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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20National%20Route%2025 | is a national highway connecting Yokkaichi and Osaka in Japan.
Route data
Length: 144.5 km (89.8 mi)
Origin: Yokkaichi (originates at junction with Route 23)
Terminus: Osaka (ends at junction with Routes 1 and 2)
Major cities: Kameyama, Iga, Tenri
History
4 December 1952 - Designated as First Class National Highway 25 (from Osaka to Nara)
18 May 1953 - Designation of Second Class National Highway 163 (from Osaka to Yokkaichi)
1 April 1963 - Designated as First Class National Highway 25 (from Yokkaichi to Osaka)
1 April 1965 - Second Class National Highway 163 was redesignated as General National Highway 25 between Yokkaichi and Osaka
Intersects with
Mie Prefecture
Nara Prefecture
Osaka Prefecture
References
025
Roads in Mie Prefecture
Roads in Nara Prefecture
Roads in Osaka Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20National%20Route%2026 | is a national highway connecting Osaka and Wakayama in Japan.
Route data
Length: 71.8 km (44.6 mi)
Origin: Osaka (originates at the terminus of Route 1)
Terminus: Wakayama (ends at the terminus of Routes 24 and 42)
Major cities: Sakai, Kishiwada, Izumisano
History
4 December 1952 - First Class National Highway 26 (from Osaka to Wakayama)
1 April 1965 - General National Highway 26 (from Osaka to Wakayama)
Intersects with
Osaka Prefecture
Wakayama Prefecture
References
026
Roads in Osaka Prefecture
Roads in Wakayama Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20National%20Route%2027 | is a national highway connecting Tsuruga and Kyotamba in Japan.
Route data
Length: 139.9 km (86.9 mi)
Origin: Tsuruga (originates at junction with Route 8)
Terminus: Kyotamba (ends at junction with Route 9)
Major cities: Obama, Maizuru, Ayabe
History
4 December 1952- - First Class National Highway 27 (from Tsuruga to Kyotamba)
1 April 1965- - General National Highway 27 (from Tsuruga to Kyotamba)
Intersects with
Fukui Prefecture
Kyoto Prefecture
References
027
Roads in Fukui Prefecture
Roads in Kyoto Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20National%20Route%2029 | is a national highway connecting Himeji and Tottori in Japan.
Route data
Length: 119.7 km (74.4 mi)
Origin: Himeji
Terminus: Tottori (ends at junction with Route 9)
Major cities: Tatsuno, Shiso
History
1952-12-04 - First Class National Highway 29 (from Himeji to Tottori)
1965-04-01 - General National Highway 29 (from Himeji to Tottori)
Intersects with
Hyogo Prefecture
Tottori Prefecture
References
029
Roads in Hyōgo Prefecture
Roads in Tottori Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke%20on%20the%20Daughter | "Smoke on the Daughter" is the fifteenth episode of the nineteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 30, 2008, and was written by Billy Kimball (the only sole writing credit he has received for the show to date), and directed by Lance Kramer. Lisa becomes a ballerina at an academy and discovers her natural talent is enhanced by second hand cigarette smoke. Meanwhile, Homer shows Bart his secret room where he has secretly been making beef jerky and is torn when a family of raccoons steal it. During the first broadcast, the episode was watched by 7.1 million people.
Plot
The episode starts when Homer, dressed as a dragon, tries waking up Bart to go with him, Lisa, Marge and Maggie to the midnight sale of the last book in the Angelica Button series. The whole family then goes to stand in line (together with most of Springfield residents). At midnight Homer cannot wait; he bursts into the bookshop, followed by the rest of the people in the line. In the car on their way back home Lisa reads the book, announces there is a happy ending, and then the Simpsons throw the book away from the car. When they get back home, they decide to watch TV.
While watching TV, Marge sees a commercial for the Chazz Busby Ballet Academy, and reveals to Lisa that she had always wanted to become a ballet dancer. Lisa tells Marge that she can still achieve her dream as an adult, and encourages her to audition for the ballet academy. While Marge does stumble at first during her audition, she is able to prove herself as a talented dancer, and Busby lets her become a student at his school. Meanwhile, Homer takes Bart to the basement and introduces him to a secret room in which Homer has been making beef jerky. When Marge suffers a leg cramp during her dance routine, Busby throws her out. When Lisa argues with Busby about his decision, he notices that Lisa has naturally perfect posture, and asks her to join his academy, and Marge accepts the offer on Lisa's behalf. However, no matter how hard she practices, Lisa soon turns out to be a poor ballet student. While on break, Lisa accidentally inhales smoke from the other students' cigarettes. When the break is over, Lisa enters the studio and performs better than ever, and deduces that second hand smoke is what makes her excel.
Meanwhile, Homer and Bart offer to sell Apu their beef jerky to increase Kwik-E-Mart revenues despite Apu's Hinduism — but it is a lost cause, as Homer and Bart discover their beef jerky room is completely empty, and Apu leaves in frustration, refusing to do such business with them ever again. Homer discovers that a family of raccoons has made off with their jerky. That night, Lisa hallucinates of a cigarette-smoked shaped older version of herself, who convinces her to continue smoking. Lisa doubts the veracity of such a vision, until she is convinced by her feminist heroines by also seeing visions of them, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSCS | CSCS may refer to:
Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, a professional certification for strength and conditioning coaches
Chhattisgarh State Cricket Sangh, India
Colorado Springs Christian Schools, Colorado, US
Construction Skills Certification Scheme, United Kingdom recognized professional designation
Coral Springs Charter School, Florida, US
Cross-Strait CEO Summit, a business summit between Mainland China and Taiwan
cscs, an allele pattern in cats that results in blue eye pigmentation
See also
CSC (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Channel | World Channel, also branded as World (stylized as WORLD), is an American digital multicast public television network owned and operated by the WGBH Educational Foundation. It is distributed by American Public Television and the National Educational Telecommunications Association and features programming covering topics such as science, nature, news, and public affairs. Programming is supplied by the entities, as well as other partners such as WNET and WGBH. It is primarily carried on the digital subchannels of PBS member stations.
Background
In 2004, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation granted PBS funds to develop a public affairs network, Public Square, given the change in broadcasting to digital thus allowing stations to broadcast multiple channels. (Public Square was also a name previous given to a proposed civic series in early 2000s.) The Knight Foundation announced a challenge grant to PBS to launch this network on December 14, 2004 at the Digital Futures Initiative Summit. PBS would have to raise double the grant amount to get the foundation's grant. Additional, the foundation made a grant to PBS for the first program's pilot slated for the network. The program, Global Watch, was to be co-produced by KCET and KQED. The pilot aired on PBS' National Program Service, while the series would only continue on Public Square. PBS was also discussing with WGBH and WNET to fold Public Square and World together.
History
WGBH and WNET were developing World in 2004. By December 2005, Boston's WGBH and WNET started broadcasting World on a subchannel and added by April 2006's WETA. San Francisco's KQED started broadcasting its own nonfiction encore channel before April 2005 as well. Following WGBH and WNET teamed up with PBS to roll out a national version of the local channels as World. The stations applied to air programming and PBS was used to distribute the network. The network was launched nationally on August 15, 2007. For the first year, the Ford Foundation funded the company's investments' cost, and PBS contributed some funding from its own revenue-generating activities. By March 2009, the network lacked enough coverage to secure an underwriter.
On July 1, 2009, PBS withdrew from the channel. By September 2009, with the sole exception of ITVS Global Voices, all the other channels left network.
An overhaul of the network was in the works as of September 8, 2009. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) funded R&D for the relaunch and covered costs so stations would not have to pay the license until June 2011. The network was relaunched in July 2010, with the revamped website slated for more of a roll-out on July 1. The relaunch would also draw in stations as digital tier channels and face more cable subscribers.
Nielsen ratings improved using more of the channel bandwidth so as to forestall any FCC attempts to reduce the existing allocated bandwidth.
The relaunched service planned to target more diverse audiences with a median ag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20cinema | One of the principal features defining traditional cinema is a fixed and linear narrative structure. In Database Cinema however, the story develops by selecting scenes from a given collection like a computer game in which a player performs certain acts and thereby selects scenes and creating a narrative.
Structure
New Media objects lack this strong narrative component, they don’t have a beginning or an end but can start or stop at any point. They are collections of discrete items coming from the database. Lev Manovich first related the database to cinema in his effort to understand the changing technologies of filmmaking techniques in media landscapes. According to Manovich, cinema privileged narrative as the key form of cultural expression of modern age but the computer age introduced its correlate, the database: "As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative creates a cause-and-effect trajectory of seemingly unordered items (events). Therefore, database and narrative are natural enemies. Competing for the same territory of human culture, each claims an exclusive right to make meaning out of the world."
Database artists
Manovich considers filmmakers Peter Greenaway and Dziga Vertov as pioneers in his database cinema genre. He explains how Greenaway sees the linear pursuit as standard format of filmmaking lagging behind modern literature in experimenting with narrative. Greenaway’s system for reconciling database and narrative uses sequences of numbers. They act as a narrative shell, which makes the viewer believe he is watching a story.
Dziga Vertov can be seen as an even earlier database filmmaker. Manovich cites Vertovs Man with a Movie Camera (USSR, 1929) as the most important example of database imagination in modern media art. The film has three levels: Cameraman filming the shots, audience watching the finished film and shots from street life in Ukrainian cities edited in chronological order of that particular day. While the last level can be seen as text or ‘the story’, the other two can be seen as meta-texts. By the use of meaningful effects, discovering the world by this ‘kino-eye’ Vertov uses the normally static and objective database as a dynamic and subjective form.
Manovich stated that new media artists working on database concepts could learn from cinema precisely because cinema has in fact always been at the nexus of database and narrative while the movie was still in the editing room. Manovich points out especially Vertov achieved a successful merging between database and narrative into a new form .
Implicit/explicit
The semiological theory of syntagm and paradigm (originally formulated by Ferdinand de Saussure and later worked on by Roland Barthes) helps to define the relationship between the database-narrative opposition. In this theory the syntagm is a linear stringing together of elements while at the paradigmatic each new element is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20C.%20Caruso | Fred C. Caruso is an American film producer known for his work on such films as Network and Blue Velvet.
His contributions as a producer for the film version of The Bonfire of the Vanities with director Brian De Palma were detailed in Julie Salamon's 1991 non-fiction book The Devil's Candy.
Selected filmography
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
Film
Production manager
As an actor
Thanks
Television
Production manager
References
External links
American film producers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Unit production managers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles%20Kahn | Gilles Kahn (April 17, 1946 – February 9, 2006) was a French computer scientist. He notably introduced Kahn process networks as a model for parallel processing and natural semantics for describing the operational semantics of programming languages.
Gilles Kahn was born in Paris. He studied at the École polytechnique (X1964) and at Stanford. He became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1997. He was president and director-general of INRIA from 2004 to 2006. He died in Garches.
External links
Page at the French academy of sciences
Page at INRIA
1946 births
2006 deaths
French computer scientists
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
École Polytechnique alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20National%20Route%2030 | is a national highway connecting Okayama and Takamatsu in Japan.
Route data
Length: 26.4 km (16.4 mi)
Origin: Okayama (originates at the origin of Routes 53 and 180, the terminus of Route 250)
Terminus: Takamatsu (ends at junction with Route 11)
Major cities: Tamano
History
1952-12-04 - First Class National Highway 30 (from Okayama to Takamatsu)
1965-04-01 - General National Highway 30 (from Okayama to Takamatsu)
Intersects with
Okayama Prefecture
Kagawa Prefecture
References
030
Roads in Kagawa Prefecture
Roads in Okayama Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visolit | Visolit (previously TeleComputing) () is a Norway-based international information technology operation, outsourcing and consultancy service company that provides services in Norway, Russia and Sweden, including IT on demand and software as a service services.
The company is based in Asker, Akershus, has 860 employees and provides services to 770 companies.
It has been listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange since 2000, and has grown partially due to its consolidation in the Norwegian and Swedish market.
In 2017, Sopra Steria buys the system development company Kentor.
The company changed its name to Visolit in January 2019. The company was among the first in the world to offer ASP (Application Service Provider) services to companies.
On August 10, 2021, Visolit was acquired by Advania.
References
External links
(in Norwegian), the company's official website
Year of establishment missing
Business services companies of Norway
Companies based in Asker
Computer companies of Norway
Information technology consulting firms of Norway
Information technology companies of Norway
Outsourcing companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%2040%20Paradise | I-40 Paradise was a 30 minute daily cable TV sitcom on the Nashville Network. The series ran from 1983 to about 1986. The producers made television history by producing an entire episode in a single day. Previous to this, it took an entire week to produce a 30 minute sitcom. each episode also recorded two songs live in stereo with the house band "The Mighty Notes" in the back room of the Paradise, made up of session musicians from across music genres.
Premise
I 40 Paradise was set in a truckstop/restaurant/tavern in the small town of Crab Orchard, Tennessee off of Interstate 40 between Knoxville and Nashville, Tennessee. The main characters included "LuAnn Bledsoe", the owner of the Paradise, played by Barbara George; "Sonny Rollins", the goofy, Goober-style mechanic, played by Bruce Carnahan; "Stogie" the bartender, played by John Ribble; "Georgia", the wannabe-country-music-singer-who-sang-off-key waitress, played by Trish Dougherty; "Buck", the house band leader and resident country music singer, played by Jack Crook; "Randy", Buck's kid brother, a multi-talented singer and musician, played by Lionel Cartwright; and "Melody Dawn Rainey", the girl singer, played by Kelli Warren. After the original pilot aired several regular characters were added. "Calvin," played by Bruce Borin, a shoe salesman, and "Velma" played by Liz Borin, the local beautician and Calvin's girlfriend as well as a character named "Lathrop Wells" who ran the pool hall was also featured on the series played by Mike McElroy.
Guest stars
Country music stars would drop in on their way to Nashville and perform a couple of music numbers on each episode. Many Grand Ole Opry Stars performed on this show, including Reba McEntire, Little Jimmy Dickens, Porter Wagoner, Jerry Clower, Hoyt Axton, Bela Fleck, Tom T Hall and many others. Roy Rogers, star of film and television, also appeared in two episodes.
Some of the participants went on to greater fame. Writer J. R. Miller wrote 96 episodes of the 1/2 hour show, including the first. Miller later wrote for the famous comedy show, Hee Haw. Lionel Cartwright went on to be a famous and successful country music star.
References
External links
1980s American sitcoms
1983 American television series debuts
1986 American television series endings
Television shows set in Tennessee
The Nashville Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii%20system%20software | The Wii system software is a discontinued set of updatable firmware versions and a software frontend on the Wii home video game console. Updates, which could be downloaded over the Internet or read from a game disc, allowed Nintendo to add additional features and software, as well as to patch security vulnerabilities used by users to load homebrew software. When a new update became available, Nintendo sent a message to the Wii Message Board of Internet-connected systems notifying them of the available update.
Most game discs, including first-party and third-party games, include system software updates so that systems that are not connected to the Internet can still receive updates. The system menu will not start such games if their updates have not been installed, so this has the consequence of forcing users to install updates in order to play these games. Some games, such as online games like Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart Wii, contain specific extra updates, such as the ability to receive Wii Message Board posts from game-specific addresses; therefore, these games always require that an update be installed before their first time running on a given console.
Technology
IOS
The Wii's firmware has many active branches known as IOSes, thought by the Wii homebrew developers to stand for "Input Output Systems" or "Internal Operating Systems". The currently active IOS, also simply referred to as just "IOS," runs on a separate ARM926EJ-S processor unofficially nicknamed Starlet, which resides within the Hollywood GPU. The patent for the Wii U shows a similar device which is simply named "Input/Output Processor". IOS controls I/O between the code running on the main Broadway processor and the various Wii hardware that does not also exist on the GameCube.
Except for bug fixes, new IOS versions do not replace existing IOS versions. Instead, Wii consoles have multiple IOS versions installed. All native Wii software (including games distributed on Nintendo optical discs, the System Menu itself, Virtual Console games, WiiWare, and Wii Channels), with the exception of certain homebrew applications, have the IOS version hardcoded into the software.
When the software is run, the IOS that is hardcoded gets loaded by the Wii, which then loads the software itself. If that IOS does not exist on the Wii, in the case of disc-based software, it gets installed automatically (after the user is prompted). With downloaded software, this should not theoretically happen, as the user cannot access the shop to download software unless the player has all the IOS versions that they require. However, if homebrew is used to forcefully install or run a piece of software when the required IOS does not exist, the user is brought back to the system menu.
Nintendo created this system so that new updates would not unintentionally break compatibility with older games, but it does have the side effect that it uses up space on the Wii's internal NAND Flash memory. IOSes ar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSM%20Group | VSM Group AB (Viking Sewing Machines), previously named Husqvarna Sewing Machines is a company based in Huskvarna, Sweden.
Founded in 1872, the company is best known for "smart" (computerized) sewing machines and sergers under the brands Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff. The VSM brand produces several lines of sewing machines, the top being the Designer series and the lowest being the mechanical (non-computerized) Huskystars. The sewing machines change every year or so as the experts create upgrades. In February 2006 VSM Group was bought by Kohlberg & Co., who already owned the brand Singer. Singer and VSM Group have been merged into a company named SVP Worldwide, with headquarters in Hamilton, Bermuda, where the initials are reflecting the brands Singer, Viking and Pfaff.
History
In 1999, VSM Group took over Pfaff sewing machines. In December 2005, Industri Kapital sold VSM Group to Kohlberg Management IV, already owner of the Singer1 brand. The merger of the two entities then gave birth to SVP Worldwide, whose head office is in Hamilton, Bermuda. The name SVP identifies the three brands of the merger (Singer, VSM, Pfaff). All brands used by VSM group are under license from KSIN Luxembourg2.
See also
List of sewing machine brands
References
External links
Husqvarna Viking sewing machines
Sewing machine brands
Manufacturing companies of Sweden
Companies established in 1872
Swedish brands
Companies based in Jönköping County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier%20%28email%20client%29 | Courier (also known as Courier Email) was an email client for Microsoft Windows. The software was originally released in 1996 as Calypso by Micro Computer Systems (MCS).
Courier supported the POP3, IMAP and SMTP protocols, provided several features for HTML security and allowed to use multiple e-mail accounts from one mailbox. Version 3.0 introduced html support and improved message security in comparison to version 2.0, however some features were not yet supported for html messages.
In 1998 the MCS introduced another Calypso branded product, Calypso Message Center, intended for tracking and distributing messages for corporate customers.
The company abandoned further development of Calypso, which was acquired in 2003 by RoseCitySoftware. This led to freeware release of version 3.3 and name change of the next shareware version 3.5 to Courier.
An upgrade path was negotiated with PocoSystems to add Courier-type features to Pocomail and direct Courier users to migrate to PocoMail 4.8 as a replacement for Courier 3.5. Free versions of the unfinished beta, requiring no registration, were available at the Yahoo Courier user group.
As of June 2021 the software is not available for download from official sources.
References
External links
Courier
Email clients
Windows email clients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTIV | WTIV (1230 AM) is an American radio station, licensed to the community of Titusville, Pennsylvania. WTIV operates at a full-time power of 1,000 watts. Though licensed to Titusville, programming, sales and administrative functions originate out of Meadville, Pennsylvania.
History
WTIV was the first of three radio stations originally put on the air by Robert H. Sauber. Making its debut on November 27, 1955, WTIV offered a full-service format composed mainly of news, adult contemporary music and national and world news from the Mutual Broadcasting System, with little changes in program offerings over the years under his ownership.
Though Sauber would later put two other stations in Franklin on the air, he continued to manage WTIV as an entirely separate entity, serving as the station's general manager and sales manager. WTIV operated under the corporate name WTIV, Inc. (though Sauber himself was listed as licensee) while the Franklin stations did business as Northwestern Pennsylvania Broadcasting Company, Inc. Sauber also performed engineering duties for WTIV and the two Franklin stations.
