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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%20transitory%20yellowing%20virus | Rice transitory yellowing virus (RTYV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Rhabdoviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Rice transitory yellowing virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Nucleorhabdoviruses
Viral plant pathogens and diseases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus%20yellow%20net%20virus | Rubus yellow net virus (RYNV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Caulimoviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Rubus yellow net virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Caulimoviridae
Viral plant pathogens and diseases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cancer%20Research%20Network | The National Cancer Research Network (NCRN) is a UK based government funding utility created to provide infrastructure to the UK's National Health Service (NHS) and increase funding for clinical trials.
History
NCRN was created in April 2001 by the UK's Department of Health.
Stated goal
The stated goal of NCRN:
To improve the speed, quality and integration of research with the ultimate aim of improving patient care. NCRN was established by the Department of Health in April 2001 and has already succeeded in doubling patient accrual into cancer clinical trials.
See also
National Health Service
References
External links
National Cancer Research Network
National Health Service
National Health Service (England)
Medical research institutes in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi%20coordinates | Vivaldi Coordinate System is a decentralized Network Coordinate System, that allows for distributed systems such as peer-to-peer networks to estimate round-trip time (RTT) between arbitrary nodes in a network.
Through this scheme, network topology awareness can be used to tune the network behavior to more efficiently distribute data. For example, in a peer-to-peer network, more responsive identification and delivery of content can be achieved. In the Azureus application, Vivaldi is used to improve the performance of the distributed hash table that facilitates query matches.
Design
The algorithm behind Vivaldi is an optimization algorithm that figures out the most stable configuration of points in a euclidean space such that distances between the points are as close as possible to real-world measured distances. In effect, the algorithm attempts to embed the multi-dimensional space that is latency measurements between computers into a low-dimensional euclidean space. A good analogy might be a spring-and-mass system in 3D space where each node is a mass and each connection between nodes are springs. The default lengths of the springs are the measured RTTs between nodes, and when the system is simulated, the coordinates of nodes correspond to the resulting 3D positions of the masses in the lowest energy state of the system. This design is taken from previous work in the field, the contribution that Vivaldi makes is to make this algorithm run in parallel across all the nodes in the network.
Advantages
Vivaldi can theoretically can scale indefinitely.
The Vivaldi algorithm is relatively simple implement.
Drawbacks
Vivaldi's coordinates are points in a euclidean space, which requires the predicted distances to obey the triangle inequality as well as euclidean symmetry. However, there are many triangle inequality violations (TIVs) and symmetry violations on the Internet, mostly because of inefficient routing or distance distortion because connections on the internet are typically not routed in a single strait line.
The collaborative nature of a shared coordinate space makes it very easy for malicious nodes to conduct various attacks to distort the network coordinate system.
See also
Pharos Network Coordinates
Phoenix Network Coordinates
References
External links
Simulator for Decentralized Network Coordinate Algorithms (NCSim)
Practical, Distributed Network Coordinates (original paper)
Azureus Wiki Overview
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking%20Live | Cooking Live was an American television cooking show on Food Network. Hosted by Sara Moulton, the show was broadcast live daily and featured Moulton preparing various dishes and taking calls from viewers.
References
Food Network original programming
1990s American cooking television series
2000s American cooking television series
1997 American television series debuts
2003 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stats%20Perform | Stats Perform (formerly STATS, LLC and STATS, Inc.) is a sports data and analytics company formed through the combination of Stats and Perform.
The company is involved in sports data collection and predictive analysis for use across various sports sectors including professional team performance, digital, media, broadcast and betting. The company has also been increasingly involved in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Its clients include media outlets, sports leagues and teams, fantasy sports and sports betting services. As of 2023, the company covers 500,000+ matches and 3900 competition annually from over 300 leagues and competitions.
Stats Perform is headquartered in London with other office locations in Amsterdam, Chicago, Limerick, Aveiro, Buenos Aires, Castelfranco Veneto, Beijing, Bangalore, Chennai, Düsseldorf, Graz, Istanbul, Katowice, Kuala Lampur, Madrid, Nice, Paris, Prague, Sao Paulo, and Sydney. In addition to their offices, Stats Perform have full-time staff all over the globe operating in local markets including Cape Town, Dubai, Seoul, Tokyo, and more.
History
STATS, Inc. was founded in April 1981 by John Dewan, who became the company's CEO. The company name is an acronym for "Sports Team Analysis and Tracking Systems". STATS was an outgrowth of the grassroots non-profit Project Scoresheet, a volunteer network created to collect baseball statistics.
Perform Group was originally formed in 2007 via the merger of Premium TV Limited and Inform Group. It was originally involved in content distribution, subscription, advertising and sponsorship, and technology and production.
In 2013, Perform Group acquired Opta Sports. Opta was founded in 1996 and remains part of Stats Perform.
In 2019, Stats merged with Perform Content following its sale to parent company Vista Equity Partners.
Vista Equity Partners ownership, merger with Perform Content
In June 2014, Fox Sports and the AP sold STATS LLC to Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm.
In early 2015, STATS acquired the wire services The Sports Network and Prozone. Vista Equity Partners also acquired Automated Insights, a company involved in using natural-language generation based on big data (including in particular, generating wire reports on sporting events from raw statistics).
In April 2019, Vista Equity Partners announced its intent to acquire Perform Content, the former sports data subsidiary of Perform Group. The company was selling the property to focus more on its sports streaming service DAZN. It was stated that DAZN Group would retain a "significant minority stake" in the surviving entity, which was to focus strongly on the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
On 15 July 2019, it was announced that the merged company would be known as Stats Perform, and operate under STATS CEO Carl Mergele. He stated that the company would "[harness] the power of immense amounts of sports data with unparalleled AI technology".
Partnerships with league |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20ProteXion | For computer memory, Memory ProteXion, found in IBM xSeries servers, is a form of "redundant bit steering". This technology uses redundant bits in a data packet to recover from a DIMM failure.
Memory ProteXion is different from normal ECC error correction in that it uses only 6 bits for ECC, leaving 2 bits behind. These 2 bits can be used to re-route data from failed memory, much like hot spare on a RAID. The ECC is used to reconstruct the data, and the extra bits to store it.
Memory ProteXion, also known as “redundant bit steering”, is the technology behind using redundant bits in a data packet to provide backup in the event of a DIMM failure. One failure does not cause a predictive failure analysis to be issued on the DIMM, but 2 failures and more will issue a PFA to inform the system administrator that a replacement is needed.
See also
Chipkill
External links
Memory ProteXion
Computer memory
Error detection and correction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaked%20wren-babbler | The streaked wren-babbler (Gypsophila brevicaudata) is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae.
It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
References
Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Rahman, M. M., Ahsan, M. F., & Haider, I. K. A. 2017. A first record of the Streaked Wren Babbler Napothera brevicaudata from Bangladesh. Indian BIRDS 12 (6): 167-168
streaked wren-babbler
Birds of Northeast India
Birds of Indochina
streaked wren-babbler
streaked wren-babbler
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticket%20Granting%20Ticket | In some computer security systems, a Ticket Granting Ticket or Ticket to Get Tickets (TGT) is a small, encrypted identification file with a limited validity period. After authentication, this file is granted to a user for data traffic protection by the key distribution center (KDC) subsystem of authentication services such as Kerberos. The TGT file contains the session key, its expiration date, and the user's IP address, which protects the user from man-in-the-middle attacks.
The TGT is used to obtain a service ticket from Ticket Granting Service (TGS). User is granted access to network services only after this service ticket is provided.
Key management
Computer access control protocols
Authentication protocols
Key transport protocols
Computer network security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ictalurus | Ictalurus is a genus of North American freshwater catfishes. It includes the well-known channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) and blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus).
The catfish genome database (cBARBEL) is a database for the genetics of Ictalurus species.
Species
Currently, 10 species in this genus are recognized:
Ictalurus australis (Meek, 1904) (Panuco catfish)
Ictalurus balsanus (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1899) (Balsas catfish)
Ictalurus dugesii (T. H. Bean, 1880) (Lerma catfish)
Ictalurus furcatus (Valenciennes, 1840) (blue catfish)
Ictalurus lupus (Girard, 1858) (headwater catfish)
Ictalurus meridionalis (Günther, 1864)
Ictalurus mexicanus (Meek, 1904) (Rio Verde catfish)
Ictalurus ochoterenai (F. de Buen, 1946) (Chapala catfish)
Ictalurus pricei (Rutter, 1896) (Yaqui catfish)
Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818) (channel catfish)
Four fossil species also are assigned to this genus:
†Ictalurus echinatus
†Ictalurus lambda
†Ictalurus rhaeas
†Ictalurus spodius
References
External links
Catfish genome database (cBARBEL)
Extant Oligocene first appearances
Catfish genera
Freshwater fish genera
Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataverse | The Dataverse is an open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore and analyze research data. Researchers, data authors, publishers, data distributors, and affiliated institutions all receive appropriate credit via a data citation with a persistent identifier (e.g., DOI, or handle).
A Dataverse repository hosts multiple dataverses. Each dataverse contains dataset(s) or other dataverses, and each dataset contains descriptive metadata and data files (including documentation and code that accompany the data).
In 2019, Dataverse won the Duke's Choice Award for university and higher education.
Background
The Dataverse Project is housed and developed by the Dataverse Team at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University. Coding of the Dataverse (previously known as Dataverse Network) software began in 2006 under the leadership of Mercè Crosas and Gary King. The earlier Virtual Data Center (VDC) project, which spanned 1999-2006, was organized by Micah Altman, Gary King, and Sidney Verba as a collaboration between the Harvard-MIT Data Center (now part of IQSS) and the Harvard University Library. Precursors to the VDC date to 1987, comprising such entities as a stand-alone software guide to local data, preweb software, and tools to transfer cataloging information by FTP to other sites across campus automatically at designated times.
Installations
Harvard Dataverse
A collaboration with the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), the Harvard Library, and Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT): the Harvard Dataverse is a repository for sharing, citing, analyzing, and preserving research data. It is open to all scientific data from all disciplines worldwide.
Dataverse in Europe
Dataverse is also installed in the countries of the European Union to preserve data collected by research communities of Netherlands, Germany, France and Finland. The largest Dataverse repository is called DataverseNL and located in the Netherlands providing data management services for 11 Dutch Universities. A similar service is being developed in Norway (cf. DataverseNO).
Dataverse in Canada
In Canada, Borealis is a national instance of the Dataverse repository hosted by OCUL's Scholars Portal at the University of Toronto. Borealis allows institutions to offer a Dataverse service without operating and maintaining the software themselves. Most academic institutions offering a Dataverse service in Canada subscribe to the Borealis service. The associated community of practice is organized through the Digital Research Alliance's Network of Experts via the Dataverse North Expert Group, a coordination, collaboration and communication instance.
Dataverse installations around the world
There are several other Dataverse repositories installed in Universities and organizations around the world. Here is a list of some Dataverse repositories:
The Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AUSSDA)
Odum Institute
Dutch Unive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunocomputing | Immunocomputing explores the principles of information processing that proteins and immune networks utilize in order to solve specific complex problems while protected from viruses, noise, errors and intrusions.
It intends to establish:
A proper mathematical framework
A new kind of computing
A new kind of hardware
The main difference with other kinds of computing lay on the function of its basic element, the formal protein, defined according with its biological prototype and its mathematical model.
The main biophysical issues considered in immunocomputing are:
Free folding to a stable state (inspiration for the Formal Protein)
Free binding with other elements dependent on their reciprocal states (inspiration for the Formal Immune Networks)
Formal immune networks (FINs) have as closest model the idiotypic network of N. Jerne but they consider specific mechanisms of interactions between proteins. FINs are able to learn, recognize and solve problems.
Artificial immune systems
Biophysics
Cognitive science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmac | Inmac (International Minicomputer Accessories Corporation), which became a publicly traded company, was founded in 1975 in Silicon Valley. The company was first listed on the NASDAQ in 1987 and later merged with MicroWarehouse (Currys plc) in 1996.
Inmac was founded by Ken Eldred and Jim Willenborg, who met while in the MBA program at Stanford Business School.
Inmac was the first company to sell computer-related products and accessories via direct-mail catalogs. From its initial Palo Alto, California location, Inmac expanded internationally to England (1980), Germany (1982), Sweden (1983), France (1983), the Netherlands (1984), Canada (1987), Italy (1988), and Japan (1990). By 1989, Inmac was publishing 35 million catalogs in eight different languages, as international sales accounted for more than half the company's revenue. When the company was sold to MicroWarehouse in 1996, it had 1,500 employees and annual revenue over $400 million.
In 2005, the French subsidiary, Inmac France, was sold to the French retailer Wstore and became Inmac Wstore.
References
External links
LinkedIn Company Profile
Consumer electronics retailers in the United States
Currys plc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con%20Kolivas | Con Kolivas is a Greek-Australian anaesthetist. He has worked as a computer programmer on the Linux kernel and on the development of the cryptographic currency mining software CGMiner. His Linux contributions include patches for the kernel to improve its desktop performance, particularly reducing I/O impact.
Linux
Kolivas is most notable for his work with CPU scheduling, most significantly his implementation of "fair scheduling", which inspired Ingo Molnár to develop his Completely Fair Scheduler, as a replacement for the earlier O(1) scheduler, crediting Kolivas in his announcement. Kolivas developed several CPU schedulers such as the Staircase in 2004, then Rotating Staircase Deadline (RSDL), and subsequently Staircase Deadline (SD) schedulers to address interactivity concerns of the Linux kernel with respect to desktop computing. Additionally, he has written a "swap prefetch" patch, which allows processes to respond quickly after the operating system has been idle for some time and their working sets have been swapped out. Many of his experimental "-CK" patches, such as his prefetching and scheduling code, did not get merged with the official Linux kernel.
In 2007, Kolivas announced in an email that he would cease developing for the Linux kernel. Discussing his reasons in an interview, he expressed frustration with aspects of the mainline kernel development process, which he felt did not give sufficient priority to desktop interactivity, in addition to hacking taking a toll on his health, work and family.
He has also written a benchmarking tool called ConTest that can be used to compare the performance of different kernel versions.
On 31 August 2009, Kolivas posted a new scheduler called BFS (Brain Fuck Scheduler). It is designed for desktop use and to be very simple (hence it may not scale well to machines with many CPU cores). Con Kolivas did not intend to get it merged into the mainline kernel. He has since retired BFS in favour of MuQSS, a rewritten implementation of the same concept.
CGMiner
On 13 July 2011, Kolivas introduced a new piece of software for "windows, linux, OSX and other" called CGMiner, which is used for mining cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and Litecoin.
References
External links
Kolivas's personal website
Australian people of Greek descent
Australian computer programmers
Australian anaesthetists
Linux kernel programmers
Medical doctors from Melbourne
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufous-tailed%20foliage-gleaner | The rufous-tailed foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia ruficaudata) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, and possibly French Guiana.
Taxonomy and systematics
The rufous-tailed foliage-gleaner's taxonomy is unsettled. The International Ornithological Committee and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World recognize three subspecies, the nominate A. r. ruficaudata (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1838), A. r. subflavescens (Cabanis, 1873), and A. r. flavipectus (Phelps, WH & Gilliard, 1941). The Clements taxonomy does not recognize A. r. subflavescens but includes it in the nominate.
The rufous-tailed foliage-gleaner was previously included in genus Philydor but a 2011 paper made it plain that it did not belong there.
This article follows the three-subspecies model.
Description
The rufous-tailed foliage-gleaner is long and weighs . It is a medium-sized furnariid with a wedge-shaped bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a wide ocraceous buff eyering, a narrow buff-yellow supercilium, a dark olive line behind the eye, olive-brownish lores and ear coverts with yellowish buff flecks and streaks, and a buff-yellow malar area. Their crown is dark olive with faint paler spots and streaks toward the rear, their back and rump are dark olive with pale streaks on the upper back, and their uppertail coverts are dark olive with rufous tips. Their tail is rufous. Their wings are mostly dark olive-brown, with darker brown primary coverts. Their throat is buff-yellow with some irregular darker inclusions, their breast dull buff yellow with indistinct olivaceous streaks, their belly dull buff yellow with very faint streaks, and their flanks and undertail coverts slightly darker and more olivaceous. Their iris is brown, their maxilla blackish to grayish horn, their mandible paler greenish gray to olive-green, and their legs and feet yellowish brown to olive-green. Juveniles have a more apparent and ochraceous supercilium, browner (less olive) upperparts, and darker less yellowish underparts than adults. Subspecies A. r. subflavescens is very similar to the nominate but with a clearer yellow throat and less noticeable streaks on its underparts. Subspecies A. r. flavipectus has a more ochraceous supercilum and ear coverts, a darker yellowish throat, and more yellowish underparts than the nominate. There is much intergrading between the subspecies.
Distribution and habitat
The nominate subspecies of the rufous-tailed foliage-gleaner is found in southeastern Amazonian Brazil, southeastern Peru, and northern Bolivia. A. r. subflavescens is found in northeastern Ecuador and eastern Peru. A. r. flavipectus is found in southeastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and northeastern Brazil. A. r. flavipectus might also occur in French Guiana, but the South American Classificat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWFM | WWFM (89.1 FM, "The Classical Network") is a classical music radio station owned and operated by Mercer County Community College (MCCC). The flagship station is licensed to the Trenton/Princeton market and operates from the West Windsor campus of MCCC. The Classical Network owns and operates WWFM, WWNJ (91.1 FM) in Toms River Township, WWCJ (89.1 FM) in Cape May, and WWPJ (89.5 FM) in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania. It also broadcasts in the Philadelphia market on the second HD Radio channel of WYPA (89.5 FM) in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
HD multicasts
WWFM-HD2 is "JazzOn2", which runs a traditional jazz format. "JazzOn2" is also on the HD2 channel of WWNJ. WWFM-HD3 is "Viking 89", MCCC's student-run college radio station. WXPN's XPoNential Radio service airs on the HD3 when Mercer students are not on the air.
Other Classical Network stations
The Classical Network's programming is also available on the HD2 channel of WYPA in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, on 89.5 HD2.
Translators
External links
WFM
Classical music radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1982
NPR member stations
WFM
1982 establishments in New Jersey
WFM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligata | Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.
The company was founded by brothers Mike and Tim Mahony and their father J.R. Mahony in 1983. They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum and Dragon 32. The company published many of Tony Crowther's early Commodore 64 games, including Aztec Tomb, Blagger and Loco. Chris Butler was another programmer whose earlier games were released by Alligata. The company also published budget priced software under the Budgie label.
Tim Mahony took over the day-to-day running of the company in 1987 and closed the company nine months later. The name and back catalogue were sold to Superior Software. Two titles were released under the joint Superior/Alligata label for ports of Superior's BBC/Electron games to other systems. Superior also included some old Alligata games on their Play It Again Sam compilations.
Games
1983 Aztec Tomb (C64)
1983 Here Comes The Sun (ZX Spectrum)
1983 Bug Blaster (C64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron)
1983 Lunar Rescue (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron)
1983 Blagger (C64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, MSX, Commodore 16) A version was also released through Amsoft for the Amstrad CPC
1984 Loco (C64, ZX Spectrum, Atari 8-bit)
1984 Son of Blagger (C64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro)
1985 Who Dares Wins (C64)
1985 Jack Charlton's Match Fishing (C64, ZX Spectrum)
1985 Blagger Goes to Hollywood (C64)
1986 Who Dares Wins II (C64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, MSX, Amstrad CPC)
1986 Night World (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron)
1987 Kettle (C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC)
1987 Livingstone, I Presume? (C64, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC) UK release of Spanish Opera Soft game Livingstone, Supongo
1987 Addicta Ball (C64, MSX, Amiga, Atari ST)
1988 By Fair Means or Foul (C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC) A Superior/Alligata release
1989 Repton Mania (ZX Spectrum) Ports of the first 2 Repton games - A Superior/Alligata release
Budgie label
Alligata published budget games under the Budgie label from 1985. When a typical Alligata game would cost around £6.95, Budgie games sold for only £1.99 in order to compete with the likes of budget software pioneer Mastertronic, already selling games at that level. Almost all titles were original rather than re-issues of Alligata games. Probably the most well known game is space shoot 'em up Video's Revenge (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron) with others including Convoy (ZX Spectrum), Super Sam (ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC), Raskel (C64) and Shuffle (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron).
