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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron%20Williams | Cameron Williams (born 18 February 1963 in Emerald, Queensland ) is an Australian television journalist and presenter, most notably with the Nine Network.
Williams has previously been a sport presenter on Nine News Sydney from Sunday to Thursday, co-hosted Weekend Today and been sports presenter on Today. He was also a roving reporting at the Australian Open for the network's coverage.
Career
Williams's journalism career began in 1984 with a cadetship at The Courier-Mail newspaper in Brisbane. From there he moved to The Australian offices in Melbourne, where he wrote sports features and columns before joining the Seven Network in 1988. Apart from his role as a sports presenter on Seven News, Williams occasionally hosted Sportsworld. He was a presenter for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, where he called Matt Ryan's equestrian double gold for Australia.
In 1996, he signed as the face of Fox Sports, anchoring NRL On Fox, Dally M Awards, Super 12 Rugby, Wimbledon, Winter Olympics, the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix and Fox Sports News. In 2001, amid scandal, Fox Sports declined to renew his contract.
After this, Williams was a breakfast announcer at 2HD in Newcastle. Williams also owns a Newcastle modelling and talent agency, Models and Actors.
Nine Network
Williams was the official sports editor/presenter on the Nine Network's breakfast programme, Today from January 2006 until December 2010. He also occasionally presented the Nine Network's coverage of horse racing, swimming and other sporting events.
In 2010, Williams joined Nine News Sydney as Friday and Saturday sport presenter replacing Tim Sheridan.
In January 2011, Cameron was replaced by Ben Fordham on Today, he will now concentrate on Weekend Today.
Cameron presented Nine's coverage of Friday Night Football from 2013 to 2015. He also hosted the network's coverage of the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
In February 2016, Williams announced his resignation from the Nine Network.
In December 2016, he rejoined the Nine Network as sport editor on Nine News Sydney following the retirement of veteran sports presenter Ken Sutcliffe.
In March 2022, Williams announced his resignation from the Nine Network, so he can focus on his health and to pursue other opportunities.
References
External links
Official website
Nine News presenters
Living people
1963 births
People from Emerald, Queensland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Marick | Alexandra "Alex" Devane Marick is a fictional character from All My Children, an American soap opera on the ABC network. The role was portrayed by Finola Hughes from 1999 to 2001. The character is the twin sister of fan favorite General Hospital character Anna Devane, who Hughes also brought to All My Children from 2001 to 2003. In 2017, Hughes reprised the role on General Hospital, when Alex began posing as Anna, and continued in the role until 2021.
Casting
Finola Hughes was cast as Alexandra Devane in 1999. At first, it was unknown what character she would portray. Alexandra debuted on July 23, 1999. Hughes left in the fall of 2000 for maternity leave and returned in February 2001. Alex left on July 9, 2001, to Budapest, Hungary.
Hughes reprised her role as Alexandra on General Hospital, beginning April 5, 2017, masquerading as Anna; the duplicity wasn't revealed until May 12, 2017. Hughes ended her reprisal role of Alexandra on June 8, 2017. Hughes reprised the role from March 18 to 21, 2019.
In 2020, Hughes once again reprised the role of Alex while portraying Anna from October 30 to November 9.
Storylines
Alexandra and new husband, Dimitri Marick, were headed back to town from London to break the news of their marriage. Before they could tell the good news, Dimitri fell ill and subsequently died. She elected to remain hidden at the airport while Dimitri and his loved ones traveled to Seaview Hospital to see if there was anything the doctors could do to resurrect Dimitri.
Alex finally made her presence known when Edmund Grey asked that an autopsy be done on his brother to determine the cause of his death. Alex stepped forward and announced an autopsy would not be performed. Edmund said he was Dimitri's brother and would decide what was to be done. It was then Alex dropped the bombshell that she was the new Mrs Marick. Erica Kane did not take well to the news Dimitri had found another lover.
Many doubted Alex's sincerity and feelings for Dimitri, but Peggy and Brooke English both could see the affection in her eyes. When alone, Alex would reflect on happier times with Dimitri. They had made plans to start a family together and re-settle in Pine Valley. There was also talk of Alexandra agreeing to do something quite odd for Dimitri, but what this was not revealed. Alex continued to act strangely to her husband's death, refusing to share the medical report findings and then ordering a closed casket funeral.
Edmund managed to get the casket open, and found nothing inside. Alex admitted Dimitri was still alive, dying from a debilitating illness. He'd begged her to not let his friends and family see him so weak and to stage his death instead. Edmund refused to accept his brother writing off survival so quickly and persuaded Alex and Dimitri to try stem cell therapy to save his life. Amazingly, the treatments began to work, but one day Dimitri wandered near the ocean. His dressing down was found at the shore, and his loved ones could only a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Km/h%20%28TV%20series%29 | km/h is a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on TVA, a French language television network in Quebec, from 1998 to 2006.
The series starred Michel Barrette as Denis, a father and husband who worked as an automobile journalist, and who was regularly drawn into madcap and foolish situations by his best friend Germain (Gildor Roy). The cast also included Chantal Baril, Marilyse Bourque, Francis de Passillé, Gilbert Turp, Nathalie Claude, Sonia Vachon and Robert Brouillette.
The series ended production in 2006, although episodes continued to reair on TVA's Prise 2. Roy subsequently wrote a screenplay for a potential feature film adaptation, although no film was produced or released.
References
External links
TVA (Canadian TV network) original programming
Television shows set in Quebec
1998 Canadian television series debuts
1990s Canadian sitcoms
2006 Canadian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Heroic%20Age%20episodes | This article is a list of episodes of the anime Heroic Age, which first aired on April 1, 2007. It is currently airing on Japanese networks such as TV Tokyo and TV Osaka.
The story focuses on a boy called Age, who has a powerful alternate form called Bellcross. Age happens to be a Nodos, which is a being entrusted with an essence of the Hero Tribe, a once powerful race. After Princess Dhianeila of the Iron Tribe, or mankind, visits his planet to ask for his help in defeating the Silver Tribe, who threatens the Iron Tribe's existence, he begins to fulfill the contract assigned to him by his "fathers", the great Golden Tribe.
Episodes
References
Heroic Age |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Oak%20Park | White Oak Park is a county park in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a part of the county's network of nine distinct parks.
It is located southeast of downtown Pittsburgh in White Oak, Pennsylvania.
References
External links
Parks in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Parks in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
County parks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20159001%E2%80%93160000 |
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| 159011 Radomyshl || || || October 7, 2004 || Andrushivka || Andrushivka Obs. || GER || align=right | 2.9 km ||
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBTN-FM | WBTN-FM (94.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Bennington, Vermont. The station is owned by Vermont Public, and is an affiliate of their News and Information network. The station signed on as WHGC in 1979, airing an Adult Contemporary format. In 1990, the format was flipped to Album Rock, and the station's motto was "The Heart of Rock". In 1995, the format was changed to Top 40 as "The Mix", and the call letters were later changed to WBTN-FM in 1997. In 1999, the station was purchased by Vermont Public Radio as part of its effort to build a two-channel network. While WAMC in Albany, New York has long claimed Bennington as part of its primary coverage area, VPR's purchase of WBTN gave this part of Vermont access to Vermont-based public radio programming for the first time.
References
External links
BTN-FM
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 1978
1978 establishments in Vermont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Ici%20Radio-Canada%20T%C3%A9l%C3%A9 | This is a list of television programs broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's French language television network, Ici Radio-Canada Télé. For programs on the CBC's English network, see List of programs broadcast by CBC Television.
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0340
14, rue de Galais (1954-1957)
19-2 (2011-2015)
30 vies (2011-2016)
3600 secondes d'extase
A
À cause de mon oncle
Albator, le corsaire de l'espace
ALF
Animaniacs
Arthur
Astro Boy
Au nom de la loi (2005)
Aux portes du cauchemar
Au pays de l'arc-en-ciel
L'auberge du chien noir
Les Aventures de Seaspray
B
Bagatelle
Ballades et chansons
La Bande à Ovide
Barbapapa
Beau temps, mauvais temps
Beautés désespérées
Les Beaux Dimanches (1966-2004)
Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut (1956-1970)
Bob l'éponge
Bobino
Bonjour Sesame (1975-1976)
La bonne aventure
Les Bougon
Les Boys
Les Brigades du Tigre
Les Brûlés
Bugs Bunny
Bye Bye
C
C.A.
Les Cadets de la forêt
Canada Vignettes
Candy
Capitaine Caverne
Catherine
Ce soir, on chante
C'est comme ça que je t'aime
Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir
Chartrand et Simonne
Cher Oncle Bill
Les Chiboukis
Cineastes de la faune
Cirques du Monde
Columbo
Conseil-express
Les Coqueluches
Cosmos: 1999
Les Coulisses du pouvoir
Coup d'oeil
La Course destination monde
Cover Girl (2005)
Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe
D
D'Amour et d'eau fraiche
D'hier à demain
Daktari
Dallas
Daniel Boone
Déclic
Défi
Découverte
De ville en ville
Demetan, la Petite Grenouille
Discussions avec mes parents
Dre Grey, leçons d'anatomie
Du coeur au ventre
Duplessis
E
Empire, Inc.
Les Enfants du 47A
Enquête
L'épicerie
Et Dieu créa... Laflaque
Un été dans le grand nord
Les étoiles filantes
F
La facture
La famille Plouffe
Fanfreluche
Félix et Ciboulette
La Femme Bionique
La femme d'aujourd'hui
Fifi Brindacier
Les Filles de Caleb
Les Filles du Ciel
La fine cuisine d'Henri Bernard
Fleurs d'amour, fleurs d'amitié
La Fosse aux lionne
Fraggle Rock
Francoeur
Le Fric Show
La Fureur
G
Galactica
Un gars, une fille
Génies en herbe
Goldorak
Grand-Papa
Grands rires
La Grosse vie
H
Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin
Les Héros du samedi
Une heure sur terre
Homme d'araignée: la nouvelle série de dessin animé
I
Il était une fois... l'Homme
L'Incroyable Hulk
Infoman
Les Invincibles
J
Jamais deux sans toi
La Job
Les Jordache
Le Jour du Seigneur
K
Kif-Kif
L
Lâcher prise (2017–present)
Lance et Compte
Lassie
Lingo
M
M pour musique
Madame est servie
Madame et son fantôme
Magazine Culturel
La Maison-Bleue
La Maison de Ouimzie
Marcus Welby
Marguerite Volant
Le match des étoiles
Moi et l'autre
Le moment de vérité
Mona le vampire
Le Monde en liberté
Montreal Pop Concerts
Les Moomins
Le Muppet Show
Les Muppets
Le Mutant
N
Nic et Pic
Le nouveau show
Nouvelle adresse
O
L'Odyssée sous-marine de Jacques Cousteau
Omerta
P
Paquet voleur
Les Parent
Passe-Partout
Passion sports
Patrouill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Formylmethionine%20%28data%20page%29 |
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlers%20Cabin%20Park | Settlers Cabin Park is a county park that is located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a part of the county's 12,000-acre (49 km2) network of nine distinct parks.
History
Archaeologists from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History helped identify the 1780s log house that gave the park its name. The themes of the eleven picnic groves in this park are derived from the names of Indigenous peoples of the Americas: Algonquin, Seneca, Apache, Tomahawk, etc.
Geography and notable features
This American park is situated west of downtown Pittsburgh in Collier, North Fayette, and Robinson Townships.
Settlers Cabin has the most heavily used of the county's three wave pools. The location along the major route to the airport makes it accessible, and swimmers from Ohio and West Virginia can easily reach the site. A diving is also available.
Gallery
References
External links
Settlers Cabin Park website
Parks in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Parks in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
County parks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison%20Hills%20Park | Harrison Hills Park is a county park in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is a part of the county's network of nine distinct parks.
It is situated northeast of Pittsburgh in Harrison Township. The park features an overlook of the Allegheny River and offers walking, hiking, and bridle trails. The Harrison Hills Park Environmental Learning Center is open on weekends.
Trails
The eastern trailhead of the Rachel Carson Trail is just north of the park's entrance. The trail traverses the park's eastern perimeter along the edge of a bluff overlooking the Allegheny River. It crosses Rachel Carson Run, via a wooden arch bridge above Rachel Carson Falls, which meanders below the Ox Roast grove.
In early 2016 a North American beaver (Castor canadensis) took up residence in South Pound in the park, and appears to be removing non-native Russian olive trees, freeing up room for fishermen on the shore.
References
Further reading
External links
Harrison Hills Park
Friends of Harrison Hills
Parks in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Parks in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Nature centers in Pennsylvania
County parks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer%20Lakes%20Park | Deer Lakes Park is a county park in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is a part of the county's network of nine distinct parks.
The park is sited 15 miles northeast of downtown Pittsburgh in Frazer and West Deer townships. Deer Lakes already had a large man-made lake, and during its development two other lakes were added. The lakes are spring fed, and construction of dams and settling basins create a park ideal for fishing. An 18-hole disc golf course with skill-respective tees is featured in the park, and is one of the highest-rated courses in the United States.
Allegheny County is currently evaluating proposals to lease natural gas rights for high volume hydraulic fracturing. This would be the first Allegheny County park to be leased for that practice. County residents have expressed worry concerning the potential dangers of leasing a public park for an industrial purpose, citing an increase in truck traffic, air pollution, water pollution, decreased property value, and potential for catastrophic events, (e.g., an explosion), as possible hazards.
References
External links
Parks in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Parks in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
County parks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coghead | Coghead was a web application company based out of Redwood City, California. The company offered a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications. Applications were built around custom data collections and were typically designed to facilitate management of, and collaboration on, business data. Examples of Coghead's "gallery" applications include project management, simple Customer relationship management, bug tracking and extreme programming.
Coghead's service was available through a limited-access beta program before "going live" for free trial accounts in April, 2007. Coghead launched a paid subscription plans in June, 2007.
On February 19, 2009, Coghead announced that its intellectual property assets (its 'service') had been acquired by SAP AG (NYSE:SAP).
Product
Coghead's product was a fully hosted environment for building, accessing, and maintaining applications and the associated business data. Like other so-called "Web 2.0" companies, Coghead built its product around the idea of "software as a service".
The product was intended to allow users to design a range of applications from scratch using only a drag and drop, WYSIWYG user interface, with very limited scripting or coding (if any) required.
Coghead also offered its paid subscribers the ability to develop and publish "Coglets," web forms that allowed site visitors to view data in, or submit data into, the host's Coghead database.
On February 19, 2009, Coghead announced that SAP AG had acquired the Coghead service through an asset purchase.
The SAP asset purchase closed in the 1st Quarter 2009. Immediately upon closing the asset purchase, the public-facing service was taken off-line by SAP as they prepared to integrate the Coghead code with other SAP assets. This forced many of Coghead's customers to find alternative solutions.
References
External links
saasmania: "Coghead closed his doors"
TechCrunch: "Coghead Goes Live: Build Applications Visually"
CNET/Webware.com: "Top 5 From Web 2.0 Expo" featuring Coghead
Business 2.0: "The Disruptors... 11 important innovations"
GigaOM: "Coghead, A New Web App Machine"
Guy Kawasaki discusses Coghead on his blog
Coghead 2.0: Built on Adobe Flex, Hosted by Amazon
Coghead moves UI over to Adobe Flex
Coghead on AWS: The SaaS Ecosystem Expands
Coghead Flips to Adobe Flash and Amazon EC2
Web applications
Privately held companies based in California
SAP SE acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellis%20quantization | Trellis quantization is an algorithm that can improve data compression in DCT-based encoding methods. It is used to optimize residual DCT coefficients after motion estimation in lossy video compression encoders such as Xvid and x264. Trellis quantization reduces the size of some DCT coefficients while recovering others to take their place. This process can increase quality because coefficients chosen by Trellis have the lowest rate-distortion ratio. Trellis quantization effectively finds the optimal quantization for each block to maximize the PSNR relative to bitrate. It has varying effectiveness depending on the input data and compression method.
References
VirtualDub/Xvid guide mentioning Trellis quantization
FFMPEGx option documentation
Trellis explanation and pseudocode by the x264-author
MPEG
Data compression
Video compression |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR%20on%20CBS | NASCAR on CBS was the branding formerly used for broadcasts of NASCAR series races produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network in the United States from 1960 to 2000.
History of coverage
Races covered by CBS
Notes:
1. The 1998 Pepsi 400 at Daytona was scheduled to be broadcast by CBS, but due to wildfires occurring in the immediate Daytona Beach area, the race was postponed until later in the season, and the broadcast rights were moved to CBS' cable partner, TNN.
2. The Gatorade 125's were run on Thursday, but CBS would air them via tape-delay on Saturdays before or after the Busch Series race.
Pre-1979
The very first NASCAR races to ever be shown on television were broadcast by CBS. In February 1960, the network sent a "skeleton" production crew to Daytona Beach, Florida and the Daytona International Speedway to cover the Daytona 500's Twin 100 (now the Bluegreen Vacations Duel) qualifying races on February 12, 1960. The production crew also stayed to broadcast portions of the Daytona 500 itself, two days later. The event was hosted by John S. Palmer. CBS would continue to broadcast portions of races for the next 18 years, along with ABC and NBC.
1979 Daytona 500: The breakthrough
CBS Sports president Neal Pilson and motorsports editor Ken Squier believed that America would watch an entire stock car race live on television. Prior to 1979, television coverage of the Daytona 500 either began when the race was halfway over, or as an edited highlight package that aired a week later on ABC's Wide World of Sports. On February 18, 1979, CBS presented the first flag-to-flag coverage of the Daytona 500 (and 500-mile race to be broadcast live on national television in general). The Indianapolis 500 was only broadcast on tape delay that evening in this era; most races were broadcast only through the final quarter to half of the race, as was the procedure for ABC's Championship Car racing broadcasts; with the new CBS contract, the network and NASCAR agreed to a full live broadcast. That telecast introduced in-car and low-level track-side cameras, which has now become standard in all forms of automotive racing broadcasts. The race drew incredible ratings, in part due to the compelling action both on and off the track, and in part because a major snowstorm on the East Coast kept millions of viewers indoors.
1980s
1980 World 600
On May 29, 1980, CBS paid a fee of roughly US$50,000 or $100,000 to Charlotte Motor Speedway to broadcast the World 600 NASCAR stock-car race. Benny Parsons edged out Darrell Waltrip to win a grand prize of $44,850 in a race that was watched by perhaps 3.7 million viewers on the network.
1983 Daytona 500
During its coverage of the 1983 Daytona 500, CBS introduced an innovation which director Bob Fishman helped develop – a miniature, remote-controlled in-car camera called RaceCam. Fishman directed every Daytona 500 telecast on CBS, with the exception of 1992, 1994 and 1998 because Fishman was awa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20%26%20Investigation | Crime & Investigation (stylized as Crime + Investigation) is an American pay television channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between the Hearst Communications and the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company. The channel also broadcasts internationally.
The network airs mostly off-network reruns of crime dramas such as 24, Nash Bridges, and Hack, and the A&E crime documentary shows SWAT, Uncovered, The First 48, American Justice, The Big House and Vanished With Beth Holloway.
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2005
A&E Networks
English-language television stations in the United States
Crime television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With%20Lasers | With Lasers is a 2007 album by the band Bonde do Rolê. It was released on the Domino Records label. The album title is based on an Internet meme seen in the social network service Orkut, largely used by Communities: there are "with lasers" communities for everything (one notable exception being "Lasers with Chuck Norris" instead of the opposite, due to influence from the Chuck Norris Facts). "Solta o Frango" is featured in FIFA 08, the video game by EA Sports.
