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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Day | Guy Day (July 30, 1930 – January 16, 2010) was an American advertising executive who cofounded Chiat/Day with Jay Chiat in 1968. The agency went on to do memorable work for Apple Computer, including the Macintosh "1984" Super Bowl commercial. He was born in Chicago, Illinois.
Day founded an agency called Faust/Day with Tom Faust. When Faust left, Day called Chiat to discuss a merger with Jay Chiat & Associates. Day won a coin toss to see who would be the president of the new agency.
Day retired from Chiat/Day in 1986. He later did business development at Keye/Donna/Pearlstein.
From 1994 - 1997 Guy sat on the board of The Leap Group and advised the partners of The Leap Partnership.
Day had two sons, Cameron and Bill, who also work in advertising and a daughter, Colleen. Guy died in January 2010 in Pflugerville, Texas.
Bibliography
Chiat/Day Rizzoli, 1989,
References
1930 births
2010 deaths
20th-century American businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard%20Electronics | Maynard Electronics was an American company based in Lake Mary, Florida that produced magnetic tape data storage related products.
The company was founded by Kim and Alison Knapp in 1982. It was acquired by Archive Corp. in 1989, but the brand was maintained. In order to make it easier to sell tape drives, the company created driver software that came to be called MaynStream. After Conner Peripherals acquired Archive, the software product was renamed Backup Exec.
External links
History of Backup Exec.
1982 establishments in Florida
1989 establishments in Florida
American companies established in 1982
American companies disestablished in 1989
Companies based in Seminole County, Florida
Computer companies established in 1982
Computer companies disestablished in 1989
Computer storage companies
Defunct companies based in Florida
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unireso | Unireso is the umbrella organization for a common tariff system for a network of various modes of public transportation in and around Geneva, Switzerland.
Members
Transports publics genevois (TPG)
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS)
Mouettes genevoises navigation (MGN)
Transports publics de la région nyonnaise (TPN)
Transports annemassiens collectifs (TAC)
Transport express régional (TER)
External links
Unireso website
Public transport in Switzerland
Transport in Geneva
Organisations based in Geneva |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%20Studios | Bird Studios is a UK production company, founded in 2003, specializing in design, computer animation and visual effects for TV, film and the digital world.
The Managing and Creative Director is a designer/animator, Ian Bird. Bird Studios specialize in combining photo-realistic 3D Computer animation with live action as well as stand alone CGI animation and the creation of character animation.
History
Bird Studios evolved through a number of companies (Electric Image, Framestore CFC, SOHO 601FX, EYE Animation) under the direction of Ian Bird, producing broadcast title sequences, commercials and music videos.
Projects
Bird studios re-created one of its award-winning music promos, the Pet Shop Boys 'Liberation' from their Very (album) for IMAX as part of its 70 mm stereoscopic 3-D film, 'Cyberworld',
Ian Bird worked with Roger Avary to create the animation and special effects for Sci-Fi TV Film 'Mr. Stitch', starring Rutger Hauer and Wil Wheaton for Rysher Entertainment.
Credits
Commercials: P&GBounty 'Robots', ICRC 'Abuse grows hatred', BBC 'Wimbledon', Nurofen 'For Children', Diet Coke 'sponsoring Will & Grace', Npower (UK) 'New friend', NHS 'Flu-Jab', The Times 'food guide', Save the Children 'Poverty'.
Music Videos: Iron Maiden "Wildest Dreams", "Different World", Robert Post 'Got None', Pet Shop Boys 'Liberation', 'Yesterday, When I was mad', 'Single Bi-lingual', A-Ha 'Analogue', Soundgarden 'Black Hole Sun', Mike Oldfield 'Let there be light', Meat Loaf "I'd Lie for You (and That's the Truth)".
Title Sequences: Wogan, Des O'Connor Tonight, The Chart Show, Little Napoleons, Capital City, Dennis Potter's Lipstick on Your Collar, Fay Weldon's Loves and Lives of a She Devil and 'The South Bank Show'.
Awards
Best TV Sport Commercial: Gold Medal winner – BBC WIMBLEDON 'Breaking of champions'.
New York Festivals 'World Medal': Gold Medal winner – International TV advertising. ‘Save The Children’.
International Broadcasting Awards: Graphic Artist of the Year – Ian Bird
Golden Award of Montreaux: Best Animation - Milky Way ‘Magic Stars’
Golden Award of Montreaux: Best Commercial - Ford Ka ‘Travelogue’
Imagina: Best Computer Animation - Martell ‘Art of Cognac’
Leaf: Best Music Promo - Mike Oldfield ‘Let there be light’
Nicograph Grand Prix: Art Prize winner - Martell (cognac) ‘Art of Cognac’
Art Directors Club (New York): Gold Award Best Music Video - The Pet Shop Boys ‘Liberation’
MTV Awards: Best Music Promo - Soundgarden ‘Blackhole Sun’
Royal Television Society: Gold Team Award - Dennis Potter’s ‘Lipstick On Your Collar’
Computer Animation Festival: Best Programme Content - Channel Four ‘High-Tech Dreams’
Parigraph: Winner Advertising Grand Prix - ‘Dubro Dojke Holland’
International Monitor Awards: Best titles - BBC Barry Norman's ‘Talking Pictures’
See also
List of animation studios
References
Iron Maiden article UK FILM AND TELEVISION NEWS
Maiden News
MAIDEN FANS
BBC News
Promo News
AWN NEWS
SOHO lecture
BLABBERM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald%20Ganzinger | Harald Ganzinger (31 October 1950, Werneck – 3 June 2004, Saarbrücken) was a German computer scientist who together with Leo Bachmair developed the superposition calculus, which is (as of 2007) used in most of the state-of-the-art automated theorem provers for first-order logic.
He received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich in 1978. Before 1991 he was a Professor of Computer Science at University of Dortmund. Then he joined the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken shortly after it was founded in 1991. Until 2004 he was the Director of the Programming Logics department of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and honorary professor at Saarland University. His research group created the SPASS automated theorem prover.
He received the Herbrand Award in 2004 (posthumous) for his important contributions to automated theorem proving.
References
Rewrite-Based Equational Theorem Proving with Selection and Simplification, Leo Bachmair and Harald Ganzinger, Journal of Logic and Computation 3(4), 1994.
External links
Personal Homepage of Harald Ganzinger — Version of Dec.7th, 2013 saved at archive.org
1950 births
2004 deaths
Automated theorem proving
German computer scientists
Technical University of Munich alumni
Academic staff of the Technical University of Dortmund
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Max Planck Institute directors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkanen | Nikkanen is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kimmo Nikkanen, the first regular host of the free Finnish cable network channel Moon TV
Marcus Nikkanen (1904–1985), Finnish figure skater
Minna Nikkanen (born 1988), Finnish pole vaulter
Yrjö Nikkanen (1914–1985), Finnish athlete
Finnish-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency%20and%20Coordination%20Runtime | Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) is an asynchronous programming library based on .NET Framework from Microsoft distributed with Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS). Even though it comes with MRDS, it is not limited to modelling robotic behavior but can be used to express asynchronous behavior in any application.
CCR runtime includes a Dispatcher class that implements a Thread pool, with a fixed number of threads, all of which can execute simultaneously. Each dispatcher includes a queue (called DispatcherQueue) of delegates, which represent the entry point to a procedure (called work item) that can be executed asynchronously. The work items are then distributed across the threads for execution. A dispatcher object also contains a generic Port which is a queue where the result of the asynchronous execution of a work item is put. Each work item can be associated with a ReceiverTask object which consumes the result for further processing. An Arbiter manages the ReceiverTask and invokes them when the result they are expecting is ready and put on the Port queue.
In May 2010, the CCR was made available along with the entire Robotics Developer Studio in one package, for free. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3.
CCR was last updated in RDS R4 in 2012. It is no longer under development. Asynchronous programming is now supported in Visual Studio languages such as C# through built-in language features.
See also
Parallel Extensions
Joins
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
References
External links
CCR: MSDN Magazine
CCR: Channel9 Interview
CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008 homepage
Concurrency and Coordination Runtime MSDN Documentation
.NET software
Concurrent programming libraries
Robotics suites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20of%20Record | Carrier of Record (or COR) for telecommunications, refers to the entity that provides PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) service for an E.164 number. The exact definition of who and what is a COR is ultimately the responsibility of the relevant national regulatory authority.
See also
Outline of telecommunication
References
Telephony |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCGamerBike | The PCGamerBike is an exercise bike that can interact with computer games. It uses magnets to produce resistance which makes the bike relatively quiet in operation, and comes with software that will automatically logs calories burned, distance and speed to a daily graph.
Types
There are two versions of the PCGamerBike; the PCGamerBike Mini and the PCGamerBike Recumbent. The PCGamerBike Mini is a compact exercise bike, and the PCGamerBike Recumbent is a full-sized recumbent exercise bike.
Use
The PCGamerBike is configurable and as a result can interact with a broad range of PC games. They are typically used to control character(s) in a game, or a character's vehicle, such as a car, bike or boat, by pedaling forward or backward, to move the character in those directions. Side to side controls require the use of a keyboard or mouse, which can be used in accompaniment with the bike. When used with driving and racing games, character speed is proportional to pedal speed. The PCGamerBike Mini can be used with any game that supports a keyboard, as it is connected via a USB port as a game controller. The resistance of the pedals on the PCGamerBike Recumbent can be adjusted to the player's preference and will also vary depending on certain in-game situations, for example, in a situation when the character is going up or down hill.
Awards
The PCGamerBike received the 2007 International CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award.
References
External links
Exercise equipment
Fitness games
Video game accessories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply%20Chain%20Management%20%28journal%29 | Supply Chain Management is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering issues in supply chain management, including contractual relationships, data interchange and vertical integration, efficient consumer response, investment in emerging economies, just in time procedures, logistics, organizational behaviour, and risk management. It is published by Emerald Group Publishing and the editor-in-chief is Andrew Fearne (Kent Business School). The journal publishes research papers, research notes, case studies, insights from industry, and doctoral papers. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 1.684.
References
External links
Business and management journals
Bimonthly journals
Emerald Group Publishing academic journals
English-language journals
Publications with year of establishment missing
Supply chain management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Bar%20Association | Founded in 1874, the Chicago Bar Association (CBA) is a voluntary bar association with over 20,000 members. Like other bar associations, it concerns itself with professional ethics, networking among members, and continuing legal education. It is located adjacent to the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law in the Chicago Loop.
Notable members
Notable members included Illinois state representative (1922-46 and 1948–50) David Ivar Swanson and prominent attorney Earl B. Dickerson who argued Hansberry v. Lee before the Supreme Court.
See also
Robert Hervey - Scottish born Canadian lawyer who founded the CBA after he left Canada to practice law in Chicago.
William C. Goudy - first President of the CBA in 1874
References
External links
Chicago Bar Association Home Page
American municipal bar associations
1874 establishments in Illinois
Legal organizations in Chicago
Organizations established in 1874 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20delivery%20network | An application delivery network (ADN) is a suite of technologies that, when deployed together, provide availability, security, visibility, and acceleration for Internet applications such as websites. ADN components provide supporting functionality that enables website content to be delivered to visitors and other users of that website, in a fast, secure, and reliable way.
Gartner defines application delivery networking as the combination of WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application delivery controllers (ADCs). At the data center end of an ADN is the ADC, an advanced traffic management device that is often also referred to as a web switch, content switch, or multilayer switch, the purpose of which is to distribute traffic among a number of servers or geographically dislocated sites based on application specific criteria. In the branch office portion of an ADN is the WAN optimization controller, which works to reduce the number of bits that flow over the network using caching and compression, and shapes TCP traffic using prioritization and other optimization techniques. Some WOC components are installed on PCs or mobile clients, and there is typically a portion of the WOC installed in the data center. Application delivery networks are also offered by some CDN vendors.
The ADC, one component of an ADN, evolved from layer 4-7 switches in the late 1990s when it became apparent that traditional load balancing techniques were not robust enough to handle the increasingly complex mix of application traffic being delivered over a wider variety of network connectivity options.
Application delivery techniques
The Internet was designed according to the end-to-end principle.
This principle keeps the core network relatively simple and moves the intelligence as much as possible to the network end-points: the hosts and clients. An Application Delivery Network (ADN) enhances the delivery of applications across the Internet by employing a number of optimization techniques. Many of these techniques are based on established best-practices employed to efficiently route traffic at the network layer including redundancy and load balancing
In theory, an Application Delivery Network (ADN) is closely related to a content delivery network. The difference between the two delivery networks lies in the intelligence of the ADN to understand and optimize applications, usually referred to as application fluency. Application Fluent Network (AFN) is based on the concept of Application Fluency to refer to WAN optimization techniques applied at Layer Four to Layer Seven of the OSI model for networks. Application Fluency implies that the network is fluent or intelligent in understanding and being able to optimize delivery of each application. Application Fluent Network is an addition of SDN capabilities. The acronym 'AFN' is used by Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise to refer to an Application Fluent Network.
Application delivery uses one or more layer 4–7 switches, also k |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company%20of%20Heroes%3A%20Opposing%20Fronts | Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts (abbreviated CoH:OF) is the stand alone expansion pack to Company of Heroes, a real-time strategy game for computers running the Windows operating system. Opposing Fronts was developed by Canadian-based RTS developer Relic Entertainment, and published by THQ. The game was released on September 25, 2007, in the US and September 28 in Europe. Another standalone expansion to the CoH series, Tales of Valor, was released in April 2009. The game was released as a DLC on IPadOS on April 13, 2020.
Gameplay
Dynamic Environmental Effects System
Opposing Fronts implements a Dynamic Weather Effects system consisting of real time weather effects and day-to-night time transitions. In addition to these enhancements, particular birds sing at various times of the day and during specific weather patterns. Although Relic had initially indicated otherwise, the Dynamic Weather Effects system has no tactical impact on the battlefield.
New single-player campaigns
Opposing Fronts introduces two new single player campaigns. The campaigns feature gameplay from the British perspective and the German perspective. The British campaign is based on the Liberation of Caen. It features nine missions focusing on the attack by British and Canadian forces from Sword, Gold, and Juno Beaches to the city of Caen. The German Panzer Elite's campaign is based on driving back Allied forces during Operation Market Garden. It features eight playable missions following a Panzer Elite Kampfgruppe in occupied Netherlands that is bracing itself for one of the largest airborne invasions in history.
Compatibility
Company of Heroes players are able to play against Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts users. Those who own both games can either play as the Americans or the British against the Wehrmacht or the Panzer Elite. Those who own only Company of Heroes can play only as the American or Wehrmacht armies.
Factions
British 2nd Army
The British are the new Allied army in the series. Their primary advantages are defensive. A greater number of static defences can be built, such as slit trenches and anti-tank emplacements. These emplacements have an associated population and manpower cost to prevent the map being overrun with defences. Their standard unit, the Infantry Section, has stances that alters their speed and reactions. Though more effective than their American counterparts, most British infantry move slower in neutral or hostile territory unless led by a Lieutenant or Captain, which are extremely expensive. The British mainly rely on officers, such as the Captain, Lieutenant and the Cromwell Command Tank, to improve effectiveness. British bases can be packed up and redeployed at different positions, but at the cost of freezing resource income during the move. Veterancy for the British is also unique. Only officers can become veterans. As they gain rank, they gain new abilities and benefits for their soldiers. Infantry units can become more mobile if mou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93R%C3%A9nyi%20model | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Erdős–Rényi model refers to one of two closely related models for generating random graphs or the evolution of a random network. These models are named after Hungarian mathematicians Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi, who introduced one of the models in 1959. Edgar Gilbert introduced the other model contemporaneously with and independently of Erdős and Rényi. In the model of Erdős and Rényi, all graphs on a fixed vertex set with a fixed number of edges are equally likely. In the model introduced by Gilbert, also called the Erdős–Rényi–Gilbert model, each edge has a fixed probability of being present or absent, independently of the other edges. These models can be used in the probabilistic method to prove the existence of graphs satisfying various properties, or to provide a rigorous definition of what it means for a property to hold for almost all graphs.
Definition
There are two closely related variants of the Erdős–Rényi random graph model.
In the model, a graph is chosen uniformly at random from the collection of all graphs which have nodes and edges. The nodes are considered to be labeled, meaning that graphs obtained from each other by permuting the vertices are considered to be distinct. For example, in the model, there are three two-edge graphs on three labeled vertices (one for each choice of the middle vertex in a two-edge path), and each of these three graphs is included with probability .
In the model, a graph is constructed by connecting labeled nodes randomly. Each edge is included in the graph with probability , independently from every other edge. Equivalently, the probability for generating each graph that has nodes and edges is The parameter in this model can be thought of as a weighting function; as increases from to , the model becomes more and more likely to include graphs with more edges and less and less likely to include graphs with fewer edges. In particular, the case corresponds to the case where all graphs on vertices are chosen with equal probability.
The behavior of random graphs are often studied in the case where , the number of vertices, tends to infinity. Although and can be fixed in this case, they can also be functions depending on . For example, the statement that almost every graph in is connected means that, as tends to infinity, the probability that a graph on vertices with edge probability is connected tends to .
Comparison between the two models
The expected number of edges in G(n, p) is , and by the law of large numbers any graph in G(n, p) will almost surely have approximately this many edges (provided the expected number of edges tends to infinity). Therefore, a rough heuristic is that if pn2 → ∞, then G(n,p) should behave similarly to G(n, M) with as n increases.
For many graph properties, this is the case. If P is any graph property which is monotone with respect to the subgraph ordering (meaning that if A is a subgraph of B and B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris%20flower%20data%20set | The Iris flower data set or Fisher's Iris data set is a multivariate data set used and made famous by the British statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher in his 1936 paper The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems as an example of linear discriminant analysis. It is sometimes called Anderson's Iris data set because Edgar Anderson collected the data to quantify the morphologic variation of Iris flowers of three related species. Two of the three species were collected in the Gaspé Peninsula "all from the same pasture, and picked on the same day and measured at the same time by the same person with the same apparatus".
