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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCLN%20%28AM%29 | WCLN (1170 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Clinton, North Carolina, United States. The station is currently owned by Christian Listening Network, Inc. and features programming from ABC Radio .
History
Larry Carr of Clinton operated WCLN, a daytime-only station, and WCLN-FM prior to the 1991 purchase of the 16-year-old stations by Willis Broadcasting Corp. of Norfolk, Virginia. The stations' format would be adult contemporary music and oldies.
WCLN and WCLN-FM were Christian when the FM station increased its power from 3,000 to 25,000 watts to better cover Fayetteville. Curt Nunnery of WFLB became sales manager.
By 1997, WCLN was airing Southern gospel music separately from the FM, and by 2000, WCLN was playing oldies.
In 2012, WCLN played oldies along with locally oriented programming including Clinton High School sports. The hosts of the morning show can be seen through glass from the outside, as is true for the Today show.
References
External links
Radio stations established in 1975
1975 establishments in North Carolina
CLN
Sampson County, North Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRVN | WRVN (91.9 FM) is a member-supported public radio station in Utica, New York. Owned by the State University of New York at Oswego, the station simulcasts the programming of WRVO in Oswego, New York.
External links
www.wrvo.fm
RVN
NPR member stations
State University of New York at Oswego
Radio stations established in 1988
1988 establishments in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConceptBase | ConceptBase (a.k.a. ConceptBase.cc) is a deductive and object-oriented database management system developed at University of Skövde. Earlier development was done at University of Passau (1987-1992), University of Aachen (1992-2003), and University of Tilburg (1997-2013). It is mainly used for conceptual modeling and metamodeling in the domain of software engineering and related domains. ConceptBase.cc is free and open-source software.
ConceptBase combines the following features:
Object-oriented concepts such as classes and inheritance
Deductive rules evaluated by a Datalog engine
Active rules conforming to the event condition action (ECA) paradigm
Recursive function definitions
Metamodeling with arbitrarily many abstraction levels (metaclasses, meta metaclasses)
ConceptBase implements O-Telos, which is
a variant of the knowledge representation Telos.
See also
MetaCASE tool
References
M. Jarke, R. Gallersdörfer, M.A. Jeusfeld, M. Staudt, S. Eherer, ConceptBase - a deductive object base for meta data management. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 4, 2, 1995, pp. 167–192, DOI 10.1007/BF00961873.
Jeusfeld, M.A. (2009): Metamodeling and method engineering with ConceptBase. In Jeusfeld, M.A., Jarke, M., Mylopoulos, J. (eds): Metamodeling for Method Engineering, pp. 89–168. The MIT Press, Open-access Edition.
External links
ConceptBase
ConceptBase ECArules
Object-oriented database management systems
Free database management systems
Tilburg University
RWTH Aachen University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSH | LSH may refer to:
Computing
LSH (hash function), in cryptography
lsh, a UNIX secure shell
Locality-sensitive hashing, in algorithms
Ship types
Landing Ship Headquarters, UK Royal Navy
Landing Ship, Heavy, a hull classification symbol, Australian and US Navy
Other uses
Lashio Airport, Myanmar (IATA: LSH)
Legion of Super-Heroes, a fictional team in DC Comics
Lysergic acid hydroxyethylamide, an alkaloid
See also
Lash (disambiguation)
Lish (disambiguation)
LSHS (disambiguation)
Lush (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKRX | WKRX (96.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Country format. Licensed to Roxboro, North Carolina, United States. The station is currently owned by Roxboro Broadcasting Company.
Programming includes local news, Person County High School sports, Orange County Speedway races, and bluegrass and beach music. The station also airs NASCAR racing and is affiliated with MRN and PRN.
References
External links
KRX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NISO%20Circulation%20Interchange%20Protocol | NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) is a protocol that is limited to the exchange of messages between and among computer-based applications to enable them to perform functions necessary to lend and borrow items, to provide controlled access to electronic resources, and to facilitate cooperative management of these functions.
Released in May 2001 and approved on October 17, 2002, ANSI/NISO Z39.83-2002 or NCIP is a "NISO Draft Standard for Trial Use." This protocol defines a repertoire of messages and associated rules of syntax and semantics for use by applications: to perform the functions necessary to lend items; to provide controlled access to electronic resources; and to facilitate co-operative management of these functions. It is intended to address conditions in which the application or applications that initiate the lending of items or control of access must acquire or transmit information about the user, items, and/or access that is essential to successful conclusion of the function.
See also
Standard Interchange Protocol
External links
NCIP Implementation Group
NCIP information at NISO
NCIP information at CoverPages
Library automation
Network protocols
Application layer protocols
Open formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSIF | WSIF (90.9 FM) is a radio station with an Album Adult Alternative/Americana format, rebroadcasting the programming of station WNCW.
It is owned and operated by Isothermal Community College in Spindale, North Carolina, which took over the station on January 5, 2010.
Previously, the station was owned and operated by Wilkes Community College, Wilkesboro, North Carolina. According to FCC filings in May 2008, the school decided to end its broadcasting program, and requested permission to remain silent while the license was transferred to another educational institution. At the expiration of the six month "Stay Silent" authorization in November 2008, the College asked for an extension of the order to finalize the details of the transfer to an unspecified community college.
In 2009, Isothermal Community College acquired the license of WSIF, Wilkesboro, North Carolina, formerly operated by Wilkes Community College. WSIF began simulcasting WNCW programming in January, 2010.
References
External links
SIF
SIF
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B | C+ or C Plus may refer to:
C Plus, a brand name of the soft drink Sunkist in some places
HolyC (programming language), TempleOS programming language formerly known as C+
C+ (grade), an academic grade
C++, a programming language
C with Classes, predecessor to the C++ programming language
ANSI C, a programming language (as opposed to K&R C)
ABCL/c+, a programming language
Faster-than-light travel, above the speed of light, c
Canal+, a television channel, abbreviation
See also
C (disambiguation)
CX (disambiguation)
CXX (disambiguation)
CC (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Biochemistry%2C%20Molecular%20Biology%20and%20Biotechnology | The Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IBMBB), Sri Lanka, is the National Node for European Molecular Biology Network (EMBnet) and is designated as a Resource Centre for Molecular Life Sciences by the International Programme in Chemical Sciences, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
External links
Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
University of Colombo
Biochemistry research institutes
Research institutes in Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVI | GVI may refer to:
Gentofte-Vangede Idrætsforening, a Danish football club
Google Video
Group Violence Intervention, a strategy from the National Network for Safe Communities
Gulfstream GVI, a business jet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20behavior%20anomaly%20detection | Network behavior anomaly detection (NBAD) is a security technique that provides network security threat detection. It is a complementary technology to systems that detect security threats based on packet signatures.
NBAD is the continuous monitoring of a network for unusual events or trends. NBAD is an integral part of network behavior analysis (NBA), which offers security in addition to that provided by traditional anti-threat applications such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, antivirus software and spyware-detection software.
Description
Most security monitoring systems utilize a signature-based approach to detect threats. They generally monitor packets on the network and look for patterns in the packets which match their database of signatures representing pre-identified known security threats. NBAD-based systems are particularly helpful in detecting security threat vectors in two instances where signature-based systems cannot: (i) new zero-day attacks, and (ii) when the threat traffic is encrypted such as the command and control channel for certain Botnets.
An NBAD program tracks critical network characteristics in real time and generates an alarm if a strange event or trend is detected that could indicate the presence of a threat. Large-scale examples of such characteristics include traffic volume, bandwidth use and protocol use.
NBAD solutions can also monitor the behavior of individual network subscribers. In order for NBAD to be optimally effective, a baseline of normal network or user behavior must be established over a period of time. Once certain parameters have been defined as normal, any departure from one or more of them is flagged as anomalous.
NBAD technology/techniques are applied in a number of network and security monitoring domains including: (i) Log analysis (ii) Packet inspection systems (iii) Flow monitoring systems and (iv) Route analytics.
NBAD has also been described as outlier detection, novelty detection, deviation detection and exception mining.
Popular threat detections within NBAD
Payload Anomaly Detection
Protocol Anomaly: MAC Spoofing
Protocol Anomaly: IP Spoofing
Protocol Anomaly: TCP/UDP Fanout
Protocol Anomaly: IP Fanout
Protocol Anomaly: Duplicate IP
Protocol Anomaly: Duplicate MAC
Virus Detection
Bandwidth Anomaly Detection
Connection Rate Detection
Commercial products
Palo Alto Networks – Cortex XDR
Darktrace - AI Enterprise Immune System | Antigena Autonomous Response
Allot Communications – Allot Communications DDoS Protection
Arbor Networks NSI – Arbor Network Security Intelligence
Cisco – Stealthwatch (formerly Lancope StealthWatch)
IBM – QRadar (since 2003)
Enterasys Networks – Enterasys Dragon
Exinda – Inbuilt (Application Performance Score (APS), Application Performance Metric (APM), SLA, and Adaptive Response)
ExtraHop Networks - Reveal(x)
Flowmon Networks – Flowmon ADS
FlowNBA – NetFlow
Juniper Networks – STRM
Fidelis Cybersecurity – Network Security
Lastline
McAfee – M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik%20%28software%29 | Dalvik is a discontinued process virtual machine (VM) in the Android operating system that executes applications written for Android. (Dalvik bytecode format is still used as a distribution format, but no longer at runtime in newer Android versions.) Dalvik was an integral part of the Android software stack in the (now unsupported) Android versions 4.4 "KitKat" and earlier, which were commonly used on mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablet computers, and more in some devices such as smart TVs and wearables. Dalvik is open-source software, originally written by Dan Bornstein, who named it after the fishing village of Dalvík in Eyjafjörður, Iceland.
Programs for Android are commonly written in Java and compiled to bytecode for the Java Virtual Machine, which is then translated to Dalvik bytecode and stored in .dex (Dalvik EXecutable) and .odex (Optimized Dalvik EXecutable) files; related terms odex and de-odex are associated with respective bytecode conversions. The compact Dalvik Executable format is designed for systems that are constrained in terms of memory and processor speed.
The successor of Dalvik is Android Runtime (ART), which uses the same bytecode and .dex files (but not .odex files), with the succession aiming at performance improvements. The new runtime environment was included for the first time in Android 4.4 "KitKat" as a technology preview, and replaced Dalvik entirely in later versions; Android 5.0 "Lollipop" is the first version in which ART is the only included runtime.
Architecture
Unlike Java Virtual Machines, which are stack machines, the Dalvik VM uses a register-based architecture that requires fewer, typically more complex, virtual machine instructions. Dalvik programs are written in Java using the Android application programming interface (API), compiled to Java bytecode, and converted to Dalvik instructions as necessary.
A tool called dx is used to convert Java .class files into the .dex format. Multiple classes are included in a single .dex file. Duplicate strings and other constants used in multiple class files are included only once in the .dex output to conserve space. Java bytecode is also converted into an alternative instruction set used by the Dalvik VM. An uncompressed .dex file is typically a few percent smaller in size than a compressed Java archive (JAR) derived from the same .class files.
The Dalvik executables may be modified again when installed onto a mobile device. In order to gain further optimizations, byte order may be swapped in certain data, simple data structures and function libraries may be linked inline, and empty class objects may be short-circuited, for example.
Being optimized for low memory requirements, Dalvik has some specific characteristics that differentiate it from other standard VMs:
The VM was slimmed down to use less space.
The constant pool has been modified to use only 32-bit indices to simplify the interpreter.
Standard Java bytecode executes 8-bit stac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEWO | WEWO (1460 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Gospel format. It is licensed to Laurinburg, North Carolina, United States. It is currently owned by Service Media, Inc. and features programming from ABC Radio.
History
When WEWO signed on in the 1940s, the call letters officially meant "Wonderful Environment, Wonderful Opportunity," though the station's personalities came up with other meanings, such as "We Entertain Women Only" and "We Eat Wild Onions."
In April 1996, Beasley Broadcasting announced plans to buy WEWO, a sports talk station, and WAZZ.
In 1998, Wes Cookman, the owner of WIDU in Fayetteville, bought WEWO and made it part of the "WE-DO" black gospel and news and information network, along with WAGR. WFMO was added later.
References
External links
EWO |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Courage%20the%20Cowardly%20Dog%20characters | This is a list of characters from the Cartoon Network animated series, Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Main characters
Courage
Voiced by Howard Hoffman (pilot) and Marty Grabstein (series; "The Fog of Courage"; Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog)
Courage is the title character and protagonist of the series. An overly frightened pink beagle who lives in Nowhere, Kansas.
Courage was abandoned as a puppy after his parents were sent into outer space, but was adopted by Muriel Bagge. Her husband Eustace regularly mistreats him. Ironically, given his name, Courage is a genuine coward and he often expresses his distress with over-the-top, piercing shrieks. Regardless, he still goes to great lengths to protect his owners. To the end, he often gets injured, sometimes quite brutally, and only surviving through his determination and/or pure luck. Despite his cowardice, Courage is very clever and resourceful when the situation demands it, outsmarting the villains most of the time. He also often displays super strength, carrying Muriel and Eustace with relative ease. Aiding him at saving the day is a self-aware, sarcastic and seemingly omniscient computer that he keeps in the attic. He got his name when Muriel found him as a puppy alone in an alley and remarked that he must be quite brave to be there by himself.
Muriel Bagge
Voiced by Howard Hoffman (pilot) and Thea White (series; "The Fog of Courage"; Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog).
Muriel Bagge is Courage's owner and Eustace's wife. She is a plump, kind, hard-working Scottish woman who took Courage in when he was an abandoned puppy. Muriel often carries a rolling pin that she hits Eustace with whenever he harasses Courage. She also likes tea and usually tends to her garden, as well as being an accomplished sitar player. Muriel also has a great fondness for cooking; however, her recipes tend to include an excessive amount of vinegar, much to the distaste of both her dog and husband. Most of all, she loves sitting in her rocking chair with Courage on her lap and watching television. Due to her kindness and sweet nature, Muriel is an easy (and often attractive) target for villains. The crossover movie Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog was White’s final role before she died of liver cancer in 2021.
Eustace Bagge
Voiced by Howard Hoffman (pilot), Lionel Wilson (Episodes 1–33), Arthur Anderson (Episodes 34–52), Wallace Shawn ("The Fog of Courage"), and Jeff Bergman (Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog)
Eustace Bagge is Muriel's husband. He is an elderly, skinny, greedy, cynical, and sarcastic American man who is obsessed with his vintage truck. Eustace wears glasses identical in appearance to Muriel's. His brown hat shields his glistening bald head.
Eustace is the current owner of the farmhouse, which was previously owned by his now-deceased brother Horst. Eustace regularly yell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DailyStrength | DailyStrength is a division of Sharecare that serves as a social network centered on support groups, where users provide one another with emotional support by discussing their struggles and successes with each other. The site contains online communities that deal with different medical conditions or life challenges. As of November 4, 2007, DailyStrength has created over 500 support groups focused on issues such as depression, divorce, parenting, and a wide variety of cancers; Furthermore, health blogs, expert answers, treatment, and a non-professional community of support located all over the world.
The top member groups consist of Anxiety, Bereavement, Bipolar Disorder, breakup and divorce, chronic pain, Depression-teen, eating disorders, Fibromyalgia, family issues, healthy relationships. According to DailyStrength writing helps anyone suffering about 93% of the time, so therefore DailyStrength has the option to write a journal. That person can set their entries to private or public, along with time and date, feeling and goals. Hugbook is an option for people to spread their love around; the hugs can consist of a moment of peace, a rainbow, a thank-you, flowers, hopeful sayings such as ' I'm with you' and 'good luck', along with rays of sunshine. The person who shares these can also give a warming comment.
