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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diva%20TV | Diva TV was a British TV channel owned by Universal Networks International, which launched on Sky in the UK and Ireland on channel 269 at midday on 1 October 2007.
Despite having quite a varied schedule upon launch, the channel's programming declined. It aired shows such as The Late Show With David Letterman, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Talk and McLeod's Daughters.
On 1 November 2011 Diva TV +1 closed on Sky channel 277. The channel had previously been available on Virgin Media channel 165 until 1 April 2010.
Diva TV closed on 14 February 2012 at midnight with its most popular programmes shifted to the Style Network. The move followed NBCUniversal's acquisition by Comcast in March 2011 and affected only the UK market.
See also
Diva Universal
References
External links
Official Diva TV website
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Television channels in the United Kingdom
Universal Networks International
Defunct television channels in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintana%20del%20Castillo | Quintana del Castillo is a municipality located in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. (data from INE), the municipality has a population of 909 inhabitants.
It is part of the historical region of La Cepeda.
Villages
Abano
Castro de Cepeda
Donillas
Escuredo
Ferreras
Morriondo
Palaciosmil
Quintana del Castillo
Riofrío
San Feliz de las Lavanderas
La Veguellina de Cepeda
Villameca
Villarmeriel
See also
Leonese language
Kingdom of León
References
Municipalities in the Province of León
La Cepeda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Justo%20de%20la%20Vega | San Justo de la Vega () is a municipality located in the province of León, Castile and León, northern Spain. (data from INE), the municipality has a population of 2,054 inhabitants. The town is crossed by the León-Monforte de Lemos railway.
References
Municipalities in the Province of León |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villamejil | Villamejil is a municipality located in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. (data from INE), the municipality has a population of 545 inhabitants.
It is part of the historical region of La Cepeda.
Villages
Castrillo de Cepeda
Cogorderos
Fontoria de Cepeda
Quintana de Fon
Revilla
Sueros de Cepeda
Villamejil
References
External links
La Maragatería y Cepeda
Municipalities in the Province of León
La Cepeda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cevico%20Navero | Cevico Navero is a municipality in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2009 data (INE), the municipality has a population of 234 inhabitants.
Main sights
Church of Nuestra Señora de la Paz, built in Romanesque style in the 12th-13th centuries (of this period
Ruins of the Monastery of San Pelayo de Cerrato, built in the 10th century
References
Municipalities in the Province of Palencia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20storage%20media%20writing%20and%20reading%20speed | In the history of optical storage media there have been and there are different optical disc formats with different data writing/reading speeds.
Original CD-ROM drives could read data at about 150 kB/s, 1× constant angular velocity (CAV), the same speed of compact disc players without buffering. As faster drives were released, the write speeds and read speeds for optical discs were multiplied by manufacturers, far exceeding the drive speeds originally released onto the market. In order to market increasing drive speeds, manufacturers used the symbol n×, whereby n is the multiple of the original speed. For example, writing to a CD at 8× will be twice as fast as writing onto a disc at 4×.
There are two main types of disc speed, which are the angular and linear velocities. If the disc spins at a constant angular velocity, the linear velocity is 2.4 times higher at the outer edge.
Various optical disc formats writing/reading speeds
Modern compact discs support a writing speed of 52× and higher, with some modern DVDs supporting speeds of up to 24×. It is important to note that the speed of writing a DVD at 1× () is approximately 9 times as fast as writing a CD at 1× (). However, the actual speeds depend on the type of data being written to the disc.
For Blu-ray discs, 1× speed is defined as 36 megabits per second (Mbit/s), which is equal to 4.5 megabytes per second (MB/s). However, as the minimum required data transfer rate for Blu-ray movie discs is 54 Mbit/s, the minimum speed for a Blu-ray drive intended for commercial movie playback should be 2×. The fastest Blu-ray speed is 16×. For CDs, the 1× writing speed is equivalent to the 1× reading speed, which in turn represents the speed at which a piece of media can be read in its entirety, 74 minutes. Those 74 minutes come from the maximum playtime that the Red Book (audio CD standard) specifies for a digital audio CD (CD-DA); although now, most recordable CDs can hold 80 minutes worth of data. The DVD and Blu-ray discs hold a higher capacity of data, so reading or writing those discs in the same 74-minute time-frame requires a higher data transfer rate.
In video games
Since their debut on various optical storage media during the fifth up to before the seventh generation (1994–2005), the size of data in video games did not require an installation on a non-optical support and the reading speed of optical drives was enough so that data could be read directly from optical discs. As seventh generation video games caught on, the size of data, higher quality texture mapping etc., required in turn a higher stream of data coming out of optical storage media. A gap was becoming evident between design/graphics needs and technological limitations of reading speed/transfer rate.
Video games for PlayStation 3 were stored on single-layer Blu-ray which has a higher transfer rate by default but the console's optical drive speed multiplier was set at 2× (9 MB/s). On Xbox 360, video games were stored on common |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%B3mista | Frómista is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2009 data (INE), the municipality had a population of 822 inhabitants. In previous centuries, Frómista had a significant population supported by the farming of wheat.
It is a major overnight stopping place for pilgrims traveling along the Camino de Santiago, the Way of St. James.
The church of San Martín de Tours de Frómista was underwritten in part by the widow of Sancho el Mayor of Navarra who imported artisans to build a church in the style of Jaca cathedral.
The other church in town Santa Maria del Castillo located near the train station, is considered redundant and is normally kept locked.
Main sights
Romanesque church of San Martín de Tours de Frómista (11th century).
Church of Santa Maria del Castillo, in Gothic-Renaissance style
Church of St. Peter (begun in the 15th century)
References
Municipalities in the Province of Palencia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tereza%20Seiblitz | Ana Tereza Milanez de Lossio e Seiblitz or Tereza Seiblitz (born June 29, 1964) is a Brazilian actress.
She made an appearance in the Brazilian series, Malhação, on the Rede Globo network, in 2002. She was also the protagonist on the Brazilian telenovela Explode Coração, of Glória Perez, in 1995, opposite the Brazilian actor Edson Celulari.
Currently, she plays Lígia Salgado, a mother and desperate housewife, in the Brazilian version of Desperate Housewives, Donas de Casa Desesperadas. In original version of this series, the character is Lynette Scavo, interpreted for Felicity Huffman.
Biography
Daughter of the anthropologist Zélia and of the doctor Maurício Seiblitz, Tereza graduated in Literature and Artistic Education.
Her surname Milanez is from her grandfather, José de Brito Milanez, who came from the region between Paraíba and Pernambuco, from Lossio and Seiblitz came from the family of her father, who is of Spanish origin.
Career
She began in artistic life as a dancer, through her gift of dancing participated in musicals in the theater. He studied at CAL with Paulo Betti, Moacyr Góes and Tizuka Yamazaki, with whom he had the opportunity to be directed in the feature film Fica Comigo.
The actress made her debut on television in the great success Barriga de Aluguel, where she lived the antagonist Laura, then made Pedra sobre Pedra, gained notoriety in the novel Renascer as a wife of Tião Galinha, played by Osmar Prado, later in the plot, would live a romance with the priest Lívio (Jackson Costa). In 1994, Tereza starred in the special Uma Mulher Vestida de Sol and in 1995, she starred in the telenovela Explode Coração, by Glória Perez, as the gypsy Dara, alongside Edson Celulari. In 2002, he participated in Malhação. He also performed three episodes of Você Decide, a Renato Aragão Especial, and a Linha Direta.
From August 2007 to January 2008, she played the character Lígia Salgado, a housewife, in the Brazilian version of Desperate Housewives, in Rede TV, directed by Fábio Barreto.
In the theater, it stood out in diverse productions, among them O Avarento, text of Molière, in which it counted on the actor Tonico Pereira. In 2009, he made Bodas de Sangue by Garcia Lorca, directed by Amir Haddad in a short season at the Tom Jobim Theater. In 2010, he was in the play Escola de Molières.
In the movies, he starred in the film High School Musical: O Desafio.
In 2011, the actress paraded in the carnival, at the samba school Porto da Pedra, where she represented "Maroquinhas Fru-Fru", which recalled the work of the writer Maria Clara Machado. In 2015, Tereza returned to television in four episodes of the series Milagres de Jesus, where Mary lived.
Due to the care devoted to his children, he has already refused to work on television, as in the novel O Amor Está no Ar, Estrela-Guia and O Clone.
Personal life
She is the mother of Manuela, born on February 13, 1998, the result of a brief relationship with actor André Gonçalves.
She was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making%20Fiends%20%28TV%20series%29 | Making Fiends is an American animated television miniseries based on the web series of the same name. The series ran from October 4, 2008, to November 1, 2008, on Nicktoons Network. The series is Nickelodeon Animation Studio’s first animated series to be based on a web series, and follows the evil gross-loving tomboy Vendetta and the new happy but dim-witted girly-girl, Charlotte, at school in the gloomy town of Clamburg. Charlotte unintentionally irritates and annoys Vendetta. As a result, Vendetta attempts to assassinate her with fiends, but she always fails due to Charlotte's luck.
The series is created by former South Park animator Amy Winfrey and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio, with Cyber Chicken Animation Studio and DQ Entertainment Limited animating the show in traditional 2D animation. Winfrey voices Charlotte and her grandmother Charlene, among other characters. Character designer Aglaia Mortcheva is the voice of Vendetta.
All of the voice actors from the web cartoon reprise their roles for the TV series, with the addition of a new cast member and crew member, Dave Wasson, who previously created Time Squad for Cartoon Network.
Plot
Vendetta is a selfish green girl with the power to make fiends, "hideous things" which she has unleashed on her town to bring it under her reign of terror. The coastal town of Clamburg, once a thriving tourist destination, has become a grim, forbidding place, with stores shuttered and the populace cowed before the horror of Vendetta's watchful fiends.
Charlotte, a new girl at Vendetta's school, arrives determined to make a friend. An "impossibly cheery" optimist, Charlotte rapidly becomes the foil and tormentor of the morose and vindictive Vendetta, by insisting on befriending her.
Vendetta is unable to elicit anything but saccharine friendliness out of Charlotte, and so makes the first of many fiends that are specially designed to destroy the newcomer. After demonstrating that her oblivious joy makes her immune to the dangers and terrors of all of the fiends, Charlotte declares that her and Vendetta are "going to be best friends forever and ever."
In subsequent scenes, Charlotte displays an ability to change the nature of some fiends into helpful friends, further frustrating Vendetta's efforts to undo her. Being "oblivious to all that is bad and mean in the world", Charlotte neither acknowledges the damage caused by Vendetta's fiends, nor the threat Vendetta herself poses over Clamburg. Nearly all of the residents, including Vendetta's parents are actually afraid of Charlotte more than they do Vendetta within the first six episodes.
Charlotte never discovers or understands that Vendetta despises her, and Vendetta is never able to get rid of Charlotte. While this conflict is never resolved by the end of each episode, some minor developments appear to continue between episodes, like the introduction of Buttons 2 and an enormous statue that Vendetta has raised of herself.
Characters
Charlotte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle%20de%20Tobalina | Valle de Tobalina is a municipality located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, northern Spain. (data from INE), the municipality has a population of 1,069 inhabitants.
The capital of the municipality is the village of Quintana-Martín Galíndez.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Burgos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor%20TV | Noor TV or Nour TV is a name for several TV channels:
Entertainment
Noor TV (US), a US based Afghan satellite television network
Religious
Nour TV (UAE), an Iranian Sunni Islamic religious satellite television network based in the United Arab Emirates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtel-Vodafone | Airtel-Vodafone Limited is a mobile network operator located in Jersey and Guernsey (Channel Islands), and is a joint venture between Bharti Airtel and Vodafone. Airtel-Vodafone was first launched in Jersey in June 2007 and expanded operations to Guernsey in March 2008.
The Red-M coverage survey assessed islandwide coverage of the Airtel-Vodafone mobile network versus the Jersey Telecom and Sure mobile networks for 2G and 3G services. The Red-M results show that for the benchmark threshold for good indoor coverage (signal strength > -81 dBm) for 2G GSM mobile services, Airtel Vodafone's network on average offered 15% better coverage than Jersey Telecom and 14% better than Sure across Jersey.
It is regulated by the Channel Islands Competition and Regulatory Authorities.
See also
Bharti Airtel
Vodafone Group
Telecommunications in Jersey
List of mobile network operators
References
External links
Bharti Airtel
Vodafone
Companies of Guernsey
Telecommunications companies of Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20Disk%20Interface | Beta Disk Interface is a disk interface for ZX Spectrum computers, developed by Technology Research Ltd. (United Kingdom) in 1984 and released in 1985, with a price of £109.25 (or £249.75 with one disk drive).
Beta 128 Disk Interface is a 1987 version, supporting ZX Spectrum 128 machines (due to different access point addresses).
Beta Disk Interfaces were distributed with the TR-DOS operating system in ROM, also attributed to Technology Research Ltd.. The interface was based on the WD1793 chip. Latest firmware version is 5.03 (1986).
The Beta Disk Interface handles single and double sided, 40 or 80 tracks double density floppy disks, and up to 4 drives.
Clones
This interface was popular for its simplicity, and the Beta 128 Disk Interface was cloned all around the USSR. The first known USSR clones were ones produced by НПВО "Вариант" (NPVO "Variant", Leningrad) in 1989.
Beta 128 schematics are included in various Soviet/Russian ZX Spectrum clones, but some variants only support two drives. Phase correction of the drive data signal is also implemented differently.
Between 2018 and 2021, Beta Disk clones were produced in the Czech Republic, with the names such as Beta Disk 128C, 128X and 128 mini.
Operating systems support
TR-DOS
iS-DOS
CP/M (various hack versions)
DNA OS
See also
DISCiPLE
References
External links
Virtual TR-DOS
ZX Spectrum
Computer storage devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian%20Railways | Armenian Railways () was a rail operator in Armenia.
Main information
The , gauge network is electrified at 3 kV DC. Now the railways in Armenia are operated by South Caucasus Railway of Russian Railways.
The railway operating environment in Armenia sharply deteriorated following the collapse of the Soviet Union. According to the World Bank, Armenian Railways was in dramatic need of major investment, including the replacement of rolling stock, rehabilitation of the main line between Yerevan and the Georgian border, renewal of electrification, and bridge reconstruction. Rail transport was slow and unreliable, and traffic remained low compared to European countries with similar sized networks, amounting to only 2.6 million tons of freight and 0.85 million passengers in 2004.
At present the only preexisting rail connection between Armenia and Iran is the line which passes through the autonomous region of Nakhchivan, an exclave of Azerbaijan. However, because the border between the two countries is closed, the line from Yerevan is operational only as far as Yeraskh.
Armenian Railways Concession to Russian Railways
In 2007, the government of Armenia conducted a tender process for the modernization and operation of Armenian Railways, with the intention of awarding a concession in 2008. RITES and Russian Railways qualified to bid but RITES, an Indian Railways company, later withdrew. Russian Railways was the only bidder and established South Caucasus Railway CJSC as a wholly owned subsidiary to run the former Armenian Railways.
On 1 June 2008, South Caucasus Railway officially commenced its modernization and operation program and, as part of the concession agreement, received assets owned by Armenian Railways consisting of 2,000 freight cars, 58 passenger coaches, 85 locomotives and 30 electric trains. All 4,300 personnel formerly employed by Armenian Railways retained their jobs. The concession agreement was concluded for 30 years, with a right of extension for another 20 years after the first 20 years of operation.
Armenia-Iran Railway Concession to Rasia FZE (Southern Armenia Railway or North-South Railway Corridor)
On July 28, 2012, a concession agreement was awarded to Dubai-based Rasia FZE (a Rasia Group investment company) for the feasibility, design, financing, construction and operation of a new railway link between Armenia and Iran having an operating period of 30 years, with a right of extension for another 20 years. The Armenia-Iran railway is called the Southern Armenia Railway project, which forms the key missing link in the International North-South Transport Corridor between the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf. Prior to the feasibility study being completed, the Southern Armenia Railway was anticipated to be a 316 km railway linking Gavar, 50 km east of Yerevan near Lake Sevan, with the Iranian border near Meghri.
On 24 January 2013, during an announcement and press conference, the Chairman of Rasia Group, Joseph K. Borkowski, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ControlNet | ControlNet is an open industrial network protocol for industrial automation applications, also known as a fieldbus. ControlNet was earlier supported by ControlNet International, but in 2008 support and management of ControlNet was transferred to ODVA, which now manages all protocols in the Common Industrial Protocol family.
