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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20linear%20transformation | Direct linear transformation (DLT) is an algorithm which solves a set of variables from a set of similarity relations:
for
where and are known vectors, denotes equality up to an unknown scalar multiplication, and is a matrix (or linear transformation) which contains the unknowns to be solved.
This type of relation appears frequently in projective geometry. Practical examples include the relation between 3D points in a scene and their projection onto the image plane of a pinhole camera, and homographies.
Introduction
An ordinary system of linear equations
for
can be solved, for example, by rewriting it as a matrix equation where matrices and contain the vectors and in their respective columns. Given that there exists a unique solution, it is given by
Solutions can also be described in the case that the equations are over or under determined.
What makes the direct linear transformation problem distinct from the above standard case is the fact that the left and right sides of the defining equation can differ by an unknown multiplicative factor which is dependent on k. As a consequence, cannot be computed as in the standard case. Instead, the similarity relations are rewritten as proper linear homogeneous equations which then can be solved by a standard method. The combination of rewriting the similarity equations as homogeneous linear equations and solving them by standard methods is referred to as a direct linear transformation algorithm or DLT algorithm. DLT is attributed to Ivan Sutherland.
Example
Suppose that . Let and be two known vectors, and we want to find the matrix such that
where is the unknown scalar factor related to equation k.
To get rid of the unknown scalars and obtain homogeneous equations, define the anti-symmetric matrix
and multiply both sides of the equation with from the left
Since the following homogeneous equations, which no longer contain the unknown scalars, are at hand
In order to solve from this set of equations, consider the elements of the vectors and and matrix :
, , and
and the above homogeneous equation becomes
for
This can also be written in the matrix form:
for
where and both are 6-dimensional vectors defined as
and
So far, we have 1 equation and 6 unknowns. A set of homogeneous equations can be written in the matrix form
where is a matrix which holds the known vectors in its rows. The unknown can be determined, for example, by a singular value decomposition of ; is a right singular vector of corresponding to a singular value that equals zero. Once has been determined, the elements of matrix can rearranged from vector . Notice that the scaling of or is not important (except that it must be non-zero) since the defining equations already allow for unknown scaling.
In practice the vectors and may contain noise which means that the similarity equations are only approximately valid. As a consequence, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20city | A smart city is a technologically modern urban area that uses different types of electronic methods and sensors to collect specific data. Information gained from that data is used to manage assets, resources and services efficiently; in return, that data is used to improve operations across the city. This includes data collected from citizens, devices, buildings and assets that is processed and analyzed to monitor and manage traffic and transportation systems, power plants, utilities, urban forestry, water supply networks, waste, criminal investigations, information systems, schools, libraries, hospitals, and other community services. Smart cities are defined as smart both in the ways in which their governments harness technology as well as in how they monitor, analyze, plan, and govern the city. In smart cities, the sharing of data is not limited to the city itself but also includes businesses, citizens and other third parties that can benefit from various uses of that data. Sharing data from different systems and sectors creates opportunities for increased understanding and economic benefits.
The smart city concept integrates information and communication technology ('ICT'), and various physical devices connected to the Internet of things ('IoT') network to optimize the efficiency of city operations and services and connect to citizens. Smart city technology allows city officials to interact directly with both community and city infrastructure and to monitor what is happening in the city and how the city is evolving. ICT is used to enhance quality, performance and interactivity of urban services, to reduce costs and resource consumption and to increase contact between citizens and government. Smart city applications are developed to manage urban flows and allow for real-time responses. A smart city may therefore be more prepared to respond to challenges than one with a conventional "transactional" relationship with its citizens. Yet, the term itself remains unclear in its specifics and therefore, open to many interpretations. Many cities have already adopted some sort of smart city technology.
Terminology
Due to the breadth of technologies that have been implemented under the smart city label, it is difficult to distill a precise definition of a smart city. Deakin and Al Waer list four factors that contribute to the definition of a smart city:
The application of a wide range of electronic and digital technologies to communities and cities.
The use of ICT to transform life and working environments within the region.
The embedding of such Information and Communications Technologies in government systems.
The territorialisation of practices that brings ICT and people together to enhance the innovation and knowledge that they offer.
Deakin defines the smart city as one that utilizes ICT to meet the demands of the market (the citizens of the city), and states that community involvement in the process is necessary for a smart city. A smart ci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confess%20%28film%29 | Confess is a 2005 American independent feature film written and directed by Stefan Schaefer.
Plot
Terroll Lessor, a computer genius in an unpleasant job, decides to use his skills against reprehensible parts of society. Along with his girlfriend, played by Ali Larter, he gains embarrassing information on people whom he believes to be immoral and exposes this information to the public. This garners the attention of police and people who wish him harm, and results in copy-cat crimes by others who admire him.
Cast
Festivals and distribution
Confess had its world premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival, where Stefan Schaefer won the Best Screenwriter award. It also screened at Method Fest Independent Film Festival, where Eugene Byrd won the Break-Out Acting Award, as well as markets in Berlin, Cannes and Hong Kong.
The film was produced by Ben Odell and Jonathan Stern of Centrifugal Films, in association with Cicala Filmworks. The film is distributed by New Films International and MTI.
External links
Official Website
2005 films
2005 thriller films
American independent films
Films directed by Stefan Schaefer
American thriller films
2005 independent films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear%20Bovver | Bear Bovver is a platform game written by Jon Ritman for the ZX Spectrum and published in 1983 by Artic Computing. A Commodore 64 port was released in 1984. Bear Bovver is a BurgerTime clone, where batteries take the place of the burger ingredients.
Gameplay
Ted's Sinclair electric truck has broken down and needs new batteries. Ted must climb up the scaffolding and collect the batteries for his electric car. However, there are bovver bears around the site and if they get near, they will capture him. To get rid of them, Ted must use time bombs that are scattered around the site. Once all the batteries for the car he been collected, the player moves on to the next level.
The game also includes "Baby Bear Mode" in which a player can collect batteries and move around the site without ever getting captured.
Development
After seeing BurgerTime and hearing that Sinclair were talking about the release of an electric car, Jon Ritman decided to combine the concepts to create Bear Bovver. He began to use a more complex development system, joining 2 Spectrums and 3 Microdrives. He developed on one Spectrum and tested the game on the other. This allowed the games being developed to be larger. It was published by Artic Computing for the ZX Spectrum in 1983 and 1984 for the Commodore 64.
Reception
Bear Bovver received generally positive reception. Crash! staff praised the animation and sound, as well as calling the game "very enjoyable and addictive." Sinclair User called the premise "brilliant," and stated that it would likely stand among players' top 10 ZX Spectrum games. Computer and Video Games felt it was a good fit for younger players, especially thanks to its practice mode.
References
External links
1983 video games
Artic Computing games
Commodore 64 games
Platformers
Single-player video games
Video game clones
Video games about bears
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canny | Canny is the surname of:
John Canny, American computer scientist, namesake of the Canny edge detector
Nicholas Canny (born 1944), Irish historian
Paddy Canny (1919–2008), Irish fiddler
Steven Canny (born 1969), English playwright and BBC executive producer
See also
Canny edge detector, an image operator which uses a multi-stage algorithm to detect edges
Uncanny |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agonoize | Agonoize is a German aggrotech band consisting of Mike Johnson (composition, programming, production and mastering), Oliver Senger (composition and programming) and Chris L (lyrics and vocals). The band's 2005 EP, Evil Gets an Upgrade, peaked at #4 on the German Alternative Charts (DAC) and ranked #69 on the DAC Top Singles for 2005. The double CD 999 peaked at #3 on the DAC, ranking #19 on the DAC Top 50 Albums of 2006.
History
Established in late 2002, their first concert was on April 11, 2004.
Discography
Paranoid Destruction EP (BLC Productions, 2003)
Assimilation: Chapter One CD (BLC Productions, 2004)
Open The Gate To Paradise EP (BLC Productions, 2004)
999 2CD (Out of Line Music, 2005)
Evil Gets an Upgrade EP (Out of Line Music, 2005)
Assimilation: Chapter Two (Out of Line Music, 2006) - reissue of 'Assimilation' with bonus CD
Ultraviolent Six EP (Out of Line Music, 2006)
Sieben 2CD (Out Of Line Music, 2007) (a 3CD edition was issued titled 'Sieben (Maximum Permissible Dose)
For The Sick And Disturbed EP (Out of Line Music, 2008)
Bis Das Blut Gefriert EP (Out of Line Music, 2009)
Hexakosioihexekontahexa (Out of Line Music, 2009)
Wahre Liebe (2012)
Apokalypse EP (2014)
Apokalypse (2014)
Midget Vampire Porn (2019)
Revelation Six Six Sick (2021)
Remixing appearances
2003
Infekktion - Try To Believe
2004
Schattenschlag - Nekromantik
Beta - Darkness (Agonoize Remix)
Dunkelwerk - Die Sechste Armee
2005
Suicide Commando - Menschenfresser
Grendel - Soilbleed
2006
Distorted Reality - Never Change
Dioxyde - Invasive Therapy
2007
Suicide Commando - Hellraiser
2009
Oomph! - Labyrinth (Agonize Remix)
2010
Megaherz - Loblieder - Dein Herz Schlagt (Agonize Remix)
Ashbury Heights - Die By Numbers (Agonoize Remix)
References
German electronic music groups
Electro-industrial music groups
German industrial music groups
2002 establishments in Germany
Musical groups established in 2002
Musical groups from Berlin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20Computing%20Group | Chemical Computing Group is a software company specializing in research software for computational chemistry, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, docking, pharmacophore searching and molecular simulation. The company's main customer base consists of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as academic research groups. It is a private company that was founded in 1994; it is based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its main product, Molecular Operating Environment (MOE), is written in a self-contained programming system, the Scientific Vector Language (SVL).
Products
MOE (Molecular Operating Environment)
MOE is a drug discovery software platform that integrates visualization, modeling, and simulations, as well as methodology development. MOE scientific applications are used by biologists, medicinal chemists and computational chemists in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic research. MOE runs on Windows, Linux, Unix, and MAC OS X.
Main application areas: Structure-Based Design, Fragment-Based Design, Pharmacophore Discovery, Medicinal Chemistry Applications, Biologics Applications, Protein and Antibody Modeling, Molecular Modeling and Simulations, Cheminformatics & QSAR
PSILO: A Protein Structure Database System
PSILO is a protein structure database system that provides a repository for macromolecular and protein-ligand structural information. It allows research organizations to track, register and search both experimental and computational macromolecular structural data. A web-browser interface facilitates the searching and accessing of public and private structural data.
See also
Other institutions developing software for computational chemistry:
Accelrys
BioSolveIT
Cresset Biomolecular Discovery
Desert Scientific Software
Inte:Ligand
MolSoft
OpenEye Scientific Software
Pharmacelera
Schrödinger
VLifeMDS Software
NovaMechanics Ltd Cheminformatics Solutions
References
External links
Excellence Award for student posters at ACS National Meetings
Review of MOE 2005.06
Molecular fingerprints in MOE
Discussion of Binary QSAR: Jürgen Bajorath (2004), Chemoinformatics: Concepts, Methods, and Tools for Drug Discovery page 92
Research support companies
Software companies of Canada
Companies based in Montreal
Molecular modelling software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20Vector%20Language | SVL or Scientific Vector Language is a programming language created by Chemical Computing Group. It was first released in 1994. SVL is the built-in command, scripting and application development language of MOE. It is a "chemistry aware" computer programming language with over 1,000 specific functions for analyzing and manipulating chemical structures and related molecular objects. SVL is a concise, high-level language whose programs are typically 10 times smaller than their equivalent when compared to C or Fortran. SVL source code is compiled to a "byte code" representation, which is then executed by the base run-time environment making SVL programs inherently portable across different computer hardware and operating systems.
References
External links
Programming with SVL Vectors
Chemical Computing Group SVL Exchange
Overview of SVL from Scientific Computing World
Programming languages
Research support companies
Software companies of Canada
Software companies established in 1994
Canadian companies established in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement%20Living%20TV | RLTV (previously known as Retirement Living TV) was an American cable television network.
Launched on September 5, 2006, the channel targeted a demographic aged 50 years and older. Its topics and programs included health and wellness, finance, travel, lifestyle, reinvention, as well as scripted comedy and drama in its cable era. The network is owned by Retirement Living TV, LLC and is based in Baltimore. At its peak, RLTV was available in 29 million homes in the US.
In October 2017, The E. W. Scripps Company purchased RLTV's carriage contracts and replaced RLTV with Newsy.
History
RLTV was founded by John C. Erickson, CEO and Chairman of Erickson Retirement Communities, a privately held company based in Baltimore, Maryland, and founded in 1983. Comcast was an early investor in the network. RLTV hired Gerontologist Alexis Abramson, PhD. and her team of researchers including Dr. Marsha Riggio to hone and support their marketing and programming strategy.
RLTV sponsored the Daytona 500 car of NASCAR veteran, 64-year-old James Hylton, and produced the documentary Yellow Mountain Road: The James Hylton Story.
On April 16, 2007, RLTV signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Canadian media company S-VOX. Under the terms of the deal, content from RLTV airs on One and VisionTV. In addition, the two broadcasters co-produced original programming that aired on S-VOX networks.
In 2017, Retirement Living TV, LLC announced the network would wind down operations as a traditional network, a process that ended around December 31 of that year. At the time, it stated that it would continue to produce content, and launch a streaming channel for Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire TV the next year. The E. W. Scripps Company purchased RLTV's transponder space and began using the channel space for Newsy, its theretofore online-only news channel. The online version of the network never launched, and as of 2021, the network's website is offline. Newsy itself pursued a new distribution model and ended distribution over the former RLTV space on June 30, 2021.
Programming
RLTV aired programs hosted by journalist Jean Chatzky, sex therapist and author Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Lea Thompson, and Dr. Kevin Soden. John Palmer and Florence Henderson were both also hosts until their deaths, in 2013 and 2016 respectively.
In 2007, Daily Café launched as a 2-hour, live daily show airing at Noon on weekdays – a current affairs and lifestyle news show hosted by Felicia Taylor, Bobbie Batista, Mary Alice Williams and Sandra Pinckney with live news inserts produced by NBC News. It was produced live out of Reuters Studios in Washington, D.C.
RLTV documented the last on-air footage of Walter Cronkite in the form of a series of editorials known as the "Cronkite Chronicles".
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
Old age in the United States
Defunct television networks in the United S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20access%20control | Basic access control (BAC) is a mechanism specified to ensure only authorized parties can wirelessly read personal information from passports with an RFID chip. It uses data such as the passport number, date of birth and expiration date to negotiate a session key. This key can then be used to encrypt the communication between the passports chip and a reading device. This mechanism is intended to ensure that the owner of a passport can decide who can read the electronic contents of the passport. This mechanism was first introduced into the German passport on 1 November 2005 and is now also used in many other countries (e.g., United States passports since August 2007).
Inner workings
The data used to encrypt the BAC communication can be read electronically from the bottom of the passport called the machine readable zone. Because physical access to the passport is assumed to be needed to know this part of the passport it is assumed that the owner of the passport has given permission to read the passport. Equipment for optically scanning this part of the passport is already widely used. It uses an OCR system to read the text which is printed in a standardized format.
Security
There is a replay attack against the basic access control protocol that allows an individual passport to be traced. The attack is based on being able to distinguish a failed nonce check from a failed MAC check and works against passports with randomized unique identifiers and hard to guess keys.
The basic access control mechanism has been criticized as offering too little protection from unauthorized interception. Researchers claim that because there are only limited numbers of passport issued, many theoretically possible passport numbers will not be in use in practice. The limited range of human age ranges further reduce the space of possibilities.
In other words, the data used as an encryption key has low entropy, meaning that guessing the session key is possible via a modest brute force attack.
This effect increases when passport numbers are issued sequentially or contain a redundant checksum. Both are proven to be the case in passports issued by the Netherlands . There are other factors that can be potentially used to speed up a brute force attack. There is the fact that dates of birth are typically not distributed randomly in populations. Dates of birth may be distributed even less randomly for the segments of a population that pass, for example, a check-in desk at an airport. And the fact that passports are often not issued on all days of the week and during all weeks of a year. Therefore, not all theoretically possible expiration dates may get used. In addition, the fact that real existing dates are used further limits the number of possible combinations: The month makes up two of the digits used for generating the key. Usually, two digits would mean 100 (00−99) combinations in decimal code or (36×36=1296) combinations in alphanumeric code. But as there are only |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20enough%20operating%20system | Just enough operating system (JeOS, pronounced "juice" according to SUSE) is a paradigm for customizing operating systems to fit the needs of a particular application such as for a software appliance. The platform only includes the operating system components required to support a particular application and any other third-party components contained in the appliance (e.g., the kernel). This makes the appliance smaller, faster (to boot and to execute the particular application) and potentially more secure than an application running under a full general-purpose OS.
Common implementations
Typically, a JeOS will consist of the following:
JeOS media (OS core [kernel, virtual drives, login])
OS minimum maintenance tools
Minimum user space tools
Packages repository (DVD or network based)
It is important to differentiate between true fully minimalized OS install profiles forced, for example, with security hardening tools or representing Recovery Console images and JeOS richer install profiles which are designed and built for wider audience usage, so VM/VA creators and their users can easily perform needed installation or configuration tasks.
Differences between minimialist, lightweight and appliance
Light-weight Linux distribution
minimalist e.g. Porteus (operating system)
See also
BareMetal
Container Linux (discontinued)
OpenELEC (JeOS software appliance with Kodi Media Center)
LibreELEC (JeOS software appliance with Kodi Media Center)
Ubuntu JeOS
Containerization (computing) (modern retake on JeOS)
References
External links
JeOS (Just Enough Operating System)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 JeOS
Operating systems
Software appliances |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Conte | Thomas Martin Conte (born 1964) is the Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing; and, since 2011, also Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (joint appointed) at Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering. He is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He served as the president of the IEEE Computer Society in 2015.
Biography
Conte received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree in 1986 from the University of Delaware, his Master of Science in electrical engineering in 1988 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and his Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering in 1992 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He started his career as an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina. In 1995, Conte moved to North Carolina State University (in Raleigh, North Carolina), where he was an assistant professor (1995–1998), then an associate professor (1998–2002), and finally a full professor of electrical and computer engineering (2003–2008). During the summer of 2008 Conte moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and took his current position as a joint full professor of computer science in the College of Computing and Electrical & Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Somewhere in there (2000–2001) he took a short detour to DSP startup BOPS, inc. to serve as a manager of their back and compiler group and "chief microarchitect" (because they already had a "chief architect").
In 2004, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign awarded Conte its Young Alumni Achievement Award.
Conte currently directs several Ph.D. students in topics ranging from compiler design to advanced microarchitectures. His research is or has been supported by DARPA, Compaq (formerly Digital), Hewlett-Packard (formerly Compaq), IBM, Intel, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Sun, NASA, and the National Science Foundation.
Conte is best known for contributions to the fields of compiler code generation, computer architecture and computer performance evaluation.
In 2014 Dr. Conte was elected to be the 2015 President of the IEEE Computer Society.