The site is free for members and the members are encouraged to remain anonymous. The site provides members with continual support as someone is always available to talk. Medical professionals are also available to contact and treatments for a variety of illnesses and problems are also listed on the site. The top level categories of most talked about topics are as follows, the number of members are presented in parentheses; Children's Health and Parenting (75), Cancers (38), Brain and Nervous System (30), Genetic and Metabolic (74), Mental Health and Addiction (56), Personal Challenges (46), Relationships and Sexuality (40), Heart, Blood, and Circulation (31). In addition, the primary advisors that contribute to DailyStrength by giving advice and talking about various topics are: Sharecare, Jacob Teitelbaum, MD (Integrative Medicine), Stauart Linder, MD (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery), Doctor Oz ( The News), Dr. Jeremy F. Shaprio ( Pediatrician), Cyndi Samoff-Ross (Marriage and Family Therapist), Lee Trask ( Infertility Blogger), Dr. Georgianna Donadio (Whole Person Health Care, NIWH),Dr. Kimberly Dennis (Psychiatrist, Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center). The most popular treatments recommended by these advisors are; Psychotherapy (85%), Talking (86%), Support from friends and family (88%), Writing (93%), Music (94%), Positive Thinking (81%), Zoloff (65%), Lexapro (65%), Prozac (65%), patience (82%), Wellbutrin (65%), Phsycical Exercise (95%), Effexor (64%), crying (81%), Paxil (56%). All the facts and percentages are calculated by DailyStrength's database, which receives all the data from its members and experts.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic%20%28computer%20science%29 | In mathematical optimization and computer science, heuristic (from Greek εὑρίσκω "I find, discover") is a technique designed for problem solving more quickly when classic methods are too slow for finding an exact or approximate solution, or when classic methods fail to find any exact solution in a search space. This is achieved by trading optimality, completeness, accuracy, or precision for speed. In a way, it can be considered a shortcut.
A heuristic function, also simply called a heuristic, is a function that ranks alternatives in search algorithms at each branching step based on available information to decide which branch to follow. For example, it may approximate the exact solution.
Definition and motivation
The objective of a heuristic is to produce a solution in a reasonable time frame that is good enough for solving the problem at hand. This solution may not be the best of all the solutions to this problem, or it may simply approximate the exact solution. But it is still valuable because finding it does not require a prohibitively long time.
Heuristics may produce results by themselves, or they may be used in conjunction with optimization algorithms to improve their efficiency (e.g., they may be used to generate good seed values).
Results about NP-hardness in theoretical computer science make heuristics the only viable option for a variety of complex optimization problems that need to be routinely solved in real-world applications.
Heuristics underlie the whole field of Artificial Intelligence and the computer simulation of thinking, as they may be used in situations where there are no known algorithms.
Trade-off
The trade-off criteria for deciding whether to use a heuristic for solving a given problem include the following:
Optimality: When several solutions exist for a given problem, does the heuristic guarantee that the best solution will be found? Is it actually necessary to find the best solution?
Completeness: When several solutions exist for a given problem, can the heuristic find them all? Do we actually need all solutions? Many heuristics are only meant to find one solution.
Accuracy and precision: Can the heuristic provide a confidence interval for the purported solution? Is the error bar on the solution unreasonably large?
Execution time: Is this the best-known heuristic for solving this type of problem? Some heuristics converge faster than others. Some heuristics are only marginally quicker than classic methods, in which case the 'overhead' on calculating the heuristic might have a negative impact.
In some cases, it may be difficult to decide whether the solution found by the heuristic is good enough because the theory underlying heuristics is not very elaborate.
Examples
Simpler problem
One way of achieving the computational performance gain expected of a heuristic consists of solving a simpler problem whose solution is also a solution to the initial problem.
Travelling salesman problem
An example of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic%20%28disambiguation%29 | A heuristic is a kind of method for solving a problem.
Heuristic may also refer to:
Heuristic (computer science), a problem-solving technique that produces approximately correct solutions
Heuristic (engineering), an experience-based method reducing use of calculations
Heuristics in judgment and decision-making, discovered by research in psychology and behavioral economics
Heuristic argument, a non-rigorous argument that relies on an analogy or intuition
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overture%20Networks | Overture Networks was a company that designed, manufactured, and marketed networking and telecommunications equipment. It was "a leading developer of converged packet access platforms for Carrier Ethernet services." Overture was headquartered in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina and also maintained offices in Westford, MA and Bangalore, India.
Overture was a member of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). It also held a TL 9000 certification which it received from the QuEST Forum in May 2007.
In January 2016, Overture was acquired by telecommunications vendor ADVA Optical Networking.
History
In 2000, Overture was launched by co-founders Jeff Reedy and Prayson Pate to develop solutions designed to help service providers and network operators transition to an all-packet network. In December 2008, Overture Networks acquired Ceterus Networks, a Richardson, Texas-based manufacturer of Carrier Ethernet equipment and technologies for mobile backhaul. In March 2011, Overture merged with Hatteras Networks, the number one-ranked Ethernet over Copper market leader and manufacturer of Ethernet service delivery solutions for the Carrier Ethernet, Metro Ethernet, and DSLAM and mobile wireless backhaul markets. Post-merger, the unified company operated under the Overture Networks name until February 2012, when a rebranding initiative was announced. Marking the final integration of the two companies, Overture introduced a new logo, color palette, company blog, and tagline, "Overture - An Entrance to a Smarter Network", and informally dropped "Networks" from its name.
Beginning in 2008, and continuing through 2009, 2010, and 2011, Overture was named as the number one provider of Ethernet over TDM (EoTDM) access circuits and Ethernet over bonded copper pair (EoC) platforms by analyst firm Heavy Reading.
In September 2012, Overture appointed former Ciena Corporation Senior VP of Global Field Operations, General Manager of Global Government Solutions, and VP of Americas, Mike Aquino, as its new President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Overture announced the company's entry into the software-defined networking (SDN) space in March 2012 with the launch of a new product, Ensemble OSA. Ensemble OSA is an open architecture based on open API standards like OpenFlow and has three layers, which may include Overture-developed components, as well as those developed by service providers or third-party vendors. Overture followed this with the release of the Overture 6500, the first Ensemble OSA-ready platform and the inaugural product in its Open Service Delivery Family product line.
In January 2016, Overture was acquired by ADVA Optical Networking in a $35 million purchase which was reported to involve "an additional $5 million conditional 'earn-out' payment".
Current products and applications
Overture's products were generally used in the following solution categories: business services, mobile backhaul, Ethernet transport and infrastructure for speeds from 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20chemistry | Computer chemistry can refer to:
Computational chemistry
Mathematical chemistry
Chemoinformatics
Computer & Chemistry (journal) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing%20Lee | Bing Lee is an Australian retailing company, a chain of superstores specialising in consumer electronics, computer and telecommunication goods. Bing Lee is the largest privately held electrical retail business in New South Wales with 35 Bing Lee branded stores alongside its new premium retail Signature Appliance showroom, as well as the subsidiary Miele Specialist store and the La Cornue showroom in Surry Hills.
The business remains a family-run enterprise into a fourth generation since it was originally founded by Chinese immigrant Bing Lee and his son Ken.
Yenda Lee is the unofficial chairwoman of Bing Lee and one of its two board members, along with her son Lionel, its chief executive.
History
The business began when Bing Lee () purchased an electrical repair business in Fairfield, New South Wales, in 1957. Lee, along with his son Ken Lee & Cedric Lee (), transformed the repair business into an electrical product retail and repair/installation business named Bing Lee Electronics (). Initial growth came from the surge in demand for televisions, as well as a host of other household items like washing machines, cooking equipment, heaters and audio equipment. Bing Lee was a member of Retravision NSW for a number of years before leaving and joining the Narta Group. Bing Lee opened new stores in other Sydney suburbs and across New South Wales.
Founder Bing Lee died in 1987 (aged 79) and Ken Lee was appointed Chairman. Ken Lee died on 21 December 2007 of cancer (aged 75). His eldest son Lionel Lee took over as chief executive of the company.
Today, 16 of the 40 Bing Lee retail outlets are run by franchisees after franchising was introduced within the business in the early 2000s. Bing Lee has also held the management rights to the "Sony Centre" concept in NSW and the ACT, later closing those stores.
Sponsorships
Bing Lee sponsors Sydney FC, and the Sydney Swans, and had sponsored the Canterbury Bulldogs (until allegations of player involvement in sexual assaults).
They also sponsored Seven Network's The Amazing Race Australia.
Notes
References
External links
Consumer electronics retailers of Australia
Retail companies established in 1957
Companies based in Sydney
Australian companies established in 1957 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limosella | Limosella is a genus of flowering plants known as mudworts. These are annual, largely aquatic plants, found in muddy areas worldwide. Its phylogeny and biogeography are inferred from molecular data
Selected species:
Limosella acaulis - Owyhee mudwort
Limosella aquatica - water mudwort
Limosella australis - Welsh mudwort
Limosella capensis
Limosella inflata
Limosella longiflora
Limosella major
Limosella pubiflora - Chiricahua Mountain mudwort
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Scrophulariaceae
Scrophulariaceae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clube%20do%20Hardware | Based in Brazil, Clube do Hardware (meaning "Hardware Club" in Brazilian Portuguese) is one of the largest websites about computers in South America and also one of the biggest in the world. According to Alexa, as of 2018, Clube do Hardware is the 185th most accessed website in Brazil.
Clube do Hardware publishes tutorials, articles, reviews, and news about computer hardware and has a very active forum where users can discuss technology topics.
It has a very engaged community, with the largest Brazilian team at the Folding@Home project.
History
It was created in 1996 by the Brazilian PC hardware expert Gabriel Torres, initially as a personal webpage on Geocities with the title "Hardware by Gabriel Torres" as a portfolio of his work. In 1997 the author registered the domain gabrieltorres.com with the website, changing its name to "Hardware Site." The final name, Clube do Hardware, was adopted in 1999.
References
External links
Computing websites
Online computer magazines
Internet forums
Magazines established in 1996
Magazines published in Brazil
Portuguese-language magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahn%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kahn is a German derived surname, from the word for "small boat".
Kahn may also refer to:
Kahn (game browser), enabling online multiplayer of IPX compatible games over a TCP/IP network
Kahn's, an American meat processing and distribution company based in Ohio
Kahn, Iran (disambiguation), places in Iran
Kahn-e Bala (disambiguation), "upper Kahn", places in Iran
Kahn process networks (KPNs), a distributed model of computation in network communications
Kähn, an alias of Joseph McGann, British record producer and DJ based in Bristol
Kahn Design, a British car modifier based in Bradford
Kahn River, Indore, India
The ICAO designation for Athens–Ben Epps Airport in Athens, a city in Clarke County, Georgia.
See also
Kan (disambiguation)
Kaan (disambiguation)
Caan (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Truong%20Trong%20Thi | André Trương Trọng Thi (1936–2005) was a Vietnamese-French computer engineer. He is considered to be the "father of the personal computer" for his 1973 creation along with French inventor François Gernelle of the Micral N microcomputer based on an Intel 8008 processor, one of the world's first commercial microcomputers.
Early life
Trương Trọng Thi was born in 1936 in Cholon (Saigon). When he was 14 years old, he arrived in France to study, and later studied at the École française de radioélectricité (now EFREI). After working for Schlumberger and Intertechnique for some time, he formed the company R2E (Réalisation d'Études Électroniques) in 1971.
In 1973, thanks to François Gernelle and a team of engineers, his company created the Micral, the first non-kit microprocessor-based personal computer in the world. It was created two years before the MITS Altair of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems arrived on the market. In 1981, R2E was absorbed by Groupe Bull.
The Micral computers were turned into a line of PC-compatibles in 1983. André Truong Trong Thi resigned from Bull, and joined the company Normerel formed by J. R. Tissot, a former member of R2E management. He developed the Oplite personal computer for Normerel. Normerel was in 1988 the third French computer maker after Groupe Bull and SMT Goupil.
In 1995, he formed APCT, a software company specializing in cryptography. In 1999, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.
He died on April 4, 2005, in Paris after being hospitalized for two and a half years.
External links
A Talk with the Father of Computing - Wired Magazine
Death of Andre Truong, inventor of the microcomputer - ZDNet France. Published on April 6, 2005
"Cha đẻ của máy vi tính" - Kỹ sư gốc Việt Trương Trọng Thi qua đời (the father of the personal computer passes away)Vietnam Television
French people of Vietnamese descent
20th-century French engineers
Vietnamese engineers
1936 births
2005 deaths
20th-century engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beomgye%20station | Beomgye Station is a station on Line 4 of the Seoul Subway network. It is between Geumjeong station and Pyeongchon station, in a newer area of Anyang, Gyeonggi-do and, heading away from Seoul, it is the last underground station on this line. It opens at 4:30 A.M. Beomgye Station features an area known as "Beomgye Rodeo," which is well known for its shopping, active nightlife, and array of traditional Korean restaurants. It is connected to a Lotte Department Store and Newcore outlet. Lotte Department Store has been open since 2012. There are 9 exits. There are exits 1, 2, 3, 4, 4-1, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
The name of the station literally means "A river full of tigers."
Station layout
References
Metro stations in Anyang, Gyeonggi
Seoul Metropolitan Subway stations
Railway stations opened in 1993
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1990s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myco | Myco may refer to:
Myco (programming), a framework for developing software applications in the Perl programming language
Myco (singer) (born 1979), Japanese singer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEphem | XEphem is a Motif based ephemeris and planetarium program for Unix-like operating systems developed by Elwood C. Downey.
History
XEphem started as a Unix and Motif conversion of the IBM PC-based . It was initially released in December 1993 with version 2.5. Its commercial edition was discontinued in 2016; the free version continued to be offered as proprietary software. In 2021, however, Downey relicensed XEphem's source code under the MIT License, raising the release version from 3.7.7 to 4.0.0 to highlight the change.
Algorithms and models
XEphem uses
The VSOP87D planetary theory (full and reduced precision) for Solar System ephemeris,
Approximation to DE200 for the outer planets and Pluto, and
Formulae from J. Meeus (1982) for Jovian and Saturnian natural satellites
Model by the Bureau des Longitudes for Martian and Uranian natural satellites
and includes
About 452 million stars from both the Tycho-2 Catalogue and a magnitude limited subset of the Guide Star Catalog II,
About 1 million deep sky objects mainly from a subset of HYPERLEDA,
About 288,000 minor planets and comets orbital elements from the IAU Minor Planet Center and Lowell Observatory (that can be updated),
and other specialized catalogs. It also include the Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon. XEphem is a client for Internet data sources such as the Digitized Sky Survey, Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, AAVSO light curves, and global temperature and cloud coverage. Through the Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface, XEphem can control some models of amateur telescopes, such as by Meade, Celestron, and Vixen, and auxiliary telescope components.
Catalogs
While the free version of XEphem only includes a subset of the SKYMAP Master Catalog and the Messier Catalog, the internal format of the remaining catalogs can be inferred from the source code, and e.g. the internal binary Tycho-2 catalog can be generated from the original data. This is also possible for the non-stellar catalogs in the ASCII .edb format, such as for HYPERLEDA.
XEphem can also read several astrometric catalogs in their original formats:
GSC 1.2 and GSC-ACT
USNO A/SA 1.0/2.0
UCAC2
Numerical routines are used in PyEphem with permission of Elwood Downey.
See also
C2A
Cartes du Ciel
Celestia
Digital Universe Atlas
Google Mars
Google Moon
Google Sky
Hallo Northern Sky (HN Sky)
KStars
NASA World Wind
RedShift
Starry Night
Stellarium
TheSky
Universe Sandbox
WinStars
WorldWide Telescope
References
External links
|
Free astronomy software
Planetarium software for Linux
Science software for macOS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20noctuid%20genera | The huge moth family Noctuidae contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Noctuid genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Nolan%20Show | The Nolan Show, hosted by Stephen Nolan, airs on weekdays on BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Foyle from 9:00am – 10:30am.
Nolan has also moved onto a network platform, hosting Question Time Extra Time every Thursday night and a three-hour phone-in program on BBC Radio Five Live every Friday to Sunday night. He has also been voted UK Speech Broadcaster of the Year, and has gained similar success as a television presenter, being voted the Royal Television Society’s Presenter of the Year in 2005 and 2006.
Production
The Tuesday to Friday editions of the Nolan Show are broadcast from studios at the BBC Northern Ireland headquarters in Broadcasting House, Belfast. The Monday edition of the Nolan Show is broadcast from MediaCityUK in Salford because of Nolan's BBC Radio 5 Live commitments.
References
External links
BBC Stephen Nolan website
Radio programmes in Northern Ireland
BBC Radio Ulster programmes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20ARTS | Common ARTS (or Automated Radar Terminal System) is an air traffic control computer system that air traffic controllers use to track aircraft.