Features which set ControlNet apart from other fieldbuses include the built-in support for fully redundant cables and the fact that communication on ControlNet can be strictly scheduled and highly deterministic. Due to the unique physical layer, common network sniffers such as Wireshark cannot be used to sniff ControlNet packets. Rockwell Automation provides ControlNet Traffic Analyzer software to sniff and analyze ControlNet packets.
Version 1, 1.25 and 1.5
Versions 1 and 1.25 were released in quick succession when ControlNet first launched in 1997. Version 1.5 was released in 1998 and hardware produced for each version variant was typically not compatible. Most installations of ControlNet are version 1.5.
Architecture
Physical layer
ControlNet cables consist of RG-6 coaxial cable with BNC connectors, though optical fiber is sometimes used for long distances.
The network topology is a bus structure with short taps. ControlNet also supports a star topology if used with the appropriate hardware.
ControlNet can operate with a single RG-6 coaxial cable bus, or a dual RG-6 coaxial cable bus for cable redundancy. In all cases, the RG-6 should be of quad-shield variety.
Maximum cable length without repeaters is 1000m and maximum number of nodes on the bus is 99. However, there is a tradeoff between number of devices on the bus and total cable length. Repeaters can be used to further extend the cable length. The network can support up to 5 repeaters (10 when used for redundant networks). The repeaters do not utilize network node numbers and are available in copper or fiber optic choices.
The physical layer signaling uses Manchester code at 5 Mbit/s.
Link layer
ControlNet is a scheduled communication network designed for cyclic data exchange. The protocol operates in cycles, known as NUIs, where NUI stands for Network Update Interval.
Each NUI has three phases, the first phase is dedicated to scheduled traffic, where all nodes with scheduled data are guaranteed a transmission opportunity.
The second phase is dedicated to unscheduled traffic. There is no guarantee that every node will get an opportunity to transmit in every unscheduled phase.
The third phase is network maintenance or "guardband". It includes synchronization and a means of determining starting node on the next unscheduled data transfer.
Both the scheduled and unscheduled phase use an implicit token ring media access method.
The amount of time each NUI consists of is known as the NUT, where NUT stands for Network Update Time. It is configurable from 2 to 100 ms. The default NUT on an unscheduled network is 5 ms.
The maximum size of a scheduled or unscheduled |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanos%20%28chain%20of%20stores%29 | The Germanos chain of stores () is a multinational chain of retail electronic goods vendors. They specialize in offering electronic devices such as computers, digital cameras, mp3 players and mobile phones. They also offer fixed and mobile telephony as well as internet.
They belong to the Germanos Group which in turn is indirectly owned by the Greek mobile operator Cosmote.
History
The Germanos Group started as a battery shop in Athens in 1980, but then the subsidiary Germanos Stores was created to take charge of the retail points of the company.
Since it has expanded into the Balkans, Central Europe and Eastern Europe. In 2006 the holding company of the Germanos stores was bought by a subsidiary of the Greek mobile operator Cosmote, Cosmoholding Cyprus LTD.
Cosmote controversy
In the beginning Germanos stores offered in Greece mobile connections with Telestet (now WIND Greece) and Cosmote. Later, in 2005 Vodafone Greece gave permission to Germanos to offer its connections. In 2006 when a subsidiary of Cosmote bought the company, Wind and Vodafone pulled their support from the stores, stating that it would lead to unfair treatment towards them in order to enhance support to its in-house mobile operator.
International expansion
Germanos stores expanded throughout the last years in Greece, Cyprus and many Eastern European countries counting as of 2007 960 retail points.
Germanos retail stores are found in:
Greece
Cyprus
North Macedonia
Poland
Romania
Ukraine
Companies based in Athens
Retail companies of Greece
Greek brands
Retail companies established in 1980
1980 establishments in Greece |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Plant%20Name%20Index | The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is an online database of all published names of Australian vascular plants. It covers all names, whether current names, synonyms or invalid names. It includes bibliographic and typification details, information from the Australian Plant Census including distribution by state, links to other resources such as specimen collection maps and plant photographs, and the facility for notes and comments on other aspects.
History
Originally the brainchild of Nancy Tyson Burbidge, it began as a four-volume printed work consisting of 3,055 pages and containing over 60,000 plant names. Compiled by Arthur Chapman, it was part of the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS). In 1991 it was made available as an online database and handed over to the Australian National Botanic Gardens. Two years later, responsibility for its maintenance was given to the newly formed Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research.
Scope
Recognised by Australian herbaria as the authoritative source for Australian plant nomenclature, it is the core component of Australia's Virtual Herbarium, a collaborative project with A$10 million funding, aimed at providing integrated online access to the data and specimen collections of Australia's major herbaria.
Two query interfaces are offered:
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), a full query interface that delivers full results, with no automatic interpretation, and
What's Its Name (WIN), a less powerful query interface that delivers concise results, augmented with automatic
See also
Atlas of Living Australia
Botanical nomenclature
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria
Index Kewensis
International Plant Names Index
References
Further reading
In 4 volumes:
External links
Official Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) website — full detail search.
Online botany databases
Online taxonomy databases
Botany in Australia
Flora of Australia
Databases in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Grado | El Grado is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. According to 2009 data (INE), the municipality has a population of 506 inhabitants.
There is a large reservoir, managing the waters of river Cinca in this town's municipal term.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Huesca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labuerda | Labuerda (in Aragonese: A Buerda; and officially "Labuerda-A Buerda") is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2009 data from INE, the municipality has a population of 172 inhabitants.
Villages
Labuerda, the main town
San Vicente de Labuerda, which includes the municipality's main attraction, the church of San Vicente. The building has a 12th-century Romanesque nucleus, including the nave, presbytery and the semicircular apse. In the 16th century the side chapels, the sacristy and the bell tower were added, and in the 18th century another chapel and a portico.
Twin towns
Cadeilhan-Trachère, France
References
External links
Municipalities in the Province of Huesca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Sotonera | La Sotonera is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. It is situated between Huesca and Ayerbe in the Hoya de Huesca. According to 2018 (INE) data, the municipality has a population of 894 inhabitants.
The municipality was created in 1973 by merging the communities of Bolea, Esquedas, Lierta, Plasencia del Monte and Quinzano. Bolea had united in 1965 with the adjacent community of Puibolea, but previously Puibolea had been part of Lierta. Esquedas was owned by the Count of Sobradiel from 1670 until being bought by the residents in 1921.
La Sotonera is 165.5 km2 in size, including a small exclave to the south-west of Banastás and Alerre. The Sierra de Gratal mountains make up the northern boundary of La Sotonera and include the emblematic Gratal peak with an elevation of 1567 metres. The Hermitage of the Virgin of the Rock is situated in this range overlooking Aniés.
The village of Bolea is the main settlement in La Sotonera and is well known for its Collegiate Church which was declared a National Monument of Historic and Artistic Value in February 1983.
La Sotonera has one railway station at Plasencia del Monte which is on the RENFE-operated line from Huesca to Jaca and Canfranc. Despite its name, the large reservoir known as Embalse de La Sotonera lies outside of the municipality to the south-west.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Huesca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20P%C3%B3veda%20de%20Soria | La Póveda de Soria is a municipality located in the province of Soria, Castile and León, Spain. According to the latest 2019 data from the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE), the municipality has a population of 123 inhabitants.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Soria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krondor%3A%20Tear%20of%20the%20Gods | Krondor: Tear of the Gods is a fantasy novel by American author Raymond E. Feist, the third book in his The Riftwar Legacy series. It is a novelization of the computer game Return to Krondor.
Plot
The story opens with a closer look at the person behind the plots to force the Kingdom of the Isles into war with its neighbors. The sorcerer Sidi uses a pirate named Bear to create chaos in the Kingdom.
Squire James of Krondor is sent by Arutha, Prince of Krondor, to escort the newly appointed court magician, Jazhara, to the palace. In doing so, they discover a silk maker using child labor to make profits. Jazhara discovers that the trader is actually a spy for her great-uncle, Hazara-Kahn, Ambassador of the Empire of Great Kesh. James and Jazhara proceed to kill the spy and his guards, and to free the children. After searching the shop, they discover that the spy was a double agent, working for the crime lord The Crawler.
After the new court magician, Jazhara is introduced to the Prince, Arutha, James is tasked with taking Jazhara on a tour of Krondor. Jazhara has, in the past, had a love affair with young William (the son of Duke Pug, the master magician). She is eager to speak to William about their affair. James leads Jazhara to the Rainbow Parrot Inn, where they are greeted with a scene of carnage. Upon entering the scene is a massacre. William is alive and confronted by 3 armed men. Squire James and Jazhara immediately go to William's aid and the men are soon dispatched. William's new sweetheart is lying close to death and they discover that the man "Bear" is behind the attack. Talia soon dies, with William vowing to avenge her death.
Soon after, there is a loud rocking explosion and the three investigate and finds the prison in chaos, as apparently Bear broke into the prison to reach a person with a specific knowledge that Bear's master needed. Having tortured the information out of the prisoner, Bear escapes, but not before killing the man.
Soon after, a high priest of the Temple of Ishap sheds light on some recent events: that the Temple had been transporting a divine artifact by ship, when it was raided and sunk, the artifact included. The artifact, called the Tear of the Gods, allows the priests of various temples to channel the divine will of the gods, without which, humanity would be cut off from the gods. William, Jazhara, and James are tasked by Prince Arutha to retrieve the artifact. Joined by a representative of the temple, a warrior priest, they recruit a member of a magicians' guild to raise the sunken ship.
Having successfully retrieved the artifact, they are beset by Bear, who proves to be immune to nearly any attack. Talia's final gift to William then manifests; as Talia was an acolyte of Kahooli, the God of Retribution, her final gift turns William into an avatar of the deity for a short time, and he defeats Bear.
2000 American novels
2000 fantasy novels
American fantasy novels
HarperCollins books
Novels based |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villar%20de%20la%20Yegua | Villar de la Yegua is a municipality located in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain. (data from INE), the municipality has a population of 198 inhabitants.
The municipal territory is home to the Siega Verde Paleolithic art site, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2010.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Salamanca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20Analysis%20Branch | The United States Satellite Analysis Branch, part of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service's Satellite Services Division, is the operational focal point for real-time imagery products within NESDIS. It is also responsible for doing Dvorak technique intensity fixes on tropical cyclones. Its roots lie in the establishment of the Meteorological Satellite Section by January 1959.
Its primary mission is to "operate new proof of concept satellite analysis techniques needed to support disaster mitigation and warning services" for the U.S. government and its agencies. It also distributes real-time satellite imagery from geostationary satellites. The SAB also produces graphics for Tropical Rainfall Potential forecasts for all tropical systems in the Western Hemisphere and many in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Away from tropical cyclones, the SAB functions as the Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center, having been designated as such by the International Civil Aviation Organization in 1997. It also does snow and ice analysis, and has done so, along with its parent organizations NESDIS and SSD, since 1966.
References
External links
SSD page for current geostationary satellite imagery
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Davida | George I. Davida is an American computer scientist and cryptographer. He is an outspoken proponent of public access to cryptography and an opponent of various National Security Agency (NSA) and US federal government policies and initiatives like the Clipper chip, a stance dating back to his 1977 reception of a gag order from the NSA under the Invention Secrecy Act relating to a patent application for a stream cipher device, using research funded by a National Science Foundation grant. He used to work at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Iowa. He was director of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Center for Cryptography, Computer and Network Security, until retiring in 2010.
References
External links
American cryptographers
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noleby%20Runestone | The Noleby Runestone, which is also known as the Fyrunga Runestone or Vg 63 for its Rundata catalog listing, is a runestone in Proto-Norse which is engraved with the Elder Futhark. It was discovered in 1894 at the farm of Stora Noleby in Västergötland, Sweden.
Description
The Noleby Runestone was dated by Sophus Bugge to about 600 AD, and cannot be dated any younger than about 450 AD due to its language and rune forms. It is notable because of its inscription runo [...] raginakundo which means "runes of divine origin" and which also appears in the later Sparlösa Runestone and the eddic poem Hávamál. This is of importance for the study of Norse mythology since it indicates that the expressions and the contents of the Poetic Edda are indeed of pre-historic Scandinavian origin.
The runic inscription consists of three lines of text between bands, with the second line considered untranslatable and often listed as being a "meaningless formula." The Noleby is the only runestone in Scandinavia that uses the star rune form for [j] rather than for /a/ or /h/. The name Hakoþuz in the last line of the inscription is believed to mean "crooked one," although other interpretations have been suggested.
The Noleby Runestone is now located in the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm.
Inscription
Below follows a presentation of the runestones based on the Rundata project. The transcriptions into Old Norse are in the Swedish and Danish dialect to facilitate comparison with the inscriptions, while the English translation provided by Rundata gives the names in the de facto standard dialect (the Icelandic and Norwegian dialect):
Transcription of the runes into Latin letters
runo fahi raginakudo toj-a ¶ unaþou ÷ suhurah : susi(h)—tin ¶ hakuþo
Transliteration into Proto Norse
Runo fahi raginakundo toj[e'k]a. ... Hakoþuz.
Translation into English
"I prepare the suitable divine rune ... for Hakoþuz."
See also
Jēran
References
Other sources
The article Fyrungastenen in Nordisk familjebok (1908).
External links
Photograph of Noleby Runestone
Runestones in Västergötland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20software | Integrated software is a software for personal computers that combines the most commonly used functions of many productivity software programs into one application.
The integrated software genre has been largely overshadowed by fully functional office suites, most notably Microsoft Office, but at one time was considered the "killer application" type responsible for the rise and dominance of the IBM PC in the desktop business computing world.
In the early days of the PC before GUIs became common, user interfaces were text-only and were operated mostly by function key and modifier key sequences. Every program used a different set of keystrokes, making it difficult for a user to master more than one or two programs. Programs were loaded from floppy disk, making it very slow and inconvenient to switch between programs and difficult or impossible to exchange data between them (to transfer the results from a spreadsheet to a word processor document for example). In response to these limitations, vendors created multifunction "integrated" packages, eliminating the need to switch between programs and presenting the user with a more consistent interface.
The convenience of an all-in-one purchase as well as the potential for greater ease-of-use made integrated software attractive to home markets as well as business, and packages such as the original AppleWorks for the Apple II, Vizastar for the Commodore 64 and Jane for the Commodore 128 were developed in the 1980s to run on most popular home computers of the day. Commodore even produced the Plus/4 computer with a simple integrated suite built into ROM.
Context MBA was an early example of the genre, and featured spreadsheet, database, chart-making, word processing and terminal emulation functions. However, because it was written in Pascal for portability, it ran slowly on the relatively underpowered systems of the day. Lotus 1-2-3, which followed it, had fewer functions but was written in x86 assembler, providing it with a speed advantage that allowed it to become the predominant business application for personal computers in the 1980s.
BYTE asked in 1984, "Why should owners of advanced, multifunction business programs that are supposedly easy to use and that claim to solve all problems be compelled to purchase a utility like Sidekick? It makes you wonder about all those advertising claims." Perhaps Framework and Symphony represented the peak of integrated software products, amid questions about the genre's viability under the new graphical user interfaces. The GUI on a Macintosh or Microsoft Windows, based around a desktop metaphor and typically enforcing a set of user interface guidelines for developers, enjoyed much greater consistency between standalone applications, removing one of the main motivations behind integrated packages. Microsoft stated in 1985 that hardware limited the power of all-in-one programs, and that simultaneously using multiple applications like Excel under Switcher on the Ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUNA | LUNA is a computer product line of OMRON Tateishi Electric from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. The LUNA is a 20 MHz/m68030 desktop computer. NetBSD has supported the LUNA since 1.4.2, released in 2000.
The later Omron Luna 88K was available in two models: the DT8840 and TD8860 with 1–4 25 MHz 88100 CPUs and 64 MB RAM. The native operating system was CMU Mach 2.5 and Omron UniOS.
References
http://www.3rz.org/mirrors/badabada.org/luna88k.html
External links
NetBSD/luna68k Information
Omron Luna 88k pictures
Personal computers
68k-based computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMGW | WMGW (1490 AM) is a commercial radio station in Meadville, Pennsylvania, the seat of government for Crawford County. WMGW is owned by Seven Mountains Media.
Programming is simulcast on one other Seven Mountains Media station, WFRA 1450 AM in Franklin. WMGW is also heard on 250-watt FM translator W264DK at 100.7 MHz.
History
Early years
WMGW signed on the air in 1947, as the first radio station in Crawford County. It was founded by Meadville physician Dr. Harry C. Winslow. Dr. Winslow chose his daughter's initials (Mary Grace Winslow) for the station's call letters. A year after WMGW's founding, an FM station was added at 100.3, WMGW-FM. For the first three decades, WMGW and WMGW-FM mostly simulcast their programming.
