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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphaea%20tomentosa | Glyphaea tomentosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae sensu lato, or Tiliaceae or Sparrmanniaceae family.
It is found only in Mozambique.
References
Grewioideae
Data deficient plants
Endemic flora of Mozambique
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grewia%20goetzeana | Grewia goetzeana is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae sensu lato or Tiliaceae or Sparrmanniaceae. It is found only in Tanzania.
References
goetzeana
Endemic flora of Tanzania
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Plants described in 1900 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampea%20dukei | Hampea dukei is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is found only in Panama.
References
dukei
Endemic flora of Panama
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibiscus%20dioscorides | Hibiscus dioscorides is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is found only in Yemen. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.
References
dioscorides
Endemic flora of Socotra
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibiscus%20macropodus | Hibiscus macropodus is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is found only in Yemen.
References
macropodus
Endemic flora of Socotra
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Donoghue | John Donoghue may refer to:
John Donoghue (neuroscientist), professor of neuroscience at Brown University; co-founder of Cyberkinetics
John Donoghue (writer) (born 1964), British humorist
John Donoghue (footballer) (1903–?), Scottish football player
John Francis Donoghue (1928–2011), American Roman Catholic bishop
John P. Donoghue (born 1957), American politician
John Talbott Donoghue (1853–1903), American artist
See also
John Donahue (disambiguation)
Jack Donohue (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptolaena | Leptolaena is a genus of flowering plants in the family Sarcolaenaceae. There are 8 species, all native to Madagascar.
Species
Species include:
Leptolaena abrahamii
Leptolaena cuspidata
Leptolaena delphinensis
Leptolaena gautieri
Leptolaena masoalensis
Leptolaena multiflora
Leptolaena pauciflora
Leptolaena raymondii
References
Malvales genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptolaena%20cuspidata | Leptolaena cuspidata is a species of flowering plant in the Sarcolaenaceae family. It is found only in Madagascar.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Description
Leptolaena cuspidata is a shrub to a small tree. It flowers from January to November.
Range and habitat
Leptolaena cuspidata is endemic to northwestern Madagascar. It inhabits dry deciduous forests of central Diana Region, and the subhumid forests of the Sambirano region in southern Diana Region and northernmost Sofia Region. It grows from 10 to 500 meters elevation on a variety of substrates, including sandstone, lava, basement rock, Mesozoic limestone, unconsolidated sands, and alluvial and lake deposits. The species is known from 129 records at 21 locations. Based on the known locations, the species' estimated extent of occurrence (EOO) is 24,265 km2, and an estimated area of occupancy (AOO) of 252 km2. These estimates may be low because of under-sampling.
Conservation and threats
The species has a declining population, and is threatened by habitat loss across much of its range. Threats include deforestation from shifting cultivation and logging, over-harvesting timber, and the declining population of animals, including birds and lemurs, which disperse its seeds.
References
cuspidata
Endemic flora of Madagascar
Flora of the Madagascar dry deciduous forests
Flora of the Madagascar subhumid forests
Least concern plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matisia | Matisia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae sensu lato or Bombacaceae.
Species include:
Matisia alata
Matisia castano
Matisia coloradorum Benoist
Matisia cordata Bonpl.
Matisia exalata
Matisia grandifolia – Molinillo
Matisia palenquiana
Matisia stenopetala
References
Malvaceae genera
Taxa named by Aimé Bonpland
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce | Pownce was a free social networking and micro-blogging site started by Internet entrepreneurs Kevin Rose, Leah Culver, and Daniel Burka. Pownce was centered on sharing messages, files, events, and links with friends. The site launched on June 27, 2007, and was opened to the public on January 22, 2008. On December 1, 2008, Pownce announced that it had been acquired by blogging company Six Apart, and that the service would soon shut down. It was subsequently shut down on December 15, 2008.
History
Its launch, on June 27, 2007, was covered by Wired, Business Week, Webware, and the San Francisco Chronicle, with most of the coverage focusing on Rose, known for his involvement in Digg, Revision3 and TechTV. Due to this media exposure, invitations for Pownce were in high demand and were being sold on sites such as eBay.
On October 30, 2007, Pownce launched their public API. The developers have also created a Pownce API Google Group. Originally, it was primarily for discussing the release of the API, but it later served to gather feedback and help developers. On November 12, 2007 Pownce launched a custom theme editor for Pro users. They also added eight more preset themes for non pro users to use. On December 20, 2007 Pownce launched a mobile version of their service. This version could be accessed from a variety of mobile devices at m.pownce.com.
On December 1, 2008, Pownce announced that they had been acquired and were shutting down the site, due to a lack of revenue, stagnant growth, and an inability to compete with Twitter. Two weeks later, the site was taken offline.
Comparisons with similar websites
Pownce was compared favorably to other websites with similar functionality like Twitter, and was called a "Twitter on steroids". CNET's Rafe Needleman recommended Pownce over Twitter in a work setting because of its discussion-tracking capabilities.
Technology
Pownce was built on a variation of the LAMP stack: Debian Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Python. The web application was made with Django, an open source web application framework, written in Python. File storage was supported by Amazon S3. The desktop application was written in Flex for Adobe's AIR platform.
Notes
External links
Adobe Integrated Runtime platform software
Blog hosting services
Defunct microblogging services
Defunct online companies of the United States
Defunct social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Explorer | Several software products and services are called Data Explorer:
Azure Data Explorer
Exoplanet Data Explorer
Google Public Data Explorer
Human Olfactory Data Explorer
IBM OpenDX
UNEP Environmental Data Explorer
Other uses:
Data Explorers, a company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSPCA%20Animal%20Rescue | RSPCA Animal Rescue is an Australian reality television series screening on the Seven Network. The program follows RSPCA Australia inspectors rescue and protect Australian animals. The program is hosted by The Wiggles' Anthony Field.
RSPCA Animal Rescue averages around about 1.6 million viewers each week. It is shown on Sky Living and Pick in the United Kingdom, where it is shown under the name Animal Rescue to avoid confusion with the UK's own RSPCA branch.
See also
List of Australian television series
RSPCA NSW
External links
Official website
Australian factual television series
Seven Network original programming
Television series about animals
2007 Australian television series debuts
2012 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20Word%20of%20Jenny | , styled on-screen as Lost Word of JeNnY, is a map-based action video game for the Family Computer which was released in 1987.
Summary
Gameplay information
In the actual stages of the game, it reverts to a side scrolling view. The map mode is similar to the map mode in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game. The game was released on March 25, 1987 and gives the player three lives to solve their quest.
Characters
Jenny
She is the protagonist based on a then-popular doll in Japan.
Blackie
He is a killer.
Chu
A rat with a lovely face but a bad character.
God of Death Skeleton
He is the messenger from Hell.
Pumpkin Man
The man is wearing a pumpkin on his head.
Frogman
He is the frog from the Flower Land.
Bibi Order
They are dressed in KKK-style clothes. A collection of the world's most powerful evil.
References
1987 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Takara video games
Video games based on Takara Tomy toys
Video games developed in Japan
Video games featuring female protagonists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMode | mMode was the brand name for the wireless data service offered by the former AT&T Wireless. Based on NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, it was available to any AT&T Wireless subscriber with a WAP-capable phone. Operating over GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS, mMode was the successor to AT&T's unsuccessful CDPD-based Pocketnet. Although it was no longer available to new subscribers since the Cingular takeover, legacy AT&T Wireless subscribers were able to access the system until June 2010.
Features
Access to sites with WAP-enabled pages, such as eBay and Yahoo!
"@mmode.com" email account
Ringtones and graphics available for purchase and download
"Find a Friend", a service which enabled one subscriber to find another subscriber's approximate location using triangulation. Cingular has since removed this feature.
mMode Music Store, launched in October 2004, allowed subscribers to purchase music and have it charged to their wireless bill (note that the music could not be played on the phone, it had to be downloaded to the user's computer)
References
AT&T debuts "mMode" wireless Web - CNET News
AT&T Wireless opens mobile music store - CNET News
Cingular to Shut Down mMode LBS Services - PhoneNews.com
AT&T
Mobile telecommunication services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullins%20%28surname%29 | The surname Mullins is of Irish origin, and is akin to Mullen and McMillan.
Geographical distribution
At the time of the United Kingdom Census of 1901 (the data for Ireland) and the United Kingdom Census of 1881 (the data for the rest of the United Kingdom), the frequency of the surname Mullins was highest in the following counties:
County Clare (1:508)
County Limerick (1:697)
County Galway (1:950)
County Cork (1:1,042)
County Waterford (1:1,133)
County Kilkenny (1:1,217)
Wiltshire (1:1,390)
Dorset (1:1,442)
County Tipperary (1:1,525)
King's County (1:1,547)
As of 2014, the frequency of the surname was highest in the following countries and territories:
Republic of Ireland (1:1,502)
United States (1:4,189)
Wales (1:4,821)
Australia (1:5,475)
Jersey (1:5,824)
Barbados (1:7,308)
England (1:8,431)
New Zealand (1:9,414)
Scotland (1:12,619)
Canada (1:14,092)
As of 2014, 76.7% of all known bearers of the surname Mullins were residents of the United States. The frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following U.S. states:
West Virginia (1:496)
Kentucky (1:577)
Virginia (1:1,104)
Tennessee (1:1,240)
Ohio (1:1,973)
Alabama (1:2,305)
Mississippi (1:2,361)
Indiana (1:2,503)
Arkansas (1:2,538)
Oklahoma (1:2,618)
Michigan (1:4,066)
Missouri (1:4,077)
Delaware (1:4,122)
The frequency of the surname was highest in the following U.S. counties (over 20 times the national average):
Dickenson County, Va. (1:14)
Wise County, Va. (1:28)
Knott County, Ky. (1:40)
Letcher County, Ky. (1:46)
McDowell County, W.Va. (1:52)
Buchanan County, Va. (1:71)
Hancock County, Tenn. (1:75)
Breathitt County, Ky. (1:76)
Pike County, Ky. (1:76)
Menifee County, Ky. (1:90)
Clay County, W.Va. (1:97)
Pickett County, Tenn. (1:104)
Logan County, W.Va. (1:106)
Rockcastle County, Ky. (1:111)
Lincoln County, W.Va. (1:112)
Floyd County, Ky. (1:115)
Owsley County, Ky. (1:116)
Perry County, Ky. (1:118)
Franklin County, Miss. (1:118)
Lee County, Va. (1:119)
Russell County, Va. (1:127)
Washington County, Va. (1:148)
Magoffin County, Ky. (1:162)
Scott County, Va. (1:173)
Wyoming County, W.Va. (1:174)
Tazewell County, Va. (1:175)
Boone County, W.Va. (1:186)
Mingo County, W.Va. (1:192)
Nicholas County, W.Va. (1:195)
Powell County, Ky. (1:205)
With the single exception of Franklin County, Mississippi, these are all Appalachian counties.
People with the surname Mullins
Aimee Mullins (b. 1976), American athlete and performer
Andria Mullins (b. 1980), American beauty queen and performer
Bill Mullins, Australian rugby player
Bitsy Mullins (1926–2003), American trumpeter
Brett Mullins (b. 1972), Australian rugby player
Brian Mullins (1954–2022), Irish Gaelic football player
Brian Mullins (hurler) (b. 1978), Irish hurler
Cedric Mullins (b. 1994), American baseball player
Charles Herbert Mullins (1869–1916), a South African Victoria Cross recipient
Charlie Mullins (b. 1952), British businessman, founder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQuery%20Update%20Facility | XQuery Update Facility is an extension to the XML Query language, XQuery. It provides expressions that can be used to make changes to instances of the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model.
It became a W3C Candidate Recommendation on 31 July 2009 and was finalised as Recommendation on 17 March 2011.
A version to work with XQuery 3.0 was drafted, but was never completed, and is archived as a W3C Working Group Note.
Implementations
BaseX - An open source XML Database and XQuery Processor; supported since Version 6.0
DataDirect XQuery - a java-based commercial XQuery processor. Supported since Version 4.0
EMC Documentum xDB - Native XML Database. XQuery Update Facility supported since Version 9.0
eXist - The open source XML Database provide an extension to XQuery, which maps each of the XUpdate instructions to a corresponding XQuery expression
MonetDB/XQuery - An open source XQuery processor on top of the MonetDB relational database system (declared obsolete since 2011).
PureXML - IBM DB2 offers XQuery Update Facility since Version 9.5.
Oracle XMLDB - Oracle database offers XQuery Update Facility since version 12.1.0.2 ).
qizxopen XQuery engine.
SaxonSA XSLT and XQuery Processor - by Michael Kay; Supported since Version 9.1, but only in the commercial version.
XQilla - An open source (ASL2.0) XQuery processing library with support for the latest XQuery Update features. XQilla is written in C++ and includes a command line executable shell to execute queries against XML content stored on a local filesystem. This library is actively developed and part of a supported Oracle product, Berkeley DB XML.
References
External links
XQuery Update Facility on W3
XQuery Update for the impatient, a tutorial on XQuery Update and its quirks.
XQuery Update Facility - Changes in Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.1) for Oracle XML DB.
World Wide Web Consortium standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNX | BNX may refer to:
Banja Luka International Airport
Branxton railway station, New South Wales
Benoxinate, a local anaesthetic agent
bnx, device name assigned by Solaris operating systems to Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet adapters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny%20Quest%20vs.%20The%20Cyber%20Insects | Jonny Quest versus The Cyber Insects (also known as Jonny's Global Impact) is an animated made-for-television film made by Hanna-Barbera. It premiered on November 19, 1995 on TNT, and was the final iteration of the classic Jonny Quest franchise. The film was a follow-up to the series The New Adventures of Jonny Quest (1986–87), with the same actors voicing Dr. Quest (Don Messick) and Race Bannon (Granville Van Dusen), and was made as part of a "Year of Jonny Quest". This was Don Messick's last time to voice Dr. Quest in the Jonny Quest series. Jonny's original voice actor, Tim Matheson, returned as the voice of 4-DAC. The plot featured "creepy cyberbugs, techno-speak and computer-assisted info wars, all amidst good old-fashioned melodramatic evil." with a teleplay by David Bennett Carren and J. Larry Carroll.
In addition to the original character line-up, this story also features Race's daughter Jessie Bannon, introduced in Jonny's Golden Quest (1993) and voiced once again by Anndi McAfee. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution declared Jessie to be "no 'icky girl'...Not only does she save Jonny's life when disturbingly large fire ants attack, but she also teaches him patience." A test screening of Cyber Insects to 30- to 35-year-old males revealed that though some questioned her addition, most "understood that just like the [original] series, [the update] is a reflection of its times." The Hollywood Reporter's critic enjoyed some sparkling moments of dialogue in the teleplay, but criticized the film's pacing and the repetitiveness of the "overwrought emotional atmosphere" created by the threatened destruction of civilization. The reviewer remarked that Héctor Elizondo and Jeffrey Tambor stole the show with "inimitable style" in voice acting, while animation directors Marlene May and Ron Myrick "brilliantly created two visually intense worlds" with "fantastic" animation. The film is dedicated to the memory of Doug Wildey, the creator of Jonny Quest, who died in 1994 (one year after the USA Network premiere of Jonny's Golden Quest).
Plot
Jonny Quest and Hadji Singh are fleeing from a seemingly hostile tribe of natives in the Orinoco in South America. After evading both the tribe and various jungle predators, including some ferocious alligators, the two enter a native village. Their goal is to steal a sacred sapphire, seemingly unguarded. Hadji points out that it is too easy, but Jonny impulsively attempts to take the jewel, and the two boys are taken prisoner by the tribe who have lain in wait. At this point, Chief Atacama appears along with Jonny's father Dr. Benton Quest, Race Bannon and the Quests' dog, Bandit, revealing the entire thing to have been an Orinoquian test of manhood. One which Jonny has failed.
Later, Jonny confides in Chief Atacama, who reveals he failed because he didn't listen to his friend, Hadji. Jonny reveals he is uncertain he can measure up his world-famous scientist father, and Atacama tells him if he follows the correct p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSOO%20%28AM%29 | KSOO (1000 AM, "ESPN Sioux Falls") is a radio station broadcasting a sports format, with programming from ESPN Radio. The station serves the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, area. The station is currently owned by Townsquare Media.
History
On August 7, 2017, KXRB and its classic country format moved to 1140 AM, swapping frequencies and call signs with news/talk-formatted KSOO.
On August 1, 2021, KSOO flipped to sports, branded as "ESPN Sioux Falls"; the format moved from KSOO-FM, which switched to country.
Honors and awards
In May 2006, KXRB won one first-place plaque in the commercial radio division of the South Dakota Associated Press Broadcasters Association news contest. The contest was for the 2005 calendar year.
Previous logos
References
External links
KSOO official website
FCC History Cards for KSOO
SOO (AM)
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1969
1969 establishments in South Dakota
Townsquare Media radio stations
ESPN Radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWSN | KWSN (1230 AM "FOX Sports Sioux Falls") is a radio station carrying a sports format with Fox Sports Radio programming. The station serves the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, area. It was acquired by Midwest Communications, Inc. in 2012. This station is also aired on a translator, K251BH, at 98.1 FM.