The data set consists of 50 samples from each of three species of Iris (Iris setosa, Iris virginica and Iris versicolor). Four features were measured from each sample: the length and the width of the sepals and petals, in centimeters. Based on the combination of these four features, Fisher developed a linear discriminant model to distinguish the species from each other. Fisher's paper was published in the Annals of Eugenics (today the Annals of Human Genetics) and includes discussion of the contained techniques' applications to the field of phrenology.
Use of the data set
Originally used as an example data set on which Fisher's linear discriminant analysis was applied, it became a typical test case for many statistical classification techniques in machine learning such as support vector machines.
The use of this data set in cluster analysis however is not common, since the data set only contains two clusters with rather obvious separation. One of the clusters contains Iris setosa, while the other cluster contains both Iris virginica and Iris versicolor and is not separable without the species information Fisher used. This makes the data set a good example to explain the difference between supervised and unsupervised techniques in data mining: Fisher's linear discriminant model can only be obtained when the object species are known: class labels and clusters are not necessarily the same.
Nevertheless, all three species of Iris are separable in the projection on the nonlinear and branching principal component. The data set is approximated by the closest tree with some penalty for the excessive number of nodes, bending and stretching. Then the so-called "metro map" is constructed. The data points are projected into the closest node. For each node the pie diagram of the projected points is prepared. The area of the pie is proportional to the number of the projected points. It is clear from the diagram (left) that the absolute majority of the samples of the different Iris species belong to the different nodes. Only a small fraction of Iris-virginica is mixed with Iris-versicolor (the mixed blue-green nodes in the diagram). Therefore, the three species of Iris (Iris setosa, Iris virginica and Iris versicolor) are separable by the unsupervising procedures of nonlinear principal component analysis. To discriminate them, it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTHU%20College%20of%20Electrical%20Engineering%20and%20Computer%20Science | The College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) of National Tsing Hua University was established on February 1, 1998. The goal of the college is to foster high-tech professionals to be ready to meet the trend in national economic construction and industrial development. Many alumni now work in Hsinchu Science Park, the technological heart of Taiwan.
The college of EECS now consists of two departments and four graduate institutes:
Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), Ph.D., M.S. and B.S.
Department of Computer Science (CS), Ph.D., M.S. and B.S.
Institute of Electronics Engineering (ENE), Ph.D. and M.S.
Institute of Communications Engineering (COM), Ph.D. and M.S.
Institute of Information Systems and Applications (ISA), Ph.D. and M.S.
Institute of Photonics Technologies (IPT), Ph.D. and M.S.
Currently, the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has 95 full-time faculty members.
External links
EECS College Website
EECS College Website
Electrical Engineering Department
Computer Science Department
Institute of Communications
Institute of Information Systems and Applications
Institute of Fotonic Technologies
NTHU Official Website
National Tsing Hua University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official%20Historian%20of%20Puerto%20Rico | Pursuant to a law approved in 1903, "An Act for the Approval and Conservation of Certain Historical Data of Puerto Rico", the Puerto Rico Legislature created the Office of the Official Historian of Puerto Rico. The historians who held the position during the early decades of the 20th century included Francisco Mariano Quiñones, Salvador Brau y Asencio, Dr. Cayetano Coll y Toste, Mariano Abril and Adolfo de Hostos. The office remained vacant until 1993, when then Sen. Kenneth McClintock authored a measure to reestablish the office. Upon its approval, Senate President Roberto Rexach Benítez and House Speaker Zaida Hernández Torres appointed Dr. Pilar Barbosa as the first Official Historian in the office's "modern era". The first female to hold the job, she held it until her death in 1997. At that time, Senate President Charlie Rodríguez and House Speaker Edison Misla Aldarondo appointed Dr. Luis González Vale, the current incumbent.
Under Dr. González Vale's leadership, the office has collaborated on multiple publications, including the letters of Resident Commissioner Félix Córdova Dávila, and several works regarding Puerto Rico's military history. In 2005, in collaboration with Puerto Rico's Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, his office published an eight-book "We, the People" Puerto Rican Series of books regarding the history of Puerto Rico during the first 30 years of US sovereignty.
Dr. González Vale was invited to testify as a non-partisan witness at hearings held by the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Insular Affairs on legislation regarding Puerto Rico's future political relationship with the United States. Luis González Vales died on October 23, 2023, at the age of 93.
References
Sources
Office of Legislative Services - Senate of Puerto Rico - House of Representatives
Colección "We the People" Puerto Rican series, 2005, Ediciones Puerto, POBox 9066272 San Juan PR 00906-6072, Feria Internacional del Libro de Puerto Rico
History of Puerto Rico
Historical societies of the United States
1903 establishments in Puerto Rico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACN%20Inc. | ACN, Inc. is a North American multi-level marketing (MLM) company. It provides telecommunications, energy, merchant services and other services, depending on the country, through a network of independent sellers who also can recruit other sellers. Based in Concord, North Carolina, United States, ACN began operations in the United States in 1993. , the company reported that it operates in twenty-seven countries.
Donald Trump and three of his children had some involvement with ACN during his term as president of the United States. In 2018, a class action lawsuit was filed against them alleging fraud, false advertising, unfair competition, and a now-dismissed allegation of racketeering. In July 2021, a US appeals court ruled that the case cannot go to arbitration. The lawsuit is ongoing as of March 2022.
Business model
The company is based in Concord, North Carolina, United States. ACN has international offices located in Montreal, Canada; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Sydney, Australia; Wrocław, Poland; Gothenburg, Sweden; Seoul, South Korea, and the United Mexican States.
ACN's income disclosure statement bears the warning that "not all ACN independent representatives make a profit and no one can be guaranteed success as an ACN independent representative."
History
In 1993, Robert Stevanovski, Greg Provenzano, and twin brothers Tony and Mike Cupisz, founded the American Communications Network, Inc. ACN opened for business in January 1993 with twenty initial "independent representatives". ACN's initial business was as a marketing arm for a long-distance reseller called LCI Communications. This relationship lasted for five years until LCI was acquired by Qwest Communications. By 1998, ACN was listed in Inc. Magazine'''s "Inc. 500" list as No. Twenty-two in this annual list of the five hundred fastest growing private companies in America.
ACN operated as a gas and electricity retailer, through the subsidiaries ACN Energy and ACN Utility Services, prior to its energy assets being acquired by Commerce Energy Group in 2006. In 2008, ACN moved its headquarters from Farmington Hills, Michigan to Concord, North Carolina. In 2014, ACN expanded operations to Latin America, beginning first with Mexico. In 2016, ACN expanded operations in Japan. By 2019, ACN was operating in 26 countries and five continents.
From 2006 until he announced his presidential candidacy in 2015, ACN had a business relationship with former The Apprentice executive producer Donald Trump. Trump spoke at ACN events, featured their products on an episode of The Apprentice, and took part in ACN promotional videos. Following the official beginning of his 2016 presidential candidacy, all references to Donald Trump were removed from the ACN website, and Trump distanced himself from the company in an interview with The Wall Street Journal''. "I know nothing about the company other than the people who run the company," Trump told them. "I’m not familiar with what they do or how they go abo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVAPD | In the x86 assembly programming language, MOVAPD is the name for a specific action performable by modern x86 processors with 2nd-generation Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE2). This action involves copying a pair of numbers to temporary space in the processor for use in other computations. MOVAPD is one of the fastest ways to accomplish this effect - it is faster than the comparable instruction MOVSD.
Specifically, MOVAPD causes a 16-byte-aligned packed-doubles source to be copied to an XMM register or a 16-byte memory region.
Usage
The source operand can be either an XMM register (xmm2) or a memory address (m128).
The destination operand can be either an XMM register (xmm1) or a memory address (m128). Note, however, that the source and destination operands cannot both be memory addresses.
Potential Exceptions
If a memory address operand is not 16-byte-aligned, a general protection exception (#GP) will be raised. This can cause strange interoperability bugs when ordinary code calls an external code that was compiled with the assumption of a 16-byte-aligned stack frame boundary.
References
documentation
Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual, November, 2006.
Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 2A: Instruction Set Reference, A-M, November, 2006.
See also
MOVAPS/MOVAPD
MOVDDUP
MOVHLPS
MOVHPS/MOVHPD
MOVLHPS
MOVLPS/MOVLPD
MOVMSKPS/MOVMSKPD
MOVNTPS
MOVSHDUP
MOVSLDUP
MOVSS/MOVSD
MOVUPS/MOVUPD
x86 instruction listings
X86 instructions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxacon | A relaxacon (sometimes relaxicon) is a science fiction convention which has little formal programming and very few organized activities, as the point is that the organizers can relax during the convention. Though informal, relaxacons can occur on a regularly scheduled basis, such as Arisia Inc.'s Relaxacon, which was held yearly from 2006 through 2019. Starting in 2021 the running of the Arisia Relaxacon was taken over by Massachusetts Convention Fandom, Inc. (MCFI) with an attempt to make it more of a general Boston and east coast area Relaxacon.
Relaxacons are generally small, ranging from 50 to 200 attendees. They are often invitation or word-of-mouth only. They are a chance for the organizers of a large convention to get together with the other organizers and relax once the convention is over, and are held a month or more after the regular convention. Some large conventions use relaxacons as a reward for volunteers, and as a way of using up leftover supplies (similar to a dead dog party). This can be seen as contributing to SMOF-ish behavior, which some members of the fandom can find off-putting.
History
The first convention that was labelled as relaxacon was Midwestcon in 1950.
Science fiction author Jack Chalker suggested the term originated at the 1966 Midwestcon. However, earlier uses of the word have possibly been identified in a 1956 issue of the newszine Fantasy Times and a 1957 issue of Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Both instances used the spelling "relaxicon."
Sercon
Relaxacons are often contrasted with Sercon conventions, ones (purportedly) devoted solely to serious constructive discussion of science fiction topics. Organizers of most of those conventions sometimes described as "sercon" tend to be uncomfortable with the label, since the term originally implied a highly unfannish lack of a sense of fun and self-perspective.
References
External links
Midwestcon—The first relaxacon, started in 1950
DeCONpression—Ohio based relaxacon
ConVersation—A Michigan relaxacon
CodClave—NESFA's winter relaxacon
Arisia Relaxacon—Arisia's summer relaxacon
Chambanacon—Central Illinois' longest running relaxacon (since 1971)
Fantasy Times Archive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20Mobile%20Architecture | Mobile telephony (cellular) has become a commonplace aspect of modern life. Mobile computing is less well established than mobile telephony, partly because of the lack of a common standard infrastructure for secure seamless mobile computing for the Internet. With the increasing number of mobile workers, a secure mobile architecture specification is needed to allow businesses and individuals to maintain secure connections when moving or mobile.
Secure Mobile Architecture (SMA) grew from work in The Open Group's (TOG) Mobile Management Forum (MMF). The MMF developed a demonstration of proprietary seamless secure session management across different networks, which was given at The Open Group Conference in Berlin, April 2001. This led to the development by the MMF together with The Open Group Directory Interoperability Forum (DIF) of the Business Scenario – The Executive on the Move. This business scenario described the requirements for directories to support mobile computing. The Open Group then worked on a Challenge to vendors of directories and related products to provide support for mobile computing. The SMA activity became a task group in The Open Group and the participants developed the Secure Mobile Architecture (SMA) over a three-year period, publishing in February 2004.
The architecture described in the SMA Vision and Architecture was developed by a team of Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Motorola, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Netmotion Wireless, Wheatstone Consulting and the University of St Thomas. Its central features were the use of the Host Identity Protocol (HIP), cryptographic identities, secure directories, and location to make policy-based information about users and the network available to applications, management systems, and intelligent network components. A directory schema appropriate for this purpose was developed and worked out in detail.
Secure Mobile Architecture Components
Host Identity Payload (HIP): provides a mechanism by which the identity of the equipment or its user is carried securely in every packet.
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI): provides cryptographic identities for the HIP protocol.
Secure Directory: retains information about the user, the owner, the machine, and other policy relevant information.
Location: the location of the user or computing device is an integral part of the secure and mobile architecture.
Starting in 2004, Boeing developed an SMA implementation for its Intranet-connected moving production lines and its secure mobile computing requirements. The intent is to provide the Boeing implementation of SMA as an open-source, open-standards approach to secure mobile computing. The Open Group is envisioned to be the holder of that implementation. An SMA Alliance is being considered to expand the broadened use of SMA for enterprises or any organization in need of a secure seamless mobile computing infrastructure.
References
SMA Vision and Architecture http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/e04 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMF%20NL | TMF NL was a digital music television channel of MTV Networks Benelux that broadcast on all major digital platforms in the Netherlands and Belgium from 2005 to 2011. The station was presented along with three other digital channels of MTV Networks, namely TMF Pure, TMF Party and Nick Jr., and started on 1 May 2005. The channel only played videos by Dutch artists and was a spin-off of successful Dutch music channel TMF.
The channel, as well as the other activities of TMF Nederland (Netherlands) closed on 31 December 2011.
References
Music television channels
Defunct television channels in the Netherlands
Television channels in Flanders
Television channels in Belgium
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
Music organisations based in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliMouse | IntelliMouse is a series of computer mice from Microsoft. The IntelliMouse series is credited with a number of innovations; Microsoft was among the first mouse vendors to introduce a scroll wheel, an optical mouse, and dedicated auxiliary buttons on the side of the mouse. They use IntelliPoint drivers and its main competitor through the years has been Logitech.
History
The original IntelliMouse was introduced on July 22, 1996, with its stand-out feature being a scroll wheel. Its design was based on that of the Microsoft Mouse 2.0 from 1993.
In November 1997 Microsoft released the IntelliMouse TrackBall, using a finger-operated trackball to control the cursor and featuring the signature IntelliMouse scroll wheel. In May 1998 the IntelliMouse Pro was released, a redesign of the original IntelliMouse that featured an asymmetrical shape (intended for right-hand use) with a more pronounced arch profile.
The IntelliMouse Explorer was introduced on April 19, 1999, at COMDEX. This version featured IntelliEye optical tracking technology, eliminating the need for a mouse ball or mousepad. It had five buttons (two on top, a scroll wheel that could be depressed, and two on the left side of the mouse). It was asymmetrical and designed for right-handed users. Microsoft called it the "most radical computer mouse technology and design advancement" since computer mice were introduced in the 1960s. The Explorer was finished in silver, and featured a glowing red "taillight" to emphasize its optical sensor. In May, the IntelliMouse Explorer was exhibited at E3 1999, touting the benefits of its optical sensor for accuracy and reliability. It was released on October 4, 1999. In 2005, PC World named the IntelliMouse Explorer to its list of "The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years" as the first mainstream optical mouse.
The IntelliMouse Optical was announced in January 2000 ahead of its April release. The IntelliMouse Optical had similar styling and features as the 1999 IntelliMouse Explorer, but used a symmetric, ambidextrous design to accommodate use by the left hand. It had five buttons – two on top, the scroll wheel, and one on each side of the mouse. The optical sensor and the plug-and-play USB connection led Microsoft to tout the IntelliMouse Optical as an ideal travel companion for laptop users. The IntelliMouse Optical received an Industrial Design Excellence Award in 2001, and was included in the "Workspheres" exhibit held at the New York MoMA in 2001.
New versions of the IntelliMouse Explorer and Optical were introduced in September 2001 alongside the first wireless variant, the Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer. While the original IntelliEye sensor sampled images at 1500 frames per second (fps), the new version sampled images at 6000 fps. In addition, finger grooves and an enhanced grip were added to the new IntelliMouse Explorer.
The Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer for Bluetooth was released in 2002, both as a separate product and with a wireless keyb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vecima%20Networks | Vecima Networks is a Canadian company that develops hardware and software for broadband access, content delivery, and telematics. It was founded in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and currently has offices in Saskatoon, Burnaby, Atlanta, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and is headquartered in Victoria. Vecima sells its products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), system integrators, MSOs and other service providers.
History
Sumit Kumar is the CEO and president. Surinder Kumar is the founder of the company and is the chairman of the board.
1988 - Wavecom Electronics is founded and incorporated by Surinder Kumar.
1990 - First commercial products include a line of modulators for the cable television industry.
1998 - Corporate Headquarters relocated to Victoria.
2003 - Wavecom changes name to VCom.
2003 - VCom acquires YourLink, a wireless service provider.
2005 - VCom transitions to a public company – VCM on the TSX.
2005 - VCom wins the Advancing Technology award at BC Export Awards.
2006 - VCom changes its name to Vecima Networks.
2007 - Vecima acquires Spectrum Signal Processing (Burnaby), a signal processing hardware company.
2008 - Vecima signs supply agreement with Cisco Systems.
2013 - Vecima announces appointment of Sumit Kumar to position of CEO.
2016 - Vecima acquires Contigo Systems, a telematics company.
2017 - Vecima sells YourLink to Xplornet.
2017 - Vecima acquires Concurrent Computer Corporation, a video content delivery and storage company.
References
Companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
Electronics companies of Canada
Telecommunications equipment vendors
Canadian companies established in 1988
Telecommunications companies established in 1988
1988 establishments in British Columbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xunlei | Xunlei Limited () is a Chinese multinational technology company and an online service provider founded in 2003. The subsidiary of Xunlei Limited, Shenzhen Xunlei Networking Technologies, Co., Ltd. () was formerly known as Sandai Technologies (Shenzhen) Inc. and changed its name to Shenzhen Xunlei Networking Technologies, Co., Ltd. in May 2005. Its headquarters are in Nanshan District, Shenzhen.
In April 2014, Xunlei received an investment from a Chinese electronics company Xiaomi of $200 million. On 24 June 2014, it went public on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, selling 7.315 million American depositary shares (ADS) at $12 and raising just shy of $88 million. According to the annual ranking of China's top 100 internet companies released by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the Chinese government, Xunlei occupied 42nd place in 2017's ranking.
The main products developed by Xunlei Limited is the Xunlei download manager and Peer-to-peer software, supporting HTTP, FTP, eDonkey, and BitTorrent protocols. , it was the most commonly used BitTorrent client in the world. In October 2017, the company announced that it will transform itself into a blockchain company, and release a blockchain-based product named OneThing Cloud. OneThing Cloud users get LinkToken (a type of virtual token) for contributing their bandwidth to the Xunlei's content delivery network.
