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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lakes%20of%20Western%20Australia%2C%20L%E2%80%93P | 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.
L
M
N
O
P
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, L-P
Lakes, L-P
Western Australia, L-P
Lists of coordinates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lakes%20of%20Western%20Australia%2C%20Q%E2%80%93Z | 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.
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
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, Q-Z
Lakes, Q-Z
Western Australia, Q-Z
Lists of coordinates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatheradio%20Canada | Weatheradio Canada () is a Canadian weather radio network owned and operated by Environment and Climate Change Canada's Meteorological Service of Canada division. Weatheradio Canada is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec and transmits in both official languages (English and French) from 230 sites across Canada. Weatheradio Canada, as well as Environment Canada's weather telephone service Hello Weather, utilizes Nuance Communications text to speech voices. Starcaster Text to Speech, owned by STR-SpeechTech Ltd, was used from 1994 to 2021 (to 2022 to today in some places).
In most locations, the service broadcasts on one of seven specially-allocated VHF radio frequencies, audible only on dedicated "weather band" receivers or any VHF radio capable of receiving 10 kHz bandwidth FM signals centred on these assigned channels, which are located within the larger "public service band". The radio frequencies used by Weatheradio Canada are the same as those used by its American counterpart, NOAA Weather Radio (whose parent agency, the U.S. National Weather Service, is also a partner with the Meteorological Service of Canada) and receivers designed for use in one country are compatible for use in the other. Since 2004, the service has used Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) alerting technology to disseminate severe weather bulletins. Weatheradio has indicated that, in 2021, it also plans to add other hazard and civil emergency information (such as natural disasters, technological accidents, AMBER alerts and terrorist attacks) to its broadcasts.
In some locations, primarily national parks, provincial parks and remote communities with little or no local media service, a transmitter operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation carries the service on a standard AM or FM broadcast frequency. As of August 2007, most of these AM and FM transmitters were unlicensed by the CRTC under a special license exemption granted to low-power non-commercial broadcasters.
History
In 1976, Environment Canada's Weatheradio service was launched and expanded to 30 locations in roughly 10 years. In the early-1990s, increased government investment permitted major expansion of the network to the present size of 230 sites.
In September 2020, Environment and Climate Change Canada began soliciting feedback on possible decommissioning of 48 of its 230 transmitters. ECCC stated that the transmitters were predominantly located in areas of overlapping coverage and where alternate methods of access (such as cell phones and the Internet) were available.
On May 26, 2021, ECCC announced that during the Required Weekly Test, they would announce Weatheradio's transition into its new voice technology system. The previous Starcaster voices had been in use for over 27 years. Among the new voices for the service includes Nuance Tom, a newer version of a previous voice on NOAA Weather Radio. This transition began on June 1st of that year, and while supposed to end on New Year's Eve of 2021 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Hocevar | Samuel Hocevar (born 5 August 1978) is a French software and video game developer. He was the project leader of the Debian operating system from 17 April 2007 to 16 April 2008, and one of the founding members of Goatse Security.
Biography
Hocevar was born in Forbach, Moselle, France. From 1995 to 1997, he took preparatory classes at the Lycée Fabert in Metz, Moselle, France. He graduated in 2002 from École centrale Paris, after receiving the "Award of Information Technology and Communication" from the SNCF as the most promising student in his class. He specialized in electromechanical systems and applied mechatronics, and project management.
From 2005 to 2006, Hocevar was a Wikimedia France board member.
Hocevar has been active in the Debian project, and was elected Debian project leader on 17 April 2007. Hocevar's Debian leadership platform stated a preference for finishing larger numbers of small projects in succession, echoing the Japanese management philosophy of Kaizen that constant, incremental improvements to a project would generate more gains per unit of time than large single leaps of performance. Hocevar was succeeded by Steve McIntyre on 16 April 2008.
Hocevar has also contributed to the VideoLAN project. He has made large contributions to almost all software of the VideoLAN project, especially to VLC media player and libdvdcss, since 1998. He is the author of various free software programs, such as , a data fuzzer, and libcaca, a color ASCII art renderer. He is also the current maintainer of the Extension Language Kit Scheme interpreter, which has found use in many multimedia applications including audio processing.
Hocevar has worked on reverse engineering and image processing. He reverse engineered DVD subtitles in 2000, and in 2005, it was found that the DRM software which triggered the Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal had unlawfully pirated open source code from the VideoLAN project which Hocevar was involved in authoring. Hocevar's experience in image processing includes authoring a CAPTCHA decoding framework called PWNtcha. PWNtcha was the first CAPTCHA decoder framework to defeat multiple CAPTCHAs and was referred to as the "most famous" CAPTCHA breaker in a 2009 Stanford University publication.
Hocevar authored the WTFPL version 2, an extremely liberal, permissive free software license that is recognized by the Free Software Foundation. He has also been cited for his "whimsical" copyleft activism.
Hocevar is part of Goatse Security, an information security working group which revealed a security flaw in AT&T's website, leading to the release of 114,000 email addresses of Apple iPad users.
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
People from Forbach
French computer programmers
Debian Project leaders
École Centrale Paris alumni
French computer scientists
French Wikimedians
Apple Design Awards recipients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Vista%20networking%20technologies | In computing, Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 introduced in 2007/2008 a new networking stack named Next Generation TCP/IP stack,
to improve on the previous stack in several ways.
The stack includes native implementation of IPv6, as well as a complete overhaul of IPv4. The new TCP/IP stack uses a new method to store configuration settings that enables more dynamic control and does not require a computer restart after a change in settings. The new stack, implemented as a dual-stack model, depends on a strong host-model and features an infrastructure to enable more modular components that one can dynamically insert and remove.
Architecture
The Next Generation TCP/IP stack connects to NICs via a Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) driver. The network stack, implemented in tcpip.sys implements the Transport, Network and Data link layers of the TCP/IP model. The Transport layer includes implementations for TCP, UDP and unformatted RAW protocols. At the Network layer, IPv4 and IPv6 protocols are implemented in a dual-stack architecture. And the Data link layer (also called Framing layer) implements 802.3, 802.1, PPP, Loopback and tunnelling protocols. Each layer can accommodate Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) shims, which allows packets at that layer to be introspected and also host the WFP Callout API. The networking API is exposed via three components:
Winsock A user mode API for abstracting network communication using sockets and ports. Datagram sockets are used for UDP, whereas Stream sockets are for TCP. While Winsock is a user mode library, it uses a kernel mode driver, called Ancillary Function Driver (AFD) to implement certain functionality.
Winsock Kernel (WSK) A kernel-mode API providing the same socket-and-port abstraction as Winsock, while exposing other features such as Asynchronous I/O using I/O request packets.
Transport Driver Interface (TDI) A kernel-mode API which can be used for legacy protocols like NetBIOS. It includes a component, known as TDX to map the TDI functionality to the network stack.
User interface
The user interface for configuring, troubleshooting and working with network connections has changed significantly from prior versions of Windows as well. Users can make use of the new "Network and Sharing Center" to see the status of their network connections, and to access every aspect of configuration. A single icon in the notification area (system tray) represents connectivity through all network adapters, whether wired or wireless. The network can be browsed using Network Explorer, which replaces Windows XP's "My Network Places". Network Explorer items can be a shared device such as a scanner, or a file share. The Network Location Awareness (NLA) service uniquely identifies each network and exposes the network's attributes and connectivity type so that applications can determine the optimal network configuration. However, applications have to use the NLA APIs explicitly to be aware of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas%20Brenning | Tomas Brenning (born 1967 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish bridge player, journalist and computer programmer. Even though he has won a bronze medal in the 1994 Rosenblum Cup world championship, Brenning is better known as the creator of the bridge scoring software used by several bridge federations in Europe and for scoring the world championships of bridge. Brenning possesses the title of World Bridge Federation World International Master.
External links
1967 births
Living people
Swedish contract bridge players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20Road%20%28song%29 | "Dark Road" is a song by Annie Lennox, released on 24 September 2007, as the first single from her fourth solo album Songs of Mass Destruction.
UK television network Channel 4 aired the world television premiere of the music video exclusively on 22 August 2007. It was also the first video to be premiered on Amazon.com, initially being available for 48 hours only.
The track was released as a CD single and also as a DVD single. It charted at No. 58 on the UK Singles Chart.
Track listing
"Dark Road" (Album Version) – 3:47
"Dark Road" (Acoustic Version) – 3:30
Charts
Personnel
Artwork By – Allan Martin
Photography – Mark Langthorn, Mike Owen
Vocals, Written-By – Annie Lennox
References
2007 singles
Annie Lennox songs
Songs written by Annie Lennox
Sony BMG singles
British soft rock songs
2007 songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebbles%2C%20Volume%2010%20%281996%20album%29 | Pebbles, Volume 10 is a compilation album among the CDs in the Pebbles series.
Release data
This album was released on AIP Records in 1996 as #AIP-CD-5027. Despite the similar catalogue number, there is no relation between the tracks on this CD and the tracks on the corresponding LP. This represents the first appearance on CD of any of these songs.
Notes on the tracks
This CD begins with the opening track from the Pebbles, Volume 11 LP by the mysterious Milan, in the name of The Leather Boy in this case; a second track that was not among the three Milan songs on that LP, "On the Go" is also included.
"I Can't Stand this Love, Goodbye" is the outstanding, opening track on the first Pebbles CD, Pebbles, Volume 1, released by ESD Records (not AIP Records) in 1989.
The Canadian Squires were already known as Levon and the Hawks by this time – and had also released a single as the Hawks – and would eventually become the Band.
The Spirit were forced to change their name by the California band Spirit, although they had been using it longer.
Silver Fleet is an early effort by Jeffry Katz and Jerry Kasenetz before their bubblegum pop successes a little later in the decade.
The second, unreleased single by GONN closes out the album; their classic first single, "Blackout of Gretely" was a bonus track on the Pebbles, Volume 1 CD.
Track listing
The Leather Boy: "I'm a Leather Boy"; rel. 1967
The Bold: "Gotta Get Some"; rel. 1966
The Bruthers: "Bad Way to Go"; rel. 1966
The Canadian Squires: "Leave Me Alone"; rel. 1966?
Clockwork Orange: "Your Golden Touch"; rel. 1967?
Clockwork Orange: "Do Me Right Now"; rel. 1967?
The Breakers: "Don't Send Me No Flowers (I Ain't Dead Yet)"; rel. 1965
The Spirit: "No Time to Rhyme"; rel. 1967
The Leather Boy: "On the Go"; rel. 1967
The Loved Ones: "Surprise Surprise"; rel. 1966?
Mach V: "If I Could"; rel. 1967
The Others: "I Can't Stand This Love"; rel. 1965
The Prophets: "Yes I Know"; rel. 1966?
Ravin' Blue: "Love"; rel. 1966
The Rooks: "Girl Like You, A"; rel. 1966
The RPM's: "White Lightnin'"; rel. 1966?
Silver Fleet: "Look Out World"; rel. 1967
We Who Are: "Last Trip"; rel. 1967
Steve Walker and the Bold: "Train Kept A-Rollin'"; rel. 1967
The Teddy Boys: "Mona"; rel. 1966
The Uncalled For: "Do Like Me"; rel. 1967
The Kids: "Nature's Children"; rel. 1967
Regiment: "My Soap Won't Float"; rel. 1967?
GONN: "Doin' Me In"; rel. 1966
References
Pebbles (series) albums
1996 compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ%20Smallz | DJ Smallz is an American hip-hop DJ, known for his Southern Smoke mixtapes as well as his weekly show on Sirius Satellite Radio and DISH Network, Southern Smoke Radio. His tapes have featured such artists as Young Buck, Ludacris, Master P, Lil Wayne, B.o.B, Outlawz KO McCoy, Drake, and Juicy J with Project Pat.
Mixtapes
Southern Smoke Radio Pt. 1
Southern Smoke Radio Pt. 2
Southern Smoke Radio Pt. 3
Southern Smoke Radio Pt. 4
Southern Smoke Radio Pt. 5
Southern Smoke Radio Pt. 6
Southern Smoke Radio Pt. 7
Southern Smoke Radio Pt. 8
Southern Smoke Radio Pt. 9
Southern Smoke Radio Pt. 10
2011: This That Southern Smoke!
2012: Southern Smoke Radio Pt. 11
2012: This That Southern Smoke! Vol. 2
2012: This That Southern Smoke! Vol. 3
2013: This That Southern Smoke! Vol. 4
2013: This That Southern Smoke! Vol. 5
2013: This That Southern Smoke! Vol. 7
2013: This That Southern Smoke! Vol. 8
Hosted mixtapes
2006: Drake - Room for Improvement
2007: B.o.B - Cloud 9
2008: Cash Daddy, MeatSpady, Meek Mill - Streets May Be Icy
2009: Young Buck - Back on My Buck Shit (hosted with DJ Scream)
2009: Diamond - P.M.S.: Pardon My Swag
2009: Ahmad da God - Northern Dope
2013: Young Buck & Tha City Paper - G.a.S – Gangsta and Street 2
2014: Stekaly tha Singer - Panic Disorder the Prequel
References
External links
DJ Smallz - official site
Southern hip hop musicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Mixtape DJs
American hip hop DJs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20security%20incident%20management | In the fields of computer security and information technology, computer security incident management involves the monitoring and detection of security events on a computer or computer network, and the execution of proper responses to those events. Computer security incident management is a specialized form of incident management, the primary purpose of which is the development of a well understood and predictable response to damaging events and computer intrusions.
Incident management requires a process and a response team which follows this process. This definition of computer security incident management follows the standards and definitions described in the National Incident Management System (NIMS). The incident coordinator manages the response to an emergency security incident. In a Natural Disaster or other event requiring response from Emergency services, the incident coordinator would act as a liaison to the emergency services incident manager.
Overview
Computer security incident management is an administrative function of managing and protecting computer assets, networks and information systems. These systems continue to become more critical to the personal and economic welfare of our society. Organizations (public and private sector groups, associations and enterprises) must understand their responsibilities to the public good and to the welfare of their memberships and stakeholders. This responsibility extends to having a management program for “what to do, when things go wrong.” Incident management is a program which defines and implements a process that an organization may adopt to promote its own welfare and the security of the public.
Components of an incident
Events
An event is an observable change to the normal behavior of a system, environment, process, workflow or person (components). There are three basic types of events:
Normal—a normal event does not affect critical components or require change controls prior to the implementation of a resolution. Normal events do not require the participation of senior personnel or management notification of the event.
Escalation – an escalated event affects critical production systems or requires that implementation of a resolution that must follow a change control process. Escalated events require the participation of senior personnel and stakeholder notification of the event.
Emergency – an emergency is an event which may
impact the health or safety of human beings
breach primary controls of critical systems
materially affect component performance or because of impact to component systems prevent activities which protect or may affect the health or safety of individuals
be deemed an emergency as a matter of policy or by declaration by the available incident coordinator
Computer security and information technology personnel must handle emergency events according to well-defined computer security incident response plan.
Incident
An incident is an event attributable |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebNFS | WebNFS is an extension to the Network File System (NFS) for allowing clients to access a file system over the internet using a simplified, firewall-friendly protocol.
WebNFS was developed to give Java applets and other internet enabled applications a way of accessing filesystem services over the internet. While NFS provides applications on Unix with full filesystem semantics, not all of these might be needed in a distributed, read-only web environment. Conversely, access restrictions—such as requiring the use of restricted ports for originating requests—normally used in closed environments are not usually applicable in public distributed environments.
WebNFS makes use of a well known port (port 2049 on both UDP and TCP) thus avoiding the overhead and unpredictability of using the ONC RPC portmap protocol. WebNFS adds public filehandles and multicomponent lookups to the NFS protocol.
WebNFS is specified by a number of RFCs:
: WebNFS Client
: WebNFS Server
: NFS URL Scheme
: Security negotiation for WebNFS
In 2007, Sun Microsystems opensourced its WebNFS implementation. The name has since changed to YANFS (Yet Another NFS) to reflect the expanded scope of the project to include a server side implementation.
Legacy
While WebNFS itself did not gain much traction, several important WebNFS features later became part of NFSv4 – such as the usage of port 2049, or the concept of a fixed "root filehandle" (which evolved from WebNFS public filehandles and allows exported filesystems to be accessed without needing the MOUNT protocol to learn their individual root handles first), both together allowing NFSv4 to function without the portmap service.
References
External links
YANFS website
Internet protocols
Network file systems
Internet Protocol based network software
Unix file system-related software
Application layer protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batang%20Kaharian | Batang Kaharian (Young Kingdom) is a 30-minute religious education program of Sonshine Media Network International.
Segments
BK News
BK Little Quiz
See also
Sonshine Media Network International
Sonshine Media Network International
2000 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Performance%20Wireless%20Research%20and%20Education%20Network | The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) is a network research program, funded by the National Science Foundation. The program includes the creation, demonstration, and evaluation of a non-commercial, prototype, high-performance, wide-area, wireless network in its Southern California service area.
The HPWREN program is a collaborative, interdisciplinary and multi-institutional cyber-infrastructure for research and education purposes. The program also provides data, and data transmission capabilities, to emergency first responders in its service area.
Network
The program includes the creation, demonstration, and evaluation of a non-commercial, prototype, high-performance, wide-area, wireless network in its service area. Currently, the HPWREN network is used for network analysis research, and it also provides high-speed Internet access to field researchers.
Service area
Southern California, specifically San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial counties.
Backbone nodes
The network includes backbone nodes located at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and San Diego State University (SDSU) campuses, as well as a number of “hard-to-reach” areas in remote environments.
