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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification%20pattern | In computer programming, the specification pattern is a particular software design pattern, whereby business rules can be recombined by chaining the business rules together using boolean logic. The pattern is frequently used in the context of domain-driven design.
A specification pattern outlines a business rule that is combinable with other business rules. In this pattern, a unit of business logic inherits its functionality from the abstract aggregate Composite Specification class. The Composite Specification class has one function called IsSatisfiedBy that returns a boolean value. After instantiation, the specification is "chained" with other specifications, making new specifications easily maintainable, yet highly customizable business logic. Furthermore, upon instantiation the business logic may, through method invocation or inversion of control, have its state altered in order to become a delegate of other classes such as a persistence repository.
As a consequence of performing runtime composition of high-level business/domain logic, the Specification pattern is a convenient tool for converting ad-hoc user search criteria into low level logic to be processed by repositories.
Since a specification is an encapsulation of logic in a reusable form it is very simple to thoroughly unit test, and when used in this context is also an implementation of the humble object pattern.
Code examples
C#
public interface ISpecification
{
bool IsSatisfiedBy(object candidate);
ISpecification And(ISpecification other);
ISpecification AndNot(ISpecification other);
ISpecification Or(ISpecification other);
ISpecification OrNot(ISpecification other);
ISpecification Not();
}
public abstract class CompositeSpecification : ISpecification
{
public abstract bool IsSatisfiedBy(object candidate);
public ISpecification And(ISpecification other)
{
return new AndSpecification(this, other);
}
public ISpecification AndNot(ISpecification other)
{
return new AndNotSpecification(this, other);
}
public ISpecification Or(ISpecification other)
{
return new OrSpecification(this, other);
}
public ISpecification OrNot(ISpecification other)
{
return new OrNotSpecification(this, other);
}
public ISpecification Not()
{
return new NotSpecification(this);
}
}
public class AndSpecification : CompositeSpecification
{
private ISpecification leftCondition;
private ISpecification rightCondition;
public AndSpecification(ISpecification left, ISpecification right)
{
leftCondition = left;
rightCondition = right;
}
public override bool IsSatisfiedBy(object candidate)
{
return leftCondition.IsSatisfiedBy(candidate) && rightCondition.IsSatisfiedBy(candidate);
}
}
public class AndNotSpecification : CompositeSpecification
{
private ISpecification leftCondition;
private ISpecification rig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koda | Koda or KODA may refer to:
People
Cub Koda (1948–2000), American rock and roll songwriter, singer, guitarist, disc jockey, music critic and record compiler
Geeta Koda (born ca. 1983), Indian politician
Gjon Koda (born 1893), Albanian friar, one of the 38 Blessed Martyrs of Albania
Harold Koda (born 1950), American fashion scholar
Madhu Koda (born 1971), Indian Chief Minister of the State of Jharkhand
Kōda, often spelled Koda or Kouda, a common Japanese surname
Aya Kōda (1904–1990), Japanese essayist and novelist
Gakuto Coda (born 1977), Japanese light novelist
Isao Koda (born 1965), Japanese baseball pitcher
Hiroyuki Koda (1944–1997), director of the US Yoshukai Karate Association 1979-1997
Kaho Kōda (born 1967), Japanese voice actress
Koda Kumi (born 1982), Japanese pop singer
Kuniko Koda (born 1965), Japanese politician
Kōda Rohan, pen name of Japanese author Kōda Shigeyuki (1867–1947)
Masakazu Koda (born 1969), Japanese soccer player
Mariko Kouda (born 1969), Japanese voice actress and J-Pop singer
Naoko Kouda, stage name of Japanese voice actress Yumiko Satō (born 1959)
Nobu Kōda (1870–1946), Japanese composer, violinist, and music teacher
Shosei Koda (1979–2004), Japanese tourist who was beheaded in Iraq
Kōda, fictional family in the Manpuku Japanese TV drama series (2018–)
Koda Glover (born 1993), American baseball pitcher
Koda Martin (born 1995), American football player
KODA (singer), Ghanaian gospel singer Kofi Owusu Dua Anto (born 1978)
Places
Kōda Station (disambiguation), three train stations in Japan
Koda Dam, in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Kōda, former Japanese town, merged into Akitakata, Hiroshima in 2004
Kōda, former Japanese town, merged into Kōta, Aichi in 1955
Koda, or Koda-cho, a district (cho) of Tahara, Aichi Japan
Koda River, the Japanese name of the Hutuo River (China), in the Linji school of Buddhism
Koda River (D. R. Congo), also spelled Kodda or Kodha, in Ituri province
Kōda River (Aichi), Japan; also called Kōta like the town
Kōda River (Kōchi), Japan; "Kanda" in some English sources
Koda (Russia), a tributary of the Angara in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Koda River (South Sudan), in Jubek State
Other uses
KODA, an FM radio station in Houston, Texas, United States
KODA, prefix of the KLAT AM radio station in Houston, Texas, until 1979
KODA (Denmark), the collecting society for songwriters, composers and music publishers of Denmark
KODA (Kid Of Deaf Adult), an acronym sometimes used to refer to a Child Of Deaf Adult (CODA) under the age of 18
Koda, a character in the Disney Brother Bear movies.
Koda (Power Rangers Dino Charge), a character in the television series Power Rangers Dino Charge
Koda Farms, a family-owned rice producer in California
Koda language, spoken in India and Bangladesh
Koda millet or Kodo millet, Paspalum scrobiculatum
Koda tree, Ehretia acuminata, from China, Japan, New Guinea and Australia
KODA Finance, a finance company in the UK
See also
Koda Jahanabad or Kora Jahanabad, town in Fatehpur distric |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Trek%20%281979%20pinball%29 | Star Trek is a 1979 pinball game developed by Bally. It was the first pinball machine based on the franchise of the same name. A second pinball machine of the same name was released in 1991 by Data East. A third pinball machine of the same name was released by Stern Pinball in 2013.
Description
First versions of the backglass showed the crew of the Enterprise dressed in the uniforms from the original Star Trek television series. This was changed early in the production to show them dressed in single-color clothing to fit with the film Star Trek: The Motion Picture that was to be released at the same time as the game. Gameplay includes 2 Flippers, 3 Pop bumpers, one Kick-out hole, one 4-bank drop targets and a free ball return lane.
The table has also made an appearance in Rammstein's "Amerika" music video.
See also
Star Trek: The Next Generation
References
External links
IPDB listing for Star Trek
Pinball machines based on Star Trek
Bally pinball machines
1979 pinball machines
Pinball machines based on films
Pinball machines based on television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins%20Spanish%20Dictionary | The Collins Spanish Dictionary is a bilingual dictionary of English and Spanish derived from the Collins Word Web, an analytical linguistics database. As well as its primary function as a bilingual dictionary, it also contains usage guides for English and Spanish (known as Lengua y Uso and Language in Use respectively) and English and Spanish verb tables. In 2009, the dictionary was brought to the iPhone & iPad platform. The iOS app of this dictionary, which has become one of the most popular Spanish dictionaries in the App store since then is developed by Cole Zhu Inc.
External links
iOS App iPhone & iPad version of the Complete & Unabridged 9th Edition.
CollinsDictionary.com – Internet front-end to Collins Unabridged Spanish Dictionary content.
See also
Collins-Robert French Dictionary
Translation dictionaries
William Collins, Sons books
1971 non-fiction books
Spanish dictionaries
Online English dictionaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Stevens | Heather Stevens is a fictional character The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network. Created by William J. Bell, she was introduced in 1979 as the daughter of Paul Williams (Doug Davidson) and April Stevens (Cindy Eilbacher). She was first portrayed by a series of child actors for her first three-year period, followed by Conci Nelson as a teenager. In 2007, the character was reintroduced by then-head writer Lynn Marie Latham as an adult, portrayed by Vail Bloom. At first, she is unaware that she is Paul's daughter, but they develop a father-daughter relationship. She becomes district attorney and later a high-profile lawyer.
Upon her return, she develops a romance with villain Adam Newman (Chris Engen), which received fan support. In 2010, Bloom announced her exit from the soap opera in order to pursue other career opportunities. The role was then recast with Eden Riegel, who remained in the role until her exit in November 2011. Seven months later, Jennifer Landon became the second recast for the role; within five months of joining the cast, she was let go and exited in November 2012. In January 2023, Bloom announced her return to the soap opera in February 2023.
Casting
The role was first portrayed by twin infants Dana and Lauren Schankman in 1979, followed by Claire and Elizabeth Schoene until 1982. In 1993, the character returned as a teenager portrayed by Conci Nelson, daughter of former head writer Kay Alden. Nelson departed after a year in 1994.
In 2007, it was announced that Bloom, a newcomer to daytime television, would join the cast as an adult version of the character. She made her first appearance on July 13. In 2009, speculation arose that Bloom was preparing to vacate the role, but all rumors were denied. In March 2010, Bloom announced her exit from the soap opera to pursue other career opportunities, as confirmed in a statement from her publicist. Riegel was then announced to be replacing Bloom in the role, after declining to return to her iconic role on All My Children. Bloom made her final appearance on April 6, 2010, with Riegel taking over on April 20.
In September 2011, after returning onscreen from a maternity leave, it was announced that Riegel would be leaving the role and exited on November 4. Seven months later, Landon became the second recast for the role and made her debut on June 7, 2012. However, after less than five months with The Young and the Restless, it was announced that Landon was to exit reportedly due to budgetary cuts. Landon departed on November 2, 2012.
In January 2023, it was announced Bloom would return to the role in February of the same year. Bloom made her appearance on February 15, 2023. In July 2023, Bloom made another appearance in a recurring fashion.
Storylines
Early years
Heather is the daughter of Paul Williams (Doug Davidson) and his first wife, April Stevens (Cindy Eilbacher). As a child, she believes that she is actually the daughter of April's second husb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin%20Mobile%20South%20Africa | Virgin Mobile South Africa (VMSA) was a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) which was launched in 2006 as a joint venture between Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Cell C. Based in Johannesburg, the bustling business-hub of South Africa, Virgin Mobile South Africa has established itself as a dynamic and growing brand with stores nationwide. In February 2011, Cell C sold its stake to Virgin Group and Calico Investments, after which Virgin Group assumed a controlling stake. In November 2020 the company went into voluntary business rescue. In September 2021 their customers were informed that services would be stopped by the end of November 2021, but by 17 September 2021 all services were stopped, leaving many customers stranded.
Services
Voice & SMS
Virgin Mobile prides itself in being a no-frills brand providing simplicity to its customers. The MVNO offers a prepaid product with a flat voice rate across all networks, at any time of the day and an out of bundle rate of 99c per MB. Virgin Mobile also offers BYO (Bring Your Own) SIM only plans which are available on a month-to-month and 12 month packages.
Virgin Mobile airtime is available in various denominations via the major banks, in retail and petrol stations nationwide as well as online.
Internet
Virgin Mobile offers users mobile internet via EDGE, 3G, LTE and HSPA+ at the cost of 99c per MB on prepaid. Customers also have the flexibility to load mobile internet bundles, which may significantly reduce this per MB rate.
See also
Virgin Mobile
References
External links
Virgin Mobile South Africa
Mobile phone companies of South Africa
Virgin Mobile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveStation | Livestation was a platform for distributing live television and radio broadcasts over a data network. It was originally developed by Skinkers Ltd. and is now an independent company called Livestation Ltd. The service was originally based on peer-to-peer technology acquired from Microsoft Research. Between mid-June 2013 and mid-July Livestation was unavailable to some subscribers due to technical issues.
In late 2016, the service closed down without notice.
Overview
Livestation aggregated international news channels online and offered them in a number of ways:
Free to watch: a number of channels could be watched for free on the Livestation website or on their desktop player, a freely downloadable video application that presented all the channels through one interface.
Premium service: some of the free channels were also available on a subscription basis both in higher quality (800kbit/s) and in lower (256kbit/s) delivered via an international content distribution network for higher reliability.
Mobile: Livestation launched BBC World News on the iPhone in 16 European countries and Al Jazeera English globally. The apps were available in the iPhone AppStore and stream the live TV channel 24/7 on both Wi-Fi and 3G connections.
Livestation broadcast streams encoded in VC-1 format (Livestation is not currently using peer-to-peer). Playback controls were overlaid on top of the video stream. Unlike services such as Joost which offer video on demand channels, Livestation streams live broadcasts.
Livestation provided a website, mobile website and native applications for iOS, Android, Nokia and Blackberry handsets. Early models of Samsung TV were also supported. They also provided desktop software available for Windows, Mac (including PowerPC) and Linux. The cross-platform compatibility of the desktop software was facilitated by the Qt framework. Social networking features were later added that include the ability to chat with other viewers and also find out what others are watching through a user generated rating system. You could search and select the available channels either from the website, or from within the software.
In the first quarter of 2011 by 1047 percent, resulting in the first profitable quarter in its history.
Between mid-June and mid-July 2013, Livestation suffered a prolonged series of technical issues and was unavailable to some users.
In early 2015, Livestation re-branded their entire site changing what channels were offered and bringing in an interactive feature. Some stations on the app were not on the mainsite and vice versa.
Available channels
Stations available until closure and former live TV news channels in the global offering (which comes with a default installation) included, as of 2016:
ABS-CBN News Channel
Al Aan TV
Al-Alam News Network
Al Arabiya
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera Mubasher
Al Mayadeen
Al Nabaa TV
BBC Arabic
BBC Persian
BBC World News
BBC World Service Radio
CNBC
CNBC Ara |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author%27s%20Playhouse | Author's Playhouse is an anthology radio drama series created by Wynn Wright, that aired on Mutual in 1940–1941, and on the NBC Blue Network from March 5, 1941, until October 1941. It then moved to the NBC Red Network where it was heard until June 4, 1945. Philip Morris was the sponsor between 1942 and 1943.
Premiering with "Elementals" by Stephen Vincent Benét, the series featured adaptations of stories by famous authors, such as “Mr. Mergenthwirker’s Lobbies” by Nelson Bond, "The Snow Goose" by Paul Gallico, "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs, "The Piano" by William Saroyan and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber.
Cast
Cast members included Curley Bradley, John Hodiak, Marvin Miller, Nelson Olmsted, Fern Persons, Olan Soule and Les Tremayne. Orchestra conductors for the program were Joseph Gallicchio, Rex Maupin and Roy Shield. Directors included Norman Felton, Homer Heck and Fred Weihe.
Related
The series was a precursor to several NBC radio programs of the late 1940s and early 1950s: The World's Great Novels, NBC Presents: Short Story and The NBC University Theater.
References
External links
Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs: Author's Playhouse
Roy Shield
Listen to
American radio dramas
1940s American radio programs
NBC Blue Network radio programs
NBC radio programs
Anthology radio series
1941 radio programme debuts
1945 radio programme endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Children%20Assistance%20Network | The International Children Assistance Network (ICAN) is a non-profit organization providing help for parents, caregivers and the general population in promoting the healthy development of children from before birth to the age of five. The activities of ICAN are mainly dedicated to the Vietnamese-American community. It was founded in 2000 by Thich Phap Chon, Ivy Vuong and Quyen Vuong and is based in Milpitas, California.
The organization implemented a project in Vietnam called "Strategy to Promote Public Awareness of Vietnamese Children's Health and Safety Issues". This project resulted in total spending of about $25,000 USD in 2004.
See also
List of non-governmental organizations in Vietnam
References
"California Ballot Measures Would Have Negative Effect On Health Care Access For Children, Immigrants, Minority Advocacy Groups Say" - Medical News Today
"ADAPT: Mekong Delta Alliance to Prevent Human Trafficking" - New America Media
"Smoothing Paths in Two Countries" - Stanford Business
"$1.2 Million in Grants to Promote Health, Well Being of Local Children" - Lucile Packard Foundation
"NON-PROFIT CHARGES GRANT LIMITS ARE UNFAIR, CITY SAYS TOBACCO-SETTLEMENT FUNDS DOWN" - San Jose Mercury News
"Glitches remain in Census count" - USA Today
"10 finalists for ExCEL Awards to be recognized during KU homecoming events" - KU
"Young Vietnamese Americans giving back to their home country" - Nguoi Viet 2
"Anti-Trafficking Initiative" - East Meets West Foundation
"Asian American Groups Thank Census Bureau for Corrected Census 2010 Translation" - Asian American Justice Center
External links
ICAN Official web page
Charities based in California
Children's charities based in the United States
2000 establishments in California
Organizations established in 2000
Vietnamese-American culture in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWKM | 103.1 Brigada News FM (DWKM 103.1 MHz) is an FM station owned by Century Broadcasting Network and operated by Brigada Mass Media Corporation. Its studios and transmitter are located at 3rd Floor ANR Bldg. 1, Maharlika Highway, Brgy. Concepcion Grande, Naga, Camarines Sur.
History
January 5, 2011 - DWKM first went on air as KMFM under Bicol Media Network Group.
October 5, 2013 - KMFM moved to 100.7 FM of Sorsogon Broadcasting Corporation, leaving the frequency off the air.
April 2016 - Brigada Mass Media Corporation leased the station and launched it as Brigada News FM.
May 28, 2021 - KMFM 100.7 went off air after former Camarines Sur Congressman Rolando Andaya Jr. complained to the NTC that DWKM was still operating despite the expiration of Sorsogon Broadcasting Corporation's franchise in November 2020.
References
External links
Brigada News FM Naga FB Page
Brigada News FM Naga Website
Radio stations in Naga, Camarines Sur
Radio stations established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWAI-TV | DWAI-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Naga, Camarines Sur, Philippines, airing programming from the GMA network. It is owned and operated by the network's namesake corporate parent alongside GTV outlet DZDP-TV (channel 28) and DWQW (101.5 FM). All GMA Naga stations share studios and transmitters at the GMA Broadcast Complex, Concepcion Pequeña, Naga City.
About DWAI-TV 7
1986 - GMA started its broadcast in Naga, Camarines Sur via Channel 7 (after GMA 12 Legazpi started in 1982) since People Power Revolution, with the network's own variation of GMA Radio-Television Arts ident aside from sporting a light blue square logo with the network name in white, also had a circle 7 logo in use, in its final years the blue circle 7 logo used was similar to those used by the ABC in some United States cities and later used the rainbow colors of red, yellow, green and blue stripes.
April 30, 1992 - Coinciding with the network's Rainbow Satellite Network launch, GMA Channel 7 Naga started its nationwide satellite broadcast to bring live broadcasts of Manila-sourced national programming via DZBB-TV, GMA's flagship TV station in Manila, to viewers in the Bicol Region, utilizes a new logo to correspond with the rebranding and a satellite-beaming rainbow in a multicolored striped based on the traditional scheme of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, with GMA in a metallic form uses Futura Extra Bold and analogous gloominess of indigo as its fonts in the letters.
May 16, 1996 - Republic Broadcasting System formally changed its corporate name to GMA Network Incorporated, with GMA now standing for Global Media Arts.
2009 - GMA Network launched GMA TV-7 Naga as its satellite station in the Bicol Region.
November 22, 2010 - GMA Naga launched its first locally produced programs Bicolandia Isyu Ngonian and Flash Bulletin.
August 10, 2012 - GMA Naga was upgraded to a "super station" and it was called GMA Bicol in its branding, which primarily covers the provinces of Camarines Sur (via Channel 7) and Albay (via Channel 12).
September 17, 2012 – November 7, 2014 - GMA Bicol launched its flagship local newscast Baretang Bikol.
November 10, 2014 - GMA Bicol re-launched its flagship local newscast 24 Oras Bikol.
April 24, 2015 - GMA Network decided to cancel airing 24 Oras Bikol as part of the strategic streamlining undertaken by the network. The station is now downgraded as a relay (satellite-selling) station.
February 1, 2021 - GMA Bicol has been re-upgraded into an originating station with the relaunch of their regional newscast Balitang Bicolandia covering Camarines Sur, Albay, Catanduanes, Sorsogon, Masbate and Camarines Norte.
November 9, 2021 - GMA Bicol started its digital test broadcast on UHF Channel 38 covering Metro Naga and the whole of Camarines Sur.
GMA TV-7 Naga Programs
Balitang Bicolandia
Word of God Network
Peñafrancia Festival (Yearly)
Previously Aired Local Programs
Flash Bulletin (2010)
Let's Fiesta
Bicolandia Isyu Ngonian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%20Network | 10 Network may refer to:
Ten Broadcasting, a Canadian broadcasting company specializing in adult programming
Network 10, a major Australian commercial TV network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20extraction | Data extraction is the act or process of retrieving data out of (usually unstructured or poorly structured) data sources for further data processing or data storage (data migration). The import into the intermediate extracting system is thus usually followed by data transformation and possibly the addition of metadata prior to export to another stage in the data workflow.
Usually, the term data extraction is applied when (experimental) data is first imported into a computer from primary sources, like measuring or recording devices. Today's electronic devices will usually present an electrical connector (e.g. USB) through which 'raw data' can be streamed into a personal computer.
Data sources
Typical unstructured data sources include web pages, emails, documents, PDFs, scanned text, mainframe reports, spool files, classifieds, etc. which is further used for sales or marketing leads. Extracting data from these unstructured sources has grown into a considerable technical challenge where as historically data extraction has had to deal with changes in physical hardware formats, the majority of current data extraction deals with extracting data from these unstructured data sources, and from different software formats. This growing process of data extraction from the web is referred to as "Web data extraction" or "Web scraping".