Track listing
"Dança do Zumbi" - 2:51
"Solta O Frango" - 2:15
"James Bonde" - 1:59
"Tieta" - 1:59
"Office Boy" - 2:29
"Marina do Bairro" - 2:14
"Divine Gosa" - 2:46
"Marina Gasolina" - 3:36
"Caminhao de Gas" - 2:20
"Geremia" - 2:44
"Quero te Amar" - 3:10
"Bondallica" - 2:04
References
2007 debut albums
Domino Recording Company albums
Bonde do Rolê albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20Sport | Sigma Sport is a German manufacturer of electronic sports equipment.
Products
Rox and Topline product lines of heart rate monitors, altimeters, and bike computers.
See also
Polar Electro
Garmin Forerunner
Watch brands
Neustadt an der Weinstraße |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS%20frequency%20bands | The UMTS frequency bands are radio frequencies used by third generation (3G) wireless Universal Mobile Telecommunications System networks. They were allocated by delegates to the World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC-92) held in Málaga-Torremolinos, Spain between 3 February 1992 and 3 March 1992. Resolution 212 (Rev.WRC-97), adopted at the World Radiocommunication Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland in 1997, endorsed the bands specifically for the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) specification by referring to S5.388, which states "The bands 1,885-2,025 MHz and 2,110-2,200 MHz are intended for use, on a worldwide basis, by administrations wishing to implement International Mobile Telecommunications 2000 (IMT-2000). Such use does not preclude the use of these bands by other services to which they are allocated. The bands should be made available for IMT-2000 in accordance with Resolution 212 (Rev. WRC-97)." To accommodate the reality that these initially defined bands were already in use in various regions of the world, the initial allocation has been amended multiple times to include other radio frequency bands.
UMTS-FDD frequency bands and channel bandwidths
From Tables 5.0 "UTRA FDD frequency bands" of the latest published version of the 3GPP TS 25.101, the following table lists the specified frequency bands of UMTS (FDD):
Deployments by region (UMTS-FDD)
The following table shows the standardized UMTS bands and their regional use. The main UMTS bands are in bold print.
Networks on UMTS-bands 1 and 8 are suitable for global roaming in ITU Regions 1, 2 (some countries) and 3.
Networks on UMTS bands 2 and 4 are suitable for roaming in ITU Region 2 (Americas) only.
Networks on UMTS band 5 are suitable for roaming in ITU Regions 2 and 3 (single countries).
UMTS-TDD frequency bands and channel bandwidths
UMTS-TDD technology is standardized for usage in the following bands:
See also
3GPP
List of UMTS networks
Cellular frequencies
GSM frequency bands
LTE frequency bands
5G NR frequency bands
CDMA frequency bands
Mobile network code
Roaming
United States 2008 wireless spectrum auction
White spaces (radio)
References
External links
3GPP Specifications for group: R4 - Frequencies info for UMTS (TS 25.101/102/104/105)
Bandplans
Mobile telecommunications
UMTS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro%20Wah%20Lai%20Toi | Astro Wah Lai Toi () is a Cantonese Video on demand (Formerly from Cantonese TV Channel) owned and operated by Astro in partnership with Hong Kong's TVB. The channel offers mainly TVB programming, alongside some local content.
To satisfy a greater audience, selected programmes are available in dual audio, in which viewers can select either to watch the programme in Cantonese or Mandarin (or original language of the programme). Subtitles are also available with English, Bahasa Malaysia & Chinese languages by pressing the subtitle button.
History
Since the Malaysian government does not allow any television station to be operated by foreigners; Hong Kong's TVB collaborated with Astro to launch Astro Wah Lai Toi. It benefits over 100 million HK dollars every year from Astro by providing 85% programs on primetime slots. Moreover, TVB is the advertising agency of Astro Wah Lai Toi and offers counselling service for it.
Astro had been mistaken for holding an exclusive right as the sole pay-TV service in Malaysia to broadcast TVB programmes; rather, it holds such right to broadcast TVB programmes on the entirety of one channel which it runs.
About 80% of the channel programmes were mirrored by Astro Zhi Zun HD until it was renamed to Astro Wah Lai Toi HD on 6 October 2014.
Astro Wah Lai Toi is made available for NJOI Prepaid from 3 June 2015 onwards.
Starting 1 April 2020, Astro Wah Lai Toi HD will begin to be exclusively available via On demand (VOD) and On the GO. Some of the successors of Astro Wah Lai Toi HD are TVB Jade Malaysia (Channel 310) and Astro AOD HD (Channel 311, SD On Channel 351).
As of 1 May 2020, Astro Wah Lai Toi HD has been completely transitioned as On Demand channels, which include all of the channel's original series aired in complete boxsets.
Programming
Astro Wah Lai Toi started to air programmes that were used by TVB to fight against Asia Television Limited. The first show was Healing Souls which was outsourced by Asia Television Limited.
Astro Wah Lai Toi Drama Awards
Since 2004, Astro Wah Lai Toi have held Astro Wah Lai Toi Drama Awards every year. All the awards receivers are 100% voted by the audiences. Astro Wah Lai Toi selected the TVB dramas that were played that year and published the nominated list at an appropriate time. Usually the dramas Astro Wah Lai Toi played were the ones HK Jade played in the previous year. For instance, the dramas Astro Wah Lai Toi played in 2007 was the ones that have been played in 2006. The award was succeeded by My AOD Favourites Awards and TVB Star Awards Malaysia in 2010 and 2013, respectively. Furthermore, Astro Wah Lai Toi also holds many major events, such as Astro Star Quest, Miss Astro Chinese International Pageant, Astro Wah Lai Toi Drama Awards, etc.
Live programmes
Astro Wah Lai Toi broadcasts HK major live events, but all charity programmes held by TVB are broadcast live by another channel which is Astro On Demand.
Logos
External links
Astro Wah Lai Toi's official |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian%20Power | The Civilian Power or Citizens' Force (GS; ; Grazhdanskaya sila, GS) is a green political party in the Russian Federation. The organization was called the Network Party for Support of the Small and Middle Business in 2002, then renamed Free Russia in 2004, and in February 2007 changed to Civilian Power.
Members of the political council include:
Mikhail Barshchevsky
Valdis Pelsh
Tatyana Ustinova
Maxim Kononenko
Eduard Uspensky
The Party's names
Network Party for Support of the Small and Middle Business (RSP, 2002–2004)
Free Russia Party (PSR, 2004—2007)
Civilian Power (GS, 2007—2008)
All-Russian Public Organization "Civilian Forces" (OOO GS, 2008—2012)
Civilian Power (GS, 2012—)
History
The "Free Russia" party was created in 2004, based on small and medium-sized Russian businesses. On October 8, 2006, the party overtook the 7% barrier on the legislative elections in Novgorod District. In November 2006, the 6th party conference was held. On February 27, 2007, Mikhail Barshchevsky, the chairman and plenipotentiary of the High Council of the Russian government, held a press conference. This was in aid of the party principles of Civilian Power. In the middle of April 2007, an organizational conference was held.
The chairman of the High Council is plenipotentiary of the Government of Russia in Constitutional, Supreme and Highest Arbitral Courts Mikhail Barshchevsky (a member since December 2006). The chairman of the Federal Political Council − The founder of the party, businessman Alexander Ryavkin from 2014 - 2015 year was the vice governor of the Oryol region.
The party won 1.05% of votes in the 2007 elections, not breaking the 7% barrier, and thus no seats in duma.
Civilian Power supported Dmitri Medvedev as their candidate in the presidential election in 2008.
It merged with Union of Right Forces and the Democratic Party of Russia to form the Right Cause on 16 November 2008.
Civilian Power was again registered as a political party on 7 June 2012.
The party advocates the legalization of prostitution in Russia.
In the elections of 2014, the party won one seat in the regional parliament Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
Electoral results
In 2017, the Party announced that the only candidate whom the party will support is current president Vladimir Putin. for the 2018 Russian presidential election.
Presidential elections
Legislative elections
References
External links
Civilian Power, official site (in Russian)
2003 establishments in Russia
2008 disestablishments in Russia
2012 establishments in Russia
Green political parties
Green political parties in Russia
Political parties disestablished in 2008
Political parties established in 2003
Political parties established in 2012
Registered political parties in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus%20Eee%20PC | The ASUS Eee PC was a netbook computer line from Asus, and a part of the ASUS Eee product family. At the time of its introduction in late 2007, it was noted for its combination of a lightweight, Linux-based operating system, solid-state drive (SSD), and relatively low cost. Newer models added the options of Microsoft Windows operating system and rotating media hard disk drives (HDD), and initially retailed for up to 500 euros.
The first Eee PC was a milestone in the personal computer business, launching the netbook category of small, low-cost laptops in the West (in Japan, subnotebooks had long been a staple in computing). According to Asus, the name Eee derives from "the three Es", an abbreviation of its advertising slogan for the device: "Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play".
In January 2013, ASUS officially ended production of their Eee PC series, citing declining sales due to consumers favoring tablets and Ultrabooks over netbooks. However, they subsequently restarted the line with the release of the EeeBook series in 2015.
History
Eee 700 series
ASUS announced two Eee PC models at Computex Taipei 2007: the 701 and the 1001. The 701 base model Eee PC 4G was released on 16 October 2007 in Taiwan. Three additional models followed.
Both the price and the size of the device are small in comparison with similar ultra-mobile PCs. The Eee series is a response to the XO-1 notebook from the One Laptop per Child initiative. At the Intel Developer Forum 2007, Asus demonstrated the Classmate PC and the Eee PC, and listed specifications for four models of the Eee PC.
In some countries, the products have the marketing names EeePC 8G, 4G, 4G Surf, and 2G Surf, though in other countries the machines are still designated by the model numbers 700 and 701. The 4G Surf uses socketed RAM but some revisions do not have a door to access the slot.
ASUS released a version of the Eee PC with Microsoft Windows XP pre-installed in January 2008. In Japan, the version is known as the 4G-X.
Some early 700-series models drained the battery approximately 10% per day when the unit was completely powered off and not plugged in, thus emptying the battery even when not in use.
User modifications
Some users of the 701 physically modified the machine to replace the 4 GB solid state drive.
The 8 GB versions of the 700 series leave the SSD area on the motherboard empty and connect their SSD as an internal PCI Express Mini Card. Replacing the SSD requires only an SSD compatible with the connector. The SSD area on the motherboard may also be used to install other devices, accommodate physically larger SSDs, or even hard-solder an SSD salvaged from a 2 GB or 4 GB 700 model. As this requires only soldering on a new device without removing an old one, the risk of doing so may be acceptable to some users.
Eee 900 series
The Eee 900 series was launched in Hong Kong on 16 April 2008, and in the UK on 1 May 2008 for £329 (approximately 410 € or 650 US$ including VAT). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Chimps | Space Chimps is a 2008 computer-animated comic science fiction film directed by Kirk DeMicco (in his directional debut), who wrote the screenplay with Rob Moreland. It features the voices of Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Daniels, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Kenan Thompson, Zack Shada, Carlos Alazraqui, Omid Abtahi, Patrick Breen, Jane Lynch, Kath Soucie, and Stanley Tucci.
The film follows three chimpanzees who go into space to an alien planet. 20th Century Fox theatrically released the film on July 18, 2008, and received mostly negative reviews by critics. The film grossed $64.8 million on a $37 million budget. It received an Artios Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Animation Feature. A video game based on the film was also released in July 2008.
A direct-to-video sequel, entitled Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back, was released in October 2010.
Plot
In outer space, an uncrewed, intelligent life-searching NASA space probe, Infinity, is dragged into an intergalactic wormhole and crash-lands on the other side of the galaxy. It lands on the Earth-like alien planet named Malgor, populated by colorful alien beings. Zartog (Jeff Daniels), an evil-minded inhabitant, accidentally discovers how to take manual control of the onboard machinery and uses it to enslave the population. Faced with the possible extinction of Infinity and their budget, the scientists hire multiple chimpanzees as astronauts to regain contact with the probe and retrieve it: technical genius Comet (Zack Shada), lieutenant Luna (Cheryl Hines) and commander Titan (Patrick Warburton). For media attention, the Senator (Stanley Tucci) adds to the team Ham III (Andy Samberg), grandson of Ham, the first chimpanzee in space, who works as a cannonball at a circus. Ham III is uninterested in the mission, but he (along with the other space chimps (except Comet)) is launched into space despite his best efforts to escape the scientist's training facility.
Ham, Luna and Titan enter the wormhole, where the latter two pass out from the pressure, leaving Ham with the task of getting the ship out and landing it. The ship and Titan are taken by Zartog's henchmen, and Titan teaches Zartog about the probe's features. Ham and Luna journey to Zartog's palace. Ham reveals that he believes Space Chimps is a joke which makes Luna angry at him. They receive guidance from inhabitant Kilowatt (Kristin Chenoweth). They go into a valley of the aliens' food where they meet some globhoppers, and then they go into the cave of the Flesh-Devouring Beast where Kilowatt sacrifices themselves by getting eaten by the monster so Ham and Luna bypass it, They then go inside the Dark Cloud of Id in which they fall out of. Once at the palace, they rescue Titan and plan to leave. However, Ham, Luna and Titan alter their course of action after noticing Zartog torturing the inhabitants who are being frozen in a pool of freznar, feeling they owe it to Kilowatt to rescue the planet.
Zartog |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachloroethylene%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on tetrachloroethylene.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommended that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as SIRI, and follow its directions. MSDS is available from Fisher Scientific.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Vapor pressure of liquid
Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 47th ed. Note that "(s)" annotation indicates equilibrium temperature of vapor pressure of solid. Otherwise indication is equilibrium temperature of vapor of liquid.
Distillation data
See also
Trichloroethylene (data page)
Spectral data
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKBJ%20%28AM%29 | KKBJ (1360 AM), known as "Talkradio 106.3 & 1360", is a radio station based in Bemidji, Minnesota, that airs a talk format. It is owned by RP Broadcasting. The programming is a mixture of local and syndicated talk shows.
Along with the station's normally scheduled programs, "Talkradio 1360" also plays the Bemidji State University Women's Hockey and Basketball and Nationwide Series Racing shows. They also play church services from local churches on the radio every Sunday morning.
External links
Talkradio 1360
Talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations in Minnesota
Radio stations established in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Khiladi | International Khiladi () is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language action drama film directed by Umesh Mehra starring Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna in the lead roles. In an interview with Lehren Network, Khanna said that the film did not follow a conventional script while Kumar stated that the film had more romance than action.
International Khiladi was released on 26 March 1999 and became an below average venture at the box office.
Plot
Payal is a news reporter who along with her cameraman Focus have been assigned the task of interviewing the world's highest ranking gangster named Rahul alias Devraj. In the process, Payal and Devraj fall in love with each other much to the opposition of Devraj's guardian Bismillah, Inspector Amit and Payal's brother Ravi. Ravi is later killed with Devraj being framed and arrested. Payal testifies against him and Devraj is sentenced to be hanged. After learning about Bismillah's sudden death, Devraj escapes from custody and begins to plot vengeance against his enemies, including Payal and Ravi's real killer. It is revealed that Amit was the one who killed Bismillah and Ravi and also joined Thakral to frame Devraj, but Amit betrays Thakral and kills him. Amit then takes Devraj on a flight where Devraj kills him and reunites with Payal.
Cast
Akshay Kumar as Devraj / Rahul
Rajat Bedi as Amit
Twinkle Khanna as Payal, Ravi's sister.
Vivek Shauq as Ravi, Payal's brother.
Gulshan Grover as Thakral
Mukesh Khanna as Bismillah, Devraj's guardian.
Johnny Lever as Focus, Payal's Cameraman.
Lester Speight as henchman of Gulshan Grover
Asrani as Payal's boss
Avtar Gill as Defence Lawyer
Shahbaaz Khan as Police Commissioner
Subbiraj as S.P. Sharma
Ram Mohan as Prosecuting Lawyer
Vivek Vaswani as Vivek Shrivastav
Gajendra Chouhan as Rahul's father
Shagufta Ali as Rahul's mother
Omkar Kapoor as Young Rahul
Production
The film was co-produced by Canadian businessman Ajay Virmani. It was shot in Calgary and Toronto.
Soundtrack
Rediff.com noted that the film's songs "seem to be good".
References
External links
1990s Hindi-language films
1999 films
Films scored by Aadesh Shrivastava
Films set in Canada
Indian gangster films
1999 action thriller films
1990s romantic action films
Indian romantic action films
Indian romantic drama films
Indian action drama films
Films directed by Umesh Mehra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota%20Christian%20Broadcasters | Minnesota Christian Broadcasters, Inc., known as MCBI, is a regional Christian radio network ministry based in Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, United States. The ministry operates KCFB (91.5 FM) in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and KTIG (102.7 FM) and WZFJ (104.3 FM) in Breezy Point, Minnesota. KTIG is rebroadcast on a translator at 95.9 FM (K240BI) in the Park Rapids, Minnesota area.
KTIG and KCFB air a mixture of talk programming and Adult Contemporary Christian music as well as Gospel, Inspirational, and Traditional Christian music in various dayparts through the week. WZFJ is branded as "104.3 The Pulse", and airs primarily contemporary Christian music.
Minnesota Christian Broadcasters is buying KFNK/89.5 (Franklin, Minnesota) from South Central Oklahoma Christian Broadcasting for $21,000, according to an asset purchase agreement filed with the FCC.
KFNK and other stations owned by South Central Oklahoma Christian Broadcasting went silent earlier this year, saying they could not receive enough donations to stay on the air. The station is licensed for 100 Watts, the minimum for a full-power station, serving a small area east of Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
References
External links
MCBI Radio
Radio stations in Minnesota
Christian radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCFB | KCFB is a Christian radio station licensed to Saint Cloud, Minnesota, broadcasting on 91.5 MHz FM. The station is owned by Minnesota Christian Broadcasters, Inc.
Programming
KCFB's programming includes Christian talk and teaching shows such as Truth for Life with Alistair Begg, Turning Point with David Jeremiah, Insight For Living with Chuck Swindoll, Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley, Focus on the Family, and In the Market with Janet Parshall. KTIG also airs a variety of Christian music.
History
KCFB began broadcasting in 1987, and initially ran 800 watts. The station was purchased by Minnesota Christian Broadcasters in November 1997. In November 1999, KCFB increased power to 15,000 watts.
References
External links
Christian radio stations in Minnesota
Moody Radio affiliate stations
Radio stations in St. Cloud, Minnesota
Radio stations established in 1987
1987 establishments in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A570 | A570 may refer to
Amiga A570, an external CD-ROM drive for the Amiga 500 computer
A570 road, a primary route in northern England
Canon PowerShot A570, a digital camera released by Canon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Agostino%27s%20K-squared%20test | In statistics, D'Agostino's K2 test, named for Ralph D'Agostino, is a goodness-of-fit measure of departure from normality, that is the test aims to gauge the compatibility of given data with the null hypothesis that the data is a realization of independent, identically distributed Gaussian random variables. The test is based on transformations of the sample kurtosis and skewness, and has power only against the alternatives that the distribution is skewed and/or kurtic.
Skewness and kurtosis
In the following, { xi } denotes a sample of n observations, g1 and g2 are the sample skewness and kurtosis, mj’s are the j-th sample central moments, and is the sample mean. Frequently in the literature related to normality testing, the skewness and kurtosis are denoted as and β2 respectively. Such notation can be inconvenient since, for example, can be a negative quantity.
The sample skewness and kurtosis are defined as
These quantities consistently estimate the theoretical skewness and kurtosis of the distribution, respectively. Moreover, if the sample indeed comes from a normal population, then the exact finite sample distributions of the skewness and kurtosis can themselves be analysed in terms of their means μ1, variances μ2, skewnesses γ1, and kurtosis γ2. This has been done by , who derived the following expressions:
and
For example, a sample with size drawn from a normally distributed population can be expected to have a skewness of and a kurtosis of , where SD indicates the standard deviation.