Operations
The HPWREN backbone itself operates primarily in the licensed spectrum and project researchers use off-the-shelf technology to create a redundant topology. Access links often utilize license-exempt radios.
In 2002, HPWREN researchers conducted an expedition to locate the SEALAB II/III habitat located off the Scripps pier in La Jolla, California. From the MV Kellie Chouest and utilizing a Scorpio ROV to find the site, researchers were able to conduct a live multicast from ship to shore.
Topology
The network spans from the Southern California coast to the inland valleys, on to the high mountains (reaching more than 8700 feet), and out to the remote desert. The network's longest link is 72 miles in distance – reaching from the San Diego Supercomputer Center to San Clemente Island.
See also
Mount Laguna Observatory
References
External links
UCSD HPWREN page
Wireless Sensor Networks for Ecology A video about high performance wireless research education networks
Wireless networking
University of California, San Diego
San Diego State University
Research organizations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userland | Userland may refer to:
Radio UserLand, a computer program to aid maintaining blogs or podcasts
UserLand Software, a U.S. software company specializing in web applications
UserLAnd Technologies, a mobile app that allows Linux programs to run on mobile devices
User space, operating system software that does not belong in the kernel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which%20%28command%29 | In computing, which is a command for various operating systems used to identify the location of executables. The command is available in Unix and Unix-like systems, the AROS shell, for FreeDOS and for Microsoft Windows. The functionality of the which command is similar to some implementations of the type command. POSIX specifies a command named command that also covers this functionality.
Implementations
Unix, Unix-like, Multics
The command takes one or more arguments; for each of these arguments, it prints the full path of the executable to stdout that would have been executed if this argument had been entered into the shell. It does this by searching for an executable or script in the directories listed in the environment variable PATH. The which command is part of most Unix-like computers. It is also part of the C Shell.
A which command first appeared in 3BSD.
Carlo Wood developed the GNU implementation used in most Linux-based operating systems.
On FreeBSD, the which utility was originally written in Perl by Wolfram Schneider. The current version of which was rewritten by Daniel Papasian using the C programming language.
Multics uses the command where abbreviated as wh.
Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS, FreeDOS
The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the GnuWin32 project and the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities. Windows also includes the similar where.exe command.
The same functionality is available in MS-DOS, but not Windows, as the built-in TRUENAME command.
In PowerShell, the functionality is provided by the Get-Command Cmdlet.
The FreeDOS version was developed by Trane Francks.
AmigaOS compatible
The command is used to find and print the location of a specific program.
Inputs:
FILE – Specifies the command to search for
NORES – Resident programs are not included in the search
RES – Only resident programs are considered
ALL – Will find all locations of the FILE, which may cause the printing of the same location several times
References
External links
Unix user management and support-related utilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX%20plugin | In computer music and professional audio creation, a DirectX plugin is a software processing component that can be loaded as a plugin into host applications to allow real-time processing, audio effects, mixing audio or act as virtual synthesizers. DirectX plugins allow the replacement of traditional recording studio hardware and rack units used in professional studios with software-based counterparts that can be connected together in a modular way. This allows host manufacturers to focus on the conviviality and efficiency of their products while specialized manufacturers can focus on the digital signal processing aspect. For example, there are plugins for effects boxes, such as reverbs and delays, effects pedals, like guitar distortion, flange and chorus, and for mixing and mastering processors such as compressors, limiters, exciters, sub bass enhancers, stereo imagers and many more.
Overview
Similar to Virtual Studio Technology and later, Audio Units in Apple Mac OS X, DirectX plugins have an open standard architecture for connecting audio synthesizers and effect plugins to audio editors and hard-disk recording systems. DirectX plug-ins are based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) which allows plugins to be recognised and used by other applications via common interfaces. Plugins connect to applications and other plugins with pins via which they can pass and processes buffered streams of audio (or video) data. Architecturally, DirectX plugins are DirectShow filters.
Types and compatibility
DirectX plugins are also of two types, DirectX effect plugins (DX) and DirectX Instrument plugins (DXi). Effect plugins are used to generate, process, receive, or otherwise manipulate streams of audio. Instrument plugins are MIDI controllable DirectX plugins, generally used to synthesize sound or playback sampled audio using virtual synthesizers, samplers or drum machines. DirectX effect plugins were developed by Microsoft as part of DirectShow. DirectX instruments were developed by Cakewalk in co-operation with Microsoft and are available on Windows.
Several wrapper plugins are available so that DirectX plugins can be used in applications which only support VST and vice versa. Others such as chainer plugins are also available which allow chaining multiple plugins together.
Programmability
DirectX plugins can be developed in C++ using Microsoft's DirectX SDK, Sony's Audio Plug-In Development Kit or Cakewalk's DirectX Wizard. There is also a Delphi SDK available.
DirectX plugin hosts
ACID Pro (version 3.0 or later)
Adobe Audition (Formerly Cool Edit 2000 and Cool Edit Pro 1.0, 2.0)
Cakewalk Sonar (version 2.0 or later)
MAGIX Samplitude
REAPER
Sony Vegas
Sound Forge
Steinberg Wavelab
Steinberg Nuendo
Steinberg Cubase
OpenMPT
Future
DirectX plugins are superseded by DMO-based signal processing filters and more recently, by Media Foundation Transforms.
See also
Virtual Studio Technology, a similar standard by Steinberg
Co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark%20rail%20crash | A disaster on the British rail network (Midland Railway) occurred on 21 June 1870 when two trains collided at Newark in Nottinghamshire, England, killing 18 passengers and injuring 40 others. The investigation found that an axle had broken on the goods train, and the excursion train collided with the debris on the track.
Investigation
The crash was examined by Captain Henry Tyler of the Railway Inspectorate, and he was able to pinpoint the disaster in a broken axle on one of the goods wagons of the first train. The engine driver stopped his train when he discovered that several rear wagons had suddenly derailed, one of which blocked the adjacent line. He then saw the second train approaching at speed on the next line, and tried to warn him, but to no avail. The passenger train collided with the wagon across the line, the fatalities occurring in several of the lead carriages.
The broken axle was examined by Tyler, and he found that it had cracked from the edge into the centre in a progressive way. The age and history of the axle were unknown, despite Tyler's own attempts to encourage railway companies to keep records of axles and their mileage.
Axle Fractures
The sudden failure of vehicle axles bedevilled the railways from their very beginning, a notorious example being the terrible Versailles train crash of 1842, when almost 100 passengers were killed. They continued to fail for many years on all railways, causing yet more disastrous accidents. Another derailment had occurred the previous year of 1869, for example, in the Dalton Junction rail crash. Fatigue was the basic cause of the problem, but the hairline cracks characteristic of fatigue are very difficult to detect, and were frequently missed, until they became critical. Some of the first systematic studies of the problem were undertaken by William John Macquorn Rankine, and later by August Wöhler, who showed how fatigue cracks are started (as surface defects) and grow with each loading.
References
External links
1 picture of crash from Illustrated London News
Railway accidents and incidents in Nottinghamshire
History of Nottinghamshire
1870 disasters in the United Kingdom
Railway accidents in 1870
1870 in England
19th century in Nottinghamshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20Rocha%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201965%29 | Ricardo Cordeiro da Rocha (born 10 July 1965 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian football manager and former player.
External links
Brazilian FA database
1965 births
Living people
Brazilian men's footballers
Brazilian football managers
Expatriate football managers in Cape Verde
Cape Verde national football team managers
Footballers from São Paulo
Men's association football players not categorized by position
Cape Coast Ebusua Dwarfs F.C. managers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Cape Verde
Brazilian expatriate football managers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFPL | WFPL (89.3 MHz) is a 24-hour listener-supported, noncommercial FM radio station in Louisville, Kentucky. The station focuses on news and information, and is the primary National Public Radio network affiliate for the Louisville radio market. WFPL is now owned by Louisville Public Media and was originally owned by the Louisville Free Public Library. When the station came on the air in 1950, it was the first library-owned radio station in the country.
WFPL's transmitter is off Moser Knob Road in New Albany, Indiana, amid the towers for other Louisville-area FM and TV stations. The 21,000 watt signal covers parts of Kentucky and Indiana.
History
On February 20, 1950, WFPL first signed on the air. It began operating as a public radio station under the ownership of the Louisville Free Public Library, giving the station the distinction of being the first library-owned radio station in the country. Founded years before the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 and National Public Radio's creation in 1970, the station was made possible by the donation of equipment by the Bingham family, who owned The Courier-Journal and WHAS (840 AM) radio at the time.
Originally airing a mix of school lessons and classical music, it ceded classical music to WFPK when it signed on in 1954. Gradually, the station began airing news, drama, and old radio shows–something approximating the format of what would eventually become full-service public radio. By the 1980s, WFPL had evolved into a typical full-service NPR member station, airing a mix of news, talk, jazz, bluegrass, and blues. However, with the expansion of NPR programming in the 1990s, WFPL found it difficult to shoehorn the new programming onto its schedule. A solution came when the Free Public Library partnered with the University of Louisville to create the Public Radio Partnership, now Louisville Public Media. Starting on January 8, 1996; WFPL ceded almost all of its remaining music programming to WFPK, becoming an NPR news talk station. Like its sister stations, WFPL broadcasts an HD radio signal.
Awards
In 1951 WFPL won a George Foster Peabody award for public service.
See also
WFPK
WUOL-FM
References
External links
WFPL website
FPL
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 1950
1950 establishments in Kentucky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helio%20Ocean | The Helio Ocean was a dual slider Internet-enabled multimedia wireless mobile device sold by mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) wireless carrier Helio, and manufactured by Pantech Curitel. A distinctive design feature of the Ocean was its dual sliding mechanism — when slid down in the vertical position, it revealed a telephone keypad. When slid down in the horizontal position, it revealed a 35-key QWERTY keyboard.
Since their acquisition by Sprint Nextel, Virgin Mobile USA terminated the wireless voice and data services of those customers who had an Helio Ocean or other Helio branded devices on May 25, 2010. Customers had until this date to transfer their wireless phone number to another wireless carrier without loss of service. A deactivated Helio Ocean can still be used as a digital camera, allowing images and video files to be downloaded via the included USB interface cable directly to a computer.
Release
The device became first known to the public on November 24, 2006 from an FCC filing. Photos released on December 9, 2006 showed the Ocean in test apparatus documentation,
and later on February 21, 2007 a full gallery depicting the Helio Ocean was available through the FCC website.
When publicly released on Friday, May 11, 2007, the Ocean was billed as "the ultimate messaging and talking machine" and "the definitive mobile social networking experience." The Ocean is seen as a breakthrough device for Helio, appealing to a more mainstream audience and not just the "ultra-cool hipsters" the company had previously targeted. Dr. Wonhee Sull, President & CEO of Helio, said that work on the Ocean device started "before Helio was officially a company."
Features
The Ocean was a prime example of a converged device. In addition, to telephony functions, the Ocean's functions included those of a camera phone and a portable media player. The Ocean device had several advanced features, such as stereo Bluetooth, a 2 megapixel camera with flash, an MPEG-4 video camera, 3G speed EV-DO network support, built-in GPS, MMS support, and a removable battery.
The Helio Ocean had a considerable number of features at the time of its release. Standard programs included a Web browser, a calculator, an alarm clock and a calendar. For communication, the device included caller ID (with support for photo caller ID), a speaker phone, a voice memo recorder, a record call feature, address book (with multiple online syncing abilities), T9 Text, and Korean character set support.
GPS
The device was location aware with its internal GPS. The Ocean was loaded with a version of Google Maps, which displayed turn-by-turn directions; however, the application warned users that it should not be used while driving. Additionally, the Buddy Beacon application allowed friends with Buddy Beacon-enabled phones (as of Dec 2008, only Helio phones) to broadcast their current location to each other, visible via MapQuest.
Multimedia
The integrated music and video player supported multip |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Bates | Robert Bates may refer to:
Bob Bates (born 1953), American computer game designer
Bob Bates (musician) (1923–1981), musician in the 1950s Dave Brubeck Quartet
Robert Bates (political scientist) (born 1942), professor of government at Harvard University
Robert Bates (mountaineer) (1911–2007), American mountaineer and author
Robert Bates (loyalist) (1948–1997), Ulster loyalist, member Shankill Butchers gang
Robert B. Bates (1789–1841), Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives
Robert C. Bates, Tulsa deputy convicted for the shooting of Eric Harris
Robert Charles Bates (c.1872–?), African-American architect, teacher, and textbook author
Robert John Bates (born 1946), Australian botanist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FML | FML may refer to:
Computing
Face Modeling Language, an XML-based language that describes face animation
"Fuck my life", an expression of one's frustration, often used in SMS language
FMyLife, a blog
Football Manager Live, a video game
Fuzzy markup language, in computer science, language for implementation-independent specification of a fuzzy system
Forge Mod Loader, the Mod Loader used by Forge, for Minecraft.
Materials
Fiber metal laminate, a material composed of metal layers and composite materials
Fluorometholone, a corticosteroid
Organisations
Fan Milk, a Ghanan ice cream manufacturer
Feed My Lambs, an American educational charity
Fiji Muslim League, a religious organization based in Fiji
Flint Metro League, a high school sports league in the Flint, Michigan area
Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, a research institute in Tübingen, Germany
Other
Feldmarschall-Leutnant (Lieutenant field marshal), a rank in the Austrian and later Austro-Hungarian Army
FML, station code for Frimley railway station in England
"FML" (song), song by American rap artist Kanye West
FML (EP), a 2023 release by South Korean boy band Seventeen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%20Intelligence | Machine Intelligence may refer to:
Artificial intelligence, intelligence exhibited by machines
Machine learning, giving computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUCAPS | RUCAPS (Really Universal Computer-Aided Production System) was a computer aided design (CAD) system for architects, first developed during the 1970s and 1980s, and today credited as a forerunner of Building Information Modelling (BIM). It ran on minicomputers from Prime Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
Development
The system was initially developed by two graduates of Liverpool University, Dr John Davison and John Watts in the early 1970s. They took their work to architects Gollins Melvin Ward (GMW Architects) in London in the late 1970s, and developed it whilst working on a project for Riyadh University. It became the Really Universal Computer Aided Production System (RUCAPS), and from 1977 was sold through GMW Computers Ltd in several countries worldwide. The term 'building model' (in the sense of BIM as used today) was first used in papers in the mid-1980s: in a 1985 paper by Simon Ruffle, and later in a 1986 paper by Robert Aish - then at GMW Computers - referring to the software's use at London's Heathrow Airport.
RUCAPS was a significant milestone in the development of building modellers, selling many hundreds of copies during the early 1980s when CAD was rare and expensive, and introducing thousands of architects to computer aided design. It is regarded as a forerunner to today's BIM software, and is seen by some writers, e.g.: Jerry Laiserin, as the inspiration behind Autodesk's Revit:
While Autodesk Revit may not contain genomic snippets of Reflex code, Revit clearly is spiritual heir to a lineage of BIM "begats" — RUCAPS begat Sonata, Sonata begat Reflex, and Reflex begat Revit.
RUCAPS was superseded in the mid-late 1980s by Sonata, developed by former GMW employee Jonathan Ingram. This was sold to T2 Solutions (renamed from GMW Computers in 1987), which was eventually bought by Alias|Wavefront but then "disappeared in a mysterious, corporate black hole, somewhere in eastern Canada in 1992." Ingram then went on to develop Reflex, bought out by Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) in 1996.
Comparison with BIM
In 1984, RUCAPS was described as a 2½ dimensional interactive system, closer to the philosophy of 2D interactive systems such as ARK/2 or DAISY, and concentrating on the rapid production of 2D drawings (plans, elevations and sections). During the early 1980s, Ingram worked on a supplementary 3D file structure for RUCAPS, where, by running a separate program and with manual intervention, a flat 3D file could be generated, allowing the production of perspectives and images. RUCAPS did carry the 'weather vane' concept from UK-based Applied Research's Building Design System, BDS, now found in most modern BIM systems, but did not have interactive 3D windows or rule-based language - core characteristics of today's BIM applications.
The system
RUCAPS was a building modelling system. It used the concept, introduced by BDS, of 2½ dimensional representation of components, straddling the divide between two dimensions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDVIP | MDVIP is an American company, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, that operates a network of physicians. The company's physicians practice preventive medicine and personalized primary-care medicine.
The national network consists of 1,100 physicians serving over 380,000 patients in 45 states and the District of Columbia. Each physician cares for up to 600 patients as opposed to the average 2,500-3,500 patients in a traditional primary-care practice. MDVIP patients receive a comprehensive physical examination and follow-up wellness plan as well as electronic medical records and a personalized patient portal with focus on diet, exercise, doctor communication and more. The company states that additional patient benefits include acute-care visits, same or next-day availability, on-time appointments, 24/7 physician availability, and enhanced coordination of specialty care.
History
Founded in Boca Raton in 2000. In June 2014, growth-equity investor Summit Partners acquired the company from Procter & Gamble. In November 2017, Leonard Green & Partners acquired majority ownership. In October 2021, Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Private Equity group and Charlesbank Capital Partners completed the acquisition of MDVIP from Leonard Green & Partners and Summit Partners.
Business model
To supplement insurance reimbursements, MDVIP physicians charge patients an annual fee between $1,800 and $2,200 per year. In addition to this annual fee, patients are responsible for applicable co-pays and co-insurance, and maintain primary-care insurance coverage including Medicare. Medicare and other private-insurance carriers cover a comprehensive wellness exam currently listed as part of the MDVIP package.
