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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTCP | WTCP ("Wireless Transmission Control Protocol") is a proxy-based modification of TCP that preserves the end-to-end semantics of TCP. As its name suggests, it is used in wireless networks to improve the performance of TCP.
Where it works
WTCP does not replace the TCP on the hosts, but is placed on a proxy in between two communicating hosts.
In wireless systems, WTCP is placed on a base station or intermediate gateway between a source host and a mobile (wireless) host. The base station is a wireless transmitter and receiver for the mobile host, and acts as a gateway to the internet for the host.
The following is a highly simplified example of what happens when the mobile host and source host have a TCP connection with each other:
When the mobile host uses its TCP to send a segment, the WTCP at the base station receives it and sends it on through the network, where it eventually reaches the awaiting host. The awaiting host might send an acknowledgment back through the network, to the base station, which transmits it to the mobile host. Despite handling some wireless-related errors, WTCP effectively does exactly what regular TCP does. The two edge hosts aren't even aware that the WTCP exists.
Performance enhancements
Instead of replacing TCP completely, WTCP works with it to enhance TCP's performance over wireless. It accomplishes this by handling the negative effects of the wireless channel, including high bit error rates that are known to occur in bursts over the wireless medium.
It detects wireless-related problems (such as lost or corrupted segments due to multipath fading or high BER) with the use of timeouts and duplicate acknowledgments. WTCP then attempts to mitigate the problem by retransmitting a lost segment only once, until it receives an acknowledgment back from the mobile host that it was received. Any other lost segments will have to wait in the WTCP's buffer until the first one is confirmed to have been received.
There are times when packets will sit in WTCP's buffer for many milliseconds. In order to avoid having either TCP end host go into its congestion avoidance mode, (due to TCP looking at a segment's timestamp and determining that it took a long time to arrive, therefore wrongly assuming it's due to congestion) WTCP uniquely hides the time spent by the packets at the WTCP proxy, so that the RTT estimation is not affected.
In one study on WTCP's performance in Wireless WANs, WTCP showed an improvement of 20–200% over comparable TCP algorithms such as New Reno, Vegas, and Snoop.
References
Transport layer protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20the%20Indie%20Rockers | School the Indie Rockers is the second studio album from nerdcore band Optimus Rhyme, released July 1, 2006.
Track listing
All songs written by Optimus Rhyme, lyrics by Wheelie Cyberman, produced by Jack Endino
"Extinguish" - 0:29
"LEDs" - 3:45
"Sick Day" - 2:48
"My Piroshky" - 2:33
"Just Forget It" - 3:24
"Ping Pong Song" - 3:04
"Ergonomic" - 4:17
"Who Me?" - 1:38
"Autobeat Airbus" - 2:59
"Super Shiny Metal" - 4:22
"Obey the moderator" - 2:57
"Coded & United" - 5:09
"My Piroshky (Reprise)" - 0:46
Personnel
Wheelie Cyberman – lead vocals
Powerthighs – guitar
Stumblebee – bass
Grimrock – drums
References
Optimus Rhyme albums
2006 albums
Albums produced by Jack Endino |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword%20Services%20Platform | The Keyword Services Platform (KSP) is a keyword research tool available through Microsoft adCenter, which contains a set of algorithms for providing information about keywords used in search engine queries.
The KSP was originally conceived by ZhaoHui Tang, Dylan Huang, Wayne Guan, Jiong Feng, Li Luo, Ken Kwok, Fred Nie at Microsoft adCenter Labs in May 2006. It underwent a major overhaul in 2011 and the platform as we see today was developed by Nimeesh Patel, Shravana Aadith Ramia Bapulal and Vivek Vinodchandra Pradhan. The platform aims to provide a core set of data and technology to empower search engine marketing and keyword research efforts. The KSP uniquely delivers a standardized set of keyword technologies through a Web services model, accessible via an application programming interface (API) and a Microsoft Excel add-in.
KSP API beta access is available for researchers and developers upon request from the Keyword Services Platform feedback link.
Architecture
The following components comprise the Keyword Service Platform architecture:
Keyword API. Set of standard Web services for various keyword tasks. These services are based on the Windows Communications Foundation and can be consumed by client applications (e.g., Microsoft Excel add-in) or mashups.
Provider Plug-in Framework. System that allows researchers to incorporate new algorithms or data mining models within the Service Container. Each provider brings a specific keyword technology to the KSP architecture—for instance, keyword association, keyword extraction, or keyword classification.
Security. The component that handles permissions that pertain to provider procedures (methods) and Stored Procedure implementation.
Server Object Model. The data model allows developers to leverage different services.
Service Container. Set of providers that support various keyword technologies. Host to all service providers and Stored Procedures, which allows parallel execution.
Shared Services. Core components, consisting of a crawler, in-memory data structures, word stemming algorithms, etc. These services are used by different providers and executed by stored procedures.
Stored Procedures. Procedures for consolidating and centralizing the logic behind applications. Selected sets of these procedures are made available to users.
Developers may use .NET programming languages to create procedures that combine the use of different providers or implement additional business logic processing based on the output from a provider.
Keyword API
The Keyword Service Platform has defined a set of APIs for each class of keyword services. These interfaces for Web services include keyword extraction (ITermExtraction), keyword categorization (ITermCategorization), keyword suggestion (ITermSuggestion), keyword forecast (ITermForecast), keyword monetization (ITermMonetization), and several others. The APIs define the signatures of each Web service.
Keyword suggestion
Keyword suggestions are handled via |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL%3A2008 | SQL:2008 is the sixth revision of the ISO and ANSI standard for the SQL database query language. It was formally adopted in July 2008. The standard consists of 9 parts which are described in detail in SQL. The next iteration is SQL:2011
New features
Additions to the Foundation include
enhanced MERGE and DIAGNOSTIC statements,
the TRUNCATE TABLE statement,
comma-separated WHEN clauses in a CASE expression,
INSTEAD OF database triggers,
partitioned JOIN tables,
support for various XQuery regular expression/pattern-matching features, and
enhancements to derived column names.
Documentation
The SQL standards documentation is not freely available but may be purchased from the ISO as ISO/IEC 9075(1-4,9-11,13,14):2008.
Claims of conformance
The minimum level of conformance to SQL:2008 that a product can claim is called "Core SQL:2008" and is limited to definitions specified in two parts of the standard: the Foundation and the Information and Definition Schemas.
See also
Structured Query Language
References
External links
Freely downloadable drafts of this standard
Declarative programming languages
Query languages
Computer-related introductions in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dygra%20Films | Dygra Films was a computer animation studio located in A Coruña, Spain, founded in 1987 as a graphic design studio. After producing many interactive CD-ROM titles, they began their work on their first feature-length CG film The Living Forest in 1997 and established the name Dygra Films in 2000.
They have also released computer-animated short films: Taxia, and a trilogy of Mosquis films for Manos Unidas, a charitable organization in Spain.
They closed down in 2012 after claims from underpaid animators.
Feature-length films
The Living Forest (El Bosque animado) — August 3, 2001
Midsummer Dream (El Sueño de una noche de San Juan) — July 1, 2005
Spirit of the Forest (Espíritu del bosque) — sequel to The Living Forest — September 12, 2008
Scheduled, but unreleased
Holy Night! — est. December 2010
The Golden Donkey (El Asno de Oro) — 2011
In Search of Oniria aka Lost & Found (En Busca de Oniria) — est. 2012
References
External links
(down as of January 16, 2011)
Short film
Mass media companies of Spain
Spanish animation studios
Film production companies of Spain
Defunct companies of Spain
Mass media companies established in 1987
Spanish companies established in 1987
Companies based in Galicia (Spain) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20D%20and%20Bubba | The Big D and Bubba Show is a nationally syndicated radio show airing six days a week on approximately 80 country music FM radio stations.
The show is syndicated by Compass Media Networks. Live shows are broadcast from 6 to 10 AM (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday.
There is also a pre-show heard weekday mornings from 5 to 6 AM (EST), and a 4-hour "best of" show called "The Big D & Bubba Weekend Wakeup" which is heard on Saturday or Sunday mornings on most broadcast affiliates.
The Big D & Bubba show is broadcast globally in over 177 countries through the American Forces Network (AFN). The show is available on all United States military installations, and all ships at sea.
You can also listen to a live stream of the show on the "Big D & Bubba APP" which is available on iPhone & Android devices.
"The Big D & Bubba Weekly Podcast" is a popular Comedy, Entertainment, & Lifestyle focused podcast centered around the lives of the members of the show, their families, and friends.
Big D (Derek Haskins) is married with two sons and spent time as an exchange student in Russia. He is originally from Cookeville, Tennessee. Big D is a married father of two, and a licensed airplane pilot .
Bubba (Sean Powell) grew up in Houma, Louisiana, and like Big D, also started on the radio at age 14. He has spent time working for radio stations around the country, and the island of Guam. Bubba is married with three children and is also a licensed pilot.
History
Big D and Bubba first teamed up on December 16, 1996, on WXCT (now WTGE) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The show gained enough success to garner the attention of cross-town country rival WYNK-FM. In February 1999, Big D and Bubba signed a deal with AMFM Broadcasting (then owner of WYNK) to do mornings on the station and have the ability to syndicate the show nationally. No country morning show had ever been successful in a nationally syndicated format for an extended period of time. Soon after their debut on WYNK, AMFM Broadcasting was purchased by Clear Channel Communications, a forerunner to iHeartMedia, Inc.
In August 1999, Big D and Bubba hired Patrick Thomas to produce their morning show. He was brought on board in anticipation of future syndication opportunities and is still with the show to this day. Patrick's involvement with the show has evolved over the years, and he oversees day-to-day operation of Silverfish Media, the parent company of Big D & Bubba.
On December 6, 1999, Big D and Bubba were first heard on KMML-FM in Amarillo, Texas. This marked the beginning of syndication.
The show grew slowly but steadily while fighting the widely held belief that a syndicated country morning show simply would not work. By the summer of 2003, the Big D and Bubba Show was heard on 14 radio stations (more than any other country morning show).
In the fall of 2003, Clear Channel Communications relocated Big D and Bubba to Nashville, Tennessee and based their show on radio station WSIX in order to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysmo%20and%20the%20Time%20Boys | Cataclysmo and the Time Boys is weekly web serial produced by New Renaissance Pictures. It is distributed by WebSerials.com and is available on YouTube and the Vuze network. Cataclysmo and the Time Boys consists of 24 episodes, each about 5 minutes in length. As of October 2009, the serial had more than 1 million views on YouTube. Cataclysmo and the Time Boys premiered on July 27, 2007.
Plot
Two heroes from a war-weary future travel back in time to stop the war in its origins. The 'Time Boys' confront the evil Dr. Crankshaft, evil monkeys and ally themselves with the lovely Samantha.
Cast
Johnny Zanzibar (played by Brian Walton)
Bucky Stallion (played by Chris Hartwell)
Samantha (played by Erin Sullivan)
Dr. Crankshaft (played by Jesse GrothOlson)
H.G. Welles (played by Nate Bell)
Mildred Crankshaft (played by Kenlyn Kanouse)
Reporter (played by Shevaun Kastl)
Surfer Dude (played by Gabe Renfro)
Government Dudes (played by Derek Houck & Jonathan Nation)
Steve the Neighbor (played by Nathan Jeffers)
Private Bobby (played by Anthony Parisi)
Store Clerk (played by Thomas Minelga)
Episodes
The following is a list of episodes from the popular web serial, Cataclysmo and the Time Boys.
The series ran from July 27, 2007 through January 18, 2008.
Season 1
Reception and Sequel
The serial was well-received on its release, spawning a sequel in 2008. Web series critics praised the series for its clever humor, fun tone, and memorable visual effects. The sequel, entitled Cataclysmo and the Battle for Earth, premiered April 4, 2008. Brian Walton, Chris Hartwell, Erin Sullivan, and Nate Bell reprised their roles from the first serial. Impressing critics with its bold and epic style, Battle for Earth maintained the fun tone of the original, while pushing the story in unexpected new directions. The sequel was directed by Anthony Parisi and written by Kevin Christensen, Anthony Parisi, & Joshua Sikora.
See also
The Black Dawn
External links
Official Site
Cataclysmo on YouTube
Cataclysmo and the Time Boys on the Internet Movie Database
References
American comedy web series
American science fiction web series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFNB | SFNB may refer to:
Seattle-First National Bank
Security First Network Bank |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation%20of%20American%20Consumers%20and%20Travelers | The Federation of American Consumers and Travelers (FACT) is a nonprofit organization and consumer group based in Edwardsville, Illinois, United States. Membership includes I.D. Theft and Cyber Security, online fitness and wellness classes, Accidental Death Coverage, scholarships, community and classroom grants, assistance for small business owners, travel discounts and more.
There are two FACT membership payment preferences: $10 per month or $100 for a year's membership.
Membership in FACT was required to buy certain health insurance products by Golden Rule Insurance Company.
FACT was formed in 1984 under the not-for-profit corporation laws of the District of Columbia. It has a governing board of directors with four members, who are elected annually by a vote of regular members. Reporting directly to the board of directors are its 4 officers and a managing director, all of whom are volunteers. Day-to-day administrative, management and marketing responsibilities are entirely outsourced to companies that specialize in their respective fields.
References
External links
Non-profit organizations based in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datang%20International%20Power%20Generation%20Company | Parent company: China Datang Corporation
Datang International Power Generation Company Limited (,), simply Datang International Power or Datang Power, is one of the five largest state-owned power producers in China, especially its position in Northern China. It is engaged in the development and operation of power plants, the sale of electricity and thermal power, and the repair and maintenance of power equipment and power-related technical services.
Datang Power owns four operating power plants and managed 17 power companies, with total installed capacity amounted to 15,410 megawatts (MW) at the end of mid-2006.
Datang Power was incorporated on 13 December 1994. The state-owned enterprise has been listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange since 21 March 1997.
Datang Power is involved in the development of renewable energy projects.
See also
State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC)
References
External links
Datang International Power Generation Company
Electric power companies of China
Government-owned companies of China
Companies based in Beijing
Energy companies established in 1994
Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange
H shares
Chinese companies established in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datang | Datang may refer to:
Companies
The word Datang (meaning grand China; Tang as a reference to the Tang dynasty) was used in several companies
China Datang Corporation: a state-owned enterprise mainly in power generation in the People's Republic of China
Datang International Power Generation Company: a state-owned enterprise in power generation, subsidiary of China Datang Corporation
Datang Telecom Group: a telecommunication equipment vendor in the People's Republic of China
Datang Telecom Technology
Places in China
Place with name Datang, which means big pond
Datang station (disambiguation) ()
Datang Subdistrict, Guangzhou (), in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
Datang Subdistrict, Wuzhou (), a subdistrict in Changzhou District, Wuzhou, Guangxi
Datang Town (disambiguation) ()
Datang Township ()
Datang Township, Guidong County, Guidong County, Hunan
Datang, Jiangxi, in Yugan County, Jiangxi
Datang, Zhuji, in Zhuji, Zhejiang, also known as "Sock City"
See also
Tang (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technimetrics | Technimetrics, Inc. was a company involved in the creation of global shareholder databases for institutional investors and brokers, and company-knowledge databases designed to facilitate business-to-business sales and marketing, and additionally also provided investor relations and similar services. These services were used by some of the world's largest investment banks, corporations and other entities. The company operated for approximately 30 years in this manner. The operating assets of this privately owned company were sold to Knight-Ridder Business Information in late 1993 for about $32M.
History
Founded in 1968 by the eccentric James R. Uffelman, a Harvard Business School graduate, the firm was quite unique in its day, establishing quirky, yet professionally enabling offices near the South Street Seaport in Manhattan, with challenging contemporary art on the walls, a squash court and a fitness center within the six story building at 80 South Street.
At one point in the mid 80's, Uffelman surprised the company's employees by taking them on an impromptu trip to Bermuda. Uffelman's unique management style led him to a quote in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations as follows: "The work is often deadly and boring, but it requires a keen intelligence, and the only way I can compete with large corporations is to treat my employees better, move them up faster, give them more money and put mirrors in the bathrooms."
Thomas J. Clarke, Jr. took over the company from the retiring James R. Uffelman. Clarke eventually became the head of TheStreet.com
Technimetrics produced a wealth of industry talent, that eventually spread throughout the business information services and investor relations services communities, including Edwin Curtin & John Vogt, who later both held senior positions with NASDAQ. Ken Zockoll, & Adam Barkin, now with Factset and involved with database creation and sales platforms. European leaders including Veerle Berbers, Fred Stone, Richard Spain and Cato Wille led the company's international efforts. Deborah Fuhr, later a leader in the ETF world for Morgan Stanley and Barclays, joined Technimetrics in London, and spearheaded the brokerage business for the company. Cary Krosinsky, also an ownership data expert, became a member of the 70 person Expert Group for the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment process, and continues to write and teach frequently on the subject, including books on Sustainable Investing. Many others also continue to build databases, lead companies, and otherwise spawned a quality community of subsequent services in the data industry, part of what is now largely referred to as big data.
Three years after buying Technimetrics, Knight-Ridder Business Information sold the company to Thomson Financial for $125 million. Technimetrics was merged into existing services at Thomson Financial, into what became known as Thomson Financial Investor Relations (TFIR).
Products
Among the firm's product |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy%2096 | Easy 96 (formerly RBC Radio) is a 24/7 subsidiary communications authority radio station providing South Asian-Indian American programming that serves New York City and the Tri-State area of neighboring Northern New Jersey region, Connecticut, and parts of New York State.
History
Founded by Rohit Jagessar, an Indo-Guyanese American, RBC Radio began broadcasting on March 15, 1989. The first Asian-Indian radio station in the US, its first broadcasts were on PanAmSat Satellites (Intelsat) SAT COM R3, transponder 16 and on the 92 kHz subcarrier WNYE-FM, before moving to the 92 kHz subcarrier signal of The New York Times WQXR-FM, as well as on the AfriStar and AsiaStar Satellites covering four continents.
The station's rise in popularity in the Greater New York market took place mainly after it was launched on the New York Times subcarrier signal. It soon became the home for both Bollywood and Indo Caribbean artists to promote their latest films and music.
Maine Pyar Kiya, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Hum Aapke Hain Koun, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and Kaho Na Pyar Hai, are some of the most noted Bollywood film music that made their US debut on the station.
In addition to film music, hit songs such as Paree Hoon Mein, Made in India, San Ni Dha Pa, Bolo Ta Ra Ra, Vande Mataram and Sifir all had their US debut on the station.
Some of the singers that appeared in features and interviews on the station are Suneeta Rao, A. R. Rahman, Daler Mehndi, Sundar Popo, Alisha Chinai, Asha Bhosle, Kanchan, Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Runa Laila, Kumar Sanu, Kavita Krishnamurti, Musarrat Nazir, Shaan, Udit Narayan, Amitabh Bachchan, Shankar Mahadevan, Hariharan and Jagjit Singh.
