customers. This type of access does not entail any third-party access to the copper pair in the local loop.
The incumbent may also provide transmission services to its competitors, using its Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) or IP network, to carry competitors' traffic from the digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) to a higher level in the network hierarchy where new entrants may already have a point of presence (e.g. a transit switch location). Bit-stream handover points thus can be at various levels:
Handover at DSLAM
Handover at ATM-PoP
Handover at IP level
Bit-stream access is nowadays considered a key tool for opening competition in the broadband market. It enables competitors to offer their own products to consumers even if they do not operate the local loop (the last mile). Bit-stream access allows the new entrant to use the high-speed modems and other equipment provided by the incumbent and thus avoid maintenance and investments into the local loop. This affects the economics of the service and places restrictions on the type of modems that the customer of the new entrant can buy or rent.
The main elements defining bit-stream access are the following:
High-speed access link to the customer premises (end user part) provided by the incumbent and transmission capacity for broadband data in both direction, enabling new entrants to offer their own, value-added services to end users;
New entrants have the possibility to differentiate their services by altering technical characteristics and/or the use of their own network.
Thus, bit-stream access is a wholesale product consisting of the access (typically ADSL) and “backhaul” services of the (data) backbone network (ATM, IP backbone).
EU regulation
Unlike unbundled access, the provision of bit-stream access services is not mandated under European Union law, but where an incumbent operator provides bit-stream DSL services to its own services, subsidiary or third party, then, in accordance with community law, it must also provide such forms of access under transparent and non-discriminatory terms or conditions to others (Directive 98/10/EC Article 16).
Bit-stream access service allows the incumbent to retain control of the rate of deployment of high-speed access services, and the geographical regions in which these service are rolled out. From the regulatory point of view, such services are therefore seen as complementing the other forms of unbundled access, but not substituting them.
Bit stream general model
Backhauling: is the physical linking of Telecommunications Terminal Equipment and/or licensed ISP Networks to Public Telecommunications Networks in order to allow U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSJT%20%28amateur%20radio%20software%29 | WSJT-X is a computer program used for weak-signal radio communication between amateur radio operators. The program was initially written by Joe Taylor, K1JT, but is now open source and is developed by a small team. The digital signal processing techniques in WSJT-X make it substantially easier for amateur radio operators to employ esoteric propagation modes, such as high-speed meteor scatter and moonbounce. Additionally WSJT is able to send signal reports to spotting networks such as PSK Reporter.
History
WSJT, the predecessor to WSJT-X, was originally released in 2001 and has undergone several major revisions. Communication modes have been both added and removed from the software over the course of its development. Since 2005, the software has been released as open source software under the GNU General Public License. This licensing change required substantial rewrites and took several months to complete. Although Joe Taylor was the original developer (and still acts as maintainer), several programmers are currently involved in writing the software. The latest version of WSJT (not to be confused with WSJT-X) is written in Python and C, with several utilities written in Fortran.
WSJT versions up through 7.06 r1933 (referred to as colloquially as WSJT7) and earlier were aggregations of previous versions, and as such WSJT7 contained 16 different modes (FSK441, JT6M, JT65 variants A - C, JT2, JT4 variants A - G, WSPR, and a preview of JT64A). As of version 8.0 (referred to as colloquially as WSJT8) the available modes changed completely such that WSJT8 now offers 5 different modes (JTMS, ISCAT, JT64A, JT8, and Echo) -- none of which are back-compatible with WSJT7 or earlier releases. This backwards-incompatibility includes JT64A, such that the preview release of JT64A in WSJT7 cannot communicate with the stable release of JT64A in WSJT8. , the latest WSJT version is WSJT10.
Communication modes provided
The software carries a general emphasis on weak-signal operation and advanced DSP techniques; however, the communication modes rely upon different ionospheric propagation modes and may be used on many different bands.
WSJT's communication modes can be divided into fast and slow modes. While fast modes send character-by-character without error correction, the slow modes aim to optimize for minimal QRO (high-power) use. As of WSJT10, supported fast modes are JTMS, FSK441, ISCAT, and JT6M, and the slow modes are JT65 and JT4. WSJT-X 1.8 additionally implements the "slow" JT9, FT8, and QRA64. Some modes have derived submodes with larger tone spacing. Two other modes, WSPR and Echo are included for measuring propagation and testing moon bounce echo.