Transformed sample skewness and kurtosis
The sample skewness g1 and kurtosis g2 are both asymptotically normal. However, the rate of their convergence to the distribution limit is frustratingly slow, especially for g2. For example even with observations the sample kurtosis g2 has both the skewness and the kurtosis of approximately 0.3, which is not negligible. In order to remedy this situation, it has been suggested to transform the quantities g1 and g2 in a way that makes their distribution as close to standard normal as possible.
In particular, suggested the following transformation for sample skewness:
where constants α and δ are computed as
and where μ2 = μ2(g1) is the variance of g1, and γ2 = γ2(g1) is the kurtosis — the expressions given in the previous section.
Similarly, suggested a transformation for g2, which works reasonably well for sample sizes of 20 or greater:
where
and μ1 = μ1(g2), μ2 = μ2(g2), γ1 = γ1(g2) are the quantities computed by Pearson.
Omnibus K2 statistic
Statistics Z1 and Z2 can be combined to produce an omnibus test, able to detect deviations from normality due to either skewness or kurtosis :
If the null hypothesis of normality is true, then K2 is approximately χ2-distributed with 2 degrees of freedom.
Note that the statistics g1, g2 are not independent, only uncorrelated. Therefore, their transforms Z1, Z2 will be dependent also , rendering the validity of χ2 approximation questionable. Simulat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoNames | GeoNames (or GeoNames.org) is a user-editable geographical database available and accessible through various web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license. The project was founded in late 2005.
The GeoNames dataset differs from, but includes data from, the US Government's similarly named GEOnet Names Server.
Database and web services
The GeoNames database contains over 25,000,000 geographical names corresponding to over 11,800,000 unique features. All features are categorized into one of nine feature classes and further subcategorized into one of 645 feature codes. Beyond names of places in various languages, data stored include latitude, longitude, elevation, population, administrative subdivision and postal codes. All coordinates use the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84).
Those data are accessible free of charge through a number of Web services and a daily database export.
Wiki interface
The core of GeoNames database is provided by official public sources, the quality of which may vary. Through a wiki interface, users are invited to manually edit and improve the database by adding or correcting names, move existing features, add new features, etc.
Semantic Web integration
Each GeoNames feature is represented as a web resource identified by a stable URI. This URI provides access, through content negotiation, either to the HTML wiki page, or to a RDF description of the feature, using elements of the GeoNames ontology. This ontology describes the GeoNames features properties using the Web Ontology Language, the feature classes and codes being described in the SKOS language.
Through Wikipedia articles URL linked in the RDF descriptions, GeoNames data are linked to DBpedia data and other RDF Linked Data.
Accuracy and improvements
As in other crowdsourcing schemes, GeoNames edit interface allows everyone to sign in and edit the database, hence false information can be entered and such information can remain undetected especially for places that are not accessed frequently. studies these inaccuracies and classifies them into loss in the granularity of coordinates (e.g., due to truncation and low-resolution geocoding in some cases), wrong feature codes, near-identical places, and the placement of places outside their designated countries.
Manually correcting these inaccuracies is both tedious and error-prone (due to the database size) and may require experts.
The literature provides very few works on automatically resolving them.
study the problem of automatically detecting the scope of locations in a geographical database and its applications in identifying inconsistencies and improving the quality of the database.
Computing the boundary information can help detect inconsistencies such as near-identical places and the placement of locations such as cities under wrong parents such as provinces or countries. Singh and Rafiei show that the boundary information derived in their work can move more than 20% of locations in GeoNames t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20W220 | The Motorola W220 is an entry level flip-phone for the GSM network, introduced in 2006. The phone features dual-band capabilities, an FM Radio, and a 65k color screen. Visually its design was based on the popular Razr phones from the same manufacturer.
External links
Motorola W220
Motorola W220 - Full phone specifications
W220
Mobile phones introduced in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20W.%20Brockett | Roger Ware Brockett (October 22, 1938 – March 19, 2023) was an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, who founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983.
Brockett became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1991 for outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of linear and nonlinear control systems.
Biography
Brockett was born on October 22, 1938, in Seville, Ohio, to Roger Lawrence and Grace Ester (Patch) Brockett.
Brockett received his B.S. from Case Western Reserve University in 1960, and continued on to receive his M.S. in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1964 from Case Western Reserve University as well. His Ph.D. dissertation was The Invertibility of Dynamic Systems with Application to Control under the supervision of Mihajlo D. Mesarovic. At Case Western, Brockett was classmates with Donald Knuth.
After teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1969, he joined the faculty at Harvard University. At Harvard, Brockett became the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and in 1989 the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
Brockett was known for his work on control theory and linear differential systems; in 1970 he published the textbook Finite Dimensional Linear Systems. Brockett has advised over 50 students, including Daniel Liberzon, Jan Willems, David Dobkin, John Baras, P. S. Krishnaprasad, and John Baillieul.
After experiencing a series of cardiac events, Brockett died at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, on March 19, 2023, at the age of 84.
Awards and honors
Brockett received several awards and honors, including:
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 1974
Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1991
In 1989 the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council
In 1991 the IEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award
In 1996 the "W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics" from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
In 2005 the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
In 2009 the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
In 2017 he won the Quazza Medal from the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) https://www.ifac-control.org/awards/major-awards#quazza
References
External links
Brockett's web page at Harvard
Biography at the University of Maryland.
Memorial page at the University of Maryland
1938 births
2023 deaths
American computer scientists
Case Western Reserve University alumni
Control theorists
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty
MIT School of Engineering faculty
American roboticists
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award recipients
Fellows of the Society for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetRexx | NetRexx is an open source, originally IBM's, variant of the REXX programming language to run on the Java virtual machine. It supports a classic REXX syntax, with no reserved keywords, along with considerable additions to support object-oriented programming in a manner compatible with Java's object model, yet can be used as both a compiled and an interpreted language, with an option of using only data types native to the JVM or the NetRexx runtime package. The latter offers the standard Rexx data type that combines string processing with unlimited precision decimal arithmetic.
Integration with the JVM platform is tight, and all existing Java class libraries can be used unchanged and without special setup; at the same time, a Java programmer can opt to just use the Rexx class from the runtime package for improved string handling in Java syntax source programs.
NetRexx is free to download from the Rexx Language Association. IBM announced the transfer of NetRexx 3.00 source code to the Rexx Language Association (RexxLA) on June 8, 2011.
History
In 1995 Mike Cowlishaw ported Java to OS/2 and soon after started with an experiment to run REXX on the JVM. With REXX generally considered the first of the general purpose scripting languages, NetRexx is the first alternative language for the JVM. The 0.50 release, from April 1996, contained the NetRexx runtime classes and a translator written in REXX but tokenized and turned into an OS/2 executable. The 1.00 release came available in January 1997 and contained a translator bootstrapped to NetRexx.
Release 2.00 became available in August 2000 and was a major upgrade, in which interpreted execution was added.
Mike Cowlishaw left IBM in March 2010, and the future of IBM NetRexx as open source was unknown for a while. IBM finally announced the transfer of NetRexx source code to the Rexx Language Association (RexxLA) on June 8, 2011, 14 years after the v1.0 release.
IBM released the NetRexx source code to RexxLA under the ICU license. RexxLA shortly after released this as NetRexx 3.00 and has followed up with regular releases, with 4.01 (2021-03-20) adding Java Platform Module System support to support Java versions 9 and higher. the ICU license has not been approved by OSI; it appears to be a variant of the Expat License.
Syntax
The syntax and object model of NetRexx differ from Object REXX, another IBM object-oriented variant of REXX which has been released as open source software. The successor ooREXX shares a few syntactical elements (LOOP, DO OVER) not found in classical REXX.
NetRexx is written in NetRexx and uses the decimal arithmetic of REXX specified in ANSI X3.274.
References
External links
http://www.netrexx.org/
NetRexx
Object-oriented programming languages
JVM programming languages
Rexx
Programming languages created in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Daytona%20500%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the American television networks and announcers who have broadcast NASCAR's annual Daytona 500 throughout the years. Throughout its history, the Daytona 500 has been aired on all four major networks in the U.S., including ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox. In 1979, CBS covered the race live flag-to-flag for the first time. The unprecedented broadcast was considered risky by network executives, but was a rousing success when a snowstorm blanketed much of the east coast, prompting a huge viewing audience. An exciting and shocking finish capped off a telecast that was considered a ground-breaking moment in the history of NASCAR, and one of the defining moments that helped elevate the sport into the mainstream.
Currently, Fox holds exclusive rights to carry the Daytona 500 in the United States, under the terms of contract extensions that run through the 2024 NASCAR season. As part of the package, Fox also holds the exclusive rights to support events held during Daytona 500 Speedweeks, including the Clash, Daytona 500 pole qualifying, the Duels, the Truck Series race, the Xfinity Series race, and the respective practice sessions. Some of the ancillary events are aired on Fox companion channels FS1 and FS2.
Early CBS and ABC's Wide World of Sports era (1959–1978)
The first known telecast of a NASCAR race was the 1960 Daytona 500, parts of which was presented as part of CBS Sports Spectacular, with announcer Bud Palmer.
From 1962 to 1978, the Daytona 500 was shown on ABC's Wide World of Sports. During the 1960s and early 1970s, the race was filmed and an edited highlight package aired the following weekend. In 1974, ABC began the first semi-live coverage (joined-in-progress) of the Daytona 500. Coverage was normally timed to begin when the race was halfway over. Brief taped highlights of the start and early segments were shown, then ABC joined the race live already in progress, picking up approximately the last 90 minutes of the race. This format continued through 1978.
The 1976 race was held on the same day of the final day of competition in the Winter Olympics (also broadcast on ABC). ABC carried 30 minutes of live coverage of the start of the race, then switched to the Olympics for 90 minutes to carry taped coverage of the final two competitive events (a cross-country ski race and the final runs in the bobsled), held earlier that day. Then it was back to Daytona for about an hour-and-a-half for the finish.
During the period on Wide World of Sports, the booth announcers typically served as roving pit reporters during the running of the race, as well as interviewing in victory lane. The booth commentary was recorded in post-production.
CBS era (1979–2000)
In 1979, CBS instituted the live "flag-to-flag" coverage policy. The ground-breaking 1979 broadcast ushered in the 22-year run of NASCAR on CBS. The 1987 broadcast won the Sports Emmy for "Outstanding Live Sports Special." Ken Squier served as play-by-play announcer from 1979 to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debtors%20Anonymous | Debtors Anonymous (DA) is a twelve-step program for people who want to stop incurring unsecured debt. Collectively they attend more than 500 weekly meetings in fifteen countries, according to data released in 2011. Those who compulsively incur unsecured debt are said to be engaged in compulsive borrowing and are known as compulsive debtors.
DA encourages careful record keeping and monitoring of finances—including purchases, income, and debt payments—to get a clear picture of spending habits. This information is used to develop healthier spending practices, supporting one in keeping a reasonable quality of life while still repaying debt. Similarly, DA recommends developing plans for the future to increase income.
DA's program is intended to facilitate a progressive personality change in its members, ultimately transforming their world views and changing their behaviors.
In the mid-1990s, sociologist Terrell A. Hayes conducted in-depth interviews with a convenience and snowball sample of forty-six members of DA Hayes found many of the members interviewed only partially accept the ideology of the organization and that parts of DA's program, such as stigmatizing labels used to describe members, may actually hinder acceptance of DA's ideology.
Development
In 1968, members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) who believed that their financial difficulties were caused by an addictive disease not unlike alcoholism founded an organization named Penny Pinchers, which they later renamed Capital Builders. The founding members believed their financial problems stemmed from an inability to save money, and they practiced making daily deposits to their savings accounts. Later they recognized their problems were not caused by an inability to save but rather an inability to stay solvent.
In early 1971, the group members came to believe that incurring unsecured debt was the threshold of their disease and committed to a rigorous twelve-step approach to prevent incurring further unsecured debt. The original group disbanded and meetings were not consistently held again until 1976, when a group of two or three people began meeting regularly on Wednesdays in the rectory of St. Stephen's Church in New York City. Within a year, a second group formed and Debtors Anonymous continued to grow. The first General Service Conference was held in 1987 in the auditorium at Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center in Manhattan. , there were 512 groups meeting worldwide.
Literature
DA adapted AA's format, making only five changes to AA's Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions: "DA" and "Debtors Anonymous" replaces "AA" and "Alcoholics Anonymous", "debt" replaces "alcoholism", "compulsive debtors" replaces "alcoholics", "incurring unsecured debt" replaces "drinking", and "debtor" replaces "alcoholic." In 2002, DA published a list of 12 promises similar to the 12 promises appearing on pages 83–84 of Alcoholics Anonymous. DA's original literature also includes the Twelve Tools of Debtors Anon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega%20TV | Mega TV may refer to:
Mega TV (American TV network), a Spanish television network based in Florida
MegaTV (Korea), a Korean IPTV service
Mega Channel, a Greek television station
Mega TV (Malaysia), a now defunct Malaysian cable television station
Mega TV (Tamil), a Tamil language television channel from India
See also
Red Televisiva Megavisión, a Chilean television station
Other Mega television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC12 | PC12 may refer to:
PC12 cell line
PC12 minicomputer
Pilatus PC-12, a civilian aircraft
BAP Río Chira (PC 12), a vessel of the Peruvian Coast Guard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer%20element | Layers were the core of a method of dynamic HTML programming specific to Netscape 4. Each layer was treated as a separate document object in JavaScript. The content could be included in the same file within the non-standard layer element (or any other element with the positioning set to "absolute" via CSS) or loaded from a separate file with <layer src="URL"> or <div src="URL">. It could also be generated via JavaScript with the layer = new Layer() constructor. The content would then be inserted into the layer with layer.document.write().
But in modern browsers, the functionality of layers is provided by using an absolutely-positioned div, or, for loading the content from an external file, an IFrame.
At the height of the Browser Wars, Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer had significantly different JavaScript implementations. Thus, layers could be used for browser detection. A JavaScript program would very often need to run different blocks of code, depending on the browser. To decide which blocks of code to run, a JavaScript program could test for support for layers, regardless of whether the program involved layers at all. Namely,
if (document.layers) {
// ...code that would be executed only by Netscape browsers...
} else {
// ...code that would be executed only by Internet Explorer...
}
References
Netscape: Dynamic HTML in Netscape Communicator (On the Internet Archive)
HTML tags
Web 1.0 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Tree%20Hill%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of One Tree Hill, an American teen drama television series, began airing on September 21, 2004, on The WB television network. The season concluded on May 24, 2005, after 23 episodes.
Season two increased in ratings, averaging 4.34 million viewers and ranking #129 with 1.9 rating, and was the highest rated season.
Warner Home Video released the complete second season, under the title of One Tree Hill: The Complete Second Season, on September 13, 2005, as a six-disc boxed set.
Cast and characters
Regular
Chad Michael Murray as Lucas Scott
James Lafferty as Nathan Scott
Hilarie Burton as Peyton Sawyer
Bethany Joy Lenz as Haley James Scott
Paul Johansson as Dan Scott
Sophia Bush as Brooke Davis
Barbara Alyn Woods as Deb Scott
Barry Corbin as Whitey Durham
Craig Sheffer as Keith Scott
Moira Kelly as Karen Roe
Recurring
Tyler Hilton as Chris Keller
Kieren Hutchison as Andy Hargrove
Lee Norris as Mouth McFadden
Daniella Alonso as Anna Taggaro
Michael Copon as Felix Taggaro
Bryan Greenberg as Jake Jagielski
Maria Menounos as Jules Chambers
Brett Claywell as Tim Smith
Vaughn Wilson as Fergie Thompson
Katherine Bailess as Erica Marsh
Antwon Tanner as Skills Taylor
Bevin Prince as Bevin Mirskey
Cullen Moss as Junk Moretti
Lindsey McKeon as Taylor James
Emmanuelle Vaugier as Nicki
Shawn Shepard as Principal Turner
Bess Armstrong as Lydia James
Sarah Edwards as Theresa
Michael Trucco as Cooper Lee
Episodes
Ratings
Home media
The DVD release of season two was released after the season has completed broadcast on television. It has been released in Regions 1, 2 and 4. As well as every episode from the season, the DVD release features bonus material such as audio commentaries on some episodes from the creator and cast, deleted scenes, gag reels and behind-the-scenes featurettes. The words "The WB Presents" were printed on the packaging before the "One Tree Hill" title, although they were not included on international releases as The WB was not the broadcaster.
References
One Tree Hill (TV series) seasons
2004 American television seasons
2005 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Tree%20Hill%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of One Tree Hill, an American teen drama television series created by Mark Schwahn, began airing on September 23, 2003 on The WB television network. The season concluded on May 11, 2004, after 22 episodes.
The series premiere was watched by 2.5 million viewers and achieved a 1.9 Adults 18–49 rating on September 23, 2003. However, the following week it rose to 3.3 million viewers and a 2.4 demo, becoming only one of three shows to rise in its second episode in the 2003–2004 TV season. The overall first season averaged 3.84 million viewers, ranking #136 with 1.5 rating.
Warner Home Video released the complete first season, under the title of One Tree Hill: The Complete First Season, on January 25, 2005, as a six-disc boxed set.
Cast and characters
Regular
Chad Michael Murray as Lucas Scott
James Lafferty as Nathan Scott
Hilarie Burton as Peyton Sawyer
Bethany Joy Lenz as Haley James
Paul Johansson as Dan Scott
Sophia Bush as Brooke Davis
Barry Corbin as Whitey Durham
Craig Sheffer as Keith Scott
Moira Kelly as Karen Roe
Barbara Alyn Woods as Deb Scott
Recurring
Brett Claywell as Tim Smith
Bryan Greenberg as Jake Jagielski
Lee Norris as Mouth McFadden
Cullen Moss as Junk Moretti
Vaughn Wilson as Fergie Thompson
Antwon Tanner as Antwon "Skills" Taylor
Bevin Prince as Bevin Mirskey
Emmanuelle Vaugier as Nicki
Thomas Ian Griffith as Larry Sawyer
Sarah Edwards as Theresa
Episodes
Reception
DVD release
The DVD release of season one was released after the season has completed broadcast on television. It has been released in Regions 1, 2 and 4. As well as every episode from the season, the DVD release features bonus material such as audio commentaries on some episodes from the creator and cast, deleted scenes, gag reels and behind-the-scenes featurettes. The words "The WB Presents" were printed on the packaging before the "One Tree Hill" title, although they were not included on international releases as The WB was not the broadcaster.
Notes
References
One Tree Hill (TV series) seasons
2003 American television seasons
2004 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkpatrick%E2%80%93Seidel%20algorithm | The Kirkpatrick–Seidel algorithm, proposed by its authors as a potential "ultimate planar convex hull algorithm", is an algorithm for computing the convex hull of a set of points in the plane, with time complexity, where is the number of input points and is the number of points (non dominated or maximal points, as called in some texts) in the hull. Thus, the algorithm is output-sensitive: its running time depends on both the input size and the output size. Another output-sensitive algorithm, the gift wrapping algorithm, was known much earlier, but the Kirkpatrick–Seidel algorithm has an asymptotic running time that is significantly smaller and that always improves on the bounds of non-output-sensitive algorithms. The Kirkpatrick–Seidel algorithm is named after its inventors, David G. Kirkpatrick and Raimund Seidel.
Although the algorithm is asymptotically optimal, it is not very practical for moderate-sized problems.