The computer system is used to automate the air traffic controller's job by correlating the various radar and human inputs in a meaningful way. This system is being used in most of the TRACONs around the United States. Common ARTS is the most modern implementation of ARTS in use at various locations in the United States. Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) was designed to replace Common ARTS at all the US TRACONS, however that project was stalled until 2010.
The United States Federal Aviation Administration announced in Spring 2011 that STARS will be replacing the 11 largest CARTS sites under the TAMR Segment 3 Phase 1 plan. The remaining CARTS sites will be replaced under TAMR Segment 3 Phase 2 in the near future.
RADAR Automation
A typical short range radar used in air traffic control will scan the area about 60 miles every 4–6 seconds. The primary signal returned will contain a range and azimuth of a target. Automation will correlate these targets scan to scan and make estimates of speed and direction. A secondary signal (Transponder (aviation)) may be available, containing the aircraft transponder code, and possibly altitude (and possibly other information if Mode S). The automation will correlate the primary and secondary signals, and measure horizontal and vertical speed estimates.
Once the automation systems know the details of the aircraft it is tracking, this information is available on the display, as part of the data block near the aircraft representation. The information will typically show an aircraft ID, if the transponder code is associated with a known flight plan, the altitude, and speed.
Other systems can use the speed and direction information. The safety systems need to use this information. The conflict alert (CA) system will compare the direction, altitude and speed of multiple aircraft to see if there are any possibilities of aircraft being too close together. Maps of the area along with Mode C or S transponder elevations will allow minimum safe altitude warning (MSAW) systems to warn controllers of possible terrain conflicts.
Additional systems may include any of the Final Approach Spacing (FAST or ) tools available, User Request Evaluation Tool, and Parallel Runway monitors.
History
ARTS was developed in the late 1960s by Univac corporation to help automate the TRACONS operations in the United States. At many TRACONs, a Unisys mainframe computer was installed to handle the processing. In the early 1970s virtually all TRACONs in the US were running ARTS software to help track aircraft displayed on the radar console. The Burroughs Corporation was also working on radar display consoles in the 1970s to 1980s.
In 1986, Univac and Burroughs Corporations merged creating Unisys.
By the early 1980s an effort was proposed to port the ARTS functionality t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MdN%20Interactive | MdN (Macintosh designers Network) is a general information magazine for graphics and design. Despite its name, the magazine's emphasis is primarily on design and secondarily about Macintosh computing.
Founded in 1989 by Yuichi Inomata, the magazine was based on a Macintosh DTP support organisation. MdN also publishes other design magazines and mooks such as web creators and effects. The magazine is published by Impress Group company.
An English language version, MdN International, was published in Hong Kong for a period starting in 1993.
References
External links
Official website
1989 establishments in Japan
Computer magazines
Design magazines
Monthly magazines published in Japan
Macintosh magazines
Magazines established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Charles%20Golumbic | Martin Charles Golumbic (born 1948) is a mathematician and computer scientist known for his research on perfect graphs, graph sandwich problems, compiler optimization, and spatial-temporal reasoning. He is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Haifa, and was the founder of the journal Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.
Education and career
Golumbic majored in mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, graduating in 1970 with bachelor's and master's degrees. He completed his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1975, with the dissertation Comparability Graphs and a New Matroid supervised by Samuel Eilenberg.
He became an assistant professor in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University from 1975 until 1980, when he moved to Bell Laboratories. From 1983 to 1992 he worked for IBM Research in Israel, and from 1992 to 2000 he was a professor of mathematics and computer science at Bar-Ilan University. He moved to the University of Haifa in 2000, where he founded the Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science.
In 1989, Golumbic founded the Bar-Ilan Symposium in Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, a leading artificial intelligence conference in Israel. In 1990 Golumbic became the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, published by Springer.
Recognition
Golumbic is a fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (2005). He was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2013.
At the 2019 Bar-Ilan Symposium in Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Golumbic was given the Lifetime Achievement and Service Award of the Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Selected publications
Golumbic is the author of books including:
Algorithmic Graph Theory and Perfect Graphs (Academic Press, 1980; 2nd ed., Elsevier, 2004)
Tolerance Graphs (with Ann Trenk, Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Fighting Terror Online: The Convergence of Security, Technology, and the Law (Springer, 2008)
Other highly-cited publications of Golumbic include:
References
External links
Home page
1948 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century Israeli mathematicians
Graph theorists
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Columbia University alumni
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
IBM employees
Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University
Academic staff of the University of Haifa
Members of Academia Europaea
Artificial intelligence researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARINC%20653 | ARINC 653 (Avionics Application Software Standard Interface) is a software specification for space and time partitioning in safety-critical avionics real-time operating systems (RTOS). It allows the hosting of multiple applications of different software levels on the same hardware in the context of an Integrated Modular Avionics architecture.
It is part of ARINC 600-Series Standards for Digital Aircraft & Flight Simulators.
Overview
In order to decouple the real-time operating system platform from the application software, ARINC 653 defines an API called APplication EXecutive (APEX).
Each application software is called a partition and has its own memory space. It also has a dedicated time slot allocated by the APEX API. Within each partition, multitasking is allowed. The APEX API provides services to manage partitions, processes and timing, as well as partition/process communication and error handling. The partitioning environment can be implemented by using a hypervisor to map partitions to virtual machines, but this is not required.
The standard is overseen by the AEEC APEX Subcommittee.
History
Initial version
The initial version of ARINC 653 was published on October 10, 1996.
ARINC 653-1
Supplement 1 was published in January 1997 and introduced the concepts of APEX and Time and Space partitioning.
ARINC 653-2
Supplement 2 was published in 3 parts between March 2006 and January 2007:
Part 1 (mandatory services): ARINC 653 partition management, Cold start and warm start definition, Application software error handling, ARINC 653 compliance, Ada and C language bindings;
Part 2 (optional services): File system access, Data logging, Service Access points, ...
Part 3 (Conformity Test Specification);
Current Organization of Standard
Part 0 - Introduction to ARINC 653 (currently at revision 3, released November 2021)
Part 1 - Required Services (currently at revision 5, released December 2019)
Part 2 - Extended Services (currently at revision 4, released December 2019)
Part 3A - Conformity Test Specification for Required Services (currently at revision 2, released November 2021)
Part 3B - Conformity Test Specification for Extended Services (currently at revision c1, released July 2019)
Part 4 - Subset Services (currently at revision 0, released June 2012)
Part 5 - Core Software Recommended Capabilities (currently at revision 1, released August 2019)
Basic principles of partitioning
ARINC 653 Platform
An ARINC 653 platform contains:
A hardware platform allowing real-time computing deterministic services.
An abstraction layer managing the timer and space partitioning constraints of the platform (memory, CPU, Input/output).
An implementation for the ARINC 653 services (the APEX API).
An interface to be able to configure the platform and its domain of use.
Various instrumentation tools.
Initialization
Initialization of an ARINC 653 partition creates resources used by the partition. Resources creation (PROCESS, EVENT, SEMAPHOR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradiplomacy | Paradiplomacy is the involvement of non-central governments in international relations. The phenomenon includes a variety of practices, from town twinning to transational networking, decentralized cooperation, and advocacy in international summits. Following the movement of globalisation, non-central governments have been playing increasingly influential roles on the global scene, connecting across national borders and developing their own foreign policies. Regions, states, provinces and cities seek their way to promote cooperation, cultural exchanges, trade and partnership, in a large diversity of ways and objectives depending on their decentralization, cultural, and socio-economical contexts. This trend raises new questions concerning public international law and opened a debate on the global governance regime, and the evolution of the nation-led system that has provided the grounds for the international political order in the last centuries.
The term combines the Greek word "para" (παρα) and "diplomacy" to imply actions along, aside, apart and even, despite and against national diplomacy.
If the term "paradiplomacy" has sometimes been used to refer to informal track-two diplomacy, its definition has crystallized in the 1980's through the work of Ivo Duchacek and Panayotis Soldatos, proposing the clear definition of "direct and indirect entries of non-central governments into the field of international relations". The academic field of paradiplomatic studies is nonetheless suffering from fragmentation and terminological scatterdness, resulting both from ongoing debates within scholars, and from the diversity of terms characterizing subnational governments worldwide. Other current denominations for paradiplomacy and related concepts can be multilayered diplomacy, substate diplomacy, decentralized cooperation, people-to-people diplomacy and intermestic affairs. This latter concept expresses a growing trend to the internationalization of domestic ("") issues, which takes local and regional concerns to the central stage of international affairs.
The intentions of subnational governments are diverse and depend on the level of devolution of power form the central government following the principle of subsidiarity, and from the level of local democracy defined by decentralization laws. Some subnational governments engage in paradiplomatic activities to promote development by exploring complementarity with partners facing similar problems, with a view to joining forces to arrive at solutions more easily. In addition, they can explore opportunities alongside international organizations that offer assistance programs for local development projects, with ideas of cross-cultural connexions and reciprocity.
History of paradiplomacy
The global involvement of subnational government is often linked with the post-war town twinning movement, but can actually be traced back even further. Throughout history, cities and towns “have played a central role econ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967%E2%80%9368%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1967–68 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1967 to August 1968.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold, children's programs are light purple and sports programs are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Note: This is the first full season in which all the three networks broadcast most of their weekday schedules in color.
Note: Please refer to the discussion page before attempting to edit.
Monday-Friday
Note: On CBS, both Search for Tomorrow and Guiding Light expanded from 15 to 30 minutes on Monday September 9, 1968. They were the last two 15-minute soap operas airing on television, ending a 22-season era of 15 minute soap operas which had begun with the first ever soap opera on television, Faraway Hill, on the DuMont network in 1946. As a result of those expansions, (The) Guiding Light was moved to 2:30 PM resulting in Art Linkletter's House Party in being pushed forward to 4:00 PM. The Edge of Night and The Secret Storm were also moved to 3:00 and 3:30 PM for respectively. As a result of this scheduling shuffle the program at CBS, To Tell The Truth aired its last broadcast on Friday September 6, 1968. Otherwise, the remainder stayed as is.
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC News
The Beagles (moved from CBS)
The Bullwinkle Show
The Children's Doctor
The Dating Game
Dateline:Hollywood
Discovery
The Donna Reed Show
Dream Girl of '67
Everybody's Talking
The Family Game
The Fugitive
General Hospital
The Honeymoon Race
Issues and Answers
Let's Make a Deal
Linus the Lionhearted
The Magilla Gorilla Show
It's Happening
The Milton the Monster Show
The New American Bandstand 1968
The New Beatles
The New Casper Cartoon Show
The Newlywed Game
News with the Woman's Touch
Peter Jennings with the News
The Peter Potamus Show
New series:
The Baby Game
Bewitched
Dark Shadows
The Dick Cavett Show
Dream House
Fantastic Four
George of the Jungle
Happening '68
How's Your Mother-In-Law?
Journey to the Center of the Earth
One Life to Live
Spider-Man
Temptation
This Morning with Dick Cavett
Treasure Isle
Wedding Party
Not returning from 1966-67:
Beany and Cecil
Ben Casey
The Bugs Bunny Show
Father Knows Best
The Honeymoon Race
Hoppity Hooper
The Nurses
One in a Million
The Porky Pig Show
Supermarket Sweep
A Time for Us
Where the Action Is
CBS
Returning series:
Andy of Mayberry
Art Linkletter's House Party
As the World Turns
The Beverly Hillbillies
Camera Three
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Edge of Night
Face the Nation
Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles
The Guiding Light
Jonny Quest
Lamp Unto My Feet
The Linkletter Show
The Lone Ranger
Look Up and Live
Love of Life
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRNS%20%28AM%29 | WRNS (960 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a sports gambling format featuring programming from VSiN Radio, as well as an affiliate for Carolina Panthers NFL football. Licensed to Kinston, North Carolina, United States, the station is currently owned by Dick Broadcasting, through licensee Dick Broadcasting Company, Inc. of Tennessee.
In September 2017, Dick Broadcasting announced the purchase of Alpha Media stations in three markets — 18 stations and two translators in total, at a purchase price of $19.5 million. The acquisition of WRNS by Dick Broadcasting was consummated on December 20, 2017.
On August 21, 2023 WRNS changed their format from sports talk to sports gambling, branded as "Bet on The Bull", with programming from the VSiN sports betting network.
References
External links
RNS
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1937
1937 establishments in North Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVBS | WVBS (1470 AM) was a radio station licensed to Burgaw, North Carolina, United States. It last broadcast a Christian format, as an affiliate of the Fundamental Broadcasting Network, and was last owned by Grace Christian School. The station was first licensed December 3, 1963, and held the call sign WPGF. WPGF spawned a sister station, WPGF-FM, in 1964. In 1973, the station's call sign was changed to WVBS. The station's license was cancelled January 13, 2017, after having been silent since October 12, 2015.
References
External links
FCC Station Search Details: DWVBS (Facility ID: 24711)
FCC History Cards for WVBS (covering 1961-1981 as WPGF / WVBS)
VBS
Radio stations established in 1963
Radio stations disestablished in 2017
1963 establishments in North Carolina
2017 disestablishments in North Carolina
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Defunct religious radio stations in the United States
VBS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-level%20parallelism | Bit-level parallelism is a form of parallel computing based on increasing processor word size. Increasing the word size reduces the number of instructions the processor must execute in order to perform an operation on variables whose sizes are greater than the length of the word. (For example, consider a case where an 8-bit processor must add two 16-bit integers. The processor must first add the 8 lower-order bits from each integer, then add the 8 higher-order bits, requiring two instructions to complete a single operation. A 16-bit processor would be able to complete the operation with single instruction.)
Originally, all electronic computers were serial (single-bit) computers. The first electronic computer that was not a serial computer—the first bit-parallel computer—was the 16-bit Whirlwind from 1951.
From the advent of very-large-scale integration (VLSI) computer chip fabrication technology in the 1970s until about 1986, advancements in computer architecture were done by increasing bit-level parallelism, as 4-bit microprocessors were replaced by 8-bit, then 16-bit, then 32-bit microprocessors. This trend generally came to an end with the introduction of 32-bit processors, which were a standard in general purpose computing for two decades. 64 bit architectures were introduced to the mainstream with the eponymous Nintendo 64 (1996), but beyond this introduction stayed uncommon until the advent of x86-64 architectures around the year 2003, and 2014 for mobile devices with the ARMv8-A instruction set.
On 32-bit processors, external data bus width continues to increase. For example, DDR1 SDRAM transfers 128 bits per clock cycle. DDR2 SDRAM transfers a minimum of 256 bits per burst.
See also
Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD)
SIMD Within A Register
References
Parallel computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian%20Television%20Network | Arabian Television Network (ATN) was a Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based broadcast media company, part of Arab Media Group. Its staff and resources have been merged into Dubai Media Incorporated.
Arabian Television Network had partnered with MTV Networks International of Viacom to launch a localized version of MTV, called MTV Arabia, and Nickelodeon Arabia as well as launching the first user-generated content channel, SHOOFtv.
See also
Arab Media Group
Viacom
References
External links
Arab Media Group
Mass media companies of the United Arab Emirates
Mass media in Dubai
Government-owned companies of Dubai
Mass media companies established in 2007
2007 establishments in the United Arab Emirates
Arab mass media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integraph | An Integraph is a mechanical analog computing device for plotting the integral of a graphically defined function.
History
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis first described the fundamental principal of a mechanical integraph in 1836 in the Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. A full description of an integraph was published independently around 1880 by both British physicist Sir Charles Vernon Boys and Bruno Abdank-Abakanowicz, a Polish-Lithuanian mathematician/electrical engineer. Boys described a design for an integraph in 1881 in the Philosophical Magazine. Abakanowicz developed a practical working prototype in 1878, with improved versions of the prototype being manufactured by firms such as Coradi in Zürich, Switzerland. Customized and further improved versions of Abakanowicz's design were manufactured until well after 1900, with these later modifications being made by Abakanowicz in collaboration M. D. Napoli, the "principal inspector of the railroad Chemin de Fer de l’Est and head of its testing laboratory".
Description
The input to the integraph is a tracing point that is the guiding point that traces the differential curve. The output is defined by the path a disk that rolls along the paper without slipping takes. The mechanism sets the angle of the output disk based on the position of the input curve: if the input is zero, the disk is angled to roll straight, parallel to the x axis on the Cartesian plane. If the input is above zero the disk is angled slightly toward the positive y direction, such that the y value of its position increases as it rolls in that direction. If the input is below zero, the disk is angled the other way such that its y position decreases as it rolls.
