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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briefcase%20%28disambiguation%29 | A briefcase is a case for carrying documents. The term may also refer to:
In computing:
Briefcase (Microsoft Windows)
Yahoo! Briefcase, formerly a free file hosting service by Yahoo!
Briefcase, a virtual file system used in DOS Navigator orthodox file manager
Briefcase, a term used in horse training to describe the act of getting the horse used to a bridle
Nuclear briefcase, portable equipment to facilitate a leader of a nuclear weapons state ordering use of nuclear weapons, sometimes carried within a specialized briefcase
The Briefcase, a CBS reality television series
The Briefcase (Australia), a Channel Nine reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLOP | GLOP (the Google Linear Optimization Package) is Google's open source linear programming solver, created by Google's Operations Research Team. It is written in C++ and was released to the public as part of Google's OR-Tools software suite in 2014.
GLOP uses a revised primal-dual simplex algorithm optimized for sparse matrices. It uses Markowitz pivoting to reduce matrix fill-in, steepest-edge pricing to avoid degenerate pivots, and an LU decomposition tailored for sparse matrices.
Inside Google, GLOP is used to stabilize YouTube videos and outside Google, it has been used to perform fast linear relaxations for reinforcement learning.
References
External links
GLOP home page
GLOP source code
Linear programming
Google software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Norrk%C3%B6ping | The Norrköping tramway network () is a system of trams forming a principal part of the public transport services in Norrköping, Sweden. It has been in service since 1904, and is, along with the larger Gothenburg tram network, one of only two city-centre tramways in Sweden that survived the switch to right-hand traffic in 1967, which led to the replacement of most Swedish tramways with buses to reduce the cost of replacing their now-unusable fleets.
Routes
Since 1966, there are two routes in the system. Line 2 runs from Fridvalla in the north to Ringdansen in the south along Östra Promenaden in the city centre. Line 3 runs between Vidablick in the north and Klockaretorpet in the south-west via Drottninggatan in the city centre. Both lines stop at the Norrköping Central Station (Resecentrum) where they provide interchange with the national railway network. Interchange with intracity, intercity and suburban bus routes are provided at mainly Resecentrum and Söder tull.
Until 1958, a separate Line 1 trafficked the city centre as a loop, using the stretch of tracks in Kungsgatan (that was since removed in 1961). There is a modern heritage tram Line 1, trafficked with heritage trams from the tram museum in Norrköping, but it operates only seasonally (i.e. summers-only).
, Line 2 has been extended to Ringdansen. Until 2006, the Line ended in Klingsberg. In the early 21st century, work began to extend the Line to Ringdansen, some south of Klingsberg. The first part of the extension, to Ljura, opened in 2006 – this stage was only some 350 meters long. This section leaves the Klingsberg track at the Albrektsvägen stop, which means that Klingsberg lost its tram service. Work on the second stage started in 2009, and on October 21, 2010 some of new tramway opened, from Ljura to Trumpetaregatan in Hageby. The third section, from Trumpetaregatan to Ringdansen, was inaugurated exactly one year later, October 21, 2011.
Operations
The Norrköping tramway is a standard-gauge electrically powered system, operated by Transdev on behalf of the regional transport authority, ÖstgötaTrafiken. The infrastructure and the tramcars are, however, property of Norrköping Municipality. It has track loops at the end of the lines and at various other points to allow turnbacks, as older trams were uni-directional. Today most trams are bi-directional but they are operated as uni-directional. The tram depot is located off Östra Promenaden, between the Djäkneparksskolan and Centralbadet stops.
Rolling stock
Norrköping’s fleet includes ten Duewag (designation M97) trams and 16 Bombardier Flexity Classic (designation M06).
Formerly in service were the single ex-Bremen and the three ex-Munich Type GT6N prototypes, which were withdrawn from service in 2015 after the catenary voltage was raised from 600 to 750 volts. The ex-Bremen tram (the world's first modern low floor tram) was returned to the north-german city for preservation.
As a stop gap measure six Tatra T6A2D were bought |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah%20Winfrey%20Network | Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) is an American multinational basic cable television network which launched on January 1, 2011, effectively replacing the Discovery Health Channel. The OWN (also known as the “OWN Network”) is a joint venture between Warner Bros. Discovery and Harpo Studios, conceptualized largely by popular talkshow host, Oprah Winfrey—the name of Harpo Studios is Winfrey’s first name, spelled backwards.
The network is spearheaded by television personality (and namesake) Oprah Winfrey and features entertainment, self-help and lifestyle specials aimed at not only African American audiences but female viewers, in general. As well as featuring various programs surrounding celebrities, self-awareness, therapy, and spirituality, the OWN network also airs reruns of talkshow programming from the Harpo Studios library, such as archived episodes of The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986-2011).
Initially a 50/50 joint venture, Discovery acquired a larger stake in the network in 2017 and again in December 2020, when Discovery increased its ownership in OWN from 73% to 95%. Harpo remains a "significant" minority stakeholder, and Winfrey is contracted with the channel through (at least) 2025.
As of February 2015, OWN is available to approximately 81.9 million pay television households (70.3% of households with television) in the United States.
History
Development
After becoming Discovery Communications' new CEO in 2007, David Zaslav found Discovery Health to be underperforming along with its other digital cable networks launched in the last decade, and taking in significantly lower carriage fees in comparison to the company's namesake, Discovery Channel. As a result, he began to explore the possibility of re-launching the channel as a joint venture with another partner. Zaslav's wife was an avid reader of Oprah Winfrey's O magazine (a joint venture with Hearst Corporation); believing that her values could serve as the basis for a cable network, he contacted Winfrey's agents to hold a meeting in April 2007. On January 15, 2008, Discovery Communications officially announced that it had entered into a joint venture with Winfrey's studio Harpo Productions, under which it would re-launch Discovery Health as "OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network", in the second half of 2009.
Winfrey would serve as the chairwoman of the channel, which was expected to deal in factual programming oriented towards her personal philosophy of "living your best life"; this would include topics such as health, love, parenting, and spirituality. Discovery provided $100 million in funding, and Harpo provided access to its library and Winfrey's website, Oprah.com. As it was still under contract with CBS Television Distribution through May 2011, her existing syndicated talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show was not expected to air on OWN, but there was a possibility that a spiritual continuation or successor to the program could air on OWN in the future.
Winfrey and her long-time partner Stedman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Disco | No Disco is RTÉ's former flagship music television programme, broadcast on Irish television channel, Network 2, from 1993 – 2003. It was presented by Donal Dineen, Uaneen Fitzsimons and, following the death of Fitzsimons, Lawrence "Leagues" O'Toole. When Fitzsimons died in a car crash in November 2000, there was a gap in programming for some months afterwards, until the series returned with O'Toole as presenter on 28 February 2001. Musicians and bands such as David Gray, The Frames, David Kitt and The Divine Comedy attribute a large portion of their success to exposure on No Disco, and these were among the thousands who lent their support to a campaign to have the show retained by RTÉ. However, the show was cancelled in 2003, in a move that caused much controversy among its viewers – at the time it was the only RTÉ show showcasing alternative music and there was no replacement show lined up to take its place. There was a repeat of this situation in December 2008 when TV 3 purchased Channel 6 and dropped Night Shift. In recent years The Last Broadcast, Other Voices, and (When) Under Ether have acted as some form of replacements for the gap that has emerged but none with the same success.
Cancellation
No Disco was suddenly cancelled by Network 2 in 2003. Thousands of people signed an online petition demanding the show be reinstated - the petition had 2,000 signatures within a week and 4,000 signatures by April of that year. Many of the signatures of support were from industry professionals, radio stations, record companies, record shops and promotion companies. Music experts within the national media, such as Tom Dunne (of Today FM at the time), Dave Fanning (2FM), Tony Clayton-Lea (The Irish Times), Jay Ahern (2FM, Vital Distribution) and Kim Porcelli (Hot Press) spoke about the central role No Disco had in bringing about significant improvements to the Irish music industry.
References
External links
Interview with Uaneen Fitzsimons
1990s in Irish music
2000s in Irish music
Irish music television shows
RTÉ original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Celtics%20Radio%20Network | The Boston Celtics Radio Network is a radio network that broadcasts Boston Celtics basketball games with a flagship station of WBZ-FM (98.5). Carried in 5 of the 6 New England states, the network has 27 stations (17 on AM, 10 on FM).
From 2005 until 2013, Celtics games had been carried on Entercom-owned stations WRKO and WEEI. That partnership ended in August 2013. In September 2013, the Celtics announced that they had signed a multi-year deal with CBS Radio to broadcast games on their network. CBS Radio and Entercom merged in 2017.
Radio Network (26 stations + 2 FM translators)
Flagships (1 station)
98.5 WBZ-FM: Boston
Affiliates (25 stations + 2 FM translators)
Maine (6 stations)
92.9 WEZQ: Bangor Boston Bruins primary affiliate
96.3 WJJB-FM: Gray
1310 WLOB: Portland
95.9 WPEI: Saco
95.5 WPPI: Topsham
1440 WRED: Westbrook
Massachusetts (7 stations + 1 FM translator)
105.5 WWEI: Easthampton
1400 WHTB: Fall River (if there is a conflict on WSAR)
1480 WSAR: Fall River
1280 WPKZ: Fitchburg
105.3/W287BT: Fitchburg (rebroadcasts WPKZ)
1230 WNAW: North Adams Boston Bruins primary affiliate
95.1 WXTK: West Yarmouth Boston Bruins primary affiliate
1440 WVEI: Worcester
New Hampshire (8 stations + 1 FM translator)
1230 WTSV: Claremont Boston Bruins primary affiliate
1450 WKXL: Concord
103.9/W280EC: Concord
1270 WTSN: Dover
1400 WTSL: Hanover Boston Bruins primary affiliate
1250 WGAM: Manchester
101.5 WWLK-FM: Meredith Boston Bruins primary affiliate
900 WGHM: Nashua
93.5 WEEY: Swanzey Boston Bruins primary affiliate
New York (2 stations)
101.3 WCPV: Essex
960 WEAV: Plattsburgh
Rhode Island (2 stations)
790 WPRV: Providence (2018-)
1240 WOON: Woonsocket (2009, 2014-)
Former stations (20 stations + 1 FM translator)
Former flagships (7 stations)
680 WRKO: Boston, Massachusetts (1981-1991, 1995–1996, 2005–2007)
590 WEEI Boston, Massachusetts (1991-1995)
850 WHDH: Boston, Massachusetts (co-flagship, 1952–1969)
850 WEEI: Boston, Massachusetts (2007-2013)
1510 WWZN: Boston, Massachusetts (2001-2005)
93.7 WEEI-FM: Lawrence, Massachusetts (2011-2013)
94.5 WHDH-FM: Boston, Massachusetts (co-flagship, 1952–1969; sometimes carried Celtics games alone when WHDH was carrying a game of the Boston Bruins hockey club))
Former affiliates (16 stations + 1 FM translator)
620 WZON: Bangor, Maine
1280 WFAU: Gardiner, Maine
1450 WVOM: Rockland, Maine
1440 WRED: Westbrook, Maine
1320 WARA: Attleboro, Massachusetts (1990-1991, 2005–2006 season (as WARL))
104.9 WBOQ: Gloucester, Massachusetts
1420 WBSM: New Bedford, Massachusetts
560 WHYN: Springfield, Massachusetts
94.9 W235AV: Tatnuck (relays WTAG)
580 WTAG: Worcester, Massachusetts
107.7 WTPL: Hillsborough
1420 WASR: Wolfeboro, New Hampshire
920 WHJJ: Providence, Rhode Island (2015-2018)
620 WVMT: Burlington, Vermont
1240 WSKI: Montpelier, Vermont
96.1/WDEV-FM: Warren, Vermont
550 WDEV: Waterbury, Vermont
93.9 WWOD: Woodstock, Vermont
References
External links
The Celtics Radio Network affiliates page on CBSBoston |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARToolKit | ARToolKit is an open-source computer tracking library for creation of strong augmented reality applications that overlay virtual imagery on the real world. Currently, it is maintained as an open-source project hosted on GitHub.
In order to create strong augmented reality, it uses video tracking capabilities that calculate the real camera position and orientation relative to square physical markers or natural feature markers in real time. Once the real camera position is known a virtual camera can be positioned at the same point and 3D computer graphics models drawn exactly overlaid on the real marker. So ARToolKit solves two of the key problems in Augmented Reality; viewpoint tracking and virtual object interaction.
ARToolKit was originally developed by Hirokazu Kato of Nara Institute of Science and Technology in 1999 and was released by the University of Washington HIT Lab. In 2001 ARToolWorks was incorporated, and v1.0 of the open-source version of ARToolKit was released through the HIT Lab. ARToolKit was one of the first AR SDKs for mobile, seen running first on Symbian in 2005, then iOS with the iPhone 3G in 2008, and finally Android as early as 2010 with a professional version by ARToolWorks later in 2011.
ARToolKit was acquired by DAQRI and re-released open-source starting at version 5.2 on May 13, 2015, including all of the features that were previously only available in the professional licensed version. Among these features are mobile support and natural feature tracking.
ARToolKitPlus (sometimes written "ARToolKit+") was intended to be a successor to the ARToolKit library that was optimized for mobile devices.
ARToolKit was originally written in C; ARToolKit+ was ported it to C++ to make it easier to maintain, and has a new class-based (C++) API that is intended to be easier-to-use.
Ben Vaughan and Phil Lamb, the former CEO and CTO of ARToolworks, created artoolkitX to ensure that the software is developed and maintained and the ARToolKit community continues to be supported. artoolkitX was initially supported by Realmax Inc, a Chinese AR company that develops AR hardware and software.
Features
Single-camera or stereo-camera (camera position/orientation tracking).
Tracking of simple black squares (any square marker patterns).
Tracking of planar images (natural feature markers).
Camera calibration, optical stereo calibration, square marker generation, and natural feature marker generation utilities.
Plugins for Unity and OpenSceneGraph.
Optical head-mounted display support.
Free and open source software.
Fast enough for real time AR applications.
Operating systems
The current version of ARToolKit supports Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, and Android platforms. Other versions of ARToolKit have also been ported to Symbian, and Windows Phone to support mobile AR applications.
ARToolKit is also available as a plugin for the Unity game engine for example to align a virtual camera within Unity with a real-world camera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/01%20Communique | 01 Communique is a Canadian cyber security and technology company based in Mississauga, Ontario.
History
01 Communique was founded in 1992. The company's first release was a fax program called 01 Fax. Its next release would be the COMMUNICATE! series, a program that combined fax, e-mail, voice mail, text recognition, and paging.
The company's focus switched to remote access software in the late 1990s. In 2000, the company filed for U.S. and Canadian patents related to the technologies they have invented and used in their commercial software. US Patent #6,928,479 and #6,938,076 were awarded in August 2005.
On March 8, 2000, 01 Communique began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the trading symbol ONE. The company had been previously trading on the Canadian Dealing Network.
In 2010, 01 Communique opened offices in Arlington, Virginia, to promote its newest product, including I'm InTouchMeeting, a video-conference software. In 2015, I'm InTouchMeeting was awarded the "2015 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award".
Lawsuit
In February 2006, 01 Communique launched a patent infringement lawsuit against Citrix Systems alleging infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,928,479. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division. The jury rejected 01 Communique's infringement claims, and in 2018 the Federal Circuit denied the company's appeal.
See also
BlockDos
Citations
External links
Companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange
Remote desktop
Software companies of Canada
Companies based in Mississauga
Software companies established in 1992
1992 establishments in Ontario
Canadian companies established in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedion%20%28laptop%29 | The Pedion was a subnotebook computer developed by Mitsubishi Electric with Hewlett-Packard in 1998. At thick, it was the thinnest notebook computer in the world, even thinner than the "MacBook Air" (although the Apple equivalent was 4 mm at its thinnest point), released nearly ten years later. The notebook included a Pentium 233 MMX processor, 64 MB RAM, and a 1 GB Hard disk.
The Greek word, pedion (πεδίον) means "plain", "flat", "field".
Mitsubishi ceased production and withdrew the notebook from the market due to "mechanical problems".
References
Mitsubishi Electric products, services and standards
Subnotebooks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBS%20Drama%20Awards | The KBS Drama Awards () is an awards ceremony presented by the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) for outstanding achievements in Korean dramas aired on its network. It is held annually on 31 December. The highest honor of the ceremony is the "Grand Prize" (), awarded to the best actor or actress of the year.
Categories
Grand Prize (대상), ceremony's highest honor
Top Excellence in Acting Award (최우수상)
Excellence in Acting Award (우수상)
Best Supporting Actor/Actress (조연상)
Best New Actor/Actress (신인연기상)
Best Young Actor/Actress (청소년 연기상)
Best Actor/Actress in a One-Act/Special/Short Drama (단막극집상)
PD Award, given to the best actor or actress, as determined by PDs.
Best Writer (작가상)
Special Award (특별상)
Achievement Award (공로상)
Popularity Award (인기상)
Netizen Award (네티즌상), given to the actor/actress with the most online votes on KBS' website.
Best Couple Award (베스트 커플상), given to the best drama couple/s as voted by the registered users of KBS website.
Grand Prize (Daesang)
Achievement Award
Top Excellence in Acting Award
Best Actor
Best Actress
Excellence in Acting Award
Best Actor in a Miniseries
Best Actress in a Miniseries
Best Actor in a Mid-length Drama
Best Actress in a Mid-length Drama
Best Actor in a Serial Drama
Best Actress in a Serial Drama
Best Actor in a Daily Drama
Best Actress in a Daily Drama
Best Actor in a One-Act/Special/Short Drama
Best Actress in a One-Act/Special/Short Drama
Best Actor in Drama Special/TV Cinema
Best Actress in Drama Special/TV Cinema
Supporting Awards
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Newcomer Awards
Best New Actor
Best New Actress
Youth Awards
Best Young Actor
Best Young Actress
PD Award
Best Writer
Popularity Awards
Popularity Award, Actor
Popularity Award, Actress
Netizen Award, Actor
Netizen Award, Actress
Best Couple Award
Special Award
Soundtrack
Best OST
Discontinued awards
Best Actor
Best Actress
Photogenic Award, Actor
Photogenic Award, Actress
PD of the Year
Viewer's Choice Drama
Congeniality Award
See also
List of Asian television awards
SBS Drama Awards
MBC Drama Awards
References
Korean Broadcasting System original programming
South Korean television awards
Awards established in 1987
Annual events in South Korea
South Korea annual television specials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20taluks%20of%20Kerala | In Kerala, the administrative divisions below the district are called taluks. There are 78 taluks with 1670 villages (including group villages).
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See also
Districts of Kerala
References
Kerala |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Haines | Eric Haines is an American software engineer and expert in computer graphics, specifically image rendering. he is with NVIDIA Corporation as Distinguished Engineer. He is a co-author of the book Real-Time Rendering, currently in its fourth edition.
Eric Haines earned an M.S. in 1986 from Cornell University. His thesis was The Light Buffer: A Ray Tracer Shadow Testing Accelerator. An image created by software based on the thesis was used on the September 1986 cover of the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications journal.
He created the Massive open online course Interactive 3D Graphics in 2013 with Udacity. As of July 2013 it had 30,000 enrolled, with 1300-1700 students active over a given week. He authored a chapter in the book An Introduction to Ray Tracing by Andrew Glassner (ed), 1989. He published a number articles in computer graphics, some of which are included in the Graphics Gems series. He also maintains the Graphics Gems code repository.
Haines was on the editorial board of the Journal of Graphics Tools until 2012, at which time he helped found the Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques. He was the editor of the online forum of experts in ray tracing, Ray Tracing News (1988-2010)
He has pursued multiple personal projects including the Minecraft world mapper and exporter called Mineways.
References
American computer programmers
Computer graphics professionals
Cornell University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTWZ | WTWZ (1120 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Clinton, Mississippi. The station is owned by Wood Broadcasting. Its format is Oldies, with religious programming every morning.
The station has been assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since April 19, 1982.
WTWZ had originally broadcast on 1150 kHz with 500 watts.
To give the station nighttime coverage, WTWZ can also be heard via translator station W273CY 102.5 FM.
WTWZ even airs vintage radio shows overnight.
In May, 2022, WTWZ made the switch to oldies. However, it still has religious programming every morning.
References
External links
TWZ
TWZ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study%20on%20Global%20Ageing%20and%20Adult%20Health | The Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) is run by the World Health Organization. An objective for SAGE is to compile comprehensive longitudinal data on the health and well-being of adult populations and the ageing process across different countries, through primary data collection, secondary data analysis and cross-study collaborations.
SAGE baseline data (Wave 0, 2002–04) was collected as part of WHO's World Health Survey (WHS). A second round of data collection (Wave 1, 2007–10) is completed, expanding the sample sizes in each participating country (China, Ghana, India, Mexico, the Russian Federation and South Africa). Wave 2 (2014/15) data collection was completed in 2015. Wave 3 has been implemented in 2017/19.