WTIV's most notable employee was Tim Nelson. Tim joined WTIV in 1955 after graduating from high school in his native Warren, PA. He served as announcer and later program director for a total of 29 years. He left in 1984 to become President of the Titusville Chamber of Commerce.
In July 2000, Sauber wanted to retire and put his stations up for sale. All three were purchased by Altoona-based Forever Broadcasting, LLC for an undisclosed sum. Sauber died in October 2004 at the age of 76.
Following the sale of WTIV to Forever Broadcasting, operations were moved from the station's historic WTIV Building at 150 West Central Avenue in downtown Titusville, to the Downtown Mall in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Until 2023, WTIV was one of three radio stations operating as The Allegheny News Talk Sports Network. The stations operated most of the time as a "trimulcast", or programming simultaneously rebroadcast over three radio stations (until December 2009, WOYL in Oil City had also been a part of this network, in effect making it a quadcast; WOYL permanently ceased operations in July 2010). However, WTIV and its Meadville AM affiliate, WMGW, broke away from WFRA for a live local morning show containing program matter exclusive to Crawford County. After the morning show ended, the trimulcast resumed.
The morning show, along with all programming, administration, and sales functions, originated out of the Meadville office. The morning show was hosted by Keith Allen (Amolsch) Austin, program director for the network until his death in 2014.
It was announced on October 12, 2022, that Forever Media was selling 34 stations, including WTIV and the entire Meadville/Franklin cluster, to State College-based Seven Mountains Media for $17.375 million, pending FCC approval. The sale was consummated on January 1, 2023.
On October 16, 2023, WTIV changed its format from news/talk/sport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Exile%20Kiss | The Exile Kiss is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by American writer George Alec Effinger, published in 1991. It is the third novel in the three-book Marîd Audran series, following the events of A Fire in the Sun. The title of the novel comes from Coriolanus, by William Shakespeare: "O! a kiss / Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!" (Act V, scene 3).
Effinger had begun writing a fourth book in the Marîd Audran series, Word of Night, but died before that work was completed. The posthumously-published Budayeen Nights contains the first two chapters of Word of Night along with other stories of Effinger's.
Plot summary
Married to Indihar, though from his perspective in name only, Marîd Audran gets invited to a reception at the palace of the amir of the city. Shaykh Mahali, the amir, thus wishes to end the rivalry between Friedlander Bey and Reda Abu Adil, two of the most powerful men in the city. Both Audran and Bey, or "Papa" as he's known in the Budayeen, become suspicious when their sworn enemy Abu Adil designates Audran as an officer of the "Jaish", an unofficial militia working for Abu Adil.
However, it is not until after the party that Abu Adil's scheme unfolds: Audran and Bey are put under arrest by Lieutenant Hajjar and charged with the murder of a police officer named Khalid Maxwell. They're sentenced on-the-spot into exile, never to return to the city under pain of death. Left to die amongst the burning sands of a vast desert, their luck finally turns as they are rescued by a Bedouin tribe of Bani Salim, allowing them to start planning the vengeance they'd exact upon Abu Adil and prove their innocence— if they ever make it back to the city alive.
References
1991 American novels
Cyberpunk novels
1991 science fiction novels
Dystopian novels
Doubleday (publisher) books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEMON%20%28C%2B%2B%20library%29 | LEMON is an open source graph library written in the C++ language providing implementations of common data structures and algorithms with focus on combinatorial optimization tasks connected mainly with graphs and networks. The library is part of the COIN-OR project.
LEMON is an abbreviation of Library for Efficient Modeling and Optimization in Networks.
Design
LEMON employs genericity in C++ by using templates. The tools of the library are designed to be versatile, convenient and highly efficient. They can be combined easily to solve complex real-life optimization problems. For example, LEMON’s graphs can differ in many ways (depending on the representation and other specialities), but all have to satisfy one or more graph concepts, which are standardized interfaces to work with the rest of the library.
Features
LEMON provides
Graph structures and related tools
Graph search algorithms
Shortest path algorithms
Maximum flow algorithms
Minimum cost flow algorithms
Minimum cut algorithms
Connectivity and other graph properties
Maximum cardinality and minimum cost perfect matching algorithms
Minimum cost spanning tree algorithms
Approximation algorithms
Auxiliary algorithms
LEMON also contains some metaheuristic optimization tools and provides a general high-level interface for several LP and MIP solvers, such as GLPK, ILOG CPLEX, CLP, CBC, SoPlex.
LEMON has its own graph storing format, the so called Lemon Graph Format and includes general EPS drawing methods and special graph exporting tools.
LEMON also includes several miscellaneous tools. For example, it provides simple tools for measuring the performance of algorithms, which can be used to compare different implementations of the same problem.
External links
LEMON webpage:
Lemon site
C++ libraries
Numerical software
Software_using_the_Boost_license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendisc | Opendisc is an Enhanced Music CD application for enabling multimedia content when a compact disc is played on a personal computer. Opendisc asserts that its technology conforms to the Blue Book specification and does not contain copy-protection functions. However, various computer users have reported that it interferes with third-party playback and ripping applications, effectively functioning as Digital Rights Management. Since version 2.0, Opendisc embedded a direct link to a default audio player such as Windows Media Player or iTunes. Because of this, many CDs now simply feature access to a Web site of the specific artist, which features exclusive music, videos, and photo content. Like a Google alert, a user is informed of artist updates via e-mail.
References
External links
Opendisc Web Site (Currently no longer in service)
Web Archive of OpenDisc site before deletion, on 30 AUG 2011
Compact disc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tide%20%28light%20rail%20network%29 | The Tide is a light rail line in Norfolk, Virginia, United States, owned and operated by Hampton Roads Transit (HRT). It connects Eastern Virginia Medical School, downtown Norfolk, Norfolk State University, and Newtown Road. Service began on August 19, 2011, making it the first light rail system in Virginia. Fares match local bus fares and the line accepts HRT's GO Passes. Trains generally run every 15 minutes, increasing to every 10 minutes during peak periods and every 30 minutes during early mornings and late evenings. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of .
History
In the late 1980s, the Tidewater Transportation District Commission (TTDC) began producing studies that would examine the feasibility of expanding transit corridors between Norfolk and its neighboring cities of Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach; these included a study for the cost effectiveness of restoring passenger rail service in 1986 and a rail systems analysis in 1991. Four years later, TTDC pursued a Major Investment Study and in 1997, identified a locally preferred alternative for an east–west light rail line between downtown Norfolk and the Virginia Beach oceanfront. The alignment would have run along an exclusive double-track right-of-way that followed the Norfolk Southern Railway and contained 13 stations. In 1999, the Virginia Beach City Council asked its residents in a referendum whether it should adopt a local ordinance to help develop and finance the light rail project. On November 2, Virginia Beach residents voted against the referendum, 56percent to 44percent.
After Virginia Beach pulled out of a proposal that would have seen the construction of a light rail line connecting downtown Norfolk with the Virginia Beach oceanfront in 1999, Norfolk began developing a network that would be constructed entirely within its city limits.
Beginning in 2000, HRT and federal transit officials worked to create a plan that would attract federal funding. On September 22, 2006, the Federal Transit Administration announced that the proposal met federal criteria for design, and would receive funding for a final design. On October 1, 2007, the FTA signed the agreement to appropriate $128 million for the construction of the network. The remainder of the project will be divided three ways, with the city of Norfolk contributing $33 million, the Commonwealth of Virginia contributing $31.9 million, and $39.2 million being contributed from other federal sources.
Officials announced in June 2007 that the system would be called The Tide, a name that beat out other proposed names, including Bay Runner, First Rail, Dash, Bay Breeze, Sail and Shore Line.
Construction problems
The line had been planned to open in January 2010, but cost overruns, extended testing of trains, and electronic signage required three delays.
In January 2010, HRT's executive director, Michael Townes, was pressured by the board of directors and ultimately agreed to step |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet%20Me | is a Japanese online reality simulation computer game developed by Transcosmos Inc.
Concept
Meet Me shares many similarities with competing reality simulator games, such as Second Life. It also introduces a number of innovations such as the inclusion of realistic, 3-dimensional renderings of real-world locations; common means of transportation such as trains (characters will not have the ability to fly or teletransport themselves) and, above all, strict content regulations aimed at providing an obscenity and gambling-free gaming experience for players of all ages.
Economy
Meet Me uses two separate currencies, Cocore ore and MMP. Co-Core can be earned in multiple ways, such as playing games. Cocore requires no payment, and there is technically an infinite amount in existence. MMP can be earned by making the leaderboard for one of the two Meet Me web games, Reversi and Connect6, in which a uniform amount of 50MMP is awarded, regardless of a player's position on the leaderboard. It can also be purchased in exchange for actual money. The only currency that can be used to purchase MMP is Japanese yen.
Localization
Meet Me is set for release in December 2007 and currently being developed for Microsoft Windows (more specifically Windows Vista) even though other options (namely Windows XP) are also being considered.
The game is currently only available for residents of Japan, and is only available in Japanese. The game was originally to be made available not just in Japanese, but also Korean, Chinese and English.
See also
Second Life
References
External links
Meet Me
2007 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Video games developed in Japan
Virtual world communities
Multiplayer online games
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/566th%20Intelligence%20Squadron | The 566th Intelligence Squadron is a support unit to the Aerospace Data Facility in conjunction with the Buckley Garrison, Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado. The 566th is part of the 544th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, headquartered at Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado.
The squadron's mission is to provide the Aerospace Data Facility-Colorado with information and technical support in the performance of joint national system missions.
History
The 566th Information Operations Squadron (IOS) began during World War II, when the 16th Photographic Technical Unit was activated on 5 November 1944, at Charleroi, Belgium. The 16th was a squadron to the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group and the 16th was assigned to several bases in Europe: Vogelsang, Limburg, and Eschwege, Germany, and France. After World War II, the unit moved to MacDill Field, Florida, where it was decommissioned on 21 December 1945. The 66th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron was Constituted on 15 November 1952 and Activated on 1 January 1953 at Shaw AFB. SC relocated to Shaw AFB, SC: 1 Jan–25 June 1953; Sembach AB, West Germany on 7 July 1953 and moved to Kaiserslautern, West Germany on 13 August 1953 till the unit was Inactivated on 8 February 1958. While the unit was inactive the 66th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron was Consolidated on 16 October 1984 and the New Unit was designated as the 16th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron.
The unit remained inactive until 7 September 1993, when the 16th Intelligence Squadron was activated at Buckley Air National Guard Base, Colorado. The unit was re-designated the 566th Operations Support Squadron (OSS) on 1 October 1995. Renamed later as the 566th Information Operations Squadron (IOS) on 1 August 2000, this unit aided Buckley in its transition from an Air National Guard base to an active duty Air Force base.
Lineage
16th Photographic Technical Unit
Constituted as the 16th Photographic Technical Unit and activated on 5 November 1944
Inactivated on 21 December 1945
Consolidated with the 66th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron on 16 October 1984 as the 16th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron
66th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron
Constituted as the 66th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron on 15 November 1952
Activated on 1 January 1953
Inactivated on 8 February 1958
Consolidated with the 16th Photographic Technical Unit on 16 October 1984 as the 16th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron
16th (566th) Intelligence Squadron
Redesignated 16th Intelligence Squadron on 3 September 1993
Activated on 7 September 1993
Redesignated 566th Operations Support Squadron on 1 October 1995
Redesignated 566th Information Operations Squadron on 1 August 2000
Redesignated 566th Intelligence Squadron on 1 April 2007
Assignments
67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 5 November 1944 – 21 December 1945
66th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, 1 January 1953 – 8 February 1958
544th Intelligence Group (later 544th Information Operatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singly%20rooted%20hierarchy | The singly rooted hierarchy, in object-oriented programming, is a characteristic of most (but not all) OOP-based programming languages. In most such languages, in fact, all classes inherit directly or indirectly from a single root, usually with a name similar to Object; all classes then form a common inheritance hierarchy.
This idea was introduced first by Smalltalk, and was since used in most other object-oriented languages (notably Java and C#).
A notable exception is C++, where (mainly for compatibility with C and efficiency) there is no single object hierarchy. This feature is especially useful for container libraries - they only need to allow putting an Object in a container to allow objects of any class to be put in the container. Containers in C++ have been implemented with multiple inheritance, and with help of template-based generic programming by Bjarne Stroustrup. Other object-oriented languages without a singly rooted hierarchy include Objective-C and PHP.
See also
Top type
References
Object-oriented programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGD | TGD or tgd may refer to:
Tuple-generating dependency, a certain kind of constraint on a relational database
TGD, the IATA code for Podgorica Airport, Golubovci, Montenegro
tgd, the ISO 639-3 code for Ciwogai language, Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistics%20%28video%20game%29 | Ballistics is a futuristic racing computer game developed by Grin and published by Xicat Interactive in 2001. Grin developed an arcade version of the game, released in 2002 featuring a unique reclined seating position cabinet by Triotech. Players race across seven different tracks in various leagues against other competitors on high-speed hoverbikes.
The game was Grin's first to be released, and featured the first version of their Diesel game engine. Grin worked closely with NVIDIA to incorporate then new technologies into the game, and was marketed as one of the flagship titles for the GeForce 3 Series of graphics cards.
Critical reaction was average, with reviewers being impressed by the beauty of the graphics and the thrilling depiction of speed. They were however, slightly disappointed with the shallow nature of the gameplay. A newer version of the arcade game was released in 2003, incorporating motion simulator technology into the arcade cabinet.
Gameplay
Set in 2090, the game is centred on a fictional extreme racing sport known as Ballistics, a descendant of Formula One. The player takes the role of a Ballistic's pilot, racing hoverbikes called speeders through the inside of tubes which form the courses. The speeders are magnetically attached to the race surface, allowing the player 360 degrees of movement along the left/right axis. The player can detach the speeder from the track and navigate down the center in order to avoid track obstacles and to acquire the power-ups exclusively located there. Players must try to follow the outside of each curve, as hitting the inside of a curve at speed could lead to an involuntary detachment, leading to a loss of control and seconds dropped in securing reattachment.
Heat levels on the speeder must be monitored, as although there are no set top speeds for the vehicles, they can explode if allowed to overheat. Heat builds up from acceleration and from collisions. To counteract this, the player may activate the onboard cooler, however, this will slow the vehicle down. Designated cooling strips along the track and the Ice power-up can cool the vehicle without a speed penalty, allowing the player to continue accelerating.
Speeders have a boost meter, showing how much fuel is available for the onboard speed boost. Although the boost provides greater speeds and acceleration than the standard throttle, it also increases the speeder's heat levels. Designated booster load zones along the track replenish the meter, and a super boost power-up is available which doubles the potency of the boost.
Players are rewarded with cash for attaining high speeds, placing highly in races and obtaining the Flip-Score power-up. Cash can be used in between races to upgrade their speeder by purchasing new parts. Parts are split into four categories - chassis, cooler, engine and front shield, with each affecting the speeder in different ways. Some tracks may favour a particular set-up over others.
There are seven tracks in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planarity | Planarity is a 2005 puzzle computer game by John Tantalo, based on a concept by Mary Radcliffe at Western Michigan University.
The name comes from the concept of planar graphs in graph theory; these are graphs that can be embedded in the Euclidean plane so that no edges intersect. By Fáry's theorem, if a graph is planar, it can be drawn without crossings so that all of its edges are straight line segments. In the planarity game, the player is presented with a circular layout of a planar graph, with all the vertices placed on a single circle and with many crossings. The goal for the player is to eliminate all of the crossings and construct a straight-line embedding of the graph by moving the vertices one by one into better positions.
History and versions
The game was written in Flash by John Tantalo at Case Western Reserve University in 2005. Online popularity and the local notoriety he gained placed Tantalo as one of Cleveland's most interesting people for 2006. It in turn has inspired the creation of a GTK+ version by Xiph.org's Chris Montgomery, which possesses additional level generation algorithms and the ability to manipulate multiple nodes at once.
Puzzle generation algorithm
The definition of the planarity puzzle does not depend on how the planar graphs in the puzzle are generated, but the original implementation uses the following algorithm:
Generate a set of random lines in a plane such that no two lines are parallel and no three lines meet in a single point.
Calculate the intersections of every line pair.
Create a graph with a vertex for each intersection and an edge for each line segment connecting two intersections (the arrangement of the lines).
If a graph is generated from lines, then the graph will have exactly vertices (each line has vertices, and each vertex is shared with one other line) and edges (each line contains edges). The first level of Planarity is built with lines, so it has vertices and edges. Each level after is generated by one more line than the last. If a level was generated with lines, then the next level has more vertices and more edges.
The best known algorithms from computational geometry for constructing the graphs of line arrangements solve the problem in time, linear in the size of the graph to be constructed, but they are somewhat complex. Alternatively and more simply, it is possible to index each crossing point by the pair of lines that cross at that point, sort the crossings along each line by their -coordinates, and use this sorted ordering to generate the edges of the planar graph, in near-optimal time. Once the vertices and edges of the graph have been generated, they may be placed evenly around a circle using a random permutation.
Related theoretical research
The problem of determining whether a graph is planar can be solved in linear time, and any such graph is guaranteed to have a straight-line embedding by Fáry's theorem, that can also be found from the planar embedding in l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishan%20Sabnani | Krishan Sabnani (born 1954 in New Delhi) is an Indian-American networking researcher. He has made many seminal contributions to the Internet infrastructure design, protocol design, and wireless networks. Krishan (with T. V. Lakshman and T. Woo) made a breakthrough in Internet re-design. The main idea behind this work was to separate control functions and complex software from the forwarding portions on Internet routers. This work made it possible for forwarding technologies (e.g., different link layer and switching protocols) to evolve and be deployed independently from control protocols (e.g., routing, security). This contribution is a precursor to the current Software Defined Networking (SDN) revolution. A patent based on this work won the 2010 Edison Patent Award.
Krishan received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. He completed his PhD in reliable multicasting at Columbia University. Upon his graduation from Columbia University in 1981, Krishan joined Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, as a member of technical staff and was promoted to department head in 1993. He was named VP of networking research in 2000.
Krishan was vice president of networking research at Bell Labs from Jan. 2000 to Sept. 2013. In that role, he managed all networking research in Bell Labs, comprising nine departments in seven countries: USA, France, Germany, Ireland, India, Belgium, and South Korea. Krishan retired from Bell Labs in Jan 2017. He received an award upon his retirement - appointment as Ambassador-at-large for Bell Labs. Krishan is the first person to receive this award.
Krishan is currently a Homewood Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a part-time chief technologist at CACI. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University.
Honors and awards
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
Ambassador-at-large for Bell Labs
2005 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
2005 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award.
The 2005, 2009 and 2010 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Awards from the R&D Council of New Jersey.
Inducted into the NJ Inventors of Fame in 2014
Bell Labs Fellow, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
2005 Distinguished Alumni Award from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
1991 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society for "Design and Implementation of a High-Speed Transport Protocol," published in IEEE Trans. on Communications, Nov. 1990
President of India's Gold Medal, 1975 . Institution of Engineers (India) Gold Medal, 1975.
References
Living people
Indian emigrants to the United States
1954 births
Scientists at Bell Labs
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
IIT Delhi alumni
Columbia University faculty
American people of Sindhi descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche%204 | Comanche 4 is a video game developed and published by NovaLogic for Windows in 2001.
Gameplay
Comanche 4 is a game in which the player can pilot the Comanche RAH-66.
Reception
Computer Gaming Worlds Jeff Lackey summarized the game as: "A standard but well-done shoot-'em-up action/arcade game."
