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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reckless%20%28TV%20serial%29 | Reckless is a British television serial written by Paul Abbott. Produced by Granada Television for the ITV network, it aired in six parts in the UK from 6 February to 13 March 1997.
A two-hour sequel, Reckless: The Sequel, was shown on 11 October 1998.
Plot outline
Dr Owen Springer is a surgeon in his thirties, on his way from London to Manchester to move in with his ailing father. On the train journey, Owen needs to make an urgent phone call but the only person who will allow him to use her mobile phone is fellow passenger, Anna Fairley, a beautiful woman in her forties. Unbeknownst to Owen, she is also the head of the management consultancy administering his forthcoming personality assessment for a new job at a local Manchester hospital. By the time of their second meeting, Owen has already developed romantic feelings towards Anna, though she spurns all his advances. To complicate matters further, Owen discovers Anna is also the wife of his new boss at the hospital, Dr Richard Crane. However, Owen discovers Richard is having an affair himself, knowledge which he uses to bring himself and Anna closer together.
Cast
Owen Springer - Robson Green
Anna Fairley - Francesca Annis
Richard Crane - Michael Kitchen
Arnold Springer - David Bradley
Vivien Reid - Daniela Nardini
John McGinley - Conor Mullen
Danny Glassman - Julian Rhind-Tutt
Myrtle Fairley - Margery Mason
Irma - Kathryn Hunt
Phyllis - Kathryn Pogson
Michelle - Debra Stephenson
Awards and nominations
BAFTA Television Award - Best Actress - Francesca Annis (nominated)
Royal Television Society Award - Best Writer - Paul Abbott (nominated)
Royal Television Society Award - Best Actor - Robson Green (nominated)
National Television Awards - Most Popular Drama (won)
National Television Awards - Most Popular Actor - Robson Green (nominated)
US Airing
The series was shown in the United States as part of PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. For that airing every two episodes were combined, resulting in only three episodes, each running about 90 mins without commercials (excluding PBS intros).
DVD
Reckless and its sequel are available on DVD, distributed by Acorn Media UK.
In 2016 Network DVD release Reckless and the sequel on DVD.
External links
1990s British drama television series
ITV television dramas
1997 British television series debuts
1997 British television series endings
1990s British television miniseries
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Granada Television
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20in%20Spain | This article is about the Internet in Spain.
History
RETD was the first public data network in the world when it became operational in 1972. It evolved into Iberpac.
Status
Internet users: 42.40 million users; 91.0% of the population (2020)
Fixed broadband: 33.6 million subscriptions, 13th in the world; 83.4% of the population, 37th in the world (2019).
Mobile broadband: 25.0 million subscriptions, 13th in the world; 53.2% of the population, 24th in the world (2012).
Internet hosts: 4.2 million hosts, 26th in the world (2012).
IPv4: 28.4 million addresses allocated, 0.7% of the world total; 604 addresses per 1000 persons (2012).
Top level domain: .es
Fixed broadband
Spain has one of the highest coverages of FTTH, having more than Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom altogether
ADSL arrived in Spain in 1999. In some rural areas, wireless technologies (WiMAX, LMDS, Satellite, HSDPA, ...) are used to provide wired-like services, the main provider of these services is Iberbanda (a Telefónica subsidiary like Movistar), there are also other companies like San Pedro Wifi who are not part of Telefónica. Typically San Pedro Wifi can offer speeds over 100 Mbit/s.
Virtually all wired connections are unmetered. Most broadband lines include free phone calls to land-lines within Spain and some include limited calls to mobile phones.
Movistar offers 1 Gbit/s symmetrical. Other operators also have 1 Gbit/s offers, some symmetrical. Other providers such Orange and Digi offer symmetrical speeds up to 10 Gbps in limited, but steadily expanding geographical areas.
The most common speed in Spain is 300 Mbit/s as it is the default offer from Movistar, the main broadband supplier in the country. Clients of other DSL companies usually have higher speeds sold as "Máxima velocidad" (maximum speed) or "Hasta 1 Gbps" (up to 1 Gbit/s); in those offers the speed of the connection depends on the quality of the line (length of the wire, attenuation, noise) as those speeds are just at the limit of the ADSL2+ technology. Jazztel gets better results with its "Hasta 300 megas" (up to 300 Mbit/s) because that connection works with VDSL. In opposition to those unguaranteed offers, Ono, the main cable provider, sells its connections as "x megas reales" (x Mbit/s).
The main providers are:
Movistar (FTTH) – Former state telecom monopoly.
Orange (FTTH)
Vodafone (HFC)
MÁSMÓVIL (FTTH and HFC)
Movistar, Vodafone, Orange and MÁSMÓVIL are the main providers offering TV packages with their broadband.
Mobile broadband
The use of mobile networks for Internet access is important due to the high penetration of smart and mobile phones in Spain. The use of USB devices for computers to connect to mobile networks is also common and some fixed broadband providers offer them for free or at low cost for use on holidays.
People usually use flat rates for Internet with limits depending on the price, once that limit is reached, the speed falls from ~7 Mbit/s to ~128 kbit/s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPAM | EPAM (Elementary Perceiver and Memorizer) is a psychological theory of learning and memory implemented as a computer program. Originally designed by Herbert A. Simon and Edward Feigenbaum to simulate phenomena in verbal learning, it has been later adapted to account for data on the psychology of expertise and concept formation. It was influential in formalizing the concept of a chunk. In EPAM, learning consists in the growth of a discrimination network.
EPAM was written in IPL/V.
The project was started in the late 1950s with the aim to learn nonsense syllables. The term nonsense is used because the learned patterns are not connected with a meaning but they are standing for their own. The software is working internally by creating a decision tree. An improved version is available under the name “EPAM-VI”.
Related cognitive models
CHREST
Soar
References
Feigenbaum, E. A., & Simon, H. A. (1962). A theory of the serial position effect. British Journal of Psychology, 53, 307–320.
Feigenbaum, E. A., & Simon, H. A. (1984). EPAM-like models of recognition and learning. Cognitive Science, 8, 305–336.
Gobet, F., Richman, H. B., Staszewski, J. J., & Simon, H. A. (1997). Goals, representations, and strategies in a concept attainment task: The EPAM model. The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 37, 265–290.
Richman, H. B., Gobet, F., Staszewski, J. J., & Simon, H. A. (1996). Perceptual and memory processes in the acquisition of expert performance: The EPAM model. In K. A. Ericsson (Ed.), The road to excellence (pp. 167–187). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Richman, H. B., Staszewski, J. J., & Simon, H. A. (1995). Simulation of expert memory with EPAM IV. Psychological Review, 102, 305–330.
Cognitive architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asda%20Mobile | Asda Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the United Kingdom operated by Asda and using the Vodafone network. Asda Mobile previously used the EE network before reverting to Vodafone in 2021. Asda Mobile is available in over 360 stores across the UK and online through purchasing either a SIM card (standard, micro or nano SIM) or through an Asda Mobile handset.
Handsets
There are many phones available from Asda, either in store or from their online service Asda.com. Asda sells both unlocked and locked phones: locked phones are locked to one of the major networks in the UK and sold with their SIM and potential phone customisations.
Coverage and network
Asda Mobile initially used the Vodafone infrastructure until 2013, when it switched to EE. A return to Vodafone was announced in October 2020, with customers being switched over in February 2021. The move brought additional features, including WiFi Calling and unlimited data plans.
Awards
Asda Mobile was awarded the Which? award for "Best Mobile Network" for 2010, 2011 and 2012, and was recommended in 2016. Asda Mobile was also named as a Which? recommended provider for 2019 and 2018. Awards were based on coverage, pricing and customer service.
References
External links
Official Website
Old Website
price comparison on three.co.uk
Mobile virtual network operators
British companies established in 2007
Telecommunications companies established in 2007
Mobile phone companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entre%20R%C3%ADos%20Railway | The Entre Ríos Railway (ERR) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Entre Ríos) was a British-owned railway company that built and operated a railway network in Entre Ríos Province, between the rivers Uruguay and Paraná, in Argentina.
History
The company began operation in 1892 by purchasing a rail network operated by state-owned Central Entre Ríos from the provincial government. Four years later the company purchased the Gualeguay to Puerto Ruiz line, built by "Ferrocarril Primer Entrerriano" in 1866, from the national government, and on 12 October 1899 a branch line from Gobernador Solá to Macía was opened.
A line from Villaguay to Concordia, on the River Uruguay, was built in 1902 reaching Jubileo on 25 January, General Campos on 3 March and Concordia on 30 June where it joined the Argentine North Eastern Railway. Later the following branch lines were opened: from Las Colas to Enrique Carbó on 10 October 1906, from Caseros to Villa Elisa on 28 December 1906, from Crespo to Hasenkamp on 26 August 1907, from Médanos to Carbó on 1 February 1908, from Médanos to Ibicuy on 15 March 1908, from Ibucuy to the port in 1909, Carbó to Parera on 1 December 1909 and Villa Elisa to San Salvador on 2 July 1912.
In 1915 a joint administration was established with the neighbouring British-owned Argentine North Eastern Railway.
By the time President Juan Perón nationalised Argentina's railways in 1948 the ERR operated a 1,300 km network which became part of the state-owned General Urquiza Railway.
Heritage railway
In the early 1990s, a heritage railway was opened and operated by "Ferroclub Central Entrerriano", a local non-profit association formed by railway enthusiasts. Since then, the service has been running trains pulled by steam locomotives between the cities of Villa Elisa and Caseros in Entre Ríos Province, covering a distance of , with a total journey time of 120 minutes.
