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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori%20Hartwell | Lori Hartwell (born 1966) is the Founder and President of the Renal Support Network, author of Chronically Happy: Joyful Living in Spite of Chronic Illness, and co-host of KidneyTalk, a biweekly webcast of issues of interest to those with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).
CKD history
Diagnosed with CKD at the age of 2 in 1968, Hartwell has had 12 years of dialysis and four transplants.
Renal Support Network
Hartwell founded the Renal Support Network (RSN) in 1993 as an American nonprofit, kidney patient-focused, kidney patient-run organization to benefit individuals affected by CKD. Hartwell began an annual Renal Teen Prom in 1999. As of 2008 nine Renal teen Proms have been held in Los Angeles and one in Washington DC.
KidneyTalk
Hartwell co-hosts a bi-weekly webcast called "KidneyTalk" with Stephen Furst. The shows run about 30 minutes covering topics of interest to those with CKD. KidneyTalk's first show was on June 6, 2006.
Awards
Received the "2003 Quality of Life" award from Nephrology News & Issues Magazine
In October 2005 received the “Women in Business Award,” presented by the California State Legislature
Named "2005 Woman of the Year" by California State Senator Jack Scott.
Publications
Hartwell has contributed to several educational and scientific publications including in peer-reviewed journals.
Bibliography
Hartwell, Lori. (2002). Chronically Happy: Joyful Living In Spite Of Chronic Illness Poetic Media Press.
References
External links
Hartwell Communications
RSNhope.org
KidneyTalk Podcast
Renal Teen Prom
American health care businesspeople
Living people
American activists
American non-fiction writers
American motivational writers
Women motivational writers
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American women
1966 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivariate | Bivariate may refer to:
Mathematics
Bivariate function, a function of two variables
Bivariate polynomial, a polynomial of two indeterminates
Statistics
Bivariate data, that shows the relationship between two variables
Bivariate analysis, statistical analysis of two variables
Bivariate distribution, a joint probability distribution for two variables
Other
Bivariate map, a single map that displays two variables
See also
Two-dimensional curve
Multivariate (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966%20World%20Wrestling%20Championships | The 1966 World Wrestling Championships were held in Toledo, Ohio, United States.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
References
FILA Database
World Wrestling Championships
W
1966 in American sports
1966 in sport wrestling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Rubin | David Joshua Rubin (born 26 June 1976) is an American conservative political commentator. He is the creator and host of The Rubin Report, a political talk show on YouTube and on the network BlazeTV. Launched in 2013, his show was originally part of TYT Network, until he left in 2015, in part due to widening ideological differences. Previously, Rubin hosted LGBT-themed talk shows, including The Ben and Dave Show from 2007 to 2008 and The Six Pack from 2009 to 2012, both of which he co-hosted with Ben Harvey. Rubin has written two books.
Rubin originally considered himself to be a progressive while part of The Young Turks. However, Rubin has written that his views began to change after witnessing progressive commentator and former colleague Cenk Uygur's criticisms of Fox News commentator David Webb, Ben Affleck's confrontation with Bill Maher and Sam Harris over their views on Islam, and the political left's response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting. Rubin then described himself as a classical liberal, but has since stated that he has become a conservative. Rubin has become a staunch critic of progressivism, the political left, and the Democratic Party. In 2022, Rubin registered as a Republican in Florida.
Early life
Rubin was born in June 26, 1976 in Brooklyn, New York City. He grew up in a "fairly secular Jewish household on Long Island". He spent his adolescence in Syosset, New York, and then he resided on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for thirteen years. He attended Binghamton University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science. In 1997, he also spent a semester at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel.
Career
Comedy
In 1998, Rubin started his career in comedy doing stand-up and attending open-mics in New York City. In 1999, he became an intern at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
In 2000, Rubin continued his career at the New York City–based Comedy Cellar. Later that year he joined with other Comedy Cellar comedians to create a public-access television series, a news program parody called The Anti-Show which was secretly filmed at NBC Studios in 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
In 2002, he co-founded several New York City–based comedy clubs, including Joe Franklin's Comedy Club and The Comedy Company in Times Square, where he continued to do stand-up until 2007.
He was the host of two podcasts, Hot Gay Comics and The Ben and Dave Show, which were turned into a television series on the here! television network. In May 2009, Rubin co-created and co-hosted the podcast The Six Pack. From October 2011 to December 2012, The Six Pack was on Sirius XM Radio as a live talk show.
Political commentary
While a part of Sirius XM, Rubin created his own account on YouTube called "Rubin Report" in early September 2012. In January 2013, Rubin joined The Young Turks, where he hosted the show The Rubin Report. He moved from New York City to Los Angeles, California.
On March 1, 2015, The Young Turks YouTube channel anno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tree%20Register | The Tree Register, or more fully, the Tree Register of the British Isles (T.R.O.B.I.), is a registered charity collating and updating a database of notable trees throughout Britain and Ireland. It comprises a computer database which in 2022 contained details of 250,000 trees. It was established in 1988 by co-founders Vicky Hallett, who later became Vicky Schilling, and Alan Mitchell, the internationally acclaimed dendrologist.
The register contains computerised data from the original hand-written records of the two founders together with other historical records taken from reference works going back more than 200 years. Recent height and girth measurements can be compared to those recorded by the likes of Loudon (1830s), Elwes and Henry (early 1900s) and the Hon. Maynard Greville (1950s), providing a valuable record of growth rates. The Tree Register was one of the founders of the Ancient Tree Hunt campaign.
After Schilling died, the Vicky Schilling Bursary Award was set up by The Tree Register to support the work of volunteer tree recorders.
See also
The Tree Council
Champion Trees
References
External links
Environmental charities based in the United Kingdom
Ecology of the British Isles
Organisations based in Bedford
Trees of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC%207000%20AXP%20and%20DEC%2010000%20AXP | The DEC 7000 AXP and DEC 10000 AXP are a series of high-end multiprocessor server computers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation, introduced on 10 November 1992 (although the DEC 10000 AXP was not available until the following year). These systems formed part of the first generation of systems based on the 64-bit Alpha AXP architecture and at the time of introduction, ran Digital's OpenVMS AXP operating system, with DEC OSF/1 AXP available in March 1993. They were designed in parallel with the VAX 7000 and VAX 10000 minicomputers, and are identical except for the processor module(s) and supported bus interfaces. A field upgrade from a VAX 7000/10000 to a DEC 7000/10000 AXP was possible by means of swapping the processor boards.
The DEC 7000/10000 AXP were intended to supersede the VAX 6000 series, and themselves were succeeded in 1995 by the AlphaServer 8200 and 8400 (TurboLaser) enterprise servers.
Models
The DEC 7000 AXP was positioned as a data center system, whereas the DEC 10000 AXP was positioned as a "mainframe" system. From a hardware point of view, the DEC 10000 AXP was essentially a larger configuration of the DEC 7000 AXP. Both shared the same System Cabinet, but the DEC 10000 AXP was configured as standard with one Expander Cabinet housing storage devices, and one Battery Cabinet housing an uninterruptible power supply. These were optional for a DEC 7000 AXP system.
There are two models of the DEC 7000 AXP:
Model 6x0, code-named Laser/Ruby: 182 MHz DECchip 21064 (EV4) processor(s) and when introduced, the base price was US$168,000. In October 1993, it was available with 200 MHz DECchip 21064 (EV4S) processor(s) (code-named Laser/Ruby+) and was priced from US$126,300. It was discontinued on 10 June 1995 and on 31 December 1995 for Europe. Upgrades were offered for an additional year after discontinuation.
Model 7x0, code-named Laser/Ruby45: 275 MHz DECchip 21064A (EV45) processor(s). This model was introduced on 3 November 1994.
There was one model of the DEC 10000 AXP:
Model 6x0, code-named Blazer/Ruby: 200 MHz DECchip 21064 (EV4) processor(s). When introduced, the base price was US$316,000.
The possible values of 'x' is 1 to 6. These numbers specify the number of microprocessors in the system.
Cabinets
The DEC 7000/10000 AXP system is housed in the system cabinet. The upper part of the cabinet contains the LSB card cage on the left and the control panel and power subsystem on the right. Below is the cooling system, which occupies the middle of the cabinet. It consists of a single blower that draws air from the top and bottom of the cabinet, expelling it through vents in the middle. Under the blower are four plug-in unit (PIU) quadrants for PIUs, enclosures which house options.
The expander cabinet houses additional PIUs. It is identical to the system cabinet except that the LSB card cage is replaced by two additional PIU quadrants, identified as 5 and 6. Up to none, one or two expander cabinets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspira%20Health%20Network | Inspira Health is a charitable non-profit health care organization comprising three hospitals, two additional emergency rooms, and several multi-specialty health centers among other locations. These include urgent care, cancer treatment, imaging, rehabilitation and primary and specialty physician practices in Gloucester, Cumberland, Salem and Camden counties. Inspira Health has 1,328 medical staff members, 907 volunteers, and 5,782 employees. It is affiliated with the Jefferson Medical College, Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine, and Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, among others. In 2021 it was given a grade A by the Leapfrog patient safety organization.
Hospitals
Inspira Medical Center Mullica Hill was opened in December 2019 at the intersection of Route 322 and Route 55 in Mullica Hill, near the campus of Rowan University in Gloucester County. Replacing Inspira Medical Center Woodbury, it offers 210 private beds, including 18 maternity suites in addition to a pediatric emergency room, a special care nursery and a new cancer center. It is staffed by approximately 1400 employees.
Inspira Medical Center Vineland is a 298-bed facility built at the intersection of Route 55 and CR 552 in Vineland Opened in 2004, it has 305 beds and is the location of the Frank and Edith Scarpa Regional Cancer Pavilion and has approximately 2700 staff.
Inspira Medical Center Elmer has been located in Elmer since 1950. It has 83 beds and contains five birthing suites, an open visitation intensive care unit and four surgical suites.
In addition to the hospitals, Inspira maintains two community health centers with satellite emergency rooms in Woodbury (formerly Inspira Medical Center Woodbury/Underwood Memorial Hospital) and Bridgeton.
History
Inspira Health formed in November 2012 by the merger of South Jersey Healthcare and Underwood-Memorial Hospital. The network traces its roots to South Jersey Healthcare's Bridgeton campus founding in 1898. Underwood and Memorial hospitals were founded in 1915 and 1916, by J. Harris Underwood, MD and William Brewer, MD, respectively; they were both physicians from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The two merged in 1966 to become Underwood Memorial Hospital.
References
External links
New Jersey Hospital Association
Healthcare in New Jersey
Hospital networks in the United States
Buildings and structures in Gloucester County, New Jersey
Companies based in Gloucester County, New Jersey
Woodbury, New Jersey
Medical and health organizations based in New Jersey
Hospital buildings completed in 2019
Hospital buildings completed in 2004
Hospital buildings completed in 1950 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20R.%20Warner | Homer Richards Warner (April 18, 1922 – November 30, 2012) was an American cardiologist who was an early proponent of medical informatics who pioneered many aspects of computer applications to medicine. Author of the book, Computer-Assisted Medical Decision-Making, published in 1979, he served as CIO for the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, as president of the American College of Medical Informatics (where an award has been created in his honor), and was actively involved with the National Institutes of Health. He was first chair of the Department of Medical Informatics at the University of Utah School of Medicine, the first American medical program to formally offer a degree in medical informatics.
Dr. Warner was also a senior member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and president of the American College of Medical Informatics. For over 25 years, Dr. Warner served almost continuously on research review groups for the National Institutes of Health, the National Center for Health Services Research, and the National Library of Medicine.
Biography
He was born in Salt Lake City on April 18, 1922. He joined the United States Navy during World War II and was trained as a pilot but never saw combat.
Warner received his B.S. in 1946 from the University of Utah. He received his M.D., also from the University of Utah, in 1949. By 1953 he had worked at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and had earned a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Minnesota.
Medical Informatics
Beginning in the mid-1950s, Dr. Warner began his work using computers for decision support in cardiology at LDS Hospital (now Intermountain Healthcare) in Salt Lake City. This ground-breaking work set the stage for the growth of the new field of academic study called medical informatics. In the 1970s, Dr. Warner and his LDS Hospital colleagues created one of the nation's first versions of an electronic medical record. Designed to assist clinicians in decision-making, Intermountain's HELP system was operational for nearly 40 years.
University of Utah
Warner and his associates taught computer applications to medicine at the University of Utah, with the Department of Biophysics and Bioengineering being formally established in 1964 within the College of Engineering. In 1974, the department was divided, and Warner continued to lead what became the new Department of Biophysics, which was relocated to the School of Medicine. The name of the department was changed again in 1976 to the Department of Medical Biophysics and Computing, and in 1985 to the Department of Medical Informatics. In 2006, it became the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Warner's leadership as chair of the department continued until 1996. It is the world's first degree-granting program in the field.
During his time at the University of Utah, Warner guided over 200 students through the process of earning their PhDs, in addit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphiCon | GraphiCon is the largest International conference on computer graphics and computer vision in the countries of the former Soviet Union.
The conference is hosted by Moscow State University in association with Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Center of Computing for Physics and Technology, and the Russian Computer Graphics Society. The Conference is held in close cooperation with Eurographics Association.
Conference topics
The main topics of the conference include (this list is not exhaustive):
Graphics and multimedia:
Geometry modeling and processing
Photorealistic rendering techniques
Scientific visualization
Image-based techniques
Computer graphics for mobile devices
Computer graphics hardware
Graphics in computer games
Animation and simulation
Virtual and augmented reality
Image and video processing:
Medical image processing
Early vision and image representation
Tracking and surveillance
Segmentation and grouping
Image enhancement, restoration and super-resolution
Computer vision:
3D reconstruction and acquisition
Object localization and recognition
Multi-sensor fusion and 3D registration
Structure from motion and stereo
Scene modeling
Statistical methods and learning
Applications
Format
The following sections are organized for the event:
Young scientists school courses and master classes
Full paper presentations
Work in progress presentations
STAR reports
Invited talks
Industrial presentations
Multimedia shows
Round table discussions
Specific GraphiCon conferences
See also
Eurographics the biggest conference on computer graphics in Europe
SIGGRAPH the world biggest conference on computer graphics
List of computer science conferences#Computer_graphics
External links
http://www.graphicon.ru/
Computer vision research infrastructure
Computer graphics conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGNS | CGNS stands for CFD General Notation System. It is a general, portable, and extensible standard for the storage and retrieval of CFD analysis data. It consists of a collection of conventions, and free and open software implementing those conventions. It is self-descriptive, cross-platform also termed platform or machine independent, documented, and administered by an international steering committee. It is also an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) recommended practice. The CGNS project originated in 1994 as a joint effort between Boeing and NASA, and has since grown to include many other contributing organizations worldwide. In 1999, control of CGNS was completely transferred to a public forum known as the CGNS Steering Committee. This Committee is made up of international representatives from government and private industry.
The CGNS system consists of two parts: (1) a standard format (known as Standard Interface Data Structure, or SIDS) for recording the data, and (2) software that reads, writes, and modifies data in that format. The format is a conceptual entity established by the documentation; the software is a physical product supplied to enable developers to access and produce data recorded in that format.
The CGNS system is designed to facilitate the exchange of data between sites and applications, and to help stabilize the archiving of aerodynamic data. The data are stored in a compact, binary format and are accessible through a complete and extensible library of functions. The application programming interface (API) is cross-platform and can be easily implemented in C, C++, Fortran and Fortran 90 applications. A MEX interface mexCGNS also exists for calling the CGNS API in high-level programming languages MATLAB and GNU Octave. Object oriented interface CGNS++ and Python module pyCGNS exist.