FSK441
FSK441, introduced in 2001 as the first communications mode included with WSJT, is designed to support communication using streaks of radio-reflecting ions created in the ionosphere by the trails of meteors entering the Earth's atmosphere. The bursts of signal created by such trails are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Maryland%20Human%E2%80%93Computer%20Interaction%20Lab | The Human–Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at the University of Maryland, College Park is an academic research center specializing in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Founded in 1983 by Ben Shneiderman, it is one of the oldest HCI labs of its kind. The HCIL conducts research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of computer interface technologies. Additional research focuses on the development of user interfaces and design methods. Primary activities of the HCIL include collaborative research, publication and the sponsorship of open houses, workshops and annual symposiums.
Being interdisciplinary in nature, HCIL collaborates on a broader basis with several academic departments and schools, with faculty and students from Information Studies, Computer Science, Education, English, Business, and Psychology. Currently, the lab is jointly supported by the College of Information Studies (iSchool) and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).
Research affiliated with the HCIL has led to several digital design principles based on Shneiderman's theory of direct manipulation. Early research contributions on hypertext, particularly hyperlinking, are popular UI design elements still widely used today. In 1989, the lab developed high-precision touchscreen applications for small keyboards that are now widely used on smartphones. Information visualization research on dynamic queries in the early 1990s led to the commercial Spotfire product and treemapping strategies. Notable developments in HCI within the 21st century include interfaces for digital libraries, multimedia resources for learning communities, and zooming user interfaces (ZUIs). Later contributions include technology design methodologies for children, mobile and pen-based computing, network analysis and visualization using NodeXL, and event analytics for electronic patient histories. Developments and research projects for each year are showcased at the lab's annual HCIL Symposium.
, the lab is directed by Jessica Vitak. Its previous directors are Ben Shneiderman (1983-2000), Ben Bederson (2000-2006), Allison Druin (2006–2011), Jen Golbeck (2011-2015), Mona Leigh Guha (interim director 2015), June Ahn (2015-2016), Niklas Elmqvist (2016-2021) and Catherine Plaisant (acting director 1996).
Contributions
Direct manipulation
Ben Shneiderman's theory of direct manipulation led to innovations in digital interface design, many developed under the HCIL. Direct manipulation interactions, in contrast to other interaction styles, require that objects of interest are represented as distinguishable objects in the UI and are manipulated in a direct fashion. In other words, direct manipulation tools provide a user with a visually-intuitive method to manipulate that object. Direct manipulation is characterized by four main principles: continuous representation of the object of interest; physical actions instead of complex syntax; rapid, incremental, and r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieselpoint | Dieselpoint, Inc. is a privately held enterprise search company headquartered in Chicago, IL. The company was founded in 1999 and develops software to search large datasets with both structured and unstructured elements.
The company focuses on scalable search and faceted navigation, which enables search results to be ordered and classified in multiple ways based on like attributes. Result sets of any size can then be navigated using dynamically-generated menus. Menus are generated from the underlying document attributes or metadata. These are designed to give users context-dependent browse capability, allowing them to see what options are available to them at each step.
Dieselpoint's software is used in a variety of applications including e-commerce, document search, site search, PLM, ECM and OEM. Dieselpoint's APIs and search platform are written entirely in Java to simplify implementation and enable interoperability within a range of environments.
In 2006, 2007 and 2008 Dieselpoint was recognized by KM World magazine as one of the "Top 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management." Dieselpoint competitors include Autonomy Corporation, Fast Search & Transfer ASA and Endeca Technologies Inc.
References
External links
Company website
Dieselpoint description on SearchTools.com
Faceted search description on SearchTools.com
KMWorld.com 100 Companies that Matter
Software companies based in Illinois
Software companies established in 1999
Companies based in Chicago
Software companies of the United States
1999 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timewarp%20%28computer%20graphics%29 | A timewarp is a tool for manipulating the temporal dimension in a hierarchically described 3D computer animation system. The term was coined by Jeff Smith and Karen Drewery in 1991. Continuous curves that are normally applied to parametric modeling and rendering attributes are instead applied to the local clock value, which effectively remaps the flow of global time within the context of the subsection of the model to which the curves are applied. The tool was first developed to assist animators in making minor adjustments to subsections of animated scenes that might employ dozens of related interpolation curves. Rather than adjust the timing of every curve within the subsection, a timewarp curve can be applied to the model section in question, adjusting the flow of time itself for that element, with respect to the timing of the other, unaffected elements.