Imposing structure
The act of adding structure to unstructured data takes a number of forms
Using text pattern matching such as regular expressions to identify small or large-scale structure e.g. records in a report and their associated data from headers and footers;
Using a table-based approach to identify common sections within a limited domain e.g. in emailed resumes, identifying skills, previous work experience, qualifications etc. using a standard set of commonly used headings (these would differ from language to language), e.g. Education might be found under Education/Qualification/Courses;
Using text analytics to attempt to understand the text and link it to other information
See also
Data mining, discovery of patterns in large data sets using statistics, database knowledge or machine learning
Data retrieval, obtaining data from a database management system, often using a query with a set of criteria
Extract, transform, load (ETL), procedure for copying data from one or more sources, transforming the data at the source system, and copying into a destination system
Information extraction, automated extraction of structured information from unstructured or semi-structured machine-readable data, like for example using natural language processing to extract content from images, audio or documents
Data Extraction Guide help businesses save time and resources, improve accuracy and efficiency, and get access to data that is not publicly available.
Data management
Data warehousing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%20TOS | TOS (The Operating System) is the operating system of the Atari ST range of computers. This range includes the 520ST and 1040ST, their STF/M/FM and STE variants and the Mega ST/STE. Later, 32-bit machines (TT, Falcon030) were developed using a new version of TOS, called MultiTOS, which allowed multitasking. More recently, users have further developed TOS into FreeMiNT.
Details
Atari TOS (The Operating System) debuted with the Atari 520ST in 1985. TOS combines Digital Research's GEM GUI running on top of the DOS-like GEMDOS. Features include a flat memory model, DOS-compatible disk format (starting with TOS 1.04), support for MIDI, and a variant of SCSI called ACSI in later versions. Atari's TOS is usually run from ROM chips contained in the computer: Thus, before local hard drives were available in home computers, it was an almost instant-running OS. TOS booted off floppy disks in the very first STs, but only about half a year after the ST was introduced, all ST models started shipping with the latest version of TOS in ROM.
TOS consisted of the following:
Desktop – The main interface loaded after bootup.
GEM – Graphics Environment Manager, licensed from Digital Research
AES – Application Environment Services
VDI – Virtual Device Interface (screen drivers only, other drivers loaded using GDOS)
GEMDOS – GEM Disk Operating System
BIOS – Basic Input/Output System
XBIOS – Extended BIOS
Line-A – Low-level high-speed graphics calls. Obsolete from TOS 3 onwards.
The following were extensions to TOS (loaded separately):
GDOS – Graphics Device Operating System
AHDI – Atari Hard Disk Interface (hard disk driver)
True multitasking was not directly supported, but TOS allowed up to six Desk accessories to be loaded into the system. MultiTOS was developed to allow TOS to preemptively multitask.
Desktop
The TOS desktop uses icons to represent files and devices, windows and dialog boxes to display info. The desktop file "DESKTOP.INF" was read to determine window settings, icon placements and drive icons, otherwise the standard default desktop of two floppy icons and the trash icon was used.
Later versions use "NEWDESK.INF" for saving and reading the desktop configuration.
Executable files are identified by their extensions:
*.ACC – Desktop accessory. Automatically loaded.
*.APP – Application (rarely encountered).
*.PRG – Executable program. Can be GEM programs.
*.TOS – "TOS" program that doesn't use GEM — i.e., similar to a PC's .EXE or .COM running in a CLI-mode box. The desktop clears the screen, turns on the text cursor, and hides the mouse pointer.
*.TTP – "TOS takes parameters". This opens a dialog box where arguments can be added for the program. It converts characters to uppercase.
*.GTP – "GEM takes parameters". This opens a dialog box where arguments can be added for the program. It converts characters to uppercase.
TOS programs (but not GEM programs) can auto boot by placing them in a folder named "AUTO". TOS 1.4 allows GEM pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion%20Model%20Directory | The Fashion Model Directory (FMD) is an online database of information about fashion models, modelling agencies, fashion labels, fashion magazines, fashion designers, and fashion editorials. FMD has been described as "the IMDb of the fashion industry" as one of the largest online fashion databases. Started as an offline project in 1998 by Stuart Howard, FMD went live on the web in 2000 and was taken over by British media group Fashion One Group two years later.
Overview
The Fashion Model Directory is one of the world's largest databases of professional female fashion models, modeling agencies, fashion labels, fashion magazines, fashion designers, and fashion editorials. For each model, it includes information about her appearance in advertisements, magazine covers, editorials, and fashion shows, as well as information about her hobbies, official and other websites, and other relevant notes. FMD also provides an extensive picture gallery for each fashion model, including copyright information and photographer credit where available.
The FMD database contains entries for more than 16,000 fashion models, 1,500 fashion designers, 5,000 fashion brands, 3,300 magazines, 23,000 fully credited fashion editorials, and 1,800 modelling agencies as well as one of the largest fashion archives on the web, with over 600,000 photographs.
History
FMD was started as a private offline project in 1998 by Stuart Howard. In 2000, the database went online and was updated every week. Two years later, after being offline for a short time, the project was taken over by British media group Fashion One Group. It was rebranded in May 2011.
References
External links
Fashion websites
Online person databases
Internet properties established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joins%20%28concurrency%20library%29 | Joins is an asynchronous concurrent computing API (Join-pattern) from Microsoft Research for the .NET Framework. It is based on join calculus and makes the concurrency constructs of the Cω language available as a CLI assembly that any CLI compliant language can use.
Overview
Joins can be used to express concurrency in an application using the joins pattern, usable both for multi-threaded applications as well as for event based distributed applications. The Joins API emulates declarative type-safe expression of synchronization patterns.
The Joins library emulates asynchronous and synchronous methods. An asynchronous method, in Cω and Joins parlance, is one which does not block the caller method, nor does it return any result, whereas a synchronous method blocks the caller method. In the Joins API, synchronous as well as asynchronous methods are implemented as generic delegates. Usage of generics provide type safety. For example, a set of synchronous and asynchronous method can be created and using them to create an object that implements the pattern, as:
public class JoinDemo
{
public readonly Asynchronous.Channel<int> Queue;
public readonly Asynchronous.Channel<string> Send;
public readonly Synchronous<int>.Channel Retrieve;
private Join joinPattern = Join.Create();
public JoinDemo()
{
joinPattern.Initialize(out Queue);
joinPattern.Initialize(out Send);
joinPattern.Initialize(out Retrieve);
}
}
When asynchronous methods are called, the parameters are put in a channel, which is a queue managed by the Joins runtime. The method can optionally start a new thread to process the parameters in the background, and return the results. When the corresponding synchronous method is called the parameter is returned for further processing. If no parameter is present in the queue when the synchronous method is called, the caller stalls. The Joins runtime schedules which parameter is returned based on whether it is ready.
The synchronization pattern of the methods are defined by joins patterns, which describes what happens when a set of channels are invoked. For example, what happens when Send and Retrieve are called together can be different than Send and Queue.
public void SetPatterns()
{
join.When(Send).And(Retrieve).Do(s => s);
join.When(Queue).And(Retrieve).Do(n => n.ToString());
join.When(Send).And(Queue).And(Retrieve).Do(s =>
{
Send(s);
return Retrieve();
});
}
References
The Joins Concurrency Library
Joins — A Concurrency Library
External links
Joins at Microsoft Research
Concurrent programming libraries
Microsoft Research
Articles with example Java code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20Line%20for%20Europe | The Magistrale for Europe (German: Magistrale für Europa; French: Magistrale européenne) or Main line for Europe is a Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T) project for the creation of a high-speed railway line between Paris and Bratislava, with a branch-off to Budapest. It was listed as TEN project No. 17 (Paris—Bratislava) by the European Commission in 1995, and is already under way.
The project is planned to be completed by 2020. It will link 34 million people in five European countries. The overall length of the route from Paris to Budapest is .
Sections
Parts of the route were formerly served by Orient Express trains, which ceased operations in 2009. Today TGV rail connections exist from Paris to Stuttgart or at longest Munich. The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) currently provide direct Railjet and EuroNight connections between Munich and Budapest in addition to direct Nightjet connection between Vienna and Paris since December 2021.
France
The French part of the line is the LGV Est européenne high-speed railway. Its first section as far as Baudrecourt east of Metz has been in use since 2007 whilst the second section to Vendenheim near Strasbourg opened in July 2016. The new railway line provides a maximum speed up to and reduced the travel time from Gare de Paris-Est to the largely refurbished Gare de Strasbourg to less than two hours.
Germany
In Germany, the line follows the Appenweier–Strasbourg railway (Europabahn) from the Rhine Bridge to Appenweier and then the Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway (Rheintalbahn) down to Bruchsal. The Europabahn is built for a maximum speed of , while the Rheintalbahn to Rastatt Süd is for . The second part of the new Rheintalbahn (Rastatt Süd to Bruchsal) is to be completed by 2014. At the Bruchsal Rollenberg junction the MoE joins the Mannheim–Stuttgart high-speed railway which was built for . Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof is currently being rebuilt (scheduled for completion in 2025) as a through station in the course of the controversial Stuttgart 21 project. Despite some protests, a 2011 statewide referendum upheld the majority support and thus the political decision to rebuild the station and let the Magistrale for Europe project proceed.
In Stuttgart, the line joins the Stuttgart–Augsburg new and upgraded railway (including the Stuttgart–Wendlingen and Wendlingen–Ulm high-speed railway lines replacing the Fils Valley Railway), which Wendlingen- Ulm section is completed at the end of 2022 and provides a maximum speed of between Stuttgart and Ulm and on the Ulm–Augsburg railway line. The Munich–Augsburg railway is being upgraded to separate slower traffic (freight and short-distance trains) from high speed trains, which will be able to reach . From München-Pasing station trains may run directly to München Ost without passing München Hauptbahnhof. Plans for the reconstruction of the Munich main station similar to Stuttgart 21 have been abandoned.
Trains from München Ost shall reach Salzburg Hau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formigoniani | Formigoniani refers to the political faction around Roberto Formigoni, a leading member of Forza Italia, a political party in Italy.
See also
Network Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime%20Telecommunications%20Network | Founded in 1981, MTN Satellite Communications (MTN), formerly known as Maritime Telecommunications Network, was a privately held VSAT satellite service provider headquartered in Miramar, Florida, USA. MTN provided connectivity services to major cruise lines, including Carnival Corporation, Royal Caribbean International, Norwegian Cruise Lines and well as luxury yachts, oil rigs, government and military vessels, and commercial vessels. MTN was acquired by Emerging Markets Communications in 2015.
USS Scranton and Good Morning America
On November 23, 2005 ABC's Good Morning America ran a segment called "Run Silent, Run Deep" which was broadcast live from the nuclear submarine USS Scranton (SSN-756) while it was moving. The submarine and the US Navy support vessel USNS Dolores Chouest were each equipped with a 1900 MHz high-gain microwave antenna and equipment. The people on board the submarine had cellular service via a CDMA picocell on board the support vessel. The cell was provided by Wireless Maritime Services, a joint venture between MTN and Cingular Wireless. The submarine transmitted the live video broadcast quality to the Dolores Chouest using bidirectional microwave radios. The cellular technology was used to support all of the live two-way communications between the studio in New York City and the submarine below the surface. All of the video and cellular traffic was up-linked via MTN's communications technology on board the Dolores Chouest.
MTN Government Services
In 2009, MTN formed MTN Government Services (MTNGS), a subsidiary company headquartered in Leesburg, Virginia that specializes in integrated communications services for military and government agencies. The MTN government team work with soldiers in Afghanistan, non-government organizations (NGOs) for disaster relief and recovery efforts in areas such as Haiti, scientific research ships mapping the ocean floor for NOAA, and a host of other government agencies for mission-critical communication needs.
Emmy Award
In January 2012, MTN was awarded the 2011 Technology & Engineering Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) in the category "Development of Integrated, Deployable Systems for Live Reporting from Remote Environments" for collaborating with NBC on the Bloom-Mobile to Broadcast First Live "On the Move" Coverage of Military Forces in Iraq. The concept of the Bloom-Mobile was inspired by Mr. David Bloom himself in order to deliver live coverage of U.S. military forces in Iraq in 2003. MTN's founder and CTO Richard Hadsall, collaborated with Mr. Bloom and NBC over a 45-day period to design, build, commission and equip the vehicle with live television and satellite transmission equipment, allowing the Bloom-Mobile to send live, full-motion broadcast-quality video and audio as U.S. troops moved towards Baghdad. By securing a 200-watt stabilized 1.2-meter Ku-band antenna to the back of a custom-built Ford F450 4WD diesel truck, MTN enabled |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRC%20%28file%20format%29 | PRC (Product Representation Compact) is a file format that can be used to embed 3D data in a PDF file.
This highly compressed format facilitates the storage of different representations of a 3D model. For example, you can save only a visual representation that consists of polygons (a tessellation), or you can save the model's exact geometry (B-rep data). Varying levels of compression can be applied to the 3D CAD data when it is converted to the PRC format using Adobe Acrobat 3D.
The 3D data stored in PRC format in a PDF is interoperable with Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) applications.
History
June 12, 2002 TTF Showcases PRC
April 21, 2006 Adobe Acquires Trade and Technologies France (TTF)
December 15, 2014 PRC now published as ISO 14739-1:2014
Software to create PRC
Adobe Acrobat "Pro Extended" 8 and 9.
Adobe Acrobat X and XI with 3D PDF Converter from Tetra 4D.
CrossCad/Ware from Datakit: SDK for developers to add PRC writing functionalities to their software.
CrossManager from Datakit: Software to convert 3D formats to PRC.
Feature Manipulation Engine.
Geomagic Design.
HOOPS Exchange libraries from Tech Soft 3D.
PDF3D, version 2.0 and later.
PROSTEP PDF Generator 3D.
SOLIDWORKS allows saving of files to 3D PDF containing PRC since release 2015.
4D Publish, a plugin for Cinema 4D.
Viewer
Adobe Reader 8 and later
See also
Portable Document Format
Universal 3D
Asymptote: Open Source PRC Writer
glTF - a Khronos Group file format for 3D Scenes and models.
References
External links
Acrobat 3D PRC Specification (Version 8137 (latest))
Acrobat 3D PRC Specification (Version 7094)
Acrobat 3D 8 documentation correction with PRC and U3D conversion formats
ISO/TC171/SC2 N 570 E 3D use of product representation compact (PRC) format.
PRC (Product Representation Compact) Format FAQ
HOOPS Exchange libraries from Tech Soft 3D
PDF3D SDK PRC generation library toolkit from Visual Technology Services Ltd.
3D PDF Converter from tetra4D supports the import and export of PRC files from multiple formats.
PROSTEP PDF Generator 3D - A server-based solution used to automate the generation of 3D PDF documents with embedded PRC streams.
ISO 14739-1:2014 Document management—3D use of Product Representation Compact (PRC) format—Part 1: PRC 10001
The media9 LaTeX package enables the production of PDF documents with embedded PRC files using LaTeX.
4D Publish - A plugin for Cinema 4D that exports the scene as a PRC file and embeds it into a 3D PDF document.
Teigha PRC library from ODA supports content creation and data access for PRC format and enables exporting a .dwg or .dgn file to PRC.
3D graphics file formats
CAD file formats
Filename extensions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Safe%20Place | National Safe Place (doing business as National Safe Place Network) is a non-profit organization based out of Louisville, Kentucky. It originated in 1983 from an initiative known as "Project Safe Place", established by a short-term residential and counseling center for youth 12 to 17. The organization is intended to provide access to immediate help and support for children and adolescents who are "at risk" or in crisis situations. The purpose is to both defuse a potential crisis situation as well as provide immediate counsel and support so the child in crisis may be directed to an appropriate shelter or accredited care facility.
Businesses and community buildings such as fire stations and libraries are designated as "Safe Place" sites. Any youth in crisis can walk into one of the nearly 20,000 Safe Places across the country and ask an employee for help. These locations display the yellow, diamond-shaped Safe Place sign on their location. Inside, employees are trained and prepared to assist any young person asking for help. Youth who go to a Safe Place location are quickly connected to the nearby youth shelter. The shelter then provides the counseling and support necessary to reunify family members and develop a plan to address the issues presented by the youth and family.
In October 2009, National Safe Place launched the TXT 4 HELP initiative, which provides youth immediate access to help and resources through texting. Youth can text the word "safe" and their current location (address/city/state) to 4HELP (44357) and receive an immediate text response with the location of the closest Safe Place site or youth shelter and the youth shelter phone number. If a site or shelter is not within a 50-mile range, the youth receives the number to the National Runaway Safeline (1-800-RUNAWAY). In 2012, National Safe Place added the option for live, interactive texting with a trained mental health professional. With this addition, youth can immediately connect with Master's-level mental health professionals by text.
In 2013, National Safe Place merged with the Youth & Family Services Network (YFSN) to create the National Safe Place Network. NSPN provides training and technical assistance to licensed Safe Place agencies and NSPN member organizations across the country. More information about NSPN is available at www.nspnetwork.org.
The National Safe Place Network also operates the Runaway and Homeless Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center (RHYTTAC), a national training resource for FYSB-funded Runaway and Homeless Youth grantees, as well as several other federally funded projects focused on human trafficking and other issues critical to youth service providers.
See also
Block Parent Program (Canada)
Safety House Program (Australia)
The first Safe Place case was in 1983 in Louisville Ky. At firehouse at 6th and Hill St
Facilitated by then Sergeant Matthew L Kaelin. Fire Co. Truck 3
References
External links
Child safety
Children's rights orga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPO%20Radio%205 | NPO Radio 5 is a Dutch public-service network radio station operated by NPO. Its main format is classic hits from the 1950s and beyond, with a much stronger emphasis from the 1960s to 1980s. Very rarely, songs from the late-1940s may air at times. The service targets 55-year-olds and older, in contrast
to that of Radio 2 (35–55) and 3FM (15–35).
Every year towards the end of November, NPO Radio 5 broadcasts "The Evergreen Top1000"
History
NPO Radio 5 was launched in 1983 under the name of Hilversum 5, which featured programming for minority groups. On 1 December 1985 the network changed its name to "Radio 5". This was altered yet again on 1 April 2001, when Radio 5 became "Radio 747" to reflect the change of frequency from 1008 kHz to 747 kHz. More recently, on 4 September 2006, the name was changed back to "Radio 5". Although the 747 kHz medium wave transmissions were appreciated by motorists and enabled the channel to be heard across much of Europe at night, the domestic audience is increasingly reached via cable or internet.
Because of the increase of its listeners, it is considered to make the easy-listening programming, "Radio 5 Nostalgia" available 24-hours a day. From September 2011, Radio 5 Nostalgia became available 24-hours a day, known as Max Nostalgia, but only at certain times on 747. Not from 1900hrs Friday to 2359hrs Sunday. Radio 5 on 747 broadcasts separate programs on that frequency, mainly specialized programs.
On 747 Medium Wave, Radio 5 broadcasts music from Midnight to 0600 from Monday to Friday, when the mix of music and talk programs resumes.
In August 2014, the name of the station was changed to "NPO Radio 5", incorporating the public broadcaster; "NPO" name and logo.
On 15 September 2014 it was reported that NPO would be closing its MW transmitters on 1 September 2015, effecting savings of 13 million Euros and 3 million kilowatt-hours a year. It was finally done at midnight. Since then the only ways to receive the station are the cable, DVB-T, DAB+, satellite and internet.
On 1 January 2016 the 'Nostalgia' part of NPO Radio 5 was completely dropped. Since then this word is no longer been used on the program schedule or on the air.
Transmitter fire and break in transmission
On 15 July 2011, as a result of a fire and collapse of the antenna at the FM and TV tower in Hoogersmilde, large part of the Netherlands were left without terrestrial FM radio and TV. As a stopgap Radio 5's 747 kHz AM frequency had temporarily been assigned to Radio 1 to make a news, current affairs and sports radio program available to those in the affected area. However, by December 2012 the mast had been rebuilt and restored to full operation.
See also
List of radio stations in the Netherlands
References
External links
Radio 5
Radio 5 Avond & Weekend
Radio stations in the Netherlands
Netherlands Public Broadcasting
Radio stations established in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20search | Enterprise search is the practice of making content from multiple enterprise-type sources, such as databases and intranets, searchable to a defined audience.
"Enterprise search" is used to describe the software of search information within an enterprise (though the search function and its results may still be public). Enterprise search can be contrasted with web search, which applies search technology to documents on the open web, and desktop search, which applies search technology to the content on a single computer.
Enterprise search systems index data and documents from a variety of sources such as: file systems, intranets, document management systems, e-mail, and databases. Many enterprise search systems integrate structured and unstructured data in their collections. Enterprise search systems also use access controls to enforce a security policy on their users.
Enterprise search can be seen as a type of vertical search of an enterprise.
Components of an enterprise search system
In an enterprise search system, content goes through various phases from source repository to search results:
Content awareness
Content awareness (or "content collection") is usually either a push or pull model. In the push model, a source system is integrated with the search engine in such a way that it connects to it and pushes new content directly to its APIs. This model is used when real-time indexing is important. In the pull model, the software gathers content from sources using a connector such as a web crawler or a database connector. The connector typically polls the source with certain intervals to look for new, updated or deleted content.
Content processing and analysis
Content from different sources may have many different formats or document types, such as XML, HTML, Office document formats or plain text. The content processing phase processes the incoming documents to plain text using document filters. It is also often necessary to normalize content in various ways to improve recall or precision. These may include stemming, lemmatization, synonym expansion, entity extraction, part of speech tagging.
