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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcra%20%28computer%20worm%29 | W32.Alcra. F is a computer worm that is spread by P2P file sharing networks. It is regarded as a low-risk virus, and is usually detected by a virus scan.
Effects
The W32.Alcra. F worm saves a number of empty files and links to a computer, and then attempts to connect to those links thus causing an error.
Detection and removal
A full system scan usually can find, and remove this worm without much difficulty.
References
Computer worms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance%20Network%20Theatre | Performance Network Theatre, founded in 1981, was Ann Arbor, Michigan's premiere professional Equity theatre. It produced a wide variety of dramas, classics, comedies, Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winners, many of which were World or Michigan Premieres. Its professional season included five to seven main stage productions. Other programming included seasonal productions that ran in repertory over the holiday season, the Northern Writers' Project—a week-long playwriting intensive, children's programming, the Fireside Festival of New Plays, the Open Table Series, the Open Stage series, music and more.
On December 18, 2015, the Theatre announced that it would close at the conclusion of the year.
Overview
Performance Network was a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that began its tenure in Ann Arbor in 1981. Performance Network became Ann Arbor's professional theatre in September 1997 and built an elegant theatre in the heart of downtown in September 2000.
Performance Network's primary stage, the Shure Theater, was an intimate space that seated 139 patrons.
History
David Bernstein and Jim Moran founded the Performance Network Theatre in 1981 as an arts collective. In addition to Bernstein and Moran, active collective members in the playwriting group included Lyn Coffin, Davi Napoleon, Judith Ottmar, Al Sjoerdsma and Rochel Urist. The theatre evolved into a nonprofit corporation in the mid-eighties. After the departure of the original founders, the organization continued to produce and present experimental, original and socially relevant work under the cooperative direction of Linda Kendall, Annemarie Stoll, Johanna Broughton, (and in time, Peter Knox). Eventually, the early 1990s saw departures from the artistic staff leave the artistic direction in the hands of Johanna Broughton, who (with her husband Dan Walker, along with Carla Milarch and David Wolber) led the theatre from the 'Warehouse Years' to professional status and in 2000 moved it from Ann Arbor's Washington Street location to the corner of 4th and Huron, near the Kerrytown district. In 1997, Performance Network secured a contract with Actors’ Equity and established itself as Ann Arbor's professional theatre. In doing so, it was able to
Increase the reputation of the Network by placing it in a higher tier of theatres nationally
Gain access to plays of nationally recognized merit, unavailable to community theatres
Increase artistic quality by hiring more experienced actors, directors, and designers
Gain listing in respected theatrical publications and presentation by participating in the Michigan Equity Theatre Alliance, the National New Play Network, and Theatre Communication Group
Expand the audience base by gaining press coverage in Southeastern Michigan publications.
In 2003, direction of the theatre was turned over to Milarch and Wolber. Under Milarch and Wolber, Performance Network excelled at choosing a wide range of artistically challenging shows and began receiving mu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20Ethernet | Carrier Ethernet is a marketing term for extensions to Ethernet for communications service providers that utilize Ethernet technology in their networks.
Background
Ethernet has a long history. It has become dominant in enterprise networks. This dominance has led to high production-volume components, which in turn have allowed extremely low cost per bit. Likewise, Ethernet has a long history of re-inventing itself. From the original copper coaxial cable format ("thicknet") it has extended its scope to nearly all copper, optical fiber and wireless physical media. Bit rates have continued to increase, traditionally growing tenfold each time a new rate is defined. Gigabit Ethernet interfaces are widely deployed in PCs and servers, and 10 Gbit/s in local area network (LAN) backbones.
Rates up to 100 Gigabit Ethernet were standardized in 2010 and 2011.
Ethernet's dominance is partly attributed to the simple advantages for the industry of adopting a single standard to drive up volumes and drive down prices. In part, it is also due to ease of deployment, using its ability to self-configure based on the key concepts of "learning bridge" (flooding, and associating learned destination addresses with bridge ports) and "spanning tree protocol" (the protocol used for avoiding bridging loops).
Historically, competing protocols and cabling have been created in order to access higher speed devices than contemporary Ethernet-connected devices handled at an affordable price. Examples include FireWire and Light Peak. One motive to create competing standards has been to drive down the price of comparable-speed Ethernet devices. Once this purpose is achieved, competing standards tend to disappear or be confined to very specialized niches.
Ethernet is a fairly simple protocol which has scaled to hundreds of thousands of times faster speeds and consistently been able to adapt to meet the needs and demands of new markets. For example, time domain capabilities are being added to IEEE 802.3 Ethernet to support IEEE 802.1 Audio Video Bridging (AVB), and these capabilities will be applicable to time sensitive carrier applications likewise IEEE 1588.
Customer LAN networks are increasingly connected to wide-area telecommunications networks over Ethernet interfaces or to devices that bridge digital subscriber line (DSL) or wireless to these. Moreover, customers are familiar with the capabilities of Ethernet networks, and would like to extend these capabilities to multi-site networks. Meanwhile, the needs of such networks have expanded to include many services previously handled only on the LAN or by specialized connections, notably video and backup. It is not practical to expand most small networks beyond 1G or at most 2G (dual teaming gigabit) capacity per segment, since the bottleneck remains in the wide area links to other offices and online services.
Carrier constraints
Thus wide area network (WAN) and metropolitan area network (MAN) providers find themselves with thr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Shalaev | Vladimir (Vlad) M. Shalaev (born February 18, 1957) is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Scientific Director for Nanophotonics at Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University.
Education and career
Shalaev earned a Master of Science Degree in physics (summa com laude) in 1979 from Krasnoyarsk State University (Russia) and a PhD Degree in physics and mathematics in 1983 from the same university. Shalaev received several awards for his research in the fields of nanophotonics and metamaterials, including the Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America (OSA), the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, the Rolf Landauer Medal of the Electrical, Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (ETOPIM) International Association, the UNESCO Medal for the development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies, OSA and SPIE - The International Society for Optics and Photonics - Goodman Book Writing Award,
the 2020 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids. Shalaev is a Fellow of the OSA, IEEE, SPIE, American Physical Society (APS), and Materials Research Society (MRS). Prof. Shalaev has co-/written three- and co-/edited four books, and authored over 800 research publications, in total. As of January 2023, his h-index is 117 with the total number of citations about 64,000, according to Google Scholar. In 2017-2022 Prof. Shalaev has been on the list of Highly Cited Researchers from the Web of Science Group; he is ranked #9 in the optics category of the Stanford list of top 2% World's highest-cited scientists (career-long; out of 64,044 entries).
Research
Vladimir M. Shalaev is recognized for his pioneering studies on linear and nonlinear optics of random nanophotonic composites that had helped to mold the research area of composite optical media. He also contributed to the emergence of a new field of engineered, artificial materials - optical metamaterials. Currently, he studies new phenomena resulting from merging metamaterials and plasmonics with quantum nanophotonics.
Optical metamaterials
Optical metamaterials (MMs) are rationally designed composite nanostructured materials that exhibit unique electromagnetic properties drastically different from the properties of their constituent material components. Metamaterials offer remarkable tailorability of their electromagnetic response via shape, size, composition and morphology of their nanoscale building blocks sometimes called 'meta-atoms'. Shalaev proposed and demonstrated the first optical MM that exhibits negative index of refraction and the nanostructures that show artificial magnetism across the entire visible spectrum. (Here and thereafter, only selected, representative papers by Shalaev are cited; for complete list of Shalaev's publications visit his website.) He made important contributions to active, no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2014 | National Cycle Route 14 forms part of the National Cycle Network in North East England. It connects Darlington in County Durham with South Shields on the River Tyne. The route has currently (2016) a length of . Much of it uses paths along disused railway lines and is thus free from motor traffic.
Sections
The route is signed in both directions but is described here per Sustrans' publication in the direction from Darlington to South Shields.
Darlington to Hartlepool
From Darlington to Middleton St George the route follows the former Stockton and Darlington Railway line. It continues north-east on a combination of on-road and so-called traffic free (i.e. without motor traffic) sections towards Stockton-on-Tees, passes the latter town on National Cycle Route 1 and continues to Hartlepool. More than half of the latter stretch is separated from motor traffic.
Hartlepool to Durham
Again on a combination of on-road and traffic-free sections, the route turns away from the coast in a north-western direction along the former Clarence and Hartlepool Junction Railway, now known as the Hart to Haswell Walkway. From a junction east of Wingate, National Cycle Route 1 also uses the disused railway line. In Haswell, the cycle routes separate, and route 14 continues westwards to Durham, mainly on roads.
Durham to South Shields
After heading west out of Durham, the route follows the Lanchester Valley Railway Path north-west to Consett. Continuing north-east mainly on disused railway lines, it crosses the River Derwent several times. At the mouth of the latter, it meets the River Tyne and continues along its southern bank eastward to South Shields. Most of this section is traffic-free except for some short parts along the Tyne.
Between Stockton-on-Tees and South Shields the route is also signposted as the Three Rivers Cycle Route, between Consett and South Shields it shares the way with the Sea to Sea (C2C) route connecting the west and east coasts of England.
External links
Sustrans Route 14
References
Transport in County Durham
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2072 | National Route 72 of the National Cycle Network, in Northern England is also called "Hadrian's Cycleway". It starts at Kendal and makes its way around the Cumbrian coast via Barrow-in-Furness and Whitehaven to Silloth, and then across the country through Carlisle via Newcastle upon Tyne to Tynemouth at the northern shore or to South Shields at the Tyne's south shore, where the cycleway ends at Arbeia Roman Fort. Much of its route is very close to Hadrian's Wall.
Kendal to Barrow in Furness is mapped on the Walney To Wear map. Ravenglass to Tynemouth is open and mapped on the Hadrian's Cycleway map, though some sections between Ravenglass and Silloth are using interim routes.
