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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JNG | JNG may refer to:
JPEG Network Graphics
JNG-90, sniper rifle
Jets'n'Guns, a video game
ISO 639 code for the Wardaman language
IATA code for Jining Qufu Airport
Station code for Jatinegara railway station
John Nance Garner (1868–1967), 32nd vice president of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banca%20Rom%C3%A2neasc%C4%83 | Banca Românească is a Romanian bank based in Bucharest owned by Eximbank.
General data
The Bank owns over 100 locations (branches and business centers) and has 1,039 employees (December 2019). At the end of 2019, the Romanian Bank had assets of 6,630,686 RON.
References
External links
Official site
Banks of Romania
Companies based in Bucharest
Banks established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20mesh%20generation | Parallel mesh generation in numerical analysis is a new research area between the boundaries of two scientific computing disciplines: computational geometry and parallel computing. Parallel mesh generation methods decompose the original mesh generation problem into smaller subproblems which are solved (meshed) in parallel using multiple processors or threads. The existing parallel mesh generation methods can be classified in terms of two basic attributes:
the sequential technique used for meshing the individual subproblems and
the degree of coupling between the subproblems.
One of the challenges in parallel mesh generation is to develop parallel meshing software using off-the-shelf sequential meshing codes.
Overview
Parallel mesh generation procedures in general decompose the original 2-dimensional (2D) or 3-dimensional (3D) mesh generation problem into N smaller subproblems which are solved (i.e., meshed) concurrently using P processors or threads. The subproblems can be formulated to be either tightly coupled, partially coupled or even decoupled. The coupling of the subproblems determines the intensity of the communication and the amount/type of synchronization required between the subproblems.
The challenges in parallel mesh generation methods are: to maintain stability of the parallel mesher (i.e., retain the quality of finite elements generated by state-of-the-art sequential codes) and at the same time achieve 100% code re-use (i.e., leverage the continuously evolving and fully functional off-the-shelf sequential meshers) without substantial deterioration of the scalability of the parallel mesher.
There is a difference between parallel mesh generation and parallel triangulation. In parallel triangulation a pre-defined set of points is used to generate in parallel triangles that cover the convex hull of the set of points. A very efficient algorithm for parallel Delaunay triangulations appears in Blelloch et al. This algorithm is extended in Clemens and Walkington for parallel mesh generation.
Parallel mesh generation software
While many solvers have been ported to parallel machines, grid generators have left behind. Still the preprocessing step of mesh generation remains a sequential bottleneck in the simulation cycle. That is why the need for developing of stable 3D parallel grid generator is well-justified.
A parallel version of the MeshSim mesh generator by Simmetrix Inc., is available for both research and commercial use. It includes parallel implementations of surface, volume and boundary layer mesh generation as well as parallel mesh adaptivity. The algorithms it uses are based on those in reference and are scalable (both in the parallel sense and in the sense that they give speedup compared to the serial implementation) and stable. For multicore or multiprocessor systems, there is also a multithreaded version of these algorithms that are available in the base MeshSim product
Another parallel mesh generator is D3D, was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error-correcting%20codes%20with%20feedback | In mathematics, computer science, telecommunication, information theory, and searching theory, error-correcting codes with feedback are error correcting codes designed to work in the presence of feedback from the receiver to the sender.
Problem
Alice (the sender) wishes to send a value x to Bob (the receiver). The communication channel between Alice and Bob is imperfect, and can introduce errors.
Solution
An error-correcting code is a way of encoding x as a message such that Bob will successfully understand the value x as intended by Alice, even if the message Alice sends and the message Bob receives differ. In an error-correcting code with feedback, the channel is two-way: Bob can send feedback to Alice about the message he received.
Noisy feedback
In an error-correcting code without noisy feedback, the feedback received by the sender is always free of errors. In an error-correcting code with noisy feedback, errors can occur in the feedback, as well as in the message.
An error-correcting code with noiseless feedback is equivalent to an adaptive search strategy with errors.
History
In 1956, Claude Shannon introduced the discrete memoryless channel with noiseless feedback. In 1961, Alfréd Rényi introduced the Bar-Kochba game (also known as Twenty questions), with a given percentage of wrong answers, and calculated the minimum number of randomly chosen questions to determine the answer.
In his 1964 dissertation, Elwyn Berlekamp considered error correcting codes with noiseless feedback. In Berlekamp's scenario, the receiver chose a subset of possible messages and asked the sender whether the given message was in this subset, a 'yes' or 'no' answer. Based on this answer, the receiver then chose a new subset and repeated the process. The game is further complicated due to noise; some of the answers will be wrong.
Sources
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References
See also
Noisy channel coding theorem
Error detection and correction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETEDIT | SETEDIT is a computer software text editor that is an open source, multi-platform clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo* IDEs, with several improvements. According to the project page, it was started in 1996.
It is not vi or emacs, but may be familiar to DOS users, as noted in reviews.
It is the editor used by RHIDE.
SETEDIT is free software released under the GPL-2.0-or-later license.
References
External links
SETEDIT Project Page
Free text editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndexMaster | IndexMaster.com was a legal research database that allowed users find legal treatises and monographs. The search results allowed the researcher to view the tables of contents and indexes online.
History
Owned by IndexMaster Inc., IndexMaster.com was launched in 1998, it received the Best New Product of the Year in 2000 from the American Association of Law Libraries.
References
Online law databases
American legal websites
Defunct websites
1998 establishments in the United States
Internet properties established in 1998
Defunct American websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20I.%20Saperstein | David I. Saperstein (born 1941) is an American entrepreneur and founder of Metro Networks.
Biography
Saperstein was born to Jewish parents in Baltimore. He dropped out of college to sell used cars. When he got stuck in a snowstorm he came up with the idea to sell traffic reports on the radio. He used his Ford Dealership to start his new venture in Baltimore. When Ford withdrew its support of Saperstein and he lost his dealership, he founded Metro Networks in 1978. the company grew to serve over 1,500 radio stations in the U.S. In 1996, Saperstein decided to take Metro Networks public on the Nasdaq exchange, stock symbol MTNT. He made his fortune when he sold the company to Westwood One in 1999 for $1.25 billion in stock. Now he operates tree farms in Texas and Florida: "It's a growing business," he once told a reporter for Forbes magazine. In 1988, Saperstein was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board.
Entrepreneurism
Saperstein began his career selling used cars in Baltimore, but quickly found there was a niche for radio programming to include traffic reports. While traffic reporting was already a part of radio programming in some cities, Saperstein found there was no single company providing concise reports for stations, either regionally or nationally.
In 1978 he founded Metro Networks, in Houston, Texas. The company grew, through the 1980s, into a veritable traffic reporting empire, and in 1996, Saperstein took the company public on the Nasdaq exchange.
In 1992, Saperstein's daughter married Shane Coppola in Baltimore, Maryland in a wedding that was described as "the social event of the season in the nation's capital." The wedding is referenced in the 1993 film Dave, starring Kevin Kline.
In 1998, Saperstein, with his son-in-law, Coppola, began negotiating a merger agreement with Westwood One, and in September 1999 three companies merged, Metro Networks, Copter Acquisition Corp. and Westwood One.
Only 9 days before the merger between Metro Networks and Westwood One, Saperstein started a new company called Five "S" Capital, Inc. Five "S" is an investment company that helps to fund new business development.
Philanthropy
Saperstein sits on the boards of Cedars-Sinai Hospital and Music Center of Los Angeles. He is also a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Committee. In 2006, the Saperstein Critical Care tower that bears his name was opened at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Initially named the David and Suzanne Saperstein Tower, it had to be renamed after his rancorous divorce. In 2009, he donated $12 million to help build the Milken Middle School, a Jewish day school in Los Angeles, California; it was renamed the David Saperstein Middle School in his honor.
Personal life
Saperstein has been married three times. He has two children with his first wife, Phyllis Grief – Michelle Saperstein Coppola and Jennifer Saperstein Kalapoutis. In 2006, Saperstein divorced his second wife of 23 years, Swedish philanthropist Suzan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechup | Quechup (kway-chup) was a social networking website that came to prominence in 2007 when it used automatic email invitations for viral marketing to all the e-mail addresses in its members' address books. This was described as a "spam campaign" and raised a great deal of criticism.
Address book harvesting
The automatic invitation of all the contacts in the e-mail address books of people who signed up to their service was controversial for two reasons:
Without explaining intentions, Quechup required permission to access the address book.
Invites were sent to all addresses in address books without permission of e-mail address owners.
This attracted a great deal of criticism in September 2007.
Reacting to the criticism, Quechup's parent company iDate Corporation made a public statement on 17 September 2007, stating that:
Much of the criticism focused on misleading users by hiding the nature of the feature in the 'small print' of the site terms and not specifying it in the Quechup privacy policy, which stated only, "You agree that we may use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyse site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize our Site's content, layout, and services.".
While admitting the campaign was misleading, technology blogger Chris Hambly pointed out that text explaining how the feature worked was placed in normal print directly above the feature, raising the question of a user's responsibility to read what they agree to, although he noted that this explanatory text failed to clearly state what would happen.
In their 17 September statement, Glen Finch, Chief Technology Officer stated
This has raised the issue of users automatically 'opting in' without first understanding what they are accepting, rather than automatically 'opting out' of questionable features.
Response
Quechup responded by changing how it operated its service and belatedly reassuring customers it was not acting maliciously, even if irresponsibly.
Quechup changed how its address book check worked within days, clearly giving members the option of which contacts, if any, they wanted to invite.
Quechup adopted Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication, enabling Live and Hotmail users to grant limited access by logging in directly on Microsoft's secure servers.
Quechup is a member of SenderScore the world's most comprehensive database of email sender reputation.
Quechup fully complies with Microsoft's Sender ID Framework for email authentication and uses SPF records.
The Quechup affair encouraged calls for open authentication through an OpenID system such as Yahoo's BBauth, which would allow a user to grant limited access to their data, without providing passwords directly to a website. Indeed, Quechup adopted Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication, an OpenID system for Windows Live and Hotmail users.
Fake invitations
In a more recent development, technology journalist Robert |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habo%20%28disambiguation%29 | Habo may refer to:
Places
Habo, a town in Sweden
Habo, a town in Caluula district, Somalia
Habo Municipality, a municipality in Jönköping County, Sweden
Other
Habbo, a social networking hotel game site
Habonim, a Zionist youth movement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniCredit%20Bank%20Romania | UniCredit Bank is a leading European bank and a member of the UniCredit Group. It has a network of 8,500 branches in 17 European countries and is also present in an additional 50 international markets.
History
Ion Țiriac Bank was founded in 1991, and then in June 2005 it merged with HVB Bank Romania. In the merger moment in 2005, Ion Țiriac Bank has a network of 60 units, total assets of 706 million (31 March 2005) and a market share of 2.9%, which ranks 11th in the banking system in Romania. Meanwhile, HVB Bank Romania is ranked in the top seven banks in the local market, with total assets of around 1.4 billion euros with 320 employees in 12 branches and nearly 32,000 customers. In 2008, UniCredit Bank acquired subsidiary Banca di Roma in Romania as part of a larger merger, through which UniCredit took Capitalia banking group who held also Banca di Roma. Banca di Roma, Bucharest Branch, had assets of £165.3 million at the end of 2005.
In August 2013, UniCredit Bank and RBD Romania announced the completion of the legal transfer of the Retail and Royal Preferred Banking Business of RBS (Bank) Romania S.A. towards UniCredit Bank S.A. and UniCredit Consumer Financing IFN S.A.. Included in this transfer were the personal use credits, the mortgage credits for property investments, the credit cards, the current accounts and the products and services related to the deposits, the economy accounts, the debit cards, the overdraft accounts and the iBanking service.
UniCredit Țiriac changed its name to Unicredit Bank starting August 2015 following the acquisition by Unicredit Bank Austria AG of shares representing 45 pct of UniCredit Țiriac Bank S.A owned by Țiriac Holdings Ltd.
Shareholders
95.62% UniCredit Bank Austria AG
4.38% Others
References
Banks of Romania
Companies based in Bucharest
Banks established in 1990
1990 establishments in Romania
UniCredit subsidiaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th%20Army%20Signal%20Command%20%28United%20States%29 | The 9th Army Signal Command is the operational executive agent for Army-wide network operations and security. It is the single point of contact for Army network development and protection, providing C4 information management of common-user services in support of the combatant commanders and Army service component commanders. It was the numbered command for the Network Enterprise Technology Command.
History
NETCOM/9th ASC inherits its name from the 9th Service Company, originally formed, 14 February 1918. It was organized two months later in Honolulu, Hawaii. The command mission was the installation and maintenance of telegraph, telephone and coastal artillery fire control communications. It was manned by a captain, five corporals and 15 Private First Class soldiers. The commands soldiers also served on Oahu at a number of commands including Fort Shafter, Schofield Barracks, Fort Ruger, Fort Armstrong, Fort Kamehameha, Hickam Field, Luke Field and Tripler General Hospital.
The 9th Signal Service Company moved its unit headquarters from Honolulu to Fort Shafter in 1921. The command became responsible for heavy cable construction within the Hawaiian Department. In May 1929, the 9th Signal started passing radio traffic with the mainland and Manila. In August 1930, 9th Signal established direct radio links with the War Department station in Washington, D.C..
World War II
Signal operations at Fort Shafter started to expand after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1942, the 9th Signal Service Company began to send radio operators out to Christmas, Canton, and Fanning Islands. It also supplied radio operators for transports sailing between San Francisco and Hawaii and for inter-island vessels sailing in Hawaiian waters.
In April 1943, the unit was redesignated as the 972nd Signal Service Company. On 8 January 1944, it was reorganized as a battalion and designated as the 972nd Signal Service Battalion. Its manning had increased to 643 personnel. The unit had also been reassigned to U.S. Army Forces, Central Pacific Area. The expansion of the offensive in the Pacific and the growth in signal requirements required reallocation of theater signal resources. The 972nd Signal Service Battalion became the "wire battalion." Its mission was to furnish personnel capable of handling the installation and maintenance of communications for the Wire Division of the Signal Office, Central Pacific Area. Major elements of the battalion were employed on the Island of Oahu and detachments were set up on the Islands of Hawaii, Maui and Kauai.
The Central Pacific Base Command awarded the 972nd Signal Service Battalion the Meritorious Service Unit Plaque for the period 1 March 1945, to 30 April 1945. The battalion also earned the Central Pacific campaign streamer for the period 1941–1943. The battalion's Signal Photographic Detachment was awarded the Eastern Mandates campaign streamer.
Post-war
In January 1947, the battalion was reorganized, having increased in str |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mats%20Wendt | Mats Wendt (born in 1965) is a Swedish classical composer and artist. His best known work internationally is Eddan – the invincible sword of the elf-smith, a 16-hour-long "cybersymphonic" work on Norse mythology according to Viktor Rydberg. Five hours from Eddan was performed in Bayreuth 2003 during the annual Wagner festspiele, in Wahnfried, Wagner's former home, now the Richard Wagner museum. The work was first performed in its entirety in Reykjavik in 2009. Prior to Eddan, he's been inspired by works of writers like William Blake and T. S. Eliot.
Wendt is also the originator of "cybersymphony", a concept for transferring the symphony orchestra to computers and by this create a super instrument that is independent of development of hard and software. He's performed his work at the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology.
Cybersymphony
The concept of Cybersymphony was created by Wendt in 1993 to build a foundation for symphonic music created by computers and synthesizers.
The "instrument" used to perform a cybersymphony consists of two things: the cybersymphonic law that defines what the instrument is, and any synthesizer that meets the requirements. This means that, in the absence of a physical instrument (and the small differences caused by the analogue), a consistently defined sound is available.
The Cybersymphonic Law summarised:
All sounds must have a real counterpart (violin, oboe and so on, with the correct register span).
All instruments must be played like the real counterpart (i.e.: technical limitations must be observed).
All instruments or instrument sections must be located on separate midi channels
No sampling of mixed sounds may occur.
The Orchestral dynamic is created by the parts individual dynamics.
No dynamic event may occur in the section sounds or instruments sounds
Dynamic is formed by continuous volume and the keystroke
The orchestral timbre is created through the sum of the sounding separate midi channels
Some works
Cyborg Piano Concerto nr 1 (1981)
The child and the soul of logic (1984)
Three Psychological portraits (1989)
Psychopath predominantly aggressive
Schizophrenic reaction type catatonia
Die grosse compressed crocodile symphony
Urbana
Voluspa
Baltic ode (1990)
Excalibur Piano Concerto nr 3 (1993)
Tales from lord of the rings 1 (1993)
Tales from lord of the rings 2 (1995)
Symphony for a dead world (1994)
The Insects Collection (1993–95)
The Omega point theory (1994)
The Marriage of heaven and hell (1996)
The Millennium Symphony (1997)
WasteLands (1997)
Europe a prophecy (1998)
Eddan — the invincible sword of the elf-smith (2008)
Sources
STIM - the Swedish Performing Rights Society
References
External links
Eddan
www.matswendt.com
Cybersymphonic Institute
20th-century classical composers
Living people
1965 births
Male classical composers
20th-century male musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccomyxaceae | Coccomyxaceae is a family of algae, in the class Trebouxiophyceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Chlorophyceae families
Trebouxiophyceae
Enigmatic algae taxa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique%20local%20address | A unique local address (ULA) is an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address in the address range . These addresses are non-globally reachable (routable only within the scope of private networks, but not the global IPv6 Internet). For this reason, ULAs are somewhat analogous to IPv4 private network addressing, but with significant differences. Unique local addresses may be used freely, without centralized registration, inside a single site or organization or spanning a limited number of sites or organizations.