Algorithm
The basic idea of the algorithm is a kind of reversal of the divide-and-conquer algorithm for convex hulls of Preparata and Hong, dubbed "marriage-before-conquest" by the authors.
The traditional divide-and-conquer algorithm splits the input points into two equal parts, e.g., by a vertical line, recursively finds convex hulls for the left and right subsets of the input, and then merges the two hulls into one by finding the "bridge edges", bitangents that connect the two hulls from above and below.
The Kirkpatrick–Seidel algorithm splits the input as before, by finding the median of the x-coordinates of the input points. However, the algorithm reverses the order of the subsequent steps: its next step is to find the edges of the convex hull that intersect the vertical line defined by this median x-coordinate, which turns out to require linear time. The points on the left and right sides of the splitting line that cannot contribute to the eventual hull are discarded, and the algorithm proceeds recursively on the remaining points. In more detail, the algorithm performs a separate recursion for the upper and lower parts of the convex hull; in the recursion for the upper hull, the noncontributing points to be discarded are those below the bridge edge vertically, while in the recursion for the lower hull the points above the bridge edge vertically are discarded.
At the th level of the recursion, the algorithm solves at most subproblems, each of size at most . The total number of subproblems considered is at most , since each subproblem finds a new convex hull edge. The worst case occurs when no points can be discarded and the subproblems are as large as possible; that is, when there are exactly subproblems in each level of recursion up to level . For this worst case, there are levels of recursion and points considered within each level, so the total running time is as stated.
See also
Convex hull algorithms
References
Convex hull algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Sangiovanni-Vincentelli | Alberto Luigi Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (born June 23, 1947) is an Italian-American computer scientist. He currently sits on the board of directors of Cadence Design Systems, an EDA company he co-founded in 1988.
Biography
Born in Milan, Italy, Sangiovanni-Vincentelli received his master of science degree in engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1971. In 1976, he moved to University of California at Berkeley, where he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and holds the position of Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair and serves as a full professor.
Since July 2019, he has served as Special Advisor to the Dean of Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley, for Entrepreneurship and as Chair of the Academic Advisors of the Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator.
For 2022 he was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category "Information and Communication Technologies".
Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincetelli currently resides in Berkeley, California.
References
External links
A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders Conference – Session 3 Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli speaking at UC Berkeley
1947 births
Living people
Electronic design automation people
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Engineers from Milan
Polytechnic University of Milan alumni
Academic staff of the Polytechnic University of Milan
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra%20Spaulding | Alexandra Spaulding is a fictional character from Guiding Light, an American soap opera on the CBS network.
Beverlee McKinsey originally played the role from February 10, 1984, to August 21, 1992. McKinsey made the character one of the most memorable women on daytime television and although she loved her family, "her voice dripped venom when she addressed her enemies." Lydia Bruce played the role of Alexandra for a couple of days in the fall of 1984 after the death of McKinsey's husband. After an extensive search for a permanent replacement, Marj Dusay, who had played the ruthless matriarch/businessman Myrna Clegg on Capitol, was hired and portrayed the character from September 24, 1993, to March 11, 1997, from November 20, 1998, to January 21, 1999, and finally from December 26, 2002, until the final episode on September 18, 2009. She received an Emmy Nomination for the role in 1995. Legendary film and television actress Joan Collins, best known for her role as Alexis Colby on the primetime soap Dynasty, guest starred in the role from September 23, 2002, to December 23, 2002, having originally signed for six months. Collins' portrayal brought a large amount of press and attention to the show as her incarnation of the character was known as "your typical rich bitch." Collins was even reported to have re-written her lines to accommodate the large amount of dialogue she needed to learn and grueling work schedule.
Background
Storylines
After a difficult childhood, throughout which she and her brother, Alan, alternated between feuding and supporting one another against their domineering father, Brandon, the young Alexandra ran away from her family wealth to gallivant across Europe in a series of relationships with poor musicians before marrying a baron, divorcing him and finally arriving in Springfield. She soon became a close ally of Phillip Spaulding and made it her life's duty to destroy her brother Alan Spaulding's plots. This included the 'Dreaming Death' conspiracy, for which she turned him in to the FBI. He vanished soon after and she used her influence to help bring her friends and lovers into the company. She remained a central power figure in Spaulding Enterprises for decades, with a series of successful tenures as the corporations diva CEO. Spaulding experienced a Golden Era during her tenures as CEO during the 1980s and 1990s.
Over the years, she's searched out many of the relatives she believed she lost, including a sister, Victoria, with whom she offered to share the family fortune. More important was her reunion with wayward son Lujack, who she eventually won over despite his misgivings. She supported him in his endeavors, although sadly he would die in an explosion. Her life got more complicated when her supposedly dead brother reappeared looking for revenge of his own. She fled to San Rios where she was kidnapped by rebels before being rescued and returned to Springfield. Her complicated love/hate relationship with Alan would en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colligo%20Contributor | Colligo Contributor is a proprietary software package aimed at businesses, developed by Colligo Networks of Vancouver, British Columbia. Colligo Contributor was launched in 2006 and is part of a family of Colligo products that provide rich client interfaces for Microsoft SharePoint, a collaborative portal application based on the Windows SharePoint Services platform. The Colligo for SharePoint product line also includes a free product called Colligo Reader.
Colligo Contributor is now part of Colligo Engage.
Colligo Contributor for SharePoint
Colligo Contributor is a family of desktop software applications developed on the Microsoft .NET framework, that are designed to increase SharePoint user adoption by addressing "problems on the UI and user experience fronts". These applications are compatible with servers running Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint 2010, or SharePoint 2013.
Colligo Contributor has been called a "client for SharePoint" because it "integrates the client infrastructure with the SharePoint infrastructure", providing a local user interface that is an alternative to the typical SharePoint interface through a browser. The architecture of the local data store enables users to optionally cache SharePoint content, making it available online and offline. Colligo Contributor also includes a software development kit to build custom SharePoint client applications, and extensions such as custom metadata editors.
Colligo contributor can be used to solve SharePoint usability challenges in several scenarios, such as email and attachment management, network file share replacement, enterprise content management, and SharePoint migration.
References
External links
Colligo homepage
SharePoint Blogs Review of Colligo Contributor 2.0
Review of Colligo Contributor 2.0 from Dustin’s Tech Notes Blog
eWeek Review of Colligo Reader and Colligo Contributor
Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazines Announce Their 2008 Best of Tech Ed IT Pro Awards
2009 Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards
Groupware
Collaborative software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12%3A01%20%281993%20film%29 | 12:01 is a 1993 American science fiction television film directed by Jack Sholder and starring Jonathan Silverman, Helen Slater, Jeremy Piven, and Martin Landau. It originally aired on the Fox Network in the United States on July 5, 1993.
It is an adaptation of Richard Lupoff's short story "12:01 P.M.," published in the December 1973 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. The story had previously been adapted into the 1990 short film 12:01 PM starring Kurtwood Smith.
Plot
Barry Thomas is bored with his job and moons over high-profile scientist Lisa Fredericks, who is working on a particle accelerator that accelerates faster than the speed of light, but is about to be shut down because of potential risks.
On the way home, Barry sees Lisa fatally shot and takes it very hard. While at home at midnight, he receives a strong electrical shock. The next morning the events of the previous day are repeating themselves and Barry is the only one who realizes that the world is stuck in a time loop. During several repetitions, Barry figures out how to save Lisa and get closer to her. His actions also get him fired and arrested for knowing too much about events. Barry and Lisa eventually learn that her boss, Dr. Thadius Moxley, has been conducting illegal and unethical experiments with the faster-than-light particle accelerator in the hopes of harvesting its extreme cheap energy with the intention of earning a lot of money with it. These experiments caused the time loop. In fact, it was Lisa's partial knowledge of Dr. Moxley's illegal activities that resulted in her murder by his henchmen. After getting involved with an undercover government agent, they must stop her boss from starting his experiment at the end of a loop or the world will be trapped forever repeating the same day.
Expanding on the original's premise of a one-hour time loop, this version saw the main character reliving the same 24-hour period, which would restart at one minute past midnight (rather than midday as in the other versions). It also contains a happy ending, as the protagonist ultimately finds a way to correct the time loop over the course of the film’s 92-minute running time.
Cast
Jonathan Silverman as Barry Thomas
Helen Slater as Lisa Fredericks
Jeremy Piven as Howard Richter
Nicolas Surovy as Dr. Robert Denk
Martin Landau as Dr. Thadius Moxley
Robin Bartlett as Anne Jackson
Danny Trejo as Prisoner
Constance Marie as Joan Zevo
Glenn Morshower as Detective Cryers
Paxton Whitehead as Dr. Tiberius Scott
Cheryl Anderson as Supervisor
Giuseppe Andrews as Kyle (as Joey Andrews)
Frank Collison as Thin Assassin
Release
The film was released on DVD in the United States on November 28, 2006.
Legal action
The film Groundhog Day, which has a similar time loop premise, was also released in 1993. The writers and producers of 12:01 believed their work was stolen by Groundhog Day.
According to Richard Lupoff:
A brilliant young filmmaker named Jonathan Heap m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavis%20and%20Butt-Head%20in%20Virtual%20Stupidity | Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity is a point-and-click adventure computer game based on the American animated television series created by Mike Judge, Beavis and Butt-Head, that was developed by ICOM Simulations and published by Viacom New Media. It was released on August 31, 1995.
It featured vocals from the series' cast of voice actors, including Mike Judge. Besides the main game, four mini-games are featured, called Hock-A-Loogie, Court Chaos, Bug Justice, and Air Guitar.
The main game plots the two main characters, Beavis and Butt-Head, trying to get into Todd's gang. Over the course of the game, they have to complete tasks and explore areas in the fictional town of Highland, Texas.
It was originally released on the PC. A CD-i port of Virtual Stupidity was planned but was cancelled due to falling sales of the console. A Sony PlayStation port was released exclusively in Japan in 1998 with dubbed voice acting by Owarai duo London Boots Ichi-gō Ni-gō.
Plot
The game starts with Beavis and Butt-Head working at Burger World. They are met by Todd, who threatens them. Despite this, Beavis and Butt-Head like Todd because of his power and consider him "cool." They decide to try to join Todd's gang.
At Highland High, the duo are forced to stay in Science Class and dissect a frog. Eventually, they manage to skip class after lying to the science teacher that they are going to the bathroom. They manage to slip from school after spitting on Principal McVicker from the school rooftop, causing him to leave the school entrance.
From then on, Beavis and Butt-Head explore various areas from Highland, including their house, BurgerWorld, the park, and Maxi-Mart, completing various tasks, in order to get closer to Todd and his gang.
Music videos
Three full-length music videos (with included commentary by Beavis and Butt-Head) are viewable on various television sets in the game:
GWAR – "Saddam a Go-Go"
Primus – "DMV"
Sausage – "Riddles Are Abound Tonight"
Reception
According to senior artist Tom Zehner, Virtual Stupidity achieved sales above 100,000 units. The game was a commercial success.
Virtual Stupidity received mostly positive reviews from video game magazines and websites. It held a 76.86% average at GameRankings based on seven reviews. Reviewing the PC version, a reviewer for Next Generation said it "may be one of the funniest games to ever hit store shelves." He applauded the game for "flawlessly" recreating the look, sound, and humor of the TV show while having enough strong gameplay to make it stand on its own as an outstanding adventure game. He scored it 4 out of 5 stars.
PC Gamer US named Virtual Stupidity the best adventure game of 1995. The editors wrote, "This game is a textbook example of the right way to bring material from another medium to PC gaming." In 1998, the magazine declared it the 24th-best computer game ever released, and the editors called it "a great piece of adventure gaming".
References
External links
Officia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yep%20%28software%29 | Yep is a commercial document management computer program, available on Mac OS X.
In its initial stages of development, Yep was named both “Pik” and then “Kip” but was renamed when it was discovered that the former was a registered trademark of another computer program and then the latter was an obscenity in the Norwegian language.
As of version 3.0, Yep runs only on Intel-based Macintosh computers; previous versions were universal binaries, which ran natively on PowerPC and Intel machines.
Features
The following is a list of key features:
Consolidates and tags all of your digital documents.
Allows fast searching, viewing and managing of all of your PDFs.
Optional integration with a scanner to import paper documents.
References
External links
Official website
Discussion: Yahoo Group
Review: Mac Law Students
Review: Musings From Mars
Review: MacUpdate User Reviews
Review: Mac News Online
Review: MacApper
MacOS text-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAU | Transcoder and Rate Adaptation Unit or TRAU, performs transcoding function for speech channels and RA (Rate Adaptation) for data channels in the GSM network. The Transcoder/Rate Adaptation Unit (TRAU) is the data rate conversion unit. The PSTN/ISDN switch is a switch for 64 kbit/s voice. Current technology permits to decrease the bit-rate (in GSM radio interface it is 16 kbit/s for full rate and 8 kbit/s
for half rate). Since MSC is basically a PSTN/ISDN switch its bit-rate is still 64 kbit/s. That is why a rate conversion is
required in between the BSC and MSC...
Transcoding is the compression of speech data from 64 kbit/s to 13/12.2/6.5 kbit/s in case FR/EFR/HR (respectively) speech coding.
Rate adaptation without transcoding allows Tandem Free Operation (TFO), allowing the original encoded speech data to be carried in a 64 kbit/s channel. TFO offers benefits because transcoding can lead to a degradation of speech quality and requires computational resources.
Brief explanation
For an MS-to-MS call, the transmission path covers the radio access network (RAN) as
well as the core network (CN). Since the transmission modes and coding standards are
different for RAN and CN, speech data is converted/transcoded at the transition points
from RAN to CN. This conversion is performed in the TRAU network element which
connects RAN and CN.
16 kbit/s for FR (Full Rate), Redundancy (Channel Coding)= 9.8 kbit/s
=> Gross data rate after adding redundancy = 22.8 kbit/s
=>
12.2 kbit/s for EFR (Enhanced Full rate) => Gross data rate after adding redundancy = 11.4 kbit/s
See also
Full Rate
Half Rate
Enhanced Full Rate
Adaptive Multi-Rate
TRAU was also the term used for the frame format used in transport of the compressed bits from these speech coders.
References
Audio format converters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex%20hull%20algorithms | Algorithms that construct convex hulls of various objects have a broad range of applications in mathematics and computer science.
In computational geometry, numerous algorithms are proposed for computing the convex hull of a finite set of points, with various computational complexities.
Computing the convex hull means that a non-ambiguous and efficient representation of the required convex shape is constructed. The complexity of the corresponding algorithms is usually estimated in terms of n, the number of input points, and sometimes also in terms of h, the number of points on the convex hull.
Planar case
Consider the general case when the input to the algorithm is a finite unordered set of points on a Cartesian plane. An important special case, in which the points are given in the order of traversal of a simple polygon's boundary, is described later in a separate subsection.
If not all points are on the same line, then their convex hull is a convex polygon whose vertices are some of the points in the input set. Its most common representation is the list of its vertices ordered along its boundary clockwise or counterclockwise. In some applications it is convenient to represent a convex polygon as an intersection of a set of half-planes.
Lower bound on computational complexity
For a finite set of points in the plane, the lower bound on the computational complexity of finding the convex hull represented as a convex polygon is easily shown to be the same as for sorting using the following reduction. For the set numbers to sort consider the set of points in the plane. Since they lie on a parabola, which is a convex curve, it is easy to see that the vertices of the convex hull, when traversed along the boundary, produce the sorted order of the numbers . Clearly, linear time is required for the described transformation of numbers into points and then extracting their sorted order. Therefore, in the general case the convex hull of n points cannot be computed more quickly than sorting.
The standard Ω(n log n) lower bound for sorting is proven in the decision tree model of computing, in which only numerical comparisons but not arithmetic operations can be performed; however, in this model, convex hulls cannot be computed at all. Sorting also requires Ω(n log n) time in the algebraic decision tree model of computation, a model that is more suitable for convex hulls, and in this model convex hulls also require Ω(n log n) time. However, in models of computer arithmetic that allow numbers to be sorted more quickly than O(n log n) time, for instance by using integer sorting algorithms, planar convex hulls can also be computed more quickly: the Graham scan algorithm for convex hulls consists of a single sorting step followed by a linear amount of additional work.
Optimal output-sensitive algorithms
As stated above, the complexity of finding a convex hull as a function of the input size n is lower bounded by Ω(n log n). However, the complexity of some |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%20Network | The Israeli Network () is an international private television network. It launched September 2001 and features programming from all the top networks in Israel including Kan 11, Keshet 12, Reshet 13, Channel 10, Channel 8, Israeli Educational Television, Arutz HaYeladim, Hop! and Sports Channel.
The Israeli Network is available in North America; in the United States via Dish Network, Cablevision, Verizon FiOS & Comcast and in Canada via Rogers Cable & Bell Fibe TV through a partnership with Ethnic Channels Group. It is also available in Europe and Africa through select providers and now in Caribbean Latin America Middle East Asia and the Pacific.
See also
The Israeli Network Canada
External links
The Israeli Network Official Site
Television channels in Israel
International broadcasters
Television channels and stations established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neottia%20cordata | Neottia cordata, the lesser twayblade or heartleaf twayblade, is an orchid of upland bogs and mires that rarely exceeds in height. It was formerly placed in the genus Listera, but molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that Neottia nidus-avis, the bird's-nest orchid, evolved within the same group.
It is never very common but may be frequently overlooked because of its small size and a tendency to grow underneath heather on sphagnum moss. The single erect flower-stem is often tinged red and is clasped near the base by a pair or ovate-orbicular glossy green leaves. The small flowers which look deceptively simple in structure for an orchid, are purple-green in colour with a somewhat swollen calyx.
Distribution
It has a circumpolar distribution being found in Europe, Asia and large parts of North America. In the United Kingdom its distribution is largely western and northern, becoming most common in the western Highlands of Scotland, Snowdonia in Wales, and the Lake District in England. (Codes)
Ecology
The flowers produce nectar and are pollinated principally by fungus gnats in the groups Mycetophilidae and Sciaridae.
Mycorrhizal partners are almost exclusively fungi in the Sebacinales clade Serendipitaceae. There may also be some association with Ceratobasidiaceae and/or Tulasnellaceae.
See also
Listera ovata
References
External links
Orchids of North America
Orchids of Europe
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Orchids of Asia
cordata
Orchids of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Crevier | Daniel Crevier (born 1947) is a Canadian entrepreneur and artificial intelligence and image processing researcher. He is also the author of AI: the Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence. In 1974 Crevier received a Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1979 Crevier founded Coreco Imaging (COntractual REsearch COmpany), which was acquired by Dalsa in 2005.
Notes
1947 births
Living people
Canadian academics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problems%20involving%20arithmetic%20progressions | Problems involving arithmetic progressions are of interest in number theory, combinatorics, and computer science, both from theoretical and applied points of view.
Largest progression-free subsets
Find the cardinality (denoted by Ak(m)) of the largest subset of {1, 2, ..., m} which contains no progression of k distinct terms. The elements of the forbidden progressions are not required to be consecutive. For example, A4(10) = 8, because {1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10} has no arithmetic progressions of length 4, while all 9-element subsets of {1, 2, ..., 10} have one.
In 1936, Paul Erdős and Pál Turán posed a question related to this number and Erdős set a $1000 prize for an answer to it. The prize was collected by Endre Szemerédi for a solution published in 1975, what has become known as Szemerédi's theorem.
Arithmetic progressions from prime numbers
Szemerédi's theorem states that a set of natural numbers of non-zero upper asymptotic density contains finite arithmetic progressions, of any arbitrary length k.
Erdős made a more general conjecture from which it would follow that
The sequence of primes numbers contains arithmetic progressions of any length.
