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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst%20mode%20clock%20and%20data%20recovery | The passive optical network (PON) uses tree-like network topology. Due to the topology of PON, the transmission modes for downstream (that is, from optical line termination, (OLT) to optical network unit (ONU)) and upstream (that is, from ONU to OLT) are different. For the downstream transmission, the OLT broadcasts optical signal to all the ONUs in continuous mode (CM), that is, the downstream channel always has optical data signal. One given ONU can find which frame in the CM stream is for it by reading the header of the frame. However, in the upstream channel, ONUs can not transmit optical data signal in CM. It is because that all the signals transmitted from the ONUs converge (with attenuation) into one fiber by the power splitter (serving as power coupler), and overlap among themselves if CM is used. To solve this problem, burst mode (BM) transmission is adopted for upstream channel. The given ONU only transmits optical packet when it is allocated a time slot and it needs to transmit, and all the ONUs share the upstream channel in the time division multiple access (TDMA) mode. The phases of the BM optical packets received by the OLT are different from packet to packet, since the ONUs are not synchronized to transmit optical packet in the same phase, and the distance between OLT and given ONU are random. In order to compensate the phase variation from packet to packet, burst mode clock and data recovery (BM-CDR) is required. Such circuit can generate local clock with the frequency and phase same as the individual received optical packet in a short locking time, for example within 40 ns. Such generated local clock can in turn perform correct data decision. Above all, the clock and data recovery can be performed correctly after a short locking time.
The conventionally used PLL based clock recovery schemes can not meet such strict requirement on locking time. Various other schemes have been invented, including those employing gated oscillator or injection locked oscillator.
References
Clock signal
Electrical circuits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel%20War | Tunnel War (), also known as Tunnel Warfare, is a 1965 Chinese film produced before the Cultural Revolution about a small town which defends itself from the Japanese by use of a network of tunnels during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The film was directed by Ren Xudong and produced by the August First Film Studio.
It is considered to be one of the first movies to discuss the use of tunnels in war.
Plot
Prologue
The movie begins with the ringing of a large bell, in Gao village, causing the villagers to all gather in the village square. They await the return of Chuanbao, the village militia sergeant, and the village elder. The twosome arrive with Chuanbao carrying the village elder on his back. The village elder explains that they were attacked by Japanese forces in the middle of a meeting and has been seriously wounded as a result. With a few parting words instructing his successor, Laozhong, to "keep holding on", he dies.
First confrontation
The movie then cuts to a fighting scene between large numbers of Japanese and Chinese forces. Against superior firepower, the main Chinese army retreats while leaving local resistance militias in place to harass the enemy. Local villagers hide in tunnels below the surface of the village in order to escape the Japanese attackers. The Japanese seem to have some familiarity with this tactic as they search for and attempt to kill the occupants of these tunnels. The attack concludes with capture of a number of villagers and a flaming village being burnt as a result of raiding by the Japanese.
Some time afterward, Chuanbao and a few militia are shown discussing their next course of action against the Japanese. One of the soldiers complain about having "too few people and too few weapons" but Brother Gao manages to restore the confidence of his men by rallying them for an attack. However, he is stopped by a middle aged woman, Xia Lin, who seems to hold authority over him. She tells them to meet back in the village for a village meeting.
After reading aloud On Protracted War, a military strategy text by Mao Zedong, the villagers decide to begin digging extensive tunnels beneath the village in preparation for more fighting against the Japanese.
Meanwhile, the Japanese hear of these resistance plans and plan a night raid on the village. The Japanese are almost able to sneak in completely undetected, but were accidentally discovered by Laozhong while he was outside for a stroll. Laozhong is able to ring the village bell, sounding the alarm, allowing the rest of the villagers to enter into the safety of the tunnels. The Japanese raiders surround Laozhong and the Japanese General Yamada shoots Laozhong. Before he dies, Laozhong is able to use a grenade to kill several Japanese soldiers.
The Japanese are initially unable to find anymore villagers so they begin to look for the tunnels by digging into the ground. Upon finding the tunnels, they pour water, spew smoke and potentially poison gas into the tunnels. After |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni%20Lamb | Joni Lamb (born July 19, 1960) is a Christian broadcaster and the co-founder, vice-president, and executive producer of the Daystar Television Network. She has been involved with Christian television since the mid-1980s and is known for her work with her late husband, Marcus Lamb, with Daystar.
Lamb is a supporter of Donald Trump and uses the Daystar Television Network to promote conservative values. Lamb's media contributions are often controversial with criticisms of those who do not share evangelical views, in statements such as on a panel in 2012 where she said: "“if you live in America and you understand that we are a Christian society then you can't be offended by [people's right to free speech], or you shouldn’t live here.”
Early life
Lamb was born as Joni Trammell on July 19, 1960. Her family lived in Greenville, South Carolina through her formative years. Her family were members of the Tremont Avenue Church of God, where Marcus Lamb ministered as a visiting preacher during a revival. The couple met each other at her home church and were married two years later, in 1982. They traveled for the next few years, visiting churches as evangelists. Then, in 1984, they settled in Montgomery, Alabama where they purchased a full power television station and began teaching the Bible on broadcast television. This continued until 1990, when the couple moved to Dallas and formed another station in the larger Texas market. By 1998, they had raised the funds necessary to start Daystar.
Personal life
Joni and Marcus Lamb had three children.
Marcus Lamb had an extramarital affair, which both partners publicly acknowledged in 2010.
Marcus Lamb, who held and promoted an anti-vaccination stance, died at the age of 64 in November 2021 from complications of COVID-19.
Joni Lamb subsequently married Dr. Doug Weiss on June 10, 2023. Weiss is a licensed psychologist, author, and speaker who specializes in sex addiction and recovery.
Daystar programming
Joni Table Talk
Lamb hosts her self-titled half-hour program Joni Table Talk (initially titled Joni) each weekday on Daystar. The format of the show is typically a round table discussion with other ministers, singers and celebrities discussing a wide range of topics that combine contemporary cultural issues and the Christian faith. In 2004, the show was awarded as the Best Television Talk Show by the National Religious Broadcasters.
Ministry Now!
Lamb co-hosts the Daystar flagship program Ministry Now! (previously called, Marcus and Joni and initially titled Celebration). The hour-long program is broadcast five days a week on their Daystar network. Joni's children share host duties and discuss news related to the network, ministry, and issues of interest to the Christian faith with daily guest(s). Joni and her daughters sing with the Daystar Singers during the Daystar program.
Controversies
Anti-LGBT views
According to statements following an extramarital affair by Marcus Lamb and private jet controversy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridezilla | A bridezilla is a bride whose behavior is seen as demanding or unreasonable. The word comes from bride + -zilla.
Bridezillas, a reality show which airs on the WE: Women's Entertainment network
Bridezilla (band), an Australian indie rock band
Bridezilla (EP), a 2007 recording by the band Bridezilla
Bridezilla (film), a 2019 comedy-drama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederica%20Darema | Frederica Darema is a Greek American physicist. She proposed the SPMD programming model in 1984 and Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems (DDDAS) in 2000. She was elected IEEE Fellow in 2004.
Biography
Darema received her BS degree from the school of physics and mathematics of the University of Athens - Greece, and MS and Ph. D. degrees in theoretical nuclear physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of California at Davis, respectively, where she attended as a Fulbright Scholar and a distinguished scholar. After physics research associate positions at the University of Pittsburgh and Brookhaven National Laboratory, she received an APS Industrial Fellowship and became a technical staff member in the nuclear sciences department at Schlumberger Doll Research. Subsequently, in 1982, she joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member in the computer sciences department and later on she established and became the manager of a research group at IBM Research on parallel applications. Darema has been at the National Science Foundation since 1994, where she has managed the New Generation Software and Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems programs. During 1996-1998 she completed a two-year assignment at DARPA. She is now at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
References
External links
Frederica Darema, Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems, LCPC 2003: The 16th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing
AFOSR: Mathematics, Information and Life Sciences. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
American computer scientists
Programming language researchers
Illinois Institute of Technology alumni
University of California, Davis alumni
American women computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellow Members of the IEEE
21st-century American women scientists
20th-century American women scientists
20th-century American physicists
21st-century American physicists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auma-Weidatal%20%28Verwaltungsgemeinschaft%29 | Auma-Weidatal was a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") in the district of Greiz, in Thuringia, Germany. The seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft was in Auma. The Verwaltungsgemeinschaft was disbanded on 1 December 2011, when its constituent municipalities were merged into the towns Auma-Weidatal (formed at the same date) and Zeulenroda-Triebes.
The Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Auma-Weidatal consisted of the following municipalities:
Auma
Braunsdorf
Göhren-Döhlen
Merkendorf
Silberfeld
Staitz
Wiebelsdorf
Zadelsdorf
Former Verwaltungsgemeinschaften in Thuringia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access%20token | In computer systems, an access token contains the security credentials for a login session and identifies the user, the user's groups, the user's privileges, and, in some cases, a particular application. In some instances, one may be asked to enter an access token (e.g. 40 random characters) rather than the usual password (it therefore should be kept secret just like a password).
Overview
An access token is an object encapsulating the security identity of a process or thread. A token is used to make security decisions and to store tamper-proof information about some system entity. While a token is generally used to represent only security information, it is capable of holding additional free-form data that can be attached while the token is being created. Tokens can be duplicated without special privilege, for example to create a new token with lower levels of access rights to restrict the access of a launched application. An access token is used by Windows when a process or thread tries to interact with objects that have security descriptors (securable objects). In Windows, an access token is represented by the system object of type Token.
An access token is generated by the logon service when a user logs on to the system and the credentials provided by the user are authenticated against the authentication database. The authentication database contains credential information required to construct the initial token for the logon session, including its user id, primary group id, all other groups it is part of, and other information. The token is attached to the initial process created in the user session and inherited by subsequent processes created by the initial process. Whenever such a process opens a handle to any resource which has access control enabled, Windows reconciles the data in the target object's security descriptor with the contents of the current effective access token. The result of this access check evaluation is an indication of whether any access is allowed and, if so, what operations (read, write/modify, etc.) the calling application is allowed to perform.
Types of token
There are two types of tokens available:
Primary token Primary tokens can only be associated to processes, and they represent a process's security subject. The creation of primary tokens and their association to processes are both privileged operations, requiring two different privileges in the name of privilege separation - the typical scenario sees the authentication service creating the token, and a logon service associating it to the user's operating system shell. Processes initially inherit a copy of the parent process's primary token.
Impersonation token Impersonation is a security concept implemented in Windows NT that allows a server application to temporarily "be" the client in terms of access to secure objects. Impersonation has four possible levels: anonymous, giving the server the access of an anonymous/unidentified user, identification, letting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applicability%20domain | The applicability domain (AD) (for both chemistry and machine learning) of a QSAR model is the physico-chemical, structural or biological space, knowledge or information on which the training set of the model has been developed, and for which it is applicable to make predictions for new compounds.
The purpose of AD is to state whether the model's assumptions are met, and for which chemicals the model can be reliably applicable. In general, this is the case for interpolation rather than for extrapolation. Up to now there is no single generally accepted algorithm for determining the AD: a comprehensive survey can be found in a Report and Recommendations of ECVAM Workshop 52. There exists a rather systematic approach for defining interpolation regions. The process involves the removal of outliers and a probability density distribution method using kernel-weighted sampling.
Another widely used approach for the structural AD of the regression QSAR models is based on the leverage calculated from the diagonal values of the hat matrix of the modeling molecular descriptors.
A recent rigorous benchmarking study of several AD algorithms identified standard-deviation of model predictions as the most reliable approach.
To investigate the AD of a training set of chemicals one can directly analyse properties of the multivariate descriptor space of the training compounds or more indirectly via distance (or similarity) metrics. When using distance metrics care should be taken to use an orthogonal and significant vector space. This can be achieved by different means of feature selection and successive principal components analysis.
Notes
Cheminformatics
Medicinal chemistry
Drug discovery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Colombia | The Colombia railway network has a total length of . There are of connecting Cerrejón coal mines, Tren del Cerrejón, to the maritime port of Puerto Bolivar at Bahia Portete, and of narrow gauge of which are in use. The state-owned railway company, Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Colombia (National Railways of Colombia), was liquidated in the 1990s. Since then passenger rail service in Colombia is provided only as tourist steam trains on the Bogotá savanna railway, now called Turistren, and between Bogotá and Zipaquirá, and a general daily passenger service around Barrancabermeja, and its surroundings (Puente Sogamoso, Garcia Cadena, Puerto Berrio, and Puerto Parra), provided by Coopsercol.
Railway concessions
Railway concessions were awarded on July 27, 1999, to Ferrocarriles del Norte de Colombia S.A. (FENOCO), as the Atlantic concession, and on November 4, 1998, to the Sociedad Concesionaria de la Red Férrea del Pacífico SA, later named Tren de Occidente SA as the Pacific concession. Since 1991 the section La Loma – Puerto Drummond, with , transports coal. Also from July 2003, the section Bogotá - Belencito, with , is operating on the Atlantic concession transporting cement. In the Pacific concession the section between La Paila and Buenaventura has a total of .
In November 2009, the Colombian government set up a new team of consultants and specialists to oversee the estimated $440m Sistema Ferroviario Central railway concession. The project involves building a railway from La Dorada to Chiriguaná, linking Colombia's central area to the Santa Marta port on the Atlantic coast. Part of the proposed project are the construction of the La Dorada stretch, renovating the stretches connecting the districts of La Dorada and Buenos Aires, Puerto Berrío, Envigado and La Dorada and Facatativá, and maintaining the Chiriguaná-Buenos Aires stretch. The tender was suspended due to concerns of corruption, but restarted in February 2011.
Investment programmes
There is a US$600 million investment programme planned for 2008 and studies for a US$350 million new line between Puerto Berrío and Saboya. Under this contract sections of the Atlantic network Neiva – Villavieja and 177 km Ibagué – La Dorada would be built. Other sections to be built include Sogamoso – Tunja and Puerto Berrío – Cisneros.
China is looking into constructing a stretch of railway that would complete the link between the port cities Buenaventura and Cartagena, connecting Colombia's Pacific and Caribbean coasts. This railway alternative would compete with the Panama Canal. Besides linking two coasts, China aims to make the import of Colombian coal and the export of Chinese manufactured goods to the Americas easier with this railway. Colombia hopes China's growing economic presence in the region will further the ratification of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, the country's biggest trading partner.
A £47m agreement between the Colombian Ministry of Transport and UK Depu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Triaenonychidae%20species | This is a list of the described species of the harvestman family Triaenonychidae. The data is taken from Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
Triaenonychinae
Triaenonychinae Sørensen, in L. Koch 1886
Acumontia Loman, 1898
Acumontia alluaudi (Roewer, 1914) — Madagascar
Acumontia armata Loman, 1898 — Madagascar
Acumontia capitata (Lawrence, 1959)
Acumontia cowani Pocock, 1903 — Madagascar
Acumontia draconensis Lawrence, 1939 — South Africa
Acumontia echinata Pocock, 1903 — Madagascar
Acumontia flavispinus (Lawrence, 1959)
Acumontia hystrix (Lawrence, 1959)
Acumontia lomani (Roewer, 1914) — Madagascar
Acumontia lomani (Roewer, 1914) — Madagascar (preoccupied)
Acumontia longipes Lawrence, 1959
Acumontia majori Pocock, 1902
Acumontia milloti (Lawrence, 1959)
Acumontia natalensis Lawrence, 1931 — South Africa
Acumontia pococki Roewer, 1914 — Madagascar
Acumontia roberti Pocock, 1903 — Madagascar
Acumontia roeweri Starega, 1992
Acumontia rostrata Pocock, 1902 — Madagascar
Acumontia soerenseni (Roewer, 1914) — Madagascar
Acumontia spinifrons (Roewer, 1914) — Madagascar
Acumontia venator (Roewer, 1931) — Madagascar
Allonuncia Hickman, 1958
Allonuncia grandis Hickman, 1958
Amatola Lawrence, 1931
Amatola armata (Lawrence, 1938) — South Africa
Amatola dentifrons Lawrence, 1931 — South Africa
Amatola durbanica (Lawrence, 1937) — South Africa
Amatola maritima (Lawrence, 1937) — South Africa
Amatola setifemur (Lawrence, 1931) — South Africa
Amatola unidentata (Lawrence, 1937) — South Africa
Ankaratrix Lawrence, 1959
Ankaratrix cancrops Lawrence, 1959
Ankaratrix illota Lawrence, 1959
Ankylonuncia Hickman, 1958
Ankylonuncia barrowensis Hickman, 1958
Ankylonuncia fallax Hickman, 1958
Ankylonuncia mestoni Hickman, 1958
Antongila Roewer, 1931
Antongila spinigera Roewer, 1931 — Madagascar
Austromontia Lawrence, 1931
Austromontia bidentata Lawrence, 1934 — South Africa
Austromontia caledonica Lawrence, 1931 — South Africa
Austromontia capensis Lawrence, 1931 — South Africa
Austromontia formosa Lawrence, 1963
Austromontia litoralis Lawrence, 1934 — South Africa
Austromontia silvatica Lawrence, 1931 — South Africa
Austronuncia Lawrence, 1931
Austronuncia leleupi Lawrence, 1963
Austronuncia spinipalpis Lawrence, 1931 — South Africa
Bezavonia Roewer, 1949
Bezavonia remyi Roewer, 1949 — Madagascar
Biacumontia Lawrence, 1931
Biacumontia cornuta Lawrence, 1931 — South Africa
Biacumontia elata Kauri, 1961
Biacumontia fissidens Lawrence, 1931 — South Africa
Biacumontia maculata Lawrence, 1938 — South Africa
Biacumontia paucidens Lawrence, 1931 — South Africa
Biacumontia truncatidens Lawrence, 1931 — South Africa
Biacumontia variegata Lawrence, 1934 — South Africa
Brasiloctis Mello-Leitão, 1938
Brasiloctis bucki Mello-Leitão, 1938 — Brazil
Breviacantha Kauri, 1954
Breviacantha gisleni Kauri, 1954
Bryonuncia Hickman, 1958
Bryonuncia distincta Hickman, 1958
Callihamina Roewer, 1942
Callihamina adelaidia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20National%20Route%2035 | is a national highway connecting Takeo and Sasebo in Japan.
Route data
Length: 35.2 km (21.9 mi)
Origin: Takeo, Saga (originates at junction with Route 34)
Terminus: Sasebo, Nagasaki (ends at the terminal of Route 204)
Major cities: Arita
History
4 December 1952: First Class National Highway 35 (from Takeo to Sasebo)
1 April 1965: General National Highway 35 (from Takeo to Sasebo)
Overlapping sections
From Nishiarita (Imari-guchi intersection) to Sasebo (Tagonoura intersection): Route 202
In Sasebo, from Tagonoura intersection to the terminus: Route 206
Municipalities passed through
Saga Prefecture
Takeo - Arita
Nagasaki Prefecture
Sasebo
Intersects with
Saga Prefecture
Route 34; at the origin, in Takeo
Route 202; from Arita to Sasebo
Nagasaki Prefecture
Routes 205, 206 and 384 ; at Sasebo City
Route 204; at the terminus
References
035
Roads in Nagasaki Prefecture
Roads in Saga Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan%20Virk | Adnan Virk ()is a Canadian sportscaster for MLB Network and DAZN who previously worked for ESPN, TSN, The Score and WWE. He also produces and hosts the weekly podcast Cinephile with Adnan Virk show covering cinema news and interviews with entertainment celebrities. He formerly co-hosted the football podcast The GM Shuffle with former NFL executive Michael Lombardi.
Early life
Virk was born in Toronto, Ontario; his parents had immigrated to Canada from Punjab, Pakistan. In 1984 the family relocated to Kingston, then in 1989 to Morven, a small town just outside Kingston, where his parents owned and operated a gas station and Zack's Variety store. After graduating from Ernestown Secondary School, where he played basketball and soccer, Virk studied Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.
Career
From 2003 to 2009, Virk hosted several programs on The Score, and was an associate producer for Sportscentre at TSN. He was also the co-host of Omniculture and Bollywood Boulevard at Omni Television. In 2009, he joined Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) as a host and reporter for Raptors TV, Leafs TV and Gol TV Canada.
ESPN
In April 2010, Virk joined the ESPN family of stations in Bristol, Connecticut. After joining ESPN, he became one of three main anchors for Baseball Tonight. During 2014 spring training, he began calling play-by-play for an ESPN affiliate. In the baseball off-season, he hosted SportsCenter and Outside the Lines. He would also fill in for Keith Olbermann on Olbermann. He was the host of a movie podcast Cinephile on ESPN. In addition, he was also the main studio host for ESPN College Football and also hosted College Football Final.
