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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipdive | Dipdive was a social networking website created by will.i.am. It is best known as the original source site of the 'Yes We Can' music video. The site allowed users to upload images, videos and audio files, post blog entries and create playlists. Dipdive was home to a variety of creative content and information on social causes.
The website was shut down at some time in 2013 and its domain was redirected to will.i.am's homepage. When asked about it in an interview with Fortune, will.i.am responded with "Ehh, I don’t want to do it anymore. I have something else I’m doing", insisting that "Dipdive wasn’t a failure" as the source code could potentially be reused in the future.
History
The site launched in an early Beta state when will.i.am launched the Barack Obama U.S. presidential election anthem video for 'Yes We Can' on February 2, 2008 and the video for We Are the Ones on February 29, 2008. 'It's a New Day' was subsequently uploaded to the site. The official launch of the full feature site was October 15, 2008 when Dipdive.com launched along with the UK release of will.i.am's third studio album, Songs About Girls. The site was created and is maintained by Dipdive LLC.
On February 22, 2009, will.i.am uploaded the full version of the previously-leaked 'Boom Boom Pow' (which would become a #1 hit) to the website and revealed that the Black Eyed Peas' official website would redirect to the new Black Eyed Peas channel on Dipdive.
Almost a year after will.i.am's last song for Barack Obama, he posted a song along with a blog on his profile about his opinion of Obama's reaction to Kanye West's controversy of Taylor Swift. The song was entitled 'The Jackass Song'.
Profiles
Each user had a profile page with a blog, media player and photo album. Users could choose a theme to personalize their profile, and subscribe to their favorite Dipdive Channels. A list of media (audio, video, pictures) added by the user's favorite Channels and friends was displayed in their profile. Users could befriend other Dipdive users and send private messages and webcam recordings. Users could opt to get notifications of content updates from their subscribed Channels and friends. Users could comment on content throughout the website.
Importing from other websites
After it was said that the Black Eyed Peas website would be closing, Dipdive allowed members to import their blogs, pictures and comments (from Dipdive members who had also imported data) from the Black Eyed Peas website.
Dipdive allowed users to show their latest Facebook status and Twitter 'tweet' on the "What's Up?" section of their profile and log in with their Facebook or Twitter credentials.
Channels
Channels were pages specially featured on Dipdive with their own themes. They had 'fans' who added them to their favorite channels. Some Channels included forums. There were once 42 channels on Dipdive, some of them belonging to The Black Eyed Peas, Kero One, Natalia Kills K'Naan and Kimberly Wyatt, former membe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Schindler | Paul E. Schindler Jr. (born September 17, 1952) is an American journalist known for being the software reviewer on the popular television program Computer Chronicles from 1985 to 1999. He worked for 20 years in computer journalism at CMP Technology and Ziff-Davis, including Computer Systems News, Information Systems News, Information Week, PC Week, Byte Magazine, and Windows Magazine.
A 1974 graduate of MIT, he now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and was a middle-school history teacher at the Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School in Moraga, California. Paul was also a contestant on Jeopardy! in 1985 as well as five other television game shows.
References
1952 births
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
People from Moraga, California
Benson Polytechnic High School alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20C.%20Butler | Gary C. Butler was the CEO and president of Automatic Data Processing. He held this position from August 2006 through November 2011, and had been with the company for 37 years. From 1990 to 1995, he served as Group President for ADP's Dealer Services Group; and from 1995 to 1998 he served in the same capacity for ADP's Employer Services Group. Prior to assuming his role as CEO in 2006, Butler was President and Chief Operating Officer of the company.
Work at ADP
Butler oversaw investments in new service offerings that use state-of-the-art technologies, set a path of growth that included strategic acquisitions in the U.S. and abroad, and directed the company's rapid global expansion into more than 40 countries on five continents.
Compensation
While CEO of Automatic Data Processing in 2008, Gary C. Butler earned a total compensation of $7,917,721, which included a base salary of $900,000, a cash bonus of $2,579,405, stocks granted of $1,951,688, options granted of $2,268,000, as well as $218,628 in other compensation.
Recognition
Honors given to Butler include:
Honored with the Pace University “Leadership and Service in Technology Award” in 2011
Degrees and Professional Involvement
Butler received a bachelor of industrial engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1968 and an MBA from the University of Georgia in 1970. He served on the boards of ADP, Liberty Mutual Group, DeVry, Inc., CIT Group, Convergys Corporation and CareerBuilder. He is a past member of Business Roundtable and The Economic Club of New York.
Personal Information
Butler was the father of two children. He was the Senior Trustee of the Gary C. Butler Charitable Family Foundation. On November 6, 2011, he was arrested for domestic charges, just days prior to his supposed planned retirement announcement from ADP. On August 13, 2012 the South Carolina Solicitor's office dismissed all criminal domestic charges against him. On April 10, 2023, Butler passed away at his home in Sarasota, Florida.
References
Living people
Georgia Tech alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
ADP (company)
Terry College of Business alumni
American chief executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTP%27 | GTP' (GTP prime) is an IP based protocol used within GSM and UMTS networks. It can be used with UDP or TCP. GTP' uses the same message structure as GTP (GTP-C, GTP-U), but it is largely a separate protocol. GTP' uses registered UDP/TCP port 3386.
GTP' can be used for carrying charging data from the "Charging Data Function" (CDF) of the GSM or UMTS network to the "Charging Gateway Function" (CGF). In most cases, this should mean from many individual network elements such as the GGSNs to a centralised computer which then delivers the charging data more conveniently to the network operator's billing center.
GTP' is used on the Ga interface within the 3GPP GPRS Core Network definition.
GTP' reuses aspects of GTP, although to quote 3GPP TS 32.295, "only the signalling plane of GTP is partly reused". GTP' defines a different header, additional messages, field values, as well as a synchronisation protocol to avoid losing or duplicating CDRs on CGF or SGSN/GGSN failure. Transferred CDRs, if following 3GPP standards, are encoded in ASN.1.
Header
GTP' v1 and v2 headers contain the following fields
Version The first header field in a GTP' packet is the 3-bit version field. For GTP' v2, this has a value of 2 (hence the name GTP' v2).
Protocol Type (PT) a 1-bit value that differentiates GTP' (value 0) from GTP (value 1).
Reserved a 3-bit reserved field (must be 1's).
Header Length (Hdr len) a 1-bit value that for GTP' version 0 indicates if using a 20 byte header (value 0) (as per GTP) or this 6 byte header. This bit must be unset (value 0) for subsequent GTP' versions and in these does not indicate the header length as this must always be 6 bytes.
Message Type An 8-bit field that states the message type. Possible values:
Length A 16-bit field that states the length of the packet being encapsulated by GTP' (not including the GTP' header itself).
Sequence Number A 16-bit field that uniquely identifies this packet and allows detection of loss or duplication
Message Types
GTP' uses the GTP Version Not Supported, Echo Request and Echo Response messages unchanged, but adds the following messages
Node Alive Request
Node Alive Response
Redirection Request
Redirection Response
Data Record Transfer Request
Data Record Transfer Response
Node Alive Request / Response
The Node Alive messages are used to advise other network components that a node has started service. The request is sent from the node starting and so provides a faster method to re-enable service than polling using Echo Request/Response does. This message can also be used to advise of other nodes coming back into service, and (in GTP' version 2) to advise of the IPv6 address of the CGF.
Redirection Request/Response
The Redirection messages are used to:
divert the flow of CDRs from the CDFs (SGSN/GGSN) to another CGF when the sender is being removed from service (for maintenance/failure).
advise that the CGF has lost its connection to a downstream system
In either case the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20railway%20stations%20in%20Essex | This is a list of railway stations in Essex, a county in the East of England. It includes all railway stations that are part of the National Rail network, and which currently have timetabled train services. The Central line of the London Underground and Heritage railway stations within Essex are not listed.
Rail operators
The main operator in the county is Greater Anglia, operated by Abellio and Mitsui. They operate services from Liverpool Street in London to all parts of the county, including commuter services within Essex, and longer distance services to Norwich and Peterborough. Greater Anglia also operate the Stansted Express service from London to Stansted Airport. The other major operators in Essex are c2c, a subsidiary of Trenitalia, who operate services from London's Fenchurch Street to Southend-on-Sea, and the Elizabeth line, operated by MTR Corporation for Transport for London, who operate services from Reading via central London to Shenfield. The Arriva subsidiary CrossCountry operate long-distance services from the West Midlands to Stansted Airport. CrossCountry also serve Audley End.
Stations
The following table lists the name of each station, along with (where known) the year it first opened and the local authority in whose area the station lies. The table also shows the train operators who currently serve each station, and the final two columns give information on the number of passengers using each station in recent years, as collated by the Office of Rail Regulation, a Government body. The figures are based on ticket sales, and are given to the nearest 100.
See also
List of London Underground stations
Closed London Underground stations
List of railway stations in Kent
Footnotes
moved in 1869 to accommodate through running of trains to Bishops Stortford. The site of the original station became a goods yard.
Southend Central was rebuilt in 1889, and enlarged in 1899.
References
External links
National Rail Enquiries
Essex
Railway stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simyo | Simyo is a brand for various mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in Europe. In the Netherlands, it is owned by KPN. In Spain, it is owned by Orange España.
The brand previously was active in France (owned by Bouygues, discontinued in 2015), in Germany (owned by Telefonica, discontinued in 2016, replaced by Blau), and Belgium (owned by KPN, discontinued in 2017).
History
The company was founded in May 2005 as a joint-venture with E-Plus. Its headquarters are in Düsseldorf led by Nicolas Biagosch, the current CEO. The success of the pioneer Tchibo late 2004 (in a 50-50 cooperation with O2) and Simyo's entry into the German mobile telephony market in early 2005 were followed by several similar offers from other low-cost providers around mid-2005 resulting in a general price decline in the German mobile market.
The German provider Mobilcom first tried to stop Simyo with an injunction, as E-Plus hadn't granted the same conditions to other providers and hadn't given sufficient notice about the start of the mobile offering. The Federal Network Agency decided this case on 12 July 2005 in favor of Simyo, and justified this by saying that:
"The simyo offer was not simply a new tariff, but a new product. In light of its commercial, technical and marketing philosophy which has renounced costly, hitherto widely found features, it differed in essential details from conventional prepaid products."
In Germany, it was marketed with the slogan "Weil Einfach einfach einfach ist.", notable for its word repetition. It roughly translates into "because simple is simply simple" or "because easy is simply easy".
On 3 January 2007, E-Plus announced the complete takeover of Simyo. Simyo does not own a wireless network but, as an MVNO, uses the network infrastructure of its parent company. In May 2010, Nicolas Biagosch took over as CEO from Rolf Hansen. Simyo is part of the E-Plus Group which has 22.7 million subscribers (Dec 2011).
Simyo belongs to the Dutch telecommunications group KPN, after acquisition of the remainder of E-Plus on March 14. 2002. In Spain, Simyo has been operating under the trade name of Simyo as an MVNO since January 29, 2008 through the Orange network. KPN sold its stake in Simyo France on December 22, 2011 to Bouygues Telecom, KPN's main mobile partner in France. KPN lost control of the German Simyo operations in 2014 when it sold E-Plus to Telefonica, although it retained a financial investment in Telefónica Germany.
Simyo bases its business strategy on "Self-management via the Internet", using a model similar to that originally made popular by online banks. This business structure permits considerable cost savings, which the operator passes on in its rates. Another aspect that helps to cut costs is that they do not subsidise handsets.
Simyo Nederland
Simyo Nederland acquired customers from Debitel (October 23, 2008) and Tringg (May 14, 2011) when KPN acquired these stakes in the Netherlands.
References
External links
Simyo Netherl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarlac%E2%80%93Pangasinan%E2%80%93La%20Union%20Expressway | The Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway (TPLEX), signed as E1 of the Philippine expressway network and R-8 of the Metro Manila arterial road network, is a controlled-access toll expressway that connects the Central Luzon region with the Ilocos Region. From its northern terminus at Rosario in La Union to its southern terminus at Tarlac City, the expressway has a length of , cutting through the various provinces in northern Central Luzon. Despite that the name only stating the provinces of Tarlac, Pangasinan, and La Union, the expressway also passes the province of Nueva Ecija (without any exits there) in addition to the three provinces mentioned before.
While proposals for a construction of an expressway system from Metro Manila to La Union had been raised before the 2000s, the construction of the TPLEX only began in January 27, 2010. The expressway began operations on October 31, 2013. The final section from Pozorrubio to Rosario was opened to motorists on July 15, 2020.
Route description
TPLEX follows a route that parallels the MacArthur Highway, running through the provinces of Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan, and La Union. The expressway has four lanes, two per direction, separated by Jersey barriers. Sections by exits, toll plazas, viaducts, and their approaches are illuminated at night. Significant sections are built on embankments overlooking rice paddy fields. The expressway crosses the four rivers in the Pangasinan province. The rivers along the TPLEX are the Agno River, Binalonan River, Aloragat River, and the Bued River.
The Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway starts in Tarlac City as an extension of the Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway. The expressway passes through the municipalities of Victoria, Pura, Ramos, and Anao. Significant stretches of the expressway in Tarlac are built on embankments, and existing roads cross through underpasses built on cuts in the embankment. The road passes to Nampicuan and Cuyapo in Nueva Ecija without exit before entering Ilocos Region and Pangasinan, at the municipality of Rosales.
The Pangasinan and Ilocos Region segment of TPLEX starts at the Rosales municipality. The expressway then crosses through a viaduct over the Agno River, then enters Urdaneta, which is served by a single interchange to connect with Manila North Road. The Urdaneta exit was the expressway's northern terminus before the extension to Binalonan. Past Urdaneta Exit, TPLEX crosses above the Manila North Road, then passes over Binalonan and Pozorrubio. The last exit in the province is Sison, still under construction and not yet included in the opening of the main carriageway.
Past the Sison exit, the expressway crosses as a viaduct over the Bued River. The road then enters the Rosario municipality, where the main northern toll plaza is located. Past the Rosario toll plaza, a spur road connects to the Rosario rotunda. This is the expressway's northern terminus. Proposals have been raised to extend the project to Laoag ,Ilocos No |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Statistical%20Meetings | The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) is a professional conference/academic conference for statisticians and data scientists held annually every year since 1840 (usually in August). Billed as "the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America", JSM has attracted over 5000 participants in recent years. The following statistical societies are designated as official JSM partners:
the American Statistical Association (ASA)
the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
two regions of the International Biometric Society (IBS)
the Eastern North American Region (ENAR)
the Western North American Region (WNAR)
the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)
International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA)
International Indian Statistical Association (IISA)
Korean International Statistical Society (KISS)
The founding members of JSM were the ASA, IMS, IBS, and SSC.
In addition to committee meetings, JSM activities include
a career placement service
continuing education courses
oral presentations
panel sessions
plenary sessions
poster sessions
Future Meetings
Past Meetings
Since 1978 when attendance figures were first reported.
References
External links
Joint Statistical Meetings
Joint Statistical Meetings Defined on Google
Other Abbreviations for JSM
Statistical societies
Mathematics conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus%20%28monitoring%20software%29 | Argus is a systems and network monitoring application.
It is designed to monitor the status of network services, servers, and other network hardware. It will send alerts when it detects problems.
It is open-source software originally written entirely in Perl, but nowadays in Go,
and provides a web based interface.
Overview
Can monitor most network services.
Supports both IPv4 and IPv6
Includes graphing.
Web based front end.
Can monitor tens-of-thousands of services on common PC hardware.
Supports distributed and redundant configurations.
Configured using simple text files.
Details
Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, ICMP, SNMP, FTP, Telnet, SSH, Gopher, NFS, DNS, Radius, IAX2, SIP, SunRPC, Whois, Rwhois, LPD, NTP)
Monitoring of server resources: system load, network load, and disk usage, using an agent.
Monitoring of the results of any command or script.
Monitoring is easily extendable through user-written scripts.
See also
Comparison of network monitoring systems
External links
argus.tcp4me.com
github.com/jaw0/argus
Free network management software
Multi-agent network management software
tr:Argus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Overground%20Rail%20Operations | London Overground Rail Operations Limited was a train operating company contracted to operate the London Overground train service on the National Rail network, under the franchise control of Transport for London. The company was a 50/50 joint venture between Arriva UK Trains and MTR Corporation.
History
On 20 February 2006, the Department for Transport announced that Transport for London would take over management of services then provided by Silverlink Metro.
In June 2006, Transport for London announced that Govia, MTR/Laing Rail, National Express and NedRail had been shortlisted to bid for the London Rail Concession. In September 2006, Transport for London announced that the extended East London Line would be included, and the operation branded London Overground.
In June 2007, Transport for London awarded the concession to MTR Laing, and operations started on 11 November 2007. The concession was for six years, four months until 31 March 2014 with a two-year extension option. The option was taken up with the concession to end on 12 November 2016.
In December 2007, Henderson Group, the parent company of John Laing plc, announced the sale of the Laing Rail division, which comprised half of LOROL, Chiltern Railways and a stake in the Wrexham & Shropshire open-access railway operator. In April 2008, Laing Rail was bought by the German Government's rail operator Deutsche Bahn, which now holds a 50% stake in LOROL. The price was said to be around €170 million. Laing Rail became part of DB Regio, before a restructuring saw it moved under the control of Arriva UK Trains.
In April 2015, Transport for London placed a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union, inviting expressions of interest in operating the next concession. On 31 May 2015, London Overground Rail Operations took over the Liverpool Street to Enfield Town, Cheshunt (via Seven Sisters) and Chingford services, as well as the Romford to Upminster service, from Abellio Greater Anglia.
In July 2015, Transport for London announced the shortlisted bidders for the next concession were Arriva UK Trains, ComfortDelGro, a Keolis/Go-Ahead joint venture and MTR Corporation. In March 2016, Arriva Rail London was awarded the concession commencing 13 November 2016.
Services
London Overground operates these services:
East London line: Highbury & Islington to West Croydon/Crystal Palace; Dalston Junction to New Cross/Clapham Junction
Gospel Oak to Barking line: Gospel Oak to Barking
North London line: Richmond to Stratford
Watford DC line: Watford Junction to Euston
West London line: Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction
South London line: Dalston Junction to Clapham Junction
Lea Valley line: Liverpool Street to Cheshunt and Enfield Town via Seven Sisters, and Chingford via Clapton
Romford–Upminster line: Romford to Upminster
Rolling stock
London Overground inherited a fleet of Class 150 Sprinter diesel multiple units, and Class 313 and Class 508 electric multiple units, from Silv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off%20the%20Ground%20%28song%29 | "Off the Ground" is a rock/pop song by Paul McCartney and is from the album from the same name. This was one of McCartney's first songs made using a computer. The video can be seen on the DVD collection, The McCartney Years. The video was shot by Industrial Light & Magic. Some behind the scenes footage can be seen on the out of print VHS, Movin' On. The video features "Soggy Noodle", a short acoustic piece played as an intro which can be found as a B-side on the single release. In the US, it reached number 27 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
The song was played live during The New World Tour that followed the release of the album; however, the song was not included on the live album, Paul Is Live.
Track listings
7" single
"Off the Ground"
"Cosmically Conscious"
CD single
"Off the Ground" – 3:38
"Cosmically Conscious" – 4:39
"Style Style" – 5:59
"Sweet Sweet Memories" – 4:02
"Soggy Noodle"
Charts
References
Paul McCartney songs
1993 singles
1993 songs
Songs written by Paul McCartney
Song recordings produced by Paul McCartney
Music published by MPL Music Publishing
Song recordings produced by Julian Mendelsohn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAQI | WAQI (710 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Miami, Florida, United States, featuring a Spanish-language talk format known as . Owned by Latino Media Network and operated by Uforia Audio Network, the radio division of TelevisaUnivision, under a transitional agreement, the station broadcasts with 50,000 watts and serves as South Florida's designated primary entry point for the Emergency Alert System, one of three in the state. The studios are located at Univision's Miami headquarters, and the transmitter is located at the intersection of U.S. 41 and Florida State Road 997, near the edge of the Everglades.
The history of today's WAQI begins with the establishment of WFTL in Fort Lauderdale in 1939. The tiny local station raised its profile by switching to its present frequency in 1943 and becoming the highest-power station in Florida at the time. It was acquired by George B. Storer in 1944 after a controversial acquisition that resulted in government scrutiny, moving to Miami the next year. WGBS grew into a 50,000-watt station, and Storer became headquartered in Miami, starting first an FM station and an ill-fated TV station. It generally aired an adult music format after the 1950s. When Storer opted to exit radio at the end of 1978, Jefferson-Pilot Communications purchased its Miami radio properties, converting the low-rated WGBS to a talk format in February 1983.