External links
Hadrian's Cycleway at cycle-routes.org
Transport in Cumbria
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20London%20Lifelong%20Learning%20Network | The West London Lifelong Learning Network is a government funded partnership.
It aims to increase the number of vocational learners progressing to and through Higher Education using flexible learning, and respond to employers’ skills shortages.
The West London Lifelong Learning Network is committed to joint working with its academic partners and employers to help achieve its goals.
Focus
Its activities centre around three West London priority areas:
Health & Social Care
Heathrow (travel and tourism, hospitality and catering, retail, logistics, aeronautical engineering, environmental sustainability, business and IT services)
Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics.
Partners
The West London Lifelong Learning Network's academic partners are:
Brunel University
Capel Manor College
College of North West London
Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College
Harrow College
Kingston University
Royal Holloway, University of London
St Dominic's Sixth Form College
Stanmore College
Thames Valley University
Uxbridge College
West Thames College
University of Westminster
William Morris Sixth Form
See also
Higher Education Funding Council for England
Lifelong Learning Networks (LLNs)
External links
West London Lifelong Learning Network
Education in London
Vocational education in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVCK%20%28AM%29 | KVCK (1450 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format to the Wolf Point, Montana, United States, area. The station is owned by WolfTrax Broadcasting, LLC, and features programming from ABC Radio.
History
The station went on the air on 1957-09-01 and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007. The call letters represent the first initial of the last name of three original owners. The letter 'V' representing Mike Vukelich, 'C' representing Pete Coffey, and the 'K' representing Ed Krebsbach.
Ownership
In April 2007, KVCK was acquired by WolfTrax Broadcasting from Wolf Town Wireless Inc.
References
External links
VCK
Radio stations established in 1957
Classic hits radio stations in the United States
1957 establishments in Montana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo%20Welch | Ivo Welch, a German-born economist and finance academic. He is the J. Fred Weston Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management.
He completed his BA in computer science in 1985 at Columbia University, and both his MBA and PhD in finance at the University of Chicago.
His research has focused on financial economics and informational cascades.
Publications include articles in academic journals and the popular press, in addition to a self published Corporate Finance textbook.
He was previously on the faculties of the Yale School of Management (Professor of Economics and Finance) and Brown University's economics department (Professor of Financial Economics).
He is an National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Research Associate. He has been editor of the Critical Finance Review since inception.
Professor Welch is a two-time recipient of the Michael Brennan Award. He ranked about 50th by downloads on SSRN. in 2014, but has since slipped to 100th (by 2021), both by downloads and by cites. In 2006, he ranked 54th on the Web of Science list of "Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business"; in 2007 (the last year of the rankings), he ranked 57th. On Google Scholar, his work had gathered about 40,000 cites in 2019, increasing by about 2,500 cites per year thereafter. In the German Handelsblatt VWL Rankings of economists with German background 2019, his life work was ranked second (behind Roman Inderst) for finance professors and sixth among all economics professor. He is a Humboldt Foundation 2015 fellow.
References
External links
German economists
21st-century American economists
Living people
University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumni
Columbia University alumni
1963 births
Financial economists
Corporate finance theorists
Brown University faculty
Yale School of Management faculty
UCLA Anderson School of Management faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy%20Kamkar | Samy Kamkar (born December 10, 1985) is an American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker and entrepreneur. At the age of 16, he dropped out of high school. One year later, he co-founded Fonality, a unified communications company based on open-source software, which raised over $46 million in private funding. In 2005, he created and released the fastest spreading virus of all time, the MySpace worm Samy, and was subsequently raided by the United States Secret Service under the Patriot Act. He also created SkyJack, a custom drone which hacks into any nearby Parrot drones allowing them to be controlled by its operator and created the Evercookie, which appeared in a top-secret NSA document revealed by Edward Snowden and on the front page of The New York Times. He has also worked with The Wall Street Journal, and discovered the illicit mobile phone tracking where the Apple iPhone, Google Android and Microsoft Windows Phone mobile devices transmit GPS and Wi-Fi information to their parent companies. His mobile research led to a series of class-action lawsuits against the companies and a privacy hearing on Capitol Hill. Kamkar has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.
Work
Samy worm
In 2005, Kamkar released the Samy worm, the first publicly released self-propagating cross-site scripting worm, onto MySpace. The worm carried a payload that would display the string "but most of all, Samy is my hero" on a victim's profile and cause the victim to unknowingly send a friend request to Kamkar. When a user viewed that profile, they would have the payload planted on their page. Within just 20 hours of its October 4, 2005 release, over one million users had run the payload, making it the fastest spreading virus of all time. The MySpace team temporarily shut down MySpace to fix the problem that allowed the worm to operate.
In 2006, Kamkar was raided by the United States Secret Service and Electronic Crimes Task Force, expanded from the Patriot Act, for releasing the worm. After being presented with a plea bargain for no prison time, but paying a fine of $20,000 USD, serving three years of probation, working 720 hours of community service, Kamkar pled guilty to a felony charge of computer hacking in Los Angeles Superior Court. Also per the aforementioned agreement, Kamkar was allowed to keep a single computer that was not connected to a network, but explicitly prohibited from any internet access during his sentence. Since 2008, Kamkar has been doing independent computer security and privacy research and consulting.
Notable works
In 2008, after Kamkar's restriction from computers was lifted, he demonstrated weaknesses in Visa, MasterCard and Europay credit cards with near field communication (NFC) and radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips built in and released software demonstrating the ability to steal credit card information, including name, credit card number, and expiration date, wirelessly from these cards. He a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact%20Software | Compact Software was the first commercially successful microwave computer-aided design (CAD) company. The company was founded in 1973 by Les Besser to commercialize his eponymous program COMPACT (Computerized Optimization of Microwave Passive and Active CircuiTs), released when he was at Farinon Electric Company.
History
Besser began working on simulators during his employment at HP (1966–1969), using the BASIC computer language and time-sharing computers. After leaving HP, he joined the newly formed microwave division of Fairchild Semiconductor, where he authored his first-generation program, SPEEDY, in 1970 to promote Fairchild's transistors. SPEEDY lacked the optimization feature, represented by the 'O' in the COMPACT acronym, but included a large s-parameter database with the all Fairchild's bipolar and GaAs microwave transistors. Fairchild customers had access to that database through SPEEDY. Besser later converted another program, originally written for his graduate thesis work, to run on a commercial time-share system and launched a part-time business, Compact Engineering (later renamed Compact Software). This second-generation program, COMPACT, included circuit optimization capability and noise analysis, a wide range of active and passive microwave components, and was offered through five different international time-sharing systems. It quickly became the industry standard, used heavily by companies developing products for defense industries. Some of the companies also purchased the program for in-house installation. In 1976 he left his engineering employment to dedicate all his energies to CAD. His father-in-law, a long-time employee of Standard Oil Co, was very concerned about Besser's new venture. His worries were summarized by saying, "I cannot see how anyone could make a living by selling computer programs."
In 1980, Compact merged with Communication Satellite Corporation (COMSAT), creating a new division with Besser heading the microwave CAD development. The new company aimed at increasing engineering efficiency. A third-generation program, SuperCOMPACT was released in 1981. SuperCOMPACT enjoyed worldwide monopoly with nearly 400 international companies using it through timesharing as well as on-site installation in large-scale mainframes as well as mini-computers. Besser left three years later to form a new company, Besser Associates, focusing on continuing education of RF and microwave professionals.
In 1983, another key Compact employee, William Childs, left and teamed up with Chuck Abronson to form a new software company, EEsof. Their first product, Touchstone, was written directly for then new IBM PC and quickly became popular among microwave circuit designers. In 1985, H-P started selling Microwave Design System (MDS), developed earlier for internal use. (Later, in 1993, EEsof was acquired by H-P and TouchStone was marketed alongside MDS, for PCs and UNIX-based workstations respectively.) After losing Compact Software's ori |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VK%20%28service%29 | VK (short for its original name VKontakte; , meaning InContact) is a Russian online social media and social networking service based in Saint Petersburg. VK is available in multiple languages but it is predominantly used by Russian speakers. VK users can message each other publicly or privately, edit these messages, create groups, public pages, and events; share and tag images, audio, and video; and play browser-based games.
, VK had at least 500 million accounts. As of November 2022, it was the sixth most popular website in Russia. The network was also popular in Ukraine until it was banned by the Verkhovna Rada in 2017.
According to SimilarWeb, VK is the 16th most visited website in the world.
History
VKontakte was incorporated on 19 January 2007 as a Russian private limited company. Founder Pavel Durov launched VKontakte for beta testing in September 2006, shortly after his graduation from St Petersburg State University. The following month, the domain name vkontakte.ru was registered. User registration was initially limited to within university circles exclusively by invitation, but the site still grew quickly.
In February 2007 the site reached a user base of over 100,000 and was recognized as the second largest company in Russia's nascent social network market. In the same month, the site was subjected to a severe DDoS attack, which briefly put it offline. The user base reached 1 million in July 2007, and 10 million in April 2008. In December 2008 VK overtook rival Odnoklassniki as Russia's most popular social networking service.
Website
As with most social networks, the site's core functionality is based on private messaging and sharing photos, status updates, and links with friends. VK also has tools for managing online communities and celebrity pages. The site allows its users to upload, search and stream media content, such as videos and music. VK features an advanced search engine, that allows complex queries for finding friends, as well as a real-time news search. VK updated its features and design in April 2016.
Features
Messaging. VK Private Messages can be exchanged between groups of 2 to 500 people. An email address can also be specified as the recipient. Each message may contain up to 10 attachments: Photos, Videos, Audio Files, Maps (an embedded map with a manually placed marker), and Documents.
News. VK users can post on their profile walls, each post may contain up to 10 attachments – media files, maps, and documents (see above). User mentions and hashtags are supported. In the case of multiple photo attachments, the previews are automatically scaled and arranged in a magazine-style layout. The news feed can be switched between all news (default) and most interesting modes. The site features a news-recommendation engine, global real-time search, and individual search for posts and comments on specific users' walls.
