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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby%20Gerould | Bobby Gerould is an American sports multimedia personality. Gerould was most visible as a pit reporter for World of Outlaws sprint car races telecast on CBS Sports Network, ESPN, Speed, and TNN. Bobby was the public address announcer at Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare, California from 1997 through 2022. Gerould's voice is featured on the video game, Ratbag World of Outlaws Sprint Cars. In his career, Bobby has been employed in some capacity by nearly every major sanctioning body of American auto-racing, including AMA, ASA, CART, Indycar, King of the West, NARC, NASCAR, National Sprint Tour, NHRA, SCCA, TORC, USAC, and the World of Outlaws.
Gerould's "life-study" and passion is basketball player evaluation. Gerould owns HoopObsession.com. He is frequently a guest on sports-talk radio, and television, leaned on for his knowledge on the NBA (specifically the NBA Draft). Gerould spent two seasons working full-time for the Sacramento Kings as a radio host, and TV sideline reporter. Bobby is the son of Gary Gerould, the "voice" of the Sacramento Kings for over 38 years.
The multi-faceted Gerould is also a DJ and emcee that hosts the live-streamed, Soulful and Funky Show.
Early years
Gerould grew up in Sacramento, California. He attended his first basketball game at just a few weeks old. Gerould's father Gary worked as a sportscaster for the local NBC affiliate. This led father and son to attend Sac State games regularly. Bobby 'grew up' in the local Northern California sports scene. He watched the races his father announced every weekend at dirt race tracks. Through observation and from constantly being in a sporting environment, Bobby began carving out ideas for his own media career.
Sacramento State University
With proximity to home being a major consideration, Gerould decided to attend Sacramento State University. In 1986 Bobby had little desire to become a television announcer. Instead Gerould focused on doing public address interviews at sprint car races, while working side gigs as a DJ of house parties, wedding receptions, and special events. All the while, Gerould was taking classes in his major communication studies, and keeping statistics for the Hornet's Men's Basketball team under Coach Joey Anders.
Professional media career
Gerould has been the voice of the Louie Vermeil classic sprint and midget car race since the inaugural event.
1993-95 Sacramento Kings Broadcast Team. Pre-Game radio host. In-arena video host. TV sideline reporter. Post Game radio host. Public Address Announcer.
1995 Knoxville Nationals (First ever LIVE broadcast of Knoxville Nationals - TNN - TV Pit reporter.
1998 ProTruck Racing Series - TNN - TV Pit reporter.
1998 - IRL at Charlotte - TNN - TV Pit Reporter
1999-2000 NHRA Drag Racing - TNN - TV Pit reporter.
2002 - Voice on Ratbag World of Outlaws Sprint Cars video game.
2003 World of Outlaws - TV Pit Reporter - Speed.
2004-06 United States Auto Club (USAC) Western Media Coordinator.
2007 World of Outla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability%20plot%20correlation%20coefficient%20plot | The probability plot correlation coefficient (PPCC) plot is a graphical technique for identifying the shape parameter for a distributional family that best describes the data set. This technique is appropriate for families, such as the Weibull, that are defined by a single shape parameter and location and scale parameters, and it is not appropriate or even possible for distributions, such as the normal, that are defined only by location and scale parameters.
Many statistical analyses are based on distributional assumptions about the population from which the data have been obtained. However, distributional families can have radically different shapes depending on the value of the shape parameter. Therefore, finding a reasonable choice for the shape parameter is a necessary step in the analysis. In many analyses, finding a good distributional model for the data is the primary focus of the analysis.
The technique is simply "plot the probability plot correlation coefficients for different values of the shape parameter, and choose whichever value yields the best fit".
Definition
The PPCC plot is formed by:
Vertical axis: Probability plot correlation coefficient;
Horizontal axis: Value of shape parameter.
That is, for a series of values of the shape parameter, the correlation coefficient is computed for the probability plot associated with a given value of the shape parameter. These correlation coefficients are plotted against their corresponding shape parameters. The maximum correlation coefficient corresponds to the optimal value of the shape parameter. For better precision, two iterations of the PPCC plot can be generated; the first is for finding the right neighborhood and the second is for fine tuning the estimate.
The PPCC plot is used first to find a good value of the shape parameter. The probability plot is then generated to find estimates of the location and scale parameters and in addition to provide a graphical assessment of the adequacy of the distributional fit.
The PPCC plot answers the following questions:
What is the best-fit member within a distributional family?
Does the best-fit member provide a good fit (in terms of generating a probability plot with a high correlation coefficient)?
Does this distributional family provide a good fit compared to other distributions?
How sensitive is the choice of the shape parameter?
Comparing distributions
In addition to finding a good choice for estimating the shape parameter of a given distribution, the PPCC plot can be useful in deciding which distributional family is most appropriate. For example, given a set of reliability data, one might generate PPCC plots for a Weibull, lognormal, gamma, and inverse Gaussian distributions, and possibly others, on a single page. This one page would show the best value for the shape parameter for several distributions and would additionally indicate which of these distributional families provides the best fit (as measured by the maximum probability plo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Seifert | Michael Seifert may refer to:
Michael Seifert (producer), music producer, writer, arranger and recording engineer
Michael Seifert (programmer) (born 1969), Danish computer programmer, inventor and businessman
Michael Seifert (SS guard) (1924–2010), SS guard in Italy during World War II
Mike Seifert (born 1951), American football defensive end |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roca%20Line | The Roca line is a gauge commuter rail service in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, part of General Roca Railway network. The service is currently operated by State-owned company Trenes Argentinos, from the city-centre terminus of Constitución south to Ezeiza, Alejandro Korn, La Plata, Cañuelas, Chascomús, Gutiérrez and Lobos, and west to Sarmiento Line's station Haedo. The transfer stations between the branch lines are Avellaneda, Temperley, Bosques and Berazategui.
The line consists of 198 kilometres of track (55 of which are electrified), 70 stations, 146 grade crossings, 907 daily services through its different branches, and carries half a million passengers daily, making it the longest and most used line of the Buenos Aires commuter rail network. Currently there are large electrification and infrastructure improvement works being undertaken on the line, with brand new electric multiple units entering service on 8 June 2015.
History
This line had previously been run by the state-owned company Ferrocarriles Argentinos since nationalisation of the Argentine railways in 1948. Branches from Constitución to Ezeiza and Glew were electrified and the entire fleet of trains renewed, acquiring multiple units by Japanese companies Nippon Sharyo, Kinki Sharyo, Tokyu Car, Kawasaki and Hitachi. The electrified rail system was opened to public in November, 1985. The design of these Japanese-built cars was based upon the Odakyu 9000 series, built for the first time between 1972 and 1977.
Ferrocarriles Argentinos operated the trains until 1991 when residual company FEMESA temporarily took over all the urban services prior to the privatisation of the network. After the Government of Carlos Menem privatised the urban railways services, the private company Metropolitano (TMR) took over Roca Line through concession.
Nevertheless, non-compliance with the terms and conditions (such as lack of investment and poor maintenance of the line, in spite of the large government subsidies received by Metropolitano) led the Government of Argentina to revoke the contract of concession in 2007. The UGOFE consortium took over the service until 12 February 2014, when it was announced that the line would be granted to the local Emepa Group.
After the concession was revoked, a temporary consortium named "UGOFE", took over the Roca line.
Several projects were announced to modernize the line and improve its service, setting as a priority the electrification of the whole system. Other projects included a new maintenance yard in the town of Tolosa in La Plata Partido, several new bridges and tunnels at road crossings and improved grade crossings, all new concrete sleepers and welded rail joints for the entire line, the remodeling of 50 stations and the purchase of 200 electric coaches of the latest technology. Presently electrification of Avellaneda-Quilmes and Temperley-Bosques sections are under way.
Recent developments
In April 2013 the University train of La Plata se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Ilpize | Saint-Ilpize (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.
Population
The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Saint-Ilpize in its geography at the given years. In 1845 the commune of Villeneuve-d'Allier was established from part of the commune of Saint-Ilpize.
See also
Communes of the Haute-Loire department
References
Communes of Haute-Loire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIYD | WIYD (1260 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Classic Country radio format. It is licensed to Palatka, Florida, and is currently owned by Natkim Radio, LLC. It features programming from Westwood One.
The FCC first licensed this station to begin operations on June 24, 1947, using callsign WWPF.
References
External links
IYD
Country radio stations in the United States
1947 establishments in Florida
Radio stations established in 1947 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Scotland%20Gazetteer | The One Scotland Gazetteer is the definitive national land, property and address dataset for Scotland that is published by Spatial Information Service within the Improvement Service. It is compiled using information from all 32 Scottish councils and produced to common standards and specification. It is not to be confused with the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF) which is only a list of mail delivery locations.
The Improvement Service Spatial Information Service also manages Tellmescotland ( portal for accessing public information notices issued by local authorities across Scotland) and the Spatial Hub - which compiles and publishes other local authority spatial datasets.
History
In 2000, the Scottish Executive (now Scottish Government) set up a Modernising Government Fund to improve public services. In 2002 a proposal was made around Definitive National Addressing for Scotland (DNA Scotland), with all 32 Scottish councils involved. The project was aimed at producing common standards and to establish corporate address gazetteers within each local authority. The gazetteer began in 2003 as the National Gazetteer for Scotland. In 2007 it was renamed to 'One Scotland Gazetteer' and was relaunched with a refreshed website design in late 2017.
The One Scotland Gazetteer is used by the wider Scottish public sector inc.for eDevelopment (Planning & Building Standards), The Energy Saving Trust (for energy performance certificates) and for the National Landlord Registration Scheme.
The dataset also feeds into Ordnance Survey's AddressBase dataset via Geoplace who compile the address gazetteers from all 353 English, 22 Welsh and 32 Scottish local authorities.
Standards
Local Authorities have statutory obligations in regard to planning, building standards and street naming and numbering in Scotland They are the source of definitive address information in their local government area and also the source of any change intelligence about land or property.
The INSPIRE Directive of the European Union came into force in 2007, which introduced formal requirements around Spatial data infrastructure, which the Scottish Parliament then legislated for in 2009.
Data from the One Scotland Gazetteer compiles with the BS7666 standard.
References
External links
One Scotland Gazeteer on the Improvement Service website
Geography of Scotland
Gazetteers
2007 establishments in Scotland
Local government in Scotland
Datasets
Spatial analysis
Databases in Scotland
Geographical databases in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20on%20Terminal%20Architecture | Network on Terminal Architecture (i.e. NoTA) is a modular service based system architecture for mobile and embedded devices. NoTA enables mobile device makers speed-up their product development by shortening the integration phase. Additionally NoTA makes it possible to quickly bring-in 3rd party innovations into the products due to loosely coupled and functional-driver -less approach.
NoTA device consists of Service Nodes (SN) and Application Nodes (AN) that communicate through logical Interconnect (IN). IN provides two basic means of communication, namely message based and streaming type. The former is bi-directional and used for Service Messages. The latter one is uni-directional and used for large amounts of data like media content. Service Nodes have unique Service Identifier (SID).
Service Nodes and Application Nodes map into sub-systems consisting of all software and hardware resources needed to implement those. In order to maintain system level modularity, the only way for a node to use SW&HW resources from other sub-systems is through Services Nodes.
Interconnect is divided into two layers, namely High Interconnect (H_IN) and Low Interconnect (L_IN). The former provides means for service activation and deactivation as well as service and stream accesses. Low Interconnect provides network socket interface with uniform addressing mechanism. L_IN internally can be divided into transport network independent and dependent parts. MIPI Alliance originated solutions are expected to be key enablers for wide use of NoTA.
NoTA Sub-system provides the physical implementation for a set of Nodes (ANs and/or SNs). Sub-system consists of all the software and hardware resources (including peripherals, memories, controllers, internal buses etc.) needed to implement the defined Nodes. The only means for a sub-system to use the other Sub-systems' resources is via Service Nodes. Every NoTA Sub-system consists of the NoTA Interconnect stack.
NoTA principles
Loosely coupled
Service based
Interconnect centric
Message & data driven (GALS)
Implementation-wise heterogeneous
History
The NoTA concept and the first implementations were the result of internal Nokia Research Center activities started in 2003. The objective of this work was to develop a novel embedded device architecture that could solve the existing R&D challenges, as well as prepare the company to face the expected horizontalization and digital convergence. The NoTA basic framework was strongly influenced by Network-on-Chip (NoC) and Web Services research.
NoTA Interconnect Release 1 was released in December 2005. Release 1 only consisted of Service communication, activation/deactivation, discovery and access. Release 2 added efficient data communication means, with a handle based stream referencing approach. This functionality, called DOA (Direct Object Access), allows direct memory-to-memory streaming between different NoTA subsystems. Release 2 came out during the second half of 2006. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazelles-N%C3%A9gron | Nazelles-Négron () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.
Population
The commune was formed in 1971 by the merger of Nazelles and Négron. Population data before 1971 refer to the former commune of Nazelles.
See also
Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department
References
Communes of Indre-et-Loire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faure%20Islands | The Faure Islands (68° 06' S, 68° 52' W) are an archipelago west of Palmer Land in Antarctica.
See also
Dismal Island, the largest of the group.
External links
Geographical data from the Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Islands of Palmer Land |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimel%20Everett | Gimel Everett (; February 7, 1951) is an American producer specializing in the science-fiction and horror genres. Her films The Lawnmower Man and Virtuosity (1995) feature groundbreaking computer animation and visual effects.
The Lawnmower Man is considered the first, seminal film to feature "Virtual Reality" as a cautionary tale becoming the number one commercially successful independent film of 1992, budgeted at just under $6 million and eventually earning over $150 million worldwide.
Virtuosity became the first major film to feature nanotechnology set in a cyberpunk based future casting Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington together a full 12 years before they would again co-star and many Oscar nominations later in a 2007 project (American Gangster).
Works
Film
The Dead Pit 1989 (Writer, Producer, Editor)
The Lawnmower Man 1992 (Writer, Producer, 2nd Unit Director)
Hideaway 1995 (Producer)
Virtuosity 1995 (co-producer)
Man-Thing (DVD box title) 2005 (as Producer)
External links
American film producers
Living people
1951 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMAF | WMAF (1230 AM) is a silent radio station licensed to Madison, Florida, United States. The station is owned by Fred Dockins, through licensee Dockins Communications, Inc., and features programming from ABC Radio.
References
External links
MAF |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPLK | WPLK (800 AM) is a radio station licensed to Palatka, Florida, broadcasting a soft oldies radio format The station is currently owned by Radio Palatka, Inc. Programming is also heard on FM translator station W252DL at 98.3 MHz in the Killearn district of East Palatka, Florida.
History
The station first signed on in 1957 as WSUZ. The station was owned by Raymac Inc. (Raymond P. McMillin and Carmen Macri), and was a daytimer, required to be off the air at night to avoid interfering with other stations on AM 800.
In 1957, Mr. Carmen Macri (the Mac of Raymac) was identified as the co-owner of the station, as well as WQIK in Jacksonville, Florida and WWOK in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In 1958, the license was transferred to just Mr. McMillin.
In 1961, an application was filed to transfer the license to WSUZ, Inc, however that transfer was not completed. In 1962, the station went into receivership under the custody of George J. Duck. In May 1963, the license was transferred to Bullock and Strickland, and in 1967 to just Wayne E. Bullock as Radio Station WSUZ. Mr. Strickland was a Washington, D.C.-based attorney and part owner of the station.
As of 1969, the station was an affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System.
In 1977, the station moved to a new transmitter location and studio. The studio had been at 309½ St John Avenue and was moved to old San Mateo Road.
In 1978, the station license was assigned to W. G. Enterprises, Inc. for a reported $155,000.
The 1978 license renewal was in the name of Radio Palatka, Inc., which controlled the license until 2010.
In 1986, the station was airing country western music, and broke format to do a political interview with unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate Mark Goldstein.
As of 1987, the station was an affiliate of the Atlanta Braves' baseball radio network
In 1990, Radio Palatka was assigned to the trustee oversight of Valarie J Hall of Jacksonville, Florida. That is when the call sign was changed to the current WPLK.
In 1997, the station was returned to the control of Wayne E. Bullock, Barbara K. Bullock, James M. Hester and Gail B. Hester.
An attempt was made in 2007 to sell the station to Radio Florida LLC for $400,000 with a stated intent to move the station from Putnam County and diplex the signal with WIYD. Shortly thereafter, another application was filed to transfer the license to Flagler County Broadcasting LLC, with James E Martin having a 70% controlling interest in the ownership; however neither sale was completed and the license remained with Radio Palatka, Inc.
In 2010, the station license was transferred to NATKIN, LLC, (Charles E. Alford, Jr) the current licensee. The sales price reported to the FCC was $425,000.
References
External links
PLK
1957 establishments in Florida
Radio stations established in 1957 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1825%20in%20paleontology |
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds
References
1820s in paleontology
Paleontology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao%20National%20Television | Lao National Television (officially abbreviated as LNTV, ) is the national television station of the country of Laos. It is divided into 2 television channels, LNTV1 and LNTV3. The network's logo is based on the national symbol – Pha That Luang.