The principal target of CGNS is data normally associated with compressible viscous flow (i.e., the Navier-Stokes equations), but the standard is also applicable to subclasses such as Euler and potential flows. The CGNS standard includes the following types of data.
Structured, unstructured, and hybrid grids
Flow solution data, which may be nodal, cell-centered, face-centered, or edge-centered
Multizone interface connectivity, both abutting and overset
Boundary conditions
Flow equation descriptions, including the equation of state, viscosity and thermal conductivity models, turbulence models, multi-species chemistry models, and electromagnetics
Time-dependent flow, including moving and deforming grids
Dimensional units and nondimensionalization information
Reference states
Convergence history
Association to CAD geometry definitions
User-defined data
Much of the standard and the software is applicable to computational field physics in general. Disciplines other than fluid dynamics would need to augment the data definitions and storage conventions, but the fundamental database software, which provides platf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gallery%20of%20Madame%20Liu-Tsong | The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong is an American television series which aired on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. It starred Chinese American silent film and talkie star Anna May Wong (birth name Wong Liu-tsong) who played a detective in a role written specifically for her. The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong was the first U.S. television series starring an Asian-American series lead.
Broadcast history
Wong's character was a dealer in Chinese art whose career involved her in detective work and international intrigue. The ten half-hour episodes aired during prime time, on Wednesdays at 9:00p.m. ET. Though there were plans for a second season, DuMont canceled the show in 1952. No copies of the show or its scripts are known to exist.
Preservation status
Like most DuMont programs, no known episodes of The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong exist today, the majority of the network's footage having been dumped into the Hudson River upon closure. Although a few kinescope episodes of various DuMont series survive at Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications, New York's Paley Center for Media, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive, there are no copies of Madame Liu-Tsong in these archives.
In 1996, early television actress Edie Adams testified at a hearing in front of a panel of the Library of Congress on the preservation of American television and video. Adams stated that, by the 1970s, little value was given to the DuMont film archive, and that all the remaining kinescopes of DuMont series were loaded into three trucks and dumped into Upper New York Bay.
Episode list
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1951-52 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
Chinese American television
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
1951 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
American detective television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn%20Deegan | Marilyn Deegan is the former Director of Research Development at the former Centre for Computing in the Humanities, now the Department of Digital Humanities), King's College London.
Deegan was Editor of the Literary and Linguistic Computing journal, Oxford University Press.
Bibliography
Ed. Medicine in Early Mediaeval England (with D. Scragg), Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, 1989.
Hypermedia in the humanities, 1992.
New Technologies for the Humanities, British Library, 1996.
Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age (with Simon Tanner), Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2002.
Ed. Digital Preservation (with Simon Tanner), Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2006.
(ed.) Text Editing, Print and the Digital World with Kathryn Sutherland, Ashgate, 2008.
Being a Pilgrim: Art and Ritual on the Medieval Routes to Santiago (with Kathleen Ashley), Lund Humphries Pub, 2009.
Transferred Illusions (with Kathryn Sutherland), Ashgate, 2009.
References
Academics of King's College London
People in digital humanities
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cris%20Morena%20Group | Cris Morena Group is a production company, in charge of creating mostly youth programming and formats. Founded in 2002 by Cris Morena, it is one of the main production companies in Argentina and is based in Buenos Aires. Unlike other production companies, Cris Morena Group not only devises TV formats, but also generates ancillary businesses such as CDs, magazines, licenses, musicals and theatrical productions.
Cris Morena productions are also adapted across the world. Her shows have been adapted to, among others, India, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile.
Most CMG productions are co-produced with RGB Entertainment, except for Rebelde Way and Rincón de Luz which were co-produced by Israeli company Dori Media Group. CMG is responsible for the creative part of the projects while RGB is in charge of the business, contracts and finances.
Cris Morena Group was temporarily closed for two years. Its comeback production is weekly youth-oriented fiction Aliados, co-produced with Telefe.
TV series
Rebelde Way
See Rebelde Way.
Year: 2002-2003
Main Cast: Benjamin Rojas, Camila Bordonaba, Luisana Lopilato, Felipe Colombo, Catherine Fulop, Martin Seefeld, Boy Olmi.
Notes: Originally broadcast in Canal 9 and America 2. Co-produced by Dori Media. Format adapted in Mexico, India, Brazil, Portugal and Chile.
Rincón de Luz
See Rincón de Luz.
Year: 2003
Main Cast: Soledad Pastorutti, Guido Kaczka.
Notes: Originally broadcast in Canal 9 and America 2. Co-produced by Dori Media.
Rebelde (Mexican TV se)
see Rebelde (Mexican TV series)
Year: 2004-2006
Main Cast: Dulce María, Anahí, Christopher von Uckermann, Alfonso Herrera and Enrique Rocha, Juan Ferrara.
Note: Rebelde (Mexican TV series) was a Mexican remake to the Argentinian original series Rebelde Way
Floricienta
See Floricienta.
Year: 2004-2005
Cast: Florencia Bertotti, Isabel Macedo, Juan Gil Navarro, Benjamin Rojas, Fabio Di Tomaso
Notes: Originally broadcast in Canal 13. Co-produced alongside RGB Entertainment. Rebroadcast around the world by Disney Channel. Format adapted in Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Colombia.
Amor Mío
Year: 2005
Cast: Romina Yan, Damian de Santo
Notes: Morena's first sitcom and primetime show, aired at Telefe in 2005. Format was successfully adapted in Mexico and in Russia. Co-produced alongside RGB Entertainment.
Alma Pirata
Year: 2006
Cast: Benjamin Rojas, Fabian Mazzei, Luisana Lopilato, Mariano Martínez, Nicolás Vázquez, Isabel Macedo
Notes: Aired at Telefe in 2006. Co-produced with RGB Entertainment.
Casi Angeles
Year: 2007-2010
Cast: Nicolás Vázquez, Emilia Attias, Mariano Torre, Julia Calvo, Gimena Accardi, Jimena Barón, Mariana Espósito, María Eugenia Suárez, Peter Lanzani, Gaston Dalmau, Nicolas Riera.
Notes: Aired at Telefe between 2007 and 2010, with four seasons.
B&B: Bella y Bestia
Year: 2008
Cast: Romina Yan, Damián de Santo
Jake & Blake
Year 2009
Cast Benjamín Rojas
Notes: Shot in English and aired at Disney Channel across the world.
Aliados
Year 2013
Cast P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata-based%20programming%20%28Shalyto%27s%20approach%29 | Automata-based programming is a programming technology. Its defining characteristic is the use of finite state machines to describe program behavior. The transition graphs of state machines are used in all stages of software development (specification, implementation, debugging and documentation). Automata-based programming technology was introduced by Anatoly Shalyto in 1991. Switch-technology was developed to support automata-based programming. Automata-based programming is considered to be rather general purpose program development methodology than just another one finite state machine implementation.
Automata-based programming
The main idea of suggested approach is to construct computer programs the same way the automation of technological processes (and other kinds of processes too) is done.
For all that on the basis of data domain analysis the sources of input events, the control system (the system of interacting finite state machines) and the control objects implementing output actions are singled out. These control objects can also form yet another type of input actions that are transmitted through a feedback from control objects back to the finite state machines.
Main features
In recent years great attention has been paid to the development of the technology of programming for embedded systems and real-time systems. These systems have special requirements for the quality of software. One of the best known approaches for this field of tasks is synchronous programming.
Simultaneously with the advance of synchronous programming in Europe, an approach to software development for crucial systems called automata-based programming or state-based programming was being created in Russia.
The term event is being used more and more widely in programming; recently it has become one of the most commonly used terms in software development. As opposed to it, the offered approach is based on the term state (State-Driven Architecture). After introduction of the term input action, which could denote an input variable or an event, the term automaton without outputs might be brought in. After adding the term output action, the term “automaton” might be used. It is the finite deterministic automaton.
That is why, the sort of programming, which is based on this term, was called “automata-based programming”. So the process of software creation could be named “automata software design”.
The feature of this approach is that automata used for development are defined with the help of transition graphs. In order to distinguish the nodes of these graphs the term state coding has been introduced. With multivalued state coding a single variable can be used to distinguish states of automaton, the number of states is equal to the number of values this variable can take on. This allowed introducing of the term program observability (that is, the value of the state variable can be checked).
Using the concept of “state” in contrast to the concepts of “events” an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijoy%20Phone | Bijoy Phone is a Bangladeshi fixed line operator. It is a private public switched telephone network (PSTN) operator in Bangladesh. As of May 2008, total number of subscriber of this operator is 3.948 thousand.
History
Bijoy Phone has obtained license from Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to provide fixed phone services in the Northeast part of Bangladesh.
Numbering scheme
Bijoy Phone uses the following numbering scheme for its subscribers:
+880 605 N1N2N3N4N5N6N7N8
where 880 is the International Subscriber Dialling Code for Bangladesh and is needed only in case of dialling from outside.
605 is the access code for Bijoy Phone as allocated by the Government of Bangladesh. Omitting +880 will require to use 0 in place of it instead to represent local call, hence 0605 is the general access code.
References
External links
Official Web site
Telecommunications companies of Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode%20input | Unicode input is the insertion of a specific Unicode character on a computer by a user; it is a common way to input characters not directly supported by a physical keyboard. Unicode characters can be produced either by selecting them from a display or by typing a certain sequence of keys on a physical keyboard. In addition, a character produced by one of these methods in one web page or document can be copied into another. In contrast to ASCII's 96 element character set (which it contains), Unicode encodes hundreds of thousands of graphemes (characters) from almost all of the world's written languages and many other signs and symbols besides.
A Unicode input system must provide for a large repertoire of characters, ideally all valid Unicode code points. This is different from a keyboard layout which defines keys and their combinations only for a limited number of characters appropriate for a certain locale.
Unicode numbers
Unicode characters are distinguished by code points, which are conventionally represented by "U+" followed by four, five or six hexadecimal digits, for example U+00AE or U+1D310. Characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), containing modern scripts – including many Chinese and Japanese characters – and many symbols, have a 4-digit code. Historic scripts, but also many modern symbols and pictographs (such as emoticons, emojis, playing cards and many CJK characters) have 5-digit codes.
Glyph availability
An application can display a character only if it can access a font which contains a glyph for the character. Very few fonts have full Unicode coverage; most only contain the glyphs needed to support a few writing systems. However, most modern browsers and other text-processing applications are able to display multilingual content because they perform font substitution, automatically switching to a fallback font when necessary to display characters which are not supported in the current font. Which fonts are used for fallback and the thoroughness of Unicode coverage varies by software and operating system; some software will search for a suitable glyph in all of the installed fonts, others only search within certain fonts.
If an application does not have access to a glyph, the character will usually be shown as the font's ".notdef" glyph which often appears as an empty box, ☐ (nicknamed "tofu" based on the shape), a box with an X in it, ☒, or a box with a question mark in it, ⍰.
Techniques
Extended keyboard mapping
Most operating systems support extended keyboard mapping the facility to increase the repertoire of characters available using techniques such as Alternate graphic ("AltGr") that gives a third and fourth meaning to every key; Compose key (sometimes called multi key), a key on a computer keyboard that indicates that the following (usually 2 or more) keystrokes trigger the insertion of an alternate character, typically a precomposed character or a symbol; dead keys typically used to attach a specific d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%20Portable%20hardware | The PlayStation Portable's hardware consists of the physical components of the PlayStation Portable (PSP) and its accessories.
Overview
The PSP was designed by for the Sony Computer Entertainment subsidiary of Sony Corporation. Early models pre-installed with 1.xx firmware were made in Japan but in order to cut costs, Sony has farmed out PSP production to non-Japanese manufacturers, mainly in China for units pre-installed with firmware version 2.00 and above. The unit measures 170 mm (6.7 inches) in length, 74 mm (2.9 inches) in width, and 23 mm (0.9 inches) in depth, and has a mass of 280 grams (9.9 oz or 0.62 lb) including the battery. The Samsung (previously Sharp) branded TFT LCD screen measures 110 mm (4.3 in) diagonal with a 16:9 ratio and a 480×272 pixel resolution capable of 16.77 million colors and has a brightness of up to 115 (battery powered) or 148 cd/m2 (AC powered). It has four possible brightness settings, the brightest of which is disabled in all official firmware versions unless on A/C power. Additionally, hidden brightness settings can be enabled when using Custom Firmware.
The PSP uses a drive compatible with Sony's proprietary Universal Media Disc format. Use of the drive increases battery drain by approximately 10% and the system has been criticized for having very slow data transfer speeds, translating into load times of more than two minutes in total for some games. However this has been improved with the redesigned Slim & Lite PSP which has faster loading times, according to GameSpot's
Despite its movie and music playback capabilities, the PSP has primarily gaming-oriented controls (as opposed to the controls typical to television remotes or MP3 players): two shoulder buttons (L and R), the PlayStation, start and select buttons, a digital 4-directional pad, and an analog 'nub' which is slid rather than tilted. There is also a row of secondary controls along the underside of the screen, for controlling volume, music settings (either switching the audio off and on in games or selecting different equalizer presets), screen brightness, and a "Home" button for accessing the system's main menu. Pressing the Home button while doing anything except playing a game will bring up the XMB, which theoretically allows for multitasking; however whatever the user was doing is cancelled upon accessing anything else, except in the latest firmware release that can display pictures and play music simultaneously.
The PSP's default battery life varies widely depending on application from less than 3 hours while accessing a wireless network and having screen brightness on its highest setting to more than 11 hours during MP3 playback with the screen turned off. An extended-life 2200 mAh battery will increase this by approximately 20%. A sleep mode is also available that uses minimal battery power to keep the system's RAM active, allowing for "instant on" functionality. A system in sleep mode (with a fully charged battery) has been shown t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Champley | Karl Champley is an Australian master builder, television personality and actor. He is currently appearing on Ellen's Design Challenge. He has hosted Wasted Spaces on the American television network DIY Network. He has also presented DIY to the Rescue (2003) and DIY Inside: The Home Builder's Show (2005) on the same channel.
A qualified tradesman, contractor and builder, Champley has been involved in the building trade since the 1980s. In his native Australia, he is a member of the Master Builders' Association of New South Wales. He is also a registered and certified Home Inspector in the United States, where he currently resides with his wife, Diane Matthews. The couple have lived in Los Angeles since 2001.
References
http://www.diynetwork.com/search/karl-champley-
External links
Champley's official website
Champley's videos on HGTV.com
http://www.diynetwork.com/search/karl-champley- DIY Network
Living people
Australian television presenters
Australian woodworkers
Male actors from Sydney
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%20Productions | Raven Productions is a television production company based in Palm Springs, California.
Organized in California in 1987, the company initially became known for its outdoor adventure programming for networks as Fox Sports Net, ESPN, PBS, PrimeSportschannel, Travel Channel and Outdoor Life. Its signature outdoor adventure series, Great Sports Vacations, aired on the Travel Channel and Fox Sports Net.
In the late 1990s through a joint venture with the Judy Garland estate, the company embarked on production of a series of PBS pledge specials featuring vintage performances of the late Judy Garland, including "Judy, Frank & Dean" featuring Judy with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
Under agreement with the late Sid Luft, former husband of Judy Garland, the company also produced and released to PBS affiliates "Judy Garland Duets" featuring vintage performances of Judy with Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Count Basie, Tony Bennett, Mickey Rooney and others.
In September 2001, Raven's Earth Trek, an environmentally conscious travel series, began airing on PBS stations nationally.