Communities. VK features three types of communities. Groups are better suited for decentralized commu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCKF | WCKF (100.7 FM, "Alabama 100") is a radio station licensed to serve Ashland, Alabama. The station is owned L.E. GRADICK, WCKF, LLC.
Programming
WCKF programming includes a tradio program named Trade Line, PRN NASCAR programming, and Alabama Crimson Tide football and basketball.
History
This 100.7 MHz frequency became available after WHMA-FM, an unrelated country formatted station at 100.5 MHz, known as "Alabama 100", moved to Atlanta in early 2001, and WANZ in Northport, Alabama, changed its dial position from 100.7 MHz to 100.5 MHz and began broadcasting from a taller tower near Vance, Alabama, in April 2003.
The new 100.7 MHz station was assigned the WCKF call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on November 28, 2006. WCKF came on the air as a sister station to co-owned WCKA (810 AM) at the end of January 2008. The station received its license to cover from the FCC on January 25, 2008. On May 1, 2010, Alabama 100.7 WCKF, became their own LLC: WCKF, LLC.
References
External links
CKF
Classic country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2008
2008 establishments in Alabama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge%20of%20Freedom%3A%20The%20American%20Civil%20War | Forge of Freedom: The American Civil War is a computer wargame, combining both a strategic level and a tactical level by means of letting the player(s) raise, equip and move armies and then fight out battles on a randomized map when encountering the enemy. This game was made by Western Civilization Software, whose headquarters is located just outside Ann Arbor, Michigan, and uses the same game engine as the company's 2005 release, "Crown of Glory: Europe in the Age of Napoleon" and 2009 expansion Crown of Glory: Emperor's Edition, which likewise features a combination of grand strategy and tactics.
Basic Facts
There are two playable factions available in this game, the Confederacy and the Union (although foreign intervention is a possibility). The campaign map for the strategic level stretches from Minnesota to Texas and from Maine to Florida. Battle maps for the tactical level are made of terrain hexes which correspond to how far a unit can move. Battles are fought at the brigade-level, and the player gets to customize his brigades by purchasing weapons and "brigade attributes" (e.g., brigade cavalry, scouts, sharpshooters, Zouaves). There are more than 1000 Civil War generals in the game, with the most famous (and infamous) having a 100% chance to appear each game, while the less famous ones have a much smaller chance of entering the game. As part of an ongoing project, some players of "Forge of Freedom" have been volunteering to write biographies of each general that is included in the game, adding an educational dimension to the game. The game also features economics, European diplomacy, trade, and politics (in the form of state governors), which are all important for success.
Scenarios
There are no scenarios starting after 1861. The simplistic nature of the economic system provided with the game does not easily map to real life events and statistics.
Notes
References
Western Civilization Software
Matrixgames forum
Reviews
Gamesquad.com
ArmchairGeneral.com
BovineConspiracy.com
GameSpy
Interview with Developers
Armchair General interview
Ann Arbor News
GamersInfo.net
American Civil War video games
Strategy video games
2006 video games
Indie games
North America-exclusive video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games
Computer wargames
Matrix Games games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsys | Alsys, SA. (founded 1980, merged 1995) was a software development company created to support initial work on the Ada programming language.
In July 1995, Alsys merged to become Thomson Software Products (TSP), which merged into Aonix in 1996.
History
Alsys SA. the French company was founded in 1980 by Jean Ichbiah (1940–2007). Also in 1980 the American subsidiary Alsys Inc was formed with Ben Brosgol (from Intermetrics), and Pascal Clève.
In 1985 a British subsidiary, Alsys ltd was formed with John Barnes as the MD.
During the merger mania of the 1990s, Alsys was repositioned via a series of mergers.
In 1991 Alsys was acquired by Thomson-CSF.
In November 1992, Thomson-CSF acquired TeleSoft and merged it with Alsys.
In July 1995, Thomson-CSF merged two of their subsidiaries, Alsys and MUST Software, a software development corporation based in Norwalk, Connecticut, to form Thomson Software Products (TSP).
In November 1996, TSP merged with IDE (Interactive Development Environments, Inc.) to form Aonix.
Thomson-CSF (now known as Thales), sold Aonix to Gore Technology Group (GTG) in the late 1990s.
Aonix acquired Select Software in 2001.
In January 2003, GTG sold the Critical Development Solutions (CDS) division of Aonix, which included the Alsys, Telesoft and IDE product lines, to a group of French investors. The name Aonix was kept for this new company, while Select Business Solutions was the name given to the part under Gore control.
In 2003, Aonix acquired NewMonics of Tucson, Arizona, a supplier of Java-compliant virtual machines for embedded and real-time systems.
In January, 2010 Aonix merged with Artisan Software Tools to form Atego.
Alsys was one of the few companies that developed products that unleashed the protected mode of the 80286 processor. At the time, most applications were limited to using only 640K of memory. With the Ada compiler, applications could be built using up to 16MB of memory.
Notes
References
"Parallel Processing in Ada", David Parker, April 1989, webpage: CNavy-12.
External links
"Parallel Processing in Ada", David Parker, April 1989, webpage: CNavy-12.
Companies established in 1980
Software development
Software development process
Software companies of France
Ada (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yates%20analysis | In statistics, a Yates analysis is an approach to analyzing data obtained from a designed experiment, where a factorial design has been used.
Full- and fractional-factorial designs are common in designed experiments for engineering and scientific applications. In these designs, each factor is assigned two levels, typically called the low and high levels, and referred to as "-" and "+". For computational purposes, the factors are scaled so that the low level is assigned a value of -1 and the high level is assigned a value of +1.
A full factorial design contains all possible combinations of low/high levels for all the factors. A fractional factorial design contains a carefully chosen subset of these combinations. The criterion for choosing the subsets is discussed in detail in the fractional factorial designs article.
Formalized by Frank Yates, a Yates analysis exploits the special structure of these designs to generate least squares estimates for factor effects for all factors and all relevant interactions. The Yates analysis can be used to answer the following questions:
What is the ranked list of factors?
What is the goodness-of-fit (as measured by the residual standard deviation) for the various models?
The mathematical details of the Yates analysis are given in chapter 10 of Box, Hunter, and Hunter (1978).
The Yates analysis is typically complemented by a number of graphical techniques such as the dex mean plot and the dex contour plot ("dex" stands for "design of experiments").
Yates Order
Before performing a Yates analysis, the data should be arranged in "Yates order". That is, given k factors, the kth column consists of 2(k - 1) minus signs (i.e., the low level of the factor) followed by 2(k - 1) plus signs (i.e., the high level of the factor). For example, for a full factorial design with three factors, the design matrix is
Determining the Yates order for fractional factorial designs requires knowledge of the confounding structure of the fractional factorial design.
Output
A Yates analysis generates the following output.
A factor identifier (from Yates order). The specific identifier will vary depending on the program used to generate the Yates analysis. Dataplot, for example, uses the following for a 3-factor model.
1 = factor 1
2 = factor 2
3 = factor 3
12 = interaction of factor 1 and factor 2
13 = interaction of factor 1 and factor 3
23 = interaction of factor 2 and factor 3
123 = interaction of factors 1, 2, and 3
A ranked list of important factors. That is, least squares estimated factor effects ordered from largest in magnitude (most significant) to smallest in magnitude (least significant).
A t-value for the individual factor effect estimates. The t-value is computed as
where e is the estimated factor effect and se is the standard deviation of the estimated factor effect.
The residual standard deviation that results from the model with the single term only. That is, the residual standard deviation from the model
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect2Wiltshire | Connect2Wiltshire is a demand responsive transport network in southern Wiltshire, England. It is funded by Wiltshire Council and operates in several areas including Calne, Kennet Valley, Mere, the Vale of Pewsey, Wootton Bassett, Malmesbury and the Woodford & Wylye Valleys.
The network combines the former Wigglybus and other shared taxi networks under one brand. Unlike many bus services, all passengers have to book at least one hour before travelling. It operates standard taxi services also. Unlike standard taxis, these are charged at bus rates. The name was chosen because the council required a new licence to use the name Wigglybus.
Connect2Wiltshire also oversee bus routes 101/102/103 (Devizes to Pewsey), operated since August 2017 by Salisbury Reds. These are ordinary bus routes and do not have to be pre-booked.
In 2022, the Department for Transport awarded £1.2million to Wiltshire Council for an on-demand bus service in Pewsey Vale and Marlborough. Services began in Pewsey Vale on 31 July 2023 under the Wiltshire Connect brand.
See also
List of bus operators of the United Kingdom
References
External links
Transport in Wiltshire
Bus operators in Wiltshire
Companies based in Wiltshire
Demand responsive transport in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio%20Angelini | Claudio Angelini (29 March 1943 – 2 June 2015) was president of the Dante Alighieri Society in New York, U.S. political correspondent for RAI, the Italian national television network and was President Emeritus of RAI Corporation. He wrote several books and poems including Obama, un anno di sfide (Obama, a Year of Challenges).
Biography
Angelini served a 4-year term as director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York from 2003 to 2007, the Italian governmental agency for the worldwide promotion of Italian cultural affairs. His tenure was praised by some of the most prominent cultural and political figures, including U.S. Ambassador Richard Gardner and Professor David Friedberg, the director of the Italian Academy at Columbia University.
Became a Guarantor and ex-officio member of the Board of Italian Academy at Columbia University from 2002-2003 to 2005-2006
He was well known among Italian-Americans for hosting the weekly TV show "Zoom", on RAI International, a 30-minute lifestyle program focused on many aspects relevant to the large Italian community of North America.