History
Early years
KDAK, Inc., obtained a construction permit for a new radio station on 1230 kHz in Sioux Falls on November 13, 1947. It could not use the call letters KDAK, as they were assigned to a ship at sea; the new station therefore took the call letters KISD. It had to wait for its dial position to open up: KELO was in the process of moving from 1230 to 1320 kHz as part of a power increase. On May 2, 1948, KELO moved to 1320, and KISD debuted that same moment, using KELO's old tower site and facilities. Together with KIHO (1270 AM), which started on May 28, the two new outlets brought Sioux Falls to a total of four stations.
After filing for increased power in 1959, the FCC granted a daytime power increase to 1,000 watts in October 1961. The boost became effective on March 5, 1962; at the same time, the station picked up the Mutual Broadcasting System, which had lost its affiliate in Sioux Falls the year before as the result of the sale of KIHO to Northwestern College and its transformation into a Christian radio station. It was the first network affiliation for KISD since its 13-month-long hookup with the short-lived Liberty Broadcasting System in the early 1950s.
Rock 'n' roll
Verl Thomson, who had founded the station in 1948, sold it in 1966 to a group majority-owned by William F. Buckley, Jr., publisher of the National Review; Buckley and business partner Peter Starr also owned the KOWH stations in Omaha, Nebraska. KISD's studios offices were relocated from a site on the edge of town back to downtown; Thomson remained involved with the station by broadcasting editorials but sold KISD in order to focus on his other businesses, a tourist camp and the Sioux Chief Train Motel comprising retired Pullman sleeping cars. The station's tower collapsed in 1968 when a boom attached to a sign truck snagged overhead guy wires supporting the mast. The tower, still on Verl Thomson's property, narrowly missed the train motel as it fell.
While Buckley and Starr changed the music format to contemporary, KISD's opposition to the establishment of new stations in the Sioux Falls area on economic grounds continued from former ownership. In 1963, under Thomson, KISD lodged a complaint against the Sioux Empire Broadcasting Company, which proposed to build a new station at 1520 kHz; despite a favorable ruling for the proposed station, KISD continued to object. In April 1970, more than eight years after the group had filed, the FCC granted final approval for what would become KCHF.
Starr sold KISD to Stanley Deck, who owned KDIX radio and television in Dickinson, North Dakota, for $700,000 in 1971.
KKRC and KYKC
Another North Dakota firm acquired KISD in 1977: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf%20driver | Leaf driver refers to a device driver that accesses logically or physically existent devices on an I/O bus, and implements the functions defined for the device, such as transferring data to or from the device or accessing device registers.
Leaf devices (those requiring leaf drivers) are typical peripheral devices such as disks, tapes, network adapters, Framebuffer, and so forth. Drivers for these devices export the traditional character and block driver interfaces for use by user processes to read and write data to storage or communication devices.
See also
Nexus driver
Device drivers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN-free%20backup | A LAN-free backup is a backup of server data to a shared, central storage device without sending the data over the local area network (LAN). It is usually achieved by using a storage area network (SAN).
Note that trivial backup to a dedicated, unshared storage device (such as local tape drive) does not meet the definition.
Technical aspects
The goal of LAN-free backup is to reduce the load on LAN and reduce the time it takes to complete the backup. It offers an alternative way of backup than a simple data copy to network-attached storage (NAS) over LAN
It comes in different flavours:
with backup server: in addition to a shared storage device (usually a traditional tape library), there exists a central server arbitrating access to device (for all the other SAN servers). The central server however, does not handle data stream itself.
without backup server: the storage facility (usually a virtual tape library, or VTL) is smart enough to handle multiple data accesses without intermediate component.
See also
Data backup
Storage area network
Network-attached storage
Fiber Channel technology
External links
Description of Lan-Free Client Data Transfer Operation
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager: LAN/WAN Backup; ServerFree Backup; LANFree Backup; and Split-Mirror Backup - What Does It All Mean?
Backup
Storage area networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecinco%20Sport | Telecinco Sport was a Spanish sport channel available on TDT, and owned by Gestevisión Telecinco.
On 18 February 2008, the channel was closed, and the frequency was given to Telecinco 2.
Programming
Programmes of Telecinco Sport were provided by Eurosport News, that provided news bulletins related to national and international sporting events in a schedule between 7.30 a.m. and 1 a.m.
Initially it transmitted sport news every 15 minutes, and repeats of Formula One races and Superbikes
External links
Defunct television channels in Spain
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2008
Spanish-language television stations
Telecinco
Channels of Mediaset España Comunicación
Sports television in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transearch%20International | Transearch International (stylized TRANSEARCH International) an executive search network organisations. Headquartered in Europe, they have representation in The Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Executive Recruiter News (ERN) currently rates the firm as the 10th largest global executive search firm. The firm is organized in partner offices by market expertise, business function and geographic location.
History
Transearch International was founded on the April 2, 1982. with 6 offices and 20 consultants. The network quickly grew to 25 offices in 1989 and in 1990 was ranked as the 10th largest executive search firm (in terms of revenue) globally by the Executive Recruiter News (ERN). In 1998, the network had 68 offices in 40 countries and was the second largest network worldwide in terms of office representation. When the dot com bubble burst in 2001, most executive search firms faced a decline in demand for executive search services which lasted until about 2003-2004 (depending on the location and the sector of specialisation). In 2006 Transearch showed a 28.6% growth, almost 10% higher than the average rate of growth for the executive search industry. .
References
External links
Company website
Executive search firms
Companies established in 1982
Companies based in the City of Westminster
1982 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TELES | TELES AG Informationstechnologien is a provider of equipment and services to fixed, fixed-mobile convergence, and Next Generation Networking (NGN) service providers.
The company was founded in 1983 as TELES GmbH by Professor Dr.-Ing. Sigram Schindler in close cooperation with the Technical University of Berlin. Professor Schindler lectured in telecommunications at the university until 1998. In 1997, he was voted High-Tech Manager of the Year by Manager Magazine in Germany.
Active in VoIP technology development since 1996, the company's main development and operational focus lies in the areas of IMS and NGN.
TELES supplies service providers with complete Class 4 and Class 5 NGN Softswitch. TELES NGN is a standard based, scalable architecture aimed at minimizing integration time and allowing quick deployment. It includes hosted voice functionality which enables residential VoIP services, hosted PBX (IP Centrex) services, Fixed-Mobile-Convergence, IP Trunking, and additional value added applications. Classical NGN/PSTN applications like Wholesale, Long Distance, and NGN backbone services are also available with this.
The TELES product portfolio also includes VoIP gateways and mobile gateways for GSM, CDMA, and UMTS networks.
History
1990 ISDN product development
1992 ISDN PBX development
1993 Least-Cost-Router development
1996 First major VoIP patent - IntraSTAR dynamic PSTN fallback
1998 TELES is floated on the stock market and becomes an AG (public limited company)
1998 Introduction of clustered switching system for PSTN
2000 First public network integrating VoIP using H.323 protocol
2001 First highly integrated GSM and CDMA mobile gateway developed
2002 First integrated mobile VoIP gateway developed
2003 First centralized SIM server for mobile gateways developed
2004 STRATO AG, a webhosting TELES subsidiary, is sold to Freenet
References
Telecommunications companies of Germany
ICT service providers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobuntu | Gobuntu was a short-lived official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system that was conceived to provide a distribution consisting entirely of free software. It was first released in October 2007.
Because Ubuntu now incorporates a "free software only" installer option, the Gobuntu project was rendered redundant in early 2008. As a result, Canonical made the decision officially to end the Gobuntu project with version 8.04.
In March 2009, it was announced that "Gobuntu 8.04.1 is the final release of Gobuntu. The project has merged back to mainline Ubuntu, so there is no need for a separate distribution".
History and development
Mark Shuttleworth first mentioned the idea of creating an Ubuntu derivative named Gnubuntu consisting entirely of free software, on 24 November 2005. Due to Richard Stallman's disapproval of the name, the project was later renamed Ubuntu-libre. Stallman had previously endorsed a distribution based on Ubuntu called gNewSense, and has criticized Ubuntu for using proprietary and non-free software in successive distributions, most notably, Ubuntu 7.04.
While introducing Ubuntu 7.10, Mark Shuttleworth said that it would
Gobuntu was officially announced by Mark Shuttleworth on 10 July 2007 and daily builds of Gobuntu 7.10 began to be publicly released. The initial version, Gobuntu 7.10, was released on 18 October 2007, as an in text-only installer. The next release was the Long-Term Release codenamed "Hardy Heron", which was also only made available as an alternate installation image.
Release 7.10 initially met with criticism from some free software advocates because it included Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is not considered to be 100% free software because it includes Mozilla Foundation copyrighted icons. The Mozilla licence for the icons states that they "...may not be reproduced without permission". After some debate on the developer list, this problem was quickly addressed by Canonical, and the applications with non-free logos were replaced in the follow-up Gobuntu release, Hardy Heron. Firefox was replaced by Epiphany, which has free logos.
Because some drivers, firmware, and "binary blobs" were removed from Gobuntu, it would run on fewer computers than Ubuntu. Canonical stated at the time of release of 7.10:
On 13 June 2008 Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon announced that the Gobuntu project would end with the release of Gobuntu 8.04:
Shuttleworth explained:
The project ended with the release of version 8.04.1.
Releases
Gobuntu versions were intended to be released twice a year, coinciding with Ubuntu releases. Gobuntu uses the same version numbers and code names as Ubuntu, using the year and month of the release as the version number. The first Gobuntu release, for example, was 7.10, indicating October 2007.
Gobuntu releases are also given code names, using an adjective and an animal with the same first letter e.g.: "Gutsy Gibbon". These are the same as the respective Ubuntu code names. Commonly, Gobuntu relea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QPD | QPD may refer to:
Quantile-parameterized distribution, probability distributions that are directly parameterized by data
Quasiprobability distribution, a mathematical object similar to a probability distribution
Quebec platelet disorder, a rare autosomal dominant bleeding disorder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Metrics%20Network | The Health Metrics Network (HMN) was a global health partnership focused on strengthening health information systems in low and middle income countries, launched in May 2005 during the 58th session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) and dissolved on 31 May 2013. Hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, the HMN's stated purpose was to make available timely and accurate health information by encouraging joint funding and development of country health information systems, to improve health and save lives.
HMN also promoted research and technical innovation. Specifically, HMN pursued interrelated objectives as below:
Setting up a framework for country health information system (HIS) development (the HMN Framework) which prescribes standards for health information systems;
Recording every birth, death and cause of death (MOVE-IT for the MDGs);
Developing methods to track progress in health information systems; and
Ensuring access and use of information at all levels.
Structure
HMN had an organizational structure composed of an Executive Board and a Secretariat. The HMN Executive Board coordinated the Network and made decisions; membership comprised key health information workers, including health and statistical experts, technical and development partners and funding agencies in developing and other countries.
The Secretariat supported HMN partners; it comprised an Executive Secretary, and core technical and administrative staff, based at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Achievements
The HMN Framework and Standards for Country Health Information Systems was used by over 85 countries in all six WHO Regions to make an assessment of their health information systems. The HMN Framework was also used by partners such as the World Bank, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, USAID, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Africa Development Bank.
The HMN Framework is credited for health information system-related improvements in terms of lives and money saved, and for cost-effectiveness. HMN has tracked and documented over US $500 million being associated with the improvements of country health information systems.
In 2007, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution (WHA60.27) entitled Strengthening of health information systems. The resolution acknowledges that sound information is critical in framing evidence-based health policy and making decisions, and is fundamental for monitoring progress towards internationally agreed health-related development goals. The resolution urges Members States, all stakeholders and the WHO Director-General to take specific steps to support the strengthening of health information systems, given that such systems in most developing countries are weak.
A joint initiative with The Lancet launched a successful global advocacy campaign on the monitoring of vital events in 2006. The published findings and ideas have since positively influence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Mathematics%20and%20Informatics | The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics was established in 1947 as Institute of Mathematics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Its name changed to Institute of Mathematics with Computing Centre in 1961, while from 1970 to 1988 the Institute together with the Faculty of Mathematics at Sofia University functioned in a unified structure, the Joint Centre of Mathematics and Mechanics. The present name was adopted in 1995.
The Institute carries out scientific research in the fields of mathematics and informatics, as well as their applications to education, science, business and industry, government, etc.
Members of the Institute hold teaching positions at a number of Bulgarian universities and colleges, providing also direction to Ph.D. and M.S. students. The Institute plays an important role in training gifted pupils, graduates, etc. for participating in major international competitions in mathematics and informatics. In particular, the Bulgarian team in mathematics has been ranking among the top five at International Mathematical Olympiad events in the recent years.
Departments
Algebra and Logic (former Algebra and Logic)
Analysis, Geometry and Topology
Biomathematics
Computational Mathematics
Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics
Education in Mathematics and Informatics
Information Systems
Information Modelling
Laboratory of Digitization of Scientific and Cultural Heritage
Mathematical Foundations of Informatics
Mathematical Linguistics
Mathematical Modelling
Operation Research
Probability and Statistics
Software Engineering
Library
Directors
Academician Lyubomir Chakalov, 1947-50
Academician Nikola Obreshkov, 1951-63
Academician Lyubomir Iliev, 1964-88
Academician Petar Kenderov, 1989-93
Sen.Res. Assoc. Nikolay Yanev, 1994-99
Academician Stefan Dodunekov, 1999 –
Publications
Serdica Mathematical Journal
Serdica Journal of Computing
Mathematica Plus
Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis
Pliska Studia Mathematica Bulgarica
Mathematica Balkanica (founded: New Series, 1987, published quarterly)
Physico-Mathematical Journal (founded: 1904, published quarterly)
Applications
The first computing centre in Bulgaria was created at the Institute in 1961.
The first Bulgarian electronic digital computer Vitosha, and the first Bulgarian electronic calculator Elka were constructed at the Institute in 1962-64.
The official Bulgarian system for the Romanization of Cyrillic alphabet was developed at the Institute in 1995, and codified by the Law of Transliteration in 2009.
Sources
Yanev, Nikolay. (1998). Fifty years of Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at BAS. Journal of BAS, No 3-4, 96-100. (in Bulgarian)
Andreev A., I. Derzhanski eds. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, founded 1947. Sofia: Multiprint Ltd., 2007. 64 pp. (Bilingual publication in Bulgarian and English)
External links
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Bulgarian Acad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Landon | Jennifer Landon (born August 29, 1983) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Teeter on the Paramount Network series, Yellowstone (2020–present). She is also known for her role as Gwen Norbeck Munson in the CBS soap opera As the World Turns (2005–2008, 2010). For her part on the show, Landon won three consecutive Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series.
Early life
Landon is the daughter of actor Michael Landon and his third wife, Cindy Clerico. She is the half-sister of screenwriter Christopher B. Landon and director Michael Landon, Jr.; actor Mark Landon is her adoptive brother. She graduated from Brentwood School, before moving to New York City to attend New York University, where she appeared in several theater productions. Her paternal grandfather was Jewish, whereas her paternal grandmother was Catholic, although her father was raised Jewish.
Career
Landon received her first acting job at age five from her father, when he cast her to play a little girl in one of the final episodes of his television series, Highway to Heaven. Before his death in 1991, Jennifer worked with her father once more when he cast her as Jennifer Kramer in the pilot for what would have been his next television series, Us.
In 2004, Landon co-starred in an independent film L.A. DJ. In early 2005, she was cast to play Gwen Norbeck Munson for one episode on the CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns. She was soon signed to a three-year contract with the series. Landon won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series three years in a row for her portrayal. In late 2006, the character's storyline focused on her pursuing a music career recording two singles, "Slide" and "I Saw Love". Performed by Landon, both songs were written by Nini Camps. From April to July 2007, Landon played dual roles on As the World Turns; her regular character Gwen Norbeck Munson, and a lookalike named Cleo Babbitt. Landon left the show in 2008, but reprised her role in 2010 for the final two weeks of the series.
On May 1, 2012, it was announced that Landon would become the third adult actress to portray the role of Heather Stevens on The Young and the Restless. She portrayed the role for less than a year, before her character was written off. In 2016, she was cast as Lilith Bode, the wife of a serial killer, in the final season of Banshee.
In 2020, during the third season of the Paramount network’s series, Yellowstone, Landon was cast in the role of Teeter.
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1983 births
American people of English descent
American people of British-Jewish descent
21st-century American actresses
American film actresses
American people of Jewish descent
American soap opera actresses
American television actresses
Daytime Emmy Award winners
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series winners
Living people
Actors from the San Fernando |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lords%20%28demogroup%29 | The Lords was a Dutch ZX Spectrum group from Roosendaal known as one of the earliest dedicated demogroups. The Lords released several demos for the ZX Spectrum home computer between the years 1986 and 1990. Groups such as The Lords are regarded as early pioneers of what came to be known as the demoscene. They were especially noted for their sound-chip skills.
In some respects they mirrored The Judges, a "rivaling" Commodore 64 group also from Roosendaal, to the extent that concepts, artwork and even titles were identical between the two groups.
Their demo Quinquagesima was given a review of 78% in the September 1992 issue of Your Sinclair - three years after it was released in 1989. Some of their productions was put as covermounts, for instance The Apple Movie on Outlet issue 107 and Quinquagesima on Outlet issue 070.