See also
General Urquiza Railway
Argentine North Eastern Railway
Bibliography
British Railways in Argentina 1857-1914: A Case Study of Foreign Investment by Colin M. Lewis - Athlone Press (for the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 1983)
British-Owned Railways in Argentina – Their Effect on Economic Nationalism, 1854-1948 by Winthrop R. Wright ( Latin American Monograph No. 34, Institute of Latin American Studies), Univ. of Texas Press (London, 1974)
References
External links
Defunct railway companies of Argentina
Railway companies established in 1892
Railway companies disestablished in 1948
Standard gauge railways in Argentina
Transport in Entre Ríos Province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20in%20the%20Philippines | Internet in the Philippines first became available on March 29, 1994, 10:18 a.m., with the Philippine Network Foundation (PHNet) connecting the country and its people to Sprint in the United States via a 64 kbit/s link.
As of February 2023, there are 85.16 million internet users in the country, where internet penetration stood at 73.1% of the total population.
History
Timeline
The early history of the Internet in the Philippines started with the establishment of Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) by local computer hobbyists and enthusiasts. They were able to link their BBS's using a dial-up connection protocol enabling them to participate in discussion forums, send messages and share files.
1986: Establishment of first BBS in the Philippines, First-Fil RBBS a public-access BBS went online with an annual subscription fee of P1,000. A precursor to the local online forum, it ran an open-source BBS software on an IBM XT Clone PC with a 1200bit/s modem and was operated by Dan Angeles and Ed Castañeda.
1987: The Philippine FidoNet Exchange, a local network for communication between several BBSes in Metro Manila, was formed.
1990: A committee helmed by Arnie del Rosario of the Ateneo Computer Technology Center was tasked with exploring the possibility of creating an academic network of universities and government institutions by the National Computer Center under Dr. William Torres. Recommendations were made but not implemented.
1991–1993: Emergence of email gateways and services in the Philippines, including some from multinational companies like Intel, Motorola, and Texas Instruments, which used a direct Internet connection, X.25, or UUCP protocol. Local firms ETPI, Philcom, and PLDT (Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company) also operated commercial X.25 networks. Another milestone: Local and international email to FidoNet users was introduced.
June 1993: With the support of the Department of Science and Technology and the Industrial Research Foundation, the Philnet project (now PHNET) was born. The Philnet technical committee, composed of computer buffs working at the DOST [MIS (Joseph Andres), PCASTRD (Merl Opena, Winnefredo Aggabao) and Advanced Science and Technology Institute (Miguel Dimayuga)] and representatives from the Ateneo de Manila University (Richie Lozada and Arnie del Rosario), De La Salle University (Kelsey Hartigan-Go), University of the Philippines Diliman (Rodel Atanacio), University of the Philippines Los Baños (Alfonso Carandang), Xavier University (Bombim Cadiz) and St. Louis University (Ian Generalao); would eventually play a significant role in connecting the Philippines to the global Internet.
July 1993: Phase one of the Philnet project shifted into full gear after receiving funding from the DOST. It proved to be successful, as students from partner universities were able to send emails to the Internet by routing them through Philnet's gateway at the Ateneo de Manila University, which was connected to another gateway at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Klir | George Jiří Klir (April 22, 1932 – May 27, 2016) was a Czech-American computer scientist and professor of systems sciences at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.
Biography
George Klir was born in 1932 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 1957 he received a M.S. degree in electrical engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. In the early 1960s he taught at the Institute of Computer Research in Prague. In 1964 he received a doctorate in computer science from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
In the 1960s Klir went to Iraq to teach at the Baghdad University for two years. At the end he managed to immigrate to the U.S. He started teaching computer science at UCLA and at the Fairleigh Dickinson University. In 1969 he came to Binghamton University, where he later became professor of systems science. One year (1982–1983) he stayed as a fellow in Dutch Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), where he completed the manuscript of his book Architecture of Systems Problem Solving. In 2007 he retired after 37 years at the University.
From 1974 to 2014 Klir was editor of the International Journal of General Systems, and from 1985 to 2016 of the International Book Series on Systems Science and Systems Engineering. From 1980 to 1984 George Klir was the first president of the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR). In the years 1981–1982 he was also president of Society for General Systems Research, now International Society for the Systems Sciences. He was further president of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society from 1988 to 1991 and the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) from 1993 to 1995.
Klir received numerous awards and honors, including 5 honorary doctoral degrees, the Gold Medal of Bernard Bolzano, Lotfi A. Zadeh Best Paper Award, the Kaufmann's Gold Medal, SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and IFSA Award for Outstanding Achievement. In 2007 he was awarded the Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS).
Work
Klir was known for path-breaking research over almost four decades. His earlier work was in the areas of systems modeling and simulation, logic design, computer architecture, and discrete mathematics. Later research, from 1990s onward, included the areas of intelligent systems, generalized information theory, fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic, theory of generalized measures, and soft computing.
See also
Fuzzy measure theory
Fuzzy logic
Fuzzy subalgebra
Genetic Fuzzy Systems
International Federation for Systems Research
Publications
Klir was the author of 23 books, over 300 articles, and he also edited 10 books:
Books (selection):
1967, Cybernetic Modelling, Iliffe, London.
1969, An Approach to General Systems Theory, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
1972, Trends in General Systems Theory, (ed.) 462 pp.
1972, Introduction to the Methodology of Switching Circuits, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTGB-LP | KTGB-LP was a low-power television station affiliated with The Inspiration Network, operating on UHF channel 26 in Lubbock, Texas. The station owner was Jennifer Cremeens of Creemeens Broadcasting.
External links
Television stations in Lubbock, Texas
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013
2013 disestablishments in Texas
TGB-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device%20control%20register | In computing, a device control register is a hardware register that controls some computer hardware device, for example a peripheral or an expansion card.
Specific technologies use this terminology with a narrower meaning:
The ISA PNP specification divides the registers of a device in two categories: control registers and configuration registers. One of the device control registers defined by ISA PNP is (for example) the Activate register, which turns the card on or off.
The Device Control Register is also the name of a specific register in the PCI Express architecture. It has fields that (among other things) control what is the maximum read request size (in bytes) that the device can make.
Device Control Register (DCR) is also the name of an IBM proprietary bus. Its stated design goal is to "transfer data between a DCR master, typically a CPU’s general purpose registers, and the DCR slave logic’s device control registers". For example, the IBM MultiProcessor Interrupt Controller (MPIC) is connected up to four processors via a shared DCR bus, and in turn the MPIC handles up to 128 interrupt sources.
References
Computing terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harri%20Hursti | Harri Harras Hursti (born 10 July 1968 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish computer programmer and former chairman of the board and co-founder of ROMmon, where he supervised in the development of the world's smallest 2-gigabit traffic analysis product that was later acquired by F-Secure Corporation.
Career
Hursti participates in the Black Box Voting hack studies, along with Dr. Herbert "Hugh" Thompson. The memory card hack demonstrated in Leon County is popularly known as "the Hursti Hack". This hack was part of a series of four voting machine hacking tests organized by the nonprofit election watchdog group Black Box Voting in collaboration with the producers of HBO documentary Hacking Democracy (2006). The studies demonstrated serious security flaws in the voting systems of Diebold Election Systems. Hursti also appeared in the HBO documentary Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections (2020).
When Mike Lindell held a three-day "Cyber Symposium" in August 2021, with a promise that he would present "irrefutable evidence" of election fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election, Hursti, who attended the conference with journalist Donie O'Sullivan, said that Lindell's purported evidence was a "pile of nothing" and found no proof of election fraud.
Personal life
Hursti has lived in the United States since 2009.
Awards
Hursti received the EFF Pioneer Award in October 2009 with Limor "Ladyada" Fried and Carl Malamud.
References
External links
Hacking Democracy: Official Website and DVD
"Hacking Democracy" HBO Documentary Films
"Hacking Democracy" (Internet Movie Database)
Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections
Living people
Finnish computer programmers
1968 births
Finnish expatriates in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSFN | WSFN (790 AM) is a sports radio station in Brunswick, Georgia. WSFN programming is simulcast on WFNS 1350 AM and W279BC 103.7 FM. Southern Media Interactive LLC also owns WSEG at Savannah and WFNS at Blackshear.
The station lineup includes Keyshawn, JWill and Zubin, Bob Stevens, Dan Le Batard, The Barb Meade Football Show, ESPN Game Night, and Sports Overnight America, in addition to the Atlanta Braves programming.
Founded on June 1, 1998, "The Fan" SportsRadio 790 WSFN was the first and only full-time, 24-hour all-sports radio station serving Brunswick and The Golden Isles. "The Fan" was one of the highest debuting sports stations in America and is the number one all-sports station of Georgia.
In March 2013, Southern Media Interactive, LLC acquired WSFN, WFNS and WSEG and created the Southern Pigskin Radio Network broadcasting all five AM/FM stations into the Brunswick, Savannah, Hilton Head markets.
The station is an affiliate of the Atlanta Braves radio network, the largest radio affiliate network in Major League Baseball.
On September 4, 2022, it was announced that Shanks Broadcasting will acquire WSFN and will begin carrying the company's "Sports Superstations" network.
References
External links
ESPN Coastal Georgia Facebook
SFN
Sports radio stations in the United States
1966 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Radio stations established in 1966 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Lichtblau | Eric Lichtblau (born 1965) is an American journalist, reporting for The New York Times in the Washington bureau, as well as the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, The New Yorker, and the CNN network's investigative news unit. He has earned two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 with the New York Times for his reporting on warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency. He also was part of the New York Times team that won the Pulitzer in 2017 for coverage of Russia and the Trump campaign. He is the author of Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice, and The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men.