In 1985, Jefferson-Pilot sold WGBS to buy WNWS (790 AM), then its direct competitor, merging the two stations' programming on the 790 frequency that had a better signal into Broward County. The 710 facility, with its strong signal into Cuba, was then spun off to Cuban-American businessman Amancio Suárez, resulting in the foundation of WAQI Radio Mambí. Known for its hardline anticommunist stance from the start, Mambí has ranked among the most popular Spanish-language stations in South Florida and is also jammed by the Cuban government; however, it has also been criticized for disseminating disinformation, particularly by groups on the left. Sales of Radio Mambí in 1995 and 2022 have attracted attention in political circles.
WFTL in Fort Lauderdale
On January 10, 1939, Tom M. Bryan filed for a construction permit to build a new local radio station to serve Fort Lauderdale on the frequency of 1370 kHz, with 250 watts during the day and 100 at night. The Federal Communications Commission granted Bryan the permit on July 12, 1939, and on December 3, 1939, WFTL made its first broadcasts from studios and a transmitter site on Andrews Avenue. Bryan had brought other pioneering local businesses to Lauderdale prior to building WFTL; these included the city's first ice plant and telephone company. The station upgraded nighttime power to 250 watts in 1940 and moved to 1400 kHz in 1941 with the frequency changes of NARBA.
In February 1941, Bryan filed to sell WFTL to Ralph A. Horton. While there was concern that the association of Horton with a local newspaper, the morning Fort Lauder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQBA | WQBA (1140 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish talk/sports format. Licensed to Miami, Florida, United States, the station is owned by Latino Media Network; under a local marketing agreement, it is operated by former owner TelevisaUnivision's Uforia Audio Network with programming from TUDN Radio. Previous call letters were WMIE, owned by Susquehanna Broadcasting.
1140 AM is a United States and Mexican clear-channel frequency on which XEMR-AM in Apodaca, Nuevo León and WRVA in Richmond, Virginia are the Class A stations. WQBA must reduce power and use a highly directional array during nighttime hours in order to prevent interference to the skywave signals of the Class A stations.
History
In 1976, The Miami Herald stated that the station, which ran a news program presented by Emilio Milián, had the largest audience of any in the Miami metropolitan area.
On December 20, 2016, Univision announced that WQBA would be one of the charter affiliates of Univision Deportes Radio, their new Spanish-language sports network launched in April 2017.
WQBA was one of eighteen radio stations that TelevisaUnivision sold to Latino Media Network in a $60 million deal announced in June 2022, approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that November, and completed on December 30, 2022. Under the terms of the deal, Univision agreed to continue programming the station for up to one year under a local marketing agreement.
References
External links
1140 WQBA's website
FCC History Cards for WQBA
Cuban-American culture in Miami
Hispanic and Latino American culture in Miami
QBA
Talk radio stations in the United States
Sports radio stations in the United States
QBA
1952 establishments in Florida
Radio stations established in 1952 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habari | Habari was a free and open source blog engine written in PHP and currently supports MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL for the database backend. It got its name from the Swahili greeting habari, which means "(what's the) news".
The last release was on September 16, 2014. The Habari website is no longer working, but the source code is still available on the project's GitHub page.
Features
Modular, object-oriented core for easy extensibility
Supports multiple database backends
Uses prepared statements throughout to protect against SQL injection attacks
Media silos to directly access various ways of media storage, like Flickr, or the server's file system
Atom Publishing Protocol support
Multiple users (authors) supported
Multiple sites on one installation supported (such as blog1.example.com and blog2.example.com) (note, however, that Habari does not yet support multiple blogs on one domain such as http://example.com/blog1 and http://example.com/blog2
Support for static content ("pages")
Plugin support
Tag support
WordPress importer
History
The Habari project was started in October 2006 to develop a modern blogging platform. The focus is on utilizing current technology, such as PHP 5, PHP Data Objects, and object-oriented programming, and the support of modern standards, such as the Atom Publishing Protocol.
The first "developer release" was released on April 3, 2007. Habari 0.2 followed on August 4, version 0.3 on November 5, version 0.4 on February 22, version 0.5 on July 27, 2008, version 0.6 on April 6, 2009, version 0.7 on April 1, 2011, version 0.8 on 13 December 2011, version 0.9 on 20 November 2012, version 0.9.1 on April 3, 2013, version 0.9.2 on September 16, 2014.
Habari was a finalist in the 2008 SourceForge Community Choice Awards in the category of Best New Project.
Release history
This table contains the release history of Habari.
References
External links
Announcement at chrisjdavis.org
BloggingPro: Habari, A New Blogging Tool
Mention by Matt Mullenweg, WordPress head developer
Smashing Magazine: 10 Weblog Engines Reviewed Honorable Mention
Blog software
Free software programmed in PHP
Free content management systems
Content management systems
Website management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%202008 | The 50th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 4 May 2008 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. For the first time in the Logie Awards 50-year history, there was no host for the ceremony, but only a series of presenters. Also for the first time, the public were able to vote online for the "Most Popular" categories without needing to buy a copy of TV Week. The nominations were announced on 7 April 2008. Hamish Blake and Andy Lee were the backstage hosts, while Jules Lund, Livinia Nixon and Shelley Craft were the red carpet arrivals hosts.
Winners and nominees
In the tables below, winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
Gold Logie
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Programs
Most Outstanding Programs
Performers
Top 10 finalists from So You Think You Can Dance Australia
The Last Goodnight – "Pictures of You"
Westlife – "Something Right"
Vanessa Amorosi – "Perfect"
Chris Lilley as Mr G – "Naughty Girl"
Hall of Fame
John Clarke became the 25th inductee into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame.
References
External links
2008
2008 television awards
2008 in Australian television
2008 awards in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Pinophytes
Angiosperms
Newly described insects
Molluscs
Bivalves
Fish
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Pterosaurs
Fossil jaw fragments containing multicusped teeth were found in Dockum Group rocks in western Texas. One fragment, apparently from a lower jaw, contained two teeth, each with five cusps. Another fragment, from an upper jaw, also contained several multi-cusped teeth. These finds are very similar to the pterosaur genus Eudimorphodon and may be attributable to this genus, although without better fossil remains it is impossible to be sure.
New taxa
Synapsids
Mammals
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 6 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberCode | CyberCode is a visual tagging system based on a 2D barcode technology. Designed to be read by low-cost CMOS or CCD cameras common in mobile devices, it can also be used to determine the 3D position of the tagged object as well as its ID number.
A CyberCode tag is a 2D barcode symbology designed to be read from many angles. A computer with attached camera can locate the tag and decode the data within the 2D barcode. Visual fiduciary markers surrounding the barcode allow the computer to quickly locate the tag within the field of view of the camera. Additionally, the design of the CyberCode tag allows the computer to track position and orientation in three dimensions.
These features allow the tags to be used for augmented reality applications. CyberCode tags affixed to real-world objects would allow the user to view the world through the camera and have the computer overlay additional information over the display. The information encoded in the barcode identifies the object, and because of the tag's design, the computer can detect the orientation of the object relative to the viewer.
The main limitation of CyberCode is its extremely limited capacity. Holding only 24 data bits plus 7 error correction bits (or 48+14 in a double-sized variant), the number of objects it can identify is limited.
Examples
In the video game "Eye of Judgment", CyberCode tags are printed on collectible cards. The surface where the cards are played is situated in front of a camera and the image is shown on the screen. When cards are placed in front of a camera, the computer displays a 3D model over the image of the card. As the card is moved and rotated on the playing surface, the computer can re-orient the 3D model to the new position of the card.
Some other, hypothetical examples include:
A CyberCode tag is printed next to each diagram in an anatomy textbook. A student, equipped with a video-enabled phone or computer can quickly bring up a 3D version of the diagram on the computer and rotate and zoom to get a better view.
An auto mechanic, equipped with video goggles could look at an engine and have diagnostic information overlain on the actual engine he is working on.
CyberCode tags placed on products in a store would allow a shopper with a camera-equipped phone or PDA to quickly reference additional information such as videos of the product in use or consumer reviews.
CyberCode tags in print advertisements could allow readers to quickly bookmark the manufacturer's website without the need to type the address into the computer.
See also
mobile tagging
References
External links
Matrix: A Realtime Object Identification and Registration Method for Augmented Reality - Developer Jun Rekimoto's page on CyberCode
Barcodes
Automatic identification and data capture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shredding%20%28disassembling%20genomic%20data%29 | Shredding refers to the process in bioinformatics of taking assembled gene sequences and disassembling them into short sequences of usually 500 to 750 base pairs (bp). This is generally done for the purpose of taking the short shredded sequences and reapplying various analysis and bioinformatic techniques. Being able to cut DNA samples and then run them through gel electrophoresis to study each strand in order to help find cures for diseases or illnesses is also another purpose.
The most common tool or enzyme used to shred DNA into fragments is CAS9. Clustered regularly interspaces short palindromic repeats(CRISPR) - Cas9 allows genetic material to be either altered, removed or added at specific locations. CRISPR-Cas 9 consists of guide RNA (gRNA) and the enzyme(Cas9). This enzyme is able to cut DNA the exactly as wanted without making a mistake. There are also many other enzymes that help with shredding such as CASX or CAS3. CAS3 is a shredding tool but is not as accurate as CAS9 and may lead to random DNA strands being deleted.
History
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) was first found by Rosalind Franklin. She discovered that DNA exists in species by taking multiple x-rays until she found an "X" looking diagram. She did not actually know much about it other than it exists. She died a few years later due to a massive amount of exposure to x-rays. James Watson and Francis Cricket then used Rosalind's discovery and looked further into it. They discovered the structure of DNA. They were the first to know that DNA has a double helix after the analysis of the x-rays.
With time, DNA fragments were discovered. They first studied DNA on very simplistic organisms. This is because the human DNA strand is very complex compared to an organism like a fruit fly, which has much simpler genes. The scientists did various experiments using simplistic genes and worked their way into much harder genes. They did various cutting to specific genes to see what would occur.
Human Genome Project
The process of shredding was used successfully several times during the analysis phase of the human genome project. The first phase of the human genome project is called the "shotgun phase". During this phase human chromosomes are 1). Divided into DNA segments of equal size and then 2). Subdivided into even smaller DNA segments. The overall goal is to get DNA segments into small sizes in order to be able to test run them.
References
Further reading
Bioinformatics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20Health%20Network | The Financial Health Network, formerly known as the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI), is a nonprofit financial services consultancy headquartered in Chicago, specializing in serving unbanked and underbanked consumers.
An affiliate of ShoreBank Corporation, CFSI grew out of a research project conducted in 2002 by a division of ShoreBank on behalf of the Ford Foundation to examine the gap between supply and demand of financial services for low-income consumers as well as potential strategies to close it. The project, authored by Ellen Seidman and Jennifer Tescher showed that millions of Americans are faced with an inadequate supply of well-designed, reasonably-priced financial products and services to both meet short-term needs and provide opportunities for longer-term wealth creation.
Work
CFSI serves the industry in three primary ways: as an educator, conducting research and disseminating it widely; as a broker, connecting people and organizations within the industry; and as an investor, funding both for-profits and nonprofits. It has partnered with tax preparation firms to help underbanked consumers file their taxes. It regularly provides research grants for financial services researchers. It has researched mobile-banking in connection to the underbanked. It is the sponsor of the annual Underbanked Financial Services Forum, the leading event in this industry.
An April 2013 press release indicated that the Center's Financial Capability Innovation Fund II (FCIF II) would be distributing $2.5 million in grants to eight non-profit organizations, with the goal of supporting efforts to "help consumers improve their credit scores, increase their savings, and avoid unnecessary transaction fees."
See also
ShoreBank
Political and Economic Research Council—a Chapel Hill, NC-based think tank dealing in the same issue area
References
External links
CFSI website
Financial services companies of the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20WWE%20television%20programming | The following is a list of all WWE television programs. It also includes programming produced under the Capitol Wrestling Corporation (CWC), World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and World Wrestling Entertainment banners. WWE airs multiple television programs all over the world in a wide-range of mediums, including on pay-per-view, on video on demand services, and via the web. WWE's three flagship programs are Raw, SmackDown, and NXT.
Current television programming
In-ring shows
Premium Live Events (1985–present)
From 2022, the WWE began using the term "premium live event" for its pay-per-views airing on traditional PPV and its WWE Network over-the-top streaming service. The Premium Live Events WWE hold currently are:
Raw (1993–present)
WWE Raw, also referred to as Monday Night Raw is WWE's main weekly Monday night wrestling program. It currently airs on the USA Network in the United States.
SmackDown (1999–present)
WWE SmackDown, also referred to as Friday Night SmackDown is a weekly program that debuted in 1999. It currently airs on the Fox network in the US.
Tribute to the Troops (2003–present)
WWE Tribute to the Troops is an annual event and television series produced by WWE.
NXT (2010–present)
WWE NXT is a weekly television program broadcast that airs Tuesdays on the USA Network.
Main Event (2012–present)
WWE Main Event is a weekly television show produced by WWE.
NXT Level Up (2022–present)
NXT Level Up is a weekly television show produced by WWE.
Studio shows
Free for All (1996–present)
Free For All is a monthly studio television show produced by WWE.
Bottom Line (2002–present)
Bottom Line is a weekly studio television show produced by WWE.
Afterburn (2002–present)
Afterburn is a weekly studio television show produced by WWE.
Vintage (2008–present)
Vintage is a weekly studio television show produced by WWE.
This Week in WWE (2009–present)
This Week in WWE is a weekly studio show produced by WWE.
Wal3ooha (2017–present)
Wal3ooha is a weekly studio show produced by WWE for the Middle East and North Africa market.
Sunday Dhamaal (2017–present)
Sunday Dhamaal is a weekly studio show produced by WWE for the Indian market.
Blockbusters (2020–present)
Blockbusters is a daily studio show produced by WWE for the Indian market.
Dhamaal League (2020–present)
Dhamaal League is a daily studio show produced by WWE for the Indian market.
Other shows
Miz & Mrs. (2018–present)
Miz & Mrs. is a seasonal reality television show televised on the USA Network featuring The Miz and Maryse.
Biography: WWE Legends (2021–present)
Biography: WWE Legends is a television series produced by WWE and A&E.
WWE's Most Wanted Treasures (2021–present)
WWE's Most Wanted Treasures is a television series produced by WWE and A&E.
Evil (2022–present)
Hosted by John Cena, WWE Evil is an eight-part docuseries on Peacock that examines WWE villains.
Rivals (2022–present)
Hosted by Freddie Prinze Jr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo%20Tuesday%20%282005%29 | The 2005 Taboo Tuesday was the second annual Taboo Tuesday/Cyber Sunday professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw brand division. The event took place on November 1, 2005, at the iPayOne Center in San Diego, California. The theme of the event was that fans were given the chance to vote on stipulations for the matches. The voting for the event started on October 24, 2005, and ended during the event. It was also the final event titled Taboo Tuesday, as the following year, the event was moved to the traditional Sunday nights for PPVs and was renamed as Cyber Sunday.
Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card. The main event was a Triple Threat match, a standard match involving three wrestlers, for the WWE Championship. In this match, John Cena defeated Kurt Angle and Shawn Michaels to retain his title. Two bouts were featured on the undercard. In a retrospective singles matches for the WWE Intercontinental Championship, Ric Flair defeated Triple H in a Steel cage match, which is fought in a cage with four sheets of mesh metal around, in, or against the edges of the wrestling ring, in which Flair won by escaping the cage and having both feet touch the arena floor. The other featured an Interpromotional tag team match where Rey Mysterio Jr. and Matt Hardy (SmackDown!) defeated Chris Masters and Snitsky (Raw).
Taboo Tuesday received 174,000 pay-per-view buys, which was the same amount as the previous year's event. The professional wrestling section of the Canadian Online Explorer website rated the entire event 7 out of 10 stars, higher than the 2004 event rating of 5 out of 10 stars.
Production
Background
In 2004, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) held an event entitled Taboo Tuesday. It was the first regularly-scheduled pay-per-view by WWE on a Tuesday since 1991's This Tuesday in Texas, the first regularly-scheduled non-Sunday pay-per-view since the 1994 Survivor Series, and the first non-Sunday pay-per-view of any kind since In Your House 8: Beware of Dog 2 in 1996. The event was also produced exclusively for wrestlers of the Raw brand. A unique feature of the event was the ability for fans to vote on certain aspects of every match. Because of this, the event was billed as an "interactive pay-per-view." The 2005 event, which was also a Raw-exclusive PPV, was held on November 1 at the iPayOne Center in San Diego, California. It was the second Taboo Tuesday event, thus establishing the interactive PPV as an annual event for the promotion.
Storylines
Unlike other WWE pay-per-views, where stipulations were determined by WWE's creative staff, this was the second event where stipulations for matches were determined by votes from WWE fans conducted on WWE's official website. The event was scheduled to feature eight professional wrestling matches. Although the stipulations resulted from votes by WWE fans, d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ace%20of%20Cakes%20episodes | The following is an episode list of the Food Network series, Ace of Cakes.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2006)
Season 2 (2007)
Season 3 (2007)
Season 4 (2008)
Season 5 (2008)
Season 6 (2009)
Season 7 (2009)
Season 8 (2010)
Season 9 (2010)
Season 10 (2011)
References
External links
Ace of Cakes official website at Food Network
Ace of Cakes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCZ | CCZ (in capital letters) may mean:
Congestion Charging Zone, a car traffic-reducing policy
Operation Cyber Condition Zebra, a network operations campaign
Coca-Cola Zero, the second published Diet version of Coke
Clarion-Clipperton Zone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered%20dithering | Ordered dithering is an image dithering algorithm. It is commonly used to display a continuous image on a display of smaller color depth. For example, Microsoft Windows uses it in 16-color graphics modes. The algorithm is characterized by noticeable crosshatch patterns in the result.
Threshold map
The algorithm reduces the number of colors by applying a threshold map to the pixels displayed, causing some pixels to change color, depending on the distance of the original color from the available color entries in the reduced palette.
Threshold maps come in various sizes, which is typically a power of two:
The map may be rotated or mirrored without affecting the effectiveness of the algorithm. This threshold map (for sides with length as power of two) is also known as an index matrix or Bayer matrix.
Arbitrary size threshold maps can be devised with a simple rule: First fill each slot with a successive integer. Then reorder them such that the average distance between two successive numbers in the map is as large as possible, ensuring that the table "wraps" around at edges. For threshold maps whose dimensions are a power of two, the map can be generated recursively via:
This function can also be expressed using only bit arithmetic:
M(i, j) = bit_reverse(bit_interleave(bitwise_xor(i, j), i)) / n ^ 2
Pre-calculated threshold maps
Rather than storing the threshold map as a matrix of × integers from 0 to , depending on the exact hardware used to perform the dithering, it may be beneficial to pre-calculate the thresholds of the map into a floating point format, rather than the traditional integer matrix format shown above.
For this, the following formula can be used:
Mpre(i,j) = (Mint(i,j)+1) / n^2
This generates a standard threshold matrix.
for the 2×2 map:
this creates the pre-calculated map:
Additionally, normalizing the values to average out their sum to 0 (as done in the dithering algorithm shown below) can be done during pre-processing as well by subtracting from every value:
Mpre(i,j) = (Mint(i,j)+1) / n^2 – 0.5
creating the pre-calculated map:
Algorithm
The ordered dithering algorithm renders the image normally, but for each pixel, it offsets its color value with a corresponding value from the threshold map according to its location, causing the pixel's value to be quantized to a different color if it exceeds the threshold.
For most dithering purposes, it is sufficient to simply add the threshold value to every pixel (without performing normalization by subtracting ), or equivalently, to compare the pixel's value to the threshold: if the brightness value of a pixel is less than the number in the corresponding cell of the matrix, plot that pixel black, otherwise, plot it white. This lack of normalization slightly increases the average brightness of the image, and causes almost-white pixels to not be dithered. This is not a problem when using a gray scale palette (or any palette where the relative color distances are (nea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calders | Calders is a municipality in the comarca of the Moianès in Catalonia, Spain. Until May 2015 it was part of Bages.
References
External links
Official website
Government data pages
Municipalities in Moianès |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lilly%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | John Lilly is a venture capitalist and former CEO of Mozilla. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Open Source Applications Foundation and Code for America. He earned his B.S. in computer systems engineering and M.S. in computer science from Stanford University.