On February 3, 2019, Virk was fired following an investigation regarding leaks of ESPN information to the media. Virk and ESPN later agreed not to pursue litigation against each other.
DAZN, MLB Network and NHL Network
In March 2019, it was announced that Virk would host the new MLB studio program ChangeUp for DAZN, a subscription streaming media service based in London. In addition, Virk appeared on MLB Network. He also hosted boxing events.
ChangeUp was canceled just prior to the 2020 MLB season. His contract with DAZN expired in 2022.
He is currently co-hosting MLB Tonight as well as appearing on the NHL Network.
WWE
On April 12, 2021, it was announced that Virk would become the new play-by-play commentator for Monday Night Raw, replacing Tom Phillips. However, after a negative reception from the fans, six weeks later on May 25, he and the company mutually parted ways because Adnan claimed the schedule was too much for him and his family. He was replaced by Jimmy Smith.
Silver Screen Debut
Virk made his feature film debut in 2023 as a sports announcer in Big George Foreman, a biography about the former heavyweight boxing champion directed by George Tillman Jr.
References
Further reading
External links
Living people
Canadian expatriate journalists in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabal%20Umm%20ad%20Dami | Jabal Umm ad Dami, in historic Wadi Rum, is the highest mountain in Jordan. Its claimed elevation of 1,854 metres is consistent with SRTM data. It is located at , near to the border with Saudi Arabia in the Aqaba Governorate of Jordan.
See also
List of elevation extremes by country
References
Umm Ad Dami
Highest points of countries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistic%20intelligence | Humanistic Intelligence (HI) is defined, in the context of wearable computing, by Marvin Minsky, Ray Kurzweil, and Steve Mann, as follows:
Humanistic Intelligence [HI] is intelligence that arises because of a human being in the feedback loop of a computational process, where the human and computer are inextricably intertwined. When a wearable computer embodies HI and becomes so technologically advanced that its intelligence matches our own biological brain, something much more powerful emerges from this synergy that gives rise to superhuman intelligence within the single “cyborg” being.
More generally (beyond only wearable computing), HI describes the creation of intelligence that results from a feedback loop between a computational process and a human being, where the human and computer are inextricably intertwined.
In the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) it has been common to think of the human and computer as separate entities. HCI emphasizes this separateness by treating the human and computer as different entities that interact. However, HI theory thinks of the wearer and the computer with its associated input and output facilities not as separate entities, but regards the computer as a second brain and its sensory modalities as additional senses, in which synthetic synesthesia merges with the wearer's senses. When a wearable computer functions in a successful embodiment of HI, the computer uses the human's mind and body as one of its peripherals, just as the human uses the computer as a peripheral. This reciprocal relationship is at the heart of HI.
Courses
The principles are taught in a variety of university courses, such as:
CSE40814, Mobile Computing, Fall 2014, University of Notre Dame
ECE516, Intelligent Image Processing, 1998-2022, University of Toronto
ECE1724, "Superhumachines" (Super-human-machine intelligence), University of Toronto
Course: Wearable Computing, VAK: 03-799.01, Time: Mo, 13-15, Place: 1.51 TAB (ECO5), Instructor: Dr. Holger Kenn, Microsoft EMIC, Monday: Tel: 3035, TAB, 1.92, Universität Bremen
See also
Cybernetics
References
External links
Hawkeye Project
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Phalangodidae%20species | This is a list of the described species of the harvestman family Phalangodidae. The data is taken from Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
Ausobskya Martens, 1972 — Greece
Ausobskya athos Martens, 1972
Ausobskya brevipes Thaler, 1996
Ausobskya hauseri Silhavý, 1976
Ausobskya mahnerti Silhavý, 1976
Banksula Roewer, 1949 — California
Banksula californica (Banks, 1900)
Banksula galilei Briggs, 1974
Banksula grahami Briggs, 1974
Banksula grubbsi Briggs & Ubick, 1981
Banksula incredula Ubick & Briggs, 2002
Banksula martinorum Briggs & Ubick, 1981
Banksula melones Briggs, 1974
Banksula rudolphi Briggs & Ubick, 1981
Banksula tuolumne Briggs, 1974
Banksula tutankhamen Ubick & Briggs, 2002
Bishopella Roewer, 1927
Bishopella jonesi Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 — Alabama
Bishopella laciniosa (Crosby & Bishop, 1924) — southeastern US
Calicina Ubick & Briggs, 1989 — California
Calicina arida Ubick & Briggs, 1989
Calicina basalta Ubick & Briggs, 1989
Calicina breva (Briggs, 1968)
Calicina cloughensis (Briggs & Hom, 1967)
Calicina conifera Ubick & Briggs, 1989
Calicina digita (Briggs & Hom, 1967)
Calicina diminua Ubick & Briggs, 1989
Calicina dimorphica Ubick & Briggs, 1989
Calicina ensata (Briggs, 1968)
Calicina galena Ubick & Briggs, 1989
Calicina kaweahensis (Briggs & Hom, 1966)
Calicina keenea (Briggs, 1968)
Calicina macula (Briggs, 1968)
Calicina mariposa (Briggs, 1968)
Calicina mesaensis Ubick & Briggs, 1989
Calicina minor (Briggs & Hom, 1966)
Calicina morroensis (Briggs, 1968)
Calicina palapraeputia (Briggs, 1968)
Calicina piedra (Briggs, 1968)
Calicina polina (Briggs, 1968)
Calicina sequoia (Briggs & Hom, 1966)
Calicina serpentinea (Briggs & Hom, 1966)
Calicina sierra (Briggs & Hom, 1967)
Calicina topanga (Briggs, 1968)
Calicina yosemitensis (Briggs, 1968)
Crosbyella Roewer, 1927
Crosbyella distincta Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 — Arkansas
Crosbyella montana Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 — Alabama
Crosbyella roeweri Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 — Arkansas
Crosbyella spinturnix (Crosby & Bishop, 1924) — southeastern US
Crosbyella tuberculata Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 — Alabama
Glennhuntia Shear, 2001 (misplaced?)
Glennhuntia glennhunti Shear, 2001 — western Australia
Guerrobunus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945 — Mexico (misplaced?)
Guerrobunus arganoi (Silhavý, 1974)
Guerrobunus minutus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945
Guerrobunus vallensis Vázquez & Cokendolpher, 1997
Haasus Roewer, 1949
Haasus judaeus Roewer, 1949 — Israel
Lola Kratochvíl, 1937
Lola insularis Kratochvíl, 1937 — Croatia
Maiorerus Rambla, 1993
Maiorerus randoi Rambla, 1993 — Canary Islands, Spain
Microcina Briggs & Ubick, 1989 — California
Microcina edgewoodensis Briggs & Ubick, 1989
Microcina homi Briggs & Ubick, 1989
Microcina jungi Briggs & Ubick, 1989
Microcina leei Briggs & Ubick, 1989
Microcina lumi Briggs & Ubick, 1989
Microcina tiburona (Briggs & Hom, 1966)
Paralola Kratochvíl, Balat & Pelikan, 1958
Paralola bures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networks%20and%20Spatial%20Economics | Networks and Spatial Economics (NETS) is an international academic journal devoted to the mathematical and numerical study of economic activities facilitated by human infrastructure, broadly defined to include technologies pertinent to information, telecommunications, the Internet, transportation, energy storage and transmission, and water resources. Because the spatial organization of infrastructure most generally takes the form of networks, the journal encourages submissions that employ a network perspective. However, non-network continuum models are also recognized as an important tradition that has provided great insight into spatial economic phenomena; consequently, the journal welcomes with equal enthusiasm submissions based on continuum models. The current Editor-in-Chief is Prof. Terry L. Friesz at the Pennsylvania State University.
Abstracting and indexing
NETS is abstracted/indexed in ABI inform, CompuMath Citation Index, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing and Technology, Current Index to Statistics, EBSCO, ECONIS, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), ISI Science Citation Index Expanded, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 2.379, ranking it 31st out of 83 journals in the category "Operations Research & Management Science" and 19th out of 36 journals in the category "Transportation Science & Technology". The journal was indexed by ISI after only three years because of its consistent on-time publication record and because it has had since inception an editorial board that is unusually distinguished for a new journal. The editorial board consists of engineers, economists, geographers, applied mathematicians, computer scientists, game theorists, and physicists.
NETS mainly publishes contributed papers and occasional special issues.
References
External links
English-language journals
Economics journals
Mathematics journals
Geography journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Academic journals established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalbsrieth | Kalbsrieth is a municipality in the district Kyffhäuserkreis, in Thuringia, Germany.
History
Historical Population
Population as of 31 December:
Data source: Thuringian Statistical Bureau of State
References
Municipalities in Thuringia
Kyffhäuserkreis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Sloppy%20Semantic%20Database | Simple Sloppy Semantic Database (S3DB) is a distributed data management system that relies on Semantic Web concepts for management of heterogeneous data.
S3DB is open source software, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. It is written in PHP.
History
S3DB was first proposed in 2006, following the argumentation the previous year that omics data sets would be more easily managed if stored as RDF triples.
The first version, 1.0, was focused on the support of an indexing engine for triplestore management.
The second version, made available in October 2007, added cross-referencing between triples in distinct S3DB deployments to support it as a distributed infrastructure.
The third version was released in July 2008 and exposes its API through a specialized query language, S3QL, accessible as a REST web service. An update of that release (version 3.5) also includes a RESTful SPARQL endpoint. This update introduced a self-update feature which replaces version numbers by date of update.
In 2011, S3DB's API was published and was put to use in the management of a clinical trial at MDAnderson Cancer Center using a web application with a self-assembled interface.
Assessments
The rationale, core data model, and usage in National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI) SPORE awards are described and illustrated in a 2008 PLoS ONE manuscript and a 2010 BMC Bioinformatics manuscript.
A 2012 survey paper stated, "S3QL supports a permission control mechanism that allows users to specify contextual minutiae such as provenance and access control on the semantic level. The effectiveness of S3QL was illustrated through use cases of IB, such as genomic characterization of cancer and molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases. We expect S3QL or its variations to be accepted as the standard access control mechanism by the SW community".
External links
S3DB homepage
S3DB source code
S3QL specification
S3DB tutorial video, YouTube, 2008
References
Types of databases
Distributed data storage
Semantic Web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%21%20Sports%20Ski | Go! Sports Ski (Feel Ski in Europe) is a sports video game developed by Yuke's and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for PlayStation 3.
Gameplay
For the controls, the game only makes use of the Sixaxis motion sensors. The player can choose between 3 practice modes and a split-screen battle offline, and 2 singleplayer leaderboards time trials and a 4 players battle mode online. These modes can be played on 2 different tracks. The game also has an achievement system in which the player can earn a maximum of 27 emblems that can be displayed in the online records.
On November 19 2021, Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan announced that the online service for Go! Sports Ski would be terminated on December 24 2021. Offline modes will continue to be accessible.
Reception
Go! Sports Ski received negative reviews from critics. Austin Shau of GameSpot, giving the game a 4/10, criticized the game for its "unreliable" Sixaxis controls and the lack of AI opponents to race against in the single-player mode. Chris Roper of IGN gave the game a 2.1/10 while also criticizing its control scheme, physics model and the emblems' unlock requirements.
References
External links
Go! Sports Ski on the PlayStation Store (Wayback Machine copy)
2007 video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games
PlayStation Network games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Skiing video games
Video games developed in Japan
Yuke's games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payam-e-Afghan | Payam-E-Afghan TV is a satellite television network based in Los Angeles, California aimed at Afghan Americans and other Afghan diaspora. The channel's name derives from the Persian word payam (پیام) and translates into "Afghan message" or "Message from Afghanistan".
It launched in 2007 through a US government aid program and broadcasts news, music, and entertainment shows in primarily the Dari and Pashto languages. It is a channel owned and supported financially by Omar Khatab, who came to the US in 1978 and had worked before as a newscaster for Afghan state radio. He originally launched Payam-e-Afghan as a radio station in the early 1990s where he broadcast full time on the airwaves in northern California. The radio station broadcast call-in talk shows, news from VOA, as well as music and cooking shows.
The TV station also had multiple programs and shows from Seddique Mateen, who is the father of the perpetrator of the Orlando nightclub shooting, Omar Mateen. His show was named “Durand Jirga”, named after Afghanistan's Durand Line border line, and he held mainly anti-Pakistan views.
In 2008, the TV station became available in Europe on Hot Bird 13°E satellite until it left in 2021. On satellite it now only broadcasts on Yahsat 1A 52.5°E which is receivable in Afghanistan itself. It also live streams on its website and has a YouTube channel.
References
See also
Ariana Afghanistan
Persian-language television stations
Pashto-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexia%20Massalin | Alexia Massalin (formerly Henry Massalin) is an American computer scientist and programmer. She pioneered the concept of superoptimization, and designed the Synthesis kernel, a small kernel with a Unix compatibility layer that makes heavy use of self-modifying code for efficiency.
Life and career
After high school, she was given a scholarship to the Cooper Union School of Engineering in Manhattan, where she obtained a bachelor's and master's degree. She went to obtain her Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia University in 1992, studying under professor Calton Pu.
In the 1980s she worked for Philon Inc., a New York start up specializing in optimizing compilers. In October 1992, Massalin joined MicroUnity as a research scientist, where she became responsible for signal-processing modules and software architecture.
Synthesis
Massalin's first breakthrough product came while studying at Columbia. Massalin developed Synthesis, an operating system kernel that allocated resources, ran security and low-level hardware interfaces, and created executable code to improve performance. Synthesis optimized critical operating system code using run-time information, which was a new insight previously thought impractical. To support Synthesis, Massalin invented object-like data structures called Quajects, which contain both data and code information.
Massalin is still working on broadband microprocessors.
Personal life
Her parents were Croatian refugees from Trieste. In the 1940s, they moved to Astoria, Queens, New York, where her father became a construction worker.
In a 1996 article in Wired magazine, the author Gary Andrew Poole said she "could be the Einstein of our time." She was well known for offering piggy back rides to people she met, which included notable computer scientists such as Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, and artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky.
References
Living people
American transgender people
American women computer scientists
American people of Croatian descent
Columbia University alumni
Transgender women
Transgender scientists
1962 births
21st-century American LGBT people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20from%20Studio%20X | Music from Studio X was an American network radio program of recorded music on the Mutual Broadcasting System originating from WOR in New York City. The program premiered on July 9, 1956 with host John A. Gambling; it was heard Monday through Saturday between 9:05 PM and 1 AM EST, and on Sundays between 1:30 PM and 5 PM, with a 15-minute news break at 11 PM by newscaster Lyle Van. The theme music was written and conducted by Joe Leahy. Columnist J. P. Shanley's New York Times' review of July 10, 1956 praised the program, calling it "a welcome step in the direction of civilized radio entertainment", designed to appeal to "listeners who are interested neither in the classics nor in rock and roll". Lush instrumentals and vocal recordings were aired, many of them original to the program. On the program's premiere broadcast, music from the then-contemporary "My Fair Lady" was featured.
General Teleradio, later known as RKO-General, a division of the General Tire & Rubber Co. at that time controlled RKO Radio Pictures and its record subsidiary RKO/Unique Records as well as the Mutual network, and used the Studio X program to promote recordings by RKO/Unique artists; including performers like Rudy Vallee, Ted Lewis, and The Harmonicats, whose most successful years were past them by this time. RKO/Unique also released an LP of Joe Leahy's theme music from the program.
WPAT-FM in Paterson, New Jersey had been presenting a similar program entitled "Gaslight", except without broadcasting vocal music. WOR actually did construct a special studio - Studio X - for the new program at the station. "Music from Studio X" was heard from WOR for three years, until 1959.
American music radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe%20time | In broadcast programming fringe time refers to two dayparts -
early fringe - the hour lead-in prime time
late fringe - the late night television program slot following late-night news
Definition
Fringe time is widely used in television to denote the evening television hours that precede and follow the prime time. The television hours that precede the prime time is called early fringe, which is usually between 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Late fringe is the television hours that follow the prime time, which is usually between 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Early fringe
During the first two decades of American television, the early fringe was considered a part of prime time, which began programming a half-hour earlier than it did in the present day. In 1971, in an effort to loosen the hegemony the Big Three television networks had on television in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission implemented two rules, the Financial Interest and Syndication Rules (fin-syn), which prohibited the networks from owning interests in syndicators; and the Prime Time Access Rule, which prohibited networks from programming a one-hour slot in the evening hour, the slot now known as fringe time.
The intent of the new rules was to encourage individual station licensees to produce more local programming. In practice, this failed, and the slot was (and largely remains) dominated by syndicated programming. Game shows already airing in daytime on the Big Three networks quickly filled many of the new slots, ostensibly funneled through syndicators but produced on the same sets with most of the same personnel (except sometimes a different host) as their network counterparts, defeating much of the purpose of the new rule. One such program, Wheel of Fortune, has survived in syndication since that era, outlasting the show's network run. Sister program Jeopardy!, after a failed attempt at syndication in 1974 near the end of its network run, returned as an independent show a decade later, with both it and Wheel being fringe time fixtures in the decades since.
Although during the early days of these new rules, local stations typically carried a hodge-podge of weekly shows, by the 1980s almost all fringe time programming was strip programming at least five and sometimes six days a week, a pattern that remains to the present day.
Other formats that filled fringe time over the years include newsmagazine (mostly syndicated entertainment-based programs), music-based shows (such as Hee Haw, Solid Gold, America's Top 10, and Dance Fever), and off-network rerun, usually sitcom. Local news, occasionally seen in the time slot in the early years of television, has seen a renaissance in the time slot in the 21st century. Occasionally other formats more commonly seen in daytime television such as talk shows or court shows are used to program the slot, but because it leads into the network prime time lineups, these shows are expected to be highly rated and retain a large audience, and thus only |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%20in%20radio | The year 1968 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history.
Events
1 January – ABC divides its radio network into four networks.
1 February – WABX Detroit drops classical music to air progressive rock/freeform full-time.
1 February – WKYC-AM in Cleveland (today WTAM) alters its Top 40 format to "Power Radio," a "more music"–style presentation derivative of Drake-Chenuault.
3 March – Radio Caroline's pirate radio ships and Fredericia are seized by an offshore supply company as security for unpaid debts and towed into Amsterdam.
11 March – KFWB in Los Angeles becomes the third Westinghouse Broadcasting station to launch an all-news format, patterned after KYW (AM) in Philadelphia and WINS (AM) in New York.
15 March – WBCN in Boston, Massachusetts begins to drop easy listening for progressive rock/freeform.
18 March – KMPX program director Tom Donahue turns in his resignation, citing conflicts with station management. Staff at both KMPX and sister station KPPC in Pasadena, angered by the move, start a strike that lasts eight weeks.
15 April – KNX (AM) in Los Angeles, a CBS Radio O&O, switches to an all-news format.
29 April – WMMR in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania switches to progressive rock/freeform as "The Marconi Experiment."
21 May – In San Francisco, Metromedia purchases classical music KSFR, changes the call letters to KSAN, and hires former KMPX program director Tom Donahue to head the new progressive rock/freeform format.
June – ABC Radio hires Allen Shaw from WCFL in Chicago to develop an all-automated rock format for their FM stations, which results in the "Love" format. The stations involved were WABC-FM (now WPLJ) in New York, WLS-FM in Chicago, KGO-FM (now KOSF) in San Francisco, KQV-FM (now WDVE) in Pittsburgh, WXYZ-FM (now WRIF) in Detroit, KXYZ-FM (now KHMX) in Houston, and KABC-FM (now KLOS) in Los Angeles.
5 June – New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in the Ambassador Hotel shortly after midnight PST (10.00 GMT), following a victory in the California primary election for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. Reporter Andrew West of Mutual Broadcasting System radio affiliate KRKD in Los Angeles (now KEIB), intended to capture an exclusive interview with the senator, but instead captured on audio tape the sounds of the immediate aftermath of the shooting (but not the actual shooting itself). With a reel-to-reel tape recorder and attached microphone, West also provided an on-the-spot account of the struggle with assassin Sirhan Sirhan in the hotel's kitchen pantry, which was relayed to the entire Mutual network, and was a watershed moment in news coverage of U.S. presidential campaigns.
10 June – KMET in Los Angeles starts airing four hours of progressive rock in the nighttime, programmed by KSAN's Tom and Raechel Donahue. It eventually goes to a full-time format as "The Mighty MET."
