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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse%20race%20journalism | Horse race journalism is political journalism of elections that resembles coverage of horse races because of the focus on polling data and public perception instead of candidate policy, and almost exclusive reporting on candidate differences rather than similarities. "For journalists, the horse-race metaphor provides a framework for analysis. A horse is judged not by its own absolute speed or skill, but rather by its comparison to the speed of other horses, and especially by its wins and losses." Horse race journalism dominates media coverage during elections in the United States.
A 2018 meta-analysis found that horse-race coverage reduces citizens' substantive knowledge of politics (such as policies or candidates' issue positions) and fosters political cynicism and alienation. More recent versions of horserace coverage that produce forecasts has been shown to reduce voting in multiple studies.
Analysis
Horse race journalism is known to be a very negative subject in politics, but can be useful during primaries in American elections. Although it does show the standings of a poll or caucus, it fails to display the strengths/weaknesses of each politician. Media outlets have often used horse-race journalism with the intent of making elections appear more competitive and thus increasing the odds of gaining larger audiences while covering election campaigns.
Political scientists and strategists argue that elections are more often decided by underlying factors than by the campaign. In the 1980s, Allan Lichtman and Vladimir Keilis-Borok devised the Keys to the White House model for predicting United States presidential elections, which took into account events of the incumbent presidency and the economy, but not the strategies and events of the campaign. Shanto Iyengar similarly argued in 2005 that while campaign strategies can have an effect, "The results of presidential elections can be predicted with a high degree of accuracy from indicators of economic growth and public approval of the incumbent administration." Mark Pack, a British politician and former campaign manager, noted that in 14 of the 16 United Kingdom general elections from 1964 to 2019, the party leading most polls in the previous January subsequently won the most votes. He likened the last month before election day to "the last few minutes" of a sports game. A 2018 study in the American Political Science Review found that campaigning methods do not usually influence an election outcome, and can only do so under specific conditions.
This form of political coverage involves politically handicapping stronger candidates and hyping dark horse contenders who are widely regarded as underdogs when election cycles begin. Benjamin Disraeli used the term "dark horse" to describe horse racing in 1831 in The Young Duke, writing, "a dark horse which had never been thought of and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph." Po |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20delay%20variation | In computer networking, packet delay variation (PDV) is the difference in end-to-end one-way delay between selected packets in a flow with any lost packets being ignored. The effect is sometimes referred to as packet jitter, although the definition is an imprecise fit.
Terminology
The term PDV is defined in ITU-T Recommendation Y.1540, Internet protocol data communication service - IP packet transfer and availability performance parameters, section 6.2.
In computer networking, although not in electronics, usage of the term jitter may cause confusion. From RFC 3393 (section 1.1):
The variation in packet delay is sometimes called "jitter". This term, however, causes confusion because it is used in different ways by different groups of people. ... In this document we will avoid the term "jitter" whenever possible and stick to delay variation which is more precise.
Measurement of packet delay variation
The means of packet selection for measurement is not specified in RFC 3393, but could, for example, be the packets that had the largest variation in delay in a selected time period.
The delay is specified from the start of the packet being transmitted at the source to the start of the packet being received at the destination. A component of the delay which does not vary from packet to packet can be ignored, hence if the packet sizes are the same and packets always take the same time to be processed at the destination then the packet arrival time at the destination could be used instead of the time the end of the packet is received.
Instantaneous packet delay variation is the difference between successive packets—here RFC 3393 does specify the selection criteria—and this is usually what is loosely termed "jitter", although jitter is also sometimes the term used for the variance of the packet delay. As an example, say packets are transmitted every 20 ms. If the second packet is received 30 ms after the first packet, IPDV = +10 ms. This is referred to as dispersion. If the second packet is received 10 ms after the first packet, IPDV = −10 ms. This is referred to as clumping.
PDV diagrams
It is also possible to visualize (I)PDV measurements, which makes interpreting and understanding the network easier, or (for bigger datasets) possible at all.
One possible diagram type are simple point cloud diagrams in which the x-axis represents the packet number and the y-axis contains the corresponding (I)PDV values, one dot for each measurement.
Another type are distribution histograms which are more useful for bigger datasets or even comparisons of different paths or technologies.
Limiting PDV or its effects
For interactive real-time applications, e.g., voice over IP (VoIP), PDV can be a serious issue and hence VoIP transmissions may need quality-of-service–enabled networks to provide a high-quality channel.
The effects of PDV in multimedia streams can be mitigated by a properly sized buffer at the receiver. As long as the bandwidth can support the stream |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay%20Publishing | Replay Publishing is a game company based in Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania, that develops and publishes sports simulation games for the tabletop and computer. They currently produce Replay Baseball, Replay Basketball, and PC Replay Baseball. Competitors past and present include APBA, Diceball, Strat-O-Matic, Big League Manager, Design Depot, Negamco, Pursue the Pennant and Statis Pro Baseball.
Replay Baseball was first developed by Norm Roth and John Brodak, and first published in 1973 by Replay Games of Carmichaels, Pennsylvania. They continued publishing the game until 1991, when they moved on to other pursuits due to the rising financial cost due to licensing with the Major League Baseball Players Association. In 1998, Pete Ventura and Replay Publishing resurrected the franchise with the release of their first yearbook for Replay Baseball. A brand new Replay Basketball was released in 2003, and PC Replay Baseball was created for computer play and released in 2009.
In August 2007, the company held Replay Retreat 2007 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In July 2014, another Replay Retreat was held in Pittsburgh. Replayers from all over the nation came for a weekend of fellowship and gaming. A tournament was held and Michigan teacher Jim Woods emerged as champion in a thrilling extra inning comeback that will never be forgotten by those that watched the final in person.
Replay Baseball
Replay Baseball is played using three dice (red, white, and blue), and a Chart Book. Play is controlled by rolling three dice (red/white/blue), and using the numbers to obtain results by referencing the pitcher and batter cards, as well as the chart book. The Chart Book is offered in two formats, the Current Chart Book being valid for the new yearbook format and for original seasons produced after 1987, and the White/Classic Chart Book being valid for original seasons produced before 1987. Playtime can be as little as 15–20 minutes per game, according to TableTop-Sports administrator Jeff Downey.
Replay fans are known to play co-op games that are coordinated in their online forum, which builds a sense of community around the game. In an interview with The Stateline Observer, player Craig Pillow noted:
Replay Baseball offers a number of past seasons, in both a yearbook (precut cards) and team book (eBook only) format. In addition, there are still copies of the original game (Replay Classic) and seasons available.
Replay Baseball has been mentioned in two books to-date, with one providing a four-paragraph write-up concerning the game.
In 2004, Replay published a yearbook of the 1923 Negro National League, using full statistical data not yet published elsewhere but provided by the researcher. The data published in the yearbook remains the most complete for a single Negro league season. Company owner Pete Ventura donated a portion of his profits to a Negro Leagues Widows fund, helping out pensionless widows of Negro leaguers.
The company also donated games to Walter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta-lang | Within computing, the Rosetta system-level specification language is a design language for complex, heterogeneous systems. Specific language design objectives include:
Constraint representation
Heterogeneous system representation and specification composability
Well-defined formal semantics and support for formal analysis
Scalability to large designs
Rosetta was undergoing standardization at various times.
History
The Rosetta effort emerged from a meeting in of the Semiconductor Industry Council's System-Level Design Language committee in 1996. The objective of the meeting was to define requirements for a next-generation design language that would address perceived shortcomings in existing languages such as VHDL and Verilog. Specific concerns included inability to represent constraints, lack of a formal semantics, inability to represent heterogeneous systems, and heavy reliance on computer simulation for analysis. In response to these requirements, three major approaches were pursued:
Extending hardware description languages including VHDL and Verilog
Extending programming languages including C and C++
Defining new languages
The first approach ultimately resulted in SystemVerilog and extensions to VHDL while the second resulted in SystemC, all of which became Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards for the semiconductor industry.
Rosetta's original application domain was system on a chip semiconductor systems.
Rosetta resulted from the third approach with development beginning under the auspices of the Semiconductor Industry Council and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Originally developed by Perry Alexander and others at the University of Kansas, it was known simply as System-Level Design Language.
Standardization was transferred to VHDL International by 2000 and renamed Rosetta (after the Rosetta Stone) to reflect the heterogeneous nature of its specifications. Eventually, VHDL International and the Open Verilog Initiative merged to form Accellera, an industry sponsored consortium for electronic design automation (EDA) standards.
A draft standard of Rosetta was published in November 2003 through Accellera.
Standardization was transferred to IEEE Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC) where it was developed by the Rosetta Working Group under IEEE project P1699 starting in March 2007.
A draft of a language reference manual was published in April 2008, with editor Peter Ashenden of Australia.
The project was withdrawn in June 2013.
Structure
Rosetta is structured around three sub-languages that support defining various specification elements. The expression language defines basic functions and expressions used as terms and values in specifications. The expression language is a non-strict, purely functional, typed language in the spirit of Haskell. Functions are referentially transparent, encapsulated expressions and cannot have side effects. All Rosetta expressions have types that are det |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangland | Gangland or Gang Land may refer to:
Organized crime, relating to, or carried out by organized criminals
Gangland (video game), a 2004 computer game from Mediamobsters
Gangland (TV series), a documentary show on the History Channel that ran from 2007 to 2010
Gangland (film), a 1998 Filipino movie directed by Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes
Gangland, 1998 4-issue comics anthology from Vertigo at DC Comics
Gangland (album), a 2001 album by Kool & the Gang
Gangland, a series of mixtapes by Chevy Woods
"Gangland", a song by Iron Maiden on the album The Number of the Beast
"Gangland", a song by Future on the mixtape Monster
See also
Gangland killing, euphemism for organized crime murders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDHL | KDHL (920 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Classic Country format. Licensed to Faribault, Minnesota, United States, the station is currently owned by Townsquare Media and features programming from ABC News Radio.
On August 30, 2013, a deal was announced in which Townsquare Media would acquire 53 stations from Cumulus Media, including KDHL, for $238 million. The deal was part of Cumulus' acquisition of Dial Global; Townsquare and Dial Global were both controlled by Oaktree Capital Management. The sale to Townsquare was completed on November 14, 2013.
References
External links
Radio stations in Minnesota
Townsquare Media radio stations
Classic country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1948
1948 establishments in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo%27s%20Caper | Congo's Caper is a side-scrolling platform action video game developed and published for the Super NES by Data East. The game was released in Japan in 1992. A North American version was released in May 1993. It was later released on the Nintendo Switch via the Nintendo Switch Online service on May 26, 2022.
Gameplay
The plot of Congo's Caper involves a half-human, half-monkey boy named Congo, who sets out on a quest to rescue his girlfriend after she is abducted by a demon. The player controls Congo. Congo's Caper is played across 35 levels that take place in multiple worlds, including a jungle, a mountain range, a pirate ship, a volcano, and a ghost town. The bosses include the demon, a T-Rex, a ninja, a pirate, a mad scientist, and a vampire. If Congo is hit by an enemy, he reverts to his monkey form. If Congo is hit again, the player loses a life.
Reception
Nintendo Power praised the game's graphics, controls, password feature, and variety of levels, but wrote: "The game doesn't really do anything that Super Mario World and countless other games have done just as well". AllGame rated Congo's Caper three and a half stars out of five. Power Unlimited gave the game a score of 80% writing: "Congo's Caper is a fun, varied platform game. Yet it is not a game that will be remembered by anyone as a seasoning. The controls are too stiff for that, and the levels are too easy for that.
Notes
References
External links
Congo's Caper at MobyGames
Congo's Capers at IGN
Congo's Caper at GameFAQs
1992 video games
Action games
Data East video games
Fictional monkeys
Joe & Mac
Nintendo Switch Online games
Prehistoric people in popular culture
Single-player video games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Video game sequels
Video games about dinosaurs
Video games about primates
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in the Stone Age
ja:戦え原始人#戦え原始人2 ルーキーの冒険 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro%20Jams | Retro Jams was a music video network that played music videos from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, with the vast majority of clips used in the public domain to reduce rights fees. Established in 2007, it was owned and operated by now-defunct Equity Media Holdings. Retro Jams was formerly carried full-time as a free-to-air TV channel on Galaxy 18 (Ku band DVB-S, 123°W) and on various Equity-owned terrestrial low-power television stations nationwide.
The "Retro Jams" name and branding have also been used by Retro Television Network to refer to two individual programming blocks, "Retro Jams" and "Retro Jams by Request".
History
Retro Jams was established in December 2007 by Equity Media Holdings to provide music video programming to a few individual, local Equity-owned stations which lacked a conventional television network affiliation. Programming consisted primarily of music videos from the 1980s and early 1990s.
On most of these stations, Equity replaced Retro Jams with the Retro Television Network in mid-2008. As Equity had founded RTN and owned the network until 2008, the "Retro Jams" name was moved to individual RTN programming blocks "Retro Jams" and "Retro Jams by Request" when the full-channel music video format was dropped. While most affected stations (such as KCBU and KEGS-LP) simply replaced Retro Jams with RTN, a few stations went to other networks. WEVU-CA switched to Univision affiliation and K25DM was operated as an independent station.
The "Retro Jams" name and branding was then used by the Retro Television Network to refer to two programming blocks:
Retro Jams, an individual RTN program.
Retro Jams by Request, another individual television program.