Originally, the tool was used to achieve minor adjustments, moving a motion forward or back in time, or to alter the speed of a movement. Subsequent experiments with the technique moved beyond these simpler timing adjustment and began to employ the timing curves to create more complex effects, such as continuous animation cycles and simulating more natural movements of large collections of models, such as flocks or crowds, by creating numerous identical copies of a single animated model and then applying small random perturbation timewarps to each of the copies, giving the impression of a less robotic precision to the group's movements.
The tool has since become common in both 3D animation and video editing software systems.
See also
Animation
Computer animation
References
3D computer graphics
Computer animation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron%20%28software%29 | Neuron is a simulation environment for modeling individual and networks of neurons. It was primarily developed by Michael Hines, John W. Moore, and Ted Carnevale at Yale and Duke.
Neuron models individual neurons via the use of sections that are automatically subdivided into individual compartments, instead of requiring the user to manually create compartments. The primary scripting language is hoc but a Python interface is also available. Programs can be written interactively in a shell, or loaded from a file. Neuron supports parallelization via the MPI protocol.
Neuron is capable of handling diffusion-reaction models, and integrating diffusion functions into models of synapses and cellular networks. Parallelization is possible via internal multithreaded routines, for use on multi-core computers. The properties of the membrane channels of the neuron are simulated using compiled mechanisms written using the NMODL language or by compiled routines operating on internal data structures that are set up with Channel Builder.
Along with the analogous software platform GENESIS, Neuron is the basis for instruction in computational neuroscience in many courses and laboratories around the world.
User interface
Neuron features a graphical user interface (GUI), for use by individuals with minimal programming experience. The GUI comes equipped with a builder for single and multiple compartment cells, networks, network cells, channels and linear electric circuits. Single and multiple compartment cells differ in that multiple compartment cells features several "sections", each with potentially distinct parameters for dimensions and kinetics. Tutorials are available on the Neuron website, including for getting basic models out of the cell, channel and network builders. With these builders, the user can form the basis of all simulations and models.
Cell Builder
Cell Builder allows the user to generate and modify stick figure cell structures. These sections form the basis of functionally distinct areas of the neuron.
The user can define functionally distinct groups of sections. Sections branching from one another can be labeled "dendrites," while another, single section that projects from the same central one can be labeled as the "axon." The user can define parameters along which certain values are variable as a function across a section. For instance, path length along a subset can be defined as a domain, the functions along which can then be defined later.
The user can select either individual sections, or groups and set precise parameters for length, diameter, area and length for that group or section. Any of these values can be set as a function of length or some other parameter of the corresponding section. The user can set the number of functional segments in a section, which is a strategy for spatial resolution. The higher the number of segments, the more precisely Neuron can handle a function in a section. Segments are the points where point proc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylex | Mylex Corporation was an American computer company active from 1983 to 1999. The company mainly produced peripherals and expansion cards for personal computers—chiefly the IBM Personal Computer—for the bulk of its existence, although it also produced complete motherboards. In the mid-1990s the company focused on designing and manufacturing RAID controllers, eventually cornering 75 percent of the RAID controller market. In 1999, the company was acquired by and made a subsidiary of IBM for approximately $240 million. In 2002, IBM sold their Mylex division to LSI Logic for an undisclosed amount.
History
Foundation (1983–1985)
Mylex Corporation was founded in May 1983 by Anastasios Kyriakides, a business mogul based in Miami, Florida. Kyriakides had previously founded Lexicon Corporation of Fort Lauderdale, a maker of telecommunications equipment for mainframe computers, in 1976, selling it off in 1979 after it had gone public. In October 1983, shortly after its foundation, Mylex filed to go public, raising $3.5 million in capital with its IPO. Kyriakides would later go on to found Regency Cruises, a cruise line company, in 1984.