Career
Reactivity
Lilly co-founded and served the CTO for Reactivity, a start-up focused on consulting on technically difficult websites and incubating new companies. Cisco Systems bought Reactivity in 2007 for $135 million.
Mozilla
Lilly was the chief executive officer of the Mozilla Corporation from 2008 to 2010. The corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, coordinates development of open-source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Firefox web browser. Lilly, previously Mozilla's Chief Operating Officer, succeeded Mitchell Baker as CEO in January 2008.
In May 2010, Lilly announced he would step down as CEO. Lilly was succeeded by Gary Kovacs on November 8, 2010. Lilly left Mozilla's board of directors in March 2014, reportedly over the appointment of Brendan Eich as CEO.
Venture capital
Lilly joined the venture capital firm Greylock Partners as a partner in 2011. His investments include Instagram, Dropbox, Tumblr, Quip, and MessageMe. Lilly left the firm in January 2019 to dedicate himself more to activism, explaining "it’s crystal clear that 2019 & 2020 are crucially important years — certainly the most important time in a generation, but maybe much longer than that."
References
Further reading
External links
John Lilly's Weblog
Mozilla people
Douglas MacArthur High School (San Antonio) alumni
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
Living people
American chief executives of financial services companies
American technology chief executives
American chief operating officers
Open source advocates
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%20bin%20first | Best bin first is a search algorithm that is designed to efficiently find an approximate solution to the nearest neighbor search problem in very-high-dimensional spaces. The algorithm is based on a variant of the kd-tree search algorithm which makes indexing higher-dimensional spaces possible. Best bin first is an approximate algorithm which returns the nearest neighbor for a large fraction of queries and a very close neighbor otherwise.
Differences from kd tree
Bins are looked in increasing order of distance from the query point. The distance to a bin is defined as a minimal distance to any point of its boundary. This is implemented with priority queue.
Search a fixed number of nearest candidates and stop.
A speedup of two orders of magnitude is typical.
References
Search algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20research%20methods | Online research methods (ORMs) are ways in which researchers can collect data via the internet. They are also referred to as Internet research, Internet science or iScience, or Web-based methods. Many of these online research methods are related to existing research methodologies but re-invent and re-imagine them in the light of new technologies and conditions associated with the internet. The field is relatively new and evolving. With the growth of social media, a new level of complexity and opportunity has been created. The inclusion of social media research can provide unique insights into consumer and societal segments and gaining an "emotional" measure of a population on issues of interest.
Some specific types of method include:
Cyber-ethnography
Online content analysis
Online focus groups
Online interviews
Online qualitative research
Online questionnaires
Social network analysis
Web-based experiments
Online clinical trials – or see below
Online clinical trials
Clinical trials are at the heart of current evidence-based medical care. They are, however, traditionally expensive and difficult to undertake. Using internet resources can, in some cases, reduce the economic burden, and may have other benefits in Medicine. Paul et al., in The Journal of Medical Internet Research, describe the background and methodologies of online clinical trials and list examples.
Research in and with social media
The advent of social media has recently led to new online research methods, for example data mining of large datasets from such media or web-based experiments within social media that are entirely under the control of researchers, e.g. those created with the software Social Lab.
See also
Internet mediated research
References
Further reading
Hooley, Tristram John Marriott and Jane Wellens, What is Online Research? Using the Internet for Social Science Research (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012) (open access online)
External links
Exploring online research methods
Association of Online Internet Researchers Ethical Report
iScience Server
List of online research studies
"Online Research Methodology: Using the Internet and the Web for Research and Publication"-Tarun Tapas Mukherjee, Bhatter College, Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies. Vol. 2, 2012. http://bcjms.bhattercollege.ac.in
The International Journal of Internet Science - a journal that publishes articles on online research methods
Annual General Online Research Conference |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEXY | WEXY (1520 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an urban contemporary gospel format, with some paid brokered programming on religion, health and other topics. Licensed to Wilton Manors, Florida, United States, the station serves the Fort Lauderdale area. The station is currently owned by Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Licensee, LLC. The original call letters were WIXX. The station had once been co-owned with WIXX-FM, now WBGG.
History
In addition to WEXY 1520 AM, Multicultural Broadcasting also operates two sister stations in Miami/Dade County, WNMA 1210 AM and WJCC 1700; both stations serve their listening areas with a mix of Hispanic and Haitian cultural music and talk programming. WNMA was a onetime ESPN Deportes outlet, but the ESPN programming moved to Radio Actualidad's 990 WMYM.
WEXY first went on the air in June 1963, starting out as the AM sister station to Fort Lauderdale's WAXY-FM 105.9, then known as WFLM, which is now known as WBGG "Big 106."
According to a 1990 Sun Sentinel Newspaper interview, WEXY had its roots in the 1960s, when WEXY's owner, Juno Beattie, then operating a beauty shop in Durham, North Carolina, met Jim Beattie, who then owned Durham's top rated rock radio station. They met when Jim attempted to get Juno's shop to buy spots on the station.
The 1970s and 1980s
The Beattie's then purchased additional stations in North Carolina, Virginia, and Daytona Beach, Florida. In 1970, they (operating as "Celebrities, Inc.") purchased 1520 AM, a low wattage country station, in Wilton Manors, Florida, which served the Fort Lauderdale metro area with a 1,000 watt signal as WIXX 1520 "The Top Gun in Broward."
They eventually changed the calls to WEXY and flipped through several formats, running "Easy Listening," "Beautiful Music," "Solid Gold," and "Good Modern Music" (a mix of current hits and Golds) formats, and finally, back to country music. For a time, the station ran a "Hit Parade" syndicated package produced by San Diego's Drake-Chenault programming team, which was designed for automated radio stations.
WEXY eventually lost their county audience to competition from the county formats on the stronger signals of 560 WQAM, and WIRK 107.9 FM, which began running country music in September 1973. The audience erosion led to the station adopting a brokered black gospel talk and music format in 1976, similar in style to WSWN "Sugar 900" to the north in Belle Glade.
Domestic problems caused Jim and Juno Beattie to split in 1982. Following their divorce, Juno relocated to Melbourne, Florida. When Jim died from cancer in November 1988, he turned over the ownership of WEXY 1520 to Juno. She returned the station to a full-time black gospel outlet by 1990.
In October 1989, WEXY received clearance to increase from 1,000 to 3,500 watts.
The 2000s
By 2003, Juno Beattie sold WEXY to MRBI Broadcasting, Inc. of New York City, which flipped the station to a Hispanic Christian Music and Talk format "The Voice of Hope" ("La Vo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPCF | WPCF (1290 AM) is a Christian radio station licensed to Panama City Beach, Florida, USA. The station is owned by Faith Radio Network, Inc.
As a dance station, WPCF played talk-free Mainstream Dance Music each day, and then wide spectrum of EDM (electronic dance music). During the weekends the station also aired≈ a number of syndicated shows including "Future Sound of Egypt with Aly & Fila", "UMF Radio", "Kryteria Radio with Kryder", "The Remix Top 30 with Hollywood Hamilton", Drumcode Radio with Adam Beyer, and a number of weekly guest mixes.
On September 8, 2017, WPCF's FM translator changed frequencies from 93.9 to 92.9 MHz & increased power from 90 watts to 250 watts. On March 1, 2018, WPCF's translator switched frequencies again from 92.9 to 93.1 MHz due to interference from WBLX-FM out of Mobile, Alabama on the same frequency.
History
The station first signed on as WSCM on September 23, 1958, its callsign standing for "We Serve Country Music". Like WPAP would almost a decade later, they broadcast live sermons every Sunday.
The station was assigned the callsign WPCF on April 1, 1979, after the original WPCF left the 1430 spot. On June 6, 1994, the station changed its call sign to WDLP then again on March 10, 2000, to the current WPCF.
On January 6, 2014, WPCF dropped its Trop-Rock format for all Dance and Electronic music, becoming "93.9 PLAY-FM" which is now on 93.1 as of March 1, 2018 under the operations of Patrick Pfeffer, owner of Club La Vela, a dance club in Panama City Beach that bills itself as "the largest nightclub in the USA".
On December 3, 2020, due to financial problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the station temporarily ceased broadcast. In June 2021, it was announced that the station had been sold by Evolution Broadcasting to Faith Radio Network, Inc. The sale, which included translator W226CJ, was consummated on August 26, 2021, at a price of $135,000.
In late 2021, the station began airing a Christian music format and is now branded as Faith Radio.
Translator
References
External links
PCF
PCF
Radio stations established in 1979
1979 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPItv | HPItv (Horseplayer Interactive Television) is a Canadian English language Category B specialty network owned by Woodbine Entertainment Group. HPItv broadcasts thoroughbred, standardbred, and harness racing events and related programming.
Channels and content
HPItv consists of 4 multiplex channels:
HPItv is the network's flagship feed. It features thoroughbred and harness racing from up to four tracks at a time in a quad-split screen format.
HPItv Canada provides daily live coverage of primarily Canadian racetracks.
HPItv International provides daily live coverage from primarily U.S. racetracks. International also features Great Britain & Ireland in the mornings and Australia & Hong Kong in the evening and some overnight.
HPItv West provides daily live coverage from primarily Western racetracks in Canada and the United States.
History
In November 2000, a joint venture between The Ontario Jockey Club (90%) and BCE Media (10%) called the Ontario Jockey Club (Partnership), was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called The Racing Network Canada, described as "a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service dedicated to Canadian and international horse racing and horse racing related programming, including live races, related commentary, odds, replays, and results."
Prior to the channel's launch, in September 2001, the Ontario Jockey Club changed its name to Woodbine Entertainment Group and purchased BCE Media's shares in the service.
Later that same month, the channel was launched as The Racing Network Canada (TRN) with four multiplex channels— three devoted to live matches (Live Horse Racing Channel, Full Card Favourites - 1, and Full Card Favourites - 2) and one displaying pool odds, probables and results (Live Canadian Odds Channel). In 2004, TRN launched a fifth channel, TRN West.
In March 2005, TRN was rebranded HPItv to align it with Woodbine's online and telephone wagering service, HorsePlayer Interactive (HPI).
On January 11, 2017, Woodbine Entertainment Group announced that it would shutter the service on April 11, 2017, due to diminishing subscribers and rising production costs. The main channel was to continue to operate with a lighter track load until the scheduled closing date, and on minimal staff. Despite the intended closure of the channel, the HPItv Canada, HPItv International, and HPItv West feeds, which operate under a pay-per-view (PPV) licence agreement, would continue to be offered to television service providers. On February 27, 2017, Woodbine Entertainment Group announced that it was reversing its decision to discontinue the service, citing feedback from horseplayers and racing fans. Despite not shuttering the service entirely, only the HPItv Odds channel would be shuttered on May 1, 2017, while the flagship channel, HPItv, would remain on the air in a revised format which launched on March 1, 2017, whereby the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusk%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Dusk was a Canadian English language specialty channel. Dusk broadcast programming consisting of films, television dramas, and reality TV, and documentary-style television series from the thriller, suspense and supernatural genres.
Dusk went on the air on September 7, 2001, as Scream (stylized as SCREAM), under the ownership of Corus Entertainment and Alliance Atlantis as a Category 2 service. During its early years, Scream broadcast horror, thriller, and suspense films along with some television series. After the acquisition of Alliance Atlantis by Canwest and Goldman Sachs, the channel was relaunched as Dusk in 2009, with a pivot from horror to paranormal- and suspense-themed programming to appeal to a wider audience.
Two years after Canwest was sold to Shaw Media, a sister company of Corus, the channel ended operations in March 2012 and was largely replaced on most providers by ABC Spark.
History
In November 2000, Corus, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated, was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called HorrorVision, which would be devoted primarily to the horror and thriller genres.
The channel was launched as Scream on September 7, 2001, as a joint venture between Corus Entertainment and Alliance Atlantis. Programming on Scream focused primarily on horror, thriller, suspense films and television series.
On January 18, 2008, a joint venture between Canwest and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners known as CW Media, acquired 49% of Scream through its purchase of Alliance Atlantis' broadcasting assets, which were placed in a trust in August 2007.
On September 9, 2009, Scream was re-launched as Dusk, shifting away from horror and "gore" to focus more broadly on paranormal and suspense-driven programming (such as Supernatural and mainstream film premieres such as Along Came a Spider), to appeal to a broader viewer demographic such as women.
On October 27, 2010, ownership changed once again as Shaw Communications gained a 49% stake in Scream as a result of its acquisition of Canwest and Goldman Sachs' interest in CW Media.
On February 10, 2012, Dusk revealed through an announcement via its Twitter and Facebook accounts, that it would be ceasing operations on March 23, 2012. A statement later announced on the channel's website stated the channel was being shuttered for strategic reasons to concentrate on "areas of expertise." Corus later indicated more specifically, through CRTC filings, that Dusk was discontinued to proceed with the launch of ABC Spark, such that Shaw Cable and Shaw Direct could carry the latter while complying with the CRTC's "3:1 ratio" policy (which limits the proportion of speciality channels carried from companies affiliated with a particular service provider).
The last program aired on Dusk was the 1990 film Ghost, which was aired in a 24-hour marathon on March 22. As before the movie was finished, the network either signed off the ai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20M.%20Clarke | Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr. (July 27, 1945 – December 22, 2020) was an American computer scientist and academic noted for developing model checking, a method for formally verifying hardware and software designs. He was the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Clarke, along with E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis, received the 2007 ACM Turing Award.
Biography
Born in Newport News, Virginia, Clarke received a B.A. degree in mathematics from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, in 1967, an M.A. degree in mathematics from Duke University, Durham NC, in 1968, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Cornell University, Ithaca NY in 1976. After receiving his Ph.D., he taught in the Department of Computer Science at Duke University, for two years. In 1978, he moved to Harvard University, Cambridge, MA where he was an assistant professor of Computer Science in the Division of Applied Sciences. He left Harvard in 1982 to join the faculty in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. He was appointed Full Professor in 1989. In 1995, he became the first recipient of the FORE Systems Professorship, an endowed chair in the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. He became a University Professor in 2008 and became an emeritus professor in 2015.
He died from COVID-19 in December 2020, at age 75, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pennsylvania.
Work
Clarke's interests included software and hardware verification and automatic theorem proving. In his Ph.D. thesis he proved that certain programming language control structures did not have good Hoare-style proof systems. In 1981 he and his Ph.D. student E. Allen Emerson first proposed the use of model checking as a verification technique for finite-state concurrent systems. His research group pioneered the use of model checking for hardware verification. Symbolic model checking using binary decision diagrams was also developed by his group. This important technique was the subject of Kenneth McMillan's Ph.D. thesis, which received an ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. In addition, his research group developed the first parallel resolution theorem prover (Parthenon) and the first theorem prover to be based on a symbolic computation system (Analytica). In 2009, he led the creation of the Computational Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems (CMACS) center, funded by the National Science Foundation. This center has a team of researchers, spanning multiple universities, applying abstract interpretation and model checking to biological and embedded systems.
Professional recognition
Clarke was a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. He received a Technical Excellence Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation in 1995 and an Allen Newell Award for Excellence in Research from the Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Department in 1999. He was a co-winner along with Randal Bryant, E. Allen Emerson, and Kenneth McMillan of the ACM Par |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20Allen%20Emerson | Ernest Allen Emerson II (born June 2, 1954), better known as E. Allen Emerson, is an American computer scientist and winner of the 2007 Turing Award. He is Professor and Regents Chair Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, United States.
Emerson is recognized together with Edmund M. Clarke and Joseph Sifakis for the invention and
development of model checking, a technique used in formal verification of software and hardware.
His contributions to temporal logic and modal logic include the introduction of computation tree logic (CTL) and its extension CTL*, which are used in the verification of concurrent systems.
He is also recognized along with others for developing symbolic model checking to address combinatorial explosion that arises in many model checking algorithms.
Early life and education
Emerson was born in Dallas, Texas. His early experiences with computing included exposure to BASIC, Fortran, and ALGOL 60 on the Dartmouth Time Sharing System and Burroughs large systems computers.
He went on to receive a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1976 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in applied mathematics at Harvard University in 1981.
Career
In the early 1980s, Emerson and his PhD advisor, Edmund M. Clarke, developed techniques for verifying a finite-state system against a formal specification. They coined the term model checking for the concept, which was independently studied by Joseph Sifakis in Europe. This sense of the word model matches the usage from model theory in mathematical logic: the system is called a model of the specification.
Emerson's work on model checking included early and influential temporal logics for describing specifications, and techniques for reducing state space explosion.
Awards
In 2007, Emerson, Clarke, and Sifakis won the Turing award. The citation reads:
In addition to the Turing award, Emerson received the 1998 ACM Paris Kanellakis Award,
together with Randal Bryant, Clarke, and Kenneth L. McMillan for the development of symbolic model checking. The citation reads:
See also
List of pioneers in computer science
References
External links
E. Allen Emerson homepage at the University of Texas at Austin
Living people
University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni
Harvard University alumni
University of Texas at Austin faculty
American computer scientists
Turing Award laureates
Formal methods people
1954 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Sifakis | Joseph Sifakis (Greek: Ιωσήφ Σηφάκης) is a Greek-French computer scientist. He received the 2007 Turing Award, along with Edmund M. Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, for his work on model checking.
Biography
Joseph Sifakis was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1946 and lives in France. He studied Electrical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and Computer Science at the University of Grenoble under a French scholarship. He received his engineering doctorate in 1974 from the University of Grenoble, where he also received a state doctorate in 1979.
He is currently Research Director Emeritus for the Centre national de la recherche scientifique at VERIMAG laboratory near Grenoble, of which he is the founder. Sifakis has been a leading figure in the fields of Model Checking and Embedded Systems. He founded with Edmund M. Clarke and Amir Pnueli the CAV conference, organized for the first time in Grenoble in 1989. He has been the coordinator of the ARTIST European Network of Excellence for research on Embedded Systems (2004–2012).
Sifakis held the INRIA-Schneider endowed industrial chair (2008–2011) and has been a full professor and the Director of the «Rigorous System Design Laboratory » at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences of EPFL (2011–2016). He has been visiting professor at Tsinghua University (2011–2012) and is currently a visiting professor at SUSTech.
Sifakis has been the President of the Greek National Council for Research and Technology (2014–2016).
Work
Sifakis worked on system verification and the application of formal methods to system design. In his state doctorate he studied the principles of the algorithmic verification method known later as model checking. In 1982, this technique was applied in Jean-Pierre Queille's PhD to develop the CESAR verification tool.
Sifakis was the director of VERIMAG for fourteen years. Established initially as a mixed industrial laboratory between CNRS and Verilog SA., VERIMAG has collaborated with Airbus and Schneider Electric to develop methods and tools for the development of safety critical systems, in particular the SCADE synchronous programming environment based on the Lustre Language. Sifakis has worked on the verification of timed and hybrid systems with Thomas Henzinger and the synthesis of timed systems with Amir Pnueli and Oded Maler. He has participated to the development of verification tools including the IF toolset, Kronos, CADP, and TGV and has developed theory for coping with state explosion using abstraction techniques.
Over the past twenty years, his work has focused on rigorous component-based design using the BIP component framework and more recently the design of trustworthy autonomous systems, self-driving cars in particular.
Awards
Turing Award, 2007
Leonardo da Vinci Medal, 2012
Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit, France, 2008
Commander of the Legion of Honor, France, 2011
Member of the French Academy of Sciences, 2010
Member of Ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Buck%20Bunny | Big Buck Bunny (code-named Project Peach) is a 2008 short computer-animated comedy film featuring animals of the forest, made by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation. Like the foundation's previous film, Elephants Dream, the film was made using Blender, a free and open-source software application for 3D computer modeling and animation developed by the same foundation. Unlike that earlier project, the tone and visuals departed from a cryptic story and dark visuals to one of comedy, cartoons, and light-heartedness.
It was released as an open-source film under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.
Plot
The plot follows a day in the life of Big Buck Bunny, during which time he meets three bullying rodents: the leader, Frank the flying squirrel, and his sidekicks Rinky the red squirrel and Gimera the chinchilla. The rodents amuse themselves by harassing helpless creatures of the forest by throwing fruits, nuts, and rocks at them.
After the rodents kill two butterflies with an apple and a rock, and then attack Bunny, he sets aside his gentle nature and orchestrates a complex plan to avenge the two butterflies.