As part of processing and analysis, tokenization is applied to split the content into tokens which is the basic matching unit. It is also common to normalize tokens to lower case to provide case-insensitive search, as well as to normalize accents to provide better recall.
Indexing
The resulting text is stored in an index, which is optimized for quick lookups without storing the full text of the document. The index may contain the dictionary of all unique words in the corpus as well as information about ranking and term frequency.
Query processing
Using a web page, the user issues a query to the system. The query consists of any terms the user enters as well as navigational actions such as faceting and paging information.
Matching
The processed query is then compared to the stored index, and the search system returns results (or "hits") referenc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpstat | mpstat is a computer command-line software used in Unix-type operating systems to report (on the screen) processor-related statistics. It is used in computer monitoring in order to diagnose problems or to build statistics about a computer's CPU usage.
Description
The mpstat command writes to standard output activities for each available processor.
The mpstat command can be used both on SMP and UP machines, but in the latter, only global average activities will be printed.
Usage
$ mpstat <interval> <count>
Interval is the time in seconds between printing out a line of statistics. Count is the number of lines of output you want.
Note that the first line of output from mpstat (like iostat, vmstat, etc.) contains averages since system boot. The subsequent lines will show current values.
Examples
Different examples of output under different operating systems:
under Linux kernel 4.14 on a two CPU machine:
Linux 4.14.24.mptcp (hostname) 05/23/2018 _x86_64_ (2 CPU)
03:51:19 PM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %gnice %idle
03:51:20 PM all 2.51 0.00 2.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 95.48
03:51:21 PM all 2.53 0.00 2.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 95.45
under Linux kernel 2.4:
$ mpstat
Linux 2.4.21-32.ELsmp (linux00) 07/04/07
10:26:54 CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %irq %soft %idle intr/s
10:26:54 all 0.07 0.00 0.16 8.48 0.00 0.09 91.18 165.49
under Solaris 11:
$ mpstat
CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl
0 0 0 0 329 121 169 6 0 0 0 406 0 1 0 98
under AIX 6:
$ mpstat 1 1
System configuration: lcpu=8 ent=1.0 mode=Uncapped
cpu min maj mpc int cs ics rq mig lpa sysc us sy wa id pc %ec lcs
0 8 0 0 182 336 102 0 0 100 1434 38 51 0 12 0.02 1.8 185
1 0 0 0 11 5 5 0 0 - 0 0 19 0 81 0.00 0.1 12
2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 42 0 58 0.00 0.0 0
3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 43 0 57 0.00 0.0 0
4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 45 0 55 0.00 0.0 0
5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 44 0 56 0.00 0.0 0
6 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 2 0 98 0.00 0.0 0
7 0 0 0 53 5 5 0 0 - 0 0 66 0 34 0.00 0.2 54
U - - - - - - - - - - - - 0 99 0.99 99.0 -
ALL 8 0 0 251 346 112 0 0 100 1434 0 0 0 99 0.02 2.0 251
See also
nmon
top
References
Linux mpstat man page
AIX mpstat manual page
External links
sysstat - includes mpstat
Unix software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWWOFFLE | WWWOFFLE is a proxy server and web caching software, allowing dial-up or broadband users to cache data for offline use. It can handle HTTP, FTP, and finger protocol, and operates on IPv4 and IPv6. Version builds are Unix-based: ports are available for Linux, and Win32 support is provided via Cygwin.
References
External links
Free proxy servers
Unix network-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Network%20for%20Neglected%20Tropical%20Diseases | The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases is an advocacy initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute dedicated to raising the awareness, political will, and funding necessary to control and eliminate the most common Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)—a group of disabling, disfiguring, and deadly diseases affecting more than 1.4 billion people worldwide living on less than $1.25 a day.
The Global Network provides an advocacy platform for the broad NTD community that reaches the attention of policymakers, philanthropists, thought leaders, and the general public. Through that platform, the Global Network highlights the work—including implementation, research, advocacy, and policy efforts—of the NTD community at the local, national, and international levels.
The Global Network collaborates closely with the World Health Organization and other technical agencies, NGOs, donors, and the broader public health community; together they support international organizations, governments, and afflicted communities that work through regional strategies to advocate for and implement NTD control and elimination programs.
History
At the September 2006 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced the launch of The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases—the first-ever global effort to combat NTDs in an integrated framework. At the time, NTD control was seen as a monumental task, with 1.4 billion people infected with and suffering from NTDs around the world. Over the last decade, several organizations on the ground had made significant progress on individual diseases, but reaching more people in need of treatment in a cost-effective way required an integrated approach to combating NTDs collectively.
In the years since the Global Network launched, it has experienced significant growth as it deepens its commitment to fighting NTDs around the world through resource mobilization and advocacy efforts. Simultaneously, through the work of Global Network collaborators, hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people are currently receiving a low-cost rapid-impact package of essential NTD drugs, enabling them to break out of a devastating cycle of poverty and disease.
Neglected tropical diseases
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of 13 parasitic and bacterial infections that infect approximately 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest people in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and South East Asia. Together, they disable, disfigure, blind, and even kill, causing chronic morbidity that is on par with the “big three” global health threats: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
The Global Network focuses on the seven most common NTDs that together represent 90% of the total NTD disease burden. These seven are:
Ascariasis (roundworm) – 807 million infected
Trichuriasis (whipworm) – 604 million infected
Hookworm – 576 million infected
Schistosomiasis (snail fever) – 207 million infect |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure%20as%20a%20service | Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a cloud computing service model by means of which computing resources are supplied by a cloud services provider. The IaaS vendor provides the storage, network, servers, and virtualization (which mostly refers, in this case, to emulating computer hardware). This service enables users to free themselves from maintaining an on-premises data center. The IaaS provider is hosting these resources in either the public cloud (meaning users share the same hardware, storage, and network devices with other users), the private cloud (meaning users do not share these resources), or the hybrid cloud (combination of both).
It provides the customer with high-level APIs used to dereference various low-level details of underlying network infrastructure like backup, data partitioning, scaling, security, physical computing resources, etc. A hypervisor, such as Xen, Oracle VirtualBox, Oracle VM, KVM, VMware ESX/ESXi, or Hyper-V runs the virtual machines as guests. Pools of hypervisors within the cloud operational system can support large numbers of virtual machines as well as the ability to scale services up and down according to customers' varying requirements.
Overview
Typically IaaS involves the use of a cloud orchestration technology like OpenStack, Apache CloudStack or OpenNebula. It manages the creation of a virtual machine and decides on the hypervisor (i.e. physical host) in order to start it whilst enabling VM migration features between hosts, allocates storage volumes, and attaches them to VMs that track usage information for billing and more.
An alternative to hypervisors is Linux containers, which run in isolated partitions of a single Linux kernel running directly on the physical hardware. Linux cgroups and namespaces are the underlying Linux kernel technologies used to isolate, secure and manage the containers. Containerisation offers higher performance than virtualization because there is no hypervisor overhead.
IaaS clouds often offer additional resources such as a virtual-machine disk-image library, raw block storage, file or object storage, firewalls, load balancers, IP addresses, virtual local area networks (VLANs), and software bundles.
The NIST's definition of cloud computing defines infrastructure as a service like:
According to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the most basic cloud-service model offered by the providers is IT infrastructure – virtual machines and other resources – as a service to subscribers.
IaaS-cloud providers supply these resources on-demand from the large pools of equipment installed in data centers. For wide-area connectivity, customers can use either the Internet or carrier clouds (dedicated virtual private networks). To deploy their applications, cloud users install operating-system images and the application software on the cloud infrastructure. In this model, the cloud user patches and maintains the operating systems along with application software. Cloud provid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TuVisi%C3%B3n | TuVisión was an American Spanish language broadcasting network, which is owned by Pappas Telecasting. TuVisión is a portmanteau of tu (your) and televisión. During the latter part of 2007, Pappas hired Moelis & Company to develop long-term objectives to identify which television assets it should retain. In 2008, several affiliates filed for Chapter 11 protection. and TuVisión ceased broadcasting in 2009.
History
TuVisión began operations on July 1, 2007, after Pappas dropped the Azteca America network from the Spanish-language stations that Pappas owned. The only exception was Los Angeles' KAZA-TV, which retained the network until its 2018 sale to Weigel Broadcasting; Pappas was under contract to carry Azteca América through December 2012 and its later bankruptcy effectively kept the affiliation after 2012 on creditor's orders.
Programs
The main programs of TuVisión were Dueña y Señora (Puerto Rican telenovela), Alma Gemela (Brazilian telenovela), The Johnny Canales Show (music), Marta Susana (Guatemalan show) and Paparazzi TV.
References
External links
Pappas Telecasting Companies Retrieved: 2010-04-01.
Pappas Telecasting
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Spanish-language television networks in the United States
Defunct television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins%E2%80%93Traub%20algorithm | The Jenkins–Traub algorithm for polynomial zeros is a fast globally convergent iterative polynomial root-finding method published in 1970 by Michael A. Jenkins and Joseph F. Traub. They gave two variants, one for general polynomials with complex coefficients, commonly known as the "CPOLY" algorithm, and a more complicated variant for the special case of polynomials with real coefficients, commonly known as the "RPOLY" algorithm. The latter is "practically a standard in black-box polynomial root-finders".
This article describes the complex variant. Given a polynomial P,
with complex coefficients it computes approximations to the n zeros of P(z), one at a time in roughly increasing order of magnitude. After each root is computed, its linear factor is removed from the polynomial. Using this deflation guarantees that each root is computed only once and that all roots are found.
The real variant follows the same pattern, but computes two roots at a time, either two real roots or a pair of conjugate complex roots. By avoiding complex arithmetic, the real variant can be faster (by a factor of 4) than the complex variant. The Jenkins–Traub algorithm has stimulated considerable research on theory and software for methods of this type.
Overview
The Jenkins–Traub algorithm calculates all of the roots of a polynomial with complex coefficients. The algorithm starts by checking the polynomial for the occurrence of very large or very small roots. If necessary, the coefficients are rescaled by a rescaling of the variable. In the algorithm, proper roots are found one by one and generally in increasing size. After each root is found, the polynomial is deflated by dividing off the corresponding linear factor. Indeed, the factorization of the polynomial into the linear factor and the remaining deflated polynomial is already a result of the root-finding procedure. The root-finding procedure has three stages that correspond to different variants of the inverse power iteration. See Jenkins and Traub.
A description can also be found in Ralston and Rabinowitz p. 383.
The algorithm is similar in spirit to the two-stage algorithm studied by Traub.
Root-finding procedure
Starting with the current polynomial P(X) of degree n, the aim is to compute the smallest root of P(x). The polynomial can then be split into a linear factor and the remaining polynomial factor Other root-finding methods strive primarily to improve the root and thus the first factor. The main idea of the Jenkins-Traub method is to incrementally improve the second factor.
To that end, a sequence of so-called H polynomials is constructed. These polynomials are all of degree n − 1 and are supposed to converge to the factor of P(X) containing (the linear factors of) all the remaining roots. The sequence of H polynomials occurs in two variants, an unnormalized variant that allows easy theoretical insights and a normalized variant of polynomials that keeps the coefficients in a numerically sensible |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20geometric%20graph | In graph theory, a random geometric graph (RGG) is the mathematically simplest spatial network, namely an undirected graph constructed by randomly placing N nodes in some metric space (according to a specified probability distribution) and connecting two nodes by a link if and only if their distance is in a given range, e.g. smaller than a certain neighborhood radius, r.
Random geometric graphs resemble real human social networks in a number of ways. For instance, they spontaneously demonstrate community structure - clusters of nodes with high modularity. Other random graph generation algorithms, such as those generated using the Erdős–Rényi model or Barabási–Albert (BA) model do not create this type of structure. Additionally, random geometric graphs display degree assortativity according to their spatial dimension: "popular" nodes (those with many links) are particularly likely to be linked to other popular nodes.
A real-world application of RGGs is the modeling of ad hoc networks. Furthermore they are used to perform benchmarks for graph algorithms.
Definition
In the following, let denote an undirected Graph with a set of vertices and a set of edges . The set sizes are denoted by and . Additionally, if not noted otherwise, the metric space with the euclidean distance is considered, i.e. for any points the euclidean distance of x and y is defined as
.
A random geometric graph (RGG) is an undirected geometric graph with nodes randomly sampled from the uniform distribution of the underlying space . Two vertices are connected if, and only if, their distance is less than a previously specified parameter , excluding any loops. Thus, the parameters and fully characterize a RGG.
Algorithms
Naive algorithm
The naive approach is to calculate the distance of every vertex to every other vertex. As there are possible connections that are checked, the time complexity of the naive algorithm is . The samples are generated by using a random number generator (RNG) on . Practically, one can implement this using d random number generators on , one RNG for every dimension.
Pseudocode
V := generateSamples(n) // Generates n samples in the unit cube.
for each p ∈ V do
for each q ∈ V\{p} do
if distance(p, q) ≤ r then
addConnection(p, q) // Add the edge (p, q) to the edge data structure.
end if
end for
end for
As this algorithm is not scalable (every vertex needs information of every other vertex), Holtgrewe et al. and Funke et al. have introduced new algorithms for this problem.
Distributed algorithms
Holtgrewe et al.
This algorithm, which was proposed by Holtgrewe et al., was the first distributed RGG generator algorithm for dimension 2. It partitions the unit square into equal sized cells with side length of at least . For a given number of processors, each processor is assigned cells, where For simplicity, is assumed to be a square number, but this can be generalized to any number of processors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfried%20Toussaint | Godfried Theodore Patrick Toussaint (1944 – July 2019) was a Canadian computer scientist, a professor of computer science, and the head of the Computer Science Program at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He is considered to be the father of computational geometry in Canada. He did research on various aspects of computational geometry, discrete geometry, and their applications: pattern recognition (k-nearest neighbor algorithm, cluster analysis), motion planning, visualization (computer graphics), knot theory (stuck unknot problem), linkage (mechanical) reconfiguration, the art gallery problem, polygon triangulation, the largest empty circle problem, unimodality (unimodal function), and others. Other interests included meander (art), compass and straightedge constructions, instance-based learning, music information retrieval, and computational music theory.
He was a co-founder of the Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, and the annual Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry.
Along with Selim Akl, he was an author and namesake of the efficient "Akl–Toussaint algorithm" for the construction of the convex hull of a planar point set. This algorithm exhibits a computational complexity with expected value linear in the size of the input. In 1980 he introduced the relative neighborhood graph (RNG) to the fields of pattern recognition and machine learning, and showed that it contained the minimum spanning tree, and was a subgraph of the Delaunay triangulation. Three other well known proximity graphs are the nearest neighbor graph, the Urquhart graph, and the Gabriel graph. The first is contained in the minimum spanning tree, and the Urquhart graph contains the RNG, and is contained in the Delaunay triangulation. Since all these graphs are nested together they are referred to as the Toussaint hierarchy.
Biography
Toussaint was born in 1944 in Belgium.
After graduating in 1968 from the University of Tulsa,
he went to the University of British Columbia for graduate study, completing his Ph.D. there in 1972. His dissertation, Feature Evaluation Criteria and Contextual Decoding Algorithms in Statistical Pattern Recognition, was supervised by Robert W. Donaldson.
He joined the McGill University faculty in 1972, and became a professor emeritus there in 2007. After retiring from McGill, he became a professor of computer science and head of the computer science department at New York University Abu Dhabi.
He died in July 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. He was in Tokyo to present his work on "The Levenshtein distance as a measure of mirror symmetry and homogeneity for binary digital patterns" in a special session titled "Design & Computation in Geovisualization" convened by the International Cartographic Association Commission on Visual Analytics at the 2019 International Cartographic Conference.
Mathematical research in music
He spent a year in the Music Department at Harvard University doing research on musica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Encyclopedia%20of%20Systems%20and%20Cybernetics | The book International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics is an authoritative encyclopedia for systems theory, cybernetics, the complex systems science, which covers both theories and applications in areas as engineering, biology, medicine and social sciences. This book first published in 1997 aimed to give an overview over more than 40 years developments in the field of Systems and Cybernetics.
This book offers a collection of more than 3000 keywords and articles of Systems and Cybernetics. Many items contain quotes from authors from the field.
The book is edited by Belgian systems scientist and diplomat Charles François with an Academic board including members such as John N. Warfield, Robert Trappl, Ranulph Glanville, G. A. Swanson,
Nicholas Paritsis,
Daniel Dubois, Heiner Benking, Francisco Parra Luna, Anthony Judge, Markus Schwaninger, Gerhard Chroust, G. A. Swanson, Matjaž Mulej and Stuart Umpleby.
The first edition was published in 1997 in one volume with 450 pages by publisher K.G. Saur in Munich. The second edition was published in 2004 in two volumes and 741 pages by the same publisher. This update consisted of 1700 articles, some of them with figures, tables and diagrams, and 1500 bibliographical references. The genesis of the Encyclopedia was published by Anthony Judge in the Wall Street Journal and as Festschrift in 2001: UIA - Saur Relations: Sharing a Documentary Pilgrimage
References
External links
International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics short intro.
Book review: International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, by: John P. van Gigch.
Some general references and terms in the 2nd edition
1997 non-fiction books
Systems theory books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource-oriented%20architecture | In software engineering, a resource-oriented architecture (ROA) is a style of software architecture and programming paradigm for supportive designing and developing software in the form of Internetworking of resources with "RESTful" interfaces. These resources are software components (discrete pieces of code and/or data structures) which can be reused for different purposes. ROA design principles and guidelines are used during the phases of software development and system integration.
REST, or Representational State Transfer, describes a series of architectural constraints that exemplify how the web's design emerged. Various concrete implementations of these ideas have been created throughout time, but it has been difficult to discuss the REST architectural style without blurring the lines between actual software and the architectural principles behind it.
In Chapter 5 of his thesis, Roy Fielding documents how the World Wide Web is designed to be constrained by the REST series of limitations. These are still fairly abstract and have been interpreted in various ways in designing new frameworks, systems, and websites. In the past, heated exchanges have been made about whether RPC-style REST architectures are RESTful.
Guidelines for clarification
The Resource Oriented Architecture, as documented by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby in their 2007 book RESTful Web Services, gives concrete advice on specific technical details. Naming these collections of guidelines "Resource Oriented Architecture" may allow developers to discuss the benefits of an architecture in the context of ROA.
Some guidelines are already common within the larger REST communities such as: that an application should expose many URIs, one for each resource; and that processing cookies representing IDs in a server-side session is not RESTful.
Existing frameworks
Richardson and Ruby also discuss many software frameworks that provide some or many features of the ROA. These include
/db,
Django,
TurboGears,
Flask,
EverRest,
JBoss RESTEasy,
JBoss Seam,
Spring,
Apache Wink,
Jersey,
NetKernel,
Recess,
Ruby on Rails,
Symfony,
Yii2,
Play Framework, and API Platform.
Web infrastructure
While REST is a set of architectural guidelines applicable to various types of computing infrastructures, Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) is only coupled with the web. This architecture is therefore useful mostly to businesses that consider the web as the computing/publishing platform of choice.
The power of the web seems to mostly reside in its ability to lower the barriers to entry for human users who may not be highly trained in using computing machinery. As such, the web widens the market reach for any business that decides to publish some of its content in electronic format.
On the web, such published content is regarded as a web resource.
References
Bibliography
Software architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owned-and-operated%20television%20stations%20in%20the%20United%20States | In the United States, owned-and-operated television stations (frequently abbreviated as O&Os) constitute only a portion of their parent television networks' station bodies, due to ownership limits imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Currently, the total number of television stations owned by any company (including a television network) can only reach a maximum of 39% of all U.S. households; in the past, the ownership limit was much lower, and was determined by a specific number of television stations rather than basing the limits on total market coverage.
Distribution
At the dawn of the American television industry, each company was only allowed to own a total of five television stations around the country. As such, when the networks launched their television operations, they found it more advantageous to put their five owned-and-operated stations in large media markets that had more households (and therefore, denser populations) on the belief that it would result in higher revenue. In other markets, they opted to run their programming on stations through contractual arrangements, making them affiliates instead.
The five-station limit posed a problem for the DuMont Television Network, the first attempt at a "fourth" television network. Paramount Pictures, which had owned KTLA (channel 5) in Los Angeles and WBKB (channel 4, now WBBM-TV on channel 2) in Chicago, owned a share of the network. However, the FCC declared that Paramount controlled DuMont and thus forbade the network and the studio from acquiring any more stations. This was one of the factors that led to DuMont shutting down in August 1956.
For much of the era from 1958 to 1986, the major network-owned stations were distributed as follows: ABC, CBS and NBC each owned stations in the top three markets (New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago). Between 1958 and 1965, fourth-ranked Philadelphia housed CBS-owned WCAU-TV (channel 10) and NBC-owned WRCV-TV (channel 3, now KYW-TV), a station which NBC had acquired two years earlier through a trade with Westinghouse Broadcasting in return for NBC's television and radio stations in Cleveland. The FCC reversed the trade in 1965 and NBC regained control of the Cleveland television station, which is today known as WKYC. Each network owned stations in other markets where the other networks did not: in addition to Cleveland, these were ABC's KGO-TV (channel 7) in San Francisco and WXYZ-TV (channel 7) in Detroit, NBC's WRC-TV (channel 4) in Washington, D.C., and CBS' KMOX-TV (channel 4, now KMOV) in St. Louis.