Like many small-town radio stations, WMGW-AM-FM broadcast a full service radio format through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, consisting of local, world and national news, local and Pittsburgh sports, and adult contemporary music. World and national news was provided by ABC News and the Associated Press radio network.
In the early 1970s, WMGW-AM-FM were purchased by the Regional Broadcasters Group headquartered in Kingston, New York. The FM station's call sign was changed to WZPR as a tribute to Meadville's Talon Corporation which, nearly a century earlier, had become America's first manufacturer of "hookless fasteners" or zippers. While WMGW's format remained the same, WZPR changed to automated beautiful music, and in 1978 it switched to its current format, country music, eventually taking the WGYY call sign.
Changes in ownership
WMGW was purchased by Great Circle Broadcasting in 1983, a division of the now-defunct Music Broadcasting Group. Approximately five years prior to the purchase, the studios and offices of both stations had moved from their second floor location on Park Avenue to the Downtown Mall on Water Street in Meadville, allowing shoppers to see a glimpse of the stations at work. The station remains in this location today.
In 1999, Music Broadcasting began negotiations to sell WMGW and its FM sister station WZPR, to Altoona, Pennsylvania-based Forever Broadcasting, which had been looking to gain a foothold in Northwest Pennsylvania. Forever Broadcasting acquired both stations the following year for an undisclosed price.
Switch to talk and sports
By the 1990s, most listeners were tuning to FM stations for music. WMGW gradually eliminated its music programming. In 199, WMGW switched to a format of all news, talk, and sports. It formed the Allegheny News Talk Sports Network, along with two other AM stations owned by Forever Broadcasting. The network consisted of a "trimulcast" outside of morning drive, with all stations sharing the same lineup of nationally syndicated talk shows after 9 a.m., including Glenn Beck, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Dave Ramsey, Jim Bohannon, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and America in the Morning. Sports broadcasts included Pittsburgh Pirates baseball, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Rivers%20Greenway%20District | The Great Rivers Greenway District is a public agency created in 2000 to develop a regional network of greenways. Great Rivers Greenway engages citizens and community partners to plan, build and care for the greenways. In its first 20 years the agency built more than 128 miles of greenways connecting parks, rivers, schools, neighborhoods, business districts and transit.
Origin
Great Rivers Greenway was established in November 2000 by the passage of Proposition C – The Clean Water, Safe Parks and Community Trails Initiative – in the City of St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles County, Missouri. Proposition C created a one tenth of one cent sales tax devoted to the creation of an interconnected system of greenways, parks and trails. The initiative was one of 11 priorities formulated by St. Louis 2004, a nonprofit organization formed in 1996 with the mission of bringing about a renaissance in the region by 2004.
Governance
A twelve-member Board of Directors representing the three areas and appointed by the executive of the city or county they represent governs the distribution of funds for developing the River Ring, the system of interconnected greenways, parks and trails. A Chief Executive Officer and staff carry out the development of the River Ring, working with local, county and state agencies as well as private and non-profit agencies throughout the St. Louis region.
Plans
In 2003, Great Rivers Greenway developed "Building the River Ring: A Citizen- Driven Regional Plan" to establish a long-term vision for the St. Louis region. Developed with advice from citizens, local governments, private companies, non-profit organizations and advocacy groups, the Plan identified a system of 40+ greenways comprising over 600 miles of greenways and trails throughout the three counties. Named the River Ring, the concept is designed to raise awareness of the natural beauty found in the region's many rivers and streams and to reconnect residents to the primary natural feature resulting in the City's founding, the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
The River Ring system will connect parks, trails and greenways in St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and St. Charles County. Each of these greenways will follow the natural paths of rivers and streams in the area. The system will connect with trails developed by the Metro East Park and Recreation District of St. Clair and Madison Counties in Illinois.
Every five years, Great Rivers Greenway engages citizens, civic leaders and partners to update the Citizen-Driven Regional Plan. Updates to the plan were published in 2011 and 2016. In 2020 the agency began surveying citizens about priorities to build and care for the greenways to inform the next update to the plan.
As recommended in the 2016 update to the Regional Plan, the Great Rivers Greenway Foundation was launched in 2016 to seek private funding for greenway projects.
Greenways
Greenways within the district:
Boschert Greenway - The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bobby%20Vinton%20Show | The Bobby Vinton Show was a Canadian musical variety television series produced for the CTV Television Network between 1975 and 1978, with a total of 52 episodes broadcast. Featuring Bobby Vinton, a best-selling popular music singer since the early 1960s, the series mixed comedy skits with musical interludes. Appearing on the series as a regular was comedian Billy Van. The series often satirized Vinton's Polish heritage, and its theme song was an "umpah band" rendition of his 1974 song "My Melody of Love" (Vinton also ended each episode by performing the song himself). The series was created by Chris Bearde and packaged by Chuck Barris. The shows always commenced with a large woman named Monique dancing the guest out to the stage.
The series was syndicated to local stations in the United States, although the program's entry in the user-edited Internet Movie Database suggests it may also have been broadcast by CBS during 1975 (CBS did broadcast his one-hour special, Bobby Vinton's Rock N' Rollers, during 1978).
The series also spawned a 1975 soundtrack album on ABC Records; see The Bobby Vinton Show (album).
Guests appearing on the show included:
Adrienne Barbeau
Anne Murray
Arte Johnson
Barbara Walters
Charlie Callas
Clifton Davis
Donna Summer
Ethel Merman
Foster Brooks
Henny Youngman
Jessica Walter
John Byner
Lainie Kazan
Lesley Gore
Loretta Swit
Lynn Anderson
O. J. Simpson
Petula Clark
Phyllis Diller
Tanya Tucker
Ted Knight
The Spinners
External links
The Bobby Vinton Show on TV.com
CTV Television Network original programming
1975 Canadian television series debuts
1978 Canadian television series endings
1970s Canadian variety television series
1970s Canadian music television series
Television series by Barris Industries
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Television series created by Chris Bearde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris%20Wulfson | Harris Wulfson (18 July 1974 – 23 July 2008) was an American composer, instrumentalist and software engineer in Brooklyn, New York. His work employed algorithmic processes and gestural controllers to explore the boundary where humans encounter their machines.
He was involved in the creation of various custom software tools called Automatic Notation Generators (ANGs) developed to aid in the creation of algorithmic instrumental compositions. His writing on live generated music notation has been presented at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference, and in August 2007, he spoke on the topic of ANGs at the International Computer Music Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
For the 2006 Look and Listen Festival in New York City, Wulfson presented his 'SensorBall,' a small electronic device, slightly larger than a baseball, with pressure-sensitive controls, all wired to a laptop computer and the results channeled through loudspeakers. When pressed and rotated, the ball produces sounds that erupt apparently without pattern.
Wulfson graduated from Amherst College and later received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His teachers included Stephen Mosko, Morton Subotnick, James Tenney, and Lew Spratlan.
Wulfson was also an accomplished violinist, accordionist, and mandolin player, an active performer of experimental music, and an avid folk musician. He was a member of the Object Collection ensemble and the Society of Automatic Music Notators, which initiated the LiveScore real-time music notation project, and has performed with the World on a String band, King Wilkie, Metropolitan Klezmer, Golem, and Margot Leverett.
In addition, Wulfson was a software engineer and web pioneer. He was the technical project manager at N2K Inc. from August, 1996 through March 1998. He built the bulletin board for jazzcentralstation.com and was the creator of "The Empty Chair."
On July 23, 2008, he died by suicide. In December 2008, Scrapple Records issued a recording of Jeremy Woodruff's Tunebook A as realized by the AB Duo (Seth Meicht and Jeremy Woodruff on saxophones and flute), a work dedicated to Wulfson.
References
External links
Samples of Wulfson's compositions
1974 births
2008 suicides
2008 deaths
American male composers
Amherst College alumni
California Institute of the Arts alumni
20th-century American composers
20th-century American male musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusomundo%20Action | Lusomundo Action was a Portuguese premium movie channel that started airing on 16 April 2004 and it aired action and horror movies. It was the third channel on the Lusomundo network.
On 1 November 2007, the channel changed its name to TVC2. The channel is owned by PT Conteúdos, a television content producer that is owned by ZON Conteúdos.
Portuguese-language television networks
Defunct television channels in Portugal
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2007
2004 establishments in Portugal
2007 disestablishments in Portugal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20natural%20gas%20proven%20reserves | This list is based on CIA The World Factbook (when no citation is given). or other authoritative third-party sources (as cited). Based on data from EIA, at the start of 2021, proven gas reserves were dominated by three countries: Iran, Russia, and Qatar.
There is some disagreement on which country has the largest proven gas reserves. Sources that consider that Russia has by far the largest proven reserves include the US CIA (47600 cubic kilometers), the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) (49000 km³), and OPEC (48810 km3). However, BP credits Russia with only 32900 km3, which would place it in second place, slightly behind Iran (33100 to 33800 km3, depending on the source).
Due to constant announcements of shale gas recoverable reserves, as well as drilling in Central Asia, South America and Africa, deepwater drilling, estimates are undergoing frequent updates, mostly increasing. Since 2000, some countries, notably the US and Canada, have seen large increases in proved gas reserves due to development of shale gas, but shale gas deposits in most countries are yet to be added to reserve calculations.
Data
* indicates "Natural gas in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" or "Natural resources of COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
Comparison of proven natural gas reserves from different sources (cubic kilometers, as of 31 December 2014/1 January 2015)
See also
List of countries by natural gas production
List of countries by proven oil reserves
List of natural gas fields
References
Energy-related lists by country
List
Lists of countries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20price%20index%20formulas | A number of different formulae, more than a hundred, have been proposed as means of calculating price indexes. While price index formulae all use price and possibly quantity data, they aggregate these in different ways. A price index aggregates various combinations of base period prices (), later period prices (), base period quantities (), and later period quantities (). Price index numbers are usually defined either in terms of (actual or hypothetical) expenditures (expenditure = price * quantity) or as different weighted averages of price relatives (). These tell the relative change of the price in question. Two of the most commonly used price index formulae were defined by German economists and statisticians Étienne Laspeyres and Hermann Paasche, both around 1875 when investigating price changes in Germany.
Laspeyres
Developed in 1871 by Étienne Laspeyres, the formula:
compares the total cost of the same basket of final goods at the old and new prices.
Paasche
Developed in 1874 by Hermann Paasche, the formula:
compares the total cost of a new basket of goods at the old and new prices.
Geometric means
The geometric means index:
incorporates quantity information through the share of expenditure in the base period.
Unweighted indices
Unweighted, or "elementary", price indices only compare prices of a single type of good between two periods. They do not make any use of quantities or expenditure weights. They are called "elementary" because they are often used at the lower levels of aggregation for more comprehensive price indices. In such a case, they are not indices but merely an intermediate stage in the calculation of an index. At these lower levels, it is argued that weighting is not necessary since only one type of good is being aggregated. However this implicitly assumes that only one type of the good is available (e.g. only one brand and one package size of frozen peas) and that it has not changed in quality etc between time periods.
Carli
Developed in 1764 by Gian Rinaldo Carli, an Italian economist, this formula is the arithmetic mean of the price relative between a period t and a base period 0.
On 17 August 2012 the BBC Radio 4 program More or Less noted that the Carli index, used in part in the British retail price index, has a built-in bias towards recording inflation even when over successive periods there is no increase in prices overall.
Dutot
In 1738 French economist Nicolas Dutot proposed using an index calculated by dividing the average price in period t by the average price in period 0.
Jevons
In 1863, English economist William Stanley Jevons proposed taking the geometric average of the price relative of period t and base period 0. When used as an elementary aggregate, the Jevons index is considered a constant elasticity of substitution index since it allows for product substitution between time periods.
This is the formula that was used for the old Financial Times stock market index (the predecessor of the FTSE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic%20distance | Psychic distance is a perceived difference or distance between objects. The concept is used in aesthetics, international business and marketing, and computer science.
Psychic distance is made up of the Greek word "psychikos" (ψυχικός), an adjective referring to an individual's mind and soul, and "distance", which implies differences between two subjects or objects. Some therefore argue that the concept exists in the mind's eye of the individual and it is their subjective perception that uniquely determines "psychic distance". As a result, it is often viewed as a humanistic reflection of individual acuity and not a collective, organisational or societal perspective. However, in the international business context, psychic distance is frequently measured in terms of national averages or in terms of the national-level differences that influence those perceptions.
In his book, King refers to his preference to use the term "aesthetic distance" rather than psychic distance, as he feels the latter term has misleading connotations in current usage.
Aesthetics
In 1912 Cambridge's Edward Bullough wrote of it in a long paper entitled, Psychical Distance as a factor in Art and an Aesthetic Principle which appeared in the British Journal of Psychology. In this he set down in a reasonably complete manner the concept as it applied to the arts.
Evidently, he successfully influenced thinkers 50 years later. Donald Sherburne, for example, says, "Edward Bullough's psychical distance has become "a classic doctrine of aesthetic thinking." And James L. Jarrett writes of Bullough's ideas, "Perhaps no more influential idea has been introduced into modern aesthetics than that of psychical distance."
The psychical distance construct has been used as an intercultural theme by the arts in the study of creative detachment between East and West. Despite such cameo appearances in other fields, the concept has been essentially "operationalised" by business with the marketing function acting as the chief curator.
International business and marketing
In international business (IB) and marketing settings, psychic distance is based on perceived differences between a home country and a "foreign" country regardless of physical time and space factors which differ across diverse cultures. It is a subjective type of distance ("perceived differences") unlike the distances forming the CAGE framework, for instance. This makes psychic distance very difficult to measure, and oftentimes fallacious proxies are used to estimate it (e.g., Kogut & Singh (1988) index using Hofstede's (1980) cultural dimensions). More accurate approaches rely on asking decision-makers their perceptions towards different host countries (e.g., Hakanson & Ambos, 2010), or using its antecedents to estimate it (psychic distance stimuli: Dow & Karunaratna, 2006).
The business origins of the "psychic distance" idiom can be traced back to research conducted by Beckerman (1956) and Linnemann (1966). As a fully form |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overground | Overground may refer to:
Transport
London Overground, the official brand name of a London suburban railway run by Transport for London since 2007
By analogy, a commuter rail network in general
"Overground" trains, an informal, colloquial term for National Rail services in London, used to distinguish them from London Underground services
Overground Network, a former temporary brand name for suburban railways in south London, UK, which is now defunct
Music
Overground (band), a German boy band
"Overground" (song), a single released by Siouxsie & the Banshees
"Overground", a song released by Ruslana on her Wild Energy (album)
See also
Underground (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%20Cabral | Len Cabral is an American storyteller who was awarded the Circle of Excellence in 2001 by the National Storytelling Network after being recognized by his peers as a master storyteller.
Biography
Cabral, whose grandparents came from Cape Verde, was born in North Providence, Rhode Island, on 24 April 1948. In the early 1970s, he worked in a day care center, where he realised the power of storytelling to entertain children and to teach them how to listen and communicate. In 1976, he began traveling to tell stories to school children, adults and senior citizens, firstly within New England, and then across the US. He tells traditional folk tales from Cape Verde, Native America, the Caribbean, and other places around the world, as well yarns from his own life. Among his stories are tales of Anansi, Tubino and Nho Lobo, Coyote and Old Man Winter and other 'how and why' tales.
He is well known for his enthusiastic hand gestures and character voices. He performs at storytelling festivals across the country and internationally, and is a regular performer at the National Storytelling Festival.
Selected works
1996 - Stories for the Wee Folk (audiocassette / CD)
1996 - It's How You Say It (audiocassette / CD)
1997 - Len Cabral's Storytelling Book
Awards
Parents' Choice Silver Honor award for It's How You Say It
National Storytelling Network Circle of Excellence, 2001
See also
Storytelling
Storytelling festival
References
External links
Official website
Living people
1950 births
American storytellers
Artists from Rhode Island
American people of Cape Verdean descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20TV%20Media | Life TV Media was an independent UK broadcaster who produced television content for its own channels and other broadcasters.
History
Life TV Media started their programming on the Sky Digital platform in October 2000 with Liberty TV. The channnel was rebranded as Life TV on 5 October 2001. A timeshift channel, Life TV +2, was launched on 18 April 2005.
By 2007 the company had three of its own channels, Life TV, Life 24 and Life Showcase TV which on 20 August 2007 they compacted into just one station, Life One, due to their EPG re-shuffle Life TV Media sold the Sky Digital EPG numbers of its three previous stations to the Channel Four Television Corporation so that Channel 4 could group all of their channels together in one block.
When operating as Life One the programming was split into seven 'zones' and each zone was focused on different types of programmes. The seven zones were Lifestyle, Factual, Sports, Music, Reality, Drama and Films.