In 1997 Angelini moved from Rome to New York, where he served as the U.S. Bureau Chief for RAI. He was the first Italian journalist to broadcast the tragic September 11 terrorist attack. Before moving to the U.S., Angelini was the director of RAI News Radio and the deputy director of TG1 (RAI 1 news office). He also served for 20 years as the RAI chief correspondent for the president of the Italian Republic. This role made him a familiar face in Italian households and earned him the affectionate nickname of the “Voice of the Presidents.” Prior to these roles, Angelini anchored TG1 (RAI 1 TV news) and hosted the popular cultural program “Almanacco del Giorno dopo” for several years.
He has been editor-in-chief of important cultural publications including Fiera and has published many books of fiction and poetry with notable Italian publishers Rusconi Libri and Bompiani.
He also wrote a political column for the Italian daily newspaper Il Messaggero.
He was at times the President, Chairman and promoter of the Capri Awards for literary and cultural events in Capri which he founded with his wife Olga Cortese in the 1980s.
Angelini died in New York from a serious illness.
Private life
He was survived by his wife journalist Olga Cortese and son Gianclaudio.
Selected publications
1968 Prima della fine, Marotta won an Italian award for the best first book
1976 Viaggio di nozze, All’Insegna del Pesce d’Oro
1982 Malato speciale. Romanzo, Risconi won the Bancarello Opera Prima Award
1985 L'occhio del diavolo, Bompiani
1985 In viaggio con Pertini, Bompiani
1986 , Bompiani
1987 Gomorra, Bompiani
1987 Chiese di Toscana, Dalla Pieve romanica alla chiesa dell'Autosterada (co author), Silvana Editoriale
1988 Villa Adriana, (co author), Autostrada (Gruppo I.R.I. - Italstat)
1992 Il cerchio magico, Bompiani
1992 , Ellemme
1998 Il mistero di Simonetta, (Nuova narrativ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Malaria%20Network%20Trust | The African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET) is a pan-African international NGO headquartered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It originally started its activities as African Malaria Vaccine Testing Network (AMVTN) in 1995 with the primary goal of preparing Africa in planning and conducting malaria vaccine trials. In order to widen the scope in malaria interventions, AMVTN was succeeded by AMANET on 14 March 2002. Although the primary goal of AMANET has remained malaria vaccine development, the organization in its expanded role includes other intervention measures such as antimalaria drugs and vector control.
Precedence
Malaria is a preventable disease that afflicts hundreds of millions of people causing among them untoward socio-economic suffering including a vicious cycle of abject poverty, brain damage, other irreversible disabilities, and over one million deaths per year. Notwithstanding this leading disease burden, malaria has yet to get the status it deserves on the political and other relevant agenda of endemic communities and development partners.
For centuries, malaria has adversely affected the history of sub-Saharan Africa; its control during the past century however concentrated on urban areas where colonial authorities and traders lived and in agricultural estates and mines whose products sustained industries in the colonizing countries. When the global malaria eradication program was showing signs of success, which coincided with the wave of national independence, the eradication program was abandoned in Africa on the pretext of mainly administrative and financial constraints. However, the strategies were continued elsewhere. As a consequence, the malaria situation in Africa worsened; now Africa bears the brunt of the world malaria burden estimated at 500 million malaria cases and up to 3 million malaria deaths per annum, and costing an estimated US$12 billion annually.
Continued failure of current strategies (prompt diagnosis, early correct treatment, and the use of insecticide treated nets (ITNs) calls for a need to develop entirely new tools that would contribute to the fight of a resilient enemy and reverse its devastation. Over the last three decades there has been considerable interest in research and development of malaria vaccines. Research results that have been obtained so far show that malaria vaccine candidates would differ not only in their biological properties, but also in their eventual applications.
Vaccines have been exceptionally effective against a number of diseases and have become one of the safest and most cost-effective weapons in medicine's arsenal against communicable disease. Perhaps no other intervention has had such a dramatic impact on the health and well-being of our society as the introduction of vaccines.
Establishment
In 1995 at a conference held in Arusha, Tanzania, 81 malaria researchers from Africa, Europe and North America established the African Malaria Vaccine Testing Network (AMVTN) in order |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%20Lord%20%28video%20game%29 | Dragon Lord, also known as Dragon's Breath, 1990 computer game for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS published by Palace Software and Spotlight Software. A fantasy-themed strategy game, players control one of three dragon lords competing to find the (game-winning) talisman. This goal is achieved by raising dragons, empowering them via alchemy, and then sending them to conquer towns.
Reception
Computer Gaming World stated that "many will find game play painfully slow", but deserved some praise for its novel subject and "innovative game play". The magazine concluded that Dragon Lord would appeal to strategy gamers rather than to adventurers.
Further reading
Jeux & Stratégie nouvelle formule #8 (as "Dragons Breath")
References
External links
Amiga Magazine official review of Dragon Lord
Dragon's Breath at Lemon Amiga
1990 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
DOS games
Fantasy video games
Single-player video games
Strategy video games
Video games about dragons
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Palace Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shootout%20%28TV%20series%29 | Shootout, also known as Sunday Morning Shootout, was a talk and interview program produced by the cable television network AMC. The episodes first aired on AMC on Sunday mornings, before being rerun and syndicated to other networks (under the title Hollywood Shootout).
The show debuted on October 12, 2003. It was hosted by Peter Bart (a film producer and editor-in-chief of Variety) and film producer and former film studio president Peter Guber.
Each half-hour episode usually had two segments; one in which Guber and Bart discussed various topics in the film industry, and one where they jointly interviewed that week's guest(s).
On December 16, 2008, Bart wrote in his blog on the Variety website that Shootout "will now migrate to a different time and different neighborhood." The last show episode at its regular timeslot was December 21, 2008.
Bart and Guber returned to AMC on February 13, 2009 with Storymakers, which was similar to Shootout, but airing in primetime, albeit infrequently (another episode aired on May 15, 2009).
In 2010, Bart and Guber co-hosted In the House, a similar interview series airing on Encore.
References
External links
2003 American television series debuts
2000s American television talk shows
AMC (TV channel) original programming
2008 American television series endings
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Greene%20%28actor%29 | Paul Greene (born June 2, 1974 in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian actor.
Career
Greene's first notable role was in the MyNetworkTV telenovela Wicked Wicked Games, where he was a series regular appearing in 40 episodes (out of 65) as attorney Benjamin Gray. His other acting credits include guest roles in series such as Freddie, Shark, The Wedding Bells, My Own Worst Enemy, and NCIS. Greene made his major-picture debut in Sofia Coppola's 2010 film Somewhere. He also has appeared in over 100 television commercials. Green has also starred in several Hallmark movies over the past several years. He was a regular on Hallmark’s When Calls the Heart, playing Hope Valley’s town doctor, in Seasons 4-8.
Personal life
Greene lives in Los Angeles with his son Oliver (he is co-parenting with his ex-wife Angi Greene) and is engaged to his girlfriend, Kate Austin, to whom he proposed in May 2019 in Italy. He and Kate had a son (his second child) they named Austin together on December 12, 2021. He loves playing beach volleyball with Ollie and watching the sunset; he also loves playing the guitar and singing (he writes his own songs). His mother is from the Netherlands; she was a nurse and has played in some of Paul's movies as an extra. His father died of ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as motor neurone disease or Lou Gehrig's disease) in 2014.
Filmography
Films
Television
References
External links
1974 births
21st-century Canadian male actors
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Alberta
People from Wetaskiwin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20and%20Rescue%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Search and Rescue is an Australian observational documentary series that first aired on the Nine Network on 7 May 2008.
Search and Rescue follows the search and rescue operations of several different Victoria Police divisions, such as the Victoria Police Air-Wing and Victoria Police Diving Squad.
Nine Network original programming
2008 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings
Australian factual television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Euler | Project Euler (named after Leonhard Euler) is a website dedicated to a series of computational problems intended to be solved with computer programs. The project attracts graduates and students interested in mathematics and computer programming. Since its creation in 2001 by Colin Hughes, Project Euler has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It includes over 850 problems as of 12 August 2023, with a new one added approximately every week. Problems are of varying difficulty, but each is solvable in less than a minute of CPU time using an efficient algorithm on a modestly powered computer.
Features of the site
A forum specific to each question may be viewed after the user has correctly answered the given question. Problems can be sorted on ID, number solved and difficulty. Participants can track their progress through achievement levels based on the number of problems solved. A new level is reached for every 25 problems solved. Special awards exist for solving special combinations of problems. For instance, there is an award for solving fifty prime numbered problems. A special "Eulerians" level exists to track achievement based on the fastest fifty solvers of recent problems so that newer members can compete without solving older problems.
Example problem and solutions
The first Project Euler problem is Multiples of 3 and 5
If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23.
Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000.
Although this problem is much simpler than the typical problem, it serves to illustrate the potential difference that an efficient algorithm makes. The brute-force algorithm examines every natural number less than 1000 and keeps a running sum of those meeting the criteria. This method is simple to implement, as shown by the following pseudocode:
total := 0
for NUM from 1 through 999 do
if NUM mod 3 = 0 or NUM mod 5 = 0 then
total := total + NUM
return total
For harder problems, it becomes increasingly important to find an efficient algorithm. For this problem, we can reduce 1000 operations to a few by using the inclusion–exclusion principle and a closed-form summation formula, as follows. Let denote the sum of multiples of below . Then we have:
In big O notation, the brute-force algorithm is and the efficient algorithm is (assuming constant time arithmetic operations).
See also
List of computer science awards
List of things named after Leonhard Euler
References
External links
Project Euler forum
Links to Translation Projects into several other languages
Mathematics websites
Programming contests
Problem solving
Puzzles
British educational websites
Mathematics education in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980%20in%20paleontology |
Bryophytes
Arthropods
Insects
Molluscs
Newly named bivalves
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Note: the name Lancangosaurus is mistakenly treated as a nomen nudum synonymous with Datousaurus (because Dong et al. 1983 believed it to be conspecific with Datousaurus). However, it is actually an early spelling variant of another nomen nudum, Lancangjiangosaurus.