Xunlei Ltd. announced that its board of directors has appointed Lei Chen, who is a former Tencent cloud computing unit leader, as its Chief Executive Officer of the Company and Director of the Board on June 29, 2017. On December 12, 2017, Xunlei announced that the board of directors of the Company has elected Mr. Chuan Wang as the Chairman of Board of Directors of the Company. Wang has been a director of Xunlei since March 2014. Wang is a co-founder of Xiaomi Inc., where he has served as its vice president since 2012. He is also the founder of Beijing Duokan Technology Co., Ltd., where he has served as its chief executive officer since its inception of business in 2010.
Products
The Xunlei download manager, generally called Xunlei, is the flagship product of Xunlei Corporation and other desktop software. Xunlei is the most popular download software in China. Since 2017, StellarCloud, OneThing Cloud and ThunderChain have become important products of the corporation.
Xunlei
Through Xunlei, users can access a large portion of the files available on the Internet. Xunlei uses a technology called P2SP to speed up download. Features in Xunlei includes a built-in browser, changeable skins, cloud storage, "offline" downloading, hi-speed downloading (only available for members), email service and more. According to iResearch's report, as of March 2014, the cloud accelerates monthly active users of Xunlei reach 142 million(including approximately 5.2 million paid member), and has a market share of 81.4% in the cloud accelerated products and services market in China.
Xunlei is accompanied by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLNZ | WLNZ (89.7 FM) is a non-commercial radio station located in Lansing, Michigan, simulcasting the regional Michigan Radio network of public radio stations. The station is owned by Lansing Community College.
History
Originally WLNZ wanted to be branded as WLNS, however, WLNS had already been taken by WLNS-TV, a local CBS affiliate, so it landed on WLNZ.
Technical
The station began broadcasting in 1994 with 100 watts. Power was increased to 420 watts in 2001. WLNZ began broadcasting in HD in 2006.
Programming
Programming originally consisted mainly of jazz and blues music, but it changed formats to adult album alternative typically throughout the daytime hours weekdays, with different programming on the weekend. The station typically played "Triple-A" music, but ventured out to many genres of music, branding itself as the "True Variety Station".
The station featured a lot of Michigan music and shows dedicated to Michigan artists throughout the day. These features ranged from the "Local Lunch Hour", where nothing but Michigan music was played, to the "M-89.7" artist spotlight, where one Michigan artist or band is chosen to be "spotlighted" through one whole month.
Each morning there was a live local talk show called Coffee Break, which was televised in the Lansing area on Comcast local public-access television. WLNZ's original jazz format continued on its HD2 subchannel, which was branded as Jazz Now!.
Closure
WLNZ ceased operations March 13, 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It announced June 18, 2020 that it would permanently sign off June 30, however the school's president contradicted this report on June 22.
Partnership with Michigan Radio
WLNZ started simulcasting the programs of Michigan Radio on November 15, 2021. As part of the deal between Lansing Community College and Michigan Radio, the college continues to provide locally produced programming every Saturday at 1 PM, and every Sunday at 6 PM.
References
External links
Michiguide.com - WLNZ History
LNZ
Radio stations established in 1994
1994 establishments in Michigan
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Public radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVHPD | In the x86 assembly programming language, MOVHPD is the name for a specific action performable by modern x86 processors with 2nd-generation Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE2). This action involves either copying a number from memory to temporary space or copying a number from temporary space to memory.
Specifically, MOVHPD causes the value at an 8-byte memory region to be either copied to or assigned from the upper half of an XMM register.
Usage
The source operand can be either an XMM register (xmm) or a memory address (m64). When the source operand is an XMM register, the destination operand must be a memory address. When the source operand is a memory address, the destination operand must be an XMM register.
Note that the lower half of the XMM register is unaffected by this operation.
Potential exceptions
References
page.
Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 2A: Instruction Set Reference, A-M, November, 2006.
See also
MOVAPS/MOVAPD
MOVDDUP
MOVHLPS
MOVHPS/MOVHPD
MOVLHPS
MOVLPS/MOVLPD
MOVMSKPS/MOVMSKPD
MOVNTPS
MOVSHDUP
MOVSLDUP
MOVSS/MOVSD
MOVUPS/MOVUPD
x86 instruction listings
X86 instructions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20Screen%20%28novel%29 | Silver Screen is a science fiction novel by Justina Robson, first published by Macmillan in 1999. It features Anjuli O'Connell, employed as a psychologist to monitor an artificial intelligence named 901. She has a photographic memory and perfect recall. The story concerns events following the death of Roy Croft, Anjuli's colleague and friend. The book's themes include machine rights and evolution.
1999 British novels
English novels
1999 science fiction novels
British science fiction novels
Macmillan Publishers books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Important%20ecological%20areas | Important ecological areas (IEAs) are habitat areas which, either by themselves or in a network, contribute significantly to an ecosystem’s productivity, biodiversity, and resilience. Appropriate management of key ecological features delineates the management boundaries of an IEA. The identification and protection of IEAs is an element of an ecosystem-based management approach.
Important ecological areas may have varying levels of management of extractive activities, from monitoring up to and including marine reserve. IEAs have management measures tailored to the ecological features within the area with consideration of socioeconomic factors. Whereas marine reserves generally have a fixed management policy of no extraction or ‘no-take’. Nonetheless, a marine reserve may be the appropriate management policy for an IEA.
The identification and management of IEAs is a form of ocean zoning. In the event that there are a series of linked IEAs within a large marine ecosystem, a collective action to manage the network, such as a marine sanctuary or national monument, may be warranted.
Examples are tropical rainforests, oceans, forests, etc.
References
Ecology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Russell%20%28journalist%29 | James B. Russell (January 30, 1946 – September 13, 2022) was an American journalist, producer, and executive who created national programs for all three public radio networks: National Public Radio, Public Radio International and American Public Media, as well as for PBS.
Russell worked for more than thirty years in commercial radio, print, public radio, and television. Programs he helped create include Marketplace, Weekend America, and public TV's Newton's Apple, NightTimes, Electronicle and America After Vietnam. He also helped develop NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and PRI's The World.
Russell was a 1973–1974 NEH Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan.
Personal life
As a result of having a US Foreign Service employee as a parent, grew up in Pakistan, Greece and Italy until age 16, which he credited with giving him "the ability to look at the world and my own country through others’ eyes.”
Russell began working for commercial radio stations in the Washington, D.C. market as a college student, including one of the earliest stations dedicated entirely to news; there, he delivered live coverage of major events including the Poor People's March on Washington, a protest against the Vietnam War in front of the Pentagon, and the 1968 Washington, D.C., riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King.
In his final years, Russell was the president of his consulting company, Jim Russell Productions—The Program Doctor.
He died on September 13, 2022, after suffering a fall and spending several days in the intensive care unit followed by hospice.
References
External links
1946 births
2022 deaths
American male journalists
American radio producers
American University School of Communication alumni
NPR personalities
University of Michigan fellows
20th-century American journalists
People from Hartford, Connecticut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocco%20Wars | is a side-scrolling platform video game released for the Family Computer in 1991 exclusively in Japan.
Summary
The game allows the player to control a shape-changing robot named R-10 (and his human controller Lance) as they fight evil robots. On the land, the player is a freight train that must follow the railroad tracks to the boss of the level. However, the robot turns into an airplane when the player is forced to fly to the next mission. Sea missions require the player to transform into a submarine.
The player has three lives and three continues as they struggle to liberate the world of Robocco from evil.
References
External links
Video Game Museum
1991 video games
Information Global Service games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Video games about robots
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Masaharu Iwata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Love | Computer Love may refer to:
Computer Love (album), an album by Australian artists TZU
"Computer Love" (Zapp song)
"Computer Love" (Kraftwerk song)
"Computer Love", a song by the band Eruption |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Liljegren | Erik Liljegren is a former correspondent for Fox News Channel and founder of Eye Care Video. He joined the network in January 2005 as a reporter for The FOX Report with Shepard Smith.
Early life and education
Liljegren holds a degree in English and Political Science from the University of Vermont.
Before taking his position at the Fox News Channel (FNC), Liljegren served as a general assignment reporter at the Fox affiliate station, WGHP-TV, in High Point, North Carolina from 2003–2005. He began his journalism career in 1990 as a sports reporter for the Nantucket Beacon, a weekly newspaper in Massachusetts.
Fox News Channel
Liljegren first arrived at FNC three months prior to its launch in 1996. Over the next six years, he worked as a producer for major event coverage and breaking news including the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the Columbine High School shootings, the 2000 presidential election recount, and coverage from Ground Zero in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
Eye Care Video
Liljegren started Eye Care Video in 2007, after "recogniz[ing] that internet based video advertising was a game changer in that it would allow small businesses to reach potential customers with TV quality video.
References
External links
Bio on FoxNews.com
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American television personalities
American reporters and correspondents
University of Vermont alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20butterfly | A social butterfly is a slang term for a person who is socially dynamic, successful at networking, charismatic, and personally gregarious.
It may also refer to:
Social Butterfly, a character in the comic book series Livewires
"Social Butterfly", a song recorded by Finnish singer Kim Herold
Slang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM%20Osaka | is an FM radio station in Osaka, Japan. The station is an affiliate of Japan FM Network (JFN).
FM Osaka started broadcasting on April 1, 1970. It was the second commercial FM radio station to launch in Japan after FM Aichi. During its early years, FM Osaka transmitted from Mount Ikoma but later moved to Mount Iimori.
FM Osaka's main studios are located at "Minatomachi River Place" in Minato, Naniwa, Osaka, in use since July 22, 2002. Its previous studios was at the Asahi Shimbun Osaka Headquarters building in Nakanoshima.
See also
List of radio stations in Japan
aiko - one of FM Osaka's disc jockeys, started as a DJ before her singing career.
External links
FM OSAKA
Radio in Japan
Companies based in Osaka Prefecture
Mass media in Osaka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20New%20Mexico%20communities%20with%20Hispanic%20majority%20populations%20in%20the%202000%20census | The following is a list of cities, towns and census-designated places in New Mexico, USA, in which a majority of the population was Hispanic or Latino, according to data from the 2000 census.
Places with between 25,000 and 100,000 people
Las Cruces (51.7%)
South Valley (77.6%)
Places with between 10,000 and 25,000 people
Deming (64.6%)
Española (84.4%)
Las Vegas (83.0%)
Los Lunas (58.7%)
North Valley (56.8%)
Silver City (52.4%)
Sunland Park (96.4%)
Places with between 1,000 and 10,000 people
Agua Fria (79.2%)
Anthony (96.4%)
Bayard (84.3%)
Belen (68.6%)
Bernalillo (74.8%)
Carrizozo (53.5%)
Chama (71.2%)
Chaparral (64.5%)
Chimayo (90.8%)
Columbus (83.3%)
Dexter (71.2%)
Doña Ana (87.1%)
El Cerro Mission (73.8%)
El Valle de Arroyo Seco (70.0%)
Estancia (50.6%)
Grants (52.4%)
Hagerman (63.2%)
Hatch (79.2%)
Hurley (60.3%)
Jarales (64.6%)
La Cienega (70.8%)
La Puebla (79.9%)
Lordsburg (74.4%)
Los Chaves (54.1%)
Los Trujillos-Gabaldon (62.5%)
Loving (78.3%)
Lovington (52.1%)
Meadow Lake (57.9%)
Mesilla (52.2%)
Milan (52.3%)
Mountainair (53.1%)
Pecos (80.1%)
Peralta (51.3%)
Pojoaque (62.2%)
Questa (80.5%)
Ranchos de Taos (75.3%)
Raton (57.0%)
Santa Clara (83.5%)
Santa Rosa (81.2%)
Santa Teresa (55.6%)
Socorro (54.5%)
Springer (70.0%)
Taos (54.3%)
Tome-Adelino (63.4%)
Tucumcari (51.4%)
Tularosa (56.1%)
Vado (95.0%)
Places with fewer than 1,000 people
Alcalde (89.1%)
Algodones (73.4%)
Carnuel (51.1%)
Casa Colorada (73.2%)
Chamisal (92.0%)
Chilili (92.0%)
Cimarron (58.9%)
Cuartelez (86.1%)
Cuba (60.3%)
Cundiyo (87.4%)
Cuyamungue (83.4%)
El Rancho (70.3%)
Encino (80.9%)
Glorieta (56.0%)
Jaconita (63.0%)
La Jara (79.4%)
Lake Arthur (70.1%)
Los Cerrillos (50.7%)
Magdalena (51.6%)
Manzano (87.0%)
Maxwell (55.5%)
Mesquite (94.8%)
Mosquero (77.5%)
Pena Blanca (79.4%)
Penasco (91.3%)
Ponderosa (64.5%)
Rincon (87.3%)
Rio Chiquito (90.3%)
Rio Lucio (93.4%)
Roy (52.6%)
Salem (94.1%)
Santa Cruz (91.7%)
San Ysidro (71.8%)
Sombrillo (50.3%)
Tajique (79.1%)
Tijeras (56.3%)
Torreon (68.9%)
Vadito (93.1%)
Vaughn (87.0%)
Wagon Mound (87.8%)
Willard (83.3%)
See also
List of U.S. communities with Hispanic majority populations
Hispanic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson%20Portable%20PC | The Ericsson Portable PC (EPPC) was created by Ericsson in 1985. It was a small computer with a weight of 8 kg. It had an Intel 8088 processor at 4.77 MHz and 256-512 kB of RAM. An optional builtin thermal printer and modem was available.
Appeared in the 23 (film).
References
External links
Ericsson Portable PC
Ericsson PC Page Rune's PC-Museum
Bästa datorerna genom tiderna, plats 22 till 30
8086-based home computers
Ericsson |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program%20Composition%20Notation | Program Composition Notation (PCN) is a specification notation for building up larger programs from smaller modules or programs (usually written in C or Fortran). Efficient parallel programming is at the heart of PCN. Larger composed programs are intended to execute efficiently on single-processor machines, multiprocessors with shared memory or distributed multicomputers.
PCN was developed at Argonne National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology.
PCN includes the language for specifying concurrent algorithms and interfaces to C and Fortran. There is also a PCN toolkit for workstations that allows applications to be developed for supercomputers which includes debugging and performance analysis tools.
PCN is appropriate for applications benefiting from parallel computing such as fluid dynamics, and climate modelling.
Sources
Chandy, K. Mani and Taylor, Stephen (1990), A Primer for Program Composition Notation. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology. [CaltechCSTR:1990.cs-tr-90-10]
PCN article in the Free Online Dictionary of Computing
Parallel computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity%20in%20Eritrea | Eritrea as a country and the Eritrean community are multi-religious. Eritrea has two dominant religions, Christianity and Islam.
The World Religion Database noted that in 2020, 47% of the population were Christian and 51% were Muslim; almost 90% of Eritrean Christians are followers of Oriental Orthodoxy, almost 10% are members of the Catholic Church, and almost 4% are Protestant (mainly P'ent'ay Evangelicalists).
History
The Kingdom of Aksum, which overlapped with what is now Eritrea, was the first African Christian country in the world having officially adopted Christianity as the state religion in the 4th century and Christianity is the oldest world religion practiced in the country. One of oldest monasteries in the country Debre Sina dates back to the 4th century, it is one of the oldests monasteries in Africa and the world. Christians in Eritrea constitute to three main groups; the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Catholic Church (predominantly of the Eritrean Catholic Church), and the Evangelical Church (not recognized by government). The Catholic dioceses in Eritrea are the Eparches of Asmara, Barentu, Keren and Segeneiti. In 2002, Isaias Afwerki, the president of Eritrea, declared all independent Protestant Churches enemies of the state. For this reason, more than 2000 independent Protestants are detained due to their faith.
Oriental Orthodoxy in Eritrea
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church was granted autocephaly by Pope Joseph II of Alexandria, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria in 1950. At that time Eritrea was regarded as a province of Ethiopia, so the Coptic Church in Eritrea was simply a division of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
Following the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia in 1993, the newly independent Eritrean government appealed to Pope Shenouda III of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria for Eritrean Orthodox autocephaly.
Tensions were high between the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and no representative from the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church attended the official recognition of the newly autocephalous body. However, the Ethiopian Church has recognized the autocephalous status of the Church of Eritrea although it objected to the method in which the Coptic Church went about granting it. Eritrea's first two Patriarchs were originally Archbishops of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and the first Patriarch, Abune Phillipos did visit Addis Ababa during joint efforts by the two Churches to explore a possible resolution to a border conflict that had broken out between the two countries in 1998. The two churches, remain in full communion with each another and with the other Churches of Oriental Orthodoxy, although the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, along with the Coptic Orthodox Church have not recognized the deposition of the third Patriarch of Eritrea, and the enthronement of the fourth Patriarch.
The first Patriarch of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20impact%20craters%20in%20Africa |
Confirmed impact craters
This list of impact craters in Africa includes all 20 confirmed impact craters as listed in the Earth Impact Database. These features were caused by the collision of large meteorites or comets with the Earth. For eroded or buried craters, the stated diameter typically refers to an estimate of original rim diameter, and may not correspond to present surface features.
Unconfirmed impact craters
The following craters are officially considered "unconfirmed" because they are not listed in the Earth Impact Database. Due to stringent requirements regarding evidence and peer-reviewed publication, newly discovered craters or those with difficulty collecting evidence generally are known for some time before becoming listed. However, entries on the unconfirmed list could still have an impact origin disproven.
Notes
Mahas was anonymously added Jan 2015, but the coordinates do show a convincing impact-like structure.
It appears to me there is also an impact crater several miles in diameter, approximately 40-45 miles to the SE of Tete, Mozambique. But this only based from an aerial inspection from Google Earth and not from any ground inspection or geological verification.
See also
Impact craters
Impact events
Bolides and Meteorites
Earth Impact Database – primary source
Traces of Catastrophe book from Lunar and Planetary Institute - comprehensive reference on impact crater science
References
External links
Africa Impact Craters, Earth Impact Database – List of confirmed earth impact sites at the Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick
Impact Database (formerly Suspected Earth Impact Sites list) maintained by David Rajmon for Impact Field Studies Group, USA
Africa
Africa
Impact craters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20impact%20craters%20in%20Asia%20and%20Russia | This list includes all 31 confirmed impact craters in Asia and Russia as listed in the Earth Impact Database. These features were caused by the collision of large meteorites or comets with the Earth. For eroded or buried craters, the stated diameter typically refers to an estimate of original rim diameter, and may not correspond to present surface features.