In later years, they released some of their demos for the SAM Coupé and two games: a freeware version of Tetris in 1990 (also published as a covermount on Fred issue 3) and an Arkanoid clone named Batz 'n Balls in 1992, both to very good reviews.
In 1994 two of the members, Lord Insanity and Scrunk, did a series of articles about demos for the paper-based magazine ZAT.
Members
Lord Insanity (David Gommeren)
Scrunk (Rob Mies)
Thing (Michiel Koolen)
Zoinks (Eric Damstra)
References
External links
The Lords at World of Spectrum
The Lords at Demotopia
The Lords at World of SAM
Demogroups
ZX Spectrum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20enlightened%20Women | The Network of enlightened Women (NeW) is an organization for culturally conservative women at American universities. Started as a book club at the University of Virginia in 2004, NeW seeks to cultivate "a community of conservative women and expands intellectual diversity on college campuses through its focus on education."
NeW members meet to discuss issues ranging from politics and gender to conservative principles. Since its founding, NeW has expanded to over 20 colleges campuses nationwide. It has grown into the nation’s premier organization for conservative college women.
Founding
NeW was founded in September 2004 by Karin Agness as a book club at the University of Virginia (UVa). Agness found the feminist environment at UVa hostile to conservative women. "I loved being around other conservative women and wanted to find more women like that at UVa," said Agness, who hails from Indianapolis. "Unfortunately, all the women's groups on campus were really liberal and biased. And when I asked a [women's studies professor] if anybody would be interested in sponsoring a conservative women's group, she just laughed at me." In response, she founded NeW as an alternative to the liberal groups for women on campus. Within a year of its founding at UVa, NeW began to spread nationally.
Activities
While NeW chapters continue to read books together to become better educated, their members also seek to engage their larger campus communities by hosting speakers, holding debates, promoting chivalrous behavior through a "Gentlemen’s Showcase," and challenging the controversial play The Vagina Monologues.
The national organization also hosts an annual national conference in Washington, DC each summer.
National conference
Each summer, NeW leaders, NeW supporters and those interested in learning more about NeW gather in Washington, DC for the annual NeW National Conference. The 2010 conference brought more than 60 women together, and Christina Hoff Sommers (author of Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women and The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men) was the keynote speaker. The Heritage Foundation's Insider Magazine praised the conference, and noted that NeW women are "hard at work... bringing intellectual diversity back to campus", commending NeW for "rescuing feminism from the feminists."
Gentlemen's Showcase
Each spring, NeW hosts the NeW Gentlemen’s Showcase, which is a national event recognizing and honoring gentlemen on college campuses. The event seeks to encourage mutual respect between the sexes on campuses. Nominees are submitted through Facebook and are voted on by students from all over the country. Some individual chapters also host their own college-wide contest.
In an op-ed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Agness discussed the Gentlemen's Showcase, concluding, "There are still gentlemen on college campuses. And with a little encouragement, there will be more. Instead of trying to change men on campus, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Single%20Sign-On%20Metadata%20Exchange%20Protocol | Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol is a Web Services and Federated identity specification, published by Microsoft and Sun Microsystems that defines mechanisms for a service to query an identity provider for metadata concerning
the protocol suites it supports. The goal of this operation is to increase the ability of a given service to interoperate with a given identity provider.
External links
Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol
See also
List of Web service specifications
Web Single Sign-On Interoperability Profile
SAML
XACML
OpenID
WS-Federation
References
Security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Marvelous%20Misadventures%20of%20Flapjack | The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (also known as The Misadventures of Flapjack, or simply Flapjack) is an American animated television series created by Thurop Van Orman for Cartoon Network. It premiered in the United States on June 5, 2008. It stars Van Orman as the voice of Flapjack, a naive young boy who was raised by a whale named Bubbie and is mentored by a crusty old pirate named Captain K'nuckles. Together the trio spend their days in Stormalong Harbor, where most of the show takes place, while getting into mishaps on the search for the elusive Candied Island.
Van Orman, who pitched the idea to Cartoon Network as early as 2001, incorporated his own dreams of marine adventures, acquired while living in Florida as a boy, into the series. After three seasons and 46 episodes, the series ended on August 31, 2010. During its run, Flapjack received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, two Annie Award nominations, and one Golden Reel Award nomination.
Synopsis
Setting
Most characters live in the fictional city of Stormalong Harbor. The city is built on a series of docks in the middle of the ocean with little surrounding land. It is possible to actually swim underneath the city, which is often done by Bubbie. The wealthier citizens live on more elevated piers which have vegetation-growing land attached to it, while the lower class lives lower in the city. Stormalong also has a sewer system and a series of tunnels. Most inhabitants are sailors of some sort, and sailors and/or pirates are constantly visiting from other lands. Stormalong has a great variety of (often bizarre) shops, including a bar that serves candy instead of alcohol (The Candy Barrel). The city appears quite dystopian, having a high level of crime and loitering, and the only forms of law enforcement are the Dock Hag and a small police force.
Plot
The series revolves around three main characters: Flapjack, Captain K'nuckles, and Bubbie. Flapjack is a young boy who was raised by a talking whale named Bubbie. Flapjack and Bubbie lead a peaceful life until the duo rescue a pirate by the name of Captain K'nuckles, who tells Flapjack of a place called Candied Island, an island made entirely of candy. Inspired by the adventurous pirate, Flapjack, Captain K'nuckles, and Bubbie get into strange predicaments and "misadventures" in search of candy, Candied Island, and the coveted title of "Adventurer". The three spend most of their time in Stormalong Harbor, their place of residence and home to many strange characters.
Episodes
Characters
Main
Flapjack (voiced by Thurop Van Orman) is a young boy who was raised by a talking whale. Flapjack's biological parents are never seen or mentioned. Flapjack is naïve and oblivious to danger, and he is easily caught in dangerous situations. He holds K'nuckles in extremely high regard, with his affection for the captain sometimes bordering on obsession, although he can exhibit some anger towards K’nuckles when he lies to him. During the endin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20%28disambiguation%29 | GNU is a Unix-like computer operating system developed by the GNU Project.
GNU or gnu may also refer to:
Science and technology
Gnu, or wildebeests, a genus of antelopes
GNU Project, a free software, mass collaboration project
9965 GNU, an asteroid
Organisations
government of national unity, a coalition government during a national emergency
Government of National Unity (Libya), a transitional unitary government during 2021
Government of National Unity (South Africa), a constitutional arrangement
Grand National Union of Kenya, a Kenyan political party
Great Northern Union, a US men's barbershop chorus
Gyeongsang National University, a university in South Korea
Other uses
Gnau language, by ISO 639-3 language code
Gnu Snowboards, produced by Mervin Manufacturing in the US
Goodnews Airport, Alaska, US, by IATA and FAA LID codes
Sopwith Gnu, a 1910s British touring biplane
"The Gnu", a song by Flanders and Swann
A fairy chess piece used in Wildebeest chess
The Gnus, an upper-school student newspaper of Sandy Spring Friends School
The Gnu Theatre, a Los Angeles theatre designed and built by Jeff Seymour
The Gnu, a pub in North Newbald, England
Gary Gnu, fictional character in The Great Space Coaster
See also
Gnu goat, or Takin, a goat-antelope found in the eastern Himalayas
Gnu High, an album by Canadian musician Kenny Wheeler
GNU license (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20former%20Ontario%20provincial%20highways | The Canadian province of Ontario has an extensive network of Primary (King's), Secondary, and Tertiary Highways, with county-level and city-level roads linking between them. Over the years, however, Ontario has turned back numerous highways to municipal government bodies, renumbered them, or upgraded them to 400-series highways.
In 1997 and 1998, many sections of the provincial highway network were downloaded to local municipalities (such as cities, counties or regional municipalities) by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation as a cost-saving measure. While highways were occasionally transferred to local governments in the past, the 1997–1998 downloads represented the most significant changes to Ontario's highway network. Many highways were completely devolved, while of others only short sections remain under provincial jurisdiction (Highway 2, once stretching across Southern Ontario, now is only a few kilometres long). Below is a partial list of partially or wholly devolved highways since 1997.
King's highways
– Windsor to the Ontario-Quebec boundary, now Lake Shore Boulevard, Kingston Road, Toronto Road, Dundas Street, and Loyalist Road. Its purpose was largely superseded by Highway 401 and 403; only a 1.1-kilometre section near Gananoque remains.
Scarborough, Ontario – Was once an expressway in the 1940s until Highway 401 took over most of its current route in 1952.
Windsor – Tilbury – Designated in 1929, renumbered to Highway 98 in 1938.
London, Ontario – Paralleled Highway 2 through the downtown core of London. It was established in 1956 and decommissioned in 1968.
Cornwall, Ontario – Bypassed the Seaway International Bridge. It was established in 1965 and decommissioned on 1967.
– Formerly Ontario Highway 2A in Chatham, Ontario from 1961 to 1970; decommissioned and route reverted to local street names (Richmond Street, Queen Street, School Street, 5th Street and Thames Street)
– between St. Thomas and Leamington and within the urban areas of Port Colborne and Fort Erie.
Highway 3A
A section of Ontario Highway 3 between Chambers Corners and Niagara Falls
A designation of Ontario Highway 3B in Windsor
– Downgraded portions: south of Highway 3 in Talbotville Royal, and north/east of Highway 8
– Downgraded all of the Paris-Scarborough route except one 12.7 km section between Ontario Highway 8 and Ontario Highway 6
– Downgraded portions: south/west of [[Port Dover, Ontario|Port Dover
– Downgraded the portion in York Region west of Donald Cousens Parkway / York Regional Road 48.
– Highway 7 west of Carleton Place to Highway 15 in Carleton Place.
– From Winona to Niagara Falls, and, more recently, from Peters Corners to Winona.
– Split into two segments in Orangeville area and eastern end cut past Highway 400 towards Newmarket due to downgrading of various portions.
– Hurontario Street in Mississauga and Main Street in Brampton were formerly part of this route, but lost the designation with the completion of Highway 410 t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backgauge | A backgauge is a mechanical system, normally attached to a brake press. Its main function is to interface with the brake press computer numerical control (CNC), moving along several different axes in order to precisely position a piece of metal for forming.
Backgauges typically have anywhere from 1 to 6 axes of movement. Each of these individual axes is controlled by a separate electric motor. Often a brake press is sold to a customer in conjunction with a backgauge.
On an extrusion saw, a backgauge is responsible for feeding material at exact amounts past a saw blade. It is responsible for the accuracy of the piece's cut length.
Machine tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimax | Multimax may refer to:
Multimax, parallel computer from Encore Computer, released in 1985
MultiMAX, trailers for oversize load transportation made by the Faymonville Group
Multimax, Air Force contractor acquired by Netco Government Services
See also
Minimax |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh%20Council%20for%20International%20Visitors | GlobalPittsburgh (Formerly Pittsburgh Council for International Visitors) is a non-profit community-based organization based in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania region that is part of a national network under the umbrella of Global Ties U.S. Inaugurated in 1959, GlobalPittsburgh's mission is to forge cultural, educational, and business relationships between Western Pennsylvania and the global community through citizen diplomacy, thereby creating economic and educational opportunities for all. As the designated liaison for the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program in Western Pennsylvania, GlobalPittsburgh designs and implements tailored itineraries for leaders in a variety of fields who are seeking a gateway to the local community and insights into American culture. Additionally, GlobalPittsburgh provides orientations to the city and offers services to international students, scholars, researchers, professionals from other sponsors and their families. For more than five decades, GlobalPittsburgh has enabled more than 75,000 visiting internationals to connect with tens of thousands of people living in the Pittsburgh region. PCIV became GlobalPittsburgh in August, 2009.
Notable Clients
Institute for Software Development, Carnegie Mellon University
Library of Congress
Meridian International Center
External links
Official GlobalPittsburgh Web site
Global Ties U.S.
Non-profit organizations based in Pittsburgh
Foreign relations of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20software%20for%20molecular%20mechanics%20modeling | This is a list of computer programs that are predominantly used for molecular mechanics calculations.
See also
Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics
Comparison of force-field implementations
Comparison of nucleic acid simulation software
List of molecular graphics systems
List of protein structure prediction software
List of quantum chemistry and solid-state physics software
List of software for Monte Carlo molecular modeling
List of software for nanostructures modeling
Molecular design software
Molecular dynamics
Molecular modeling on GPUs
Molecule editor
Notes and references
External links
SINCRIS
Linux4Chemistry
Collaborative Computational Project
World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources
Short list of Molecular Modeling resources
OpenScience
Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank
Materials modelling and computer simulation codes
A few tips on molecular dynamics
atomistic.software - atomistic simulation engines and their citation trends
Computational chemistry software
Computational chemistry
Software comparisons
Molecular dynamics software
Molecular modelling software
Science software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer%20analytics | Customer analytics is a process by which data from customer behavior is used to help make key business decisions via market segmentation and predictive analytics. This information is used by businesses for direct marketing, site selection, and customer relationship management. Marketing provides services in order to satisfy customers. With that in mind, the productive system is considered from its beginning at the production level, to the end of the cycle at the consumer. Customer analytics plays an important role in the prediction of customer behavior.
Uses
RetailAlthough until recently over 90% of retailers had limited visibility on their customers, with increasing investments in loyalty programs, customer tracking solutions and market research, this industry started increasing use of customer analytics in decisions ranging from product, promotion, price and distribution management. The most obvious use of customer analytics in retail today is the development of personalized communications and offers and/or different marketing programs by segment. Additional reasons set forth by Bain & Co. include: prioritizing product development efforts, designing distribution strategies and determining product pricing. Demographic, lifestyle, preference, loyalty data, behavior, shopper value and predictive behavior data points are key to the success of customer analytics.
Retail managementCompanies can use data about customers to restructure retail management. This restructuring using data often occurs in dynamic scheduling and worker evaluations. Through dynamic scheduling, companies optimize staffing through predictive scheduling software based on predictive customer traffic. Worker schedules can be adjusted in response to updated forecasts at short notice. Customer analytics allows retail companies to evaluate workers by comparing daily sales to daily traffic in a store. The use of customer analytics data affecting the management of retail workers in a phenomenon known as refractive surveillance. The model of refractive surveillance describes how the collection of information on one group can affect and allow for the control of an entirely different group.
Criticisms of useAs retail technologies become more data driven, use of customer analytics use has raised criticisms specifically in how they affect the retail worker. Data driven staffing algorithms can lead to irregular working schedules because they can change on short notice to adapt to predicted traffic. Data driven assessment of sales can also be misleading as daily traffic counters do not accurately distinguish between customers and staff and cannot accurately account for workers’ breaks.
FinanceBanks, insurance companies and pension funds make use of customer analytics in understanding customer lifetime value, identifying below-zero customers which are estimated to be around 30% of customer base, increasing cross-sales, managing customer attrition as well as migrating customers to lower |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghen%20Maynard | Ghen Maynard is a television producer and Senior Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, at CBS Studios. Maynard played a key role in the introduction of European reality shows to the American television market.
Early career
In 1988, Maynard received a degree in psychology from Harvard University and pursued a career in publishing at Houghton Mifflin Company.
It was as a post-production coordinator at ABC Productions that Maynard began in television. Maynard joined CBS's drama department as an assistant in 1995, then manager in 1997, helping to develop such series as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Reality TV
Maynard's championing of the reality series Survivor led to his promotion to head of CBS's nascent alternative programming department, where he is credited with developing The Amazing Race, the US version of Big Brother and UPN's America's Next Top Model. Maynard ultimately rose to the level of Senior Vice President, Alternative Programming & Creative Strategies at CBS before leaving for NBC in 2004 to become head of development for scripted programming.
After two years as Executive Vice President, Primetime Development, NBC Entertainment, Maynard returned to CBS to take oversight of the alternative programming and new media content departments for CBS, as well as alternative programming for the CW Television Network and CBS Paramount Network Television, CBS Corporation's television production studio. But after shows such as Greatest American Dog, Armed & Famous, Secret Talents of the Stars failed to garner ratings, Maynard was let out of his CBS contract 10 months early in 2008. Soon after, CW's senior vice president of alternative programming Jennifer Bresnan took on the role of CBS's senior vice president of alternative programming.
After CBS
In August 2011, Maynard placed 54th in the WPT Legends of Poker event. He cashed out with $700.
Footnotes
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Harvard University alumni
American television executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDMA%20Certification%20Forum | CDMA Certification Forum (known as CCF) was the original official authority governing CDMA Device certification. The CCF is an international partnership between network operator and device vendors to maintain and evolve a core global device certification process that helps improve quality through consistent interoperability, conformance and performance testing across the globe. On 31 December 2014, CCF voted to hand all its certification responsibilities to the Global Certification Forum (GCF).
History
July 2004: The CDMA Certification Forum was established as a nonprofit 501(c) organization, with the purpose of defining and implementing a core global handset certification process for cellular phones and terminals using CDMA technology.
October 2006: Washington, DC – CTIA adopts the CCF test plan for CDMA device certification
February 2008: Costa Mesa, CA – The CDMA Development Group (CDG) recognizes the CCF as the sole device certification authority and transfers its recommended test guidelines (CDG 1,2,3 and others) to be merged into the CCF test process.