Cash-strapped Equity Media Holdings sold Retro Television Network to Luken Communications in June 2008 and entered federal chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Little Rock, Arkansas in December 2008. An option allowing Equity to re-purchase RTN from Luken expired unexercised on December 24, 2008. Equity continued to provide broadcast automation facilities and operate RTN on behalf of Luken Communications until January 2009, when Equity's failure to pay RTN's programming suppliers caused Luken Communications to move RTN to independent facilities.
RTN was permanently removed from all Equity-owned or operated stations on January 4, 2009.
While many of the affected stations replaced RTN with This TV, classic cinema or similar content, Equity returned the full-channel Retro Jams to the air in January 2009 in order to provide programming to the remaining Equity-owned stations. This all-music video format continued until what remained of Equity's equity was liquidated and the individual stations sold at auction later that same year.
Retro Jams and the associated Equity Broadcasting free-to-air satellite television feeds on Galaxy 18 (Ku band, 123°W) are now silent.
While RTN is a trademark of the Retro Television Network, there is no record of any registered trademark on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy%20of%20the%20Chalice | {{Infobox television
| alt_name = 夜光神杯(Ye Guang Shen Bei)
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| network = MediaCorp TV Channel 8
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}}Fairy of the Chalice'' is a television series broadcast on MediaCorp TV Channel 8 in 2006.
Synopsis
Lady Nuwa (Liu Jie) imprisons an evil scorpion spirit, Wu Gong Jing within a chalice and instructs a young fairy (known as Fairy Bei, or Fairy of the Chalice) to guard it. But in her moment of carelessness, Wu Gong Jing manages to escapes. Lady Nuwa punishes Fairy Bei by bounding to the chalice because Wu Gong Jing trick Fairy Bei and escape from the chalice. Fairy Bei has to serve 1000 masters and to grant three wishes to anyone in the mortal world before freeing from the chalice. She is in the possession of many masters until in the hand of the father of Zheng Feng, who retains Fairy Bei for over 9 years. Zheng Feng's ex-servant, Cao Jing, becomes the villain of the story. Zheng Feng and his other, faithful servant, Qi Cheng (which means 70%) become involved between the battle between the Hunter's Tribe and Sheng Nu Guo (The Land of Sacred Women). Fairy Bei realizes that this problem is too much for Zheng Feng to handle himself and tries to help him, but only makes the situation worse. Her past of serving masters is what causes the main issue.
Names
Cantonese Juytping:
Cast
Roger Kwok
Zhang Ting
Liu Tao
Christopher Lee
Zhao Zi Cun
Yvonne Lim
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20071214221607/http://8.mediacorptv.sg/shows/drama/view/781/1/.html
Singapore Chinese dramas
Singaporean fantasy television series
2006 Singaporean television series debuts
2006 Singaporean television series endings
Channel 8 (Singapore) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context%20MBA | Context MBA was the first integrated software application for personal computers, providing five functions in one program: spreadsheet, database, charting, word processing, and communication software. It was first released in 1981 by Context Management Systems for the Apple III computer, but was later ported to the Hewlett Packard 9000 / 200 series computers running Rocky Mountain BASIC and IBM PC platform as well.
Since the program was written in UCSD Pascal, it was easy to port to different platforms, but did so at the expense of performance, which was critical at the time of its release, given the limited amount of memory, processing power, and disk I/O available on a desktop computer. It was soon overtaken by Lotus 1-2-3, a more limited integrated software package, but one written in assembly language, yielding much better performance.
Reception
PC Magazine stated in June 1983 that Context MBA "still runs too slowly for a person accustomed to the speed of a microcomputer". It found the spreadsheet the best application of the suite, describing the database as "amazingly slow" and the text editor as "clumsy and confusing". The review concluded that Context MBA "fails in two areas ... UCSD p-System simply does not produce good code", and a confusing, heavily modal user interface.
References
DOS software
Spreadsheet software
History of software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic%20Data%20Grid%20Facility | The Nordic Data Grid Facility, or NDGF, is a common e-Science infrastructure provided by the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland) for scientific computing and data storage. It is the first and so far only internationally distributed WLCG Tier1 center, providing computing and storage services to experiments at CERN.
History
Nordic Data Grid Facility traces its history back to end-2001, being intrinsically related to the NorduGrid project. Success of the latter indicated need for a larger pan-Nordic facility, with storage resources being of high priority. This need has been addressed by establishing a pilot NDGF infrastructure, which was operational in 2002-2005, and provided distributed storage in addition to the NorduGrid computing resources. During this phase, NDGF committed to provide a Nordic Tier1 (regional computing center) for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid project at CERN. Specifics of this Tier1 are such that it has to be an internationally distributed Facility. The Nordic Data Grid Facility in its present function as a provider of the Nordic Grid Infrastructure was established in April 2006 by the Nordic Research Councils. It came into operation on June 1, 2006, and its initial priority is to live up to the original commitment of establishing the Nordic Tier1, with the traditional focus on storage facilities. NDGF team includes software experts who take part in various Grid middleware development.
In 2012 NDGF became a part of a wider initiative, the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration.
Users and operations
NDGF Tier1 is a production Grid facility that leverages existing, national computational resources and Grid infrastructures.
To qualify for support research groups should form a Virtual Organization, a VO. The VO provides compute resources for sharing and NDGF Tier1 operates a Grid interface for the sharing of these resources.
Currently, most computational resources of NDGF Tier1 are accessible through ARC middleware. Some resources are also available via AliEn software. Distributed storage facility is realised through dCache storage management solution.
Today, the dominant user community of the NDGF Tier1 is the High Energy Physics - the ALICE, ATLAS and CMS Virtual Organizations - through the operation of the Nordic Tier1, which together with the Tier0, CERN, and the other 12 Tier1s collects, stores and processes the data produced by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Since 2010, NDGF Tier1 is a part of the European Grid Infrastructure.
NDGF Tier1 was hosted by NORDUnet in 2006-2011, and since 2012 is hosted by NordForsk.
NDGF vs NorduGrid
Many confuse NDGF and NorduGrid - which is not surprising, especially since in its second phase NDGF was proposed to assume the name "NorduGrid". It was however decided to distinguish between the mostly development-oriented project, NorduGrid, and the mostly operations-oriented one, NDGF. As a rule of thumb, NDGF provides mostly services, while NorduGr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixx%20%28disambiguation%29 | Mixx is a user-driven social networking website for news, pictures and video
Mixx may also refer to:
Tokyopop (formerly called Mixx), a publisher of anime and manga
BiGG MiXX, a short-lived Kellogg's breakfast cereal introduced in 1990
Nu-Mixx Klazzics and Nu-Mixx Klazzics Vol. 2, remix albums from the rapper, Tupac Shakur
Gutta Mixx, the fifth album from rapper, Bushwick Bill
Mixx FM 91.9 (also known as DZLR Mixx FM), a radio station in Naga City
Mixx FM a network of radio stations in Victoria, Australia owned by Ace Radio
See also
Mixxx, an open source digital DJing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGOLN2 | Trans-Golgi network integral membrane protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TGOLN2 gene.
References
Further reading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabora%20Deaf-Mute%20Institute | Tabora Deaf-Mute Institute founded in 1963 by the Roman Catholic Mission in Tabora, Tanzania. It was the first school for the deaf in Tanzania.
Its programming is aimed at school-age children.
The building was designed by Dutch architect Antoni Folkers.
References
Schools for the deaf
Buildings and structures in the Tabora Region
Special schools in Tanzania
1963 establishments in Tanganyika |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboats%20of%20the%20Oregon%20Coast | The history of steamboats on the Oregon Coast begins in the late 19th century. Before the development of modern road and rail networks, transportation on the coast of Oregon was largely water-borne. This article focuses on inland steamboats and similar craft operating in, from south to north on the coast: Rogue River, Coquille River, Coos Bay, Umpqua River, Siuslaw Bay, Yaquina Bay, Siletz River, and Tillamook Bay. The boats were all very small, nothing like the big sternwheelers and propeller boats that ran on the Columbia River or Puget Sound. There were many of them, however, and they came to be known as the "mosquito fleet."
Routes and operations
Rogue River
The Rogue River meets the Pacific Ocean at Gold Beach, and flows all the way from the Cascade Mountains. R. D. Hume was a pioneering businessman at Wedderburn and Gold Beach, then known as Ellensburg. By 1881, he had established a fish cannery and built a steam schooner, Mary D. Hume, to support the cannery operation. Hume was still conducting steamboat operations on the Rogue River in 1901, and in that year, Capt. E.D. Burns built the sternwheel steamboat Rogue River in Portland, and brought her down the coast to compete against Hume's operation. Mary D. Hume passed through several owners and was still in operation as late as 1939, when she was the oldest commercial vessel in service in the Pacific Northwest.
In November 1902, Burns succeeded in reaching deep inland on the Rogue to Agness, however, in returning to Gold Beach, on November 16, 1902 the boat struck a rock at Boiler Rapids, where, at least in 1966, her boiler was reported to be still visible. This was the only known effort to take a conventional vessel so far up the Rogue River.
In 1903 the gasoline-powered Success was built at Gold Beach for the Rogue River service. R.D. Hume continued his interest in shipping out of the Rogue River, commissioning the construction in 1908 of two small gasoline-powered schooners, Enterprise (22 tons) and Osprey (43 tons) from Ellingson in Coquille. Hume died by 1912, as his estate is reported to have sold Enterprise and Osprey to someone from Portland.
Coquille River
The Coquille River runs inland from Bandon. Before the era of railroads and later automobiles, the Coquille River was the major transportation route from Bandon to Coquille and Myrtle Point in southern Coos County.
Coos Bay
Coos Bay is a large and mostly shallow harbor on Oregon's southwest coast, to the north of the Coquille River valley. It is the major harbor on the west coast of the United States between San Francisco and the mouth of the Columbia River.
Two steamboat captains from the Columbia River began steamboat operations on Coos Bay in 1873. Inland riverboats were used to navigate the bay and the several rivers flow that flow into it. A mule-hauled portage was built between a shallow southern arm of Coos Bay and the Beaver Slough, a shallow north-extending branch of the Coquille River, in 1869; it w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ammotrechidae%20species | This is a list of the described species of the Solifugae family Ammotrechidae. The data is taken from Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
Ammotrechinae
Ammotrechinae Roewer, 1934
Ammotrecha Banks, 1900
Ammotrecha araucana Mello Leitao, 1942 — Chile
Ammotrecha chiapasi Muma, 1986 — Mexico
Ammotrecha cobinensis Muma, 1951 — USA, Mexico
Ammotrecha friedlaenderi Roewer, 1954 — Brazil
Ammotrecha itzaana Muma, 1986 — Mexico
Ammotrecha limbata (Lucas, 1835) — Central America
Ammotrecha nigrescens Roewer, 1934 — Central America
Ammotrecha picta Pocock, 1902 — Guatemala
Ammotrecha stollii (Pocock, 1895) — Central America, USA
Ammotrechella Roewer, 1934
Ammotrechella apejii Muma, 1971 — Jamaica
Ammotrechella bahamica Muma, 1986 — Bahamas
Ammotrechella bolivari Mello Leitao, 1942 — Mexico
Ammotrechella bonariensis (Werner, 1925) — Bonaire
Ammotrechella diaspora Roewer, 1934 — Cape Verde
Ammotrechella geniculata (C. L. Koch, 1842) — West Indies, northern South America
Ammotrechella hispaniolana Armas & Alegre, 2001 — Dominican Republic
Ammotrechella maguirei Muma, 1986 — Turks Caicos
Ammotrechella pallida Muma & Nezario, 1971 — Puerto Rico
Ammotrechella pseustes (Chamberlin, 1925) — Panama, California, Puerto Rico
Ammotrechella setulosa Muma, 1951 — Texas
Ammotrechella stimpsoni (Putnam, 1883) — Mexico, Florida
Ammotrechella tabogana Chamberlin, 1919 — Panama
Ammotrechesta Roewer, 1934
Ammotrechesta brunnea Roewer, 1934 — Costa Rica
Ammotrechesta garcetei Armas, 1993 — Nicaragua
Ammotrechesta maesi Armas, 1993 — Nicaragua
Ammotrechesta schlueteri Roewer, 1934 — Honduras
Ammotrechesta tuzi Armas, 2000 — Mexico
Ammotrechinus Roewer, 1934
Ammotrechinus gryllipes (Gervais, 1842) — Haiti, Jamaica
Ammotrechona Roewer, 1934
Ammotrechona cubae (Lucas, 1835) — Cuba
Ammotrechula Roewer, 1934
Ammotrechula boneti Mello Leitao, 1942 — Mexico
Ammotrechula borregoensis Muma, 1962 — Mexico, USA
Ammotrechula catalinae Muma, 1989 — Arizona
Ammotrechula gervaisii (Pocock, 1895) — Colombia, Ecuador
Ammotrechula lacuna Muma, 1963 — Nevada
Ammotrechula mulaiki Muma, 1951 — Texas
Ammotrechula peninsulanus (Banks, 1898)
Ammotrechula pilosa Muma, 1951 — USA
Ammotrechula saltatrix (Simon, 1879) — Mexico
Ammotrechula schusterae Roewer, 1954 — Nicaragua, El Salvador
Ammotrechula venusta Muma, 1951 — Mexico, Arizona
Ammotrechula wasbaueri Muma, 1962 — California
Antillotrecha Armas, 1994
Antillotrecha fraterna Armas, 1994 — Dominican Republic
Antillotrecha iviei Armas, 2002 — Leeward Islands
Campostrecha Mello Leitao, 1937
Campostrecha felisdens Mello Leitao, 1937 — Ecuador
Dasycleobis Mello Leitao, 1940
Dasycleobis crinitus Mello Leitao, 1940 — Argentina
Neocleobis Roewer, 1934
Neocleobis solitarius (Banks, 1902) — Galapagos
Pseudocleobis Pocock, 1900
Pseudocleobis alticola Pocock, 1900 — South America
Pseudocleobis andinus (Pocock, 1899) — South America
Pseudocleobis arequipae Roewer, 1959 — Peru
Pseudocleobis barde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC%2060870-6 | IEC 60870 part 6 in electrical engineering and power system automation, is one of the IEC 60870 set of standards which define systems used for telecontrol (supervisory control and data acquisition) in electrical engineering and power system automation applications. The IEC Technical Committee 57 (Working Group 03) have developed part 6 to provide a communication profile for sending basic telecontrol messages between two systems which is compatible with ISO standards and ITU-T recommendations.