Life and career
Lichtblau was born to a Jewish family in Syracuse, New York, and graduated from Cornell University in 1987 with majors in government and English. After college, Lichtblau served stints with the Los Angeles Times investigative team in Los Angeles and covered various law enforcement beats. He worked at the Los Angeles Times for 15 years, covering the Justice Department in their Washington bureau between 1999 and 2000.
Lichtblau joined The New York Times in September 2002 as a correspondent covering the Justice Department, and published his last story for the paper in April 2017. In that month he became an editor for CNN; just two months later, in June 2017, he was among three CNN editors who resigned following the retraction of a report regarding alleged contact between the presidential transition team of Donald Trump and a Russian state-owned bank.
Lichtblau and his wife Leslie Frances Zirkin (b. c. 1973) live in the Washington, D.C. area with their four children, including Matthew and Andrew Lichtblau.
Books
Lichtblau is the author of Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice. Lichtblau and fellow New York Times reporter James Risen were awarded a 2006 Pulitzer Prize.
In The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men, Lichtblau uncovered the full details of Operation Paperclip, a story that had been carefully guarded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency for over sixty years. Unknown to Americans, and fully aware of the monstrous crimes many had committed, the CIA provided a safe haven for thousands of Nazi scientists and spies after World War II. Most of the scientists recruited had worked on Hitler's V2 rocket project. The most well known of the Nazi scientists was Wernher Von Braun, often described as the "Father of Rocket Science".
The V2 rockets killed thousands of British and Belgian citizens during the War and its production effort ruthlessly exploited concentration camp prisoners for labor. CIA directors insisted America's dominance in space technology was far more important than prosecuting war criminals. The CIA helped other Nazis gain access to the US to covertly collect information on Communists as part of an overzealous Cold War policy. Elizabeth Holtzman described the book as a "fast paced, important book about the ju |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRN | HRN may refer to:
Haren (NL) railway station, in the Netherlands
Hornsey railway station in London
Hotel Reservations Network, now Hotels.com
H. R. Nicholls Society
Ukrainian hryvnia, the currency of Ukraine
Radio HRN, the first commercial radio station in Honduras; see Radio in Honduras |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sants%20Estaci%C3%B3%20%28Barcelona%20Metro%29 | Sants Estació is a station in the Barcelona Metro network in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona. It serves the Barcelona Sants railway station, Barcelona's principal main line railway station, and is named Sants Estació to distinguish it from the nearby Plaça de Sants station also named after the Sants neighbourhood. It is served by line L3 and line L5.
The line L3 section of the station is situated under Numància street, between Melcior Palau and Avinguda Josep Tarradellas. It has a hall at each side of the station. To access to the railway station it is necessary to go through line 5 hall. The station is equipped with numerous elevators, and has two side platforms that are in length.
The line L5 section of the station was opened in 1969 with the opening of the line between Collblanc and Diagonal. The metro station is situated on the north part of the railway station, between Guitard and Enric Bargés streets. The station is complex but has an own hall on the west side which has two direct accesses to the railway station. It has two side platforms that are in length. On the other side of the station there is the corridor to connect with line 3.
Sants Estació is one of three stations where lines L3 and L5 connect, the others being Diagonal and Vall d'Hebron metro stations. Like both these two stations, the platforms of the two lines at Sants Estació are connected by an underground passageway. However, unlike the other two, there is also a single track connection between the two lines at Sants Estació.
The line L5 station was opened in 1969 with the opening of the line between Collblanc and Diagonal, whilst the line L3 station followed in 1975 with the opening of the line from this station to Zona Universitària. A second access hall to the L3 station was added in 2004.
Gallery
References
External links
Barcelona Metro line 3 stations
Barcelona Metro line 5 stations
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1969
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1975
Transport in Eixample
1975 establishments in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoogTV | CoogTV formerly known as SVN (Student Video Network) is a student television station at the University of Houston, Texas, United States. Founded in 1974, it is one of several fee-funded organizations on campus, and broadcasts online through its web site and on the University of Houston's Cougar Philo cable network.
Station history
iSVN began broadcasting in 1974 from one of the former facilities for Houston PBS member station KUHT. In 1985, KUHT reclaimed the building and the student operated television station was shut down. Several members of that organization decided to pull resources together and create their own student operated video network on campus. They decided to work under Campus Activities to increase their chance of survival. In the early 1990s students were able to come to the Student Video Network and create their own productions that were then aired on a closed-circuit television station available to all students living in on-campus housing.
Student Video Network started to come to prominence on campus during the mid 1990s, beginning under the leadership of Eden S. Blair who served as Chair from 1993 - 1995. Purchasing an AVID editing machine before the Communications Department meant SVN became a training ground for students who wanted to learn how to edit using industry standard equipment.
Blair opted not to go for a third year as chair and was followed by Nicole Redo for the 1995 - 1996 school year. Redo continued the relationship with the dean of students office maintaining the UH News program. She also expanded SVN's community involvement by televising a live debate between candidates for Student Association President and allowing parties to air commercials.
In 2001, Tropical Storm Allison flooded out the entire studio, damaging equipment, software, and the SVN facilities beyond repair. In 2003, University of Houston's Campus Activities decided to restart the program, only playing new video releases with the future intent of bringing back student productions.
In 2006, Gus Forward, a Business Administration undergrad, worked with Campus Activities advisors as the first President of the relaunched organization. Gus enabled students to work on original productions and increased the production equipment inventory of the TV station.
In the summer of 2007, Gus Forward stepped down and Tommy Lee Kirby, a Media Production undergrad, took over and worked on increasing operating space and continued to obtain new video equipment. Also during Tommy’s tenure, the Outdoor Movie Festival was started by Commercial Director, Jeremy Malhotra. The Outdoor Movie Festival showcases newly released and classic movies in various venues on campus and is open for all students and staff to attend. Past venues include the Lynn Eusan Park on campus and the UC North Patio. SVN collaborates with other Campus Activities organizations and student groups to provide popcorn, snacks, drinks, and raffle giveaways to attendees.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Guzman | Ralph Javier Guzman is a former reporter of GMA Network and from 2003 to 2010, and presently to the radio station in Cagayan. DZCV 684 Tuguegarao in 2016.
He covered the Malacañang Beat (Presidential Coverage). He was previously assigned at the Philippine House of Representatives, having covered the second impeachment attempt on President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo after the congresses in the Philippines. In 2016 Guzman left to Manila and return to Tuguegarao City and Reassigned to public radio station DZCV 684 Tuguegarao he as an veteran anchor and reporter.
He produces stories for the Network's nationwide news programs. He has also produced for the program, Reporter's Notebook, and is substitute anchor for GMA Flash Report.
Early life and education
Guzman was born and raised in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan. His parents are Prospero Guzman and Rosemarie Javier-Guzman. He is the youngest of 7 children, he came from a rich family.
He finished after his High School Department of University of Saint Louis Tuguegarao in 1998 and in his bachelor's degree at the University of the Philippines-Diliman in Quezon City in 2003.
Personal life
Guzman left to Manila and returning to Cagayan Valley and he married of 94.1 Love Radio Tuguegarao DJ Valerie Pamittan Sychangco on December 23, 2019. He resides in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan.
See also
GMA News and Public Affairs
DZCV 684 Tuguegarao
Official Site
1980 births
Living people
People from Tuguegarao
University of the Philippines alumni
Filipino television journalists
GMA Network personalities
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20Express | Railway Express may refer to:
Rail Express - a railway magazine in the United Kingdom
Railway Express Agency - a package delivery network in the United States
Railway Express FC - a former football club based in Ndola in Zambia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%208%20%28Shanghai%20Metro%29 | Line 8 is a north-south line of the Shanghai Metro network. It runs from , in Yangpu District to , in Minhang. The line is colored cyan on system maps.
History
The subway line's first phase began trial operation on September 17, 2007 and officially opened on December 29, 2007, running between and . The second phase, from Yaohua Road to began operation on July 5, 2009.
Two stations opened later than the rest of the line: in September 2012 and opened in April 2011.
On May 4, 2017 it was announced the third phase had been renamed the Pujiang line, and will be a new long automated people mover line running from Shendu Highway station to Huizhen Road station. It will use rubber tire Bombardier Innovia APM 300 technology. On January 13 Bombardier delivered the first out of 44 autonomous people movers to Shanghai. It opened on March 31, 2018.
Controversy
Even though Line 8 is a heavy rail rapid transit line, "Type C" trains designed for light metro lines consisting of 6 or 7 cars are being used throughout the line. Due to the trains relatively smaller loading gauge and capacity compared to "Type A" trains used on other Shanghai Metro lines, the line is extremely crowded. This has caused much doubt among the public in Shanghai Metro's ability to accurately predict passenger flows for future lines. It was revealed that Line 8 originally was forecasted to have a short term daily ridership of 400,000-500,000 people/day, which warrants the use of larger "Type A" trains on other Shanghai Metro lines. This is not surprising given Line 8 is planned to serve some of Shanghai's densest neighborhoods and several major attractions. However the forecast was revised many times and finally downgraded to 200,000 people/day through "internal negotiation and coordination", which allowed Shanghai Alstom, a company interested in manufacturing and selling "Type C" trains in Shanghai, to build trains for Line 8. Chief designer Yu Jiakang noted that in addition to short term solutions such as operating 7 car trains and reducing headways, last resort is to rebuild Line 8 as the loading gauges of "Type A" trains are incompatible with "Type C" trains. Additionally, parallel relief bus services have started operating. The initial 28 trainsets were 6-car consists. Due to overcrowding, subsequent train purchases (62 sets) were 7-car sets. There are no plans to expand the 6-car sets to 7-car sets.
