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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20NHL%20All-Star%20Game%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks (American, Canadian, and French Canadian) and announcers that have broadcast the National Hockey League All-Star Game over the years.
American Television
2020s
Notes
The 2021 All-Star Game was not played due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2010s
Notes
Versus (originally known as OLN) was renamed NBC Sports Network on January 2, 2012.
The 2015 All-Star Game was to be played on January 27, 2013, at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, home of the Columbus Blue Jackets. This would have been the Jackets' first-ever hosting of the game. However, the game was postponed for two years, first because of the 2012–13 NHL lockout and then due to the league's participation in the 2014 Winter Olympics tournament.
The 2017 All-Star Game was originally scheduled for Sunday night on NBCSN. However, it was moved to NBC and Sunday afternoon, marking the first network-television broadcast of the NHL All-Star Game since 2004.
2000s
Notes
Denis Leary was the third-man in the broadcast booth and called the final 40 minutes of the 2001 All-Star Game at Pepsi Center in Denver.
Because ABC Sports had rights to both the NHL All-Star Game and the Pro Bowl, ABC aired the All-Star Game and the Pro Bowl on the same day from 2000 through 2003, excluding 2002. ABC dubbed these doubleheaders as “All-Star Sunday”.
The All-Star Game was dealt two serious blows in 2005. Not only was the game canceled along with the rest of the season as a result of the 2004–05 NHL lockout, but the subsequent CBA that ended the lockout stipulated that heretofore the game was to be held only in non-Olympic years. Thus, there was no All-Star Game held during the 2005–06 season either.
1990s
Notes
NBC's coverage of the 1990 All-Star Game marked the first time in a decade that an American over-the-air television network (as opposed to cable) carried an NHL game nationally (since Game 6 of the 1980 Stanley Cup Finals aired on CBS). This is because the game itself was played on a Sunday afternoon instead of a Tuesday night, as was the case in previous years – marking the first time that a national audience would see Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux play. Referees and other officials were also wired with microphones in this game, as were the two head coaches. Finally, NBC was allowed to conduct interviews with players during stoppages in play, to the chagrin of the Hockey Night in Canada crew, whose attempts to do likewise were repeatedly denied by the league in past years. (Technically, it was not quite a national broadcast as NBC's affiliates in Atlanta, Charlotte, Memphis, New Orleans, Indianapolis and Phoenix didn't air the game.)
In 1991, NBC broke away from the live telecast of the All-Star Game during the third period in favor of Gulf War coverage; SportsChannel America showed the rest of the contest later that day.
The 1995 All-Star Game was not played due to the 1994–95 NHL lockout.
The 1996 and 1997 All-Star Games were televised in prime time.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoiding%20Mass%20Extinctions%20Engine | Avoiding Mass Extinctions Engine (abbreviated AMEE) was an environmental data company which provides a free public database of companies' environmental and financial performances. It also offered a paid analytics service to help businesses identify risk in their supply chains.
Overview
AMEE created an individual company profile for every business and organisation in the UK (over 3.6 million in total). Profiles are pre-filled with a range of financial and environmental data, including annual turnover, number of employees and annual carbon emissions.
AMEE's data comes from a variety of sources. Where a company has not publicly declared its carbon emissions AMEE models its emissions with a series of algorithms. The models make use of data elements such as number of employees, type of business and geographical location.
Companies are then ranked against industry peers based on their AMEE Score.
All the data displayed on amee.com is free of charge and publicly available. Companies are free to edit and update the data that is displayed on amee.com. By reporting their environmental performance on amee.com companies demonstrate their commitment to transparency and to reducing carbon emissions throughout the supply chain.
AMEE Score
The AMEE Score is a business efficiency metric that rates environmental impact in terms of annual carbon emissions relative to revenue, expressed as a 1–100 score. It helps enable direct comparison of the environmental efficiency of companies within the same industry sector, based on the UK 2007 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC).
Background
AMEE was initially developed as a software project in 2005 by UK company Dgen and founder Gavin Starks. It enabled any climate campaign to use a common standard for Carbon-Footprint Profiling and Measurement. From 2007 AMEE was used for the UK Government's carbon calculator for its "Act on CO2" campaign against global warming.
AMEE UK Limited was created in 2008 and then raised venture capital funding. In 2010 it secured $5.5m series B financing from Amadeus Capital Partners in addition to existing investors O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Union Square Ventures.
In 2012 AMEE focused its work on estimating the carbon emissions for every business and organisation in the UK. It also began working with large organisations such as the UK Government Procurement Service to identify and manage risk in their supply chains.
AMEE was acquired in 2015 by PredictX.
References
External links
AMEE
Companies based in the City of Westminster
British companies established in 2008
2008 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Connections | Global Connections is a charitable organization acting as a UK network of mission agencies, churches, colleges and support agencies involved in evangelism around the world. Amongst the several hundred organizations and churches that are members of the Global Connections network are many of the most prominent Christian faith-based organizations as well as many major organizations involved in relief and development.
Global Connections sees encouraging churches to become more involved in global issues, including world mission, as one of its key purposes. As part of this, they seek to provide opportunities for church leaders to engage with the leaders of mission agencies.
Global Connections also endeavors to bring together those who work in similar areas or to direct them to where they can find help on practical, legal or musicological issues. As part of this they organize approximately 20 forums, where members can meet with and learn from those who share similar concerns and can become involved in joint projects and co-operative actions.
History
The International Missionary Fellowship (IMF) was formed in 1941 when the need for consultation between mission leaders was frequently urgent due to the numerous crises resulting from the World War II. The IMF was primarily a prayer fellowship for interdenominational mission societies. The name was changed to the Fellowship of Interdenominational Missionary Societies (FIMS) in 1946.
In the post-war period, the mission movement in Britain had to adjust to many changes across the world including the end of the colonial era. However, the FIMS lacked the authority and ability to make recommendations and provide guidance for the British mission movement. In 1958 a new agency, the Evangelical Missionary Alliance (EMA) succeeded the FIMS and a central office with part-time staff was established.
The present
In the year 2000 the organization EMA (Evangelical Missionary Alliance) changed its name to Global Connections and membership was extended to include agencies whose mission focus was primarily the UK and churches involved in mission. This was done in response to continuing changes in the mission world. These included the growing size and development of the church outside the West and the false dichotomy between the West and the developing world. Mission was now from everywhere to everywhere.
The UK itself was now becoming a mission field with mission partners travelling there from other nations. Furthermore, increasing ethnic diversity was changing the face of the UK. At this time many local churches were becoming involved in mission directly. The organization wanted to reflect these profound and diverse changes and to develop the understanding of mission and its variety of expressions.
Associated networks
In the UK, Global Connections is associated with the Evangelical Alliance. They try to work closely with these two partners on strategic issues relating to mission.
Within Europe, Global Connectio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.java | .java may refer to:
The file extension of software source files in the Java programming language
The .java top-level domain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Pinkney | Edward Pinkney may refer to:
Edward Coote Pinkney (1802–1828), American poet
Edward Pinkney, founder of the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boles%C5%82aw%20Szyma%C5%84ski | Bolesław Karol Szymański (born 22 April 1950 in Pasłęk) is the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Founding Head of the Center for Network Science and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is known for multiple contributions to computer science, including Szymański's algorithm.
Current Work
Szymański is the Director of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, which studies the fundamentals of social and cognitive network science; the center is a part of the Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance funded by the United States Army. He is also the Principal Investigator in the International Technology Alliance. His projects include dynamic processes on networks, hidden groups in social networks, sensor network protocols and algorithms, and large-scale parallel and distributed computing and simulation. He received ITA Distinguished Service Award in 2007. Szymański is also one of the Principals in the MilkyWay@home project that seeks to model the streams of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy that were pulled from nearby galaxies (e.g. Saggitarius). Szymański was also a visiting professor at University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, and Wrocław University of Technology and a member of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry.
Current Positions
His current positions (Jan 2011) are :
Claire and Roland W. Schmitt Distinguished Professor] of Computer Science
Director, Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center
Director, the Rensselaer Center for Network Science and Technology (NEST)
Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences
Editor-in-Chief, Scientific Programming
Editorial Board, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Editorial Board, Computing and Informatics
Editorial Board, Computer Science (journal)
Education
In 1968, Szymański won Gold Medal at the X International Mathematical Olympiad in Moscow, USSR. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Institute of Informatics of PAN, Warsaw in 1976. He pursued an academic career at Warsaw University of Technology, University of Aberdeen, and University of Pennsylvania. He has been with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. NY, since 1985. In 1999, Szymański was elected an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to parallel computing and distributed computing and in 2003 he received the Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award. In 2007, Szymański received the Claire and Roland W. Schmitt Distinguished Professorship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2009, Szymański received the Wilkes Award and Medal for the best paper published in volume 52 of Computer Journal. Also, in 2009, he was elected a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and joined Division IV of Technical Sciences there.
References
External links
Home page
Profile at SCOREC (Scientific Computation Research Center)
MilkyWay@home Project
Social Cognitive Network Academic Resea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Hansen | Mark Hansen may refer to:
Mark Henry Hansen, American statistician and data journalist
Mark Victor Hansen (born 1948), American author and motivational speaker
Mark Hansen, a suspect in the Black Dahlia murder
See also
Marc Hansen (disambiguation)
Mark Hanson (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection%20panel | A Projection panel (also called overhead display or LCD panel) is a device that, although no longer in production, was used as a data projector is today.
It works with an overhead projector. The panel consists of a translucent LCD, and a fan to keep it cool. The projection panel sits on the bed of the overhead projector, and acts like a piece of transparency. The panels have a VGA input, and sometimes Composite (RCA) and S-Video input. Later models have remotes, with functions such as 'freeze' which lets you freeze the image, useful for when you want to leave something on the screen whilst you do other things. Earlier models only had 640x480 resolution, while newer ones had up to SVGA resolution. Proxima, one maker of the panels, included a magic wand and sensor, which worked with the sensor detecting where you put the wand, to create and interactive effect, the equivalent of today's smart boards.
Although they are not produced anymore, used panels can be purchased for a fraction of the price of a data projector. The panels are quite dim, as they do not let a great deal of light through, so brightness can be a problem, even with a powerful overhead projector.
References
Display technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%3A%20Bot%20Roast | Operation: Bot Roast is an operation by the FBI to track down bot herders, crackers, or virus coders who install malicious software on computers through the Internet without the owners' knowledge, which turns the computer into a zombie computer that then sends out spam to other computers from the compromised computer, making a botnet or network of bot infected computers. The operation was launched because the vast scale of botnet resources poses a threat to national security.
The operation was created to disrupt and disassemble bot herders. In June 2007, the FBI had identified about 1 million computers that were compromised, leading to the arrest of the persons responsible for creating the malware. In the process, owners of infected computers were notified, many of whom were unaware of the exploitation.
Some early results of the operation include charges against the following:
Robert Matthew Bentley (known as "lsdigital") of Panama City Florida, pleaded guilty to charges of computer fraud and conspiracy to commit computer fraud for using botnets to install advertising software.
Robert Alan Soloway of Seattle, Washington, pleaded guilty to charges of using botnets to send tens of millions of spam messages touting his website.
Jeanson James Ancheta pleaded guilty to controlling thousands of infected computers.
Jason Michael Downey (known as "Nessun"), founder of the IRC network Rizon, is charged with using botnets to disable other systems.
Akbot author Owen Walker (known as "AKILL") of New Zealand, was tried for various crimes and discharged by the prosecution in 2008.
References
Botnets
Computer security exploits
Federal Bureau of Investigation operations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infowar | Infowar can refer to the following:
Cyberwarfare
Info Wars (film), a 2004 online activist documentary
Infowar Productions, Greek media company founded by Aris Chatzistefanou
InfoWars, conspiracy website founded by Alex Jones
Information warfare, the use and management of information technology in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent
Psychological warfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxstar%20Productions | Foxstar Productions was a television production subsidiary of News Corporation. It was founded in 1993 to make TV movies and mini-series under Steve Bell (the former network production president of 20th Century Fox Television) and producer Kevin Burns. That same year, they entered the television documentary business through its production subsidiary, Van Ness Films.
Many of their programs have and can be seen on networks such as A&E, CBS, National Geographic Channel, E!, Animal Planet, AMC, Bravo, We TV, Travel Channel, Lifetime, The History Channel and Syfy.
In 1999, Foxstar became part of the newly formed Fox Television Studios and continued producing documentaries, non-fiction programming and specials. By 2005, Kevin Burns already had several non-fiction programs under his Prometheus Entertainment shingle.
In 2005, Foxstar Productions disbanded, and folded into Fox Television Studios (then Fox 21 Television Studios, later bought by The Walt Disney Company, and turned into Touchstone Television until it folded into 20th Television in 2020).
Filmography
Biography (1987-2003)
Alien Nation TV movies (1994-1997)
Carol Burnett: The Special Years (1994)
The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995)
A Hollywood Christmas (1996)
20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years (1997)
Hidden Hollywood (1997-1999)
Monster Mania (1997-2000)
To the Galaxy and Beyond with Mark Hamill (1997)
Behind the Planet of the Apes (1998)
Beyond Titanic (1998)
Celebrity Profile (1998-2001)
Famous Families (1998-1999)
Hugh Hefner: American Playboy Revisited (1998)
Leonardo DiCaprio: A Life in Progress (1998)
Lost in Space Forever (1998)
TV Guide Looks at Christmas (1998)
TV Guide Looks at COPS (1998)
Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999)
Hollywood Screen Tests (1999)
Hollywood's Hot Wheels (1999)
Backstory (2000-2005)
Bride of Monster Mania (2000)
The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood's Scariest Insect (2000)
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints (2000)
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970) (2000)
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000)
World's Best (2000-2002)
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood (2001)
The Great Escape: A Standing Ovation (2001)
The Great Escape: Bringing Fact to Fiction (2001)
The Great Escape: The Flight to Freedom (2001)
The Great Escape: Preparations for Freedom (2001)
History vs. Hollywood (2001-2002)
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (2001)
The Omen Legacy (2001)
The Alien Saga (2002)
Biography of a Corpse (2002)
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s (2002)
Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion (2002)
ShirleyMania (2002)
Monsterama (2003)
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003)
Animal Icons (2004-2005)
Love Hollywood Style (2004)
Playboy: 50 Years of Playmates (2004)
See also
Fox Lab
20th Television
20th Century Studios
References
20th Century Studios
Defunct film and television production companies of the United States
Entertainment companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMON | The Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) MIB was developed by the IETF to support monitoring and protocol analysis of local area networks (LANs). The original version (sometimes referred to as RMON1) focused on OSI layer 1 and layer 2 information in Ethernet and Token Ring networks. It has been extended by RMON2 which adds support for Network- and Application-layer monitoring and by SMON which adds support for switched networks. It is an industry-standard specification that provides much of the functionality offered by proprietary network analyzers. RMON agents are built into many high-end switches and routers.
Overview
Remote Monitoring (RMON) is a standard monitoring specification that enables various network monitors and console systems to exchange network-monitoring data. RMON provides network administrators with more freedom in selecting network-monitoring probes and consoles with features that meet their particular networking needs.
An RMON implementation typically operates in a client/server model. Monitoring devices (commonly called "probes" in this context) contain RMON software agents that collect information and analyze packets. These probes act as servers and the Network Management applications that communicate with them act as clients. While both agent configuration and data collection use SNMP, RMON is designed to operate differently than other SNMP-based systems:
Probes have more responsibility for data collection and processing, which reduces SNMP traffic and the processing load of the clients.
Information is only transmitted to the management application when required, instead of continuous polling and monitoring
In short, RMON is designed for "flow-based" monitoring, while SNMP is often used for "device-based" management. RMON is similar to other flow-based monitoring technologies such as NetFlow and SFlow because the data collected deals mainly with traffic patterns rather than the status of individual devices. One disadvantage of this system is that remote devices shoulder more of the management burden, and require more resources to do so. Some devices balance this trade-off by implementing only a subset of the RMON MIB groups (see below). A minimal RMON agent implementation could support only statistics, history, alarm, and event.
The RMON1 MIB consists of ten groups:
Statistics: real-time LAN statistics e.g. utilization, collisions, CRC errors
History: history of selected statistics
Alarm: definitions for RMON SNMP traps to be sent when statistics exceed defined thresholds
Hosts: host specific LAN statistics e.g. bytes sent/received, frames sent/received
Hosts top N: record of N most active connections over a given time period
Matrix: the sent-received traffic matrix between systems
Filter: defines packet data patterns of interest e.g. MAC address or TCP port
Capture: collect and forward packets matching the Filter
Event: send alerts (SNMP traps) for the Alarm group
Token Ring: extensions specific to Token Ring |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Multimedia | BBC Multimedia was a division of the BBC which dealt with the publishing of computer-game versions of well-known BBC television programmes.
History
The Multimedia division was founded in 1995 and mostly focused on CD-ROM software for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh.
The company attended E3 2002 by announcing its first game for the Xbox, Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction, set for a November 2002 release, as well as a game adaptation of the CBBC series Ace Lightning for the PlayStation 2, with both games also on Microsoft Windows and Game Boy Advance. Other CD-ROM games announced this time were Bob the Builder: Bob Builds a Park, set for a July 2002 release and Tweenies: Messy Time, set for an October 2002 release.
In July 2002, the company launched a budget range called Favourites, consisting of pre-school games. On 5 November 2002, the company announced a Fimbles CD-ROM for a June 2003 release.
On February 6, 2003, the company announced the Ace Lightning video game for March.
At E3 2003, the company announced a video game based on FightBox for PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows and Game Boy Advance for a pre-Christmas release window to tie-in with the show's airing. The game adapation was one of the many side-projects done for the FightBox IP, which was mostly worked on by Runecraft. After the company went out of business, the BBC acquired the developer's offices and some of their staff, and re-structured it under the "Gamezlab" name. The company also showcased their Fimbles CD-ROM, in addition to a game based on Tiny Planets, a Bob the Builder game - Bob's Castle Adventure for a July 2003 release, and an Engie Benjy CD-ROM for a September 2003 release. In October, the company announced the FightBox video game for February 2004. On November 24, the company announced a Balamory CD-ROM for 2004.
In January 2004, Balamory was announced for the following month. A compilation release titled Playtime! was announced. In February, the company announced a video game based on Spooks for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Windows, for a late 2004 release window. On 2 November 2004, Global Software Publishing announced acquiring exclusive distribution rights to BBC Multimedia's library. This move was done so BBC Worldwide could refocus BBC Multimedia as a video game licensor instead of being a publisher. Shortly before this, BBC Worldwide closed down Gamezlab and cancelled the upcoming Spooks video game.
BBC Multimedia was closed in 2006 after sales declined in its boxed product business.
Games
Gamezlab
See also
List of video game publishers
Lists of video games
References
External links
Multimedia
Video game publishers
Video game companies established in 1995
Video game companies disestablished in 2006
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Com%20One%20group | COM One group (Listed in the Paris and Stuttgart stock exchanges from 1992 to 2005) was a manufacturer best known for its computer network adapters. The company was co-founded in 1987 by Jacques Saubade and Michel Petit and was headquartered in France. The name comes from the company's focus on modems (serial COM port was named COM1).