Using a variety of traps, Bunny first dispatches Rinky and Gimera. Frank, unaware of the fate of the other two, is seen taking off from a tree, and gliding towards a seemingly unsuspecting Bunny. Once airborne, Frank triggers Bunny's final series of traps, causing Frank to crash into a tree branch and plummet into a spike trap below. At the last moment, Frank grabs onto what he believes is the branch of a small tree, but discovers it is just a twig Bunny is holding over the spikes. Bunny snatches up Frank.
The film concludes with Bunny being pleased with himself as a butterfly flies past him holding a string, at the end of which is Frank attached as a flying kite.
Production
Following Elephants Dream (2006), Big Buck Bunny is the first project by the Blender Foundation to be created by the Blender Institute, a division of the foundation set up specifically to facilitate the creation of open content films and games.
Work began in October 2007. The film was funded by the Blender Foundation, donations from the Blender community, pre-sales of the film's DVD and commercial sponsorship. Both the final product and production data, including animation data, characters and textures are released under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
It was rendered on Sun Microsystems' grid computing facility Sun Grid.
As in Elephants Dream, Blender developers worked extensively to improve the software in accordance with the needs of the movie team. Improvements were made in hair and fur rendering, the particle system, UV mapping, shading, the render pipeline, constraints, and skinning. Also introduced during the project was approximate ambient occlusion. These features were released to the public with Blender v. 2.46.
Release
The film was officially released in an April 10, 2008 premiere in Amsterdam while online movie downlo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20binding | In computer programming, data-binding is a general technique that binds data sources from the provider and consumer together and synchronizes them. This is usually done with two data/information sources with different languages, as in XML data binding and UI data binding. In UI data binding, data and information objects of the same language, but different logic function are bound together (e.g., Java UI elements to Java objects).
In a data binding process, each data change is reflected automatically by the elements that are bound to the data. The term data binding is also used in cases where an outer representation of data in an element changes, and the underlying data is automatically updated to reflect this change. As an example, a change in a TextBox element could modify the underlying data value.
Data binding frameworks and tools
List of examples of data binding frameworks and tools for different programming languages:
C# .NET
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Blazor
Windows Forms
MAUI
Delphi
DSharp third-party data binding tool
OpenWire Visual Live Binding—third-party visual data binding tool
LiveBindings
Java
Google Web Toolkit
JavaFX
Eclipse
JavaScript
Objective-C
AKABeacon iOS Data Binding framework
Swift
SwiftUI
Scala
Binding.scala
See also
XML data binding
UI data binding
References
Further reading
Data management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezanson | Bezanson can refer to:
Places
Bezanson, Alberta, a hamlet in Alberta, Canada
People
Jeff Bezanson, an American computer scientist
Philip Bezanson, an American composer
Thomas Bezanson, a Canadian artist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%20Market%20Data | Inside Market Data is a weekly newsletter published by Incisive Media providing news for the financial market data industry.
It was launched in 1985 by Waters, later Risk Waters Group, which in 2003 was acquired by Incisive Media.
External links
insidemarketdata.com
Incisive Media
1985 establishments in the United Kingdom
Business magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1985
Newsletters
Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20system%20recovery | Automatic system recovery is a device or process that detects a computer failure and attempts recovery. The device may make use of a Watchdog timer. This may also refer to a Microsoft recovery technology by the same name.
External links
HP ProLiant, Blade - Automatic Server Recovery (ASR) archivied from original on archive.org
How does ASR (Automatic System Recovery) detect server hang?
Embedded systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STRAND7 | Strand7 is a Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software product developed by the company with the same name.
History
The Strand computer software was first developed by a group of academics from the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. Further to this early research work, an independent company called G+D Computing was established in 1988 to develop an FEA program that could be used commercially for industrial applications. Between 1988 and 1996 the company researched, developed and marketed a series of DOS and Unix based FEA programs, most notably its STRAND6 program. In 1996 the company commenced work on a completely new software development specifically for the Windows platform. This product was first released in 2000 and was named Strand7. In 2005 the company also changed its name to Strand7 to better reflect its primary focus.
Application
Some high-profile applications of Strand7 include the optimisation of the "Water Cube" Beijing National Aquatics Center for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the "Runner" sculpture that was placed on top of Sydney Tower during the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the Terminal 2E roof, Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Analysis Capabilities
Strand7 is most commonly used for the construction and mechanical engineering sectors, but also has seen use in other areas of engineering including aeronautical, marine and mining.
Strand7 includes the following solvers:
Linear static
Natural frequency
Buckling
Nonlinear static
Linear and nonlinear transient dynamic
Spectral and harmonic response
Linear and nonlinear steady-state heat transfer
Linear and nonlinear transient heat transfer
References
External links
The Strand7 website
Finite element software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20portability | Data portability is a concept to protect users from having their data stored in "silos" or "walled gardens" that are incompatible with one another, i.e. closed platforms, thus subjecting them to vendor lock-in and making the creation of data backups or moving accounts between services difficult.
Data portability requires common technical standards to facilitate the transfer from one data controller to another, such as the ability to export user data into a user-accessible local file, thus promoting interoperability, as well as facilitate searchability with sophisticated tools such as grep.
Data portability applies to personal data. It involves access to the personal data without implying data ownership per se.
Development
At the global level there are proponents who see the protection of digital data as a human right. Thus, in an emerging civil society draft declaration, one finds mention of the following concepts and statutes: Right to Privacy on the Internet, Right to Digital Data Protection, Rights to Consumer Protection on the Internet – United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection.
At the regional level there are at least three main jurisdictions where data rights are seen differently: China and India, the United States and the European Union. In the latter, personal data was given special protection under the 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The GDPR thus became the fifth of the 24 types of legislation listed in Annex 1 Table of existing and proposed European Directives and Regulations in relation to data.
Personal data are the basis for behavioral advertising, and early in the 21st century their value began to grow exponentially, at least as measured in the market capitalization of the major platforms holding personal data on their respective users. European Union regulators reacted to this perceived power imbalance between platforms and users, although much still hinges on the terms of consent given by users to the platforms. The concept of data portability comprises an attempt to correct the perceived power imbalance by introducing an element of competition allowing users to choose among platforms.
Online platforms
With the advent of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat have widely adapted the ability to export and download user data into a ZIP archive file. Other platforms such as Google and Facebook already were equipped with export options earlier.
However, some platforms restrict exports with time delays between each, such as once per 30 days on Twitter, and many platforms lack partial export options.
Other sites such as Quora or Bumble offer no automated request form, requiring the user to request a copy of their data through a personal support email.
Ratings and Reviews
Reputation portability refers to the ability of an individual to transfer their reputation or credibility from one context to another. This concept is becoming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAE%20Oxford | CAE Oxford, part of CAE Inc., is an ab initio flight training network. It provides integrated aviation training and resourcing services. Professional airline pilots have been trained at the Oxford Aviation Academy (OAA) flight school since 1961.
OAA operates 125 training aircraft, 64 flight simulators, and 10 training centres, delivering a portfolio of aviation training courses. OAA's 3 ab initio airline pilot training schools have trained more than 26,000 professional pilots over the past 50 years. OAA's seven training centres offer approved airline pilot, cabin crew and maintenance engineer training on a wide range of aircraft types including Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier, BAE Systems, and Embraer.
The Oxford Aviation Academy includes the former Oxford Aviation Training, a commercial pilot training school based at London Oxford Airport in the United Kingdom; Falcon Field in Arizona, United States; the former SAS Flight Academy; the former GECAT and the former BAE Systems Woodford, United Kingdom Training Centre, all of which are majority owned by STAR Capital Partners of London with a minority stake of less than 20% retained by GE Commercial Aviation Services.
The Airline Pilot Programme First Officer course is a full-time, integrated Civil Aviation Authority / European Union Aviation Safety Agency (CAA/EASA) course leading to the award of a 'Frozen' (becoming unfrozen when the candidate has completed 1,500 hours in a multi-pilot environment) airline transport pilot licence (ATPL).
History
The Oxford Flying Club was opened by the mayor of Oxford in 1939. However, restrictions placed on civil aviation during the Second World War curtailed its activities, and the airfield operated as RAF Kidlington for the duration of hostilities. The club reopened in 1947, renamed as the Oxford Aeroplane Club. During the 1950s, it gradually increased its fleet and, by 1960, had become a flying school geared to the training of professional pilots.
In 1961, the flying school's parent company, Oxford Aviation, merged with the Pressed Steel Company to become British Executive Air Services Ltd. (BEAS). Dedicated ground school buildings and student residential accommodation were provided on site, and the first fully integrated Commercial Pilot's Licence (CPL) and instrument rating (IR) courses began in May 1962.
In 1963, the BEAS Flying Training Division was renamed Oxford Air Training School. Since then, over twenty thousand trained commercial pilots and aircraft engineers have graduated from the school. Including the first ever Commercial Space Shuttle Pilot's Licence, which was awarded in 1989. The school changed its name to Oxford Aviation Training (OAT) in the 1990s.
On June 19, 2007, OAT's parent company, BBA Aviation, now Signature Aviation, sold OAT to GCAT Flight Academy (formerly General Electric Commercial Aviation Training, part of GE Aviation and SAS Flight Academy, part of Scandinavian Airlines System) for $63 million (£32 million). The deal was bac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%20Business%20Journal | The Philadelphia Business Journal is a diversified business media company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, publishing daily stories on its website and social networks, and a weekly edition available in print and online. It is published by the American City Business Journals.
See also
List of newspapers in Pennsylvania
References
External links
Business newspapers published in the United States
Newspapers published in Philadelphia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Reilly%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Paul Reilly is a pioneer of virtual archaeology and data visualisation in archeology. He was a research scientist at the IBM UK Scientific Centre. He received his B.A. Honours degree in archaeology and history from the University of Leeds and his Ph.D in computer-based archaeological research, at the Research Centre for Computer Archaeology in North Staffordshire Polytechnic. He has worked on many archaeological excavation and field survey projects in Britain and elsewhere in Europe. From 1986 to 1989 he was an IBM UK Scientific Centre Research Fellow and became Research Scientist in 1989.
He is a Visiting Fellow at the Archaeological Computing Research Group, University of Southampton. He has written many papers and a book, as well as editing several conference proceedings, books and journals relating to computer applications and art practice in archaeological research.
Selected publications
Reilly, P., 1988, Computer Analysis of an Archaeological Landscape: Medieval Land Divisions on the Isle of Man. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports (British Series 190).
Reilly,P., 1990, "Towards a virtual archaeology". Computer Applications in Archaeology 1990, Edited by K. Lockyear and S. Rahtz. oxford: British Archaeological reports (Int. Series 565), 133-139.
Reilly, P., 1992, "Three-Dimensional modelling and primary archaeological data". In Archaeology and the Information Age. Edited by P. Reilly and S. Rahtz. London: Routledge, 147-173 ()
Reilly, P., Shennan,S., 1989, "Applying solid modeling and animated three-dimensional graphics to Archaeological problems". Computer Applications in Archaeology 1989, Edited by S. Rahtz and J.Richards. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports (Int. Series 548), 157-166.
Beale, G., Reilly, P. 2015, Additive archaeology: the spirit of virtual archaeology reprinted. In: C. Papadopoulos, E. Paliou, A. Chrysanthi, E. Kotoula, and A. Sarris, eds. Archaeological research in the digital age, Crete. Rethymno: Institute for Mediterranean Studies, 120–128.
Reilly, P. 2015a. Putting the materials back into virtual archaeology, In: Virtual Archaeology (Methods and Benefits), State Hermitage Publishers, Saint Petersburg, pp 12–23.
Reilly, P. 2015b. Additive Archaeology: An Alternative Framework for Recontextualising Archaeological Entities, Open Archaeology, 1 (1), ISSN (Online) 2300-6560, DOI: 10.1515/opar-2015-0013, October 2015
Reilly, P. 2015c. Palimpsests of Immaterial Assemblages Taken out of Context: Tracing Pompeians from the Void into the Digital, Norwegian Archaeological Review, 48 (2). DOI: 10.1080/00293652.2015.1086812.
Gant, S., Reilly, P. (2017) Different expressions of the same mode: a recent dialogue between archaeological and contemporary drawing practices, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 17(1), pp 100-120. DOI: 10.1080/14702029.2017.1384974.
Dawson, I., Reilly, P. 2019. Messy Assemblages, Residuality and Recursion within a Phygital Nexus, Epoiesen, http://dx.doi.org/10.22215/epoiesen/2019.4
Refere |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaSeep | SeaSeep is a combination of 2D seismic data (a group of seismic lines acquired individually, as opposed to multiple closely space lines1), high resolution multibeam sonar which is an evolutionary advanced form of side-scan sonar, navigated piston coring (one of the more common sea floor sampling methods2), heat flow sampling (which serve a critical purpose in oil exploration and production3) and possibly gravity and magnetic data (refer to Dick Gibson's Primer on Gravity and Magnetics4).
The term SeaSeep originally belonged to Black Gold Energy LLC5 and refers to a dataset that combines all of the available data into one integrated package that can be used in hydrocarbon exploration. With the acquisition of Black Gold Energy LLC by Niko Resources Ltd.6 in December 2009 the term now belongs to Niko Resources
The concept of a SeaSeep dataset is the modern day offshore derivative of how many oil fields were found in the late 19th and early 20th century; by finding a large anticline structure with an associated oil seep. In the United States, many of the first commercial fields in California were found using this method including the Newhall Field discovered in 1876 and the Kern River Field discovered in 18997. Seeps have also been used to find offshore fields including the Cantarell Field in Mexico in 1976; the largest oil field in Mexico and one of the largest in the world. The field is named after a fisherman, Rudesindo Cantarell, who complained to PEMEX about his fishing nets being stained by oil seeps in the Bay of Campeche.
The biological and geochemical manifestations of seepage leads to distinct bathymetrical features including positive relief mounds, pinnacles, mud volcanoes and negative relief pockmarks. These features can be detected by multibeam sonar and then sampled by navigated piston coring. Spec and proprietary multibeam seep mapping and core geochemistry by Texas A&M University's Geochemical & Environmental Research Group8 and later TDI Brooks9 demonstrated thermogenic charge in deepwater Angola and deepwater Nigeria leading to an aggressive exploration program by a number of oil companies and subsequent discoveries. The emphasis on, and marketplace acceptance of, multibeam mapping combined with navigated coring as an improvement over grid-based approaches to geochemical exploration is attributed to AOA Geophysics Inc10.
References
1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary ()
2. Piston Coring ()
3. TDI Brooks ()
4. Primer on Gravity and Magnetics ()
5. Black Gold Energy ()
6. Niko Resources Ltd. ()
7. Natural Oil and Gas Seeps in California: ()
8. Geochemical & Environmental Research Group ()
9. TDI Brooks ()
10. AOA Geophysics ()
Biological techniques and tools
Geochemistry
Geological techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20Shadows | Magic Shadows was a 30-min Canadian television series produced by the TVOntario public television network hosted by Elwy Yost that ran on weekday evenings from 1974 to the mid 1980s.
The format was that the host would present classic feature films in a serialized format over the week from Monday to Friday. In addition, Yost presented material related to the film in question such as interviews, and visits to interesting places in Ontario that related to the featured film.
When the main film was concluded early, the Friday night airing would present classic film serials including acclaimed productions from Republic Studios such as The Adventures of Captain Marvel, Mysterious Doctor Satan, Daredevils of the Red Circle and Captain America.
References
External links
1974 Canadian television series debuts
TVO original programming
Canadian motion picture television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Scopus may refer to:
Scopus, a bibliographic database for science
Scopus Technology, Inc., a former producer of server software founded in 1991 in Emeryville, CA, then acquired by Siebel Systems itself acquired by Oracle Corporation.
Scopus (journal), a journal of East Africa ornithology
Scopus (bird), the sole genus in the Scopidae bird family
Mount Scopus, a mountain in northeast Jerusalem
Scopus Township, Bollinger County, Missouri, a U.S. town
See also
Scope (disambiguation)
Skopos (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDLUT | EDLUT (Event-Driven LookUp Table) is a computer application for simulating networks of spiking neurons.
It was developed in the University of Granada and source code was released under GNU GPL version 3.
EDLUT uses event-driven simulation scheme and lookup tables to efficiently simulate medium or large spiking neural networks.
This allows this application to simulate detailed biological neuron models and to interface with experimental setups (such as a robotic arm) in real time.
References
Neuroscience software
Neural network software
Software using the GPL license
University of Granada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonville%20Riverwalks | The Jacksonville Riverwalks are a network of multi-use trails and open space developments along both the north and south banks of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida. The roughly Downtown Northbank portion travels alongside the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville, Jacksonville Landing, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, CSX Transportation Building, and extends into the Brooklyn district. The Southbank portion of the trail connects local landmarks such as Friendship Fountain, Museum of Science and History and Riverplace Tower.
History
The first section of the Riverwalk opened on the Downtown Southbank on November 8, 1985. It was intended as a venue where tourists and local residents alike could view the beauty of the river and the skyline of the city. On a sunny day, the view from the walk includes shimmering water, shiny buildings, sailboats & speedboats. The walk was designed by Perkins & Perkins Architects to be a festive waterfront public space linking Friendship Fountain and Harbormasters Restaurant (now River City Brewing Co.) with hotels and office buildings east of the Main Street Bridge. Friendship Park Fountain was built in 1965 and became one of the most recognizable landmarks in the city. A graphic system was developed and, included banners, kiosks and signage to provide visitors with clear and legible information, as well as reinforce the warm and lively image of the riverwalk.
A few of the project were built but scaled back. The St. Johns Wharf was a planned open-air marketplace to be built over the river adjacent to the Wyndham Hotel. A few shops were built along the riverwalk, but the wharf was never constructed. Four open air pavilions were planned and projected to include concessions and restroom facilities. only two were constructed. The Ship Museum, an attraction to emphasize the historic relationship between the city and the river; projected to include floating ship exhibits, was scaled back to the current Jacksonville Maritime Museum, now closed. Multiple projects did not come to fruition. The Grove, a raised grass seating area shaded by a grove of palm trees; The Pyramid, an outdoor structure with terraced seating area for special events; An Aquarium located south of the maritime museum, facing Friendship Fountain, which would showcase local freshwater and saltwater marine life; A Great Lawn for recreation and relaxation; A sidewalk café under the bridge that would link both sides of riverwalk; A 3,000-seat open-air amphitheater with bandstand and theatrical lighting, built out into the river that would be used for public concerts, ballets, festivals and school graduations.
In January, 2005, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held to celebrate the opening of the latest extension of the Northbank Riverwalk. Construction took nearly two years for the , $8.7 million project. The landscaped brick walkway connects the existing Riverwalk at the CSX building to Riverside Avenue. Its features include historical lighting, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20Recut | Total Recut is a social networking, video sharing and resources website for fans and creators of video remixes, recuts and mash-ups, where users can submit, view, share, rate and comment on user generated remixed video clips. Total Recut was created in June 2007 as a result of the master's degree project of an Irish graduate student, Owen Gallagher, who wrote his Masters Thesis on remix culture. The County Donegal, Ireland based service uses embedding technology to display a wide array of video content, including movie trailer recuts, political remixes, machinima, subvertisements, music mash-ups and many others. The site also contains original material that users can remix including a large number of public domain videos and Creative Commons licensed clips.
Unregistered users of Total Recut are able to watch videos on the site, while registered users may submit an unlimited number of videos and make wiki style changes to any information relating to the content. The site offers social networking opportunities in the ability to add friends, comment on each other's profiles, start personal video collections and send messages, as well as an active forum and blog, which users can contribute to freely. Users can also enter contests to win prizes, find tutorials and tools to help them create their own remixes, learn about the issues surrounding remix culture, including the balance between copyright and freedom of expression, download mobile content to their cellphones and connect with other like-minded individuals.
Awards
Total Recut was shortlisted for the final of the 2007 Golden Spiders awards, hosted in Dublin and the 2007 Northern Ireland 25k Awards for innovative business ideas hosted in Belfast. The project was also successful in qualifying for the Fellowship Global Scholars program, following an intensive application and interview process. In January 2008, founder Owen Gallagher was sent to Kansas City, Missouri as part of the Global Scholars program, along with 11 others from the UK, Ireland and Denmark, to make connections and learn about US entrepreneurship with a view to expanding their business ideas upon their return.