Stations
Service routes
Important stations
- At this station, passengers can transfer to line 3. Previously they must exit and re-enter the station, but a new linkway has been built via the shopping center.
- Passengers can interchange to lines 1 and 2. This is also a very important station, as it is located at a major financial district as well as near many tourist attractions.
: The first platform to platform interchange station in the Shanghai Metro network. Interchange with line 4.
Future expansion
There are no planned expansions.
Station name change
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%209%20%28Shanghai%20Metro%29 | Line 9 is a southwest-northeast line of the Shanghai Metro network. The line runs from in Songjiang District to in Pudong. The line is colored light blue on system maps.
History
In the initial planning of Line 9, the entire line was from Fengjing to Chongming Island. Later, the plan to extend to Fengjing was cancelled, and the section to Chongming Island was changed to Chongming line.
The first phase of Line 9, from to stations, opened on December 29, 2007. It uses the Bombardier Movia trains which were lended to line 1.
Line 9 did not directly connect to the rest of the Shanghai Metro network until the opening of the Line 9 portion of the station on December 28, 2008. The station is an interchange between lines 3 and 4. A shuttle bus conveyed passengers between Guilin Road and Yishan Road stations until construction was completed.
In December 2009, the second phase of line 9 (from to ) was completed, providing passengers with a direct link from Songjiang District in the west to Pudong in the east without having to transfer to other lines.
On April 7, 2010, the extension to Middle Yanggao Road Station was completed.
On December 30, 2012, the extension from Songjiang New City to Songjiang South Railway Station was opened.
On December 30, 2017, the line's east extension, consisting of 9 stations from Middle Yanggao Road to Caolu, entered operation.
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Stations
Service routes
Important stations
- the collection of several top universities in Shanghai, including Donghua University, Shanghai International Studies University, East China University of Politics and Law, Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade are located there.
- serving Sheshan Hill, a tourist and pilgrimage destination with the Sheshan Observatory and the Sheshan Basilica.
- serving the old town of Qibao.
- serving the high-tech park Caohejing.
- one of the busiest metro stations in Shanghai, with shopping malls and office buildings in the vicinity; interchange with lines 1 and 11.
- a major interchange station on four lines - Interchange with lines 2, 4 and 6.
Future expansion
The east section is planned to extend one station to Caolu Railway station.
Station name change
On 28 October 2006, Dongfang Road was renamed as the after station renovation for line 2 and the opening of Line line 4 (before line 9 began serving the station).
Headways
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Technology
Rolling Stock
Former Rolling Stock
One car (0952) manufactured in 2007 was mainly debugged for experimental purposes. It began trial operation with passengers on April 25, 2009, and will no longer be online in 2010. On December 20, 2011, the vehicle was retired from line 9 and became a special training vehicle. It was transferred to the original of line 2 to the newly built training line for subway staff training.
References
Shanghai Metro lines
Railway lines opened in 2007
2007 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SONAR%20%28Symantec%29 | SONAR is the abbreviation for Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response. Unlike virus signatures, SONAR examines the behavior of applications to decide whether they are malicious. SONAR is built upon technology Symantec acquired in its late 2005 purchase of WholeSecurity, a developer of behavioral anti-malware and anti-phishing software solutions in the United States.
How it works
An algorithm is used to evaluate hundreds of attributes relating to software running on a computer. Various factors are considered before determining that a program is malicious, such as if the program adds a shortcut on the desktop or creates a Windows Add/Remove programs entry. Both of those factors would indicate the program is not malware. The main use of SONAR is to enhance detection of zero day threats. Symantec claims SONAR can also prevent attackers from leveraging unpatched software vulnerabilities.
Ed Kim, director of product management at Symantec, expressed confidence in SONAR, "We've done extensive testing on emerging threats, and it catches early threats and variants of existing threats."
History
Symantec already had a behavior analysis security tool for enterprises, known as Critical System Protection. SONAR was introduced to serve the consumer antivirus market.
SONAR 1
SONAR was first offered as an add-on for Norton AntiVirus 2007 and Norton Internet Security 2007; subsequent annual editions of the Norton line have had SONAR, as well.
SONAR 2
SONAR 2 is part of Norton 2010 and Norton 360 v.4 antivirus software. According to the company, this version leverages data from more sources, including reputation data about a program. Therefore, SONAR 2 is able to more accurately detect security risks than it was before.
SONAR 3
SONAR 3 came with the Norton 2011 public beta. It is available for Norton 2010 customers with legitimate subscriptions through updates, Norton 2011 customers, and Norton 360 v.5 public beta users. According to the company, SONAR 3 is fine-tuned to better detect fake antivirus software and is better integrated with the network component. They advise: "In SONAR 3 we have further enhanced our integration with the network component in order to classify, convict, and remediate malware on the basis of its malicious network activity. With this feature in place, we will continue to block and remove many new variants of malware that leave their network footprint unchanged." According to Symantec it is now monitoring about 400 aspects of each application to determine whether it is safe or harmful.
SONAR 4
SONAR 4 was introduced with the 2012 BETA versions. According to a Norton Protection Blog post in the Norton Community, titled "What's new in Norton Internet Security 2012":
"With 2012 we are introducing SONAR Policy Enforcement – We now have the ability to convict a suspicious process based on a behavioral “profile.” To create these profiles, an analyst looks at the 500+ attributes that SONAR tracks and make a series of associations. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVGM | WVGM (1320 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Lynchburg, Virginia. It broadcasts a sports radio format and is owned and operated by 3 Daughters Media. Most programming comes from CBS Sports Radio.
By day, WVGM is powered at 1,000 watts non-directional. But to protect other stations on 1320 AM from interference, it reduces power at night to only 24 watts. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator W227BG at 93.3 MHz.
History
The station signed on the air on . The call sign was WDMS. It was originally a daytimer, required to go off the air at night. In the 1970s, the station was Top 40 outlet WLGM. It played the current hits and was an affiliate of the ABC Entertainment Network.
3 Daughters Media bought WVGM and WGMN from Clear Channel Communications in a deal announced late in 2006.
References
External links
ESPN in Virginia Online
VGM
ESPN Radio stations
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1991 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrints | EPrints is a free and open-source software package for building open access repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). It shares many of the features commonly seen in document management systems, but is primarily used for institutional repositories and scientific journals. EPrints has been developed at the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science and released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.
The EPrints software is not to be confused with "Eprints" (or "e-prints"), which are preprints (before peer review) and postprints (after peer review), of research journal articles (eprints = preprints + postprints).
History
EPrints was created in 2000 as a direct outcome of the 1999 Santa Fe meeting that launched what eventually became the OAI-PMH.
The EPrints software was enthusiastically received and became the first and one of the most widely used free open access, institutional repository software, and it has since inspired the development of other software that fulfil a similar purpose, notably DSpace.
Version 3 of the software was officially released on 24 January 2007 at the Open Repositories 2007 Conference and was described by its developers as "a major leap forward in functionality, giving even more control and flexibility to repository managers, depositors, researchers and technical administrators".
Technology
EPrints is a Web and command-line application based on the LAMP architecture (but is written in Perl rather than PHP). It has been successfully run under Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X. A version for Microsoft Windows was released 17 May 2010.
Version 3 of the software introduced a (Perl-based) plugin architecture for importing and exporting data, converting objects (for search engine indexing) and user interface widgets.
Configuring an EPrints repository involves modifying configuration files written in Perl or XML. The appearance of a repository is controlled by HTML templates, CSS stylesheets and inline images. While EPrints is shipped with an English translation it has been translated to other languages through (redistributable) language-specific XML phrase files. Existing translations include Bulgarian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian.
References
External links
Digital library software
Free institutional repository software
Free software programmed in Perl
Open-access archives
Publication management software
Science and technology in Hampshire
University of Southampton |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rge | Bjørge is an onshore and offshore oil and gas and Marine software engineering and maintenance company. The company is based in Tananger outside Stavanger, Norway.
History
The company was founded in 1977 as a joint venture between Bjørge Enterprise and ETPM (now part of Acergy) to perform offshore maintenance services. In 1995 it was bought by Strand Enterprises, but listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange in 1997. In 1998 the company bought Norcoat Services from Halliburton and Steinco in 2000. The same year Bjørge merged with Solberg & Andersen. 2001 saw the purchase of Scana Moland from Scana in 2004 Eptec was bought. The same year Bjørge chose to leave the MMO business that was heavily dominated by Aker Kværner and Vetco Aibel.
On 20 September 2010 the company announced a plan to spin off its process, fire and safety solutions division into a new company.
References
Engineering companies of Norway
Companies based in Rogaland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinodaphne%20notabilis | Actinodaphne notabilis (synonym Actinodaphne cuspidata) is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae. It is a tree endemic to Peninsular Malaysia. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
notabilis
Endemic flora of Peninsular Malaysia
Trees of Peninsular Malaysia
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPAM%20Systems | EPAM Systems, Inc. is an American company that specializes in software engineering services, digital platform engineering, and digital product design, operating out of Newtown, Pennsylvania. EPAM is a founding member of the MACH Alliance.
History
Early years
In 1993, Arkadiy Dobkin and Leo Lozner founded EPAM, a global software engineering services company, in New Jersey, USA and Minsk, Belarus.
In 2002, EPAM was ranked publicly for the first time as a fast-growing company by Deloitte & Touche. In the same year, the company became the first Russian player on the London Stock Exchange.
In 2012, EPAM was listed on New York Stock Exchange under the moniker EPAM, becoming the first company from Belarus on NYSE.
Timeline
In 2004, EPAM acquired Fathom Technology, a software development services company based in Budapest, Hungary, expanding its offshore services beyond North America.