GameSpot's Bruce Geryk said that "Whether or not you like your flight sims to be in any way realistic, Comanche 4 does a good job of disguising the fact that you're playing a flying version of Serious Sam. The excellent graphical effects, nonstop action, and nominal helicopter content make this a great game to fire up for a while just as a change of pace. Comanche 4 is a good time in small doses, and while you'll quickly get tired of the homogenous gameplay, you'll probably end up jumping back in sooner than you think. That is, if you like to see stuff blow up."
GameSpy's Alan Lackey summarized that: "NovaLogic has successfully blended the fast-paced characteristics of the action game with the technical nature of the flight sim in Comanche 4. Throw in some amazing graphics and entertaining mission design and you have a fun, action-packed title that should appeal to trigger-happy pilots everywhere."
IGN's Ivan Sulic approved the change of graphics engine: "One thing which can be of no dispute is that the switch from a voxel-based rendering engine to one of next-generation powered polygonal bliss is welcome beyond measure. When played on the GeForce 3s and Radeon 8500s the game demands and deserves, Comanche shines with a technically brilliant, realistic, yet polished aesthetic sheen that immediately catapults it to the upper echelons of the PC market in terms of graphical splendor. Gone are poorly developed unrecognizable assemblages of voxels, and in are excessive polygon counts, meticulous detail, sharp texturing, and jaw dropping particle effects.".
See also
Enemy Engaged: RAH-66 Comanche vs. KA-52 Hokum
References
External links
(archived)
2001 video games
Combat flight simulators
Helicopter video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
NovaLogic games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlawn%2C%20County%20Galway | Woodlawn, historically known as Mota or Moote, is a settled area in County Galway, Ireland.
Location
Woodlawn lies on the R359 regional road, between the main road and rail networks which traverse the area east-west, west of Kilconnell, from Ballinasloe and approximately from the city of Galway. Woodlawn House and its demesne are in the townlands of Woodlawn and Killaan, while the broader area also features Woodlawn railway station, a post office and a Church of Ireland parish church.
Transport
Woodlawn railway station was built by the second Lord Ashtown, and opened on 1 August 1858. It was closed for goods traffic on 2 June 1978. It is on the main Iarnród Éireann Intercity line from Dublin to Galway, situated between Ballinasloe and Attymon halt stations, and still open for some passenger business.
Features
Woodlawn House
Woodlawn House, about north-west of Ballinasloe, is the former seat of the Trench family, holders of the title Baron (Lord) Ashtown. This large Italianate building was built in the late 18th century by Frederic Trench, 1st Baron Ashtown, of Moate, and extended and remodelled in the mid-19th century, following the marriage of his nephew, Frederic Mason Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown, to his second wife, Elizabeth Oliver Gascoigne of Castle Oliver, Limerick.
The house was vacated and the furnishings sold when the third Lord Ashtown became bankrupt in the 1920s, and eventually it was sold by the fourth Lord Ashtown to a cousin, Derek Le Poer Trench, in 1947. In 1973, it was sold on to a local farmer, and it changed hands further thereafter, being held by a local publican from 1989 to 2001, and then sold on with its remaining 115 acres of land. As of 2019, and unoccupied for over 40 years, it had suffered fire damage in 1982, and been partly repaired with an emergency Heritage Council grant.
It has 35,000 sq ft of space, and more than fifty rooms, with the central part comprising three storeys over a basement, and two two-storey wings.
The estate also includes a family mausoleum, a walled garden, an orchard, stables, two staff houses and some cottages. There is also a lake.
Religion
There is a Church of Ireland church, within the parish group of Aughrim, in the ancient Diocese of Clonfert, now within the United Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe. It was designed in 1860 and built in 1874 for Lord Ashtown, by James Forth Kempster. It has a four-bay nave, a vestry and bell tower, carved wooden pulpit and lectern, and stained glass windows.
See also
List of towns and villages in Ireland
References
Towns and villages in County Galway
Church of Ireland parishes in the Republic of Ireland
Trench family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayON%21%20Sports%20Network | PlayOn! Sports Network is an American high school sports media company, an aggregator of high school sports video. It launched in 2006 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with offices in the Midwest and California.
History
The PlayOn! Sports Network began as a division of Turner Broadcasting and Time Warner, Inc. The company launched in August 2006 and was then primarily focused on producing and digitally streaming collegiate sporting events. In 2008, it spun out from Turner Broadcasting. Their first high school sports broadcast came in early 2009 when the group produced a webcast of a Georgia state wrestling championship.
Operating Divisions
The NFHS Network
The NFHS Network is a joint venture of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), its member State Associations and PlayOn!. The NFHS is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is the national leadership organization for high school sports and performing arts activities. PlayOn! manages the day-to-day operations of the NFHS Network, which delivers live and on demand high school events at www.NFHSnetwork.com as well as through mobile apps.
School Broadcast Program
The NFHS Network created the School Broadcast Program (SBP) to provide member high schools with educational tools to help grow their own broadcast programs and assist the network with producing regular season games. Each school has a branded site on the NFHS Network that allows students to produce and distribute event videos throughout the year, including regular season sports, graduations, memorials, announcements and plays. The program provides students with hands-on production and broadcast experience while also promoting their high school, and also enables schools to earn money for programs.
In 2018, Pixellot and PlayOn! Sports partnered to bring automated sports production to U.S. high school sports, such as broadcast school events on the NFHS Network.
External links
In-Depth Look at PlayOn! Sports and its recent moves
References
Sports television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itautec | Itautec is a Brazilian electronics company founded in 1979. It is part of Itaúsa, a Brazilian business group.
Ituatec is an ATM, kiosk, and computer manufacturer in the Brazilian and South American markets, and also has a key role in project deployment and IT services.
It mainly focuses on making consumer electronics, banking, and retail automation. The company has a large base of ATMs globally and in Latin America. Headquartered in São Paulo and with a manufacturing plant in the city of Jundiaí (SP), Itautec has 5,709 direct employees – 5,285 in Brazil and 424 abroad.
Product lines
Presently the company's product lines include:
Personal Computers: Desktop, tablet, and laptop personal computers
Monitors: LCD, LED, OLED, and touchscreen monitors
Commercial and banking automation
Software: Point of sale, credit card processing, an in-house Linux distribution called Librix, terminal management, digital signatures, and banking correspondence, among others
Services and Integration: Technical support, infrastructure, security, phone support, servers, and networks
Components: Printed circuit boards, Memory boards, and integrated circuits
History
1980 – First online presence as GRI Gerenciador de Redes Itautec "Itautec Network Services Provider" and Banktec mainframes.
1981 – Central agency of Itaú is founded, including an automation system developed by Itautec.
1982 – Bank of Brazil installs GRI and Banktec
1985 – PC/XT microcomputer launched
1986 – Itautec installs the first compact Automated teller machine
1989 – GRIP (Gerenciamento de Redes Itautec para PC "Itautec Network Management for PCs") is launched
1990 – Launch of the first Notebook computer, IS 386 Note
1994 – Itautec launches a second-generation ATM in Brazil
1995 – First version of Banktec Multicanal in Banco Itaú Argentina
2001 – First ATMs exported to the United States/Europe
2002 – Itautec acquires technology from NMD for DelaRue, and installs the first WEB system in Banco Itaú Buen Ayre.
2009 – Itautec ranks in the 24th position in the Fintech ranking, that lists the world's largest IT providers.
2011 – Itautec debuts the world’s first touchless 3D ATM.
See also
SISNE plus
Sources
American Banker article: "ATM's Hologram Interface Deters Theft"
Credit Union Journal article: "First Touchscreen 3D ATM Launched for CUMarket"
References
External links
Itautec home page
Itaúsa
Technology companies of Brazil
Electronics companies of Brazil
Manufacturing companies based in São Paulo
Computer companies established in 1979
Software companies established in 1979
Computer hardware companies
Display technology companies
Financial technology companies
Point of sale companies
Software companies of Brazil
Brazilian brands
Companies listed on B3 (stock exchange) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Oaks%20%28TV%20pilot%29 | The Oaks is an American supernatural drama television pilot, created by David Schulner for the Fox network's 2008/2009 season. The addition to the Fox line-up was speculated to be a much-needed high-concept drama, purportedly to compete in ratings with ABC's Lost, Desperate Housewives, and Grey's Anatomy, and with CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and its various spin-off shows. In spite of making an early blind series commitment, Fox did not pick up the drama for the 2008/2009 season. It was reportedly shopped to other networks, with a UK remake of the show, Marchlands, produced in 2010.
Overview
The Oaks follows the lives of three families, in different time periods, who all occupy the same house haunted by a restless spirit. The previous house owners also appear to their successors as ghosts. Writer Schulner explains, "Each personal story, each small relationship story is tied to a larger ghost story. I can't tell the story of one family without telling the story of another family that lived there."
Three families over the span of four decades, move into the same house, and they are all haunted by a restless spirit. The families are as follows:
1968 - A young couple who have just lost their child.
1988 - A family of four.
2008 - A young couple expecting a baby.
In 1968, estranged couple Sarah and Mike harbor deep feelings of resentment and sorrow, aimed at each other after the death of their young daughter Amelia. In 1988, sexually frustrated husband and wife Frank and Molly raise their two children, Lucy and Brian. In 2008, the power couple of pregnant Hollis and her emasculated husband Dan move into the same house as the other families and during renovation, are quick to find something that sheds light on the house's secrets. It is revealed in the pilot, titled Amelia, that "several characters have unexpected connections to the past in some very novel ways".
Characters
The following has been revealed about the characters:
Mike (played by Matt Lanter) is a part of the 1968 couple. He is Sarah's husband who is "strong but silent," works at his father's company and seems at first to be under his father's thumb. He has become reticent and distant since the loss of his and Sarah's young daughter Amelia within the last year. The death has somewhat made the two lose their will to continue as a family, and when Mike attempts to reconnect with Sarah, "all he can see is Amelia."
Sarah (played by Shannon Lucio) is a part of the 1968 couple. "Quietly devastated," she is Mike's wife who has also become increasingly full of sorrow since the death of their child. Sarah seeks counseling from their Priest, but it does little to help as she often believes she can feel Amelia's presence or hear her voice.
Molly (played by Romy Rosemont) is the mother in the 1988 family. Molly is a mother of two who is struggling to keep her marriage alive.
Frank (played by Michael Rispoli) is a part of the 1988 family. Frank is husband to Molly and father t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20163001%E2%80%93164000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleground%3A%20Ardennes | Battleground: Ardennes is a 1995 computer wargame developed and published by TalonSoft. It the first game in the Battleground series
Development
Battleground was the first game released by TalonSoft. It was made on the company's Battleview engine, designed to be reused in subsequent games. Battleground was designed by Jim Rose and John Tiller, the latter of whom was "destined to become one of the most prolific and respected designers in all Grognardia", according to Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
Reception
Battleground: Ardennes was commercially successful. Terry Coleman of Computer Gaming World noted that it was "rare that a new wargame company makes much of a splash in terms of units sold, but TalonSoft is off to a solid start with this title." In 1998, Computer Gaming World dubbed Battleground "the most successful wargame series".
In PC Gamer US, William R. Trotter called Battleground: Ardennes "a most auspicious debut", and noted that he "eagerly await[ed] future releases in the Battleground Series." PC Gamer US later nominated Ardennes for its 1995 "Best Wargame" award, which ultimately went to Steel Panthers.
Legacy
Battleground: Ardennes was the first game in Battleground series. PC Gamer USs William R. Trotter argued in 1996 that Battleground and its sequels had "single-handedly rejuvenated the hex-grid system, combining it with thrilling miniatures-style graphics and beautiful video."
References
External links
1995 video games
Computer wargames
Multiplayer and single-player video games
TalonSoft games
Turn-based strategy video games
Windows games
Windows-only games
World War II video games
Video games about the Battle of the Bulge
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleground%203%3A%20Waterloo | Battleground 3: Waterloo is a 1996 computer wargame developed and published by TalonSoft. It is the third entry in the Battleground series.
Gameplay
The game features the Battle of Waterloo which was the final defeat for Napoleon Bonaparte and his French Empire.
Reception
Terry Coleman of Computer Gaming World reported in August 1996 that "BG: Waterloo had, according to Empire (the distributor for Talonsoft in the US), the highest 'buy-in' at retail chains of any historical wargame they've released this year."
A Next Generation critic said Battleground 3: Waterloo "is as good as PC war games get, featuring everything players could want in a turn-based bloodbath: historical accuracy, pleasing graphics, an easy-to-use interface, and strategic subtleties." He remarked that while the game only covers one battle, it has considerable breadth due to its many options, including the ability to play either a historically accurate campaign or a number of "what if" scenarios. He scored it four out of five stars.
The four Battleground games of 1996—Bulge-Ardennes, Shiloh, Antietam and Waterloo—collectively won Computer Games Strategy Pluss wargame of the year award for that year. Waterloo was a finalist for Computer Gaming Worlds 1996 "Wargame of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Battleground 4: Shiloh. Waterloo was a runner-up for Computer Game Entertainments 1996 "Best War Game" prize, which ultimately went to Tigers on the Prowl 2. The magazine's editors called both games "top-notch".
In 1996, Computer Gaming World named Waterloo the 115th best game ever. The editors wrote, "The grand age of warfare comes to life with colorful uniforms, delightful landscapes, and above-average opponent AI in this recent release." The magazine's wargame columnist Terry Coleman named it his pick for the 10th-best computer wargame released by late 1996.
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Multiplayer and single-player video games
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Video games developed in the United States
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleground%206%3A%20Napoleon%20in%20Russia | Battleground 6: Napoleon in Russia is a 1997 computer wargame developed and published by TalonSoft. It the sixth entry in the Battleground series.
Development
During development, TalonSoft reported trouble securing Russian music for Napoleon in Russia. The game was distributed by Broderbund, as part of a new deal by TalonSoft.
Reception
Napoleon in Russia was a runner-up for Computer Gaming Worlds 1997 "Wargame Game of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Sid Meier's Gettysburg! The editors wrote that Napoleon in Russia "sent the Battleground engine out in style".
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - Aug, 1997
GameSpot - Jul 09, 1997
CD-Action - Feb, 1998
Game.EXE - May, 1997
GameStar (Germany) - Dec, 1997
PC Player (Germany) - Dec, 1997
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1997 video games
Computer wargames
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Napoleonic Wars video games
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Turn-based strategy video games
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Video games set in Russia
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleground%208%3A%20Prelude%20to%20Waterloo | Battleground 8: Prelude to Waterloo is a 1997 computer wargame developed and published by TalonSoft. It is the eighth entry in the Battleground series.
Gameplay
Battleground 8: Prelude to Waterloo is a computer wargame that simulates military conflict during the Napoleonic Wars.
Development
Battleground 8: Prelude to Waterloo is the eighth game in the Battleground series. It was developed and published by TalonSoft, and was originally planned as an expansion pack for Battleground 3: Waterloo. Scott Udell of Computer Games Strategy Plus reported that "the popularity of that game and the demand for more Napoleonic coverage [led] TalonSoft ... to flush it out into a full release." It was announced in November 1996 as one of the next two titles in the Battleground series, alongside Battleground 7: Bull Run. Prelude to Waterloo shipped to retailers on September 15, 1997. At the time, TalonSoft announced it as the final game in the Battleground series.
Reception
Mark McIntosh of Computer Games Strategy Plus gave Prelude to Waterloo a rave review, calling it "without a doubt the best game TalonSoft has produced" in the Battleground series. Computer Gaming Worlds Bob Proctor was also positive: he dubbed it "a very good game" despite the presence of "more than a few" small flaws.
Legacy
Although Prelude to Waterloo was announced as the final game in the Battleground series, it received a sequel in 1999, under the title Battleground 9: Chickamauga.
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1997 video games
Computer wargames
Napoleonic Wars video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games
TalonSoft games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleground%209%3A%20Chickamauga | Battleground 9: Chickamauga is a 1999 computer wargame developed and published by TalonSoft. A simulation of conflict during the American Civil War, it is the ninth and final game in the Battleground series.
Gameplay
Battleground 9: Chickamauga is a computer wargame that simulates military conflict during the American Civil War. It focuses on the Battle of Chickamauga and the Battle of Stones River.
Development
Battleground 9: Chickamauga was developed and published by TalonSoft, as the ninth entry in the company's Battleground series. Its predecessor Battleground 8: Prelude to Waterloo had been intended as the final game in the franchise, but TalonSoft reported that Chickamauga was greenlit in response to fan demand. It was announced in June 1998 for a fall 1998 release. TalonSoft developed Chickamauga with an upgraded 32-bit version of the series' game engine. It is the fifth Battleground title to cover the American Civil War. The game reached gold status in December 1998.
TalonSoft announced that only 5,000 copies of Chickamauga would be printed. The company opted not to give the game a brick-and-mortar release, but rather to sell it directly via mail order. At the time, CNET Gamecenters Mark Asher called this an "unusual move" that he hoped would succeed, as a way to allow "more niche titles [to be] developed".
Reception
Battleground 9: Chickamauga was nominated for the 1998 Charles S. Roberts Award for "Best Pre-Twentieth Century Computer Wargame", which ultimately went to The Great Battles Collector's Edition.
Tom Chick of Computer Games Strategy Plus offered Chickamauga a positive review, calling it "a solid send-off to one of the most polished and reliable hybrids of computer and board wargaming." In a positive review, PC Games Dan Morris opined that "TalonSoft can keep pumping these out forever—they'll get no complaints from wargamers." Writing for CNET Gamecenter, Marc Dultz was similarly positive, citing its "incredible attention to detail and quality workmanship".
References
External links
Official page (archived)
1999 video games
Computer wargames
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games
Video games set in Georgia (U.S. state)
American Civil War video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
TalonSoft games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boku%20no%20Natsuyasumi%202 | is a video game developed by Millennium Kitchen and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It is part of the popular Boku no Natsuyasumi series and was released in Japan on July 11, 2002. It is an alternate universe sequel in which the main character spends his summer in a different part of Japan from the first game. It takes place during the same summer with many of the same characters, but in a different location, a town on Japan's southern coast. A PlayStation Portable version was released on June 24, 2010.
Description
The main character spends his summer vacation at his aunt and uncle's bed and breakfast in a southern Japanese coastal town. Features from the first game, like collecting and bug battles, return, along with new facets, like swimming. The player controls the main character for the thirty-one days of August 1975.
Reception
On release, Famitsu magazine scored the game a 33 out of 40. The game was a jury recommended title at the 6th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2002.
In Japan, sales of Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 surpassed 250,000 copies after only 17 days on shelves.
References
External links
(in Japanese; defunct link archived via the Wayback Machine)
Boku no Natsuyasumi (series) at Sony Computer Entertainment (in Japanese; defunct link archived via the Wayback Machine)
Single-player video games
Adventure games
Japan-exclusive video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
2002 video games
PlayStation 2 games
2010 video games
PlayStation Portable games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games about children
Video games about insects
Video game sequels
Video games set in 1975
Video games set in Japan
Works about vacationing
Millennium Kitchen games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boku%20no%20Natsuyasumi | is an adventure video game developed by Millennium Kitchen and directed, written, and designed by Kaz Ayabe. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment and released in Japan on the PlayStation on June 22, 2000. The game follows the summer vacation of Boku, a city-dwelling nine-year-old boy who in August 1975 is sent to stay with his extended family in the Japanese countryside for a month. Gameplay takes place in an open-ended environment where the player is free to determine how Boku spends the thirty-one in-game days of his summer vacation, with few set goals or specific obligations of gameplay progression.
Development of Boku no Natsuyasumi began in 1997, shortly after Ayabe left his position at the video game planning company K-Idea to establish Millennium Kitchen. Ayabe conceived of the game as a "nostalgic adventure" based in part on his own childhood summer vacations to the countryside homes of his relatives. The game features character design by illustrator Mineko Ueda and background work by the animation studio . The visual style is characterized by a juxtaposition of Ueda's cartoonish three-dimensional character models against these pre-rendered and hand-painted two-dimensional backgrounds.