References
External links
Alligata at World of Spectrum
Alligata at the BBC Games Archive
Budgie at World of Spectrum
Who Dares Wins game ending by Alligata Software
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
Video game companies established in 1983
1983 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYX | SYX may refer to:
IATA airport code for Sanya Phoenix International Airport
Skyway Airlines, airline code
Smalltalk YX, an open source implementation of the Smalltalk-80 programming language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVXR | KVXR (1280 AM) is a radio station located in Moorhead, MN airing Catholic programming the Real Presence Radio, including programming from the national EWTN Radio network. KVXR is owned by Real Presence Radio of Grand Forks, North Dakota
History
The station was previously KVOX, a part of James Ingstad's Radio Fargo-Moorhead, though it was donated to Voice of Reason Radio on June 11, 2007. Ingstad purchased KKAG, and KVOX and its format was moved to 740 AM. On September 14, 2007, 1280 changed its call letters to KVXR, and flipped to Relevant Radio, with KVOX moving to 740 AM. On April 23, 2009 Real Presence Radio signed the final papers for purchasing 1280am KVXR from VRR. It now carries the Real Presence Radio network based at KWTL in Grand Forks
External links
Real Presence Radio
ewtn.com
Christian radio stations in Minnesota
Catholic radio stations
Radio stations established in 1984 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyns%27s%20weaver |
Taxonomy
The Weyns's Weaver belongs to the Animalia Kingdom, the Chordata Phylum, the Aves Class, the Passeriformes Order, the Ploceidae Family, and the Ploceus Genus. The species name for the Weyns's Weaver is the Ploceus weysni. This bird is monotypic, meaning that it does not include a subspecies or a smaller, infraspecific taxa.
Field Identification
The Weyns's Weaver differs from males to females in a number of physical characteristics. On average, the males are heavier than the females, weighing 24-36g, while the females weigh 23-34g. Made up of black, olive-green, yellow, and brown, the males are much darker in appearance than the females, who are much more yellow. The males have a black head and back, with a yellow and orange belly. Younger birds are mostly yellow with hints of black, closely resembling the female birds.
Distribution & Habitat
The Weyns's Weaver is found in a number of countries throughout the continent of Africa. These countries include the Northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Uganda, Northwest Tanzania, and even Kenya. This entire range where this bird lives is a conservation area. This bird can most likely be found in terrestrial areas, as well as forests with tall trees and wetlands. This Weaver is attracted to inland bodies of water, such as freshwater and lakes.
Diet & Foraging
Fruits, including wild figs, make up the majority of the diet for the Weyns's Weaver. Their diet is seen mainly throughout the forest canopy. This bird frequently forages for food in pairs or flocks, doing most everything in groups. The feeding flocks are most often made up of 20 individuals, however, on occasion, they can flock in groups of up to 200 or more.
Movement
In terms of movement, the Weyns's Weaver appears to wander erratically. This bird is not a migrant species. In the months of June through September, it is absent from talk shore areas. This implies that their movements differ depending on the seasons.
Breeding
The adults in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are observed to have enlarged gonads in the months of April through June. In areas like Uganda, these changes occur during the months of June and July, and the offspring are found in November. Following the breeding period, the Weyns's Weaver is moulted in the months of September to November.
Songs & Vocal Behavior
The vocal behavior of the Weyns's Weaver can be described as a very high-pitched sizzling sound. Their songs are filled with many chirps and longer squeaking sounds. They are relatively quiet, unless they are joined by others to make a group.
Conservation Status
In terms of conservation status, the Weyns's Weaver is considered to be a species of least concern. This species can be encountered in reasonable numbers, and is not globally threatened, for they have a stable population trend. This bird is locally common, but its presence is often unpredictable. Their population is predicted to be stable for at least their generational le |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed%20sequential | Relaxed sequential in computer science is an execution model describing the ability for a parallel program to run sequentially. If a parallel program has a valid sequential execution it is said to follow a relaxed sequential execution model. It does not need to be efficient.
The word relaxed refers to the notion that serial programs are actually overly constrained by implicit serial dependencies (such as the program counter) and that one can introduce as much parallelism as possible without removing the ability to run sequentially. You can think of this model as being as relaxed as possible and still being able to run correctly in a single thread. That is the goal.
Most parallel programs can run sequentially but will benefit from parallelism when it is present. It is possible to design programs that require parallelism for correct behavior. Algorithms such as producer-consumer that are implemented so as to require two or more threads are one example of requiring concurrency to work properly. For instance, consider a bounded container with a capacity for only three items and a program which has one thread doing “PUT PUT PUT PUT,” and another thread doing “GET GET GET GET,” each doing their actions only four at a time. Such a program requires interleaving (concurrency). A program that requires concurrency is more difficult to debug. It is easier to debug a program that has a valid sequential execution.
Programs designed to require concurrency are more difficult to debug. Programs designed to require concurrency will have performance issues when the number of required threads exceeds the number of hardware threads because time slicing artifacts can hit hard.
See also
Deadlock
Race Conditions
References
Reinders, James, Intel Threading Building Blocks: Outfitting C++ for Multi-core Processor Parallelism, First Edition. O'Reilly Media, 2007, . Pages 169-170.
Parallel computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s%20paradox | Moravec's paradox is the observation in artificial intelligence and robotics that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little computation, but sensorimotor and perception skills require enormous computational resources. The principle was articulated by Hans Moravec, Rodney Brooks, Marvin Minsky and others in the 1980s. Moravec wrote in 1988, "it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility".
Similarly, Minsky emphasized that the most difficult human skills to reverse engineer are those that are below the level of conscious awareness. "In general, we're least aware of what our minds do best", he wrote, and added "we're more aware of simple processes that don't work well than of complex ones that work flawlessly". Steven Pinker wrote in 1994 that "the main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard."
By the 2020s, in accordance to Moore's law, computers were hundreds of millions of times faster than in the 1970s, and the additional computer power was finally sufficient to begin to handle perception and sensory skills, as Moravec had predicted in 1976. In 2017, leading machine learning researcher Andrew Ng presented a "highly imperfect rule of thumb", that "almost anything a typical human can do with less than one second of mental thought, we can probably now or in the near future automate using AI." There is currently no consensus as to which tasks AI tends to excel at.
The biological basis of human skills
One possible explanation of the paradox, offered by Moravec, is based on evolution. All human skills are implemented biologically, using machinery designed by the process of natural selection. In the course of their evolution, natural selection has tended to preserve design improvements and optimizations. The older a skill is, the more time natural selection has had to improve the design. Abstract thought developed only very recently, and consequently, we should not expect its implementation to be particularly efficient.
As Moravec writes:
A compact way to express this argument would be:
We should expect the difficulty of reverse-engineering any human skill to be roughly proportional to the amount of time that skill has been evolving in animals.
The oldest human skills are largely unconscious and so appear to us to be effortless.
Therefore, we should expect skills that appear effortless to be difficult to reverse-engineer, but skills that require effort may not necessarily be difficult to engineer at all.
Some examples of skills that have been evolving for millions of years: recognizing a face, moving around in space, judging people's motivations, catching a ball, recognizing a voice, setting appropriate goals, paying attention to things that are interesting; anything t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid%20Hoffmann | Ingrid Hoffmann (born April 10, 1965) is a Colombian-American television personality and restaurateur, who hosts the Food Network series Simply Delicioso and the Spanish-language cooking and lifestyle show Delicioso on Galavisión. Her cookbook, Simply Delicioso: A Collection of Everyday Recipes with a Latin Twist, was published on February 8, 2008, by Clarkson Potter. The Spanish version is titled Delicioso: Una coleccion de mis recetas favoritas con un toque latino.
Early life
Hoffmann was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and raised in Cali and Curaçao. Her father was Billy Hoffmann, a pilot. Her mother, Yolanda Ibarnegaray, was a Cordon Bleu-trained chef who worked in restaurants and catering. Ingrid began cooking at a young age with her mother.
Career
Hoffmann worked in modeling and acting, appearing in 16 telenovelas by age 20. She moved to Miami, Florida in 1985, where she opened La Capricieuse, a high-fashion luxury boutique in Miami's Coconut Grove.
Hoffmann opened a Miami restaurant with her mother and two business partners. Rocca, the first restaurant in Miami to feature tabletop cooking on heated lava rocks, opened in January 1993 and quickly became a local celebrity hot spot.
After hosting a cooking segment on a Miami-area television show in 2002, Hoffmann was offered a biweekly segment on the Spanish language morning show, Despierta America. Her own show, Delicioso, launched on DirecTV Para Todos in 2005. Delicioso now airs on Univision's cable network, Galavision. The Food Network contacted her the day after her March 2006 appearance on Martha, and Simply Delicioso debuted on the Food Network in July 2007.
Hoffmann contributes a monthly culinary column to People en Español. She has her own cookware line, Simply Delicioso with Ingrid Hoffmann, by T-Fal, and a cutlery and kitchen accessories line by Furi on Home Shopping Network.
Hoffman participated in the Hispanic "Got Milk?" campaign in November 2009 as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. She is a board member of New York City’s Food and Education Fund, and she supports Miami's Amigos For Kids (as a member of its board of directors), Believe for Colombia Foundations, and the Humane Society.
Works
Books
Latin d'Lite: Delicious Latin Recipes with a Healthy Twist (2013)
Simply Delicioso: A Collection of Everyday Recipes with a Latin Twist (2008)
Television
Delicioso (2005–2013)
Simply Delicioso (2007–2009)
References
External links
Simply Delicioso
Ingrid Hoffmann on Food Network
Interview (2011) at TalkWithAudrey.com
1965 births
Living people
American television chefs
Colombian chefs
Colombian telenovela actresses
Food Network chefs
Colombian emigrants to the United States
Women cookbook writers
American women chefs
21st-century American women
American people of Colombian descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Smog | Data Smog is a 1997 book by journalist David Shenk and published by HarperCollins. It addresses the author's ideas on how the information technology revolution would shape the world, and how the large amount of data available on the Internet would make it more difficult to sift through and separate fact from fiction.
Argument of the book
According to Data Smog, with the advance of technology, we have been able to progress in terms of society, economy, and even health. Communication is instantaneous, knowledge is abundant, and as humans we try to keep up with this expansion of data that continues to accumulate from around the world.
However, it is the overwhelming amount of information that is defined as data smog; "this unexpected, unwelcome part of our atmosphere, an expression for the noxious muck and druck of the Information age." The wealth of information is harming some because of sheer amount of it and rate of production: "The sheer volume of information which many of us are exposed to every day may actually impair our performance and add stress to our lives." In fact, according to statistics provided by Shenk, "In 1971 the average American was targeted by at least 560 daily advertising messages. Twenty years later, that number has risen six fold, to 3,000 messages per day."
It is argued that "Just as fat has replaced starvation as this nation’s number one dietary concern, information overload has replaced information scarcity as an important new emotional, social, and political problem." As per David Lewis, PhD in psychology, this attempt at consuming the majority of data, the result is what he calls "information fatigue syndrome." This term refers to the data smog that we encounter daily that ultimately interferes with our sleep, concentration, and even affecting our immune systems.
According to clinical psychologist Michelle Weil "the problems stem from people’s overuse or misuse of technologies and from technology’s ineffective presentation of information, researchers are finding."
Suggested alleviation
Ways in which to 'beat the smog':
Turn off the television for at least an hour or two every evening.
Spend some time each week without your pager or cell phone.
Resist advertising – never buy a product based on unsolicited email (spam).
Go on periodic "data fasts". A weekend in the country away from the telephone can rejuvenate a smogged-in brain.
Write clearly and succinctly. Verbose writing is wasteful and difficult to read.
Skim newsletters and magazines and rip out a copy of an article or two that you really want to read and digest.
Filter your email. Many email programs allow you to set "filters" which send unwanted email directly to the trash. It is worth taking the time to do this.
Do not forward chain letters, urban legends, urgent messages about email viruses, or claims that Bill Gates will send everyone thousands of dollars. These things clog up everybody's inbox with worthless stuff.
Organize your Web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameHouse | GameHouse Inc. is an American casual game developer, publisher, digital video game distributor, and portal, based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is a division of RealNetworks.
GameHouse distributes casual games for PC and Mac computers, as well as for mobile devices such as phones and tablets (on both iOS (iTunes) and Android (Google Play and the Amazon Appstore)).
GameHouse offers 2,300+ online and downloadable games, consisting of both in-house produced titles (such as the Delicious series) and third party games.
History
GameHouse was founded by Ben Exworthy and Garr Godfrey in 1998.
The first downloadable game developed by the company was Collapse!, a game similar to SameGame. In 2003, company revenues topped $10 million ($5.5 million net). In 2004, GameHouse was acquired by RealNetworks for $14.6 million cash and about 3.3 million RNWK shares, then estimated at $21 million.
After the acquisition, the GameHouse studio continued operations as a developer, while its games were distributed via RealNetworks, and the GameHouse game portal continued to operate alongside the RealArcade gaming service.
On November 3, 2009, RealArcade had announced they are merging with GameHouse to create a large distribution platform. Such plans include migrating the accounts of users from RealArcade, offering discounts and special offers to GamePass members and new social community opportunities. The merger was completed on November 13. As a result, all customers visiting the RealArcade website are redirected to Gamehouse.com. By 2010, RealArcade Mobile was rebranded as GameHouse.
Locations
GameHouse's main offices are in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The company also has studios in Barcelona and Alicante (Spain). GameHouse has been working on developing their own original story games such as the Delicious series and Zylom. In collaboration with Blue Giraffe, it launched Delicious: Emily’s Christmas Carol in December 2016. The company continues to release multiple story-driven time management games per year on mobile while maintaining Zylom and GameHouse websites on which they publish games by other developers too.
Zylom is part of the Gamehouse Studios Europe which operate the main GameHouse properties globally.
RealArcade
RealArcade (Formerly RealOne Arcade) was a gaming service run by RealNetworks that sold casual-style computer games to individual users. Its purpose was to let users download demo versions of games, and optionally buy the full versions.
Sales model
RealArcade distributes games on a time-limited demo basis. Each game downloaded has a trial time of 60 minutes unless differently specified by each publisher. Once the trial time expires, users are required either to uninstall the game from their computer or to purchase the full version of the game. Users can also subscribe to a RealNetworks service called GamePass. For a monthly fee, it offers a free ownership of a single game of their choice per month at no additional fees and $ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mint%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | The Mint is an Australian phone-in quiz show based on the British program of the same name, and broadcast on the Nine Network in selected areas in the late night time slot (post-midnight).
The show was filmed live at Nine's GTV Richmond studios in Melbourne. It replaced Quizmania and was produced entirely by the Nine Network, unlike Quizmania which was produced by FremantleMedia Australia. Like Quizmania, the program received its revenue from phone charges rather than advertisements.
Only contestants aged 18 or over were allowed to participate. Each entry cost a flat 55c charge to a premium-rate 1902 number when calling from a landline.
On 18 March 2008, it was announced that The Mint would be axed. The final episode aired on 29 March 2008.
Program history
The Mint began on 31 July 2007 after the 2007 Big Brother series on Network Ten had ended, with its UpLate late-night show a similar phone-in quiz show.
The Mint was broadcast live on Nine Network stations GTV, TCN and QTQ, and affiliates TVT and NBN. The Mint was seen tape-delayed on NTD in the Northern Territory, with NTD relaying the complete TCN broadcast with Sydney ads, accompanied by a disclaimer stating that "The Mint is not telecast live in the Northern Territory. Northern Territory residents are not able to participate live." This is unlike Quizmania, in which that series was broadcast live in all regions where it was broadcast, including NTD.
Regional affiliate WIN Television commenced broadcast of the programme on 1 October 2007, but axed it in February 2008 stating "WIN merely wants to provide entertainment to its viewers and in doing so removed The Mint."
The Mint was filmed on a large, extravagant set designed to look like the inside of a mansion. The programme was dogged by criticism that its questions were ambiguous and arbitrary.
Hosting
The Mint was hosted by Australian Idol 2003 contestant Rob Mills, Natalie Garonzi, Angela Johnson, Lyall Brooks, Lucy Holmes and former Quizmania host Katrina Conder. Former Hosts were Cherie Hausler and Nathaniel Buzolic.
Despite there being six hosts, only two were present on the show on any night; the remainder are said to be sleeping in "the Mansion", their name for the studio set which was also used for the short-lived show Commercial Breakdown. The host combination often consisted of one male and one female, performing as a double act, but has also been known to consist of two females. While there were two hosts in an episode, hosts mainly appeared on camera by themselves. The exceptions were during the start of the show, when a prize is won, and at the end of the show. Otherwise, the hosts presented from different rooms within "the mansion".
Games
The namesake of "The Mint" comes from the large vault visible on set. The vault holds a jackpot. Those who correctly guess a three digit combination wins a share of the cash jackpot. There is a 1 in 1000 chance of guessing the code correctly. The prize money in the vault increases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalusian%20ICT%20schools%20Network | This document describes the CGA's hierarchy structure and the tools they used each school year in ICT schools.
School year 2003–04
During the school year 2003-2004, the Andalusian Government opened 100 ICT schools in Andalusia as a pilot experience.
50 ICT schools for e-Government
50 ICT schools for educational process
A total of 18.000 PCs
Tools that they used:
Cheops
Bugzilla
Nagios
MRTG
Hierarchy structure of the staff:
School year 2004–05
150 schools for e-Government
150 schools for educational process
A total of 58.000 PCs
Software that CGA used during this school year:
Cheops
Nagios
MRTG
Sigila (self-made: Sistema Integral de Gestión de Incidencias y Localización de Averias or Integral System to Manage and Localize system's Breakdowns)
Unattended Operating System installations
PXE
SystemImager
Tools to share and security
NFS
LDAP
rsync
School year 2005–06
618 for the two purpose (for e-Government and for educational process)
A total of 105.000 PCs
CGA omitted the use of this software tools because they were not useful for a big Network with 105.000 PC:
Cheops
Nagios
MRTG
Control software tools:
Sigila
Unattended installations of the Operating System
PXE
SystemImager
Tools to share and security
NFS
LDAP
RSYNC
Unattended software installations:
CFEngine
Munin
Visco (self-made, this is Nagios' adaptation for a bigger network)
Software to be used at the schools
Apagado remoto de equipos (Remote shutdown for all PC in the ICT School)
CRV (Cañón de red virtual or Virtual Network Projector)
iTALC
School year 2006–07
1.100 ICT Schools
185.000 PC
Human and technical resource are difficult to scalar, then, the CGA needed to design a new solution
to reach two objectives:
Control, management and flexibility
To control the grown of human and technical resources
To reach these objectives CGA used ITIL
Related links
Centro de Gestión Avanzado de Centros TIC
https://web.archive.org/web/20070717170623/http://www.cga.org.es/blog/
http://www.guadalinex.org
See also
CGA (Advanced Management Centre)
Education in Spain
Free software culture and documents
Governmental educational technology organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20class | In object-oriented programming, a virtual base class is a nested inner class whose functions and member variables can be overridden and redefined by subclasses of an outer class. Virtual classes are analogous to virtual functions.
The run time type of a virtual class depends on the run time type of an object of the outer class. (Just like the run time type of an object decides which virtual function should be used.)
A run time instance type of the outer class object not only decides on the polymorphic type of its own type object, but also on a whole family tree of virtual class members.
Purpose
Virtual classes solve the extensibility problem of extending data abstraction with new functions and representations. Like virtual functions, virtual classes follow the same rules of definition, overriding, and reference.
When a derived class inherits from a base class, it must define or override the virtual inner classes it inherited from the base class. An object of the child class may be referred to by a reference or pointer of the parent class type or the child class type. When the reference or pointer invoke the virtual inner classes, the derived class's implementation will be called if the object is of the derived class type. The type of the outer class determines the run time of the inner virtual class.
A method with an object argument has access to the object's virtual classes. The method can use the virtual classes of its arguments to create instances and declare variables. Virtual classes of different instances are not compatible.
Example
For example, a base class Machine could have a virtual class Parts. Subclass Car would implement Parts differently than the subclass Bicycle, but the programmer can call any methods in the virtual inner class Parts on any class Machine object, and get the Parts implementation of that specific derived class.
#include <iostream>
class Machine {
public:
void run() { }
class Parts {
public:
virtual int get_wheels() = 0;
virtual std::string get_fuel_type() = 0;
};
};
// The inner class "Parts" of the class "Machine" may return the number of wheels the machine has.
class Car: Machine {
public:
void run() {
std::cout << "The car is running." << std::endl;
}
class Parts: Machine::Parts {
public:
int get_wheels() override {
std::cout << "A car has 4 wheels." << std::endl;
return 4;
}
std::string get_fuel_type() override {
std::cout << "A car uses gasoline for fuel." << std::endl;
return "gasoline";
}
};
};
Any object of class type Machine can be accessed the same way. The programmer can ask for the number of wheels (by calling get_wheels()), without needing to know what kind of machine it is, how many wheels that machine has, or all the possible types of machines there are. Functions like get_fuel_type() can be added to the virtual class Parts by t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symobi | Symobi (System for mobile applications) is a proprietary modern and mobile real-time operating system. It was and is developed by the German company Miray Software, since 2002 partly in cooperation with the research team of Prof. Dr. Uwe Baumgarten at the Technical University of Munich. The graphical operating system is designed for the area of embedded and mobile systems. It is also often used on PCs for end users and in the field of industry.