For additional geographic grouping, non-Siberian Russian craters include the region's federal district.
Confirmed impact craters
Unconfirmed impact craters
The following craters are officially considered "unconfirmed" because they are not listed in the Earth Impact Database. Due to stringent requirements regarding evidence and peer-reviewed publication, newly discovered craters or those with difficulty collecting evidence generally are known for some time before becoming listed. However, entries on the unconfirmed list could still have an impact origin disproven.
See also
Impact craters
Impact events
Bolides and Meteorites
Earth Impact Database – primary source
Traces of Catastrophe book from Lunar and Planetary Institute - comprehensive reference on impact crater science
References
External links
Earth Impact Database – List of confirmed earth impact sites at the Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick
Impact Database (formerly Suspected Earth Impact Sites list) maintained by David Rajmon for Impact Field Studies Group, USA
Asia
Lists of coordinates
Asia geology-related lists
Russia geology-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20impact%20craters%20in%20Australia | This list includes all 27 confirmed impact craters in Australia as listed in the Earth Impact Database.
Impact craters - confirmed
Unconfirmed impact craters
The following craters are officially considered "unconfirmed" because they are not listed in the Earth Impact Database. Due to stringent requirements regarding evidence and peer-reviewed publication, newly discovered craters or those with difficulty collecting evidence generally are known for some time before becoming listed. However, entries on the unconfirmed list could still have an impact origin disproven.
See also
Impact craters
Impact events
Bolides and Meteorites
Earth Impact Database – primary source
Traces of Catastrophe book from Lunar and Planetary Institute - comprehensive reference on impact crater science
Notes
External links
Unesco
Earth Impact Database – List of confirmed earth impact sites at the Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick
Impact Database (formerly Suspected Earth Impact Sites list) maintained by David Rajmon for Impact Field Studies Group, USA
Australia
Lists of coordinates
Australia geology-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Linux-supported%20computer%20architectures | The basic components of the Linux family of operating systems, which are based on the Linux kernel, the GNU C Library, BusyBox or forks thereof like μClinux and uClibc, have been programmed with a certain level of abstraction in mind. Also, there are distinct code paths in the assembly language or C source code which support certain hardware. Therefore, the source code can be successfully compiled onor cross-compiled fora great number of computer architectures.
Furthermore, the required free and open-source software has also been developed to interface between Linux and the hardware Linux is to be executed on. For example, compilers are available, e.g. GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and LLVM/Clang. For cross-compilation a number of complete toolchains are available, like GNU toolchain, OpenWrt Buildroot or OpenEmbedded. The Yocto Project is targeted at embedded use cases.
The portability section of the Linux kernel article contains information and references to technical details.
Note that further components like a display server, or programs like Blender, can be present or absent. Fundamentally any software has to be ported, i.e. specifically adapted, to any kind of hardware it is supposed to be executed on. The level of abstraction that has been kept in mind while programming that software in the first place dictates the necessary effort.
The relevant term is of the porting target is computer architecture; it comprises the instruction set(s) and the microarchitecture(s) of the processor(s), at least of the CPU. The target also comprises the "system design" of the entire system, be it a supercomputer, a desktop computer or some SoC, e.g. in case some unique bus is being used. In former times, the memory controller was part of the chipset on the motherboard and not on the CPU-die.
Although the support of a specific instruction set is the task of the compiler, the software must be written with a certain level of abstraction in mind to make this portability possible. Any code written in Assembly language will be specific to the instruction set.
The support of a specific microarchitecture includes optimizations for the CPU cache hierarchy, the TLB, etc.
Releases
DEC Alpha (alpha)
Intel (Altera) NIOS II ARM - nios2
Analog Devices
Blackfin (supported since 2.6.22 and dropped since 4.17) (blackfin)
Andes Technology NDS32 (nd32) (dropped in v5.18.6 kernel)
ARM family of instruction sets (32- and 64-bit) (arm and arm64):
Acorn Archimedes and RiscPC series (original machines were supported in 2.6.22)
Allwinner
Apple M series processors
Broadcom VideoCore
DEC StrongARM
Samsung Exynos
Marvell (formerly Intel) XScale
Sharp Zaurus
HiSilicon
iPAQ
Palm, Inc.'s Tungsten Handheld
Gamepark Holdings' GP2X
Open Pandora
MediaTek
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
Nokia N800
Nokia N810
Nokia N900
Nomadik
NovaThor (discontinued)
gumstix
Sony Mylo
Qualcomm Snapdragon
Nvidia Tegra
TI OMAP
Psion 5, 5MX, Series 7, netBook
Rockchip
Some |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20impact%20craters%20in%20Europe | This list includes all 41 confirmed impact craters in Europe as listed in the Earth Impact Database (EID). These features were caused by the collision of large meteorites or comets with the Earth. For eroded or buried craters, the stated diameter typically refers to an estimate of original rim diameter, and may not correspond to present surface features. By EID convention, Russian and Asian craters are grouped together in the List of impact craters in Asia and Russia.
Confirmed craters
Unconfirmed impact craters
The following craters are officially considered "unconfirmed" because they are not listed in the Earth Impact Database. Due to stringent requirements regarding evidence and peer-reviewed publication, newly discovered craters or those for which it is difficult to collect evidence are generally known for some time before becoming listed. However, entries on the unconfirmed list could still have an impact origin disproven.
See also
Bolide
Impact crater
Impact event
Traces of Catastrophe – book from Lunar and Planetary Institute - comprehensive reference on impact crater science
References
External links
Earth Impact Database – List of confirmed earth impact sites at the Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick
Impact Database (formerly Suspected Earth Impact Sites list) maintained by David Rajmon for Impact Field Studies Group, USA
Europe
Lists of coordinates
Europe geology-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20impact%20craters%20in%20North%20America | This list includes all 60 confirmed impact craters in North America in the Earth Impact Database (EID). These features were caused by the collision of large meteorites or comets with the Earth. For eroded or buried craters, the stated diameter typically refers to an estimate of original rim diameter, and may not correspond to present surface features.
Canada
Mexico
United States
Unconfirmed impact craters
The following craters are officially considered "unconfirmed" because they are not listed in the Earth Impact Database. Due to stringent requirements regarding evidence and peer-reviewed publication, newly discovered craters or those with difficulty collecting evidence generally are known for some time before becoming listed. However, entries on the unconfirmed list could still have an impact origin disproven.
See also
Impact craters
Impact events
Bolides and Meteorites
Earth Impact Database – primary source
Traces of Catastrophe book from Lunar and Planetary Institute - comprehensive reference on impact crater science
References
External links
Impact Database (formerly Suspected Earth Impact Sites list) maintained by David Rajmon for Impact Field Studies Group, USA
Earth Impact Database (EID) maintained by the Planetary and Space Science Centre (PASSC), University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
North America
North America
Impact craters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20impact%20craters%20in%20South%20America | This list includes all 11 confirmed impact craters in South America as listed in the Earth Impact Database. These features were caused by the collision of large meteorites or comets with the Earth. For eroded or buried craters, the stated diameter typically refers to an estimate of original rim diameter, and may not correspond to present surface features.
Confirmed impact craters
Unconfirmed impact craters
The following craters are officially considered "unconfirmed" because they are not listed in the Earth Impact Database. Due to stringent requirements regarding evidence and peer-reviewed publication, newly discovered craters or those with difficulty collecting evidence generally are known for some time before becoming listed. However, entries on the unconfirmed list could still have an impact origin disproven.
See also
Impact craters
Impact events
Bolides and Meteorites
Earth Impact Database – primary source
Traces of Catastrophe book from Lunar and Planetary Institute - comprehensive reference on impact crater science
References
External links
Earth Impact Database – List of confirmed earth impact sites at the Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick
Impact Database (formerly Suspected Earth Impact Sites list) maintained by David Rajmon for Impact Field Studies Group, USA
South America
South America
Impact craters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCSN | BCSN is a four-letter acronym for two Cable television networks in the United States:
Black College Sports Network
Buckeye Cable Sports Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Records | Network Records (formed out of Kool Kat Records) was an independent record label founded in Birmingham, England, in 1988 by Neil Rushton and Dave Barker.
It was instrumental in first introducing Detroit techno to a British audience, through its early Bio Rhythm compilations, as well as house music and developing homegrown breakbeat hardcore. Network released music from artists such as Juan Atkins, Derrick May, MK, Neal Howard, Model 500, Kevin Saunderson, Rhythm on the Loose, Cyclone, Funky Green Dogs From Outer Space, SL2, Nexus 21, Altern-8 & MC Lethal.
It launched a spin-off label, Six6 (also known as 6x6), distributed by Virgin Records from 1993-1996.
After a hiatus, Network returned to re-release the 1991 Derrick May album Innovator in December 2019.
References
External links
Kool Kat discography at Discogs
6x6 Records discography at Discogs
British independent record labels
Defunct companies based in Birmingham, West Midlands
Defunct record labels of the United Kingdom
House music record labels
Record labels based in Birmingham, West Midlands
1988 establishments in England
1990s disestablishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckeye%20Cable%20Sports%20Network | BCSN is a regional sports network founded in 2003 (and first went on the air on January 7, 2004) to carry sports broadcasting, which had previously been aired on fellow cable-only station WT05.
Overview
The station airs Toledo Mud Hens games, BGSU ice hockey and other BGSU sports, University of Toledo sports, high school sports including the Northwest Hockey Conference, college basketball, and other sports games. The network also had broadcast rights to carry the Cleveland Indians. Previously BCSN carried Toledo Storm hockey games from 2004 to 2007 and starting in 2009, the network began carrying every home game of the Toledo Walleye ECHL hockey team.
On April 14, 2011, BCSN began broadcasting some of its sports games in 1080i high definition. All Toledo Mud Hens and Toledo Walleye games are broadcast live in high definition. On August 23, 2012, BCSN began broadcasting its standard-definition channel in a 16:9 letterboxed format.
Several Toledo Rockets football games broadcast on BCSN since 2009 have also been broadcast on WXYZ-TV, Channel 7, in Detroit as lead-in to ABC's college football coverage. Starting in 2014, additional Rockets football games broadcast on BCSN will also be broadcast on WMYD due to that station becoming sister to WXYZ-TV.
On December 13, 2012, BCSN ended a media partnership with CBS-affiliate WTOL because of the level of service performed by the two stations.
On January 7, 2013, BCSN launched BCSN 2.
Beginning in fall 2013, BCSN began a media partnership with ABC-affiliate WTVG, resulting in the largest television sports team in the Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan viewing area. The partnership also includes BCSN using the WTVG studios for some of its on-air sports shows.
In 2016, BCSN 2 got regional rights for Columbus Crew SC soccer games because of the limited distribution of Spectrum Sports Ohio in the Toledo market. That agreement ended after the 2018 season, and all regionally televised Crew games now can be seen in Toledo via Bally Sports Ohio and Bally Sports Great Lakes.
On-Air Shows
Sports Nightly
Local Catch
Monday Night at the Races
Your Shape Up
Rocket Roundup
BG All-Access
References
External links
Official website
Sports television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2004
College basketball on television in the United States
2004 establishments in Ohio
Sports in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Triple%20J%20presenters | The following is a list of radio presenters on the triple j Australian radio network.
Current presenters
Past presenters (1994 onwards)
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|Ebony Boadu
|Breakfast
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| Karla Ranby
| Weekend Lunch (2018–2021)
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| Sally Coleman
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| Erica Mallett
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| Veronica Milsom
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| Tom Tilley
| Hack (2011–2019)
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| Linda Marigliano
| {{hlist|Mornings with Linda Marigliano (2018–2019)|Good Nights (2012–2017)|Lunch (2007)|Drive (2008)}}
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| Gen Fricker
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| Liam Stapleton
| Breakfast with Ben & Liam (2017–2019)
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| Ben Harvey
| Breakfast with Ben & Liam (2017–2019)
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| Kristy Lee Peters (KLP)
| House Party (2015–2018)
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| Dylan Alcott
| Weekend Arvos (2017)
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| Gemma Pike
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| Dom Alessio
| Home & Hosed (2009–2017)
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| Alex Dyson
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| Matt Okine
| Breakfast (2014–2016)
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| Lewis McKirdy
| Lunch|
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| Kyran Wheatley
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| Sarah Howells
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| Nina Las Vegas
| House Party|
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| Bob Maguire
| Sunday Night Safran (2005–2015)
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| John Safran
| Sunday Night Safran (2005–2015)
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| Fenella Kernebone
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| Lindsay McDougall
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| Tom Ballard
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| Paul Verhoeven
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| The Cloud Girls
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| Rosie Beaton
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| Andrew Haug
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| Vijay Khurana
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| Steph Hughes
| Home & Hosed (2009–2010)
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| Gaby Brown
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| Marieke Hardy
| Breakfast (2008–2009)
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| Robbie Buck
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| Scott Dooley
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| Myf Warhurst
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| Jason Whalley
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| Mel Bampton
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| Steve Cannane
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| Costa Zouliou
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| Sharif Galal
| Mix Up (1995–2005)|Groove Train (1995–2006)
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| Ash Grunwald
| Roots 'N' All (2005–2006)
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| Jordie Kilby
| Roots 'N' All (2003–2005)
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| Chris Taylor
| Today Today (2004–2005)
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| Craig Reucassel
| Today Today (2004–2005)
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| Wil Anderson
| Breakfast (2001–2004)
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| Adam Spencer
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| Stu Harvey
| Short Fast Loud (2004)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIV | SWIV is a vertically scrolling shooter released in 1991 for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC computers. A Game Boy Color conversion was published in 2001.
The game was considered a spiritual successor to Tecmo arcade game Silkworm, which The Sales Curve had previously converted to home computer formats in 1989. The game's heritage is evident from the game design whereby one player pilots a helicopter, and the other an armoured Jeep. SWIV is not an official sequel, as noted by ex-Sales Curve producer Dan Marchant: "SWIV wasn't really a sequel to Silkworm, but it was certainly inspired by it and several other shoot-'em-ups that we had played and loved."
In the game's Amiga manual, however, it was explained that "SWIV" was both an acronym for "Special Weapons Interdiction Vehicle" and also short for "Silkworm IV" (even though there was not a Silkworm II or III).
Gameplay
SWIV is a 2D vertically scrolling shooter. The player chooses between using either a helicopter or a jeep at the beginning of the game and then plays in their chosen vehicles through scrolling levels, shooting at oncoming enemies. If two players are present, both vehicles will be used at once. Certain enemies when shot drop shield power-ups which can be either picked up to afford temporarily invincibility or detonated to destroy all enemies onscreen. Every so often a boss enemy will attack. The destruction of these bosses will give upgrades to the player's forward firing gun.
Reception
On release SWIV was met with positive reviews from most magazines of the time, receiving a 92% from Amiga Format magazine, an 88% from Commodore Format (C64 version) a 91% from Amiga Action, 90% from Computer and Video Games, and a 90% from Your Sinclair. It was ranked the 27th best game of all time by Amiga Power.
Legacy
A sequel was published for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as Super SWIV. It was ported to the Mega Drive as Mega SWIV. In 1997 SWIV 3D was released, with 3D terrain and models.
References
External links
SWIV at Amiga Hall of Light
SWIV at Lemon Amiga
1991 video games
Square Enix franchises
Acorn Archimedes games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
Helicopter video games
MSX games
SCi Games games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
Game Boy Color games
Vertically scrolling shooters
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20force | A cyber force is a military branch of a nation's armed forces that conducts military operations in cyberspace and cyberwarfare. The world's first independent cyber force was the People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force, which was established in 2015 and also serves as China's space force. As of 2022, the world's only independent cyber forces are the PLA Strategic Support Force, the German Cyber and Information Domain Service, Norwegian Cyber Defence Force, and the Singapore Digital and Intelligence Service.
Most other countries organize their cyber forces into other military services or joint commands. Examples of joint cyber commands includes the United States Cyber Command
History
In 2015, China created the world's first independent cyber force, establishing the People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force. This was followed by Germany's establishment of the Cyber and Information Domain Service as the world's second cyber force in 2017 and Singapore's creation of the Digital and Intelligence Service as the world's third cyber force in 2022.
Within the United States, the United States Air Force was the early leader in military cyber operations. In 1995, it established the 609th Information Warfare Squadron, which was the first organization in the world to combine offensive and defensive cyber operation in support of military forces. Initially viewing cyber as a subdivision of information warfare, the Air Intelligence Agency controlled many of the early cyber missions. The United States Army and United States Navy believed that the Air Force was attempting to seize the cyber mission for itself, pressuring the Air Force to stop the activation of Air Force Cyber Command.
Instead, United States Cyber Command was created as a subunified command under United States Strategic Command in 2009 and Army Cyber Command, Fleet Cyber Command, Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command, and Twenty-Fourth Air Force were created as service components. U.S. Cyber Command traces its history back to the 1998 establishment of Joint Task Force – Computer Network Defense, and its 2000 redesignation as Joint Task Force – Computer Network Operations under United States Space Command. Following the inactivation of Space Command and its merger into United States Strategic Command in 2002, Joint Task Force – Computer Network Operations was split into Joint Task Force – Global Network Operations and Joint Functional Component Command – Network Warfare in 2004 before being reunified under U.S. Cyber Command. In 2014, the U.S. Army established the Cyber Corps, merging the offensive cyber role of the Military Intelligence Corps and defensive cyber role of the Signal Corps.
In 2018, Cyber Command was elevated to a full unified combatant command. Periodic calls for the creation of a U.S. Cyber Force have occurred, with the most notable being by retired United States Navy Admiral and Supreme Allied Commander Europe James G. Stavridis and retired intelligence office |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex%202048 | Timex 2048 may refer to either of the following two ZX Spectrum-variant computers:
Timex Computer 2048 (TC 2048), a computer sold in Portugal and Poland
Timex Sinclair 2048 (TS 2048), a prototype computer intended for sale in North America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTN%20Irancell | MTN Irancell, also known as Irancell, is an Iranian telecommunications company that operates Iran's largest 2G-3G-4G-4.5G-5G mobile network, and fixed wireless TD-LTE internet services. It is the first provider of 5G internet in Iran. As of 2013, Irancell holds a revenue of 4.9 billion dollars. It is the 32nd largest company in Iran. Currently, MTN Group holds a 49% percent stake in the Irancell consortium, while Kowsar Sign Paniz (KSP) holds the other 51% of shares.