Media attention
In June 2007, as part of the Total Recut project, several video recuts were created and uploaded to YouTube to coincide with the Irish general elections, to decide who the next Taoiseach (Prime Minister) was going to be. The two candidates were the existing Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern and the leader of the opposition, Enda Kenny. Bertie Ahern's annual Ard Fheis speech was remixed with footage from the BBC TV show, Dragons' Den to make it appear as if Ahern was pitching an idea to the Dragons. Enda Kenny's Ard Fheis speech was remixed with footage from the popular American Idol TV show, which showed him auditioning for Simon Cowell and his judging panel. Both videos became popular nationally and received significant media attention including write ups in the Sunday Tribune, the Sunday Business Post, the Sunday I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species360 | Species360 (formerly International Species Information System or ISIS) founded in 1974, is an international non-profit organization that maintains an online database of wild animals under human care. As of 2023, the organization serves more than 1,300 zoos, aquariums and zoological associations on six continents and in 102 countries worldwide. The organization provides its members with zoological data collection and management software called ZIMS—the Zoological Information Management System.
ZIMS project was a large global collaboration with 600 people contributing under the leadership of Nate Flesness, Executive Director of Species360 (1979–2009), and Hassan Syed, CIO of Species360 (2003–2010). The ZIMS database contains information on 22,000 species, 10 million animals, and 82 million medical records. Members use the basic biologic information (age, sex, parentage, place of birth, circumstance of death, etc.) collected in the system to care for and manage their animal collections (including demographic and genetic management in many cases). It is also used for ex situ breeding programs and supporting conservation research and programs.
Since its foundation in 1973, the group has been a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) pursuing wild animal conservation goals. Species360 works in partnership with zoo associations around the world.
The organization has staff and representatives in Amsterdam and The Randstad (the Netherlands), Barcelona (Spain), Copenhagen and Odense (Denmark), Jerusalem (Israel), Bristol, London, and Paignton (UK), and across the United States (Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Texas, Wisconsin, Washington) with headquarters in Minnesota (US).
Centralized database
Modern zoos and aquariums often are "gene banks" for endangered species. In some cases, species which have become extinct in the wild and have been bred in zoos are eventually returned to the wild. Examples include the black-footed ferret, California condor, Przewalski's horse, red wolf, Micronesian kingfisher (not yet reintroduced), and the Arabian oryx. Individual zoos generally do not have the space to maintain a viable species population (which for many mammals and birds requires 500+ animals in order to maintain sufficient genetic diversity), so maintaining genetic diversity requires coordination between many zoos. Scientific expertise on husbandry, nutrition, veterinary care and so on is spread throughout the zoos and aquaria of the world. Breeding and population management relies on accurate information about animals in all member institutions, especially pedigree history (parentage) and demography (births and deaths).
Species360 records are accepted by international regulatory bodies such as CITES. Roughly three-quarters of Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) members in North America are members, and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) requires its members to join. The World Association of Zoo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos%20%28operating%20system%29 | C# Open Source Managed Operating System (Cosmos) is a toolkit for building GUI and command-line based operating systems, written mostly in the programming language C# and small amounts of a high level assembly language named X#. Cosmos is a backronym, in that the acronym was chosen before the meaning. It is open-source software released under a BSD license.
, Cosmos encompasses an ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler named IL2CPU to translate Common Intermediate Language (CIL) into native instructions. Cosmos compiles user-made programs and associated libraries using IL2CPU to create a bootable native executable that can be run with no support. The resulting output can be booted from a USB flash drive, CD-ROM, over a network via Preboot Execution Environment (PXE), or inside a virtual machine. Recent releases also allow deploying to certain x86 embedded devices over Universal Serial Bus (USB). While C# is the primary language used by developers (both on the backend and by end users of Cosmos), many CLI languages can be used, provided they compile to pure CIL without the use of Platform Invocation Services (P/Invokes). Cosmos is mainly intended for use with .NET.
Cosmos does not aim to become a full operating system, but rather a toolkit to allow other developers to simply and easily build their own operating systems using .NET. It also functions as an abstraction layer, hiding much of the inner workings of the hardware from the eventual developer.
Older versions of Cosmos were released in Milestones, with the last being Milestone 5 (released August 2010). More recently, the project switched to simply naming new releases after the latest commit number. Releases of Cosmos are divided into two types: the Userkit, and the Devkit. The Userkit is a pre-packaged release that is updated irregularly, as new and improved features are added. Userkits are generally considered stable, but do not include recent changes and may lack features. The Devkit refers to the source code of Cosmos and must be built manually. The Devkits are usually somewhat stable, but they may have some bugs. The Devkit can be acquired on GitHub and uses Git as the source control management. Most work on Cosmos is currently aimed at improving debugger functionality and Microsoft Visual Studio integration. Kernel work is focused on implementing file systems, memory management, and developing a reliable network interface. Limine serves as the project's bootloader - in older versions of the toolkit, GRUB was used instead.
Origin
The idea for Cosmos was created by Chad Hower and was initially co-developed by Hower and Matthijs ter Woord. Over time, Cosmos has been maintained and improved by many other individuals.
Developing with Cosmos
Cosmos has many facilities to improve the experience of developing operating systems with it, designed to make the process as fast and painless as possible, knowledge of the assembly language is not required to use Cosmos.
Visual Studio integration
A key feat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Percival | Nick Percival is a British graphic artist and graphic novelist primarily known for his published comic book, concept artwork and career in computer animation directing.
Biography
Percival's first published work was in the monthly British comic Judge Dredd Megazine with a horror 'strange cases' tale written by Dave Stone. After several similar stories in the Megazine, he then went on to paint a nine-part story set in Judge Dredd's world in the Cursed Earth with the series Sleeze 'n' Ryder, where Nick worked with acclaimed writer Garth Ennis.
The pair would later work together again for the British weekly comic 2000 AD on the Judge Dredd epic "Goodnight Kiss", another tale set in the radioactive wasteland of the Cursed Earth, where Judge Dredd is hunted by the assassin Jonni Kiss and the mutant Brotherhood of Marshalls.
Percival also painted the Sláine story "King of Hearts" for 2000 AD, where he worked with the co-creator of 2000 AD, Pat Mills.
Aside from his 2000 AD work on various stories and painted covers, including a Dredd one-off story "Crime Prevention" with acclaimed comic book author Mark Millar, Percival has also produced work for Marvel Comics, MTV, Wizards of the Coast, Upper Deck Entertainment, Boom! Studios, IDW Publishing, Electronic Arts, Sony, Warner Bros., Activision, Atari, Sci Fi Channel, History Channel, Microsoft, and Fantasy Flight Games.
He also became prolific in the video game and animation industries where he ran an animation studio in the UK. He directed computer generated cut-scenes for video game such as Men in Black II: Alien Escape, Z: Steel Soldiers, Carmageddon TDR 2000, and the Games Workshop licensed video game of Gorkamorka. His company also developed their own computer generated short films and Percival presented one of these successfully at the Cartoon Movie Festival 2002 in Berlin.
Percival is the author and illustrator of Legends: The Enchanted, an original graphic novel, to be adapted into a feature film by Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment. Legends: The Enchanted won the HorrorNews Net award for Best Original Graphic Novel 2010. and was nominated for an Eagle Award for Favourite Single Story 2010.
In 2015, Percival won the 13th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Cover Art for his painted Nightbreed cover for Fangoria magazine.
Percival's poster artwork for the independent horror film Female Werewolf won the Fantastic Cinema Excellence in Poster Design Award 2016.
In 2017, he won the Horror News Network's Comic Award for Best Cover Artwork of 2017 for the comic book Hook Jaw.
More recently, Percival has been painting the continuing saga of Judge Dredd's most famous nemesis, Judge Death and the Dark Judges, with the Dark Justice: Dominion and The Torture Garden series.
Percival has since completed four series in the Dark Judges saga for 2000AD and continues to illustrate Judge Dredd.
Bibliography
Comics
Interior comics artwork includes:
Strange Cases:
"Monsters" (with writer D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds%20of%20the%20Spirit | Sounds of the Spirit (S.O.S. Radio) is a network of 29 radio stations in the United States broadcasting a Contemporary Christian format. The stations and network are owned by Faith Communications Corporation a non-profit corporation which is listener-supported.
Stations
Sounds of the Spirit has 28 radio stations. The network's flagship station is KSOS in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Full-powered stations
Translators
In addition to its full-powered stations, Sounds of the Spirit is relayed by an additional 21 translators.
References
External links
Official site
American radio networks
Christian radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMKL | WMKL (91.9 FM) is a non-commercial radio station broadcasting a Catholic radio format owned by Radio Maria Inc.
Radio Maria USA programming is originated by KJMJ 580 kHz in Alexandria, Louisiana. The station was previously owned by Call Communications Group, Inc.
Call Communications Group, Inc. was formed during the summer of 1994 by a group of college-age young adults in the Miami area. WMKL was purchased in late 1999 and began broadcasting at 8:05 PM on February 9, 2000. Call Communications Group owns or operates additional radio stations that serve Southwest Florida, the Glades region, and the Florida Keys. WMKL first broadcast a contemporary Christianmusic format before being sold to Radio Maria USA. Before the transition was made in December 2020, Radio Maria programming was heard on its HD-2 and HD-3 subchannels.
In May 2019, Call Communications announced it would be "phasing out traditional FM radio" in favor of its online operations.
The station signed off its Contemporary Christian format December 22, 2020 at 11:59 pm. At 12 midnight on December 23, Radio Maria USA commenced broadcasting on WMKL's main programming frequency of 91.9.
Radio Maria programming on WMKL in English and Spanish
The bilingual broadcast times on WMKL are:
English: 3AM-3PM
Spanish: 3PM-3AM
Click here for Radio Maria USA Spanish audistream
See also
KJMJ (Originating English language station)
References
External links
Official Radio Maria USA site (with streaming audio)
MKL
Catholic radio stations
Radio stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciao%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ciao is an informal Italian verbal salutation or greeting.
Ciao may also refer to:
Ciao (programming language)
Ciao (film), a 2008 film by Yen Tan
Ciao! (Mauro Scocco album) (1992)
Ciao! (Tiga album) (2009)
Ciao (magazine), a girls' anime and manga magazine published by Shogakukan
Ciao (website), an e-commerce site
Piaggio Ciao, a motorbike produced by Piaggio
"Ciao!" (song), by Lush (1996)
Ciao, the 1990 FIFA World Cup mascot
See also
CIAO (disambiguation)
Chiao (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth%20%28computing%29 | In computing, bandwidth is the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path. Bandwidth may be characterized as network bandwidth, data bandwidth, or digital bandwidth.
This definition of bandwidth is in contrast to the field of signal processing, wireless communications, modem data transmission, digital communications, and electronics, in which bandwidth is used to refer to analog signal bandwidth measured in hertz, meaning the frequency range between lowest and highest attainable frequency while meeting a well-defined impairment level in signal power. The actual bit rate that can be achieved depends not only on the signal bandwidth but also on the noise on the channel.
Network capacity
The term bandwidth sometimes defines the net bit rate peak bit rate, information rate, or physical layer useful bit rate, channel capacity, or the maximum throughput of a logical or physical communication path in a digital communication system. For example, bandwidth tests measure the maximum throughput of a computer network. The maximum rate that can be sustained on a link is limited by the Shannon–Hartley channel capacity for these communication systems, which is dependent on the bandwidth in hertz and the noise on the channel.
Network consumption
The consumed bandwidth in bit/s, corresponds to achieved throughput or goodput, i.e., the average rate of successful data transfer through a communication path. The consumed bandwidth can be affected by technologies such as bandwidth shaping, bandwidth management, bandwidth throttling, bandwidth cap, bandwidth allocation (for example bandwidth allocation protocol and dynamic bandwidth allocation), etc. A bit stream's bandwidth is proportional to the average consumed signal bandwidth in hertz (the average spectral bandwidth of the analog signal representing the bit stream) during a studied time interval.
Channel bandwidth may be confused with useful data throughput (or goodput). For example, a channel with x bit/s may not necessarily transmit data at x rate, since protocols, encryption, and other factors can add appreciable overhead. For instance, much internet traffic uses the transmission control protocol (TCP), which requires a three-way handshake for each transaction. Although in many modern implementations the protocol is efficient, it does add significant overhead compared to simpler protocols. Also, data packets may be lost, which further reduces the useful data throughput. In general, for any effective digital communication, a framing protocol is needed; overhead and effective throughput depends on implementation. Useful throughput is less than or equal to the actual channel capacity minus implementation overhead.
Maximum throughput
The asymptotic bandwidth (formally asymptotic throughput) for a network is the measure of maximum throughput for a greedy source, for example when the message size (the number of packets per second from a source) approaches close to the maximum amount.
Asymptotic bandwid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrano%20Cargas | Belgrano Cargas S.A. was an Argentine State-owned company which operated the gauge freight rail network built by Central Northern and Province of Santa Fe Railways, which became part of Belgrano Railway network after railway nationalization of 1948.
The network operated by Belgrano Cargas extended through the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Mendoza, Santiago del Estero, San Juan, La Rioja, Catamarca, Tucumán, Chaco, Formosa, Salta and Jujuy. The line also reached all the Argentina's neighbouring countries, such as Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay.
In more recent years, the name Belgrano Cargas is often erroneously used by the Argentine government and press to refer to the entirety of the country's freight network, and more specifically those parts operated by Belgrano Cargas y Logística. The name has stuck despite the fright network encompassing numerous other Argentine railways, of which the General Belgrano Railway is only one.
History
As part of a national railway privatisation plan carried out under the presidency of Carlos Menem from 1992, a 30-year concession to operate the network was granted to "Belgrano Cargas S.A.", formed by the union of railway workers, "Unión Ferroviaria" (51%), and Laguna Paiva (48%), an industrial cooperative, on 16 November 1999. The government retained a 1% golden share and the right to elect one director.
Nevertheless, the union was involved in suspicions about the handling of the funds received to operate the line. The union alleged that the Government did not invest enough to reactivate the line which was in critical condition when they took over. In 1998 Belgrano Cargas carried 3,287,515 tonnes a year. In 2006 it decreased to 500,000 tonnes.
During presidency of Néstor Kirchner, two tenders failed due to lack of interested investors. Soon after, "Shima", a Chinese company associated with local entrepreneur Franco Macri presented an investment plan consisting of AR$ 1,400 million. This consortium finally withdrew when the Government imposed as a condition that private holdings Emepa Group and Grupo Roggio (owners of railway operators Ferrovías and Metrovías respectively) should be part of the operator holding along with Unión Ferroviaria and other transport unions of Argentina.
In 2008, the Government of Argentina ceased the concession granted to Belgrano Cargas S.A. to operate Ferrocarril Belgrano's freight services. Belgrano Cargas y Logística was established in May 2013 by National decree, to take over Ferrocarril Belgrano's freight services, formerly operated by Belgrano Cargas. In June that same year the company also took over some services from Urquiza, San Martín and Sarmiento railways.
See also
Trenes Argentinos Cargas, successor company
References
Defunct railway companies of Argentina
Metre gauge railways in Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugfire | Drugfire is a multimedia database imaging system that automates the comparison of images of bullet cartridge cases, shell casings and bullets that was developed by MSI (Mnemonic System Inc.). It is a multimedia database imaging system that allows examiners from across the United States to compare and link evidence obtained in the form of spent cartridges and other ammunition casings.
Development
Before Drugfire was invented, firearm examiners had to rely on a technique devised in the 1920s to compare ammunition markings. This involved looking at a casing under a microscope and the examiner had to compare the two casings to see if there were similar markings on the bullet which would most likely mean that the bullets had been fired from the same gun.
From the years of 1991 and 1992, MSI devolved Drugfire, a forensic imaging system that allows investigators to compare ammunition markings from a specific shooting to databases of seemingly unrelated shootings which allowed the FBI to solve numerous cases.
Notable cases
Drugfire was used by the Oakland Police to solve the murder of Tommie Cain. A month after Cain's shooting death, an Oakland patrol officer pulled over Jovan Reynolds and Henry Bruce for a routine traffic stop. The officer found a .38-caliber revolver in the car, which he took into evidence as both men were felons. When the gun was test-fired and entered into the Drugfire system, police found that its bullet matched the slug that had come from Cain's body. With the information, Reynolds and Bruce were questioned and eventually confessed to the murder. Police investigators said the case would most likely still had been open if not for the use of Drugfire.
References
Ballistics
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Forensic software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%20Verte | The Route Verte (in English, the "Green Route," or the "Greenway") is a network of bicycling and multiuse trails and designated roads, lanes, and surfaces, spanning as of October 31, 2013, in the Canadian province of Quebec, inaugurated on August 10, 2007. The trail network includes both urban trails (for example, in and around the city of Montreal) and cycling routes into quite isolated areas in the north, as well as along both sides of the Saint Lawrence River, out to the Gaspésie region, and on the Îles de la Madeleine, linking more than 320 municipalities along the way. The Route Verte is not entirely composed of trails, as nearly 61% of the network actually consists of on-road surfaces, whether regular roads with little traffic, wide shoulders, special lanes on highways, or otherwise. The segregated trails are mostly rail trails shared-use with hikers and other users.
Routes
Gallery
See also
Bicycle trail
Rail trail
EuroVelo
United States Numbered Bicycle Routes
References
External links
Route Verte
Maps on Openstreetmap
Bike paths in Quebec
Hiking trails in Quebec
Long-distance cycling routes
2007 establishments in Quebec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkview%20Health | Parkview Health System, founded in 1878 as Fort Wayne City Hospital is a network of 10 community hospitals and more than 100 clinic locations in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio. The not-for-profit Parkview Health System is the region's largest employer with more than 14,000. Parkview Physicians Group is also part of the Parkview Health, and includes more than 900 providers in more than 45 specialties.
History
Parkview Health traces its roots back to Fort Wayne City Hospital, founded in 1878. Subsequent hospitals in Parkview’s history include Hope Hospital (1891 – 1922), Methodist Hospital (1922 – 1953), Parkview Memorial Hospital (1953 – 1955) and Parkview Hospital (1955 – ). Parkview Health System, Inc. was incorporated in May 1995. Parkview Whitley and Parkview Huntington Hospitals joined the system in 1995, Parkview Noble Hospital in 2000, Parkview LaGrange Hospital in 2005, Parkview Wabash Hospital in 2015 and Parkview DeKalb Hospital in 2019. Parkview Health's flagship hospital campus, Parkview Regional Medical Center, was founded in March 2012. Parkview has ten hospitals total within its network as of 2021.
As of 2013, Parkview officials announced a facelift of $3.2 million to Parkview Randallia Hospital. It includes a new entryway, new signage, a large courtyard, and a park. An interior facelift was conducted right after the Parkview Regional Medical Center was complete in May 2012, which included turning 150 patient rooms into private, more comfortable rooms. Other highlights include acute and continuing care centers, a surgery area, the Center for Wound Healing, Center on Aging and Health and a full-service emergency department. The facility also offers a family birthing center, imaging and lab services, endoscopy, and a sleep lab.
Graduate Medical Education
In March 2021, Parkview Health launched a graduate medical education program to attract, train and retain physicians in northeast Indiana. The residency program is a clinical training program for doctors who have graduated from medical school and are ready to receive further specialized training. Parkview’s program is based at Parkview Hospital Randallia and includes internal medicine, a three-year program open to 15 residents each year, and general surgery, a five-year program open to four residents each year.
Awards and recognition
Two Parkview hospitals were awarded an "A" in the spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade. The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) awarded Parkview Health its 2020 Digital Health Most Wired recognition. Parkview Health was named one of America’s Best Employers by Forbes magazine in 2019.
Billing practices
Parkview has come under scrutiny for its billing practices. A 2019 report wrote that Parkview charged private insurance about four times the rate it charged Medicare; while many hospitals hike their prices somewhat for non-Medicare rates, Parkview did so to an unusual degree. Additionally, the hospit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Football%20League%20on%20the%20radio |
Local coverage
1983
1984
1985
National coverage
On December 9, 1982, the USFL and ABC Radio Networks jointly announced that ABC would do 39 national broadcasts of USFL games, including two playoff games and the league's championship game. ABC agreed to cover two games per week during regular season.
For the Saturday night package in 1983, Shelby Whitefield, Ron Menchine and Steve Grad for the commentators. Other announcers for ABC Radio's USFL coverage included:
Bob Buck (play-by-play)
Dick Butkus (color commentary)
Don Chevrier (play-by-play, beginning in 1984)
Johnny Holliday (play-by-play, beginning in 1984)
Paul Hornung (color commentary)
Marv Levy (color commentary)
Dan Lovett (color commentary)
Fred Manfra (play-by-play)
Craig Morton (color commentary)
For the playoff semi finals in 1984, Johnny Holliday and Paul Hornung called Los Angeles/Arizona game on Saturday while Fred Manfra and Dan Lovett called the Birmingham/Philadelphia game. Meanwhile, the championship game the following week (Philadelphia/Arizona) was called by Fred Manfra and Paul Hornung.