Channels
See also
Lao National Radio, an organization that was once affiliated with this television station.
List of television stations in Southeast Asia#Laos
References
External links
Official website
Television in Laos
Television channels and stations established in 1983
1983 establishments in Laos
Publicly funded broadcasters
Government-owned companies of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared%20Nissim | Jared Nissim is the founder of social networking websites The Lunch Club, Meet The Neighbors and Speed Friending.
The Lunch Club
In December 2001, while working from home as a corporate/technical writer, Nissim began posting to Craigslist with the aim of finding lunch companions. After months of informal lunches and craigslist postings, a community network of hundreds of people formed. At first, members of the network referred to it as "The East Village Lunch Club" because Nissim kept his gatherings local to his neighborhood, Manhattan's East Village. In mid-2002, when Nissim formalized the club as an organization and established a website, he dropped "East Village" and left the name as "The Lunch Club".
Meet the Neighbors
In November 2004, Nissim launched a second social networking endeavor: Meet The Neighbors, a social network for people to connect with those in their own apartment building.
Speed Friending
In March 2005 Nissim established an additional event format called Speed Friending. After attending a speed dating event in 2003, Nissim adopted the format but changed the concept to fit in with The Lunch Club's mission to help people make friends. The service launched in New York in March 2005 and expanded to Boston and San Francisco the following year. In 2006 the term Speed Friending was added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
References
External links
The Lunch Club
Meet The Neighbors
Speed Friending
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from the East Village, Manhattan
American businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%20Pell | Barney Pell (born March 18, 1968) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor and computer scientist. He was co-founder and CEO of Powerset, a pioneering natural language search startup, search strategist and architect for Microsoft's Bing search engine, a pioneer in the field of general game playing in artificial intelligence, and the architect of the first intelligent agent to fly onboard and control a spacecraft. He was co-founder, Vice Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Moon Express; co-founder and chairman of LocoMobi; and Associate Founder of Singularity University.
Career
Education
Pell received his Bachelor of Science degree in symbolic systems from Stanford University in 1989, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a National Merit Scholar. Pell earned a PhD in computer science from Cambridge University in 1993, supervised by Stephen Pulman, where he was a Marshall Scholar.
Research
Pell's research is focused on basic problems in the study of intelligence, computer game playing, machine learning, natural language processing, autonomous robotics, and web search.
Barney Pell has published over 30 technical papers on topics related to information retrieval, knowledge management, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and scheduling systems.
In computer game playing and machine learning, he was a pioneer in the field of General Game Playing, and created programs to generate the rules of chess-like games and programs to play individual games directly from the rules without human assistance. He also did early work on machine learning in the game of Go and on an architecture for pragmatic reasoning for bidding in the game of Bridge.
In natural language processing, he was a scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International, where we worked on the Core Language Engine.
Barney Pell was the Technical Area Manager of the Collaborative and Assistant Systems area within the Computational Sciences Division (now the Intelligent Systems Division) at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw a staff of 80 scientists working on information retrieval, search, knowledge management, machine learning, semantic technology, human centered systems, collaboration technology, adaptive user interfaces, human robot interaction, and other areas of artificial intelligence. From 1993 to 1998, Barney Pell worked as a Principal Investigator and Senior Computer Scientist at NASA Ames, where he conducted advanced research and development of autonomous control software for NASA's deep space missions. He was the Architect for the Deep Space One Remote Agent Experiment and the Project Lead for the Executive component of the Remote Agent Experiment, the first intelligent agent to fly onboard and control a spacecraft.
Business
Pell is an entrepreneur who has founded or co-founded several business ventures, including Powerset, Moon Express, and LocoMobi.
He was the founder and CEO of Powerset, a San Francisco startup company that buil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive%20This%21 | Drive This! was a sports radio talk show produced from The Score Television Network studios in Toronto, Canada. It was broadcast weekdays from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET on Hardcore Sports Radio Sirius channel 98 with various repeat times and simulcast on The Score Television Network except on Tuesdays, beginning January 7, 2008. It ended on April 9, 2009, when host Richard Garner left Hardcore Sports Radio.
Format
The program was hosted by Richard Garner, with co-hosts Cam Stewart and Sarah Meehan. Gabriel Morency also made daily appearances.
The most interesting, bizarre, hilarious, hot button issues from the world of sports were discussed in a completely uncensored, thought provoking and genuinely passionate manner unlike any other sports radio show. On television however, most of the profanity was bleeped. The 2 hour program consisted of 6 segments:
Segment 1: 4:00 p.m. - 4:14 p.m. ET (approx.)
Segment 2: 4:17 p.m. - 4:27 p.m. ET (approx.)
Segment 3: 4:31 p.m. - 4:51 p.m. ET (approx.)
Segment 4: 5:00 p.m. - 5:11 p.m. ET (approx.)
Segment 5: 5:16 p.m. - 5:31 p.m. ET (approx.)
Segment 6: 5:36 p.m. - 5:51 p.m. ET (approx.)
Part of the show consisted of callers, usually whom were regulars, voicing their opinions on the topics being discussed on the show or simply commenting on the show itself. E-mails sent in by listeners were also often read on the program, especially those that tended to criticize the hosts or the program. The first three segments also included a TV-only feature called Txt TV, where people could send in messages via SMS or an online form, and discuss anything sports related, not always pertaining to the current topic, and vote in daily polls.
On Fridays, Sarah Meehan surprised her co-hosts with a special secret guest and interesting story which reminded people why they loved sports so much. The segment was entitled "Storytime with Sarah".
Hosts
Richard Garner
Cam Stewart (co-host)
Sarah Meehan (co-host)
Gabriel Morency (daily guest)
Geoff Fienberg (Txt TV moderator)
Chris Dart (Producer)
Occasional Guest co-hosts:
Greg Sansone (The Score Television Network)
Tim Miccalef (The Score Television Network)
Sid Seixeiro (The Score Television Network)
Adnan Virk (The Score Television Network)
Cabral Richards (The Score Television Network)
Pierre Aubry (Hardcore Sports Radio)
Eric Cohen (Hardcore Sports Radio)
Past notable guests
José Canseco
Willie O'Ree
Randy Couture
Jack Morris
Sam Mitchell
Dana White
John McCarthy
The Amazing Kreskin
Rick Jeanneret
Larry Merchant
Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada
Bob Knight
Bill Daly
Jim Lampley
References
External links
Program official page
Canadian sports radio programs
2000s Canadian sports television series
2000s Canadian television talk shows
2000s Canadian radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20human%20%28disambiguation%29 | A virtual human is a real or fictional human being rendered by software.
Virtual human may also refer to:
Visible Human Project, an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body
Virtual Physiological Human, a methodological and technological framework
Virtual body, a state of being when inhabiting virtual reality or a virtual environment
Virtual actor, a creation or re-creation of a human being in image and voice using computer-generated imagery and sound
See also
Virtual Woman, a software program
Virtual character (disambiguation)
Virtual agent (disambiguation)
Avatar (computing), a graphical representation of a user or the user's alter ego or character
Embodied agent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Roam | 3Roam provides high-capacity microwave transmission equipments for wireless and packet networks convergence. 3Roam solutions aim at bridging the gap between traditional microwave transmission technologies and advanced networking techniques.
By nature, microwave links characteristics are variable. Weather conditions can reduce the performances of a link, decreasing significantly its capacity. 3Roam equipments overcome these limitations by incorporating a packet router, that re-routes packets intelligently in the network, in case such perturbation occurs.
3Roam solutions integrate seamlessly in corporate networks or network operators backhaul systems through their native packet architectures and allow for the smart inclusion of microwave links into an overall packet transport system.
Corporate history
3Roam was founded in 2005. The founding team identified very early that microwave transmission equipments were still using outdated transport protocols inherited from the early telecom days, while the introduction of label switching and MPLS protocols were revolutionizing IP transport networks.
To get microwave technologies ready to take up the challenge of being an active part in complex IP transport networks, the company developed its MicrowaveRouter product.
3Roam's MicrowaveRouter is the first microwave equipment to incorporate a complete native IP layer 3 processing core, while competing products only support on plain Ethernet switching.
Notes
External links
3Roam Home Page
Article about 3ROAM financing round
Telecommunications companies of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20Supercomputing%20Network | The Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) is a distributed infrastructure involving the interconnexion of 12 supercomputers which work together to offer High Performance Computing resources to the scientific community. It is coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
The RES is a Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS) distributed throughout Spain.
Currently the RES is composed of 12 supercomputers located in different research centres and universities.
History
The Spanish Supercomputing Network was created in March 2007 by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, in order to respond to the increasing needs of computing resources in Spain. To achieve this, MareNostrum supercomputer was upgraded and the old nodes from MareNostrum were used to create five new nodes (Altamira, CesarAugusta, LaPalma, Picasso, Tirant).
In 2009 Atlante supercomputer joined the network. The software of the supercomputers was upgraded to the same level.
In 2011 Magerit was upgraded and became the most powerful supercomputer in Spain and of this network.
In 2014 it opens in Tenerife, Teide-HPC supercomputer, which was at that time the second most powerful in Spain. Its calculation capacity is 10,000 office computers.
In 2015, 5 new nodes became part of the network: Finisterrae II at CESGA, Pirineus at Consorcio de Servicios Universitarios de Cataluña (CSUC), Lusitania at the Fundación Computación y Tecnologías Avanzadas de Extremadura, Caléndula at the Centro de Supercomputación de Castilla y León, and Cibeles at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid In May 2016, Atlante supercomputer stopped its activity in the RES, and in December 2018 Magerit exit the RES. Currently, the network is composed of 11 institutions and 12 supercomputers.
Use of the resources
All the supercomputing resources are aimed at non-profit R&D purposes. They are open to Spanish research groups from academia and public research centres. Research groups based in other countries can also apply for RES resources, but the participation of Spanish researchers is recommended.
Computing resources are granted by means of competitive calls. Proposals are evaluated every four months by the Access Committee, which is advised by an Expert Panel composed of prestigious scientists. The use of RES resources is allocated based on the criteria of excellence and scientific impact. Research groups do not need to pay for the use of RES resources.
References
External links
RES in Barcelona Supercomputing Center website, current coordinator of Spanish Supercomputing Network. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputing%20and%20Visualization%20Center%20of%20Madrid | The Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid (CeSViMa), also called Madrid Supercomputing and Visualization Center (in Spanish, Centro de Supercomputación y Visualización de Madrid), depends on the computer science faculty of the Technical University of Madrid. This center houses Magerit, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Spain. This center is a member of the Spanish Supercomputing Network, the Spanish e-Science Network and the Madrid Laboratories and Infraestructures Network.
History
In 2004 CeSViMa was created by the Technical University of Madrid and CIEMAT. The aim of the center is to provide computation resources to the researchers of Madrid. IBM provided the supercomputer Magerit in the center. The center also has an interactive 3D visualization infrastructure and a terrestrial scanner.
In 2007 CeSViMa joined the Spanish Supercomputing Network and the supercomputer Magerit was upgraded.
In May 2008, the center migrated all its infrastructure to a new building in the newly created in the International Excellence Campus of Montegancedo, site of Scientific and Technologic Park of the Technical University of Madrid (). The supercomputer was upgraded again and reach 16 TFLOPS. 60% of the supercomputer CPU time is used for RES research; the remaining 40% is used for Madrid research.
During 2009 the center joined the Spanish e-Science Network and the Madrid Laboratories and Infrastructures Network.
In 2011 a full upgrade of Magerit supercomputer put it as the most powerful and ecological supercomputer of Spain in the July editions of TOP500 and Green500 lists used as reference in this matter (positions 136 and 18)
Research
The Spanish branch of the international project Blue Brain (called Cajal Blue Brain) is carrying out in the facilities of the CeSViMa. The project also uses the computing resources of Magerit supercomputer
The center also organizes conferences about supercomputing, new developments in hardware and software, scientific publications... and other science activities. For example, it collaborates in the retransmission of a Solar eclipse from Novosibirsk, Russia.
References
External links
Centro de Supercomputación y Visualización de Madrid
CeSViMa at UPM website
Research institutes in the Community of Madrid
Technical University of Madrid
Supercomputer sites
Spanish Supercomputing Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCLA | WCLA (1470 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult standards format. Licensed to Claxton, Georgia, United States, the station is currently owned by W. Danny Swain and features programming from ABC Radio.
Previous logo
References
External links
CLA
Radio stations established in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDXQ | WDXQ (1440 AM) is a radio station licensed to Cochran, Georgia, United States. The station is currently owned by Bill Shanks, through licensee Shanks Broadcasting, LLC. The station's programming is duplicated by FM translator W244CL, operating at 96.7 MHz.
History
The station went on the air as WDXQ on March 15, 2005. On July 19, 2007, the station changed its call sign to WDCO, and again on January 15, 2010, to WDXQ.
On November 26, 2019, WDXQ changed their format from hot adult contemporary to classic country, branded as "96 Country".
References
External links
DXQ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDGR | WDGR (1210 AM) is a defunct radio station formerly licensed to Dahlonega, Georgia, United States. The station was owned by Hye Cha Kim and featured a country music format with programming from Westwood One.
History
WDGR was founded by William S. Kinsland and Michael Hollifield (both residents of Dahlonega, Georgia), dba "Blue Ridge Radio Co. Inc." The first license applications were filed in 1977. After extensive litigation with competing applications, the initial Construction Permit was issued in 1981. The station went on the air as WAAH on March 1, 1982. Initially, the station operated on a frequency of 1520 kHz at an authorized power of 500 watts. On August 1, 1982, the station changed its call sign to the current WDGR. In October 1982, Kinsland sold his interest in the station to Kevin Croom.
The station's license was surrendered to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on November 5, 2018. At the time, WDGR had been off the air for significant periods of time since October 2007, due to what it described as financial and equipment-related issues. The FCC cancelled WDGR's license on November 7, 2018.
References
External links
FCC Station Search Details: DWDGR (Facility ID: 24459)
DGR
Radio stations established in 1982
1982 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Radio stations disestablished in 2018
2018 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
DGR
DGR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan%20Allen | Meghan Allen (born November 12, 1980 in Meadville, Pennsylvania) is an American softcore model and reality show contestant. She was Playboy Cyber Girl of the Month for January 2008. Meghan first appeared on the NBC reality show Fear Factor in 2004. Together with James Wise, her boyfriend at the time, she competed in the Couples edition, doing eight episodes of the show altogether. In 2008, Allen was a participant in the reality show Momma's Boys on NBC. In 2013, Allen married NBA player, Devin Harris. They have 2 children.
Modeling career
Women of Fear Factor
In February 2005, Meghan posed nude for Playboy, together with six other female contestants from the reality show Fear Factor. Later that year, she was featured in Playboy'''s DVD Women of Fear Factor.
Playboy Cyber Girl
In September 2007, Allen appeared nude in a Playboy Cyber Club pictorial as a Cyber Girl of the Week. She later became Cyber Girl of the Month in January 2008, doing five softcore videos and several pictorials.
Originally appearing with natural size 32B breasts in Women of Fear Factor she received augmentation in October 2006 and became a 34C. The reason for this choice was that she wanted her "clothing to fit better".
Other public appearances
The Howard Stern Show
On January 15, 2009, she appeared on The Howard Stern Show to play "Dumb as a Rock", where she revealed that she was dating NBA All-Star Devin Harris. They married in 2013 and have two children together.
Corrie and Meaghan's Party for a Purpose '09
In 2009, she hosted a fundraiser for ovarian cancer alongside reality show star Corrie Loftin.
She also took part in the Bay Beatdown EFC (Extreme Fight Club) Fight as a guest ring girl where she passed out t-shirts and other goodies for fans with the two ring girls, and the two aspiring ring girls Lulu Kramer and Dianna.
In 2008, Allen was a participant in the reality show Momma's Boys'' on NBC.
References
External links
1980 births
Living people
People from Meadville, Pennsylvania
2000s Playboy Playmates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVPL | EVPL may refer to:
Ethernet Virtual Private Line, a data service defined by Metro Ethernet Forum, providing a point-to-point Ethernet connection
Envoplakin, a human gene
Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Robotic%20Workshop | The Robotic Workshop was a toy kit, much like Lego Mindstorms, that allowed users to build and program robots using a home computer.
Access Software announced The Robotic Workshop in the January 1987 issue of Ahoy! magazine. A review later appeared in the May 1988 issue of Compute! magazine. The kit included over 50 Capsela parts, including two motors, gears, wheels, and sensors. It also included an electronic control unit that plugged into the user port of a , an instruction manual with 50 tutorial projects, and special programming software on a floppy disk. It was later released for Apple, Atari, and IBM computers.
External links
Review in Compute!
