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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haloplanus | In taxonomy, Haloplanus is a genus of the Halobacteriaceae.
References
Further reading
Scientific journals
Scientific books
Scientific databases
External links
Archaea genera
Taxa described in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halosarcina | In taxonomy, Halosarcina is a genus of the Halobacteriaceae.
References
Further reading
Scientific journals
Scientific books
Scientific databases
External links
Archaea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halosimplex | In taxonomy, Halosimplex is a genus of the Halobacteriaceae.
References
Further reading
Scientific journals
Scientific books
Scientific databases
External links
Archaea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teds | Teds or TEDS may refer to
Transducer Electronic Data Sheet
Teddy Boys, particularly 1970s revivalists.
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Twins Early Development Study
The Ethical Debating Society
TETRA Enhanced Data Service
Tactical Eye Devices, a US Army term for eyeglasses
Thrombo Embolus Deterrent Stockings- Anti-Embolism Compression Stockings
See also
Ted (disambiguation)
TED (disambiguation)
Ted's Hot Dogs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered%20Destiny | Altered Destiny is a graphic adventure game released by Accolade in 1990 for MS-DOS compatible operating systems and in 1991 for Amiga. The game was designed by Michael Berlyn and it uses a text parser interface. It is the second adventure game from Accolade and it uses the same engine as the first one, Les Manley in: Search for the King.
Plot
The player assumes the role of a normal middle-class man named P.J. Barrett. After a mixup in the local repair shop, he accidentally brings home a TV set that belongs to a barbarian warrior. When he switches on the TV he is unexpectedly sucked through the screen into the planet Daltere where he finds out that an alien named Helmar has stolen "the jewel of light" and that this world is in danger. Thus he is forced to take on a mission to free it from tyranny and to save the galaxy.
Reception
Scorpia of Computer Gaming World wrote that Altered Destiny "leaves me with mixed feelings". She stated that the graphics were merely "okay" and the pathing was "ridiculous and frustrating", but concluded that it was "still a game worth playing" because of its difficulty level, "bizarre and alien" setting, "tough but fair" puzzles, and humor. Allgame described the game as similar to King's Quest and Space Quest but without the charm.
References
External links
Altered Destiny at Hall of Light Amiga database
1990 video games
Accolade (company) games
Adventure games
Amiga games
DOS games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS%20rebinding | DNS rebinding is a method of manipulating resolution of domain names that is commonly used as a form of computer attack. In this attack, a malicious web page causes visitors to run a client-side script that attacks machines elsewhere on the network. In theory, the same-origin policy prevents this from happening: client-side scripts are only allowed to access content on the same host that served the script. Comparing domain names is an essential part of enforcing this policy, so DNS rebinding circumvents this protection by abusing the Domain Name System (DNS).
This attack can be used to breach a private network by causing the victim's web browser to access computers at private IP addresses and return the results to the attacker. It can also be employed to use the victim machine for spamming, distributed denial-of-service attacks, or other malicious activities.
How DNS rebinding works
The attacker registers a domain (such as attacker.com) and delegates it to a DNS server that is under the attacker's control. The server is configured to respond with a very short time to live (TTL) record, preventing the DNS response from being cached. When the victim browses to the malicious domain, the attacker's DNS server first responds with the IP address of a server hosting the malicious client-side code. For instance, they could point the victim's browser to a website that contains malicious JavaScript or Flash scripts that are intended to execute on the victim's computer.
The malicious client-side code makes additional accesses to the original domain name (such as attacker.com). These are permitted by the same-origin policy. However, when the victim's browser runs the script it makes a new DNS request for the domain, and the attacker replies with a new IP address. For instance, they could reply with an internal IP address or the IP address of a target somewhere else on the Internet.
Protection
The following techniques attempt to prevent DNS rebinding attacks:
DNS servers in the chain can filter out private IP addresses and loopback IP addresses:
External public DNS servers (e.g. OpenDNS) can implement DNS filtering.
Local system administrators can configure the organization's local nameserver(s) to block the resolution of external names into internal IP addresses. (This has the downside of allowing an attacker to map the internal address ranges in use.)
A firewall (e.g. dnswall), in the gateway or in the local pc, can filter DNS replies that pass through it, discarding local addresses.
Web browsers can resist DNS rebinding:
Web browsers can implement DNS pinning: the IP address is locked to the value received in the first DNS response. This technique may block some legitimate uses of Dynamic DNS, and may not work against all attacks. However, it is important to fail-safe (stop rendering) if the IP address does change, because using an IP address past the TTL expiration can open the opposite vulnerability when the IP address has legitimately changed and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20Ruby | Distributed Ruby or DRb allows Ruby programs to communicate with each other on the same machine or over a network. DRb uses remote method invocation (RMI) to pass commands and data between processes.
See also
Java remote method invocation
Rinda (Ruby programming language)
External links
DRb RDoc Documentation
Ruby (programming language)
Inter-process communication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XStream%20Systems | XStream Systems Inc. is a US-based company which develops X-ray based identification equipment for research and pharmaceutical industry applications. The company was sold to Veracity Network, Inc in 2011.
Company history
This company was incorporated in May, 2004. The technology used in XStream Systems' products was first developed at Rutgers University. The company was the first in the industry to deploy counterfeit detection equipment along the pharmaceutical distribution supply chain that could look inside any packaging and perform forensic analysis on the drug products inside. All of XStream Systems' technology, products, and services were acquired in 2011 by Veracity Network, Inc.
Areas of expertise
Products are based on Energy Dispersive X-Ray Diffraction (EDXRD), a technology also used in synchrotrons. XStream Systems' equipment verifies molecular crystal structure of materials and authenticates a pharmaceutical's composition.
External links
Veracity Network, Inc. home page
National Defense directory listing
US Department of Homeland Security Stakeholder's Conference
X-Ray Safety Academy
Pharmaceutical Processing Magazine appearance
Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine appearance
XStream Systems' XT250 System featured as Improving Security in Drug Topics Magazine
Florida Venture Capital Conference Presenting Company
XStream Systems Presents At Middle East Counterfeit Medication Conference
XStream Systems offers leasing option for authentication system
References
Diffraction
Technology companies of the United States
X-ray equipment manufacturers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurorobotics | Neurorobotics is the combined study of neuroscience, robotics, and artificial intelligence. It is the science and technology of embodied autonomous neural systems. Neural systems include brain-inspired algorithms (e.g. connectionist networks), computational models of biological neural networks (e.g. artificial spiking neural networks, large-scale simulations of neural microcircuits) and actual biological systems (e.g. in vivo and in vitro neural nets). Such neural systems can be embodied in machines with mechanic or any other forms of physical actuation. This includes robots, prosthetic or wearable systems but also, at smaller scale, micro-machines and, at the larger scales, furniture and infrastructures.
Neurorobotics is that branch of neuroscience with robotics, which deals with the study and application of science and technology of embodied autonomous neural systems like brain-inspired algorithms. It is based on the idea that the brain is embodied and the body is embedded in the environment. Therefore, most neurorobots are required to function in the real world, as opposed to a simulated environment.
Beyond brain-inspired algorithms for robots neurorobotics may also involve the design of brain-controlled robot systems.
Major classes of models
Neurorobots can be divided into various major classes based on the robot's purpose. Each class is designed to implement a specific mechanism of interest for study. Common types of neurorobots are those used to study motor control, memory, action selection, and perception.
Locomotion and motor control
Neurorobots are often used to study motor feedback and control systems, and have proved their merit in developing controllers for robots. Locomotion is modeled by a number of neurologically inspired theories on the action of motor systems. Locomotion control has been mimicked using models or central pattern generators, clumps of neurons capable of driving repetitive behavior, to make four-legged walking robots. Other groups have expanded the idea of combining rudimentary control systems into a hierarchical set of simple autonomous systems. These systems can formulate complex movements from a combination of these rudimentary subsets. This theory of motor action is based on the organization of cortical columns, which progressively integrate from simple sensory input into a complex afferent signals, or from complex motor programs to simple controls for each muscle fiber in efferent signals, forming a similar hierarchical structure.
Another method for motor control uses learned error correction and predictive controls to form a sort of simulated muscle memory. In this model, awkward, random, and error-prone movements are corrected for using error feedback to produce smooth and accurate movements over time. The controller learns to create the correct control signal by predicting the error. Using these ideas, robots have been designed which can learn to produce adaptive arm movements or to avoid obstacles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVSI | KVSI is a commercial radio station in Montpelier, Idaho, broadcasting to the Montpelier, Idaho-Paris, Idaho area on 1450 AM.
Translator
KVSI programming can also be heard on 101.7 MHz via an FM translator; this provides improved sound and better coverage than AM alone.
Annual events
Since 1978, KVSI has sponsored a Fun-Run that kicks off the Paris, Idaho July 4 celebration. Runners and walkers leave the KVSI station and finish in Paris, Idaho (8.6 miles).
References
External links
Official Website
Country radio stations in the United States
VSI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telestream | Telestream, Inc. is an American privately held computer software company.
History
The company, founded in 1998, is headquartered in Nevada City, California with personnel in France, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Canada and the UK.
Telestream provides live and on-demand digital video tools and workflow solutions.
As of Q1 2010, revenues for enterprise products were up 25% for the first quarter over the previous year, and desktop products grew by 45%. More than 80% of broadcast station groups, media companies and Fortune 100 companies, along with consumers, currently use Telestream products.
In May 2022, it was announced Telestream had acquired the Aspen-based cloud media processing platform, Encoding.com.
Awards
On September 11, 2015, Telestream received an Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering.
References
Companies based in Nevada County, California
Software companies established in 1998
1998 establishments in California
2022 mergers and acquisitions
Macintosh software companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wamsley | Dr John Wamsley (born 1938) is an Australian environmentalist. He was the Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year for 2003. Wamsley is known for his attempt to set up a network of wildlife sanctuaries across Australia.
Wamsley was born in Ourimbah, New South Wales in 1938. His passion for Australian wildlife was born when the seven-year-old Wamsley's family moved to a 67 hectare bushland block at Niagara Park. At age sixteen Wamsley became a trainee metallurgist with BHP. Dissatisfied with the job he became a labourer in BHP's open-hearth furnaces and worked a second job renovating run down houses. By age 23 Wamsley was a millionaire. Approximately two years later Wamsley entered the University of Newcastle, Australia. The thirty-year-old Wamsley graduated with a PhD in Mathematics and moved to Flinders University to lecture. His doctoral thesis from the University of Queensland, at only 70 pages, is among the shortest theses in the library.
June 1969 saw the purchase of a dairy farm at Mylor, South Australia, that was to become Wamsley's first sanctuary, Warrawong. Wamsley eradicated all feral plants and animals from the sanctuary and erected a surrounding fence to preserve the sanctuary's feral free state. Wamsley entered the public eye when he attended a tourism awards ceremony wearing a hat made from the pelt of a dead feral cat. The ensuing controversy led to a change in the law, allowing feral cats to be legally killed.
With the view to duplicating the success of the Warrawong wildlife sanctuary in South Australia, Earth Sanctuaries Limited (ESL) was floated on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in 2000. At its peak, ESL had 11 prospective sanctuaries in 3 states accounting for 100,000 hectares. ESL was successful in some rewilding and ecosystem restoration projects. By pioneering feral-proof fencing, native Australian animals were successfully re-introduced where they were locally extinct. However commercial success was elusive, and ESL was wound up and delisted in 2005. ESL was the world's first publicly listed company whose business was conservation.
References
External links
Cat hat man runs out of lives? Interview on ABC radio. Archive copy saved on 2016-03-03.
1938 births
Living people
Australian environmentalists
Academic staff of Flinders University
20th-century Australian mathematicians
21st-century Australian mathematicians
20th-century Australian businesspeople
21st-century Australian businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tele%20Vida%20Abundante | Tele Vida Abundante is a Spanish-language religious network with mostly low-powered television affiliates across certain areas of the United States, mostly in the west.
The network also broadcasts on free-to-air satellites Sat-Mex 5, covering from southern Canada to Argentina.
List of Affiliates
Most channels listed here are low-powered.
External links
Official Site
Religious television stations in the United States
Spanish-language television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1985
1985 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20National%20Museum%20of%20Computing | The National Museum of Computing is a museum in the United Kingdom dedicated to collecting and restoring historic computer systems. The museum is based in rented premises at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire and opened in 2007. The building — Block H — was the first purpose-built computer centre in the world, hosting six Colossus computers by the end of World War II.
The museum houses a rebuilt Mark 2 Colossus computer alongside an exhibition of the most complex code cracking activities performed at the Park, along with examples of machines continuing the history of the development of computing from the 1940s to the present day. The museum has a policy of having as many of the exhibits as possible in full working order.
Although located on the Bletchley Park "campus", The National Museum of Computing is an entirely separate registered charity with its own fund-raising and separate entrance/ticketing. TNMOC receives no public funding and relies on the generosity of donors and supporters.
Exhibits
On display in the museum are many famous early computing era machines, including a functioning Colossus Mark 2 computer that was rebuilt between 1993 and 2008 by a team of volunteers led by Tony Sale. Colossus was a machine that helped break enemy encryption during World War II.
Since 2018, the reconstruction of the Turing-Welchman Bombe, of the type used to help break Enigma, is also at the museum.
The museum also includes the world's oldest working digital computer (the Harwell Dekatron / WITCH), machines from the 1960s such as the Marconi Transistorised Automatic Computer (T.A.C.), Elliott 803 and 905, an ICL 2966 mainframe from the 1980s, an IBM 1130 from the 1960s, an analogue computer, a hands-on retrocomputing gallery, and several restoration projects such as the PDP-8 and the PDP-11-based air traffic control system from London Terminal Control Centre at West Drayton near London. Further exhibits include mechanical and electronic calculators, a history of slide rules, a pair of Cray supercomputers, and a personal computing gallery with ten hands-on machines. Visitors can also see a re-build of the Cambridge University EDSAC computer that is underway (still in progress as of May 2019).
There is also a suite which includes many BBC Micro personal computers which are used to encourage programming among visitors, a temporary exhibition space used for short-term exhibitions and a hands on display of video game consoles from different eras. All of this is alongside various other displays of devices and information regarding the evolution of computing from the 1960s to the modern era.
Since 2009, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has sponsored a gallery about technology of the Internet, featuring the pioneering work on packet switching carried out at NPL and the development of the first public data networks.
The museum has its own cafe and gift shop.
Opening
The museum is open to the public 6 days a week, Tuesday to Sunday |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast%20router%20discovery | Multicast router discovery (MRD) provides a general mechanism for the discovery of multicast routers on an IP network. For IPv4, the mechanism is based on IGMP. For IPv6 the mechanism is based on MLD. Multicast router discovery is defined by RFC 4286.
Computer networking
Internet Protocol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETV%20%28Telugu%29 | ETV is an Indian Telugu-language general entertainment pay television channel. The channel was launched on 27 August 1995 focusing on the state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a part of the ETV Network owned by Ramoji Group. It is the second oldest Telugu satellite channel after Gemini TV. It is also one of the earliest private satellite channels in South India.
Name
The letter E in ETV stands as a Telugu letter "ఈ" meaning "This" collectively meaning as "This TV". The letter E also stands as a short cut form of Eenadu, a Telugu newspaper owned by Ramoji Rao. Eenadu is a polysemic word which has two meanings in Telugu language "this day" and "this land".
History
Launch
ETV was launched on 27 August 1995 by Ramoji Group which owned Eenadu, the largest circulated Telugu-language daily newspaper. The company leased a high-quality transponder on the Intelsat satellite system, and uplinked from Padduka near Colombo, Sri Lanka. ETV began with an ambitious 18-hour service of entertainment and film-based programming.
Its initial programming included children's programmes like Sabash Tin-Tin, Baboi Dennis (the Telugu-dubbed versions of animated series The Adventures of Tintin and Dennis the Menace), film-based programmes like Cinema Quiz, Cinemasala, Hats Off (hosted by veteran film actor Nutan Prasad), Masterminds, a children's quiz, women-centric programmes like Vasundhara, Chitti Chitkalu, Ghuma Ghumalu etc.
Recent history
In February 2006, ETV Network had taken its two Telugu channels ETV and ETV2 to pay mode at a combined price of 10. However, its non-Telugu channels remained free-to-air (FTA).
It was reported in January 2014 that Network18 Group had bought 24.5 percent stake in the Telugu channels ETV and ETV2 along with acquiring 100 percent stake in the regional Hindi news channels of the ETV Network.
It also has a HD version which was launched on 29 July 2016 under the name ETV HD. The channel is the 3rd most watched Telugu language TV channel with an impression of 1228.2 AMA (average minute audience) during 10th week data of 6–12 March 2021 according to BARC ratings.
In February 2017, ETV entered into an exclusive partnership with over-the-top (OTT) content provider YuppTV in the United States. As part of the association, YuppTV users can access content from ETV Telugu, along with other ETV Network channels like ETV Life, ETV Plus, ETV Cinema and ETV Abhiruchi in the US Market.
Programming
Initially, ETV preferred creating in-house content as the parent company had experience in film production through Usha Kiran Movies banner and because Ramoji Group also owns Ramoji Film City, the largest film studio facility in the world. Later it also started encouraging outside producers to produce serials for the channel.Current programming
Serials
Sources:
Reality shows
Sources:
Logos
See also
ETV Network
Ramoji Group
Eenadu
References
External links
Eenadu Television Pvt. Ltd.
Telugu-language television channels
Television stations i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20feed | Data feed is a mechanism for users to receive updated data from data sources. It is commonly used by real-time applications in point-to-point settings as well as on the World Wide Web. The latter is also called web feed. News feed is a popular form of web feed. RSS feed makes dissemination of blogs easy. Product feeds play increasingly important role in e-commerce and internet marketing, as well as news distribution, financial markets, and cybersecurity. Data feeds usually require structured data that include different labelled fields, such as "title" or "product".
Data feed formats
RSS 1.0, 2.0
Atom feed
RDF feed
Comma-separated values (CSV)
JSON
XML
Emerging semantic data feed
The Web is evolving into a web of data or Semantic Web. Data will be encoded by Semantic Web languages like RDF or OWL according to many experts' visions. So, it is not difficult to envision data feeds will be also in the form of RDF or OWL. A big advantage of providing semantic data feeds, i.e. feeding data in Semantic Web standards, is that the data can then be readily consumed and reused by other computers.
CSV data feed and affiliate marketing
CSV (Comma-separated values) data feeds are mostly being used within affiliate marketing. Affiliate or so called publisher websites use the CSV file to load product information from online stores. This way it is a lot easier to load thousands of products to the website. CSV is not like XML and is not as semantic but it does have a good basic structure. This file format can easily be created and loaded with any spreadsheet program like Excel.