In 2006, EPAM secured an equity investment from Siguler Guff to fund its competitive growth plans.
In 2006, EPAM acquired VDI, a software development services company with delivery centers in Russia, which expanded the company’s presence in the CIS region. That year, EPAM CEO Arkadiy Dobkin was named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Consultants of the Year by Consulting Magazine.
In late 2012, EPAM made two acquisitions – Thoughtcorp, which expanded its service offerings in Agile, business intelligence and mobile, and Empathy Lab, which established a digital engagement practice focusing on customer experience, design and eCommerce.
EPAM made two acquisitions in 2018 to expand its service offerings: Continuum (now EPAM Continuum) and TH_NK to add consulting capabilities and develop its digital and service design practices. Also that year, EPAM launched InfoNgen®, a text analytics and sentiment analysis enterprise software product that uses artificial intelligence.
The company also productized TelescopeAI®, an artificial intelligence-based platform for IT operations and workforce management, which won a 2019 Big Innovation Award presented by the Business Intelligence Group.
In 2019, EPAM joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA). That year, the company launched EPAM Continuum, its service for business, experience and technology consulting.
The company also launched EPAM SolutionsHub, a catalogue of its software products, accelerators and open source platforms. As part of its SolutionsHub launch, EPAM also released the Open Source Contributor Index (OSCI), a tool that ranks the top open-source contributors by a commercial organization.
In August 2021, EPAM expanded its presence in Latin America through the acquisition of Colombia-based S4N, a software development services firm specializing in the design and development of modern software products and enterprise platforms.
In July 2021, EPAM acquired CORE SE, a professional service provider specializing in IT strategy and technology-driven transformations, to further expand its Western European fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Shaw%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Mary Shaw (born 1943) is an American software engineer, and the Alan J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for her work in the field of software architecture.
Biography
Early life
Mary M. Shaw was born in Washington D.C. in 1943. Her father (Eldon Shaw) was a civil engineer and economist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and her mother (Mary Shaw) was a homemaker. Shaw attended high school in Bethesda, Maryland, during the Sputnik cold war era where technology was rapidly improving.
In high school, Shaw participated for two summers during high school in an after school program which taught students about computers. This program run by International Business Machines (IBM) and was a chance for student to explore fields outside of the normal curriculum. This was Shaw's first introduction to computers.
Studies and career
Shaw obtained her BA from Rice University around 1965, and her PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1972.
With Marion Créhange (1937 – 2022), a French computer scientist who got a PhD in Computer Science in 1961, she is considered a pioneer in computer science.
After her graduation at Rice University, Shaw had started her career in industry, working as systems programmer at the Research Analysis Corporation. She also continued to do research at Rice University. In 1972 she joined the Carnegie Mellon University faculty, where she was eventually appointed Professor of Computer Science. From 1984 to 1987 she was also Chief Scientist at its Software Engineering Institute, from 1992 to 1999 Associate Dean for Professional Education, and from 2001 to 2006 Co-Director of the Sloan Software Industry Center.
In 2011, Mary Shaw and David Garlan received the Outstanding Research Award from ACM SIGSOFT, the Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, for their "significant and lasting software engineering research contributions through the development and promotion of software architecture."
On October 3, 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama awarded Shaw with National Medal of Technology and Innovation. She was named recipient of the award in 2012.
Work
Shaw's main area of research interest is software engineering, including architectural, educational and historical aspects. Shaw authored seminal works in the field of software architecture along with David Garlan.
Software Architecture, 1996
Shaw's most cited work "Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline," co-authored with David Garlan, examines the concept of "architectures for software systems as well as better ways to support software development." The book aims:
"... to bring together the useful abstractions of systems design and the notations and tools of the software developer, and look at patterns used for system organization... to illustrate the discipling and examine the ways in which architectural design can impac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Kroyer | William Kroyer is an American director of animation and computer graphics commercials, short films, movie titles, and theatrical films. He and Jerry Rees were the main animators for the CGI sequences in Tron. He is currently the head of the Digital Arts department at Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University.
Career
Kroyer began his animation career in 1975 by working in a small commercial studio. In 1977, he finally ended up at Disney Studios as animator on The Fox and the Hound but left Disney later because he did not want to work on The Black Cauldron. It was then he met future Tron director Steven Lisberger, who was working on Animalympics. After Animalympics was completed, Lisberger developed Tron and sold it to Disney.
After Tron was finished, Kroyer decided to stay with computer animation instead of traditional animation and worked at Robert Abel and Associates and Digital Productions. In 1986, he and his wife, Sue, started Kroyer Films to combine computer animation with hand-drawn animation. They made a short film titled Technological Threat; it was nominated for an Academy Award in 1988 and preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.
After Technological Threat was finished, Kroyer decided to stay with computer animation films for such as Jetsons: The Movie and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie.
He directed Computer Warriors: The Adventure Begins in 1990 and then FernGully: The Last Rainforest in 1992. He was originally set to direct Quest for Camelot but left the project over creative differences.
Soon after he joined Rhythm and Hues Studios as Senior Animation Director and supervised the CGI animation for films such as Garfield, Scooby Doo, Cats & Dogs and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas.
In early 2009 he began teaching at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts in Orange, California.
In 2017 he and his wife Susan became the first couple to receive the June Foray Award from the international Animation Society for their "contributions to the art and industry of animation."
Filmography
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (CG animation director: Rhythm & Hues)
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (CG animation director: Rhythm & Hues)
The Green Mile (animation supervisor: Rhythm & Hues)
FernGully: The Last Rainforest (director)
Computer Warriors: The Adventure Begins (writer, director)
Jetsons: The Movie (computer animator: vehicle animation)
Technological Threat (writer, director, producer, computer animation)
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (computer animation planner, key animator)
Tron (production storyboards, computer image choreography)
Animalympics (animation director, animator)
See also
Kroyer Films
Rhythm & Hues
Robert Abel and Associates
Digital Productions
Silicon Graphics
Wavefront Technologies
Alias Research
Symbolics Graphics Division
Apple Macintosh
Softimage 3D
Cinetron Computer Systems
CSRG, UC Berkeley
References
External links
Creating the Memories by William |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglaia%20cuspidata | Aglaia cuspidata is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.
References
Flora of Papua New Guinea
cuspidata
Vulnerable plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranthus%20furcatus | Amaranthus furcatus is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador.
References
Endemic flora of Ecuador
furcatus
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai%20motorway%20network | The motorways (, ) in Thailand is an intercity toll controlled-access highways network that currently spans . It is to be greatly extended to according to the master plan. Thailand's motorway network is considered to be separate from Thailand's expressway network, which is the system of expressways, usually elevated, within Greater Bangkok. Thailand also has a provincial highway network.
Overview
The Thai highway network spans over 70,000 kilometers across all regions of Thailand. These highways, however, are often dual carriageways with frequent U-turn lanes and intersections, thus slowing down traffic. Coupled with the increase in the number of vehicles and the demand for limited-access motorways, the Thai Government issued a cabinet resolution in 1997 detailing the motorway construction master plan. Some upgraded sections of highway are being turned into "motorways", while other motorways are being purpose-built.
List of motorway routes in Thailand
List of motorway routes in Thailand that are operational, under construction, and planned according to the master plan in 2015.
Motorway that are operational in full or partial part.
Motorway that under construction, wholly or in part.
Former motorways
See also
Transport in Thailand
Rail transport in Thailand
Economy of Thailand
References
Motorway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manning%20criteria | The Manning criteria are a diagnostic algorithm used in the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The criteria consist of a list of questions the physician can ask the patient. The answers are used in a process to produce a diagnostic decision regarding whether the patient can be considered to have IBS.
The Manning criteria have been compared with other diagnostic algorithms for IBS, such as the Rome I criteria, the Rome II process, and the Kruis criteria. A 2013 validation study found the Manning criteria to have less sensitivity but more specificity than the Rome criteria.
The threshold for a positive diagnosis varies from two to four of the Manning criteria below.
Onset of pain linked to more frequent bowel movements
Looser stools associated with onset of pain
Pain relieved by passage of stool
Noticeable abdominal bloating
Sensation of incomplete evacuation more than 25% of the time
Diarrhea with mucus more than 25% of the time
References
Gastroenterology
Ailments of unknown cause
Syndromes
Conditions diagnosed by stool test
Abdominal pain
Diagnostic gastroenterology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Data%20Set | The Common Data Set (CDS) is a product of the Common Data Set Initiative, "a collaborative effort among data providers in the higher education community and publishers as represented by the College Board, Peterson's, and U.S. News & World Report." The stated goal is to provide accurate and timely data to students and their families while decreasing the workload of administrators. In producing their popular publications and rankings, these publishers "ask the same core questions" of institutions using the Common Data Set to define those questions and their responses. These data are also used in public accountability efforts such as the Voluntary System of Accountability's College Portrait.
Annual CDS survey results
Each year the Common Data Set initiative makes small changes to the "survey" submitted for every contributing college and university to complete. While the resulting database of all responses is not available for download, individual colleges and universities typically publish their individual responses on their own website.
These individual responses can provide valuable information for students applying to a particular college or university. For example, section C7 - "Relative Importance of Common Academic and Non-Academic Admission Criteria" – indicates the admission process for that college places on items like "Class Rank", "GPA", and "Extra-Curricular Activities". Another example is Sections C9 to C12, which give a statistical breakdown of SAT/ACT scores, class rank, and GPA for the current freshman class. This can be a good indicator, especially for the more selective colleges and universities, of the typical scores needed for admission. Sections on "Tuition and Fees" and "Financial Aid" can help potential applicants to understand the typical costs and potential aid they might receive based on the current freshman class statistics.