Robot kits
1987 robots
Robots of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1837%20in%20paleontology |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Synapsids
Newly named mammals
Afrotherians
References
1830s in paleontology
Paleontology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2006–07 Canadian network television schedule indicates the fall prime time schedules for Canada's major English broadcast networks. For schedule changes after the fall launch, please consult each network's individual article.
2006 official fall schedule
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Top weekly ratings
Note: English Canadian television only by viewers age 2 and up
Data sources: BBM Canada official website
References
External links
BBM Canada Top Weekly Television Ratings
2006 in Canadian television
2007 in Canadian television
Canadian television schedules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Chapelle-Launay | La Chapelle-Launay (; ) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department, western France.
Location
Located halfway between Nantes and St. Nazaire, it is well served by transport networks. The town is in the west of the Loire-Atlantic, just north of the Loire estuary. The nearest town close by are Savenay at 2.7 km.
Population
Climate
Chapelle-Launay climate is, like the rest of the Loire-Atlantique, a temperate oceanic climate. This climate is heavily influenced by the estuary of the Loire. Winters are mild (min 3 °C / Max 10 °C) and summers are mild (12 °C min / max 24 °C). Snowfall is rare. Rain is frequent (113 days per year of precipitation), with annual precipitation averaging about 743 mm, however rainfall is quite variable from one year to another. The average sunshine is 1826 hours per year. The presence of the Sillon de Bretagne, however, causes some local variations in the climate, with marsh areas generally colder than the rest of the town. This area is also often shrouded by fog in the winter.
History
Prehistory and Antiquity
During the Gallic period the area belonged to the Namnetes, who were conquered by Julius Caesar in 56 BC.
In a vase of terra-cotta, about 4 000 currencies of bronze, silver, and a golden currency are found in 1904 and 1906, accompanied with a golden ring and with seven silver spoons.
Of this treasure, which belongs to the monetary deposits buried during the disorders of the years 270-275, the departmental Dobrée museum preserves 350 currencies of bronze and silver, the golden currency in the effigy of the "Gallic" emperor Postumus, the golden ring and the six of seven silver spoons today.
Middle Ages
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, the country rapidly came under the control of Clovis I despite resistance from the Roman garrison of Breton soldiers. During the Frankish period, the country became the 'Breton March'. During the reign of Charlemagne; the territory was initially under the dominion of his nephew, Roland, who was given the title of 'Prefect of the Breton March'.
Breton Rule
After Charlemagne's death, Breton expansion intensified. In 850, the region was conquered by Nominoë, the ruler of Brittany, who invaded, among others, the towns of Nantes and Rennes. The following year, in the aftermath of the Battle of Jengland, the Breton March, with Nantes as its capital, was integrated into Brittany by the Treaty of Angers. The subsequent eighty years, however, were made difficult by the constant infighting between the Breton warlords, who promoted Viking invasions. From 919 to 937, the town was managed by the Vikings, who were defeated by Alain Barbe-Torte, the grandson of Alan the Great, the last king of Brittany.
The Wars of Succession
In the subsequent period, the Dukes of Brittany fought against the Counts of Nantes. These succession feuds resulted from time to time in Nantes passing under the sovereignty of the house of Anjou. The longest of these periods began in 1156 and last |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montoir-de-Bretagne | Montoir-de-Bretagne (, literally Montoir of Brittany; ) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.
Population
The population data given in the table below refer to the commune of Montoir-de-Bretagne in its geography at the given years. In 1913 the commune of Trignac was created from part of Montoir-de-Bretagne, in 1925 Saint-Malo-de-Guersac was created from part of Montoir-de-Bretagne.
See also
Brière
Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department
References
Communes of Loire-Atlantique |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Long | Johnny Long, otherwise known as "j0hnny" or "j0hnnyhax", is a computer security expert, author, and public speaker in the United States.
Long is well known for his background in Google hacking, a process by which vulnerable servers on the Internet can be identified through specially constructed Google searches. He has gained fame as a prolific author and editor of numerous computer security books.
Career in computer security
Early in his career, in 1996, Long joined Computer Sciences Corporation and formed the corporation's vulnerability assessment team known as Strike Force. Following a short position at Ciphent as their chief scientist, Long now dedicates his time to the Hackers for Charity organization. He continues to provide talks at many well-publicized security events around the world. In recent years, Long has become a regular speaker at many annual security conferences including DEF CON, the Black Hat Briefings, ShmooCon, and Microsoft's BlueHat internal security conferences. Recently, his efforts to start the Hackers for Charity movement have gained notable press attention. His talks have ranged from Google hacking to how Hollywood portrays hackers in film.
Google hacking
Through his work with CSC's Strike Force, Johnny was an early pioneer in the field of Google hacking. Through specially crafted search queries it was possible to locate servers on the Internet running vulnerable software. It was equally possible to locate servers that held no security and were openly sharing personal identifiable information such as Social Security numbers and credit card numbers. These efforts grew into the creation of the Google Hacking Database, through which hundreds of Google hacking search terms are stored. The field of Google hacking has evolved over time to not just using Google to passively search for vulnerable servers, but to actually use Google search queries to attack servers.
Google Dorking has been used to commit various forms of cybercrime, such as the doxing of Supreme Court justices in 2022 and the hack of the Bowman Avenue Dam. According to Star Kashman, a legal scholar who has explored the legal implications of this technique, while Google Dorking is used for legitimate purposes like conducting research or assessing vulnerabilities, it could also be utilized for malicious purposes as well.
Hackers for Charity
In his latest endeavor, Johnny Long has created the Hackers for Charity non-profit organization. Known by its byline, "I Hack Charities", the organization collects computer and office equipment to donate to underdeveloped countries. Along with coordinating the donation of goods and supplies, Johnny lived in Uganda with his family for seven years full-time where they personally setup computer networks and helped build village infrastructures. In addition, they started a computer training center which provides free and low-cost technical training, a hackerspace, a restaurant and a leather working program all based in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGMK | WGMK (106.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format. Licensed to Donalsonville, Georgia, United States, the station is currently owned by Flint Media, Inc. and features programming from ABC Radio .
Previous logo
(WGMK's previous "Oldies 106.3" logo)
References
External links
GMK |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIFO-FM | WIFO-FM (105.5 FM) is Jesup's FM heritage station, broadcasting a wide variety of programming, including mornings with Butch Hubbard, Local News with Bob Morgan, Local Sports; The only FM Atlanta Braves affiliate for Baxley, Hinesville, Jesup, Waycross, Brunswick, and Camden County; Since 1971 the oldest continuous FM Braves Affiliate. WIFO also covers professional and college sports, as well as country music and the True Oldies Channel weekends. Licensed to Jesup, Georgia, United States; The station is currently owned by Jesup Broadcasting Corp.
A fire December 7, 2005, destroyed the original studios. New permanent facilities located at the original site went online June 24, 2006. Since then, sister station WLOP has noticed a resurgence in listeners, due in part to Fox Sports Radio, and the addition of relevant local sports programming 24/7, including WCHS Softball on WLOP.
References
External links
IFO
Oldies radio stations in the United States
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJIZ-FM | WJIZ-FM (96.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an urban contemporary format. Licensed to Albany, Georgia, United States, the station is currently owned by iHeartMedia and features programming from Westwood One. Its studios are on Westover Boulevard in Albany, and the transmitter is located east of Albany.
References
External links
JIZ
Radio stations established in 1962
Urban contemporary radio stations in the United States
IHeartMedia radio stations
1962 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJJC | WJJC (1270 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format and licensed for Commerce, Georgia, United States. The station is owned by Side Communications, Inc. and features programming from Fox News Radio.
Staff
The staff includes Rob Jordan, the General Manager of WJJC Radio and a Jackson County native. He has many years of radio experience both on and off the air and enjoys his time in the broadcast chair. Since the death of his brother Gerald, the "Voice of the Commerce Tigers" for over 20 years, Rob has taken on the mantle of sportscaster for the Commerce Tiger High School broadcasts.
Craig S. Fischer joined WJJC in July 2005 for the second time, having worked as a DJ while at Commerce High School from 1978 to 1979. He can be heard on various sports broadcasts for Commerce, Jefferson and East Jackson High Schools.
WJJC can now be found at 95.1 FM in the Jackson County area.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for WJJC
JJC
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1957 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962%E2%80%9363%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1962–63 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 1962 to August 1963.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Monday-Friday
Saturday
Sunday
See also
1962-63 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
1962-63 United States network television schedule (late night)
Sources
Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984
TV schedules, NEW YORK TIMES, September 1962-September 1963 (microfilm)
References
United States weekday network television schedules
1962 in American television
1963 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKUN | WKUN (1490 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a oldies format. It is licensed to Monroe, Georgia, United States. The station is currently owned by B.R. Anderson and features programming from Westwood One’s Good Time Oldies.
References
External links
KUN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLOP | WLOP (1370 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Jesup, Georgia, United States, the station is currently owned by Jesup Broadcasting Corp. and features programming from Fox Sports Radio.
References
External links
LOP
Sports radio stations in the United States
Fox Sports Radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1839%20in%20paleontology |
Archosaurs
Newly named pseudosuchians
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Paleontologists
Birth of Harry Govier Seeley, the paleontologist who invented the Saurischian/Ornithischian dinosaur dichotomy.
References
1830s in paleontology
Paleontology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXRS-FM | WXRS-FM (100.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Swainsboro, Georgia, United States, the station is currently owned by Radiojones, LLC, and features programming from ABC Radio.
References
External links
XRS-FM
Radio stations established in 1950 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Sync | Microsoft Sync can refer to different technologies developed by Microsoft:
Ford Sync, an in-car entertainment and navigation system
Microsoft Sync Framework, a data synchronization platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatcher%20training%20simulator | A dispatcher training simulator (DTS), also known as an operator training simulator (OTS), is a computer-based training system for operators (known as dispatchers) of electrical power grids. It performs this role by simulating the behaviour of the electrical network forming the power system under various operating conditions, and its response to actions by the dispatchers. Student dispatchers may therefore develop their skills from exposure not only to routine operations but also to adverse operational situations without compromising the security of supply on a real transmission system.
Description
Early simulations modelled the transmission system with banks of analog computers linked by scaled-down representations of the interconnecting lines. The operator would simulate the operation of circuit breakers by physically operating their miniature replicas. As transmission systems grew in size and complexity, they could no longer be adequately represented in this manner, and computerised simulations came to the fore.
A modern DTS combines or simulates the following elements:
An energy management system (EMS): a computer system for controlling a power grid. The EMS enables remote operation of electrical equipment, such as circuit breakers or transformers. It also receives information transmitted back to an electricity control centre, such as the status of equipment or notification of alarms. The user interface typically displays the state of the transmission system on computerised one-line diagrams with controllable points for simulated operation of plant such as circuit breakers or transformer tap-changers.
A SCADA (Supervisory control and data acquisition) system, which provides collection and assimilation of data from substations and transmits operator instructions back to the same plant.
A load-flow study to calculate power flows and voltages on the transmission system and to model its responses to disturbances such as line trips, relay action, and generator-demand mismatch. The model will normally extend to the limits of the system operator's region of interest, and include representations of plant such as lines, generators, transformers, circuit breakers and capacitors. Optionally the subtransient behaviour of the system can also be modelled.
The system may additionally provide facilities for modelling and optimising the economic dispatch of generating units. Any generation's dynamic characteristics and limits, in particular its voltage regulation, maximum generation, and rate of change of output are usually incorporated.
Operation
A DTS is frequently purchased by a customer (such as a transmission system operator) at the same time and from the same manufacturer as an energy management system, and is usually designed to mimic it as closely as possible. Operational scenarios are created on the DTS to represent the operator's transmission system under a variety of conditions. These may represent normal operating conditions, or be speci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele%20Marsh%20%28reporter%29 | Michele Marie Marsh (March 9, 1954 – October 17, 2017) was an American broadcast journalist, best known for her work at two network-owned television stations in New York City from 1979 to 2003.
Early life and career
Marsh grew up in suburban Detroit into a military family. Her parents were Howard Marsh, an insurance salesman, and the former Gloria Gadd. She had two brothers, Ronnie, who died at age 6 and John, who died at 21, who were both hemophiliacs, as was Marsh. She was partly raised in Philadelphia and in the San Diego area. She graduated from Grossmont High School in El Cajon, California, and later from Northwestern University, where she majored in what has been described as radio and television production or theater.
After her graduation from Northwestern in 1976, Marsh started her career as a reporter/anchor at WABI-TV, the CBS affiliate in Bangor, Maine. She reported in the field and anchored the 11 p.m. Monday-Friday newscasts, and the 6 p.m. Saturday newscast. She did much of the news gathering herself and ran the teleprompter with a foot pedal during broadcasts. Marsh was one of only three women at the time appearing on-camera on television news in Maine.
She then moved to San Antonio, Texas, where she worked at ABC affiliate KSAT-TV for about a year. In October 1978, she served as parade marshal for the Western Days Celebration in Yorktown, Texas.
Career in New York
In August 1979, Marsh began working at WCBS-TV in New York City as a reporter and then as co-anchor of the Saturday night editions of Channel 2 News. Two months later in October, she was promoted to co-anchoring the 11:00 pm weeknight program alongside Rolland Smith. An article published in the New York Times shortly after her promotion described Marsh as part of a wave of anchorwomen in New York television news, along with Sue Simmons, Rose Ann Scamardella, Judy Licht and Pat Harper. At age 25, Marsh was the youngest of this group and was sometimes called "the baby of the newsroom" at her station.
In January 1981, Marsh was demoted from her anchor position to make way for her predecessor Dave Marash, who was rehired by WCBS-TV after a stint at ABC News. Upon learning of her demotion Marsh reportedly became distressed, causing the station to call in reporter John Tesh as an emergency standby in case Marsh was unable to work that evening.
After regaining this position in January 1982 she stayed as co-anchor of the late weeknight newscasts until 1993 and worked alongside Smith, Mike Schneider and Ernie Anastos; she was anchor of both of the station's 6:00 pm evening newscasts for several years with Jim Jensen, Anastos and John Johnson. Her on air image was sultry, glamorous and self-possessed. In June 1995, Marsh returned to anchoring the late newscast with Johnson, replacing Dana Tyler. Her salary by this time was close to $1 million per year.
Marsh was one of several personalities abruptly fired by WCBS-TV in October 1996 as part of a management-ordered shakeup o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliCAD | IntelliCAD is a CAD editor and development platform with an Application Programming Interface API published by the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium ("ITC") through shared development. IntelliCAD emulates the basic interface and functions of AutoCAD, however, it is particularly able to incorporate and interchange freely between a wide variety of file types (i.e. dwg., BIM, TIFF, etc.).
ITC IntelliCAD is not sold directly to end users but is licensed to consortium members, who support the shared development by paying annual fees, similar to a co-op arrangement, in exchange for permission to distribute IntelliCAD-based solutions worldwide with their own end-user license agreements.
IntelliCAD Technology Consortium
Founded in 1999, the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium ("ITC") is the international, non-profit organizational body that develops the IntelliCAD engine and development platform for its members. The ITC also develops integrations with third-party technologies, such as the "ODA Platform" from the Open Design Alliance which it uses for working with “.dwg”, Building information modeling (BIM), and DGN data formats.
The ITC supports interoperability and is a founding member of the Open Design Alliance. The ITC is registered in the state of Washington in the US, and its corporate headquarters are based in Portland, Oregon, USA.
IntelliCAD Functionality
IntelliCAD's native format is .dwg and it has a set of commands similar to AutoCAD by Autodesk. IntelliCAD can also natively open and edit MicroStation DGN files by Bentley Systems.
Included in IntelliCAD functionality:
Read and write binary .dwg and DGN files.
Work with BIM files and data, and AEC entities.
Familiar command line and user interface for creating and editing CAD drawings.
Complex linetypes, multiline text, lightweight polylines, audit and recover, and blocks.
File support for customizations (.CUI), menus (.MNU), scripts (.SCR) (AutoLISP macro language), hatches, fonts including TrueType fonts, raster images, digital signatures.
Development APIs, such as LISP, COM, Visual Basic, and SDS/ADS; and also IRX which is IntelliCAD's C++ Programming API similar to ARX that allows developers to create custom entities.
IntelliCAD is available for Microsoft Windows desktops.
History
Early 1990s
"IntelliCADD" began as an independent AM/FM/GIS (Automated Mapping/Facilities Management/Geographic Information System) software firm in La Mesa, CA, USA. One of its products, AutoCAD Data Extension, allowed multiple users to access the same AutoCAD drawing, or have a single drawing point to entities stored in other drawings. Softdesk, the then-largest third-party product developer for Autodesk, acquired this company in 1994, and used the know-how to secretly develop an AutoCAD clone. Autodesk had recently entered into direct competition with Cyco Software (another third-party Autodesk partner), and Softdesk was concerned that the same could happen to them. The AutoCAD-clone project was ke |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWalk | JWalk is a unit testing toolkit for the Java programming language. Created by Anthony Simons, JWalk supports a testing paradigm called Lazy Systematic Unit Testing. This is based on the two notions of lazy specification, the ability to infer the evolving specification of a class on the fly by dynamic analysis, and systematic testing, the ability to explore and test the class's state space exhaustively to bounded depths.