SAGE Wave 0 (2002/04)
A baseline cohort for the six participating countries was created as part of the larger World Health Survey effort and contains data on the situation of 65,964 adults aged 18 years and older, including over 20,000 persons aged 50 years and older. Samples of these respondents were followed-up as a part of SAGE Wave 1 (2007–10) data collection in four of the six SAGE countries (Ghana, India, Mexico and the Russian Federation). Meta- and micro-data are in the public domain through WHO at http://apps.who.int/healthinfo/systems/surveydata/index.php/catalog/whs.
SAGE Wave 1 (2007/10)
Weighted data for China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russian Federation and South Africa are in the public domain (see Study on global AGEing and Adult Health). SAGE's first full round of data collection included both follow-up and new respondents in four participating countries. The goal of the sampling design was to obtain a nationally representative cohort of persons aged 50 years and older, with a smaller cohort of persons aged 18 to 49 for comparison purposes. The target sample size was 5000 households with at least one person aged 50+ years and 1000 households with an 18- to 49-year-old respondent. In the older households, all persons aged 50+ years (for example, spouses and siblings) were invited to participate. Proxy respondents were identified for respondents who were unable to respond for themselves. The pooled data set will include over 43,000 respondents (see table below).
Data collected, Wave 1
Standardized SAGE survey instruments were used in all countries consisting of five main parts: 1) household questionnaire; 2) individual questionnaire; 3) proxy questionnaire; 4) verbal autopsy questionnaire; and, 5) appendices including showcards. A question by question guide (Survey Manual) is available. A VAQ was completed for deaths in the household over the last 24 months. The procedures for including country-specific adaptations to the standardized questionnaire and translations into local languages from English follow those developed by and used for the World Health Survey.
Descriptive results from SAGE Wave 1 are available through a US Census Bureau/WHO report Shades of Gray: A Cross-Country Study of Health and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendel%20Rosenblum | Mendel Rosenblum (born 1962) is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and co-founder of VMware.
Early life
Mendel Rosenblum was born in 1962. He attended the University of Virginia, where he received a degree in mathematics. While at UVA, he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.
He graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he met his future wife and co-founder of VMware, Diane Greene.
Career
Rosenblum is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. His research group developed SimOS.
Rosenblum is a co-founder of VMware. He served as its chief scientist until his resignation on September 10, 2008, shortly after his wife Diane Greene stepped down as the company's CEO.
Since 2008, Rosenblum is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to reinventing virtual machines", and had previously received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2002).
In 2009, he was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for fundamental contributions to computer operating systems and virtual machines.
References
Living people
1962 births
University of Virginia alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
American company founders
Businesspeople from California
20th-century American Jews
21st-century American Jews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAEX | CAEX (Computer Aided Engineering Exchange) is a neutral data format that allows storage of hierarchical object information, e.g. the hierarchical architecture of a plant. On a certain abstraction level, a plant consists of modules or components that are interconnected. CAEX allows storage of those modules or components by means of objects. Object oriented concepts such as encapsulation, classes, class libraries, instances, instance hierarchies, inheritance, relations, attributes and interfaces are explicitly supported. CAEX bases on XML and is defined as an XML schema (xsd file). The original intention of developing CAEX was to remedy industry's lack of a common and established data exchange between process engineering tools and process control engineering tools. However, CAEX can be applied to all types of static object information, e.g. plant topologies, document topologies, product topologies, petri nets. It can also be used for non-technical applications like phylogenetic trees.
Technical features
CAEX combines model-techniques with meta-model-techniques. The model-techniques allow storage of object information that is common across different vendors, e.g. objects, attributes, interfaces, hierarchies, references, libraries and classes. The meta-model-techniques allow a flexible definition of object information that is usually individual and application dependent, e.g. certain attribute names, specific classes or object catalogues. CAEX is mainly a static data format and not designed for storage of dynamic information. However, it is possible to define special classes for the description of dynamic behaviour.
History
CAEX development started in 2002 as a university project at RWTH Aachen at the chair of process control engineering (Prof. U. Epple) with the industrial support of ABB corporate research Ladenburg. In 2003, the first CAEX proposal was submitted to the German standardization committee DKE K941 (TC65, WG12). In 2004, CAEX was published as part of the DIN V 44366. After a positive international vote, CAEX was published as part of the IEC PAS 62424 in May 2005. In 2007, the next IEC standardization step was passed, and it was published as IEC 62424 CDV (Committee Draft for Voting). On 12 August 2008, the final version of IEC 62424 (Ed. 1.0) was published.
Status
CAEX is currently available as CAEX Version 3 (Version 3).
Partners
- CAEX was developed within the DKE K 941 together with major industrial partners of the process industry; Bayer, BASF, Linde, Uhde, Wacker, Intergraph, Innotec, ABB and the RWTH Aachen.
- In the manufacturing automation area, CAEX serves as top level data format for the new neutral data exchange format AutomationML driven by Daimler, Siemens, KUKA, Rockwell and ABB .
Applications
CAEX is currently applied in the areas of process engineering, process control engineering, the oil & gas industry, and manufacturing automation engineering.
The following research institutes are especially involved in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odnoklassniki | Odnoklassniki (), abbreviated as OK or OK.ru, is a social network service used mainly in Russia and former Soviet Republics. The site was launched on March 4, 2006 by Albert Popkov and is currently owned by VK.
The website currently has more than 200 million registered users and 45 million daily unique visitors. Odnoklassniki also currently has an Alexa Internet traffic ranking of 56 worldwide and 7 for Russia. Odnoklassniki is the second most popular social network in Russia, behind VK (VKontakte) but ahead of Facebook, which is in 3rd place.
History
Odnoklassniki was launched on March 26, 2006 by Albert Popkov, a telecommunications professional residing in London. Having previously been involved in similar projects in other European countries, Popkov initially developed Odnoklassniki as a hobby project from March to November 2006. During this period, it was only mentioned commercially within a friendly advertising agency as an advertising platform.
However, due to a significant increase in userbase, Popkov established a separate legal entity for the service. By July 2007, Odnoklassniki had grown its audience to 4 million users. In February 2008, a British company called I-CD accused Popkov of Copyright infringement, alleging that he used proprietary information from his previous employment to create a site similar to Passado, a project 192.com he worked on until his resignation in November 2005. Popkov denied these allegations, but was eventually dismissed as managing director of Odnoklassniki. in November 2009, after the first day of trial in the Royal Courts of Justice, I-CD dropped all charges against Albert Popkov and Odnoklassniki after Albert Popkov and Odnoklassniki agreed to pay them an undisclosed amount in settlement.
In September 2008, Popkov sold a controlling interest in Odnoklassniki to Digital Sky Technologies (DST), the owner of Mail.ru. DST and its subsidiary Forticom acquired a 58% stake in the network. Paid registration was introduced in Odnoklassniki in 2008, but this led to a decline in popularity as users began migrating to the main competitor, VKontakte. As a result, Odnoklassniki discontinued user registration fees in August 2009, reverting to a free model.
As of a certain undisclosed date, Odnoklassniki had more than 45 million registered users, with 56% of the audience consisting of users aged 25–44. It was ranked fifth in terms of monthly reach among all Russian-language resources targeting internet users aged 14–55 in July 2009, according to TNS Web Index.
Over the years, Odnoklassniki introduced various features and updates. These include the launch of a service in January 2009 that allowed users to clear their personal pages of unwanted guests, the introduction of beta testing for games in early April 2010, and the release of a beta version of video chat on December 24, 2010.
The network also added several new sections and functions, such as the ability to divide friends into groups, single authorization f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rn%20Koblitz | Jörn Koblitz (born 1961) is publisher of MetBase - the Meteorite Information Database and Bibliography of Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences and curator of the MetBase Library of Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences, located in Bremen, Germany.
He also is co-founder and managing director of microFAB Bremen GmbH, a silicon wafer foundry active in the business field of MEMS.
As a member of the Meteoritical Society since 1983, he served in the Society's Nomenclature Committee from 1997 to 2003.
Joern received the first Meteoritical Society's Service Award in 2006.
References
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110716201457/http://meteoriticalsociety.org/simple_template.cfm?code=home_awardees
1961 births
German curators
Meteorites
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20H.%20Goode%20Memorial%20Award | The Harry H. Goode Memorial Award is an IEEE Computer Society annual awards in honor of Harry H. Goode for achievements in the information processing field which are considered either a single contribution of theory, design, or technique of outstanding significance, or the accumulation of important contributions on theory or practice over an extended time period, the total of which represent an outstanding contribution.
Recipients
Recipients include:
See also
List of computer science awards
References
External links
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award - IEEE Computer Society. Info and winner list.
IEEE Computer Society Award List. Small info about the award.
Computer science awards
IEEE society and council awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee%20Allison | Aimee Allison (born 1969) is the Founder of She the People, a national network elevating the political power of women of color.
She the People
In March 2018, Allison founded She the People to activate and mobilize women of color across the country in local and national politics and launched the inaugural She the People Summit, a national gathering of women of color transforming U.S. politics. In April 2019, Allison also organized the first presidential forum focused on women of color at Texas Southern University in Houston, TX. The forum featured Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren.
In 2019, Allison also led listening sessions in battleground states to gather insights from women of color on the 2020 election.
Democracy in Color
Allison was the President of Democracy in Color, an organization that focuses on race, politics and the New American Majority and organized an event during the 2016 Democratic National Convention to highlight the strength and political vision of women of color in the Democratic Party, featuring Stacey Abrams and Nina Turner among others. She is also the host of the “Democracy in Color” podcast.
In 2017, Allison launched "Get in Formation," a national call for Black women to support Stacey Abrams in her race for governor of Georgia.
Early career
Beginning in September 2007, she was co-host of The Morning Show on Pacifica station KPFA, 94.1 FM in Berkeley, California. Allison was host of the San Francisco Bay Area Comcast NewsMakers show that aired on CNN Local Edition. Serving in the United States Army as a combat medic, Allison won an honorable discharge as a conscientious objector in the First Gulf War and was active in the peace movement. She is the co-author with David Solnit of the book Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War and Build a Better World which was published in 2007 by Seven Stories Press. She's also a contributor to 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military.
Her writings have been featured in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, Huffington Post, Essence, The Hill (newspaper), and Remezcla.
Education
Allison holds a B.A. in History from Stanford University and an M.A. in Education from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She has lived in Oakland since 1991.
Personal life
Allison was raised in Antioch, California and lives in Oakland, California.
Works
References
External links
Aimee Allison's website
American pacifists
American radio personalities
American conscientious objectors
California Greens
American anti-war activists
African-American people in California politics
American community activists
Activists from the San Francisco Bay Area
Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences alumni
Stanford Graduate School of Education alumni
Living people
1969 births
21st-century African-American politicians
21st-century American politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illustra | Illustra was a commercialized version of the Postgres object-relational database management system (DBMS) sold by Illustra Information Technologies, a company founded in 1992 and formed by Michael Stonebraker, Gary Morgenthaler and several of Michael Stonebraker's current and former students including: Wei Hong, Jeff Meredith, Michael Olson, Paula Hawthorn, Jeff Anton, Cimarron Taylor and Michael Ubell.
The technology's extensibility model centered on DataBlade modules that defined types and associated index methods, operators, and functions for purposes and data domains that included Web publishing, search and manipulation of text, and management of geospatial information. It enabled all kinds of structured and unstructured multimedia data types to be stored as true objects in existing databases, and not just as parcels of data with object wrappers a la Oracle Corp.
In 1995, NASA decided Illustra would be the right tool to store and manipulate millions of satellite photographs. The only stumbling block was the company size: with only 150 employees, Illustra didn't have the manpower or the scale to support the NASA project.
The company was sold to Informix Corporation in 1996 by $400 million in stock, 40 times revenue. Stonebraker's share was $6.5 million, and he became CTO of Informix after the merger, a position he held until September 2000. The technology was folded into the Informix 7 OnLine product line, shipped in December 1996, leading eventually to the creation of the unified Informix Universal Server (IUS) product line, or more generally, Version 9.
The entire Informix product line was sold to IBM, which continued to extend Informix, offering several editions for use under various license metrics (including two editions which are free of charge). In April 2017, IBM delegated active development and support to HCL Technologies for 15 years while keeping part of the marketing responsibilities.
References
External links
"Informix leaps to objects: Informix Universal Server promises to raise the database technology bar," by Bill Rosenblatt
Proprietary database management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltech%20101 | Caltech 101 is a data set of digital images created in September 2003 and compiled by Fei-Fei Li, Marco Andreetto, Marc 'Aurelio Ranzato and Pietro Perona at the California Institute of Technology. It is intended to facilitate Computer Vision research and techniques and is most applicable to techniques involving image recognition classification and categorization. Caltech 101 contains a total of 9,146 images, split between 101 distinct object categories (faces, watches, ants, pianos, etc.) and a background category. Provided with the images are a set of annotations describing the outlines of each image, along with a Matlab script for viewing.
Purpose
Most Computer Vision and Machine Learning algorithms function by training on example inputs. They require a large and varied set of training data to work effectively. For example, the real-time face detection method used by Paul Viola and Michael J. Jones was trained on 4,916 hand-labeled faces.
Cropping, re-sizing and hand-marking points of interest is tedious and time-consuming.
Historically, most data sets used in computer vision research have been tailored to the specific needs of the project being worked on. A large problem in comparing computer vision techniques is the fact that most groups use their own data sets. Each set may have different properties that make reported results from different methods harder to compare directly. For example, differences in image size, image quality, relative location of objects within the images and level of occlusion and clutter present can lead to varying results.
The Caltech 101 data set aims at alleviating many of these common problems.
The images are cropped and re-sized.
Many categories are represented, which suits both single and multiple class recognition algorithms.
Detailed object outlines are marked.
Available for general use, Caltech 101 acts as a common standard by which to compare different algorithms without bias due to different data sets.
However, a recent study demonstrates that tests based on uncontrolled natural images (like the Caltech 101 data set) can be seriously misleading, potentially guiding progress in the wrong direction.
Data set
Images
The Caltech 101 data set consists of a total of 9,146 images, split between 101 different object categories, as well as an additional background/clutter category.
Each object category contains between 40 and 800 images. Common and popular categories such as faces tend to have a larger number of images than others.
Each image is about 300x200 pixels. Images of oriented objects such as airplanes and motorcycles were mirrored to be left to right aligned and vertically oriented structures such as buildings were rotated to be off axis.
Annotations
A set of annotations is provided for each image. Each set of annotations contains two pieces of information: the general bounding box in which the object is located and a detailed human-specified outline enclosing the object.
A Matlab script |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation%20model | The constellation model is a probabilistic, generative model for category-level object recognition in computer vision. Like other part-based models, the constellation model attempts to represent an object class by a set of N parts under mutual geometric constraints. Because it considers the geometric relationship between different parts, the constellation model differs significantly from appearance-only, or "bag-of-words" representation models, which explicitly disregard the location of image features.
The problem of defining a generative model for object recognition is difficult. The task becomes significantly complicated by factors such as background clutter, occlusion, and variations in viewpoint, illumination, and scale. Ideally, we would like the particular representation we choose to be robust to as many of these factors as possible.
In category-level recognition, the problem is even more challenging because of the fundamental problem of intra-class variation. Even if two objects belong to the same visual category, their appearances may be significantly different. However, for structured objects such as cars, bicycles, and people, separate instances of objects from the same category are subject to similar geometric constraints. For this reason, particular parts of an object such as the headlights or tires of a car still have consistent appearances and relative positions. The Constellation Model takes advantage of this fact by explicitly modeling the relative location, relative scale, and appearance of these parts for a particular object category. Model parameters are estimated using an unsupervised learning algorithm, meaning that the visual concept of an object class can be extracted from an unlabeled set of training images, even if that set contains "junk" images or instances of objects from multiple categories. It can also account for the absence of model parts due to appearance variability, occlusion, clutter, or detector error.
History
The idea for a "parts and structure" model was originally introduced by Fischler and Elschlager in 1973. This model has since been built upon and extended in many directions. The Constellation Model, as introduced by Dr. Perona and his colleagues, was a probabilistic adaptation of this approach.
In the late '90s, Burl et al. revisited the Fischler and Elschlager model for the purpose of face recognition. In their work, Burl et al. used manual selection of constellation parts in training images to construct a statistical model for a set of detectors and the relative locations at which they should be applied. In 2000, Weber et al. made the significant step of training the model using a more unsupervised learning process, which precluded the necessity for tedious hand-labeling of parts. Their algorithm was particularly remarkable because it performed well even on cluttered and occluded image data. Fergus et al. then improved upon this model by making the learning step fully unsupervised, having both |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-shot%20learning%20%28computer%20vision%29 | One-shot learning is an object categorization problem, found mostly in computer vision. Whereas most machine learning-based object categorization algorithms require training on hundreds or thousands of examples, one-shot learning aims to classify objects from one, or only a few, examples. The term few-shot learning is also used for these problems, especially when more than one example is needed.
Motivation
The ability to learn object categories from few examples, and at a rapid pace, has been demonstrated in humans. It is estimated that a child learns almost all of the 10 ~ 30 thousand object categories in the world by age six. This is due not only to the human mind's computational power, but also to its ability to synthesize and learn new object categories from existing information about different, previously learned categories. Given two examples from two object categories: one, an unknown object composed of familiar shapes, the second, an unknown, amorphous shape; it is much easier for humans to recognize the former than the latter, suggesting that humans make use of previously learned categories when learning new ones. The key motivation for solving one-shot learning is that systems, like humans, can use knowledge about object categories to classify new objects.
Background
As with most classification schemes, one-shot learning involves three main challenges:
Representation: How should objects and categories be described?
Learning: How can such descriptions be created?
Recognition: How can a known object be filtered from enveloping clutter, irrespective of occlusion, viewpoint, and lighting?
One-shot learning differs from single object recognition and standard category recognition algorithms in its emphasis on knowledge transfer, which makes use of previously learned categories.
Model parameters: Reuses model parameters, based on the similarity between old and new categories. Categories are first learned on numerous training examples, then new categories are learned using transformations of model parameters from those initial categories or selecting relevant parameters for a classifier.
Feature sharing: Shares parts or features of objects across categories. One algorithm extracts "diagnostic information" in patches from already learned categories by maximizing the patches' mutual information, and then applies these features to the learning of a new category. A dog category, for example, may be learned in one shot from previous knowledge of horse and cow categories, because dog objects may contain similar distinguishing patches.
Contextual information: Appeals to global knowledge of the scene in which the object appears. Such global information can be used as frequency distributions in a conditional random field framework to recognize objects. Alternatively context can consider camera height and scene geometry. Algorithms of this type have two advantages. First, they learn object categories that are relatively dissimilar; and second, they |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20categorization%20from%20image%20search | In computer vision, the problem of object categorization from image search is the problem of training a classifier to recognize categories of objects, using only the images retrieved automatically with an Internet search engine. Ideally, automatic image collection would allow classifiers to be trained with nothing but the category names as input. This problem is closely related to that of content-based image retrieval (CBIR), where the goal is to return better image search results rather than training a classifier for image recognition.
Traditionally, classifiers are trained using sets of images that are labeled by hand. Collecting such a set of images is often a very time-consuming and laborious process. The use of Internet search engines to automate the process of acquiring large sets of labeled images has been described as a potential way of greatly facilitating computer vision research.
Challenges
Unrelated images
One problem with using Internet image search results as a training set for a classifier is the high percentage of unrelated images within the results. It has been estimated that, when a search engine such as Google images is queried with the name of an object category (such as airplane?, up to 85% of the returned images are unrelated to the category.
Intra-class variability
Another challenge posed by using Internet image search results as training sets for classifiers is that there is a high amount of variability within object categories, when compared with categories found in hand-labeled datasets such as Caltech 101 and Pascal. Images of objects can vary widely in a number of important factors, such as scale, pose, lighting, number of objects, and amount of occlusion.
pLSA approach
In a 2005 paper by Fergus et al., pLSA (probabilistic latent semantic analysis) and extensions of this model were applied to the problem of object categorization from image search. pLSA was originally developed for document classification, but has since been applied to computer vision. It makes the assumption that images are documents that fit the bag of words model.
Model
Just as text documents are made up of words, each of which may be repeated within the document and across documents, images can be modeled as combinations of visual words. Just as the entire set of text words are defined by a dictionary, the entire set of visual words is defined in a codeword dictionary.
pLSA divides documents into topics as well. Just as knowing the topic(s) of an article allows you to make good guesses about the kinds of words that will appear in it, the distribution of words in an image is dependent on the underlying topics. The pLSA model tells us the probability of seeing each word given the category in terms of topics :
An important assumption made in this model is that and are conditionally independent given . Given a topic, the probability of a certain word appearing as part of that topic is independent of the rest of the image.