Survey sections and topics
The CDS annual survey includes the following major sections, identified by major sections (A–J) and subsections (0, 1, 3, ...):
A – General College Information: Address, Classification of Undergraduate Institution, Academic Year Calendar, Degrees Offered
B – Enrollment and Persistence: Current Institutional Enrollment – Men and Women, Enrollment by Racial/Ethnic Category, Number of Degrees Awarded, Graduation Rates, Retention Rates
C – First-Time, First-Year (Freshman) Admissions: Freshman Student Applicants (Admitted, Enrolled, Wait-Listed), Relative Importance of Common Academic and Non-Academic Admission Criteria, Admission Requirements (Diploma, GED, College Prep Program), HS Academic Subject Requirements, Open Enrollment, SAT & ACT Policies (Requirements, Deadlines), Existing Freshman Class Statistical Profile (SAT & ACT Scoring Breakdown, Class Rank Breakdown, HS GPA Breakdown), Average GPA, Admission Policies (Application Fees, Closing Dates, Notification Date(s)), Other Admission Policies
D – Transfer Admissions: Transfer Students Accepted or Not, Number f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy%20Hall | Dame Wendy Hall (born 25 October 1952) is a British computer scientist. She is Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
Early life and education
Wendy Hall was born in west London and educated at Ealing Grammar School for Girls. She studied for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in mathematics at the University of Southampton. She completed her Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1974, and her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1977. Her doctoral thesis was titled Automorphisms and coverings of Klein surfaces. She later completed a Master of Science degree in Computing at City University London.
Career
Hall returned to the University of Southampton in 1984 to join the newly formed computer science group there, working in multimedia and hypermedia. Her team invented the Microcosm hypermedia system (before the World Wide Web existed), which was commercialised as a start-up company, Multicosm Ltd.
Hall was appointed the university's first female professor of engineering in 1994. She then served as Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science from 2002 to 2007.
In 2006, along with Tim Berners-Lee, Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel Weitzner, Hall became a founding director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI). Now known as the Web Science Trust, the WSRI was originally a collaboration between the University of Southampton (ECS) and MIT (CSAIL) which aimed to coordinate and support the study of the World Wide Web. The WSRI's activities helped to formally establish the concept of Web Science, and Hall is now executive director of the Web Science Trust.
Hall was President of the British Computer Society from 2003 to 2004 and of the Association for Computing Machinery from 2008 to 2010. Since 2014, she has served as a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.
In 2017, Hall was appointed Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
In 2020, she was appointed as Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute by the Nuffield Foundation – the organisation's independent funder, succeeding Alan Wilson.
Since 2022, Hall has been the Editor-in-Chief of Royal Society Open Science and served as the Chair of the Royal Society Publishing Board from 2017 to 2022.
Awards and honours
Hall was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2000 Birthday Honours. She was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.
Hall also has honorary degrees from Oxford Brookes University, Glamorgan University, Cardiff University, Open University of Catalonia and the University of Pretoria.
In 2000, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) (also serving as president) and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET). In 2002, she was appointed a Fellow of the City and Guilds (FCGI). Hall was elected a Fellow of the Ro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokered%20programming | Brokered programming (also known as time-buy and blocktime) is a form of broadcast content in which the show's producer pays a radio or television station for air time, rather than exchanging programming for pay or the opportunity to play spot commercials. A brokered program is typically not capable of garnering enough support from advertisements to pay for itself, and may be controversial, esoteric or an advertisement in itself.
Overview
Common examples
Common examples are religious and political programs and talk-show-format programs similar to infomercial on television. Others are hobby programs or vanity programs paid for by the host and/or their supporters, and may be intended to promote the host's personality, for instance in preparation for a political campaign, or to promote a product, service or business that the host is closely associated with. A live vanity show may be carried on several stations by remote broadcast or simulcast, with the producer paying multiple stations an airtime fee. Financial advisors and planners often produce this kind of programming.
Brokered commercial programs promote products or services by scripting shows made to sound similar to talk radio or news programming, and may even include calls from actual listeners (or actors playing the part of listeners). The programs are a specific type of infomercial, as they focus on a topic related to the product and repeatedly steer listeners and "callers" to a particular website and/or toll-free telephone number in order to purchase the product being featured. Although presented in the style of live programs, these are typically pre-recorded and supplied to stations on tape, disc, or digital downloadable formats, such as MP3 files.
Such programming is most common on talk radio stations and used to fill non-prime time slots and to augment income from spot-advertisement sales during normal programs.
Most of these programs feature a disclaimer at either the beginning or the end of the program (or both), usually read by the program's host or (most often) by a separate announcer; some radio stations play a standard disclaimer before all such programs.
Certain mainstream sports and entertainment broadcasts may resort to buying brokered airtime to air on television if they cannot secure a deal that pays rights fees or a barter agreement. Examples include the last years of the Professional Bowlers Tour, Major League Baseball's short-lived The Baseball Network venture in the mid-1990s, professional football leagues such as the United Football League and Alliance of American Football, and motorsports events produced and sponsored by Lucas Oil. In the case of professional football, brokered programming has typically not been feasible in the long term, as the sport requires rights fees to make it viable; leagues that have relied on brokering television time have collapsed in short order due to financial losses. Regional sports networks also pad their non-play-by-play schedule w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthurium%20parambae | Anthurium parambae is a species of plant in the family Araceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
Endemic flora of Ecuador
parambae
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albidovulum | In taxonomy, Albidovulum is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
References
Further reading
Scientific journals
Scientific books
Scientific databases
External links
Rhodobacteraceae
Bacteria genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaricoccus | In taxonomy, Amaricoccus is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
References
Further reading
Scientific journals
Scientific books
Scientific databases
External links
Rhodobacteraceae
Bacteria genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Steel%3A%20Endangered%20Species | Max Steel: Endangered Species is a 2004 computer-animated science fiction action film based on the TV series and action figure line of the same name. It is the only Max Steel movie to share continuity with the TV series.
A sequel, titled Max Steel: Forces of Nature, was released in 2005.
Plot
In this movie, Psycho and Bio-Con join forces to transform humanity into mutants who will be ruled by them. At one point, Psycho betrays Bio-Con, making him be trapped by a Psycho-robot (who looks like a silver-colored Psycho) who later self-destructs so that Psycho can rule the world instead of "sharing" it. Max tracks down Psycho and fights him. After the fight, Psycho attacks Max and 'Berto while they're trying to turn off the machine. Max kicks Psycho into the air, landing him into his own mutating device, which explodes. At the end of the movie, Elementor, a clone of Bio-Con, awakens, later to be the villain of the second movie and the new villain of the toyline.
Cast
Christian Campbell as Max Steel
Brian Drummond as Psycho and the Psycho-bots
Scott McNeil as Bio-Constrictor (Bio-Con)
Alessandro Juliani as 'Berto
Meghan Black as Kat
Nigel Mickelson as Elementor (in developing form)
Action figures
Max Steel: Endangered Species marks the last appearances of Psycho and Bio-Con, along with the last time that figures of them are made (excluding future Psycho-bot figures). The last Psycho figures were a silver repaint of the first Psycho figure that represents the Psycho-robot, and another Psycho with the same mold of the original Psycho, but has a different bionic arm: Instead of the original Psycho which had a claw arm, this one has a poseable arm, like that of the explosion face Psycho figure. He also comes with a gun. The last Bio-Con figures were two copper repaints of the Bio-Con figures (Bio-Con's skin changes to copper color in some scenes of the movie). One copper Bio-Con has a similar build to the original Bio-Con figure, however, his arms are cobras (something that happens in the movie). The other is a repaint of the "Super-Spit" figure, with the same mold, just painted copper.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctobacter | In taxonomy, Antarctobacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaima | Canaima may refer to:
Canaima National Park, Venezuela
Canaima Airport
Canaima (novel), a 1935 novel by Rómulo Gallegos
Canaima (operating system), a Debian-based Linux distribution
Canaima (spider), a genus of cellar spiders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseivivax | In taxonomy, Roseivivax is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinosulfonomonas | In taxonomy, "Marinosulfonomonas" is a genus.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardisia%20antonensis | Ardisia antonensis is a species of plant in the family Primulaceae. It is endemic to Panama.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardisia%20chiriquiana | Ardisia chiriquiana is a species of plant in the family Primulaceae. It is endemic to Panama.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardisia%20darienensis | Ardisia darienensis is a species of plant in the family Primulaceae. It is endemic to Panama.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octadecabacter | In taxonomy, Octadecabacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardisia%20geniculata | Ardisia geniculata is a species of plant in the family Primulaceae. It is endemic to Panama.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardisia%20hagenii | Ardisia hagenii is a species of plant in the family Primulaceae. It is endemic to Panama.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Morrow | George Morrow may refer to:
George E. Morrow (1840–1900), American academic
George Morrow (cricketer) (1877–1914), Irish cricketer
George Morrow (computers) (1934–2003), promoted the S-100 bus
George Morrow (bassist) (1925–1992), jazz musician
George Morrow (illustrator) (1869–1955), Irish artist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Morrow%20%28computers%29 | George Morrow (January 30, 1934 – May 7, 2003) was part of the early microcomputer industry in the United States. Morrow promoted and improved the S-100 bus used in many early microcomputers. Called "one of the microcomputer industry's iconoclasts" by Richard Dalton in the Whole Earth Software Catalog, Morrow ran his own computer business, Thinker Toys, Inc., later Morrow Designs. He was also a member of the Homebrew Computer Club.