In 2004, Raven's weekly series Hello Paradise premiered on KVCR-TV, a Southern California PBS station. The series features celebrities, attractions, events, hotels and restaurants in Palm Springs and the desert communities.
In 2007, the company produced Donovan Live in LA which was shot at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood and featured the singer / songwriter, Donovan. The program was released to PBS stations with proceeds benefiting director David Lynch's Foundation for Consciousness Based Education and World Peace.
In 2008, the company produced its sixth PBS pledge special, Trini Lopez presents Latin Music Legends, recorded live-to-tape at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, starring Trini Lopez and featuring Julio Iglesias, Thee Midnighters, Tierra, El Chicano and the Greg Rolie Band.
Its sister company, PSTV Partners, is the holder of FCC broadcast license for K09XW channel 9 in Palm Desert and, through a partnership with the San Bernardino Community College District, is rebroadcasting KVCR-DT.
References
External links
Raven Productions – Official Website
Television production companies of the United States
Companies based in Palm Springs, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideScience | WorldWideScience.org is a global science search engine (Academic databases and search engines) designed to accelerate scientific discovery and progress by accelerating the sharing of scientific knowledge. Through a multilateral partnership, WorldWideScience.org enables anyone with internet access to launch a single-query search of national scientific databases and portals in more than 70 countries, covering all of the world's inhabited continents and over three-quarters of the world's population. From a user's perspective, WorldWideScience.org makes the databases act as if they were a unified whole.
WorldWideScience.org implements federated searching to provide its coverage of global science and research results. Federated searching technology allows the information patron to search multiple data sources with a single query in real time. It provides simultaneous access to "deep web" scientific databases, which are typically not searchable by commercial search engines.
In June 2010, WorldWideScience.org implemented multilingual translations capabilities. Using Microsoft's Bing Translator, Multilingual WorldWideScience.org offers the user the ability to search across databases in ten languages and then have the results translated into their preferred language. "One to many" and "many to one" machine translations can be performed for Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Features and abilities
WorldWideScience.org provides science search through a variety of features and abilities, including:
Clustering of results by subtopics or dates to help users target their search
Wikipedia results related to user search terms
Eureka Science News results related to user search terms
Mark and send option for emailing results to friends and colleagues
Enhanced information related to the user's real-time search
Alerts service
Multilingual Translations
History
The concept of a global gateway to national science information sources was first described by Dr. Walter Warnick at the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) annual meeting in Washington, DC, in 2006. The concept was formalized in January 2007 when the British Library and the United States Department of Energy signed a Statement of Intent to partner in the development of a global science gateway. Later officially named "WorldWideScience.org", the gateway was developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information. The system was unveiled to ICSTI members and the public at the June 2007 ICSTI meeting in Nancy, France.
Since its release in June 2007, WorldWideScience.org has enjoyed tremendous growth in both the number of data sources searched, along with the number of countries participating as information providers. The default search of WorldWideScience.org includes a search of the US contribution, Science.gov, which tends to return scholarly information as opp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrou | Petrou () is a Greek surname. People with this surname include:
Maria Petrou (1953–2012), Greek-born British computer scientist
Kostas Petrou (born 1959), British boxer of Greek Cypriot descent
Nicolas Petrou (born 1967), Cypriot-born American fashion designer
Sokratis Petrou (born 1979), Greek footballer
Ioannis Petrou (born 1996), Greek rower
David Michael Petrou, American film producer
George Petrou, Greek conductor and pianist
Aristos Petrou (born 1990), American musician known for being in the New Orleans duo Suicideboys
Thomas Petrou, American social media personality
Greek-language surnames
Surnames from given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udma%20%28disambiguation%29 | Udma or UDMA may refer to:
Udma, a town in the Indian state of Kerala.
Ultra Direct Memory Access (UDMA), a set of standards for Direct Memory Access (DMA) data transfer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32-loader | win32-loader (officially Debian-Installer Loader ) is a component of the Debian Linux distribution that runs on Windows and has the ability to load the actual Debian installer either from the network (as in the version in an official website) or from CD-ROM media (as in the version included in Jessie CD images).
win32-loader was born as an independent project, for which only the network version was available. Later the code went through a long review and polishing process to become part of the official Debian distribution.
Influences
win32-loader strongly relies on projects such as NSIS, GRUB 2, loadlin and Debian-Installer to perform its task. Additionally, it has drawn inspiration and ideas from similar projects such as Wubi and Instlux.
Features
Auto-detects 64-bit (x86-64) support in host CPUs, and automatically selects the x86-64 flavor of Debian whenever supported, completely transparent to the user.
Detects a number of settings from the Windows environment (time zone, proxy settings, etc.) and feeds them to the Debian Installer via a "preseeding" mechanism so that the user doesn't have to select them.
Translated to 51 languages. The selected language is displayed for user interaction since the first template, and is seamlessly passed on to the Debian Installer via "preseeding".
Similar projects
Topologilinux: uses coLinux to run on Windows.
Instlux, included on openSUSE since the 10.3 release.
Wubi
UNetbootin
See also
NSIS
UNetbootin
References
External links
Package description in Debian
The network version homepage
The network version (exe)
The network version (README)
Free system software
Linux installation software
Windows-only free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCYS | KCYS (96.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Seaside, Oregon, United States. The station is owned by Jeff Huffman, through licensee Jacobs Radio Programming, LLC. KCYS broadcasts a country music format.
The state of Oregon has designated KCYS as the primary, also called "P-1", provider to Clatsop County of bulletins about weather and other emergencies issued by state agencies and officials.
History
This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on September 5, 1996. The new station was assigned the KCYS call sign by the FCC on November 25, 1996. KCYS received its license to cover from the FCC on April 1, 1998.
References
External links
CYS
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1997
Seaside, Oregon
1997 establishments in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVFS | DVFS may refer to:
Delaware Valley Friends School, Pennsylvania, US
Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, a power management technique in computer architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20sovereign%20states%20by%20number%20of%20broadband%20Internet%20subscriptions | This article contains a sortable list of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions and penetration rates, using data compiled by the International Telecommunication Union.
List
The list includes figures for both fixed wired broadband subscriptions and mobile cellular subscriptions:
Fixed-broadband access refers to high-speed fixed (wired) access to the public Internet at downstream speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kbit/s. This includes satellite Internet access, cable modem, DSL, fibre-to-the-home/building, and other fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions. The totals are measured irrespective of the method of payment.
Mobile-cellular access refers to high-speed mobile access to the public Internet at advertised data speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kbit/s. To be counted, a mobile subscription must allow access to the greater Internet via HTTP and must have been used to make a data connection using the Internet Protocol in the previous three months. SMS and MMS messaging do not count as an active Internet data connection even if they are delivered via IP.
Penetration rate is the percentage (%) of a country's population that are subscribers. A dash (—) is shown when data for 2012 is not available. Non-country and disputed areas are shown in italics. Taiwan is listed as a sovereign country.
Note: Because a single Internet subscription may be shared by many people and a single person my have more than one subscription, the penetration rate will not reflect the actual level of access to broadband Internet of the population and penetration rates larger than 100% are possible.
See also
List of countries by number of Internet users
List of countries by number of telephone lines in use
List of countries by smartphone penetration
List of mobile network operators
List of multiple-system operators
List of telephone operating companies
References
External links
"Internet Monitor", a research project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to evaluate, describe, and summarize the means, mechanisms, and extent of Internet access, content controls and activity around the world.
International telecommunications
Broadband Internet users
Internet-related lists
IT infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neela%20Marikkar | Neela Marikkar is the Chairperson of Dentsu Grant Group (formally Grant McCann Erickson), a leading Communications Group in Sri Lanka in partnership with Dentsu and Dentsu Aegis Network.
Biography
Neela is a daughter of the Sri Lankan media personality Reggie Candappa and wife Therese Candappa.
Peace activist
Neela has served as Chairperson of various institutions in the business sector including the Committee on Communication and Social Mobilization of the National Advisory Council for Peace and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka.
She is the president of Sri Lanka First, an influential group of corporate leaders who promote a peaceful settlement by negotiation between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Consultant to UNDP
Neela was a consultant to UNDP’s Invest-in-peace Program to help revive the country’s war affected economy. She led a group of Sri Lankan Business leaders to South Africa to study the role business played in their peace process and post conflict reconstruction.
Women activist
Neela served in the Women Waging Peace Network and at their Colloquium, she was invited to be a speaker on the role of women in peace building at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
References
External links
Profile of Neela Marikkar
Neela Marikkar
Promoting Peace in Sri Lanka
Neela_family
SJMS Quarterly
SriLankaFirst calls for vote on peace
REGINALD (REGGIE) SEBASTIAN RODRIGO CANDAPPA
Dentsu Grant Group
WE ARE PLANNING THE NEXT WAVE
Sri Lankan humanitarians
Living people
Sri Lankan Chetty businesspeople
Sri Lankan public relations people
Sri Lankan women in business
Sri Lankan activists
Sri Lankan women activists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Sri Lankan businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewDos/80 | NewDos/80 is a third-party operating system for the Radio Shack TRS-80 line of microcomputers released in 1980. NewDos/80 was developed by Apparat, Inc., of Denver, Colorado. NewDos/80 version 2.0 was released in August 1981. It ran on the TRS-80 Model I and Model III.
Overview
The operating system had additional commands and features that were not available in TRSDOS, the native operating system for TRS-80 computers. NewDos/80 allowed TRS-80 computers to take advantage of advances in floppy disk storage that went beyond the initial 87.5KB 35-track, single-density, single-sided format. The system also corrected issues that early versions of TRSDOS had with arbitrarily losing data due to errors in how it communicated with the contemporary TRS-80 disk drives' 1771 disk controller.
NewDos/80 had many options for specifying specific low-level disk configurations. Settings such as diskette formats, disk drive types, track geometry and controllers could be configured using the PDRIVE command. In version 2.1, Apparat added support for hard disk drives via an external bus adapter.
NewDos/80 was written by Cliff Ide and Jason Matthews. Ide was the primary author of NewDos in all of its incarnations, Matthews wrote "patches" for various applications such as Scripsit and VisiCalc. Ive later retired and Matthews went on to other projects in the software business.
Commands
The following is a list of NewDos/80 commands:
Reception
While criticizing NEWDOS's "nearly incomprehensible documentation", Jerry Pournelle wrote in 1980 that it was "a much better operating system" than the "needlessly complex" TRSDOS and stated that "Tandy ought to be marketing NEWDOS+ themselves".
See also
List of DOS commands
List of Unix commands
References
External links
Mike's Virtual Computer Museum - NEWDOS/80 page
Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Site - NEWDOS/80 Version 2 reference
Disk operating systems
TRS-80
1980 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko%20Linux | Openmoko Linux is an operating system for smartphones developed by the Openmoko project. It is based on the Ångström distribution, comprising various pieces of free software.
The main targets of Openmoko Linux were the Openmoko Neo 1973 and the Neo FreeRunner. Furthermore, there were efforts to port the system to other mobile phones.
Openmoko Linux was developed from 2007 to 2009 by Openmoko Inc. The development was discontinued because of financial problems. Afterwards the development of software for the Openmoko phones was taken over by the community and continued in various projects, including SHR, QtMoko and Hackable1.
Components
Openmoko Linux uses the Linux kernel, GNU libc, the X.Org Server plus their own graphical user environment built using the EFL toolkit, GTK+ toolkit, Qt toolkit and the illume window manager (previously Matchbox window manager). The OpenEmbedded build framework and opkg package management system, are used to create and maintain software packages.
This is a very different approach than that of Android (in which everything except Linux, Webkit, and the Java language inside of Android seems non-standard). Applications targeted for Android must be substantially rewritten and are largely not portable. Many existing Linux desktop apps can be easily ported to Openmoko. (However the limited computational power and screen resolution require substantial reworking of existing applications, in order to render them usable in a finger-oriented, small-screen environment.)
See also
List of free and open source Android applications
References
External links
Smartphone operating systems
Mobile operating systems
Embedded Linux
Openmoko
Free mobile software
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICEARRAY | ICEARRAY is an abbreviation for Icelandic Strong-motion Array. The ICEARRAY network is a seismic array of 14 strong-motion stations located within the South Iceland Seismic Zone. Each station consists of a seismograph situated in a protective housing. The stations are spread across a geographical area of approximately 3 km² in the town of Hveragerdi in south-western Iceland. Most of the units are located in the basements of residential buildings in Hveragerdi town centre, which is approximately 35 km southeast of Iceland's capital, Reykjavík. The ICEARRAY project is supported by the 6th Framework of the European Commission through the Marie Curie International Re-integration Grant, the Iceland Centre for Research and the University of Iceland Earthquake Engineering Research Centre.
Instruments
The instruments used in the seismic array are CUSP-3Clp accelerometers manufactured by Canterbury Seismic Instruments Ltd. based in New Zealand. The instruments record three components of ground motion, i.e. one vertical and two horizontal components, over a high dynamic range. The instruments are connected to a GPS clock, ensuring a uniform time over the network. The instruments communicate via a wireless permanent GPRS connection. This enables remote configuration of individual units and near real-time alerts and data uploading. An important feature that has been developed during the establishment of the array is a common triggering scheme. This feature was designed in collaboration with the manufacturers of the units. In the event of two or more units receiving an earthquake trigger, the common triggering feature activates the entire array to start recording. This scheme ensures complete data coverage and greatly reduces the need to filter out noise and manmade disturbances.
Geographical location
Iceland is located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the extensional tectonic plate boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate. It is also located over a deep-seated mantle plume known as the Iceland hotspot, which causes dynamic uplift of the Iceland Plateau, with associated volcanism and seismicity. The line of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is offset by two transform zones in Iceland, the South Iceland Seismic Zone (SISZ) in the south and the Tjornes Fracture Zone in the north. The town of Hveragerdi is located at the western end of the SISZ, an area of considerable seismicity.
Background
The South Iceland Seismic Zone (SISZ) has been the location of numerous large destructive earthquakes in the past. The SISZ is an east-west trending transform zone approximately 70 km long and 10–20 km wide. Destructive earthquake sequences in this region usually consist of several earthquakes exceeding a magnitude of 6.5 and with their epicentres located on north-south trending faults. Such a sequence started on 17 June 2000 at 15:40 local time with an earthquake of magnitude 6.5. It was followed on 21 June 2000 at 00:51 by a magnitude 6.4 event. Earthquake-induce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Que%20Pasa%20Radio | Que Pasa Radio was a network of radio stations in North Carolina broadcasting music and news in Spanish.
Que Pasa Radio was heard on WYSR 1590 AM High Point, NC and was formerly heard on WREV 1220 AM Reidsville, NC, WTOB 1380 AM Winston-Salem, NC, WLLO 1530 AM Durham, NC, WWBG 1470 AM Greensboro, NC and WRTG 1000 AM Raleigh, NC.
See also
Que Pasa Newspaper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boldon%20James | Boldon James is a UK-based software company incorporated in February 1985, and specialising in data classification and secure messaging solutions aimed primarily at the commercial, defence, intelligence and government marketplaces. The company is named after its founders Peter Boldon and Roger James. The company was acquired in June 2020 by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based software developer HelpSystems.
History
Originally, Boldon James specialised in Information Processing Architecture (IPA) networking solutions for interworking with International Computers Limited (ICL) systems, with offices in Congleton and Alsager.
In October 2007, Boldon James was acquired as an autonomous subsidiary of Qinetiq a major UK plc and FTSE 250 company, who took over the company from previous owners, a management buy out led by Martin Sugden and backed by Livingbridge.