Before it suddenly went off air and off the Sky listings on 11 March 2008, Life One broadcast for 24 hours a day on Sky Channel 197. No explanation was given for its unexpected disappearance. However, after a few weeks of testing outside of the EPG Life One returned to its old slot on Sky's EPG at channel number 197.
However, Life One closed down again on 16 June 2008. Life One then relaunched as Life on 11 August 2008 on Sky EPG 197 and it timeshared with Over 18 TV. Life moved to channel number 186 on 1 September 2008. Life was finally removed from the Sky EPG on 15 September 2009.
See also
List of ITV channels
List of British television channels
References
External links
Television production companies of the United Kingdom
Mass media companies established in 2000
Mass media companies disestablished in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20H.%20Goode | Harry H. Goode (June 30, 1909 – October 30, 1960) was an American computer engineer and systems engineer and professor at the University of Michigan. He is known as co-author of the book Systems Engineering from 1957, which is one of the earliest significant books directly related to systems engineering.
Biography
Harry H. Goode (née Goodstein) was born in New York City in 1909. He received his B.A. in history from New York University in 1931, when the country was in the depths of the Depression. While studying chemical engineering at Cooper Union, Goode earned his living playing the clarinet and saxophone in New York jazz bands. He received his second bachelor's degree in 1940. During the war he attended Columbia University and received a master's degree in mathematics in 1945.
In 1941 Goode started working as a statistician for the New York City Department of Health. From 1946 to 1949 Goode worked for the U.S. Navy in Sands Point, Long Island, where he became head of the Special Projects Branch. Here he contributed to flight control simulation training, aircraft instrumentation, antisubmarine warfare, weapons systems design, and computer research and initiated computerbased simulation projects.
In the 1950s Goode became professor at the University of Michigan. Until his death in 1960 he was president of the National Joint Computer Committee (NJCC). He was the principal architect of what was to become AFIPS (American Federation of Information Processing Societies). Had he lived, Goode undoubtedly would have become the first president of AFIPS, for he was the prime mover in organizing the three American constituent societies that were members of NJCC into one federation.
Work
Harry Goode worked on the research frontiers of Management Science, Operations Research and Systems engineering in connection with organisms as systems, the reactions of groups, models of human preference, the experimental exploration of human observation, detection, and decision making, and the analysis and synthesis of speech.
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
The IEEE Computer Society yearly awards a Harry H. Goode Memorial Award for achievements in the information processing field which are considered either a single contribution of theory, design, or technique of outstanding significance, or the accumulation of important contributions on theory or practice over an extended time period, the total of which represent an outstanding contribution.
Publications
Goode wrote several books and articles. Books:
1944 Mathematical Analysis of Ordinary and Deviated Pursuit Curves, with Leonard Gillman, Special Devices Section, Training Division, Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, 264 pp. 1944.
1957 Systems Engineering: An Introduction to the Design of Large-Scale Systems, with Robert Engel Machol, McGraw-Hill, 551 pp.
Articles, a selection:
1945 "Service Records and Their Administrative Uses", with Abraham H. Kantrow, Leona Baumgartner, in: Am J Public Health Nations He |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRCU | KRCU at Southeast Missouri State University includes three stations that provide news and music programming to nearly 1.9 million people in its service regions of Southeast Missouri, Southern Illinois and the Parkland.
KRCU is located in and licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on 90.9 FM, and is a 6,500 watt station. KRCU's signal covers Cape Girardeau, Jackson, Sikeston, Marble Hill, Perryville and several communities in southern Illinois.
It signed on with 10 watts of power as a student-run college station in March 1976. In 1981 it increased power to 100 watts, and in 1988 it began transitioning to a public radio format. In November 1990, KRCU became an NPR member station. In 1992 KRCU increased power again, to 6,000 watts. It has since increased to 6,500 watts, allowing the signal to be heard within a 50 mile radius.
KRCU has two repeater stations: KSEF and KDMC-FM. KSEF 88.9 FM is located in Farmington, Missouri and is a 20,000 watt station. KSEF's signal covers Farmington, Park Hills, Ste. Genevieve, Fredericktown, Potosi, Festus, and reaches into South County St. Louis. Signing on in September 2006, KSEF was previously licensed to Farmington, Missouri until changed to nearby Sainte Genevieve, Missouri in May 2010. KDMC-FM 88.7 is located in Van Buren, Missouri and is a 100,000 watt station. KDMC-FM's signal covers Van Buren, Poplar Bluff, Piedmont, Eminence, and Doniphan. KDMC-FM signed on in May 2020 after the facility was acquired from the Here's Help Network.
KRCU broadcasts 24 hours a day from facilities located on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau and provides practical broadcast experience for students of the University.
KRCU is affiliated with NPR, PRX, and APM. These programming services provide many public radio favorites like All Things Considered, Morning Edition, 1A and Live from Here. Popular local programs include A Harte Appetite, Caffe Concerto, Discover Nature, and Your Folk Connection.
External links
KRCU/KSEF homepage
KRCU online feed
RCU
NPR member stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serviceability%20%28computer%29 | In software engineering and hardware engineering, serviceability (also known as supportability) is one of the -ilities or aspects (from IBM's RAS(U) (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability, and Usability)). It refers to the ability of technical support personnel to install, configure, and monitor computer products, identify exceptions or faults, debug or isolate faults to root cause analysis, and provide hardware or software maintenance in pursuit of solving a problem and restoring the product into service. Incorporating serviceability facilitating features typically results in more efficient product maintenance and reduces operational costs and maintains business continuity.
Examples of features that facilitate serviceability include:
Help desk notification of exceptional events (e.g., by electronic mail or by sending text to a pager)
Network monitoring
Documentation
Event logging / Tracing (software)
Logging of program state, such as
Execution path and/or local and global variables
Procedure entry and exit, optionally with incoming and return variable values (see: subroutine)
Exception block entry, optionally with local state (see: exception handling)
Software upgrade
Graceful degradation, where the product is designed to allow recovery from exceptional events without intervention by technical support staff
Hardware replacement or upgrade planning, where the product is designed to allow efficient hardware upgrades with minimal computer system downtime (e.g., hotswap components.)
Serviceability engineering may also incorporate some routine system maintenance related features (see: Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OA&M.))
A service tool is defined as a facility or feature, closely tied to a product, that provides capabilities and data so as to service (analyze, monitor, debug, repair, etc.) that product. Service tools can provide broad ranges of capabilities. Regarding diagnosis, a proposed taxonomy of service tools is as follows:
Level 1: Service tool that indicates if a product is functional or not functional. Describing computer servers, the states are often referred to as ‘up’ or ‘down’. This is a binary value.
Level 2: Service tool that provides some detailed diagnostic data. Often the diagnostic data is referred to as a problem ‘signature’, a representation of key values such as system environment, running program name, etc. This level of data is used to compare one problem’s signature to another problem’s signature: the ability to match the new problem to an old one allows one to use the solution already created for the prior problem. The ability to screen problems is valuable when a problem does match a pre-existing problem, but it is not sufficient to debug a new problem.
Level 3: Provides detailed diagnostic data sufficient to debug a new and unique problem.
As a rough rule of thumb for these taxonomies, there are multiple ‘orders of magnitude’ of diagnostic data in level 1 vs. level 2 vs. level |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20B.%20Fisher | Craig B. Fisher (January 19, 1932 – September 18, 2006) was an American network and cable television producer. He spent more than 25 years with ABC, CBS, and NBC News Division in New York and Washington, D.C., and more than two decades as a freelance writer and producer. Fisher was responsible for over one thousand hours of live, film and videotape, studio and location television and corporate productions.
He was born in 1932 to Col. Dale D. and Francise Fisher, during Col. Fisher's tour of duty in Manila, the Philippines. Fisher was president of the student government at the University of Maryland, graduating in 1954. As a U.S. Air Force captain, he was a public relations and motion picture officer from 1955 to 1957.
Today program
Fisher created, produced, and wrote numerous NBC network news programs, from hard-news to special events. He was hired by NBC as Associate Producer of Today under Dave Garroway, where, over the years Fisher provided many unknown talents with a first network break, including Simon and Garfunkel’s first national TV appearance. He hired Barbara Walters for her first job in TV as a writer for Hugh Downs, when Downs was the star of Today. Later, Fisher promoted Walters to the on-air “Today Girl.”
NBC producer
Among Fisher’s award-winning programs, his NBC network series included Sunday, a weekly magazine format series; the mini-series Testing; and Exploring, a weekly children’s series featuring art, dance, theater, music, and science segments. Fisher’s other credits as producer/writer were The Smithsonian; Louis Rukeyser’s Business Journal; The New York Times of the Air; Views of a Vanishing Frontier, Anyplace Wild; Washington Redskins Games, a Super Bowl pre-game show; and segments for 20/20. While director of the NBC Science Unit, Fisher wrote, produced, and directed an award-winning series of programs about ecology and anthropology. Fisher was nominated for six Emmy Awards for his nature series for: "The Ice People"; "The Prairie"; "The Great Barrier Reef"; "Man, Beast and The Land"; "The First Americans," and won an Emmy for his documentary The Everglades.
PBS producer
For PBS Fisher created, co-wrote, and produced Outerscope, a children's dramatic series to help overcome the effects of prejudice, using actors such as Andrea McCardle and Daniel Stern, with life-sized puppets. Fisher was producer and director of the popular children's series Alphabet Soup. Also for PBS he produced and wrote individual programs for the series Feeling Good and Heritage: Civilization & the Jews.
Fisher wrote and produced The Big Little World of Roman Vishniac, a television special and a 32 screen multi-media program for the Jewish Museum in New York on the work of the celebrated photographer/scientist Roman Vishniac. He produced and co-wrote specials on the opening of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and on the Museum of Modern Art in New York, interviewing many artists, including Stuart Davis, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexander Calder, Marc C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant%20flow | In computer networking, an elephant flow is an extremely large (in total bytes) continuous flow set up by a TCP (or other protocol) flow measured over a network link. Elephant flows, though not numerous, can occupy a disproportionate share of the total bandwidth over a period of time. It is not clear who coined "elephant flow", but the term began occurring in published Internet network research in 2001 when the observations were made that a small number of flows carry the majority of Internet traffic and the remainder consists of a large number of flows that carry very little Internet traffic (mice flows). For example, researchers Mori et al. studied the traffic flows on several Japanese universities and research networks. At the WIDE network they found elephant flows were only 4.7% of all flows but occupied 41.3% of all data transmitted during the time period.
The actual impact of elephant flows on Internet traffic is still an area of research and debate. Some research shows that elephant flows may be highly correlated with traffic spikes and other elephant flows (Lan & Heidemann and Mori et al.). Elephant flows have varying definitions proposed by researchers including flows that occupy greater than 1% of total traffic in a time period, measuring the duration of the flow, and looking at flows whose size is greater than the mean plus three standard deviations of traffic during the time period. One of the main goals of research into elephant flows is to develop more efficient bandwidth management tools and predictive models for the Internet. For example, researchers have focused on providing better quality of service to flows of small sizes (mice flows) by de-prioritizing elephant flows.
Elephant flows can also be viewed from the perspective of a network appliance such as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). In this context the number of bytes on the flow is less significant than the instantaneous processing load required to service the flow, where the processing load depends on the IPS configuration (how much work it is supposed to do) and the byte rate (flow throughput). An elephant flow could thus be defined as a flow that exceeds a given total service time within a particular time interval
For example, if just a single CPU core is used to process a flow, an elephant flow could be considered any flow for which the processing load exceeds the capacity of the CPU core. This in turn could be defined by dropped packets or an excess latency for any packet to transit the device. Obviously, lower thresholds can be applied and more cores could be used but the basic concept of required processing load relative to processing capacity holds.
To see how this differs from simply looking at the total bytes on a flow, consider two flows F1 and F2 with N1 and N2 total bytes respectively and where N2 = 1000*N1. It is possible that N1 is an elephant flow while N2 is not, if for example the required inspection of F1 is more complex than that of F2 and/or i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver%20software | Quicksilver Software may refer to:
Quicksilver Software, Inc. - Irvine, CA based developer of computer and video games and other software
Quicksilver (software) - Utility software program for Mac OS X |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous%20delay | Rendezvous delay is a term that pertains to mobile wireless networking, and the hand-off of a mobile device from one base station to a new base station. It is the amount of time elapsed for a mobile networked device to attach to the new base station after it has stopped its link with its old base station. The nature of this delay depends on the type of wireless network and the protocols used.
References
The Stochastic Rendezvous Network Model for Performance of Synchronous Client-Server-like Distributed Software, C. Murray Woodside, John E. Neilson, IEEE Transactions on Computers, January 1995 (Vol. 44, No. 1) pp. 20–34
Network performance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreopsis%20nudata | Coreopsis nudata, the Georgia tickseed, is a herbaceous perennial plant species of the genus Coreopsis in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the southeastern United States, in the states of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Coreopsis nudata is a perennial herb sometimes as much as 100 cm (40 inches) tall. Flower heads have pink or purple ray florets and yellow disc florets. The species grows in swamps, ditches, and pine barrens.
References
nudata
Flora of the Southeastern United States
Plants described in 1818
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPC%20Corporation | MPC Corporation was a computer-hardware company based in Nampa, Idaho, United States. It was best known as a provider of desktops, notebooks, servers and services to customers in the federal, state and local government, education, small and medium business, and consumer markets. Before June 2001, MPC Corporation was known as Micron Electronics Inc., a subsidiary of Boise-based semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology.
MPC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 7, 2008, three days after their common stock was delisted from the NYSE Alternext U.S. exchange (formerly the American Stock Exchange). On December 31, 2008, MPC notified the Idaho Department of Labor that its efforts to reorganize had failed and the company would cease operations.
History
MPC Computers (originally named Micron Electronics Inc.) was founded privately in Nampa, Idaho in 1995 through a merger of ZEOS International, Micron Computer, and Micron Custom Manufacturing. From 1995 to 2001, Micron Electronics Inc. sold consumer and business computers under the names Micron, MicronPC, and MicronPC.com. The acquisition of HostPro (Web.com) in 1999 under CEO Joel Kocher brought the firm into the web hosting space. In June 2001, in an all-stock deal, Gores Technology Group acquired the MicronPC business from Micron Technology. In December 2002, the company changed its name from MicronPC to MPC Computers.
In July 2005, application acceleration provider HyperSpace Communications Inc. merged with MPC Computers in a stock-swap deal. Because HyperSpace became a public company in 2004, MPC Computers was able to avoid the rigorous process of becoming a public company. MPC Corporation was listed on the NYSE Alternext US LLC exchange (formerly the American Stock and Options Exchange) as ticker symbol MPZ until being delisted. In January 2007, HyperSpace Communications Inc. changed its name to MPC Corporation. In September 2007, MPC Corporation announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire Gateway, Inc.'s Professional Services Unit business line for approximately $90 million.
Stock delisting
In early May 2008, the AMEX notified MPC that it was not in compliance with AMEX regulations because the company's stockholder equity had fallen below $2 million and that MPC had sustained losses from continuing operations or net losses in two of its three most recent fiscal years. MPC responded to that notice by filing a plan to achieve compliance which AMEX accepted June 27, 2008, giving MPC until Nov. 9, 2009 to bring itself back to viability under AMEX rules. However, in October 2008 the exchange (which changed its name to NYSE Alternext at the beginning of that month) notified MPC that MPC was not making progress consistent with its submitted plan and said that the plan no longer demonstrated the company's ability to regain compliance with exchange regulations. Exchange officials also concluded that MPC was not compliant with other standards related to the company's overall financial |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20Single%20Board%20Computers | Motorola Single Board Computers is Motorola's production line of computer boards for embedded systems. There are three different lines : mvme68k, mvmeppc and mvme88k. The first version of the board appeared in 1988. Motorola still makes those boards and the last one is MVME3100.
NetBSD supports the MVME147, MVME162, MVME167, MVME172 and MVME177 boards from the mvme68k family, as well as the MVME160x line of mvmeppc boards.
OpenBSD supports the MVME141, MVME165, MVME188 and MVME197 boards.
References
Motorola products
PowerPC mainboards
68k architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristache%20Gheorghiu | Cristache Gheorghiu (; born May 2, 1937) is a Romanian writer, painter, mechanical engineer and computer scientist.
In literature, Gheorghiu is best known as an essayist. An engineer by profession, he is known for his research on cybernetics. In the latter part of his life Gheorghiu has devoted himself to literature and art.
Biography
Gheorghiu was born in Roman, Romania, the son of Victor and Aurora Gheorghiu (born Vintilă). Victor Gheorghiu was an officer in the Romanian army who died in 1941 during the invasion of the Soviet Union in Odessa.