Related Standards
These standards include:
IEC 60870-6-1 Application context and organization of standards
IEC 60870-6-2 Use of basic standards (OSI layers 1–3)
IEC 60870-6-501 TASE.1 Service definitions
IEC 60870-6-502 TASE.1 Protocol definitions
IEC 60870-6-503 TASE.2 Services and protocol
IEC 60870-6-504 TASE.1 User conventions
EC TR 60870-6-505 TASE.2 User guide
IEC 60870-6-601 Functional profile for providing the connection-oriented transport service in an end system connected via permanent access to a packet switched data network
IEC 60870-6-602 TASE transport profiles
IEC 60870-6-701 Functional profile for providing the TASE.1 application service in end systems
IEC 60870-6-702 Functional profile for providing the TASE.2 application service in end systems
IEC 60870-6-802 TASE.2 Object models
National Networks
A typical national power grid includes a hierarchy of control centres to manage the generation, transmission, and distribution of power throughout the grid:
one or more system control centres, responsible for scheduling of power generation to meet customer demand, and for managing major network outages and faults.
generation control centres, responsible for managing the operation of generating plants (coal-fired, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind, etc.), and for adjusting the power generated according to the requirements of the system control centre.
transmission control centres, responsible for the transmission of power from generating stations to network distributors.
distribution control centres, responsible for the distribution of power from the transmission networks to individual consumers.
Prior to the development of electronics and telecommunications networks all co-ordination between control centres was carried out by telephone. However, the development of SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems allowed remote control and monitoring of electrical plant from centralised control centres.
Initially individual SCADA manufacturers developed their own proprietary "closed" protocols for communicating from a control centre to electrical equipment in the field. These were followed by the development of "open" industry-standard protocols such as DNP3 and IEC 61850. However, none of these communication protocols were suited to the requirements of communicating between control centres. To meet these special requirements for communication and co-ordination between control centres the IEC developed the IEC 60870 set |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20One | System One, System I or System 1 may refer to:
Computing
Acorn System 1, 8-bit microcomputer by Acorn
Atari System 1, an arcade game hardware platform by Atari
Cromemco System One, a microcomputer from the early 1980s by Cromemco
IBM Q System One, a 2019 circuit-based commercial quantum computer by IBM
Line Drawing System-1, an early graphical computer
Sega System 1, the arcade system board
System 1, the initial operating system version for the Apple Macintosh
Tulip System-1, 16-bit personal computer by Tulip
Other uses
System-1 Aira, a synthesizer produced by Roland
System One, a range of bus passes offered by Transport for Greater Manchester
System 1, the fast, automatic mode of thinking, as described in Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow
See also
System I (disambiguation)
SystmOne, a clinical and administrative software system developed by TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) company.
Series 1
System One, a workforce solutions process |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral%20district%20of%20Brunswick%20East | Electoral district of Brunswick East was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.
Members for Brunswick East
Election results
References
Re-Member database Parliament of Victoria
Former electoral districts of Victoria (state)
1955 establishments in Australia
1976 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral%20district%20of%20Doveton | Electoral district of Doveton was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.
Members
Election results
References
Re-Member database Parliament of Victoria
Former electoral districts of Victoria (state)
1985 establishments in Australia
1992 disestablishments in Australia
Constituencies established in 1985
Constituencies disestablished in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenary%20Hospital | Centenary Hospital (officially Scarborough Health Network, Centenary Hospital) is a hospital in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was opened on July 1, 1967, and was named in honour of the 100th anniversary of Canada. Since 2016, the hospital is operated by the Scarborough Health Network.
History
The hospital opened on July 1, 1967, as Scarborough Centenary Hospital and was the second hospital in the township of Scarborough, after the Scarborough General Hospital. Expansions were constructed in 1986 and 1991, when it became known as Centenary Health Centre.
The hospital merged with the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital in 1998 to create the Rouge Valley Health System. Under the new network, the hospital was officially known as Rouge Valley Centenary.
On December 1, 2016, the Rouge Valley Health System dissolved as the campuses of The Scarborough Hospital (General and Birchmount) and Rouge Valley Centenary merged to form a new administration, tentatively as the Scarborough and Rouge Hospital, and later the Scarborough Health Network in 2018. The Ajax and Pickering campus joined Lakeridge Health.
As of 2019, the Scarborough Health Network plans to reduce the number of hospital sites from three to two by 2031. In the three expansion options, the Centenary Hospital is planned for renovation while in two of the three options, the General and Birchmount hospitals are each considered for shutting down and replacement with a new hospital at a different site.
References
Hospital buildings completed in 1967
Hospitals in Toronto
Buildings and structures in Scarborough, Toronto
Hospitals affiliated with the University of Toronto
1967 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softbench | HP Softbench was one of the first plug-in Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tool based on the UNIX operating system, UNIX tools and the X Window System.
The main ideas were:
Tools and data can reside on many different systems across the network
Tool communication using a Broadcast Message Server
Common user interface
Integrated help facility
Tool Slots
Encapsulator: tool for encapsulate any CASE tool into a Tool Slot if it supports standard I/O.
History
SoftBench was released in 1989 and presented in the June 1990 HP Journal. It was an early adoption of some of the IDE ideas that are common today in well known IDEs like Eclipse.
References
HP Softbench has reserved ports 6110-6111 in the IANA list of port assignments List of TCP and UDP port numbers
Integrated development environments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myaing | Myaing ( ) is a town and seat of Myaing Township in the Magway Region of central Myanmar.
Transport
It was connected to the Myanmar Railway network in 1998.
See also
Transport in Myanmar
References
Township capitals of Myanmar
Populated places in Magway Region |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980%20Emmy%20Awards | 1980 Emmy Awards may refer to:
32nd Primetime Emmy Awards, the 1980 Emmy Awards ceremony that honored primetime programming during June 1979 – May 1980
7th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 1980 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 1979
8th International Emmy Awards, the 1980 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%20Korolyov%20%28scientist%29 | Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov (also Korolev, ; 6 September 1926 – 5 January 2016) was a Russian / Soviet computer scientist, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was involved in the development of the first Soviet computers.
Biography
Korolev was born in Podolsk, Russia. After Army service, he graduated from Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University in 1952. In 1953-1975 Korolev worked at the Institute of Precise Mechanics and Computer Engineering of academician S.A. Lebedev, and became his deputy. He died in Moscow in 2016 at the age of 89.
Professional career
He worked on the development of software for the BESM built in 1953, the first large Russian computer, and its subsequent models
In 1956 Korolev created one of the first programs for the BESM for machine translation of written text from English into Russian. In 1960 he was awarded the degree "Kandidat in Physical and Mathematical Sciences" for a thesis on the theory of machine translation.
He headed the team which wrote control software for ballistic missile defense, using the computers M-40 and M-50. For this research, Korolev was awarded doctorate in 1967.
His team produced the first operating system for BESM-6, a batch processing system later named "Dispatcher-68".
In 1981 Korolev was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences at the Department of Mathematics.
Korolev has held a chair at the Moscow State University Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics since its founding in 1970.
Korolev wrote over 80 scientific publications, including 10 monographs and textbooks. Two of them, Structures of Electronic Computers and their mathematical basis, Moscow, ‘Nauka', 1974 (2nd ed., 1978) and Microprocessors, micro- and mini-computer, Moscow, ‘Nauka', 1984 are the most significant. Among his students are two academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences and over 40 scientists with "Doktor Nauk" and Kandidat Nauk degrees. In 1997 L .N. Korolev was awarded "Honorable professorship of the MSU".
Korolev received the USSR State Prize (1969), the Prize of the USSR Council of Ministers (1982), the Lomonosov Prize of the MSU (1995). and the Order of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, and Order of the Patriotic War.
References
External links
Biography of L. N. Korolev at Virtual Museum Computer.
Lev Korolyov — scientific works on the website Math-Net.Ru
1926 births
2016 deaths
Russian computer scientists
Russian inventors
Soviet computer scientists
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
People from Podolsk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satthwa | Satthwa is a village in Gwa Township, Rakhine State, Myanmar.
Transport
Since 1999 it has been served by a station on the Myanmar Railways Network.
See also
Transport in Myanmar
References
External links
Mbendi map
Populated places in Rakhine State
Villages in Myanmar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilco%20Zeelenberg | Wilco Zeelenberg (born 19 August 1966) is a Dutch former professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and current race team manager with the CryptoData RNF MotoGP Team.
Born in Bleiswijk, he began racing motorcycles in motocross competitions before switching to road racing. Zeelenberg made his Grand Prix debut in the 80cc class in 1986. He won his first and only world championship race at the 1990 250cc German Grand Prix. His best season was in 1991, when he finished the season ranked fourth in the 250cc world championship riding a Honda.
Zeelenberg managed the Yamaha factory racing team in the Supersport World Championship with riders Cal Crutchlow and Fabien Foret. Crutchlow claimed the 2009 Supersport World Championship. In 2010, Zeelenberg took on the role as team manager for Jorge Lorenzo in the Yamaha MotoGP team. He later served the same role for Maverick Viñales after Lorenzo's departure from the squad.
With the new entry of the Petronas Yamaha SRT into MotoGP, Zeelenberg moved to become team manager with the new Yamaha satellite team.
Career statistics
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Races by year
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Supersport World Championship
Races by year
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
External links
Wilco Zeelenberg interview
References
1966 births
Living people
Dutch motorcycle racers
250cc World Championship riders
People from Lansingerland
80cc World Championship riders
Supersport World Championship riders
Sportspeople from South Holland
20th-century Dutch people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC%20%28form%20factor%29 | Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing (EPIC) is a computer form factor, a standard for an industrial-quality single-board computer, in use from about 2004 through 2016.
History
The EPIC standard was developed by a combined effort from WinSystems, VersaLogic, Octagon Systems, Micro/sys, and Ampro. Single board computers using this standard were available as early as 2004.
The EPIC-SBC group had a web site until about 2016.
EPIC modules are in size, between PC/104-Plus and Embedded Board eXpandable (EBX) standards.
It supported both PC/104 and PC/104-Plus expansion, for which hundreds of I/O modules were available. I/O connections can be either pin headers or PC-style connectors. The standard provides specific I/O zones to implement functions such as Ethernet, serial ports, digital and analog I/O, video, wireless, and various application-specific interfaces. It also supported serial buses like PCI Express.
References
Motherboard form factors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20type | In programming languages and type theory, a product of types is another, compounded, type in a structure. The "operands" of the product are types, and the structure of a product type is determined by the fixed order of the operands in the product. An instance of a product type retains the fixed order, but otherwise may contain all possible instances of its primitive data types. The expression of an instance of a product type will be a tuple, and is called a "tuple type" of expression. A product of types is a direct product of two or more types.
If there are only two component types, it can be called a "pair type". For example, if two component types A and B are the set of all possible values of that type, the product type written A × B contains elements that are pairs (a,b), where "a" and "b" are instances of A and B respectively. The pair type is a special case of the dependent pair type, where the type B may depend on the instance picked from A.
In many languages, product types take the form of a record type, for which the components of a tuple can be accessed by label. In languages that have algebraic data types, as in most functional programming languages, algebraic data types with one constructor are isomorphic to a product type.
In the Curry–Howard correspondence, product types are associated with logical conjunction (AND) in logic.
The notion directly extends to the product of an arbitrary finite number of types (a n-ary product type), and in this case, it characterizes the expressions which behave as tuples of expressions of the corresponding types. A degenerated form of product type is the unit type: it is the product of no types.
In call-by-value programming languages, a product type can be interpreted as a set of pairs whose first component is a value in the first type and whose second component is a value in the second type. In short, it is a cartesian product and it corresponds to a product in the category of types.
Most functional programming languages have a primitive notion of product type. For instance, the product of type1, ..., typen is written type1*...*typen in ML and (type1,...,typen) in Haskell. In both these languages, tuples are written (v1,...,vn) and the components of a tuple are extracted by pattern-matching. Additionally, many functional programming languages provide more general algebraic data types, which extend both product and sum types. Product types are the dual of sum types.
See also
Product (category theory)
Record (computer science)
Struct (C programming language)
Sum type
Quotient type
References
Homotopy Type Theory: Univalent Foundations of Mathematics, The Univalent Foundations Program, Institute for Advanced Study. See section 1.5.