Newly named birds
Pterosauria
Newly named pterosaurs
Lepidosauromorphs
Plesiosaurs
Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.
References
Darby, D. G. and Ojakangas, R. W.; 1980; Gastroliths from a Late Cretaceous Plesiosaur; Journal of Paleontology; 54(3) pp. 548–556
Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
Paleontology
Paleontology 0 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Angiosperms
Arthropoda
Insects
Archosauromorpha
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Remarks on newly named birds
Palaeopteryx thomsoni Jensen, 1981. is most probably not a bird but perhaps a small dinosaur, it is best treated as a taxon non avium.
Plegadis pharangites Olson, 1981. is a new name for Plegadis gracilis Miller et Bowman, 1956, preoccupied by Plegadis gracilis (Lydekker, 1891), described as Milnea gracilis Lydekker, 1891 and transferred to the genus Plegadis Kaup, 1829 by Cheneval, 1984.
Newly named birds
Plesiosaurs
Carroll, R. C., 1981, Plesiosaur ancestors from the Upper Permian of Madagascar: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, v. 293, p. 315- 383.
Pterosaurs
New taxa
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Pteridophytes
Angiosperms
Fish
Ray-finned fish
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Birds
Some remarks on newly named birds
Hulsanpes perlei Osmolska, 1982 was described as a Troodontidae, it is sometimes seen as an Avialae because of having a ginglymoid metatarsal II.
Newly named birds
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Pterosaurs
New taxa
Pseudosuchua
General pseudosuchian research
Ralph Molnar publishes a revision of the genus Pallimnarchus, comparing it to various Australasian crocodilians and diagnosing it based on proportional differences.
New taxa
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979%20in%20paleontology |
Bryophytes
Fish
Archosauromorphs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Non Avian Dinosaurs
Birds
Plesiosaurs
Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries
While volunteering for field work on a team led by Philip Currie, Darren Tanke learned about the lost "Eoceratops" first excavated by William Edmund Cutler. Tanke would later rediscover the specimen in London's Natural History Museum.
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 9 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Ferns
Conifers
Angiosperms
Invertebrates
Mollusks
Conodonts
Fish
Archosauriformes
Non-avian dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Birds
Pterodactyls
Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries
Trexler found hadrosaur remains west of Choteau, Montana in strata of the Two Medicine Formation.
Popular culture
Literature
The Year of the Dinosaur Edwin H. Colbert and illustrated by his wife, Margaret was published. This story describes a year in the life of a "brontosaur" and was an attempt to educate the reader about prehistory through a fictional portrayal of it.
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 7 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976%20in%20paleontology |
Flora
Cycads
Dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named dinosaurs
Newly named birds
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Other Animals
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 6 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974%20in%20paleontology |
Bryophytes
Plants
Angiosperms
Archosauromorphs
General research
Massospondylus gastroliths are documented.
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds
Newly named pterosaurs
References
Raath, M.A. (1974). Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: further evidence of gastroliths in Prosauropod dinosaurs. Arnoldia Rhodesia. 7 (5): 1–7.
Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
Paleontology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973%20in%20paleontology |
Pinophyta
Arthropods
Insects
Conodonts
Archosauromorphs
Newly named crurotarsins
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds
Newly named pterosaurs
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%20in%20paleontology |
Bryophytes
Mollusca
Bivalves
Archosauromorphs
Newly named archosauromorphs
Newly named pseudosuchians
Newly named dinosauriforms
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds
Synapsids
Newly named therapsids
Mammalian
Other Animals
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Angiosperms
Conodonts
Archosauromorphs
Newly named pseudosuchians
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named onithodirans
Newly named birds
Newly named pterosaurs
Other Animals
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
Newly named insects
Archosauromorphs
Newly named diapsids
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds
Newly named Pterosaurs
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 0 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%20in%20paleontology |
Angiosperms
Molluscs
Archosaurmopha
Dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Birds
Popular culture
Literature
Pataud, le petit dinosaure was published. This was the first book about dinosaurs intended for an audience of children young enough to be new to reading. Paleontologist William A. S. Sarjeant has called it a "charmin[g]" book and "remarkable" that the earliest dinosaur book aimed at children was French since "French children do not share North American children's fascination" with dinosaurs.
References
1960s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 0 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Angiosperms
Archosauromorphs
Phytosaurs
Pseudosuchians
Dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Birds
References
1960s in paleontology
Paleontology 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962%20in%20paleontology |
Paleozoology
Conodont paleozoology
German paleontologist Klaus J. Müller (1923-2010) described the conodont order Paraconodontida.
Vertebrates
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Birds
Newly named birds
References
1960s in paleontology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
Newly named insects
Vertebrates
Archosauromorphs
Dinosauria
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Birds
Popular culture
Literature
Savage Pellucidar, the last of the seven novels about Pellucidar, an underground world inhabited by dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, by Edgar Rice Burroughs was published.
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
Newly named insects
Mollusca
Newly named bivalves
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds
Pterosaurs
New taxa
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
References
Paleontology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965%20in%20paleontology |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named non-avian dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 5 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
Newly named Insects
Conodonts
Anapsids
Newly named mesosaurs
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds
Other Animals
References
Paleontology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropoda
New taxa
Archosauromorphs
Dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Birds
Pterosaurs
Synapids
Popular culture
Literature
Bronto the Dinosaur was published. Its storyline was similar to another 1960s work aimed at children,Pataud, le petit dinosaure. The book was marketed as "educationally sound, paleontologist William A. S. Sarjeant said the book "cannot justly make that claim" on the basis of several scientific improbabilities.
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 7 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%20in%20paleontology |
Flora
Ferns and fern allies
Angiosperms
Arthropods
Insects
Conodonts
Archosauriformes
Non-avian dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Birds
Sauropterygians
Plesiosaurs
Synapsids
Mammaliformes
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 8 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950%20in%20paleontology |
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
Shuller; 1950; A new elasmosaur from the Eagle Ford shale of Texas - The elasmosaur and its environment (Part II); University press in Dallas southern Methodist University. Fondren Science Series pp. 1–32
1950s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 0 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951%20in%20paleontology |
Archosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
1950s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Archosauromorphs
Dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Synapsids
References
1950s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Angiosperms
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
1950s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Angiosperms
Arthropods
Insects
Archosauromorphs
Phytosaurs
Dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Synapsids
Pelycosaurs
Eutherians
Cetaceans
References
1950s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Pteridophyta
Dinosaurs
Massospondylus gastroliths are documented.
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Synapsids
Theriodonts
Mammals
Eutherians
Cetaceans
Other Animals
References
Bond, G. 1955. A note on dinosaur remains from the Forest Sandstone (Upper Karoo). Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Rhodesia 2: 795–800.
Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
1950s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 5 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Pinophytes
Archosauromorphs
Dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
References
1950s in paleontology
Paleontology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropoda
Insects
Molluscs
Gastropods
Archosauromorpha
Newly named dinosaurs
Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
1950s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 7 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
Insects
Archosauromorphs
Newly named non-avian dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Birds
Newly named birds
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Other Animals
References
1950s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 8 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTV%20Sports | CTV Sports was the division of the CTV Television Network responsible for sports broadcasting. The division existed in its own right from 1961 to 2001; between 1998 and 2001, CTV Sports also operated a cable sports network, CTV Sportsnet, now owned by Rogers Media and known simply as Sportsnet.
Since CTV's purchase of the more established sports network TSN in 2001 (which in turn caused the sale of Sportsnet to Rogers), the network has assumed responsibility for CTV's remaining sports output. At the same time, the amount of in-house sports programming aired by CTV has been reduced to only encompass occasional, TSN-produced telecasts, such as Skate Canada events, and simulcasts of events from U.S. networks. As of 2014, the only sports broadcasts regularly aired by CTV and CTV 2 are simulcasts of National Football League games.
CTV has been incorporated into coverage of major international sporting events—such as FIFA World Cup tournaments, and the Olympic Games, which were most recently aired from 2010 to 2012 as part of a joint venture between Bell Media and Rogers Media.
Current sports programs aired by CTV
The following events are currently specifically designated to air on CTV or CTV 2:
Football
National Football League - Sunday afternoon (1:00pm ET and 4:05/4:25pm ET) local games, and playoffs including the Super Bowl (2007–present)
Prior to 2014, CTV only held rights to early afternoon games and the playoffs. In 2014, CTV acquired rights to late games (previously held by Rogers through Citytv and Sportsnet), and began airing additional games on CTV 2.
As of 2018, in simulcast with TSN channels, CTV 2 additionally simulcasts Thursday Night Football and Sunday Night Football when airing on Fox (2018-2021), CBS (2014-2017) Prime Video (2017-present) and NBC (2016-present) respectively.
Golf
The Masters - in 2015, Bell Media acquired exclusive Canadian rights to The Masters, previously split between TSN and Global. CTV will air late-round coverage of the tournament.
The Open Championship - NBC coverage of weekend rounds.
PGA Tour - Weekend round coverage of selected events on CTV 2 beginning in 2019, in simulcast with TSN, and also replacing Global.
Soccer
Select games from FIFA tournaments between 2015 and 2026 (with most games on TSN), including:
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
2018 FIFA World Cup
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
2022 FIFA World Cup
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
2026 FIFA World Cup
Former sports programs aired by CTV
Figure skating
Skate Canada events, including Skate Canada International and the Canadian Figure Skating Championships (2011–12 to 2020–21 seasons)
Auto Racing
Championship Auto Racing Teams (1979–2007)
In 2012, CTV broadcast Formula One's Canadian Grand Prix.
Baseball
Major League Baseball - Toronto Blue Jays (1981–1991)
In addition, Baton Broadcasting (through ONT / BBS) syndicated a package of Blue Jays games from 1992 to 1996, mostly to CTV affiliates. BBS was merged into CTV in late 1997, so these broadc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xft | Xft, the X FreeType interface library, is a free computer program library written by Keith Packard.