MDVIP physicians are not directly employed by the company, instead they pay a royalty or franchise fee of 1/3rd of the membership fee per patient per year for services such as patient conversion, marketing, branding and other support.
See also
List of Florida companies
References
Further reading
"Concierge Medicine: Greater Access for a Fee". PBS NewsHour. PBS television, July 9, 2012.
External links
, the company's official website
2000 establishments in Florida
Companies based in Boca Raton, Florida
Companies established in 2000
Former Procter & Gamble brands
Health maintenance organizations
Privately held companies based in Florida
Medical and health organizations based in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keek | Keek was a free online social networking service that allowed its users to upload video status updates, which were called "keeks". Users could post keeks to the Keek website using a webcam or via the Keek mobile apps for iPhone, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, or Android. Users could also reply back with text or video comments, known as "keekbacks", and share content to other major social media networks. There was also an embed option so users could embed their keeks into a blog or website.
Origins
The word "Keek" comes from Scots and means a look, especially a quick one. Keek Inc. is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and has around 45 employees. Keek launched in early 2011 to "create a social network that was more authentic and personal. We are committed to delivering the fastest, most engaging social video experience," CEO Isaac Raichyk said in an interview.
Reception
Keek has been described as "the Twitter for video", "Instagram of video" and a "micro version of YouTube". and is often compared to a combination of other major social media networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr and Twitter. "Keek is more like a combination of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter than its direct competitors."
"What makes Keek different is that it focuses on short, personal video uploads. A 'keek' can only be 36 seconds long, and is usually uploaded directly from a webcam or smartphone camera. So unlike many of the professional vloggers floating around on YouTube, the content is less polished – but also far quicker and reactive. Think of it like Twitter or Tumblr, only this time focused solely on video."
Keek has been described as a "new wave in social media technology" in reaction to the growth it received in 2012.
Growth
In 2012 the Keek community started generating a large amount of original content posting 66,000 videos per day. With the launch of the Keek mobile apps for iOS and Android in March 2012, there was a significant increase in the community and creation of content. Keek added 2 Million users in October 2012 and served 250 million pageviews.
By January 2013 Keek was adding 200,000 users per day to its social network and users were generating 4 million videos per month.
In March 2013, Keek announced the launch of verified accounts. Individuals or businesses can qualify for account verification if they are at high risk of impersonation or if they have large audiences on Keek or other social networks.
Also in March, Keek launched a BlackBerry version of their app allowing BlackBerry 10 users the ability to share videos on Keek, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Email or via SMS.
Between March 2013 and June 2013 Keek added 24 million users to bring its network to a total of 45 million registered users.
On May 17, 2013 Keek added a new private messaging feature, allowing users to privately chat using video or text with up to 36 people at once.
Keek launched a developer portal with API access on June 14, 2013. The new API program will allow developers to acce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUCR | KUCR is a non-commercial radio station at the University of California, Riverside, in Riverside, California, United States, broadcasting on 88.3 FM. KUCR airs college radio programming similar to other college radio stations across the country. KUCR now includes in its program the rapidly expanding "Philosophy Talk" broadcast by Stanford University philosophy professors Ken Taylor and John Perry).
References
External links
KUCR's page on StylusCity
University of California, Riverside
Mass media in Riverside County, California
UCR
UCR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20Galli | Dr. Ricardo Adolfo Galli Granada, also known as gallir, is a doctor of computer science at the University of the Balearic Islands, where he teaches operating system design. He is a speaker for the Free Software Foundation and a free software activist.
Projects
As a university project, he created a system that allows controlling of the airship parking at the Son Sant Joan Airport in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.
In December 2005, he programmed Menéame, a clone of the well-known Digg Web site, which serves to promote stories published on blogs. He then released the source code of Meneame, which the source code of the open source Digg clone Pligg CMS is based on.
He programmed cpudyn, a daemon that can be used to underclock portable computers to reduce their power consumption.
He programmed wp-cache, a WordPress plugin for the purpose of caching pages to make one's blog "faster and more responsive".
In 2001, he was nominated for a Hispalinux prize. He has published over 200 technical articles in BULMA, a local Linux user Web site.
References
External links
Ricardo Galli, de software libre — Galli's old blog
menéame.net — Collaborative news site, launched by Galli
GNU people
Free software programmers
Computer systems researchers
People from Mallorca
Living people
Academic staff of the University of the Balearic Islands
Year of birth missing (living people)
WordPress |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudalbizzia%20inundata | Pseudalbizzia inundata is a perennial tree native to South America. Common names include maloxo, muqum, paloflojo, timbo blanco, timbo-ata, and also "canafistula" though this usually refers Cassia fistula.
It grows to a height of up to 20 m. The leaves of Pseudalbizzia inundata contain dimethyltryptamine, a hallucinogenic drug.
Range
Pseudalbizzia inundata ranges through Brazil to Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northern Argentina.
Synonyms
The species was first described as Acacia inundata in 1823. In 2022 it was reclassified into the revived genus Pseudalbizzia. The synonymy of this species can be confusing. Related plants have been described by various authors under the same name as Albizia inundata. Junior synonyms of P. inundata are:
Acacia inundata
Acacia multiflora
Acacia polyantha
Albizia inundata
Albizia polyantha
Arthrosamanea polyantha
Arthrosamanea polycephala
Cathormion polyanthum
Cathormion polycephala
Enterolobium polycephala
Feuilleea polycephala
Pithecellobium multiflorum var. brevipedunculatum
Pithecellobium pendulum
See also
Psychedelic plants
Footnotes
References
(2005): Albizia berteriana (DC.) Fawc. & Rendle. Version 10.01, November 2005. Retrieved 2008-MAR-30.
(2004): Enzyklopädie der psychoaktiven Pflanzen, Botanik, Ethnopharmakologie und Anwendungen (7th ed.). AT Verlag.
(2008): Provincia de Formosa - Biota: Resultados del Muestreo Observacional y Carta de Vegetación. Retrieved 2008-MAR-30.
External links
Albizia inundata Photo (Field Museum)
Dried Herbarium Specimens (Field Museum)
Mimosoids
Trees of South America
Plants described in 1823
Taxa named by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spill%20metric | A spill metric is a heuristic metric used by register allocators to decide which registers to spill. Popular spill metrics are:
cost / degree - introduced in Chaitin's algorithm
cost / degree2 - emphasizes the spill's effect on neighbours
cost - emphasizes run time
minimising number of spill operations
Where cost is the estimated cost of spilling a value from registers into memory.
Digital registers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Name%20Is%20Uncle%20Groucho%2C%20You%20Win%20a%20Fat%20Cigar | My Name Is Uncle Groucho, You Win a Fat Cigar is a computer game developed and published by Automata UK for the ZX Spectrum in 1983. Groucho was designed by Mel Croucher who was better known for his later works Deus Ex Machina and ID.
The game takes the form of a text (augmented by primitive "graphics") adventure where the player seeks out Groucho (based on Groucho Marx), who gives the player a series of clues as to the identity of a famous film star. If the player guesses correctly another clue to a further star is provided. The name of this additional star could be mailed to Automata UK for entry into a prize draw to take place on 1 June 1984. The first prize was a trip to Hollywood on Concorde to meet the actor identified, with a return trip on the QE2.
The competition was won by Phil Daley, who correctly identified Mickey Mouse and provided the winning pun slogan "There's no blood in our games, it's all tomata sauce".
External links
Crash magazine short review from 1984
References
1983 video games
Adventure games
Automata UK games
Cultural depictions of the Marx Brothers
Marx Brothers
Single-player video games
Video games based on real people
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spectrum-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Freeform | This is a list of television shows carried by Freeform and its predecessors, CBN Satellite Network / CBN Cable Network, CBN Family Channel, The Family Channel, Fox Family and ABC Family.
Original programming
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Reality
Syndicated programming
Upcoming programming
In development
Former programming
Original
CBN era (1977–90)
The Family Channel era (1990–98)
Fox Family era (1998–2001)
ABC Family era (2001–16)
Freeform era (2016–present)
Syndicated
1977–1998
Live-action
Animation
1998–2001
2002–present
Programming from Disney Channel
Animated
Live-action
Programming blocks
Current programming blocks
Former programming blocks
Notes
References
External links
Programming schedule at Freeform Official Site
Freeform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TravBuddy.com | Travbuddy.com was a social networking website specializing in connecting travellers. The site was created by brothers Eric Bjorndahl and David Bjorndahl and launched in 2005 by TravBuddy LLC, a privately owned company.
The site allowed users to find travel buddies planning to travel to the same places at the same times, create travel based blogs, upload travel photos and review bars, restaurants, hotels and attractions.
As of August 2013, the site had nearly 470,000 registered contributors.
As of August 2013, the site provided free access to over 198,000 blogs, 97,000 travel reviews, and 4,600,000 travel photos.
The site ceased operations on April 23, 2018.
Since its launch, the site has been featured on the NBC Nightly News, Popular Science, Real Simple Travel, and the Herald Tribune.
References
External links
TravBuddy Farewell (via YouTube) by sirgerald12th
American travel websites
American social networking websites
Defunct social networking services
Internet properties established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-mode | Mixed-mode may refer to:
Blended mode, a charge-depleting mode of operation for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
Mixed Mode CD, a Compact Disc in which two different data types are combined
Mixed-mode commuting, passenger transport involving two or more modes of transportation in a journey
Mixed-mode chromatography, utilizing more than one form of interaction between the stationary phase and analytes
Mixed-mode integrated circuit, any integrated circuit that has both analog circuits and digital circuits
Mixed-mode ventilation, which uses a combination of operable windows and mechanical systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marimar%20%282007%20TV%20series%29 | Marimar is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 1994 Mexican television series of the same title. Directed by Joyce E. Bernal and Mac Alejandre, it stars Marian Rivera in the title role and Dingdong Dantes. It premiered on August 13, 2007 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on March 14, 2008 with a total of 155 episodes.
The series was released on DVD by GMA Records.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Marian Rivera as Marimar Perez-Santibañez / Bella Aldama
Dingdong Dantes as Sergio Santibañez
Supporting cast
Katrina Halili as Angelika Santibañez / Angelika Aldama
Richard Gomez as Renato Santibañez
Jestoni Alarcon as Gustavo Aldama
Rita Avila as Lupita Aldama
Boboy Garovillo as Padre Porres
Leo Martinez as Pancho Perez
Caridad Sanchez as Cruz Perez
Bing Loyzaga as Esperanza Aldama
Michael V. as Fulgoso's voice
Nigel as Fulgoso
Manilyn Reynes as Corazon
Gabby Eigenmann as Nicandro Mejia
Sheena Halili as Monica
Bianca King as Natalia Montenegro
Marky Lopez as Arturo
Rufa Mae Quinto as Fifi's voice
Nadine Samonte as Innocencia Arcega
Mike Tan as Choi
Mel Kimura as Perfecta
Recurring cast
Arthur Solinap as Diego
Marvin Agustin as Rodolfo San Jinez
Francheska Salcedo as Cruzita Aldama–Santibañez
Dino Guevarra as Antonio
Carmina Villaroel as Rhia Concepcion
Lani Mercado as Vanessa Mae Cruz
Hayden Kho, Jr. as Hayden Miranda
Paolo Paraiso as Carlitos Solis
Shermaine Santiago as Brenda
Victor Aliwalas as Adrian Alasco
K Brosas as Rowena
Pocholo Montes as Vitug
Raquel Montessa as Leonor Arcega
Joseph Ison as Rodrigo
Mike Gayoso as Angelika's bodyguard
Guest cast
Jaime Fabregas as Augusto Aldama
Pilar Pilapil as Dolores Aldama
Cristine Reyes as Kim Chan
Irma Adlawan as Selva
Soliman Cruz as Berto
Bruno Folster as Bruno
Gwen Garci as Olga
Ailyn Luna as Cecilla
Jan Marini as a DSWD officer
Kirby de Jesus as a mental hospital patient
Joanne Quintas as Jemma
Ronnie Lazaro as Jose
Nicole Dulalia as young Angelika
Ella Cruz as young Marimar
Overview
Marimar was a Mexican TV telenovela that was first aired in 1994 on Televisa with singer-actress Thalía in the title role. The series had 75 forty-five-minute episodes, and is the second part of a "Maria" trilogy. The first was Maria Mercedes, and the final was Maria la del Barrio.
Casting
The contract with Televisa for the rights stipulates that GMA Network should start the series in 2007. It was originally offered to Angel Locsin, as a follow-up to the big-budgeted action series Asian Treasures with Robin Padilla. However, Locsin rejected the offer. The network was prompted to give auditions to their roster of young actresses for the role. On March 13, 2008, a video of the fifteen actresses who auditioned for the role of Marimar leaked on YouTube. These actresses are Bianca King, Nadine Samonte, Jennylyn Mercado, Ryza Cenon, Jewel Mische, LJ Reyes, Rhian Ramos, Camille Prats, Paul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Communications%20and%20Information | The Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI; ; ; ) is a ministry of the Government of Singapore responsible
for overseeing the development of the infocomm technology, cyber security, media sectors, as well as the government's information and public communication policies. It is also responsible for maintaining the national library, national archives and public libraries.
History
On 5 June 1959, the Ministry of Culture came into being with the swearing-in and appointments of ministers of the new Government of Singapore. On 1 February 1980, the Broadcasting Division of the Ministry of Culture became a statutory board, the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation.
1985 saw the dissolution of the Ministry of Culture. Its Information Division came under the new Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI). Its arts promotion component was assimilated into the Ministry of Community Development (MCD) as the Cultural Affairs Division.
Five years later, on 28 November 1990, the Information Division of the MCI and the Cultural Affairs Division of MCD, together with other associated departments and statutory boards, reunited to form the Ministry of Information and the Arts (MITA).
On 1 September 1991, the Festival of Arts Secretariat, Singapore Cultural Foundation, the Arts Division of MITA, and the National Theatre Trust merged to form the National Arts Council (NAC).
On 1 October 1994, the Singapore Broadcasting Authority (SBA) was formed as a statutory board under MITA to oversee and promote the broadcasting industry in Singapore.
On 23 November 2001, the information and communications technology (ICT) functions under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology came under MITA. The expanded Ministry was renamed the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, but retained the acronym MITA. In that year, Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) became one of MITA's statutory boards.
On 1 January 2003, the Singapore Broadcasting Authority, Singapore Films Commission and Films and Publications Department (previously under the MITA headquarters) merged to form the Media Development Authority (MDA). On 13 August 2004, the Ministry's acronym was changed from "MITA" to "MICA".
On 1 November 2012, MICA was renamed the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI). The move followed the restructuring of two previous ministries – MICA and the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) – into MCI, the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) and the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF). REACH (Reaching Everyone for Active Citizenry @ Home) was assimilated into MCI while the resilience, arts and heritage portfolios became part of MCCY. MCI now oversees the development of the information and communications technology, media and design sectors, public libraries, and the Government's information and public communication policies.
On 18 January 2016, MCI announced that the Infocomm Development Autho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E763 | European route E 763 is part of the International E-road network. It begins in Belgrade, Serbia and ends in Bijelo Polje, Montenegro. Most of E763 sections, in Serbia, are currently in the process of being upgraded, with the help of several Chinese construction companies.
Route
(i.e. )
Belgrade
Čačak
Užice
Nova Varoš
: Barski Most - Bijelo Polje - Ribarevine ()
References
E763 on OpenStreetMap
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
799763
E763
E763 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E761 | European route E 761 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina and ends in Zaječar, Serbia.
Route
E71 Bihać
E661 Jajce
E661 Donji Vakuf
E73, E661 Zenica
E73, E762 Sarajevo
Višegrad
E763 Užice
E763 Čačak
Kraljevo
Kruševac
E75 Pojate
E75 Paraćin
E771 Zaječar
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
International E-road network
Highways in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Roads in Serbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20network%20inference | Biological network inference is the process of making inferences and predictions about biological networks. By using these networks to analyze patterns in biological systems, such as food-webs, we can visualize the nature and strength of these interactions between species, DNA, proteins, and more.
The analysis of biological networks with respect to diseases has led to the development of the field of network medicine. Recent examples of application of network theory in biology include applications to understanding the cell cycle as well as a quantitative framework for developmental processes. Good network inference requires proper planning and execution of an experiment, thereby ensuring quality data acquisition. Optimal experimental design in principle refers to the use of statistical and or mathematical concepts to plan for data acquisition. This must be done in such a way that the data information content is enriched, and a sufficient amount of data is collected with enough technical and biological replicates where necessary.
Steps
The general cycle to modeling biological networks is as follows:
Prior knowledge
Involves a thorough literature and database search or seeking an expert's opinion.
Model selection
A formalism to model your system, usually an ordinary differential equation, boolean network, or Linear regression models, e.g. Least-angle regression, by Bayesian network or based on Information theory approaches. it can also be done by the application of a correlation-based inference algorithm, as will be discussed below, an approach which is having increased success as the size of the available microarray sets keeps increasing
Hypothesis/assumptions
Experimental design
Data acquisition
Ensure that high quality data is collected with all the required variables being measured
Network inference
This process is mathematical rigorous and computationally costly.
Model refinement
Cross-check how well the results meet the expectations. The process is terminated upon obtaining a good model fit to data, otherwise, there is need for model re-adjustment.
Biological networks
A network is a set of nodes and a set of directed or undirected edges between the nodes. Many types of biological networks exist, including transcriptional, signalling and metabolic. Few such networks are known in anything approaching their complete structure, even in the simplest bacteria. Still less is known on the parameters governing the behavior of such networks over time, how the networks at different levels in a cell interact, and how to predict the complete state description of a eukaryotic cell or bacterial organism at a given point in the future. Systems biology, in this sense, is still in its infancy.