Data types
Type theory
Composite data types |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinalysis | Equinalysis is a computer software program designed to capture and analyse equine locomotion by visually tracking and quantifying biomechanical data. The system was developed in 2004 by consultant farrier, Haydn Price with the intent of allowing veterinarians, farriers, horse trainers and physiotherapists to highlight subtle changes in a horse's locomotion and provide a video record of how a horse's movements change during the course of its working life. This then allows the user to improve the horse's performance with various techniques and treatment plans, such as appropriate shoeing regimes.
Operation
For the analysis, polystyrene markers are placed at specific points on the horse's limbs, mainly over the joints. Then the horse is walked and trotted in-hand, and filmed with a video camera from all angles on a hard, flat surface. The information is then collated and downloaded on to a CD or DVD, which is analyzed on a computer by an accredited individual. The specialist software program records the movement of the markers and produces data that can be used to quantify stride length, body symmetry, joint flexion and extension, and soundness. The resulting baseline of facts - which is presented in a hard-copy portfolio of information for future reference - then provides the horse owner with a valuable 'baseline measurement' of movement and soundness.
Reliability
A 2011 study published in the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science found the system did not produce repeatable data from day to day, and was therefore not sufficiently reliable for use in clinical evaluations of equine lameness.
See also
Skeletal system of the horse
References
Horse anatomy
Animal physiology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-Network%20Tactical%20Diversion%20Route | In the United Kingdom, emergency diversion routes, or formally off-network tactical diversion routes are planned road traffic routes that bypass the main trunk road network.
Emergency diversion routes provide the public, where possible, with a planned, checked and agreed junction to junction diversion route that circumnavigates an incident which has resulted in the closure of the main carriageway. In some other locations, suitable diversion routes are not possible; this then requires National Highways and its partners to implement alternative tactics such as strategic signs and signals. These are managed by the National Traffic Control Centre (NTCC).
Emergency diversion routes are marked with road signs in the form of simple geometric shapes – open and filled circles, squares, and diamonds. Normally, these additions to roadsigns will be ignored by drivers.
When an incident closes a motorway or trunk road, police and National Highways traffic officers can activate 'trigger signs' at junctions before a closure advising traffic as to which symbol to follow around the incident along an alternative road and bring road users back onto the motorway or main road at a later junction beyond the closure.
The signs used for these routes can be found in the publication Know your Traffic Signs.
Emergency diversion route symbols
Solid versions
Hollow versions
Related signs
References
See also
National Traffic Control Centre
Road signs in the United Kingdom
Road transport in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%2C%20Inc.%20%28South%20Dakota%29 | Amiga, Inc. of South Dakota was a personal computer company, originally a wholly owned subsidiary of Gateway 2000, Inc., predating the Amiga, Inc. of Washington. It was based upon the intellectual property of the German company Escom AG, and had descended from the original Commodore Amiga personal computer series from the 1980s and 1990s.
History
This instance of Amiga, Inc. was incorporated in South Dakota in 1997, as a wholly owned subsidiary of Gateway 2000, Inc. (later renamed Gateway, Inc.) After acquiring from the German company Escom AG certain Amiga-related intellectual property assets in 1997, Gateway decided to keep the patents, and try to run Amiga, Inc. as a separate unit. It was originally intended to develop two new operating systems, announced as "AmigaOS 4" and "AmigaOS 5". Amiga, Inc. was initially led by Jeff Schindler, then by Jim Collas, and later by Tom Schmidt. Other employees included Darreck Lisle (event coordinator), Marylin Flint (operations manager), Joe Torre (senior engineer) and Kelli Newby, née Macomber, (executive administrative assistant). Independent subcontractors who also briefly worked (without being hired) for Amiga, Inc. included William "Bill" McEwen and Barrie Jon "Fleecy" Moss.
In 1999, when Gateway closed Amiga, Inc., Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss obtained from Gateway the amiga.com Internet domain and a license to incorporate a new independent company, also named "Amiga, Inc.", but incorporated in the state of Washington.
See also
Amiga, Inc.
Amiga Corporation
References
External links
Amiga companies
Companies based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Gateway, Inc.
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetEqualizer | The NetEqualizer is a bandwidth shaping appliance designed for voice and data networks, created by APconnections in 2003. NetEqualizer traffic shaping appliances use built-in behavior-based algorithms to automatically shape traffic during peak periods on the network. When the network is congested, the fairness algorithms favor business class applications at the expense of large file downloads. The favored applications include those such as VoIP, web browsing, web-based applications, chat and email. Traffic is prioritized based on the nature of the traffic, so the NetEqualizer remains Net Neutral.
The NetEqualizer also provides quality of service (QoS) through rate limiting, shared limits, and quota. New in 2015 is a DDoS Monitor. In addition, the NetEqualizer can be configured to control both encrypted an unencrypted peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) traffic.
Add-on modules include directory integration (NDI), caching (NCO), and a DDoS Firewall.
The NetEqualizer has been implemented by colleges, universities, libraries, hotels, and businesses around the world. The appliance is currently being used in the rebuilding efforts in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
APconnections is a privately held company founded in 2003 and is based in Lafayette, Colorado.
References
Network performance
Lafayette, Colorado |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%20City%20Metro%20Line%202 | Line 2 is one of the 12 lines of the Mexico City Metro.
The 2 Line is the second oldest in the network, identified by the color blue and runs from West to East and then North to South, turning at the city center. It starts at the border of the city with Estado de México and ends South of the city.
General information
Line 2 connects with Line 7 at Tacuba, Line 3 at Hidalgo, Line 8 at Bellas Artes, Line 1 at Pino Suárez, Lines 8 and 9 at Chabacano and Line 12 at Ermita. It is linked with the Mexico City Light Rail to Xochimilco at the Tasqueña terminal. It used to be served by NC-82 and some NM-83 trains.
It runs under the following roads: Calzada San Bartolo Naucalpan in the stretch from Cuatro Caminos to Panteones, Calzada México-Tacuba from Panteones to Normal, Av. Ribera de San Cosme, Av. México - Tenochtitlan from Revolución to Hidalgo, Av. Hidalgo from Hidalgo to Bellas Artes, Tacuba street, República de Guatemala street, José María Pino Suárez street from Zócalo/Tenochtitlan to Pino Suárez. From San Antonio Abad it runs at ground level over Calzada San Antonio Abad and Calzada de Tlalpan till the terminus of the line in Tasqueña. With 737,396 passengers per day in 2019, it is the busiest line of the Mexico City Metro.
This line was temporarily served by an NM-02 train printed with landscapes and images of Mexico City.
History
Line 2 opened on August 1, 1970, in the stretch Tasqueña–Pino Suárez. Pino Suárez station became the first transfer station of the Mexico City Metro, connecting with Line 1, built one year before.
On September 14, the line was expanded towards Tacuba station.
The last expansion of the line occurred in 1984 when two more stations were built: Panteones and Cuatro Caminos, the latter being the first station of the system to serve the State of Mexico. Cuatro Caminos would remain as the only station to serve the suburbs of Mexico City until 1991, when Line A opened and service reached the municipality of Los Reyes La Paz, in the southeastern part of the State of Mexico with the stations Los Reyes and La Paz.
1975 train crash
This line has seen the worst accident in Mexico City history when on October 20, 1975, when there was a crash between two trains at Viaducto metro station. One train was parked at the station picking up passengers when it was hit by another train that did not stop in time. At least 27 people were killed and several wounded. After this accident, automatic traffic lights were installed in all lines.
Chronology
August 1, 1970: from Tasqueña to Pino Suárez.
September 14, 1970: from Pino Suárez to Tacuba.
August 22, 1984: from Tacuba to Cuatro Caminos.
Rolling stock
Line 2 has had different types of rolling stock throughout the years.
Alstom MP-68: : 1970–1975 2023
Concarril NM-73: : 1975–2005 2023
Concarril NM-79: 1980–2006 2023
Alstom MP-82: 1985–2007
Bombardier NC-82: 1987–2005 2023
CAF/Bombardier NM-02: 2004–present
Currently, out of the 390 trains in the Mexico City Metro network, 40 are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohga%3A%20Armor%20Force | Rohga: Armor Force, released in Japan as , is a 1991 run and gun/platform hybrid arcade game developed and published by Data East. It is related to Vapor Trail and was itself followed by Skull Fang.
Plot
Two years have passed since the military occupation of New York City in 1999 and since then Ragnarok (aka: DAGGER) - the organization responsible for the events - have disappeared following their air borne destruction.
During that time, mech technology has been the boom of future military projects worldwide with the biggest factories residing in Oceania. These mechs become the main target of Ragnarok when it resurfaces and claims the military factories and cities of Australia and New Zealand. Their plan is to apparently use any and all of the deadliest mechs that have not yet reached completion to their chaotic liking.
The USAF and RAAF organize a strike force to reclaim major attacked points in the two countries with the assistance of the best mech operators they can find. Players then assume the role of mech-fighters who aim to liberate Australia or, depending on the player's actions, New Zealand.
Gameplay
Rohga: Armor Force is an unusual scrolling horizontal shooter. Because the players control a mech, the players can hover against slanted walls in the background and occasionally land on higher platforms. Players are set with controls similar to a platformer as they face whichever horizontal direction they choose, can duck, aim their gun upwards at a 45 degree angle, and jump. Players can also move and aim their gun in different directions by holding the firing button down.
Players start along the shores of Australia and proceed to Sydney before being allowed to choose where to go from there. If players continue to explore Australia, then they will have a variety of places to choose from while if they pick New Zealand then they will have even more, different levels to choose from with different settings.
Armaments and Weapons
As the players control a mech, they have the opportunity to arm the mech with different weapons. There are four types of mechs they can choose from, each one offering different attacks and stage of mobility as they can choose a standard walking mech, a hovering mech, a four-legged mech and a six-wheeled mech. They can even assemble a mech according to armaments and features of their choosing.
Players choose from a similar line-up of weapons from Vapor Trail including the following:
Vulcan: A rapid-fire, spread-shot auto-cannon.
Cluster shot: A weapon consisting of green circulating shots that proffer a 'shot-gun effect' type of fire in that it spreads the further it travels.
Grenade gun: A slow firing, but thoroughly powerful grenade launcher that has the unique ability to destroy most enemy shots.
Laser gun: A straight firing laser weapon that increases in strength with upgrades, but does not cover a wide range of fire.
Players can also pick-up friendly Oceanic defense force members equipped with semi-automatic r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blip | Blip may refer to:
Beta-lactamase inhibitor protein
Blip (website), a defunct web video platform
Blip.pl, a Polish social networking site
Blip, a message in the Apache Wave (formerly Google Wave) collaboration platform
Blip Festival, an annual chiptune music event
Blip, a radar display indicator of a reflected signal
Blip (console), a handheld electromechanical game from the 1970s
Blip Magazine, a literary publication by the founders of Mississippi Review
The Blip, a fictional event in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Blips may refer to:
BLIPS, a type of illegal tax shelter
Blips (TV series), a children's show in the UK
Blips, a series of animated shorts accompanying the Radiohead album Kid A
Blips, a gang in the film Keanu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Lenard%20Hall | Ernest Lenard (Ernie) Hall, PhD, PE, is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science in the School of Dynamic Systems in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati. He was also the Paul E. Geier Professor of Robotics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He has also held joint appointments at the University of Cincinnati with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. He regularly collaborates with faculty and students in other colleges at University of Cincinnati, as well as civic groups, including the FIRST Lego League, the Ohio Academy of Science, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Chapter 21). While consulting with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he became interested in efforts to make useful robots for some of the dangerous tasks encountered by the Department of Energy, Department of Defense and NASA. He noted the importance of combining image processing algorithms with manipulators and controller to build intelligent robots, especially in automatic target recognition. He has founded and has co-chaired an annual conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision for the past 25 years to provide a forum for new innovations in this field. He sits as the first Paul. E. Geier Professor of Robotics at the University of Cincinnati. At the University of Cincinnati, he established the Center for Robotics Research, which encourages robotics activities in industry, medicine, defense, and even at home with projects like a robot lawn mower. He also founded the UC Robot Team that has participated in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition for the past 15 years and the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 and 2007.
He has also served as a judge for the Cincinnati FIRST Lego League for two years and has been called the Woodie Flowers of Cincinnati for giving the Gracious Professionalism award. In 2006, Ernest L. Hall won the Grand Prize in the "Made in Express" contest sponsored by Microsoft. His entry for the contest was an all-terrain self-maneuverable robot developed using Microsoft Visual Studio Express. He donated the $10,000 cash prize from the contest back to the University of Cincinnati to support robotics.
Education
Ernie Hall received a B.S. in 1965 and an M.S. in 1966, both in electrical engineering, from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri under the Naval Enlisted Scientific Education Program (NESEP) sponsored by the United States Marine Corps. He completed both degrees in four years. He then attended Officer Candidate School and joined the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing as a radar officer. Following an honorable discharge of his military service, he returned to the University of Missouri in 1968 and received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering in 1971.