See also
Semantic publishing
References
External links
W3C Feed validation
W3C RDF validation
Web syndication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTY | UTY may refer to:
UHF Television Yamanashi, Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the JNN
UTY (gene), histone demethylase UTY, enzyme that in humans is encoded by the UTY gene |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataAdapter | In ADO.NET, a DataAdapter functions as a bridge between a data source, and a disconnected data class, such as a DataSet. At the simplest level it will specify SQL commands that provide elementary CRUD functionality. At a more advanced level it offers all the functions required in order to create Strongly Typed DataSets, including DataRelations. Data adapters are an integral part of ADO.NET managed providers, which are the set of objects used to communicate between a data source and a dataset. (In addition to adapters, managed providers include connection objects, data reader objects, and command objects.) Adapters are used to exchange data between a data source and a dataset. In many applications, this means reading data from a database into a dataset, and then writing changed data from the dataset back to the database. However, a data adapter can move data between any source and a dataset. For example, there could be an adapter that moves data between a Microsoft Exchange server and a dataset.
Sometimes the data you work with is primarily read-only and you rarely need to make changes to the underlying data source Some situations also call for caching data in memory to minimize the number of database calls for data that does not change. The data adapter makes it easy for you to accomplish these things by helping to manage data in a disconnected mode. The data adapter fills a DataSet object when reading the data and writes in a single batch when persisting changes back to the database. A data adapter contains a reference to the connection object and opens and closes the connection automatically when reading from or writing to the database. Additionally, the data adapter contains command object references for SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations on the data. You will have a data adapter defined for each table in a DataSet and it will take care of all communication with the database for you. All you need to do is tell the data adapter when to load from or write to the database.
ADO.NET Data Access technologies
Microsoft application programming interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Texan%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Texan is a Western television series starring film and television actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
Synopsis
Rory Calhoun plays gunman Bill Longley, "The Texan," who travels across Texas from town to town in the wake of the Civil War. His reputation as a gunfighter precedes him and often brings trouble wherever he ends up next.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (1958–59)
Season 2 (1959–60)
Production
Operating on a budget of $40,000 per episode, two episodes per week were filmed on stage 11 at Desilu. Location shooting was completed at Pearl Flats.
Release
Broadcast
The original broadcast of The Texan aired 8:008:30 Monday evenings from September 1958 to September 1960 on CBS. ABC aired reruns of the program during its weekday lineup from October 1960 to March 1962, and then as part of its Saturday morning lineup from February to May 1962.
Home media
Timeless Media Group released 70 episodes of the series on DVD.
Reception
The show was #15 in the 1958-59 season with an average viewership of 12.4 million, but it failed to rank in the top 30 the following season.
Media information
Like many of the television Westerns of the 1950s, The Texan was adapted to a comic by Dan Spiegle in 1960.
References
External links
The Texan Season 1 at tvguide.com
The Texan Season 2 at tvguide.com
CBS original programming
1958 American television series debuts
1960 American television series endings
1950s Western (genre) television series
Television series by CBS Studios
Television shows set in Texas
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
Television series by Desilu Productions
Television shows adapted into comics
1960s Western (genre) television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Collection%20System%20Network | The Digital Collection System Network (DCSNet) is the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s point-and-click surveillance system that can perform instant wiretaps on almost any telecommunications device in the United States.
It allows access to cellphone, landline, SMS communications anywhere in the US from a point-and-click interface. It runs on a fiber-optic backbone that is separate from the Internet. It is intended to increase agent productivity through workflow modeling, allowing for the routing of intercepts for translation or analysis with only a few clicks. The DCSNet real-time intelligence data intercept has the capability to record, review and playback intercepted material in real-time.
The DCSNet systems operate on a virtual private network parallel to the public Internet, with services provided at least for some time by the Sprint Peerless IP network.
Much of the information available on this system has come from the results of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Components
It is composed of at least three classified software components that run on the Windows operating system—DCS3000, DCS5000, DCS6000.
DCS-1000
DCS-3000
DCS-3000 and "Red Hook" were first mentioned publicly in a March 2006 report from the United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on the implementation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The report described Red Hook as "a system to collect voice and data calls and then process and display the intercepted information in the absence of a CALEA solution." and it described DCS-3000 "as an interim solution to intercept personal communications services delivered via emerging digital technologies used by wireless carriers in advance of any CALEA solutions being deployed."
Citing the OIG report, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an FOIA request later that year in order to obtain more information about the two programs. When the FBI did not respond with more information, the EFF sued, and in May 2007 obtained a court order to release documents concerning the programs.
On August 29, 2007, Wired magazine published an article on these systems, citing the EFF documents. The DCS-3000 collects information associated with dialed and incoming numbers like traditional trap-and-trace and pen registers. The article named "Red Hook" as the client for DCS-3000. Wired reported that the DCS-3000 cost $320 per number targeted, and that the software is maintained by Booz Allen Hamilton.
DCS-5000
The DCS-5000 is a system used by the FBI unit responsible for counter-intelligence to target suspected spies, alleged terrorists, and others with wiretaps.
DCS-6000
The DCS-6000 (a.k.a. "Digital Storm") captures the content of phone calls and text messages for analysis. Once the data has been captured, it is indexed and prioritized using the Electronic Surveillance Data Management System (ELSUR).
See also
Ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran%20Turismo%205%20Prologue | Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (グランツーリスモ5 プロローグ, Guran Tsūrisumo 5 Purorōgu) is a 2007 racing simulation game developed by Polyphony Digital and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is the eighth overall installment in the Gran Turismo series. Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is a precursor to Gran Turismo 5, in celebration of the series' tenth anniversary.
The game has sold 5.09 million copies worldwide, making it the second highest-selling PlayStation 3 exclusive title after its successor, Gran Turismo 5.
Gameplay
This game introduced the ability to race with up to 16 cars at once to the Gran Turismo series. According to game developer Polyphony Digital, the NPC's AI has also improved from previous Gran Turismo games.
New to the series is the realistic in-car view feature. It includes functioning speedometers, odometers, reflecting rear-view mirrors, wing mirrors and real-time in-car lighting effects, such as shadows. Players driving with either the control pad or the steering wheel can look left and right in the cockpit of the car by using the D-pad. This function can be mapped to other buttons on the controller if preferred. Any PlayStation 3 - compatible steering wheel works with Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Three viewing modes show the car from exterior angles. The fourth, called "cockpit mode", includes the driver's perspective from the interior of the car looking past the steering wheel to the track and is available only for "premium" cars.
The Spec II update brings Drift Mode (similar to that of Gran Turismo HD Concept), car tuning adjustments, and head to head two-player racing offline.
Online
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is the first mass-produced Gran Turismo game to feature online multiplayer. Up to 16 players can play online at once in GT5 Prologue. Since Gran Turismo 5's development cycle was so long, GT5 Prologue's servers were online for two years even though the game only served as a prologue. Gran Turismo 4 for the PlayStation 2 was intended to contain an online component, but this feature was pulled before the game's release to avoid further delays; a beta of GT4 online was even released. Gran Turismo HD Concept also contained an online Time Trial feature.
The latest update, entitled Spec III, added new cars and further improvements to the game and was released in October 2008. A separate disc was also released in Japan that included all updates, including Spec III. The Platinum release of the game, originally unveiled in Europe, also comes with the Spec III update.
Interface
The game has a brand new interface called 'My Page' that acts as the player's personalized menu for the game. When the game starts up, the player is taken straight to this interface, and the currently selected car is displayed on the screen in a picturesque real-life location. The vehicle is set in a Full HD advanced 3D environment with a 360° camera and the GUI's real-time zoom-in function is enabled.
In the Japanese version, the 'My Page' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halostagnicola | In taxonomy, Halostagnicola is a genus of the Archaea.
References
Further reading
Scientific journals
Scientific books
Scientific databases
External links
Archaea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunization%20registry | An immunization registry or immunization information system (IIS) is an information system that collects vaccination data about all persons within a geographic area. It consolidates the immunization records from multiple sources for each person living in its jurisdiction.
Introduction
Immunization information systems (IIS) are an important tool to increase and sustain high vaccination coverage by consolidating vaccination records of children and adults from multiple providers, forecasting next doses past due, due, and next due to support generating reminder and recall vaccination notices for each individual, and providing official vaccination forms and vaccination coverage assessments. One of the national health objectives is to increase to 95% the proportion of children aged <6 years who participate in fully operational population-based IIS.
A "fully operational" IIS includes 95% enrollment or higher of all catchment area children less than 6 years of age with 2 or more immunization encounters administered according to ACIP recommendations.
In a population-based IIS, children are entered into the IIS at birth, often through a linkage with electronic birth records. An IIS record also can be initiated by a health care provider at the time of a child's first immunization. If an IIS includes all children in a given geographical area and all providers are reporting immunization information, it can provide a single data source for all community immunization partners. Such a population-based IIS can make it easier to carry out the demonstrably effective immunization strategies (e.g., reminder/recall, AFIX, and WIC linkages) and thereby decrease the resources needed to achieve and maintain high levels of coverage. IIS can also be used to enhance adult immunization services and coverage. Pharmacy immunizations are reported to state IIS, allowing for a complete lifetime immunization history.
The concept of IIS is not new. Many individual practices and health plans administer immunizations to their patients. Records of these immunizations often are based on computerized information systems designed for other purposes, such as billing. There is also a growing movement toward the development of totally computerized patient medical records. Although an IIS includes all immunizations administered by health care providers participating in it, only population-based IIS are capable of providing information on all children and all adult doses of vaccines administered by all providers.
See also
Vaccination schedule
References
CDC entry
CDC Immunization Information System
American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA)
Electronic health record software
Vaccination |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverboat%20%28TV%20series%29 | Riverboat is an American Western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds, produced by Revue Studios, and broadcast on the NBC television network from 1959 to 1961. Reynolds was replaced by Noah Beery Jr. halfway through the series in the wake of conflicts with McGavin.
Plot
In the series, Captain Grey Holden and his crew navigate the vessel called the Enterprise principally along the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers. Some episodes are set in the eastern end of the American West or in the Midwest. Holden and his men encounter interesting characters along the way, including U.S. President Zachary Taylor, General Winfield Scott and a prepresidential Abraham Lincoln. One episode focuses indirectly on the Texan Revolution of 1836. Unlike most Westerns, which are set after the American Civil War, the story's time frame precedes the conflict, and includes the 1830s and the 1840s. The series ended on the NBC midseason schedule in January 1961, replaced by a drama about the sectional conflict, The Americans.
Cast
Darren McGavin played Captain Grey Holden for 40 episodes. Dan Duryea played Captain Brad Turner for two episodes while McGavin was embroiled in contract disputes. Burt Reynolds, in his television debut, played McGavin's partner and chief pilot Ben Frazer in 20 episodes, and was replaced by Noah Beery, Jr., who played Bill Blake, for Season Two.
Dick Wessel, as chief stoker Carney Kohler, was cast in 41 episodes, Jack Lambert was cast in 23 episodes as first mate Joshua MacGregor (having played a different character, Tony Walchek, earlier in the series), John Mitchum co-starred in 10 episodes as Pickalong, the ship's cook, Michael McGreevey was cast in 17 episodes as cabin boy Chip Kessler, and William D. Gordon played first mate Joe Travis in 13 episodes before his character's death.
Episodes
Season 1: 1959–60
Season 2: 1960–61
Guest stars
Female guest stars
The series featured an array of leading ladies of that era as guest stars, including Mary Tyler Moore, cast as the "Brunette Girl in Coach", with Jeanne Carmen as Janine, the "Blonde Girl in Coach", in the 1959 episode, "A Night at Trapper's Landing". Moore played Lily Belle de Lesseps the next year in "Trunk Full of Dreams" (1960).
Other female guest stars include:
Jeanne Bal
Jeanne Bates
Anne Baxter
Barbara Bel Geddes
Whitney Blake
Jocelyn Brando
Virginia Christine
Jeanne Crain
Norma Crane
Pat Crowley
Arlene Dahl
Dianne Foster
Mona Freeman
Beverly Garland
Connie Hines
Sherry Jackson
Bethel Leslie
Nan Leslie
Mercedes McCambridge
Patricia Medina
Vera Miles
Elizabeth Montgomery
Joanna Moore
Debra Paget
Suzanne Pleshette
Madlyn Rhue
Gena Rowlands
Fay Spain
Karen Steele
Jan Sterling
Stella Stevens
Barbara Stuart
Gloria Talbott
Male guest stars
Many male guest stars also appeared on Riverboat. Ricardo Montalbán portrayed United States Army Lt. Andre B. Devereaux in "A Night at Trapper's Landing" (November 8, 1959). In the story line, the Enterprise is comma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20%28text%20editor%29 | Red, usually in all caps as RED, is a screen editor for the VAX/VMS operating system using VT100 terminals. It was designed to be efficient in an interactive environment. RED's syntax is similar to TECO's. It supports cut/paste and user-written macros.
RED is written in the STOIC programming language.
References
External links
RED text editor source and VMS executables
Free text editors
OpenVMS text editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOIC | STOIC (Stack-Oriented Interactive Compiler) is a 1970s programming language, a variant of Forth.
History
STOIC started out at the MIT and Harvard Biomedical Engineering Centre in Boston, (part of the Health, Science and Technology Division) and was written in the mid 1970s by Jonathan Sachs. Jonathan Sachs went on to be the principal programmer of Lotus Development and wrote the first version of Lotus 1-2-3.
The original version of STOIC was written on a Data General Nova minicomputer and cross-assembled for the 8080. STOIC came with its own primitive but effective file system, and could be booted up with little preliminary work on any 8080-based microprocessor with 24K of memory and a Teletype machine. After the source was released into the public domain, the system was subsequently modified to run under CP/M.
STOIC was said at the time to be conceptually similar to FORTH in the use of an extensible vocabulary of "words". STOIC is actually a rational, and more consistent, dialect of FORTH . The system was remarkable at the time for having a built-in assembler, floating-point package, interrupt handler, and display editor (similar to the Nova display editor). The source, and documentation, was distributed for many years by the CP/M Users Group. As a practical development system, it compared favourably with contemporary implementations of FORTH, and went on to be used extensively for the development of applications. A portable version written in C was placed in the public domain and also distributed by the CP/M Users Group (UK).
Later, STOIC was ported to the DEC VAX under VMS by Roger Hauck
at Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and was distributed by DECUS.
It was distributed at least through fall 1985.
Functions
STOIC, unlike other FORTH variants, was integrated with the VMS I/O and system services rather than using the FORTH disk I/O. It also supported machine code (both inline and subroutine calls). STOIC supported double precision floating point operations using a stack.
Related programs
According to some mailing list comments,
STOIC was originally written by Jonathan Sachs in 1975.
A different program named LSE was written by Robert Goeke, which incorporated some of the ideas of STOIC (an early version may have been called STOIC).
An autotooled variant of LSE, LSE64 (Laboratory Software Environment), is maintained by John Doty.
One version of STOIC is noted as being "Stack Oriented Interpretive Compiler", but it is unclear which is which.
STOICAL (STack Oriented Interactive Compiler Adapted to Linux) was inspired by STOIC. In the early 1980s there was an attempt to reincarnate STOIC by Ernest E. Bergmann in a language dubbed PISTOL (Portably Implemented STack Oriented Language); ibid.
See also
Red (text editor)
References
External links
STOIC kernel source
Forth programming language family
Harvard University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%20management | Load management, also known as demand-side management (DSM), is the process of balancing the supply of electricity on the network with the electrical load by adjusting or controlling the load rather than the power station output. This can be achieved by direct intervention of the utility in real time, by the use of frequency sensitive relays triggering the circuit breakers (ripple control), by time clocks, or by using special tariffs to influence consumer behavior. Load management allows utilities to reduce demand for electricity during peak usage times (peak shaving), which can, in turn, reduce costs by eliminating the need for peaking power plants. In addition, some peaking power plants can take more than an hour to bring on-line which makes load management even more critical should a plant go off-line unexpectedly for example. Load management can also help reduce harmful emissions, since peaking plants or backup generators are often dirtier and less efficient than base load power plants. New load-management technologies are constantly under development — both by private industry and public entities.
Brief history
Modern utility load management began about 1938, using ripple control. By 1948 ripple control was a practical system in wide use.
The Czechs first used ripple control in the 1950s. Early transmitters were low power, compared to modern systems, only 50 kilovolt-amps. They were rotating generators that fed a 1050 Hz signal into transformers attached to power distribution networks. Early receivers were electromechanical relays. Later, in the 1970s, transmitters with high-power semiconductors were used. These are more reliable because they have no moving parts. Modern Czech systems send a digital "telegram." Each telegram takes about thirty seconds to send. It has pulses about one second long. There are several formats, used in different districts.
In 1972, Theodore George “Ted” Paraskevakos, while working for Boeing in Huntsville, Alabama, developed a sensor monitoring system which used digital transmission for security, fire, and medical alarm systems as well as meter-reading capabilities for all utilities. This technology was a spin-off of his patented automatic telephone line identification system, now known as caller ID. In, 1974, Paraskevakos was awarded a U.S. patent for this technology.
At the request of the Alabama Power Company, Paraskevakos developed a load-management system along with automatic meter-reading technology. In doing so, he utilized the ability of the system to monitor the speed of the watt power meter disc and, consequently, power consumption. This information, along with the time of day, gave the power company the ability to instruct individual meters to manage water heater and air conditioning consumption in order to prevent peaks in usage during the high consumption portions of the day. For this approach, Paraskevakos was awarded multiple patents.
Advantages and operating principles
Since electrical energy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Poland | The Polish railways network consists of around of track as of 2019, of which is electrified. The national electrification system runs at 3 kV DC.
Poland is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC), its UIC Country Code is 51.
Rail services are operated by a range of public and private rail operators. The state-owned PKP Group operates the majority of rail services. In addition to PKP owned companies, there are a number of private cargo operators, as well as a number of independent passenger operators, with the latter owned predominantly by Voivodeship provincial governments.
Overview
The vast majority of the network was built before World War II by various railway companies, including by the German Deutsche Reichsbahn and by the Russian Imperial State Railways, and a minor component was built from 1946 onwards by the Communist authorities of the Polish People's Republic. During the invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II the Polish railway network was crippled by the Luftwaffe bombing campaign. Due to the average age of the network and lack of maintenance, many sections are limited to speeds below even on trunk lines. allow or more.
Since Poland's entry into the European Union in 2004, major financing has been made available by European financing institutions to improve both the Polish rail network and the rolling stock fleet. Up to June 2014, the European Investment Bank had provided loans totalling €1.9 billion for rail modernization projects in Poland. An additional €578 million had been provided through December 2013 to modernize 70 percent of PKP Intercity rolling stock. The €665 million purchase of twenty Alstom Pendolino high-speed trains delivered in 2014 was financed in part by €342 million from the European Investment Bank.