History
In December 1995, the IPv6 address block was reserved for site-local addresses, that could be used within a "site" for private IPv6 networks. However, insufficient definition of the term site led to confusion over the governing routing rules.
In September 2004, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) deprecated the definition of this address range, and postulated solutions to its problems. The special behaviour for this type of addresses as required at that time was lifted in 2006 and the block returned to regular global unicast.
In October 2005, the IETF reserved the address block for use in private IPv6 networks and defined the associated term unique local addresses.
Definition
Unique local addresses use prefix . The first bit following the prefix indicates, if set, that the address is locally assigned. This splits the address block in two equally sized halves, and .
The block with L = 0, , is currently not defined. It has been proposed that an allocation authority manage it, but this has not gained acceptance in the IETF.
The block with L = 1, fd00::/8 follows the following format.
It is divided into prefixes, formed by setting the forty bits following the prefix to a randomly generated bit string. This results in the format for a prefix in this range. RFC 4193 offers a suggestion for generating the random identifier to obtain a minimum-quality result if the user does not have access to a good source of random numbers.
Example
A routing prefix in the range may be constructed by generating a random 40-bit hexadecimal string, taken for this example to be 0x123456789a. The string is appended to the prefix , which forms the 48-bit routing prefix . With this prefix, subnets of size are available for the private network: to . For example Subnet ID 0x1 would be the subnet .
Properties
Prefixes in the range have some characteristics in common with the IPv4 private address ranges: They are not allocated by an address registry and may be used in networks by anyone without outside involvement. They are not mathematically guaranteed to be globally unique, but the probability of a collision is nevertheless extremely small. Reverse Domain Name System (DNS) entries (in ip6.arpa) for ULAs cannot be delegated in the global DNS.
As ULAs are not meant to be routed outside their administrative domain (site or organization), administrators of interconnecting networks normally do not need to worry about the uniqueness of ULA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARE%20Operating%20System | The SHARE Operating System (SOS) is an operating system introduced in 1959 by the SHARE user group. It is an improvement on the General Motors GM-NAA I/O operating system, the first operating system for the IBM 704. The main objective was to improve the sharing of programs.
The SHARE Operating System provided new methods to manage buffers and input/output devices. Like GM-NAA I/O, it allowed execution of programs written in assembly language.
SOS initially ran on the IBM 709 computer and was then ported to its transistorized successor, the IBM 7090.
A series of articles describing innovations in the system appears in the April 1959 Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery.
In 1962, IBM discontinued support for SOS and announced an entirely new (and incompatible) operating system, IBM 7090/94 IBSYS.
See also
Multiple Console Time Sharing System
Timeline of operating systems
SQUOZE
References
Further reading
(5 pages)
(7 pages)
(4 pages) (NB. This was presented at the ACM meeting 11-13 June 1958.)
External links
Upload of the SHARE Operating System software and documentation (partial archive)
1959 software
Free software operating systems
IBM operating systems
Discontinued operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM-NAA%20I/O | The GM-NAA I/O input/output system of General Motors and North American Aviation was the first operating system for the IBM 704 computer.
It was created in 1956 by Robert L. Patrick of General Motors Research and Owen Mock of North American Aviation. It was based on a system monitor created in 1955 by programmers of General Motors for its IBM 701.
The main function of GM-NAA I/O was to automatically execute a new program once the one that was being executed had finished (batch processing). It was formed of shared routines to the programs that provided common access to the input/output devices. Some version of the system was used in about forty 704 installations.
See also
SHARE Operating System, an operating system based on GM-NAA I/O.
Multiple Console Time Sharing System
Timeline of operating systems
Resident monitor
References
External links
Operating Systems at Conception by Robert L. Patrick
The World’s First Computer Operating System in millosh's blog talks about the General Motors OS and GM-NAA I/O
IBM mainframe operating systems
Discontinued operating systems
1956 software
Computer-related introductions in 1956
History of computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenThesaurus | OpenThesaurus is a multilingual thesaurus project built in open collaboration by volunteers. Its data is freely available as open content.
It is known for its usage in the applications OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, KWord, Lyx, and Apple Dictionary.
Contents
The database takes words that are associated with at least one meaning. Apart from synonyms, it also contains some taxonomic relations.
There is a German, a Dutch, a Norwegian, a Polish, a Portuguese, a Slovak, a Slovenian, a Spanish and a Greek version available. The German version has over 280,000 synonyms.
Access and editing
The data is freely available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The database can be searched online without login through a web frontend on the website. Apart from that the data is also available in formats for use with the word processors of the office suites LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org (Writer) or as a complete database dump. With a free account users that are logged in can also add and alter entries. All entries have to be checked at least once before a release is made.
History
The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web application.
Since version 2.0.3 OpenOffice.org innately ships with OpenThesaurus. The project has gained a lot of popularity following the arrival of Apple Dictionary in Mac OS X 10.5, which can integrate OpenThesaurus data through a plugin.
Literature
Naber D. OpenThesaurus: Building a Thesaurus with a Web Community. 2004.
External links
project homepage
References
Online dictionaries
Thesauri (lexicography) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES/RTS | SES/RTS, part of the WIN Television network, are Australian television stations licensed to, and serving the rural south-east portion of South Australia, including Mount Gambier, the Limestone Coast and the Riverland. The network began as two separate stations, SES-8 and RTS-5A.
History
It was originally two individual stations serving different regions. SES-8 commenced transmissions on 25 March 1966 serving Mount Gambier and south-east South Australia. RTS-5A began on 26 November 1976 serving Loxton, Renmark and the Riverland.
In the 1990s, RTS was bought by SES, but it continued to produce a local news bulletin, and identified on-air as 5A.
In 1999, WIN Television acquired SES and RTS and integrated them into the WIN Television network, with the branding now matching that of the Nine Network. In December 2003, 24-hour transmission commenced.
Prior to 2004, SES/RTS were the only commercial television stations broadcasting in Mount Gambier and the south east of South Australia, respectively. The stations broadcast a mixture of programs derived from the Seven Network, the Nine Network and Network Ten. However, in 2004, WIN Television introduced a sole Network Ten affiliate, WIN Ten (MGS/LRS), becoming the second commercial television station in the region. Following this, SES/RTS became sole Nine Network affiliates, only sport programs (particularly AFL matches) being acquired from the Seven Network.
SES and RTS, along with GTS/BKN, switched off its analogue signal on 15 December 2010 at 9am. SES and RTS planned to start providing the digital multi-channels GO!, GEM, 7TWO, 7mate, One and Eleven, expanding to the south east area from 11 November 2011, with other areas completed by early 2012.
On 1 July 2016, WIN Seven (SES/RTS) and WIN Nine (SDS/RDS), continued to align with the Seven Network and the Nine Network respectively, at the same time of the start of its affiliation with Network Ten on WIN Ten (MGS/LRS).
On 1 July 2021, the TV channels Seven SA (SES/RTS), Nine SA (SDS/RDS), and WIN SA (MGS/LRS) underwent a rebranding to align with their new program supply agreement with the Seven Network, the Nine Network, and Network 10, respectively. As of that date, Seven SA and Nine SA continued their affiliation with the Seven Network and the Nine Network, respectively, and there were no changes to their network affiliations. WIN SA (MGS/LRS), however, changed its name to 10 SA and remained affiliated with Network 10. Additionally, SDS/RDS became the main WIN station in South Australia once again.
Channel Nine
WIN in South Australia, like its services in other states, was primarily an affiliate of the Nine Network. However, in September 2007, WIN Television announced plans to convert the station into a sole Seven Network affiliate, due to a disagreement with the Nine Network's owner, PBL Media, over affiliation advertising revenue. As a result of the switch, alongside the local news updates, WIN SA began broadcasting Seven News and Today Toni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eijir%C5%8D | is a very large database of English–Japanese translations. Developed by the editors of the Electronic Dictionary Project and aimed at translators, Eijirō is currently one of the most popular dictionaries on the Internet. Although the contents are technically the same, EDP refers to the accompanying Japanese–English database as .
History
The Eijirō project was started by an anonymous Japanese translator. Noting the favorable reception it received when he shared it with his friends, he started the Electronic Dictionary Project, a wiki-like structure that allowed for and even encouraged contributions to the dictionary. This resulted in a comprehensive database that grew to include over 1.66 million entries in the fourth edition.
Characteristics
Although commonly termed a dictionary, Eijirō differs from other Japanese dictionaries such as the Kōjien by not distinguishing examples from definitions.
Access
Eijirō can be purchased online as either a CD-R or downloadable dictionary file for a comparatively low price. Eijirō was also released from SpaceALC in 2002, and the SpaceALC version has since gone through eight revisions as of 2016.
In addition, an online version of Eijirō is provided free of charge through the SpaceALC Japanese portal.
Notes
External Links and References
Eijirō Homepage
What is Eijirō?
SpaceALC – a portal site which includes an online dictionary based on Eijirō.
Pocket Eijirō
The Story Behind Eijiro – A first-hand blog entry outlining the history of Eijirō
Japanese dictionaries
Online dictionaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACMI | ACMI may refer to:
A Certain Magical Index, a Japanese light novel series
Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation, a set of systems that record an aircraft's in-flight data during weapon range operations
American College of Medical Informatics, a college of elected fellows who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics
ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), an Australian institution dedicated to the moving image in all its forms
Art & Creative Materials Institute, Inc., an industry trade group composed of companies that manufacture art materials
Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance, a type of lease contract used in aviation, more commonly known as a Wet lease
Archdiocesan Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, a non-profit social service organization in Singapore
See also
, a U.S. WWII minelayer
ACML (disambiguation)
ACM (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29 | Extra (originally Brisbane Extra) was a nightly tabloid local current affairs program, broadcast on Nine Network Queensland. Heather Foord was the last host of the program. A weekend version also aired on a Saturday afternoon named Weekend Extra hosted by Melissa Downes.
Hosts
Rick Burnett (1992–2006)
Jillian Whiting (2006–2008)
Heather Foord (2009)
In 2007, presenter Jillian Whiting went on maternity leave, and during this period various television, radio and media celebrities from Queensland and Australia hosted the program for week-long periods each. In the final weeks of Whiting's leave, presenters Melissa Downes and Miranda Deakin filled-in for the remaining weeks of the program, including the Summer non-ratings season. The Nine Network officially announced that Jillian Whiting would return to Extra and her role as presenter of Gold Coast's National Nine News, from the first episode broadcast in 2008, however this was delayed by two weeks.
Reporters
Doug Murray
Margueritte Rossi
Nicole Madigan
Rory O'Connor
Jasmin Geisel (now Forsyth)
Belinda Burrows
Lisa Honeywill
Natalie Gruzlewski
Sylvia Jeffreys
Dana Sanders
Ben McCormack
Shane Doherty
History
On 10 February 1992, Brisbane Extra launched alongside other sister productions in capital cities around the country. A Current Affair reporter, Rick Burnett, made his debut as host, with ex-ABC personality Doug Murray and a team of young reporters. One year later, the sister programs were axed, but the Brisbane program proved so popular with its local audience, it continued, changing its name to simply Extra.
In 2000, Extra celebrated its 2000th episode with a free family fun day at South Bank including a special performance by Hi-5. And celebrated its 3000th episode in 2004 by giving viewers 3000 presents every day for a week.
In 2006, Rick Burnett was sacked by the network and replaced by newsreader and journalist Jillian Whiting. The program was briefly aired in regional Queensland via WIN Television in 2007, but was dropped six months later. Jillian continued to host Extra until 2008, when she moved to the Seven Network. Heather Foord became host in 2009 after she was stood down as newsreader on Nine News.
Cancellation
Despite airing for eighteen years, maintaining its popularity and high ratings, the local current affairs program was axed by the Nine Network on 17 June 2009, due to a major schedule clean up for a new one-hour current affairs program, This Afternoon, which was hosted by Andrew Daddo, Katrina Blowers and Mark Ferguson from 4:30pm weekdays and which premiered the Monday following the program's final broadcast. The decision was a part of a push to nationalise lead-in content for the network's struggling news bulletins. The game show Millionaire Hot Seat was moved to replace Extra at 5.30pm.
The fate of the show's presenter Heather Foord was initially unclear, however, it was later announced by the network that she would rejoin Nine News as weekend news pre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer%20Ring%20Road%20System | The Outer Ring Road System, or more commonly known as ORRS, is a network of major arterial roads in Singapore that forms a ring road through the towns along the city fringe. The ORRS is a semi-expressway, just like the West Coast Highway. Since 1994, roads along the ORRS have been upgraded in stages to provide a smoother route to travel across the island. Roads and interchanges along the ORRS are constantly being upgraded to cater to the ever increasing traffic demand. It starts as Portsdown Avenue in Queenstown and ends as Tampines Avenue 10 in Tampines. The series of roads passes through the areas of Queenstown, Bukit Timah, Central Catchment Nature Reserve, Bishan, Toa Payoh, Geylang and Tampines.
Route
The route of the ORRS forms a semi-circle shape, connecting several expressways and major arterial roads. Travelling from west to east in a clockwise direction, the route begins at Queenstown with a connection to the Ayer Rajah Expressway. The route continues northward through the residential areas of Bukit Timah via Farrer Road and Adam Road, with the first connection to the Pan Island Expressway. The route continues east through Bukit Brown, Toa Payoh, Bishan and Bartley, via the MacRitchie Viaduct and Lornie Viaduct and a connection to the Central Expressway. From here, the route travels eastwards to Kaki Bukit and Tampines through a series of viaducts.
Benefit
With the ORRS, traffic volume on city-bound roads will be reduced. It also provides an alternative route east-west travel for motorists without going through the city. Since ORRS is extensively linked to expressways and other arterial roads, such as Bukit Timah Road, motorists can get from one traffic route to another easily.
Upgrading projects
The first upgrading project started in 1994, with two intersections along Farrer Road being the first to be upgraded. The upgrading projects had to be carried out in stages to minimise disruption to traffic. The completion of the Portsdown Flyover, Queensway Flyover and Queensway Underpass marks another milestone in the realisation of the ORRS. The Farrer Road section of the upgrading project completed in 2009.
Interchange along ORRS
: Only expressways, arterial roads and major roads will be mentioned. Minor roads will not be mentioned.
See also
Expressways of Singapore
West Coast Highway, Singapore
Nicoll Highway
References
Outer Ring Road System (ORRS)
Opening Of Extension Of Queensway To The AYE And Queensway/Commonwealth Avenue Interchange
Speech by Mrs Lim Hwee Hua, Minister of State for Transport and Finance, at the opening of the extension of Queensway to Ayer Rajah Expressway and Queensway Underpass on Saturday, 13 August 2005, 9.15 am
Braddell Road/Thomson Road/Lornie Road Flyover to open in July
Roads in Singapore
Ring roads |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-mu%20calculus | In mathematical logic and computer science, the lambda-mu calculus is an extension of the lambda calculus introduced by Michel Parigot. It introduces two new operators: the μ operator (which is completely different both from the μ operator found in computability theory and from the μ operator of modal μ-calculus) and the bracket operator. Proof-theoretically, it provides a well-behaved formulation of classical natural deduction.
One of the main goals of this extended calculus is to be able to describe expressions corresponding to theorems in classical logic. According to the Curry–Howard isomorphism, lambda calculus on its own can express theorems in intuitionistic logic only, and several classical logical theorems can't be written at all. However with these new operators one is able to write terms that have the type of, for example, Peirce's law.
Semantically these operators correspond to continuations, found in some functional programming languages.
Formal definition
We can augment the definition of a lambda expression to gain one in the context of lambda-mu calculus. The three main expressions found in lambda calculus are as follows:
, a variable, where V is any identifier.
, an abstraction, where V is any identifier and E is any lambda expression.
, an application, where E and E'''; are any lambda expressions.
For details, see the corresponding article.
In addition to the traditional λ-variables, the lambda-mu calculus includes a distinct set of μ-variables. These μ-variables can be used to name or freeze arbitrary subterms, allowing us to later abstract on those names. The set of terms contains unnamed (all traditional lambda expressions are of this kind) and named terms. The terms that are added by the lambda-mu calculus are of the form:
is a named term, where α is a μ-variable and t is an unnamed term.
is an unnamed term, where α is a μ-variable and E'' is a named term.