Early life and education
Born in Detroit in 1934, Morrow was a high school dropout. At the age of 28, he decided to return to school, receiving a bachelor's degree in physics from Stanford University, followed by a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Oklahoma. He sought a PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley, but while there became fascinated by computers and began working as a programmer in the computer lab there. Meanwhile, the Altair 8800 made its debut in 1975, and Morrow began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club.
Career
Starting in 1976, he designed and sold computers, computer parts, and accessories under several company names, including Thinker Toys (changed after CBS threatened a suit as it was too close to their trademark Tinker Toys) and restarted the business as Morrow Designs. His initial product was an Intel 8080 board with an octal-notation keypad, but it proved unappealing to hobbyists who preferred the binary notation and flip switches of the Altair 8800. Afterwards, he attempted a 16-bit machine based on the National Semiconductor PACE CPU with the help of Bill Godbout, Chuck Grant, and Mark Greenberg. Differences between him and the latter two led to their leaving to found North Star Computers. He then sold 4 KB S-100 memory boards before attempting a new computer with Howard Fullmer in 1977.
The Equinox 100, sold through Fullmer's company Parasitic Engineering, was a powerful machine in an attractive cabinet, but failed to attract much attention as it used an 8080 at a time when the Z80 was rapidly taking over. Morrow turned to selling floppy drives for S-100 machines. The package (which proved quite popular) included an 8" external drive, controller board, CP/M, and CBASIC. In 1982, he issued the Morrow Micro Decision line, a group of single-board Z80 machines designed to answer the high price of computer hardware. A single-drive 200k system sold for under $2000 equipped with a terminal, which placed it squarely in competition with the other CP/M systems, they were respectable business machines with "no sex appeal" but an extensive software bundle, and came in a desktop case like the IBM Displaywriter they were intended to compete against.
The Micro Decision series was introduced in late 1982 and offered with either one or two single-sided 3/4 height floppy drives, using a 40-track disk format with five 1024-byte sectors per track for an unformatted capacity of about 200k. The floppy controller in the Micro Decision was based around the NEC u765 FDC found in the IBM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullstorp%20Runestone | The Tullstorp Runestone is a Viking Age memorial runestone, listed as DR 271 in the Rundata catalog, that is located in Tullstorp, which is about twenty kilometers east of Trelleborg, Skåne County, Sweden, and in the historic province of Scania.
Description
The inscription on the Tullstorp Runestone consists of runic text on a serpent band that frames a central image consisting of a ship and a beast, which has been described as being a wolf. The stone is granite and 1.7 meters in height, and the inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr1, which is also known as Ringerike style.
The original site of the Tullstorp Runestone is unknown. It was first noted in 1624 when it was installed in the wall of a church, and rediscovered when the old church in Tullstorp was torn down in 1846. Before the historical significance of runestones was understood, they were often used as materials in the construction of buildings, walls, and roads. The stone first ended up in the wall surrounding the church yard, later it was moved to the current position inside the church yard. It is dated from about 1000 AD.
The ship and the wolf in the central image probably reflects the Ragnarök myth, which would make the wolf Fenrir and the ship Naglfar. The ship is shaped like an ancient galley with beakheads both fore and aft and is unlike any known Viking ship, suggesting from its archaic form that it is a symbolic ship associated with ritual. Other inscriptions with similar features which may depict ancient, symbolic ships include DR 77 in Hjermind, DR 119 in Spentrup, DR 258 in Bösarp, and DR 328 in Holmby. The wolf has a mane and pointed ears similar to the depiction of the wolf on inscription DR 284 of the Hunnestad Monument and the two wolves on DR 314, the Lund 1 Runestone.
The runic text indicates that the stone was raised as a memorial to a man named Ulfr. Besides the Ragnarök myth discussed above, it may be that the image of the wolf was inspired by this man's name, which in Old Norse means "Wolf." It has been pointed out that the Old Norse phrase in the runic text, reistu kuml ("raised this monument"), is somewhat rare, but does appear on seven other runestones, Sm 27 in Berga, Ög 94 in Harstads, DR 13 in Skivum, DR 383 in Vester Marie, Sö 173 in Tystberga, U 735 in Långarnö (where the wording is reversed), and U 1066 in Åkerby.
Locally the stone is known as the Tullstorpstenen.
Inscription
Transliteration into Latin characters
× klibiʀ × auk × osa × ¶ × risþu × kuml + ¶ þusi × uftiʀ × ulf +
Transcription into Old Norse
Kleppir/Glippir ok Ása reistu kuml þessi eptir Ulf
Translation in English
Kleppir/Glippir and Ása raised this monument in memory of Ulfr.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asplundia%20cuspidata | Asplundia cuspidata is a species of plant in the Cyclanthaceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take%20a%20Chance%20%28Canadian%20game%20show%29 | Take a Chance was a Canadian quiz show by Roy Ward Dickson adapted from radio. It was one of the first series on CTV when the network began in 1961. The program was produced in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough at CFTO-TV studios and was broadcast Mondays at 9:30 PM (EST). Sheila Billing, the Miss Toronto pageant winner of 1955, was a co-host of the program.
On its premiere, Toronto Star television critic Jeremy Brown deemed the show to be "painful to watch" and "dreary", complaining that the programme lacked structure, suspense and substantial prize monies.
At one point, 438,000 viewers participated in the contests by submitting chewing gum wrappers as Chiclets was the programme's key sponsor.
Take a Chance aired until 1965.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn%20User | Acorn User magazine was founded by Acorn Computers in 1982, contract-published by Addison-Wesley, to coincide with the launch of the BBC Micro. It covered the range of Acorn home computers, the BBC Micro and Atom at first and later the Electron, Archimedes and Risc PC.
History
The first issue was dated July/August 1982. From the April 1984 issue, the magazine came under the control of Redwood Publishing, a company recently founded by Michael Potter (a former publisher at Haymarket Publishing), Christopher Ward (a former editor of the Daily Express and a non-executive director of Acorn) and Chris Curry (one of the founders of Acorn).
In 1989, the name changed to BBC Acorn User, reflecting the fact that the commercial arm of the BBC, BBC Enterprises, took control of Redwood to expand its publishing activities. The magazine lost the BBC branding when it was sold to Europress, publisher of rival title Acorn Computing, coinciding with its January 1994 issue.
The magazine later incorporated Acorn Computing and Archimedes World magazines. Even when compatible hardware was released by RiscStation, Castle, MicroDigital, and Advantage 6 the magazine continued with the Acorn name whilst covering the extended range of hardware.
In 2004 the magazine was acquired by Finnybank Ltd, which had previously purchased the RISC OS Acorn Publisher magazine: the two magazines were replaced by Qercus, edited by John Cartmell.
See also
The Micro User / Acorn Computing
Archive
BEEBUG / Risc User
Electron User
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Acorn User archive website
8-Bit Software website (featuring covers and full magazine scans)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Coast%20%28TV%20series%29 | West Coast is a Canadian variety show television series which debuted on the CTV television network in 1961.
The show was produced at the studios of CHAN-TV in Vancouver, British Columbia and mixed studio segments with filmed location footage from around British Columbia. Airing at 7:30-8:00 PM on Friday nights, it was cancelled after one season due to high costs and poor viewership. Rai Purdy was producer.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner | CCleaner (, originally Crap Cleaner), developed by Piriform Software, is a utility used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. It is one of the longest-established system cleaners, first launched in 2004. It was originally developed for Microsoft Windows only, but in 2012, a macOS version was released. An Android version was released in 2014.
Features
CCleaner can delete potentially unwanted files left by certain programs, including Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Windows Media Player, eMule, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Microsoft Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, McAfee, Adobe Flash Player, Sun Java, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and GIMP along with browsing history, cookies, recycle bin, memory dumps, file fragments, log files, system caches, application data, autocomplete form history, and various other data. The program includes a registry cleaner to locate and correct problems in the Windows registry, such as missing references to shared DLLs, unused registration entries for file extensions, and missing references to application paths. CCleaner 2.27 and later can wipe the MFT free space of a drive, or the entire drive.
CCleaner can uninstall programs or modify the list of programs that execute on startup. Since version 2.19, CCleaner can delete Windows System Restore points. CCleaner can also automatically update installed programs and computer drivers.
CCleaner also has its own web browser called CCleaner Browser. CCleaner Browser is included to optionally install in the CCleaner installer, but it can also be installed from its website. CCleaner Browser avoids advertising, avoids tracking, has built-in security against all kinds of malware, phishing, malicious downloads, and also avoids unwanted elements such as pop-ups or excessive browser cache. It is based on Google's free and open-source project Chromium. The browser is only available for Microsoft Windows.
History
CCleaner was first launched in 2004 for Microsoft Windows. It remained a Windows-only utility until 2012. On 2 June 2011, Piriform announced a public beta test program for CCleaner for Mac. The Mac version graduated to the test stage on 30 January 2012.
A commercial Network Edition was also introduced. Piriform released CCleaner for Android in 2014.
Critical reception
CNET editors gave the application a rating of 5/5 stars, calling it a 'must-have tool'. It was awarded Editor's Choice Award in April 2009 by CNET. In 2016 Piriform announced 2 billion CCleaner downloads worldwide. In January 2014 it had been the most popular software on FileHippo for more than a year, and had a 5-star editor's rating on download.zone and Softpedia. CCleaner has been reviewed by Chip.de, TechRadar, PC Magazine and TechRepublic.
Data collection
Upon an error in the code, the Active Monitoring component of CCleaner 5.45, which was designed to measure junk levels to trigger cleaning, switched back on again. Pi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinoroseobacter | In taxonomy, Dinoroseobacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haematobacter | In taxonomy, Haematobacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirschia | In taxonomy, Hirschia is a genus of the Hyphomonadaceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atuna%20cordata | Atuna cordata is a tree in the Atuna genus of the family Chrysobalanaceae. The specific epithet is from the Latin meaning "heart-shaped", referring to the leaf base.