His dissertation, Digital Filtering of Images extended the concepts of digital signal processing, including recursive filtering, from signal processing to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20L.%20Schwartz | Eric L. Schwartz (1947 – December 31, 2018) was Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Boston University. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York University Medical Center and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
He introduced the term Computational Neuroscience through the organization of a conference with this title which took place in Carmel California in 1985, under the sponsorship of the Systems Development Foundation. Encouraged by program director Charles Smith, this conference, whose proceedings were later published by MIT Press(1990), provided a summary of progress in the related fields which were till then referred to as neural networks, neural modeling, brain theory, theoretical neuroscience and a variety of other terms. Organizing these fields along the dimensions of spatial and temporal measurement, the conference, and its later publication in book form, introduced the use of the term "Computational Neuroscience". In the subsequent decades, dozens of University Departments and Programs have adopted this umbrella title.
During the late 1980s Schwartz founded the Computational Neurosciences Labs, with support from the Systems Development Foundation, and then Vision Applications, Inc. in 1990, with support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), for the purpose of developing actuators, sensors and algorithms for miniaturized space-variant vision systems. Patents developed at Vision Applications included a novel spherically actuated motor , a CMOS VLSI log-plar sensor prototype and algorithms for real-time synthesis of space-variant images .
This work culminated in the construction of a miniature autonomous vehicle which was the first vehicle to drive, unassisted by human backup, on the streets of Boston (1992) .
Biography
Eric Schwartz was born in New York City in 1947 to Jack and Edith Schwartz. He attended the Bronx High School of Science, Columbia College (majoring in Chemistry and Physics), where he was a member of the 1965 Ivy League, ECAC, and NCAA Championship Columbia Lions fencing team (saber), and Columbia University (PhD, High Energy Physics, spon. J. Steinberger [22]).
Following completion of his physics degree, he joined the laboratory of E. Roy John as a post-doctoral fellow in neurophysiology, and moved with John's laboratory to New York University as a Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry in 1979 and was promoted to Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Computer Science in 1990, leaving for Boston University in 1992 to assume the positions of Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Anatomy and Neurobiology. He lived in Brookline, Massachusetts with wife Helen and daughter Anna Molly.
Research
Visuotopic mapping in monkey and human visual cortex
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Hot%20100%20number%20ones%20of%202008 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, and airplay. In 2008, there were 14 singles that topped the chart in 52 issues of the magazine.
Rapper Flo Rida's "Low" was the first number one of the year, and the longest-running single in 2008, staying at number one for 10 consecutive weeks. It is the longest stay at the top for a single since R&B singer Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable" reigned for 10 straight weeks starting in late 2006. "Low" is the best-performing single of 2008 in the United States, ranking number one on Billboards year end chart of the Top Hot 100 Hits of 2008. Other singles with extended runs at number one include Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl", which stayed at the top spot for seven straight weeks, and T.I.'s "Whatever You Like", which topped the chart for seven non-consecutive weeks.
In 2008, seven acts gained their first U.S. number-one single: Flo Rida, Leona Lewis, Lil Wayne, Coldplay, and Perry, all of whom were lead artists, and Young Jeezy and Static Major as featured guests. Static Major was the seventh artist to hit number one posthumously, after his death in February 2008. T.I. earned his first number-one single as lead artist with "Whatever You Like". He also had the most weeks on top with 13, combining his two singles "Whatever You Like" and "Live Your Life", the latter of which charted at number one for six non-consecutive weeks. Artists to have multiple number one hits during the year were Rihanna with three, (one of those as a featured artist credit in "Live Your Life"), and T.I. with two. Rihanna spent the most time of any female at the top, spending nine non-consecutive weeks at number one on three different songs.
Highlights of the 2008 Billboard Hot 100 issues included pop singer Britney Spears' "Womanizer", which was noted for its record-breaking leap to number-one, from number 96. This is Spears' second number-one single, and her first number-one single in nine years. Pop singer Mariah Carey earned her 18th U.S. number-one single with "Touch My Body", which broke her tie with Elvis Presley, putting her in second position for artists with the most number ones in the rock era, which began in 1955. Leaving Carey two behind The Beatles with twenty number one singles. Singer Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love" earned her the recognition of being the third female British act to have topped the Billboard Hot 100 with a debut single in the entire rock era. Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" became the 1,000th number-one song of the rock era. Although it occupied seven of summer's thirteen weeks, critics remained divided over which is 2008's Song of the Summer.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2008 in music
List of Billboard number-one singles
Top Hot 100 Hits of 2008
References
Additional sources
Fred Bronson's Billboard Book |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20200%20number-one%20albums%20of%202008 | The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2008, 38 albums advanced to the peak position of the chart.
Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's Fearless is her first number-one album and had the longest run among the releases that have reached peak position in 2008, spending 11 non-consecutive weeks beginning with the issue dated November 29 and continuing into the 2009 chart year. She is the only singer to have achieved the longest-running album as a country female recording act in the Billboard 200 history. Swift is now ranked fifth on the list of solo female artists with the longest-running number-one album in Billboard history, tied with veterans Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. Other albums with extended chart runs include Jack Johnson's fifth studio album, Sleep Through the Static, and Metallica's ninth studio album, Death Magnetic; each spent three straight weeks on the chart. Three soundtrack albums topped the chart in 2008: Juno, Mamma Mia! and Twilight.
Hip hop artist Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III is the highest-selling album of 2008 in the US, selling 2.874 million copies since its release. The album attained the most sales in a week, netting over one million units after a week of release, a feat previously accomplished in 2005. The second best-selling album of the year is alternative rock band Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends with 2.144 million copies sold, followed by Swift's Fearless with 2.112 million. It is also the best-selling album in digital format, having topped the Billboard Top Digital Albums of 2008. Alternative rock band Radiohead's In Rainbows had the most vinyl albums sold in 2008, amounting to 26,000 units.
Pop singer Madonna scored her seventh number-one album, Hard Candy, making her the female act with the second most number-one albums in the United States. R&B singer Mariah Carey earned her sixth number-one album in 2008 with E=MC², tying her with R&B singer Janet Jackson for third place for most number-one albums by a female act. E=MC² opened at number one on the chart for selling 463,000 copies, outselling Carey's previous albums' debut figures. Neil Diamond achieved the first number one album of his career with Home Before Dark 42 years after his first chart entry.
Chart history
See also
2008 in music
List of number-one albums (United States)
References
Number-one albums
United States Albums
2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beilstein%20Registry%20Number | The Beilstein Registry Number is a way of identifying compounds similar to the CAS registry number. It is the unique identifier for compounds in the Beilstein database.
References
Chemical numbering schemes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorway%20to%20Fame | Doorway to Fame is an American talent show broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran from May 2, 1947, to July 11, 1949.
Overview
The series used early television scene-blending technology to project the performers into cleverly constructed miniature sets or backdrops. Although 20,000 performers appeared on the series, it is widely reported that, contrary to the show's name, very few of the contestants went on to become famous. The series was cancelled in 1949.
Broadcast history
The series was hosted by Johnny Olson, who would go on to host the DuMont daytime variety show Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room from 1949 to 1952, and many other television series and game shows, including the Saturday morning children's show Kids and Company on DuMont from September 1951 to June 1952, with co-host Ham Fisher.
Regulars on the program included The Tophatters, described as "instrumentalists and novelty singers".
On May 15, 1948, announcer Joe Bolton left Doorway to Fame to start on WPIX-TV as announcer and weatherman.
The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, originally aired Friday nights at 7:30 pm EST on most DuMont affiliate stations. In October 1947, the schedule was changed to Monday nights at 7pm ET. In March 1949, the program moved to 8:30pm ET.
Episode status
Two kinescopes of the series survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. One of the surviving episodes featured up-and-coming traditional pop singer Toni Arden and African-American "novelty dance act" Cook & Brown along with other performers.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1947-48 United States network television schedule
1948-49 United States network television schedule
Notes
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
1947 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
1940s American television series
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows
Talent shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull%20Fang | Skull Fang is a 1996 vertical-scrolling shooter developed and published in arcades by Data East. Skull Fang is the third and final entry in a loose trilogy of games beginning with 1989's Vapor Trail. It was released for the Sega Saturn in 1997.
Gameplay
Players choose from one of four jets set among the flying aircraft carrier Skull Fang, as well as a pilot to fly the jet and attack the enemy's squadrons and battalions worldwide.
Release
Skull Fang was later ported by both Data East and Aisystem Tokyo to the Sega Saturn in 1997. This port adds several new features, such as a trial mode, a boss rush mode, a tutorial video and an additional speed mode which has two settings rather than five. Occasionally, the sprites suffer from flickering. Some arranged versions of songs from Vapor Trail are also included in the game disc as redbook audio.
On February 26, 1996, Pony Canyon and Scitron Label added the arcade version's background music of Skull Fang with the background music of another Data East MLC System title, Avengers in Galactic Storm, both into an album titled Skull Fang / Avengers in Galactic Storm, which was released exclusively in Japan. This version also includes two exclusive arranged versions of the songs "Skull Fang" (Stage 1 theme) and "Over Boost" (Stage 2 Boss theme). On July 21, 2010, TEAM Entertainment added the background music of the arcade version with the background music of the first two Kuuga games, plus three other Data East shooting games (Darwin 4078, SRD: Super Real Darwin, and Act-Fancer: Cybernetick Hyper Weapon), into one album titled Data East Retro Game Music Collection, which was distributed exclusively in Japan by Sony Music Distribution.
Reception
A Next Generation reviewer, while acknowledging that the chase mode and back and side thrusts are variations in the shooter formula, concluded Skull Fang to be "a shooter in the most generic sense." He scored the arcade version two out of five stars.
In an article on the Saturn port, Sega Saturn Magazine called Skull Fang "a classic example of over hyped nonsense", and explained that "With two players on screen at once, multiple power-ups and even an original arcade mode (requiring you to turn your TV on its side, Raiden-style), Skull Fang begins to sound fairly impressive. However ... appalling slowdown, unimpressive power-ups and nagging pauses during gameplay are all good reasons for Saturn owners to steer well clear."
Notes
References
External links
1996 video games
Arcade video games
Cooperative video games
Data East video games
Scrolling shooters
Sega Saturn games
Video games about terrorism
Video games developed in Japan
Data East arcade games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo%20%28astronomy%29 | Tempo is a computer program to analyze radio observations of pulsars. Once enough observations are available, Tempo can deduce the pulsar rotation rate and phase, astrometric position and rates of change, and parameters of binary systems, by fitting models to pulse times of arrival measured at one or more terrestrial observatories. This is a non-trivial procedure because much larger effects must be removed before the detailed fit can be performed. These include:
Dispersion of the pulses in the Interstellar medium, the solar system, and the ionosphere
Observatory motion (including Earth rotation, precession, nutation, polar motion and orbital motion)
Tropospheric propagation delay
Gravitational time dilation due to binary companions and Solar system bodies.
Tempo is maintained and distributed on SourceForge. There is a reference manual available, but no general documentation.
Tempo is a relatively old program, and is being replaced by Tempo2. The main advantages of Tempo2, from the abstract, are:
We have developed tempo2, a new pulsar timing package that contains propagation and other relevant effects implemented at the 1ns level of precision (a factor of ~100 more precise than previously obtainable). In contrast with earlier timing packages, tempo2 is compliant with the general relativistic framework of the IAU 1991 and 2000 resolutions and hence uses the International Celestial Reference System, Barycentric Coordinate Time and up-to-date precession, nutation and polar motion models.
See also
Pulsar
Binary pulsar
References
Pulsars
Radio astronomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didactic%20organisation | Didactic organisation is the ability of neurons within a network to impart their pattern of synaptic connectivity and/or response properties to other neurons. The term didactic is used because this kind of influence is unidirectional; each individual instance of didactic organisation between two connected neurons does not involve a bidirectional transfer of connectivity or response property information between them.
Experimental and theoretical evidence
Evidence for didactic organisation in vivo was first discovered through research into synaptic reorganisation in primary visual cortex that compared the results of neuronal recording experiments and computational models. However, the tendency of spike-timing-dependent plasticity to separate neurons into ‘teachers’ and ‘students’ had previously been predicted in theory based on computational modelling results alone.
Spike-timing-dependent plasticity
Didactic organisation is primarily a consequence of spike-timing-dependent plasticity, because when the neurons within an interconnected network undergo action potentials (or ‘spikes’) at approximately the same time (within the order of tens of milliseconds) the efferent synaptic connections of neurons that spike early will have their efficacy increased (long-term potentiation), while neurons that spike late will have the efficacy of their efferent synaptic connections decreased (long-term depression).
Causal activity
While spike-timing-dependent plasticity is an essential ingredient for didactic organisation, other features of neuronal activity appear to be required for didactic organisation to occur in vivo. One of these features is that activity propagated through a network needs to have a 'causal' character. For example, chain of reciprocally connected neurons with this ‘causal activity’ characteristic would be capable of propagating a wave of spikes along its length, rather than the wave disintegrating into a cascade of spikes ‘bouncing’ back and forth between neurons in the chain.
Activity propagation
A third important feature for didactic organisation in vivo concerns the spatial scale of spike propagation within a network. While it is expected that didactic organisation will always be present among neurons that exhibit spike timing-dependent plasticity and causal activity (see above), the spatial scale over which didactic organisation can occur between neurons within a network should be limited by the spatial scale of spike propagation. Evidence suggests that the scale of spike propagation can be actively controlled by adjusting the balance of excitation and inhibition within a network (a balance that can be modulated by synaptic scaling, for example), thus providing a means by which a network can actively control when and to what extent didactic organisation can occur. For this reason, and the very specific connectivity patterns that can be achieved via didactic organisation, it has been speculated that didactic organisation may play an imp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Royal%20Train | The British Royal Train is used to convey senior members of the British royal family and associated staff of the Royal Household around the railway network of Great Britain. It is owned, maintained and operated by DB Cargo UK.