Reduction
The basic reduction rules used in the lambda-mu calculus are the following:
logical reduction
structural reduction
renaming
the equivalent of η-reduction
, for α not freely occurring in u
These rules cause the calculus to be confluent. Further reduction rules could be added to provide us with a stronger notion of normal form, though this would be at the expense of confluence.
See also
Classical pure type systems for typed generalizations of lambda calculi with control
References
External links
Lambda-mu relevant discussion on Lambda the Ultimate.
Lambda calculus
Proof theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police%20Forensic%20Science%20Laboratory%20Dundee | The Police Forensic Science Laboratory Dundee (PFSLD) was established in April 1989. There are four main departments: Biology, Chemistry, the national DNA Database and Quality/Administration.
PFSLD is funded by and serves Central Scotland Police, Fife Constabulary and Tayside Police and along with the 3 other police laboratories in Scotland, is independent from the Forensic Science Service of England and Wales. The PFSLD houses the DNA database for the whole of Scotland, and exports copies to the UK National DNA Database.
Further reading
See also
DNA
Forensic science
Law enforcement in Scotland
External links
Official website
1989 establishments in Scotland
Law enforcement agencies of Scotland
Organisations based in Dundee
Science and technology in Dundee
Databases in Scotland
Government databases in the United Kingdom
Government agencies established in 1989
Forensics organizations
Science and technology in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vbcc | vbcc is a portable and retargetable ANSI C compiler. It supports C89 (ISO/IEC 9899:1989) as well as parts of C99 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999).
It is divided into two parts. One is target-independent and the other is target-dependent. vbcc provides complete abstraction of host-arithmetic and target-arithmetic. It fully supports cross-compiling for 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.
Embedded systems are supported by features such as different pointer sizes, ROM-able code, inline assembly, bit-types, interrupt handlers, section attributes, and stack usage calculation (depending on the backend).
vbcc supports the following backends, with different degrees of maturity: 68K, ColdFire, PowerPC, 6502, VideoCore, 80x86 (386 and above), Alpha, C16x/ST10, 6809/6309/68HC12, and Z-machine.
The compiler itself can run on all common operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix/Linux.
Optimizations
The compiler provides a large set of high-level optimizations as well as target-specific optimizations to produce faster or smaller code. It is also able to optimize across functions and modules. Target-independent optimizations supported by vbcc include:
cross-module function inlining
partial inlining of recursive functions
interprocedural dataflow analysis
interprocedural register allocation
register allocation for global variables
global common subexpression elimination
global constant propagation
global copy propagation
dead code elimination
alias analysis
loop unrolling
induction variable elimination
loop-invariant code motion
loop reversal
References
External links
Dr. Volker Barthelmann´s Compiler Page
vbcc - ISO/ANSI-C Compiler
macOS
Atari cross development
Amiga cross development
Windows cross development
Linux
Amiga cross development
C (programming language) compilers
compilers and interpreters
Amiga development software
MorphOS software
Atari ST software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakasa%20Ka%20Ba%20sa%20Grade%205%3F | Grade 5? () is a Philippine television game show broadcast by GMA Network. The show is the Philippine version of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. Hosted by Janno Gibbs, it premiered on October 27, 2007. The first season concluded on March 29, 2008. It was replaced by Pinoy Idol on its timeslot. The show returned for its second season on November 8, 2008 replacing Celebrity Duets. The show concluded on May 9, 2009 with a total of 47 episodes. It was replaced by Are You the Next Big Star? in its timeslot.
The show is announced under the proposed title Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?: Pinoy Edition after the network acquired the format from Mark Burnett International. The acquisition came as GMA's sister network Q started airing the American version. The title of the Philippine version came later.
For two episodes in March 2009, Mo Twister temporarily took over the hosting plum for the show after Gibbs called in sick.
Rules and general themes
Rules are roughly the same as the original US version, down the composition of the classroom (although comparatively smaller) and the theme song. The Philippine version also has the same three "cheats" to help the contestant. There are noted differences however.
The ten questions in each game are categorized into several general subjects based on Philippine primary school curriculum which is also approved by the Department of Education (which also checks the questions for the show).
The subjects for the 1st season are:
English
Science
Mathematics
Filipino
Sibika at Kultura (Civics and Culture) for Grades 1 to 3 and HEKASI or Heograpiya, Kasaysayan at Sibika (Geography, History, and Civics) for Grades 4 and 5
Edukasyong Pangtahanan (Home Economics)
M.A.P.E. (Music, Arts and Physical Education)
The subjects for the 2nd season are:
English
Science
Mathematics
Filipino
Sibika at Kultura (Civics and Culture) for Grades 1 to 3 and HEKASI or Heograpiya, Kasaysayan at Sibika (Geography, History, and Civics) for Grades 4 and 5
Edukasyong Pangtahanan (Home Economics)
Musika, Sining at Edukasyong Pangkatawan (Music, Arts and P.E.)
Spelling
Generally, each category is written as "Grade number and subject". Though the show itself is mostly in Filipino, questions are generally in English, except Filipino, Civics, and Home Economics questions which are in Filipino, as these three subjects are all taught in Filipino in most schools in the Philippines. (See Education in the Philippines for further information.)
The Philippine version also uses a slightly similar money board (see table below) to the one used in the US version, except there is no ₱2,000 level, but instead a ₱75,000.
Another notable difference is when the answer to a question is about to be revealed, Janno does not say this orally to the contestant as his American counterpart Jeff Foxworthy does. Instead, the answer is shown on the "blackboard" facing the contestant and the current classmate. In case the contestant chooses to copy th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction%20Network | Auction Network is a 24-hour Internet and cable television channel that allows viewers to participate remotely in auctions taking place throughout the world. Viewers become “virtual bidders” in live auctions of items, including automobiles, collectibles, million dollar thoroughbreds, art, wine collections, and sports and celebrity memorabilia, among other things, with a portion of proceeds occasionally being donated to charity.
The network launched October 28, 2007 as an Internet television network with streaming video, interactive bidding capability, Video On Demand and gaming content. The cable and satellite television platforms was launched in 2008.
Supported by the National Auctioneers Association (NAA), Auction Network is the first network dedicated entirely to the global auction industry.
References
External links
Television networks in the United States
Online auction websites of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilCAN | MilCAN is a deterministic protocol that can be applied to Controller Area Network (CAN) technology as specified by ISO 11898. MilCAN has been defined by a group of interested companies and government bodies associated with the specification, manufacture and test of military vehicles.
The MilCAN working group was formed in 1999 as a sub-group of the International High Speed Data Bus - Users Group (IHSDB-UG) when a need was recognised to standardise the implementation of CANbus within the military vehicle community. The mission statement of this group was “To develop, for various application classes in all military vehicles, a common interface implementation specification based on CANbus”.
Although initially developed for the military land systems domain, MilCAN may be applied wherever there is a requirement for deterministic data transfer.
Meetings of the MilCAN work group are held about every six months, and are hosted by one of the group members.
External links
MilCAN working group
Serial buses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaserver | A MetaServer is a central broker providing a collated view (similar to a database view) for dispersed web resources. It is used to collect data from various web services, web pages, databases, or other online resources/repositories and then present the combined results to the client using a standard web protocol (e.g. HTTP with HTML, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.).
Styles of use
The purpose of such a system is to provide one or several of the following:
a unified view on multiple resources
easy comparison of the data
standardized access to different repositories
calibration of the data
determining the data consensus
Example MetaServer projects
Typical, widespread implementations of MetaServers are:
Meta-Search-Engines
DNS MetaServers
Protein Structure and Function Prediction Gateways
Computer Game MetaServers
Text Mining MetaServers (e.g. BioCreative Metaserver - BCMS)
Enterprise application integration
Internet architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20computer | A mechanical computer is a computer built from mechanical components such as levers and gears rather than electronic components. The most common examples are adding machines and mechanical counters, which use the turning of gears to increment output displays. More complex examples could carry out multiplication and division—Friden used a moving head which paused at each column—and even differential analysis. One model, the Ascota 170 accounting machine sold in the 1960s calculated square roots.
Mechanical computers can be either analog, using continuous or smooth mechanisms such as curved plates or slide rules for computations; or discrete, which use mechanisms like pinwheels and gears.
Mechanical computers reached their zenith during World War II, when they formed the basis of complex bombsights including the Norden, as well as the similar devices for ship computations such as the US Torpedo Data Computer or British Admiralty Fire Control Table. Noteworthy are mechanical flight instruments for early spacecraft, which provided their computed output not in the form of digits, but through the displacements of indicator surfaces. From Yuri Gagarin's first spaceflight until 2002, every crewed Soviet and Russian spacecraft Vostok, Voskhod and Soyuz was equipped with a Globus instrument showing the apparent movement of the Earth under the spacecraft through the displacement of a miniature terrestrial globe, plus latitude and longitude indicators.
Mechanical computers continued to be used into the 1960s, but
had steadily been losing ground to digital computers since their advent. By the mid-1960s dedicated electronic calculators with cathode-ray tube output emerged. The next step in the evolution occurred in the 1970s, with the introduction of inexpensive handheld electronic calculators. The use of mechanical computers declined in the 1970s and was rare by the 1980s.
In 2016, NASA announced that its Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments program would use a mechanical computer to operate in the harsh environmental conditions found on Venus.
Examples
Antikythera mechanism, c. 100 BC – A mechanical astronomical clock.
Cosmic Engine, 1092 – Su Song's hydro-mechanical astronomical clock tower invented during the Song dynasty, which featured the use of an early escapement mechanism applied to clockwork.
Castle clock, 1206 – Al-Jazari's castle clock, a hydropowered mechanical astronomical clock, was the earliest programmable analog computer.
The Astrarium was a complex astronomical clock built in 1348 by Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio. The Astrarium had seven faces and 107 moving parts; it could show and predict the positions of the sun, the moon, stars and the five planets then known, as well as religious feast days.
Pascaline, 1642 – Blaise Pascal's arithmetic machine primarily intended as an adding machine which could add and subtract two numbers directly, as well as multiply and divide by repetition.
Stepped Reckoner, 1672 – Gottfried Wilhelm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20church | The terms internet church, online church, cyberchurch, and digital church refer to a wide variety of ways that Christian religious groups can use the internet to facilitate their religious activities, particularly prayer, discussion, preaching and worship services. The internet has become a site for religious experience which has raised questions related to ecclesiology.
Some Christian denominations insist that an online gathering is not a real substitute for meeting in person, for example, the Roman Catholic Pontifical Council for Social Communications declared in 2002 that "the virtual reality of cyberspace cannot substitute for real interpersonal community, the incarnational reality of the sacraments and the liturgy, or the immediate and direct proclamation of the gospel", while acknowledging that the internet can still "enrich the religious lives of users".
History
Internet-based Christian communities, better known as "online churches" or "internet churches", began gaining popularity in the early 2000s. Since then, they have prospered dramatically in response to institutional investment, the rise of more sophisticated social media and the emergence of free-access virtual worlds. As online communication became more popular and home computers became less expensive, computer-meditated communication expanded, causing religion to flourish on the Internet.
In the beginning of the internet, many ministries began posting informational and sermon-like messages to visitors. Through the years this method of teaching has evolved in the form of video, audio podcasts and blogs. A 1996 study recommended that church organizations quickly establish their presence in cyberspace, or they would lose touch with many of their parishioners and risk losing the ability to advise them in an era of technological growth. They were essentially urged to establish an electronic presence before it was too late. Had they not made their presence known, the influence of the Church could have been lost to unofficial religious groups.
Many of today's internet churches are descendants of brick-and-mortar churches, offering members an alternative to the traditional physical meetings within a church building. Some, such as the Church of Fools, offer church experiences through entirely 3D virtual reality environments.
Recent statistics have shown an increasing exodus of young people from churches, especially after they leave home and live on their own. In a 2007 study, Lifeway Research determined that 70% of young Protestant adults between 18–22 stop attending church regularly.
Internet churches now exist all around the world; however, they are still criticized for their lack of "human connection". The Methodist Church in the UK affirmed at its 2023 Conference "the possibility of predominantly online churches", subject to further discernment "in respect of online communion".
Overview
Internet church is a gathering of religious believers facilitated through the use of onli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENF | ENF may refer to:
East Neuk Festival, an annual music festival
Eclaireurs Neutres de France, a French Scouting association
Electrical network frequency analysis
Elks National Foundation, in the United States
Enfield Town railway station, in London
Enontekiö Airport, in Finland
EuroNanoForum, a nanotechnology conference
Europe of Nations and Freedom, a former political group in the European Parliament
Forest Enets language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia%20Titanica | Encyclopedia Titanica is an online reference work containing extensive and constantly updated information on the . The website, a nonprofit endeavor, is a database of passenger and crew biographies, deck plans, and articles submitted by historians or Titanic enthusiasts. In 1999, The New York Times noted that the site "may be the most comprehensive Titanic site", based on its content including passenger lists and ship plans. The Chicago Tribune called it "a marvelously detailed Internet site."
History
Encyclopedia Titanica was founded by Philip Hind. The website first went on-line September 1996. By March 1999, the website had received 600,000 hits.
Content
Encyclopedia Titanica contains a wide range of information about the ship, her passengers and a variety of related subjects. Each passenger and crew member has a separate page containing at least basic biographical data, and many of these contain detailed biographies, photographs and contemporary news articles. The site also contains original research by professional and amateur Titanic historians from all parts of the world.
Encyclopedia Titanica also contains an active message board with (as of November 2012) over 11,700 members and 300,000 messages. Among the topics of discussion on the message board are the following:
Passenger Research
Cabin Numbers
Collision and Sinking Theories
Crew Research
Discovery, Salvage and Exploration
The Gilded Age
Life on Board
Lost and Saved
Ships that may have stood still
Construction and Design
Titanic Art, Photography and Music
Titanic Books
Titanic Movies
Titanic on TV
Other Ships and Shipwrecks
References
External links
Encyclopedia Titanica
RMS Titanic
Online encyclopedias
Internet properties established in 1996
Internet forums
20th-century encyclopedias |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmellaceae | The Palmellaceae are a family of green algae, specifically of the Chlamydomonadales.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
Chlorophyceae families
Chlamydomonadales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedinomonadaceae | Pedinomonadaceae is a family of green algae. They are small (less than 3 μm) single-celled algae. Each cell has a single flagellum. Molecular data has provided evidence for an independent class Pedinophyceae (including the Pedinomonadaceae), sister to all phycoplast-containing core Chlorophyta (Chlorodendrophyceae, Trebouxiophyceae, Ulvophyceae and Chlorophyceae).
References
External links
Green algae families
Pedinophyceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL%20Archive | Archive is a storage engine for the MySQL relational database management system. Users can use this analytic storage engine to create a table that is “archive” only. Data cannot be deleted from this table, only added. The Archive engine uses a compression strategy based on the zlib library and it packs the rows using a bit header to represent nulls and removes all whitespace for character type fields. When completed, the row is inserted into the compression buffer and flushed to disk by an explicit flush table, a read, or the closing of the table.
One of the current restrictions of Archive tables is that they do not support any indexes, thus necessitating a table scan for any SELECT tasks. Archive tables, however, are supported by the MySQL Query Cache, which can dramatically reduce response times for Archive table queries that are repetitively issued. MySQL is examining index support for Archive tables in upcoming releases.
The engine is not ACID compliant. Unlike OLTP engines, it uses a "stream" format to disk with no block boundaries. The head of the Archive file generated is a byte array representing the data format and contents of that file. In MySQL 5.1, a copy of the MySQL FRM file is stored in the header of each Archive file. The FRM file, which represents the definition of a table, allows an Archive file to be restored to a MySQL server if the Archive file is copied to the server.
Despite the use of zlib, archive files are not compatible with gzio, the basis of the gzip tools. It uses its own azio system that is a fork of gzio.
Archive differs from the other MySQL analytical engine, MyISAM, by being a row-level locking engine and by keeping a constant version snapshot throughout a single query (making it MVCC). This means that Archive does not lock for concurrent bulk inserts. For bulk inserts it performs an interlaced INSERT, so unlike MyISAM, order is not guaranteed.
Users can use the archive_reader tool to take an online snapshot of a table and to change the characteristics of an archive file.
To create an Archive table, specify the following engine string:
create table t1 (
a int,
b varchar(32))
ENGINE=ARCHIVE
The MySQL Archive Storage Engine was authored and is maintained by Brian Aker. It was introduced in 2004 with MySQL 4.1.
References
External links
MySQL Documentation on Archive Storage Engine
Database engines
MySQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GGN | GGN may refer to:
Air Georgian (ICAO: GGN), a Canadian airline
Gagnoa Airport (IATA: GGN), in Ivory Coast
GLOBALG.A.P, GLOBALG.A.P. Number
Global Geoparks Network
Glycin, a photographic developing agent
Gurgaon railway station, in Haryana, India
Gurung language (ISO 639:ggn), spoken by the Gurung people of Nepal
Reformed Congregations in the Netherlands (Dutch: ) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Goosebumps%20episodes | Goosebumps is a children's anthology horror television series based on R. L. Stine's best-selling book series of the same name. It originally aired on the Fox Kids Network from 1995 to 1998.