History
1987 The company started building analog PSTN modems.
1990 company produces PCMCIA modems.
Mid 1990: the company focus on making multi function PC Card communication adapters (PSTN+GSM (data over GSM), then 3in1 PSTN+GSM+ISDN, then 4in1 PSTN+GSM+ISDN+Ethernet).
2000 group activities :
Mobile computing (high-speed data transmission devices for wire & wireless : PSTN, ISDN, LAN (Ethernet), GSM, GPRS, ADSL).
Industrial modules (same as below)
Video Security
Internet appliances hardware (non-PC internet terminals. Brand: atMax, @max)
Most of the mobile products were sold as OEM provider for other companies (Toshiba France and Spain, Sony ITE Europe, IBM, Apple Europe, RFI Germany, Anycom, ...)
2001: some employees of the industrial modules department leave to create Telecom Design
2003: Video security department sold to the company Atral
2005: COM One group closed. The brand was bought by Baracoda company to focus it on Bluetooth end user products.
2007: Com One launched hardware to listen internet radios over Wi-Fi.
2008: the web sites (www.com1.fr and com-one.biz) are closed and the brand seems off.
Products, brands
Bluetooths adapters (USB, PCMCIA).
Bluetooths gateways (PSTN modems, ISDN).
Internet appliances hardware (non-PC internet terminals). Brands : @max, Neomax.
ISDNs adapters (Serial, USB, PCMCIA).
Local area network interface cards (PCMCIA).
Modems PSTN (Serial, USB, PCMCIA).
Video security : Viewcom products range, remote video surveillance products with digital video recorder. Used for example by the web site Viewsurf.com in the 2000s (decade).
Wireless access points, adapters, and connectivity products
internet radio hardware (ove Wi-Fi) : the COM One Phoenix and the Orange Liveradio.
References
External links
2002 COM One's archived web site.
2005 Mirror web site.
2006 Official homepage. French only.
Phoenix Wi-Fi radio's configuration portal..
Orange liveradio's website..
Phoenix Wi-Fi radio unofficial support.
Computer hardware companies
Computer companies of France
Telecommunications equipment vendors
Defunct technology companies of France
Electronics companies established in 1987
French companies established in 1987
French brands
2005 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTIK%20%28AM%29 | KTIK (1350 kHz, "95.3 The Ticket") is a commercial AM radio station located in Boise, Idaho, United States. KTIK airs sports/talk programming as a CBS Sports Radio affiliate and is under ownership of Cumulus Media.
On January 26, 2011, KTIK began simulcasting on KZMG 93.1 FM, which was subsequently renamed KTIK-FM.
On January 3, 2022, KTIK rebranded as "95.3 The Ticket" after KTIK-FM switched to a simulcast of news/talk-formatted KBOI 670 AM.
Previous logo
(KTIK's logo under previous simulcast with KTIK-FM 93.1)
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KTIK
TIK
Cumulus Media radio stations
Radio stations established in 1962
CBS Sports Radio stations
Sports radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huichon%20University%20of%20Telecommunications | The Huichon University of Telecommunications is located in Huichon, Chagang, North Korea, founded on September 1, 1959.
It is equipped with TV broadcasting equipment, computers, and electronic facilities and materials for education and scientific research.
It has faculties such as an electric communication engineering faculty, computer controlling engineering faculty, electronics faculty and wireless communication engineering faculty. It has also an electronics institute and other institutes, laboratories, a postgraduate course, a library, a practice workshop and a printing house.
Ninety-five percent of the teaching staff are holders of academic degrees and titles.
See also
List of universities in North Korea
Footnotes
Universities in North Korea
1959 establishments in North Korea
Telecommunications organizations
Telecommunication education
20th-century architecture in North Korea |
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HD 222582 is a multiple star system in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius. It is invisible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 7.7, but can be viewed with binoculars or a small telescope. The system is located at a distance of 138 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and it is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +12 km/s. It is located close enough to the ecliptic that it is subject to lunar occultations.
The primary member of this system, designated component A, is an ordinary G-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of G5V. The physical properties of the star are similar enough to the Sun that it is considered a candidate solar twin. It is about 6.5 billion years old with an inactive chromosphere and is spinning with a low projected rotational velocity of 1.7 km/s. The mass and metallicity of this star are essentially the same as the Sun. It has a 14% larger radius and is radiating 1.3 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,790 K.
Component B of this system is a close binary system with the components designated HD 222582 Ba and Bb. The pair have a combined class of M4.5 V+ and about 20% the mass of the Sun.
Planetary system
In November 1999, a dense superjovian planet was announced orbiting the primary by the California and Carnegie Planet Search. Designated component 'b', it was discovered using the radial velocity method, using 24 observations over a period of 1.5 years. The exoplanet is orbiting with a period of and a very large eccentricity of 0.76, ranging in distance from out to away from the primary.
See also
HD 224693
List of extrasolar planets
References
External links
G-type main-sequence stars
M-type main-sequence stars
Solar twins
Planetary systems with one confirmed planet
Triple stars
Aquarius (constellation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYFI | KYFI (630 AM) is a Conservative Christian radio station broadcasting from St. Louis, Missouri. KYFI is owned and operated by Bible Broadcasting Network, Inc. KYFI's transmitters are located near Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Illinois.
The 630 frequency had previously been KXOK, which in the 1960s was one of the leading radio stations in St. Louis, and religious station KJSL from 1994 to 2013.
History
Construction of KXOK
In 1935, Elzey Roberts, publisher of the St. Louis Star-Times, applied for a license to put a new radio station on the air. He already owned station KFRU in Columbia, and wanted a station in the larger St. Louis market. But his license request was challenged by two other stations in the market, KSD and WIL; the legal battle dragged on until late 1937, when the court granted Roberts' request and the FCC assigned the KXOK call letters. WIL attempted to appeal the case to the Supreme Court of the United States, but in late March 1938, they lost when the court refused to review the case, affirming the FCC's grant; KXOK was given permission to begin building the new station. General manager Ray V. Hamilton announced the station would be dedicated in mid-August 1938, but there were further delays in building it.
KXOK finally made its debut on September 19, 1938. Allen Franklin was the first program director; he came from station WLW in Cincinnati. Among the air staff was Paul Aurandt, who came there from KOMA in Oklahoma City and would later become famous as Paul Harvey. KXOK began its life at 1250 kHz and was affiliated with the Mutual Broadcasting System; however, on October 26, 1940, it moved to 630 kHz and became affiliated with NBC Blue (later called the Blue Network). The KXOK shift to 630, which also saw the station move from Venice, Illinois to its site at Madison, also benefited Roberts's station in Columbia, which went full-time on 1270 kHz, and WGBF of Evansville, Indiana, which ceased sharing time with KFRU and went full-time on 1250. Elzey Robert continued to own the station until 1954, when his son, Elzey Roberts, Jr., and an associate, Chester L. Thomas, took it over, doing business as KXOK Broadcasting, Inc.
Change of ownership
In early November 1960, the station changed hands, when Roberts and Thomas sold the station to Robert and Todd Storz, for the sum of $1.5 million. The station changed format not long after to a new Top 40 sound. Nicknamed "The Sound and the Spirit of St. Louis" and "The Fun Spot," KXOK became part of the Storz family of stations (other stations in the group included WHB across the state in Kansas City, WQAM in Miami, WTIX in New Orleans, KOMA in Oklahoma City, and WDGY in Minneapolis-St. Paul). During the mid-60s, KXOK was one of the two dominant radio stations in the St. Louis market, along with KMOX. KXOK was so successful during this period, that its Top 40 competitor, WIL (AM 1430) dropped pop music in 1967, and switched to country music; it helped that WIL refused to play The Be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Amsterdam | The Amsterdam Tram ([ˌɑmstəɹˈdɑmsə tɾɛm]) is a tram network in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It dates back to 1875 and since 1943 has been operated by municipal public transport operator Gemeentelijk Vervoerbedrijf (GVB), which also runs the Amsterdam Metro and the city bus and ferry services. Amsterdam has the largest tram network in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe.
Network overview
The 15 tram lines within Amsterdam's tram network serve all boroughs in Amsterdam except for Amsterdam-Noord on the north side of the IJ and Amsterdam Zuidoost. Tram lines 5 and 25 extend south of the borough of Amsterdam-Zuid to serve the municipality of Amstelveen, and tram line 19 extends east of the borough of Amsterdam-Oost to serve the municipality of Diemen.
, the fleet consists of 227 trams, of which 155 are Combinos (types 13G and 14G) from Siemens and 72 are Urbos 100 trams from Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (type 15G). The first 15G trams ran on line 25. Trams of types 14G and 15G are bi-directional for use on lines 5 and 25 which have terminals without turning loops. All other tram lines have turning loops and use unidirectional trams. Lines 25 (Amsteltram) and 26 (IJtram) can operate trams coupled in pairs; both lines run in a right-of-way mostly separated from road traffic.
In 2020, the tram network consisted of 14 lines operating over of routes and of standard gauge track with 650 switches and 500 tram stops. The tram fleet travelled almost while in service. Tram service consumed 45 million kilowatts of electricity per year, all produced from green sources.
History
Beginnings
On 3 June 1875, Amsterdam's first horse-drawn tramway was opened. It linked Plantage with the Leidseplein, and was operated by AOM (Amsterdamsche Omnibus Maatschappij), which had been founded in 1872 by Karel Herman Schadd, amongst others.
In the last quarter of the 19th century, horse trams ran through the main streets of Amsterdam, linking all neighborhoods inside the Singel with Dam Square, and were extended to newly constructed residential areas. By the end of the century, about 15 lines led to or from the Vondelstraat, Overtoom, Willemsparkweg, Amsteldijk, Linnaeusstraat, Weesperzijde, Bilderdijkstraat and Ceintuurbaan.
The lines of the original horse tram lines can still clearly be recognised in the present day tram routes 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, (9, 10) and 13.
Gemeentetram
As of 1 January 1900, the municipality of Amsterdam took over AOM. The company continued as the Gemeentetram Amsterdam (GTA). A total of 242 tramcars, 758 horses and 15 buildings were acquired along with the company.
Between 1900 and 1906, all but one of the existing tram lines were electrified. Additionally, the AOM's unusual track gauge of was converted to .
By 1906, the electric tram network consisted of 12 tram lines (1-11 and 13). To operate these lines, the GTA purchased 229 new electric tramcars. The former horse-drawn trams were progressively reclassified as tram tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelator | The Levelator is a software application that makes adjustments to audio signals.
Publication
The Levelator was a free application distributed by The Conversations Network and developed by Bruce and Malcolm Sharpe, Norman Lorrain and Doug Kaye. Originally distributed by GigaVox Media, Inc (a for-profit company), the rights were transferred to The Conversations Network (a California 501(c)(3)) in 2008. The underlying code was originally used only for The Conversations Network's own podcasts but was subsequently released to the public, free for commercial and non-commercial use. It was unveiled to the public at the first Podcast and New Media Expo in 2005. The adjustments and drag-and-drop workflow of the Levelator make it a valuable tool for professional and non-professional broadcasters and podcasters.
As of the end of 2012, the Levelator is no longer supported or being updated by The Conversations Network. Conversations Network ceased daily operations at the end of 2012.
When OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) was released, the Levelator was found to be incompatible. The original development team, Bruce Sharpe, Norman Lorrain and Doug Kaye collaborated in November 2015 to develop an OS X-only compatible release 2.1.2.
In June 2020, a 64-bit, macOS Catalina version of The Levelator was revived and released for free by The Conversations Network in the Mac App Store.
Functioning
The Levelator adjusts the audio levels within an audio segment by combining traditional discrete compression, normalization and limiting processing. By taking a global view of the data in various time segments (both long and short), the Levelator automatically balances various audio levels, such as multiple microphone levels in an interview or panel discussion, or segments combined from multiple sessions that were recorded at different levels. The Levelator can read and process PCM audio files of many sample rates and resolutions.
The Levelator reads the original audio file and creates a new audio file with balanced levels and a uniform overall volume level that is then saved in the same format as the original, but with ".output " added to the file name. Only PCM audio source files are supported (most major file formats, including WAV and AIFF). Video and lossy compressed audio are not supported, encouraging use of The Levelator at the correct point in the production chain - i.e. before lossy encoding to the delivery format such as MP3.
References
External links
Podcast Academy Interview with Bruce Sharpe
Portable software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS%20editor | An RSS editor is a software application for writing and editing RSS feeds offline (i.e. on the local computer). These applications are also often called desktop RSS editors. Usually RSS feeds are automatically generated out of databases from Content Management Systems (CMS). Some other typical sources for RSS feeds are blogs and websites like Digg. However, there are also several, manually edited RSS feeds (mostly with editorial content), which are maintained offline. After the development and creation of such feeds in an RSS editor application, the feed file is usually transmitted via FTP to the web server. Most RSS editors offer a corresponding, integrated functionality for that.
References
RSS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFO | In aviation, a SAFO (Safety Alert for Operators) is an information tool that alerts, educates, and makes recommendations to the aviation community .
See also
Aviation Safety Network
Aviation safety |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnet%20theorem | In the mathematical field of differential geometry, the fundamental theorem of surface theory deals with the problem of prescribing the geometric data of a submanifold of Euclidean space. Originally proved by Pierre Ossian Bonnet in 1867, it has since been extended to higher dimensions and non-Euclidean contexts.
Bonnet's theorem
Any surface in three-dimensional Euclidean space has a first and second fundamental form, which automatically are interrelated by the Gauss–Codazzi equations. Bonnet's theorem asserts a local converse to this result.
Given an open region in , let and be symmetric 2-tensors on , with additionally required to be positive-definite. If these are smooth and satisfy the Gauss–Codazzi equations, then Bonnet's theorem says that is covered by open sets which can be smoothly embedded into with first fundamental form and second fundamental form (relative to one of the two choices of unit normal vector field) . Furthermore, each of these embeddings is uniquely determined up to a rigid motion of .
Bonnet's theorem is a corollary of the Frobenius theorem, upon viewing the Gauss–Codazzi equations as a system of first-order partial differential equations for the two coordinate derivatives of the position vector of an embedding, together with the normal vector.
General formulations
Bonnet's theorem can be naturally formulated for hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space of any dimension, and the result remains true in this context. Furthermore, the theorem can be extended from Bonnet's local formulation to a global formulation, allowing to be any connected and simply-connected smooth manifold, with the result asserting the existence and uniqueness (up to a rigid motion) of a smooth immersion of as a hypersurface of Euclidean space with first fundamental form and second fundamental form . The idea of the proof is to use the existence theory from the local formulation to construct the immersion along arbitrary curves emanating from a single point. Simple-connectedness is used to say that any two such curves with a common endpoint are homotopic (through paths fixing the endpoints), and uniqueness from the local formulation implies that the value of the immersion at the endpoint must be fixed through the homotopy, so that an immersion results which is well-defined on the entire manifold.
In this global formulation, existence would not hold in general if the condition of simple-connectedness were removed. This can be seen from the nonexistence of a hypersurface immersion of the torus whose first fundamental form is flat and whose second fundamental form is zero.
The theorem can also be extended, beyond the context of hypersurfaces, to the theory of submanifolds of arbitrary codimension. This is more complicated to formulate, because in addition to the first and second fundamental forms, there is also the (generally nontrivial) connection in the normal bundle which must be taken into account. In this generality, the fundamental theor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Blass | Andreas Raphael Blass (born October 27, 1947) is a mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Michigan. He works in mathematical logic, particularly set theory, and theoretical computer science.
Blass graduated from the University of Detroit, where he was a Putnam Fellow in 1965, in 1966 with a B.S. in physics. He received his Ph.D. in 1970 from Harvard University, with a thesis on Orderings of Ultrafilters written under the supervision of Frank Wattenberg. Since 1970 he has been employed by the University of Michigan, first as a T.H. Hildebrandt Research Instructor (1970–72), then assistant professor (1972–76), associate professor (1976–84) and since 1984 he has been a full professor there.
In 2014, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Selected publications and results
In 1984 Blass proved that the existence of a basis for every vector space is equivalent to the axiom of choice. He made important contributions in the development of the set theory of the reals and forcing.
Blass was the first to point out connections between game semantics and linear logic.
He has authored more than 200 research articles in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, including:
References
External links
Blass's page at UM
Living people
20th-century German mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Set theorists
University of Detroit Mercy alumni
Harvard University alumni
University of Michigan faculty
Putnam Fellows
1947 births
Emigrants from West Germany to the United States
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel%20Highway | Rebel Highway was a short-lived revival of American International Pictures created and produced by Lou Arkoff, the son of Samuel Z. Arkoff, and Debra Hill for the Showtime network in 1994. The concept was a 10-week series of 1950s "drive-in classic" B-movies remade "with a '90s edge". The impetus for the series, according to Arkoff was, "what it would be like if you made Rebel Without a Cause today. It would be more lurid, sexier, and much more dangerous, and you definitely would have had Natalie Wood's top off".
Arkoff originally wanted to call the series Raging Hormones, but Showtime decided on Rebel Highway instead. Arkoff and Hill invited several directors to pick a title from one of Samuel Arkoff's films, hire their own writers and create a story that could resemble the original if they wanted. In addition, they had the right to a final cut and to select their own director of photography and the editor. Each director was given a $1.3 million budget and 12 days to shoot it with a cast of young, up and coming actors and actresses. According to Arkoff, the appeal to directors was that, "They weren't hampered by big studios saying, 'You can't do this or that.' And all the directors paid very close attention to the detail of the era. We want these shows to be fun for the younger generation and fun for the older generation".
The series premiered with Robert Rodriguez's Roadracers on July 22, 1994.
Films
Roadracers - Directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring David Arquette and Salma Hayek.
Confessions of a Sorority Girl - Directed by Uli Edel and starring Jamie Luner, Brian Bloom and Alyssa Milano.
Motorcycle Gang - Directed by John Milius and starring Gerald McRaney, Carla Gugino, and Jake Busey.
Runaway Daughters - Directed by Joe Dante and starring Julie Bowen and Paul Rudd.
Girls in Prison - Directed by John McNaughton, written by Samuel Fuller and Christa Lang and starring Anne Heche, Jon Polito and Ione Skye.
Shake, Rattle and Rock! - Directed by Allan Arkush and starring Renée Zellweger and Howie Mandel.
Dragstrip Girl - Directed by Mary Lambert and starring Mark Dacascos, Traci Lords, Raymond Cruz and Natasha Gregson Wagner.
Jailbreakers - Directed by William Friedkin and starring Antonio Sabato Jr., Adrien Brody and Shannen Doherty.
Cool and the Crazy - Directed by Ralph Bakshi and starring Jared Leto and Alicia Silverstone.
Reform School Girl - Directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring Aimee Graham and Matt LeBlanc.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack featured contemporary artists covering classic songs from the 1950s.