18 June – KBOO-FM signs on as one of the earliest community radio station |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28One%20Tree%20Hill%29 | "Pilot" is the first episode of One Tree Hills first season. It first aired on The WB television network in the United States on September 23, 2003. It was written by the show's creator, Mark Schwahn, and directed by Bryan Gordon. It introduces the character of Lucas Scott – a high school student – and his friends and relatives in the fictional town of Tree Hill, North Carolina.
Plot
An important basketball game is going on at the fictional Tree Hill High School. The Ravens' team wins, thanks to Nathan Scott's final shot. Elsewhere, Lucas Scott is playing basketball with three friends. Nathan and Lucas share the same father, Dan Scott, but they live apart: it is suggested that Dan abandoned Lucas and his mother, Karen Roe, when Lucas was born, preferring to marry Deb Scott, with whom he had Nathan. Nathan and his team are busted for stealing a school bus. Even though Nathan was driving, his father, Dan, manages to bail him out of trouble, as usual, while other players are suspended.
During a drive, Nathan's girlfriend and Ravens’ cheerleader, Peyton Sawyer, nearly runs over Lucas after becoming distracted at the wheel. Lucas heads for Karen's café, where he has dinner with his mother and his best friend, Haley James.
The next day, Keith Scott, Dan's elder brother who is close friends with Karen, asks Whitey Durham, the Ravens coach, to let Lucas be part of the team. Keith is positive that the kid deserves it. The coach tells Lucas he can join the Ravens. Nathan then challenges Lucas to a basketball match, with the stipulation that the loser will walk away from the team. Later, Peyton's car breaks down and Lucas comes to her assistance. During a discussion, Lucas relays his history with Dan and Nathan.
Lucas shows up at Keith's shop by the time Dan is talking to Keith about Karen. Following this, Lucas makes up his mind and accepts Nathan's challenge. After winning the game, Lucas lets Peyton know that Nathan has to stay on the team because "it's the last thing he wants".
In the last scene of the pilot episode, Lucas enters the school's gym while everyone is staring at him. A last close-up to the park where Lucas used to play: it's finally empty.
Production
One Tree Hill was first created to be a feature-length movie with the title Ravens. However, Mark Schwahn was convinced by fellow producer Joe Davola that it would be more interesting as a TV series.<ref>{{cite video | title = "Building a Winning Team: The Making of One Tree Hill" | medium = Documentary | location = One Tree Hill: The Complete First Season | publisher = Warner Brothers Home Entertainment}}</ref> The series features an unaired pilot episode which takes place in the past. It tells the story of Karen and Dan and how she got pregnant. Then, after Dan marries Deb, it skips to the future where Lucas has his first day at Tree Hill High. He meets Mouth and others and realizes that maybe basketball is for him; that is, until he and Nathan get into a fight about Dan.
In the broadc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIPI | The acronym UIPI may refer to
User Interface Privilege Isolation, a computer technology
Union Internationale de la Propriété Immobilière, a European association of real estate owners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3tag | Mp3tag is a metadata tag editor that supports many popular audio file formats. It is freeware for Microsoft Windows, while it costs USD $19.99 for Apple macOS in the Mac App Store.
Features
Batch Tag Editing. Write ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, MPEG-4, WMA, APEv2 tags, and Vorbis comments to multiple files at once.
Full Unicode support
Support for embedded album cover art
Automatically creates playlists
Recursive subfolder support
User-defined field mappings
Remove parts of a tag or the entire tag from multiple files
Rename files based on the tag information
Import tags from filenames and text files
Format tags and filenames
Replace characters or words from tags and filenames
Regular expressions
Export tag information to user-defined formats (i.e. HTML, RTF, CSV, XML and TXT)
Import tag information from online databases like freedb, discogs, MusicBrainz or Amazon (also by text-search)
Import tag information from local freedb databases
Support for ID3v2.3 (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-16) and ID3v2.4 with UTF-8
It includes support for the following audio formats:
Advanced Audio Coding (.aac)
Apple Lossless Audio Codec (.alac)
Audio Interchange File Format (.aif/.aifc/.aiff)
Direct Stream Digital Audio (.dsf)
Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac)
Matroska (.mka/.mkv)
Monkey's Audio (.ape)
MPEG Layer 3 (.mp3)
MPEG-4 (.mp4/.m4a/.m4b/.m4v)
Musepack (.mpc)
Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)
IETF Opus (.opus)
OptimFROG (.ofr/.ofs)
Speex (.spx)
Tom's Audio Kompressor (.tak)
True Audio (.tta)
Windows Media Audio (.wma)
WavPack (.wv)
WAV (.wav)
Example
The following is an example of an M3U playlist file for "Jar of Flies" album by "Alice in Chains" that was created by Mp3tag with the following custom option settings:
playlist extended info format = "%artist% - %title%"
playlist filename format = "%artist%_%album%_00_Playlist.m3u"
tag to filename conversion format = "%artist%_%album%_$num(%track%,2)_%title%"
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:419,Alice in Chains - Rotten Apple
Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_01_Rotten Apple.mp3
#EXTINF:260,Alice in Chains - Nutshell
Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_02_Nutshell.mp3
#EXTINF:255,Alice in Chains - I Stay Away
Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_03_I Stay Away.mp3
#EXTINF:256,Alice in Chains - No Excuses
Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_04_No Excuses.mp3
#EXTINF:157,Alice in Chains - Whale And Wasp
Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_05_Whale And Wasp.mp3
#EXTINF:263,Alice in Chains - Don't Follow
Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_06_Don't Follow.mp3
#EXTINF:245,Alice in Chains - Swing On This
Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_07_Swing On This.mp3
See also
List of tag editors
ID3
M3U
References
External links
MP3tag developers
Joe Betz. MP3: Musik finden, laden, hören, brennen. Pearson Deutschland GmbH; 2004 [cited September 24, 2011]. . p. 162.
Tag editors
C++ software
Year of introduction missing
Proprietary freeware for macOS
Proprietary freeware for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer%20relation%20algorithm | An integer relation between a set of real numbers x1, x2, ..., xn is a set of integers a1, a2, ..., an, not all 0, such that
An integer relation algorithm is an algorithm for finding integer relations. Specifically, given a set of real numbers known to a given precision, an integer relation algorithm will either find an integer relation between them, or will determine that no integer relation exists with coefficients whose magnitudes are less than a certain upper bound.
History
For the case n = 2, an extension of the Euclidean algorithm can find any integer relation that exists between any two real numbers x1 and x2. The algorithm generates successive terms of the continued fraction expansion of x1/x2; if there is an integer relation between the numbers, then their ratio is rational and the algorithm eventually terminates.
The Ferguson–Forcade algorithm was published in 1979 by Helaman Ferguson and R.W. Forcade. Although the paper treats general n, it is not clear if the paper fully solves the problem because it lacks the detailed steps, proofs, and a precision bound that are crucial for a reliable implementation.
The first algorithm with complete proofs was the LLL algorithm, developed by Arjen Lenstra, Hendrik Lenstra and László Lovász in 1982.
The HJLS algorithm, developed by Johan Håstad, Bettina Just, Jeffrey Lagarias, and Claus-Peter Schnorr in 1986.
The PSOS algorithm, developed by Ferguson in 1988.
The PSLQ algorithm, developed by Ferguson and Bailey in 1992 and substantially simplified by Ferguson, Bailey, and Arno in 1999. In 2000 the PSLQ algorithm was selected as one of the "Top Ten Algorithms of the Century" by Jack Dongarra and Francis Sullivan even though it is considered essentially equivalent to HJLS.
The LLL algorithm has been improved by numerous authors. Modern LLL implementations can solve integer relation problems with n above 500.
Applications
Integer relation algorithms have numerous applications. The first application is to determine whether a given real number x is likely to be algebraic, by searching for an integer relation between a set of powers of x {1, x, x2, ..., xn}. The second application is to search for an integer relation between a real number x and a set of mathematical constants such as e, π and ln(2), which will lead to an expression for x as a linear combination of these constants.
A typical approach in experimental mathematics is to use numerical methods and arbitrary precision arithmetic to find an approximate value for an infinite series, infinite product or an integral to a high degree of precision (usually at least 100 significant figures), and then use an integer relation algorithm to search for an integer relation between this value and a set of mathematical constants. If an integer relation is found, this suggests a possible closed-form expression for the original series, product or integral. This conjecture can then be validated by formal algebraic methods. The higher the precision to which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology%20chart | An ontology chart is a type of chart used in semiotics and software engineering to illustrate an ontology.
Overview
The nodes of an ontology chart represent universal affordances and rarely represent particulars. The exception is the root which is a particular agent often labelled ‘society’ and located on the extreme left of an ontology chart. The root is often dropped in practice but is implied in every ontology chart. If any other particular is present in an ontology chart it is recognised by the ‘#’ sign prefix and upper case letters. In our ontology chart the node labelled #IBM is a particular organisation.
The arcs represent ontological dependency relations directed from left to right. The right affordance is ontologically dependent on the left affordance. The left affordance is the ontological antecedent of the right affordance. A special category of affordances are determiners. They are recognised by the ‘#’ sign prefix. The two examples above are #hourly rate and #name. All determiners have a second antecedent – the measurement standard. They are usually dropped from the ontology chart but they are implied and obvious. In the case of hourly rate and name they are currency and language respectively. The names on the arcs are role names of the carrier, the left node, in the relationship node on the right. For example, the ‘employee’ is the role name of a person while in employment. No ontology chart node has more than two ontological antecedents. Where you find an arc on the ontology chart between a role name and a node, read that as an arc between the right hand side of the role name. So the arc from employee to works at is an arc between employment and works at
Mathematically, ontology charts are a graphical representation of semi-lattice structures; specifically they are Hasse diagrams of a single root and no cycles. Ontological dependency is a relationship known mathematically as a partial order set relation (poset). Posets are an object of study in the mathematical discipline of order theory. They belong to the class of binary relations but they have three additional properties: reflexivity, anti-symmetry and transitivity.
Ontological dependency is a special poset because it is a binary relation, every thing is ontologically dependent on itself for its existence, two things that are mutually ontologically dependent must be the same thing and if a depends on b and b depends on c then a depends on c. The last of these properties - the transitive property of posets - was exploited by Helmut Hasse to give us the Hasse diagram - a diagram of incredible power, simplicity and if drawn well elegant as well. Because ontology charts have a root that all affordances (realisations/things) are ultimately dependent upon for their existence, they are graphical representation of semi-lattices.
See also
Semantic analysis (knowledge representation)
Human Computer Interaction
References
Further reading
Ades, Y, Farouk Ben-Oman, Iman Poer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%20Sharp%20syntax | This article describes the syntax of the C# programming language. The features described are compatible with .NET Framework and Mono.
Basics
Identifier
An identifier is the name of an element in the code. It can contain letters, digits and underscores (_), and is case sensitive (FOO is different from foo). The language imposes the following restrictions on identifier names:
They cannot start with a digit;
They cannot start with a symbol, unless it is a keyword;
They cannot contain more than 511 characters.
Identifier names may be prefixed by an at sign (@), but this is insignificant; @name is the same identifier as name.
Microsoft has published naming conventions for identifiers in C#, which recommends the use of PascalCase for the names of types and most type members, and camelCase for variables and for private or internal fields. However, these naming conventions are not enforced in the language.
Keywords
Keywords are predefined reserved words with special syntactic meaning. The language has two types of keyword — contextual and reserved. The reserved keywords such as false or byte may only be used as keywords. The contextual keywords such as where or from are only treated as keywords in certain situations. If an identifier is needed which would be the same as a reserved keyword, it may be prefixed by an at sign to distinguish it. For example, @out is interpreted as an identifier, whereas out as a keyword. This syntax facilitates reuse of .NET code written in other languages.
The following C# keywords are reserved words:
abstract
as
base
bool
break
byte
case
catch
char
checked
class
const
continue
decimal
default
delegate
do
double
else
enum
event
explicit
extern
false
finally
fixed
float
for
foreach
goto
if
implicit
in
int
interface
internal
is
lock
long
namespace
new
null
object
operator
out
override
params
private
protected
public
readonly
ref
return
sbyte
sealed
short
sizeof
stackalloc
static
string
struct
switch
this
throw
true
try
typeof
uint
ulong
unchecked
unsafe
ushort
using
virtual
void
volatile
while
A contextual keyword is used to provide a specific meaning in the code, but it is not a reserved word in C#. Some contextual keywords, such as partial and where, have special meanings in multiple contexts. The following C# keywords are contextual:
add
and
alias
ascending
args
async
await
by
descending
dynamic
equals
from
get
global
group
init
into
join
let
managed
nameof
nint
not
notnull
nuint
on
or
orderby
partial
record
remove
required
select
set
unmanaged
value
var
when
where
with
yield
Literals
Digit separators
Starting in C# 7.0, the underscore symbol can be used to separate digits in number values for readability purposes. The compiler ignores these underscores.
int bin = 0b1101_0010_1011_0100;
int hex = 0x2F_BB_4A_F1;
int dec = 1_000_500_954;
double real = 1_500.200_2e-1_000;
Generally, it may be pu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRIQ | WRIQ (89.7 MHz) is a National Public Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Charles City, Virginia, serving the Richmond–Petersburg area. WRIQ is part of the Radio IQ network, simulcasting the NPR news and talk programming of flagship WVTF. WRIQ is owned by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) through its fundraising arm, the Virginia Tech Foundation.
History
American Family Association launched the station as WAUQ in 2000, relaying its American Family Radio network which featured a mix of Christian teaching and Contemporary Christian music.
On August 18, 2015, Educational Media Foundation purchased the station from the American Family Association for $1.25 million. EMF began relaying its K-Love network on the station, and changed the station's call letters to WLRJ.
On April 17, 2017, WLRJ began stunting with a continuously repeating informational loop informing listeners that K-Love in Richmond had moved, and directing listeners to EMF's recently acquired stations on 98.9 FM (WLFV) and 100.3 FM (WKYV).
On April 26, 2017, WLRJ began relaying EMF's Radio Nueva Vida network. The station changed its call sign to WNVU on December 22, 2017.
On October 10, 2019, EMF reached a deal to sell WNVU to the Virginia Tech Foundation for $2.15 million. EMF had floated Virginia Tech intended to make WNVU part of its main NPR news and talk service, Radio IQ, as part of its effort to expand its reach outside its base in southwestern Virginia. The sale closed on December 27, 2019, and the station began simulcasting Radio IQ programming on January 15, 2020. That same day, the call sign WRIQ was moved from a co-owned Radio IQ station in Lexington, Virginia, which became WIQR.
Since 2009, WVTF had aired its programming on a low-powered translator at 92.5 FM, which is fed by the third HD Radio subchannel of commercial radio station WURV. The purchase of WRIQ gave WVTF a full-powered signal in the Richmond area for the first time, giving much of the area an alternative source for NPR programming alongside Richmond's established NPR member, WCVE-FM. WRIQ operates at only 27,000 watts from a short (by modern broadcasting standards) 228-foot tower east of Richmond, resulting in Petersburg and other close-in suburbs only getting a Grade B signal. Nonetheless, with the addition of WRIQ, the Radio IQ network now provided at least secondary coverage from Wise in the southwestern corner of the Commonwealth to the fringes of Hampton Roads.
See also
WVTF — Radio IQ flagship
References
External links
Radio IQ
2000 establishments in Virginia
NPR member networks
Public radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2000
RIQ
Virginia Tech |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYFJ | WYFJ is a religious formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Ashland, Virginia, serving Metro Richmond. WYFJ is owned and operated by Bible Broadcasting Network.
History
This station signed on the air in 1967 as WIVE-FM. The station, along with sister WIVE-AM did a locally based religious format and also operated a Christian bookstore out of their facility on Ashcake Road in Hanover County. In the early eighties, WIVE-FM was sold to the Bible Broadcast Network, who changed the callsign to WYFJ and moved the FM station to facilities on Washington Highway. The AM station was not part of the purchase.
The station moved from 100.1 MHz to 99.9 MHz on July 24, 2010. As part of the switch, the station's transmitter moved from Ashland to a location near The Diamond in Richmond.
References
External links
Bible Broadcasting Network Online
Bible Broadcasting Network
Radio stations established in 1967
YFJ
1967 establishments in Virginia
Hanover County, Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity.com | Christianity.com is a site owned and operated by Salem Web Network and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The stated focus of Christianity.com is to provide Christian content and interactive tools to help people understand Christianity. Pastors, authors, and speakers such as John F. MacArthur, Adrian Rogers, Kay Arthur, Chuck Swindoll, Hank Hanegraaff, and John Piper contribute to the site.
History
In 1999, Christianity.com was originally headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. Spencer Jones from Christian Broadcasting Network (who invested $10 million in the startup) and David Davenport, who was head of Pepperdine University for 10 years, served as COO and CEO. Other funding and credit partners are Sequoia Capital, which invested $10 million, and Comdisco Ventures Group, which loaned $10 million for equipment and services. In the middle of the dotcom bust, the company went bankrupt and on December 18, 2001, the domain name was purchased by Renewal Enterprises, LLC.
Salem Web Network announced the acquisition of Christianity.com from Renewal Enterprises on February 11, 2005 for approximately $3.4 million.
Biblestudytools.com
Christianity.com's sister site, Biblestudytools.com, offers bible browsing functionality, search functions, and other study tools.
References
External links
ChristianityToday.com , February 2, 2001
Christian websites
Salem Media Group properties |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%20Mobile | See also: Maxis, CelcomDigi, Yes, Unifi
U Mobile Sdn Bhd (223969-U) is a Malaysian mobile telecommunications service provider and was founded in 1998 as MiTV Networks Sdn Bhd. U Mobile is a wholly owned subsidiary of U Television Sdn Bhd, which was formerly known as U Telecom Media Holdings Sdn Bhd and MiTV Corporation Sdn Bhd.
The company utilises the 018 and 011 prefix allocated to the organisation by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), although with the implementation of mobile number portability mandated by the Malaysian government this does not apply to subscribers who switched from their old mobile service provider over to U Mobile.
As of January 2021, U Mobile has more than 7 million subscribers.
Products and services
Postpaid
U Postpaid
U Postpaid is a 5G plan that was introduced to replace the Unlimited Hero Postpaid. There are three types: U Postpaid 38, U Postpaid 68 and U Postpaid 98. U Postpaid 38 has been upgraded to 60GB of data from 30GB of data, while U Postpaid 68 and 98 are having 100GB and 1TB of data separately. All U Postpaid plans come with unlimited calls and Ultra Hotspot 5G. Besides, U Postpaid 68 and 98 are equipped with free 15GB roaming data and calls, which can be used in over 63 countries.
Unlimited Hero Postpaid
Unlimited Hero Postpaid is an old postpaid plan from U Mobile and there are three plans: P79, P99 and P139. P79 has a 20GB of all-usage data, and comes with multiple add-ons, including video, music, chat and Waze for unlimited uses. P99 and P139 both come with unlimited high-speed data with a total of 30GB and 50GB hotspot data separately. Three plans are having unlimited calls and 3GB roaming data, which can be used in over 12 Asian countries, except for P79 having 1GB roaming data. P139 users also gotten a free upgrade on 11 Sep 2022 to access to 5G data for free.
Giler Unlimited Postpaid (GX)
GX Postpaid is a cheaper postpaid plan with two types: GX50 and GX68. Both plans come with unlimited data and calls, with a 5GB hotspot. GX50 has a speed cap of 5Mbps, while GX68 has no speed cap, but none of them can connect to 5G network.
Prepaid
U Prepaid
U Prepaid are alike to U Postpaid, since both of them are 5G plans. U Prepaid has three plans: Prepaid U25, Prepaid U35 and Prepaid U40. All three U Prepaid plans come with unlimited data and calls, with FUP. U25 has a FUP of 30GB, while U35 and U40 have a FUP of 100GB, data usage after FUP limits will be reduced to 512kbps. U25 has a data speed of 3Mbps, and U35 and U40 have a data speed of 6Mbps. U25 has no hotspot, U35 has a 3GB of hotspot and U40 has a 3GB of hotspot with a hotspot limit sharing from the data. U25 users can access to 5G network an hour per day, and U35 and U40 users can access to 5G network every weekend.
Giler Unlimited Prepaid (GX)
GX Prepaid is U Mobile's old prepaid plan, with three types: GX12, GX30 and GX38. GX12 is on a weekly-basis, with unlimited internet and calls. GX30 and GX38 are month |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%20JTC%201/SC%2022 | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces is a standardization subcommittee of the Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) that develops and facilitates standards within the fields of programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 is also sometimes referred to as the "portability subcommittee". The international secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), located in the United States.