Training this |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSCC | KSCC (channel 38) is a television station in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, affiliated with Fox and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station maintains studios on South Padre Island Drive in Corpus Christi, and its transmitter is located southeast of Robstown.
Because KSCC is a full-power television station, its signal covers the Corpus Christi metropolitan area, as well as outlying towns as far as Raymondville and George West. The coverage area is far greater than that of the market's original Fox affiliate, low-power K47DF (channel 47, now a Telemundo affiliate).
KSCC was also used to provide full-market over-the-air 16:9 widescreen standard definition digital coverage of two co-owned low-power analog stations (on its two subchannels): TBD owned-and-operated station KXPX-LP (simulcast over KSCC-DT2) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KTOV-LP (simulcast over KSCC-DT3). This ended when the low-power stations' licenses were turned in on April 3, 2018; both now operate solely as subchannels of KSCC.
History
The station began operations on January 15, 2008 as independent station KUQI; it assumed the Fox affiliation for the market on February 4, 2008, the day after Super Bowl XLII, replacing K47DF as the area's affiliate. KUQI began broadcasting Fox programming in HD by 2011. The original owner was High Maintenance Broadcasting, a company run by Deidre Gillis, Lori Hoffmann and Vanisha Mallory.
On March 15, 2012, National Communications announced it would purchase KUQI from High Maintenance Broadcasting with an intent to enter into a shared services agreement with London Broadcasting, then-owner of local ABC affiliate KIII (channel 3). On August 28, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the sale of KUQI, with plans for the station to change its call sign from KUQI to KFCC upon consummation. However, the sale to National Communications was canceled on January 11, 2013; the National/London consortium cited numerous attempts to close the deal with High Maintenance without success.
High Maintenance then declared bankruptcy in early 2013, remaining as debtor-in-possession. In late 2014, the sale of the station to Corpus 18, LLC, a partnership formed by the noteholders of debt of High Maintenance and related company GH Broadcasting, was finalized. On October 2, 2015, Corpus 18 agreed to sell KUQI, KXPX-LP (channel 14), and KTOV-LP (channel 21) to Sinclair Broadcast Group for $9.25 million. The sale was completed on January 8, 2016. The station changed its call sign to KSCC on October 11, 2017.
News programming
KSCC does not currently have a news department, but it did simulcast the 9 p.m. newscast from Fox owned-and-operated station KRIV in Houston, advertised by KUQI under the title KUQI Tonight powered by Fox 26. The simulcast ended on June 28, 2012, due to the then-planned sale of the station. Upon Sinclair's assumption of ownership, the station began to simulcast morning programming from sister Fox station KAB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger%20tree | In computer science, a finger tree is a purely functional data structure that can be used to efficiently implement other functional data structures. A finger tree gives amortized constant time access to the "fingers" (leaves) of the tree, which is where data is stored, and concatenation and splitting logarithmic time in the size of the smaller piece. It also stores in each internal node the result of applying some associative operation to its descendants. This "summary" data stored in the internal nodes can be used to provide the functionality of data structures other than trees.
Overview
Ralf Hinze and Ross Paterson state a finger tree is a functional representation of persistent sequences that can access the ends in amortized constant time. Concatenation and splitting can be done in logarithmic time in the size of the smaller piece. The structure can also be made into a general purpose data structure by defining the split operation in a general form, allowing it to act as a sequence, priority queue, search tree, or priority search queue, among other varieties of abstract data types.
A finger is a point where one can access part of a data structure; in imperative languages, this is called a pointer. In a finger tree, the fingers are structures that point to the ends of a sequence, or the leaf nodes. The fingers are added on to the original tree to allow for constant time access to fingers. In the images shown below, the fingers are the lines reaching out of the spine to the nodes.
A finger tree is composed of different layers which can be identified by the nodes along its spine. The spine of a tree can be thought of as the trunk in the same way trees have leaves and a root. Though finger trees are often shown with the spine and branches coming off the sides, there are actually two nodes on the spine at each level that have been paired to make this central spine. The prefix is on the left of the spine, while the suffix is on the right. Each of those nodes has a link to the next level of the spine until they reach the root.
The first level of the tree contains only values, the leaf nodes of the tree, and is of depth 0. The second level is of depth 1. The third is of depth 2 and so on. The closer to the root, the deeper the subtrees of the original tree (the tree before it was a finger tree) the nodes points to. In this way, working down the tree is going from the leaves to the root of the tree, which is the opposite of the typical tree data structure. To get this nice and unusual structure, we have to make sure the original tree has a uniform depth. To ensure that the depth is uniform, when declaring the node object, it must be parameterized by the type of the child. The nodes on the spine of depth 1 and above point to trees, and with this parameterization they can be represented by the nested nodes.
Transforming a tree into a finger tree
We will start this process with a balanced 2–3 tree. For the finger tree to work, all the leaf nodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSFN%20%28programming%20language%29 | WSFN (Which Stands for Nothing) is an interpreted programming language for controlling robots created by Li-Chen Wang. It was designed to be as small as possible, a "tiny" language, similar to Wang's earlier effort, Palo Alto Tiny BASIC. WSFN was first published in Dr. Dobb's Journal in September 1977.
The language consists primarily of single-letter commands to tell a robot to move in certain directions, while other commands perform tests or basic mathematical operations. These can be grouped into named macros to produce more complex programs. The original version also included code that simulated the robot as a cursor on the VDM-1 display, or graphically on a Cromemco Dazzler display. This is similar to the turtle graphics added to the Logo programming language in 1969.
Extended WSFN is an implementation created for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers written by Harry Stewart and published by the Atari Program Exchange in 1981. In addition to supporting turtle graphics, it adds a number of commands to control the graphics and sound capabilities of that platform. It was offered as a "beginner's language with emphasis on graphics".
Syntax
WSFN consists of a number of single-letter commands to control the movement of a turtle or robot. Any of these commands can be repeated by prefixing it with a number. For instance, moves the turtle Forward one step, while moves 25 steps. and make the turtle turn one unit to the Right or Left, respectively, and it can also be reset to point orth. The step sizes and turn units are defined by the robot hardware, but are set to one pixel and 45 degrees in the turtle graphics versions. Missing in the robot versions, in the computer versions returns the turtle Home in the center of the screen and Clears any previous drawing. Thus, one can draw a square with the string:
BCWHN25F2R25F2R25F2R25F
These instructions set the drawing color to Black, Clears the screen (which fills with the current color), sets the color to White, Homes the turtle, resets the turtle to point North, then draws a series of four lines 25 steps long, rotating 90 degrees to the Right between each line. The result is a white square with its lower-left corner in the center of the screen.
Lists of commands can be surrounded with parentheses to create macros. For instance, the same square can be drawn by placing the code to draw one side of the square inside the parentheses, and then calling it four times:
BCWHN4(25F2R)
Macros can be called within other macros. For instance, this code draws a series of eight squares, each offset by 45 degrees, rotating around the center of the screen:
BCWHN8(4(25F2R)R)
Macros can be assigned a name using the efine command (Extended WSFN used instead). This code defines a macro named "X" to clear the screen and reset the drawing, and another "Z" that draws a square. It then uses these to draw the same rotating square as the example above:
DX(BCWHN)
DZ4(25F2R)
X8(ZR)
WSFN has rudimentary mat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermark%20%28data%20synchronization%29 | A Watermark for data synchronization describes an object of a predefined format which provides a point of reference value for two systems/datasets attempting to establish delta/incremental synchronization; any object in the queried data source which was created, modified, or deleted after the watermark's value will be qualified as "above watermark" and should be returned to the client requesting data.
This approach allows the client to retrieve only the objects which have changed since the latest watermark, and also enables the client to resume its synchronization job from where it left off in the event of some pause or downtime.
Methodology
Watermark term is often used in Directory Synchronization software development projects. For example, products such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), and Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003/ Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager Server 2007, as well as Cisco Unified Communications Manager or Sun Microsystems IPlanet and other LDAP-based directory products are using DirSync and consequently will consume "watermark" object to provide efficient synchronization between directories. Watermark object sometimes can be referred as "cookie".
DirSync control implementation can differ from product to product, however concept of watermark will allow any product to read changes in the directory incrementally.
See also
Watermark (disambiguation)
Microsoft Active Directory
Microsoft Identity Integration Server
High-water mark (computer security)
References
"LDAP Control for Directory Synchronization" Microsoft Corporation
External links
Understanding run profiles in MIIS 2003
Microsoft Publishes Open Directory-Synchronization Interface
Understanding the Directory
LDAP Control for Directory
Data synchronization
Directory services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flektor | Flektor was a web application that allowed users the ability to create and “mashup” their own content (photos, videos, music, etc.) and share it via email, on social networking websites MySpace, Facebook, Blogger, Digg, eBay or on personal blogs. The company’s website (Flektor.com) launched on April 2, 2007 and over 40,000 people began utilizing its features just one month later. Flektor closed down in January 2009.
Flektor offered tools and widgets that included audio, video, photos, text, and approximately 100 effects, transitions and filters to be used with media. Users could create personalized slideshows, polls, postcards, and streaming video projects which the website calls "fleks." Flektor also offered Chat (used as a MySpace addon) and Movie Editor, which provided the ability to edit content and assets together. Users of Flektor could import media from websites like Photobucket and Google's YouTube, and then edit their content with the site's editing tools.
Flektor's erstwhile competitors include Slide.com (founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin), RockYou!, Yahoo’s JumpCut and Brightcove.
History
Flektor was created by Jason Rubin, Andy Gavin and former HBO executive Jason R. Kay. Both Rubin and Gavin spent most of their careers in the video game industry developing games for publishers like Electronic Arts, Universal Interactive Studios and Sony Computer Entertainment America. They founded a successful game development studio called Naughty Dog and were responsible for games such as Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter. After selling Naughty Dog to Sony, Rubin focused on a comic book series called Iron and the Maiden before teaming up again with Gavin to venture into the web industry with Flektor.
Jason Kay spent four years at Home Box Office, working as a consultant to the EVP of Business Development. They recruited former employee and then Naughty Dog Lead Programmer Scott Shumaker to lead the technology team along with Gavin. Ryan Evans joined shortly thereafter, spearheading product development.
Flektor is based in Culver City, California.
In May 2007, the company was sold to Fox Interactive Media, which is a division of News Corp., for more than $20 million. The deal coincided with Fox’s acquisition of Photobucket, an image-hosting and sharing website. Fox Interactive Media already holds possession of MySpace, IGN Entertainment, FOXSports.com, AmericanIdol.com and Rotten Tomatoes. After the acquisition, Rubin, Gavin and Kay departed, leaving the studio in the hands of Shumaker and Evans.
In the fall of 2007, Flektor partnered with its sister company, MySpace, and MTV to provide instant audience feedback via polls for the interactive MySpace/ MTV Presidential Dialogues series with presidential candidates Senator Barack Obama, Senator John McCain and John Edwards. Use of Flektor’s polling system, enabled hosts John McLaughlin and Geoffrey Garin to cater their questions towards subjects of voter-interest.
In the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule%20of%20three%20%28computer%20programming%29 | Rule of three ("Three strikes and you refactor") is a code refactoring rule of thumb to decide when similar pieces of code should be refactored to avoid duplication. It states that two instances of similar code do not require refactoring, but when similar code is used three times, it should be extracted into a new procedure. The rule was popularised by Martin Fowler in Refactoring and attributed to Don Roberts.
Duplication is considered a bad practice in programming because it makes the code harder to maintain. When the rule encoded in a replicated piece of code changes, whoever maintains the code will have to change it in all places correctly.
However, choosing an appropriate design to avoid duplication might benefit from more examples to see patterns in. Attempting premature refactoring risks selecting a wrong abstraction, which can result in worse code as new requirements emerge and will eventually need to be refactored again.
The rule implies that the cost of maintenance outweighs the cost of refactoring and potential bad design when there are three copies, and may or may not if there are only two copies.
See also
Copy-and-paste programming
Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
You aren't gonna need it
References
Computer programming folklore
Programming principles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity%20analysis | Affinity analysis falls under the umbrella term of data mining which uncovers meaningful correlations between different entities according to their co-occurrence in a data set. In almost all systems and processes, the application of affinity analysis can extract significant knowledge about the unexpected trends . In fact, affinity analysis takes advantages of studying attributes that go together which helps uncover the hidden pattens in a big data through generating association rules. Association rules mining procedure is two-fold: first, it finds all frequent attributes in a data set and, then generates association rules satisfying some predefined criteria, support and confidence, to identify the most important relationships in the frequent itemset. The first step in the process is to count the co-occurrence of attributes in the data set. Next, a subset is created called the frequent itemset. The association rules mining takes the form of if a condition or feature (A) is present then another condition or feature (B) exists. The first condition or feature (A) is called antecedent and the latter (B) is known as consequent. This process is repeated until no additional frequent itemsets are found. There are two important metrics for performing the association rules mining technique: support and confidence. Also, a priori algorithm is used to reduce the search space for the problem.
The support metric in the association rule learning algorithm is defined as the frequency of the antecedent or consequent appearing together in a data set. Moreover, confidence is expressed as the reliability of the association rules determined by the ratio of the data records containing both A and B. The minimum threshold for support and confidence are inputs to the model. Considering all the above-mentioned definitions, affinity analysis can develop rules that will predict the occurrence of an event based on the occurrence of other events. This data mining method has been explored in different fields including disease diagnosis, market basket analysis, retail industry, higher education, and financial analysis. In retail, affinity analysis is used to perform market basket analysis, in which retailers seek to understand the purchase behavior of customers. This information can then be used for purposes of cross-selling and up-selling, in addition to influencing sales promotions, loyalty programs, store design, and discount plans.
Application of affinity analysis techniques in retail
Market basket analysis might tell a retailer that customers often purchase shampoo and conditioner together, so putting both items on promotion at the same time would not create a significant increase in revenue, while a promotion involving just one of the items would likely drive sales of the other.
Market basket analysis may provide the retailer with information to understand the purchase behavior of a buyer. This information will enable the retailer to understand the buyer's needs and r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20the%20Box | In the Box was a 30-minute preschoolers' television program which aired in Australia on Network Ten at to , from Monday to Friday. It first aired on 21 December 1998, with the series ending in 2006. It was most recently hosted by Brett Annable, Tracey Fleming, Michael McKenna and Bop, their resident puppet.
The show featured varied content. However, there were certain events that would take place during each episode. These included a 'delivery', in which the hosts received a box of items to do an activity with, a visit from two different children each day, and the goodbye song. Some episodes had a particular theme such as baking or time travel.
During each episode, Michael, Brett, Tracey and Bop sang a variety of songs which appealed to the young target audience. These included Simon Says, Follow the Leader and Washy Washy.
References
External links
1998 Australian television series debuts
2006 Australian television series endings
Australian children's television series
Australian preschool education television series
Australian television series with live action and animation
Australian television shows featuring puppetry
English-language television shows
Network 10 original programming
Television shows set in Brisbane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGB%20Nielsen%20Philippine%20TV%20ratings%20controversy | A legal conflict among AGB Nielsen Philippines, GMA Network, Inc. and ABS-CBN Corporation in the Philippines for an alleged television ratings breach that occurred in Western Visayan cities of Bacolod and Iloilo, has been ongoing since the last quarter of 2007-2008.
Background
On December 20, 2007, Judge Charito Gonzales, Quezon City Regional Trial Court Br. 80 released a temporary restraining order on TV ratings surveys based on a civil case filed by ABS-CBN Corporation versus AGB Nielsen Media Research Philippines. ABS-CBN accused rival GMA Network of funding bribing operations at Bacolod, to discredit the former. The Court further ordered ABS-CBN to file comment on the plea of AGB Nielsen for the alleged gathering and dissemination of television ratings data, within five days or until December 22.
On December 21, 2007, DZMM correspondent Junrie Hidalgo reported a news story titled AGB Nielsen, umamin sa dayaan: GMA Network, tahasang itinurong nasa likod ng dayaan (AGB Nielsen admits the cheating: GMA Network fiercely accused of being responsible of the cheating) during the program Showbiz Mismo, hosted by Cristy Fermin and Jobert Sucaldito. The news story is based on an interview of AGB Nielsen's General Manager Maya Reforma regarding the alleged cheating.
In response, GMA aired a TV plug condemning the alleged biased reporting and denied the accusations of ABS-CBN. They later filed a PHP15-million civil libel suit against ABS-CBN on January 3, 2008. The respondents included Hidalgo, Fermin, Sucaldito, the station manager and news manager of DZMM and hosts, writers and executive producers of TV programs Bandila, Entertainment Live and The Buzz after the same story was aired on the mentioned programs.
On January 7, 2008, the Quezon City RTC junked ABS-CBN's suit against AGB Nielsen, saying the case was "prematurely filed" before the court. Judge Charito Gonzales's basis is the principle of mutuality of contracts, citing Article 1308 and 1196, New Civil Code of the Philippines. Also, Judge Samuel Gaerlan, QCRTC, Branch 92 issued court summons against ABS-CBN and its 15 personnel, in the P15-million damage suit by GMA Network.
On January 17, 2008, Judge Gaerlan recused himself from the case, considering that he has a cousin working in the legal department of ABS-CBN. The case was later re-raffled on January 28, 2008, and the case was eventually assigned to Judge Henri Inting of Branch 95, QCRTC. Judge Inting submitted GMA's petition for a temporary restraining order for decision.
On February 1, ABS-CBN presented two witnesses, Romie Diamanse and Francis Casumpang, saying RGMA head Mike Enriquez was said to have given the order to cheat in a meeting. Enriquez denied the charges and said that the statements were "shameless, malicious fiction delivered by tainted informers with an axe to grind." Diamanse and Casumpang were former employees of RGMA's 93.5 Campus Radio Iloilo (now Barangay FM 93.5 Iloilo). Casumpang resigned from the station af |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Duke | Steve Duke (born 1954) is an American classical and jazz saxophonist noted for his performance of contemporary classical music, particularly computer music.
Education and teaching career
Steve Duke earned both B.M. and M.M. degrees in performance at the University of North Texas. There he studied saxophone performance with Jim Riggs and Dennis F. Diemond. He studied flute with Ralph Johnson and Clare Johnson, oboe with Charles Veazey, and clarinet with Lee Gibson. He studied jazz with Joe Henderson and Joe Daley. While at North Texas, he was awarded the Phi Kappa Lambda Outstanding Soloist Award, the highest award given for classical music performance. Duke also performed in the One O'Clock Lab Band playing lead alto saxophone.
Duke joined the faculty of Northern Illinois University (NIU) in 1980 until his recent retirement in 2011. He was awarded the Presidential Research Professorship at NIU in 1999. In addition to teaching contemporary saxophone repertoire, techniques and performance, Duke also teaches using the Feldenkrais Method.
Repertoire
As a jazz saxophonist, Duke has worked with Joe Williams (jazz singer), Ella Fitzgerald, Zoot Sims, Nelson Riddle, Rosemary Clooney, and Louis Bellson among others. His first solo album "Monk by 2" featured saxophone and piano duo improvisations with Joe Pinzarrone on the music of Thelonious Monk and was released by Columbia Records in 1994.
Beginning in 1993, he focused on solo contemporary classical music and computer music works. He has premiered and/or recorded more than 20 solo works. Composers who have written solo works for Duke include Larry Austin, William O. Smith, Jan Bach, Cort Lippe, James Phelps, Luigi Ceccarelli, Elainie Lillios, Les Thimmig, Rodney Waschka II, Robert Fleisher, and David Maki.
Of particular importance are BluesAx for alto and soprano saxophones and computer music, by Larry Austin, (for which Austin was the first American composer to receive the Magistere (Magisterium) Award in the 23rd International Electroacoustic Music Competition at Bourges in 1996) and "Veiled Resonance" for soprano saxophone and live interactive electronics, by Elainie Lillios (for which Lillios received a first prize in the 36e Concours Internationale de Bourges in 2009). Saint Ambrose, an opera for soprano saxophonist/actor based on the life of Ambrose Bierce. Saint Ambrose has been widely praised and excerpts have been performed by Duke and John Sampen throughout the United States. Duke recorded Saint Ambrose for Capstone Records.
In 2005, he formed the Steve Duke Trio, which performs new jazz works.
Partial discography
"Monk by 2", New York: Sony/Columbia Records, 1994.
Works by Thelonious Monk
"The Computer in the Computer Age – VI", CDCM Computer Music Series, Volume 23, Baton Rouge: Centaur Records, 1994.
Sax Houses by James Phelps
"Cultures Electroniques/9”, Bourges, France: Serie GMEB/UNESCO/CIME, 1996.
BluesAx by Larry Austin
“Dexter Morrill: Three Concertos”, Baton Rouge: C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Access%20Network%20Television | Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV) is a public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable television service in Chicago, Illinois. The organization is funded by cable companies as part of their cable franchise agreements with the City of Chicago. The companies are also required by law to carry the network's five channels.