In June 2020, Minneapolis, Minnesota-based software developer HelpSystems acquired Boldon James from parent Qinetiq.
Products
Boldon James produces a range of messaging products, principally integrating with Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, including addons for Outlook Web Access, X.400 Bridgehead connector (gateways), and products designed to integrate Exchange with large third party LDAP Directories, known as MasterKey+, MK+ or enterprise directory. The company also provides related support and maintenance services.
Operations
Boldon James Holdings Ltd is registered in Farnborough, Hampshire, whilst Boldon James' development office is in Crewe. The company has 85 employees, 70% of which are technical staff, and has clients including Financial Services Organisations such as Prudential and Allianz, the UK and German Ministries of Defence, and defence contractors such as Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, amongst others.
References
Software companies of the United Kingdom
Qinetiq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20FreeCell | FreeCell, also known as Microsoft FreeCell, is a computer game included in Microsoft Windows, based on a card game with the same name.
Development
Paul Alfille implemented Freecell in 1978 for the PLATO computer system at CERL; by the early 1980s Control Data Corporation had published it for all PLATO systems. Jim Horne, who enjoyed playing Freecell on the PLATO system at the University of Alberta, published a shareware $10 DOS version with color graphics in 1988. That year Horne joined Microsoft, and later ported the game to Windows.
The Windows version was first included in Microsoft Entertainment Pack Volume 2 and later the Best Of Microsoft Entertainment Pack. It was subsequently included with Win32s as an application that enabled the testing of the 32-bit thunking layer to ensure that it was installed properly. However, FreeCell remained relatively obscure until it was released as part of Windows 95. In Windows XP, FreeCell was extended to support a total of 1 million card deals.
Releases
Today, there are FreeCell implementations for nearly every modern operating system as it is one of the few games pre-installed with every copy of Windows. Prior to Windows Vista, the versions for Windows were limited in their player assistance features, such as retraction of moves. The Windows Vista FreeCell implementation contains basic hints and unlimited move retraction (via the Undo menu choice or command), and the option to restart the game. Some features have been removed, such as the flashing screen to warn the player of one move remaining. FreeCell is not included in the Windows 8 operating system but is available in the Windows Store as the free Microsoft Solitaire Collection, which is also bundled with Windows 10.
Legacy
Microsoft created the Entertainment Packs to encourage non-business use of Windows. According to company telemetry FreeCell was the seventh most-used Windows program, ahead of Word and Microsoft Excel.
The original Microsoft FreeCell package supports 32,000 numbered deals, generated by a 15-bit, pseudorandom-number seed. These deals are known as the "Microsoft 32,000", and all but one of them have been completed. Later versions of FreeCell include more than one million deals. When Microsoft FreeCell became very popular during the 1990s, the Internet FreeCell Project attempted to solve all the deals by crowdsourcing consecutive games to specific people. The project ran from August 1994 to April 1995, and only #11982 proved unwinnable. Out of the current Microsoft Windows games, eight are unsolvable.
The significance of the "Microsoft 32,000" to many FreeCell players is such that other computer implementations of FreeCell will often go out of their way to guarantee compatibility with these deals, rather than simply using the most readily available random number generator for their target platforms.
As an easter egg, Microsoft intentionally includes a few impossible games, with negative numbers. Playing these games do not cou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-order%20inductive%20learner | In machine learning, first-order inductive learner (FOIL) is a rule-based learning algorithm.
Background
Developed in 1990 by Ross Quinlan, FOIL learns function-free Horn clauses, a subset of first-order predicate calculus. Given positive and negative examples of some concept and a set of background-knowledge predicates, FOIL inductively generates a logical concept definition or rule for the concept. The induced rule must not involve any constants (color(X,red) becomes color(X,Y), red(Y)) or function symbols, but may allow negated predicates; recursive concepts are also learnable.
Like the ID3 algorithm, FOIL hill climbs using a metric based on information theory to construct a rule that covers the data. Unlike ID3, however, FOIL uses a separate-and-conquer method rather than divide-and-conquer, focusing on creating one rule at a time and collecting uncovered examples for the next iteration of the algorithm.
Algorithm
The FOIL algorithm is as follows:
Input List of examples
Output Rule in first-order predicate logic
FOIL(Examples)
Let Pos be the positive examples
Let Pred be the predicate to be learned
Until Pos is empty do:
Let Neg be the negative examples
Set Body to empty
Call LearnClauseBody
Add Pred ← Body to the rule
Remove from Pos all examples which satisfy Body
Procedure LearnClauseBody
Until Neg is empty do:
Choose a literal L
Conjoin L to Body
Remove from Neg examples that do not satisfy L
Example
Suppose FOIL's task is to learn the concept grandfather(X,Y) given the relations father(X,Y) and parent(X,Y). Furthermore, suppose our current Body consists of grandfather(X,Y) ← parent(X,Z). This can be extended by conjoining Body with any of the literals father(X,X), father(Y,Z), parent(U,Y), or many others – to create this literal, the algorithm must choose both a predicate name and a set of variables for the predicate (at least one of which is required to be present already in an unnegated literal of the clause). If FOIL extends a clause grandfather(X,Y) ← true by conjoining the literal parent(X,Z), it is introducing the new variable Z. Positive examples now consist of those values <X,Y,Z> such that grandfather(X,Y) is true and parent(X,Z) is true; negative examples are those where grandfather(X,Y) is true but parent(X,Z) is false.
On the next iteration of FOIL after parent(X,Z) has been added, the algorithm will consider all combinations of predicate names and variables such that at least one variable in the new literal is present in the existing clause. This results in a very large search space. Several extensions of the FOIL theory have shown that additions to the basic algorithm may reduce this search space, sometimes drastically.
Extensions
The FOCL algorithm (First Order Combined Learner) extends FOIL in a variety of ways, which affect how FOCL selects literals to test while extending a clause under construction. Constraints on the search space are allowed, as are predicates that are defined on a rule rather than on a set of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChemXSeer | {{DISPLAYTITLE:ChemXSeer}}
ChemXSeer project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is a public integrated digital library, database, and search engine for scientific papers in chemistry. It is being developed by a multidisciplinary team of researchers at the Pennsylvania State University. ChemXSeer was conceived by Dr. Prasenjit Mitra, Dr. Lee Giles and Dr. Karl Mueller as a way to integrate the chemical scientific literature with experimental, analytical, and simulation data from different types of experimental systems. The goal of the project is to create an intelligent search and database which will provide access to relevant data to a diverse community of users who have a need for chemical information. It is hosted on the World Wide Web at the College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University.
Features
In order to provide access to relevant data to users ChemXSeer provides new features that are not available in traditional search engines or digital libraries.
Chemical Entity Search: A tool capable of identifying Chemical formulae and chemical names, and extracting and disambiguating them from general terms within documents. Those disambiguated terms are used for performing searches.
TableSeer: In scholarly articles Tables are used to present, list, summarize, and structure important data. TableSeer automatically identifies tables in digital documents, extracts the table Metadata as well as the cells content, and stores them in such a way that allows users to either query the table content or search for tables in a large set of documents.
Dataset search: ChemXSeer provides tools to incorporate datasets from different experiments sources. The system is able to manipulate results from multiple formats such as XML, Microsoft Excel, Gaussian, and CHARMM, create databases, to allow direct queries over the data, create Metadata, using an annotation tool, which will allow users to search over the datasets, as well as a way to create links among datasets and/or between datasets and documents.
In addition to these tools, ChemXSeer will integrate the advances made by its sister project CiteSeerX to provide:
Full text search
Author, affiliation, title and venue search
Citation and acknowledgement search
Citation linking and statistics
See also
CiteSeerx
References
External links
ChemXSeer Official web site
Critical Zone Exploration Network (CZEN)
Center for Environmental Kinetics Analysis (CEKA)
Eprint archives
Internet search engines
Library 2.0
Open-access archives
Environmental chemistry
Pennsylvania State University
Bibliographic databases and indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CeX%20%28company%29 | CeX Ltd. () (Complete Entertainment eXchange and formerly Computer Exchange until 2001) is a British second hand retail store specialising in technology, computing, video games, DVDs and technology repair. It also sells new items. It was established in 1992 in London, and has since grown to have more than 380 shops in the UK which is a mix of franchise and centrally owned stores, and over 230 abroad.
History
CeX was started by Paul Farrington, Robert Dudani, Hugh Man, Charlie Brooker, Oli Smith and Oliver Ball. The first shop opened on London's Whitfield Street, close to Tottenham Court Road in 1992. The "CeX" name has moved away from "Computer eXchange" into an acronym for "Complete Entertainment eXchange", and company letterheads state "CeX LTD is trading as CeX Entertainment Exchange". The pronunciation of the chain's acronym name was confirmed as "sex" in British TV commercials aired in March 2017.
Dudani appeared on the British Channel 4 TV show The Secret Millionaire. This was after the business was affected by the 2011 England riots.
CeX Trading
CeX is a privately owned company. In 2005, CeX began issuing licences for franchising.
As a second hand retailer, CeX trades with customers offering either cash or a voucher for redemption in any CeX shop. CeX offer a 24-month warranty subject to terms on all of the second hand products the company sells.
In November 2017, CeX launched a technology repair service called CeX Clinic in the UK. The service covers the repair of video game consoles, smartphones, tablets and laptops. CeX offer a 2 year warranty on device repairs and a no fix, no fee promise to customers.
As of December 2013, CeX Group under Dominic Durante now runs Designer Exchange buying luxury leather goods, jewellery and handbags, with stores in Kensington, Chelsea, Knightsbridge, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Madrid.
Number of shops
References
External links
CeX Official website
CeXClinic Official website
CeX Official app
1992 establishments in the United Kingdom
Retail companies of the United Kingdom
Video game retailers in the United Kingdom
Companies based in Watford
Retail companies established in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job-shop%20scheduling | Job-shop scheduling, the job-shop problem (JSP) or job-shop scheduling problem (JSSP) is an optimization problem in computer science and operations research. It is a variant of optimal job scheduling. In a general job scheduling problem, we are given n jobs J1, J2, ..., Jn of varying processing times, which need to be scheduled on m machines with varying processing power, while trying to minimize the makespan – the total length of the schedule (that is, when all the jobs have finished processing). In the specific variant known as job-shop scheduling, each job consists of a set of operations O1, O2, ..., On which need to be processed in a specific order (known as precedence constraints). Each operation has a specific machine that it needs to be processed on and only one operation in a job can be processed at a given time. A common relaxation is the flexible job shop, where each operation can be processed on any machine of a given set (the machines in each set are identical).
The name originally came from the scheduling of jobs in a job shop, but the theme has wide applications beyond that type of instance. This problem is one of the best known combinatorial optimization problems, and was the first problem for which competitive analysis was presented, by Graham in 1966. The best problem instances for a basic model with a makespan objective are due to Taillard.
In the standard three-field notation for optimal job scheduling problems, the job-shop variant is denoted by J in the first field. For example, the problem denoted by " J3||" is a 3-machines job-shop problem with unit processing times, where the goal is to minimize the maximum completion time.
Problem variations
Many variations of the problem exist, including the following:
Machines can have duplicates (flexible job shop with duplicate machines) or belong to groups of identical machines (flexible job shop).
Machines can require a certain gap between jobs or no idle-time.
Machines can have sequence-dependent setups.
Objective function can be to minimize the makespan, the Lp norm, tardiness, maximum lateness etc. It can also be multi-objective optimization problem.
Jobs may have constraints, for example a job i needs to finish before job j can be started (see workflow). Also, the objective function can be multi-criteria.
Set of jobs can relate to different set of machines.
Deterministic (fixed) processing times or probabilistic processing times.
NP-hardness
Since the traveling salesman problem is NP-hard, the job-shop problem with sequence-dependent setup is clearly also NP-hard since the TSP is a special case of the JSP with a single job (the cities are the machines and the salesman is the job).
Problem representation
The disjunctive graph is one of the popular models used for describing the job-shop scheduling problem instances.
A mathematical statement of the problem can be made as follows:
Let and be two finite sets. On account of the industrial origins of the problem, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia%27s%20Diary | Sofia's Diary is a drama that is shown online through the social networking site Bebo, which is the same site that hosts KateModern.
A version of Sofia's Diary originally came out in 2003 in Portugal. This means it actually predates the first video of lonelygirl15 which came out in 2006. Sofia is played by 22-year-old Rachel Hyde-Harvey.
Sofia's Diary was the second internet based show to make the transition to UK TV (Tiscali Showcase on C4 being the first in 2007) following its acquisition by Channel Five (from Sony Pictures Television International) on 17 April 2008. The first two seasons of the show were broadcast on 'Fiver' (previously 'Five Life').
Following an 8-month break, Sofia's Diary returned to Bebo to begin a 6-week third season, from 29 May 2009. This season differs to the first two, in that new episodes are only being shown on Tuesdays and Fridays, as opposed to every weekday.
Sure Girl originally sponsored Sofia's Diary. Season 3 of the show is being exclusively sponsored by Transport for London (TfL), to help increase awareness among teenagers of its road safety campaign.
In Vietnam version called Nhật ký Vàng Anh.
Sofia's life
At the start of the series, Sofia was a 17-year-old girl, living with her dad, stepmother and stepbrother (also known as 'Devil Child'). The story began when Sofia found her (now ex) boyfriend kissing her stepsister Trisha. As revenge, she played a trick on her ex, but it backfired and somehow she managed to set the whole chemistry lab on fire. Doing this got her suspended. Her mum then found some ecstasy tablets in her bedroom, so she decided to send her away to London, to live with her dad, his wife and their baby. Her best friend, Sean, later died from a random gunshot. Sofia had to choose between Finn or Josh as her boyfriend. She lives with Alice Clayton Smith.
Television
Due to its success on Bebo, FIVER picked up the series and started airing episodes every day at 5:25 ever since 17 April 2008. An omnibus would air every 2 weeks on a Sunday. Due to slow ratings the singular episodes moved to 4:00 on a weekday basis, the omnibuses were then dropped. FIVER officially cancelled Sofia's Diary on 12 June 2009, saying they had no broadcast right to new episodes and their contract had expired, they also said they had no intention to renew it. The show has now ended on Bebo as well.
Cast
Season 1
Season 1 focuses mainly on Sofia's move from Stockport to London. It focuses on her making brand new friends and fitting in at school. Her videos were uploaded on a weekday basis.
Season 2
Season 2 focuses mainly on Sofia and Jill's loss of Sean due to a gunshot. It also focuses on Sofia's real friend and her future decisions. Her videos were uploaded on a weekday basis.
Season 3
Season 3 focuses mainly on road safety and growing up. Jill getting a record label and Sofia moving in with Alice also Wicked Magazine was shut down. Her videos are uploaded on a Tuesday and Friday basis. It ended after one mont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard%20Computers | The Harvard Computers were a team of women working as skilled workers to process astronomical data at the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The team was directed by Edward Charles Pickering (1877 to 1919) and, following his death in 1919, by Annie Jump Cannon.
Other computers in the team included Williamina Fleming and Florence Cushman. Although these women started primarily as calculators, they made significant contributions to astronomy, much of which they published in research articles.
History
Although Pickering believed that gathering data at astronomical observatories was not the most appropriate work, it seems that several factors contributed to his decision to hire women instead of men. Among them was that men were paid much more than women, so he could employ more staff with the same budget. This was relevant in a time when the amount of astronomical data was surpassing the capacity of the Observatories to process it. Although some of Pickering's female staff were astronomy graduates, their wages were similar to those of unskilled workers. They usually earned between 25 and 50 cents per hour (between $ and $ in ), more than a factory worker but less than a clerical one. In describing the dedication and efficiency with which the Harvard Computers, including Florence, undertook this effort, Edward Pickering said, "a loss of one minute in the reduction of each estimate would delay the publication of the entire work by the equivalent of the time of one assistant for two years."