Kyriakides founded Mylex to capitalize on the growing market of expansion cards and peripherals for the IBM Personal Computer, which IBM had introduced in August 1981. One of Mylex's first products was the Chairman, a multifunction parallel communications card and a video controller card capable of outputting monochrome and color graphics to CGA monitors. In 1986, the company developed its own bespoke graphics adapter card, the Advanced Graphics Adapter (ADA), for the IBM PC, aimed at CAD/CAM buyers. Based on Intel's 80186 microprocessor–microcontroller and compatible with NEC's MultiSync monitor, the ADA could display color graphics at a maximum resolution of 800 by 600 pixels. Mylex soon found corporate customers in IBM themselves and the Orlando-based technology company Systeme Corporation, who contributed to 96 percent of Mylex's total unit sales in 1985.
Move to California and motherboards (1985–1993)
Mylex employed 50 workers by August 1985. That year, the company was issued an extensive patent by the USPTO for a handheld scanner, beginning work on a PC-compatible peripheral based on the patent around the same time. Dubbed the Text Scanner, it allowed the user to scan a line of text and have it transcribed near-instantaneously through optical character recognition. While Mylex hoped that the Text Wand would be a breakout hit and make a name for the company in the crowded personal computer market, a sales slump in 1986 caused by IBM and Systeme pulling out orders of Mylex's other products nearly bankrupted the company instead. In December 1986, Kyriakides relinquished 32 percent of his shares in Mylex to an investor group led by M. Akram Chowdry, chairman of Prime Circuit Technology of San Jose, California. Immediately afterward, Kyriakides resigned as president and chairman of Mylex, his role replaced by Chowdry; |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pousada%20da%20Ria | The Pousada da Ria () is situated in the civil parish of Torreira in the municipality of Murtosa, district of Aveiro. It is part of the Pousadas de Portugal network of hostels, classified under the "Pousada of Nature" designation.
History
The hostel was constructed in 1959 by the Serviços de Construção e Conservação (Construction and Conservation Services), and inaugurated in 1960. The hostel was integrated into the network of Pousadas de Portugal, under the a group of Pousadas Natureza (nature hostels). It was included as part of the first phase in the construction new hostels; it was the second constructed in the Beira-Mar series. This includes several projects, among them Nazaré (Ruy Jervis d'Athouguia) and Portinho da Arrábida (a project adapted by Leonardo Castro Freire), but, the project was never brought to term, except Aveiro and the Pousada do Infante (in Sagres).
On 24 August 2006, the building was in process of classification (per Decree-Law 173/2006, Diário da República, Série 1, 16), which revoked the special protection zone created on 18 November 1932 (Decree 21/875), that regulated buildings of architectural importance. On 23 March 2009, the DRCCentro proposed the closing of the brief to classify the building, which was supported, on the 30 March 2009, by a similar closing by the director of IGESPAR.
Architecture
The Pousada is located along the southern arm of the isthmus between the municipality of Murtosa and Aveiro, between the beaches of São Jacinto (along the coast) and the protected natural reserve of the Ria estuary. It is a zone of transitional watercourses, between the interior waterways and the Atlantic coast. It is situated in the civil parish of Torreira known for its local architecture that includes the Chapel of São Paio and the parochial church.
The hostel conforms to a "L"-shape plan, of articulated spaces and covered in tile. This includes a principal 2-storey body that runs parallel to the river, with various varandas and terraces over the water. Along the same orientation is a body that is one-storey, but withdrawn, that corresponds to the laundry and ancillary annexes. At the intersection, is a narrow, two-storey body with the ground floor occupied by support services and the second-floor by guest rooms. The Pousada includes 20 rooms (including two suites) with views of the Ria de Aveiro, where it is common to observe the traditional work of the Moliceiros (the fishermen that guide the traditional Aveiro boats) and the fishing along the Ria. The characteristics of the Ria also allow it to be a prime spot for boat trips and water sports.
This pousada has no real historical significance; in fact, it is more along the lines of a two-storey inn and very hotel-like.
See also
Pousadas de Portugal
References
Notes
Sources
Ria
Buildings and structures in Murtosa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Association%20of%20Service%20and%20Conservation%20Corps | The National Association of Service and Conservation Corps (NASCC), now known as The Corps Network, is an association of Service and Conservation Corps in the United States.