This result was proven by Ben Green and Terence Tao in 2004 and is now known as the Green–Tao theorem.
See also Dirichlet's theorem on arithmetic progressions.
, the longest known arithmetic progression of primes has length 27:
224584605939537911 + 81292139·23#·n, for n = 0 to 26. (23# = 223092870)
As of 2011, the longest known arithmetic progression of consecutive primes has length 10. It was found in 1998. The progression starts with a 93-digit number
100 99697 24697 14247 63778 66555 87969 84032 95093 24689
19004 18036 03417 75890 43417 03348 88215 90672 29719
and has the common difference 210.
Primes in arithmetic progressions
The prime number theorem for arithmetic progressions deals with the asymptotic distribution of prime numbers in an arithmetic progression.
Covering by and partitioning into arithmetic progressions
Find minimal ln such that any set of n residues modulo p can be covered by an arithmetic progression of the length ln.
For a given set S of integers find the minimal number of arithmetic progressions that cover S
For a given set S of integers find the minimal number of nonoverlapping arithmetic progressions that cover S
Find the number of ways to partition {1, ..., n} into arithmetic progressions.
Find the number of ways to partition {1, ..., n} into arithmetic progressions of length at least 2 with the same period.
See also Covering system
See also
Arithmetic combinatorics
PrimeGrid
Notes
Mathematical series
Unsolved problems in number theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi%200-22 | Taxi 0-22 is a popular Canadian television comedy series, which airs on TVA, a Quebec-based French language network in Canada.
The series stars Patrick Huard as Montreal cab driver Rogatien Dubois Jr. The first season is predominantly set inside Dubois's dark blue taxi, a Ford Crown Victoria, and the comedy unfolds through his interactions – usually opinionated and deeply held – with the guest stars and other passengers who ride in his cab. Season two expanded the show's narrative to focus more on stories and characters outside of his taxi. Dubois speaks a thickly accented and rapidly delivered Quebec slang.
The first season of the show commenced broadcast in February 2007, the second in January 2008, and the third season began airing in January 2009. It is broadcast at 9:00 p.m. on Thursday nights. It has been reported that more than one million viewers watch the show every week. The TVA network has ordered season four to be produced, based on the success of the series.
In 2008, the series won the Olivier Award for best dramatic comedy.
Actor James Gandolfini was developing a pilot for an American adaptation, which will air on HBO if it is picked up as a regular series.
Regular characters
Patrick Huard: Rogatien Dubois Jr.
Yvon Deschamps: Rogatien's father
François Arnaud: Rogatien's son
Sylvie Boucher: Nancy, a server in a diner that Rogatien frequents.
Selected invited guests
In order of their appearance, Dubois passengers have included the following French Canadian celebrities who appear in character.
Michelle Beaudoin
Garou
Guy Mongrain
Pierre Falardeau
Guy Fournier
Ron Fournier
Louis-José Houde
Lucie Laurier
Anne-Marie Losique
Dominique Michel
Guy A. Lepage
References
External links
Taxi 0-22
PatrickHuard.net
Television shows set in Montreal
Television shows filmed in Montreal
TVA (Canadian TV network) original programming
2007 Canadian television series debuts
2000s Canadian sitcoms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Spivey | Michael Spivey (commonly known as Mike Spivey) is a British computer scientist at the University of Oxford.
Spivey was born in 1960 and educated at Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School in York, England. He studied mathematics at Christ's College, Cambridge and then undertook a DPhil in computer science on the Z notation at Wolfson College, Oxford and the Programming Research Group, part of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory.
Mike Spivey is a University Lecturer in Computation at the Oxford University Department of Computer Science and Misys and Anderson Fellow of Computer Science at Oriel College, Oxford. His main areas of research interest are compilers and programming languages, especially logic programming. He wrote an Oberon-2 compiler.
Publications
Understanding Z: A Specification Language and its Formal Semantics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science, No. 3, 2008. .
The Z Notation: A reference manual, Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1992. .
An introduction to logic programming through Prolog, Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1996. .
References
External links
Official home page
Personal home page
1960 births
Living people
People educated at Archbishop Holgate's School
Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
Alumni of Wolfson College, Oxford
Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford
English computer scientists
Formal methods people
Logic programming researchers
Computer science writers
Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Programming language researchers
Z notation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20supply%20and%20sanitation%20in%20India | In 2020, 97.7% of Indians had access to the basic water and sanitation facilities. India faces challenges ranging from sourcing water for its megacities to its distribution network which is intermittent in rural areas with continuous distribution networks just beginning to emerge. Non-revenue water is a challenge.
The share of Indians with access to improved sources of water increased significantly from 72% in 1990 to 88% in 2008 and currently stands at 97.7% in 2020. In 1980, rural sanitation coverage was estimated at 1%. By 2018, it reached 95%. However, many people still lack access to water and sewage infrastructure.
Water supply
Cities
In 2005 none of the 35 Indian cities with a population of more than one million distributed water for more than a few hours per day, despite generally sufficient infrastructure. Owing to inadequate water pressure people struggle to collect water even when it is available. Service benchmarking carried out in 2006 in 28 cities found the average duration of supply was 3.3 hours per day, with a range from one hour every three days to 18 hours per day. A 2007 study showed that in 20 cities the average duration of supply was only 4.3 hours per day. The longest duration of supply was 12 hours per day in Chandigarh, and the lowest was 0.3 hours per day in Rajkot. In 2015, 88% of the total population had access to at least basic water, or 96% in urban areas and 85% in rural areas. That is, there were still 150 million people without access to at least basic water.
In Delhi land usage for residential area varies widely from planned colonies to unplanned slums. Despite the large piped network, with some areas receiving intermittent water supply, there are large areas that lack coverage. Reliance on dubious private water vendors is costly. For example, in Delhi water trucks get water from illegal wells on the banks of the Yamuna River for 0.75 rupees per gallon (about US$2.70/m3).
The supply of cities that depend on surface water is threatened by pollution, increasing water scarcity and conflicts among users. For example, Bangalore depends to a large extent on water pumped since 1974 from the Kaveri river, whose waters are disputed between the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. As in other Indian cities, the response to water scarcity is to transfer more water over large distances at high costs. In the case of Bangalore 500,000 cubic meter of water is pumped per day over a distance of 100 km, thus increasing the city's supply by two-thirds.
Jamshedpur provided 25% of its residents with continuous water supply in 2009. In 2021, some parts of Mumbai got 24 hour supply, others got 19 hours supply or less. Puri became the first city in India to get a piped 24 hour continuous drinking water quality water supply. Trivandrum is the largest Indian city and the only million agglomeration that enjoys uninterrupted hygienic water supply. Chennai has two desalination plants ate the Nemmeli and Minjur.
Towns
Malkapur is t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoMotion | The CoMotion platform is a commercial product from General Dynamics C4 Systems that provides a synchronous and asynchronous collaborative workspace enabling data sharing, data visualization, and messaging. It allows potentially hundreds of users to collaborate live, sharing all or part of their persistent workspace and all data contained therein. It is the core platform for the Army's Command Post of the Future, USTRANSCOM's TransViz software, and Array BioPharma's Discovery product. CoMotion builds substantially on earlier work developed at Carnegie Mellon University, MAYA Design Inc., and DARPA.
Data visualization in software often uses a selected Model (as in Model–View–Controller) to organize the information. CoMotion treats the model and the view as data, so that the underlying information can be seen through different models or different views simultaneously. In CoMotion jargon this is known as a "blueprint" of how a visualization is seen. The "frame", or view, can be shared amongst different users of the software. Even with the same underlying information, it's possible for two users to interact around different blueprints or different frames.
All data is stored in "u-forms", which are a universal property list (name-value pairs) that can contain basic types, arrays, and links to other u-forms. This directed graph of u-forms forms the basis for all data in the system, including visualized data, blueprints, as well as the frame locations and clipping states.
Until the commercialization of CoMotion, no enterprise software products existed that allowed for this interaction. Prior, all systems either collaborated on the data itself, or only on the view of that data.
A session describing of CoMotion, its Java underpinnings, and the unique nature of its workspace's UI-data connections was submitted as a paper to Sun Microsystems' 2008 JavaOne conference.
See also
Collaboration
Collaborative software
External links
An Interactive Visualization Environment for Data Exploration Foundational work which led to CoMotion
General Dynamics C4 Systems CoMotion Platform
Toward the Universal Database: U-forms and the VIA Repository
Groupware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Crawford | Kate Crawford (born 1974) is a researcher, writer, composer, producer and academic, who studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is based in New York and works as a principal researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective), the co-founder and former director of research at the AI Now Institute at NYU, a visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media, a senior fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU, and an associate professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. She is also a member of the WEF's Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development.
Crawford’s research focuses on social change and media technologies, particularly on the intersection of humans, mobile devices, and social networks. Her research examines how AI affects various aspects of human life, such as gender, race, and economic status. She argues that AI systems are not neutral or objective, but rather reflect and reinforce existing systems of power and inequality. She also explores the environmental and ethical impacts of AI, as well as the historical and cultural contexts of its development. She has published on cultures of technology use and the way media histories inform the present, and has exhibited creative works in music and art at museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Background
Crawford was previously part of the Canberra electronic music duo B(if)tek (along with Nicole Skeltys) and released three albums between 1998 and 2003. Crawford co-founded the Sydney-based Deluxe Mood Recordings record label and is a member of the Clan Analogue music collective.
As a writer Crawford has written for The Sydney Morning Herald and Foreign Policy. She was a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development and in March 2008 she was selected as one of 1000 Australians to attend the Australia 2020 Summit in Canberra on 19–20 April 2008.
She is a member of the feminist collective Deep Lab.
In 2017 Crawford established the research institute AI Now Institute with Meredith Whittaker. It is associated with New York University Tandon School of Engineering.
In 2019 she was the inaugural holder of the AI & Justice visiting chair at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, in partnership with the Fondation Abeona.
Work
Writing and Speaking
Crawford has a PhD from the University of Sydney. In 2006 her book based on this dissertation, Adult Themes – Rewriting the Rules of Adulthood, won the individual category of the Manning Clark National Cultural Award and in 2008 she received the biennial medal for outstanding scholarship from the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Crawford has spoken and published academic papers on such topics as social media, government regulation of media content, the interplay between gender and mobile devices, young people and sexting, and big data. She has given keynote addresses at venues such as the 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSpec | RSpec is a computer domain-specific language (DSL) (particular application domain) testing tool written in the programming language Ruby to test Ruby code. It is a behavior-driven development (BDD) framework which is extensively used in production applications. The basic idea behind this concept is that of test-driven development (TDD) where the tests are written first and the development is based on writing just enough code that will fulfill those tests followed by refactoring. It contains its own mocking framework that is fully integrated into the framework based upon JMock. The simplicity in the RSpec syntax makes it one of the popular testing tools for Ruby applications. The RSpec tool can be used by installing the rspec gem which consists of three other gems, namely rspec-core, rspec-expectation and rspec-mock.
History
RSpec was started as an experiment by Steven Baker in 2005 along with his team members Dave Astels, Aslak Hellesøy and David Chelimsky. Chelimsky was responsible for developing the RSpec-Rails which facilitated the integration with Ruby on Rails. The initial release i.e. RSpec 1.0 came out in May 2007 which contained many prime features of RSpec which are being included in the latest releases too. However, due to some technical issues such as testing speed, it was discontinued later. The third version of RSpec i.e. the RSpec 3 was released in July 2014 which had many new features like verify doubles, composable matchers and many more.
Usage
Describing the behavior of objects
As mentioned above, RSpec provides a domain-specific language to describe the behavior of objects. The keywords used in RSpec are similar to the ones used in other languages and/or TDD frameworks. For example, if the keywords used in Test::Unit are considered, they can be mapped to the RSpec keywords as follows:
Assertion becomes expectation
Test method becomes Example code
Test case becomes Example group
There are many such keywords which are used in the same context but with the similar names. The syntax of RSpec provides the ease of readability and describes the behavior of the code thereby providing freedom to the programmer. Every testing framework works in the following flow - given some context, when some event occurs, what outcome is expected. The methods like , and form the analogy and the skeleton respectively of the test code.
The method is used to describe a class, method or an example group. This is the outer block which actually contains the test code and it depicts the characteristics of the code enclosed in it. This method takes a number of arguments and an optional block. However, normally one or two arguments are used to describe the behavior of the example group. The first argument represents the reference to the class or module whereas the second argument is optional whose datatype would be String. The example groups can be nested as well. An example of using the describe method is as follows:describe User, "with no account |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UbuntuNet%20Alliance%20for%20Research%20and%20Education%20Networking | UbuntuNet Alliance is not to be confused with Ubuntu Linux
UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking (also known as UbuntuNet Alliance) is the regional Research and Education Network of Eastern and Southern Africa. It was founded in the later half of 2005 by established and emerging NRENs in Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa with the vision of securing high speed connectivity, mainly optical fibre-based, for the research and education community - at affordable prices - that connect African NRENs to each other, to other NRENs worldwide and to the Internet generally. It was incorporated in 2006 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in the Trade Registrar of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry as a non-for-profit association of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs).
Today, the UbuntuNet Alliance community includes 13 NRENs in East and Southern Africa from Sudan, Ethiopia, all the way to South Africa, covering a huge land mass of the continent.
The Alliance has a close relationship with the Association of African Universities, which appoints the Chairperson. The incumbent Chairperson is Professor Stephen Simukanga, former Vice chancellor of the University of Zambia, who was appointed in April 2019.
Vision, Mission, and Strategic Priorities
The societal vision of the UbuntuNet Alliance is that of vibrant African research and education institutions, networking effectively in the global knowledge society. The mission of UbuntuNet Alliance is to ensure that African NRENs have efficient and affordable bandwidth for their member research and education institutions that enables them to participate in the global research and education networking community. The UbuntuNet Alliance aims to achieve this through strategic priorities that include the development and capacity building of NRENs in all countries in Eastern and Southern Africa; ensuring that NRENs get access to affordable high speed connectivity by lobbying for improved national policy and regulatory environments; stimulating and supporting content networks; and making the UbuntuNet Alliance financially sustainable.
UbuntuNet Alliance intends to build UbuntuNet fibre backbone network which will interconnect NRENs in Africa and connect them to the global research and education networking community through GÉANT, the European regional network.
UbuntuNet Clusters
UbuntuNet Alliance adopted an opportunistic approach that seeks to build the fibre network based on the potential for broadband terrestrial connectivity that exists or is emerging in the region. Two initial backbone development clusters were defined as UbuntuNet East and UbuntuNet South. These clusters are based purely on geographic convenience, taking into account the ease of interconnection.
UbuntuNet East will interconnect NRENs in Burundi, Djibouti, DRC, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda, and will connect to the global REN community through the submarine fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioWeb | The BioWeb is the connotation for a network of web-enabled biological devices (e.g. trees, plants, and flowers) which extends an internet of things to the Internet of Living Things of natural sensory devices. The BioWeb devices give insights to real-time ecological data and feedback to changes in the environment. The biodiversity of today is one giant ecological mesh network of information exchange, and a resource humanity should be able to access for a better understanding of the state of our global ecology.
Technology
The BioWeb information technologies emerge from the interdisciplinary fields of biotechnology and nanotechnology. The devices for reading individual ecological systems can be either wireless transmitters implemented into the organic structure of seeds or external inserted network nodes with the ability to read information and wirelessly transmit the information to the Internet (or network).
See also
Mesh networking, a way to route information between nodes
Biotechnology, technology based on biology where technology is a concept that deals with knowledge of skills
External links
Cellbiol.com: The Bio-Web
Mrs. King's BioWeb
The BioWeb and BioNews Search Engines
Botanicalls
Biotechnology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Resources%20International | Computer Resources International (CRI) was a Danish aerospace and defense company, based in Birkerød, Denmark. In 1997 CRI was acquired by Terma A/S including subsidiaries in Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany.
CRI had 150 employees in the space department and 75 in defense. CRI had offices in Birkerød. CRI was owned by Unibank, BG Bank, and IBM.
References
For the second paragraph: https://web.archive.org/web/20110701163205/http://www.virk-info.dk/Virk-T/Terma/Terma.htm
Aerospace companies of Denmark
Defunct companies of Denmark
Companies based in Rudersdal Municipality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor%20node | A sensor node (also known as a mote in North America), consists of an individual node from a sensor network that is capable of performing a desired action such as gathering, processing or communicating information with other connected nodes in a network.
History
Although wireless sensor networks have existed for decades and used for diverse applications such as earthquake measurements or warfare, the modern development of small sensor nodes dates back to the 1998 Smartdust project and the NASA. Sensor Web One of the objectives of the Smartdust project was to create autonomous sensing and communication within a cubic millimeter of space, though this project ended early on, it led to many more research projects and major research centres such as The Berkeley NEST and CENS. The researchers involved in these projects coined the term mote to refer to a sensor node. The equivalent term in the NASA Sensor Webs Project for a physical sensor node is pod, although the sensor node in a Sensor Web can be another Sensor Web itself. Physical sensor nodes have been able to increase their effectiveness and its capability in conjunction with Moore's Law.
The chip footprint contains more complex and lower powered microcontrollers. Thus, for the same node footprint, more silicon capability can be packed into it. Nowadays, motes focus on providing the longest wireless range (dozens of km), the lowest energy consumption (a few uA) and the easiest development process for the user.
Components
The main components of a sensor node usually involve a microcontroller, transceiver, external memory, power source and one or more sensors.
Sensors
Sensors are used by wireless sensor nodes to capture data from their environment. They are hardware devices that produce a measurable response to a change in a physical condition like temperature or pressure. Sensors measure physical data of the parameter to be monitored and have specific characteristics such as accuracy, sensitivity etc. The continual analog signal produced by the sensors is digitized by an analog-to-digital converter and sent to controllers for further processing. Some sensors contain the necessary electronics to convert the raw signals into readings which can be retrieved via a digital link (e.g. I2C, SPI) and many convert to units such as °C. Most sensor nodes are small in size, consume little energy, operate in high volumetric densities, be autonomous and operate unattended, and be adaptive to the environment. As wireless sensor nodes are typically very small electronic devices, they can only be equipped with a limited power source of less than 0.5-2 ampere-hour and 1.2-3.7 volts.
Sensors are classified into three categories: passive, omnidirectional sensors; passive, narrow-beam sensors; and active sensors. Passive sensors sense the data without actually manipulating the environment by active probing. They are self powered; that is, energy is needed only to amplify their analog signal. Active sensors act |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20Strip | The Control Strip is a user interface component introduced in the "classic" System 7 Macintosh operating system. It currently exists as part of the Touch Bar interface in macOS.
History
The Control Strip was initially released in 1994 with the PowerBook 500 series of notebook computers and the PowerBook Duo 280 subnotebook computers, at that point shipping with System 7.1. Later on it was made available to desktop and portable Macintosh computers, beginning with System 7.5.3.
Apple removed Control Strip in 2001 as a consequence of its move to Mac OS X. Apple initially attempted to integrate the Control Strip’s features into the Dock. After this was found to be too clumsy, most of its features were again duplicated in the menu extras of 10.1.
An attempt was made at an open source reimplementation of the Control Strip for OS X, but it never received much developer traction and the last release is dated 27 October 2000.
Apple revived the Control Strip as a component of its Touch Bar in October 2016. By default, the rightmost portion of the Touch Bar displays a subset of system controls previously available on the keyboard's function keys. When Control Strip is expanded the full set of system controls is displayed.