Reception
In his review for Entertainment Weekly, Ken Tucker wrote, "It is the whimsical notion behind the Rebel Highway series to take a group of mostly grade-D exploitation films from the '50s and remake them, with good actors and directors, in the '90s". In his review for the Chicago Reader, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote that the series "is at best a collection of offbeat so-called B-films, though given the state of American movi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrepid%20Journeys | Intrepid Journeys is a New Zealand television series, which screens on TV ONE in New Zealand and on Vibrant TV Network in the United States. Making its debut in 2003, the show focuses on New Zealand celebrities who travel to exotic countries to see that country's history, culture and people.
It is a multi-award-winning travel series. It is not a “Survivor” style manufactured “challenge” show. It is about meeting real challenges in the real world, travelling to lesser-known places and then getting around the way locals do… by foot, bus and camel.
Across each hour-long episode, Intrepid Journeys follows a celebrity traveller for two weeks in a rough and ready destination. The appeal of the show is two-fold. Aside from seeing a personality rise to a challenge, there is also the chance to gather knowledge and understanding of places, lives, events and happenings foreign to Western culture.
Although they are celebrity travellers, they travel and live as the locals do - ride bumpy local buses with chickens and goats, stay in villages and eat traditional food which stretches the palate.
Destinations include Libya, Borneo, Iran, Uganda, Myanmar, Tibet, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Cuba, Vietnam, Ecuador and Mali.
Series one (2003)
Series two (2004)
Series three (2005)
Series four (2006)
Series five (2007)
Series six (2008)
Series seven (2009)
Series eight (2011)
Series nine (2012)
External links
Official website
Series 1 (2003) on IMDb database
Series 2 (2004) on IMDb database
Series 3 (2005) on IMDb database
New Zealand reality television series
Television shows funded by NZ on Air
TVNZ 1 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Estate%20Transaction%20Standard | Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS) is a deprecated data standard that was used by the real estate industry in Canada and the United States to facilitate the exchange of data. RETS was launched in 1999 by the National Association of Realtors and related groups.
RETS was originally created to overcome the difficulties presented by the existence of a large number of organizations desiring to share and distribute real estate information with others. Prior to RETS, much of the data exchange was done using the FTP protocol, which did not allow for queries, and required transfer of complete datasets. The inefficiencies of this approach meant that to generate a query such as "new listings since yesterday", the entire dataset had to be downloaded again and compared with a local copy. Rather than basing a solution on alternatives used by other industries to allow for such queries, RETS was created from the ground up as a new framework to attempt to address the need for a common and efficient standard for the exchange of real estate data. Most North American multiple listing service (MLS) data exchange service providers use the RETS protocol. Although the implementation of the protocol has offered some standardization, the field names of the underlying datasets still vary widely between markets.
RETS is a framework that can be adopted by computer systems to receive data from the multiple listing service (MLS) servers, as well as those of other real estate systems, provided they also have software installed designed to communicate using the RETS framework. The National Association of Realtors refers to RETS as a "common language".
Multiple other systems exist which support the secure and standardized transfer of datasets and associated access control requirements in a secure and efficient manner, such as MySQL. These other systems enjoy widespread adoption across most industries, whereas RETS is for one specific industry. RETS is generally not used outside North America.
In 2018, the Real Estate Standards Organization announced that it planned to retire RETS and replace it with the RESO Web API, a RESTful API.
See also
Internet Data Exchange
References
External links
reso.org Real Estate Standards Organization
Real estate in North America
Data interchange standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal%20aspects%20of%20file%20sharing | File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audios, photos and/or videos), program files, documents or electronic books/magazines. It involves various legal aspects as it is often used to exchange data that is copyrighted or licensed.
File hosting and sharing
File hosting services may be used as a means to distribute or share files without consent of the copyright holder. In such cases one individual uploads a file to a file hosting service, which others may download. Legal history is documented in case law.
For example, in the case of Swiss-German file hosting service RapidShare, in 2010 the US government's congressional international anti-infringement caucus declared the site a "notorious illegal site", claiming that the site was "overwhelmingly used for the global exchange of illegal movies, music and other copyrighted works". But in the legal case Atari Europe S.A.S.U. v. Rapidshare AG in Germany (Legal case: OLG Düsseldorf, Judgement of 22 March 2010, Az I-20 U 166/09 dated 22 March 2010) the Düsseldorf higher regional court examined claims related to alleged infringing activity and reached the conclusion on appeal that "most people utilize RapidShare for legal use cases" and that to assume otherwise was equivalent to inviting "a general suspicion against shared hosting services and their users which is not justified". The court also observed that the site removes copyrighted material when asked, does not provide search facilities for illegal material, noted previous cases siding with RapidShare, and after analysis the court concluded that the plaintiff's proposals for more strictly preventing sharing of copyrighted material – submitted as examples of anti-file sharing measures RapidShare might have adopted – were found to be "unreasonable or pointless".
In January 2012 the United States Department of Justice seized and shut down the file hosting site Megaupload.com and commenced criminal cases against its owners and others. Their indictment concluded that Megaupload differed from other online file storage businesses, suggesting a number of design features of its operating model as being evidence showing a criminal intent and venture.
Jurisdictions
Australia
A secondary liability case in Australia, under Australian law, was Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd v Sharman License Holdings Ltd [2005] FCA 1242 (5 September 2005). In that case, the Court determined that the Kazaa file sharing system had "authorized" copyright infringement. The claim for damages was subsequently settled out of court.
In the case of AFACT v iiNet which was fought out in the Federal Court, an internet service provider was found not to be liable for the copyright infringement of its users. The case did not, however, create a clear precedent that Australian ISPs could never be held liable for the copyright infringement of their users by virtue of providing an internet connection. AFACT an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qui%20veut%20gagner%20des%20millions%20%3F | Qui veut gagner des millions ? (Who Wants to Win Millions?) is the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, which originated in Great Britain on the ITV network. The aim of the game is to win the top prize of €1,000,000 (3 for some shows then 4 million FF before France adopted the euro) by answering 15 (12 from 2009 to 2016) multiple-choice questions correctly. It is broadcast on the TF1 network, and was hosted by Jean-Pierre Foucault from 2000 until 2019, then by Camille Combal.
For more about the show and rules see Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?; the money tree differs in amounts, but the format is virtually identical. For several years a "Switch the Question" lifeline was available once a contestant answered the fifth question correctly. As of April 2009, the first three possible questions were taken out of the game, reducing the number of possible questions to 12, similar to the UK format in play from September 2007 to February 2014. For list of international variants of the show, see International versions of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
The show served as a plot device in the French film My Best Friend.
In December 2010, TF1 announced the end of the first daily multi-year run, due to a fall in viewing of that series as of June.
A prime-time version with celebrities (for charity) was maintained between 2010 and final broadcast of that main series on January 1, 2016.
In December 2018 in a charity version, Jean-Pierre Foucault announced he would leave the show in favour of Camille Combal for a return to the air on TF1 in January 2019 – each figured respectively as a contestant on those shows also.
In February 2019, TF1 announced the return of the daily version. The first tapings were scheduled for April 2019, for a broadcast from May 13, 2019, at 6:15 pm.
Game rules
The goal of the game is to answer, without a single fault, a progression of questions of general knowledge/culture, ideally to try to win the maximum prize, set since September 2001 at €1,000,000. Such maximal wins have mirrored its increase in value and were in July 2000 (broadcast that September), July 2001 and August 2004.
Money trees
Lifelines
Fifty-Fifty (): The contestant asks the host to have the computer randomly eliminate two of the incorrect answer choices, leaving a choice of a correct and an incorrect answer.
Phone-A-Friend (): The contestant may call a prearranged friend. The contestant must provide the friends' names and phone numbers in advance. The contestant has thirty seconds to read the question and four choices to the friend, who must select an answer before the time runs out. Phone-a-friends often express their certainty as a percentage (I am 80% sure it's C).
Ask the Audience () (2000–2016, 2019): The contestant asks the studio audience which answer they believe is correct. Members of the studio audience indicate their choices using an audience response system. The results are immediately displayed on the contestant's and host's screens. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Computer%20Nut | The Computer Nut is a 1984 children's novel written by Betsy Byars. It was the first novel Betsy Byars wrote on her new computer.
Plot summary
Kate Morrison, the title character, is receiving messages on her computer purportedly from an extraterrestrial, BB-9, who claims he can monitor and control all computers on Earth. At first, she and her friend Linda investigate the communication as a prank; their suspects are Willie Lomax and Frank Wilkins.
Reception
The novel won the 1986–1987 Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award. A reviewer from Kirkus Reviews stated the "who's-on-the-computer? gambit, and the true-to-character humor holds up well enough to keep readers going--even if the thwarted space-comedian bombs out." Caroline Ward from the School Library Journal did not view the book as positively, commenting that the book's "[p]lot and characterization fall short of Byars' usual perceptive fare" and it is "not convincing as either an alien-from-another-world story or as an addition to the plethora of computer fiction." Zena Sutherland, writing for Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, stated the book was "at times funny," but that "it's not up to Byars' usual high standard in plot or cohesion of content." The Times Literary Supplements Julia Briggs felt the book failed to "exploit the intriguing if unpoetic possibilities of computer language."
References
1984 American novels
American children's novels
Children's science fiction novels
1984 children's books
Viking Press books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Biodiversity%20Information%20Network | The Canadian Biodiversity Information Network (CBIN) was developed in 1996 to deliver information on the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy and to serve as Canada's national node to the global Clearing House Mechanism. CBIN facilitates biodiversity-relevant information-sharing as part of Canada's implementation of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
See also: Criticisms of the biodiversity paradigm
References
External links
Convention on Biological Diversity
Biodiversity Convention Office
Environment Canada
Environment of Canada
Environment and Climate Change Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musgrave%2C%20Cumbria | Musgrave is a civil parish in the Eden District of Cumbria, England. It has a population of 152, and contains the villages of Little Musgrave and Great Musgrave. At the 2011 Census, data for Helbeck was included with Musgrave giving a total population of 165.
See also
Listed buildings in Musgrave, Cumbria
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Musgrave (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Civil parishes in Cumbria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashline | Cashline is the name of the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) network run by the Royal Bank of Scotland. Its beginnings date back to 1967 when the Royal Bank installed its first ATM in its offices in the West End of Edinburgh. Initially the service offered only basic deposit services to a small select number of customers, but by 1977 the familiar cash withdrawal service to current account holders was launched under the Cashline name.
By 1980, the Cashline network had become the busiest ATM network in the world in terms of how frequently each machine is used and how much money is taken out each time. Cashline ATMs up until the mid-1980s were usually of De La Rue or IBM-Diebold manufacture, before being progressively replaced by NCR machines. Cashline is a member of the LINK network, and in 1997 took the step of being available to all cardholders, irrespective of the ATM network their own particular bank belonged.
Cashline ATMs are also exclusively found in branches of Tesco supermarkets all over the United Kingdom, operating under the Tesco Personal Finance banner, but with a small "Cashline" below the Tesco lettering.
The word cashline is a generic name in Scotland used to describe a cash machine.
Automated teller machines
Royal Bank of Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristo%20Rey%20Network | The Cristo Rey Network is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2000 to increase the number of schools modeled after Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, which was founded in 1996 to prepare youth from low-income families for post-secondary educational opportunities.
Schools within the Network integrate four years of college preparatory academics with continuous professional work experience that pays most of the cost of a student's education. The Network is compiled of 38 high schools delivering a career focused, college preparatory education in the Catholic tradition for students with limited economic resources, uniquely integrating rigorous academic curricula with four years of professional work experience and support to and through college.
Cristo Rey partners with educators, businesses and communities to enable students to fulfill their aspirations for a lifetime of success: students are three times more likely to complete a bachelor's degree by age 24, compared to the total U.S. low-income population. Learn more.
History
In 1996, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago was opened by the Society of Jesus to help "students from underserved, low-income communities" prepare for college. To subsidize this effort, the school partnered with businesses, using a work-study approach, which over time became the hallmark of the Cristo Rey model. It proved helpful in preparing students for college and for entry into the business world.
In 2004, a segment on CBS 60 Minutes drew attention to the model. Some Catholic educators nationwide and some prominent philanthropists who were committed to educational reform also joined the Network.
Cristo Rey graduates began enrolling in college at rates consistent with the enrollment levels of high-income students, and completing college at a rate considerably higher than high school graduates from low-income families nationwide. The peer-reviewed Catholic Education, A Journal of Inquiry and Practice documented the replication of the model nationally and the standardization of the norms for membership. By 2015, 7,000 graduates of Cristo Rey had either earned their undergraduate degree or were currently enrolled in college. A Lexington Institute study in 2014 described Cristo Rey schools as "one of the nation’s most powerful urban education success stories."
Corporate work study program
The Corporate Work Study Program was created in 1995 by Richard R. Murray, when he was approached by the founders of Cristo Rey to help find a way to finance their new school. Each Cristo Rey school partners with a Corporate Work Study Program. The Corporate Work Study Program (a separately incorporated entity) operates like a temporary employment agency within Cristo Rey schools and employs every student five days a month in an entry-level, professional job all four years of high school. Students earn much of their education cost through participation in the work study program. Typically a student, from the age of 14, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Carnation%20Contented%20Hour | The Carnation Contented Hour was a long-running radio music series, sponsored by the Carnation Milk Company, which premiered April 26, 1931 on the regional NBC West Coast network. The full network series began January 4, 1932, on the Blue Network and was broadcast for two decades until its final broadcast on CBS December 30, 1951.
With its opening theme, "Contented," the musical variety show featured Josef Pasternack conducting until he died of a heart attack during a rehearsal. Leroy Shield and other conductors played four-week tryouts until the network settled on Percy Faith and his orchestra.
Performers varied but usually included Buddy Clark, vocalist; Reinhold Schmidt, bass; and Josephine Antoine, soprano. The announcer was Vincent Pelletier. The program's producers were Harry K. Gilman and C. H. Cottington.
Until October 24, 1932, the program featured Gene Arnold and Herman Larson, broadcast over NBC Blue on Mondays at 8 p.m. Clark joined the cast on October 31, 1932. From October 2, 1949, until December 30, 1951, it aired Sundays on the Columbia Broadcasting System On March 26, 1950, Dick Haymes became the program's host, and Jo Stafford became its "featured feminine singier".
WWII
During World War II, the Armed Forces Radio Service obtained rights to rebroadcast the program to military personnel. Recordings were made on 16" electrical transcription discs for playback at 33 rpm over AFRS. Commercial messages were edited out, and the program was re-titled The Melody Hour.
Ted Dale succeeded Faith as musical director in 1949. Dale brought a dramatic and theatrical quality to the program with energetic, colorful arrangements.
Jay Hickerson's The Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming and Guide to all Circulating Shows indicates the program aired on NBC at 8 p.m. from October 31, 1932, moving to 10 p.m. from November 21, 1932, until September 26, 1949. He reports that 43 recorded shows are available, 36 bearing dates.
References
Sources
External links
Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs: The Carnation Contented Hour
1930s American radio programs
1940s American radio programs
1950s American radio programs
NBC Blue Network radio programs
CBS Radio programs
NBC radio programs
American Forces Network radio programs
American music radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Broadcasting%20Network%20%28Trinidad%20and%20Tobago%29 | The National Broadcasting Network (NBN), formerly National Broadcasting Service of Trinidad and Tobago (or just National Broadcasting Service, abbreviated to NBS) and International Communications Network (ICN), was a state-owned broadcasting station in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago between November 1969 and January 2005.
Early days
The precursor to the National Broadcasting Service (NBS Radio) was Radio Guardian, established on October 13, 1957, by the Thompson Group, the British owners of the Trinidad Guardian newspaper. On November 1, 1969, the Government under Eric Williams acquired Radio Guardian and Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT). Radio Guardian was nationalised and renamed the National Broadcasting Service of Trinidad and Tobago (NBS Radio 610), although continued to be referred to by its old name. The radio broadcast and production studios continued to be located at 17 Abercromby Street in downtown Port-of-Spain, the capital city.
On October 6, 1972, the National Broadcasting Service became the first media company in Trinidad & Tobago to operate an FM stereo station, Radio 100 FM, which remained the sole FM stereo signal available until the privately-owned Trinidad Broadcasting Company (Radio Trinidad) opened Radio 95 FM Stereo on March 14, 1976.
Over the days of the attempted coup attempt led by the Jamaat al-Muslimeen on July 27, 1990, NBS Radio remained on the air around the clock as the only source of information for listeners in the country, up the eastern Caribbean and also overseas via short-wave signal.
International Communications Network
In 1995, with the addition of Radio 98.9 FM, catering largely to the urban youth, the National Broadcasting Service (i.e. the radio frequencies) were relocated to the TTT compound at 11A Maraval Road in Port of Spain. Yet a further frequency came on board shortly thereafter - 91.1 FM. This frequency was for a while also used to rebroadcast NBS Radio 610 AM as an FM signal. Under the re-branded International Communications Network (ICN), 91.1 FM eventually changed its format entirely to East Indian programming in 1998. Radio 610 continued to broadcast on the AM dial, but progressively lost its traditional listening audience due to a weakening of the quality of its broadcast signal and a reduction in allocated financial resources to upgrade its equipment and programming.
National Broadcasting Network
In 2001 there was another name change, with ICN rebranded as the National Broadcasting Network (NBN). Due to financial losses, both radio and TV broadcast entities of NBN ceased operations at midnight on January 15, 2005.
In early 2007, a newly created state-owned media company began operations under the name of the Caribbean New Media Group, as the successor to Trinidad and Tobago Television.
See also
Radio in Trinidad and Tobago
References
Radio stations in Trinidad and Tobago
Radio stations established in 1969
Radio stations disestablished in 2005
Defunct mass media in Trinidad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrintableString | A PrintableString is a restricted character string type in the ASN.1 notation.
It is used to describe data that consists only of a specific printable subset of the ASCII character set.
According to the ASN.1 Specification of basic notation, the character set of PrintableString can be expressed as:
The PrintableString definition does not include the at sign (@) or ampersand (&).
This sometimes causes problems for naive implementers who attempt to put an SMTP email address into an X.509 digital certificate Distinguished Name.
The PrintableString definition does not include asterisk (*) which means it must not be used to represent a wildcard in an X.509 digital certificate Distinguished Name.
See also
The X.690 encoding standard for ASN.1
IA5String
References
Character sets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Kong | is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known by his ring name . He currently wrestles for Dragon Gate under his real name.
Professional wrestling career
Cyber Kong's career started in 2006. He competed as an arm wrestler and was part of the New Japan Dojo system. He trained in the Los Angeles-based Inoki Dojo, but his short stature prevented him from getting far in it, so he took a tryout at the Dragon Gate USA dojo and became its first graduate. During this time, he aligned himself with Shingo Takagi, representing Dragon Gate USA in Ring of Honor's sister company Full Impact Pro. He came to Japan in November, and he became part of the NEX class.
His frightening power, wrestling abilities, and muscular build made him nearly unbeatable in NEX, and thus he was soon brought up to the main roster, where he continued to be a major threat (however, he has shown himself to be susceptible to flash pins). One of his trademarks before and during his matches is ripping a pineapple in half with his bare hands and then chewing up and spitting out the fruit in a savage manner.