Design
The basis of Symobi is the message-oriented operating system µnOS, which is on its part based on the real-time microkernel Sphere. µnOS offers communication through message passing between all processes (from basic operating system service processes to application processes) using the integrated process manager. On the lowest level, the responsibility of the Sphere microkernel is to implement and enforce security mechanisms and resource management in real-time. Symobi itself additionally offers a complete graphical operating system environment with system services, a consistent graphical user interface, as well as standard programs and drivers.
Classification
Symobi combines features from different fields of application in one operating system. As a modern operating system it offers separated, isolated processes, light-weight threads, and dynamic libraries, like Windows, Linux, and Unix for example. In the area of mobile embedded operating systems, through its low resource requirement and the support of mobile devices it resembles systems like Windows CE, SymbianOS or Palm OS. With conventional real-time operating systems like QNX or VxWorks it shares the real-time ability and the support of different processor architectures.
History
The development of Sphere, µnOS and Symobi is based on the ideas and work of Konrad Foikis and Michael Haunreiter (founders of the company Miray Software), initiated during their schooldays, even before they started studying computer science. The basic concept was to combine useful and necessary features (like real-time and portability) with modern characteristics (like microkernel and inter-process communication etc.) to form a stable and reliable operating system. Originally, it was only supposed to serve as a basis for the different application programs developed by Foikis and Haunreiter during their studies. In 2000, Konrad Foikis and Michael Haunreiter founded the company Miray Software when they realised that µnOS was suited for far more than their own use. The cooperation with the TU Munich already evolved two years later. In 2006, the first official version of Symobi was completed, and in autumn of the same year it was introduced in professional circles on the Systems exhibition.
Support
Single-Core
Intel: 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Core Solo, Core 2 Solo
AMD: Élan SC410, Élan SC520, K6, K6-2, K6-III, Duron, Sempron, Athlon, Opteron
VIA: Cyrix Mark II, Cyrix III, C3, C7, Eden
Rise: mP6
Marvell / Intel: PXA-2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Source%20Data%20Base | A Common Source Data Base (CSDB) is to provide the user (mainly technical authors, illustrators and publication managers) with automated processes to handle the complete palette of CSDB objects. Technical documentation is used in many areas of the everyday life. Product liability and many other issues regarding consumer protection have to be covered inside technical documentation. At minimum, a drawing including a few locators has to be provided. Much of this information is in accordance with the international S1000D specification.
Description
A special form of technical documentation is electronic technical documentation, a further subform is interactive electronic technical documentation (IETD). The complexity of IETD especially regarding the huge mass of data elements, their linkage and the version management issuing and release process must be controlled via a special document management system. To handle these complex structures of ASD S1000D IETDs, the Common Source Data Base is necessary.
Starting with the smallest addressable unit, the DataModules under the use of different Document Type Definitions (DTD's) or schemas has to be supported. Furthermore, the publications, in process review forms (IPRF's) in later S1000D versions known as comments, for authoring reasons must be provided. Last but not least the illustrations and all kinds of hotspot declaration files have to be assisted.
Regarding processes to perform the S1000D file-based exchange between customer and/or industry, to generate complete IETDs and to verify all these processes, the CSDB must ensure data integrity and security during all actions listed above.
Support the handling of technical publication
These technical publications consist of DataModules (DMs), Illustrations (ICNs), partly hotspot-declarations and its Info Object instance (IO) or the Publication Module (PM) in later Versions of S1000D.
The Info Object instance (XML file, using a special Document Type Definition) consists of DM- and ICN-references to guide the loading process into a retrieval system and to build the table of content, partly the list of applicable publications LOAP.
Connection between exchanging, authoring/illustrating environment and data vault
The basic mechanism is to copy S1000D objects like DMs, IPRF's or Illustrations out of the secured vault of a CSDB into a working area, to avoid that more than one user is able to change the object.
After the changes have been performed, the object will be copied back to the CSDB vault and its issue increased.
Furthermore, the CSDB is able to support technical authors or operators with a checking environment.
The checks result in standardized files like CSV or plain text, to ensure an easy transfer to the originator of the checked data. The originator may be the technical author during the authoring process or in case of international data exchange in accordance with ASD/AIA S1000D, an industrial partner respective a sub-contractor who delivers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Wijngaarden%20transformation | In mathematics and numerical analysis, the van Wijngaarden transformation is a variant on the Euler transform used to accelerate the convergence of an alternating series.
One algorithm to compute Euler's transform runs as follows: Compute a row of partial sums and form rows of averages between neighbors The first column then contains the partial sums of the Euler transform.
Adriaan van Wijngaarden's contribution was to point out that it is better not to carry this procedure through to the very end, but to stop two-thirds of the way. If are available, then is almost always a better approximation to the sum than . In many cases the diagonal terms do not converge in one cycle so process of averaging is to be repeated with diagonal terms by bringing them in a row. (For example, this will be needed in a geometric series with ratio .) This process of successive averaging of the average of partial sum can be replaced by using the formula to calculate the diagonal term.
For a simple-but-concrete example, recall the Leibniz formula for pi The algorithm described above produces the following table:
These correspond to the following algorithmic outputs:
References
See also
Euler summation
Mathematical series
Numerical analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith%20Broadcasting%20Network | Faith Broadcasting Network was a Christian television network owned and operated by the Faith Center church in Glendale, California.
Until the mid-1980s, FBN owned and operated WHCT-TV 18 in Hartford, Connecticut (now Univision affiliate WUVN), KVOF-TV 38 in San Francisco (now KCNS), and KHOF-TV (today's KPXN-TV) 30 in San Bernardino, CA. During the same era the Faith Center owned and operated KHOF-FM which was licensed in the city of Los Angeles, CA.
KHOF-FM
An FM radio station was the first broadcast property owned by Faith Center and was constructed around 1955. The transmitter site was located on a hill south of the junction of the Ventura and Glendale Freeways. Radio studios were originally in the pipe organ studios of Lorin Whitney in Glendale and later re-located to a rented store-front on Adams at the bottom west side of the transmitter hill. Studios were ultimately located at Faith Center when the church relocated to 1615 South Glendale Avenue in Glendale.
The station operated on FM frequency 99.5 MHz with an original power of 16,500 watts and later increased to 100,000 watts. The call letters of KHOF stood for the King’s Herald Of Faith. The original station manager was Jean Carpenter and Chief Engineer, Howard Bollanback. After Howard left, Jack Short became Chief Engineer until 1961.
KHOF-TV
One of the early Christian television stations on the west coast was KHOF-TV. Faith Center constructed the station from ground up and signed it on the air in October 1969. The transmission facilities were located on Sunset Ridge, which is about 20 miles east of Mount Wilson, where the major television stations for Los Angeles are located. The station was licensed to San Bernardino and broadcast on UHF television channel 30. Programming originated at the transmitter facility, with video tape and film programming transported daily up the mountain for broadcast. A 30-mile microwave radio link was constructed from Faith Center in Glendale to Sunset Ridge which allowed for live programming, such as church services, telethons and festivals, to be broadcast.
KIFM
Around late 1971 Faith Center acquired an FM radio station in Bakersfield, California. The station operated on FM frequency 96.5 MHz with the call sign of KIFM. The call sign was passed along from the previous ownership and the meaning is assumed to have been Kings Inspirational FM, or Kings Inspiration For Man. The KIFM studios in Bakersfield were located in a renovated residence on South H Street. While KIFM had a small staff to program the station there was a radio link established where the programming from KHOF-FM was sent to the KIFM studios. This allowed for some KHOF-FM programming including live church services to be broadcast on the Bakersfield station.
WHCT-TV
On February 16, 1972 Faith Center further expanded its ministries with the addition of WHCT in Hartford, Connecticut. WHCT was acquired from RKO General and broadcast on UHF television channel 18. RKO donated the station |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Christian%20Network | The National Christian Network was a religious television network in the United States which formed in 1979. The channel was founded by Ray A. Kassis and located in Cocoa, Florida, where it owned studios. The programming was originated from Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant groups; at the time of launch 54 separate groups had shown interest. The network was the fourth satellite-fed Christian network to be launched, and was a competitor to the Trinity Broadcasting Network, the PTL Satellite Network, and the Christian Broadcasting Network.
NCN shared the same satellite transponder with the Playboy channel. This caused a great deal of trouble for NCN, not because they shared the same transponder at different times of the day, but rather because NCN attempted to broker time on its channel to Christian programmers who were led to believe (falsely) that every cable company that was carrying Playboy was also carrying NCN. In fact most cable operators carried the Playboy feed only during the hours that Playboy was transmitting programming, and they blacked out the NCN portion.
Jerry Falwell acquired NCN in 1986, renaming it to the Liberty Broadcasting Network and moving its headquarters to Chesapeake, Virginia. At that time the network had an estimated 3 million viewers. LBN billed itself as the first "for profit inspirational network".
The Liberty Broadcasting Network was renamed to FamilyNet in June 1988, and at the same time became a for-profit entity. The network had lost about $3.2 million each year, and Falwell associate / former PTL manager Dr. Jerry Nims was brought in to head the new network.
FamilyNet was acquired by the Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission in 1991. The SBC ran the network alongside its separately programmed American Christian Television System. In 1995 FamilyNet was available to 35 million homes through broadcast stations. The church sold FamilyNet to InTouch Ministries in 2007. In 2013, Rural Media Group purchased the network, converting the channel into the Western sports service The Cowboy Channel at the start of 2018.
See also
American Christian Television System
The Cowboy Channel
National Interfaith Cable Coalition
PTL Satellite Network
References
Christian television networks
Defunct television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1979
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1986
Jerry Falwell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Orebaugh | Angela Orebaugh is a cyber technology and security author and researcher. In 2011, she was selected as Booz Allen Hamilton's first Cybersecurity Fellow. She is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia Department of Computer Science.
Education
Orebaugh received undergraduate and masters degrees from James Madison University, completing the masters in 1999. She completed a PhD at George Mason University in 2014 under the direction of Jeremy Allnutt and Jason Kinser. Her thesis title was Analyzing Instant Messaging Writeprints as a Behavioral Biometric Element of Cybercrime Investigations.
Works
Books
Orebaugh, A. et al. Nmap in the Enterprise, Syngress Publishing, , 2008.
Orebaugh, A. et al. How to Cheat at Configuring Open Source Security Tools , Syngress Publishing, , 2007.
Orebaugh, A. et al. Wireshark & Ethereal Network Protocol Analyzer Toolkit, Syngress Publishing, , 2006.
Orebaugh, A., Biles, S., Babbin, J., Snort Cookbook, OReilly Publishing, , 2005.
Orebaugh, A., Rash, M., Babbin, J. and Pinkard, B., Intrusion Prevention and Active Response: Deploying Network and Host IPS, Syngress Publishing, , 2005.
Orebaugh, A., Ethereal Packet Sniffing, Syngress Publishing, Boston, MA., , 2004.
NIST Publications
NIST Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) for Federal Information Systems and Organizations. Special Publication 800-137, 2011.
NIST Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment, Special Publication 800-115, 2008.
NIST Guide to SSL VPNs, Special Publication 800-113, 2008.
NIST Guide to IPSEC VPNs. Special Publication 800-77, 2005.
Article
, (with Ed Covert)
References
Writers about computer security
American computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American technology writers
People from Virginia
American women computer scientists
James Madison University alumni
George Mason University alumni
Harvard Extension School alumni
People associated with computer security
University of Virginia faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vba32%20AntiVirus | VBA32 (Virus Block Ada 32) is antivirus software from the vendor VirusBlokAda for personal computers running Microsoft Windows. It detects and neutralizes computer viruses, computer worms, Trojan horses and other malware (backdoors, adware, spyware, etc.) in real time and on demand.
VBA32 is used as one of the antivirus engines at VirusTotal.
VirusBlokAda
VirusBlokAda is an antivirus software vendor established in 1997 in Belarus. In 2010 it discovered Stuxnet, the first malware that attacks supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.
The program
In 2009 Judit Papp assessed that its VBA32 Antivirus product could detect 26 percent of unknown malware, compared to 67 percent detected by Avira's Antivir Premium and 8 percent detected by MicroWorld's eScan Anti-Virus.
See also
Antivirus software
Comparison of antivirus software
Comparison of computer viruses
References
External links
Antivirus software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20Description%20Table | Service Description Table (SDT) is a metadata table used in Digital Video Broadcasting systems to describe the television, radio or other services contained in MPEG transport streams provided by the system. The purpose and format of the table is defined in ETSI EN 300 468: Specification for Service Information (SI) in DVB systems.
An MPEG transport stream consists of a sequence of packets. SDTs are contained in packets identified by the packet ID (PID) 0x0011. Such packets may alternatively contain a Bouquet Association Table (BAT) or a Stuffing Table (ST). The type of information carried in the packet is identified using a table ID. The table ID 0x42 identifies the SDT providing information about services contained in the same transport stream as the SDT itself. The table ID 0x46 identifies SDTs providing information about services contained in other transport streams in the same network or system.
The SDT provides the following information about each service:
the transport stream id.
the service id.
whether or not programme schedules are provided in the transport stream.
whether or not there is information about the current and next programmes.
the running status of the service (e.g. starting soon, paused, running or off-air).
whether or not the service is scrambled.
Further optional information may be provided about each service, such as the name of the service, the name of the broadcaster responsible for the service, service availability or service authority url.
References
External links
http://www.interactivetvweb.org/tutorials/dtv_intro
MPEG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina%20Coastal%20Expressway | The Marina Coastal Expressway (Abbreviation: MCE) is the tenth of Singapore's network of expressways. Construction for the MCE began in 2008 and was completed at the end of 2013. The expressway was officially opened on 28 December that year by Senior Minister of State Josephine Teo in the presence of Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, and was opened for vehicular traffic the next day.
Route
The 5-kilometre (3.1-mile) MCE connects with the southern end of the KPE and its junction with the ECP to the eastern end of AYE. This links the eastern and western parts of Singapore to the New Downtown, currently being developed in the Marina Bay area. The MCE, with five lanes in each direction, handles the large number of commuters to be drawn to the offices, homes and recreational attractions there. It opens access to the Marina Bay Cruise Centre Singapore in Marina South and the existing Marina South Pier.
List of exits
{| class="wikitable"
! scope="col" | Exit
! scope="col" | Destinations
! scope="col" | Notes
|- style="background: #dff9f9"
| 1A
| Keppel Road, Ayer Rajah Expressway
| Expressway continues as Ayer Rajah Expressway
|- style="background: #ffdddd"
| 1B
| Shenton Way, Maxwell Road
| Westbound exit and eastbound entrance only
|-
| 2
| Central Boulevard, Marina Coastal Drive, Marina Gardens Drive, Rochor Road
| Signed as Exit 3 westbound
|- style="background: #dff9f9"
| 5
| Fort Road, East Coast Parkway (Changi Airport), Kallang–Paya Lebar Expressway
| Expressway continues as Kallang–Paya Lebar Expressway
History
Plans to extend the KPE to join the AYE began on 9 March 2006 to relieve congestion of the East Coast Parkway, and would be called Marina Coastal Expressway. Feasibility studies were conducted for the new expressway, and then Transport Minister Raymond Lim later announced on 27 July 2007 that approval had been given for the construction of a new 5 km long Marina Coastal Expressway (MCE) at a cost of $2.5 billion. The expressway, which includes Singapore's first undersea tunnel, links the East Coast Parkway and Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway to Marina South and Ayer Rajah Expressway and opened to traffic on 29 December 2013.
The expressway comprises a tunnel, while the rest are at grade or depressed, with a view of the Singapore Strait. The tunnel includes a stretch that travels under the seabed, away from the Marina Barrage. This had posed particular engineering challenges in the tunnel construction as large amounts of water were let out from the barrage from time to time. At its deepest point, the expressway lies about under the seabed.
The long MCE is Singapore's most expensive expressway. On 28 April 2009, the Land Transport Authority revealed that it has awarded about S$4.1 billion worth of contracts, much more than the initial estimate of $2.5 billion. The construction of the MCE also required undersea dredging. More than of land was reclaimed to build the MCE. In contrast, the KPE, which is and has portions runni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-click | Triple-click is the action of clicking a computer mouse button three times quickly without moving the mouse. Along with clicking and double-clicking, triple-clicking allows three different actions to be associated with the same mouse button. Criticism of the double-click mechanism is even more valid for triple-clicks. However, few applications assign critical actions to a triple click.
Examples of usage
On text
In most text processing programs and edit controls triple-clicking with the primary mouse button (the left button for right-handers) on the text selects the entire line. If the edit control is not multiline, the entire text is selected.
Microsoft Word
A triple-click within a paragraph in the text area selects the entire paragraph.
A triple-click in the left margin (when the mouse pointer is an up-and-to-the-right arrow) selects the entire document.
Microsoft Works
A triple-click within a paragraph in the text area selects the line.
A triple-click in the left margin (when the mouse pointer is an up-and-to-the-right arrow) selects the entire document.
Corel WordPerfect
A triple-click within a paragraph in the text area selects the sentence.
A triple-click in the left margin (when the mouse pointer is an up-and-to-the-right arrow) selects the entire document.
Outlook and Outlook Express
A triple-click within a paragraph in the text area selects the entire paragraph.
Text fields
A triple-click in a text entry field (a text entry widget) selects the entire line of text. This is a standard feature of the widgets themselves, so works in most applications, on Linux as well as Windows.
Quark Express
A triple-click selects the current line.
Four clicks selects the current paragraph.
Five clicks selects the whole document.
Web browsers
Firefox 3.0
In Firefox 3.0 a triple-click will highlight all text within any single HTML element on the page.
Firefox 3.5
In Firefox 3.5 and upwards, a triple-click selects the entire paragraph. If the triple click is inside a content editable element, and is on the first paragraph, it selects the text, and the opening tag of the element.
Internet Explorer 7
In Internet Explorer 7 a triple-click will highlight all text within any single HTML element on the page. If there is an article with multiple paragraphs one can highlight an entire paragraph with a triple-click.
Opera
In Opera a triple-click will select all text within a sentence while automatically popping up a list of commands to apply to the selected text. A quadruple-click will select all text within a single paragraph while keeping the aforementioned popup open.
Safari 3.0
In Safari 3.0 a triple-click will highlight all text within any single HTML element on the page. If there is an article with multiple paragraphs one can highlight an entire paragraph with a triple-click.
Chrome
In Google Chrome (and by extension ChromeOS), triple-clicking any part of a Web page will cause the nearest text node to be highlighted completely.
Adjusting spe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSB%20Bank | CSB Bank Limited (erstwhile Catholic Syrian Bank Limited) is an Indian private sector bank with its headquarters at Thrissur, Kerala, India. The bank has a network of over 703 branches and more than 515 ATMs across India.
History
CSB was founded on 26 November 1920, and opened for business on 1 January 1921 with an authorized capital of ₹ 5 lakhs and a paid up capital of ₹ 45,270.
In 1969, it was included in the Second Schedule of Reserve Bank of India Act and the Bank became a Scheduled Bank. The bank achieved Scheduled Bank - A Class, status by 1975.
In Dec 2016, RBI allowed Fairfax Financial Holdings to acquire 51% of the bank and in Feb 2018, Fairfax India (via FIH Mauritius Investments Ltd) acquired 51% of the bank for Rs.1180 Crores.
The terms of investment includes a mandatory 5-year lock-in period and 15-year time period to pare the stake in multiple tranches as per RBI's norms.
As of March 2019, the bank had significant presence in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka with a customer base of nearly 1.3 million people and it's credit portfolio focused on agriculture, MSMEs, education, and housing.
The bank went public on Dec 4, 2019 and the shares are listed in BSE and NSE.
Sponsorship
Kerala based I-League club Gokulam Kerala FC is being sponsored by CSB Bank.
See also
Banking in India
List of banks in India
Reserve Bank of India
Indian Financial System Code
List of largest banks
List of companies of India
Make in India
References
External links
CSB Bank Official Website
CSB NetBanking
Banks established in 1920
Banks based in Thrissur
Private sector banks in India
Indian companies established in 1920
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising%20Tide%20North%20America | Rising Tide North America is a grassroots network of groups and individuals in North America organizing action against the root causes of climate change.
Rising Tide North America's strategy is based on a no-compromise approach of stopping the extraction of more fossil fuels and preventing the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure.
History
Rising Tide was formed by groups and individuals who came together to organize protests and events at the United Nations Climate Conference of Parties (COP6) in The Hague, Netherlands, in November 2000.
In 2000, Rising Tide UK was formed. In mid-2004, a Rising Tide group formed in Newcastle, Australia, the world's largest coal export port. A smaller group has also started in Sydney.
Rising Tide North America was formed mainly by Earth First!, Mountain Justice and other experienced activists in a desire to be less insular and focus more on coalition building and linking climate change issues to other causes.
Rising Tide describes itself as "a grassroots network of groups and individuals who take direct action to confront the roots causes of climate change and promote local, community-based solutions to the climate crisis. Employing popular education and direct action to address the root causes of climate change with a focus on climate justice, Rising Tide now spans three continents."