All together, 43 of the original 62 books were adapted, along with nine stories from the Tales to Give You Goosebumps series, and two books from Goosebumps Series 2000. The Chillogy three-parter was a completely original story, while the episode More Monster Blood was an original story based on existing characters. Brad MacDonald composed the underscore to 42 Goosebumps episodes.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1995–96)
Season 2 (1996–97)
Season 3 (1997–98)
Season 4 (1998)
See also
List of Goosebumps books
References
External links
at Scholastic Press
Episodes
Lists of American children's television series episodes
Lists of Canadian children's television series episodes
Lists of American science fiction television series episodes
Rapid human age change in fiction
ja:ミステリー・グースバンプス#各話リスト |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Power%20of%20Women | The Power of Women was an early American television program broadcast on the DuMont Television Network. The series ran from July to November of 1952. This thirty-minute-long series was a public affairs program originally hosted by Vivien Kellems. Kellems would leave partway through the series' run.
The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, aired Mondays at 8pm ET on most DuMont affiliates. The last episode was broadcast on November 11, 1952, replaced by popular quiz show Twenty Questions.
The Power of Women originated at WABD-TV in New York City and was sustaining. Duncan MacDonald was the producer, and Wesley Kenney was the director.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1952-53 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)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1952 American television series debuts
1952 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pet%20Shop | The Pet Shop was an American television program broadcast on the DuMont Television Network. The series ran from 1951 to 1953, and was a primetime series on pet care hosted by Gail Compton and his young daughter Gay.
The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, aired on Saturdays at 7:30 pm ET on most DuMont affiliates. The series was cancelled in 1953. 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
1952-53 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
DuMont Television Network original programming
1951 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
Television series about animals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne%20and%20Orchids | Champagne and Orchids is an American variety show broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The network series ran from September 6, 1948, to January 10, 1949. Champagne and Orchids was a variety show hosted by Adrienne Meyerberg, billed simply as 'Adrienne', who sang in English, French, and Spanish.
The musical program, produced and distributed by DuMont, aired live at 8 pm EST on Monday nights on most DuMont affiliates. The show had premiered on Dumont's New York station in December 1947. The network series was cancelled in 1949. DuMont replaced the series with Newsweek Views the News.
Episode status
Despite airing during a time when few TV networks preserved much of their programming, at least two episodes survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, however the film print of one of these episodes is deteriorating.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1948-49 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
1948 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
1940s American variety television series
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek%20Views%20the%20News | Newsweek Views the News (also known as Newsweek Analysis) is an American television program broadcast Mondays at 8pm ET on the DuMont Television Network. The series ran from 1948 to 1950.
Overview
The series is a public affairs program hosted by Ernest K. Lindley. Editors of Newsweek magazine interviewed guests and discussed current news events.
The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, aired live on Monday nights from 8–8:30 p.m. on most DuMont affiliates. The last episode was aired on May 22, 1950, and DuMont replaced the series with Visit with the Armed Forces.
Episode status
Kinescopes of two episodes, "Casebook of Treason" (February 27, 1950) and "The Far East" (April 17, 1950), are in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
"Casebook on Treason" featured ex-Soviet spies Whittaker Chambers and Hede Massing and Soviet defector Peter Pirogov as speakers.
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
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
1948 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
1940s American television news shows
1950s American television news shows
American television talk shows
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
Newsweek
DuMont news programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crist%C3%B3bal%20Garc%C3%ADa%20Salmer%C3%B3n | Cristóbal García Salmerón (c.1603 – c.1666) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
Life and works
There is very little biographical data available. Salmerón was born in Cuenca. It is generally assumed that he was a student of Pedro Orrente, either in Cuenca or Toledo, but no documentary evidence supports it. Most likely it was Toledo, as his work also shows the influence of Luis Tristán and Juan Bautista Maíno. His first signed work, "San Julián, obispo de Cuenca", created for Málaga Cathedral in 1673, owes some obvious debt to Orrente as well as Vicente Carducho.
In Cuenca Cathedral there is a signed work on the altar, depicting Saint John the Baptist. In 1642, when King Philip IV passed through Cuenca, he painted a bullfight that had been held for the occasion. That work received great praise from the art historian Antonio Palomino, when he saw it at the Royal Alcázar of Madrid.
In 1648, he received a commission to create a series of portraits of apostles and prophets for the nave of Cuenca Cathedral. These later formed the background for engravings of the cathedral by Hans Vredeman de Vries. He is also credited with a series of half-length apostles carrying signs with verses from the Creeds, of which many copies were made. Some are now in the Museo del Prado.
At an unknown date, he moved to Madrid, which is attested by the presence of several works in his style; notably at the Convento del Carmen Calzado.
Sources
Angulo Íñiguez, Diego; Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E. (1972). Pintura toledana de la primera mitad del siglo XVII. Madrid, Instituto Diego Velázquez, CSIC. .
Palomino, Antonio (1988). El museo pictórico y escala óptica III. El parnaso español pintoresco laureado. Madrid : Aguilar S.A. de Ediciones. .
Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E. (1992). Pintura barroca en España 1600-1750. Madrid : Ediciones Cátedra. .
External links
1603 births
1666 deaths
People from Cuenca, Spain
17th-century Spanish painters
Spanish male painters
Spanish Baroque painters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball%2C%20Minnesota | Baseball, Minnesota was a television documentary series on the FX Network. The show followed a minor league baseball team, the St. Paul Saints, through the 1996 season. Until the FX network's format change in 1997, this was the only television series that was neither live nor a rebroadcast of a syndicated series. The 22 episode series premiered on August 1996.
The soundtrack (including the theme song "Famous") was performed by rock group Ted's Lunch.
References
External links
A review from Giants Magazine
1996 American television series debuts
1997 American television series endings
1990s American documentary television series
FX Networks original programming
Television shows set in Minnesota
Sports in Saint Paul, Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguous%20name%20resolution | Ambiguous Name Resolution (ANR) is a feature available in Microsoft's Active Directory which allows resolution of multiple objects on a computer network based on limited input. The user will be able to select the correct entry from these results. To allow this feature to operate, attributes need to be ANR enabled in the directory schema. This is an extension of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. When using Microsoft's Outlook or Outlook Web App, partial information can be typed into the To: From: and CC: fields which will result in an ANR query to provide potential matches.
LDAP ANR
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP for Active Directory uses default attributes flagged for ambiguous name resolution to filter results of an input query. In Microsoft Active Directory the searchFlags attribute is a bit flag that defines special properties related to searching with the attribute.
In Windows 2000 the following attributes are set by default for ANR:
GivenName
Surname
displayName
LegacyExchangeDN
msExchMailNickname
RDN
physicalDeliveryOfficeName
proxyAddress
sAMAccountName
Example ANR Search
Many users with the same name are present in the Active Directory. When Bill White, Bill Whitehead, and Bill Smith all exist, and ANR is enabled, a search for "Bill White" looks like "anr=Bill White".
Active Directory will:
Notice the "anr" and the embedded space.
Check the schema to determine which objects have ANR and SEARCH index bits set.
Perform an "or" search for "Bill White*" against the default attributes listed above.
Then searches for: Given-Name=Bill* AND Surname=White*
The search results returned with matches for "Bill White" are:
Bill White because "Bill White*" matches displayName and Bill Whitehead because "Bill*" AND "White*" matches Given-Name=Bill* AND Surname=White*
But, Bill Smith does not appear because:
"Bill*" AND "White*" does not match the Given-Name and Surname of Bill Smith
External links
Outlooks's Ambiguous Name Resolution
ANR search algorithm
Add Attributes to Ambiguous Name Resolution Filter
How Active Directory Searches Work (ANR strings included)
References
Active Directory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elc%20International%20School | elc International School is an international school located across two campuses in Selangor, Malaysia: one in Sungai Buloh and one in Cyberjaya.
History
elc International School started as elc Secondary School in 1987 with 5 students and 6 teachers including the Principal. The school was formed in order to provide a legitimate vehicle to privately educate this small group of children, 3 of whom were the children of the founders namely Dr. & Mrs. Kaloo and Dr & Mrs. Ghazalli.
The School was registered as a secondary school, under the terms of the Education Act 1961, to prepare qualified children for the GCE ‘O’ Levels in May 1989. In June 1992, the school was given permission to add a Primary Division to the established Secondary Division. During this time, elc operated out of two campuses within the Taman Tun Dr. Ismail area, one for the Primary Division and another for the Secondary Division.
Sungai Buloh
Around 1995 a decision was made to consolidate the Primary and Secondary division and operate out of a single campus. In January 1997 elc relocated to its new campus at Sungai Buloh, Selangor.
Cyberjaya
The success of Sungai Buloh campus motivated the school authorities to expand to a second campus and offer the benefit of our education to more children. Thus, elc International School, Cyberjaya Campus opened its doors for the first time on September 6, 2010. Following in the footsteps of its sister campus, Cyberjaya started small and grew to rival the other bigger international schools in the region.
Values
The three core values of elc International School are embedded in its name — ‘excellence in everything we do’, ‘loyalty to each other and the school’ and ‘commitment to continuous improvement’. These values are enhanced by the school motto ‘Learn to Aspire’ and students are encouraged to aspire to succeed in reaching their personal, social and academic potential.
References
https://www.elc.edu.my/history/
https://www.elc.edu.my/elc-tradition/
British international schools in Malaysia
Educational institutions established in 1987
1987 establishments in Malaysia
Cambridge schools in Malaysia
Schools in Selangor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Pearcey | Trevor Pearcey (5 March 1919 – 27 January 1998) was a British-born Australian scientist, who created CSIRAC, one of the first stored-program electronic computers in the world.
Born in Woolwich, London, he graduated from Imperial College in 1940 with first class honours in physics and mathematics. He emigrated to Australia in 1945.
In a 1948 paper, published in the Australian Journal of Science, he envisaged using a digital electronic computer for providing information over a national telecommunications network:
He bet that he could make an electronic device that would be 1000 times faster than the best electronic device of the time. One of his calculators filled a small room, weighing 7 tons.
He was awarded a D.Sc. by the University of Melbourne in 1971.
In his later years he lived on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne.
The Pearcey Foundation and the Pearcey Award for outstanding achievement by an Australian in the ICT industry are named after him.
See also
Pearcey integral
Notes
References
1919 births
1998 deaths
Australian computer scientists
20th-century English mathematicians
Scientists from Melbourne
British emigrants to Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwriting | Overwrite or overwriting can refer to:
Overwriting (prose), a writing style of needlessly over-elaborating a point
Overwriting (cognitive memory), a type of interference with memory
Data erasure
See also
Overstrike
Overtype |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisaeus%20Adougan | Elisaeus Adougan was a late 14th century and early 15th century Scottish cleric. His name has been said to have occurred for the first time in a papal letter datable to 25 November 1390, but this letter is simply a repetition of another addressed to him, dated 2 August that year; both letters address him as the rector of the parish church of Kirkmahoe, and authorise him to take up the position of provost of the Collegiate Church of Lincluden providing he resigned Kirkmahoe within a period of two years.
This Collegiate Church, previously a Benedictine nunnery, was erected only on 7 May 1389, after a petition of Archibald Douglas ("the Grim"), Lord of Galloway, to Avignon Pope Clement VII. Papal authorisation came in a letter to the Bishop of Glasgow, inside whose diocese Lincluden lay, which stated:...as is contained in the petition of Archibald, Lord of Galloway, his predecessors founded and built the monastery of Lincluden, O. CLUN., ... and endowed it for the maintenance of eight or nine nuns, to be ruled by a prioress, while right of patronage remained with the lords of Galloway ...The letter goes into the details of the monastery's problems and decline, details provided to the papacy by the Lord of Galloway, and asks Bishop Walter Wardlaw:to ascertain that these facts be true and having transferred the nuns to a house of the Cluniac or Benedictine order, to erect the collegiate church and hospice ... He still held both Lincluden and Kirkmahoe on 17 May 1391, when the Pope wrote to him providing him to a canonry and prebend of Glasgow Cathedral.
Elisaeus retained his position as provost of Lincluden until 1406. In that year he was elected and received papal provision to the vacant diocese of Galloway. This election was ascribed by historian Michael Brown to the influence of the Lord of Galloway, now Archibald Douglas II. In a lost MacDowall charter, witnessed by Robert Keith and datable to 1412, he was said to have been in his seventh year of consecration. Nothing more is known about Elisaeus's career as Bishop of Galloway; the time of his death is not known either, but he died sometime before 14 June 1415, when there occurs the earliest evidence that a successor for Galloway was needed.
Notes
References
Brown, Michael, The Black Douglases: War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, 1300-1455, (East Linton, 1998)
Burns, Charles (ed.), Papal Letters to Scotland of Clement VII of Avignon, 1378-1394, (Edinburgh, 1976)
Cowan, Ian B. & Easson, David E., Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland With an Appendix on the Houses in the Isle of Man, Second Edition, (London, 1976)
Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
Keith, Robert, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688, (London, 1924)
Watt, D. E. R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
14th-century births
1410s deaths
Year of birth unknown
Year of death uncertain
Bishops of Ga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysteries%20and%20Scandals | Mysteries and Scandals (also known as Mysteries & Scandals) is an American television program hosted by A.J. Benza. The series was originally broadcast on the E! network from March 1998 until February 2001.
Synopsis
The series detailed the lives of various celebrities, both well known and somewhat obscure. Most celebrities that were featured endured hardships or died untimely deaths. The series interviewed various celebrities who knew the subject along with still photographs accompanied by narrations, and dramatic reenactments.
The show was highly stylized and presented each episode in a noir fashion with backdrops set in various Hollywood locations and narrated in a hard-boiled, often sarcastic fashion by Benza. One of Benza's memorable catchphrases, "Fame, ain't it a bitch?," would later become the title of his autobiography.
The series aired for three seasons. Episodes were repeated on E! for a period of time after the series' initial run.
See also
List of Mysteries and Scandals episodes
References
External links
1998 American television series debuts
2001 American television series endings
E! original programming
English-language television shows
Entertainment news shows in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3%2BG | MP3+G (MP3 plus Graphics) is a karaoke file format that was created to allow CD+G karaoke to be played from a personal computer easily and quickly. MP3+G was created from the combination of the MP3 audio file (the CD audio is converted and compressed to MP3) and a raw CDG file which contains the RW subchannels from the CD+G track.
History
MP3+G was first called MM+G in combination of various audio formats synchronized to a CDG file. MP3 and WMA became the most popular audio format used for karaoke and therefore MP3+G and WMA+G became the most popular formats used. Microsoft first unofficially adopted the WMA+G for use on the Xbox for the Xbox karaoke product.
MP3+G was named in 1998 as the media format for WinCDG which was the first MP3+G player. The technology was intended as the new standard for PC karaoke without the need for a disc.
Other products have found a new way to transport the MP3+G pair of files by "zipping" them. A zip file is a data compression format used to compress and contain files together. Containing the MP3+G file pair in the ZIP became known as an "MP3+G Zipped".
Since the creation of the format the technology of MP3+G was first licensed as the Breeze engine by Tricerasoft. It was later released as a codec engine technology to various computer software companies, including TouchPoint, PCDJ, DJPower, Alcatech, Hercules, and AVA Systems.
Design
MP3+G is derived from the CD+G format and the CD+G disc format invented by Philips. MP3+G is created by extracting the CD-Audio packets from the CD+G disc with a CD-ROM that is capable of also extracting the RW channels from the disc. The digital audio portion is compressed to MP3 and the RW Channels (CD+G graphics) are stored to a CDG file. The player products read each file and synchronize the information to display the interpreted graphics along with the music.
See also
Compact disc
CD+G
LRC (file format)
References
MP3
Karaoke |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential%20bidding%20system | Preferential bidding system (PBS) is a computer program for crew scheduling, a method of solving airlines workforce schedules consisting of specific flights and certain qualified crew members while allowing those crew members to request periodic work schedules using weighted preferences. The solution must be as efficient as possible while respecting crew member preferences, honoring seniority, conforming regulations, and operation coverage requirements.
Pairings
Work schedules in the airlines industry must cover not just a shift or a day, as workers in other industries might. Airlines work schedules consist of assignments called "crew pairings" or simply "pairings", which is a sequence of flights or legs that starts and then ends at the same domicile. Pairings are usually created by another computer program called pairing optimizer.
Bidding and line
The process of requesting a certain schedule is called "bidding". Generally this is done on a monthly basis. The monthly schedule called "line" which a crew member gets will consist of a series of "pairings". Each month the airlines crew planning sets the new pairings due to new locations being added or removed, new times, or changes in aircraft. These new pairings are then made available for assignment or bidding. In the United States, crew members are often working under a union's collective bargaining agreement, and sometimes including non-union workplaces, seniority is used to give senior crew member the right to override junior crew member requests. A line itself must also satisfy legal and contractual constraints. Ideally it should also satisfy the crew members choices and preferences.