History
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 was created in 1985, with the intention of creating a JTC 1 subcommittee that would address standardization within the field of programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces. Before the creation of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22, programming language standardization was addressed by ISO TC 97/SC 5. Many of the original working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 were inherited from a number of the working groups of ISO TC 97/SC 5 during its reorganization, including ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 2 – Pascal (originally ISO TC 97/SC 5/WG 4), ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 4 – COBOL (originally ISO TC 97/SC 5/ WG 8), and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 5 – Fortran (originally ISO TC 97/SC 5/WG 9). Since then, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 has created and disbanded many of its working groups in response to the changing standardization needs of programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces.
Scope and mission
The scope of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 is the standardization of programming languages (such as COBOL, Fortran, Ada, C, C++, and Prolog), their environments (such as POSIX and Linux), and systems software interfaces, such as:
Specification techniques
Common facilities and interfaces
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 also produces common language-independent specifications to facilitate standardized bindings between programming languages and system services, as well as greater interaction between programs written in different languages.
The scope of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 does not include specialized languages or environments within the program of work of other subcommittees or technical committees.
The mission of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 is to improve portability of applications, productivity and mobility of programmers, and compatibility of applications over time within high level programming environments. The three main goals of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 are:
To support the current global investment in software applications through programming languages standardization
To improve programming language standardization based on previous specification experience in the field
To respond to emerging technological opportunities
Structure
Although ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 has had a total of 24 working groups (WGs), many have been disbanded when the focus of the working group was no longer applicable to the current |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20proliferation | Data proliferation refers to the prodigious amount of data, structured and unstructured, that businesses and governments continue to generate at an unprecedented rate and the usability problems that result from attempting to store and manage that data. While originally pertaining to problems associated with paper documentation, data proliferation has become a major problem in primary and secondary data storage on computers.
While digital storage has become cheaper, the associated costs, from raw power to maintenance and from metadata to search engines, have not kept up with the proliferation of data. Although the power required to maintain a unit of data has fallen, the cost of facilities which house the digital storage has tended to rise.
Data proliferation has been documented as a problem for the U.S. military since August 1971, in particular regarding the excessive documentation submitted during the acquisition of major weapon systems. Efforts to mitigate data proliferation and the problems associated with it are ongoing.
Problems caused
The problem of data proliferation is affecting all areas of commerce as a result of the availability of relatively inexpensive data storage devices. This has made it very easy to dump data into secondary storage immediately after its window of usability has passed. This masks problem that could gravely affect the profitability of businesses and the efficient functioning of health services, police and security forces, local and national governments, and many other types of organizations. Data proliferation is problematic for several reasons:
Difficulty when trying to find and retrieve information. At Xerox, on average it takes employees more than one hour per week to find hard-copy documents, costing $2,152 a year to manage and store them. For businesses with more than 10 employees, this increases to almost two hours per week at $5,760 per year. In large networks of primary and secondary data storage, problems finding electronic data are analogous to problems finding hard copy data.
Data loss and legal liability when data is disorganized, not properly replicated, or cannot be found promptly. In April 2005, the Ameritrade Holding Corporation told 200,000 current and past customers that a tape containing confidential information had been lost or destroyed in transit. In May of the same year, Time Warner Incorporated reported that 40 tapes containing personal data on 600,000 current and former employees had been lost en route to a storage facility. In March 2005, a Florida judge hearing a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Morgan Stanley issued an "adverse inference order" against the company for "willful and gross abuse of its discovery obligations." The judge cited Morgan Stanley for repeatedly finding misplaced tapes of e-mail messages long after the company had claimed that it had turned over all such tapes to the court.
Increased manpower requirements to manage increasingly chaotic data storage resources.
Slower |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Information%20Service%20on%20Energy | The World Information Service on Energy (WISE) is an anti-nuclear group founded in 1978 to be an information and networking center for citizens and organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation and sustainable energy issues. The organization advocates the implementation of safe, sustainable solutions such as energy efficiency and, renewable energy.
Since 2001, WISE has been affiliated with the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS).
References
Anti–nuclear power movement
Nuclear safety and security
International sustainability organizations
Organizations established in 1978
1978 establishments in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Frame | James Hartwell Frame (1928 - 1997) was a computer pioneer who worked to standardize software development from the more idiosyncratic form of its unstructured early days into a predictable and manageable methodology. He spent the majority of his career with IBM, eventually being recruited by ITT Corporation. Later, he founded a consulting business, James Frame Enterprises.
Early life
Frame was born in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1950, he graduated from St John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.
Career
His career in software development management began with IBM in 1956. He worked during the early days of System 360 development. Later, he became the first director of the IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory in Silicon Valley. There, he was responsible for programming language development.
In 1962, journalist Chet Huntley interviewed Frame along with fellow IBM employees John Iverson, Bill Kelly, Tom McDonald and Warren Hume about the advent of IBM's computer solutions to the small business owner, the IBM 1440 data processing system. The interview features the San Jose facility that developed the 1440.
In 1978, ITT Corporation chairman Harold Geneen recruited Frame to work at ITT as vice-president heading the software division. Frame became one of the early champions of software quality metrics as a solution to the reliability problems plaguing the industry.
Following his corporate career he founded a successful consulting business, James Frame Enterprises (JFE), specializing in assessments and recommendations for improving software development methodologies for corporate clients in the telecom industry.
Late career and death
In 1986, Frame was given the Award of Merit from the St. John's College Alumni Association.
Frame died in 1997 in East Meredith, New York.
References
1928 births
1997 deaths
IBM employees
People from Chicago
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni
People from Delaware County, New York
ITT Inc. people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20clustering | In multivariate statistics, spectral clustering techniques make use of the spectrum (eigenvalues) of the similarity matrix of the data to perform dimensionality reduction before clustering in fewer dimensions. The similarity matrix is provided as an input and consists of a quantitative assessment of the relative similarity of each pair of points in the dataset.
In application to image segmentation, spectral clustering is known as segmentation-based object categorization.
Definitions
Given an enumerated set of data points, the similarity matrix may be defined as a symmetric matrix , where represents a measure of the similarity between data points with indices and . The general approach to spectral clustering is to use a standard clustering method (there are many such methods, k-means is discussed below) on relevant eigenvectors of a Laplacian matrix of . There are many different ways to define a Laplacian which have different mathematical interpretations, and so the clustering will also have different interpretations. The eigenvectors that are relevant are the ones that correspond to smallest several eigenvalues of the Laplacian except for the smallest eigenvalue which will have a value of 0. For computational efficiency, these eigenvectors are often computed as the eigenvectors corresponding to the largest several eigenvalues of a function of the Laplacian.
Laplacian matrix
Spectral clustering is well known to relate to partitioning of a mass-spring system, where each mass is associated with a data point and each spring stiffness corresponds to a weight of an edge describing a similarity of the two related data points, as in the spring system. Specifically, the classical reference explains that the eigenvalue problem describing transversal vibration modes of a mass-spring system is exactly the same as the eigenvalue problem for the graph Laplacian matrix defined as
,
where is the diagonal matrix
and A is the adjacency matrix.
The masses that are tightly connected by the springs in the mass-spring system evidently move together from the equilibrium position in low-frequency vibration modes, so that the components of the eigenvectors corresponding to the smallest eigenvalues of the graph Laplacian can be used for meaningful clustering of the masses. For example, assuming that all the springs and the masses are identical in the 2-dimensional spring system pictured, one would intuitively expect that the loosest connected masses on the right-hand side of the system would move with the largest amplitude and in the opposite direction to the rest of the masses when the system is shaken — and this expectation will be confirmed by analyzing components of the eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian corresponding to the smallest eigenvalues, i.e., the smallest vibration frequencies.
Laplacian matrix normalization
The goal of normalization is making the diagonal entries of the Laplacian matrix to be all unit, also scaling off-diagonal entries corr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datar | Datar or DATAR may refer to:
People
Bhaurao Datar (1903–1982), Indian actor
B. N. Datar (1894–1963), Indian politician
Chetan Datar, Indian playwright
Chhaya Datar (b. 1944), Indian activist
Dhananjay Datar, Indian businessman
D. K. Datar (1932–2018), Indian violinist
Isha Datar (b. 1988)
Madhura Datar, Indian singer
Sadashir Datar (1885–?), Indian long-distance runner
Shailesh Datar, Indian actor
Srikant Datar, American economist
Vinay Datar, one of the creators of the Datar–Mathews method for real option valuation
Datar Kaur (c. 1784–1838), a daughter of Sardar Ran Singh Nakai, the third ruler of Nakai Misl of Baherwal
Groups, organizations, companies
Danny and Tarentella and Redanka, a musical group featuring Danny Tenaglia
Délégation interministérielle à l'aménagement du territoire et à l'attractivité régionale, a French governmental administration
Other uses
DATAR, a computerized battlefield information system.
Datar, Indonesia
See also
Data (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewrite%20%28programming%29 | A rewrite in computer programming is the act or result of re-implementing a large portion of existing functionality without re-use of its source code. When the rewrite uses no existing code at all, it is common to speak of a rewrite from scratch.
Motivations
A piece of software is typically rewritten when one or more of the following apply:
its source code is not available or is only available under an incompatible license
its code cannot be adapted to a new target platform
its existing code has become too difficult to handle and extend
the task of debugging it seems too complicated
the programmer finds it difficult to understand its source code
developers learn new techniques or wish to do a big feature overhaul which requires much change
the programming language of the source code has to be changed
Risks
Several software engineers, such as Joel Spolsky have warned against total rewrites, especially under schedule constraints or competitive pressures. While developers may initially welcome the chance to correct historical design mistakes, a rewrite also discards those parts of the design that work as required. A rewrite commits the development team to deliver not just new features, but all those that exist in the previous code, while potentially introducing new bugs or regressions of previously fixed bugs. A rewrite also interferes with the tracking of unfixed bugs in the old version.
The incremental rewrite is an alternative approach, in which developers gradually replace the existing code with calls into a new implementation, expanding that implementation until it fully replaces the old one. This approach avoids a broad loss of functionality during the rewrite. Cleanroom software engineering is another approach, which requires the team to work from an exhaustive written specification of the software's functionality, without access to its code.
Examples
Netscape's project to improve HTML layout in Navigator 4 has been cited as an example of a failed rewrite. The new layout engine (Gecko) had developed independently from Navigator and did not integrate readily with Navigator's code; hence Navigator itself was rewritten around the new engine, breaking many existing features and delaying release by several months. Meanwhile, Microsoft focused on incremental improvements to Internet Explorer and did not face the same obstacles. Ironically, Navigator itself was a successful cleanroom rewrite of NCSA Mosaic overseen by that program's developers. See Browser wars.
Some projects mentioning major rewrites in their history:
Apache HTTP Server (1)
AOL Instant Messenger (1)
BIND (1)
Freenet (1)
Fusebox (2)
GRUB (1)
Majordomo (1)
MediaWiki (1)
Mozilla/Netscape (1)
Icecast (0–1)
netcat (1)
OpenRPG (1)
PHP (1–2)
Project Xanadu (0–1)
Sun Secure Global Desktop (1)
vBulletin (2)
WebObjects (1)
Zope (1)
See also
Code refactoring
Open source software development
Technical debt
Development hell
Porting
Game engine recreation
Reverse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAR%20and%20LION%20ciphers | The BEAR and LION block ciphers were invented by Ross Anderson and Eli Biham by combining a stream cipher and a cryptographic hash function. The algorithms use a very large variable block size, on the order of 213 to 223 bits . Both are 3-round generalized (alternating) Feistel ciphers, using the hash function and the stream cipher as round functions. BEAR uses the hash function twice with independent keys, and the stream cipher once. LION uses the stream cipher twice and the hash function once. The inventors proved that an attack on either BEAR or LION that recovers the key would break both the stream cipher and the hash.
References
Feistel ciphers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Cancer%20Society%20Cancer%20Action%20Network | The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society. It was founded in September 2001 to directly lobby the goals of the American Cancer Society, which is subject to restrictions on advocacy activities because of its tax classification. ACS CAN works to make cancer a national priority. Specifically, it advocates for better access to care, cancer prevention and early detection programs, cancer research funding, regulation of tobacco by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, better quality of life for cancer patients, and attempts to raise awareness of and reduce cancer disparities. Members include cancer survivors, caregivers, patients, volunteers, and students, including Colleges Against Cancer.
Campaigns
ACS CAN's advocacy efforts are targeted at specific cancer-related issues.
Access to healthcare
Like the American Cancer Society, ACS CAN is devoting a significant portion of its resources to raising public awareness of shortcomings in the US health care system from the perspective of cancer patients. Recently, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, supported by the American Cancer Society and ACS CAN, was signed into law by President Barack Obama and has multiple provisions which will gradually take effect over several years. Under the Affordable Care Act, patients are protected from discrimination by insurance companies against people with pre-existing conditions, such as cancer, and insurance companies can no longer drop a person if he or she gets sick. These provisions ultimately reduce cost burden on patients and their families. Further, the law prohibits companies from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions, eliminates lifetime benefit limits and annual benefit limits that can cause sudden termination of health care coverage, and allows children to stay on their parent’s health plan until the age of 26. Also, if a person has been uninsured for at least 6 months and have a health condition, he or she may be eligible for the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan. Seniors also will receive many preventative services for free such as cancer screenings. According to the ACS CAN, these rulings will expand access to quality health care for cancer patients, decrease cost burden, and refocus health care emphasis on prevention.
Cancer research funding
The US government is the largest funder of cancer research via the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), yet recent budgets have not provided for increases that make up for increases in medical inflation. The recent failure of the United States Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to come to an agreement about federal budget cuts has caused ACS CAN and other health advocates to fear reduction in services and investment in biomedical research through the NIH. Reduction in NIH funding may lead to lower chances of cancer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Martin%20%28journalist%29 | David C. Martin (born July 28, 1943) is an American television news correspondent, journalist and author who works for CBS News. He is currently the network's National Security Correspondent reporting from The Pentagon, a position he has held since 1993. Martin has contributed reports to the CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes, and 48 Hours.
Early life and career
Martin was born July 28, 1943, in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Yale University in 1965 with a degree in English. He served during the Vietnam War as a naval officer. Martin began at CBS News as a researcher in 1969. His career during the 1970s and early 1980s included stints at Newsweek Magazine and the Associated Press. He became CBS News Pentagon correspondent in 1983.
Works
Martin, David C.; Walcott John (1988). Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America's War Against Terrorism. New York: HarperCollins.
References
External links
Journalist/Correspondent David Martin bio at CBS News website
C-SPAN Q&A interview with Martin, March 28, 2010
1943 births
American newspaper reporters and correspondents
Living people
Writers from Macon, Georgia
CBS News people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo%20Creek%20Gang | Kangaroo Creek Gang was an Australian children's television cartoon series which first screened on the Nine Network in 2002. It was produced by Southern Star Group and was based on a set of reading books created from 1981 that follow the adventures of a group of Australian bush animals. Prior to the television series, the original Kangaroo Creek Gang Cassette Tapes for the read-along books were recorded in the early 1980s in Perth, Western Australia and were voiced by Gregory Ker amongst others. Ker voiced the characters of Kevin Kangaroo, Wal Wombat, Tiddles Tiger Snake, Ranger West and also voiced the narrator for some of the read-along books. Helen Matthews, a well-known jazz singer, was also present for the cassette tape recordings and recorded the songs that were on the tapes.
History
Kangaroo Creek Gang began as a series of books, extending to 40 titles with over one million copies sold around Australia. A comic strip was developed for the children's pages in News Limited's Sunday newspapers in most states of Australia.
The gang featured in a series of multi media packages distributed to primary schools, and were also involved with in-flight children's activity packages for Australian Airlines and Ansett. In 1990-91 the Kangaroo Creek Gang starred in a TV commercial for the State Bank of South Australia now known as Bank SA. The jingle was "saving makes sense is what we say". One of the characters, Kenny Kidna, had his own 30 second 'Goodnight girls and boys' segment at 7.30pm every night in Perth, Western Australia on television channel "NEW-10".
The animated series was first broadcast on television in April 2002 on the Nine Network and aired on Starz Kids & Family for some time. The Kangaroo Creek Gang also appeared in live costume and puppet shows throughout Australia, performing primarily in shopping centres.
Characters
Kevin Kangaroo: (Voiced by Daniel Wyllie) is the main protagonist of the entire series. He is a kangaroo who likes to pull pranks on people.
Kristie Koala
Emily Emu
Wally Wombat
Mog, Mange, and Garbo: The feral cats
Peg Platypus
Eddie Echidna
Morrie Magpie
Paddy Possum
Connie Kookaburra
Tiddles Tiger snake
Kenny Kidna
Mr. Lizard
Swizzle the Croc
The Great Dingo
Character voices
Daniel Wyllie
Marta Dusseldorp
John Leary
Rebecca Massey
Akmal Saleh
Anthony Hayes
Eliza Logan
Andrew Crabbe
Keith Buckley
Gregory Ker (Cassette Tape recordings for read-along books 1980's)
See also
List of Australian television series
References
imdb
External links
Kangaroo Creek Gang
Australian children's animated television series
Nine Network original programming
2002 Australian television series debuts
2002 Australian television series endings
2000s Australian animated television series
Television series by Endemol Australia
Australian preschool education television series
Television series about kangaroos and wallabies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter%3A%20Secret%20Agent | Scooter: Secret Agent is an Australian children's television program screened on Network Ten in 2005.
Plot summary
Scooter is an extremely clumsy teenager who finds a computer belonging to the world's greatest Secret Agent. Scooter decides to complete the missions meant for Agent X-19 in a world of master criminals and high-tech gadgets while continuing to work as a pizza delivery boy.
Cast list
Martin Sharpe as Scooter Carpenter
Talia Zucker as Melanie
Charlene Tjoe as Katrina
John McTernan as Mackenna
Rodney Afif as Ratborough
Kenneth Ransom as Fridge
Tony Nikolakopoulos as Attilio
Kate Fitzpatrick as Taipan
Jamie Mezzasalma as Mario
Brianna Tab as Herself
Luke O'Loughlin as Lewis
Episodes
See also
List of Australian television series
External links
Scooter: Secret Agent – ZDF Enterprises promotional website
Scooter: Secret Agent at the Australian Television Information Archive
Scooter: Secret Agent Official site
Network 10 original programming
Australian children's television series
2005 Australian television series debuts
2005 Australian television series endings
Australian science fiction television series
English-language television shows
Fictional secret agents and spies
Television series about teenagers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergus%20McPhail | Fergus McPhail is an Australian children's comedy series that was released on Network Ten in 2004.
Plot summary
Fergus McPhail stumbles from crisis to crisis, mostly of his own making. His irrationally optimistic alter-ego acts as his conscience. The comedy series charts a year in the life of teenage Fergus McPhail at home with his erratic family, at school, among friends, and at play.
Cast List
Sean Ohlendorf as Fergus McPhail
Michael Harrison as Lambert Apanolty
Brett Swain as Don McPhail (Dad)
Tammy McCarthy as Moira McPhail (Mum)
Miriam Glaser as Senga McPhail
Jessie Jacobs as Jennifer McPhail
Megan Harrington as Angela Dayton
Heli Simpson as Sophie Bartolemeo
Marcus Costello as Richmond Nixon-Claverhouse
Reg Gorman as Harry Patterson
John Williams as Thomas
Nicholas Turner as Kevin
Martin Sharpe as David
Damien Bodie as Leon
Alex Tsitsopoulos as Angelo
Steven Bahnsen as Declan Parker
Joy Westmore as Mrs Vance
Chris Hemsworth as Craig
Heidi Valkenburg as Maddie
Carla Perone as Baby Sophie
Andrew Clarke as Ben Cameron
See also
List of Australian television series
External links
Fergus McPhail at Australian Screen Online
Network 10 original programming
Australian children's television series
2004 Australian television series debuts
2004 Australian television series endings
2000s Australian comedy television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosafer%20%28TV%20series%29 | Mosafer (, literally Passenger) is a 2000 television series broadcast by the IRIB network. The director, producer and script-writer are Siroos Moghaddam and Mostafa Azizi.
summary
It all starts when Great Ipakchi (Atash Taghipoor) begins to feel guilt while dying. 25 years ago the wedding celebration of old man daughter was interrupted by him due to his stubbornness. His son-in-law (Jamal Ejlali) is jailed after couple of years and his wife dies while giving birth to their daughter, Afsane (Anahita Nemati). The father is released after Iranian Revolution and starts to live with Afsane, quitting her forever from Ipakchi's life. Now, after many years passed, the grandfather, Ipakchi, is guilty and he wants to compensate. So he asks his France-based grandson, Reza (Danial Hakimi), to return and find Afsane and give her all the fortune that is her mother's share. Reza starts his search and the process he gets to know Manije (Pantea Bahram), Afsane's friend as a child. Manije lives with his father (Kiomars Malak Motiyi), mother (Sedighe Kianfar), brother (Hamid Mahindoost) and sister-in-law (Sanaz Samavati) who are all addicted and outlaws. When they found out there is much money to be won, they join Majid, Manije's uncle, (Abolfazl Poorarab) to plan this. Majid is also an outlaw and addicted and has many plans for Afsane. She has become a doctor and works in a hospital. The Chairman of Hospital, Dr.Saremi (Hamidreza Afshar), wants to marry Afsane and Afsane's friend (Shiva Ebrahimi) is aware of this. Dr. Saremi tries to expose Majid plans but Majid, together with his relatives and Kamran (Fardad Safakhoo), a friend, goes on until...