Using JWalk
JWalk is used to test single, compiled classes in the Java programming language (so far, the only supported language). It can be directed to explore all method protocols systematically, printing a lengthy test report, or to perform automated testing according to a state-based model of the class under test. The specification is constructed interactively, as the programmer confirms or rejects test outcomes, and adapts itself quickly to changes in the evolving code. JWalk is therefore well-suited to test-driven development, as used in the Extreme Programming approach to software development.
Comparisons
JWalk is efficient in helping a programmer to generate unit tests that adequately cover the test class's state space. Using JWalk compares favourably against expert manual testing (using JUnit). This is because the tool explores the test class systematically, suggesting test-cases that a programmer usually forgets, and focuses the programmer's attention on the subset of unique test cases that require manual confirmation.
References
Unit testing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20detection | Object detection is a computer technology related to computer vision and image processing that deals with detecting instances of semantic objects of a certain class (such as humans, buildings, or cars) in digital images and videos. Well-researched domains of object detection include face detection and pedestrian detection. Object detection has applications in many areas of computer vision, including image retrieval and video surveillance.
Uses
It is widely used in computer vision tasks such as image annotation, vehicle counting, activity recognition, face detection, face recognition, video object co-segmentation. It is also used in tracking objects, for example tracking a ball during a football match, tracking movement of a cricket bat, or tracking a person in a video.
Often, the test images are sampled from a different data distribution, making the object detection task significantly more difficult. To address the challenges caused by the domain gap between training and test data, many unsupervised domain adaptation approaches have been proposed. A simple and straightforward solution of reducing the domain gap is to apply an image-to-image translation approach, such as cycle-GAN. Among other uses, cross-domain object detection is applied in autonomous driving, where models can be trained on a vast amount of video game scenes, since the labels can be generated without manual labor.
Concept
Every object class has its own special features that help in classifying the class – for example all circles are round.
Object class detection uses these special features. For example, when looking for circles, objects that are at a particular distance from a point (i.e. the center) are sought. Similarly, when looking for squares, objects that are perpendicular at corners and have equal side lengths are needed. A similar approach is used for face identification where eyes, nose, and lips can be found and features like skin color and distance between eyes can be found.
Methods
Methods for object detection generally fall into either neural network-based or non-neural approaches. For non-neural approaches, it becomes necessary to first define features using one of the methods below, then using a technique such as support vector machine (SVM) to do the classification. On the other hand, neural techniques are able to do end-to-end object detection without specifically defining features, and are typically based on convolutional neural networks (CNN).
Non-neural approaches:
Viola–Jones object detection framework based on Haar features
Scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT)
Histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) features
Neural network approaches:
Region Proposals (R-CNN, Fast R-CNN, Faster R-CNN, cascade R-CNN.)
Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD)
Single-Shot Refinement Neural Network for Object Detection (RefineDet)
Retina-Net
Deformable convolutional networks
See also
Feature detection (computer vision)
Moving object detection
Small obj |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridwars | Gridwars (aka GRID WARS) was a programming contest announced in November 2002 by Engineered Intelligence (EI). The competition was devised to promote EI's product called CxC (a parallel programming language) introduced the same day. Gridwars was also announced in selected forums and through personal invitations.
Four contests were held in total: in February 2003, in June 2003 (Gridwars II), in November 2003 (Gridwars Interactive), and in April 2004 (Gridwars III).
EI was founded by Matt Oberdorfer; in the late 2005 EI discontinued CxC and announced a new product called "I/O accelerator". In the early 2006 EI changed name to Gear6 and replaced Gridwars front page with the announcement of discontinuation. Shortly after the web site www.gridwars.com was shut down.
Game concept and core rules
The game is played on a board aka "battlefield"—orthogonal grid of given size drawn on a torus (thus opposite edges of the field are in contact).
Each cell of the battlefield can be either empty or owned by one of several codes competing for the cells of the battlefield. The code which manages to take over the battlefield or owns most cells after a specified number of cycles is the winner.
The original terminology used by EI was peculiar in that it referred to the competing codes as "the warriors" and to the cells as "processors" of a virtual computing grid (hence "the battle for processors") capable, however, of "firing bullets" at each other.
The game proceeds in turns (cycles). At the beginning of the game, each code owns one cell. Every cycle, codes are executed for cells they own. As it happens, framework program supplies the codes with some data: who are the cell's eight immediate neighbors (by warrior number, 0 for free cell) and its own warrior number. Based on this data, warriors can "fire three bullets" at one/two/three of its 8 neighbors. Gridwars II introduced a principal extension of original rules: warriors could now return 32-bit word, called communication variable or comvar for short, which framework program would supply to each of its 8 neighbors during the next cycle of battle execution.
After all of the cells made their shots, control program evaluates how many bullets in total arrived at every cell from the neighboring warriors, i.e. cells executing the same code. Whichever warrior sends more bullets at the cell (and not less than three in total), takes it over. In case of a tie, cell ownership remains the same.
In principle, the game can be played without a computer: on a board whose size is small enough to make it fun. Players can use private boards or paper to specify shooting directions for all of their cells and then show the shots and update the board together.
Alternatively, firing directions can be specified on the main board in the cell-by-cell manner (using matches, for example), opponents taking turns.
Winners
With the exception of Gridwars Interactive, top three finishers in each competition were honored in EI's press |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Shields | Michael Shields may refer to:
Michael Shields (footballer) (born 1986), Cork Gaelic football star
Michael W. Shields, British computer scientist
Michael Shields, body snatcher as part of a group called the London Burkers
Michael Shields, Liverpool football fan convicted of attempted murder in Bulgaria, see Conviction of Michael Shields
See also
Mick Shields (1912–1983), Australian rugby league footballer
Michael Patrick Shiels, radio host |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystmOne | SystmOne is a centrally hosted clinical computer system developed by Horsforth-based The Phoenix Partnership (TPP). It is used by healthcare professionals in the UK predominantly in primary care. The system is being deployed as one of the accredited systems in the government's programme of modernising IT in the NHS.
Applications
SystmOne is one of the computer systems available to GPs under the Systems of Choice scheme from 2008, as well as through Local Service Provider, the CSC. Like other GP systems it makes extensive use of Read codes. Like most other GP systems all data is held on remote servers. It can be accessed using a mobile phone. It is widely used in TPP's home county of Yorkshire and is the system supporting the Born in Bradford project.
The system is used to connect all prisons in England to a single clinical IT system for healthcare across the 133 prisons and young offender institutions and three immigration centres. The prison system does not communicate with the systems used by the NHS.
SystmOne is available as a number of different modules designed for different care settings. Modules for GP, prisons, child health, community units and palliative care are currently widely used throughout the NHS. In 2013, a number of secondary care modules were rolled out. These include modules for community and acute hospitals, accident and emergency, maternity, mental health and social services. TPP are involved in the development of electronic patient record systems converting large numbers of paper records into digital form. This enables GPs, community services and care homes to share access to records, with the patient's consent, enabling the ordering of clinical tests and medication without the need to visit the institution. Visiting clinical staff can use IT equipment in the institution to access patient records. SystmOne Maternity is used by Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust for all their maternity services.
In England EMIS Health and SystmOne have a duopoly. The pair were paid £77 million for primary care software in 2018.
It is possible to use the system to send automated text messages to patients such as reminders for influenza vaccine.
Research
The company has a close relationship with researchers at the University of Leeds with whom it developed an electronic frailty index. The company has a database with 6 million de-identified patient records, called ResearchOne, which in 2015 supported 40 to 50 research projects. About half have the potential to inform new clinical decision support tools. One is the Screening Tool of Older People's potentially inappropriate Prescriptions (STOPP) developed in Newton Abbot. This is intended to alert prescribers to risky combinations of medication. SystmOne permits rapid sharing of such applications.
Data sharing
SystmOne supports Summary Care Records. In March 2015 the company made an agreement to share patient data with Egton Medical Information Systems, the biggest suppli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telebarta | Telebarta ()is a Bangladeshi fixed line operator. It is a private public switched telephone network (PSTN) operator in Bangladesh. As of May 2008, total number of subscribers of this operator is 56,424.
History
Telebarta is branded under jubok phone.
Numbering scheme
Telebarta uses the following numbering scheme for its subscribers:
+880 36 N1N2N3N4N5N6N7N8
where 880 is the International Subscriber Dialling Code for Bangladesh and is needed only in case of dialling from outside.
036 is the access code for Telebarta as allocated by the Government of Bangladesh. Omitting +880 will require to use 0 in place of it instead to represent local call, hence 036 is the general access code.
Offers and services
1. PCO package
2. Corporate package
3. SME package
See also
Communications in Bangladesh
References
Telecommunications companies of Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caml%20Lights | Caml Lights may refer to:
Camel Lights, a brand of cigarette. See Camel (cigarette).
Caml Light, a functional programming language. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre%20Arrechea | Alexandre Arrechea (born 1970) is a Cuban visual artist. His work involves concepts of power and its network of hierarchies, surveillance, control, prohibitions, and subjection.
For twelve years he was a member of the art collective Los Carpinteros, until he left the group in July 2003 to continue his career as a solo artist. His public art The spectator's participation in the work adds to his contemplation. The work arises out of human actions and reactions in the face of contemporary versions of the worldview already described by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The eye of power watches everything and everyone, and everyone watches everyone else and themselves.
The interdisciplinary quality of Arrechea's work reveals a profound interest in the exploration of both public and domestic spaces. This quest has led him to produce several monumental projects like “Ciudad Transportable” (2000), “The Garden of Mistrust” (2003-2005) and “Perpetual Free Entrance” (2006). Arrechea has been represented by the Casado Santapau Gallery in Madrid since 2006.
Biography
Arrechea was born in Trinidad, Cuba in 1970. Arrechea graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) of Havana in 1994.
He lives between Madrid and Miami, with his wife, Cuban art historian Marlene Barrios de Arrechea and their two children.
Work
Arrechea made his name thanks to the art collective Los Carpinteros, composed of Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés and Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez. The three artists began working behind their collective moniker back in 1994, and they became rapidly successful. The New York Museum of Modern Art acquired several of their drawings for the museum's permanent collection.
Arrechea decided to leave Los Carpinteros in July 2003, to begin a solo career. His first individual project was El Jardin de la Desconfianza (The Garden of Mistrust), an epic installation in Los Angeles that required two years of work (2003-2005). The central piece of the work was a whitewashed aluminum tree whose branches were outfitted with video cameras which recorded spectators and broadcast them on the Internet. His public art often involves concepts of power and its network of hierarchies, surveillance, control, prohibitions and subjection. The spectator's participation in the work adds to its contemplation.
For the 10th Havana Biennial (March 27 – April 30, 2009), Arrechea worked on a project named La habitación de todos (The Room of All), which is a sculpture of a house that expands or contracts according to, respectively, the rise or fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. More recently he has worked on a public art project in New York City, involving video projections on buildings. His work will be showcased in the upcoming Venice Biennale.
References
Alexandre Arrechea interview on Havana-Cultura
External links
Official website
Alexandre Arrechea at Kadist Art Foundation
Cuban contemporary artists
Cuban painters
Cuban people of Basque descent
1970 births
L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Won%27t%20Let%20Me%20%28album%29 | Time Won't Let Me is the first studio album by the Outsiders. It was named after the band's early 1966 break-out single, "Time Won't Let Me".
Release data
The album was released in the LP format on Capitol in May 1966 in both monaural and stereophonic editions (catalogue numbers T 2501 and ST 2501, respectively).
Although never released individually as a CD, the band's first two albums were reissued on Liberty Bell as a "two-fer" CD, along with bonus tracks (catalogue number PCD-4365).
Notes on the tracks
Original LP
This album includes all four sides of the band's first two singles, all of which were written by Tom King and Chet Kelley. Their best-known song, "Time Won't Let Me" was a Top 5 single in early 1966, and used elements of both Merseybeat and Motown that were dominating the charts in that time period: a brass section, a la the Motown sound, with the big beat formula of the Beatles. It remained one of the most played songs on Classic rock radio stations for several decades after its release.
Their next single, "Girl in Love", was already charting when the final tracks were laid down for this album. It was written about bassist Mert Madsen's fiancee.
The cover songs that constitute the rest of the album include "Listen People" (a hit earlier in 1966 by Herman's Hermits); Buddy Holly's 1958 hit "Maybe Baby"; the pop music confection "Rockin' Robin" (also from 1958); the Spencer Davis Group's first Number One single "Keep on Running" (from 1965); and "She Cried" (originally a 1962 hit by Jay and the Americans).
"Time Won't Let Me" was later covered by the all-woman rock band, The Heart Beats and was also covered in 1981 by Iggy Pop on his album, Party.
CD bonus tracks
The first six bonus tracks are the sides from the last four singles by the band other than the two "B" sides that are included on Album #2; these songs are not included on any of the band's 1960s albums. The last two bonus tracks are alternate versions of two songs that are actually by Climax – Sonny Geraci's band after the Outsiders broke up – although "Think I'm Falling" was first released under the name the Outsiders before Tom King won the rights to the band name in a lawsuit. "Rock and Roll Heaven" went on to be a major hit song by the Righteous Brothers, but not until 1974.
Reception
Track listing
Side 1
"Keep on Running" (Jackie Edwards), 2:20
"Listen People" (Graham Gouldman), 2:29
"Time Won't Let Me" (Tom King, Chet Kelley) 2:47
"My Girl" (William Robinson, Ronald White), 2:27
"What Makes You So Bad, You Weren't Brought up that Way" (King, Kelley) 2:20
"She Cried" (Greg Richards, Ted Daryll), 2:21
Side 2
"Chase Away the Tears" (King, Kelley) 2:42
"Was it Really Real" (King, Kelley) 2:11
"Maybe Baby" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty), 1:58
"Rockin' Robin" (Jeanne Vikki), 2:30
"Girl in Love" (King, Kelley) 3:01
CD bonus tracks
When released by Liberty Bell, the CD included the above tracks in the same order, followed by the tracks on Album #2 in t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intent%20log | An intent log is a mechanism used to make computer operations more resilient in the event of failures. They are used in database software, transaction managers, and some file systems. In database area, transaction log is widely used. In file system area, intent log is used more often.
Before performing an operation, a record of the intent to perform it is written, usually to some relatively permanent medium such as a hard disk drive. After the operation is performed, another record is written. Usually, an operation will change some data in a system. In some cases, the intent record will contain a copy of the data before and after the operation.
This adds overhead, sometimes a significant amount. Enough data is written to the log to either redo or to undo the operation later.
If a failure occurs, then when the system is recovering, it can use the intent log to detect what operations were still in process during the failure, and use the intent log to help recover from the failure, usually by either undoing a partially completed operation, or by redoing one that might need to be completed.
See also
Journaling file system
Write-ahead logging
References
Transaction processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphism%20%28disambiguation%29 | Metamorphism, in geology, is the solid state recrystallisation of rocks under environmental forces.
Metamorphism may also refer to:
Metamorphism (Merzbow album) (2006).
Metamorphism (computer science), a concept similar to a hylomorphism.
Metamorphic code, computer code that rewrites itself.
Shapeshifting, the fictional topic, also called "metamorphism"
See also
Metamorphosis (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Storm%20Exercise | The Cyber Storm exercise is a biennial simulated exercise overseen by the United States Department of Homeland Security that took place February 6 through February 10, 2006 with the purpose of testing the nation's defenses against digital espionage. The simulation was targeted primarily at American security organizations but officials from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand participated as well.
Cyber Storm I
The first Cyber Storm exercise took place February 6 through February 10, 2006 with the purpose of testing the nation's defenses against digital espionage.
Simulation
The exercise simulated a large scale attack on critical digital infrastructure such as communications, transportation, and energy production. The simulation took place a series of incidents which included:
Washington, D.C. Metro trains mysteriously shutting down.
Bloggers revealing locations of railcars containing hazardous materials.
The airport control towers of Philadelphia and Chicago mysteriously shutting down.
A mysterious liquid appearing on a London subway.
Significant numbers of people on "no fly" lists suddenly appearing at airports all over the nation.
Planes flying too close to the White House.
Water utilities in Los Angeles getting compromised.
Internal difficulties
During the exercise the computers running the simulation came under attack by the players themselves. Heavily censored files released to the Associated Press reveal that at some time during the exercise the organizers sent every one involved an e-mail marked "IMPORTANT!" telling the participants in the simulation not to attack the game's control computers.
Performance of participants
The Cyber Storm exercise highlighted the gaps and shortcomings of the nation's cyber defenses. The cyber storm exercise report found that institutions under attack had a hard time getting the bigger picture and instead focused on single incidents treating them as "individual and discrete". In light of the test the Department of Homeland Security raised concern that the relatively modest resources assigned to cyber-defense would be "overwhelmed in a real attack".