September 2009: Las Vegas, NV – CTIA CDMA certification is integrated into the CCF certification process as the CTIA Certification Market Endorsement.
June 2011: Sprint market endorsement is approved for use as part of the CCF Certification Program
December 2014: Ceased operational activities
Organization
The CDMA Certification Forum (CCF) and its members are dedicated to improving the quality and time-to-market of all CDMA devices by using a common test process that ensures that they all conform to the same quality and performance standards established by the industry participants and standards bodies.
The CCF also addresses the testing and certification of new/emerging technologies such as M2M, applications testing and more. CCF Members are organized in working groups that develop processes that help vendors and operators to successfully and rapidly get their devices through certification.
The organization consists of:
The Board of Directors includes CDMA Vendors and Operators elected by the statutory members on an annual basis.
The Steering Committee was responsible for day-to-day tactical management of the CCF.
The Technical Working Group was established with the primary charter of defining, validating, implementing, and evolving device certification test plans.
The Certification Working Group was established with the primary charter of defining, implementing, and evolving a certification process for CDMA devices, an authorization process for test labs, and a platform validation process for commercial test platforms.
Additional working groups and sub-working groups were established as needed to achieve the objectives set for by the Steering Committee in pursuit of the member agreed upon work items.
The CDMA Certification Forum counted over 40 member companies including CDMA vendors, manufacturers, test labs and testing equipment manufacturers.
CCF certification process |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout%20HD | Wipeout HD is a futuristic racing video game developed by Studio Liverpool and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is the eighth installment of the Wipeout series and was first released on the PlayStation Network on 25 September 2008 in both Europe and North America, and on 29 October in Japan. A major expansion pack titled Wipeout HD Fury was released worldwide via the PlayStation Network worldwide on 23 July 2009. A retail version was later made available in Europe on 16 October. Both Wipeout HD and its HD Fury Expansion are playable in 3D when connected to a 3D TV.
The game revolves around players competing in the FX350 anti-gravity racing league, and features selected tracks from the PlayStation Portable games Wipeout Pure and Wipeout Pulse, although the content has been upgraded to render 1080p visuals in 60 frames per second. Wipeout HD was developed by Studio Liverpool, who had desired to release a game for the PlayStation store to stress that downloadable content was not reserved for smaller games. The game was delayed for a few months due to reports of it failing epilepsy tests.
Wipeout HD and its expansion pack received positive reviews upon release. Critics unanimously praised the game's 1080p visuals, smooth frame rate, and techno soundtrack – a feature many critics recognised as a hallmark of the Wipeout series. The game received controversy over its in-game advertising at the time of the Fury expansion pack's release, with many players complaining of extended loading times due to in-game advertisements. Wipeout HD, along with its Fury expansion pack, was also chosen as a free offering as part of Sony's "Welcome Back" programme due to the 2011 PlayStation Network outage. The expanded Fury version and the subsequent Wipeout 2048 were remastered for PlayStation 4 and released as Wipeout Omega Collection in 2017.
Gameplay
Wipeout HD is a racing game in which players compete in the FX350 anti-gravity racing league. The game features a selection of eight tracks originally used in Wipeout Pure and Wipeout Pulse, albeit updated in 1080p visuals and rendered in 60 frames per second. Players pilot anti-gravity ships owned by racing corporations (collectively referred to as "teams" in-game). The base game (excluding the Fury expansion pack) allows participation by up to twelve teams, with six ships each, trophy support, an online mode capable of holding eight players per race, and eight race tracks.
The game has five race modes: the first is a standard single race, which involves the player racing to finish first to earn a gold medal; securing second or third place will reward the player with silver and bronze medals, respectively. Tournament mode consists of four single races in each tournament; the player who earns the most points wins. Time trials and speed laps involve obtaining the fastest time in either three laps or a single lap. The final race mode is called "Zone Mode", in which survival is the goa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPFS | MPFS may refer to:
Monty Python's Flying Circus, British comedy group
Multi Path File System, in computing
Metropolitan Police Friendly Society, financial services provider to the Met Police |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narendra%20Patni | Narendra Kumar Patni (9 March 1942 – 3 June 2014) was an entrepreneur and IT visionary who founded Patni Computer Systems and helped establish the overall Indian IT industry.
He is considered a "pioneer of India's information technology (IT) services revolution" and a "doyen of the industry" Patni was listed in the Forbes list of India's 40 Richest in 2005.
Patni was the founder and CEO of Patni Computer Systems, (PTI, PATNI) with headquarters in Kendall Square, Cambridge and Mumbai, India. Patni Computer Systems employed 18,000 people around the world and was listed on the Bombay and New York Stock Exchanges.
Narendra Patni graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and had a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also held an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Patni divided his time between Mumbai, India and Boston, MA.
He died on 3 June 2014 in Boston, MA.
Early life and education
Patni was born in 1942 in Delhi, India to a Jain Business family. He attended the University of Roorkee (presently known as the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee) and graduated with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering in 1964.
He then received a fellowship from the Grass Foundation to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, arriving in the US in 1964—the year before the Immigration and Naturalisation Act of 1965 started Indian emigration to the US in earnest. Patni obtained a Masters in Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SM 1966) and an SM from the Sloan School of Management (SM 1969).
Career
At MIT Patni met Jay W. Forrester, inventor of magnetic core memory, who became his lifelong mentor. After graduating from MIT Patni joined Forrester Consulting Group, which applied "systems analysis approach to complex corporate systems"
In 1972, Patni was president of Forrester Consulting Group, which advised companies and government agencies on technology issues. It was at this time that Patni and his wife Poonam began to conceptualise and test the idea of "offshoring" technology services.
The site of their initial tests, Patni's residence at 10 St Paul Street, Cambridge, "could qualify as a historic landmark" as this is where Narendra and Poonam experimented with converting data from paper documents to computer databases without relying on any oral communications. Patni was convinced of the economic impact that this business model could have and set up Data Conversion, Inc, in October 1972.
Poonam Patni based herself in Pune, India and set up a team of about 20 programmers who entered data into Flexowriter machines for early clients, who included Lexis Nexis, the American Film Institute, and the American Mathematical Society. The paper tape was then converted into magnetic tape and entered into a computer. "At one point of time, DCI was typesetting almost half of the journals publis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs | Btrfs (pronounced as "better F S", "butter F S", "b-tree F S", or B.T.R.F.S.) is a computer storage format that combines a file system based on the copy-on-write (COW) principle with a logical volume manager (not to be confused with Linux's LVM), developed together. It was founded by Chris Mason in 2007 for use in Linux, and since November 2013, the file system's on-disk format has been declared stable in the Linux kernel.
Btrfs is intended to address the lack of pooling, snapshots, checksums, and integral multi-device spanning in Linux file systems. Chris Mason, the principal Btrfs author, stated that its goal was "to let [Linux] scale for the storage that will be available. Scaling is not just about addressing the storage but also means being able to administer and to manage it with a clean interface that lets people see what's being used and makes it more reliable".
History
The core data structure of Btrfsthe copy-on-write B-treewas originally proposed by IBM researcher Ohad Rodeh at a presentation at USENIX 2007. Chris Mason, an engineer working on ReiserFS for SUSE at the time, joined Oracle later that year and began work on a new file system based on these B-trees.
In 2008, the principal developer of the ext3 and ext4 file systems, Theodore Ts'o, stated that although ext4 has improved features, it is not a major advance; it uses old technology and is a stop-gap. Ts'o said that Btrfs is the better direction because "it offers improvements in scalability, reliability, and ease of management". Btrfs also has "a number of the same design ideas that reiser3/4 had".
Btrfs 1.0, with finalized on-disk format, was originally slated for a late-2008 release, and was finally accepted into the Linux kernel mainline in 2009. Several Linux distributions began offering Btrfs as an experimental choice of root file system during installation.
In July 2011, Btrfs automatic defragmentation and scrubbing features were merged into version 3.0 of the Linux kernel mainline. Besides Mason at Oracle, Miao Xie at Fujitsu contributed performance improvements. In June 2012, Chris Mason left Oracle for Fusion-io, which he left a year later with Josef Bacik to join Facebook. While at both companies, Mason continued his work on Btrfs.
In 2012, two Linux distributions moved Btrfs from experimental to production or supported status: Oracle Linux in March, followed by SUSE Linux Enterprise in August.
In 2015, Btrfs was adopted as the default filesystem for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLE) 12.
In August 2017, Red Hat announced in the release notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.4 that it no longer planned to move Btrfs to a fully supported feature (it's been included as a "technology preview" since RHEL 6 beta) noting that it would remain available in the RHEL 7 release series. Btrfs was removed from RHEL 8 in May 2019. RHEL moved from ext4 in RHEL 6 to XFS in RHEL 7.
In 2020, Btrfs was selected as the default file system for Fedora 33 for desktop variants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%20at%2010%3A%20The%20Late%20News | 10 at 10: The Late News is an upcoming Australian late night television news program, to be broadcast on Network 10. It will first air on 10Play at 10:00 pm on weeknights, followed by an approximately half-hour delay on the main channel from 10.30pm.
The bulletin has previously been known as Ten Second Edition News, Ten Late News and Ten Eyewitness News Late. Between 2006 and 2011, the Monday–Thursday evening bulletins were merged with Sports Tonight, with the two bulletins remaining separate on Friday evenings.
Presenters
History
1991–2011
Network 10 began airing national late night news bulletins as part of the network's coverage of the First Gulf War in January 1991, which made extensive use of its rights to carry CNN material. Originally called Ten Evening News: Crisis in the Gulf, the bulletin's first host was veteran newsreader Eric Walters, who was also presenting the 6pm weeknight bulletin in Sydney at the time.
Walters presented Ten Late News for four months, after which, Good Morning Australia news presenter Anne Fulwood took over as presenter of what had now become Ten Second Edition News. The program's straightforward style and format was a clear point of difference with competing programs on rival networks, Seven's chat show Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (which included short news bulletins) and Nine's The World Tonight with Clive Robertson, quickly drawing attention and viewers. Ten's late night news would gradually introduce its own elements including business reports with Robert Gottliebsen and weather forecasts with Ray Wilkie.
Over the next few years, rival networks introduced their own late night news programs, such as the Nine Network's Nightline and Seven Nightly News: Late Edition, initially competing directly with Ten's bulletin. In November 1995, Anne Fulwood resigned from Network Ten to join the Seven Network to present Seven Nightly News: Late Edition - her replacement was Sandra Sully, who would go on to host Ten Late News for most of the next 16 years.
Ten Late News also aired on weekend evenings at around 11pm, hosted by Tracey Spicer for more than a decade, until the axing of the Saturday edition in 2004 and the Sunday edition a year later. At the time, Network Ten were the only network in Australia to broadcast a late night news program at weekends, whilst other networks would continue to air updates until mid to late evening. In 2006, the bulletin was merged with the late weeknight edition of Sports Tonight on Monday - Thursday and presented by Brad McEwan. Charmaine Dragun (co-host of Ten News at Five in Perth) was a regular presenter of the Friday edition of the Late News from 2005 until her death in November 2007 - her replacement was Kathryn Robinson.
In September 2011, the network announced that due to declining ratings and increased competition, the bulletin would be axed. The last edition of Ten Late News, presented by Tim Webster, aired on Friday 30 September 2011. However, the final Monday - Thurs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRENet | The South Australian Broadband Research & Education Network (SABRENet) is a fibre-optic broadband network linking the major research and education sites in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia.
At over 110 km, SABRENet is the second largest underground network in Adelaide after Telstra's.
Sites connected to SABRENet include
All of Adelaide's university campuses
Most teaching hospitals
TAFE colleges
Some public high schools
Research precincts and science parks
The Techport Australia maritime precinct
Two AARNet POPs
SABRENet has been supported by the Australian Government under the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative, and forms part of the Australian Research and Education Network.
SABRENet Ltd is a non-profit public company formed by the SABRENet Members to build, own and operate SABRENet.
The SABRENet Ltd members are Flinders University, the South Australian Government, the
University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia.
See also
Systemic Infrastructure Initiative
AARNet
External links
SABRENet web site
'Grid Today' article - SABRENet Brings High-Speed to Southern Australia
Media release - Premier of South Australia
Media Release - University of Adelaide
ABC TV - Behind the News
Academic computer network organizations
Telecommunications in Australia
Scientific organisations based in Australia
Economy of Adelaide
Organizations established in 2007
Education in Adelaide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%3A%20The%20Hidden%20Language%20of%20Computer%20Hardware%20and%20Software | Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (1999) is a book by Charles Petzold that seeks to teach how personal computers work at a hardware and software level. In the preface to the 2000 softcover edition, Petzold wrote that his goal was for readers to understand how computers work at a concrete level that "just might even rival that of electrical engineers and programmers" and that he "went as far back" as he could go in regard to the history of technological development. Petzold describes Code as being structured as moving "up each level in the hierarchy" in which computers are constructed. On June 10, 2022, Petzold announced that an expanded second edition would be published on August 19, 2022 and he is building a companion interactive website.
The idea of writing the book came to him in 1987 while writing a column called "PC Tutor" for PC Magazine.
Chapter outline
Best Friends
Codes and Combinations
Braille and Binary Codes
Anatomy of a Flashlight
Seeing Around Corners
Telegraphs and Relays
Our Ten Digits
Alternatives to Ten
Bit by Bit by Bit
Logic and Switches
Gates (Not Bill)
A Binary Adding Machine
But What About Subtraction?
Feedback and Flip-Flops
Bytes and Hex
An Assemblage of Memory
Automation
From Abaci to Chips
Two Classic Microprocessors
ASCII and a Cast of Characters
Get on the Bus
The Operating System
Fixed Point, Floating Point
Languages High and Low
The Graphical Revolution
Content
Petzold begins Code by discussing older technologies like Morse code, Braille, and Boolean logic, which he uses to explain vacuum tubes, transistors, and integrated circuits. Code is notable for its explanations of historical technologies in order to build the pieces for further understanding. Electricity is explained through the example of a basic flashlight, which is then expanded upon through the explanation of the electrical telegraph. He noted that "very smart people" had to go down the "dead ends" of mechanical computers and decimal computing before reaching a scalable solution—namely, the electronic, binary computer with a von Neumann architecture. The book also covers more recent developments, including topics like floating point math, operating systems, and ASCII.
The book focuses on "pre-networked computers" and does not cover concepts like distributed computing because Petzold thought that it would not be as useful for "most people using the Internet", his intended audience. Specifically, he said in an interview that his "main hope" in writing Code was to impart upon his readers a "really good feeling for what a bit is, and how bits are combined to convey information".
Reception
Software engineer and blogger Jeff Atwood described Code as a "love letter to the computer".
Publishers Weekly, shortly after Code'''s publication, said "Initial response, at least among traditional tech book readers, has been positive" and quotes the book's editor, Ben Ryan, as saying "We're trying to cross the b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSW%20%28disambiguation%29 | BSW may refer to:
Bachelor of Social Work, an academic qualification at some institutions
Bally Sports West, American regional sports network owned and operated by Bally Sports
Batesville Southwestern Railroad
Birmingham Snow Hill railway station, Birmingham, England (National Rail station code: BSW)
Black Sidewall is a characteristic of a tire used in the reference code.
Blind Spot Warning, an auto-safety capability
Boswell Bay Airport (IATA: BSW)
BrettspielWelt, an online boardgame portal
British School of Washington, a DC area private school specializing in British and international curriculum
British Standard Whitworth, an imperial-unit based screw-thread standard
Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, a German political party
Byelorussian Steel Works
BSW Weert, a Dutch professional basketball team |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%9F%E7%A9%BA | may refer to:
Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific (formerly known as in Chinese), an operator of specialty television channels based in Hong Kong
Sky (Malaysian TV series), a Malaysian Mandarin drama series
Starry Starry Night (film), a 2011 Taiwanese-Chinese fantasy drama film
Xing Kong, a Mandarin language television channel targeting Mainland China
The Starry Night, a painting by the Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh
Tartaros Online, a South Korean online game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PixelJunk | PixelJunk is a series of downloadable games developed by Q-Games. The series made its debut on PlayStation 3 with PixelJunk Racers, released July 11, 2007.
The series was published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation platforms until 2012, with Q-Games themselves publishing on other platforms and for PlayStation in Japan. Spike Chunsoft handled worldwide publishing for PixelJunk Monsters 2 in 2018.
Development
PixelJunk is developed by Q-Games, headed by Dylan Cuthbert. The series began in 2007 with the release of PixelJunk Racers. While Racers was met with modest critical and commercial reception, 2008 and 2009 saw the releases of the more popular, critically acclaimed titles PixelJunk Monsters, PixelJunk Eden and PixelJunk Shooter.
In an interview at TGS 2009, Q-Games stated that proper development on PixelJunk 1-5 would start in 2010. A PixelJunk title known tentatively as PixelJunk Dungeons, and was in the conceptual phase of production in 2008. Q-Games officially revealed PixelJunk 1-5 as PixelJunk Lifelike on September 16, 2010 during the SCEI's 2010 Tokyo Game Show conference. However, it was later renamed PixelJunk 4am. It is unclear if PixelJunk Dungeons is still under development.