He was thought to be an American wrestler originally but was later outed as being Japanese by Masaaki Mochizuki, when he told Yoshida to "wake up." In early 2007, he joined the Muscle Outlaw'z faction, tagging with gaijin Babi Slymm - known as Cyber Gang - as the Ultimate Cybers. His stay in the faction would not be a very long one, for he would soon turn on the Muscle Outlaw'z and start the New Hazard faction with BxB Hulk, who had turned on the Typhoon faction at the same time, and Shingo Takagi. On May 14, 2008, he and Takagi turned on BxB Hulk and joined up with the heel half of the Muscle Outlaw'z, renaming the group to Real Hazard. On July 10, tensions between him and Takagi started up after Takagi prevented him and the other members of Real Hazard (as well as Tokyo Gurentai) from giving Cima an unwanted haircut, which eventually led to Takagi's dismissal from the group seventeen days later. He fought Takagi for his Open the Dream Gate Championship on August 31, but he was unsuccessful in capturing the title.
On October 5, he and Yamato would win the Open the Twin Gate Titles from Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino. On December 21, he did battle with Naoki Tanizaki in a Mask vs. Hair match, which he initially lost after his stablemate Cyber Kongcito's attempt to interfere on his behalf backfired. Real Hazard would come out to protest the result, but he said he would own up to the mask stipulation - except that it would be Kongcito's mask, not his. Kongcito was unmasked, beaten up, and kicked out of the group. He then demanded a restart, due to Kongcito's intrusion, and Cima came out, appointed the special referee, and agreed to let the match restart, since both Real Hazard and WORLD-1 (Tanisaki's stable) had intruded in the match. Kong won, and Tanizaki lost his hair.
He then got into a feud with Anthony W. Mori, with each one gaining victories over the other until they agreed to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision%20problem | The r-to-1 collision problem is an important theoretical problem in complexity theory, quantum computing, and computational mathematics. The collision problem most often refers to the 2-to-1 version: given even and a function , we are promised that f is either 1-to-1 or 2-to-1. We are only allowed to make queries about the value of for any . The problem then asks how many such queries we need to make to determine with certainty whether f is 1-to-1 or 2-to-1.
Classical solutions
Deterministic
Solving the 2-to-1 version deterministically requires queries, and in general distinguishing r-to-1 functions from 1-to-1 functions requires queries.
This is a straightforward application of the pigeonhole principle: if a function is r-to-1, then after queries we are guaranteed to have found a collision. If a function is 1-to-1, then no collision exists. Thus, queries suffice. If we are unlucky, then the first queries could return distinct answers, so queries is also necessary.
Randomized
If we allow randomness, the problem is easier. By the birthday paradox, if we choose (distinct) queries at random, then with high probability we find a collision in any fixed 2-to-1 function after queries.
Quantum solution
The BHT algorithm, which uses Grover's algorithm, solves this problem optimally by only making queries to f.
References
Algorithms
Polynomial-time problems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20films%20of%201900 | A list of American films released in 1900.
See also
1900 in the United States
External links
1900 films at the Internet Movie Database
1900
Films
American
1900s in American cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20films%20of%201901 | A list of American films released in 1901.
See also
1901 in the United States
External links
1901 films at the Internet Movie Database
1901
Films
American
1900s in American cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20films%20of%201902 | A list of American films released in 1902.
See also
1902 in the United States
External links
1902 films at the Internet Movie Database
1902
Films
American
1900s in American cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20films%20of%201905 | A list of American films released in 1905.
See also
1905 in the United States
External links
1905 films at the Internet Movie Database
1905
Films
American
1900s in American cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20films%20of%201906 | A list of American films released in 1906.
See also
1905 in the United States
External links
1906 films at the Internet Movie Database
1906
Films
American
1900s in American cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20films%20of%201907 | A list of American films released in 1907.
See also
1907 in the United States
External links
1907 films at the Internet Movie Database
1907
Films
American
1900s in American cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20films%20of%201908 | A list of American films released in 1908.
See also
1908 in the United States
External links
1908 films at the Internet Movie Database
1908
Films
American
1900s in American cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20films%20of%201909 | This is a list of American films released in 1909.
See also
1909 in the United States
References
External links
1909 films at the Internet Movie Database
1909
Films
American
1900s in American cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20films%20of%201910 | A list of American films released in 1910.
See also
1910 in the United States
References
External links
1910 films at the Internet Movie Database
1910
Films
Lists of 1910 films by country or language
1910s in American cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20films%20of%201911 | A list of American films released in 1911.
See also
1911 in the United States
External links
1911 films at the Internet Movie Database
1911
Films
Lists of 1911 films by country or language
1910s in American cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20films%20of%201912 | The list of American films of 1912 is a compilation of American films released in the year 1912.
A-L
M-Z
See also
1912 in the United States
External links
1912 films at the Internet Movie Database
1912
Films
Lists of 1912 films by country or language
1910s in American cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20films%20of%201914 | A list of American films released in 1914.
See also
1914 in the United States
References
External links
1914 films at the Internet Movie Database
1914
Films
Lists of 1914 films by country or language
1910s in American cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20films%20of%201961 | A list of American films released in 1961.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
A–B
C–I
J–R
S–Z
See also
1961 in the United States
External links
1961 films at the Internet Movie Database
List of 1961 box office number-one films in the United States
1961
Films
Lists of 1961 films by country or language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IM1A2%20Abrams | iM1A2 Abrams is a simulation of the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank for the Windows 95 operating system, developed by Charybdis Enterprises, and published by Interactive Magic (also known as Imagic) in 1997. The game was released as a CD-ROM.
Gameplay
iM1A2 Abrams is a simulation focusing on battlefield management as a tank commander controlling an entire company of support vehicles including infantry, artillery, and air strikes as well as the players' own tank platoon(s). Mastering the many company commands, and regular use of the real-time updated tactical map is essential for success. The player also has the ability to "jump" to each crew position (commander, gunner, driver) in every M1A2 vehicle on the battlefield and take control of each directly.
Three separate fictional campaigns are available to play: the Iranian (taking place in Iraq), Bosnian, and Ukrainian. All of the major eastern and western vehicle types were accurately modeled, and a fictional T-95 main battle tank was added to the mix to create more of a challenge for the somewhat superior M1A2 MBT.
Development
The game's head designer was Arnold Hendrick, best known for designing M1 Tank Platoon. To help with the game's authenticity, Hendrick consulted with a number of contacts in General Dynamics and the United States Armed Forces, including a master gunnery sergeant who was actively training Saudis in the use of the MIA2.
Reception
Publisher Interactive Magic shipped 100,000 copies of the game in preparation for its launch.
Next Generation rated it three stars out of five, and stated that "At times, it feels more like a job than a game. The designers went for keeping it true to life, and that means authenticity, not adrenaline."
North American distributions of the game included the red black and white "PC Gamer Editor's Choice" sticker. This was one of Interactive Magic's last releases in a line of military simulations. It has been compared to MicroProse's M1 Tank Platoon II over the years, due to many similarities in layout and gameplay.
References
External links
iM1A2 Abrams at MobyGames
1997 video games
Charybdis Enterprises games
IEntertainment Network games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Tank simulation video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Video games set in Iraq
Video games set in Ukraine
Windows games
Windows-only games
Yugoslav Wars in fiction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Runway%20Canada | Project Runway Canada is a Gemini Award-winning Canadian television adaptation of the American reality television series Project Runway, which debuted on the Slice network on October 8, 2007. The second season aired on Global. The series' host is fashion model Iman, while Canadian designer Brian Bailey acts as the contestants' mentor. The series was canceled after the second-season finale.
Format
Project Runway Canada uses the same format as the U.S. version of Project Runway that aired for five seasons on the Bravo network and is currently airing in the Lifetime network.
Season 1
This was the debut season of Project Runway and aired from October 8, 2007 to December 12, 2007 on the Slice network. The show won the 'Best Reality Program or Series' award at the 23rd Gemini Awards. The winner of the season was Evan Biddell who won $100,000 to start a line, a portfolio photo shoot with L'Oreal Paris and a spread with Elle Canada magazine featuring the winning model, Ashley Heart.
Season 2
Season 2 aired on Global. The winner of the season was Sunny Fong, winning the cover and a feature spread in ELLE Canada with winning model Victoria, a professional portfolio photo shoot courtesy of L'Oréal Paris, a 'Runway to Retail' business mentorship with Winners, and $100,000 to start his own fashion line.
Judges
Iman
Brian Bailey (mentor)
Shawn Hewson
Rita Silvan
References
External links
Official website for Season 1
Official website for Season 2
AOL Canada Project Runway Canada website
2000s Canadian reality television series
2007 Canadian television series debuts
2009 Canadian television series endings
Slice (TV channel) original programming
Television series by Insight Productions
Global Television Network original programming
Canadian television series based on American television series
Gemini and Canadian Screen Award for Best Reality Series winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20AntiBot | Norton AntiBot, developed by Symantec, monitored applications for damaging behavior. The application was designed to prevent computers from being hijacked and controlled by hackers. According to Symantec, over 6 million computers have been hijacked, and the majority of users are unaware of their computers being hacked.
AntiBot was designed to be used in conjunction with other antivirus software. Unlike traditional antivirus products, AntiBot does not use signatures; there is a delay between when a vendor discovers a virus and distributes the signature. During the delay, computers can be affected. Instead, AntiBot attempts to identify a virus through its actions; viruses are malicious by nature. However, AntiBot was not intended to replace an antivirus product. The program uses technology licensed from Sana Security.
The product has been discontinued after AVG acquired Sana Security in January 2009, developing a standalone program similar to AntiBot called AVG Identity protection, which was also discontinued and integrated in AVG Internet Security 2011. Product updates and technical support were available from Symantec for one year after a customer's last purchase or renewal.
History
Ed Kim, director of product management at Symantec, highlighted the rise of botnets. A botnet is a collection of compromised computers, known as bots, which hackers usually control for malicious purposes. Two main uses of botnets include identity theft and e-mail spam. Kim cited a 29 percent increase of bots from the first half of 2006 to the second half. In all, there were six million active bots by the end of 2006.
On 7 June 2007, Symantec released a beta version of Norton AntiBot. AntiBot was designed to supplement a user's existing antivirus software. Unlike traditional antivirus software, AntiBot does not use signatures to identify malware. Instead, it monitors running applications for damaging or malicious behavior, licensing technology from Sana Security.
AntiBot can also supplement SONAR technology by Symantec, found in Norton AntiVirus 2007, Norton Internet Security 2007, and Norton 360. Similar to AntiBot, SONAR monitors for malicious behavior. However, SONAR does not run continuously in the background; only during a virus scan in those specific products.
AntiBot was made available to the general public on 17 July 2007. On 16 January 2009, AVG announced their plans to acquire Sana Security were finalized. J.R. Smith, CEO of AVG Technologies, highlighted the 40,000 unique malware samples their analysts see each day. He noted the time frame between when a sample is analyzed and a signature is created, emphasizing the need for "instant protection", since hackers are constantly modifying their malicious software to evade signature detection. Often, there are several strains, or variations, of one virus, each with a different classification and signature.
Symantec confirmed ceasing sales and distribution of Norton AntiBot in early 2009. Product help and upd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%205%29 | Season five of Dancing with the Stars premiered on September 24, 2007, with a special three-night premiere week, on the ABC network. As with previous seasons, CTV Television Network aired the series in Canada.
On November 27, 2007, Indy 500 driver Hélio Castroneves and Julianne Hough were crowned the champions, while Spice Girls singer Mel B and Maksim Chmerkovskiy finished in second place, and entertainer Marie Osmond and Jonathan Roberts finished third.
Cast
Couples
This season featured twelve celebrity contestants. On August 29, 2007, the cast was announced on Good Morning America by Tom Bergeron, Carrie Ann Inaba, and reigning celebrity champion Apolo Anton Ohno.
Future appearances
Hélio Castroneves and Sabrina Bryan returned for the All-Stars season, where Castroneves was paired with Chelsie Hightower and Bryan was paired with Louis van Amstel.
Hosts and judges
The show was co-hosted by Tom Bergeron and Samantha Harris, with Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, and Carrie Ann Inaba returning as judges. Samantha Harris gave birth on September 23, 2007. During her leave of absence, season two champion Drew Lachey filled in as co-host. Harris returned to the show on October 15.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1
Each couple performed either the cha-cha-cha or the foxtrot. The women performed on the first night and the men on the second. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Night 1 (Women)
Night 2 (Men)
Week 2
Each couple performed either the mambo or the quickstep. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 3
Each couple performed either the jive or the tango. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 4
Each couple performed either the paso doble or the Viennese waltz. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 5
Each couple performed either the rumba or the samba. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 6
Each couple performed one unlearned dance, and a group Rock and Roll dance. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 7
Each couple performed two unlearned dances. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 8
Each couple performed two unlearned dances. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 9
Each couple performed two dance styles already performed earlier in the season. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 10
On the first night, each couple performed a dance style already performed earlier in the season and a freestyle. On the second night, the two remaining couples performed their favorite dance of the season.
Night 1
Night 2
Dance chart
The couples performed the following each week:
Week 1: One unlearn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20serializability | In concurrency control of databases, transaction processing (transaction management), and other transactional distributed applications, global serializability (or modular serializability) is a property of a global schedule of transactions. A global schedule is the unified schedule of all the individual database (and other transactional object) schedules in a multidatabase environment (e.g., federated database). Complying with global serializability means that the global schedule is serializable, has the serializability property, while each component database (module) has a serializable schedule as well. In other words, a collection of serializable components provides overall system serializability, which is usually incorrect. A need in correctness across databases in multidatabase systems makes global serializability a major goal for global concurrency control (or modular concurrency control). With the proliferation of the Internet, Cloud computing, Grid computing, and small, portable, powerful computing devices (e.g., smartphones), as well as increase in systems management sophistication, the need for atomic distributed transactions and thus effective global serializability techniques, to ensure correctness in and among distributed transactional applications, seems to increase.
In a federated database system or any other more loosely defined multidatabase system, which are typically distributed in a communication network, transactions span multiple (and possibly distributed) databases. Enforcing global serializability in such system, where different databases may use different types of concurrency control, is problematic. Even if every local schedule of a single database is serializable, the global schedule of a whole system is not necessarily serializable. The massive communication exchanges of conflict information needed between databases to reach conflict serializability globally would lead to unacceptable performance, primarily due to computer and communication latency. Achieving global serializability effectively over different types of concurrency control has been open for several years. Commitment ordering (or Commit ordering; CO), a serializability technique publicly introduced in 1991 by Yoav Raz from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), provides an effective general solution for global (conflict) serializability across any collection of database systems and other transactional objects, with possibly different concurrency control mechanisms. CO does not need the distribution of conflict information, but rather utilizes the already needed (unmodified) atomic commitment protocol messages without any further communication between databases. It also allows optimistic (non-blocking) implementations. CO generalizes strong strict two phase locking (SS2PL), which in conjunction with the two-phase commit (2PC) protocol is the de facto standard for achieving global serializability across (SS2PL based) database systems. As a result, CO compliant |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20Movie%20Database | The , more commonly known as simply JMDb, is an online database of information about Japanese movies, actors, and production crew personnel. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database but lists only those films initially released in Japan. Y. Nomura started the site in 1997, and it contains movies from 1899 (Second Year of Movies in Japan recorded) to the present day.
See also
IMDb
References
External links
Internet properties established in 1997
Japan
Online film databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBpedia | DBpedia (from "DB" for "database") is a project aiming to extract structured content from the information created in the Wikipedia project. This structured information is made available on the World Wide Web. DBpedia allows users to semantically query relationships and properties of Wikipedia resources, including links to other related datasets.
In 2008, Tim Berners-Lee described DBpedia as "one of the more famous pieces" of the decentralized Linked Data effort.
Background
The project was started by people at the Free University of Berlin and Leipzig University in collaboration with OpenLink Software, and is now maintained by people at the University of Mannheim and Leipzig University. The first publicly available dataset was published in 2007. The data is made available under free licenses (CC BY-SA), allowing others to reuse the dataset; it doesn't however use an open data license to waive the sui generis database rights.
Wikipedia articles consist mostly of free text, but also include structured information embedded in the articles, such as "infobox" tables (the pull-out panels that appear in the top right of the default view of many Wikipedia articles, or at the start of the mobile versions), categorization information, images, geo-coordinates and links to external Web pages. This structured information is extracted and put in a uniform dataset which can be queried.
Dataset
The 2016-04 release of the DBpedia data set describes 6.0 million entities, out of which 5.2 million are classified in a consistent ontology, including 1.5 million persons, 810,000 places, 135,000 music albums, 106,000 films, 20,000 video games, 275,000 organizations, 301,000 species and 5,000 diseases. DBpedia uses the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to represent extracted information and consists of 9.5 billion RDF triples, of which 1.3 billion were extracted from the English edition of Wikipedia and 5.0 billion from other language editions.
From this data set, information spread across multiple pages can be extracted. For example, book authorship can be put together from pages about the work, or the author.
One of the challenges in extracting information from Wikipedia is that the same concepts can be expressed using different parameters in infobox and other templates, such as and . Because of this, queries about where people were born would have to search for both of these properties in order to get more complete results. As a result, the DBpedia Mapping Language has been developed to help in mapping these properties to an ontology while reducing the number of synonyms. Due to the large diversity of infoboxes and properties in use on Wikipedia, the process of developing and improving these mappings has been opened to public contributions.
Version 2014 was released in September 2014. A main change since previous versions was the way abstract texts were extracted. Specifically, running a local mirror of Wikipedia and retrieving rendered abstracts from i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic%20executive | A cyclic executive is an alternative to a real-time operating system. It is a form of cooperative multitasking, in which there is only one task. The sole task is typically realized as an infinite loop in main(), e.g. in C.
The basic scheme is to cycle through a repeating sequence of activities, at a set frequency (AKA time-triggered cyclic executive). For example, consider the example of an embedded system designed to monitor a temperature sensor and update an LCD display. The LCD may need to be written twenty times a second (i.e., every 50 ms). If the temperature sensor must be read every 100 ms for other reasons, we might construct a loop of the following appearance:
int main(void)
{
while (1)
{
// This loop is designed to take 100 ms, meaning
// all steps add up to 100 ms.
// Since this is demo code and we don't know how long
// tempRead or lcdWrite take to execute, we assume
// they take zero time.
// As a result, the delays are responsible for the task scheduling / timing.
// Read temp once per cycle (every 100 ms)
currTemp = tempRead();
// Write to LCD twice per cycle (every 50 ms)
lcdWrite(currTemp);
delay(50);
lcdWrite(currTemp);
delay(50);
// Now 100 ms (delay(50) + delay(50) + tempRead + lcdWrite + lcdWrite)
// has passed so we repeat the cycle.
}
}
The outer 100 ms cycle is called the major cycle. In this case, there is also an inner minor cycle of 50 ms. In this first example the outer versus inner cycles aren't obvious. We can use a counting mechanism to clarify the major and minor cycles.
int main(void)
{
unsigned int i = 0;
while (1)
{
// This loop is designed to take 50 ms.