Features
Somewhat like the system trays of other operating systems, the Control Strip allowed easy access to status information about and control of simple tasks such as screen resolution, AppleTalk activity, battery status etc. Each task appears as a button-like popup menu called a module, these modules are managed in the Finder as individual module files, which have their own folder in the System Folder ("Control Strip Modules") and are executed alongside the Control Strip as it starts up or can be dragged directly onto the strip while it is running.
The Control Strip always anchors itself to the closest vertical screen edge (left or right,) but can be freely moved up and down both sides of any display by the user. It defaults to the lower left corner of the primary display on fresh systems.
Users can choose whether to turn the Control Strip on and off and even set a hot key to hide and reveal it using its control panel. Two buttons at either end allow the Strip to be collapsed and expanded (with the one opposite the screen edge also allowing the strip to be resized when dragged), while two more buttons just inside those allow one to scroll through a very full Strip. Holding down the option key while clicking turns the cursor into a distinctive hand shape that allows one to drag the Strip around the screen, rearrange modules within the Strip and drag modules out.
Extensibility
Control Strip modules were also available from many third parties. For example, Conflict Catcher included a Control Strip module to switch extension sets, while DAVE used one to toggle SMB/NetBIOS networking. Some novelty modules even consisted of calculators, calendars and games. Like the System Trays of other OSs, this was often abused to insert a f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%203590 | The IBM 3590 is a series of tape drives and corresponding magnetic tape data storage media formats developed by IBM. The first drive, having the IBM product number 3590, was introduced in 1995 under the nickname Magstar. The 3590 series of tape drives and media are not compatible with the IBM 3592 line of drives that replaced it. They can store up to 60 GB of data (uncompressed). This family superseded the IBM 3480 Family of tape drives popular in 1980s and 1990s.
Like the 3480 and 3592 formats, this tape format has half inch tape spooled onto 4-by-5-by-1 inch data cartridges containing a single reel. A takeup reel is embedded inside the tape drive. Because of their speed, reliability, durability and low media cost, the 3590 tape drives are still in high demand. A hallmark of the genre is interchangeability: Tapes recorded with one tape drive are generally readable on another drive, even if the tape drives were built by different manufacturers. Magstar tapes and drives exist in 128, 256 and 384-track versions.
It is important to be aware that the tape is written at the drive's defined density and can only be read in a drive of the same model type or a higher version model.
So a tape written in the H drive can only be read in an H drive. A tape written in an E drive can be read in an E drive and an H drive. A tape written in a B drive can be read in a B, E or H drive.
Unlike DLT, LTO or 3592 drive variants, the 3590 drive is not capable of writing at a lower density than its native density.
There is often confusion in naming of the media and drives, the drives usually being referred to as 3590B, 3590E and 3590H . There are two types of media, the standard length media often being referred to as 3590 or 3590B, and the extended length media often being referred to as 3590E. Both types of media can be written in all three drives, the 3590E in the Ultra variant of the 3590B drive.
Drives
3590 B Model (3590 B11/B1A), 128 tracks, up to 9 MB/s native data rate. Announced April 1995.
3590 E Model (3590 E11/E1A), 256 tracks, up to 14 MB/s native data rate. Announced April 1999.
3590 H Model (3590 H11/H1A), 384 tracks, up to 14 MB/s native data rate. Announced July 2002.
Notes
IBM's 3590 A14 archive product page
IBM Redbook for original 3590 model
Media
Notes
The 320 m long "High Performance" (normal) 3590 cartridges use Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as the base material.
The 634 m long "Extended" 3590 cartridges use Polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) as the base material.
3590 media datasheet
References
External links
Fifty years of storage innovation
Read/Write Compatibility Matrix
PC Magazine's Magstar Reference
3590 family
Computer storage tape media
Computer-related introductions in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha%20Yu%20%28actor%29 | Wong Sing (born 14 June 1943), better known by his stage name Ha Yu, is a Hong Kong actor who has been working on the television network TVB since the 1970s.
Biography
Wong was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, in 1946. He went to Hong Kong in 1962 and worked as a part-time actor during his studies there. Later, he joined the television station Rediffusion (now ATV) as an actor and adopted the stage name "Ha Yu". He switched to another station, TVB, in 1974 and acted in a number of television series produced by TVB, especially in adaptations of wuxia novels by Gu Long. In early 1987, Wong co-hosted the variety show An Evening With the Stars (群斗星會) aired on the Taiwanese television network TTV.
He immigrated to Vancouver, Canada in 1994. During that period, he returned to Hong Kong in 1997 to film for ATV, and in 2000, Wong returned to TVB and acted in some television series again. He won Best Supporting Actor at the 2005 TVB Anniversary Awards for his portrayal of a useless son in the sitcom My Family. In 2007, Wong acted in a few TVB dramas, most notably as "Dai Bau" in Heart of Greed. He won Best Actor at the 2008 TVB Anniversary Awards for his role as "Gam Tai Jo" in Moonlight Resonance. Wong left TVB in 2012.
Filmography
Film
The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon 吉星拱照 (1989)
Jianghu Dream (1993)
Love for All Seasons 百年好合 (2003)
Dragon Reloaded (2005)
Kung Fu Mahjong 3 雀聖3 (2007)
The Vampire Who Admires Me 有只僵尸暗恋你(2008)
Perfect Rivals 美好冤家 (2011)
ATM 提款機 (2015)
TVB Series
MediaCorp TV Channel 8 series
Awards and nominations
2008: Moonlight Resonance (Best Actor)
2005 : My Family (Best Supporting Actor)
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniGene | UniGene was a NCBI database of the transcriptome and thus, despite the name, not primarily a database for genes. Each entry is a set of transcripts that appear to stem from the same transcription locus (i.e. gene or expressed pseudogene). Information on protein similarities, gene expression, cDNA clones, and genomic location is included with each entry.
Descriptions of the UniGene transcript based and genome based build procedures are available.
A detailed description of UniGene database
The UniGene resource, developed at NCBI, clusters ESTs and other mRNA sequences, along with coding sequences (CDSs) annotated on genomic DNA, into subsets of related sequences. In most cases, each cluster is made up of sequences produced by a single gene, including alternatively spliced transcripts. However, some genes may be represented by more than one cluster. The clusters are organism specific and are currently available for human, mouse, rat, zebrafish, and cattle. They are built in several stages, using an automatic process based on special sequence comparison algorithms. First, the nucleotide sequences are searched for contaminants, such as mitochondrial, ribosomal, and vector sequence, repetitive elements, and low-complexity sequences. After a sequence is screened, it must contain at least 100 bases to be a candidate for entry into UniGene. mRNA and genomic DNA are clustered first into gene links. A second sequence comparison links ESTs to each other and to the gene links. At this stage, all clusters are ‘‘anchored,’’ and contain either a sequence with a polyadenylation site or two ESTs labeled as coming from the 3 end of a clone. Clone-based edges are added by linking the 5 and 3 ESTs that derive from the same clone. In some cases, this linking may merge clusters identified at a previous stage. Finally, unanchored ESTs and gene clusters of size 1 (which may represent rare transcripts) are compared with other UniGene clusters at lower stringency. The UniGene build is updated weekly, and the sequences that make up a cluster may change. Thus, it is not safe to refer to a UniGene cluster by its cluster identifier; instead, one should use the GenBank accession numbers of the sequences in the cluster.
As of July 2000, the human subset of UniGene contained 1.7 million sequences in 82,000 clusters; 98% of these clustered sequences were ESTs, and the remaining 2% were from mRNAs or CDSs annotated on genomic DNA. These human clusters could represent fragments of up to 82,000 unique human genes, implying that many human genes are now represented in a UniGene cluster. (This number is undoubtedly an overestimate of the number of genes in the human genome, as some genes may be represented by more than one cluster.) Only 1.4% of clusters totally lack ESTs, implying that most human genes are represented by at least one EST. Conversely, it appears that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake%20Climate%20Action%20Network | The Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The organization's mission is to foster a rapid societal switch to clean energy and energy-efficient products, joining similar efforts worldwide to address global warming.
Background
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network was launched on July 1, 2002, with a seed grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Working with a large and growing network of allies, the group helped pass an Offshore Wind Bill in Maryland, statewide carbon caps in Maryland, clean cars bills in Maryland and the District of Columbia, renewable energy standard bills in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
References
See also
Climate change in Maryland
Climate change in Virginia
Climate change in Washington, D.C.
Environment of Maryland
Climate change organizations based in the United States
Companies based in Takoma Park, Maryland
Non-profit organizations based in Maryland
2002 establishments in Maryland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20D.%20Ward | Michael Don Ward (August 24, 1948-July 9, 2021) was an American political scientist and academic. He was professor emeritus of political science at Duke University, an affiliate of the Duke Network Analysis Center, and the principal investigator at Ward Lab, a website that creates conflict predictions using Bayesian modeling and network analysis. He is the founder of Predictive Heuristics, a consultancy that does risk analysis for a variety of clients.
Biography
Ward was born in Japan to an American military family.
Ward received a B. A. (Hons) from Indiana University in 1970 where he studied with Dina A. Zinnes and John Gillespie. He served with the 287th Military Police (Sep) in the Berlin Brigade from 1970 to 1972. Subsequently, he earned a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in 1977. He wrote his dissertation on the political economy of inequality which was later published as The Political Economy of Distribution: Equality Versus Inequality.
He was the Gordon Scott Fulcher Research Fellow where he worked with Harold Guetzkow from 1977 to 1979. He then joined the Science Center Berlin, working with Karl Wolfgang Deutsch and others for two years building a global political model. After leaving the Science Center, he was appointed Associate Professor of political science at the University of Colorado in 1981, where he was Director of the Center for International Relations. He later moved to the University of Washington in 1997 where he was a founding member of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, serving on its executive board for a decade. In 2009, he joined the faculty of Duke University, and established wardlab which was focused on conflict predictions. At the time of his death he was an emeritus professor at Duke University, an elected fellow of the Society for Political Methodology, and an affiliate professor at the University of Washington.
Academic work and reception
Ward is the author of two books on statistical methods and one book on world geography, as well as editor or co-editor of three books on political science and political geography.
Ward was the principal investigator at Ward Lab, a research lab of graduate and undergraduate students at Duke. It is also a website that creates conflict predictions using Bayesian modeling and network analysis. The lab also runs Predictive Heuristics, one of the foremost blogs on global political forecasting and conflict forecasting.
Ward's article "The perils of policy by p-value", along with Brian D. Greenhill and Kristin M. Bakke, was included by political scientist Jay Ulfelder in his list of suggested readings for political forecasters. Phil Schrodt commented that this work is "in terms of political prediction using formal models, easily the most important work in the past quarter century."
Ward is also known for having a relatively optimistic outlook about the ability to forecast potential conflicts and crises, putting him at odds with Jay Ulfelder, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Macintosh%205400 | The Power Macintosh 5400 (also sold under variations of the name Performa 5400) is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from April 1996 to March 1998. The 5400 is an all-in-one computer with an integrated monitor, and replaced the Power Macintosh 5200 LC in that role. It is largely identical to the Power Macintosh 6400 internally, which is essentially the same computer (the "Alchemy" platform) in a tower case. This is the first all-in-one Macintosh to support PCI expansion, replacing the Processor Direct Slot.
Unlike other Power Macintosh machines of the time, the 5400 was only sold to education markets. Macintosh Performa-branded variants were generally only sold in Europe, Asia and Australia while the less-powerful Performa 5300CD remained on sale in the Americas for much of 1996. This reflected a de-emphasizing of sales of all-in-one form factor computers into the consumer market, something Apple stopped doing altogether until the introduction of the iMac G3 in the second half of 1998.
The more powerful Power Macintosh 5500 was introduced in April 1997, and both computers continued to be sold alongside each other. When the education-only Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One was introduced in early 1998, the 5400 and 5500 were both discontinued.
Models
Introduced April 15, 1996:
Power Macintosh 5400/120: Base education version with 16 MB RAM and a 120 MHz processor.
Introduced April 22, 1996:
Macintosh Performa 5400CD: Consumer version of the 5400/120.
Macintosh Performa 5410CD: Ethernet-less version of the 5400CD. Not sold in the U.S..
Macintosh Performa 5420CD: Not sold in the U.S.
Introduced August 5, 1996:
Macintosh Performa 5400/160: Asia- and Europe-only version with a 160 MHz CPU.
Macintosh Performa 5400/180 (DE): Asia- and Europe-only 180 MHz variant in a black case. The "DE" (Director's Edition) was available only in Australia and had 24 MB of RAM, a built in TV tuner with remote control, and a bigger hard drive.
Introduced October 1, 1996:
Power Macintosh 5400/180: Same, but with a 180 MHz processor.
Introduced November 12, 1996:
Macintosh Performa 5430: Asia- and Europe-only variant of the 5400/160, but with 24 MB RAM.
Macintosh Performa 5440: Asia- and Europe-only variant of the 5400/180, only in a normal grey case.
Introduced February 17, 1997:
Power Macintosh 5400/200: Education version with 24 MB RAM and a 200 MHz processor
Timeline
References
External links
Power Macintosh 5400 at lowendmac.com
5400
Macintosh Performa
5400
Macintosh all-in-ones
Computer-related introductions in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland%20%282007%20film%29 | Flatland (also released as Flatland: The Film and Flatland the film) is a 2007 American computer-animated science fiction film based on the 1884 novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott. The film was directed and animated by Ladd Ehlinger Jr. in Lightwave 3D. The screenplay was written by author Tom Whalen. The music was composed by Mark Slater.
Plot
In a two-dimensional world called Flatland populated by sapient polygons, it is three days until the celebration of the year 3000. "A Square", attorney at law, struggles to instruct his son, A Hexagon, in the art of sight recognition. The lesson is interrupted by A Square's brother B, a clerk to President Circle, warning A to stay home during a meeting at the Senate of the Great Southern Republic.
The Senate session has been called to discuss the increasing hostilities between the government and the Chromatist movement, led by Senator Chromatistes, which seeks the legalization of Flatlanders coloring themselves as they wish. The Great Southern Republic distinguishes itself from its enemy, the Northern Kingdom, by its stances on Chromatism and Irregulars along with a democratic government. Relaxing the laws has already been perceived as weakness by the Northern Kingdom who are massing on the borders.
Against his brother's warning, A Square meets his new client, the first female charged as a Chromatist. On his way home he is caught in the melee leaving the Senate. President Circle's soldiers killed Senator Chromatistes and his supporters, sparking a riot across the city. A Square just gets home safely, then barricades his family against the chaos for the night.
A Square awakens to learn that the deadly riots originated in the Senate meeting that B Square was attending. He scours the city, now under martial law, seeking B Square. The family prepares for another night, only to be terrified by the sudden appearance of A Sphere, CEO of Messiah, Inc, who has chosen A Square to convince Flatland about the existence of the three-dimensional Spaceland. A Sphere plucks A Square out of Flatland, finally making him understand the third dimension. Having business himself at the Great Hall, A Sphere brings A Square to look for his brother there. On their arrival, A Sphere expounds upon three dimensions to President Circle and the Priests, who anticipated this event. After rejecting A Sphere's message and attempting to kill him, the Flatland leaders execute all who have witnessed the event, except B Square, who is imprisoned for life on pain of death in exchange for his silence.
Realizing that time in Spaceland is short, at least for A Square, A Sphere brings him to Messiah, Inc. to finish his education on the gospel of Three Dimensions. Enthralled by the complex world of Spaceland, A Square posits about the existence of even higher dimension, which A Sphere dismisses. Meanwhile, A Square's intrusion into Spaceland has become a national emergency, which prompts the Spaceland Senate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TabletKiosk | TabletKiosk is a manufacturer of enterprise-grade Tablet PCs and UMPCs located in Torrance, California, United States. All mobile computers produced by TabletKiosk fall into the slate category, featuring touchscreen or pen (active digitizer) input, in lieu of integrated or convertible keyboards. Current products include the Sahara Slate PC i500 series, designed in-house at TabletKiosk's Taiwan R&D facility. Early generations of the eo brand of UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC) were designed in collaboration with outside designers and the TabletKiosk team, while the fourth generation of this brand, the eo a7400 is designed exclusively in-house.
TabletKiosk is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sand Dune Ventures, based in Torrance, California.
In 2006, TabletKiosk delayed shipment of its "eo" brand tablet after discovering problems with the device's fan.
SoftBrands announced in 2007 that it would use TabletKiosk's Sahara Slate PC line to distribute SoftBrands software to hotel companies.
Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, United States, has patients visiting its emergency department fill in their details using a TabletKiosk machine.,
In 2013, Healthcare Global named the Sahara Slate PC i500 as One of the Top 10 Mobile Tablets For Healthcare Professionals.
References
External links
Company website
Computer hardware companies
Companies established in 2003
Microsoft Tablet PC
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Shoup | Richard Shoup may refer to:
Richard G. Shoup (1923–1995), U.S. Representative from Montana
Richard Shoup (programmer) (1943–2015), computer programmer who developed SuperPaint
See also
Shoup (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEERtrainer | PEERtrainer is a social networking website that aims to help people lose weight. It is based on the idea that social support is the most important factor in weight loss. Development on the website began in August 2004; it was launched in October 2005. The potential of the company's health oriented social networking platform has generated interest from leading healthcare firms. PEERtrainer's says its membership has reached more than 900,000 since its launch in 2005.
Groups
PEERtrainer's social support network centers around four-person user groups with common interests. The website is used as a way to reinforce habits among members by facilitating peer-to-peer support within these groups. Some individuals that take part in other dieting programs, such as Weight Watchers, have begun to integrate PEERtrainer's online support groups to help them stay on track.
Media coverage
In May, 2007, a PEERtrainer member was pictured on the cover of People for her weight loss success story, and featured on Good Morning America. The company was ranked "Best in Class" in the Health category of the SEOmoz 2007 Web 2.0 Awards and written about by The New York Times. The NBC San Francisco Bay Area affiliate TV show TechNow! aired its segment on PEERtrainer in May, 2006.
References
External links
Official web site
American social networking websites
American health websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebon%20Fisher | Ebon Fisher is a pioneer of transmedia art, working at the intersection of art, biology and digital media. Informed by his exposure to cybernetics and feedback systems at the MIT Media Lab in the mid-1980s, Fisher has approached his work as an evolving collaboration with the world, culminating recently in a nervelike system of ethics conveyed through a transmedia world called The Nervepool.
Life and work
Cultivating what he terms "media organisms" in the plasma of mass communications, Ebon Fisher is one of the early, pre-web explorers of network culture and viral media. Wired Magazine dubbed him "Mr. Meme" in 1995 for his memetic approach to art and he has been lauded as one of the "Visionaries of the New Millennium." Drawn to both the formal and functional properties of nerves and networks, Fisher's work has followed a trajectory from neuron graffiti to his weblike media creation, The Nervepool.
Neuron graffiti: Pittsburgh, PA (1980–82).
Nerve Circle: Interactive rock theatre group, Boston, MA (1986–88).
Network rituals: Information-sharing rituals in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (1989–98).
Network ethics: Bionic ethics system, the Bionic Codes, which evolved into Zoacodes (1992-present).
The Nervepool: Transmedia world with a "nervecenter" at Nervepool.net (1992-present).
In 1985, Fisher was one of the first instructors at the MIT Media Lab where he began his research into culture as "intercoding networks" of humans, machines and ecosystems. In 1986, sensing rock music's potential for popular intercoding, Fisher launched the multimedia rock band, Nerve Circle, in Boston, MA. In 1988 Nerve Circle's raucous, interactive production, "Evolution of the Grid," was shut down by the police leading to his eviction from his loft. This precipitated a move to Brooklyn in 1988. Fisher's experimental media rituals in the 1990s helped to build vital channels of communication in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Fisher was one of the co-founders of a neighborhood-oriented arts movement called The Immersionists which included groups like Lalalandia, Fakeshop, The Pedestrian Project and large, interactive warehouse events like The Cat's Head, The Flytrap and Organism. The emergence of such street and warehouse culture in the early 1990s helped Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to grow into a landmark arts district.