Cyber Storm II
Cyber Storm II was an international cyber security exercise sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security in 2008. The week-long exercise was centered in Washington, DC and concluded on March 15.
Cyber Storm III
Cyber Storm III was an international cyber security exercise sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security in 2010. The week-long exercise was centered in Washington, DC and concluded on October 1.
See also
Cyber ShockWave
References
2006 in computing
Computer security
United States Department of Homeland Security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellegen%27s%20theorem | Tellegen's theorem is one of the most powerful theorems in network theory. Most of the energy distribution theorems and extremum principles in network theory can be derived from it. It was published in 1952 by Bernard Tellegen. Fundamentally, Tellegen's theorem gives a simple relation between magnitudes that satisfy Kirchhoff's laws of electrical circuit theory.
The Tellegen theorem is applicable to a multitude of network systems. The basic assumptions for the systems are the conservation of flow of extensive quantities (Kirchhoff's current law, KCL) and the uniqueness of the potentials at the network nodes (Kirchhoff's voltage law, KVL). The Tellegen theorem provides a useful tool to analyze complex network systems including electrical circuits, biological and metabolic networks, pipeline transport networks, and chemical process networks.
The theorem
Consider an arbitrary lumped network that has branches and nodes. In an electrical network, the branches are two-terminal components and the nodes are points of interconnection. Suppose that to each branch we assign arbitrarily a branch potential difference and a branch current for , and suppose that they are measured with respect to arbitrarily picked associated reference directions. If the branch potential differences satisfy all the constraints imposed by KVL and if the branch currents satisfy all the constraints imposed by KCL, then
Tellegen's theorem is extremely general; it is valid for any lumped network that contains any elements, linear or nonlinear, passive or active, time-varying or time-invariant. The generality is extended when and are linear operations on the set of potential differences and on the set of branch currents (respectively) since linear operations don't affect KVL and KCL. For instance, the linear operation may be the average or the Laplace transform. More generally, operators that preserve KVL are called Kirchhoff voltage operators, operators that preserve KCL are called Kirchhoff current operators, and operators that preserve both are simply called Kirchhoff operators. These operators need not necessarily be linear for Tellegen's theorem to hold.
The set of currents can also be sampled at a different time from the set of potential differences since KVL and KCL are true at all instants of time. Another extension is when the set of potential differences is from one network and the set of currents is from an entirely different network, so long as the two networks have the same topology (same incidence matrix) Tellegen's theorem remains true. This extension of Tellegen's Theorem leads to many theorems relating to two-port networks.
Definitions
We need to introduce a few necessary network definitions to provide a compact proof.
Incidence matrix:
The matrix is called node-to-branch incidence matrix for the matrix elements being
A reference or datum node is introduced to represent the environment and connected to all dynamic nodes and termi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20seek | Zero seek is a mechanical engineering design component of most computer-controlled data storage devices, including floppy disk drives, tape drives, and early hard drives.
Most early data storage devices were controlled primarily by stepper motors, which are able to move in very small, precise rotational movements. These movements were commonly used to define separate physical spaces where data is to be stored, such as the rotations being used to move a read/write head across the surface of a recording media to define tracks of cylinders of data on the media.
Although the movement of the stepper is precise, when a device is first powered on, the computer usually cannot immediately determine where the stepper is positioned. It needs to do something in order to calibrate the movement of the stepper so that it can know where the stepper is positioned.
The most common method of stepper synchronization is the zero seek, which is to move the stepper until it is able to find track zero. Once track zero has been located, that position is then used to locate all other positions, by continuously staying aware of the number steps the stepper motor has taken.
In the event of a severe data error when either reading or writing, it is possible that there has been a synchronization failure and the computer has lost track of the correct position of the stepper. The computer will then perform a zero seek in order to realign the stepper on track zero and get it back in alignment, just in case that was the cause of the problem.
Zero seeking takes two primary forms: the hard end-stop and the sensed end-stop.
A hard end-stop is often nothing more than a physical barrier against which the stepper mechanism collides and cannot move further. Hard end-stops can be quite noisy because the stepper will usually attempt to advance as far as it ever possibly would normally advance, whether the end-stop is nearby or far away. If nearby, the mechanism collides with the end-stop and continues to attempt to move against it, causing considerable noise and vibration. In some cases the end-stop can go out of alignment after much of this pounding abuse by the synchronization process.
A sensed end-stop uses some sort of electronic sensor to determine when the mechanism has reached track zero. The most common form of sensor is the light-beam sensor, using a light-emitting diode and a photosensor. An opaque blade attached to the mechanism cuts the lightbeam just as the mechanism reaches track zero, signalling that the mechanism has arrived and is in alignment. Sensed end-stops are silent because movement of the mechanism stops immediately after track zero has been found.
Mechanical engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUFE | WUFE (1260 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Baxley, Georgia, United States, the station is owned by South Georgia Broadcasters, Inc. and features programming from ABC Radio .
In 2015, the station rebranded as "96.7 Lite FM." The station reverted to its original brand and oldies-format "The Big WUFE" in 2020.
References
External links
UFE
Radio stations established in 1954
1954 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
UFE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral%20Internet%20Exchange | The Neutral Internet Exchange (abbreviated as NL-ix, with the last two letters typeset in lowercase) is an Internet exchange in Europe, which is distributed across seventy-four data centres in thirty-one European cities in 13 countries by year-end 2015. The exchange was founded in 2002 to serve as an alternative to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange. As of May 26, 2015, the daily average inbound traffic is 619.48 Gbit/s and the daily average outbound traffic 616.77 Gbit/s and 513 members are connected on 1762 ports. On March 4, 2011, it was announced that Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company KPN had purchased and, subsequently, acquired the exchange.
Datacenters
NL-ix members can connect at 96 sites in 31 cities across 7 countries.
References
External links
Neutral Internet Exchange (official website)
Internet in the Netherlands
Internet exchange points in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQTS | WQTS (102.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a southern gospel format from The Life FM network. Licensed to Statesboro, Georgia, United States, the station is currently owned by The Power Foundation.
History
The station went on the air as WUUF on 1988-03-24. On 1995-08-06, the station changed its call sign to WPMX.
WPMX swapped call signs with sister station WHKN on August 9, 2018, and then changed call signs again on August 28, 2018, to the current WQTS. This came after Neal Ardman, owner of Radio Statesboro, Inc., sold the facility to the Power Foundation, owner of The Life FM, for $150,000.
References
External links
1996 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Radio stations established in 1996
QTS
Southern Gospel radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20statistics | Computational statistics, or statistical computing, is the bond between statistics and computer science, and refers to the statistical methods that are enabled by using computational methods. It is the area of computational science (or scientific computing) specific to the mathematical science of statistics. This area is also developing rapidly, leading to calls that a broader concept of computing should be taught as part of general statistical education.
As in traditional statistics the goal is to transform raw data into knowledge, but the focus lies on computer intensive statistical methods, such as cases with very large sample size and non-homogeneous data sets.
The terms 'computational statistics' and 'statistical computing' are often used interchangeably, although Carlo Lauro (a former president of the International Association for Statistical Computing) proposed making a distinction, defining 'statistical computing' as "the application of computer science to statistics",
and 'computational statistics' as "aiming at the design of algorithm for implementing
statistical methods on computers, including the ones unthinkable before the computer
age (e.g. bootstrap, simulation), as well as to cope with analytically intractable problems" [sic].
The term 'Computational statistics' may also be used to refer to computationally intensive statistical methods including resampling methods, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, local regression, kernel density estimation, artificial neural networks and generalized additive models.
History
Though computational statistics is widely used today, it actually has a relatively short history of acceptance in the statistics community. For the most part, the founders of the field of statistics relied on mathematics and asymptotic approximations in the development of computational statistical methodology.
In statistical field, the first use of the term “computer” comes in an article in the Journal of the American Statistical Association archives by Robert P. Porter in 1891. The article discusses about the use of Hermann Hollerith’s machine in the 11th Census of the United States. Hermann Hollerith’s machine, also called tabulating machine, was an electromechanical machine designed to assist in summarizing information stored on punched cards. It was invented by Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929), an American businessman, inventor, and statistician. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine was patented in 1884, and later was used in the 1890 Census of the United States. The advantages of the technology were immediately apparent. the 1880 Census, with about 50 million people, and it took over 7 years to tabulate. While in the 1890 Census, with over 62 million people, it took less than a year. This marks the beginning of the era of mechanized computational statistics and semiautomatic data processing systems.
In 1908, William Sealy Gosset performed his now well-known Monte Carlo metho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOKA-FM | WOKA-FM (106.7 FM) is a country music radio station licensed to Douglas, Georgia, United States. The station is currently owned by Coffee County Broadcasters, Inc. and features programming from Fox News Radio.
References
External links
The Buck website
OKA-FM
Country radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA%20problem | In multithreaded computing, the ABA problem occurs during synchronization, when a location is read twice, has the same value for both reads, and the read value being the same twice is used to conclude that nothing has happened in the interim; however, another thread can execute between the two reads and change the value, do other work, then change the value back, thus fooling the first thread into thinking nothing has changed even though the second thread did work that violates that assumption.
The ABA problem occurs when multiple threads (or processes) accessing shared data interleave. Below is a sequence of events that illustrates the ABA problem:
Process reads value A from some shared memory location,
is preempted, allowing process to run,
writes value B to the shared memory location
writes value A to the shared memory location
is preempted, allowing process to run,
reads value A from the shared memory location,
determines that the shared memory value has not changed and continues.
Although can continue executing, it is possible that the behavior will not be correct due to the "hidden" modification in shared memory.
A common case of the ABA problem is encountered when implementing a lock-free data structure. If an item is removed from the list, deleted, and then a new item is allocated and added to the list, it is common for the allocated object to be at the same location as the deleted object due to MRU memory allocation. A pointer to the new item is thus often equal to a pointer to the old item, causing an ABA problem.
Examples
Consider a software example (written in C++) of ABA using a lock-free stack:
/* Naive lock-free stack which suffers from ABA problem.*/
class Stack {
std::atomic<Obj*> top_ptr;
//
// Pops the top object and returns a pointer to it.
//
Obj* Pop() {
while (1) {
Obj* ret_ptr = top_ptr;
if (ret_ptr == nullptr) return nullptr;
// For simplicity, suppose that we can ensure that this dereference is safe
// (i.e., that no other thread has popped the stack in the meantime).
Obj* next_ptr = ret_ptr->next;
// If the top node is still ret, then assume no one has changed the stack.
// (That statement is not always true because of the ABA problem)
// Atomically replace top with next.
if (top_ptr.compare_exchange_weak(ret_ptr, next_ptr)) {
return ret_ptr;
}
// The stack has changed, start over.
}
}
//
// Pushes the object specified by obj_ptr to stack.
//
void Push(Obj* obj_ptr) {
while (1) {
Obj* next_ptr = top_ptr;
obj_ptr->next = next_ptr;
// If the top node is still next, then assume no one has changed the stack.
// (That statement is not always true because of the ABA problem)
// Atomically replace top with obj.
if (top_ptr.compare_exchange_weak(next_ptr, obj_ptr)) {
return;
}
// The stack has changed, start over.
}
}
};
This code can |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaido%20Information%20University | is a private university in Ebetsu, Ishikari Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan.
It was initially established in April 1968 with the name Hokkaido Electronics Computer School. Since 1989, Hokkaido Information University became the officially adopted name.
Currently it holds international exchange agreements with Nanjing University, Shenyang Normal University in China; University of California, Santa Cruz in USA; and Rajamangala University of Technology in Thailand.
References
External links
Hokkaido Information University (Japanese)
Universities and colleges in Hokkaido
Private universities and colleges in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20Drum%20Digital%20Differential%20Analyzer | The MADDIDA (Magnetic Drum Digital Differential Analyzer) was a special-purpose digital computer used for solving systems of ordinary differential equations. It was the first computer to represent bits using voltage levels and whose entire logic was specified in Boolean algebra.
Invented by Floyd Steele, MADDIDA was developed at Northrop Aircraft Corporation between 1946 and 1949 to be used as a guidance system for the Snark missile. No guidance system, however, resulted from the work on the MADDIDA, and rather it was used for aeronautical research. In 1952, the MADDIDA became the world's top-selling commercial digital computer (albeit a special-purpose machine), six units having been sold. (The general-purpose UNIVAC I delivered its seventh unit in 1954.)
Development
Development on the project began in March 1946 at Northrop Corporation with the goal of producing a subsonic cruise missile designated "MX-775", which came to be called the Snark. Northrop's parameters for this project were to create a guidance system that would allow a missile to hit a target at a distance of up to with a precision that would be better than the German "vengeance" weapons V1 and V2. However, the MADDIDA was never used in weaponry, and Northrop ultimately used a different analog computer as the guidance system for the Snark missile.
Part of the project parameters involved developing the first digital data analyzer (DIDA).
Physicist Floyd Steele, who had reportedly in 1946 already demonstrated a working DIDA before the press in 1946 in his Los Angeles home, was hired as conceptual leader of the design group. Steele developed the concept for the DIDA, which would entail implementing an analog computer using only digital elements. When the decision was made to use magnetic drum memory (MAD) for the DIDA, the name was lengthened to MADDIDA (pronounced "Mad Ida").
In his design for MADDIDA, Steele was influenced by the analog computer invented in 1927 by Vannevar Bush, which had digital components. Another influence was Lord Kelvin's tide-predicting machine, an analog computer completed in 1873.
Steele hired Donald Eckdahl, Hrant (Harold) Sarkinssian, and Richard Sprague to work on the MADDIDA's germanium diode logic circuits and also to do magnetic recording. Together, this group developed the MADDIDA prototype between 1946 and 1949.
Design
The MADDIDA had 44 integrators implemented using a magnetic drum with six storage tracks. The interconnections of the integrators were specified by writing an appropriate pattern of bits onto one of the tracks.
In contrast to the prior ENIAC and UNIVAC I computers, which used electrical pulses to represent bits, the MADDIDA was the first computer to represent bits using voltage levels. It was also the first computer whose entire logic was specified in Boolean algebra. These features were an advancement from earlier digital computers that still had analog circuitry components.
The original MADDIDA prototype is now par |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premio%20Lo%20Nuestro%202008 | Premio Lo Nuestro 2008 was held on February 21, 2008, at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida. It was broadcast live by Univision Network.
Host
Pedro Fernández
Patricia Navidad
Performers
01. Intro — "Premio Lo Nuestro 20 Años Anniversario" — 01:02
02. Juanes (Opening Act) — "Me Enamora / Gotas De Agua Dulce" — 03:08
03. Cruz Martínez & Los Super Reyes — "Quédate Más (I Want You Back) / El Rey (Remix)" — 05:04
04. Pepe Aguilar — "Perdono Y Olvido / Río Rebelde / 100% Méxicano" — 04:51
05. Enrique Iglesias — "¿Dónde Están Corazón? / Dimelo" — 05:00
06. Maná — "Manda Una Señal" — 05:13
07. Olga Tañón — "¡Basta Ya! / Hoy Quiero Confesárme / Muchacho Malo / Es Mentiroso" — 06:00
08. Jenni Rivera — "Dama Divina" — 02:36
09. Wisin & Yandel — "Pégao / Sexy Movemento" — 04:40
10. Vicente Fernández — "Medley Rachero" — 14:56
11. Aventura — "El Prededor" — 04:00
12. Camilia — "Yo Quiero" — 03:39
13. Elvis Crespo With Grupo Manía (Closing Act) — "Me Miras Y Te Miro / Linda Eh / Un Beso / Suavemente" — 04:46
Presenters
Eduardo Verástegui
Patricia Manterola
Don Omar
Angélica Vale
Diana Reyes
Alexandra Cheron
Ilegales
Lucy Pereda
Antonio Vodanovic
Cristián de la Fuente
Dayanara Torres
René Strickler
JAN
Fanny Lu
Gloria Estefan
Grupo Montéz de Durango
Angélica María
Belinda
Tito "El Bambino"
Paul Rodriguez (appear)
Juan Luis Guerra
Lalo Rodríguez
Los Tigres del Norte
María Elena Salinas
Don Francisco
José José
Los Horóscopos de Durango
Fernando Allende
Karyme Lozano
Ivy Queen
Cristina Saralegui
Special awards
Premio Lo Nuestro a la Excelencia (Lifetime Achievement Award)
Vicente Fernández
Maximum Excellence Award
Ricky Martin
Trayectoria Artist of the Year
Olga Tañón
Pop
Album of the Year
Ayer Fue Kumbia Kings, Hoy Es Kumbia All Starz, A.B. Quintanilla III Presenta Kumbia All Starz
Celestial, RBD
El Tren de los Momentos, Alejandro Sanz
'Ricky Martin MTV Unplugged, Ricky Martin Secuencia, Reik
Male Artist Chayanne David Bisbal
Enrique Iglesias
Ricky Martin
Female Artist Belinda Julieta Venegas
Paulina Rubio
Yuridia
Group or Duo Camilia La 5ª Estación
RBD
Reik
Song of the Year
"Chiquilla", Kumbia All Starz
"Dímelo", Enrique Iglesias
"Me Muero", La 5ª Estación "Todo Cambió", Camila "Tu Recuerdo", Ricky Martin Featuring La Mari de Chambao and Tommy Torres
Breakout Artist or Group of the Year
Kumbia All Starz
Beyoncé
Los Super Reyes Jennifer LopezRock
Album of the Year
Amantes Sunt Amentes, Panda
Grrr!, Moderatto
Masa Con Masa, Millo Torres and El Tercer Planeta
Memo Rex Commander y el Corazón Atómico de la Vía Láctea, Zoé Oye, AterciopeladosArtist of the Year
Allison Maná Moderatto
Motel
Song of the Year Bendita Tu Luz, Maná and Juan Luis Guerra "Enamorado", Gustavo Laureano
Manda Una Señal, Maná
Ojalá Pudiera Borrarte, Maná
"Sentimettal", Moderatto
Tropical
Album of the Year
Arroz con Habichuela, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico
Haciendo Historia, Xtreme K.O.B. Live, Aventura La Llave de Mi Corazón, Juan Luis Gu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AusNet%20Services | AusNet Services (previously SP AusNet) is an Australian energy delivery services business, owning and operating more than $11 billion of electricity and gas network assets. It is a privately held, and was formerly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and the Singapore Exchange (SGX). AusNet is currently owned by Australian Energy Holdings No 4 Pty Limited, a company controlled by Brookfield Asset Management. The co-investors include pension funds in Australia and Canada.