On 3 December 2014, Irancell officially launched Iran's first 4G LTE network in nine cities. The License was granted as on a national basis and includes the overall geographical coverage of Iran.
Within a short time after being granted the license, Irancell was able to complete the network operation and roll-out and started the test launch of its network on 28 August 2006 (some 9 months after being granted the license). Irancell was officially launched on 21 October 2006 in Tehran, Tabriz, and Mashhad. The network provides the subscribers with an advanced generation of GSM system to enable them to get used of EDGE (2.75 G).
Irancell made countrywide coverage with FD-LTE and TD-LTE. As of December 2021, Irancell has 50.4 million active subscribers.
Shareholders
Irancell has two shareholders: Iran Electronic Development Company (IEDC) (51%), and MTN International (Mauritius) Limited (49%).
Controversy
Sanctions
According to Reuters, the company was able to obtain banned U.S. technologies despite imposed sanctions against Iran.
Sunni insult and boycott
In July 2013, Iran's Sunni community which is the second-largest religious group, accused the company of insulting caliph Umar after he was called "deceived by the Devil" in a competition's question. People in predominantly Sunni Provinces Kurdistan and Sistan & Baluchestan boycotted the company and a Sunni MP voiced their anger in a parliamentary session. Irancell later apologized for the 'unintentional mistake'.
Mobile web pricing
After Irancell doubled the prices for its mobile web services in December 2014, some angered users started protesting the company via the social media. Subscribers decided to hold a boycott on the company and remove their SIM cards altogether on 31 December 2014.
Subscribers' privacy leak
Irancell has been criticized for its privacy policy. In July 2016, a robot known as MTN Bot leaked data on personal information of millions of Irancell subscribers on Telegram. Irancell did not pledge responsibility for the leakage and accused its rivals for the turmoil caused by the news. On 3 July 2016, Minister of Communications Mahmoud Vaezi told that the data was leaked by an intelligence agent when Irancell handed subscribers' data to an anonymous intelligence agency in Iran upon an inquiry in 2014.
Ad injection
In November 2017, Minister of Communications Mohammad Javad Jahromi warned Irancell over its ad injection.
References
External links
Mobile phone companies of Iran
Privately held companies of I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formatdb | formatdb is a discontinued software tool that was used in molecular bioinformatics to format protein or nucleotide databases for BLAST. It has been replaced by makeblastdb and the NCBI "strongly encourage[s]" users to stop using formatdb.
formatdb must be used in order to format protein or nucleotide source databases before these databases can be searched by BLAST. The source database may be in either FASTA or ASN.1 format. Although the FASTA format is most often used as input to formatdb, the use of ASN.1 is advantageous for those who are using ASN.1 as the common source for other formats such as the GenBank report.
The opposite of operation of formatdb, extracting sequences from a blast formatted database, can be achieved by using the fastacmd program, which comes in the same package.
In the BLAST+ version, formatdb has been succeeded by makeblastdb.
References
External links
NCBI BLAST Database Format — a description of the BLAST database format with a sample program to dump the contents of the database.
Bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger%20Theatre | Danger Theatre is an American half-hour comedy anthology series for television, produced by Universal Television and originally aired on the American Fox network from July 7 to August 22, 1993.
Each half-hour-long show consisted of two comedy segments, each a spoof of a familiar action/anthology format. There are two exceptions, one being “Go Ahead, Fry Me” with guest stars Liz Vassey and Sam Mann. The style of the comedy was somewhat similar to that of films like Airplane! and TV shows like Police Squad!.
Robert Vaughn was the host for each episode, introducing to the camera each fifteen-minute segment with mock earnestness. The jokes ranged from humorous or preposterous dialogue to visual gags and slapstick designed to poke fun at the serious dramatic formats being lampooned. The score for the series was composed by Lalo Schifrin.
Danger Theatre ran for seven episodes before cancellation. However, it was syndicated outside the US, airing in the UK on the BBC in 1994.
The Searcher
One segment in each episode centered on a motorbike-riding, leather-clad hero called only “The Searcher", played by Diedrich Bader. A spoof of both the stereotypical motorbiking renegade from movies and the “one man on a mission” format of series such as Knight Rider, Renegade, and many others, this segment may be the most commonly remembered element of the series.
The Searcher would always appear coming over the horizon on his motorcycle, with a dramatic backing chorus, narrating :
A recurring visual gag would have the Searcher conclude a scene with a quizzical stare directly at camera, utter a thoughtful sound, and then suddenly be squashed by a vehicle or falling object.
The popularity of this segment led to two of Danger Theatres seven episodes ("Go Ahead, Fry Me" and "An Old Friend For Dinner") being given over in their entirety to a 30-minute adventure for the Searcher.
Tropical Punch
In four episodes of Danger Theatre, the other segment of the show was called "Tropical Punch", a send-up of Hawaii Five-O, with Adam West playing the bumbling Detective Morgan, a police detective with no clue as to what is going on. Morgan only solves crimes because his partner McCormick, played by Billy Morrisette, does know what is going on and saves him from failure constantly.
357 Marina del Rey
In the final telecast of Danger Theatre on August 22, 1993, "Tropical Punch" was replaced by a segment entitled "357 Marina del Rey", which starred Todd Field as Rake Rowe and Ricky Harris as Clay Gentry in a spoof of shows about private detectives living and working in sun-and-fun vacation locales, such as 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six, and Hawaiian Eye. Recent college graduates Rowe and Gentry become private investigators and encounter the worst criminals in town, but take a greater interest in wearing the right fashions and visiting the local cappuccino bar than in solving crimes. Only one episode of "357 Marina del Rey" was produced.
Airing history and other details |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Holmes%20Drive | General Holmes Drive is a major divided road located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The road forms part of the M1, the A1, the Sydney Orbital Network, and the Australian Highway 1 network. Initially built in 1919 as a two-lane road and duplicated in 1951, the road partially circumnavigates Sydney Airport with its north-eastern terminus in , heading west and then south and then south-west, with its south-western terminus with The Grand Parade in .
The road forms major links with the Southern Cross Drive and the M5 East, both part of the Sydney Orbital Network.
The road is named in honour of William Holmes, a distinguished Australian general who died in action during World War I.
Route
General Holmes Drive starts from Joyce Drive in Mascot, and heads south, reaching a major intersection with Wentworth Drive that carries all traffic exiting from the domestic terminals at Sydney Airport. Further west in , the road meets the Mill Pond Road, a short road that connects with the Southern Cross Drive, carrying traffic north towards the Sydney central business district, with the south-westbound route providing access to both the international and the domestic terminals at Sydney Airport.
Via an interchange, General Holmes Drive heads south, forming a junction with Foreshore Drive that carries traffic to Port Botany and . General Holmes Drive then heads through the Sydney Airport Tunnel, an eight-lane tidal flow culvert under the south-eastern runways of Sydney Airport. As the road exits the tunnel, there is a major exit to the M5. The road crosses over the Cooks River via the Endeavour Bridge, continues southeast into the suburbs of Kyeemagh and , before terminating at the junction with The Grand Parade that carries traffic towards and Wollongong.
Traffic runs in three lanes in both directions through Kyeemagh, becoming four lanes after the M5 East junction. The M5 East can only be accessed southbound, and traffic joins General Holmes Drive northbound.
Until July 2019, General Holmes Drive continued for a further to the north-east to an intersection with Botany Road crossing the Metropolitan Goods railway line via a level crossing. This section closed when the level crossing was replaced by an underpass at Wentworth Avenue.
History
The passing of the Main Roads Act of 1924 through the Parliament of New South Wales provided for the declaration of Main Roads, roads partially funded by the State government through the Main Roads Board (later the Department of Main Roads, and eventually Transport for NSW). Main Road No. 194 was declared along this route on 8 August 1928, from the intersection of Botany and Lords Road in Mascot along Lords Road and Ascot Avenue, over the Cooks River Bridge, and General Holmes Drive to the intersection with The Grand Parade at Brighton-le-Sands (and continuing south along The Grand Parade and Ramsgate Road to the intersection with Princes Highway and Park Road in Kogarah Bay); with the passing of the Main Roads |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABy%C5%ABki | , often simply titled as , is a text-based adventure video game title developed by Nintendo and Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo exclusively in Japan for the Family Computer Disk System. It is the second of the Famicom Mukashibanashi series, following the release of Shin Onigashima. The game is loosely based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West.
The driving force behind the series, Tatsuya Hishida, was responsible for directing the game, creating the characters, and crafting the story line. The game consists of two disks, released on October 14 and November 14, 1989 respectively.
Gameplay
Yuyuki is an adventure game played by choosing from several text commands shown on screen. It resembles its predecessor, Shin Onigashima, in its implementation of the "Change Character" command, usage of traditional Japanese fairytales, and general screen layout and appearance. The story-line is a parody of the Chinese novel Journey to the West, where two main characters, Goku and Chao, embark upon separate journeys to find one another.
In Yuyuki, the "Change Character" command can switch between a maximum of five different characters. However, there are very few points in the game where it can actually be used to such extent. Its main use is to switch between Goku and the others accompanying him. Like Shin Onigashima, the character in use can greatly affect the descriptive text shown on screen, and the significant increase in number of characters allowed for more variety in each scene. It is possible to enjoy the game by viewing the reactions towards choosing completely unrelated characters or commands in certain situations.
While Shin Onigashima demanded rather complex puzzle-solving abilities, Yuyuki mainly focuses on having the player carefully read and understand the story-line. Puzzles are solved easily in this game, and very few choices actually lead to a "game over" screen. Easy trivia questions and simple action gameplay emerge at certain points, and players may find themselves searching for the obvious answer on screen more often than thinking hard to solve the puzzle at hand.
Main changes in gameplay from Shin Onigashima include the implementation of the "Ittaisan" command, which saves progress at any point during the game, and faster animation of game text. The shortening in load time after choosing commands, and an overall decrease in difficulty allowed Yuyuki to run at a much quicker tempo than its predecessor.
Plot
Once upon a time, a little girl named Chao lived in a small village in China. One night, a meteor fell near Chao's home, which burst open to reveal a monkey inside. Chao named the monkey "Goku" and took care of him for a while. However, Goku is led away and imprisoned by Oshakasama for the various crimes he has committed, and Chao sets off to find the "Gavel of Light" in order to save him. Several years later, the world is put under peril at the hands of the bull-monster Gyumaou, and Goku is called upon to save the world |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado%21 | Tornado! is a 1996 American made-for-television disaster film that is directed by Noel Nosseck and starring Bruce Campbell and Shannon Sturges and was aired on the Fox television network on May 7, 1996.
Plot
Jake Thorne (Bruce Campbell) is a storm chaser whose friend and former graduate school advisor, Dr. Joe Branson (Ernie Hudson), has developed a machine that may be able to provide earlier tornado warnings. Samantha Callen (Shannon Sturges) is a government auditor who must determine whether Dr. Branson's project warrants more funding. Jake has to try to convince Samantha that the machine is worthwhile. During the process, Jake and Samantha become romantically attracted to each other, but powerful tornadoes threaten the lives of all the major characters. The film ends with Jake's grandfather, Ephram, sacrifices himself to drive machine's disabled leg into soil. The tornado takes Ephram, while everyone in the storm cellar starts to clean up. Jake becomes upset that his grandfather died, but Samantha tells him that he saved their lives by fighting this tornado, and that Jake must never let anything like this happen again.
Cast
Bruce Campbell as Jake Thorne
Ernie Hudson as Dr. Joe Branson
Shannon Sturges as Samantha Callen
Bo Eason as "Tex" Fulton
L. Q. Jones as Ephram Thorne
Shannon Woodward as Lucy
Filming
Tornado! was filmed primarily in Austin, Texas, including scenes at local Fox Broadcasting Company affiliate KTBC. The film runs 89 minutes, and has been released on VHS, DVD and Netflix. It is rated PG for some perilous weather sequences, mild language, and sensuality.
See also
Twister, a 1996 theatrical release
References
External links
1996 films
American disaster films
Films with screenplays by John Logan
Films about tornadoes
1990s disaster films
Disaster television films
Fox network original films
Films shot in Austin, Texas
American television films
Sonar Entertainment films
Films directed by Noel Nosseck
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAT%20%28bioinformatics%29 | BLAT (BLAST-like alignment tool) is a pairwise sequence alignment algorithm that was developed by Jim Kent at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) in the early 2000s to assist in the assembly and annotation of the human genome. It was designed primarily to decrease the time needed to align millions of mouse genomic reads and expressed sequence tags against the human genome sequence. The alignment tools of the time were not capable of performing these operations in a manner that would allow a regular update of the human genome assembly. Compared to pre-existing tools, BLAT was ~500 times faster with performing mRNA/DNA alignments and ~50 times faster with protein/protein alignments.
Overview
BLAT is one of multiple algorithms developed for the analysis and comparison of biological sequences such as DNA, RNA and proteins, with a primary goal of inferring homology in order to discover biological function of genomic sequences. It is not guaranteed to find the mathematically optimal alignment between two sequences like the classic Needleman-Wunsch and Smith-Waterman dynamic programming algorithms do; rather, it first attempts to rapidly detect short sequences which are more likely to be homologous, and then it aligns and further extends the homologous regions. It is similar to the heuristic BLAST family of algorithms, but each tool has tried to deal with the problem of aligning biological sequences in a timely and efficient manner by attempting different algorithmic techniques.
Uses of BLAT
BLAT can be used to align DNA sequences as well as protein and translated nucleotide (mRNA or DNA) sequences. It is designed to work best on sequences with great similarity. The DNA search is most effective for primates and the protein search is effective for land vertebrates. In addition, protein or translated sequence queries are more effective for identifying distant matches and for cross-species analysis than DNA sequence queries. Typical uses of BLAT include the following:
Alignment of multiple mRNA sequences onto a genome assembly in order to infer their genomic coordinates;
Alignment of a protein or mRNA sequence from one species onto a sequence database from another species to determine homology. Provided the two species are not too divergent, cross-species alignment is generally effective with BLAT. This is possible because BLAT does not require perfect matches, but rather accepts mismatches in alignments;
BLAT can be used for alignments of two protein sequences. However, it is not the tool of choice for these types of alignments. BLASTP, the Standard Protein BLAST tool, is more efficient at protein-protein alignments;
Determination of the distribution of exonic and intronic regions of a gene;
Detection of gene family members of a specific gene query;
Display of the protein-coding sequence of a specific gene.
BLAT is designed to find matches between sequences of length at least 40 bases that share ≥95% nucleotide identity or ≥80% translated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Thailand | MTV Thailand was a 24-hour music and entertainment channel owned by Paramount Networks EMEAA, a division of Paramount Global. This channel broadcasts both Thai and international music programs as well as a youth lifestyle T.V. series. The channel ended its transmission in 2011. In 2013, Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), intended to bring back MTV Thailand with supports from AppleTool Co and MCOT Plc. On 1 September 2013, MTV Thailand officially returned to TrueVisions, replacing Channel V Thailand, before moving to CTH in January 2016.
VJs
John Delcastillo (John)
Angie Hastings (Gie)
Rowena Kennet (Row)
Nattapol Liyavanija (Tye)
Oz
Janesuda Parnto (Jane)
Suppakarn Pordpai (Jay)
Alexandra Sawaetwong (Alex)
Sean
Jane Sriprayul (Waaw)
Annie Supsermsri (Annie)
Poomjai Tangsanga (Poom)
Garanick Tongpiam (Nicky)
Michele Waagaard (Chele)
Woody
MTV Thailand highlights of the month
Arert Altist
Artist Focus
Artist of the Month
Buzzworthy
Hot
MTV This Is
Shows
MTV on FreeTV
MTV News is presented in Thai language on TITV (free TV). It was first aired on November 2, 2007, Friday night, 00.30-01.00. MTV News is presented by VJ Nicky VJ Poom and VJ Waew.
Headrines
Local Stories
Oversea Reports
MTV News is aired every Friday night at 00.30-01.00
Note: MTV News is currently unavailable after TITV has been suspended and replaced by TPBS (Thailand Public Broadcasting Service).
MTV School Attack is performed surprise by Thai pop star at school. It is aired every Thursday at 17.05-17.30 on TV5. It is presented by VJ Poom and VJ Jay.
Trivia
MTV Thailand was already one of the host country when MTV Asia Awards was held twice except in 2005 when the 2004 Asian tsunami happened.
References
External links
MTV Thailand's official website
MTV Asia
MTV channels
Television stations in Thailand
Television channels and stations established in 2001
2001 establishments in Thailand
Music organizations based in Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INGRADA | The International Network of Graduate Recruitment And Development Associations (INGRADA) consists of a number of associations from around the globe which represent professionals involved in the recruitment and development of university and college graduates.
INGRADA is a non-political, non-profit organisation which provides its members with the capacity to network and share information about graduate recruitment and development across international boundaries.
Existing members of INGRADA include the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR), the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers (CACEE), the South African Graduate Recruitment Association (SAGRA) and the Australian Association of Graduate Employers (AAGE).
External links
http://www.ingrada.org
Graduate recruitment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMBnet | The European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet) is an international scientific network and interest group that aims to enhance bioinformatics services by bringing together bioinformatics expertises and capacities. On 2011 EMBnet has 37 nodes spread over 32 countries. The nodes include bioinformatics related university departments, research institutes and national service providers.
Operations
The main task of most EMBnet nodes is to provide their national scientific community with access to bioinformatics databanks, specialised software and sufficient computing resources and expertise. EMBnet is also working in the fields of bioinformatics training and software development. Examples of software created by EMBnet members are: EMBOSS, wEMBOSS, UTOPIA.
EMBnet represents a wide user group and works closely together with the database producers such as EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Swiss-Prot), the Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS), in order to provide a uniform coverage of services throughout Europe. EMBnet is registered in the Netherlands as a public foundation (Stichting).