It took shape in 1985, when the nation's first 24 Corps directors banded together to secure an advocate at the Federal level and a central clearinghouse of information on how to start and run "best practice"-based corps. Early support from the Ford, Hewlett and Mott Foundations was critical to launching the Association. The Corps Network has grown to encompass 143 Corps programs, both urban and rural, and has assisted in the birth of virtually all of these Corps. The Corps Network is governed by a board of directors composed of Corps program directors and nationally known individuals who bring expertise in national service, evaluation, youth development, education, conservation and employment and training.
Currently operating in 44 states and Washington, D.C., Corps annually enroll more than 29,000 young men and women who annually mobilize approximately 227,000 community volunteers who in conjunction with Corpsmembers generate 21.3 million hours of service every year.
Service and Conservation Corps are a direct descendant of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) that built parks and other public facilities still in use today. Like the legendary CCC of the 1930s, today's Corps are a proven strategy for giving young men and women the chance to change their communities, their own lives and those of their families. Service and Conservation Corps provide a wealth of valuable conservation, infrastructure improvement and human service projects. Some Corps tutor and some fight forest fires. Others complete a wide range of projects on public lands. Still others improve the quality of life in low-income communities by renovating deteriorated housing, engaging in environmental restoration, creating parks and gardens and staffing after-school programs.
References
External links
The Corps Network - official site
Facebook - official page
Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C.
Nature conservation organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Libes | Don Libes is a computer scientist at NIST performing computer science research on interoperability. He works in the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division, which performs research on software integration methods, creating custom software that implements draft standards and serves as an interface to other components provided by separate vendors.
Libes is responsible for numerous implementations of STEP, a family of ISO standards and draft standards for product management. He is the creator of the NIST Identifier Collaboration Service, a free service to allow collaborative management of unmanaged namespaces. Libes is also responsible for one of the earliest network-shared memory ports on UNIX and the first port of XINU on UNIX.
Libes's book Obfuscated C Code and Other Mysteries explains the winning entries in the Obfuscated C Code Contest, as an educational tool.
Libes is best known for Expect, which is public domain software for automating and testing interactive applications such as Telnet, FTP, passwd and hundreds of other programs that have no internal control language (or too limited of a control language) of their own. Libes also developed Expectk, which glues Expect to Tk thereby allowing a character-graphic or line-oriented program to be entirely hidden with a modern graphical user interface.
Expect has been successively ported to Perl(expect.pm), Python(pexpect) and Java(expect4j): the aforementioned ports are all open source and are as such subject to caution concerning their conformity to Libes' original software. Massive network automation with the original language or these variants is patent within many ISP's autonomous systems worldwide - the tectonic plates of the Internet, and also within large national and international corporate networks.
Publications
Books
References
American computer scientists
Computer systems researchers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureSim%20Baseball%202007 | PureSim Baseball 2007 is a text-based computer baseball simulation published by Matrix Games. Originally developed by American independent game developer Shaun Sullivan, the first Matrix version was published as PureSim 2005 on 5 October 2005.
PureSim allows creation of a fantasy baseball world made up of either fictional players or real major league players imported from the Lahman Database. Leagues, called "associations" in PureSim, can be set up with as few as two teams to as many as fifty. Fully customizable, players may choose cities and nicknames and may even edit cities.
In March 2009, the game in its entirety was released as freeware by creator Shaun Sullivan, along with a message on the official website stating that he would like to continue developing the game in its free state.
References
External links
Download Freeware PureSim Baseball Version 6
2005 video games
Baseball video games
Sports management video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games
Matrix Games games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cummings%20%28musician%29 | John Cummings is a Scottish musician and record producer, best known for being a former member of Glaswegian band Mogwai, mostly playing guitar, as well as programming, keyboards and vocals.
Career
Mogwai
After forming and playing a few gigs in 1995 as a three-piece, Mogwai enlisted John Cummings on guitar. Though he mostly contributed guitar to the band, Cummings has also sung on the song "Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep", from 2003's Happy Songs for Happy People. He left Mogwai in November 2015 to pursue a solo career.