History
In 2004 Singapore Power paid $US3.7 billion for TXU's entire Australian energy portfolio, and in 2005 resold power generation and retailing assets in the TXU portfolio to Hong Kong-based CLP Group for about $2.2 billion. Later in 2005, it publicly floated the business as SP AusNet, and selling 49% of the remaining assets for about $1 billion to the public, while retaining a 51% stake. In 2007 it joined with Babcock & Brown for the $7.4 billion Alinta acquisition, and during the global financial crisis that year, it tried but failed to sell the Alinta assets into SP AusNet.
In May 2013, Singapore Power sold 19.9% of its 51% stake in the company to State Grid Corporation of China for A$824 million, valuing the company at A$4.1 billion.
SP AusNet changed its name to AusNet Services in August 2014, following the end of a management services agreement between Singapore Power and SP AusNet in March.
In February 2022, AusNet Services was taken private after a successful 2021 bid from Brookfield Asset Management with a number of Australian & Canadian pension funds as co-investors.
Operations
AusNet Services operates three energy networks in Victoria, Australia:
high voltage and extra high voltage electric transmission network in Victoria (66kV and above)
low voltage and medium voltage electric distribution network in Victoria (22kV and below) (one of five electricity distributors in Victoria, covering eastern Victoria and eastern/northeastern suburbs of Melbourne)
gas distribution network in Victoria (one of three gas distributors in Victoria).
AusNet Services is the manager and operator of the high voltage electricity transmission network in Victoria, and is the sole transmission network service provider (TNSP) in Victoria in the National Electricity Market (NEM). It is a party in the Australian Energy Regulator's (AER) revenue proposal process, where submissions of TNSPs, the AER and other interested parties are used to set the maximum allowable revenue (MAR) for TNSPs for a five-year period.
Its commercial business Mondo provides a range of services and solutions to enable community energy hubs and solar mini grids.
Legal issues
The 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission found that the Kilmore East part of the February 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria "started after the conductor between poles 38 and 39 failed and the live conductor came into contact with a cable stay supporting pole 38. This contact caused arcing that ignited vegetat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennou%20Keisatsu%20Cybercop | is a Japanese tokusatsu television series. Created by Toho in 1988 as an attempt to emulate Toei's Super Sentai motif, the idea was dropped after the unaired pilot, although the show still slightly resembles a sentai show and uses certain tropes of the genre to an extent (such as protagonists wearing color-coordinated armor). It was broadcast on NTV from October 2, 1988, to July 5, 1989.
Story
In 1999, crime has overrun Tokyo. Hopelessly outmanned and outgunned, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Force decides to set up a special taskforce to combat the crime. Codenamed “ZAC” (Zero-Section Armed Constable), this police department is designed for special missions and its members are known as "Cybercops". For this cause, the police scientists developed the "Bit Suits", three high-powered armors outfitted with the latest technology: Mars, Saturn and Mercury. In the first episode, a mysterious young man, Shinya Takeda, appears from nowhere and saves the day after using his own armor, the Jupiter Bit Suit. Following his victory, he joins ZAC in battling Death Trap, a nefarious organization ruled by the ruthless Baron Kageyama, whose goal is to use the computers' will-power to gain world domination and appears to be mysteriously linked to Takeda's past. The Death Trap uses powerful robots to reach his goals, but the Cybercops always defeat them.
During the battles against the enemies, Jupiter bit by bit increases his mysterious power and reveals a secret: he was found unconscious by the Interpol wearing his own armor. Shinya Takeda has amnesia; despite this, he receives the support and the friendship of the others ZAC members (except for Akira, that is jealous and critical of Takeda).
The union between the ZAC members blossoms more and more. The ZAC remains a powerhouse until they encounter Lucifer, a Death Trap ally that is Jupiter's rival. He is the first enemy that can defeat Jupiter and the other Cybercops. In fact, he almost kills Jupiter.
During the battles against the ZAC, Lucifer reveals why he hates Jupiter; according to him, they both came from the future and were allies in the war between the human kind and the computers, but Jupiter would have betrayed the humans. Because of the amnesia, Jupiter doesn't know whether or not what Lucifer said was true, and decides to fight him to the death. In the middle of the fight, however, Jupiter remembers the truth: including Jupiter and Lucifer, there were three men that came form the future; the third man was Baron Kageyama, a traitor. Henceforth, Lucifer allied with the ZAC. He doesn't join the ZAC, but from time to time, he helps the Cybercops. Many times, he prevents the ZAC from losing battles.
After an innumerable amount of battles, Lucifer and the ZAC defeat Baron Kageyama by causing a great explosion that came from laser power. Kageyama reveals his purpose for technological world domination, which was to help the world avoid an anthropogenic environmental collapse. Thus, Jupiter and Lucifer return |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20NL | Ben NL or Ben is a Dutch virtual mobile network operated by Odido. It offers voice, text and data service at highly discounted rates. Ben only offers 3 subscription types ranging in price from €4,95 for 100 minutes/text messages per month to €14,95 for 500 minutes/text messages per month.
In order to keep its prices down, Ben has a very limited customer service offering; a Ben subscription can only be purchased online and most customer administration is in the form of online self-service.
Ben offers its voice, text and data services on the GSM, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS (HSDPA) networks of its parent company T-Mobile Netherlands.
History
On August 28, 2000, Belgacom, T-Mobile International, and Tele Danmark applied for permission to share control of Ben Nederland Holding (“Ben”). At that time, Belgacom was the principal telecommunications provider in Belgium, Tele Danmark the principal telecommunications provider in Denmark, and T-Mobile International a mobile telephony service provider and subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. Ben was to become a “full function joint venture” and function as an independent company.
Ben emerged on the Dutch mobile market at a time when mobile phones were still a status symbol and were primarily used by business people. Ben expressly targeted a younger group of users with its trendy, minimalistic advertising using word-play with its name. "Ben" is a common first name in the Netherlands and also, in Dutch, roughly translates into "I am". Examples of this are the slogans "" (I am Ben) and "" (I'm available/reachable).
The initial launch of Ben was marked with a 3-minute television ad shown simultaneously on all major TV stations in the Netherlands. The company launched several viral advertising campaigns in clothing stores, clubs, bars, movie theaters and other places where a primarily younger audience could be targeted. Many cafés and cinemas in the Netherlands still sport the "" stickers on their doors, which means about the same as "I've just gone out for a bit" or "I've just (been) turned off for a while", asking customers to turn off their phones before entering.
Overall marketing for Ben in the Netherlands was considered by most to be trendy and artistic. The premieres of new Ben television ads were usually announced weeks in advance and watched with great anticipation.
On September 20, 2002, Ben was purchased by T-Mobile Netherlands, a 100% subsidiary of T-Mobile International. By 2003, T-Mobile had completed a worldwide rebranding of all its mobile telecommunications assets, and the name Ben was changed to T-Mobile Netherlands.
The name and trademark Ben vanished until 2008 when T-Mobile relaunched the brand as a virtual mobile network. The brand is intended to be a discount outlet for T-Mobile's networks in the Netherlands.
In keeping with tradition, the relaunch of Ben was heralded by a 3-minute, artistically designed television ad shown on all public TV stations in the Netherlands. Social networks like Hyve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BUFR | The Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data (BUFR) is a binary data format maintained by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The latest version is BUFR Edition 4. BUFR Edition 3 is also considered current for operational use. BUFR was created in 1988 with the goal of replacing the WMO's dozens of character-based, position-driven meteorological codes, such as SYNOP (surface observations), TEMP (upper air soundings) and CLIMAT (monthly climatological data). BUFR was designed to be portable, compact, and universal. Any kind of data can be represented, along with its specific spatial/temporal context and any other associated metadata. In the WMO terminology, BUFR belongs to the category of table-driven code forms, where the meaning of data elements is determined by referring to a set of tables that are kept and maintained separately from the message itself.
BUFR is a complex format that can be difficult to use and it presents some weaknesses. The introduction of BUFR format led to data "disparition" and many formatting errors.
Description of format
A BUFR message is composed of six sections, numbered zero through five.
Sections 0, 1 and 5 contain static metadata, mostly for message identification.
Section 2 is optional; if used, it may contain arbitrary data in any form wished for by the creator of the message (this is only advisable for local use).
Section 3 contains a sequence of so-called descriptors that define the form and contents of the BUFR data product.
Section 4 is a bit-stream containing the message's core data and meta-data values as laid out by Section 3.
The product description contained in Section 3 can be made sophisticated and non-trivial by the use of replication and/or operator descriptors. (See below for a brief overview of the different kinds of descriptors; refer to the WMO Guide on BUFR for further detail.)
Templates
Section 3 contains a short header followed by a sequence of descriptors that matches the contents of Section 4's bit-stream. The sequence of descriptors in Section 3 could be understood as the template of the BUFR message. The template contains the information necessary to describe the structure of the data values embedded in the matching bit-stream. It is to be interpreted in a step-by-step, algorithm-like manner. Given a set of BUFR messages, the values contained in Section 4 may differ from one message to the next, but their ordering and structure will be kept predictable if the template provided in Section 3 remains unchanged. Templates can be designed to meet the requirements of a specific data product (weather observations, for instance). Such templates can then be used to standardize the content and structure of BUFR data products. The WMO has released a number of BUFR templates for surface and upper air observational data.
Descriptors
All descriptors, 16 bits wide, have a F-X-Y structure, where F refers to the two most significant bits (leftmost); X refers t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian%20tree | In computer science, a Cartesian tree is a binary tree derived from a sequence of distinct numbers. To construct the Cartesian tree, set its root to be the minimum number in the sequence, and recursively construct its left and right subtrees from the subsequences before and after this number. It is uniquely defined as a min-heap whose symmetric (in-order) traversal returns the original sequence.
Cartesian trees were introduced by in the context of geometric range searching data structures. They have also been used in the definition of the treap and randomized binary search tree data structures for binary search problems, in comparison sort algorithms that perform efficiently on nearly-sorted inputs, and as the basis for pattern matching algorithms. A Cartesian tree for a sequence can be constructed in linear time.
Definition
Cartesian trees are defined using binary trees, which are a form of rooted tree. To construct the Cartesian tree for a given sequence of distinct numbers, set its root to be the minimum number in the sequence, and recursively construct its left and right subtrees from the subsequences before and after this number, respectively. As a base case, when one of these subsequences is empty, there is no left or right child.
It is also possible to characterize the Cartesian tree directly rather than recursively, using its ordering properties. In any tree, the subtree rooted at any node consists of all other nodes that can reach it by repeatedly following parent pointers. The Cartesian tree for a sequence of distinct numbers is defined by the following properties:
The Cartesian tree for a sequence is a binary tree with one node for each number in the sequence.
A symmetric (in-order) traversal of the tree results in the original sequence. Equivalently, for each node, the numbers in its left subtree are earlier than it in the sequence, and the numbers in the right subtree are later.
The tree has the min-heap property: the parent of any non-root node has a smaller value than the node itself.
These two definitions are equivalent: the tree defined recursively as described above is the unique tree that has the properties listed above. If a sequence of numbers contains repetitions, a Cartesian tree can be determined for it by following a consistent tie-breaking rule before applying the above construction. For instance, the first of two equal elements can be treated as the smaller of the two.
History
Cartesian trees were introduced and named by , who used them as an example of the interaction between geometric combinatorics and the design and analysis of data structures. In particular, Vuillemin used these structures to analyze the average-case complexity of concatenation and splitting operations on binary search trees. The name is derived from the Cartesian coordinate system for the plane: in one version of this structure, as in the two-dimensional range searching application discussed below, a Cartesian tree for a point set has the sor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushdown | Pushdown may refer to:
Pushdown automaton, a concept in theoretical computer science
More generally, anything relating to a stack
Push-down (exercise), a strength-training exercise |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20on%20One%20with%20Igan | One on One with Igan was a Philippine weekday morning radio show hosted by Arnold Clavio and Lala Roque aired over GMA Network flagship radio station, DZBB (Metro Manila). The program replaced Dobol A sa Dobol B when Clavio's co-host Ali Sotto migrated to Spain. It became also a former segment of Unang Hirit on GMA Network.
Program segments
Gloria Watch
Starpok - Showbiz News
Jeng-Jeng
Metro Manila Hataw
Txt Pabaon
One on One: Walang Personalan
On January 4, 2021, One on One was revived and renamed as One on One: Walang Personalan. It was originally hosted by Arnold Clavio and Rowena Salvacion after Ali Sotto moved to Net 25. The format of the show is the same as its predecessors. Clavio and Connie Sison currently serve as the hosts.
Hosts
Arnold Clavio (2021–present)
Connie Sison (2021–present)
Rowena Salvacion (substitute for Sison; 2021–present)
Orly Trinidad (substitute for Clavio; 2021–present)
Kathy San Gabriel (substitute for Sison; 2021–present)
Joel Reyes Zobel (substitute for Clavio; 2021–present)
Toni Aquino (substitute for Sison; 2023–present)
Program segments
Metro Manila Hataw
Tunay na Pangbayan Walang Personalan
Karaokray
See also
Dobol A sa Dobol B
GMA Integrated News
Super Radyo DZBB
Philippine radio programs
2008 radio programme debuts
2014 radio programme endings
2021 radio programme debuts
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horspool | Horspool is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
David Horspool (born 1971), English historian and journalist
Nigel Horspool, Canadian computer scientist
Boyer–Moore–Horspool algorithm
Thomas Horspool (1830–?), British middle-distance runner |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorted%20array | A sorted array is an array data structure in which each element is sorted in numerical, alphabetical, or some other order, and placed at equally spaced addresses in computer memory. It is typically used in computer science to implement static lookup tables to hold multiple values which have the same data type. Sorting an array is useful in organising data in ordered form and recovering them rapidly.
Overview
Sorted arrays are the most space-efficient data structure with the best locality of reference for sequentially stored data.
Elements within a sorted array are found using a binary search, in O(log n); thus sorted arrays are suited for cases when one needs to be able to look up elements quickly, e.g. as a set or multiset data structure. This complexity for lookups is the same as for self-balancing binary search trees.
In some data structures, an array of structures is used. In such cases, the same sorting methods can be used to sort the structures according to some key as a structure element; for example, sorting records of students according to roll numbers or names or grades.
If one is using a sorted dynamic array, then it is possible to insert and delete elements. The insertion and deletion of elements in a sorted array executes at O(n), due to the need to shift all the elements following the element to be inserted or deleted; in comparison a self-balancing binary search tree inserts and deletes at O(log n). In the case where elements are deleted or inserted at the end, a sorted dynamic array can do this in amortized O(1) time while a self-balancing binary search tree always operates at O(log n).
Elements in a sorted array can be looked up by their index (random access) at O(1) time, an operation taking O(log n) or O(n) time for more complex data structures.
History
John von Neumann wrote the first array sorting program (merge sort) in 1945, when the first stored-program computer was still being built.
See also
Sorting algorithm
Binary search algorithm
Heap (data structure)
Search data structure
References
Arrays |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNGH-FM | WNGH-FM (98.9 FM) is an NPR-member public radio station (via its radio network), licensed to Chatsworth, Georgia, United States. The station is currently owned by Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB), which the station simulcasts all radio programming from. It transmits from atop a mountain in the west-southwestern part of Fort Mountain State Park (not Fort Mountain itself), having moved in May 2008 to the tower of sister television station WNGH-TV.