Organization
Rising Tide North America is a network with over 50 chapters, allies and local contacts throughout Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Rising Tide North America has active local groups in Idaho, Utah, Portland, Southern Oregon, Chicago, Texas, the San Francisco Bay Area and Alaska. Rising Tide operates through decentralized network organizing consisting of autonomous local groups and that mostly use consensus decision-making.
Activities
On December 17, 2013, 16 protesters with Portland Rising Tide were arrested after locking themselves to disabled vehicles in front of a tar sands megaload shipment near John Day, Oregon, delaying the shipment’s passage. Police responded by using 'pain compliance' to remove the protest. On December 1, 2013, two men locked themselves to the tar sands megaload truck and had to be removed by police, which took so long the shipment canceled its nightly move.
Rising Tide NYC organized three days of action on climate change in New York City on April 20–22, 2015. They rallied at the office of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to call for him to reject a proposed deepwater port which would be used to import natural gas.
In 2015, Siskiyou Rising Tide (formerly Southern Oregon Rising Tide) formed in opposition to the Jordan Cove Energy Project, an $8 billion dollar liquefied natural gas pipeline and export terminal proposed in Southwestern Oregon. It was revealed that Siskiyou Rising Tide and other environmental groups were being surveilled by the FBI, local sheriffs and private security firms funded by the pipeline company Pembina. After years of protest and opposition, the Jordan C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%20and%20Now%20%28Toronto%29 | Here and Now is a daily Canadian radio show, which airs on CBLA-FM in Toronto, Ontario.
Under CBC Radio One's policy of extended local programming in metropolitan markets, the program airs from 3 to 6 p.m. on CBLA's primary transmitter in Toronto, pre-empting the 3 to 4 p.m. hour of network programming. However, CBLA's rebroadcast transmitters elsewhere in Southern Ontario do not air the first hour of Here and Now, remaining with the network programs and joining Here and Now in progress at 4 p.m.
History
The program debuted under its current title in 1997, concurrently with the network's rebranding from "CBC Radio" to "CBC Radio One". Its first host was slated to be Maureen Taylor, but she left the network for TVOntario before the program's launch, and the program debuted with Joan Melanson as host. Melanson took a maternity leave in 1998, and Erika Ritter took over the program as a guest host.
The program was hosted by Avril Benoît from 1999 to 2004 and by Matt Galloway from 2004 until February 8, 2010; Galloway moved to hosting Metro Morning effective March 1, 2010. From February 2010 through December 2010, interim hosts included Robin Brown, Jane Hawtin, Karen Horsman, and Kevin Sylvester.
On December 16, 2010, broadcaster Laura Di Battista was announced as the new host starting January 3, 2011. Her tenure lasted until November 2012, when CBC spokesperson Chuck Thompson announced that Battista was out. At the time, no successor was made public; in the interim, Brown, Hawtin, Horsman, Sylvester, Gill Deacon and Mary Ito served as guest hosts. On May 31, 2013, the CBC announced Deacon as the new permanent host, starting September 2, 2013. Deacon spent a year away from the show beginning in fall 2018 after being diagnosed with breast cancer; the show was guest-hosted through much of 2019 by Reshmi Nair, Saroja Coelho, Nana aba Duncan or Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe, and Deacon returned to the show in early September 2019.
Personalities associated with the show include Trevor Dunn with local news reports, Colette Kennedy covering weather and Khalil Hassanali with traffic updates.
See also
CBC Radio One local programming
References
External links
Here and Now
CBC Radio One programs
Canadian talk radio programs
1997 radio programme debuts
1990s Canadian radio programs
2000s Canadian radio programs
2010s Canadian radio programs
2020s Canadian radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20wrangling | Data wrangling, sometimes referred to as data munging, is the process of transforming and mapping data from one "raw" data form into another format with the intent of making it more appropriate and valuable for a variety of downstream purposes such as analytics. The goal of data wrangling is to assure quality and useful data. Data analysts typically spend the majority of their time in the process of data wrangling compared to the actual analysis of the data.
The process of data wrangling may include further munging, data visualization, data aggregation, training a statistical model, as well as many other potential uses. Data wrangling typically follows a set of general steps which begin with extracting the data in a raw form from the data source, "munging" the raw data (e.g. sorting) or parsing the data into predefined data structures, and finally depositing the resulting content into a data sink for storage and future use. It is closely aligned with the ETL process.
Background
The "wrangler" non-technical term is often said to derive from work done by the United States Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and their program partner the Emory University Libraries based MetaArchive Partnership. The term "mung" has roots in munging as described in the Jargon File. The term "data wrangler" was also suggested as the best analogy to describe someone working with data.
One of the first mentions of data wrangling in a scientific context was by Donald Cline during the NASA/NOAA Cold Lands Processes Experiment. Cline stated the data wranglers "coordinate the acquisition of the entire collection of the experiment data." Cline also specifies duties typically handled by a storage administrator for working with large amounts of data. This can occur in areas like major research projects and the making of films with a large amount of complex computer-generated imagery. In research, this involves both data transfer from research instrument to storage grid or storage facility as well as data manipulation for re-analysis via high-performance computing instruments or access via cyberinfrastructure-based digital libraries.
With the upcoming of artificial intelligence in data science it has become increasingly important for automation of data wrangling to have very strict checks and balances, which is why the munging process of data has not been automated by machine learning. Data munging requires more than just an automated solution, it requires knowledge of what information should be removed and artificial intelligence is not to the point of understanding such things.
Connection to data mining
Data wrangling is a superset of data mining and requires processes that some data mining uses, but not always. The process of data mining is to find patterns within large data sets, where data wrangling transforms data in order to deliver insights about that data. Even though data wrangling is a superset of da |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sports%20Network%20%28wire%20service%29 | The Sports Network was a wire service providing sports information in real time. Based in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, The Sports Network was founded by Mickey Charles and especially noted for its coverage of the NCAA's Football Championship Subdivision in college football; it presented that group's major end-of-season awards—the Walter Payton Award for the top offensive player, the Buck Buchanan Award for the top defensive player, the Jerry Rice Award for the top freshman and the Eddie Robinson Award for the top coach. It served a list of clients that included Viacom, Yahoo, and the Canadian television channel The Sports Network, and was a partner with United Press International.
Lawsuit
The Sports Network sued Disney in May 2004 over Disney-owned ESPN's illicit usage of Minor League Baseball data and statistics. Both sides settled in January 2005.
Site attack
In April 2008, The Sports Network's online services were shut down for several days by PRC hackers.
Acquisition
On February 10, 2015, The Sports Network was acquired by STATS LLC and its Hatboro headquarters were closed in July 2015.
References
Sports mass media in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20Masher%20System | The Disk Masher System (.dms) is an often used method on the Amiga, to create a compressed image of a disk (usually floppy). The disk is read block-by-block, and thus its data structure is maintained. DMS won approval particularly in the demo scene and the Warez scene, since with this tool, disk images could generally be transferred easily with telecommunication modems to mailbox networks like FidoNet for efficient distribution.
The DiskMasher format is copyright-protected and has problems storing particular bit sequences due to bugs in the compression algorithm, but was widely used in the pirate and demo scenes. To avoid these issues, a number of other disk compressors were developed that used alternative disk reading and compression methods, for instance, xDM or XAD (software).
References
External links
xDMS - Tool for AmigaOS, MS-DOS and Linux for decompressing DMS files.
Archive formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NComm | NComm is one of the most popular shareware terminal programs used on the Commodore Amiga line of computers, especially for connecting to BBS systems via a modem connected to the telephone line. The program was originally written by Daniel Bloch and further development handed over to Torkel Lodberg. The last version v3.06 was released in 1996, a public key was released in 1998 to allow full usage.
The program was reviewed by André Viergever at Amiga Magazine in 1992.
See also
Zmodem - File transfer protocol
CU Amiga Magazine
References
Terminal emulators
Amiga software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xyber%209%3A%20New%20Dawn | Saban's Xyber 9: New Dawn is an American animated television series produced by Bokabi and Saban Entertainment. It originally debuted on the Fox Kids network on September 25, 1999. Only 10 episodes aired before it was cancelled on December 4, 1999. Soon after, it was aired in its entirety on Irish television network RTÉ Two from 2 July to August 2001. Six years later, it appeared on Toon Disney as part of the channel's Jetix line up. In addition to re-airing the first 10 episodes, the remaining 12 episodes aired from February 24, 2007, through April 8, 2007, although these episodes were made in 2000.
Ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide, which also includes Saban Entertainment.
Synopsis
Jack, a precocious, blonde fifteen-year-old who is an orphan, is given the title of the Chosen One. The people of Terrana, a futuristic realm that is amidst a war, relies upon him as the last hope to save their civilization. If Jack can achieve the Herculean task of destroying Machestro, the evil ruler of the underworld, he will be named king. Jack's greatest weapon against Machestro is the sophisticated computer Xyber 9 that is in the form of a staff. With Xyber 9's power, Jack journeys through Machestro's underworld and to other futuristic lands, fighting intergalactic evil with an ever-increasing band of allies. In order to enfeeble the Chosen One, Machestro tries desperately to snare Xyber 9 for without the powerful computer, Jack would be defenseless. And with it, Machestro could spread his disease of evil throughout Terrana and beyond, conquering other worlds and ruling in his tyranny. He even does his plots with the aid of King Renard.
At the end of the original run, Jack finds the protected valley, a location left by Terrana's advanced ancestors and a protected valley with genetically-altered crops that could grow in two days time, and need very little water and nutrients, which Jack shows to the people to help return Terrana back into its previous state. It is also revealed that Machestro rules over the Machina by giving them hope that they will be able to reclaim the surface by turning it dark. This is because the Machina have a virus that causes them to be in great pain when traveling into the sunlight believing it will kill them due to a curse. Ikira, a former Machina learned that even though the sunlight causes great pain, it is the cure to the infection after which they would be able to walk on the surface. Machestro knows this, but does not let the Machina know out of fear of them removing him as leader.
Characters
Heroes
Jack (voiced by Jason Marsden) - A 15-year-old orphan who becomes the Chosen one for the people of Terrana after he discovers Xyber 9. He hates to be called "boy" and insists to be called by his name. He is not afraid to stand up and fight, though they lead him to be impulsive at times.
Xyber 9 (voiced by René Auberjonois) - The last known Xyber, or thinking machine, who w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20McEwan | Mark McEwan is an American-born Canadian celebrity chef based in Toronto, Ontario.
He was head judge on Food Network Canada's Top Chef Canada. McEwan had his own television show on Food Network Canada entitled The Heat, which followed his catering team from North 44 Caters as they served the influential and elite.
Career
McEwan was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. McEwan's first restaurant job was as a dishwasher in Buffalo at Mindy’s Wine Cellar, making $1.60 an hour. McEwan graduated from George Brown College in 1979. In 1981, McEwan was hired by the Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto as executive sous chef. Two years later he was promoted to chef. He opened his first restaurant, North 44, in 1990.
Around 2002, he opened Bymark restaurant in the Financial District, Toronto. In August 2007, McEwan opened ONE at the Hazelton Hotel, a luxury hotel in Yorkville, Toronto. In 2010, McEwan opened Fabbrica, an Italian restaurant, at Shops at Don Mills. In June 2009, McEwan opened a $6 million, gourmet food supermarket "McEwan" at Shops at Don Mills. In July 2015, McEwan opened a second 6,000 square foot location in the PATH at the TD Centre. In 2012, McEwan was commissioned by US-based OTG Management to aid in the opening of two restaurants, Fetta Panini Bar and Heirloom Bakery Café, in Toronto Pearson International Airport, consulting on their opening menus. McEwan, his grocery store, also creates "grab-and-go" items such as sandwiches, salads, snack boxes, and meals that are sold throughout the airport at 10 different kiosks.
McEwan's first book, Great Food at Home, was published in early 2011 and his second book Rustic Italian is based on the recipes from Fabbrica. McEwan teamed up with Jascor/Fresco in 2011 to brand a set of cookware that is now sold on the Shopping Channel and Hudson's Bay across Canada.
Restaurants
Active
Bymark (2008–present), 66 Wellington Street W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Fabbrica TD Centre (2018–present), 66 Wellington Street W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Closed or inactive
ONE Restaurant (2007–2022), Hazelton Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, however as of 2022 McEwan is no longer a partner
Fabbrica (2010–2020), 49 Karl Fraser Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
North 44 (1990–2018), 2537 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
McEwan Fine Foods (2019–2021), specialty grocery store, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Filmography
Television appearances
The Heat with Mark McEwan - host
Superstar Chef Challenge - judge
Top Chef Canada - head judge
Wall of Chefs - judge
Chef to Chef
References
External links
Bymark Restaurant
FABBRICA Restaurant
Mark McEwan at the Chef and Restaurant Database
1957 births
Living people
Canadian television chefs
Canadian restaurateurs
Canadian infotainers
Businesspeople from Buffalo, New York
Businesspeople from Toronto
George Brown College alumni
Canadian cookbook writers
Writers from Buffalo, New York
Writers from Toronto
Canadian male chefs
American emigrants to Canada
Chefs from To |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Keels | Paul Keels is the current play-by-play announcer for The Ohio State University's football and men's basketball teams for WBNS Radio and the Ohio State Sports Network.
A native of Cincinnati, Keels began his broadcasting career in his hometown as a news anchor/reporter for WLW Radio in 1979. The following year, he moved to Detroit to work for WJR Radio to call games for the NBA Detroit Pistons (1980–1981), and then to WWJ Radio to call football and basketball for the University of Michigan from 1981–1987.
Following a year at UPI Radio Network in Washington DC, Keels returned to Cincinnati in 1988 to become the voice of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats and host a sports talk show on WCKY-AM. From 1992–1995, Paul hosted a Morning News Show on WHIO Radio in Dayton. In 1994, he again became play-by-play voice for the University of Cincinnati. Then in 1996, he started to do play-by-play duties for the Bengals. Following the 1996 football season, WLW's parent company, Jacor Communications, lost the rights to the Bengals, and Paul continued broadcasting football and basketball for the University of Cincinnati. He joined WBNS radio and the Ohio State Buckeyes Radio Network in 1998.
Keels also worked for the Cincinnati Bengals as a preseason announcer on WKRC-TV from 2000–2010, and worked on the Cincinnati Reds Television Broadcasts for Fox Sports Ohio in 2010. He is also the author of Tales from the Buckeye Championship Season, which recounts the Buckeyes' 2002 National Championship run.
Awards and honors
Five-time NSMA Ohio Broadcaster of the Year (2007 - shared with Marty Brennaman, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2021)
Ohio Broadcasters Hall of Fame Inductee (class of 2007)
Personal life
Keels graduated from Moeller High School in Cincinnati, and studied communications at Xavier University.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American radio sports announcers
American television sports announcers
Cincinnati Bearcats football announcers
Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball
Cincinnati Bengals announcers
Cincinnati Reds announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
Michigan Wolverines football announcers
Detroit Pistons announcers
Major League Baseball broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
National Football League announcers
Ohio State Buckeyes football announcers
Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball announcers
Radio personalities from Cincinnati
Xavier University alumni
College football announcers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Theoretical%20Computer%20Science | The Institute for Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS; ) is a scholastic research institute headed by Professor Andrew Yao at Tsinghua University in Beijing. In 2010, the institute became part of Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences.
The ITCS has hosted several academic events, including the tenth International Conference on Theory and Practice of Public-Key Cryptography (PKC) on April 16–20, 2007.
External links
ITCS homepage
Tsinghua University
Research institutes in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wowhead | Wowhead is a website that provides a searchable database, internet forum, guides and player character services for the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft. It is owned by .I. Fanbyte (formerly known as ZAM Network), a subsidiary of the Chinese company Tencent.
History
The site first started out as a talent calculator for the game. It was in beta from April 4 to June 25, 2006, and the database was released on June 26, 2006. Wowhead functions as a user generated database relying upon players of World of Warcraft themselves, although the information is uploaded automatically through a client-side program.
Client software is available for both the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms. Users can manually add comments to database items or discuss the items themselves in a moderated forum. Comments placed on database items are moderated by the community themselves, with members having the option to "down-rank" outdated and unuseful posts to the point where they are purged, and "up-rank" posts of significance so that they are highlighted. The database is automatically cross referenced by the software between items, non-player characters and zones or dungeons.
Wowhead garnered some attention when it was purchased by Fanbyte (formerly known as ZAM Network), a subsidiary of Affinity Media which formerly owned real-money trading firm IGE. Fanbyte also owns other gaming and World of Warcraft information sites such as Thottbot and Allakhazam.
On July 22, 2009, Wowhead announced that it would be offering its members access to premium service for a recurring subscription in order to help support the website. The premium service offers enhanced usage of the website, removes ads, grants a wider range of forum privileges, and allows paying members to skip to the front of the process queue for World of Warcraft player character information requests.
In early 2019, it was announced that a new version of the site would be launched alongside the original, exclusively covering data for World of Warcraft Classic and, later, its Burning Crusade expansion.
At the beginning of March 2022, Fanbyte blocked seven countries (China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Turkey, Serbia and India) from accessing their websites, including Wowhead. Community Manager Sas148 released the following statement via the Wowhead Feedback section of their Discord server:
"This decision is ultimately due to legal compliance and liability issues with respect to these countries and their laws/regulations. This action was not based on any specific law or regulation in any one or more of the listed countries. Our decision was due to the legal costs involved with reviewing the laws and regulations of the listed countries, in contrast with the amount of visitors/revenue earned from them. As a result of this analysis, we decided not to pursue a legal review and to mitigate our liability in these countries, we opted to block access entirely. This is an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chobhar%20caves | Chobhar caves are an extensive network of natural phreatic caves near the village of Chobhar, which is located 9 km southwest of Kathmandu, Nepal. Chobhar is also known for the Chobhar gorge through which all the water of the valley drains. A small temple of Adinath Sampradaya sits on top of a nearby hill. The temple offers a view of snow-capped mountains.
According to Swayambhu Purana and legend, Kathmandu Valley was once a lake. It is believed that the bodhisattva Manjushree cut a gorge at a place called Chobhar Gorge, near Chobhar Ancient Hill Village (sp. also Chovar, chobar) and drained away the waters to establish a habitable land.
These caves have been explored by research teams from the UK in 1976, Czechoslovakia in 1980 and Germany in 1985. Explorations of the caves in April 2007 indicate that there are at least six known entrances all documented by GPS readings made by a French team of speleologists, led by Maurice Duchesne from France. A map of those caves is now available.
The caves are often infiltrated by water due to fluctuating levels of the nearby Bagmati River. Thus, visitors are strongly advised not visit inside the caves without being accompanied by competent professional guides who have a compass and other equipment required for cave exploration. Maximum safety precautions is advised. No snakes have been sighted in these Chobhar caves but many bats have been sighted.
Measuring a minimum of 1250 metres, Chobhar caves are the largest in Asia. Cross country, the caves are a brief fifteen-minute walk from ancient Chobhar Hill Village.
References
External links
Bajracharya transmission in XIth century Chobhar:Bharo 'Maimed Hand's main disciple Vajra-kirti, the translator from Rwa
Satellite picture of Chobhar
Caves of Nepal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Grid%20Office | The National Grid Office or "NGO" is an entity in Singapore which was established on 2 January 2003 to fulfill the mission of the National Grid and promote the adoption of Grid computing in Singapore.
The National Grid has the mission of transforming Singapore into a nation where computer resources can be interconnected via a next-generation cyberinfrastructure that allows the sharing of computing resources in a secure, reliable, and efficient manner by authenticated users for education, commerce entertainment, R&D, and national security. It aims to improve the economic and technological competitiveness of the country.
References
2003 establishments in Singapore
Science and technology in Singapore
Scientific organisations based in Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Fortran%20Compiler | Intel Fortran Compiler, as part of Intel OneAPI HPC toolkit, is a group of Fortran compilers from Intel for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Overview
The compilers generate code for IA-32 and Intel 64 processors and certain non-Intel but compatible processors, such as certain AMD processors. A specific release of the compiler (11.1) remains available for development of Linux-based applications for IA-64 (Itanium 2) processors. On Windows, it is known as Intel Visual Fortran. On macOS and Linux, it is known as Intel Fortran. In 2020 the existing compiler was renamed “Intel Fortran Compiler Classic” (ifort) and a new Intel Fortran Compiler for oneAPI (ifx) supporting GPU offload was introduced.
The 2021 release of the Classic compiler adds full Fortran support through the 2018 standard, full OpenMP* 4.5, and Initial Open MP 5.1 for CPU only. The 2021 beta compiler focuses on OpenMP for GPU Offload. When used with the Intel OneAPI HPC toolkit (see the "Description of Packaging" below) the compiler can also automatically generate Message Passing Interface calls for distributed memory multiprocessing from OpenMP directives.