The Reindeer Section
Cummings was briefly a member of indie rock supergroup, The Reindeer Section, contributing guitar to the first album.
Other
Cummings produced Part Chimp's albums Chart Pimp and I Am Come, the Errors EP How Clean is your Acid House?, The Magnificents album Year of Explorers, Trout's Norma Jean EP and Street Horrrsing by Fuck Buttons.
He also contributed guitar to The Zephyrs' 2004 album, A Year to the Day and Setting Sun from their 2001 album When The Sky Comes Down It Comes Down On Your Head.
In 2015 Cummings composed the musical score of the documentary film S Is for Stanley.
Equipment
Throughout his time in Mogwai, Cummings has mainly used various models of the Fender Telecaster Custom and Gibson SG, often using irregular tunings.
Effects pedals
Boss AW-3 Dynamic Wah
Boss DD-7 Digital Delay
Boss LS-2 Line Selector
Boss OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion (2)
Boss ODB-3 Bass Overdrive
Boss TR-2 Tremolo
Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
Death By Audio Interstellar Overdrive Deluxe
Dead By Audio Supersonic Fuzz Gun
Electro-Harmonix HOG (2)
Electro-Harmonix Holy Stain
Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man With Hazarai
Jim Dunlop Uni-Vibe
MXR Carbon Copy Delay
MXR Phase 90 Script
MXR Kerry King 10 Band EQ (2)
Way Huge Fat Sandwich
Way Huge Auquapus
T-Rex Dr Swamp Distortion/Overdrive
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Mogwai members
Scottish rock guitarists
Scottish male guitarists
Scottish male songwriters
People educated at St Aloysius' College, Glasgow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantika | Atlantika is a Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Zoren Legaspi, it stars Dingdong Dantes. It premiered on October 2, 2006 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Majika. The series concluded on February 9, 2007 with a total of 95 episodes. It was replaced by Super Twins in its timeslot.
A special, Atlantika: Ang Lihim ng Karagatan () was aired on October 1, 2006. The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dingdong Dantes as Aquano
Supporting cast
Rudy Fernandez as Camaro
Jean Garcia as Celebes / Celeste
Ariel Rivera as Baraccud
Gardo Versoza as Agat
Cherry Pie Picache as Remedios
Iza Calzado as Amaya / Cielo
Paolo Contis as Piranus
Katrina Halili as Ruana / Helena
Chynna Ortaleza as Vera
Isabel Oli as Alona
Tin Arnaldo
Valerie Concepcion as Elisa
Bianca King as Xera
Elvis Gutierrez as Andromedo
Mark Gil as Felipe
Pen Medina as Naval / Balawis
Ronnie Lazaro as Roman
Janice Jurado as Amaya's mom
Jackie Castillejo as Remedios' sister
Jojo Alejar
Gene Padilla as Talakitok
Arthur Solinap as Eno
Guest cast
Celia Rodriguez as Segunda
Emilio Garcia as Ereus
Edwin Reyes as Tiktakulo
Noel Urbano as Elahe
Renz Valerio as young Aquano
Biboy Ramirez as Daniel
Bianca Pulmano as young Amaya
Paul Salas as young Piranus
Ella Cruz as young Elisa
Desiree del Valle as Azita
Jana Victoria
Rugene Ramos as Kiko
Red Bustamante as Nacyfe
References
External links
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20155001%E2%80%93156000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC%204000%20series | The GEC 4000 was a series of 16/32-bit minicomputers produced by GEC Computers Ltd in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
History
GEC Computers was formed in 1968 as a business unit of the GEC conglomerate. It inherited from Elliott Automation the ageing Elliott 900 series, and needed to develop a new range of systems. Three ranges were identified, known internally as Alpha, Beta, and Gamma. Alpha appeared first and became the GEC 2050 8-bit minicomputer. Beta followed and became the GEC 4080. Gamma was never developed, so a few of its enhanced features were consequently pulled back into the 4080. The principal designer of the GEC 4080 was Dr. Michael Melliar-Smith and the principal designer of the 4060 and 4090 was Peter Mackley.