History
The station began broadcasting as a commercial operation on November 13, 1976, and held the call sign WQMT. It was owned by Cohutta Broadcasting Company.
On December 21, 2007, then-owners North Georgia Radio Group entered into an agreement to sell the station, still known as WQMT, to the Foundation For Public Broadcasting In Georgia, Inc., which shares the same street address as the GPB headquarters in Atlanta. The sale was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on April 9, 2008. Pending the sale, GPB reserved the call sign WNGH-FM for the station, to be assigned upon consummation. GPB also chose to change the callsign of WCLP-TV to WNGH-TV. The station switched from its previous classic country format (branded as "Georgia 99") to GPB programming on January 2, 2008, and later moved to the WNGH-TV tower around May 2008.
Despite broadcasting at a relatively modest 420 watts, WNGH-FM provides city-grade coverage to much of far northern Georgia, including Dalton, and provides secondary coverage to much of the Chattanooga, Tennessee area, including much of Chattanooga itself. This is because its transmitter is located 1,778 feet above average terrain.
Effective June 30, 2016, the Foundation For Public Broadcasting in Georgia donated WNGH-FM to the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission, the state entity that supervises GPB, making GPB the direct licensee.
References
External links
Archive photos of WQMT-FM on the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame page
NGH-FM
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 1976
1976 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRFC%20%28AM%29 | WRFC (960 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Athens, Georgia. It airs a sports radio format, mostly using programming from ESPN Radio. Owned by Cox Media Group, the television and radio subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, the station is sister to radio stations WNGC, WGAU, WGMG, WPUP, WXKT and the WSB family of stations in nearby Atlanta. WRFC has studios in downtown Athens. The transmitter is located off West Vincent Drive in the North Valley neighborhood, northwest of Athens.
Programming
WRFC features local sports shows during weekday morning and afternoon drive time, as well as a Georgia Bulldogs hour at noon. The rest of the schedule uses programming from ESPN Radio. The station carries University of Georgia sports, as well as Atlanta Braves baseball games and Atlanta Falcons football games.
History
On May 1, 1948, WRFC first signed on the air. It was originally owned by L. H. Christian, with the call sign chosen for his father, Robert Franklin Christian. The station began as a 1,000-watt daytimer, required to go off the air at night. The studios were at 279 North Lumpkin Street, in Athens.
WRFC later operated for many years at 5,000 watts non-directional daytime and 500 watts directional nighttime using a three tower array northeast of Athens, with studios in an impressive mansion in downtown Athens. It featured 4 full service formats throughout its history, such as Top 40, middle of the road, and adult contemporary formats of popular music, news, and sports.
On February 20, 1971, NORAD broadcast a normal required weekly test of the Emergency Broadcast System. However, AT&T reported that the U.S. Air Force used the wrong tape by accident, initiating an Emergency Action Notification, normally issued by the president. It prompted all north Georgia radio stations by order of the FCC to operate under emergency procedures and feed the broadcast from primary station 750 WSB in Atlanta through their transmitters. Everett Langford was at the microphone at WRFC and had no idea what had happened. He listened to WSB but heard no emergency announcements. He was attempting to call the owner, L.H. Christian, when he heard the corrected message from the Air Force. Listeners could hear in his voice that he was very relieved it was only a mistake.
In 1981, WRFC dropped its Top 40 format and went into a short-lived MOR format. This didn't last long. WRFC dropped MOR and went into adult contemporary in 1982. When 1993 rolled along, the station began adding talk programs and sports programming from ESPN, although their adult contemporary format remains in place until the station dropped adult contemporary a year later in 1994.
In January 2008, WRFC was sold (along with sister stations WGMG, WPUP, WNGC, and WGAU) to Cox Radio in Atlanta. Southern Broadcasting of Athens and associated owners continue as a wholly owned subsidiary of Cox.
Former on-air staff
John Holliman (news, later with CNN) (deceased)
Bill Hartman (sports and news)
John |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXRS%20%28AM%29 | WXRS (1590 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Swainsboro, Georgia, United States, the station is currently owned by Radiojones, LLC and features programming from Premiere Networks and United Stations Radio Networks.
References
External links
XRS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSRM | WSRM may refer to:
WSRM (FM), a radio station licensed to Rome, Georgia, United States
Welsh Socialist Republican Movement
Windows System Resource Manager
WS-ReliableMessaging, a network protocol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTGA%20%28AM%29 | WTGA (1590 AM) was a radio station broadcasting a Soft Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Thomaston, Georgia, United States, the station was owned by Radio Georgia, Inc. and featured programming from AP Radio and Jones Radio Network.
The license for WTGA was deleted by the Federal Communications Commission on September 28, 2015.
References
External links
FCC Station Search Details: DWTGA (Facility ID: 54589)
FCC History Cards for WTGA (covering 1959-1979)
TGA
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Radio stations disestablished in 2015
2015 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
TGA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAM | XAM, or the eXtensible Access Method, is a computer-storage standard developed and maintained by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). It is in the process of being ratified as an ANSI standard. XAM is an API for fixed content aware storage devices. XAM replaces the various proprietary interfaces that have been used for this purpose in the past. Content generating applications now have a standard means of saving and finding their content across a broad array of storage devices.
XAM is similar in function to a file system API such as the POSIX file and directory operations, in that it allows applications to store and retrieve their data. XAM stores application data in XSet objects that also contain metadata.
See also
Content-addressable storage
External links
XAM Initiative – Provides good material both at the overview and detail level
XAM SDK download – An open source reference implementation of the API
XAM Developers Group – Provides information to assist developers working with XAM
Computer standards
Computer storage technologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Azure%20Dev%20Tools%20for%20Teaching | Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching or simply Azure Dev Tools for Teaching is a Microsoft program to provide students with Microsoft software design, Microsoft developer tools, Cloud Computing Access and learning resources. The program is available for university/college and K-12 students Azure for Student and Azure Dev Tools for teaching are available in more than 140 countries.
It has formerly been known as Microsoft Imagine, DreamSpark and MSDN-AA.
Azure Dev Tools for Teaching (previously known as Microsoft Imagine Standard and Premium) is a subscription-based offering for accredited schools and departments providing access to tools commonly used in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs. It gives teachers and students tools, software, and services from Microsoft that are used by professional developers and designers.
Many academic institutions provide information and resources for Azure Dev Tools for teaching and Azure for students under their academic IT Services support pages; see the following example from a university from around the world .
1. University of Pittsburgh
2. Queen University
3. University of Sussex
History
All students get access to Cloud resources and Azure credit. student must register at Microsoft Azure for Student and verify their identity through their verified educational institutions. If an institution is not listed on the available list, the user may manually verify their student status by uploading a proof such as an ID card.
The Microsoft student developer tools programme was announced by Bill Gates as DreamSpark on February 20, 2008, during a speech at Stanford University. It is estimated that up to 35 million students will be able to access these software titles through this program. The service was renamed to Microsoft Imagine on September 7, 2016, to better align with the annual Imagine Cup competition hosted by Microsoft. and renamed to Azure Dev Tools for Teaching and Azure for Students in June 2018
Repacked as Azure Dev Tools for Teaching
The Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching on February 13, 2019, with Cloud services for students using the Microsoft Azure cloud and incorporating Microsoft Learn online learning resources.
Verification
Proof of student status is required to download software and obtain product keys. Students can verify their identity using ISIC cards, access codes ordered by school administrators, or .edu academic email addresses. Students remain verified for 12 months afterwards and can renew after the 12-month period using their academic email. If students can't find their school, they can manually submit a response with a proof of student status.
Products offered
Several development software titles are available for download through the program. They include:
Products available through Azure Dev Tools for Teaching
The following product families are included in the Azure Dev Tools for Teaching subscriptions:
There are three Microsoft Office applic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy%20II | Freddy (1969–1971) and Freddy II (1973–1976) were experimental robots built in the Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception (later Department of Artificial Intelligence, now part of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh).
Technology
Technical innovations involving Freddy were at the forefront of the 70s robotics field. Freddy was one of the earliest robots to integrate vision, manipulation and intelligent systems as well as having versatility in the system and ease in retraining and reprogramming for new tasks. The idea of moving the table instead of the arm simplified the construction. Freddy also used a method of recognising the parts visually by using graph matching on the detected features. The system used an innovative collection of high level procedures for programming the arm movements which could be reused for each new task.
Lighthill controversy
In the mid 1970s there was controversy about the utility of pursuing a general purpose robotics programme in both the USA and the UK. A BBC TV programme in 1973, referred to as the "Lighthill Debate", pitched James Lighthill, who had written a critical report for the science and engineering research funding agencies in the UK, against Donald Michie from the University of Edinburgh and John McCarthy from Stanford University. The Edinburgh Freddy II and Stanford/SRI Shakey robots were used to illustrate the state-of-the-art at the time in intelligent robotics systems.
Freddy I and II
Freddy Mark I (1969–1971) was an experimental prototype, with 3 degrees-of-freedom created by a rotating platform driven by a pair of independent wheels. The other main components were a video camera and bump sensors connected to a computer. The computer moved the platform so that the camera could see and then recognise the objects.
Freddy II (1973–1976) was a 5 degrees of freedom manipulator with a large vertical 'hand' that could move up and down, rotate about the vertical axis and rotate objects held in its gripper around one horizontal axis. Two remaining translational degrees of freedom were generated by a work surface that moved beneath the gripper. The gripper was a two finger pinch gripper. A video camera was added as well as a later a light stripe generator.
The Freddy and Freddy II projects were initiated and overseen by Donald Michie. The mechanical hardware and analogue electronics were designed and built by Stephen Salter (who also pioneered renewable energy from waves (see Salter's Duck)), and the digital electronics and computer interfacing were designed by Harry Barrow and Gregan Crawford. The software was developed by a team led by Rod Burstall, Robin Popplestone and Harry Barrow which used the POP-2 programming language, one of the world's first functional programming languages. The computing hardware was an Elliot 4130 computer with 384KB (128K 24-bit words) RAM and a hard disk linked to a small Honeywell H316 computer with 16KB of RAM which directly performed sen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highways%20in%20Croatia | Highways in Croatia are the main transport network in Croatia.
The Croatian classification includes several classes of highways:
The main motorway routes are prefixed with an A (for autocesta) and accompanied by one or two digits. They are controlled-access highways with tolls using a ticket system.
Expressways (brza cesta) are toll-free limited-access highways with grade-separated intersections and fast speed limits. They are similar to the motorways, but are not always dual carriageways and they may have no emergency lanes. Their speed limit is always lower than the motorways. They either have standalone designations or are parts of non-motorway state routes, such as the D prefixed highways described further below.
Roads dedicated for motor vehicles (cesta namijenjena isključivo za promet motornih vozila), which is another category of limited-access highways. They usually have multiple lanes and separated carriageways but may have at-grade intersections. This class of roads has no specific numbering convention, only a dedicated traffic sign. State routes (D roads) or portions thereof may be designated in this manner. An example is Jadranska Avenue in Zagreb, designated as Ž1040, a county road.
Other than the motorway routes, the national road classification includes the following enumerated categories of routes in the national highway system, with decreasing order of priority:
State roads, which are marked by letter D (državna cesta) and a single, double or triple digit number.
County roads always are marked by letter Ž (županijska cesta) and a four digit number.
The lowest classification comprises local roads, marked by letter L (lokalna cesta) and a five digit number.
Road operators differ according to the classification system: The designated motorways are operated by three different concessionaires. The state roads are maintained almost exclusively by Hrvatske ceste, while the county and local roads are managed by various county authorities. The road maintenance agencies are governed by various laws issued by the Parliament as well as bylaws issued by the Ministry of Transport.
Motorways
The primary high-speed motorways are called (; singular: ), and they are defined as roads with at least three lanes in each direction (including hard shoulder) and a speed limit of not less than . They are marked with a special road sign, similar to the road sign depicting a motorway/autoroute/autobahn in other parts of Europe. The Croatian motorway () network is long.
Motorways in Croatia are defined by the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure. The same applies to names of the motorway interchanges and rest areas.
History
A major reason for the motorway construction "mania" of the 2000s is a previous political halt of the major Croatian highway project, today's A1, in the 1970s and 1980s under former Yugoslavia. When Croatia declared independence in 1991, the only true motorways in the country were Rijeka–Kikovica (the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WACK | WACK (1420 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a full service format and licensed to Newark, New York, United States. The station is owned by Waynco Radio, Inc., and features programming from CBS News Radio, Premiere Networks, SportsMap, and Westwood One.
WACK is the station where Lowell Paxson, later the founder of Home Shopping Network and PAX TV, began his broadcasting career. He and Joseph “Bud” Sova bought the radio station in 1962.
Programming heard on WACK includes National Farm Report with Orion Samuelson, Farming America with Steve Alexander, America in the Morning, a classic hits-formatted local morning show hosted by Dean Amsler, The Glenn Beck Program, Chris Plante, The Dave Ramsey Show, The Sean Hannity Show, a regionally syndicated program hosted by Andrew Hollister, On the House with the Carey Brothers, and American Standards By the Sea. Any time slots not filled by programming are filled with SportsMap.
The combination of Beck, Plante, Ramsey and Hannity forms what the station dubs the "Great American Talk Show Line-Up" (prior to Beck and Plante, The Radio Factor and subsequently Dennis Miller were also included in that branding, as was The Laura Ingraham Show). Samuelson's and Alexander's programs are considered to be one show, which is given its own full half-hour time slot under the title "WACK Farm and Agribusiness Report".
Sports programs heard on WACK include the Buffalo Bills, New York Yankees, Syracuse Orange and the NASCAR Cup Series, in addition to local high school sports.
FM translator
References
External links
ACK
Radio stations established in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20mobility | In distributed computing, code mobility is the ability for running programs, code or objects to be migrated (or moved) from one machine or application to another. This is the process of moving mobile code across the nodes of a network as opposed to distributed computation where the data is moved.
It is common practice in distributed systems to require the movement of code or processes between parts of the system, instead of data.
Examples of code mobility include scripts downloaded over a network (for example JavaScript, VBScript), Java applets, ActiveX controls, Flash animations, Shockwave movies (and Xtras), and macros embedded within Microsoft Office documents.
Overview
The purpose of code mobility is to support sophisticated operations. For example, an application can send an object to another machine, and the object can resume executing inside the application on the remote machine with the same state as it had in the originating application.
According to a classification proposed by Fuggetta, Picco and Vigna, code mobility can be either strong or weak:
strong code mobility involves moving both the code, data and the execution state from one host to another, notably via a process image (this is important in cases where the running application needs to maintain its state as it migrates from host to host), while weak code mobility involves moving the code and the data only. Therefore, it may be necessary to restart the execution of the program at the destination host.
Several paradigms, or architectural styles, exist within code mobility:
Remote evaluation — A client sends code to a remote machine for execution.
Code on demand — A client downloads code from a remote machine to execute locally.
Mobile agents — Objects or code with the ability to migrate between machines autonomously.
Viruses
Mobile code can also download and execute in the client workstation via email. Mobile code may download via an email attachment (e.g., macro in a Word file) or via an HTML email body (e.g., JavaScript). For example, the ILOVEYOU, TRUELOVE, and AnnaK emails viruses/worms all were implemented as mobile code (VBScript in a .vbs email attachment that executed in Windows Scripting Host). In almost all situations, the user is not aware that mobile code is downloading and executing in their workstation.
Renting code
Mobile code also refers to code "used for rent", a way of making software packages more affordable. i.e. to use on demand. This is specially relevant to the mobile devices being developed which are cellular phones, PDAs, etc. all in one. Instead of installing software packages, they can be "leased" and paid for on a per-usage basis.
See also
Code on demand
Mobile agent
Remote evaluation
References
Distributed computing architecture
Types of malware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai%20route%20numbering%20system | The Dubai route numbering system is a network of highways and roads in Dubai, United Arab Emirates that is managed by the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA). The network comprises 6 main highways and several major and minor inter-city and intra-city roads.
Routes
E-routes
Highways connecting Dubai to other emirates are designated Emirates routes or E-routes. They are identified by an emblem of a falcon, the letter E and a two or three digit number. While within city limits, most roads and highways take alternate names, but are consistently identified by their corresponding E-route number. Six E-routes pass through Dubai, connecting the city with other emirates and towns:
E 11 (Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed International Rd, Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Rd, Sheikh Zayed Rd, Sheikh Rashid Rd, Al Ittihad Rd, Dubai - Sharjah Rd, Wasit Street, Wahda Street, Sheikh Mohammed bin Salem Rd, Al Rams Road )
E 311 (Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road)
E 44 (Al Khail Road, Ras Al Khor Road, Al Awir Road, Dubai-Hatta Road Hatta Highway)
E 66 ( Oud Metha Rd, Dubai-Al Ain Road)
E 77 (Expo Road/Jabal Ali-Lehbab Road)
E 611(Emirates Road (old name - Bypass))
E 55 (Sheikh Zayed Road) (Goes to Adh Dhayd)
E 22 (Khalifa Ibn Zayed Street; goes to Al Khaznah)
E 13 (Madinat Zayed (Al Dhafra Region)-Gayathi)
E 45 (Tarif-Liwa (Mezaira'ah))
E 15 (Arada-Gayathi adjoining to E11 Abu Dhabi-Ghuweifat Highway)
E 30 (Abu Dhabi - Al Ain Road; parallel to E 22 Road)
The longest of the E-routes is E 11, which extends the length of the UAE's Persian Gulf coast and connects all emirates, with the exception of Al Fujairah.