Academic contributions
Computer architecture
Conte realized in the early 1990s that Flynn's prediction of the fetch bandwidth being the limit to increasing instruction-level parallelism was coming true. His oft-cited International Symposium on Computer Architecture paper and subsequent work on instruction fetch mechanisms have influenced industry and spawned much follow-on research. More recently, Conte and his Ph.D. students invented a technique to predict data values with very high (~90%) accuracy and showed how predicting data values can be used to scale the memory wall by enabling aggressive prefetching. The work is of great interest to industry design teams who are struggli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MST%20Workshop | The MST Workshop (short for Math Science and Technology Workshop) is an interactive computer programming language. It has hundreds of components that can be dragged on to the workspace and connected by wires or snapping them together. The workspace immediately solves the equations created and displays the results. MST Workshop is useful for creating animation in 2D and 3D.
MST Workshop uses components to process data. These components are connected when their terminals touch or when a virtual wire is connected between them. The interactive nature becomes apparent when components are connected. Components calculate in real time. Certain components that require a time frame can be started and stopped by buttons in the toolbar. Examples of time dependent components are the timer, oneshot, and the integration-over-time component.
MST Workshop is available for Windows computers and as an app for iPhone and iPad and for Android devices at the Amazon Appstore.
External links
MST Workshop - Original Windows Version on C.Net
MSTWorkshop.com - Latest Windows Version and Helpful videos and examples
Visual programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Fairfax | The University of Fairfax is an institution of higher education headquartered in Salem, Virginia. It offers online graduate degrees (Masters and Doctorates) in cybersecurity, cloud computing, computer science and engineering, and business as well as several graduate certificates. The entire program is provided via instructor led conference calls and online instruction.
The Certification Training Center for Continuing Professional Education was established to support the continuing professional education needs of students and alumni. Through this center, the University provides support by co-sponsoring information security certification training and provides complimentary online tools to aid in preparing for the CISSP and CISM certification exam. Partnership with Cyber Security Forum Initiative in 2014 enabled professionals to receive graduate credit towards a Master of Science in Information Assurance or doctoral degree in cybersecurity.
University of Fairfax is accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC), an accrediting commission recognized by the United States Department of Education.
History
The University of Fairfax was founded by the non-profit Potomac Education Foundation in 2002. The institution received approval from Virginia authorities in 2002 and started classes in 2003. Virginia regulations allow new institutions to operate for up to 10 years while seeking accreditation with an accreditor recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Before attaining full accreditation in 2012, it had approval to operate from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia as a non-accredited university.
Along with the Northern Virginia Technology Council and the Professional Services Council, the University cosponsored a conference on the shortage of cleared information security professionals in January 2003, highlighting the national need. This conference generated support for the University from employers including Accenture, Northrop Grumman, Ernst & Young, and SAIC.
The University enrolled its first cohort of graduate students from the Washington metropolitan area in July 2003, and initiated online instructional delivery via the eCollege platform in April 2004.
The first graduates of the University of Fairfax earned their Master of Science degrees in October 2004; the University awarded its first doctoral degrees in February 2007.
In November 2007 Fairfax announced that beginning in January 2008 it would collaborate with Jones International University's School of Business to offer a dual degree program leading to both a master's or doctoral degree from Fairfax and a Master of Business Administration in Information Security Management from Jones International.
Its first president was Dr. Victor Berlin, an educator who earlier had operated or established three other post-secondary educational institutions. The university was established for the purpose of assuring a supply of qualified information security p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Zhixing%20Hu | Larry Zhixing Hu was awarded minor planet name 18739 Larryhu during the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Cleveland, Ohio for his grand award-winning computer science team project named "A Liquid-based Thermoelectric Application for Processor Architecture Scalability". The year prior, Larry was a member of the first team to be sent to ISEF from the state of Alabama.
Hu was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his computer science team project. He attended the UMS Wright Preparatory School, Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A.
He graduated from the University of Washington with his Computer Information Science capstone entitled "An Explorative Study in Scalable Information Technology Applications" that contemplated the growth of computing power with respect to Moore's Law and Ray Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns .
He currently lives in Seattle, Washington, works at Microsoft in the Office 365 team as a Systems and DevOps Engineer.
External links
LINEAR Winners 2003, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Science Service, 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, Project CS312
The Law of Accelerating Returns by Ray Kurzweil
Notes
Larryhu Discovered 1998 Sept. 26 by MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Near-Earth Asteroid Research program.
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gomer%20Pyle%2C%20U.S.M.C.%20characters | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American television situation comedy that was originally broadcast from 1964 to 1969 on the CBS network. It focused on Gomer Pyle, a naïve but good-hearted private in the United States Marine Corps who served in a non-combat role while stationed stateside. The plots of the episodes often grew out of the contentious relationship between Pyle and his stern NCO, Sergeant Carter.
Private First Class Gomer Pyle
Portrayed by Jim Nabors
Ribbons of Decoration Worn By PFC Gomer Pyle
USMC Good Conduct
National Defense Service
Private First Class Gomer Pyle is the main character throughout the series. Pyle also wears the USMC Expert Rifle badge.
Gunnery Sergeant Carter
Portrayed by Frank Sutton
Gunnery sergeant Vincent J. Carter is Gomer's stern, yet soft at heart (as shown in "Cold Nose, Warm Heart" (season 3, episode 10)), drill instructor and later, his platoon sergeant. He was born on May 4, 1928, and raised in Wichita, Kansas, in a town not far from Leavenworth. Carter takes his role very seriously, as evidenced by the stripes he's earned (and is sometimes obsessed with) over the years. Carter is forever exasperated by Gomer's ineptitude and refusal to surrender his naïve point of view and would like nothing better than to see Gomer transferred. He is always referred to as "Sergeant Carter," although under actual U.S. Marine Corps protocol, he would be addressed as “Gunnery Sergeant Carter" or the informal "Gunny Carter". In the episode, "How to Succeed in Farming Without Really Trying," Carter does specify his correct rank.
There seems to be some inconsistency concerning Carter's age and time in the Marine Corps. By the beginning of the series, Carter had been in the Marine Corps for 16 years, which means he would have entered the service in 1948, when he would have been about 20. However, he wears the World War II Victory ribbon which was awarded to the Armed Forces through Dec. 31, 1946. In the episode "Old Man Carter" (season 1, episode 23), aired on 26 February 1965, he is said to be 35 years old. However, at the end of the show, Gomer discovers Carter subtracted incorrectly and was actually 36 years old, and not 35 as he believed. Carter also reveals to his men he joined the Marines in 1946. Therefore, his time in the service by 1965 would have been between 18 and 19 years. This would put him at the age of 18 when he joined. In the second episode he reveals that he has earned five Good Conduct medals, was cited for bravery in Korea and has had three honor platoons in a row. In "Come Blow Your Top" (Season 5, Episode 9), it is revealed Carter owns a sword from an enemy officer which he stated he captured at the Battle of Inchon (1950). At that time he was a corporal. (Later in that episode, though, he admits he won the sword in a card game while at Inchon.) In "A Tattoo for Gomer" (Season 5, Episode 15), Carter reveals he was with the 7th Fleet in Korea where he got his Semper Fidelis tattoo (upper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorttail%20fanskate | The shorttail fanskate (Sympterygia brevicaudata) is a species of fish in the family Arhynchobatidae. It is found in the western Pacific Ocean off Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is shallow seas.
Sources
Sympterygia
Fish described in 1877
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Momentum | Real Momentum is the name of a documentary series on the Logo network.
Documentaries in the Real Momentum series vary in length and style, and are mix of original Logo-produced documentaries, co-productions, and acquired documentaries.
The series launched with the channel on June 30, 2005; the first program to broadcast on the channel was the Logo-produced Real Momentum documentary titled The Evolution Will Be Televised, which followed the history of LGBT images in the media.
In addition to broadcasting on the Logo channel, the Real Momentum documentary series broadcasts on the Logo On Demand service, on LOGOonline.com, and can be purchased through download to own services such as iTunes.
Season One Documentaries
The Evolution Will Be Televised [6/30/2005]
Go Dragons! A Rugby Story [7/9/2005]
Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House [7/16/2005]
Trembling Before G-d [7/23/2005]
Gidyup! On the Rodeo Circuit [7/30/2005]
Latino Beginnings [8/6/2005]
The Brandon Teena Story
Paragraph 175
Forbidden Love, The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
Raising Teens
Farm Family: In Search of Gay Life in Rural America
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Hip Hop Homos
Daddy and Papa
The Celluloid Closet
Out in Nature: Homosexual Behaviour in the Animal Kingdom
The Two Cubas [10/29/2005]
Butch Mystique
Power Lesbians
The Cockettes
Season Two Documentaries
Curl Girls [1/2/2006]
Bachelor Farmer
Let's Get Frank
Paris Is Burning
Beautiful Daughters [2/11/2006]
The Aggressives
100% Woman
The Opposite Sex: Rene's Story
The Opposite Sex: Jamie's Story
When Ocean Meets Sky
Elephant In The Room [6/23/2006]
Jumpin' the Broom
No Dumb Questions
Same Sex America
Gender Rebel
Little Man
Pick Up the Mic
The Lost Tribe
Gay Siblings [11/19/2006]
Season Three Documentaries
Southern Comfort
Love Lessons [2/4/2007]
Reporter Zero
For the Love of Dolly
Freddie Mercury: Magic Remixed
Season Four Documentaries
Small Town Gay Bar
Camp Out
On The Downlow
The Believers
Real Momentum Shorts
Bisexual Girls
Rock the Boat
My Mums Used to Be Men
External links
Official Series Page
2005 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
2000s American documentary television series
2000s American LGBT-related television series
Documentaries about LGBT topics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny%20Mehta | Sunny Mehta (born April 7, 1978, in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American hockey executive, data scientist, and former professional poker player, writer, options trader, and musician. Currently the Assistant General Manager and Head of Analytics for the Florida Panthers, he pioneered the first full-time analytics department in the National Hockey League as Director of Hockey Analytics for the New Jersey Devils. He is co-author of two bestselling poker strategy books.
Biography
Mehta grew up in Wyckoff, New Jersey, and graduated from Ramapo High School, where he played varsity ice hockey. He studied Jazz Guitar and Studio Music at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, and then moved to New Orleans, Louisiana to perform and record with various local acts. He later worked as a derivatives trader at the Chicago Board of Trade, and received a Master's in Data Science from the City University of New York.
Career
Poker
Mehta began playing poker as a hobby in 2003, and by 2004 was playing professionally in high-stakes no-limit Texas hold 'em games. After moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2005 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he met poker author Ed Miller and publisher Mason Malmuth. Mehta and Miller, along with poker player Matt Flynn, co-authored "Professional No-Limit Hold 'em: Volume I", which was released by Malmuth's Two Plus Two Publishing in 2007. The book immediately became the #1 gambling and poker book on Amazon's bestseller list.
The author team of Mehta, Miller, and Flynn left Two Plus Two to self-publish their highly anticipated second book, "Small Stakes No-Limit Hold'em", which was released in 2009.
Hockey
Mehta went on to do statistical analysis of National Hockey League hockey games, and he published articles about it. He was hired by the New Jersey Devils in 2014 to serve as Director of Hockey Analytics and start the first full-time analytics department in the NHL. He has additionally consulted for the Phoenix Coyotes and Washington Capitals, as well as six Major League Baseball teams.
Mehta was hired by the Florida Panthers in 2020 as Vice President of Hockey Strategy and Intelligence, and he was promoted to Assistant General Manager and Head of Analytics in 2023.
Accomplishments
13th place in the 2006 World Poker Open $1,500 Buy-In No-Limit Hold 'em Event
References
External links
Sunny Mehta Official Site
Small Stakes No-Limit Hold'em Official Site
1978 births
American gambling writers
American male writers of Indian descent
American poker players
Living people
People from Wyckoff, New Jersey
Ramapo High School (New Jersey) alumni
University of Miami Frost School of Music alumni
American male non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachygalaxias%20bullocki | Brachygalaxias bullocki (known locally as puye) is a species of fish in the family Galaxiidae endemic to Chile. It was listed as Vulnerable since 1994 until changed to Data Deficient in 1996.
References
Brachygalaxias
Freshwater fish of Chile
Taxa named by Charles Tate Regan
Fish described in 1908
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Endemic fauna of Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banahaw%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | The Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was a Philippine television network that began operations on November 4, 1973, and ceased transmission on March 20, 1986.
The network was well-remembered for its theme song, "Big Beautiful Country", composed by José Mari Chan and sung by Chan with Basil Valdez, Tillie Moreno, Alice Bell and Nonong Pedero.
History
Following the declaration of Martial Law in September 1972, ABS-CBN Corporation's frequencies and facilities were seized by the government.
In June 1973, Roberto Benedicto, a crony of then-President Ferdinand Marcos and owner of the Kanlaon Broadcasting System (KBS), took over the ABS-CBN frequencies and facilities in Quezon City. Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation was established to take over DZAQ-TV 2. Upon commencement of operations, the callsign DZAQ-TV 2 was changed to DWWX-TV 2 (BBC-2), complementing its new sister radio stations DWWK 101.9 FM and DWWA 1160 AM. DZXL-TV 4 was appropriated to the Philippine government to become GTV-4 in 1974. Both stations as well as KBS' DZKB-TV 9 (later RPN-9) shared the use of the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center (renamed Broadcast Plaza during the Martial Law era).
By December 1973, the network also operated DYCB-TV 3 in Cebu and DYXL-TV 4 in Bacolod, both originally owned by ABS-CBN. Their call signs were also changed to DYCW-TV and DYBW-TV, respectively. The Cebu and Bacolod stations switched affiliations to GTV (Government Television; later the Maharlika Broadcasting System) in 1978 and reverted to their original call letters respectively.
In 1978, BBC-2 and RPN-9 would relocate from Broadcast Plaza to Benedicto's new Broadcast City complex, along with IBC-13 (Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation) (originally from San Juan) which was also controlled by Benedicto. GTV-4 would remain in Broadcast Plaza and became MBS-4 (Maharlika Broadcasting System) in 1980.
BBC-2 was rebranded as City 2 Television from 1980 to 1984 when it reverted back to BBC-2. City 2 was the first in the Philippines to incorporate computer-generated graphics using the Scanimate system for its station identity and promo spots, followed only by RPN in 1981. Beginning in 1983, BBC-2 trailblazed another first, as it became the first-ever television network to broadcast 24 hours every Fridays and Saturdays.
At the height of the People Power Revolution in 1986, the operations of the Benedicto networks were halted after reformist soldiers disabled the transmitter that was broadcasting Marcos' inauguration from Malacañang Palace. Upon Corazón C. Aquino's subsequent accession to the presidency, BBC, RPN, IBC and the Broadcast City complex were sequestered by the new government and placed under the management of a Board of Administrators tasked to operate and manage its business and affairs subject to the control and supervision of Presidential Commission on Good Government.
BBC ended its operations on March 20, 1986. The Presidential Commission on Good Government approved the return of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe%202 | Europe 2 is a French private musical category D radio (category C for local stations). The whole works like a broadcasting network, the local antennas broadcasting a program during the pick-up, and the national program the rest of the time. Virgin Radio has been the new name for Europe 2 from January 1, 2008 to January 1, 2023.
Europe 2 broadcasts singles and songs by rock & pop artists. Classified in the category of contemporary adult radios and primarily targets young adults.
History (2007 to 2014 and 2017 to 2020)
Year 2007
It was on July 17, 2007, that the CSA accepted the name change from Europe 2 to Virgin Radio. Lagardère Active, owner of the radio and TV station, has undertaken not to broadcast any advertising messages for other products of the Virgin group, nor to refer to them during broadcasts. This request was first contested in court by the radios NRJ and Skyrock but their request was rejected.
Year 2008
On January 1, 2008 at midnight, following the Happy Rock Hours, the best of 2007 show, Europe 2 officially became Virgin Radio after the broadcast of a brief history retracing the history of Europe 2, and the top launch times announced by Richard Branson. To inaugurate this new station, DJ Zebra hosted the first 6 hours of the air. The rest of the program schedule is almost identical to that of Europe 2.
In July 2008, Virgin Radio is managed by Jean-Christophe Lestra (managing director of the Lagardère musical radios pole and also President of Lagardère Active Radio International) and Sam Zniber (Director of musical radios programs de Lagardère and Vice-President Programming of Lagardère Active Radio International). A few days after the radio polls concerning the period March – April 2008, on July 26, Virgin Radio decided to part with the slogan Get more.
At the start of the school year 2008, several key figures from Europe 2 leave the station. They are the animators Nagui and Manu which are replaced by Cauet, who is back on the air with Le morning de Cauet ; of the host Kash who joins NRJ to replace Bruno Guillon at the head of 6/9 and Albert after eight years spent at the two stations, also leaving for NRJ. The slogan also changes (Rock Star Music) as well as the skin. Bruno Guillon, ex du 6/9 from NRJ also arrives, with Camille Combal, on the station at the end of the afternoon. They animate "Le 17/20". Bruno Guillon therefore exchanges his place with Kash. On December 23, 2008, Éric Madelon in turn left the station, giving way to Clément, defector of the show called Talk on Fun Radio.
Year 2009
On April 29, 2009, Gaël Sanquer, defector of Fun Radio, where he held the post of head of channel and head of musical programming, was appointed director of programs for Virgin Radio.
In June 2009, Jean-Pierre Sablier and Sébastien Cauet present their last show. In the weekend of July 11 and 12, 2009, Léo Lanvin and DJ Zebra also make their last after being respectively 12 and 18 months on Virgin Radio . Between July 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feathering%20%28disambiguation%29 | Feathering may refer to:
Feathering, a technique used in computer graphics to blur edges.
Feathering, vertical justification in typesetting.
Feathering (reentry) (also feathered reentry, or shuttlecock reentry), an atmospheric reentry technique for spacecraft
Feathering (propeller), changing an aircraft or wind turbine propeller blade by angling the blades parallel to airflow
Feathering (clutch), alternately engaging and disengaging an automotive clutch
Tarring and feathering, a type of punishment of medieval and early modern times
Feathering (horse), long hair on the lower legs of some breeds of horse
Fletching an arrow or similar missile
See also
Feather (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPN44 | UPN44 may refer to one of the following television stations in the United States formerly affiliated with UPN:
WTOG, St. Petersburg/Tampa, Florida, now affiliated with The CW Television Network (O&O)
KPYX, San Francisco, California, now affiliated with The CW Television Network (O&O)
Miami Valley Channel, Dayton, Ohio, a now-defunct cable-only station operated by CBS affiliate WHIO-TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grsync | Grsync is a graphical user interface for rsync. rsync is a differential backup and file synchronization tool widely used in Unix-like operating systems.
Grsync is developed with the GTK widget toolkit. Like rsync, Grsync is free and open-source software licensed under the GNU General Public License.
About
Rsync is a tool for creating backups in Linux systems. It supports backing up local folders, SSH tunneling, delta-only synchronization, and so on.
Grsync adds the ability to use such purposes with a graphical user interface, without rsync's need to learn a complex set of command-line arguments. In some cases, it is easier to backup files with grsync than with rsync. Since version 1.3.0, Grsync has GTK-3 compatibility.