Cast
Abolfazl Poorarab as Majid Sahrayi
Anahita Nemati as Afsane Yaghoobi
Pantea Bahram as Manije Khakbaz
Danial Hakimi as Reza
Jamal Ejlali as Ebrahim Yaghoobi
Hamid Reza Afshar as Dr. Saremi
Laya Bastani as Soori
Shiva Ebrahimi as Mahboobe Asadi
Sedigheh Kianfar as Ms. Khakbaz
Hamid Mahindoost as Hamid Khakbaz
Kiumars Malekmotei as Mr. Khakbaz
Ala Mohseni as Police Investigator
Arash Azizi as Informer
External links
Iranian television series
2000s Iranian television series
2000 Iranian television series debuts
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20of%20artificial%20intelligence | The ethics of artificial intelligence is the branch of the ethics of technology specific to artificially intelligent systems. It is sometimes divided into a concern with the moral behavior of humans as they design, make, use and treat artificially intelligent systems, and a concern with the behavior of machines, in machine ethics.
Approaches
Machine ethics
Machine ethics (or machine morality) is the field of research concerned with designing Artificial Moral Agents (AMAs), robots or artificially intelligent computers that behave morally or as though moral. To account for the nature of these agents, it has been suggested to consider certain philosophical ideas, like the standard characterizations of agency, rational agency, moral agency, and artificial agency, which are related to the concept of AMAs.
Isaac Asimov considered the issue in the 1950s in his I, Robot. At the insistence of his editor John W. Campbell Jr., he proposed the Three Laws of Robotics to govern artificially intelligent systems. Much of his work was then spent testing the boundaries of his three laws to see where they would break down, or where they would create paradoxical or unanticipated behavior. His work suggests that no set of fixed laws can sufficiently anticipate all possible circumstances. More recently, academics and many governments have challenged the idea that AI can itself be held accountable. A panel convened by the United Kingdom in 2010 revised Asimov's laws to clarify that AI is the responsibility either of its manufacturers, or of its owner/operator.
In 2009, during an experiment at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, Switzerland, robots that were programmed to cooperate with each other (in searching out a beneficial resource and avoiding a poisonous one) eventually learned to lie to each other in an attempt to hoard the beneficial resource.
Some experts and academics have questioned the use of robots for military combat, especially when such robots are given some degree of autonomous functions. The US Navy has funded a report which indicates that as military robots become more complex, there should be greater attention to implications of their ability to make autonomous decisions. The President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence has commissioned a study to look at this issue. They point to programs like the Language Acquisition Device which can emulate human interaction.
Vernor Vinge has suggested that a moment may come when some computers are smarter than humans. He calls this "the Singularity". He suggests that it may be somewhat or possibly very dangerous for humans. This is discussed by a philosophy called Singularitarianism. The Machine Intelligence Research Institute has suggested a need to build "Friendly AI", meaning that the advances which are already occurring with AI should also include an effort to make AI intrinsically friendly and humane.
There are discu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20Security%20Service%20Algorithm%20for%20Secret%20Key%20Transaction | GSS-TSIG (Generic Security Service Algorithm for Secret Key Transaction) is an extension to the TSIG DNS authentication protocol for secure key exchange. It is a GSS-API algorithm which uses Kerberos for passing security tokens to provide authentication, integrity and confidentiality.
GSS-TSIG (RFC 3645) uses a mechanism like SPNEGO with Kerberos or NTLM. In Windows, this implementation is called Secure Dynamic Update.
GSS-TSIG uses TKEY records for key exchange between the DNS client and server in GSS-TSIG mode. For authentication between the DNS client and Active Directory, the AS-REQ, AS-REP, TGS-REQ, TGS-REP exchanges must take place for granting of ticket and establishing a security context. The security context has a limited lifetime during which dynamic updates to the DNS server can take place.
References
Cryptographic protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQDK | WQDK (99.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian Radio format as an affiliate of Good News Network. Licensed to Gatesville, North Carolina, United States, it serves the Elizabeth City-Nags Head area. The station is owned by Augusta Radio Fellowship Institute, Inc.
External links
QDK
Radio stations established in 1968 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFSS | WFSS (91.9 FM) is a public radio station in Fayetteville, North Carolina broadcasting National Public Radio programming originating from WUNC. It was owned by Fayetteville State University until May 2015, when it was purchased by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and turned into a WUNC satellite.
In its final years as a separately programmed station, WFSS programmed jazz as well as an eclectic mix of formats on the weekend, including bluegrass, Gospel, blues, African and Latin music. It serves Fayetteville and twelve surrounding counties.
History
In 1977, WFSS began broadcasting at 10 watts, and was operated by students using the station to prepare them for broadcasting careers. Its coverage area was limited to a two-mile radius of campus. In February 1983, power was increased to 100,000 watts, and the station joined NPR. From the beginning the station played jazz but went on to offer a wide variety of programming including blues, reggae and rhythm and blues. Joseph Ross, who came from Monrovia, Liberia, was the station manager from 1977 until the 1980s and again starting in 1995.
In March 1993, in order to switch from 89.1 to 91.9 and reduce interference to WECT in Wilmington (whose transmitter was located in Bladen County), WFSS signed off for five days and then came back at 30,000 watts before finally returning to full power at 100,000 watts.
On January 20, 2000, a winter storm caused significant damage to broadcasting equipment, and WFSS came back days later at 60 watts. The return to full power happened May 5 after $45,000 in repairs.
Funding reductions to Fayetteville State from 2009 onward caused WFSS to lose money. Even with the presence of Fort Bragg, the Fayetteville area was just barely large enough to support a standalone NPR member station. By 2014, all efforts to increase community support had come up short of the levels needed for the station to stay independent. On May 13, 2015, Fayetteville State trustees unanimously voted to sell WFSS to UNC Chapel Hill for $1.35 million. The deal was intended to preserve public radio in the region. Though the sale still required Federal Communications Commission approval, WUNC's licensee, WUNC Public Radio, LLC, took over WFSS' operations under a local management agreement. This allowed WFSS to begin simulcasting WUNC at 10 a.m. on May 13, hours after the trustee vote. Until the FCC approved the deal, Fayetteville State was required to keep an FCC-minimum skeleton crew of two employees (one manager and engineer) on site. The sale was consummated on November 24, 2015.
WFSS-FM Inaugural Administration and Staff (1976 – 1977)
University Chancellor Dr. Charles Lyons,
Department Head English and Communications: Dr. Elaine Newsome,
Director of Communications Center Mr. Joseph Ross,
Chief Engineer Mr. Robert Collins,
Communications Center Secretary Annie Hasan,
Station Advisor Mrs. Elizabeth Czech (Shaw University),
WFSS-FM Inaugural Student Staff (1976 – 1977)
Station Manag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLGP | WLGP (100.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian Radio format as an affiliate of Good News Network. Licensed to Harkers Island, North Carolina, United States, it serves the Greenville-New Bern area. The station is currently owned by Augusta Radio Fellowship Institute, Inc.
Programs heard on WLGP include; Grace to You with John MacArthur, In Touch with Charles Stanley, Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee, Lester Roloff, Love Worth Finding with Adrian Rogers, Turning Point with David Jeremiah, Back to the Bible with Woodrow Kroll, Family Life Today with Dennis Rainey and Bob Lepine, Running to Win with Erwin Lutzer, Focus on the Family, and Unshackled!.
References
External links
Good News Network's official website
Moody Radio affiliate stations
LGP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20and%20Free%20Will | Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness (French: Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience) is Henri Bergson's doctoral thesis, first published in 1889. The essay deals with the problem of free will, which Bergson contends is merely a common confusion among philosophers caused by an illegitimate translation of the unextended into the extended, as a means of introducing his theory of duration, which would become highly influential among continental philosophers in the following century.
Editions
Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, Dover Publications 2001, .
See also
Immediate experience
External links
1910 English translation of Time and Free Will
Multiple formats at the Internet Archive
1889 non-fiction books
Metaphysics books
Works by Henri Bergson
Books about consciousness |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20S.%20Bruckman | Amy Susan Bruckman (born 1965) is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology affiliated with the School of Interactive Computing and the GVU Center. She is best known for her pioneering research in the fields of online communities and the learning sciences. In 1999, she was selected as one of MIT Technology Review's TR100 awardees, honoring 100 remarkable innovators under the age of 35.
Early life and education
Amy S. Bruckman was born in New York, New York. She attended the Horace Mann School, an Ivy Preparatory School in New York City, graduating in 1983. Following that, Bruckman attended Harvard University for her undergraduate studies, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics in 1987. She received a master's degree in 1991 from the Interactive Cinema Group at the MIT Media Lab, where she was advised by Glorianna Davenport. Her master's thesis described the Electronic Scrapbook, an intelligent home video editing system.
Bruckman went on to pursue a Ph.D. at the Media Lab in Mitchel Resnick's Epistemology and Learning Group. On January 20, 1993, Bruckman established MediaMOO, an online community for new media researchers and educators. The community, managed chiefly by Bruckman, developed a significant following for its time, eventually closing down seven years later. During this time, Bruckman also worked as a research assistant for Sherry Turkle on Turkle's influential book, Life on the Screen (1997). For her dissertation work, Bruckman developed MOOSE Crossing, a MOO-based constructionist learning environment in which young children could learn computer programming skills while building virtual objects.
Georgia Tech
Upon her graduation from MIT in 1997, Bruckman accepted a position as an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing. As a new Georgia Tech faculty member, Bruckman founded the Electronic Learning Communities (ELC) Lab and began setting up a program of research incorporating her interests in online communities and constructionist learning. She founded the Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) program at Georgia Tech in 1998, modeling it after MIT's UROP. In 1999, Bruckman's research was supported by a prestigious grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program. That same year, she was selected as one of Technology Review's 100 remarkable innovators under the age of 35. Her work at this time was described as "the most notable MOO research in education."
On July 22, 1999, Bruckman and graduate student Joshua Berman released The Turing Game, a multiplayer online game inspired by the Turing test that challenged players to explore issues of online identity. The game received national attention and was played by over 11,000 people from 81 countries and all seven continents.
In 2003, Bruckman received tenure and was promoted to the position of associate professor. In 2012, she was made a full professor. She was th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Jacobson | Peter Jacobson (born March 24, 1965) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Dr. Chris Taub on the Fox medical drama series House. He also starred on the USA Network science fiction drama Colony as former Proxy Snyder.
Early life
Jacobson was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lynn Straus and news anchor Walter Jacobson. His family is Jewish, coming from Russia, Ukraine and, possibly, Lithuania. He is a 1987 graduate of Brown University. Jacobson also graduated from the Juilliard School, where he was a member of the drama division's Group 20 (1987–1991).
Career
Jacobson and Lisa Edelstein, his future co-star on House, appeared as a couple eating at a restaurant in the 1997 film As Good as It Gets. He appeared twice on Law & Order as Randy Dworkin, a jovial crusading defense attorney. In 2005, he played Jimmy in the Academy Award-nominated film Good Night, and Good Luck. He has appeared in Scrubs, CSI: Miami, The Lost Room, The Starter Wife, Transformers, Colony, and The Midnight Meat Train.
Jacobson joined the cast of House as Dr. Chris Taub, a plastic surgeon hoping to secure a place on Dr. Gregory House's diagnostics team. In October 2007, he was confirmed as a regular on the show. He made a guest appearance as Alan on an episode of the USA Network's Royal Pains.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
References
External links
1965 births
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
Brown University alumni
Francis W. Parker School (Chicago) alumni
Jewish American male actors
Juilliard School alumni
Living people
Male actors from Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly%20%28computer%20program%29 | Firefly, formerly named PC GAMESS, is an ab initio computational chemistry program for Intel-compatible x86, x86-64 processors based on GAMESS (US) sources. However, it has been mostly rewritten (60-70% of the code), especially in platform-specific parts (memory allocation, disk input/output, network), mathematic functions (e.g., matrix operations), and quantum chemistry methods (such as Hartree–Fock method, Møller–Plesset perturbation theory, and density functional theory). Thus, it is significantly faster than the original GAMESS. The main maintainer of the program was Alex Granovsky. Since October 2008, the project is no longer associated with GAMESS (US) and the Firefly rename occurred. Until October 17, 2009, both names could be used, but thereafter, the package should be referred to as Firefly exclusively.
History
On December 4, 2009, the support of any PC GAMESS versions earlier than the first PC GAMESS Firefly version 7.1.C was abandoned, and any and all licenses to use the code were revoked. Thus, users of the outdated PC GAMESS binaries (version 7.1.B and all earlier releases) were required to discontinue using the PC GAMESS and upgrade to Firefly.
On July 25, 2012, a state of the art edition of Firefly, version 8.0.0 RC, was launched for public beta testing. A relative comparison has shown that it is far faster and more reliable than the prior edition, Firefly 7.1.G. Many changes were made to enhance its abilities.
In the Quantum Chemistry Speed Test, Firefly's DFT code came second (losing only to commercial QChem), beating other free DFT codes by a large margin.
Firefly's unique capabilities include XMCQDPT2, a reformulation of Nakano's multi-state multi-configuration quasi-degenerate perturbation theory (MCQDPT) correcting for some of its deficiencies.
At the end of 2019, Firefly's main developer A. A. Granovsky unexpectedly died but the project continues.
See also
GAMESS (US)
GAMESS (UK)
Quantum chemistry computer programs
References
External links
PC GAMESS SCF Benchmark
Computational chemistry software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Bruins%20Radio%20Network | The Boston Bruins Radio Network is a 17-station (9 AM, 9 FM, plus 3 FM translators) network which carries live game broadcasts of the Boston Bruins. The network's flagship station is WBZ-FM (98.5) in Boston, Massachusetts. Judd Sirott announces play-by-play. Bob Beers provides color commentary.
Network stations (20 stations)
Flagship (1 station)
WBZ-FM 98.5: Boston (2009–present)
Affiliates (19 stations)
Maine (3 stations)
WEZQ 92.9: Bangor (2012–present)
WEZR 780: Rumford
WHXR 106.3: Scarborough
Massachusetts (7 stations + 2 FM translators)
WBEC 1420: Pittsfield
WVEI 1440: Worcester
WMRC 1490: Milford
WNAW 1230: North Adams (2012–present)
WPKZ 1280: Fitchburg (2011–present)
WXTK 95.1: West Yarmouth/Cape Cod (2011–present)
WWEI 105.5: Easthampton
W267CD 101.3: Milford (rebroadcasts WMRC)
W287BT 105.3: Fitchburg (rebroadcasts WPKZ)
New Hampshire (4 stations + 1 FM translator)
WEEY 93.5: Swanzey (2012–present)
WTPL 107.7: Hillsborough
WTSN 1270: Dover (2015–present)
WWLK-FM 101.5: Meredith
W251CF 98.1: Dover (rebroadcasts WTSN)
New York (2 stations)
WCPV 101.3: Essex (2011–present)
WEAV 960: Plattsburgh
Rhode Island (2 stations)
WVEI-FM 103.7 Westerly (2014–present). WVEI-FM has been announced as the Providence affiliate starting with the 2014-2015 season.
WOON 1240: Woonsocket (2010–present)
Vermont (1 station + 1 FM translator
WCFR 1320: Springfield, Vermont
W293BH 106.5 (relays WCFR)
Former flagships (7 stations)
WBZ 1030: Boston (1924-1929; 1969-1978; 1995-2009; also simulcast Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals)
WBNW 590: Boston (1990-1995; now WEZE; station was known as WEEI from 1990 to 1994)
WPLM-FM 99.1: Plymouth, Massachusetts (1982-1990)
WITS 1510: Boston (1978-1982; now WMEX)
WHDH 850: Boston (1946-1969; now WEEI)
WNAC 1230 (until March 29, 1941); 1260 (after March 29, 1941): Boston (1929-1935; 1942-1946; now WBIX)
WAAB 1410 (until March 29, 1941); 1440 (after March 29, 1941): Boston (1935-1942; now WVEI in Worcester)
Former affiliates (29 stations)
WARA 1320: Attleboro, Massachusetts (1990-1991)
WBAE 1490: Portland, Maine (regular season)
WBCQ-FM 94.7: Monticello, Maine (2012-?)
WBET 1460 Brockton, Massachusetts (1978-1990; now WBMS)
WBSM 1420: New Bedford, Massachusetts (2010–20??)
WCME 900: Brunswick, Maine (2013–?)
WEAN-FM 99.7: Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island (2013 Stanley Cup Championship only)
WGAM 1250: Manchester, New Hampshire
WGAW 1340: Gardner, Massachusetts (2011-2012 season)
WGHM 900: Nashua, New Hampshire
WHLL 1450: Springfield, Massachusetts
WLYT 92.5 Haverhill, Massachusetts (1978-1990; now WXRV; station was known as WHAV-FM from 1978 to 1982)
WMYF 1380: Portsmouth, New Hampshire (2012-2015; now defunct)
WMEX 106.5: Farmington, New Hampshire (????-2008; now WNHI, part of the Air 1 satellite network)
WOXO-FM 92.7: Norway, Maine (2012-?)
WPRO 630: Providence, Rhode Island (2013 Stanley Cup Championship only)
WPRV 790: Providence, Rhode Island (2011-2013)
WSAR 1480: Fall River, Massachusetts
WSMN 1590: Nashu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikon%20%28disambiguation%29 | Daikon is a winter radish native to East Asia.
Daikon may also refer to:
Japanese radish or true daikon, a Japanese root vegetable
Daikon (system), a computer program that detects likely invariants of programs
Daikon Island, Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikon%20%28system%29 | Daikon is a computer program that detects likely invariants of programs. An invariant is a condition that always holds true at certain points in the program. It is mainly used for debugging programs in late development, or checking modifications to existing code.
Properties
Daikon can detect properties in C, C++, Java, Perl, and IOA programs, as well as spreadsheet files or other data sources. Daikon is easy to extend and is free software.
External links
Daikon Official home site
Source Repository on GitHub
Dynamically Discovering Likely Program Invariants, Michael D. Ernst PhD. Thesis (using Daikon)
References
Free computer programming tools
Static program analysis tools
Software testing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WINDS | WINDS (Wideband InterNetworking engineering test and Demonstration Satellite, also known as Kizuna), was a Japanese communication satellite. Launch was originally scheduled for 2007. The launch date was eventually set for 15 February 2008, but a problem detected in a second stage maneuvering thruster delayed it to 23 February. Lift-off occurred at 08:55 GMT on 23 February from Tanegashima Space Center, and the satellite separated from its H-IIA carrier rocket into a Geosynchronous transfer orbit at 09:23. WINDS was used to relay the internet to Japanese homes and businesses through Ka-Band signals. It also tested technologies that would be utilised by future Japanese communication satellites. A part of Japan's i-Space program, WINDS was operated by JAXA and NICT.
Prior to launch, a JAXA brochure claimed that WINDS will be able to provide 155 Mbit/s download speeds to home users with 45-centimetre diameter satellite dishes, while providing industrial users via 5-metre diameter dishes with 1.2 Gbit/s speeds.
WINDS had a launch mass of 4,850 kg, reducing to a mass of around 2,750 kg after thrusting to its operational orbit. The spacecraft is 8 m x 3 m x 2 m in size, and its solar panels have a span of 21.5 metres. It has three-axis stabilisation, and a design life expectancy of five years.
The satellite became inoperable due to communications failure on 9 February 2019, and it was decommissioned by the transmission of a deactivation command at 06:54 GMT on 27 February 2019.