Since its creation in 1988, EMBnet has evolved from an informal network of individuals in charge of maintaining biological databases into the only worldwide organization bringing bioinformatics professionals to work together to serve the expanding fields of genetics and molecular biology. Although composed predominantly of academic nodes, EMBnet gains an important added dimension from its industrial members. The success of EMBnet is attracting increasing numbers of organizations outside Europe to join.
EMBnet has a tried-and-tested infrastructure to organise training courses, give technical help and help its members effectively interact and respond to the rapidly changing needs of biological research in a way no single institute is able to do.
In 2005 the organization created additional types of node to allow more than one member per country. The new category denomination is "associated node".
Coordination and organization
EMBnet is governed by the Annual General Meetings (AGM), and is coordinated by an executive board (EB) that oversees the activities of three project committees:
Education and Training committee (E&T). Educational support includes a series of courses organised in the member countries and languages, the committee works as well on the continued development of on-line accessible education materials.
Publicity and Public Relations committee (P&PR). This committee is responsible for promoting any type of EMBnet activities, for the advertisement of products and services provided by the EMBnet community, as well as for proposing and developing new strategies aiming to enhance EMBnet's visibility, and to take care of public relationships with EMBnet communities and related networks/societies.
Technical Manager committee (TM). The TM PC provides assistance and practical help to the part |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat%20Geo%20Wild | National Geographic Wild (shortened as Nat Geo Wild and abbreviated NGW) is a global pay television network owned by National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%). The channel primarily focuses on wildlife and natural history non-fiction programming. It is a sister network to National Geographic TV.
The channel first launched in Hong Kong on 1 January 2006. It later launched in the United Kingdom, Turkey, Ireland, Romania, India, Vietnam, and Poland replacing the now defunct Adventure One. The channel remains the world's first bilingual wildlife service, available in English and Cantonese in the Hong Kong market as well as Tagalog in The Philippines. It launched in Latin America on 1 November 2009 as a high definition channel. In 2010, it launched in the United States.
, approximately 57,891,000 American households (49.7% of households with television) receive Nat Geo Wild.
Programming
Availability
Africa
The channel launched in South Africa in mid-2009, and is available on the South African Satellite Network DStv.
It was launched on Zuku TV on Channel 416.
National Geographic Wild launched on Azam TV along with National Geographic.
In July 2021, National Geographic Wild was replaced by Animal Planet on Zuku TV and given to Channel 420.
Southeast Asia
In Singapore, the channel is carried on the StarHub TV subscription services. Astro and Unifi TV carried the channel in Malaysia with four language audio tracks included. Some shows on Nat Geo Wild are aired in Filipino (Tagalog) in the Philippines, which also have multiple languages available. Selected shows also aired on Fox Filipino (now defunct).
On Sunday, 1 October 2023 at 3:00 a.m. Hong Kong Time, Nat Geo Wild along with National Geographic officially ceased broadcasts in Southeast Asia, with its programming moving to Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar.
East Asia
In Hong Kong, the channel is carried on the Now TV subscription services. The channel launched in South Korea on 16 April 2009.
In Japan, the channel launched on January 10, 2011 and its carried on the Sky PerfecTV! subscription services. The Japanese version of the channel was closed on January 31, 2021 after Expansion Content of Localized Version Disney+.
As described above, the network shut down at midnight Hong Kong Time on 30 September 2023 in the area.
Middle East and North Africa
OSN and beIN carry the channel for Middle East and North African viewers. The channel launched in Israel on 23 July 2008.
Australia
The Asian version of the channel launched in Australia on 15 November 2009 on Austar and Foxtel.
A high definition feed launched on Foxtel on 1 November 2010. Although the HD feed was expected to launch on Austar in late 2010/early 2011, the channel did not launch until 1 July 2012, after Foxtel acquired Austar.
On 1 February 2015, Nat Geo Wild launched on Australian IPTV service Fetch TV.
Nat Geo Wild, alongside National Geographi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madcap%20%28project%29 | Madcap is a prototype system for using computers to automatically segment and highlight a video stream that was designed by Dan Russell's group at PARC. The digital video of weekly forums was stored on a media server, any events such as clapping were marked and time-stamped. Member notes from attendees with laptops were stored. The audio stream was transcribed. All these were used as annotations and were cross indexed.
The development of this system is mentioned in John Seely Brown's work Growing up Digital and his book The Social Life of Information.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20070305070159/http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/FEB02_Issue/article01.html
http://www.rice.edu/projects/code/broadband.html
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfc/hcc/F00/abstracts/russell.html
References
Film and video technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multithreading%20%28computer%20architecture%29 | In computer architecture, multithreading is the ability of a central processing unit (CPU) (or a single core in a multi-core processor) to provide multiple threads of execution concurrently, supported by the operating system. This approach differs from multiprocessing. In a multithreaded application, the threads share the resources of a single or multiple cores, which include the computing units, the CPU caches, and the translation lookaside buffer (TLB).
Where multiprocessing systems include multiple complete processing units in one or more cores, multithreading aims to increase utilization of a single core by using thread-level parallelism, as well as instruction-level parallelism. As the two techniques are complementary, they are combined in nearly all modern systems architectures with multiple multithreading CPUs and with CPUs with multiple multithreading cores.
Overview
The multithreading paradigm has become more popular as efforts to further exploit instruction-level parallelism have stalled since the late 1990s. This allowed the concept of throughput computing to re-emerge from the more specialized field of transaction processing. Even though it is very difficult to further speed up a single thread or single program, most computer systems are actually multitasking among multiple threads or programs. Thus, techniques that improve the throughput of all tasks result in overall performance gains.
Two major techniques for throughput computing are multithreading and multiprocessing.
Advantages
If a thread gets a lot of cache misses, the other threads can continue taking advantage of the unused computing resources, which may lead to faster overall execution, as these resources would have been idle if only a single thread were executed. Also, if a thread cannot use all the computing resources of the CPU (because instructions depend on each other's result), running another thread may prevent those resources from becoming idle.
Disadvantages
Multiple threads can interfere with each other when sharing hardware resources such as caches or translation lookaside buffers (TLBs). As a result, execution times of a single thread are not improved and can be degraded, even when only one thread is executing, due to lower frequencies or additional pipeline stages that are necessary to accommodate thread-switching hardware.
Overall efficiency varies; Intel claims up to 30% improvement with its Hyper-Threading Technology, while a synthetic program just performing a loop of non-optimized dependent floating-point operations actually gains a 100% speed improvement when run in parallel. On the other hand, hand-tuned assembly language programs using MMX or AltiVec extensions and performing data prefetches (as a good video encoder might) do not suffer from cache misses or idle computing resources. Such programs therefore do not benefit from hardware multithreading and can indeed see degraded performance due to contention for shared resources.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural%20%28computer%29 | Ural () is a series of mainframe computers built in the former Soviet Union.
History
The Ural was developed at the Electronic Computer Producing Manufacturer of Penza in the Soviet Union and was produced between 1956 and 1964. The computer was widely used in the 1960s, mainly in the socialist countries, though some were also exported to Western Europe and Latin America. The Indian Statistical Institute purchased an Ural-1 in 1958.
When the University of Tartu received a new computer in 1965, its old Ural 1 was moved to a science-based secondary school, the Nõo Reaalgümnaasium, making the latter one of the first Soviet secondary schools to receive a computer. The name of the computer was also used to coin the first name for "computer" in Estonian, raal, in use until the 1990s until it was replaced by the word arvuti ("computer"). School 444 in Moscow, Russia started graduating programmers in 1960 and had the Ural computer operating by its students on-premises in 1965.
Attributes
Models Ural-1 to Ural-4 were based on vacuum tubes (valves), with the hardware being able to perform 12,000 floating-point calculations per second. One word consisted of 40 bits and was able to contain either one numeric value or two instructions. Ferrite core was used as operative memory beginning with the Ural-2. A new series (Ural-11, Ural-14, produced between 1965 and 1971) was based on semiconductors.
It was able to perform mathematical tasks at computer centres, industrial facilities and research facilities. The device occupied approximately 90-100 square metres of space. The computer ran on three-phase electric power and had a three-phase magnetic voltage stabiliser with 30kVA capacity.
The main units of the system were: keyboard, controlling-reading unit, input punched tape, output punched tape, printer, magnetic tape memory, ferrite memory, ALU (arithmetical logical unit), CPU (central processing unit), and power supply.
Models
Several models were released:
Ural-1 – 1956
Ural-2 – 1959
Ural-3 – 1964
Ural-4 – 1962
Ural-11 – 1965
Ural-14 – 1965
Ural-16 – 1969
Trivia
Charles Simonyi, who was the second Hungarian in space, stated that he would take old paper tapes from his Soviet-built Ural-2 computer into space with him: he kept them to remind him of his past.
See also
Bashir Rameev, chief designer of the Ural series
History of computing hardware
List of vacuum tube computers
References
External links
Soviet inventions
Soviet brands
Ministry of Radio Industry (USSR) computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic%20accelerator | In computing, a cryptographic accelerator is a co-processor designed specifically to perform computationally intensive cryptographic operations, doing so far more efficiently than the general-purpose CPU. Because many servers' system loads consist mostly of cryptographic operations, this can greatly increase performance.
Intel's AES-NI is by far the most common cryptographic accelerator in commodity hardware. VIA PadLock is another recent example.
Operating system support
Several operating systems provide some support for cryptographic hardware. The BSD family of systems has the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework (OCF), Linux systems have the Crypto API, Solaris OS has the Solaris Cryptographic Framework (SCF) and Microsoft Windows has the Microsoft CryptoAPI.
Some cryptographic accelerators offer new machine instructions and can therefore be used directly by programs. Libraries such as OpenSSL and LibreSSL support some such cryptographic accelerators.
Almost all Unix-like operating systems use OpenSSL or the fork LibreSSL as their cryptography library. These libraries use cryptographic accelerators such as AES-NI if available.
See also
TLS acceleration
Hardware-based Encryption
Hardware acceleration
Computer optimization
Coprocessors
Cryptographic hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco%20No.%201 | Disco No. 1 (also released as Sweet Heart) is an arcade video game released in 1982 by Data East. The game was available on DECO Cassette System and conventional versions.
Plot
The player plays as a 90-pound weakling kid in a roller rink who has to skate around the bad guys in order to win the love of cute girls. Earn points by completely encircling one or more tough guys and picking up various bonus items that float across the rink.
Legacy
Disco No. 1 was cloned as Thin Ice for the Intellivision console.
References
1982 video games
Action games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Data East video games
Roller skating video games
Video games developed in Japan
Data East arcade games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4TVInteractive | 4TVInteractive was an Electronic Programme Guide (EPG), launched in 2002, for television services in the United Kingdom. The service, which supplied up to 14 days worth of listings data, was available through compatible digital terrestrial television receivers. The service was created by 4TV Limited, before the launch of Freeview's DVB seven-day EPG in 2004, and had been operated by Inview Technology since November 2006.
4TVInteractive was found on channel 300. Data was broadcast overnight (between 03:00 and 04:00) and stored by the receiver. Compatible receivers relied on this data rather than the "live" EPG broadcast on each multiplex. As a result, receivers dependent on 4TV data lack the ability to react to late schedule changes by broadcasters.
During June 2010, InView Technology ceased updating the EPG and confirmed plans to terminate the service, with the final update providing EPG information until 7 July 2010. A representative said that the contract to distribute the updates had ended and therefore had no access to the necessary bandwidth to maintain the service. The companies involved were asked to maintain these services, but were unable to do so. However, they continued to offer advanced EPG information to Radio Times Extra EPG based devices.
The list of affected boxes included: Digifusion FRT101, Digifusion FVRT100, Digifusion FVRT145, Digifusion FVRT150, Digifusion FVRT200, Digifusion FVRT400, Inverto IDL-7000T, Inverto IDL-7000M, Thomson DHD4000 and the Sony SVR-S500. No new devices using the 4TV EPG had shipped for four years prior to the services closure and none of the boxes were authorised to carry the Freeview label.
Digifusion and Sony incorrectly featured the "Digital Tick", the Digital TV Group, which represents the digital TV industry, claims that these products were not entitled to carry the Digital Tick badge, and that they were 'self declared', the Digital TV Group has since tightened the licensing system and no longer allows self-certification.
In July 2010, a petition calling on Freeview to help consumers left without the advance electronic programming guide (EPG) data had attracted over 760 signatures of consumers who didn't want to lose 4TV. In a statement, Freeview said that the situation demonstrates the need for consumers to always purchase Freeview products with Digital Tick. "We have contacted the third party involved to see if a solution can be found."
The Digital TV Group added: "Any product that carries the Digital Tick will have passed the Digital TV Group's rigorous test and conformance regimes. The failure of even a small number of ageing receivers in the market emphasises the need for all manufacturers to co-ordinate their production efforts through the specification and test and conformance procedures of the Digital TV Group to achieve the Digital Tick and Freeview trade mark licence, which are proven indicators that a product is compliant, reliable and robust."
On 2 August 2010, 4TVInteractive w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid%20Meier%27s%20Civilization%20board%20game | Sid Meier's Civilization board game may refer to
Civilization: The Boardgame, a 2002 board game by Glenn Drover, an adaptation of the computer game Civilization III
Civilization: The Board Game, a 2010 board game by Kevin Wilson, an adaptation of the computer game Civilization IV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20network%20operator | A virtual network operator (VNO) or mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) is a provider of management services and a reseller of network services from other telecommunications suppliers that does not own the telecommunication infrastructure. These network providers are categorized as virtual because they provide network services to customers without owning the underlying network. A VNO typically leases bandwidth at the wholesale rates from various telecom providers in order to provide solutions to their customers. The VNO concept is relatively new in the North American market when compared to the European and Asian markets. India's Department of Telecommunications opened up licensing to VNOs in 2016 and awarded the first VNO Unified License in May 2017.
Fully virtual VNOs do not have any technical facilities or technical support provision, instead they rely upon the support delivered by the owners of the underlying infrastructure. The VNO concept has gained a lot of traction in the telecommunications industry as the cost of infrastructure is substantial.
As the global networks have become more complex, an emerging field of telecommunications "Logistics" providers has developed. These companies assist in the management of large networks which span across multiple carriers much in the same way that the Virtual Network Operators had, but this new breed of services providers have been willing to build their own networks and own infrastructure.
See also
Vanco
Mobile virtual network operator
References
Mobile virtual network operators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMO%20Games%20Magazine | MMO Games Magazine (formerly Massive Magazine) was a short-lived computer magazine that focused on the massively multiplayer online gaming market. It was published by the media conglomerate theGlobe.com as a sister publication to Computer Games magazine. The magazine's website was launched in June 2006, and the first issue hit newsstands that September. In January 2007 the magazine began to be published quarterly. Despite the build-up, only three issues went to press. In March 2007, theGlobe.com was forced to cease operation of its print media, including MMO Games, as a result of an unfavorable ruling in a spam lawsuit.
References
Video game magazines published in the United States
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Game magazines
Magazines established in 2006
Magazines disestablished in 2007
Quarterly magazines published in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20literature%20retrieval | Medical literature retrieval or medical document retrieval is an activity that uses professional methods for medical research papers retrieval, report and other data to improve medicine research and practice.
Medical search engine
Professional medical search engine
PubMed
GoPubMed
Pubget
Scopus
eTBLAST
Cochrane Reviews, The Cochrane Library
SciELO
Twease
Meta-search tools
Trip
NLM Gateway
Entrez, NLM's cross-database search
SUMSearch
Consumer health search engine
MedlinePlus by the U.S. NLM
Healthfinder by the U.S. HHS
Mednar
Healthline
Medstory
Healia
Search strategy
See also
European Federation for Medical Informatics
Evidence-based medicine
Health informatics
International Medical Informatics Association
Medical Subject Headings
References
External links
MEDLINE/PubMed
William R. Hersh. Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective. 2003, Springer-Verlag.
Vincenta B. Vincentb M. Ferreira CG. Making PubMed Searching Simple: Learning to Retrieve Medical Literature Through Interactive Problem Solving. 2005, The Oncologist, Vol. 11 No. 3 243-251
The Top Five Medical Search Engines on the Web at About.com by Wendy Boswell
25 Search Engines Every Medical Professional Should Bookmark
PubMed Alternative Engines at American University of Beirut University Libraries
Medical literature
Medical search engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoffeeCup%20Software | CoffeeCup Software is an American computer software development company based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, founded in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1996. The name comes from the company's origins in an internet cafe owned by its founder.
The company develops software applications for creating, designing, and editing responsive websites and a number of online services for webmasters. The company's third product, CoffeeCup Direct FTP, was the first FTP program to incorporate text editing functionality directly into the interface in a "split-screen" fashion.
In the spring of 2007, CoffeeCup moved to its new headquarters where it employs just over 10 programmers and designers. In addition to a panel of user-advisers, CoffeeCup has a group of around 8000 “Ambassadors” who are invited to test drive new and existing software programs and report bugs and offer suggestions for improvements.
CoffeeCup's Software has won the Shareware Industry Award six years running from 1999 to 2004 for the CoffeeCup HTML Editor. Other awards include being ranked #400 in the Interactive 500, 11 CNet Editors Choice Awards, 18 Tucows 5-Star Awards, and ZDNet Best Pick for Web Design Software.
History
CoffeeCup Software was started in a coffee house called “The Raven & The Sparrow” which was owned by the company's founder, Nicholas Longo. This was the only coffee house that offered free internet access in Corpus Christi, Texas, at the time.
Since the coffee house already had the www.coffeecup.com domain name, the fledgling software company was named CoffeeCup Software and the first program was named CoffeeCup HTML Editor. Longo posted the program on his website. Eventually, CoffeeCup began charging $20 USD for the program. In 1996 Longo decided to put away the espresso machines and devote full-time attention to developing software.
CoffeeCup offers a core group of programs free to schools. CoffeeCup Software's K–12 Donation Program allows public schools to request the Educational Software Package (ESP) Free for classroom use to elementary and secondary public schools, and public libraries.
Introduction of Mac applications
Starting at the end of 2011 CoffeeCup began to debut its new line of OS X compatible programs including the Web Editor, Web Form Builder and Web Image Studio. The Web Editor quickly received high reviews for the inclusion of tools such as an interactive preview pane, tag matching, drag-n'-drop coding, and search-based editing. The Web Editor won the About.com Readers Choice Awards in 2012. Responsive apps including Responsive Layout Maker Pro, Responsive Email Designer, and Responsive Site Designer were also introduced for the OS X platform.