See also
Back in Time (Linux software)
luckyBackup
References
External links
Grsync at SourceForge.net
Internet Protocol based network software
Unix network-related software
Data synchronization
Software that uses GTK |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash%20Williams | Brian "Smash" Williams is a fictional character in the NBC/DirecTV(The 101 Network) drama television series Friday Night Lights portrayed by actor Gaius Charles. He is the starting running back of the Dillon High School Panthers. Considered the most talented player on the roster after quarterback Jason Street, Smash received his nickname from his father after hitting a water heater. Smash is believed to be based on Boobie Miles from the Friday Night Lights book and film.
Williams is shown to be a jock in the beginning of the show. He starts a feud with fullback Tim Riggins, after having sex with Riggins' girlfriend Tyra Collette. After being caught taking performance-enhancing drugs, Smash begins a more mature approach to life, taking QB Matt Saracen under his wing, building a friendship with Riggins and leading the team after the devastating injury to Jason Street.
Characterization and background
Brian "Smash" Williams was born in Gatling, Texas – a fictional, predominantly Black, crime-ridden town – in the late 1980s to Michael and Corinna Williams. He grew up there before moving to Dillon, Texas after his father Michael was killed in a car accident with another woman in 1999.
Smash is portrayed as a stereotypical jock – flashy on the field and loud-mouthed off it. He thrives in the limelight and lives for the attention, constantly referring to himself in third person ("The Smash"), which both amuses and irritates his peers. He naturally assumes the role of team co-captain after Jason Street is carried off the field after being hit in the series premiere. In the hallways, he is often seen chatting with cheerleaders and is usually surrounded by friends and fellow Panthers players. Under his happy-go-lucky and sometimes brash exterior, Smash is a loyal and caring individual who tries hard to please everyone, particularly Coach Taylor, his (ex) girlfriend Waverly and mother Corinna. In season 1, he is repeatedly worried about his mother and his future, once describing himself as the family's "meal ticket" and often reminding his mother of his promise to buy her a house after playing college football and eventually going pro. Unfortunately, his desire to go into professional football as a way to lift his family out of poverty leads to his using performance-enhancing drugs, after a renowned talent scout omits him from a list of promising prospects and criticizes his size and strength. He finds himself in a moral dilemma, including lying to obtain money for the drugs, until Corinna's discovery of the drugs forces him to confess to using them. Over the remainder of his time on the show, Smash does not return to using performance-enhancing drugs. He learns to become more of a team player and support to his teammates, and to trust Coach Taylor - who eventually comes to work with Smash to ensure he can still achieve his dreams.
Storylines
Season 1
At the start of the season, Smash is introduced as one of the star players in the Dillon Panthers offen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile%20Network%20International | Smile Network International is an American non-profit, humanitarian organization that specializes in providing free surgeries for impoverished children in developing countries who are born with cleft lips and palates.
Smile Network International was founded in 2003 by American businesswoman Kim Valentini.
See also
Cleft lip and palate organisations
References
External links
Official site
Charities based in Minnesota
Health charities in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20%28operating%20system%29 | Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android is developed by a consortium of developers known as the Open Handset Alliance, though its most widely used version is primarily developed by Google. It was unveiled in November 2007, with the first commercial Android device, the HTC Dream, being launched in September 2008.
At its core, the operating system is known as Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and is free and open-source software (FOSS) primarily licensed under the Apache License. However most devices run on the proprietary Android version developed by Google, which ship with additional proprietary closed-source software pre-installed, most notably Google Mobile Services (GMS) which includes core apps such as Google Chrome, the digital distribution platform Google Play, and the associated Google Play Services development platform. Firebase Cloud Messaging is used for push notifications. While AOSP is free, the "Android" name and logo are trademarks of Google, which imposes standards to restrict the use of Android branding by "uncertified" devices outside their ecosystem.
Over 70 percent of smartphones based on Android Open Source Project run Google's ecosystem (which is known simply as Android), some with vendor-customized user interfaces and software suites, such as TouchWiz and later One UI by Samsung and HTC Sense. Competing ecosystems and forks of AOSP include Fire OS (developed by Amazon), ColorOS by Oppo, OriginOS by Vivo, MagicUI by Honor, or custom ROMs such as LineageOS.
The source code has been used to develop variants of Android on a range of other electronics, such as game consoles, digital cameras, portable media players, and PCs, each with a specialized user interface. Some well known derivatives include Android TV for televisions and Wear OS for wearables, both developed by Google. Software packages on Android, which use the APK format, are generally distributed through proprietary application stores like Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore (including for Windows 11), Samsung Galaxy Store, Huawei AppGallery, Cafe Bazaar, GetJar and Aptoide, or open source platforms like F-Droid.
Android has been the best-selling OS worldwide on smartphones since 2011 and on tablets since 2013. , it had over three billion monthly active users, the largest installed base of any operating system in the world, and , the Google Play Store featured over 3 million apps. Android 14, released on October 4, 2023, is the latest version, and the recently released Android 12.1/12L includes improvements specific to foldable phones, tablets, desktop-sized screens and Chromebooks.
History
Android Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White. Rubin described the Android project as having "tremendous potential in developing smart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiloglanis%20sp.%20nov.%20%27Kerio%27 | {{Taxobox
| name = Chiloglanis sp. nov. 'Kerio| image =
| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Actinopterygii
| ordo = Siluriformes
| familia = Mochokidae
| genus = Chiloglanis
| species = C. sp. nov. 'Kerio'| binomial = Chiloglanis sp. nov. 'Kerio| binomial_authority =
| synonyms =
}}Chiloglanis sp. nov. 'Kerio' is a species of fish in the family Mochokidae. It is endemic to Kenya. Its natural habitat is rivers.
Sources
Undescribed vertebrate species
sp. nov. 'Kerio'
Endemic freshwater fish of Kenya
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiloglanis%20sp.%20nov.%20%27Northern%20Ewaso%20Nyiro%27 | {{Taxobox
| name = Chiloglanis sp. nov. 'Northern Ewaso Nyiro| image =
| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Actinopterygii
| ordo = Siluriformes
| familia = Mochokidae
| genus = Chiloglanis
| species = C. sp. nov. 'Northern Ewaso Nyiro'| binomial = Chiloglanis sp. nov. 'Northern Ewaso Nyiro| binomial_authority =
| synonyms =
}}Chiloglanis sp. nov. 'Northern Ewaso Nyiro' is a species of fish in the family Mochokidae. It is endemic to Kenya. Its natural habitat is rivers.
Sources
Undescribed vertebrate species
sp. nov. 'Northern Ewaso Nyiro'
Endemic freshwater fish of Kenya
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciDAVis | SciDAVis (Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization) is an open-source cross-platform computer program for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis. Development started in 2007 as fork of QtiPlot, which in turn is a clone of the proprietary program Origin.
Features
SciDAVis can generate different types of 2D and 3D plots (such as line, scatter, bar, pie, and surface plots) from data that is either imported from ASCII files, entered by hand, or calculated using formulas. The data is held in spreadsheets, which are referred to as tables with column-based data (typically X and Y values for 2D plots) or matrices (for 3D plots). The spreadsheets, as well as graphs and note windows, are gathered in a project and can be organized using folders. The built-in analysis operations include column/row statistics, (de)convolution, FFT and FFT-based filters. Curve fitting can be performed with user-defined or built-in linear and nonlinear functions, including multi-peak fitting, based on the GNU Scientific Library. The plots can be exported to several bitmap formats, PDF, EPS or SVG. Note windows support in-place evaluation of mathematical expressions or an optional scripting interface to Python. The GUI of the application uses the Qt toolkit.
History
SciDAVis was founded by Tilman Benkert and Knut Franke in 2007 as a fork of QtiPlot, after disagreements arose with Ion Vasilief, the founder and main developer of the project. Franke has stated that the topics of disagreement included "design goals, management of community resources and the right way to make money from a free software project".
In 2008, developers of SciDAVis and LabPlot "found their project goals to be very similar" and "decided to start a close cooperation" with the aim of merging their code into a common backend, while maintaining "two frontends, one with full KDE4 integration (called LabPlot 2.x) and one with no KDE dependencies (pure Qt so to say) for easier cross-platform use (called SciDAVis)". This never actually happened, and 10 years later both continue to be separate parallel projects without any kind of (at least publicly available) collaboration, joint agreement or declaration/proposal, code merging, not any other way of cooperation or joint efforts. After stalled development for several years, updates to SciDAVis have resumed.
Release history
2007-08-05: Release 0.1.0
2007-12-21: Release 0.1.1
2008-02-03: Release 0.1.2
2008-04-19: Release 0.1.3
2009-02-10: Release 0.1.4
2009-02-14: Release 0.2.0
2009-03-09: Release 0.2.1
2009-04-20: Release 0.2.2
2009-07-12: Release 0.2.3
2010-03-12: Release 0.2.4
2014-01-23: Release 1.D1
2014-02-05: Release 1.D4
2014-03-21: Release 1.D5
2014-08-26: Release 1.D8
2015-11-24: Release 1.D9
2016-06-05: Release 1.D13
2016-07-29: Release 1.14
2017-06-01: Release 1.17
2017-06-21: Release 1.18
2017-07-19: Release 1.19
2017-08-09: Release 1.21
2017-10-22: Release 1.22
2018-06-04: Release 1.23
2019-03-05: Release 1.25
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Dodge%20%28composer%29 | Charles Malcolm Dodge (b. Ames, Iowa, June 5, 1942) is an American composer best known for his electronic music, specifically his computer music. He is a former student of Darius Milhaud and Gunther Schuller.
Education and teaching career
Dodge received his undergraduate education (BA) at the University of Iowa in 1964, and earned his MA (1966) and doctorate (DMA) (1970) at Columbia University. He also studied at Princeton University in 1969-70. While at Columbia, Dodge was very active at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Dodge was one of the leading innovators in the emerging field of computer music composition (as opposed to analog electronic composition, the norm in the field through the 1970s).
From 1970 to 1977 he taught at Columbia and subsequently founded the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM) (1977) at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York where he was Professor of Music. He also taught at the City University Graduate Center. During Dodge’s years as Professor of Composition and Director of the BC-CCM, Dodge not only had the BC-CCM designated as an official Center within Brooklyn College in 1978 but more importantly brought it to a world-class standing in the field of computer music.
In the early 1990s Dodge left Brooklyn College for Dartmouth College. In May 2009 he retired from the position of Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, a post he held for 18 years. In addition to his work as a composer, Dodge is noted for co-authoring the highly praised book Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance,
Best known in recent years as the owner, with his wife Katharine, of the Putney Mountain Winery in Putney, Vermont. The company has experienced growth every year since its founding in 1998.
Music
Dodge created many works in the field of computer music, including Earth’s Magnetic Field (1970), which mapped magnetic field data to musical sounds, Speech Songs, a 1974 work that used analysis and resynthesis of human voices, The Waves (voice and computer music), Profile, and Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental (1978), which combines live piano performance with a digitally-manipulated recording of Enrico Caruso singing the aria "Vesti la giubba."
Discography
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973, New World Records, 1998.
"Earth's Magnetic Field" (originally released in a longer version on Nonesuch/Elektra 71250 in 1970)
Computer Music, Nonesuch/Elektra 71245, 1970
"Changes"
Synthesized Voices, CRI SD 348, 1976.
"In Celebration"
"Speech Songs"
"The Story Of Our Lives"
Electro Acoustic Music 1, Neuma, 1990.
"Profile"
Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental, New Albion, 1994.
"Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental"
"Speech Songs"
"The Waves"
"Viola Elegy'"
The Composer in the Computer Age III, CDCM Series Volume 18, Centaur, 2006?.
"In Celebration"
References
External links
Charles Dodge page at Dartmouth College Department of Music site
in the Music Division of T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Tren%20Urbano%20stations | The Department of Transportation and Public Works of Puerto Rico operates the Tren Urbano mass transit network, serving the municipalities of San Juan, Guaynabo and Bayamón. As of 2011, the single line includes 16 stations. They serve about 40,900 passengers a day, making the Tren Urbano the twelfth-largest rapid transit system in the United States in terms of ridership.
Stations
References
Tren Urbano
Railway stations
Transportation in San Juan, Puerto Rico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcusenius%20sp.%20nov.%20%27Malindi%27 | {{Taxobox
| name = Marcusenius sp. nov. 'Malindi| image =
| status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Actinopterygii
| ordo = Osteoglossiformes
| familia = Mormyridae
| genus = Marcusenius
| species = M. sp. nov. 'Malindi'| binomial = Marcusenius sp. nov. 'Malindi| binomial_authority =
| synonyms =
}}Marcusenius sp. nov. 'Malindi' is a species of fish in the family Mormyridae. It is endemic to Kenya. Its natural habitat is rivers.
Sources
Marcusenius
Endemic freshwater fish of Kenya
Undescribed vertebrate species
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcusenius%20sp.%20nov.%20%27Turkwell%27 | {{Taxobox
| name = Marcusenius sp. nov. 'Turkwell| image =
| status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Actinopterygii
| ordo = Osteoglossiformes
| familia = Mormyridae
| genus = Marcusenius
| species = M. sp. nov. 'Turkwell'| binomial = Marcusenius sp. nov. 'Turkwell| binomial_authority =
| synonyms =
}}Marcusenius sp. nov. 'Turkwell' is a species of fish in the family Mormyridae. It is endemic to Kenya. Its natural habitat is rivers.
Sources
Marcusenius
Endemic freshwater fish of Kenya
Undescribed vertebrate species
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servants%20to%20Asia%27s%20Urban%20Poor | Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor is an international network of Christian communities living and working in the slums of Asia and the West, participating with the poor to bring hope and justice through Jesus Christ. Servants is an organic movement, body, family and community, rather than a traditional mission organization, charity, or NGO.
Servants was established by Viv Grigg, a missionary working in Manila. Over twenty-five years ago he became the first missionary in Manila to choose to live in a slum, renting a room in the squatter settlement of Tatalon. Now Servants has teams in the Philippines, Cambodia, the UK, Indonesia, Burma, Canada and two Indian cities. Servants also has sending offices in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, the UK and the Philippines.
Servants seeks to build partnerships and networks with individuals, churches, NGOs, government agencies and missions who share a similar concern for the urban poor. Servants approaches this with sensitivity, listening and learning where God is already at work in people's lives and communities, and then joining him in that work. Because Servants live and work with the poor, they have a deeper understanding of the local language and culture. Servants recognizes that the poor have resources of their own (such as ideas, skills, and energies) to contribute to transformation, and that true sustainable transformation will only come when these resources have been mobilized. Rather than building an institution, Servants aims to raise up local disciples and leaders to equip the body of Christ.
Five Principles & Five Values
Servants adheres to five principles and five values. The principles are:
Incarnation - Servants choose to intentionally live among the urban poor, sharing life with them, learning from them, and building relationships with them. They seek to discern the best way to live out Jesus love in that context.
Community - Servants work in teams that model the supportive love, care, and community demonstrated by Jesus' live. They work "with the people, not for them."
Wholism - Servants aspire to see the good news of Jesus proclaimed in word, deed and power.
"We have a God who is working to renew all things and to restore wholeness of life to individuals and communities, rich and poor alike. We work for justice, proclaim God’s grace, and lift all things to Him in prayer."
Servanthood - Servants seek to follow Jesus who came in humility ‘not to be served but to serve.’
"We empower the poor by placing control in their hands and not overpowering them with outside resources or expertise. With courage, we embrace sacrifice and suffering, share faithfully in the life of Jesus and the poor."
Simple Lifestyle - Servants commit to simplicity of life to be free to love and serve God and the poor.
"Setting aside our ‘right’ to affluence while there are still those who live in abject poverty, we desire to be a relevant yet prophetic voice in a world preoccupied with self." |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novumbra | Novumbra is a genus of mudminnows (family Umbridae) native to Oregon and Washington state, USA. Molecular data suggests that this genus is more closely related to Esox than Dallia and Umbra. Novumbra diverged from Esox roughly 65 million years ago in the Paleocene.
Species
Two species in this genus are recognized:
Novumbra hubbsi L. P. Schultz, 1929 (Olympic mudminnow)
†Novumbra oregonensis Cavender, 1969
References
Umbridae
Ray-finned fish genera
Taxa named by Leonard Peter Schultz
Fish genera with one living species |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Damages%20episodes | Damages, a legal drama television series, premiered in United States on July 24, 2007 on the cable network FX. The series, created and produced by brothers Todd and Glenn Kessler with Daniel Zelman, revolves around Patty Hewes (Glenn Close), a senior partner in New York-based law firm Hewes and Associates, and her protégée Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne). The series involves high-stakes litigation with class action lawsuits involving severe damages.
The first season of the series debuted on July 24, 2007 and consisted of thirteen episodes concluding on October 23, 2007. The second season was delayed due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, and premiered on January 7, 2009. The season, again consisting of thirteen episodes, ended on April 1, 2009. The third season premiered on January 25, 2010 and aired its finale on April 19, 2010. On July 19, 2010, DirecTV announced that, after months of negotiation, Damages would be picked up for two additional seasons consisting of ten episodes each to be aired on the Audience Network beginning in 2011.
Every episode title is a line of dialogue spoken by a character in the episode.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2007)
Season 2 (2009)
Season 3 (2010)
Season 4 (2011)
Season 5 (2012)
References
External links
Episodes
Lists of American crime drama television series episodes
Lists of legal television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachypanchax%20sp.%20nov.%20%27Analava%27 | {{Taxobox
| name = Pachypanchax sp. nov. 'Analava| image =
| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Actinopterygii
| ordo = Cyprinodontiformes
| familia = Aplocheilidae
| genus = Pachypanchax
| species = P. sp. nov. 'Analava'| binomial = Pachypanchax sp. nov. 'Analava| binomial_authority =
| synonyms =
}}Pachypanchax sp. nov. 'Analava' is a species of fish in the family Aplocheilidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is rivers.
Sources
Loiselle, P. & participants of the CBSG/ANGAP CAMP "Faune de Madagascar" workshop 2004. Pachypanchax sp. nov. 'Analava'. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 August 2007.
Pachypanchax
Freshwater fish of Madagascar
Undescribed vertebrate species
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachypanchax%20sp.%20nov.%20%27Sofia%27 | {{Taxobox
| name = Pachypanchax sp. nov. 'Sofia| image =
| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Actinopterygii
| ordo = Cyprinodontiformes
| familia = Aplocheilidae
| genus = Pachypanchax
| species = P. sp. nov. 'Sofia'| binomial = Pachypanchax sp. nov. 'Sofia| binomial_authority =
| synonyms =
}}Pachypanchax sp. nov. 'Sofia' is a species of fish in the family Aplocheilidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is rivers.
Sources
Pachypanchax
Freshwater fish of Madagascar
Undescribed vertebrate species
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachypanchax%20sp.%20nov.%20%27Tsiribihina%27 | {{Taxobox
| name = Pachypanchax sp. nov. 'Tsiribihina| image =
| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Actinopterygii
| ordo = Cyprinodontiformes
| familia = Aplocheilidae
| genus = Pachypanchax
| species = P. sp. nov. 'Tsiribihina'| binomial = Pachypanchax sp. nov. 'Tsiribihina| binomial_authority =
| synonyms =
}}Pachypanchax sp. nov. 'Tsiribihina' is a species of fish in the family Aplocheilidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is rivers.