The hardware consists of a rectangular carriage which moves left to right on rollers. Two sides of the carriage run parallel to the x axis. The other two sides are parallel to the y axis. Along the trailing vertical (y axis) rail slides a smaller carriage holding a tracing point. Along the leading vertical rail slides a second smaller carriage to which is affixed a small, sharp disc, which rests and rolls (but does not slide) on the graphing paper. The trailing carriage is connected both with a point in the center of the carriage and the disc on the leading rail by a system of sliding crossheads and wires, such that the tracing point must follow the disc's tangential path.
Mechanism
The integraph plots (traces) the integral curve
when we are given the differential curve,
The mathematical basis of the mechanism depends on the following considerations: For any point of the differential curve, construct the auxiliary triangle with vertices and . The hypotenuse of this right triangle intersects the -axis making an angle the value of whose tangent is . This hypotenuse is parallel to the tangent line of the integral curve at that corresponds to .
The integraph may be used to obtain a quadrature of the circle. If the differential curve is the unit circle, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARSEC | PARSEC is a package designed to perform electronic structure calculations of solids and molecules using density functional theory (DFT). The acronym stands for Pseudopotential Algorithm for Real-Space Electronic Calculations. It solves the Kohn–Sham equations in real space, without the use of explicit basis sets.
One of the strengths of this code is that it handles non-periodic boundary conditions in a natural way, without the use of super-cells, but can equally well handle periodic and partially periodic boundary conditions. Another key strength is that it is readily amenable to efficient massive parallelization, making it highly effective for very large systems.
Its development started in early 1990s with James Chelikowsky (now at the University of Texas), Yousef Saad and collaborators at the University of Minnesota. The code is freely available under the GNU GPLv2. Currently, its public version is 1.4.4. Some of the physical/chemical properties calculated by this code are: Kohn–Sham band structure, atomic forces (including molecular dynamics capabilities), static susceptibility, magnetic dipole moment, and many additional molecular and solid state properties.
See also
Density functional theory
Quantum chemistry computer programs
References
External links
Computational chemistry software
Density functional theory software
Physics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK%20%28radio%20program%29 | AK was a weekly radio program broadcast on the Alaska Public Radio network. Past episodes of AK are available through a podcast archive.
AK focused on Alaskan issues. The program encouraged participation from all of its listeners.
History
The pilot of AK was called Weekend Alaska and was produced in January and February 2002. It was broadcast on many public radio stations in March. A grant application was made to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and awarded in summer 2003. A production team was assembled, consisting of Shelly Wozniak (host), Ellen Lockyer (reporter), Jessica Cochran (producer), Duncan Moon (editor/executive producer) and John Nelson (audio engineer). AK began weekly in October 2003.
In April 2004, Gabriel Spitzer took over as host and Wozniak became audio engineer. In August 2004, Ashley Gross joined as an interim producer for several months, then continued as a part-time reporter for the show. In May 2006, Rebecca Sheir took over as host when Spitzer left for Chicago Public Radio.
In August 2006, the staff was notified that the show was canceled, and most were laid off. After a public outcry, CPB stepped in with an additional grant and, after a 4-week hiatus during which old shows were re-broadcast, production resumed with the same staff.
In December 2006, Gross left for Chicago also, and Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock joined the team as Fairbanks reporter. In June 2007, Hitchcock left for a fellowship in environmental reporting in Boulder, Colorado and Scott Burton joined as a reporter based in Juneau.
The show was again cancelled due to continuing funding problems and its last episode was on December 20, 2008.
Awards
AK was recognized since its inception for its high production quality and story telling. It won a second place award from the Public Radio News Directors Incorporated for a show produced only six weeks after its debut . In 2004, it won first place – Best News and Public Affairs show in the country, Division A - for the "Alaska Myths and Misconceptions" show , in 2005 for the "Communication Show" and in 2006 for the "Five Senses" show.
AK received a 2007 Clarion Award for the best radio regular feature program.
External links
APRN website
References
2003 establishments in Alaska
Mass media in Alaska
Alaska Public Radio Network
American public radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GotVoice | GotVoice is an American visual voicemail company founded in 2003 by former RealNetworks and Microsoft executive Martin Dunsmuir. In 2006, the service began to convert voicemails into mp3's and deliver them via e-mail. In 2007, GotVoice also introduced voicemail to text services in which voicemails are delivered via SMS text messages for mobile, home, office and Internet phones.
Today the company's CEO is Curt Blake and the company is based in Kirkland, Washington.
On January 31, 2011, GotVoice discontinued service for all consumer accounts. The product is now exclusively available to large-scale customers with a minimum of 5,000 users.
References
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Companies based in Kirkland, Washington
Voicemail |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D8000 | Released in 1980, the Dismac D8000 was the first personal computer manufactured in Brazil. It was also the first Brazilian TRS-80 Model I clone.
It used a 2 MHz Zilog Z80A microprocessor, with 16KB of RAM and 16Kb of ROM (containing Level II BASIC). Video output was through a PAL-M television, displaying 64x16 or 32x16 characters text mode or 128x48 semigraphics. The keyboard contained 51 keys and was part of the case, like the cassette recorder and the main processor unit.
The machine is considered rare, even in the Brazilian vintage computer market.
References
External links
Clube Old Bits - Brazilian site dedicated to the Brazilian vintage computers (in Portuguese only).
Clube Old Bits - Dismac D8000 description and photo
Computers designed in Brazil
Z80-based home computers
TRS-80 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRWG%20%28FM%29 | KRWG (90.7 MHz) is a NPR-affiliated FM radio station in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In addition to NPR programming, KRWG also broadcasts segments of classical, jazz and Latin jazz.
External links
KRWG public radio and TV official website
References
NPR member stations
RWG
Radio stations established in 1964
1964 establishments in New Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGLP | KGLP (91.7 FM) is a National Public Radio-affiliated radio station in Gallup, New Mexico. The station's programming includes a mix of local shows and National Public Radio programming. The station broadcasts from the University of New Mexico branch campus in Gallup.
The station was assigned the KGLP call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on June 14, 1991.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
References
External links
KGLP official website
GLP
NPR member stations
University of New Mexico
Radio stations established in 1991
1991 establishments in New Mexico
Community radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana%20Public%20Radio | Montana Public Radio is a network of public radio stations serving the U.S. state of Montana, primarily the western part of the state. The network is currently owned by the University of Montana, and its studios are located on the university campus in Missoula, with a satellite facility in Great Falls. The network is affiliated with National Public Radio. Programming originates from flagship station KUFM (89.1 FM) in Missoula, Montana.
History
Montana Public Radio began in 1965 when KUFM in Missoula signed on as a 10-watt campus radio station. In 1974, it became a member of National Public Radio.
Starting in the late 1970s, it began building translators across western Montana. Its first full-power satellite, in Great Falls, signed on in 1984. In 1999, a signal extension project funded mostly by a federal grant made it possible to sign on new stations in Kalispell and Hamilton and upgrade translators in Butte and Helena to full-power stations.
Satellites and repeaters
Montana Public Radio consists of ten full-power stations and several translators:
Notes:
References
External links
Montana Public Radio's official web site
Broadcast media of the University of Montana
NPR member networks
Radio stations established in 1965
1965 establishments in Montana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGVA | KGVA (88.1 FM), is a public radio station in Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, serving residents of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. Programming on KGVA consists of local programming, including native, oldies, Top 40 and Adult Contemporary music, plus programs from National Public Radio and Native Voice One.
External links
NPR member stations
GVA
Native American radio
Community radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1952
Fort Belknap Indian Reservation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRVD | WRVD (90.3 FM) is a member-supported public radio station in Syracuse, New York. Owned by the State University of New York at Oswego, the station simulcasts the programming of WRVO in Oswego, New York.
External links
www.wrvo.fm
RVD
NPR member stations
State University of New York at Oswego
Radio stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in New York (state)
Radio stations in Syracuse, New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXXI%20%28AM%29 | WXXI (1370 kHz) is a non-commercial AM radio station in Rochester, New York. It broadcasts news, talk and informational programming as a member station of National Public Radio (NPR). WXXI, along with WXXI-FM (105.9), WXXO (91.5 FM), and WXXI-TV (channel 21), are owned by the WXXI Public Broadcasting Council. The studios and offices are on State Street in Rochester at the Public Broadcasting Center. WXXI holds periodic on-air fundraisers to support the station.
WXXI is powered at 5,000 watts, non-directional by day. At night, to protect other stations on 1370 AM from interference, it uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array. The transmitter is on French Road in Brighton. Programming is also heard on WXXI-FM, 250-watt FM translator W298CH at 107.5 MHz in Rochester and on an HD Radio digital subchannel of WXXO.
Programming
Most of WXXI's weekday programming comes from NPR, along with local newscasts. NPR shows include Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, 1A, Marketplace and Here and Now. Weekdays at noon and repeated at 9 p.m., a local two-hour interview and call-in show is heard, Connections with Evan Dawson. The BBC World Service airs overnight.
On weekends, shows from NPR are heard along with local newscasts. Programs include Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, It's Been A Minute, On The Media, Hidden Brain, TED Radio Hour, Radio Lab, Latino USA, Travel with Rick Steves, The Splendid Table, Milk Street Radio and The New Yorker Radio Hour. WXXI has won numerous local, state and national awards for its programs, newscasts and investigative reporting.
History
WSAY
The station signed on the air on October 27, 1936, as WSAY. It was a facility founded and built by Gordon P. Brown as a small local area station with a 250 watt signal on 1210 kHz. As a result of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA), it moved to 1240 kHz in 1941. In the pre-war era WSAY became best known as the home of local music programs at a time when its network-affiliated competitors were airing a mix of local news and sports with national drama, comedy and music/variety shows supplied by the NBC and CBS networks. WSAY also was the first station to hire an African-American announcer for a regular shift.
Following World War II, WSAY received FCC permission to improve its signal by moving to the regional 1370 kHz frequency. It relocated its transmitter from a downtown Rochester building with rooftop antenna to a modern four-tower plant in suburban Brighton. It increased power first to 1,000 watts and shortly afterward to 5,000 watts full-time. Over the next three decades, WSAY operated under a number of formats, from adult standards to Top 40 to Progressive Rock to Country music.
WRTK
Gordon Brown owned WSAY until his death in 1979. His estate sold it to future Cumulus Media CEO Lew Dickey and his family.
The Dickey family operated 1370 AM from 1980 to 1984. It also tried a variety of formats from personality adult contempo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJZA | KJZA (89.5 MHz) is a public FM radio station in Drake, Arizona, and the originating station in the K-Jazz Radio Network. It primarily features Public Radio International news and information programming with some local talk shows and jazz music nights and weekends. It is simulcast on multiple towers along Interstate 40 through Northern Arizona, from the California border to Flagstaff, Arizona. The K-Jazz Radio Network holds periodic fundraisers and seeks listener donations to support its non-commercial programming.
History
The station signed on in 2000 as KRTE. It broadcasts from Bill Williams Mountain to serve the area around Williams, Arizona. Transmitters in Kingman and Prescott were added in 2009. KJZA simulcasts KOFA 1320 AM in Yuma on weekdays, extending its coverage to Southwest Arizona.
Effective April 12, 2021, St. Paul Bible College sold KJZA, translator K217EP, and two sister stations to En Familia, Inc. for $325,000.
Transmitters
The K-Jazz Network is heard on these additional stations:
External links
JZA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WICN | WICN (90.5 FM) is a NPR member radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. It broadcasts commercial-free, 24 hours a day to an audience of over 40,000. The programming is mostly jazz, with daily evening shows dedicated to soul, bluegrass, Americana, folk and blues, world music, and Sunday night public affairs programming. WICN's mission statement is as follows:
"Arts and culture contribute to a quality of life that keeps a community vibrant and economically alive. WICN Public Radio is committed to this ideal through the presentation of authentic, independent music, on the radio and in the concert halls, preserving America's living art forms of Jazz and Folk music for generations to enjoy."
History
WICN began in 1969 as Worcester's Inter-Collegiate Network, joining with The College of the Holy Cross and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In 1980, the station became a member of National Public Radio, & was accredited by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 1987. Through 2000, their studios were located at 6 Chatham Street. This location was formerly a YWCA and the swimming pool, now drained, housed the station's record collection. At this time the station's transmitter was 8,000 watts (directional) and co-located at the WUNI TV tower on Styles hill in Boylston. In March 2010, WICN completed another change making its signal less directional. It is located on Asnebumskit Hills in Paxton, Massachusetts along with the antenna for WAAF (now WKVB).
See also
List of jazz radio stations in the United States
References
External links
WICN
Radio stations established in 1969
Jazz radio stations in the United States
ICN
1969 establishments in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSCD-FM | WSCD-FM (92.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Duluth, Minnesota, serving the Duluth-Superior area. The station is owned by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), and airs MPR's "Classical Music Network", originating from KSJN in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
WSCD broadcasts in HD.
On January 20, 2016, MPR announced that WSCD translator 90.9 W215CG and WSCN-HD2 would air its adult album alternative network The Current beginning February 1, 2016. Programming will primarily originate from KCMP in Minneapolis, but local programs will also be included.
See also
Minnesota Public Radio
References
External links
WSCD page at Minnesota Public Radio
Radio stations in Minnesota
Minnesota Public Radio
Classical music radio stations in the United States
NPR member stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCCM-FM | KCCM-FM (91.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Moorhead, Minnesota, serving the Fargo/Moorhead area. The station is owned by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), and airs MPR's "Classical Music Network," originating from the Twin Cities. The station has inserts at least once an hour for local underwriting and weather. MPR also maintains an office and studio in Moorhead.
See also Minnesota Public Radio
External links
KCCM page at Minnesota Public Radio
Radio stations in Minnesota
Minnesota Public Radio
Classical music radio stations in the United States
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 1971 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOUB%20%28AM%29 | WOUB (1340 AM) is a public radio station in Athens, Ohio. Unlike its FM counterpart, WOUB-FM, WOUB AM is generally more of a community radio station, with mainly programming for residents of Athens County, plus alternative music programming, and news from the BBC, among other programs.
Owned and operated by Ohio University, WOUB is on the air daily from 6a.m. to midnight.
Images
External links
WOUB official website
WOUB (AM)
OUB
Ohio University
Mass media in Athens, Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCSU-FM | WCSU-FM (88.9 FM) is a National Public Radio member station. Licensed in Wilberforce, Ohio, United States, the station is currently owned by Central State University. Music programming is a contemporary/smooth jazz blend with some urban gospel programming.
It is the oldest HBCU radio station.
In the early 1980s, the station was programmed by Program Director Willis Parker. The General Manager was LaRue Turner, who was also WCSU-FM's Chief Engineer. Dr. Fuad Suleiman was the Administrator responsible for the Telecommunications function at CSU. A small corps of full-time staff and CSU students operated the station 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The station offered music, NPR (National Public Radio) news and other syndicated content; it also provided a handful of station-generated original programming, including hour-long local and state-oriented news/public-affairs shows, and a live, nightly talk show, called "At Issue". From time-to-time, the station broadcast convocation speakers and CSU athletic events as well as sending on-air staff into the community for remote broadcasts (such as at the Greene County Fair).
External links
WCSU official website
NPR member stations
Central State University
CSU-FM
Jazz radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1980
1980 establishments in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento%20%28database%29 | Bento is a discontinued database application for Mac OS X made by the former FileMaker Inc., since renamed to Claris. Bento differed significantly from the company's flagship product, FileMaker Pro, in that it relied heavily on templates and integration with other applications. By default, Bento's data sources included Apple's Address Book and Calendar (previously called iCal) applications, which it could modify directly. FileMaker announced on July 31, 2013, that it would discontinue Bento on September 30, 2013.
Compatibility
Bento was only compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 or later due to its reliance on features not available in previous versions of the operating system. Certain actions, such as switching templates, used Core Animation to animate the transition. It also included integration with Time Machine for backing up and required iCal 3.0 (later renamed Calendar) for live data editing.
Release schedule
A public preview was made available alongside the initial product announcement on November 13, 2007, with the first final version released on January 8, 2008.