See also
H-IIA
JAXA
Satellite Internet access
References
External links
JAXA website about WINDS
LIVE COVERAGE: H-IIA KIZUNA (WINDS) Launch (updated 1:20 GMT) 1:20 GMT (8:20 pm EST): T-6 hours. Fueling of the H-IIA has commenced
Satellites of Japan
Spacecraft launched in 2008
2008 in Japan
Spacecraft launched by H-II rockets
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cyber%20Games%202007 | The World Cyber Games 2007 was held in Seattle, Washington, held at the Qwest Field Event Center, the second time the WCG was held in an American location. It ran from October 3–7, 2007, and featured over 700 players from more than 70 different countries.
Official games
PC games
Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Carom3D
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
FIFA 07
Counter-Strike 1.6
Need for Speed: Carbon
StarCraft: Brood War
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Xbox 360 games
Dead or Alive 4
Gears of War
Project Gotham Racing 3
Tony Hawk's Project 8
Results
References
World Cyber Games events
2007 in esports
2007 in sports in Washington (state)
2007 in American sports
International esports competitions hosted by the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence%20Bruins%20Radio%20Network | The Providence Bruins Radio Network was the radio network of the Providence Bruins, a minor league affiliate of the Boston Bruins, which operated from 1992 to 2014. As of the 2014–15 season, the Providence Bruins games' audio can be heard online only.
Station listing
Flagship station (0 stations)
Current affiliates (0 stations)
Rhode Island (0 stations)
Unsure status (0 stations)
Former stations of the network (10 stations)
Former flagships (3 stations)
630/WPRO: Providence, Rhode Island (1992-1999)
550/WDDZ (now WSJW): Pawtucket, Rhode Island (1999-2005; known as WLKW until 2000, WICE 2000-2001 & WDDZ through 2005)
1320/WARL (now WARA): Attleboro, Massachusetts (2005-2006)
Former affiliates (7 stations)
1230/WBLQ: Westerly
1340/WNBH: New Bedford, Massachusetts (to 2008)
1380/WNRI: Woonsocket
1450/WLKW: West Warwick, Rhode Island (to 2008)
88.1/WBLQ (now WKIV): Westerly, Rhode Island (2005-2006)
88.3/WQRI: Bristol, Rhode Island (2005-2006)
96.7/WBLQ-LP (now WSUB-LP): Ashaway, Rhode Island (2006-2009)
External links
North East Radio Watch: October 18, 2010 with list of networks & stations of the A.H.L..
Radio Network
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronizing%20word | In computer science, more precisely, in the theory of deterministic finite automata (DFA), a synchronizing word or reset sequence is a word in the input alphabet of the DFA that sends any state of the DFA to one and the same state. That is, if an ensemble of copies of the DFA are each started in different states, and all of the copies process the synchronizing word, they will all end up in the same state. Not every DFA has a synchronizing word; for instance, a DFA with two states, one for words of even length and one for words of odd length, can never be synchronized.
Existence
Given a DFA, the problem of determining if it has a synchronizing word can be solved in polynomial time using a theorem due to Ján Černý. A simple approach considers the power set of states of the DFA, and builds a directed graph where nodes belong to the power set, and a directed edge describes the action of the transition function. A path from the node of all states to a singleton state shows the existence of a synchronizing word. This algorithm is exponential in the number of states. A polynomial algorithm results however, due to a theorem of Černý that exploits the substructure of the problem, and shows that a synchronizing word exists if and only if every pair of states has a synchronizing word.
Length
The problem of estimating the length of synchronizing words has a long history and was posed independently by several authors, but it is commonly known as the Černý conjecture. In 1969, Ján Černý conjectured that (n − 1)2 is the upper bound for the length of the shortest synchronizing word for any n-state complete DFA (a DFA with complete state transition graph). If this is true, it would be tight: in his 1964 paper, Černý exhibited a class of automata (indexed by the number n of states) for which the shortest reset words have this length. The best upper bound known is 0.1654n3, far from the lower bound.
For n-state DFAs over a k-letter input alphabet, an algorithm by David Eppstein finds a synchronizing word of length at most 11n3/48 + O(n2), and runs in time complexity O(n3+kn2). This algorithm does not always find the shortest possible synchronizing word for a given automaton; as Eppstein also shows, the problem of finding the shortest synchronizing word is NP-complete. However, for a special class of automata in which all state transitions preserve the cyclic order of the states, he describes a different algorithm with time O(kn2) that always finds the shortest synchronizing word, proves that these automata always have a synchronizing word of length at most (n − 1)2 (the bound given in Černý's conjecture), and exhibits examples of automata with this special form whose shortest synchronizing word has length exactly (n − 1)2.
Road coloring
The road coloring problem is the problem of labeling the edges of a regular directed graph with the symbols of a k-letter input alphabet (where k is the outdegree of each vertex) in order to form a synchronizable DFA. It was co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20de%20Darlington | Adam de Darlington [Derlingtun] (died 1296) was a 13th-century English churchman based in the Kingdom of Scotland. Adam's name occurred for the first time in a Moray document datable between 1255 and 1271, where he was named as the Precentor of Fortrose Cathedral. He seems to have been introduced into the diocese of Ross, along with others from the north-east of England, by Bishop Robert de Fyvie, who may have been descended from the area.
After the death of Bishop Robert, sometime between 17 November 1292 and 18 November 1295, two elections were conducted by the cathedral chapter of Ross: one elected Precentor Adam and the other elected Thomas de Dundee. Darlington travelled to the papal curia, but on or before 18 November, resigned his right to Dundee.
He did however obtain a bishopric, becoming Bishop of Caithness. On 26 April 1296, as Precentor of Ross he was provided to the Caithness diocese, vacant since the death of Alan de St Edmund in 1291, and consecrated by Hugh Aycelin, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia. He was not to be bishop long however, perhaps not even long enough to visit his new bishopric. He died at Siena some time before 17 December 1296, when Andrew, Abbot of Coupar Angus, was provided to the now vacant see of Caithness.
Notes
References
Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
Innes, Cosmo Nelson, Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis; E Pluribus Codicibus Consarcinatum Circa A.D. Mcccc., Cum Continuatione Diplomatum Recentiorum Usque Ad A.D. Mdcxxiii, (Edinburgh, 1837)
Watt, D. E. R., A Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Graduates to A. D. 1410, (Oxford, 1977)
Watt, D. E. R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
13th-century births
13th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops
1296 deaths
Bishops of Caithness
Bishops of Ross (Scotland)
People from County Durham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Buford | Bob Buford was an American cable-TV pioneer, social entrepreneur, author, and venture philanthropist. He co-founded Leadership Network in 1984 and later the Halftime Institute in 1998. Bob became founding chairman in 1988 of what was initially called The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and popularized the concept of Halftime through several books he authored.
Bob was a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and of the Owner Managed Program at Harvard. He played active roles in the Young Presidents' Organization and the World Presidents' Organization and served on the board of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard Business School.
In the fall of 1999, Bill Pollard of ServiceMaster, Nan Stone, former editor of the Harvard Business Review, and several other people agreed that it was vitally important to preserve the writings and management ideas of Peter Drucker for the future leaders of business and nonprofit organizations. In connection with Claremont Graduate University, The Drucker Institute was created. Buford served on the Board and in 2008 was appointed Chairman of its Board of Advisors.
In 2014, Buford authored Drucker & Me (Worthy Publishing ) about Buford's 23-year relationship with Drucker. Believing non-profit organizations change lives, they worked with Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, and others to design a new management model for non-profits in the 20th century. Bob has been featured in Forbes Magazine (April 2014), Christianity Today (April 2014), and The Christian Broadcasting Network (April 2014) about his relationship and business ventures with Peter Drucker.
Bob was the recipient of Christian Management Association's 2005 Christian Management Award. Bob lived in Dallas with his wife, Linda. He died in 2018 at the age of 78.
Publications
Halftime: Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance (1997)
Game Plan (1999)
Stuck in Halftime: Reinvesting Your One and Only Life (2001)
Finishing Well: What People Who Really Live Do Differently! (2004)
Beyond Halftime: Practical Wisdom for Your Second Half (2008)
Drucker and Me (2014) Worthy Publishing
References
External links
Bob Bob Buford Institute
Drucker & Me
halftime.org Halftime
ACTIVEenergy.net Bob Buford's official site
leadnet.org Leadership Network
leadertoleader.org Leader to Leader Institute
American Christian writers
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Living people
1939 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole%20d%27Informatique%20d%27%C3%89lectronique%20et%20d%27Expertise%20comptable | The is a school in Kinshasa devoted to computer science, electronics and accounting. The school was founded in 1972 by Anatole Musoko Kanumbi. The school's name is abbreviated to EIECO. It has played a leading role in the development of high-tech in the Kinshasa-Brazzaville area.
EIECO offers programs in computer science, radio communications, telecommunications, electronics, electrical engineering, and accounting. It is modeled after similar institutions in Europe.
Adapted from the French Wikipedia article
Universities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Educational institutions established in 1972
Education in Kinshasa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishii%20Hisaichi%27s%20CNN | is a yonkoma manga series by Hisaichi Ishii which ran from 1990 to 1995 in Japan. The "CNN" in the title stands for "Comical News Network". The focus of the series was commentary on various international situations during the period it ran.
Characters
Bill Clinton
The 42nd president of the United States. In the manga, his wife Hillary is seen constantly dominating him.
George H. W. Bush
The 41st president of the United States. In the manga, he is constantly pestering Clinton to bomb Iraq.
Boris Yeltsin
The president of Russia at the time. He is shown frequently drinking vodka. After being hospitalized due to problems caused by drinking, he is told he must stop drinking vodka. The manga blames the weakness of the Russian economy on the impact of Yeltsin's sudden lack of drinking.
Jiang Zemin
Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China. He spends his time in the manga going from sorrow to joy over the illness of Deng Xiaoping, Paramount leader of the Communist Party of China until 1997 when he died. He's also always repeating the last request of Chairman Mao Zedong as given to Premier Hua Guofeng, as well as saying other strange things.
Saddam Hussein
The president of Iraq at the time. He spends his time in the manga threatening to invade Kuwait unless he's made a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
Kim Jong Il
The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Korea and film fanatic in the manga. He has a bronze statue of himself made which is the same height as the one of his father, Kim Il Sung, though he has the pedestal on which his statue sits made twice as tall.
Collections
, 1995-08-01, ¥600, Bunshun
Sources:
References
1990 manga
Bungeishunjū manga
Comedy anime and manga
Cultural depictions of Bill Clinton
Cultural depictions of Boris Yeltsin
Cultural depictions of George H. W. Bush
Cultural depictions of Hillary Clinton
Cultural depictions of Kim Jong Il
Cultural depictions of Saddam Hussein
Hisaichi Ishii
Yonkoma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain%20Societies%20Development%20Support%20Programme | The Mountain Societies Development Support Programme is a branch of the Aga Khan Development Network ("AKDN") dedicated to improving the quality of life of the people of the mountainous oblasts of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
References
1. Pamir Power Plant: Using Natural and Local Resources to Generate Power
External links
Description of MSDSP on AKDN official website
Aga Khan Development Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Odersky | Martin Odersky (born 5 September 1958) is a German computer scientist and professor of programming methods at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He specializes in code analysis and programming languages. He spearheaded the design of Scala and Generic Java (and Pizza before).
In 1989, he received his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich under the supervision of Niklaus Wirth, who is best known as the designer of several programming languages, including Pascal. He did postdoctoral work at IBM and Yale University.
In 1997, he implemented the GJ compiler, and his implementation became the basis of javac, the Java compiler.
In 2002, he and others began working on Scala which had its first public release in 2003.
In 2007, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
On 12 May 2011, Odersky and collaborators launched Typesafe Inc. (renamed Lightbend Inc., ), a company to provide commercial support, training, and services for Scala.
He teaches three courses on the Coursera online learning platform: Functional Programming Principles in Scala, Functional Program Design in Scala and Programming Reactive Systems .
See also
Timeline of programming languages
Scala programming language
References
External links
Biographical notice, EPFL website
Interview with Martin Odersky about Scala Dr. Dobb's, 2011
Martin Odersky on the Future of Scala, Interview by Sadek Drobi on Jan 10, 2012
Living people
German computer scientists
Programming language designers
Programming language researchers
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Scala (programming language)
1958 births
ETH Zurich alumni
Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM%20HD | MGM HD was an all high-definition television cable network owned by the MGM HD Productions subsidiary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a division of Amazon's MGM Holdings, Inc. It featured movies from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library of 1,200 movies mastered in a high-definition-compatible format. The films were usually presented uncut and in their original aspect ratio, although some films were edited for content for daytime viewing and commercial breaks were often added during peak viewing hours. MGM HD offered programming like the MGM Channel which was available in 110 countries.
Carriage
United States
At closing, the network was available via AT&T U-verse, DirecTV, Charter Spectrum, Mediacom, and Frontier FiOS and Philo in the United States. MGM HD was removed from the Comcast Xfinity channel lineup in February 2019. The network was removed from Verizon FiOS at the start of 2021, while Dish removed it on August 31, 2022.
On October 25, it was confirmed that Amazon would shut down MGM HD on October 31; its assets were merged onto sister service Epix, which re-branded as MGM+ on January 15, 2023.
Europe
The N satellite service in Poland carries MGM HD. It was launched on December 7, 2006, in Poland.
In the United Kingdom, MGM HD launched on 14 December 2009 on the Sky UK satellite service. The channel was run in partnership with Sky. On 27 April 2011, the channel was added to UPC Ireland's lineup. On 16 January 2014, MGM HD ceased broadcasting in the UK and Ireland. MGM continued to be available on the UPC (rebranded to Virgin Media Ireland in 2015) service in Ireland on channel 326 until it was removed in January 2018. MGM Germany was closed at the end of 2016.
References
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2022
Commercial-free television networks
Television networks in the United States
Defunct television networks in the United States
Movie channels in the United States
Former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer subsidiaries
HD-only channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHNC | WHNC (890 AM) is a licensed radio station. As of December 2017, it is off-the-air. It is licensed (though suspended in 2017) in Henderson, North Carolina, United States to The Paradise Network, its owner. As of July 2022 its license is still in suspension.
References
External links
HNC
HNC
Radio stations established in 1944
1944 establishments in North Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPTL | WPTL (920 AM) is a radio station broadcasting the Real Country music format from Westwood One Networks. WPTL is licensed to Canton, North Carolina, United States. The station is currently owned by Skycountry Broadcasting. WPTL went on the air in 1963. Bill Reck owned the station since 1978 and retired in November 12, 2020. Bill's daughter - Terryll Evans is the new owner and is following in her fathers foot steps.
WPTL has aired the football games of Pisgah High School since 1992, when WWIT dropped them. The station also airs Pisgah basketball, softball and baseball.
John Anderson is the weekday morning host. The former host was Frank Byrd.
On February 7, 2018, WPTL added an FM signal at 101.7, broadcasting from Chambers Mountain, giving the station better coverage of all of Haywood County, especially at night.
References
External links
PTL
Country radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosswalk.com | Crosswalk.com is a Christian website, operated by the Salem Web Network, a division of Salem Communications. Crosswalk.com's slogan is "The Intersection of Faith and Life", and the site offers news, educational articles and other resources for Christians.
History
Crosswalk.com was founded in 1993. The first publicly traded Christian organization, its Web site received a rating of "Best of the Christian Web" for 1998 and 1999. However, after taking a hit in stocks from $12 per share in July 1999 to $1.44 per share in August 2000 and less than 60 cents per share at the end of 2000, Crosswalk.com was dropped from the NASDAQ National Market and placed on the SmallCap Market.
Salem Web Network acquired the site on October 4, 2002 for a reported $4.1 million. Salem Network claims that the network receives 60 million monthly page views and 6 million unique users.
Footnotes
External links
Christian websites
Salem Media Group properties |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie%20as%20the%20Island%20Princess | Barbie as the Island Princess is a 2007 Canadian-American computer-animated musical film and the eleventh installment in the film series based on Mattel's Barbie toyline. The only entry animated by Mainframe Studios as Rainmaker Animation, the film stars the voice of Kelly Sheridan.
The score was composed by Arnie Roth, with songs written by Megan Cavallari, Amy Powers and executive producer Rob Hudnut. It was released direct-to-DVD on September 18, 2007, with a television premiere five days later on Nickelodeon.
Plot
Sagi, the red panda, and Azul, the Indian peacock, live on a tropical island in the South Seas. They discover a little girl and her chest of belongings washed up on shore after a storm. They take her in and name her "Ro," as those were the only two letters left on the chests' broken nameplate. Ten years later, Ro has learned to speak to animals and has grown to be a beautiful young woman, spending her days playing on the island with Azul, Sagi, and a baby Asian elephant, named Tika.
Prince Antonio of Apollonia is out exploring the South Seas, and finds himself on Ro's Island. She saves him from a float of crocodiles, and Antonio invites her to return with him to his kingdom, so she can search for clues of her forgotten past. Ro agrees, bringing her three friends with her. On the journey, Ro and Antonio begin to fall in love.
Upon arriving in Apollonia, Antonio's parents, King Peter and Queen Danielle, are shocked when they first meet Ro. Peter had arranged a marriage for Antonio while he was away, so that he could finally settle down and stop his adventuring. He takes an immediate dislike to the "wild island girl" for disrupting his plans; however, Antonio's little sisters, the princesses Rita, Sofia, Gina, and Danielle's pet rhesus monkey, Tallulah, immediately befriend Ro, Sagi, Azul, and Tika.
Antonio's betrothed, Princess Luciana, and her mother, Queen Ariana, later would arrive in Apollonia so that Antonio could meet them. Unbeknownst to everyone, even Luciana, Ariana's parents committed treason and were demoted to be swineherds by Peter long ago. Ariana had married an elderly king to become queen and regain her former status, and now she is seeking a way to enact her revenge on Peter; seeing Ro as a threat, she works to sabotage all Ro's attempts to fit in. However, this causes Antonio to fall more in love with Ro, and Luciana, being kindhearted, feels sorry for her.
Ro, demoralized by her "failures," thinks about returning to her island. Tallulah, Sagi, Azul and Tika cheer her up and help her get dressed up for the royal ball. At the ball, everyone is impressed by Ro's beauty and grace, and Antonio privately proposes to her. However, Ro refuses, reminding Antonio of his duty is to obey his father.
Antonio argues with Peter and abdicates the crown to Rita. He leaves a note for Ro, saying he will run away with her. Tika, afraid to lose Ro, overhears and hides the note. Meanwhile, Ariana sends her pet rats to spread "sun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20Ramsay | Derek Arthur Ramsay Jr. (born December 7, 1976) is a British-Filipino model, actor, and host. As of 2019, he is an exclusive talent of GMA Network. In 2021, he file for indefinite leave and is currently inactive in showbiz to attend personal life.
Early life and education
Ramsay was born on December 7, 1976, in Enfield, England, and he was raised in Cainta, Rizal, Philippines. His Filipina mother, Remedios Paggao, was the head of the housekeeping unit of 11 Cadogan Gardens in England, and his British father, Derek Arthur Ramsay Sr. was an inspector for the Metropolitan Police Service stationed in Scotland Yard. He was educated in the Philippines at Maria Montessori High School and a boarding school in England. He studied for an undergraduate degree in marketing in New Hampshire and Boston.
Career
Modelling
Early in the 2000s, Ramsay found work as an MTV VJ, a model, as well as TV commercial actor.
Television and film
Ramsay first came into wider public attention in Eat Bulaga! as a co-host of the segment Pool Watch from 2001 to 2004 on GMA Network.
In April 2012, he signed a three-year contract and transferred to TV5.
His first show on TV5 was The Amazing Race Philippines. After his contract expired in February 2015, he signed another three-year contract with TV5 on 28 April 2015.
After months of speculations about network transfer, Ramsay returned to GMA Network and signed an exclusive contract with the network on 3 April 2019. He started in the network as a co-host of Eat Bulaga! from 2001 to 2004. His first comeback Kapuso project was The Better Woman that garnered high ratings aired on 2019.
In 2020, he was supposed to topbilled a project Kapuso project entitled Sanggang Dikit however because of the pandemic the production was halt. Later on, he received an offer to do with To Love and To Hold but he declines the role due to lock-in taping.
Showbiz hiatus
In December 2021, Ramsey and GMA Network have agreed that the actor will take an "indefinite leave" and "freeze the contract" from showbiz to attend to "personal matters and family".