Boku no Natsuyasumi was praised upon its release for its visual style, nostalgic atmosphere, and art direction, though critics noted that its open-ended ambitions were hampered by the technical limitations of the PlayStation platform. It has achieved a cult following both domestically and internationally, despite having never been officially released outside of Japan. The game won a New Wave Award at the fifth Japan Game Awards, and was a finalist for the Excellence Award at the third Japan Media Arts Festival. Three sequels have been produced: Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 (2002), Boku no Natsuyasumi 3 (2007), and Boku no Natsuyasumi 4 (2009). An enhanced port of Boku no Natsuyasumi, titled was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2006.
Plot
Set in August 1975, Boku no Natsuyasumi follows the player character Boku, a city-dwelling nine-year-old boy sent to stay with his extended family in the countryside for a month while his mother prepares to give birth to a second child. The game is framed as the recollection of the now-adult Boku, who occasionally narrates the story.
Boku stays in the home of his paternal aunt Kaoru Sorano, her potter husband Yusaku, and their two daughters: fifteen-year-old Moe and eight-year-old Shirabe. Over the course his month-long vacation, Boku stays in a bedroom peculiarly already decorated with objects typical of a boys' room and maintains a picture diary documenting his various activities and exploits, the precise details of which vary depending on gameplay choices and story events undertaken by the player. One day, the Soranos are visited by a priest and are led in prayer session around the family's shrine; the initially confused Boku learns that Kaoru and Yusaku once had a son who is now deceased, and that Boku |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime%20Carbonell | Jaime Guillermo Carbonell (July 29, 1953 – February 28, 2020) was a computer scientist who made seminal contributions to the development of natural language processing tools and technologies. His extensive research in machine translation resulted in the development of several state-of-the-art language translation and artificial intelligence systems. He earned his B.S. degrees in Physics and in Mathematics from MIT in 1975 and did his Ph.D. under Dr. Roger Schank at Yale University in 1979. He joined Carnegie Mellon University as an assistant professor of computer science in 1979 and lived in Pittsburgh from then. He was affiliated with the Language Technologies Institute, Computer Science Department, Machine Learning Department, and Computational Biology Department at Carnegie Mellon.
His interests spanned several areas of artificial intelligence, language technologies and machine learning. In particular, his research focused on areas such as text mining (extraction, categorization, novelty detection) and in new theoretical frameworks such as a unified utility-based theory bridging information retrieval, summarization, free-text question-answering and related tasks. He also worked on machine translation, both high-accuracy knowledge-based MT and machine learning for corpus-based MT (such as generalized example-based MT).
Career
Carbonell was the Allen Newell Professor of Computer Science and head of the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined Carnegie Mellon in 1979 and became a key faculty member in the artificial intelligence area. He was appointed full professor in 1987, Newell Chair in 1995, and University Professor in 2012.
He did his undergraduate studies at MIT, getting dual degrees in Mathematics and Physics. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University in 1979.
At the time of his appointment, Carbonell was the youngest chaired professor in the School of Computer Science at CMU. He was considered creative, insightful, and highly productive as a researcher. His research spanned several areas of computer science, mostly in artificial intelligence, including: machine learning, data and text mining, natural language processing, very-large-scale knowledge bases, translingual information retrieval and automated summarization. He wrote more than 300 technical papers and gave over 500 invited or refereed-paper presentations (colloquia, seminars, panels, conferences, keynotes, etc.). He died following a long illness on February 28, 2020.
Research
Some of Carbonell's major scientific accomplishments included the creation of MMR (maximal marginal relevance) technology for text summarization and informational novelty detection in search engines, invention of transformational analogy, a generalized method for case-based reasoning (CBR) to re-use, modify and compose past successful plans for increasingly complex problems and Knowledge-based interlingual machine translation. He was instrumental |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openware | Openware, Inc. (previously known as France-based Openware S.A.S.) is a United States multinational open-source Blockchain software engineering company headquartered in South San Francisco, California. It developed a complete digital asset and cryptocurrency exchange framework.
History
Openware, Inc. was founded in 2006 with the name Heilos Technologies. In 2017.
In December 2021, Openware merged with Yellow.com to create a global settlement network for their customers.
References
External links
Official website
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
American companies established in 2006
Software companies established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTLI | KTLI (99.1 FM) is a radio station in Wichita, Kansas, and licensed to El Dorado, Kansas. The station airs the K-LOVE Contemporary Christian programming from the Educational Media Foundation. El Dorado Licenses is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMF. KTLI's transmitter is located near Potwin, Kansas.
History
KTLI signed on the air in 1972 at 99.3 FM. Its format history includes rock and adult contemporary as KOYY and country as KSPG-FM.
In February 1988, Gary and Ann Violet purchased KSPG-FM along with KSPG-AM (1360). The country format was dropped on the FM side for urban contemporary as the second incarnation of KBUZ (formerly on 106.5 FM, now KYQQ), targeting Wichita, despite its (at the time) poor signal. In the fall of 1989, KBUZ upgraded its signal for better coverage over Wichita; the power increased from 3 kW to 50 kW, and relocated its transmitter to a site near Towanda. Along with an increase in its power, the station changed frequencies from 99.3 to 99.1. The format leaned slightly towards a rhythmic Top 40 direction for a brief period and later moved back to an urban direction.
In December 1991, the Violets once again sold KBUZ along with KSPG-AM, this time to New Life Fellowship Inc., whose principal was local pastor David Brace. At Midnight on December 6, the new owners dropped KBUZ's urban format again, and changed to contemporary Christian as "Light 99" (the KTLI call letters would be adopted on January 12, 1993). In December 1995, Brace was convicted on federal money laundering charges; because of this, KTLI was sold off in bankruptcy court to Adonai Radio Group.
In June 2004, Adonai Radio Group announced they would sell KTLI to Educational Media Foundation (EMF), at the time based in Sacramento. Since the completion of the sale in October 2004, KTLI has aired EMF's "K-LOVE" contemporary Christian music format.
References
External links
Station website
TLI
K-Love radio stations
Radio stations established in 1972
1972 establishments in Kansas
Educational Media Foundation radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Symposium%20on%20Graph%20Drawing | The International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD) is an annual academic conference in which researchers present peer reviewed papers on graph drawing, information visualization of network information, geometric graph theory, and related topics.
Significance
The Graph Drawing symposia have been central to the growth and development of graph drawing as a research area: as Herman et al. write, "the Graph Drawing community grew around the yearly Symposia." Nguyen lists Graph Drawing as one of "several good conferences which directly or indirectly concern with information visualization", and Wong et al. report that its proceedings "provide a wealth of information". In a 2003 study the symposium was among the top 30% of computer science research publication venues, ranked by impact factor.
History
The first symposium was held in Marino, near Rome, Italy, in 1992, organized by Giuseppe Di Battista, Peter Eades, Pierre Rosenstiehl, and Roberto Tamassia. The first two symposia did not publish proceedings, but reports are available online. Since 1994, the proceedings of the symposia have been published by Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Countries in which the conference has been held include Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany (twice), Greece, Ireland, Italy (three times), and the United States (five times).
Citation data and its analysis
A citation graph having vertices representing the papers in the 1994–2000 Graph Drawing symposia and having edges representing citations between these papers was made available as part of the graph drawing contest associated with the 2001 symposium.
The largest connected component of this graph consists of 249 vertices and 642 edges; clustering analysis reveals several prominent subtopics within graph drawing that are more tightly connected, including three-dimensional graph drawing and orthogonal graph drawing.
See also
The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.
References
External links
the DBLP entry (with list of articles).
Theoretical computer science conferences
Mathematics conferences
Graph drawing
Visualization (research) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre%20Channel%20frame | In computer networking, a Fibre Channel frame is the frame of the Fibre Channel protocol. The basic building blocks of an FC connection are the frames. They contain the information to be transmitted (payload), the address of the source and destination ports and link control information. Frames are broadly categorized as
Data frames
Link_control frames
Data frames may be used as Link_Data frames and Device_Data frames, link control frames are classified as Acknowledge (ACK) and Link_Response (Busy and Reject) frames. The primary function of the Fabric is to receive the frames from the source port and route them to the destination port. It is the FC-2 layer's responsibility to break the data to be transmitted into frame size, and reassemble the frames.
Each frame begins and ends with a frame delimiter. The frame header immediately follows the Start of Frame (SOF) delimiter. The frame header is used to control link applications, control device protocol transfers, and detect missing or out of order frames. Optional headers may contain further link control information. A maximum 2048 byte long field (payload) contains the information to be transferred from a source N_Port to a destination N_Port. The 4 byte Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) precedes the End of Frame (EOF) delimiter. The CRC is used to detect transmission errors. The maximum total frame length is 2148 bytes.
Between successive frames a sequence of (at least) six primitives must be transmitted, sometimes called interframe gap.
References
Computer networking
Fibre Channel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20National%20Route%2031 | is a national highway connecting Kaita, Hiroshima and Kure in Japan.
Route data
Length: 20.1 km (12.5 mi)
Origin: Kaita, Hiroshima (originates at junction with Route 2)
Terminus: Kure (ends at the origin of Route 185)
Major cities: Aki-ku, Hiroshima, Saka
History
1952-12-04 - First Class National Highway 31 (from Kaita, Hiroshima to Kure)
1965-04-01 - General National Highway 31 (from Kaita, Hiroshima to Kure)
Intersects with
Hiroshima Prefecture
References
031
Roads in Hiroshima Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20Post%20Network | , was a Japanese company which operated the post office of Japan. It was part of the Japan Post Holdings group.
History
October 1, 2007 - Operations commenced with the break-up and privatization of former Japan Post operating divisions.
October 1, 2012 - Merged with Japan Post Service to form Japan Post Co., Ltd.
See also
Post office - In Japan, Post office is called 郵便局, which is the same name of Japan Post Network.
Japan postal mark
Japan Post Holdings - a holding company of Japan Post Group.
External links
Japan Post Network
Japan Post Network
Service companies based in Tokyo
Japan Post Holdings
Privately held companies of Japan
Japanese companies established in 2007
2012 disestablishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badoo | Badoo is a dating-focused social network founded by Russian entrepreneur Andrey Andreev in 2006. It is headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus and London, United Kingdom, with offices in Malta, Russia and the United States. It operates in 190 countries and is available in 47 languages, making it the world's most widely used dating network. The app is available on iOS, Android, and the web. Badoo operates on a freemium model, whereby the core services can be used without payment.
History
Badoo was founded by Russian entrepreneur Andrey Andreev and launched in Moscow in November 2006. It has since ranked among the most popular dating websites. In 2016 it was the most-downloaded dating app in 21 countries. In 2011, Wired described Badoo as a "mass phenomenon" in Brazil, Mexico, France, Spain, and Italy.
In 2007, Badoo raised $30 million in funding. In January 2008, the Russian investor Finam Capital paid $30 million for a 10% stake in Badoo for expansion in Russia. As of 2009, Finam now has 20% ownership of Badoo.
After going viral on Facebook through popular social games and quizzes, Badoo was asked to adjust its approach. According to Insidefacebook.com, during the week of January 11, 2012, Badoo was ranked 17th in growing Facebook apps. The official launch of Badoo in the U.S. was on March 23, 2012, with Nick Cannon introducing the service in the United States.
In April 2017, Badoo launched a newly redesigned app and brand, adopting the colour purple and an orange heart symbol as its logo, as well as the tagline "Bigger than Dating". Andreev discussed this redesign in an interview with Business Insider James Cook in the same month.
In July 2019, Badoo was the subject of a Forbes investigative report outlining workplace misogyny, drug use, as well as sexual and racial discrimination. Badoo employees, including women, reported a culture of workplace afterparties involving use of recreational drugs and prostitutes, along with several instances of sexual assault and harassment.
Features
Badoo has several features that enable users to meet people. When they first sign up, individuals select whether they want to meet new people to date, chat or to make new friends. Users can chat, match with others, upload photos and videos, as well as share their interests and see any friends in common.
The main features include:
People Nearby: Users can see and contact people who live in their area, as well as those they 'Bumped Into' with this feature.
Search: Users can also see who is on the app in a different city or another part of the world.
Encounters: Another free feature, where users swipe right (yes) or left (no) on other users' profiles. If there is a match the two users are notified.
Video Chat: In August 2017, Badoo launched its video chat function that allows users to connect real-time, once they've exchanged messages. In 2018, Badoo was testing a livestream feature that was able to broadcast the video to several users at the same time but the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Flying%20Doctor%20Service%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Royal Flying Doctor Service or RFDS, was an Australian television series on the Nine Network based on the work of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
Overview
The series follows the daily working lives of RFDS personnel in Broken Hill and Dubbo, documenting their operations as they respond to emergencies.
Broadcast history
The first two episodes of the program were broadcast on 24 September and 1 October 2007 before being pulled from the schedule. Nine then scheduled the remainder of the series at 7:00 Sunday from 16 March 2008.
Ratings
See also
Royal Flying Doctor Service
RFDS
The Flying Doctors
References & External links
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=24&ContentID=41790
http://www.flyingdoctor.net/
http://channelnine.ninemsn.com.au/section.aspx?sectionid=6024§ionname=rfds
Australian factual television series
Australian medical television series
Documentary television series about aviation
Nine Network original programming
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows set in New South Wales
2007 Australian television series debuts
2007 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mannix%20episodes | The following is a list of episodes for the detective television series Mannix which aired from 1967 to 1975 in the United States on the CBS television network. The title character, Joe Mannix, is an Armenian-American private investigator played by Mike Connors (who was also of Armenian heritage). Mannix was created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller (who also created Mission: Impossible).
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1967–1968)
Season 2 (1968–1969)
Season 3 (1969–1970)
Season 4 (1970–1971)
Season 5 (1971–1972)
Season 6 (1972–1973)
Season 7 (1973–1974)
Season 8 (1974–1975)
References
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Mannix' from Ultimate70s.com
Lists of American crime drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2P | P2P may refer to:
Pay to play, where money is exchanged for services
Peer-to-peer, a distributed application architecture in computing or networking
List of P2P protocols
Phenylacetone, an organic compound commonly known as P2P
Point-to-point (telecommunications), a communications connection between two communication endpoints or nodes
Pollen Street Secured Lending, formerly P2P Global Investments, a British investment trust
Premium Point-to-Point Bus Service, in the Philippines
Procure-to-pay, software systems for procurement business processes
Purchase-to-pay, business process in procurement
Social peer-to-peer processes, interactions with a peer-to-peer dynamic
See also
Peer-to-peer (disambiguation)
Point-to-point (disambiguation)
People to People Student Ambassador Program, a cultural and educational travel program for students
Pier to Pub, an Australian open water swimming race |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison%20Radio%20Network | The Bison Radio Network, known as the Peterson Farms Seed Bison Radio Network for sponsorship reasons, is a series of 22 radio stations that broadcast North Dakota State Bison Athletics to the United States and Canada: North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba over the air, and around the world via online streaming.
List of stations
Fargo, ND KPFX 107.9 The Fox FM
Fargo, ND KQWB 1660 The Bison
Albany, MN KDDG 105.5
Bismarck, ND KXMR 710 (day)
Bismarck, ND KFYR 550 (night)
Bowman, ND KPOK 1340
Detroit Lakes, MN KDLB 94.5 FM
Devils Lake, ND KDVL 102.5
Dickinson, ND KLTC 1460
Fergus Falls, MN KBRF 1250 AM
Fosston, MN KKCQ-FM 96.7
Glenwood, MN KMGK-FM 107.1
Grafton, ND KAUJ-FM 101.9
Harvey, ND KHND 1470
Jamestown, ND KSJB 600
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN KYCR (AM) 1440 AM
Minot, ND KHRT 1320
Oakes ND KDDR AM 1220
Park Rapids MN KXKK FM 92.5
Roseau, MN KCAJ-FM 102.1
Rugby, ND KZZJ 1450
Wahpeton, ND KBMW AM 1450
Williston, ND KEYZ 660
References
External links
Paul’s AM 1570 KYCR Joins Bison Radio Network
North Dakota State announces media rights agreement
Bison Radio Network Online Streaming
|Official Athletics Website
Bison Radio Network press release
North Dakota State University
College football on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaltMod | SaltMod is computer program for the prediction of the salinity of soil moisture, groundwater and drainage water, the depth of the watertable, and the drain discharge (hydrology) in irrigated agricultural lands, using different (geo)hydrologic conditions, varying water management options, including the use of ground water for irrigation, and several cropping rotation schedules.
The water management options include irrigation, drainage, and the use of subsurface drainage water from pipe drains, ditches or wells for irrigation.
Soil salinity models
The majority of the computer models available for water and solute transport in the soil (e.g. Swatre, DrainMod ) are based on Richard's differential equation for the movement of water in unsaturated soil in combination with a differential salinity dispersion equation. The models require input of soil characteristics like the relation between unsaturated soil moisture content, water tension, hydraulic conductivity and dispersivity.
These relations vary to a great extent from place to place and are not easy to measure. The models use short time steps and need at least a daily data base of hydrological phenomena. Altogether this makes model application to a fairly large project the job of a team of specialists with ample facilities.
Simplified salinity model: SaltMod
Literature references (chronological) to case studies after 2000:
Older examples of application can be found in:
Salinity in the Nile Delta
Integration of irrigation and drainage management
Rationale
There is a need for a computer program that is easier to operate and that requires a simpler data structure than most currently available models. Therefore, the SaltModod program was designed keeping in mind a relative simplicity of operation to facilitate the use by field technicians, engineers and project planners instead of specialized geo-hydrologists.
It aims at using input data that are generally available, or that can be estimated with reasonable accuracy, or that can be measured with relative ease. Although the calculations are done numerically and have to be repeated many times, the final results can be checked by hand using the formulas in the manual.
SaltMod's objective is to predict the long-term hydro-salinity in terms of general trends, not to arrive at exact predictions of how, for example, the situation would be on the first of April in ten years from now.
Further, SaltMod gives the option of the re-use of drainage and well water (e.g. for irrigation) and it can account for farmers' response to waterlogging, soil salinity, water scarcity and over-pumping from the aquifer. Also it offers the possibility to introduce subsurface drainage systems at varying depths and with varying capacity so that they can be optimized.
Other features of Saltmod are found in the next section.
Principles
Seasonal approach
The computation method Saltmod is based on seasonal water balances of agricultural lands. Four seasons in one year can be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinoceratinae | Yinoceratinae is one of three subfamilies of the goniatitid ammonoid family Pseudohaloritidae.
References
The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07
Pseudohaloritidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Boyle | Brian Paul Boyle (born December 18, 1984) is an American former professional ice hockey center who works as an analyst for NHL Network. Boyle has previously played for the Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Toronto Maple Leafs, New Jersey Devils, Nashville Predators, Florida Panthers and Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). He attended St. Sebastian's School in Needham, Massachusetts, before moving on to Boston College. Boyle grew up in Hingham, just south of Boston.
Playing career
Los Angeles Kings
Boyle was drafted in the first round, 26th overall, by the Los Angeles Kings in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. He played four seasons at Boston College before making his professional debut with the Kings' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Manchester Monarchs, in 2007.
In the 2007–08 season, Boyle made his NHL debut with the Kings against the New Jersey Devils on February 2, 2008. He scored his first career NHL goal that same night against Martin Brodeur in a 6–3 defeat. He scored four goals in his first seven NHL games, three in his first four.
New York Rangers
At the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, on June 27, Boyle was traded to the New York Rangers in exchange for a third-round pick in 2010 (used to select Jordan Weal).