The 4000 series systems were developed and manufactured in the UK at GEC Computers' Borehamwood offices in Elstree Way. Development and manufacture transferred to the company's new factories in Woodside Estate, Dunstable in the late 1970s. In 1979, GEC Computers was awarded the Queen's Award for Technical Achievement for the development of the 4000 series, particularly Nucleus. By 1991, the number of systems manufactured was falling off, so manufacture was transferred to GPT's Beeston, Nottinghamshire factory and development returned to Borehamwood. The last systems were manufactured around 1995. There were still a few GEC 4220 systems operating in 2018 with maintenance provided by Telent, and some GEC 4310 were operating until 2013. London Underground continues to use GEC 4190 systems in 2022.
Nucleus
The GEC 4000 series hardware and firmware included a pioneering facility known as Nucleus. Nucleus implements a number of features which are more usually implemented within an operating system kernel, and consequently operating systems running on GEC 4000 series systems do not need to directly provide these features themselves. Nucleus firmware cannot be reprogrammed by any code running on the system, and this made the systems particularly attractive to a number of security applications.
Nucleus performs:
process scheduling
context switching
efficient semaphores
asynchronous message passing
memory segmentation and protection
error handling
I/O directly by processes, and routing of interrupts back to processes
There is no provision for running any supervisor/privileged/kernel mode code on the 4000 systems—all operating system code runs as processes. Hence, device drivers, file system code, and other features which are often found within operating system kernels must be run in processes on the 4000 systems. Inherent in this is that they are all running in their own address spaces, protected from the actions of each other, just as all processes are.
Nucleus is configured by a set of system tables, and processes which have a need to modify the operation of nucleus are given access to the relevant system tables. This would be the case for processes which directly change the state of othe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20with%20All%20the%20Candy | "The One with All the Candy" is the ninth episode of Friends seventh season. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on December 7, 2000.
Plot
Monica decides that she would like to get to know the neighbours in the apartment building better (to Chandler's dislike) and resorts to doing what she does best: cooking. She makes a batch of wonderful chocolates and hangs them on the door in a basket hoping that her neighbors will take some and they can meet. The neighbours (including Joey) eventually go crazy over the candy and demand more. Eventually, Chandler admonishes the neighbors for taking advantage of Monica's kindness and not making an effort to get to know her, and furiously sends them home.
Ross gets Phoebe her first bike after hearing her story on how she never got to ride one during her childhood. Then the gang finds out she does not know how to ride. So Ross takes Phoebe to the park to teach her, but she is reluctant. With Ross' convincing and training wheels, Phoebe eventually manages to ride the bike.
Rachel and her assistant Tag have started dating, but they strive to keep their relationship a secret from their workplace. After Rachel writes a flirtatious joke evaluation, she sends it to Tag, who does not know it is fake, does not read it, and gives it to Human Resources. Rachel devises a scheme to get it back, but before she does, Mr. Zelner reads it and warns her that she is putting her job at risk. Tag takes the blame, claiming that he had written the evaluation himself. Zelner accepts this and leaves without any further incident, after saying he enjoys a "naughty limerick or two."
Reception
Distractify ranked it the ninth best Friends Christmas episode, and wrote that Phoebe's "blunders and Ross's patient lessons set the stage for many nervous laughs and heartwarming holiday cheer".
Catriona Wightman from Digital Spy called it the season's worst episode.
Sam Ashurst from the same website ranked the episode 119 on their ranking of the 236 Friends episodes.
Telegraph & Argus also ranked it #119 on their ranking of the 236 Friends episodes.
References
2000 American television episodes
Friends (season 7) episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton%20Roads%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce | The Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce (also known as Hampton Roads Chamber) is a business network comprising 2,500 businesses throughout the Hampton Roads region. The mission of the chamber of commerce is to "create economic opportunity and prosperity" through public policy, economic development and service to the business. The chamber has five divisions: Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach.
Virginia Beach division
The Virginia Beach Division of the Chamber is one of the five divisions of the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce and seeks to establish partnerships and programs for marketing Virginia Beach's resources.
New headquarters for the Virginia Beach Division were built in 1974 under the leadership of Chamber of Commerce President Richard Kline, founder of RK Auto Group. Under Richard Kline's tenure as Chamber of Commerce president, he also created the Neptune Festival in 1973 to celebrate the heritage of Virginia Beach. By 1998, the festival was attracting more than one million attendees, bringing $15 million into the local economy.