Version history
Template sharing
A Bento template was a pre-made library with all the forms necessary to catalog items within a certain context. With the release of Bento 2 on October 14, 2008, Bento users could import, export and share their templates. On June 16, 2009, FileMaker launched its own template-sharing site where users could download a variety of templates as well as share their own.
Upgrade controversy
On October 14, 2008, FileMaker released Bento 2.0 with bug fixes and new features, including integration with Apple's Mail. The new version did not offer upgrade pricing and cost the same as version 1. Many customers expressed their disappointment at the official Bento user forums, where FileMaker responded that they were using the "same pricing model" as other companies' products such as Apple's iWork and iLife suites.
Additionally, on November 25, FileMaker provided an official statement indicating that they would discontinue revisions and bug fixes for the version 1 product.Given interest in a revision, this was neither a quick, nor an easy decision to come to.Bento 1 received extensive beta testing, but like every software product, issues were discovered after shipment. We followed up with Bento 1.0.2 to address critical issues that had been discovered.In addressing product issues discovered after 1.0.2 for the 2.0 release, we reworked the product in significant, and sometimes, architectural ways. Simply put, this means that there is no way to easily migrate the fixes in 2.0 backwards to 1.0. We would have to reengineer 1.0 until it effectively became 2.0. Doing so would have strongly delayed the 2.0.3 version of Bento, which we will be releasing as a free update for Bento 2.0.1/2.0.2 this week, and continued development of the Bento product line.
As of May 20, 2012, the price for Bento 4 was $49 for a single license, or $99 for a "Family Pack" of five licenses.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way%20quantum%20computer | The one-way or measurement-based quantum computer (MBQC) is a method of quantum computing that first prepares an entangled resource state, usually a cluster state or graph state, then performs single qubit measurements on it. It is "one-way" because the resource state is destroyed by the measurements.
The outcome of each individual measurement is random, but they are related in such a way that the computation always succeeds. In general, the choices of basis for later measurements need to depend on the results of earlier measurements, and hence the measurements cannot all be performed at the same time.
The hardware implementation of MBQC mainly relies on photonic devices, due to the difficulty of entangling photons without measurements, and the relative simplicity of creating and measuring them. However, MBQC is also possible with matter-based qubits. The process of entanglement and measurement can be described with the help of graph tools and group theory, in particular by the elements from the stabilizer group.
Definition
The purpose of quantum computing focuses on building an information theory with the features of quantum mechanics: instead of encoding a binary unit of information (bit), which can be switched to 1 or 0, a quantum binary unit of information (qubit) can simultaneously turn to be 0 and 1 at the same time, thanks to the phenomenon called superposition. Another key feature for quantum computing relies on the entanglement between the qubits.
In the quantum logic gate model, a set of qubits, called register, is prepared at the beginning of the computation, then a set of logic operations over the qubits, carried by unitary operators, is implemented. A quantum circuit is formed by a register of qubits on which unitary transformations are applied over the qubits. In the measurement-based quantum computation, instead of implementing a logic operation via unitary transformations, the same operation is executed by entangling a number of input qubits with a cluster of ancillary qubits, forming an overall source state of qubits, and then measuring a number of them. The remaining output qubits will be affected by the measurements because of the entanglement with the measured qubits. The one-way computer has been proved to be a universal quantum computer, which means it can reproduce any unitary operation over an arbitrary number of qubits.
General procedure
The standard process of measurement-based quantum computing consists of three steps: entangle the qubits, measure the ancillae (auxiliary qubits) and correct the outputs. In the first step, the qubits are entangled in order to prepare the source state. In the second step, the ancillae are measured, affecting the state of the output qubits. However, the measurement outputs are non-deterministic result, due to undetermined nature of quantum mechanics: in order to carry on the computation in a deterministic way, some correction operators, called byproducts, are introduced.
Prepa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20Intelligence%20Development%20Studio | Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) is the former IDE from Microsoft, and was used to develop data analysis and business intelligence solutions utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Reporting Services and Integration Services. It is based on the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment, but customized with the SQL Server services-specific extensions and project types, including tools, controls and projects for reports, ETL dataflows, OLAP cubes and data mining structure.
BIDS functionality can be augmented with BI Developer Extensions (previously known as BIDS Helper), a Visual Studio add-in with features that extended and enhance business intelligence development functionality in SQL Server 2005, 2008, and 2008 R2 BI Development Studio (BIDS) and SQL Server 2012 SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). Business Intelligence Development Studio is hosted on Microsoft's project hosting website GitHub.
Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) can be used in BIDS to create end-to-end BI solutions by translating Biml metadata into SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) assets for the Microsoft SQL Server platform.
BIDS is not supported with Visual Studio 2010 and later, and has been replaced by SQL Server Data Tools - Business Intelligence.
References
External links
SQL Server Data Tools
Introducing Business Intelligence Development Studio
BIDS Helper - Microsoft Visual Studio and SQL Server extension
bimlscript.com - Biml online community
Microsoft database software
Microsoft development tools
Microsoft Visual Studio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeSynthesis%20XSD/e | CodeSynthesis XSD/e is a validating XML parser/serializer and C++ XML Data Binding generator for Mobile and Embedded systems. It is developed by Code Synthesis and dual-licensed under the GNU GPL and a proprietary license.
Given an XML instance specification (XML Schema), XSD/e can produce three kinds of C++ mappings: Embedded C++/Parser for event-driven XML parsing, Embedded C++/Serializer for event-driven XML serialization, and Embedded C++/Hybrid which provides a light-weight, in-memory object model on top of the other two mappings.
The C++/Hybrid mapping generates C++ classes for types defined in XML Schema as well as parsing and serialization code. The C++ classes represent the data stored in XML as a statically-typed, tree-like object model and support fully in-memory as well as partially in-memory/partially event-driven XML processing. The C++/Parser mapping generates validating C++ parser skeletons for data types defined in XML Schema. One can then implement these parser skeletons to build a custom in-memory representation or perform immediate processing as parts of the XML documents become available. Similarly, the Embedded C++/Serializer mapping generates validating C++ serializer skeletons for types defined in XML Schema which can be used to serialize application data to XML.
CodeSynthesis XSD/e itself is written in C++ and supports a number of embedded targets include Embedded Linux, VxWorks, QNX, LynxOS, iPhone OS and Windows CE.
References
External links
CodeSynthesis XSD/e Home Page
An Introduction to the C++/Hybrid Mapping
An Introduction to the C++/Parser Mapping
An Introduction to the C++/Serializer Mapping
An Introduction to XML Data Binding in C++
XML parsers
C++ libraries
Embedded systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster%20state | In quantum information and quantum computing, a cluster state is a type of highly entangled state of multiple qubits. Cluster states are generated in lattices of qubits with Ising type interactions. A cluster C is a connected subset of a d-dimensional lattice, and a cluster state is a pure state of the qubits located on C. They are different from other types of entangled states such as GHZ states or W states in that it is more difficult to eliminate quantum entanglement (via projective measurements) in the case of cluster states. Another way of thinking of cluster states is as a particular instance of graph states, where the underlying graph is a connected subset of a d-dimensional lattice. Cluster states are especially useful in the context of the one-way quantum computer. For a comprehensible introduction to the topic see.
Formally, cluster states are states which obey the set eigenvalue equations:
where are the correlation operators
with and being Pauli matrices, denoting the neighbourhood of and being a set of binary parameters specifying the particular instance of a cluster state.
Examples with qubits
Here are some examples of one-dimensional cluster states (d=1), for , where is the number of qubits. We take for all , which means the cluster state is the unique simultaneous eigenstate that has corresponding eigenvalue 1 under all correlation operators. In each example the set of correlation operators and the corresponding cluster state is listed.
This is an EPR-pair (up to local transformations).
This is the GHZ-state (up to local transformations).
.
This is not a GHZ-state and can not be converted to a GHZ-state with local operations.
In all examples is the identity operator, and tensor products are omitted. The states above can be obtained from the all zero state by first applying a Hadamard gate to every qubit, and then a controlled-Z gate between all qubits that are adjacent to each other.
Experimental creation of cluster states
Cluster states can be realized experimentally. One way to create a cluster state is by encoding logical qubits into the polarization of photons, one common encoding is the following:
This is not the only possible encoding, however it is one of the simplest: with this encoding entangled pairs can be created experimentally through spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The entangled pairs that can be generated this way have the form
equivalent to the logical state
for the two choices of the phase the two Bell states are obtained: these are themselves two examples of two-qubits cluster states. Through the use of linear optic devices as beam-splitters or wave-plates these Bell states can interact and form more complex cluster states. Cluster states have been created also in optical lattices of
cold atoms.
Entanglement criteria and Bell inequalities for cluster states
After a cluster state was created in an experiment, it is important to verify that indeed, an entangle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offline%20private%20key%20protocol | The Offline Private Key Protocol (OPKP) is a cryptographic protocol to prevent unauthorized access to back up or archive data. The protocol results in a public key that can be used to encrypt data and an offline private key that can later be used to decrypt that data.
The protocol is based on three rules regarding the key. An offline private key should:
not be stored with the encrypted data (obviously)
not be kept by the organization that physically stores the encrypted data, to ensure privacy
not be stored at the same system as the original data, to avoid the possibility that theft of only the private key would give access to all data at the storage provider; and to avoid that when the key would be needed to restore a backup, the key would be lost together with the data loss that made the restore necessary in the first place
To comply with these rules, the offline private key protocol uses a method of asymmetric key wrapping.
Security
As the protocol does not provide rules on the strength of the encryption methods and keys to be used, the security of the protocol depends on the actual cryptographic implementation. When used in combination with strong encryption methods, the protocol can provide extreme security.
Operation
Initially:
a client program (program) on a system (local system) with data to back up or archive generates a random private key PRIV
program creates a public key PUB based on PRIV
program stores PUB on the local system
program presents PRIV to user who can store the key, e.g. printed as a trusted paper key, or on a memory card
program destroys PRIV on the local system
When archiving or creating a backup, for each session or file:
program generates a one-time random key OTRK
program encrypts data using OTRK and a symmetric encryption method
program encrypts the (optionally padded) key OTRK using PUB to OTRKCR
program stores the OTRKCR and the encrypted data to a server
program destroys OTRK on the local system
program destroys OTRKCR on the local system
the server stores OTRKCR and stores the encrypted data
To restore backed up or archived data:
user feeds PRIV into program
program downloads data with the respective OTRKCR
program decrypts OTRKCR using PRIV, giving OTRK
program decrypts data using OTRK
program destroys PRIV on the local system
References
Cryptographic protocols
Data security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EKA%20%28supercomputer%29 | EKA (abbreviation of Embedded Karmarkar Algorithm, also means the number One in Sanskrit), is a supercomputer built by the Computational Research Laboratories, a company founded by Dr. Narendra Karmarkar, for scaling up a supercomputer architecture he designed at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research with a group of his students and project assistants over a period of 6 years.
CRL became a subsidiary of Tata Sons after their investment into the company. The hardware platform required for initial software development was built with technical assistance from Hewlett-Packard.
Design
To enable design of new software, a previously proven hardware platform was needed. This was provided in the EKA system using 14,352 cores based on the Intel QuadCore Xeon processors. The primary interconnect is Infiband 4x DDR. EKA occupies about area. It was built using offshelf components from Hewlett-Packard, Mellanox and Voltaire Limited. It was built within a short period of 6 weeks.
Ranking history
At the time of its unveiling, it was the fourth-fastest supercomputer in the world and the fastest in Asia.
See also
SAGA-220, a 220-TeraFLOPS supercomputer built by ISRO
PARAM series of supercomputers by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Supercomputing in India
References
External links
Eka Top 500 Supercomputer list
Computational Research Laboratories
TCS acquires Computational Research Laboratories
X86 supercomputers
Hewlett-Packard supercomputers
Information technology in India
Supercomputing in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%20of%20a%20Kind%20%28British%20TV%20series%29 | Two of a Kind is an early TV series for comedy duo Morecambe and Wise. It ran from 1961 to 1968 produced by ATV for the ITV network.
History
In 1954, Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise had starred in their first television series, Running Wild on BBC Television. This had proven to be a failure, which saw the duo initially return to the variety circuit, before slowly making a return to television, with guest spots on The Winifred Atwell Show and Double Six. Their increasing success eventually led to an offer from Lew Grade, the managing director of ATV (then an ITV franchise holder), for a second attempt at a television series of their own.
With memories of their previous attempt still in their mind, the duo said that they would accept the offer from Grade if they could obtain the services of the writing team of Dick Hills and Sid Green, as well as producer Colin Clews. Once these were in situ, work could begin in earnest on the new show.
Initially, there were problems in the working relationship between the two duos; the first scripts were, to Morecambe and Wise, too crowded with people for them, as the stars of the piece, to stand out. The reception for the first shows was described by Eric Morecambe as "lukewarm to say the least". In spite of this, the writers produced more of the same, until a strike by Equity saw the television schedules decimated. However, Morecambe and Wise were members of the Variety Artistes Federation, and therefore unaffected by the strike. As a consequence, Hills and Green were forced to write sketches that were more along the lines that Morecambe and Wise were looking for. Additionally, the writers were occasionally added to the situations as "Sid and Dick", the new, general-purpose stooges.
The series introduced several catchphrases (such as "Get out of that!"; "That's not nice"; "I'll smash your face in"; and "Tea Ern?") which would stay with them throughout their careers - as well as Morecambe's famous paper bag trick - and an original opening segment which saw the pair parody other series such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Dixon of Dock Green and Take Your Pick. It also attracted special guests such as Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson and The Beatles; performances of "This Boy" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand", along with a comedy skit involving the group, were released on the Anthology 1 compilation album in 1995. The celebrities were generally humiliated by the pair, and especially by Morecambe's playful insults, undermining the status of the celebrities, joking that they were "rubbish" and pretending not to recognise them. Generally, the higher the status of the celebrities, the greater the humiliation.
The sixth Morecambe and Wise series for ATV was planned from the start to be aired in the United Kingdom as well as exported to the United States and Canada. It was taped in colour and starred international guests, often American. Prior to its British run, it was broadcast in North America by ABC as a summer replacement f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabru%20%28supercomputer%29 | Kabru is a supercomputer that uses a 2.4 GHz Pentium Xeon Cluster and Linux to provide a sustained speed of 959 gigaflops. It was developed by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) in Chennai, India. In June 2004, Kabru was listed as #264 in the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful computers. It takes its name from a Himalayan peak.
The idea for Kabru was born when Professor Hari Dass of the Institute began looking for a supercomputer to handle his theoretical physics research, which dealt primarily with large-scale simulations in the field of the lattice gauge theory.
The Department of Atomic Energy in India made a grant of Rs 3.5 crore to the Institute to develop Kabru.
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20071111162356/http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20040816/coverstory01.shtml
http://www.rediff.com/computer/jul/08c-dac.htm
X86 supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty%20Ravellette | Marty Ravellette (December 18, 1939 – November 12, 2007) was born in Goodland, Indiana without arms, attended Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network in Allentown, Pennsylvania as an infant and then the family moved to Oceanside, California, where he was stopped for speeding in February 1963. The notoriety that resulted introduced him to his soon wife JoBeth Johnson and they moved to Klamath Falls, Oregon. Initially belonging to various denominations of Christianity, Ravellette and several of the family converted to the Baháʼí Faith between 1967 and 1970.
Later divorced, Ravellette moved to Teaneck, New Jersey and then Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he rescued an elderly woman in a burning car and again won national recognition. His life is featured in a 2004 documentary, No Arms Needed: A Hero Among Us. Ravellette died in an auto accident in Eli Whitney, North Carolina three years later, in 2007.
Early life and education
Marty Ravellette was the fourth child of the farm family of Ernest D. Ravellette and Laurene Ravellette (née Frohreich). He was born without arms. Faced with the challenge of this disability his family was convinced to place him at two months old at Good Shepherd Home, known today as Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The main practice at Good Shepherd was mainstreaming, and they trained Ravellette to adapt the use of his legs, feet, arms, hand, and an early prosthetic arm he later stopped using. - who was an inspiration to Ravellette. Ravellette, while missing arms, favored his left foot like many do their left hand. Ravellete was known to entertain people with his use of feet and body to do tricks.