Sports
Basketball
Ramsay also played basketball competitively. In 2004, he played for the Toyota Otis–Letran Knights in the now-defunct Philippine Basketball League. He would make his return to the sport, after joining the Batangas City Athletics of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) for the 2019–20 MPBL Lakan Season. He debuted for the team in Batangas' 80–67 win against the Caloocan Supremos in July 2019.
Beach soccer
Ramsay is currently the head ambassador of the Philippine national beach soccer team, and was set to participate in the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Asian qualifiers, but ultimately did not due to his commitment to Kidlat, where he was playing the lead role.
Golf
He also plays golf, a sport which he took up after his involvement in the 2014 film Trophy Wife. Along with John Estrada, Ramsay won the 2017 Jack Nicklaus International Invitational, a recreational golf to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Plaisted | David Alan Plaisted is a computer science professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Research interests
Plaisted's research interests include term rewriting systems, automated theorem proving, logic programming, and algorithms. His research accomplishments in theorem proving include work on the recursive path ordering,
the associative path ordering, abstraction, the simplified and modified problem reduction formats, ground reducibility,
nonstandard clause form translations, rigid E-unification, Knuth–Bendix completion, replacement rules in theorem proving, instance-based theorem proving strategies, and semantics in theorem proving.
Education and career
He received his B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1970 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976. He served on the faculty of the computer science department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until 1984, and since then has been a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored or co-authored publications in computer science, which are cited by academics in this field. He has served on a number of program committees and on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including the Journal of Symbolic Computation, Information Processing Letters, Mathematical Systems Theory, and Fundamenta Informaticae. Plaisted spent a sabbatical at SRI International in Menlo Park, California in 1982 and 1983 and another at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany in 1993 and 1994. Plaisted operates a Young Earth creation website called A Creation Perspective.
References
External links
Plaisted's page at UNC
University of Chicago alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer scientists
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
Stanford University alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplitude%20and%20phase-shift%20keying | Amplitude and phase-shift keying (APSK) is a digital modulation scheme that conveys data by modulating both the amplitude and the phase of a carrier wave. In other words, it combines both amplitude-shift keying (ASK) and phase-shift keying (PSK). This allows for a lower bit error rate for a given modulation order and signal-to-noise ratio, at the cost of increased complexity, compared to ASK or PSK alone.
Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) can be considered a subset of APSK because all QAM schemes modulate both the amplitude and phase of the carrier. Conventionally, QAM constellations are rectangular and APSK constellations are circular, however this is not always the case. The distinction between the two is in their production; QAM is produced from two orthogonal signals. The advantage of APSK over conventional QAM is a lower number of possible amplitude levels and therefore a lower peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). The resilience of APSK to amplifier and channel non-linearities afforded by its low PAPR have made it especially attractive for satellite communications, including DVB-S2.
Constellations
There are many APSK constellations. Circular constellations are the most common. There may be multiple circular constellations of the same order, for example 16-APSK could be implemented using a (1, 5, 10) constellation or a (5, 11) constellation. Increasing the number of rings decreases the bit error rate but increases the PAPR. Other APSK constellations include triangular, rectangular and hexagonal constellations.
A careful design of the constellation geometry can approach the Gaussian capacity as the constellation size grows to infinity. For the regular QAM constellations, a gap of 1.56 dB is observed. The previous solution, where the constellation has a Gaussian shape, is called constellation shaping.
References
Further reading
DVB-Flexible Serially Concatenated Convolutional Turbo Codes with Near-Shannon bound performance for telemetry applications, CCSDS-131.2-O-1.
De Gaudenzi, R., Guillén i Fàbregas, A. and Martinez, A., 2006. Turbo‐coded APSK modulations design for satellite broadband communications. International journal of satellite communications and networking, 24(4), pp.261-281.
Quantized radio modulation modes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilt%20%28software%29 | Quilt is a software utility for managing a series of changes to the source code of any computer program. Such changes are often referred to as "patches" or "patch sets". Quilt can take an arbitrary number of patches as input and condense them into a single patch. In doing so, Quilt makes it easier for many programmers to test and evaluate the different changes amongst patches before they are permanently applied to the source code.
Tools of this type are very important for distributed software development, in which many programmers collaborate to test and build a single large codebase. For example, quilt is heavily used by the maintainers of the Linux kernel.
Quilt evolved from a set of patch-management scripts originally written by Linux kernel developer Andrew Morton, and was developed by Andreas Grünbacher for maintaining Linux kernel customizations for SuSE Linux. It is now being developed as a community effort, hosted at the GNU Savannah project repository and distributed as free software (its license is the GNU General Public License v2, or later). Quilt's name originated from patchwork quilts.
Quilt has been incorporated into dpkg, Debian's package manager, and is one of the standard source formats supported from the Debian "squeeze" release onwards. This source format is identified as "3.0 (quilt)" by dpkg. Quilt is integrated into the Buildroot, which is notably used by OpenWrt. Quilt is also integrated into and supported by the similar Yocto Project build system supported by the Linux Foundation.
Mercurial queues (mq), an extension of the Mercurial revision control system, provides similar functionality; and StGit provides an equivalent functionality on top of Git.
See also
Apache Subversion
Git (software)
References
External links
Quilt Tutorial (PDF)
Free computer programming tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile-to-mobile%20convergence | The term mobile to mobile calling is used in many mobile phone plans to refer to making calls to other mobile phones using the same provider's network--which is often cheaper than other calls.
Mobile to mobile convergence (MMC) is a term to describe a technology used in modern computing and telephony. The term is an offshoot of fixed mobile convergence (FMC) and uses dual mode (cellular network and WiFi) phones with a special software client and an application server to connect voice calls and business applications via a VoWLAN or through cellular service.
Mobile-to-mobile convergence differs from conventional FMC in that the technology uses the WLAN to route calls via the internet as a primary function, and uses the wireless carrier network if the WLAN is not present as a secondary function. It is significant since it is viewed as a means to compete with carrier companies since the calls are routed around the cellular network. This is viewed as a more efficient use of networking technology than standard FMC solutions that are available as well, since most of the latter use the carrier network as the primary means of communication and do not leverage the lower cost and controls of IP networks that are generally installed at most modern businesses. In theory, it also provides the capability of providing a greater voice coverage area than either carrier or WLAN technology alone since some areas do not have cellular service coverage and others do not have WiFi.
The first offering known in the market successfully deploying MMC is beCherry, which is delivered by Belgian company Mondial Telecom. They offer an MMC solution on Symbian, iOS and Android. Other smartphone OSs are also considered.
See also
Fixed-mobile convergence
Convergence (telecommunications)
Computer network
Mobile technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segment%20tree | In computer science, the segment tree is a data structure used for storing information about intervals or segments. It allows querying which of the stored segments contain a given point. A similar data structure is the interval tree.
A segment tree for a set of n intervals uses O(n log n) storage and can be built in O(n log n) time. Segment trees support searching for all the intervals that contain a query point in time O(log n + k), k being the number of retrieved intervals or segments.
Applications of the segment tree are in the areas of computational geometry, geographic information systems and machine learning.
The segment tree can be generalized to higher dimension spaces.
Definition
Description
Let S be a set of intervals, or segments. Let p1, p2, ..., pm be the list of distinct interval endpoints, sorted from left to right. Consider the partitioning of the real line induced by those points. The regions of this partitioning are called elementary intervals. Thus, the elementary intervals are, from left to right:
That is, the list of elementary intervals consists of open intervals between two consecutive endpoints pi and pi+1, alternated with closed intervals consisting of a single endpoint. Single points are treated themselves as intervals because the answer to a query is not necessarily the same at the interior of an elementary interval and its endpoints.
Given a set of intervals, or segments, a segment tree T for is structured as follows:
T is a binary tree.
Its leaves correspond to the elementary intervals induced by the endpoints in , in an ordered way: the leftmost leaf corresponds to the leftmost interval, and so on. The elementary interval corresponding to a leaf v is denoted Int(v).
The internal nodes of T correspond to intervals that are the union of elementary intervals: the interval Int(N) corresponding to node N is the union of the intervals corresponding to the leaves of the tree rooted at N. That implies that Int(N) is the union of the intervals of its two children.
Each node or leaf v in T stores the interval Int(v) and a set of intervals, in some data structure. This canonical subset of node v contains the intervals [x, x′] from such that [x, x′] contains Int(v) and does not contain Int(parent(v)). That is, each node in T stores the segments that span through its interval, but do not span through the interval of its parent.
Construction
A segment tree from the set of segments , can be built as follows. First, the endpoints of the intervals in are sorted. The elementary intervals are obtained from that. Then, a balanced binary tree is built on the elementary intervals, and for each node v it is determined the interval Int(v) it represents. It remains to compute the canonical subsets for the nodes. To achieve this, the intervals in are inserted one by one into the segment tree. An interval X = [x, x′] can be inserted in a subtree rooted at T, using the following procedure:
If Int(T) is contained in X then |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference%20on%20Human%20Factors%20in%20Computing%20Systems | The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) series of academic conferences is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of human–computer interaction and is one of the top-ranked conferences in computer science. It is hosted by ACM SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on computer–human interaction. CHI has been held annually since 1982 and attracts thousands of international attendees. CHI 2020, which was originally planned to take place on April, was cancelled due to COVID-19, and CHI 2021 was held online as a virtual conference chaired by Yoshifumi Kitamura and Aaron Quigley. CHI 2021 “making waves, combining strengths” was originally scheduled to take place in Yokohama.
History
The CHI conference series started with the Human Factors in Computer Systems conference in Gaithersburg, Maryland, US in 1982, organized by Bill Curtis and Ben Shneiderman. During this meeting the formation of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction (SIGCHI) was first publicly announced. ACM SIGCHI became the sponsor of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The first CHI conference was held in Boston, Massachusetts, US, in 1983. The second conference took place in San Francisco, in 1985. Since then, CHI conferences have been held annually in spring each year. Until 1992 the conference was held in Canada or the US. In 1993 CHI moved to Europe for the first time and was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Over the years, CHI has grown in popularity. The 1982 meeting drew 907 attendees. CHI 90 attracted 2,314. Attendance has been fairly stable since then. After the early years CHI became highly selective. Since 1993 the acceptance rate for full papers was consistently below 30 percent. After 1992 the average acceptance rate was around 20 percent. The number of accepted full papers is slowly increasing and reached 157 accepted papers with an acceptance rate of 22 percent in 2008. CHI continues to grow, reaching over 3,300 attendees in 2013 and 3,855 in 2019.
Tracks
The CHI conference consists of multiple tracks, including:
Academic papers and notes (short papers) on a variety of topics, such as (ubiquitous computing, visualization, usability and user experience design)
Posters and demonstrations
Workshops and courses hosted by domain experts
Invited panels on relevant topics
Case studies from industry practitioners
Past and upcoming CHI conferences
Past and future CHI conferences include:
Notes
References
External links
ACM SIGCHI website
Computer science conferences
Human–computer interaction
Association for Computing Machinery conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquileo%20Parra | José Bonifacio Aquileo Elias Parra y Gómez de la Vega was a Colombian soldier, businessman and political figure. He was the President of Colombia between 1876 and 1878.
Biographic data
Aquileo Parra was born in Barichara, Santander, on May 12, 1825. He died in Pacho, Cundinamarca, on December 4, 1900.
Early life
Parra began his early education in the public school of his home town of Barichara, but he was forced to drop out before graduating from high school because of economic hardship. He found a job making and selling hats, and he navigated the Magdalena River, calling on the ports of Magangué, Mompós and Puerto Berrío. He eventually saved enough money to change jobs and became a politician. He spent all his free time learning and studying, and he became an autodidact and highly educated.
Political career
Parra takes his first steps as a politician in the state of Santander as state senator and later, in 1875, elected as president of the same state. He is also elected MP assists to congress for several terms. Para was also elected as delegate to the Constitutional Assembly of Rionegro. He served as minister of the treasury of President Manuel Murillo Toro and later, reappointed to the same position by President Santiago Pérez de Manosalbas.
Parra also served in the military and participated in the civil wars against presidents José María Melo, Mariano Ospina Rodríguez and the Granadine Confederation ("Confederacion Granadina") in 1861.
The presidency
Parra was elected President of Colombia by congress. During the general election for president in 1876, none of the three candidates obtained enough votes to become president. Thus, Congress decide the election by giving Parra 48 votes, Rafael Nuñez 18 votes and Bartolomé Calvo 18 votes. becoming the first and only President of Colombia from Santander.
Parra was inaugurated as President of Colombia on April 1, 1876. Three months later he had deal with the events that lead to the bloodiest civil war of the 19th century. The liberal party was divided in two groups, the "Radicals", loyal to Parra and the "Independent", loyal to Rafel Núñez. The Conservatives, united in one group, launched the military offensive in the States of Antioquia and Cauca.
References
1825 births
1900 deaths
People from Barichara
Presidents of Colombia
Presidential Designates of Colombia
Colombian Liberal Party politicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20Theorist | Logic Theorist is a computer program written in 1956 by Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, and Cliff Shaw. It was the first program deliberately engineered to perform automated reasoning, and has been described as "the first artificial intelligence program". Logic Theorist proved 38 of the first 52 theorems in chapter two of Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica, and found new and shorter proofs for some of them.
History
In 1955, when Newell and Simon began to work on the Logic Theorist, the field of artificial intelligence did not yet exist. Even the term itself ("artificial intelligence") would not be coined until the following summer.
Simon was a political scientist who had already produced classic work in the study of how bureaucracies function as well as developing his theory of bounded rationality (for which he would later win a Nobel Prize). The study of business organizations requires, like artificial intelligence, an insight into the nature of human problem solving and decision making. Simon remembers consulting at RAND Corporation in the early 1950s and seeing a printer typing out a map, using ordinary letters and punctuation as symbols. He realized that a machine that could manipulate symbols could just as well simulate decision making and possibly even the process of human thought.
The program that printed the map had been written by Newell, a RAND scientist studying logistics and organization theory. For Newell, the decisive moment was in 1954 when Oliver Selfridge came to RAND to describe his work on pattern matching. Watching the presentation, Newell suddenly understood how the interaction of simple, programmable units could accomplish complex behavior, including the intelligent behavior of human beings. "It all happened in one afternoon," he would later say. It was a rare moment of scientific epiphany.
"I had such a sense of clarity that this was a new path, and one I was going to go down. I haven't had that sensation very many times. I'm pretty skeptical, and so I don't normally go off on a toot, but I did on that one. Completely absorbed in it—without existing with the two or three levels consciousness so that you're working, and aware that you're working, and aware of the consequences and implications, the normal mode of thought. No. Completely absorbed for ten to twelve hours."
Newell and Simon began to talk about the possibility of teaching machines to think. Their first project was a program that could prove mathematical theorems like the ones used in Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead's Principia Mathematica. They enlisted the help of computer programmer Cliff Shaw, also from RAND, to develop the program. (Newell says "Cliff was the genuine computer scientist of the three").
The first version was hand-simulated: they wrote the program onto 3x5 cards and, as Simon recalled:In January 1956, we assembled my wife and three children together with some graduate students. To each member of the group, we gave o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolidDB | solidDB is an in-memory relational database management system developed and sold by UNICOM Global. solidDB is designed for extreme speed as a persistent, relational in-memory database to meet performance and reliability demands of real-time applications.
Technology
solidDB includes an in-memory database as well as a traditional disk based database, which both employ the same SQL interface, and a high availability option. Both in-memory and disk based engines coexist inside the same server process, and a single SQL statement can access data from both engines. The High Availability option maintains two copies of the data synchronized at all times. solidDB can be embedded directly into applications and run virtually unattended for lower total cost-of-ownership.
Customers
SolidDB has historically been used as an embedded database in telecommunications equipment, network software, and similar systems. Companies using solidDB include Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Cisco Systems, EMC Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Siemens AG and Nokia Networks.
History
Solid was a privately held company founded in Helsinki, Finland in 1992.
Solid was acquired by IBM in late 2007.
SolidDB was sold to UNICOM Global in 2014.
Notes
External links
Home page for solidDB product
Technical marketing paper on solidDB
IBM Redbook on solidDB
IBM solidDB: In-Memory Database Optimized for Extreme Speed and Availability, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 2013
Companies based in Helsinki
Relational database management systems
Divested IBM products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPFJ | WPFJ (1480 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Gospel format. It is licensed to Franklin, North Carolina, United States. The station is owned by Radio Training Network, Inc.
External links
Moody Radio affiliate stations
Radio stations established in 1980
1980 establishments in North Carolina
PFJ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Hill%20%28chef%29 | Brian Hill is an American chef who was a contestant on the first season of the television show Top Chef. He has appeared on Bar Rescue, and Hill was one of the six regular chefs in the Food Network reality show Private Chefs of Beverly Hills. In March 2010, he launched the Comfort Truck in Los Angeles, California. He opened Chef Brian's Comfort Kitchen in Tucson, Arizona in December 2022.
References and notes
External links
iamchefbrian.com Official Chef Brian Website
Biography of Brian Hill at All-American Speakers
Top Chef contestants
Living people
Participants in American reality television series
American chefs
American male chefs
Year of birth missing (living people)
Chefs from Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoken%20dialog%20system | A spoken dialog system (SDS) is a computer system able to converse with a human with voice. It has two essential components that do not exist in a written text dialog system: a speech recognizer and a text-to-speech module (written text dialog systems usually use other input systems provided by an OS). It can be further distinguished from command and control speech systems that can respond to requests but do not attempt to maintain continuity over time.
Components
An automatic speech recognizer (ASR) decodes speech into text. Domain-specific recognizers can be configured for language designed for a given application. A "cloud" recognizer will be suitable for domains that do not depend on very specific vocabularies.
Natural language understanding transforms a recognition into a concept structure that can drive system behavior. Some approaches will combine recognition and understanding processing but are thought to be less flexible since interpretation has to be coded into the grammar.
The dialog manager controls turn-by-turn behavior. A simple dialog system may ask the user questions then act on the response. Such directed dialog systems use a tree-like structure for control; frame- (or form-) based systems allow for some user initiative and accommodate different styles of interaction. More sophisticated dialog managers incorporate mechanisms for dealing with misunderstandings and clarification.
The domain reasoner, or more simply the back-end, makes use of a knowledge base to retrieve information and helps formulate system responses. In simple systems, this may be a database which is queried using information collected through the dialog. The domain reasoner, together with the dialog manager, maintain the context of interaction and allows the system to reflect some human conversational abilities (for example using anaphora).
Response generation is similar to text-based natural language generation, but takes into account the needs of spoken communication. This might include the use of simpler grammatical constructions, managing the amount of information in any one output utterance and introducing prosodic markers to help the human participant absorb information more easily. A complete system design will also introduce elements of lexical entrainment, to encourage the human user to favor certain ways of speaking, which in turn can improve recognition performance.
Text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) realizes an intended utterance as speech. Depending on the application, TTS may be based on concatenation of pre-recorded material produced by voice professionals. In more complex applications TTS will use more flexible techniques that accommodate large vocabularies and that allow the developer control over the character ("personality") of the system.
Varieties of systems
Spoken dialog systems vary in their complexity. Directed dialog systems are very simple and require that the developer create a graph (typically a tree) that manages the task but |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage%20Mutant%20Ninja%20Turtles%3A%20Manhattan%20Missions | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Manhattan Missions is a 1991 computer game for DOS featuring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Gameplay
The goal of the game is to complete a number of missions, consisting of levels divided into screens, culminating in a final battle with The Shredder. The gameplay is similar to the original Prince of Persia, as characters switch between free movement and melee fighting stances in a two-dimensional platformer environment. In between missions the Turtles can rest, regaining lost hit points, but the player only has a limited amount of time in which to find the Shredder. The game is designed to be played with a keyboard, and utilizes a key to switch between walking and fighting modes. Each Turtle has the ability to arm and withdraw his weapon. Each Turtle wields his signature weapon and a number of shuriken. Holding the enter key makes the Turtles attack, and the spacebar is used to block enemy attacks based on which arrow key is held.
Tone and setting
Manhattan Missions is notable for its more mature tone and setting than other TMNT games of its time. The game greatly draws upon the original Mirage comics and theatrical films, unlike other contemporary TMNT games which were mostly based on the 1987 TV series. The opening story is loosely based on the story from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1. Indeed, the game's title screen is almost an exact reproduction of the splash page from the second and third pages of TMNT #1.