The women were often tasked with measuring the brightness, position, and color of stars. The work included such tasks as classifying stars by comparing the photographs to known catalogs and reducing the photographs while accounting for things like atmospheric refraction in order to render the clearest possible image. Fleming herself described the work as "so nearly alike that there will be little to describe outside ordinary routine work of measurement, examination of photographs, and of work involved in the reduction of these observations". At times women offered to work at the observatory for free in order to gain experience in a field that was difficult to get into.
Notable members
Mary Anna Palmer Draper
Mary Anna Draper was the widow of Dr. Henry Draper, an astronomer who died before completing his work on the chemical composition of stars. She was very involved in her husband's work and wanted to finish his classification of stars after he died. Mary Draper quickly realized the task facing her was far too daunting for one person. She had received correspondence from Mr. Pickering, a close friend of hers and her husband's. Pickering offered to help finish her husband's work, and encouraged her to publish his findings up to the time of his death. After some deliberation and much consideration, Draper decided in 1886 to donate money and a telescope of her husband's to the Harvard Observatory in order to photograph the s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComputerTown%20UK | In the November 1980 issue of the UK's Personal Computer World (PCW magazine), there was an article written by David Tebbutt, about his visit to the Menlo Park Library where the "ComputerTown USA!" a self-help computer literacy movement, started by the People's Computer Company, was based. That article and the regular CTUK column/page in future issues of PCW in turn sparked a widespread UK based self-help computer literacy movement, called "ComputerTown UK!". Within a few months over 20 local groups sprang up. (See CTUSA! Newsletter Issue 18 Vol 3 No 5 Sept/Oct 1982)
The idea behind the groups was that members of the public took their own personal computers into public places for the general public to see and use.
Several of these CTUK groups gave birth to local amateur computer clubs, some of which are still continued operating into the 21st Century.
An example of such a group was 'ComputerTown North East' (Newcastle-upon-Tyne & Gateshead) which met in the Tyne & Wear Science Museum cafe (and thus could claim to be the first ever cyber-cafe on Tyneside). They also held "awareness days" in the Newcastle Central Public Library, and in many other local branch libraries on Tyneside, and in Gateshead, South Shields and Sunderland between 1981 and 1990.
"Log-on-the-Tyne" was a FidoNet Computer Bulletin Board, ran from 1985 to 1995, by John Bone & Steven Townsley, with help from John Rawson and others. A dial-up modem service, with email via the FidoNet network, all operated by volunteers in their own time. {Its one time Fido ID being "FidoNet 2:256/17.0"}
See also
Users' group
References
External links
Computers Come To Town, an article by David Tebbutt, MicroScope, 11/82
Kewney: We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - 15 Oct 2007 - IT Week Article from ITWeek October 2007 by Guy Kewney
Computer clubs in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20recorder | Digital recorder may refer to:
Data logger
Digital camcorder
Digital video recorder (DVR) or personal video recorder (PVR)
Dictation machine
See also
Digital recording |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Karenina%20%281996%20TV%20series%29 | Anna Karenina (stylized as Annakarenina) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Antoinette Taus, Sunshine Dizon and Kim delos Santos in the title role. It premiered on November 10, 1996 on the network's Sunday afternoon line up replacing Lovingly Yours, Helen. The series concluded on April 28, 2002, with a total of 286 episodes. It was replaced by Kahit Kailan in its timeslot.
A remake was aired in 2013.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Antoinette Taus as Anna Karenina "Anna" Serrano Monteclaro and Anna Karolina Monteclaro / Victoria "Bekbek"
Sunshine Dizon as Anna Karenina "Karen" Villarama
Kim delos Santos as Anna Karenina "Nina" Fuentebella
Supporting cast
Pinky Amador as Margarita "Maggie" Monteclaro
Rosemarie Gil as Doña Carmela Cruz-Monteclaro
Chinggoy Alonzo as Don Xernan Monteclaro
Maritoni Fernandez as Ruth Monteclaro
Dingdong Dantes as Brix
Polo Ravales as Vincent
Dino Guevarra as Brian
Tanya Garcia as Anna Karenina "Grace" San Victores
Recurring cast
Katya Santos as Carla
Harold Macasero as Aldrin
Toby Alejar as Abel
Mat Ranillo III as Raul
Czarina Lopez de Leon as Nayda
Anne Curtis as Ginny
Chubi del Rosario as Benjie
Joanne Quintas as Melissa Cruz
Marky Lopez as Dennis
Bea Bueno as China
Kristine Garcia as Agnes
Aiza Marquez as Samantha
Ramon Recto as Jim
Red Sternberg as Milo
Maui Taylor as Brigitte
Vivian Foz
Dimples Romana as young Carmela Cruz-Monteclaro
Rita Avila
Rufa Mae Quinto as Chona
Cheska Diaz
Gloria Diaz
References
External links
1996 Philippine television series debuts
2002 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine teen drama television series
Television series about teenagers
Television series by Viva Television
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline%20burst%20cache | In computer engineering, the creation and development of the pipeline burst cache memory is an integral part in the development of the superscalar architecture. It was introduced in the mid 1990s as a replacement for the Synchronous Burst Cache and the Asynchronous Cache and is still in use today in computers. It basically increases the speed of the operation of the cache memory by minimizing the wait states and hence maximizing the processor computing speed. Implementing the techniques of pipelining and bursting, high performance computing is assured. It works on the principle of parallelism, the very principle on which the development of superscalar architecture rests. Pipeline burst cache can be found in DRAM controllers and chipset designs.
Introduction
In a processor-based system, the speed of the processor is always more than that of the main memory. As a result, unnecessary wait-states are developed when instructions or data are being fetched from the main memory. This causes a hampering of the performance of the system. A cache memory is basically developed to increase the efficiency of the system and to maximise the utilisation of the entire computational speed of the processor.
The performance of the processor is highly influenced by the methods employed to transfer data and instructions to and from the processor. The less the time needed for the transfers the better the processor performance.
The pipeline burst cache is basically a storage area for a processor that is designed to be read from or written to in a pipelined succession of four data transfers. As the name suggests 'pipelining', the transfers after the first transfer happen before the first transfer has arrived at the processor.
It was developed as an alternative to asynchronous cache and synchronous burst cache.
Pipeline burst cache gained widespread adoption starting with the release of the Intel 430FX chipset in 1995.
Principles of operation
The pipeline burst cache is based on two principles of operation, namely:
Burst mode
In this mode, the memory contents are prefetched before they are requested.
For a typical cache, each line is 32 bytes wide meaning that, transfers, to and from the cache, occur 32 bytes (256 bits) at a time. The data paths are however only 8 bytes wide. This means that four operations are needed for a single cache transfer. If not for burst mode each transfer would require a separate address to be provided. But since the transfers are to be done from consecutive memory locations there is no need to specify a different address after the first one. Using the technique of Bursting, the transfers of successive data bytes can take place without specifying the remaining addresses. This helps in speed improvement.
Pipelining mode
In this mode, one memory value can be accessed in Cache at the same time that another memory value is accessed in DRAM. The pipelining operation suggests that the transfer of data and instructions from or to the cache |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20ESPN | Throughout its history, ESPN and its sister networks have been the targets of criticism for programming choices, biased coverage, conflict of interest, and controversies with individual broadcasters and analysts. Additionally, ESPN has been criticized for focusing too much on men's college basketball, LeBron James, Aaron Judge, Lionel Messi and football and very little on other sports such as the National Hockey League (NHL) and Major League Baseball (MLB). Other criticism has focused on issues of race and ethnicity in ESPN's varying mediated forms, as well as carriage fees and issues regarding the exportation of ESPN content.
Some critics argue that ESPN's success is their ability to provide other enterprise and investigative sports news while competing with other hard sports-news-producing outlets such as Yahoo! Sports and Fox Sports. Some scholars have challenged ESPN's journalistic integrity calling for an expanded standard of professionalism to prevent biased coverage and conflicts of interest. Mike Freeman's 2001 book ESPN: The Uncensored History, which alleged sexual harassment, drug use and gambling, was the first critical study of ESPN. And then in 2011, a detailed oral history about ESPN by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales called Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN was released.
Cost and finances
ESPN currently charges the highest retransmission consent fee of any major cable television network in the United States. In 2011, the main channel alone carried a monthly rate of $4.69 per subscriber (nearly five times the price of the next-costliest channel, TNT), with ESPN's other English language channels costing an additional $1.13 per subscriber; these prices rise on a nearly constant basis. By 2017, ESPN's fees had risen to over $7 for the main channel and roughly $3 for its sister outlets. Part of the cause of this high fee is the amount of money that ESPN pays for sports rights, particularly the NFL. In August 2011, ESPN agreed to pay the NFL $1.9 billion annually for the rights to carry Monday Night Football through 2021; this despite the fact that the broadcast networks pay approximately half that price for their packages, which include lucrative and highly watched contests such as the Super Bowl, conference championships and Thanksgiving games while ESPN's package does not (ESPN's package does include the NFL Draft). Cable and satellite television providers condemned ESPN's most recent contract extension with the NFL and have contemplated moving the network to a higher programming tier to mitigate cost increases.
In 2012, ESPN reportedly paid about $7.3 billion over 12 years for the broadcasting rights to all seven bowl games of the College Football Playoff, an average of about $608 million per year. That includes $215 million per year which they previously agreed to air the Rose, Sugar and Orange bowls, plus $470–475 million annually for the rest of the package. Also in 2012, ESPN and Major League Baseball ag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Quine | Daniel Nicholas Quine (formerly known as Daniel Nicholas Crow) is a computer scientist, currently VP Engineering at AltSchool.
Early career
Quine learned to program on a ZX81 and a BBC Micro in the 1980s.
He received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Leeds, and earned his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Leeds in 1995. His thesis work used machine learning algorithms to discover patterns in user interactions.
In the mid-1990s he was Head of Software Development for Art of Memory where he produced the Story of Glass multimedia kiosk and CD-ROM amongst others.
Silicon Valley
In 1996, Quine joined Apple Computer where he initially worked as lead software engineer on the Apple Media Tool. He was also manager of the Hypercard engineering team and the QuickTime applications team. He worked closely with Steve Jobs on the QuickTime Player application and was co-inventor of two software patents with Jobs. In August 2011, Quine was interviewed by the BBC to discuss Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO of Apple.
After leaving Apple in 2000, Quine worked at a number of technology startups. He was Chief Scientist of guru.com where he developed the SmartMatch intelligent search engine. After guru.com was acquired by Unicru, Quine stayed on as Chief Scientist and Chief Architect until 2005.
In 2005, Quine co-founded Blurb.com. As Chief Technology Officer of Blurb he led the development and launch of their first BookSmart product.
Google
In 2006 Quine joined Google as Product Manager for the crawl infrastructure group. In this role he regularly spoke at search engine optimisation conferences and led the company's teams working on the Robots Exclusion Protocol and other crawler technologies; he also represented Google on the proposed ACAP standard.
In February 2008, in an interview with the Technology Review, Quine discussed Google's "alternate views" search interface experiments, and described Google's vision for the future of search: "One thing to remember is that (search is) still the early days. People think that search is a solved problem. I think we're still in the early days of making search work on a universal global scale. We know we can do better."
In 2009, Quine led the engineering team that developed Google Squared, a large scale knowledge extraction technology that is part of the Knowledge Graph technology. He then moved to Google's London office where he led development of Google's mobile search applications and Google Ads Professionals and Rich Media Dynamic Ads projects.
Songkick
In January 2011, Quine left Google to join Songkick. At Songkick he helped create the Silicon Milkroundabout hiring fair. He also led Songkick's transition to a Service Oriented Architecture and helped the company adopt continuous integration.
In May 2014, Quine was interviewed by Silicon Real, and talked about his experience at Songkick, as well as his earlier career and the future of the tech industry. In May 2014, Songkick had more than |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteomedia | Meteomedia may mean:
MétéoMédia, a Canadian French-language cable television channel specializing on weather
Meteomedia AG, a company providing weather data in Germany and Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent%20X%20%281986%20video%20game%29 | Agent X, also known as Agent X in the Brain Drain Caper, is a computer game released in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum. The player takes control of the eponymous Agent X in a multi-load game made up of a number of sub-games. It was followed by a sequel, Agent X II: The Mad Prof's Back.
Plot
The President has been kidnapped by a mad professor, who has left a ransom note telling of an evil dastardly plot to brainwash the leader into a warmongering maniac. Agent X must find the professor's lab, rescue the President and take him to safety, before picking up a bomb and destroying the professor.
Gameplay
There are four sections of the game, each loaded separately. The first level sees Agent X driving a car which travels along a diagonally scrolling road, and is under constant attack from other road users who try to ram it off the road or trap it behind obstacles. The player can make the car jump to avoid crashes. The next level is a basic fighting game; enemies approach from the left and right and must be defeated by kicking or punching them. The third level is a first-person target shooting game in which various objects are hurled towards the screen and must be shot. The final level involves the player controlling Agent X in a helicopter, avoiding missiles and crushers. The player must negotiate a cave complex using the helicopter, collect a bomb, then return it through the caves to destroy the professor's headquarters.
Reception
Reviews were fairly positive, with CRASH giving it 85%, Your Sinclair rating it at 7/10, and ZX Computing rating it as Great.
CRASH said of the game "Wow! For £1.99 this has got so much content. The graphics are all fairly neat, but I dislike the need to continually restart and reload.", Rachael Smith from Your Sinclair said that "Agent X looks great, and has some wacky touches, such as the life indicator, which consists of a little figure moving towards a gravestone. If only they'd been used to slightly better effect this could have been a Mastertronic classic." and ZX Computing said that "... the graphics are good, the game is nicely presented, and the programmer's clearly kept his tongue well into his cheek.".
References
External links
1986 video games
Shoot 'em ups
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
Mastertronic games
Video games scored by Tim Follin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAPA%20%28AM%29 | WAPA (1260 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format as part of the "Borinquen Radio News Network". Licensed to Ponce, Puerto Rico, the station is owned by Wilfredo G. Blanco Pi, licensed to NotiRadio Broadcasting, LLC.
Its programming is also carried by FM translator station W268DJ at 101.5 MHz, also in Ponce.
History
The station was first licensed, as WISO, in 1953 to the South Puerto Rico Broadcasting Company.
On May 23, 2022, after WAPA-TV acquired radio stations WKAQ (AM) and FM in San Juan, and in order to avoid confusion between unrelated broadcasting entities, branding for "WAPA Radio" was changed to "Borinquen Radio". The WBQN call letters that had been assigned to a station on 1160 AM in Barceloneta-Manatí were moved to the former WAPA at 680 AM in San Juan on May 27, and several other call sign changes were made around the network. One resulting change occurred on June 14, 2022, when WISO's call sign was changed to WAPA.
Synchronous relay stations
Until 2017, then-WISO's programming was relayed through two experimental synchronous booster stations that also transmitted on 1260 kHz: WI2XSO, originally licensed June 6, 1999 in Mayaguez, and WI3XSO, originally licensed October 22, 2002 in Aguadilla.
On November 7, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stated that the licenses for WI2XSO and WI3XSO would only be renewed for six months, after which the stations would be deleted. The reason given was that both stations had far exceeded the six-year maximum permitted for experimental authorizations.
Petitions for review of the order to cancel the licenses was submitted on November 23, 2016 and April 24, 2017. However, they were unsuccessful, and the licenses for both WI2XSO and WI3XSO were deleted on May 16, 2017.