For more information on Fortran standards, a number or resources are available, such as the Wikipedia Fortran entry or the Fortran wiki page.
The Intel Fortran package included the Intel Array Visualizer, a visualization tool for scientific formats such as FITS and netCDF, which can produce x-y plots, contour plots, and image plots, and save them to other formats.
Optimizations
Intel compilers are optimized for computer systems using processors that support Intel architectures. They are designed to minimize stalls and to produce code that executes in the fewest possible number of cycles. Intel Fortran Compilers support three separate high-level techniques for optimizing the compiled program: interprocedural optimization (IPO), profile-guided optimization (PGO), and other high-level optimizations (HLO).
Interprocedural optimization applies typical compiler optimizations (such as constant propagation) but uses a broader scope that may include multiple procedures, multiple files, or the entire program.
Regarding profile-guided optimization, the compiler generates a dataset of performance-related information from using the application with representative workloads, which it then analyzes to find which parts of the application are executed more and less frequently. The compiler uses these data to organize application execution to optimize performance based on how the application is actually used. This is in contrast to IPO which optimizes applications according to the logical flow of the application independent of workloads. The two can be combined to provide workload-based optimizations within which the logical-flow is optimized. Thus, all optimizations can benefit from profile-guided feedback because they are less reliant on heuristics when making compilation decisions.
High-level optimizations are optimizations performed on a versi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Times%20with%20Mo | Good Times with Mo (also known as Good Times) is a morning radio show on Magic 89.9 and previously on the Killerbee network around the Philippines, hosted by Mo Twister and Ryan Racela every Monday to Thursday from 7 a.m. PST to 10 a.m. PST on Magic 89.9.
In addition to the radio program, Mo Twister created a separate, podcast version of his program under the title Good Times with Mo: The Podcast and is now currently on its 6th season.
History
The show has been on the air for four years starting in late 2005 when Mo returned from Los Angeles, California and was given the late night slot. He returned in February 2006 with Mojo Jojo as his co-host. Andi9 came to the picture in the late March 2006 as the replacement for Happy.
The show nearly collapsed in January 2007, when Andi left for the beach on New Year's Day in 2007. Mo originally proposed a 2-week suspension for her but later allowed her to invite a guest in Forbidden Questions. That guest was Andi's crush, Luis Alandy. Also, the iPod Luis' Christmas gift to Andi was to be auctioned to the highest bidder the Thursday after Forbidden Questions. He eventually went all the way to 40, thus saving Andi's job on Good Times With Mo, and her iPod nano. Despite this, Andi left the show the month after and Maui Taylor replaced her.
However, after an on-air dispute between Mo Twister and Maui Taylor, Maui Taylor resigned from the show on May 30, 2008. Andi9 once again became her replacement but for only a few months as she would eventually retire from the show once more in November 2008. Mo and Andi9 allegedly had a relationship and Andi's parents was against Mr. Gumatay. Grace Lee was then assigned as their third female co-host.
Since June 5, 2006, Good Times with Mo was placed in the morning slot and is one of the Top 5 morning shows in Philippine Radio (both in FM and AM).
Since January 22, 2012, Angelika left the show due to conflicts with co-host Grace Lee. In February 2012, Mojo resigned from Good Times due to health reasons though he is still part of the radio. Suzy was introduced to the show.
On March 6, 2012, it was announced that Grace Lee had resigned from the show. She was replaced by Mia Bayuga.
On November 5, 2012, Makoy Pare ("Showbiz Bro"), a regular caller of the show, was given his own segment and was introduced to the show. In his segment, Makoy Pare ("Showbiz Bro") is called by the hosts to provide "local showbiz news". He is currently the longest running co-host of the show.
In 2013, the show was under a five-month suspension and was replaced by First Thing in the Morning, hosted by Sam Oh and Gibb. Mo returned when the show was revived on December 2, 2013, with Sam and Gibb as co-hosts.
In January 2014, Mikey Bustos replaced Gibb, but Bustos himself also ended up leaving a year after; after an off-air disagreement with his co-host Mo Twister. The show was temporarily a two-(wo)man army with Mo and Sam for many months (while also having guest co-hosts in Guji Lorenzana & |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20Luque | Sergio Luque is a composer of vocal, instrumental and electroacoustic music. His work often involves computer-aided algorithmic composition and stochastic processes.
His music has been performed by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Les Jeunes Solistes, Garth Knox, the Nieuw Ensemble and the Schönberg Ensemble, among others, and has been presented in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, the United States, Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador, Chile, Argentina, Japan and Australia.
He has a PhD in Musical Composition from the University of Birmingham, where he studied with Jonty Harrison and Scott Wilson, and was a member of BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre). During his PhD, he worked on the development of stochastic synthesis, a synthesis technique invented by Iannis Xenakis.
In 2006, he received a master's degree with Distinction in Sonology from the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, studying with Paul Berg and Kees Tazelaar. In 2004, he received a master's degree in Composition from the Conservatory of Rotterdam, studying with Klaas de Vries and René Uijlenhoet. He has a bachelor's degree in Composition from the Musical Studies and Research Centre (CIEM, Mexico).
External links
Official site
Sergio Luque. "The Stochastic Synthesis of Iannis Xenakis," Leonardo Music Journal 19 (2009): 77-84
References
21st-century classical composers
Mexican classical composers
Musicians from Mexico City
Living people
Royal Conservatory of The Hague alumni
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Mexican male classical composers
21st-century male musicians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20motif | Network motifs are recurrent and statistically significant subgraphs or patterns of a larger graph. All networks, including biological networks, social networks, technological networks (e.g., computer networks and electrical circuits) and more, can be represented as graphs, which include a wide variety of subgraphs.
Network motifs are sub-graphs that repeat themselves in a specific network or even among various networks. Each of these sub-graphs, defined by a particular pattern of interactions between vertices, may reflect a framework in which particular functions are achieved efficiently. Indeed, motifs are of notable importance largely because they may reflect functional properties. They have recently gathered much attention as a useful concept to uncover structural design principles of complex networks. Although network motifs may provide a deep insight into the network's functional abilities, their detection is computationally challenging.
Definitions
Let and be two graphs. Graph is a sub-graph of graph (written as ) if and . If and contains all of the edges with , then is an induced sub-graph of . We call and isomorphic (written as ), if there exists a bijection (one-to-one correspondence) with for all . The mapping is called an isomorphism between and .
When and there exists an isomorphism between the sub-graph and a graph , this mapping represents an appearance of in . The number of appearances of graph in is called the frequency of in . A graph is called recurrent (or frequent) in when its frequency is above a predefined threshold or cut-off value. We use terms pattern and frequent sub-graph in this review interchangeably. There is an ensemble of random graphs corresponding to the null-model associated to . We should choose random graphs uniformly from and calculate the frequency for a particular frequent sub-graph in . If the frequency of in is higher than its arithmetic mean frequency in random graphs , where , we call this recurrent pattern significant and hence treat as a network motif for . For a small graph , the network , and a set of randomized networks , where , the Z-score of the frequency of is given by
where and stand for the mean and standard deviation of the frequency in set , respectively. The larger the , the more significant is the sub-graph as a motif. Alternatively, another measurement in statistical hypothesis testing that can be considered in motif detection is the p-value, given as the probability of (as its null-hypothesis), where indicates the frequency of G' in a randomized network. A sub-graph with p-value less than a threshold (commonly 0.01 or 0.05) will be treated as a significant pattern. The p-value for the frequency of is defined as
where indicates the number of randomized networks, is defined over an ensemble of randomized networks, and the Kronecker delta function is one if the condition holds. The concentration of a particular n-size sub-graph in ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUD%20Neighborhood%20Networks | The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Neighborhood Networks Initiative, or HUD Neighborhood Networks, was initiated in 1995 to provide access to technology for residents of HUD multifamily housing by developing computer learning centers at HUD housing sites.
By the year 2007, approximately 1,500 Neighborhood Networks Centers had been developed throughout the United States.
External links
Official website
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preetu%20Nair | Preetu Nair (born 1976) is an Indian journalist based in Goa, India. She is active in the cyberspace and involved with e-ventures involving Goa, developmental concerns and issues dealing with women and children. She writes mostly on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, women, and child issues in India.
Education
Nair's schooling was in Gujarati medium in a small town of Anand in Gujarat. She received a B.A. degree from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Anand, Gujarat (Gold Medalist), and M.A. (English Literature) degree, Gold Medalist from Sardar Patel University.
Career
Nair has been a full-time journalist since 2000. From May 2000 to May 2001, she was a trainee reporter for The Times of India. From 2001 onward, she became a freelancer, and has written for The Navhind Times on news related to Goa. She resigned as a senior reporter for Gomantak Times, Goa (Sakaal Group of Publications) and joined the Times of India as principal correspondent.
Nair and Peter De Souza, her colleague in Gomantak Times, Goa were awarded the UNDP-TAHA-HDRN Media Award-2006 for exposing the modus operandi of the human traffickers explicitly and vividly underlining the nexus between these offenders, the police, and politicians.
These stories were all written while Sujay Gupta was the Editor of Gomantak Times. Naik left Gomantak Times to join Times of India after Derrick Almeida took over as the Executive Editor of Gomantak Times. She was selected as the Panos/Stop TB Media Fellow for the year 2007 to work on Tuberculosis related issues in Goa.
She also received the European Union - Thomson Foundation Media bursary for working on a story "Trafficked victims and HIV". Nair and De Souza were also the first journalists in Goa working in a local newspaper who exposed the powerful Russians and the Israelis purchasing land.
She has written articles on Goa, Goan books, media, environment, development.
References
1976 births
Living people
Journalists from Goa
Malayali people
Women writers from Goa
Indian women journalists
The Times of India journalists
Indian science journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Detection%20Research%20Network | The Early Detection Research Network (EDRN) is a collaboration led by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) focused on the discovery of cancer biomarkers. The effort, started in 2000, includes both principal investigators and associate members from leading research institutions across the United States.
The objectives of EDRN include:
Developing and testing promising biomarkers and technologies to obtain preliminary information to guide further testing;
Evaluating promising, analytically proven biomarkers and technologies, such as measures of accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and, when possible, as potential predictors of outcomes or surrogate endpoints for clinical trials;
Analyzing biomarkers and their expression patterns to serve as background for large, definitive validation studies;
Collaborating with academic and industrial leaders to develop high-throughput, sensitive assay methods;
Conducting early phases of clinical and epidemiological biomarker studies; and
Encouraging collaboration and dissemination of information to ensure progress and avoid fragmentation of effort.
Since 2000, EDRN has established a national infrastructure to support validation of cancer biomarkers through innovative research and technology approaches. EDRN supports validation of some of the most promising proteomic and genomic markers evaluating their results for continued research. The biomarkers must be reliable and repeatable in testing; highly sensitive and specific; quantitative; readily obtained by non-invasive methods; part of the causal pathway for disease; capable of being modulated by the chemopreventive agent; and have high predictive value for clinical disease.
The EDRN is organized to perform research around specific organ sites. Research teams within and outside EDRN are established to develop protocols of study around each of these organ sites. Within the EDRN, collaborations are established so researchers involved in specific organs can work together and study results. These organ groups include breast and gynecologic cancers, colorectal and other gastrointestinal cancers, Lung and upper aerodigestive cancers, prostate and other urologic cancers.
The EDRN also has been a pioneer in the development of a national informatics infrastructure to support cancer biomarker research. By leveraging technology development for planetary science at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the EDRN has been able to develop and deploy an infrastructure to support data sharing, knowledge management and collaborate research. The informatics activities within EDRN are led by the Informatics Center at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Dartmouth Medical School.
External links
Official website
EDRN 4th Report
Biological databases
zh:癌症早期检测研究网 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20element%20machine | The Finite Element Machine (FEM) was a late 1970s-early 1980s NASA project to build and evaluate the performance of a parallel computer for structural analysis. The FEM was completed and successfully tested at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The motivation for FEM arose from the merger of two concepts: the finite element method of structural analysis and the introduction of relatively low-cost microprocessors.
In the finite element method, the behavior (stresses, strains and displacements resulting from load conditions) of large-scale structures is approximated by a FE model consisting of structural elements (members) connected at structural node points. Calculations on traditional computers are performed at each node point and results communicated to adjacent node points until the behavior of the entire structure is computed. On the Finite Element Machine, microprocessors located at each node point perform these nodal computations in parallel. If there are more node points (N) than microprocessors (P), then each microprocessor performs N/P computations. The Finite Element Machine contained 32 processor boards each with a Texas Instruments TMS9900 processor, 32 Input/Output (IO) boards and a TMS99/4 controller. The FEM was conceived, designed and fabricated at NASA Langley Research Center. The TI 9900 processor chip was selected by the NASA team as it was the first 16-bit processor available on the market which until then was limited to less powerful 8-bit processors. The FEM concept was first successfully tested to solve beam bending equations on a Langley FEM prototype (4 IMSAI 8080s). This led to full-scale FEM fabrication & testing by the FEM hardware-software-applications team led by Dr. Olaf Storaasli formerly of NASA Langley Research Center and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (currently at USEC).
The first significant Finite Element Machine results are documented in: The Finite Element Machine: An experiment in parallel processing (NASA TM 84514).
Based on the Finite Element Machine's success in demonstrating Parallel Computing viability, (alongside ILLIAC IV and Goodyear MPP), commercial parallel computers soon were sold. NASA Langley subsequently purchased a Flex/32 Multicomputer (and later Intel iPSC and Intel Paragon) to continue parallel finite element algorithm R&D. In 1989, the parallel equation solver code, first prototyped on FEM, and tested on FLEX was ported to NASA's first Cray YMP via Force (Fortran for Concurrent Execution) to reduce the structural analysis computation time for the space shuttle Challenger Solid Rocket Booster resdesign with 54,870 equations from 14 hours to 6 seconds. This research accomplishment was awarded the first Cray GigaFLOP Performance Award at Supercomputing '89. This code evolved into NASA's General-Purpose Solver (GPS) for Matrix Equations used in numerous finite element codes to speed solution time. GPS sped up AlphaStar Corporation's Genoa code 10X, allowing 10X larger app |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partner%20Communications%20Company | Partner Communications Company Ltd. () doing business as Partner (), formerly known as Orange Israel (), is a mobile network operator, internet Wi-Fi, fixed telephony service and OTT/IPTV provider in Israel. It was formerly operating under the Orange brand name until 16 February 2016.
The company’s shares are traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, where it is a constituent of the TA-35 Index, since August 2009, Scailex Corporation (owned by businessman Ilan Ben Dov) controls 51% of its shares., and in 2012 this stock of shares was sold to SB Telecom (owned by business man Haim Saban).
Operations
Partner Communications commenced full commercial operations in January 1999 and by 31 March 2001 had over 1 million subscribers, representing an estimated 21% of the cellular market in Israel at that time. As of June 2016 it has 2.7 million subscribers.
The prefix (area code) for Partner customers is 054, although customers who requested to keep their old number from a different cellular company may have a different area code, as required by law.
On 15 January 2007 Partner was granted a license to provide terrestrial telecommunications nationwide which gives it the option to operate a wired telephony; initially the service was provided for large businesses only.
On 1 January 2009, the company commercially launched its ISP services and Landline services (based on the Session Initiation Protocol) for private users and small businesses. These services rely on the combination of Nokia Siemens Network core services and Siemens Gigaset residential gateway. The combination of these allowed Partner to launch several unique services such as multiple calls on a single line, or *77 which allows users to choose whether to answer an incoming call on their home phone or their Orange mobile phone.
In 2017 Partner rolled out its high speed optic fiber internet structure with a 1GB connection.
Network
The Partner network utilizes GSM (900 MHz/1800 MHz), UMTS (900/2100 MHz) technology and for 3G services; an HSPA+ network that currently covers over 90% of the country, as well as an LTE network (1800 MHz).
Users of the network can use advanced services all over the world due to roaming agreements with 350 GSM and 130 UMTS international networks. 23% of the network users are business customers, 29% are pre-paid customers and the rest are private post-paid customers.
Brand ownership
The 'Orange' brand that the company used under license, belongs to Orange S.A. (formerly France Télécom), which is not related to the current owners of Partner. Orange had originally decided to let Partner keep using the name because of the network's wide commercial success and brand recognition, with a deal running through 2025, at a rate of NIS 15 million per year. This situation occurred following the sale of the Orange Group by Hutchison Whampoa, which did not include the holding in Hutchison Telecom.
But in June 2015 the CEO of Orange, Stephane Richard, stated he would "cancel [hi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous%20protocol | A rendezvous protocol is a computer network protocol that enables resources or P2P network peers to find each other. A rendezvous protocol uses a handshaking model, unlike an eager protocol which directly copies the data. In a rendezvous protocol the data is sent when the destination says it is ready, but in an eager protocol the data is sent assuming the destination can store the data.
Examples of rendezvous protocols include JXTA, SIP, Freenet Project, I2P, and such protocols generally involve hole punching.
Because of firewall network address translation (NAT) issues, rendezvous protocols generally require that there be at least one unblocked and un-NATed server that lets the peers locate each other and initiate concurrent packets at each other.
References
File sharing networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20Entertainment | Perfect Entertainment was an independent British computer game developer, which ceased production in 1999. It began in 1991 as Teeny Weeny Games headed by Angela Sutherland but changed names when merging exclusively with Gregg Barnett's Perfect 10 Productions, a company previously known as Beam Software (UK).
Perfect Entertainment is notable for its popular point-and-click adventure games Discworld, Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!? and Discworld Noir, which are based on the Terry Pratchett novels. Teeny Weeny Games was the initial funding source of Perfect Entertainment's speculative product demo of Discworld. Perfect Entertainment produced the majority of Psygnosis games ported to the Sega Saturn, since Sony (who owned Psygnosis at that time) wasn't willing to fund games for a rival console.
Most of the assets, staff and risks of Perfect Entertainment were absorbed into what became Teeny Weeny Games' second incarnation in 1999 on the completion of the Discworld Noir. Partly due to a costly and protracted legal dispute with Psygnosis over unpaid royalties and fees which were eventually settled out of court and partly due to arguments at board level, it was decided to scale the company down to allow unhappy stakeholders to leave. Tantalus Entertainment (now Tantalus Media) in Melbourne, Australia was sold back to its original directors. In early 2000, Teeny Weeny Games was contracted by 20th Century Fox to supply "The World's Scariest Car Chases" on a $3,600,000 contract, a game already under development for over a year. The producer of this project and various other staff bought a majority shareholding and took over the company. Teeny Weeny Games closed a year later.
Court case
Perfect Entertainment's shrinking and subsequent demise came largely due to the aforementioned court case with Psygnosis/Sony Entertainment. Originally it was believed Perfect had signed contracts for a multi-game deal with Sony, but issues arose when it was contested three of these games should have been Discworld titles. When negotiations broke down and Discworld's third title, Discworld Noir, was not offered to Sony, the court case ensued. While in development staff payments became late, the deadline for Noir was heavily rescheduled and staff began to leave amid fears of job security. By the time Discworld Noir was finished the development team was running at half the size it was when it began. Discworld Noir was eventually released by GT Interactive in 1999, it was the last game Perfect Entertainment developed that was to be published.
Games
Teeny Weeny Games
1992: Predator 2 (Mega Drive/Genesis, Master System, Game Gear)
1992: The Incredible Crash Dummies (Game Gear)
1992: Fire Fighter (Game Boy)
1992: Xenon 2: Megablast (Game Boy)
1993: WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge (Game Gear)
1993: Choplifter III (Game Gear, Game Boy)
1993: Last Action Hero (NES)
1993: The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man (Game Gear)
1994: BloodNet (Amiga)
1994: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCRJ | WCRJ (88.1 FM, "The JOY FM 88.1") is a Christian radio station in Jacksonville, Florida. Owned by Radio Training Network, it broadcasts a Christian AC format as part of its The JOY FM network,
History
Prior to 1993, WCRJ was WNCM-FM. The station switched from country music to talk radio in 1995.
88.1 was originally owned by The River Educational Media; until 2011, it was home to The Promise, which was first launched by Concord Media Group on 106.5 FM and was later purchased by Salem Communications. Salem then sold the signal to Cox Radio in 2006 (in which they flipped that station to a simulcast of WOKV, now WHJX), and The River agreed to take the Promise name and format, under a lease management agreement with The Promise Educational Media Inc.
In 2011, The River sold WCRJ to the Educational Media Foundation, which switched the station to its satellite-based K-Love network on May 1, 2011.
On August 1, 2018, after being sold to Radio Training Network, WCRJ flipped from the EMF's Air1 network to RTN's state-wide "The JOY FM" network.
References
External links
Joy FM Official Website
CRJ
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1984
1984 establishments in Florida
CRJ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton%20Woods%20Project | The Bretton Woods Project works as a networker, information-provider, media informant and watchdog to scrutinise and influence the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Through briefings, reports and the bimonthly digest Bretton Woods Update, it monitors projects, policy reforms and the overall management of the Bretton Woods institutions with special emphasis on environmental and social concerns.