As a result of a revision to the FCC's media ownership rules in 1999, a company can now own any number of television stations with a combined market reach of less than 39% of the country, but cannot own two of the four highest-rated stations in any market. Still, O&Os in the United States are primarily found in large markets such as New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago, among others. Despite that, network-owned stations c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin%20Mobile%20France | Virgin Mobile France was a cellular telephone operator in France. It launched in 2006 as a joint venture between Virgin Group and Carphone Warehouse. The company operated as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), whereby it did not own or operate its own mobile network but instead used the network of Orange S.A. As of June 2014, the company was the largest MVNO in France, with 1.5 million customers, and had a market share of 1.3% at the beginning of 2014.
Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Group reached an agreement to sell their holdings to the French cable TV operator Numericable in June 2014 for €325 million, subject to regulatory approval. The sale was completed on 5 December 2014.
In November 2015, Numericable-SFR (now SFR) announced it would discontinue use of the Virgin Mobile brand, moving customers on fixed-term plans to its SFR brand, and those without contracts to its RED brand.
See also
Virgin Mobile
References
External links
Mobile phone companies of France
Virgin Mobile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcars%20in%20Cleveland |
Like most large cities in the United States, there existed a large network of streetcars in Cleveland in the first half of the 20th century. The streetcar lines in Cleveland, Ohio were operated by the Cleveland Railway, which was formed in 1910 with the merger of two companies. The Cleveland Railway converted a few streetcar lines in the 1930s, but the onset of World War II stopped any further conversions.
In 1942, the Cleveland Transit System took over the operation of all streetcar, bus and trackless trolley lines from the Cleveland Railway. Following the war, CTS undertook a program of replacing all existing streetcar lines with either trackless trolleys or buses.
The last CTS streetcar ran on January 24, 1954 with a free ride celebration on the Madison line from Public Square to West 65th and Bridge.
List of streetcar lines
The following table lists the conversion of the Cleveland streetcar lines to trackless trolleys (or trolleybuses) or buses in reverse chronological order, with the last date of streetcar service, the line name, the modern line number, the type of vehicle replacing the streetcar, and the length of time that lasted. Shuttle lines or "dinkeys" are not included.
See also
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
Northern Ohio Railway Museum
List of streetcar systems in the United States (all-time list)
References
Inline references
Books
External links
Tom's North American Trolleybus Pix Cleveland Page
Transportation in Cleveland
Transportation in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Passenger rail transportation in Ohio
Streetcars in Ohio
Cleveland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey%20Paula | Hey Paula may refer to:
"Hey Paula" (song), a 1962 single by Paul & Paula
Hey Paula (TV series), a Bravo network reality series in 2007 starring Paula Abdul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer%20Value%20Line | Acer Value Line is a product line of low-cost LCD monitors manufactured by Taiwan-based computer company Acer. Most of the liquid crystal display monitors from the Value Line series are dedicated to home or office users. Most of them have a classic design and standard functions ideal for home of office use. Value Line monitors are one of the most popular Acer products and they are available worldwide. At the end of 2008, Acer's Value line was discontinued.
Technical overview
Monitors are marked "AL XX YY ZZ". This is acronym for Acer, LCD, screen size in inches, model number, additional info (widescreen, speakers, color of monitor's cover). For example AL1715SM or AL1916W. Than AL1916W monitor have 19 inch screen, it is the 16th acer model and it has a wide screen.
The older models were marked "AL XXX"; it is the same marking, but only one number is used for parameter description.
For market reasons Acer uses serial numbers in conformation "ET.LXXXX.XXX".
Design
Monitors have a classic design, most of them have a white, black, or silver-black colored cover.
Casing of monitors is thin with big screen and 5 buttons and LED indicator under the screen.
1st button is using for turn on/off monitor and last for Automatic configuration, other buttons are used for OSD menu control.
References
External links
Acer website
Value Line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead%20bit | In data transmission and telecommunication, overhead bits are non-data bits necessary for transmission (usually as part of headers, checksums, and such). For example, on the Internet many data exchanges occur via HTTP. HTTP headers allow additional information to passed between servers and clients in addition to "the data" (i.e., request or response) and thus may be considered to be overhead bits. Such bits are not counted as part of the goodput.
References
Data transmission |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Dahler | Don Dahler (born 1960) is an American journalist and author. Dahler held various correspondent and anchor positions at three major networks: ABC, CBS, and FOX. Dahler is the author of four books.
Career
According to his biography, Dahler's first reporting position was at WGHP-TV in High Point, North Carolina in 1982. He reported there for three years. He began as an unpaid intern for KENS-TV in San Antonio.
In 1997, Dahler was a correspondent for CNBC based out of Los Angeles. There, he filed reports on the sports and entertainment industries. Before CNBC and a brief stint at Fox News Channel as an investigative correspondent, Dahler was a producer for CBS news' 48 Hours. Prior to that, he made documentaries and wildlife films in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. During the 2001–02 television season, he was seen hosting Justice Files on the Discovery Channel.
Dahler joined CBS2 News on September 4, 2007 as weekend evening anchor. On May 27, 2008, the Daily News reported that the station had decided to give Don the co-anchorage for the 12 noon and 6:00 p.m. newscasts, which paried him with veteran Dana Tyler; all of this just five days after two-time alum Jim Rosenfield was let go for the sake of budget cuts. Steve Bartelstein, whom Dahler auditioned to replace at WABC-TV after Bartelstein was fired, replaced Dahler as Mary Calvi's weekend evening co-anchor.
On September 8, 2011, it was announced that Dahler would move to weekends, as Chris Wragge was returning to the local station from a 9-month stint as co-host of CBS' The Early Show.
Dahler joined ABC News in September 1999 as a National Correspondent for Good Morning America. Since then, he has filed reports for all programs at ABC, including Nightline, Primetime, 20/20 Downtown, Good Morning America and World News Tonight. He has travelled to Kosovo for war coverage and to Afghanistan and Iraq for the same reason. He was embedded with the 101st Airborne during the initial invasion, and has returned for three other embeds with U.S. troops.
In 2013, Dahler joined CBS News as a correspondent and left CBS in May 2020 to pursue writing full-time.
Major news story coverage
Dahler reported on many high-profile news stories within the U.S. and abroad such as the Columbine shootings in his native Colorado. On September 11, 2001, Dahler was the first network correspondent on the scene of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York city reporting live via telephone from his apartment -- which was just blocks away from ground zero -- a few moments after the first plane hit the towers. As he was one of the only reporters at ground zero when the planes hit, Dahler filed the first report of the south tower's collapse mere seconds after it occurred. Two weeks later, he was one of the first American journalists travelling to Afghanistan before the U.S. began its bombing campaign against the Taliban. In 2002, prior to the Iraq War, Dahler and a team from Nightline, became the first journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20database | A DNA database or DNA databank is a database of DNA profiles which can be used in the analysis of genetic diseases, genetic fingerprinting for criminology, or genetic genealogy. DNA databases may be public or private, the largest ones being national DNA databases.
DNA databases are often employed in forensic investigations. When a match is made from a national DNA database to link a crime scene to a person whose DNA profile is stored on a database, that link is often referred to as a cold hit. A cold hit is of particular value in linking a specific person to a crime scene, but is of less evidential value than a DNA match made without the use of a DNA database. Research shows that DNA databases of criminal offenders reduce crime rates.
Types
Forensic
A forensic database is a centralized DNA database for storing DNA profiles of individuals that enables searching and comparing of DNA samples collected from a crime scene against stored profiles. The most important function of the forensic database is to produce matches between the suspected individual and crime scene bio-markers, and then provides evidence to support criminal investigations, and also leads to identify potential suspects in the criminal investigation. Majority of the National DNA databases are used for forensic purposes.
The Interpol DNA database is used in criminal investigations. Interpol maintains an automated DNA database called DNA Gateway that contains DNA profiles submitted by member countries collected from crime scenes, missing persons, and unidentified bodies. The DNA Gateway was established in 2002, and at the end of 2013, it had more than 140,000 DNA profiles from 69 member countries. Unlike other DNA databases, DNA Gateway is only used for information sharing and comparison, it does not link a DNA profile to any individual, and the physical or psychological conditions of an individual are not included in the database.
Genealogical
A national or forensic DNA database is not available for non-police purposes. DNA profiles can also be used for genealogical purposes, so that a separate genetic genealogy database needs to be created that stores DNA profiles of genealogical DNA test results. GenBank is a public genetic genealogy database that stores genome sequences submitted by many genetic genealogists. Until now, GenBank has contained large number of DNA sequences gained from more than 140,000 registered organizations, and is updated every day to ensure a uniform and comprehensive collection of sequence information. These databases are mainly obtained from individual laboratories or large-scale sequencing projects. The files stored in GenBank are divided into different groups, such as BCT (bacterial), VRL (viruses), PRI (primates)...etc. People can access GenBank from NCBI's retrieval system, and then use “BLAST” function to identify a certain sequence within the GenBank or to find the similarities between two sequences.
Medical
A medical DNA database is a DNA databas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess%20Mates | Chess Mates is a computer software program, released in 1996 for Macintosh and 1997 for Microsoft Windows, designed to teach the basics of Chess. Chess Mates was marketed as an easy way for children to learn the building blocks of becoming a successful chess player. It was developed by Stepping Stone (a division of Presage Software and Interplay) and published by Brainstorm. The original price was $34.95.
Reception
Although relatively few copies were released, the game has received favorable reviews. Discovery School cited the game's appealing graphics, sense of humor, and effective teaching of the various aspects of Chess.
References
External links
Chess Mates at MobyGames
Chess Mates at DiscoverySchool
Chess Mates at gameDB
1996 video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Classic Mac OS games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull%20technology | Pull coding or client pull is a style of network communication where the initial request for data originates from the client, and then is responded to by the server. The reverse is known as push technology, where the server pushes data to clients.
Pull requests form the foundation of network computing, where many clients request data from centralized servers. Pull is used extensively on the Internet for HTTP page requests from websites.
A push can also be simulated using multiple pulls within a short amount of time. For example, when pulling POP3 email messages from a server, a client can make regular pull requests every few minutes. To the user, the email then appears to be pushed, as emails appear to arrive close to real-time. The tradeoff is this places a heavier load on both the server and network to function correctly.
Most web feeds, such as RSS are technically pulled by the client. With RSS, the user's RSS reader polls the server periodically for new content; the server does not send information to the client unrequested. This continual polling is inefficient and has contributed to the shutdown or reduction of several popular RSS feeds that could not handle the bandwidth. For solving this problem, the WebSub protocol as another example of a push code was devised.
Podcasting is specifically a pull technology. When a new podcast episode is published to an RSS feed, it sits on the server until it is requested by a feed reader, mobile podcasting app, or directory. Directories such as Apple Podcasts (iTunes), The Blubrry Directory, and many apps' directories request the RSS feed periodically to update the Podcast's listing on those platforms. Subscribers to those RSS feeds via app or reader will get the episodes when they request the RSS feed next time, independent of when the directory listing updates.
See also
Push technology
Client–server model
References
Internet terminology
Web development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrsibbank%20BNP%20Paribas%20Group | UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group is a commercial bank based in Ukraine. UKRSIBBANK has been operating in the Ukrainian market since 1990. It operates a network of 260 branches and 1,000 ATMs throughout Ukraine, for 2 million customers all around Ukraine, 170,000 SME companies, and 600 large corporate companies. The bank has been a subsidiary of French International bank BNP Paribas since 2006.
Bank awards
TOP-3 among Ukraine’s most sustainable banks according to the popular Ukrainian online media Forinsurer.com
TOP Employer 2020 in Ukraine and Europe as part of BNP Paribas, Top Employer Institute Certification
No.1 in the Ukrainian Bank's Viability Rating according to the independent business portal Mind.UA
No.2 as The Best Internet Bank according to the FinAwards2020
No.3 UKRSIB online as the Best Mobile Bank according to the FinAwards2020 results
ТОР-3 among Ukraine’s Best Employers in Financial Sector according to the independent Randstad Employer Brand Research
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Certification – International Security Audit (PCI DSS)
Women In Business, the Program to Support Female Entrepreneurs, was included in the first report of the UN Global Compact for Ukraine as part of its commitment to achieving 17 sustainable development goals
No.1 among Ukrainian banks for depositor loyalty according to the Minfin portal
No.2 in the Minfin Portal’s Bank Resilience Rating following the 2Q of 2020
No.2 in the Ukrainian Banks Viability Rating according to the independent business portal Mind.UA
Best Legal Departments 2020 following the independent survey «Top-50 Legal Departments of Ukraine»
No.2 in the Most Reliable Banks of Ukraine Rating according to the investment company Dragon Capital
Good Place to Work – The Best Employer Branding Project, HR Brand Ukraine Award grc.ua. The Best Premium Banking Service in Ukraine according to Mastercard.
ТОР-3 «Cycling-Friendly Employer 2020» according to the Kyiv Cyclists’ Association U-Cycle
No.1 «Sustainable Development Goal No.3 — Good Health and Well-Being» in the context of Corporate Social Responsibility cases 2020, Center for the CSR Development Ukraine.
History
UKRSIBBANK was founded in 1990. Over the first two years, it operated on the financial market as Kharkiv regional bank that serviced large corporate customers.
In 1996 the bank started opening branches in other regions of Ukraine, and since 2000 it has been building up an extensive branch network. Being actively engaged in servicing individuals and legal entities, UKRSIBBANK has been constantly extending the list of banking services and products and conquering new market segments.
In December 2005, UKRSIBBANK, the third-largest bank in Ukraine, and BNP Paribas, one of the world's largest financial groups, signed a share purchase agreement on 51% of UKRSIBBANK's shares.
In April 2006, one of the largest financial groups in the world, BNP Paribas became the strategic investor at UKRSIBBANK, with a share of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Dental | Open Dental, previously known as Free Dental, is an open source dental practice management software licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is written in the C# programming language compatible with Microsoft .NET Framework and was first released in 2003. Current versions of the software requires Microsoft Windows, but earlier versions supported other operating systems, including Linux. The full function version is only available under the commercial license because it includes royalty-bearing, licensed materials from the American Dental Association (ADA), the Code on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature (CDT).
Open Dental is owned and sponsored by Open Dental Software, Inc., an Oregon corporation. The company’s revenue comes from monthly technical support fees, required for the first 6 months of use. The first Open Dental customer bought technical support services on July 22, 2003.
Database
The database uses the dual-licensed MySQL database program. Both local preferences and those which apply to every computer in the office are stored in the MySQL database.
The database schema is published and publicly viewable.
Features
Appointment
Create unlimited operatories and unlimited providers.
Edit views, colors, default values.
Schedule and modify appointments.
Show pop-up alerts, financial and medical notes.
Recall scheduling.
Contact all patients on the days schedule from the appointment view.
See production by operatory.
Family
View patient records (HIPAA compliant).
When possible, fields are filled automatically or checked for potential errors.
Save billing type and insurance information.
Sign Procedure Notes: Digital Signatures. Sign or initial procedure notes using a Topaz signature pad or by using a stylus on a touchscreen.
Patient Info Terminal (Kiosk): A way for a new patient to enter their own information from the waiting room. The receptionist controls the terminal from another computer. Can also be used to let patient update their info if it has changed. New patients can check off items in list of conditions.
Track student status and referrals.
Track credit and contact notes.
Account
Send communication to patients.
Email, text, or mail appointment or recare reminders.
Patient and Insurance billing system with e-claim functionality
E-claims: go through a clearinghouse to submit all e-claims or submit directly to carries that support the X12 files/claims. The X12 EDI Format is the standard defined by ASC (ex-ANSI) and specified by HIPAA.
Track referrals and lab cases.
Lab Cases: set up turnaround times on each procedure type for due dates to be calculated automatically.
Create and track payment plans.
View patient and family balances.
Credit Card Processing Integrated credit card processor with swipe terminal.
Treatment Plan
View/Edit/Save treatment plans.
Prioritize treatment.
Create multiple treatment plans.
Create planned appointments for treatment planned care.
Print or send electronically insurance preauthorizatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Schubeck | John Schubeck (March 18, 1936 – September 26, 1997) was an American television reporter and anchor, and one of the few to anchor newscasts on all three network owned-and-operated stations in one major market.
Schubeck was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was a graduate of Denby High School in Detroit, and the University of Michigan. While attending the University of Michigan, Schubeck broadcast half-time events at Football games for WUOM, and was the #1 Golfer on the Michigan Golf team. After graduation, he began his broadcasting career at Detroit radio station WJR, working with station legend J.P. McCarthy. He then worked as a reporter at then-NBC-owned WRCV radio and television, and later at WIP radio, all in Philadelphia, before rejoining NBC News in 1966 for his first stint as an anchor at KNBC in Los Angeles, where he helmed that station's late evening newscast until February 1967. Several months later Schubeck moved to ABC News as early evening anchor at WABC-TV in New York City; he also did newscasts for the American Contemporary Radio Network. His run as anchor ended in 1969, and for the remainder of his stay with ABC in New York, he was WABC-TV's theatre critic.
In 1971, ABC moved Schubeck back to Los Angeles, to co-anchor KABC-TV's Eyewitness News broadcasts. In 1974 Schubeck returned to KNBC, this time to replace Tom Snyder on the anchor roster of the KNBC Newservice (reformatted in 1976 as NewsCenter 4). At KNBC he was part of a news team which also included co-anchors Bob Abernethy, Jess Marlow, Paul Moyer, Tritia Toyota and Kelly Lange; sportscasters Stu Nahan (both worked together at KABC-TV), Bryant Gumbel and Ross Porter; and weatherman (and future Wheel of Fortune host) Pat Sajak. Schubeck was known for acknowledging whichever the NBC's Los Angeles-based staff announcers was on duty, when he was anchoring–during his run as at the station. This group included Donald Rickles (not to be confused with the insult comic of the same name), Peggy Taylor, Don Stanley and Victor Bozeman. Along with his local duties, Schubeck also anchored NBC News updates during primetime in the Pacific Time Zone.
After leaving KNBC in 1983, Schubeck joined KNXT (now KCBS-TV) where he remained until 1988. During his time in Los Angeles he earned a law degree from Loyola Law School. He was represented by famous Los Angeles Agent, Ed Hookstratten, in his broadcasting career. In his last broadcasting jobs he hosted a radio show on KIEV in 1993 and a brief anchoring stint at KMIR-TV in Palm Springs from 1993 to 1995.
During his college years at the University of Michigan, he was the #1 player on the golf team and did broadcasts on WUOM as well as the half-time broadcasts of the Wolverines football games. Awarded an Evans Golf Scholarship, he became the top ranked amateur golfer in the United States, eventually participating in many pro am and celebrity golf tournaments. A tournament was named after him in Indian Wells, California, the John Schubeck Golf C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic%20model%20tree | In computer science, a logistic model tree (LMT) is a classification model with an associated supervised training algorithm that combines logistic regression (LR) and decision tree learning.
Logistic model trees are based on the earlier idea of a model tree: a decision tree that has linear regression models at its leaves to provide a piecewise linear regression model (where ordinary decision trees with constants at their leaves would produce a piecewise constant model). In the logistic variant, the LogitBoost algorithm is used to produce an LR model at every node in the tree; the node is then split using the C4.5 criterion. Each LogitBoost invocation is warm-started from its results in the parent node. Finally, the tree is pruned.
The basic LMT induction algorithm uses cross-validation to find a number of LogitBoost iterations that does not overfit the training data. A faster version has been proposed that uses the Akaike information criterion to control LogitBoost stopping.
References
See also
C4.5 algorithm
Decision trees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ober%20Da%20Bakod | Ober Da () is a Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Ariel Ureta, it stars Janno Gibbs, Leo Martinez and Anjo Yllana. It premiered on September 14, 1992. The series concluded on May 27, 1997.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Janno Gibbs as Mokong Dayukdok
Anjo Yllana as Bubuli Dayukdok
Supporting cast
Donita Rose as Barbie Doll
Gelli de Belen as Honey Grace
Malou de Guzman as Lucring (Lucresia Dayukdok)
Leo Martinez as Robert
Recurring cast
Danny "Brownie" Pansalin as Brownie
Donna Cruz as Muning
Angelu de Leon as Kuting
Manilyn Reynes as Manirella / Kasoy
Amanda Page as Quickie
Onemig Bondoc as Bubwit
Rufa Mae Quinto as Pegassu
Assunta de Rossi
Dale Villar as Flip
Randy Santiago as Mike
Adaptations
The series had two film adaptations: Ober da bakod: The Movie (1994), and Ober da Bakod 2 (Da Treasure Adbentyur) (1996)
References
External links
1992 Philippine television series debuts
1997 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television sitcoms
Television series by Viva Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20bird%20genera | List of bird genera concerns the chordata class of aves or birds, characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, and a high metabolic rate.
Accipitriformes
Eagles, Old World vultures, secretary-birds, hawks, harriers, etc.