There is great interest in network medicine for the modelling biological systems. This article focuses on inference of biological network structure using the growing sets of high-throughput expression data for genes, proteins, and metabolites. Briefly, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chabua%20Amirejibi | Mzechabuk "Chabua" Amirejibi, (often written as "Amiredjibi", ; 18 November 1921 – 12 December 2013) was a Georgian novelist and Soviet-era dissident notable for his magnum opus, Data Tutashkhia, and a lengthy experience in Soviet prisons.
Early life and career
He was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, in 1921. His family, once a princely house, was heavily repressed during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge: his father was shot in 1938 and mother sent to a Gulag camp. During World War II, he was recruited into the Red Army, but was soon sacked due to his family background. Subsequently, he became involved in anti-Soviet activities, being a member of the underground political organization Tetri Giorgi. In April 1944, he was arrested on coup plot charges and sentenced to twenty-five years of imprisonment in Siberia. After fifteen years in prison, three prison escapes, and two death sentences, he was ultimately rehabilitated in 1959 and began his literary career in his late thirties with short stories including The Road (გზა, 1962), My Ragger Uncle (ჩემი მეჯღანე ბიძა, 1963), The Bull’s Confession (ხარის აღსარება, 1964) and Giorgi Burduli (გიორგი ბურდული, 1965).
Fame
Amirejibi's most famous novel and one of the best works in modern Georgian literature, Data Tutashkhia (დათა თუთაშხია, 1971-5), achieved sensational success for the magazine Tsiskari and fame for the writer himself. Conceived while in Amirejibi’s years in prison, it was only through the intervention of the contemporary Georgian Communist Party chief Eduard Shevardnadze that this substantial novel of over 700 pages, passed the Soviet censors and got published. The novel is a story of a Georgian outlaw of the Imperial Russian period, a very popular theme in Georgian literature, and combines thrilling escapades with Dostoevskian dealings with the fate of an individual and national soul. The story is narrated by a Russian gendarme, Count Szeged, who frequently passes the story-telling on to other characters. The novel follows the life of outlaw Data Tutashkhia, who spends years eluding capture by the Tsarist police. They are led by Data's cousin, his detached and imperturbable double, Mushni Zarandia. The book, and the feature film based on it, turned Data Tutaskhia into an iconic hero, widely popular in Georgia.
Later career
Amirejibi hailed the newly independent Georgia, and was elected to its Parliament from 1992 to 1995. In 1992, he was rewarded with the prestigious Shota Rustaveli State Prize. However, the tragic years of civil war and the death of his eldest son Irakli in the War in Abkhazia in 1992 heavily affected the writer. Therefore, it came to a real surprise when Amirejibi published, in 1995, his next major novel, Gora Mborgali (გორა მბორგალი, literally meaning "frenzied" or "infuriating"), begun in 1978, and based on the author’s experiences in Soviet prisons. His most recent work, George the Brilliant (გიორგი ბრწყინვალე), a historical novel about the 14th-century Georgian king |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth%20West%20Midlands | Smooth West Midlands is an Independent Local Radio station for the Birmingham and the West Midlands. It is owned and operated by Global as part of the Smooth network.
History
GMG Radio
The station launched following GMG Radio's purchase of the Saga Radio Group in December 2006, and granting of permission from the regulator Ofcom to change the format of its Smooth FM stations in London and the North West. The decision was made to change both the Smooth FM and Saga stations to Smooth Radio and so Saga 105.7 FM was closed at 6pm on Friday 23 March 2007. This was then followed by a preview weekend for the new Smooth Radio giving listeners the chance to hear the presenters and music which would be on the new station.
Local programming originated from studios in Birmingham. Networked programming was syndicated from sister station Smooth North West at Salford Quays, Manchester.
In 2010, it was announced that it would be merging its five Smooth stations in England to create a nationwide Smooth Radio service based in Manchester. The new station was launched on 4 October 2010 and could be heard both on DAB and on the locally on the FM frequencies.
Global
Smooth Radio's output was relocated to new owner Global's Leicester Square headquarters from 1 October 2013, a move that coincided with a major overhaul of its schedule, and the closure of Smooth 70s after 21 months on air.
On 4 February 2014, the Radio Today website reported that Ofcom had given Global permission to remove Smooth from the Digital One platform, and to replace it with a service playing music from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Under this agreement, Smooth would continue to broadcast on its regional frequencies, but would be required to provide seven hours of local output per day.
In September 2019, following OFCOM's decision to relax local content obligations from commercial radio, Smooth's local Drivetime and weekend shows were replaced by network programming from London. Local news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising were retained, alongside the station's West Midlands breakfast show.
Station format
Smooth West Midlands plays middle-of-the-road, adult contemporary music, aimed at listeners aged 35 and over. It had few similarities to its predecessor. Some of the specialist shows from the Saga days survived initially, but were gradually replaced with a more contemporary format.
Smooth's initial slogan Your Life, Your Music, which was used on Saga stations, was modified to Love Life, Love Music to enhance Smooth's promise to play the best choice of music from the previous four decades. The music policy at Smooth ranged from the late '60s right up to the present date, with a heavy focus on easy listening songs. On 1 March 2014, a new slogan Your Relaxing Music Mix was introduced. This was replaced by a new tagline, Always the Best Music, as part of a wider Smooth brand refreshment in January 2023.
Programming
Local programming is produced and broadcast from Global's Birmingham s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMILE | SIMILE (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments) was a joint research project run by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries and MIT CSAIL and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project ran from 2003 to August 2008. It focused on developing tools to increase the interoperability of disparate digital collections. Much of SIMILE's technical focus is oriented towards Semantic Web technology and standards such as Resource Description Framework (RDF).
History
SIMILE stands for Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments. It was born out of DSpace, the open source system digital repository for scholarly materials developed at MIT. DSpace, which is now used at a number of research institutions, archives scholarly publications, making it possible to federate the collections of the various holding libraries and combining materials across disciplines.
The SIMILE project grew from the need to support metadata schemas in research materials which has been described in various domain-specific ways, and provides a capability beyond Dublin Core.
The challenge for DSpace and other digital libraries is to assist communities in dealing with different schemes, vocabularies, ontologies and metadata and to provide research services to their users.
SIMILE projects
See also
Haystack, a related project from the MIT which mostly concentrates on personal information management
Freebase
References
Butler, Mark H., Gilbert, John, Seaborne, Andy, Smathers, Kevin 2004, Data conversion, extraction and record linkage using XML and RDF tools in Project SIMILE. Digital Media Systems Laboratories HP Laboratories, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Huynh, D., Mazzocchi, S., & Karger, D. Piggy Bank: experience the semantic web inside your web browser, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA.
Mazzocchi, S., Garland, S. & Lee, R. 2005, SIMILE: practical metadata for the semantic web, O'Reilly xml.com, 26 Jan.
Project SIMILE: Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments 2005, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July, Massachusetts, United States.
External links
SIMILE Project
An independent "spin-off" from the SIMILE project
W3C Semantic Web Activity
Semantic Web
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth%20Scotland | Smooth Scotland is a Scottish Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Smooth network. The station replaced Saga 105.2 FM in 2007.
As well as being carried on FM in the Glasgow area, the station is also broadcast on DAB radio to the East of Scotland and online via a streaming service. It is also carried on FM in Wester Ross during non-local broadcast hours of Two Lochs Radio for which it forms a sustaining service.
Overview
GMG Radio ownership
The station came into being following GMG Radio's purchase of the Saga Radio Group in December 2006, and the granting of permission from the regulator Ofcom to change the format of its Smooth FM stations in London and the North West of England. The decision was made to change both the Smooth FM and Saga stations to Smooth Radio and Saga 105.2 FM was closed at 6pm on Friday 23 March 2007. This was then followed by a preview weekend for the new Smooth Radio giving listeners the opportunity to hear the presenters and music which would be featured on the new station.
The station operated a 24-hour schedule of local programming until August 2008 when networked output from London and Manchester was introduced, leading to the firingsof six station presenters.
Following the publication of John Myers' recommendations of a regulatory overhaul in commercial radio, and the passing of the Digital Economy Act 2010, which allowed stations to co-locate or drop all local shows and broadcast on national DAB, Smooth Radio merged its five England-based stations into one quasi-national station, with local news feeds produced from GMG Radio's headquarters in Salford Quays. GMG made the announcement on 29 June 2010, that it wanted to rival BBC Radio 2 by broadcasting on the Digital 1 multiplex on DAB Digital Radio to the whole of England and Wales, as well as Sky, Freesat, Freeview, Virgin Media and online. A regional flavour would be kept with split news, travel and weather bulletins broadcasting in the FM and DAB regional stations in the North East, North West, West Midlands and East Midlands. London listeners and those tuning nationally would hear national information.
Global ownership
Most of Smooth Radio's output was relocated to new owner Global's Leicester Square headquarters from 1 October 2013, a move that coincided with a major overhaul of its schedule, and the closure of Smooth 70s after 21 months on air.
In November 2016, Smooth Scotland and its sister station Heart Scotland moved from its former studios at Ballieston in the east end of Glasgow to Global's new Scottish headquarters at West Regent Street in the city centre.
In September 2019, following OFCOM's decision to relax local content obligations from commercial radio, Smooth's local Drivetime and weekend shows were replaced by network programming from London. Local news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising were retained, alongside the station's Scottish breakfast show.
Programming
Local programming is produced a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheorghe%20Olteanu | Gheorghe Olteanu (born 21 May 1926) is a Romanian cross-country skier who competed in the 1950s. He finished 22nd in the 50 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. He was born in Fundata, Brașov County.
External links
Olympic 50 km cross country skiing results: 1948-64
1926 births
Possibly living people
Romanian male cross-country skiers
Olympic cross-country skiers for Romania
Cross-country skiers at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Brașov County
20th-century Romanian people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20Sumedrea | Ion Sumedrea (born 15 April 1925) is a Romanian cross-country skier who competed in the 1950s. He finished 23rd in the 50 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. He was born in Fundata, Brașov County.
External links
Olympic 50 km cross country skiing results: 1948-64
1925 births
Possibly living people
Romanian male cross-country skiers
Olympic cross-country skiers for Romania
Cross-country skiers at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Brașov County
20th-century Romanian people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabs | stabs (sometimes written STABS) is a debugging data format for storing information about computer programs for use by symbolic and source-level debuggers. (The information is stored in symbol table strings; hence the name "stabs".) Cygnus Support attributes the invention of stabs to for the Berkeley Pascal pdx debugger, however, he claims otherwise, stating stabs came with adb and sdb but could predate those. , who created pdx for his 1981 master's thesis and later developed it into dbx, states his doctoral adviser Michael L. Powell "contributed to the stabstrings design, especially
to support Modula-2".
History
When stabs was created in the 1980s, the dominant object file format was a.out, which (unlike more recent formats such as ELF) makes no provision for storing debugging information. Stabs works around this problem by encoding the information using special entries in the symbol table.
At one stage stabs was widely used on Unix systems, but the newer DWARF format has largely supplanted it.
References
External links
STABS GNU Debugger project documentation
Debugging data formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verna%20Allee | Verna Allee (born 1949 in Kansas, United States) is an American business consultant and writer on topics including value networks, knowledge management, organizational intelligence, intellectual capital and the value conversion of intangibles.
Allee holds a B.A. in Social Science, and an M.A. in Human Consciousness, specializing in Organizational Leadership.
Verna Allee has authored or co-authored three books on value networks and organizational knowledge. Her book The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence offers a road map for understanding knowledge creation, learning, and performance in everyday work. The book The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks is about how the networked organization can be understood at a practical everyday level.
Allee is CEO of Value Networks LLC. She lives in Martinez, California, USA.
Books
1997: The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence. Butterworth-Heinemann Business Books. , .
2002: The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity Through Value Networks. Butterworth-Heinemann Business Books. , .
2003/4: What is True Wealth & How Do We Create It? Verna Allee and Dinesh Chandra, eds. New Delhi: Indigo Press. .
References
External links
Verna Allee website.
Inside Knowledge Magazine.
World Business Academy website.
Living people
Writers from California
Writers from Kansas
1949 births
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American businesswomen
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging%20data%20format | A debugging data format is a means of storing information about a compiled computer program for use by high-level debuggers. Modern debugging data formats store enough information to allow source-level debugging.
High-level debuggers need information about variables, types, constants, subroutines and so on, so they can translate between machine-level storage and source language constructs. Such information can also be used by other software tools. The information must be generated by the compiler and stored in the executable file or dynamic library by the linker.
Some object file formats include debugging information, but others can use generic debugging data formats such as stabs and DWARF.
List of debugging formats
stabs
COFF
Portable Executable (PE/COFF)
Relocatable Object Module Format (OMF)
IEEE-695
DWARF
See also
Debug symbol
References
(NB. Concentrates on DWARF, but also discusses debugging formats in general, with an overview of all the major formats.)
Computer file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavelli%20%28disambiguation%29 | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet and romantic comedic playwright.
Machiavelli may also refer to:
Machiavelli: The Prince, a computer game centered on trading and skullduggery
Machiavelli (card game), the Dutch version of Citadels
Machiavelli (Italian card game), a card game derived from Rummy
Machiavelli (board game), the Avalon Hill board game
Machiavelli (surname), an Italian surname
See also
Machiavel (band), a Belgian rock group
Makaveli, a pseudonym adopted by the late American rapper Tupac Shakur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20subarray%20problem | In computer science, the maximum sum subarray problem, also known as the maximum segment sum problem, is the task of finding a contiguous subarray with the largest sum, within a given one-dimensional array A[1...n] of numbers. It can be solved in time and space.
Formally, the task is to find indices and with , such that the sum
is as large as possible. (Some formulations of the problem also allow the empty subarray to be considered; by convention, the sum of all values of the empty subarray is zero.) Each number in the input array A could be positive, negative, or zero.
For example, for the array of values [−2, 1, −3, 4, −1, 2, 1, −5, 4], the contiguous subarray with the largest sum is [4, −1, 2, 1], with sum 6.
Some properties of this problem are:
If the array contains all non-negative numbers, then the problem is trivial; a maximum subarray is the entire array.
If the array contains all non-positive numbers, then a solution is any subarray of size 1 containing the maximal value of the array (or the empty subarray, if it is permitted).
Several different sub-arrays may have the same maximum sum.
Although this problem can be solved using several different algorithmic techniques, including brute force, divide and conquer, dynamic programming, and reduction to shortest paths, a simple single-pass algorithm known as Kadane's algorithm solves it efficiently.
History
The maximum subarray problem was proposed by Ulf Grenander in 1977 as a simplified model for maximum likelihood estimation of patterns in digitized images.
Grenander was looking to find a rectangular subarray with maximum sum, in a two-dimensional array of real numbers. A brute-force algorithm for the two-dimensional problem runs in O(n6) time; because this was prohibitively slow, Grenander proposed the one-dimensional problem to gain insight into its structure. Grenander derived an algorithm that solves the one-dimensional problem in O(n2) time,
improving the brute force running time of O(n3). When Michael Shamos heard about the problem, he overnight devised an O(n log n) divide-and-conquer algorithm for it.
Soon after, Shamos described the one-dimensional problem and its history at a Carnegie Mellon University seminar attended by Jay Kadane, who designed within a minute an O(n)-time algorithm, which is as fast as possible. In 1982, David Gries obtained the same O(n)-time algorithm by applying Dijkstra's "standard strategy"; in 1989, Richard Bird derived it by purely algebraic manipulation of the brute-force algorithm using the Bird–Meertens formalism.
Grenander's two-dimensional generalization can be solved in O(n3) time either by using Kadane's algorithm as a subroutine, or through a divide-and-conquer approach. Slightly faster algorithms based on distance matrix multiplication have been proposed by and by . There is some evidence that no significantly faster algorithm exists; an algorithm that solves the two-dimensional maximum subarray problem in O(n3−ε) time, f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Longitudinal%20Study%20of%20Ageing | The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) is a longitudinal study that collects multidisciplinary data from a representative sample of the English population aged 50 and older to look at all aspects of aging in England.
The study started in 2002 and there are currently nine waves of completed data and a tenth wave is currently being collected. The survey data are designed to be used for the investigation of a broad set of topics relevant to understanding the ageing process. Both objective and subjective data are collected covering themes such as health trajectories, disability and healthy life expectancy, the determinants of economic position in older age; the links between economic position, physical health, cognition and mental health; the nature and timing of retirement and post-retirement, labour market activity; household and family structure, social networks and social supports; patterns, determinants and consequences of social, civic and cultural participation and predictors of well-being.
ELSA is led by Professor Andrew Steptoe and is jointly run by teams at University College London (UCL), the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), National Centre for Social Research, University of Manchester and the University of East Anglia.
Funding
ELSA is funded jointly by the National Institute on Aging in the US and a consortium of UK government departments: Department of Health and Social Care; Department for Work and Pensions; and Department for Transport coordinated by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Funding has also been provided by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Study design and data collection
The first wave of ELSA achieved a sample comprising 11,050 respondents aged 50 and over on 1 March 2002. Sample members are drawn from respondents to the Health Survey For England (HSE) and the initial data collected for that survey are subsequently linked to the ongoing ELSA measurements. For waves 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 refreshment samples selected from HSE 2001–04; 2006; 2009–2011; 2011–2012; and HSAE 2013–2015 were added, respectively. The main interview takes the form of a personal interview using CAPI (computer-assisted personal interview) followed by a short self-completion questionnaire. Other components of the study include: a nurse visit involving measurements of physical function, anthropometric measurements and blood/saliva samples; a life-history interview collecting information on lifetime family circumstances, place of residence, employment and major health events prior to the baseline interview; and an end of life interview, initially adapted from US Health and Retirement Study (HRS), carried out by close friends/relatives of an eligible ELSA respondent who has died to collect information about the respondent's circumstances in the period since the final interview and their death.