During the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs, Boyle suffered a concussion after being hit by Ottawa Senators' forward Chris Neil. Boyle subsequently missed three games. Earlier in the same series, Ottawa defenseman Matt Carkner received a one-game suspension for repeatedly punching Boyle in the face. The attack came in response to an unprovoked incident in Game 1 of the series in which Boyle punched Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson in the face.
Tampa Bay Lightning
On July 1, 2014, Boyle left the Rangers after five seasons and signed a three-year, $6 million contract as a free agent with the Tampa Bay Lightning. He changed his sweater number from number 22, which he wore with both the Kings and Rangers, to number 11 out of respect to his best friend and former college hockey player who died that summer. On December 12, 2015, Boyle skated in his 500th career NHL game in a 1–2 Lightning loss to the visiting Washington Capitals. On May 24, 2016, Boyle recorded his first career two goal game in the playoffs. On May 26, Boyle played in his 100th career Stanley Cup playoff game.
Toronto Maple Leafs
Burdened by imminent salary cap space issues and sitting outside of a playoff spot, the Lightning traded Boyle two days before the NHL trade deadline on February 27, 2017, to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for forward Byron Froese and a conditional 2017 second-round draft pick. Boyle, who was on pace for his best season offensively with Tampa Bay, was in the final season of his three-year contract.
Boyle's size, penalty killing abilities and faceoff skills were all major factors in leading the Maple Leafs to target the center. Boyle's playoff experience was also highly coveted (he had played the most |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositional%20pattern-producing%20network | Compositional pattern-producing networks (CPPNs) are a variation of artificial neural networks (ANNs) that have an architecture whose evolution is guided by genetic algorithms.
While ANNs often contain only sigmoid functions and sometimes Gaussian functions, CPPNs can include both types of functions and many others. The choice of functions for the canonical set can be biased toward specific types of patterns and regularities. For example, periodic functions such as sine produce segmented patterns with repetitions, while symmetric functions such as Gaussian produce symmetric patterns. Linear functions can be employed to produce linear or fractal-like patterns. Thus, the architect of a CPPN-based genetic art system can bias the types of patterns it generates by deciding the set of canonical functions to include.
Furthermore, unlike typical ANNs, CPPNs are applied across the entire space of possible inputs so that they can represent a complete image. Since they are compositions of functions, CPPNs in effect encode images at infinite resolution and can be sampled for a particular display at whatever resolution is optimal.
CPPNs can be evolved through neuroevolution techniques such as neuroevolution of augmenting topologies (called CPPN-NEAT).
CPPNs have been shown to be a very powerful encoding when evolving the following:
Neural networks, via the HyperNEAT algorithm,
2D images, on "PicBreeder.org",
3D objects, on "EndlessForms.com",
Robot morphologies Rigid Robots Soft Robots.
See also
Evolutionary art
Interactive evolutionary computation
Bibliography
References
External links
"PicBreeder.org" – Online, collaborative art generated by CPPNs evolved with NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies.
"EndlessForms.com" – A 3D version of Picbreeder, where you interactively evolve 3D objects that are encoded with CPPNs and evolved with NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies.
Artificial neural networks
Classification algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Shadow%20episodes | This is an episode list for the adventure radio drama The Shadow. The series, inspired by an announcer character on earlier anthology series, premiered on the Mutual Network on September 26, 1937 and ended on December 26, 1954. The 677 episodes aired over 18 seasons, including an additional summer series in the first season.
The seasons were of variable length: Season 1 through Season 8 were of 26-30 episodes, Season 9 through Season 12 were of 38-39 episodes, Season 13 through Season 17 were of 47-52 episodes, and the final Season 18 was of 22 episodes.
There are a number of lost episodes, over 60% of the total: 153 episodes are missing, six episodes are incomplete from seasons one through 12 and seasons 13 through 18 are entirely missing except for three episodes.
Radio scripts are available for the series including the missing episodes, except for the season 1 summer series, which is complete in recordings. Some of the missing episodes are available in preserved recordings of a 1940s Australian adaptation and in recordings of recreated stage readings collected by old-time radio enthusiasts.
List of seasons
Season 1: (1937–1938)
Season 1B: (1938 summer series)
Season 2: (1938–1939)
Season 3: (1939–1940)
Season 4: (1940–1941)
Season 5: (1941–1942)
Season 6: (1942–1943)
Season 7: (1943–1944)
Season 8: (1944–1945)
Season 9: (1945–1946)
Season 10: (1946–1947)
Season 11: (1947–1948)
Season 12: (1948–1949)
Season 13: (1949–1950)
Season 14: (1950–1951)
Season 15: (1951–1952)
Season 16: (1952–1953)
Season 17: (1953–1954)
Season 18: (1954)
Notes
Radio Spirits, the company that officially releases episodes of The Shadow on CD, has been releasing their collections with various newly found episodes and titling them as "Lost Shows".
Among these episodes are the complete second summer season starring Orson Welles as The Shadow. Eleven episodes were newly discovered that had not been heard since the original broadcasts:
The Old People 06-26-38,
The Voice of the Trumpet 07-03-38,
He Died at Twelve 07-10-38,
The Reincarnation of Michael 07-17-38,
The Mark of the Bat 07-24-38,
Revenge on the Shadow 07-31-38,
The Mine Hunters 08-07-38,
The Hospital Murders 08-14-38,
The Black Buddha 09-04-38,
The Witch Drums 09-11-38,
Professor X 09-18-38
On the latest collection "Crime Does Not Pay", two more lost shows starring Bill Johnstone are included:
Fountain of Death 11-27-38,
Murder by Rescue 12-11-38
The list on this page does not include episode "The Case of the River of Eternal Woe", which was scheduled to air 04-15-1945, but was preempted due to news coverage of the death of President Roosevelt. The episode never aired and the recording is lost but a script survives.
References
Shadow
Episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossilworks | Fossilworks is a portal which provides query, download, and analysis tools to facilitate access to the Paleobiology Database, a large relational database assembled by hundreds of paleontologists from around the world.
History
Fossilworks was created in 1998 by John Alroy and is housed at Macquarie University. It includes many analysis and data visualization tools formerly included in the Paleobiology Database.
References
External links
Fossilworks
Paleontology websites
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT%20Computation%20Center | The MIT Computation Center was organized in 1956 as a 10-year joint venture between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and IBM to provide computing resources for New England universities. As part of the venture, IBM installed an IBM 704, which remained at MIT until 1960.
Operation Moonwatch
After the successful launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957, the race was on to calculate and predict where the first man-made satellites would appear in the sky. Fred Lawrence Whipple, then director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had gathered amateur astronomers to track artificial satellites in an organization called Operation Moonwatch. The aim was to get the position of the satellite in order to obtain its orbital elements. The first "satisfactory orbit" calculated by the IBM 704 as official tracker for the SAO occurred at 7AM on October 11, 1957.
References
Christian Science Monitor, "Soviet Space-Satellite Rocket Sighted By Observation Teams in Cambridge", Oct 11, 1957, page 1
Tech Talk (MIT Newsletter), October 22, 1957 "A Lucky Seven"
Tech Engineering News, "moon track", March 1958, Vol XXXIX No. 6, p68
Beyer, Jean-David and Sidney Shinedling, "The i.b.m 704 computer at m.i.t" tech engineering news, May 1958, Vol XXXIX No. 8, p26
NASA Article Citation "Technical aspects of satellite tracking on IBM computers at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts" Feb 26, 1960
External links
Archive.org: selected articles and references on Sputnik
Computation Center
Computer science institutes in the United States
Research institutes in Massachusetts
1956 in computing
Research institutes established in 1956
Scientific organizations established in 1956
1956 establishments in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBN%E2%80%93ZTE%20deal%20corruption%20scandal | The Philippine National Broadband Network controversy (also referred to as the NBN–ZTE deal or NBN–ZTE mess) involved allegations of corruption in the awarding of a US$329 million construction contract to Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE for the proposed government-managed National Broadband Network (NBN).
The contract with ZTE was signed on April 20, 2007, in Hainan, China. Following the emergence of irregularities, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo cancelled the National Broadband Network project in October 2007. On July 14, 2008, the Supreme Court dismissed all three petitions questioning the constitutionality of the national broadband deal, saying the petitions became moot when the project was cancelled.
History
Background
In April 2007, Philippine Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Secretary Leandro Mendoza and ZTE Vice President Yu Yong entered into a US$329.5 million contract for a National Broadband Network (NBN) that would improve government communications capabilities.
On August 29, Nueva Vizcaya Congressman Carlos Padilla hinted in a privilege speech that Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chairman Benjamin Abalos went to China to broker a deal for the NBN project. The following day, Abalos denied brokering for the NBN project, although he did admit going to China four times.
On September 5, Senator Aquilino Pimentel called for a Senate investigation about the NBN project. As a result, three committees held joint hearings about the issue: the Accountability of Public Officers & Investigations (aka the Blue Ribbon Committee) headed by Alan Peter Cayetano, the National Defense and Security committee headed by Rodolfo Biazon and the Trade and Commerce committee headed by Mar Roxas.
Senate investigations
De Venecia's testimony
Jose "Joey" de Venecia III, son of House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr., testified on September 10 that he was with Abalos in China and that he heard Abalos "demand money" from ZTE officials. The younger de Venecia was president of Amsterdam Holdings, the company that lost its bid to ZTE for the NBN project.
On September 11, the Supreme Court of the Philippines promulgated a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the $329-million national broadband network (NBN) contract between the Philippine government and China's ZTE based on separate certiorari suits filed by Iloilo Vice-Governor and former Representative Rolex Suplico and Joey de Venecia III. Under political pressure from the opposition group, the court gave ZTE fifteen days to comment on the injunction. Suplico, a former opposition congressman, alleged that the agreement was sealed without public bidding and violated the Telecoms Policy Act, which required privatization of all telecommunications facilities. Congressman Padilla sued DOTC and ZTE officials of violating the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, the Telecommunications Policy Act, the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Act and the Government Procurement Act at the Office of the O |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ABC%20radio%20stations | The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) operates four national radio networks, over 50 local radio stations, the international service ABC Radio Australia and several digital stations. Most of the stations, as well as podcasts, are available on the ABC Listen app, and ten radio stations are available via the ABC Television.
International
ABC Radio Australia
National networks
ABC Radio National – news and current affairs, arts, music, society, science, drama and comedy
Triple J – youth-targeted music, news and entertainment (since 1975)
ABC Classic – classical music, the ABC's first entirely FM radio network (formerly ABC Classic FM, since 1976)
ABC NewsRadio – parliamentary broadcasts and rolling news (since 1994)
Digital stations
Triple J Unearthed – digital-only music station for independent unsigned Australian artists
Double J – digital-only station aimed at over-30s (formerly DiG Radio, since 2002)
ABC Classic 2 – Features 100% Australian performances of classical music, streaming-only, un-presented
Triple J Hottest – Online-only station featuring a playlist of tracks from all previous Hottest 100 countdowns.
ABC Jazz – A digital station featuring jazz
ABC Country – A digital station featuring country, un-presented
ABC Kids Listen – Digital-only station for children
ABC Grandstand – Sports events
Local Radio
there are 53 ABC Local Radio stations, including 45 regional stations and 8 capital city stations.
The capital city (formerly: metropolitan) stations including their callsigns are:
ABC Sydney (2BL)
ABC Melbourne (3LO)
ABC Brisbane (4QR)
ABC Adelaide (5AN)
ABC Perth (6WF)
ABC Hobart (7ZR)
ABC Canberra (2CN)
ABC Darwin (8DDD)
The regional stations are:
New South Wales
ABC Broken Hill – Broken Hill (2NB), administered by ABC South Australia
ABC Central Coast – Gosford (2BLT)
ABC Central West – Orange (2CR)
ABC Coffs Coast – Coffs Harbour
ABC Illawarra – Wollongong (2ILA)
ABC Mid North Coast – Port Macquarie (2KP)
ABC Newcastle – Newcastle (2NC)
ABC New England North West – Tamworth (2NU)
ABC North Coast – Lismore (2NNR)
ABC Riverina – Wagga Wagga (2RVR)
ABC South East NSW – Bega (2BA)
ABC Upper Hunter – Muswellbrook (2UH)
ABC Western Plains – Dubbo (2WPR)
Victoria
ABC Ballarat – Ballarat (3CRR)
ABC Central Victoria – Bendigo (3ABCRR)
ABC Gippsland – Sale (3GI) (3GLR)
ABC Goulburn Murray – Wodonga (3MRR)
ABC Mildura Swan Hill – Mildura (3MIL)
ABC Shepparton – Shepparton (3GVR)
ABC South West Victoria – Warrnambool (3WL)
ABC Wimmera – Horsham (3WV)
Queensland
ABC Capricornia – Rockhampton (4RK)
ABC Gold Coast – Gold Coast (4ABC)
ABC Sunshine Coast – Sunshine Coast (4SCR)
ABC Far North – Cairns (4QCC)
ABC North Queensland – Townsville (4QN)
ABC North West Queensland – Mount Isa (4ISA)
ABC Southern Queensland – Toowoomba (4QS)
ABC Tropical North – Mackay (4QAA)
ABC Western Queensland – Longreach (4QL)
ABC Wide Bay – Bundaberg (4QB)
South Australia
ABC North and West SA – Port Pirie (5CK)
ABC Riverland – Renmark (5MV)
ABC South E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carex%20nudata | Carex nudata is a species of true sedge known by several common names, including torrent sedge, California black-flowering sedge, Dudley's sedge, and naked sedge.
Distribution
This sedge is found in California, Oregon, and Washington. It grows amidst rocks and developing a dense mounding bunchgrass type form, in coastal and in montane habitats.
Description
Carex nudata is a bright green sedge which grows in mounds below the high-water mark in marshes and on river banks. It bears long scaly spikes of black, dark reddish or dusky brown flowers, which begin erect and then droop when they become heavy.
External links
Calflora: Carex nudata
Jepson Manual (TJM2) treatment of Carex nudata
USDA Plants Profile: Carex nudata
UC CalPhotos gallery: Carex nudata
nudata
Flora of California
Flora of Oregon
Flora of Washington (state)
Flora of the Klamath Mountains
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Freshwater plants
Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Plants described in 1880
Taxa named by Sereno Watson
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDPMon | The Neighbor Discovery Protocol Monitor (NDPMon) is a diagnostic software application used by network administrators for monitoring ICMPv6 packets in Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) networks. NDPMon observes the local network for anomalies in the function of nodes using Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) messages, especially during the Stateless Address Autoconfiguration. When an NDP message is flagged, it notifies the administrator by writing to the syslog or by sending an email report. It may also execute a user-defined script. For IPv6, NDPMon is an equivalent of Arpwatch for IPv4, and has similar basic features with added attacks detection.
NDPMon runs on Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. It uses a configuration file containing the expected and valid behavior for nodes and routers on the link. This includes the router addresses (MAC and IP) and the prefixes, flags and parameters announced.
NDPMon also maintains a list of neighbors on the link and monitors all advertisements and network changes. It permits tracking the usage of cryptographically generated interface identifiers or temporary global addresses when Privacy extensions are enabled.
NDPMon is free software published under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.
Alerts and reports
NDPMon generates various reports and alerts, including:
wrong couple MAC/IP: the MAC address is valid, so is the IP address, but not both of them together
wrong router MAC: invalid MAC address
wrong router IP address, invalid IP address
wrong prefix: invalid IPv6 prefix
wrong RA flags: invalid flags in the RA
wrong RA params: wrong parameter in the RA (lifetimes, timers...)
wrong router redirect: the router which emitted the redirect is not valid
router flag in Neighbor Advertisement: a node not declared as a router announced itself as one
Duplicate Address Detection DOS: duplicate address detection denial of service
changed ethernet address: a Global IPv6 address has a new MAC address
flip flop: a node uses two MAC addresses one after the other
reused old Ethernet address: reuse of an old MAC address
Unknown MAC Manufacturer: MAC vendor unknown, might be a forged one
new station: new node on the link
new IPv6 Global Address: new IPv6 Global address for a node
new IPv6 Link Local Address: new IPv6 Link Local address for a node
wrong couple MAC/LLA: wrong couple source Ethernet and source LLA addresses, i.e. Ethernet and Link Local Addresses are found but in different neighbors
Ethernet mismatch: link layer Ethernet address and address in ICMPv6 option do not match
IP Multicast
Ethernet Broadcast
Available plugins
A set of plugins are available for NDPMon:
MAC vendor resolution: compares the vendor part of a MAC address with a known base
Web interface: caches and alerts are converted to HTML files using XSLT for real time display in a Web server
Countermeasures: packets are forged and sent to deprecated rogue RAs or NAs
Syslog filtering: logrotate and logs redirect |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaya%20ERS%205500%20Series | The Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 Series or (ERS 5500) is a series of stackable, Layer 3 switches used in computer networking. The ERS 5000 was originally designed by Nortel and is now manufactured by Avaya. Up to 8 ERS 5000 Series Switches may be stacked in a 640 Gbit/s fast stacking configuration. This Switch was used as the access layer device for the 2010 Winter Olympics games. The 817 Access Switches supported 8782 Voice-over-IP telephones.
The Switches have an integrated time-domain reflectometer (TDR) built into every copper port, providing diagnostic monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities of the connected cables allowing for the troubleshooting of cable defects (crimped, cut, shorted or damaged cables) from the telnet, SNMP, web and console management interfaces. This test provides a very reliable test to identify if the cable is good or faulty. The Switches also include an integrated packet sniffer built into every port that can export the information on to a web page report (see the jpg to the right, an example of top 25 talkers on a switch) or export the information to an IPFIX server. The web base reports will report top 10, 25, or 50 talkers. Reports can also be created and sorted on source address, destination address, TOS, protocol, port number, source or destination ports, packet count, byte count, or first or last packet times. Multiple ports can be monitored simultaneously or individually. A license is not required to enable this function. The Management of the system is accomplished through a serial console (which presents both a menu structure and a command line interface), a web interface or with the device manager tools, which uses SNMP to communicate with the device.
Scaling
System scaling is accomplished by stacking up to a maximum of eight units. A full stack of 5530 systems provides 192 copper 10/100/1000BASE-T ports, 96 1000BASE-X Small form-factor pluggable transceiver ports, and 16 10 Gigabit Ethernet XFP ports. A full stack of 5510-48T, or 5520-48T systems provides up to 384 ports—352 fixed copper 10/100/1000BASE-T ports, and 32 switchable copper/SFP ports. Stacks can consist of any mix of 5500 series systems.
Software
Version 6.1 major features
IPFIX is now part of the standard software package and no license is required. Username and password security has been enhanced with expansion of the password history to ten. T1 can now support SFP. The 802.1X dynamic authorization extension now allows third-party devices to dynamically change VLANs or close user sessions.
Version 6.2 major features
The enterprise device manager has replaced the Java-based device manager as well as web-based management. The automatic QoS engine has been enhanced, including the ability to run it, ADAC, and 802.1AB MED simultaneously. Dual syslog server support now allows syslog messages to be simultaneously recorded onto two servers at once, in case one becomes unavailable. New energy-saving implementations can reduc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profisafe | Profisafe (usually styled as PROFIsafe, as a portmanteau for Profinet or Profibus safety)
is a standard for a communication protocol for the transmission of safety-relevant data in automation applications with functional safety. This standard was developed jointly by several automation device manufacturers in order to be able to meet the requirements of the legislator and the IFA for safe systems. The required safe function of the protocol has been tested and confirmed by TÜV Süd. The PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation e.V. in Karlsruhe supervises the standardization for the partner companies and organizes the promotion of this common interface.
System structure
Profisafe defines how safety-related devices (emergency stop buttons, light curtains, overfill prevention devices, ...) communicate safely with safety controllers via Profinet, Profibus or a backplane in such a way that they can be used in safety-related automation tasks up to SIL3 (Safety Integrity Level). Due to the specification of Profisafe, products of different manufacturers can be combined to a safe system.