Cristache Gheorghiu attended the Lyceum Roman Voda, in Roman. He graduated from Gheorghe Asachi Technical University in 1959, with a master's degree in engineering. Gheorghiu worked as a mechanical engineer in Romanian enterprises and as a master designer in the County Institute of Design “Prahova”.In 1970, Gheorghiu switched his profession to computer science, as a result of attending the courses organised by C.I.I. France, from which Romania has bought the license for producing electronic computers.
Gheorghiu has published numerous scientific research articles. The main theme of his researches was "Territorial Information System". As recognition of his contribution, his name is mentioned in "The history of Science in Romania", the chapter "Cybernetics", and two of his scientific works has been selected in "Study of the Romanian Contribution in the Development of Cybernetics", (Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, 1981).
Gheorghiu has had numerous personal exhibitions and there are his paintings in many private collections or decorating public spaces. In literature he is known particularly as an essayist, his books – novels, travel notes or essays as it – always having deeper connotations than the apparent form the wording. He created and maintained the electronic publication "ADVERSA RES – a magazine of cultural confluences", where he used to comment the main cultural events from Brasov, where he moved in 1972. After retirement, he settled in Athens, Greece.
Books
U.S.A. '95, (in Romanian)
Singur printre americani (in Romanian)
America After America (in English)
Intre doua idealuri (in Romanian)
Traditie sau liberul arbitru? (in Romanian language)
Where Is My Way? (in English language)
Remanente informatice (Scientific researches, in Romanian )
Memoriile unui catel adult (in Romanian)
asFORisme - un fel de cugetari (in Romanian)
asFORisme - A Kind of Thoughts
Filosofia unui bolovan (in Romanian)
Grecia - note de calatorie (in Romanian)
America after America, JustFiction Edition, Germany, 2012, (in English)
Scrisori din Atena, Editura Pastel, 2012 (in Romanian)
A Boulder’s Philosophy, Bibliotastic, New York, 2012, (in English)
With Love from Athens, 2012, (in English)
Anastasia, 2013, (in Romanian)
Anastasia, 2013, (in English)
asFORisme 2 - A Kind of Thoughts, 2013,
asFORisme 2 - Un fel de cugetari, 2013, (in Romanian)
Eseuri vesele si triste, 2014, (in Romanian)
Caut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20historical%20Gnutella%20clients | Many projects have attempted to use the Gnutella network, since its introduction in early 2000. This list enumerates abandoned or discontinued projects.
List of discontinued clients
List of former gnutella clients
Software that still work but dropped the GNUtella protocol.
Additional information
Mutella
Developers - Max Zaitsev, Gregory Block
Operating system - UNIX
Latest release version - 0.4.5
Genre - peer-to-peer
License - GPL
Website - Mutella development site
Mutella was a Gnutella client developed by Max Zaitsev and Gregory Block. It had two user interfaces, one for textmode use and another called remote control, which ran on an integrated web server and was used by a web browser. The first public version of Mutella was published on October 6, 2001.
The Mutella logo was changed into a squid somewhere around version 4.1. Before this change the logo used to be an Ouroboros. There was a blue and a black version of the ouroboros logo.
SwapNut
Slashdot reports that LimeWire and SwapNut used the same code. The website was www.swapnut.com.
XoloX
XoloX was a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer file sharing application for Windows. It advertised having no spyware, adware, or hijackware. However, upon installation, it prompted the user to install programs suspected to be of that kind. Also, Microsoft Anti-Spyware detected adware programs when you started to install the program.
XoloX links
www.xolox.nl was the Official Website. Dead since June 2007.
Review: Xolox
See also
Abandonware
Comparison of Gnutella software
References
Discontinued Gnutella Clients
Gnutella clients
Gnutella clients, historical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam%20carving | Seam carving (or liquid rescaling) is an algorithm for content-aware image resizing, developed by Shai Avidan, of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), and Ariel Shamir, of the Interdisciplinary Center and MERL. It functions by establishing a number of seams (paths of least importance) in an image and automatically removes seams to reduce image size or inserts seams to extend it. Seam carving also allows manually defining areas in which pixels may not be modified, and features the ability to remove whole objects from photographs.
The purpose of the algorithm is image retargeting, which is the problem of displaying images without distortion on media of various sizes (cell phones, projection screens) using document standards, like HTML, that already support dynamic changes in page layout and text but not images.
Image Retargeting was invented by Vidya Setlur, Saeko Takage, Ramesh Raskar, Michael Gleicher and Bruce Gooch in 2005. The work by Setlur et al. won the 10-year impact award in 2015.
Seams
Seams can be either vertical or horizontal. A vertical seam is a path of pixels connected from top to bottom in an image with one pixel in each row. A horizontal seam is similar with the exception of the connection being from left to right. The importance/energy function values a pixel by measuring its contrast with its neighbor pixels.
Process
The below example describes the process of seam carving:
The seams to remove depends only on the dimension (height or width) one wants to shrink. It is also possible to invert step 4 so the algorithm enlarges in one dimension by copying a low energy seam and averaging its pixels with its neighbors.
Computing seams
Computing a seam consists of finding a path of minimum energy cost from one end of the image to another.
This can be done via Dijkstra's algorithm, dynamic programming, greedy algorithm or graph cuts among others.
Dynamic programming
Dynamic programming is a programming method that stores the results of sub-calculations in order to simplify calculating a more complex result. Dynamic programming can be used to compute seams. If attempting to compute a vertical seam (path) of lowest energy, for each pixel in a row we compute the energy of the current pixel plus the energy of one of the three possible pixels above it.
The images below depict a DP process to compute one optimal seam. Each square represents a pixel, with the top-left value in red representing the energy value of that pixel. The value in black represents the cumulative sum of energies leading up to and including that pixel.
The energy calculation is trivially parallelized for simple functions. The calculation of the DP array can also be parallelized with some interprocess communication. However, the problem of making multiple seams at the same time is harder for two reasons: the energy needs to be regenerated for each removal for correctness and simply tracing back multiple seams can form overlaps. Avidan 2007 computes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinotaenium | Actinotaenium is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Desmidiaceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Desmidiaceae
Charophyta genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmocladium | Cosmocladium is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Desmidiaceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Desmidiaceae
Charophyta genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonatozygon | Gonatozygon is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Gonatozygaceae.
References
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Desmidiales
Charophyta genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplotaenium | Haplotaenium is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Desmidiaceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Desmidiaceae
Charophyta genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyalotheca | Hyalotheca is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Desmidiaceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Desmidiaceae
Charophyta genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onychonema | Onychonema is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Desmidiaceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Desmidiaceae
Charophyta genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penium | Penium is a genus of green algae, and the sole member of the family Peniaceae. The genus contains about 39 species.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Desmidiales
Charophyta genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phymatodocis | Phymatodocis is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Desmidiaceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Desmidiaceae
Charophyta genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaerozosma | Sphaerozosma is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Desmidiaceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Desmidiaceae
Charophyta genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondylosium | Spondylosium is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Desmidiaceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Desmidiaceae
Charophyta genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetmemorus | Tetmemorus is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Desmidiaceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Desmidiaceae
Charophyta genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPKall | IPKall was a public switched telephone network to voice over IP call forwarding service. Users were able to register with the service to obtain a phone number chosen from several Washington State area codes and have all calls to that number forwarded to their Session Initiation Protocol or Inter-Asterisk eXchange uniform resource identifier, including an Asterisk server.
The telephone company that provided IPKall numbers is International Telcom; they also provide a flat-rate $1/month area code 206 inbound fax service as Faxaway, a non-free voice and fax service as Kall8 (with toll-free or US local numbers) and the Kallback and KallCents discount outbound long-distance services.
IPKall's popularity stemmed from the fact that it was probably the last remaining, widely accessible US-based VoIP service offering free-of-charge PSTN numbers.
Business model
The IPKall business model appears to be based on its ability to charge termination rates for calls reaching its subscribers, estimated at about $.01/min, as the service is free for end users. The wholesale price for major interexchange carriers to terminate calls to independent telcos in rural Washington (state) and similar locations (such as northern Minnesota and Iowa) is often several cents a minute higher than typical US48 rates; this money is effectively a subsidy to the destination local rural exchange.
New registered numbers should receive a call within 72 hours of creation. And also, numbers which don't receive calls within 30 days are taken to be inactive and removed from the service.
Direct customer support is not provided. The free plan does not support outgoing calls, except to toll-free telephone numbers.
Discontinuation of service
On February 16, 2016, IPKall announced the discontinuation all existing services as of May 1, 2016 without explanation.
See also
Voice over IP
Direct inward dial
Traffic pumping
References
External links
IPKall
Telecommunications companies of the United States
VoIP companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHCP%20snooping | In computer networking, DHCP snooping is a series of techniques applied to improve the security of a DHCP infrastructure.
DHCP servers allocate IP addresses to clients on a LAN. DHCP snooping can be configured on LAN switches to exclude rogue DHCP servers and remove malicious or malformed DHCP traffic. In addition, information on hosts which have successfully completed a DHCP transaction is accrued in a database of bindings which may then be used by other security or accounting features.
Other features may use DHCP snooping database information to ensure IP integrity on a Layer 2 switched domain. This information enables a network to:
Track the physical location of IP addresses when combined with AAA accounting or SNMP.
Ensure that hosts only use the IP addresses assigned to them when combined with source-guard a.k.a. source-lockdown
Sanitize ARP requests when combined with arp-inspection a.k.a. arp-protect
References
Internet Standards
Application layer protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removable | Removable may refer to:
Removable media, computing/electronic data storage
Removable partial denture, dentistry
Removable User Identity Module (R-UIM), telecommunication
In mathematical analysis
Removable discontinuity
Removable set
Removable singularity
See also
Removal (disambiguation)
Remove (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20BR%20%27Britannia%27%20Class%20locomotives | Below are the names and numbers of the steam locomotives that comprised the BR Standard Class 7, or 'Britannia' Class that ran on the British Railways network. They represented an attempt to standardise steam design for ease of maintenance and usage. Celebrating key British historical figures, the class name was based upon a suggestion by Bishop Eric Treacy.
Fleet list
References
7
BR standard class 7
Railway locomotives introduced in 1951
Br Britannia Class Locomotives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gift%20%282007%20TV%20program%29 | The Gift is an Australian observational documentary television program that aired on the Nine Network at , Thursdays. It was narrated by 60 Minutes journalist Tara Brown. The Gift explores the stories and importance of organ donation in Australia. A second series aired at 9:00pm Wednesdays, debuting on 12 August 2009.
References
Australian medical television series
Nine Network original programming
2007 Australian television series debuts
2009 Australian television series endings
Television series by Fremantle (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrhead%20South%20railway%20station | Barrhead South was once one of four railway stations in Barrhead, Renfrewshire (now East Renfrewshire), Scotland.
A new station presumed to be named Barrhead South has been approved by Network Rail in conjunction with East Renfrewshire Council. This station has a Spring 2024 construction start with opening planned for Summer/Autumn 2025. The new station will be located off Balgraystone Road. The road network leading to the new station is now complete.
History
The station was originally part of the Paisley and Barrhead District Railway. The line was opened in 1897 and used for freight until the 1960s but none of the stations including this one opened for passenger travel.
Situated in the hills south of Barrhead, it was the only side platform station on the Paisley and Barrhead District Railway. It is clear from the wagons in the photograph that some railway activity took place in the area.
Recently, with housing development opening up nearby, the local council have confirmed they will be opening a station at a similar location to serve both new developments at Barrhead South and also at the Dams to Darnley Park.
References
Notes
Sources
Disused railway stations in East Renfrewshire
Unbuilt railway stations in the United Kingdom
Barrhead
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1897 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20proven%20oil%20reserves | Proven oil reserves are those quantities of petroleum which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated, with a high degree of confidence, to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward from known reservoirs and under current economic conditions.
Some statistics on this page are disputed and controversial—different sources (OPEC, CIA World Factbook, oil companies) give different figures. Some of the differences reflect different types of oil included. Different estimates may or may not include oil shale, mined oil sands or natural gas liquids.
Because proven reserves include oil recoverable under current economic conditions, nations may see large increases in proven reserves when known, but previously uneconomic deposits become economic to develop. In this way, Canada's proven reserves increased suddenly in 2003 when the oil sands of Alberta were seen to be economically viable. Similarly, Venezuela's proven reserves jumped in the late 2000s when the heavy oil of the Orinoco Belt was judged economic.
Sources
Sources sometimes differ on the volume of proven oil reserves. The differences sometimes result from different classes of oil included, and sometimes result from different definitions of proven.
[The data below does not seem to include shale oil and other "unconventional" sources of oil such as tar sands. For instance, North America has over 3 trillion barrels of shale oil reserves, and the majority of oil produced in the USA is from shale, leading to the paradoxical data below that the USA will finish all its oil at current production in 11 years, because the production is mostly from shale but the reserves cited omit all shale reserves.]
Comparison of proven oil reserves from some widely used sources (billions of barrels, as of 31 Dec 2014)
Countries
Reserves amounts are listed in millions of barrels.
* indicates "Oil reserves in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" or "Energy in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
See also
List of countries by oil production
List of countries by oil consumption
List of countries by natural gas proven reserves
References
Oil, proven
Reserves
List of countries by proven oil reserves
Lists of countries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captology | Captology is the study of computers as persuasive technologies. This area of inquiry explores the overlapping space between persuasion in general (influence, motivation, behavior change, etc.) and computing technology. This includes the design, research, and program analysis of interactive computing products (such as the Web, desktop software, specialized devices, etc.) created for the purpose of changing people's attitudes or behaviors.
B. J. Fogg in 1996 derived the term captology from an acronym: Computers As Persuasive Technologies. In 2003, he published the first book on captology, entitled Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do.
Captology is not the same thing as Behavior Design, according to BJ Fogg who is the person who coined both terms and created the foundation for both areas.
See also
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Humu (software)
References
Further reading
External links
The Stanford University Persuasive Technology Lab
The Web Credibility Project
Persuasive Computers: Perspectives and Research Directions
Computing culture
1990s neologisms
Persuasion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netdisco | Netdisco is a network management tool suitable for small to very large networks. IP address and MAC address data is collected into a PostgreSQL database using SNMP, CLI, or device APIs. It allows network administrators to locate the exact switch port of any node connected to the network.
Details
Netdisco utilizes SNMP to fetch ARP tables from routers and MAC tables from layer 2 switches. If Cisco Discovery Protocol, Link Layer Discovery Protocol, Foundry Discovery Protocol or SynOptics Network Management Protocol is available, discovery of the network topology is mostly automatic. In case the above-mentioned protocols are not enabled (for example due to incompatibilities between the network devices or for security reasons) the topology can be defined manually. A record is maintained of the IP addresses and ports each node has used.
History
Netdisco was created at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), Networking and Technology Services (NTS) department in 2003 by Max Baker, with significant contributions from Mark Boolootian and Jim Warner (through whose ideas Netdisco was born and shaped), Bill Fenner, and Eric Miller. In 2011 a major rewrite was completed by Oliver Gorwits and this remains the current version under active development.
See also
OSI layer
Computer network
Comparison of network monitoring systems
References
https://www.linux.com/news/discovering-your-network-netdisco
External links
Official Website
Demo Installation
Community Mail List
Download and Installation
Internet Protocol based network software
Free network management software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean%20Cities%20Coalition%20Network | The Clean Cities Coalition Network is a coordinated group of nearly 100 coalitions in the United States working in communities across the country to advance affordable, domestic transportation fuels, energy efficient mobility systems, and other fuel-saving technologies and practices.
Indiana
The State of Indiana contains two designated Clean Cities coalitions: Greater Indiana Clean Cities and South Shore Clean Cities. Greater Indiana Clean Cities serves the following Indiana counties: Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn, Decatur, Delaware, Dubois, Fayette, Floyd, Fountain, Franklin, Gibson, Grant, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Harrison, Hendricks, Henry, Howard, Huntington, Jackson, Jay, Jefferson, Jennings, Johnson, Knox, Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Martin, Miami, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Ohio, Orange, Owen, Parke, Perry, Pike, Posey, Putnam, Randolph, Ripley, Rush, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, Sullivan, Switzerland, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Union, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, Wabash, Warren, Warrick, Washington, Wayne, Wells, White.
Greater Indiana News:
Indiana Soybean Alliance and Indiana Corn Marketing Council find a successful relationship in Greater Indiana
Greater Indiana Clean Cities Meets With Congress
Greater Indiana Clean Cities Names Clean Fleet Award Winners
South Shore Clean Cities serves northern Indiana: the eighteen counties, Benton, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Lake, LaPorte, Marshall, Newton, Noble, Porter, Pulaski, St. Joseph, Starke, Steuben and Whitley.