Created as an independent initiative by a group of British non-governmental organisations (NGOs), it works with an extensive network to press for increased transparency and civil society participation in World Bank and IMF policies and interventions. This includes over, 7000 non-governmental organisations, policy-makers, journalists, researchers and parliamentarians worldwide.
By encouraging information exchange and debate, it seeks to move the Bretton Woods institutions away from simplistic approaches to development. Priority areas include:
World Bank and IMF Roles
structural adjustment and poverty reduction strategies (PRS)
the environment
social issues
the World Bank as knowledge bank
governance and accountability
Publications and services
Bretton Woods Update is a bimonthly digest of key World Bank and IMF initiatives, controversial policy trends, projects and debate. The Update is read by around 6000 key officials, journalists, NGOs and researchers and is respected as a reliable source of information on the Bretton Woods institutions. It is available on the web, in print or can be emailed as plain text. The results of the 2006 survey of Update readers is also available.
Briefings and reports are produced to clarify issues in-depth in non-technical language.
Networking
Networking and information exchange among the wide range of people and organisations interested in the World Bank and IMF is one of the key functions of the Bretton Woods Project. It is currently involved in discussions to improve the communication strategies of international financial institution (IFI) watchers, including through networking critical video on the IFIs.
In addition to NGOs, academics, parliamentarians, journalists and activists worldwide, the Project facilitates contacts with staff of the Bretton Woods institutions and decision-makers in bilateral aid ministries. It is often asked to advise NGOs in Europe, USA and the Global South planning meetings, reports and campaigns. Many members of governmental and intergovernmental organisations also contact the Bretton Woods Project for briefings or to find out about NGOs working on particular issues.
Organisational structure and origins
The Bretton Woods Project was established in 1995 by the Development and Environment Group (DEG), a network of UK-based NGOs, to facilitate monitoring of the social and environmental impacts of World Bank and IMF policies and projects. The Project coordinates and consults with the UK BWI network, over 40 organisations working in development, environment and human |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liolaemus%20lemniscatus | Liolaemus lemniscatus (wreath tree iguana or elegant tree iguana) is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae.
It is found in Argentina and Chile.
References
The Reptile Database: Liolaemus chiliensis
lemniscatus
Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Argentina
Reptiles of Chile
Taxa named by Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst
Reptiles described in 1837
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVMR | WVMR may refer to two radio stations, both a part of the Allegheny Mountain Radio network:
WVMR (AM), a radio station (1370 AM) licensed to serve Frost, West Virginia, United States
WVMR-FM, a radio station (91.9 FM) licensed to serve Hillsboro, West Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOWZ-FM | WOWZ-FM is a classic country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Accomac, Virginia, serving the Eastern Shore of Virginia. WOWZ-FM is owned and operated by The Marks Group.
Programming
On November 28, 2017, the then-WVES changed their format to classic country, branded as "Wow 99.3 & 101.1" (simulcast with WICO-FM 101.1 FM Snow Hill, MD). On December 12, 2017, WVES swapped their call letters with WOWZ-FM to go with the "Wow" branding.
References
External links
99-3 Shore Country on Facebook
OWZ-FM
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1990
1990 establishments in Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauremys%20glyphistoma | "Mauremys" glyphistoma is a hybrid turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae). Originally described as a new species supposedly endemic to Guangxi/China; it was classified as Data Deficient in the IUCN Red List.
It is known only from a few specimens including the type series, all from the pet trade supposedly from Guangxi or Vietnam. Either found in the wild or bred for the pet trade, it was later determined to be the offspring of a male Chinese stripe-necked turtle and a female Vietnamese pond turtle (Spinks et al. (2004), Stuart & Parham (2006)). If it is a wild-born hybrid, the specimen thus must have originated in central Vietnam, the only area where Mauremys annamensis is known to exist and overlaps with the range of Mauremys sinensis.
See also
Mauremys iversoni the Fujian pond turtle
Mauremys pritchardi
Mauremys philippeni
References
(2005): On the hybridisation between two distantly related Asian turtles (Testudines: Sacalia × Mauremys). Salamandra 41: 21–26. PDF fulltext
(2001): New Chinese turtles: endangered or invalid? A reassessment of two species using mitochondrial DNA, allozyme electrophoresis and known-locality specimens. Animal Conservation 4(4): 357–367. HTML abstract Erratum: Animal Conservation 5(1): 86 HTML abstract
Mauremys
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Hybrid animals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic%20history%20of%20Ba%C4%8Dka | This is demographic history of Bačka. This article contains data from various population censuses conducted in the region of Bačka during the history. Censuses from 1715 to 1910 contain data about population of the entire Bačka, while censuses from 1921 to 2002 contain data about population of the Yugoslav/Serbian part of Bačka.
Overview
Before the Hungarian conquest in the 10th century, Bačka was mainly populated by Slavs and Avars. There is a dispute whether remains of ethnic Avars still lived in the region in the time of Hungarian conquest or they were already assimilated by more numerous Slavs. In the 11-15th centuries, the region had mostly Hungarian population with Slavic ethnic islands. During Hungarian rule, the native Slavic population mostly lost its Slavic language and culture and was assimilated into Hungarians. Since the 14th century, Slavic Serbs started to migrate to this region from Balkans. In the outset of the 16th century, before the Ottoman conquest, the largest part of population of Bačka were Hungarians, and the smaller part of population were Slavs. After the Ottoman conquest, most of the Hungarian and Catholic Slavic population fled from the area, and new Orthodox settlers (Serbs, Vlachs, etc.) as well as many Muslims of various ethnic origins settled in the area. During Ottoman rule, the region was mainly populated by Serbs, who were in an absolute majority and who mostly lived in villages, while cities were populated by various Muslim and Christian ethnic groups including Serbs, Turks, Roma, Greeks, Cincars, Arabs, Bosniaks, as well as Jews. During the Habsburg rule, in the 17th and 18th century, new wave of Serb settlers came to the area. During the 18th and 19th century, Hungarian, German, and other (Slovak, Rusyn, etc.) settlers were brought to the area, which thus became ethnically mixed, with a population composed mostly of Serbs, Hungarians, and Germans. Hungarian settlers mostly originated from Upper Hungary, especially from those counties that were not under Ottoman rule. There is dispute whether some of these Hungarians were descendants of pre-Ottoman Hungarian population of Bačka. When Austrians conquered Bačka and tried to determine private land ownership in the region, the only Hungarians that were able to prove that their ancestors owned land in Bačka were members of Cobor family, who proved their ownership rights over town of Baja. In the early 20th century, Bačka was ethnically mixed with relative Hungarian linguistic plurality. During the 20th century (after 1918), many South Slavic colonists from other parts of Yugoslavia (Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians, ethnic Muslims, etc.) settled in the area, mainly after 1945 and between 1991-1996.
Entire (historical) Bačka
1715
According to the Austrian census from 1715, there were 58 settlements in Bačka (excluding 18 settlements from military frontier). The largest places in Bačka in this time were Baja (with 237 recorded houses) and Futog (with 137 recorde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITCS | ITCS may refer to:
Incremental Train Control System, an implementation of positive train control
Information Technology Central Services, a Myanmar ISP
Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, at Tsinghua University in Beijing
Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science, an academic conference in theoretical computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20%28Flemish%20TV%20channel%29 | Nickelodeon is a Belgian television channel that is derived from the Dutch Nickelodeon. The channel started in the summer of 2009 when it got its own programming. Via the satellite, the Dutch version is still being broadcast.
History
Launch in the Netherlands
Shortly after the Dutch children's channel Kindernet was taken over by MTV Networks Benelux in 2002, the station was renamed Nickelodeon. Kindernet was then still temporarily the name of a toddler block in the morning, but after a while it was renamed Nick Jr. The channel also moved from timesharing with Net5 to another television channel, Veronica.
Initially Nickelodeon took care of the daytime programming, while Veronica was responsible for the evening programmes. However, due to Veronica's low viewing figures, the station started broadcasting a lot of sex-related programmes, with the result that the programme Councils of Groningen/Drenthe and Amsterdam, among others, decided to take the station off cable.
As of 14 July 2003, Veronica stopped broadcasting in this form and Nickelodeon started broadcasting 24 hours a day. In these extra hours a limited number of but popular cartoons were broadcast: SpongeBob SquarePants, Rocket Power and The Wild Thornberrys. From 2004 Nickelodeon started to gain popularity, with series like Zoop and SpongeBob SquarePants, but also Bassie and Adriaan scored tremendously well.
The start of Nickelodeon and its sister channels in Flanders
On 1 April 2003, the Dutch version of Nickelodeon started broadcasting in Flanders from 06.00 to 11.00 on TMF's channel under the name Nickelodeon on TMF. Because of Belgian legislation prohibiting TV stations from advertising five minutes before and after a children's programme, the station broadcast video clips between programmes. Incidentally, this legislation is no longer in force.
On 16 February 2004, Nickelodeon moved from TMF to the MTV Europe channel and extended its broadcasting hours from 06.00 to 18.00, timesharing with the new MTV Vlaanderen.
In December 2005 Nickelodeon got its first digital sister channel for the Netherlands: Nick Jr. The channel focuses on the very youngest and broadcasts day and night. The Belgium feed was launched on 4 October 2011.
Because Nickelodeon moved to another channel in the Netherlands, the broadcasting time was extended by 3 hours. Since then Nickelodeon has been broadcast from 05.00 to 20.00 in both the Netherlands and Flanders. In Flanders, the remaining broadcast time was taken up by MTV Vlaanderen (then still the Dutch version with Flemish advertising).
On 1 August 2007, due to the success of MTV Networks, two new Nickelodeon channels were launched: NickToons and Nick Hits.
Nickelodeon Flanders became independent
Since mid-summer 2009 Flanders got its own version of Nickelodeon. It started with some programs to change from the original Dutch version. After the summer this was undone, but here and there some changes were made.
Since 1 October 2009 the programmes are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn%20Bayern | Shawn J. Bayern is an American law professor. Before his legal career, he created several widely used computer-software systems and wrote several widely cited books on computer programming.
Biography
After graduating from Yale University, Bayern worked as a researcher at Yale University's Technology and Planning group, there developing the Central Authentication Service.
As a student, he developed a reputation for becoming critical to the university's information systems and having full access to those systems. He was the reference-implementation lead for JSTL and sat on the specification committees that developed popular languages including JavaServer Pages,
JAX-RPC, and JavaServer Faces.
He wrote early books on JSTL and JSP. He is also the creator of Time Cave, a "message-scheduling service," and in the early 2000s of a machine-learning system for playing rock-paper-scissors against human opponents.
After his computing career, Bayern went to Berkeley Law. There, he was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review and first in his class at graduation. He then worked as a law clerk for Harris Hartz of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has also worked in the Office of the Solicitor General, on the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, in the chambers of a United States District Judge in California, and at Covington & Burling, a Washington law firm. In 2017, he was elected to the American Law Institute and serves as advisor to several Restatement projects.
Bayern is currently the Larry and Joyce Beltz Professor at Florida State University College of Law and also has served as a visiting professor of law at Duke Law School, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and Berkeley Law. His books have critiqued law and economics, and he is known for developing new theories for Algorithmic entities.
Books
JSTL in Action (Manning Press 2003) ().
Book Review: Java Bookshelf: Mark Cyzyk Reviews Shawn Bayern's JSTL in Action, Dr. Dobb's Journal, DDJ Java Programming E-zine, June 2003.
Web Development with JavaServer Pages (Manning Press 2002) (ISBN 193011012X).
Articles
Explaining the American Norm Against Litigation, 93 California Law Review 1697 (2006).
Minimal Backups, Sys Admin, Apr. 2001.
Making a Wish: The Web-Interface Shell, Sys Admin, Jul. 2000.
How to Crawl Back Inside Your Shell, Sys Admin, Nov. 1999.
Securing Public Workstations, Windows NT Magazine, Sept. 1999.
Automating Repetitive Tasks in NT, Windows NT Magazine, May 1998.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer programmers
Yale University alumni
UC Berkeley School of Law alumni
American legal scholars
Florida State University faculty
Members of the American Law Institute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20V.%20Madhukar | C. V. Madhukar is an Indian banker who was most recently Managing Director at Omidyar Network. He was the global lead for their work on Digital Identity. He has been the founder and director of PRS Legislative Research. This research institution focuses on making the legislative process in India better informed, more transparent and participatory. PRS publishes "Legislative Briefs" (short commented summaries) of Bills in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and other articles about the work of the Indian parliament.
Prior to this, Madhukar had worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., with a group focused on building parliamentary capacities in various countries.
Madhukar started his professional career in 1993 as an investment banker with ICICI Securities and Finance Company in Mumbai, where he worked on the disinvestment of large public sector enterprises. Being an employee of ICICI, he spent significant time as a volunteer and made various contributions to the growth of Pratham in its formative years; now a sizable not-for-profit organization focused on primary education in India: CV Madhukar was part of the original Executive Group of Pratham in Mumbai.
At the invitation of the Government of Karnataka in early 2000, he co-founded and managed the Akshara Foundation, an essential education initiative focussed on Bengaluru's children. He concurrently helped set up the Azim Premji Foundation, an initiative of Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro and one of the wealthiest corporate leaders in India. The initiative supports technology in rural schools in India.
Madhukar was an Edward S. Mason Fellow at Harvard University, where he earned a Master’s in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also has an MBA (Finance) from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) degree from Bangalore University. Madhukar is an Echoing Green Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and Eisenhower Fellow.
In March 2008, Madhukar was one of the Indians to be named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. According to the WEF Press Release, "this honour is bestowed each year by the World Economic Forum to recognize and acknowledge the top 200–300 young leaders from around the world for their professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world."
List of publications by C. V. Madhukar
Privacy in Cyberspace
The Technology Imperative
Be Law Makers Again
Lazing About the House
Ring in the New
Where the Women Are
Is this why we sent them to Parliament?
Do We Need a Judges Inquiry Bill?
Anybody in the House?
No Debate Please, We're MPs
Was the Call for a Bipolar Polity Right?
PM Within the Purview of Lokayukta?
House This for Debate?
References
External links
homepage of PRS Legislative Research
homepage of the Akshara Foundation
self-description of the World Bank Institute’s Parliamentary Strengthening Program on the World Bank homepage
homepage of the Azim Premji |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Roberts | Rebecca Boggs Roberts (born 1970) is the Curator of Programming at Planet Word, and was formerly an American journalist. She was one of the hosts of POTUS '08 on XM Radio, which offered live daily coverage of the 2008 presidential election. She served as a substitute host for Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, and Weekend Edition Sunday on National Public Radio.
Biography
Born to reporters Cokie (née Boggs) and Steve Roberts, Roberts earned a B.A. in political science from Princeton University.
Roberts began with Shorr & Associates, a political media firm in Philadelphia. She was technology reporter for The World, a radio program produced by the BBC and Public Radio International, for four years. She hosted Your Call, a local call-in program, on KALW in San Francisco and moved to Washington, D.C., to host The Intersection, a news talk show, on WETA from 2006 to 2007. For NPR, she has reported on such diverse topics as the US immigration debate, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, transgenic goats, amateur astronomers, Bikram yoga, and Icelandic geysers.
She served as Program Director of the Congressional Cemetery.
Works
Roberts' books include:
Notes
References
Living people
American women journalists
NPR personalities
Princeton University alumni
1970 births
Roberts family (journalism)
Boggs family
Claiborne family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profi | Profi is a chain of supermarkets and convenience stores with over 1,600 locations in Romania owned by Mid Europa Partners.
History
Belgium and Luxembourg
Profi discount store network was founded in 1979 in Belgium by the Louis Delhaize Group. The supermarket chain consisted of 130 discount supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg. In 2001 to avoid the bankruptcy of chain, Louis Delhaize Group merged Profi with the Match supermarket network and began rebranding 62 supermarkets in Belgium and 14 in Luxembourg in Smatch supermarket, while the rest of the stores were closed.
Hungary
Profi entered in Hungary as the first discount supermarkets chain in 1991. The chain has developed in the eastern half of the country.
In November 2012, Louis Delhaize Group sold Match and Profi chains in Hungary. From a total of 178 supermarkets, of which 73 Profi discount supermarkets, most of them was sold to local retailers, 62 to Coop and 48 to CBA, and other 6 to Penny Market, 4 to Aldi, 2 to Pepco and 1 to Spar.
Romania
Louis Delhaize Group opened first discount supermarket in Romania on 29 June 2000, in Timișoara, Banat, southwestern Romania. The network was developed in the northwestern part of the country.
The 67 discount supermarkets operated in Romania were bought in 2009 and further developed into a nationwide supermarket chain by Polish Enterprise Fund VI (PEF VI), a private equity fund administered by Enterprise Investors (EI).
Since 2010, the chain began a rapid growth nationwide. In 2013, the chain opened the first convenience stores under the brand Profi City. In the rural areas were opened supermarkets and from 2015 local shops under the brand Profi Loco. At the end of 2016, before the sale, the network reached 500 locations.
In November 2016, Profi was bought by the investing group MEP Retail Investments, part of the Mid Europa Partners, for €533 million. Profi network reached 1000 locations on May 17, 2019.
In 2022, Profi reached 1600 stores, of which 800 in Agent management.
References
External links
Profi Romania
Supermarkets of Belgium
Supermarkets of Hungary
Supermarkets of Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20Barbell%20%282006%20TV%20series%29 | Captain Barbell is a Philippine television drama action fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a Philippine fictional character of the same name created by Mars Ravelo. Directed by Don Michael Perez, it stars Richard Gutierrez in the title role. It premiered on May 29, 2006 on the network's Telebabad line-up. The series concluded on January 12, 2007 with a total of 165 episodes. It was replaced by Asian Treasures in its timeslot.
A sequel to the series Captain Barbell aired in 2011.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Richard Gutierrez as Captain Barbell / Arell / Potenciano "Teng" Magtanggol
Supporting cast
Richard Gomez as Viel Villan / General V
Patrick Garcia as Levi Villan / Super Levi
Camille Prats as Marikit "Kit" Salvacion
Rhian Ramos as Leah Lazaro
JC de Vera as Boris / Little B
Ryan Yllana as Bobby Santos
Ricky Davao as Cesar Magtanggol
Jackie Lou Blanco as Sandra Magtanggol
Paolo Bediones as Captain B / Brando Laddran
Angel Aquino as Barbara
Snooky Serna as Mrs. B
Gloria Sevilla as Carmela "Melay" Magtanggol
Dino Guevarra as Narciso / Bubog
Jeremy Marquez as Jared / Putakti / Cyborg 5564
Mike Gayoso as Dexter
Gary Estrada as Tenorio / Tetano
Carlos Morales as Ador / Adobe
Rufa Mae Quinto and Marissa Sanchez as Patti / Aero / Aerobika
Jay Aquitania as Marvin / Vaporo
Jason Hsu as Xu / Cyborg 5566
Pinky Amador as Myra Lazaro
Wendell Ramos as Ruben / Black Out
Elizabeth Oropesa as Aurora Salvacion / Lady Amorseko
Bong Alvarez as Dribol / Askoboy Coach
Antonio Aquitania as Askoboy Captain
Dion Ignacio as Askoboy Vice Captain
Mylene Dizon as Magna / Magnetica
John Lapus as Marlon "Mercy" / Mercurio
January Isaac as Kristiana / Admiral K
Ian Veneracion as Commander X
Sunshine Dizon as Clarisse Magtanggol / Blanca / Ex-O
Guest cast
Ryan Eigenmann as Abel
Melissa Avelino as Chari
Dante Rivero as Carlos "Aloy" Magtanggol
John Regala as Lorenzo Lazaro
Rez Cortez as Joe Salvacion
Tricia Roman as a television news reporter
Ces Quesada as Agnes
Pinky de Leon as Victoria
Tin Arnaldo as Tracy
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Captain Barbell earned a 37.5% rating. While the final episode scored a 35.4% rating. The series had an average rating of 30.4%, while 43.7% was the highest rating it earned.
Accolades
References
External links
Captain Barbell
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine action television series
Philippine fantasy television series
Superhero television series
Television shows based on comics
Television shows set in the Philippines
tl:Captain Barbell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC%20BATCH-11/DOS-11 | BATCH-11/DOS-11, also known simply as DOS-11, is a discontinued operating system by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts. The first version of DOS-11 (V08-02) was released in 1970 and was the first operating system to run on the Digital PDP-11 minicomputer. DOS-11 was not known to be easy to use even in its day and became much less used in 1973 with the release of the RT-11 operating system.