Constraints
Each month, airlines crew planning must generate legal crewing solutions. These crewing solutions strive to achieve a minimum-cost of operation by matching specific aircraft, the routes they fly and crew pairings in a manner that each leg is covered by one crew that is capable of flying that aircraft at that time and in that place. The factors that must be respected when assigning a crew member line are called "constraints" which include:
Government Regulations - FAR 117, FAR 121, FAR 135, CAP 371, CASA, DGAC etc. dependent upon the type of operation and the civil authority overseeing that particular airline.
Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) - ALPA, AFA, IBT
Airline Policies - FRMP, Fairness
These include:
Flight Time Limitations (FTL) - Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly
Flight Duty Period Limitations (FDP) - Daily, Weekly, Monthly
Duty Period Limitations - Daily, Weekly, Monthly
Rest and Day(s) off Requirements - Daily, Weekly, Monthly
Acclimatization - mitigation for travel across several time zones
Diurnal components - Time of day and impingement upon the Window of Circadian Low (WOCL)
Augmentation (operations with additional active crew members)
Credit/Pay Limitations
Pre-assigned absences and duties.
Scheduling Continuity - time between flights, Overla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Gordon%20%28psychologist%29 | Robert Gordon (born May 22, 1944) is a clinical psychologist, forensic psychologist, and attorney from Texas. His company, Wilmington Institute Network (WIN), specializes in the alternative dispute resolution (ADR), focusing on use of Internet in conflict resolution.
He is a member of Texas Psychological Association.
Education
Gordon earned his B.S. in psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1966); his M.S. in psychology from the University of Oklahoma (1967); his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Oklahoma (1968). In 1971, after obtaining his J.D. from Baylor Law School and passing the Texas bar exam, Gordon began work in Dallas and Houston. He was also teaching at Southern Methodist University.
Publications
Gordon is the author of the notable publication "The Electronic Personality and Digital Self" (Dispute Resolution Journal, February/April 2001). Examples of his other works are
"Ready for ADR?" (For the Defense, March 2001) and "Reducing Trial and ADR Risks Through Empirical Research" (The Trial Lawyer, July/August 2001).
References
External links
http://forsci.net
http://insightandanswers.com
http://www.gordonpoll.com
http://www.likablewitness.com
http://www.virtualjury.com
http://www.winthecase.com
Forensic psychologists
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
1944 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20resource%20planning | Network Resource Planning is an enhanced process of network planning that incorporates the disciplines of business planning, marketing, and engineering to develop integrated, dynamic master plans for all domains of communications networks.
Next generation services
Many communications service providers - from wireline, wireless, broadband to next generation carriers - are introducing next-generation services such as interactive video over cell phones and multi-user conference calling. These new services are straining the capacity of existing networks. In a 2006 Reuters interview, John Roese, CTO of Nortel, pointed out that YouTube almost destroyed the Internet, and in a keynote speech at Cisco’s C-Scape analyst conference in December 2006, John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Networks said, “Things like YouTube are just the baby steps of the impact video will have on networks.” Since every video transmission requires roughly 150 times the bandwidth of a voice transmission, it is estimated that a one percent adoption of the Verizon Wireless V CAST service required a 400 percent increase in Verizon’s corresponding network capacity.
The bandwidth-intense nature of next generation services has required traditional network planning to evolve. Subscriber growth of legacy services like voice and data had an incremental impact on networks. New subscriptions and their corresponding bandwidth demand followed a relatively linear growth curve. As such, planning methods such as link- and node-specific forecasting or “trending” were sufficient to ensure networks could support current and planned subscribers.
The dramatic swings in bandwidth demand that slight variances in subscription rates bring to bear on networks carrying services such as video can no longer be adequately planned for with these traditional methods. Network Resource Planning addresses the weaknesses of trending by incorporating business planning and marketing insight in the planning process. The addition of market analysis adds an additional layer of context and provides a feedback loop that enables more accurate planning. Furthermore, the importance of coordinating infrastructure investment activities across organizations is addressed to ensure that network capacity is provided when and where it is needed, and that human and operational support system resources are appropriately included in the planning process.
Next generation networks
The bandwidth needs of next generation services has placed added pressure on carriers to migrate from traditional networks like PSTN and TDMA to new Internet Protocol (IP)-based, or next generation networks, that can more adequately support the new services. Planning the transition to IP-based networks is a difficult endeavor in many respects. The capital expenditure (CAPEX) challenge of these new networks is that while it is remains expensive to make a mistake and deploy too much equipment (i.e., over-building their network and wasting assets), the non- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterococcus | Asterococcus is a genus of green algae in the order Chlamydomonadales.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaeBase
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Chlamydomonadales genera
Chlamydomonadales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlamydocapsa | Chlamydocapsa is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Chlorophyceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaeBase
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Chlamydomonadales genera
Chlamydomonadales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorosarcina | Chlorosarcina is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Chlamydomonadales.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaeBase
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Chlamydomonadales genera
Chlamydomonadales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorosphaeropsis | Chlorosphaeropsis is a genus of algae, specifically of the Chlorosarcinales.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaeBase
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Chlorophyceae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmochloris | Desmochloris is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Chlorocystidaceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Ulvophyceae
Ulvophyceae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASPM | ASPM may refer to:
ASPM (gene), a human gene
Active State Power Management, a computer power management protocol
Aviation System Performance Metrics, an FAA database of the National Airspace System
See also
Aspirant de marine, a French Canadian subordinate officer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abradatas | Abradatas (Greek: ; fl. 6th century BC) was a king, probably fictional, of Susa, known to us from Xenophon's partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, the Cyropaedia. According to it, he was an ally of the Assyrians against Cyrus the Great, while Cyrus was still a vassal to his (also probably fictional) uncle, Cyaxares II.
His wife Panthea was taken by Cyrus on the conquest of the Assyrian camp, while Abradatas was absent on a mission to the Bactrians. In consequence of the honorable treatment
which his wife received from Cyrus, he was persuaded to join the latter with his forces. He fell in battle, while fighting against the army of Croesus, during the conquest of Lydia in 547 BC. Inconsolable at his loss, Panthea committed suicide,
and her example was followed by her three eunuchs. Cyrus had a high mound raised in their honour: on a pillar on the top were inscribed the names of Abradatas and Pantheia in the Syriac characters; and three columns below bore the inscription skēptouchōn () in honour of the eunuchs.
The romance of Abradatas and Pantheia forms a significant part of the latter half of the Cyropaedia.
References
Vassals of the Achaemenid Empire
Fictional kings
History of Khuzestan Province
6th-century BC people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koliellopsis | Koliellopsis is a genus of green algae in the class Trebouxiophyceae. , AlgaeBase accepted only one species in the genus, Koliellopsis inundata.
References
Trebouxiophyceae genera
Trebouxiophyceae
Monotypic algae genera
Enigmatic algae taxa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neochlorosarcina | Neochlorosarcina is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Chlamydomonadales.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaeBase
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Chlamydomonadales genera
Chlamydomonadales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmellopsis | Palmellopsis is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Palmellopsidaceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Chlamydomonadales genera
Chlamydomonadales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planktosphaeria | Planktosphaeria is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Chlorophyceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaeBase
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Sphaeropleales genera
Sphaeropleales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platydorina | Platydorina is a genus of microscopic green algae in the family Volvocaceae. It contains only one species, Platydorina caudata. It was described by Charles Atwood Kofoid in 1899.
Description
Platydorina caudata consists of a flattened, horseshoe-shaped coenobium containing 16 or 32 cells embedded in a transparent, gelatinous matrix. Cells have two flagella that protrude out of the matrix. Each cell is uniformly sized and colored green from a single cup-shaped chloroplast containing a pyrenoid, with a circular red eyespot and two contractile vacuoles. At one end the matrix is rounded, while at the other end it is drawn out into a few rounded "tails".
Platydorina caudata is planktonic, and moves in a spiral motion, twisting to the left.
Reproduction
Platydorina caudata reproduces both sexually and asexually. In asexual reproduction, cells in the coenobium divide continuously until they reach a certain cell count, 16 or 32 cells. At this point, the flagella are pointing inward, but the colony flips inside out (a process known as colony inversion) such that the flagella now point outward. The colony, which is spherical, flattens out into the characteristic horseshoe-shape. After the gelatinous matrix forms, the new colony separates from the parent.
In sexual reproduction, colonies may be either male or female and produce sperm or egg cells, respectively. It is anisogamous, meaning the gametes are differently sized. Both sperm and egg cells are released, where they swim about until fertilized. Egg cells escape in an unusual way; a pore forms, and then the egg cell squeezes through the pore until it is released.
References
External links
Chlamydomonadales
Chlamydomonadales genera
Monotypic algae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudotetracystis | Pseudotetracystis is a genus of green algae, in the family Chlorosarcinaceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Chlamydomonadales genera
Chlamydomonadales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protel | Protel stands for "Procedure Oriented Type Enforcing Language". It is a programming language created by Nortel Networks and used on telecommunications switching systems such as the DMS-100. Protel-2 is the object-oriented version of Protel.
The PROTEL language was designed to meet the needs of digital telephony and is the basis of the DMS-100 line of switching systems PROTEL is a strongly typed, block-structured language which is based heavily on PASCAL and ALGOL 68 with left-to-right style of variable assignment, variable-sized arrays, and extensible structures. The designers of PROTEL significantly extended PASCAL of the day by adding external compilation and extending the data structures available in the language.
The PROTEL compiler is tightly integrated with the operating system (SOS), application (CALLP), the development environment (PLS) and originally the processor (NT40). PLS, SOS, CALLP and the compiler itself are all written in PROTEL. Any description of the PROTEL language can't help but include some aspects of the other components.
PROTEL has very strict type enforcement but the tight coupling of the components creates opportunities to bypass some type checking
for skilled coders by using internal compiler features directly.
PROTEL is considered 'wordy', containing a large number of reserved words with some statements reading like English.
PROTEL source code is case insensitive but by convention upper case is used for reserved words.
Variables and Assignment
Most global and all local variables are declared using the DECL reserved word.
DECL myvar INT;
Variables can be initialized using INIT keyword.
DECL myvar INT INIT 42;
Constants use IS keyword, hexadecimal uses #.
DECL myconst INT IS #F00D;
Global variables can also use PROTECTED, or PRIVATE declarations to define write protected data or thread local data respectively. Writes to protected data requires the use of builtin primitives that alter protected data in a safe way. Protected data survives all restarts short of a system image reload.
PROTECTED myprotdata INT;
write_protected_store( myprotdata, value );
Note WRITE_PROTECTED_STORE arguments are type agnostic as long as the types of both arguments match.
PRIVATE provides a private copy of the data for each process that uses it. There is no COW functionality, each process is allocated its own copy and optionally initializes it at creation.
PRIVATE myprivatedata INT;
Note Local variables defined using DECL are naturally private.
GAZINTA
Gazinta is the colloquial name used for the assignment operator '->'. Its name comes from 'goes into' meaning expression gazinta (goes into) variable. Expressions are evaluated in strict left to right order with no operator precedence. Lack of operator precedence is a legacy of the NT40 processor which used a stack based ALU using RPN logic. Parentheses are used to prioritize subexpressions.
expression -> myvar;
Pointers
The pointer operator is @ and is placed after |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahi%20Networks | Mahi Networks was a Petaluma, California-based venture-funded network equipment startup company. It was created in 1999 and acquired by Meriton Networks in 2005. Meriton Networks is now a part of Xtera. Mahi's flagship product, the Mahi Mi7, was a 320 Gbit multi-service switching system. The Mi7 supported both SONET/SDH TDM switching, MPLS/Ethernet switching as well as IP routing. The multi-service capability was achieved by Tiny-Tera based switching fabric.
References
Information technology companies of the United States
Companies based in Sonoma County, California
Petaluma, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20Titan%20%28Windows%20Mobile%20phone%29 | The HTC Titan is a Windows Mobile 6.1 Pocket PC PDA and phone manufactured by High Tech Computer Corporation of Taiwan. It is the successor to the HTC Apache upon which it improves by adding more ROM, GPS, EVDO Rev. A, additional hard keys, a scroll-wheel, spring-loaded keyboard, and a higher resolution camera. The Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system includes Office Mobile along with HTML email through Microsoft Outlook Mobile. Windows Media Player is included, allowing the Titan to act as a digital audio and digital movie player.
ROM updates
On August 27, 2008, HTC released a ROM update adding Windows Mobile 6.1 to the XV6800 (Verizon Wireless) variant of the device. However, this release blocks A-GPS access to all but applications which have been digitally signed by Verizon Wireless. Currently this is only VZ Navigator. Verizon has said that they will digitally sign other applications, and hackers have released a software patch which bypasses the limitation.
On July 21, 2008, HTC released a ROM update for the Sprint Mogul, which added Windows Mobile 6.1 to the device. It also added Sprint TV service.
On March 10, 2008, HTC released a ROM update for the Sprint Mogul which enables EVDO Rev. A and AGPS functionality. The ROM update also adds a task manager and corrects bugs in the phone's Bluetooth implementation and Windows Live Messenger.
A ROM update for the Telus HTC P4000, dated July 27, 2007, is available. The shipping ROM is available from HTC.
Several ROM updates are available from UTStarcom, including one for the Sprint Mogul dated July 16, 2007 and the shipping ROM for the Bell HTC 6800.
Any ROM update will return the phone to a factory state, so users should back up all data before upgrading and updating.
Versions
Carriers/Models include:
Alltel HTC PPC6800
Bell HTC 6800
Qwest Mogul by HTC
Sprint Mogul by HTC
Telus HTC P4000
US Cellular HTC PPC6800
Verizon Wireless HTC XV6800
Telecom New Zealand HTC Titan (Ships running Windows Mobile 5)
nTelos Wireless HTC 6800
GPS compatibility
Users of this phone have successfully installed and used other GPS map software applications (such as Tracky, iGuidance, TomTom, Fugawi, Garmin Mobile XT, CoPilot Live, Google Maps, and Microsoft's Live Search for Windows Mobile), which do not charge a service fee. The map applications are compatible with the built-in GPS receiver, provided users set the appropriate COM port for the map application. The built-in GPS receiver was intended by some wireless providers to be used preferably with Telenav, which is a service that charges users monthly fees or fees based on the amount of downloaded map data. Telenav can only provide map data in areas where applicable cellular phone services are available and that users must have a data plan with their wireless providers.
The GPS may not activate when the phone is used indoors (or without access to clear sky) or if the person is walking very slowly (< 1 mile/hour). External GPS antenna connection pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Rocha | A Rocha is an international network of environmental organizations with Christian ethos. A Rocha, which means "the rock" in Portuguese (see entry Rocha), was founded in Portugal in 1983.
Organisation
The A Rocha network consists of A Rocha International, national organisations, associated projects and thematic organisations. The A Rocha Worldwide Covenant defines the rights and responsibilities of each A Rocha entity to the others.
As of 2022, A Rocha is working in over 20 countries: Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Ghana, India, Kenya, Lebanon, Netherlands, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Nigeria, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, and United States. There are ongoing conversations with other potential groups around the world, particularly in East and Southeast Asia.A Friends of A Rocha Network is growing rapidly.
A Rocha has five core commitments: Christian, Conservation, Community, Collaboration, and Cultural diversity.
Work
A Rocha aims to protect the environment through local, community-based conservation, scientific research, and environmental education, and they have “a track record of successes”.
A Rocha operates field study centres in Canada (two centres), France (two centres), India, Kenya, Portugal and also in the Czech Republic. These serve primarily as a base for A Rocha's and other organisations’ field studies and for environmental education, and most also offer accommodation for visitors.
Areas of A Rocha's work include:
Species and landscape surveying and monitoring, such as raptor counts in Pembina Valley, Canada, camera trapping of mammals in India, the Kenya Bird Map, dry grassland biodiversity surveys in Switzerland and mapping tropical forests using unmanned aerial vehicles
Habitat and species restoration projects, such as mangrove restoration projects in Ghana, and improving breeding chances for Grey-faced petrels by eradicating invasive mammals, restoring habitats and deploying artificial nests in Raglan, New Zealand, control of invasive Indian House crow in Kenya
Reducing human–wildlife conflict in India, notably with elephants and leopards
Setting up private or public parks and reserves such as the Kirosa Scott Reserve in Kenya, and Foxearth Reserve and Minet Country Park in the UK
Enlarging and campaigning for the safeguarding of existing natural and protected areas, such as the Atewa Forest in Ghana, and the Alvor Estuary in Portugal
Bridging biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods, such as via sustainable agriculture and community garden projects across Canada; the Arabuko-Sokoke Schools and Eco-tourism Scheme in Kenya; the establishment of CREMAs (community resource management areas) around Mole National Park and Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana; and training community members in Uganda to construct bio-sand water filters
Environmental education activities and resources, such as the Wild Lebanon website in Lebanon and "creation care camps" in the USA
Carbon foo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trek73 | TREK73 is a computer game based on the original Star Trek television series. It was created in 1973 by William K. Char, Perry Lee, and Dan Gee for the Hewlett-Packard 2000 minicomputer in HP Time-Shared BASIC. The game was played via teletype. Trek73 is so big that it needs the CHAIN feature of HP2000 BASIC.