On May 18, 2010 PixelJunk Shooter 2 was revealed on the official PlayStation blog due for release in 2011.
Games
Series 1
The first series of PixelJunk games are all described by Q-Games president Dylan Cuthbert as having "simplicity, familiarity, and originality" in common. Games in the first series are also two-dimensional and run in 1080p HD at 60fps.
Series 2
The second series was planned concurrently with the first. In 2008, Cuthbert suggested that games of the second series could "take some of the old 3D looks and bring them up to the full HD kind of style." He later confirmed Series 2 would "venture into aesthetically pleasing 3D."
Spin-offs
PixelJunk Museum
On September 24, 2009, Q-Games released a virtual space for PlayStation Home. Titled PixelJunk Museum (PixelJunk Exhibition in North America), the space included virtual displays for PixelJunk Racers, PixelJunk Monsters, and PixelJunk Eden, as well as a virtual gift shop where users could buy PixelJunk and Q Games-branded Home items. A separate "room" featuring the interior of the "Ers Piñita Colada" space center from PixelJunk Shooter was added to the space on December 17, 2009 in the NA region.
The Japanese version of the space included an exclusive "Q-Games virtual public TGS Booth" — a recreation of the Q-Games booth at the 2009 Tokyo Games Show where users could claim a free T-shirt for their Home avatar.
References
External links
PixelJunk official website
Q-Games official website
Video game franchises introduced in 2007
Video game franchises
Q-Games games
de:Q-Games#PixelJunk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrical%20algebraic%20decomposition | In mathematics, cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) is a notion, and an algorithm to compute it, that are fundamental for computer algebra and real algebraic geometry. Given a set S of polynomials in Rn, a cylindrical algebraic decomposition is a decomposition of Rn into connected semialgebraic sets called cells, on which each polynomial has constant sign, either +, − or 0. To be cylindrical, this decomposition must satisfy the following condition: If 1 ≤ k < n and π is the projection from Rn onto Rn−k consisting in removing the last k coordinates, then for every pair of cells c and d, one has either π(c) = π(d) or π(c) ∩ π(d) = ∅. This implies that the images by π of the cells define a cylindrical decomposition of Rn−k.
The notion was introduced by George E. Collins in 1975, together with an algorithm for computing it.
Collins' algorithm has a computational complexity that is double exponential in n. This is an upper bound, which is reached on most entries. There are also examples for which the minimal number of cells is doubly exponential, showing that every general algorithm for cylindrical algebraic decomposition has a double exponential complexity.
CAD provides an effective version of quantifier elimination over the reals that has a much better computational complexity than that resulting from the original proof of Tarski–Seidenberg theorem. It is efficient enough to be implemented on a computer. It is one of the most important algorithms of computational real algebraic geometry. Searching to improve Collins' algorithm, or to provide algorithms that have a better complexity for subproblems of general interest, is an active field of research.
Implementations
Mathematica: CylindricalDecomposition
QEPCAD -- Quantifier Elimination by Partial Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition
redlog
Maple: The RegularChains Library and ProjectionCAD
References
Basu, Saugata; Pollack, Richard; Roy, Marie-Françoise Algorithms in real algebraic geometry. Second edition. Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics, 10. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006. x+662 pp. ; 3-540-33098-4
Strzebonski, Adam. Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition from MathWorld.
Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition in Chapter 6 ("Combinatorial Motion Planning") of Planning algorithms by Steven M. LaValle. Accessed 8 February 2023
Caviness, Bob; Johnson, Jeremy; Quantifier Elimination and Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition. Texts and Monographs in Symbolic Computation. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998.
Collins, George E.: Quantifier elimination for the elementary theory of real closed fields by cylindrical algebraic decomposition, Second GI Conf. Automata Theory and Formal Languages, Springer LNCS 33, 1975.
Davenport, James H.; Heintz, Joos: Real quantifier elimination is doubly exponential, Journal of Symbolic Computation, 1988. Volume 5, Issues 1–2, ISSN 0747-7171,
Algebra
Real algebraic geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Newell | Richard G. Newell is a British businessman and technologist in the software industry in Computer aided design (CAD) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Career
Newell holds degrees in Civil Engineering and Numerical Analysis and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London.
As a software engineer, he worked at CADCentre alongside his brother Martin Newell who is perhaps best known as the creator of the Utah Teapot (or Newell teapot). It was at the centre that Newell oversaw the creation of the successful Plant Design Management System (PDMS) for 3D process plant design. In 1972 Newell, his brother Martin and Tom Sancha proposed the Newell's algorithm procedure.
He co-founded his first company, Cambridge Interactive Systems Ltd. (CIS) in 1977. CIS was part of what became known as 'The Cambridge Phenomenon'. Newell co-founded Smallworld Systems in 1988. The company was successfully floated, on NASDAQ in 1996 and was subsequently sold to General Electric Corporation (GE) in 2000.
Newell held the position of Chairman of both CIS and Smallworld Systems.
He is currently a Non-Executive Director of UltraVision CLPL with business partners J. Keith Lomas and John H. Clamp. He is also a Director of Ubisense and Digital Spring.
Newell has also held a council member position for the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). In 2016 he received the BTO's Marsh Award for Innovative Ornithology for his work with Action for Swifts.
References
British technology company founders
Businesspeople in information technology
Living people
British ornithologists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partners%20for%20Democratic%20Change%20International | Partners for Democratic Change International (PDCI) is a network of partner non-governmental organizations (NGOs) focused on civil and societal reform in their respective countries. Founded under the Partners for Democratic Change (Partners) program, the PDCI has local centers in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Africa. They assist in areas like civil society, good governance and a culture of change and conflict management worldwide.
Organization
PDCI's history
Established in 1989, Partners for Democratic Change emerged in response to the seismic shifts occurring in Central and Eastern Europe during that time. In an initial response to these transformative developments, Partners swiftly established centers across diverse regions, spanning Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Africa. This strategic approach facilitated the cultivation and reinforcement of sustainable capabilities and local expertise, uniquely positioned to address an array of challenges encompassing governmental, business, and civil society conflicts, disputes, and transformative processes. The organization's primary method of intervention was rooted in mediating processes and meticulously crafted programs.
At present, Partners for Democratic Change functions as an autonomous non-governmental entity. Distinguished by its distinctive areas of expertise, these affiliated organizations share a fundamental set of core competencies. This common foundation empowers them to impart training to a diverse spectrum of individuals, ranging from citizens and government officials to non-governmental activists and corporate leaders. These training initiatives are conducted on both national and regional scales, facilitating the dissemination of invaluable knowledge and skills. Moreover, the organizations adeptly employ their wealth of mediating and collaborative proficiency, employing these methodologies to address public disputes and complex societal challenges.
A significant milestone in the evolution of the Partners network occurred as early as 1998 when a subsequent generation of organizations associated with Partners for Democratic Change began to take shape. This evolutionary phase witnessed the establishment of coordination mechanisms and exchanges within the network. Building on this foundation, in 2001, the network members collectively ratified the PDCI Charter. This pivotal moment marked the commencement of a tradition wherein members convened three times annually, concurrently contributing to a designated "PDCI Fund."
The network secretariat in Brussels
In the year 2006, the members collectively established PDCI, a non-profit association operating under the auspices of Belgian law. This momentous endeavor was underpinned by a resolute commitment to mutual knowledge sharing, expertise dissemination, and skill enhancement. The overarching objective was to fortify each member organization, bolster their endeavors at national, regional, and global levels, and forge a c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCF | XCF may refer to:
XCF (file format), file format of the Gimp image editing computer program
IBM XCF, a component of the z/OS operating system
The eXperimental Computing Facility at the UC Berkeley
Exploratory Cask Finish (XCF), special whiskey bottlings by the Willett Distillery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProgDVB | ProgDVB is a freeware/shareware software used to watch digital TV channels and listen to radio on computers. It supports DVB-S (satellite), DVB-S2, DVB-C (cable), DVB-T (terrestrial) and IPTV sources.
Internet polls show that ProgDVB is the most popular program used to watch DVB TV.
Editions
There is a freeware and a shareware edition of ProgDVB; the shareware edition adds:
Picture-in-picture support
Recorder and Scheduler
Digital Satellite Equipment Control
Starting with version 5.x ProgDVB began using the .NET Framework for its GUI.
References
External links
Official Website
Digital Video Broadcasting software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20redundancy | Logic redundancy occurs in a digital gate network containing circuitry that does not affect the static logic function. There are several reasons why logic redundancy may exist. One reason is that it may have been added deliberately to suppress transient glitches (thus causing a race condition) in the output signals by having two or more product terms overlap with a third one.
Consider the following equation:
The third product term is a redundant consensus term. If switches from 1 to 0 while and , remains 1. During the transition of signal in logic gates, both the first and second term may be 0 momentarily. The third term prevents a glitch since its value of 1 in this case is not affected by the transition of signal .
Another reason for logic redundancy is poor design practices which unintentionally result in logically redundant terms. This causes an unnecessary increase in network complexity, and possibly hampering the ability to test manufactured designs using traditional test methods (single stuck-at fault models). Testing might be possible using IDDQ models.
Removing logic redundancy
Logic redundancy is, in general, not desired.
Redundancy, by definition, requires extra parts (in this case: logical terms) which raises the cost of implementation (either actual cost of physical parts or CPU time to process).
Logic redundancy can be removed by several well-known techniques, such as Karnaugh maps, the Quine–McCluskey algorithm, and the heuristic computer method.
Adding logic redundancy
In some cases it may be desirable to add logic redundancy. One of those cases is to avoid race conditions whereby an output can fluctuate because different terms are "racing" to turn off and on. To explain this in more concrete terms the Karnaugh map to the right shows the minterms for the following function:
The boxes represent the minimal AND/OR terms needed to implement this function:
The k-map visually shows where race conditions occur in the minimal expression by having gaps between minterms, for example, the gap between the blue and green rectangles. If the input were to change from to then a race will occur between turning off and turning on.
If the blue term switches off before the green turns on then the output will fluctuate and may register as 0.
Another race condition is between the blue and the red for transition from to .
The race condition is removed by adding in logic redundancy.
Both minterm race conditions are covered by addition of the yellow term .
In this case, the addition of logic redundancy has stabilized the output to avoid output fluctuations because terms are racing each other to change state.
Notes
Boolean algebra
Electronic engineering
Digital electronics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamous%20%28video%20game%29 | Infamous is an action-adventure video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3. The game was released in May 2009. In Infamous, the player controls the protagonist Cole MacGrath, a bike messenger caught in the center of an explosion that devastates several city blocks of the fictional Empire City. The explosion sends the city into chaos while Cole finds himself with new electricity-based super powers. Though the game's story follows Cole using his new abilities to restore some semblance of order to Empire City, the player is given several opportunities to use these powers for good or evil purposes in the game's Karma system. These choices ultimately affect character growth, the reaction of the city's populace towards Cole, and finer elements of gameplay and the story.
Sucker Punch developed Infamous as a change of pace from their earlier Sly Cooper series of stealth-based games, but using a similar comic book-inspired origin story to help the player become more connected with Cole. The game's pacing in the introduction of new super powers and ease of movement about the city by unconventional means were critical factors during development. The desolate urban atmosphere was inspired by comics such as DMZ and Batman: No Man's Land. Amon Tobin was among the artists that helped to compile its soundtrack, which aimed to reflect the environment.
The game was well received by the gaming press. It was praised for many of its elements, including the implementation of Cole's powers and climbing ability, and the game's mission structure. Reviewers commented on the repetitive nature of combat and enemies, limitations of the Karma system, and technical aspects in the graphical display. Infamous was compared to and contrasted with Prototype, a video game released the following month which had many elements similar to Infamous. The game was offered by Sony as a free download as part of their 'Welcome Back' program, after the 2011 PlayStation Network outage. The game was followed by a sequel, Infamous 2 in June 2011.
Gameplay
Infamous is an action-adventure game set in an open world environment and played from a third-person perspective where the player controls Cole and primarily interacts with the world of Empire City through Cole's newly gained electricity-based powers; these are used for movement, offense and defense in combat, and either for better or worse in dealing with the citizens of Empire City. In order for Cole to use his powers, he must have stored electrical power, represented by a node meter on the player's heads up display (HUD). The player can recharge Cole by draining electricity from powered sources or from living beings; recharging also restores Cole's health, which is indicated by blood splattering onto the screen. The more damage that Cole takes, the more blood that covers the screen. When Cole's health is at a critical level, the screen will turn black and white, and if |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpg4win | Gpg4win is an email and file encryption package for most versions of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Outlook, which utilises the GnuPG framework for symmetric and public-key cryptography, such as data encryption, digital signatures, hash calculations etc.
History of Gpg4win
The original creation of Gpg4win was initiated and funded by Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in 2005, resulting in the release of Gpg4win 1.0.0 on 6 April 2006; however Gpg4win and all included tools are free and open source software, and it is typically the non-proprietary option for privacy recommended to Windows users.
As Gpg4win v1 was a much overhauled derivate of GnuPP, both were using GnuPG v1 for cryptographic operations and thus only supported OpenPGP as cryptography standard.
Hence in 2007 the development of a fundamentally enhanced version was started, also with support from the German BSI (Federal Office for Information Security); this effort culminated in the release of Gpg4win 2.0.0 on 7 August 2009 after a protracted beta testing phase, which was based on GnuPG 2.0, included S/MIME support, Kleopatra as a new certificate manager, the Explorer plug-in GpgEX for cryptography operations on files, basic support of smart cards, a full set of German dialogue texts in addition to the English ones, new manuals in English and German, plus many other enhancements.
In contrast to Gpg4win v2, which focused on new features and software components, the development of Gpg4win v3 focused on usability, plus consolidation of code and features: This resulted in the release of Gpg4win 3.0.0 on 19 September 2017 with proper support for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) by utilising GnuPG 2.2 (instead of 2.0), broadened, stabilised and enhanced smart card support, a fundamentally overhauled Outlook plug-in GpgOL for Outlook 2010 and newer, support of 64-bit versions of Outlook 2010 and newer, supporting dialogues in all languages which KDE supports etc. It is also distributed as GnuPG VS-Desktop with commercial support and approval for handling NATO RESTRICTED, RESTREINT UE/EU RESTRICTED and German VS-NfD documents, which in turn has become the major source of revenue for maintaining and further developing the GnuPG framework and Gpg4win.
Gpg4win 4.0.0, released on 21 December 2021, switched to using GnuPG 2.3 (from 2.2) and continued to refine and enhance the feature set of Gpg4win v3.
Contents of Gpg4win Installer
GnuPG: the core cryptography framework
Certificate managers
Kleopatra: certificate manager for OpenPGP and X.509
GPA: an alternative certificate manager (GNU) for OpenPGP and X.509
Plug-ins for email and file cryptography
GpgOL: a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook to provide email encryption and signing
GpgEX: a plug-in for the Windows Explorer to provide file encryption, signing and hash calculations
Gpg4win Compendium: an introduction to encryption (OpenPGP and X.509) and user manual for Gpg4win
See also
E-mail privacy
Reference |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocation%20site | An allocation site is the method, in Object-oriented programming, in which a particular object is created. For example, if a method creates a new object Test it is considered an allocation site for that object.
References
Object-oriented programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MonRoi | MonRoi, Inc. is a Montreal-based company that created a system to allow the recording of chess games in an electronic format. The system also allows for games to be broadcast via MonRoi's World Databank of Chess in realtime, as the games are being played.
MonRoi is one of five electronic scorekeeping devices that are approved for use during USCF rated games. The other four are the DGT Electronic Chessboard the eNotate computer program running on a Windows Mobile PDA, Plycounter, and ChessNoteR which uses the Android operating system and repurposes a Motorola Nexus 6 device to deliver its software.
The MonRoi system uses the Personal Chess Manager (PCM) to input moves on an electronic screen, similar to PDA's, rather than using the paper score sheet to record moves. The PCM stores the games for future retrieval or for downloading to a computer via a memory card. The system also allows for the Professional Tournament Manager (PTM) to be connected to a computer, allowing chess arbiters and organizers to monitor all the devices, collect the games for publication and to broadcast hundreds of games simultaneously on the Internet.
The MonRoi system has been approved for use by FIDE, the European Chess Union and the United States Chess Federation.
The MonRoi system was invented and patented by Brana Malobabic-Giancristofaro, an electrical engineer whose credentials include developing new technologies at Nortel Networks.
MonRoi, Inc. launched the first MonRoi International Women's Grand Prix, recognizing women in chess. The company collaborated with the European Chess Union, the Continental Chess Association, the Quebec Chess Federation, the Chess'n Math Association, the Susan Polgar Foundation and the Association of Chess Professionals. The Grand-Prix Finale was an eight-player round robin format tournament held in Montreal in July 2007. The host countries for the qualification events included Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Italy, Liechtenstein, and the USA.