Over the course of the study to date, the following data have been collected:
March 2002 - March 2003: Wave 1 Intervi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s%20Your%20Daddy%20Now%3F | Who's Your Daddy Now? is a 2007 Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Joey Marquez, Raymart Santiago and Ynna Asistio, it premiered on April 16, 2007 on the network's KiliTV line up replacing Lagot Ka, Isusumbong Kita. The series concluded on July 13, 2007.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Joey Marquez as Peter
Raymart Santiago as Mario
Ynna Asistio as Andrea
Paolo Contis as Paul
Supporting cast
Celia Rodriguez as Candy
Jean Garcia as Stephanie
Julia Lopez as Diding
Accolades
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television sitcoms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miron%20Livny | Miron Livny () is a senior researcher and professor specializing in distributed computing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Livny has been a professor of computer science at Wisconsin since 1983, where he leads the HTCondor high-throughput computing system project. Miron is also a principal investigator and currently the facility coordinator for the Open Science Grid project, Director of the Center for High Throughput computing, CTO of Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, and Director of Core Computational Technology of the Morgridge Institute for Research.
In 2006, along with Raghu Ramakrishnan, Professor Livny won the SIGMOD Test of Time award for his seminal work on distributed databases.
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, August 1983. Weizmann Institute of Science. (Thesis: The Study of Load Balancing Algorithms for Decentralized Processing Systems)
M.S., Computer Science, 1978. Weizmann Institute of Science.
B.S., Physics and Mathematics, 1975. Hebrew University.
Footnotes
External links
Personal web page
HTCondor Project home page
Open Science Grid home page
Center for High Throughput Computing
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
Israeli computer scientists
1950 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian%20Treasures | Asian Treasures is a 2007 Philippine television drama adventure series broadcast by GMA Network. The series marked as the first Philippine television drama series to be filmed in Mongolia, Thailand and China, and is one of the most expensive television series in the Philippine television costing more than 140 million Philippine pesos. Directed by Eric Quizon, it stars Robin Padilla and Angel Locsin. It premiered on January 15, 2007 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Captain Barbell. The series concluded on June 29, 2007 with a total of 118 episodes. It was replaced by Mga Mata ni Anghelita in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Robin Padilla as Elias Pinaglabanan / Susi / Diego
Angel Locsin as Gabriela Agoncillo / Emma / Abigail Mediran
Supporting cast
Marvin Agustin as Hector Madrigal
Diana Zubiri as Ingrid Vargas / Urduja
Eddie Garcia as Wakan U. Matadtu / Supremo / Datu Makatunaw
Ronaldo Valdez as Ulysses Agoncillo / Plaridel
Caridad Sanchez as Miranda / Melchora
Jaime Fabregas as Pio Roman Dalisay / Gomburza
Joonee Gamboa as Julian Agoncillo / Sulaiman
Rommel Padilla as Leo
Gio Alvarez as Cedric Samonte
Marky Cielo as Mateo Madrigal
Glaiza de Castro as Clara Pinaglabanan
Margaret Wilson as Via
Ella V. as Lady Grace
Francis Magundayao as Pogi
Recurring cast
Menggie Cobarrubias as Pablito
Mon Confiado as X / Xander
Katarina Perez as Pia
Megan Young as Anna
Jerome Calica as Y / Yagon
Gina Alajar as Elvira
Paolo Contis as Victor
Bembol Roco as Marcus Vergara
Gardo Versoza as Socrates
Sandy Andolong as Araceli
July Hidalgo as a terrorist
Rita Iringan as Charlene
Ailyn Luna as Venice
Ken Punzalan as Gilbert
Rea Nakpil as Z
Gail Lardizabal as Savanah Vergara
Berting Labra as Jose
Guest cast
Sunshine Cruz as Esmeralda
Cesar Montano as Pancho Pistolero
Girlie Alcantara
Tommy Abuel as Swinton
Paul Salas as young Hector
JM Reyes as young Diego
Ella Guevara as young Gabriela
Bianca Pulmano as young Ingrid
Andrew De Real
Ace Espinosa
Joe Gruta
Ping Medina as Mateo
Pocholo Montes as Takeshi
Boots Plata
Jen Rosendhal as Marie
Ti Tiu
Armando Paez as the 'Mamang Sorbetero'
Andrew Schimmer as Zoilo
Gayle Valencia as Lea
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines Mega Manila household ratings, the pilot episode of Asian Treaures earned a 41.8% rating. While the final episode garnered a 38.1% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine action television series
Television shows filmed in China
Television shows filmed in Mongolia
Television shows filmed in Thailand
Television shows set in the Philippines
Philippine adventure television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Twins | Super Twins is a 2007 Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Dominic Zapata, it stars Jennylyn Mercado, Nadine Samonte, Ella Cruz, Nicole Dulalia and Dennis Trillo. It premiered on February 12, 2007 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Atlantika. The series concluded on June 1, 2007 with a total of 78 episodes. It was replaced by Impostora in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jennylyn Mercado as Super S
Nadine Samonte as Super T
Ella Cruz as Tintin
Nicole Dulalia as Shasha
Dennis Trillo as Eliazar and Eliseo Vergara
Supporting cast
Camille Prats as Drew Morales "Drew Barrymore/Drew BarryMorales"
Patrick Garcia as Billy Vergara
Tetchie Agbayani as Vesta Paredes
Ian De Leon as Manuel Paredes
Tanya Garcia as Aloya Blossom
Marian Rivera as Ester Paredes / Black Ester
Luz Valdez as Ising
Gabby Eigenmann as Rex / Steel Rex
Cristine Reyes as Magnesia / Magdalene
Dominic Roco as Ian
Felix Roco as Lester
Mura as Metallad
John Feir as a policeman
Robert Villar as Ding
Guest cast
Antonio Aquitania as a policeman
Sheena Halili as a reporter
Bianca King as Katrina Roces
Melissa Avelino
Vivienne dela Cruz
Iwa Moto as Monica / Moshi Moshi Manika
Arief Yusmita
Ryan Yllana as Candyman
Rita Avila as Victoria
Giselle Sanchez as Jakidaz
Gene Padilla as Iniyuuuy
Rey Pumaloy as Boboy Trumpo
Mel Kimura as Jemma
Alessandra De Rossi as Nickelina / Nickel
Biboy Ramirez
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muli%20%28TV%20series%29 | (International title: In Love Again / ) is a 2007 Philippine-Malaysian television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network and TV1. Directed by Mac Alejandre, it stars Alfred Vargas, Carrie Lee and Marian Rivera. It premiered on February 19, 2007 on GMA Network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Makita Ka Lang Muli. The series concluded on May 18, 2007 with a total of 63 episodes. It was replaced Pati Ba Pintig ng Puso in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Alfred Vargas as Lukas Estadilla
Carrie Lee Sze Kei as Cheryl
Marian Rivera as Racquel Estadilla
Supporting cast
Tony Eusoff as Zul
Victor Neri as Jaime
Odette Khan as Aunt Ason
Daniel Tan as Lim Soon-Huat
Alicia Mayer as Ria
Gabby Eigenmann as Alvin
Renz Valerio as Joshua
Ailyn Luna as Michelle
Vaness del Moral as Rose
Accolades
References
External links
2007 Malaysian television series debuts
2007 Malaysian television series endings
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Malaysian drama television series
Philippine romance television series
Radio Televisyen Malaysia original programming
Television shows filmed in Malaysia
Television shows filmed in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Charming%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | Princess Charming is a 2007 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Argel Joseph, it stars Krystal Reyes in the title role. It premiered on January 29, 2007 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up. The series concluded on April 27, 2007 with a total of 63 episodes. It was replaced by Sinasamba Kita in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
When Amparo consults a fortune teller about her business ventures, the fortune teller warns her that her ugly granddaughter would be her downfall. Amparo steals her infant granddaughter away from her parents and gives her to a woman. She then adopts a pretty baby girl from another woman and presents the baby to her son and daughter-in-law as their own daughter. The pretty child grows up as "Princess" and the ugly child grows up as "Charming".
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Krystal Reyes as Princess de Saavedra
Eunice Lagusad as Charming Santos
Supporting cast
Mark Herras as Inoy Santos
Mylene Dizon as Sofia Santos
Carmina Villaroel as Mabel de Saavedra
Zoren Legaspi as Enrico de Saavedra
Chanda Romero as Doña Amparo de Saavedra
Jackie Rice as Bernadette de Saavedra
Lotlot de Leon as Lizette
Arci Muñoz as Pamela
Jade Lopez as Aleli Santos
Allan Paule as Ronald Santos
Dexter Doria as Loreta
Luz Fernandez as Melinda
Mel Martinez as Sushmita
Joy Folloso as Vanessa Santos
Sweet Ramos as Libby Santos
Tart Carlos as Doris
Zamierre Benevice as Bambi
Darius Razon as Teroy
Gerard Pizarras as Dante
Kier Legaspi as Ricardo de Saavedra
Accolades
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Francisco%20Municipal%20Wireless | San Francisco Municipal Wireless was a canceled municipal wireless network that would have provided internet access to the city of San Francisco, California.
The network was originally proposed by San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom in 2004. In late 2005, the city put out a formal request for proposals, and in April 2006 it was announced that a joint proposal by Earthlink and Google had won the bid. The San Francisco Budget Analyst completed a report that analyzes possibilities for a municipal system and critiques the proposed Google/Earthlink option. The proposal was formally scrapped by the city on 12 September 2007, citing a loss of confidence in Earthlink's financial situation.
Proposal
The purpose of the proposal was to provide free, wireless Internet access throughout San Francisco that anyone with a computer and wireless access device could log into. Wireless access points would be mounted on light poles throughout the city to provide coverage.
San Francisco had little money to build out their own infrastructure and so they looked for a commercial provider to build it out. A comment and proposal process was constructed with an RFI/C, or "Request for Information and Comment" and a RFP, or a "Request for Proposal". In 2005 the RFI gave the public a forum for input on how the program could work and be constructed. In 2005 through 2006 the RFP was designed to pick a provider for the project. The RFI/C and RFP processes came about as the City of San Francisco was already talking to Earthlink and Google about the project and there was concern by the public and the Board of Supervisors that the project was on a fast-track without enough public input on the project. With the end of the RFP, the Google/Earthlink partnership was in the lead to be awarded the contract.
There were two primary components to the Earthlink/Google proposal: Earthlink would install and maintain the network and provide a higher speed (1 Mbit/s), paid connection. Google would be an anchor tenant on Earthlink's network, offering a free basic service (300 kbit/s). Earthlink's plan would have offered a two-tiered pricing scheme, with a discount for qualifying low-income residents.
Criticisms of proposal
The San Francisco Budget Analyst's Office has criticized the proposal, claiming that the Department of Technology and Information Services (DTIS) engaged in a biased and secretive process while crafting the proposal. DTIS's critics state that the network would provide low bandwidth, wireless-only connectivity, and that it would fail to serve its stated purpose of providing internet access to underserved communities. Studies commissioned by other San Francisco agencies show that a municipally owned, rather than privately owned option, could provide users with far superior service, at little or no cost to the end user.
Some complaints were based on the fact that alternative networks were not considered during RFP phase.
Death of the proposal
Many of the Board of Sup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbo | Timbo may refer to:
Timbó, a municipality in Brazil
Timbo, Arkansas, a town in the United States
Timbo, Guinea, a town in Guinea
Timbo blanco or Pseudalbizzia inundata, a tropical tree with light wood
Timbo King (born 1973)
See also
The Timberland Company, footwear manufacturer
Timbaland (born 1972), American rapper and record producer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20prototyping | Rapid prototyping is a group of techniques used to quickly fabricate a scale model of a physical part or assembly using three-dimensional computer aided design (CAD) data.
Construction of the part or assembly is usually done using 3D printing or "additive layer manufacturing" technology.
The first methods for rapid prototyping became available in mid 1987 and were used to produce models and prototype parts. Today, they are used for a wide range of applications and are used to manufacture production-quality parts in relatively small numbers if desired without the typical unfavorable short-run economics. This economy has encouraged online service bureaus. Historical surveys of RP technology start with discussions of simulacra production techniques used by 19th-century sculptors. Some modern sculptors use the progeny technology to produce exhibitions and various objects. The ability to reproduce designs from a dataset has given rise to issues of rights, as it is now possible to interpolate volumetric data from 2D images.
As with CNC subtractive methods, the computer-aided-design – computer-aided manufacturing CAD -CAM workflow in the traditional rapid prototyping process starts with the creation of geometric data, either as a 3D solid using a CAD workstation, or 2D slices using a scanning device. For rapid prototyping this data must represent a valid geometric model; namely, one whose boundary surfaces enclose a finite volume, contain no holes exposing the interior, and do not fold back on themselves. In other words, the object must have an "inside". The model is valid if for each point in 3D space the computer can determine uniquely whether that point lies inside, on, or outside the boundary surface of the model. CAD post-processors will approximate the application vendors' internal CAD geometric forms (e.g., B-splines) with a simplified mathematical form, which in turn is expressed in a specified data format which is a common feature in additive manufacturing: STL file format, a de facto standard for transferring solid geometric models to SFF machines.
To obtain the necessary motion control trajectories to drive the actual SFF, rapid prototyping, 3D printing or additive manufacturing mechanism, the prepared geometric model is typically sliced into layers, and the slices are scanned into lines (producing a "2D drawing" used to generate trajectory as in CNC's toolpath), mimicking in reverse the layer-to-layer physical building process.
Application areas
Rapid prototyping is also commonly applied in software engineering to try out new business models and application architectures such as Aerospace, Automotive, Financial Services, Product development, and Healthcare. Aerospace design and industrial teams rely on prototyping in order to create new AM methodologies in the industry. Using SLA they can quickly make multiple versions of their projects in a few days and begin testing quicker. Rapid Prototyping allows designers/developers to provide an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clascal | Clascal is an object-oriented programming language (and associated discontinued compiler) developed in 1983 by the Personal Office Systems (POS) division (later renamed The Lisa Division, then later The 32-Bit Systems Division) of Apple Computer. Clascal was used to program applications for the Lisa Office System, the operating environment of the Lisa.
Developed as an extension of Lisa Pascal, which in turn harked back to the UCSD Pascal model originally implemented on the Apple II, the language was strongly influenced by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) release of Smalltalk-80, v1 (which had been formerly ported to the Lisa), and by Modula. According to Larry Tesler, Clascal was developed as a replacement for Apple's version of Smalltalk, which was "too slow" and because the experience offered by the Smalltalk syntax was too unfamiliar for most people.
Clascal was the basis for Object Pascal on the Apple Macintosh in 1985. With the demise of the Lisa in 1986, Pascal and Object Pascal continued to be used in the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop for systems and application development for several more years, until it was finally supplanted by the languages C and C++. The MacApp application framework was based on Toolkit originally written in Clascal.
Object Pascal, in turn, served as the basis for Borland's Delphi.
References
Programming languages
Pascal programming language family
Class-based programming languages
Object-oriented programming languages
High-level programming languages
Programming languages created in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eesti%20Raudtee | Eesti Raudtee or EVR is the national railway infrastructure company of Estonia. It owns a network of of broad gauge () railway throughout the country, including the used by the Elron commuter trains around Tallinn. Its sole shareholder is the Government of Estonia.
History
Shortly following the Estonian Restoration of Independence, the state-owned company Eesti Raudtee was established as the national railway company of Estonia on 1 January 1992. The company's activities primarily involved the movement of rail freight, particularly that of Russian oil products to the ice-free Estonian ports on the Baltic Sea; passenger services were typically provided by separate operators that ran upon Eesti Raudtee's infrastructure via a series of track access agreements.
By the mid-2000, it was announced that the Estonian government was seeking to privatize its railway operations. On 31 August 2001, 66 percent of the stock in the company was sold to Baltic Rail Services, a consortium of Rail World (25.5%), Jarvis (25.5%), Railroad Development Corporation (5%), and OÜ Ganiger Invest, led by Estonian entrepreneurs Jüri Käo and Guido Sammelselg (44%).
As a result of the privatization, new management structures were promptly introduced to the company along with considerable investment aimed at instituting international best practices, amongst other goals. In 2002, Eesti Raudtee introduced a new logo along with a corporate identity during its tenth anniversary. The new logo was the two letters "E" and "R" that are colored red and are merged to each other to symbolize the company's name.
Following an election in 2003, the Estonian government changed the rules on open access rights and capped the level of track access charges that could be imposed, which negatively impacted Eesti Raudtee's commercial viability, causing relations between Baltic Rail Services and the state to sour. In July 2005, Baltic Rail Services issued a notice of dispute to the Estonian government that claimed there had been a breach of bilateral investment treaties. By April 2006, the dispute between the two parties had escalated to the highest levels and the potential sale of the stake in Eesti Raudtee was mooted. During January 2007, Eesti Raudtee was effectively renationalized by the Estonian government, ending Baltic Rail Services' involvement.