While there, Ravellette attended Allentown public schools, starting with Jefferson Elementary School and then South Mountain Junior High. At age 11, Ravellette suffered burns from a fire accident. At age 16, Ravellette rejoined his family partly because he was a discipline problem but was initially barred from attending high school by an operating public school principle at the time that, as Ravellette understood it, physical handicaps were equated with mental handicaps. Ravellette's mother sued the school and produced transcripts from his public school years while living at Good Shepherd in Allentown.
While attending an Allentown public high school, Ravellete's reputation was built by, despite lacking arms, his rebellious and confrontational attitude. He "didn't back down", as the 2003 documentary on him cited when fellow students picked on him. However, he said, "For the first time, I felt like I was a cripple.". He credited his rebelliousness with not being afraid of work, an attribute he said he developed from working on a farm, where his family did not have running water. At one point, it was Ravellette's job to fill water troughs from a hand pump. For the high school prom Ravellette recalled he was denied a date saying "Marty, when I want to get married I want to marry a man, not half a on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Boggs | David Reeves Boggs (June 17, 1950 – February 19, 2022) was an American electrical and radio engineer who developed early prototypes of Internet protocols, file servers, gateways, network interface cards and, along with Robert Metcalfe and others, co-invented Ethernet, the most popular family of technologies for local area computer networks.
Biography
David Boggs was born in Washington, D.C. to James Boggs and Jane (McCallum) Boggs on June 17, 1950. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C. in 1968 and subsequently attended Princeton University, from where he graduated with a B.S.E. in electrical engineering in 1972. He then joined the Xerox PARC research staff, where he met Robert Metcalfe while the latter was debugging an Interface Message Processor interface for the PARC systems group.
Since Boggs had considerable experience as an amateur radio operator WA3DBJ, he recognized similarities between Metcalfe's theories and radio broadcasting technologies and joined his project. According to The Economist, "the two would co-invent Ethernet, with Mr Metcalfe generating the ideas and Mr Boggs figuring out how to build the system."
Throughout 1973, they built several Ethernet interfaces for the Xerox Alto pioneering personal computer. Xerox filed a patent application on March 31, 1975, naming Metcalfe, Boggs, Chuck Thacker, and Butler Lampson as inventors.
They published "Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks," Ethernet's seminal paper, in 1976, following 18 months of work.
It was reprinted in the Communications of the ACM in a special 25th anniversary issue. He produced a slide from a Metcalfe sketch of Ethernet terminology for a session at the National Computer Conference in June 1976, which was widely reprinted.
The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History presently has the original prototype circuit.
Boggs went to Stanford University for graduate study while working at Xerox, earning a master's degree in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 1982 in electrical engineering. He wrote his dissertation on "Internet Broadcasting", a concept which Steve Deering, also at Stanford, later expanded upon to IP multicasting.
He was a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and received the IEEE Computer Society technical achievement award in 1988.
He was also one of the developers of the PARC Universal Packet protocol architecture.
Boggs worked on the "Titan" project at the Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research Laboratory (DECWRL) after leaving Xerox.
He worked as a consultant in Silicon Valley and co-founded LAN Media Corporation (LMC) with Ron Crane.
In July 2000, LMC was acquired by SBE Incorporated and then SBE was acquired by Neonode in 2007.
Boggs died of heart failure at Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California, on February 19, 2022, at the age of 71.
References
1950 births
2022 deaths
20th-century American engineers
Amateur radio people
American electric |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20of%20Interacting%20Proteins | The Database of Interacting Proteins (DIP) is a biological database which catalogs experimentally determined interactions between proteins. It combines information from a variety of sources to create a single, consistent set of protein–protein interactions. The data stored within DIP have been curated, both manually, by expert curators, and automatically, using computational approaches that utilize the knowledge about the protein–protein interaction networks extracted from the most reliable, core subset of the DIP data. The database was initially released in 2002. As of 2014, DIP is curated by the research group of David Eisenberg at UCLA.
DIP can be searched through its web interface; searches may be based on the interactions described in a selected journal article, or interactions supported by experimental evidence, amongst others.
DIP is a member of the International Molecular Exchange Consortium (IMEx), a group of the major public providers of interaction data. Other participating databases include the Biomolecular Interaction Network Database (BIND), IntAct, the Molecular Interaction Database (MINT), MIPS, MPact, and BioGRID. The databases of IMEx work together to prevent duplications of effort, collecting data from non-overlapping sources and sharing the curated interaction data. The IMEx consortium also worked to develop the HUPO-PSI-MI XML format, which is now widely implemented.
All of the information within DIP is freely available under a Creative Commons BY-ND 3.0 license.
References
External links
DIP homepage
Proteins
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WITA | WITA (1490 AM, "Inspiration 1490") is a Christian radio station located in Knoxville, Tennessee. It broadcasts a Christian format with some conservative talk shows and news from the USA Radio Network.
In the late 1960s into the mid-1970s, WITA was known as WROL, "Real Rock And Roll Radio". It was the only station in Knoxville airing an AOR format, playing album cuts from artists such as the Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead.
The station boasted Knoxville's first female DJ to gain popularity with the University Of Tennessee student population, Leslie Shelor (Leslie Shelor Swann after marriage; also known as "Peggy Swann" to good friends). During this period it was known as "W-149" as a play on its frequency of 1490 kHz. The daytime 1,000-watt signal originated in Fountain City in north Knoxville, but the nighttime 250-watt signal originated at a separate transmitter site which was much closer to campus.
In the mid-1970s the station switched format to top 40 as WKVQ (15Q), but found it difficult to compete with more powerful signals like WNOX and WOKI-FM. By the late 1970s the religious format had begun. 2018 Gubernatorial Libertarian candidate Vinnie Vineyard, better known as Funkmaster V from Wrestling With Ghosts, hosted an hour long rock/ comedy program entitled "Cousin Vinnie's Rock N Roll Show" on the station during 1995–1996.
External links
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News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1961 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Health%20Integration%20Network | Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) were the health authorities responsible for regional administration of public healthcare services in the Canadian province of Ontario. Legacy LHIN functions were transferred to the new Ontario Health and the LHIN name was changed to Home and Community Care Support Services.
Created on April 1, 2007, the 14 LHINs were mandated with planning, integrating and distributing provincial funding for all public healthcare services at a regional level. LHINs were locally based associations of the various health service providers, intended to generate enhanced community engagement.
Services
LHINs were community-based, non-profit organizations funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to plan, fund and coordinate services delivered by:
Hospitals
Long-Term Care Homes
Home and Community Care (formally Community Care Access Centres (CCACs))
Community Support Service Agencies
Mental Health and Addiction Agencies
Community Health Centres (CHCs)
List
There were 14 LHINs:
Erie St. Clair LHIN
South West LHIN
Waterloo Wellington LHIN
Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant LHIN
Central West LHIN
Mississauga Halton LHIN
Toronto Central LHIN
Central LHIN
Central East LHIN
South East LHIN
Champlain LHIN
North Simcoe Muskoka LHIN
North East LHIN
North West LHIN
Notes
External links
Source, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly%20Women | Deadly Women is an American true crime documentary television series produced by Beyond International Group and airing on the Investigation Discovery (ID) network.
The series focuses on murders committed by women. It is hosted by former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) criminal profiler Candice DeLong and narrated by Lynnanne Zager.
Deadly Women was first broadcast in 2005 as a three-part miniseries under the subtitles: “Obsession”, “Greed”, and “Revenge”. It was revived as a regularly scheduled series and began airing on December 24, 2008. Two major changes were made: Lynnanne Zager replaced original narrator Marsha Crenshaw, and the number of cases in each episode was reduced from four to three. The episodes were also recorded and presented in a widescreen format. The series ended in 2021, after 14 seasons.
Dubbed versions are also produced. A Spanish language version airs on Discovery en Español under the title Las Verdaderas Mujeres Asesinas (True Killer Women); an Italian language version airs on Real Time Italy under the title Donne mortali (a literal translation of the English title).
Format
Each episode has a unifying theme such as jealousy, financial gain, mental illness, or crimes committed by teenagers or the elderly. The titles of the episodes reflect the theme. The stories are told through re-enactments and interviews.
Episodes also feature contributors in relevant fields (e.g. law enforcement, the law, the media, forensic medicine and medicine). Diane Fanning, M. William Phelps, Gregg Olsen, Wensley Clarkson, Joan Renner, and Dr. Janis Amatuzio have made multiple appearances. Occasionally, family or friends of the subject or their victims appear to add context and/or perspective.
At the end of each segment, the actress playing the subject (and her male and female conspirators, if any) break the fourth wall and look directly at the camera as their fates are revealed. Beginning in the ninth season, photos of the actual subjects are also shown (usually mugshots taken following their arrests, or artist renditions of said subjects if they lived before the days of modern photography).
Episodes
See also
Facing Evil with Candice DeLong
Snapped
Snapped: Killer Couples
Snapped: She Made Me Do It
Wives with Knives
References
External links
2000s American crime television series
2010s American crime television series
2020s American crime television series
2005 American television series debuts
Discovery Channel original programming
Investigation Discovery original programming
True crime television series
Television series by Beyond Television Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles%20for%20Responsible%20Investment | Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI or PRI) is a United Nations-supported international network of financial institutions working together to implement its six aspirational principles, often referenced as "the Principles". Its goal is to understand the implications of sustainability for investors and support signatories to facilitate incorporating these issues into their investment decision-making and ownership practices. In implementing these principles, signatories contribute to the development of a more sustainable global financial system.
The Principles offer a framework of possible actions for incorporating environmental, social and corporate governance factors into investment practices across asset classes. Responsible investment is a process that must be tailored to fit each organisation's investment strategy, approach and resources. The Principles are designed to be compatible with the investment styles of large, diversified, institutional investors that operate within a traditional fiduciary framework.
As of March 2022, more than 4,800 signatories from over 80 countries representing approximately US$100 trillion have signed up to the Principles.
In some cases, before retaining an investment manager, institutional investors will inquire as to whether the manager is a signatory.
Overview
About the PRI
In early 2005, the then UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, invited a group of the world’s largest institutional investors to join a process to develop the Principles for Responsible Investment. A 20-person investor group drawn from institutions in 12 countries was supported by a 70-person group of experts from the investment industry, intergovernmental organisations and civil society. The Principles were launched in April 2006 at the New York Stock Exchange.
The Principles were incubated by the UNEP Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact and were developed and launched by a joint Secretariat from both organizations including: James Gifford, Paul Clements Hunt, Georg Kell, Jacob Malthouse, Gordon Hagart, Philip Walker and Gavin Power.
The Principles are based on the notion that environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, such as climate change and human rights, can affect the performance of investment portfolios and should therefore be considered alongside more traditional financial factors if investors are to properly fulfill their fiduciary duty. The six Principles provide a global framework for mainstream investors to consider these ESG issues.
The PRI was created alongside the Principles to help put the framework into practice.
The Principles saw increased sign-up following the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, according to a report in the Financial Times.
The Principles are ‘voluntary and aspirational’ and they do not have minimum entry requirements or absolute performance standards for responsible investment. However, signatories have an obligation to report on the extent to which they implement the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane%20Lhomme | Stéphane Lhomme (born 4 November 1965 in Bordeaux) is a French activist. He is president of Tchernoblaye association, and was spokesperson of "Sortir du nucléaire" Network from 2002 to 2010.
Stéphane Lhomme was arrested in May 2006 and in April 2008 by French police for allegedly leaking a confidential report saying that the European Pressurized Reactor French nuclear reactor would not resist to an airplane crash.
References
French anti–nuclear power activists
Living people
1965 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%20City%20Metro%20Line%205 | Line 5, also known as the Yellow Line from its color on the system map, is a rapid transit line of the Mexico City Metro network. It travels along the boroughs of Gustavo A. Madero, Cuauhtémoc and Venustiano Carranza in northern, northeastern and eastern Mexico City, serving thirteen stations. The line was inaugurated on 19 December 1981, going from Pantitlán to Consulado station. In 1982, the line was expanded twice, first from Consulado to La Raza station on 1 July, and later from La Raza to Politécnico station on 30 August.
Line 5 was built by Mexican construction company Empresas ICA and it runs at grade and underground levels. The interchange stations are Instituto del Petróleo (Line 6), La Raza (Line 3), Consulado (Line 4), Oceanía (Line B), and Pantitlán (Lines 1, 9 and A). The line serves the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) at Terminal Aérea station and connects with other transport systems in the city, including the trolleybus, the Metrobús and the Mexibús systems.
In 2019, Line 5 had a total ridership of 86,512,999 passengers, averaging 237,021 passengers per day and making it one of the least used lines on the network.
History and construction
Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built in early 1980s by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA. The line was inaugurated on 19 December 1981 and originally ran from Pantitlán (in Venustiano Carranza) to Consulado station (in the limits of Venustiano Carranza and Gustavo A. Madero), with seven operative stations and a long track. Pantitlán, Oceanía, Aragón, Eduardo Molina and Consulado stations were built at-grade level, while Hangares and Terminal Aérea were built underground. Between Consulado and Eduardo Molina a station named Simón Bolivar was planned but never built due to budget constraints.
The line was expanded northbound to La Raza station, in Gustavo A. Madero, slightly passing through the Cuauhtémoc borough at Misterios station. Valle Gómez and Misterios stations were built underground, while La Raza was built at-grade level. The expansion was opened on 1 July 1982. The second and last expansion was northbound toward Politécnico station, in Gustavo A. Madero with all the stations built at grade, and it was opened on 30 August 1982.
During the early excavations, a road that connected Tenochtitlan with the Tepeyac hill was found in the Valle Gómez–Misterios stretch. The road was built with materials dated from the Mesoamerican Postclassic Period. In Peñon de los Baños (near Terminal Aérea station), workers found the remains of mamuts, bisons, horses, camels, birds and fishes, as well as a Teotihuacan settlement.
In 2015, during an evening with heavy rain and hail, two trains crashed while both were going toward Politécnico station. One person indirectly died and twelve others resulted injured. In 2021, the whole line ceased operations for three days after a fire occurred on the STC's Central Control Center.
Planned expansion
During the 1980s and 1990s, it was propos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WZTD-LD | WZTD-LD (channel 45) is a low-power television station in Richmond, Virginia, United States, serving as the local outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo. The station is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group, and transmits from an antenna located in Bon Air, Virginia.
History
The station was originally founded on December 9, 1991, as W61BZ, on channel 61, owned by TV Broadcasters of Central Virginia. On February 22, 2000, the station's call sign was changed to WKYV-LP to reflect the original location of license and then moved to channel 45. On July 21, 2000, Tiger Eye Broadcasting acquired the station and license. It became an affiliate of America's Store (a defunct shopping network owned by the Home Shopping Network) after the sale.
On August 15, 2006, the station officially signed off for technical reasons. In October 2006, ZGS Communications purchased WKYV-LP and five other stations from Tiger Eye Broadcasting for $2.15 million. In mid-November 2007, the station returned to the air as a Telemundo affiliate and changed its call sign to WZTD-LP on January 16, 2008.
During the morning of January 12, 2009, the station discontinued regular programming due to technical difficulties with its satellite system and service provider, Dish Network, caused by adverse weather conditions (showers and thunderstorms) the day before. That afternoon, the station temporarily switched to an English format from OnTV4U, a 24/7 infomercial network, and returned to Telemundo programming on January 20, 2009, sometime after 2:00 p.m.
On January 16, 2010, the station aired the inauguration of Governor Robert "Bob" McDonnell live from the State Capitol in Spanish.
On April 25, 2010, the station began airing a limited number of locally produced programs ranging from real estate, to religion, to legal advice (none produced by WZTD-LD).
On December 4, 2017, NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group announced its purchase of ZGS' 13 television stations, including WZTD-LD. The sale was completed on February 1, 2018.