References
External links
MonRoi, Inc. Website
Monroi Personal Chess Manager User Guide
Canadian Patent CA 2512046: System and devices for real-time electronic chess move recording, viewing and storage
Sharp Microelectronics System Solution Chosen for MonRoi Portable Chess Manager Design
Chess notation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale%E2%80%93Church%20alignment%20algorithm | In computational linguistics, the Gale–Church algorithm is a method for aligning corresponding sentences in a parallel corpus. It works on the principle that equivalent sentences should roughly correspond in length—that is, longer sentences in one language should correspond to longer sentences in the other language. The algorithm was described in a 1993 paper by William A. Gale and Kenneth W. Church of AT&T Bell Laboratories.
References
External links
Computational linguistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus%20Hestenes | Magnus Rudolph Hestenes (February 13, 1906 – May 31, 1991) was an American mathematician best known for his contributions to calculus of variations and optimal control. As a pioneer in computer science, he devised the conjugate gradient method, published jointly with Eduard Stiefel.
Biography
Born in Bricelyn, Minnesota, Hestenes graduated with a B.S. in 1927 from St. Olaf College and with an M.A. in 1928 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1932 under Gilbert Bliss. His dissertation was titled "Sufficient Conditions for the General Problem of Mayer with Variable End-Points." After teaching as an associate professor at Chicago, in 1947 he moved to a professorship at UCLA. He continued there until his retirement in 1973, and during that time he served as department chair from 1950 to 1958. While a professor, Hestenes supervised the thesis research of 34 students, among them Glen Culler, Richard Tapia and Jesse Wilkins, Jr.
Hestenes received the Guggenheim (1954) and Fulbright awards, was a vice president of the American Mathematical Society, and was an invited speaker at the 1954 International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam.
He is the father of mathematician and physicist David Hestenes.
He died on May 31, 1991, in Los Angeles, California.
Selected publications
(M.A. thesis)
References
External links
Obituary in the Numerical Analysis Digest
1906 births
1991 deaths
St. Olaf College alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
University of Chicago alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
20th-century American mathematicians
Burials at Pacific View Memorial Park |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashman%20%28video%20game%29 | Cashman is a computer game by Bill Dunlevy (co-creator of Time Bandit) and Doug Frayer for the TRS-80 Color Computer and Dragon 32 (Also released on the Sanyo MBC-550), published by Computer Shack in July 1983. The game contains a mixture of elements from other platform games, most notably Jumpman. The player can control either a Sailor or a Sheikh, running up and down stairs and avoiding bats, cats, bombs, and other creatures in order to collect dollar signs. It was one of the most popular third party games for the system .
References
External links
Review in The Rainbow
1983 video games
Dragon 32 games
Platformers
TRS-80 Color Computer games
Video games developed in the United States
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison%20Grodner | Allison Grodner is an American director, producer and writer, who has worked in documentary and reality-based programming. She is best known for her work on the American version of the reality TV show Big Brother. She is an executive producer of Big Brother and Big Brother: After Dark. Grodner is also executive producer of She's Got the Look on TV LAND, You're Cut Off! on VH1, reality series Plain Jane and Remodeled on The CW, and Battle of the Ex Besties on Oxygen.
Grodner won Emmy Awards in 1999 and 2001 for Outstanding Children's Program for The Teen Files, shared with Arnold Shapiro.
References
External links
American television directors
American television producers
American women television producers
American Jews
American television writers
American women television directors
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
American reality television producers
American women television writers
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20Metropolitan%20Bus%20Service%20Contracts | The Sydney Metropolitan Bus Service Contracts are contracts issued by the Government of New South Wales to metropolitan bus operators in Sydney, Australia, to operate its public bus route network. Since 2005, the government has moved from individual contracts with operators to larger contract regions, leading to the consolidation of bus operators.
History
In February 2004 the Unsworth Review of Bus Services conducted by former Transport Minister and Premier Barrie Unsworth, reported its findings to the Carr Government, recommending that the number of contract areas that existed in Sydney be reduced from 87 to 15 with a lead entity identified for each region to negotiate a contract. This was adopted with the first seven-year performance based contract signed in January 2005. By June 2005, eight had been signed. In some cases the existing operators formed joint venture companies to have a single contract with the government while in other regions there were some takeovers.
The contracts resulted in some consolidation of operators. Harris Park Transport and Moores Tours decided to cease operating at short notice in December 2004. Some of Baxter's Bus Lines routes passed to Connex and Transit First in January 2005. Further consolidation took place after the contracts commenced with Baxter's selling its remaining routes to Westbus in September 2006, Transit First selling out to Connex in February 2007. Veolia (formerly Connex), who operated in regions 10 and 13, took over region 11 operators Crowthers in January 2009 and Caringbah Bus Service in October 2011. The two takeovers resulted in the merger of regions 10 and 11 to form an expanded region 10, reducing the total number of regions to fourteen.
With the contracts coming up for renewal and following a change in government, the O'Farrell Government decided to put the provision of the services out to competitive tender. Transdev NSW was able to negotiate a direct award for regions 10 and 13 after agreeing to provide access to its bus and depot assets at the end of the contracts. The regions operated by State Transit were not included at this stage, however region 6 was tendered out from July 2018.
Under the 2005 contracts, all new buses were purchased by the government and leased to the operators. As a result, when regions have changed hands, all of the post 2005 built buses have remained with the region, with the older buses retained by the outgoing operators.
2020–2023 tenders
With the exception of region 6, the government announced in October 2019 that the contracts for the other thirteen regions will be put out to competitive tender by 2022. These contracts were originally due to expire in 2021 and 2022.
The first three regions to be put out to tender were the three remaining State Transit regions 7 to 9. Tenders for Region 8 opened in June 2020 and closed on 30 September 2020, with Keolis Downer announced as the successful tenderer in May 2021. Tenders for Region 7 opened in August 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN%20%28operating%20system%29 | The SPIN operating system is a research project implemented in the computer programming language Modula-3, and is an open source project. It is designed with three goals: flexibility, safety, and performance. SPIN was developed at the University of Washington.
The kernel can be extended by dynamic loading of modules which implement interfaces that represent domains. These domains are defined by Modula-3 INTERFACE. All kernel extensions are written in Modula-3 safe subset with metalanguage constructs and type safe casting system. The system also issued a special run-time extension compiler.
One set of kernel extensions provides an application programming interface (API) that emulates the Digital UNIX system call interface. This allows Unix applications to run on SPIN.
References
External links
Free software operating systems
Microkernel-based operating systems
Microkernels
1994 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosocial%20networking | Geosocial networking is a type of social networking in which geographic services and capabilities such as geocoding and geotagging are used to enable additional social dynamics. User-submitted location data or geolocation techniques can allow social networks to connect and coordinate users with local people or events that match their interests. Geolocation on web-based social network services can be IP-based or use hotspot trilateration. For mobile social networks, texted location information or mobile phone tracking can enable location-based services to enrich social networking.
History
The evolution of geosocial can be traced back to the implication of social application programming interfaces by internet-based corporations in the early 2000s. eBay uses one of the oldest, announcing its social API at the end of 2000 and allowing free access to over 21,000 developers in late 2005. Amazon's primary API was released in 2002, which allowed developers to pull consumer information like product reviews into third-party applications. Google, Inc. began testing an API in April 2002 and currently owns dozens that are used by thousands of applications.
The Facebook Developer's API is considered the first to be specific to a social network and was launched in 2006. Facebook later created an open stream API, allowing outside developers access to user's status updates. By June, 2010, Twitter integrated API into their applications and is considered the most open of all social networks.
By 2008, expanded geolocation technologies including cell tower localization became available and devices such as digital cameras and camera phones began to integrate features such as Wi-Fi connectivity and GPS navigation into more sophisticated capabilities.
Uses
Geosocial networking allows users to interact relative to their current locations. Web mapping services with geocoding data for places (streets, buildings, and parks) can be used with geotagged information (meetups, concert events, nightclubs or restaurant reviews) to match users with a place, event or local group to socialize in or enable a group of users to decide on a meeting activity. Popular geosocial applications like Yelp, Gowalla, Facebook Places and Foursquare allow users to share their locations as well as recommendations for locations or 'venues'. New applications follow other approaches and do not focus on places. Instead, they allow users to enrich maps with their own points of interest and build kind of travel books for themselves. At the same time users can explore overlays of other users as collaborative extension.
In disaster scenarios, geosocial networking can allow users to coordinate around collaboratively filtered geotag information on hazards and disaster aid activities to develop a collective situational awareness through an assembly of individual perspectives. This type of geosocial networking is known as collaborative mapping. Furthermore, geolocated messages could assist automated tools t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Cutler%20%28disambiguation%29 | Dave Cutler is a software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems.
Dave or David Cutler may also refer to:
Dave Cutler (Canadian football) (born 1945), place kicker with the Edmonton Eskimos
David Cutler (born 1965), economist and professor at Harvard University
David Cutler Group, housebuilding company
David Cutler (bowls) (born 1954), British bowler
David F. Cutler (born 1939), British botanist
Cutler, Dave |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Reid | Brian Reid may refer to:
Brian Reid (computer scientist) (born 1949), computer scientist
Brian Reid (historian), Canadian military historian
Brian Reid (footballer) (born 1970), former Scottish footballer and current manager
Brian Reid (motorcyclist), Irish motorcycle racer
Brian Reid (entrepreneur) (born 1972)
See also
Brian Read (born 1939), cricketer
Brian Reade (born 1957), British writer and radio presenter
Bryan Reid, musician in Truthhorse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus%20Hawk | The Nexus Hawk 4G is a gateway router linking broadband cellular data, such as CDMA, GSM and Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11)a, b, g, n) and WAN (such as BGAN Satellite) networks providing enterprises with broadband wireless internet/network data services in mobile and remote environments.
The Nexus Hawk's original development was funded under a DOD (Department of Defense) prime contract. The technology was primarily designed for military use and supports public safety. The Nexus Hawk is currently in use by law enforcement agencies, governmental data infrastructure, commercial fleet, connectivity in and to retail locations, and livery services in Washington, DC.
The device provides secure access to public and private wired and wireless networks including, Sprint (CDMA EVDO Rev A, 1xRTT), Verizon Wireless LTE, CDMA EVDO Rev A 1xRTT, AT&T Wireless 4G, GSM /HSDPA, Telus HSDPA+, CDMA EVDO Rev A 1xRTT, Washington DC EVDO Rev A Regional Wireless Broadband Network (RWBN), non-U.S. cellular networks, and secure WiFi. GPS for applications such as Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) sometimes commercial referred to as fleet tracking or Geo-Based Dispatch and Navigation. Connectivity to multiple simultaneous WAN via GIG ethernet, USB or WiFi paths with user-selectable order for failover and fail back. Access to 4 simultaneous WANS and GPS. Automatic and persistent network connections. Incorporates 2 USB and 4 PCI-M slots to accommodate future networks such as WiMAX and Public Safety Band), accepts ExpressCard 34mm air cards, PCMCIA CardBus air cards and USB air cards via adapter, Secure Remote Configuration Management, Built in IPsec and OpenVPN and pass through security features, FIPS140-2 SSL Certified Module.
See also
HSPA
Huawei E220
External links
Nexus Hawk Official website
Networking companies of the United States
Telecommunications equipment
Wireless networking hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dan%20Le%20Batard%20Show%20with%20Stugotz | The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz is a syndicated sports talk show hosted by Dan Le Batard and Jon "Stugotz" Weiner broadcast out of Miami. It was also carried on many ESPN Radio Network affiliates nationwide and simulcast nationally on various ESPN platforms until the show's departure from ESPN in January 2021.
The show features commentary on the day's sports news, perspective on other news stories, interviews with sports analysts and athletes, as well as pop culture. The hosts are known for their self-deprecating humor, which carries over through running jokes.
History
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz first aired on September 1, 2004, heard on AM 790 WAXY. After running for nine years on local radio, The Dan Le Batard Show debuted on ESPN Radio on September 30, 2013.
On February 14, 2007, the week of the 2007 NBA All-Star Game, former Miami Heat player Tim Hardaway appeared on the show. When asked if he would be accepting of a gay teammate, such as retired NBA center John Amaechi, Hardaway replied: "First of all, I wouldn't want him on my team." Hardaway continued, "You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known," Hardaway said. "I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States." NBA commissioner David Stern, upon learning of the remarks Wednesday, banished Hardaway from All-Star weekend in Las Vegas. Following the comments, Hardaway apologized and attended counseling. He has also made public appearances supporting gay rights, including one in El Paso, Texas in response to an attempted recall.
In early 2015, it was announced that the show would be televised on Fusion starting May 19, 2015. After the departure of Colin Cowherd from ESPN, the network moved the time slot of the show into the 10 AM to 1 PM slot formerly occupied by The Herd with Colin Cowherd, and moved the live simulcast to ESPNU, with the Fusion broadcast shifting to a tape delay from 1 to 4 PM. On May 18, 2016, Fusion aired the show for the last time as the year-long contract with ABC/Disney was expired and was not renewed.
The TV portion of the show then remained solely on ESPNU with the show airing live from 10 AM to 1 PM with no tape-delay. On January 10, 2017, the final hour of the show began simulcasting on ESPN2, but in July 2017, the show's final hour returned to airing on ESPNU. On April 2, 2018, the show's simulcast moved to ESPNews. The show was heard in the Miami area Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 1 PM ET on WAXY AM 790 "The Ticket" and nationally on ESPN Radio from 10 AM to 1 PM.
In February 2017, Magic Johnson was named as the president of basketball operations of the Los Angeles Lakers. Le Batard then questioned his qualifications and cited less than successful ventures into both NBA coaching and television broadcasting. Other ESPN commentators took offense to Le Batard's accusations that Johnson was unqualified and also suggested that rac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse%20Sign | The Westinghouse Sign was the first computer-controlled sign in the United States. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the large animated display advertised the Westinghouse Electric Company, and was best known for the seemingly endless number of combinations in which its individual elements could be illuminated. The sign was removed in 1998 when the building on which it was mounted was demolished to make way for the construction of PNC Park.
History
On December 9, 1948, the Westinghouse Electric Supply Company (Wesco) moved into a new building located at 209 West General Robinson Street in the North Shore section of Pittsburgh. Wesco was a wholesale distributor of electrical apparatus, and a subsidiary of the Westinghouse Electric Company founded by George Westinghouse in 1886.
For many years, a large orange and blue sign on the Wesco roof proclaimed the company's advertising slogan: "You can be sure…if it’s Westinghouse." The sign was pointed to the south, across the Allegheny River, making it easy to see from Downtown Pittsburgh.
Early in 1966, Westinghouse decided to replace the aging advertising sign on the Wesco Building. The idea was to remove the slogan from the existing support structure, and replace it with a modern view of the Westinghouse corporate identity.
In due course, Richard Huppertz, manager of design coordination at Westinghouse, developed a concept that would bring greater recognition to the 'circle w' logo created by graphic designer Paul Rand. Rather than using words, the sign Huppertz had in mind would rely solely on the Westinghouse corporate mark. The concept was then presented to Paul Rand, who produced a design emphasizing the nine elements of the logo he had illustrated in a 1960 graphics standards guide.
Construction and operation
The Pittsburgh Outdoor Advertising Corporation installed the Westinghouse sign in June 1967 using of neon tubing filled with argon gas, giving the display its characteristic blue color. The sign was composed of nine repetitions of the familiar 'circle w' logo, each of which was in diameter and initially divided into nine sections—the enclosing circle, the four diagonal strokes of the W, the three dots above the W, and the bar below—meaning that the entire sign comprised eighty-one individual elements. In later years, an extra element was added to each logo by allowing the top and bottom of the enclosing circle to be independently illuminated. The ninety element configuration increased the number of possible display combinations, but sacrificed the elegance of the original design.
The Wesco Building stood near Three Rivers Stadium, and its sign was one of several large illuminated corporate billboards that became a fixture of Pittsburgh's evening skyline. Among the others were the Alcoa sign atop Mount Washington, and the Clark Bar sign on the D. L. Clark Company Building.
The sign was demolished when the Wesco Building was razed in the autumn of 1998 to make way for P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20exceptionalism | Genetic exceptionalism is the belief that genetic information is special and so must be treated differently from other types of medical data or other personally identifiable information.
For example, patients are able to obtain information about their blood pressure without involving any medical professionals, but to obtain information about their genetic profile might require an order from a physician and expensive counseling sessions. Disclosure of an individual's genetic information or its meaning, such as telling a woman with red hair that she has a higher risk of skin cancer, has been legally restricted in some places, as providing medical advice.
That policy approach has been taken by state legislatures to safeguard individuals' genetic information in the United States from individuals, their families, their employers, and the government. The approach builds upon the existing protection required of general health information provided by such laws as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Expert debate
There is ongoing debate over whether or when certain genetic information should be considered exceptional. In some cases, the predictive power of genetic information (such as a risk for a disease like Huntington's disease, which is highly penetrant) may justify special considerations for genetic exceptionalism, in that individuals with a high risk for developing this condition may face a certain amount of discrimination. However, for most common human health conditions, a specific genetic variant only plays a partial role, interacting with other genetic variants and environmental and lifestyle influences to contribute to disease development. In these cases, genetic information is often considered similarly to other medical and lifestyle data, such as smoking status, age, or biomarkers.
See also
Genetic privacy
HIV exceptionalism, similar rules for HIV/AIDS testing
References
External links
Includes a state-by-state summary table on genetic privacy laws, but information is not being updated.