Fisher's Immersionist works included the media-sharing gatherings at Minor Injury Gallery, Media Compressions, a phone-in community bulletin board, (718) SUBWIRE, an open, Anglo-Latino creative space situated in a traditional street festival, The Weird Thing Zone and the collectively defined philosophy, Wigglism. According to Domus Magazine, Fisher's bionic ritual, the Web Jam of 1993, and the large, collaborative warehouse event it catalyzed called Organism, became a "symbolic climax" to the emerging Williamsburg art scene. Newsweek dubbed the Web Jam a "sequel to the rave." Stemming from his media rituals Fisher developed a network-based system of ethics called Bion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy%20Central%20%28German%20TV%20channel%29 | Comedy Central is a German free-to-air channel owned by Paramount Networks EMEAA. It is distributed in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and broadcasts many American and British imported television series as well as original programming. It launched on 15 January 2007 replacing former music channel VIVA Plus. Prior to its launch, Viacom had Nick Comedy, which was a timeshared channel with Nickelodeon Germany, airing from 9:15pm to 6:00am (similar to Adult Swim channel with Cartoon Network nighttime schedule).
From 15 December 2008 – 31 December 2018 Comedy Central Germany ceased broadcasting 24 hours a day and started timesharing its slot with Nickelodeon Germany first then later VIVA Germany, running from 8:15pm to 5:45am. However, after VIVA ceased on 31 December 2018 at 14:00 Comedy Central returned to broadcast 24 hours a day.
On 1 October 2011, Comedy Central Germany was rebranded, using the American new logo and graphic packages.
History
Comedy Central Germany was licensed by the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM), which is also the supervising State media authority for the channel. On 24 November 2006, the license of VIVA Plus was changed to Comedy Central. Due to this, it got a license valid until 20 March 2010.
Viacom initially tried to establish the channel independently as a 24-hour network. On 15 December 2008, however, Comedy Central started to timeshare its frequency with Nickelodeon and therefore reduced its broadcast time to 9:30 hours, from 8:15pm until 5:45am. Viacom previously launched a comedy timeshared channel using that same timeslot named Nick Comedy, which lasted from 2005 to 2006. It was shut down in favour of Comedy Central Germany.
On 1 March 2010, Comedy Central Germany switched its aspect ratio to 16:9 and began airing its programming schedule in widescreen.
From 1 October 2014, Comedy Central Germany shared air-time with VIVA Germany, due to launch of NickNight, late night block equivalent to American Nick@Nite until 31 December 2018 when VIVA ceased with Comedy Central finally broadcasting 24/7.
On 1 March 2021, MTV+ was replaced by Comedy Central +1.
Austrian subfeed
An Austrian subfeed of the channel was launched on 1 January 2011. The programming is the same as the German main feed with the exception of airing local advertisements. It replaced VIVA Austria's timeslot on Nickelodeon Austria as a timeshared channel, following the shut down of MTV Austria. Due to VIVA closing, Comedy Central became a 24-hour channel.
Swiss subfeed
In Switzerland, a localised subfeed was launched on 16 May 2011. The Swiss subfeed differs from the main feed on having less on-air time, ending its broadcast at 5:00am in favour of Nickelodeon Switzerland. Like in Austria, Comedy Central replaced VIVA Switzerland, which had its programming moved to MTV Switzerland in the following months. Nevertheless, Viacom announced on 28 September 2012 that VIVA Switzerland would be launched again on 1 October as a full, 24-h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Cayenne | Apache Cayenne is an open source persistence framework licensed under the Apache License, providing object-relational mapping (ORM) and remoting services. Cayenne binds one or more database schemas directly to Java objects, managing atomic commit and rollbacks, SQL generation, joins, sequences, and more. With Cayenne's Remote Object Persistence, those Java objects can even be persisted out to clients via Web Services. Or, with native XML serialization, objects can be further persisted to non-Java clients—such as an Ajax-capable browser.
Cayenne supports database reverse engineering and generation, as well as a Velocity-based class generation engine. All of these functions can be controlled directly through the CayenneModeler, a fully functional GUI tool. No XML- or annotation-based configuration is required. An entire database schema can be mapped directly to Java objects quickly, all from the comfort of the GUI-based CayenneModeler. These things together make Cayenne interesting for a user who is new to the enterprise world.
Cayenne supports other features, including caching, a complete object query syntax, relationship pre-fetching, on-demand object and relationship faulting, object inheritance, database auto-detection, and generic persisted objects. Most importantly, Cayenne can scale up or down to virtually any project size.
History
Cayenne started as a project run by ObjectStyle and led by Andrus Adamchik. It was released under the Apache license from its first release in July 2002. In early 2006 the project moved from Objectstyle to the Apache Software Foundation and in December 2006 was promoted to be a top level project of Apache.
Notable milestones in Cayenne's history include the release of Apache Cayenne 3.0 in May 2010 and the release of Apache Cayenne 3.1 in the fall of 2014.
See also
Apache OpenJPA
References
External links
Objectstyle
Cayenne article on theserverside
Cayenne
Java (programming language) libraries
Object–relational mapping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zona%20Universit%C3%A0ria%20station | Zona Universitària is a station in the Barcelona Metro and Trambaix networks, in the Les Corts district of Barcelona. It is currently the western terminus of metro line L3 and L9. Also it's served by tram lines T1, T2 and T3. It is named after the Universitat de Barcelona campus of the same name.
The metro station is located under Avinguda Diagonal, between Carrer González Tablas and Avinguda Dr. Marañón. It has five entrances, two on each side of Avinguda Diagonal, one in Avinguda Dr. Marañón, and two long side platforms. The entrance lobby features an artwork by the sculptor Angel Orensanz. The Trambaix stop lies some to the east, in Carrer d'Adolf Florensa.
The metro station opened in 1975, along with the other stations of the section of L3 between Zona Universitària and Sants Estació stations. This section was originally operated separately from L3, and known as L3b, until the two sections were joined in 1982. In February 2016, the south branch of the L9 it opened from Aeroport T1 to this station, as a provisional terminal until it continue to connect the other branch of the line.
It is planned that the station will be served by the common section of metro lines L9 and L10, and work is currently underway to build the L10 and the extension to the upper area of the city of these lines. In the longer term, an extension of line L3 beyond Zona Universitària is planned.
See also
University of Barcelona
List of Barcelona Metro stations
List of tram stations in Barcelona
References
External links
Avinguda Diagonal
Barcelona Metro line 3 stations
Barcelona Metro line 9 stations
Trambaix stops
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1975
1975 establishments in Catalonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium%20oxysporum%20f.sp.%20medicaginis | Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. medicaginis is a fungal plant pathogen infecting alfalfa.
References
External links
USDA ARS Fungal Database
oxysporum f.sp. medicaginis
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Forma specialis taxa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machines%20That%20Think | Machines That Think is a compilation of 29 science fiction stories probing the scientific, spiritual, and moral facets of computers and robots and speculating on their future. It was edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Patricia S. Warrick.
Published in 1984 by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, it features a foreword by Asimov, the celebrated creator of the Three Laws of Robotics. (At five stories, Asimov's contributions dominate the book's contents.) Machines That Think was reprinted in 1992 by Wings Books as War with the Robots. (However, one story — "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison — was removed.)
Each story has introductory notes by Warrick, author of The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction (1981), explaining the significance of the story in the context of science fiction's evolution of ideas concerning artificial intelligence. This anthology is a companion piece to that non-fiction book, providing the source material upon which Warrick's analysis is based.
Contents
See also
Isaac Asimov bibliography (chronological)
External links
1984 books
Science fiction anthologies
Holt, Rinehart and Winston books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corday%E2%80%93Morgan%20Prize | The Corday–Morgan Medal and Prize is awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry for the most meritorious contributions to experimental chemistry, including computer simulation. The prize was established by chemist Gilbert Morgan, who named it after his father Thomas Morgan and his mother Mary-Louise Corday. From the award's inception in 1949 until 1980 it was awarded by the Chemical Society. Up to three prizes are awarded annually.
Recipients
The Corday–Morgan medallists have included many of the UK's most successful chemists. Since 1949 they have been:
Junwang Tang Jan Verlet
Rachel O'Reilly Edward W. Tate
See also
List of chemistry awards
References
Awards established in 1949
Awards of the Royal Society of Chemistry
1949 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick%20Look | Quick Look is a quick preview feature developed by Apple Inc. which was introduced in its operating system Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The feature was announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference on Jun. 11, 2007.
While macOS's Finder has always had smaller previews in Get Info windows or column view, Quick Look allows users to look at the contents of a file at full or near-full size in the Finder, depending on the size of the document relative to the screen resolution. It can preview files such as PDFs, HTML, QuickTime readable media, plain text and RTF text documents, iWork (Keynote, Pages, and Numbers) documents, ODF documents, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) files (including OOXML), and RAW camera images.
Quick Look can also be opened in full screen and launched from the command line. Additionally, multi-page documents like PowerPoint slide shows can be navigated using the slide previews at the side of the preview window.
Quick Look technology is implemented throughout the Apple suite of software starting with Mac OS X 10.5, including iChat Theater, Time Machine, and Finder's Cover Flow.
Quick Look APIs are available to developers via the Quick Look framework on iOS and as part of the Quartz framework on the Mac.
Supported file types by default
Since its debut, Quick Look has included a number of generators for common file types.
Plug-ins
Plug-ins can be added to Quick Look to allow previewing the content of other file formats. Plug-ins can also be used to add additional functionality to Quick Look such as syntax highlighting for source code files.
To add a plug-in to Quick Look it needs to be placed in the folder /Library/QuickLook/. To activate that plug-in, either the computer needs to be restarted or Quick Look needs to be reset with the command qlmanage -r
Usage
There are multiple ways to invoke Quick Look.
Keyboard shortcuts:
-
- (open in full screen)
hold to zoom an image to actual size (Quick Look must already be open)
Command line:
qlmanage -p file
Menu:
File — Quick Look file name;
Context menu (right-click or -mouse click), then Quick Look file name.
Caching and Forensics
Quick Look can be exploited when conducting a forensic examination of a computer's contents. A thumbnail cache is created for each user in a random subfolder of /var/folders called com.apple.QuickLook.thumbnailcache. The cache contains two files;
index.sqlite which is a SQLite database containing two tables - files and thumbnails.
files contains the name, path, file-identifier, and volume-identifier of each file in the database.
thumbnails contains metadata about each thumbnail, including the file linked-to in the files table and the offset of its data contained in thumbnails.data.
thumbnails.data contains the raw bitmaps of the cached thumbnails.
Quick Look thumbnails are stored for documents on internal disks and also for documents located on removable disks, including those that have been encrypted and can pose a signifi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/MED | The SQL/MED ("Management of External Data") extension to the SQL standard is defined by ISO/IEC 9075-9:2008 (originally defined for SQL:2003). SQL/MED provides extensions to SQL that define foreign-data wrappers and datalink types to allow SQL to manage external data. External data is data that is accessible to, but not managed by, an SQL-based DBMS. This standard can be used in the development of federated database systems.
Implementations
PostgreSQL has support for some SQL/MED since version 9.1.
LucidDB has support for SQL/MED.
MariaDB has support for SQL/MED with the CONNECT storage engine. The implementation uses different syntax than the official standard.
Farrago has support for SQL/MED.
IBM Db2 has support for SQL/MED.
Teiid has support for SQL/MED.
See also
SQL
SQL:2008
SQL:2003
References
External links
SQL/MED - A Status Report
SQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/JRT | SQL/JRT, or SQL Routines and Types for the Java Programming Language, is an extension to the SQL standard first published as ISO/IEC 9075-13:2002 (part 13 of SQL:1999). SQL/JRT specifies the ability to invoke static Java methods as routines from within SQL applications, commonly referred to as "Java stored procedures". SQL/JRT also calls for the ability to use Java classes as SQL structured user-defined types. The two parts of the extension originate from the earlier ANSI SQLJ part 1 and 2 standards (not to be confused with SQLJ part 0, which defined an embedding of SQL into Java, later standardized by ISO as SQL/OLB.)
Example
SQL/JRT allows a Java function to be called from SQL code like this:
CREATE FUNCTION sinh(v DOUBLE) RETURNS DOUBLE
LANGUAGE JAVA DETERMINISTIC NO SQL
EXTERNAL NAME 'CLASSPATH:java.lang.Math.sinh'
SELECT sinh(doublecolumn) FROM mytable
SQL/JRT also allows Java code to dynamically generate tables using a java.sql.ResultSet object. The result sets returned are converted to SQL tables and can be used anywhere a table or view can be used.
Implementations
SQL/JRT stored procedures are implemented in HSQLDB. Java stored procedures have also been implemented in Oracle's JServer (or Aurora JVM), which was introduced in the Oracle Database version 8i in 1999; it is now called Oracle JVM. IBM DB2 also supported Java stored procedures since about 1998, although using an external JVM (at that time).
See also
SQL:2003
References
External links
SQL:2003 SQL/JRT draft
SQL:2003 SQL Standard User Defined Types and Routines from the Farrago documentation
SQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/XML | SQL/XML or XML-Related Specifications is part 14 of the Structured Query Language (SQL) specification. In addition to the traditional predefined SQL data types like NUMERIC, CHAR, TIMESTAMP, ... it introduces the predefined data type XML together with constructors, several routines, functions, and XML-to-SQL data type mappings to support manipulation and storage of XML in a SQL database.
SQL:2003-14 defines the basic datatype, mappings, predicates and functions.
SQL:2006-14, SQL:2008-14 and SQL:2011-14 expands the older versions and approaches to XQuery.
Specification
The specification defines the data type XML, functions for working with XML, including element construction, mapping data from relational tables, combining XML fragments, and embedding XQuery expressions in SQL statements. Functions which can be embedded include XMLQUERY (which extracts XML or values from an XML field) and XMLEXISTS (which predicates whether an XQuery expression is matched).
Further information and examples of the SQL/XML functions are provided in the external links below.
Standard compliance
The result of Wagner's objective evaluation of the SQL/XML:2006 standard compliance of Oracle 11g Release 1, MS SQL Server 2008 and MySQL 5.1.30 is shown in the following table, to which the data for PostgreSQL 9.1, and IBM DB2 has been added:
Examples
The sample SQLXML query below has SQLXML type as output(tested on DB2 9.7 and Oracle 11g):
SELECT XMLELEMENT(NAMEs "PhoneBook", -- root element name
XMLAGG( -- aggregation over the rows
XMLELEMENT(NAME "Contact",
XMLATTRIBUTES(cust.FIRST_NAME AS "Name",
cust.TEL)
)
)
)
FROM TMP.CUSTOMER AS cust;
And the output:
<PhoneBook>
<Contact Name="Daniel" TEL="788255855"/>
<Contact Name="Martin" TEL="889665447"/>
<Contact Name="Eva" TEL="111222333"/>
<Contact Name="Alena" TEL="444555666"/>
<Contact Name="Oliver" TEL="777888999"/>
<Contact Name="George" TEL="444882446"/>
<Contact Name="Jamie" TEL="123456789"/>
</PhoneBook>
Samples are taken from javalobby article.
References
External links
SQL/XML on PostgreSQL
SQL/XML on Oracle 11g
SQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horta%20%28Barcelona%20Metro%29 | Horta () is a station in the Barcelona metro network, served by L5, located under carrer de Lisboa, in the Horta-Guinardó district of Barcelona. It was opened in 1967, when an extension of the line into the neighbourhood of the same name from Vilapicina was opened.
The partially curved island-platform station has a ticket hall at either end, one with two accesses, the other with one.
Horta was the terminus before the line was extended in July 2010 towards Vall d'Hebron, meeting L3.
Services
See also
List of Barcelona Metro stations
External links
Horta station at Trenscat.com
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1967
Barcelona Metro line 5 stations
Transport in Horta-Guinardó |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%20Cui%C3%A0s%20%28Barcelona%20Metro%29 | Can Cuiàs is the name of a station in the Barcelona Metro network, and currently the underground light-rail L11's western terminus (as of 2007), before a proposed extension into UAB and Ripollet is complete. As the other stations in the line, it was opened in 2003. It's named after a neighbourhood of Montcada i Reixac, a hilly municipality in the northern half of the metropolitan area of Barcelona. It has two accesses, one on Carrer Circumval·lació and another one on Carrer de Les Fustes.
See also
List of Barcelona Metro stations
Transport in Montcada i Reixac
External links
Can Cuiàs at Trenscat.com
Barcelona Metro line 11 stations
Railway stations in Spain opened in 2003
Transport in Montcada i Reixac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc%20spanning | Disc spanning is a feature of CD and DVD burning software that automatically spreads a large amount of data across many data discs if the data set's size exceeds the storage capacity of an individual blank disc. The advantage is that the user does not need to split up files and directories into two or more (blank disc sized) pieces by hand. The software may or may not support slicing a single large file in order to span it but all disc spanners can divide numerous files that are smaller than one blank disc's capacity across many discs.
Disc spanning works well on CD media in many applications, but spanning on DVD media fails often. This lack of reliable DVD data disc spanning is odd, as disc spanning was used extensively on older 3.5" and 5.25" floppy discs. Most users assume every operating system can perform disc spanning on any media as a built in function; this is incorrect.
Some disc spanning schemes include a small program to reassemble the data set into the same structure it had on the source machine. This program could be written to the first disc only, or to every disc in the set.
The use of disc spanning will in most cases make your files unreadable to the file-system. Therefore, you are bounded to use the same program later on to restore the data. Many users don't want to be bound to such solutions and use "Simple disc spanning" instead.
Simple disc spanning is a solution that groups the files into any media grouped based on size. There is one drawback with this system. Files that are bigger than the target media will not be burnt to the drive. It is simple but powerful and a simple calculation would be "How many CD/DVD/BD/HD DVDs does this bunch of files need?".
The simple grouping can be displayed like this
Disc1 -- (99%) [4,479MiB]
Directory
|
+--- Dir1
+--- File1
Disc2 -- (98%) [4,468MiB]
Directory
|
+--- Dir2
+--- File2
Disc3 -- (45%) [2,130MiB]
|
+--- Dir3
etc...
See also
Spanned volume
Computer file systems
Rotating disc computer storage media
Optical computer storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia%20Federal%20Route%2022 | Federal Route 22, Asian Highway Route AH150 (formerly Federal Route A4), is a federal highway in Sabah, Malaysia, which is also a component of the larger Pan Borneo Highway network. It starts from Tamparuli and ends at Sandakan. The section running from Tamparuli to Ranau, which is known as Tamparuli-Ranau Highway, crosses the Crocker Range just to the south of Mount Kinabalu.
History
The construction of the Federal Route 22 began in 1968 as a joint project between the Malaysian federal government with the government of Australia, known as the "Malaysian-Australian Road Project" (MARP). It was one of the two projects being jointly carried out with the Australian government, together with the Pergau Dam project in Kelantan, with the total cost of RM25 million for both projects. The construction was done in two phases - the construction of the first phase from Sandakan to Telupid began in 1968 and completed in 1971, while the second phase from Telupid to Ranau was constructed in 1971 and completed in 1972. Both sections were paved in 1973 and were completed in 1978. Meanwhile, the final section of the FT22 highway from Ranau to Tamparuli was constructed right after the Sandakan-Ranau section was opened to motorists. The Tamparuli-Ranau section was completed in 1982. The highway was coded as A4 according to the old numbering scheme, but was later changed to FT22 in 1996 to standardise the route numbering system with Peninsular Malaysia.