// Since this is demo code and we don't know how long
// tempRead or lcdWrite take to execute, we assume
// they take zero time.
// Since we only want tempRead to execute every 100ms, we use
// an if statement to check whether a counter is odd or even,
// and decide whether to execute tempRead.
// Read temp every other cycle (every 100 ms)
if ( (i%2) == 0)
{
currTemp = tempRead();
}
// Write to LCD once per cycle (every 50 ms)
lcdWrite(currTemp);
delay(50);
i++;
// Now 50 ms has passed so we repeat the cycle.
}
}
See also
Arduino - a popular example of this paradigm
Event loop
Preemption (computing)
References
Operating system technology
Concurrent computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet%20over%20PDH%20over%20SONET/SDH | Ethernet over PDH over SONET/SDH (EoPoS) is one of many techniques that provided Ethernet connectivity over non-Ethernet networks. EoPoS is a standardized method for transporting native Ethernet frames over the existing telecommunications optical infrastructure use both the established Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH) transport technologies.
Description
EoPoS is a standardized method for transporting native Ethernet frames over a SONET/SDH network, by first mapping into one or more PDH tributaries such as T1, E1, or DS3. The tributaries can then be dropped from a legacy ADM, delivered to the customer premises, and the PDH links resolved back to an Ethernet connection by a piece of equipment supporting EoPDH.
The technologies used in EoPoS include GFP frame encapsulation, Ethernet Mapping, Virtual Concatenation, Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme, and Management Messaging (OAM). Common practices in EoPoS equipment also include the tagging of traffic for separation into virtual networks, prioritization of user traffic.
Standards from the ITU-T include:
ITU-T G.7041 Generic Framing Procedure
ITU-T G.7042 Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme
ITU-T G.7043 Virtual concatenation of plesiochronous digital hierarchy (PDH) signals
ITU-T G.8040 GFP frame mapping into Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH)
ITU-T Y.1730 Requirements for OAM functions
ITU-T Y.1731 OAM functions and mechanisms
Use
By first mapping into one or more PDH tributaries such as T1, E1, or DS3, the component Ethernet contained in separate PDH signals from a central location can be fanned out to multiple locations. EoPoS allows transport of native Ethernet frames over a SONET/SDH network. Then the component PDH can then be separately dropped using a legacy add-drop multiplexer. Finally, the PDH links are resolved back to Ethernet connections by equipment supporting EoPDH. For proper operation each of the virtual local area network must be individually tagged using IEEE 802.1Q for example.
See also
Ethernet over PDH
Ethernet over SONET and Ethernet over SDH
Packet over SONET/SDH
External links
Electronic Design Article
EoPoS White Paper
EoPDH White Paper
EoPDH Equipment
PDH Over SONET SDH
Synchronous optical networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tait%20%28train%29 | The Tait trains were a wooden bodied Electric Multiple Unit train that operated on the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. They were introduced in 1910 by the Victorian Railways as steam locomotive hauled cars, and converted to electric traction from 1919 when the Melbourne electrification project was underway. The trains derived their name from Sir Thomas James Tait, the chairman of commissioners of the Victorian Railways from 1903 to 1910. The first cars were built during 1909 with the last entering service in 1952.
Tait trains were initially referred to as "Sliding Door" trains, as opposed to the Swing Door trains then in service. From the 1950s, they became known as Reds or Red Rattlers, following the introduction of the blue-painted Harris trains.
Layout
Tait trains had a partly open saloon layout, with bench seats running across the train, the saloon being divided by partitions into a number of smaller areas. Each seating aisle was provided with its own exterior sliding door.
Incandescent lighting, a ceiling with pressed tin patterns, luggage racks above head height, and beautifully stained woodgrain walls were fitted inside each compartment. Interiors were split into smoking and no-smoking compartments until late 1978 with the abolition of smoking on trains, and carriages were designated as first or second class until 1958 when one class suburban travel was introduced.
The exterior of the trains were of two main styles: the original cars had a clerestory roof, and those built from the late 1920s onward had a simpler arched roof.
From 1971, the interior was simplified to cut maintenance costs, with some doorway windows being replaced by metal and plywood, and the wooden latticed sun blinds being removed. The motor bogies on the trains were originally of pressed steel construction, being changed for a new design in cast steel in the 1930s.
In service
Pre-electrification
The production of Tait carriages began before electrification, with the intention that the necessary electrical equipment would be retrofitted when necessary.
The carriages were grouped as the P type, with codes like ACP indicating that there was a passageway connecting most of the compartments, rather than the older carriage style with each compartment isolated from its neighbours. In the 1910 recoding project, the P was changed to a normal-size, normal-font letter, i.e. ACP. However, most diagrams show the raised letter with the newer code, perhaps because they were drawn during the construction phase, around the same time as the recoding was being planned.
All carriages were roughly long over the buffers, high, and wide, although there was some variation. All compartments were linked with a through-corridor, though internal sliding doors were placed three compartments from one end. The carriages were not initially marked "Smoking" or "Non-Smoking".
ACP, AP, BCP, BP
Initial construction saw 48 ACP cars, 62 AP, 18 BCP and 62 BP carriages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta%20Activation | Within computing, Jakarta Activation (JAF; formerly JavaBeans Activation Framework) is a Jakarta EE API that enables developers to:
determine the type of an arbitrary piece of data,
encapsulate access to it,
discover the operations available on it and
to instantiate the appropriate bean to perform the operation(s).
It also enables developers to dynamically register types of arbitrary data and actions associated with particular kinds of data. Additionally, it enables a program to dynamically provide or retrieve JavaBeans that implement actions associated with some kind of data. Originally an extension API, it was available as a standard API in Java SE (from Java SE 6 on) and Java EE, but was removed in Java SE 11.
DataSource Interface
Provides access to an arbitrary collection of data
Get name of the data, data-type name (content type), and the data itself as Input Stream or Output Stream
Two implementation classes provided
URLDataSource simplifies the handling of data described by URLs
FileDataSource simple DataSource object that encapsulates a file provides data typing services -> delegated to a FileTypeMap object.
Other implementations
javax.mail.internet.MimePartDataSource
javax.mail.util.ByteArrayDataSource
DataContentHandler interface
Convert the object to a byte stream and write it to the output stream
Convert streams in to objects
Used to get object/data which can be transferred
Uses java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor to indicate the data that can be accessed. DataFlavor is a data format as would appear on a clipboard, during drag and drop, or in a file system.
CommandMap class
An abstract class provides an interface to a registry of command objects available in the system
Developer develop their own implementation or use
MailcapCommandMap class that implements a CommandMap whose configuration is based on mailcap files (1524)
Command list available from a MIME Type is stored in CommandInfo object.
CommandObject interface
Interface to be implemented by JavaBeans components that are ActivationFramework aware
Simple interface with one method:
setCommandContext(String verb, DataHandler dh)
Example: Compose an e-mail with attachment
import javax.activation.DataHandler;
import javax.activation.FileDataSource;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
import javax.mail.*;
...
// Create a message.
MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
...
// Create the Multipart to be added the parts to
Multipart multipart= new MimeMultipart();
// Create and fill the first text message part
MimeBodyPart mbp = new MimeBodyPart();
mbp.setText("Body");
multipart.addBodyPart(mbp);
// Create a file attachment and fill as second message part
mbp = new MimeBodyPart();
FileDataSource fds = new FileDataSource("C:\\attachment.zip");
mbp.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(fds));
mbp.setFileName(fds.getName());
multipart.addBodyPart(mbp);
// Add the multipart to the message
message.setContent(multipart);
...
References
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20Logic%20Functional%20programming%20language | Algebraic Logic Functional (ALF) programming language combines functional and logic programming techniques. Its foundation is Horn clause logic with equality, which consists of predicates and Horn clauses for logic programming, and functions and equations for functional programming.
ALF was designed to be genuine integration of both programming paradigms, and thus any functional expression can be used in a goal literal and arbitrary predicates can occur in conditions of equations. ALF's operational semantics is based on the resolution rule to solve literals and narrowing to evaluate functional expressions. To reduce the number of possible narrowing steps, a leftmost-innermost basic narrowing strategy is used which, it is claimed, can be efficiently implemented. Terms are simplified by rewriting before a narrowing step is applied and equations are rejected if the two sides have different constructors at the top. Rewriting and rejection are supposed to result in a large reduction of the search tree and produce an operational semantics that is more efficient than Prolog's resolution strategy. Similarly to Prolog, ALF uses a backtracking strategy corresponding to a depth-first search in the derivation tree.
The ALF system was designed to be an efficient implementation of the combination of resolution, narrowing, rewriting, and rejection. ALF programs are compiled into instructions of an abstract machine, which is based on the Warren Abstract Machine (WAM) with several extensions to implement narrowing and rewriting. In the current ALF implementation programs of this abstract machine are executed by an emulator written in C.
In the Carnegie Mellon University Artificial Intelligence Repository, ALF is included as an AI programming language, more so as a functional/logic programming language Prolog implementation. A user manual describing the language and the use of the system is available. The ALF System runs on Unix and is available under a custom proprietary software license that grants the right to use for "evaluation, research and teaching purposes" but not commercial or military use.
References
External links
Publications of Michael Hanus, including many articles relevant to the design and theory of ALF
Information about getting and installing the ALF system
Functional logic programming languages
compilers and interpreters
Logic programming languages
Programming languages created in the 1990s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Mars | Digital Mars is a small American software company owned by Walter Bright and based in Vienna, Virginia. It makes C, C++, and D compilers, and associated utilities such as an integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows and DOS, which Digital Mars calls an integrated development and debugging environment (IDDE).
The compilers can be downloaded, free of charge, from Digital Mars's web site.
Product names changed over time. The C compiler was first named Datalight C compiler, then Zorland C, then Zortech C, then Digital Mars C/C++ compiler. The C++ compiler was first named Zortech C++, then Symantec C++, then Digital Mars C++ (DMC++).
The company gained notice in the software development community for creating the D programming language. D resulted from Bright's frustration with the direction of the C++ language and from his experience implementing it.
Digital Mars is also notable for having shipped the first commercial C++ compiler for Windows
In 2002, Digital Mars released DMDScript, an ECMA-262-compliant JavaScript engine, written in D.
History
In 1988, Zortech was the first C++ compiler to ship for Windows. PC Magazine ran a graphics benchmark, and reported that most executables produced by Zortech ran faster than executables produced by Microsoft C 5.1 and by Watcom C 6.5. Stanley B. Lippman wrote that Zortech was the first C++ compiler to implement return value optimization. Later, the C++ standard required this.
In 2023, Mike Engelhardt released a new simulator QSPICE, which uses this compiler on the backend to allow for C++ and Verilog authored behavioral simulation models to be compiled to native code and loaded by the simulation environment.
References
External links
C (programming language) compilers
C++ compilers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight%20%28runtime%29 | Moonlight was a free and open source implementation for Linux and other Unix-based operating systems of the now deprecated Microsoft Silverlight application framework, developed and then abandoned by the Mono Project. Like Silverlight, Moonlight was a web application framework which provided capabilities similar to those of Adobe Flash, integrating multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity into a single runtime environment.
History and overview
In an interview in the beginning of June 2007, Miguel de Icaza said the Mono team expected to offer a "feasibility 'alpha' demo" in mid-June 2007, with support for Mozilla Firefox on Linux by the end of the year.
After a 21-day hacking spree by the Mono team (including Chris Toshok, Larry Ewing and Jeffrey Stedfast among others), a public demo was shown at Microsoft ReMIX conference in Paris, France on June 21, 2007.
However, in September 2007, developers still needed to install and compile a lot of Mono and Olive (the experimental Mono subproject for .NET 3.0 support) modules from the Mono SVN repository to be able to test Moonlight. A Moonlight IDE, named Lunar Eclipse, exists in SVN for XAML designs. Moonlight uses Cairo for rendering.
Moonlight was provided as a plugin for Firefox and Chrome on popular Linux distributions. The plugin itself does not include a media codec pack, but when the Moonlight plugin detects playable media it refers users to download a free Media codec pack from Microsoft.
Moonlight 2.0 tracked the Silverlight 2.0 implementation. The first completed version, Moonlight 1.0, supporting Silverlight 1.0, was released in January 2009. Moonlight 2.0 was released in December 2009. The Moonlight 2.0 release also contained some features of Silverlight 3 including a pluggable media framework which allowed Moonlight to work with pluggable open codecs, such as Theora and Dirac.
Preview releases of Moonlight 4.0, targeting Silverlight 4 compatibility, were released in early 2011.
In April 2011, the Moonlight team demonstrated Moonlight running on Android tablets and phones at the MIX11 Web Developers conference in Las Vegas.
Shortly after the April 2011 release, Attachmate, parent to developer Mono, laid off an undisclosed number of Mono employees, and announced a deal with startup Xamarin for Mono development and support. At that time, Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman affirmed their commitment to the Moonlight project, although there were no outward signs of any further development afterward.
In December 2011, de Icaza announced that work on Moonlight had stopped with no future plans. He explained that Microsoft had "cut the air supply" to it by omitting cross-platform components, making it a web-only plugin, and including Windows-only features. He advised developers to separate user interface code from the rest of their application development to ensure "a great UI experience on every platform (Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows and Web)" without being dependent on third party AP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Chemicals%20Bureau | The European Chemicals Bureau (ECB) was the focal point for the data and assessment procedure on dangerous chemicals within the European Union (EU). The ECB was located in Ispra, Italy, within the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. In 2008 the ECB completed its mandate. Some of its activities were taken over by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA); others remained within the Joint Research Centre. The history of the ECB has been published as a JRC technical report.
Mission
The mission of the formerly known European Chemicals Bureau (ECB) was to provide scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of EU policies on chemicals and consumer products. It co-ordinated the EU risk assessment programmes that covered the risks posed by existing substances and new substances to workers, consumers and the environment. It also developed guidance documents and tools in support of the REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) Regulation, the Testing Methods Regulation, the Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), the notification of new substances, the information exchange on import and export of dangerous substances, the development and harmonisation of testing methods and the authorisation of biocides.
Biocides
The Biocides Work Area provided scientific and technical support for the approval of active substances in biocidal products as laid down in Directive 98/8/EC (Biocidal Products Directive, BPD) concerning the placing of biocidal products on the market. Currently, these tasks are dealt with by the biocides group within the IHCP. From 2013, coinciding with the coming-into-force of a new Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR), the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) took over the biocides program.
Existing Chemicals
The "Existing Chemicals" Work Area provided technical and scientific support to the European Commission concerning the data collection, priority setting, and risk assessment steps of Council Regulation (EEC) 793/93.
New Chemicals
The "New Chemicals" Work Area included:
Co-ordination of EU notification scheme and risk assessment for new chemical substances (Directive 67/548/EEC including Annexes VII and VIII, Directive 93/67/EEC).
Management of the New Chemicals Database (NCD) maintained in a security area with authorised access only.
Preparation of European LIst of Notified Chemical Substances (ELINCS).
Supervision of Technical and Scientific Meetings (TSMs) and Working Group Meetings allowing Member State Competent Authorities to discuss issues arising related to implementation of Directives.
ESIS
The European chemical Substances Information System (ESIS) is an IT system that provides information on chemicals in different lists. The ESIS database includes the following elements (please note that since 2008, the databases marked with ++ have been taken over by the European Chemicals Agency (ECH |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20Byline%20USA | Sports Byline USA is an international sports radio network based in the United States. Sports Byline USA is also the name of the flagship program on the network. It was the first national sports talk show and was launched on October 24, 1988. Sports Byline USA is located in San Francisco, California. Nationally, the network claims programming is heard on 200 satellite radio stations, was on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 122, and on CRN Digital Talk Radio Networks channel 2. The station is also available on several international stations and is the main sports programming of the American Forces Network which broadcasts on 500 radio stations in 177 countries. Sports Byline USA is no longer on Sirius XM 122 which is now CNBC, but its sister program, Sports Overnight America is on Sirius XM 203.
Broadcast network
Sports Byline programming, which is the main sports news provider for the American Forces Network and also broadcasts on these platforms:
Sports Byline Channel on iHeartRadio
Sports Byline Channel on TuneIn
Sports Byline Channel on Stitcher Radio
Channel 2 of CRN Digital Talk Radio Networks
Sirius XM
Sports Byline's website
And on over 200 affiliate satellite radio stations in the USA
Background
In 1988, when Willie Mays toured to promote his new book Say Hey: the Autobiography of Willie Mays, Mays was Ron Barr's first guest for the first hour of the first broadcast of Sports Byline USA
Barr used his knowledge as a sports anchor for KIRO-TV in Seattle and former NBC affiliate KRON-TV in San Francisco., his connections as a sportscaster for the Washington Huskies, the Seattle SuperSonics, the Boston Celtics and the Stanford Cardinal and his journalism background, reporting for the Washington Post, to build an affiliate satellite network of radio stations across the country that were part of the Sports Byline launch. He also connected with the American Forces Network, to provide their main sports programming content.
In 2020, there are over 35 talk show hosts on the 24/7 network, which still maintains its original concept: to give sports fans across the nation the chance to call in and talk to their favorite athletes. The network's hosts take listener calls on major issues in the sports world.
Leadership
Sports Byline USA's staff includes Chairman/Host, Ron Barr, President Darren Peck and its limited partnership group. Included in the group are 20-time Wimbledon Champion Billie Jean King, former NFL running back Darrin Nelson, super sports attorney Leigh Steinberg and other successful business professionals. Bill Walsh, the Hall of Fame and 3-time Super Bowl winning coach, was on the Sports Byline USA Partnership Advisory Board of Directors.
Spotlights
American Football Network
Sports Byline USA had signed on to be the radio distributor of broadcasts of the All American Football League, with the games being produced by Touchdown Radio Productions. The AAFL suspended operations in March 2008, one month prior to its launch, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logrank%20test | The logrank test, or log-rank test, is a hypothesis test to compare the survival distributions of two samples. It is a nonparametric test and appropriate to use when the data are right skewed and censored (technically, the censoring must be non-informative). It is widely used in clinical trials to establish the efficacy of a new treatment in comparison with a control treatment when the measurement is the time to event (such as the time from initial treatment to a heart attack). The test is sometimes called the Mantel–Cox test. The logrank test can also be viewed as a time-stratified Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel test.
The test was first proposed by Nathan Mantel and was named the logrank test by Richard and Julian Peto.
Definition
The logrank test statistic compares estimates of the hazard functions of the two groups at each observed event time. It is constructed by computing the observed and expected number of events in one of the groups at each observed event time and then adding these to obtain an overall summary across all-time points where there is an event.
Consider two groups of patients, e.g., treatment vs. control. Let be the distinct times of observed events in either group. Let and be the number of subjects "at risk" (who have not yet had an event or been censored) at the start of period in the groups, respectively. Let and be the observed number of events in the groups at time . Finally, define and .
The null hypothesis is that the two groups have identical hazard functions, . Hence, under , for each group , follows a hypergeometric distribution with parameters , , . This distribution has expected value and variance .