Poland currently has no high-speed lines operated at speeds above . The Central Rail Line, centralna magistrala kolejowa, 'CMK', which links Warsaw to Katowice and Kraków, was designed with an alignment to permit , but for over 30 years after its construction Poland possessed no rolling stock capable of speeds above . Since 2008 the CMK has been upgraded to allow higher speeds, including installation of European Train Control System Level 1 which provides the Cab signalling required by high speed trains. Most trains on the CMK still operate at speeds up to , but since 14 December 2014 new Alstom Pendolino ED250 trains operate on a 90 km section of the CMK at , and improvements under way should raise the authorized speed to on most of the line. In test runs on the CMK in November 2013 a new Pendolino ED250 train set a new Polish speed record of .
In 2011–2015 the Warsaw-Gdańsk-Gdynia railway line has undergone a major upgrading costing $3 billion, partly funded by the European Investment Bank, including track replacement, realignment of curves and relocation of sections of track to allow speeds up to , modernization of stations, and installation of the most modern ETCS Level 2 s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wightbus | Wightbus was a bus operator on the Isle of Wight, established and owned by the Isle of Wight County Council. It operated a network of thirteen local bus services running across the island, mostly services which would not have been viable for the island's dominant commercial operator, Southern Vectis, to operate.
Wightbus also provided school buses, and transported disabled adults to various day care centres on behalf of the council's social services department. A dial-a-bus service was run over some parts of the island to residents who would be unable to leave their homes to catch a regular service bus.
The Wightbus fleet was made up of 27 vehicles with capacities ranging from 16 to 72. Around 40 trained drivers and passenger-escort staff were employed. Over 1 million passengers travelled on Wightbus services annually.
Wightbus was axed by the new unitary Isle of Wight Council in February 2011, with the last services operating on 2 September 2011. Under a new "Community Bus Partnership", Southern Vectis agreed to take on a number of routes previously operated by Wightbus to rural areas of the island in co-ordination with the Isle of Wight Council and the town and parish councils which the services run in. The services are all run by volunteer drivers.
History
The name 'Wightbus' was the trading name of the Isle of Wight Council's own bus fleet, to which it was known for the last 14 years of its operations. Before 1997, the fleet was in a yellow livery, with 'County Bus' along the sides. The name 'Wightbus' reduced the perceived connection between the Council and the company. Exactly how closely tied the two were was sometimes unclear.
From the new school year from September 2010, all school journeys on the island became operated by Southern Vectis under one contract. As a result, some Wightbus drivers were made redundant, with the others able to transfer to Southern Vectis.
In December 2010, it was announced that the Isle of Wight Council planned to axe all Wightbus services from 31 August 2011 in a bid to save around £175,000 due to funding cuts caused by central government to tackle the national deficit. Despite protests by islanders and alternatives offered by other councillors, it was voted through by Conservative councillors at the full council meeting on 23 February 2011. The last Wightbus timetable ran until 2 September 2011 and was not continued from this date. All routes passed to Southern Vectis who are operating in a community partnership with the Isle of Wight Council and local town and parish councils.
Operations
Initially, the main work Wightbus undertook was on school journeys. As many settlements on the Island are small, while most are large enough to support at least one primary school, there are few state-run high schools (and even fewer private ones). Because of the Island's 3-tier school system whilst Wightbus operated, there were also middle schools, which were located in most towns but not in any of the many vill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Peace%20Research%20Association | The International Peace Research Association is a global network of academics. It was founded in 1964 and promotes peace by supporting national organizations, hosting conferences, publishing and supporting the publication of peace-promoting journals.
Organization
The International Peace Research Association was founded in 1964 and is a global network of educators and researchers who collaborate on peace-building activities.
The association encourages national and international peace-building education and supports the dissemination of peace-promoting research.
The 2021-2023 co-secretaries generals are Christine Atieno and Matt Meyer.
Activities
The association organizes a biannual conference, sponsors peace journals, and publishes a newsletter.
In 1973, it formed the Peace Education Commission, that identifies and describes the work of International Peace Research Association members.
See also
Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association (affiliate)
Peace and Justice Studies Association (affiliate)
References
1964 establishments
Peace organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-Text%20character | The End-of-Text character (ETX) is a control character used to inform the receiving computer that the end of a record has been reached. This may or may not be an indication that all of the data in a record have been received. In ASCII and in EBCDIC, ETX is code point 0x03, often displayed as ).
It is often used as a "break" character (Control-C) to interrupt a program or process. In TOPS-20, it was used to gain the system's attention before logging in.
It is often used in conjunction with Start of Text (STX) and Data Link Escape (DLE), e.g., to distinguish data frames in the data link layer.
mIRC uses ETX as the color character escape character.
See also
C0 and C1 control codes
Control characters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%20Utilisation%20Strategy | Network Rail (NR) has an obligation, transferred from the abolished Strategic Rail Authority, to periodically produce Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS) documents. The original programme was approved by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) in June 2006; under an early version of the programme all but two RUSs were scheduled to be completed by the end of Control Period 3 (CP3), 31 March 2009. The programme and its timescale were reviewed by NR and ORR at regular intervals. Despite this the delivery timescales continually slipped: at the end of CP3 no fewer than 9 (almost half) remained incomplete (still in progress or not yet established), despite the fact that funding for infrastructure developments in CP4 was largely set.
One RUS, the Network RUS, was broken into four workstreams, with a fifth added, apparently, in 2011.
The original programme was completed by September 2011.
Late in 2009 NR announced a second generation of RUSs. These were completed by July 2011.
Effectively the RUS process has been replaced by the Long Term Planning Process, which consists of:
Market studies (regional)
Route studies (regional)
Cross boundary analyses
Approach and outputs
All but two RUSs are geographical, mainly regional, in nature. The exceptions are the Freight RUS and the Network RUS, which have the perspective of the network as whole. The non-regional geographical studies include the East Coast Main Line RUS and West Coast Main Line RUS, which penetrate Scotland and regions which have their own RUS. All RUSs consider the demands of freight transport, but the Freight RUS looks at the implications of major freight flows for Great Britain as a whole. The Network RUS is divided into four largely self-contained workstreams: long-distance traffic and generic cross-RUS issues; stations; rolling stock and depots; electrification.
The first stage of each strategy is the preparation and publishing of a scoping document, which is usually produced after a few months. The main part of the study takes place over a period of a year or two, and this concludes with the production and distribution of a draft strategy document. About 12 weeks are allowed for consultation and responses from rail industry and other entities, following which the final strategy is developed and a final version is published. This is later established by the ORR, unless they have reason to object to the final version.
The scoping document is usually fairly short, sometimes in the form of a presentation.
The strategy document itself normally consists of a fairly standard number of sections: an introduction and explanation of context; a fairly detailed presentation of current services; a forecast of future changes (overwhelmingly increases) in demand; gaps in resources; options for satisfying the demand; the recommended strategy. Other sections may be included, including a section on the consultation process itself specifically in the draft strategy.
The strategies developed so far are rel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te%20voy%20a%20ense%C3%B1ar%20a%20querer | Te Voy a Enseñar a Querer (English title: Learning to Love) is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series ran for 129 episodes from August 31, 2004 to March 14, 2005.
Plot
Alejandro Méndez is a successful man, married to Isabel, and has two grown children, Pablo and Helena. He loves his breeding ranch that provides bulls for bull fights. Between the ranch and a real estate business, the family enjoys an affluent standard of living.
Alejandro's life changes when Isabel dies suddenly under dubious circumstances. Alejandro falls into a depression and abandons all interest in life, his ranch, and the people he loves.
Diana is a veterinarian who meets Pablo at a nightclub and turns him down due to his rich-boy attitude. Pablo is obsessed with her and when she is hired to work on the ranch, he tries to seduce her.
Milciades, a landowner, envious of the ranch, joins forces with Déborah in a conspiracy attempt. She is treacherous woman who married Isabel's father out of sheer interest and will try to take her out of the picture to conquer Alejandro and obtain his fortune.
The ranch is in the midst of a crisis and Diana protects it. She seeks to pull Alejandro out of his depression, because his family needs him. Diana convinces him to return, to fight for the only true thing that will bring his life back.
One day, Diana discovers that Alejandro is also in love with her and at the same time, Pablo finds out his father has stolen her. Pablo threatens to take his own life and manipulates the situation to get Diana's attention. She feels imprisoned by the turn of events and Alejandro feels terribly guilty, so he falls back to avoid hurting his son. Milciades and Déborah set a trap that will lead to conflict between Diana and Alejandro. Pablo realizes that his father is Diana's one true love and convinces him to fight to reconquer her heart.
Cast
Miguel Varoni as Alejandro Méndez
Danna García as Diana Rivera
Catherine Siachoque as Déborah Buenrostro
Dilsa García as Young Déborah
Michel Brown as Pablo Méndez
Jorge Cao as Milciades Contreras
Martín Karpan as Luís Carlos Carmona
Melvin Cabrera as Salvador Cascante
Carolina Lizarazo as Flor del Valle
Ana Lucía Domínguez as Camila Buenrostro
Sharmel Altamirano as Elena Méndez
Consuelo Luzardo as Rufina Rivera
Carlos Duplat as Félix Gallardo
Silvio Ángel as Pedro Rivera
María Helena Döehring as Isabel de Méndez / Orquídeas Fernández
Julio del Mar as Tobías Cascante
Natalia Giraldo as Tulia Ángeles Vivas
Silvia de Dios as Empera Ángeles Vivas
Juan Pablo Shuk as Juan Manuel Andrade
Toto Vega as Cachimbo
Julián Álvarez as Aycardo
Ricardo González as Pueblita Rozar
Didier van der Hove as Dr. Rodrigo Rodríguez
Alexander Rodríguez as Dionisio
Irene Arias as Justina
Iván Rodríguez as Sacrificios Díaz de León
Luz Estella Luengas as Clementina Ángeles Vivas
Adriana Campos as Margarita Ángeles
Cris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20venganza%20%282002%20TV%20series%29 | La Venganza (The Revenge), is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo, Caracol Televisión and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series ran for 127 episodes from November 4, 2002 to May 16, 2003. The soap opera starred Gabriela Spanic, José Ángel Llamas, and Catherine Siachoque.
Story
On the wedding day of Luis Miguel Ariza and Elena Fontana, a sick woman in her forties and daughter of one of the two mob bosses in the Caribbean town of Matamoros, she realizes that he is involved with her sister Grazzia, Elena's heart cannot take this and she dies. The same night Valentina Diaz who is just a poor but brave woman and a boxer in illegal fights sponsored by the other mob boss: Fernando Valerugo. Valentina dies because of a huge impact on her head during the fight, so Elena mysteriously comes back to life into Valentina's body. Elena has to ask help of a medium friend of her Tobago who helps her to get her life back, but Valentina is still an employee for Fernando Valerugo, so Elena cannot stop boxing and she has to train very hard with Valentina's best friend and trainer Brenda Li just to last toe-to-toe against her opponents in every fight she participates in on behalf of Valerugo. Valentina goes to Fontana's manor as Elena's best friend and using all her knowledge about the Fontanas' family she easily gets the trust of Luis Miguel and Danilo Fontana.
Elena's plan is get even with Grazzia and Luis Miguel but soon she realizes the only responsible is her sister Grazzia, who now sees Valentina as a huge threat for her plans with Luis Miguel and the Fontanas. Grazzia plans to destroy her father by helping Fernando Valerugo so she becomes her lover. Helena while in Fontanas' Manor learns that the daughter she had more than twenty years ago with Fernando Valerugo's son Marco Tulio did not die when she was born, so she decides to find her daughter.
Valentina thinks that a young woman in Valerugo's Manor named Adoración is her daughter. Valentina's brother Paquito is in love with Adoración, but the suspicion that Adoración is the heir both Valerugos and Fontanas make her a target for Fernando's family, her wife Raquel and her son Alfredo. Raquel kidnaps Adoración in order to control the potential heir, but the truth is Adoración is daughter of Father Sebastian (Fernando's brother) so the priest release her daughter and Grazzia learns that Raquel is using her so she kills her. Then Luis Miguel that Fernando's goddaughter Giovanna might be Helena's daughter and in order to confuse the Fontanas Fernando allows them to believe she is Helena's daughter.
Valentina and Luis Miguel starts a romantic relationship, but Valentina's ex-boyfriend and Fernando Valerugo's brother-in-law makes things more complicated and Grazzia takes advantage of her pregnancy with Fernando's baby to keep Luis Miguel with her. Grazzia makes a scheme to blame Valentina for poisoning her and causing a miscarriage, after this episode bo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSTP | SSTP may refer to:
Technology
Screened shielded twisted pair, a type of wiring
Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol, a form of virtual private network (VPN) tunnel
Simple Symmetric Transport Protocol, a protocol for delivering messages between clients and servers
Simple Studio Profile (SStP), of the MPEG-4 Part 2 video compression format
Other uses
Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publishers
Suomen Sosialistinen Työväenpuolue, Socialist Workers Party of Finland
Streamlined Sales Tax Project |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Maddison%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201930%29 | George Maddison (6 October 1930 in Sculcoates, England – 1987) was an English footballer.
External links
Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database profile
1930 births
1987 deaths
Aldershot F.C. players
Men's association football goalkeepers
English men's footballers
Footballers from Kingston upon Hull
People from Sculcoates
York City F.C. players
Corby Town F.C. players
Date of death missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross%20London%20Route%20Utilisation%20Strategy | The Cross London Route Utilisation Strategy (CLRUS) was the second of the route utilisation strategies (RUS) published by Network Rail (NR), in August 2006. It was included in a map published by the Office of Rail Regulation as established in May 2007.
The CLRUS covers mainly orbital railway lines in North London, including the North London line (NLL), the West London line (WLL) and the Gospel Oak to Barking line (GoBLin), but also the South London line (SLL) and, to a lesser extent, Transport for London's East London line (ELL).
Present usage of the lines involved
The lines involved provide significant orbital passenger services and important freight routes, as well as other movements.
The most frequent passenger services, 4 trains per hour (tph) in each direction during the working week, are on the NLL. The WLL and the GoBLin basically have 2 tph each. There are some additional trains on all these lines during peak hours. The SLL has 2 tph. The ELL is currently closed, pending construction of northern and southern extensions; it formerly had about 5 tph.
Freight services include those having destinations on or near to the lines, as well as cross-country freight movements not originating or terminating in London, for which presently these lines are the most viable route.
Summary of strategies derived
Short term recommendations
additional peak services to overcome the worst of the peak-hour overcrowding. Transport for London (TfL) has funded the provision of at least some of these.
additional standing space on anticipated new stock
four-car rather than three-car trains on NLL and WLL, requiring lengthening of many platforms
Medium term recommendations
Additional services in each direction, all day, per hour:
two trains between Stratford and Camden Road on the NLL, and onward to Queens Park on the Watford DC lines
extending the existing two trains from Clapham to Willesden Junction onwards via the NLL to Gospel Oak and thence over the GoBLin to Barking
diverting and extending other services on the WLL south-east to the Croydon area
Longer term (beyond 2014)
investigating shifting of some freight services to alternative lines, some avoiding the London area, to allow more pathways with a view to achieving at least four passenger trains per hour over all the routes.
Subsequent developments
Passenger services on most of the lines involved were transferred to the control of TfL on 11 November 2007, and have been rebranded London Overground. TfL and Network Rail are pursuing the recommendations in the RUS.
With the removal of the Eurostar depot to Temple Mills in November 2007, access via the WLL to the former depot at Old Oak Common is no longer required.
During autumn 2008, works requiring extended closure were conducted on extensive parts of the London Overground network, mainly to allow the passage of freight trains to W10 gauge. Further extensive works, requiring selective closure, are scheduled to be carried out in 2009 and early |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DbExpress | dbExpress is Embarcadero's data driver architecture that replaced the older Borland Database Engine. First released with Borland Delphi 6 and C++Builder 6, it has gone through several iterations itself, the latest being shipped with Embarcadero Delphi and C++ Builder RX 10 Seattle. It provides unidirectional database access, that means you can traverse data obtained from a database table only in the forward direction. You cannot go back, unless you add other layers. This makes dbExpress a very fast access technology, compared to many others.
Updates has to be done with other in the IDE integrated components as the "DatasetProvider", which assembles automatically appropriate Update-Statements ( in SQL ).
Embarcadero supplies drivers for many databases, including Oracle, Firebird, InterBase, IBM Db2, Informix, SQL Server, MySQL and ODBC. Additional drivers are available from third parties. Starting with Delphi 2007 (dbExpress 4 generation) a tracing driver is included as well which allows for logging all statements sent to the database.
Prior to version 4 of dbExpress the drivers used the Microsoft COM technology and most drivers were not unicode enabled. Nowadays the drivers are written in Delphi itself and source code for most parts is available. Most drivers today are unicode enabled since Delphi itself switched to unicode with version 2009.
External links
Embarcadero home page
Borland
Pascal (programming language) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phex | Phex is a peer-to-peer file sharing client for the gnutella network, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, so Phex is free software. Phex is based on Java SE 5.0 or later.
Features
Phex supports most of the recent features of the gnutella network. Additionally it enables the creation of private networks over the internet, has a powerful search result filter, shows client country flags, and can export the list of shared files into multiple formats, some of which can also be read out and downloaded directly by another Phex.
Version 3.2.0.102 also supports Tiger Tree hashes for uploads and downloads, providing full protection against poisoned downloads. Together with Swarming, segmented file transfer, and the Download Mesh this makes downloads as efficient and safe as BitTorrent downloads, yet completely decentralized by design.
History
FURI was an early gnutella client written by William W. Wong and released under the GNU General Public License. The software was notable at the time of its release for being written entirely in Java. The software was capable of running on Java 1.1 as long as the user downloaded external Swing libraries. If these libraries were unavailable, Java 1.2 was required.
Officially, the program never left Beta status. The author eventually stopped maintaining the software, resulting in users migrating to other clients like LimeWire. The last update to the software was on May 1, 2000.
In April 2001 Konrad Haenel forked the rarely updated gnutella client FURI to form Phex. While he participated in the Phex project initially, he left in late 2001. The project member Gregor K. continued to develop Phex and is the lead developer today.
Early versions of Phex were released simply as a java jar file, limiting their ease of use on some platforms such as the Mac OS. MacPhex was an alternative version made available on the Phex website and supported by macXster. It wrapped Phex in a double click-able application and occasionally added small additional features unique to the Mac OS.
Anonymous Phex
Since 2006, an anonymous version of Phex has been available: I2Phex, which uses the I2p network to hide the IP address of the users of this gnutella client. The future roadmap is to integrate the I2Phex code into one of the next Phex versions.