WZTD-LD today
WZTD-LD is the first Hispanic television station in Central Virginia. Unlike some Telemundo affiliates, WZTD-LD does not broadcast local news. The station does not have a website and was not listed on the ZGS corporate website for some time after its acquisition. In fact, ZGS did not formally announce the station's launch until December 2009. Aside from its Telemundo programming, the station began airing a few local shows beginning on April 25, 2010. Telemundo Richmond is available over-the-air on channel 45, Comcast Cable channels 71 & 600 and Verizon Fios channel 20. In October 2012, WZTD became available in the nearby Tri-Cities area on Comcast Cable channel 151. Until December 2009, the station had no logo, so it used the station's ID on top of the hour moving from right to left across the top of the screen. It was discontinued as of November 2008, then brought back a little over year later in January 2010.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mano%20machine | The Mano machine is a computer theoretically described by M. Morris Mano. It contains a central processing unit, random access memory, and an input-output bus. Its limited instruction set and small address space limit it to use as a Microcontroller. But it can easily be expanded to have a 32-bit accumulator register, and 28-bit addressing using a HDL language like Verilog or VHDL; And at the same time, make room for new instructions.
Characteristics
The Mano machine is similar in many respects to the PDP-8, such as the same address space, only one accumulator register, and many similar instructions. The Mano machine has a 4096x16 shared data/program memory segment requiring a 12-bit address bus. The data bus is 16 bits. There are 8-bit input/output buses for external communication, and associated interrupt flags.
There is one 16-bit accumulator register, and single-bit registers (latches) for addition carry and system halt.
Instruction set
There are 25 instructions that fall into 3 categories: direct / indirect memory referencing operations, register referencing operations, and input/output / interrupt operations.
Each instruction is 16 bits long [4 nybbles, or 1 word]. This means that memory referencing instructions contain 4 bits of op-code data, and 12 bits dedicated to the address.
Applications to computer optimization theory
The machine specifications include a finite state machine that determines the processor's micro-operations. The canonical implementation of the state machine is an excellent candidate for reduction, and can also be re-implemented as a pipelined processor.
External links
Mark Roth's Mano machine assembler/simulator
MANOSIM and MANOASM binaries and guide page
A VHDL implementation of the Mano Machine by N. Narasimhamurthi
A Verilog implementation of the Mano Machine by Greg Toombs
An in-browser Mano Machine simulator (Java Applet)
References
Educational abstract machines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20E.%20Keyes | David E. Keyes is a Senior Associate to the President of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the Director of the Extreme Computing Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He was the inaugural Dean of the Division of Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) at KAUST and remains an adjunct professor in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University and an affiliate of several laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy. With backgrounds in engineering, applied mathematics, and computer science, he works at the algorithmic interface between parallel computing and the numerical analysis of partial differential equations, across a spectrum of aerodynamic, geophysical, and chemically reacting flows.
Professional career
Keyes graduated summa cum laude in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton in 1978 and earned a doctorate in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1984. He served on the faculties of Yale, Old Dominion, and Columbia Universities before taking up his current post in 2009. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen federal agency reports and member of several federal advisory committees on computational science and engineering and high performance computing. As of January 2022, his works have been cited 12180 times, and he has an h-index of 46.
Manuscripts
Hierarchical Algorithms on Hierarchical Architectures, D. Keyes, H. Ltaief & G. Turkiyyah, 2020, Phil. Trans. Royal Society, Series A 378:20190055.
Batched QR and SVD Algorithms on GPUs with Applications in Hierarchical Matrix Compression, W. Boukaram, G. Turkiyyah, H. Ltaief & D. Keyes, 2018, Parallel Computing 74:19–33.
A High Performance QDWH-SVD Solver Using Hardware Accelerators, D. Sukkari, H. Ltaief & D. Keyes, 2016, ACM Trans. Math. Software 43(1) 6:1–6:25.
KBLAS: An Optimized Library for Dense Matrix-Vector Multiplication on GPU Accelerators, A. Abdelfattah, D. Keyes & H. Ltaief, 2015, ACM Trans. Math. Software 42(3) 18:1–18:31.
Multicore-optimized Wavefront Diamond Blocking for Optimizing Stencil Updates, T. Malas, G. Hager, H. Ltaief, H. Stengel, G. Wellein & D. Keyes, 2015, SIAM J. Scientific Comput. 37:C439–C464.
Field-split Preconditioned Inexact Newton, L. Liu & D. Keyes, 2015, SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 37:A1388-A1409.
Multiphysics Simulations: Challenges and Opportunities, D. Keyes, L. C. McInnes, C. S. Woodward, et al., 2013, Int. J. High Perf. Comput. Applics. 27:5-83.
Jacobian-Free Newton-Krylov Methods: A Survey of Approaches and Applications, 2004, D. A. Knoll & D. E. Keyes, J. Comp. Phys., 193:357–397.
A Science-based Case for Large-scale Simulation, D. Keyes, editor-in-chief, Volume 1, 2003 and Volume 2, 2004, U.S. Department of Energy, http://www.pnl.gov/scales.
Nonlinear Preconditioned Inexact Newton Algorithms, X.-C. Cai & D. Keyes, 2002, SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 24:183-200.
Awards and honors
He was awarded an NSF Presidential Young Invest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20Bowl%20%281995%20video%20game%29 | Blood Bowl is the turn-based strategy video game adaptation of the Games Workshop miniatures game, originally developed for MS-DOS computers by Destiny Software Productions and published by MicroLeague.
Gameplay
The game is a fantasy version of American football, with a violent twist in that opponents can be deliberately seriously injured or killed, and without the ability to kick field goals. Each player is given a set number of action points with which to act. The team that scores the most touchdowns wins. This can be achieved through a throwing and passing game, or alternatively, by beating the opposing team up so badly that scoring becomes easy.
The game features league play in which the player's team competes in the standings and can sign free agents to augment his team or replace killed players.
Reception
PC Gamer USs Dan Bennett called Blood Bowl "an enjoyable game, as long as you don't think too much about how good it could have been." He criticized the slowness of the game's AI opponent, and the lack of the modem play advertised on Blood Bowls packaging. However, he concluded, "[F]or fans of the board game, it's a must." In Computer Gaming World, Martin E. Cirulis wrote, "Blood Bowl [...] should have benefited from the vast amount of work that has gone into developing [the sports] genre. Instead, we get strange omissions and difficulties that were ironed out of most football sims years ago."
The game was reviewed in 1995 in Dragon #220 by Paul Murphy in the "Eye of the Monitor" column. Murphy calls the game "a disappointment," then goes on to suggest that readers should "play the board-game: it's better."
Blood Bowl won Computer Game Reviews 1995 "Strategy Game of the Year" award, tied with Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest and Gazillionaire.
Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "This game loses one star for promising modem play it doesn't deliver [...] but it's just what the doctor ordered for the sports or strategy gamer looking for something really different."
See also
Pigskin 621 A.D.
Mutant League Football
References
External links
1995 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Fantasy sports video games
MicroLeague games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Sports management video games
Video games based on board games
Video games developed in the United States
Warhammer Fantasy video games
Blood Bowl video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Gyngell | David Liam Barr Gyngell (born 1966), an Australian businessman, was the former Chief Executive Officer of Nine Entertainment Co. which owns a string of businesses including the Nine Network and Nine Radio.
Gyngell was the CEO of the Nine Network before resigning in May 2005. After a period of declining ratings compared to Channel Seven, he returned to the job in September 2007, succeeding Eddie McGuire. In November 2013, he was appointed as the CEO of Nine Entertainment Co. He resigned as CEO in 2015, and was replaced by Hugh Marks.
Personal life
Gyngell is the son of Australian television pioneer Bruce Gyngell and the best man and former flatmate of James Packer, whom he first met at Cranbrook School, the former owner of the Nine Network. In 2004, he married journalist and presenter Leila McKinnon. Gyngell's second cousin is Kym Gyngell.
In May 2014, Gyngell was involved in a public brawl with Packer at Bondi Beach. A spokesperson for Gyngell subsequently released a statement saying "he was the instigator of the incident. Had he not turned up at Packer's premises in an angry mood then the confrontation would never have occurred". Gyngell and Packer were both fined $500 for offensive behaviour over the incident.
References
1966 births
Living people
Australian television executives
Australian chief executives
Nine Network
Businesspeople from Sydney
People educated at Cranbrook School, Sydney
Gyngell family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader | A reader is a person who reads. It may also refer to:
Computing and technology
Adobe Reader (now Adobe Acrobat), a PDF reader
Bible Reader for Palm, a discontinued PDA application
A card reader, for extracting data from various forms of card-shaped media
An e-reader, a device or software for viewing e-books
Amazon Kindle
Microsoft Reader
Sony Reader
Foxit Reader, a multilingual PDF tool
Google Reader, a discontinued web app for handling RSS/Atom feeds
K-NFB Reader, a handheld electronic reading device for the blind
Lisp reader, the parser function in the Lisp programming language
Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
Newsreader (Usenet), for reading newsgroup posts
Nintendo e-Reader, a device to read paper card media for the Game Boy Advance
Reader, an off-line content viewing feature of Apple's Safari web browser
Screen reader, a software application that attempts to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the screen
Education and literature
Basal reader, a book used to teach reading and associated skills to schoolchildren
McGuffey Readers, a well-known early series of such books
Anthology, a book of selections of writing, usually by many authors
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, a series of books containing trivia and short essays on miscellaneous topics
Reader-response criticism, a literary theory, primarily German and American
The Reader, a 1995 novel by Bernhard Schlink
Newspapers and magazines
Chicago Reader, a newsweekly
Duzhe, (translated Reader(s)), a Chinese magazine
High Plains Reader, an independent weekly tabloid
Los Angeles Reader, a defunct weekly paper
The Reader (magazine), a literary quarterly published by the University of Liverpool
San Diego Reader, a weekly newspaper in San Diego, California
Utne Reader, a periodical
Weekly Reader (formerly My Weekly Reader), an educational magazine for children
The Reader (newspaper), a weekly in Omaha, Nebraska
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, a reference guide to articles in magazines and journals
Occupations
A publisher's reader, also called a first reader
Reader (liturgy), a person charged with reading scripture in church
Reader (Christian Science Church) (also First Reader or Second Reader), a person who conducts services in a Christian Science church
Reader (Anglican Church)
Reader (academic rank), in British education the position between senior (or principal) lecturer and professor
Reader (Inns of Court), a senior barrister of the Inns of Court in London elected to deliver lectures on a particular legal topic
Reader, a practitioner of cartomancy, fortune-telling using a deck of cards
Places
Reader, Arkansas
Reader Railroad, a tourist railroad
Reader, Illinois
Reader, West Virginia
Other uses
The Reader (2008 film), based on the novel
Plate reader (or microplate reader), a laboratory instrument
"Readers", a slang term for reading glasses
Readers, a deck of marked cards
Readers, a brand of Cricket equipment
See also
Reader (surname)
Reeder (dis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linha%20Direta | Linha Direta (lit. Direct Line) was a Brazilian television program broadcast by Globo Network. Similar in style and loosely based on the United States program, America's Most Wanted, this program has also helped the Brazilian authorities apprehend many criminals at large trying to escape justice. The program was cancelled in 2007.
There were two special editions of the program: Linha Direta Justiça that presented famous Brazilian crimes, like the Candelária massacre, the death of Josef Mengele and the Jules Rimet theft on Rio de Janeiro; and the Linha Direta Mistério, about stories of the supernatural, like the Operação Prato, the legend of the thirteen souls that died on the Joelma fire and cases of NDE.
All shows featured reenactments using actors as well as interviews with journalists and principal characters.
See also
Globo Network
External links
TV Globo original programming
Brazilian television series
1999 Brazilian television series debuts
2007 Brazilian television series endings
1990s Brazilian television series
2000s Brazilian television series
Brazilian crime television series
Portuguese-language television shows
America's Most Wanted |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorestown%20%28computing%20platform%29 | Moorestown is the Intel Corporation's handheld MID and smartphone platform based on Lincroft system-on-a-chip with an Atom processor core, Langwell input/output Platform Controller Hub (I/O PCH), and a Briertown Power Management IC. Announced in 2010, the platform was demonstrated running Moblin Linux.
The Moorestown platform introduced the Simple Firmware Interface (SFI), a lightweight alternative to ACPI. In Linux 5.12, support for SFI, which was previously marked as obsolete, was removed from the kernel by Intel.
See also
List of Intel Atom microprocessors#"Lincroft" (45 nm)
References
External links
http://anandtech.com/show/3696/intel-unveils-moorestown-and-the-atom-z600-series-the-fastest-smartphone-processor
Computing platforms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocis%20undata | Mocis undata, the brown-striped semilooper, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found in the Afrotropical and Oriental regions, including India and Sri Lanka.
Description
Male with mid and hind tibia clothed with long hair. Body pale red-brown. Abdomen pale fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous. Forewing with a short sub-basal red-brown line. An oblique antemedial pale of ochreous line present, with diffused red-brown band on its outer edge. A sinuous medial line angled on median nervure. Reniform large and indistinct. A red-brown diffused postmedial band, on which is a dark line slightly curved outwards beyond the cell, and at vein 2, it is very irregularly curved inwards to lower angle of cell, then descending to inner margin. An indistinct pale waved sub-marginal line present with a black specks series on it. There is a dark waved marginal line. Hindwings ochreous fuscous, with narrow fuscous medial band and diffused sub-marginal band. Legs rufous.
Larva purplish brown speckled with black. The lateral area yellowish with red lines. A sub-lateral row of small black dots present. Head brownish with red lateral streak. Pupa efflorescent. The larvae feed on Cytisus, Desmodium, Wisteria, Arachis, Butea, Cajanus, Calopogonium, Crotalaria, Derris, Glycine, Indigofera, Mucuna, Phaseolus, Pueraria, Rhynchosia, Tephrosia, Vigna, Shorea, Hevea, Gossypium, Nephelium and Solanum species.
References
External links
A note on record of parasites of Mocis undata
Moths of Africa
Moths of Asia
Moths of Japan
Moths described in 1775
undata
Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Emmy%20Awards | 2006 Emmy Awards may refer to:
58th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2006 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring primetime programming June 2005 – May 2006
33rd Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2006 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 2005
27th Sports Emmy Awards, the 2006 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring sports programming during 2005
34th International Emmy Awards, honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20Emmy%20Awards | 2005 Emmy Awards may refer to:
57th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2005 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring primetime programming during June 2004 – May 2005
32nd Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2005 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 2004
26th Sports Emmy Awards, the 2005 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring sports programming during 2004
33rd International Emmy Awards, honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20Emmy%20Awards | 2004 Emmy Awards may refer to:
56th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2004 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring primetime programming June 2003 – May 2004
31st Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2004 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 2003
32nd International Emmy Awards, honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20Emmy%20Awards | 2003 Emmy Awards may refer to:
55th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2003 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring primetime programming June 2002 – May 2003
30th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2003 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 2002
31st International Emmy Awards, honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20Emmy%20Awards | 2002 Emmy Awards may refer to:
54th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2002 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring primetime programming June 2001 – May 2002
29th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2002 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 2001
30th International Emmy Awards, honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20Emmy%20Awards | 2001 Emmy Awards may refer to:
53rd Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2001 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring primetime programming June 2000 – May 2001
28th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2001 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 2000
29th International Emmy Awards, honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20Emmy%20Awards | 2000 Emmy Awards may refer to:
52nd Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2000 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring primetime programming June 1999 – May 2000
27th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2000 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 1999
38th International Emmy Awards, honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20Emmy%20Awards | 1999 Emmy Awards may refer to:
51st Primetime Emmy Awards, the 1999 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring primetime programming during June 1998 – May 1999
26th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 1999 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 1998
27th International Emmy Awards, honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meola%20Creek | Meola Creek is a waterway in Auckland, New Zealand. It is situated in Integrated Catchment Area #1 within Auckland City's drainage network. The catchment consists largely of a natural valley that runs down from the north-east slopes of Mt Albert (Owairaka), north of Mt Albert Road. The upper section of Meola Creek flows along the boundary of the Western Springs College and through the Kerr-Taylor Reserve. The area around the creek is subject to a combination of residential, commercial and recreational activities, which result in the stream being entirely piped upstream of the Chamberlain Park Golf Course, and strongly contaminated with urban pollutants such as zinc and lead.