The Royal Train comprises a dedicated set of claret liveried sleeper, dining and lounge carriages. The current rolling stock dates from 1977 to 1987. They are arranged according to requirements, and stored when not in use. The earliest royal coaches date back to the mid-19th century in the reign of Queen Victoria; until an upgrade in 1977 there were multiple sets based in different regions, a legacy of the pre-nationalisation era of railways in Britain. Many are now in museums or on heritage railways; the National Railway Museum in York has a royal themed exhibition.
Dedicated locomotives have never traditionally been part of the Royal Train, first appearing in special livery only in the 1990s, but also seeing use on other trains since 2003. In the 21st century, various preserved (and one new build) steam locomotives have also hauled the train on special occasions. Although regularly cited by critics as one of the unnecessary luxuries of the Royal Family, which has led to an increase where possible in the use of normal scheduled services as an alternative, supporters argue the current arrangement emphasises utility over luxury, and is still often the most practical and secure mode of travel to fit the required itinerary and avoid disruption to the public.
The then Duke and Duchess of Cambridge travelled across Britain by the Royal Train in December 2020 to thank communities and key workers for their extraordinary efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. In November 2020, the American PBS network aired a two-part series, Secrets of Royal Travel, with the first episode featuring the train and its history.
History
The first member of the British Royal Family to travel by train was the Dowager Queen Adelaide who took a train from Nottingham to Leeds on 22 July 1840. Queen Victoria was the first British monarch to travel by train, on 13 June 1842 on the Great Western Railway (GWR), which ran the line between London Paddington and Windsor for Windsor Castle. The train transported the queen from Slough to London Paddington, and was hauled by the locomotive Phlegethon driven by Daniel Gooch assisted by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The Queen used a royal saloon which had been constructed by the GWR in 1840. According to the historian Kate Williams, the Queen "saw travelling the country as her duty, whereas monarchs didn't necessarily think that before".
The first carriage built for the exclusive use of a member of the British Royal Family was constructed in 1842 by the London and Birmingham Railway for Queen Adelaide. This carriage is now on display in the National Railway Museum in York.
In 1869, Queen Victoria commissioned a pair of coaches for £1,800 () with the London and North Western Railway.
In 1874, the GWR built a new ro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComPAN%208 | ComPAN 8 is an 8-bit Polish microcomputer produced in the 1980s at the MERA-ELZAB factory in Zabrze, Poland. ComPAN 8 was designed at the Institute of Industry Automation Systems PAN in Gliwice.
Technical description
Processor: 8080A or 8085 2 MHz
Interrupt controller: 8 levels
Address bus: extended by 5 additional lines (A16..AA20), max. 2 MB of memory
RAM: 64 kB
ROM: 8 kB
Keyboard: 83 keys MERA 7926M with numerical part
Floppy disk controller: 8” or 5,25”
Interfaces: 2 x RS-232C, parallel port, printer interface circuit
Monochromatic display, divided into 2 (or 3) windows:
system window: 4 lines, 80 characters on the bottom of the screen
workspace window:
24x80 characters – text mode
30x80 Characters – graphical-text mode
288x240 pixels – graphical mode
additional system window (optional): 8 lines with 30 characters on the top of screen
Software
Operation system:
CP/M (more popular)
ISIS-II
programming languages
macroassembler
Pascal
Fortran
PL/M (ISIS-II)
References
External links
Old computers magazine (polish)
Microcomputers
Science and technology in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Delany | Mark Delany is an Australian computer programmer and consultant specializing in e-mail infrastructure and anti-spam techniques.
He is the chief architect and inventor of DomainKeys, an e-mail authentication system designed to verify the DNS domain of an e-mail sender and the message integrity. Mark is one of the authors of DomainKeys Identified Mail, a development of DomainKeys.
He was also lead architect for Yahoo! Mail.
References
External links
A Vision Splendid: The History of Australian Computing
People in information technology
Australian computer programmers
Living people
Yahoo! employees
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavement%20management | Pavement management is the process of planning the maintenance and repair of a network of roadways or other paved facilities in order to optimize pavement conditions over the entire network.
It is also applied to airport runways and ocean freight terminals. In effect, every highway superintendent does pavement management.
Pavement management incorporates life cycle costs into a more systematic approach to minor and major road maintenance and reconstruction projects. The needs of the entire network as well as budget projections are considered before projects are executed, as the cost of data collection can change significantly. Pavement management encompasses the many aspects and tasks needed to maintain a quality pavement inventory, and ensure that the overall condition of the road network can be sustained at desired levels. While pavement management covers the entire lifecycle of pavement from planning to maintenance in any transport infrastructure, road asset management and road maintenance planning target more specifically road infrastructure.
In the United States, the introduction of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board’s (GASB’s) Statement 34 is having a dramatic impact on the financial reporting requirements of state and local governments. Introduced in June 1999, this provision recommends that governmental agencies report the value of their infrastructure assets in their financial statements. GASB recommends that government agencies use a historical cost approach for capitalizing long-lived capital assets; however, if historical information is not available, guidance is provided for an alternate approach based on the current replacement cost of the assets. A method of representing the costs associated with the use of the assets must also be selected, and two methods are allowed by GASB. One approach is to depreciate the assets over time. The modified approach, on the other hand, provides an agency more flexibility in reporting the value of its assets based upon the use of a systematic, defensible approach that accounts for the preservation of the asset. Pavement management and pavement management systems provide agencies with the tools necessary to evaluate their pavement assets and meet the GASB34 requirements under the modified depreciation approach.
Pavement management systems
A pavement management system (PMS) is a planning tool used to aid pavement management decisions. PMS software programs model future pavement deterioration due to traffic and weather, and recommend maintenance and repairs to the road's pavement based on the type and age of the pavement and various measures of existing pavement quality. Measurements can be made by persons on the ground, visually from a moving vehicle, or using automated sensors mounted to a vehicle. PMS software often helps the user create composite pavement quality rankings based on pavement quality measures on roads or road sections. Recommendations are usually biased towards predict |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21%20Finance | Yahoo! Finance is a media property that is part of the Yahoo! network. It provides financial news, data and commentary including stock quotes, press releases, financial reports, and original content. It also offers some online tools for personal finance management. In addition to posting paid partner content from other web sites, it posts original stories by its team of staff journalists. It is ranked 20th by SimilarWeb on the list of largest news and media websites.
In 2017, Yahoo! Finance added the feature to look at news surrounding cryptocurrency. It lists over 9,000 unique coins including Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Yahoo! Finance video content has been made available via connected TVs and devices, including Apple TV, Samsung TV Plus, Roku, and YouTube.
See also
Google Finance
MSN Money
References
External links
Yahoo! Finance
Economics websites
Finance
Internet properties established in 1997
IOS software
Android (operating system) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation%20timestamp | The presentation timestamp (PTS) is a timestamp metadata field in an MPEG transport stream or MPEG program stream that is used to achieve synchronization of programs' separate elementary streams (for example Video, Audio, Subtitles) when presented to the viewer. The PTS is given in units related to a program's overall clock reference, either Program Clock Reference (PCR) or System Clock Reference (SCR), which is also transmitted in the transport stream or program stream.
Presentation time stamps have a resolution of 90kHz, suitable for the presentation synchronization task. The PCR or SCR has a resolution of 27MHz which is suitable for synchronization of a decoder's overall clock with that of the usual remote encoder, including driving TV signals such as frame and line sync timing, colour sub carrier, etc.
Decoding of N elementary streams is synchronized by adjusting the decoding of streams to a common master time base rather than by adjusting the decoding of one stream to match that of another. The master time base may be one of the N decoders' clocks, the data source’s clock, or it may be some external clock.
A transport stream may contain multiple programs and each program may have its own time base. The time bases of different programs within a transport stream may be different. Because PTSs apply to the decoding of individual elementary streams, they reside in the PES packet layer of both the transport streams and program streams. End-to-end synchronization occurs when encoders save time stamps at capture time, when the time stamps propagate with associated coded data to decoders, and when decoders use those time stamps to schedule presentations.
Synchronization of a decoding system with a channel is achieved through the use of the SCR in the program stream and by its analog, the PCR, in the transport stream. The SCR and PCR are time stamps encoding the timing of the bit stream itself, and are derived from the same time base used for the audio and video PTS values from the same program. Since each program may have its own time base, there are separate PCR fields for each program in a transport stream containing multiple programs. In some cases it may be possible for programs to share PCR fields.
See also
Packetized elementary stream
Audio to video synchronization
References
MPEG
Audio to video synchronization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Freakbeat%2C%20Volume%202 | English Freakbeat, Volume 2 is a compilation album in the English Freakbeat series, featuring recordings that were released decades earlier, in the mid-1960s.
Release data
The album was released as an LP in 1989 by AIP Records (as #AIP-10047) and as a CD in 1996 (as #AIP-CD-1047).
Vinyl-Only tracks and CD bonus tracks
The English Freakbeat LPs and CDs have most tracks in common, although not always in the same order, and some of the LP tracks were not included on the CDs. Also, the CD bonus tracks are not always at the end of the album. Thus, for clarity, we have shown tracks for both editions of the album, with vinyl-only tracks and CD bonus tracks indicated.
Notes on the tracks
The following information is taken mostly from the CD liner notes. Glenn Athens & the Trojans – the leader is also known as Glen Athens – were from Surrey and won the local Beat Trophy in 1964; they were named by Mirabel Magazine as the top "semi-pro" band for two straight years. This track is taken from a 1965 EP on Spot Records.
The song by The Sessions was written by Miki Dallon (who was featured as a solo artist on English Freakbeat, Volume 1) and was evidently released only in America.
The original incarnation of Mickey Finn as Mickey Finn & the Blue Men in 1964-65 (see English Freakbeat, Volume 4) included a young Jimmy Page. Both sides of their final single are included, from late 1967.
The Kubas/the Koobas had early connections with the Beatles; they had not only toured with the legendary band but were also managed by Brian Epstein. Also, they made an appearance in the film Ferry Cross the Mersey. These two previously un-reissued tracks are from the flip side of their first single as the Kubas and from a later release as the Koobas.
"Messin' with the Man" by the Beat Merchants is the "B" side of their first single; the "A" side is on English Freakbeat, Volume 1. Their second single, "So Fine" was paired with a song by Freddie and the Dreamers in its American issue.
Reportedly, the Wolf Pack is actually the Animals recording under a pseudonym for a soundtrack album called The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood. Released on ABC-Paramount Records, the song may only have been issued in the U.S.
Members of The Syndicats include Steve Howe – a future member of Tomorrow and then Yes – who was the lead guitarist for this track. Their classic "Crawdaddy Simone" can be found on English Freakbeat, Volume 4.
At one time, the Soul Agents reputedly included John Anthony, who later managed Genesis and other bands. They also served as the backing band for Rod Stewart for several years. Also, three members of this band later joined the Loot, who are featured on English Freakbeat, Volume 1. These two tracks are from their rare third single.
The history of the Irish band the Wheels – rivals of Van Morrison's early band Them – is recounted in the original liner notes of the landmark Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical%20Markup%20Framework | Language resource management Lexical markup framework (LMF; ISO 24613:2008), is the International Organization for Standardization ISO/TC37 standard for natural language processing (NLP) and machine-readable dictionary (MRD) lexicons. The scope is standardization of principles and methods relating to language resources in the contexts of multilingual communication.
Objectives
The goals of LMF are to provide a common model for the creation and use of lexical resources, to manage the exchange of data between and among these resources, and to enable the merging of large number of individual electronic resources to form extensive global electronic resources.
Types of individual instantiations of LMF can include monolingual, bilingual or multilingual lexical resources. The same specifications are to be used for both small and large lexicons, for both simple and complex lexicons, for both written and spoken lexical representations. The descriptions range from morphology, syntax, computational semantics to computer-assisted translation. The covered languages are not restricted to European languages but cover all natural languages. The range of targeted NLP applications is not restricted. LMF is able to represent most lexicons, including WordNet, EDR and PAROLE lexicons.
History
In the past, lexicon standardization has been studied and developed by a series of projects like GENELEX, EDR, EAGLES, MULTEXT, PAROLE, SIMPLE and ISLE. Then, the ISO/TC37 National delegations decided to address standards dedicated to NLP and lexicon representation. The work on LMF started in Summer 2003 by a new work item proposal issued by the US delegation. In Fall 2003, the French delegation issued a technical proposition for a data model dedicated to NLP lexicons. In early 2004, the ISO/TC37 committee decided to form a common ISO project with Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC Italy) as convenor and Gil Francopoulo (Tagmatica France) and Monte George (ANSI USA) as editors.
The first step in developing LMF was to design an overall framework based on the general features of existing lexicons and to develop a consistent terminology to describe the components of those lexicons. The next step was the actual design of a comprehensive model that best represented all of the lexicons in detail. A large panel of 60 experts contributed a wide range of requirements for LMF that covered many types of NLP lexicons. The editors of LMF worked closely with the panel of experts to identify the best solutions and reach a consensus on the design of LMF. Special attention was paid to the morphology in order to provide powerful mechanisms for handling problems in several languages that were known as difficult to handle. 13 versions have been written, dispatched (to the National nominated experts), commented and discussed during various ISO technical meetings. After five years of work, including numerous face-to-face meetings and e-mail exchanges, the editors arrived at a coherent UML model. In conc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20M.%20Galambos | George Galambos (born in Budapest) is a computer engineer. He is an IBM Fellow (2003), an IBM Distinguished Engineer and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.