Sources
Pachypanchax
Freshwater fish of Madagascar
Undescribed vertebrate species
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratilapia%20sp.%20nov.%20%27Fiamanga%27 | {{Taxobox
| name = Paratilapia sp. nov. 'Fiamanga| image =
| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Actinopterygii
| ordo = Perciformes
| familia = Cichlidae
| genus = Paratilapia
| species = P. sp. nov. 'Fiamanga'| binomial = Paratilapia sp. nov. 'Fiamanga| binomial_authority =
| synonyms =
}}Paratilapia sp. nov. 'Fiamanga' is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sources
Paratilapia
Freshwater fish of Madagascar
Undescribed vertebrate species
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratilapia%20sp.%20nov.%20%27Vevembe%27 | {{Taxobox
| name = Paratilapia sp. nov. 'Vevembe| image =
| status = CR | status_system = IUCN3.1
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Actinopterygii
| ordo = Perciformes
| familia = Cichlidae
| genus = Paratilapia
| species = P. sp. nov. 'Vevembe'| binomial = Paratilapia sp. nov. 'Vevembe| binomial_authority =
| synonyms =
}}Paratilapia sp. nov. 'Vevembe' is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are rivers and swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sources
Loiselle, P. & participants of the CBSG/ANGAP CAMP "Faune de Madagascar" workshop 2004. Paratilapia sp. nov. 'Vevembe'. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 August 2007.
Paratilapia
Freshwater fish of Madagascar
Undescribed vertebrate species
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotso | The kotso (Paretroplus petiti) is a species of cichlid fish from northwestern Madagascar. Currently rated as data deficient by the IUCN, this species is virtually unknown. The only known specimen is a juvenile that was collected more than 80 years ago. It is not entirely clear where it was collected, but likely from the Maintimaso River or Lake Ambanja, which both are part of the Betsiboka River drainage. Erroneously, the name P. petiti has often been applied to members of a different species, P. dambabe. The specific name honours the French zoologist and anatomist Georges Petit (1892-1973) of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, who collected type.
References
Kotso
Freshwater fish of Madagascar
Fish described in 1929
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters%20to%20Laugh-In | Letters to Laugh-In is a daytime game show and spin-off of NBC's nighttime comedy series, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, that aired on the network from September 29 to December 26, 1969. The show was hosted by Gary Owens, the announcer for Laugh-In.
Format
Home viewers mailed their jokes to the program, for which they were paid $2.00. Their jokes were read aloud by a panel of four celebrities – two of them Laugh-In regulars. Each joke was rated on a scale of minus-100 to plus-100 by a randomly selected audience panel.
"Morgul, the friendly Drelb" (who Owens always referred to on Laugh-In, but who was seen only two or three times) would hand Owens the categories for each round, in the form of a hand or puppet reaching through the top of the podium, usually with added sound effects.
The highest- and lowest-rated jokes each day won the viewers a prize. Trips were awarded for the highest-rated Joke-of-the-Week (such as a trip to Hawaii), while the lowest-rated joke-of-the-week won a trip to "beautiful downtown Burbank". A grand prize (a 1969 convertible) was awarded for the highest-rated joke of the entire 13-week run (see below).
One particularly notable joke from the program asked the question, "What's the difference between a sigh, a car, and a jackass?" When the other person answered that he didn't know, the questioner said, "A sigh is 'oh dear,' and a car is 'too dear.'" When pressed "What's a jackass?", the questioner responded, "You, dear."
The eventual Grand Prize-winning entry was a joke read by actress Jill St. John: "What do you get when you cross an elephant with a jar of peanut butter? A 500-pound sandwich that sticks to the roof of your mouth!"
Broadcast history
Letters to Laugh-In debuted on September 29, 1969 at 4:00 PM (3:00 Central). It replaced The Match Game, which had been canceled after a seven-year run in that slot. Like Match Game, Letters to Laugh-In faced the popular Dark Shadows on ABC and reruns of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. on CBS. Despite being promoted regularly on the primetime Laugh-In, Letters to Laugh-In was soundly beaten in the ratings. Unlike the Monday-night Laugh-In (which enjoyed a five-year run on NBC), Letters to Laugh-In lasted only three months before being canceled on December 26. Its replacement was Lohman & Barkley's Name Droppers, an equally short-lived game that was replaced on March 30, 1970, by the soap opera Somerset.
Episode status
One episode of Letters to Laugh-In was uploaded to YouTube in July 2012. The episode featured a celebrity panel of Jo Anne Worley, Dan Rowan, Angie Dickinson, and Jack E. Leonard.
References
External links
Letters to Laugh-In on IMDb
1960s American comedy television series
1969 American television series debuts
1969 American television series endings
1960s American comedy game shows
American panel games
English-language television shows
NBC original programming
American television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceful%20priapella | The graceful priapella (Priapella bonita), also known by its original Spanish name guayacon ojiazul, is a species of freshwater fish within the family Poeciliidae. It is considered to be data deficient. It is endemic to a small part of central Veracruz in Mexico. It has not been recorded recently and is thought most likely to be extinct, however, the IUCN states that there is an outside chance that the species clings on in a hereto unsurveyed part of its known range and so list it as Data Deficient. The American ichthyologist Seth Eugene Meek described this fish as Gambusia bonita in 1904 with the type locality given as Río Tonto at Refugio, Veracruz, Mexico. It is the type species of the genus Priapella.
References
Rodriguez, C.M., 1997. Phylogenetic analysis of the tribe Poeciliini (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae). Copeia 1997(4):663-679.
Priapella
Freshwater fish of Mexico
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Seth Eugene Meek
Fish described in 1904
Papaloapan River |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol-Feace | is a 1990 horizontal-scrolling shooter video game developed by Wolf Team and published by Telenet Japan for the Sharp X68000 computer. Versions for the Sega CD and Sega Genesis were released later on, the latter renaming the game Sol-Deace. The player takes control of the titular starship as it must prevent a malfunctioning supercomputer from enslaving all of mankind. Gameplay involves shooting down enemies and avoiding projectiles, while collecting power capsules to increase the Sol-Feace's abilities. The Sol-Feace also has dual cannons that can fire shots diagonally.
The game's soundtrack was composed by Motoi Sakuraba, who would later work on the Tales series for Namco. Alongside Micronet's Heavy Nova, it was also one of the first launch titles for Sega CD in Japan, and was made as the console pack-in game in North America. Sol-Feace was met with mixed reviews from critics, who praised its fast-paced action, graphics and soundtrack but criticized its lack of originality and subpar quality compared to other similar games on the market. Sunsoft owns the rights to Sol-Feace after their acquisition of Telenet Japan's intellectual properties in 2009.
Gameplay
Sol-Feace is a horizontal-scrolling shooter. Controlling the titular starship, the player is tasked with preventing a malfunctioning supercomputer before it enslaves all of mankind. The objective of each stage is to destroy incoming enemies and avoiding their projectiles. The Sol-Feace has a pair of dual cannons that can be modified to either point forwards, backwards or diagonally, and can be arranged parallel to each other. Shooting small capsules will leave behind power-up items that upgrade the Sol-Feace's abilities when collected — these include homing missiles, a piercing laser, and a wide shot.
The game is composed of six stages, including mechanical bases, destroyed star vessels and the planet Jupiter — each of these end with a boss fight that must be defeated in order to progress, which have a weak point that must be shot at to inflict damage. The final stage has the player fighting against the supercomputer antagonist. Between stages are animated cutscenes that help explain the game's plot, with the Sega CD release giving these full voice acting.
Development and release
Sol-Feace was originally released for the Sharp X68000 home computer on November 22, 1990. It was developed by Japanese studio Wolf Team and published by their parent company, Telenet Japan. Music for the game was composed by Motoi Sakuraba, who later helped work on the Tales series for Namco. It was ported to the Sega CD in 1991 as one of the console's first launch titles in Japan, alongside Micronet's Heavy Nova, and was made the pack-in game for the North American release — the latter version was published internationally by Sega. A Sega Genesis cartridge version was released in 1992 and published by Renovation Products, renaming the game to Sol-Deace. The rights to Sol-Feace are owned by Sunsoft, following th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative%20diversity | Cooperative diversity is a cooperative multiple antenna technique for improving or maximising total network channel capacities for any given set of bandwidths which exploits user diversity by decoding the combined signal of the relayed signal and the direct signal in wireless multihop networks. A conventional single hop system uses direct transmission where a receiver decodes the information only based on the direct signal while regarding the relayed signal as interference, whereas the cooperative diversity considers the other signal as contribution. That is, cooperative diversity decodes the information from the combination of two signals. Hence, it can be seen that cooperative diversity is an antenna diversity that uses distributed antennas belonging to each node in a wireless network. Note that user cooperation is another definition of cooperative diversity. User cooperation considers an additional fact that each user relays the other user's signal while cooperative diversity can be also achieved by multi-hop relay networking systems.
The cooperative diversity technique is a kind of multi-user MIMO technique.
Relaying Strategies
The simplest cooperative relaying network consists of three nodes, namely source, destination, and a third node supporting the direct communication between source and destination denoted as relay. If the direct transmission of a message from source to destination is not (fully) successful, the overheard information from the source is forwarded by the relay to reach the destination via a different path. Since the two communications took a different path and take place one after another, this example implements the concept of space diversity and time diversity.
The relaying strategies can be further distinguished by the amplify-and-forward, decode-and-forward, and compress-and-forward strategies:
The amplify-and-forward strategy allows the relay station to amplify the received signal from the source node and to forward it to the destination station
Relays following the decode-and-forward strategy overhear transmissions from the source, decode them and in case of correct decoding, forward them to the destination. Whenever unrecoverable errors reside in the overheard transmission, the relay can not contribute to the cooperative transmission.
The compress-and-forward strategy allows the relay station to compress the received signal from the source node and forward it to the destination without decoding the signal where Wyner-Ziv coding can be used for optimal compression.
Relay Transmission Topology
Serial relay transmission is used for long distance communication and range-extension in shadowy regions. It provides power gain. In this topology signals propagate from one relay to another relay and the channels of neighboring hop are orthogonal to avoid any interference.
Parallel relay transmission may be used where serial relay transmission suffers from multi-path fading. For outdoors and non-line-of-sight propag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20subdivision%20surface | In computer graphics, the Loop method for subdivision surfaces is an approximating subdivision scheme developed by Charles Loop in 1987 for triangular meshes. Prior methods, namely Catmull-Clark and Doo-Sabin (1978), focused on quad meshes.
Loop subdivision surfaces are defined recursively, dividing each triangle into four smaller ones. The method is based on a quartic box spline. It generates C2 continuous limit surfaces everywhere except at extraordinary vertices, where they are C1 continuous.
Applications
Geologists have applied Loop subdivision surfaces to model erosion on mountain faces, specifically in the Appalachians.
See also
Geodesic polyhedron
Catmull-Clark subdivision surface
Doo-Sabin subdivision surface
References
Charles Loop: Smooth Subdivision Surfaces Based on Triangles, M.S. Mathematics thesis, University of Utah, 1987 (pdf).
Jos Stam: Evaluation of Loop Subdivision Surfaces, Computer Graphics Proceedings ACM SIGGRAPH 1998, (pdf, downloadable eigenstructures).
Antony Pugh, Polyhedra: a visual approach, 1976, Chapter 6. The Geodesic Polyhedra of R. Buckminster Fuller and Related Polyhedra
External links
Homepage of Charles Loop.
3D computer graphics
Multivariate interpolation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Knight%20%28radio%29 | Raymond Knight (February 12, 1899 – February 12, 1953) was an American actor, comedian and comedy writer, best known as a pioneer in satirical humor for network radio.
Life and career
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Knight studied law at Boston University and passed the Massachusetts bar, but he returned to school to study theater and writing at Harvard's 47 Workshop, followed by more studies at Yale. In 1927, he performed in the Broadway musical revue The Manhatters.
Knight was writing continuity and commercials for NBC in 1929, when NBC programmer Bertha Brainard asked him to devise "something cuckoo" for the Blue Network. He responded with the zany The Cuckoo Hour, aka The KUKU Hour, as a showcase for his comedy. One of his characters on the series was Professor Ambrose J. Weems, who ran a radio station where he would give his views on current events and chat with his sidekick, Mrs. Pennyfeather.
Radio historian Billy Jack Long described the unique aspects of Knight's satirical series:
This show was the forerunner to most of what America thought was funny afterwards. Ray, unlike most of the other radio personalities at the time, didn't have a background in vaudeville. He did all of his work within a short distance from home. Consequently, Ray had a good grasp on what people did when they were at home. Nothing was safe from Ray Knight's sarcasm. It wasn't meant to be rude or upsetting. But The KUKU Hour was so different from anything that was going on at the time. He would bounce back and forth between networks. The show started on NBC and was there for a few years before moving to Mutual. The KUKU Hour did not always have the same characters but it would have the same elements in each show. One of these was a segment called "The Firing Squad". In this, Ray would make comments about a person, a group or an idea, and then have everyone in the studio shoot at it with toy guns. Paper cap guns were provided for members of the studio audience, and even the technical people got involved in this!
Knight replaced Aline and Peter Dixon when he took over the children's series, Wheatenaville Sketches, sponsored by Wheatena. On this program, Knight portrayed editor Billy Batchelor, running a small town newspaper founded by his uncle. Wheatenaville Sketches and The Cuckoo Hour were both important influences on comedian Bob Elliott, who attended Knight's show with his parents and later became friends with Knight.
Broadway
In 1935 Knight contributed sketches to At Home Abroad, a revue with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz about a bored couple who flee America and go on a musical world tour. The original Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 19, 1935, and ran for 198 performances. The cast included Beatrice Lillie, Ethel Waters, Eleanor Powell, Reginald Gardiner and Eddie Foy Jr. This was the first Broadway musical directed by Vincente Minnellii.
Knight's play Run Sheep Run opened on Broadway in 1938 with a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Salmon | Adrian Salmon is a comic book artist and illustrator from England.
Biography
Salmon's early work included the series "The Cybermen" for Doctor Who Magazine and "Judge Karyn" for the Judge Dredd Megazine. He then spent time working on various Panini Comics titles including The Rugrats and Action Man. Salmon later became better known as a comic book colourist, working primarily on the Doctor Who strip and various Panini superhero titles.
He was commissioned to work on the ongoing 'Time Team' series of articles for Doctor Who Magazine, providing illustrations of the televised Doctor Who stories. He also provides the cover artwork for the Bernice Summerfield range of audio CDs produced by Big Finish Productions.
Salmon has published a graphic novel, The Faceless: A Terry Sharp Story.
Bibliography
Judge Karyn (with John Freeman):
"Skinner" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #2.56-2.61, 1994)
"Concrete Sky" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #2.67-2.72, 1994)
"Beautiful Evil" (in Judge Dredd Mega Special 1994)
Judge Dredd:
"Sinned-in City" (with Robbie Morrison, in Judge Dredd Mega Special 1994)
"1963" (with David Bishop, in Judge Dredd Mega Special 1996)
"A Nativity Tale" (with Gordon Rennie, in Judge Dredd Megazine #201, 2003)
"Lazarus" (with Gordon Rennie, in Judge Dredd Megazine #217, 2004)
Cabal (with John Freeman, in Judge Dredd Megazine #3.07-3.08, 1995)
Deathwatch: "Faust & Falsehood" (with Paul Cornell, in Judge Dredd Megazine #3.08-3.13, 1995–1996)
Armitage: "Little Assassins" (with Dave Stone, in Judge Dredd Mega Special 1996)
Doctor Who:
"The Cybermen: The Hungry Sea" (with Alan Barnes, in Doctor Who Magazine #227-229)
"The Cybermen: The Dark Flame (with Alan Barnes, in Doctor Who Magazine #230-233)
"By Hook or By Crook" (with Scott Gray, in Doctor Who Magazine #256, collected in End Game, 212 pages, 2005, )
The Glorious Dead (244 pages, 2006, ) collects:
"Unnatural Born Killers" (script and art, in Doctor Who Magazine #277)
"The Company of Thieves" (with Scott Gray, in Doctor Who Magazine #284-286)
"Character Assassin" (With Scott Gray, in Doctor Who Magazine #311, collected in Oblivion, 228 pages, 2006, )
"The Power of Thoueris!" (with Scott Gray, in Doctor Who Magazine #333, collected in The Flood, 226 pages, 2007, )
References
Adrian Salmon at Lambiek's Comiclopedia
Adrian Salmon at 2000 AD online
External links
Adrian Salmon's blog
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
English comics artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party%20Down | Party Down is an American sitcom created and primarily written by John Enbom, Rob Thomas, Dan Etheridge, and Paul Rudd that premiered on the Starz network in the United States on March 20, 2009. The series follows a group of caterers in Los Angeles as they hope to make it in Hollywood.
Starz canceled Party Down on June 30, 2010. While the show was warmly received by critics, its Nielsen ratings were very low. Jane Lynch's commitment to Glee as well as Adam Scott's commitment to Parks and Recreation were believed to be additional factors in the decision to end the series. In November 2021, a six-episode revival of the series was ordered by the network. The third season premiered on February 24, 2023.
Premise
This half-hour comedy follows a group of aspiring actors, writers, and others working for a Los Angeles-based catering company named Party Down. The group works small-time catering gigs while hoping for their break or some positive change in their lives. Each episode finds the team working a new event, and inevitably getting tangled up with the colorful, affluent guests and their absurd lives.
Cast
Main cast
Adam Scott as Henry Pollard, a failed actor who returns to Party Down catering after he quit acting. He is most well known for a beer ad where his line "Are we having fun yet?" earned him fame but killed his career. Apathetic and a perpetual underachiever, he often plays straight man to the rest of his coworkers and is most often the most level-headed of the group. His romantic relationship with Casey is a recurring plot element in the show.
Ken Marino as Ronald Wayne "Ron" Donald, the prideful team leader of Party Down catering who is very uptight when it comes to work and strives for customer satisfaction. He is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, although he relapses when under pressure from work as he suffers from low self-esteem. His dream is to own a Soup R' Crackers, a franchise that offers all-you-can-eat soup. Months after obtaining funding and opening his restaurant, the business shuts down, forcing Ron to return to Party Down but this time not as team leader.
Lizzy Caplan as Casey Klein (seasons 1–2; guest star season 3), a struggling comedian and actress who often disregards authority, especially Ron's. She was married at the start of the series but got divorced and started a relationship with Henry to make a "clean break" from her marriage.
Ryan Hansen as Kyle Bradway, an aspiring actor, sometimes model, and front man for the band Karma Rocket. He believes he is the "total package" and is just waiting for his big break.
Martin Starr as Roman DeBeers, a screenwriter who is a professed fan and author of hard science fiction. Often frustrated by his lack of success, he harshly judges his colleagues and party guests with an acerbic wit.
Jane Lynch as Constance Carmell (seasons 1 and 3; guest star season 2), a former actress who befriends and mentors aspiring actor Kyle. Lynch did not appear in the last two episodes |
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The Landwehr Canal (), is a canal parallel to the Spree river in Berlin, Germany, built between 1845 and 1850 to plans by Peter Joseph Lenné. It connects the upper part of the Spree at the eastern harbour () in Friedrichshain with its lower part in Charlottenburg, flowing through Kreuzberg and Tiergarten.