Unlike many other Trek-themed games of the era, Trek73 is not derived from the well known Star Trek by Mike Mayfield. Trek73 simulates multi-ship starship combat in a smaller play area and does not include the more strategic elements of the original, like starbases and the galactic map layout.
Like most BASIC programs from the 1970s, there are dozens of minor variations on the original. Dave Korns adapted the code to support smart terminals, using the cursor control characters on the Hazeltine 2000 to produce an in-place updating display. In the mid-1980s, Dave Pare and Chris Williams translated the original BASIC version into C and Jeff Okamoto, Peter Yee, and others corrected and enhanced the source code. These versions are widely available for Unix-like and DOS operating systems.
Gameplay
The game simulates battles between spaceships of the Star Trek franchise. Through text commands, a player may order the ship to perform certain tasks in battle against an opposing vessel.
History
In January 1973, William K. Char began programming a space battle game in BASIC on a time-shared Hewlett-Packard 2000C system at Wilson High School in San Francisco. The first version of what was then called $SPACE was introduced in May 1973. In June 1973, Char, Perry, Lee, and Gee started programming TREK73; it was completed October 8, 1973. Roderick Perkins adapted TREK73 for the DECISION computer at the Lawrence Hall of Science in 1974. The game was played by Homebrew Computer Club member Steve Dompier, who purchased a Teletype machine for his home so that he could play the game for hours without interruption.
Other versions
An updated version was later developed on the HP2000E by the students of the San Mateo High School district. Then student Oscar Luppi and other members of the computer department added ranging, aiming and severa cheat codes that became standard in newer versions.
Later, Dave Pare and Chris Williams at the University of California, Berkeley independently translated TREK73 into the C programming language in 1984. In April 1985, Jeff Okamoto and Peter Yee combined the Pare and Williams versions into one. The command set was expanded to 31. This version had enhancements based on the boardgame Star Fleet Battles. The player was also capable of designing his own ship.
David Soussan then ported the Okamoto/Yee version to MS-DOS, having played it in high school.
While at the University of Iowa, Tom Nelson and Mike Higgins played and made modifications to TREK73 on one of the University HP2000 system. In 1984, they created Begin, A Tactical Starship Simulation for MS-DOS. Begin was not a port of TREK73. It was written in C and was very m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign%20for%20the%20Establishment%20of%20a%20United%20Nations%20Parliamentary%20Assembly | The Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (CUNPA) is a global network of more than 300 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and 1,500 current and former parliamentarians from around 150 countries devoted to establishing a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly.
Campaign objectives
The Campaign's objectives:
To make the UNPA proposal visible in political debates and the media
To facilitate the creation of national and local networks of individuals, non-governmental organizations and parliamentarians advocating a UNPA in their sphere of influence
To establish a global multi-stakeholder coalition which unites parliamentary and civil society efforts for a U.N. Parliamentary Assembly
To facilitate contacts and debates with potentially like-minded parliaments and governments
Profile
Steering committee
The Campaign's Secretariat is led by Democracy Without Borders. The work of the Campaign is guided by an informal Steering Committee, which helps to define the Campaign's goals, policies and strategies. The Steering Committee consists of the NGOs Democracy Without Borders, Society for Threatened Peoples International, World Federalist Movement-IGP, Democracia Global, and The Workable World Trust.
Regional and national networks
The Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly has built coalitions and established national and regional networks all over the world as for example in Israel, Germany, Argentina, Sweden, Canada and Spain, among others. Multiple Global Weeks of Action for a World Parliament have also been held, with supporting activities taking place across the world.
History
The policy of the Campaign is based on the "Appeal for the Establishment of a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations" which was presented at launch events in over ten countries during April and May 2007. 552 persons were initial signatories to the petition, among them parliamentarians and individuals such as Nobel Prize laureates, Right Livelihood Award laureates, civil society leaders, three former prime ministers, several former foreign ministers and Boutros Boutros-Ghali (former UN Secretary General). At a meeting in November 2007 the Campaign reiterated its policy as formulated in the appeal.
Although the CUNPA's early literature seemed to emphasize indirect election of the UNPA as a necessary first step, in November 2007, the organization noted that some countries could choose direct election of delegates in the first stage of the body's existence. Similarly, early CUNPA statements stressed the UNPA's oversight role over the UN and its bodies, but the November 2007 statement clarified that the UNPA could also have a role overseeing the Bretton Woods institutions. In a statement on the financial crisis issued in April 2008 this position was confirmed and outlined in more detail.
In 2016 the Campaign received strong support from the Pan-African Parliament, and in 2017 the Campaign's chairman, Andreas Bummel, was invited to give a statem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurbaksh%20Chahal | Gurbaksh Singh Chahal (born July 17, 1982) is an Indian-American internet entrepreneur who is the founder of several internet advertising companies.
Chahal founded his first advertising network at an age of 16 and two years later, became a millionaire after selling it to ValueClick at nearly $40 million. In 2004, he co-founded BlueLithium, which went on to become the fifth largest ad-network in United States, before being sold to Yahoo in a $300 million deal. Chahal has since founded other internet-based companies including RadiumOne and Gravity4. He is currently the CEO of VendorCloud and RedLotus.
In April 2011, Men's Health reported his net worth to be $150 million. In 2010, Bloomberg Businessweek named him among the 15 best young entrepreneurs of the year. In 2012, Chahal was listed among the 25 richest entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by Complex magazine. In 2013, he was named as one of the entrepreneurs of the year by Ernst and Young.
In 2013, Chahal was convicted of domestic violence and battery and was sentenced to probation. In court he pled not guilty. He was terminated from his role as CEO of RadiumOne by the board of directors. In 2016, after he was charged with domestic violence against a second woman, his probation was revoked. He resigned as CEO of Gravity4 and served six months in jail.
Early life
Chahal was born on July 17, 1982, in Tarn Taran Sahib, a city near Amritsar in India's Punjab state, in a Sikh family. He was the youngest of four children. His father, Avtar Singh, was a police officer and mother, Arjinder Chahal, was a nurse in Tarn Taran Sahib. In 1985, during the aftermath of the Khalistani insurgency, Chahal's parents emigrated to the United States, his father having won a green card lottery. Chahal was raised by his grandmother for a short time. He emigrated the following year, at age four. The family lived in a one-bedroom apartment in San Jose, California. His father took a job with the Postal Service and his mother worked as an nurse's assistant. He has two elder sisters — Nirmal and Kamal, and an elder brother Taj Chahal; the latter two had worked with Chahal in his ventures. His family were devout followers of Sikhism and Chahal and his brother used to wear a turban, a type of headwear based on cloth winding. He has said that he was the subject of intense racial bullying from the age of 5 in the local elementary school. At the age of 10, he was forced to remove his turban, at knife-point.
Chahal was an average student during schooling, earning B and C grades in his studies. To support his family, he bought second hand printers from the local market for $50 and resold printers on eBay for $200 at the age of 15. Chahal bought the Dell.net and HP.net domain names in 1997 and sent a letter to the companies offering to sell the names back to them for ten thousand dollars. He started receiving cease-and-desist letters and had to give the domains back. All of his family members had to work double shifts after |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20E%21 | This is a list of television programs formerly and currently broadcast by the cable television channel E! in the United States.
Current programming
Reality/documentary
E! News (1991–2020; 2022–present)
Live from E! (2013–19; 2020–present)
Botched (2014)
Celebrity Game Face (2020)
If We're Being Honest With Laverne Cox (2022)
Raising a F***ing Star (2022)
Nikki Bella Says I Do (2023)
Celebrity Prank Wars (2023)
Black Pop: Celebrating the Power of Black Culture (2023)
Trippin' with Anthony Anderson and Mama Doris (2023)
House of Villains (2023)
Movies
Movies We Love
Acquired
Charmed
Las Vegas
Saved by the Bell
Don’t be Tardy
Paris in Love
Love Island
Sex and the City
Modern Family
Last Man Standing
Upcoming programming
Former programming
1990s
The Anthony Rodriguez Show
1990
The Dick Tracy Show
Inside Word with Michael Castner
TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes
1991
One Day at a Time
Coming Attractions
E! Behind the Scenes
Talk Soup
1993
Pure Soap
1994
Howard Stern
1995
Dear John
The Gossip Show
Night Stand with Dick Dietrick
Melrose Place
1997
Fashion Emergency
The Michael Essany Show
Wild On!
1998
Celebrity Profile
Mysteries and Scandals
Boston March
1999
Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic
Search Party
2000s
2001
Revealed with Jules Asner
2002
The Anna Nicole Show
Daly/Nightly
Star Dates
2003
Celebrities Uncensored
It's Good to Be...
Love Chain
Totally Outrageous Behavior
2004
Dr. 90210
Life is Great with Brooke Burke
Love Is in the Heir
Scream Play
2005 G-SpotE! Hollywood Hold'emThe Entertainer starring Wayne NewtonFight for FameFilthy Rich: Cattle DriveThe Gastineau GirlsThe Girls Next DoorKill RealityParty @ The PalmsTaradise 2006 #1 Single7 Deadly Hollywood SinsChild Star ConfidentialThe Daily 10House of CartersLove RideThe Simple Life 2007 Boulevard of Broken DreamsChelsea LatelyKatie & PeterKeeping Up with the Kardashians Paradise CitySaturday Night LiveSnoop Dogg's Father HoodStarveillanceSunset TanTales from the HoffWildest Date Show Moments 2 2008 Denise Richards: It's ComplicatedKimora: Life in the Fab LaneLiving LohanParty Monsters CaboPam: Girl on the Loose!Pop Fiction 2009 Candy GirlsKendraLeave It to LamasReality Hell 2010s
2010 BridalplastyE! InvestigatesFashion PoliceThe Girls Next Door: The Bunny HouseHolly's WorldMarried to RockPretty WildThe Spin CrowdWhat's Eating You 2011 After LatelyThe Dance SceneDirty SoapIce Loves CocoKhloé & LamarKourtney and Kim Take New YorkScouted 2012 A-List ListingsLove You, Mean It with Whitney CummingsMarried to JonasMrs. Eastwood & CompanyOpening Act2013Burning LoveChasing The SaturdaysThe Drama QueenEric & Jessie: Game OnHello RossKourtney and Kim Take MiamiParty OnPlaying with FirePop InnovatorsThe Soup InvestigatesTotal DivasThe Wanted LifeWhat Would Ryan Lochte Do? 2014 Escape ClubThe FabulistGiuliana and BillHouse of DVFKourtney and Khloé Take The HamptonsRich Kids of Beverly HillsSecret Societies Of HollywoodUntold with Maria Menounos 2015 The Comment Sectio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20West%20101 | East West 101 was a drama series airing on the SBS network. The series was produced and created by Steven Knapman and Kris Wyld, the team behind other drama series such as Wildside and White Collar Blue. It ran from 2007–2011, having three series.
East West 101 was set around the Major Crime Squad in metropolitan Sydney. It was based upon the experiences of actual detectives in a crime unit in Sydney's western suburbs. It was filmed on location, in Sydney suburbs such as Auburn, Bankstown, Redfern, Chinatown and Maroubra.
The series was made by SBS with the Film Finance Corporation of Australia and the New South Wales Film and Television Office. It has been sold to Israel and other countries in the Middle East. The second season finished airing on 24 November 2009, and a third season was announced and filmed in 2010. It began airing on SBS One on 20 April 2011. The DVD of the third season was released on 4 May 2011.
Cast
Main
Don Hany as Detective Zane Malik
Susie Porter as Detective Superintendent Patricia Wright
Aaron Fa'aoso as Detective Sonny Koa
Daniela Farinacci as Detective Helen Callas
Renee Lim as Constable Jung Lim
Matt Nable as Detective Neil Travis (season 3, credited as Matthew Nable)
Supporting
Lucy Abroon as Yasmeen Malik
Serhat Caradee as Oscar Catas (season 2)
Richard Carter as Mick Deakin (season 2)
Richard Cawthorne as Sterling (season 3)
George Fayed as Amir Malik
Dimitri Giameos as Ali El Babb (Season 1)
Gyton Grantley as Craig Deakin (season 2)
Taffy Hany as Rahman Malik
Gerald Lepkowski as Agent Richard Skeritt (season 2)
William McInnes as Detective Sergeant Ray Crowley (season 1)
Irini Pappas as Mariam Malik (season 1)
Tasneem Roc as Amina Malik
Costa Ronin as Gregorovich (season 2)
Damian de Montemas as Zimmer
Guests
Malcolm Kennard as Edward Kirkbride (1 episode)
Leon Ford
Plot
Season one
The first season centered around two detectives, Zane Malik (Don Hany), a Muslim and Ray Crowley (William McInnes), an Anglo-Australian, who are pitted against each other in a struggle for respect. They try to balance work with their own cultural and religious beliefs, which results in tension between cultures, egos and workmates. Recurring stories throughout the season include Malik's search for the man who shot his father and Crowley's struggle with his son's death. The cast also included Susie Porter as Inspector Patricia Wright, Aaron Fa'aoso as Detective Sonny Koa, Daniela Farinacci as Detective Helen Callas and Renee Lim as Jung Lim. Zane's father, Rahman Malik, is played by Taffy (Toffeek) Hany, the real life father of Don Hany.
Season two
In season two, detective Malik is caught up in the aftermath of a car bomb which has killed two men, and heralded the arrival of NSO Agent Richard Skeritt (Gerald Lepkowski). The attack seemingly has links to a Muslim terrorist threat that they work to uncover. Meanwhile, Patricia Wright navigates her tumultuous relationship with her family, including her unpre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Resource%20Protection | Windows Resource Protection is a feature first introduced in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. It is available in all subsequent Windows operating systems, and replaces Windows File Protection. Windows Resource Protection prevents the replacement of critical system files, registry keys and folders. Protecting these resources prevents system crashes. The way it protects resources differs entirely from the method used by Windows File Protection.
Overview
Windows Resource Protection (WRP) works by registering for notification of file changes in Winlogon. If any changes are detected to a protected system file, the modified file is restored from a cached copy located in . Windows Resource Protection works by setting discretionary access control lists (DACLs) and access control lists (ACLs) defined for protected resources. Permission for full access to modify WRP-protected resources is restricted to the processes using the Windows Modules Installer service (TrustedInstaller.exe). Administrators no longer have full rights to system files; they have to use the SetupAPI or take ownership of the resource and add the appropriate Access Control Entries (ACEs) to modify or replace it. The TrustedInstaller account is used to secure core operating system files and registry keys.
Protected resources
Windows Resource Protection protects a large number of file types:
*.acm *.ade *.adp *.app *.asa *.asp *.aspx *.ax *.bas *.bat *.bin *.cer *.chm *.clb *.cmd
*.cnt *.cnv *.com *.cpl *.cpx *.crt *.csh *.dll *.drv *.dtd *.exe *.fxp *.grp *.h1s *.hlp
*.hta *.ime *.inf *.ins *.isp *.its *.js *.jse *.ksh *.lnk *.mad *.maf *.mag *.mam *.man
*.maq *.mar *.mas *.mat *.mau *.mav *.maw *.mda *.mdb *.mde *.mdt *.mdw *.mdz *.msc *.msi
*.msp *.mst *.mui *.nls *.ocx *.ops *.pal *.pcd *.pif *.prf *.prg *.pst *.reg *.scf *.scr
*.sct *.shb *.shs *.sys *.tlb *.tsp *.url *.vb *.vbe *.vbs *.vsmacros *.vss *.vst *.vsw *.ws
*.wsc *.wsf *.wsh *.xsd *.xsl
WRP also protects several critical folders. A folder containing only WRP-protected files may be locked so that only the TrustedInstaller user is able to create files or subfolders in the folder. A folder may be partially locked to enable administrators to create files and subfolders in the folder. Essential registry keys installed by Windows Vista are also protected. If a key is protected by WRP, all its sub-keys and values can be protected.
WRP copies only those files that are needed to restart Windows to the cache directory located at . Critical files that are not needed to restart Windows are not copied to the cache directory, unlike Windows File Protection which cached the entire set of protected file types in the Dllcache folder. The size of the cache directory and the list of files copied to cache cannot be modified.
Windows Resource Protection applies stricter measures to protect files. As a result, Windows File Protection is not available under Windows Vista. In order to replace any single protected file, Windows File Pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Motors%20Research%20Laboratories | General Motors Research Laboratories are the part of General Motors responsible for creation of the first known operating system (GM-NAA I/O) in 1955 and contributed to the first mechanical heart, the Dodrill-GMR, successfully used while performing open heart surgery.