It uses the MIT/X license that The Open Group applied after the post X11R6.4 license restoration.
It is designed to allow the FreeType font rasterizer to be used with the X Rendering Extension; it is generally employed to use FreeType's anti-aliased fonts with the X Window System. Xft also depends on fontconfig for access to the system fonts.
References
External links
Xft homepage
A tutorial by the author
Fontconfig homepage
Computer libraries
Freedesktop.org
X-based libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICDE | The acronym ICDE may refer to:
International Council for Open and Distance Education
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okayama%20Prefectural%20University | is a public university in Sōja, Okayama, Japan, established in 1993.
Faculties and graduate schools
Faculties
Faculty of Health and Welfare Science
Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering
Faculty of Design
Graduate Schools
Graduate School of Health and Welfare Science
Graduate School of Systems Engineering
Graduate School of Design
Campus
Sōja Campus - (111 Kuboki, Sōja)
See also
List of universities in Japan
External links
Educational institutions established in 1993
Public universities in Japan
Universities and colleges in Okayama Prefecture
1993 establishments in Japan
Sōja, Okayama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Getaway%20%28video%20game%29 | The Getaway is an action-adventure video game developed by Team Soho and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. The Getaway is inspired by British gangster films, most notably Get Carter and Snatch. Initially, the release of the game was to coincide with the launch of the PlayStation 2 in 2000, but was delayed by 27 months due to the difficulty of re-creating large areas of London in high resolution.
The game focuses on two characters each with their own plot settings, Mark Hammond, an ex-bank robber, and Detective Constable Frank Carter, a police officer in service with the Flying Squad, with both plots running parallel and intersecting before concluding in the finale of the game. A sequel, entitled The Getaway: Black Monday, was released in 2004, while a spin-off, Gangs of London, was released in 2006, which in turn spawned a 2020 Sky Atlantic/AMC television series adaptation, and a graphic novel, released in 2022.
Gameplay
The Getaway is designed as a third-person sandbox game in which the player controls the two lead characters as they carry out their missions for game progression. Both of the two characters can perform a series of physical tasks, such as walking, sprinting, rolling, shooting, and taking cover during a gunfight. Once Mark Hammond's missions are completed free-roaming is unlocked for his character, which allows roaming around the City district and Central London without mission objectives or time-limits. Due to similarities to the Grand Theft Auto series, it is often labeled as a Grand Theft Auto clone.
The game features a number of licensed vehicles from real automobile manufacturers that the player can control; unlike those seen in Grand Theft Auto, which are fictional. The majority of the vehicles in the game are made by MG Rover Group, Jensen Motors, Saab, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Fiat, and Lexus, along with a number of others. Firearms and weapons available to the player include the Glock 17 pistol, the AK-47 assault rifle, Remington 870 pump action shotgun, and the Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun; other weapons include a cleaver and crowbar, among others.
A major feature in the game was its approach to immersion and being "movie-like", achieved mostly by not including the typical HUD, such as with car chases being done by using the vehicle's indicators to direct the player, rather than a large arrow above the car, or the player characters limping or bleeding profusely to represent low health instead of a health bar/meter.
Plot
The entirety of the game takes place in London, during the span of a single day, and is played through the perspectives of two characters: ex-convict Mark Hammond and Detective Constable Frank Carter of the Flying Squad.
Mark Hammond
Former Soho based Collins gang member Mark Hammond witnesses the kidnapping of his son, Alex and the unintentional murder of his wife, Susie before pursuing his son's kidnappers toward Bethnal Green. Mark is confronted by Charlie Jolson, t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th%20Tony%20Awards | The 5th Annual Tony Awards were held on March 25, 1951, at the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom and broadcast on radio station WOR and the Mutual Network. The Master of Ceremonies was James Sauter and the presenters were Mrs. Martin Beck and Ilka Chase.
Performers: Barbara Ashley, Arthur Blake, Eugene Conley, Nancy Donovan, Joan Edwards, Dorothy Greener, Juanita Hall, Celeste Holm, Lois Hunt, Anne Jeffreys, Lucy Monroe, Herb Shriner.
Music was by Meyer Davis and his Orchestra.
Award winners
Source:Infoplease
Nominees are not shown
Production
Performance
Craft
Special Award
Ruth Green, for her services as a volunteer in arranging reservation and seating for the five Tony Awards.
Multiple nominations and awards
The following productions received multiple awards.
5 wins: Guys and Dolls
4 wins: The Rose Tattoo
3 wins: Call Me Madam
2 wins: The Country Girl
References
External links
Official Site
Tony Awards ceremonies
1951 in theatre
1951 awards
1951 in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901%20in%20paleontology |
Achosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Mammals
Eutherians
Cetaceans
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Ferns and allies
Conifers
Angiosperms
Archosauromorphs
Newly named phytosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Protorosaurs
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903%20in%20paleontology |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Sauropterygians
Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.
Newly named plesiosaurs
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Eutherians
Cetaceans
Pholidotes
References
Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
Williston, Samuel Wendel; 1903. North American Plesiosaurs; Field Columbian Museum Publication 73, Geological Series; II(I); Field Columbian Museum, Chicago. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904%20in%20paleontology |
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Metatherians
Eutherians
Cetaceans
Even-toed Ungulates
References
Brown, B. (1904) Stomach stones and food of plesiosaurs, Science, n.s. 20, (501): 184-185
Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
Williston, Samuel Wendel; 1904; The stomach stones of the plesiosaurs; Science; 20 pp. 565; American Association for the Advancement of Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905%20in%20paleontology |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Other archosauromorphs
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Other reptiles
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
Insects
Archosauromorphs
Apatosaurus gastroliths documented.
Wieland claims to have found stegosaur gastroliths.
Dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
References
Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropoda
Newly named insects
Archosauromorphs
Newly named basal archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1909%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
Newly named insects
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
People
Death of Harry Govier Seeley, the paleontologist who invented the Saurischian/Ornithischian dinosaur dichotomy.
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
Newly named insects
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
1920s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 0 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Newly named angiosperms
Arthropods
Newly named insects
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
1920s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Angiosperms
Arthropods
insects
Archosauromorphs
Crurotarsans
Dinosaurs
Data from George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
1940s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 0 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
New taxa
Conodonts
Dinosaurs
Psittacosaurus gastroliths documented.
Newly named dinosaurs
Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
Brown, B. 1941. The last dinosaurs. – Natural History 48: 290–295.
Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
1940s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
Insects
Archosauromorphs
Newly named phytosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942%20in%20paleontology |
Conodonts
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
1940s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913%20in%20paleontology |
Insects
Vertebrates
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries
April: William Edmund Cutler prospected in Dinosaur Provincial Park. His work was underwritten by the Calgary Syndicate for Prehistoric Research, a group of local philanthropist businessmen, and a small local museum, the Calgary Public Museum, which no long exists.
Summer: The American Museum of Natural History dispatched a team of fossil hunters to Dinosaur Provincial Park. Cutler joined the expedition but was "asked to leave" after only a few months of involvement.
Cutler excavated a juvenile Gryposaurus now catalogued by the Canadian Museum of Nature as CMN 8784. The site of the excavation has since been designated "quarry 252".
Winter: Cutler partly prepared the young Gryposaurus specimen, possibly in Calgary while working on dinosaurs for Euston Sisely.
A US Geological Survey crew headed by Eugene Stebinger and a US National Museum crew headed by Charles Gilmore worked together to excavate the first dinosaur discovery of the Two Medicine Formation.
See also
References
1910s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943%20in%20paleontology |
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
1940s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924%20in%20paleontology |
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Newly named mammals
References
1920s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
Insects
Conodonts
Vertebrates
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
1930s in paleontology
Paleontology 4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Conodonts
Dinosaurs
The only known fossils of Poekilopleuron are destroyed during the Allied liberation of Normandy.
Newly named dinosaurs
Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
References
1940s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Ferns and fern allies
Conifers
Flowering plants
Arthropods
Crustaceans
Insects
Archosauromorphs
Barosaurus gastroliths documented.
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
Janensch, W. (1929). Magensteine bei Sauropoden der Tendaguru-Schichten. Palaeontographica (Suppl. 7) 2:135-144.
Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
1920s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 9 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
Newly named Arachnids
Newly named insects
Archosauromorpha
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.
References
Riggs, Elmer Samuel; 1939a; A specimen of Elasmosaurus serpentinus; Geological Series of Field Museum of Natural History; VI(No. 25) pp. 385–391
Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
1930s in paleontology
Paleontology 9 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
Newly named insects
Archosauromorphs
Newly named pseudosuchians
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Anapsids
Turtles
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Paleontologists
Death of Eberhard Fraas.
References
1910s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 5 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Newly named angiosperms
Fish
Bony fish
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.
Plesiosaurs
Newly named taxa
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
1910s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 6 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
Insects
Vertebrates
Newly named non-mammalian synapsids
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named avialaens
Newly named dinosaurs
Literature
Hunting Dinosaurs in the Badlands of the Red Deer River Valley, Alberta by C. H. Sternberg was published. Although the work was mostly non-fiction, it concluded with a series of fictional chapters wherein Sternberg dreamt of traveling back in time to the various ages of prehistory.
References
1910s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 7 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927%20in%20paleontology |
Mollusks
Gastropods
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Mammals
Cetaceans
References
1920s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 7 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928%20in%20paleontology |
Dinosaurs
Charles Gilmore returned to prospect for fossils in the Two Medicine Formation. He would return yet again in 1935.
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Pterosaurs
New taxa
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Footnotes
References
Trexler, D., 2001, Two Medicine Formation, Montana: geology and fauna: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 298–309.