Family Accipitridae - buzzards, eagles, harriers, hawks, kites, Old World vultures
Genus Accipiter
Genus Aegypius
Genus Aquila
Genus Aviceda
Genus Busarellus
Genus Butastur
Genus Buteo (probably paraphyletic, might include Leucopternis in part and Parabuteo)
Genus Buteogallus (probably paraphyletic, might include Leucopternis in part)
Genus Chelictinia
Genus Chondrohierax
Genus Circaetus
Genus Circus
Genus Clanga
Genus Cryptoleucopteryx – plumbeous hawk
Genus Elanoides - swallow-tailed kite
Genus Elanus
Genus Erythrotriorchis
Genus Eutriorchis - Madagascan serpent eagle
Genus Gampsonyx - pearl kite
Genus Geranoaetus
Genus Geranospiza - crane hawk
Genus Gypaetus - bearded vulture
Genus Gypohierax - palm-nut vulture
Genus Gyps
Genus Haliaeetus - sea eagles
Genus Haliastur
Genus Hamirostra - black-breasted buzzard
Genus Harpagus
Genus Harpia - harpy eagle
Genus Harpyhaliaetus
Genus Harpyopsis - Papuan eagle
Genus Helicolestes – slender-billed kite, formerly included in Rostrhamus
Genus Henicopernis
Genus Hieraaetus
Genus Ictinaetus - black eagle
Genus Ictinia
Genus Kaupifalco - lizard buzzard
Genus Leptodon
Genus Leucopternis (probably polyphyletic)
Genus Lophaetus - long-crested eagle (possibly junior synonym of Ictinaetus)
Genus Lophoictinia - square-tailed kite
Genus Lophotriorchis - rufous-bellied eagle
Genus Macheiramphus - bat hawk (was doubtfully placed, moved from Perninae)
Genus Megatriorchis - Doria's goshawk
Genus Melierax
Genus Micronisus - Gabar goshawk
Genus Milvus
Genus Morphnarchus – barred hawk
Genus Morphnus - crested eagle
Genus Necrosyrtes - hooded vulture
Genus Neophron - Egyptian vulture
Genus Nisaetus
Genus Parabuteo
Genus Pernis
Genus Pithecophaga
Genus Polemaetus
Genus Polyboroides
Genus Pseudastur
Genus Rostrhamus - snail kite
Genus Rupornis – roadside hawk
Genus Sarcogyps - red-headed vulture
Genus Spilornis
Genus Spizaetus
Genus Stephanoaetus
Genus Terathopius - bateleur
Genus Torgos - lappet-faced vulture
Genus Trigonoceps - white-headed vulture
Genus Urotriorchis - long-tailed hawk
Family Cathartidae - New World vultures
Genus Cathartes
Genus Coragyps - black vulture
Genus Gymnogyps
Genus Sarcoramphus - king vulture
Genus Vultur - Andean condor
Family Pandionidae - osprey
Genus Pandion
Family Sagittariidae - secretarybird
Genus Sagittarius
Anseriformes
Waterfowl
Family Anhimidae - screamers
Genus Anhima - horned screamer
Genus Chauna
Family Anatidae
Genus Aix - Mandarin duck and wood duck – dabbling ducks or Tadorninae?
Genus Alopochen - Egyptian goose and Mascarene shelducks
Genus Amazonetta - Brazilian teal
Genus Anas - pintails, mallards, etc.
Genus Anser - grey geese and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon%20tetrachloride%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on silicon tetrachloride.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source, it this case, noting that one should "avoid all contact! In all cases consult a doctor! ... inhalation causes sore throat and Burning sensation".
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Spectral data
References
NIST Standard Reference Database
David R. Lide, ed. Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 85th Edition, Internet Version 2005. CRC Press, 2005.
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%20Altimimi | Omar Altimimi (born 6 August 1965) is a Dutch national of Bolton, England convicted of six counts of possessing computer files connected with the preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism under the Terrorism Act 2000, as well as two charges of money laundering under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. He is currently serving a nine-year sentence for these convictions.
A police statement said the material found on Altimimi's computer as well as his association with Jerome Curtailler (who is imprisoned under charges of plotting to blow up the American embassy in Paris) suggest he was a terrorist 'sleeper' caught before he had chance to strike. Altimimi's conviction is an example of preventative justice, where a person has been criminalised under the recent Terrorism Acts for the possession of information and people with whom they choose to associate.
See also
Thought Crime
Freedom of thought
References
1965 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium%20Media | Magnesium Media is a computer magazine company based in Stockport, Greater Manchester, in the United Kingdom. Most of its published titles are now discontinued
It also publishes one-off guides to specific areas of computing, and downloadable technology guides under the brand 'Guidaroo'.
PC Explorer, PC Utilities, PC Tools, and TipStation were formerly published by Magnesium Media. PC Tools and TipStation were discontinued a few months later.
PC Explorer
PC Explorer was a computer magazine published in the United Kingdom by Magnesium Media. Its editor was David Nield. The magazine was discontinued in August 2009, after almost ten years in production.
PC Utilities
PC Utilities was a monthly computer magazine published in the UK. PC Utilities was discontinued on 22 July 2012.
The magazine described itself as "the definitive guide to free Windows software". Each issue came with a DVD coverdisc (initially one, two or even three CDs with earlier issues), containing hundreds of freeware and shareware programs. The content of the magazine included tutorials, features and workshops with a bias towards Windows software and typical home user tasks.
Launched in spring 2000 the magazine was originally produced by Live Publishing Ltd and edited by its Publishing Director Wayne Williams, before Keir Thomas took over with issue 4. Gavin Burrell became editor with issue 40. In August 2005, Live Publishing went into administration and the title was then acquired by Magnesium Media Ltd, retaining Burrell as editor before he was succeeded by Ian Barker.
The magazine spawned several less-frequently published companion titles, including PC Utilities Gold, and PC Tools. None of these are now published.
PC Tools
PC Tools was published every six weeks and edited by Ian Barker. Each issue of PC Tools focused on a different area of personal computer usage. The coverdisc provided a selection of programs related to the issue's theme, and allowed users to follow the guides in the magazine. PC Tools ceased publishing in February 2010, after eight years in production.
References
External links
Computer magazine publishing companies
Publishing companies of the United Kingdom
Magazine publishing companies of the United Kingdom
Companies with year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20systems%20sciences%20organizations | Systems science is the interdisciplinary field of science surrounding systems theory, cybernetics, the science of complex systems. It aims to develop interdisciplinary foundations, which are applicable in a variety of areas, such as engineering, biology, medicine and social sciences. Systems science and systemics are names for all research related to systems theory. It is defined as an emerging branch of science that studies holistic systems and tries to develop logical, mathematical, engineering and philosophical paradigms and frameworks in which physical, technological, biological, social, cognitive and metaphysical systems can be studied and developed.
This list of systems sciences organizations gives an overview of global and local organizations in the field of systems science. This list shows all kinds of organizations and institutes listed thematically.
Awards
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
George B. Dantzig Prize
Donald P. Eckman Award
IEEE Simon Ramo Medal: award for exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science
John von Neumann Theory Prize
Rufus Oldenburger Medal
A. M. Turing Award
UKSS Gold Medallists by the United Kingdom Systems Society
The Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies Medal
Research centers
General
America
International Institute for General Systems Studies (IIGSS): an American non-profit scholastic organization for studies and education in Systems science in Pennsylvania, US
International Systems Institute (ISI): a non-profit, public benefit scientific and educational corporation in Carmel, California, US
Mental Research Institute: a center for systems theory and psychotherapy located in Palo Alto, California, US
Europe
Institut für Unternehmenskybernetik, Germany
Asia
Center of Excellence in Systems Science, IIT Jodhpur
Systems biology
Department of Systems Biology
Institute for Systems Biology
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Systems ecology
ETH Zurich, Terrestrial Systems Ecology
University of Amsterdam, Systems Ecology Department
University of Florida, Systems Ecology program
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Systems Ecology Lab
Stockholm University, Systems Ecology Department
Systems engineering
United States
GTRI Electronic Systems Laboratory (ELSYS) at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, US
GTRI Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, US
Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University, Montana, US
Europe
Hasso Plattner Institute related to the University of Potsdam, Germany
University of Reading Business School: Informatics Research Centre, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: I2S – Institut d'ingénierie des systèmes in Lausanne, Switzerland
University of the West of England CEMS, Systems Engineering Estimation and Decision Support (SEED |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia%20Cybernetica | Principia Cybernetica is an international cooperation of scientists in the field of cybernetics and systems science, especially known for their website, Principia Cybernetica. They have dedicated their organization to what they call "a computer-supported evolutionary-systemic philosophy, in the context of the transdisciplinary academic fields of Systems Science and Cybernetics".
Organisation
Principia Cybernetica was initiated in 1989 in the USA by Cliff Joslyn and Valentin Turchin, and a year later broadened to Europe with Francis Heylighen from Belgium joining their cooperation.
Major activities of the Principia Cybernetica Project are:
Principia Cybernetica Web: an online encyclopedia
Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems; an online dictionary
Newsletter Principia Cybernetica News
Conferences and traditional publications
The organization is associated with:
American Society for Cybernetics.
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group: a transdisciplinary research group at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, founded in 2004 and directed by Francis Heylighen.
Journal of Memetics-Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission (JoM-EMIT) is an international peer-refereed scientific journal
Global Brain Group: for discussion about the emergence of a global brain.
Principia Cybernetica Web
The Principia Cybernetica Web, which went online in 1993, is one of the first complex webs in the world.
It is still viewed as one of the most important sites on cybernetics, systems theory, complexity, and related approaches.
Workshops and symposia
Especially in the 1990s the Principia Cybernetica has organized a series of workshops and international symposia on cybernetic themes. On the 1st Principia Cybernetica Workshop in June 1991 in Brussels many cyberneticists attended like Harry Bronitz, Gordon Pask, J.L. Elohim, Robert Glueck, Ranulph Glanville, Annemie Van Kerkhoven, Don McNeil, Elan Moritz, Cliff Joslyn, A. Comhaire and Valentin Turchin.
See also
W. Ross Ashby
Complex adaptive system
Evolutionary epistemology
Global brain
Manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions
Red Queen
Stuart Umpleby
Emergence
References
Further reading
Woody Evans (2003), A Review of the Principia Cybernetica Web, Mississippi Libraries, 67(1), p.16, Spring 2003.
Ben Goertzel (2000), The Principia Cybernetica Project: Placing the Web at the Center of Man’s Quest for Knowledge, September 2000.
Koen Van Damme (2007), Principia Cybernetica: An introduction.
Francis Heylighen (2000). "Foundations and Methodology for an Evolutionary World View: A Review of the Principia Cybernetica Project" in: Foundations of Science, 5(4), p.457-490.
Francis Heylighen, C. Joslyn & Valentin Turchin (1991). "A Short Introduction to the Principia Cybernetica Project". in: Journal of Ideas, 2(1), p.26-29.
C. Joslyn, Francis Heylighen & V. Turchin (1993). "Synopsys of the Principia Cybernetica Project". in: Proc. 13th Int. Congress on Cybernetics, p. 509-513 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboration-oriented%20architecture | Collaboration Oriented Architecture (COA) is a computer system that is designed to collaborate, or use services, from systems that are outside of the operators control. Collaboration Oriented Architecture will often use Service Oriented Architecture to deliver the technical framework.
Collaboration Oriented Architecture is the ability to collaborate between systems that are based on the Jericho Forum principles or "Commandments".
Bill Gates and Craig Mundie (Microsoft) clearly articulated the need for people to work outside of their organizations in a secure and collaborative manner in their opening keynote to the RSA Security Conference in February 2007.
Successful implementation of a Collaboration Oriented Architecture implies the ability to successfully inter-work securely over the Internet and will typically mean the resolution of the problems that come with de-perimeterisation.
Etymology
The term Collaboration Oriented Architectures was defined and developed in a meeting of the Jericho Forum at a meeting held at HSBC on 6 July 2007.
Definition
The key elements that qualify a security architecture as a Collaboration Oriented Architecture are as follows;
Protocol: Systems use appropriately secure protocols to communicate.
Authentication: The protocol is authenticated with user and/or system credentials.
Federation: User and/or systems credentials are accepted and validated by systems that are not under your (locus of) control.
Network Agnostic: The design does not rely on a secure network, thus it will operate securely from an Intranet to raw-Internet
Trust: The collaborating system have the capacity to be able to confirm to a specified degree of confidence that the components in a transaction chain have.
Risk: The collaborating systems can make a risk assessment on any transaction based on the communicated levels of required trust, based on the required degree of identity, confidentiality, integrity, availability.
Authentication
Working in a collaborative multi-sourced environment implies the need for authentication, authorization and accountability which must interoperate / exchange outside of your locus / area of control.
People/systems must be able to manage permissions of resources and rights of users they don't control
There must be capability of trusting an organization, which can authenticate individuals or groups, thus eliminating the need to create separate identities
In principle, only one instance of person / system / identity may exist, but privacy necessitates the support for multiple instances, or one instance with multiple facets, often referred to as personas
Systems must be able to pass on security credentials /assertions
Multiple loci (areas) of control must be supported
References
External links
http://www.jerichoforum.org
Open SOA Collaboration
Service Component Architecture Specifications
A collaboration-oriented software architecture modeling system
Enterprise collaboration with Service Or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gather.com | Gather or Gather.com was a social networking website designed to encourage interaction by discussion of various social, political and cultural topics. Its headquarters were located in Boston, Massachusetts. It became defunct in 2015.
History
The website was founded in 2005 by Tom Gerace, an entrepreneur who previously founded the affiliate marketing company, Be Free. Gather attracted investments and partnerships from media companies ranging from McGraw-Hill and Hearst Publications to American Public Media and a member of the McClatchy family. Starbucks chose Gather over other social networking sites because of its adult demographic. Lotus founder Jim Manzi was an early investor. Gather was one of very few 2006 startups to use television advertising.
Operations
Members received their own subdomain, where they could publish articles and share comments. Also, members could create groups pertaining to their own efforts, or to any other topic. Writers could also comment on each other's works.
In 2010, Gather management, including owner Tom Gerace, started a business-making subdomain entitled "The Gather News Channel." This consisted of a series of subdomains such as Celebrities, Entertainment, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports and News. Writers were paid to write short articles on a subject for which they were selected from the above topics. Additional money was possible based on a formula of revenue per views. The "Gather News Channel" existed until 2014 when Gather Inc., including Gather.com, was sold to Kitara Media.
In October, 2015, Gather became defunct.
References
External links
CEO Tom Gerace interview, Social Networking Watch, Nov '08
Defunct social networking services
American political blogs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.ho.st | G.ho.st (usually pronounced ghost) was the trading name of Ghost Inc. and the service name and URL of the company's hosted computer operating system or web desktop service. Its name is an acronym of Global Hosted Operating SysTem. The old URL G.ho.st was a domain hack (using the São Tomé and Príncipe .st country extension). In April 2010 Ghost closed its service due to competition and lack of funding.
Overview
The G.ho.st service provided a web-based working environment that mimicked the classic desktop provided by personal computer operating systems. Users were able to create, save and return to a working environment from different physical computers and mobile phones. G.ho.st called itself a virtual computer. Such services are not considered operating systems in the traditional sense although they are sometimes referred to as Web Operating Systems. Whilst they can include a GUI (e.g. a desktop), a (virtual) file system, application management and security, they do not contain a kernel to interface with physical hardware. Therefore, to use the service an operating system is required, supporting at least a web browser from which the service can be run.
In July 2009 the software entered beta stage development, and remained in this stage. The beta launch near Jerusalem was attended by Quartet Representative and former UK prime minister Tony Blair. The Company's primary investor was Benchmark Capital.
G.ho.st was hosted on Amazon Web Services, utilizing cloud computing on the backend and delivering a consumer version of cloud computing. According to the G.ho.st website (which is no longer accessible), it was planned to additionally offer a commercial, fully featured and scalable private cloud file system (Ghost Cloud File System, CFS) that would have run within the customer's own Amazon web services account. The business model would have been based on surcharges to Ghost, collected by Amazon.
The company received growing press coverage, relating both to the technology and because Israelis and Palestinians worked as partners to build the company's products. At its time it was considered to be the only joint Palestinian and Israeli technology startup company and the first company to offer employee stock options in the Palestinian Territories.
Closure
On March 3, 2010, Ghost.cc (which replaced the previous URL G.ho.st) sent the users the following e-mail:
Dear Ghost User, We hope you have been enjoying our free Ghost service. Regrettably changes in the marketplace mean that it is no longer economical for us to host the Ghost service and we will be closing down the service on or around March 15. We will instead be focusing on licensing or selling our technology to larger companies. We advise you to migrate ALL important folders, files and emails to another secure place before March 15. You might like to consider Google Docs or Microsoft SkyDrive for files and services such as Gmail or Yahoo! Mail for email. Some instructions for migrating data are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NETS | Nets may refer to:
The plural of any net
Net curtains
Brooklyn Nets, an NBA basketball team
NETS as an acronym may refer to:
NETS (company), Network for Electronic Transfers, a cashless payment system in Singapore
Neuroendocrine tumors
Newborn Emergency Transport Service, an Australian medical service
Negative Emission Technologies, removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere
New English Translation of the Septuagint, a translation of koine Greek scriptures
New Europe Transmission System, a proposed joint natural gas transmission network
Nazareth Evangelical Theological Seminary (NETS), an evangelical seminary in Israel
Neutrophil extracellular traps
Singh Program in Networked & Social Systems Engineering (NETS), a degree program offered by the University of Pennsylvania
See also
NET (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collection%20%28abstract%20data%20type%29 | In computer programming, a collection is a grouping of some variable number of data items (possibly zero) that have some shared significance to the problem being solved and need to be operated upon together in some controlled fashion. Generally, the data items will be of the same type or, in languages supporting inheritance, derived from some common ancestor type. A collection is a concept applicable to abstract data types, and does not prescribe a specific implementation as a concrete data structure, though often there is a conventional choice (see Container for type theory discussion).
Examples of collections include lists, sets, multisets, trees and graphs.
Fixed-size arrays (or tables) are usually not considered a collection because they hold a fixed number of data items, although they commonly play a role in the implementation of collections. Variable-size arrays are generally considered collections.
Linear collections
Many collections define a particular linear ordering, with access to one or both ends. The actual data structure implementing such a collection need not be linear—for example, a priority queue is often implemented as a heap, which is a kind of tree. Important linear collections include:
lists;
stacks;
queues;
priority queues;
double-ended queues;
double-ended priority queues.
Lists
In a list, the order of data items is significant. Duplicate data items are permitted. Examples of operations on lists are searching for a data item in the list and determining its location (if it is present), removing a data item from the list, adding a data item to the list at a specific location, etc. If the principal operations on the list are to be the addition of data items at one end and the removal of data items at the other, it will generally be called a queue or FIFO. If the principal operations are the addition and removal of data items at just one end, it will be called a stack or LIFO. In both cases, data items are maintained within the collection in the same order (unless they are removed and re-inserted somewhere else) and so these are special cases of the list collection. Other specialized operations on lists include sorting, where, again, the order of data items is of great importance.
Stacks
A stack is a LIFO data structure with two principal operations: push, which adds an element to the "top" of the collection, and pop, which removes the top element.
Queues
Priority queues
In a priority queue, the tracks of the minimum or maximum data item in the collection are kept, according to some ordering criterion, and the order of the other data items does not matter. One may think of a priority queue as a list that always keeps the minimum or maximum at the head, while the remaining elements are kept in a bag.
Double-ended queues
Double-ended priority queues
Associative collections
Other collections can instead be interpreted as a sort of function: given an input, the collection yields an output. Important associative |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachi%20Yamada | Tadataka "Tachi" Yamada KBE (山田忠孝 Yamada Tadataka or "ターチ Tachi"; 5 June 1945 – 4 August 2021) was a Japanese-born American physician and gastroenterologist. He was a venture partner of Frazier Healthcare Partners.
Early life and education
Born in Tokyo, Yamada had a Japanese American mother and was the a grandson of one of the first people of Japanese descent to be fully trained as an American physician. In 1960, he moved to the United States where he completed his education. After attending Phillips Academy for his high school education, he graduated from Stanford University with a BA in history and obtained his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine training at the Medical College of Virginia, and then became an investigator in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases holding the rank of major, U.S. Army Medical Corps. Subsequently, he trained in gastroenterology at the UCLA School of Medicine and assumed his first faculty position there. He later moved to the University of Michigan where he headed the Gastroenterology Division and ultimately became chairman, Department of Internal Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of the University of Michigan Medical Center before joining GlaxoSmithKline.
A scientist and scholar in gastroenterology, Yamada was the author of more than 150 original manuscripts on the subject and was the editor of The Textbook of Gastroenterology for its first five editions. The studies undertaken by Yamada and his collaborators led to basic discoveries in the post-translational processing and biological activation of peptide hormones, the structure and function of receptors for hormones regulating gastric acid secretion, and the regulation of genes involved in the acid secretory process.
He was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Michigan, University of East Anglia, the University of Warwick, Washington College, and Loyola University of Chicago.
Career
Prior to Frazier Healthcare Partners, Yamada was Executive Vice-president and a board member of Takeda Pharmaceuticals, and served as the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of the company.
Before joining Takeda, Yamada was the President of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this capacity he oversaw grants totaling over $9 billion in programs directed at applying technologies to address major health challenges of the developing world including TB, HIV, malaria and other infectious diseases, malnutrition and maternal and child health. Yamada served as Chairman of Research and Development and was a member of the board of directors at GlaxoSmithKline before joining the foundation. In 2007, Yamada was asked by the US Senate Committee on Finance to provide information concerning his response to critics of GSK's anditabetes drug, Avandia.
In recognition of his contributions to medicine and science he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Own%20Private%20Rodeo | "My Own Private Rodeo" is the 18th episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series King of the Hill. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 28, 2002. It was a nominee for the GLAAD Media Awards for "Outstanding Individual Episode (In a Series Without a Regular Gay Character)" and by the Writers Guild of America Award for Animation.