During 2009, two new EVR wholly-owned subsidiaries were formed: EVR Infra, responsible for managing the railway infrastructure, and EVR Cargo, which took over the parent company's freight operations. This reorganisation was reportedly to comply with European Union legislation. In 2012, freight operator AS EVR Cargo (renamed Operail in 2018) was separated from Eesti Raudtee; around the same time, EVR Infra was renamed Eesti Raudtee.
The late 2010s and early 2020s were marked by a series of investments in Estonia's railway infrastructure. In December 2017, work was completed on the modernization of 57km of the key Tapa – Tartu line, facilitating |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquity | Ubiquity is a synonym for omnipresence, the property of being present everywhere.
Ubiquity may also refer to:
Ubiquity (software), a simple graphical installer made for the Ubuntu operating system
Ubiquity (Firefox), an experimental extension for the Firefox browser
Ubiquity (role-playing game system), a table-top RPG system
Ubiquiti, an American wireless data communication company
Ubiquity Records, an American music label
Ubiquity, a publication by the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperny%20Entertainment | Paperny Entertainment Inc. (previously known as Paperny Films and David Paperny Films) was a Vancouver-based producer of television programming and films, ranging from character-driven documentaries to provocative comedy to quirky reality shows. It was founded by David Paperny, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his 1993 documentary The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter.
In July 2014, Paperny Entertainment was acquired by Entertainment One, which in turn has been acquired by American toy manufacturer Hasbro on December 30, 2019. It was later sold to Lionsgate in December 2023.
Television series
Listed by the year the shows first aired.
2001
KinK (Showcase, 5 seasons, 63 episodes)
2005
Crash Test Mommy (Life Network)
2007
Road Hockey Rumble (OLN, 26 episodes)
My Fabulous Gay Wedding (Global, Logo, 2 seasons, 19 episodes)
2008
The Week the Women Went (CBC, 2 seasons, 16 episodes)
Jetstream (Discovery, 8 episodes)
2009
The 100 Mile Challenge (Food Network Canada, 6 episodes)
Combat School (Discovery, 6 episodes, follow-up to Jetstream)
Glutton for Punishment (US Food Network, 5 seasons, 56 episodes)
The Stagers (HGTV Canada, two seasons, 26 episodes)
Chop Shop (Slice, 13 episodes)
2010
2011
Eat St. (Food Network Canada, 3 seasons to date)
Dust Up (6 episodes)
Consumed (HGTV Canada, one season)
Dussault Inc. (City, 2 seasons, 32 episodes)
2012
World's Weirdest Restaurants (Food Network Canada, one season)
2013
Yukon Gold (History Channel)
2014
Chopped Canada (Food Network Canada)
Documentaries
The documentary The Boys of Buchenwald (2002) and Love Shines (2010) were produced by Paperny.
In 2008 Paperny partnered with David Ridgen and John Fleming on "The Civil Rights Cold Case Project" with the Center for Investigative Reporting. The project brought together partners from across the media and legal spectrum to reveal long-neglected truths behind scores of race-motivated murders from the civil rights era, and to help facilitate reconciliation and healing. The project sponsored work in civil rights-era cold cases, including that of African American shoe-shop owner Frank Morris who was murdered by the Klan in Ferriday, Louisiana in 1964, and that of Clifton Walker, a Natchez Mississippi mill worker murdered by Klan members the same year.
The documentary film Confessions of an Innocent Man (2007), which tells the story of a British-Canadian engineer William Sampson, won a Gemini Award for Best Biography Documentary Program.
References
External links
Paperny Films
Entertainment One
Film production companies of Canada
Television production companies of Canada
Mass media companies established in 1994
2014 mergers and acquisitions
Companies based in Vancouver
Documentary film production companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Resource%20Control | The Radio Resource Control (RRC) protocol is used in UMTS, LTE and 5G on the Air interface. It is a layer 3 (Network Layer) protocol used between UE and Base Station. This protocol is specified by 3GPP in TS 25.331 for UMTS, in TS 36.331 for LTE and in TS 38.331 for 5G New Radio. RRC messages are transported via the PDCP-Protocol.
The major functions of the RRC protocol include connection establishment and release functions, broadcast of system information, radio bearer establishment, reconfiguration and release, RRC connection mobility procedures, paging notification and release and outer loop power control.
By means of the signalling functions the RRC configures the user and control planes according to the network status and allows for Radio Resource Management strategies to be implemented.
The operation of the RRC is guided by a state machine which defines certain specific states that a UE may be present in. The different states in this state machine have different amounts of radio resources associated with them and these are the resources that the UE may use when it is present in a given specific state. Since different amounts of resources are available at different states the quality of the service that the user experiences and the energy consumption of the UE are influenced by this state machine.
RRC inactivity timers
The configuration of RRC inactivity timers in a W-CDMA network has considerable impact on the battery life of a phone when a packet data connection is open.
The RRC idle mode (no connection) has the lowest energy consumption. The states in the RRC connected mode, in order of decreasing power consumption, are CELL_DCH (Dedicated Channel), CELL_FACH (Forward Access Channel), CELL_PCH (Cell Paging Channel) and URA_PCH (URA Paging Channel). The power consumption in the CELL_FACH is roughly 50 percent of that in CELL_DCH, and the PCH states use about 1-2 percent of the power consumption of the CELL_DCH state.
The transitions to lower energy consuming states occur when inactivity timers trigger. The T1 timer controls transition from DCH to FACH, the T2 timer controls transition from FACH to PCH, and the T3 timer controls transition from PCH to idle.
Different operators have different configurations for the inactivity timers, which leads to differences in energy consumption. Another factor is that not all operators use the PCH states.
See also
Radio Resource Management
Mobility management
Radio Network Controller
UMTS
WCDMA
References
3GPP standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%E2%80%93action%E2%80%93reward%E2%80%93state%E2%80%93action | State–action–reward–state–action (SARSA) is an algorithm for learning a Markov decision process policy, used in the reinforcement learning area of machine learning. It was proposed by Rummery and Niranjan in a technical note with the name "Modified Connectionist Q-Learning" (MCQ-L). The alternative name SARSA, proposed by Rich Sutton, was only mentioned as a footnote.
This name reflects the fact that the main function for updating the Q-value depends on the current state of the agent "S1", the action the agent chooses "A1", the reward "R" the agent gets for choosing this action, the state "S2" that the agent enters after taking that action, and finally the next action "A2" the agent chooses in its new state. The acronym for the quintuple (st, at, rt, st+1, at+1) is SARSA. Some authors use a slightly different convention and write the quintuple (st, at, rt+1, st+1, at+1), depending on which time step the reward is formally assigned. The rest of the article uses the former convention.
Algorithm
A SARSA agent interacts with the environment and updates the policy based on actions taken, hence this is known as an on-policy learning algorithm. The Q value for a state-action is updated by an error, adjusted by the learning rate alpha. Q values represent the possible reward received in the next time step for taking action a in state s, plus the discounted future reward received from the next state-action observation.
Watkin's Q-learning updates an estimate of the optimal state-action value function based on the maximum reward of available actions. While SARSA learns the Q values associated with taking the policy it follows itself, Watkin's Q-learning learns the Q values associated with taking the optimal policy while following an exploration/exploitation policy.
Some optimizations of Watkin's Q-learning may be applied to SARSA.
Hyperparameters
Learning rate (alpha)
The learning rate determines to what extent newly acquired information overrides old information. A factor of 0 will make the agent not learn anything, while a factor of 1 would make the agent consider only the most recent information.
Discount factor (gamma)
The discount factor determines the importance of future rewards. A discount factor factor of 0 makes the agent "opportunistic", or "myopic", e.g. , by only considering current rewards, while a factor approaching 1 will make it strive for a long-term high reward. If the discount factor meets or exceeds 1, the values may diverge.
Initial conditions ()
Since SARSA is an iterative algorithm, it implicitly assumes an initial condition before the first update occurs. A high (infinite) initial value, also known as "optimistic initial conditions", can encourage exploration: no matter what action takes place, the update rule causes it to have higher values than the other alternative, thus increasing their choice probability. In 2013 it was suggested that the first reward could be used to reset the initial conditions. According t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compile-time%20function%20execution | In computing, compile-time function execution (or compile time function evaluation, or general constant expressions) is the ability of a compiler, that would normally compile a function to machine code and execute it at run time, to execute the function at compile time. This is possible if the arguments to the function are known at compile time, and the function does not make any reference to or attempt to modify any global state (i.e. it is a pure function).
If the value of only some of the arguments are known, the compiler may still be able to perform some level of compile-time function execution (partial evaluation), possibly producing more optimized code than if no arguments were known.
Examples
Lisp
The Lisp macro system is an early example of the use of compile-time evaluation of user-defined functions in the same language.
C++
The Metacode extension to C++ (Vandevoorde 2003) was an early experimental system to allow compile-time function evaluation (CTFE) and code injection as an improved syntax for C++ template metaprogramming.
In earlier versions of C++, template metaprogramming is often used to compute values at compile time, such as:
template <int N>
struct Factorial {
enum { value = N * Factorial<N - 1>::value };
};
template <>
struct Factorial<0> {
enum { value = 1 };
};
// Factorial<4>::value == 24
// Factorial<0>::value == 1
void Foo() {
int x = Factorial<0>::value; // == 1
int y = Factorial<4>::value; // == 24
}
Using compile-time function evaluation, code used to compute the factorial would be similar to what one would write for run-time evaluation e.g. using C++11 constexpr.
#include <cstdio>
constexpr int Factorial(int n) { return n ? (n * Factorial(n - 1)) : 1; }
constexpr int f10 = Factorial(10);
int main() {
printf("%d\n", f10);
return 0;
}
In C++11, this technique is known as generalized constant expressions (constexpr). C++14 relaxes the constraints on constexpr – allowing local declarations and use of conditionals and loops (the general restriction that all data required for the execution be available at compile-time remains).
Here's an example of compile time function evaluation in C++14:
// Iterative factorial at compile time.
constexpr int Factorial(int n) {
int result = 1;
while (n > 1) {
result *= n--;
}
return result;
}
int main() {
constexpr int f4 = Factorial(4); // f4 == 24
}
Immediate functions (C++)
In C++20, immediate functions were introduced, and compile-time function execution was made more accessible and flexible with relaxed constexpr restrictions.
// Iterative factorial at compile time.
consteval int Factorial(int n) {
int result = 1;
while (n > 1) {
result *= n--;
}
return result;
}
int main() {
int f4 = Factorial(4); // f4 == 24
}
Since function Factorial is marked consteval, it is guaranteed to invoke at compile-time without being forced in another manifestly constant-evaluated context. Hence, the usage of immediate functions offers wide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar%20Bukit%20Puchong%201 | Puchong-Damansara Highway (LDP). The location is very strategic to quick access to Putrajaya, Cyberjaya, Serdang, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Subang Jaya, Kajang, Shah Alam, Sunway, Damansara and Kuala Lumpur city center. Please visit https://web.archive.org/web/20110723033515/http://www.bukitpuchong.net/ to know more about Bandar Bukit Puchong.
Populated places in Selangor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem%20%28disambiguation%29 | Tandem means an arrangement one behind another as opposed to side by side.
Tandem may also refer to:
Companies
Tandem Computers, a former manufacturer of fault-tolerant computer systems
Tandem Diabetes Care, insulin infusion therapy manufacturer for the treatment of diabetes
Tandem Money Limited, a British finance company
Tandem Bank, previously Harrods Bank
Tandem, a language exchange app
Entertainment
Tandem (1987 film), a 1987 French dramatic road movie directed by Patrice Leconte
Tandem (TV series), a 2018 Armenian sitcom
Tandem Productions, a former American television production company
Tandem Publishing Co, see Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a former publishing company in the UK
Tandem Verlag, a German publishing company, founded 1994
"Tandem" (song), a 1990 song by Vanessa Paradis from the album Variations sur le même t'aime
Sport
Tandem (UCI), a para-cycling classification for visually impaired cyclists who require a sighted pilot
Technology
Air Command Tandem, an American gyroplane design
TandEM, a space project to explore Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus
Tandem accelerator, see Particle accelerator
Tandem bicycle
Tandem carriage
Tandem-charge, an explosive device or projectile that has two or more stages of detonation
Tandem cell, a type of solar cell
Tandem language learning, a method of language learning
Tandem mass spectrometry, see Mass spectrometry
Tandem repeat, a pattern of adjacent repetitions of nucleotides in DNA
Tandem rotors
Tandem signaling
Tandem single-chain variable fragment, a type of pharmaceutical drug
Tandem skydiving
Tandem switch for telephone exchanges without telephones
Tandem wing, a kind of aircraft
See also
Putin-Medvedev tandemocracy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cooperative%20Growth%20Study | National Cooperative Growth Study (NCGS) is the largest observational database in the U.S. of children with growth disorders. Started in 1985, NCGS was a long term longitudinal study following patients undergoing growth hormone treatment in North America (the U.S. and Canada). The study was closed in 2010. At that time it had over 200,000 patient-years of statistical data collected. The related iNCGS (the "i" standing for "International") database is ongoing in Europe, collecting data in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and other European Union member countries.
Sources
Growth hormones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHMB | CHMB is a Canadian AM radio station, broadcasting from Vancouver, British Columbia on 1320 kHz. The station airs a Chinese language programming format. CHMB's studios are located on Commerce Parkway in Richmond, while its transmitters are located on Lulu Island in Richmond.
CHMB and CJMR are the only stations in Canada which broadcast on 1320 AM.
CHMB is owned and operated by Mainstream Broadcasting Corporation, a British Columbia media company owned and operated by Vancouver businessman James Ho. Mainstream began broadcasting in 1973 as Overseas Chinese Voice (OCV). In 1993, OCV programming was incorporated into the multicultural AM radio station of CHMB AM 1320, which broadcasts to Vancouver's multicultural community.
CHMB broadcasts to Vancouver's Chinese-speaking community, and in 12 other languages: Portuguese, Brazilian, Filipino, Greek, Japanese, Tamil, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish.
History
CHMB began as an English-language station that was called CHQM. It signed on the air on December 10, 1959, as an easy listening station under the ownership of Vancouver Broadcast Associates Ltd. with 10 kW of power. CHQM's sister station, CHQM-FM, first aired on August 10, 1960 as a simulcast of the AM station, airing 19 hours a day. CHQM and CHQM-FM went to 24-hour broadcasting on September 1, 1962.
In November 1966, CHQM increased its transmission power to 50 kW. On August 23, 1969, corporate parent Vancouver Broadcast Associates changed its name to Q Broadcasting Ltd. Jack Stark, who had co-founded the company with Bill Bellman, became the sole owner in 1979. In September 1984, CHQM began airing the "Music of Your Life" format from 6 p.m. to midnight daily while retaining its main easy listening format for the balance of its broadcast day.
On January 1, 1990, CHQM dropped its longtime easy listening format for an adult contemporary format and began using the on-air brand Lite 1320. CHQM and CHQM-FM were purchased by CHUM Limited on October 17 that year, but due to Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) regulations of the time (which allowed ownership of only one AM and one FM station in the same market), CHUM had to sell either CHQM or its other Vancouver AM outlet, CFUN; CHUM chose to sell CHQM.
On February 20, 1991, CHQM switched formats again to adult standards of the 1930s to the 1960s with the new station brand Q 1320. The station began airing Chinese-language programming on January 23, 1993, from 10:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily, then moved the start time for Chinese shows to 9 p.m. three weeks later. On December 14, 1993, the CRTC approved CHUM's sale of CHQM to Mainstream Broadcasting Corporation.
On February 9, 1994 (on which the Chinese New Year fell that year), CHQM signed off for the final time at 9 p.m. with Bob Hope's "Thanks for the Memories" as the farewell song, and was replaced moments later by CHMB. Original station co-owner Jack Stark died on October 30, 2001, at age |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20%28Southern%20Cross%20Austereo%29 | Seven is an Australian television network distributed by Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) in Tasmania, Darwin, the Spencer Gulf, Broken Hill, and remote eastern and central Australia. SCA's network is the primary affiliate of the Seven Network in the areas it serves.
History
Origins
The Southern Cross brand was first used in 1982 by a small network of three stations in regional Victoria. The then Victorian Broadcasting Network comprised GLV-8 Gippsland, BCV-8 Bendigo, and STV-8 Mildura.
GLV was the first regional television station in the country, launched on 9 December 1961. BCV-8 launched in the same year, on 23 December, while STV followed four years later, on 27 November 1965. GLV-10 moved to VHF-8 in 1980, when Melbourne commercial station ATV-0 moved to VHF-10 The network rebranded in 1982 as Southern Cross TV8, but later changed its name in 1989 to the Southern Cross Network. Soon after this, STV-8 left the network after it was bought by businessman Alan Bond, and eventually sold on to ENT Limited (owners of Vic TV and Tas TV).
This network began as a "cherry picking" network, taking programs from all three metropolitan commercial networks at the time. At aggregation, it became an affiliate of Network Ten.
1960s to the 1970s
Tasmanian television station TNT-9 commenced broadcasting at 5:57 pm on 26 May 1962. Fred Archer was the first person to appear on the station, during its first five hours of transmission.
On the opening night the station was officially inaugurated by Lord Rowallan, the Governor of Tasmania. The Mickey Mouse Club was the first programme to be broadcast, and advertisements included: Abbott's cordial, Hydro, Launceston Bank for Savings, Peters Ice Cream, Hicks Atkinson and the Saturday Evening Express.
GTS/BKN began transmissions as a solus commercial television service by Spencer Gulf Telecasters in the upper Spencer Gulf in 1968, with Port Lincoln and Broken Hill commencing in 1970 and 1974 respectively.