The Virginia Beach Division was located at 222 Central Park Avenue, Suite 1010 in Virginia Beach (757-664-2575). but has since been relocated to the Hampton Roads Chamber's headquarters in Downtown Norfolk.
External links
Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce
Virginia Chamber of Commerce
The Neptune Festival Official Website
Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce
References
Hampton Roads
Chambers of commerce in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChemSpider | ChemSpider is a freely accessible online database of chemicals owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry. It contains information on more than 100 million molecules from over 270 data sources, each of them receiving a unique identifier called ChemSpider Identifier.
Sources
The database sources include:
Professional databases
EPA DSSTox
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Human Metabolome Database
Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry
KEGG
KUMGM
LeadScope
LipidMAPS
Marinlit
MDPI
MICAD
MLSMR
MMDB
MOLI
MTDP
Nanogen
Nature Chemical Biology
NCGC
NIAID
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
NINDS Approved Drug Screening Program
NIST
NIST Chemistry WebBook
NMMLSC
NMRShiftDB
PANACHE
PCMD
PDSP
Peptides
Prous Science Drugs of the Future
QSAR
R&D Chemicals
San Diego Center for Chemical Genomics
SGCOxCompounds, SGCStoCompounds
SMID
Specs
Structural Genomics Consortium
SureChem
Synthon-Lab
Thomson Pharma
Total TOSLab Building-Blocks
UM-BBD
UPCMLD
UsefulChem
Web of Science
ChemAid
Crowdsourcing
The ChemSpider database can be updated with user contributions including chemical structure deposition, spectra deposition and user curation. This is a crowdsourcing approach to develop an online chemistry database. Crowdsourced based curation of the data has produced a dictionary of chemical names associated with chemical structures that has been used in text-mining applications of the biomedical and chemical literature.
However, database rights are not waived and a data dump is not available; in fact, the FAQ even states that only limited downloads are allowed: therefore the right to fork is not guaranteed and the project can not be considered free/open.
Features
Searching
A number of available search modules are provided:
The standard search allows querying for systematic names, trade names and synonyms and registry numbers
The advanced search allows interactive searching by chemical structure, chemical substructure, using also molecular formula and molecular weight range, CAS numbers, suppliers, etc. The search can be used to widen or restrict already found results.
Structure searching on mobile devices can be done using free apps for iOS (iPhone/iPod/iPad) and for the Android (operating system).
Chemistry document mark-up
The ChemSpider database has been used in combination with text mining as the basis of chemistry document markup. ChemMantis, the Chemistry Markup And Nomenclature Transformation Integrated System uses algorithms to identify and extract chemical names from documents and web pages and converts the chemical names to chemical structures using name-to-structure conversion algorithms and dictionary look-ups in the ChemSpider database. The result is an integrated system between chemistry documents and information look-up via ChemSpider into over 150 data sources.
SyntheticPages
SyntheticPages is a free interactive database of synthetic chemistry procedures operated by the Royal Society of Chemistry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVDDUP | In the x86 assembly programming language, MOVDDUP is the name for a specific action performable by modern x86 processors with 3rd-generation Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE3). This action involves copying a number to temporary space in the processor for use in other computations.
Specifically, MOVDDUP causes one, double-precision, floating-point source to be copied to both the lower half and upper half of an XMM register.
Usage
The source operand can be either an XMM register (xmm2) or a memory address (m64). When the source operand is an XMM register, the lower half of the register is used in the operation. When the source operand is a memory address, it is assumed to be the address of an 8-byte region, the value at which is used in the operation.
The destination operand must be an XMM register (xmm1).
Potential exceptions
References
documentation.
Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 2A: Instruction Set Reference, A-M, November, 2006.
https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/IntrinsicsGuide/
See also
MOVAPS/MOVAPD
MOVHLPS
MOVHPS/MOVHPD
MOVLHPS
MOVLPS/MOVLPD
MOVMSKPS/MOVMSKPD
MOVNTPS
MOVSHDUP
MOVSLDUP
MOVSS/MOVSD
MOVUPS/MOVUPD
x86 instruction listings
X86 instructions |
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