The station broadcasts in English, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi languages.
Mr. Rohit Jagessar has produced and hosted 37,960 hours of broadcasts for the station.
External links
Official Website
Asian-American culture in Connecticut
Indian-American culture in New Jersey
Indian-American culture in New York City
Radio stations broadcasting on subcarriers
Foreign-language radio stations in the United States
1989 establishments in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spertus | Spertus may refer to:
Spertus Institute, one of the leading Jewish organizations in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Ellen Spertus, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mills College and a research scientist at Google |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furil | Furil, also commonly known as α-furil or 2,2′-furil, is a furan compound.
References
Material Safety Data Sheet
Chemexper.com
2-Furyl compounds
Diketones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Farmers%20Journal | The Irish Farmers Journal is a weekly newspaper (published Thursdays) which provides farming news, specialist advice, market data and country living features to the Irish agricultural industry. As of October 2019, it reportedly had a weekly readership of 263,000. It is the largest selling agricultural publication in both Ireland and the UK, and it had a weekly circulation sale of 62,226 copies at the end of 2018.
It is owned by The Agricultural Trust, which also owns The Irish Field. The Irish Farmers Journal is the only agricultural publication which operates as a legal Trust.
Its ownership structure provides it with the ability to make significant investments in editorial content. An example of this is Tullamore Farm, a model farm designed to test farming practices to improve efficiency.
Laois gardening expert Lily Champ has been a regular columnist for Irish Farmers Journal.
Awards
Awards won by the Irish Farmers Journal include:
References
External links
Agriculture in Ireland
Dairy farming in Ireland
Weekly newspapers published in Ireland
Newspapers established in 1948
1948 establishments in Ireland
Irish news websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN2 | CN2 may refer to:
CN2 algorithm for rule induction
Cyanogen, molecular formula (CN)2
cn|2, a weather, sports and political news cable channel owned by Time Warner Cable in former Insight Communications territories
Optic nerve (CN2), second cranial nerve
Cartoon Network Too, a defunct British channel owned by The WB. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Datang%20Corporation | China Datang Corporation (CDT) is one of the five large-scale power generation enterprises in China, established on the basis of former State Power Corporation of China in 2002. It is a solely state-owned enterprise directly managed by the SASAC and is the experimental state-authorized investment and state shareholding enterprise ratified by the State Council.
Subsidiaries
Datang International Power Generation Company (大唐国际发电股份) is a core subsidiary company with approximately one third of the Group's thermal installed capacity.
Datang Renewable Power Company was listed on the Hong Kong Stock exchange in December 2010.
See also
China Southern Power Grid
China State Grid Corporation
References
External links
China Datang Corporation
Companies based in Beijing
Government-owned companies of China
Electric power companies of China
Chinese companies established in 2002
Energy companies established in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/253rd%20Cyberspace%20Engineering%20Installation%20Group | The 253rd Cyberspace Engineering Installation Group (253 CEIG) is located at Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, USA.
Mission
The primary mission of the 253rd Cyberspace Engineering Installation Group is to train, advise, and direct combat-ready units. A secondary mission is to provide a ready militia to protect life and property and provide peacekeeping services in the U.S. if called upon.
The group is available to deploy anywhere in the world on short notice and provide communications, engineering and installation services in support of the Air Force. Upon mobilization, Air Force Space Command would assume operational command of the 253 CEIG.
At the state level, the group provides forces to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for use during local or statewide disasters.
History
The 253rd Cyberspace Engineering Installation Group relocated from Wellesley, MA to Otis in 1996 due to mission and equipment changes.
Post Cold War
Desert Shield/Storm began on 7 August 1991 after the invasion of Kuwait. Within ten days the 253rd Combat Communications Group units were involved in deploying equipment to support the Air Force and coalition forces in the Gulf. Volunteers from the 267CBCS, solicited by the 253rd Combat Communications Group Readiness Center, joined other Group members to deploy and support Desert Shield.
Global War on Terror
In 2001, the 267 CBCS, collocated with the 253rd Combat Communications Group, facilitated the first use of the Theater Deployable Communications Equipment during Operation Enduring Freedom. More than 20 personnel mobilized for the mission from September 2001 to July 2003. They augmented the Headquarters Air Combat Command staff in filling requirements for the U.S. Air Force/ANG.
Previous designations
253rd Combat Communications Group
Bases stationed
Otis ANGB, Massachusetts (1996–present)
Wellesley, Massachusetts (1960–1996)
Equipment operated
Theater Deployable Communications Equipment suite
References
Combat Communications 0253
Combat Communications 0253
Military units and formations in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia%20Federal%20Route%20161 | Federal Route 161, or Jalan Teluk Datai, is a major federal road in Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia.
Features
A Temurun Tunnel near Temurun Waterfalls.
At most sections, the Federal Route 161 was built under the JKR R5 road standard, allowing maximum speed limit of up to 90 km/h.
List of junctions and town
References
Malaysian Federal Roads
Roads in Langkawi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larson%E2%80%93Miller%20relation | The Larson–Miller relation, also widely known as the Larson–Miller parameter and often abbreviated LMP, is a parametric relation used to extrapolate experimental data on creep and rupture life of engineering materials.
Background and usage
F.R. Larson and J. Miller proposed that creep rate could adequately be described by the Arrhenius type equation:
Where r is the creep process rate, A is a constant, R is the universal gas constant, T is the absolute temperature, and is the activation energy for the creep process. Taking the natural log of both sides:
With some rearrangement:
Using the fact that creep rate is inversely proportional to time, the equation can be written as:
Taking the natural log:
After some rearrangement the relation finally becomes:
, where B =
This equation is of the same form as the Larson–Miller relation.
where the quantity LMP is known as the Larson–Miller parameter. Using the assumption that activation energy is independent of applied stress, the equation can be used to relate the difference in rupture life to differences in temperature for a given stress. The material constant C is typically found to be in the range of 20 to 22 for metals when time is expressed in hours and temperature in degrees Rankine.
The Larson–Miller model is used for experimental tests so that results at certain temperatures and stresses can predict rupture lives of time spans that would be impractical to reproduce in the laboratory.
Expanding the equation as a Taylor series makes the relationship easier to understand. Only the first terms are kept.
Changing the time, by a factor of 10, changes the logarithm by 1 and the LMP changes by an amount equal to the temperature.
To get an equal change in LMP by changing the temperature, the temperature needs to be raised or lowered by about 5% of its absolute value.
Typically a 5% increase in absolute temperature will increase the rate of creep by a factor of ten.
The equation was developed during the 1950s while Miller and Larson were employed by GE performing research on turbine blade life.
MPC project Omega
The Omega Method is a comprehensive approach developed for assessing the remaining life of components operating in the creep range. Unlike other methods such as replication, life summation based on Larson-Miller parameters, or Kachanov's approach.
The Omega Method aims to overcome limitations in accurately estimating strain accumulation, damage, and the rate of damage accumulation. It provides a broader methodology for life assessment that incorporates strain-rate parameters, multi-axial damage parameters (including Omega), and material-specific property relations.
In 1986, the Petroleum and Chemical Committee of MPC initiated a research program to evaluate different approaches to life assessment. Through extensive experimentation on various materials, including carbon steel and hard chromium-molybdenum steel, several important observations were made:
• Carbon steel exhib |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freei | Freei (aka Freei.net, FreeInternet.com, Freei Networks Inc.) was a free internet service provider from 1998-2000. In 2000, FreeInternet.com was acquired by United Online, Inc. (owner of NetZero, Juno, Classmates.com and others). In 2008, United Online re-launched FreeInternet.com as a Web site dedicated to free and discounted retail offers.
Services
Freei provided a free alternative ISP, allowing users to anonymously log on to the internet using the Freei software and dialer. It reached over 2 million registered users nationally by 1999, and 3.2 million by the summer of 2000. In lieu of a subscription fee, the software displayed ads on the user's computer.
IPO filing
Freei filed for an IPO on March 31, 2000.
Bankruptcy
On October 9, 2000, Freei filed for bankruptcy after laying off 30% of its workforce.
One week later, on October 16, 2000, the rest of the workforce was laid off and the corporate headquarters in Federal Way, Washington was permanently closed. In early November 2000, Freei's remaining assets were sold at auction.
References
External links
Freei.Net Goes Nationwide: http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article.php/216381/FreeiNet+Goes+Nationwide.htm
Freei Files IPO: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB954783493838149693 http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/company/freei-networks-inc-74808-2425
Freei Acquired by United Online: https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=94399
Mark Stevens, Sequoia Capital; Freei Director: https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=75159&privcapId=223006296
Defunct Internet service providers
Dot-com bubble
1998 establishments in Washington (state)
2000 disestablishments in Washington (state)
Internet properties established in 1998
Internet properties disestablished in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperpersonal%20model | The hyperpersonal model is a model of interpersonal communication that suggests computer-mediated communication (CMC) can become hyperpersonal because it "exceeds [face-to-face] interaction", thus affording message senders a host of communicative advantages over traditional face-to-face (FtF) interaction. The hyperpersonal model demonstrates how individuals communicate uniquely, while representing themselves to others, how others interpret them, and how the interactions create a reciprocal spiral of FtF communication. Compared to ordinary FtF situations, a hyperpersonal message sender has a greater ability to strategically develop and edit self-presentation, enabling a selective and optimized presentation of one's self to others.
Communication professor Joseph Walther is credited with the development of this theory in 1996, synthesizing his and others' extensive research on computer-mediated communication.
Conditions and key components
Conditions
The hyperpersonal model addresses three questions: 1) when is mediated interaction impersonal; 2) when is CMC interpersonal; and 3) when is CMC hyperpersonal? Hyperpersonal communication, according to Walther, is "more socially desirable than we tend to experience in parallel FtF interaction" (p. 17). Combinations of media attributes, social phenomena, and social-psychological processes may lead CMC to become "hyperpersonal", that is, to exceed face-to-face (FtF) communication. This perspective suggests that CMC users may experience greater levels of intimacy, unity and liking within a group or dyad than similar groups or dyads interacting FtF.
Key components
Senders
This component refers to "selective self-presentation". In CMC, message senders have a greater opportunity to optimize their self-presentation. Walther argues, "[CMC participants] were better able to plan, and had increased opportunity to self-censor. With more time for message construction and less stress of ongoing interaction, users may have taken the opportunity to objective self-awareness, reflection, selection and transmission of preferable cues." Message senders use the process of selective self-presentation, which refers to CMC users' ability to manage their online image. Being able to self-censor and manipulate messages is possible to do within a CMC context to a greater extent than in FtF interactions, so individuals have greater control over what cues are sent. Walther point out that asynchronous messages and reduced communication cues contribute to selective self-presentation. In CMC, communicators may inflate attributions about their communication partners. When communication partners are geographically dispersed, individuals are likely to make positive attributions if group salience is high. As a result, members are more likely to make attributions of similarity that lead to greater liking for partners. Paralinguistic cues are used as part of assessing communication partners when using CMC. Selective self-presentation p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overmars | Overmars is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Mark Overmars (born 1958), Dutch computer scientist and the creator of Game Maker
Marc Overmars (born 1973), Dutch football player
See also
Övermark
Dutch-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taconic%20Trails | Taconic Trails or Taconic Trail may refer to any or all of three long distance recreational trails and associated networks of shorter trails within the Taconic Mountains of Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, and Vermont.
The three main trails are:
The South Taconic Trail, a 15.7 mi (25.3 km) ridgeline hiking trail located in the southwest corner of Massachusetts and adjacent parts of New York.
The Taconic Crest Trail, a 35 mi (56 km) ridgeline hiking trail located north of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Its southern third is located in Pittsfield State Forest of Massachusetts, its middle third traverses the border of Massachusetts and New York, and its northern third is located along the New York-Vermont border.
The Taconic Skyline Trail a multi-use ridgeline trail located entirely within the Massachusetts Taconics, east of the Taconic Crest Trail. This trail is primarily used by all-terrain vehicle users and snowmobilers and is maintained as such.
Trail networks in the northern Taconic region (northwest Massachusetts, southwest Vermont, and adjacent New York) are sometimes referred to as the "North Taconic Trails."
In the late 1990s, the Taconic Crest Trail and Taconic Skyline Trail were re-designated, lengthening the former by and shortening the latter by . This redesignation also resulted in the Taconic Crest Trail marked as non-motorized and the Taconic Skyline trail as motorized/ multi-use.
The Taconic Trails are supported by Massachusetts' Commonwealth Connections greenway initiative, as well as the efforts of various conservation and recreation non-profit organizations in the four-state Taconic region.
References
Massachusetts Trail Guide (2004). Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club.
Commonwealth Connections proposal PDF download. Retrieved March 2, 2008.
Hiking trails in Massachusetts
Hiking trails in Connecticut
Hiking trails in Vermont
Hiking trails in New York (state)
Taconic Mountains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish%20Television%20Network | Starfish Television Network was the first public service broadcaster that primarily broadcast programming by and about non-profit humanitarian organizations, at no cost for airtime to those organizations.
Founded in early 2007, Starfish began broadcasting on April 18, 2007. It ceased on March 31, 2010. At its peak, it was available to over 13 million households and featured nearly 600 non-profit organizations.
Television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRP | VRP may refer to:
Vehicle routing problem, a problem in combinatorial optimization
Virtual resource partitioning, an operating system-level virtualization technology
Visual reporting (or reference) point in general aviation
French administrative and professional status of salesmen
VRP Music, a venture of American record producer, executive producer and an independent record label owner Rob Halprin
People's Justice Party (German: ), also known as the Reich Party for Civil Rights and Deflation, a political party active in the Weimar Republic in Germany
Vehicle Recycling Partnership, operated by the US Council for Automotive Research to support cash for cars vehicle recycling
Pedrinho VRP, alias of Brazilian footballer Pedro Luís Vicençote doing business as a football agent
Vulnerability rewards program, another name for a Bug bounty program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISTEL | ISTEL, formerly BL Systems, and latterly AT&T Istel, was a British information technology company.
History
The company was formed in 1979 as BL Systems Limited (BLSL) through a merger of the computer departments of various automotive manufacturing companies brought together under the British Leyland (BL) umbrella. John Leighfield became the chairman of the new company, which, in addition to providing the computer resources and telecommunications services for the BL companies, gradually started to provide similar services for other outside companies. The company's headquarters were established in Redditch and Coventry. BL Systems pioneered many services, including the establishment of Europe's first microwave communications network in the late 1970s and launched Comet (originally a US product) that in 1981 was Britain's first commercial electronic mail service. In 1984 the company's name was changed to ISTEL.
The new company name was said to have been chosen by Leighfield randomly by combining pairs of syllables that sounded vaguely related to systems, telecommunications, or technology until he hit upon one he liked the sound of. By 1986 it was widely understood among staff to be an acronym for In Systems The Established Leader, some also noting that Information Systems and TELecommunications fitted quite nicely. In addition, the similarity with the name of a microchip manufacturer did not go unnoticed. The more waggish staff were known to say that the acronym stood for "Information Screwed, Twisted and Eventually Lost" or "I Stand To Earn Less".
In June 1987, Rover Group (to which British Leyland had been renamed in 1986) sold ISTEL, in a management buyout, to a consortium of its management and employees, and investors, led by John Leighfield, for £35 million.
In October 1989, ISTEL was sold to AT&T and was renamed AT&T Istel. Latterly it was documented that in 1997 AT&T quietly dropped the Istel name putting its finance, commerce, travel, and healthcare divisions up for sale. Customers included Citibank, Delta Air Lines, Barclays, Texaco, British Oxygen, Boots and Post Office Limited. The healthcare division was sold to Atlanta-based company HBO & Company. In 1998 the company's finance and banking division was sold to Cap Gemini. In April 1998 AT&T sold the Automotive Division, the original core of ISTEL, to BMW's in house software house, Softlab. In April 2001, following BMW's sale of Rover Group to the Phoenix Consortium the previous year, Softlab sold a significant part of its UK operations, specifically the automotive facing sections, on to Computer Sciences Corporation.
References
British Leyland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Coastal%20%26%20Ocean%20Mapping | The Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping (CCOM) / NOAA-UNH Joint Hydrographic Center (JHC) was founded in 2000 by Dr. Larry Mayer to find ways to process the massive amounts of data coming from sonar systems at rates commensurate with data collection; that is, to make the data ready for chart production as rapidly as the data could be collected.
The main objective of the CCOM/JHC is to enhance methods for ocean mapping and hydrology, with the target to also advance the knowledge of the discipline's future generation. This objective underlies the aim of the JHC and its cooperative partnerships with the University of New Hampshire and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to create a national center for expertise in ocean mapping and hydrographic sciences.
The center is located in the Chase Ocean Engineering building on the campus of the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, United States.
The center works on a wide range of marine research topics, including:
Hydrography
Improved bathymetric processing
Improved side-scan sonar and backscatter processing
Data visualization, with emphasis on whale tracking, flow visualization, and mid-water fish
Seafloor characterization
Lidar
Photographic mosaic
Law of the Sea mapping for the United States
Electronic chart of the future and the marine Automatic Identification System
Acoustic positioning and tracking
See also
Seafloor mapping
References
External links
CCOM home page
2017 JHC Annual Report
Strafford County, New Hampshire
Oceanographic organizations
University of New Hampshire
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Education in Strafford County, New Hampshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20%28disambiguation%29 | Wireless refers to the transfer of information signals without using wires. The term may also refer to:
Electronic communications
Wireless LAN, a wireless local-area computer network
Wireless network
WiMAX, a wireless wide-area computer network
Bluetooth, a wireless system for data communications between devices
Wireless phone, a less-often used name for a mobile (cellular) phone
Wireless, former British and Commonwealth term for a radio receiver
Wireless telegraphy, an early form of radio technology
Other electronics
Wireless charging, or inductive charging, the transfer of energy through electromagnetic induction
Music
Wireless (band), a Canadian rock band from the 1970s and 1980s
Wireless (Wireless album), 1976 debut album by the band Wireless
Wireless (Threshold album), 2003 album by the band Threshold
Wireless Festival, a music festival held every year since 2005 in Hyde Park, London
"Wireless", a song from the 1996 Cardiacs album Sing to God
"Wireless", a 2023 single by Within Temptation.
Books
Wireless: The Essential Charles Stross, a 2009 science fiction collection by Charles Stross
"Wireless" (short story), a 1902 short story by Rudyard Kipling
"Wireless" (Christie short story), a short story by Agatha Christie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20modeling%20and%20fabrication | Digital modeling and fabrication is a design and production process that combines 3D modeling or computing-aided design (CAD) with additive and subtractive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing is also known as 3D printing, while subtractive manufacturing may also be referred to as machining, and many other technologies can be exploited to physically produce the designed objects.