Rather than use the public IP network, I2Phex uses encrypted tunnels through the I2p privacy/encryption network.
Traffic is mixed with other network traffic (see mix network) through a garlic routing system, making it difficult for outside observers to identify originators or the recipients of a file through traffic analysis.
Anonymous networks have been remiss to host file sharing protocols due to bandwidth considerations. Often only searching (or tracking for BitTorrent) are supported. Nodes within the garlic routing system could refuse to route file sharing traffic. This makes inbound and outbound connections easier to locate. Outbound traffic is unencrypted |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EclipseLink | EclipseLink is the open source Eclipse Persistence Services Project from the Eclipse Foundation. The software provides an extensible framework that allows Java developers to interact with various data services, including databases, web services, Object XML mapping (OXM), and enterprise information systems (EIS). EclipseLink supports a number of persistence standards including:
Jakarta Persistence (JPA)
Jakarta XML Binding (JAXB)
Jakarta Connectors (JCA)
Service Data Objects (SDO)
EclipseLink is based on the TopLink product from which Oracle contributed the source code to create the EclipseLink project. The original contribution was from TopLink's 11g code base, and the entire code-base/feature set was contributed, with only EJB 2 Container-Managed Persistence (CMP) and some minor Oracle Application Server specific integration removed. This differs from the TopLink Essentials GlassFish contribution, which did not include some key enterprise features. The package names were changed and some of the code and configuration was moved around.
The TopLink Mapping Workbench user interface has also been contributed to the project.
EclipseLink is the intended path forward for persistence for Oracle and TopLink. It is intended that the next major release of Oracle TopLink will include EclipseLink as well as the next major release of Oracle Application Server.
EclipseLink supports usage in an OSGi environment.
Sun Microsystems has selected the EclipseLink project to be the reference implementation for JPA 2.0., Oracle did the same for JPA 2.1 and later JPA specifications.
References
External links
Java platform
Eclipse (software)
Eclipse technology
Eclipse software
Object–relational mapping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G19 | G19 may refer to:
, an Auk-class minesweeper of the Mexican Navy
County Route G19 (California)
Glock 19, a pistol
, a Wickes-class destroyer of the Royal Navy
Logitech G19, a computer keyboard
(hull number G19), a French ocean liner |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioacktiva | Radioacktiva is a Colombian radio station broadcasting from Bogotá. It is owned by Caracol Radio, part of the Spanish media organization Grupo PRISA. It started broadcasting in 1989 programming both rock and pop music. In 1997 it was reformatted to focus on rock music. In 2001 it would switch frequencies with sister station Tropicana Estéreo.
Programmes
El gallo
It is the station's flagship programme, broadcast on weekdays from 06:00 to 10:00. As it is usual in the morning zoo genre, El gallo relies on the integration with the audience by offering prizes (concerts tickets, CDs, T-shirts) in funny contests and quizzes.
R8ck / R20ck
R8ck ("Rock 8") is the daily countdown of the station, broadcast on weekday evenings. The weekly countdown is R20ck ("Rock 20"), on Saturdays between 12:00 and 14:00. Before the Planeta rock era, the weekly countdown was the Top 40.
El duelo
The programme features two artists' songs so as to present them to voting. Fans can vote either by phone or internet. It is broadcast jointly with R8ck.
External links
Official site
1989 establishments in Colombia
Radio stations in Colombia
Radio stations established in 1989
Mass media in Bogotá |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20Room%20Presents | Control Room Presents is a series which aired on MyNetworkTV in the United States from October 1, 2007 to March 15, 2008.
The program aired previously recorded music concerts from various popular artists.
External links
Control Room Presents at The Futon Critic
MyNetworkTV original programming
2000s American music television series
2007 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyan%20and%20Babe | Bunyan and Babe is a 2017 American computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Louis Ross, featuring the voices of John Goodman as Paul Bunyan and Jeff Foxworthy as Babe the Blue Ox. Loosely based on the folklore of Paul Bunyan, the film is about two children exiled on their grandfather's farm in Minnesota who discover a lair where Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox have resided since their disappearance from the Dead Forest. The story sees Bunyan and Babe teaming with the two kids to stop an evil land developer from destroying a town.
The film premiered online on Google Play, where it has been made available to watch for free until February 16, 2017. It was then released theatrically in 12 American markets on February 3, 2017.
Plot
Twelve-year-old Travis Barclay and his little sister Whitney are sent begrudgingly on a summer trip to visit their grandparents' farm in Delbert County. A greedy land developer, Norm Blandsford, has been buying up the little country town, running the hard working residents off their land. After Travis has a run-in with one of Blandsford's men, he is chased into the forest where he stumbles upon a magic portal to the hidden world where Paul Bunyan lives. Paul has been in self-imposed exile for 100 years, ever since the advent of machines made his role in society obsolete and left him feeling of little value to the new world. Paul, reluctantly, escorts Travis back to the farm. But upon returning, Paul witnesses Blandsford's sinister plan. Bunyan and Babe the blue ox, together with the help of their new friends, Travis and Whitney, save the town.
Cast
John Goodman as Paul Bunyan
Jeff Foxworthy as Babe the Blue Ox
Johnny Orlando as Travis
Kelsey Grammer as Norm Blandsford and The Amazing Blackstone Barclay
Lola Wayne Villa as Whitney
Mark Hamill as Grandpa
Dorien Davies as Iris Ingram
Kay Cole as Grandma / Mom / Tourist Mom
Peter Chew as Sheriff Chambers
Jeremy Guskin as Gustav
Dawnn Lewis as Maybelle Mundy
Tom Lowell as County Fair MC
John D. Eraklis as Newscaster / Tourist Dad
Sandy Stone as Gas Station Attendant
Robin Howard as Tourist Kid #1
Sophia Eraklis as Tourist Kid #2
Production
Announced over ten years before its release, the film was planned to be a live-action/CG animation hybrid, with Jim Rygiel set to direct it. In May 2008, it was reported that Tony Bancroft would co-direct the film with Rygiel. Bancroft then worked some time on pre-production and, by 2014, he was attached as the only director, but he later left the project.
Sparx Animation Studios, following its previous collaboration with Exodus Film Group on the 2008 animated film, Igor, was hired to provide writing and special effects such as modeling, rigging, animation and texture. The character design would be handled in the United States, due to Exodus' preference of an American look. The animation at Sparx was set to begin in July 2008. As of November 2008, when Sparx closed its animation studio in Paris due to the U.S. financial crisis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MerchantCircle | MerchantCircle is a Walnut Creek, California-based digital company which helps small and midsize businesses network with other local businesses and reach local customers through free marketing tools and social media features.
History
MerchantCircle was co-founded in 2004 by former CEO Ben T. Smith IV, and announced in June 2006. It was named "Newcomer of the Year" by AlwaysOn Media in 2007 and was ranked as the fifth-largest local directory site and one of the top 160 sites in the U.S. by a Quantcast study in 2009. MerchantCircle received just over $4 million in early stage funding from venture capital firms Rustic Canyon Partners, Scale Venture Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. In November 2007, the company received an additional investment of $10 million from IAC, Square 1 Bank, and all three previous investors. Ron Conway was also an early investor.
In 2010, MerchantCircle acquired online meeting scheduler TimeBridge to enable merchants and consumers to schedule appointments and calls online. That same year, the company also took over management of RSS feed company Bloglines, through which it plans to deliver local and industry-specific targeted content to member merchants and local deals and information to Bloglines account holders. The MerchantCircle network signed on its one-millionth member merchant in early 2010, and expanded internationally to Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.
On May 26, 2011, Reply! Inc. announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MerchantCircle for $60 million in cash and stock. The transaction was completed in 2011. Reply! founder and CEO, Payam Zamani, is the CEO of the combined companies, now known as One Planet.
One Planet maintained its directory listing at its core.
Service
MerchantCircle is an online business directory, social business network and marketing platform. It combines features from traditional Internet yellow pages sites such as Yellowpages.com, Citysearch and Yelp, with community-oriented social media sites like Facebook. MerchantCircle offers small and midsize businesses, which may not have marketing experts or the financials to hire an agency, SEO products, assistance with managing social media platforms and email marketing. The company has upwards of 5 million merchants listed nationwide. Businesses have the ability to upload pictures, write blogs, create coupons and send online newsletters through the network. Consumers can leave reviews on business listing pages and business owners can respond.
Merchants can sign on to MerchantCircle and have the option for free packages as well as paid packages tailored to growth, which can be modified and customized.
In 2020, MerchantCircle plans to expand its pay-per-call network, helping drive traffic and connect customers directly with shops.
Criticism
In May 2010, MerchantCircle settled a lawsuit with the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office, agreeing to pay $900,000 but without admitting wrongdoing. Merc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus%20four | Plus four may refer to:
Plus fours, trousers that extend four inches below the knee
Commodore Plus/4, a home computer released in 1984
Morgan +4, a sports car produced by the Morgan Motor Company
ZIP+4, a United States ZIP code add-on
Max Roach + 4, a 1956 album by Max Roach
Sonny Rollins Plus 4, a 1956 album by Sonny Rollins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W32.Myzor.FK%40yf | W32.Myzor.yf is a fictional computer virus hyped by advertising software related to the Zlob trojan. When a computer is controlled by the advertising software, the browser will be redirected to secureiepage.com, displaying a pop-up ad about the supposed virus. The pop-up ad lists many harmful effects, despite only redirecting the browser and adding two flashing icons to the system tray. By listing harmful effects, it attempts to convince the user to purchase software by stating "YOUR COMPUTER WAS INFECTED WITH MALWARE!".
The popups states that Myzor infects ANY (Or all) .exe files and steals ALL computer passwords.
References
Virus hoaxes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20network | A flat network is a computer network design approach that aims to reduce cost, maintenance and administration. Flat networks are designed to reduce the number of routers and switches on a computer network by connecting the devices to a single switch instead of separate switches. Unlike a hierarchical network design, the network is not physically separated using different switches.
The topology of a flat network is not segmented or separated into different broadcast areas by using routers. Some such networks may use network hubs or a mixture of hubs and switches, rather than switches and routers, to connect devices to each other. Generally, all devices on the network are a part of the same broadcast area.
Uses
Flat networks are typically used in homes or small businesses where network requirements are low. Home networks usually do not require intensive security, or separation, because the network is often used to provide multiple computers access to the Internet. In such cases, a complex network with many switches is not required. Flat networks are also generally easier to administer and maintain because less complex switches or routers are being used. Purchasing switches can be costly, so flat networks can be implemented to help reduce the amount of switches that need to be purchased.
Drawbacks
Flat networks provide some drawbacks, including:
Poor security – Because traffic travels through one switch, it is not possible to segment the networks into sections and prevent users from accessing certain parts of the network. It is easier for hackers to intercept data on the network.
No redundancy – Since there is usually one switch, or a few devices, it is possible for the switch to fail. Since there is no alternative path, the network will become inaccessible and computers may lose connectivity.
Scalability and speed – Connecting all the devices to one central switch, either directly or through hubs, increases the potential for collisions (due to hubs), reduced speed at which the data can be transmitted and additional time for the central switch to process the data. It also scales badly and increases the chance of the network failing if excessive hubs are used and there are not enough switches to control the flow of the data through the network.
References
Computer networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Atlantic%20%2786 | North Atlantic '86 is a 1983 computer wargame written by Gary Grigsby and published by Strategic Simulations. The game covers a hypothetical conflict between NATO and the Soviet Union. A Macintosh version was released in 1986.
North Atlantic '86 was Grigsby's third game. It began development as a part-time project while he worked for the United States Department of Defense, like his previous titles Guadalcanal Campaign and Bomb Alley, but Grigsby left the position to become a full-time game developer during North Atlantics production. The title reuses the game engine from his first two games, with upgrades. He followed it with Carrier Force (1983).
Game details
The back story showed that Warsaw Pact forces had successfully overrun most of Western Europe by the end of August, 1986. Next, the naval and air forces of the Soviet Union needed to close the North Atlantic and sever the supply line between North America and Britain. NATO's task was to keep the sea lanes open and Britain supplied, primarily by using convoys of supply and troop ships guarded by carrier battle groups when available. Nuclear weapons were not available to either the NATO or Soviet Union commanders. Game play options allowed two human players to pick either the NATO or Soviet Union. Solo play was limited to the NATO side only as the Soviet Union was always played by the computer AI.
The game supplied two mini-game scenarios and two full campaign scenarios. Duration for the two mini-games were 12 and 20 turns each. Duration for the full campaigns were 252 and 122 turns. In Grigsby's prior games, the computer kept track of the number of torpedoes carried on each ship and submarine. But the need to keep track of so many other variables in North Atlantic '86 necessitated deletion of those counters. Instead each ship had a fixed probability of exhausting its stock of torpedoes each time it fired. This meant, for example, that a submarine might run out of torpedoes after its first attack.
Other weaknesses of North Atlantic '86 included the ability of unarmed search and cargo aircraft to go anywhere they had the range to go, immune to enemy fighters. This allowed bases that should have been isolated to be supplied and active. Additionally, search aircraft could spot enemy ships almost anywhere in the Atlantic. This led to airstrikes every twelve hours whenever ships were at sea, an unlikely tempo of operations.
In spite of these and other limitations, the game was an extraordinary achievement, given that all program code and game data were on a 140KB floppy disk, and the game executed on an Apple II with as little as 48KB of RAM. In fact, Grigsby pushed the limits of the Apple II so far that there would not have been enough memory available without using SSI's proprietary RDOS instead of Apple's conventional operating system. The players faced a number of challenging decisions, but they had a variety of potent ships and aircraft at their disposal. Although the game relied o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s%20Next%20Top%20Model%20%28season%209%29 | The ninth cycle of America's Next Top Model was the third season of the series to be aired on The CW network. This cycle's promotional tagline was "The Future Of Fashion." The promotional song was "Shut Up and Drive" by Rihanna.
The prizes for this cycle were:
A modeling contract with Elite Model Management
A fashion spread and cover in Seventeen magazine
A 100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics
The international destinations for this cycle were St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda (for the semi-finals) and Shanghai and Beijing, China. The show’s second visit to East Asia.
Among the thirteen finalists was 21-year-old Heather Kuzmich, who has Asperger's syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. The season averaged 5.12 million viewers, making the cycle one of the most successful in the show's history. This was also the last cycle to date in which Twiggy was featured as a judge. For cycle 10, she was replaced by Paulina Porizkova.
The winner was 21-year-old Saleisha Stowers from Los Angeles, California with Chantal Jones placing as the runner up.
Contestants
(Ages stated are at start of contest)
Episodes
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| ShortSummary = In Episode 13, the top three contestants were put to the test when they had to shoot a CoverGirl commercial for CoverGirl Wetslicks Fruit Spritzers. The girls got to choose from 12 fruity flavors to portray in their commercials. All the girls struggled with their commercials at first, but Chantal managed good takes in the end. Jenah's attitude came off as slightly abrasive to Jay. Saleisha (who was the weakest) asked for a minute to compose herself due to frustration.
Before evaluation, the girls were asked to critique their competition. All the girls commented themselves as having the most potential. Jenah's laid-back attitude caused her to be deemed as having the least. As she was being evaluated, Jenah broke down into tears but was praised by Tyra for finally showing her real self to the panel. Jenah's and Chantal's photos were heavily praised while Saleisha's was criticized. Saleisha and Jenah landed in the bottom two. It was pointed out that Saleisha may have had modeling experience in the past. However, Saleisha's portfolio was hit and miss, though it was improving when they came overseas. While Chantal, without any modeling experience in the past, had taken much stronger photos than Saleisha. In the end, Jenah was eliminated in her third-consecutive, bottom- two appearance.
Featured photographer: Jim De Yonker
Featured commercial director: Brent Poer
The final two had a photo shoot for the February cover issue of Seventeen. The final runway took place near t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaTek | MediaTek Inc. () is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that provides chips for wireless communications, high-definition television, handheld mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers, navigation systems, consumer multimedia products and digital subscriber line services as well as optical disc drives.
Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Hsinchu, the company has 41 offices worldwide and was the third largest fabless chip designer worldwide in 2016. The company also provides its customers with reference designs. MediaTek became the biggest smartphone chipset vendor with 31% market share in Q3 2020. This was assisted by its strong performance in regions such as China and India.
Corporate history
MediaTek was originally a unit of the Taiwanese firm, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), tasked with designing chipsets for home entertainment products. On May 28, 1997, the unit was spun off and incorporated. MediaTek Inc. was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSEC) under the "2454" code on July 23, 2001.
The company started out designing chipsets for optical drives and subsequently expanded into chips for DVD players, digital TVs, mobile phones, smartphones and tablets. In general MediaTek has had a strong record of gaining market share and displacing competitors after entering new markets.
The company launched a division to design products for mobile devices in 2004. Seven years later, it took orders for more than 500 million mobile system-on-chip units per annum, including products for feature phones and smart devices. By providing extensive system engineering assistance, the company allowed many smaller companies and new entrants to enter a mobile phone market that had previously been dominated by large, often vertically integrated corporations that had long been broadly entrenched in the telecommunications industry. The mobile chip market quickly became the main growth driver for the company.
At Mobile World Congress 2014, MediaTek unveiled its new brand "Everyday Genius", dubbing the term "Super-mid market", with the vision and aiming to make smartphones more accessible affordable to the wider market.
As of November 2014, over 1500 mobile models accounting for 700 million units were shipped globally in 2014, using MediaTek chips, and the company posted revenues of US$5.3 billion in the first half of 2014, nearly as much as the whole of 2013. The revenue growth was however partly due to revenue recognition from the acquisition of MStar which became effective at the beginning of 2014.
In September 2019, MediaTek collaborated with VVDN Technologies to design, manufacture new-age AIoT solutions.
On November 25, 2019, MediaTek and Intel announced a partnership to bring 5G to PCs in 2021. MediaTek overtook Qualcomm as the largest vendor of smartphone chipsets in the world in the third quarter of 2020, mainly due to significant growth in the Indian and Latin American markets.
Acquisitions
In 2005, MediaTek acquired In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCTA | CCTA may refer to:
Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
Chittenden County Transportation Authority
Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts
Coronary CT angiography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Langford%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | John Langford (born January 2, 1975) is a computer scientist working in machine learning and learning theory, a field that he says, "is shifting from an academic discipline to an industrial tool".
He is well known for work on the Isomap embedding algorithm, CAPTCHA challenges, Cover Trees for nearest neighbor search, Contextual Bandits (which he coined) for reinforcement learning applications, and learning reductions.
John is the author of the blog hunch.net and the principal developer of Vowpal Wabbit. He works at Microsoft Research New York, of which he was one of the founding members, and was previously affiliated with Yahoo! Research, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, and IBM's Watson Research Center. He studied Physics and Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology, earning a double bachelor's degree in 1997, and he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002.