September 6, 2011 - Environmentalist touts Yellowstone's eco success story
September 20, 2011- South Shore Clean Cities award electric vehicles to northern Indiana cities.
October 16, 2011 - All charged up, but nowhere to plug
December 16, 2011 - Tube City IMS Brings Lean and Green Locomotive to northwest Indiana
Maryland
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority. Better known as simply "Metro," the authority provides transit services to the metropolitan area in and around Washington, D.C. The authority has a fleet of 1,500 buses, including 74 hybrid electric buses and Metro plans to have nearly 500 more hybrid-electric buses by 2012. Vice Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, who last year committed to convert the entire Maryland Transit Administration bus fleet to hybrid-electric buses by 2014. Maryland has already accelerated its purchase of hybrid-electric buses with the help of Recovery Act funds (Clean Cities).
Tennessee Clean Fuels
The state of Tennessee has two designated Clean Cities coalitions: the East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition and the Middle-West Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition. They sometimes operate under the shared name "Tennessee Clean Fuels". Both were designated in 2004, and collectively serve the entire state.
Many fleets in Tennessee use alternative fuels like the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; cities like Knoxville, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle%20Arts%20Trust | The Triangle Network, formally known as the Triangle Arts Trust, is an international arts organisation that brings together artists from different countries to explore new ideas and expand the boundaries of their practice.
History
The Triangle Network was established in 1982 by British businessman Robert Loder and sculptor Anthony Caro. It was initiated through a series of artists' workshops providing an uninterrupted period of two weeks where 20–25 artists from diverse cultural backgrounds engage with each other, to explore new ideas and expand the boundaries of their practice.
David Elliott was appointed to chair the board, succeeding Robert Loder who retired in 2009. Loder remained a trustee of the organization until 2012.
Description
The Triangle Network is organised as a network of artists, visual art organisations, and artists-led workshops. It currently is active in over 30 countries. Each centre within the Network is independent and set up to respond to local needs. The object of the workshops is "to counterbalance the tendency of the Western art world to put the emphasis on the object and its marketing rather than on the creative process itself".
It coalesces grassroots arts organisations around the world (many of which were initiated as workshops while others grew independently), so that artists' mobility, international cultural exchange and capacity building objectives can be shared.
The Triangle Network is registered as a charitable organisation in the UK as the Triangle Arts Trust.
Associated organisations and workshops
Europe
Braziers workshop, UK
The Cornelius Arts Foundation, France
Cyfuniad workshop, UK
Gasworks Gallery, UK
HANGAR, Portugal
Pamoja workshop, UK
Shave workshop, UK
Northings, Tanera Mor, Scotland
Triangle Barcelona workshop, Spain
Triangle France, France
Middle East
Al Mahatta, Palestine
Batroun Projects, Lebanon
Wasla Workshop, Egypt
Open Studio Project Cairo, Egypt
Rybon Art Center, Tehran, Iran
Africa
32° East, Uganda
ABRO International Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Aftershave workshop, Nigeria
Bag Factory, Johannesburg
Batapata workshop, Zimbabwe
Greatmore Studios, Cape Town
Kuona Trust & Wasanii workshop, Kenya
Mbile/Insaka workshops, Zambia
Ngoma workshop, Uganda
Njelele, Zimbabwe
Pachipamwe workshop, Zimbabwe
Partage, Mauritius
Rafiki workshop, Tanzania
Rockston Studios, Zambia
Tenq workshop, Senegal
Thapong workshop, Botswana
Thupelo workshop, Cape Town and Johannesburg
Tulipamwe workshop, Namibia
Ujamaa workshop, Mozambique
Asia and Australia
112A residency, China
Britto Arts Trust, Bangladesh
Burragorang workshop, Australia
Cona Foundation, India
Flats workshop, Australia
Hong Kong International Artists' Workshop
KHOJ, India
Kimberley workshop, Australia
Lijiang workshop, China
No.1 Shanthi Road, India
Organhaus, China
Sutra workshop & residency, Nepal
Theertha, Sri Lanka
Upriver Loft residency, China
Vasl workshop & residency, Pakistan
Village workshop, Rajasthan
United States
Triangle NYC, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wheel%20%28charity%29 | The Wheel () is a support and representative network for the community and voluntary sector in Ireland. It is a charitable organisation, registered with the Charities Regulator in Ireland.
The Wheel is similar in nature to a number of UK councils for voluntary activity, including the NCVO, SCVO, WCVA, and NICVA. It provides support services, advice and advocacy to individuals and organisations. It also undertakes research and surveys amongst its members, and organises conferences and events.
References
External sites
Charities based in the Republic of Ireland
Volunteer organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20communications%20network | Personal communications network (PCN) is the European digital cellular mobile telephone network. The underlying standard is known as Digital Cellular System, which defines a variant of GSM operating at 1.7–1.88 GHz. GSM-1800 has since been adopted by other locations, not necessarily under the PCN/DCS name. The network structure, the signal structure and the transmission characteristics are similar between PCN and GSM-900.
The PCN system was first initiated by Lord Young, UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, in 1988. The main characteristics of PCN are as follows:
Operating frequency – 1.7–1.88 GHz (1710–1785 MHz and 1805–1880 MHz).
Uses 30 GHz or up for microwave back bone system.
Covers both small cells and large cells.
Coverage inside and outside buildings.
Hand over.
Cell delivery.
Portable hand set.
User intelligent network.
The UK government's Department for Enterprise produced 'Phones on the Move: Personal Communications in the 1990s - a discussion document' in January 1989. The document presented a vision for how mobile communications might develop which outlined ideas for both the PCNs and the CT2 standards.
PCN is comparable to the North American Personal Communications Service band allocation. The 1800 MHz DCS band is reused in UMTS, LTE and 5G NR; it sees real-world deployment in LTE as "band 3".
External links
Press Notice: LORD YOUNG CALLS FOR APPLICATIONS TO RUN "PHONES ON THE MOVE"
Telephony
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0%20on%20fire | lp0 on fire (also known as Printer on Fire) is an outdated error message generated on some Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems in response to certain types of printer errors. lp0 is the Unix device handle for the first line printer, but the error can be displayed for any printer attached to a Unix or Linux system. It indicates a printer error that requires further investigation to diagnose, but not necessarily that it is on fire.
Printer flammability
In the late 1950s, high speed computerized printing was still a somewhat experimental field. The first documented fire-starting printer was a Stromberg-Carlson 5000 xerographic printer (similar to a modern laser printer, but with a CRT as the light source instead of a laser), installed around 1959 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and modified with an extended fusing oven to achieve a print speed of one page per second. In the event of a printing stall, and occasionally during normal operation, the fusing oven would heat paper to combustion. This fire risk was aggravated by the fact that if the printer continued to operate, it would feed a fire with fresh paper at high speed. However there is no evidence of the "lp0 on fire" message appearing in any software of the time.
As the technology matured, most large printer installations were drum printers, a type of impact printer which could print an entire line of text at once through the use of a high speed rotary printing drum. It was thought that in the event of a severe jam, the friction of paper against the drum could ignite either the paper itself, or, in a dirty machine, the accumulated paper and ink dust in the mechanism. Whether this ever happened is not known; there are no reports of friction-related printer fires.
The line printer employed a series of status codes, specifically ready, online, and check. If the online status was set to "off" and the check status was set to "on," the operating system would interpret this as the printer running out of paper. However, if the online code was set to "on" and the check code was also set to "on", it meant that the printer still had paper, but was suffering an error (and may still be attempting to run). Due to the potentially hazardous conditions which could arise in early line printers, Unix displayed the message "on fire" to motivate any system operator viewing the message to go and check on the line printer immediately.
In the early 1980s, Xerox created a prototype laser printer engine and provided units to various computer companies. To fuse the toner, the paper path passed a glowing wire. If paper jammed anywhere in the path, the sheet in the fuser caught fire. The prototype UNIX driver reported paper jams as "on fire." Later print engine models used a hot drum in place of the wire.
Phrase origins
Michael K. Johnson ("mkj" of Red Hat and Fedora fame) wrote the first Linux version of this error message in 1992. However, he, Herbert Rosmanith and Alan Cox (all Linux de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20knowledge%20engineering%20environment | In the computer science fields of knowledge engineering and ontology, the Sigma knowledge engineering environment is an open source computer program for the development of formal ontologies. It is designed for use with the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology. It originally included only the Vampire theorem prover as its core deductive inference engine, but now allows use of many other provers that have participated in the CASC/CADE competitions.
References
External links
Sigma web site
TPTP/CADE
Ontology (information science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVN%20Media%20Network | AVN Media Network is a publishing, digital media and event management company for the adult entertainment industry. AVN Media Network's portfolio of businesses includes several widely recognized adult industry publications, expos, shows, and communities. These include gfy.com, an adult webmaster community, AVN magazine, AVN Online, GAYVN and AVN Adult Entertainment Expo.
AVN Media Network, Inc. is headquartered in the Chatsworth, CA
See also
AVN Adult Entertainment Expo
Pornography in the United States
References
External links
Official Website
Adult entertainment companies
Event management companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jackie%20Thomas%20Show | The Jackie Thomas Show is an American sitcom that aired on the ABC network from December 1992 to March 1993. The series received widespread attention due to its creators Roseanne Arnold, then starring in the fifth season of her comedy Roseanne, and her then-husband and Roseanne co-producer Tom Arnold. The Jackie Thomas Show starred Tom Arnold as a misanthropic sitcom actor.
Premise
As Jackie Thomas, Arnold played a former nightclub comic and slaughterhouse worker now starring in his own sitcom (a show-within-a-show), also called "The Jackie Thomas Show." As described in one review, Arnold's character was "an obnoxious, loud-mouthed tyrant who fires writers, producers, actors, even the show's caterers, on the slightest whim." In the premiere episode (written by the Arnolds with Brad Isaacs), Jackie demanded that the child actor portraying his sitcom son be killed off, due to Jackie's jealousy over the amount of fan mail received by the boy.
"He's unbelievable," Tom Arnold said of the Jackie Thomas character. "It's a guy you love to hate. He has his own reality and it's different from the people around him. And you go, 'Gosh, the guy is such a jerk.' But you have compassion for him, especially as the show goes on, because you learn where he came from, what's really going on with him." The character was named in tribute to Arnold's two favorite comedians, Jackie Gleason and Danny Thomas.
From the beginning, The Jackie Thomas Show was intended to be an ensemble production, as Arnold "didn't feel [he] was ready" to support a show on his own. The cast included recurring Roseanne guest star Martin Mull as a network executive, Dennis Boutsikaris, Michael Boatman, Paul Feig and Maryedith Burrell as writers and Alison LaPlaca as an office assistant.
The show was designed partly as an homage to The Dick Van Dyke Show, which centered around a fictional television variety show with a tyrannical star. (A photo of Dick Van Dyke was displayed prominently on a character's desk in the first Jackie Thomas episode.) Roseanne Arnold said that she had always "wanted to do a TV show that talks about television."
Cast
Tom Arnold as Jackie Thomas
Alison LaPlaca as Laura Miller
Dennis Boutsikaris as Jerry Harper
Michael Boatman as Grant Watson
Paul Feig as Bobby Wynn
Maryedith Burrell as Nancy
Martin Mull as Doug Talbot
Comparisons to the Arnolds
Critics drew many comparisons between the premise of The Jackie Thomas Show and Roseanne and Tom Arnold's real lives. Like Jackie Thomas, Tom Arnold had worked at a meatpacking plant and as a nightclub comic before realizing fame and fortune in the sitcom world. The Arnolds were also notorious for quarreling with Roseanne'''s writing staff and firing writers on a whim, much like the fictional Thomas.Kaye, Jeff. "'Feeding the Monster': Life Behind 'Roseanne'." Los Angeles Times, 1992-12-29, p. 1. The couple acknowledged the similarities; Tom Arnold was quoted, "We wanted to take the show-business end of our lives and mix the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostRank | PostRank was a social media analytics service that used a proprietary ranking algorithm to measure "social engagement" with published content based on blog comments and links, Internet bookmarks, clicks, page views, and activities from social network services such as Twitter, Digg, Facebook and Myspace. In June 2011, PostRank was acquired by Google.
The company was formerly called AideRSS, Inc. In October 2008, AideRSS re-launched their website as postrank.com to focus the company's work on the core PostRank technology. In July 2009, the company officially changed its name to PostRank Inc.
Services
The company developed and offered multiple services:
PostRank Data Services, launched in July 2009, was a collection of APIs and reports to provide real-time and data mining Social Web data to companies to use in applications, measure marketing, and for strategic planning. The service provided a free API that was used, for example, to rank TED talks by engagement.
PostRank Analytics, launched in September, 2009, was a service for bloggers and online publishers to track where and how their audiences are sharing and organizing their content on the Social Web and perform competitive analysis.
PostRank Connect, launched in August, 2010, was a service for brands and public relations and marketing agencies to work with bloggers to run product campaigns and receive consulting services.
Google Analytics
After acquisition, PostRank functionality was integrated into Google Analytics:
On December 8, 2011 Google Analytics announced the Analytics Social Data Hub at LeWeb Paris.
On March 20, 2012 Google Analytics launched social reporting functionality.
On May 1, 2012, the PostRank services were sunset.
References
Web analytics
Google acquisitions
Discontinued_Google_acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WM6 | WM6 may refer to:
WrestleMania VI, a professional wrestling pay-per-view
Windows Mobile 6, a mobile operating system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Rizal%20System | The University of Rizal System (URS) is a network of colleges located in the Rizal province, Philippines. It operates multiple campuses, with the main campus being in Tanay, Rizal.
It is committed to produce graduates in agriculture, engineering, science and technology, culture and arts, teacher and business education through instruction, research, extension and production services in Region IV.
The university has expanded from its Main campus in Tanay to offer programs to students in the campuses: Angono, Antipolo, Binangonan, Cainta, Cardona, Morong, Pililla, Rodriguez, Tanay, and Taytay.
History
The Rizal State College was established by Republic Act Number 1560 in 1956 as Rizal National Agricultural School (RNAS). It was chartered as a state college on June 24, 1983, by Batas Pambansa Bilang 662 known as Rizal College of Agriculture and Technology (RCAT). It was later named Rizal State College (RSC) making it the first state college of the Province of Rizal. The college is about 67 kilometers from Metro Manila and accessible to towns of Rizal through Manila East Road through the newly opened sea level in the Sierra Madre Mountain range and is overlooking the Laguna Lake and the surrounding lake towns. The college has five extension campuses located in four of the thirteen towns of Rizal namely: Pililla, Rodriguez, Angono, Binangonan, and in the lone City of Antipolo which were established in 1991, 1995, 1996 and 2000, respectively.
The Rizal Polytechnic College (formerly Rizal Technological and Polytechnic Institute or RTPI) was established as a provincial high school in 1944. It is located in the heart of the town of Morong. By virtue of Batas Pambansa Bilang 469, the school was converted into a tertiary institution and on March 1, 1995, Republic Act Number 7933 converted RTPI into a state college known as Rizal Polytechnic College (RPC). The college has an extension campus in Cainta which was opened in 1999.
With the passage of Republic Act Number 9157 in June 2001 which lapsed into law on August 11, 2001, the University of Rizal System (URS) was established by integrating the Rizal State College, Rizal Polytechnic College and Rizal Technological University - Antipolo Annex.
Organization and administration
The Board of Regents is the highest decision-making body of the University of Rizal System. It is composed of 12 members.
References
http://www.chanrobles.com/republicactno9157.html
http://www.urs.edu.ph
Republic Act No. 9157 | Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines
External links
Official website
President's Blog
Universities and colleges in Rizal
State universities and colleges in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O26%20%28text%20editor%29 | O26 was a text editor named after the IBM model 026 keypunch (the first character being an alphabetic "O" rather than numeric "0" due to operating system restrictions). The editor could be run on the CDC 6000 series, and later Cyber-70 and -170 series operator consoles. According to source code listings of the SCOPE version of O26, it was written in 1967 by CDC programmers Greg Mansfield and David Cahlander.
Other early CDC full-screen editors
An independently developed full screen editor was written in 1967 by Edgar T. Irons and Franz M. Djorup at the Institute for Defense Analyses to run on a CDC 6600. This editor was described in a later ACM article as operating "from low-cost cathode-ray tube entry and display stations with keyboard and 13 function buttons." The terminals used were CDC 210 display terminals, specially modified with extra function keys. The IDA editor (name not given in the paper) ran on IDA's homegrown time-sharing system known as IDA-CRD.