He graduated the Budapest Technical University (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) in 1972, with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. Prior to which, he studied chemical engineering at the Leningrad Technology Institute (Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology).
He holds the office of CTO, Global Services (IGS) IBM Canada. Galambos was a designer on the team that built the Interac network connecting bank machines. Galambos advises companies on advanced systems design and strategic IT plans. His current interest includes system design patterns, with a focus on integration.
Galambos holds a patent for 'System and method for transforming an enterprise using a component business model' (Patent #20070174109, Class: 705010000 (USPTO)), A system and method are described for using a Component Business Model (CBM) to transform a business. A CBM map is used to identify components that collaborate to provide a specified capability, and a repository supporting the CBM map is filtered to provide a view of the identified components that highlights how they collaborate. The view is used to identify component features contributing to the specified capability. The specified capability is then enhanced by a transformation strategy that includes re-engineering particular components, identifying a pattern characterizing the collaboration between components and adding a component to perform the collaborative pattern, or adding another feature to the collaboration and adding component to perform the additional feature. The CBM repository provides exemplar best practices that can be adapted for use in a re-engineered component.
Publications
Patterns for e-business: A Strategy for Reuse, co-authored with Jonathan Adams, Srinivas Koushik, Guru Vasudeva, IBM Press, , Published: 2001, new edition 2008
"Services Ecosystem, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing - Volume 01", IEEE Computer Society, Washington, Page: 20, , Published: 2005
"IBM Systems Journal Volume 44, Number 4, 2005, Impact of service orientation at the business level", IBM Press, ISSN 0018-8670, Published:2005
References
External links
Interac architect sounds off on SOA
IBM Fellows
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CADES | CADES (Computer Aided Design and Evaluation System) was a software engineering system produced to support the design and development of the VME/B Operating System for the ICL New Range - subsequently 2900 - computers.
From its earliest days, VME/B was developed with the aid of CADES, which was built for the purpose using an underlying IDMS database (latterly upgraded to IDMS(X)). CADES was not merely a version control system for code modules: it was intended to manage all aspects of the software lifecycle from requirements capture through to field maintenance.
It was the design of CADES that paved the way for the Alvey Project in IPSE (Integrated Project Support Environments) and Process Control Engines. Because CADES was used for more than 20 years throughout the development of a large software engineering project, the data collected has been used as input to a number of studies of software evolution.
Early history
CADES was conceived in 1970 by David Pearson and Brian Warboys when working for ICL's New Range Operating System Technology Centre, OSTECH, in Kidsgrove. Pearson, a theoretical physicist by training, had become a computer simulation specialist and joined ICL in 1968 after working in finite-element modelling at Cambridge and simulation research at Imperial College. Warboys had been chief architect for the ICL System 4 multi-access operating system, Multijob.
ICL's commitment to large scale software development for the 2900 Series of computers provided the basis for the Pearson and Warboys early work on a new software development environment which would address the issues of designer/programmer productivity, design integrity, evaluation and testing, version control and systems regression.
In designing the initial architecture of the CADES environment, Pearson in particular looked to parallels with the leading hardware computer-aided design systems of the time, even attempting the use of graphics in the design process. The CADES design approach, called Structural Modelling, was rigidly data-driven and hierarchical, and expressed in a formal design language, SDL. Design specifications written in SDL were processed by the Design Analyser, before being input to the CADES Product Database, a design and implementation database supporting its own query language and forming the kernel of the Product Information System.
The intention was that these designs could be evaluated/simulated using the Animator, and S3 implementation code automatically generated from them using the Environment Processor. Build generation and version control was also based on the Product Database, resulting in a highly disciplined approach to new system builds. System Regression was therefore controlled from a very early stage in the software life-cycle.
Fundamentals
In order to control the development of VME/B, each development was sub-divided for easier management. The structure was hierarchic, with each significant components of VME (kernel, file store, etc.) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit%20of%20Adventure%20%28video%20game%29 | Spirit of Adventure is a computer role playing game developed by Attic Entertainment Software and published February 12, 1991. The game is a 2.5D dungeon crawl.
External links
Spirit of Adventure at Atari Mania
Spirit of Adventure at Lemon Amiga
Polish site with pictures
1991 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Attic Entertainment Software games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Dungeon crawler video games
Role-playing video games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in Germany
Starbyte Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20mode | In computing, direct or immediate mode in an interactive programming system is the immediate execution of commands, statements, or expressions. In many interactive systems, most of these can both be included in programs or executed directly in a read–eval–print loop (REPL).
Most interactive systems also offer the possibility of defining programs in the REPL, either with explicit declarations, such as Python's def, or by labelling them with line numbers. Programs can then be run by calling a named or numbered procedure or by running a main program.
Many programming systems, from Lisp and JOSS to Python and Perl have interactive REPLs which also allow defining programs. Most integrated development environments offer a direct mode where, during debugging and while the program execution is suspended, commands can be executed directly in the current scope and the result is displayed.
Example
Non-direct mode in Basic
Direct mode in Basic
References
User interfaces
Computing terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Rescue | River Rescue is an action game for the VIC-20 published by Thorn EMI Computer Software in 1982. It was designed by Jeremy Smith and programmed by Will Kemp. Ports were released for the Atari 8-bit family and ZX Spectrum in 1983 and the Commodore 64 in 1984. A TI-99/4A version was advertised but never released.
Gameplay
The player guides a boat along a river, which scrolls from right to left across the screen in a top-down view. The boat must avoid colliding with various hazards in the river - these include small islands, crocodiles and logs. The aim is to rescue explorers lost in the jungle.
The boat periodically passes a pair of docks arranged across from each other on either side of the river. If the boat moves to the upper dock, an explorer will run out of the jungle onto the boat. Stopping at the lower dock causes any explorers already on the ship walk back off to safety. Because of the scrolling motion, it is not possible to land at both docks in one go, you must pick up an explorer and then continue along the river until the dock reappears.
Depending on the version and level, between three and five explorers have to be rescued to complete a round. Once the round is complete, the game starts again, faster.
Reception
Alternative Software acquired the rights to the game when Creative Sparks Distribution went into receivership in 1987. Their subsequent budget release of River Rescue reached number 4 in the Gallup Atari 8-bit chart in 1988.
See also
River Patrol (1981)
References
1982 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Thorn EMI video games
VIC-20 games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotactic%20injection | Stereotactic injection is a procedure in which a computer and a 3-dimensional scanning device are used to inject anticancer drugs directly into a tumor.
Stereotactic injection may also refer to the use of injections during stereotactic surgery to precisely target specific sites, such as brain regions, during experimental research.
External links
Stereotactic injection entry in the public domain NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
References
Surgical oncology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw%20%28video%20game%29 | Outlaw is a single-player arcade game by Atari Inc., originally released in 1976. It simulates an Old West fast draw duel between the player and the computer. Outlaw was a response to Gun Fight, released by Midway in North America the year before.
Atari released ports of the game for the Atari 2600 console (then known as the Atari VCS) in 1978 and for the Atari 8-bit computers in 1981.
Technology
The game is housed in a custom cabinet that includes a light gun. The game PCB is composed of discrete technology, with game sprites stored in ROM. Playfield graphics are provided by a screen overlay representing an Old West town street.
Gameplay
Players select one of two characters: Half-fast Pete or Billy-The-Kid. Pete is more accurate while Billy can draw faster. An outlaw appears somewhere in the town, the object being to fast draw your gun as soon as he draws his. Shooting him before he shoots you scores points, with points counting toward end-of-game ratings such as "Dude", "Greenhorn", and "Top Gun".
Ports
An enhanced home video game console port was developed for the Atari VCS by then-Atari employee David Crane and released in 1978. This version is more directly comparable to Midway's Gun Fight, allowing two players to engage in a shoot-out using Atari CX40 joysticks. There are multiple modes that differ slightly from the arcade game, including target practice and versions with obstacles that must be shot around or shot through. There is also a multiplayer mode in which two players fight against each other.
Crane also developed Outlaw/Howitzer for the Atari 8-bit computers in 1979. It is a two-in-one game, in which the player can choose to duel either as cowboys or tanks, the former game mode being similar in gameplay to the VCS version. Outlaw/Howitzer was made available for purchase through Atari Program Exchange in summer of 1981.
Reception
Eric Thompson reviewed the Atari 2600 port of Outlaw in The Space Gamer No. 34. Thompson commented that the game is fun and recommended the Atari 2600 computer to buy this game.
Reviews
Creative Computing (Jul, 1978)
References
1976 video games
Arcade video games
Atari arcade games
Atari 2600 games
Atari 8-bit family games
Namco arcade games
Shooter games
Western (genre) video games
Discrete video arcade games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips%20%3AYES | The Philips :YES was a home computer/personal computer released by Philips Austria, in 1985. It was not fully IBM PC compatible, a reason given for its commercial failure. The system was only sold in limited quantities.
Technical specifications
Microprocessor: Intel 80186 @ 8 MHz
ROM: 192 KiB
RAM: 128 to 640 KiB
Keyboard: mechanical, with 93 keys
Operating system: DOS Plus (in 64 KiB ROM), MS-DOS, Concurrent DOS
Storage: two 3½-inch drives, 720 KiB each. One or two optional external 3½-inch or 5¼-inch drives.
Video modes:
A0: Text, 40 columns × 25 rows, 8 colours
A1: Text, 80 columns × 25 rows, 8 colours
A2: Text, 80 columns × 25 rows, 2 colours + intensity
G0: 160 × 252 pixels, 16 colours
G1: 640 × 252 pixels, 2 colours + intensity
G2: 320 × 252 pixels, 16 colours
G3: 640 × 252 pixels, 4 colours
The built-in graphics hardware (based on the Hitachi HD46505SP video controller) supported composite video output. An additional video module allowed output to TTL monochrome monitors, colour monitors or SCART televisions.
Video RAM was shared with system RAM. Before using graphics modes, memory had to be allocated for them with the GRAPHICS or GRCHAR commands.
An expansion card (the Professional Expansion Board) provided:
Extra RAM.
A SASI/SCSI hard-drive interface.
A mouse interface.
A battery-backed real-time clock.
An additional expansion card was available in limited quantity (probably only sold in the Netherlands directly to Philips employees) to make it 100% IBM PC compatible. This card was made of two separate cards, one for the actual compatibility, which ended in an 8 bit ISA slot, where an Hercules Graphics Card monochrome video card was plugged in. This also meant that using this card, would require to plug the monitor into the new video card, bypassing the onboard graphical card. This expansion card made it possible to run all DOS programs (including popular games at that time).
Operating system versions
Known operating systems adapted for the Philips :YES include:
DOS Plus 1.? in ROM (with BDOS 4.1). The BDOS in ROM does not implement the S_OSVER call, which would have returned the version number to display.
DOS Plus 1.1 on disk (with BDOS 4.1)
DOS Plus 1.2 on disk (with BDOS 4.1)
DOS Plus 2.1 on disk (with BDOS 5.0)
Concurrent DOS
MS-DOS 2.??
MS-DOS 3.10
See also
Rodime (manufacturer of internal hard disk)
MSX-DOS
References
Personal computers
Philips products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPX | GPX may refer to:
Science and technology
Glutathione peroxidase (GPx), an enzyme family
GPS Exchange Format (GPX), for GPS data (released 2002)
Kawasaki Ninja GPX-250R, a motorcycle model (released 1986)
Other uses
Gautampura Road railway station, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India
GP Strategies Corporation, an American consulting firm (NYSE ticker:GPX) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samp%20%28disambiguation%29 | Samp is dried and partially broken maize kernels.
Samp or SAMP may also refer to:
Samp (surname)
Security Attribute Modulation Protocol, a network protocol
An open source software stack comparable to LAMP (software bundle)
An element in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
The Samps, US rock band
San Andreas Multi-Player, a MMOG mod for the PC version of Rockstar Games's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
U.C. Sampdoria, an Italian association football club based in Genoa
(S)-1-amino-2-methoxymethylpyrrolidine, a chiral auxiliary used in the Enders SAMP/RAMP hydrazone-alkylation reaction
South Asian Microform Project, a program under the Center for Research Libraries
Samp., taxonomic author abbreviation of Gonçalo Sampaio (1865–1937), Portuguese botanist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly%27s%20Heroes | Holly's Heroes is a children's drama series produced as a collaboration between the Nine Network in Australia and TVNZ in New Zealand. It was produced as a series of 26 episodes and first screened in 2005.
Plot summary
Holly McKenzie is a 14-year-old New Zealander who moves to the Australian seaside town of Woolich with her family. When her dreams of playing basketball with the local team the "Rams" are quickly shattered, Holly is determined to prove her ability by forming her own team, the "Outlaws".