1980s to the 1990s
On 13 May 1989, TNT-9 was sold by ENT Ltd. to Southern Cross Broadcasting and was integrated into the Southern Cross network.
Tasmania was aggregated on 30 April 1994, albeit with only two stations – Southern Cross became a dual Seven and Ten affiliate, while TAS TV took programming from the Nine Network. Both stations commenced statewide transmission from this time.
Remote Central and Eastern Australia were the final areas to be aggregated – one of the largest geographical licence areas, taking in parts of the Northern Territory, western Queensland, and other areas in which terrestrial television signals cannot be received.
Stations broadcast to this area mainly through satellite or re-transmission stations. Imparja Television, based in Alice Springs, became a dual Nine and Ten affiliate, while Seven Central became a wholly Seven affiliate.
2000s and 2010s
Southern Cross Broadcasting purchased Spencer Gulf Telecasters in April 2002. In 2002, Southern Cross Broadcasting and WIN Corporation jo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolos%20Gerasoulis | Apostolos Gerasoulis is a Greek professor of computer science at Rutgers University, and the co-creator of Teoma, an Internet search engine that powers Ask.com, which Apostolos co-founded along with his colleagues at Rutgers in 2000. Apostolos later went on to serve as the vice president of search technology at Ask.com, before leaving the company in 2010. Gerasoulis has appeared in TV commercials for Ask.com.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
Rutgers University faculty
Greek academics
1952 births
Internet search engines
People from Ioannina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muffy | Muffy or Muffie is an American nickname and may refer to:
People
Muffie Cabot (born c. 1936), American heiress and socialite
Muffy Calder (born 1958), Scottish computer scientist
Marianna Davis (born 1972), American Paralympic cyclist, sit-skier and mountain climber
Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), Scottish child writer and poet
Alie Israel (born 1983), American sprinter
Esme Mackinnon (1913–1999), British world champion alpine skier
Muffie Meyer, American film director
Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818–1874), English businessman and politician, member of the Rothschild family
Muffy McGraw (born 1955) Notre Dame University women's basketball coach
Fictional characters
Muffy, a character and a bachelorette in Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life and Harvest Moon DS
Nickname of the title character of Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson, a 1993 anthology, and other short stories
Muffy Alice Crosswire, in the children's book and animated children's television series Arthur
Muffy, a recurring character in the sitcom That's So Raven
Muffy B. Tepperman, in the 1982–1983 sitcom Square Pegs
Muffy Mouse, in the 1980s Canadian children's television series Today's Special
Muffy, in the 1986 horror film April Fool's Day
Muffy Peprich, in the cartoon Totally Spies.
See also
Miffy, character in a series of picture books by Dutch artist Dick Bruna
Nicknames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN%20Travel | MSN Travel (previously Bing Travel, Live Search Farecast, and Farecast.com) is an airfare prediction website in the computer reservations system industry. It premiered to the public as Farecast on May 15, 2007. Until 2014, it offered predictions regarding the best time to purchase airline tickets.
History
Farecast was founded in 2003; Farecast's team of data miners used airfare observations to build algorithms to predict future airfare price movements. In April 2008, Farecast was acquired by Microsoft for $115 million. Microsoft officially integrated it as part of its Live Search group of tools in May 2008. On June 3, 2009, Microsoft officially rebranded Live Search Farecast as Bing Travel as part of its efforts to create a new search identity.
In January 2014, the airfare prediction feature was removed.
In May 2015, Microsoft rebranded Bing Travel to MSN Travel and redirected the Bing URL to MSN Travel.
In August 2015, MSN Travel flight search pages changed from being powered by KAYAK to competitor Skyscanner.
Controversy
In 2009, there were allegations that Bing Travel had copied its layouts from Kayak.com. Microsoft denied the allegations.
References
External links
Travel
American travel websites
Transport companies established in 2006
Internet properties established in 2006
Travel ticket search engines
Microsoft websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspec | Inspec is a major indexing database of scientific and technical literature, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and formerly by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), one of the IET's forerunners.
Inspec coverage is extensive in the fields of physics, computing, control, and engineering. Its subject coverage includes astronomy, electronics, communications, computers and computing, computer science, control engineering, electrical engineering, information technology, physics, manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering. Now, due to emerging concept of technology for business, Inspec also includes information technology for business in its portfolio. Inspec indexed few journals publishing high quality research by integrating technology into management, economics and social sciences domains. The sample journals include Annual Review of Financial Economics, Aslib Journal of Information Management, Australian Journal of Management and, International Journal of Management, Economics and Social Sciences.
Inspec was started in 1967 as an outgrowth of the Science Abstracts service. The electronic records were distributed on magnetic tape. In the 1980s, it was available in the U.S. through the Knowledge Index, a low-priced dial-up version of the Dialog service for individual users, which made it popular. For nearly 50 years, the IET has employed scientists to manually review items to be included in Inspec, hand-indexing the literature using their own expertise of the subject area and make a judgement call about which terms and classification codes should be applied. Thanks to this work, a significant thesaurus has been developed which enables content to be indexed far more accurately and in context, which in turn helps end-users discover relevant literature that may otherwise have remained hidden from typical search queries, making Inspec an essential tool for prior art, patentability searches and patent drafting.
Access to Inspec is currently by the Internet through Inspec Direct and various resellers.
Print counterparts
Inspec has several print counterparts:
Computer and Control Abstracts ()
Electrical and Electronics Abstracts ()
Physics Abstracts ()
Science Abstracts
Electrical engineering Abstracts* Electronics Abstracts
Control theory Abstracts
Information technology Abstracts
Physics Indexes
Electrical engineering Indexes
Electronics Indexes
Control theory Indexes
Information technology Indexes
Business automation Abstracts (Journals featuring management, economics and Social Sciences; organizations; management information systems related research)
Computer and Control Abstracts
Computer and Control Abstracts ( Frequency: 12 per year) covers computers and computing, and information technology.
Electrical and Electronics Abstracts
Electrical and Electronics Abstracts ( Frequency: 12 per year) covers all topics in telecommunications, electronics, radio, electrical power a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterworld | Afterworld(s) may refer to:
Afterworld (web series), a 2007 computer-animated American science fiction series
"Afterworld" (song), a 2010 song by CKY
"Afterworld", a 2007 song by Tiger Army from Music from Regions Beyond
Afterworld, a 2022 album by Blacklist
Afterworld, a 2016 collectible card game
Afterworlds, a 2014 novel by Scott Westerfeld
See also
Afterlife (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morale%2C%20Welfare%20and%20Recreation | Morale, Welfare and Recreation, abbreviated MWR, is a network of support and leisure services designed for use by U.S. servicemembers (active, Reserve, and Guard), their families, military retirees, veterans with 100 percent service-connected disability, current and retired DoD civilian employees, and other eligible participants.
Organization
Each branch of the United States Armed Forces has a branch of MWR. MWR provides free and discounted recreation to military personnel and their families. Although the facilities provided vary from base to base, the types of services, facilities and programs provided can include fitness centers, pools, marinas, bowling centers, golf courses, restaurants, conference centers, catering, programs for single sailors with special events, access to internet, movies and video games. Army MWR also offers accredited family child care and youth and school aged services at many installations.
Army and Air Force
Army
The United States Army's Family and MWR Programs is a military organization whose primary mission is to provide the United States Army with programs that fulfill and support the Army Family Covenant. The organization strives to provide soldiers and their families with "the same quality of life afforded the society they protect."
Air Force
The United States Air Force’s Outdoor Rec agency, the Air Force Services Activity.
Marines
The United States Marines’ MWR program is the Marine Corps Community Services.
Navy
The United States Navy's MWR program is run by the Navy Installations Command.
Navy MWR is in most areas where there are Navy personnel stationed in the United States, internationally, and in the fleet. Many of their programs are operated by "non-appropriated funds," or by the proceeds that they earn rather than by tax dollars.
Coast Guard
United States Coast Guard MWR.
References
United States military support organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedMon | RedMon, Redirection Port Monitor, redirects a special printer port to a program on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is commonly used with Ghostscript to generate PostScript (PS) and Portable Document Format (PDF) files from any application.
See also
List of virtual printer software
External links
RedMon homepage
Windows-only free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident%20Seafoods | Trident Seafoods is the largest seafood company in the United States, harvesting primarily wild-caught seafood in Alaska. It is a privately-held, 100% American-owned company. Trident manages a network of catcher and catcher processor vessels and processing plants across twelve coastal locations in Alaska. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and has several processing plants, two shipyards, an R&D Innovation Center, and sales offices in the Lower 48 USA. The vertically integrated distributorship of its products is supported by global manufacturing and sales locations in Latin America, China, Japan, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Trident sells frozen, canned, smoked and ready-to-eat seafood products for the wholesale, retail and food service markets under a variety of different brand names in over 55 countries.
Many crab boats seen in the Deadliest Catch TV series are affiliated with Trident.
It is a member of the Pacific Whiting Conservation Cooperative, Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, At-Sea Processors Association, Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers, National Fisheries Institute, Pacific Seafood Processors Association, and Seafood Nutrition Partnership
History
The company was founded in 1973 by Chuck Bundrant. In 1986, it merged with ConAgra's Northwest Pacific seafood unit, retaining the Trident name, and with ConAgra holding a 45% stake in the new company. In 1995, ConAgra sold most of its interest to Trident's original private owners.
A leader in the consolidation of the seafood industry since the 1990s, the company has made numerous acquisitions, increasing its operations and market presence. Some of these acquisitions with their associated brands are:
ConAgra (1986 — see above). Along with the merger came ConAgra's Sea Alaska and Lily brands.
Farwest Fisheries (1992), along with its Faust, Prelate, Rubinstein's, Tulip, and Whitney canned seafood (primarily salmon) brands.
Sealegs surimi brand (1999) from Nichirei Foods.
Tyson Seafood Group (1999), along with its Arctic Ice and Pubhouse frozen seafood brands.
NorQuest Seafoods (2004), along with its Norquest, Silver Lining and Portlock brands of frozen, canned and smoked salmon.
Royal, Pride and Sno Tip canned salmon brands (2004) from North Pacific Processors.
ConAgra seafood brands (2006), including Louis Kemp (surimi) and Captain Jac.
Bear & Wolf Salmon Co. (2008), producer of skinless and boneless canned salmon.
Kasilof Fish Co. (2010), producer of smoked salmon products.
Key people
Joseph L. Bundrant, Chief Executive Officer
Jessica McNeil-Clapp, Executive Assistant - CEO
Bob Masching, EVP Supply Chain
Erik Anderson, EVP - General Counsel
Stephanie Moreland, EVP - Public Affairs
John Score, Chief People Officer
Terrence Sabol, Chief Financial Officer
Exxon Valdez oil spill settlement
In 1991, Trident Seafoods and six other Seattle-based fish processors finalized a deal with Exxon over damages from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince Wil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristos%20Papandroulakis | Aaron Aristos Papandroulakis (born 1965 in Bunbury, Western Australia) is an Australian chef best known for hosting the Seven Network cooking show Surprise Chef. He also hosted BYO Chef, also for Seven.
Papandroulakis has authored two cookbooks, "Cooking with Aristos" and "Cooking with the Surprise Chef", and owns a fish and chip restaurant in his hometown called Aristos', which he established in 1992. He established a seafood restaurant and takeaway on Rottnest Island in May 2009, which has since changed ownership.
Papandroulakis also operates a seafood processing business as well as his restaurant business.
References
Australian television presenters
Australian television chefs
Living people
1965 births
People from Bunbury, Western Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogue%20of%20Life | The Catalogue of Life is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxonomic Information System. The Catalogue is used by research scientists, citizen scientists, educators, and policy makers. The Catalogue is also used by the Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Barcode of Life Data System, Encyclopedia of Life, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. The Catalogue currently compiles data from 165 peer-reviewed taxonomic databases that are maintained by specialist institutions around the world. the COL Checklist lists 2,067,951 of the world's 2.2m extant species known to taxonomists on the planet at present time.
Structure
The Catalogue of Life employs a simple data structure to provide information on synonymy, grouping within a taxonomic hierarchy, common names, distribution and ecological environment. It provides a dynamic edition, which is updated monthly (and in which data can change without tracking of those changes) and an Annual Checklist, which provides a dated, verifiable reference for the usage of names and associated data. Development of the Catalogue of Life was funded through the Species 2000 europa (EuroCat), 4d4Life, i4Life projects in 2003–2013, and later by the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands and Species Files group at Illinois Natural History Survey in Champaign-Urbana.
Current people governing the CoL, contributors, and other relevant information which changes over time, are listed on the CoL Web site.
Usage
Much of the use of the Catalogue is to provide a backbone taxonomy for other global data portals and biological collections. Through the i4Life project, it has formal partnerships with Global Biodiversity Information Facility, European Nucleotide Archive, Encyclopedia of Life, European Consortium for the Barcode of Life, IUCN Red List, and Life Watch. The public interface includes both search and browse functions as well as offering multi-lingual services.
The Catalogue listed 300,000 species by 2003, 500,000 species by 2005, and over 800,000 species by 2006. , the Catalogue listed 1.9 million extant and extinct species. There are an estimated 14 million mainly unpublished species; however, this number is uncertain as there is a lack of data on the possible number of undescribed insects, nematodes, bacteria, fungi and many others.
Catalogue of Life Plus
In 2015, an expert panel presented a consensus hierarchical classification of life which included some sectors not yet represented in the published Catalogue. In the same year, the Catalogue of Life, Barcode of Life Data System, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Encyclopedia of Life, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) met to consider building a single shared authoritative nomenclature and taxonomic foundation "Catalogue of Life Plus" that could be used to or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextgen%20Networks | Nextgen Networks is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vocus Group.
Nextgen's Network is based on a geographically protected national network, with the Brisbane to Melbourne link utilising self-healing SDH two-fibre ring architecture. The Ring System covers Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne and a Flat Ring Link through to Adelaide and Perth as well as covering 70 major and regional population centres along the route. The network covers a total of 17,000 km.
History
The network was constructed in 2002 and cost around $850 million to construct as a joint venture of Leighton Contractors ($140 million) and Macquarie Bank using state of the art equipment from suppliers such as Lucent and financed by a consortium including Leighton Holdings, Macquarie Bank, National Australia Bank, Deutsche Bank, UBS and WestLB.
Visionstream, a subsidiary of Leighton Contractors, constructed the network consisting of four network loops each with 12 fibre pairs, with each fibre pair capable of 800Gbit/s. The network owners intention was to provide the highest network quality, which led to the use of using many state of the art technologies (at the time).
Lucent supplied the TrueWave RS G655 Fibre developed by Bell Labs to provide high bandwidth capacity and specially designed for long distance DWDM optical cables. Being a Non-zero dispersion shifted fibre it has minimum light dispersion, allowing signals to travel long distances with enough dispersion to prevent crosstalk from adjacent signals. It was built to Australian conditions to prevent against not only rodents but wombats, Christmas tree roots and erosion from black soil.
Lucent also supplied newest technology WaveStar OLS 400G DWDM systems and WaveStar Bandwidth Manager.
Nettest's QUESTfiber technology supplied the remote fibre test system (the largest network of its type in the Australia Pacific region) within the Nextgen Networks DWDM network. This gives the benefit of a fully managed network backbone with minimal downtime, when a fault is detected the location is known to within a few metres, as well as showing the health of the cables and its segments, allowing for preemptive maintenance where cable is showing signs of distress.
The building of the network
Visionstream commenced building of the Network on 15 June 2001 with the first soil being turned and commencement of laying the fibre 40 km west of Young, New South Wales at Milvale, after many months of project management planning which included sourcing of materials, negotiating access along the route that the cable and equipment will travel, environmental management and working with indigenous leaders to fully gps map sensitive areas to avoid damage.
The project was brought in ahead of schedule in May 2003, construction was handed over from Visionstream to Nextgen Networks in four main Stages occurring at the following dates.
Activities included route construction, urban works, cultural heritage walkouts and the construction of Primary Nodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Montenegrin%20films | A list of films produced in Montenegro. For an A-Z list see :Category:Montenegrin films
External links
Montenegrin film at the Internet Movie Database
Montenegro
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%20Weather%20Observer%20Program | The Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) is a network of privately owned electronic weather stations concentrated in the United States but also located in over 150 countries. Network participation allows volunteers with computerized weather stations to send automated surface weather observations to the National Weather Service (NWS) by way of the Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS). This data is then used by the Rapid Refresh (RAP) forecast model to produce short term forecasts (3 to 12 hours into the future) of conditions across the contiguous United States. Observations are also redistributed to the public.
Origin
The CWOP was originally set up by amateur radio operators experimenting with packet radio, but now includes Internet-only connected stations, as well as amateur radio Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) stations. , more than 13,000 stations worldwide report regularly to the network.
Description
The Citizen Weather Observer Program is a program to collect surface weather observations from thousands of privately operated weather stations, into the FindU database, and forward it to the Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS), operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
FindU
The FindU database is a set of privately operated Internet servers, run by Steve Dimse, (amateur radio callsign K4HG). Numerous IGates (Internet Gateways) receive broadcast amateur radio Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) packets containing position and short messages (including telemetry such weather observations), and forward the data to the FindU servers via APRS-IS on the Internet. Weather observations may be polled directly from FindU, and the data is forwarded to MADIS for ingest. APRS messages may also originate directly from computers on the Internet without being broadcast on the radio waves.