References
External links
Desktop CYBER Emulator Screenshots
List of O26 Commands
comp.sys.cdc newsgroup comment about O26
Control Data Corporation mainframe software
Text editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboCAD | TurboCAD is a CAD software application for 2D and 3D design and drafting which runs on MacOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Windows versions
TurboCAD Pro Basic and Platinum editions contain general drafting tools, as well as tools for 3D architectural and mechanical design. Both editions can create ACIS Solids or TC Surface objects, as well as Surface Meshes. The Basic edition contains a limited set of architectural and mechanical tools, whereas Platinum contains all the tools. For less demanding users, a less expensive TurboCAD Deluxe 2D/3D version is available. Its 3D tools are TC Surface tools, and it has a limited number of architectural and mechanical tools. For users needing only 2D functionality, there is the much less expensive TurboCAD Designer. With the exception of TurboCAD Designer, the other TurboCAD releases support both 2D drafting and 3D modeling tools.
Mac versions
The Mac versions of the software are built on a separate codebase and are not directly comparable with the Windows versions. TurboCAD Mac Pro contains both 2D and 3D tools, while the standard version is for 2D drafting only.
IMSI Design released a High Sierra-compatible version of TurboCAD v10 in February 2018.
TurboCAD history
Early days
TurboCAD was originally developed in South Africa by Hendrik Vermooten and Hein Oosthuizen. Initial hardware support was for a specific device configuration: Hercules monochrome graphics cards, HP7475 plotters with keyboard for data entry. The first version of TurboCAD fit on a single 360kb floppy disk so that it could run on the original IBM PC. The source code also fit on a single floppy disk along with the 30kb required by the "development environment": Turbo Pascal 2.0.
TurboCAD was released around the same time as Generic CADD in the United States. Both TurboCAD and Generic CADD's marketing objectives were the same – create a viable, low-cost competitor to AutoCAD. But because Generic CADD launched in the U.S. before TurboCAD, it received much more positive press about its low price, (approximately $600 originally), and quickly achieved a large and loyal customer base. The release of Generic CADD in the PC market was, at that time, the biggest ‘CAD event’ since Autodesk had reinvented CAD pricing with its initial release in 1981.
South Africans Philip Copeman and Michael Cartwright worked on redesigning the product. Roy Abrams and Philip Copeman introduced it to the United Kingdom markets as TurboCAD in late 1986. This release was made under the brand Pink Software, with other stake holders; John Glennie, Digby Prior, and Janine Copeman. Support was added for more video cards (EGA, Olivetti, etc.), input devices (Summagraphics digitizer, and later, the first Microsoft Mouse). The cost was £99. TurboCAD was a DOS product with limited device support, whereas Generic CADD was strong in this area. The turning point for the product came after Martin Sacks, the first US distributor, was able to get Digby Prior, a t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wealth%20of%20Networks | The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom is a book by Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler published by Yale University Press on April 3, 2006. The book has been recognized as one of the most influential works of its time concerning the rise and impact of the Internet on the society, particularly in the sphere of economics. It also helped popularize the term Benkler coined few years earlier, the commons-based peer production (CBPP).
A PDF of the book is downloadable under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike license. Benkler has said that his editable online book is "an experiment of how books might be in the future", demonstrating how authors and readers might connect instantly or even collaborate.
Summary
Part 1: The Networked Information Economy
Benkler describes the current epoch as a "moment of opportunity" due to the emergence of what he terms the Networked Information Economy (NIE), a "technological-economic feasibility space" that is the result of the means of producing media becoming more socially accessible. Benkler states that his methodology in the text is to look at social relations using economics, liberal political theory, and focuses on individual actions in nonmarket relations.
Benkler sees communication and information as the most important cultural and economic outputs of advanced economies. He traces the emergence and development of various communications (radio, newspapers, television) through the 19th and 20th centuries as functions of increasingly centralized control due to the high cost factor of production, and believes that media was thus produced on an industrial scale. Benkler's term for this is the Industrial information economy.
With the emergence of computers, networks, and increasingly affordable media production outlets, Benkler introduces the concept of the NIE, which sees media access as a form of power, and recognizes decentralized individual actions in said media as a result of the removal of physical and economic constraints to the creation of media. To Benkler, this is due to a new feasibility space: lowered costs of access via digital production and radical decentralization rather than centralized messaging ("coordinate coexistence", 30).
This results in emerging productions of information that use non-proprietary strategies (such as GNU licences and collaborative production formats).
Goods
The forms of cultural productions — music is an example Benkler uses frequently — are either rival or nonrival. Rival products decrease as they are used (e.g. pounds of flour), the use of nonrival products (e.g. listening to a song) does not decrease their availability for further use.
Static vs. dynamic efficiency: one premise of exclusive rights has always been that only financial incentives can facilitate participation in information production. Benkler argues that in an age where computers reduce the cost of production, that the equation of innovation- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV8%20%28Moldovan%20TV%20channel%29 | TV8 (formerly TV7) is a nonprofit television network based in Chișinău, Moldova. It is owned by the Public Association “Media Alternativa”, whose executive director is Natalia Morari. TV8 uses a programming strategy of international movies and tv shows, as well as local talk shows and news broadcasting. In 2017 the then owner of the channel, Chiril Lucinschi, transferred his ownership to "Media Alternativa". After the transfer, TV7 rebranded to TV8.
Current Programs
Știri cu Angela Gonța () is the network’s main Romanian language news program which airs on weekdays at 7 p.m.
Новости с Яной Степаненко () and Новости с Ириной Стряпко () are the network’s main Russian language news programs which air on weekdays at 10.45 p.m.
Cutia Neagră () is a talk show centred on corruption with elements of investigative journalism. The show is hosted by Mariana Rață and airs every Monday at 9.30 p.m.
Întreabă Ghețu () is a talk show hosted by Natalia Ghețu which airs every Friday at 9.30 p.m. The topics discussed usually include important political and social events.
Dincolo de Nistru () is a documentary series about the life of transnistrians. It is hosted by Viorica Tătaru and Andrei Captarenco and airs every Sunday at 10.45 a.m.
Efect 9.6 () is a show about the social conflicts that occur in Moldova. It is hosted by Angelica Frolov and airs on Saturdays at 11.20 a.m.
Corupția în Vizor () is a show produced as a part of the “Civil society mobilization for monitoring public integrity and anti-corruption activities in Moldova” project implemented by the Moldovan subsidiary of Transparency International and financed by the Embassy of the United States to Moldova. It is hosted by Sergiu Niculiță and airs on Saturdays at 5.00 p.m.
Iubește viața () is a show about authentic and dramatic life stories of different people. It is hosted by Tatiana Granciuc and airs on weekdays at 4.45 p.m.
Awards and recognitions
2020: TV8 was the only television network included in the Moldovan Mass Media White Book published by the Independent Journalism Center.
2020: The network’s executive director, Natalia Morari won the „Stories of Injustice” prize awarded by the Czech NGO People in Need for promoting democratic values.
2019: The network won the National Journalistic Ethics and Deontology Prize awarded by the Press Council of Moldova
Ratings
According to a survey conducted between 16 November 2019 and 8 December 2019 on behalf of the International Republican Institute, TV8 was considered to be the most trustworthy channel for political information by 13% of nationwide respondents and 15% of respondents from Chișinău (ranked fifth). In addition, 18% of nationwide respondents and 26% of respondents from Chișinău said they watched the channel for political information (ranked sixth).
References
External links
Official Site
Television channels in Moldova
Television channels and stations established in 2006
2006 establishments in Moldova |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20DejaView | This is a list of television programs broadcast by the Canadian television channel DejaView.
Current programming
This a list of programs currently being broadcast
A-E
8 Simple Rules (2023-present)
Andromeda (2023-present)
Cheers (2004; 2010–2013; 2022–present)
Due South (2020–present)
F-M
Face to Face with David (2021–present)
Family Ties (2022–present)
Frasier (2018–present)
N-T
Ransom (2020–present)
Rules of Engagement (2023-present)
Spin City (2022–present)
Touched By an Angel (2022-present)
Three’s Company (2009–2018, 2020–present)
The Odd Couple (2023-present)
U-Z
Zoe Busiek: Wild Card (2020–present)
Past
A-E
The A-Team (2002–2006)
Acting Crazy
Adam-12 (2002–2004)
Adventures in Rainbow Country (2003-2004)
All in the Family (2006–2018)
Archie Bunker's Place (2010–2012)
Barney Miller (2002–2004)
The Beverly Hillbillies (2004–2007)
Boy Meets World (2018)
Bewitched (2002–2004)
Blossom (2018–2020)
Bomb Girls (2014)
Charles in Charge (2008)
Coach (2009, 2010)
The Cosby Show (2007)
Danger Bay (2004)
Designing Women (2010)
The Dick Van Dyke Show (2004–2007)
Dragnet (2002–2004)
The Drew Carey Show (2010–2014)
Dancing with the Stars (American TV series) (2019–2021)
The King of Queens (2020–2021)
F-J
The Facts of Life (2007–2010)
Family Feud (2008–2021)
Family Game Night (game show) (2016–2020)
Fanatical
Gilligan's Island (2002–2007)
Good Times (2007)
Green Acres (2005–2008)
Happy Days (2002–2007)
Haven (2014–2020)
Hawaii Five-O (2010)
Hee Haw (2004–2006)
Hogan's Heroes (2002–2007)
I Dream of Jeannie (2002–2004)
The Incredible Hulk (2004)
It Seems Like Yesterday (2003–2004)
The Joke's on Us (2002–2004)
JAG (TV series) (2012)
K-O
Kate & Allie (2008–2011)
Knight Rider (2004)
Laverne and Shirley (2003–2006)
Mad About You (2009)
Magnum, P.I. (2007–2009)
Major Dad (2012–2016)
Man with a Plan (2018–2020)
Married... with Children (2013–2014)
M*A*S*H (2006–2007)
Maude (2007–2010)
McHale's Navy (2002)
Meet the Collectors (2005–2010)
Miami Vice (2003–2005)
My Secret Identity (ended in 2008)
Neon Rider (2008)
Night Heat (2007)
North of 60 (2009)
The Odd Couple (2016–2019)
One Day at a Time (2009)
P-T
Petticoat Junction (2002–2005)
The Rifleman (2009)
The Rockford Files (2002–2007; 2009)
Rookie Blue (2014–2020)
The Ropers (2007–2009–2010)
Reba (2018)
Remedy (2018–2020)
Roseanne (2008–2016)
The Saint (2002–2003)
Saved By the Bell (2009–2012)
Seeing Things (2007)
Seinfeld (2010)
Silver Spoons (2009-2012)
Simon & Simon (2004)
Sketches of Our Town (2004)
Square Pegs (2007–2008)
Suburgatory
Super Dave Osborne Show (2002–2004)
T. and T. (2002–2004)
Taxi (2002–2003)
The Golden Girls (2009, 2010, 2017)
The Office (American TV series) (2007–2019)
Three's a Crowd (2007, 2008, 2010)
TV with TV's Jonathan Torrens (2014–2015)
U-Z
Welcome Back, Kotter (2003)
Who's the Boss? (2007–2010)
The Wonder Years (2007–2009)
DejaView |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/413%20Hope%20St. | 413 Hope St. is an American drama series which aired on the Fox network from September 11, 1997 to January 1, 1998. The series was co-created by actor/comedian Damon Wayans, who made a stark departure from his usual comedic work.
The ensemble cast—headed by Richard Roundtree—included Jesse L. Martin, Shari Headley, and Kelly Coffield.
Premise
413 Hope St. was named for the address of a New York City crisis center. Its founder, a successful corporate executive named Phil Thomas (Roundtree), started the center in the building at the site where his teenage son was gunned down after refusing to relinquish his sneakers to a street thug.
The topics addressed by the series included drug addiction and recovery, HIV and AIDS, foster care, re-integration into society after incarceration, and homelessness.
The series was cancelled after 10 episodes, with its final broadcast airing on New Year's Day 1998.
Cast
Shari Headley as Juanita Harris
Jesse L. Martin as Antonio Collins
Kelly Coffield as Sylvia Jennings
Michael Easton as Nick Carrington
Stephen Berra as Quentin Jefferson
Dawn Stern as Angelica Collins
Vincent Laresca as Carlos Martinez
Karim Prince as Melvin Todd
Richard Roundtree as Phil Thomas
Episodes
References
External links
1997 American television series debuts
1998 American television series endings
1990s American drama television series
Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
English-language television shows
Fictional portrayals of the New York City Police Department
Television shows set in New York City
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News%2012%20Networks | The News 12 Networks are a group of regional cable news television channels in the New York metropolitan area that are owned by Altice USA. All channels provide rolling news coverage 24 hours a day, focusing primarily on regions of the metro area outside Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.
History
The first of the channels, News 12 Long Island, was launched by Cablevision on December 15, 1986, to customers on its Long Island system, as the first 24-hour regional cable news service in the United States. Over the years Cablevision expanded the reach of News 12 by adding additional networks across its footprint.
The network was formerly operated by Newsday Media Holdings and presided over by Patrick Dolan, son of Newsday majority owner Charles Dolan and brother of James L. Dolan. Altice USA, who bought Cablevision in 2016, has retained Dolan as a senior network advisor.
In December 2005, News 12 Networks generated criticism when it changed its website and mobile app to a pay subscription service for those who live outside the News 12 viewing area. The News 12 website is offered free of charge to subscribers of Optimum, Spectrum or Xfinity. This has been used as a marketing tool against customers signing up for Verizon FiOS, or satellite providers DirecTV or Dish Network, which are available in many of the areas News 12 covers. At one point Cablevision even made the network's slogan, "Only on Cable. Never on FiOS. Never on satellite." (In some ads, FiOS was substituted with "phone company television" and in most areas, "Cable" was substituted with Cablevision in areas where Cablevision was only provided as a cable provider, notably Long Island). In response, Verizon FIOS partnered with RNN to create FiOS1 News in June 2009 and later expanded to the Lower Hudson Valley in 2014, which could be viewed only by FiOS customers. Unlike News 12, FiOS1's website was not behind the paywall and was open to all users, with the exception of its live broadcast (which was only offered to FiOS customers).
In October 2016, newspaper reports stated News 12 was consolidating its Westchester and Connecticut News operations, moving news anchor desks and studio operations to New Jersey and Long Island, and news and production staff at these operations would be laid off. Reports indicated Westchester News Director Janine Rose was allowed to resign, and Connecticut News Director Tom Appleby was dismissed.
By August 2017, the seven News 12 Network cable channels began airing Cheddar's news summaries segments.
In April 2018, Altice announced that it would form a new division named Altice USA News (renamed to Altice News after Cheddar acquisition) that would consist of News 12 and I24NEWS. The division was headed by Michael Schreiber now succeeded by Jon Steinberg.
Altice has departed from Cablevision's long-standing policy of ensuring that News 12 remained exclusive to cable. In July 2019, Altice began to simulcast News 12 on Atlantic City station WACP between 6 AM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20VLAN | Private VLAN, also known as port isolation, is a technique in computer networking where a VLAN contains switch ports that are restricted such that they can only communicate with a given uplink. The restricted ports are called private ports. Each private VLAN typically contains many private ports, and a single uplink. The uplink will typically be a port (or link aggregation group) connected to a router, firewall, server, provider network, or similar central resource.
The concept was primarily introduced as a result of the limitation on the number of VLANs in network switches, a limit quickly exhausted in highly scaled scenarios. Hence, there was a requirement to create multiple network segregations with a minimum number of VLANs.
The switch forwards all frames received from a private port to the uplink port, regardless of VLAN ID or destination MAC address. Frames received from an uplink port are forwarded in the normal way (i.e. to the port hosting the destination MAC address, or to all ports of the VLAN for broadcast frames or for unknown destination MAC addresses). As a result, direct peer-to-peer traffic between peers through the switch is blocked, and any such communication must go through the uplink. While private VLANs provide isolation between peers at the data link layer, communication at higher layers may still be possible depending on further network configuration.
A typical application for a private VLAN is a hotel or Ethernet to the home network where each room or apartment has a port for Internet access. Similar port isolation is used in Ethernet-based ADSL DSLAMs. Allowing direct data link layer communication between customer nodes would expose the local network to various security attacks, such as ARP spoofing, as well as increase the potential for damage due to misconfiguration.
Another application of private VLANs is to simplify IP address assignment. Ports can be isolated from each other at the data link layer (for security, performance, or other reasons), while belonging to the same IP subnet. In such a case, direct communication between the IP hosts on the protected ports is only possible through the uplink connection by using MAC-Forced Forwarding or a similar Proxy ARP based solution.