Market relevance
The first version of Profisafe was released as early as 1998. A second version in 2005 also enabled use via the Ethernet-based Profinet. According to the PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation e.V., by 2023 a total of almost 21,7 million devices with Profisafe will be placed on the market by the various manufacturers, and a further 2.8 million devices will be added each year. In the database of the PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation e.V., 106 different products from 31 different manufacturers are entered in October 2022.
Operating principle
With Profisafe, secure communication is implemented via a profile, i.e., via a special format of the user data and an additional protocol.
Safety-relevant data are transported with Profisafe as F-messages between an F-Host (safety controller) and its F-Device (safety device) as payload in a telegram of an industrial network. In the case of a modular F-Device with several F-modules, the payload consists of several F-messages. In this case Profisafe has no further requirements for the transmission channel, this is considered as a black channel. Therefore different transport protocols like Profibus or Profinet can be used. Different transmission channels such as copper cable, fiber optic cable (FOC), backplane bus or wireless systems such as WLAN can be used. Neither the transmission rates nor the respective error detection of the transport protocol play a role for safety.
The following figure shows the format of the payload of a "Safety Protocol Data Unit (SPDU)":
The cyclic redundancy check (CRC signature) is calculated over all local security parameters, the transmitted data and the locally stored monitoring number of the SPDU. This ensures that all information from the sender and the receiver is consistent without having to always transmit all parameters.
The monitoring number enables the recipient to check whether he has received all |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20vacuum-tube%20computers | Vacuum-tube computers, now called first-generation computers, are programmable digital computers using vacuum-tube logic circuitry. They were preceded by systems using electromechanical relays and followed by systems built from discrete transistors. Some later computers on the list had both vacuum tubes and transistors.
This list of vacuum-tube computers is sorted by date put into service:
See also
List of transistorized computers
History of computing hardware
References
Vacuum tube computers
Computers, list of vacuum tube |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole%20Petallides | Nicole Anais Petallides (born September 20, 1971) is an American journalist who works as an anchor for the online-only TD Ameritrade Network, which is owned and operated by Charles Schwab Corporation as a result of their acquisition of TD Ameritrade in 2020. Previously, she was an anchor for Fox Business. Gained experience at Dow Jones Television, CNBC, Bloomberg. She studied Communications and Business at The American University, Washington D.C. NCAA Division1 Women's Soccer. High School Friends Academy Locust Valley NY: 11 Varsity Letters (1 JV MVP) Soccer, Basketball, Softball. Lower School: Buckley Country Day School North Hills NY. Headmaster Award. Female MVP Athletics.
Biography
Petallides is the daughter of Fannie (née Holliday) and John C. Petallides. Her father owns U.S. Amfax, a New York company that does telemarketing and promotions, a similar company called Salesforce 911, and Parent Reach, an emergency broadcast company. Her mother, an immigrant from Cyprus, is the founder and chief operating officer of Proini, a Greek-language daily newspaper, and of The Greek American, an English-language weekly newspaper.
In 1985, Petallides graduated from Buckley Country Day School Roslyn, New York State and the American University in 1993. In 1998, she married Manhattan dentist Nicholas Tsiolas in a ceremony performed by Archbishop Spyridon of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of the United States.
Prior to joining FBN, Petallides was an anchor at Bloomberg Television, where she reported from the New York Stock Exchange for the nationally syndicated shows, Bloomberg Business Report and Bloomberg Market Update. While at Bloomberg, she also covered weekend news and served as a business news anchor for CW11's WPIX morning news program in New York. Before joining Bloomberg, Petallides served as an assistant producer for CNBC, where she produced daily floor reports from the NYSE. Prior to CNBC, she was a segment producer for Dow Jones Televisions's The Wall Street Journal Report with Consuelo Mack and international programs Asian Business News and European Business News. She has also contributed to Fox affiliate WNYW's morning show Good Day New York, NY1 News, CNN, and News 12 Long Island. She has been a guest panelist on the Fox News' late-night satire show Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld.
References
External links
Multichannel News - This Just In - Fox Business Network to Launch Teaser Site Oct. 1
FoxBusiness.com bio
1971 births
Living people
American reporters and correspondents
American television journalists
American University alumni
American writers of Greek descent
Buckley Country Day School alumni
Fox Business people
People from Astoria, Queens
American women television journalists
Fox News people
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Ultra%20Smart%20F700 | The SGH-F700, marketed as the Ultra Smart F700, is a mobile phone manufactured by Samsung. Using Vodafone as its network provider, the phone was first introduced at the 3GSM World Congress that was held in February 2007. Sales to the European market started November 2007.
The phone has a 3.2" color display and incorporates a touch screen/touch pad interaction system and a slide-out QWERTY key pad. The phone contains a 3.15 megapixel camera (early reports claimed a 5-megapixel sensor). Furthermore, the handset is HSDPA and Bluetooth 2.0 compatible and possesses USB and microSD memory slots. A Korean design patent for this black, rectangular, round-cornered phone was filed by Samsung in December 2006 prior to the release of the image of the iPhone but after the release of the HTC TyTn which it resembles with its rectangular design and slide out keyboard.
The touchscreen allows the control of the entire handset. The "Croix UI" was awarded the iF Communication Design Award for 2007. A Trusted Reviews article said that the Ultra Smart F700 "kicks iPhone's butt."
The phone was also introduced as the Samsung U940 Glyde on Verizon Wireless in May 2008.
The F700 was succeeded by the Samsung F490 in 2008. Its cheaper variant, the F480, was better known as the Samsung Tocco.
Specifications
Networks: GSM 900/1800/1900, UMTS 2100 MHz
Data Connectivity: GPRS, EDGE, UMTS (3G), HSDPA
Display: 440 x 240 pixel, 262k color with resistive touch screen
Camera: 3.15 megapixels with video, flash and auto-focus
Multimedia: MPEG4, H.263, H.264, MP3, AAC+, eAAC+, Real
Memory: microSD/SDHC (T-Flash)
Input: Touch screen, Predictive Text Input, sliding QWERTY keyboard
Connectivity: USB, Bluetooth, 3.5 mm jack
See also
Samsung P520 Giorgio Armani
Samsung G800
Samsung i900 Omnia
Samsung U900 Soul
LG Viewty
LG Prada
Nokia N95
iPhone
References
External links
Samsung Official Website
Samsung F700 at WikiSpecs
F700
Mobile phones introduced in 2007
Slider phones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KickApps | KickApps is a hosted platform for creating social networks and adding social software features, video players and widgets to websites. More than 100,000 sites use KickApps, including major media companies (e.g. NBC Universal, The BBC, H&R Block, and Scripps Networks) and a wide variety of niche websites.
The KickApps company was acquired in January 2011 by KIT digital.
Then, in December 2012, the company was acquired again by Perfect Sense Digital.
Features
KickApps is a hosted platform (SaaS) that provides a range of social media applications to website developers and publishers.
A SaaS platform allows websites to deploy a wide range of user experiences in a variety of ways: REST and SOAP APIs, feeds, programmable widgets and video players, customizable templates and single-sign services.
Members select a username and password (or use their existing site ID) to join your social network
Members can upload videos, photos, and audio
Member profiles contain standard social networking features, including: blogs (video, audio, and plain text), RSS feeds, guest books, friends, multi-media message boards, widgets and groups
Includes online media management, member management, reporting and advertising administration
KickApps is often compared with Brightcove, Flux and Ning.
Founder and Chairman, Eric Alterman, was also founder of MeshNetworks (acquired by Motorola), Military Commercial Technologies, TeraNex, SkyCross, Jed Broadcasting, Quadfore, Centerpoint and Triton Network Systems
In January 2011, KickApps was acquired by KIT digital.
Venture Funding
$7 million Series A round from Spark Capital and also included Prism VentureWorks and Jarl Mohn
$11 million Series B round from SoftBank Capital and a group of previous investors
$14 million Series C round from North Atlantic Capital and all previous investors.
References
Social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrin%27s%20scheme | In numerical analysis, Estrin's scheme (after Gerald Estrin), also known as Estrin's method, is an algorithm for numerical evaluation of polynomials.
Horner's method for evaluation of polynomials is one of the most commonly used algorithms for this purpose, and unlike Estrin's scheme it is optimal in the sense that it minimizes the number of multiplications and additions required to evaluate an arbitrary polynomial. On a modern processor, instructions that do not depend on each other's results may run in parallel. Horner's method contains a series of multiplications and additions that each depend on the previous instruction and so cannot execute in parallel. Estrin's scheme is one method that attempts to overcome this serialization while still being reasonably close to optimal.
Description of the algorithm
Estrin's scheme operates recursively, converting a degree-n polynomial in x (for n≥2) to a degree- polynomial in x2 using independent operations (plus one to compute x2).
Given an arbitrary polynomial P(x) = C0 + C1x + C2x2 + C3x3 + ⋯ + Cnxn, one can group adjacent terms into sub-expressions of the form (A + Bx) and rewrite it as a polynomial in x2: P(x) = (C0 + C1x) + (C2 + C3x)x2 + (C4 + C5x)x4 + ⋯ = Q(x2).
Each of these sub-expressions, and x2, may be computed in parallel. They may also be evaluated using a native multiply–accumulate instruction on some architectures, an advantage that is shared with Horner's method.
This grouping can then be repeated to get a polynomial in x4: P(x) = Q(x2) = ((C0 + C1x) + (C2 + C3x)x2) + ((C4 + C5x) + (C6 + C7x)x2)x4 + ⋯ = R(x4).
Repeating this +1 times, one arrives at Estrin's scheme for parallel evaluation of a polynomial:
Compute Di = C2i + C2i+1x for all 0 ≤ i ≤ . (If n is even, then Cn+1 = 0 and Dn/2 = Cn.)
If n ≤ 1, the computation is complete and D0 is the final answer.
Otherwise, compute y = x2 (in parallel with the computation of Di).
Evaluate Q(y) = D0 + D1y + D2y2 + ⋯ + Dy using Estrin's scheme.
This performs a total of n multiply-accumulate operations (the same as Horner's method) in line 1, and an additional squarings in line 3. In exchange for those extra squarings, all of the operations in each level of the scheme are independent and may be computed in parallel; the longest dependency path is +1 operations long.
Examples
Take Pn(x) to mean the nth order polynomial of the form: Pn(x) = C0 + C1x + C2x2 + C3x3 + ⋯ + Cnxn
Written with Estrin's scheme we have:
P3(x) = (C0 + C1x) + (C2 + C3x) x2
P4(x) = (C0 + C1x) + (C2 + C3x) x2 + C4x4
P5(x) = (C0 + C1x) + (C2 + C3x) x2 + (C4 + C5x) x4
P6(x) = (C0 + C1x) + (C2 + C3x) x2 + ((C4 + C5x) + C6x2)x4
P7(x) = (C0 + C1x) + (C2 + C3x) x2 + ((C4 + C5x) + (C6 + C7x) x2)x4
P8(x) = (C0 + C1x) + (C2 + C3x) x2 + ((C4 + C5x) + (C6 + C7x) x2)x4 + C8x8
P9(x) = (C0 + C1x) + (C2 + C3x) x2 + ((C4 + C5x) + (C6 + C7x) x2)x4 + (C8 + C9x) x8
…
In full detail, consider the evaluation of P15(x):
Inputs: x, C0, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5 C6, C7, C8, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GGobi | GGobi is a free statistical software tool for interactive data visualization. GGobi allows extensive exploration of the data with Interactive dynamic graphics. It is also a tool for looking at multivariate data. R can be used in sync with GGobi (through rggobi). The GGobi software can be embedded as a library in other programs and program packages using an application programming interface (API) (integration into a stand-alone application) or as an add-on to existing languages and scripting environments, e.g., with the R command line or from a Perl or Python scripts.
GGobi prides itself on its ability to link multiple graphs together.
Overview
GGobi was created to look at data matrices. The designers were interested in exploring multi-dimensional data. The program developers went through many name changes before settling on GGobi (A combination of the words GTK+ and the Gobi Desert). The original concept, Dataviewer, began in the mid-80s, and a predecessor, XGobi, began in 1989. Work began on the current version of GGobi in 1999. The main reason for the different versions was the change in technology. Current version for MS Windows is 2.1.10a (12 March 2010) with an update for 64 bit usage from 10 June 2012.
Released under a combination of three free software licenses, GGobi is free software.
GGobi Topics
Importance of graphics
Looking at data through various graphs can reveal more information about the distribution than just looking at the numbers or a summary of them. Using the different tools within GGobi, clusters, non-linear distributions, outliers, and other important variations in the data can be discovered. GGobi is a program which allows exploratory data analysis to occur for multi-dimensional data.
Supported data sources
GGobi can read CSV and XML file types.
Types of graphics
1D: Average shifted histogram, textured dot plot, barchart, spineplot
2D: Scatterplot
High-D:
Scatterplot matrix
Parallel coordinates
Grand tour, projection pursuit guided tour, manual tour
Time series plot
Interactions
These tools can be used to pick out special points or clusters of data.
Brushing
As the brush moves over a point, the point will be highlighted.
If "persistent" is selected, the points the brush has moved over will remain "painted".
Identify
As the cursor moves over a point, a label, or variable value will appear at the top of the graphic screen.
Linking
Multiple plots are linked so identifying one point in one plot will identify the same point on all other graphs, and brushing a group of points in one plot will highlight the same points in other plots. The linking can be one-to-one, or according to the values of a categorical variable in the data set.
Moving points
Points in a plot can be moved interactively, e.g. to gauge results from multidimensional scaling.
Add/remove points or edges.
See also
Data visualization
Mondrian data analysis
References
Further reading
Buja, A., D. Cook, and D.F. Swayne (Marc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biskit | Biskit is an open source software package that facilitates research in structural bioinformatics and molecular modelling. Written in Python, it consists of:
An object-oriented programming library for manipulating and analyzing macromolecular structures, protein complexes and molecular dynamics trajectories
A set of programs for solving specific tasks, such as automatic prediction of protein structures by homology modeling, and possible prediction of protein complex structures through flexible protein-protein docking
The library delegates many calculations to more specialized third-party software. It currently utilizes 15 external applications, including X-PLOR, Hex, T-Coffee, DSSP and MODELLER.
The latest Biskit version, 2.4.0, was released on 4 Mar 2012. It was originally developed at the Pasteur Institute. The name "Biskit" refers to the research group's name, Unité de BioInformatique Structurale.
External links
Structural bioinformatics software
Molecular modelling
Physics software
Computational chemistry software
Free science software
Free software programmed in Python
Molecular dynamics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellsite%20Information%20Transfer%20Specification | The Wellsite Information Transfer Specification (WITS) is a specification for the transfer of drilling rig-related data. This petroleum industry standard is recognized by a number of companies internationally and is supported by many hardware devices and software applications.
WITS is a multi-layered specification:
Layer 0 describes an ASCII-based transfer specification
Layer 1 describes a binary-based format based on 25 predefined fixed-size records and the Log Information Standard (LIS) data-transmission specification
Layer 2 describes bidirectional communication using LIS Comment records
Layer 2b describes buffering of data
Layer 4 extends the previous layers to use a different data exchange format, RP66
Though still in active use as of 2013, the specification has been superseded by the XML-based WITSML.
See also
Wellsite information transfer standard markup language
Drilling technology
Petroleum technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Turner%20%28actor%29 | Joel Turner (born 1987 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian television actor, best known for portraying Wayne Payne in the Nine Network young adult series Foreign Exchange.
He broke both his ankles which he suffered from a hiking accident in 2003 and has had a severe phobia of condiments, heights and tattoos since a young age.
He is well known for his undying love for IPA, and refers to himself as being an IPA 'enthusiast'. He can often be seen with one in hand, no matter what the day of the week is.
He is unrelated to the Australian beatboxer of the same name.
Filmography
References
External links
Official website
Australian male television actors
1987 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%20First%20Network | People First Network, also known as PFNet or Pipol Fastaem, started in Solomon Islands as part of UNDP's Solomon Islands Development Administration Planning programme (SIDAPP) and was developed by technical advisor David Leeming, Randall Biliki and others from January 2001. People First Network was initially a series of email stations around the Solomon Islands. The network provides email and other services to very remote rural areas. In particular the project was started as a means to link people to peacemakers following the ethnic tension and civil unrest in 2000, by providing rural communications and participatory news and information service.
In 2004, the network was listed as one of the 5 finalists for the IPDC-UNESCO Rural Communication Prize for 2003.
History
PFnet is a rural Internet connectivity project, which aimed to promote and facilitate equitable and sustainable rural development and peace building by enabling better information sharing and knowledge building among and across communities forming the Solomon Islands. PFnet's email system, based on HF radio, and Pactor-3 modems, with solar power, permits remote locations on islands across thousands of square kilometres to have access to Internet emails at a fraction of the cost of satellite-based connectivity. PFnet augments this by working with partners to develop applications of the network in many sectors.
The PFnet system, offering basic email services, seeks to improve connectivity while dramatically reducing the prices of communication, making it affordable for low-income users and sustainable over time. As a basic utility to all other activities, the network assists the country, particularly low-income groups, in taking in charge their own development through improved logistics, information and knowledge. Since 2001, PFnet has been an important player in bridging the digital divide in Solomon Islands.
The objectives of the PFnet are to facilitate:
Point-to-point communications to and from the remote provinces of the Solomon Islands;
Rural development and peace-related information flows among all social groups;
The exchange of information between communities and development programmes, NGOs, government offices, the media, businesses and other stakeholders.
The main component of PFnet is the network of community-based and managed email stations located in remote islands across the country. The stations are usually hosted in provincial clinics, community schools, or other accessible and secure public facilities. Email operators act as “infomediaries”, assisting customers with sending and receiving emails at a nominal cost, so that they do not have to be literate in order to use the service.
Now the network is established, it is being used to facilitate the rural networking needs of sectors such as education, health, women, sustainable livelihood programs, finance and agriculture. The operator-assisted facilities are able to directly access web sites using web for mail ser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20pressure%20gauge | A time pressure gauge is an instrument that digitally displays pressure data divided into appropriate time intervals. While a pressure gauge indicates a general unit amount, only a time pressure gauge accounts for varying consumption and capacity in relation to time remaining.
Applications
Welders using oxygen and acetylene can plan more efficiently if they know the energy duration due to varying consumption in cutting techniques. A nurse concerned that a patient may run out of oxygen can monitor the workload more efficiently by knowing how much time is remaining rather that how much pressure is left.
Scuba divers could determine the length of time they could remain submerged. A pilot could manage supplemental oxygen flow rates of an aircraft to determine possible altitudes for maximizing fuel efficiency. Ultimately any activity that uses pressurized contents is applicable.
Safety
Using a time pressure gauge is also very valuable in dangerous scenarios. Imagine a firefighter inside of a burning building contemplating returning for oxygen or pressing further to the next room. He or she could understand both the time currently remaining, as well as time remaining if they altered their breathing pattern.
A pilot could determine oxygen time remaining for descent in the event of a decompression. This information is highly important considering the multiple contingencies that arise in daily air travel (i.e. – consumption rates of oxygen per minute include multiple variables such as number of passengers and individual consumption rates).
Reducing carbon footprint
The use of a time pressure gauge provides for better planning with any instrument that emits carbon gas through varying consumption rates determined by pressurized contents. Efficiency is maximized by understanding energy requirements in time. One such example would be something as simple as a gas grill. Operation of a gas grill with all burners on can observe tangible results (time reduction) by turning the gas control to low or by shutting off one burner. Seeing the increase in time will automatically indicate an increase in energy saving. Most notably the time pressure gauge could reduce carbon emissions in all air travel through increased fuel efficiency, while also reducing fuel cost. Furthermore, recently the airline industry is under pressure to reduce carbon emissions globally, and instruments such as the time pressure gauge could spearhead this movement.