MADIS
The Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) integrates weather observations from numerous different sources, including CWOP via FindU, and drives a number of different weather forecasting products. Incoming data are subjected to temporal and spatial consistency checks, and quality flags are stored with the data, to enable users to access the most trustworthy data possible. From MADIS, CWOP data is also re-distributed to other users such as Mesowest.
Ease of sending data
The amateur radio connection makes it inexpensive and simple for an individual to install consumer-level weather sensors at a point of interest, connect them to a radio transmitter via a simple APRS modem, and start sharing weather reports with forecasters worldwide. Solar power and radio transmission makes it possible to drop completely self-contained weather sensors on unattended and wireless sites, allowing for a dense set of sample measurements to be collected.
See also
Mesonet
Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)
Cooperative Observer Program
Significant Weather Observ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDP%20spoofing | In computer networking, CDP spoofing is a technique employed to compromise the operation of network devices that use Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) for discovering neighboring devices. CDP spoofing is a network security threat that can be mitigated by taking precautionary measures.
History
CDP was created by Cisco in 1994. Its original intent was to make it easier to find other devices on a network. CDP may be used between Cisco routers, switches and other network equipment to advertise their software version, capabilities and IP address.
The two versions of CDP are CDPv1 and CDPv2:
CDPv1 could discover basic information between networking devices. These devices were only able to receive information about a networking device that was directly connected to it.
CDPv2 includes more utilities such as checking if errors were made while configuring two devices (e.g.; configuring mismatched native VLANs).
Usage
CDP is enabled by default on all Cisco routers, switches and servers. The protocol can be disabled across a network; however, if it is disabled on an interface and the encapsulation is changed, it will be re-enabled on that interface. The protocol is most often used to aid network administrators by finding and discovering devices easier. When devices are discovered easier, it can help with certain network problems, device arrangement, network management and other networking tasks.
Although these can be beneficial features, attackers can accumulate this information about the devices, which leaves the device's type, IP address and IOS version exposed and vulnerable. Attackers can use this information to mimic other devices, steal information and create other various network problems.
Popeskic recommends disabling CDP on the entire device, rather than just the interfaces, to fully mitigate the threat of CDP Spoofing or attacks through CDP. Some suggest disabling CDP if it is not in use on the device or if it is not a necessity for the device.
Requirements
CDP will only function when a packet contains the Subnetwork Access Protocol (SNAP) header. The interface must also support SNAP, for CDP to work on a router, as well.
CDP must have the device's interfaces directly connected, otherwise, CDP cannot detect nor send out advertisements to the other device.
CDP can only be used between Cisco devices. If a connection between a pair consists of only one Cisco device, it can only use the vendor neutral protocol: Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP).
Commands
Although CDP is enabled by default, if disabled, it can be re-enabled globally (or on all interfaces) with the command: (config)# cdp run
To disable it globally:(config)# no cdp run
To enable it on certain interface(s):(config-if)# cdp enable
To disable it on certain interface(s):(config-if)# no cdp enable
In a table, to display whether or not a device has established a connection between another device or devices:(device name)# show cdp neighbors
Note: This command will show the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20station%20%28Pittsburgh%20Regional%20Transit%29 | Library is a station on Pittsburgh Regional Transit's light rail network, located in the Library neighborhood of South Park, Pennsylvania. It is the southern terminus of the Silver Line (formerly the Library branch of the Blue Line). A 430 space park and ride lot is located on the premises, drawing travelers from both South Park and Pittsburgh's suburbs in Washington County, located just to the south. The station is named for the Library neighborhood in which it resides, despite the name, no lending library is near the station.
History
The Pittsburgh Railways interurban line from Charleroi to Pittsburgh was opened through South Park on September 12, 1903, with passengers changing at Castle Shannon to continue their journey to Downtown via the Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad. At this time, the Simmons stop was established to serve Library. In 1953, the interurban line was abandoned and cut back to Library, with a turnaround loop built at Simmons for the single-ended PCC's that operated on the line. In the late 1980s, new light rail vehicles began to use the line. These new cars had larger, articulated bodies, and were thus unable to negotiate the loop. Moreover, these cars were double-ended, eliminating the need for such turn-around facilities. In 2004, the loop was removed and a new, larger station was built to better accommodate the light rail cars.
References
External links
Port Authority T Stations Listings
Station from Google Maps Street View
Port Authority of Allegheny County stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1953
Silver Line (Pittsburgh) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCTS | DCTS may refer to:
Defence Centre of Training Support, a UK defence unit
Dartmouth College Timesharing System, a renamed version of the DTSS computer operating system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20optical%20data%20storage | 3D optical data storage is any form of optical data storage in which information can be recorded or read with three-dimensional resolution (as opposed to the two-dimensional resolution afforded, for example, by CD).
This innovation has the potential to provide petabyte-level mass storage on DVD-sized discs (120mm). Data recording and readback are achieved by focusing lasers within the medium. However, because of the volumetric nature of the data structure, the laser light must travel through other data points before it reaches the point where reading or recording is desired. Therefore, some kind of nonlinearity is required to ensure that these other data points do not interfere with the addressing of the desired point.
No commercial product based on 3Doptical data storage has yet arrived on the mass market, although several companies are actively developing the technology and claim that it may become available 'soon'.
Overview
Current optical data storage media, such as the CD and DVD store data as a series of reflective marks on an internal surface of a disc. In order to increase storage capacity, it is possible for discs to hold two or even more of these data layers, but their number is severely limited since the addressing laser interacts with every layer that it passes through on the way to and from the addressed layer. These interactions cause noise that limits the technology to approximately 10layers. 3D optical data storage methods circumvent this issue by using addressing methods where only the specifically addressed voxel (volumetric pixel) interacts substantially with the addressing light. This necessarily involves nonlinear data reading and writing methods, in particular nonlinear optics.
3D optical data storage is related to (and competes with) holographic data storage. Traditional examples of holographic storage do not address in the third dimension, and are therefore not strictly "3D", but more recently 3D holographic storage has been realized by the use of microholograms. Layer-selection multilayer technology (where a multilayer disc has layers that can be individually activated e.g. electrically) is also closely related.
As an example, a prototypical 3D optical data storage system may use a disc that looks much like a transparent DVD. The disc contains many layers of information, each at a different depth in the media and each consisting of a DVD-like spiral track. In order to record information on the disc a laser is brought to a focus at a particular depth in the media that corresponds to a particular information layer. When the laser is turned on it causes a photochemical change in the media. As the disc spins and the read/write head moves along a radius, the layer is written just as a DVD-R is written. The depth of the focus may then be changed and another entirely different layer of information written. The distance between layers may be 5 to 100 micrometers, allowing >100 layers of information to be stored on a single d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20memory | 3D memory may refer to:
3D optical data storage
Three-dimensional memory cells
V-NAND (3D NAND) flash memory
3D integrated circuit (3D IC) memory chips |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Programming%20Specialist%20Group | The Advanced Programming Specialist Group (APSG) is a Specialist Group (SG) of the British Computer Society (BCS). It held its first meeting, when it was referred to as "BCS Study Group No. 5", at Bishop's House, High Holborn, London WC1, England on 17 December 1959. It has met continuously in London since then, generally on the second Thursday of the months from October to May each year.
APSG seeks to explore new developments in programming languages, runtime environments, programming tools, multicore processors, mobile platforms and end user interfaces which are important to today's real world applications.
Past chairmen of the Group were Ewart Willey (first chairman 1959–1974), Prof. Peter King (1974–1980), Peter Prowse (1980–1982), Prof. John Florentin (1982–2010), Prof. Geoff Sharman (2010-2014), and Rob Packwood (2014-2016). The current chairman is Prof Algirdas Pakštas.
From time to time, the Group holds joint meetings with other BCS SGs and Branches, for example:
February 2013, with Enterprise Architecture SG, What is Enterprise Architecture?
January 2013, with Formal Aspects SG (BCS-FACS), Industrial Uses of Formal Methods
May 2010, with Fortran SG, Parallel Programming in Fortran with Coarrays
January 2010 with Computer Conservation Society, The 50th Anniversary of the publication of the Algol 60 Report
October 2006, with Computer Conservation Society, The first 35+ years of IBM Hursley software
November 2005, with Formal Aspects SG (BCS-FACS), Separation Logic
References
External links
APSG website
Organizations established in 1959
1959 establishments in the United Kingdom
Software engineering organizations
BCS Specialist Groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Uruguayan%20films | A list of films produced in Uruguay.
1923-1940
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
References
External links
Uruguayan film at the Internet Movie Database
Uruguay
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy | Samy may refer to:
Samy (director) (active from 2006), Indian film director in Tamil cinema
Samy (XSS), a computer worm
Samy (Mobile Marketing)
Saamy, a 2003 Indian film
Saamy Square, its 2018 sequel
Sami (disambiguation)
Sammy (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDMF | In cryptography, CDMF (Commercial Data Masking Facility) is an algorithm developed at IBM in 1992 to reduce the security strength of the 56-bit DES cipher to that of 40-bit encryption, at the time a requirement of U.S. restrictions on export of cryptography. Rather than a separate cipher from DES, CDMF constitutes a key generation algorithm, called key shortening. It is one of the cryptographic algorithms supported by S-HTTP.
Algorithm
Like DES, CDMF accepts a 64-bit input key, but not all bits are used.
The algorithm consists of the following steps:
Clear bits 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64 (ignoring these bits as DES does).
XOR the result with its encryption under DES using the key 0xC408B0540BA1E0AE.
Clear bits 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 40, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 56, 64.
Encrypt the result under DES using the key 0xEF2C041CE6382FE6.
The resulting 64-bit data is to be used as a DES key. Due to step 3, a brute force attack needs to test only 240 possible keys.
References
, IBM's patent on CDMF
ISO/IEC9979-0005 Register Entry (PDF), registered October 29, 1994
, defines S-HTTP
Cryptographic algorithms
Data Encryption Standard
Key management
Block ciphers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail%20%27n%27%20Scale | Nail 'n' Scale, known as in Japan, is a puzzle video game developed by Data East for the Game Boy. A combination of the video game Jump'n Run and various puzzle games, it has a fast-paced side-scrolling gameplay.
Gameplay
In Nail 'n' Scale, the player controls Spike, a skilled climber. The player works the way through levels of heightening difficulty. In each level, the player uses climbing spikes to navigate through the level to the door at the end of each level. The climbing spikes are also used to break bricks that block the path. There are 51 levels in all, with a boss on every tenth level.
Each boss has his own unique weakness that must be exposed by the player before he can be defeated. While the first boss is not very intimidating, each subsequent one becomes more frightening. Terrifying monsters can be defeated by firing the nail in either a horizontal or a vertical direction. Players can be killed by their own exploding spikes, acquired throughout levels after the first boss. There are several exits on some levels, but only one functions. Only the "true" exit permits access to the next level.
The final boss of the video game is an evil dragon named Lore, who lives in his dragon's lair. Players can continue from where they left off after a "game over", providing that they never turn off their Game Boy.
Special items
Magical door: Completes the level regardless of the player's location.
White spike: A spike that will not break the brick when jumped on.
Exploding spike: A spike that explodes after a short period of time, destroying the brick it is fired into, provided that the block could be broken normally.
Reception
AllGame rated the game 3 stars out of 5. The gaming magazine Power Play gave it a 61% rating in its March 1991 issue.
External links
Nail 'N Scale at GameFAQs
"Scale the wall or take the fall?" at Gaming Sanctuary
Nail 'n Scale at The Game Boy Database
1990 video games
Data East video games
Game Boy-only games
Platformers
Puzzle video games
Side-scrolling video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Game Boy games
Video games about dragons
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20Index | Knowledge Index may refer to:
Dialog (online database)
KEI or Knowledge Economic Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola%20Guarino | Nicola Guarino (born 1954, in Messina) is an Italian computer scientist and researcher in the area of Formal Ontology for Information Systems, and the head of the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), part of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Trento.
Work
Guarino's research interests are in the area of Artificial Intelligence, predominantly in Knowledge Representation. He may be best known in the Computer Science community for developing OntoClean, the first methodology for formal ontological analysis, with his colleague Chris Welty.
Knowledge Representation
He is arguably one of the founders of the field of ontology in computer science, but undoubtedly one of its most outspoken proponents. While most of the AI and KR researchers focused on reasoning algorithms and semantics of representation languages, and considered the actual knowledge expressed in these languages and reasoned over by these algorithms to be unimportant (just examples), Guarino spearheaded a counter-movement to study how knowledge should be expressed. The rallying cry of this movement undoubted came from the well-known "Naive Physics Manifesto" paper by Patrick J. Hayes.
Knowledge-based systems
Guarino's work in the early 1990s began to take shape as he applied his engineering background to understand how knowledge-based systems were built and, most importantly, how the knowledge was acquired. He was a familiar face in the early Knowledge Acquisition Workshops where he was best known for pointing to himself and saying, "I am not a class!" This remark referred to what Guarino believes to be an important and fundamental distinction between universals and particulars. While some representation systems allow classes to themselves be instances of other classes, and in certain contexts that makes sense, there are some instances which can never be classes (these are particulars).
Formal Ontology in Information Systems conference
His emphasis on formal rigor in specifying the type of knowledge that was eventually to be called "ontologies" by computer scientists, led him to the field of formal ontology in philosophy, where he began to study the metaphysics literature, focusing on the work of such notables as Quine, Strawson, and especially Simons.
Guarino founded the Formal Ontology in Information Systems conference in 1998, a recurring academic conference focused on ontologies themselves, not the languages they are represented in. He has worked tirelessly to promote research in ontology and maintain a level of scientific rigor.
References
External links
Faculty Homepage
1954 births
Living people
Italian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimlet | Gimlet may refer to:
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Gimlet Media, a media network that produces journalistic and narrative podcasts
Gimlet (Transformers), a fictional character
Captain Lorrington "Gimlet" King, a fictional character in a series of novels by W. E. Johns
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United Kingdom
Gimlet Rock, Wales, United Kingdom
United States
Gimlet, Idaho, an unincorporated town in the United States
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Gimlet Bridge, a Pegram truss bridge in Idaho, United States
Gimlet Creek (Missouri), United States
Gimlet Creek (South Dakota), United States
Technology
Gimlet (rocket), an air-to-air unguided rocket
Gimlet (tool), a hand tool for drilling small holes
SA-16 Gimlet, a surface-to-air missile
Other uses
Gimlet (cocktail), a cocktail typically made of gin or vodka and lime juice
Gimlet (eucalypt), Eucalyptus (plant) in the series Contortae
Gimlet (restaurant)
21st Infantry Regiment (United States), a unit in the United States Army that is nicknamed Gimlets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%20World | Leonardo World was a television network, dedicated to Italian communities abroad, and owned by the Italian company Gruppo Sitcom. Its content was about economics, culture, territory, politics, innovation and technology.
Its TV programs included the best format from Gruppo Sitcom channels: Alice, Leonardo, Marcopolo & Nuvolari. Main topics are: food and wine, fashion, style, trends, design, Italian territory, and art.
TV programs were broadcast in Italian, Spanish and English.
Leonardo World was launched in several countries: United States, Canada, South America, Australia, Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Malaysia.
Defunct television channels
Italian-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Welty | Christopher A. Welty is an American computer scientist, who works at Google Research in New York. He is best known for his work on ontologies, in the Semantic Web, and on IBM's Watson. While on sabbatical from Vassar College from 1999 to 2000, he collaborated with Nicola Guarino on OntoClean; he was co-chair of the W3C Rule Interchange Format working group from 2005 to 2009.
Background and education
Welty is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (RPI) where he worked for the Free Software Foundation on version 16-18 of GNU Emacs as well as the formation of NYSERNet during the emergence of the Internet. This synergy of interests made him an early public figure in AI, as he moderated the "NL-KR Digest" and the corresponding comp.ai.nlang-know-rep newsgroup (now defunct), which was at the time the widest vehicle for dissemination of announcements and moderated discussion in the natural language and knowledge representation communities. He later became the editor in chief of intelligence Magazine (sic), published by ACM. This magazine was published in place of the SIGART Bulletin from 1999 to 2001.
Welty began to make his first scientific contributions in the early 1990s, when he emerged as a leading figure in the Automated Software Engineering community, whose on-line bibliography lists his 1995 paper as one of the best papers that year (this would be the year he finished his PhD), becoming in each successive year the program chair, general chair, and steering committee chair of that conference.
His PhD work focused on extending the work of Prem Devanbu at AT&T on Lassie with a better developed ontology. After his PhD, he moved to Vassar College, where his work shifted away from Software Engineering and towards ontology. In 1998, he published seminal work on the analysis of subjects in library information systems, dispelling the widely held myth at the time (which is now resurfacing) that subject taxonomies are ontologies.
OntoClean
During 1999-2000, while on sabbatical from Vassar College in Padova, Italy, he formed a productive collaboration with Nicola Guarino to develop OntoClean, a notable and widely recognized contribution in Artificial Intelligence, specifically Ontologies. According to Thompson-ISI, work on OntoClean was the most cited of academic papers on Ontology. OntoClean was important as it was the first formal methodology for ontology engineering, applying scientific principles to a field whose practice was mostly art.
Semantic Web
Although an active participant in the Semantic Web movement from the start, it was only after he moved to IBM Research, that he formally joined the W3C Web Ontology Language working group, as a co-editor of the OWL Guide.
From 2004-2005, at the end of the OWL WG, Welty led the Ontology Engineering and Patterns efforts in the Semantic Web Best Practices WG, helping to edit several important notes on using OWL, as well as the first W3C ontology for part-whole relations and time.
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