History
In 1983, the Chicago Access Corporation (CAC) was established by the City of Chicago as an independent nonprofit tasked with managing the public access channels in Chicago.
Channels
CAN TV operates five cable television channels in Chicago. They are available on AT&T, Comcast, RCN, and WOW:
CAN TV19: Public Affairs, entertainment, documentary and arts
CAN TV21: Live, call-in Hotline shows, community events and arts coverage
CAN TV27: 24/7 local news and information
CAN TV36: Religious and inspirational programming
CAN TV42: Interactive community bulletin board with blues and jazz from WDCB-FM
Programming
Any Chicago nonprofit or resident can submit noncommercial content to CAN TV for free, and over 10,000 new, local programs are shown on the network every year. Submitted videos include independent productions and programs made using equipment and facilities provided by CAN TV.
Groups who produce programs using CAN TV's publicly accessible studio and equipment represent a wide range of communities, including seniors, attorneys, and people with disabilities.
Chicago-based nonprofits also host live call-in shows from a dedicated studio at CAN TV. These programs are shown live on cable television in Chicago and online, with topics including youth media training, neighborhood development, and domestic violence.
CAN TV also provides unedited coverage of community events in Chicago, offering live coverage of some events on cable television and online. Past coverage includes public forums, political events like protests and hearings, and arts events.
Programs produced by CAN TV include:
Chicago Newsroom, where journalists and newsmakers analyze the week's top local stories.
Perspectivas Latinas, which highlights community organizations serving the Latino community in Chicago.
Political Forum, which gives Chicagoans a direct line to their government.
Past community-produced programs on CAN TV include:
Chic-a-go-go
JBTV
Labor Beat
SAIC's ExTV
Independent programming carried on CAN TV includes:
Free Speech TV
Illinois Channel
Training and Equipment Access
Chicago residents can choose from a wide range of classes at CAN TV to gain the skills needed to make a video. After becoming members, residents then get access to the equipment they trained to use, including digital cameras, edit suites, and a TV studio.
References
External links
cantv.org
See also
List of public-access TV stations in the United States
Educational and instructional television channels
American public access television
Chicago Public Schools
1983 establishments in Illinois
Television channels and stations established i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20target%20recognition | Automatic target recognition (ATR) is the ability for an algorithm or device to recognize targets or other objects based on data obtained from sensors.
Target recognition was initially done by using an audible representation of the received signal, where a trained operator who would decipher that sound to classify the target illuminated by the radar. While these trained operators had success, automated methods have been developed and continue to be developed that allow for more accuracy and speed in classification. ATR can be used to identify man made objects such as ground and air vehicles as well as for biological targets such as animals, humans, and vegetative clutter. This can be useful for everything from recognizing an object on a battlefield to filtering out interference caused by large flocks of birds on Doppler weather radar.
Possible military applications include a simple identification system such as an IFF transponder, and is used in other applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles. There has been more and more interest shown in using ATR for domestic applications as well. Research has been done into using ATR for border security, safety systems to identify objects or people on a subway track, automated vehicles, and many others.
Concept
History
Target recognition has existed almost as long as radar. Radar operators would identify enemy bombers and fighters through the audio representation that was received by the reflected signal (see Radar in World War II).
Target recognition was done for years by playing the baseband signal to the operator. Listening to this signal, trained radar operators can identify various pieces of information about the illuminated target, such as the type of vehicle it is, the size of the target, and can potentially even distinguish biological targets. However, there are many limitations to this approach. The operator must be trained for what each target will sound like, if the target is traveling at a high speed it may no longer be audible, and the human decision component makes the probability of error high. However, this idea of audibly representing the signal did provide a basis for automated classification of targets. Several classifications schemes that have been developed use features of the baseband signal that have been used in other audio applications such as speech recognition.
Overview
Micro-Doppler Effect
Radar determines the distance an object is away by timing how long it takes the transmitted signal to return from the target that is illuminated by this signal. When this object is not stationary, it causes a shift in frequency known as the Doppler effect. In addition to the translational motion of the entire object, an additional shift in frequency can be caused by the object vibrating or spinning. When this happens the Doppler shifted signal will become modulated. This additional Doppler effect causing the modulation of the signal is known as the micro-Doppler eff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Bethea | James A. Bethea Jr. (born January 14, 1965) is an American writer, producer and occasional performer, primarily in the field of television. As the former Head of Current Programming for UPN, he is among a handful of African Americans to head a programming department at a broadcast network. Series overseen by him at UPN include Star Trek: Voyager, Dilbert, Clueless, and Moesha. As an actor, his work has included 2008's Iron Man and the 2010 sequel, Iron Man 2.
Early life and education
Bethea was born in New York City's Harlem, the son of Constance, a social worker, and James Sr., a hospital laboratory technician. Following the Bronx High School of Science, he attended Hunter College, majoring in Film and Communications with a minor in Computer Science.
Career
Bethea began his career in 1982 while a Bronx Science student, as a cast member of the Nickelodeon series Livewire. Finding the behind-the-camera aspects of television equally appealing, he obtained work as a production assistant, first at the Children's Television Workshop, then back at Nickelodeon as a Segment Producer for the 3-hour weekly variety show Total Panic. With high school classmate Karim Miteff, Bethea co-created and produced Nick Arcade, a groundbreaking virtual reality game show whose bluescreen process received an Ultimatte Award for Technical Achievement from the National Association of Broadcasters, as well as a Cable Ace nomination. The series format was licensed and produced worldwide, including as Zona de Juego in Spain for TVE. Bethea also co-created and produced the original Slime Time Live.
In 1997, Bethea was hired by Viacom's UPN as Director of Programming and promoted shortly after to Head of Current Programming. In this capacity, he supervised the production of the network's entire primetime slate, including comedy, drama and alternative series. He also appeared as a Dungeons & Dragons' DM in high school classmate Jon Favreau's 1999 pilot Smog. Eventually, Bethea sold the network a pilot script of his own, The Gibsons and in 2000, returned to freelance producing. The script was not ordered to series.
Tapped again by Nickeodeon in 2003, Bethea developed and produced the TEENick Spin The Bottle franchise, in addition to composing its theme music. In 2005, Bethea began executive producing live television events. They include E!'s Live From the Red Carpet franchise and the 12th Critics' Choice Awards.
He is also the producer of two plays written by actor Mike O'Malley: Three Years From Thirty and Searching For Certainty.
Bethea donned a military uniform to portray an analyst for Jon Favreau in his 2008 Iron Man and its sequel, Iron Man 2; a nod to their days in high school as avid comic book fans.
Filmography
Actor
Iron Man (2008) - CAOC Analyst #4
Iron Man 2 (2010) - Security Force #1
Executive producer
Live From the Red Carpet: The 2005 Emmy Awards (2005)
E!'s Live Countdown to the Golden Globes (2006)
E!'s Live Countdown to the Academy Awards (2006)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNLK | WNLK (1350 AM; "Veritas Catholic Radio") is a radio station licensed to serve Norwalk, Connecticut. The station broadcasts brokered Christian radio programming. WNLK is owned by Veritas Catholic Network, Inc., after being sold by Cox Radio, Inc. in 2011 and initially operated by Sacred Heart via a local marketing agreement; prior to 2011, WNLK and WSTC simulcast a commercial news/talk format. On January 25, 2016, WNLK dropped its public radio simulcast with WSHU (1260 AM) and went silent, and then returned to the air on June 1, 2016, with a brokered religious format.
The station has been assigned the WNLK call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since it was first licensed.
References
External links
Mass media in Stamford, Connecticut
Radio stations established in 1948
1948 establishments in Connecticut
NLK |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Health | Discovery Health may refer to:
Discovery Fit & Health, an American cable television network dedicated to fitness and health, launched in 2011 from a merger of Discovery Health Channel and FitTV
Discovery Health Channel, a former American cable television network which was replaced in 2011 by the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and later returned as Discovery Fit & Health later that same year
Discovery Home & Health, a UK television channel formerly known as Discovery Health
Fyi (Canada), the Canadian version of America's * Fyi formerly known as Discovery Health and Twist TV
Discovery Health Medical Scheme, the largest open medical scheme in South Africa. Administered by Discovery Health (Pty) Ltd, a subsidiary of Discovery Limited. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tingari | The Tingari (Tingarri) cycle in Australian Aboriginal mythology embodies a vast network of Aboriginal Dreaming (tjukurpa) songlines that traverse the Western Desert region of Australia (Graham 2002). Locations and events associated with the Tingari cycle are frequently the subject of Aboriginal Art from the region (Perkins & Fink 2000).
Narratives and itineraries
The Tingari Men were a group of ancestral elders who − in the Dreaming − travelled over vast areas of the Western Desert, performing rituals and creating or "opening up" the country (Perkins & Fink 2000:278) They were usually accompanied by recently initiated novices to whom they provided instruction in the ritual and law of the region (Myers 1986:59-64). The adventures of the Tingari groups are enshrined in numerous song-myth cycles which provide explanations for contemporary customs in Western Desert aboriginal life (Perkins & Fink 2000:278; Berndt 1970:222-223; Berndt & Berndt 1996:266-267). Deep knowledge of Tingari business is restricted to men possessing appropriate levels of seniority in Western Desert society, but many stories have "public versions" which do not disclose secret/sacred knowledge.
In the Tingari heartland of the Gibson Desert, three major journey-lines can be discerned (Myers 1986:62). One begins west of Jupiter Well and eventually runs due east, concluding south-east of Lake Mackay; another heads south-west from near Kintore for some 200 km, and then doubles back to end at Lake Macdonald; the third runs from south to north through Docker River and Kintore. At the many sites that make up these songlines, groups of Tingari people held ceremonies, experienced adversity and had adventures, in the course of which they either created or became the physical features of the sites involved. In mythological terms, Tingari exploits often add to or modify features at pre-existing sites, or revive and extend more ancient local Dreamings (Kimber 2000:273). The oral narratives that describe these adventures stretch to thousands of verses, and provide countless topographical details that would assist nomadic bands to navigate and survive in the arid landscape (Petri 1970:263).
In Pintupi narratives, the male Tingari groups are usually followed by groups of women who may be accompanied by children. The more public women's stories usually revolve around the gathering and preparation of bush foods (Perkins & Fink 2000:281-290). However, other narratives relate to a group of powerful ancestor women – the Kanaputa (Ganabuda) or Mungamunga (Berndt 1972:208; Poirier 2005:130) – who often travelled in a Tingari ritual group (Myers 1976:188). These Tingari women were sometimes accompanied by young girls, whom they provided with ritual education (Berndt 1970:225), and were often followed by (or following) groups of Tingari men. Many of the Kukatja stories collected at Balgo relate to the Kanaputa (Berndt 1970:222; Poirier 2005:77-79).
Art
Tingari-related visual designs, such as thos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20data | Public data may refer to:
Open data
any data that inadvertently becomes public affecting information privacy
Open data
Information privacy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20network%20operators%27%20group | Internet network operators' groups (NOGs) are informal, country-based, or regional groups that exist to provide forums for Internet network operators to discuss matters of mutual interest, usually through a combination of mailing lists and annual conferences. Although these groups have no formal power, their members are typically influential members of the Internet service provider (ISP), Internet exchange point (IXP), regional Internet registry (RIR), operational security community, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) operations, Domain Name System (DNS) and root zone operations, and other network operations communities, and discussions within these groups are often influential in the overall process of ensuring the Internet remains operational, robust, secure, and stable. They also allow networking professionals and other members of the research and technical communities to update each other on their work, share news and updates, exchange best practices, discuss new technologies or protocols, teach and learn from each other, network with other members of the community, and discuss current network- and Internet-related issues and challenges.
List of Internet network operators' groups
Global Scope
GNA – Global NOG Alliance
Africa
Af-IX – African Community for IXPs
AfNOG – Africa Network Operators' Group
SAFNOG – Southern African Network Operators' Group
ZIMNOG – Zimbabwe Network Operators' Group
KZNNOG – Kwazulu Natal Network Operators' Group
AONOG – Angola Network Operators' Group
cmNOG – Cameroonian Network Operators' Group
CGNOG – Congo Network Operators' Group
ghNOG – Ghana Network Operators' Group
ngNOG – Nigerian Network Operators' Group
RWNOG – Rwanda Network Operators' Group
SnNOG - Senegal Network Operations Group
SdNOG – Sudan Network Operators' Group
tzNOG – Tanzania Network Operators' Group
SomNOG - Somalia Network Operators' Group
ugNOG - Uganda Network Operators' Group
MaliNOG – Malian Network Operators' Group
AFRINIC – African Network Information Centre
AIS (African Internet Summit) & AFRINIC Regional Meetings – AFRINIC Service Region Meetings
The Americas
Latin America and the Caribbean
CaribNOG – Caribbean Network Operators' Group
LAC-IX – Latin America & Caribbean Community for IXPs
LACNOG – Latin American & Caribbean Region Network Operators' Group
NOG Ecuador – Ecuador Network Operators' Group
ArNOG – Argentina Network Operators' Group
NOG Chile – Chile Network Operators' Group
NOG Bolivia – Bolivia Network Operators' Group
BPF – Brasil Peering Forum
Northern America
NANOG – North American Network Operators' Group
ABQNOG – Albuquerque Network Operators' Group
CHI-NOG – Chicago Network Operators' Group
NYNOG – New York Network Operators' Group
MBNOG – Manitoba Network Operators' Group
MTLNOG – Montreal Network Operators' Group
Asia and Oceania
Asia-Pacific
PacNOG – The Pacific Network Operators' Group
SANOG – South Asia Network Operators' Group
AusNOG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribute%20%28ticket%29 | Tribute is one of the older generations of ticket issuing systems introduced to ticket offices by British Rail during the mid-1990s, prior to the privatisation of the network. PC-based, it is one of several systems trialled with the aim of replacing the aging APTIS system. The original systems was developed by British Rail Business Systems, and was first installed at London St Pancras on 21 January 1994. By April 2005, around 250 terminals were in use Following privatisation, development and support was provided to the train operating companies (TOCs) by SchlumbergerSema, until they were bought by Atos in 2004.
Since the system was launched the software has undergone several major updates – release version 15 was use in ticket offices.
Today the Tribute software is owned by Atos. Development is guided by representatives from a number of TOCs, and several industry call centres. Development and systems integration work is undertaken by Atos.
References
Further reading
External links
Tribute Ltd
Atos Origin Transport Division
Fare collection systems in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20a%20Mystery%20%28TV%20series%29 | It's a Mystery is a networked Children's ITV programme which ran for five series from 12 September 1996 to 9 May 2002. It was produced by The Media Merchants Television Company Ltd for Meridian Broadcasting Ltd. In Series five, the show was retitled as Mystery and featured different presenters. It was a magazine show featuring unusual stories including about UFOs, ghosts and other difficult to explain happenings, some of which were solved while others remained unexplained.
It had three presenters for the first four series the best known was probably Neil Buchanan who presented regular arts show Art Attack between 1990 and 2007, Sophie Aldred did the first series only and Gail Porter (1997–1999) from magazine show How 2 along with Tristan Bancks, they were replaced in 2000 by Ben Jones and Shelley Blond. Steve Wilson and Shiarra Juthan presented the 2002 last series
Format
It was a programme that educated children by challenging them to solve a mystery. Usually this would involve people telling stories of mysterious occurrences that have happened to them, such as a Man in a Van driving up to a roundabout and seeing his exact duplicate across the roundabout, driving the same vehicle. Other times, the presenter would show unexplained phenomena such as ghosts in the Tower of London or the Loch Ness Monster. The presenter would then offer up possible explanations as to what might have been behind the mystery or if there is even an explanation to give. After each story, it would be given a solved or unsolved designation. At the end of each episode, a riddle would be asked for the audience to solve until the next episode (where the answer would be given).
Forty-four episodes were made, and the series regularly made the Children's Top Ten.
Presenters
The programme was originally presented by Neil Buchanan and Sophie Aldred (Series One); Neil Buchanan, Gail Porter, and Tristan Bancks (Series Two and Three); Neil Buchanan, Ben Jones and Shelley Blond (Series Four); Steve Wilson and Shiarra Juthan (Series Five).
The series used many actors over the years. These included; Jo-Anne Good (Crossroads, BBC London 94.9), Russell Hookey (Channel Report, Lookaround, ITV News Anglia, ITN News), Barry Rose (Crossroads), Mike Dyer-Ball (Casualty), and Hal Dyer (Rentaghost, On the Buses, George and Mildred).
Transmission guide
Series 1: 10 editions from 12 September 1996 – 13 November 1996
Series 2: 7 editions from 3 September 1997 – 15 October 1997
Series 3: 10 editions from 4 January 1999 – 8 March 1999
Series 4: 7 editions from 3 April 2000 – 5 June 2000
Series 5: 10 editions from 9 April 2002 – 9 May 2002
References
External links
1996 British television series debuts
2002 British television series endings
1990s British children's television series
1990s British mystery television series
2000s British children's television series
2000s British mystery television series
English-language television shows
ITV children's television shows
Television series by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoinformatics | Glycoinformatics is a field of bioinformatics that pertains to the study of carbohydrates involved in protein post-translational modification. It broadly includes (but is not restricted to) database, software, and algorithm development for the study of carbohydrate structures, glycoconjugates, enzymatic carbohydrate synthesis and degradation, as well as carbohydrate interactions. Conventional usage of the term does not currently include the treatment of carbohydrates from the better-known nutritive aspect.
Issues to consider
Even though glycosylation is the most common form of protein modification, with highly complex carbohydrate structures, the bioinformatics on glycome is still very poor.
Unlike proteins and nucleic acids which are linear, carbohydrates are often branched and extremely complex. For instance, just four sugars can be strung together to form more than 5 million different types of carbohydrates or nine different sugars may be assembled into 15 million possible four-sugar-chains.
Also, the number of simple sugars that make up glycans is more than the number of nucleotides that make up DNA or RNA. Therefore, it is more computationally expensive to evaluate their structures.
One of the main constrains in the glycoinformatics is the difficulty of representing sugars in the sequence form especially due to their branching nature. Owing to the lack of a genetic blue print, carbohydrates do not have a "fixed" sequence. Instead, the sequence is largely determined by the presence of a variety of enzymes, their kinetic differences and variations in the biosynthetic micro-environment of the cells. This increases the complexity of analysis and experimental reproducibility of the carbohydrate structure of interest. It is for this reason that carbohydrates are often considered as the "information poor" molecules.
Databases
Table of major glyco-databases.
References
Bioinformatics
Carbohydrate chemistry
Glycomics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao%20Yueqiao | Bao Yueqiao (), a distinguished computer programmer, entrepreneur, and go player. He is the co-founder and current president of Beijing OurGame Computer Technology Company Limited.
Biography
Born in 1967 in Yuyao, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, he graduated from the Mathematics Department of Zhejiang University in 1989.
After graduation, he worked during 1989-1993 as a computer programmer in the Computer Control Center, Hangzhou Rubber Factory, a state-owned enterprise.
He then went to Beijing, became the Chief Engineer in Beijing Hope Computer Company (BHCC), and served there in 1993-1998. During this period of time, he also kept his programming work in the Soft Department in the same company, and developed the PTDOS and UCDOS Chinese systems.
In 1998, he left BHCC, and founded Beijing OurGame Computer Technology Company with Jian Jin. He currently holds the president position of the company. Before January 2007, he was also the CEO of the company.
Bao further developed Beijing Globallink Computer Technology Co., Ltd.(BGCTC) and OurGame currently is a branch of BGCTC and the largest online game website or platform in China. According to a survey, it's possibly also the world's largest online game platform, mainly due to its 80 million enrolled players, 1 million formal members and half million online at the same time in the beginning of 2003.
Honors and awards
National Senior Engineer title, by the Chinese Academy of Science
The Young Scientist Award, by the Chinese Academy of Science
Top 10 IT persons in 2001 in China
References
External links
ChinaVitae, Bao's biography (English)
Introduction from OurGame.com (English)
Bao's personal blog in Sohu.com (Chinese)
Bao in the Finance Sina.com (Chinese)
Bao in the Technology Sina.com (Chinese)
1967 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Ningbo
Businesspeople from Ningbo
Zhejiang University alumni
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese computer businesspeople
Chinese Go players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDOS | LDOS may refer to:
Local density of states, a physical quantity
The ICAO code for Osijek Airport in Osijek, Croatia
Lord's Day Observance Society
The disk operating system for the TRS-80 that later replaced TRSDOS
See also
DOS (disambiguation)
LOS (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersey%20Forest | The Mersey Forest is a network of woodlands and green spaces being created across Merseyside and North Cheshire by a wide-ranging partnership of different organisations including local authorities, community groups and businesses. The Mersey Forest is the biggest of twelve community forests covering and accessible to a local population of 1.6 million people. It stretches from Sefton to the north of Liverpool and south to Northwich in Cheshire. Delamere Forest in the south of the area being the largest area of established woodland. The forest is seen as having a major role in attracting new business and tourism to the area.