Description
Atuna cordata grows up to tall. The smooth bark is grey-green with white mottles. The ovoid fruits measure up to long.
Distribution and habitat
Atuna cordata is endemic to Borneo where it is confined to Sabah. Its habitat is on ultramafic soils from sea-level to altitude.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphomonas | In taxonomy, Hyphomonas is a genus of the Hyphomonadaceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanicaulis | In taxonomy, Oceanicaulis is a genus of the Maricaulaceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogulonicigenium | In taxonomy, "Ketogulonicigenium" is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisingera | In taxonomy, Leisingera is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loktanella | In taxonomy, Loktanella is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritimibacter | In taxonomy, Maritimibacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maribius | In taxonomy, Maribius is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylarcula | In taxonomy, Methylarcula is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nereida | In taxonomy, Nereida is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanicola | In taxonomy, Oceanicola is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palleronia | In taxonomy, Palleronia is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonibacter | In taxonomy, Pannonibacter is a genus of the Hyphomicrobiales.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeobacter | In taxonomy, Phaeobacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorhodobacter | In taxonomy, Pseudorhodobacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodobaca | In taxonomy, Rhodobaca is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodovulum | In taxonomy, Rhodovulum is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseibacterium | In taxonomy, Roseibacterium is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseibium | In taxonomy, Roseibium is a genus of the Hyphomicrobiales.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balsamocitrus%20camerunensis | Balsamocitrus camerunensis is a species of plant in the family Rutaceae. It is found in Cameroon and Central African Republic.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseinatronobacter | In taxonomy, Roseinatronobacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseisalinus | In taxonomy, Roseisalinus is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseovarius | Roseovarius is a genus of bacteria in the family Roseobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubrimonas | In taxonomy, Rubrimonas is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittula | In taxonomy, Sagittula is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salipiger | In taxonomy, Salipiger is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetracoccus%20%28bacterium%29 | In taxonomy, "Tetracoccus" is a genus of the Alphaproteobacteria.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioclava | In taxonomy, Thioclava is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director%20%28military%29 | A director, also called an auxiliary predictor, is a mechanical or electronic computer that continuously calculates trigonometric firing solutions for use against a moving target, and transmits targeting data to direct the weapon firing crew.
Naval warships
For warships of the 20th century, the director is part of the fire control system; it passes information to the computer that calculates range and elevation for the guns. Typically, positions on the ship measured range and bearing of the target; these instantaneous measurements are used to calculate rate of change values, and the computer ("fire control table" in Royal Navy terms) then predicts the correct firing solution, taking into account other parameters, such as wind direction, air temperature, and ballistic factors for the guns. The British Royal Navy widely deployed the Pollen and Dreyer Fire Control Tables during the First World War, while in World War II a widely used computer in the US Navy was the electro-mechanical Mark I Fire Control Computer.
On ships the director control towers for the main battery are placed high on the superstructure, where they have the best view. Due to their large size and weight, in the World War II era the computers were located in plotting rooms deep in the ship, below the armored deck on armored ships.
Field artillery
Directors were introduced into field artillery in the early 20th century to orient the guns of an artillery battery in their zero line (or 'centre of arc'). Directors were an essential element in the introduction of indirect artillery fire. In US service these directors were called 'aiming circles'. Directors could also be used instead of theodolites for artillery survey over shorter distances. The first directors used an open sight rotating on an angular scale (e.g. degrees & minutes, grads or mils of one sort or another), but by World War I most directors were optical instruments. Introduction of digital artillery sights in the 1990s removed the need for directors.
Directors were mounted on a field tripod and oriented in relation to grid north of the map. If time was short this orientation usually used an integral compass, but was updated by calculation (azimuth by hour angle or azimuth by Polaris) or 'carried' by survey techniques from a survey control point. In the 1960s gyroscopic orientation was introduced.
Anti-aircraft
For anti-aircraft use, directors are usually used in conjunction with other fire control equipment, such as height finders or fire control radars. In some armies these 'directors' were called 'predictors'. The Mark 51 director was used by the US Navy for 40 mm guns and later for 3"/50 caliber guns. The Kerrison Predictor was also designed to be used with the Bofors 40 mm gun.
Example
The Bofors 40 mm gun (called a fire unit) used in its anti-aircraft role has the M5 director for its fire-control system. The director is operated by a member of the range section who reports to the chief of section, who in tur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassobius | In taxonomy, Thalassobius is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%20D.%20Personick | Stewart David Personick (born 1947) is an American researcher in telecommunications and computer networking.
He worked at Bell Labs, TRW, and Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), researching optical fiber receiver design, propagation in multi-mode optical fibers, time-domain reflectometry, and the end-to-end modeling of fiber-optic communication systems.
Biography
Personick was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and attended the Bronx High School of Science.
He graduated from the City College of New York with bachelor of electrical engineering degree in 1967 and joined Bell Laboratories. He obtained an SM degree in 1968 and Sc.D degree in 1970 from MIT with support from Bell Laboratories.
His dissertation was on analog communication over quantum channels.
At Bell Labs Personick conducted early research in fiber optics technology, including publication of papers on optical receiver design, applications of optical amplifiers, and propagation in multi-mode optical fibers with mode coupling. Some of his early analysis developed a model that included what became known as "the Personick integrals" as basic parameters for the capacity of optical systems.
His research was used in early fiber-optic system field tests, including a 1976 experiment in Atlanta, Georgia, and the 1977 Chicago lightwave communication project, which demonstrated the technical and economic viability of optical fiber systems. In 1976 he invented the first practical optical time-domain reflectometer, a test instrument that became heavily used in the fiber optics industry.
From 1978 through 1983, Personick was a manager at TRW Inc.
He managed organizations responsible for research and development of commercial telecommunications transmission and switching equipment, and organizations responsible for US federal government-funded research applications of optical communication technologies.
In 1983 Personick joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore).
There, he managed organizations responsible for the creation of new telecommunications technologies.
These included: fiber-to-the-home, asymmetric digital subscriber line, Integrated Services Digital Network, the Intelligent Network (customized call processing applications that depend upon customer-specific data stored in centralized “services control points”), wireless telecommunications networks, and packet-switched public telecommunications network services, including acting as the interface between the traditional telecommunications industry and the emerging Internet access industry.
He managed systems engineering organizations, ranging in size from 150 to 400 and research organizations ranging in size from 100 to 150 persons.
He helped shape telecommunications research policy through participation in national level committees such as the Federal Networking Council,
and by influencing executives of the telecommunications industry.
He initiated external government-funded research projects at Bellcore as an additional source of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berberis%20hirtellipes | Berberis hirtellipes is a species of plant in the family Berberidaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador.
References
Endemic flora of Ecuador
hirtellipes
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berberis%20hyperythra | Berberis hyperythra is a species of plant in the family Berberidaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador.
References
Endemic flora of Ecuador
hyperythra
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berberis%20laidivo | Berberis laidivo is a species of plant in the family Berberidaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
The species is listed as "Data deficient".
References
Endemic flora of Ecuador
laidivo
Data deficient plants
Plants described in 1966
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berberis%20lechleriana | Berberis lechleriana is a species of plant in the family Berberidaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador.
References
Endemic flora of Ecuador
lechleriana
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berberis%20pectinata | Berberis pectinata is a species of plant in the family Berberidaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador.
References
Endemic flora of Ecuador
pectinata
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berberis%20simonsii | Berberis simonsii is a species of plant in the family Berberidaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador.
References
Endemic flora of Ecuador
simonsii
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TILE64 | TILE64 is a VLIW ISA multicore processor manufactured by Tilera. It consists of a mesh network of 64 "tiles", where each tile houses a general purpose processor, cache, and a non-blocking router, which the tile uses to communicate with the other tiles on the processor.
The short-pipeline, in-order, three-issue cores implement a MIPS-inspired VLIW instruction set. Each core has a register file and three functional units: two integer arithmetic logic units and a load-store unit. Each of the cores ("tile") has its own L1 and L2 caches plus an overall virtual L3 cache which is an aggregate of all the L2 caches. A core is able to run a full operating system on its own or multiple cores can be used to run a symmetrical multi-processing operating system.
TILE64 has four DDR2 controllers, two 10-gigabit Ethernet interfaces, two four-lane PCIe interfaces, and a "flexible" input/output interface, which can be software-configured to handle a number of protocols. The processor is fabricated using a 90 nm process and runs at speeds of 600 to 900 MHz.
According to CTO and co-founder Anant Agarwal, Tilera will target the chip at networking equipment and digital video markets where the demands for computing processing are high.
Support for the TILE64 architecture was added to Linux kernel version 2.6.36 but was dropped in kernel version 4.16. A non-official LLVM back-end for Tilera exists.
References
External links
Tilera website
MIT startup raises multicore bar with new 64-core CPU
Manycore processors
Very long instruction word computing
Computer-related introductions in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunchosia%20tutensis | Bunchosia tutensis is a species of plant in the Malpighiaceae family. It is endemic to Panama.
References
Endemic flora of Panama
tutensis
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmeistera%20formosa | Burmeistera formosa is a species of plant in the family Campanulaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador.
References
formosa
Endemic flora of Ecuador
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Plants described in 1926 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byrsonima%20horneana | Byrsonima horneana is a species of plant in the Malpighiaceae family. It is endemic to Puerto Rico.
References
horneana
Endemic flora of Puerto Rico
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
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