In 2018, a second station, WVOZ, changed its community of license from Morovis to Aguadilla, and began broadcasting on 1580 kHz from the former WI3XSO facility.
Translator stations
References
External links
FCC History Cards for WAPA (covering 1951-1980 as WISO)
FCC Station Search Details: DWI2XSO (Facility ID: 89243)
FCC Station Search Details: DWI3XSO (Facility ID: 130173)
APA
APA
Radio stations established in 1953
1953 establishments in Puerto Rico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEGA%20%28AM%29 | WEGA (1350 AM, Candelita7) is a radio station licensed to Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. The station serves the Puerto Rico area. The station broadcasts religious programming. WEGA signed on the air on February 20, 1973. WEGA is owned by Ricardo Alfonso Angulo; who is the son of the late owner of The San Juan Star, Gerry Angulo, through licensee A Radio Company, Inc. The station is operated under a Time Brokerage Agreement by Ministerio en Pie de Guerra, Inc.
On November 10, 2014, WEGA went off the air for almost a year after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. On March 9. 2016, WEGA returned to air Faro de Santidad programming on 1350 AM, after a year of absence.
On February 7, 2018, WEGA switched to Candelita7, an online radio station owned by Evangelist Eddie Rivera Jr. better known as "Candelita". Candelita7 airs on 1350 AM, and worldwide via internet: www.candelita7.com.
References
External links
Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
Radio stations established in 1973
1973 establishments in Puerto Rico
Companies that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2014
EGA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denizen | Denizen may refer to:
An inhabitant of a place
Denizen (film), a 2010 feature film directed, written and produced by J.A. Steel
Denizen (video game), a computer game published by Players Software in 1988
Denizen, a brand of the clothing company Levi Strauss & Co.
Denization, an obsolete common-law process by which a foreigner gained some rights of a British subject |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Burley | Dan Burley (November 7, 1907, in Lexington, Kentucky – October 29, 1962, in Chicago, Illinois) was an American pianist and journalist. He appeared on numerous network television and radio shows in the US and had two radio shows of his own on WWRL Radio in New York.
He was editor of many African-American publications, including the New York Age, the Amsterdam News, and the magazines Ebony, Jet and Duke. He also appeared in five films, performed with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Milton Hinton, Lionel Hampton, Leonard Feather, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, and wrote music for Lionel Hampton and Cab Calloway.
Early life
Dan's father, Rev. James Burley, an Evangelist Baptist minister, died while preaching at Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in Texas when Dan was three years old. His mother, Anna Seymour, an educator, (born in Georgia), remarried and in 1915 moved to Chicago and became involved with politics on the Southside within the Republican Party of Ruth Hanna McCormick, Charles Dineen and William "Big Bill" Thompson. His mother taught under Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee University and was the first African American woman to teach at a school then called "Armour Tech", later the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Burley attended Wendell Phillips High and was president of the school paper and on the High School football league. He also played basketball, fulfilled his love of writing, worked as a paper carrier for the Chicago Daily Defender as a teenager and played boogie-woogie piano. While attending Phillips, Burley developed friendships with Lionel Hampton, Milton Hinton, Louis Jordan, and Langley Waller, who later all moved from Chicago to New York City to work in the music, writing and entertainment industries.
Journalism
By 1929 Burley was the sports editor for the Daily Defender with a featured column syndicated throughout the country. He also wrote for the Chicago Bee, owned by S.B. Fuller who also owned the Pittsburgh Courier, in which Burley had a syndicated column, and who co-owned The New York Age with Burley after he moved to New York.
After moving to New York City Burley became theatrical editor of the Amsterdam News. From 1936 to 1937 he worked as a writer on the paper; three years later he became the managing editor, a position which he held for over twelve years. He became the managing editor of the New York Age, which he co-owned with S. B. Fuller. He was an editor of Ebony magazine from the late 1930s. While in New York, Burley married his first wife, Gustava McCurdy, the first black woman to sing the national anthem at Madison Square Garden. Gustava, at the age of 35, developed cancer and died.
Burley reputedly coined the word bebop and was the creator of The Harlem Handbook of Jive, which sold more than 100,000 copies. It was published in 1941 and reprinted in 1944. Burley's handbook brought mentions from H. L. Mencken, Gertrude Stein, Danton Walker, Winchell and others. The Handbook of Ji |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIC%20Tanzania%20Limited | Tigo is a telecommunication company in Tanzania.
With over 13.5 million registered subscribers to their network, Tigo, directly and indirectly, employs over 300,000 Tanzanians including an extended network of customer service representatives, mobile money merchants, sales agents and distributors.
Tigo is the biggest commercial
brand of Millicom, an international company trading in 12 countries with commercial operations in Africa and Latin America and corporate offices in Europe and the USA.
History
In 1993, there was liberalization of telecommunication sector in the country which resulted in the dissolution of Tanzania Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (TPTC) in early 1994. MIC Tanzania Limited was granted a licence November 30, 1993. The corporation was a joint venture between Millicom International Cellular based in Luxembourg, Ultimate Communications Limited of Tanzania and Tanzania Posts and Telecommunications Corporation Bibi. In this venture, 27.7% of the issued share capital was allotted to the Ultimate Communications Limited and Tanzania Posts and Telecommunications Corporation.
Mobitel
The company began operations in 1994 under the name Mobitel and launched Tanzania's first cellular (analogue) service. In 1998 the company expanded significantly and began pre-paid service under the brand "Simu Poa" and began issuing pre-paid cards under the brand "Kadi Poa".
In 1999 Adesemi Tanzania another telecommunication company operating in the country was acquired by Mobitel and it gave Mobitel customers access to the companies Private Automatic Branch Exchange networks. At the time Mobitel was the first company in Africa that provided subscription-free Internet services under their "MobiNet" brand.
in September 2000, with a partnership with Ericsson Mobitel launched its digital GSM network in Dar es Salaam. Both networks were run simultaneously, with the GSM network in the cities and the analogue network in rural areas. The GSM network was marketed under the brand "Buzz", while the analogue network remained under the "Kadi Poa" brand. The analogue network was continually phased out and was eventually shutdown in September 2005.
In February 2004, MIC's parent company Millicom International Cellular took over the 26% stake from the government to control 84% of the company's equity.
Re-branding to tiGO
In February 2006, after buying out its minority shareholders, the Luxembourg-based pan-African mobile operator Millicom International Cellular announced to take a full control of three of its African-based Mobile operators including MIC Tanzania limited. In Tanzania a USD 1.332 million deal enables Millicom to acquire the remaining 16% stake it did not already own after the cellco's minority shareholders agreed to cancel their call option on the business. Since then Millicom is the full controller of the company.
After this take over the company re-branded the company from "Buzz" to "tiGO", in line with the company's operations gl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplex%20scanning | Duplex scanning is a feature of some computer scanners, and multifunction printers (MFPs) that support duplex printing. A duplex scanner can automatically scan a sheet of paper on both sides. Scanners without this capability can only scan both sides of a sheet of paper by reinserting it manually the other way up.
Duplex scanning is usually implemented on multifunction printers using a Reversing Automatic Document Feeder (RADF), which removes, reverses, and re-feeds the document after scanning one side. Duplex scanning is achieved on scanners by either RADF or by single pass duplex scanning using two cameras, one for each side of document; two-camera scanners scan twice as fast as a similar two-pass scanner.
Typical duplex scanners
The following table compares features for a number of duplex scanners, mostly discontinued as of 2015:
References
Computing input devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZR | LZR may refer to:
Lzr - a variant of the Stoned computer virus
LZR (Lempel - Ziv - Renau) - a lossless data compression algorithm
LZR - the ICAO airline code for the Bulgarian airline Air Lazur
LZR - the International Air Transport Association airport code for Lizard Island Airport in Australia
LZR Racer - a high-end Speedo swimsuit
Led Zeppelin Remasters - a compilation album of remastered material by rock group Led Zeppelin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrJava | DrJava is a lightweight IDE for the Java programming language. Designed primarily for beginners and actively developed and maintained by the JavaPLT group at Rice University, its interface uses Sun Microsystems' Swing toolkit and therefore has a consistent appearance on different platforms. DrJava has the ability to interactively evaluate Java code from a console and to present output as well to the same console. It has many other features that have been designed for advanced users as well. DrJava offers a JUnit test facility.
There have been 4,332,375 downloads .
Version history
The version history of DrJava, as well as links for downloading the various versions, is maintained at SourceForge.
References
External links
List of DrJava publications
Integrated development environments
Java development tools
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lunar%20eclipses%20in%20the%2022nd%20century | See also: List of lunar eclipses, and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses
List of lunar eclipses between 2101 and 2200
References
This list was compiled with data calculated by Fred Espenak of NASA's GSFC.
22
Lunar eclipses
Lunar eclipses
22nd century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some%20of%20My%20Best%20Jokes%20Are%20Friends | Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends is the third studio album by George Clinton. It was released in 1985 by Capitol Records. Though it wasn't as successful as Computer Games, Clinton's first solo album, Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends received favorable reviews among critics. While many former P-Funk musicians are featured on the album, it also features collaborations with more contemporary performers such as Doug Wimbish, Steve Washington, and keyboardist Thomas Dolby.
Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends employs various producers from the P-Funk musical collective, including Clinton, Garry Shider, Washington, Bootsy Collins, Junie Morrison, Clinton's son Tracy Lewis, Wimbish, and Dolby.
Track listing
"Double Oh-Oh" (George Clinton, Garry Shider, St. Song) (released as a single-Capitol B-5473 and as a 12" single-Capitol V-8642) - 5:47
"Bullet Proof" (George Clinton, St. Song) (released as a single-Capitol 5504 and as a 12" single-Capitol V-8653) - 6:19
"Pleasures Of Exhaustion (Do It Till I Drop)" (George Clinton, Steve Washington) - 7:05
"Bodyguard" (George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Walter Morrison) - 3:49
"Bangladesh" (Tracey Lewis) - 4:55
"Thrashin'" (Rodney Curtis, Shawn Clinton, Garry Shider) - 5:38
"Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends" (George Clinton, Doug Wimbish, Bernard Alexander) - 6:01
Personnel
Lead vocals: George Clinton and Thomas Dolby
Almost lead vocals: Garry Shider, Sandra Feva, Joe Harris
Background vocals: Pat Lewis, Sandra Feva, Jimmy G, Tracey Lewis, Andre Foxxe, Garry Shider, Linda Shider, Robert Johnson, Michael Payne, Jerome Rogers, Lige Curry, Patti Curry, DeWayne McKnight, Steve Washington, Sheila Washington, Debbie Wright, Faye Cavendar, Shirley Hayden, Mallia Franklin, Gary Cooper, Bootsy Collins, Louie Kababbie, Rod Simpson, Ron Ford, Jeanette McGruder, Jim Wright, Shawn Clinton, Daryl Clinton, James Wilkerson, Beverly Wilson,
Guitars: DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight, Michael Hampton, Andre Foxxe, Tony Hooks, Bootsy Collins, Eddie Hazel, Garry Shider, Bernard Alexander, Steve Washington, Stew Simon
Real bass: Rodney Curtis, Doug Wimbish, Steve Washington
Electric bass chips: Bootsy Collins, Doug Wimbish, David Spradley, Steve Washington
Keyboards: Thomas Dolby, Junie Morrison, Bootsy Collins, Tracey Lewis, Doug Wimbush, Eric White, Steve Washington, David Spradley
Fairlight and assorted keyboard chips: Thomas Dolby
Real drums as in traps: Dennis Chambers, Bootsy Collins
Electric drum chips: Bootsy Collins, Tracey Lewis, Bernard Alexander, David Spradley
Sequential circuits and linn drums: Steve Washington
Percussion: Muruga Booker, Bootsy Collins, Larry Fratangelo
Strings: Bob Basso, David Everheart, Manny Capote, Lorraine Basso, Bogden Chrusey, Gary Wedder, Stu McDonald
Horns: Maceo Parker, Greg Boyer, Greg Thomas, Benny Cowan, Eric White, Ken Faulk, Ed Calle
Flute solo on "Pleasures Of Exhaustion (Do It Till I Drop)": Mike Fleming
Saxophone solo on "Bangladesh": Ed Calle
Air Raid Siren guitar synth on "Bulletproof": |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoBingo | GoBingo is a Philippine television game show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Arnell Ignacio, it premiered on December 9, 1996 and concluded on January 1, 1999. The show returned on April 14, 2008, and concluded on October 10, 2008 with a total of 130 episodes.
Format
1996-1999
Three contestants play with bingo cards (each with 15 numbered boxes) on 3 different screens. Every correct answer from a player randomly lights up one of their numbers. All the numbers that are lit count for home viewers, who play with bingo cards obtained in return for purchases of sponsors' products (obtained from assigned redemption centers).
In each round, there is a designated pattern to be created. In the first round, each correct answer highlights a number from the corners of the board. In the second round the pattern is a straight vertical line (center only), while the final round is the 'blackout' round.
If a home viewer gets all the 15 numbers for their card they win the home player jackpot (and the remaining unlit numbers in the studio screens change to diamonds).
The first studio player who completes their bingo card proceeds to the bonus round, which comprises 16 numbered boxes, each with a question. A correct answer causes the number to changes to a peso sign, an incorrect one to a blank. The object is to create a pattern of peso signs - horizontal, vertical, or diagonal - within the allotted time of 45 seconds.
2008
Ignacio reprised his role as host and the GobiGirls have so far been played by Joy Velasco (Miss Teen World 2007), Rain Larazabal (sister of Maureen Larazabal), Lyka Feliciano, Ria Christina Fariñas and twins KC and Bebs Hollmann. After three weeks, Krissa Mae Arrieta (Miss USA-Philippines 2007 Expo) became the permanent GobiGirl.
The GoBingo home bingo cards are now replaced by scratch cards, and the number of sponsors for the new season is down to 7 (from 10–12 in the first season). For the home viewer, proofs of purchase from Mercury Drug stores nationwide are exchanged for GoBingo scratch cards, according to size of purchase.
The bonus round bingo cards now have 25 boxes instead of 16.
A new bonus game (to win a new car, after the contestant has won the first bonus round) requires the contestant to uncover nine GoBingo logos without uncovering three images of sad faces. Contestants who fail still retain previously won prize money, and win an extra 1,000 pesos for every GoBingo logo uncovered before the third sad face.
The 1,000,000 Pesos GOMillion Edition
A bonus of 1,000,000 pesos (added to the usual jackpot of 150,000 pesos) is won by any player who can complete the blackout round, or complete their 15 numbers, from the first 18 numbers called.
Accolades
References
1996 Philippine television series debuts
1999 Philippine television series endings
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LayerWalker | LayerWalker Technology, Inc. is a fabless integrated circuit design company that announced a network storage system on a chip (SoC). Their products targeted digital home, small business and consumer electronics markets.
LayerWalker introduced in 2007 the miniSAN product that provided ATA over Ethernet (AoE) server functions and management capabilities. Client software and drivers for Windows and Linux operating systems were offered.
LayerWalker had offices in Taipei. It was founded in 2005 and had a web site through 2012.
References
External links
The ATA-over-Ethernet initiator is part of the mainline Linux kernel since 2.6.11
Kernel Korner - ATA Over Ethernet: Putting Hard Drives on the LAN
Ben Rockwood: ATA Vs. iSCSI
Computer storage companies
Storage area networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55576%20Amycus | 55576 Amycus is a centaur discovered on 8 April 2002 by the NEAT at Palomar.