Features
DOS-11 included:
DOS-Monitor
Edit-11 (text editor)
FORTRAN IV (programming language)
Libr-11 (librarian)
Link-11 (linker)
ODT-11R (debugging program)
PAL-11R (assembler)
PIP (file utility package)
DOS-11 came with XXDP, a diagnostics and monitor program for the PDP-11. Like other Digital operating systems, DOS-11 also had a FORTRAN-IV (Ansi-66) compiler. FORTRAN-IV was not supported on PDP-11 systems with less than 12K of memory. DOS-11 systems running in 8K and 12K configurations ran a limited version of the MACRO-11 Assembler (PAL-11R in overlaid form).
The DOS-11 operating system kernel was one file called MONLIB.LCL. The LCL extension was the acronym for LInked Core Image Library (or LICIL). An LICIL could be stored on any type of media that the DOS-11 operating system was distributed on (disk, DECtape, punched tape or magnetic tape). When the LICIL file was installed (Hooked) onto a disk drive as a contiguous file, the monitor library name is changed to MONLIBCIL which could then be booted. The CIL extension was the acronym for Core Image Library. Core, was the term for the core memory systems common to the PDP-11. A Core Image Library could be created with the CILUS (Core Image Library Update and Save) program. A MONLIBCIL typically contained the resident monitor (RMON), the keyboard command routine, device drivers, EMT routines, the clock routines and the transient monitor.
Legacy
DOS-11 was used to compile and install early versions of the RSTS-11 and RSTS/E operating systems however it is an ancestor to the RSX-11 family of operating systems.
References
DEC operating systems
PDP-11
Real-time operating systems
1970 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaky%20Gurl | "Freaky Gurl" is a song by rapper Gucci Mane from his 2006 album Hard to Kill and his 2007 album Trap-A-Thon. The song was produced by Cyber Sapp for Big Cat Records; its catchy beat interpolates "Superfreak" by Rick James, who is credited as a songwriter. The song performed poorly in 2006. Remixed and released as a single by Atlantic Records, it entered the Hot 100 pop chart at position 94 on October 6, 2007, then rose for two months to a peak of number 62 in early December. It peaked at number 19 on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart at the end of October. The remixed song served as the lead single to Mane's first album with Atlantic: Back to the Trap House.
Remix
The remix features Lil' Kim and Ludacris. Nicki Minaj also remixed the song under the name "Wanna Minaj?" for her mixtape Sucka Free. Her remix features Mane's chorus, Lil' Kim's verse and new verse by Minaj.
Lawsuit
The song sparked a lawsuit by Atlantic Records against Marlon Rowe, CEO of Big Cat Records. Mane had been signed to Big Cat and had released Hard to Kill in 2006 with "Freaky Gurl" on it, with little success. Mane jumped to Atlantic, buying out his Big Cat contract for $300,000 plus royalties. Mane and Atlantic remixed the song with original producer Cyber Sapp, and released the new version as a single in September 2007. When the remix entered the charts, Rowe quickly put together another Mane album—Trap-A-Thon—to capitalize on Mane's new fame, using the original mix of "Freaky Gurl" and Mane's rejected songs that had not made the album cut in 2006. Mane asked his fans not to purchase Trap-A-Thon, saying it was "unfinished and does not represent who I am today as an artist." Atlantic sued Rowe for interfering with their album project Back to the Trap House, which carried the popular remix. Big Cat argued that the remix was based on a song they still owned, and that Sapp used the original multi-track recordings to produce the remix without permission. Rowe and Atlantic resolved their dispute with a "seven-figure deal" benefiting Rowe at the end of 2007.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
2006 songs
2007 singles
Gucci Mane songs
Songs written by Rick James
Songs written by Gucci Mane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naranjo%20algorithm | The Naranjo algorithm, Naranjo Scale, or Naranjo Nomogram is a questionnaire designed by Naranjo et al. for determining the likelihood of whether an adverse drug reaction (ADR) is actually due to the drug rather than the result of other factors. Probability is assigned via a score termed definite, probable, possible or doubtful. Values obtained from this algorithm are often used in peer reviews to verify the validity of author's conclusions regarding ADRs.
It is often compared to the WHO-UMC system for standardized causality assessment for suspected ADRs.
Empirical approaches to identifying ADRs have fallen short because of the complexity of the set of variables involved in their detection. Computer decision programs have helped in this analysis. Electronic medical record systems can be programmed to fire alerts when a potential adverse drug event is about to occur or has already occurred.[3,4] Automated adverse drug event monitors can search for keywords or phrases throughout the patient's medical record to identify drug therapies, laboratory results, or problem lists that may indicate that a patient has already been treated for an ADR. This detection method uncovers significantly more adverse events, including medication errors, than relying only on empirical methods or incident reports.[1,2]
Empirical methods to assess the likelihood that an ADR has taken place have been lacking. More formal, logical analysis can help differentiate between events that are attributable to a drug from those associated with underlying diseases or other factors, underlying the complexity of detection.[5]
Several investigators, among them researchers at the FDA, have developed such logical evaluation methods, or algorithms, for evaluating the probability of an ADR.[2, 20-24] Almost all of these methods employ critical causation variables identified by Sir Austin Bradford Hill in 1965.[6] The most widely accepted of these instruments is the Naranjo algorithm[22] (Table). This method has been tested for internal validity with between-rater reliability testing, and its probability scale has consensual, content, and concurrent validity as well as ease of use in clinical settings and controlled studies.
Questionnaire
1. Are there previous conclusive reports on this reaction?
Yes (+1) No (0) Do not know or not done (0)
2. Did the adverse events appear after the suspected drug was given?
Yes (+2) No (-1) Do not know or not done (0)
3. Did the adverse reaction improve when the drug was discontinued or a specific antagonist was given?
Yes (+1) No (0) Do not know or not done (0)
4. Did the adverse reaction appear when the drug was readministered?
Yes (+2) No (-1) Do not know or not done (0)
5. Are there alternative causes that could have caused the reaction?
Yes (-1) No (+2) Do not know or not done (0)
6. Did the reaction reappear when a placebo was given?
Yes (-1) No (+1) Do not know or not done (0)
7. Was the drug detected in any body fluid in toxic co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked%20Winter%20Renaissance%20Faire | The Wicked Winter Renaissance Faire, which ran for 3 days every February from 2006 to 2016 (and a reborn event in 2018), was a yearly adult-themed fair with programming geared towards ages 16 and up. It was founded by Jeff Mach.
Description
The Wicked Winter Renaissance Faire was an indoor renaissance festival for ages 16 and up. The event started with Renaissance-themed programming, but later expanded to include additional themes including Steampunk, Gothic, Burlesque shows, Pirates, Ninjas, Fairtales, and Villans. An adult section was also added in the early years.
History
Wicked Faire was an event organized by Widdershins, LLC DBA Wicked Events by Jeff Mach. The first Wicked Faire was held in February 2006 at the New Jersey Convention and Expo Center.
In 2013, the Wicked Winter Renaissance Faire was the largest indoor Renaissance Faire in the world.
The 2016 edition of the Wicked Winter Renaissance Faire was announced to be the last one, founder Jeff Mach explaining that the Faire reached maturity and that the event had lost its novelty spark.
In 2017, Jeff Mach launched the Glimmerdark festival in Princeton, which was presented as the successor of the Wicked Winter Renaissance Faire. Jeff Mach said the Glimmerdark festival retained the best elements of the Wicked Winter Renaissance Faire.
Tammy Shipps, president of Silver Phoenix, purchased the intellectual rights of the Wicked Winter Renaissance Faire on 13 March 2018 and renamed JME from Jeff Mach Events to Just Magical Events. Wicked Faire 2018 was funded by a buyout from Turtle Hill Events.
Controversy
In 2018, allegations of exploitation, harassment, falling through on financial agreements and sexual misconduct by founder Jeff Mach were posted by venders, volunteers, employees, event guests, and partners on social media and gathered on an anonymous Blogspot called Owl Eye View and in the Daily Beast. Assertions included a description of one woman being forced to take sleeping medication, consent violations, offering of sexual favors, and BDSM practices without clear consent. In response, Jeff Mach stepped down from hosting events, and Jeff Mach Events was renamed Just Magical Events. As of 2023 Just Magical Events has returned to hosting events under the name Jeff Mach Events and is currently run by Jeff Mach.
References
External links
Archived (03/03/2018) official website
Jeff Mach Events
Renaissance fairs
Tourist attractions in Somerset County, New Jersey
Defunct festivals in New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-tailed%20shrew%20tenrec | The short-tailed shrew tenrec (Microgale brevicaudata) is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical dry and moist lowland forests.
References
Afrosoricida
Mammals of Madagascar
Mammals described in 1899
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser%20long-tailed%20shrew%20tenrec | The lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec (Microgale longicaudata) is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is active at all hours of the day and night, but each individual maintains its own pattern of rest and activity.
Range and Habitat
It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical moist lowland and montane forests.
Description
As its name implies, it occupies the ecological niche filled by shrews in other parts of the world. The coat is short, but dense, and quite lacking in the spines so common in this family. The long tail is prehensile. Its body is 5–15 cm long, with the tail being 7.5–17 cm long.
Diet
Although it climbs well, it usually mostly forages on the forest floor for soil invertebrates like grubs, worms and small insects.
Reproduction
Little is known, but they are believed to produce litters of 2-4 young. They do not appear to hibernate at all.
References
Afrosoricida
Mammals of Madagascar
Mammals described in 1882
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover%20keying | In wireless technology, handover keying (Hokey) refers to maintaining a secure connection seamlessly while migrating from one wireless network to another.
External links
IETF Working Group
Interview with Russ Housley, chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral%20for%20a%20Fiend | "Funeral for a Fiend" is the eighth episode of the nineteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 25, 2007. It was written by Michael Price and was directed by Rob Oliver. Serving as a stand-alone sequel to "The Italian Bob", it features Kelsey Grammer in his tenth appearance as Sideshow Bob, as well as David Hyde Pierce in his second appearance as Cecil Terwilliger. John Mahoney makes his first and only appearance as Doctor Robert Terwilliger Sr., the father of Bob and Cecil. Keith Olbermann also makes a guest appearance as himself.
Plot
The Simpsons see a commercial for a new restaurant called Wes Doobner's World Famous Family Style Rib Huts, owned by a cowboy of the same name and perfectly suited to each member of the family. They decide to visit it for its grand opening, but discover Doobner is actually Sideshow Bob, having left Italy alongside his wife, Francesca, and son, Gino, and created the restaurant and the commercial to lure the Simpsons into a trap. After tying up the Simpsons, Bob then reveals a large stack of crates filled with dynamite, with which he will kill them, using a laptop with a defective battery (which will overheat and explode) as a detonator. While gloating, Bob incorrectly quotes a phrase from Macbeth and Lisa corrects him. Bob tries to look up the correct phrase on Wikipedia, but the laptop explodes in Bob's hands, and he is then arrested and taken to court.
During Bob's trial, Bob's father, Dr. Robert Terwilliger Sr., is brought to testify. He explains Bob has a rare heart condition and also suggests that Bob is insane because of his long-standing feud with Bart. Since all of the audience have been tormented by Bart's pranks, Bob convinces Springfield Bart is ultimately to blame and they all turn on him. As Bart pleads his innocence, Bob takes out a vial labeled nitroglycerin, which everyone thinks is a deadly explosive. However, as Bart throws the vial away to save everyone; it is shown to actually be Bob's heart medication and he collapses to the floor and is pronounced dead.
Bob's entire family attends the funeral: his mother, Dame Judith Underdunk, a well-known Shakespearean actress; his father; his brother Cecil, who has been let out of prison for the occasion; and Francesca and Gino, along with many regular Springfieldians. Feeling slightly guilty, Bart speaks to Cecil, who convinces him to go to the funeral home to make peace with Bob before he is cremated. However, when Bart arrives, Bob rises out of the coffin, alive and well, and traps Bart in it to be incinerated.
Meanwhile, Milhouse inadvertently makes Lisa realize that everything was an elaborate plot put together by Bob and his family: with his mother being a Shakespearean actress, Bob would have known Shakespeare too well to have accidentally misquoted him and must have done so intentionally in order to get caught and go to trial, where his father used a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFJS | WFJS (1260 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a religious radio format, focusing on the Catholic Church and carrying EWTN Radio Network programs. The station is owned by the Domestic Church Media Foundation, a Catholic-based organization in Trenton, New Jersey. Programming is simulcast on WFJS-FM (89.3) in Freehold, New Jersey, as well as WGYM (1580 AM) in the Atlantic City area and WSMJ (91.9 FM) in North Wildwood.
By day, WFJS is powered at 5,900 watts. To protect other stations on 1260 AM from interference, at night it reduces power to 2,500 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array. The transmitter is on Ewingville Road in Ewing Township, New Jersey.
History
Early years
The station signed on the air on . The original call sign was WBUD. It was licensed to Morrisville, Pennsylvania, broadcasting at 1490 kilocycles. In 1952, WBUD moved to its current frequency of 1260 kHz as a Trenton-licensed station. During a period in the late 1970s, the station held the call letters WTRT. On May 29, 1980, the station adopted the call letters WKXW. It reverted to the original call sign WBUD on September 1, 1981, and kept those call letters until 2008.
In the early 1970s, WBUD broadcast a Top 40 format. In 1975, the station became an all-news outlet, carrying the NBC News and Information Service. When that service was discontinued in 1977, WBUD returned to music programming. By the late 1990s, WBUD was airing oldies music as "Great Gold Radio".
Standards and sports
In February 2006, WBUD switched to ABC Radio's "Unforgettable Favorites" satellite feed, airing a soft oldies/adult standards format. Despite Unforgettable merging with the "Timeless" Radio Network, WBUD maintained its nostalgia playlist for two years.
On March 31, 2008, the station switched to a sports radio format, becoming a network affiliate of Fox Sports Radio. The station aired Fox Sports all day except in afternoons, when it aired Premiere's Jim Rome Show and local programming.
Catholic radio
The Millennium Radio Group, then WBUD's owner, announced on July 25, 2008, that the station would be sold. The buyer was the Domestic Church Media Foundation, founded by New Jersey native, Jim Manfredonia. The station would drop Fox Sports Radio, switching to Catholic religious programming, mainly from EWTN. The sale was completed on September 10, 2008.
On September 14, 2008, WBUD had its final day of broadcasting, featuring the station's automated "Great Gold" oldies format, as well as Jack Pinto's Sunday Sinatra program, live in the studio. The station returned to Fox Sports at 2PM after playing its final song, "Yesterday's Gone", by Chad and Jeremy.
On September 15, 2008, WBUD officially flipped to a Catholic-based religious format, as "Domestic Church Catholic Radio". On September 22, 2008, the station changed its call letters to WFJS, named after Fulton J. Sheen, an archbishop who had used broadcasting (particularly television) to deliver the message about t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWTX | WWTX (1290 AM) is a sports formatted radio station in Wilmington, Delaware. The station has local programming, along with coverage from Fox Sports Radio. WWTX is the flagship station for University of Delaware Women's Basketball and also broadcasts weekly High School Football and High School Basketball games. The station is an affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles and Baltimore Ravens.
Football
Every Friday Night in the fall, Fox Sports 1290 brings New Castle County the High School Football Game of the Week. This broadcast showcases the top match-up of the week in upstate Delaware. The season schedule begins with the DFRC Kickoff Classic and concludes with the DIAA State Championship each year. In the summer, Fox Sports, along with partner station WDOV-AM simulcast the DFRC Blue-Gold All*Star Game benefiting Delawareans with intellectual disabilities. The station also hands out game and season awards to outstanding student-athlete performers. Past winners have included Chris Godwin (Middletown) and Troy Reeder (Salesianum) of Penn State, Darius Wade (Middletown) of Boston College, and 2014 Fox Sports MVP Ray Jones (Hodgson) of the University of Delaware.
WWTX is also the only radio station in the state of Delaware broadcasting Baltimore Orioles baseball and Baltimore Ravens football. With a large fan base in the Wilmington, DE area and near the campus of the University of Delaware, Fox Sports 1290 AM allows locals to follow along with Blue Hens legendary QB, Joe Flacco. Fans in Delaware can also follow along with Delaware graduates and current Baltimore Ravens, Gino Gradkowski and Nick Boyle.
Basketball
During basketball season, Fox Sports 1290 broadcasts both Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens Women's Basketball and a High School Basketball Game of the Week. All home and away games for University of Delaware Women's Basketball can be heard on Fox Sports, as well as partner station 1410 WDOV-AM in Dover. Fox Sports 1290 was there for the 2013 Sweet 16 NCAA Tournament run by the Blue Hens led by Elena Delle Donne.
Similar to the football schedule, Fox Sports broadcasts one game each week in New Castle County for High School hoops, including the semifinal and championship games of the DIAA State Tournament. The All-Fox Sports Team is announced following each season and past winners have included Justin Perillo (Tatnall) now playing in the NFL for the Green Bay Packers, Trevor Cooney (Sanford) of Syracuse, A.J. English (Appoquinimink) of Iona, and 2015 Player of the Year, Donte DiVincenzo (Salesianum) of Villanova.
Broadcasters
Fox Sports 1290 and partner station, 94.7 WDSD use award-winning broadcasts and broadcasters. [Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football] and Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's basketball is broadcast on FM by "Voice of the Blue Hens" and 2009 and 2012 National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Delaware Sportscaster of the Year, Scott Klatzkin. Matt Janus, the 2014 NSSA Delaware Sportscaster of the Year winner, handles play-by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia%20R.%20Aragon | Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon is an American computer scientist, professor, author, and champion aerobatic pilot who is best known as the co-inventor (with Raimund Seidel) of the treap data structure, a type of binary search tree that orders nodes by adding a priority as well as a key to each node. She is also known for her work in data-intensive science and visual analytics of very large data sets, for which she received the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Education
Aragon received her B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1982, M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987 and, Ph.D. in computer science from the same institution in 2004. For her doctoral studies, Aragon worked under the direction of Marti Hearst.
Career
She is a professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research interests in the field of human-centered data science include eScience, scientific and information visualization, visual analytics, image processing, collaborative creativity, analysis of spontaneous text communication, dynamic affect
detection, and games for good. Prior to her appointment at UW, she was a computer scientist and data scientist at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for six years and NASA Ames Research Center for nine years, and before that, an airshow and test pilot, entrepreneur, and member of the United States Aerobatic Team.
Presidential Early Career Award
On July 9, 2009, Aragon received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers.
She was recognized for "seminal research in workflow management and visual analytics for data-intensive scientific research, including the development of the Fourier contour analysis algorithm and Sunfall."
Aerobatic career
Aragon first won a slot on the United States Aerobatic Team in 1991. She holds the record for shortest time from first solo in an airplane to membership on the US Team (less than six years), and was also the first Latina to win a slot on the Team.
A team member from 1991 to 1994, she was a bronze medalist at the 1993 U.S. National Aerobatic Championships and the 1994 World Aerobatic Championships. She has also won over 70 trophies in regional aerobatic competitions at the Unlimited level and was California State Unlimited Aerobatic Champion in 1990. Aragon has also flown airshows (as distinct from aerobatic competitions) professionally since 1990.
Aragon has been a flight instructor since 1987. In 1989, she founded one of the first aerobatic and tailwheel flight schools in Northern California.
Aragon helped develop an "unusual attitude recovery training", whereby flight students are taught how to recover from emergency situations in flight. Between 1987 an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechTarget | TechTarget is an American company which offers data-driven marketing services to business-to-business technology vendors. It uses purchase intent data gleaned from the readership of its 140 + technology focused web sites to help tech vendors reach buyers actively researching relevant IT products and services.
TechTarget, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts with offices in London, Munich, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore and Sydney.
History
TechTarget was founded in 1999 by Greg Strakosch and Don Hawk as a spin-off of United Communications Group (UCG). In 2001, the company was recognized by B2B Magazine on the Media Power 50 list. In 2005, AdAge named CEO Greg Strakosch a Top 25 Newsmaker.
In 2016, TechTarget named Michael Cotoia as CEO and board member, and elected Greg Stakosch as executive chairman. The company had its initial public offering in May 2007, listing on the NASDAQ exchange with symbol TTGT.
Its current board of directors includes EMC Corporation founder Roger Marino, former Atlanta Hawks co-owner Bruce Levenson, former CFO of the New York Times Co., CEO Michael Cotoia and executive chairman Greg Strakosch.
Since launch, the company has made several acquisitions aimed at building its technology content reach: In 2003, TechTarget acquired Information Security Magazine. In 2004, the company acquired publications including: Bitpipe.com, TheServerSide.com and TheServerSide.net. In 2007 (the year the company went public), TechTarget acquired KnowledgeStorm for $58 million. In 2008, TechTarget acquired BrianMadden.com and BriForum. The company acquired LeMagIT and opened local operations in France. In 2011, it made a significant acquisition of Uk-based Computer Weekly, which had been published as a weekly print magazine by Reed Business Information for more than 45 years.
The company launched its current purchase intent data services (IT Deal Alert) for technology vendors in 2014 and has since added to the portfolio with a product called Priority Engine. In 2020, TechTarget acquired technology webinar company BrightTALK. In late 2020 the firm also announced the acquisition of IT analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group.