References
Sources
1983
1984
1985
USFL Local Announcers
Radio
ABC Radio Sports
Sports radio in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E32 | E32 is a road in the international E-road network, located completely within the United Kingdom. Although the United Kingdom Government participates fully in activities concerning the E-routes, E-routes are not signposted within the United Kingdom.
The E32 runs between Colchester and Harwich, and is in length, making it one of the shortest E-roads. It follows the A120 road. In the western part it is similar to a motorway but not signposted as such. The rest is ordinary road. It carries many heavy vehicles. It connects to the E30 and to the ferries from Harwich to Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.
References
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
32
32
32 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option%E2%80%93operand%20separation | Option–operand separation is a principle of imperative computer programming. It was devised by Bertrand Meyer as part of his pioneering work on the Eiffel programming language.
It states that an operation's arguments should contain only operands — understood as information necessary to its operation — and not options — understood as auxiliary information. Options are supposed to
be set in separate operations.
The motivations for this are:
Ease of learning: Beginners do not have to concern themselves with setting options.
Wide spectrum coverage: Experts can still set options using the auxiliary operations.
Evolution. Options are more likely to change than operands, so the parameter list to the operation remains more stable.
References
Object-oriented programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EchoStar | EchoStar Corporation is an American company, a worldwide provider of satellite communication and Internet services through its Hughes Network Systems and EchoStar Satellite Services business segments. EchoStar is based in unincorporated Arapahoe County, Colorado.
Prior to 2008, it operated the DISH Network service brand, which was spun off as DISH on January 1, 2008.
History
EchoStar was originally formed in 1980 by its chairman Charles Ergen as a distributor of C band TV systems. In 1987, it applied for a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) license with the Federal Communications Commission and was granted access to orbital slot 119° west longitude in 1992.
On December 28, 1995, the firm successfully launched its first satellite, EchoStar I. On March 4, 1996, it established the DISH Network brand name to market its home satellite TV system.
On January 2, 2008, the DISH Network business was demerged from the technology and infrastructure side of the business. A split in the shares created two companies; the former EchoStar Communications Corporation changed its name to DISH Network Corporation which consisted mainly of the DISH Network business, and EchoStar Corporation, which retained ownership of the technology side including the satellites, Sling Media, and the set-top box development arm. DISH Network completed its distribution to EchoStar of its digital set-top box business, certain infrastructure, and other assets and related liabilities, including certain of their satellites, uplink and satellite transmission assets, and real estate (the "Spin-off"). Since the Spin-off, EchoStar and DISH Network have operated as separate publicly traded companies. In addition, a substantial majority of the voting power of the shares of DISH Network and EchoStar is owned beneficially by Charles W. Ergen, Chairman, and by certain trusts established by Mr. Ergen for the benefit of his family.
On February 14, 2011, EchoStar announced that it would acquire Hughes Communications in a deal valued at US$1.3 billion.
On January 31, 2017, EchoStar announced that it had reached an agreement with DISH to transfer the EchoStar Technologies businesses, which designed, developed and distributed digital set-top boxes, provided satellite uplinking and broadcast services and developed and supported streaming video technology back to DISH. The transaction was completed on January 31, 2017, substantially returning DISH to its pre-2008 status as a set-top-box hardware manufacturer.
In March 2017, after two delays caused by weather worries, SpaceX delivered EchoStar XXIII into orbit. The satellite was launched on a Falcon 9 Rocket and provides broadcast services for Brazil. Because EchoStar XXIII is a heavy satellite, this mission did not include a rocket landing post-takeoff, as it would require too much fuel. This was the first time a purely commercial satellite was launched from a pad that once served as the base for Apollo moon trips and space shuttle flights.
On May |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%20retrieval | Lead retrieval is a method for capturing and processing sales leads generated at an event, trade show, or conference.
Lead retrieval tools connect to a database containing the contact details of event attendees, which the attendees provided when they registered for the event. Event attendees wear a badge during the event, which features a barcode, ID number or QR code. Exhibitors at the event use lead retrieval devices to scan the code or number, to digitally collect that person’s data from the registration database.
Lead retrieval provides exhibitors with attendees’ full registration data. As well as their contact details, this often includes job title, company name and company size. This data is predefined by the event organiser, who is responsible for collecting attendee registration data before the event. This means exhibitors receive a lot of data about each attendee, but they cannot choose which data they receive, or to change any questions to make the data more relevant to their needs. Other event lead capture methods provide more flexibility.
Event organisers send exhibitors the data from the attendees’ badges after the event.
Lead retrieval tools
There are two common types of lead retrieval tools:
Trade show badge scanner - a handheld device which exhibitors use to scan attendees’ badges. These devices are provided by the event organiser for exhibitors to hire during the event.
Lead retrieval apps - for some events, the organisers provide a dedicated mobile app for attendees and exhibitors to use. An app can be installed on exhibitors’ own devices, meaning they don’t need to hire additional hardware during the event.
Types of technology
Barcode
Magnetic stripe
Mobile app
QR Code
RFID
See also
Trade fair
Lead generation
References
Sales
Trade fairs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%202008 | A list of films produced in Italy in 2008 (see 2008 in film):
External links
Italian films of 2008 at the Internet Movie Database
2008
Films
Italian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota%20Channel | The Minnesota Channel is an American free-to-air television channel originating at Twin Cities Public Television. It features programming related to Minnesota (and some related to Wisconsin and North Dakota), plus coverage of the Minnesota Legislature when in session. The Minnesota Channel is carried as a digital subchannel on all six member networks of the Minnesota Public Television Association.
History
In early 2003, TPT began setting aside time on KTCI for the "Minnesota Channel", an evening dedicated to local and regional related programming, frequently produced in partnership with other nonprofit and public service organizations. The service expanded from one to two evenings in 2004 and, on September 16, 2005, became a new full-time digital channel, tptMN (digital channel 17.2, Comcast (Saint Paul) 243, Comcast (Minneapolis) 202, and Mediacom 102). The Minnesota Channel was expanded to region wide coverage in Minnesota and North Dakota in February 2008. In October 2012, the Minnesota Channel changed picture formats from 4:3 to 16:9 widescreen.
Programming
Since its inception, the MN Channel has co-produced more than 250 programs with more than 100 partner organizations: non-profits, universities, governmental agencies and other public service organizations.
Among the programs broadcast on the MN Channel are several targeting ethnic communities that now call Minnesota and the Twin Cities home and who are generally under-served by commercial media. Some of these shows are also broadcast on Public-access television cable television channels in the region:
Zona Latina (Latino)
Kev Koom Siab (Hmong)
Geetmala (Hindi)
BelAhdan (Middle Eastern)
Journey to the East (Chinese)
Vietnamese News (Vietnamese)
The network's website features information on programs and partners, plus a regularly-updated blog.
Affiliates
Minnesota
KTCI (2.2 and 2.6) St. Paul/Minneapolis (Available in HD)
WDSE (8.4) Duluth / WRPT (31.4) Hibbing
KAWE (9.6) Bemidji / KAWB (22.6) Brainerd
KWCM-TV (10.3) Appleton / KSMN (20.3) Worthington/Sioux Falls
KSMQ-TV (15.4) Austin/Rochester
North Dakota
Prairie Public Television carries Minnesota Channel in North Dakota.
KGFE (2.3) Grand Forks (Available in HD)
KBME-TV (3.3) Bismarck
KWSE (4.3) Williston
KSRE (6.3) Minot
KDSE (9.3) Dickinson
KFME (13.3) Fargo
KCGE (16.3) Crookston, MN / Grand Forks
KJRE (19.3) Ellendale
KMDE (25.3) Devils Lake
References
Television networks in the United States
Public Broadcasting Service
Public television in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2003
Television in Minnesota
Television stations in North Dakota
English-language television stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Computer%20Network | OCN (オーシーエヌ), or Open Computer Network(オープン・コンピュータ・ネットワーク:Ōpun Konpyūta nettowāku), is the largest Japanese Internet service provider, with over 7 million subscribers. It is owned by NTT Communications Corp, one of the largest telecommunication companies in the world. It offers dial-up and ISDN, DSL up to 50 Mbit/s and fiber up to 200 Mbit/s download and 100Mbit/s upload.
As a result of regulations intended to promote competition, OCN themselves offer only internet service (routing); the physical line can be offered by NTT (the parent corporation), or by another company. Speeds up to 1Gbit/s are offered in Western Japan, while in East Japan only 200Mbit/s is officially offered for residential use, even though the underlying fiber infrastructure is capable of 1Gbit/s.
OCN also offers an MVNO mobile broadband service called "OCN Mobile One", based on NTT Docomo's LTE infrastructure. Initially it started out as a data-only service, but more recently OCN Mobile One also offers an onseikake SIM card (音声対応SIMカード) that provides full service (data, SMS and voice) without requiring any calling app.
See also
Verio
References
External links
Official OCN website
Start of OCN Business Web Service and its Future at Science Links Japan
NTT communications
OCN known as ocn.ad.jp is also the source of a large number of phishing spam emails and Malware distribution activity
Discussion regarding ocn.ne.jp as a source of spam/malware
Internet service providers of Japan
NTT Communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%20Squad%20%28TV%20series%29 | Murder Squad was a documentary television series broadcast in 1992, 1996 and 1997 on the British ITV network. The series followed the Metropolitan Police's murder squad as they investigate homicides in the United Kingdom's capital city, London. The series includes the gathering of forensic evidence and police interviews with suspects.
Episodes
There are 3 series of varying lengths, including 7 part series broadcast in February and March 1992, a two part special broadcast in 1996 and a 3 part series broadcast in 1997. Each episode followed a particular murder investigation in a fly-on-the-wall format through from crime to court room.
The episodes were:
Series 1
Murder of Douglas Piper, originally broadcast 4 February 1992
Explosion at New Cross, originally broadcast 11 February 1992
The Murder of Noel Christopher Part 1, originally broadcast 18 February 1992
The Murder of Noel Christopher Part 2, originally broadcast 25 February 1992
The Missing Boy, originally broadcast 3 March 1992
Murder of John Howard, originally broadcast 10 March 1992
Life Sentence, originally broadcast 17 March 1992
Series 2, Two part special
The Murder of an Unknown Man, originally broadcast 5 September 1996
The Murder of Barry Stubbings, originally broadcast 12 September 1996
Series 3
The Killing of Mr and Mrs Ambasna, originally broadcast 1 July 1997
The Murder of Raymond Folks, originally broadcast 8 July 1997
The Knife Killings, originally broadcast 15 July 1997
The series included investigations of real life crimes, following the murder squad during their investigations. The crimes included the murder of Madhavji Ambasna and his wife Raliat, an elderly couple who were murdered in April 1994 in Hounslow. Milton Wheeler whose own father was a convicted murderer was convicted of the crime by the Old Bailey in March 1995.
Production team
The original series was produced and directed by London born Robert Fleming, however the 1996 and 1997 series were produced by John Withington and directed by Paul Williams and Peter George. Robert Fleming was also known for producing the series Flying Squad that followed the elite unit of the Metropolitan Police in solving armed robberies.
References
1992 British television series debuts
1997 British television series endings
1990s British documentary television series
ITV documentaries
Television shows set in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redhawk | Redhawk may refer to:
Ruger Redhawk, a large frame revolver
Ruger Super Redhawk, a line of double action magnum revolvers
RedHawk Linux, a real-time operating system used by Concurrent Computer Corporation in the early 2000s
Boeing–Saab T-7 Red Hawk, an advanced trainer aircraft
See also
Red Hawk (disambiguation)
Redhawks (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webconverger | Webconverger is a discontinued Linux-based operating system designed solely for accessing Web applications privately and securely. Based on the Debian distro, it is able to boot live from removable media like CD-ROM or USB flash drive but can also be installed to a local hard drive. Webconverger is pre-compiled to run on any x86 hardware. It does not have high system requirements and will also run on older machines.
Webconverger is typically used in Web kiosk and digital signage deployments. It runs the Firefox web browser with a customised window manager dwm and a Firefox add-on also named Webconverger that locks the browser to a simple kiosk operation mode. The browser is locked down with most menus, toolbars, key commands and context menus disabled. Webconverger contains Adobe Flash support and PDF viewing by default. Both wired and wireless networks are supported via DHCP.
Webconverger does binary package updates through git hosted on GitHub. This is unique to Webconverger as most other distributions use separate package management utilities.
Although being developed in Singapore, it is mainly used commercially in Europe.
Reception
LWN.net reviewed Webconverger 12 in April 2012 with following words:
Softpedia Linux also have a review of Webconverger 35.1:
See also
Kiosk software
References
External links
Debian-based distributions
Information appliances
Diskless workstations
End-user lockdowns
Content-control software
Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3 | Z3 may refer to:
Mobile phones
BlackBerry Z3, a smartphone
Moto Z3, a smartphone
Motorola Rizr Z3, a slide mobile phone
Samsung Z3, a smartphone
Sony Xperia Z3, a smartphone
Computing
Z3 (computer), the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer created by Konrad Zuse
Z3 Theorem Prover, a satisfiability modulo theories solver by Microsoft
.Z3, a file extension for story files for the Infocom Z-machine
Vehicles
BMW Z3, a BMW sports car model
German destroyer Z3 Max Schultz, a Nazi Germany destroyer
Z-3, American Blimp MZ-3 of the U.S. Navy
Other uses
Zenon: Z3, a television series
Z3, in mathematics, the cyclic group of order 3
Zombies 3, a 2022 Disney Channel television film
See also
3Z (disambiguation)
Z33 (disambiguation)
Z333 (disambiguation)
ZE (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProductCenter | ProductCenter is a commercial software product, that is an integrated suite of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software for managing product data. The software was engineered for the Microsoft Windows and UNIX operating systems. Along with core applications, it includes localized and web-based services. ProductCenter is suited for managing various types of CAx data, but it can be used for many forms of data management and product management.
History
ProductCenter is owned, supported and maintained by SofTech Group Inc. In the early 1990s ProductCenter was one of the earliest PDM/PLM engineering software programs known as CMS. CMS was developed by Workgroup Technology Corporation (WTC) and was the first independent PDM/PLM solution to integrate with Pro/ENGINEER and Myriad. In 1996 WTC's CMS software program was renamed to what is currently known as ProductCenter.
Product version timeline
2019 - ProductCenter 9.9
2018 - ProductCenter 9.8
2017 - ProductCenter 9.7
2016 - ProductCenter 9.6
2015 - ProductCenter 9.5
2014 - ProductCenter 9.4
2013 - ProductCenter 9.3
2012 - ProductCenter 9.2
2012 – ProductCenter 9.1
2009 – ProductCenter 9
2008 – ProductCenter 8.6
2007 – ProductCenter 8.6
2006 – ProductCenter 8.5
2005 – ProductCenter 8.4
2004 – ProductCenter 8.3
2003 – ProductCenter 8.2
2002 – ProductCenter 8.1
2001 – ProductCenter 8.0
2000 – ProductCenter 7.0
1999 – ProductCenter 7.0 (formerly CMS)
1998 – CMS 6.5
1996 – CMS 6
1994 – CMS 5
Product features
ProductCenter makes the use of spreadsheets for BOM management obsolete and provides organization for parts with various part types and attributes as well as all information managed can be accessed through the ProductCenter Hierarchy Explorer. This feature helps to facilitate small to mid-size manufacturers with a way to centralize product data, control the engineering change process and share BOMs with suppliers. ProductCenter can be integrated with other tools – like CAD, ECAD, CAM, PDM and ERP – to help ease the management of product data from design to manufacturing.
ProductCenter includes these and other features:
Bill of Information Management
BOM Management
Workflow Management
Change Management (e.g. ECO's)
Document Control and Versioning
Compliance Management (e.g. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ISO, RoHS, UL and others)
Supplier & Partner Management
Supply Chain Collaboration
Project Collaboration
Document Management is a component of ProductCenter that centralizes and connects many forms of product information. This component offers secure, distributed vaulting, access via the Web, version and revision control, and user customized Web Portals for the engineer. The component also offers engineers viewable file generation, and automated legacy data capture.
Design Integration is a component of ProductCenter that integrates directly with design and support applications. The component offers many installable application modules for most of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TelevisionWeek | TelevisionWeek was an American trade magazine delivering news, analysis, and data on television and media, owned by Crain Communications Inc. It was founded in 1982 as Electronic Media and published under that title until 2003; the print magazine ceased publication in 2009. The corporate and circulation departments were based at Crain's headquarters in Detroit, with the editorial department in Los Angeles. It was considered a "formidable competitor" to Broadcasting & Cable, the leading trade publication covering the industry.
The magazine was started as the "Electronic Media Edition" of Advertising Age in May 1982 and became its own publication later that year under the name Electronic Media. It covered the broadcasting business more broadly; the moniker was chosen to be flexible depending on the development of the industry. Lee Goldberg, one of its former reporters, noted that it was heavy on coverage of the broadcast syndication market, which also generated much of its advertising. With the retitling as TelevisionWeek, it sought to be a general magazine for television executives, noting that its competitors were either too focused on regulatory matters, catered to cable, or primarily covered film.
Consolidation in television syndication and station ownership lessened the readership and advertising base of the publication in the 2000s. In 2009, Crain shut down print publication of TelevisionWeek, retaining its website in a reduced capacity and spinning out the NewsPro insert as a monthly magazine.
Website
The magazine's website, TVWeek.com, featured a number of blogs; some such as Access Hollywood Confidential, by Access Hollywood producer Rob Silverstein, were created by members of the television community. Among its notable columnists were Inside Edition's Deborah Norville and Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic Tom Shales.
References
External links
Official website (no content updates since January 2020)
Archive of Electronic Media/TelevisionWeek at the Internet Archive
Television magazines
Professional and trade magazines
Companies based in Detroit
Magazines established in 1982
Magazines disestablished in 2009
Mass media trade magazines
Weekly magazines published in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Jurgensen | Eric Jurgensen Flores (born April 9, 1963 in La Paz, Bolivia) was general manager and currently is director of content and programming of América Televisión Channel 4 in Peru.
He got a bachelor's degree in business administration specializing in marketing and
finance from the University of Arizona. However, he has been working in the television industry for over 32 years. He speaks fluently Spanish, English and German.
America TV
A Bolivian/American executive, with a degree in business administration with a specialization in marketing and finance in the U.S. Fluent in English, Spanish and German languages.
Highly skilled in successfully directing and re-launching TV channels and optimizing small budgets while using creativity to achieve positive results in the categories of positioning, billing and audience share.
Highly capable and creative in terms of strategic development of production and programming especially in relation to negotiations and sales.
When taking over the channel in 2003, it had a negative equity of over 80 million dollars and a liability of over 100 million dollars. And, in just seven and a half years, from 2003 to 2011, América TV managed to pay all its debts and now has a net worth of over 400 million dollars.
América TV has become the absolute leader of the Peruvian television market, with an audience share ranging between 34% and 39%.
From 2003 to 2018, Jurgensen acted as the chief executive officer and chief content officer of América TV in Peru.
since 2023 he has been the director of content and programming of América Televisión
Jurgensen Media Group
A company formed by Jurgensen to give advice and services to any TV Station in all different areas, especially in strategic planning, programming strategies, content production and digital areas. Jurgensen with more than 32 years of experience managing different TV stations in various countries, now is ready to offer this type of service.
Telefuturo
Planned, organized, executed and managed the Commercial, Programming, Promotional, Production, Operations and Administrative Departments for Channel 4 in Paraguay.
During this time publicity sales increased by 55% and viewership share increased from 24% in July 1999 to 42% in December 2001. Currently, Channel 4 Telefuturo is the number-one television station in Paraguay.
Red Uno
In addition, he was also responsible for the re-launching of Red Uno in La Paz, Bolivia. Between January and June 2002, Red Uno's viewership increased by 50% and sales by 65%. A thorough restructuring of the News Department regains respect and viewership for this segment.
References
University of Arizona alumni
Living people
1963 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecidable%20problem | In computability theory and computational complexity theory, an undecidable problem is a decision problem for which it is proved to be impossible to construct an algorithm that always leads to a correct yes-or-no answer. The halting problem is an example: it can be proven that there is no algorithm that correctly determines whether an arbitrary program eventually halts when run.
Background
A decision problem is a question which, for every input in some infinite set of inputs, answers "yes" or "no".. Those inputs can be numbers (for example, the decision problem "is the input a prime number?") or other values of some other kind, such as strings of a formal language.