Health policy in the United States
Privacy
Information privacy
Genetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMF | RMF is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:
Computing
Recover My Files, a data recovery application
Reed–Muller canonical form
Requirements Modeling Framework, an Eclipse Foundation project
Resource Measurement Facility, a performance management component of the IBM z/OS Operating System
Rich Music Format, a music file format defined by Beatnik
Risk Management Framework, integrates information security and risk management for system development
Military
Royal Munster Fusiliers
Royal Munster Fusiliers (New Army), New Army divisions
Royal Munster Fusiliers (Reserves)
Transport
Marsa Alam International Airport (IATA 'RMF') International airport code
Romford railway station, East London, United Kingdom
Other
Finnish Kalo language, ISO 639-3 code rmf
RMF FM, Polish radio station
Rheingau Musik Festival, an international summer music festival in Germany
Rotating magnetic field
Rhodes Must Fall A campaign to remove the Rhodes statue from the UCT campus. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenifer%20Haselgrove | Jenifer Leech (née Wheildon Brown; later Haselgrove; 3 August 1930 – 13 March 2015) was a British physicist and computer scientist. She is most noted for her formulation of ray tracing equations in a cold magneto-plasma, now widely known in the radio science community as Haselgrove's Equations.
Haselgrove's equations
Haselgrove developed her equations at Cambridge University in the 1950s, as a student under Kenneth Budden, by re-applying the earlier work of William Rowan Hamilton and Hamilton's principle in geometrical optics to radio propagation in a plasma. Indeed, the application of Haselgrove's equations is often termed Hamiltonian ray tracing. Ray tracing is intrinsically an approximation that is often called geometric. It formulates as the Eikonal equation and is only applicable under certain conditions including that the plasma is slowly varying; nevertheless it has enormous practical use in radio science. Other radio propagation scientists have developed various techniques to explore radio propagation in such media, but Haselgrove's formulation has seen the most widespread application, most likely because the resulting set of differential equations readily lend themselves to numerical solution on a computer. Haselgrove herself used the Cambridge computer, EDSAC, to study ray propagation in the Earth's ionosphere in the late 1950s. Historically the best-known code applying Haselgrove's equations is the Jones-Stephenson code which was developed in the 1970s and may be found at the US Department of Commerce website.
Today Haselgrove's equations are widely used in scientific investigations involving radio propagation in slowly varying plasmas, and therefore have found much applicability in exploration and utilization of the Earth's ionosphere. Here they have also been used to represent the radio propagation element of practical systems providing high frequency communication, direction finding and over-the-horizon radar. For a recent broad discussion on ray tracing in the ionosphere see Bennett et al. Other publications applying Haselgrove's equations have recently appeared.
Personal life
Haselgrove was married to British mathematician C. Brian Haselgrove and published several highly cited, technical articles with him (e.g.,). They are also credited for first solving the 6×10 Pentomino. Brian Haselgrove died in 1964, and Jenifer remarried to another British mathematician, John Leech, and took his surname. She worked at the University of Glasgow until 1982. She resided in England until her death on 13 March 2015.
References
2015 deaths
1930 births
20th-century British mathematicians
21st-century British mathematicians
British women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Advanced%20Computing%20Building | The Christopher W. Klaus Advanced Computing Building is a three-story academic building at the Georgia Institute of Technology that houses a portion of its College of Computing, College of Engineering, and related programs.
History
Financing
In 2000, the building was financed by a $15 million donation from successful internet entrepreneur and former Georgia Tech student Chris Klaus. Klaus was a founder of both Kaneva and Internet Security Systems. At the time of Klaus' contribution, it was the fifth-largest contribution by an individual in Georgia Tech's history. Klaus was 26 when he made the donation.
Planning
Architect Perkins+Will was selected. The site of the old Health Center was selected for the new computing building's location, and a new $7.1 million Health Center was built near the Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center to free up that land. The Health Center faculty were then moved to the new facility in March 2003. Construction was initially planned to start in Summer 2003, but there was some difficulty in the ownership of the many parcels that the site encompassed. Several were of uncertain ownership, and Georgia Tech had to verify that it owned every part of the site before the Georgia Board of Regents would allow construction to proceed.
[I]f you look at some old maps, way, way back when [Tech] was just a few buildings, these [parcels] were all home sites ... Before the Board of Regents will allow anyone to build on a site, they have to have the deed in hand and know that the property belongs to the Board of Regents ... That was a major, major issue for us ... [W]e literally had to go through [each parcel] with the city and everybody else trying to reconcile who's the owner.
Construction bids were set in December 2003, and the winning contractor was scheduled to begin in early January. General contractors WG Yates & Sons Construction received permission from the state to occupy the site in February 2004. From that date, the project was expected to take two years to complete.
Construction
There was a "Virtual Ground Breaking" ceremony on April 1, 2004 that featured a 3d virtual tour of the building. Construction was then delayed somewhat by a rainy summer and a large amount of subsurface rock; the latter required the use of explosives to clear.
Students who attended classes in the summer felt frequent tremors in the College of Computing as the explosives were set off ... [Construction project manager Ron] Leroy's team sent out email notices and conducted meetings with faculty who would be affected by the blasts, but they still had a disruptive effect on classes in the area.
Crews closed in the building in Summer 2005. The building was officially opened on October 26, 2006.
Features
The building has of space and more than 70 laboratories. There is a three-story parking deck beneath the facility that holds 534 vehicles in order to minimize the number of surface lots on campus, and an open pathway through the center of the b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INIT%201984 | INIT 1984 is a computer virus that was set up to trigger on Macintosh computers running the classic Mac OS on any given Friday the 13th. The virus was first discovered and isolated in March, 1992. It functions by infecting startup (INIT) files and triggers when the computer is booted on a Friday the 13th. "Damage includes changing the names and attributes of a large number of folders and files to random strings and the deletion of approximately 2% of your files." The virus has a low threat assessment.
References
Further reading
Classic Mac OS viruses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Indigenous%20Television | National Indigenous Television (NITV) is an Australian free-to-air television channel that broadcasts programming produced and presented largely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It includes the six-day-a-week NITV News Update, with programming including other news and current affairs programmes, sports coverage, entertainment for children and adults, films and documentaries covering a range of topics. Its primary audience is Indigenous Australians, but many non-Indigenous people tune in to learn more about the history of and issues affecting the country's First Nations peoples.
NITV was initially only carried by cable and satellite providers, along with some limited over-the-air transmissions in certain remote areas. NITV was re-launched in December 2012 by the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) as a free-to-air channel.
History
Predecessors of NITV
Indigenous groups and individuals lobbied the Australian Government to fund a nationwide Indigenous television service in the 1980s and 1990s, however no major political party championed this cause.
The Alice Springs (Mparntwe) based Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association received a licence to cover the remote parts of the NT and SA in 1988. With this it launched the Nine Network affiliate Imparja. This licence was later extended to include the remote parts of eastern Australia and Norfolk Island as well. For a time it carried a central Australian news program, and an Indigenous children's program.
In the late 1990s, Imparja launched the free-to-view Imparja Info Channel (also known as Channel 31) on the satellite Optus Aurora service, providing largely Aboriginal programming directly to homes and via a network of BRACS transmitters to remote Aboriginal communities. In 2001, the Alice Springs-based Indigenous Community Television (ICTV) was formed, and organised most of the Aboriginal programming on this channel. In 2004, Imparja stated a desire to run a better funded Indigenous service, at least within its license area.
In the same year, a voluntary NITV Committee was formed and a summit was held in Redfern, Sydney. The summit involved a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media professionals and community members committed to the establishment of a national Indigenous broadcasting service.
Following an Australian Government review in 2005, the Government announced $48.5 million in funding for NITV.
Meanwhile, the Imparja Info Channel was replaced by a full-time ICTV channel in 2006.
Establishment
In 2007, NITV established a head office in Alice Springs and a television arm in Sydney. On 13 July 2007 NITV launched, replacing ICTV on Optus Aurora and in the remote Aboriginal communities it previously reached. It soon after also became available free-to-air on Optus D1 to Australia and eastern Papua New Guinea.
NITV launched on 1 November 2007 on Foxtel and Austar's satellite services on channel 180, with it becoming available on their cable services soon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran%20Turismo%205 | is a 2010 racing simulation game developed by Polyphony Digital and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is the fifth main installment and the tenth overall in the Gran Turismo series. It was released on November 24, 2010 in Europe and North America, and November 25, 2010 in Japan and Australasia. It was preceded by the Prologue version and is the first main entry of the series to be released for the PlayStation 3.
The game marks the first entry in the series with online races with support for up to 16 players. A damage model has been included with variations of damage depending on the car. Over 1,000 cars, 29 different locations, 77 different tracks, and a track generator are available in the game. Dynamic time and weather effects make their debut in the series. World Rally Championship, NASCAR and Super GT licenses are utilized for the first time in the Gran Turismo series.
Gran Turismo 5 was well-received critically and a commercial success, becoming the second best-selling PlayStation 3 game, the best-selling PlayStation 3 exclusive and the second best-selling game in the series with nearly 12 million copies sold. The game also won multiple awards and turned some players into real-life professional racing drivers with the GT Academy competition.
Gameplay
New features
Gran Turismo 5 is the first game in the franchise to provide a damage model, with variations of damage depending on the car. The game also features weather effects, which are available on certain circuits. Optional stereoscopic-3D resolution and karting found a place in the game. Furthermore, new visual effects have been introduced, including dynamic skid marks, dust and the ability for drivers to flash their headlights. A course editor which allows the player to create new circuits by using tools that randomly generate track-parts according to certain player-selected specifications, including the number of corners, the time of day and the number of sectors. There are a variety of themes the player can choose from to act as a base for each circuit design. Themes also have an effect on track length and highest elevation.
The physics are significantly revised compared with Gran Turismo 4. Cars no longer instantly turn-in but realistically must load up the outside wheel first, and destabilizing effects (such as under braking) have greater influence.
Gran Turismo 5 is the first game in the franchise to include both mechanical and external damage modelling, including a real-time deformation engine that processes model deformation according to the speed and angle of impact. It is also possible to overturn cars for the first time in the series. The cars in GT5 are separated into "premium" and "standard" vehicles. Premium vehicles are more detailed and include a fully-detailed cockpit view, while standard vehicles are less detailed. Standard cars initially could not receive aftermarket wheels, however, as of the version 2.02 update this is no longer t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic%20%28disambiguation%29 | A mnemonic is a memory aide.
Mnemonic(s) may also refer to:
Mnemonic (assembly language), an operation code mnemonic used in assembly language programming
Mnemonic (band), a rock band currently based in London, UK
Mnemonic (company), a Norwegian IT security company
Mnemonics (keyboard), the use of underlined characters in software user interfaces
Mnemonic (play), a 1999 play created by Complicite
"Mnemonics" (short story), a 1951 short story written by Kurt Vonnegut
See also
"Johnny Mnemonic", a 1981 short story by William Gibson
Johnny Mnemonic (film), a 1995 cyberpunk film adapted from the short story |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20bank | A memory bank is a logical unit of storage in electronics, which is hardware-dependent. In a computer, the memory bank may be determined by the memory controller along with physical organization of the hardware memory slots. In a typical synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) or double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), a bank consists of multiple rows and columns of storage units, and is usually spread out across several chips. In a single read or write operation, only one bank is accessed, therefore the number of bits in a column or a row, per bank and per chip, equals the memory bus width in bits (single channel). The size of a bank is further determined by the number of bits in a column and a row, per chip, multiplied by the number of chips in a bank.
Some computers have several identical memory banks of RAM, and use bank switching to switch between them. Harvard architecture computers have (at least) two very different banks of memory, one for program storage and another for data storage.
In caching
A memory bank is a part of cache memory that is addressed consecutively in the total set of memory banks, i.e., when data item is stored in bank , data item is stored in bank . Cache memory is divided in banks to evade the effects of the bank cycle time (see above) [=> missing "bank cycle" definition, above]. When data is stored or retrieved consecutively each bank has enough time to recover before the next request for that bank arrives.
The number of memory modules needed to have the same number of data bits as the bus. A bank can consist of one or more memory modules.
See also
Bank switching
Interleaved memory
Memory rank
Memory geometry
Memory organisation
Further reading
References
Computer memory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung%20Ako%20Ikaw | () is a Philippine television reality comedy television show broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on July 16, 2007 replacing Who's Your Daddy Now?, Bahay Mo Ba 'To and HP: To the Highest Level Na! on the network's KiliTV line up. The show concluded on August 14, 2008 with a total of 129 episodes.
Hosts
Keempee de Leon and Joey Marquez, who reprise their respective roles of Harold (from Bahay Mo Ba 'To) and Tsong (from Lagot Ka, Isusumbong Kita served as hosts.
Accolades
References
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Citizens%20Foundation | The Citizens Foundation (TCF) is a non-profit organization, and one of the largest privately owned networks of low-cost formal schools in Pakistan. The foundation operates a network of 1,833 school units, educating 280,000 students through over 13,000 teachers and principals, and over 17,400 employees. Approximately 94% of the foundation's expenditure is allocated to the Education program. In addition, TCF also conducts a literacy and numeracy skill development programme in communities linked to its schools which has taught reading and writing to over 160,000 adults.
Introduction
The Citizens Foundation (TCF) was established in August 1995. It is a professionally managed charitable organization that builds and runs schools, providing primary and secondary education to boys and girls in rural areas and urban slums of Pakistan. As of March 2022, TCF has expanded its network to 1,833 operational school units, which provide education to 280,000 students. The Economist has called The Citizens Foundation (TCF) "perhaps the largest network of independently run schools in the world." The foundation is the largest private employer of women in Pakistan with an all-female faculty of 12,000 teachers and principals. 90% of TCF alumni pursue intermediate education, while 45% go on to complete tertiary education; 71% above the age of 22 are employed.
TCF maintains a balanced gender ratio; close to 50% of students are female. In order to achieve this goal, TCF exclusively hires female teachers to make parents comfortable with the idea of sending their girls to schools. Each school hires support staff from within the community, who also help convince parents to send their children to school, especially girls.
Origin
Out of the population of 164,741,924 only 82,206,220 people are educated in Pakistan and 24% of the population are below the poverty line.
Like other developing countries of the world Pakistan also faces the issues of population explosion, poverty, unemployment, income disparity and low literacy rate. In 1995, six successful top-level managers of Pakistan attempted to find a way to solve these problems, and the root cause identified by them was education. Within a few months The Citizens Foundation (TCF) was formed in Karachi.
Pakistan has the second highest number of out-of-school children in the world, after Nigeria, and it is the world's sixth largest country. To tackle this challenge, the founders of TCF wanted to leverage their experience building companies to build a network of 1,000 schools for the country's poorest, out-of-school children. The group put their own money into a pilot to build 5 schools in Karachi's worst slums that did not have electricity, sanitation, and clean water. With $30 million supporting 252,000 students today, TCF spends less than $12 (€10) per child per month. Less than 10% is spent on administration (curriculum, testing, staff engineers, etc.).
TCF model
TCF has evolved a model to deliver quality education i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KACB | KACB may refer to
Klaus Advanced Computing Building at the Georgia Institute of Technology
KACB-LP, a low-power radio station (96.9 FM) licensed to College Station, Texas, United States
KLWB (TV), a television station (channel 50) licensed to serve New Iberia, Louisiana, United States, which held the call sign KACB-TV from 2004 to 2005
KSAN-TV, a television station (channel 16, virtual 3) licensed to serve San Angelo, Texas, which held the call sign KACB-TV from 1962 to 2003
Antrim County Airport (ICAO code KACB) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I/O%20Controller%20Hub | I/O Controller Hub (ICH) is a family of Intel southbridge microchips used to manage data communications between a CPU and a motherboard, specifically Intel chipsets based on the Intel Hub Architecture. It is designed to be paired with a second support chip known as a northbridge. As with any other southbridge, the ICH is used to connect and control peripheral devices.
As CPU speeds increased data transmission between the CPU and support chipset, the support chipset eventually emerged as a bottleneck between the processor and the motherboard. Accordingly, starting with the 2008 Intel 5 Series, a new architecture was used that incorporated some functions of the traditional north and south bridge chips onto the CPU itself, with the remaining functions being consolidated into a single Platform Controller Hub (PCH) and therefore replacing the traditional two chip setup.
ICH
The first version of the ICH was released in June 1999 along with the Intel 810 northbridge. While its predecessor, the PIIX, was connected to the northbridge through an internal PCI bus with a bandwidth of 133 MB/s, the ICH used a proprietary interface (called by Intel Hub Interface) that linked it to the northbridge through an 8-bit wide, 266 MB/s bus.
The Hub Interface was a point-to-point connection between different components on the motherboard. Another design decision was to substitute the rigid North-South axis on the motherboard with a star structure.
Note that, along with the ICH, Intel evolved other uses of the "Hub" terminology. Thus, the northbridge became the Memory Controller Hub (MCH) or if it had integrated graphics (e.g., Intel 810), the Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH).
Other ICH features include:
PCI Rev 2.2 compliant with support for 33 MHz PCI operations.