For all , the logrank statistic compares to its expectation under . It is defined as
(for or )
By the central limit theorem, the distribution of each converges to that of a standard normal distribution as approaches infinity and therefore can be approximated by the standard normal distribution for a sufficiently large . An improved approximation can be obtained by equating this quantity to Pearson type I or II (beta) distributions with matching first four moments, as described in Appendix B of the Peto and Peto paper.
Asymptotic distribution
If the two groups have the same survival function, the logrank statistic is approximately standard normal. A one-sided level test will reject the null hypothesis if where is the upper quantile of the standard normal distribution. If the hazard ratio is , there are total subjects, is the probability a subject in either group will eventually have an event (so that is the expected number of events at the time of the analysis), and the proportion of subjects randomized to each group is 50%, then the logrank statistic is approximately normal with mean and variance 1. For a one-sided level test with power , the sample size required is
where and are the quantiles of the standard normal distribution.
Joint distribution
Suppose and are the logrank |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20an%20Off%20White%20Room | In an Off White Room is an EP by The Album Leaf, released on Troubleman Unlimited Records in 2001.
Track listing
"Project Loop"
"Glisten"
"Six AM"
"Off White Room"*
"Computer Love" (bonus track, by Kraftwerk)
The track "Off White Room" is a recording of bird sounds which last about 23 minutes and after that the Kraftwerk song "Computer Love" plays.
The Album Leaf albums
2001 EPs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop%20Killing%20Time | Stop Killing Time is the second studio album by Greek musical group C:Real. The album was released October 2000 by LoCal-Planetworks.
Track listing
"With or Without You" – 4:26
"Stop Killing Time" – 4:24
"My Finest Symphony" – 4:39
"Feelings" (ft Tania Nassibian) – 3:51
"Thinking of You" (ft Sofia Strati) – 4:23
"Strange Emotions" – 3:31
"It's No Surprise" – 4:41
"Hypnotized" – 4:24
"How Can I pretend" – 3:48
"A Quiet Sunday Night" – 4:10
"Fire" – 4:19
"Stop Killing Time" (Unplugged) – 4:51
Singles
"With or Without You"
"With or Without You" was the first single from the album and was released in December 1999 as a 4 track CD single. It is considered one of C:Real's major successes, charting on the IFPI singles chart for over 18 weeks and achieving Gold certification.
"Thinking of You"
"Thinking of You" was the second single from the album and was released in mid-2000. It was released as a CD single and contained 3 versions of the song. The song is described as being a latin sounding track with vocals by Sofia Strati.
"Stop Killing Time"
"Stop Killing Time" was the third single released from the album. The song features vocals by Sofia Rapti.
References
C:Real albums
2000 albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Gasparino | Charles Gasparino is an American journalist, blogger, and occasional radio host. He frequently serves as a panelist on the Fox Business Network program segment The Cost of Freedom and the stocks/business news program Cashin' In.
Early life and education
Gasparino was born in the Bronx and graduated with a B.A. from Pace University before earning his master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
Career
Gasparino reported for Newsweek, where he covered politics, Wall Street, and corporate America. Among other stories, he broke the news of the controversial pay package of former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik's controversial (and eventually withdrawn) nomination to run the US Department of Homeland Security, and the dispute surrounding former New York Attorney General (and eventual Governor) Eliot Spitzer's crackdown on corporate crime.
Before working at Newsweek, Gasparino was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. During his time at the WSJ he wrote extensively on issues on Wall Street, including pension funds, mutual funds and regulatory issues. He won the New York Press Club award for coverage of Wall Street research scandals. Gasparino then moved to cable business network CNBC where he reported extensively on Wall Street. During the financial crisis of 2008-2009, Gasparino played a major role in CNBC's coverage, breaking a number of stories, including the news that the U.S. Government was going to bail out insurer AIG, as well as news of the US government's broader bailout of the financial system, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
Gasparino, known for being highly combative on-air (Marketwatch described him as "Fox's Rocky Balboa"), was reported in The Washington Post as saying that "[his] job was to rip the lungs out of the competition for Fox Business Network."
A Financial Times profile of Gasparino illustrates his combativeness, describing him as a "pugnacious pundit Wall Street can't ignore", citing as examples Gasparino's frequent run-ins with colleagues, including then-fellow CNBC reporter Dennis Kneale, and cycling star Lance Armstrong. Despite his aggressiveness, his reporting frequently has a dramatic impact on the markets. The Financial Times quotes Goldman Sachs's then-chief spokesman Lucas Van Praag as saying "Most trading floors have CNBC on with the sound turned down, but when Charlie comes on, they listen.... [H]e does move stock prices." Similarly, Gasparino's then-colleague at CNBC Lawrence Kudlow said of him: "He broke some great stories. I give Charlie a lot of credit for having great sources and, to tell you the truth, most of his steers have been good. He has got us ahead of the game."
Move to Fox
In February 2010, Gasparino left CNBC for the fledgling Fox Business Network. In addition to his book writing, Gasparino appears on Fox Business and Fox News Channel with news reports and commentary, as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTP%20%28band%29 | The industrial band PTP (Programming the PsychoDrill) was a short-lived side project of Wax Trax! Records artists.
The first PTP track, "Show Me Your Spine," was recorded in 1986. Written by Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker of Ministry and Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy, it marked the first collaboration between the three. The track appeared briefly during the club scene in the first RoboCop movie (1987) but did not appear on the soundtrack. The song was not commercially released until 2004 when it appeared on Ministry's Side Trax compilation. Musically, it is representative of the early Wax Trax sound, featuring arpeggio melodies, loud drums, sampled orchestral hits and Ogre's heavily distorted vocals.
PTP released the "Rubber Glove Seduction" single in 1989 on Wax Trax. It was reissued in 1993 on TVT. The b-side was a song titled "My Favorite Things." Both were written by Jourgensen, Barker and Chris Connelly. "Rubber Glove Seduction" became a club hit with Connelly's deadpan lyrics: "Tick tick tock I am the kitchen clock / Tick tick tock this is my wife / Tick tick tock I am the kitchen clock / Tick tick tock this is my knife." Sped up vocals swirled through the mix, some of which offered a commentary on the song itself when slowed down. "My Favorite Things" featured a throbbing bass line and a guitar solo. The CD liner notes were cryptic. The listed band personnel were:
(Chris Connelly): big bass drum, vocals
Alien Dog Star (Alain Jourgensen): pan flute, finger cymbals
Frenchie l'Amour (Paul Barker, also of Ministry): Spanish guitars
The liner notes state "Another Luxa/Pan Production" credit, a mention of the engineer (Littlefellow) and the studio (ursini/hyams recorders). A slogan "where you always save more money" is also included, a reference to a popular low-budget Chicago commercial from the 1980s for the Celozzi-Ettleson Chevrolet car dealership.
Discography
Singles
Rubber Glove Seduction (1989)
Robocop Soundtrack
Show Me Your Spine
External links
Programming The Psychodrill
External PTP Biography
Musical groups established in 1987
American industrial music groups
Wax Trax! Records artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making%20News%3A%20Texas%20Style | Making News: Texas Style was a 2007 TV Guide Network reality series based in the Midland/Odessa, Texas Metro area, following the work lives of the anchors and reporters at KOSA-TV, the local CBS affiliate in the nation's 159th-ranked media market. The show aired on Monday nights at 8/7C on the TV Guide Network.
Production
The program was taped at KOSA's studio at Music City Mall, which is owned by KOSA's parent company and is located in Odessa, contrary to the title sequence.
The series featured stories from Odessa and Midland as well as Goldsmith and Pecos. Sometimes, news anchors at rival station KWES-TV, the market's local NBC affiliate, were followed, but not as frequently.
Reception
The series marked the shifting priorities of the TV Guide Network as it "veered harder into entertainment" and "extended the channel's thematic interest in television." The series was described as a ratings success for the network, doubling its average primetime household rating and leading to a 2008 spinoff series set in Savannah, Georgia.
Writing for Texas Monthly, TV critic Christopher Kelly compared the program to mockumentaries like Waiting for Guffman, calling it " a witty, insightful, and even touching look at a television station that’s probably not much bigger than your average high school AV club" and said the show "blows to smithereens every last stereotype of small-minded, small-town Texas." New York Daily News critic Richard Huff said that the series was "fun to watch", but he thought that it largely confirmed the stereotypes of local television news as "cheesy, overwrought and sensational".
Cast
*The cast is listed by appearance in theme sequence*
Jay Hendricks- Anchor
Kara Lee- Reporter
Jose Gaona - News Director
Tatum Hubbard- Anchor (listed as Co-Anchor in first two episodes)
Gary Williams Jr.- Producer
Melissa Correa- Reporter
Bill Warren- Anchor (Dropped as Anchor in second episode, Listed as Reporter in third)*Not Listed in title sequence and appeared on show*
Craig Stewart- Weather Director
Greg Morgan- meteorologist
Jeff Stewart- Sports Director
Mike Barker- Anchor
Javi Perez - Sports Reporter
Catherine Collins - Reporter
Armando Saldivar - Reporter
Krista Escamilla - Morning Anchor
Eddie Garcia - Reporter
Allyson Powell - Reporter
The entire KOSA news team can be found here: KOSA-TV Staff
See also
Making News: Savannah Style (2008 spinoff)
References
External links
Making News: Texas Style Official Site
CBS 7 Official Site
2000s American reality television series
2007 American television series debuts
2007 American television series endings
Television series about journalism
Television series about television
Television shows filmed in Texas
Television shows set in Texas
Pop (American TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%27s%20problem | In computational complexity theory and quantum computing, Simon's problem is a computational problem that is proven to be solved exponentially faster on a quantum computer than on a classical (that is, traditional) computer. The quantum algorithm solving Simon's problem, usually called Simon's algorithm, served as the inspiration for Shor's algorithm. Both problems are special cases of the abelian hidden subgroup problem, which is now known to have efficient quantum algorithms.
The problem is set in the model of decision tree complexity or query complexity and was conceived by Daniel R. Simon in 1994. Simon exhibited a quantum algorithm that solves Simon's problem exponentially faster with exponentially fewer queries than the best probabilistic (or deterministic) classical algorithm. In particular, Simon's algorithm uses a linear number of queries and any classical probabilistic algorithm must use an exponential number of queries.
This problem yields an oracle separation between the complexity classes BPP (bounded-error classical query complexity) and BQP (bounded-error quantum query complexity). This is the same separation that the Bernstein–Vazirani algorithm achieves, and different from the separation provided by the Deutsch–Jozsa algorithm, which separates P and EQP. Unlike the Bernstein–Vazirani algorithm, Simon's algorithm's separation is exponential.
Because this problem assumes the existence of a highly-structured "black box" oracle to achieve its speedup, this problem has little practical value. However, without such an oracle, exponential speedups cannot easily be proven, since this would prove that P is different from PSPACE.
Problem description
Given a function (implemented by a black box or oracle) with the promise that, for some unknown , for all ,
if and only if ,
where denotes bitwise XOR. The goal is to identify by making as few queries to as possible. Note that
if and only if
Furthermore, for some and in , is unique (not equal to ) if and only if . This means that is two-to-one when , and one-to-one when . It is also the case that implies , meaning thatwhich shows how is periodic.
The associated decision problem formulation of Simon's problem is to distinguish when ( is one-to-one), and when ( is two-to-one).
Example
The following function is an example of a function that satisfies the required property for :
In this case, (i.e. the solution). Every output of occurs twice, and the two input strings corresponding to any one given output have bitwise XOR equal to .
For example, the input strings and are both mapped (by ) to the same output string . That is, and . Applying XOR to 010 and 100 obtains 110, that is
can also be verified using input strings 001 and 111 that are both mapped (by f) to the same output string 010. Applying XOR to 001 and 111 obtains 110, that is . This gives the same solution as before.
In this example the function f is indeed a two-to-one function where .
Probl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelio%20Valc%C3%A1rcel%20Carroll | Aurelio Valcárcel Carroll is a television producer and director known for his association with the Telemundo television network. His credits include Tierra de Pasiones, La Viuda de Blanco, Prisionera and Dame Chocolate. He is sometimes billed as Aurelio Valcárcel. He recently works on Corazón Valiente and El Rostro de la Venganza for Telemundo.
Credits
Post-production director - Telemundo-RTI Producciones
La Reina del Sur (telenovela) (2010/2011)
Executive Producer - Telemundo
Amantes del desierto (2001)
Luzbel esta de visita (2001/2002)
La Venganza (2002/2003)
Amor Descarado (2003/2004)
Prisionera (2004)
¡Anita, no te rajes! (2004/2005)
El Cuerpo del Deseo (2005/2006)
Tierra de Pasiones (2006)
La Viuda de Blanco (2006/2007)
Dame Chocolate (2007)
Pecados Ajenos (2007/2008)
El Rostro de Analía (2008/2009)
Más Sabe el Diablo (2009/2010)
(2010)
Perro Amor (2010)
El Fantasma de Elena (2010/2011)
Alguien Te Mira (2010) (2010/2011)
Aurora (TV Series) (2010/2011)
La Casa de al Lado (2011)
Mi Corazón Insiste (2011)
Una Maid en Manhattan (2011/2012)
Relaciones Peligrosas (2012)
Corazon Valiente (2012/2013)
El Rostro de la Venganza (2012/2013)
Dama y Obrero (2013 telenovela) (2013)
Marido En Alquiler (2013/2014)
Reina de Corazones (2014)
External links
American television producers
Living people
Colombian emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Roberts | Neil Roberts may refer to:
Neil Roberts (actor) (born 1964), English actor
Neil Roberts (anarchist) (1960–1982), activist who killed himself when he bombed the New Zealand police database
Neil Roberts (Australian footballer) (born 1933), Australian rules footballer
Neil Roberts (basketball) (born 1945), former American basketball coach
Neil Roberts (politician) (born 1955), Australian politician
Neil Roberts (author) (born 1946), English professor and author
Neil Roberts (racing driver), NASCAR Cup Series driver; see 1953 Southern 500
Neil Roberts (Welsh footballer) (born 1978)
Dr. Neil Roberts, fictional character from American TV series The OC
See also
Neill Roberts (born 1954), soccer player
Robert Neill (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NvSRAM | nvSRAM is a type of non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM). nvSRAM extends the functionality of basic SRAM by adding non-volatile storage such as an EEPROM to the SRAM chip. In operation, data is written to and read from the SRAM portion with high-speed access; the data in SRAM can then be stored into or retrieved from the non-volatile storage at lower speeds when needed.
nvSRAM is one of the advanced NVRAM technologies that are fast replacing the battery-backed static random-access memory (BBSRAM), especially for applications that need battery-free solutions and long-term retention at SRAM speeds. nvSRAMs are used in a wide range of situations: networking, aerospace, and medical, among many others where the preservation of data is critical and where batteries are impractical.
nvSRAM is faster than EPROM and EEPROM solutions.
Description
When reading and writing data, a nvSRAM acts no differently than a standard asynchronous SRAM. The attached processor or controller sees an 8-bit SRAM interface and nothing else. An added STORE operation stores data that is in an SRAM array in the non-volatile part. Cypress and Simtek nvSRAM have three ways to store data in the non-volatile area. They are:
autostore: happens automatically when the data main voltage source drops below the device's operating voltage. When this occurs, the power control is switched from VCC to a capacitor. The capacitor will power the chip long enough to store the SRAM contents into the non-volatile part.
hardware store: the HSB (Hardware Store Busy) pin externally initiates a non-volatile hardware store operation. Using the HSB signal, which requests a non-volatile hardware STORE cycle, is optional.
software store: is initiated by a certain sequence of operations. When the defined operations are done in sequence the software store is initiated.
nvSRAM with SONOS technology
SONOS is a cross-sectional structure of MOSFET used in Non-volatile memory such as EEPROM and flash memories.
nvSRAM combines the standard SRAM cells with EEPROM cells in SONOS technology to provide a fast read/write access and 20 years of data retention without power. The SRAM cells are paired one-to-one with EEPROM cells. The nvSRAMs are in the CMOS process, with the EEPROM cells having a SONOS stack to provide nonvolatile storage. When normal power is applied, the device looks and behaves in a similar manner as a standard SRAM. However, when power drops out, each cell’s contents can be stored automatically in the nonvolatile element positioned above the SRAM cell. This nonvolatile element uses standard CMOS process technology to obtain the high performance of standard SRAMs. In addition, the SONOS technology is highly reliable and supports 1 million STORE operations
The SONOS memory uses an insulating layer such as silicon nitride with traps as the charge storage layer. The traps in the nitride capture the carriers injected from the channel and retain the charge. This type of memory is also k |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20packet%20data%20service | MPDS or Mobile Packet Data Service provides remote users with IP capability over satellite for portable and extremely reliable communications for Internet applications such as World Wide Web access, file transfer and e-mail. It was launched by COMSAT mobile communications (CMC).
Mobile telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPack%20%28software%29 | In computer security, MPack is a PHP-based malware kit produced by Russian crackers. The first version was released in December 2006. Since then a new version is thought to have been released roughly every month. It is thought to have been used to infect up to 160,000 PCs with keylogging software. In August 2007 it was believed to have been used in an attack on the web site of the Bank of India which originated from the Russian Business Network.
Unusual for such kits, MPack is sold as commercial software (costing $500 to $1,000 US), and is provided by its developers with technical support and regular updates of the software vulnerabilities it exploits. Modules are sold by the developers containing new exploits. These cost between $50 and $150 US depending on how severe the exploit is. The developers also charge to make the scripts and executables undetectable by antivirus software.
The server-side software in the kit is able to customize attacks to a variety of web browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera. MPack generally works by being loaded in an IFrame attached to the bottom of a defaced website. When a user visits the page, MPack sends a script that loads in the IFrame and determines if any vulnerabilities in the browser or operating system can be exploited. If it finds any, it will exploit them and store various statistics for future reference.
Included with the server is a management console, which allows the attacker deploying the software to view statistics about the computers that have been infected, including what web browsers they were using and what countries their connections originated from.
See also
Exploit
Exploit kit
Trojan horse (computing)
Spyware
Botnet
Computer virus
Backdoor (computing)
References
Cybercrime
Malware toolkits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega%20Racing%20Studio | Sega Racing Studio (abbreviated as SRS; also known as Sega Driving Studio) was a computer and video game developer established in 2005 (based in Solihull, England) for the sole purpose of developing AAA Sega racing titles. The studio had radically expanded from a small group of people to a team of over 60 employees by the year 2007 drawing talent from other major British developers such as Rockstar Games, Rare, Codemasters, and Criterion Games.
Its mission statement was to create driving games for the Western market while paying homage to Sega's legacy in the genre and developing new racing IPs.
The development studio was aiming to become large enough to be able "to be a multi-sku, multi-game studio" and develop multiple titles at the same time. The team was called autonomous from Sega while still being part of the organization.
The studio was headed by Guy Wilday, who was involved in the Colin McRae Rally games and was formerly the head of the studio behind the games and the series producer.