The formal representation of a decision problem is a subset of the natural numbers. For decision problems on natural numbers, the set consists of those numbers that the decision problem answers "yes" to. For example, the decision problem "is the input even?" is formalized as the set of even numbers. A decision problem whose input consists of strings or more complex values is formalized as the set of numbers that, via a specific Gödel numbering, correspond to inputs that satisfy the decision problem's criteria.
A decision problem A is called decidable or effectively solvable if the formalized set of A is a recursive set. Otherwise, A is called undecidable. A problem is called partially decidable, semi-decidable, solvable, or provable if A is a recursively enumerable set.
Example: the halting problem in computability theory
In computability theory, the halting problem is a decision problem which can be stated as follows:
Given the description of an arbitrary program and a finite input, decide whether the program finishes running or will run forever.
Alan Turing proved in 1936 that a general algorithm running on a Turing machine that solves the halting problem for all possible program-input pairs necessarily cannot exist. Hence, the halting problem is undecidable for Turing machines.
Relationship with Gödel's incompleteness theorem
The concepts raised by Gödel's incompleteness theorems are very similar to those raised by the halting problem, and the proofs are quite similar. In fact, a weaker form of the First Incompleteness Theorem is an easy consequence of the undecidability of the halting problem. This weaker form differs from the standard statement of the incompleteness theorem by asserting that an axiomatization of the natural numbers that is both complete and sound is impossible. The "sound" part is the weakening: it means that we require the axiomatic system in question to prove only true statements about natural numbers. Since soundness implies consistency, this weaker form can be seen as a corollary of the strong form. It is important to observe that the statement of the standard form of Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem is completely unconcerned with the truth value of a statement, but only concerns the issue of whether it is possible to find it through a mathematica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20MTV%20%28Canada%29 | This is a list of television programs formerly and currently broadcast by the Canadian television channel MTV Canada and its former incarnation as talktv.
Programming
This a list of programs currently being broadcast.
Current
Regular programming
A-E
Catfish: The TV Show (MTV Entertainment Studios)
F-J
Faking It (MTV Entertainment Studios)
Finding Carter (MTV Entertainment Studios)
Friendzone (495 Productions)
Generation Cryo (Off the Fence)
Geordie Shore (Lime Pictures)
Girl Code (MTV Platform Development)
Grand Benders (MDF Productions)
Happyland (Storyline Entertainment)
K-O
Kesha: My Crazy Beautiful Life (MTV)
Losing It (MTV Entertainment Studios)
McMorris & McMorris (MTV Entertainment Studios)
MTV Creeps (MTV Entertainment Studios)
MTV Cribs (MTV Entertainment Studios)
P-T
Panic Button (MTV Entertainment Studios)
Play With AJ (MTV Entertainment Studios)
Ridiculousness (MTV Entertainment Studios)
Scrubbing In (Never Nominated
The Shannara Chronicles (MTV Production Development)
Snack-Off (MTV Entertainment Studios)
Snooki & JWoww (MTV Entertainment Studios)
Teen Mom (MTV Entertainment Studios)
Teen Mom 2 (MTV Entertainment Studios)
Teen Mom 3 (MTV Entertainment Studios)
Teen Wolf (MTV Production Development)
U-Z
Virgin Territory (MTV Production Development)
Special programming
MTV Europe Music Awards
MTV Movie Awards
MTV Video Music Awards
We Day
Acquired
Breaker High (currently on MTV2) (Saban Entertainment)
Clueless (Paramount Television)
InnerSPACE (Space show) (Space Productions)
Malcolm In The Middle (20th Television)
Movie Night (E! Canada show) (E! Originals)
Sabrina The Teenage Witch (Paramount Television)
Saved by the Bell (Universal Television)
South Park (Comedy Partners)
Student Bodies (20th Television, Sunbow Entertainment, Telescene)
Past
Regular programming
0-9
16 and Pregnant
4REAL
8th & Ocean
A-E
Adventures in Hollyhood
After Degrassi
The After Show
At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper (talktv)
Balance-Television for Living Well (talktv)
Bam's Unholy Union
Beavis and Butt-Head
Buckwild
Buzzin'
Camilla Scott Show (talktv)
Canada's Next Top Model
Celebrity Pets (talktv)
The Chatroom (talktv)
Cheyenne
The City
Clone High
Comedy Now!
DanceLife
Diary
The Dini Petty Show (talktv)
Engaged and Underage
eTalk (talktv)
eTalk Daily Profiles (talktv)
F-J
Failosophy
Fat Camp
From G's to Gents
The Hills
The Hills: The After Show
The Jack Benny Program (talktv)
Jersey Shore
Juvies
I'm From Rolling Stone
Impact
K-O
The Kentucky Kid
Keys to the VIP
Laguna Beach: The After Show
Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County
Life of Ryan
Live It Up! (talktv)
Live with Regis and Kelly (talktv)
Living Lahaina
Living on the Edge
Made
Making the Band
Making the Video
Man and Wife
Mason Lee: On The Edge (talktv)
Maui Fever
Me & Mr. Jones
Meet the Barkers
Miss Seventeen
MTV e2
MTV Live
MTV Live Hacked
MTV News
MTV Presents
MTV Screen
MTV Show Choir
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff%20model | The Puff model is a volcanic ash tracking model developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It requires windfield data on a geographic grid covering the area over which ash may be dispersed. Representative ash particles are initiated at the volcano's location and then allowed to advect, diffuse, and settle within the atmosphere. The location of the particles at any time after the eruption can be viewed using the post-processing software included with the model. Output data is in netCDF format and can also be viewed with a variety of software.
History
Puff was initially conceived and developed by Prof. H. Tanaka as a novel method for simulating ash cloud trajectories during the eruption of Mt. Redoubt, 1989. Dr. Craig Searcy rewrote and modified the Puff code in C++, and created the initial GUI so the program could be used operationally for volcano monitoring in the early and mid-1990s. His version of the program is running at the National Weather Service (NWS), Anchorage, Alaska, although updated versions of Puff are also available at the NWS.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) provided support for Puff through a post doctorate position (Drs. Mark Servilla and Jon Dehn) during the late 1990s to support analysis of volcanic clouds during eruptions.
In a joint program called University Partnering for Operational Support (UPOS) between the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (early 2000s), Puff was integrated into the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) volcano monitoring system by Rorik Peterson and David Tillman. UPOS support resulted in the testing of the sensitivity of Puff and the development of WebPuff, and new modules including the capability to model stratospheric eruptions, non-point source events (e.g. fires) and tracking of volcanic clouds from multiple eruptions simultaneously by Dr. Rorik Peterson. The utility of the multiple eruption capability became evident during the 13 January 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano where the movement of six volcanic clouds across the Gulf of Alaska were tracked simultaneously.
Starting in 2006, the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) provided support for Puff through a Post Doctorate position occupied by Dr. Peter Webley. Puff is now in use at AVO, Anchorage Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC), AFWA, and other national agencies worldwide as well as at other universities. Professor Ken Dean has been the principal scientist leading the development of Puff since Professor Tanaka returned to Japan in the early 1990s.
See also
List of atmospheric dispersion models
References
Casadevall, T. J. (1994). The 1989/1990 eruption of Redoubt Volcano Alaska: impacts on aircraft operations. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 62 (30). pp. 301–316.
Keith, T. E. C., (ed.), 1995. The 1992 eruptions of Crater Peak Vent, Mount Spurr volcano, Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin. 2139 p. 220
Miller, T. P., and Chouet, B. A., 1994, The 1989-1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceasar%20and%20Chuy | and Chuy is an American animated television series created by Alfonso Amey and Keu Reyes. The series premiered November 8, 2007 on the LATV Network. On June 12, 2008, the series began airing on Mun2.
Characters
and Chuy are a couple of animated hosts of a music video show on LATV. The pair watch and critique music videos as they are being shown. Ceasar and Chuy have ongoing hilarious stories throughout the episodes, and they touch on serious issues ranging from Global Warming to the state of education; all of course, from their unique perspective.
and Chuy attend the East City Vocational Junior College and they interact with other characters in that setting. One of them being Keel Whitay, a professor, and others include their classmates, Jerome, Rosario, and Dhat Ho. and Chuy's family names or age are never mentioned on the show, but it is presumed they are in the range of 18 to 24 years old.
Recurring themes
The series has a number of recurring elements.
and Chuy work at LATV and broadcast their show live from the station's studio. They spend most of their time watching and critiquing music videos. Chuy has quit the show on several occasions to pursuit other interests, only to come back and beg for his job with shame.
and Chuy have started many debates at school, often dividing the class into groups that disagree. Some of the debates have included the correct way to use language, and the Iraq war.
One of Chuy's life goals is to become rich and he plans to achieve this by any means necessary. is in a constant position to either talk Chuy out of engaging in destructive schemes, or cleaning up after Chuy has already ruined something because of such feat.
Chuy has a fascination and obsession over Pirates. He has been known to sometimes become a Pirate and randomly yell "Pirate, argh!".
Episodes
Holiday specials
and Chuy have not yet featured Holiday specials, but Halloween and Christmas episodes are said to be in the works.
Music videos
One of the key elements of the program is the inclusion of music videos, and their ruthless and irreverent critique of the artists and music featured on the videos, à la Beavis and Butt-head. Nothing is sacred: the performer, lyrics, or the production in general.
Criticism
The critiques of the music video are often censored by LATV due to the content of some of the content; however, and Chuy have been known to speak the truth.
and Chuy in most shows play a cultural music video, being a Mexican banda or a Puerto Rican orchestra. They really turn up their criticisms on these types of music videos.
Good music videos
and Chuy absolutely love music videos that feature women in skimpy attire.
Reggaeton is another genre that gets and Chuy to become heartless with their comments.
Music video interaction
and Chuy are sometimes seen dancing or skating as the videos play.
Controversy
Sometimes, the program gets into a little trouble by touching issues and/or saying things that may cause a reaction fr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Punk | "A-Punk" is a song by indie rock band Vampire Weekend, released on February 28, 2008 as the second single from their 2008 self-titled debut album. The band made their network television debut by performing "A-Punk" on the Late Show with David Letterman.
Critical reception
Mark Richardson of Pitchfork described "A-Punk" as having a "spunky drive, pogo-inducing rhythm, and subtle but hugely effective sonic accents" and said that "while solid, [it] isn't one of the stronger songs on Vampire Weekend". Drowned in Sound writer Alex Denney, commented that "A-Punk" was not the best song from their debut album due to it being "a little too uptempo to let their disarmingly clever melodies breathe", but stated "for the flute-aping synths and bottled-sunshine guitars alone you need this in your life." The review from Greg Rose of Gigwise, was mixed. Rose said that although the song lacked originality, it "manages to sound unique" due to the lyrical inventiveness of lines by Ezra Koenig such as, "His honor drove southward seeking exotica/cut his teeth on turquoise harmonicas", which were described as being "perky" and gave the song "a buzzing zip." In reference to "A-Punk", The Times writer Ben Blackmore, said, "Do believe the hype."
"A-Punk" is widely regarded as one of the band's best songs. Paste and Far Out ranked the song number five and number one, respectively, on their lists of the greatest Vampire Weekend songs. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 62 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
Commercial performance
The song peaked at number 55 on the UK Singles Chart and number 25 on Billboard magazine's Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. The single also reached #6 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. Though it never reached the Billboard Hot 100, the single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in July 2013, making it the band's first gold single.
On October 27, 2008, Vampire Weekend re-released "A-Punk" in the UK, in the hope of achieving a higher Chart placement on the UK Singles Chart. However, "A-Punk" only managed to peak at number 63, which was less than the placement at number 55 earlier that year.
The single continues to be sold over the years. In 2019 it was certified Platinum in the US and in the UK. In 2020 it achieved platinum certification in Canada.
Music video
The music video directed by Garth Jennings, that was said to convey the song's "spiky energy," used footage of the band performing as sped up stop-motion figures, simulating winter and underwater scenes during the performance. Despite the band being sped up, they "never miss an upstroke beat." The video made its worldwide premiere on January 7, 2008 on MTV2's Subterranean indie video block.
Track listing
"A-Punk"
"Oxford Comma" (Rehearsal version)
Personnel
Vampire Weekend
Ezra Koenig
Rostam Batmanglij
Christopher Tomson
Chris Baio
Technical
Emily Lazar – mastering
Rostam Batmanglij – mixing
Charts
Weekly ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUNTECH%20Tower | The SUNTECH Tower (Suntech @ Penang Cybercity) is a business tower in Penang, Malaysia. The tower is the first tower to have MSC designated status. The tower will feature 22 levels (including ground floor), 240 office units (12th-21st floor) and 40 shoplots (Ground floor/1st floor). The office building is located in the Penang Cybercity in the township of Bayan Baru.
Location
Suntech is located in the heart of Bayan Baru township, a rapidly developing township with many facilities under the Penang Cybercity Phase 1.
External links
SUNTECH @ Penang Cybercity
Emerald Capital Group
Office buildings completed in 2008
Office buildings in Penang
Skyscraper office buildings in Malaysia
MSC Malaysia
2008 establishments in Malaysia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin%20Computer%20Access | Dolphin Computer Access is a British company based in Worcester that designs, creates and sells software for people who are blind or have vision and print impairments, dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties. The company was set up in 1986 and now has offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Sweden and Norway. Through the use of Dolphin's screen enlargers, screen readers and braille output, users can operate word processors, spreadsheets, databases and the internet. The company's customers include Microsoft, the Inland Revenue, the BBC, the Royal Air Force, New College Worcester and Vodafone.
Dolphin's product SuperNova has won the UK WOW! award for technology in education.
In 2005, Dolphin worked alongside BT and the National Library for the Blind to develop a prototype synthetic voice application enabling books, magazines and newspapers to be converted into audio format, thus enabling them to be read by visually impaired computer users.
In 2008, the company announced a merger with Durham based Software Express Distribution Limited, a software development company and producer of Guide, a software package which enables visually impaired users to access Windows.
References
External links
Software companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Worcestershire
Blindness equipment
Companies established in 1986
1986 establishments in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABLE | SABLE is an XML markup language used to annotate texts for speech synthesis. It defines tags that control how written words, numbers, and sentences are audibly reproduced by a computer. SABLE was developed as an informal joint project between Sun Microsystems, AT&T, Bell Labs, and the University of Edinburgh (the initial letters of each make the word "SABLE") as an initiative to combine three previous speech synthesis markup languages SSML, STML, and JSML.
SABLE is used in the Festival Speech Synthesis System.
Development on SABLE appears to have stopped in 2010, and it has not reached the status of a formal standard or recommended specification.
References
External links
Computational linguistics
Speech synthesis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learndirect | Learndirect Ltd, stylised as learndirect, is a British training provider founded in 2000, owned by the private equity firm Queens Park Equity. The company has a network of learning centres in England and Wales, and also runs some courses online.
By 2006 the organisation was assisting half a million learners per year, and in January 2013 the cumulative number was in excess of 3.5 million.
In March 2017, Ofsted inspectors gave the company the lowest possible rating as a result of poor management processes, leading the company to seek judicial review and an injunction stopping the publication of this poor result. The court lifted the reporting restriction on 14 August 2017. Subsequently, the Department for Education stated that it would withdraw all funding from Learndirect, placing the future of the organisation at risk.
History
Learndirect was formerly owned by the Ufi Charitable Trust, a not-for-profit organisation which sold Learndirect and its parent Ufi Limited to LDC in 2011. Ufi was created in 1998 to take forward HM Government's stated vision of a 'University for Industry' in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and launched Learndirect in 2000. Learndirect Scotland was the public-facing brand of the Scottish University for Industry, but has since become part of Skills Development Scotland as 'My World of Work'. Learndirect still operates in Scotland, and has offices in Glasgow.
The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts undertook a review of the programme in 2005–2006; it found that the programme had received a total of £930 million in public funding, and was critical of the poor involvement of businesses, the high cost of marketing, and the low number of learners recorded as meeting their training objectives.
Ufi announced in late 2009 that it would be unable to sustain the large network of centres due to proposed budget cuts. An agreement was subsequently reached with the newly established Skills Funding Agency, allowing for a smaller network of centres, with the closure of some between July and August 2010.
Ufi were contracted by the Skills Funding Agency to deliver agreed targets in respect of qualifications achieved by learners, as well as a raft of quality, equality, and other indirect targets. However, following the May 2010 general election in which the Labour government was replaced by a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, the future of Learndirect became unclear. Funding for English as a foreign or second language through Learndirect centres ceased in July 2010.
According to The Independent, Ufi was included in a list compiled by the new government of quangos which it sought to abolish. The company and the Learndirect brand were then bought by LDC, part of Lloyds Banking Group, on 4 October 2011. Learndirect thus became an independent training provider competing in the open market and Ufi Ltd became a charitable trust. Learndirect Scotland became part of Skills Development Scotland and was renamed "My World o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian%20Cancer%20Registry%20Foundation | The Belgian Cancer Registry Foundation is a Belgian institution which collects epidemiological data concerning new cancer cases in Belgium.
History
In 1983 a national cancer registry (Nationaal Kankerregister-NKR) was founded in Belgium. In Flanders the Flemish government sponsored from 1994 until 2005 the creation of a Flemish cancer registry by the Vlaamse Liga tegen Kanker. The Belgian Cancer Registry Foundation, a joint initiative of the national, Brussels, Flemish and Wallonian governments, was founded on 28 June 2005 and officially inaugurated on 17 May 2006 in the presence of the ministers Rudy Demotte, Catherine Fonck and Inge Vervotte. Article 39 of the Belgian law of 13 December 2006 describes in detail the organization of cancer registration in Belgium.
See also
EORTC
Sources
Kankerregistratie voor heel België (Dutch)
External links
Belgian Cancer Registry
Cancer organisations based in Belgium
Foundations based in Belgium
Medical and health foundations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20Development%20Manager | PDM (Programming development manager) was installed on most AS/400 systems as a part of the Applications Development ToolSet (ADT) and is still installed on most IBM i systems today. PDM is an environment that lets programmers and/or operators navigate three levels of the PDM:
Other "work with" commands for the designated levels of PDM are as follows:
WRKLIBPDM (Library level)
WRKOBJPDM (Object level)
WRKMBRPDM (Member level)
PDM allows users to use shortcuts to perform repeated tasks. Using a specified options file (via F16), one can tailor these shortcuts to meet their needs. These shortcuts are limited to two alpha numeric characters, and are entered in the input field immediately preceding the library, object, or member. These shortcuts can be repeated en masse for all entries displayed within the relevant PDM screen via F13. This reduces the time it takes to complete common tasks like assigning authority, changing object ownership and several other functions. PDM also recalls last input parameters on a user basis, making repetition and recall easy.
PDM will allow a user to copy or rename libraries, objects and members. In addition, objects may be moved. It will also allow users to edit source members using the SEU function, edit display files via SDA or printer files via RLU. Some other quick commands include saving, restoring, displaying descriptions, deleting, changing, working with, running, changing text, finding a string, creating a program or service program, running a debugger, and comparing.
PDM also has a filter tool (currently F17) which allows a user to narrow their search parameters and limit results by object, object type, attributes, a size range, or by complete or partial text.
Sources
Fottral, Jerry. (2000). Mastering the AS/400: a practical, hands-on guide. 3rd ed.
External links
program-development-manager-pdm - Program Development Manager - WRKMBRPDM
AS/400 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-recursive%20algorithm | In computability theory, super-recursive algorithms are a generalization of ordinary algorithms that are more powerful, that is, compute more than Turing machines. The term was introduced by Mark Burgin, whose book "Super-recursive algorithms" develops their theory and presents several mathematical models. Turing machines and other mathematical models of conventional algorithms allow researchers to find properties of recursive algorithms and their computations. In a similar way, mathematical models of super-recursive algorithms, such as inductive Turing machines, allow researchers to find properties of super-recursive algorithms and their computations.
Burgin, as well as other researchers (including Selim Akl, Eugene Eberbach, Peter Kugel, Jan van Leeuwen, Hava Siegelmann, Peter Wegner, and Jiří Wiedermann) who studied different kinds of super-recursive algorithms and contributed to the theory of super-recursive algorithms, have argued that super-recursive algorithms can be used to disprove the Church-Turing thesis, but this point of view has been criticized within the mathematical community and is not widely accepted.
Definition
Burgin (2005: 13) uses the term recursive algorithms for algorithms that can be implemented on Turing machines, and uses the word algorithm in a more general sense. Then a super-recursive class of algorithms is "a class of algorithms in which it is possible to compute functions not computable by any Turing machine" (Burgin 2005: 107).