History
Lenné designed a canal with sloped walls, an average width of at the surface and locks near both ends to control the water depth. In the course of two enlargements (1883–1890 and 1936–1941), it reached a breadth of and a depth of . Today the waterway is mainly used by tourist boats and pleasure craft.
About
The Landwehr Canal leaves the Spree River in the eastern harbour in Friedrichshain, east of the city centre. It immediately descends through the upper lock () and heads in a straight line south west to its junction with the Neukölln Ship Canal, which provides a connection to the Teltow Canal. Here the Landwehr Canal turns north west through Kreuzberg, along the Paul-Lincke-Ufer.
In Kreuzberg the canal passes the entrance to the former Luisenstadt Canal that, between 1852 and 1926, provided a further connection to the Spree River. Although this has since been filled and partially converted to a public garden, its route can still be traced by the parallel flanking streets with their distinctive suffixes.
Further west in Kreuzberg, the canal is paralleled for about by the U1 line of the Berlin U-Bahn, which runs here as an elevated railway. After passing the elevated Möckernbrücke and Hallesches Tor stations, the U1 crosses the canal on a high level bridge that also spans the railway bridge that once gave access to the, now demolished, Anhalter Bahnhof. Shortly after that, the elevated U2 line crosses the canal.
After entering Tiergarten, the canal flows between the Großer Tiergarten Park and the Berlin Zoological Garden. Here the canal passes through the lower lock () and is bridged by the Berlin Stadtbahn. This historic elevated railway carries S-Bahn, Regional-Express and InterCity trains. The Landwehr Canal rejoins the Spree River in Charlottenburg, immediately opposite the entrance to the Charlottenburg Canal at a waterways crossroad known as .
Events
After Rosa Luxemburg was executed on 15 January 1919, her body was dumped into the Landwehr Canal, where it was not found until 1 June 1919. A memorial marks the site. In 1920, Anna "Anastasia" Anderson (Franziska Schanzkowska) attempted suicide by jumping into the water. In 1932, the initial construction of the Shell-Haus overlooking the canal was completed.
On 27 April 1945, the Red Army was closing in on the German Army's final defensive stronghold in the Tiergarten district of Berlin. As some Soviet troops were using the U-bahn tunnels for their advance, German military engineers, apparently acting on Hitler's direct o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20J | Canal J (stylised as canal J) is a French subscription television channel dedicated to children's programming. It is aimed at children aged seven to fourteen.
On 1 February 2019, M6 Group entered negotiations to acquire the television unit of Lagardère Active including Canal J. The sale was completed on 2 September 2019.
History
Created on 23 December 1985 at the initiative of the French corporation Group Hachette, Canal J was first broadcast as a cable network on Cergy-Pontoise, then it was launched on Paris on 25 November 1986 and after that it arrived on Nice and Montpellier on 12 February 1987. The channel broadcast mostly cartoons for 3–13 year-old kids using video cassettes at the network's headend. Its schedule was composed of two programming blocks that were aired everyday from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m
On 8 February 1988, Canal J started to be managed by a new company composed by Europe 1 Communication and three cable providers: Communication and Development, Lyonnaise Communications and Générale d'Images. As part of this new structure, Canal J was the first channel in 1988 to be available to all television providers for cable and community antenna through the Telecom 1C satellite system. Now that it was available everywhere in France, the channel increased its subscribers base from 50.000 to 100.000 subscribers. By late-1989, it had 160.000 subscribers and increased its share to 300.000 subscribers the following year.
On 15 December 1990, the abandonment of the costly project of subscription-based terrestrial and satellite broadcasting from TDF1 (covering Paris and other 22 cities in France) allowed Canal J to launch an ambitious strategy of investment in original programming, during which it started to produce and co-produce programmes. The channel consolidated its position on cable television. This marks the start of the policy of production and co-production of programmes (with the broadcast of Cajou, Le Trésor des Templiers and Les Histoires du père Castor) On that same year, the channel increased its subscribers base from 330.000 to 550.000 customers.
On 14 November 1992, the launch of CanalSatellite analogique made Canal J available throughout all of France, as it was picked up by the provider as one of its seven channels offered to its customers. Canal J used to timeshare with Canal Jimmy, causing confusion. On 19 November, Les Bêtises by Henri Dès was the first song adapted as a cartoon to be aired on the channel.
On 4 September 1993, Canal J aired L'Île aux enfants, a syndication TV series for kids that was originally aired on ORTF's third colour channel (Now France 3) allowing the nostalgic audience from the 1970s to watch again the programme's characters Casimir and Léonard, attracting an older audience. Canal J also broadcast Spirou and other morning programmes, such as Ciné Fourax and Atomes crochus, in order to increase its audience base.
On 2 December 1995, the channel celebrated its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Click%20List%3A%20Best%20in%20Short%20Film | The Click List: Best in Short Film is an anthology series of recent LGBT-themed short film programming on Logo. The series premiered on the channel on March 2, 2006.
Each episode is one hour in length and comprises 2 to 5 short films. When the short films air on the channel, they become available to stream on Logo's website. Viewers are then able to rate the films, and the top rated films air in the finale episode. Some of the short films also became available for streaming on mobile carriers as well as for download on sites such as iTunes, AOL, and Amazon.
Beginning with Season 2, most of the short films were introduced by the filmmaker, and at the end of the film, a taped closing statement aired during the credits. Additional information on the filmmaker also air during the credits.
Several special editions centered on a theme or genre have also aired. These include a "Horror Edition," "Fantasy Edition," and a "NewFest Edition."
Season 1
Premiered on March 2, 2006. Films include:
- Baker's Men
- Bikini
- Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer! *
- Blow
- Dani & Alice
- Fairies *
- Getting to Know You
- Gillery's Little Secret *
- Half Laughing
- Hello, Thanks
- Hi Maya
- The Homolulu Show
- I Like Mike
- Listen
- Little Black Boot *
- Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother
- The Mezzos
- Mostly Willing *
- Oedipus N+1
- On the Low
- One Fine Day a Hairdresser
- The P-P-P-Pick Up
- Promtroversy
- Recruiting
- Seeing You in Circles
- Sissy Frenchfry (also aired in Season 2)
- Stuck
- Target Audience
- Transit
- A Woman Reported
- A Wonderful Day (also aired in Season 2)
* = Season 1 winners
Season 2
Premiered on October 10, 2006. Films include:
- Available Men
- The Bridge
- Brooklyn's Bridge to Jordan *
- Cabalerno
- Cairo Calling
- Clay Pride
- Cosa Bella
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Funeral
- Hitchcocked
- Katie and Kasey
- Moustache
- Night Swimming *
- Out Now
- Perfect Filtration
- The Piper
- Running Without Sound
- Sarang Song
- Sissy Frenchfry (also aired in Season 1) *
- Straight Boys
- Straight Hike for the Butch Dyke
- Such Great Joy
- This Boy
- Transgression
- Transient
- Triple Minority
- Tumbleweed Town
- The Underminer
- Uninvited
- A Wonderful Day (also aired in Season 1)
* = Season 2 winners
Season 3
Premiered on March 14, 2007. Films include:
- Beyond Lovely *
- Blood
- Breaking Up Really Sucks
- Butler
- Can You Take It?
- Cupboard Love
- Dad, I'm Not Gay
- Daddy's Boy
- Ex
- Give or Take an Inch *
- Inclinations
- Intent
- Layover
- Man Seeking Man
- Modern Day Arranged Marriage
- Mona Lisa
- My Crazy Life
- The Nearly Unadventurous Life of Zoe Cadwaulder *
- Outside
- Peking Turkey
- Praise the Dead
- Rapid Guy Movement
- Rug Burn
- She Kills He *
- Standing Up *
- Summer
- Testify
- Unspoken
- Waiting
- Where We Began
* = Season 3 winners
Season 4
Premiered on October 10, 2007.
- 5 Telephone Conversations
- A Bear, Where?
- Airplanes
- Best Mates
- Bugcrush
- Casting Pearls *
- Coif
- Companionist
- Dare *
- G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Freeform | American cable and satellite television network Freeform was originally launched as the CBN Satellite Service on April 29, 1977, and has gone through 4 different owners and 6 different name changes during its history. This article details the network's existence from its founding by the Christian Broadcasting Network to its current ownership by The Walt Disney Company, which renamed the network to Freeform on January 12, 2016.
CBN Satellite Service
The network was founded by Pat Robertson as the CBN Satellite Service (CBN Satellite Network), an arm of his television ministry, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). When the channel launched on April 29, 1977, it became the first basic cable channel to be transmitted via satellite from its launch and, effectively, the first national basic cable-originated network. Initially, the network offered only religious programs aimed at a Christian audience. The offerings on the CBN Satellite Service during its early years included CBN's flagship news/talk show, The 700 Club (which aired three times per day every Monday through Friday in the late-morning and at night), along with programs from many notable and lesser-known television evangelists. As a result, a few televangelists began to produce stripped programs to air on the network each weekday. The CBN Satellite Service grew its subscriber base to 10.9 million households by May 1981.
On September 1, 1981, the channel was relaunched as the CBN Cable Network. At that time of the name change, it was concurrently repositioned as an advertiser-supported "family-friendly" entertainment network, although the channel continued to offer religious programs that occupied about a third of its daily schedule. Entertainment programming that aired on the channel during this period included various classic television series (consisting of classic sitcoms from the 1950s and westerns from the 1950s and 1960s such as My Little Margie, Wagon Train, The Virginian and Bachelor Father), reruns of game shows, older movies, and some family-oriented drama series. CBN Cable also produced its first original series with the relaunch including a weekday-morning talk show, US a.m. and the faith-based soap opera Another Life.
The network also aired – and was even involved in the production of a few of them – a handful of Christian or family-friendly animated series, including some anime – such as CBN's own co-productions with Japanese animation studio Tatsunoko Production, Superbook and The Flying House and the TV pilot sitcom Help Wanted; the channel also carried English-dubbed versions of Honey, Honey and Leo the Lion. Religious programming retained a sizeable portion of CBN Cable's schedule; in addition to continuing to run weekday airings of The 700 Club, non-CBN-produced ministry programs were relegated to Saturday and Sunday evenings, and Sunday mornings, encompassing only 22% of the network's programming lineup by 1990.
The channel's decision to mix secular and religious |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20A%20Haunting%20episodes | The following is an episode listing of the television program A Haunting for the Discovery Channel, Destination America, TLC Network and currently the Travel Channel, with the original air dates for the episodes included.
Series overview
Episodes
Specials (2002)
Season 1 (2005–06)
Season 2 (2006)
Season 3 (2006)
Season 4 (2007)
Season 5 (2012)
Starting with this season, the series airs on Destination America. It also features a new opening introduction and narration.
Season 6 (2013)
Season 7 (2014–15)
Season 8 (2016)
An eighth season of the show premiered on January 3, 2016. This season also features a new opening sequence.
Season 9 (2016–17)
Starting with this season, the show airs on the TLC Network.
Season 10 (2019)
Starting with this season, the show airs on The Travel Channel.
Season 11 (2021–22)
The eleventh season premiered on December 31, 2021, on both Discovery Plus and The Travel Channel.
DVD releases
References
Episode list using the default LineColor
Lists of American non-fiction television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine%20St.%20John | Katherine St. John is a professor at the CUNY Graduate Center Department of Computer Science and at Lehman College Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. She is a faculty member at the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology. In 2007 she was selected to be an AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer
where she gave a presentation on "Comparing Evolutionary Trees". She is also a former American Mathematical Society Council member at large.
References
External links
American bioinformaticians
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20networks%20in%20Venezuela | Television networks in Venezuela can be divided into three categories:
National broadcasting networks, such as Venevision
Regional broadcasting networks, such as Televisora Regional del Táchira
Community broadcasting networks, such as Catia TVe
Table of broadcast networks
All of the networks listed below operate a number of terrestrial television stations. In addition, several of these networks are also aired on cable and satellite services.
History
Defunct over-the-air Venezuelan television networks
Televisora Nacional - Government network, predecessor of Vale TV.
Televisa - The first commercial network in Venezuela, was bought out by the Grupo Cisneros and became Venevisión.
RCTV (Radio Caracas Televisión) - Second commercial network whose license expired on May 27, 2007. The license renewal was refused by the Government of Hugo Chávez. It was re-launched on cable and satellite television networks on July 16, 2007 as RCTV International.
Televisa del Zulia - First regional commercial network, created in 1956 and closed in 1960.
Ondas del Lago Televisión - Regional television network - Active in the late '50s.
Radio Valencia Televisión - A regional over-the-air broadcast network from 1958 to 1962.
Teletrece - A regional television network - Active in the 60's.
Canal 11 Televisión - Commercial television network, 1966 – 1968.
Canal 11 (Maracaibo) - A regional television network - Active in the 60's.
Marte TV - A Caracas regional network. Sold and re-launched as La Tele on December 1, 2002.
See also
Television in Venezuela
Lists of television channels
List of newspapers in Venezuela
Television networks
Venezuela |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20%28Japanese%20TV%20channel%29 | is a Japanese cable and satellite television channel operated by Warner Bros. Discovery Japan, a division of the Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel is aimed at children, and mostly airs animated television series. As a Japanese version of the eponymous television channel in the United States, Cartoon Network broadcasts original series from its U.S. counterpart, as well as several Japanese animated series and films, and other non-Japanese programs.
On October 1, 2011, Cartoon Network in Japan, along with other versions of Cartoon Network operated by Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific, adopted its current branding. On April 1, 2017, the channel started using graphics from Cartoon Network USA's Dimensional brand package. On January 1, 2022, the channel started using graphics from Cartoon Network USA's Redraw Your World brand package. On March 1, 2022, the Cartoonito block was launched for daily mornings.
References
External links
Cartoon Network
1997 establishments in Japan
Anime television
Anime and Cartoon television
Children's television channels in Japan
Japanese-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Television stations in Japan
Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific
ja:カートゥーン ネットワーク |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawzall%20%28programming%20language%29 | Sawzall is a procedural domain-specific programming language, used by Google to process large numbers of individual log records. Sawzall was first described in 2003, and the szl runtime was open-sourced in August 2010. However, since the MapReduce table aggregators have not been released, the open-sourced runtime is not useful for large-scale data analysis of multiple log files off the shelf. Sawzall has been replaced by Lingo (logs in Go) for most purposes within Google.
Motivation
Google's server logs are stored as large collections of records (Protocol Buffers) that are partitioned over many disks within GFS. In order to perform calculations involving the logs, engineers can write MapReduce programs in C++ or Java. MapReduce programs need to be compiled and may be more verbose than necessary, so writing a program to analyze the logs can be time-consuming. To make it easier to write quick scripts, Rob Pike et al. developed the Sawzall language. A Sawzall script runs within the Map phase of a MapReduce and "emits" values to tables. Then the Reduce phase (which the script writer does not have to be concerned about) aggregates the tables from multiple runs into a single set of tables.
Currently, only the language runtime (which runs a Sawzall script once over a single input) has been open-sourced; the supporting program built on MapReduce has not been released.
Features
Some interesting features include:
A Sawzall script has a single input (a log record) and can output only by emitting to tables. The script can have no other side-effects.
A script can define any number of output tables. Table types include:
collection saves every value emitted
sum saves the sum of every emitted value
maximum(n) saves only the highest n values on a given weight.
In addition, there are several statistical table types that give inexact results. The higher the parameter n, the more accurate the estimates are.
sample(n) gives a random sample of n values from all the emitted values
quantile(n) calculates a cumulative probability distribution of the given numbers.
top(n) gives n values that are probably the most frequent of the emitted values.
unique(n) estimates the number of unique values emitted.
Sawzall's design favors efficiency and engine simplicity over power:
Sawzall is statically typed, and the engine compiles the script to x86 before running it.
Sawzall supports the compound data types lists, maps, and structs. However, there are no references or pointers. All assignments and function arguments create copies. This means that recursive data structures and cycles are impossible.
Like C, functions can modify global variables and local variables but are not closures.
Sawzall code
This complete Sawzall program will read the input and produce three results: the number of records, the sum of the values,
and the sum of the squares of the values.
count: table sum of int;
total: table sum of float;
sum_of_squares: table sum of float;
x: float = inpu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TXGA | TXGA, or Tesselar eXtended Graphics Array is a computer graphics resolution of 1920 x 1400 pixels, with an aspect ratio of 7:5, first defined by UK based Equipe Simulation in 2007 and demonstrated at the ITEC conference in April of the same year. TXGA was created explicitly to meet the demands of modern simulation, offering higher resolution than UXGA (1600 x 1200) while remaining computationally less expensive than QXGA (2048 x 1536). TXGA was further defined within a white paper presented at the World Aviation Training Conference and Tradeshow (WATS) held annually. The first commercial implementation of TXGA, the Contour 600 digital projector, is now available.
References
Computer display standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nmon | nmon (Nigel's Monitor) is a computer performance system monitor tool for the AIX and Linux operating systems. The nmon tool has two modes a) displays the performance stats on-screen in a condensed format or b) the same stats are saved to a comma-separated values (CSV) data file for later graphing and analysis to aid the understanding of computer resource use, tuning options and bottlenecks.
nmon for Linux is open source and available under GNU General Public License while the nmon for AIX is a proprietary software integrated into AIX.
Description
nmon collects the following operating system statistics:
CPU and CPU threads Utilisation
CPU frequency for servers or virtual machines that can alter their clock rate
GPU stats including utilisation, MHz and temperatures
Physical and Virtual Memory use
Disk read & write and transfers plus service time and wait times
Disk Groups - decided by the user
Swap and Paging
Network read & write and transfers
Local File-systems
Network File-system (NFS)
Top Processes by CPU use, Memory size and I/O rates
Kernel stats including Run Queue, context-switch, fork, Load Average & Uptime
Large and Huge memory pages
NFS (Networked File System)
Virtual Machine stats (depending on the hardware) — useful for Linux running KVM to host virtual machines
Resources in the Server and virtual machine
nmon -h lists the details
To start collecting the stats to a file use the -f or -F option
When viewing in on-screen mode the stats displayed are controlled by the user using single letter toggles. For example, "c" to show CPU and then another "c" will switch the CPU stats off. Use h to display a list of the options.
When saving the stats to a file, there is a common default set of stats and then users can request more using command line options. Use nmon -? to display all the options.
The output file can be analyzed with nmonanalyzer.
History
The original nmon version was for the IBM AIX operating system (Release 4.3 and above) and was freely downloadable binary format only tool from the IBM AIX wiki.
Later a version was written for the Linux operating system running on IA-32, x86, x86_64, IBM RS/6000 and POWER processors, Mainframe and ARM (including Raspberry Pi). nmon for Linux was released by IBM as open-source in July 2009. The code is available from the Sourceforge open source repository.
The nmon for AIX code was later bundled in as part of the AIX operating systems. From AIX 5.3 TL09 and AIX 6.1 TL02 onward it was included in the default installation of AIX and fully supported by IBM. The nmon command and the topas command are the same binary but behave differently depending on the command name used.
The two editions (AIX and Linux) have completely different source code but offer many similar features, command line options and data — as much as the underlying operating system allow.