Current software technology
Time pressure gauge technology is relatively new, and not fully in widespread use. However, the software technology it uses is more integrated. A comprehensive oxygen planning program developed by Aeronautical Data Systems Inc. for the airline industry exists and is in use with over 20 corporate flight departments.
References
Time Pressure Patent
Gormley, Mal. "Converting Oxygen into fuel."Business & Commercial Aviation June 1993:48.
Mack, Bill. "Planning for Decompression." Professional P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20the%20Czech%20Republic | This is a list of town tramway systems in the Czech Republic. It includes all tram systems, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
References
Tramways
Czech Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK-DOS | MK-DOS was one of the most widespread operating systems for Elektronika BK personal computers, developed by Mikhail Korolev and Dmitriy Butyrskiy from 1993. Like ANDOS, the system provided full compatibility for all models, emulating the BK-0010 environments on the more modern BK-0011 and BK-0011M machines. All program requests to a magnetic tape (if they were made through proper ROM functions) were redirected to the disk.
The system supported up to 4 physical disk drives (the actual number was limited by the disk ROM installed) and as many hard disk partitions as the number of letters in the Latin alphabet, which could be used as separate logical drives, each with a volume of up to 32 MB. Starting from version 3.0 the system also supported mounting disk images as logical drives. When booted on a BK-0011 or BK-0011M the system automatically created a RAM disk in the computer's memory.
The most widespread file system along MK-DOS users was MicroDOS. It did not support file fragmentation (like the file system used with RT-11) and required frequent spatial reallocation to maintain optimum contiguous free space (RT-11 users would use the 'SQUEEZE' command, which worked the same way as the *COMPACT command on Acorn's DFS for the BBC Micro). Although MK-DOS was incompatible with the RT-11's file system, both shared many principles. MicroDOS' file system had read-only support in ANDOS. The filename length was limited by 14 symbols (the filename extension was not recognized separately and was considered as part of the filename).
A minimal installation of the system took as little as 8 KB of the computer's memory. It had a functional Norton Commander-like file manager called MCommander. It also shipped with a number of utilities including drivers for the RT-11, FAT12 and CSI-DOS file systems as add-ons for the file manager.
Notes
External links
Disk image of MK-DOS 2.10
Disk image of MK-DOS 3.15
Disk image of MK-DOS 3.17
Disk image of MK-DOS 3.18
Mikhail Korolev homepage (Original documentation for MK-DOS 3.15)
V.P.Yurov. BK-0010(.01) with disk drive (Comparison of operating systems for BK-0010). Magazine "Personal computer BK-0010 - BK-0011M", 1993
V.P.Yurov. Disk operating systems for BK-0011(M). Magazine "Personal computer BK-0010 - BK-0011M", 1994 (djvu)
Elektronika BK operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20gap | Air gap may refer to:
Science and technology
Air gap (plumbing), the vertical space between the water outlet and the flood level of a fixture
Air gap (networking), physical isolation from external computer networks
IBM airgap, a technique invented by IBM for fabricating vacuum pockets in integrated circuits
Air gap (magnetic), a gap in the magnetic material
Air gap, used in inductors and transformers
Air gap in an electric machine, a space between the rotor and the stator in the machine
Air gap, the space between magnetic pole pieces in which a voice coil operates
Air gaps, the use of air-filled or vacuum pockets as a replacement for low-κ dielectrics in integrated circuits
Other uses
Mid-Atlantic gap, a geographic area not covered by allied air support during the World War II Battle of the Atlantic
See also
Aire Gap, a geographical feature in the Pennines, England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICVolunteers | ICVolunteers (ICVolontaires / ICVoluntarios) is an international non-profit organization (federation) active in the field of communications, in particular cyber-volunteerism, languages and conference support. ICVolunteers works with volunteers to implement social and educational programs to help populations and local communities to develop. Through volunteer effort, it cooperates with organizations in the humanitarian, social, environmental and medical fields to implement projects and conferences at local, national and international levels. In addition, ICVolunteers promotes volunteerism and its recognition, by enhancing civic commitment and involvement, and by providing leadership and links between organizations, individuals, and communities. With its headquarters in Geneva (Switzerland), ICVolunteers has offices and permanent representation in several other countries, including France, South Africa, Mali, Spain, Brazil and Canada.The work of ICVolunteers began was in 1997.
Network
ICVolunteers is a network organization, linking knowledge with needs. Its network includes close to 14,000 individuals, volunteers, and partners worldwide, speaking 170 different languages and residing in over 180 countries.
Programs and projects
Programs include the CyberVolunteers Program which recruits, trains and coordinates volunteer with information and communication technology skills for development. Volunteers participate in local, regional and international projects for several weeks or months, offering their skills in areas such as web or software development, system administration and content generation. The Program values in particular South-South exchanges, but also includes South-North and North-South cooperation.
Projects include Africa@home, a volunteer computing initiative involving CERN and academic institutions from Europe and Africa. Among the programs of ICVolunteers are E-TIC.net, an information program that aims to empower local communities through the meaningful use of communication and the sharing of knowledge in a collaborative and hands-on fashion, especially in the Sahel region, MigraLingua, through which community interpreters assist migrants and Green Voice, a communications initiative focusing on environmental education for young people. ICVolunteers closely works with the United Nations and non-governmental organizations for humanitarian, social conferences, and events.
See also
eCorps
Geekcorps
Geeks Without Bounds
NetDay
NetCorps
Peace Corps
United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS)
References
External links
Social networks for social change
Volunteer organizations
Youth empowerment organizations
Organizations established in 1999
International non-profit organizations
Organisations based in Geneva
Non-profit organisations based in Switzerland
1999 establishments in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART%20Multicast | SMART Multicast is an experimental method of Secure Reliable IP Multicast. It allows a user to forward IP datagrams to an unlimited group of receivers. See the article on multicast for a general discussion of this subject - this article is specifically about SMART IP Multicast.
SMART Multicast Uses
IP Multicast has been successfully deployed in private and controlled networking environments, for example; IP over fiber - cable TV operators, educational institutions with significant on-campus student housing and financial sector applications such as stock tickers and hoot-n-holler systems. However, IP multicast has been slow to be adopted in the interdomain routing environment. This is because the current interdomain infrastructure lacks the necessary tools to efficiently handle packet loss and the security needed to create a functional business model.
SMART IP Multicast is an experimental protocol that enables the interdomain transmission of Secure Reliable IP Multicast, thus overcoming the challenges of deploying wide area interdomain IP Multicast transmissions. SMART IP Multicast reduces the complexity of deploying wide area IP Multicast in the same way MFTP (Multicast File Transfer Protocol) accomplishes this goal for file transfer, namely allowing for security and reliability to have full interoperability.
IP Multicast file distribution has been the most successful use of IP Multicast within campus and commercial networks. For file distribution most have used some variant of the experimental protocol MFTP (Multicast File Transfer Protocol). MFTP is both secure and reliable and runs on top of IP Multicast protocol. Like MFTP, SMART Multicast is a wrapper that runs on top of IP Multicast, taking advantage of IP Multicast's efficiency. SMART Multicasts are secure, reliable and provide for bi-directional feedback.
For more info see RFC3170 - IP Multicast Applications: Challenges & Solutions
History and Milestones
SMART supports an MBONE like implementation multicast between sites through the use of dynamically allocated Multicast tunnels. SMART takes advantage of SIMPLE (Self Implementing Multicast Protocol Level Escalation)
Experimental SMART Protocol Structure
Packet structure for SRM-P2MP
DATA PACKET Message TYP = 0x00 (binary 00)
ACCESS_SYNCH_CODE 8
PACKET_TYPE 2
CMD 2
RESERVED 4
PACKET SIZE 16
PACKET_NUMBER 16
PACKET FORMAT 2
DECRYPT_Y_N 1
QUIET 4
RESERVED 1
[...PAYLOAD]
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Access Synch | TYP CMD RESRV| Packet Size |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Packet Sequence | FMT D QUIET R RESERVED |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristraum | Tristraum is a futurepop band from Denver, Colorado. The band consists of Krystyna Eller (lead vocals and lyrics), Randall Erkelens (synthesizers & programming), and Pierre Norman (programming).
Career
Their first single 'Shiver' charted on the German DAC charts with remixes from Assemblage 23 and Echo Image. Released on the German label Intrapop and distributed by A Different Drum, 'Shiver' earned positive music reviews. Gray, their debut album on Section 44 Records, was released in 2005 followed by a second single "First Embrace" in 2006. Tristraum has appeared on dozens of various artists compilations and remixed over 25 other artists in their first two years together.
Norman and Erkelens launched Section 44 in 2005 to release Tristraum's debut album along with synthpop/electronic tributes to '80s synthpop pioneers Dead or Alive and Pop/Alt Rock band The Fixx. Section 44 Records has signed over a dozen artists from around the globe. From the United Kingdom: The Alphabet Girls and Eight to Infinity. From Costa Rica: Sybel. From Australia: Tycho Brahe. From Denmark: Fake the Envy. From USA: Eloquent, Provision, Rhythmic Symphony. From Sweden: Royal Visionaries. The label acquired World Synthpop Records in 2005 and Kiss My Asterix Records in 2006.
Discography
Gray - CD (Section 44, USA)
Shiver - MCD (Intrapop, Germany)
Shiver - German Promo (Intrapop, Germany)
Shiver - 12" (Mile High House, USA)
First Embrace - MCD (Section 44, USA)
First Embrace - 4x4 Volume 1 (Section 44, USA)
Spanky - Dominatricks, 12" (Twitch Recordings, USA)
Compilation appearances
First Embrace - Silver Echo Records
Eyes Wide Open - A Different Drum / Section 44
Eyes Wide Open (Foretaste Remix) - Section 44
Eyes Wide Open - Colorado Dark Arts Festival
Eyes Wide Open - Dark Horizons Radio
I'm Under No One (God Project Remix) - The Flesh Harvest
First Embrace (Amurai Remix) - Amalgam Records
Shiver (Lime n Dale Remix) - A Different Drum
First Embrace (Amurai Remix) - Advanced Synergy
First Embrace (Trotskis Block Remix) - Yet Another Electro Label
I'm Under No One (Hajas Remix) - Synthphony Records
Gray - A Different Drum
Chase the Fire - Section 44
First Embrace - Colorado Dark Arts Festival
Shiver (Empire State Human Remix) - 9th Wave Records
Baby Don't Say Goodbye - Section 44
Shiver (The Missing Link Remix) - 4 mg Records
Shiver - Dark Horizons Radio
Shiver (Empire State Human Records) - Electro Culture Magazine
Brilliant - Intrapop
Remix releases
Provision - Ideal (Section 44)
Capsize - Problem (A Different Drum)
Stratos - Sonic Disturbances (Baily Records)
The Dignity of Labour (A Different Drum)
Leiahdorus - Kiss on the Telephone (A Different Drum)
James D Stark - Dying Beauty (A Different Drum)
Somegirl - Feel Free (A Different Drum)
The Echoing Green - Stand or Fall (Section 44)
Color Theory - But Not Tonight (11th Records)
Brand New Day - Thinking of You (Leg End Productions)
T.O.Y. - Another Lovesong (A Different Drum)
Equatronic - Time (Intrapop)
Fiction 8 - |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro%20T-Kernel | μT-Kernel is a real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for 16- and 8-bit microcontrollers. μT-Kernel was standardized by T-Engine Forum and later by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) as the basis of IEEE 2050-2018.
An article comparing 9 RTOSs among which Micro T-Kernel was evaluated and given favorable remarks appeared in IEEE publication.
See also
T-Kernel
References
External links
, TRON project
μT-Kernel Specifications
IEEE Publishes Standard Addressing Real-Time Architecture for Embedded Systems
Information about T-Engine, T-Kernel and μT-Kernel Programming
Introducing the μT-Kernel
μT-Kernel for M16C/62P source code and documentation
Embedded operating systems
IEEE standards
Internet of things
Operating system kernels
TRON project |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churches%20European%20Rural%20Network | The Churches European Rural Network (CERN) is a network of individuals and representatives of churches in Europe advocating the concerns of rural and agricultural communities within the Church and beyond. CERN has a particular interest in promoting Christian pastoral care in rural communities. The impact of the reforms to the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy is of interest, especially in the effects that this would have on the lives of many farmers.
The network is mainly concentrated in Germany and the UK, but with other individuals also playing an active role. CERN also has close connections with the Conference of European Churches. The Secretary of CERN is the Reverend Rudi Job, a retired pastor living near Kaiserslautern, Germany. The name of the network in German is Europäischer Arbeitskreis für Landfragen.
External links
CERN website (pages mainly in German)
International Rural Church Association
Christianity in Europe
European Union and agriculture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WICD | WICD or Wicd may refer to:
WICD (TV), a television station (channel 15) licensed to Champaign, Illinois, United States
a defunct television station in Urbana, Illinois
Wicd, a network manager software for Linux systems
it:WICD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Assamiidae%20species | This is a list of the described species of the harvestman family Assamiidae. The data is taken from Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
Many of Roewer's subfamilies are unsupported, as the relationships in this family await further research.
Aburistinae
Aburistinae — Roewer, 1935
Aburista — Roewer, Yahia Mustafa
Aburista termitarum — Roewer, 1935 — Ghana
Aburistella — Lawrence, 1947
Aburistella flava — Lawrence, 1947
Bancoella — Lawrence, 1947
Bancoella bimaculata — Lawrence, 1947
Banconyx — Lawrence, 1947
Banconyx dentichelis — Lawrence, 1947
Sokodea — Roewer, 1935
Sokodea caeca — Roewer, 1935
Typhlobunellus — Roewer, 1927
Typhlobunellus formicarum — Roewer, 1927
Typhlobunellus platypalpis — Lawrence, 1947
Typhloburista — Lawrence, 1947
Typhloburista pusilla — Lawrence, 1947
Acacinae
Acacinae — Roewer, 1935
Acaca — Roewer, 1935
Acaca albatra — Roewer, 1935
Acaca liobuniformis — (Caporiacco, 1949) — Ethiopia
Acanthacaca — Roewer, 1952
Acanthacaca katumbea — Roewer, 1961
Acanthacaca upembensis — Roewer, 1952
Assamiinae
Assamiinae — Sørensen, 1884
Afroassamia — Caporiacco, 1940
Afroassamia laevipes — Caporiacco, 1940
Anassamia — Roewer, 1935
Assamia — Sørensen, 1884
Assamia aborensis — Roewer, 1913 — India (Assam)
Assamia bituberculata — Thorell, 1889 — Burma
Assamia gravelyi — Roewer, 1911 — Sri Lanka
Assamia pectinata — Roewer, 1912 — Burma
Assamia rufa — Roewer, 1927
Assamia westermanni — Sørensen, 1884 — India (Assam)
Assamiella — Roewer, 1923
Assamiella marginata — (Roewer, 1912) — Burma
Assaphalla — Martens, 1977
Assaphalla peralata — Martens, 1977
Dawnabius — Roewer, 1935
Dawnabius pectinatus —
Gomezyta — Roewer, 1935
Gomezyta africana — Roewer, 1935
Gudalura — Roewer, 1927
Gudalura biseriata — Roewer, 1927
Metassamia — Roewer, 1923
Metassamia bihemisphaerica — Thailand
Metassamia bituberculata — (Roewer, 1912) — Darjiling
Metassamia furcidens — Roewer, 1935 — Assam
Metassamia nepalica — Martens, 1977
Metassamia reticulata — (Simon, 1887) — Burma
Metassamia septemdentata — Roewer, 1923 — Assam
Metassamia sexdentata — (Thorell, 1889) — Burma
Metassamia soerensenii — (Thorell, 1889) — Burma
Metassamia spinifrons — (Roewer, 1915) — Sikkim
Metassamia variata — Sørensen, 1932 — India
Micrassamula — Martens, 1977
Micrassamula thak — Martens, 1977
Micrassamula jumlensis — Martens, 1977
Neassamia — Roewer, 1935
Neassamia siamensis — Roewer, 1935 — Thailand
Nepalsia — Martens, 1977
Nepalsia rhododendron — Martens, 1977
Nepalsia betula — Martens, 1977
Nepalsia picea — Martens, 1977
Nepalsioides — Martens, 1977
Nepalsioides thodunga — Martens, 1977
Nepalsioides angusta — Martens, 1977
Parassamia — Roewer, 1935
Parassamia sexdentata — Roewer, 1935 — India
Parassamia albimarginata — Roewer, 1940 — Burma
Pechota — Roewer, 1935
Pechota marginalis — Roewer, 1935 — Malacca
Popassamia — Roewer, 1940
Popassamia heinrichi — Roewer, 1940 — Burma
Puria — Roewer, 1923
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Stygnidae%20species | This is a list of the described species of the harvestman family Stygnidae. The data is taken from Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
Heterostygninae
Heterostygninae Roewer, 1913
Eutimesius Roewer, 1913
Eutimesius albicinctus (Roewer, 1915) — Venezuela
Eutimesius ephippiatus (Roewer, 1915) — Colombia
Eutimesius ornatus (Roewer, 1943) — Colombia, Venezuela
Eutimesius simoni Roewer, 1913 — Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador
Innoxius Pinto-da-Rocha, 1997
Innoxius magnus (Caporiacco, 1951) — Venezuela
Minax Pinto-da-Rocha, 1997
Minax tetraspinosus Pinto-da-Rocha, 1997 — Venezuela
Stenostygnellus Roewer, 1913
Stenostygnellus flavolimbatus Roewer, 1913 — Venezuela
Stenostygnellus macrochelis (Roewer, 1917) — Venezuela
Stygnidius Simon, 1879
Stygnidius guerinii Sørensen, 1932 — French Guayana
Stygnidius inflatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1829-1843) — Brazil, Venezuela, French Guiana
Stygnoplus Simon, 1879
Stygnoplus antiguanus (Roewer, 1943) — Leeward Islands, Antigua
Stygnoplus biguttatus Pinto-da-Rocha, 1997 — Venezuela
Stygnoplus clavotibialis (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947) — Trinidad
Stygnoplus dominicanus (Roewer, 1943) — Dominica
Stygnoplus flavitarsis (Simon, 1879) — Leeward Islands, Guadeloupe
Stygnoplus forcipatus (C.L. Koch, 1845) — Colombia
Stygnoplus granulosus Mello-Leitão, 1940 — Venezuela
Stygnoplus longipalpus (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942) — British Guiana
Stygnoplus meinerti Sørensen, 1932 — Venezuela
Stygnoplus triacanthus (C.L. Koch, 1839) — South America
Stygnoplus tuberculatus (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942) — Dominica
Timesius Simon, 1879
Timesius vesicularis (Gervais, 1844) — Colombia
Yapacana Pinto-da-Rocha, 1997
Yapacana tibialis (Pinto-da-Rocha, 1997) — Venezuela
Nomoclastinae
Nomoclastinae Roewer, 1943
Nomoclastes Sørensen, 1932
Nomoclastes quasimodo Pinto-da-Rocha, 1997 — Colombia
Nomoclastes taedifer Sørensen, 1932 — Colombia
Stygninae
Stygninae Simon, 1879
Actinostygnoides Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942
Actinostygnoides carus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 — British Guiana
Auranus Mello-Leitão, 1941
Auranus hoeferscovitorum Pinto-da-Rocha, 1997 — Brazil
Auranus parvus Mello-Leitão, 1941 — Brazil
Fortia Villarreal et al., 2022
Fortia jedi Villarreal et al., 2022 — Colombia
Fortia sith Villarreal et al., 2022 — Colombia
Iguarassua Roewer, 1943
Iguarassua schubarti Roewer, 1943 — Brazil
Kaapora Pinto-da-Rocha, 1997
Kaapora minutissimus (Roewer, 1943) — Brazil
Metaphareus Roewer, 1912
Metaphareus albimanus Roewer, 1912 — Colombia
Metaphareus punctatus Roewer, 1913 — Venezuela
Niceforoiellus Mello-Leitão, 1941
Niceforoiellus assimilis Mello-Leitão, 1941 — Colombia
Ortonia Wood, 1869
Ortonia ferox Wood, 1869 — Ecuador
Paraphareus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943
Paraphareus tatei Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943 — Monte Roraima: British Guiana?, Brazil
Phareus Simon, 1879
Phareus raptator (Gervais, 1844) — Colombia, Venezuela
Pickeliana Mello-Leitão, 1932
Pickeliana capito (Soares |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workload%20Manager | In IBM mainframes, Workload Manager (WLM) is a base component of MVS/ESA mainframe operating system, and its successors up to and including z/OS. It controls the access to system resources for the work executing on z/OS based on administrator-defined goals. Workload Manager components also exist for other operating systems. For example, an IBM Workload Manager is also a software product for AIX operating system.