Modeling
Digitally fabricated objects are created with a variety of CAD software packages, using both 2D vector drawing, and 3D modeling. Types of 3D models include wireframe, solid, surface and mesh. A design has one or more of these model types.
Machines for fabrication
Three machines are popular for fabrication:
1. CNC router
2. Laser cutter
3. 3D Printer
CNC milling machine
CNC stands for "computer numerical control". CNC mills or routers include proprietary software which interprets 2D vector drawings or 3D models and converts this information to a G-code, which represents specific CNC functions in an alphanumeric format, which the CNC mill can interpret. The G-codes drive a machine tool, a powered mechanical device typically used to fabricate components. CNC machines are classified according to the number of axes that they possess, with 3, 4 and 5 axis machines all being common, and industrial robots being described with having as many as 9 axes. CNC machines are specifically successful in milling materials such as plywood, plastics, foam board, and metal at a fast speed. CNC machine beds are typically large enough to allow 4' × 8' (123 cm x 246 cm) sheets of material, including foam several inches thick, to be cut.
Laser cutter
The laser cutter is a machine that uses a laser to cut materials such as chip board, matte board, felt, wood, and acrylic up to 3/8 inch (1 cm) thickness. The laser cutter is often bundled with a driver software which interprets vector drawings produced by any number of CAD software platforms.
The laser cutter is able to modulate the speed of the laser head, as well as the intensity and resolution of the laser beam, and as such is able in both to cut and to score material, as well as approximate raster graphics.
Objects cut out of materials can be used in the fabrication of physical models, which will only require the assembly of the flat parts.
3D printers
3D printers use a variety of methods and technology to assemble physical versions of digital objects. Typically desktop 3D printers can make small plastic 3D objects. They use a roll of thin plastic filament, melting the plastic and then depositing it precisely to cool and harden. They normally build 3D objects from bottom to top in a series of many very thin plastic horizontal layers. This process often happens over the course of several hours.
Fused deposition modeling
Fused deposition modeling, also known as fused filament fabrication, uses a 3-axis robotic system that extrudes material, typically a thermoplastic, one thin layer at a time and progressively builds up a sha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songwriter%20networks | Songwriter's networks in the United States of America are generally volunteer-run or non-profit organizations that support the networking of songwriters in the area. The organization may be an active group in the community, sponsoring seminars, meetings, showcase performance events, and other gatherings in which songwriters can socialize and build valuable business contacts.
Songwriter network organizations are opportunities for music industry representatives to meet with songwriters and discuss their experiences in the industry.
In a songwriting network, a group of songwriters can:
A) Learn the importance of networking with each other
B) Meet guest speakers from many different areas of the music industry or music business.
C) Encourage one another and share tips and advice
D) Collaborate with others in the network as composers, lyricists, producers, etc.
Further reading
Los Angeles Songwriters Network
Los Angeles Free Music Society
References
Los Angeles Songwriters Network (SongNet)
External links
Christian Songwriter's Network
[ Allmusic Page]
Songwriters Resource Network
The Nashville Songwriters Network
American songwriters
Music organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Songwriter%27s%20Network | The Songwriter's Network (SongNet) is a volunteer-run organization that supports the networking of songwriters in the Los Angeles, California area. Founded in October 1998, SongNet has sponsored monthly seminars in which a music industry related guest representative discusses their experience in the industry, and also conducts some songwriting critique of recorded works that attendees have brought with them. In addition to the monthly seminar, SongNet has sponsored a monthly singer-songwriter showcase, in which performers can perform 2 of their musical works for the audience.
History
SongNet is the brainchild of Los Angeles songwriter Linda Geleris. Geleris felt the isolation experienced by many creative people and in response, sought out other songwriters hoping to build careers in the music business. In the back of her "Songwriters Market" book, she found a listing for the National Academy of Songwriters (NAS), which at the time was meeting at the Hollywood Women's Club. As Linda Geleris tells it, "On the occasion of my second visit, I shared some of my M&M's with a woman sitting next to me, whose husband had just been tapped to score his first feature film. Four months later, the couple called me up and said that a song was needed for the opening scene. The next day, I 'auditioned' my song in the couples' apartment for the director, producer and music supervisor. It could not have fit the opening scene any better, and the next day the as-yet unrecorded song was recorded and immediately placed into the film. This scenario taught me the importance of networking, being personable and pleasant, and sharing M&M's whenever possible."
Forming a songwriters network seemed like the next logical step for Geleris. In a network, a group of songwriters could:
A) Learn the importance of networking with each other
B) Meet guest speakers from many different areas of the music business.
C) Encourage one another and share tips and advice
At a music seminar, Linda had recently been introduced to a gentleman who co-founded TAXI, an independent A&R service company. She called him up and pitched her idea for hosting a network with music industry guest speakers, song critiques, and occasional open mics. During the spring and summer of 1999, the ideas evolved and the periodic conversations eventually led to a commitment from Michael Lederer and TAXI to sponsor the endeavor. The first meetings were held at Beantown, a coffee shop in Sierra Madre, California. Pete Luboff was one of the first speakers.
In April 2001, Thomas "Tommy" Honles and Jimi Yamagishi, who had been members since the beginning, joined Linda Geleris as partners to handle the rapid growth of the network. Geleris, Honles, and Yamagishi created a leadership core to expand the range of opportunities available, secure a presence in cyberspace, and to search for new avenues of support for SongNet members.
Current activity
Enlisting the help of promoter Bob Stane, SongNet has found a home at the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Network%20for%20Evidence%20Based%20Medicine | The German Network for Evidence based Medicine (in German: Deutsches Netzwerk Evidenzbasierte Medizin DNEbM) is a scientific nonprofit association of individuals and institutions promoting the quality of patient care and disease prevention by applying the principles of evidence-based healthcare (EbHC) - in special dentistry (EbD), medicine (EbM), nursing (EbN), pharmacy, physiotherapy - in the countries of German language.
Being a multiprofessional community, DNEbM provides an interdisciplinary discussion and communication forum for health care providers, patients and consumers, health care scientists, managers and political decision makers on all aspects of EbM&N/EbHC.
Membership
The network's membership consists of nearly 800 individuals and more than 50 institutions working in the field of evidence-based healthcare or endorsing it, among them the German Cochrane Center, the German Agency for Quality in Medicine (AEZQ/AQuMed), and the IQWIG.
Organization
DNEbM is a charity, according to German law, with a board of trustees, whose members are elected by the annual general meeting every second year. The board’s executive committee, comprising chair, 1st and 2nd vice-chair, treasurer, oversee the day-to-day activities, organized by the Berlin-based secretariat (executive officer, administrative secretary, webmaster).
Mission
The network's aims and goals are to
promote the translation of EbM&N/EbHC concepts, methods and processes into every day life – especially in clinical practice;
inform its membership about state of the art and ongoing development in the field of EbM&N/EbHC;
promote the scientific discussion and dissemination by organizing and endorsing working groups as well as scientific and educational meetings, and by entertaining a peer-reviewed journal;
advance professional development in these fields, f.e. by means of offering Train-the-Trainer courses;
facilitate the further development, dissemination and application of EbM&N/EbHC principles, concepts, methods, techniques.
Activities
DNEbM’s annual scientific congresses have been the key event for individuals and organisations interested in EbHC/EbM&N science and education.
Presentations are peer reviewed, and – if accepted – published in the bi-lingual open access journal eGMS.
The peer-reviewed German Journal for Evidence and Quality in Healthcare ZEFQ, founded in 1904 as Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung, is DNEbM’s official organ. ZEFQ is also the German-language organ of the Guidelines International Network G-I-N.
Main carrier for the network’s everyday knowledge management and information transfer is DNEbM’s website www.dnebm.de, offering news services as well as open access and members-only information and supported by social networking facilities such as Facebook and Twitter.
Since the network’s foundation, DNEbM members, working in organizations and committees being responsible for defining health care benefits as well as for patient safety programmes, hav |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventis | Eventis was a mobile network operator in Moldova, employing the GSM standard on 900 and 1800 MHz frequency bands. The network was launched on 21 December 2007. In April 2010, following a decision of the country's Appeal Court (Curtea de Apel), Eventis Mobile went through an insolvency process.
The operator's coverage was available in Chişinău, Bălţi, Soroca and Orhei.
Phone numbers have +373650xxxxx format, where x - can be any number.
259 04 - are Mobile Country Code and Mobile Network Code of the operator.
Eventis' network stopped functioning on Friday February 5, 2011 around 18:30. Websites and helpline numbers stopped functioning at once.
Eventis may well be the first operator worldwide to have ceased existing with no warning or information.
External links
www.eventis.md - official site (not available anymore)
Mobile phone companies of Moldova
VoIP companies
Defunct mobile phone companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20decision%20support%20system | An intelligent decision support system (IDSS) is a decision support system that makes extensive use of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. Use of AI techniques in management information systems has a long history – indeed terms such as "Knowledge-based systems" (KBS) and "intelligent systems" have been used since the early 1980s to describe components of management systems, but the term "Intelligent decision support system" is thought to originate with Clyde Holsapple and Andrew Whinston in the late 1970s. Examples of specialized intelligent decision support systems include Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS), intelligent marketing decision support systems and medical diagnosis systems.
Ideally, an intelligent decision support system should behave like a human consultant: supporting decision makers by gathering and analysing evidence, identifying and diagnosing problems, proposing possible courses of action and evaluating such proposed actions. The aim of the AI techniques embedded in an intelligent decision support system is to enable these tasks to be performed by a computer, while emulating human capabilities as closely as possible.
Many IDSS implementations are based on expert systems, a well established type of KBS that encode knowledge and emulate the cognitive behaviours of human experts using predicate logic rules, and have been shown to perform better than the original human experts in some circumstances. Expert systems emerged as practical applications in the 1980s based on research in artificial intelligence performed during the late 1960s and early 1970s. They typically combine knowledge of a particular application domain with an inference capability to enable the system to propose decisions or diagnoses. Accuracy and consistency can be comparable to (or even exceed) that of human experts when the decision parameters are well known (e.g. if a common disease is being diagnosed), but performance can be poor when novel or uncertain circumstances arise.
Research in AI focused on enabling systems to respond to novelty and uncertainty in more flexible ways is starting to be used in IDSS. For example, intelligent agents that perform complex cognitive tasks without any need for human intervention have been used in a range of decision support applications. Capabilities of these intelligent agents include knowledge sharing, machine learning, data mining, and automated inference. A range of AI techniques such as case based reasoning, rough sets and fuzzy logic have also been used to enable decision support systems to perform better in uncertain conditions.
A 2009 research about a multi-artificial system intelligence system named IILS is proposed to automate problem-solving processes within the logistics industry. The system involves integrating intelligence modules based on case-based reasoning, multi-agent systems, fuzzy logic, and artificial neural networks aiming to offer advanced logistics solutions and support in making well-in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQRY-LD | KFFS-CD (channel 36) is a low-power, Class A television station in Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network Court TV. It is owned by Pinnacle Media alongside Estrella TV affiliate KFDF-CD (channel 44). The two stations share studios on North College Avenue in Fayetteville; KFFS-CD's transmitter is located on South 56th Street in Springdale.
KQRY-LD (channel 36) in Fort Smith is a translator of KFFS-CD; this station's transmitter is located near Winslow, Arkansas.
KQRY-LD history
At one point, KQRY-LP (as Univision affiliate KXUN-LP) aired local newscasts; they were produced out of Little Rock, Arkansas, with reports produced in Fort Smith. The newscasts were canceled in June 2008, after then-owner Equity Media Holdings instituted a companywide suspension of news programs.
After failing to find a buyer at a bankruptcy auction, KXUN was sold to Pinnacle Media in August 2009 (after having initially been included in Silver Point Finance's acquisition on June 2 of several Equity stations), with Pinnacle assuming control under a local marketing agreement on August 5.
KXUN was previously seen on KPBI's digital subchannel 34.2; after KPBI was sold to Local TV LLC and renamed KXNW, the KXUN simulcast was replaced with a simulcast of new sister station KFSM-TV. On February 5, 2019, KXUN-LD swapped call signs with KQRY-LD in Sallisaw, Oklahoma.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
Television channels and stations established in 1995
QRY-LD
Court TV affiliates
Equity Media Holdings
QRY-LD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th%20Tony%20Awards | The 6th Annual Tony Awards, presented by the American Theatre Wing, took place at the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom, on March 30, 1952. It was broadcast on radio station WOR and the Mutual Network. The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in Broadway theatre.
Ceremony
The presenter was Helen Hayes.
Performers were Odette Myrtil with her son Roger Adams; and Victor Borge.
Music was by Meyer Davis and his Orchestra.
Award winners
Source: InfoPlease
Production
Performance
Craft
Special awards
Edward Kook, for his contributing to and encouraging the development of stage lighting and electronics
Judy Garland, for an important contribution to the revival of vaudeville through her recent stint at the Palace Theatre
Charles Boyer, for distinguished performance in Don Juan in Hell, thereby assisting in a new theatre trend
Multiple nominations and awards
The following productions received multiple awards.
5 wins: The King and I
3 wins: Pal Joey
2 wins: The Fourposter, I Am a Camera and The Shrike
References
External links
1952 - 6th Annual Tony Awards, The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards
1952 Tony Award Winners, Broadwayworld.com
Tony Awards ceremonies
1952 in theatre
1952 awards
1952 in the United States
Tony Awards
1952 awards in the United States
March 1952 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra%20Szacka | Alexandra Szacka is a Canadian television journalist, who has been a foreign correspondent for CBC News in both the English and French divisions. She has been the network's correspondent in New York City, Moscow and Paris.
Szacka's career began at Radio-Québec and has earned her numerous awards, including the Prix Judith-Jasmin and a Prix Gémeaux. She earned a master's degree in anthropology from Université Laval and is fluent in five languages: English, French, Spanish, Polish and Russian.
Born in Poland, she is the sister of writer Joanna Gruda and journalist Agnès Gruda.
References
Canadian television reporters and correspondents
Polish emigrants to Canada
Université Laval alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian women television journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20RecordTV | This is a list of programs broadcast by RecordTV, a Brazilian television network.
Current programs
News
Balanço Geral (2007–present)
Câmera Record (2008–present)
Cidade Alerta (1995–2005; 2011; 2012–present)
Domingo Espetacular (2004–present)
Fala Brasil (1990–present)
Jornal da Record (1974–present)
Praça no Ar (2004-present)
Repórter Record (1995–2010; 2011–present)
Telenovelas
Os Dez Mandamentos (rerun; 2022–present)
Reis (2022–present)
Jesus (rerun; 2022–present)
TV series
Alphas (2014–present)
Bates Motel (2014–present)
Breaking Bad (2014–present)
Chicago Fire (2014–present)
Chicago P.D. (2015–present)
CSI: Cyber (2015–present)
Grimm (2013–present)
House M.D. (2007–present)
Monk (2006–present)
Once Upon a Time (2014–present)
Outsourced (2012–present)
Spartacus (2014–present)
Reality shows
Varieties and game shows
Children's programs
Woody Woodpecker (2006–present)
Film
Cine Aventura (1993–present)
Cine Maior (2007; 2011–2012; 2013; 2020–present)
Cine Record Especial (1990–present)
Super Tela (1990–present)
Tela Máxima (1999–present)
Sports championships
1984 Summer Olympics
1986 FIFA World Cup
1996 Summer Olympics
1998 FIFA World Cup
UEFA Euro 2004
UEFA Euro 2008
UEFA Champions League
UEFA Cup
2007 Pan American Games
2010 Winter Olympics
2010 South American Games
2010 World Figure Skating Championships
2010 Summer Youth Olympics
2011 Pan American Games
2012 Summer Olympics
2014 Winter Olympics
2014 South American Games
2015 Pan American Games
2016 Summer Olympics
2019 Pan American Games
Torneio Rio-São Paulo
Campeonato Carioca
Campeonato Catarinense
Campeonato Baiano
Campeonato Brasileiro
Copa do Brasil
Copa Sudamericana
International Champions Cup
Campeonato Paulista
Campeonato Cearense
Campeonato Sergipano
Current schedule
News
Local news
Variety and Talk shows
Series
Telenovelas
Other
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Former programs
Variety
12 Mulheres (2009–2010)
50 por 1 (2007–2014)
Almoço com as Estrelas (1980–1981)
As Maiores Curiosidades do Mundo (2005–2006)
Domingo da Gente (2001–2006; 2013–2014)
Domingo Show (2014–2020)
E aí, Doutor? (2011–2012)
Especial Sertanejo (1983–2000)
O Fino da Bossa (1965–1967)
Geraldo Brasil (2009; 2017)
Gugu (2015–2017)
Guineense: O Mundo dos Recordes (2005)
Hebe (1966–1973)
Jovem Guarda (1965–1968)
Kliptonita (1990–1993)
Leão Livre (1998–1999)
Legendários (2010–2017)
O Melhor do Brasil (2005–2014)
Mixturação (1973–1974)
A Noite É Nossa (2002–2004; 2021)
Note e Anote (1991–2005)
Perdidos na Noite (1984–1986)
Perfil (1991–1992)
Programa Ana Maria Braga (1996–1999)
Programa da Sabrina (2014–2019)
Programa da Tarde (2006–2009; 2012–2015)
Programa do Gugu (2009–2013)
Programa do Pochart (2016–2018)
Programa Ferreira Netto (1977–1981; 1988–1992; 1993–1994)
Programa Raul Gil (1973–1978; 1980–1981; 1984–1986; 1998–2005)
Programa Silvio Santos (1980–1987)
Quarta Total (1999–2002)
Ratinho Livre (1997–1998)
Ratinho Show (1997–1998)
Raul Gil Tamanho Família (20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OEDN | OEDN is an OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) EBIF Developer Network that was founded in October, 2007. It is an online developer network for the promotion of Interactive Television application and service development on digital cable television.
The goal of the network is to support the emerging and long-term needs of software engineers and product teams who are building OCAP (tru2way) and EBIF applications. The goal is to run it not only on digital cable television, but also converged applications and services spanning mobile and broadband devices.
OEDN.net is a networked Community of Practice with a membership constituency drawn from cable companies, ITV application vendors, content providers, programming networks, advertisers, academic interactive media researchers and independent consultants.
References
External links
OpenCable Platform Developer Community within the Mobile & Embedded project on Java.net
Sun Microsystems' Java TV
Cable television in the United States
Interactive television
Software developer communities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spend%20analysis | Spend analysis or spend analytics is the process of collecting, cleansing, classifying and analyzing expenditure data with the purpose of decreasing procurement costs, improving efficiency, and monitoring controls and compliance. It can also be leveraged in other areas of business such as inventory management, contract management, complex sourcing, supplier management, budgeting, planning, and product development.