See also
Multiple Console Time Sharing System
References
External links
General Motors Research Laboratories site. Domain is one of the first .com domains.
General Motors subsidiaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar%20geo-warping | Radar geo-warping is the adjustment of geo-referenced radar images and video data to be consistent with a geographical projection. This image warping avoids any restrictions when displaying it together with video from multiple radar sources or with other geographical data including scanned maps and satellite images which may be provided in a particular projection.
There are many areas where geo warping has unique benefits:
Single radar video signal displayed together with maps of different geographical projections. E.g.
Mercator
UTM
stereographic
Multiple radar video signals displayed simultaneously:
Having the computing power to do so on one computer.
Adapting the projection of all radar signals allowing the geographically correct display and accurate superimposition of those videos.
Slant range correction: a modern 3D radar system can measure the height of a target and hence it is possible to correct the radar video by the real corrected range of the target. Slant Range Correction also allows to compensate the radar tower height e.g. for maritime surveillance radars.
Introduction
Radar video presents the echoes of electromagnetic waves a radar system has emitted and received as reflections afterwards. These echoes are typically presented on a computer screen with a color-coding scheme depicting the reflection strength.
Two problems have to be solved during such a visualization process. The first problem arises from the fact that typically the radar antenna turns around its position and measures the reflection echo distances from its position in one direction. This effectively means that the radar video data are present in polar coordinates. In older systems the polar oriented picture has been displayed in so called plan position indicators (PPI). The PPI-scope uses a radial sweep pivoting about the center of the presentation. This results in a map-like picture of the area covered by the radar beam. A long-persistence screen is used so that the display remains visible until the sweep passes again.
Bearing to the target is indicated by the target's angular position in relation to an imaginary line extending vertically from the sweep origin to the top of the scope. The top of the scope is either true north (when the indicator is operated in the true bearing mode) or ship's heading (when the indicator is operated in the relative bearing mode).
For visualization on a modern computer screen the polar coordinates have to be converted into Cartesian coordinates. This process called radar scan conversion is presented with more detail in the next section.
The second problem to solve arises from the fact that a radar system is placed in the real world and measures real world echo positions. These echoes have to be displayed together with other real world data like object positions, vector maps and satellite images in a consistent way. All this information refers to the curved earth surface but is displayed on a flat computer display. Building a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20counseling | Counseling is the professional guidance of the individual by utilizing psychological methods especially in collecting case history data, using various techniques of the personal interview, and testing interests and aptitudes.
This is a list of counseling topics.
Therapeutic modalities
Academic advising
Art therapy/dance therapy/drama therapy/music therapy
Brief psychotherapy
Career counseling
Christian counseling
Co-counseling
Connectionism
Consultant (medicine)
Counseling psychology
Couples therapy
Credit counseling
Crisis hotline
Disciplinary counseling
Ecological counseling
Emotionally focused therapy
Existential counseling
Exit counseling
Family therapy
Genetic counseling
Grief counseling
Intervention
Licensed professional counselor
Mental health care navigator
Mental health counselor
Narrative therapy
Navy counselor
Nouthetic counseling
Online counseling
Pastoral counseling
Person-centered therapy
Postvention
Pre-conception counseling
Pregnancy options counseling
Professional practice of behavior analysis
Psychiatrist
Psychiatric and mental health nursing
Re-evaluation Counseling
Rehabilitation counseling
School counselor
Senior peer counseling
Social work
Solution-focused brief therapy
Suicide intervention
Support group
Telephone counseling
Common areas
Body language
Conflict resolution
Conflict resolution research
Creative problem-solving
Dialogue
Dispute resolution
Emotional conflict
Experiential education
Health psychology
Human potential movement
Interpersonal communication
Intrapersonal communication
Mediation
Multitheoretical psychotherapy
Nonverbal communication
Nonviolent communication
Problem solving
Relationship education
Responsibility assumption
Stress management
See also
List of psychotherapies
Outline of communication
Outline of psychology
Outline of sociology
Subfields of sociology
Outline of self
Psychopharmacology
References
Social work
Outlines of health and fitness
Outlines
Counseling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tele%20Columbus | Tele Columbus is a large cable provider in Germany with 3.6 million connected households on network level 4. The company was formed in November 2006 following the merger of Tele Columbus GmbH and ewt multimedia GmbH. In 2015, Tele Columbus acquired Primacom and Pepcom. In addition to analogue television, their range of products includes digital television, internet, and telephone via broadband. Besides its headquarter in Berlin the Company has locations in Hamburg, Leipzig, Ratingen, and Unterföhring (Munich). Since January 2015 Tele Columbus AG is traded on the regulated market (Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and since June 2015 listed in the SDAX.
References
Cable television companies
Cable television companies of Germany
Mass media companies established in 1985
Telecommunications companies established in 1985
1985 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACT%20%28compiler%29 | PACT was a series of compilers for the IBM 701 and IBM 704 scientific computers. Their development was conducted jointly by IBM and a committee of customers starting in 1954. PACT I was developed for the 701, and PACT IA for the 704. The emphasis in that early generation of compilers was minimization of the memory footprint, because memory was a very expensive resource at the time. The word "compiler" was not in widespread use at the time, so most of the 1956 papers described it as an "(automatic) coding system", although the word compiler was also used in some papers.
See also
Speedcoding, an interpreter for the 701
FORTRAN
KOMPILER
SHARE
References
External links
IBM software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Lenzo | Kevin Lenzo (born 1967) is an American computer scientist. He wrote the initial infobot, founded The Perl Foundation (and was its chairman until 2007) and the Yet Another Perl Conferences (YAPC)., released CMU Sphinx into Open source, founded Cepstral LLC, and has been a major contributor to the Festival Speech Synthesis System, FestVox, and Flite. His voice is the basis for a number of synthetic voices, including FreeTTS, Flite, and the cmu_us_kal_diphone Festival voice. He has also contributed Perl modules to CPAN. Kevin was also a founding member of the 1980s funk band "Leftover Funk"
See also
YAPC, the Yet Another Perl Conferences, founded by Kevin Lenzo
The Perl Foundation, co-founded with Kurt DeMaagd
Flite, Festival Speech Synthesis System and in particular kal_diphone (Kevin A Lenzo) made from his voice, and FestVox for building synthetic voices
The Infobot, an Internet Relay Chat agent
CMU Sphinx which he released into Open Source
FreeTTS, a Java port of Flite
The Perl Programming Language
The White Camel Awards
CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
Cepstral LLC
References
American computer scientists
Computational linguistics researchers
Living people
1967 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro%2AC | Pro*C (also known as Pro*C/C++) is an embedded SQL programming language used by Oracle Database DBMSes. Pro*C uses either C or C++ as its host language. During compilation, the embedded SQL statements are interpreted by a precompiler and replaced by C or C++ function calls to their respective SQL library. The output from the Pro*C precompiler is standard C or C++ code that is then compiled by any one of several C or C++ compilers into an executable.
External links
Introduction to Pro*C Embedded SQL
Oracle 11.2 Pro*C/C++ Programmer's Guide
SQL
C programming language family
C (programming language)
C++
Oracle Database |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ontario%20provincial%20highways | Provincial highways in Ontario include all roads maintained by the Ministry of Transportation as part of the Ontario Provincial Highway Network.
King's Highway
Although all roads in the provincial highway network are legally part of the King's Highway,
the term is primarily associated with the highways numbered 2 through 148, the 400-series highways and the Queen Elizabeth Way.
400-series highways
Secondary highways
Tertiary roads
7000-series highways
The following is a list of the unsigned 7000-series highways as of October 2020. This list is compiled using the official MTO Provincial Highway Network and MTO Jurisdiction datasets.
See also
References
External links
Ministry of Transportation
Ontario 511 Traveller Information
MTO Provincial Highway Network
Ontario Highways - The History of the King's Highways and other Ontario Provincial Highways
Ontario Highways - asphaltplanet.ca
List
Provincial Highways |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment%20terminal | A payment terminal, also known as a point of sale (POS) terminal, credit card machine, PIN pad, EFTPOS terminal (or by the older term as PDQ terminal which stands for "Process Data Quickly"), is a device which interfaces with payment cards to make electronic funds transfers. The terminal typically consists of a secure keypad (called a PINpad) for entering PIN, a screen, a means of capturing information from payments cards and a network connection to access the payment network for authorization.
A payment terminal allows a merchant to capture required credit and debit card information and to transmit this data to the merchant services provider or bank for authorization and finally, to transfer funds to the merchant. The terminal allows the merchant or their client to swipe, insert or hold a card near the device to capture the information. They are often connected to point of sale systems so that payment amounts and confirmation of payment can be transferred automatically to the merchant's retail management system. Terminals can also be used in stand alone mode, where the merchant keys the amount into the terminal before the customer present their card and personal identification number (PIN).
The majority of card terminals today transmit data over cellular network connections and Wi-Fi. Legacy terminals communicate over standard telephone line or Ethernet connections. Some also have the ability to cache transactional data to be transmitted to the gateway processor when a connection becomes available; the major drawback to this is that immediate authorization is not available at the time the card was processed, which can subsequently result in failed payments. Wireless terminals transmit card data using Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular, or even satellite networks in remote areas and onboard airplanes.
Prior to the development of payment terminals, merchants would capture card information manually using ZipZap machines. The development of payment terminals was led by the advantage of efficiency by decreased transaction processing times and immediate authorisation of payments. In terms of security, terminals provide end to end card data encryption and auditing functions. Nevertheless, there have been some cases of POS pin pad malware. There have also been incidence of skimming at card terminals and this led to the move away from using the magnetic strip to instead capturing information using EMV standards.
History
Prior to the development of payment terminals, merchants would use manual imprinters (also known as ZipZap machines) to capture the information from the embossed information on a credit card onto a paper slip with carbon-paper copies. These paper slips had to be taken to the bank for processing. This was a cumbersome and time-consuming process.
Point of sale terminals emerged in 1979, when Visa introduced a bulky electronic data capturing terminal which was the first payment terminal. In the same year magnetic stripes were added to cre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovi%20%28Nokia%29 | Ovi by Nokia () was the brand for Nokia's Internet services. The Ovi services could be used from a mobile device, computer (through Ovi Suite) or via the web. Nokia focused on five key service areas: Games, Maps, Media, Messaging and Music. Nokia's aim with Ovi was to include third party developers, such as operators and third-party services like Yahoo's Flickr photo site. With the announcement of Ovi Maps Player API, Nokia started to evolve their services into a platform, enabling third parties to make use of Nokia's Ovi services.
Ovi was first announced in 2007 and was a move into the world of Internet services and applications. It was initially available for internet-enabled Nokia feature phones and S60 smartphones, and also accessible via the web and on PC. Throughout its lifetime it faced strong competition particularly from Apple's App Store. As of January 2012, there were exactly 10 million downloads every day, also 158 developers reached over 1 million downloads for their Applications.
On 16 May 2011, Nokia announced the discontinuation of the Ovi brand and the services rebranded under the Nokia brand. The transition began in July 2011 and was completed by the end of 2012. Most of the constituent services were subsequently either closed or integrated into Microsoft's own services after its acquisition of Nokia devices and services division in 2014.
History
Ovi was announced on 29 August 2007 at the Go Play event in London. The public beta was released on 28 August 2008. Nokia has acquired key building blocks for Ovi over time. These include intellectual property (IP), patents and core components such as synchronization. Acquired IP, patents include companies such as Starfish Software, Intellisync, NAVTEQ, Gate5, Plazes and others. Other components have been developed internally. On 20 May 2009, at the Where 2.0 event in San Jose, CA, USA, Nokia announced the release of the Ovi Maps Player API, allowing web developers to embed Ovi Maps into a website using JavaScript.
Services
Ovi Store
The Ovi Store was launched worldwide in May 2009. Here, customers could download mobile games, applications, videos, images, and ringing tones to their Nokia devices. Some of the items were free of charge; others could be purchased using credit card or through operator billing in selected operators. The content in Ovi Store was sorted into the categories: Featured (previously Recommended), Games, Personalise, Applications, and Audio & Video. The Ovi Store replaced the older Nokia services Widsets, Download!, and MOSH.
Ovi Store was intended to offer customers content that was compatible with their mobile devices and relevant to their tastes and locations. Customers could share recommendations with their friends, see what they are downloading, and let them see items of interest.
For content publishers, Nokia offered a self-service tool to bring their content to the Ovi Store. Supported content types included: Java ME, Flash applications, widgets, ring |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Channel%20Finland | Discovery Channel Finland is a television channel targeting Finland owned by Discovery Networks. It has programming similar to its U.S. counterpart, the Discovery Channel.
It was launched on September 1, 2007, replacing a former pan-Nordic version of the Discovery Channel. On the same day, the analogue terrestrial transmitters were shut down and a new digital network containing, among other, Discovery Channel Finland was launched. In the terrestrial network it is a part of both the Canal Digital and PlusTV packages.
The pan-Nordic version of the Discovery Channel had carried subtitles in Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian and Danish. The new channel only contains Finnish subtitles.
References
Discovery Channel
Television channels in Finland
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicago%20carstiensis | Medicago carstiensis is a plant species of the genus Medicago. It is found around the Adriatic Sea.
External links
International Legume Database & Information Services
carstiensis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have%20Fork%2C%20Will%20Travel | Have Fork, Will Travel is a television show that premiered on September 4, 2007 on the Food Network. Host Zane Lamprey traveled to various countries, exploring the native cuisine and culture. One season (with a total of 13 episodes) was produced.
Reception
According to Food Network executive Bob Tuschman, Lamprey's "everyman quality" appeals to a broad audience. However, its mocking tone drew criticism from food critic Anthony Bourdain.
References
External links
Have Fork, Will Travel - Food Network Website
2007 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
2000s American cooking television series
Food Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race%2007 | Race 07 is a racing simulator computer game from SimBin Studios (later Sector3 Studios). The game is the sequel to the 2006 title Race – The Official WTCC Game. Like the original Race, the title is officially licensed by the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC).
Race 07 features more than 300 cars in nine different racing classes. Race 07 includes the full 2006 and 2007 seasons of the FIA World Touring Car Championships (FIA WTCC) as well as 8 more classes on 14 tracks from all over the world.
Multiplayer is only available with installation of the Steam client and registration for an account with Steam.
Reception
The game was moderately-well received by critics. IGN stated that the game was "not as likely to win over a casual racer, because little was done to cultivate new hardcore sim racing fans here". PC Format, Eurogamer, Boomtown and PTGamers all agreed that "visuals aren’t the main attraction of the game", while PC Zone criticised the AI and crash damage.
GameShark and AceGamez praised the game's longevity.
Content
Cars
Tracks
Expansion packs
It has since spawned nine expansion packs: GTR Evolution, STCC – The Game, Race On, Formula Raceroom (free of charge), STCC – The Game 2, GT Power, WTCC 2010, RETRO and the final expansion to the series, Race Injection.
Formula Raceroom is a free add-on pack to RACE 07 developed by SimBin and adds a Formula One style car and Hockenheimring circuit to the original game. It was released on March 18, 2011.
STCC – The Game is an expansion pack that features the 2008 Swedish Touring Car Championship season and its support series, the Camaro Cup.
Race On
Race On is an expansion pack to RACE 07 developed by SimBin Studios (later Sector3 Studios) and adds the 2008 World Touring Car Championship season, the International Formula Master series and some American Muscle Cars in both road and race-tuned versions to RACE 07. It was released internationally on October 16, 2009. It is available as a stand-alone game including Race 07 as well as its previous expansion pack STCC - The Game (which was only released as a boxed copy in Scandinavia) and as an add-on pack to those who already have Race 07 and/or STCC - The Game.
Tracks
Two brand new American tracks (Laguna Seca and Road America) are included in the game, as well as a considerably higher number of races from America itself. To accompany the 2008 WTCC cars, updated versions of the 2006 & 2007 tracks featured in RACE 07 are included, plus the new circuit for that season, Okayama.
Cars
Race On includes all cars from Race 07, plus five new ones. Those are four US Muscle cars in race and street version plus the European International Formula Master.
Cadillac CTS-V
Chevrolet Camaro
Dodge Challenger SRT8
Dodge Charger SRT8
International Formula Master (Tatuus-Honda)
Series/Championships
World Touring Car Championship (2008)
US Muscle Car Series
International Formula Master series
Reception
Race On received mixed reviews, scoring a Metacri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occasionally%20connected%20computing | Occasionally connected computing (OCC) is a term used in computing for an architecture or framework which permits running some aspects of a web application when not connected to the Internet. This is sometimes a feature of a Rich Internet application (RIA).
Software architecture
Occasionally connected computing is a software architecture based on the idea that an end user should be able to continue working with an internet application even when temporarily disconnected or when a wireless connection fails or is otherwise unavailable. OCC has been seen as one aspect of 'pervasive computing'. In the past, audio and visual telephony no longer functioned when a connection was lost. In an OCC architecture, tasks continue and update a central data store when a connection is restored. Client-side persistent data (CSPD), while not permanent data as in a central data store, are a common implementation of an OCC framework on non-handheld devices such as personal and laptop computers. As the local data store on PDAs commonly exceeds several Gigabytes, OCC becomes more viable for handheld devices.