1920s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 8 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945%20in%20paleontology |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named protorosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
References
1940s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 5 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947%20in%20paleontology |
Mosses
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named pseudosuchians
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Other Animals
References
1940s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 7 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948%20in%20paleontology |
Arthropods
Newly named insects
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Pterosaurs
New taxa
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
1940s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology 8 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumpan%20bracteate | The Grumpan bracteate, designated as runic inscription Vg 207 by Rundata, is a gold type C bracteate found in Västergötland, Sweden in 1911. It is dated to the 6th century.
Runic inscription
The Grumpan bracteate was found together with two other bracteates, two gold rings, two bronze hooks, and some glass beads. It is notable as an early attestation of the division of the elder futhark row into three groups or ættir of eight runes each ætt. On the Grumpan bracteate, the runes of each ætt are separated by a row of dots.
The following is a drawing of the inscription made by Sigurd Agrell (Lapptrummor och Runmagi, 1934):
Transliteration:
fuþarkgw : hnijïp[zs] : tbeml(ŋ)(o)d
The Grumpan bracteate is damaged at the upper end near the eyelet, at the end of the second ætt, so that the z and s runes are no longer readable. The rune transcribed above as (ŋ) actually has the shape of the elder futhark z rune but is placed in the location for the ŋ rune.
Full listings of the elder futhark are known from the beginning of the 5th century, with the Kylver stone, and other early examples such as the Vadstena bracteate and the Charnay Fibula. The sequences of the runes in the futhark given in these listings are mostly in agreement, except for the possible inversions of the positions of the p and ï and of d and o runes.
It is believed that bracteates such as that found at Grumpan were used as amulets with the futhark inscription part of the amulet's magical power.
References
Elder Futhark inscriptions
Bracteates
Individual items of jewellery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel%20Your%20Bus | Travel Your Bus was a bus operator in the West Midlands. It was a subsidiary of West Midlands Travel.
History
The Your Bus network of bus services started on 30 November 1987 when route 50Y was introduced by Smiths Coaches. This ran every 20 minutes in competition with West Midlands Travel's route 50 between Druids Heath and Birmingham City Centre via Alcester Road using second-hand Daimler Fleetline double deck buses purchased from Greater Manchester Buses. The company adopted the orange, brown and white livery these vehicles arrived in as their fleet colours for the bus operation and uniquely added a Y to the end of all its bus service numbers. To get buses to and from the West Midlands and Alcester the company introduced placing journeys, initially just at peak times, which ran the most direct way via the A435 thus bypassing Redditch.
On 3 September 1988, a peak hour route 51Y of three journeys each way was introduced that diverted via Redditch New Town when it ran between Alcester and Birmingham. This service was withdrawn on 13 January 1992.
The company also introduced route 47Y on 31 October 1988, which was also a way of getting buses to and from the West Midlands, running via Redditch New Town, West Heath and the Pershore Road into Birmingham. This service was renumbered 45Y on 28 October 1989 and was withdrawn on 13 January 1992, bringing to an end the brief operation of Your Bus in Redditch. Your Bus continued to develop services in south Birmingham and Solihull over the next few years and invested heavily in new single deck vehicles. By 1990, it operated 40 buses.
West Midlands Travel Takeover
During 1993, Your Bus was taken over by West Midlands Travel who continued to run it as a separate subsidiary, adopting the branding Travel Your Bus in September 1996. The operating centre was soon moved to Miller Street in Birmingham where the coaching interests of West Midlands Travel under the Central Coachways trading name were absorbed. In 1995, West Midlands Travel was taken over itself by National Express.
Rebranded Travel West Midlands
On 4 February 2001, following a group restructuring the Travel Your Bus services were absorbed into the main company's West Midlands bus operation which by this time was trading as Travel West Midlands (and now trades as National Express West Midlands), ending the Your Bus operation. The Central Coachways name and some contract work was sold to Flights Coaches.
Photos
Your Bus service 50Y
Your Bus (WMT) service 2Y
Travel Your Bus service 53Y
References
Former bus operators in England
Mobico Group
Transport in Birmingham, West Midlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count%20data | In statistics, count data is a statistical data type describing countable quantities, data which can take only the counting numbers, non-negative integer values {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}, and where these integers arise from counting rather than ranking. The statistical treatment of count data is distinct from that of binary data, in which the observations can take only two values, usually represented by 0 and 1, and from ordinal data, which may also consist of integers but where the individual values fall on an arbitrary scale and only the relative ranking is important.
Count variables
An individual piece of count data is often termed a count variable. When such a variable is treated as a random variable, the Poisson, binomial and negative binomial distributions are commonly used to represent its distribution.
Graphical examination
Graphical examination of count data may be aided by the use of data transformations chosen to have the property of stabilising the sample variance. In particular, the square root transformation might be used when data can be approximated by a Poisson distribution (although other transformation have modestly improved properties), while an inverse sine transformation is available when a binomial distribution is preferred.
Relating count data to other variables
Here the count variable would be treated as a dependent variable. Statistical methods such as least squares and analysis of variance are designed to deal with continuous dependent variables. These can be adapted to deal with count data by using data transformations such as the square root transformation, but such methods have several drawbacks; they are approximate at best and estimate parameters that are often hard to interpret.
The Poisson distribution can form the basis for some analyses of count data and in this case Poisson regression may be used. This is a special case of the class of generalized linear models which also contains specific forms of model capable of using the binomial distribution (binomial regression, logistic regression) or the negative binomial distribution where the assumptions of the Poisson model are violated, in particular when the range of count values is limited or when overdispersion is present.
See also
Index of dispersion
Empirical distribution function
Frequency distribution
Further reading
Statistical data types
Countable quantities
Units of amount |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etobicoke%20North%20%28disambiguation%29 | Etobicoke North may refer to:
Etobicoke North GO Station, a station in the GO Transit network, Etobicoke district, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Etobicoke North, a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada
Etobicoke North (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20Data%20Analysis%20Tool | The Climate Data Analysis Tool (CDAT) is plotting software used in atmospheric sciences and climatology.
CDAT is a software used in atmospheric sciences and climatology to display meteorological fields such as pressure, temperature, or wind speeds. It allows to read gridded meteorological data in different formats such as netCDF or GRIB and plot time series of displays from several identical datasets with differing times. It is similar in scope to GrADS but with more extensive user interface and capabilities.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20130728204121/http://www2-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cdat
Graphic software in meteorology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Mehlhorn | Kurt Mehlhorn (born 29 August 1949) is a German theoretical computer scientist. He has been a vice president of the Max Planck Society and is director of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science.
Education and career
Mehlhorn graduated in 1971 from the Technical University of Munich, where he studied computer science and mathematics, and earned his Ph.D. in 1974 from Cornell University under the supervision of Robert Constable. Since 1975 he has been on the faculty of Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, where he was chair of the computer science department from 1976 to 1978 and again from 1987 to 1989. Since 1990 has been the director of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, also in Saarbrücken. He has been on the editorial boards of ten journals, a trustee of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, and a member of the board of governors of Jacobs University Bremen. He also served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize from 2009 to 2011.
Awards and honors
He won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 1986, the Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize in 1989, the Karl Heinz Beckurts Award in 1994, the Konrad Zuse Medal in 1995, the EATCS Award in 2010, and the Paris Kanellakis Award in 2010. He was named a member of the Academia Europaea in 1995, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1999, a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 2001, a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2004, a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2014, and a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014. He has received honorary doctorates from the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg in 2002 and the University of Waterloo in 2006. He is the 2014 winner of the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea.
Research
Mehlhorn is the author of several books and over 250 scientific publications, which include fundamental contributions to data structures, computational geometry, computer algebra, parallel computing, VLSI design, computational complexity, combinatorial optimization, and graph algorithms.
Mehlhorn has been an important figure in the development of algorithm engineering and is one of the developers of LEDA, the Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms.
Mehlhorn has played an important role in the establishment of several research centres for computer science in Germany. He was the driving force behind the establishment of a Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Germany, the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science (MPII). Mehlhorn is managing director of the institute and heads the department of algorithms and complexity. He also initiated the research center for computer science at Dagstuhl and the European Symposium on Algorithms.
Books
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Credit%20%28disambiguation%29 | Port Credit may refer to:
Port Credit, Ontario, a community in the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Port Credit GO Station, a station in the GO Transit network located in the community
Port Credit Secondary School, in the Canadian community |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality%20of%20piggybacking | Laws regarding "unauthorized access of a computer network" exist in many legal codes, though the wording and meaning differs from one to the next. However, the interpretation of terms like "access" and "authorization" is not clear, and there is no general agreement on whether piggybacking (intentional access of an open Wi-Fi network without harmful intent) falls under this classification. Some jurisdictions prohibit it, some permit it, and others are not well-defined.
For example, a common but untested argument is that the 802.11 and DHCP protocols operate on behalf of the owner, implicitly requesting permission to access the network, which the wireless router then authorizes. (This would not apply if the user has other reason to know that their use is unauthorized, such as a written or unwritten notice.)
In addition to laws against unauthorized access on the user side, there are the issues of breach of contract with the Internet service provider on the network owner's side. Many terms of service prohibit bandwidth sharing with others, though others allow it. The Electronic Frontier Foundation maintains a list of ISPs that allow sharing of the Wi-Fi signal.
Australia
Under Australian Law, "unauthorized access, modification or impairment" of data held in a computer system is a federal offence under the Criminal Code Act 1995. The act refers specifically to data as opposed to network resources (connection).
Canada
In Canadian law, unauthorized access is addressed the Criminal Code, s 342.1, which provides that: "Every one who, fraudulently and without colour of right" obtains "computer services" from an access point is subject to criminal charges.
Section 326(1) of the Criminal Code may also be used to address unauthorized access of a computer network: '(1) Every one commits theft who fraudulently, maliciously, or without colour of right', '(b) uses any telecommunication facility or obtains any telecommunication service.'