Features
There are two runtime modes available:
In Online Mode it uses curses for efficient screen handling, which u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AP | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFreeChart | JFreeChart is an open-source framework for the programming language Java, which allows the creation of a wide variety of both interactive and non-interactive charts.
JFreeChart, developed by David Gilbert, is available under the terms of the LGPL license.
Features
JFreeChart supports a number of various charts, including combined charts:
X-Y charts (line, spline and scatter). Time axis is possible.
Pie charts
Gantt charts
Bar charts (horizontal and vertical, stacked and independent). It also has built-in histogram plotting.
Single valued (thermometer, compass, speedometer) that can then be placed over map.
Various specific charts (wind chart, polar chart, bubbles of varying size).
It is possible to place various markers and annotations on the plot. JFreeChart automatically draws the axis scales and legends. Charts in GUI automatically get the capability to zoom with mouse and change some settings through local menus. The existing charts can be easily updated through the listeners that the library has on its data collections.
JFreeChart works with GNU Classpath, a free software implementation of the standard Java Class Library.
Use in Software Applications
Aperture Photometry Tool
Eastwood Charts an open-source implementation of the Google Chart API, with charts rendered using JFreeChart, developed by David Gilbert. Eastwood Charts is LGPL licensed.
Isabelle
Thoth: Software for Data Visualization and Statistics
See also
graph (Unix)
List of information graphics software
References
External links
Java platform software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Free plotting software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path%20computation%20element | In computer networks, a path computation element (PCE) is a system component, application, or network node that is capable of determining and finding a suitable route for conveying data between a source and a destination.
Description
Routing can be subject to a set of constraints, such as quality of service (QoS), policy, or price. Constraint-based path computation is a strategic component of traffic engineering in MPLS, GMPLS and Segment Routing networks. It is used to determine the path through the network that traffic should follow, and provides the route for each label-switched path (LSP) that is set up.
Path computation has previously been performed either in a management system or at the head end of each LSP. But path computation in large, multi-domain networks may be very complex and may require more computational power and network information than is typically available at a network element, yet may still need to be more dynamic than can be provided by a management system.
Thus, a PCE is an entity capable of computing paths for a single or set of services. A PCE might be a network node, network management station, or dedicated computational platform that is resource-aware and has the ability to consider multiple constraints for sophisticated path computation. PCE applications compute label-switched paths for MPLS and GMPLS traffic engineering. The various components of the PCE architecture are in the process of being standardized by the IETF's PCE Working Group.
PCE represents a vision of networks that separates route computations from the signaling of end-to-end connections and from actual packet forwarding. There is a basic tutorial on PCE as presented at ISOCORE's MPLS2008 conference and a tutorial on advanced PCE as presented at ISOCORE's SDN/MPLS 2014 conference.
Since the early days, the PCE architecture has evolved considerably to encompass more sophisticated concepts and allow application to more complicated network scenarios. This evolution includes Hierarchical PCE (H-PCE) and both Stateful and Active PCE.
A potential deployment of PCE separates the computation element from the client (the PCC) that request computation services. Communications between the PCE and PCC are achieved using the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) which runs over the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).
As the architecture has evolved, new protocol extensions have been developed to add functionality to support new applications and the new architectural elements. These developments are tracked by the PACE project which is funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 619712.
The PACE project has developed a primer for those interested in PCE. It can be downloaded without charge from the PACE website.
PCE extensions
There are several PCE extensions to achieve different goals. For example:
Interdomain PCE discovering extensions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked%20objects | Naked objects is an architectural pattern used in software engineering. It is defined by three principles:
The naked object pattern's innovative feature arises by combining the and principles into a principle:
The naked objects pattern was first described formally in Richard Pawson's PhD thesis which includes investigation of antecedents and inspirations for the pattern including, for example, the Morphic user interface.
The first complete open source framework to have implemented the pattern was named Naked Objects. In 2021, Pawson announced that he had subsequently applied the same pattern to the Functional Programming programming paradigm, as an alternative to the object-oriented programming paradigm, creating a variant of the Naked Objects framework called Naked Functions.
Benefits
Pawson's thesis claims four benefits for the pattern:
A faster development cycle, because there are fewer layers to develop. In a more conventional design, the developer must define and implement three or more separate layers: the domain object layer, the presentation layer, and the task or process scripts that connect the two. (If the naked objects pattern is combined with object-relational mapping or an object database, then it is possible to create all layers of the system from the domain object definitions alone; however, this does not form part of the naked objects pattern per se.) The thesis includes a case study comparing two different implementations of the same application: one based on a conventional '4-layer' implementation; the other using naked objects.
Greater agility, referring to the ease with which an application may be altered to accommodate future changes in business requirements. In part this arises from the reduction in the number of developed layers that must be kept in synchronisation. However the claim is also made that the enforced 1:1 correspondence between the user presentation and the domain model, forces higher-quality object modelling, which in turn improves the agility.
A more empowering style of user interface. This benefit is really attributable to the resulting object-oriented user interface (OOUI), rather than to naked objects per se, although the argument is made that naked objects makes it much easier to conceive and to implement an OOUI.
Easier requirements analysis. The argument here is that with the naked objects pattern, the domain objects form a common language between users and developers and that this common language facilitates the process of discussing requirements - because there are no other representations to discuss. Combined with the faster development cycle, it becomes possible to prototype functional applications in real time.
Use
The Department of Social Protection (DSP) (formerly known as the Department for Social and Family Affairs) in Ireland has built a suite of enterprise applications using the naked objects pattern. As part of its Service Delivery Modernisation (SDM) programme, the DSP desi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean%20Bank%20Network | The Mediterranean Bank Network was a trade association headquartered in Malta for Mediterranean small and medium sized banks. It was established on 28 November 1996 to encourage inter-regional commercial and business relationships. Member banks have a virtual presence in all the member countries as well as presence through bank representative offices and subsidiaries.
The presidency of the network rotated every two years. In 2013 it was held by Mr Hassan El Basri and Timothy Anvarov representing Banque Centrale Populaire Maroc.
Members
References
Banking organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20Public%20Library%20Information%20Network | The Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) is a state agency that provides Internet access to the 251 Ohio public libraries for use by the residents of Ohio. OPLIN also provides Ohioans with free home access to high-quality, subscription research databases.
OPLIN's purpose is to ensure that all Ohioans have equal access to information, regardless of its format or location. This information includes Ohio public library resources; regional, state, and federal resources; and electronic information resources.
OPLIN is established by the Ohio Revised Code section 3375.64 as an independent agency within the State Library of Ohio. OPLIN is governed by an eleven-member Board of Trustees, who are appointed by the State Library Board and may serve no more than two consecutive, three-year terms.
History
OPLIN was first conceptualized in 1994, as a group effort of Ohio's public libraries and the Ohio Library Council. Ohio Governor George Voinovich supported the idea in his 1995 State of the State Address, and in June 1995, the organization first appeared in the state budget. OPLIN was officially dedicated by Voinovich on June 12, 1996.
In the 2001 Ecom-Ohio report released by Governor Taft's Office, OPLIN was credited with providing 4,478 public access workstations at local public libraries, almost twice as many available from all other state agencies combined. As of 2015, there are approximately 13,000 public computers in Ohio public libraries.
Up until 2008, OPLIN was re-created every two years in Ohio's biennial budget language. Specifically, OPLIN's governance and budget were defined in separate lines within the State Library of Ohio's budget. OPLIN now exists in permanent law. The Ohio Public Library Information Network is defined in the Ohio Revised Code as "... an independent agency within the state library of Ohio, for the purpose of ensuring equity of access to electronic information for all residents of this state."
The Ohio Web Library
OPLIN and the other partners in Libraries Connect Ohio (including OhioLINK, INFOhio, and State Library of Ohio) purchase subscription databases and make them available to all Ohio citizens as part of the Ohio Web Library. Using IP geolocation, anyone on an Ohio-based computer, whether in a library or at home, has automatic access to these resources. They can also be accessed by anyone using an Ohio public library card.
OPLIN’s Find a Library tool allows users to quickly locate and map libraries around the state, or search all Ohio public library websites in one place.
OPLIN hosts the popular online identification tools What Tree Is It?, What’s That Snake?, and What’s the Point?. Other Ohio-related minisites include Evolution of Ohio.
The OPLIN 4cast is a weekly compilation of public library headlines, topics, and trends, published in a blog format.
What Does This Mean to Me, Laura is a blog that seeks to break down new technologies for library staff.
References
External links
OPLIN Home Page
F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Multimedia | ACM Multimedia (ACM-MM) is the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)'s annual conference on multimedia, sponsored by the SIGMM {{lc:Special Interest Group}} on multimedia in the ACM. SIGMM specializes in the field of multimedia computing, from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices.
In 2003, the conference was given an "Estimated impact factor" of 1.22 by CiteSeer, placing it in the top 15% of computer science publication venues. In 2006 the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia awarded it an 'A+' ranking for conferences attended by Australian academics and in 2012 it received an 'A1' rating from the Brazilian ministry of education.
Past Conferences
ACM Multimedia workshops
The first international workshop on Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experience (CARPE 2004) covered "capture, retrieval, organization, search, privacy, and legal issues" surrounding "continuous archival and retrieval of all media relating to personal experiences"; speakers included Steve Mann and Gordon Bell.
Open Source Competition
Starting in 2004, ACM Multimedia hosts an Open Source competition, providing an award for the best Open Source computer program(s).
2015:
Winner: Chris Sweeney, Tobias Hollerer, Matthew Turk, "Theia: A Fast and Scalable Structure-from-Motion Library"
2014:
Winner: Yangqing Jia, Evan Shelhamer, Jeff Donahue, Sergey Karayev, Jonathan Long, Ross Girshick, Sergio Guadarrama, Trevor Darrell, "Caffe: Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Embedding"
2013:
Winner: Dmitry Bogdanov, Nicolas Wack, Emilia Gómez, Sankalp Gulati, Perfecto Herrera, Oscar Mayor, Gerard Roma, Justin Salamon, Jose Zapata Xavier Serra (UPF), “ESSENTIA: an Audio Analysis Library for Music Information Retrieval”
2012:
Winner: Petr Holub, Jiri Matela, Martin Pulec, Martin Srom, “UltraGrid: Low-latency high-quality video transmissions on commodity hardware”
2011:
Winner: J. Hare, S. Samangooei, D. Dupplaw, “OpenIMAJ and ImageTerrier: Java Libraries and Tools for Scalable Multimedia Analysis and Indexing of Images”
Honorable Mention:“ClassX – An Open Source Interactive Lecture Streaming System” “Opencast Matterhorn 1.1: Reaching New Heights” Presented by Profs. Pablo Cesar and Wei Tsang Ooi
2010:
Andrea Vedaldi, Brian Fulkerson, VLFeat – An open and portable library of computer vision algorithms – VLFeat
Rob Hess, An Open-Source SIFT Library – Open-Source SIFT
Florian Eyben, Martin Woellmer, Bjoern Schuller, openSMILE – The Munich Versatile and Fast Open-Source Audio Feature Extractor – openSMILE
2009: Caliph & Emir, MPEG-7 photo annotation and retrieval
2008: Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM).
2007: Programming Web Multimedia Applications with Hop.
2006: CLAM (C++ Library for Audio and Music) (CLAM), an open source framework for audio and music research and application development.
2005: OpenVIDIA, a GPU accelerated Computer Vision Library.
2004: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMSAT%20Mobile%20Communications | COMSAT Mobile Communications (CMC) is a telecommunications company which provides global mobile communications solutions to the maritime, land mobile and aeronautical communities, and offers data, voice, fax, telex and video capabilities via the Inmarsat geosynchronous satellite constellation through two earth station facilities in Southbury, Connecticut, and Santa Paula, California. CMC was a business unit of COMSAT Corporation of Bethesda, MD (NYSE: CQ) (delisted).
In concert with COMSAT General Corporation's (another business unit of COMSAT Corp) MARISAT system, CMC sparked a revolution in medium- and long-distance maritime ship-to-shore communication, augmenting and eventually replacing cumbersome and technically challenging high-power radiotelegraph and radiotelephone equipment with solid state, user-friendly satellite terminals which required relatively minimal training to use in voice, fax, and telex modes that were impervious to normal radio propagation conditions and unaffected by distance, although initial rates were high ($10 per minute for voice/fax to/from the USA).
History
Acquired by Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications (LGMT) (a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin) as part of an August 2000 merger with its parent COMSAT Corporation, the COMSAT Mobile Communications unit was purchased from LGMT by Telenor of Norway on 11 January 2002.
See also
COMSAT Corporation
INMARSAT
GMDSS
Ship Transport: Other departments
Footnotes
Telenor to Acquire COMSAT Mobile Communications From Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications Lockheed Martin Press Release 27 March 2001. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) International Maritime Organization. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
Ross, Irwin. Marisat - deep-space switchboard for ship-shore calls Popular Science, January 1979. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
Telenor to Acquire COMSAT Mobile Communications From Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications Lockheed Martin Press Release 27 March 2001. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
Lockheed Martin Reports 2001 Earnings Lockheed Martin Press Release 25 January 2002. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
Telecommunications companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.B.%20Funkeys | U.B. Funkeys is a personal computer game and collectible figure set created by Mattel. It was created in 2007 until discontinuation of the toys in the United States in 2010. Play consisted of a personal computer game that worked together with collectible figures that represent characters in the game. There are over 45 different "species" of Funkeys. Most Funkeys come in three different types of styles which are normal, rare, and very rare.
Gameplay involves players placing figures in the hub, (A special USB unit shaped to look like a larger version of the small figures) which in turn appear in the game. Each figure, when connected to the hub, allows players to unlock new areas of the game. The hub is purchased in a starter pack with two to four of the collectible figures. It is required to play the game. It began in August, 2007 and ended in January, 2010. The product was exhibited by Mattel in February 2007 at the American International Toy Fair and designed by Radica Games. The game software was developed by Arkadium.
Description
Funkeys are characters that inhabit a virtual world called Terrapinia. Players navigate a number of zones and portals where they play games to earn coins. With their coins they can buy items to decorate their homes, referred to as "cribs" in the game.
Users progress through the game as they collect different figures. Each "tribe" is able to access different areas, games and items. Most figures have two sets of alternate colors, and using these "Rare" or "Very Rare" Funkeys gives the player access to more items inside of their respective shops.
There are many portals to go through: Kelpy Basin, Magma Gorge, Laputta Station, Funkiki Island, Daydream Oasis, Nightmare Rift, Royalton Raceway, Hidden Realm, and Paradox Green. In order to use a portal, the player had to use a Funkey with a game room in the given location. Regardless of tribe, any Funkey can return to Funkeystown.*
In every zone, there is an enemy character who appears if the player stays outside for too long. Encountering these characters will start a short minigame where the player can win or lose coins.
Throughout the game, the player hears of Master Lox, the main antagonist of the series. He locked the portals and game rooms, restricting access only for particular Funkeys.
A series of Wendy's Kid's meal toys included a Bobblehead, a backpack clip, a 3D board game and 2 CDs that have prototypes of the game.
Sets
The series spawned many various sets, which were available throughout the series' lifespan. These were single Funkeys, starter packs, adventure packs, Multiplayer sets, chat sets, and limited edition packs.
Starter Packs
Starter packs contain a white hub, installation disk, and instruction booklet. In general, each contained two to four funkeys relating to a particular world. The white hub design would change in some packs to reflect the new worlds. For instance, hubs made during the Dream State run have a chest with purple wisps on them. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOLibrary | The Global Environmental and Occupational Health e-Library or GeoLibrary is a database of occupational safety and health and environmental health training materials and practice tools. The library is divided into three sections: Environmental Health; Occupational Health and Safety; and a specialty library on Road Safety at Work.
The GeoLibrary is a project of the Network of Collaborating Centres Work Plan in support of the World Health Organization (“WHO”) strategy “Occupational Health for All,” and is maintained by the Great Lakes Centers for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. It was created with the following specific aims, to provide:
Training materials on diseases of occupation and the environment
Training materials on hazards and diseases as they pertain to individual economic sectors
Teaching materials specific to prevention, safety, advocacy, legal and ethical issues, roles of government, etc.
Practice materials for control and prevention
With a focus on training programs and capacity building, the GeoLibrary provides its users with access to complete courses, tutorials/modules, fact sheets, sample/model programs, guidelines and case studies, all within the public domain and free of charge. Resources are available in six languages (English, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese and Arabic) and come from a variety of sources (international organizations, governmental institutes and agencies, academic institutions, corporations, and unions).
The construction of the library was made possible through a gift from Abbott Fund. Additional support for its creation was provided by the U.S. National Center for Environmental Health, the U.S. National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ("NIOSH") Training Program.
In kind support was provided by NIOSH, the U.S. National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and WHO Collaborating Centres in Occupational Health.
Environmental Health Materials
The environmental health branch of the GeoLibrary provides training materials, practice tools and capacity-building resources on topics such as environmental disasters, exposure to physical, chemical, biological and waste hazards, environmental health practice, and environmental management.
In January 2010, in response to the Haiti earthquake, the GeoLibrary and the Pan American Health Organization (“PAHO”) coordinated a request for natural disaster-related training materials from the Network of Collaborating Centres. The result of this collaboration was the timely creation of a library section entitled “Special Focus: Haiti,” which included emergency and disaster response materials in French, English and Spanish.
Occupational Safety and Health Materials
The occupational safety and health branch of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s%20International%20Festivals%20Federation | Méliès International Festivals Federation (MIFF), formerly European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation (EFFFF), established in 1987, is a network of 22 genre film festivals from 16 countries based Brussels, Belgium, and dedicated to promoting and supporting European cinema, particularly films in the fantasy, horror and science fiction genres.
Ernest Mathijs and Jamie Sexton describe it as "the biggest fan-based cult-network on the continent", comparable in scope to World Science Fiction Convention, San Diego Comic-Con International, and Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors, though less commercial.
The MIFF annually awards the Méliès d'Or (Golden Méliès) for the best European fantastic feature film and short film, and the Federation Award for Best Asian Film.
History
The MIFF was founded in 1987 on the initiative of five film festivals: the Fantafestival in Rome, Fantasporto in Porto, the Paris International Festival of Fantastic and Science-Fiction Film, the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival and the Sitges Film Festival.
The MIFF created its first awards in 1995, the Méliès d'Argent (Silver Méliès) and the Méliès d'Or (Golden Méliès), named in honour of Georges Méliès, the great French pioneer of fantastic cinema and special effects. The awards were intended to highlight the creativity and quality of European fantastic films, stimulate production and promote them worldwide. The first Méliès d'Or ceremony was held by the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in 1996 and the prize was given to Álex de la Iglesia for The Day of the Beast (Spanish: El día de la Bestia). Variety has called the Melies d'Or "Europe's top plaudit for horror pictures".