Products
References
External links
CoffeeCup Software official site
Companies based in Atlanta
Development software companies
Software companies of the United States
Software companies established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close%20Combat%20III%3A%20The%20Russian%20Front | Close Combat III: The Russian Front is a 1999 computer wargame developed by Atomic Games and published by Microsoft. It is the third game in the Close Combat series. It revolves around the Eastern Front during World War II, and takes players from the invasion of the Soviet Union to the final battle for Berlin in 1945. A remake, Close Combat: Cross of Iron, was released in 2007.
Gameplay
Battles follow the general pattern of the Close Combat series. Apart from a difficulty slider, there are realism settings which disable the fog of war, unit initiative, difficulty of access to enemy info, etc.
The Grand Campaign follows the Eastern Front from the German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa), to Stalingrad and ultimately Berlin. Players can pick either side.
Development
Reception
The game received favorable reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.
It sold 45,438 copies during 1999. Author James Dunnigan reported that it was the year's best-selling wargame. According to Marc Dultz of CNET Gamecenter, the title was profitable and achieved total sales of "well over 100,000 units" by April 1999.
The staff of PC Gamer US presented the game with their 1999 "Best Wargame" prize. They hailed it as the "strongest Close Combat title yet", and wrote that it "vividly recreate[s] the fluidity and chaos of real combat without compromising playability." The game received a nomination by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences for PC Strategy Game of the Year at the 2nd Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, and a nomination for IGN'''s pick for 1998's best strategy game; however, these prizes ultimately went to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and StarCraft, respectively.
ReviewsBackstab #15
Legacy
Following the release of Close Combat III, Microsoft opted to discontinue the Close Combat franchise in early 1999. The game and its predecessors had been profitable, but CNET Gamecenters Dultz reported "indications that the company is now only interested in publishing games that have the potential of selling 250,000 units or more." Atomic reacted that April by splitting from Microsoft and migrating to Mindscape's Strategic Simulations (SSI) label, with the goal of creating a fourth Close Combat based on the Battle of the Bulge. Later that year, Zabalaoui said that Microsoft had been "a terrific publisher", and that Atomic had "parted company [with it] as friends who may some day work together again."Close Combat IV: Battle of the Bulge was released in November 1999, followed by Close Combat: Invasion Normandy in October 2000. After Atomic's sale to Destineer in 2005, its new parent partnered with Matrix Games to create expanded remakes of the Close Combat games, starting with Close Combat III. The result was Close Combat: Cross of Iron, released by Matrix and developer CSO Simtek in 2007. Remakes of Battle of the Bulge, Invasion Normandy and A Bridge Too Far followed, along with the new titles Panthers in the Fog (2012), Ga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location%20intelligence | In business intelligence, location intelligence (LI), or spatial intelligence, is the process of deriving meaningful insight from geospatial data relationships to solve a particular problem. It involves layering multiple data sets spatially and/or chronologically, for easy reference on a map, and its applications span industries, categories and organizations.
Maps have been used to represent information throughout the ages, but what might be referenced as the first example of true location 'intelligence' was in London in 1854 when John Snow was able to debunk theories about the spread of cholera by overlaying a map of the area with the location of water pumps and was able to narrow the source to a single water pump. This layering of information over a map was able to identify relationships between different sets of geospatial data.
Location or geographical information system (GIS) tools enable spatial experts to collect, store, analyze and visualize data. Location intelligence experts can use a variety of spatial and business analytical tools to measure optimal locations for operating a business or providing a service. Location intelligence experts begin with defining the business ecosystem which has many interconnected economic influences. Such economic influences include but are not limited to culture, lifestyle, labor, healthcare, cost of living, crime, economic climate and education.
Further definitions
The term "location intelligence" is often used to describe the people, data and technology employed to geographically "map" information. These mapping applications like Polaris Intelligence can transform large amounts of data linked to location (e.g. POIs, demographics, geofences) into color-coded visual representations (heat maps and thematic maps of variables of interest) that make it easy to see trends and generate meaningful intelligence. The creation of location intelligence is directed by domain knowledge, formal frameworks, and a focus on decision support. Location cuts across through everything i.e. devices, platforms, software and apps, and is one of the most important ingredients of understanding context in sync with social data, mobile data, user data, sensor data.
Location intelligence is also used to describe the integration of a geographical component into business intelligence processes and tools, often incorporating spatial database and spatial OLAP tools.
In 2012, Wayne Gearey from the real estate industry (JLL) offered the first applied course on location intelligence at the University of Texas at Dallas in which he defined location intelligence as the process for selecting the optimal location that will support workplace success and address a variety of business and financial objectives.
Pitney Bowes MapInfo Corporation describes location intelligence as follows: "Spatial information, commonly known as "Location", relates to involving, or having the nature of where. Spatial is not constrained to a geographic location |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise%20of%20the%20Kasai | Rise of the Kasai is an action-adventure game developed by BottleRocket Entertainment and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America exclusively for PlayStation 2. The game serves as a followup to the 2002 action-adventure game The Mark of Kri.
Plot
Rise of the Kasai centers on a band of warriors known as the Rakus and their battles against the evil sect of dark magicians known as the Kasai, led by the traitor of the Rakus, Maibisi, who plans to collect the six Marks of Kri and unleash a multitude of horrors in order to rule the world. The narrative focuses on a series of events that take place ten years prior to the events of The Mark of Kri and ten years afterwards with levels taking place in the past feature the older generation of the Rakus, Baumusu, Rau's trainer from The Mark of Kri, and a new character named Griz, Baumusu's mentor. Meanwhile, future levels feature the new generation of the Rakus, Rau and Tati, Rau's younger sister who bears the Mark of Kri in order to stop Maibisi from unleashing world domination.
Story
The story was told by the raven, Kuzo and assisting the Oracle, who was distressed that Rau Utu was slain by unforeseen circumstances. It was confirmed, however, that Rau was betrayed, but neither the Gods, the Oracle or Kuzo himself was aware of who had betrayed him. 20 years ago, long before Kuzo became Rau's scout, spirit guide and chronicler, he was Baumusu's scout and spirit guide. In Tapuroku, he and his mentor Griz were sent on official Rakus business in attempting to capture Maibisi, whom years ago, betrayed the Rakus despite their warnings that the marks were evil as they stood steadfast in their faith, stripped Maibisi of his rank. In retaliation, the Kasai, under Maibisi's orders, prepared to strike at the Rakus' hidden fortress of Vaitaku. In Tapuroku, Maibisi had commanded the Kasai after thorough studying Kasai lore and sending the Ganguun Priests into locating the marks as it was slowly being rediscovered. Horrified, the Rakus warriors had to return to Vaitaku, only to find that the Kasai had already attacked, conquered, and perhaps slaughtered the other Rakus' warriors. Maibisi also revealed that the gave up his heart and encased it in a crimson stone crystal to ensure his immortality. After fending off the Kasai threat, the Oracle told them to locate the child, Rau's younger sister Tati, who has the remaining Mark of Kri, and plant the Oracle seed in the city of Ngari so that humanity can still commune with the Gods themselves. After locating Rau and Tati, when they were children in the Ruins of Tiru, They rescued Tati and disappeared from the sight of the Kasai, much to Maibisi's chagrin. Baumusu and Griz were told not to reveal Tati's value with the Mark of Kri on her back to the enemy, raise them, and train Rau and in turn, Rau would train Tati so that they can become the Rakus' protective warriors and that Rau can fulfill his destiny one day.
During the events of The Mark of Kri, further revel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20Scoreboard | College Scoreboard was a program that aired on NFL Network that debuted in 2006, and ended in 2007. The program was hosted by Paul Burmeister with analysis from Butch Davis and Mike Mayock.
History
College Scoreboard debuted in 2006 as a show on NFL Network dedicated to college football. It features news, highlights, statistics, interviews, press conferences and analysis.
In the first season Butch Davis was an analyst along with Mike Mayock, but was named as the head coach of North Carolina.
NFL Network original programming
2006 American television series debuts
2007 American television series endings
American sports television series
College football studio shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Golf%20%2792 | is a Family Computer video game that involves golfing with popular Japanese golf pros.
Summary
There are three difficulty levels and the game is almost completely in Japanese. There are also three modes: leaderboard (similar to major PGA events), tournament (using a format found in most sports playoffs), and stroke play. Players have a crowd to play their round of golf into front of.
In the hardest difficulty levels, players are confronted with wind levels approaching that of a hurricane while the wind is almost stagnant in the easiest difficulty level. One of the drawbacks of the game is that the player must determine the angle of their flight separately from the strength of their swing and the type of golf club that they will use.
References
1992 video games
Golf video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Video games developed in Japan
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanah | Tanah is the Malay/Indonesian word for soil, land or island.
It can be found in topography.
Tanah Abang – a market district in Jakarta, Indonesia
Tanah Datar – a regency in West Sumatra, Indonesia
Tanah Lot – a temple in Bali, Indonesia
Tanah Merah (disambiguation)
See also
Thana (disambiguation)
Tanha (disambiguation)
Indonesian words and phrases
Malay words and phrases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Family%20Radio | American Family Radio (AFR) is a network of more than 180 radio stations broadcasting Conservative Christian-oriented programming to over 30 states. AFR streams its programming on its website and on the AFR mobile app.
Overview
American Family Radio is split among two networks – AFR Talk, which airs mostly conservative-leaning Christian talk and teaching; and AFR Hybrid, airing Christian talk and contemporary Christian music.
AFR airs original programs such as Today's Issues, hosted by AFA president Tim Wildmon. AFR also airs nationally syndicated programs such as Focus on the Family, as well as contemporary Christian music by various artists. Other personalities heard on AFR include Dr. James Dobson, Dr. Robert Jeffress, David Barton, Jan Markell and Sandy Rios.
History
AFR was launched by Rev. Donald Wildmon in 1991 as a ministry of the American Family Association, with the flagship station being WAFR in Tupelo, Mississippi. It originally aired a contemporary Christian music format. Christian talk and teaching programs were also featured. Eventually, American Family Radio included three networks – Classic Gospel; a Christian AC network; and Inspirational, which included Christian talk and teaching programs. In 2009, American Family Radio launched AFR Talk, and most of its stations joined the new network. The Christian AC network was discontinued at this time. At its peak, American Family Radio was heard on over 200 stations.
Station list
Owned and operated
Affiliates
Former AFR stations
References
External links
American Family Radio website
AFR daily schedule
Christian radio stations in the United States
American Family Radio stations
American radio networks
American Family Association
Radio stations established in 1991
1991 establishments in Mississippi
Organizations that oppose LGBT rights in the United States
Radio broadcasting companies of the United States
Conservative media in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Cant%C3%B3n%20de%20San%20Pablo | El Cantón de San Pablo is a municipality and town in the Chocó Department, Colombia.
Climate
El Cantón de San Pablo has a very wet tropical rainforest climate (Af). The following data is for Managrú, the capital of the municipality.
References
Municipalities of Chocó Department |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo%20Quito | Río Quito is a municipality and town in the Chocó Department, Colombia.
Climate
Rio Quito has a very wet tropical rainforest climate (Af). The following climate data is for Paimadó, the capital of the municipality.
References
Municipalities of Chocó Department |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%20%28surveillance%29 | Lincoln, manufactured by the company Pen-Link, Ltd., is a class of electronic data interception products—including both computer hardware and software packages—whose function is to extract and analyze internet traffic for mass surveillance purposes, such as those outlined under the Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act (CALEA).
Lincoln systems enable law enforcement and intelligence agencies to monitor numerous types of intercepted electronic communications—including telephone (landline & wireless), VoIP, 3G and IP (web/email/IM traffic).
Lincoln systems are generally implemented along with other Pen-Link products to enable features such as databases to store intercepted communications, mapping software (to monitor the locations of surveillance targets), visualization software, and link analysis features.
See also
Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act
Verint Systems
Mass surveillance
References
Crashing The Wiretappers Ball, Wired.com
Slideshow: Crashing The Wiretappers Ball, Wired Magazine
Tactical Lincoln System
Surveillance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSQL | CSQL was a software project, intended to be an open source main memory high-performance relational database management system developed at sourceforge.net. It was supposed to provide high performance for SQL queries and DML statements. As of 2022 the software was never functional and unavailable under an open source license.
It was configured to work as transparent cache for database management systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, circa 2009. As there is no disk I/O, in-memory databases provide a predictive response time which is suited to real time and near real time applications.
Version 3.3 was released in 2011.
It was promoted by a company called Lakshya in Bangalore, which existed through about 2013.
See also
List of relational database management systems
References
Vaporware
Relational database management systems
Free database management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wainwright%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | John Wainwright is a computer scientist, born in Australia, who has pioneered the development of pure object-based computer languages. He is the principal architect of two computer languages, ScriptX (1992–1996) and MaxScript (1996).
In 1992, Wainwright sold Apple Computer his structural framework for an object based, language and virtual machine operating system called Objects in C. He became the lead architect for ScriptX, a language and media player developed by Kaleida Labs.
After Kaleida Labs closed its doors in 1996, Wainwright went on to serve as the principal architect of MaxScript, the scripting language of Autodesk 3ds Max. This language has been used in game development as a part of the Maxis Sims animation processing pipeline. Compared to ScriptX, MaxScript has explicit syntax to support 3D animation.
Wainwright was the Chief Technology Officer at Crowd Science, an online advertising technology company he co-founded in 2007 with his nephew, John Martin, and Paul Neto. Crowd Science was funded by Granite Ventures.
Wainwright is the Vice President of Engineering at Kollective Technology Inc. (previously known as Kontiki Inc.), a company he co-founded in 2001.
Wainwright was also the first non-employee Amazon.com customer, ordering the book Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. An Amazon building is named after him.
In 2020, he co-founded Mirinae, Inc in South Korea and developed a Korean language learning cloud service (mirinae.io).
References
Programming language researchers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Chief technology officers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20cuts%20in%20computer%20vision | As applied in the field of computer vision, graph cut optimization can be employed to efficiently solve a wide variety of low-level computer vision problems (early vision), such as image smoothing, the stereo correspondence problem, image segmentation, object co-segmentation, and many other computer vision problems that can be formulated in terms of energy minimization. Many of these energy minimization problems can be approximated by solving a maximum flow problem in a graph (and thus, by the max-flow min-cut theorem, define a minimal cut of the graph). Under most formulations of such problems in computer vision, the minimum energy solution corresponds to the maximum a posteriori estimate of a solution. Although many computer vision algorithms involve cutting a graph (e.g., normalized cuts), the term "graph cuts" is applied specifically to those models which employ a max-flow/min-cut optimization (other graph cutting algorithms may be considered as graph partitioning algorithms).
"Binary" problems (such as denoising a binary image) can be solved exactly using this approach; problems where pixels can be labeled with more than two different labels (such as stereo correspondence, or denoising of a grayscale image) cannot be solved exactly, but solutions produced are usually near the global optimum.
History
The theory of graph cuts used as an optimization method was first applied in computer vision in the seminal paper by Greig, Porteous and Seheult of Durham University. Allan Seheult and Bruce Porteous were members of Durham's lauded statistics group of the time, led by Julian Besag and Peter Green, with the optimisation expert Margaret Greig notable as the first ever female member of staff of the Durham Mathematical Sciences Department.
In the Bayesian statistical context of smoothing noisy (or corrupted) images, they showed how the maximum a posteriori estimate of a binary image can be obtained exactly by maximizing the flow through an associated image network, involving the introduction of a source and sink. The problem was therefore shown to be efficiently solvable. Prior to this result, approximate techniques such as simulated annealing (as proposed by the Geman brothers), or iterated conditional modes (a type of greedy algorithm suggested by Julian Besag) were used to solve such image smoothing problems.
Although the general -colour problem remains unsolved for the approach of Greig, Porteous and Seheult has turned out to have wide applicability in general computer vision problems. Greig, Porteous and Seheult's approaches are often applied iteratively to a sequence of binary problems, usually yielding near optimal solutions.
In 2011, C. Couprie et al. proposed a general image segmentation framework, called the "Power Watershed", that minimized a real-valued indicator function from [0,1] over a graph, constrained by user seeds (or unary terms) set to 0 or 1, in which the minimization of the indicator function over the graph is optimized |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra%2080 | The Sun Microsystems Ultra 80 is a computer workstation that shipped from November 1999 to 2002.
Its enclosure is a fairly large ( high, wide and deep) and heavy () tower design. At launch, it shipped with Solaris 2.5.1, and was available in a variety of different configurations, with one (model 1450), two (model 2450) or four (model 4450) 64-bit UltraSPARC II CPUs and up to 4 GB of RAM. When released, the Ultra 80 was Sun's highest performance workstation.
The Ultra 80 is similar to the lower-cost Sun Ultra 60, but is somewhat larger and supports more CPUs and memory. Although it was designed as a workstation rather than a server, it may be rack mounted using an optional kit. The Enterprise 420R is a server product based on the Ultra 80 motherboard in a specialized rack-mountable chassis, with custom power supplies and other parts more appropriate for server applications.
The last order date for the Ultra 80 was July 2002 and the last model stopped shipping in October 2002. The later Ultra 45, introduced in 2006, supports a maximum of two CPUs, rather than the four of the Ultra 80.
Operating system
The Ultra 80 shipped with Solaris 2.5.1, and is capable running later versions of Solaris through Solaris 10 (Oracle Solaris 11 dropped support for UltraSPARC II, III and IV processors), as well as Linux and various other UNIX operating systems. The Ultra 80 cannot run Microsoft Windows directly, although an internal PCI card (SunPCi II pro and similar) from Sun could be fitted to allow the use of Windows.
Hardware specifications and notes
Full specifications can be found on the Sun web site.
CPU
Although only sold with either one, two, or four CPUs, the use of three CPUs is a supported configuration. The CPUs run at 450 MHz and have 16-KB data and 16-KB instruction cache on chip with a secondary 4-MB external cache. The X1195A is the part number of one of the CPUs. Each CPU has an integrated floating point processor.