Meola Creek drains into an estuarine area of the mid-Waitematā Harbour, on a low-lying part of the Auckland isthmus. This receiving environment has one of the longest histories of urbanisation in the Auckland region. The area around the estuary is actually a natural flood plain, much of which has been converted to parks and playing fields. A good portion of the mangrove forest remains intact. Te Tokaroa (Meola Reef) next to Point Chevalier forms the northern part of a long lava flow that originated from Mount Saint John volcano and flowed down a narrow creek valley. The reef extends for over across the Waitematā Harbour
History
Tāmaki Māori people named the creek Waitītiko, meaning "water of the periwinkles". The creek was traditionally used for eel fishing by Tāmaki Māori. European settlers subsequently renamed it Meola Creek, possibly after a glacier in India where Allan Kerr Taylor was born and lived until aged eight. The Kerr Taylor family lived near the source of Meola Creek in a large Indian-influenced house called Alberton, one of the most loved historic houses in New Zealand. In pre-human times much of the area was wetlands; in fact, the nearby suburb of Sandringham used to be called Cabbage Tree Swamp up until the mid 19th century. Following European settlement, most of the area around the creek remained as gorse-covered swamp until it was finally drained and converted into school playing fields in 1953.
In June 2006 an Asiatic short-clawed otter called Jin made national news as it escaped from Auckland Zoo by swimming down Meola Creek on an outgoing tide and into the Waitematā Harbour. The fugitive otter was later captured on Motutapu Island in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf.
Threats
Recent chemical and biological analyses carried out on water quality and sediment indicate Meola Creek is in a poor condition. Channelization and pollution have taken a hefty toll on its biota and fundamental hydrology. Pollutants such as heavy metals and petrochemicals enter the creek via several stormwater drains along the creek. Because it is situated in a heavily urbanised catchment there are high percentages of impervious surfaces such as roads, carparks and buildings (estimated at 94% of the total catchment area) - all ideal media for the flow of contaminants into urban waterwa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20EC%20DRBG | Dual_EC_DRBG (Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator) is an algorithm that was presented as a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG) using methods in elliptic curve cryptography. Despite wide public criticism, including the public identification of the possibility that the National Security Agency put a backdoor into a recommended implementation, it was for seven years one of four CSPRNGs standardized in NIST SP 800-90A as originally published circa June 2006, until it was withdrawn in 2014.
Weakness: a potential backdoor
Weaknesses in the cryptographic security of the algorithm were known and publicly criticised well before the algorithm became part of a formal standard endorsed by the ANSI, ISO, and formerly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). One of the weaknesses publicly identified was the potential of the algorithm to harbour a cryptographic backdoor advantageous to those who know about it—the United States government's National Security Agency (NSA)—and no one else. In 2013, The New York Times reported that documents in their possession but never released to the public "appear to confirm" that the backdoor was real, and had been deliberately inserted by the NSA as part of its Bullrun decryption program. In December 2013, a Reuters news article alleged that in 2004, before NIST standardized Dual_EC_DRBG, NSA paid RSA Security $10 million in a secret deal to use Dual_EC_DRBG as the default in the RSA BSAFE cryptography library, which resulted in RSA Security becoming the most important distributor of the insecure algorithm. RSA responded that they "categorically deny" that they had ever knowingly colluded with the NSA to adopt an algorithm that was known to be flawed, but also stated "we have never kept [our] relationship [with the NSA] a secret".
Sometime before its first known publication in 2004, a possible kleptographic backdoor was discovered with the Dual_EC_DRBG's design, with the design of Dual_EC_DRBG having the unusual property that it was theoretically impossible for anyone but Dual_EC_DRBG's designers (NSA) to confirm the backdoor's existence. Bruce Schneier concluded shortly after standardization that the "rather obvious" backdoor (along with other deficiencies) would mean that nobody would use Dual_EC_DRBG. The backdoor would allow NSA to decrypt for example SSL/TLS encryption which used Dual_EC_DRBG as a CSPRNG.
Members of the ANSI standard group to which Dual_EC_DRBG was first submitted were aware of the exact mechanism of the potential backdoor and how to disable it, but did not elect to disable or publicize the backdoor. The general cryptographic community was initially not aware of the potential backdoor, until Dan Shumow and Niels Ferguson's publication, or of Certicom's Daniel R. L. Brown and Scott Vanstone's 2005 patent application describing the backdoor mechanism.
In September 2013, The New York Times reported that internal NSA memos leaked b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close%20Combat%20%28video%20game%29 | Close Combat is a 1996 real-time computer wargame developed by Atomic Games and published by Microsoft. Set during World War II, it simulates the conflict between the United States' 29th Infantry Division and Germany's 352nd Infantry Division after the Invasion of Normandy. The player controls an artificially intelligent army whose behavior is dictated by psychological models: each soldier makes decisions based on the circumstances of the battlefield and can disobey the player's orders.
Close Combat began production at Atomic Games under publisher Three-Sixty Pacific in 1992. The following year, Atomic migrated with the project to Avalon Hill, as part of Avalon's attempt to bolster its computer game business. It was originally announced as Beyond Squad Leader, a tie-in to Avalon's million-selling Squad Leader board wargame franchise. However, the companies' relationship was troubled, and Atomic broke away after a high-profile departure at its publisher. Renaming the project Close Combat, Atomic continued production with Microsoft and ultimately released the game in July 1996. Military psychologist Dr. Steven Silver worked with the team to increase the accuracy of Close Combats psychological modeling.
With sales of 200,000 copies, the game was a commercial success. Critics offered praise to its visuals, and several commended its innovation. Conversely, its slow scrolling was often criticized, and some labeled its use of psychological models as a fundamental mistake. The game started the Close Combat series, which encompassed 17 titles and sold in excess of 5 million copies by 2018. Atomic developed four sequels to Close Combat by 2000 and later created Close Combat: Marines for the United States Marine Corps. Following the company's sale to Destineer, the franchise has continued at other developers under publisher Matrix Games since 2007.
Gameplay
Close Combat is a real-time computer wargame that takes place from a top-down graphical perspective, in contrast to the isometric visuals used in strategy games such as Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness. A simulation of short-distance battles during World War II, Close Combat recreates the conflict between the United States' 29th Infantry Division and Germany's 352nd Infantry Division in the six weeks after the Invasion of Normandy. The player is able to control either side and manages infantry, crew-served weapons and armor via six commands: move, fire, move fast, defend, hide and smoke. Tactics such as cover, suppression and unit positioning are required to win; soldiers are vulnerable in large groups and while charging. The game's battles play out in bocage environments, open plains, and towns such as Saint-Lô.
Each soldier in Close Combat behaves according to a simulated psyche, which influences his actions, combat readiness, and obedience to the player's commands. Mental and physical combat stresses impact a soldier's behavior and morale; an exhausted or scared squad may grow reluctant to shoot or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo%20Pinheiro | Paulo Pinheiro is a Brazilian American computer scientist working in the areas of provenance and semantic web in support of sciences. Pinheiro has been a research scientist at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Tetherless World Constellation since 2013. Between 2011 and 2013, he was a staff scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Between 2006 and 2012, he was an associate professor of computer science at the University of Texas at El Paso. Pinheiro is from a long line of scientists and engineers: his father is a retired professor of material sciences at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; his paternal grandfather was the founding Mine Superintendent of Vale S.A., the second largest mining company in the world and Israel Pinheiro da Silva, a great-granduncle, was the chief engineer responsible for the construction of Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.
Education
Pinheiro received a licenciatura in mathematics and a master's degree in computer science from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, and a Ph.D. in computer science from University of Manchester, United Kingdom, in 2002. Between 2002 and 2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University, United States, and a Sistemas de Informação's faculty member at Faculdades INESC/Unai, Brazil.
Research
Pinheiro's research focuses on innovative ways of using semantically enable resources such as ontologies, abstract process specifications, and distributed provenance in support of trust and uncertainty management for sciences. Pinheiro is the author of the Unified Modeling Language for Interactive Systems (UMLi) developed as part of his PhD work at the Information Management Group at the University of Manchester. Pinheiro is a co-author of the Provenance Markup Language (PML) originally developed at Stanford's Knowledge Systems Laboratory.
References
External links
Personal web page
Publications
1967 births
Living people
People from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Brazilian computer scientists
Brazilian expatriate academics in the United States
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Stanford University alumni
Brazilian mathematicians
United States Department of Energy National Laboratories personnel
University of Texas at El Paso faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Bandiero | Al Bandiero is an American film, radio personality, and television actor, known for playing Peter Evans in the television series Desire.
Other works
Extensive TV Hosting; Children's Miracle Network Telethon, TV 2000, This Week's Music, Music Connection, also numerous infomercials.
Extensive National Radio Shows; Al's Party, Incredible 80s, DJ at WKBW in the late 1970s and WKTU in 1980s.
Direct Hits, Club Hotline (Japan)
Extensive Voice over credits; Car companies, Hair shampoos, Soft drinks, Pop Albums, TV promos, etc.
Silent Hill: Homecoming (video-game) 4 characters (mo-cap & voices)
Publicity
Interviews
Southeastern Antiquing & Collecting Magazine (USA) January 2007, by: Ken Hall, "Al Bandiero, Star of the Fox TV Series Desire, Collects Watches"
Radio & Records (USA) 28 July 2006, Iss. 1668, pg. 28, by: Darnella Dunham, "Going Hollywood, From Radio Personality to Actor"
Starry Constellation Magazine (USA) 2006, by: Lisa Steinberg, "Al Bandiero, Desire"
Pictorial
Fitness + (USA) October 2000, pg. 84-87, by: Steve Raimondi, "The man behind the voice"
Filmography
Desire (2006) (TV series) - Peter Evans (65 episodes)
The Confession (2005) - Prison Guard
I Am Stamos (2004) - Agent
The Practice (2003) (TV series) - Police Officer (1 episode)
Dragnet (2003) (TV series) - Reporter No. 1 (1 episode)
Mister Sterling (????) (TV series) - Maitre'D (1 episode)
Girls Behaving Badly (????) (TV series) - Mob Husband (1 episode)
Scene of the Crime (2002) (TV) - Det. Jimm Redmond
Rocky IV (1985) - American Commentator #2
External links
Official website
American male film actors
American radio personalities
American male television actors
Male actors from Brooklyn
Male actors from Los Angeles
American people of Italian descent
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20operating%20system | A mobile operating system is an operating system for smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing devices. While computers such as typical/mobile laptops are "mobile", the operating systems used on them are generally not considered mobile ones, as they were originally designed for desktop computers that historically did not have or need specific mobile features. This line distinguishing mobile and other forms has become blurred in recent years, due to the fact that newer devices have become smaller and more mobile unlike hardware of the past. Key notabilities blurring this line are the introduction of tablet computers and light-weight laptops and the hybridization of the two in 2-in-1 PCs.
Mobile operating systems combine features of a desktop computer operating system with other features useful for mobile or handheld use, and usually including a wireless inbuilt modem and SIM tray for telephony and data connection. In Q1 2018, over 123 million smartphones were sold (highest ever recorded) with 60.2 percent running Android and 20.9 percent running iOS. Nonetheless, although not as many as 2018 (1.56 billion), 2021 still had soaring sales, 1.43 billion to be exact with 53.32 percent being Android. Android alone is more popular than the popular desktop operating system Microsoft Windows, and in general smartphone use (even without tablets) outnumbers desktop use.
Mobile devices, with mobile communications abilities (e.g., smartphones), contain two mobile operating systemsthe main user-facing software platform is supplemented by a second low-level proprietary real-time operating system which operates the radio and other hardware. Research has shown that these low-level systems may contain a range of security vulnerabilities permitting malicious base stations to gain high levels of control over the mobile device.
Mobile operating systems have majority use since 2017 (measured by web use); with even only the smartphones running them (excluding tablets) having majority use, more used than any other kind of device. Thus traditional desktop OS is now a minority-used kind of OS; see usage share of operating systems. However, variations occur in popularity by regions, while desktop-minority also applies on some days in countries such as United States and United Kingdom. Android and iOS currently dominate 80% of the market share of mobile operating systems worldwide.
Timeline
Mobile operating system milestones mirror the development of mobile phones, PDAs, and smartphones:
Pre-1993
1973–1993 – Mobile phones use embedded systems to control operation.
1993–1999
1993
April – PenPoint OS by GO Corp. becomes available on the AT&T EO Personal Communicator.
August – Apple launches Newton OS running on their Newton series of portable computers.
1994
March – Magic Cap OS by General Magic is first introduced on the Sony Magic Link PDA.
August – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, has a touchscreen, e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page%20Size%20Extension | In computing, Page Size Extension (PSE) refers to a feature of x86 processors that allows for pages larger than the traditional 4 KiB size. It was introduced in the original Pentium processor, but it was only publicly documented by Intel with the release of the Pentium Pro. The CPUID instruction can be used to identify the availability of PSE on x86 CPUs.
Motivation
Imagine the following scenario. An application program requests a 1 MiB memory block. In order to fulfill this request, an operating system that supports paging and that is running on older x86 CPUs will have to allocate 256 pages of 4 KiB each. An overhead of 1 KiB of memory is required for maintaining page directories and page tables.
When accessing this 1 MiB memory, each of the 256 page entries would be cached in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB; a cache that remembers virtual address to physical address translations for faster lookup on subsequent memory requests). Cluttering the TLB is possibly one of the largest disadvantages of having several page entries for what could have been allocated in one single memory block. If the TLB gets filled, then a TLB entry would have to be freed, the page directory and page tables would have to be “walked” in memory, and finally, the memory would be accessed and the new entry would be brought into the TLB. This is a severe performance penalty and was possibly the largest motivation for augmenting the x86 architecture with larger page sizes.
The PSE allows for page sizes of 4 MiB to exist along with 4 KiB pages. The 1 MiB request described previously would easily be fulfilled with a single 4 MiB page, and it would require only one TLB entry. However, the disadvantage of using larger page sizes is internal fragmentation.
Operation
In traditional 32-bit protected mode, x86 processors use a two-level page translation scheme, where the control register CR3 points to a single 4 KiB-long page directory, which is divided into 1024 × 4-byte entries that point to 4 KiB-long page tables, similarly consisting of 1024 × 4-byte entries pointing to 4 KiB-long pages.
Enabling PSE (by setting bit 4, PSE, of the system register CR4) changes this scheme. The entries in the page directory have an additional flag, in bit 7, named PS (for page size). This flag was ignored without PSE, but now, the page-directory entry with PS set to 1 does not point to a page table, but to a single large 4 MiB page. The page-directory entry with PS set to 0 behaves as without PSE.
If newer PSE-36 capability is available on the CPU, as checked using the CPUID instruction, then 4 more bits, in addition to normal 10 bits, are used inside a page-directory entry pointing to a large page. This allows a large page to be located in 36-bit address space.
If Physical Address Extension (PAE) is used, the size of large pages is reduced from 4 MiB down to 2 MiB, and PSE is always enabled, regardless of the PSE bit in CR4.
References
External links
Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethylarsine%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on Trimethylarsine.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as SIRI, and follow its directions.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Spectral data
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enr%C3%ADquez%20de%20Valderr%C3%A1bano | Enríquez de Valderrábano (c. 1500 – after 1557) was a Spanish vihuelist and composer. There is little biographical data on this composer of early music, but his Libro de música de vihuela intitulado Silva de Sirenas, published in Valladolid, Spain, in 1547, states he is a citizen of Peñaranda de Duero, and the book is dedicated to Francisco de Zúñiga, the Fourth Count of Miranda. This dedication is probably the source of Juan Bermudo's unconfirmed assertion in his Declaración de instrumentos musicales of 1555 that Valderrábano was employed by the count.
Valderrábano's book of music has seven parts containing fugas, contrapuntos, sonetos, bajas, vacas, discantes, pavanas, proverbios, canciones, romances, and villancicos—ordered by level of difficulty. It includes pieces for two vihuelas, for vihuela and another instrument, and for vihuela and voice.
Valderrábano's book is considered an important source of knowledge on the vihuela music of the Spanish Renaissance of the sixteenth century and European instrumental music in general, as it includes transcriptions of pieces by other significant composers of the time, including Cristóbal de Morales, Josquin des Prez, Nicolas Gombert, Philippe Verdelot, Jorge Báez de Sepúlveda, Adrian Willaert, Vincenzo Ruffo, Diego Ortiz, Juan Vásquez, and Jean Mouton.
References
External links
1500s births
16th-century deaths
Renaissance composers
Spanish classical composers
Spanish male classical composers
Spanish guitarists
Spanish male guitarists
Vihuela players |
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