The minor planet was named for Amycus, a male centaur in Greek mythology.
It came to perihelion in February 2003. Data from the Spitzer Space Telescope gave a diameter of .
A low probability asteroid occultation of star UCAC2 17967364 with an apparent magnitude of +13.8 was possible on 11 February 2009. Another such event involving a star with an apparent magnitude of +12.9 occurred on 10 April 2014 at about 10:46 Universal Time, visible for observers in the southwest US and western Mexico.
Near 3:4 resonance of Uranus
Amycus (2002 GB10) lies within 0.009 AU of the 3:4 resonance of Uranus and is estimated to have a long orbital half-life of about 11.1 Myr.
See also
List of Solar System objects by size
References
External links
Centaurs (small Solar System bodies)
055576
Named minor planets
20020408 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Bellflower%20Bunnies%20episodes | The Bellflower Bunnies () is a children's animated series based on the Beechwood Bunny Tales books by Geneviève Huriet, Amélie Sarn and Loïc Jouannigot. It debuted on TF1, a French television network, on 24 December 2001. Many French and Canadian companies have participated in the show's production over the years; TF1 has always been involved. The series is written by Valérie Baranski, and produced by Patricia Robert. Moran Caouissin directed the first season, and Eric Berthier did the last two.
The show centres on the adventures and exploits of the Bellflower family, a clan of seven rabbits who live in Beechwood Grove. The two adults in the family, Papa Bramble and Aunt Zinnia, take care of their five children: Periwinkle, Poppy, Mistletoe, Dandelion and Violette.
The Bellflower Bunnies originally aired on TFOU TV (formerly TF! Jeunesse), the children's service of TF1, and has since appeared on France's local Disney Junior (formerly Playhouse Disney). The series has also been broadcast on CBC Television and TFO in Canada, KI.KA in Germany, Portugal's RTP in the Azores, and in several other countries.
The show has fifty-two episodes: four in the first season, twenty-two in the second, and twenty-six in the third.
In the entire series, thirteen are based directly on installments in Beechwood Bunny Tales, published by Milan Presse of France and Gareth Stevens in the United States; the rest are based on scripts by Valérie Baranski. Distributors in Europe, North America, and South Korea have released DVDs of the first two seasons.
Overview
The English episode titles come from Feature Films for Families and Direct Source's Region 1 DVDs, as well as the online schedules of the Al Jazeera Children's Channel in the Middle East (for season 2).
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Notes
References
General
Some French titles for season 3 were provided by TFO's schedules during its summer 2008 run, before the episodes premiered on France.
Specific
External links
Official site for the U.S. distributors, Feature Films for Families and Direct Source
Official sites for the French distributors, TF1 Vidéo, Beez Entertainment and Seven Sept
Bellflower Bunnies
Bellflower Bunnies episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad%20Data%20Modeler | Toad Data Modeler is a database design tool allowing users to visually create, maintain, and document new or existing database systems, and to deploy changes to data structures across different platforms. It is used to construct logical and physical data models, compare and synchronize models, generate complex SQL/DDL, create and modify scripts, and reverse and forward engineer databases and data warehouse systems. Toad's data modelling software is used for database design, maintenance and documentation.
Product History
Toad Data Modeler was previously called "CASE Studio 2" before it was acquired from Charonware by Quest Software in 2006. Quest Software was acquired by Dell on September 28, 2012. On October 31, 2016, Dell finalized the sale of Dell Software to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management, which relaunched on November 1, 2016 as Quest Software.
Features/Usages
Multiple database support - Connect multiple databases natively and simultaneously, including Oracle, SAP, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Db2, Ingres, and Microsoft Access.
Data modelling tool - Create database structures or make changes to existing models automatically and provide documentation on multiple platforms.
Logical and physical modelling - Build complex logical and physical entity relationship models and reverse, forward, and engineer databases.
Reporting - Generate detailed reports on existing database structures.
Model customization - Add logical data to user diagrams to customize user models.
All Toad products typically have 2 releases per year.
Other features
Model Actions (Compare Models, Convert Model, Merge Models, Generate Change Script)
Version Control System (Apache Subversion)
Naming Conventions
Auto Layout
Multiple Workspaces
Scripting and Customization
Automation
Object Gallery
Full Unicode Support
Integration with Toad for Oracle
Related Software
Erwin Data Modeler
Oracle
SAP
MySQL
SQL Server
PostgreSQL
IBM Db2
Ingres
Microsoft Access
See also
Comparison of data modeling tools
Relational Model
Data modeling
RDBMS
References
External links
Programming tools
Desktop database application development tools
Data modeling tools
2000s software
Oracle database tools
Microsoft database software
Sybase
MySQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack%20of%20the%20Killer%20Tomatoes%20%281986%20video%20game%29 | Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a computer game released in 1986 for the Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX. It is based on the 1978 comedy film of the same name.
The player takes control of Wimp Plasbot, who works in a tomato puree plant, and must rid the plant of the mutated killer tomatoes, referred to in the title.
Plot
Wimp Plasbot checked in at 9:00, and was just about to begin another day's work, when he discovered that the tomatoes had mutated. Wimp must destroy the killer tomatoes while ensuring that the pizza parlours are still supplied with puree from the bouncing ones.
Gameplay
The player must control Wimp as he explores various isometric 3D rooms, and attempts to destroy the mutated killer tomatoes. There are three different types of tomato to be found in the factory: Killer tomatoes walk around on legs, in square patterns and will kill Wimp if they touch him. Wimp must destroy these tomatoes by crushing them with a hammer, which can be found somewhere in the factory. The second type of tomatoes bounce up and down. Wimp must stop them bouncing by squirting them with tomato sauce, then take them to the crusher to keep up the supply of tomato puree. The third type of tomatoes sit on the floor of the factory and, if Wimp touches them, they cause the time on the clock to accelerate for a short while. If "clocking off" time is reached before all the killer tomatoes have been destroyed then the player loses. Punch cards can be found around the factory which will give the player extra time.
Reception
Reviews were fairly positive, with CRASH giving it 89%, Your Sinclair rating it at 8/10, and ZX Computing rating it as Great.
CRASH said of the game "Despite the awfulness of the movie of the same name, AKT is an excellent game, though it does owe quite a lot to previous releases.", Rachael Smith from Your Sinclair said that "...in converting the film nominated Worst Vegetable Movie of all time Global has created a tie-in far better than the original deserved - and far better than many superior films have received!" and ZX Computing said that "Killer Tomatoes is quite a complex, and very professionally produced game that should keep you occupied for quite a while, but its similarity to all the other Knight Lore inspired titles left me feeling that it didn't really offer anything I hadn't seen before."
References
External links
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes at MobyGames
1986 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
MSX games
Shoot 'em ups
Video games about food and drink
Video games based on films
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menno%27s%20Mind | Menno's Mind is a 1997 film directed by Jon Kroll and starring Billy Campbell, Stephanie Romanov, Corbin Bernsen, Michael Dorn and Bruce Campbell. In the film, a computer programmer at a virtual reality resort contends with terrorists.
The screenplay was written by Mark Valenti.
External links
1997 films
1990s science fiction films
Films about computing
Films scored by Christopher Franke
1990s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20Share | Image Share is a service for sharing images between users during a mobile phone call. It has been specified for use in a 3GPP-compliant cellular network by the GSM Association in the PRD IR.79 Image Share Interoperability Specification.
According to the specification, "The terminal interoperable Image Share service allows users to share Images between them over PS connection with ongoing CS call, thus enhancing and enriching end-users voice communication."
An Image Share session begins by end-users setting up a normal circuit switched (CS) voice call. After the voice call is set up, terminals perform a registration to an IMS core system with a packet switched (PS) connection. Then based on successful capability negotiation between the terminals, the end-user will be presented with an option in terminal UI offering the possibility of sharing one or several images. If this is selected, then these images are transferred between the Image Share software clients located in the mobile phones using the PS connection and the recipient is able to see the images. During this process the normal CS voice session has been ongoing continuously.
Image Share can be seen as a kind of spin-off from the Video Share mobile phone service. Video Share is commercially launched for example by AT&T in USA, but Image Share is not yet available from any mobile operator/service provider.
Technical features
Interoperable multi-vendor compliant service, i.e. Image Share works across different mobile phones from various vendors (as long as they have the necessary software client installed)
IMS service, i.e. 3GPP compliant IMS core system required for the service provider/operator offering Image Share
CSI (CS and IMS combinational) service compliant to 3GPP specifications TS 22.279, TS 23.279 and TS 24.279, i.e. CS voice call set up required prior to sharing the images
SIP used for signaling via IMS, i.e. registration for the service is performed using the capabilities offered by IMS platform with SIP protocol
MSRP (Message Session Relay Protocol, RFC 4975) used for transporting media between the mobile phones
IETF File transfer mechanisms utilized for negotiating shared images between offerer and answerer via SIP/SDP offer/answer model
Capability query performed using SIP OPTIONS method between the mobile phones to find out whether the recipient is Image Share capable
Peer-to-peer service, i.e. no server required in the network for sharing the images
Both live and pre-stored images can be shared between the participating mobile phones
Requires 3G or EDGE DTM (Dual Transfer Mode) mobile network
Usage
According to GSMA press release interoperability between different Image Share clients was successfully tested in a multi-vendor trial in May 2007, including interworking between multiple networks.
No mobile operator has launched Image Share so far (as of March 2008).
See also
Video Share, which (re)uses similar basic architecture
IM, especially OMA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antics | Antics may refer to:
Computing
Antics 2-D Animation, a general-purpose animation and graphics software system for MS Windows
Antics Technologies, a software company based in Cambridge, England
Antics3D, a rapid 3d animation software tool, reported as no longer available from November 2008
The Birds and the Bees II: Antics, a 1983 video game released for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum
ANTIC, or Alpha-Numeric Television Interface Circuit, an early video system chip used in Atari microcomputers
Other media
Antics (album), a 2004 album by Interpol
The Antics, an improvisational comedy troupe from Sheffield, England
Antics, a 2013 album by Vundabar
See also
Antic (disambiguation)
Antique (disambiguation)
Antix (disambiguation)
Shenanigans (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable%20Networking%20Pack | Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) is a set of additions that adds new features to Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 or later with architectural enhancements and APIs to support the new capabilities of network acceleration and hardware-based offload technologies.
Features
TCP chimney offload provides seamlessly integrated support for network adapters with TCP offload engines (TOE)
Receive-side scaling dynamically load-balances inbound network connections across multiple processors or cores
NetDMA enables support for advanced direct memory access technologies, such as Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel I/OAT)
References
External links
Microsoft Scalable Networking
Introduction to the Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack
Scalable Networking Pack: Frequently Asked Questions
Windows Server |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley%20of%20the%20Minotaur | Valley of the Minotaur is an interactive fiction game for the Apple II, Commodore PET, VIC-20, and Commodore 64 home computers. It was published by Softalk magazine under the Zeuss Scientific label in 1983. Inspired by Greek mythology, the goal of the game is to collect a set of treasures.
Gameplay
Despite the fact it relies on a simple verb-noun parser, it appears to be inspired by the first of the Zork games, in that the goal is to collect treasures, and to deposit them in a telephone booth (whereas in Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, the goal is to collect treasures to be stored in a trophy case). Additionally, the game features a giant bat, which will pick up the player (without consent), and carry him to various other locations within the game (a feature nearly identical to the giant bat in the first of the Zork trilogy games), as well as travel by boat (which is also featured in Zork I).
Valley of the Minotaur features many aspects which, at that early period in gaming history, were essentially unique to itself, such as an encounter with a tribe of cannibalistic headhunters. In addition to treasure collection, there is a secondary goal, necessary in order to solve the game: The slaying of the dreaded Minotaur.
The game appears to have some bugs, but that is difficult to determine without confirmation from the designer. What appear to have been bugs, may have simply been the off-beat nature of the game itself.
Development
One of the designers, Nicolas Van Dyk, was only 13 years old when designing and publishing this game. In 2010 he looked back at the game as "terrible".
The content, descriptions, and many of the characters and plot were written by Nick's classmate, Christopher M Evans. Christopher Evans also designed the map. Later, he collaborated with Nick Van Dyke on a second text based adventure project, 'Return to the Valley of the Minotaur', which was finished, but not published. The writing and concepts were heavily influenced by popular text based exploration games of the day, including 'Microsoft's Adventure', 'Zork I' and 'II', as well as the maps from 'Wizardry'. Other influences in the writing of 'Valley of the Minotaur' were Dungeons & Dragons, and some of the props from Doctor Who; specifically the telephone booth which appears in the game is a reference to the TARDIS.
References
External links
1980s interactive fiction
1983 video games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
Commodore PET games
VIC-20 games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array%20controller%20based%20encryption | Within a storage network, encryption of data may occur at different hardware levels. Array controller based encryption describes the encryption of data occurring at the disk array controller before being sent to the disk drives. This article will provide an overview of different implementation techniques to array controller based encryption. For cryptographic and encryption theory, see disk encryption theory.
Possible points of encryption in SAN
The encryption of data can take place in many points in a storage network. The point of encryption may occur on the host computer, in the SAN infrastructure, the array controller or on each of the hard disks as shown on the diagram above. Each point of encryption has different merits and costs. Within the diagram, the key server components are also shown for each configuration of encryption. Designers of SANs and SAN components must take into consideration factors such as performance, deployment complexity, key server interoperability, strength of security, and cost when choosing where to implement encryption. But since the array controller is a natural central point of all data therefore encryption at this level is inherent and also reduces deployment complexity.
Array controller-based encryption
With different configurations of a hardware or software array controller, there are different types of solutions for this type of encryption. Each of these solutions can be built into existing infrastructures by replacing or upgrading certain components. Basic components include an encryption key server, key management client, and commonly an encryption unit which are all implemented into a storage network.
Internal array controller encryption
For an internal array controller configuration, the array controller is generally a PCI bus card situated inside the host computer. As shown in the diagram, the PCI array controller would contain an encryption unit where plaintext data is encrypted into ciphertext. This separate encryption unit is utilized to prevent and minimize performance reduction and maintain data throughput. Furthermore, the Key Management Client will generally be an additional service within the host computer applications where it will authenticate all keys retrieved from the Key Server. A major disadvantage to this type of implementation would be that encryption components are required to be integrated within each host computer and therefore is redundant on large networks with many host devices.
External array controller encryption
In the case of an external array controller setup, the array controller would be an independent hardware module connected to the network. Within the hardware array controller would be an Encryption unit for data encryption as well as a Key Management Client for authentication. Generally, there are few hardware array controllers to many host devices and storage disks. Therefore, it reduces deployment complexity to implement into fewer hardware components. More |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20%28software%29 | IBM Spectrum Symphony, previously known as IBM Platform Symphony and Platform Symphony, is a high-performance computing (HPC) software system developed by Platform Computing, the company that developed Load Sharing Facility (LSF). Focusing on financial services, Symphony is designed to deliver scalability and enhances performance for computationally intensive risk and analytical applications. The product lets users run applications using distributed computing.
With version 4.0, Platform included a developer edition with no restrictions or time limits. Symphony Developer Edition is a free high-performance computing (HPC) and grid computing software development kit and middleware. It has been described as "the first and only solution tailored for developing and testing Grid-ready service-oriented architecture applications".
References
External links
Official website
Grid computing products
Parallel computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon%20Datacom%20Solutions | Horizon Datacom Solutions, Inc. is an aftermarket network equipment reseller and I.T. consulting and technical services firm located in Columbus, Ohio. Horizon Datacom is a Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) certified and has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.