Overview
Spend analysis is often viewed as part of a larger domain known as spend management which incorporates spend analysis, commodity management, industry spend benchmarking, and strategic sourcing. Companies perform a spend analysis for several reasons. The core business driver for most organizations is profitability. In addition to improving compliance and reducing cycle times, performing detailed spend analysis helps companies find new areas of savings that previously went untapped, and hold on to past areas of savings that they have already negotiated.
There are three core areas of spend analysis - visibility, analysis, and process. By leveraging all three, companies can generate answers to the crucial questions affecting their spending, including:
What am I really spending?
With whom am I spending it?
Am I getting what was promised for that spend?
Spend visibility helps chief procurement officers (CPOs), category managers (retail and wholesale) and senior financial officers to gain insight into what their company buys and from whom, and it helps them realize savings promised by past sourcing efforts. It plays an important role in enabling procurement teams to plan and prioritise their work and is a useful tool for a new-in-post procurement leader aiming to make a positive impact on an organisations costs.
Spend cube analysis
A spend cube is a review of spend data presented as a three-dimensional cube. The contents in the cube are the price and volume of items purchased. Dimensions of the cube usually reviewed include:
Comparative spend with different suppliers or vendors.
Stakeholders or cost centers buying the category.
Categories of a commodity purchased by the organization.
Benefits
Saves on costs: Spend analysis helps an organization to identify areas where spending can be consolidated, reduced, or completely eliminated. Once the management has analyzed their spending patterns and identified cost-saving opportunities, they can negotiate better pricing with the suppliers and implement more efficient procurement processes.
Improves supplier relationships: Spend analysis helps organizations evaluate the performance of their suppliers. By understanding the strengths and weaknesses of their suppliers, the organization can work with them to improve their performance thereby building stronger relationships.
Increases efficiency: During the spend analysis process, an organization can identify areas where procurement processes can be streamlined and made more efficient.
Software
Automated spend analysis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%20IBM%20PC%20compatible%20systems | The Commodore PC compatible systems are a range of IBM PC compatible personal computers introduced in 1984 by home computer manufacturer Commodore Business Machines.
Incompatible with Commodore 64 and Amiga architectures, they were generally regarded as good, serviceable workhorse PCs with nothing spectacular about them, but the well-established Commodore name was seen as a competitive asset.
History
In 1984, Commodore signed a deal with Intel to second source manufacture the Intel 8088 CPU used in the IBM PC, along with a license to manufacture a computer based on the Dynalogic Hyperion. It is unknown whether any of these systems were produced or sold.
In 1984, the first model released, the PC-10, sold for $559 without monitor ($ in ). They were sold alongside Commodore's Amiga and Commodore 64c/128 lines of home and graphics computers. The PC10 was comparable in the market to the Blue Chip PC, Leading Edge Model D and Tandy 1000 line of PC compatibles.
Models
The line consists of the following models:
Series 1
First generationSeries I
Commodore PC 5:
Introduced in 1984, at $1395, the Commodore PC 5 is the low-budget option with a monochrome video card. It has a Intel 8088 running at 4.77 MHz and 256k RAM on-board (expandable to 640k). RS232 Serial and Centronics parallel printer ports are on the motherboard rather than on separate cards thereby making more slots available. it has one 5.25" floppy drive and no hard disk (can be installed). The PC 5 was released with MS-DOS 2.11 and GW Basic 3.2. The PC 5 had 5x 8-bit PC BUS Slots. It has two motherboards. One contains the CPU, RAM and ROM v. 2.01, an NPU socket and some VLSI chips. The second mainboard is connected by gold pin connectors, it is an "I/O board" containing serial and parallel port, ISA slots and all I/O chips. Some tracks from ISA slots are factory cut by drilling. The early PC10 has no RTC, HDD controller or reset switch, in front it has DIN keyboard connector
Commodore PC 10
The Commodore PC 10 is a PC 5 with a added color video card and two floppy drives
Commodore PC 10-1
a 512k RAM and single floppy drive version. $519
Commodore PC 10-2
640K RAM and dual floppy Drives. $619
Commodore PC 10-S
a PC 10 with a single floppy drive. (PC 10 have two floppy drives)
Commodore PC 20
The Commodore PC 20 is a PC 10 with a 20 MB hard drive an only one floppy drive.
Commodore PC 40 / AT
PC 40 is the top model of the first generation Commodore PC’s with improved 16bit "AT" hardware compared to 8bit XT in the others. It had a Intel 80286 that runs at either 6 or 10 MHz choosable by the user. Standard RAM was 1Mb and the video card was the same as in the PC 10 and 20. It had one 1,2 Mb 5.25 drive and a 20 MB hard drive. the cabinet had a key lock switch added Notes: The "PC AT" is a "PC 40" with a "AT" added to the name.
Second generationSeries II
Commodore PC 10-II
The Commodore PC 10-II is a minor revision of the original PC 10. It have mainly the same specifi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer%20Account%20Data%20Engine | Customer Account Data Engine (CADE) is the name of two Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax processing systems, used for filing United States income tax returns. Work on the original CADE, designed to replace the Individual Master File (IMF) system, was begun in 2000 and stopped in 2009. The original CADE is in active use; for instance, in 2009, it was used to process over 40 million tax returns.
In 2009, work began on CADE 2, with an initial planned implementation date of 2014 for major functionality. However, CADE 2's major functionality is not expected to be used until 2023 (as of 2021) and the full system is not expected to be implemented until 2030.
Development
Development of CADE was first discussed in 2000 in the IRS Modernization Plan, with an original operational date of November 1, 2006. Programming and development began in 2003, but actual processing on the system was delayed until 2005. The system initially processed only 1040EZ tax returns, the simplest type of electronic tax returns. In 2006, the capacity was increased for the system to begin processing a limited number of more complex 1040 forms and other support forms. In 2007, the system began to process Schedule C forms and other more complex tax forms.
Because the system is unable to handle the full load of IRS tax returns, a hybrid approach is used by the IRS, where the majority of tax returns are still processed with the existing, older system (IMF). Current loads and tax returns processed by CADE are used for testing purposes to verify system functionality.
Basic CADE functionality includes:
Ability to change client addresses manually
Process Married Filing Jointly & Separately without dependents (Married Once) returns
Process “Clean” Dependents (Dependents that are clearly legitimate) returns
Process Head-of-Household without Dependents or with “Clean” Dependents returns
Process Annual Archiving of tax returns
Process Limited Name Changes on Tax Returns
Process 1040 Schedules A, B, and R
Process 1040A Schedules 1, and 3
Ability to match tax return data to Social Security Administration (SSA) information for verification.
Ability to interface with and update Census Bureau statistics
Process 1040 Schedules C, E & F w/o EIN supporting forms, including Sch. SE
Process 1040 Schedule D and supporting forms
Benefits
Benefits to the public
CADE will increase the speed of tax return processing. Under the current system, processing tax returns can take as long as one week and taxpayers have to wait between 14 and 35 days for the IRS to deposit their refund or mail them a check. Using CADE, tax returns will be generally completed within 24 hours and deposits issued within 48–72 hours. Check mailing times have not yet been determined, but there is expected to be at least a one-week wait.
Benefits to the IRS
The purpose of CADE is to replace the current IRS processing and database system that the IRS has been using since 1969. CADE should provide superior security a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20Lounge | Classical Lounge was the first social networking site designed solely for classical music lovers. Built to expand the classical music community, the site and its membership are evidence to a modern, tech-savvy fan base that contradicts the stereotype of the "old and stuffy" classical music audience.
History
Classical Lounge was founded in August 2006 by the members of the Miro Quartet, along with Jason Gindele and Jerry Gindele. Since then, it has gained several thousand members. In September 2006, the PalmBeachPost.com called it "essentially a MySpace-style deal for classical players, composers, critics and enthusiast". The article falsely credited the social networking site to 21C Media, and the news site later corrected its error.
The site was sold to investors in 2009 and shuttered in 2011.
Interaction
The site facilitates interaction between musicians, students, presenters, managers, journalists, media, instrument makers and dealers. Classical music enthusiasts and audience members are also encouraged to participate. Members of the site can share their music and generally network with the broad classical music community.
References
External links
Official Website
Telegram Chinese
Greensboro Website
American music websites
Classical music in the United States
American social networking websites
Defunct social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20Universe%20Observatory | The Dark Universe Observatory (DUO) is a planned NASA space-based telescope. It will conduct observations of galaxy clusters on the X-ray range with the intent of finding data related to both dark matter and energy.
References
Space telescopes
Satellites of the United States
Proposed satellites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20rendering | In computer graphics, spectral rendering is a technique in which a scene's light transport is modeled with real wavelengths. This process is typically slower than traditional rendering, which renders the scene in its red, green, and blue components and then overlays the images. Spectral rendering is often used in ray tracing or photon mapping to more accurately simulate the scene, often for comparison with an actual photograph to test the rendering algorithm (as in a Cornell Box) or to simulate different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum for the purpose of scientific work. The images simulated are not necessarily more realistic appearing, but when compared to a real image pixel for pixel the result is often much closer.
Spectral rendering can also simulate light sources and objects more effectively, as the light's emission spectrum can be used to release photons at a particular wavelength in proportion to the spectrum. Objects' spectral reflectance curves can similarly be used to reflect certain portions of the spectrum more accurately.
As an example, certain properties of tomatoes make them appear differently under sunlight than under fluorescent light. Using the blackbody radiation equations to simulate sunlight or the emission spectrum of a fluorescent bulb in combination with the tomato's spectral reflectance curve, more accurate images of each scenario can be produced.
Implementations
Render engines that define themselves as being capable of spectral rendering:
Arion
FluidRay
Indigo Renderer
LuxCoreRender
mental ray
Mitsuba
Octane Render
Spectral Studio
Thea Render
Ocean
ART
Manuka
Predict Engine
References
External links
Cornell Box Photo Comparison
3D rendering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber%20railway%20lines%20of%20Western%20Australia | The network of railway lines in Western Australia associated with the timber and firewood industries is as old as the mainline railway system of the former Western Australian Government Railways system.
Timber railways
There is a range of terminology related to the timber railways - they have been known as logging railways, timber trams, and other names. The dominant feature is the mobility or easiness of moving the lines from one area of forest to another - and in the early years the relatively primitive state of the lines. The dominant feature is the narrow gauge, and lightness of the locomotives, relative to permanent railways. In Western Australia, to allow for interchangeability of rail stock with the government rail system, a lot of the lines were gauge, however the weight of the rails was usually much lighter than mainline steel.
Timber industry
The timber industry relied mostly upon the jarrah forests of the Darling Range and the karri forests of the Southwest Australia region.
It had stages of development, depending upon government policy and support. The 1980s and the development of government railways assisted the industry, as well various levels of demand for jarrah and the other timbers. Also various labour issues in the industry, and external forces required re-thinking of the industry long before concern for over-logging and forest destruction in the later 21st century.
In many cases- timber/sawmilling/logging companies were family businesses, and as a consequence operations continued over time through family relationships, which in turn had effect on timber railway operations as well.
Timber companies
Millars Empire
Jarrahdale Jarrah Forests and Railways Limited (Mill at Jarrahdale)
M. C. Davies Karri and Jarrah Company Limited (Mills at Karridale, Boranup and Jarrahdene)
Millars Karri and Jarrah Forests Limited (Mills at Denmark, Yarloop and Mornington Mills)
Canning Jarrah Timber Company
Gill McDowell Jarrah Company (Mills at Waroona and Lion Mill)
Jarrah Wood and Saw Mills Company
Jarrah Timber and Wood Paving Corporation (Mills at Worsley)
Imperial Jarrah Wood Corporation (Mills at Newlands and Quindalup)
Swan Saw Mills
Wilgarup Karri and Jarrah Company
Sussex Timber company
Bunning Brothers
State Saw Mills, Pemberton
Railway Department Mill, Banksiadale
Adelaide Timber company
Kauri Timber Company
W.A. Timber Company
Perth Firewood Supply Company
Whites Mill/Honey and Company
Whittaker Brothers
Buckingham Brothers
Sexton and Drysdale/Vincent Brothers
Firewood industry (Goldfields woodlines)
Kalgoorlie woodlines were lines that spread throughout the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia - in all directions from the centre of the Kalgoorlie-Boulder region. Commonly known as the woodlines they sustained a population of railway and timber workers in mainly temporary railway networks that moved regularly from the early twentieth century to the 1960s.
Companies
The main companies were:
The Wes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert%20network | Expert networks refer to a type of business that connects companies with expert resources or subject-matter experts, such as academics, C-levels, founders, and high-level officials to provide valuable information, data, or assistance.
Background
The phrase "expert network" was originally coined by Mark O'Connor of Yankee Group in presentations introducing his August 1997 Management Strategies report, Knowledge Management: People and the Process.
The first known published appearance of the phrase in this context is in the April 1999 Yankee Group white paper A Knowledge Perspective: The Knowledge Management Product and Service Domain. In the December 1999 publication, "Knowledge Evolution: Tools of the Trade," clients were advised to utilize Expert Networks to "Understand who the experts are throughout the organization (including the extended organization), and more appropriately employ that expertise within a broader range of business contexts for better decision making."
The first expert networks used internal databases and phone books, just like standard recruitment firms. With the growth of LinkedIn and other online sources, expert networks have become increasingly reliant on custom-sourcing experts online.
Since the early 2000s, a rather large industry has sprung up facilitating "expert" connections, or providing connections to industry or subject matter experts with whom a single individual or organization has no pre-existing relationship with. GLG, one of the oldest and largest expert networks and was founded in 1998.
Internal expert networks
Some consulting and investment companies have built up their own network of experts whom they can utilize on an as-needed basis.
Primary research platforms
Platforms that provide not only expert interactions but also surveys which can be launched from a central interface. These SaaS platforms typically add additional features to the primary research such as messaging, transcription and other advanced AI.
Business models
There are three aspects of business models for expert networks: (1) revenue models, (2) sourcing models, and (3) operating models. Expert networks may apply two different revenue models: subscription-based and transaction-based.
Revenue models
Transaction-based
The most common revenue model is "pay-per-use" where an expert networks invoices the client per hour of expert consultation, times the "credit" price of the expert. The expert network then pays a part of this to the expert.
Subscription-based
The traditional revenue model was to offer subscriptions to clients. This model still represents a large share of the industry, notably for GLG and Maven Research. The client pays for a predefined number of "credits" at the start of the contract year, which are run down as expert consultations are made. The network keeps the difference between the subscription fees collected and the hourly rates paid out.
Sourcing models
When sourcing experts to connect with clients, an expe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified%20wireless%20security%20professional | The Certified Wireless Security Professional (CWSP) is an advanced level certification that measures the ability to secure any wireless network.
A wide range of security topics focusing on the 802.11 wireless LAN technology are covered in the coursework and exam, which is vendor neutral.
Certification track
The CWSP certification is awarded to candidates who pass the CWSP exam and who also hold the CWNA certification. The CWNA certification is a prerequisite to earning the CWSP certification.
CWSP requirements
This certification covers a wide range of security areas. These include detecting attacks, wireless analysis, policy, monitoring and solutions.
Recertification
The CWSP certification is valid for three years. The certification may be renewed by retaking the CWSP exam or by advancing on to CWNE which is also valid for 3 years.
See also
Professional certification (Computer technology)
References
External links
Official CWNP Site
Wireless networking
Professional titles and certifications
Information technology qualifications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%20Educator%2064 | The Educator 64, also known as the PET 64 and Model 4064, was a microcomputer made by Commodore Business Machines in 1983. It was sold to schools as a replacement for aging Commodore PET systems. Schools were reluctant to adopt the Commodore 64 "breadbox" design due to theft or vandalism of the smaller, more exposed components. The 4064 designation followed in line with the PET's 4008, 4016 and 4032 models as a 64 KB 40-column model.
The internals of the Educator 64 were refurbished Commodore 64 motherboards and monochromatic green monitors. The area above the keyboard contained a quick reference card for BASIC 2.0 and Commodore DOS commands. The only differences between the Educator 64 and the other 64 models were the graphics capabilities, the built-in speaker, the sound amplifier with volume control, the 3.5 mm mini-jack for mono sound output to headphones, the internal power supply, and the keyboard which is missing the color abbreviations imprinted on the front edge of the number keys. The Educator 64 retained the ability to display shades of green, while the PET 64 and 4064 were monochrome-only. Though the PET 4008/4016/4032 computers had cases made entirely of metal, only the Educator 64's base was metal—the upper case was made of thick plastic.
The Educator 64 was not sold in great numbers. It suffered from its monochrome display most Commodore 64 software assumed the availability of color. And, by that time, the US education market was firmly in Apple's grasp.
External links
The C64 is Schoolbound
Secret Weapons of Commodore
Commodore EDUCATOR 64 Model 4064
Commodore 8-bit computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plexopathy | Plexopathy is a disorder of the network of nerves in the brachial or lumbosacral plexus. Symptoms include pain, muscle weakness, and sensory deficits (numbness).
Types
There are two main types of plexopathy, based on the location of the symptoms: brachial plexopathy (affecting the arm) and lumbosacral plexopathy (affecting the leg).
Cause
Brachial plexopathy is often caused from local trauma to the brachial plexus, as can happen from a dislocated shoulder. The disorder can also be secondary to compression or stretching of the brachial plexus (for example, during a baby's transit through the birth canal, in which case it may be referred to as Erb's Palsy or Klumpke's palsy). Non-traumatic causes of brachial plexopathy include diabetes, malignancy, and infection. Brachial plexopathy can also be idiopathic with an unknown cause, in which case it is known as Parsonage-Turner Syndrome. Both brachial and lumbosacral plexopathy can also occur as a consequence of radiation therapy, sometimes after 30 or more years have passed, in conditions known as Radiation-induced Brachial Plexopathy (RIBP) and Radiation-induced Lumbosacral Plexopathy (RILP).
Diagnosis
The first steps in the evaluation and management of plexopathy involve a medical provider obtaining a medical history and conducting a physical examination. Diagnosis of plexopathy relies on proper identification of a pattern in motor and sensory function deficits in the upper or lower extremities.
To rule out confounding conditions such as radiculopathy or myelopathy, an MRI of the cervical or lumbar spine is often obtained. If plexopathy is suspected after imaging, an EMG performed by a neurologist or physiatrist can help confirm a plexopathy, and clarify the localization within the brachial or lumbosacral plexus. Following electrodiagnostic testing, further imaging may be obtained of relevant soft tissue structures with either ultrasound or MRI. Some blood tests may help identify the cause of the plexopathy, including screening for diabetes, and obtaining a complete blood count (CBC) and a comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP).