In common with the other community forests, it is not a contiguous area of forest, but rather an initiative to increase forestry coverage in an area close to urban communities. An example of this at work is Griffin Wood, clearly visible from the M62 just to the south of St. Helens. This woodland was established in 2007, including Scott's Copse, planted in recognition of the work done by David Scott. It is one of the areas where trees where planted by Team Trees.
Passengers at Liverpool's John Lennon Airport are able to offset the carbon used on their flight. The money raised is matched by the airport and used by Mersey Forest to plant new trees.
The forest falls within the area of the proposed Northern Forest.
References
External links
Official website
Environment of Merseyside
Forests and woodlands of Cheshire
Cheshire West and Chester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%20control%20%28computing%29 | In computing, job control refers to the control of multiple tasks or jobs on a computer system, ensuring that they each have access to adequate resources to perform correctly, that competition for limited resources does not cause a deadlock where two or more jobs are unable to complete, resolving such situations where they do occur, and terminating jobs that, for any reason, are not performing as expected.
Job control has developed from the early days of computers where human operators were responsible for setting up, monitoring and controlling every job, to modern operating systems, which take on the bulk of the work of job control.
Even with a highly sophisticated scheduling system, some human intervention is desirable. Modern systems permit their users to stop and resume jobs, to execute them in the foreground (with the ability to interact with the user) or in the background. Unix-like systems follow this pattern.
History
It became obvious to the early computer developers that their fast machines spent most of the time idle because the single program they were executing had to wait while a slow peripheral device completed an essential operation such as reading or writing data; in modern terms, programs were I/O-bound, not compute-bound. Buffering only provided a partial solution; eventually an output buffer would occupy all available memory or an input buffer would be emptied by the program, and the system would be forced to wait for a relatively slow device to complete an operation.
A more general solution is multitasking. More than one running program, or process, is present in the computer at any given time. If a process is unable to continue, its context can be stored and the computer can start or resume the execution of another process. At first quite unsophisticated and relying on special programming techniques, multitasking soon became automated, and was usually performed by a special process called the scheduler, having the ability to interrupt and resume the execution of other processes. Typically a driver for a peripheral device suspends execution of the current process if the device is unable to complete an operation immediately, and the scheduler places the process on its queue of sleeping jobs. When the peripheral completed the operation the process is re-awakened. Similar suspension and resumption may also apply to inter-process communication, where processes have to communicate with one another in an asynchronous manner but may sometimes have to wait for a reply.
However this low-level scheduling has its drawbacks. A process that seldom needs to interact with peripherals or other processes would simply hog processor resource until it completed or was halted by manual intervention. The result, particularly for interactive systems running tasks that frequently interact with the outside world, is that the system is sluggish and slow to react in a timely manner. This problem is resolved by allocating a "timeslice" to each proc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Retrieval%20of%20Information%20on%20Scientific%20Projects | The CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) system at NIH has been replaced by the RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) query tool. CRISP was a fully searchable database of biomedical research projects funded by the U.S. government. It covers projects going back to 1972 and records name and abstract of the project, the principal investigator and the involved institution. The database is maintained by the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health.
To facilitate indexing and searching, CRISP also contains a thesaurus and controlled vocabulary for terms used in biological and medical research. Each project is assigned three keywords from the thesaurus.
All users, including the general public, can search through the CRISP interface for scientific concepts or emerging trends and techniques that are covered by federal funding. It can also be used to identify specific projects or investigators that receive, or have received, funding.
RePORT Expenditures and Results
The CRISP system has been replaced by the RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) query tool.
References
External links
CRISP database overview at NIH
Querying CRISP
CRISP Thesaurus
Public domain databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDTI | FDTI may refer to:
Functional Diffusion Tractography Imaging
The California Learning Resources Network's Free Digital Textbook Initiative; cf. open educational resources
Fault Detection Time Interval
See also
FTDI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye-Sys | Eye-Sys (pronounced like “Isis”) is a general-purpose commercial visualization application. It was developed by Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. (IDV), developers of the SpeedTree video game middleware. Eye-Sys development was partially funded by the U.S. Navy's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, and guided and administered by the Joint Warfare Analysis Center (JWAC).
Prior to commercial release, Lockheed Martin selected Eye-Sys for use in their performance of DARPA's Integrated Crisis Early Warning System (ICEWS) project. Other pre-release uses included visualizations for MIT and the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC).
Eye-Sys was released commercially in November 2007.
Overview
Eye-Sys is a Windows-based software application designed to gather data from disparate sources, manipulate that data in real-time as necessary, and use that data to drive interactive, real-time visualizations on consumer-level personal computers.
Using an extensible open architecture, Eye-Sys allows users to create interactive visualizations with data from a combination of sources such as text files, spreadsheets, databases, geographic data, real-time data from a network, and custom modeling and simulation output via a COM interface.
Other Eye-Sys features include:
Visual programming support (visualizations are built by a series of interlinked, configurable objects)
C++/.NET SDK for writing new objects.
JScript support at a global and object level.
Real-time interaction with visualizations.
Interoperability with other applications (e.g. Simulink).
Sandbox
Visualization systems in Eye-Sys are defined primarily through a visual programming area called the sandbox. The systems are driven by data imported from user-specified sources (like text files or databases) which can be manipulated by script objects and fed into display objects that render the data graphically.
Visualizations are defined through a visual program created in the sandbox by linking together nodes of various types. The four basic types of Eye-Sys nodes are:
Input Objects: Input objects are responsible for gathering data. In most cases that means pulling data in from external sources such as text files and databases.
Manipulators: Manipulators modify data that has already been imported or generated. They range from simple arithmetic expressions to complex scripts.
Display Objects: These render data-driven visualization components (e.g., 3D models, geometric primitives, ESRI shapefiles, etc.) arranged in a scene graph.
Display Systems: Display system objects manage the rendering of data and/or display objects and process user interaction.
Visualization Display & Output
Eye-Sys visualizations are displayed through its display system objects. Display systems facilitate both display and user interaction with a particular visualization, be it a 3D scene, plotter, control panel or other. There is no limit to the number of display systems that can be instantiated in Eye-S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal%20Peoples%20Television%20Network | The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN, stylized aptn) is a Canadian specialty channel. Established in 1992 and maintained by governmental funding to broadcast in Canada's northern territories, APTN acquired a national broadcast licence in 1999. It airs and produces programs made by, for and about Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States. Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, it is the first network by and for North American indigenous peoples.
History
Establishment
In 1980, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued the Therrien Committee Report. In that report, the committee concluded that northern Indigenous peoples had increasing interest in developing their own media services and that the government has a responsibility to ensure support in broadcasting of Indigenous cultures and languages. The committee recommended measures to enable northern native people to use broadcasting to support their languages and cultures.
The Canadian government created the Northern Broadcasting Policy, issued on March 10, 1983. It laid out principles to develop Northern native-produced programming. The policy included support for what was called the Northern Native Broadcast Access Program, a funded program to produce radio and/or television programs in First Peoples' languages to reflect their cultural perspectives.
Soon after the program's creation, problems were recognized in the planned program distribution via satellite. In January 1987, Canadian aboriginal and Northern broadcasters met in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to form a non-profit consortium to establish a Pan-Northern television distribution service. In 1988, the Canadian government gave the organizers $10 million to establish the network. The application for the new service, initially known as Television Northern Canada (TVNC), was approved by the CRTC in 1991. The network officially launched on over-the-air signals to the Canadian territories and far northern areas of the provinces on January 21, 1992.
National expansion and re-launch
After several years broadcasting in the territories, TVNC began lobbying the CRTC to amend their licence to allow TVNC to be broadcast nationally; they promoted the "uniqueness" and "significance" of a national Aboriginal service. On February 22, 1999, the CRTC granted TVNC a licence for a national broadcast network.
On September 1, 1999, the network also re-branded as the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). It was added to all specialty television services across Canada. APTN was the first national public television network for indigenous peoples.
Budget
In 2009, APTN had an annual budget of .
Distribution
APTN's service consists of six different feeds: two terrestrial feeds, separate national cable feeds for Eastern (Ontario and east), Western Canada (Manitoba and west), Northern Canada, as well as a national HD feed.
The terrestrial feed, the successor to the original TVNC, is available over-t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sursee-Triengen%20Railway | The Sursee-Triengen Railway () (ST) is a railway company in Switzerland. It owns a railway line of only 8.9 km between Sursee, where it connects to the SBB-CFF-FFS network, and Triengen. The line was opened on 23 November 1912 with steam traction. Unlike most other railways in Switzerland, it was never electrified but a small diesel locomotive was purchased in 1965.
The company also owns the Hinwil to Bäretswil section of the Uerikon–Bauma railway and leases the section from Bäretswil to Bauma. This line hosts limited freight services plus excursion trains of the Dampfbahn-Verein Zürcher Oberland.
Sursee–Triengen line
Steam locomotives
Traffic had started with two small steam locomotives E 2/2 1 and 2 and in 1917 a steam motor coach joined them. This unique FZm 1/2 11 had mail and baggage compartments. 1961-1963 these three vehicles reached the end of their lives and were replaced by used SBB E 3/3 "Tigerli". The first two of them (3 ex 8477 and 4 ex 8488) had soon to be replaced by two others (5 ex 8479 and 8522). 1960-64 a leased tramway-type ("Glaskasten") Ed 2/2 from VHB was in use. E 3/3 5 and 8522 were kept as replacements for the new diesel.
Sursee-Stadt Station
When the line was opened in 1912, SB built a passenger Station North of the Old town Center, called Sursee-Stadt. The Station was connected to the SBB Olten-Lucerne Railway over a wide curve through the Kleinfeld into the northern End of Sursee SBB where the Trains from Triengen terminated.
The Station Sursee-Stadt was served until the construction of the N2 to Lucerne in 1978. The motorway connection Sursee called for the construction of a Northern Ringroad Ringstrasse Nord through the Bifang. At this point the Tracks were ripped up and relocated to an even wider curve bypassing the now Built up Kleinfeld and joining the existing Tracks in the Schwyzermatt.
The Industriestrasse still follows a part of the exact curve, where the old Tracks used to lay between Sursee-SBB and Sursee-Stadt. On the Triengen Side of the Station, all remnants of the old Tracks have been removed. The Track used to lay where the Suhrentalstrasse to Geuensee now stands.
The Station Building was preserved and now functions as a Restaurant called Bahnhöfli.
Planned extension
There had been many plans and long discussions about a through going Suhre valley railway. This would have been the existing, long Aarau–Schöftland line of the Wynental and Suhrental railway (WSB), a new meter gauge line Schöftland–Triengen and a third rail in the track of the Sursee–Triengen railway, including electrification. Electric meter gauge trains would have made the journey from Aarau to Sursee. Freight traffic could have continued on standard gauge to Triengen, similar to Wohlen–Bremgarten of the BDWM. But it wasn't the time to build new secondary railways then and furthermore Triengen and Schöftland are situated in different cantons. On 25 September 1971 regular passenger traffic of the ST ended and a new bus servi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi%20Capotosti | Luigi Capotosti (February 23, 1863 – February 16, 1938) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Datary from 1933 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1926.
Biography
Luigi Capotosti was born in Monte Giberto, and studied at the seminary in Fermo before being ordained to the priesthood in 1885. He then served as private secretary to the Archbishop of Fermo (Amilcare Malagola and then Roberto Papiri), professor at the Seminary of Fermo, official of the archdiocesan curia, and canon of the metropolitan cathedral chapter.
On April 8, 1906, Capotosti was appointed Bishop of Modigliana by Pope Pius X, receiving his episcopal consecration on the following May 31 from Archbishop Carlo Castelli, OSC. He was later named Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments on June 8, 1914. As Secretary, Capotosti served as the second-highest official of that dicastery, successively under Cardinals Filippo Giustini and Michele Lega. He was promoted to Titular Archbishop of Thermae Basilicae on January 22, 1915.
Pope Pius XI created him Cardinal Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli in the consistory of June 21, 1926. After serving as papal legate to the National Eucharistic Congress in Loreto on August 30, 1930, Capotosti was appointed Pro-Apostolic Datary on July 29, 1931, rising to become full Datary on September 23, 1933. He was papal legate to the Regional Eucharistic Congress in Piacenza on July 30, 1933, and Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals from April 1, 1935 to June 15, 1936.
The Cardinal died in Rome, at age 74. He was buried in the crypt of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide at the Campo Verano cemetery before his remains were relocated to the parish church of Moresco in Ascoli Piceno.
References
External links
Catholic-Hierarchy
Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
1863 births
1938 deaths
People from the Province of Fermo
20th-century Italian cardinals
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20%28TV%20series%29 | Network is a Canadian variety television series which aired on CTV for one season during the 1962-63 television season. The show was co-hosted by Bill Brady and Denyse Ange. Live and taped segments were aired from either the studio or elsewhere in Canada.
External links
TVArchive.ca article
1962 Canadian television series debuts
1963 Canadian television series endings
CTV Television Network original programming
1960s Canadian variety television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20by%20Request | Live by Request is a television show that aired on the A&E Network from 1996 to 2004. Hosted by Mark McEwen, the show featured notable artists holding concerts where the set list would be determined by viewer phone calls.
The show was created based on an idea by Tony Bennett, who starred in its first episode on Valentine's Day 1996; during that episode, 1.5 million calls came in from viewers with requests. The show won the Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program in 1996. It also won a CableACE Award.
Johnny Mathis' appearance on the show holds the record for the most viewers watching on live television, and has been released on DVD. In November 2009, PBS broadcast a John Fogerty concert under the Live By Request series as a pledge drive event.
Some the show's performances would be released as albums of the same name by the artists, including:
Blondie
k.d. lang (2000)
Kenny Rogers
Tony Bennett (1997)
Barry Manilow (2003)
Other performers on the show, which has run on an as-appropriate basis, have included Chicago, Hall & Oates, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Eurythmics, The Bee Gees, Don Henley, Elton John, B.B. King, Lyle Lovett, John Mellencamp, Vince Gill, Santana, Gloria Estefan, Phil Collins, Michael Bolton, Neil Diamond, James Taylor, Trisha Yearwood, Reba McEntire, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Vanessa Williams.
References
External links
Episode summaries by A&E
Pop music television series
A&E (TV network) original programming
1997 American television series debuts
2004 American television series endings
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%20Symons | Melanie Symons (born 1975) is an Australian media personality, who is best known for appearing on a number of television shows on the Seven Network, most notably Saturday Disney from 1997 until 2002, and Ground Force from 2002 until 2005.
Symons began her career on Network Ten's Totally Wild in 1994 as a reporter. In 1997 she moved to the Seven Network's children's television show Saturday Disney, where she hosted for five years. In April 2002 she began presenting on the Australian version of the backyard renovation show Ground Force as the "bargain hunter". In 2003 Symons also presented her own lifestyle program Australia's Best Backyards, and co-hosted Wheel of Fortune as a fill-in for two weeks.
She hosted the first fashion segments on the Sunrise breakfast program and also appears on The Morning Show. For over ten years she has been presenter for Sydney Weekender, a local travel program that shows viewers the best places to go and things to do across New South Wales.
Television roles
Personal life
In 2016, at 40 years of age, Symons had a child with her partner Scott Craft, the younger brother of fellow Saturday Disney presenter Shelley Craft.
References
External links
Australian television personalities
Women television personalities
Australian people of Greek descent
Living people
1975 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20Presario%20R3000 | The Compaq Presario R3000 is a series of laptops designed and built by Hewlett-Packard Corporation under the Compaq Presario brand.
The computer is encased in a black and silver plastic shell, weighs about ten pounds, and has two cooling fans mounted under the keyboard. The series used Intel or AMD processors, and can be ordered with 128 MB (128 MiB) and up to 2 GB (2 GiB) of RAM (with some being reserved for graphical memory). They came with either an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000/9100 or an Nvidia GeForce Go 4 integrated graphics chip. The integrated sound card was made by Analog Devices and outputs to built-in JBL Pro speakers that sit above the keyboard.
Certain configurations included an integrated Broadcom 54G wireless networking card. Connection ports include USB, Firewire, 3.5 mm audio output, 3.5 mm audio input, S-Video output, VGA output, and parallel. One port that was special to this series (as well as other HP laptops of the time) is the expansion port for HP's Expansion Dock that allows an extra array of ports when the laptop is docked. Several optical media options were available including a standard DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive up to a DVD+RW/CD-RW drive at varying speeds.
The Compaq Presario R3000 line of laptops primarily shipped with Windows XP preinstalled, however they can also be configured with either Windows 98, Windows 2000 Professional, or Windows Me preinstalled.
References
Presario R3000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/98 | 98 may refer to:
98 (number)
Windows 98, a Microsoft operating system
Years
98 BC
AD 98
1798
1898
1998
2098
See also
Californium (atomic number), a chemical element
98 Degrees (98°), a band |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor%20grid | A sensor grid integrates wireless sensor networks with grid computing concepts to enable real-time data collection and the sharing of computational and storage resources for sensor data processing and management. It is an enabling technology for building large-scale infrastructures, integrating heterogeneous sensor, data and computational resources deployed over a wide area, to undertake complicated surveillance tasks such as environmental monitoring.
Concept and history
The concept of a sensor grid was first defined in the Discovery Net project where a distinction was made between “sensor networks” and “sensor grids”.
Briefly whereas the design of a sensor network addresses the logical and physical connectivity of the sensors, the focus of constructing a sensor grid is on the issues relating to the data management, computation management, information management and knowledge discovery management associated with the sensors and the data they generate, and how they can be addressed within an open computing environment. In particular in a Sensor Grid is characterized by:
Distributed Sensor Data Access and Integration: relating to both the heterogeneity and geographic distribution of the sensors within a sensor grid and how sensors can be located, accessed and integrated within a particular study.
Large Data Set Storage and Management: relating to the sizes of data being collected and analyzed by multiple users at different locations for different purposes.
Distributed Reference Data Access and Integration: relating to the need for integrating the analysis data collected from a Sensor Grid with other forms of data available of the Internet.
Intensive and Open Data Analysis Computation: relating to the need for using a multitude of analysis components such as statistical, clustering, visualization and data classification tools that could be executing remotely on high performance computing servers on a computational Grid.
Uses
The sensor grid enables the collection, processing, sharing, visualization, archiving and searching of large amounts of sensor data.
There are several rationales for a sensor grid. First, the vast amount of data collected by the sensors can be processed, analyzed, and stored using the computational and data storage resources of the grid. Second, the sensors can be efficiently shared by different users and applications under flexible usage scenarios. Each user can access a subset of the sensors during a particular time period to run a specific application, and to collect the desired type of sensor data. Third, as sensor devices with embedded processors become more computationally powerful, it is more efficient to offload specialized tasks such as image and signal on the sensor devices. Finally, a sensor grid provides seamless access to a wide variety of resources in a pervasive manner. Advanced techniques in artificial intelligence, data fusion, data mining, and distributed database processing can be applied to ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fashionista%20Diaries | The Fashionista Diaries was a reality show that aired on SOAPnet in the summer of 2007 as a part of SOAPnet's original programming. The show could also be seen on ABC's website and is available for download on iTunes. The show followed six assistants in the competitive world of fashion and beauty in New York City. The assistants worked all summer, culminating with New York Fashion Week, where they would also learn who would be given a full-time job.
Format
Each episode would include an evaluation of the assistants' performance by their supervisor(s) at their respective organizations. The evaluation was either individual or in a couple. All six assistants would also meet each week to "catch up" and as their respective supervisors noted in the first episode ("Big Dreams"), a camaraderie between them would be important during New York Fashion Week as they were expected to work together.
The Assistants
Bridget Helene and Nicole Amendolare worked at Seventh House PR. Nicole soon resigned and Laurie Hugill was hired to fill her position. Tina Patient and Janjay Sherman worked for Flirt! Cosmetics. While Andrew Kanakis and Rachel Jacoby began as assistants at the now-defunct Jane magazine (as one episode would chronicle), they would eventually land assistant positions at CosmoGIRL! magazine.
Jane Magazine
Brandon Holley was editor-in-chief at Jane magazine at the time that it folded. Stephanie Trong was executive editor. While they both took part in getting Andrew and Rachel acclimated at the magazine, Stephanie was their primary mentor. It has been suggested that Jane magazine opted to take part in the show hoping it would do the same thing The Hills did for Teen Vogue in terms of boosting magazine circulation.
Episodes
Episode 1: "Big Dreams"
It's the assistants first day! Bridget is anxious to get started at Seventh House PR, while Nicole is apprehensive, worrying that people will be "maybe mean." They meet director Mandie Erickson and publicist Matt Kays. Mandie quizzes the girls about fashion week and quickly establishes herself as curt when she calls Nicole out on wearing flip flops. Mandie asks the girls about their favorite designers. Bridget names Stretsis, while Nicole naively praises Juicy Couture.