Cisco implementation
Cisco Systems' Private VLANs have the advantage that they can function across multiple switches. A Private VLAN divides a VLAN (Primary) into sub-VLANs (Secondary) while keeping existing IP subnet and layer 3 configuration. A regular VLAN is a single broadcast domain, while private VLAN partitions one broadcast domain into multiple smaller broadcast subdomains.
Primary VLAN: Simply the original VLAN. This type of VLAN is used to forward frames downstream to all Secondary VLANs.
Secondary VLAN: Secondary VLAN is configured with one of the following types:
Isolated: Any switch ports associated with an Isolated VLAN can reach the primary VLAN, but not any other Secondary VLAN. In addition, hosts associated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC-Forced%20Forwarding | MAC-Forced Forwarding (MACFF) is used to control unwanted broadcast traffic and host-to-host communication. This is achieved by directing network traffic from hosts located on the same subnet but at different locations to an upstream gateway device. This provides security at Layer 2 since no traffic is able to pass directly between the hosts.
MACFF is suitable for Ethernet networks where a layer 2 bridging device, known as an Ethernet Access Node (EAN), connects Access Routers to their clients. MACFF is configured on the EANs.
MACFF is described in RFC 4562, MAC-Forced Forwarding: A Method for Subscriber Separation on an Ethernet Access Network.
Allied Telesis switches implement MACFF using DHCP snooping to maintain a database of the hosts that appear on each switch port. When a host tries to access the network through a switch port, DHCP snooping checks the host’s IP address against the database to ensure that the host is valid.
MACFF then uses DHCP snooping to check whether the host has a gateway Access Router. If it does, MACFF uses a form of Proxy ARP to reply to any ARP requests, giving the router's MAC address. This forces the host to send all traffic to the router, even traffic destined to a host in the same subnet as the source. The router receives the traffic and makes forwarding decisions based on a set of forwarding rules, typically a QoS policy or a set of filters.
References
Internet protocols
Internet Standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%20UTS | UTS is a discontinued implementation of the UNIX operating system for IBM mainframe (and compatible) computers. Amdahl created the first versions of UTS, and released it in May 1981, with UTS Global acquiring rights to the product in 2002. UTS Global has since gone out of business.
System requirements
UTS Release 4.5 supports the following S/390 model processors and their successors:
Amdahl 5990, 5995A, 5995M series of ECL processors
Amdahl Millennium Global Server series of CMOS processors
Fujitsu Global Server
IBM ES/9000/9021 series of ECL processors
IBM G4, G5 & G6 Servers (the 9672 R and X series of CMOS processors)
History
The UTS project had its origins in work started at Princeton University in 1975 to port UNIX to the IBM VM/370 system. Team members there were Tom Lyon, Joseph Skudlarek, Peter Eichenberger, and Eric Schmidt. Tom Lyon joined Amdahl in 1978, and by 1979 there was a full Version 6 Unix system on the Amdahl 470 being used internally for design automation engineering. In late 1979 this was updated to the more commonly ported Version 7.
In 1980 Amdahl announced support for Unix on the System 470. Five years later, IBM announced its own mainframe Unix, IX/370, as a competitive response to Amdahl.
The commercial versions of UTS were based on UNIX System III and UNIX System V. In 1986, Amdahl announced the first version to run natively on IBM/370-compatible hardware, UTS/580 for its Amdahl 580 series of machines; previous Unix ports always ran as "guests" under the IBM VM hypervisor. Version 4.5 was based on Unix System V, Release 4 (SVR4).
See also
Linux on IBM Z
OpenSolaris for System z
UNIX System Services in OS/390 and its successors
References
External links
UTS Global home page (archived page at Archive.org, April 2008)
Unix variants
1981 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20of%20Science | The Web of Science (WoS; previously known as Web of Knowledge) is a paid-access platform that provides (typically via the internet) access to multiple databases that provide reference and citation data from academic journals, conference proceedings, and other documents in various academic disciplines. Until 1997, it was originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information.<noinclude>It is currently owned by Clarivate.
History
A citation index is built on the fact that citations in science serve as linkages between similar research items, and lead to matching or related scientific literature, such as journal articles, conference proceedings, abstracts, etc. In addition, literature that shows the greatest impact in a particular field, or more than one discipline, can be easily located through a citation index. For example, a paper's influence can be determined by linking to all the papers that have cited it. In this way, current trends, patterns, and emerging fields of research can be assessed. Eugene Garfield, the "father of citation indexing of academic literature", who launched the Science Citation Index, which in turn led to the Web of Science, wrote:
Search answer
Web of Science is described as a unifying research tool that enables the user to acquire, analyze, and disseminate database information in a timely manner. This is accomplished because of the creation of a common vocabulary, called ontology, for varied search terms and varied data. Moreover, search terms generate related information across categories.
Acceptable content for Web of Science is determined by an evaluation and selection process based on the following criteria: impact, influence, timeliness, peer review, and geographic representation.
Web of Science employs various search and analysis capabilities. First, citation indexing is employed, which is enhanced by the capability to search for results across disciplines. The influence, impact, history, and methodology of an idea can be followed from its first instance, notice, or referral to the present day. This technology points to a deficiency with the keyword-only method of searching.
Second, subtle trends and patterns relevant to the literature or research of interest, become apparent. Broad trends indicate significant topics of the day, as well as the history relevant to both the work at hand, and particular areas of study.
Third, trends can be graphically represented.
Coverage
Expanding the coverage of Web of Science, in November 2009 Thomson Reuters introduced Century of Social Sciences. This service contains files which trace social science research back to the beginning of the 20th century, and Web of Science now has indexing coverage from the year 1900 to the present. , the multidisciplinary coverage of the Web of Science encompasses 12,000 high impact journals and 160,000 conference proceedings. The selection is made on the basis of impact evaluations and comprise academic journals, spanning multipl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northgate%20Computer%20Systems |
Northgate Computer Systems, Inc., based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States, was a mail-order personal computer company, founded in 1987 by Arthur "Art" Lazere.
The 1990s were a golden era for mail-order PC business. Consumers were fed up with high prices for IBM, Compaq and other brand-name PCs sold through dealers so they opted to purchase their computers from a catalog. This was a revolutionary idea at the time, because people wouldn't be able to see or touch their computer before buying it. Aside from Dell and Gateway, popular brands of mail-order PCs were Northgate and Zeos.
The company was known for its quality systems and keyboards; in particular, its line of OmniKey keyboards was highly praised. The keyboards were particularly valued for their tactile response and durability, and along with IBM's Model M PC keyboards, were considered some of the best in the industry. As such, the company's keyboards were often purchased by users of other manufacturers' PCs.
History
1987 - founded by Arthur Lazere
1989 - 386 Systems available.
1990 - Announced 486 systems using IBM's Micro Channel architecture and merger talks with CPT.
1992 - Discussed a merger with Everex Systems but these talks ended and a 51% stake was bought by investor group Marjac Investments.
August 1994 - A chapter 7 petition was filed against the company by creditors.
September 1994 - The company filed for a conversion to a chapter 11 reorganization plan. Mylex was owed $4.6 million, $113,000 was expected to be paid from liquidation from Northgate's inventories. The landlord of their Eden Prairie building also canceled their lease and they were planning to move to Minneapolis.
December 22, 1995 - Announced a reorganization plan with its creditors which paid 19 cents on the dollar to cover $16 million in unsecured debts. The funding would be from a percentage of computer sales up to a maximum of $3.75 million.
1997 - Northgate was purchased by Lan Plus.
October 2000 - Lan Plus begins merger with Mcglen Internet Group.
April 16, 2001 - Mcglen and Lan Plus announces that the merged company will be operating under the Northgate name.
September 10, 2001 - Lan Plus and Mcglen expect to complete the merger by October under the name Northgate Innovations with Andy Teng as chairman and CEO. However the completion of the merger wasn't announced until March.
September 20, 2002 - Announced a "Volunteer Training Program" with local technical schools to provide real-world computer manufacturing experience. Their principal executive offices are now in the city of Industry, California.
2003 - Announced a trial with 7-Eleven to sell Northgate Computer branded PCs through their stores.
2004 - Name changed to Digital Lifestyles Group to focus on the "teen computing and digital lifestyle" market with a new "hip-e" brand.
2005 - On April 25 an announcement on their web site stated "Northgate Computers will close its operations to all customers. Northgate will no longer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris%20for%20System%20z | OpenSolaris for System z is a discontinued port of the OpenSolaris operating system to the IBM System z line of mainframe computers.
History
OpenSolaris is based on Solaris, which was originally released by Sun Microsystems in 1991. Sun released the bulk of the Solaris system source code in OpenSolaris on 14 June 2005, which made it possible for developers to create other OpenSolaris distributions. Sine Nomine Associates began a project to bring OpenSolaris to the IBM mainframe in July, 2006. The project was named Sirius (in analogy to the Polaris project to port OpenSolaris to PowerPC). In April, 2007, Sine Nomine presented an initial progress report at IBM's System z Technical Expo conference.
At the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in late 2007, Sine Nomine demonstrated OpenSolaris running on IBM System z under z/VM. It was there that David Boyes of Sine Nomine stated that OpenSolaris for System z would be available "soon."
At the SHARE conference on 13 August 2008, Neale Ferguson of Sine Nomine Associates presented an update on the progress of OpenSolaris for System z. This presentation included a working demonstration of OpenSolaris for System z. During this presentation he stated that while OpenSolaris is "not ready for prime-time" they hoped to have a version available to the public for testing "in a matter of weeks rather than months."
In October, 2008, Sine Nomine Associates released the first "prototype" (it lacks a number of features such as DTrace, Solaris Containers and the ability to act as an NFS server) of OpenSolaris for System z to the public. OpenSolaris for System z has a project page at OpenSolaris.org. OpenSolaris for System z is available for download at no charge, and is governed by the same open source license terms as OpenSolaris for other platforms. All source code is available; there are no OCO (object code only) modules.
The port uses z/Architecture 64-bit addressing and therefore requires an IBM System z mainframe. Because the port depends on recently defined z/Architecture processor instructions, it requires a System z9 or later mainframe model and will not run on older machines. It also will not run on the release version of Hercules mainframe emulator, the needed changes are included in the SVN version 5470 of Hercules. It also requires the paravirtualization features provided by z/VM; it will not run on "bare metal" or in a logical partition (LPAR) without the z/VM hypervisor at Version 5.3 level or later. Also, because OpenSolaris uses a new network DIAGNOSE instruction, PTF VM64466 or VM64471 must be applied to z/VM to provide support for that instruction. On 18 November 2008, IBM authorized the use of IFL processors to run OpenSolaris for System z workloads.
The Register reported in March 2010 an email from an insider saying that:
See also
Linux on IBM Z
UTS (Mainframe UNIX)
References
External links
OpenSolaris Project: System z (source code and project home)
Sine Nomi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSim | OpenSim may refer to one of several software packages/platforms:
OpenSim (simulation toolkit), biomechanics simulation software from the National Centers for Biomedical Computing at Stanford University
OpenSimulator, an open source project to develop virtual worlds similar to Second Life |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsume%20ga%20T%C5%8Dru%20%28video%20game%29 | is a video game for the Family Computer that was developed by Natsume Co., Ltd. and published by Tomy. It is based on the eponymous manga and anime called The Three-Eyed One. The main character is Hosuke Sharaku. There is also a Mitsume ga Tooru game for the original MSX called Mitsume ga Tooru: The Three-Eyed One Comes Here, which was released by Natsume Co., Ltd. two years before this one.
Plot
The player controls Hosuke Sharaku, the last of the Three-Eyed One. In the intro we see another Three-Eyed One, Prince Godaru, riding on the ancient tank Gomorrah. Godaru destroys a part of the city then kidnaps Sharaku's friend, Wato Chiyoko.
Gameplay
The game contains five levels with different designs and a boss in the end of every stage. The player's character can shoot and jump; and also summon the Red Condor (Akai Condor). The Red Condor is an important weapon during the game. It can be used as a jumping platform if you jump on the top of the spear, or it can simply attack the enemies (doing double damage). The basic weapon is a regular bullet. It goes straight forward with medium speed. You can buy three additional types of bullets with different advantages and disadvantages. To buy weapons and other things (like life) you need gold coins. The gold coins are dropped by defeated enemies, and the value of coins can be increased by shooting them.
The Levels:
Level 1
The main hero, Hosuke, searches for his girlfriend on the streets of the city, takes a ride on the roof of a truck and has his battle in the stock yard. In the end of the level Hosuke takes on the first boss called Goblin, who can only be hit when he is caught off-guard.
Level 2
Hosuke fights in a jungle and in an extended cave full of different creatures. At the end of the level he has to defeat the giant alien plant, Borubokka.
Level 3
Now the main hero has to go through an ancient pyramid and there are catacombs full of danger. He must be careful of spikes and other fatal traps.
Level 4
Hosuke sails on a motorboat to an abandoned ship. After getting to the other end of the ship, he has to defeat a large ghost formed of dozens vicious fireflies.
Level 5
Hosuke enters the Sodom, which divides into three sub-sections. After travelling through all of the three sub-sections with three sub-bosses and riding an elevator to the surface, Hosuke fights against Gomorrah, then he finally finds Godaru, the prince of the Three-eyed ones.
External links
1992 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Natsume (company) games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Side-scrolling video games
Tomy games
Video games based on anime and manga
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Hiroyuki Iwatsuki
Osamu Tezuka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Sharing%20Operating%20System | Time Sharing Operating System, or TSOS, is a discontinued operating system for RCA mainframe computers of the Spectra 70 series. TSOS was originally designed in 1968 for the Spectra 70/46, a modified version of the 70/45. TSOS quickly evolved into the Virtual Memory Operating System (VMOS) by 1970. VMOS continued to be supported on the later RCA 3 and RCA 7 computer systems.
RCA was in the computer business until 1971 when it sold its computer business to Sperry Corporation. Sperry renamed TSOS to VS/9 and continued to market it into the early 1980s. In the mid seventies, an enhanced version of TSOS called BS2000 was offered by the German company Siemens.
While Sperry – now Unisys – discontinued VS/9, the BS2000 variant, now called BS2000/OSD, is still offered by Fujitsu and used by their mainframe customers primarily in Germany and other European countries.
As the name suggests, TSOS provided time sharing features. Similar to CTSS it provided a common user interface for both time sharing and batch, which was a big advantage over IBM's OS/360 or its successors MVS, OS/390 and z/OS.
See also
Timeline of operating systems
References
External links
TSOS manuals at Bitsavers
Time-sharing operating systems
Proprietary operating systems
Discontinued operating systems
UNIVAC software
1968 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cowboys%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Cowboys is a short-lived Western television series based on the 1972 motion picture of the same name. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network from February 6 to May 8, 1974. The television show starred Jim Davis, Diana Douglas, Moses Gunn, A Martinez, Robert Carradine, and Clay O'Brien. David Dortort, best known for Bonanza and The High Chaparral, produced the series. The television show followed the exploits of seven boys who worked on a ranch in 1870s New Mexico.
The Cowboys was conceived as an hour-long series, but ABC decided to reduce the running time to a half-hour format. The format change did not lead to increased viewers, and the show was the victim of early cancellation. As a traditional television Western, it was an aberration compared to most television trends of the 1970s (as most had ended production several years prior and only Gunsmoke was still in production by then).
Guest stars included Cal Bellini as Wa-Cha-Ka in "The Indian Givers", Kevin Hagen as Josh Redding in "Death on a Fast Horse", and Lurene Tuttle as Grandma Jesse in "Many a Good Horse Died".
Cast
Diana Douglas as Annie Andersen
Jim Davis as Marshal Bill Winter
Moses Gunn as Jebediah Nightlinger
A Martinez as Cimarron (Cowboy)
Robert Carradine as Slim (Cowboy)
Sean Kelly as Jimmy (Cowboy)
Kerry MacLane as Homer (Cowboy)
Clint Howard as Steve (Cowboy)
Mitch Brown as Hardy (Cowboy)
Clay O'Brien as Weedy (Cowboy)
Guest stars
Each guest star made only one appearance.
Ted Gehring as Eben Graff
DeForest Kelley as Jack Potter
Cal Bellini as Wa-Cha-Ka
Kevin Hagen as Josh Redding
Lurene Tuttle as Grandma Jesse
Stafford Repp as Army Captain
Ian Wolfe as Padre
John McKee as Foley
Walter Brooke as Reager
John Carradine as Oscar Schmidt
Jack Perkins
Pippa Scott as Chief
External links
1970s Western (genre) television series
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1974 American television series debuts
1974 American television series endings
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
Television shows set in New Mexico |
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