Memory
The Ultra 80 uses 144-pin 5V 60-ns DIMM memory modules of either 64 or 256 MB, which should be installed in sets of four identical DIMMs. There are 16 DIMM sockets, so it is possible to fit up to 4 GB with sixteen 256 MB modules. The memory bus is 576 bits wide; 512 bits are used for data and 64 bits for error correction. The specifications list a maximum throughput of 1.78-GB/s. Performance is improved if 2-way interleaving is used (giving 512 MB or 2 GB) and maximum performance is achieved with 4-way interleaving, in which case all 16 memory slots would be used, providing the machine with 1 GB or 4 GB of RAM.
Half of the Ultra 80's memory must be fitted on the motherboard and the other half on a memory riser board. Care is needed in handling the memory riser board, as the connector is not designed for repeated use. It must be tightened using a torque wrench supplied with the Ultra 80, as detailed in the service manual.
Internal storage
The Ultra 80 takes one or two 1" high SCA SCSI disk drives internally. It was sold |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRK%20Super | NRK Super is a Norwegian TV and radio channel aimed at children, run by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The TV channel is broadcast on the digital terrestrial network, from 6:30am to 7:30pm, and was launched 1 December 2007. The NRK Super radio channel is broadcast on DAB radio (from 6am to 9pm) and the internet, and was originally named NRK Barn (NRK Children in English). It was launched on 16 October 2007.
NRK Super also has a web community where children can sign up and play games that allow them to get their own profile and get friends online.
Here also small children can visit the homepages of shows they have seen on TV, such like Fantorangen, Tøfferud (Chuggington), Komet Kameratene, and others. On some important days, NRK Super also broadcasts dramas and children's films.
Viasat and RiksTV broadcasts this channel as number 6. NRK Super starts from 7am and ends 7:30pm.
History
NRK Super was started on 1 December 2007, after NRK received the same year's funding of the 50-60 million kroner the channel was estimated to cost, via an increased license. With NRK Super, NRK wanted to fulfill its public broadcasting obligations towards Norwegian children in the target group 2–12, by giving them a holistic offer rooted in Norwegian reality. The vision "We shall create a world where children grow and are important" became a guideline for the channel early on. With the launch of several children's channels in Norway, Disney had achieved high popularity in a few years. NRK Super was the media house NRK's counter move to face the competition from Disney and other commercial channels.
When the channel started, some of the children's programs were broadcast in parallel on the TV channels NRK1 and NRK Super. With the development of the digital terrestrial network, the transmission frequency of NRK Super and NRK3 became available to all license payers. From and including 2010, the children's programs are broadcast, with some exceptions, exclusively on NRK Super. The traditional flagship for children's programs in Norway, Barne-TV, was removed from NRK1's broadcast schedule as of 1 January 2010 and is now only broadcast on NRK Super, having been a regular feature on NRK1 since 16 September 1960.
On 4 January 2010, NRK Super started the program Supernytt, Norway's first news program for children. As of January 2018, the program is broadcast weekdays at 18:50.
NRK Super has had a significant increase in support since its launch. After the first half of 2015, the TV channel had a 36% market share among children under the age of 12. An increasingly large proportion of the content that has traditionally been consumed on TV is now consumed on other platforms. The TV channel accounted for February 2015 about 65% of the audience's use of NRK Super's content, while NRK Super's web/NetTV/apps accounted for 35% of audience visits.
Programs
The programming shown on NRK Super's television network is greatly varied. In the mornings, programming aired at pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match%20Day%20%28series%29 | Match Day is an association football video game franchise created by Jon Ritman in 1984 for the 1980s 8-bit home computer market.
Games in the series
The following games are part of the Match Day series. All of the games were published by Ocean, with the exception of Super Match Soccer:
Match Day: the first game in the series. It was created in 1984 and released on most home computers of the era, but is most well known for its Sinclair Spectrum incarnation. It was designed and developed by Jon Ritman with the help of Chris Clarke.
International Match Day is an improved version of Match Day published in 1985 for ZX Spectrum 128KB. It takes advantage of the extra memory available to provide better sound and some full screen images.
Match Day II was released in 1987 for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, MSX and Commodore 64 platforms. It was written by Jon Ritman, with graphics by Bernie Drummond and music and sound by Guy Stevens (Commodore version, programmed by John Darnel). The game was the first one to include complete control over ball direction, power and elevation (using a kickometer), and a brand new deflection system (Diamond Deflection System).
Final Whistle was the name of an arcade machine very similar to Match Day 2 (it was previously called Soccerama during development). Although it was finished it was never released.
Super Match Soccer, was released in 1998 by Acclaim. Although its working title was The Net, it was intended to be released as Match Day III (it was even presented as such in a PlayStation preview in Spain), but due to licensing problems the name was finally changed. It was developed in 1998 by Cranberry Source and published by Acclaim. The game is available for PC and PlayStation.
References
External links
Inept Reviews: International Match Day at youtube.com
Match Day at worldofspectrum.org
Match Day Challenge at Crash on-line #37
International Match Day at ysrnry.co.uk
Match Day II at Mobygames.com
Super Match Soccer review at Computerandvideogames.com
Association football video games
Ocean Software games
1984 video games
1987 video games
1998 video games
Amstrad CPC games
ZX Spectrum games
Commodore 64 games
MSX games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
Windows games
PlayStation (console) games
Video game franchises introduced in 1984
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Reingold | Edward M. Reingold (born 1945) is a computer scientist active in the fields of algorithms, data structures, graph drawing, and calendrical calculations.
In 1996 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
In 2000 he retired from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a professor of computer science and applied mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technology until his retirement in 2019.
Works
He has co-authored the standard text on calendrical calculations, Calendrical Calculations, with Nachum Dershowitz.
In 1981 he was the co-author, with John Tilford, of the canonical paper "Tidier Drawings of Trees" which described a method, now known as the Reingold-Tilford algorithm, to produce more aesthetically pleasing drawing of binary (and by extension, m-ary) trees .
References
American computer scientists
Graph drawing people
1945 births
Living people
Scientists from Illinois
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Illinois Institute of Technology faculty
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Cornell University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%202%29 | Season two of Dancing with the Stars premiered on January 6, 2006, on the ABC network.
This season expanded each episode from an hour to 90 minutes, and added an hour-long results show the following night.
On February 24, 98 Degrees singer Drew Lachey and Cheryl Burke were crowned the champions, while San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice and Anna Trebunskaya finished in second place, and WWE wrestler Stacy Keibler and Tony Dovolani finished third.
Cast
Couples
This season featured ten celebrity contestants. Rapper Romeo was scheduled to appear this season, but suffered an injury before the first show and was replaced by his father, Master P. All of the professionals dancers from season one, with the exception of Alec Mazo and Charlotte Jørgensen, returned for season two.
Future appearances
Drew Lachey returned for the All-Stars season, where he was paired with Anna Trebunskaya.
Hosts and judges
Tom Bergeron returned as host, while Samantha Harris replaced Lisa Canning as co-host. Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1
Each couple performed either the cha-cha-cha or the waltz. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 2
Each couple performed either the quickstep or the rumba. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 3
Each couple performed either the jive or the tango. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 4
Each couple performed either the foxtrot or the paso doble. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 5
Each couple performed the samba, as well as a group salsa. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 6
Each couple performed one unlearned dance, as well as a group Viennese waltz. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 7
Each couple performed two unlearned dances. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 8
Each couple performed three dances, one of which was their freestyle routine. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Dance chart
The couples performed the following each week:
Week 1: One unlearned dance (cha-cha-cha or waltz)
Week 2: One unlearned dance (quickstep or rumba)
Week 3: One unlearned dance (jive or tango)
Week 4: One unlearned dance (foxtrot or paso doble)
Week 5: Samba & salsa group dance
Week 6: One unlearned dance & Viennese waltz group dance
Week 7: Two unlearned dances
Week 8: Favorite dance, freestyle & one other dance
Color key:
Notes
References
External links
Dancing with the Stars (American TV series)
2006 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%203%29 | Season three of Dancing With the Stars premiered on September 12, 2006, on the ABC network.
For this season, the scoring system was changed. Fan vote only counted for 25% of the total score and scoring was now translated directly from percentages rather than into ordinals. The judges scores were added up, and each performer was given points based on the percentage of the total points distributed among all performers. (For example, a team received a score of 25. A total of 207 points were awarded to all nine performers. The team received 12.08% of that total, so that team earned 12.08 points. The couple happens to be Sara & Tony.) The fan vote was handled the same way, with the points based on how much of the total fan vote the star received. (So, in the same example, if the team earned 15% of the total fan vote, their grand total is 27.08 points.)
On November 15, Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke were crowned the champions, while actor Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff finished in second place, and actor Joey Lawrence and Edyta Śliwińska finished in third.
Cast
Couples
This season featured eleven celebrity contestants. On October 12, 2006, Sara Evans announced her withdrawal from the competition to be with her children after filing for divorce from her husband. In a "final appearance", a pre-taped interview with Evans about her decision was shown on October 17. Willa Ford stated on Headline News' Robin & Company that ABC had invited her to return to the competition, but she declined. At the end of the October 18 results show, it was revealed that there would be no elimination for the week due to Evans' departure. The scores from week 6 carried over to week 7.
Future appearances
Emmitt Smith returned for the All-Stars season, where he was again paired with Cheryl Burke.
Hosts and judges
Tom Bergeron and Samantha Harris returned as co-hosts, while Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1
Each couple performed either the cha-cha-cha or the foxtrot. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 2
Each couple performed either the mambo or the quickstep. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 3
Each couple performed either the jive or the tango. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 4
Each couple performed either the paso doble or the waltz. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 5
Each couple performed either the rumba or the samba. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 6
Each couple performed one unlearned dance, plus a group disco dance. Due to Sara Evans' withdraw from the co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%204%29 | Season four of Dancing with the Stars premiered on March 19, 2007, on the ABC network.
To avoid direct competition with Fox's American Idol, Dancing with the Stars changed time slots from the previous season. This season, the performance show aired on Mondays and the results show aired on Tuesdays. No elimination took place the first week in order to allow viewers two weeks to see all of the couples perform both Latin and ballroom dances. This season was broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom on Sunday afternoons.
On May 22, Olympic short-track speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno and Julianne Hough were crowned the champions, while NSYNC singer Joey Fatone and Kym Johnson finished in second place, and boxer Laila Ali and Maksim Chmerkovskiy finished third.
Cast
Couples
This season featured eleven celebrity contestants. Actor Vincent Pastore was originally announced and partnered with Edyta Śliwińska, but pulled out after one week of rehearsals. He was replaced by John Ratzenberger.
Future appearances
Apolo Anton Ohno and Joey Fatone returned for the All-Stars season, where Fatone was again paired with Kym Johnson and Ohno with Karina Smirnoff.
Hosts and judges
Tom Bergeron and Samantha Harris returned as co-hosts, while Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1
Each couple performed either the cha-cha-cha or the foxtrot. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 2
Each couple performed either the mambo or the quickstep. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 3
Each couple performed either the jive or the tango. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 4
Each couple performed either the paso doble or the waltz. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 5
Each couple performed either the rumba or the samba. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 6
Each couple performed one unlearned dance and a swing group dance. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 7
Each couple performed two unlearned dances. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 8
Each couple performed two unlearned dances. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 9
Each couple performed two dances. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 10
Each couple performed two dances, plus a freestyle. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Dance chart
The couples performed the following each week:
Week 1: One unlearned dance (cha-cha-cha or foxtrot)
Week 2: One unlearned dance (mambo or quickstep)
Week 3: One unlearned dance (jive or tango)
Week 4: One unlearned dance (paso doble or waltz)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemundo%20Studios | Telemundo Studios, formerly known as Telemundo Television Studios, is a division of NBCUniversal that develops original programming in Spanish.
History
After these agreements, Patricio Wills, former president of Telemundo-RTI, pass to be the person in charge of Telemundo Television Studios, and Marcos Santana, previous CEO of Tepuy International, will become the President of Telemundo International, division that will be in charge to distribute its programming abroad.
Telemundo Television Studios will continue producing telenovelas and other programs for Telemundo and will look for opportunities of production for other chains of Latin America.
See also
List of United States television networks
External links
Telemundo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich%20Bloch | Erich Bloch (January 9, 1925 – November 25, 2016) was a German-born American electrical engineer and administrator. He was involved with developing IBM's first transistorized supercomputer, 7030 Stretch, and mainframe computer, System/360. He served as director of the National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1990.
Biography
Bloch was born in Sulzburg, Germany in 1925. Bloch was the son of Josef Bloch a Jewish businessman and Lina Rothschild a housewife, who were both later murdered in the Holocaust. He survived the war in a refugee camp in Switzerland and emigrated in 1948 to the United States. He studied electrical engineering at ETH Zurich and received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Buffalo.
Bloch joined IBM after graduating in 1952. He was engineering manager of IBM's Stretch supercomputer system and director of several research sites during his career. In June 1984, Ronald Reagan nominated Bloch to succeed Edward Alan Knapp become director of the National Science Foundation. The same year, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. In 1985, Bloch was awarded one of the first National Medals of Technology and Innovation along with Bob O. Evans and Fred Brooks for their work on the IBM System/360.
After stepping down as director of the National Science Foundation, Bloch joined the Council on Competitiveness as its first distinguished fellow. The IEEE Computer Society awarded him the Computer Pioneer Award in 1993 for high speed computing. In 2002, the National Science Board honored Bloch with the Vannevar Bush Award. He was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum in 2004 "for engineering management of the IBM Stretch supercomputer, and of the Solid Logic Technology used in the IBM System/360, which revolutionized the computer industry."
Bloch died at the age of 91 from complications of Alzheimer's disease on 25 November 2016 in Washington, D.C.
Awards
National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1985)
Computer Pioneer Award (1993)
Vannevar Bush Award (2002)
Computer History Museum Fellow (2004)
References
External links
Erich Bloch profile via Washington Advisory Group
Erich Bloch profile via IEEE
Erich Bloch profile via IBM
1925 births
2016 deaths
People from Sulzburg
People from the Republic of Baden
20th-century German Jews
American electrical engineers
IBM Research computer scientists
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
National Medal of Technology recipients
University at Buffalo alumni
George H. W. Bush administration personnel
Reagan administration personnel
Emigrants from Nazi Germany
Immigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker%20calculator | Poker calculators are algorithms which through probabilistic or statistical means derive a player's chance of winning, losing, or tying a poker hand.
Given the complexities of poker and the constantly changing rules, most poker calculators are statistical machines, probabilities and card counting is rarely used. Poker calculators come in three types: poker advantage calculators, poker odds calculators and poker relative calculators.
Odds calculators
A poker odds calculator calculates a player's winning ratio. Winning ratio is defined as, the number of games won divided by the total number of games simulated in a Monte Carlo simulation for a specific player.
Advantage calculators
A poker advantage calculator calculates a player's winning ratio and normalizes the winning ratio relative to the number of players. An advantage calculator, provides a normalized value between -100% and +100% describing a player's winning change in a locked domain. That is, if a player's result is -100%, regardless of the number of players in the game, the player will certainly lose the game. If a player's advantage is +100%, regardless of the number of players, the player will certainly win the game.
Both odds and advantage calculators can provide results provided a specific game scenario. Game scenario variables include: the number of players, the game type being played, and the hand or cards available for the player in question. Alternatively, there also exist poker relative calculators which display a player's winning chance relative to another player's chance.
Relative calculators
Poker relative calculators tend to be displayed on poker tournaments and shows for an audience because they provide an accurate assessment of a player's winning chance. However, professional in game poker players do not use or think in terms of poker relative calculations because two or more poker hands at the same table are required.
See also
Poker tools
List of poker related topics
Game complexity
References
Poker tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lakes%20of%20Western%20Australia%2C%20A%E2%80%93C | This list includes all lakes, both intermittent and perennial. It is complete with respect to the 1996 Gazetteer of Australia. Dubious names have been checked against the online 2004 data, and in all cases confirmed correct. However, if any lakes have been gazetted or deleted since 1996, this list does not reflect these changes. Strictly speaking, Australian place names are gazetted in capital letters only; the names in this list have been converted to mixed case in accordance with normal capitalisation conventions. Locations are as gazetted; some lakes may extend over large areas.
0-9
A
B
C
See also
Geography of Western Australia
List of lakes of Australia
List of lakes in Western Australia
References
Further reading
Streetsmart Travellers Atlas of Western Australia (2006) Department of Land Information and West Australian Newspapers,9th ed.
In the state Maps - they can be identified, and are listed in the Geographical Features Index p. 289
Quality Publishing Australia.(2007) Roads & tracks Western Australia : campsites directory, roads and tracks, all in one Jolimont, W.A.,Quality Publishing Australia, 5th ed
Has a Geographical index p. 277
UBD Western Australia country road atlas (2005) Macquarie Park, N.S.W.UBD, a division of Universal Publishers, 11th ed
Identifies in maps but has no accompanying index
List, A-C
Lakes, A-C
Western Australia, A-C
Lists of coordinates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lakes%20of%20Western%20Australia%2C%20D%E2%80%93K | This list includes all lakes, both intermittent and perennial. It is complete with respect to the 1996 Gazetteer of Australia. Dubious names have been checked against the online 2004 data, and in all cases confirmed correct. However, if any lakes have been gazetted or deleted since 1996, this list does not reflect these changes. Strictly speaking, Australian place names are gazetted in capital letters only; the names in this list have been converted to mixed case in accordance with normal capitalisation conventions. Locations are as gazetted; some lakes may extend over large areas.
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
See also
List of lakes in Western Australia
References
Further reading
Streetsmart Travellers Atlas of Western Australia (2006) Department of Land Information and West Australian Newspapers,9th ed.
In the state Maps - they can be identified, and are listed in the Geographical Features Index p. 289
Quality Publishing Australia.(2007) Roads & tracks Western Australia : campsites directory, roads and tracks, all in one Jolimont, W.A.,Quality Publishing Australia, 5th ed
Has a Geographical index p. 277
UBD Western Australia country road atlas (2005) Macquarie Park, N.S.W.UBD, a division of Universal Publishers, 11th ed
Identifies in maps but has no accompanying index
List, D-K
Lakes, D-K
Western Australia, D-K
Lists of coordinates |
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