Plot
Dale and Nancy Gribble are planning on renewing their wedding vows. Nancy has recently ended her affair with John Redcorn and hopes to use the ceremony as a fresh start; she hopes Dale will invite his father Bug, from whom he has been estranged since he forcibly kissed Nancy at their wedding reception. Hank, Bill, and Boomhauer decide to track Bug down in order to help him make amends with his son, finding him at a gay rodeo. After the show, Hank goes to Bug, who reveals the truth: twenty years ago, he was still closeted, and he kissed Nancy to avoid appearing attracted to a man. The conversation is interrupted by Juan Pedro, Bug's lover, who is upset upon learning that Bug had a son and did not tell him.
Eventually, Bug returns to Arlen and asks for Dale's forgiveness, without telling Dale he is gay. Dale reconciles with his father but is completely oblivious to his homosexuality. Bug notices Joseph's lack of resemblance to Dale or Nancy and asks if Joseph is "adopted". She reluctantly admits that his true father is John Redcorn, but is no more willing to admit the truth than Bug is willing to admit to Dale that he is gay. Bug finally decides to admit the truth.
Dale's explanation of Juan Pedro being his "partner" and working with him at a gay rodeo are misconstrued by Dale as his father being a government agent, which breaks his heart once again. Dale deserts the renewal ceremony and heads to the gay rodeo, intending to blow his father's cover. After Dale sees Bug at the rodeo, he informs his father that he knows he's a government agent and that he will let everybody at the event know. Bug then says there has been a terrible misunderstanding and that he is gay. Still not trusting Bug, Dale then goes into the rodeo pen and announces that Bug is spying on them and Bug ties him down. After a struggle, Bug finally makes up with Juan Pedro and kisses him in front of Dale, who relents and lets them attend the ceremony.
As they dance together at the reception, Nancy asks Dale if he's really OK with his father's sexuality. Dale asserts that it's a non-issue since he's never had a problem with John Redcorn being gay.
Original plot
Charles Nelson Reilly voiced the part of Bug in the original storyline. In this version, Dale suffers from a toothache and refuses to go to a dentist, fearing a tracking device would be implanted in him by his father's cohorts. Most of the episode's events, like Hank going to the rodeo, remain the same, but the ending is different in that Bug, feeling Dale would reject him if he told the truth, covers his sexuality by explaining he is mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaya%20ERS%208600 | The Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 or ERS 8600, previously known as the Passport 8600 or the Accelar 8000, is a modular chassis combination hardware router and switch used in computer networking. The system, originally designed and manufactured by Nortel, was manufactured by Avaya from 2009 until 2017. The system provided the 10G Ethernet equipment backbone for the 2010 Winter Olympics games, providing service for 15,000 VoIP Phones, 40,000 Ethernet connections and supporting 1.8 million live spectators. The system is configurable as a 1.440 Terabit Switch cluster using SMLT and R-SMLT protocols, to provide high reliability cluster failover (normally less than 100 millisecond).
There were three chassis options; a 3-slot chassis most commonly used for access or distribution / aggregation of switches which has a MTBF of 2,043,676hr., a 6-slot chassis for backbones of low density or high space premium environments, and a 10-slot chassis for high availability and high scalability. The chassis can be configured with one or two CPU modules and is normally configured with two or three load balancing power supplies.
At the end of 2010, software version 7.1 integrated the Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (VENA) into the system, thus expanding the capabilities of this product to include network virtualization, cloud computing and IEEE Shortest Path Bridging (IEEE 802.1aq).
The system provides connectivity for up to 48 ports, using 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 100/10 Megabit Ethernet, or Packet over SONET/SDH
History
The ERS 8600 is the successor to Nortel's Passport (formerly known as Accelar) 1000-series of routing switches.
Origins
Rapid City Communications, founded in April 1996, developed the F1200 routing switch in 1997. The main advantage of this product over others at the time was the ASICs on the modules allows the switching and routing of packets to take place on the ASIC chips within each module, instead of having to forward them to a central processing unit (CPU).
Bay Networks
In June 1997, Bay Networks agreed to acquire Rapid City for $155 million in stock. Bay Networks changed the name to the Accelar brand name in 1997. The F1200 was renamed Accelar 1200 and was initially released in January 1998.
Nortel Networks
When Nortel acquired Bay Networks in 1998, work had already begun on the next-generation routing switch, the 8000 series. A layer 2 version of the 8000 series, known as the Accelar 8100 Edge Switch, premiered in June 1999. In April 2000, the Accelar brand name was retired and the product renamed the Passport 8100. In May 2000, the Passport 8600 Routing Switch was released.
In May 2001, Nortel introduced one of the first 10 gigabit Ethernet switch modules at the N + I convention in Las Vegas.
In 2004, Nortel retired the Passport brand name and renamed the Passport 8600 to Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 (or ERS 8600).
Avaya
In December 2009, the ERS 8600 was sold to Avaya as part of the Enterprise business |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScienceBlogs | ScienceBlogs is an invitation-only blog network and virtual community that operated initially for almost 12 years, from 2006 to 2017. It was created by Seed Media Group to enhance public understanding of science. Each blog had its own theme, speciality and author(s) and was not subject to editorial control. Authors included active scientists working in industry, universities and medical schools as well as college professors, physicians, professional writers, graduate students, and post-docs. On 24 January 2015, 19 of the blogs had seen posting in the past month. 11 of these had been on ScienceBlogs since 2006. ScienceBlogs shut down at the end of October 2017. In late August 2018, the website's front page displayed a notice suggesting it was about to become active once again.
History
ScienceBlogs was launched in January 2006 with 15 blogs on the network. For the launch blogs, Seed invited some of the best-known independent science bloggers and allowed them to blog about whichever subjects they wished. Revenue was generated through advertisements sold to companies who wished to attract "bright, curious consumers who buy products like automobiles, books, cellphones, computers, liquor, music and watches."
As a result of the free rein given to bloggers and the incentive to increase traffic, bloggers on the network often discussed hot topics such as politics and religion in addition to science. These topics frequently incited heated arguments in the comment threads and bloggers on the network sometimes got into arguments with each other over a series of posts.
ScienceBlogs and Seed received some notable awards at the end of their first year of activity, including the 2006 UTNE Independent Press Award for Best Science/Technology Coverage being granted to Seed, in large part due to the success of ScienceBlogs. Additionally, two blogs on the network received Weblog awards: Pharyngula for Best Science Blog and Respectful Insolence for Best Medical/Health Issues Blog.
The creators of ScienceBlogs expanded their collection of hosted blogs in three major waves, supplemented by individual additions along the way. Some of the most trafficked blogs included Pharyngula, Respectful Insolence, Good Math Bad Math, Deltoid, Cognitive Daily, Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) and On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess.
According to Technorati, , ScienceBlogs had an "authority" of 9,581 and its number of inbound links ranks it 37th among blogs worldwide. , Quantcast charts it as having over 1.1 million monthly unique visitors, 65% of whom are from the United States.
, ScienceBlogs hosted 75 blogs dedicated to various fields of research. In April 2011, ScienceBlogs was taken over by National Geographic. While Seed would still maintain ownership of the site, National Geographic would acquire editorial control and responsibility for advertising sales on the site.
ScienceBlogs launched a German language edition of the site, ScienceBlogs.d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Christmas%20Carol%20%282009%20film%29 | A Christmas Carol (known as Disney's A Christmas Carol on-screen and in promotional materials) is a 2009 American computer-animated Christmas comedy-drama fantasy film written for the screen and directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by ImageMovers Digital and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Based on Charles Dickens's 1843 novel of the same name, the film was animated through the process of motion capture, a technique used in Zemeckis's previous films The Polar Express (2004) and Beowulf (2007), and stars the voices of Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn and Cary Elwes. It is Disney's third adaptation of the novel, following Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) and The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), and the first of two films produced by ImageMovers Digital.
A Christmas Carol was officially released in Disney Digital 3D, RealD 3D, and IMAX 3D on November 6, 2009. Its world premiere in London coincided with the switching-on of the annual Oxford Street and Regent Street Christmas lights. The film grossed $325 million on a $175–200 million budget and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its visuals, Alan Silvestri's musical score and the performances of Carrey and Oldman, but criticized its dark tone. Due to the film's unsatisfactory box office performance, ImageMovers Digital was shut down by Disney after the release of its next film, Mars Needs Moms (2011), and re-absorbed into ImageMovers.
Plot
On Christmas Eve 1843, in London, miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to partake in the merriment of Christmas, declining his nephew Fred's invitation to an annual Christmas dinner party and refusing to make a donation to the poor. His employee, Bob Cratchit, asks Scrooge to give him a day off on Christmas Day to spend time with his family, to which Scrooge reluctantly agrees. Returning home that night, Scrooge encounters the ghost of Jacob Marley, his business partner who died seven years earlier, bound in heavy chains. Marley warns Scrooge to change his wicked ways or be condemned to a worse fate. Before leaving, Marley informs Scrooge that he will be haunted by three spirits over three nights.
Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past, who takes him back in time and makes him relive his lonely childhood in a boarding school. The spirit then shows his beloved younger sister Fan, Fred's future mother, and how he became an employee under Fezziwig, and became engaged to a woman named Belle, who left him after he developed his obsession with wealth. Overwhelmed, Scrooge extinguishes the spirit with his candle snuffer cap and is rocketed back to his house.
Scrooge meets the Ghost of Christmas Present, who shows him the joys of Christmas. Scrooge and the Ghost visit Bob's house, learning that his family is content with their small dinner, and Scrooge starts to take pity on Bob's ill son Tiny Tim, whom the Ghost comments will likely not survive until next Christmas. The Ghost slowly begins to age |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20distance | The term minimum distance may refer to
Minimum distance estimation, a statistical method for fitting a model to data
Closest pair of points problem, the algorithmic problem of finding two points that have the minimum distance among a larger set of points
Euclidean distance, the minimum length of any curve between two points in the plane
Shortest path problem, the minimum length of a path between two points in a graph
The minimum distance of a block code in coding theory, the smallest Hamming distance between any two of its code words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Processing%20and%20Analysis%20Consortium | The Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) is a group of over 400 European scientists and software engineers formed with the objective to design, develop and execute the data processing system for ESA's ambitious Gaia space astrometry mission. It was formally formed in June 2006 by European scientists, with the initial goal of answering an Announcement of Opportunity to be issued by ESA before the end of that year. At a meeting in Paris on 24–25 May 2007, ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) approved the DPAC proposal submitted in response to the Announcement of Opportunity for the Gaia data processing. The proposal describes a complete data processing system capable of handling the full size and complexity of the Gaia data within the mission schedule. Following the SPC approval, the DPAC is officially responsible for all Gaia data processing activities.
On 1 January 2010, DPAC comprises 430 members coming from 24 European countries, with the largest contributions coming from France, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Spain and Switzerland. The consortium is organized around a set of nine Coordination Units (CUs), eight being each in charge of a particular aspect of the processing, and the last one being in charge of the publication of the Catalogue.
References
External links
DPAC
Gaia
European Space Agency
Technology consortia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arag%C3%B3n%20TV | Aragón TV is a radio and television network in Aragon, named CARTV−Corporación Aragonesa de Radio y Televisión. It is state media, owned by Televisión Autonómica de Aragón S.A.
It is part of the Spanish government's FORTA media network, and has an international channel Aragón TV INT.
History
In 1987 the procedures for the establishment of a public television in Aragon began, on April 15 the Aragonese Radio and Television Corporation (CARTV) was founded, however, due to a challenge from the central government the CARTV was put on hiatus until 1990.
Although since 1991 works began to build the headquarters of the public radio and television of Aragon, the lack of political agreements kept the establishment of the media on hold. For this reason, in July 1993, an agreement was signed between the regional government and the Antena 3 channel for the broadcast of programming aimed at Aragón for three hours a day, however, in September of the same year the project was discarded due to a motion of no confidence that caused a political change in the regional government. After the closure of Antena 3 Aragón, the Aragón government kept the project on hold since talks began for the regionalization of TVE-2, however, this project was scrapped.
In May 2003 a new change of government was presented, the arrival of the socialist Marcelino Iglesias to the Government of Aragon reactivated the project for the creation of a public television channel in Aragon. Between 2004 and 2005 all the necessary legal and labor procedures were carried out to establish the channel with the aim of launching it at the end of 2005.
Aragón TV began broadcasting tests at the beginning of December 2005. On 25 February 2006, they broadcast a football match between Real Zaragoza and FC Barcelona, returning to a test phase after.
The official first broadcast of Aragón TV began on 21 April 2006. On September 11, the channel began broadcasting 24 hours a day.
In May 2007, Aragón Sat was launched, a channel aimed at the rest of Spain and Europe, which only transmitted Aragón TV's own production programming. This channel closed in 2010 because CARTV opted for transmission through the Internet to save money costs. In 2015 CARTV recovered the international signal from Aragón TV, but under the name Aragón Internacional
In June 2007, the second public television channel, Aragón 2 HD, was launched, which was the first Spanish television channel with HD broadcasts. The channel had differentiated programming from Aragón TV, since it focused on high-definition content such as movies, concerts, documentaries and sporting events, however on some occasions this channel worked to cover events that overlapped with others that were broadcast on the main channel. Aragón 2 HD closed in April 2017 to make way for Aragón TV HD, a simulcast version of the main channel.
During the years 2012 and 2013 the channel achieved its best audience records, becoming the most watched television channel in Aragon in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOP | LOP may refer to:
Landscape of practice in social science
Language oriented programming
Legion of Pain, a professional wrestling tag team
C2.LOP, Windows malware
Line of position in geometry and navigation
Local operational picture
Lombok International Airport (IATA code)
Long Ping station (Hong Kong MTR station code)
See also
Lop (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ContraVirus | ContraVirus is a rogue spyware application that poses as a legitimate anti-spyware program. The application uses a false scanner to force computer users to pay for the removal of non-existent spyware items. It may also be known as ExpertAntivirus.
Methods of infection
ContraVirus may be downloaded as a trojan horse, along with possible other software. Typically, it may be installed by the SmitFraud trojan.
Symptoms of infection
ContraVirus has been known to display fake messages stating that a user's computer is infected with spyware. It may also install the file wincom27.dll, located in C:\WINDOWS\ and ext32inc.dll located in C:\WINDOWS\system\, in order to persuade a user to purchase the software. Traditionally, a user will see Contravirus running a "scan" of their computer at which time a user will be prompted to purchase the Contravirus software in order to remove the threat. It may also hijack the user's browser and install a toolbar.
95, 98, Me, NT, XP, Server 2000, 2000, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, 7 and Server 2008 R2 are operating systems capable of becoming infected.
Removal
The removal of Contravirus is difficult and may require assistance from qualified IT Support Personnel. However, users have had success removing the program using the SmitFraudFix.zip program, as well as known programs such as Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Spybot Search & Destroy, and the Norton Family of Security products.
See also
Malware
References
External links
Symantec Security
F-secure
www.frsirt.com
www.xp-vista.com
Spyware
Rogue software
Computer network security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suite%208F%20Group | The Suite 8F Group, also referred to as the 8F Crowd, was a network of politically active businessmen in Texas from the 1930s into the 1960s. "Suite 8F" refers to Herman Brown's Suite at the Lamar Hotel (demolished) in Houston. Herman Brown, one of the co-founders of the construction firm Brown and Root, made his primary home in Austin until 1948. With the company headquarters in Houston, Brown typically traveled from Austin once per week, then stayed at his room at the Lamar for a few days. Yet other members of his family stayed there as well. In addition, Gus Wortham, another member of the group, lived in the room next door, 7F. Jesse H. Jones, the developer and owner of the Lamar Hotel, lived on its top floor and was also a member of the group.
Herman Brown, and his brother, George R. Brown, used their suite in the Lamar Hotel as a social, business, and political club. They planned and discussed events as varied as hunting and racing, pipelines and steel plants, and philanthropy and political candidates. James A. Elkins, a Houston lawyer and banker, wielded great influence and gained a reputation as a deal maker. For example, one friend credited Elkins for facilitating the sale of local radio station. Sometimes the group formed a consensus around a political candidate, then supported him as a group. For example, the group backed Oscar Holcombe, Sam Rayburn, and the first two campaigns of Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President of the United States.
According to Texas Monthly, the 8F Crowd had gained "unequaled influence in state and national government" after the end World War II when George R. Brown, Gus Wortham, and Charles Francis of Vinson & Elkins founded Texas Eastern. The group was reported to exercise leverage over Big Oil. The 8F Crowd had connections to various media outlets including the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Post, television station KPRC, and radio stations KPRC and KTRK-TV.
Membership
The core group, or the persons who were active for the longest time, were James Abercrombie, Herman and George R. Brown, James Elkins, William and Oveta Culp Hobby, Robert E. "Bob" Smith, and Gus Wortham. Jesse H. Jones served as the group's "godfather," sometimes hosting meetings upstairs in his penthouse apartment.
Other individuals are reported to have been members to the Suite 8F Group:
John Connally, Governor of Texas
Hugh Roy Cullen of Quintana Petroleum
Morgan J. Davis, of Humble Oil
Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States
Walter Mischer
Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Albert Thomas, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Defense
Walter G. Hall 1907-2000 - Texas Banker, Galveston County Democrat Boss and political financier, Owner of Citizens State Bank, Citizens Investment Co. Graduate of Rice University. Involved in locating and naming of Johnson Space Center. Friend to LBJ/Lady Bird. Associations with 8F members in that era. 2021/>
Felix Tijer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractor%20Tom | Tractor Tom is a British computer-animated children's TV programme, produced by the Contender Entertainment Group and Hibbert Ralph Entertainment. Two series were produced, consisting of 26 eleven-minute episodes each, which was aired between 9 February 2002 and 18 November 2004 respectively. It was the first program produced by home media distributor Contender, who later went on to produce and replace with the preschool show Peppa Pig.
The show originally aired on CITV in the UK, and also aired in other countries like New Zealand and Australia and in Canada, where it played on Kids' CBC over there.
Background
Set on the idyllic Springhill Farm, brave and resourceful Tractor Tom and his human, animal, and vehicle friends have fun and adventures at both work and play.
The first series featured Liza Tarbuck and James Nesbitt as Farmer Fi and Matt respectively, with Enn Reitel as the narrator, with the vehicles communicating through their respective sounds (chugging for Tom, revving for Buzz, Rev, and Rory, and spluttering and wheezing for Wheezy; excluding the French dub), even though they have mouths. The second series, however, introduced new voice actors for Fi & Matt, and the vehicles now had the ability to talk. New characters were introduced in the second series as well. Some of the vehicle characters from Series 1 had minor redesigns in season 2 to feature moving mouth parts to accommodate their new voices. Enn Reitel retained his role as narrator throughout both series, remaining until the end of series 2.
Sales from DVDs of series one contributed to the Great Ormand Street Hospital Children's Charity (although this is stated on the DVD covers the reference has been removed from the official site), as "Tractor Tom, what would we do without you" was the slogan for the series.
Characters
Vehicles
Tom is a cheerful bright red tractor who is optimistic and always tries to solve his friends' problems. He is also afraid of the dark sometimes. Tom always knows the safety rules and can get a bit angry when somebody disobeys orders. He seems to be the arguably closest friend of Buzz. He likes helping him out.
Buzz is a young and inquisitive blue and yellow quadbike who is sometimes said to be "too small". He also liked to get into trouble with Snicker the foal in the first series, and arguably Tom's closest friend. In the second series, he is now a well behaved boy and likes helping Tom out.
Wheezy is the farm's slow, old, and large yellow combine harvester who enjoys telling stories in the first series and likes to stay in the barn, which is the "home" of most of the vehicles. In "Two Harvesters", he was told by Rev that he was challenging Roly. Also, he sometimes doesn't like going out of the barn in the second series. In "The Quiet Place", his first quiet place got a bit distracted, until with the help of Tom, he had a new one.
Rev is a large purple pickup truck belonging to Matt the farmhand that often boasts and his least favourite thing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Output-sensitive%20algorithm | In computer science, an output-sensitive algorithm is an algorithm whose running time depends on the size of the output, instead of, or in addition to, the size of the input. For certain problems where the output size varies widely, for example from linear in the size of the input to quadratic in the size of the input, analyses that take the output size explicitly into account can produce better runtime bounds that differentiate algorithms that would otherwise have identical asymptotic complexity.
Examples
Division by subtraction
A simple example of an output-sensitive algorithm is given by the division algorithm division by subtraction which computes the quotient and remainder of dividing two positive integers using only addition, subtraction, and comparisons:
def divide(number: int, divisor: int) -> Tuple[int, int]:
"""Division by subtraction."""
if divisor == 0:
raise ZeroDivisionError
if number < 1 or divisor < 1:
raise ValueError(
f"Positive integers only for "
f"dividend ({number}) and divisor ({divisor})."
)
q = 0
r = number
while r >= divisor:
q += 1
r -= divisor
return q, r
Example output:
>>> divide(10, 2)
(5, 0)
>>> divide(10, 3)
(3, 1)
This algorithm takes Θ(Q) time, and so can be fast in scenarios where the quotient Q is known to be small. In cases where Q is large however, it is outperformed by more complex algorithms such as long division.