Acquisition by Codemasters
On April 8, 2008, Sega announced the closure of Sega Racing Studio, although no reason was specified for the closure, it has been assumed it was due to lacklustre sales of Sega Rally Revo. At a later time, Sega announced none of the employees were folded into internal studios.
On April 25, 2008, Codemasters announced that it had acquired Sega Racing Studio.
When Grid 2 was announced, the studio was brought back up as Codemasters Racing.
Games developed
Sega Rally Revo (2007)
Sega Rally 3 (2008)
References
External links
Sega Racing Studio's official website
Racing Studio
Video game development companies
Video game companies established in 2005
Video game companies disestablished in 2008
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
Defunct companies based in the West Midlands (county)
Companies based in Solihull
2005 establishments in England
2008 disestablishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%2010%20Pounds%20Bootcamp | The Last 10 Pounds Bootcamp is a Canadian television show on the Slice network that puts participants through an intense fitness and nutrition routine designed to help them reach a target weight in four weeks. The participants are usually motivated to lose weight by a wedding or some other important upcoming event in their lives. The show stars Tom Europe, a former CFL star turned celebrity trainer, who plays the role of the drill instructor at the bootcamp. Europe is often accompanied by Nadeen Boman, who helps the participants on the show learn about nutrition.
Format
The show begins with short clips of bystanders, discussing where they would like to lose the "last 10 pounds". The last person interviewed is then introduced as the subject of the episode, with a voice-over from Tommy discussing her/his goals and issues. The participants on the show are predominantly female.
This introduction is usually followed by Tommy and Nadeen bursting into a social event and introducing themselves to the participant. They start by recording her/his weight, measurements, and, occasionally, body fat percentage, then Nadeen is shown cleaning out their cupboards of junk food while Tommy helps the subject pick out a target outfit (which is usually then requested two sizes smaller than the one that was picked). Usually Nadeen, (sometimes Tommy) runs the participant through a five-course, portion-controlled meal plan on what they will eat for the next four weeks.
Tommy begins the exercises by assessing the participant's fitness level with a "drill test". The remainder of the show details the participant's struggles as s/he tries to lose weight. A midpoint weigh-in is featured, along with graphical computer predictions of what s/he might look like in five to ten years if s/he does not change to a healthier lifestyle. Occasionally, a "butt kick" is included in the second half of the episode, especially if the subject has been caught cheating at her/his diet or slacking in her/his exercise. The "final challenge" is the last obstacle the participant must conquer. During the challenge, the participant carries a 10-pound "backpack of burden" filled with unhealthy food(s) that s/he enjoyed prior to enlisting in bootcamp.
Production
The show is filmed in and around the city of Vancouver.
The show also airs on the Discovery Health Channel in Canada.
References
External links
The Last 10 Pounds Bootcamp on Slice.ca
The Last 10 Pounds Bootcamp
Slice (TV channel) original programming
2007 Canadian television series debuts
2000s Canadian reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical%20debt | In software development, or any other IT field (e.g., Infrastructure, Networking, etc.) technical debt (also known as design debt or code debt) is the implied cost of future reworking required when choosing an easy but limited solution instead of a better approach that could take more time.
Analogous with monetary debt, if technical debt is not repaid, it can accumulate "interest", making it harder to implement changes. Unaddressed technical debt increases software entropy and cost of further rework. Similarly to monetary debt, technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing, and sometimes (e.g. as a proof-of-concept) is required to move projects forward. On the other hand, some experts claim that the "technical debt" metaphor tends to minimize the ramifications, which results in insufficient prioritization of the necessary work to correct it.
As a change is started on a codebase, there is often the need to make other coordinated changes in other parts of the codebase or documentation. Changes required that are not completed are considered debt, and until paid, will incur interest on top of interest, making it cumbersome to build a project. Although the term is primarily used in software development, it can also be applied to other professions.
In a Dagstuhl seminar held in 2016, technical debt was defined by academic and industrial experts of the topic as follows: "In software-intensive systems, technical debt is a collection of design or implementation constructs that are expedient in the short term, but set up a technical context that can make future changes more costly or impossible. Technical debt presents an actual or contingent liability whose impact is limited to internal system qualities, primarily maintainability and evolvability."
Causes
Common causes of technical debt include:
Ongoing development, long series of project enhancements over time renders old solutions sub-optimal.
Insufficient up-front definition, where requirements are still being defined during development, development starts before any design takes place. This is done to save time but often has to be reworked later.
Business pressures, where the business considers getting something released sooner before the necessary changes are complete, builds up technical debt involving those uncompleted changes.
Lack of process or understanding, where businesses are blind to the concept of technical debt, and make decisions without considering the implications.
Tightly coupled components, where functions are not modular, the software is not flexible enough to adapt to changes in business needs.
Lack of a test suite, which encourages quick and risky band-aid bug fixes.
Lack of software documentation, where code is created without supporting documentation. The work to create documentation represents debt.
Lack of collaboration, where knowledge isn't shared around the organization and business efficiency suffers, or junior developers are not properly mentored.
Parallel d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNAEG | The Fichier National Automatisé des Empreintes Génétiques () is the French national DNA database, used by both the national police force and local gendarmerie.
Origins and evolution
In June 1998, the Guigou law on the prevention of sexually-related crimes, passed by the Plural Left Lionel Jospin government, created a national DNA database. The implementation, originally planned for 1999, was finally completed in 2001, with the database itself located at Écully in the Rhône, managed by a subdirectorate of the technical and scientific departments of the French police force.
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the USA in 2001, the French government increased the scope of the database to include DNA related to other serious criminal offences, such as voluntary manslaughter, criminal violence and terrorism.
A further 'law for interior safety' introduced on 18 March 2003 expanded the scope still further to cover almost all violent crimes to people or property, serious crimes such as drug trafficking, simple thefts, tags and dégradations, and finally almost all small offenses, but not traffic offenses or crimes committed abroad. Samples are taken from convicted persons and also from simple suspects. The law does not specify a minimum age.
In September 2009, Matthieu Bonduelle, the general secretary of the Syndicat de la Magistrature (the first syndicat of juges) has declared that "nobody defends a universal database, but, in fact, it is being done."
Relative size
As at 1 October 2003, FNAEG was understood to contain the DNA records of approximately 8,000 convicted criminals and another 3,200 suspects.
In 2006, this number was believed to now be in excess of 330,000 entries.
In May 2007, this number was believed to now be in excess of nearly 500,000 entries.
In December 2009, there were 1.27 million entries.
Privacy concerns
With the expansion of the database in 2003, it also became an offence for suspects to fail to provide a DNA sample, with punishment ranging from a prison sentence of between six months and two years, and a fine of between €7500 and €30000.
At the end of 2006, the media raised the case of individuals refusing to provide DNA samples. Many of them were civil disobedience activists opposed to Genetically modified organism (GMO) (See fr:Faucheurs volontaires). Although this was only around 200 cases, they denounced what they regarded as a threat to personal freedom.
See also
Government database
References
External links
Fichier national automatisé des empreintes génétiques
On the official Website of the french ministère de l’intérieur : Fichier national automatisé des empreintes génétiques
Human genetics
Identity documents
Biometrics
Government databases in France
National DNA databases
Privacy in France
Forensic databases
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Bunn | Richard Bunn is managing director of rbi network, Geneva, a consulting firm for television, sport and marketing, established in 2000.
During 1978-2000 he was Head of Television Programmes and Controller of Sport at European Broadcasting Union. He was instrumental in partnership of the European Athletic Association with EBU and British Satellite Broadcasting, which eventually led to the creation of the Eurosport.
The International DanceSport Federation (IDSF) credits the creation of the Eurovision Dance Contest to Mr. Bunn, who convinced the EBU to create this TV program.
In 2001, Richard Bunn was awarded the Olympic Order by the IOC for his efforts in promoting sports:
"responsible for negotiating major contracts with the International Federations and overseeing the coordination of the Olympic Movement with the EBU for the past 22 years."
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Sports executives and administrators
Television executives
Recipients of the Olympic Order |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinoma | Kinoma, a division of Marvell Semiconductor, is a software engineering group providing an open-source, cross-platform ECMAScript stack aimed at developing software for Internet of Things products and other embedded devices. Additionally, Kinoma provides Kinoma Create, a hardware prototyping platform aimed at the independent maker community.
Kinoma initially offered consumer media players for the Palm OS Treo lineup. It expanded its offering starting in 2008 with Windows Mobile 6 and Symbian S60 devices, and in 2012 offered Kinoma Play for Android. Additionally, Kinoma licenses its core technologies for embedded/OEM products including Sling Media, Sprint Mobile TV, and Sony among others.
Kinoma Player for Palm
Kinoma Player was offered as a default media player in Palm Treo based devices.
Kinoma Player 4 EX was also sold as a premium media player on Palm OS based phones until August 2010, which featured Kinoma Guide and YouTube video search. Kinoma Player 4 EX was sold until August 2010, and reached its support end-of-life on October 1, 2010.
Kinoma Play
Kinoma Play, introduced at Mobile World Congress 2011 and released on March 13, 2012, was a combination media player, media browser, and app platform. The default app in Kinoma Play, Kinoma Guide, contained mobile-specific content from a variety of sources on the Internet. Kinoma Play also had downloadable apps to extend its capabilities, such as Box.net, ORB, ShoutCAST, as well as social media clients for Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare among others. Kinoma Play featured "dashboards" that aggregated search results from any installed Kinoma Play apps in one screen.
Windows Mobile 6.X/Symbian S60 - 2008-2012
Kinoma Play was introduced for Windows Mobile 6.0 devices on August 25, 2008, for $29.95, with Kinoma FreePlay available to users as a demo of the Kinoma Guide. Kinoma Play was eventually made available on Symbian S60 phones on September 15, 2009. No version of Kinoma was made for successive platforms from either Microsoft or Symbian. On March 12, 2012, after announcing Android general availability, Kinoma removed their online store to pay for the app on Windows Mobile and Symbian.
On April 1, 2012, all Windows Mobile and Symbian Kinoma products were discontinued.
Android - 2012 – 2014
In February 2011, shortly after being acquired by Marvell, Kinoma announced an Android platform beta of their Kinoma Play app. On March 12, 2012, Kinoma released a preview copy of Kinoma Play for Android to the public, which was offered free of charge, also announcing that the final version of the app will also be offered free of charge. On January 6, 2014, Kinoma announced the discontinuation of availability and support for the app.
Kinoma Connect
Kinoma Connect, introduced at CES 2014, is an app for Android and iOS designed to stream media and podcasts from a handheld device or tablet to DLNA-equipped devices such as smart TVs and Blu-ray players.
Kinoma Create
On March 10, 2014, Kinoma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisse%20d%27allocations%20familiales | Family allocations make up the family-oriented sector of the French social security system, through a network known as the Caisse nationale des allocations familiales National Office for Family Allocations or CNAF and the 101 Caisse d'allocations familiales (Family Allocations Office, or CAF).
The institution serves more than 10 million beneficiaries.
Background
It was formalized by the decree of October 4, 1945.
The allowances
Family benefits are not taxable, but subject to the contribution for the reimbursement of social debt with the exception of social minima such as RSA, AAH and formerly API and RMI. Their amount is set by legislative texts as a percentage of the monthly basis for calculating Family Allowances.
They are in principle unassignable and unseizable except:
in the event of fraud or false declaration;
for the recovery of maintenance claims (canteen costs in particular);
for the recovery of healthcare costs (hospitalization for example);
regarding the housing allowance where benefits can be paid directly to the lessor in certain cases.
Without exception, family benefits are paid monthly and in arrears and are due from the first day of the calendar month following the month in which the conditions for entitlement are met. Subject to the rules specific to each service, the prescription is biennial. The end of entitlement is fixed on the first day of the calendar month during which the conditions for opening the entitlement cease to be met, except in the event of death (in this case, the termination of entitlement is the month following the death).
In 2007, the family allowance funds paid the following benefits:
Birth, Adoption, Childcare
Allowance for the birth of a child (1710,49€ once)
Allowance for a young child (171,06€/month)
Adoption allowance
Aid to the family to hire a licensed mother's assistant (between 374,12€ and 748,24€/month).
Allowance for raising children at home (between 134,13€ and 530,72€/month)
Parental education allowance (between 256€ and 350,92€/month)
Children
Child benefit (between 119-152€/month, more for each child between the ages of 11-20)
Familial complement (155€/month)
Allowance for parental presence (39-47€/day + 101€/month)
Back to school
Allowance for the new school year (286,01€, paid in September)
Housing
Housing aid
Personalised housing aid
Bonus for moving house (898-973€, once)
Aid for scholarship students who move house (300€, once)
Loan for improvement works to home (1% interest loan, maximum 1067,14€)
The single or separated parent
Single parent allowance (between 52,90€ and 748,20€)
Family support allowance (83,76€ - 111,68€/month)
Recovery of unpaid alimony (the CAF takes legal action to force the other parent to pay alimony)
The handicapped adult or child
Allocation for the education of a handicapped child (between 119,72€ - 1999,82€/month)
Allocation for handicapped adults (621,27€)
The minimum salary
Revenu de solidarité active (RSA) since 1 Ju |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier%20Retail%20Networks | Premier Retail Networks or "PRN" is a wholly owned subsidiary of Stratacache. It programs, broadcasts and sells advertising on video screens, health kiosks and television displays inside retail locations. PRN was known as IZ-ON Media (pronounced "Eyes on Media") from October 1, 2012 to October 7, 2015.
Services
PRN programs and operates three different retail media networks; the HDTV Network, the Health and Wellness Network and the Checkout TV® Network. Each Digital Place-based Media Network plays a looping video program that combines entertainment content, retailer programming and advertising.
The Checkout TV® Network plays on screens located over the checkout stands in Walmart stores. Intended for viewing by customers in line for checkout, the network plays short-form programming and commercials. Ads are typically for items that are available at or near the checkout area or may be purchased on a return trip.
The HDTV Network can be seen in wholesale clubs, such as Costco. The programming is displayed on the HDTV televisions that are on display for sale, often in front of the store. In retail stores, such as Target, the televisions are located in the electronics department. Shoppers browsing these televisions see HD content from media partners, like VH1, as well as paid commercial spots that advertise products sold inside the store or club. The HDTV Network inside BJ's Wholesale Club stores include BJ's Radio, which plays music, announcements, and advertising in-club.
The Health and Wellness Network began in April 2013 when IZ-ON Media became the ad sales representative for the Stayhealthy network. Stayhealthy was a national network of connected health kiosks (located near the pharmacy department) in grocery and drug stores. Customers can track their blood pressure, weight and body fat as well as conduct vision tests. Advertising is sold for and displayed on a larger "attract screen" that faces the store as well as on the personal screen while a person waits for his/her test results. IZ-ON Media's Health and Wellness Network tripled in size when Stayhealthy merged with higi, another national health kiosk chain, in August 2014. The combined higi network can be found in grocery and drug store chains such as Kroger, Albertsons, Publix, Ahold and Rite Aid.
History
Founded in 1992, the company has serviced many venues, including, Sam's Club, Best Buy, SUPERVALU, Sears, Fry's Marketplace, ShopRite, Pathmark, and all locations serviced by Indoor Direct.
On June 30, 2015, Stratacache acquired IZ-ON Media from Technicolor SA and restored the original PRN name on October 7, 2015.
References
External links
Official website
Stratacache
Technicolor SA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altuna%20Runestone | The Altuna Runestone (Altunastenen), listed as U 1161 in the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone with images from Norse mythology that is located in Altuna, Uppland, Sweden.
Description
The Altuna Runestone is a granite stone in height that was discovered in 1918 by a local historian in the wall of a chapel located near its current location. Before the historical significance of runestones was recognized, they were often used as materials in the construction of roads, bridges, walls, and buildings. It is one of few surviving runestones with exclusively pagan illustrations from Norse mythology. Most surviving runestones were raised during the 11th century after the Christianization of Sweden, and they were raised by people who wanted to show that they too adhered to the new faith, at least outwardly so, due to the fact that at least half of the runestones have inscriptions related to Christianity.
One side of the Altuna Runestone, however, illustrates a legend recorded in the Hymiskviða of the Poetic Edda, in which the Norse god Thor fishes for Jörmungandr, the Midgard serpent. Thor goes fishing with the jötunn Hymir using an ox head for bait, and catches Jörmungandr, who then either breaks loose or, as told in the Gylfaginning of the Prose Edda, the line is cut loose by Hymir. The Prose Edda provides the additional detail that while Thor was pulling on the line with Jörmungandr on the hook, his feet went through the bottom of the boat. The image on the Altuna Runestone does not show Hymir, which may be due to the narrow shape of the stone, but it shows Thor, his line and tackle and the serpent, and notably, Thor's foot which has been pushed through the hull of the boat. This encounter between Thor and Jörmungandr seems to have been one of the most popular motifs in Norse art. Three other picture stones that have been linked with the myth are the Ardre VIII image stone, the Hørdum stone, and the Gosforth Cross. A stone slab that may be a portion of a second cross at Gosforth also shows a fishing scene using an ox head.
The runic inscription suggests that those to whom the stone is dedicated, the father Holmfastr and his son Arnfastr, were burned, possibly in a case of arson known as quickfire, a method commonly used in Scandinavian feuds. Arnfastr and his brother Véfastr share the common name element fastr with their father, Holmfastr. A common practice at that time in Scandinavia was the repeating of one of the name elements from a parent's name in the names of the children to show the family connection.
The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr3, which is also known as Urnes style. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns. The animal heads are typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks. The inscription is signed by the runemasters with the normalized names Frös |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti%20Orion | The Orion was a mid-range mainframe computer introduced by Ferranti in 1959 and installed for the first time in 1961. Ferranti positioned Orion to be their primary offering during the early 1960s, complementing their high-end Atlas and smaller systems like the Sirius and Argus. The Orion was based on a new type of logic circuit known as "Neuron" and included built-in multitasking support, one of the earliest commercial machines to do so (the KDF9 being a contemporary).
Performance of the system was much less than expected and the Orion was a business disaster, selling only about eleven machines. The Orion 2 project was quickly started to address its problems, and five of these were sold. Its failure was the capstone to a long series of losses for the Manchester labs, and with it, Ferranti management grew tired of the entire computer market. The division was sold to International Computers and Tabulators (ICT), who selected the Canadian Ferranti-Packard 6000 as their mid-range offering, ending further sales of the Orion 2.
History
Magnetic amplifiers
During the 1950s transistors were expensive and relatively fragile devices. Although they had advantages for computer designers, namely lower power requirements and their smaller physical packaging, vacuum tubes remained the primary logic device until the early 1960s. There was no lack of experimentation with other solid state switching devices, however.
One such system was the magnetic amplifier. Similar to magnetic core memory, or "cores", magnetic amplifiers used small toroids of ferrite as a switching element. When current passed through the core, a magnetic field would be induced that would reach a maximum value based on the saturation point of the material being used. This field induced a current in a separate read circuit, creating an amplified output with a known current. Unlike digital logic based on tubes or transistors, which uses defined voltages to represent values, magnetic amplifiers based their logic values on defined current values.