D-routes
D-routes connect localities within the city of Dubai and are identified by the emblem of a fort, the letter D and a two or three digit number. Considerably shorter in length than the average E-route, D-routes provide an intra-city network of roads and streets. D-routes parallel to UAE's coast along the Persian Gulf are numbered evenly, beginning with D 94; the numbers decrease as the network moves farther from the coast. D-routes perpendicular to the Persian Gulf coast are odd numbered and increase as the network moves towards the emirate of Sharjah. Some of the D-routes include:
D 591 (Gardens Boulevard;Ibn Battuta St)
D 97 (Amman Street)
D 96 (Deira Islands Street)
D 95 (Al Mamzar Road (Cairo Street); Baghdad Street)
D 94 (Jumeirah Road, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Street)
D 93 (Al Wuheida Road; Al Nahda Road; Tunis Street)
D 92 (Al Wasl Road; Al Mina Road; Al Khaleej Road)
D 91 (Abu Hail Road, Al Quds St)
D 90 (Al Satwa Road; Mankhool Road; Al Muasallah Road)
D 89 (Al Maktoum Road; Airport Road; Al Khawaneej Road)
D 88 (On Bur Dubai side Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Road and on Deira side Omar Bin Al Khattab Road)
D 86 (First Al Khail Street/ Al Mustaqabal Street)
D 85 (Baniyas Road)
D 84 (Al Seef Road; Zaa'beel Road)
D 83 (Al Rebat Street/ Tripoli St)
D 82 (Al Naif Road; Al Rasheed Road)
D 81 (Riyadh Street)
D 80 (Salahudd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous%20Encounters%20with%20Brady%20Barr | Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr is a television program hosted by Brady Barr on Nat Geo WILD, National Geographic Channel's sister network. It originally started on the flagship network.
Episodes
External links
Official site on Nat Geo WILD
TV Series on imdb.com
2005 American television series debuts
2000s American documentary television series
2010s American documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLEP | KLEP (analog channel 17) was an independent non-commercial educational television station in Newark, Arkansas, United States. It broadcast local academic and public affairs programming beginning at 6 p.m. on weekdays from its 1985 sign-on until it quit broadcasting in the mid-2000s. It never returned; the corresponding broadcast license was eventually canceled on April 19, 2005.
LEP
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1985
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2005
Educational and instructional television channels
1985 establishments in Arkansas
2005 disestablishments in Arkansas
LEP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon%20%28disambiguation%29 | Snapdragon or Antirrhinum is a genus of plants.
Snapdragon or Snap-dragon may also refer to:
Computing
Qualcomm Snapdragon, a hardware platform and series of system on chips (SoCs) developed by Qualcomm for mobile devices
Movies and Novels
Snapdragon (film), a 1993 American thriller film by Worth Keeter
Snapdragon (graphic novel), a 2020 graphic novel by Kat Leyh
Music
The Snapdragons, an independent British rock band
Comics & Games
Snap-dragon (game), a parlour game
Snapdragon (comics), a Japanese supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe
Snapdragon double, a call made during the bidding phase of contract bridge
SnapDragon Games, a game developer for Nintendo platforms
Snapdragon (Morituri), a Strikeforce character in Marvel comics
Snapdragon Stadium, an American football stadium nearing completion in San Diego, California and sponsored by Qualcomm
Snapdragon (Transformers), a character from the Transformers series
Military & Navy
HMS Snapdragon, several ships belonging to UK's Royal Navy
Botany
Maurandya scandens, a plant also called snapdragon vine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBI%20%28AM%29 | CBI is a Canadian radio station. It is the CBC Radio One affiliate in Sydney, Nova Scotia broadcasting at 1140 kHz on the AM dial. The station serves all of Cape Breton Island by operating a network of FM rebroadcasters. It is also simulcast on its sister station, CBIS-FM at 92.1 MHz in Sydney.
History
CBI was launched on November 1, 1948, at AM 1570, with a power of 1,000 watts. Prior to its launch, CBC Radio programming was aired by private affiliate CJCB 1270 and its shortwave relay CJCX 6.01 MHz (in the 49 m band). In 1955, CBI increased power from 1,000 to 5,000 watts and changed frequency from 1570 to 1140 kHz.
By 1964, CBI was operating with a full-time power of 10,000 watts, though using a directional antenna at night to protect clear-channel Class A stations WRVA in Richmond, Virginia; and XEMR-AM in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico.
On July 9, 2007, CBI was given approval by the CRTC to convert the station to the FM band at 97.1 MHz under the call sign CBIT-FM and to shut down the AM transmitter. In a license renewal submission to the CRTC in June 2011, CBC stated that it did not have the resources to implement the plan before the authorization lapsed.
On October 6, 2015, the CRTC approved the CBC's application for a nested FM transmitter in Sydney at 92.1 MHz with an average effective radiated power (ERP) of 6,540 watts (maximum ERP of 10,650 watts) and an effective height above average terrain of 122.8 metres. In its application the CBC stated that the FM transmitter would address increasingly evident reception issues with the 1140 signal in downtown Sydney, as well as other areas where the 1140 signal is not sufficient, especially in fringe areas. The CBC provided a map showing that CBI's nighttime pattern differs from its daytime pattern in that the night pattern directs the AM signal towards the northeast to protect other radio stations, resulting in a loss of reception in the area southwest of Sydney. The CBC argued that this problem is so severe that CBI's Radio One morning programming is also simulcast on its CBC Music transmitter in Sydney (CBI-FM 105.1) from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. on weekdays to properly serve the population of Sydney while the nighttime pattern is still in effect. The CBC further stated that it had no plans to shut down its existing AM service because replicating it would require the addition of two rebroadcasting sites, one in the South Haven area and one in Ingonish (northwest of Sydney).
The new call sign for 92.1 is CBIS-FM, while the call letters CBI-FM are currently used for CBC Music service. After a period of testing, the new FM transmitter officially went on the air at 8:00 am AST on February 25, 2016.
Local programming
The station's local programs are Information Morning, hosted since 2007 by Steve Sutherland, broadcast weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 8:37 a.m. and Main Street, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., hosted since 1996 by Wendy Bergfeldt. Although both programs have the same name as mainland counterpart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptronic | Conceptronic is a brand of computer peripherals. As of 2012, the brand name is owned by Digital Data Communications Asia Co., Ltd, which took over 2L Alliance. The company is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with its European Sales Office in Dortmund, Germany.
References
External links
Conceptronic website
European Digital Data Communications website
LevelOne website
Equip website
Computer peripheral companies
Dutch brands
Organisations based in Utrecht (province)
Amersfoort |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWide%20Telescope | WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is an open-source set of applications, data and cloud services, originally created by Microsoft Research but now an open source project hosted on GitHub. The .NET Foundation holds the copyright and the project is managed by the American Astronomical Society and has been supported by grants from the Moore Foundation and National Science Foundation. WWT displays astronomical, earth and planetary data allowing visual navigation through the 3-dimensional (3D) Universe. Users are able to navigate the sky by panning and zooming, or explore the 3D universe from the surface of Earth to past the Cosmic microwave background (CMB), viewing both visual imagery and scientific data (academic papers, etc.) about that area and the objects in it. Data is curated from hundreds of different data sources, but its open data nature allows users to explore any third party data that conforms to a WWT supported format. With the rich source of multi-spectral all-sky images it is possible to view the sky in many wavelengths of light. The software utilizes Microsoft's Visual Experience Engine technologies to function. WWT can also be used to visualize arbitrary or abstract data sets and time series data.
WWT is completely free and currently comes in two versions: a native application that runs under Microsoft Windows (this version can use the specialized capabilities of a computer graphics card to render up to a half million data points), and a web client based on HTML5 and WebGL. The web client uses a responsive design which allows people to use it on smartphones and on desktops. The Windows desktop application is a high-performance system which scales from a desktop to large multi-channel full dome digital planetariums.
The WWT project began in 2002, at Microsoft Research and Johns Hopkins University. Database researcher Jim Gray had developed a satellite Earth-images database (Terraserver) and wanted to apply a similar technique to organizing the many disparate astronomical databases of sky images. WWT was announced at the TED Conference in Monterey, California in February 2008. As of 2016, WWT has been downloaded by at least 10 million active users."
As of February 2012 the earth science applications of WWT are showcased and supported by the Layerscape community collaboration website, also created by Microsoft Research. Since WWT has gone to Open Source Layerscape communities have been brought into the WWT application and re-branded simply "communities".
Features
Modes
WorldWide Telescope has six main modes. These are Sky, Earth, Planets, Panoramas, Solar System and Sandbox.
Earth
Earth mode allows users to view a 3D model of the Earth, similar to NASA World Wind, Microsoft Virtual Earth and Google Earth. The Earth mode has a default data set with near global coverage and resolution down to sub-meter in high-population centers. Unlike most Earth viewers, WorldWide Telescope supports many different map projections including Mercator, Equi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bada%20%28disambiguation%29 | Bada is a mobile smartphone operating system developed by Samsung.
Bada may also refer to:
Education
Bay Area Digital Arts or BADA, a school of digital arts in California, US
British American Drama Academy or BADA, a theatre school in Britain
People
Bada (singer) (born 1980), South Korean singer
Jeffrey L. Bada (born 1942), American chemical evolutionist
Kim Bada (born 1971), South Korean rock musician
Sunday Bada (born 1969), Nigerian sprinter
Places
Bada (crater), a crater on Mars named after the village
Bada (rural locality), a rural locality (selo) in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
Bada (air base), an air base near the village
Bada (Wolaita), an administrative town of Hobicha Woreda, Wolayita Zone, Ethiopia
Bada, Davangere, a village in Davangere district, Karnataka, India
Bada, a village on Minicoy island, India
Other uses
Bada', a Shi'a Muslim concept of alteration in the divine will
Bada language, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Bada language (Nigeria)
British Antique Dealers' Association (BADA)
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20BET%20Honors | The BET Honors were established in 2008 by the Black Entertainment Television network to respect the lives and achievements of African-American luminaries. The awards will be presented annually and broadcast on BET during Black History Month.
Ceremony Location
The inaugural ceremonies, in 2008, were held at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Hosts
Comedian Cedric the Entertainer hosted the first BET Honors in 2008.
Actress Gabrielle Union has hosted the BET Honors consecutively for the past five years
2008
Honorees
Alicia Keys (Entertainment Award)
Tyra Banks (Media Award)
Dr. Cornel West, University Professor in the Center for African American Studies (Award for Education)
Richard Parsons (Corporate Citizen Award)
The Honorable Maxine Waters (Public Service Award)
CEO Janice Bryant Howroyd (Entrepreneur Award)
Performers and Presenters
Stevie Wonder
John Legend
Gladys Knight
Wyclef Jean
Jill Scott
Brian McKnight
Ne-Yo
Raheem DeVaughn
Blair Underwood
Danny Glover
Kerry Washington
Idris Elba
Hill Harper
Vivica A. Fox
2009
Honorees
Magic Johnson (Corporate Citizen Award)
Tyler Perry (Media Award)
B. Smith (Entrepreneur Award)
Mary J. Blige (Entertainer Award)
Judith Jamison (Education Award)
James Clyburn (Public Service Award)
Performers and Presenters
Stevie Wonder
Yolanda Adams
Anita Baker
Monica
Joss Stone
Ne-Yo
Queen Latifah
Anthony Hamilton
Keyshia Cole
Whitney Houston
2010
List of Honorees
Whitney Houston (Entertainers Award)
Queen Latifah (Media Award)
Sean “Diddy” Combs (Entrepreneur Award)
Ruth Simmons (Education Award)
Keith Black (Public Service Award)
Performers and Presenters
Jennifer Hudson
Mary J. Blige
India.Arie
Patti LaBelle
Stevie Wonder
Trey Songz
Jazmine Sullivan
Kim Burrell
2011
Honorees
Jamie Foxx (Entertainer)
Cicely Tyson (Theatrical Arts Award)
Herbie Hancock (Musical Arts Award)
Iman (Service Award)
Lonnie Bunch (Education Award)
Linda Johnson-Rice (Media Award)
Performers and Presenters
Ne-Yo
Nicole Ari Parker
Boris Kodjoe
Chick Corea
Lalah Hathaway
Keyshia Cole
Tank & Guy
Naturally 7
Trey Songz
Yolanda Adams
Marsha Ambrosius
2012
Honorees
Maya Angelou (Literary Arts Award)
Stevie Wonder (Musical Arts Award)
Mariah Carey (Entertainer Award)
Spike Lee (Media Award)
Beverly Kearney (Education Award)
Tuskegee Airmen (Service Award)
Performers and Presenters
Michelle Obama
Willow Smith
Aretha Franklin
Common
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Terrence Howard
Cicely Tyson
Kelly Rowland
Jill Scott
John Singleton
Jennifer Hudson
Ledisi
Patti LaBelle
Anthony Hamilton
Luke James
Nick Cannon and his son Moroccan Cannon
2013
Honorees
Halle Berry (Service Award)
T.D. Jakes (Education Award)
Chaka Khan (Musical Arts Award)
Lisa Leslie (Athletics Award)
Clarence Avant (Entrepreneur Award)
2014
Honorees
Kenneth Chenault (Corporate Citizen Award)
Aretha Franklin (Musical Arts Award)
Carrie Mae Weems (Visual Arts)
Ice Cube (Entertainer Award)
Berry Gordy (Entrepr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20IEEE%20publications | The publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) constitute around 30% of the world literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields, publishing well over 100 peer-reviewed journals. The content in these journals as well as the content from several hundred annual conferences are available in the IEEE's online digital library. The IEEE also publishes more than 750 conference proceedings every year. In addition, the IEEE Standards Association maintains over 1,300 standards in engineering.
Some of the journals are published in association with other societies, like the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Optical Society (OSA), and the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS).
Journals
Magazines
Other
Communications and Networks, Journal of, by the Korean Institute of Communications Sciences (KICS) and technically cosponsored by the IEEE Communications Society
See also
:Category:IEEE conferences, many with published proceedings.
References
IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS%20boot%20partition | The BIOS boot partition is a partition on a data storage device that GNU GRUB uses on legacy BIOS-based personal computers in order to boot an operating system, when the actual boot device contains a GUID Partition Table (GPT). Such a layout is sometimes referred to as BIOS/GPT boot.
A BIOS boot partition is needed on GPT-partitioned storage devices to hold the second stages of GRUB. On traditional MBR-partitioned devices, the disk sectors immediately following the first are usually unused, as the partitioning scheme does not designate them for any special purpose and partitioning tools avoid them for alignment purposes. On GPT-based devices, the sectors hold the actual partition table, necessitating the use of an extra partition. On MBR-partitioned disks, boot loaders are usually implemented so the portion of their code stored within the MBR, which cannot hold more than 512 bytes, operates as a first stage that serves primarily to load a more sophisticated second stage, which is, for example, capable of reading and loading an operating system kernel from a file system.
Overview
When used, the BIOS boot partition contains the second stage of the boot loader program, such as the GRUB 2; the first stage is the code that is contained within the Master Boot Record (MBR). Use of this partition is not the only way BIOS-based boot can be performed while using GPT-partitioned hard drives; however, complex boot loaders such as GRUB 2 cannot fit entirely within the confines of the MBR's 398 to 446 bytes of space, thus they need an ancillary storage space. On MBR disks, such boot loaders typically use the sectors immediately following the MBR for this storage; that space is usually known as the "MBR gap". No equivalent unused space exists on GPT disks, and the BIOS boot partition is a way to officially allocate such space for use by the boot loader.
The globally unique identifier (GUID) for the BIOS boot partition in the GPT scheme is
(which, when written to a GPT in the required little endian fields, forms the ASCII string "Hah!IdontNeedEFI"). In the context of GPT on a BIOS-based computer, a BIOS boot partition is similar in some respects to the EFI system partition, which is used by systems based on EFI. The EFI System partition holds a filesystem and files used by the UEFI, while the BIOS boot partition is used in BIOS-based systems and accessed without a filesystem by holding raw binary code.
The size requirements for a BIOS boot partition are quite low so it can be as small as about 30 KiB; however, as future boot loaders might require more space, 1 MiB might be a reasonable BIOS boot partition size. Due to the 1 MiB partition alignment policies used by most modern disk partitioning tools to provide optimum performance with Advanced Format disks, SSD devices and certain RAID configurations, some room is left allowing the placement of a BIOS boot partition between the GPT and the first partition aligned that way. If created by utilizing that f |
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