OCC frameworks and implementations
In the case of the Curl language an alternate URI scheme is used to identify a resource which is to be used for OCC. Where a normal HTTP URL might be
{url "http://www.your-office.com/your-site.php" }
an OCC URI could be
{url "curl://occ/reconnect-as-needed" }
Such a URI redirects to the web when connected and to the local store when disconnected.
The Smalltalk language is a special case because of the ability to save the bytecode image at run time.
The possibilities using the REBOL 2.x runtime environment lie somewhere between Smalltalk and Curl 5.0 but may be extended with the release of REBOL 3.0 which is projected for late 2008 (a public alpha began in Jan 2008.)
See also
Curl (programming language) and the Surge RTE for OCC
REBOL as an OCC platform
Seaside for Smalltalk thinner client for OCC
Rich Internet application (RIA)
Ubiquitous computing
HTTP as a stateless protocol
REST which is a computing architecture style which eschews CSPD
References
External links
Adobe whitepaper
Curl as a language designed with CSPD for OCC
Rebol model of 'both-sides' computing
OCC architecture
Intel on OCC
Occasionally Connected Systems Architecture – a blog post by Udi Dahan
Software architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel%20Flair%20Cards | In 1994 and 1995 Marvel, in partnership with Fleer, released the "Marvel Annual Flair" sets of collectible trading cards. These consisted primarily of art taken from comics, re-colored with computer coloring techniques, and printed on thick, glossy, card stock.
Flair 1994
The base set consists of 149 cards + the checklist. There are 18 "PowerBlast" chase cards which have foil on one side and a larger portion of the same image, without foil, on the other side. An error occurs in the set wherein no #6 card exists, but 2 #8 cards: Iron Man (which is listed on the checklist as #6) and the real card #8 Vulture. The "PowerBlast" set is made of #1 Cable, #2 Cyclops, #3 Iron Man, #4 Magneto, #5 Phoenix, #6 Storm, #7 Venom, #8 Wolverine, #9 Ghost Rider, #10 Punisher, #11 Captain America, #12 Gambit, #13 Thor, #14 Silver Surfer, #15 Spider-Man, #16 Deadpool, #17 Invisible Woman and #18 Dr. Doom.
Flair 1995
The base set consists of 149 cards + the checklist. For chase cards, there are 24 PowerBlast chase cards of the same style as the 1994 ones. This set also included 3 "DuoBlast" cards which have a different character on each side (I.e. Iron Man and War Machine). Another first for a Marvel set are the "HoloBlasts" which show 2 characters fighting, but one character is printed normally, and the other is a hologram. There are also 12 chromium cards. An official binder was also produced for the set.
External links
Marvel Flair 1994 Checklist
Marvel Flair 1995 Checklist
Trading cards
Works based on Marvel Comics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20trespass | Computer trespass is a computer crime in the United States involving unlawful access to computers. It is defined under the Computer Fraud and Abuse act. (U.S.C 18 § 1030)
Definition
A computer trespass is defined as accessing a computer without proper authorization and gaining financial information, information from a department or agency from any protected computer. Each state has its own laws regarding computer trespassing but they all echo the federal act in some manner.
Examples of state legislation
New York
To be found guilty of computer trespass in New York one must knowingly use a computer, computer service, or computer network without authorization and commit (or attempt) some further crime.
Ohio
(A) No person shall knowingly use or operate the property of another without the consent of the owner or person authorized to give consent.
(B) No person, in any manner and by any means, including, but not limited to, computer hacking, shall knowingly gain access to, attempt to gain access to, or cause access to be gained to any computer, computer system, computer network, cable service, cable system, telecommunications device, telecommunications service, or information service without the consent of, or beyond the scope of the express or implied consent of, the owner of the computer, computer system, computer network, cable service, cable system, telecommunications device, telecommunications service, or information service or other person authorized to give consent.
Punishment
Under federal law, the punishment for committing a computer trespass is imprisonment for no more than 10 or 20 years, depending on the severity of the crime committed. (subsection (a) (b) (c) (1) (A) (B))
Criticism of the Computer Fraud and Abuse act
Years after the CFAA was put into law, many have become uncomfortable with the law's language because of the drastic difference between today's technology and the technology of the 1980s. Legal scholars such as Orin Kerr and Tiffany Curtis have expressed such concerns. In one of Curtis's essays, "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Enforcement: Cruel, Unusual, and Due for Reform." She expresses how, with the passage of time, the CFAA becomes a more cruel law with the current language used in the act. She then suggests that the United States Congress should take the act into review and refer it to the Eighth Amendment to update the language to better fit modern law and society. Kerr wrote in his essay, "Trespass, Not Fraud: The Need for New Sentencing Guidelines in CFAA Cases," that since the language is so vague in the act, you could be punished in a way that doesn't reflect the crime you committed. He stresses how the language stresses the financial fraud language more than any other part in the law, leaving the rest vague in meaning.
Notable computer breaches
2013 Yahoo! Data Breach
2014 eBay Data Breach
2013 Target Data breach
2017 Equifax data breach
See also
Computer Fraud and A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucie%20Salhany | Lucille "Lucie" Salhany (; born May 25, 1946) is an American media executive of Jordanian and Lebanese Heritage. Salhany was the first woman to head a broadcast television network in 1993 in the position as Chairwoman of Fox Broadcasting Company. She later created the United Paramount Network. She has had over 30 years of experience in the entertainment business, and during the height of her career, was one of the most powerful women at the C-Suite level.
Early life
Salhany was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to father Halim "Hal" Jacob Mady, who was Jordanian, and mother Matilda "Tillie" Mady (née Thomas), who was Lebanese. Her parents owned a grocery store in Cleveland.
Salhany graduated from Brush High School in Lyndhurst, Ohio, in 1964. Salhany attended Kent State University but after dropping out at age 19, she did not continue her education after more than a year.
Career
TV Broadcasting
In 1967, Salhany got a job as a secretary to the Program Manager at an independent TV station in Cleveland called WKBF-TV. She was continuously promoted, and after training by her boss, when she was 24, she took over his position as Program Manager of the station. In 1975, Salhany became program manager of the Boston TV station, WLVI-TV.
In 1979, Salhany become Vice President for Programming for Taft Broadcasting Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Salhany was responsible for bringing then local Chicago talk-show host, Oprah Winfrey to Taft in a syndication deal. Salhany also championed "The Arsenio Hall Show," "Hard Copy" and "Entertainment Tonight.”
In 1985, Salhany moved to Paramount Domestic Television in Los Angeles as president and supervised the production of shows like Entertainment Tonight, The Arsenio Hall Show, Hard Copy, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
FOX
In 1991, former Paramount colleague and newly hired FOX Broadcasting CEO Barry Diller asked Salhany to become Chairman of Twentieth Television. When Diller was fired four months later, Rupert Murdoch gave her Diller's job. The position was Chairman of FOX Network.
In 1993, Salhany was responsible for the development the late night show, The Chevy Chase Show, but it was canceled after 6 weeks on air, and was not well received by critics or affiliates alike. The canceled show cost the network tens of millions of dollars. Although Salhany took the network from four nights of programming to seven nights of programming, and was responsible for creating the TV show, The X-Files, which was very successful, and brought the NFL to the network, she left after three and a half years on her five-year contract, saying that Murdoch breached terms of her contract by not maintaining reporting structure. Salhany claimed Murdoch, in meetings in front of others, asked if she was a "fem-Nazi" and what her husband would think of things.
UPN
She moved back to Paramount as they were about to launch the United Paramount Network, also known as the UPN—which later merged with The WB. Salhany was Chief Execu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side%20persistent%20data | Client-side persistent data or CSPD is a term used in computing for storing data required by web applications to complete internet tasks on the client-side as needed rather than exclusively on the server. As a framework it is one solution to the needs of Occasionally connected computing or OCC.
A major challenge for HTTP as a stateless protocol has been asynchronous tasks. The AJAX pattern using XMLHttpRequest was first introduced by Microsoft in the context of the Outlook e-mail product.
The first CSPD were the 'cookies' introduced by the Netscape Navigator. ActiveX components which have entries in the Windows registry can also be viewed as a form of client-side persistence.
See also
Occasionally connected computing
Curl (programming_language)
AJAX
HTTP
Web storage
External links
CSPD
Safari preview
Netscape on persistent client state
Clients (computing)
Data management
Web applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAPO%20%28computer%29 | The SAPO (short for Samočinný počítač, “automatic computer”) was the first Czechoslovak computer. It operated in the years 1957–1960 in Výzkumný ústav matematických strojů, part of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. The computer was the first fault-tolerant computer – it had three parallel arithmetic logic units, which decided on the correct result by voting, an example of triple modular redundancy (if all three results were different, the operation was repeated).
SAPO was designed between 1950 and 1956 by a team led by Czechoslovak cybernetics pioneer Antonín Svoboda. Svoboda had experience from building in the United States, where he worked at MIT until 1946. It was an electromechanical design with 7,000 relays and 400 vacuum tubes, and a magnetic drum memory with capacity of 1024 32-bit words. Each instruction had 5 operands (addresses) – 2 for arithmetic operands, one for result and addresses of next instruction in case of positive and negative result. It operated on binary floating point numbers.
In 1960, after a spark from one of the relays ignited the greasing oil and the whole relay unit burnt down, it was decided not to repair the computer because of its obsolescence.
See also
EPOS (computer)
References
Further reading
External links
Beginnings of computer design in Czechoslovakia (in Czech), Google translation
Google translation
Electro-mechanical computers
One-of-a-kind computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorick%20Wilks | Yorick Alexander Wilks FBCS (27 October 1939 – 14 April 2023) was a British computer scientist. He was an emeritus professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield, visiting professor of artificial intelligence at Gresham College (a post created especially for him), senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, senior scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, and a member of the Epiphany Philosophers.
In February 2023, Wilks joined WiredVibe as Director of Artificial Intelligence and Board Member to help commercialise his previous ideas and research.
Biography
Wilks was educated at Torquay Boys' Grammar School, followed by Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read Philosophy, joined the Epiphany Philosophers and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree (1968) under Professor R. B. Braithwaite for the thesis 'Argument and Proof'; he was an early pioneer in meaning-based approaches to the understanding of natural language content by computers. His main early contribution in the 1970s was called "Preference Semantics" (Wilks, 1973; Wilks and Fass, 1992), an algorithmic method for assigning the "most coherent" interpretation to a sentence in terms of having the maximum number of internal preferences of its parts (normally verbs or adjectives) satisfied. That early work was hand-coded with semantic entries (of the order of some hundreds) as was normal at the time, but since then has led to the empirical determinations of preferences (chiefly of English verbs) in the 1980s and 1990s.
A key component of the notion of preference in semantics was that the interpretation of an utterance is not a well- or ill-formed notion, as was argued in Chomskyan approaches, such as those of Jerry Fodor and Jerrold Katz. It was rather that a semantic interpretation was the best available, even though some preferences might not be satisfied. So, in "The machine answered the question with a low whine" the agent of "answer" does not satisfy that verb's preference for a human answerer—which would cause it to be deemed ill-formed by Fodor and Katz—but is accepted as sub-optimal or metaphorical, and, now, conventional. The function of the algorithm is not to determine well-formedness at all but to make the optimal selection of word-senses to participate in the overall interpretation. Thus, in "The Pole answered..." the system will always select the human sense of the agent and not the inanimate one if it gives a more coherent interpretation overall.
Preference Semantics is thus some of the earliest computational work—with programs run at Systems Development Corporation in Santa Monica in 1967 in LISP on an IBM360—in the now established field of word sense disambiguation. This approach was used in the first operational machine translation system based principally on meaning structures and built by Wilks at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the early 1970s (Wilks, 1973) at the same time and place as Roge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20Mastering%20API | The Image Mastering Application Programming Interface, or IMAPI, is a component of Microsoft Windows operating system used for CD and DVD authoring and recording.
Windows applications such as Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center, Windows Movie Maker, Windows DVD Maker, and Windows Explorer use IMAPI to create ISO 9660 and "burn" discs. Windows refers to discs created using IMAPI as Mastered burns in contrast to the term, Live File System which implies packet writing and does not use IMAPI.
Release history
IMAPI was originally introduced with Windows XP. IMAPI version 2.0 was released with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. On 26 June 2007, this version was released as an update for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 after Microsoft received requests from hardware and software vendors.
On 19 January 2009, Microsoft released the Windows Feature Pack For Storage 1.0. This update allows IMAPI 2.0 to support Recordable Blu-ray Disc (BD-R) and Rewritable Blu-ray Disc (BD-RE) media. It also adds support for the Universal Disk Format (UDF) 2.5 file system. Windows Feature Pack for Storage is available for Windows XP or later and is integrated into Windows 7.
Overview
IMAPI provides the ability to create and burn single-session and multi-session discs, including bootable discs. It also provides low-level access to the burn engine for developing support for new devices, as well as access to extended recorder properties. IMAPI supports every major writable CD and DVD format including:
Compact discs
Recordable CD (CD-R). Formerly known as CD Write Once
Rewritable CD (CD-RW)
DVDs (IMAPI v2.0)
Recordable DVD (DVD-R and DVD+R)
Rewritable DVD (DVD-RW and DVD+RW)
Recordable dual layer DVD (DVD-R DL and DVD+R DL formats)
Random-access DVD (DVD-RAM)
Blu-ray discs (IMAPI v2.0 with Feature Pack for Storage)
Recordable Blu-ray Disc (BD-R)
Rewritable Blu-ray Disc (BD-RE)
Others
Disc-like media, such as Iomega REV
IMAPI supports writing disks in ISO 9660 (including CDDA Audio) and Joliet. IMAPI v2.0 also supports writing discs with Universal Disk Format file system.
IMAPI version 2.0 supports the following additional features:
User-mode API instead of a kernel-mode API
Support for multiple optical drives as well as simultaneously recording to multiple drives
Support for creating ISO images
Support for VBScript scripting
Support for locking the recorder while burning
Unlike IMAPI version 1.0, IMAPI version 2.0 is implemented as a DLL rather than as a Windows service.
Shortcomings
IMAPI 2.0 suffers from some limitations, notably that will not allow a filesystem to be imported from a raw image (.iso file), only from an optical drive. In effect this means that while it can generate disk images, it cannot be used to modify them.
See also
Features new to Windows XP
SCSI Multimedia Commands
References
Windows components
Microsoft application programming interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauntlet%20III%3A%20The%20Final%20Quest | Gauntlet III: The Final Quest is a home computer game by U.S. Gold and Tengen it was released in 1991 for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC. Besides the standard four main Gauntlet characters, Thor, Thyra, Merlin, and Questor, four new playable characters were available: Petras, a rock man; Dracolis, a lizard man; Blizzard, an ice man; and Neptune, a Merman. The game is viewed from an isometric perspective and the cooperative multiplayer mode supports two-players.
Plot
A land called Capra was having many wars among its kingdoms; peace would come but then another war would start. Then one day a wizard named Magnus came and brought peace, but to make sure there would never be another war he created a door to the dark dimensions from which evil things would come, if there was ever another war: "This be the Final Peace for if it is broken, all Capra will be at the mercy of the devourers". Then the Velcrons came to these kingdoms. They were servants of the things behind the door. They took over the magic kingdom and their king, Capricorn, held the wizard as his captive. Evil slowly came from this magic kingdom, bringing plagues, and even poisoning the food. The people of these lands begin to hate, and the peace was threatened. Eight champions have come to try and put an end to the darkness covering their land.
The backside of the box has the tagline, "The Gates of Hell are Open..." The cover illustration is by Peter Andrew Jones.
Gameplay
Gauntlet III differs from previous games due to the perspective change from a top-down view to an isometric projection, type view that would later be used in Gauntlet Legends and other Gauntlet games made after Legends. Its view is much like that of Solstice and games made with the Filmation engine. The player walks around various areas of each kingdom using mainly projectiles to kill enemies and also completing tasks that involve getting items that need to be carried from one area to another in order to complete the level. Each of the eight kingdoms have five areas giving a total of 40 areas, and the locations can be traversed from one area to the next. The enemies in this title, as in other Gauntlet games, come mostly from generators that keep producing the enemies until the generators are destroyed. Other elements from the series also make an appearance, such as potions that make enemies disappear or weaken them, food (both good and poisonous), invincibility amulets, and treasure chests, some of which can contain traps or other items the player would need.
Places like the forest and castle dungeons have obstacles such as logs and tables blocking the player's path, creating a maze-like area. Each area has at least one doorway or pathway to the next. At times certain things must be done in order to advance into the next area. To avoid the player being lost the programmers created a hand that appears from time to time, holding a note to remind the player what they are supposed to do |
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