Member festivals
Affiliated members
Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, Brussels, Belgium
Sitges Film Festival, Sitges, Spain
Imagine Film Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lund International Fantastic Film Festival, Lund, Sweden
MOTELx - Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival, Strasbourg, France
Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, Trieste, Italy
Adherent members
Abertoir: The International Horror Festival of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales
Court Metrange Festival, Rennes, France
FanCine Málaga - Festival de Cine Fantástico, Málaga, Spain
Grossmann film and wine festival, Ljutomer, Slovenia
Haapsalu Horror & Fantasy Film Festival, Haapsalu, Estonia
HARD:LINE International Film Festival, Regensburg, Germany
Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival, Molins de Rei, Spain
Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival, Bruges, Belgium
San Sebastian Horror & Fantasy Film Festival, San Sebastián, Spain
Splat!FilmFest, Warsaw & Lublin, Poland
Supporting members
Fantasia International Film Festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Fantastic Fest, Austin, Texas
Mórbido Fest, Puebla, Mexico
Puchon Internati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Library%20of%20Mathematical%20Functions | The Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) is an online project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a database of mathematical reference data for special functions and their applications. It is intended as an update of Abramowitz's and Stegun's Handbook of Mathematical Functions (A&S). It was published online on 7 May 2010, though some chapters appeared earlier. In the same year it appeared at Cambridge University Press under the title NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions.
In contrast to A&S, whose initial print run was done by the U.S. Government Printing Office and was in the public domain, NIST asserts that it holds copyright to the DLMF under Title 17 USC 105 of the U.S. Code.
See also
NIST Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
References
Further reading
(8 pages)
External links
NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
Known errata in NIST DLMF
Handbooks and manuals
Mathematics websites
Mathematical tables
Numerical analysis
Special functions
Mathematical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield%3A%20Winter%27s%20Tail | Garfield: Winter's Tail is a game based on the Jim Davis comic strip, Garfield. It was released in 1989 for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST (will not work on Atari STe computers), Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. It is the fourth video game to be based on Jim Davis' Garfield Comics.
Plot
Garfield has fallen asleep in his bed in front of an open refrigerator, dreaming about having an adventure in northern Italy and Switzerland, in which his quest is to find a lasagna factory and the chocolate-egg-laying chicken.
Gameplay
The game is divided into an Action sports game where fast reaction is needed (Skiing & Skating level) and some sort of puzzle game (Chocolate Factory). The player will encounter some familiar faces from the Garfield comics (like Odie and Jon Arbuckle), but the player can control only Garfield. Garfield’s energy meter is pictured with his face from happy to sad, getting sadder by every accident. If he loses too much energy he wakes up (sometimes in fright).
Skiing & Lasagna Factory
Garfield hits the slopes on a pair of skis, while the player guides him past obstacles like trees, bushes, rocks, and stumps. The player is then joined by Odie who uses, unlike Garfield, a dustbin lid to slide down the hill. There are also spectators on the side of the route, holding food that Garfield and Odie could grab to gain back energy. As he jumps on the big ramp at the end of the hill, Garfield reaches the top of the Lasagna Factory. Once in the Lasagna Factory, Garfield eats as much lasagna as he can until Odie ends the fun by blowing out the fire from the lasagna oven.
Chocolate Factory
To find the chocolate-egg-laying chicken, Garfield has to manipulate the indicators on the feeding pipes in the factory. Garfield is losing energy, therefore he has to eat all kinds of food lying on the floor. He is once again joined by Odie who tries to steal the food.
Skating on the frozen lake
Garfield has to reach the other side of the lake to get to the Swiss village in pursuit of the escaped chocolate-egg-laying chicken, avoiding all obstacles and holes in the ice. Odie is also with him; sporadically sawing a hole into the ice. Garfield can gain energy by eating the chocolate chicken footprints.
Reception
The reviews were mixed; despite its good presentation, it was heavy criticized for the bad design and controls.
The graphics are cute and cuddly and Garfield is his usual canine-punting, lasagna-gobbling self. - 80% - The Games Maschine
The gameplay that is present is also very simple, but Garfield fans will no doubt enjoy this light-hearted, lightweight licence. - 63% - Zzap
Once again though, good presentation is let down by a poor game design. - 43% - Amiga Format
Garfield can only sit and wait, and hope that some talented individual with the patience of job can finish the game and rescue him from this nightmare that "The Edge" created. - 39% - Amiga Computing
References
External links
Garfield Winter's Tail on MobyGames
Garfield Winter's Tai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Valencia%20Televisi%C3%B3n | Radio Valencia Televisión (1958 - 1962) was a Venezuelan regional television network based in Valencia, Carabobo State.
History
On April 30, 1958, Radio Valencia Televisión, channel 13, began operating its test signal, and was officially inaugurated on September 20, 1958. Its principal investors were Miguel Aché and Teodoro Gubaira.
In 1962, Radio Valencia Televisión ceased its activities and was acquired by Teleinversiones, a company belonging to Diego Cisneros Bermúdez, and it began operating under the name Teletrece.
See also
List of Venezuelan over-the-air television networks and stations
References
External links
Detailed history of television in Venezuela
1962 disestablishments
Defunct television channels and networks in Venezuela
Television channels and stations established in 1958
Mass media in Valencia, Venezuela
1958 establishments in Venezuela
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1962 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondas%20del%20Lago%20Televisi%C3%B3n | Ondas del Lago Televisión was a Venezuelan regional television network based in Maracaibo, Zulia State. The network was created in 1957 and lasted only a few months before ceasing operations.
History
The company that owned Ondas del Lago Televisión operated a radio station, known as Ondas del Lago, which was founded on October 10, 1936. On October 1, 1957, Ondas del Lago Televisión, founded by Nicolás Vale Quintero, went on the air. It was equipped with RCA technology, it counted on the first transmitters and other artifacts that could receive and emit color images in the country. Ondas del Lago Televisión disappeared a short time later due to economic problems.
See also
List of Venezuelan over-the-air television networks and stations
References
External links
Detailed history of television in Venezuela
1957 establishments in Venezuela
1957 disestablishments in Venezuela
Defunct television channels and networks in Venezuela
Television channels and stations established in 1957
Mass media in Maracaibo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors%20Network%20of%20those%20Abused%20by%20Priests | The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, established in 1989, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization support group of survivors of clergy sexual abuse and their supporters in the United States. Barbara Blaine, a survivor of sex abuse by a priest, was the founding president. SNAP, which initially focused on the Roman Catholic Church, had 12,000 members in 56 countries . It has branches for religious groups, such as SNAP Baptist, SNAP Orthodox, and SNAP Presbyterian, for non-religious groups (Scouts, families), and for geographic regions, e.g., SNAP Australia and SNAP Germany.
, Tim Lennon is the president. Shaun Dougherty was elected to serve as the president in July 2021.
Activities
On June 13, 2002, SNAP's David Clohessy addressed the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at its high-profile meeting in Dallas, Texas. He asserted that many church-going Catholics had strong concerns about the way in which bishops were handling the growing child sexual abuse scandal. Clohessy said, "We're not here because you want us to be. We're not here because we've earned it or have fought hard for it. We're here because children are a gift from God, and Catholic parents know this! That's why 87% of them think that if you've helped molesters commit their crimes, you should resign." In 2004, SNAP acknowledged accepting donations from leading attorneys who had represented clients in abuse cases, but maintained that it did not direct clients to these attorneys.
On August 8, 2009, former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, who served as the first chair of the National Review Board established by the U.S. Catholic bishops to investigate clergy sex abuse, addressed SNAP's annual gathering. He admitted he was at first naïve about the scope of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and urged bishops who covered up crimes to be prosecuted.
In 2009 SNAP supported a legislative bill in New York that would push Catholic Church dioceses to disclose the names of all clergy who have been transferred or retired due to "credible allegations" of abuse.
On June 9, 2009, a group of survivors of clergy abuse protested the appointment of Joseph Cistone as bishop of the Saginaw, Michigan diocese.
Retired Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of the Archdiocese of Detroit is a member and strong supporter of SNAP and has helped SNAP do fundraising work. According to the National Catholic Reporter, Gumbleton was punished by the Vatican and removed as a parish pastor because of work he did with SNAP and concerns he had about the Church's response to child sexual abuse.
SNAP's president, Barbara Blaine, and national director, David Clohessy, resigned from their SNAP positions, effective February 4, 2017, and December 31, 2016, respectively. According to the Chicago Tribune, "Barbara Dorris, SNAP's outreach director, has become the managing director". Three other longtime leaders, board president Mary Ellen Kruger and outreach director Barbara Dorris, both of St |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridouxia%20rotundata | Bridouxia rotundata is a species of tropical freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.
This species is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.
References
Paludomidae
Gastropods described in 1904
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics%20Society | The Cybernetics Society is a UK-based learned society that exists to promote the understanding of Cybernetics. The core activity of the Cybernetics Society is the organization and facilitation of scientific meetings, conferences, and social events. The society's website provides information and news items for professionals in the field and the general audience in order to improve the understanding of cybernetics and associated disciplines. Among the activities of the Society are:
Annual Conference: Annual conferences of the Cybernetics Society are held since 1973.
CYBCOM: CYBCOM is a Cybernetics discussion group.
Fellows of the Cybernetics Society: Some of the numerous fellows are Ranulph Glanville, Charles Hampden-Turner, Mick Ashby (Ethical regulator), Dr D.J. Stewart (Nudge theory), Dr James Wilk (Nudge theory), Dr Martin Smith and Dr David Dewhurst.
Honorary fellows : Among those awarded by the Cybernetics Society are: Eric Ash, Anthony Stafford Beer, Margaret Boden, James W. Black, John Carew Eccles, James Lovelock, Roger Penrose, Horace Barlow and Abdus Salam. Recent awardees include Stephen Brewis, David Deutsch, Fredmund Malik, Humberto Maturana and Kevin Warwick.
Kybernetes: The Society is working together with the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics on Kybernetes, The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciences.
IFSR: They are a member of the International Federation for Systems Research.
Enacting Cybernetics
The society publishes an open access journal, Enacting Cybernetics, hosted by Ubiquity Press. The journal is focused on "exploring and developing the many ways in which cybernetics may be practiced in the world."
References
External links
Cybernetics Society homepage
Enacting Cybernetics
Kybernetes
Cybernetics
Learned societies of the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1968
Systems science societies
1968 establishments in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Souls%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "All Souls" is the seventeenth episode of the fifth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode originally aired on the Fox network on April 26, 1998. The episode's teleplay was written by Frank Spotnitz and John Shiban, from a story by Dan Angel and Billy Brown; it was directed by Allen Coulter. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, a stand-alone plot which is unconnected to the mythology, or overarching fictional history, of The X-Files. "All Souls" received a Nielsen household rating of 8.5 and was watched by 13.44 million viewers in its initial broadcast. It received mixed reviews from television critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, the unexplained death of mentally and physically disabled girl prompts Father McCue (Arnie Walters) to ask Scully for her help, but her investigation leads her to a mystery involving Nephilim—children of mortal women and angels. Scully soon learns that Aaron Starkey (Glenn Morshower), a department of social services worker and demon in disguise, is after the girls, in order that the Devil may control their power.
The original version of "All Souls" was a simple story about Mulder, Scully, and angels. Shiban and Spotnitz, however, overhauled the idea and added elements extrapolated from the season's earlier "Christmas Carol" and "Emily" two-parter, making "All Souls" the "unofficial third part" of its story arc. The entry also contained several elaborate effects, which were achieved via makeup and CGI. After they viewed the final cut of the installment, Shiban and Spotnitz decided to frame the action around Scully confessing her story to a priest in a confessional.
Plot
In Alexandria, Virginia, sixteen-year-old Dara Kernof (Emily Perkins), a mentally and physically disabled girl who uses a wheelchair, somehow manages to leave her house in the middle of the night, soon after her baptism. Her father, Lance (Eric Keenleyside), eventually finds her outside with her arms raised upwards towards a strange figure. Suddenly, lightning flashes and the figure disappears. When Lance reaches Dara, he realizes she is dead and her eyes have been burned out. Eventually, Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is contacted by Father McCue (Arnie Walters), who asks if she would be willing to assist the family in figuring out what exactly happened. Soon thereafter, Scully visits the Kernofs and learns that Dara was adopted. Given her severe spinal deformities, Scully is unable to explain how Dara walked, let alone got outside. Lance then tells Scully that he saw a strange figure before her; he confides in her that he thinks the mysterious being was the Devil.
While this is going on, a priest named Father Gregory (Jody Racicot) visits a hospital to visit Dara's twin, Paula Koklos (Perkins), but he is stopped by a social worker named Aaron Stark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulella%20cuspidata | Gulella cuspidata is a species of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.
This species is endemic to Tanzania.
is a species of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.
References
Fauna of Tanzania
Gulella
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid%20slitshell | The pyramid slitshell, scientific name Gyrotoma pyramidata, was a species of freshwater snail, a gastropod in the Pleuroceridae family. It was endemic to the United States. It is now extinct.
References
Pleuroceridae
Extinct gastropods
Gastropods described in 1845
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%20video%20game%20burial | The Atari video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site, undertaken by the American video game and home computer company Atari, Inc. in 1983. Before 2014, the goods buried were rumored to be unsold copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), one of the largest commercial video game failures and often cited as one of the worst video games ever released, and the 1982 Atari 2600 port of Pac-Man, which was commercially successful but critically maligned.
Since the burial was first reported, there had been doubts as to its veracity and scope, and it was frequently dismissed as an urban legend. The event became a cultural icon and a reminder of the video game crash of 1983; it was the end result of a disastrous fiscal year which saw Atari, Inc. sold off by its parent company Warner Communications. Though it was believed that millions of copies of E.T. were buried, Atari officials later verified the numbers to be around 700,000 cartridges of various games, including E.T.
In 2014, Fuel Industries, Microsoft, and others worked with the New Mexico government to excavate the site as part of a documentary, Atari: Game Over. On April 26, 2014, the excavation revealed discarded games and hardware. Only a small fraction, about 1,300 cartridges, were recovered, with a portion given for curation and the rest auctioned to raise money for a museum to commemorate the burial.
Circumstances
Financial difficulty
Atari, Inc. had been purchased by Warner Communications in 1976 for , and had seen its net worth grow to by 1982. By this time, the company accounted for 80% of the video gaming market and was responsible for over half of its parent company's revenues, earning some 65–70% of their operating profits. By the last quarter of 1982, its growth in the following year was expected to be in the region of 50%. However, on December 7, 1982, the company reported that its earnings had only increased by 10–15%, rather than the predicted figure. The next day saw Warner Communications' share prices fall by a third, and the quarter ended with Warner's profits falling by 56%. In addition, Atari's CEO, Ray Kassar, was later investigated for possible insider trading charges as a result of selling some five thousand shares in Warner less than half an hour before reporting Atari's lower-than-expected earnings. Kassar was later cleared of any wrongdoing, although he was forced to resign his position the following July. Atari, Inc. would go on to lose in 1983, and was sold off by Warner Communications the following year.
Failed games
Atari's tendency to port arcade games for its home console had led to some of its most commercially successful games, including the port of its own coin-op Asteroids, as well as the licensed versions of Taito's Space Invaders and Namco's Pac-Man. When the latter game received its official port to the Atari 2600, Atari was confident that sales figures would be high, and ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala%20%28programming%20language%29 | Vala is an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject system.
Vala is syntactically similar to C# and includes notable features such as anonymous functions, signals, properties, generics, assisted memory management, exception handling, type inference, and foreach statements. Its developers, Jürg Billeter and Raffaele Sandrini, wanted to bring these features to the plain C runtime with little overhead and no special runtime support by targeting the GObject object system. Rather than compiling directly to machine code or assembly language, it compiles to a lower-level intermediate language. It source-to-source compiles to C, which is then compiled with a C compiler for a given platform, such as GCC or Clang.
Using functionality from native code libraries requires writing vapi files, defining the library interfaces. Writing these interface definitions is well-documented for C libraries. Bindings are already available for a large number of libraries, including libraries that are not based on GObject such as the multimedia library SDL and OpenGL.
Description
Vala is a programming language that combines the high-level build-time performance of scripting languages with the run-time performance of low-level programming languages. It aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI, compared to applications and libraries written in C. The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the GObject type system.
History
Vala was conceived by Jürg Billeter and was implemented by him and Raffaele Sandrini, who wished for a higher level alternative for developing GNOME applications instead of C. They did like the syntax and semantics of C# but did not want to use Mono, so they finished a compiler in May 2006. Initially, it was bootstrapped using C, and one year later (with release of version 0.1.0 in July 2007), the Vala compiler became self-hosted. As of 2021, the current stable release branch with long-term support is 0.48, and the language is under active development with the goal of releasing a stable version 1.0.
Language design
Features
Vala uses GLib and its submodules (GObject, GModule, GThread, GIO) as the core library, which is available for most operating systems and offers things like platform independent threading, input/output, file management, network sockets, plugins, regular expressions, etc. The syntax of Vala currently supports modern language features as follows:
Interfaces
Properties
Signals
Foreach
Lambda expressions
Type inference for local variables
Generics
Non-null types
Assisted memory management
Exception handling
Graphical user interfaces can be developed with the GTK GUI toolkit and the Glade GUI builder.
Memory management
For memory management, the GType or GObject system provides reference counting. In C, a programmer must manually manage ad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program%20structure%20tree | A program structure tree (PST) is a hierarchical diagram that displays the nesting relationship of single-entry single-exit (SESE) fragments/regions, showing the organization of a computer program. Nodes in this tree represent SESE regions of the program, while edges represent nesting regions. The PST is defined for all control flow graphs.
Bibliographical notes
These notes list important works which fueled research on parsing of programs and/or (work)flow graphs (adapted from Section 3.5 in ).
The connectivity properties are the basic properties of graphs and are useful when testing whether a graph is planar or when determining if two graphs are isomorphic. John Hopcroft and Robert Endre Tarjan (1973) developed an optimal (to within a constant factor) algorithm for dividing a graph into triconnected components. The algorithm is based on the depth-first search of graphs and requires time and space to examine a graph with vertices and edges.
Robert Endre Tarjan and Jacobo Valdes (1980) used triconnected components for structural analysis of biconnected flow graphs. The triconnected components of the undirected version of a flow graph are shown to be useful for discovering structural information of directed flow graphs. The triconnected components can be discovered efficiently and form a hierarchy of SESE fragments of a flow graph.
Giuseppe Di Battista and Roberto Tamassia (1990) introduced SPQR-trees - a data structure which represents decomposition of a biconnected graph with respect to its triconnected components. Essentially, SPQR-trees are the parse trees of Tarjan and Valdes. The authors showed the usefulness of SPQR-trees for various on-line graph algorithms, e.g., transitive closure, planarity testing, and minimum spanning tree. In particular, the authors proposed an efficient solution to the problem of on-line maintenance of the triconnected components of a graph.
Richard C. Johnson et al. (1994) proposed a program structure tree (PST), a hierarchical representation of program structure based on single edge entry and single edge exit regions. The PST can be computed in time for an arbitrary flow graph, where is the set of edges in the graph. The disadvantage of the PST is that it exploits the notion of a SESE fragment based on edge entries and exits only. Thus, the PST does not capture those SESE fragments which are based on vertex entries and exits.
Carsten Gutwenger and Petra Mutzel (2001) shared their practical experience on linear time computation of the triconnected components of biconnected graphs. They have identified and corrected the faulty parts of the algorithm in and applied the resulting algorithm to the computation of SPQR-trees. The implementation is publicly available.