Cast
Dominique Crawford as Holly McKenzie
Kane McNay as Nick Fraser
Greta Larkins as Jacinta Peterson
Jared Daperis as Ralph Owen
Michael Harrison as Johnno Walsh
Jessie Jacobs as Emily Walsh
Ben Schumann as Franco Galluzo
John Williams as Parker
Nicholas Colla as Joel Peterson
Virginia Ryan as Patricia “Trish” Jenkins
Stephany Avila as Eleanor 'Scubi' Scubinski
David Roberts as Alan Peterson
Kirk Torrance as Tony McKenzie
Michele Amas as Kate McKenzie
Alan Hopgood as Max Peterson
Dwayne Abeyesekera as Singh
Anna Gelling as Monique
Naomi Davis as Flower
Pamela Rabe as Mrs Racacelli
Virginia Wickham as Sandy
Thomas Blackbule as Mitch
Carolyn Bock as Mayor
Anne Cordineras Doctor Murphy
Anna McCrossin-Owen as Judy
Daniel Bernard as M.Pizza
Nicholas Bell as Mr. Craword
Paris Dagres as Briana
Taneora Herbert-Kaiwai as Watene
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Holly's Heroes at IMDb
Holly's Heroes at Australian Television
Holly's Heroes at ninemsn
2005 Australian television series debuts
2005 New Zealand television series debuts
2005 New Zealand television series endings
2005 Australian television series endings
Australian children's television series
New Zealand children's television series
Nine Network original programming
TVNZ 2 original programming
Television series about teenagers
Television shows funded by NZ on Air |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim%20Bremermann | Hans-Joachim Bremermann (1926–1996) was a German-American mathematician and biophysicist. He worked on computer science and evolution, introducing ideas of how mating generates new gene combinations. Bremermann's limit, named after him, is the maximum computational speed of a self-contained system in the material universe.
Early life
Bremermann was born in Bremen, Germany, to Bernard Bremermann and Berta Wicke.
Bremermann undertook doctoral studies at the University of Münster, completing his Staatsexamen in mathematics and physics in 1951. In the same year, his doctoral dissertation Die Charakterisierung von Regularitätsgebieten durch pseudokonvexe Funktionen was published, in which he solved a special case of the Levi problem. He was to become a specialist in complex analysis.
Career
Bremermann came to the United States in 1952 and held a research associate position at Stanford University. In 1953, he was appointed a research fellow at Harvard University. He returned to Münster for 1954–55.
After returning to the United States, he was a mathematics researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1955–57), and then appointed assistant professor at the University of Washington, Seattle (1957–58). He then spent another year researching at Princeton (1958–59), this time in physics.
In 1959, he became an associate professor of mathematics at University of California, Berkeley, where he remained for the rest of his career, being promoted to full professor in 1966. He held chairs at Berkeley in mathematics and biophysics. By the 1960s, his work had turned towards the theory of computation and evolutionary biology, in which he studied complexity theory, genetic search algorithms, and pattern recognition.
In 1978 he gave the "What Physicists Do" series of lectures at Sonoma State University, discussing physical limitations to mathematical understanding of physical and biological systems. He continued work in mathematical biology through the 1980s, developing mathematical models of parasites and disease, neural networks, and AIDS epidemiology and pathology. He retired from the University of California in 1991.
Personal life
On 16 May 1954, Bremermann married Maria Isabel Lopez Perez-Ojeda, a scholar of romance language and literature.
Legacy
R.W. Anderson writes:[Bremermann] continued to develop mathematical modelling as a tool to understanding complex (especially biological) systems for the rest of his life. His intellectual journey was marked by brilliant insight and foresight. [...] Hans Bremermann is not only remembered for his genius but also for his warmth, generosity, courage, integrity, humility, and love.In 1995, a festschrift was published with a brief biography and 13 scientific papers of his former students and colleagues in a special issue of BioSystems.
See also
Bremermann's limit
Transcomputational problem
References
External links
"Hans Joachim Bremermann" at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
The UC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Hofstee | Harm Peter Hofstee (born 1962) is a Dutch physicist and computer scientist who currently is a distinguished research staff member at IBM Austin, USA, and a part-time professor in Big Data Systems at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
Heterogeneous computing
Hofstee is best known for his contributions to Heterogeneous computing as the chief architect of the Synergistic Processor Elements in the Cell Broadband Engine processor used in the Sony PlayStation 3, and the first supercomputer to reach sustained Petaflop operation. After returning to IBM research in 2011 he has focused on optimizing the system roadmap for big data, analytics, and cloud, including the use of accelerated compute. His early research work on coherently attached reconfigurable acceleration on POWER7 paved the way for the new coherent attach processor interface on POWER8. Hofstee is an IBM Master Inventor with more than 100 issued patents.
Background
Hofstee was born in Groningen and obtained his master's degree in theoretical physics of the University of Groningen in 1988. He continued to study at the California Institute of Technology where he wrote a master's thesis Constructing Some Distributed Programs in 1991 and obtained a Ph.D. with a thesis titled Synchronizing Processes in 1995. He joined Caltech as a lecturer for two years and moved to IBM in the Austin, Texas Research Laboratory, where he had staff member, senior technical staff member and distinguished engineer positions.
Previous Positions
1994 - 1996
Lecturer (Member of the Faculty) at California Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department
1996 - 2001
Research Staff Member at IBM Austin Research Laboratory
2001 - 2006
Senior Technical Staff Member, Cell SPE Chief Architect at IBM Microelectronics Division / IBM Systems and Technology Group
2006 - 2010
Distinguished Engineer, Cell/B.E. Chief Scientist at IBM Systems and Technology Group
Current positions
2010–Present
Distinguished Research Staff Member, Workload-Optimized and Hybrid Systems at IBM Austin Research Laboratory
2014–Present (part-time)
Professor, Big Data Systems at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Since 2011, Peter is leading the Big Data system design work at IBM. In March 2016, Peter was appointed as professor to the chair of Big Data Computer Systems at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at Delft University of Technology.
Awards
IBM Corporate Award
For Cell Broadband Engine, 2006
IBM Research Division Group Award
For Zebra/Ivy Grant Program Initiation, Jan. 2004 ( precursor to Roadrunner )
IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award
In appreciation for the world's first 1-GHz PowerPC Microprocessor, Feb. 1998
20th Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching,
The Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology, 1995-96
Two IBM Graduate Fellowships (while at California Institute of Technology)
1991-1993
Memberships/Honors
IBM Master Inventor
Member, IBM Acad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20Hot%20100%20number-one%20singles%20of%202008 | The Canadian Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of Canada. Published by Billboard magazine, its data are similar to Billboard U.S.-based Hot 100 in that it compiles Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay. Canada's airplay chart is compiled with information collected from monitoring more than 100 stations that represent rock, country, adult contemporary and contemporary hit radio genres. The online version of the chart features the Canadian flag next to tracks that qualify as Canadian content.
In 2008, 11 singles topped the chart. Although 12 singles claimed the top spot in 52 issues of the magazine, Timbaland's "Apologize" featuring OneRepublic began its peak position in late 2007, and is thus excluded. Katy Perry and Lady Gaga each earned two number-one singles as a lead artist. Two number-one singles tied for the longest-running chart-topping single of 2008, for nine weeks: Madonna's "4 Minutes" featuring Justin Timberlake and Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl", although the former had a non-consecutive run. Other chart-topping singles from 2008 include Flo Rida's "Low" featuring T-Pain, which stayed at number one for eight straight weeks. Rihanna's "Take a Bow" is noted for its jump from seventieth to first place on the Canadian Hot 100, which was the largest upward movement to number one at the time.
Chart history
See also
2008 in music
List of number-one singles (Canada)
References
Canada Hot 100
2008
2008 in Canadian music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Seed%20Conservation%20and%20Research | Australian Seed Conservation and Research (AuSCaR) is an Australian network of agencies involved in the collection, storage, research and sustainable use of seeds for native plant conservation. It is a member of the Kew-based Millennium Seed Bank Partnership. It was established in 2007 to assist with seed-banking and ex-situ plant conservation of the Australian flora. The aim of the network is focused particularly on achieving Target 8 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation by 2010: "60% of threatened plant species in assessable ex-situ collections, preferably in the country of origin, and 10% of them included in recovery and restoration programs".
References
External links
AuSCaR
Israel Gene Bank
Australian Native Seeds
Conservation in Australia
2007 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUSCAR | AUSCAR may refer to:
Australian Seed Conservation and Research, an Australian network of agencies involved in native plant conservation
Australian Stock Car Auto Racing, an auto racing sanctioning body |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ttn | ttn (the total news) was a 30 minute weekly Australian news program aimed at school-aged (9- to 14-year-old) children produced and broadcast by Network Ten from 2004 to 2008. It presented current issues and events in a way that could be understood and further explored by its intended viewers.
ttn premiered on 3 February 2004. It was created in the wake of an outcry against the cancellation of Behind the News, a long running ABC TV program similar in objective to ttn that was axed for a time due to budget cuts. ttn itself was axed in December 2008 after five years on air following budgetary constraints.
ttn aired every Tuesday each week during the school year. Episodes were supplemented by features and activities printed weekly in News Limited newspapers.
See also
List of Australian television series
References
Network 10 original programming
Australian children's television series
Australian television news shows
2000s Australian television series
2004 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Brisbane
Children's news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy%20Systems%20%28disambiguation%29 | Daisy Systems is a computer-aided engineering company.
Daisy Systems is also the name of:
Daisy Systems GmbH, a German subsidiary of Daisy Systems
Daisy Systems Holland, a Dutch printer company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitan%20Television | Cosmopolitan Television is a television network brand that targets a young female demographic consisting of acquired scripted television series, films, lifestyle series and more. The network's name is licensed from the Hearst Communications magazine title Cosmopolitan.
Cosmopolitan Television channels around the world
References
Hearst Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPTN | OPTN may refer to:
Optineurin
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, operated by the United Network for Organ Sharing, which facilitates organ transplantation in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shomoyer%20Kotha | Shomoyer Kotha (), which translates to Talk of the Time, is a talk show on Bangladesh Television, the state-owned television network in Bangladesh. The programme is planned and hosted by Syed Munir Khasru, a faculty member of Institute of Business Administration, Dhaka University and is directed by Abdun Noor Tushar. The show debuted on June 22, 2007, with the airing of an interview of former US Ambassador to Bangladesh - Patricia Butenis. The very first program drew media attention when Butenis jokingly commented that Bangladeshis sometimes tend to be conspiratorial.
The show airs at 09:10 pm on Fridays; which may be considered the weekend prime time slot as Bangladesh observes weekend on Friday-Saturday. Although a new program, Shomoyer Kotha has received critical acclaims for its attractive and aesthetic set design, quality substance, creative format, and rich information content. Individual episodes of Shomoyer Kotha usually feature selected issues or events of national significance, e.g., electoral and political reform, anti-corruption drive, price hike of essentials and so on. The program occasionally focuses on entertainment oriented topics like new trends in Bengali music, cricket etc.
Shomoyer Kotha begins with some background information on the selected topic presented through a slide show which helps the audience to follow the discussion. At the end of the programme, the major inferences of the discussions are highlighted. The programme has so far interviewed Patricia Butenis, Anwar Chowdhury (British High Commissioner to Bangladesh), country heads of International Monetary Fund and Asian Development Bank and several other prominent personalities. The discussions in the program are in either English or Bengali depending on the preference of the interviewee. The English discussions in the programme are supplemented with Bengali subtitles.
References
External links
2007 Bangladeshi television series debuts
2008 Bangladeshi television series endings
2000s Bangladeshi television series
2010s Bangladeshi television series
Bangladeshi television talk shows
Bengali-language television programming in Bangladesh
Bangladesh Television original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%C3%B3 | Alió is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Camp, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Camp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabra%20del%20Camp | Cabra del Camp () is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Camp, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Camp
Populated places in Alt Camp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figuerola%20del%20Camp | Figuerola del Camp is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Camp, province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Camp
Populated places in Alt Camp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Mas%C3%B3 | La Masó is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Camp, province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
Activities include an oil refinery.
References
External links
Official website
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Camp
Populated places in Alt Camp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Mil%C3%A0 | El Milà is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Camp, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Camp
Populated places in Alt Camp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Pont%20d%27Armentera | El Pont d'Armentera is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Camp, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Camp
Populated places in Alt Camp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puigpelat | Puigpelat is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Camp, province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Camp
Populated places in Alt Camp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodony%C3%A0 | Rodonyà is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Camp, province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Camp
Populated places in Alt Camp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vila-rodona | Vila-rodona (, ) is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Camp, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Camp
Populated places in Alt Camp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilabella | Vilabella is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Camp, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Camp
Populated places in Alt Camp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agullana | Agullana is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Empordà
Populated places in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany%C3%A0 | Albanyà is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Empordà
Populated places in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Armentera | L'Armentera is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain, on the coastline of the Costa Brava.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avinyonet%20de%20Puigvent%C3%B3s | Avinyonet de Puigventós is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borrass%C3%A0 | Borrassà is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A0scara | Bàscara is a small town and municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabanelles | Cabanelles is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The municipality includes a small exclave to the south-east.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistella | Cistella is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espolla | Espolla is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
Climate
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Far%20d%27Empord%C3%A0 | El Far d'Empordà () is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
See also
Molí de la Torre, farmhouse in El Far d'Empordà
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forti%C3%A0 | Fortià is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
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Municipalities in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garriguella | Garriguella is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrig%C3%A0s | Garrigàs is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llers | Llers is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
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Populated places in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masarac | Masarac is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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Municipalities in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navata | Navata is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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