Computational geometry
Convex hull algorithms for finding the convex hull of a finite set of points in the plane require Ω(n log n) time for n points; even relatively simple algorithms like the Graham scan achieve this lower bound. If the convex hull uses all n points, this is the best we can do; however, for many practical sets of points, and in particular for random sets of points, the number of points h in the convex hull is typically much smaller than n. Consequently, output-sensitive algorithms such as the ultimate convex hull algorithm and Chan's algorithm which require only O(n log h) time are considerably faster for such point sets.
Output-sensitive algorithms arise frequently in computational geometry applications and have been described for problems such as hidden surface removal and resolving range filter conflicts in router tables.
Frank Nielsen describes a general paradigm of output-sensitive algorithms known as grouping and querying and gives such an algorithm for computing cells of a Voronoi diagram. Nielsen breaks these algorithms into two stages: estimating the output size, and then building data structures based on that estimate which are queried to construct the final solution.
Generalizations
A more general kind of output-sensitive algorithms are enumeration algorithms, which enumerate the set of solutions to a problem. In this context, the performance of algorithms is also measured in an output-sensitive way, in addition to more sensitive measures, e.g., bounded the dela |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20fair-service%20curve | The hierarchical fair-service curve (HFSC) is a network scheduling algorithm for a network scheduler proposed by Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang and T. S. Eugene from Carnegie Mellon University at SIGCOMM 1997
It is based on a QoS and CBQ.
An implementation of HFSC is available in all operating systems based on the Linux kernel, such as e.g. OpenWrt, and also in DD-WRT, NetBSD 5.0, FreeBSD 8.0 and OpenBSD 4.6.
References
External links
Hierarchical Packet Schedulers
HFSC Scheduling with Linux
HFSC Tutorial
HFSC and VoIP « Maciej Bliziński
Network performance
Network scheduling algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20European%20islands%20by%20area | This is a list of islands in Europe ordered by area (excluding the Canaries).
Islands over 200 km2
Islands 100–200 km2
Islands 50–100 km2
Data for some islands is missing, particularly for some Arctic islands in Russia and Svalbard.
Islands 20–50 km2
Artificial islands or not usually regarded as islands
See also
List of Caribbean islands by area
List of European islands by population
List of islands by area
List of islands by population
Notes
Madeira and the Canary Islands are not considered part of Europe, whereas Cyprus is. Cyprus is often considered to be a part of both Asia and Europe.
Islands of Arctic Russia are considered part of Europe as long as they are situated west of the Yamal Peninsula. This means that the islands of Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya plus for example Kolguyev and Vaygach Island are considered part of Europe. Islands of Svalbard are in the same category, whereas for example islands of Greenland are considered part of North America.
The figures of Bolshoy Berezovy, Storøya and Wahlbergøya are rough estimates from map.
Sources
ISLANDS
Suomen suurimmat saaret (also includes freshwater islands)
Finland The Land of Islands and Waters
Islands
Islands by area
Lists of islands by area
Lists of islands by continent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business-to-employee | Business-to-employee (B2E) electronic commerce uses an intrabusiness network which allows companies to provide products and/or services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate processes. B2E portals have to be compelling to the people who use them. Companies are competing for eyeballs of their employees with eBay, yahoo and thousands of other web sites. There is a huge percentage of traffic to consumer web sites comes from people who are connecting to the net at the office.
Examples of B2E applications include:
Online insurance policy management
Corporate announcement dissemination
Online supply requests
Special employee offers
Employee benefits reporting
401(k) Management
online loan services
B2B
Business-to-business (B2B) is an e-commerce, the buyers and sellers are business organisation. It covers a broad spectrum of applications that enable an enterprise to form electronic relationships with its distributors, resellers, suppliers, customers, and other partners. Organisation can use B2B to restructure their supply chains and their partner relationships. It also exchange the services information. Also E-procurement is one of the important part of the business-to-business purchase and sale of supplies and services over the Internet. A central part of several B to B sites, e-procurement is also sometimes mentioned to by other terms, such as supplier exchange.
Consumer-to-business
Consumer-to-business model (C2B) is a type of commerce where a consumer or end user provides a product or service to an organization. It is a reverse of the Business to Consumer (B2C), where businesses produce products and services for consumer consumption. The idea is that the individual or end user provides a product or service that the business can use to complete a business process or gain competitive advantage.
Portal
Portal is a term, generally synonymous with gateway for a World Wide Web site that is or proposes to be a major starting site for users when they get connected to the Web or that users tend to visit as an anchor site. There are general portals and specialized or niche portals. Some major general portals include Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft Network.
Consumer-to-consumer
Consumer-to-consumer e-commerce is the practice of individual consumers buying and selling goods via the internet. The most common type of this form of transaction comes sites, although online forums and classifieds also offer this type of commerce to consumers. in most case, consumer to consumer e commerce, also known as C2C e-commerce, is helped along by a third party who officiates the transaction to make sure goods are received and payments are made. This offers some protection for consumers partaking in C2C e-commerce, allowing them the chance to take advantage of the prices offered by motivated sellers.
There are four different types of e-commerce, or electronic commerce, which is the buying and selling of goods or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNV | BNV may refer to:
Bloc Nacionalista Valencià, (Valencian Nationalist Bloc)
Banavie railway station (National Rail station code BNV)
Bicycle Network (formerly Bicycle Network Victoria).
Bund Neues Vaterland (New Fatherland League, which later became the German League for Human Rights)
Buona Vista MRT station (MRT station abbreviation BNV) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrenchment%20%28computing%29 | Retrenchment is a technique associated with Formal Methods that was introduced to address some of the perceived limitations of formal, model based refinement, for situations in which refinement might be regarded as desirable in principle, but turned out to be unusable, or nearly unusable, in practice. It was primarily developed at the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester. The most up to date perspective is in the ACM TOSEM article below.
External links
The Retrenchment Homepage
R. Banach, Graded Refinement, Retrenchment and Simulation, ACM Trans. Soft. Eng. Meth., 32, 1-69 (2023)
Formal methods
Software development philosophies
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarn%20Sound%20Bridge | The Fehmarn Sound Bridge () connects the German island of Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea with the German mainland near Großenbrode.
Description
The crossing includes the network arch bridge which carries road and rail over the Fehmarn Sound. Construction began in 1958 and the bridge was opened on April 30, 1963. The main span is above the sea, which allows shipping to pass through. The bridge is constructed of steel and is wide; are used by Deutsche Bahn for a single rail track, part of the Lübeck–Puttgarden railway, the rest for a pedestrian walkway and two-lane roadway. The two steel arches, from which the central span is suspended by cables, are braced with steel cross-beams. The arches are in length and reach above the main deck of the bridge. The bridge was designed by engineers G. Fischer, T. Jahnke and P. Stein from the firm Gutehoffnungshütte Sterkrade AG, Oberhausen-Sterkrade. Architect Gerd Lohmer helped with the architectural design.
In 2023 there is a renovation of the bridge. For example, all steel wires are replaced.
Route and ferry changes
At the same time as the opening of the bridge, changes were made to ferry services. The previous ferry service to the island of Fehmarn was discontinued. The service from Großenbrode Quay, Germany to Gedser, Denmark, crossing both Fehmarn Sound and the Fehmarn Belt, was replaced with a new service from Puttgarden (on Fehmarn) to Rødby, Denmark crossing just the Fehmarn Belt. The new bridge and ferry changes brought about a substantial time saving for both road and rail traffic along the so-called Vogelfluglinie (literally "bird flight line") from Hamburg to Copenhagen.
Historic monument
The Fehmarn Sound bridge was declared an historic monument in 1999 by the State Office for Protection of Historical Monuments of Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, and has since become a symbol of both Fehmarn and Schleswig-Holstein.
Cold War explosive charges
As the bridge was built during the Cold War, six explosive vaults were embedded below the approach road on the mainland side to be used in case of invasion. Their location is given away even today by six square asphalt patches. The vaults were connected to a control point about away in Heinrichsruh.
Future
A Fehmarn Belt Tunnel is under construction between Denmark and Germany, with four lanes (2+2) and double track railway. But according to the agreement between the two countries, the Fehmarn Sound bridge can remain as it is, one lane per direction and a single railway track.
In December 2012 a study was published saying that the bridge could not cope with the increased railway and road traffic expected after the tunnel opening.
In 2020 it was decided to build a four lane, double track railway Fehmarn Sound Tunnel to carry most of the increased traffic. However, the bridge will still remain in place for pedestrians and local road traffic.
See also
List of bridges in Germany
References
Originally published in EISENBAHN-Kurier SPECIAL 53, Freiburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomorph | Biomorph may refer to:
A shape resembling that of a living organism (such as bacteria), though not necessarily of biotic origin
One of the virtual creatures in a computer simulation described by Richard Dawkins in his book The Blind Watchmaker
In biomorphism, shapes that derive their form from nature as with contemporary architecture art
One of the organic creatures in the art of surrealist painters such as Salvador Dalí or Yves Tanguy
One of the mysterious alien creatures in the book Империя Превыше Всего (Empire Above All) by Nick Perumov
Various fractals, particularly Pickover biomorphs, which are computer generated graphics from mathematical chaos modelisation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapali%20Eswaran | Kapali Eswaran is one of the founding members of the IBM System R Project, which formed the genesis of relational database technology.
Eswaran is a graduate of Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley. He was an architect of IBM System R, the precursor to DB2. Eswaran was one of the inventors of SQL language. The Eswaran principle relating to database locking and transactions is a contribution that he made along with Jim Gray and Irv Traiger while working as a scientist at IBM Research. Subsequently, he launched Esvel, Inc. (acquired by Cullinet Software in 1987, which itself was acquired by Computer Associates) and Kaps Corporation (technology acquired by subsidiary of BP, Hewlett-Packard and by Carlysle Library Systems). He is currently the CEO of Integrated Informatics Inc.
Eswaran pursued his career primarily working as a researcher and software designer IBM Research where he contributed to several major database and transaction processing systems, including the System-R. He was founder and CEO of Esvel, Inc. and Integrated Informatics Inc.. Integrated Informatics develops and markets solutions for Paperless Browser Based Pharmacy Order Management, Medication Administration & Bedside Scanning, Medication Reconciliation and Patient Centric Health Records.
References
Living people
People in information technology
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield%20Gets%20Real | Garfield Gets Real (also known as Garfield 3D in some regions) is a 2007 American direct-to-video computer-animated comedy film based on the comic strip Garfield. It was produced by Paws, Inc. in cooperation with Davis Entertainment, and The Animation Picture Company and distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. It was written by Garfield's creator Jim Davis, who started working on the script in the autumn of 1996. This was the first fully animated Garfield production since the 1991 television special Garfield Gets a Life, and the season finale of Garfield and Friends. The DVD was shipped to stores on August 9, 2007. Gregg Berger, an actor from the original series, reprises his role of Odie, but Garfield was voiced by veteran voice actor Frank Welker, since the original actor Lorenzo Music died six years earlier in 2001 and Jon is voiced by Wally Wingert, as Thom Huge retired that same year. The film received unfavorable reviews.
Plot
Garfield lives with canine Odie and owner Jon Arbuckle in a world inhabited by comic/cartoon characters. Garfield and the gang work at the Comic Studios with other comic strip characters, such as his girlfriend Arlene, frenemy Nermal, Billy Bear, Randy Rabbit, & inventor Wally Stegman & his wife, Bonita, where the comics are made in their world and sent to "The Real World" where it's made in books & newspapers. Garfield is tired of the old jokes his friends crack and is bored with life in Toon World and longs to go to The Real World. The Comic Strip requires a bone for Odie, but he does not want to give back the bone and looks for a place to hide it. But he accidentally makes the bone go through the screen in the studio and it is sucked into the Real World.
Eli, the head technician, explains to the toons that the screen separates Toon World and the Real World with no way back. Garfield sees his chance for a change in life and goes through the screen without anyone noticing. As soon as he enters the Real World, the toons discover this on their projector and Eli blocks the patch in the screen border by taping special tape on it, so no one can gain access to the real world. However, Odie jumps onto the screen trying to get his bone which is on the screen but actually is in the real world and gets sucked there as well before the patch is sealed, making Garfield and Odie permanently stuck in the Real World. Garfield tries to get Odie back to Toon World, but due to him not listening to Eli's warnings, fails to do so. Odie gets his bone back and he and Garfield go find some food. While trying to get used to their new surroundings, Garfield meets an alley cat named Shecky who yearns to be a star while Odie is chased by a gang of Chihuahuas who want his bone, but is saved by Garfield who grabs the bone and runs through a hole in a tree which is small for the Chihuahua's fat owner to get through.
The duo learns from Shecky that strays get food by annoying the people who live in a building and the people start th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%20Eugene%20Meek | Seth Eugene Meek (April 1, 1859, Hicksville, Ohio – July 6, 1914, Chicago) was an American ichthyologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He was the first compiler of a book on Mexican freshwater fishes. Together with his assistant, Samuel F. Hildebrand, he produced the first book on the freshwater fishes of Panama.
He often collaborated with Charles H. Gilbert, and in 1884 on a collecting trip through the Ozarks, they discovered a new species, Etheostoma nianguae, which only lives in the Osage River basin. Also with them on that excursion was David Starr Jordan, considered the father of modern ichthyology.
After the Ozarks trip, Meek accepted the post of professor of biology and geology at Arkansas Industrial University (now the University of Arkansas).
Tribute
The American halfbeak was named in his honor Hyporhamphus meeki, as were the Mezquital pupfish (Cyprinodon meeki) and the firemouth cichlid (Thorichthys meeki).
See also
Biological Survey of Panama (1910 to 1912)
:Category:Taxa named by Seth Eugene Meek
References
Further reading
1859 births
1914 deaths
American ichthyologists
People associated with the Field Museum of Natural History
People from Hicksville, Ohio
University of Arkansas faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBL%20Index | The CBL Index is a ratio between the number of IP addresses in a given IP subnet (Subnetwork) to
the number of CBL (Composite Blocking List) listings in the subnet. It may
be used to measure how "clean" (of compromised computers) a given subnet is.
The higher the number is, the "cleaner" the subnet.
The CBL index may be represented in Decibels (dB) or as CIDR suffix (*/xx).
Note: other spam researchers prefer to use a percentage of IPs that are
listed in a subnet. Using percentages is better suited for "unclean" subnets
because "clean" nets have significantly less than 1% of addresses listed.
Rationale
The CBL DNSBL (Composite Blocking List) lists IP addresses that are compromised by a virus or spam sending infection (computer worm, computer virus, or spamware).
The CBL's full zone (data) is available publicly via rsync for download.
The CBL Index is a reasonably good tool for getting estimates of subnet "outgoing spam reputation". It should be treated with caution - subnets often contain IPs with radically different purposes. Assuming all IPs within a subnet represent the same risk/reputation is potentially dangerous.
The CBL Index may be used for estimation of overall anti-spam performance of ISP or AS operator.
Example
In CBL zone dated 2007-07-07T21:03+00:00 there was 166_086 IP addresses listed from 83.0.0.0/11 network.
The CBL Index for the net was:
2_097_152/166_086 = 12.6 (*/28.3 ; 11.0 dB)
2_097_152 - number of IP addresses in */11 network (2**(32-11))
Literature
External links
References
Computer security procedures
Spamming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto%3A%20Ultimate%20Ninja | {{Infobox video game series
|title = Naruto: Ultimate NinjaNaruto: Narutimate Series
|image =
|developer = CyberConnect2
|publisher = Bandai Namco Entertainment
|creator =
|composer = Chikayo Fukuda
|genre = Fighting game, Role-playing game
|platforms = PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
|first release version = Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
|first release date = October 23, 2003
|latest release version = Naruto X Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections
|latest release date = TBA
}}Naruto: Ultimate Ninja, known in Japan as the , is a series of fighting video games, based on the popular manga and anime series Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto. It was developed by CyberConnect2, and published by Bandai and later Bandai Namco Games. The first game was released in 2003 for the PlayStation 2, and was followed by four more titles for the system, as well as five spinoffs for the PlayStation Portable. A follow-up for the PlayStation 3, titled Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, was the first to feature three-dimensional battles, and began the long-running Storm sub-series. While starting out as a series exclusive to the PlayStation family of systems, the series has also been present on Xbox and PC platforms since the release of Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 for the Xbox 360 and Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 Full Burst for Windows, respectively. Latest releases were also ported to the Nintendo Switch. The Naruto: Ultimate Ninja series sold over 20 million copies worldwide as of December 2019.
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja series
Naruto: Ultimate NinjaNaruto: Ultimate Ninja, known in Japan as , is the first installment of the Ultimate Ninja series and the first installment of the Hero series in Japan. The game was released on October 23, 2003, in Japan, November 17, 2006 in Europe, June 26, 2006 in North America, and November 17, 2006 in Australia.
There are special techniques and jutsus that can be used. Some characters feature the ability to activate special mode by inflicting the special techniques which enhances their status and gives them new abilities. It also features several items, like shuriken and kunai. There are many multi-layered stages from around the Naruto universe, including the Hidden Leaf Village, the Chunin Exam arena, and the Forest of Death. The game also uses support characters such as Naruto's support being Iruka, or Sasuke's support being Kakashi Hatake. The game features an arcade style story mode. Although the game loosely covers the events in the original manga from the Introduction arc up to the Invasion of Konoha arc, the game's twelve stories are meant to depict the events from different characters' perspectives and as the result some of them deviates from the original source (such as Neji being declared the winner in his fight with Naruto). Each stories consist of up to six battles divid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist%20Peace%20Network | The Feminist Peace Network (FPN) advocates for the human rights of women and raises awareness about misogyny and the global pandemic of violence against women violence against women.
About
Feminist Peace Network (FPN) was started in 2001 by Lucinda Marshall. The organization is based in Louisville. FPN advocates and supports the active participation of women and the full reflection of women's needs in the process of conflict resolution and the creation of sustainable peace and examines many issues including education, health, economics, the environment and media from a gendered lens.
During the Occupy movement, both Code Pink and FPN recruited women to get involved.
References
External links
Official site
Violence against women
Peace organizations
Feminist organizations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Aitel | Dave Aitel (born 1976) is a computer security professional. He joined the NSA as a research scientist aged 18 where he worked for six years before being employed as a consultant at @stake for three years. In 2002 he founded a security software company, Immunity, where he was the CTO up until December 31, 2020.
Aitel co-authored several books:
The Hacker's Handbook: The Strategy Behind Breaking into and Defending Networks.
The Shellcoder's Handbook.
Beginning Python.
He is also well known for writing several security tools:
SPIKE, a block-based fuzzer
SPIKE Proxy, a man-in-the-middle web application assessment tool
Unmask, a tool to do statistical analysis on text to determine authorship
Dave Aitel is an infrequent guest on the Fox News Channel where he provides commentary on information security news.
References
Chief technology officers of computer security companies
Living people
1976 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20Detectives | Kryminalni (eng. Crime Detectives) was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from 18 September 2004 until 24 May 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio.
The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cop, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara (Basia) Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating.
Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.
Main characters
Marek Włodarczyk (as commissioner, later underinspector Adam Zawada)
Maciej Zakościelny (as under-commissioner Marek Brodecki)
Magdalena Schejbal (as under-commissioner, later commissioner Barbara Storosz)
Tomasz Karolak (as aspirant Szczepan Żałoda)
Ryszard Filipski (as inspector Ryszard Grodzki)
Dorota Landowska (as prosecutor Dorota Wiśniewska)
Ewa Kutynia (as aspirant Zuzanna Ostrowska)
Kamil Maćkowiak (as prosecutor Jacek Dumicz)
Lesław Żurek (as CBŚ agent Rafał Król)
Alżbeta Lenska (as CBŚ agent Julia Wierzbicka)
Television shows set in Warsaw
Polish drama television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Kristal | The Kristal is an action game/adventure game first released in 1989 for the Amiga computer. It was later released for the Atari ST and MS-DOS. It was developed by the UK-based company Fissionchip Software, and published in Europe by Addictive Games and in the US by Cinemaware. Unusually for a video game, the game is based on a play, The Kristal of Konos, written in 1976; the authors of the play worked together with the game developers and the play was never shown in theatres or on film before the game's release. A dialog introducing the setting recorded by Patrick Moore, who introduced both the game and play.
The player takes the role of a pirate named Dancis Frake, on a mission to recover the "Kristal" on behalf of the Kring of Meltoca.
The game features a number of different classic game genres merged: fighting, space flight/combat, and (to a limited extent) LucasArts-style point-and-click adventuring.
Reception
The game was reviewed in 1989 in Dragon #152 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars. Computer Gaming World gave the game a very negative review, citing the poor controls for the action sequences and the repetitive interrogation of other characters. The review summed up the game saying, "The Kristal is virtually unplayable except to the master arcade gamers that might have the time and patience for the "challenge"."
Reviews
Info (Nov, 1989)
The Games Machine (Jun, 1989)
Atari ST User (Jun, 1990)
The Games Machine (Apr, 1990)
The One (Apr, 1989)
Commodore User (Mar, 1989)
The Games Machine (Jul, 1990)
Computer and Video Games (Jun, 1989)
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) (Feb, 1989)
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) (Jul, 1989)
Power Play (Apr, 1989)
Jeux & Stratégie #60
References
External links
The Kristal at the Hall of Light
1989 video games
Addictive Games games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Cinemaware games
DOS games
Science fantasy video games
Single-player video games
Video games about pirates
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjuku%20Golden%20Gai | is a district of Kabukicho within Shinjuku, a special ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is composed of a network of six narrow alleys, connected by even narrower passageways which are about wide enough for a single person to pass through. Over 200 tiny shanty-style bars, clubs and eateries are squeezed into this area.