List of interchanges
References
External links
Infrastructure completed in 1982
1982 establishments in Malaysia
Highways in Malaysia
Roads in Sabah
Australia–Malaysia relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest%20file | In computing, a manifest file is a file containing metadata for a group of accompanying files that are part of a set or coherent unit. For example, the files of a computer program may have a manifest describing the name, version number, license and the constituent files of the program.
The term is borrowed from a cargo shipping procedure, where a ship manifest would list the crew and/or cargo of a vessel.
Types
Package manifest
Linux distributions rely heavily on package management systems for distributing software. In this scheme, a package is an archive file containing a manifest file. The primary purpose is to enumerate the files which are included in the distribution, either for processing by various packaging tools or for human consumption. Manifests may contain additional information; for example, in JAR (a package format for delivering software written in Java programming language), they can specify a version number and an entry point for execution. The manifest may optionally contain a cryptographic hash or checksum of each file. By creating a cryptographic signature for such a manifest file, the entire contents of the distribution package can be validated for authenticity and integrity, as altering any of the files will invalidate the checksums in the manifest file.
Application and assembly manifest
In Microsoft Windows, software that relies on Windows Side-by-Side (WinSxS) needs an application manifest, which is an XML document that is either embedded in an executable file or contained in a separate XML file that accompanies it. It bears name, version, trust information, privileges required for execution and dependencies on other components.
An assembly manifest is very similar to an application manifest but describes the identity of components known as "assemblies". These assemblies are referred to in the application manifest.
An example of an application manifest is as follows. This application manifest has two core parts: Security and dependency. The security part says that the application requires "asInvoker" security level; that is, it can be operated at whatever security level it is executed. The dependency part says the application needs a component called "Microsoft.VC90.CRT" with version number "9.0.21022.8".
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?>
<assembly xmlns='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1' manifestVersion='1.0'>
<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<security>
<requestedPrivileges>
<!--I am okay with whatever security privilege level-->
<requestedExecutionLevel level='asInvoker' uiAccess='false' />
</requestedPrivileges>
</security>
</trustInfo>
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly>
<!--I need Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Runtime to run-->
<assemblyIdentity type='win32' name='Microsoft.VC90.CRT' version='9.0.21022.8' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b' />
</dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
</assembly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20A.%20Venkatachalam | Paruvachi Ammasai Venkatachalam is an Indian academic.
Career
Venkatachalam is among the first 3 people to do a PhD in Computer Science in India when Doctoral Degree in Computer Science was introduced in India for the first time by Professor Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1968-69 and he was part of this batch. After obtaining his PhD degree, he joined the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering of College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, India as a faculty member in 1973 and served as the Professor and Head of that department from 1978-1987. During this period, he introduced a number of Bachelor's and Master's courses. In 1978, he founded the Department of Computer Science at College of Engineering, Guindy which is the first Computer Science department among all Engineering Colleges in Tamil Nadu State. He was the Professor and Head of that department also in addition to Electronics and Communications Engineering department until 1987. During this period he introduced Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degrees in Tamil Nadu State. Venkatachalam is the first to introduce industrial training programs for Bachelor's and Master's students by collaborating with well known industries in Tamil Nadu state. He then founded the School of Computer Science and Engineering at College of Engineering, Guindy in 1986, of which he was the first Director and Professor until 1988. He then moved to be Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Ipoh Campus, Malaysia until 2000.
Venkatachalam served as Senior Professor of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Petronas in Tronoh Campus, Malaysia between 2001-2009. During his time in these Malaysian universities (1988-2009), he established and led a strong Research and Development Lab in the field of Bio Medical Engineering and Image Processing and won several industry grants to carry out research work. Venkatachalam won over 40 international and national awards during this period including Lifetime Achievement Award from USA and it is a testimony to the great research and development work that was undertaken under his leadership.
In 1986, Venkatachalam was seconded by the Government of India to serve as a visiting faculty to Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand where he helped Asian Institute of Technology, with setting up the Computer Science Program. He served as fellow of many professional organisations including Computer Society of India, IETE, Indian Academy of Sciences, IEEE, and others. He has written many books on electrical, electronics and computer science which are used as text books in engineering colleges. Venkatachalam has served as member of several committees of universities and engineering colleges in India, as committee member for industries such as ITI, and as Staff Selection Committee Member/Chairman for Indian Space Researc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly%20%28series%201%29 | The first series of Australian crime television drama series Underbelly originally aired from 13 February 2008 to 7 May 2008 on the Nine Network and is loosely based on the real events of the 1995–2004 gangland war in Melbourne. It depicts the key players in Melbourne's criminal underworld, including the Carlton Crew and their rival, Carl Williams. The series is based on the book Leadbelly: Inside Australia's Underworld, by journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule, and borrows its name from the successful Underbelly true crime anthology book series also authored by Silvester and Rule. An alternative and significantly updated tie-in novel, Underbelly: The Gangland War, was released as their 13th book in the series. The series is produced by the Australian Film Finance Corporation, in association with Film Victoria. The executive producers are Des Monaghan and Jo Horsburgh.
The lead-up to Underbelly involved a heavy marketing campaign which covered radio, print, billboards and an increased online presence, including the use of social networking tools. At a reported cost of $500,000, both this marketing investment and potentially millions of dollars in advertising revenue were claimed to be put at risk by the Victorian Supreme Court's injunction, as the series was expected to attract 800,000 to 1 million viewers in Victoria alone. The injunction was put in place to ensure that upcoming criminal trials were not unfair to the accused, because the series contained fictionalised re-enactments of several disputed events. Underbelly began screening on 13 February 2008 on the Nine Network in all states and territories except Victoria and some regional parts of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. An edited version of the series premiered in Victoria on 14 September 2008 after the injunction was partially lifted, although only the first five episodes were shown. In 2011, the injunction was partially lifted and the series was screened as "Underbelly: Uncut". This rebroadcast included scenes from the original DVD release, as well as several significant changes that were made to keep the show current, including a newly recorded final voiceover and the crediting of several characters that were previously uncredited (allowable due to the ending of related trials). Some previously named characters in the final episode however are now unable to be named, resulting in a continued banning of the sale of the video release in Victoria.
Underbelly was a critical and ratings success, being described as "Australia's best ever crime drama". Despite this critical success, the series has been the target of controversy due to its glamourised depiction of crime and violence. The opening double episodes, which aired on 13 February, attracted an average of 1,320,000 viewers nationally, minus Victoria. Every episode of the 13-part series was soon made available for download on a range of sites, with the Nine Network saying it was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia%20%28software%29 | Metasequoia 4 is 3D polygon modeling software created by Osamu Mizuno for 3D computer graphics. Frequently abbreviated as "Metaseq" or "Meta" it is a patch and poly modeler. Metasequoia is one of two 3D import formats for the software ComiPo, which creates drag and drop comics with 3D objects rendering them to look like 2D.
Version 4.8.4 contains several improvements as well as several bug fixes.
Version 4 provides 64 bit installation, armature, n-gon support, bridge, fill hole, fillet, ambient occlusion, measure length/angle/thickness, unit display, real time shadow, exports and imports fbx/ply, and imports dae. Version 3 provides 32 bit installation, modeler and uv painting, format used for ComiPo import.
References
External links
3D graphics software
Freeware 3D graphics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redo%20log | In the Oracle RDBMS environment, redo logs comprise files in a proprietary format which log a history of all changes made to the database. Each redo log file consists of redo records. A redo record, also called a redo entry, holds a group of change vectors, each of which describes or represents a change made to a single block in the database.
For example, if a user UPDATEs a salary-value in a table containing employee-related data, the DBMS generates a redo record containing change-vectors that describe changes to the data segment block for the table. And if the user then COMMITs the update, Oracle generates another redo record and assigns the change a "system change number" (SCN).
Whenever something changes in a datafile, Oracle records the change in the redo log. The name redo log indicates its purpose: If the database crashes, the RDBMS can redo (re-process) all changes on datafiles which will take the database data back to the state it was when the last redo record was written. DBAs use the views V$LOG, V$LOGFILE, V$LOG_HISTORY and V$THREAD to find information about the redo log of the database. Each redo log file belongs to exactly one group (of which at least two must exist). Exactly one of these groups is the CURRENT group (can be queried using the column status of v$log). Oracle uses that current group to write the redo log entries. When the group is full, a log switch occurs, making another group the current one. Each log switch causes checkpoint, however, the converse is not true: a checkpoint does not cause a redo log switch. One can also manually cause a redo-log switch using the ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE command.
Classification
Redo log files occur in two types:
online redo logs ("ORL" or "redo logs" for short)
archived redo logs ("archive logs")
Usage
Before a user receives a "" message, the system must first successfully write the new or changed data to a redo log file.
The RDBMS first writes all changes included in the transaction into the log buffer in the System Global Area (SGA). Using memory in this way for the initial capture aims to reduce disk IO. Of course, when a transaction commits, the redo log buffer must be flushed to disk, because otherwise the recovery for that commit could not be guaranteed. The LGWR (Log Writer) process does that flushing.
Having a redo log makes it possible to replay SQL statements. Before an Oracle database changes data in a datafile it writes changes to the redo log. If something happens to one of the datafiles, a recovery procedure can restore a backed-up datafile and then replay the redo written since backup-time; this brings the datafile to the state it had before it became unavailable. Standby databases in an Oracle Data Guard environment use the same technique: one database (the primary database) records all changes and sends them to the standby database(s). Each standby database applies (replays) the arrived redo, resulting in synchronization with the primary database.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.%20K.%20Samaranayake | Vidya Jyothi V. K. Samaranayake, MBCS, MCS(SL), FNASSL, MIEEE (Sinhala:වී.කේ.සමරනායක) (1939 – 6 June 2007) pioneered computing & IT development industry and usage in Sri Lanka and thus considered as the "Father of Information Technology" in Sri Lanka. He was a Professor of Computer Science and former Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo. Prof Samaranayake played a major role in the development of IT and IT related education in Sri Lanka. He was at the time of his death the chairman of the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka and was the founding and former director of the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC).
Early life and education
Samaranayake was born to Mr. and Mrs. V. W. Samaranayake on 22 May 1939. He started his primary schooling at Ananda College and completed his secondary education with distinction at the Royal College Colombo and went on to do his higher studies at the University of Ceylon. He graduated with a BSc in Special Mathematics (First Class Honors) in 1961 and then proceeded to England for his post-graduate studies on a Ceylon Government Scholarship for Mathematics. He received a Diploma of Imperial College from Imperial College and a PhD from King's College London, both in the field of Mathematical Physics.
Family
Samaranayake was married to Sriya Samaranayake, who was the former Deputy Commissioner, Inland Revenue Department. His brother was V. A. Samaranayake Professor at the University of Missouri–Rolla. He was the father of Nayana Samaranayake who founded sl2college. and Samitha Samaranayake, who is currently an Assistant Professor in Cornell University.
Death
Samaranayake died in Stockholm, Sweden on 6 June 2007. The Sri Lankan Government awarded Samaranayake a funeral with state patronage at the Independence Square, Colombo on 13 June 2007, as an appreciation of the contributions and accomplishments Prof Samaranayake.
Career
After completing his education Samaranayake went on to serve the University of Ceylon (in 1974 University of Ceylon was abolished and University of Colombo created from the Colombo campus of the former university) for the next 43 years since 1961. He was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Head, Department of Mathematics in 1974 and Dean of the Faculty of Science in 1975.
Samaranayake was the founder of the Department of Statistics and Computer Science (DSCS) in 1985 and of the Institute of Computer Technology (ICT) of the University of Colombo in 1987. These two institutions were merged as the University of Colombo School of Computing in 2002.
Samaranayake served the Council for Information Technology (CINTEC), the apex National agency for IT in Sri Lanka as its chairman for a period of 12 years. In the field of IT he has pioneered work on IT Policy, Legal Infrastructure, EDI/E-Commerce, Security, Internet Technology, Computer Awareness and IT Education. In 2004 Prof. Samaranayake became the chairman of the Information and Commun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20Peace%20Film%20Award | The Norwegian Peace Film Award - NoPFA was founded December 2, 2003. The organizations represented at the inaugural meeting were the Centre for Peace Studies (CPS), the Students Network for Peace (SNF), and the Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF).
Objectives
The NoPFA-Foundation will annually give The Norwegian Peace Film Award during the Tromsø International Film Festival to a film spotlighting direct, structural or cultural violence, and which in a creative way contributes to a deeper understanding of conflicts and violence. Through educational work and distribution of the award, the foundation wants to contribute to the promotion of a culture of peace both on local and international level.
The foundation is a non-profit organization and has no political affiliation.
Organization
The foundation is managed by a board consisting of six members. Each of the three founding organizations appoints two members. The board is responsible for the administration of the foundation, for its representation outwards, for the nomination of relevant films for the award, and for the appointment of the jury.
Winners
2020 Made in Bangladesh, Rubaiyat Hossain, France/Bangladesh/Denmark/Portugal, Pyramide International
2019 Blindspotting, Carlos López Estrada, USA, Non Stop Entertainment
2018 A Man of Integrity, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran, Arthaus
2017 Hunting Plies, Izer Aliu, Norway/Macedonia, Europafilm
2016 Democrates, Camilla Nielsson, Danmark, Det Danske Filminstitut
2015 Drone, Tonje Hessen Schei, Norway, Tour de Force
2014 Omar, Hany Abu-Assad, Palestine, The Match Factory
2013 Wadja, Haifaa Al Mansour, Germany/Saudi Arabia, Arthaus
2012 Play, Ruben ôstlund, Sweden, Arthaus
2011: Hands Up (Romain Goupil, France)
2010: The Other Bank (George Owashvili, Georgia/Kazakhstan)
2009: Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, Israel)
2008: Little Moth (Peng Tao, China)
2007: The Cats of Mirikitani (Linda Hattendorf, USA)
2006: Shooting Dogs (Michael Caton-Jones, UK)
2005: Beautiful City (Asghar Farhadi, Iran)
2004: In This World (Michael Winterbottom, UK)
References
External links
Norwegian film awards
de:Tromsø Internasjonale Filmfestival#Norwegischer Friedensfilmpreis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung%20Mahawi%20Man%20ang%20Ulap | (International title: Through It All / ) is a 2007 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Based on a 1984 Philippine film of the same title, the series is the third instalment of Sine Novela. Directed by Mac Alejandre, it stars Nadine Samonte, Dennis Trillo and Iwa Moto. It premiered on July 30, 2007 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Sinasamba Kita. The series concluded on November 9, 2007 with a total of 75 episodes. It was replaced by My Only Love in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Nadine Samonte as Catherine Clemente
Dennis Trillo as Rustan "Stan" Ilustre
Iwa Moto as Rita Acuesta
Supporting cast
Gardo Versoza as Pablo Acuesta
Hazel Ann Mendoza as Chona Acuesta
Jeremy Marquez as Jojo Acuesta
Glydel Mercado as Minda Clemente
Aiza Marquez as Liza
Vangie Labalan as Rosa
Ces Quesada as Chayong
Tyron Perez as Anastacio
Guest cast
Tommy Abuel as Rogelio
Kevin Santos as Tencho
Wendell Ramos as Michael
Ama Quiambao as Amelia R. Santos
Chuck Allie as Vincent
Sheena Halili as Monique
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the final episode scored a 27.8% rating.
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows based on comics
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irin | Irin or IRIN may refer to:
Irin, Iran, a village in Tehran Province
Integrated Regional Information Networks, now The New Humanitarian, an independent, non-profit news agency
Islamic Republic of Iran Navy
Watcher (angel), Aramaic irin in the Books of Enoch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSE%20%28programming%20language%29 | LSE () is a programming language developed at Supélec and Télémécanique from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. It is similar to BASIC, except with French-language instead of English-language keywords. It was derived from an earlier language called LSD, also developed at Supélec. It is most commonly said to be an acronym for Langage Symbolique d'Enseignement (Symbolic Teaching Language), but other expansions are also known (e.g. Langage de Sup-Élec, or the more cynical Langage Sans Espoir (hopeless language)).
LSE originally flourished because being "interpreted", the "tokens" used were common to all languages and with a nationalized "editor", tokenized programs could be listed in any language. Obviously, the support from the French Ministry of National Education, was very important, but it declined as the ministry lost interest. It went through a number of revisions; earlier versions of LSE lacked full support for structured programming, later versions such as LSE-83 (aka LSE-1983) by Jacques Arsac added structured programming support, along with exception handling. Even later revisions, such as LSE-2000, added more functionality, new types, new operators (NI, ET QUE, OU QUE and SELON-DANS-SINON), flow control commands, etc.
Code examples
99 Bottles (AFNOR Z 65-020)
1*CHANSON DES 99 BOUTEILLES DE BIERE
2*PASCAL BOURGUIGNON, 2003
10 FAIRE 20 POUR N←99 PAS -1 JUSQUA 1
20 &STROF(N)
30 AFFICHER['IL EST TEMPS D’’ALLER AU MAGASIN.',/]
40 TERMINER
100 PROCEDURE &STROF(N) LOCAL S1,S0;CHAINE S1,S0;S1←"S";S0←"S"
110 SI N=2 ALORS S0←"" SINON SI N=1 ALORS DEBUT S1←"";S0←"" FIN
120 AFFICHER[U,' BOUTEILLE',U,' DE BIERE SUR LE MUR.',/]N,S1
130 AFFICHER[U,' BOUTEILLE',U,' DE BIERE.',/]N,S1
140 AFFICHER['EN PRENDRE UNE, LA FAIRE PASSER.',/]
150 AFFICHER[U,' BOUTEILLE',U,' DE BIERE SUR LE MUR.',2/]N-1,S0
160 RETOUR
Anagrams (LSE-1983)
Example from Jacques Arsac in LSE83:
1 CHAINE A,B,BP
5 FAIRE
10 AFFICHER 'A = ' ;LIRE A ; SI A=’’ ALORS FINI IS
11 AFFICHER 'B = ' ;LIRE B ; BP ← B
12
15 R SI LGR(A) # LGR(B) ALORS .FAUX. SINON &ANAG(A,B) IS
20 SI R ALORS AFFICHER A, 'EST ANAGRAMME DE ',BP
21 SINON AFFICHER A, 'N’’EST PAS ANAGRAMME DE 1, BP
22 IS
25 BOUCLER
29
30 TERMINER
31
50 FONCTION &ANAG(U,V) LOCAL J {lgr(u)=lgr(v)}
51 SI U=' ' ALORS RESULTAT .VRAI. IS
52 SI J = 0 ALORS RESULTAT .FAUX. IS
54 RESULTAT &ANAG(SCH(U,2, ' '),MCH(V,J,l, ' '))
$55 &ANAG
$99
Largest common divisor, Euclid's algorithm (LSE2000)
(*
** MÉTHODE D'EUCLIDE POUR TROUVER LE PLUS GRAND DIVISEUR COMMUN D'UN
** NUMÉRATEUR ET D'UN DÉNOMINATEUR.
** L. Goulet 2010
*)
PROCÉDURE &PGDC(ENTIER U, ENTIER V) : ENTIER LOCAL U, V
ENTIER T
TANT QUE U > 0 FAIRE
SI U< V ALORS
T←U
U←V
V←T
FIN SI
U ← U - V
BOUCLER
RÉSULTAT V
FIN PROCÉDURE
PROCÉDURE &DEMO(ENTIER U, ENTIER V) LOCAL U, V
AFFICHER ['Le PGDC de ',U,'/',U,' est ',U,/] U, V, &PGDC(U,V)
FIN PROCÉDURE
&DEMO(9,12) |
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