John was the program co-chair for the 2012 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), general chair for the 2016 ICML, and is the President of ICML from 2019 to 2021.
References
California Institute of Technology alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Living people
American computer scientists
Machine learning researchers
Microsoft employees
1975 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Putnam | Gerald Putnam is an American businessman. He started Archipelago Holdings, an electronic communication network, in 1999. In 2006; it was acquired by the NYSE for almost $3 billion. Putnam was selected as one of the innovators of 21st century by Time magazine.
ArcaEx, Putnams' company, was built to instantly look at the Arca exchange for best prices and if not matched then to route to the bourse that displayed the best price.
When Putnam headed Arca's purchase of the Pacific Stock Exchange, he created the first ECN that was also a stock exchange. He also took Arca into options trading. John Thain, a perennial deal maker, did his first major deal since taking the helm at the NYSE when he merged with Arca.
This merger caused the 212-year-old (at time of merger) NYSE to demutualize and make an initial public offering. NYSE seatholders were each given roughly 80,000 shares of NYX in exchange for their now-obsolete NYSE seats. Shortly after the IPO the members-only luncheon club and barber shop and 20% of the old-fashioned trading floor were closed.
The newly established public NYSE soon merged with Euronext to form NYSE Euronext.
The company declared its first dividend in June 2007. Putnam was promoted to Vice Chairman and given additional responsibility overseeing SIAC. In August 2007, Putnam announced that he would leave his managerial duties with the NYX and remain involved as a consultant with an office in Chicago.
In February 2011 Putnam moved from his position on the board to the acting CEO of Trumarx Data Partners in Chicago. TruMarx Data Partners developed and currently operates COMET. COMET is the community of energy transactors. Which is an ECN networking site connecting large bilateral non-standard over the counter transaction of natural gas and power transactors.
References
ArcaEx related blog
Quicker on the Draw in a Wall Street Showdown
Prepared Testimony of Mr. Jerry Putnam CEO of Archipelago ECN to the Senate Banking Committee
Putnam kaput in NY
American businesspeople
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Presidents of the New York Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity%20Expos%C3%A9 | Celebrity Exposé is a reality television series from the producers of Access Hollywood which premiered on MyNetworkTV in fall 2007. Hosted by Access Hollywood's Tony Potts, Celebrity Exposé gave "viewers an in-depth, hour-long look at all the sizzling details and latest developments on stories and events on some of the hottest Hollywood stars.".
On October 25, 2008, Celebrity Exposé ended its run on MyNetworkTV.
External links
MyNetworkTV original programming
2007 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
2000s American reality television series
Infotainment
Television series by Universal Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Grimsdale | Richard Lawrence Grimsdale (18 September 1929 – 6 December 2005) was a British electrical engineer and computer pioneer who helped to design the world's first transistorised computer.
Early life and education
Richard Lawrence Grimsdale was born on 18 September 1929 in Australia, where his father, an English engineer, was working on construction of the suburban railway system for the Metropolitan-Vickers company. The family returned to England, where he was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and then studied electrical engineering at the University of Manchester, where he earned his Bachelor of Science, his Master of Science in 1951, writing a thesis on Computing Machines - Design of Test Programmes, and subsequently his Doctor of Philosophy, writing his thesis on the Transistor Digital Computer under the supervision of Frederic Calland Williams.
Career
In 1953, whilst still a post-graduate research student at the University of Manchester, Grimsdale achieved one of the first major landmarks in his career with his design and development work on the Metrovick 950, the world's first computer made from transistors rather than valves or electromechanical devices. The computer used early point-contact transistors which were the first generation of transistors, however later developments of the machine used more advanced junction transistors which offered better performance.
Grimsdale also worked on the Ferranti Mark I computer, a commercial development of the Manchester Mark 1 computer. He also designed the 100-nanosecond read-only memory for the Atlas computer. He remained at the University of Manchester until 1960, then began to work at Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) as a research engineer. In 1967 he left AEI and joined the University of Sussex's electrical engineering faculty as a lecturer. His research at the University of Sussex included work on computer graphics, computer networking systems and VLSI accelerator chips for generating three-dimensional images.
Personal life
Grimsdale died from a heart infection at his home in Brighton on 6 December 2005. He was survived by his wife Shirley Roberts Grimsdale and daughters Susan and Kathryn.
References
1929 births
2005 deaths
British electrical engineers
British electronics engineers
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Academics of the University of Sussex
People educated at Manchester Grammar School |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%20Buster%20Club | Monster Buster Club is a computer-animated science fiction television series co-produced by the French-based company Zodiak Kids, Canadian animation studio Image Entertainment Corporation, Jetix Europe and TF1. The first episode aired on October 29, 2007 on TF1's TFOU block. The show debuted on June 2, 2008 on Jetix in Europe, on June 9, 2008, in the United States, on May 3, 2008 in Asia and on May 31, 2008 on YTV in Canada. It was shortly featured on the Disney Channel. Most of the episodes were produced in India by Crest Animation Studios with Autodesk Maya. 52 episodes were produced.
Premise
In a fictional town named Singletown, three human preteens, with the help of their alien friend, reform the "Monster Buster Club" (often abbreviated as MBC), a secret organization that was founded centuries ago. The MBC aims to locate alien criminals, capture them, and send them to intergalactic authorities.
Development and production
Mipcom Jr. 2006
Monster Buster Club was first introduced to the public during Mipcom Jr. in October 2006. Marathon (now Zodiak Kids), the production company behind the show, presented their latest animated television series. Having experienced success with 2D shows like "Totally Spies!", "Martin Mystery," and "Team Galaxy," Marathon aimed to venture into the realm of 3D animation. The show received significant attention at Mipcom Jr., becoming the most viewed French program and ranking as the sixth most-watched overall.
The (lost) Pilot
While exploring the director Jean-Louis Vandestoc's blog, intriguing information about the early development of Monster Buster Club came to light. It was revealed that a pilot episode of the show had been created by a different CGI animation studio in 2005, predating Marathon's involvement. Unfortunately, details about the studio responsible for the pilot remain unknown. Despite thorough web research, no concrete information or traces of the pilot could be found. However, Vandestoc mentioned that some images from the pilot were previously accessible on the official Monster Buster Club website before the show's premiere in France. Contacting the show's producers might be the only way to obtain screenshots or further details about the lost pilot.
Co-production and Budget
Monster Buster Club was a collaborative effort between Marathon Media, Mystery Animation, Jetix Europe, TF1, and YTV. The production of the show required a substantial budget, amounting to approximately 23 million dollars. This significant investment underscores the scale and ambition associated with bringing the series to life.
Animation Development
To initiate the production process and establish the show's distinctive artistic style, Max Maléo, the animation supervisor, traveled to India. His primary objectives included defining the visual direction of the series and refining the parameters for animation. Notably, the animators at Crest Animation, the Indian animation studio involved in the project, initially ex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cyber%20Games%202006 | The World Cyber Games 2006 was held from October 18 to October 22, 2006 in Monza, Italy.
Official games
PC games
FIFA Soccer 2006
Counter-Strike 1.6
Need For Speed: Most Wanted
StarCraft: Brood War
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Dawn of War: Winter Assault
Xbox games
Dead or Alive 4
Project Gotham Racing 3
Special tournament game
PangYa
Invitational tournament game
Carom 3D
Quake 4 (All Stars)
Results
Official
Special
Invitational
References
World Cyber Games events
2006 in Italian sport
2006 in esports
Esports in Italy
Sport in Monza |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20congruency | Phase congruency is a measure of feature significance in computer images, a method of edge detection that is particularly robust against changes in illumination and contrast.
Foundations
Phase congruency reflects the behaviour of the image in the frequency domain. It has been noted that edgelike features have many of their frequency components in the same phase. The concept is similar to coherence, except that it applies to functions of different wavelength.
For example, the Fourier decomposition of a square wave consists of sine functions, whose frequencies are odd multiples of the fundamental frequency. At the rising edges of the square wave, each sinusoidal component has a rising phase; the phases have maximal congruency at the edges. This corresponds to the human-perceived edges in an image where there are sharp changes between light and dark.
Definition
Phase congruency compares the weighted alignment of the Fourier components of a signal with the sum of the Fourier components.
where is the local or instantaneous phase as can be calculated using the Hilbert transform and are the local amplitude, or energy, of the signal. When all the phases are aligned, this is equal to 1.
Several ways of implementing phase congruency have been developed, of which two versions are available in open source, one written for Matlab and the other written in Java as a plugin for the ImageJ software.
Given the different notations used for its formulation, a unified version has been recently presented, where a methodology for the parameter tuning is also presented.
Advantages
The square-wave example is naive in that most edge detection methods deal with it equally well. For example, the first derivative has a maximal magnitude at the edges. However, there are cases where the perceived edge does not have a sharp step or a large derivative. The method of phase congruency applies to many cases where other methods fail.
A notable example is an image feature consisting of a single line, such as the letter "l". Many edge-detection algorithms will pick up two adjacent edges: the transitions from white to black, and black to white. On the other hand, the phase congruency map has a single line. A simple Fourier analogy of this case is a triangle wave. In each of its crests there is a congruency of crests from different sinusoidal functions.
Disadvantages
Calculating the phase congruency map of an image is very computationally intensive, and sensitive to image noise. Techniques of noise reduction are usually applied prior to the calculation.
References
External links
Research page of Peter Kovesi, list of research papers, example images and implementations.
Lecture by Professor Michael Brady.
Image processing
Computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predeclared | In computer languages, the built-in information, encodings or tools that are available to a programmer are pre-declared, often in the form of entities, variables, objects, functions or instructions. It is mostly not possible to overwrite or otherwise manipulate them.
Pre-declared entity
A pre-declared entity is a built-in notation convention for a character or a string. For example, in the HTML markup language, a large number of character and numeric entities are available to represent characters. In HTML, '<' is a possible pre-declared entity to represent '<'. The programmer must not declare this entity by himself before he can use it, since it is already pre-declared by the specifications of the HTML language. Pre-declared entities are often used as escape sequences to represent information that would otherwise cause possible conflicts in its non-encoded form.
Pre-declared variable
When a variable is pre-declared, it provides the programmer with information that he might be interested in. For example, in the Perl language, a variable %ENV is pre-declared, holding all kinds of environmental information such as the operating system, host information, user information, and many more. Other pre-declared variables in Perl are %INC and %SIG. Almost all common programming languages provide the programmer with such pre-declared variables in one or another form.
When variables are pre-declared, it is commonly assumed that the value for the pre-declared name is also pre-assigned at the same time.
Pre-declared object
Pre-declared objects have the same goal as pre-declared variables. For example, in the JavaScript language, the navigator-object is available to get all kinds of information about the browser that is running the script in question.
Pre-declared functions and instructions
Pre-declared functions or instructions are built-in tools to perform common tasks. For example, in the earliest programming languages the square root needed to be calculated by hand. Nowadays programming languages have a pre-declared instruction or function for this task. Pre-declared functions or instructions often hold common tasks and their goal is to simplify the work of the programmer. The available pre-declared instructions or functions can in some languages be extended by using external libraries or modules.
Narrow semantic sense
In a narrow strictly semantic sense, the term pre-declared may also refer to the declaration of a variable before an assignment takes place. In the following example, the first line is the (pre-)declaration and the second the assignment:
var A;
A = 1;
By declaring the name A, the program creates a namespace for the variable called A. In most modern languages, the variable does not need to be pre-declared on a separate line, as the following instruction achieves exactly the same:
var A = 1;
In early computer languages, the variable always needed to be pre-declared as a separate instruction, because the operatin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80%20Plus | 80 Plus (trademarked 80 PLUS) is a voluntary certification program launched in 2004, intended to promote efficient energy use in computer power supply units (PSUs).
Certification is acquirable for products that have more than 80% energy efficiency at 20%, 50% and 100% of rated load, and a power factor of 0.9 or greater at 100% load.
History
EPRI (Electric Power Research) and Ecos Consulting (promoter of the brand) develop the Generalized Internal Power Supply Efficiency Test Protocol for desktop derived multi-output power supplies.
March 2004: the 80 Plus idea was presented as an initiative at the ACEEE Market Transformation Symposium.
February 2005: the first market-ready power supply was created by Seasonic.
2006: Energy Star added 80 Plus requirements to their then-upcoming (in effect since July 2007) Energy Star 4.0 computer specifications.
November and February 2006: HP and Dell certify their PSUs to the 80 Plus specification.
20 July 2007: Energy Star Computer Specification 4.0 goes into effect. The specification includes 80 Plus power supply efficiency levels for desktop computers.
December 2007: over 200 PSUs on the market are 80 Plus certified and it is becoming the market standard.
First-quarter 2008: standards revised to add Bronze, Silver, and Gold higher efficiency level certifications.
October 2009: added specification for the Platinum efficiency level.
February 2012: Dell and Delta Electronics working together were able to achieve world-first 80 Plus Titanium server power supply.
Efficiency level certifications
4 categories for the certification:
115 V lists power supplies certified for desktop, workstation, and non-redundant server applications.
230 V lists power supplies certified for redundant, data center applications.
115 V Industrial lists power supplies for industrial applications. Units may be any physical format (embedded, encapsulated, open frame, rack mount, DIN-mount).
230 V EU Internal power supplies are certified for desktop, workstation, and server applications in non-redundant configurations.
For the higher certification levels, the requirement of 0.9 or better power factor was extended to apply to 20% and 50% load levels, as well as at 100% load. The Platinum level requires 0.95 or better power factor for servers.
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative efficiency level targets for workstations for 2007 through 2011, corresponding to the 80 Plus certification levels. From July 2007 through June 2008, the basic 80 Plus level (Energy Star 4.0). For the next year, the target is 80 Plus Bronze level, the following year 80 Plus Silver, then 80 Plus Gold, and finally Platinum.
Redundancy is typically used in data centers.
Misleading power supply advertising
There have been instances where companies claim or imply that their supplies are 80 Plus when they have not been certified, and in some cases do not meet the requirements. For example, the highest 80 Plus is 80+ Titanium (96% efficiency at 50% lo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makeoutclub | Makeoutclub.com was an early social networking website, the first that catered to youth and indie music culture. Launched in 1999 by Gibby Miller, Makeoutclub introduced features and concepts (such as customizable user profiles with photos and interests sections) that later became standard in social networking sites.
About
The MVP/beta version of the site was launched in August 1999. This version of the site was hosted privately, the URL given to friends to "leak" for testing purposes before launch.
In the beginning, the site was simple, and featured member pages divided by "Boys" and "Girls" with each user able to maintain a "Profile Card", stream on a cams page, interact on site forums, and contribute news for the homepage. News on the site was typically music-oriented, or focused on youth culture, fashion, and internet gossip. Because member pages were rendered chronologically, users took pride in having an "early page number".
Makeoutclub was intended as a platform to bridge the distance between like-minded individuals in the music and youth subculture scenes when the internet was populated with early adopters. The site said it was "for indierockers, hardcore kids, record collectors, artists, bloggers, and hopeless romantics."
Makeoutclub was among the first social networking sites whose members experienced firsthand the stigma associated with meeting others online.
Makeoutclub grew to add fully featured user profile pages, image galleries, message boards, blogs, private mail, private galleries, and "crush-lists" (an early matchmaking feature). Despite its name, Miller insisted during the site's infancy that it was not a dating site, but a place to make friends. This assertion has been challenged many times.
Makeoutclub was featured in Time, The Face, Spin, Rolling Stone, and several television spots on MTV2, G4, Much Music, and more. It was the focal point and inspiration of Andy Greenwald's book about youth and the emo movement Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo as well as Leila Sales's book This Song Will Save Your Life.
The site was named after the song "Make Out Club" by the band Unrest.
Since its inception, Makeoutclub was linked to the hipster, emo, and indie subcultures.
History
(1999) Beta: Beta access was invite-only during testing in the months ahead of launch.
(2000) 1.0: Version 1.0 was the "release" version of MOC.
(2001) 2.0: Version 2.0 was a bug-fixing and security upgrade, which offered additional features like HTML on profiles and colored usernames.
(2004) 3.0: Version 3.0 added a new design, additional bug fixes, and security upgrades.
(2007) 4.0: Version 4.0 was an entirely new platform, and offered users their own individual profile pages with comments, blogs, and the ability to add and display friends. Users could now add multiple images to a gallery, send private messages to one another, and block other users. This version also introduced multiple forums.
(2008) 5.0: Version 5.0 improved upo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier%3A%20Renegade%20Angel | Xavier: Renegade Angel is an American adult computer-animated television series created by Vernon Chatman and John Lee, who are also the creators of Wonder Showzen. The show was produced by PFFR, with animation by Cinematico. It premiered on November 4, 2007, on Adult Swim and November 1, 2007, on the Adult Swim website.
Xavier features a style characterized by an elaborate and nonlinear plot following the humorous musings of an itinerant humanoid pseudo-shaman and spiritual seeker named Xavier. The show is known for its use of ideologically critical dark humor as well as surrealist and absurdist humor presented through a psychedelic and satirically New Age lens. The program is also normally rated TV-MA for intense, graphic, often bloody violence (V), as well as strong sexual content, use of racially/ethnically offensive language, and grotesque depictions in a comedic manner.
Characters
Xavier is a well-meaning yet naïve and oblivious faun-like shaman wanderer with delusions of grandeur who speaks in a surfer accent. Xavier is the eponymous main character of the program, often shown to be a deeply insecure, self-righteous, and childlike individual who can quickly turn against others if interactions with them lead to negative feelings about himself. Xavier often brings total destruction to his environment and those around him in his attempts to right what he sees as wrong or help others with their problems, in many instances going as far as breaking reality itself. His physical appearance is equally absurd. He wears the shell of an isopod-like creature as an armband on his right arm. His left hand is a snake from the elbow downwards. It usually acts like an ordinary hand, but in the episodes "The 6th Teat of Good Intentions" and "El Tornadador", it appears to possess its own consciousness and speaks to Xavier directly. His knees bend at the joints backwards, he is covered in brown fur and has ocular heterochromia, having one brown eye and one blue. Instead of a nose, Xavier has a raptor-like beak, though he also has a mouth. He has six nipples and a giant eye in place of his genitalia. He typically wears tennis shoes and a loin cloth embroidered with varying symbols. Xavier's purpose seems to change slightly with each episode, with the initial plot setting him as a wandering philosopher, aspiring "wise man" or sage of sorts whose intent on hermitism seems to give references to Native American vision quests. Of initial importance seems to be Xavier's drawn-out search for an answer to the abstract question, "What doth life?" Later on in the series, however, the original plot seems to alter slightly into a more personal and less transcendent search: Xavier announces his reasons for roaming the world as the means to which he can help others, his purpose being to improve the quality of human existence and, generally speaking, do good. Much of the first season focuses on his search for the person who killed his father, himself, while the second seas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine%20Huts%20and%20Trails | Maine Huts & Trails is a United States non-profit public service organization that aims to create a 180-mile network of non-motorized, multi-use trails stretching between the Mahoosuc Range in western Maine to Moosehead Lake, the state's largest water body.