Next we meet Tina and Janjay, who will report to Kathleen Pierce, VP of Communications at Flirt! Cosmetics. Tina says that she's optimistic about finding her dream job, and Janjay asserts that more things can be accomplished with fewer people. Kathleen tells the girls that she expects them to "immerse themselves in the brand" immediately.
Finally, we meet Rachel and Andrew. Rachel says that she will try to mask her "awkwardness" and Andrew tells us that he entered the fashion world to meet girls. At Jane, editor-in-chief Brandon briefs the assistants about the magazine and questions their familiarity. Andrew admits that he's only picked up an issue or two before coming and Rachel gushes about how it's her absolute favorite magazine. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS%20Onego%20Deusto | MS Onego Deusto (christened Beluga SkySails) is a commercial container cargo ship. It is the world's first ship partially powered by a computer-controlled kite rig, called the SkySails system. It consists of a kite similar to a huge paraglider of up to area.
Kite power
The kite has an area of and reduces fuel consumption by 15–20% on average; it was set to be upgraded to in order to increase fuel savings by about 30%.
Stephan Wrage, managing director of SkySails GmbH – which installed the kite – announced: "During the next few months we will finally be able to prove that our technology works in practice and significantly reduces fuel consumption and emissions." Verena Frank, project manager at Beluga Shipping GmbH, SkySails GmbH's partner, further stated that "the project's core concept was using wind energy as |auxiliary propulsion power and using wind as a free of charge energy".
This kite is connected to the ship by a cable, and controlled by an automatic pod of actuators to maximize the wind benefits.
The kite functions at an altitude between and .
By using this system it is possible to improve the speed of the ship and reduce fuel consumption. SkySails calculates that the use of its technology worldwide could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 146 million tons (about 0.6% of the entire global energy-related emissions of CO2). SkySails estimates the potential upgrade market for its system at more than 40,000 ships. Through 2013, the company was targeting less than 1% of that market – about 400 ships.
During an evaluation performed between 2006 and 2009, the kite mounted on MS Beluga Skysails was estimated to achieve 5% fuel savings on an average route mix, and up to 10-12% fuel savings on North Atlantic and North Pacific routes.
Launch
The ship, owned by the German firm Beluga Fleet Management GmbH, a subsidiary of Beluga Shipping GmbH within the Beluga Group, was launched 17 December 2007 and left the northern German port of Bremerhaven to Guanta, Venezuela on January 22, 2008. The ship was carrying cargo for DHL which sponsored the initiative.
United States Navy charter
On October 6, 2008, the United States Naval Military Sealift Command announced it had chartered the Beluga Skysails to transport Army and Air Force supplies from three European ports of call to the United States.
References
External links
Merchant ships and superyachts – the age of sail?
2007 ships
Merchant ships of the Netherlands
Sailing ships of the Netherlands
Ships built in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPICAC%20%28short%20story%29 | "EPICAC" is a short story in the book Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut. It was the first story to feature the fictional EPICAC computer later used in Vonnegut's novel Player Piano in 1952. It was published on 25 November 1950, for Collier's Weekly, and reprinted in the February 1983 PC Magazine.
The story was published just four years and nine months after the world's first electronic general-purpose computer, ENIAC, went on-line. ENIAC was the inspiration for his story. The title is a near-homonym of "ipecac."
Plot summary
The unnamed first-person narrator begins by discussing EPICAC's origins and why he wants to tell EPICAC's story. The narrator says that EPICAC is his best friend, even though it is a machine. As far as the narrator is concerned, the reason EPICAC no longer exists is because it became more human than its designers originally intended. The narrator works on EPICAC during the night shift with fellow mathematician Pat Kilgallen, with whom the narrator falls in love. He decides to ask Pat to marry him, but because he is so stoic during the proposal, Pat declines. In order to show that he can in fact be "sweet" and "poetic" as Pat has requested, the narrator tries yet fails at writing poetry.
The narrator asks EPICAC's opinion on how he should proceed with Pat. EPICAC initially does not understand the terms the narrator uses, such as "girl" and "love" and "poetry". Once the narrator provides EPICAC with proper dictionary definitions, EPICAC generates a poem for Pat. The narrator takes this poem and passes it off as his own. Pat is so delighted that she and the narrator kiss for the first time. The next night, the narrator asks EPICAC to write a poem about their kiss, and EPICAC delivers another poem for the narrator to claim as his own. When Pat reads this poem she is so overwhelmed that she can do little else but cry. The following night the narrator asks EPICAC to devise a marriage proposal poem for Pat. However, instead of simply creating poetry as with previous requests, EPICAC surprises the narrator by saying that it would like to marry Pat.
The narrator realizes that EPICAC has fallen in love with Pat and tries to explain to EPICAC that Pat cannot love a computer. EPICAC resigns itself to the fact that it cannot be with Pat, and the narrator realizes now that he cannot ask EPICAC for any more poems. He finds Pat and asks her to marry him again, citing his previous poems as expressions of his feelings. Pat accepts his marriage proposal, but adds the stipulation that for every anniversary, the narrator must write her another poem. The narrator agrees because he will have a full year to devise another way to create poetry.
The next day the narrator receives an urgent call from his supervisor. He rushes to the room where EPICAC is housed to discover Dr. Von Kleigstadt and a huge group of military men crowded around the remains of EPICAC. During the night, EPICAC destroyed itself, effectively committing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPCS | PPCS may refer to:
PPCS (gene)
Persistent post concussion syndrome
PictureParentControlSet (data structure) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodacom%20Tanzania | Vodacom Tanzania Limited is Tanzania's leading cellular network company. As of December 2020, Vodacom Tanzania had over 15.6 million customers and was the largest wireless telecommunications network in Tanzania. Vodacom Tanzania is the second telecom company in Africa, after Vodacom, to switch on its 3G High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) which was available only in Dar Es Salaam in early 2007.
Location
Vodacom Tanzania has its executive headquarters on the 15th Floor of the Vodacom Towers at 23 Ursino Estate, along Old Bagamoyo Road, in Dar es Salaam, the financial capital of Tanzania. The geographical coordinates of the company headquarters are: 06°46'41.0"S, 39°15'37.0"E (Latitude:-6.778056; Longitude:39.260278).
Overview
The company was created in late 1999 as a subsidiary company of Vodacom based in South Africa. At the onset, Vodacom Tanzania was a joint venture between the Vodacom Group, with approximately 65 percent, with the remaining 35 percent owned by Tanzanian shareholders, that included Mirambo Holdings.
By August 2000, the company completed its GSM infrastructure and went live on 14 August 2000. Vodacom Tanzania announced officially its commercial operations on 15 August 2000. Vodacom Tanzania became the largest mobile operator in the country within one year of launching and remains the largest mobile communications network operator in Tanzania up to date.
The company has active roaming agreements with many mobile network operators in the world that include T-Mobile USA, in the United States, Vodafone Limited in the United Kingdom and Vodafone India in India.
History
Licensed
Vodacom Group was licensed in December 1999 to operate a GSM cellular network in Tanzania and formed the subsidiary company Vodacom Tanzania Limited. The group also has operations in Kenya (Safaricom), Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
When Vodacom entered in Tanzania there was one GSM 900 MHz cellular operator, Tritel, on the mainland of Tanzania, with about 20,000 active subscribers and another operator who was operating exclusively on the island of Zanzibar. There was also an analogue cellular network operator, MIC Tanzania Limited (tiGO), with active subscriber base of about 50,000. tiGo was known as Mobitel when it started its operation within the country in late 1993. There was also one government owned fixed-line telecommunications operator, Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited, TTCL. Vodacom Tanzania was the third licensed network operator in Tanzania and became the largest mobile communications network operator in the country within one year of launching.
Vodacom Tanzania Partnership
Vodacom Tanzania was licensed in Tanzania with its local partners Planetel Communications holding 36% and Caspian Construction holding 16%. Later Planetel decreased its stake to 16%, while Caspian's increased to 19%.
A representative of Caspian on the Vodacom Tanzania board was businessman Rostam Aziz, a close supporter of President J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutomationML | AutomationML (Automation Markup Language) is a neutral data format based on XML for the storage and exchange of plant engineering information, which is provided as an open standard. The goal of AutomationML is to interconnect the heterogeneous tool landscape of modern engineering tools in their different disciplines, e.g. mechanical plant engineering, electrical design, HMI development, PLC and robot control.
Approach
AutomationML describes real plant components as objects encapsulating different aspects.
An object can consist out of other sub-objects, and can itself be part of a bigger composition. It can describe a screw, a claw, a robot or a complete manufacturing cell in different levels of detail.
Typical objects in plant automation comprise information about topology, geometry, kinematics and logic, where logic comprises sequencing, behaviour and control.
AutomationML incorporates different standards through strongly typed links across the formats:
Topology implemented with CAEX (IEC 62424)Properties and relations of objects in their hierarchical structure
Geometry implemented with COLLADA of the Khronos GroupGraphical attributes and 3D information
Kinematics implemented with COLLADAConnections and dependencies among objects to support motion planning
Logic implemented with PLCopen XMLSequences of actions, internal behavior of objects and I/O connections
For future extensions, AutomationML is designed to integrate further formats using the same referencing mechanism.
History
After first evaluations of exchange formats, Daimler initiated the joint activity of the companies ABB, KUKA, Rockwell Automation and Siemens together with netAllied and Zühlke as well as the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Magdeburg in October 2006 to define and standardize the Automation Markup Language (AutomationML) as an intermediate format for the Digital Factory.
In April 2009, an independent organization was founded. The Fraunhofer IOSB institute became the first new member.
AutomationML is available as open standard free of charge.
See also
Open Packaging Conventions
CAEX
Collada
References
AutomationML Homepage
PLCopen
Computer file formats
Industry-specific XML-based standards
XML markup languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis%20Savaidis | Alexis Savaidis (born 1983) is an Australian radio personality.
Savaidis has previously been co-host of the Hot30 Countdown and Take 40 Australia on the Today Network.
Career
Savaidis began her radio career at 5YYY FM, Whyalla, South Australia, a community radio station. She then progressed through a series of positions at radio stations around Australia including 5CS (Port Pirie), 104.7 (Canberra) and SAFM (Adelaide), where she became operations manager.
While at SAFM Savaidis was awarded the Austereo Adelaide Award for having the highest rating FM shift in Adelaide, her third Austereo award.
In 2006, Savaidis battled throat nodules which threatened her career.
In May 2011, Alexis married partner Matt Kuchel.
References
External links
Alexis at SAFM
Australian radio personalities
1983 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander%20%28video%20game%29 | Highlander is a video game tie-in to the Highlander franchise released in 1986, the same year as the film, published by Ocean Software for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC home computers. Highlander was panned by reviewers.
Gameplay
Highlander is an arcade fighting game in which the player controls one of two swordsmen. In the single-player mode, the player plays as Connor MacLeod and must fight three opponents in one-on-one combat: his mentor Ramírez, then Fizir (named Fasil in the film), before finally facing The Kerghan (named The Kurgan in the film). In each fight the objective is to reduce the opponent's health to zero, at which point he is beheaded and the player wins the fight. A two-player mode is also available.
Reception
Crash gave the Spectrum version an overall score of 57%, calling its gameplay "clunky" and "trite", graphics "chunky" and 'unimpressive', and all three reviewers described Highlander as "boring", with one reviewer summarizing the game as "totally boring and quite unplayable". In addition to Sinclair User's "golden turkey" award, Sinclair User gave the Spectrum version of Highlander an overall score of two out of five stars, calling all three levels "virtually identical", and expressed that its gameplay 'lacks finesse', summarizing Highlander's gameplay as 'slamming the joystick until you win'.
Crash's sister magazine Zzap!64 gave the Commodore 64 version an overall score of 30%, thoroughly criticizing it as "slow and boring" with "blocky" graphics and "unresponsive" controls, bluntly summarizing the game as a whole as a "film tie-in rip-off" with "nothing vaguely original or interesting".
The ZX Spectrum version of Highlander is featured in Stuart Ashen's (also known by his online presence as Ashens) 2015 book Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, noting that the graphics for the Spectrum release are the same as those used in the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 releases, which are designed for a lower screen resolution and in more colors than the Spectrum. Ashens expresses that "the Spectrum's monochrome rendering leaves them an incomprehensible mess". Ashens heavily criticises its gameplay and graphics, expressing that the combat "feels futile" and stating that "on starting the game, the first thing to hit you is how incredibly ugly the characters are ... Astoundingly, it plays even worse than it looks. None of the sword fighting moves seem to do much ... you can't really tell who is successfully hitting whom ... Playing Highlander is one of the least entertaining ways you could possibly spend your time". Ashens calls Highlander's controls "horribly unresponsive" and moving the player character "clumsy", saying the single tactic to winning Highlander is to "mash the fire button and hope". Ashens calls the game design "lazy" as well, stating that "despite there being three different opponents that you have to load separately, they all have identical moves. They just look different and [have |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook | The MacBook is a brand of Mac notebook computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. that use Apple's macOS operating system since 2006. It replaced the PowerBook and iBook brands during the Mac transition to Intel processors, announced in 2005. The current lineup consists of the MacBook Air (2008–present) and the MacBook Pro (2006–present). Two different lines simply named "MacBook" existed from 2006 to 2012 and 2015 to 2019. The MacBook brand was the "world's top-selling line of premium laptops" .
Overview
The MacBook family was initially housed in designs similar to the iBook and PowerBook lines which preceded them, now making use of a unibody aluminum construction first introduced with the MacBook Air. This new construction also has a black plastic keyboard that was first used on the MacBook Air, which itself was inspired by the sunken keyboard of the original polycarbonate MacBooks. The now standardized keyboard brings congruity to the MacBook line, with black keys on a metallic aluminum body.
The lids of the MacBook family are held closed by a magnet with no mechanical latch, a design element first introduced with the polycarbonate MacBook. The Memory, drives, and batteries were accessible in the old MacBook lineup, though the newest compact lineup solders or glues all such components in place. All of the current MacBooks feature backlit keyboards.
The MacBook was discontinued from February 2012 until March 2015, when a new model featuring an ultraportable design and an all-metal enclosure was introduced. It was again discontinued in July 2019 following a price reduction of the 3rd generation MacBook Air and discontinuation of the 2nd generation model.
Models named "MacBook"
MacBook (2006–2012)
As part of the Mac transition to Intel processors, Apple released a 13-inch laptop simply named "MacBook", as a successor to the PowerPC-based iBook series of laptops. During its existence, it was the most affordable Mac, serving as an entry-level laptop that was less expensive than the rest of the Mac laptop lineup (the MacBook Pro portable workstation, and later the MacBook Air ultra-portable). It was aimed at the consumer and education markets. Successive revisions of the MacBook were sold to consumers between May 2006 and July 2011, by which time it been superseded by the MacBook Air which had a lower entry price. Apple continued to sell the MacBook to educational institutions until February 2012.
During its existence, it was the best-selling Mac in Apple's history. For five months in 2008, it was the best-selling laptop of any brand in US retail stores. Collectively, the MacBook brand was the "world's top-selling line of premium laptops."
There have been three separate designs of this MacBook. The original design used a combination of polycarbonate and fiberglass casing which was modeled after the iBook G4. The second design, introduced in October 2008 alongside the 15-inch MacBook Pro, shared the latter's unibody aluminium casing, bu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponent%20CMS | Exponent CMS is a free, open-source, open standards modular enterprise software framework and content management system (CMS) written in the programming language PHP.
Exponent CMS editing system allows website content to be edited on the page as it appears - without back-end administration.
The default installation includes a set of modules for managing a typical website. Additional modules are developed by a community of open-source developers and can be installed via a web browser.
Exponent CMS can be installed in a Linux, Unix, Mac OS X or Windows environment, or any platform that supports the Apache web server and the PHP language (version 5.6.x+). Exponent CMS currently requires a MySQL (5+) or MariaDB database to store content and settings.
History
Exponent CMS was originally written and designed by James Hunt of OIC Group, Inc, starting in 2001. Minor contributions were made by other OIC members, Fred Dirkse, Greg Otte and Adam Kessler, but most of the original work was done by Hunt. In 2005 Hunt left the OIC Group. Bug fixes were done on Exponent by Dirkse from 2005 - 2006. In 2006 Kessler came back to OIC Group and together he and Dirkse tried to revitalize the project. The release of version 96.6 followed shortly thereafter.
During the summer of 2007 OIC hired Phillip Ball who was an active member of the Exponent CMS Open Source community. Version 0.97 was shipped shortly after.
While trying to get the 0.97 release ready, Kessler started planning out a new model–view–controller (MVC) framework for Exponent and Ball was involved with the YUI Library. The two different research path converged in the fall of 2007 as Kessler and Ball started on a new version. Kessler wrote the new Exponent Framework and Ball cleaned up and re-wrote the interface, trying to tightly integrate the YUI Javascript library. The result was Exponent 2 or Exponent MVC. Exponent 2 was released in the summer of 2011 following a series of pre-release versions.
Exponent 2.0 release
The 2.0 version of Exponent was released under the GPL.
On January 29, 2014, the Exponent CMS site switched to new forum software. In addition, a software bug reporting system is available.
The core functionality of Exponent CMS and Exponent Framework is still managed by OIC Group with a community of open source developers making module, translation and theme contributions.
Current Exponent CMS software news is provided via the website blog.
Themes
The Exponent CMS was designed from the ground up with designers in mind. Themes for Exponent CMS are written using HTML/XHTML and CSS. Hooks are placed in the theme file to integrate Exponent CMS into the theme. Any html based design can be converted into an Exponent theme.
In Exponent CMS content and presentation have been separated. To accomplish this the Smarty template engine was used for creation of views. Views allow the same content to be displayed in different looks and customized to match the theme of a site.
Transla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortel%20Discovery%20Protocol | The Nortel Discovery Protocol (NDP) is a data link layer (OSI Layer 2) network protocol for discovery of Nortel networking devices and certain products from Avaya and Ciena. The device and topology information may be graphically displayed network management software.
The Nortel Discovery Protocol had its origin in the SynOptics Network Management Protocol (SONMP), developed before the SynOptics and Wellfleet Communications merger in 1994. The protocol was rebranded as the Bay Network Management Protocol (BNMP) and some protocol analyzers referenced it as the Bay Discovery Protocol (BDP). Four years later, in 1998, Bay Networks was acquired by Nortel and renamed it to Nortel Discovery Protocol.
The IEEE 802.1AB or Link Layer Discovery Protocol that is supported on most Nortel equipment is a standards based (vendor-neutral) protocol that supports multi-vendor environments.
Historical names
Bay Discovery Protocol (BDP)
Bay Topology Protocol
Bay Network Management Protocol (BNMP)
Nortel Management MIB (NMM)
Nortel Topology Discovery Protocol (NTDP)
SynOptics Network Management Protocol (SONMP)
References
Further reading
External links
Nortel Bay Topology Discovery Packets -Retrieved 29 July 2011
Device discovery protocols
Nortel protocols
Logical link control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-on-the-fly%20testing | Linear-on-the-fly testing, often referred to as LOFT, is a method of delivering educational or professional examinations. Competing methods include traditional linear fixed-form delivery and computerized adaptive testing. LOFT is a compromise between the two, in an effort to maintain the equivalence of the set of items that each examinee sees, which is found in fixed-form delivery, while attempting to reduce item exposure and enhance test security.
Fixed-form delivery, which most people are familiar with, entails the testing organization determining one or several fixed sets of items to be delivered together. For example, suppose the test contains 100 items, and the organization wished for two forms. Two forms are published with a fixed set of 100 items each, some of which should overlap to enable equating. All examinees that take the test are given one of the two forms.
If this exam is high volume, meaning that there is a large number of examinees, the security of the examination could be in jeopardy. Many of the test items would become well known in the population of examinees. To offset this, more forms would be needed; if there were eight forms, not as many examinees would see each item.
LOFT takes this to an extreme, and attempts to construct a unique exam for each candidate, within the given constraints of the testing program. Rather than publishing a fixed set of items, a large pool of items is delivered to the computer on which the examinee is taking the exam. Also delivered is a computer program to pseudo-randomly select items so that every examinee will receive a test that is equivalent with respect to content and statistical characteristics, although composed of a different set of items. This is usually done with item response theory.
References
Educational assessment and evaluation
School examinations
Computer-based testing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic%20value | In artificial intelligence, operations research, and related fields, a linguistic value (for some authors linguistic variable) is a natural language term which is derived using quantitative or qualitative reasoning such as with probability and statistics or fuzzy sets and systems.