In Morrisburg, Ontario in 2006, a man was arrested under section 326 of the Criminal Code. Ultimately the arrest was poorly reported, there does not seem to be any information available with regards to conviction.
European Union
In September 2016, the European Court of Justice decided in "McFadden" C-484/14 that "a businessman providing a public wifi network is not responsible for copyright infringement incurred by users. But he can be ordered to protect the network with a password, to prevent copyright infringement". The Electronic Frontier Foundation had lobbied for not requiring passwords.
Germany
Hong Kong
Under HK Laws. Chapter 200 Crimes Ordinance Section 161 Access to computer with criminal or dishonest intent:
Italy
Unauthorized access to a protected system is illegal.
Japan
On April 28, 2017 the Tokyo District Court ruled that accessing a wireless LAN network without authorization is not a crime, even if the network is protected with a password. In a case brought before the court involved a m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workload%20Partitions | AIX Workload partitions (WPARs) are a software implementation of operating system-level virtualization technology introduced in the IBM's AIX 6.1 operating system that provides application environment isolation and resource control.
WPARs are software partitions that are created from, and share the resources of a single instance of the AIX OS. WPARs can be created on any IBM Power Systems or system p hardware that supports AIX 6.1 or higher versions. There are three kinds of WPARs: System WPARs; Application WPARs; and Versioned WPARs.
System WPAR
A system WPAR behaves as a complete installation of AIX.
Application WPAR
Application WPARs are lightweight environments used for isolating and executing a single application process.
Versioned WPAR
A WPAR which contains an instance of either AIX 5.2 or AIX 5.3. Versioned WPARs are only supported in AIX 7.1 and later LPARs.
Mobility
WPAR mobility is an extension to WPARs that provides the ability to move a running workload from one physical machine to another. Both System and Application WPARs can be moved from one machine to another. To continue having access to the same files before/after mobility; the filesystems of a mobile WPAR must either be stored in a disk or NFS mounted (both of which should be shared and accessible from all the machines where WPAR is being moved to).
The feature can be helpful in the following scenarios :
During hardware upgrades or other planned outages.
To transfer the load of the running application to another machine.
See also
Operating system-level virtualization
Logical Partitioning (LPAR)
Dynamic Logical Partitioning (DLPAR)
FreeBSD jail
Solaris Containers
OpenVZ
Linux-VServer
External links
Basic management of Workload Partitions in AIX, IBM developerworks
Workload Partitioning (WPAR) in AIX 6.1, IBM developerworks
All about WPAR
Virtualization software
UNIX System V
IBM operating systems
Power ISA operating systems
PowerPC operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20roommates%20problem | In mathematics, economics and computer science, particularly in the fields of combinatorics, game theory and algorithms, the stable-roommate problem (SRP) is the problem of finding a stable matching for an even-sized set. A matching is a separation of the set into disjoint pairs ("roommates"). The matching is stable if there are no two elements which are not roommates and which both prefer each other to their roommate under the matching. This is distinct from the stable-marriage problem in that the stable-roommates problem allows matches between any two elements, not just between classes of "men" and "women".
It is commonly stated as:
In a given instance of the stable-roommates problem (SRP), each of 2n participants ranks the others in strict order of preference. A matching is a set of n disjoint pairs of participants. A matching M in an instance of SRP is stable if there are no two participants x and y, each of whom prefers the other to their partner in M. Such a pair is said to block M, or to be a blocking pair with respect to M.
Solution
Unlike the stable marriage problem, a stable matching may fail to exist for certain sets of participants and their preferences. For a minimal example of a stable pairing not existing, consider 4 people , , , and , whose rankings are:
A:(B,C,D), B:(C,A,D), C:(A,B,D), D:(A,B,C)
In this ranking, each of A, B, and C is the most preferable person for someone. In any solution, one of A, B, or C must be paired with D and the other two with each other (for example AD and BC), yet for anyone who is partnered with D, another member will have rated them highest, and D's partner will in turn prefer this other member over D. In this example, AC is a more favorable pairing than AD, but the necessary remaining pairing of BD then raises the same issue, illustrating the absence of a stable matching for these participants and their preferences.
Algorithm
An efficient algorithm was given in . The algorithm will determine, for any instance of the problem, whether a stable matching exists, and if so, will find such a matching. Irving's algorithm has O(n2) complexity, provided suitable data structures are used to implement the necessary manipulation of the preference lists and identification of rotations.
The algorithm consists of two phases. In Phase 1, participants propose to each other, in a manner similar to that of the Gale-Shapley algorithm for the stable marriage problem. Each participant orders the other members by preference, resulting in a preference list—an ordered set of the other participants. Participants then propose to each person on their list, in order, continuing to the next person if and when their current proposal is rejected. A participant will reject a proposal if they already hold a proposal from someone they prefer. A participant will also reject a previously-accepted proposal if they later receive a proposal that they prefer. In this case, the rejected participant will then propose to the next per |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Matteson | Steven R. Matteson (born 1965, Chicago, Illinois) is an American typeface designer whose work is included in several computer operating systems and embedded in game consoles, cell phones and other electronic devices. He is the designer of the Microsoft font family Segoe included since Windows XP; of the Droid font collection used in the Android mobile device platform, and designed the brand and user-interface fonts used in both the original Microsoft Xbox and the Xbox 360.
Biography
Matteson is a 1988 graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology where he studied typography, design and printing. Upon graduation, he spent two years learning font hinting technology while employed at laser-printer manufacturer QMS.
In 1990 Matteson began work at Monotype Corporation (later Agfa-Monotype) contributing to the creation of the Windows 3.1x core TrueType fonts: Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New.
Matteson produced fonts for the Agfa-Monotype library (such as Goudy Ornate and Gill Floriated Capitals) and directed custom-font design for companies including Agilent Technologies, Symantec and Microsoft. Matteson designed Andalé Mono as a mono-spaced command line and coding font for Taligent. The font is now bundled with Mac OS X and was one of the original Core fonts for the Web.
Matteson directed custom-type development for Agfa-Monotype until 2003. In 2004 he became a founding partner and Director of Type Design at Ascender Corporation in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
In 2005, Matteson designed the font family Convection for use in the branding and user-interface of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console. Matteson also designed the user-interface font used in Microsoft’s Zune music player. In 2007 software maker Red Hat released the open-source Liberation fonts family designed by Matteson. Also in 2007, Matteson designed the Droid family of fonts included in the Android mobile-phone platform supported by the Open Handset Alliance.
Fonts designed by Steve Matteson
Andalé Mono
Andalé Sans
Andy Bold
Aptos (Bierstadt as Office cloud font)
Arimo
Ascender Sans
Ascender Sans Bold
Ascender Serif
Ascender Serif Bold
Ayita
Ayita Bold
Binner Gothic
Blueprint
Cambria
Cambria Bold
Chicory
Convection
Cousine
Curlz
Dujour
Droid
Endurance Pro
Endurance Pro Black
Endurance Pro Light
Facade Condensed
Fineprint
Fineprint Swash One
Fineprint Swash Two
Futura Now
Goudy Ornate
Kootenay Pro
Liberation Mono
Liberation Sans
Liberation Serif
Lindsey Pro
Massif Pro
Mayberry
Miramonte Pro
Miramonte Pro Bold
Noto Sans for Latin
Open Sans
Open Sans Condensed
Open Serif
Othello
Pescadero Pro
Pescadero Pro Bold
Segoe
Sports Three
Sports Two
Tinos
Titanium
Truesdell
Truesdell Ornaments
Twentieth Century Poster Fonts
References
1965 births
Rochester Institute of Technology alumni
American typographers and type designers
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction%20algorithm | The term "auction algorithm" applies to several variations of a combinatorial optimization algorithm which solves assignment problems, and network optimization problems with linear and convex/nonlinear cost. An auction algorithm has been used in a business setting to determine the best prices on a set of products offered to multiple buyers. It is an iterative procedure, so the name "auction algorithm" is related to a sales auction, where multiple bids are compared to determine the best offer, with the final sales going to the highest bidders.
The original form of the auction algorithm is an iterative method to find the optimal prices and an assignment that maximizes the net benefit in a bipartite graph, the maximum weight matching problem (MWM).
This algorithm was first proposed by Dimitri Bertsekas in 1979.
The ideas of the auction algorithm and ε-scaling are also central in preflow-push algorithms for single commodity linear network flow problems. In fact the preflow-push algorithm for max-flow can be derived by applying the original 1979 auction algorithm to the max flow problem after reformulation as an assignment problem. Moreover, the preflow-push algorithm for the linear minimum cost flow problem is mathematically equivalent to the ε-relaxation method, which is obtained by applying the original auction algorithm after the problem is reformulated as an equivalent assignment problem.
A later variation of the auction algorithm that solves shortest path problems was introduced by Bertsekas in 1991.
It is a simple algorithm for finding shortest paths in a directed graph. In the single origin/single destination case, the auction algorithm maintains a single path starting at the origin, which is then extended or contracted by a single node at each iteration. Simultaneously, at most one dual variable will be adjusted at each iteration, in order to either improve or maintain the value of a dual function. In the case of multiple origins, the auction algorithm is well-suited for parallel computation. The algorithm is closely related to auction algorithms for other network flow problems. According to computational experiments, the auction algorithm is generally inferior to other state-of-the-art algorithms for the all destinations shortest path problem, but is very fast for problems with few destinations (substantially more than one and substantially less than the total number of nodes); see the article by Bertsekas, Pallottino, and Scutella, Polynomial Auction Algorithms for Shortest Paths.
Auction algorithms for shortest hyperpath problems have been defined by De Leone and Pretolani in 1998. This is also a parallel auction algorithm for weighted bipartite matching, described by E. Jason Riedy in 2004.
Comparisons
The (sequential) auction algorithms for the shortest path problem have been the subject of experiments which have been reported in technical papers. Experiments clearly show that the auction algorithm is inferior to the state-of-the- |
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