References
External links
eVero Corporation
Technology websites
Technology companies based in Massachusetts
Companies based in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Newton, Massachusetts
Mass media companies established in 1999
Technology companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in Massachusetts
Companies listed on the Nasdaq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Waldinger | Richard Jay Waldinger is a computer science researcher at SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center (where he has worked since 1969) whose interests focus on the application of automated deductive reasoning to problems in software engineering and artificial intelligence.
Early life and education
In his thesis (Carnegie Mellon University, 1969), which concerned the extraction of computer programs from proofs of theorems, he found that the application of the resolution rule accounted for the appearance of a conditional branch in the extracted program, while the use of the mathematical induction principle caused the introduction of recursion and other repetitive constructs.
Career
Waldinger started at SRI International, then known as the Stanford Research Institute, in 1969, and has remained there since then. He has served coffee and cookies in his office at SRI twice a week since 1970.
QA4
Waldinger collaborated with Cordell Green, Robert Yates, Jeff Rulifson, and Jan Derksen on QA4, a PLANNER-like artificial intelligence language geared towards automatic planning and theorem proving. QA4 introduced the notion of context and also of associative-commutative unification, which made the associative and commutative axioms for operators not only unnecessary but also inexpressible. They applied the language to planning for the SRI robot, Shakey. With Bernie Elspas and Karl Levitt, Waldinger used QA4 for program verification (proving that a program does what it's supposed to), obtaining automatic verifications for the unification algorithm and Hoare's FIND program.
Program synthesis
While Waldinger's thesis had dealt with the synthesis of applicative programs, which return an output but produce no side effects, Waldinger then turned to the synthesis of imperative programs, which do both. To deal with the problem of achieving simultaneously goals that interfere with each other, he introduced the notion of goal regression, which was obtained from earlier work in program verification by Floyd, King, Hoare, and Dijkstra. Since imperative programs are analogous to plans, the approach was also applicable to classical AI planning problems.
In collaboration with Zohar Manna, of Stanford University, Waldinger developed nonclausal resolution, a form of resolution that did not require the translation of logical sentences into a restricted clausal form. Not only was the translation expensive, but also it sometimes pathologically complicated the proof of the resulting theorem; these problems were circumvented by the new rule. They applied the rule on paper to produce a detailed synthesis of a unification algorithm. In a separate paper, they synthesized a novel square-root algorithm; they found that the notion of binary search appears spontaneously by a single application of the resolution rule to the specification of the square root.
SNARK
Some of Manna and Waldinger's theorem proving ideas were incorporated into the design of Mark Stickel's SNARK theor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona%20Yona%20Penguin | is a 2009 3D computer-animated fantasy adventure film produced by the Japanese anime studio Madhouse and sister company Dynamo Pictures. An international co-production of Japan and France, it was Madhouse's first fully 3D CGI film. Rintaro, known for Galaxy Express 999 and Metropolis, directed the project, while French production company Denis Friedman Productions collaborated and helped fund the film.
Plot
An animated adventure about a young girl named Coco who is fascinated with penguins, and wears a penguin costume often. One fateful day, after being taunted by bullies saying penguins couldn't fly, she attempts to fly anyway, as she claims her now deceased father has flown with other penguins in the past, and ends up falling. She then comes across a golden feathered wing, and a penguin shaped capsule, containing parts for a toy robot cat, who comes to life and lures Coco to a hidden store full of penguin merchandise. The robotic cat transforms into his real form, a goblin named Chaley. He believes her to be the chosen "flightless bird" who would save his world from peril, and so they travel to a fantasy land where other goblins live. Coco's grandfather follows her in silence to see what was going on. The villagers tell Coco about an evil entity named Buccaboo, and his devil henchmen, and about how he has gotten more powerful than ever, slowly destroying the goblins' village. Buccaboo's lead henchman, Zammie, comes to the village to taunt the goblins even more. Coco, who calls him a bully, thinks this was all a mistake, since she is a human and not a bird. They offer to take her back home, but she gets suspicious about Zammie's true identity, Coco and Chaley set out to investigate about Buccaboo's true motives. They find out Zammie is actually a fallen, one winged angel, who fell from heaven, and Buccaboo has been using him and his heavenly powers to become more powerful, making him act evil in the process. Coco and Chaley help Zammie escape from Buccaboo's lair, and they try to get Zammie's missing wing so that he can return to heaven, before Buccaboo finds out and destroys the village completely.
Coco has to really fly to recover the wing, through memories of her father, she is able to summon him from heaven, who lifts her and grants her the ability to really fly. She also gets the help of her grandfather and gods who are represented in Coco's home world in a statue. Buccaboo is defeated as Zammie recovers his second wing and goes back to heaven. Coco is finally able to go back home only to find her grandpa added to the statue. The Penguin Store disappears and Chaley goes back to his robotic toy cat form.
Cast
Production
Madhouse has announced this film as being a "3D anime", or a film which brings an anime sensibility and design structure into the 3D CGI world. Unlike in other Japanese CG productions, such as Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, photo-realism is not emphasised. Rather, attention has been focused on giving the feel of a trad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Task%20Group | Computer Task Group, Inc (commonly referred to as CTG) is an American multinational company headquartered in Buffalo, New York, that provides information technology staffing.
History
CTG was founded in 1966 by Randolph A. Marks and G. David Baer, two former employees of IBM, in Buffalo, New York. It was then called Marks-Baer Inc. (MBI). MBI's initial market was the medical industry, since both founders had experience in that area. By 1968, staff had grown to 20 and Marks-Baer Inc. changed its name to Computer Task Group Inc. (CTG). The company went public in 1969.
In 1975, CTG decided to become a national company. CTG accelerated growth through acquisitions beginning in 1980 and within 5 years, acquired 15 companies. In 1986, the company made its first international acquisition, Shubrook International, Ltd., a software consulting firm based in Chertsey, England.
In 2013, CTG acquired , a healthcare IT company in Belgium.
In 2018, CTG acquired Soft Company, a consulting and digital services company headquartered in Paris, France.
In August 2023, it was announced CTG had been acquired by the Hasselt-headquartered IT services and consultancy company, Cegeka for $107 million.
Acquisitions
Diversified Systems Inc. (1983)
Automated Business Systems, Inc. (1983)
Berger, Vernay & Co. (1985)
Delta Force Inc. (1985)
Documentation Resources, Inc. (1986)
Shubrooks International, Ltd. (1986)
Applied Management Systems, Inc. (1988)
Connolly Data Systems Inc. (1990)
Telecommunications Management Consultants (1990)
Rendeck International N.V. (1990)
Elumen Solutions Inc. (1999)
(2013)
Soft Company (2018)
Tech-IT (2019)
Divestitures
Profimatics Inc. (1994)
Services
CTG develops IT for companies in several industries including healthcare and technology services, and provides managed services IT staffing for technology companies and large corporations. The company concentrates on the financial services, telecommunications, government, industry, life sciences, and healthcare sectors. The scope of offered services includes development and integration, application management, information security, system and process assessment, and IT consulting.
CTG Belgium created a software testing methodology called FASTBoX (Framework for Automated Software Testing Based On eXperience).
Operations
CTG operates in North America (US and Canada), Western Europe (Belgium, Luxembourg, United Kingdom and France), and India. It counts about 451 clients; its largest clients are IBM and SDI International. As of December 2019, the company employs approximately 3,950 people worldwide, with 2,650 in the United States and Canada and 1,300 in Europe.
In 2018, the company operated 9 subsidiaries:
Computer Task Group of Canada, Inc.
Computer Task Group Belgium N.V.
CTG ITS S.A.
Computer Task Group IT Solutions, S.A.
Computer Task Group Luxembourg PSF
Computer Task Group (U.K.) Ltd.
CTG Health Solutions N.V.
Soft Company SAS (“Soft Company”)
Computer Task Inf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flachau | Flachau is a village in the district of St. Johann im Pongau in the Austrian state of Salzburg, with a population of 2,802 (2016 data). Its numerous skiing facilities are part of the Ski Amadé network of ski areas, one of the largest in Europe.
History
Up into the 19th century, Flachau was a center of iron smelting in the Pongau district. Remains of the works have since been demolished, and only street and house names remain as reminders.
Flachau is home to a parish church consecrated on September 8, 1722, which was built upon the request of the miners and smelters of the village. The altars of the church are painted by Johann Michael Rottmayr.
Notable events
Flachau hosts the annual Audi FIS Alpine Ski World cup woman's race in winter.
Since 2012, Flachau hosts the minus20degree art and architecture biennale occurring in winter.
Notable citizens
Hermann Maier (born 1972 in Flachau; Austrian alpine skier, four-time World Cup winner, Olympic gold medalist)
Claudia Riegler; professional snowboarder (world cup winner, world champion 2015)
Manuela Riegler; professional snowboarder (world cup winner, world champion 2005)
Kaspar Steger, Austrian Army Captain (1780–1858); Leader of the Radstadt Fusiliers fighting French and Bavarian Forces in the War of the Fifth Coalition (1809)
References
External links
Flachau tourist authority
Cities and towns in St. Johann im Pongau District
Radstadt Tauern |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMILY%27s%20List%20Australia | EMILY's List Australia is a political network in Australia that supports progressive Labor Party (ALP) women candidates seeking election to political office. Founded in 1996, EMILY's List Australia was inspired by EMILY's List, a political action committee with similar goals in the United States.
Issues central to the organisation's support of candidates are the principles of equity, diversity, reproductive rights, and the provision of equal pay and childcare. The organisation supports candidates through directed donations, "Early Money" financial support, gender gap research and volunteer support. Over 284 EMILY's List members have been elected to state and federal Australian Parliaments as 2013.
Etymology
The name EMILY comes from its United States equivalent and is an acronym for "Early Money Is Like Yeast" from the political saying, "Early money is like yeast, because it helps to raise the dough".
History
1990s
On 26 November 1994, at Fire with Fire: The Feminist Forum held at the Sydney Town Hall, Joan Kirner mentioned the plan currently before the ALP National Executive to introduce an Australian version of the US Emily's List.
In 1994, the ALP National Conference passed an Affirmative Action Rule requiring that women be pre-selected in 35 per cent of winnable seats, in all elections, by 2002. This was at the same time as passing of the Affirmative Action (Equal Employment Opportunity for Women) Act 1986. In 1995 the ALP decided to form an internal version of EMILY's List, and in 1996 Kirner established EMILY's List Australia outside the party. with the aim of attaining 45% female membership in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
2000s
In the 2004 Federal Election campaign EMILY's List donated a total of $100,000 to candidates. Research conducted by EMILY's List and submitted to the Labor Party's national executive stated that Labor women regarded then health spokeswoman Julia Gillard as the best performer during the campaign, with then Prime Minister John Howard in second place. Of Mark Latham their submission stated; "the most common themes were: perceived aggression, concern he had been watered down for the campaign, inexperience, constantly going on about background, glib answers, bully boy tactics of the past."
2010-present
In the 2010 Federal Election campaign EMILY's List undertook Gender Gap research in six key marginal seats and undertook a targeted campaign incorporating materials along the themes of 'We Can't Trust Tony', 'Let's Make History' and 'Torpedo the Speedo'.
In the 2012 Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory elections, for the first time EMILY's List endorsed every female Labor Party candidate contesting those elections.
Australia's first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was a founding member of EMILY's List Australia and assisted to prepare their initial constitution. She presented the Inaugural EMILY's List Oration at Parliament House, Canberra in September 2011.
Organi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny%20Mountain%20Radio | Allegheny Mountain Radio or AMR is a network of full service, freeform-formatted community radio stations broadcasting to portions of West Virginia and Virginia in the United States. The stations serve Pocahontas County, West Virginia as well as Bath County, Virginia and Highland County, Virginia.
This network is unique in that these are the only radio stations broadcasting from the three counties. The area sits within the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ), which surrounds the Green Bank Radio Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia. Due to the NRQZ and surrounding mountainous terrain, few out-of-area radio signals penetrate these counties.
All stations in the network are owned and operated by Pocahontas Communications Cooperative Corporation.
History
Pocahontas Communications Cooperative Corporation was formed in April 1979 as a non-profit organization to operate the community radio stations for educational and charitable purposes. Financial support for AMR comes from individual donations, underwriting from businesses and grants.
Radio transmission operations began in June 1981. WVMR 1370 is the only radio station operating within the inner core of the Radio Quiet Zone. WVMR is also the only AM station in the Pocahontas Communications Cooperative Corporation network.
In a span of three years, AMR's other stations went on the air. In May 1995, the Monterey, Virginia-based WVLS launched, followed by WCHG from Hot Springs, Virginia in June 1995, and the translator FM station W278AL from Durbin, West Virginia in July 1998.
During a "filing window" for applications for non-commercial educational FM stations, in 2007 and 2008, the Pocahontas Communications Cooperative Corporation applied for construction permits for stations in Marlinton, Hillsboro, and Franklin, West Virginia. WVMR-FM was constructed and began test transmissions on October 6, 2010, with full operation beginning on October 26, 2010. WNMP was constructed and began test transmissions on September 27, 2011, with full operation beginning on September 30, 2011. Due to a lack of funding, and a lack of interest on the part of public that was to be served, WVPC was not constructed. Its construction permit was allowed to expire on December 18, 2010.
Stations
Music programming
Allegheny Mountain Radio (AMR) has no set format, unlike most other radio stations in the United States.
Music heard on the Allegheny Mountain Radio (AMR) stations varies from country music to rock music, and from contemporary hit radio to adult standards. News broadcasts are updated throughout the day from a team of AMR reporters. During the high-school football season, local football games are broadcast as well. Allegheny Mountain Radio also broadcasts informational programming such as the local "Book Talk", which comes from the McClintic Public Library in Marlinton, West Virginia.
In the late night hours, WVMR-FM, WCHG, WVLS, WNMP, WDMT, and W278AL simulcast classical music-formatted radio station WCPE. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20DISOSS | IBM Distributed Office Support System, or DISOSS is a centralized document distribution and filing application for IBM's mainframe computers running the MVS and VSE operating systems. DISOSS runs under both the CICS transaction processing system and the IMS/DS transaction processing system, and later versions use the SNADS architecture of peer to peer communication for distributed services.
Heterogeneous office systems connect through DISOSS to OfficeVision/MVS series. The IBM systems are OV/MVS, “OV/VM, OV/400, PS/CICS, PS/TSO, PS/PC, PROFS, and other Mail Systems Supporting SNADS and DIA. Only a single copy of DISOSS needs to be installed somewhere in the network to accomplish the connection.” A number of other vendors such as Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, and Data General provided links to DISOSS.
Functions
DISOSS provides document library function with search and retrieval controlled by security based on user ID, along with document translation based on Document Interchange Architecture (DIA) and Document Content Architecture (DCA). The different systems that use DISOSS for document exchange and distribution vary in their implementation of DCA and thus the end results of some combinations are only final form (FFT) documents rather than revisable form text (RFT).
It supports document exchange between various IBM and non-IBM office devices including the IBM Displaywriter System, the IBM 5520, the IBM 8100/DOSF, IBM Scanmaster, and Personal computers and word processors. It offers format transformation and printing services, and provides a rich application programming interface (API) and interfaced with other office products such as IBM OfficeVision.
History
DISOSS was announced in 1980, and "was designated a strategic IBM product in 1982." It was a key part of IBM Systems Application Architecture (SAA), but suffered from a reputation as "difficult to understand" and "a resource hog." DISOSS continues to be actively marketed and supported as of 2012.
Version 1 of DISOSS was introduced in June 1980; Colgate-Palmolive was one of the first sites to implement DISOSS version 1, and reported dissatisfaction with the poor quality of the documentation and with software bugs. IBM released version 2 in 1982, in which IBM claimed to resolve the issues which version 1 users had experienced.
DISOSS was implemented by the city government of Long Beach, California during 1983–1984.
See also
PROFS
IBM OfficeVision
References
IBM Corporation: Document Interchange with DISOSS Version 3 (1983)
External links
DISOSS/370 V3 CONCEPTS MVS VSE (GC30-3434-00)
DISOSS
DISOSS
DISOSS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Knowledge%20Network%20of%20Women%20in%20Politics | The International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics (iKNOW Politics) is an online workspace designed to serve the needs of elected officials, candidates, political party leaders and members, researchers, students and other practitioners interested in advancing women in politics.
Goals
iKNOW Politics’ goal is to increase the participation and effectiveness of women in political life by utilizing a technology enabled forum to provide access to critical resources and expertise, stimulate dialogue, create knowledge, and share experiences on women's political participation.
Activities
The iKNOW Politics website is an interactive tool that allows users and members worldwide to engage in a number of online activities gaining access to essential knowledge and information. The key iKNOW Politics features are the following:
Expert Network: Members are provided the opportunity to ask questions and exchange information with experts in the field of women's political participation, through the unique online tool called “Ask the Experts.”
News and Events: Users can access the latest information, news and events on women and politics that are compiled from global news outlets, project updates and member contributions.
Resource Library: iKNOW Politics has an online library that includes more than 650 reports, handbooks and training materials from international agencies, research institutions, academia and civil society groups. Themes include governance and politics, including campaigns, elections and quotas, political parties, advocacy and lobbying, skills building, legislation and post-conflict and political transitions.
Online Discussions: Online discussions are hosted on the issues related to women's political participation. It provides a free and unlimited space for sharing ideas, experiences, and knowledge useful for supporting women in their political paths.
Steering Committee
The network, launched in February 2007, is a joint project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN WOMEN), the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA).
References
External links
iKNOW Politics Website
UNDP
UN WOMEN
NDI
IPU
International IDEA
International political websites
Women's websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncos | Oncos is a group of companies with Romanian private capital. Oncos is producer and distributor of fresh chicken, bread and pastry products, eggs. Trade activity is carried out through the network of retail stores in the cities of Cluj-Napoca, Gilǎu, Apahida, Huedin, Zalău, Jibou, Turda, Câmpia Turzii, Luduș, Gherla, Dej, Bistrița, Reghin, Târgu Mureș and the warehouse in Florești.
Oncos is a registered trademark. Also their trademarks are Painea bătută and Puiul de Florești.
The holding component also includes: Oncos Tonus, Gym fitness & bodybuilding and Lany's fashion house.
External links
Official website
Agriculture companies of Romania
Poultry companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B5nu%20Samuel | Tõnu Samuel (born 3 July 1972) is an Estonian hacker commonly cited by mainstream media in topics regarding network security.
Samuel was born in Tallinn. Between 1979 and 1988, he attended the Tallinn Secondary Science School. In 1990–1992 he took courses in business and financial management. His career as a programmer began in 1991, while working at the Estonian Ministry of Communication.
In 2011 Samuel moved to work in Japan, before that he lived about 10 years in Räpina in southeastern Estonia.
References
http://www.ohtuleht.ee/112959
http://www.reporter.ee/2009/05/22/hakker-tonu-samuel-kondas-keskerakonna-kodukal/
http://www.tartupostimees.ee/94096/arvutiguru-tonu-samuel-alustas-kohtuteed-vaidetavate-ahvardajate-suhtes/
http://www.e24.ee/492760/tonu-samuel-elion-peaks-andma-sisulisemat-infot/
External links
1972 births
Living people
People from Tallinn
Estonian computer programmers
People associated with computer security
Estonian expatriates in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Prolog%20implementations | The following Comparison of Prolog implementations provides a reference for the relative feature sets and performance of different implementations of the Prolog computer programming language.
Portability
There are Prolog implementations that are radically different, with different syntax and different semantics (e.g. Visual Prolog) and sub-communities have developed around different implementations.
Code that strictly conforms to the ISO-Prolog core language is portable across ISO-compliant implementations. However, the ISO standard for modules was never accepted by most Prolog implementors.
Factors that can adversely affect portability include: use of bounded vs. unbounded integer arithmetic, additional types such as string objects, advanced numeric types (rationals, complex), feature extensions such as Unicode, threads, and tabling. Use of libraries unavailable in other implementations and library organisation:
Currently, the way predicates are spread over the libraries and system built-ins differs enormously. [...] Fortunately, there are only few cases where we find predicates with the same name but different semantics (e.g. delete/3)
Main features
Operating system and web-related features
Static analysis
Optimizations
Release
Benchmarks
Benchmarking issues: Odd Prolog benchmarking, Performance differences.
Benchmarking software: older, Dobry, Aquarius benchmark suite, (Bothe, 1990), (Demoen et al. 2001), benchmark descriptions
Benchmarking results: B-Prolog, SICStus, XSB, SICStus vs Yap vs
Benchmarking results: Survey of java prolog engines by Michael Zeising
Benchmarking results: OpenRuleBench yearly open-source benchmark of rule engines
Notes
References
External links
Overview of Prolog Systems by Ulrich Neumerkel
Conformity assessment I: Syntax
Prolog programming language family
Software comparisons |
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