Treatment
Management of brachial or lumbosacral plexopathy depends on the underlying cause. No matter the cause of plexopathy, physical therapy and/or occupational therapy may promote recovery of strength and improve limb function. In the case of a mass lesion causing compression of the brachial or lumbosacral plexus, surgical decompression may be warranted. In an idiopathic brachial plexopathy, no specific treatment is usually indicated, although there is limited evidence that steroids may hasten recovery. If a brachial or lumbosacral plexopathy is determined to be caused by diabetes, management includes controlling the patient's blood sugar. For radiation-induced plexopathies, treatment options are often limited to pain/symptom management and provision of assistive devices.
See also
plexus
nerve plexus
radiculopathy
References
Peripheral nervous system disorders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearMeeting | ClearMeeting is a web conferencing service developed and marketed by Audiocast Inc. The company provides database driven streaming media products and corporate online communication systems. ClearMeeting is a tool used for adding visual and interactive elements to traditional telephone conference calls. It is sold as an on-demand service, also called SaaS (Software as a Service).
History
The company was developed in 2005 by Audiocast Inc. of Northfield, Illinois, United States, ClearMeeting was designed as a platform for giving and viewing slideshow presentations over the web. It operates as a SaaS, there is no installation of the ClearMeeting application. In 2007, ClearMeeting became a certified application on the Salesforce.com AppExchange.
References
Teleconferencing
Collaborative software
Streaming
1997 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharyngeal%20plexus | Pharyngeal plexus can refer to:
Pharyngeal plexus of vagus nerve – a network of pharyngeal nerves
Pharyngeal plexus (venous) – a network of pharyngeal veins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharyngeal%20plexus%20%28venous%29 | The pharyngeal plexus (venous) is a network of veins beginning in the pharyngeal (nerve) plexus on the outer surface of the pharynx, and, after receiving some posterior meningeal veins and the vein of the pterygoid canal, end in the internal jugular.
See also
Pterygoid venous plexus
References
External links
http://anatomy.uams.edu/AnatomyHTML/veins_head&neck.html
Veins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20Geniuses | Sports Geniuses is an American sports-themed game show that aired for 65 episodes from March 27, 2000, until June 23, 2000, on cable channel Fox Sports Net. It was the network's second game show (Ultimate Fan League was the first, airing in 1998 and 1999, and only other). The advertising campaign for the show won a Clio Award.
Sportscaster Matt Vasgersian hosted, with Lisa Guerrero as his co-host.
Gameplay
Three contestants played a sports trivia game for big prizes.
Round 1 (1st Period)
The first round was played similar to Jeopardy!, with four categories each containing five questions that ranged in value from 10 to 50 points. Two questions in the round were designated "Panasonic Double Plays", and were questions that employed video clips and had follow-up questions attached which if answered correctly doubled the value of the question.
30 Second Blitz
After all the questions have been asked or until time was called, a speed round called the 30 Second Blitz was played. In this, the players would be shown a photo of an athlete and had to identify who it was. Each correct answer was worth 30 points; the round ended after seven photos or when the 30 seconds expired, whichever came first.
Round 2 (2nd Period)
The next round of play was almost identical to the first round, with the following exceptions:
Questions were now worth 20-100 points
Wrong answers deducted points
No Panasonic Double Plays
In addition, a special guest athlete or other sports personality would appear to read all the questions from one category.
A new wrinkle was added for this round, called "The Shaft." The third place player was given The Shaft (which was a silver shaft of a baseball bat, hence the name) to start the round and could use it at any point in the round to force one of their opponents to answer one of the questions on the board (and effectively giving them the next "Shaft" usage). Each player could only be "Shafted" once, and once The Shaft returned to someone who had already used it, it was taken out of play.
At the end of this round, when all of the questions had been asked or until time was called, whichever came first, the two highest-scoring players advanced to the final round. The player with the lowest score was eliminated from the game. If the second round ended in a tie for second place, a tie-breaker question was asked and whoever buzzed in with a correct answer would advance to the final round with the first place player. However, if a player who buzzed in gave an incorrect answer or took too long, the other player automatically moved to the final round. If the round ended in a three-way tie, Matt would ask two tiebreaker questions and only the two players that answered correctly moved on the final round.
Final Face-Off
In the final Face-off, the two remaining players were given a category for each question (i.e., Super Bowl winners), and the value would start at 100 points and increase by 10 points for each correct answer given by the contest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAS%20Europe%20Airlines | EAS Europe Airlines was a French airline that operated from 1965 until 1995.
Code data
IATA code: EY
ICAO code: EYT
Callsign: Euro Line
Company history
Europe Aéro Service was a subsidiary of Societé Aero Sahara and began flights in 1965 with services between Perpignan and Palma de Majorca with Handley Page Dart Herald aircraft. Other services were between Valence - Paris; Metz - Paris and Paris - Rennes. The airline also operated charter flights. In 1971 EAS was operating night freight flights for Air France mostly flying newspapers from Paris to Marseille, Toulouse, Algiers, Casablanca, Frankfurt, Milan, Tunis and Zurich.
Another aircraft used in the 1970s was the Vickers Vanguard and from 1972 the SE 210 Caravelle was used for passenger flights.
EAS also had a small fleet of small aircraft to flight small package flights. Other aircraft used were the Boeing 737-222 and the Boeing 707-436. Beginning in the 1990s, EAS began having financial problems and declared bankruptcy. A new owner was found who built up the airline once again, but the end could not be averted; on March 6, 1995 the company ceased operations.
Historic fleet details
The following aircraft types were operated by EAS:
Boeing 707-436
Boeing 727-200
Boeing 737-222
Handley Page Dart Herald
Nord 262
SE 210 Caravelle
Vickers Vanguard
Vickers Viking.
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Defunct airlines of France
Airlines established in 1965
Airlines disestablished in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent%20Smetters | Kent Smetters is an academic, entrepreneur, and former government official.
Early years
Smetters was raised in Ohio. He received his bachelor's degrees in economics and computer science from the Ohio State University in 1990, and master's and PhD degrees in economics from Harvard University in 1992 and 1995 respectively.
Career
Academics
Smetters is a professor of insurance and risk management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and the Joseph E. and Ruth E. Boettner Professor of Financial Gerontology. Financial gerontology is the study of aging and related financial and business impacts, applying the functionality of gerontology to the concepts of financial planning. Smetters has written on government debt and Social Security policy and has a strong interest in financial planning, analyzing relationships between the economic well-being of the elderly and their social, legal, psychological, physical, and environmental well-being. Smetters has also written about the need for insurance industry reform and supports the notion that the private sector should provide terrorism insurance or protection instead of government. He has held visiting appointments with the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Smetters has also published several papers and chapters with the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he continues to be a research associate in public economics and faculty research fellow for the Aging Program. Since 2000, he has been with the Michigan Retirement Research Center as a research associate.
Government and policy
From 1995 to 1999, Smetters was an economist at the Congressional Budget Office. In 1999, he served as a consultant for the World Bank. He became deputy assistant secretary for economic policy of the United States Treasury in 2001, where he stayed on for another year as a consultant. He was also a member of the Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Dynamic Scoring, U.S. Congress from 2002 to 2003. He is a visiting scholar of the American Enterprise Institute for public policy research.
RotoHog
He co-founded Sports Composite DE, Inc. with David Wu in 2006, which developed the RotoHog fantasy sports game. RotoHog is a digital platform developer that designs, implements and markets fantasy services for media and advertising partners. The company builds, delivers and manages co-branded fantasy sports games for major media companies, sports companies and professional sports leagues.
RotoHog is also the provider of nba.com's NBA Stock Exchange and commissioner games. In 2009, RotoHog began to provide games for Fox Sports in Spanish and the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball tour. Smetters is no longer with the company but serves on the board of advisors.
Veritat Advisors, Inc
After several years in the financial industry, Smetters co-founded the company Veritat Advisors. Smetters is the president of Veritat Advisors.
Veritat positions itself as one of the first financial advisory firms to deliver full-service a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-Men%20%2775 | was a long-running prime-time popular television detective series in Japan. It aired on Saturday nights in the 9:00–9:54 p.m. time slot on the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) network from May 24, 1975 to April 3, 1982. A sequel, G-Men '82, followed, as did the specials. It had also been broadcast in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Since Hong Kong was one of the filming locations, it was very popular there. With several updates and cast changes, it ran for 7 years. Selected episodes are available on DVD.
Plot
The story revolved around a special detective agency, the eponymous G-Men. The principal character, who spanned the entire series (and continued into the sequel and specials), was Superintendent Tetsuya Kuroki, who was portrayed by Tetsurō Tamba. Kuroki directed the members of the group.
The original cast also included Yasuaki Kurata as Detective Yasuaki Kusano, trained in karate. Gō Wakabayashi joined in Episode 105, and remained to the end of the series (and the sequel). His character, Lieutenant Goro Tachibana, replaced a detective who was written out of the script.
Music
Shunsuke Kikuchi wrote the opening theme songs. Various artists, including some cast members, wrote and performed the closing songs. For most years, the lyrics were by Junya Sato, set to Kikuchi's music. Veteran announcer Takayuki Akutagawa narrated the series.
Ending songs
"Omokage" by Yuri Shimazaki (Episode 1-58)
"Tsuiso" by Yuri Shimazaki (Episode 59-144)
"Michi" by Kaori Shima (Episode 145-174)
"Omokage" by Yuri Shimazaki (Episode 175-204)
"Requiem" by Isao Sasaki (Episode 205-229)
"Requiem" by Yuri Shimazaki (Episode 230-233, 235)
"Wing" by Mari Natsuki (Episode 234, 236-248)
"Harukanaru Tabiji" by Popla (Episode 254-306)
"Again" by Yuri Shimazaki (Episode 307-354)
Opening sequence
The opening sequence featured the main cast walking along a runway with a "75" placed at the bottom, with an arrow beside it, as their characters were viewed in separate close-ups (with the name of their actors accompanying). The placement of the arrow and the "75" logo were changed as the series progressed. It was intended to film the opening at Haneda Airport, but permission was not granted, so it was filmed instead at Yashio, a district of Tokyo's Shinagawa ward, and later openings at the JMSDF Tateyama Air Base.
G-Men '75 cast
Tetsurō Tamba as Tetsuya Kuroki (ep.1-355)
Yosuke Natsuki as Noriyuki Odagiri (ep.1-223)
Yasuaki Kurata as Yasuaki Kusano (ep.1-202)
Yū Fujiki as Hachibe Yamada (ep.1-204)
Daijirō Harada as Ichiro Sekiya (ep.1-33)
Fujita Okamoto as Shinichi Tsusaka (ep.1-104)
Mihoko Fujita as Keiko Hibiki (ep.1-103)
Gō Wakabayashi as Gorō Tachibana (ep.101-355)
Maria Mori as Ryoko Hayami (ep.105-203)
Gō Ibuki as Takeshi Nakaya (ep.105-306)
Mari Natsuki as Keiko Tsugawa (ep.205-251)
Hiroshi Chiba as Akio Taguchi (ep.205-330)
Toshihiko Yuuki as Tatsuya Murai (ep.205-226)
Yūsuke Kawazu as Yoshiaki Nagumo (ep.227-305)
Hiroshi Miyauchi as Kazuhiko Shimaya (ep.227-306)
Harumi Nakaji |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan%20Township%2C%20Thurston%20County%2C%20Nebraska | Bryan Township is one of eleven townships in Thurston County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 110 at the 2020 census.
References
External links
City-Data.com
Townships in Thurston County, Nebraska
Townships in Nebraska |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Technology%20Platform%20for%20the%20Electricity%20Networks%20of%20the%20Future | The European Technology Platform (ETP) for the Electricity Networks of the Future (SmartGrids) is a European Commission initiative that aims at boosting the competitive situation of the European Union in the field of electricity networks, especially smart power grids. The ETP represents all European stakeholders. The establishment of an ETP in this field was for the first time suggested by the industrial stakeholders and the research community at the first International Conference on the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources and Distributed Energy Resources, which was held in December 2004.
The SmartGrids Platform was started by the European Commission Directorate General for Research of the European Commission in 2005.
See also
Net metering
Unified Smart Grid or USG (United States proposed system)
V2G
References
Sources
International Conference on the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources and Distributed Energy Resources
Strategic Research Agenda
External links
SmartGrids official website
CORDIS official ETPs website
Science and technology in Europe
European Union and science and technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrust | Entrust Corp., formerly Entrust Datacard, provides software and hardware used to issue financial cards, e-passport production, user authentication for those looking to access secure networks or conduct financial transactions, trust certificated for websites, mobile credentials, and connected devices. The privately-held company is based in Shakopee, Minnesota and employs more than 2,500 people globally.
History
Entrust Inc
In 1994, Entrust built and sold the first commercially available public key infrastructure. In 1997, Nortel (formerly Northern Telecom) spun off Entrust when it became incorporated in Maryland as a part of a tax strategy.
Entrust originally entered the public SSL market by chaining to the Thawte Root in 1999 creating Entrust.net.
In May 2000, Entrust acquired enCommerce, a provider of authentication and authorization technologies.
In April 2002, Entrust's public key infrastructure technology served as the foundation for the prototype of what is now the United States Federal Bridge Certification Authority. The authority is an element of the trust infrastructure that provides the basis for intergovernmental and cross-governmental secure communications.
In mid-2004, Entrust acquired AmikaNow! Corporation's content scanning, analysis and compliance technology. The technology is designed to automatically analyze and categorize email message and document content based on the contextual meaning, rather than pre-defined word lists.
Entrust acquired Orion Security Solutions, a supplier of public key infrastructure services, in June 2006.
In July 2006, Entrust acquired Business Signatures Corporation, a supplier of non-invasive fraud detection solutions, for US$50 million. From a GAAP accounting perspective, the total purchase price was approximately $55.0 million, including assumed stock options, transaction expenses and net asset value. Business Signatures was founded in 2001 in Redwood City, California, by former executives from Oracle, HP and Cisco. It originally was funded by the Texas Pacific Group, Walden International, Ram Shriram of Google and Dave Roux of Silver Lake Partners.
Prior to it becoming a private-equity company, Entrust was included on the Russell 3000 Index in July 2008. In July 2007, Entrust contributed public key infrastructure technology to the open-source community through Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the Mozilla Foundation. Specifically, Entrust supplied certificate revocation list distribution points (CRL-DP), Patent 5,699,431, to Sun under a royalty-free license for incorporation of that capability into the Mozilla open-source libraries.
In September 2008, Entrust participated in the ePassports EAC Conformity and Interoperability Tests in Prague, Czech Republic. Facilitated by a consortium of the European Commission, Brussels Interoperability Group (BIG) and the European Commission Joint Research Centre, the Prague tests allowed European countries to verify conformance of their second-generation ePa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-matrix | Y-matrix may refer to:
The matrix of admittance parameters, describing an electrical network viewed as a black-box with ports
The nodal admittance matrix, arising in the nodal analysis of an electrical network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Server%202008%20R2 | Windows Server 2008 R2, codenamed "Windows Server 7", is the fifth version of the Windows Server operating system produced by Microsoft and released as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally available on October 22, 2009, shortly after the completion of Windows 7. It is the successor to Windows Server 2008, which is derived from the Windows Vista codebase, released the previous year, and was succeeded by the Windows 8-based Windows Server 2012.
Enhancements in Windows Server 2008 R2 include new functionality for Active Directory, new virtualization and management features, version 7.5 of the Internet Information Services web server and support for up to 256 logical processors. It is built on the same kernel used with the client-oriented Windows 7, and is the first server operating system released by Microsoft which dropped support for 32-bit processors, a move which was followed by the consumer-oriented Windows 11 in 2021.
Windows Server 2008 R2 is the final version of Windows Server that includes Enterprise and Web Server editions, the final that got a service pack from Microsoft and the final version that supports IA-64 and processors without PAE, SSE2 and NX (although a 2018 update dropped support for non-SSE2 processors). Its successor, Windows Server 2012, requires a processor with PAE, SSE2 and NX, in any supported architecture.
Seven editions of Windows Server 2008 R2 were released: Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server and Itanium, as well as Windows Storage Server 2008 R2. A home server variant called Windows Home Server 2011 was also released.
History
Microsoft introduced Windows Server 2008 R2 at the 2008 Professional Developers Conference as the server variant of Windows 7, based on the Windows NT kernel.
On January 7, 2009, a beta release of Windows Server 2008 R2 was made available to subscribers of Microsoft's TechNet and MSDN programs, as well as those participating in the Microsoft Connect program for Windows 7. Two days later, the beta was released to the public via the Microsoft Download Center.
On April 30, 2009, the release candidate was made available to subscribers of TechNet and MSDN. On May 5, 2009, the release candidate was made available to the public via the Microsoft download center.
According to Windows Server Blog, the following are the dates of the year 2009 when Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 has been made available to various distribution channels:
OEMs received Windows Server 2008 R2 in English and all language packs on July 29. The remaining languages were available around August 11.
Independent software vendor (ISV) and independent hardware vendor (IHV) partners have been able to download Windows Server 2008 R2 from MSDN starting on August 14.
IT professionals with TechNet subscriptions were able to download Windows Server 2008 R2 and obtain product keys for English, French, German, Itali |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage%20Mutant%20Ninja%20Turtles%20%282003%20TV%20series%2C%20season%207%29 | The seventh and final season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, titled Back to the Sewer or TMNT: Back to the Sewer, aired on Saturday mornings on the CW4Kids on CW Network in 2008–2010. With this season, the show moved from Fox's 4Kids TV lineup to the CW. The season began with the episode "Tempus Fugit" which aired on September 13, 2008. It is followed by the TV movie Turtles Forever.
Story
Cody Jones is able to finally repair the Time Window, allowing the Turtles and Splinter to return to the 21st Century. However, Viral, who had survived her defeat in the previous season, hacks into the time window, taking control of it and sending the Turtles, Splinter, and Serling (who accidentally fell in) to various eras in an attempt to kill them. Just as the group is able to return home, Viral attacks Splinter, shattering him into countless bytes of data scattered across the Internet. Serling and the Turtles resolve to recover Splinter's bytes and return him to his whole self by digitizing themselves and entering cyberspace to find them.
Viral is forcibly assimilated into a digital copy of Ch'rell, who had done so prior to his attempted departure from Earth in the 3rd-season finale. This forms a new incarnation of the Shredder known as the "Cyber Shredder," who employs a new Foot Clan with Khan as his first lieutenant. Shredder makes several attempts to escape from cyberspace and enter the real world, often harassing the Turtles during their attempts to locate Splinter's data.
In the season's finale, Splinter is recompiled and returned to his adopted sons, who decide to celebrate April and Casey's wedding. Dozens of the Turtles' closest allies attend the ceremony- Angel, Usagi, Leatherhead, Karai, Dr. Chaplain- which is violently attacked by the Foot Clan, led by the Shredder, who has finally entered the physical world. In the midst of a massive battle between the Turtles' allies and the Foot, Donatello is able to destroy the Shredder. The wedding finally ends, in front of the Turtles, Splinter, and many other allies. Additionally, the Rat King and Renet watch from a distance, whereas the Daimyo, the Ultimate Ninja, Agent Bishop, and Cody observe the wedding through either technological or magical means.