The alleys are private roads, not public roads. In this area, shooting photographs and video for all purposes on the street is prohibited without permission of the area's business promotion association.
Streetscape
Golden Gai is a few minutes' walk from the East Exit of Shinjuku Station, between the Shinjuku City Office and the Hanazono Shrine. Its architectural importance is that it provides a view into the relatively recent past of Tokyo, when large parts of the city resembled present-day Golden Gai, particularly in terms of the extremely narrow lanes and the tiny two-story buildings.
Nowadays, most of the surrounding area has been redeveloped: The street plans have been changed to create much wider roads and larger building plots, and most of the buildings themselves are now much larger high- or medium- rise developments. This has left Golden Gai as one of a decreasing number of examples of the nature of Tokyo before Japan’s “economic miracle”, that took place in the latter half of the 20th century.
Typically, the buildings are just a few feet wide and are built so close to the ones next door that they nearly touch. Most are two-story, having a small bar at street level and either another bar or a tiny flat upstairs, reached by a steep set of stairs. None of the bars are very large. Some are so small that they can fit only five or so customers at one time. The buildings are generally ramshackle, and the alleys are dimly lit, giving the area a very scruffy and run-down appearance. However, Golden Gai is not a cheap place to drink, and the clientele that it attracts are generally well off.
Shinjuku Golden Street Theatre is a tiny theater in one corner of Golden Gai that puts on mainly comedy shows.
Bars
Bars in Golden Gai are known in particular for the artistic affinities of their patrons. Golden Gai is well known as a meeting place for musicians, artists, directors, writers, academics and actors, including many celebrities. Many of the bars only welcome regular customers, who initially should be introduced by an existing patron, although many others welcome non-regulars, some even making efforts to attract overseas tourists by displaying signs and price lists in English. Some bartenders are foreign.
Many of the bars have a particular theme, such as jazz, R&B, karaoke, punk rock, or flamenco, and their ramshackle walls are sometimes liberally plastered with movie, film and concert posters. Others cater to customers with a particular interest, such as go, exploitation films, or horse racing. Most of the bars don't open until 9:00 or 10:00p.m., so the area is very quiet during the day and early evening.
History
Golden Gai was kno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable%20dictionary | Machine-readable dictionary (MRD) is a dictionary stored as machine-readable data instead of being printed on paper. It is an electronic dictionary and lexical database.
A machine-readable dictionary is a dictionary in an electronic form that can be loaded in a database and can be queried via application software. It may be a single language explanatory dictionary or a multi-language dictionary to support translations between two or more languages or a combination of both. Translation software between multiple languages usually apply bidirectional dictionaries. An MRD may be a dictionary with a proprietary structure that is queried by dedicated software (for example online via internet) or it can be a dictionary that has an open structure and is available for loading in computer databases and thus can be used via various software applications. Conventional dictionaries contain a lemma with various descriptions. A machine-readable dictionary may have additional capabilities and is therefore sometimes called a smart dictionary. An example of a smart dictionary is the Open Source Gellish English dictionary.
The term dictionary is also used to refer to an electronic vocabulary or lexicon as used for example in spelling checkers. If dictionaries are arranged in a subtype-supertype hierarchy of concepts (or terms) then it is called a taxonomy. If it also contains other relations between the concepts, then it is called an ontology. Search engines may use either a vocabulary, a taxonomy or an ontology to optimise the search results. Specialised electronic dictionaries are morphological dictionaries or syntactic dictionaries.
The term MRD is often contrasted with NLP dictionary, in the sense that an MRD is the electronic form of a dictionary which was printed before on paper. Although being both used by programs, in contrast, the term NLP dictionary is preferred when the dictionary was built from scratch with NLP in mind. An ISO standard for MRD and NLP is able to represent both structures and is called Lexical Markup Framework.
History
The first widely distributed MRDs were the Merriam-Webster Seventh Collegiate (W7) and the Merriam-Webster New Pocket Dictionary (MPD). Both were produced by a government-funded project at System Development Corporation under the direction of John Olney. They were manually keyboarded as no typesetting tapes of either book were available. Originally each was distributed on multiple reels of magnetic tape as card images with each separate word of each definition on a separate punch card with numerous special codes indicating the details of its usage in the printed dictionary. Olney outlined a grand plan for the analysis of the definitions in the dictionary, but his project expired before the analysis could be carried out. Robert Amsler at the University of Texas at Austin resumed the analysis and completed a taxonomic description of the Pocket Dictionary under National Science Foundation funding, however his project exp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella%20Inger | Stella Inger Escobedo is an Uzbekistani-born American television news anchor and reporter who works at One America News Network. She was formerly at KFMB, the CBS affiliate in San Diego where she was the morning and afternoon anchor. Inger-Escobedo joined CBS 8 after a short stint at CBS Newspath in Los Angeles as a network correspondent. Previously she was the 5, 6, and 10 p.m anchor at the ABC television affiliate, KGUN, channel 9, in Tucson, Arizona. Inger-Escobedo was employed by the station in 2013, and retired from her position there on November 30, 2018. Previously, she was the morning anchor/reporter of "Good Morning Arizona" on KTVK in Phoenix. Inger-Escobedo was the leading morning anchor for KPSP-TV in Palm Springs, California.
Early life
Inger-Escobedo was born to a Jewish family in 1982 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Her parents immigrated when she was six in 1989 first to Sioux City, Iowa and then Southern California. She grew up in Sherman Oaks, California. In 2004, she graduated from the University of Southern California where she was a broadcast journalism major.
Career
Inger-Escobedo was the leading morning anchor for KPSP-LP (CBS-TV) in Palm Springs, California.
In September 2012 and September 2011 Inger co-hosted the Chabad Telethon along with CNN's Larry King and KTLA's Sam Rubin.
She also co-hosted the Chabad Telethon in 2009 alongside celebrities including Oscar award winner Jon Voight, actor Tom Arnold and NBA Star Jordan Farmar.
In 2008 Inger was named by The Desert Sun as "The Best TV Personality in the Desert." In 2009 she won the same award for the second time.
In December 2008 Inger was featured alongside Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal in an AOL Sports report.
Before reporting for KPSP-LP, Inger was a reporter for KXLF-TV in Bozeman, Montana and KESQ-TV in Palm Desert, California.
References
American television journalists
American women television journalists
20th-century American Jews
Soviet emigrants to the United States
Living people
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism alumni
People from Bozeman, Montana
People from Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles
Journalists from Montana
1983 births
One America News personalities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiigrih%C3%BCpe | Tiigrihüpe (Estonian for Tiger Leap) was a project undertaken by Republic of Estonia to heavily invest in development and expansion of computer and network infrastructure in Estonia, with a particular emphasis on education. The project was first proposed in 1996 by Toomas Hendrik Ilves, then ambassador of Estonia to United States and later President of Estonia, and Jaak Aaviksoo, then minister of Education. The project was announced by Lennart Meri, the President of Estonia, on 21 February 1996. Funds for the foundation of Tiigrihüpe were first allocated in national budget of 1997.
An important primary effect of the project was rollout of Internet access to all Estonian schools, which effectively ended UUCP usage in Estonia, combined with updating computer labs in schools to use IBM PCs, where Estonian CP/M based school computer Juku introduced in 1988 was still widely used. Although outdated for 1990s, Jukus did enable Estonia to "gain a head start in mass school computerization" by providing early access to computers and a standardized study environment.
After the cyberattacks on Estonia in 2007, Estonia combined network defence with its common military doctrine. Success of the process led to NATO creating the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn. This project has been nicknamed Tiger Defence () by analogy with Tiigrihüpe.
In 2012, two more programs for technology education were launched in Estonia. Firstly, the ProgeTiger program to improve technological literacy and digital competence of teachers and students, and IT Academy – a cooperation and development program between the state, the ICT sector companies and universities aimed to improve the quality of higher ICT education.
See also
Noored Kooli, a project to increase the number of teachers in Estonia
Estonica, a project on creating an Estonian encyclopædia partially funded through Tiigrihüpe
EstWin, a project to connect all Estonians to internet with 100 Mbit/s speed by 2015
Internet in Estonia
References
Further reading
Farivar, Cyrus. 2011. The Internet of Elsewhere: the Emergent Effects of a Wired World. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. p. 109-149. Covers the history of the Internet and public WiFi access in Estonia.
External links
How it all began? From Tiger Leap to digital society
Internet in Estonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingolstadt%20Hauptbahnhof | Ingolstadt Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt, situated in southern Germany. Ingolstadt station is an important junction in the Deutsche Bahn network. It has 7 platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station.
History
The increasing economic and population growth of Ingolstadt in the second half of the 19th century increased the need for the rapid transport of goods and people. Steamboats on the Danube proved difficult because of the low water level and currents.
On 4 February 1862, the council of the city of Ingolstadt was presented for the first time with a proposal to construct a rail link from Ingolstadt via Solnhofen to Pleinfeld and later via Eichstätt to Nuremberg. Although the line from Munich to Ingolstadt was approved by the Kingdom of Bavaria in October 1863, construction was slow at first. Therefore, the Ingolstadt council sent a deputation to the king in 1865 "for the promotion of the construction of the Munich–Ingolstadt railway".
The Munich–Ingolstadt railway, the first line to Ingolstadt, was opened on 14 November 1867. Discussions about the location of a future station had begun in 1860 as the city was a state fortress and played an important military role. A commission comprising representatives of the military and the board of the State Railway decided to build a local station near the fortress (the present Ingolstadt Nord station) and the main station at Oberstimm, far to the south of the city and the present location. A temporary local station was established called Ingolstadt Provisorium ("provisional Ingolstadt") about 300 m to the north of the present station. It had an entrance building consisting only of a wooden crate.
In 1872, after the extension of the line to Treuchtlingen and the construction of the Ingolstadt–Neuoffingen railway to Donauwörth, construction started on the Hauptbahnhof at its current location to a design by the architect Jakob Graff. This was opened on 1 June 1874, along with the continuation of the Regensburg–Ingolstadt railway to Regensburg.
Next to the platform tracks, five through tracks were provided for marshalling and loading. A 400-metre long loading ramp at the south end of the station was also established for military trains. At each end of the station, broad level crossings were built in order to allow large contingents of troops to cross the tracks.
The initial network of lines from Ingolstadt station was completed with the opening of the Ingolstadt–Augsburg railway from Augsburg in 1874. However, there are also lines that have not been completed to the present day despite plans at that time. These include the Ingolstadt–Beilngries–Berching–Altdorf–Hersbruck line, which was planned in the early 1870s and a line to Landshut.
Land was even acquired for the Ingolstadt–Geisenfeld branch line, but rather than a large rail network in the Hallertau, work only started, on 1 August 1893, on the construction of the short Wolnzach– |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SModcast%20Podcast%20Network | SModcast Podcast Network is a podcast network owned by Kevin Smith. The network was started in January 2010 to host the podcast SModcast alongside the popular Tell 'Em Steve-Dave! and Highlands: A Peephole History.
Current podcasts
SModcast, is a podcast featuring filmmaker Kevin Smith. The show was initially co-hosted with Smith's long-time producing partner Scott Mosier, although over the years, Mosier's appearances have been sporadic with a series of guest hosts taking his place. New episodes were initially released each Sunday night or Monday morning, with more recent episodes being released on a much more infrequent schedule. The episodes are generally one hour in length and feature Smith and Mosier, or a guest co-host, discussing current events and other non-sequitur topics.
Hollywood Babble-On, is hosted by Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman. The show involves the two hosts discussing film and entertainment news. The podcast was originally recorded at SModcastle, then at The Jon Lovitz Podcast Theatre, with it now being recorded at The Hollywood Improv on Saturday nights, with some episodes recorded at tour locations. The podcast comes out on Mondays.
Fatman Beyond, is hosted by Kevin Smith and Marc Bernardin. The show is dedicated to the Batman mythos. In each episode, Kevin interviews someone involved with one of the many versions of Batman (comics, TV, animation, movie, etc.). The original title of the show was Fatman on Batman.
NetHeads, is hosted by Will Wilkins and Trent Hunsaker. The show is broadcast live every Sunday. It is released as a podcast later in the week of recording.
I Sell Comics!, is hosted by Ming Chen and Mike Zapcic in which they discuss comic books. The podcast comes out Thursday.
Film School Fridays, hosted by Kevin Smith where he discusses film making.
Nooner, is hosted by Marty Yu, Bill Watterson, Gisele Nett, Cassandra Cardenes and John Pirruccello. The show originally ran from July to December 2011, hosted by Dan Etheridge and Marty Yu, before moving timeslots to become the Tuesday edition of The SModCo SMorning Show. In August 2015 the show reverted to the name Nooner. This show airs live every Tuesday at 9am Pacific and 12pm Eastern and is available later in the week as a podcast.
Last Week On Earth, is hosted by comedian Ben Gleib.
Defunct or former podcasts
Tell 'Em Steve-Dave!, is hosted by Bryan Johnson, Walt Flanagan and Brian Quinn. The title refers to the characters Johnson and Flanagan played in many Kevin Smith films. Johnson played Steve-Dave and Flanagan played Fanboy who yelled "Tell 'em, Steve-Dave!" in Mallrats. This was the first podcast to join the network after SModcast. After several years, the trio left the network and began self-releasing episodes.
Jay & Silent Bob Get Old, is hosted by Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes. It features the two hosts talking about various experiences that they've had together during their twenty-plus year friendship. The first episodes recounted Jason Mewes' drug-rela |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso%20heuristic%20logic%20minimizer | The ESPRESSO logic minimizer is a computer program using heuristic and specific algorithms for efficiently reducing the complexity of digital logic gate circuits. ESPRESSO-I was originally developed at IBM by Robert K. Brayton et al. in 1982. and improved as ESPRESSO-II in 1984. Richard L. Rudell later published the variant ESPRESSO-MV in 1986 and ESPRESSO-EXACT in 1987. Espresso has inspired many derivatives.
Introduction
Electronic devices are composed of numerous blocks of digital circuits, the combination of which performs the required task. The efficient implementation of logic functions in the form of logic gate circuits (such that no more logic gates are used than are necessary) is necessary to minimize production costs, and/or maximize a device's performance.
Designing digital logic circuits
All digital systems are composed of two elementary functions: memory elements for storing information, and combinational circuits that transform that information. State machines, like counters, are a combination of memory elements and combinational logic circuits. Since memory elements are standard logic circuits they are selected out of a limited set of alternative circuits; so designing digital functions comes down to designing the combinational gate circuits and interconnecting them.
In general the instantiation of logic circuits from high-level abstraction is referred to as logic synthesis, which can be carried out by hand, but usually some formal method by computer is applied. In this article the design methods for combinational logic circuits are briefly summarized.
The starting point for the design of a digital logic circuit is its desired functionality, having derived from the analysis of the system as a whole, the logic circuit is to make part of. The description can be stated in some algorithmic form or by logic equations, but may be summarized in the form of a table as well. The below example shows a part of such a table for a 7-segment display driver that translates the binary code for the values of a decimal digit into the signals that cause the respective segments of the display to light up.
Digit Code Segments
A B C D E F G
0 0000 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 -A-
1 0001 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 | |
2 0010 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 F B
3 0011 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 | |
4 0100 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 -G-
5 0101 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 | |
6 0110 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 E C
7 0111 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 | |
8 1000 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 -D-
9 1001 1 1 1 1 0 1 1
The implementation process starts with a logic minimization phase, to be described below, in order to simplify the function table by combining the separate terms into larger ones containing fewer variables.
Next, the minimized result may be split up in smaller parts by a factorization procedure and is eventually mapped onto the availab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20clique | Neural cliques are network-level memory coding units in the hippocampus. They are functionally organized in a categorical and hierarchical manner. Researchers investigating the role of neural cliques have gained insight into the process of storing memories in the brain. Research evidence suggests that memory of events is achieved not through memorization of exact event details but through recreation of select images based on cognitive significance. This process enables the brain to exhibit large storage capacity and facilitates the capacity for abstract reasoning and generalization. Although several studies converges in the demonstration that real-time patterns of memory traces and sensory inputs are retained in the form of neural cliques, the topic is currently in active research in order to fully understand this biological code.
History
Hebb proposed in 1949 that information in the brain would need to involve the coordinated activity of multiple neuronal cells, termed engrams or neuronal cells assemblies, in order to achieve reliable information encoding and restitution, and putting forward Hebb's Rule as a fundamental mechanism for the coordination of activity. Indeed, biological constructs are known to be unreliable, showing only a stochastic probability of transmitting information, and with a converse probability of spontaneous, spurious firing. Evidence supporting such a concept of cell assemblies was later observed, both at the macroscopic level with the cortical columns in the somato-sensory areas, and at the microscopic level with the NMDA coding of coordinated activity in synapses. However, the mesoscopic level has remained elusive. Some authors, including Vernon Mountcastle, argued that the mesoscopic level of sensory brain areas might be topologically organized similarly to the macroscopic and microscopic level, in cortical minicolumns, specifically what has been termed the columnar functional organization. However, any exact mechanism of information encoding and decoding in these sensory cortical columns has remained elusive.
Biological observations
Recently, researchers have been able to map out distinct patterns of neural activity in the hippocampus triggered by different events. These neural patterns were geometricalled shaped as cliques, which is a fully connected network of nodes. The activity patterns associated with certain startling experiences recurred spontaneously—at intervals ranging from seconds to minutes after the actual event—that showed similar trajectories, including the characteristic geometric shape, but with smaller amplitudes than their original responses.
Theoretical models
A theoretical associative memory model with a practical implementation running in real-time on modern hardware was proposed, the Gripon-Berrou Neural Network or Cliques Neural Network, an extension of the Hopfield network. This model suggest that the encoding of memories or information is done in constant O(1) time, by simply creating syn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYFT | WYFT is a Religious formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Luray, Virginia, serving the Shenandoah Valley. WYFT is owned and operated by Bible Broadcasting Network.
Translators
WYFT operates two broadcast translators to extend its coverage area.
References
External links
Bible Broadcasting Network Online
Bible Broadcasting Network
YFT
Radio stations established in 1979
1979 establishments in Virginia
Page County, Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Layne%20%28ventriloquist%29 | Jerry Layne (1938 - June 27, 2018) was the ventriloquist host of Puppet People, a TV series produced from 1973 to 1975 at CFCF-TV in Montreal and telecast on most CTV television network stations. He worked with his "friends" Lester and Herbie, puppets created for the show.
Layne grew up in Brooklyn, NY during a time when ventriloquist acts were popular entertainment in theaters and clubs. He became interested in ventriloquism as a child and by age 14 was a student of ventriloquist Paul Winchell.
He went on to work in television production and eventually became a full-time ventriloquist performing on cruise ships and other entertainment venues. In 1978, he performed for six months at the Knott's Berry Farm amusement park. He also became known as builder of ventriloquist dummies.
References
External links
Biography of Jerry Layne at his personal site
Credits at IMDb
1938 births
2018 deaths
Canadian male television actors
Ventriloquists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation%20of%20mechanism%20and%20policy | The separation of mechanism and policy is a design principle in computer science. It states that mechanisms (those parts of a system implementation that control the authorization of operations and the allocation of resources) should not dictate (or overly restrict) the policies according to which decisions are made about which operations to authorize, and which resources to allocate.
While most commonly discussed in the context of security mechanisms (authentication and authorization), separation of mechanism and policy is applicable to a range of resource allocation
problems (e.g. CPU scheduling, memory allocation, quality of service) as well as the design of software abstractions.
Per Brinch Hansen introduced the concept of separation of policy and mechanism in operating systems in the RC 4000 multiprogramming system. Artsy and Livny, in a 1987 paper, discussed an approach for an operating system design having an "extreme separation of mechanism and policy". In a 2000 article, Chervenak et al. described the principles of mechanism neutrality and policy neutrality.
Rationale and implications
The separation of mechanism and policy is the fundamental approach of a microkernel that distinguishes it from a monolithic one. In a microkernel, the majority of operating system services are provided by user-level server processes.<ref>Raphael Finkel, Michael L. Scott, Artsy Y. and Chang, H. [www.cs.rochester.edu/u/scott/papers/1989_IEEETSE_Charlotte.pdf Experience with Charlotte: simplicity and function in a distributed operating system]. IEEE Trans. Software Engng 15:676-685; 1989. Extended abstract presented at the IEEE Workshop on Design Principles for Experimental Distributed Systems, Purdue University; 1986.</ref> It is important for an operating system to have the flexibility of providing adequate mechanisms to support the broadest possible spectrum of real-world security policies.
It is almost impossible to envision all of the different ways in which a system might be used by different types of users over the life of the product. This means that any hard-coded policies are likely to be inadequate or inappropriate for some (or perhaps even most) potential users.
Decoupling the mechanism implementations from the policy specifications makes it possible for different applications to use the same mechanism implementations with different policies. This means that those mechanisms are likely to better meet the needs of a wider range of users, for a longer period of time.
If it is possible to enable new policies without changing the implementing mechanisms, the costs and risks of such policy changes can be greatly reduced. In the first instance, this could be accomplished merely by segregating mechanisms and their policies into distinct modules: by replacing the module which dictates a policy (e.g. CPU scheduling policy) without changing the module which executes this policy (e.g. the scheduling mechanism), we can change the behaviour of the syste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra1 | Ra1 may refer to :-
Ra.One, a 2011 Hindi science fiction film starring Shahrukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal.
Command and Conquer: Red Alert, a strategy computer game developed by Westwood Studios. |
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