One advantage to magnetic amplifiers is that they are open in the center and several input lines can be threaded through them. This makes it easy to implement chains of "OR" logic by threading a single core with all the inputs that need to be ORed together. This was widely used in the "best two out of three" circuits that were used in binary adders, which could reduce the component count of the ALU considerably. This was known as "Ballot Box Logic" due to the way the inputs "voted" on the output. Another way to use this feature was to use the same cores for different duties during different periods of the machine cycle, say to load memory during one portion and then as part of an adder in another. Each of the cores could be used for as many duties as there was room for wiring through the center.
In the late 1950s new techniques were introduced in transistor manufacture that led to a rapid fall in prices while reliability shot up. By the early 1960s m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEFLOW | FEFLOW (Finite Element subsurface FLOW system) is a computer program for simulating groundwater flow, mass transfer and heat transfer in porous media and fractured media. The program uses finite element analysis to solve the groundwater flow equation of both saturated and unsaturated conditions as well as mass and heat transport, including fluid density effects and chemical kinetics for multi-component reaction systems.
History
The software was firstly introduced by Hans-Jörg G. Diersch in 1979, see and. He developed the software in the Institute of Mechanics of the German Academy of Sciences Berlin up to 1990. In 1990 he was one of the founders of WASY GmbH of Berlin, Germany (the acronym WASY translates from German to Institute for Water Resources Planning and Systems Research), where FEFLOW has been developed further, continuously improved and extended as a commercial simulation package. In 2007 the shares of WASY GmbH were purchased by DHI. The WASY company has been fused and FEFLOW became part of the DHI Group software portfolio. FEFLOW is being further developed at DHI by an international team. Software distribution and services are worldwide.
Technology
The program is offered in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions for Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems.
FEFLOW's theoretical basis is fully described in the comprehensive FEFLOW book. It covers a wide range of physical and computational issues in the field of porous/fractured-media modeling. The book starts with a more general theory for all relevant flow and transport phenomena on the basis of the continuum mechanics, systematically develops the basic framework for important classes of problems (e.g., multiphase/multispecies non-isothermal flow and transport phenomena, variably saturated porous media, free-surface groundwater flow, aquifer-averaged equations, discrete feature elements), introduces finite element methods for solving the basic multidimensional balance equations, in detail discusses advanced numerical algorithms for the resulting nonlinear and linear problems, and completes with a number of benchmarks, applications and exercises to illustrate the different types of flow, mass and heat transport problems (e.g., subsurface flow and seepage problems, unsaturated-saturated flow, advective-diffusion transport, saltwater intrusion, geothermal and thermohaline flow).
Other groundwater simulators
MODFLOW
Groundwater Modeling System
MARTHE
HydroGeoSphere
HYDRUS
PORFLOW
MicroFEM LT
OpenGeoSys
Leapfrog Hydro
ECLIPSE simulator with the H2O extension
Peer review
References
External links
Finite element software
Finite element software for Linux
Hydrogeology software
Scientific simulation software
Software that uses Motif (software)
Engineering software that uses Qt
Geology software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SahysMod | SahysMod is a computer program for the prediction of the salinity of soil moisture, groundwater and drainage water, the depth of the watertable, and the drain discharge in irrigated agricultural lands, using different hydrogeologic and aquifer conditions, varying water management options, including the use of ground water for irrigation, and several crop rotation schedules, whereby the spatial variations are accounted for through a network of polygons.
Rationale
There is a need for a computer program that is easier to operate and that requires a simpler data structure then most currently available models. Therefore, the SahysMod program was designed keeping in mind a relative simplicity of operation to facilitate the use by field technicians, engineers and project planners instead of specialized geo-hydrologists.
It aims at using input data that are generally available, or that can be estimated with reasonable accuracy, or that can be measured with relative ease. Although the calculations are done numerically and have to be repeated many times, the final results can be checked by hand using the formulas in this manual.
SahysMod's objective is to predict the long-term hydro-salinity in terms of general trends, not to arrive at exact predictions of how, for example, the situation would be on the first of April in ten years from now.
Further, SahysMod gives the option of the re-use of drainage and well water (e.g. for irrigation) and it can account for farmers' responses to waterlogging, soil salinity, water scarcity and over-pumping from the aquifer. Also it offers the possibility to introduce subsurface drainage systems at varying depths and with varying capacities so that they can be optimized.
Other features of SahysMod are found in the next section.
Methods
Calculation of aquifer conditions in polygons
The model calculates the ground water levels and the incoming and outgoing ground water flows between the polygons by a numerical solution of the well-known Boussinesq equation. The levels and flows influence each other mutually.
The ground water situation is further determined by the vertical groundwater recharge that is calculated from the agronomic water balance. These depend again on the levels of the ground water.
When semi-confined aquifers are present, the resistance to vertical flow in the slowly permeable top-layer and the overpressure in the aquifer, if any, are taken into account.
Hydraulic boundary conditions are given as hydraulic heads in the external nodes in combination with the hydraulic conductivity between internal and external nodes. If one wishes to impose a zero flow condition at the external nodes, the conductivity can be set at zero.
Further, aquifer flow conditions can be given for the internal nodes. These are required when a geological fault is present at the bottom of the aquifer or when flow occurs between the main aquifer and a deeper aquifer separated by a semi-confining layer.
The depth of the water tabl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular%20buffer | In computer science, a circular buffer, circular queue, cyclic buffer or ring buffer is a data structure that uses a single, fixed-size buffer as if it were connected end-to-end. This structure lends itself easily to buffering data streams. There were early circular buffer implementations in hardware.
Overview
A circular buffer first starts out empty and has a set length. In the diagram below is a 7-element buffer:
Assume that 1 is written in the center of a circular buffer (the exact starting location is not important in a circular buffer):
Then assume that two more elements are added to the circular buffer — 2 & 3 — which get put after 1:
If two elements are removed, the two oldest values inside of the circular buffer would be removed. Circular buffers use FIFO (first in, first out) logic. In the example, 1 & 2 were the first to enter the circular buffer, they are the first to be removed, leaving 3 inside of the buffer.
If the buffer has 7 elements, then it is completely full:
A property of the circular buffer is that when it is full and a subsequent write is performed, then it starts overwriting the oldest data. In the current example, two more elements — A & B — are added and they overwrite the 3 & 4:
Alternatively, the routines that manage the buffer could prevent overwriting the data and return an error or raise an exception. Whether or not data is overwritten is up to the semantics of the buffer routines or the application using the circular buffer.
Finally, if two elements are now removed then what would be returned is not 3 & 4 but 5 & 6 because 5 & 6 are now the oldest elements, yielding the buffer with:
Uses
The useful property of a circular buffer is that it does not need to have its elements shuffled around when one is consumed. (If a non-circular buffer were used then it would be necessary to shift all elements when one is consumed.) In other words, the circular buffer is well-suited as a FIFO (first in, first out) buffer while a standard, non-circular buffer is well suited as a LIFO (last in, first out) buffer.
Circular buffering makes a good implementation strategy for a queue that has fixed maximum size. Should a maximum size be adopted for a queue, then a circular buffer is a completely ideal implementation; all queue operations are constant time. However, expanding a circular buffer requires shifting memory, which is comparatively costly. For arbitrarily expanding queues, a linked list approach may be preferred instead.
In some situations, overwriting circular buffer can be used, e.g. in multimedia. If the buffer is used as the bounded buffer in the producer–consumer problem then it is probably desired for the producer (e.g., an audio generator) to overwrite old data if the consumer (e.g., the sound card) is unable to momentarily keep up. Also, the LZ77 family of lossless data compression algorithms operates on the assumption that strings seen more recently in a data stream are more likely to occur soon in the str |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Cold%20Night%27s%20Death | A Cold Night's Death (also known as The Chill Factor) is a 1973 American made for television horror-thriller film. The film was shown on January 30, 1973, on the ABC network.
The film was directed by Jerrold Freedman and starred Robert Culp, Eli Wallach, and Michael C. Gwynne. Culp and Wallach are two research scientists at the Tower Mountain Research Station (filmed at the University of California's high altitude Barcroft Research Station) who are trying to unravel the mysterious death of a colleague.
Plot
After the mysterious deaths of their colleagues, scientists Robert Jones (Robert Culp) and Frank Enari (Eli Wallach) are sent to an isolated research station deep in the Arctic Circle to continue their observation of monkey behavioral patterns. As the two men quarrel over who has to clean the station and other responsibilities, they slowly realize that the deaths of their co-workers may have something to do with a mysterious and dangerous presence, one that the monkeys increasingly fear.
Cast
Robert Culp as Robert Jones
Eli Wallach as Frank Enari
Michael C. Gwynne as Val Adams
Vic Perrin as Ryan Horner (voiceover; uncredited)
Release
Reception
Graeme Clark from The Spinning Image rated the film seven out of ten stars, praising the film's atmosphere, performances, and score. Dave Sindelar from Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings also praised the film's atmosphere and performances, calling it "one very effective TV-movie thriller". The Terror Trap awarded the film three out of four stars, calling it "a triumph of mood creation".
See also
List of American films of 1973
References
External links
1973 horror films
1970s science fiction horror films
1970s thriller films
1973 television films
1973 films
American horror thriller films
American science fiction horror films
ABC Movie of the Week
American science fiction television films
Films scored by Gil Mellé
Films directed by Jerrold Freedman
1970s English-language films
1970s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VME | VME may refer to:
Computing
ICL VME, (Virtual Machine Environment) a mainframe computer operating system developed by International Computers Limited
VMEbus, the ANSI/IEEE computer hardware bus standard
Virtual machine escape is the process of breaking out of a virtual machine and interacting with the host operating system
Virtual Mode Extensions, an undocumented extension of the Intel Pentium in v86 mode, "Virtual 8086 Mode Enhancements" in later Intel processors
vme, a flag in a modern x86 CPU indicating support of Virtual 8086 mode
VME (CONFIG.SYS directive), a configuration directive under OS/2
Other uses
V-me, a Spanish-language TV network in the United States
Voices Music & Entertainment, a Norwegian record label |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20TV%20%28Australian%20TV%20channel%29 | Universal TV (formerly Hallmark Channel and Universal Channel) is an Australian cable and satellite television channel, owned and operated by NBCUniversal International Networks. It has been available on most subscription television platforms in Australia since 1998.
History
The channel was added to Austar in April 1999.
On 1 July 2010 the Hallmark Channel rebranded as the Universal Channel. This rebrand saw the slogan In every life there is drama replaced with Characters Welcome as well as the channel converting from 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 widescreen picture format. It brought the introduction of new series, including two Australian premiere series, as well as returning to first seasons of almost all programs already aired.
On 1 February 2015, Universal Channel launched on Australian IPTV service Fetch TV.
2014 channel rebranding
On 1 January 2014 the Universal Channel rebranded itself alongside other transformations to the Foxtel platform. Among the changes under the rebrand included the channel aligning itself with the international logo and slogan 100% Characters, launching Australian premiere series The Michael J. Fox Show, The Night Shift and the US adaptation of Rake and inherited series from the closure of TV1 including 30 Rock, Covert Affairs, Suits, Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: CI. In addition to the closure of TV1, this influx of programming was attributed to the end of the output agreement between NBCUniversal and Seven Network in mid 2013, allowing for more programming opportunities for Universal Channel.
Additionally, Universal Channel moved to the basic tier of the Foxtel platform, as opposed to its previous placement in a premium package, allowing all subscribers to access the channel. Also, a two-hour timeshift channel launched on channel 162.
As for the films broadcast on the channel, the channel not only airs films from Universal Pictures, but also airs films from other distributors such as Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, and Miramax Films.
Universal Channel HD
On 3 November 2014, Universal Channel launched a HD simulcast on Foxtel. In addition, it moved from channel 116 to channel 112 and Universal Channel + 2 moved from channel 162 to channel 155.
On 1 June 2018, Universal Channel became Universal TV.
Programming
Universal TV currently airs a variety of international programs, including:
Former Programming
Prior to the 2014 format, The channel aired content from the original American Hallmark Channel, selected telemovies from America and the UK, along with classic and contemporary Australian drama series from Southern Star Entertainment.
A list of Australian produced shows broadcast on Universal TV prior to the 2014 format include:
A Country Practice
All Saints (moved to 111)
Always Greener
Blue Heelers
City Homicide
The Librarians
McLeod's Daughters
Offspring
Packed to the Rafters (moved to 111)
Police Rescue
Rake
Rescue: Special Ops
Rush
SeaChange
Sea Patrol
Stingers
The Secret |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikky%20Khosla | Bikky Khosla (born 30 July 1960) is an entrepreneur and founder of tradeindia.com (Infocom Network Limited). He is the younger brother of Vinod Khosla, an Indian venture capitalist. Presently, he is chairman of the e-commerce committee of ASSOCHAM and had served in the same capacity for ASSOCHAM SME's Expert Committee in the past. He is also editor of SME Times, a business news website and is associated with Indian Angel Network, a network of investors that invests in early stage businesses.
He ventured into a career in international trade soon after his graduation during the 1980s. He started Infocom Network Limited in 1991 and started publishing Exporters Yellow Pages for Indian exporters. In 1996, he started a b2b portal tradeindia.com for exporters, manufacturers and importers.
Khosla was on virtual jury panel of Manthan Award South Asia & Asia Pacific 2012. His articles published on SME Times were selected in the list of fifteen final entries for the first IE Business School Prize For Economic Journalism in Asia.
Portal for SMEs
B2B portal started by him gives information on exporters and importers worldwide and provides a platform to buyers and sellers across the world irrespective of distance, size and position of exporters, importers and service providers in diverse arenas. His company has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Korea International Trade Association (KITA) to help small and medium enterprises(SMEs) of both the nations and jointly hosted the Global Sources Machinery & Industrial Supplies Fair with Global Sources on 23–25 November at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai
References
External links
Tradeindia.com website
ET NOW SME Conclave witnesses the interface of SME industry
Entrepreneur India 2012
Living people
Punjabi people
People from Delhi
1960 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giac | Giac or GIAC may refer to:
Global Information Assurance Certification, an information security certification entity.
Giac (software), a C++ library that is part of the Xcas computer algebra system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhea%20Santos | Rhea Santos-de Guzman (born June 1, 1979) is a Filipino broadcast journalist and television presenter currently based in Canada. She is known for co-anchoring GMA Network's morning show Unang Hirit and hosting several news and public affairs programs including Reporter's Notebook and Tunay na Buhay. After 19 years of being a broadcast journalist, she left the Philippines to study and eventually resume her profession in Vancouver, Canada.
Early life
Rhea Santos was born on June 1, 1979 in San Mateo, Rizal and stayed most of her childhood in Marikina. She has an older brother and a younger brother. She finished elementary and high school at St. Scholastica's Academy of Marikina. She graduated magna cum laude at St. Paul's College Quezon City (now known as St. Paul University Quezon City) finishing AB Mass Communications. One of her project in her first year in college was interviewing Arnold Clavio (her future co-anchor in Unang Hirit) about martial law. She had an internship at ABS-CBN in her junior year in college.
During her senior year in high school, it became clear to her that she would like to be a broadcast journalist. Although, her childhood dream was to become a beauty queen and her mother fully supported her. With that, she participated in the 1996 Body Shots competition where she became one of the finalists and won the "Best in Swimsuit" special award. Standing at , she was once a commercial and ramp model and an endorser for some products. She also auditioned for Binibining Piipinas but after an argument with her mother in front of the judges, she did not pursue it.
Career
Upon graduating from college, Santos worked for an airline company and a PR firm. Eventually, she decided to follow her aspiration to become a broadcast journalist and began to send job applications to television networks. In July 2000, GMA Network replied on her application and started to work there as a segment producer. One day, she had the opportunity to be one of the newscasters and hosts of GMA Network's morning show Unang Hirit, temporarily replacing Miriam Quiambao who was absent for a day. She eventually became a regular of the show in 2001.
In 2003, she was assigned to anchor Frontpage's segment GMA Action Force where she was also a field reporter interviewing different people such as criminal gangs in Tondo, Manila. In 2004, she had her own show At Your Service-Star Power. In the same year, she co-hosted Eat Bulaga! Silver Special, which was a co-production of TAPE Inc. and GMA News and Public Affairs, with her fellow anchor in Unang Hirit, Arnold Clavio. The following year, GMA launched Pinoy Abroad, which she co-hosted with Ivan Mayrina.
She had anchored primetime newscast News on Q (previously aired by QTV, renamed as Q, later GMA News TV and eventually since 2021 became GTV) from 2005 to 2010. She also hosted public affairs program Women's Desk (later re-titled as Draw the Line) in 2005 and documentary show DoQmentaries in 2008 along with other pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsianAve | AsianAve or Asian Avenue was a social networking service that focused on Asian Americans. The platform was shut down and the URL now redirects to its sister site, BlackPlanet.
History
Originally named AsianAvenue (or Asian Avenue), the site was launched on July 21, 1997 by co-founders Benjamin Sun, Peter Chen, Grace Chang, Michael Montero, and Calvin Wong. By 1998, The New York Times described it as "unusually successful" despite being "run out of an apartment", having hit five million page views from 50,000 users.
Members were politically active, protesting an MSNBC headline for the 1998 Winter Olympics reading "American beats out Kwan", referring to U.S. Olympic teammates Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan. In 1999, members protested an ad for SKYY vodka showing a partly dressed white woman being served by a woman in a Mandarin dress and chopsticks in her hair, which the protesters said perpetuated racial stereotypes. After some 300 postings on Asian Avenue were forwarded to SKYY, the company agreed to stop using the ad.
The site received over 70,000 unique visitor hits in August 2000. At its peak, there were over 2 million users with more than 5000 online at any time. Robert X. Cringely claimed in 2000 that Asian Avenue had more members than BlackPlanet, a Community Connect sister site.
Fine Line Features chose the site for an exclusive interview with Chinese NBA star Yao Ming to promote its documentary The Year of the Yao. One writer characterized it "mainly an Internet dating site" In 2003, Darrell Hamamoto used an interview on the site to attract male talent for his adult film Skin to Skin, using the "unheard of" pairing of an Asian-American male performer with Asian-American woman.
At one point the site made various previously free features available only to premium users, which hurt the site's popularity. On October 31, 2005, the website relaunched the social network features. As of April 2007, there were 1.4 million registered users with fewer than 100 online at any given time.
Partners include party promoters (Synergy), film festivals (Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Asian American International Film Festival), media (AngryAsianMan.com, AZN TV) and many more. Music artists, such as Notorious MSG, Far*East Movement, and Magnetic North have gained popularity from their exposure on AsianAve.com. In 2010, Monster.com announced a co-branded partnership with Asian Avenue. Based on a small questionnaire members filled out when signing up for a membership, Monster generated a list of potential job openings and interests, which was displayed after users signed into AsianAvenue.
In October 2007, U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama created profiles on AsianAve as well as sister sites BlackPlanet, MiGente.com and Glee.com.
AsianAvenue allowed users to see who visited their profiles, in contrast to Facebook, where browsing is entirely private. Members can view a list of members that have looked at their site on their |
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