Voice Cast
Main
Michael Sinterniklaas as Leonardo: the leader of the Turtles who helped his brothers to find Splinter's data bits after Viral blasted him apart into Cyberspace. (12 episodes)
Sam Riegel as Donatello: a genius engineer who blamed himself for Splinter's decompiling... up until "Hacking Stockman" and vowed to restore his bits from Cyberspace. (12 episodes)
Frank Frankson as Raphael: the Turtles' hotheaded member and second in command who is stubborn but caring. (13 episodes)
Wayne Grayson as Michelangelo: the Turtles' youngest member and a source of comic relief who is a member of the Justice Force as the "Turtle Titan". (13 episodes)
Supporting
Veronica Taylor as April: the Turtles' ally who enters a relationship with Casey.
Ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Schoeffler | Paul Schoeffler (born November 21, 1958) is a Canadian stage, film, television, and voice actor.
Biography
Schoeffler provides the voices for many characters on the Cartoon Network animated series Courage the Cowardly Dog. He has also made guest appearances on Midnight Caller and Law & Order.
He has also acted on stages such as Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre, portraying characters such as Don Quixote from Man of La Mancha, Javert from Les Misérables, and Captain Hook from Peter Pan; and Sweet Charity among others. He originated the role of the German developer, Hertz, in the Broadway cast of Rock of Ages and returned to the role on October 26, 2009, following a 3-month absence where he played Lawrence Jameson in the Walnut Street Theatre production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
References
External links
1958 births
Living people
Canadian male voice actors
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male stage actors
American male voice actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male stage actors
Male actors from Montreal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinomial%20test | In statistics, the multinomial test is the test of the null hypothesis that the parameters of a multinomial distribution equal specified values; it is used for categorical data.
Beginning with a sample of items each of which has been observed to fall into one of categories. It is possible to define as the observed numbers of items in each cell. Hence
Next, defining a vector of parameters where:
These are the parameter values under the null hypothesis.
The exact probability of the observed configuration under the null hypothesis is given by
The significance probability for the test is the probability of occurrence of the data set observed, or of a data set less likely than that observed, if the null hypothesis is true. Using an exact test, this is calculated as
where the sum ranges over all outcomes as likely as, or less likely than, that observed. In practice this becomes computationally onerous as and increase so it is probably only worth using exact tests for small samples. For larger samples, asymptotic approximations are accurate enough and easier to calculate.
One of these approximations is the likelihood ratio. An alternative hypothesis can be defined under which each value is replaced by its maximum likelihood estimate The exact probability of the observed configuration under the alternative hypothesis is given by
The natural logarithm of the likelihood ratio, between these two probabilities, multiplied by is then the statistic for the likelihood ratio test
(The factor is chosen to make the statistic asymptotically chi-squared distributed, for convenient comparison to a familiar statistic commonly used for the same application.)
If the null hypothesis is true, then as increases, the distribution of converges to that of chi-squared with degrees of freedom. However it has long been known (e.g. Lawley) that for finite sample sizes, the moments of are greater than those of chi-squared, thus inflating the probability of type I errors (false positives). The difference between the moments of chi-squared and those of the test statistic are a function of Williams showed that the first moment can be matched as far as if the test statistic is divided by a factor given by
In the special case where the null hypothesis is that all the values are equal to (i.e. it stipulates a uniform distribution), this simplifies to
Subsequently, Smith et al. derived a dividing factor which matches the first moment as far as For the case of equal values of this factor is
The null hypothesis can also be tested by using Pearson's chi-squared test
where is the expected number of cases in category under the null hypothesis. This statistic also converges to a chi-squared distribution with degrees of freedom when the null hypothesis is true but does so from below, as it were, rather than from above as does, so may be preferable to the uncorrected version of for small samples.
References
Categorical variable interactions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20programming%20language | In computer programming, a scientific programming language can refer to two degrees of the same concept.
In a wide sense, a scientific programming language is a programming language that is used widely for computational science and computational mathematics. In this sense, C/C++ and Python can be considered scientific programming languages.
In a stronger sense, a scientific programming language is one that is designed and optimized for the use of mathematical formula and matrices.
Such languages are characterized not only by the availability of libraries performing mathematical or scientific functions, but by the syntax of the language itself. For example, neither C++ nor Python have built-in matrix types or functions for matrix arithmetic (addition, multiplication etc.); instead, this functionality is made available through standard libraries. Scientific programming languages in the stronger sense include ALGOL, APL, Fortran, J, Julia, Maple, MATLAB and R.
Scientific programming languages should not be confused with scientific language in general, which refers loosely to the higher standards in precision, correctness and concision expected from practitioners of the scientific method.
Examples
Linear algebra
Scientific programming languages provide facilities to work with linear algebra. For example, the following Julia program solves a system of linear equations:
A = rand(20, 20) # A is a 20x20 matrix
b = rand(20) # b is a 20-element vector
x = A\b # x is the solution to A*x = b
Working with large vectors and matrices is a key feature of these languages, as linear algebra lays the foundation to mathematical optimization, which in turn enables major applications such as deep learning.
Mathematical optimization
In a scientific programming language, we can compute function optima with a syntax close to mathematical language. For instance, the following Julia code finds the minimum of the polynomial .
using Optim
P(x,y) = x^2 - 3x*y + 5y^2 - 7y + 3
z₀ = [ 0.0
0.0 ] # starting point for optimization algorithm
optimize(z -> P(z...), z₀, Newton();
autodiff = :forward)
In this example, Newton's method for minimizing is used. Modern scientific programming languages will use automatic differentiation to compute the gradients and Hessians of the function given as input; cf. differentiable programming. Here, automatic forward differentiation has been chosen for that task.
Older scientific programming languages such as the venerable Fortran would require the programmer to pass, next to the function to be optimized, a function that computes the gradient, and a function that computes the Hessian.
With more knowledge of the function to be minimized, more efficient algorithms can be used. For instance, convex optimization provides faster computations when the function is convex, quadratic programming provides faster computations when the function is at most quadratic in its variables, and linear programming w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20Genesis%20Awards%20Winners | This is a listing of winners from the 2001 Genesis Awards.
Film
Feature Film: "Chicken Run" (DreamWorks Pictures)
Television
Network Newsmagazine: "Dateline NBC," for two powerful, sobering exposes—on puppy mills and on broadtail fur.
Television Dramatic Series: "Family Law" (CBS), for a story featuring a custody battle for a chimpanzee, exploring the arguments against keeping primates as companion animals.
Television Comedy Series: "Popular" (The WB), for a script questioning the eating of cows and the wearing of leather.
Television Talk Show: "Politically Incorrect" (ABC), for arguments against hunting and declaring that the animals' right to live supersedes a dying child's wish to kill.
Cable Documentary: "Investigative Reports" (A&E), for a look at the perils facing the buffalo of Yellowstone National Park.
Cable Newsmagazine: "CNN & TIME magazine" (CNN), for exposing greyhound racing.
Cable Documentary Series: "Earth Rescue" (Outdoor Life Network), for an overview of elephants in circuses, exposing the capture, transport, training methods and lifestyles they endure.
PBS Documentary: "Nature," for an unprecedented look at the history of elephants held captive for human curiosity and entertainment.
PBS Series: "ITN World News," for exposing some of the worst cases of animal torture around the world.
News Series: KING-TV (Seattle), for a seven-part series revealing the suffering of cows as they are turned into food.
News Feature: KARE-TV (Minneapolis), for revealing the cruelty to horses in the production of Premarin.
Reality Programming: "Wild Rescues" (Animal Planet), for a series of powerful segments spotlighting animals in peril, and those people whose valiant efforts save them.
Children's Programming: "Nick News With Linda Ellerbee." (Nickelodeon), for introducing information on myriad animal issues, presented in a format easily embraced by children.
Children's Programming - Animated: "The Wild Thornberrys" (Nickelodeon), for a sterling season of inspired and clever episodes nurturing a sense of compassion and responsibility.
Cartoonist: "Cathy," for challenging the fur industry's hype with style and wit, and for promoting the adoption of older dogs from shelters.
Print
Periodical: The Atlantic Monthly, for "From the Leash to the Laboratory," which unmasks the trade involving the theft of dogs for sale to laboratories.
Special awards
Ark Trust International Award: Daily Express (United Kingdom), for "Terrible Despair of Animals Cut Up in Name of Research," a two-part exposé on xenotransplantation.
Brigitte Bardot International Award: (ARTE), for a segment airing in France and Germany that shines the media spotlight on the abuse of U.S. rodeo animals.
Ark Trust International Award to Lucy Johnston and Jonathan Calvert of The Daily Express, United Kingdom, for "Terrible Despair of Animals Cut Up in the Name of Research."
References
2001 film awards
2001 television awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotutils | GNU plotutils is a set of free software command-line tools and software libraries for generating 2D plot graphics based on data sets. It is used in projects such as PSPP and UMLgraph, and in many areas of academic research, and is included in many Linux distributions such as Debian. Windows and Mac OS X versions are also available. The library provides bindings for the C and C++ languages. Its stand-alone command-line tools can generate graphs and perform numerical calculation of spline curves and systems of ordinary differential equations. Plotutils is a GNU package and is distributed under a free software licence, the GPL.
History
Several utilities were inspired by Unix plotting utilities. A graph utility and various plot filters were present in the first releases of Unix from Bell Laboratories. By the time of Version 7 Unix, graph, plot, spline, and several device-dependent versions of libplot were standard Unix features. The first display device supported by the package was a Tektronix 611 storage scope. By the early 1980s, numerous other devices were supported.
In 1989, the first GNU versions of graph, plot, tek2plot, spline and their respective documentation were written. Richard Stallman further directed development of the programs and documentation. The distribution, as it stood in 1991, was distributed under the name GNU graphics.
In 1995, the package was significantly expanded by writing a device-independent, standalone version of libplot, and by rewriting graph from scratch, turning it into a real-time filter.
Features
Stand alone tools
GNU graph, which plots 2-D datasets or data streams in real time.
GNU plot, which translates GNU Metafile format to any of the other formats.
GNU tek2plot, for translating Tektronix 4010 data to any of the above formats.
GNU pic2plot, for translating the pic language to any of the above formats.
GNU plotfont, for displaying character maps of the fonts that are available in the above formats.
GNU spline, which does spline interpolation of data.
GNU ode, which numerically integrates a system consisting of one or more ordinary differential equations.
Supported output formats
X Window System display
SVG
PNG
PNM
pseudo-GIF (using run-length encoding rather than LZW to avoid the past patent issue)
WebCGM
Adobe Illustrator
PostScript
PCL
HP-GL
xfig
See also
Graph (Unix)
GNU Project
gnuplot
References
External links
UMLgraph Automated Drawing of UML Diagrams
GNU Plotutils
C++ for mathematicians: an introduction for students and professionals
GNU Graphics
GNU Project software
Graphics libraries
Free plotting software
Free computer libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suc%C3%BAa | Sucúa is a town in the Morona Santiago province of Ecuador. It is the seat of the Sucúa Canton.
The population as of a 1995 census was 5,847 and in 2009 it had an estimated population of 7,919.
Data of Sucua
ALTITUDE: 900 m.s.n.m.
TEMPERATURE: between 18 and 28 C.
CLIMATE: The canton is subject to the influence of the Amazon, tropical humid.
EXTENSION: 1,279.22 km2
POPULATION: 18,318 inhabitants. (9346 women - 8972 men) 2010 census
DATE OF CANTONIZATION: December 8, 1962
LIMITS:
To the North: Canton Morona,
To the South: Cantones Logroño and Santiago,
To the East: Canton Morona,
To the West: Province of Cañar
LANGUAGES: Spanish, Shuar
Tourist attractions
Río Upano
Río tutanangoza
Piedra del mono
Cascadas de Arapicos
Parque Botánico
Petroglifos del Abuelo
Mirador de Huambinimi
Carnaval Culturizado
Parque Ecuador Amazonico
Museo de Sucua
Tuntiak Nunkee
Mirador de Piura
Mirador Río Upano
Cascadas Kintia Panki
Cascadas del Río Umpuankas-Kumpas
Balneario Cabañas Panki
Las Taguas
Tourist activities
Rafting
Sightseeing
Camping
Jungle exploration trips
Note: It is recommended to find an experienced tourist guide for any of these activities
Parties and Holidays
Fiesta de Cantonizacion de Sucua -December 8
El Carnaval Culturizado (Carnival Celebration) -February
Fiesta de Maria Auxiliadora -May 24.
Peregrinación a la Virgen Purísima de Macas -August 4
Fiesta de la Chonta -April/May
Fiesta de la Yuca
Typical food
Ayampaco de pollo
Caldo de gallina criolla
Tamal de yuca
Guayusa
Popular Restaurants
Ronco's Restaurant
Asadero Chelita Grill and Typical Food
References
External links
www.sucua.gob.ec (official web site)
www.spanishlearningprogram.com (Spanish Learning Program Amazon - Sucua)
www.visitasucua.com (Sucua Guide's)
Populated places in Morona-Santiago Province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar%20Saujana%20Putra | Bandar Saujana Putra is a township in Kuala Langat District, Selangor, Malaysia.
It is located across the Klang River from Putra Heights, and across the ELITE toll road from Cyberjaya.
This township is under the administration of Zone7 of the Kuala Langat Municipal Council (MPKL).
Location, Area Description and Demographic
Bandar Saujana Putra is an 850 acres township developed by LBS Bina Berhad in 2003. It is estimated that 20,000 residents live in the township following the completion of 6,000 units.
Saujana Business Park, BSP Village and Saujana Avenue are the only commercial developments that have many amenities to serve the residents of Bandar Saujana Putra, while hospitals, hypermarkets and shopping malls are currently under construction.
As of 2019, Bandar Saujana Putra consists of 13,000 housing units with a density of 65,000 people.
Education
MAHSA International School and MAHSA University is the only school serving in this township. However, there are nearby schools and universities in Puchong, Shah Alam, UEP Subang Jaya, Kuala Langat, Putra Heights, Putrajaya and Cyberjaya, a 15 to 20 minute drive from the township.
Universities
Multimedia University (Cyberjaya)
Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (Cyberjaya)
Heriot-Watt University (Putrajaya)
MAHSA University (SP2, Bandar Saujana Putra)
Management & Science University (Shah Alam)
Government schools
SMK Bandar Saujana Putra
SK Bandar Saujana Putra (opening soon)
SK Alam Megah 1, 2 & 3 (Section 27 & 28, Shah Alam)
SMK Alam Megah 1 & 2 (Section 27 & 28, Shah Alam)
SK Seksyen 27 (Section 27 & 28, Shah Alam)
SK Taman Putra Perdana 1 & 2 (Puchong)
SMK Putra Perdana (Puchong)
SK USJ 2, 6 & 20 (UEP Subang Jaya)
SMK USJ 4, 8, 12, 13 & 23 (UEP Subang Jaya)
Sekolah Wawasan USJ 15 (UEP Subang Jaya)
SJK (C) Chee Wen, USJ 1 (UEP Subang Jaya)
SK Jenjarom (Jenjarom)
SMK Jenjarom (Jenjarom)
SMK Puchong Utama 1 & 2 (Puchong)
SK Pulau Meranti (Puchong)
SMK Puchong Batu 14 (Puchong)
Sekolah Rendah Agama Desa Ayer Hitam (Puchong)
SMK Cyberjaya (Cyberjaya)
SRJK (C) Tun Tan Siew Sin (Putra Heights)
SK Putra Heights 2 (Putra Heights)
International schools
Taylor's International School (Puchong)
Kingsley International School (Putra Heights)
Nexus International School (Putrajaya)
Korean School of Malaysia (Cyberjaya)
MAHSA International School (SP1, Bandar Saujana Putra)
Oasis International School (Bandar Rimbayu)
Transport
Car
Bandar Saujana Putra is served by the ELITE toll road (E6) and the South Klang Valley Expressway (SKVE, E26).
Bandar Saujana Putra is about 30 km from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport , 18 km to Cyberjaya, and 6 km to Putra Heights via the ELITE toll road.
Telok Panglima Garang is 21 km from Bandar Saujana Putra via the SKVE toll road. Regional centre Banting is accessible from Telok Panglima Garang via highway 5.
Public transportation
Public transportation connections from Bandar Saujana Putra are limited.
Previously there was a bus route T760, operat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARD-alpha | ARD alpha is a German free-to-air television channel run by regional public-service broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. Its programming consists of shows made by Bayerischer Rundfunk, as well as from ARD and Austrian broadcaster ORF. The channel was originally called BR-alpha, but was rebranded as ARD-alpha on 29 June 2014.
Programmes
ARD-alpha broadcasts educational programmes including; science, religion, music, philosophy, literature, language learning, art and culture.
History
BR-alpha (1998-2014)
BR-alpha, as the station was originally called, started broadcasting on January 7, 1998. The station's programmes were originally broadcast in analog using the Astra satellite and were also distributed by cable networks. The schedule focused mainly on education and information. The channel began digital broadcasts via Astra in the summer of 1998. On 28 November 2000, the heads of the regional public broadcasters agreed to start cooperating with BR-alpha.
On 30 September 2002, the channel started broadcasting Planet Wissen ("Planet Knowledge" in English), a general knowledge programme and a co-production of BR-alpha, Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Südwestrundfunk. The programme also has an extensive internet presence. Bavaria started digital terrestrial television broadcasts on 30 May 2005, as did BR-alpha.
The channel's scheduled were revamped on 16 February 2008. Career guidance programmes, a magazine aimed at young people called freiraum were started, and programs W wie Wissen and Faszination Wissen were also added.
On 9 August 2009, the youth program on3-südwild switched from Bavarian Television to BR-alpha. On 27 June 2010, Andreas Höfer won the Deutschen Kamerapreis (German Camera Award) in the category TV movie /docudrama for the BR-alpha film Empathie – Stumme Schreie (Empathy - Silent screams).
ARD alpha (since 2014)
The channel was renamed ARD alpha on 29 June 2014. The schedule was reorganised the previous day. BR is still responsible for financing and broadcasting the channel, but some programmes originally broadcast by other ARD member stations were added to ARD alpha's schedule. Cooperation with ORF (the Austrian public broadcaster) in the form of alpha-Österreich continued, and its television programs are now aired after 10 pm instead of in the early evening. Werner Reuss is head of ARD alpha.
Broadcast
SD broadcasting via satellite (Astra 19.2) stopped on 12 January 2021.