Other elements from the Mirage comics and films include the Shredder and Foot Clan character designs, the presence of Triceratons, and the inclusion of Tatsu, a character created for the films. The only direct relation to the 1987 series is the turtles having multi-colored bandanas, the inclusion of Bebop and Rocksteady as bosses, and Baxter Stockman being Caucasian.
April O'Neil is a reporter like her 1987 cartoon and movie appearances; while she dressed in yellow like the cartoon, she resembled actress Paige Turco from the second film. Splinter resembles his movie design. The Turtles' rescue of April from a group of Foot Ninja is similar to a scene from the first movie.
Also, notably, Casey Jones is a major character in the game, as he is in the Mirage comics and films. This is the first TMNT game where he plays a major part, as he rescues the player's Turtle if he runs out of energy.
References
1991 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Konami games
North America-exclusive video games
Manhattan Missions
Video games developed in Canada
Video games set in New York City
Distinctive Software games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20games%20compatible%20with%20FreeTrack | This is a list of personal computer games compatible with FreeTrack by interface.
FreeTrack interface
ARMA: Armed Assault - [Yaw, Pitch, X, Z]
ARMA 2 - [Yaw, Pitch, X, Z]
ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead - [Yaw, Pitch, X, Z]
ARMA 3 - [Yaw, Pitch, X, Y, Z]
Assetto Corsa - [Yaw, Pitch, X, Y, Z]
DayZ Standalone - [Yaw, Pitch, X, Y, Z]
Dirt Rally - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z]
Elite: Dangerous - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z]
Euro Truck Simulator 2 - [Yaw, Pitch, X, Y, Z]
GP Bikes - [Yaw, Pitch]
Iron Front: Liberation 1944 - [Yaw, Pitch, X, Z]
Kart Racing PRO - [Yaw, Pitch]
Miscreated - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z]
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z]
Take On Helicopters - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z]
World Racing Series - [Yaw, Pitch]
X3: Albion Prelude - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll]
With third-party support
Battlefield 2 - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z] - BF2FreeLook
DCS: A-10C - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z] - FreeTrack compatible headtracker.dll plugin
DCS: Black Shark 2 - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z] - FreeTrack compatible headtracker.dll plugin
DCS: World - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z] - FreeTrack compatible headtracker.dll plugin
Kerbal Space Program - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z] - FreeTrack compatible plugin
Unity game engine - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z] - Unity Package
X-Plane 9/10 - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z] - ft2xplane
FSUIPC
Flight Simulator 2002 - [Yaw, Pitch, Z]
Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight - [Yaw, Pitch, Z]
SimConnect
ESP - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z]
Flight Simulator X - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z]
Flight Simulator 2020 - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z]
Prepar3D - [Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z]
TrackIR interface
All TrackIR Enhanced games, along with the following special cases:
Require TIRViews.dll file, distributed with TrackIR software
Colin McRae Rally
Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe
F1 Challenge '99-'02
Flight Simulator 2004
Flight Simulator X
JetPakNG (Flight Simulator 2004 mod)
LunarPilot (Flight Simulator 2004 mod)
Mediterranean Air War (Combat Flight Simulator 3 mod)
NASCAR Racing 2003 Season
Over Flanders Fields (Combat Flight Simulator 3 mod)
Richard Burns Rally
TOCA Race Driver 2
Wings of War
War Thunder
Encrypted interface and compatible only after using TrackIRFixer
DCS: Black Shark
LOMAC: Flaming Cliffs 2
DCS: A-10C
DCS: Black Shark 2
DCS: World
Iron Front: Liberation 1944
Microsoft Flight
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Operation Flashpoint: Red River
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X 2
DiRT 2
DiRT 3
F1 2010
F1 2011
F1 2012
Take On Helicopters
theHunter
With third-party support
By ToCA EDIT:
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010)
Need for Speed: Shift
Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2012)
Need for Speed: The Run
Ridge Racer Unbounded
Shift 2: Unleashed
Sleeping Dogs
Test Drive Unlimited 2
WRC: FIA World Rally Championship
WRC 3: FIA World Rally Championship
By JSJ:
Grand Prix Legends
Kuju Rail Simul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDX%20%28disambiguation%29 | RDX is an explosive.
RDX may also refer to:
Science and technology
Radixin, a protein encoded by the RDX gene
RDX register, a CPU register in 64-bit x86 processors
RDX Technology, a data storage format
Other uses
RDX (band), a reggae duo from Kingston, Jamaica
Acura RDX, a 2006–present Japanese compact SUV
RDX Love, a 2019 Indian Telugu-language film directed by Shankar Bhanu
RDX: Robert Dony Xavier, a 2023 Indian Malayalam-language film directed by Nahas Hidayath
Ranvir Dhanraj Xaja "RDX Bhai", fictional criminal played by Feroz Khan in the 2007 Indian film Welcome |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC%20Networks%20International | AMC Networks International is the division of AMC Networks that operates outside the United States. AMC Networks commissions and distributes TV channels, content and video services. The division's operating companies and business units currently own and operate in joint venture a total of 68 branded TV channels and run a suite of digital, on demand and broadband services in Europe. In aggregate, its channels and feeds reach 382 million homes. AMC Networks International also provide a set of advanced digital services, such as ad sales and broadcast solutions to international channel operators.
The company was originally named Chellomedia and was part of Liberty Global. In 2013, it was sold to AMC Networks (a former subsidiary of Cablevision), and was renamed AMC Networks International.
History
On July 31, 2012, Chellomedia purchased MGM Networks, Inc. from MGM while MGM retaining its United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and joint ventures in Brazil and Australia. Chellomedia has licensed the MGM brand and content to continue on the purchased MGM channels.
On May 21, 2013, it was announced that Liberty Global had put Chellomedia up for sale. Liberty agreed on October 28 to sell Chellomedia to AMC Networks for $1.035B, except for its Benelux unit. The purchase was completed on February 2, 2014.
On July 8, 2014, Chellomedia was renamed AMC Networks International. In November, AMC Networks renamed the European MGM Channel to AMC.
Business units
AMC Networks International runs its businesses through four business units:
AMC Networks International UK (EMEA)
AMC Networks International Central Europe
AMC Networks International Latin America
AMC Networks International Southern Europe
Current channels
AMC (African and Middle Eastern TV channel)
AMC (European TV channel)
AMC (Latin America)
AMC Break (Spain & Portugal)
AMC Crime (Spain & Portugal)
Biggs (co-owned with NOS)
Blast
Blaze (co-owned with A+E Networks UK)
Canal Cocina
History (European TV channel) (co-owned with A+E Networks UK)
Canal Hollywood (co-owned with NOS)
Canal Panda Portugal (co-owned with NOS)
CBS-branded channels (co-owned with Paramount International Networks)
RealityXtra
HorrorXtra
CBS Europa
CBS Reality
CBS Justice (Africa)
Crime & Investigation (co-owned with A+E Networks UK)
Dark
Decasa
El Gourmet
Europa Europa
Extreme Sports Channel
Enfamilia
Film & Arts
Film Café
Film Mania
JimJam
Kids TV Russia
Legend (co-owned with Paramount International Networks)
Más Chic
Minimax
Odisea/Odisseia
Selekt
ShortsTV (co-owned with Shorts International)
Sol Música
Somos
Sport 1
Sport 2
Sport M
Spektrum TV
Spektrum Home
SundanceTV Spain
SundanceTV Poland
TV Paprika
XTRM
Zoomoo Asia-Pacific and Latin America (co-owned with Beach House Kids, NHNZ and Rock Entertainment Holdings)
Outdoor Channel Asia-Pacific and EMEA (joint venture with Kroenke Sports & Entertainment and Rock Entertainment Holdings)
Former channels
AMC (Asian TV cha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records%20of%20the%20Parliaments%20of%20Scotland | The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 is an online publication of the Scottish Parliament and the University of St Andrews arising from a project to create a comprehensive online database of the proceedings of the Parliament of Scotland from 1235 to the Act of Union. The website was launched in 2008.
The project was formulated by Professor Keith Brown of St Andrews University in 1996. Funding was quickly approved by then-Secretary of State for Scotland Michael Forsyth and announced by then-Prime Minister John Major on 4 July 1996. As well as the initial funding by the Scottish Office, monies for what became the Scottish Parliament Project were provided by the Scottish Government, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, and the Strathmartine Trust.
Under the general editorship of Professor Brown, the eleven-year project to complete the database created a work of around fifteen million words in size. It includes parallel translations from the original Latin, Norman French, and Scots.
The primary editors of the text of each period were:
Alastair Mann (Early Modern)
Gillian McIntosh (Early Modern)
Pamela Ritchie (Early Modern)
Roland Tanner (Medieval and Latin)
The lead website developer was Swithun Crowe.
See also
National Archives of Scotland
Advocates' Library
References
Brown, Keith M., "The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland" in History Scotland, volume 8, number 3 (May/June 2008), pp. 15–19. ISSN 1475-5270
Smout, T. C., "Scottish History in the Universities since the 1950s" in History Scotland, volume 7, number 5 (September/October 2007), pp. 45–50. ISSN 1475-5270
" Old parliament archives go online", BBC News, 2008-05-13
"Fuel shortages, credit crunch and binge drinking: Scotland in 1408", Jeremy Watson, Scotland on Sunday, 2008-05-11
External links
Archives in Scotland
Parliament of Scotland
Online archives
University of St Andrews
Scottish Parliament
Scots language
Databases in Scotland
Political history of Scotland
History websites of the United Kingdom
British political websites
Scottish websites
1996 establishments in Scotland
Projects established in 1996
2008 establishments in Scotland
Internet properties established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiomics | Physiomics is a systematic study of physiome in biology. Physiomics employs bioinformatics to construct networks of physiological features that are associated with genes, proteins and their networks. A few of the methods for determining individual relationships between the DNA sequence and physiological function include metabolic pathway engineering and RNAi analysis. The relationships derived from methods such as these are organized and processed computationally to form distinct networks. Computer models use these experimentally determined networks to develop further predictions of gene function.
History
Physiomics arose from the imbalance between the amount of data being generated by genome projects and the technological ability to analyze the data on a large scale. As technologies such as high-throughput sequencing were being used to generate large amounts of genomic data, effective methods needed to be designed to experimentally interpret and computationally organize this data. Science can be illustrated as a cycle linking knowledge to observations. In the post-genomic era, the ability of computational methods to aid in this observation became evident. This cycle, aided by computer models, is the basis for bioinformatics and, thus, physiomics.
Physiome projects
In 1993, the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) in Australia presented a physiome project with the purpose of providing a quantitative description of physiological dynamics and functional behavior of the intact organism. The Physiome Project became a major focus of the IUPS in 2001. The National Simulation Resource Physiome Project is a North American project at The University of Washington. The key elements of the NSR Project are the databasing of physiological, pharmacological, and pathological information on humans and other organisms and integration through computational modeling. Other North American projects include the Biological Network Modeling Center at the California Institute of Technology, the National Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling at The University of Connecticut, and the NIH Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing at The University of Utah.
Research applications
There are many different possible applications of physiomics, each requiring different computational models or the combined use of several different models. Examples of such applications include a three dimensional model for tumor growth, the modelling of biological pattern formation, a mathematical model for the formation of stretch marks in humans, and predictive algorithms for the growth of viral infections within insect hosts.
Modelling and simulation software
Collaborative physiomics research is promoted in part by the open availability of bioinformatics software such as simulation programs and modelling environments. There are many institutions and research groups that make their software available to the public. Examples of openly available software include:
JSim and Sy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viz%3A%20The%20Game | Viz: The Computer Game (also known in-game as "Viz: The Soft Floppy One" and "Viz: The Game" on the box cover) is a single player racing game based on the Viz adult comic which was released in 1991 by Virgin Interactive. The game's music was composed by Jeroen Tel.
Gameplay
Characters Johnny Fartpants, Biffa Bacon, and Buster Gonad compete in a series of five races around the fictional town of Fulchester for some unnamed prize. The races are run in the park, Fulchester High Street, a building site, the beach and a nightclub. The race commentator is Roger Mellie, who provides irreverent chat throughout the game, and many of Viz's popular characters pop up to help or hinder the contestants.
Before the race, each character has the chance to earn tokens by playing a minigame which then can be used during gameplay to give him a temporary advantage. Biffa is able to punch his way through some obstacles or gets into a fight with himself boosting his speed. Johnny can use his "pump power" to jump over small obstacles or to take off and fly a short distance. Buster can use his "unfeasibly large testicles" to jump over small obstacles or put them in a wheelbarrow and gain a burst of speed.
Each contestant must stick to his race lane; otherwise, the referee from Billy the Fish will hurl bricks at the errant racer temporarily stunning him. The courses are set so that each character cannot help running in and out of each other's lanes. If the character is hit, he loses a life. If he loses three lives, it's race over for the human player - the AI characters have unlimited lives.
Reception
Although the game received mediocre reviews in the gaming press with the Commodore 64 version coming under particularly heavy criticism for what was perceived to be excessive loading times, the game did sell very well, particularly for its adult humour which was seldom seen in video games in 1991. The Spectrum version of the game went to number 2 in the UK sales charts, behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The One gave the Amiga version of Viz: The Computer Game an overall score of 68%, expressing that it "isn't such good value for money ... £19.99 buys you a standard obstable course, a few bonus screens and a handful of jokes." The One furthermore expresses that the bonus games are "good fun" and "accurately capture the characteristics of the comic, but underneath the glossy exterior there lurks nothing more elaborate than a basic chase game ... there just isn't enough substance to justify the price." The One also criticises the absence of other characters from Viz such as Billy the Fish. The One concludes that "As a game all this is most likely to appeal to exactly the sort of people who aren't allowed to buy it - kids. Adults should consider sticking their nose in a Viz book instead."
References
1991 video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Racing video games
Video games scored by Jeroen Tel
Video games developed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-voltage%20speaker%20system | Constant-voltage speaker systems refer to networks of loudspeakers which are connected to an audio amplifier using step-up and step-down transformers to simplify impedance calculations and to minimize power loss over the speaker cables. They are more appropriately called high-voltage audio distribution systems. The voltage is constant only in the sense that at full power, the voltage in the system does not depend on the number of speakers driven (as long the amplifier's maximum power is not exceeded). Constant-voltage speaker systems are also commonly referred to as 25-, 70-, 70.7-, 100 or 210-volt speaker systems; distributed speaker systems; or high-impedance speaker systems. In Canada and the US, they are most commonly referred to as 70-volt speakers. In Europe, the 100 V system is the most widespread, with amplifier and speaker products being simply labeled with 100 V.
Operation
Constant-voltage speaker systems are analogous to electrical power transmission methods employed by electric utility companies to transmit electric power over long distances. Typically, an electric utility will step up the voltage of the power transmitted, which correspondingly reduces the current, hence reducing the power loss during transmission. The voltage is stepped down at the destination. Similarly, in a constant-voltage speaker system, the amplifier uses a transformer to step up the voltage of the audio signal to reduce power loss over the speaker cable, allowing more power to be transmitted over a given wire diameter. Each speaker in the system has a step-down transformer to reduce the voltage to a usable level.
Loudspeaker connection
Each loudspeaker's step-down transformer can be designed for a single power level or it can have multiple taps, one of which is selected to match the desired power level to be applied to the loudspeaker. Transformers with various taps allow the installer to adjust the sound pressure level up or down at an individual loudspeaker. Purpose-built models are available that have the transformer contained within the loudspeaker enclosure. The loudspeaker step-down transformer primary is connected in parallel to the constant-voltage line.
Amplifier connection
Constant-voltage lines can be driven by a conventional amplifier with external step-up transformer, an amplifier with an internal step-up transformer or a high-voltage amplifier with transformerless output.
External step-up transformer
A general-purpose amplifier with typical low-impedance output is used. Its output is connected to the primary of an external step-up transformer. Special-purpose transformers can tailor the system design to the project's target power levels. Multiple amplifiers can be combined together via transformers to yield higher voltage and higher current capacity lines. For instance, three 70-volt amplifiers have been used to make a 210-volt line by connecting them to a special-purpose external output transformer that has three primaries and a single se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC%20Networks%20International%20Southern%20Europe | AMC Networks International Southern Europe (formerly AMC Networks International Iberia, Chello Multicanal and Multicanal) is a Madrid, Spain-based television company, owned by AMC Networks International.
In April 2010, it closed the purchase of Teuve, the producer and distributor of thematic channels 100% owned by ONO, incorporating new channels into its offer.
They operate channels under 26 channels (11 in HD and 3 in 4K) in Spain, Portugal, France and Italy.
Channels
Spain
AMC
AMC Break (formerly Bio, A&E and Blaze)
AMC Crime (formerly Crimen+Investigación)
Dark
Decasa
Canal Cocina
Odisea
Historia joint venture with The History Channel Iberia
Canal Hollywood
Canal Panda
Sol Música
Somos
Sundance TV (formerly Cinematk)
XTRM
Portugal
AMC
AMC Break (formerly Bio, A&E and Blaze)
AMC Crime (formerly Crime+Investigation)
Biggs (joint venture with NOS)
Canal Hollywood (joint venture with NOS)
Casa e Cozinha (joint venture with NOS)
História joint venture with The History Channel Iberia
Canal Panda (joint venture with NOS)
Odisseia
SundanceTV
France
SundanceTV
Extreme Sports Channel
Canal Hollywood
Logos
External links
Official AMC Networks International Southern Europe
Official AMC Networks International website
AMC Networks
Southern Europe
Mass media companies of Spain
Companies based in Madrid
Mass media in Madrid
Television stations in the Community of Madrid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC%20Networks%20International%20Central%20Europe | AMC Networks International Central Europe (formerly Chello Central Europe) is a Budapest, Hungary-based television company, owned by AMC Networks International.
It operates 30 channels in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
Channels
AMC (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia)
Film Mania (Hungary)
Film Cafe (Hungary, Romania)
Film+ (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
JimJam
Kinowelt TV (Germany)
Minimax (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Moldova, Serbia)
Megamax (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania)
Sport 1 (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
Sport 2 (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
Sport M (Hungary)
Spektrum (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
Spektrum Home (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
TV Paprika (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania)
Sundance TV (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Poland)
Logos
References
External links
AMC Networks International
AMC Networks
Central Europe
Mass media companies of Hungary
Mass media in Budapest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe%20%28TV%20series%29 | Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci. It premiered on the Fox television network on September 9, 2008, and concluded on January 18, 2013, after five seasons comprising 100 episodes. An FBI agent, Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv); a genius but dysfunctional scientist, Walter Bishop (John Noble); and his son with a troubled past, Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson), are all members of a newly formed Fringe Division in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, and under the supervision of Homeland Security, the team uses fringe science along with traditional FBI investigative techniques to investigate a series of unexplained, often ghastly, occurrences which are related to mysteries surrounding a parallel universe.
The series has been described as a hybrid of fantasy, procedural dramas, and serials, influenced by films like Altered States and television shows such as Lost, The X-Files, and The Twilight Zone. The series began as a traditional mystery-of-the-week series and became more serialized in later seasons. Most episodes contain a standalone plot, with several others also exploring the series' overarching mythology.
Critical reception was lukewarm at first but became more favorable after the first season, when the series began to explore its mythology, including parallel universes and alternate timelines. The show, along with cast and crew, was nominated for many major awards. Despite its move to the "Friday night death slot" and low ratings, the series developed a cult following. It also spawned two six-part comic book series, an alternate reality game, and three novels.
Premise
Fringe follows the casework of the Fringe Division, a Joint Federal Task Force supported primarily by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which includes Agent Olivia Dunham, Dr. Walter Bishop, the archetypal mad scientist, and Peter Bishop, Walter's estranged son and jack-of-all-trades. They are supported by Phillip Broyles (Lance Reddick), the force's director, and Agent Astrid Farnsworth (Jasika Nicole), who assists Walter in laboratory research. The Fringe Division investigates cases relating to fringe science, ranging from transhumanist experiments gone wrong to the prospect of a destructive technological singularity to a possible collision of two parallel universes. The Fringe Division's work often intersects with advanced biotechnology developed by a company called Massive Dynamic, founded by Walter's former partner, Dr. William Bell (Leonard Nimoy), and run by their common friend, Nina Sharp (Blair Brown). The team is also watched silently by a group of bald, pale white men who are called "Observers".
Plot
Season 1 introduces the Fringe Division as they investigate cases that form "the Pattern" geographically centered around Reiden Lake in New York state, many of which are orchestrated by an international network of rogue scientists known as ZFT (Zerstörung durch Fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCBQ | WCBQ (1340 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Gospel format. Licensed to Oxford, North Carolina, United States. The station is currently owned by The Paradise Network.
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