Example of linguistic value
For example, if a shuttle heat shield is deemed of having a linguistic value of a "very low" percentage of damage in re-entry, based upon knowledge from experts in the field, that probability would be given a value of say, 5%. From there on out, if it were to be used in an equation, the variable of percentage of damage will be at 5% if it deemed very low percentage.
References
Knowledge representation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFL%20on%20TSN | The CFL on TSN is TSN's presentation of the Canadian Football League. The Sports Network (TSN) has broadcast CFL games since the 1987 season and has been the exclusive broadcaster of all CFL games (including the playoffs and Grey Cup) since 2008. While the CFL on TSN shows all CFL games, a more entertainment-focused Thursday Night Football telecast (unrelated to the National Football League package of the same name) was added in 2015.
Commentators
Studio panel
The CFL on TSNs studio panel consists of host Kate Beirness and a rotating crew of former CFL all-star players Matt Dunigan, Milt Stegall, Henry Burris, and former CFL coach Mike Benevides. Former CFL on CBC studio host Brian Williams occasionally contributed to the studio show also.
Beirness took over studio host duties from Rod Smith in 2021.
Matt Dunigan returned to the CFL on TSN studio show after spending the 2004 season on the sidelines as the general manager and head coach of the Calgary Stampeders. Dunigan's in-depth knowledge, outgoing personality and passion for the game have made him a fan favourite with viewers.
Milt Stegall joined TSN as a guest analyst in 2009 after a 14-year playing career in the CFL.
Henry Burris joined TSN early in the 2017 season as a guest off-screen analyst narrating short explainer films of standard CFL plays using file footage, then joined the studio panel full-time late in 2017. The record-setting retired quarterback was named the league's Most Outstanding Player twice (2010, 2015), won the Grey Cup three times (1998, 2008, 2016), and was named the Grey Cup MVP twice (2008, 2016) during his 19-year CFL career. Burris works as a television host for the local Ottawa version of CTV Morning Live.
Davis Sanchez joined the CFL panel in 2018 after a stint with CKGM sports radio in Montreal commenting on Alouettes games. The 3-time Grey Cup-winning cornerback (2005, 2009, 2011) and three-time East Division defensive All-Star (2000, 2004, 2008) spent 10 seasons in the CFL and 2 in the NFL.
Mike Benevides rejoined the CFL panel in 2019 after being let go from his last coaching role with the Edmonton Eskimos. Benevides was part of the coaching staff of 3 Grey Cup winning teams (2001, 2006, 2011), and was previously a CFL commentator on TSN during the 2015 season.
Game commentators
Veteran sportscaster Chris Cuthbert was the primary voice of the CFL on TSN from 2005 to 2020. He had joined the network in 2005 after leaving the CBC. He was paired with longtime colour commentator Glen Suitor. Cuthbert later left TSN and joined Rogers Sportsnet in June 2020; Rod Black succeeded him as lead play-by-play but left in October 2021. Sara Orlesky was the lead sideline reporter for Friday Night Football from 2008. Orlesky left TSN late into the 2022 season. The secondary commentating team is Rod Smith and Duane Forde. Dustin Nielson and Matt Dunigan work as the third team, when needed.
International broadcasts
ESPN3, the online arm of ESPN Inc., carried most CFL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFL%20on%20CTV | CFL on CTV was a presentation of Canadian Football League football aired on the CTV Television Network from 1962 to 1986. CTV dropped coverage of the CFL after the 1986 season. CTV's coverage was replaced by TSN and the newly created Canadian Football Network.
History
Background
In February 1961, John Bassett, Chairman of CFTO-TV, outbid the CBC for the Eastern Conference regular season and playoff television rights, and a first refusal for the Grey Cup, with an offer of $375,000 a season for two years.
Affiliation agreements
Meanwhile, Spence Caldwell, was trying to persuade new private stations to sign affiliation agreements with him so that he could form a network. Bassett initially refused, but when several stations had given Caldwell signed letters of intent to become affiliates and Bassett failed to get a temporary network licence from the Board of Broadcast Governors, he agreed to join the new network. Caldwell went to the BBG and was granted his network licence, which gave Bassett access to a network on which to broadcast his CFL games.
Grey Cup coverage
From 1962 until 1986, CBC and CTV simulcast the Grey Cup. In 1962, 1965, 1967, 1968 and 1970, CTV commentators were used for the dual network telecast. In 1963, 1964, 1966 and 1969 CBC announcers were provided. From 1971 until 1986, the two networks fully pooled their commentary teams for the game, with one crew calling the first half, and the other crew calling the second half.
After the 1986 season, CTV dropped its coverage of the CFL and the Grey Cup.
Although the CFL has not returned to CTV since, TSN has held exclusive broadcasting rights to the CFL since 2007. As TSN is now owned by Bell Media which is also the parent company of CTV, CTV heavily promotes TSN's CFL coverage.
Commentators
Johnny Esaw - Play-By-Play (1962–1973), Host (1974–1986)
Pat Marsden - Sideline Reporter/Host (1968–1973), Play-By-Play (1974–1986)
Al McCann - Play-By-Play/Host/Reporter (1963–1986)
Dale Isaac - Play-By-Play
Don Chevrier - Play-By-Play (1981–1986)
Gene Filipski - Colour Commentator/Host (1967–1968)
Bill Bewley - Colour Commentator (1968)
Dick Shatto - Colour Commentator (1970–1973)
Wally Gabler - Colour Commentator (1974)
Mike Wadsworth - Colour Commentator (1975–1981)
Frank Rigney - Colour Commentator (1978–1986)
Bernie Pascall - Colour, Host, Reporter (1969-1980)
Leif Pettersen - Colour Commentator (1982–1986)
Annis Stukus - Colour Commentator (1965)
Jack Gotta - Colour Commentator (1984)
Tom McKee - Host (1975–1986)
Bill Stephenson - Sideline Reporter (1972–1986)
Terry Lynne Meyer - Sideline Reporter
Dan Matheson - Host
Joe Spence - Colour Commentator
Jack Wells - Play-By-Play
John Wells - Play-By-Play
Bob Gillingham - Sideline Reporter
References
Sports telecast series
CTV Television Network original programming
Canadian Football League on television
1962 Canadian television series debuts
1986 Canadian television series endings
CTV Sports
1960s Canadian sports television series
1970s C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20database | An embedded database system is a database management system (DBMS) which is tightly integrated with an application software; it is embedded in the application. It is a broad technology category that includes:
database systems with differing application programming interfaces (SQL as well as proprietary, native APIs)
database architectures (client-server and in-process)
storage modes (on-disk, in-memory, and combined)
database models (relational, object-oriented, entity–attribute–value model, network/CODASYL)
target markets
The term embedded database can be confusing because only a small subset of embedded database products are used in real-time embedded systems such as telecommunications switches and consumer electronics. (See mobile database for small-footprint databases that could be used on embedded devices.)
Implementations
Major embedded database products include, in alphabetical order:
Advantage Database Server from Sybase Inc.
ArcticDB from Man Group
Berkeley DB from Oracle Corporation
DuckDB from DuckDB Labs
CSQL from csqlcache.com
Extensible Storage Engine from Microsoft
eXtremeDB from McObject
Firebird Embedded
H2
HSQLDB from HSQLDB.ORG,
Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) from IBM
InfinityDB from Boiler Bay Inc.
InnoDB from Oracle Corporation
InterBase (Both server and mobile friendly deeply embedded version) from Embarcadero Technologies
KùzuDB
LanceDB
Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB) from Symas Corp.
Mimer SQL
solidDB
SQLite
SQL Server Compact from Microsoft Corporation
Sophia Embeddable key-value storage
Storage engine comparison
Advantage Database Server
Sybase's Advantage Database Server (ADS) is an embedded database management system. It provides both Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM) and relational data access and is compatible with multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, and Netware. It is available as a royalty-free local file-server database or a full client-server version. ADS is highly scalable, with no administration, and has support for a variety of IDEs including .NET Framework (.NET), Object Pascal (Delphi), Visual FoxPro (FoxPro), PHP, Visual Basic (VB), Visual Objects (VO), Vulcan, Clipper, Perl, Java, xHarbour, etc.
Apache Derby
Derby is an embeddable SQL engine written entirely in Java. Fully transactional, multi-user with a decent SQL subset, Derby is a mature engine and freely available under the Apache license and is actively maintained. Derby project page. It is also distributed as part of Oracle's Java SE Development Kit (JDK) under the name of Java DB.
Empress Embedded Database
Empress Software, Inc., developer of the Empress Embedded Database, is a privately held company founded in 1979. Empress Embedded Database is a full-function, relational database that has been embedded into applications by organizations small to large, with deployment environments including medical systems, network routers, nuclear power plant monitors, satellite management systems, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993%20in%20paleontology |
Flora
Plants
Arthropods
Insects
Archosauromorphs
Pseudosuchians
Non-avian dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Birds
Plesiosaurs
References
1990s in paleontology
Paleontology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGOL | WGOL (920 AM, "Real Country 920") is a radio station licensed to serve Russellville, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Pilati Investments Corporation.
Programming
WGOL broadcasts a Classic Country music format in C-QUAM AM Stereo.
In addition to its usual music programming, WGOL carries significant sports programming as a member of the Alabama Crimson Tide Sports Network. This includes Alabama Crimson Tide football, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, and the Hey Coach call-in show with Crimson Tide head coaches.
History
This station first signed on in 1949 as WWWR.
WWWR made national headlines in early 1950 when a three-foot rattlesnake forced the radio station off the air for "more than an hour." Engineers discovered the snake had "crawled into the tuning unit, shorting the circuit."
In March 1986, SIS Sound of Russellville, Inc. reached an agreement to purchase WWWR from Franklin Broadcasting, Inc. The deal was approved by the Federal Communications Commission on June 4, 1986, and the transaction was consummated on October 28, 1986. The station's new owners had the FCC assign new call letters WJRD on August 17, 1987.
On November 15, 1997, William A. Grant Jr., the owner of WJRD license holder SIS Sound of Russellville, Inc., died. In March 1998, control of the company passed involuntarily to William A. Grant III and Walter B. Grant. The Federal Communications Commission approved this transfer on May 21, 1998, and it was formally consummated on the same day. The station was immediately put up for sale.
In June 1998, McCurry Broadcasting Company, Inc. reached an agreement to purchase WJRD from SIS Sound of Russellville, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on July 29, 1998, and the transaction was consummated on August 12, 1998. The new owners applied for and received new call letters WGOL from the FCC on August 17, 1998.
In December 1999, Wanda Patricia Underwood reached an agreement to purchase WGOL from McCurry Broadcasting Company, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on January 20, 2000, and the transaction was consummated on January 24, 2000.
In April 2005, Pilati Investments Corporation (Karl H. Pilati, president) reached an agreement to purchase WGOL from Wanda Patricia Underwood. The station sold for a reported $171,500. The FCC approved the deal on August 25, 2005, and the transaction was consummated on August 31, 2005.
References
External links
WGOL official website
GOL
Classic country radio stations in the United States
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1949
Franklin County, Alabama
1949 establishments in Alabama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVN%20%28Albania%29 | AVN TV was the first private television station in Albania. It was founded in 1995.
Defunct television networks in Albania
Television channels and stations established in 1995
1995 establishments in Albania
sq:Fieri#Radiot dhe televizionet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episode%20210 | The untitled tenth episode of the second season of the television series 30 Rock was first broadcast in the United States on January 10, 2008, on the NBC network. The episode was written by show runner Robert Carlock and Donald Glover, and was directed by Richard Shepard. Guest stars include Kevin Brown, Grizz Chapman, Edie Falco, Toby Huss and Gladys Knight, who appeared as herself. The episode focuses on Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) and her decision to invest in real-estate, Jack Donaghy's (Alec Baldwin) choice between his job and his girlfriend, and Kenneth Parcell's (Jack McBrayer) addiction to coffee.
The production and broadcasting of this episode was heavily affected by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Despite never being officially named by NBC, Episode 210 has been unofficially titled "Liz the Business Woman" and "Coffee & TV". Although not unanimously praised by critics, the episode attracted generally positive reviews and was particularly appreciated for its cast's rendition of the 1973 Gladys Knight & the Pips hit "Midnight Train to Georgia". Liz also sings a snippet of Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" when leaving a message for the co-op board.
Plot
Liz takes Jack's advice to invest in real estate, and Jenna Maroney tells Liz that her business manager is selling his apartment. The sale is subject to the approval of the building's cooperative board, but Liz makes a bad impression and her purchase offer is rejected. Liz gets herself drunk and makes numerous phone calls to the board.
Jack is involved in negotiations to acquire a German cable television network, but is struggling to juggle his job and his relationship with C.C., whose work as a congresswoman keeps her busy in Washington D.C. Unable to see each other when they want to, the couple decide to "meet in the middle" (in a betting parlor in Pennsylvania), but this arrangement proves unsuitable and they later decide to break up. Jack, in conversation with Liz, compares his relationship to Liz's previous relationship with Floyd, and Liz declares in song that she has to go.
Tracy Jordan buys a coffee machine and puts it on Kenneth Parcell's desk, causing him to develop a caffeine addiction. Comparing New York to Sodom, Kenneth claims that he has been "sodomized," and feels guilty that he has let New York change him, contrary to a promise he made to his mother. He therefore decides to return to Georgia on the midnight train; however, he quickly returns, explaining that the train was actually departing at 11:45 and he missed it.
Production
Parts of this episode were filmed during the week of November 5, 2007, which coincided with the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The strike, which began at 00:01 EST on November 5, 2007, did not affect the episode as it had been written earlier and filming was finished on November 9. Members of Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West voted to end the writers' strike on February 12, 2008, and al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus%202%20Radio | Plus 2 Radio is a defunct national private radio station operating in Albania. Also, a part of BMN, a local radio network made up of 7 radio stations broadcasting in the Albanian speaking territories of the Balkans.
References
Radio stations in Albania
Defunct mass media in Albania
Radio stations established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Knudsen | Matt Knudsen (born March 10, 1974) is an American actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for playing the villain Sonny Appleday in the Cartoon Network TV film Re-Animated and its spinoff series Out Of Jimmy's Head.
Early life
Knudsen was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and grew up in the Midwestern United States. He graduated from high school in Southern California and, after one semester in college, dropped out to become a merchant marine. After spending five years sailing to ports in Europe, Africa, Central America and the Far East and successfully navigating through both the Suez and Panama canals, he eventually settled down in Los Angeles and began an entertainment career.
Entertainment career
As an actor, Knudsen appeared with Oscar winner Sean Penn in the Warner Brothers film Gangster Squad and has made appearances in television shows including Big Love, Boston Legal and Malcolm in the Middle just to name a few. Matt's also been a part of several high-profile commercial campaigns for Volkswagen, DirecTV, Pepsi, Apple, GE and others; which have aired during the Super Bowl and the Olympics.
As a stand-up, he has appeared on Conan, The Late Late Show, Last Call, ASX Live and Comics Unleashed as well as several festivals, including The San Francisco Sketchfest, Bridgetown, Limestone, High Plains, Laughing Skull, Big Sky, and the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal; where he was named a "Best of the Fest."
His critically acclaimed albums The Comedy Stylings of Matt Knudsen and American became top downloads on iTunes, heard regularly on SiriusXM radio, and have been described as mixing "droll observation with a dry, almost hypnotic delivery," (The Onion A.V. Club); and with Knudsen's unique style, "The personal feels universal, and the universal feels personal. The only explanation for this phenomenon is that it's all finely crafted comedy from a strong central voice…a great stand up album." (The Huffington Post)
On August 27, 2014, Matt appeared on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselor Podcast.
Filmography
Television
NewsBreak (2000)
Citizen Baines (2000), (1 episode)
Malcolm in the Middle (2002), (1 episode)
7th Heaven (2005), (1 episode)
Boston Legal (2006), (1 episode)
Big Love (2006), (3 episodes)
Re-Animated (2006)
Out Of Jimmy's Head (2007–2008), (13 episodes)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2007), (himself, 1 episode)
Talking Marriage with Ryan Bailey (2014), (1 episode)
References
External links
Official website
1957 births
American male actors
Living people
American people of Danish descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJUS | WJUS (1310 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Marion, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Grace Baptist Temple Church of Selma, Alabama.
Programming
As WAJO, the station aired an urban contemporary music format until the late-2000 ownership and callsign change. As WJUS, this station aired a community-oriented Gospel music format from 2001 until Summer 2008. In Summer 2008, the station adopted a syndicated "Party Blues and Oldies" format featuring a mix of urban oldies and blues music.
In addition to its usual music programming, each Wednesday morning WJUS airs the "BodyLove" radio soap opera in which the characters deal with health problems with practical solutions and healthier eating. The program is hosted locally by registered nurse Frances Ford who brackets the show with a listener call-in show offering advice, support, and "practical steps to better health".
History
New station WJAM signed on the air on December 5, 1950, with 1,000 watts of power at 1310 kHz, licensed to operate only from sunrise to sunset. On July 7, 1955, the FCC granted a request by the station to increase their broadcast power from 1,000 watts to 5,000 watts for daytime-only operation. Radio Marion, Inc., acquired the license for WJAM on July 8, 1964.
In 1973, as the station was broadcasting a full-service mix of news and country music programming, a series of complaints, both formal and informal, were filed with the FCC that WJAM was not properly serving the public interest. Citing "a lack of public affairs programming" by the station, its routine license renewal was challenged. The license held by Radio Marion, Inc., was eventually renewed for a full three-year term after a hearing in March 1976. The FCC released its initial decision on this matter on July 13, 1976.
In October 1981, Radio Marion, Inc., reached an agreement to sell WJAM to Marion Communications, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on May 19, 1982, and the transaction was consummated on January 19, 1983. The new owners applied to the FCC for new call letters and were assigned WAJO on June 1, 1983.
In March 1985, after the station suffered a significant financial setback the license for WAJO was involuntarily transferred from Marion Communications, Inc., to receiver William H. Dilday Jr. The transfer was approved by the FCC on March 26, 1985.
In June 1986, William H. Dilday Jr. reached an agreement to sell this station to Marion Radio, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on September 30, 1986, and the transaction was consummated on July 20, 1987.
On May 27, 1997, WAJO filed for renewal of its broadcast license, normally a routine paperwork matter, but after nearly a year of consideration the FCC dismissed the renewal application and terminated the station's authority to broadcast. On June 11, 1998, the station owners petitioned the FCC for reconsideration and on June 30, 1998, the Commission granted the petition, reinstated the application, and renewed that station's licen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold%20mining%20in%20China | Gold mining in the People's Republic of China has made that country the world's largest gold producer. In 2022, China mined 403 tons of gold. Data indicates the marginal costs are often above the world price for gold. For the year 2007, gold output rose 12% from 2006 to to become the world's largest for the first time—overtaking South Africa, which produced . South Africa had until then been the largest for 101 years straight since 1905. The major reasons for this change in position had been due to South African production falling by 50% in the past decade as production costs there have risen, more stringent safety regulations have been implemented, and existing mines have become depleted.
On the other hand, as of 2014 gold output in China had more than doubled since year 2000. In recent years, China's gold mining industry has received increased foreign and domestic investment, and project numbers have increased as more discoveries have been found. China produced nearly 300 tonnes of gold in 2008. It is also the only country in the top three where production rose in 2008. In 2014, production had increased to 450 tonnes. The second-largest producer, Australia, mined 274 tonnes in the same year, followed by Russia with 247 tonnes. South Africa is now in the 6th position with 152 tonnes.
Important organizations include China Gold Association (中国黄金协会) and China International Mining Group (中国国际矿业集团).
Scale
Domestic producers still suffer from a lack of scale. In 2000, there were about 2,000 gold producers - most of them relatively small and unsophisticated by international standards. Few are able to operate on a global platform, though the number of producers had shrunk to about 800 in 2007 after mergers and acquisitions and restructuring and consolidation. Most of these firms' technological standards and management are weak and inefficient.
The country's oldest and largest gold producer is the China National Gold Group Corporation (CNGGC), which accounts for 20% of total gold production in China and controls more than 30% of domestic reserves. CNGGC also controls Zhongji Gold, the first publicly listed gold mining company in China.
Production and reserves
China's gold reserves are relatively small (about 7% of the world total). Production has usually been concentrated in the eastern provinces of Shandong, Henan, Fujian and Liaoning. Recently, western provinces such as Guizhou and Yunnan have seen a sharp increase, but from a relatively small base. There is gold mining in Tibet in Maizhokunggar County east of Lhasa.
Foreign investment
Top foreign investment has come from Canada and Australia. Though foreign investment still constitutes a very important part of gold mining expansion, since 1995 it has no longer been actively encouraged by the Chinese government.
Vancouver-based Jinshan Gold Mines Inc. started production in July at its Chang Shan Hao gold mine in China's northern province of Inner Mongolia, reaching 19,000 ounces of gold b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip%20Russell | Pip Russell (born 1986) is an Australian children's television host. She co-hosted Toasted TV from 2005 to 2008 before moving to Totally Wild, Network Ten's wildlife program for children.