Audience share
Germany
References
External links
Television stations in Germany
Mass media in Munich
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Educational and instructional television channels
ARD (broadcaster)
ORF (broadcaster)
German-language television stations
Bayerischer Rundfunk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rediffusion%20%28disambiguation%29 | Rediffusion may refer to
Rediffusion, a business which distributed radio and television signals through wired relay networks
A number of companies which derived their names from Rediffusion:
Rediffusion London, a UK TV broadcaster formerly known as Associated Rediffusion
Rediffusion Television, a Hong Kong broadcaster
Rediffusion Simulation, a manufacturer of flight simulators
Rediffusion S.A., a Swiss cable radio and TV broadcaster merged into UPC Switzerland in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur%20Airways | Excalibur Airways was a charter airline based in England. It had its head office on the grounds of East Midlands Airport in Castle Donington, Leicestershire.
Code data
IATA Code: EXC
ICAO Code: EX
Callsign: Originally CAMELOT then EXCALIBUR
History
Excalibur Airways was formed in the spring of 1992 and was based at the East Midlands Airport. It began charter operations with three leased Airbus A320s and most of the flights were out of London Gatwick airport. In 1994, one more A320 and a Boeing 737-300 were added. Excalibur was the first UK charter airline to operate the A320 with its (at the time) new fly-by-wire control system.
Most of the holiday charter flights were to Egypt, although that was not the only destination since they also serviced the holiday resorts in the Mediterranean and North Africa. In 1994 Excalibur offered direct services from Gatwick into Eilat (ETH) in Southern Israel. ETH is conveniently right in the town centre and at the time almost all other operators were flying into Ovda (VDA), which is about an hour by coach to the North of the town. The downside was that, because of weight limitations, return flights had to make a refuelling stop at Tel Aviv (TLV) before continuing on to Gatwick.
By the summer of 1995, the company had two aircraft operating from London Gatwick airport, one from Manchester, one from East Midlands airport, and one operating north eastern airports, including Newcastle and Humberside. Flights were still operated to Egypt, as well as to popular Mediterranean destinations such as Spain, Greece, Turkey, Italy, and further afield to the Canary Islands. Some charter flights also flew to Iceland, and other non-holiday destinations such as Frankfurt.
During 1995 the company operated solely with A320 aircraft.
Then, at the end of 1995, the company wanted to start flights to Florida and the Caribbean, so there was a need for a larger aircraft with more range and the Douglas DC-10-30 was chosen.
Then the airline lost most of its medium-range charter contracts and the service problems that followed forced the travel operators to withdraw their contracts, hence, Excalibur shut down in June 1996. An incident with a DC-10 seen with smoke coming from the aircraft followed by an aborted take-off shattered public confidence in the airline.
Fleet
7 - Airbus A320-212
1 - Boeing 737-3Q8
1 - Douglas DC-10-30
Aircraft Registrations
A320 - G-BWKO
A320 - G-HAGT
A320 - G-OEXC
A320 - G-BWCP
A320 - G-SCSR
A320 - G-KMAM
A320 - G-BWKN
B737 - G-OCHA
DC10 - V2-LEH
See also
List of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom
References
External links
Fleet and code information
Defunct airlines of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Leicestershire
North West Leicestershire District
Airlines established in 1992
Airlines disestablished in 1996
British companies established in 1992
Transport companies disestablished in 1996
1992 establishments in England
1996 disestablishments in England
British companies disestab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20Hunter | is a prime-time Japanese television detective series. It aired on Saturday nights in the 9:00–9:56 p.m. time slot on the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) network from April 6, 1968 to April 7, 1973. There were a total of 262 episodes, and it was one of the most popular action dramas in Japan at the time.
The story involved "Key Hunter", a special clandestine unit of the International Police, which endeavored to solve various crimes.
Key Hunter was a unique TV show, which started out as a grand scale spy thriller never before seen in Japan. The episodes were individually themed on global crimes and political strife. The initial hardboiled theme later evolved to include intellectual elements involving action, and occasionally with comical elements as well.
Tetsuro Tamba starred in the 1967 film You Only Live Twice as Japanese Secret Service agent Tiger Tanaka, an ally of James Bond. This role greatly influenced his image in Key Hunter.
Characters
Key Hunter
— played by Tetsuro Tamba
ex-intelligence agent
— played by Yōko Nogiwa
ex-intelligence agent
— played by Hiroshi Kawaguchi (since episode #60)
ex-FBI agent
— played by Hayato Tani
power freak
— played by Eiko Ōkawa
memory expert & genius
— played by Sonny Chiba
ex-newspaper reporter
International Police
— played by Noboru Nakaya (appeared very rarely)
Chief of the Special Task Forces
— played by Tadao Nakamaru (since episode #104)
— played by Hiroshi Miyauchi (since episode #92)
Key Hunter Detective Agency
— played by Masaya Oki (since episode #210)
young private detective who admires Key Hunter members
Theme music
The theme song "Hijō no License" was written by Shunsuke Kikuchi, played as an instrumental for the opening theme, and sung by Yōko Nogiwa for the ending theme.
References
External links
DVD Selection from Toei
KeyHunter, at Beyond Japan Hero
1968 Japanese television series debuts
1973 Japanese television series endings
Japanese drama television series
Shunsuke Kikuchi
Detective television series
TBS Television (Japan) dramas
Japanese action television series
Japanese detective television drama series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL%20Access%20Group | The SQL Access Group (SAG) was a group of software companies that was formed in 1989 to define and promote standards for database portability and interoperability. Initial members were Oracle Corporation, Informix, Ingres, DEC, Tandem, Sun and HP.
The SAG started the development of the SQL Call Level Interface which later was published as an X/Open specification.
In 1992, Microsoft released version 1.0 of ODBC which was based on the X/Open SQL CLI specification.
The SQL Access Group transferred its activities and assets to X/Open in the fourth
quarter of 1994.
External links
Introduction to SAG CLI by the SAG Chairman on Dr. Dobbs
Data Management: SQL Call Level Interface (CLI) Apr 1995
SQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2collab | 2collab was a scientific social network launched by Elsevier in November 2007 and discontinued on 15 April 2011.
2collab was an online collaborative research tool that enabled researchers to share bookmarks, references or any linked materials with their peers and colleagues. Users could share, collaborate and discuss resources either in private groups or openly with the wider scientific community. Through the integration of 2collab into other scientific platforms such as ScienceDirect and Scopus researchers were enabled to transport not only the bookmark but also the bibliographic data of research papers into their accounts. Especially when they were the author of these bookmarked documents they could create an easy-to-use list and share it with others in their field of expertise and start a conversation.
Users could organize the wide breadth of information online by choosing tags that turn the vast amount of information into navigational structure that is called a folksonomy also known as user generated content.
2collab shut down its service on April 15, 2011.
See also
SSRN
Mendeley
Comparison of reference management software
References
External links
Inside Scientific Computing World "Elsevier 2collab"
Information Age "Web 2.0 in Business"
Defunct websites
Reference management software
Elsevier
Internet properties established in 2007
Internet properties disestablished in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affix%20grammar | An affix grammar is a kind of formal grammar; it is used to describe the syntax of languages, mainly computer languages, using an approach based on how natural language is typically described.
The grammatical rules of an affix grammar are those of a context-free grammar, except that certain parts in the nonterminals (the affixes) are used as arguments. If the same affix occurs multiple times in a rule, its value must agree, i.e. it must be the same everywhere. In some types of affix grammar, more complex relationships between affix values are possible.
Example
We can describe an extremely simple fragment of English in the following manner:
Sentence → Subject Predicate
Subject → Noun
Predicate → Verb Object
Object → Noun
Noun → John
Noun → Mary
Noun → children
Noun → parents
Verb → like
Verb → likes
Verb → help
Verb → helps
This context-free grammar describes simple sentences such as
John likes children
Mary helps John
children help parents
parents like John
With more nouns and verbs, and more rules to introduce other parts of speech, a large range of English sentences can be described; so this is a promising approach for describing the syntax of English.
However, the given grammar also describes sentences such as
John like children
children helps parents
These sentences are wrong: in English, subject and verb have a grammatical number, which must agree.
An affix grammar can express this directly:
Sentence → Subject + number Predicate + number
Subject + number → Noun + number
Predicate + number → Verb + number Object
Object → Noun + number
Noun + singular → John
Noun + singular → Mary
Noun + plural → children
Noun + plural → parents
Verb + singular → likes
Verb + plural → like
Verb + singular → helps
Verb + plural → help
This grammar only describes correct English sentences, although it could be argued that
John likes John
is still incorrect and should instead read
John likes himself
This, too, can be incorporated using affixes, if the means of describing the relationships between different affix values are powerful enough. As remarked above, these means depend on the type of affix grammar chosen.
Types
In the simplest type of affix grammar, affixes can only take values from a finite domain, and affix values can only be related through agreement, as in the example.
Applied in this way, affixes increase compactness of grammars, but do not add expressive power.
Another approach is to allow affixes to take arbitrary strings as values and allow concatenations of affixes to be used in rules. The ranges of allowable values for affixes can be described with context-free grammar rules. This produces the formalism of two-level grammars, also known as Van Wijngaarden grammars or 2VW grammars. These have been successfully used to describe complicated languages, in particular, the syntax of the Algol 68 programming language. However, it turns out that, even though affix values can only be mani |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKey | iKey, LTD, also known as iKey Industrial Peripherals, is an Austin, Texas-based manufacturer of rugged computer keyboards, mice and other peripherals. The company was founded in 1989 and currently works with several Fortune 500 companies. The company was formerly known as Texas Industrial Peripherals.
Products
iKey’s core product line includes specially sealed keyboards in either stainless steel or ABS polycarbonate cases, most of which have silicon keypads. The devices are either wireless or connect via USB or PS2 cables.
The company also manufactures custom products for industrial, medical, and public safety customers. Common options for custom projects include metal keys, backlighting, and variable key layouts. Often, iKey keyboards are incorporated into mobile computer systems using Ram Mounts, rack mounts, and other mounting systems.
iKey's medical keyboards have demonstrated the ability to prevent cross-contamination of bacteria and viruses.
Product certifications
NEMA 4, 4X
UL-1950
CE
Factory Mutual: Intrinsically safe (IS), Non-incendive (NI)
FCC Class 15, Part B
RoHS
WEEE
China RoHS
D-Mark
International presence
iKey products are sold in over one hundred countries, either directly by iKey or through distributors, resellers, system integrators, and others.
The keyboards are built in seventeen different language layouts including American English, Arabic, Cyrillic, Danish, Finnish, French, French Canadian, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss, Turkish, and UK English.
External links
Company Web site
Hoovers Fact Sheet
FB Peripherals Ltd - UK Main Agent / Distributor Web site
References
Manufacturing companies based in Austin, Texas
Manufacturing companies established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Paluska | Daniel Paluska is an American artist and roboticist known for his computer art installations and collaborations. Paluska is originally from Michigan,. He received both his BS and master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from MIT where he worked on robotic legs. His work on walking robotics was featured in a cover article of Wired Magazine in September, 2000. Paluska is currently the VP of Robotics at The Pickle Robot Company, a startup he co-founded in 2018.
Paluska created the Absolut Quartet, an interactive music-making machine created with Jeff Lieberman and commissioned by Absolut Vodka. He also collaborated with Amorphic Robotics in 2006 to create the ToteMobile, a transformational sculpture inspired and commissioned by Citroen. Paluska is the proprietor of Brooklyn Mobile, a mobile internet videotelephony booth.
External links
Absolut Machines Demo Video
Absolut Machines Homepage (Archived from the original)
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American artists
Artists from Michigan
American roboticists
MIT School of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere%20mapping | In computer graphics, sphere mapping (or spherical environment mapping) is a type of reflection mapping that approximates reflective surfaces by considering the environment to be an infinitely far-away spherical wall. This environment is stored as a texture depicting what a mirrored sphere would look like if it were placed into the environment, using an orthographic projection (as opposed to one with perspective). This texture contains reflective data for the entire environment, except for the spot directly behind the sphere. (For one example of such an object, see Escher's drawing Hand with Reflecting Sphere.)
To use this data, the surface normal of the object, view direction from the object to the camera, and/or reflected direction from the object to the environment is used to calculate a texture coordinate to look up in the aforementioned texture map. The result appears like the environment is reflected in the surface of the object that is being rendered.
Usage example
In the simplest case for generating texture coordinates, suppose:
The map has been created as above, looking at the sphere along the z-axis.
The texture coordinate of the center of the map is (0,0), and the sphere's image has radius 1.
We are rendering an image in the same exact situation as the sphere, but the sphere has been replaced with a reflective object.
The image being created is orthographic, or the viewer is infinitely far away, so that the view direction does not change as one moves across the image.
At texture coordinate , note that the depicted location on the sphere is (where z is ), and the normal at that location is also . However, we are given the reverse task (a normal for which we need to produce a texture map coordinate). So the texture coordinate corresponding to normal is .
See also
Skybox (video games)
HEALPix, mapping with little distortion, arbitrary precision, and equal-sized fragments
Texture mapping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Facebook%20features | Facebook is a social-network service website launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg. The following is a list of software and technology features that can be found on the Facebook website and mobile app and are available to users of the social media site.
Facebook structure
News Feed
The news feed is the primary system through which users are exposed to content posted on the network. Using a secret method (initially known as EdgeRank), Facebook selects a handful of updates to actually show users every time they visit their feed, out of an average of 1500 updates they can potentially receive.
On September 6, 2006, Ruchi Sanghvi announced a new home page feature called News Feed. Originally, when users logged into Facebook, they were presented with a customizable version of their own profile. The new layout, by contrast, created an alternative home page in which users saw a constantly updated list of their friends' Facebook activity. News Feed highlights information that includes profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays, among other updates. This has enabled spammers and other users to manipulate these features by creating illegitimate events or posting fake birthdays to attract attention to their profile or cause. News Feed also shows conversations taking place between the walls of a user's friends. An integral part of the News Feed interface is the Mini Feed, a news stream on the user's profile page that shows updates about that user. Unlike in the News Feed, the user can delete events from the Mini Feed after they appear so that they are no longer visible to profile visitors. In 2011, Facebook updated the News Feed to show top stories and most recent stories in one feed, and the option to highlight stories to make them top stories, as well as to un-highlight stories. In response to users' criticism, Facebook later updated the News Feed to allow users to view recent stories first.
Initially, the addition of the News Feed caused some discontent among Facebook users. Many users complained that the News Feed was too cluttered with excess information. Others were concerned that the News Feed made it too easy for other people to track activities like changes in relationship status, events, and conversations with other users. This tracking is often casually referred to as "Facebook-Stalking". In response to this dissatisfaction, creator Mark Zuckerberg issued an apology for the site's failure to include appropriate customizable privacy features. Thereafter, users were able to control what types of information were shared automatically with friends. Currently, users may prevent friends from seeing updates about several types of especially private activities, although other events are not customizable in this way.
With the introduction of the "New Facebook" in early February 2010 came a complete redesign of the pages, several new features and changes to News Feeds. On their personal Feeds (now integrated with Walls), users were giv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIC%20TV | RIC TV (Rede Independência de Comunicação or in English Independence Network Communications) is a Brazilian television network affiliated to RecordTV.
History
It was created in 1987 in Curitiba, Paraná. In 2008 started to operate in Santa Catarina and lasted until 2019.
Broadcasters members
Paraná
RIC TV Curitiba (Curitiba) - 7
RIC TV Cornélio Procópio (Cornélio Procópio) - 12
RIC TV Maringá (Maringá) - 13
RIC TV Toledo (Toledo) - 7
Television networks in Brazil
RecordTV affiliates
Portuguese-language television networks
Television channels and stations established in 1987
Mass media in Curitiba
Companies based in Curitiba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNO | KCNO (94.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Alturas, California, United States, the station is currently owned by Edi Media, Inc. and features programming from Jones Radio Network.
History
The station was assigned the call sign KBGX on 1980-11-26. On 1984-04-19, the station changed its call sign to KYAX, on 1996-04-15 to KKFJ, and finally on 1996-08-09 to the current KCNO.
References
External links
CNO
Country radio stations in the United States
Alturas, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Minisode%20Network | The Minisode Network (later known as Crackle Minisodes) was a Sony Pictures Television internet television network launched in June 2007. The term minisode is a portmanteau of "mini" and "episode". Unlike webisodes, which are initially broadcast on the Internet, minisodes are condensed versions of previously broadcast, full length, television series.
History
The New York Times reported that the idea came out of a conversation between the president of Sony Pictures Television, Steve Mosko, and the head of Sony Pictures Television Distribution John Weiser, after they saw the "Seven-Minute Sopranos", a condensation of the 77-hour HBO series posted on YouTube, and after watching a collection of mini clips found at the end of a DVD for the international television series titled Kung Faux that had recently released its first season as a Box Set under the promotional companion name "Bento Box TV". The DVD Box Set had been passed along by Ross Pollack, then V.P. of Sony Pictures Television in Asia, and now CEO of Celestial Pictures in Hong Kong. Kung Faux was subsequently picked up for distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by Sony Pictures Television (SPE) soon after this viewing, and the idea for "The Minisode Network" was born.
Using the Sony Pictures Television library, the network consists of heavily re-edited television series designed to run from four to six minutes, yet retain the story arc from the original broadcast episode. The network is ad supported, and past sponsors have included Honda and Pepsi.
Originally set up as part of an exclusive agreement with MySpace, the network now includes several other video hosting services. According to a Sony website, the network is available on the following services:
YouTube
MySpace
Crackle (Formerly Grouper, and owned by Sony)
Verizon Wireless
AOL video
Gaia Online
Joost
Shows
Television series
The following shows are available in the minisode format on Minisode Network video hosting services.
Dilbert
What's Happening!!
Diff'rent Strokes
Voltron: Defender of the Universe
The Facts of Life
The Karate Kid (TV series)
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
Malcolm & Eddie
Sheena (TV series)
V.I.P.
Ricki Lake
NewsRadio
The Partridge Family
Silver Spoons
Who's the Boss?
Fantasy Island
Charlie's Angels
Married... with Children
I Dream of Jeannie
Bewitched
The Jeffersons
Starsky and Hutch
T. J. Hooker
Police Woman
Jackie Chan Adventures
My Two Dads
The Three Stooges
Good Times
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles
Jeopardy!
Godzilla: The Series
As DVD bonuses
Taking the lead from the example provided by the international Kung Faux television series on DVD aka "Bento Box TV", Minisodes have also begun to show up on Sony DVD releases, e.g., minisodes of Charlie's Angels and The Facts of Life on the second-season DVD set of Barney Miller.
Original Minisodes
On June 24, 2008, FX Network broadcast 10 original Rescue Me Minisode episodes over ten weeks, and the next day made them available on the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univision | Univision () is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes telenovelas and other drama series, sports, sitcoms, reality and variety series, news programming, and imported Spanish-language feature films. Univision is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and has its major studios, production facilities, and business operations based in Doral, Florida (near Miami).