Workload Manager
On a mainframe computer many different applications execute at the same time. The expectations for executing work are consistent execution times and predictable access to databases. On z/OS the Workload Manager (WLM) component fulfills these needs by controlling work's access to system resources based on external specifications by the system administrator.
The system administrator classifies work to service classes. The classification mechanism uses work attributes like transaction names, user identifications or program names which specific applications are known to use. In addition the system administrator defines goals and importance levels for the service classes representing the application work. The goals define performance expectations for the work. Goals can be expressed as response times, a relative speed (termed velocity) or as discretionary if no specific requirement exists. The response time describes the duration for the work requests after they entered the system and until the application signals to WLM that the execution is completed. WLM is now interested to assure that the average response time of a set of work requests ends in the expected time or that a percentage of work requests fulfill the expectations of the end user.
The definition of a response time also requires that the applications communicate with WLM. If this is not possible a relative speed measure – named execution velocity - is used to describe the end user expectation to the system.
This measurement is based on system states which are continuously collected. The system states describe when a work request uses a system resource and when it must wait for it because it is used by other work. The latter is named a delay state. The quotient of all using states to all productive states (using and delay states) multiplied by 100 is the execution velocity. This measurement does not require any communication of the application with the WLM component but it is also more abstract than a response time goal.
Finally the system administrator assigns an importance to each service class to tell WLM which service classes should get preferred access to system resources if the system load is too high to allow all work to execute. The service classes and goal definitions are organized in service policies together with other constructs for reporting and further controlling and saved as a service definition for access to WLM. The active service definition is saved on a couple data set which allows all z/OS systems of a Parallel Sysplex cluster to access |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDN | NDN can mean:
NDN (gene), a gene found on chromosome 15 in humans and chromosome 7 in mice
Named data networking, a NSF-funded future internet architecture research project
New Democrat Network, an American think tank that promotes "centrist" Democratic candidates
Nigel Desmond Norman (1929–2002), British aircraft designer, his company NDN Aircraft, and their products:
NDN Firecracker, a single-engine aircraft designed as a military trainer
NDN Fieldmaster, a British agricultural aircraft of the 1980s
Shorthand spelling for Indian, a term that some Native Americans in the United States and some First Nations peoples in Canada use to refer to themselves
Necromancer's DOS Navigator, an orthodox file manager for DOS
Northern Distribution Network, part of NATO logistics in the Afghan War
Neodymium nitride, a chemical with the symbol NdN. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Epedanidae%20species | This is a list of the described species of the harvestman family Epedanidae. The data is taken from Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
Dibuninae
Dibuninae Roewer, 1912
Dibunus Loman, 1906
Dibunus albitarsus (Roewer, 1927) — Philippines
Dibunus chapmani (Roewer, 1927) — Philippines
Dibunus dividuus Suzuki, 1977
Dibunus gracile (Roewer, 1912) — Philippines
Dibunus longipalpis Roewer, 1912 — Philippines
Dibunus maculatipes (Roewer, 1915) — Maluku Islands
Dibunus marianae Goodnight & Goodnight, 1957
Dibunus pseudobiantes Loman, 1906 — New Guinea
Dibunus similis Roewer, 1912 — Philippines
Dibunus transitorius (Roewer, 1927) — Philippines
Epedaninae
Epedaninae Sørensen, in L.Koch 1886
Alloepedanus S. Suzuki, 1985
Alloepedanus robustus S. Suzuki, 1985 — Thailand
Balabanus Suzuki, 1977
Balabanus quadrispinosus Suzuki, 1977
Caletorellus Roewer, 1938
Caletorellus siamensis (Hirst, 1912) — Thailand
Epedanellus Roewer, 1911
Epedanellus tuberculatus Roewer, 1911 — Japan
Epedanidus Roewer, 1945
Epedanidus globibunus Roewer, 1945 — Perak
Epedanulus Roewer, 1913
Epedanulus sarasinorum Roewer, 1913 — Sulawesi
Epedanus Thorell, 1876
Epedanus brevipalpus Banks, 1931 — Borneo
Epedanus cavicolus Banks, 1931 — Borneo
Epedanus javanus Thorell, 1876 — Java
Epedanus lutescens Thorell, 1876 — Sarawak
Epedanus pictus Thorell, 1876 — Sarawak
Epedanus pinangensis Thorell, 1890 — Pinang
Epedanus praedo Sørensen, 1932 — Borneo
Epedanus sumbawanus (Roewer, 1938) — Sumbawa
Euepedanus Roewer, 1915
Euepedanus chaiensis Suzuki, 1970
Euepedanus dividuus Suzuki, 1970
Euepedanus orientalis (Hirst, 1912) — Thailand
Euepedanus pentaspinulatus S. Suzuki, 1985 — Thailand
Euepedanus similis S. Suzuki, 1985 — Thailand
Euepedanus spinosus S. Suzuki, 1985 — Thailand
Euepedanus trispinosus Roewer, 1915 — Malacca
Funkikoa Roewer, 1927
Funkikoa maxima Roewer, 1927 — Funkiko (Taiwan)
Heteroepedanus Roewer, 1912
Heteroepedanus monacantha (Roewer, 1911)
Heteroepedanus tricantha (Roewer, 1911)
Aboriscus Roewer, 1940
Aboriscus singularis (Roewer, 1912) — India, Malaysia
Aboriscus longipes (Roewer, 1913) — India
Aboriscus aborensis (Roewer, 1913) — India
Lobonychium Roewer, 1938
Lobonychium palpiplus Roewer, 1938 — Borneo
Metathyreotus Roewer, 1913
Metathyreotus aborensis Roewer, 1913 — Assam
Metathyreotus kempi Roewer, 1913 — Assam
Metepedanulus Roewer, 1913
Metepedanulus sarasinorum Roewer, 1913 — Sulawesi
Metepedanulus flaveolus Banks, 1931 — Borneo
Metepedanus Roewer, 1912
Metepedanus venator (Roewer, 1911) — Borneo
Metepedanus accentuatus (Roewer, 1911) — Borneo
Mosfora Roewer, 1938
Mosfora silvestrii (Roewer, 1925) — Funkiko
Nanepedanus Roewer, 1938
Nanepedanus rufus Roewer, 1938 — Borneo
Neoepedanus Roewer, 1912
Neoepedanus fokiensis Roewer, 1912 — China
Paratakaoia S. Suzuki, 1985 — Thailand
Paratakaoia parva S. Suzuki, 1985
Paratakaoia minima (Suzuki, 1986) — Thailand
Parepedanulus Roewer, 1913
Parepedan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bristol%20Rovers%20F.C.%20seasons | This article lists all the Bristol Rovers Football Club seasons from 1892-1893 up to 2021–22.
Seasons
Notes
A. EFL Cup, EFL Trophy and Post-1900 FA Cup results from the Football Club History Database, pre-1900 FA Cup results are from The FA.
B. Eastville Rovers had two league points deducted in 1896–97 for paying a player.
C. Club was re-elected to the Football League after finishing bottom of Division 3 (South).
D. Two league points deducted in 1981–82 for fielding an unregistered player.
E. The 2019–20 season was curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The season's final standings were decided on points per game with Rovers scoring 1.29ppg.
References
Eastville Rovers Football Club History Database. Retrieved 3 May 2007.
Bristol Eastville Rovers Football Club History Database. Retrieved 3 May 2007.
Bibliography
Bristol Rovers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexiScale | FlexiScale is a utility computing platform launched by XCalibre Communications in the summer of 2007, and subsequently acquired by Flexiant. Launched shortly after Amazon's EC2 service, it was Europe's first and the world's second cloud computing platform. Users are able to create, start, and stop servers as they require allowing rapid deployment where needed. Both Windows and Linux are supported on the FlexiScale platform.
FlexiScale uses the open source Xen hypervisor. Backend storage comes from a highly redundant SAN, although the level of redundancy was called into question in August 2008, with more than 2 days of downtime resulting from an engineer mistake. The storage system previously consisted of a dual head NetApp storage array with the disk shelves connected to both heads. This was replaced with the launch of FlexiScale 2.0 in June 2010 with an "Amber Road" based storage solution from Sun Microsystems.
There have been a few revisions of the FlexiScale platform, from publicly available information the first version was based on the Virtual Iron VM management software. The second revision (called FlexiScale v1.5) of the platform was based on a in-house developed VM control system, now known as Extility. The most recent release (called FlexiScale v2.0) contributed an extensively revised User Interface.
References
External links
FlexiScale main website
Web services
Cloud infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20Control%20Block | In IBM mainframe operating systems OS/360 and its successors, a Unit Control Block (UCB) is a memory structure, or a control block, that describes any single input/output peripheral device (unit), or an exposure (alias), to the operating system. Certain data within the UCB also instructs the Input/Output Supervisor (IOS) to use certain closed subroutines in addition to normal IOS processing for additional physical device control.
Some other operating systems have similar structures.
Overview
During initial program load (IPL) of current MVS systems, the Nucleus Initialization Program (NIP) reads necessary information from the I/O Definition File (IODF) and uses it to build the UCBs. The UCBs are stored in system-owned memory, in the Extended System Queue Area (ESQA). After IPL completes, UCBs are owned by Input/Output Support. Some of the data stored in the UCB are: device type (e.g. disk, tape, printer, terminal), address of the device (such as 1002), subchannel identifier and device number, channel path ID (CHPID) which defines the path to the device, for some devices the volume serial number (VOLSER), and a large amount of other information, including OS Job Management data.
While the contents of the UCB has changed as MVS evolved, the concept has not. It is a representation to the operating system of an external device. Inside every UCB are the UCBIOQ pointer to the current IOS Queue Element (IOQ), UCBIOQF and UCBIOQL pointers to a queue of IOQs (IOQs) and a subchannel number for the subchannel-identification word used in the start subchannel (SSCH) instruction to start a channel program (chain of channel command words (CCWs)).
The UCB evolved to be an anchor to hold information and states about the device. The UCB currently has five areas used for an external interface: Device Class Extension, UCB Common Extension, UCB Prefix Stub, UCB Common Segment and the UCB Device Dependent Segment. Other areas are internal use only. This information can be read and used to determine information about the device.
In the earliest implementations of OS/360, the UCBs (foundations and extensions) were assembled during SYSGEN, and were located within the first 64 KB of the system area, as the I/O device lookup table consisted of 16-bit addresses. Subsequent enhancements allowed the extensions to be above the 64-kilobyte (65,536 bytes) line, thereby saving space for additional UCB foundations below the 64-kilobyte line and also thereby preserving the architecture of the UCB lookup table (converting a CUu to a UCB foundation address). Eventually an installation could choose to place UCBs above the 16 MiB line line, although in a process called shadowing the UCB the OS creates a temporary local copy of the UCB when allocating a file without the XTIOT option.
Handling parallel I/O operations
UCBs were introduced in the 1960s with OS/360. Then a device addressed by UCB was typically a moving head hard disk drive or a tape drive, with no internal cache. Wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20primary%20highways%20in%20Catalonia | The network of primary highways (freeways or not) in Catalonia, Spain, can be divided into two groups: highways managed by the Spanish Government and highways managed by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalonia's Government).
The first group are itineraries included in the Red de Interés General del Estado (Spanish highways network), which generally either serve as long-distance connectors beyond the Catalonia's field or either have a special strategical importance. They are mainly autopistas () or autovías (Catalan: autovies) but some regular roads can also be found (most of them are in process or in prospect of being upgraded to autovía).
The second group are itineraries mainly used for Catalonia's internal transport. However, some of these highways (such as C-31, C-32 or C-58) are main communication paths and suffer from heavy traffic.
Primary highways managed by the Spanish Government
The following highways (freeways or not) are managed by the Spanish Government. The list is arranged by itineraries, some of them formed by sections of different categories. The category field indicates if the sections are autopistas (generally tolled freeways under a concession contract), autovías or simple single-lane roads.
Primary highways managed by the Generalitat de Catalunya
The primary highways managed by the Catalan Government serve mainly for transport inside Catalonia.
Since year 2004, their denomination follows the next rules:
The letter C before the hyphen (for example, C-31) means that the road is managed by the Generalitat de Catalunya
The first number after the hyphen (for example, C-31) indicates the main bound:
1 for south-northbound highways
2 for west-eastbound highways
3 for southwest-northeastbound highways
4, 5 and 6 for southeast-northwestbound highways
The second number after the hyphen (for example, C-31) indicates the ordinal number within the category indicated by the first number. For example, for south-northbound highways, the lowest number correspond to the westernmost highway, whereas the highest number is for the easternmost one.
South-Northbound highways
West-Eastbound highways
Southwest-Northeastbound highways
toll road
Southeast-Northwestbound highways
References
External links
Website of the Departament d'Obres Públiques de la Generalitat de Catalunya
Portal de la mobilitat
Basic Catalonia's Roads Net
New codification for primary highways managed by the Generalitat de Catalunya (in Catalan and Spanish)
Roads in Catalonia
Highways
Catalonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recordable%20offence | A recordable offence is any offence in England and Wales where the police must keep records of convictions and offenders on the Police National Computer.
Legislation
The power for police to keep such records is contained in the National Police Records (Recordable Offences) Regulations 2000. This states that a 'crime recordable offence' is an offence which must be recorded as a conviction on the PNC.
Recordable offences include any offence punishable by imprisonment, plus a number of non-imprisonable offences, such as:
nuisance communications (phone calls, letters)
tampering with motor vehicles
firearms, air weapons, knives
football offences
causing harm or danger to children
drunkenness
poaching
failing to provide a specimen of breath, and
taking a pedal cycle without owner's consent
A full, lengthy, list of recordable offences is available, provided by ACPO as an Appendix to their Retention Guidelines for Nominal Records on the Police National Computer.
Further police powers
Where a person has been arrested for a recordable offence, police may fingerprint and take non-intimate DNA samples from suspects without authorisation from senior ranks.
Sources
External links
Law enforcement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datanet | DataNet, or Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partner was a research program of the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure. The office announced a request for proposals with this title on September 28, 2007. The lead paragraph of its synopsis describes the program as:
Science and engineering research and education are increasingly digital and increasingly data-intensive. Digital data are not only the output of research but provide input to new hypotheses, enabling new scientific insights and driving innovation. Therein lies one of the major challenges of this scientific generation: how to develop the new methods, management structures and technologies to manage the diversity, size, and complexity of current and future data sets and data streams. This solicitation addresses that challenge by creating a set of exemplar national and global data research infrastructure organizations (dubbed DataNet Partners) that provide unique opportunities to communities of researchers to advance science and/or engineering research and learning.
The introduction in the solicitation goes on to say:
Chapter 3 (Data, Data Analysis, and Visualization) of NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st century Discovery presents a vision in which “science and engineering digital data are routinely deposited in well-documented form, are regularly and easily consulted and analyzed by specialists and non-specialists alike, are openly accessible while suitably protected, and are reliably preserved.” The goal of this solicitation is to catalyze the development of a system of science and engineering data collections that is open, extensible and evolvable.
The initial plan called for a $100 million initiative: five awards of $20 million each over five years with the possibility of continuing funding. Awards were given in two rounds. In the first round, for which full proposals were due on March 21, 2008, two DataNet proposals were awarded. DataONE, led by William Michener at the University of New Mexico covers ecology, evolutionary, and earth science. The Data Conservancy, led by Sayeed Choudhury of Johns Hopkins University, focuses on astronomy, earth science, life sciences, and social science.
For the second round, preliminary proposals were due on October 6, 2008, and full proposals on February 16, 2009. Awards from the second round were greatly delayed, and funding was reduced substantially from $20 million per project to $8 million. Funding for three second round projects began in Fall 2011. SEAD: Sustainable Environment through Actionable Data, led by Margaret Hedstrom of the University of Michigan, seeks to provide data curation software and services for the "long tail" of small- and medium-scale data producers in the domain of sustainability science. The DataNet Federation Consortium, led by Reagan Moore of the University of North Carolina, uses the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) to provide data grid inf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuva | Recuva () is an undeletion program for Windows, developed by Piriform Software. It is able to undelete files that have been marked as deleted; the operating system marks the areas of the disk in which they were stored as free space. Recuva can recover files deleted from internal and external hard disk drives, USB flash drives, memory cards, portable media players or all random-access storage mediums with a supported file system. Preview thumbnails of intact photos can be displayed in grid view mode and in the side bar.
Recuva was described by vnunet.com as an "effective tool for undeleting or salvaging files we sent for recycling and deleted, in the past". The program works on FAT, exFAT and NTFS file systems of Windows. It is able to recover lost directory structure and automatically renames files when trying to recover two files of the same name. As of version 1.5.3 it can also recover files from Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4 file systems of Linux.
As with other file recovery programs Recuva works by looking for unreferenced data, but if the operating system has written new data over a deleted file then recovery will often not be possible.
See also
CCleaner
Data remanence
List of data recovery software
References
External links
Windows-only freeware
2007 software
Data recovery software
Piriform Software
Gen Digital software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symeon%20of%20Rosemarkie | Symeon (Middle Gaelic: Simón; fl. 1147 – 1155) is the second known Bishop of Ross in the 12th century. His predecessor Mac Bethad occurred as bishop in a document datable between 1127 and 1131.
Symeon appeared for the first time when he witnessed a charter by King David I of Scotland granting Nithbren and Balcristin to Dunfermline Abbey. This is the only extant charter witnessed by Bishop Symeon. This charter is also witnessed by Alwin, Abbot of Holyrood (Alwyno abbate de Edenb.,), who had resigned his abbacy in 1151, and by Herbert, Bishop of Glasgow, who was consecrated as bishop at Auxerre on 24 August 1147, meaning that the charter was issued and witnessed between these two dates.
A "S. Bishop of St Peter in Ross" was addressed by Pope Adrian IV in a Papal Bull issued on 25 February 1155. His date of death is not known, but fell between that date in 1155 and 1161, when his successor Gregoir was consecrated as bishop.
Notes
References
Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
Keith, Robert, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688, (London, 1924)
Watt, D. E. R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
Watt, D. E. R.,& Shead, N.F. (eds.), The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from the 12th to the 16th Centuries, The Scottish Records Society, New Series, Volume 24, (Edinburgh, 2001)
12th-century deaths
12th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops
Bishops of Ross (Scotland)
Year of birth unknown |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment%20processing | Fragment processing is a term in computer graphics referring to a collection of operations applied to fragments generated by the rasterization operation in the rendering pipeline.
During the rendering of computer graphics, the rasterization step takes a primitive, described by its vertex coordinates with associated color and texture information, and converts it into a set of fragments. These fragments then undergo a series of processing steps, e.g. scissor test, alpha test, depth test, stencil test, blending, texture mapping and so on. These steps are collectively referred to as fragment processing.
See also
Computer representation of surfaces
Glossary of computer graphics
Graphical perception
Spatial visualization ability
Visualization (graphics)
References
3D rendering |
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