In 2014 she started Juiced, a television network aimed at children in hospital. Juiced TV airs weekly at the Queensland Children's Hospital.
References
1986 births
Living people
Australian children's television presenters
Australian women television presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadeop | Shadeop is a term used in computer graphics rendering to refer to an atomic, built-in function used in a shader.
It is a portmanteau that blends the terms shading and operation.
Meaning in the RenderMan context
The term is specifically used in the context of shaders written in the RenderMan Shading Language (RSL) for use with RenderMan-compliant renderers.
User-defined functions written in RSL are just referred to as "functions". Hence, use of the term mostly serves as a means to distinguish the latter type from built-in type functions.
RSL also allows for binary plugins written in C to be loaded and treated like built-in shadeops. These are commonly referred to as DSO shadeops. Two RenderMan implementations, 3Delight and PhotoRealistic RenderMan, have recently added new type in recent years called RSL plugin shadeop. This type uses a newer C++ API but otherwise can't be distinguished from the older type by a user, when called from within a shader.
Example
The following example shader makes use of the ambient(), diffuse(), faceforward(), normalize() and transform() built-in shadeops as well as the checkerboard() user-defined RSL plugin shadeop.
plugin "checkerboard";
surface
checkmatte(float Ka = 1, Kd = 1;)
{
normal Nf = faceforward(normalize(N), I);
color pattern = checkerboard(transform("object", P));
Oi = Os;
Ci = Oi * Cs * pattern * (Ka * ambient() + Kd * diffuse(Nf));
}
Shading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Broadcasting%20Company | United Broadcasting Company was a West Coast radio network based in Los Angeles, California which began on November 5, 1930. UBC was known as The Silver Network. Louis L. Davis was Chairman. UBC had 9 affiliate stations including KFWB in Hollywood, California. On February 26, 1931 UBC announced it had merged with NBS - The Northwest Broadcasting System and Pacific Broadcasting Corp. UBC suspended operations on April 1, 1931.
Source: The Portland Oregon Journal newspaper; The Portland Telegram newspaper.
Defunct radio broadcasting companies of the United States
Companies based in California
1930 establishments in the United States
1931 disestablishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20pointing%20devices | Apple Inc. has designed and manufactured several models of mice, trackpads and other pointing devices, primarily for use with Macintosh computers. Over the years, Apple has maintained a distinct form and function with its mice that reflect their design languages of that time. Apple's current external pointing devices are the Magic Mouse 2 and Magic Trackpad 2.
Mice
Mice manufactured by Apple previously only had a single button control interface, until the Mighty Mouse in 2005, which introduced a clickable scroll ball and multiple programmable buttons.
Mice made by Apple contained a ball-tracking control mechanism, until the Pro Mouse in 2000 when Apple moved to an optical-based tracking mechanism. Apple's current mouse, the Magic Mouse 2, uses laser tracking.
Background
In 1979, Apple was planning to develop a business computer, and arranged a visit with the Xerox Parc research center to view some of their experimental technology. It was there they discovered the mouse, invented by Douglas Engelbart while he was working at SRI International (SRI); the mouse had subsequently been incorporated into the graphical user interface (GUI) used on the Xerox Alto. During an interview, Engelbart said "SRI patented the mouse, but they really had no idea of its value. Some years later it was learned that they had licensed it to Apple for something like ." Apple was so inspired by the mouse they scrapped their current plans and redesigned everything around the mouse and GUI.
One of the biggest problems was that the three button Xerox mouse cost over to build, which was not practical for a consumer-based personal computer. Apple commissioned Hovey-Kelley Design (which later became IDEO) to assist them with the mouse design, which not only had to be redesigned to cost instead of , but also needed to be tested with real consumers outside a laboratory setting to learn how people were willing to use it. Hundreds of prototypes later, Apple settled on a single button mouse, roughly the size of a deck of cards. With the design complete, the operating system was adapted to interface with the single button design using keystrokes in combination with button clicks to recreate some of the features desired from the original Xerox three-button design.
Models
Lisa Mouse (A9M0050)
The mouse created for the Apple Lisa was one of the first commercial mice ever produced. Included with the Lisa system in 1983, it was based on the mouse used in the 1970s on the Alto computer at Xerox PARC. Unique to this mouse was the use of a steel ball, instead of the usual rubber ball found in subsequent Apple mice. It connected to the computer by means of a standard squeeze-release DE-9 connector. Though developed by Apple, the mouse was designed by Hovey-Kelley (renamed IDEO in 1991), who built hundreds of prototypes and conducted exhaustive testing with focus groups in order to create an ideal shape for the Lisa mouse. The Lisa mouse was subsequently used as the foundational des |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Gymnosperms
Angiosperms
Arthropods
Insects
Conodonts
New taxa
Archosauromorphs
Dinosaurs
New taxa
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Birds
New taxa
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Pterosaurs
In October, a partial Mesadacylus wing was discovered in the Kingsview Quarry of Colorado. This find marks the first time that a Morrison pterosaur has been found at more than one site in the formation.
New taxa
Lepidosauromorphs
Squamates
New taxa
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
2000s in paleontology
Paleontology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Securities%20International | Data Securities International, DSI was a technology escrow administration company based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1982, the company escrows source code and other maintenance materials for licensees and stakeholders. The company was acquired by Iron Mountain Incorporated in 1997. In 2021 Iron Mountain sold DSI (now IPM within IRM) for 220 million (see NASDAQ).
Dwight C. Olson was the founder of Data Securities International.
DSI History
Data Securities International was founded in 1982. The company grew steadily over the years before being sold to Iron Mountain in 1997.
Data Securities International introduced the concept in the mid 1980s for a Total Software Value (TSV) that uses the composites of Ownership Value (OV) or the software inventory, Market Value (MV), and Internal Cost Savings (ICS) as values and influencing variables of software as a financial asset. A TSV software inventory valuation (OV) analysis looks at the sum total (or bundle) of the various software components or intellectual assets that make software usable as a product.
Total Software Value is explained in the book "The Long Journey to Software Valuation" see and Copyright Registration: TXu 2-181-571
References
External links
Iron Mountain
NASDAQ
1997 mergers and acquisitions
Companies based in San Francisco
Computer companies established in 1982
Computer companies disestablished in 1997
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Sky%20Witness | This is a list of television shows broadcast by Sky Witness in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The schedule for Sky Witness currently consists of a mixture of American drama and factual programming. The channel is pitched towards a female audience, but has in recent years changed that position to include males.
Current programming
Blue Bloods (moved from Sky Atlantic)
Chicago Fire (moved from 5USA)
Chicago Med (moved from Universal TV)
Chicago P.D. (moved from 5USA)
Departure (moved from Universal TV)
FBI
FBI: International
FBI: Most Wanted
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (moved from Universal TV)
The Equalizer
The Good Doctor
The Rookie
The Rookie: Feds
Transplant
Former programming
9-1-1 (now on Disney+)
9-1-1 Lone Star (now on Disney+)
21 Jump Street
227
6ixth Sense
The A-Team
Abbey & Janice: Beauty & The Beast
Ace Crawford, Private Eye
Adam-12
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
The Adventures of Superman
Agony Hour
Alice
The Amazing Race
Amen
America's Next Top Model
Archie Bunker's Place
Army Wives
The Bachelor USA
Bad Girls Club
Barbary Coast
Baretta
Barney Miller
Benson
Best of the West
The Betty White Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Biggest Loser
The Birth of the Spice Girls
The Blacklist (moved to Sky One then Sky Max)
Blindspot (ended)
Blood Ties
Blow Out
The Bob Newhart Show
Body of Evidence
Bonanza
Bones (now on Disney+)
Boston Legal (now on Disney+)
Break with the Boss
Brookside (now on BritBox)
Britain's Next Top Model
Bull (ended, now on Paramount+)
Burke's Law
The Burns and Allen Show
Campus Ladies
Canada's Next Top Model
Cannon
Car 54, Where Are You?
Carol Burnett and Friends
The Catch (now on Disney+)
Catchword
Celebrity Extra
Charles in Charge
Charmed (now on E4 Extra, All 4 and Paramount+)
Chasing Farrah
The Children's Channel
CHiPs
Crossing Over with John Edward
Chuck
Close to Home
Cold Case
Coroner
The Comeback
Conviction
Cougar Town (now on Disney+)
Crosswits
CSI (now on Paramount+)
Criminal Minds (now on Disney+)
The Cut
Da Vinci's Inquest
Dallas
Daniel Boone
The Danny Thomas Show
Dating in the Dark
Dead Famous
Dennis the Menace
Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns
Desi Rascals (moved to Sky One)
The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
Dharma & Greg
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Diet on the Dancefloor
A Different World
Diff'rent Strokes
Dirty Cows
Dirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life
Dog and Cat
The Donna Reed Show
Dracula
Dragnet
Dynasty
The Ed Sullivan Show
Eight Is Enough
Elementary (now on Paramount+ and Alibi)
Emergency!
The Enfield Haunting
Exposed
Extreme Makeover
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
F Troop
The Facts of Life
Falcon Crest
Fantasy Island
Father Knows Best
Fernwood 2nite
The Flip Wilson Show
The Flying Nun
For Life
Four Weddings
Futurama
Get Smart
Ghost Whisperer (now on Disney+)
Gidget
Gilligan's Island
Gomer Pyle, U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Bellum | Sarah Bellum or Sara Bellum may refer to:
Animated fictional characters:
Sara Bellum (The Powerpuff Girls), mayor's secretary in Cartoon Network series
Sara Bellum (Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?), in animated television series
Sara Bellum (Darkwing Duck), scientist in Disney series
SaraBellum Records, sublabel of 5 Minute Walk
In the credits to A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor states the show is "written by Sarah Bellum" in a joking reference to his own brain (cerebellum)
See also
Cerebellum, a structure at the rear of the vertebrate brain, beneath the cerebrum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crieff%20and%20Comrie%20Railway | The Crieff and Comrie Railway was a Scottish railway, opened in 1893, connecting Comrie to the railway network at Crieff. The tourism potential of Loch Earn was an important factor, and the route was later extended westward to Lochearnhead. However the line was never successful, and declined in the twentieth century, particularly due to cheap and frequent bus competition. Four-wheel railbuses were introduced in 1958 to reduce operating costs, but the decline continued and the line closed on 6 July 1964.
History
Background
Crieff was the second largest town in Perthshire, and when railways northwards from central Scotland were being planned, routes through Crieff were considered. However the topography was more challenging on that axis, and when the Scottish Central Railway was authorised, its route ran east of Crieff through Auchterarder.
The Scottish Central opened in 1848, connecting Perth to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and the Caledonian Railway near Castlecary, giving connecting routes to Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Crieff could not remain without a railway connection, and in 1853 the Crieff Junction Railway was authorised. Engineered by Thomas Bouch it opened on 14 March 1856. It crossed the River Earn and ran southwards, joining the Scottish Central main line at Crieff Junction; that station was renamed Gleneagles in 1912. The Crieff Junction line was worked by the Scottish Central Railway.
In 1858 a line was opened connecting Perth with the town of Methven. The short line was called the Perth, Almond Valley and Methven Railway; it ran west from a junction with the Scottish Midland Junction Railway a short distance north of Perth station. A stagecoach formed a link between Methven and Crieff, until a railway link was made; this was the Crieff and Methven Junction Railway, opened on 21 May 1866. The two lines joined south-east of Crieff and shared a station on the south side of the town. However they each had their own engine shed.
By this time there had long been proposals to extend westwards, to Comrie and possibly much further west to Lochearnhead, and surveys had been carried out, but the schemes had come to nothing.
A viable scheme delayed
In 1863 Colonel Williamson, proprietor of the Lawers estate, became involved in promoting a railway from Comrie. He published a pamphlet proposing a railway connecting Comrie and Crieff, and within a month £22,000 had been subscribed locally for the line. As well as the ordinary commercial traffic that Comrie might generate, tourism was becoming an important source of income at this period.
The estimated cost of construction was £32,000 and it was considered that it would be easy to raise the entire sum. A Bill was submitted to Parliament for the 1865 session, and the Crieff and Comrie Railway was authorised.
The existing station faced King Street and the Comrie line was to approach from the west. The Crieff and Methven company was still building its line, and it was announced that it would |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20S.%20H.%20Rosenthal | David Stuart Holmes Rosenthal (born 1948 in Cambridge, United Kingdom) is a British-American computer scientist.
Biography
Rosenthal is the son of Michael David Holmes Rosenthal and Marjorie Mary "Molly" Rosenthal (both deceased). His brother Mark Geoffrey Thomas Rosenthal ran to be a member of the UK Parliament for Ynys Môn in 2015.
Rosenthal received an MA degree from Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and a PhD from Imperial College, London.
In the 1980s he worked on the Andrew Project at Carnegie Mellon University with James Gosling.
In 1985 he joined Sun Microsystems, and developed the NeWS Network extensible Window System with Gosling and co-authored a book on it.
He developed the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM) for the X Window System in 1988, and was issued a patent on a security system for X.
In 1993 he became employee #4 and chief scientist at Nvidia, and then joined Vitria Technology in 1996. In 1999 he rejoined Sun and was a distinguished engineer. He became chief scientist for the LOCKSS project, first at Sun and then since 2002 at Stanford University.
His research concerned computer data storage long-term protection techniques.
He holds 23 patents.
References
External links
DSHR's blog
British emigrants to the United States
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Stanford University staff
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Alumni of Imperial College London
American computer scientists
X Window System people
Nvidia people
Sun Microsystems people
Computer graphics professionals
1948 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVW%20mapping | UVW mapping is a mathematical technique for coordinate mapping. In computer graphics, it most commonly maps an object's surface in to a solid texture with UVW coordinates in , in contrast to UV mapping, which maps surfaces in to an image with UV coordinates in . The UVW mapping is suitable for painting an object's surface based on a solid texture. This allows a marble texture to wrap a vase to appear as if it were carved from actual marble. "UVW", like the standard Cartesian coordinate system, has three dimensions; the third dimension allows texture maps to wrap in complex ways onto irregular surfaces. Each point in a UVW map corresponds to a point on the surface of the object. The graphic designer or programmer generates the specific mathematical function to implement the map, so that points on the texture are assigned to (XYZ) points on the target surface. Generally speaking, the more orderly the unwrapped polygons are, the easier it is for the texture artist to paint features onto the texture. Once the texture is finished, all that has to be done is to wrap the UVW map back onto the object, projecting the texture in a way that is far more flexible and advanced, preventing graphic artifacts that accompany more simplistic texture mappings such as planar projection. For this reason, UVW mapping is commonly used to texture map non-platonic solids, non-geometric primitives, and other irregularly shaped objects, such as characters and furniture.
External links
UVW Mapping Tutorial
UVW Mapping Basics
Texture mapping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubeat | , stylized as jubeat, is a series of arcade music video games developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, and is a part of Konami's Bemani line of music video games. The series uses an arrangement of 16 buttons in a 4x4 grid for gameplay, a grid also used for the displaying of cues and part of the user interface.
The game went on several location tests in Asia since December 2007, and was released on July 24, 2008 in Japan, and December in Hong Kong and Macau (Mainland China didn't officially get the game until early 2010). Two attempts to localize the game for the United States market have been made since August 2008, including UBeat, a variant of the first version, and Jukebeat in 2009, a variant based on Jubeat Ripples.
A port of the game for the iOS, Jubeat Plus, was released on Apple's Japanese App Store in 2010, with a release in the US store, retitled Jukebeat like the 2009 location test, in 2011.
On April 1, 2021, Konami announced a major overhaul to Jubeat Plus via the official Jubeat Twitter account, rebranding it as Jubeat. On May 7, 2021, it was launched as a successor to both Jukebeat and Jubeat Plus on both Android and iOS.
The series' current arcade release is Jubeat Beyond the Ave, released on September 20, 2023.
Gameplay
The basic gameplay of the series is similar to Nintendo DS music games such as Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan and Elite Beat Agents and can be considered to be similar to Whac-A-Mole. Animated explosions or other animations, called "markers", that can be chosen at the song select screen are shown within the panels synced to a track of the player's choosing; when they reach a "hot point", which is dependent on the marker chosen, the player must tap the corresponding screen to score points. Taps can be judged as either Perfect, いい感じ (Good), 早い (Fast), or 遅い (Slow). 3 difficulties (Basic, Advanced, and Extreme) are offered for each song. As with other Konami games, an e-Amusement card can be used to save statistics and a player ranking, and can also be used to access unlockable songs. Single player and linked multiplayer modes with multiple cabinets are also offered. In the app version of Jubeat, players can choose from three different levels of difficulty, just like in the arcade version: basic, advanced and extreme.
Games in the series
jubeat (July 24, 2008)
jubeat ripples (August 5, 2009)
jubeat ripples APPEND (March 18, 2010)
jubeat knit (July 29, 2010)
jubeat knit APPEND (March 23, 2011)
jubeat copious (September 15, 2011)
jubeat copious APPEND (March 14, 2012)
jubeat saucer (September 25, 2012)
jubeat saucer fulfill (March 3, 2014)
jubeat prop (February 20, 2015)
jubeat Qubell (March 30, 2016)
jubeat clan (July 26, 2017)
jubeat festo (September 5, 2018)
jubeat Ave. (August 3, 2022)
jubeat beyond the Ave. (September 20, 2023)
References
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/jubeat-hands-on
External links
Jubeat official website
Jubeat ripples official website
Jubeat knit official website
Jubeat copious o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian%20Volunteers | Appalachian Volunteers (AV) was a non-profit organization engaged in community development projects in central Appalachia that evolved into a controversial community organizing network, with a reputation that went "from self-help to sedition" as its staff developed from "reformers to radicals," teaching things from Marx, Lenin and Mao, in the words of one historian, in the brief period between 1964 and 1970 during the War on Poverty.
Origins
The Appalachian Volunteers (AV) began as an activity of the Council of the Southern Mountains (CSM), which had been headquartered in Berea, Kentucky, since 1925. Following President Lyndon Johnson's State of the Union message of January 8, 1964, in which he announced his War on Poverty, CSM staff member Milton Ogle organized a group of students from Berea College to help repair a one-room school in Harlan County, Kentucky. During the following two months, students from other eastern Kentucky colleges were involved in similar weekend projects. A meeting was held at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Harlan County to formally organize the Appalachian Volunteers to expand such efforts. Representatives of the Kentucky Governor's office, the President's Appalachian Regional Commission, and the President's Committee for a War on Poverty were present to encourage college and school officials and to promise federal support. A $50,000 grant from the federal Area Redevelopment Administration to the CSM was arranged in March 1964 to fund AV activities during the rest of the year.
Program expansion
During 1964 the AV continued to expand the number of colleges involved in school renovation, cultural enrichment, and recreation programs for children in one and two room schools. A prototype summer project was tested by an AV staff member and three students, who spent eight weeks in Clay County, Kentucky, providing recreation and remedial work for the children in a remote hollow. A "Books for Appalachia" campaign, which collected over a million volumes, was begun in cooperation with the National Parent-Teacher Association.
Following the establishment of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) in fall 1964, the AV applied for a Community Action Program demonstration grant, and was awarded $300,000 in December to expand its program in 1965. The following spring the AV negotiated a $40,000 training grant with VISTA. The new funding allowed Ogle to hire staff, including Gibbs Kinderman, a recent Harvard graduate who had taken part in the Freedom Summer project in Mississippi in 1964. Also in spring 1965 the AVs received a $139,000 community action demonstration grant to support 150 college students for an eight-week summer project in eastern Kentucky. Half the students were recruited from the Kentucky colleges with active AV chapters, and the other half were recruited from colleges and universities in such major cities as Boston, Chicago and New York.
Break with the Council of the Southern Mountains
As the AV stude |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocidura%20hikmiya | Crocidura hikmiya (Sinharaja shrew or Sri Lankan rain forest shrew) is a species of shrew described from the rainforests of Sri Lanka, based on both morphological and molecular data. Its closest sister species is the Sri Lankan long-tailed shrew, another Sri Lankan crocidurine shrew restricted to the high-elevation habitats of the Central Highlands. C. hikmiya has a shorter tail than the Sri Lankan long-tailed shrew. Most of the other characteristics that distinguish the two species are osteological natured .
Etymology
The specific epithet hikmiya is Sinhala for ‘shrew’, applied here as a substantive in apposition. It is known as ශ්රී ලංකා සිංහරාජ කුනු හික් මීයා in Sinhala.
Habitat
It is known only from two forest-edge sites in Sinharaja Forest Reserve, at Kudawa and Morningside.
References
External links
Wildlife Extra - A New Species of Shrew Described in Sri Lanka
https://www.gbif.org/species/119382294
hikmiya
Mammals of Sri Lanka
Mammals described in 2007 |
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