Overview
According to plans, the southern gateway will be near Bethel, and it will terminate in Rockwood, on the western shore of Moosehead. Along the way, up to 12 wilderness lodges will be constructed, each sleeping up to 45 guests. The distance between huts will average 10 miles. The huts are open year round for day visitors and overnight guests with opportunities for hiking, paddling, and biking in the summer and cross-country skiing, fat tire biking and snowshoeing in the winter.
The proposed route very roughly parallels the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, but generally follows river valleys and utilizes many long-abandoned logging roads that criss-cross the region.
The organization has raised approximately $10 million to date and opened its first hut, at Poplar Stream Falls in Carrabassett Valley, on Feb. 16, 2008. It features several heated bunkhouses, which accommodate between four and 12 people apiece, plus a central lodge with kitchen, rest rooms, dining room and common area. Breakfast and dinner are served to guests.
Three additional huts have been opened including Flagstaff Hut in 2009, Grand Falls Hut in 2010 and Stratton Brook Hut in 2012. The network now connects over 80 miles of trails between route 27 in Carrabassett Valley and route 201 in the West Forks.
A key component to the huts is the application of green energy systems reducing impact to the surrounding environment. Each hut utilizes a contained composting toilet system, solar power, and radiant floor heating powered by a wood boiler. In addition to these systems, Poplar Hut has hydro-electric power and Grand Falls Hut has a solar hot water heater. Overnight guests are welcome to join the hut staff on a "green energy tour" which describes these systems in detail and also explains the mission of the MH&T system.
The huts encourage guests to follow Leave No Trace principles while using the trail system. The huts are carry in/carry out. Visitors do have the option to buy lunch and snacks as well as beer and wine (must be 21+ with valid ID) on weekends during full service season.
Be aware that cell phone coverage is unavailable throughout most of the MH&T network. It is recommended to bring a trail map along for the journey. Maps are available at the main office in Kingfield, at any of the huts, or at any number of locations in Kingfield and Carrabassett Valley for free. Maps can also be requested online at www.mainehuts.org.
Much of the land for this project -- including Poplar Hut site -- is leased from the Penobscot Indian Nation.
Maine Huts & Trails' founder is Larry Warren of Carrabassett Valley, who first envisioned the trail network in 1974 and borrowed the huts concept from the Appalachian Mountain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20railway%20lines%20in%20France | This is a list of railway lines in France, belonging either to the national network (SNCF Réseau) or to private owners.
High speed lines (LGV, managed by the SNCF)
Under Construction
Contournement Nîmes – Montpellier
Turin–Lyon high-speed railway
Projected
LGV Bordeaux–Toulouse
LGV Poitiers–Limoges
LGV Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Proposed
LGV Montpellier–Perpignan
LGV Normandie
LGV Picardie
Interregional lines (SNCF)
Radial lines
Centered on Paris, from the north and clockwise:
Paris–Lille railway
Creil–Jeumont railway (toward Brussels)
La Plaine–Hirson (via Soissons and Laon)
Paris–Strasbourg railway (via Épernay and Nancy)
Paris–Mulhouse railway (via Troyes and Vesoul)
Paris–Marseille railway (via Dijon and Lyon)
Moret–Lyon railway (via Nevers, Roanne and Saint-Étienne)
Orléans–Montauban railway (via Limoges)
Paris–Bordeaux railway (via Orléans and Tours)
Paris–Brest railway (via Le Mans and Rennes)
Mantes-la-Jolie–Cherbourg railway (via Caen)
Paris–Le Havre railway (via Rouen)
Épinay-Villetaneuse–Le Tréport-Mers railway (via Persan-Beaumont and Beauvais)
International lines
Fives–Mouscron railway (Belgium, via Roubaix)
Fives–Tournai railway (Belgium, via Baisieux)
Douai–Quiévrain (Belgium, via Valenciennes)
Hautmont–Mons railway (Belgium, via Feignies)
Metz–Luxembourg railway (via Zoufftgen)
Metz–Überherrn (Germany, freight only, abandoned between Metz and Anzeling)
Rémilly–Saarbrücken railway (Germany)
Appenweier–Strasbourg railway (Germany, via Kehl)
Mulhouse–Müllheim (Germany)
Strasbourg–Basel railway (Switzerland, via Mulhouse)
Besançon–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches (Switzerland, via Morteau)
Frasne–Les Verrières (Switzerland, via Pontarlier)
Dijon–Vallorbe (Switzerland, via Dole and Frasne)
Lyon–Geneva railway (Switzerland, via Ambérieu and Bellegarde)
Annemasse–Geneva railway (Switzerland, partly under construction)
Longeray-Léaz–Le Bouveret (Switzerland, via Annemasse and Évian)
Turin–Modane railway (Italy, via Fréjus Rail Tunnel)
Cuneo–Ventimiglia (Italy, via Tende and Breil-sur-Roya)
Marseille–Ventimiglia railway (Italy, via Toulon and Nice)
Narbonne–Portbou railway (Spain)
Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway (Spain, via Pamiers and Foix)
Pau–Canfranc railway (abandoned beyond Bedous)
Bordeaux–Irun railway (Spain, via Dax and Bayonne)
Abandoned:
Mont Cenis Pass Railway (Italy, via the Mont Cenis Pass prior to the Fréjus Rail Tunnel)
Other interregional lines
Northern France
Amagne-Lucquy–Revigny (freight only, abandoned beyond Challerange)
Amiens–Rouen railway
Fives–Hirson (via Valenciennes and Aulnoye)
Hirson–Amagne-Lucquy (abandoned beyond Liart)
Longueau–Boulogne railway
Mohon–Thionville
Pierrelaye–Creil
Reims–Laon railway
Saint-Denis–Dieppe railway (abandoned beyond Gisors)
Saint-Just-en-Chaussée–Douai (via Montdidier, Péronne and Cambrai, partly abandoned)
Soissons–Givet (via Reims and Charleville-Mézières, Soissons-Bazoches abandoned)
Trilport–Bazoches
Eastern France
Andelot-en-Montagne–La Cluse (via Champagnole |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen%20Association | The Tizen Association, formerly the LiMo Foundation (short for Linux Mobile), is a non-profit consortium which develops and maintains the Tizen mobile operating system. Tizen is a Linux-based operating system for smartphones and other mobile devices. The founding members were Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone. The consortium's work resulted in the LiMo Platform—which was integrated into mobile phone products from NEC, Panasonic and Samsung—and later became the Tizen platform.
Members
Members of the Tizen Association are:
Phones
Phones using LiMo include:
LiMo & Tizen
In the end of September 2011 it was announced by the Linux Foundation that MeeGo will be totally replaced by the Tizen mobile operating system project during 2012. Tizen will be a new free and open source Linux-based operating-system which itself will not be released until the first quarter of 2012. Intel and Samsung, in collaboration with the LiMo Foundation and assisting MeeGo developers, have been pointed out to lead the development of this new software platform, using third-party developer frameworks that will primarily be built on the HTML5 and other web standards. As of October 2012, the LiMo website traffic is redirected to tizen.org.
See also
Linux Phone Standards Forum
Android (operating system) from Google
MeeGo Operating System from Nokia and Intel (former Maemo and Moblin)
Openmoko
Symbian Foundation
Open Handset Alliance
References
https://archive.today/20130127214730/http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8711151732.html
External links
Coming Battle Over Open Source Phones
Linux organizations
Mobile Linux
Organizations established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobitelea%20Ventures%20Limited | Mobitelea Ventures is the name of a company that formerly owned 12.5% of Vodafone Kenya Ltd, a 40% shareholder of Safaricom, a leading mobile network operator in Kenya.
According to Vodafone, Mobitelea Ventures Limited was brought in as a partner to advise on local business processes and protocol.
Documents obtained by The Guardian newspaper show that Mobitelea was registered in Guernsey on June 18, 1999. Mobitelea's owners are represented by two nominee firms, Guernsey – registered Mercator Nominees Ltd and Mercator Trustees Ltd. The directors are named as Anson Ltd and Cabot Ltd, based in Anguilla and Antigua.
Vodafone brought back half of Mobitelea's stake at the beginning of 2003 and, during the year ending 31 March 2009, Mobitelea sold their remaining indirect shareholding in Safaricom to the Vodafone Group.
Today, the shareholder structure of Safaricom is: Government of Kenya 35%; Vodafone 40%; Free Float 25%.
References
Telecommunications companies of Kenya |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLayers | nLayers is a company specializing in network discovery products; software designed to map the entirety of hosts, services, etc. that run on a given organization's network. Its primary product is "nLayers InSight".
History
nLayers was founded by Gili Raanan, in 2003 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California with a research and development center in Herzliya, Israel. Initial funding was provided by Venture capital funds Gemini Israel Funds and Walden Israel.
The company was the first to introduce an agent-less technology to discover, understand and map the complex relationships between applications and the underlying technology infrastructure.
nLayers also offered one of the first real-life implementations of CMDB (Configuration Management Database) and was recognized by analysts firm Forrester as the leading CMDB product.
Since its acquisition on June 7, 2006, nLayers was a subsidiary of EMC and was later merged into Vmware. In June 2013 Vmware announced that end of life date for the original nLayers product will be 03/08/2017.
Technology
nLayers' technology expands EMC's Network Resource Management and Storage Resource Management product portfolio, enhancing their ability to conduct automated comprehensive root-cause and impact analysis across all technology domains - including networks, applications and storage.
See also
EMC Corporation
Silicon Wadi
References
External links
Walden Israel Venture Capital
Gemini Israel Funds
Companies based in Cupertino, California
Dell EMC
Companies established in 2003
Software companies of Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPMulator | CPMulator is a program to emulate the CP/M operating system under x86 DOS. The program was developed in 1984 by Keystone Software Development. The company was owned and operated by Jay Sprenkle.
The NEC V20 processor released that year was guaranteed to be hardware compatible with the Intel 8088. After reviewing the instruction timing of the math operations and instruction addressing hardware it was determined it could slightly speed up existing 8088 based IBM PC machines. Keystone software started advertising "PC Speedup Kits" in PCWeek magazine. The CPU was socketed in IBM PC's so it could easily be replaced. In practice most programs received a 5% speed increase but those that were math intensive were much improved. One customer reported his monte carlo simulation of a nuclear reactor was so much faster that he "double checked the results because he couldn't believe it was finished."
CPMulator was developed after the release of the V20. The processor was also able to emulate the Intel 8080 instruction set in hardware. This opened the possibility of running older code on the new IBM machines. CPMulator was designed to modify CP/M binaries to make them run as if native 8088 DOS programs. The code to put the CPU in emulation mode was prefixed to each CP/M executable. Any calls to the CP/M operating system were intercepted and translated to DOS operating system calls. The program would leave 8080 emulation mode, make the operating system call, translate the results to CP/M standards and returned to emulation mode and continue the original program.
The product went out of production after AT class machines became prevalent and NEC produced no V series pin for pin compatible version of 80286 processor.
References
CP/M
Microcomputer software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic%20network%20process | The analytic network process (ANP) is a more general form of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) used in multi-criteria decision analysis.
AHP structures a decision problem into a hierarchy with a goal, decision criteria, and alternatives, while the ANP structures it as a network. Both then use a system of pairwise comparisons to measure the weights of the components of the structure, and finally to rank the alternatives in the decision.
Hierarchy vs. network
In the AHP, each element in the hierarchy is considered to be independent of all the others—the decision criteria are considered to be independent of one another, and the alternatives are considered to be independent of the decision criteria and of each other. But in many real-world cases, there is interdependence among the items and the alternatives. ANP does not require independence among elements, so it can be used as an effective tool in these cases.
To illustrate this, consider a simple decision about buying an automobile. The decision maker may want to decide among several moderately-priced full-size sedans. He might choose to base his decision on only three factors: purchase price, safety, and comfort. Both the AHP and ANP would provide useful frameworks to use in making his decision.
The AHP would assume that purchase price, safety, and comfort are independent of one another, and would evaluate each of the sedans independently on those criteria.
The ANP would allow consideration of the interdependence of price, safety, and comfort. If one could get more safety or comfort by paying more for the automobile (or less by paying less), the ANP could take that into account. Similarly, the ANP could allow the decision criteria to be affected by the traits of the cars under consideration. If, for example, all the cars are very, very safe, the importance of safety as a decision criterion could appropriately be reduced.
Literature and community
Academic articles about ANP appear in journals dealing with the decision sciences, and several books have been written on the subject.
There are numerous practical applications of ANP, many of them involving complex decisions about benefits (B), opportunities (O), costs (C) and risks (R). Studying these applications can be very useful in understanding the complexities of the ANP. The literature contains hundreds of elaborately worked out examples of the process, developed by executives, managers, engineers, MBA and Ph.D. students and others from many countries. About a hundred such uses are illustrated and discussed in The Encyclicon, a dictionary of decisions with dependence and feedback.
Academics and practitioners meet biennially at the International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (ISAHP), which, despite its name, devotes considerable attention to the ANP.
The steps
Understanding of the ANP is best achieved by using ANP software to work with previously-completed decisions. One of the field's standard texts lists the following st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott%20Organick | Elliott Irving Organick (February 25, 1925 – December 21, 1985) was a computer scientist and pioneer in operating systems development and education. He was considered "the foremost expositor writer of computer science", and was instrumental in founding the ACM Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education.
Career
Organick described the Burroughs large systems in an ACM monograph of which he was the sole author, covering the work of Robert (Bob) Barton and others. He also wrote a monograph about the Multics timesharing operating system. By the mid 1970s he had become "the foremost expositor writer of computer science"; he published 19 books.
He was editor of ACM Computing Surveys (ISSN 0360-0300) between 1973 and 1976.
In 1985 he received the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education.
He died of leukemia on December 21, 1985.
He taught at the University of Utah, where a Memorial Lecture series was established in his name.
Publications
The Multics System: An Examination of its Structure. MIT Press, 1972, . Still available from the MIT Libraries as a digital reprint (Laser-printed copy or PDF file of a scanned version.)
Computer Systems Organization: The B5700/B6700. ACM Monograph Series, 1973. LCN: 72-88334
References
External links
1985 deaths
University of Utah faculty
1925 births
Manhattan Project people
Computer science educators
University of Michigan alumni
Deaths from leukemia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMVU | IMVU (, stylized as imvu) is an online virtual world and social networking site. IMVU was founded in 2004 and was originally backed by venture investors Menlo Ventures, AllegisCyber Capital, Bridgescale Partners, and Best Buy Capital. IMVU members use 3D avatars to meet new people, chat, create, and play games. In 2014, IMVU had approximately six million active players, and had the largest virtual goods catalog of more than 6 million items as of 2011. The business was previously located in Mountain View, California. It was known as one of the leading practitioners of the lean startup approach.
The company name was neither an acronym nor an initialism. IMVU co-founder Eric Ries described the accidental process by which the company acquired its meaningless name, and stated "It's not an acronym; it doesn't stand for anything", though he did note the name was originally used because the IM aspect invoked instant messaging, something the company wanted to be associated with.
Credits
IMVU contains its own economy with a currency system based on IMVU "credits" and "promo credits." A third form of currency also existed for creators, known as "developer tokens," which were earned when a user purchases an item with "promo-credits." Credits could be purchased online using actual currency directly from IMVU. Credits can also be attained through IMVU gift cards available from retail outlets, as well as completing surveys and the game's daily spin, where a player can win either an item or an amount of credits.
Promotional credits, abbreviated to “predits,” were a second form of currency distributed to members by IMVU and could be obtained by participating in various "Partner" promotions and a few activities that IMVU provides. With relation to a standard free or full member, promo-credits were similar to standard credits. A given number of credits equates, promo-credits could not be used to purchase items as gifts for other members and may not be traded back to an IMVU re-seller for actual currency. Promo-credits used to purchase a virtual product were exchanged into "developer tokens," also known as "dev tokens." The purchase transferred the promo-credits into developer tokens but netted a single developer token per purchase when promo-credits were used regardless of the price of the product purchased. In early 2021, the developers of the game made it possible for players to gift credits, hinting of a possible business addition to the game in the future.
References
Further reading
Virtual world communities
Windows instant messaging clients
American companies established in 2004
Technology companies established in 2004
2004 establishments in California
Companies based in Redwood City, California
See also
Smeet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood%20Creek%20Challenge%20Trail | The Redwood Creek Challenge Trail is a forest-themed play area at Disney California Adventure. It features a network of trails simulating a trail in a redwood forest, a large network of stairs and rope bridges, a traverse rock climbing wall, a zip line, side-by-side slides, and an amphitheater. Explorers can also visit the "Kenai's Spirit Cave" to find what spirit animal represents them (bear, wolf, eagle, moose, salmon, and skunk).
The area was one of the park's original attractions, and opened to the public on February 8, 2001. It was later re-themed after the 2003 Disney animated film Brother Bear and featured character meeting areas for characters from the film as well as an amphitheater show called The Magic of Brother Bear. It was later themed after the 2009 Disney-Pixar film Up, and centered on the Wilderness Explorers, a fictional scouting organization from the film.
References
External links
Redwood Creek Challenge Trail
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts attractions
Disney California Adventure
Grizzly Peak (Disney California Adventure)
2001 establishments in California
Up (2009 film) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Barry%20in%20Cyberspace | Dave Barry in Cyberspace is a best-selling humor book by Dave Barry. Written in 1996, this book takes the view point of a computer geek who enjoys using Windows 95. The book covers (in a comical way) such topics as The History of Computing, How Computers Work, Software, and even mundane topics such as internet shorthand.
The book starts out with what it calls "A Brief History of Computing from Cave Walls to Windows 95" where it describes how certain aspects of computing (such as emoticons (hieroglyphics)) have existed for thousands of years. As the book progresses, it drifts off to some more sexual topics (in a more humorous than sexual manner). It talks about everything from Quicken to chat rooms and everything in between. It also has some fictitious excerpts from chat room conversations.
The book ends with a fictional story from the second-person viewpoint of a married, stay-at-home mom and her gradual acceptance of and proficiency at using the family PC, especially surfing the internet through the AOL online service. Eventually, she meets an English teacher online, and the two develop feelings for one another. The story ends with them deciding they should meet in person, even though this potentially will change their lives forever. There has been speculation that this is a fictionalized retelling of Dave Barry's relationship with his current wife Michelle; the male character's online name in the AOL chat rooms is RayAdverb, an anagram of Dave Barry. This theory has not been confirmed by Barry. (Barry's Twitter handle is RayAdverb.)