Univision is available on pay television providers throughout most of the United States, with local stations in over 60 markets with large Latin American communities. Most of these stations air full local newscasts and other local programming in addition to network shows; in major markets such as Los Angeles, Miami, and New York City, the local newscasts carried by the network's owned-and-operated stations are equally competitive with their English-language counterparts ratings-wise. Chief operating officer Randy Falco (who was appointed to the position on January 18, 2011, and officially took over as CEO on June 29 of that year) has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva in April 2011. In March 2018, it was announced that Falco would be retiring and stepping down as CEO.
History
Beginning as Spanish International Network
Univision's roots can be traced back to 1955, when Raoul A. Cortez started KCOR-TV, an independent station in San Antonio, Texas, which was the nation's first Spanish-only TV outlet. The station was not profitable during its early years, and in 1961, Cortez sold KCOR-TV – now known as KWEX-TV – to a group headed by Mexican entertainment mogul Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta, owner of Mexico-based Telesistema Mexicano (the forerunner of Televisa). Cortez's son-in-law Emilio Nicolás Sr., who helped produce variety programs for the station, held a 20% stake and remained as KWEX general manager for three decades. The new owners helped to turn around the station's fortunes by heavily investing in programming, most of it sourced from Telesistema Mexicano.
On September 29, 1962, Azcárraga and his partners launched a second Spanish-language station, KMEX-TV, in Los Angeles. KWEX and KMEX formed the nucleus of the Azcárraga-owned Spanish International Network (SIN), created in late 1962. SIN was the first television network in the United States to broadcast its programming in a language other than English. From 1963 until 1987, SIN was managed from offices in New York by Rene Anselmo, a U.S. native who had worked for Azcárraga in Mexico City for eight years as head of Telesistema's programming export subsidiary. Having supervised the launch of KMEX, Anselmo spearheaded SIN's expansion, first into the New York City area, when it founded WXTV in Paterson, New Jersey (licensed in 1965 and launched in 1968), next in Fresno, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20World%20Wrestling%20Championships | The 1971 World Wrestling Championships were held in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
References
FILA Database
World Wrestling Championships
World Wrestling Championships, 1971
1971 in Bulgarian sport
International wrestling competitions hosted by Bulgaria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend%20modes | Blend modes (alternatively blending modes or mixing modes) in digital image editing and computer graphics are used to determine how two layers are blended with each other. The default blend mode in most applications is simply to obscure the lower layer by covering it with whatever is present in the top layer (see alpha compositing); because each pixel has numerical values, there also are many other ways to blend two layers.
Most graphics editing programs, such as Adobe Photoshop and GIMP, allow users to modify the basic blend modes, for example by applying different levels of opacity to the top "layer". The top "layer" is not necessarily a layer in the application; it may be applied with a painting or editing tool. The top "layer" also is called the "blend layer" and the "active layer".
In the formulas shown on this page, values go from 0.0 (black) to 1.0 (white).
Normal blend mode
This is the standard blend mode which uses the top layer alone, without mixing its colors with the layer beneath it:
where a is the value of a color channel in the underlying layer, and b is that of the corresponding channel of the upper layer. The result is most typically merged into the bottom layer using "simple" (b over a) alpha compositing (making the actual formula ), but other Porter-Duff operations are possible. The compositing step results in the top layer's shape, as defined by its alpha channel, appearing over the bottom layer.
Dissolve
The dissolve mode takes random pixels from both layers. With top layer opacity greater than that of the bottom layer, most pixels are taken from the top layer, while with low opacity most pixels are taken from the bottom layer. No anti-aliasing is used with this blend mode, so the pictures may look grainy and harsh.
Adobe Photoshop generates a pseudo-random noise dither pattern on startup, with each pixel location in a 2D raster array assigned a gray value (R=G=B) and an alpha value of 1 ("on"). As the opacity of the top layer is reduced, the alpha value of some of the gray pixels is switched from 1 to 0 ("off"), with the result that image pixels corresponding to a gray-valued pixel in the raster array are either on (visible, opaque) or off (invisible, transparent), with no opacity gradation.
Multiply and Screen
Multiply and Screen blend modes are basic blend modes for darkening and lightening images, respectively. There are many combinations of them, such as Overlay, Soft Light (see below), Vivid Light, Linear Light, and Pin Light.
Multiply
Multiply blend mode takes the RGB channel values from 0 to 1 of each pixel in the top layer and multiples them with the values for the corresponding pixel from the bottom layer. Wherever either layer was brighter than black, the composite is darker; since each value is less than 1, their product will be less than each initial value that was greater than zero.
where a is the base layer value and b is the top layer value.
This mode is commutative: exchanging two layers does not ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Organic%20Geochemical%20Society | British Organic Geochemical Society (BOGS) is an organization that aims to promote, exchange and discuss all aspects of organic geochemistry. It also aims to facilitate academic and social networking between British organic geochemists.
History
BOGS was formed in 1987. The founding members were Prof G.A. Wolff (University of Liverpool),
Dr G.D. Abbott (Newcastle University), Dr J. McEvoy (then at University of Bangor) and Prof S.J. Rowland (University of Plymouth).
Meetings
The first meeting of BOGS was held in Bangor (Wales) on 13–15 July 1988. The society meets annually, usually at (or near) a university department with links to research in organic geochemistry.
BOGS meetings are usually held over two days, and involve oral presentations (lasting 15 minutes), poster presentations and social events (i.e. evening meal).
Annual meetings have been held at Liverpool (1989), Bideford (1990), Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1992), Plymouth (1993), Aberdeen (1994), Bristol (1995), Liverpool (1996), Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1997), Plymouth (1998), York (1999), Bristol (2000), Gregynog, Wales (2001), Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2002), Plymouth (2003), Nottingham (2004), Liverpool (2005), Milton Keynes (2006). BOGS did not meet in 2007, as this would have clashed with the 23rd International Meeting of Organic Geochemistry (IMOG) event, which occurred a few months later in Torquay. Since 2007 BOGS has met at Newcastle (2008), Bristol (2009), Manchester (2010), Swansea (2011), Leeds (2012), Plymouth (2013), Liverpool (2014), Glasgow (2015), Imperial College London (2016) and Open University, Milton Keynes (2017).
Membership
It is free to become a member of BOGS. To join the mailing list for BOGS, an email is sent to the BOGS webmaster at calewis@plymouth.ac.uk.
See also
List of geoscience organizations
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20180422183917/http://www.research.plymouth.ac.uk/bogs/
Geochemistry organizations
Geology of the United Kingdom
Geology societies
1987 establishments in the United Kingdom
Scientific organisations based in the United Kingdom
Scientific organizations established in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1963–64 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 1963 to August 1964.
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
1963-64 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
1963-64 United States network television schedule (late night)
United States weekday network television schedules
1963 in American television
1964 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%20Mate%20Bullet | The Wave Mate Bullet was a Z80 single-board computer from the late 1970s and early 1980s which used the CP/M operating system. It was sold in Australia, the United States and Europe and was apparently popular in academic settings.
Notability
The Wave Mate Bullet is notable because it represents CP/M machines at their apex. Small yet affordable machines which were quite powerful at the time with plentiful applications. Wave Mate, Inc. is a historically relevant company because one of the original microcomputer companies which released their first computer kit the Wave Mate Jupiter II in 1975. The Wave Mate Bullet represents the end of the CP/M era as the IBM PC and its clones ascended to marketplace domination.
Configurations
The Wave Mate Bullet runs CP/M 3.0 and CP/M 2.2 is available. It is available in many configurations but typically is found in a small chassis with two 96 tracks per inch 5.25" floppy disk drives. The 5.25" disks were formatted on both sides with five 1024 byte sectors per track with 80 tracks per side for a total of 800K per disk.
The standard configurations includes two serial ports, a parallel port, a general purpose external DMA bus (GPED), separate connectors for 5.25" and 8" floppy disk drives, and a hard disk interface. The hard disk interface is either IMI hard disk controller model #7710 or SCSI depending on the motherboard version.
References
Notes
Wave Mate Bullet manual
External links
Google Group for people interested in the Wave Mate Bullet
Home computers
Z80-based home computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moero%21%21%20Juudou%20Warriors | is a Family Computer video game that was released in 1990.
Summary
The box art shows competitors in an international judo tournament; flags of different countries like the Soviet Union, France, Brazil, the United States of America, and Japan are used to signify the eliteness of the virtual competition. Players must travel around the world in search of judo opponents. The player even gets to compete in the Summer Olympic Games under his discipline of judo after defeating five opponents. However, this would most like refer to either the 1992 Summer Olympic games in Barcelona, Spain because of the game release date. Nine opponents must be defeated in the Olympic Games in order to collect the gold medal. Losing some matches while winning other may result in the awarding of either the silver or the bronze medal.
References
External links
Moero!! Juudou Warriors at MobyGames
1990 video games
Jaleco games
Japan-exclusive video games
Judo video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Video game sequels
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataz | Dataz is a Tanzanian rap artist and she is among few earliest female hip hop musicians in the country.
Earlier life
She was born in 1984 on the shores of Lake Nyasa in Mbamba Bay. Later she moved with her parents to Morogoro where she began her primary education. When Dataz was attending her secondary school, Ifunda, her talent for music became apparent.
Music career
Dataz first started performing with fellow female rapper Bad G, while they performed together for a period of time the two are now pursuing solo careers. Dataz first single “Kitimtim” topped the charts of several radio stations in Tanzania
Dataz blames the lack of female rappers in Tanzania for the fact that MCing and DJing are associated with hooliganism and masculinity, most popularly through the mimicking of American gangsta rap, a genre that has a large lyrical base in the subjugation of women. While American hip hop is full of references that subjugate woman, Swahili rap doesn't have the same language use towards women. Because religion plays a large role in most rappers lives, they come to a crossroads when they attempt to imitate gangsta rap with the subjugation of women. This leaves both a gap in artists authenticity which is just as important in Swahili rap as it is in American rap, but also leaves open a larger place in the hip hop scene for women to enter.
Fellow female rap artist Tuni of the Nubian Motown Crew says that “many girls shy away from engaging in rap due to the attitude that rap is a male thing and is associated with gangs, violence and all manner of evil.” Something that is lacking in Swahili rap, but is dominant in its influence, American hip hop.
References
http://www.kafoi.co.tz/news/article.php?id=239
Hip Hop Culture And The Children Of Arusha: ‘Ni wapi Tunakwenda’ Sidney J. Lemelle
http://www.africanhiphop.com/index.php?module=subjects&func=viewpage&pageid=3
1984 births
Living people
Tanzanian women rappers
21st-century Tanzanian women singers
Swahili-language singers
Tanzanian musicians
Tanzanian Bongo Flava musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL%20Xtreme | NFL Xtreme is an American football video game released for the Sony PlayStation in 1998. The game was produced by 989 Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment as a competitor to Midway Games' NFL Blitz series. The gameplay is similar to the style of NFL Blitz, but is more of a casual gamer / arcade version of NFL Gameday '98, like NFL Tour ('08, the "next gen" NFL Street) and Madden NFL 08 respectively.
Gameplay
Unlike real football, each game is a five-on-five matchup and every player is an eligible receiver. In addition, there are no boundaries or penalties, and a first down is 20 yards.
The game also offers standard football video game features such as create-a-player, draft picks, and season play, and includes full NFL licensing with real NFL teams and schedules.
Development
NFL Xtreme was built on the same game engine as NFL Gameday '98. However, because the game uses a much smaller number of players - five on each side - the developers were able to use more polygons in each player without taxing the hardware, allowing more detailed players.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. Next Generation said that the game was "no NFL Blitz. NFL Mel-O would have been a more apt title." GameFan gave the game universal acclaim, over a month before it was released Stateside.
Sequel
A sequel to NFL Xtreme came out, and the series was discontinued shortly thereafter. Mike Alstott (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) appeared on the cover of NFL Xtreme. John Randle was the cover athlete for the second game in the franchise, NFL Xtreme 2.
Film director Oren Peli, best known for his sleeper hit Paranormal Activity, was a programmer for NFL Xtreme.
References
External links
1998 video games
National Football League video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment franchises
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20FaceOff | NHL FaceOff is a video game series published by Sony Computer Entertainment and based on the National Hockey League. Originally released for the PlayStation, the game spawned many sequels for both the PlayStation and PlayStation 2, with the last one being released in 2002. It was one of the original SCEA sports games series for the PlayStation, along with NBA ShootOut, NFL GameDay, NCAA GameBreaker and ESPN Extreme Games (later renamed the Xtreme Games series). The first game was released in North America in 1995. The game featured multiplayer.
The series was later succeeded by Gretzky NHL 2005.
Installments
See also
ESPN National Hockey Night, Sony's predecessor for 16-bit consoles.
List of ice hockey video games
References
1995 video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment franchises
NHL FaceOff
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation 2 games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapWith.Us | MapWith.Us is a geosocial networking website that allows users to create and share custom maps with an online community. User maps are created by uploading and geotagging media. When media is associated with a location on a map, the media is known as a map article. Map articles may include text, photos, paths, icons, video, web links, and RSS feeds.
Auto-Geotagging
MapWith.Us implemented automatic geotagging (auto-geotagging) via cell phones in late 2007. The free mobile application allows users at remote locations to create real-time Web-based maps by uploading and geotagging photos with cell phones. The application works by utilizing several different capabilities within a modern cell phone. When an image is captured by the cell phone camera, the built-in GPS tags the image with the present location. The images are afterwards uploaded via the cell phone's Internet data connection to the MapWith.Us website, where they are compiled into photo album map articles.
Maps, including mobile maps, are made private by default but users may publish the map with a password to a select audience, or without restriction.
Collaborative Mapping
MapWith.Us makes every map a collaborative map by default, with per-user data segmentation accomplished via overlays. Each overlay contains a group of map articles that can be toggled on and off by the viewer.
For example, a map might include overlays of a hiking trip with photos and annotations of two hikers, Jane and Bob. The map was created and is owned by a third user, Nancy, but Jane and Bob liked her trail, so they added items. Nancy doesn't know Jane or Bob, but her published map contains their collaborative submissions, with the option of viewing the added content at any time. However, all access rights remain the privilege of the owner, who can detach overlays without directly affecting the user-submitted content.
MapWith.Us also provides standard flavors of collaboration, letting map owners grant other users the right to add, edit, or delete map articles directly on a map's surface.
History
MapWith.Us was created by GeoMonkey, Inc., a Vancouver, Washington, United States-based company. In 2006, GeoMonkey introduced its geosocial website, allowing users to create and share collaborative maps. The first basic form of the tool was developed by Dr. Orest Pilskalns, a professor of Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver, and students of his CS 420 course, Software Engineering in Practice. With support from the Washington State University Research Foundation, several graduating students (Kevin Karpenske, Adam McDonald, Jacob Moore) continued development on the tool to turn it into a commercially viable service.
GeoMonkey launched its website in 2006 offering numerous tools, for several of which there are patents pending. The site operates under the tagline “A Community Worth Sharing.”
In 2008, GeoMonkey, Inc. renamed its service to MapWith.Us to reflect its mapping roots and practical a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20Emmy%20Awards | 1995 Emmy Awards may refer to:
47th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 1995 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring primetime programming during June 1994 – May 1995
22nd Daytime Emmy Awards, the 1995 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 1994
23rd International Emmy Awards, honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20development | Artificial development, also known as artificial embryogeny or machine intelligence or computational development, is an area of computer science and engineering concerned with computational models motivated by genotype–phenotype mappings in biological systems. Artificial development is often considered a sub-field of evolutionary computation, although the principles of artificial development have also been used within stand-alone computational models.
Within evolutionary computation, the need for artificial development techniques was motivated by the perceived lack of scalability and evolvability of direct solution encodings (Tufte, 2008). Artificial development entails indirect solution encoding. Rather than describing a solution directly, an indirect encoding describes (either explicitly or implicitly) the process by which a solution is constructed. Often, but not always, these indirect encodings are based upon biological principles of development such as morphogen gradients, cell division and cellular differentiation (e.g. Doursat 2008), gene regulatory networks (e.g. Guo et al., 2009), degeneracy (Whitacre et al., 2010), grammatical evolution (de Salabert et al., 2006), or analogous computational processes such as re-writing, iteration, and time. The influences of interaction with the environment, spatiality and physical constraints on differentiated multi-cellular development have been investigated more recently (e.g. Knabe et al. 2008).
Artificial development approaches have been applied to a number of computational and design problems, including electronic circuit design (Miller and Banzhaf 2003), robotic controllers (e.g. Taylor 2004), and the design of physical structures (e.g. Hornby 2004).
Notes
Rene Doursat, "Organically grown architectures: Creating decentralized, autonomous systems by embryomorphic engineering", Organic Computing, R. P. Würtz, (ed.), Springer-Verlag, Ch. 8, pp. 167-200, 2008.
Guo, H., Y. Meng and Y. Jin (2009). "A cellular mechanism for multi-robot construction via evolutionary multi-objective optimization of a gene regulatory network." BioSystems 98(3): 193-203. (https://web.archive.org/web/20110719123923/http://www.ece.stevens-tech.edu/~ymeng/publications/BioSystems09_Meng.pdf)
Whitacre, J. M., P. Rohlfshagen, X. Yao and A. Bender (2010). The role of degenerate robustness in the evolvability of multi-agent systems in dynamic environments. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) XI, Kraków, Poland. (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Whitacre/publication/220701596_The_Role_of_Degenerate_Robustness_in_the_Evolvability_of_Multi-agent_Systems_in_Dynamic_Environments/links/0d2b2c6889b5121d730dd3be.pdf)
Gregory S. Hornby, "Functional Scalability through Generative Representations: the Evolution of Table Designs", Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 31(4), 569-587, July 2004. (abstract)
Julian F. Miller and Wolfgang Banzhaf (2003): "Evolving the Program for a Cell: From French Flags to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunair | Fortunair Canada was a charter airline based Canada.
Code data
IATA Code: FX
ICAO Code: FXE
Callsign: AIR FUTURE
History
Fortunair Canada was Canadian charter passengers airline which began operations in June 1993 created by former Nationair Director, M. Joseph Sandoux, (Civil Engineer) Founder and CEO ; using a Boeing 747-200 (manufactured around 1983) leased to own from Washington DC based aircraft lease company. Fortunair Canada flew every Thursday starting on 24 June 1993 from Toronto Canada to London and Glasgow and every Friday from Montreal to Paris and every Saturday from Montreal to Rome, with 485 passenger seats (25 first class and 460 economy).
Fleet details
- Boeing 747-212B
See also
List of defunct airlines of Canada
References
External links
Code and fleet information
Defunct airlines of Canada
Defunct charter airlines
Airlines established in 1994
Airlines disestablished in 1995
Charter airlines of Canada
Canadian companies disestablished in 1995
Canadian companies established in 1994 |
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