Super-recursive algorithms are closely related to hypercomputation
in a way similar to the relationship between ordinary computation and ordinary algorithms. Computation is a process, while an algorithm is a finite constructive description of such a process. Thus a super-recursive algorithm defines a "computational process (including processes of input and output) that cannot be realized by recursive algorithms." (Burgin 2005: 108). A more restricted definition demands that hypercomputation solves a supertask (see Copeland 2002; Hagar and Korolev 2007).
Super-recursive algorithms are also related to algorithmic schemes, which are more general than super-recursive algorithms. Burgin argues (2005: 115) that it is necessary to make a clear distinction between super-recursive algorithms and those algorithmic schemes that are not algorithms. Under this distinction, some types of hypercomputation are obtained by super-recursive algorithms, e.g., inductive Turing machines, while other types of hypercomputation are directed by algorithmic schemas, e.g., infinite time Turing machines. This explains how works on super-recursive algorithms are related to hypercomputation and vice versa. According to this argument, super-recursive algorithms are just one way of defining a hypercomputational process.
Examples
Examples of super-recursive algorithms include (Burgin 2005: 132):
limiting recursive functions and limiting partial recursive functions (E.M. Gold 1965)
trial and error predicates (Hi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillowface%20and%20His%20Airplane%20Chronicles | Pillowface and His Airplane Chronicles is the debut mixtape by California DJ and record producer Steve Aoki.
The mix features tracks from Justice, Peaches, Datarock, MSTRKRFT, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand and others, with guest vocal appearances from Santigold, Spank Rock, Uffie, Kid Sister, Pase Rock, Amanda Blank and Mickey Avalon.
The album debuted at number 15 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart.
History
Aoki explained that there's a meaning behind the album name. Pillow Face is a character he created who is really the alter ego of himself. He is "traveling and surviving with no sleep – practically, no sleep for weeks, yet still being able to function. His head turns into a pillow. Airplane Chronicles – we're just traveling, living in airports and going global. That's part of what glues all this music and all these artists together. There's artists from Sweden, to New York, to Paris, to Los Angeles to, everywhere, all kind of coming together for this one."
Track listing
Refused "New Noise" (1:55) (Jon Brannstrom; Dennis Lyxzen; David Sandstrom; Kristopher Steen)
Justice "Waters Of Nazareth" (Erol Alkan's Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr Re-Edit) w/ Pase Rock's Guest Drop (2:22) (Gaspard Augé; Xavier de Rosnay)
Does It Offend You, Yeah? "We Are Rockstars" w/ Spank Rock & Amanda Blank's Guest Drop (2:00) (James Rushent; Dan Coop; Rob Bloomfield; Matty Derham)
Services "Element Of Danger" (MSTRKRFT Remix) W/ Har Mar Superstar's Guest Drop (3:14) (Tristan Bechet; Christopher Pravdica)
Goose "Bring it On" w/ Todd Fink's Guest Drop (3:45) (Mickael Karkousse; Dave Martijn; Tom Coghe; Bert Libeert)
Larry Tee & Princess Superstar "Licky (Work It Out)"(Herve Goes Low Remix) w/ Santogold's Guest Drop (3:35)(Lawrence Thom; Concetta Kirschner)
Green Velvet "Shake and Pop" w/ Kid Sister's Guest Drop (3:10) (Curtis Jones; Walter Phillips)
Klaxons "Gravity's Rainbow" (Soulwax Remix) (5:04) (Jamie Reynolds; James Righton; Simon Taylor-Davies)
Mystery Jets "The Boy Who Ran Away" (Riton Re-Dub) (2:50) (Blaine Harrison; Henry Harrison; Kai Fish; Kapil Trivedi; William Rees)
Peaches "Boys Wanna Be Her" (Weird Science Remix) (2:03) (Merrill Beth Nisker)
Datarock "Fa-Fa-Fa" w/ Steve Bays' Guest Drop (3:30) (Fredrik Saroea; Ketil Mosnes)
Yelle "Je Veux te Voir" (3:33) (Jean-Francois Perrier; Julie Budet)
Franz Ferdinand "Do You Want To" (Erol Alkan's Glam Racket Remix) (2:50) (Alex Kapranos; Nick McCarthy; Robert Hardy; Paul Thomson)
Kim "Wet 'N Wild" w/ Mickey Avalon's Guest Drop (2:32) (Kimberly Isaac)
Bloc Party "Helicopter" (Weird Science Remix feat. Peaches) (4:22) (Kele Okereke; Russell Lissack; Gordon Moakes; Matt Tong)
Justice "D.A.N.C.E." (MSTRKRFT Remix) (4:20) (Gaspard Augé; Xavier de Rosnay)
Scanners "Low Life" Remix w/ Uffie's Guest Drop (5:52) (Matthew Mole; Sarah Daly)
Charts
Reception
Response to Pillowface and His Airplane Chronicles was generally mixed to negative.
References
Steve Aoki albums
2008 albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Adler | Mark Adler (born 1959) is an American software engineer. He is best known for his work in the field of data compression as the author of the Adler-32 checksum function, and a co-author together with Jean-loup Gailly of the zlib compression library and gzip. He has contributed to Info-ZIP, and has participated in developing the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format.
Adler was also the Spirit Cruise Mission Manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission.
Early life and education
Adler was born in Miami, Florida and raised as the only child of David and Bertha Adler. Adler earned his Bachelor of Science in mathematics and Master of Science in electrical engineering degrees from the University of Florida in 1981 and 1985, respectively. In 1990, Adler earned his Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology.
Career
Post-doctoral
After his doctorate, Adler worked for Hughes Aircraft in their Space and Communications Group, working on diverse projects including the analysis of the effects of X-ray bursts on satellite cables, development of new error-correcting codes, designing an automobile anti-theft key, and digital image and video compression research (wavelets and MPEG-2).
Mars exploration
From 1992 through 1995, Adler was the Lead Mission Engineer on the Cassini–Huygens mission. Afterwards, he became the Mars Exploration Program Architect at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from 1996 through 1998, which meant that Adler was responsible for planning the Mars exploration missions from 2001 on as well as handling inter-project engineering issues for missions in flight and in development during the time. In 1999 and early 2000, Adler was the Mission and Systems Manager and Chief Engineer for the Mars Sample Return project, which was to launch three missions in 2003 and 2005 to bring Martian samples back to Earth in 2008. The project was canceled after the failure of Mars Polar Lander.
Mars Exploration Rover mission
Adler initiated and led a three-and-a-half-week study on the concept that was later selected as the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission for 2003. He has served as the Deputy Mission System Manager, the Acting Project Engineer, the Deputy Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations Manager, the Landing Site Selection Engineer, and the Spirit Mission Manager.
Low Density Supersonic Decelerator
Adler is currently the project chief of the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator.
Personal life and interests
Adler is an instrument-rated private pilot, a certified scuba diver, and an amateur theater actor.
He is married to Diana St. James. They live in La Cañada, California. They have two children, Joshua and Zachary. St. James works at the California Institute of Technology and acts in and directs theatrical performances.
Awards and recognition
Together with co-author Jean-loup Gailly, Adler received the 2009 USENIX Software Tools User Group (STUG) award for their contributions to FLOSS algorithms for data compression.
Re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDHK | KDHK (100.5 FM) is a mainstream rock radio station in Decorah, Iowa. KDHK is also the home for the Iowa Hawkeyes, broadcasting Iowa Hawkeyes football and basketball. Weekend programming includes Dee Snider's House of Hair, LA Lloyd's Rock 30 and Sammy Hagar's Top Rock Countdown.
History
The station's original call letters were KRDI-FM, assigned in 1986. On May 1, 2009, KDEC-FM began streaming online at kdecradio.net.
On October 1, 2019, KDEC-FM changed their format from adult album alternative to mainstream rock, branded as "Hawk Rawk" under new KDHK calls and began streaming online at hawkrawk.com.
On May 8, 2021, KDHK starting broadcasting in HD Radio
HD Radio sub-channels
References
External links
DHK
Radio stations established in 1986
1986 establishments in Iowa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake%20Bay%20Gateways%20Network | The Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network is a partnership program of the National Park Service and a system of over 150 parks, refuges, museums, historic communities and water trails in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. As a partnership program, it is not considered a Unit of the National Park System, but is managed by the National Park Service's Chesapeake Bay Office in Annapolis, Maryland, which also manages the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail and the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail.
Sites in the greater Chesapeake Bay watershed are eligible to participate in the Network, including sites in the Potomac River basin out to West Virginia and sites in the Susquehanna River basin out to New York State.
History
The Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network was established through the authority of the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act, which was passed by the United States Congress in 1998 in order "to establish a linked network of locations, such as parks, historic seaports, or museums—known as gateways—where the public can access and experience the bay," according to a 2006 report by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO). This initiative has been supported through grants provided by the U.S. National Park Service (Park Service). GAO personnel undertook preparation of that report in 2005 in response to concerns expressed by members of the U.S. Congress regarding the National Park Service's management of the gateways network.
References
External links
Chesapeake Bay Office. National Park Service website.
Bay Info. Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network.
Maryland Parks and Recreation Areas with State Park. parksandcampgrounds.com.
National Park Service areas in Maryland
National Park Service areas in Virginia
Protected areas of Maryland
Protected areas of Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20differential%20analyzer | A digital differential analyzer (DDA), also sometimes called a digital integrating computer, is a digital implementation of a differential analyzer. The integrators in a DDA are implemented as accumulators, with the numeric result converted back to a pulse rate by the overflow of the accumulator.
The primary advantages of a DDA over the conventional analog differential analyzer are greater precision of the results and the lack of drift/noise/slip/lash in the calculations. The precision is only limited by register size and the resulting accumulated rounding/truncation errors of repeated addition. Digital electronics inherently lacks the temperature sensitive drift and noise level issues of analog electronics and the slippage and "lash" issues of mechanical analog systems.
For problems that can be expressed as differential equations, a hardware DDA can solve them much faster than a general purpose computer (using similar technology). However reprogramming a hardware DDA to solve a different problem (or fix a bug) is much harder than reprogramming a general purpose computer. Many DDAs were hardwired for one problem only and could not be reprogrammed without redesigning them.
History
One of the inspirations for ENIAC was the mechanical analog Bush differential analyzer. It influenced both the architecture and programming method chosen. However, although ENIAC as originally configured, could have been programmed as a DDA (the "numerical integrator" in Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), there is no evidence that it ever actually was. The theory of DDAs was not developed until 1949, one year after ENIAC had been reconfigured as a stored program computer.
The first DDA built was the Magnetic Drum Digital Differential Analyzer of 1950.
Theory
The basic DDA integrator, shown in the figure, implements numerical rectangular integration via the following equations:
Where Δx causes y to be added to (or subtracted from) S, Δy causes y to be incremented (or decremented), and ΔS is caused by an overflow (or underflow) of the S accumulator. Both registers and the three Δ signals are signed values. Initial conditions for the problem can be loaded into both y and S prior to beginning integration.
This produces an integrator approximating the following equation:
where K is a scaling constant determined by the precision (size) of the registers as follows:
where radix is the numeric base used (typically 2) in the registers and n is the number of places in the registers.
If Δy is eliminated, making y a constant, then the DDA integrator reduces to a device called a rate multiplier, where the pulse rate ΔS is proportional to the product of y and Δx by the following equation:
Error sources
There are two sources of error that limit the accuracy of DDAs:
Rounding/truncation errors due to the limited precision of the registers.
Approximation errors due to the selection of numerical integration algorithm.
Both of these error sources are cumulative, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20engine | A voice engine is a software subsystem for bidirectional audio communication, typically used as part of a telecommunications system to simulate a telephone. It functions like a data pump for audio data, specifically voice data. The voice engine is typically used in an embedded system.
The term became popularized after 2000 with the proliferation of voice over internet protocol technology in software DSP systems. Voice engines handle the voice processing for an IP Phone system on a standard processor, compared to prior generations of systems which required dedicated, math-optimized digital signal processor chips.
Voice engines are highly optimized software subsystems due to the mathematically complex signal processing required for voice filtering and speech coding. The filter stages and coding elements within a voice engine are designed to work in conjunction with a larger telecommunications system, including only a specific and limited range of processing to minimize the voice engine's memory size and processor usage. Compared to software desktop applications which might employ plugins to continually add flexibility or extensibility, a voice engine is designed to meet specific industry standards for interoperability.
References
Broadband
Voice over IP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureBASIC | FutureBasic is a free BASIC compiler for Apple Inc.'s Macintosh.
It consists of an integrated development environment (IDE), editor, project manager, etc. for both PowerPC and Intel microprocessors. Since 1 January 2008, the package has contained a translator, FBtoC, that converts the FutureBasic syntax to C and automatically calls Apple's GNU Compiler Collection (gcc). No knowledge of C is required. FutureBasic supports access to Mac OS library calls.
History
FB began life in the mid-1980s as ZBasic, which was created by Andrew Gariepy and envisioned as a cross-platform development system. Before long, the cross-platform aspects were dropped in favor of focusing on Macintosh development. ZBasic acquired a devoted following of developers who praised its ease of use and the tight, fast code produced by the compiler (a legendary labor involving extensive use of hand-built 68K assembly language code). In 1992 and as the next major step after ZBasic version 5, Zedcor Inc., the company of the Gariepy brothers Andy, Mike, Peter and friends based in Tucson, Arizona presented FutureBASIC (later called FBI). In 1995 Staz Software, led by Chris Stasny, acquired the rights to market FutureBASIC. Chris Stasny started this business with an upgraded version, namely FBII, and with his own development, the Program Generator (PG PRO), a CASE tool.
The transition from 68k to PowerPC central processing unit (CPU) was a lengthy process that involved a complete rewrite of the editor by Chris Stasny and an adaptation of the compiler by Andy Gariepy. The result of their efforts, a dramatically enhanced IDE called FB^3, was released in September 1999, featuring among many other things a separate compiler application, various open, hence modifiable runtimes, inline PPC assembly, a simplified access to the Macintosh Toolbox Application Programming Interface (API), as well as an expanded library of built-in functions. Major update releases introduced a full-featured Appearance Compliant runtime written by Robert Purves and the Carbon compliance of generated applications. Once completely carbonized to run natively on the Mac OS X, the FutureBASIC Integrated Development Environment (FB IDE) was called FB4 and first released in July 2004.
Based in Diamondhead, Mississippi, Staz Software was severely hit by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and development pace was slowed at a time when major effort was required to keep the IDE up to date with Apple's evolution towards the Intel-based Macintosh.
In 2007, an independent team of volunteer FB programmers, known as the FBtoC team, developed a translator (FBtoC) that allows FB to generate applications as Universal Binaries through the use of the open source GCC compiler which is included with each copy of Apple's Mac OS X system software.
On January 1, 2008, Staz Software announced that FB would henceforth be freeware and FB4 with FBtoC 1.0 was made available.
Processor and operating system support
System requirements for or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoyama%20Gakuin%20Women%27s%20Junior%20College | is a junior college in Tokyo, Japan, and is part of the Aoyama Gakuin network.
The institute was founded in 1874 by Dora E. Schoonmaker, an American missionary sent to Japan by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
External links
official website
A Brief History- Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College
Educational institutions established in 1874
Japanese junior colleges
Universities and colleges in Tokyo
1874 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Farrell%20Community%20School | The O'Farrell Charter Schools is a network of college-preparatory charter schools in the Skyline-Encanto area in San Diego, Southern California. Often defined as schools within a school, O'Farrell operates an elementary (K-5), middle (6-8), high (9-12) school and independent study, blended learning (6-12) school. The school opened its doors in the San Diego Unified School District in 1959 with its name chosen in 1957 as Mabel E. O'Farrell Junior High. It was voted to become a charter school in 1994. President Bill Clinton made a visit to San Diego in 1995 to sign the Goals 2000 education bill and to visit O'Farrell because it was a charter. It was also mentioned in Hillary Clinton's book It Takes a Village. Through the years, The O'Farrell Charter School has received numerous awards and distinctions. The O'Farrell Charter High School has been named as one of America's top high schools by U.S. News and World report six years in a row. O'Farrell has also been named a school of distinction by National Center for Urban School Transformation. O'Farrell is an AVID National Demonstration School.
Schools within a school
The O'Farrell Charter Schools is divided into two Local Education Agencies and multiple schools.
The O'Farrell Charter School comprises of the following schools:
The O'Farrell Charter Elementary School
The O'Farrell Charter Middle School
The O'Farrell Charter High School
Ingenuity Charter School is an Independent Study and Blended Learning Program located on the Skyline campus as well as other resource centers in Southeast San Diego.
All schools operate on the same campus at the corner of 61st Avenue and Skyline Drive. The Middle School entrance is off of Skyline Drive at 6130 Skyline. The High School entrance in located at a separate entrance at 6150 Skyline Drive.
Each O'Farrell school has a principal and vice principal and has a separate program, teachers, and bell schedules.
In 2014, "Ingenuity Charter School, Blended Learning Independent Study Program" was added as an official part of The O'Farrell Charter Schools. Students attend in person at one of the school's resource centers at least twice per week and work independently online the other days.
Notable alumni
Rosalie Hamlin known for 1960 song, "Angel Baby"
Tom Waits claimed to have attended this school and remembered it as an all-black school in a 1973 interview.
Shirley Horton, California assemblywoman and former mayor of Chula Vista
References
Schools in San Diego
Charter K-12 schools in California
Educational institutions established in 1959
1959 establishments in California
San Diego Unified School District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSA%20pre-processor | ANSA is a computer-aided engineering tool for finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics analysis widely used in the automotive industry. It is developed by BETA CAE Systems. The software is distributed world wide by a number of BETA CAE Systems subsidiaries and business agents. In the United States, it is distributed by Beta CAE Systems, USA, based in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
ANSA maintains the association between computer-aided engineering geometry and the finite element mesh. This means that the finite element meshes are better representations of their geometric parents. Also it is easy to maintain and update any changes in the geometry by simply reworking the updated area instead of recreating the finite element from scratch.
It carries several proprietary algorithms for meshing suitable for both CFD and structural models. ANSA initially stood for 'automatic net generation for structural analysis', but the software has gone beyond that very quickly.
External links
ANSA page at BETA CAE Systems International AG website
BETA CAE Systems USA Inc.
Mesh generators
Finite element software
Computer-aided engineering software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Watch%20Group | The Energy Watch Group (EWG) is an international network of scientists and parliamentarians. The EWG conducts research and publishes studies on global energy developments concerning both fossil fuels and renewables. The organization states that it seeks to provide energy policy with objective information.
The EWG was founded in 2006 by the former German parliamentarian and Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany recipient Hans-Josef Fell and further parliamentarians from other countries to provide both experts and political decision makers as well as the public with information on energy issues.
Research areas
The EWG conducts research on energy issues, including natural gas, crude oil, coal, renewables and uranium. In particular, they focus on three interrelated topics:
the shortage of fossil and atomic energy resources,
development scenarios for regenerative energy sources as well as
strategies deriving from these for a long-term secure energy supply at affordable prices
The EWG studies examines ecological, technological and economic connections in the energy sector to estimate developments in the availability and supply of different energy sources and production techniques.
The results of the EWG studies are to be presented not only to experts but also to the politically interested public. All EWG studies are open access and are available on the website.
Next to topics covering the energy transition towards a system based on 100% renewable energy, the EWG is also monitoring and regularly informing about the latest developments in the global divestment movement on their website.
Research and statements
Studies of the EWG by and large come to the conclusion that the planet will run out of fossil fuels earlier than previously thought. The global supply of fossil fuels is therefore extremely strained. An early study of the EWG estimates that there is far less coal available than what is commonly expected. Moreover, coal is distributed very unevenly across countries. 85% of global coal reserves are situated in six countries: USA, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The report suggests that a global peak of coal production will occur in 2025 the latest. The situation for crude oil is even more critical. Global oil production is said to collapse to 40% in 2030 compared to production in 2012. According to calculations by the EWG, peak-oil has already been reached in 2006 with a global oil production maximum of 81 million barrels per day and is now on a steep decline.
The EWG further maintains that neither new production techniques such as fracking, nor nuclear power nor a diversification of the fossil fuel portfolio can reverse the trend of a collapsing conventional energy system. A recent EWG report warns that fracking not only has catastrophic consequences for the environmental and detrimental health impacts, but is also economically unviable, particularly in Europe. The US is heading straight to a peak in shale gas extraction a |
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