Comedy books
1996 books
Works by Dave Barry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEUZ | WEUZ (92.1 FM) is an urban contemporary format radio station that serves north Alabama and south-central Tennessee, United States. Its programming is a simulcast of co-owned WEUP-FM. This programming is also simulcast on several broadcast translators. The station's studios are located along Jordan Lane (U.S. Highway 231) in Northwest Huntsville, and its transmitter is located west of Goodspring, Tennessee.
This station was assigned the WEUZ call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on April 6, 2000.
Ownership
In 1987, a married couple, Hundley Batts, Sr. and Dr. Virginia Caples, acquired WXKI (92.1 FM, now WEUZ-FM), licensed to Minor Hill, Tennessee, (just north of the Alabama border). This followed their assumption of the ownership and operation of WEUP (AM). They combined these operations and brought WEUP onto the FM broadcast airwaves.
They operated WEUP & WEUZ-FM under the parent company name of Broadcast One. They continued to expand the station's audience by acquiring WHIY (1190 AM, now WEUV) and WXKI (103.1 FM, now WEUP-FM), both licensed to Moulton, Alabama, in 1989. The stations were sold to Hundley Batts and Virginia Caples as part of a two-station deal by Moulton Broadcasting Co. Inc. (WHIY) and Lawco FM Ltd. (WXKI). WEUV (1700 AM, now WEUP (AM)) was later added to the group of stations that are part of the WEUP broadcast family.
Translators
References
External links
WEUP-FM/WEUZ official website
Giles County, Tennessee
EUZ
Radio stations established in 1987
1987 establishments in Alabama
Urban contemporary radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload%20%28disambiguation%29 | Payload is the carrying capacity of a vehicle, often an aircraft or spacecraft.
Payload may also refer to:
Payload (computing), several analogous usages
a game mode in Team Fortress 2 and other first-person shooters, in which the attacking team must push a bomb to the defending base
Payload (EP), an EP by Hunters & Collectors
Payload (G.I. Joe), several versions of a character or its toy from the G.I. Joe franchise
Payload (Transformers), several incarnations of a character or its toy from the Transformers robot superhero franchise
See also
Cargo, goods being transported |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpoTV | EXPO Tv or ExpoTV () is an Internet TV network (video platform) in Iran that prepares, produces and broadcasts video products. It is active in the fields of trade, industry and economy of Iran and the world and has a specialized audience. It was established in 2018 by Mehrdad Manafi in Tehran, Iran as the first internet television for business, industry and economy.
The company was discussed in Groundswell, a book by Forrester analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff.
References
External links
Mass media companies of Iran
Social networking services
Video hosting
Companies based in Tehran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiProcessor%20Specification | The MultiProcessor Specification (MPS) for the x86 architecture is an open standard describing enhancements to both operating systems and firmware, which will allow them to work with x86-compatible processors in a multi-processor configuration. MPS covers Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC) architectures.
Version 1.1 of the specification was released on April 11, 1994.
Version 1.4 of the specification was released on July 1, 1995, which added extended configuration tables to improve support for multiple PCI bus configurations and improve expandability.
The Linux kernel and FreeBSD are known to support the Intel MPS.
Windows NT are known to support MPS 1.1 and Windows 2000 or higher are known to support MPS 1.4.
OS/2 are known to support MPS 1.1 only.
Mac OS X are known to support MPS 1.4 only.
There is a utility called 'mptable' which can be used to examine the MPS table on motherboards.
Since most newer machines support Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) which subsumes the MPS functionality, MPS has for the most part been supplanted by ACPI. MPS can still be useful on machines or with operating systems that do not support ACPI.
External links
MultiProcessor Specification
MPS Specification 1.4 (May 1997)
Intel MP Specification compatibility
Intel products
X86 architecture
BIOS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYNTAX | In computer science, SYNTAX is a system used to generate lexical and syntactic analyzers (parsers) (both deterministic and non-deterministic) for all kinds of context-free grammars (CFGs) as well as some classes of contextual grammars. It has been developed at INRIA in France for several decades, mostly by Pierre Boullier, but has become free software since 2007 only. SYNTAX is distributed under the CeCILL license.
Context-free parsing
SYNTAX handles most classes of deterministic (unambiguous) grammars (LR, LALR, RLR as well as general context-free grammars. The deterministic version has been used in operational contexts (e.g., Ada), and is currently used both in the domain of compilation. The non-deterministic features include an Earley parser generator used for natural language processing. Parsers generated by SYNTAX include powerful error recovery mechanisms, and allow the execution of semantic actions and attribute evaluation on the abstract tree or on the shared parse forest.
Contextual parsing
The current version of SYNTAX (version 6.0 beta) includes also parser generators for other formalisms, used for natural language processing as well as bio-informatics. These formalisms are context-sensitive formalisms (TAG, RCG or formalisms that rely on context-free grammars and are extended thanks to attribute evaluation, in particular for natural language processing (LFG).
Error recovery
A nice feature of SYNTAX (compared to Lex/Yacc) is its built-in algorithm for automatically recovering from lexical and syntactic errors, by deleting extra characters or tokens, inserting missing characters or tokens, permuting characters or tokens, etc. This algorithm has a default behaviour that can be modified by providing a custom set of recovery rules adapted to the language for which the lexer and parser are built.
References
External links
SYNTAX web site
Paper on the construction of compilers using SYNTAX and TRAIAN (Compiler Construction'02 Conference)
Compiling tools
Parser generators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield%201942%3A%20Secret%20Weapons%20of%20WWII | Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII is the second of two expansions to the World War II first-person shooter computer game Battlefield 1942. It was released for Microsoft Windows on 4 September 2003 in North America and 5 September 2003 in Europe. It was also released for Mac OS X on 25 October 2004.
Secret Weapons of WWII brings many new features to the original game, such as new weapons, vehicles, battles, factions, and a new gameplay mode that focuses on fulfilling objectives more than destroying the enemy army. These new features help to bring variety to its predecessor's gameplay without overhauling the series. For example, while an Allied engineer may still maintain his original role as being able to repair vehicles, his long-ranged rifle has been replaced with a shotgun, which is effective at short distances.
Gameplay
As in Battlefield 1942, players play the role of a soldier in a two-sided battle and can choose which weapons and/or vehicles they want to use in accomplishing this task of victory on the battlefield. Usually, the team that works together more effectively wins by reducing the enemies tickets to zero in a classic "Conquest" mode. (A team loses tickets when its members are killed, but also when the other team holds a majority of the capture points on a map.) Even more so than in Battlefield 1942, the weapons in Secret Weapons of WWII are designed to be used in unison with other weapons to compensate for weaknesses and maximize strengths.
A gameplay mode introduced in Secret Weapons of WWII is an objective-based mode in which players focus on accomplishing specific objectives to win the battle. For example, on Essen, the German forces must prevent Allied forces from destroying key portions of a weapons factory. If the Allied forces successfully fulfill these objectives, the German tickets are drastically reduced, usually winning the game for the Allies.
The default Allied (US) Army and Axis (German) Army have received new weapons and vehicles in addition to the creation of two entirely new factions, the SAS (British Commandos) and the German Elite Troops (the Waffen-SS and the Fallschirmjager). The accompanying update package 1.41 introduces an additional three new factions, USMC, RAF, and Luftwaffe. Each faction has unique weapons to their faction that can only be obtained by playing as that faction or picking them off a fallen enemy soldier. They also have unique vehicles that are only available at their bases. Even with the creation of these new factions, all the maps in the expansion pack are Axis versus Allies, as is the custom in the Battlefield series.
Also of special note is the Jet Pack, which allows players to fly in the air while firing a weapon. To maintain gameplay balance, the Jet Pack is very susceptible to blowing up while under fire, instantly killing the player. As opposed to other weapons, the Jet Pack is not unique to one faction, and instead, it can be found at one or more locations throughout a p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticons | Panopticons is an arts and regeneration project of the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network managed by Mid Pennine Arts. It involved the construction of series of 21st century landmarks, or Panopticons (structures providing a comprehensive view), across East Lancashire, England, as symbols of the renaissance of the area. Four large scale sculptures were commissioned, designed and constructed over a six-year period for the districts of Blackburn, Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale.
The Halo in Haslingden (Rossendale) was the last sculpture in the series to be erected, in September 2007. Plans for a similar sculpture in Accrington were never realised. One artist's impression showed a different design.
Sculptures
The Atom
Set in the landscape of Pendle, the Atom was designed by Peter Meacock, Andrew Edmunds and Katarina Novomestska of Peter Meacock Projects. It was launched by Mayor of Pendle, Councillor George Adams, with Anthony Wilson and designer Peter Meacock, on 22 September 2006. The bronze coated glass fibre reinforced concrete structure provides both a work of art and a viewing point and shelter from which to enjoy the surrounding landscape.
Part of this sculpture has since been vandalised and removed. Atom is located at .
Colourfields
Colourfields in Blackburn is a collaboration between Jo Rippon Architecture and artist Sophie Smallhorn. The design uses the former cannon battery in Corporation Park as its base. Colourfields was launched by the Mayor of Blackburn with Darwen, Councillor Dorothy Walsh, on the 14 June 2006. It's situated at .
Haslingden Halo
The Halo is an artwork set on the expended landfill site (or "top 'o' slate") overlooking the town of Haslingden in Rossendale, positioned to be clearly visible from the M66 and A56 approach to Lancashire. It is located at . The Halo was the fourth and final Panopticon to be constructed in Lancashire, and was launched in September 2007.
The Halo is an 18m diameter steel lattice structure supported on a tripod five metres above the ground. The core is open at the top, framing views of the sky. It is lit after dark, using low energy LEDs powered by an adjacent wind turbine, and glows a sky blue colour, giving the effect of hovering above the town. It was designed by John Kennedy of LandLab.
Singing Ringing Tree
The Singing Ringing Tree is a musical sculpture overlooking Burnley. It was designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu, and constructed from pipes of galvanised steel. Singing Ringing Tree was launched by the Mayor of Burnley, Councillor Mohammad Najib, JP, and designers Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu on 14 December 2006. The sculpture is located at .
Notes and references
Panopticons, New landmarks for the 21st century (Official site from the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network).
Rossendale Borough Council. 2006-09-19. Item No. D7. Halo Panopticon. Retrieved 2007-11-29.
Buildings and structures in Lancashire
Outdoor sculptures in England
Architectur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc%20J%C3%A9z%C3%A9quel | Professor Jean-Marc Jézéquel is a French computer scientist.
Professionally, Jean-Marc Jézéquel worked as a computer scientist at the University of Rennes 1, France. His research contributions have laid the foundations of the theory of Model-driven architecture.
From January 2012 to December 2020, he was Director of IRISA and then Vice President of Informatics Europe.
Education and academic career
Jean-Marc Jézéquel received an engineering degree from Telecom Bretagne in 1986 and a PhD from the University of Rennes 1 in Rennes in 1989.
He then worked for the Transpac (network) company on an Intelligent Network project. In 1991, he became a researcher (Chargé de recherche) at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). During most of 1996, he has been an invited researcher in Pr. Yonezawa's lab, in the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Since October 2000, he has been Professor of Software Engineering at University of Rennes 1, where he pursued research on the foundations of Model Driven Engineering. From 2000 to 2012 he headed an Inria research team called Triskell.
From January 2012 to December 2020, he was Director of IRISA, a 800 people public research lab in informatics.
From January 2021 he is Vice President of Informatics Europe.
In 2016 he received the Silver Medal from CNRS.
In 2020, he received the Career Award from the IEEE/ACM Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems conference, which recognizes his long-standing scientific contributions to the MDE community and his exemplary activity for the younger members of the MODELS community.
From January 2022 to April 2022, he was a visiting professor at McGill University.
In 2023 he has been appointed as a fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France.
Publications
Books, a selection
Engineering Modeling Languages: Turning Domain Knowledge into Tools, CRC Press, 2016.
Ingénierie Dirigée par les Modèles : des concepts à la pratique, Éditions Ellipses, 2012
Design Patterns and Contracts, Addison-Wesley, 1999
Object Oriented Software Engineering with Eiffel, Addison-Wesley, 1996
Articles, a selection:
Design by contract: The lessons of Ariane, with Bertrand Meyer, 1997
Making components contract aware, Computer 32 (7), 1999
Refactoring UML models, UML 2001
Weaving executability into object-oriented meta-languages, MODELS 2005
Automatic test generation: A use case driven approach IEEE Trans on Software Engineering, 2006
Models at runtime to support dynamic adaptation, Computer 42 (10), 2009
Notes and references
External links
JM Jézéquel's web page
Living people
French computer scientists
1964 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.pkg | .pkg (package) is a filename extension used for several file formats that contain packages of software and other files to be installed onto a certain device, operating system, or filesystem, such as the macOS, iOS, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4.
The macOS and iOS operating systems made by Apple use .pkg extensions for Apple software packages using the Xar format internally.
PlayStation Vita, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PlayStation 4 — used for installation of PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 software, applications, homebrew, and DLC from the PlayStation Store
Solaris, or SunOS operating system (OS) and illumos - Denotes software packages that can be installed, removed and tracked using the pkgadd, pkgrm, and pkginfo commands. Solaris is a derivative of the AT&T UNIX OS, and the .pkg extension was also used on AT&T UNIX System V OS.
AT&T UNIX System V .pkg files are cpio archives that contain specific file tree structures.
Symbian use .pkg files to store configuration information used to generate .sis installer packages.
BeOS Used .pkg files in the 90's as part of their software package platform. Be Inc. bought Starcode Software Inc. and acquired their packaging tools.
Apple Newton operating system used files ending in .pkg for Newton applications and software. As a result, when seen from the Mac OS X Finder, Newton applications appear the same as Mac OS X Installer packages, however they do not share their file format.
PTC/CoCreate 3D Modeling application use .pkg files to store model files. This .pkg file uses the zip file format.
Microsoft is said to use .pkg files for profile storage on Xbox Live.
L3 Avionics systems use some .pkg files for software updates.
See also
List of software package management systems
References
PKG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital%20network | A hospital network is a public, non-profit or for-profit company or organization that provides two or more hospitals and other broad healthcare facilities and services. A hospital network may include hospitals in one or more regions within one or more states within one or more countries. A hospital network has one headquarter, usually within one of the regions served by the network facilities. (The term hospital system or health care system is used more broadly to define the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of a region or country.)
History
Some of the earliest hospital networks were affiliated with charitable, religious organizations. The Catholic Church established a hospital network in Medieval Europe that was vastly improved from the merely reciprocal hospitality of the Greeks and family-based obligations of the Romans. These hospitals were established to cater to "particular social groups marginalized by poverty, sickness, and age," according to historian of hospitals, Guenter Risse.
In the late 20th century hospital networks were established to make delivery of healthcare more efficient and to share specialized medical services and physicians across the network. To avoid financial losses due to shrinking reimbursements and rising costs as well as improving quality of care and avoid duplication of services, hospitals may consolidate certain services at one hospital. However, patients may need to travel farther if those services are no longer offered at their local hospital.
Largest hospital networks
Hospital networks that do not have reliable sources may not be included; these are not necessarily complete lists.
Ranked by capacity
This is a list of hospital networks with a capacity of more than 2,500 beds.
Ranked by staff
This is a list of hospital networks with at least 20,000 staff.
By country
United States
The largest hospital networks headquartered in the United States are included in the table below. The name, headquarters location, number of hospitals, funding type and founding year are given for each network. There were 6,146 hospitals in the United States in 2020, of which 2,240 were managed by the largest 45 hospital networks.
Notes:
Canadian headquartered hospital networks
Scarborough Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, 3 hospitals
Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, 2 hospitals
Toronto East Health Network
Trillium Health Partners, Toronto, Ontario, 3 hospitals
Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 3 hospitals
University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, 4 hospitals
William Osler Health System, Brampton, Ontario, 2 hospitals
Grey Bruce Health Services, Grey County, Ontario and Bruce County, Ontario, 6 hospitals
Halton Healthcare, Greater Toronto Area, 3 hospitals
London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, 2 hospitals
McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, 7 hospitals
Irish headquartered hospital netwo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Biggest%20Loser%20Australia%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of the Australian version of the original NBC American reality television series The Biggest Loser premiered on 3 February 2008 on Network Ten, and was screened for 6 nights a week over 12 weeks. It was won by Sam Rouen on the finale broadcast on 1 May 2008
Host Ajay Rochester and trainers of the previous season, Shannan Ponton and Michelle Bridges returned to this season of the show, as did US trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels, and part-time trainer The Commando (Steve Willis).
Applications opened at the end of the previous season with over 6,000 people applying and primary photography was shot between October 2007 and February 2008. As with the two preceding series of The Biggest Loser, the winner titled "Australia's Biggest Loser" was eligible to win $200,000.
New elements to this season included "The Warehouse", where contestants choose their diet for a week, and a rival team of contestants trained separate from the main contestants in the United States. The season started with 30 contestants, of which 19 were selected to compete for the main prize (15 for the white house, and 4 for a secret black team).
Season Overview
List of episodes
Game variations
Black team: Of the unsuccessful 15 remaining contestants, 4 were selected by the Commando to become the new black team to be flown to USA and be trained by Bob and Jillian with the added benefit of having no temptations or challenges. Contestants were weighed in at the Biggest Loser campus where earlier US seasons of the Biggest Loser in the USA were filmed. The contestants in the black team are Michelle, Carrianne, Bryce and Steven. Steven quit in week 3 because he felt too homesick for his daughter, he was replaced by JJ, the second eliminated contestant.
The Warehouse: An addition to this season is a dark room with contestants being given the choice of two or three types of foods to have as their diet for the week with contestants having to use their knowledge of food to make the best decision. Except for the first week, in which everyone decided on one or the other for all contestants, the biggest loser of the week would choose the two or three options for the teams.
Hidden camera in the kitchen: In week 5, the trainers and their teams got a package that contained two DVDs stating "Red/Blue Team in Action." It turns out that for the past four weeks, a hidden camera was placed in the kitchen, watching the contestants go to the refrigerators and pantries. There were two refrigerators and two pantries in the kitchen, one of each for the blue team and one of each for the red team. The red team was up first, and showed Sam (a former blue team member who would later return to the blue team) stealing chocolate topping, Cosi stealing ice cream, and Garry taking out a half-dozen soda cans, all from the blue team's refrigerator and pantry. The Blue team was up next, and showed Michael taking kangaroo meat out of the red fridge, and then shows Kirsten stealing cheese to m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Householder%27s%20method | In mathematics, and more specifically in numerical analysis, Householder's methods are a class of root-finding algorithms that are used for functions of one real variable with continuous derivatives up to some order . Each of these methods is characterized by the number , which is known as the order of the method. The algorithm is iterative and has a rate of convergence of .