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Support
Integrated IDE controller for Ultra ATA support
Integrated I/O APIC supporting 24 interrupt sources
System Management Bus (SMBus) with support for I²C devices
AC'97 2.1 Compliant Link
Low Pin Count (LPC) interface
The ICH came in two flavors:
82801AA (ICH) - Ultra ATA/66 support, 6 PCI slots, Alert on LAN support
82801AB (ICH0) - Ultra ATA/33 support, 4 PCI slots, no Alert on LAN
ICH2
In early 2000 Intel had suffered a significant setback with the i820 northbridge. Customers were not willing to pay the high prices for RDRAM and either bought i810 or i440BX motherboards or changed to the competition. The hastily developed 82815 northbridge, which supported PC-133 SDRAM, became Intel's method to recover in the middle range segment.
The ICH1 or the new ICH2 (360 pins) could be placed to the side of the 82815. An ICH2 could also be used with Intel's 82850 chipset, which, like the 82820 before it, required the use of RDRAM and supported the Pentium 4 CPU. For the first time a Fast Ethernet chip (82559) was integrated into the southbridge, depending upon an external PHY chip.
The PATA interface was accelerated to ATA/100 and the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent%20Debuggers | Silent Debuggers is a 1991 sci-fi horror first-person shooter video game developed and released by Data East for the PC Engine and published by NEC International for the TurboGrafx-16. The player investigates a space freight station called Gane, aided by a partner character named Leon, as they investigate why the station's crew have disappeared. The game features the "Sound Detection System" that detects, searches, and defeats enemies with sound. Silent Debuggers was notable for the TurboGrafx-16 in how it is an early entry in the first-person shooter genre.
The game was released in North America in 1991 and in Japan on March 29, 1991. It was re-released on the Virtual Console in Japan on June 26, 2007, in North America on July 16, 2007 and in Europe and Australia on July 20, 2007. However, the Virtual Console version was delisted in early March 2012.
Plot
From the Silent Debuggers Game Manual by NEC Technologies, 1991:
The Great War is over. Mankind is united into one peaceful world. Or is it?
While the Joint Government pursues a policy of "Advancement into Outer Space" it encounters pockets of resistance. The evil forces ("Bugs") must be destroyed before they threaten the peace of the Universe. Yet there are no armies, only small groups of highly paid soldiers left over from the Great War. The most famous of these groups is the "Silent Debuggers". Powerful and mysterious, now the government calls upon them again. As an aspiring Debugger with your sidekick Leon, you are assigned to enter the Evil Space Station Gane. While it is rumoured that riches abound, no Debugger has ever returned from this fortress of evil.
Gameplay
Players explore the Gane cargo station in search of treasure which, when recovered, will triggers the station's self-destruct sequence. The player must then progress from level to level, killing every monster on that floor in order to advance. On the lowest floor is a computer that must be "debugged" in order to stop the self-destruct sequence. The player is assisted by a buddy character, a fellow debugger named Leon who provides information and weapons. The game restricts the player's ability to look up and down. Selecting higher difficulties will also cause a monster to spawn on the ceiling, which is harder to detect on the game's viewfinder.
System
The gameplay takes place within a first-person viewfinder, through which the player spots and attacks aliens with various guns and weaponry. The player's energy is provided by two battery packs and is consumed whenever attacked by an enemy or when using the jump command.
From the station's second floor onwards, the game implements a time limit wherein all the floors must be cleared within 100 minutes before the station's self-destruct sequence commences. If the player resumes via the game's continue system, the game takes 5 minutes off of the remaining time counter each time they try again. This is explained in-game as the player losing energy from being attacked.
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Communication%20Streaming%20Architecture | Intel's Communication Streaming Architecture (CSA) was a mechanism used in the Intel Hub Architecture to increase the bandwidth available between a network card and the CPU. It consists of connecting directly the network controller to the Memory Controller Hub (northbridge), instead of to the I/O Controller Hub (southbridge) through the PCI bus, which was the common practice until that point.
The technology was only used in Intel chipsets released in 2003, and was largely seen as a stop-gap measure to allow Gigabit Ethernet chips to run at full-speed until the arrival of a faster expansion bus (it was also used to connect the Wireless networking chips in Intel's Centrino mobile platform). To Intel's credit though, CSA-connected Ethernet chips did show consistently higher transfer rates than comparable PCI cards.
The following year, PCI Express replaced CSA as the method of connecting network chips in Intel's chipsets, and the technology was subsequently discontinued.
External links
Intel's page on CSA
Intel products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagus%20virus%203 | Asparagus virus 3 is a pathogenic plant virus in the family Alphaflexiviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Asparagus virus 3
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Potexviruses
Viral plant pathogens and diseases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagus%20virus%202 | Asparagus virus 2 is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Bromoviridae.
References
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Asparagus virus 2
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Bromoviridae
Viral plant pathogens and diseases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop%20Off | Drop Off is a Breakout clone by Data East. The game was published in 1990 for the PC Engine as Drop Rock Hora Hora and subsequently saw a US release for the TurboGrafx-16 as Drop Off.
Gameplay
The game is a Breakout clone, where the player moves a paddle back and forth in order to destroy objects. Each stage has a set of the same object (for example, apples on the first stage). Unlike Breakout and other comparable games, the player in Drop Off does not automatically lose a life if the paddle touches the floor and the player is never required to hit the objects in order to clear the stage. Instead, the player must avoid the series of objects that are scrolling vertically downward to move on to next stage, and the gameplay is practically identical to Cluster Buster, an earlier title on the DECO Cassette System. The player has the option of switching the direction of their paddle from vertical to horizontal during the game and is free to move the paddle anywhere on the screen.
Drop Off contains 16 stages divided in 5 rounds.
Release
Drop Off was re-released on Nintendo's Virtual Console in North America on July 30, 2007 and in Japan on August 28, 2007. It was released for the first time ever in Europe by Nintendo on August 3, 2007 on the Virtual Console. The publisher was G-Mode which currently owns the rights to most of Data East's video games. The game was delisted from the Virtual Console in early March 2012.
Reception
Drop Off received mixed reception from critics since its release on the TurboGrafx-16, most of which reviewed it as an import title. Famitsus four reviewers called it "a deformed Breakout-type" game that felt more modified than Arkanoid due to its ruleset, but they commended the ability to freely move the paddle around the screen was commended. Génération 4s Philippe Querleux regarded it as a "grape breaker" because of the title's use of fruits instead of bricks. Joysticks Jean-Marc Demoly also noted its use of fruits instead of bricks and limited animation in the anime-style introduction sequence. Regardless, Demoly stated that Drop Off was a "well realized" game inspired by Arkanoid and similar titles on computers, giving positive remarks to the audiovisual presentation, animations and controls. Tilts Alain Huyghues-Lacour compared it with Addictaball for Atari ST due to both titles sharing similar principles. Nevertheless, Huyghues-Lacour found the game to be fun and interesting than other Arkanoid clones, noting that the descending fruit pieces added pressure into the gameplay and praised the visuals, animations and sound effects, but criticized the controls for being less ergonomic than a mouse for these types of games.
Power Play Henrik Fisch regarded Drop Off as a nice but non-addictive title, criticizing the audiovisual presentation and other aspects. VideoGames & Computer Entertainments B.W. noted the ability to freely move the paddle around the screen but expressed mixed thoughts about the game's playability, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20Vostro | Dell Vostro is a line of business-oriented laptop and desktop computers manufactured by Dell aimed at small to medium range businesses. From 2013–2015, the line was temporarily discontinued on some Dell websites but continued to be offered in other markets, such as Malaysia and India.
Prior to Vostro, Dell's home and small business computers were sold under the same lines: Dimension for home and small business desktops, and Inspiron for home and small business portables. With the introduction of Vostro, the Dimension line was discontinued, and the Inspiron line changed to include all computers for the home market; regardless of form factor. One marked difference between the Inspiron line and the Vostro line is that the Vostro line is cheaper but comes with shorter technical support hours.
Temporary discontinuation
In July 2013, Dell announced that they would stop manufacturing all Dell Vostro systems. Select models were made available on various Dell outlet channels for a limited time. The discontinuation of Vostro models was reportedly because of changing technology and lesser demand in the corporate world. Subsequently, the Vostro was resurrected onto the market in early 2015.
Current laptops line
The current lineup of Vostro laptops includes Vostro 3000 series that was released on March 9, 2010, Vostro 14 5000 series that was released on October 13, 2015 and Vostro 15 5000 series released on January 20, 2017.
Please note that this list may be incomplete and some of the models that are currently being offered in some markets may be missing.
Also note that new models release on January every year (as of the latest news).
Vostro 3000
Vostro 15 (3000)
The Vostro 15 3000 is a laptop line with a 15-inch display aimed at small and medium businesses. It is an affordable version of the 5000 15-inch line.
3558 — is a model with a 15.6 inch HD display with anti-glare aimed at small business. The operating system options are the ones offered with the Vostro 3368.
CPU: Intel Core i3 6100U, Core i3 6005U or Core i5 7200U
Display: 15.6" LED-backlit (1366×768) with anti-glare
Memory: DDR3 modules of 4 or 8 GB @ 1600 MHz
Chipset: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 series chipset ko (Sandy Bridge) – Intel HM67
Optical Drive: Dual-layer 8X DVD+/-CD drive
Graphics: Intel HD 4400 or NVIDIA Geforce 2GB
Security Hardware: Security slot
Storage: 1x SATA, 1TB HDD (5400 RPM)
Wireless: DELL Wireless N 1705 @ 2.4 GHz + Bluetooth 4.0
Webcam: Integrated HD 720p webcam (UVC video)
Battery: 4-cell lithium-Ion
Starting Price: $349
3578 —
3591
Vostro 5000
Vostro 13 (53##)
5370 —
Vostro 14 (54##)
The Vostro 14 5000 is a laptop with a 14-inch display aimed at small business.
5459 — Operating system options are Ubuntu or Windows (8.1 and 10), and it is compatible with Windows 7. The starting price is $550.
CPU: Intel Core i3-6100U, i5-6200U or i7-6500U
Display: 14" LED-backlit (1366×768) with anti-glare
Memory: 4 or 8 GB DDR3L @ 1600 MHz (up to 8 GB suppo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Flatt | Matthew Flatt is an American computer scientist and professor at the University of Utah School of Computing in Salt Lake City. He is also a member of the core development team for the Racket programming language.
Flatt received his PhD at Rice University in 1999, under the direction of Matthias Felleisen. His dissertation is on the mechanics of first-class modules and mixin classes. His work triggered research in the ML community on mutually recursive modules and in the object-oriented community on mixins and traits.
Flatt served as one of four editors of the Revised^6 Report on the Scheme programming language. The report is influenced by his design of Racket, especially the module system, the exception system, the record system, the macro system, and library links.
References
External links
Flatt's homepage at Utah
Google Scholar profile
Programming language researchers
Lisp (programming language) people
Living people
Rice University alumni
University of Utah faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Carnegie Mellon University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20stem%20pitting%20virus | Apple stem pitting virus (ASPV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Betaflexiviridae. A number of hosts are in the genus Malus (apples).
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Apple stem pitting virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Betaflexiviridae
Viral plant pathogens and diseases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20stem%20grooving%20virus | Apple stem grooving virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Betaflexiviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Apple stem grooving virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Betaflexiviridae
Viral plant pathogens and diseases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash%21 | Clash! is an American comedy game show which aired on Ha! from May 1, 1990 to March 31, 1991, and on CTV: The Comedy Network/Comedy Central (Ha!'s successor) from April 1 to December 28. The show was produced and hosted by Billy Kimball, and the theme song was composed by Carter Burwell.
Episodes were broadcast weekdays at 10:30 AM and 6:30 PM.
Format
Clash! was presented in an absurdist quiz show format in which two teams of three players each competed for prizes. Contestants were selected based on criteria such as occupation, ethnicity, religion, etc. and each team would represent one half of a rivalry. For example, an episode might pit nudists against fashion designers, librarians against noisy people, or vegetarians against butchers. Some rivalries were altered for comedic effect, such as "Cowboys vs. Indians" in which the Indians were people from India.
The game was played in three rounds. In each of the first two rounds the teams were shown four categories with four questions. The questions were each worth ten points in the first round, and twenty in the second round, with no penalty for a wrong answer. The second round had one question replaced with a "Grudge Match" in which the one member of each team competed against each other in a bizarre stunt of some sort.
The third round consisted of three questions increasing in value of 50, 100, and 150 points. In this round, points were deducted for wrong answers. The team with the highest score won a prize and advanced to the "Oval of Odds" bonus round.
The contestant who scored the most points for their team spun a six-spaced wheel and answered a single question. Giving the correct answer won a bonus prize. Five of the spaces each had a question that was extremely difficult ("What is the third word on the thirty-third page of the third book from the right on the third shelf of the third cabinet from the left in the Clash library?") while the last space had a question that was extremely easy ("What did you have for breakfast this morning?" or "How are you?").
References
External links
Comedy Central original programming
1990s American comedy game shows
1990 American television series debuts
1991 American television series endings
Comedy Central game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20domain%20name%20notation | Reverse domain name notation (or reverse-DNS) is a naming convention for components, packages, types or file names used by a programming language, system or framework. Reverse-DNS strings are based on registered domain names, with the order of the components reversed for grouping purposes. For example, if a company making the product "MyProduct" has the domain name example.com, they could use the reverse-DNS string com.example.MyProduct as an identifier for that product. Reverse-DNS names are a simple way of eliminating namespace collisions, since any domain name is globally unique to its registered owner.
History
The first appearance of reversed DNS strings predated the Internet domain name standards. The UK Joint Academic Networking Team (JANET) used this order in its Name Registration Scheme, before the Internet domain name standard was established. For example, the name uk.ac.bris.pys.as was interpreted as a host named as within the UK (top level domain .uk), while the Internet standard would have interpreted it as a host named uk within the American Samoa top level domain (.as). During the period while both JANET-style and Internet-style addresses were in use, mailers and gateway sites had ad-hoc workarounds to handle the differences, but could still be confused.
Reverse-DNS for identifier strings first became widely used with the Java platform.
Examples
Examples of systems that use reverse-DNS notation are:
Sun Microsystems' Java platform for namespaces
Apple's Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)
The Android operating system, for classifying applications (because the Dalvik virtual machine was based on Java)
dconf, the configuration backend used by GNOME
The freedesktop.org Desktop Entry Specification
iSCSI Qualified Naming
Some examples of reverse-DNS strings are:
com.adobe.postscript-font, UTI string for Adobe Systems's PostScript fonts
com.apple.ostype, UTI string for Apple's OSType
org.omg.CORBA, Java library for CORBA
org.w3c.dom, Java library for W3C's DOM
org.kde.dolphin.desktop, a desktop file name
See also
Non-Internet email address
References
External links
Eclipse Naming Conventions
Re: gnu.* namespace discussion
Domain Name System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belkin | Belkin International, Inc., is an American consumer electronics and networking company headquartered in El Segundo, California. It produces mobile and computer connectivity devices and peripherals for consumer and commercial use. These include wireless chargers, power banks, charging cables, data cables, audio and video adapters, headphones, earbuds, smart speakers, screen protectors, surge protectors, Wi-Fi routers, smart home products, electronic device sanitizers, docking stations and data hubs, network switches, KVM switches and network cables.
Belkin is the parent company for Linksys and WeMo branded products and services, as well as the smart home water management company, Phyn. In 2018, Belkin was acquired by Foxconn, the largest provider of electronics manufacturing services. It now operates as an independent subsidiary.
History
While attending UCLA, Chet Pipkin, who was spending his time in local computer shops, saw the growing need for cables that would connect personal computers to new printers being released for home use. In the early 1980s, Chet Pipkin founded Belkin in his parents' home in Hawthorne, California, to manufacture computer cables for the new personal computer and tech accessory market. Pipkin began to sell computer-to-printer cables to local computer shops. As Pipkin's cable connector sales grew in Southern California, he recruited assembly help from his machinist father, brother and a handful of friends. In 1982, Pipkin left his university studies to focus on expanding the business.
On January 1, 1983, Pipkin moved into a professional workplace and hired his first full-time employees. Belkin performed its cable manufacturing in the United States, which gave the company a fast turnaround for customers. In 1985, in addition to U.S. manufacturing, Belkin began contracting Asian factories to increase production for a global market. In the 1990s, Belkin added surge protectors and USB storage devices to its product line. In the early 2000s, Belkin expanded its product line to accommodate smartphone and tablet users with hardware accessories including chargers and connector cables.
Belkin was privately run until 2002 when Summit Partners, a private equity firm, purchased a small stake in the company. Pipkin bought back those shares within the following years. In 2008, Belkin pivoted toward smartphone usage and designed new products for the smartphone accessory market.
In 2012, Belkin launched the WeMo brand to produce smart home products. In March 2013, Belkin acquired Cisco Systems' Home Networking Business Unit, including the Linksys brand and product line. In 2016, Belkin, in a joint venture with water solutions company Uponor, formed Phyn, a home water management tech brand. In September 2018, Belkin was purchased by Foxconn, a Taiwanese multinational electronics firm and the largest provider of electronics manufacturing services, for $886 million.
In January 2021, Pipkin stepped down from his role as CEO of Belkin |
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