Chun Ouyang et al. (2006–2009) used parsing to translate BPMN diagrams into BPEL processes. The employed notion of a fragment is similar to the notion of a region in. However, the developed parsing algorithm is non-deterministic, i.e., the parse tree |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AR | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linq | Linq or LINQ may refer to:
Linq (card game)
LinQ, a Japanese girl pop music group
Language Integrated Query, programming language technology
The Linq, a hotel and casino in Las Vegas, United States
Linqing, a city in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URBI | Urbi is an open-source cross-platform software computing platform written in C++ used to develop applications for robotics and complex systems. Urbi is based on the UObject distributed C++ component architecture. It also includes the urbiscript orchestration language which is a parallel and event-driven script language. UObject components can be plugged into urbiscript and appear as native objects that can be scripted to specify their interactions and data exchanges. UObjects can be linked to the urbiscript interpreter, or executed as autonomous processes in "remote" mode.
The urbiscript language
The urbiscript language was created in 2003 by Jean-Christophe Baillie in the Cognitive Robotics Lab of ENSTA, Paris. It has been actively and further developed in the industry through the Gostai company founded in 2006. It is now an open source project, with a BSD license, available on GitHub.
The urbiscript language can be best described as an orchestration script language: like Lua in video games, urbiscript can be used to glue together C++ components into a functional behavior, the CPU-intensive algorithmic part being left to C++ and the behavior scripting part being left to the script language which is more flexible, easy to maintain and allows dynamic interaction during program execution. As an orchestration language, urbiscript also brings some useful abstractions to a program by having parallelism and event-based programming as part of the language semantics. The scripting of parallel behaviors and reactions to events are core requirements of most robotic and complex AI applications, therefore urbiscript (and the whole Urbi platform) is well suited to such applications.
Language attributes
Parallelism and event-based programming
Prototype-based programming
C++ like syntax
Java and C++ based component architecture (UObject) with possibility to link objects or run them remotely
Client–server model architecture
Cross platform: Linux, Macintosh, Windows, others.
Embeddable, Urbi can run on various processors: x86, ARM, MIPS, powerPC, etc.
Job control via "tags"
Functions
Parallel programming and event-driven programming
Programming prototypes
Syntax similar to C++
Architecture components: C++, Java (UObject) with the ability to link object or execute remotely
Client–server model
Interfaces with customers Java and MATLAB (Urbi SDK)
Multiple platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows NT, and embedded environments (x86, ARM, MIPS, powerPC)
Marking orders for their control so asynchronous
Integration of Robot Operating System (ROS) directly accessible from urbiscript (version 2.1)
Examples
The example below shows how to write a ball tracking action/perception loop in urbiscript: are two motor objects, and ball is the ball detection object (x and y range from -1/2 to 1/2):
whenever (ball.visible)
{
headYaw.val += camera.xfov * ball.x
&
headPitch.val += camera.yfov * ball.y
};
whenever is used to trigger a piece of co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented%20user%20interface | In computing, an object-oriented user interface (OOUI) is a type of user interface based on an object-oriented programming metaphor, and describes most modern operating systems ("object-oriented operating systems") such as MacOS and Windows. In an OOUI, the user interacts explicitly with objects that represent entities in the domain that the application is concerned with. Many vector drawing applications, for example, have an OOUI – the objects being lines, circles and canvases. The user may explicitly select an object, alter its properties (such as size or colour), or invoke other actions upon it (such as to move, copy, or re-align it). If a business application has any OOUI, the user may be selecting and/or invoking actions on objects representing entities in the business domain such as customers, products or orders.
Jakob Nielsen defines the OOUI in contrast to function-oriented interfaces: "Object-oriented interfaces are sometimes described as turning the application inside-out as compared to function-oriented interfaces. The main focus of the interaction changes to become the users' data and other information objects that are typically represented graphically on the screen as icons or in windows."
Dave Collins defines an OOUI as demonstrating three characteristics:
Users perceive and act on objects
Users can classify objects based on how they behave
In the context of what users are trying to do, all the user interface objects fit together into a coherent overall representation.
Jef Raskin suggests that the most important characteristic of an OOUI is that it adopts a 'noun-verb', rather than a 'verb-noun' style of interaction, and that this has several advantages in terms of usability.
Relationship to other user interface ideas
There is a great deal of potential synergy between the OOUI concept and other important ideas in user interface design including:
graphical user interface (GUI).
direct manipulation interface
interface metaphor
Many futuristic imaginings of user interfaces rely heavily on OOUI and especially OOGUI concepts. However there are many examples of user interfaces that implement one or more of those other ideas, but which are not in fact OOUIs - though they are often wrongly labelled as OOUIs. Conversely, there are examples of OOUIs that are neither graphical, nor employ direct manipulation techniques, nor employ strong metaphors. For example, the earliest versions of the Smalltalk programming language had a command line interface that was nonetheless also clearly an OOUI, though it subsequently became better known for its pioneering role in the development of GUIs, direct manipulation and visual metaphors.
Relationship to object-oriented programming
Although there are many conceptual parallels between OOUIs and object-oriented programming, it does not follow that an OOUI has to be implemented using an object-oriented programming language.
The guidelines for IBM's Common User Access (CUA), (possibly th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AS | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVI-738 | The Spectravideo SVI-738 X'Press is an MSX1 compatible home computer manufactured by Spectravideo from 1985. Although compatible with the MSX 1.0 standard, it incorporates several extensions to the standard (80-column display, serial RS-232, built-in 3.5" floppy drive); many are hardware-compatible with the MSX 2.0 standard but the system as a whole is not, leading to it being referred to as an "MSX 1.5" computer.
Along with the Sony HB-101, Canon V-8, Casio MX-10 and Hitachi MB-H1, it was a portable computer based on the MSX standard, hence the title "X'Press". It came packaged with its own carrying bag in addition to the manuals, booklets and software (CP/M 2.2 and MSX-DOS 1.0) a disk containing a special demonstration program featuring an astronaut flying about on the screen, demonstrating the computer's graphic capabilities and listing facts about the computer's ROM and RAM sizes.
Along with the disk drive and integrated serial port, what stood out the most was the use of the graphics chip specified by the MSX-2 standard, although the use of only 16 KB of VRAM allowed you to add only an 80 column mode. This, together with bugs in the first model's design (Konami SCC-sound based cartridges do not work or have bad sound) are among the reasons for the "MSX 1.5" moniker.
It ran Microsoft Disk BASIC 1.0 from ROM when turned on if no disk or a non-autoexecutable disk was inserted.
Marketing
The computer was marketed mainly in Europe, Australasia and the Middle East. In Poland, 2000 units were marketed in 1986 by Centralna Składnica Harcerska at a price of 440 000 PLZ (the average salary for 18 months at that time). This was the only MSX computer to be sold in official network in communist Poland. This version of the SVI-738 was equipped with an altered keyboard and ROM in order to provide Polish-specific characters. It could also be found in schools in Finland . In Spain, it was initially distributed by Indescomp until the creation of a Spanish subsidiary. In the United Kingdom, it was sold for £399.95. The SVI-738 was also sold in the United States.
Technical specifications
Microprocessor
Zilog Z80A with a clockspeed of 3.58 MHz
Memory
ROM: 56 KB
RAM: 64 KB
VRAM: 16 KB
Video
Graphical processor: Yamaha V9938 (NTSC/PAL)
Graphical resolution: 256 x 192 pixels
text modes: 80 characters x 24 and 40 characters x 24 lines and 32 characters x 24 lines
colors: 16
sprites: 32
Sound
General Instrument AY-3-8910-soundchip
3 sound channels
1 noise channels
1 envelope controller
Connectors
1 data recorder/cassette deck
2 joysticks MSX
1 cartridge
1 RS-232c DE-9
1 DB-25 external disk drive
1 Audio/Video set (two RCA connectors)
1 UHF modulator TV NTSC (USA) / PAL (Europe)
Image gallery
See also
SVI-728
External links
Roger's Spectravideo page with a photo of the motherboard.
El Museo de los 8 Bits
Upgrading to a MSX2
Hans Otten have two conversion methods, image of disk, manuals and more.
References
Home computers
MSX microcomputer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AT | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos%20Aires%20and%20Ensenada%20Port%20Railway | The Buenos Aires & Ensenada Port Railway (BA&EP) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Buenos Aires y Puerto de la Ensenada) was a British-owned company that built and operated a broad gauge railway network in Argentina towards the end of the nineteenth century. The company was taken over by its rival the British-owned Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway (BAGS) in 1898.
History
Beginning
In 1857 The Buenos Aires Province Legislature granted Government of the Province a concession to build a railway, initially known as "La Boca and Barracas Railway", from the city of Buenos Aires to Ensenada on the Río de la Plata river, near the city of La Plata which was to become the Provincial capital in 1882. The main idea that originated the construction of the line was to connect the city of Buenos Aires with Ensenada, a city in Buenos Aires Province which had a port which was important for its access and commercial demand.
In 1863 concession was granted to Brassey, Wythes & Wheelwright, company owned by American entrepreneur William Wheelwright. Initially known as Ferrocarril de La Boca, works began that same year from the corner of Paseo Colón Avenue and Venezuela street, where currently Escuela Otto Krause is placed.
Develop
The first terminus of the line was Venezuela station, where trains departed, running through a viaduct to Casa Amarilla, General Brown, and Barraca Peña, finishing in Tres Esquinas station, reached by the line in September 1865. One year later, a branch from General Brown to Muelle de La Boca was opened.
In 1872 "Buenos Aires & Ensenada Port Railway (BA&EP)" company was officially established, taking over the railway previously founded and operated by Wheelwright. That same year Central Station was inaugurated as terminus of the line. The station, located on the corner of Paseo de Julio Avenue (currently Leandro N. Alem) and Piedad street (today Bartolomé Mitre), consisted of a modern building made of wood and brought directly from Great Britain.
That same year the tracks extended to Quilmes, reaching that city on April 18. The train crossed over Riachuelo through an iron bridge that was destroyed by flood in 1884, being quickly replaced by another one made of wood. BA&E finally reached Ensenada on December 31, 1872, being President of Argentina Domingo Sarmiento one of the passengers of the inaugural service. Therefore, the railway line completed an extension of 61 km.
In 1882 the city of La Plata was established as capital of the province. The government of Buenos Aires Province decided that La Plata needed to be connected to the rest of the country by train. As the province owned 100% of rival company Buenos Aires Western Railway, the government commissioned BAWR the construction of the railway.
Therefore, the BAWR built a railway line that joint BA&E in Ensenada, reaching La Plata via Tolosa, a city of La Plata Partido. In 1884 the BAWR built a branch from Tolosa to Pereyra station. In 1883 works to build the La Plata port began, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20ReGeneration | The Regeneration refers to people of all ages who share a common interest in renewable resources, recycling and other means of sustaining the earth's natural environment.
Social networks are enabling members of the Regeneration to interact and share ideas, tools, and resources with each other, increasing the rate at which the actual regeneration of culture and planet can occur.
While not specifically defined, the prefix Re in ReGeneration could be interpreted to include widespread environmental practices such as reusing, recycling and restoring. The concepts of circular design and systems thinking, commonly used by people in the Regeneration, stem from a long line of indigenous agricultural practices and more recently biomimicry and permaculture, a set of design principles centered around whole systems thinking, simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and resilient features observed in natural ecosystems.
The permaculture approach guides us to mimic the patterns and relationships we can find in nature and can be applied to all aspects of human habitation, from agriculture to ecological building, from appropriate technology to education and even economics.
History
The modern environmental movement gained traction in the early 1970s following the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the first time multiple nations joined together to discuss the state of the world's environment.
The concept of a generation that includes people of all ages who share a common interest in the environment was first introduced by Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell on World Environment Day 2007. Many of the original theories of change came from writers, thinkers, and designers such as Wendell Berry, Buckminster Fuller, David Orr and Frank Lloyd Wright. These individuals saw a shift happening in humanity toward a rekindled connection with nature and inspired monumental changes in our approach and perspectives on topics such as building community, our relationship with agriculture and architecture, as well as the disconnect between modern economics on a finite planet.
There are also more recent thought leaders talking about ecological thinking like Paul Hawken, Kate Raworth, Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, and Bill McKibben, who have modernized the discourse and given the environmental movement a new set of tools in the form of conscious capitalism and positive climate communication.
On December 3, 2016, Kyle Calian founded The Regeneration, a magazine focused on highlighting individuals in the environmental movement who were actively changing the conversation about climate change.
References
External links
GreenBiz
Why you need to understand Ecological Design
The Regeneration
Environmental movements
Cultural generations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw%20FM%20%28Australian%20radio%20network%29 | Raw FM is an Australian narrowcast radio network, consisting of stations in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Queensland.
The network was started with the opening of a station on the Central Coast of New South Wales in 1999 and then expanded to take on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, parts of New South Wales, Gold Coast and Australian Capital Territory. It consists of 29 stations linked via the Optus D2 satellite.
Programming
Raw FM's programming is aimed at the 14-30 age group.
The station broadcasts a mix of electro house, indie dance, Club Hits and Urban sounds and features programs from Roger Sanchez, Above & Beyond, Global Dance Session, as well as live broadcasts from major clubs and events in its broadcast areas.
The service is played out from the Telstra Broadcast Services facility in the Pitt Street Telephone Exchange and transported to Oxford Falls where it is uplinked to the Optus D2 satellite across Australia and New Zealand.
FM radio frequencies and locations
New South Wales
87.6FM Albury-Wodonga
87.6FM Armidale
87.6FM Brookvale
87.6FM Cabarita
88.0FM Central Coast
88.0FM Coffs Harbour
88.0FM Collaroy
87.6FM Goulburn
87.6FM Grafton
87.6FM Jindabyne
87.6FM Kempsey
87.6FM Kingscliff
87.6FM Lake Cathie
88.0FM Macksville
87.6FM Murwillumbah
88.0FM Newcastle
87.6FM Nowra
87.8FM Ocean Shores
88.0FM Perisher
87.6FM Port Macquarie
87.6FM Pottsville
87.6FM Queanbeyan
87.8FM Sawtell
88.0FM South West Rocks
88.0FM Terranora
88.0FM Ulladulla
88.0FM Urunga
88.0FM Wagga Wagga
87.6FM Wauchope
87.6FM Yamba
Queensland
88.0FM Burleigh Heads
88.0FM Coolangatta
88.0FM Surfers Paradise
Victoria
87.6FM Shepparton
References
External links
Australian radio networks
Dance radio stations
Radio stations in New South Wales
Radio stations in Canberra
Radio stations in Wagga Wagga
Radio stations in Queensland
Radio stations on the Gold Coast, Queensland
Radio stations in Victoria (state)
Radio stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cang%20Hui | Cang Hui () is a mathematical ecologist at Stellenbosch University. His research interests are proposing models and theories for explaining emerging patterns of biodiversity, networks and adaptive traits in ecology and evolution.
Background
Hui was born in Xi'an and received his BSc (1998) in Applied Mathematics from Xi'an Jiaotong University, his MSc (2001) in Applied Mathematics from Lanzhou University, and his PhD (2004) in Mathematical Ecology from the same university. Hui was a Researcher at the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology from 2008 to 2013, and has remained a Core-Team Member of the center since. Hui was appointed Visiting Professor in the MOE Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (also known as the Research School of Arid Environment & Climate Change) from 2006 to 2009 and Adjunct Professor since 2011 at Lanzhou University. In January 2014, Hui was promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Stellenbosch University for his appointment as the South African Research Chair in Mathematical & Theoretical Physical Biosciences by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. This appointment is co-hosted by the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, located in Cape Town.
In 2011 he was awarded the Elsevier Young Scientist Award at the National Research Foundation of South Africa.
Major works
In 2021, Hui and colleague David Mark Richardson published the book Invading Ecological Networks. This volume defines an agenda for Invasion Science 2.0 by providing new framings and classification of research topics and by offering tentative solutions to vexing problems. In particular, it conceptualises a transformative ecosystem as an open adaptive network with critical transitions and turnover, with resident species heuristically learning and fine-tuning their niches and roles in a multiplayer eco-evolutionary game. It erects signposts pertaining to network interactions, structures, stability, dynamics, scaling, and invasibility.
In 2018, Hui and colleagues published the book Ecological and Evolutionary Modelling. The book introduces key concepts in ecology and evolution, explains classic and recent important mathematical models for investigating ecological and evolutionary dynamics, and provides real examples in ecology that have used these models to address relevant issues. Ecology studies biodiversity in its variety and complexity.
In 2017, Hui and colleague David Mark Richardson published the book Invasion Dynamics. The book depicts how non-native species spread and perform in their novel ranges and how recipient socio-ecological systems are reshaped and how they respond to the new incursions.
References
External links
Personal webpage
1977 births
Living people
Lanzhou University alumni
Mathematical ecologists
People from Xi'an
Academic staff of Stellenbosch University
Xi'an Jiaotong University alumni
Educators from Shaanxi
Mathematicians from Shaanxi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%20MSX | The Dragon MSX MSX 1 home computer was designed by Radofin (the creators of the Mattel Aquarius) for Dragon Data, which were well known for their Dragon 64 home computer, a clone of the TRS-80 Color Computer. Only a few prototypes were ever built.
Tech information
BIOS (16 KB)
MSX BASIC V1.0 (16 KB)
Video Display Processor: TMS9918 with a Video RAM of 16 KB and this BASIC modes :
SCREEN 0 : text 40 × 24 characters, 2 colors
SCREEN 1 : text 32 × 24 characters, 16 colors
SCREEN 2 : graphics 256 × 192, 16 colors
SCREEN 3 : graphics 64 × 48, 16 colors
Sprites: 32, 1 colour, max 4 per horizontal line
External links
El Museo de los 8 Bits
Tromax happy proprietary of the prototype #37
Dragon Data Archive
Dragon Data
MSX microcomputer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips%20VG-8020 | The VG-8020 was Philips' third MSX computer introduced in 1984, after the VG-8000 and the VG-8010 computers.
With a price of 2990 Fr, the machine was MSX1 standard compatible, had a real keyboard (instead of a chiclet keyboard like its predecessors) and a printer port (missing on the previous models).
The VG-8020 was manufactured by Kyocera and featured a Zilog Z80A microprocessor clocked at 3.56 MHz, 64KB of RAM, 16KB of VRAM, two cartridge slots and two joystick ports.
The machine came with MSX BASIC 1.0 in ROM and graphics were provided by a Texas Instruments TMS9929A, with RF and composite video outputs. Sound was generated by a General Instruments AY-3-8910 chip.
It was replaced by the VG-8220, a MSX2 compatible machine.
Models
The computer was marketed in several variants:
Philips VG-8020/00 (PAL, QWERTY keyboard, 1984)
Philips VG-8020/19 (SECAM, AZERTY keyboard, RGB out, black case, France, 1985)
Philips VG-8020/20 (PAL, QWERTY keyboard layout, revised motherboard, 1986)
Philips VG-8020/29 (Germany, 1986)
Philips VG-8020/40 (revised motherboard)
Phonola VG 8020 (Italy)
Gallery
References
MSX microcomputer
Philips products
Z80-based home computers |
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