These methods are named after the American mathematician Alston Scott Householder.
Method
Householder's method is a numerical algorithm for solving the equation . In this case, the function has to be a function of one real variable. The method consists of a sequence of iterations
beginning with an initial guess .
If is a times continuously differentiable function and is a zero of but not of its derivative, then, in a neighborhood of , the iterates satisfy:
, for some
This means that the iterates converge to the zero if the initial guess is sufficiently close, and that the convergence has order or better. Furthermore, when close enough to , it commonly is the case that for some . In particular,
if is even and then convergence to will be from the right;
if is even and then convergence to will be from the left;
if is odd and then convergence to will be from the side where it starts; and
if is odd and then convergence to will alternate sides.
Despite their order of convergence, these methods are not widely used because the gain in precision is not commensurate with the rise in effort for large . The Ostrowski index expresses the error reduction in the number of function evaluations instead of the iteration count.
For polynomials, the evaluation of the first derivatives of at using the Horner method has an effort of polynomial evaluations. Since evaluations over iterations give an error exponent of , the exponent for one function evaluation is , numerically , , , for , and falling after that. By this criterion, the case (Halley's method) is the optimal value of .
For general functions the derivative evaluation using the Taylor arithmetic of automatic differentiation requires the equivalent of function evaluations. One function evaluation thus reduces the error by an exponent of , which is for Newton's method, for Halley's method and falling towards 1 or linear convergence for the higher order methods.
Motivation
First approach
Suppose is analytic in a neighborhood of and . Then has a Taylor series at and its constant term is zero. Because this constant term is zero, the function will have a Taylor series at and, when , its constant term will not be zero. Because that constant term is not zero, it follows that the reciprocal has a Taylor series at , which we will write as and its constant term will not be zero. Using that Taylor series we can write
When we compute its -th derivative, we note that the terms for conveniently vanish:
using big O notation. We thus get that the ratio
If is the zero of that is clos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9z%C3%A9quel | Jézéquel is a surname of Breton origin and may refer to:
Jean-Marc Jézéquel (born 1964), French computer scientist,
Julie Jézéquel (born 1964), French actress and writer,
Françoise Jézéquel (born 1970), French footballer.
Breton-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThunderHawk | ThunderHawk is a discontinued web browser from Bitstream available for a full range of operating systems in high end (Windows mobile and Symbian browsers) and mass-market (Java browser) mobile phones and personal digital assistants. It is basically meant for mobile operators and original equipment manufacturers and not meant to download for normal users.
Unlike most browsers, ThunderHawk does not re-purpose or reformat the content, and provides a similar desktop view of the web page. Data is transmitted to the mobile phone in a compressed transport format, for example, the visible web page regions (text) are received first, while the rest of the images and other data are automatically transferred in the background.
Version history
Bitstream announced the ThunderHawk technology first on June 6, 2001 in Cambridge. The official beta release went off on October 9, 2001 and included enhancements as improved readability, speed, and usability. Sonera, wireless carrier in Finland included the beta release of Bitstream's web browser technology in Sonera Pilot Program to offer hands-on testing of new UI conventions for future mobile applications.
Later, in the same year, December 17, 2001 Bitstream announced the Wireless Web browsing solution with HP for its HP Jornada PDA customers. The first full-featured Wireless Web Browser for Pocket PCs was released on May 20, 2002.
Standards Supported
AJAX, DHTML Level 1, DOM Level 1, DOM Level 2, CSS Level 1, CSS Level 2, Frames, HTML 4.01, HTTP 1.0, HTTP 1.1, HTTPS 128-bit encryption, Feeds (RSS, ATOM, RDF), Image formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PJPEG), XHTML Basic, XML 1.0, ECMA Script, WML, WAP 2.0.
Functionality
When a subscriber uses ThunderHawk to access the Web, the ThunderHawk client residing on the handset communicates with the server. The server receives a connection from the client and requests an HTML Web page from the Internet. Upon receiving the requested page, the server renders the content on-the-fly and compresses the graphics. The server sends the requested HTML page in a compact transport format to the subscriber's handset.
ThunderHawk can run on any handset that offers MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.0 and/or CLDC 1.1 software. The browser uses Bitstream's patented technologies for mobile browsing. To display digital content on a small screen device, ThunderHawk accesses the Web site, lays out the content at a virtual pixel resolution and then displays a part of the layout at a smaller display resolution. The displayed content is at a scaled-down resolution size and includes text composed from font bitmaps having character shapes, sizes, and pixel alignments selected to improve readability.
Split-Screen Mode
ThunderHawk allows browsing in the combined overview and magnified view of a web page. The split screen magnifier makes it easier to browse the Web pages in their original format on the small screen of a mobile device. The floating magnifier over the overview area, available with both Zoom-In and Zoo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiJaak | HiJaak is an image manager, graphics converter and screen capture computer program from IMSI/Design. It can also be used for batch editing.
History
HiJaak began as a DOS-based screen capture and graphics file format converter program for the IBM Personal Computer from Inset Systems, Inc. of Brookfield, Connecticut. At the time of the release of version 2.0 in December 1990, the program was capable of converting between more than 36 different graphics file formats. HiJaak was converted from 16-bit DOS to run on 32-bit Microsoft Windows 95 in 1995. The current successor, HiJaak Pro version 5, can handle more than 115 raster and vector graphics file formats. Graphics screen capture is not a native capability of DOS-based systems, hence there was a need for third-party programs such as HiJaak. With current graphical user interfaces such as Microsoft Windows, screen capture is a built-in feature, but this is usually limited to capturing the entire screen, or at least the contents of one window on the screen. HiJaak allows the user to capture small selections on the screen.
Inset Systems was acquired by Quarterdeck Corporation in exchange for 993,000 shares of Quarterdeck common stock in September 1995. In 1998, after the market for DOS utilities collapsed, Quarterdeck was acquired by Symantec. At some time between 1998 and 2000, Symantec sold HiJaak to International Microcomputer Software, Inc. (IMSI), of Novato, California, who then incorporated it into their business products line.
IMSI/Design, LLC, the current owner of HiJaak, also produces TurboCAD.
References
External links
www.imsidesign.com — IMSI/Design, LLC site
Graphics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos%20Kem%C3%A9ny | János Kemény or Kemény János may refer to:
János Kemény (writer) (1903–1971), Hungarian writer, theater director and dramatist
John G. Kemeny (1926–1992), Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist and educator
John Kemeny (film producer) (1925–2012), Hungarian-born film producer
John Kemény (prince) (1607–1662), duke/prince of Transylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20Radio | Rock Radio was a brand of radio stations in the United Kingdom owned by GMG Radio.
96.3 Rock Radio was the first station in the network. It operated in West Central Scotland. The station was launched on the frequency which was formerly used by Paisley local radio station Q96.
A digital station named Rock Radio was launched on DAB on 1 April 2008 in the North East of England, and extended to Yorkshire and the Severn Estuary from 2010. It was initially a presenter-led station, then switched to automated rock service similar to The Arrow, but later changed to simulcast programmes from the Manchester station.
106.1 Rock Radio launched in Manchester in May 2008. The station was a new city licence awarded to GMG under the name Rock Talk, which originally proposed to broadcast talk programming in peak hours and rock music in the off-peak. The station is currently available on FM in Manchester but is not currently on DAB in its target area.
Since September 2009, automated evening content on 96.3 Rock Radio had been replaced by presented programmes from 106.1 Rock Radio.
In September 2011 106.1 Rock Radio was renamed 106.1 Real Radio XS.
See also
Real Radio XS
Former British radio networks
GMG Radio
Rock radio stations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad%20%28rocket%29 | In rocketry, the Armadillo Aerospace Quad vehicle called Pixel is a computer-controlled VTVL rocket that was used in 2006 to compete in the Lunar Lander Challenge.
General description
The quad vehicle design is a pressure fed in blow-down mode from an initial pressure of 320 psi for level 1 (400 psi level 2). The cold gas vernier engines are cross-fed by gas drawn from ullage space of the opposite tank. The vehicle was able to transfer propellant through connecting pipes between opposite tanks by controlling ullage pressures with the thrusters; this helps it balance, minimizing gas use. The main engine had two-axis thrust vectoring. The vehicle was fully computer controlled; with guidance from GPS and fiber optic gyros.
Specification
The specification for Pixel/Texel for level 1:
Width: ~1.9 m (~75 inches)
Height: ~1.9 m (~75 inches)
Dry Weight: 650 pounds
Gross Lift Off Weight (GLOW): ~1500 pounds (360 pounds ethanol, ~500 LOX)
Payload: 55 pounds
Engines: 1 (+ 4 cold gas attitude jets)
Thrust (sl): ~3000 pounds
Engine (XPC-06):
Thrust: ~3000 pounds (throttleable to 25%)
Chamber Pressure: 300 psi
Nozzle Area Ratio: 2:1
Isp (sl): ~140-~200 seconds (low-high throttle)
Length: 0.51 m (20 inches)
Diameter: 0.2 m (8 inches)
Chamber: carbon fiber reinforced graphite built by Cesaroni aerospace
Burn Time: >100 seconds, expected >180 for level 2, with approximately double the propellant mass.
Purchase by NASA
On 8 March 2010, Matthew Ross of Armadillo Aerospace confirmed that Pixel had been converted to methane/LOX propellant and sold to NASA as part of the Project M testbed for the Autonomous Landing Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) LIDAR range finding system under development by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
See also
Reusable Vehicle Testing program of the Japanese Space Agency JAXA
Project Morpheus NASA program to continue developing ALHAT and Quad landers
Blue Origin New Shepard
Kankoh-maru
McDonnell Douglas DC-X
Zarya
CORONA
Grasshopper
References
Reusable launch systems
Rockets and missiles
Pressure-fed rockets
VTVL rockets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlusTV | PlusTV was a finnish pay-broadcasting television network that was sign on 2006-2016 and is owned by Finnish telecommunications service DNA Oyj,
PlusTV turned into released in 2006 as a virtual terrestrial tv (DTT) service. It turned into the first commercial DTT service in Finland, and it quickly gained a following among visitors who have been looking for an alternative to conventional cable and satellite TV. PlusTV's primary selling factor was its wide range of channels, which includes numerous HD channels, which have been no longer available on different structures on the time.
One of the specific functions of PlusTV become its use of a hybrid broadcast broadband TV (HbbTV) platform. This platform allowed visitors to access extra content material and offerings, together with interactive applications and trap-up TV, via their broadband net connection. PlusTV become one of the first broadcasters in Europe to undertake this technology, and it helped to set up the carrier as a pacesetter within the virtual TV market.
Despite its early fulfillment, PlusTV faced some of challenges inside the years that accompanied. One of the largest demanding situations become the emergence of latest digital TV offerings, which include Netflix, Nickelodeon, Discovery Channel, MTV3, MTV Finland, MTV3 Juniori, Fakta, Eurosport and HBO Nordic, which provided on-call for streaming of TV indicates and movies. These offerings appealed to more youthful viewers who had been much less interested by conventional linear TV channels, and that they step by step eroded PlusTV's marketplace share.
In addition to those demanding situations, PlusTV turned into additionally hampered by using economic problems. PlusTV ended due to the fact there was different TV services that overcomed PlusTV. The provider struggled to generate enough revenue to cowl its operating expenses, and it eventually went bankrupt in 2016. Its property were eventually obtained by means of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle), which integrated a number of PlusTV's channels into its own digital TV carrier.
Despite its exceedingly short lifespan, PlusTV left an enduring effect at the Finnish broadcasting panorama. Its use of cutting-edge technology, consisting of HbbTV, helped to push the boundaries of what was feasible in digital TV broadcasting. PlusTV also paved the manner for other DTT services in Finland, such as DNA TV and Canal Digital, which retain to perform these days.
References
External links
PlusTV - Official Site (ARCHIVED) (plustv.fl)
Television in Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%20Spotlight | Manhattan Spotlight is an American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.
Broadcast history
The series was a talk show ran from 1949 to 1951 hosted by Charles Tranum. The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, aired Monday through Friday at 7:30pm or 7:45pm ET on most DuMont affiliates.
From December 1949 to June 1950, Easy Aces aired in the Wednesday 7:45pm slot. During the 1950-1951 season, the Hazel Scott, Joan Edwards, and Susan Raye shows all ran in the 7:45pm ET slot immediately after Manhattan Spotlight.
The series was cancelled in 1951, and DuMont replaced the series with local (non-network) programming.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1949 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
1940s American television series
1950s American television series
Black-and-white American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire%20Technology | Sapphire Technology () is a Hong Kong-based technology company, founded in 2001, which produces graphics cards for personal computers and workstations, motherboards, TV tuner cards, digital audio players and LCDTVs
Sapphire's products are based on AMD graphics processing units, and both AMD (ATI) and Intel motherboard chipset technology. The company is the largest supplier of AMD-based video cards in the world.
Sapphire was the first company to release a video card with a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) connector.
Sapphire was the first company to release a video card having clock speed of 1000 MHz (1 GHz) with the release of the Sapphire Atomic Edition HD 4890.
Manufacturing facilities
As of 2007, Sapphire has two ISO 9001 and ISO 14001-certified manufacturing facilities in Dongguan, China, which have a monthly production capacity of 1.8 million video cards.
The manufacturing facility had an area of about 250,000 m2 used by 16 independent production lines as of May 2005.
Manufacturing process
Sapphire buys printed circuit boards (PCB) from an external contractor, but they place components on the PCB and reflow them in their own factories. AMD GPUs have historically been used in their products.
Gallery
References
External links
2001 establishments in Hong Kong
Graphics hardware companies
Motherboard companies
Electronics companies of Hong Kong
Hong Kong brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Stranger%20%281954%20TV%20series%29 | The Stranger was an American television crime drama broadcast on the DuMont Television Network from June 25, 1954, to February 11, 1955.
Robert Carroll played a mysterious man who helped those in distress. The stranger mysteriously appeared when people needed help and disappeared just as mysteriously after each problem was resolved, never taking any pay for his assistance. Some episodes relied more on video than on words, with the stranger "often having scarcely a mouthful of dialogue."
The 30-minute program aired Fridays at 9 PM. The series was produced and directed by Frank Telford, with Nelson Gidding and Carey Wilbur as writers. Most of the program's content was live, with film used for outdoor action. Carroll did his own stunts. Pharmaceuticals Inc. was the sponsor.
Geritol, which sponsored The Stranger, cancelled it because only 23 DuMont affiliates carried the series. Geritol executives wanted to expand coverage by buying time on stations affiliated with CBS and NBC and providing kinescope recordings of episodes for those stations to show. When DuMont officials rejected that proposal, cancellation resulted.
Criticism
The Stranger was hampered by a small budget, even by 1950s standards. Later critics, such as Castleman and Podrazik (1982), cited The Stranger, among other DuMont series, as one of the reasons fewer and fewer viewers tuned into the ailing DuMont Network.
They stated the series was, like several other DuMont programs during the 1953-1954 season, "doomed from the start by third-rate scripts and cheap production" and called the program a "stale pulp adventure". The series did not last long, and the network itself began crumbling by early 1955.
Episode status
Two episodes from 1954 exist at UCLA: The Build Up from September 24 and The Biter Bit from November 12.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1954-55 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1954 American television series debuts
1955 American television series endings
1950s American drama television series
Black-and-white American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t%20Ask%20Me%20%28TV%20programme%29 | Don't Ask Me is a popular British television science show made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network and ran from 1974 to 1978. It attempted to answer science-based questions and contributors included Magnus Pyke (natural sciences), Rob Buckman (medicine), David Bellamy (biology), Miriam Stoppard (medicine), and Derek Griffiths. Those behind the scenes included Adam Hart-Davis, who later became a well-known science presenter in his own right.
The theme music was "House of the King" by the contemporary Dutch progressive rock band Focus.
The series was rebroadcast for a time on TVOntario.
A follow-up called Don't Just Sit There ran for 19 episodes from 1979 to 1980. It was also produced by Yorkshire TV and featured the same panel.
References
External links
1970s British television series
1974 British television series debuts
1978 British television series endings
English-language television shows
Science education television series
Television series by Yorkshire Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Will%20Tell%20%28game%20show%29 | Time Will Tell is an early American game show that aired on the DuMont Television Network Fridays at 10:30 pm ET from August 27 to October 15, 1954. The host was Ernie Kovacs. Don Russell was the announcer, and Eddie Hatrak provided music.
Game play involved three contestants answering questions in 90-second rounds, timed with a large hourglass.
The sustaining program, produced and distributed by the network, aired on most DuMont affiliates on Fridays at 10:30 pm Eastern Time, replacing Gamble on Love which was also hosted by Kovacs in the same time slot. After Time Will Tell ended, DuMont replaced the series with local (non-network) programming.
Episode status
DuMont, like NBC and CBS during the 1950s, probably kept at least one or two "example" episodes of each of its main game shows, though DuMont's exact policy is not known. However, DuMont's archive was destroyed after the network ceased broadcasting in 1956. Although a small number of DuMont game show episodes are known to exist in various archives, none are known to exist of either Time will Tell nor Gamble on Love.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1954-55 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
David Schwartz, Steve Ryan and Fred Wostbrock (1995) The Encyclopedia of American Game Shows, Second edition (New York: Facts on File Inc., 1995)
External links
DuMont historical website
1950s American game shows
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
1954 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They%20Stand%20Accused | They Stand Accused (also known as Cross Question) is an American dramatized court show broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 11, 1949, to October 5, 1952 and again from September 9 to December 30, 1954.
Overview
The series was recorded in a courtroom presided over by attorney Charles Johnston and broadcast live from Chicago's WGN-TV, with jurors chosen from the studio audience. On most DuMont affiliates, They Stand Accused aired Sundays at 9pm ET during the 1949-1950 television season, then Sundays at 10pm ET, and then Thursdays at 8pm ET during 1954.
William C. Wines, assistant attorney general of Illinois, wrote the program's dramatizations.
Reception
Reviewer Jack Gould wrote in The New York Times that They Stand Accused was "one of the more remarkable and consistently absorbing programs on television". He complimented the program's combination of documentary and dramatic styles and its way of having a natural appearance despite its "careful preparation".
Episode status
At least two episodes exist: the December 23, 1950, episode is held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress, while an episode from late 1954 ("The Johnny Roberts Story") can be viewed online at the Internet Archive.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1949-50 United States network television schedule
1950-51 United States network television schedule
1951-52 United States network television schedule
1954-55 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
Late-1954 episode "The Johnny Roberts Story" at the Internet Archive
They Stand Accused at CVTA
1949 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
American crime television series
American legal drama television series
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows
Dramatized court shows
American live television series |
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