Established in 1995 to provide pre-owned data communications equipment to information specialists worldwide, Horizon Datacom was recognized in 2003 as one of the Inc. 500 fastest growing companies in the U.S
"Horizon Datacom provides two primary services: purchasing excess network hardware from customers who want to sell and providing refurbished gear for those who want to buy."
Primarily focusing on Cisco, PowerConnect, Procurve, Foundry Networks, Force10, Extreme Networks, and Brocade Communications Systems manufactured network hardware; Horizon Datacom has no restrictions on brands it will buy and sell. With this business model, Horizon Datacom reached one million dollars in inventory on May 18, 2007.
Awards
Owner, Vicky Nosbisch, was featured in the WELD (Women for Economic and Leadership Development) “12 Women You Should Know” 2005 Calendar and was highlighted in the May, 2009, article "Biz Ladies", in Columbus CEO magazine.
Winner: Columbus Business First, Healthiest Employer, small company category, 2013
TopCAT Green Innovation Award nominee, 2008
Top Diversity Owned Business, 2005
Top 500 Women Owned Business, 2004
TopCAT, Outstanding Women In Technology, 2003, recipient Vicky Nosbisch
References
External links
Official Website
Official Twitter Account
Official Blog Account
Official Facebook Account
Companies based in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvezda%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Zvezda () is a Russian state-owned nationwide TV network run by the Russian Ministry of Defence. As of January 2008, Zvezda's CEO was Grigory Krichevsky, previously known for his work on Vladimir Gusinsky's NTV channel in the late 1990s.
History
In 1998 Central Television and Radio Studio of the Russian Ministry of Defense won the tender to broadcast the channel in the competition. On July 17, 2000, Zvezda channel was licensed for broadcasting. On February 20, 2005, Zvezda channel first began broadcasting on 57th UHF channel in Moscow. On May 16, 2005, the channel began to broadcast around the clock. In 2006 Zvezda was for the first time broadcast in all of Russia. In 2007 the audience of the channel grew further, as it was included in the package of NTV+. Since 2009 Zvezda is a federal status channel.
In March 2015, Zvezda offered a presenting job to Jeremy Clarkson less than 24 hours after he was dismissed by the BBC from motoring programme Top Gear.
On 1 September 2015, Zvezda began broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen format.
Controversies
Zvezda describes itself as "patriotic" and is considered one of the most sensational and anti-Western news channels in Russia. It has a reputation for publishing biased news stories which favor the Russian government and whitewash Soviet crimes of the past. It has published several controversial news articles, for example:
Finnish military provocations started the Winter War against the Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia should be grateful for the Soviet invasion of 1968. After this publication caused significant controversy in Czech Republic, Dmitry Medvedev disavowed himself from the article, saying it does not reflect the official Russian statement expressed in 1993 or 2006.
In 2014–15, Zvezda employed Graham Phillips, a British journalist accused of promoting the Russian narrative in the war in Donbas and who was banned from Ukraine for his work. StopFake reported that Phillips was awarded a medal by Russia's Border Guard, a branch of the FSB, a Russian intelligence agency. They reported that Zvezda published an article in July 2015 on the MH17 airplane shot down above Ukraine in 2014 by pro-Russian fighters, which used Phillips' video and witness testimony to assert that the plane was in fact shot down by Ukrainian jets.
In March 2023, the channel reportedly cut a clip, posted on Telegram, in which defence minister Sergei Shoigu did not respond to a question from a Zvezda journalist regarding the peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Sanctions
Zvezda was sanctioned by the Ukrainian government on 21 May 2021, with an official report referring to the channel as producing "news content in accordance with Kremlin policy to justify Russia's actions".
In October 2022, the Canadian government sanctioned Zvezda amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In June 2023, the European Union added Zvezda to its list of sanctions.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKZP-FM | CKZP-FM is a community radio station that operates at 102.7 FM in Zenon Park, Saskatchewan, Canada.
CKZP's programming features music, discussions, news, community announcements, local hockey games, special events and religious services. The station broadcasts in both French and English.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved CKZP on October 23, 2002.
References
External links
www.zenonpark.com
Kzp
Kzp
Kzp
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2002 establishments in Saskatchewan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed%E2%80%93mobile%20convergence | Fixed–mobile convergence (FMC) is a change in telecommunications that removes differences between fixed and mobile networks.
In the 2004 press release announcing its formation, the Fixed-Mobile Convergence Alliance (FMCA) said:
Fixed Mobile Convergence is a transition point in the telecommunications industry that will finally remove the distinctions between fixed and mobile networks, providing a superior experience to customers by creating seamless services using a combination of fixed broadband and local access wireless technologies to meet their needs in homes, offices, other buildings and on the go.
In this definition "fixed broadband" means a connection to the Internet, such as DSL, cable or T1. "Local access wireless" means Wi-Fi or something like it. BT's initial FMC service, BT Fusion used Bluetooth rather than Wi-Fi for the local access wireless. The advent of picocells and femtocells means that local access wireless can be cellular radio technology.
The term "seamless services" in the quotation above is ambiguous. When talking about FMC, the word "seamless" usually refers to "seamless handover", which means that a call in progress can move from the mobile (cellular) network to the fixed network on the same phone without interruption, as described in one of the FMCA specification documents:
Seamless is defined as there being no perceptible break in voice or data transmission due to handover (from the calling party or the called party"s perspective).
The term "seamless services" sometimes means service equivalence across any termination point, fixed or mobile, so for example, dialing plans are identical and no change in dialed digits is needed on a desk phone versus a mobile. A less ambiguous term for this might be "network agnostic services".
The FMCA is a carrier organization, mainly oriented to consumer services. Enterprise phone systems are different. When Avaya announced its "Fixed Mobile Convergence" initiative in 2005, it was using a different definition. What Avaya and other PBX manufacturers were calling FMC was the ability for a PBX to treat a cell phone as an extension, and the ability for a cell phone to behave like a PBX extension phone:
Extension to Cellular technology: software seamlessly bridges office phone services to mobile devices, permitting the use of just one phone number and one voice mailbox. Client software extends the capabilities of the PBX to a mobile smartphone, creating a virtual desk extension. This software runs on Nokia Series 60 phones and works in conjunction with Extension to Cellular.
In other words, this new definition of FMC included neither local access wireless nor fixed broadband technology. The only defining characteristic it shared with the previous definition was seamless services, albeit without seamless handover.
Fixed–mobile convergence has not developed as expected, allegedly because of lack of demand. A paper published by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 2007 al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20roadmap | The probabilistic roadmap planner is a motion planning algorithm in robotics, which solves the problem of determining a path between a starting configuration of the robot and a goal configuration while avoiding collisions.
The basic idea behind PRM is to take random samples from the configuration space of the robot, testing them for whether they are in the free space, and use a local planner to attempt to connect these configurations to other nearby configurations. The starting and goal configurations are added in, and a graph search algorithm is applied to the resulting graph to determine a path between the starting and goal configurations.
The probabilistic roadmap planner consists of two phases: a construction and a query phase. In the construction phase, a roadmap (graph) is built, approximating the motions that can be made in the environment. First, a random configuration is created. Then, it is connected to some neighbors, typically either the k nearest neighbors or all neighbors less than some predetermined distance. Configurations and connections are added to the graph until the roadmap is dense enough. In the query phase, the start and goal configurations are connected to the graph, and the path is obtained by a Dijkstra's shortest path query.
Given certain relatively weak conditions on the shape of the free space, PRM is provably probabilistically complete, meaning that as the number of sampled points increases without bound, the probability that the algorithm will not find a path if one exists approaches zero. The rate of convergence depends on certain visibility properties of the free space, where visibility is determined by the local planner. Roughly, if each point can "see" a large fraction of the space, and also if a large fraction of each subset of the space can "see" a large fraction of its complement, then the planner will find a path quickly.
The invention of the PRM method is credited to Lydia E. Kavraki. There are many variants on the basic PRM method, some quite sophisticated, that vary the sampling strategy and connection strategy to achieve faster performance. See e.g. for a discussion.
References
Robot control
Automated planning and scheduling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20Dotty | 3D Dotty is a maze video game written by J.L. Harris and published by Blue Ribbon for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro home computers in 1987. Each screen consists of vertically stacked mazes connected by ladders. The goal is to collect all of the dots while avoiding a fungus.
Gameplay
Contact with the fungus reduces energy, and a life is lost when the energy reaches zero. The fungus can be blocked, but only three blocks are permitted at any one time. On completing a screen bonus points are given proportional to the amount of energy remaining. Extra lives are awarded when the score reaches 5,000 and 10,000 points.
There are eight different screens. After the eighth, the screens are repeated, but energy is reduced by two units upon contact with the fungus. A practice mode allows trying any of the screens.
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1987 video games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron-only games
Europe-exclusive video games
Maze games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Byrd | Thomas Byrd (born May 18, 1960) is an American actor.
Career
Byrd, who was raised in Florida, has primarily appeared on network television between 1981 and 2000.
Byrd's first television appearance was in 1981 on ABC's situation comedy Laverne & Shirley in the episode entitled "Teenage Lust". His last role was in 2000 as Tim Walsh in two episodes of NBC's Frasier starring Kelsey Grammer. In the interval, he appeared in such series as NBC's Family Ties, The Facts of Life, and Remington Steele and CBS's Newhart and Murder, She Wrote starring Angela Lansbury. Byrd has also done stunts in several films, including Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), in which he had a small part as a soldier.
During the 1983-1984 season, at the age of twenty-three, he was cast as a teenager, Boone Sawyer, an aspiring Elvis Presley-style singer living in Tennessee during the 1950s, in the short-lived NBC series Boone.
Boone was the replacement program (Mondays at 8 p.m. Eastern) for Michael Landon's Little House on the Prairie, which concluded a nine-year run in the spring of 1983. The program was created by the author Earl Hamner Jr., who had created the long running CBS series The Waltons. A critic described Boone as "an excellent show that didn't get a chance" in the fierce competition of network television: That's Incredible! on ABC and Scarecrow and Mrs. King on CBS.
Barry Corbin played Byrd's father, Merit Sawyer, who considered the pursuit of a musical career to have been unlikely to succeed. Ronnie Claire Edwards played Boone's Aunt Dolly. Other cast members included Elizabeth Huddle, as Boone's mother, William Edward Phipps as Uncle Link Sawyer, the husband of Aunt Dolly, Andrew Prine as A.W. Holly, Julie Anne Haddock as Amanda, Robyn Lively as Banjo, and Amanda Peterson as Squirt Sawyer. While 13 episodes were produced, the series was cancelled after 10 episodes aired in the fall of 1983, with the three remaining episodes burned off in late July and early August 1984.
In 1985, he played Sam Neill's son in the miniseries Kane & Abel, and later played an inmate in Young Guns II (1990). The film, principally starring Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland, still occasionally airs on the American Movie Classic network.
In 1995, Byrd was cast as Lou Waller, the ex-jock sportscaster with a secret that he fears could ruin his career, in Live Shot, a short-lived drama series from Rysher Entertainment broadcast on the UPN network during its initial season on the air. All UPN programs at the time were soon cancelled except for Star Trek: Voyager.
Filmography
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American male film actors
American male television actors
Male actors from Florida
Living people
Male actors from Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Discoverer | Oracle Discoverer is a tool-set for ad hoc querying, reporting, data analysis, and Web-publishing for the Oracle Database environment. Oracle Corporation markets it as a business intelligence product. It was originally a stand-alone product, however it has become a component of the Oracle Fusion Middleware suite, and renamed Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer.
Components
The Discoverer product comprises:
Discoverer Desktop - used to edit and run reports in a Windows client program
Discoverer Plus - used to edit and run reports in a web browser
Discoverer Viewer - used to run reports in a web browser.
Discoverer Administrator
Discoverer Catalog
Discoverer End-User layer
Discoverer Portlets
Discoverer Portlet Provider
References
External links
Discoverer FAQ
Discoverer
Business intelligence software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Wenzel | Bob Wenzel (born October 4, 1949) is a former American college basketball coach and broadcaster for the Big Ten Network, ESPN, CBS Sports and Fox Sports.
Biography
College playing/Coaching career
Wenzel graduated from Rutgers University in 1971 with a degree in history, and headed to the University of Utah for his graduate work. In 1973, he earned his master's degree in education from Utah.
While at Utah, Wenzel began his coaching career as a graduate assistant. Upon graduation he moved back east and became an assistant coach at Yale, staying there for one season. He moved on to Duke in 1975, staying with the team through 1980 and playing an important role in the team's run to the 1978 Final Four.
After one season as an assistant at South Carolina, Wenzel was hired by Jacksonville University as its head coach. In five years at Jacksonville (1982–1987), Wenzel led his team to an 88–86 overall record, including an NCAA tournament appearance in 1986 and an NIT appearance in his final year.
During a 1985 home game against South Alabama, Wenzel suffered a near-fatal cerebral aneurysm. He recovered completely and returned to coach Jacksonville the following season. His return would earn him the U.S. Basketball Writers Association's Most Courageous Award for 1986.
Wenzel resigned to be an assistant with the New Jersey Nets for the 1987–88 NBA season, but returned to college the following year to be the head coach of his alma mater. Under Wenzel, Rutgers reached the NCAA tournament twice. The first of those appearances came in 1989, when the #13 seeded Scarlet Knights fell to Iowa in the first round. In 1991, Rutgers returned to the Big Dance as a #9 seed, but fared no better as they were defeated by Arizona State in the first round.
Wenzel also led Rutgers to two NIT appearances. The first of those (1990) saw the Scarlet Knights advance to the quarterfinals of the tournament, falling to eventual third-place finisher Penn State. Rutgers returned to the tournament two years later, but lost a close second-round game to Manhattan.
The 1991–92 season marked the last time Rutgers would finish with a winning record under Wenzel. The team struggled for the next four seasons - with a move from the Atlantic 10 to the Big East Conference in 1995 not making things any easier - and after an 11–16 finish to the 1996–97 campaign, Wenzel was fired and replaced by Kevin Bannon. He has not coached since.
Broadcasting
Shortly after his firing by Rutgers, Wenzel jumped into broadcasting and was hired by ESPN as a color commentator for its college basketball coverage. Wenzel stayed with ESPN until 2013.
He added commentary for CBS in 2001, and worked for them during the NCAA Championship from 2001 until 2012.
Wenzel was hired as an analyst by the Big Ten Network in 2014.
Personal
Wenzel is currently the Associate Head of School for Advancement at The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida. He and his wife, Neva, have three children and live in Ponte Vedra Beac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDCU-DT | KDCU-DT (channel 46) is a television station licensed to Derby, Kansas, United States, serving the Wichita–Hutchinson market as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Univision. Owned by Entravision Communications, the station maintains offices on East Douglas Avenue in downtown Wichita, while newscasts are actually produced at the KCEC studios on Mile High Stadium West Circle in Denver, Colorado. KDCU-DT's transmitter is located in rural northwestern Sedgwick County (north-northeast of Colwich).
History
The station first signed on the air on August 20, 2009, becoming the first (and so far only) full-power Spanish-language television station to sign on in the state of Kansas; because it signed on after the June 12 digital television transition that year, KDCU was also the first full-power television station in the Wichita–Hutchinson Plus market to sign-on without a companion analog signal.
Prior to the station's sign-on, on February 15, 2008, Entravision entered into a joint sales agreement with Schurz Communications (then-owner of KWCH-DT and KSCW-DT), in which Schurz would provide advertising, production and promotional responsibilities as well as back office and master control services for KDCU. Schurz also leased a transmission tower located near Colwich to house the station's transmitter facilities; KSCW, which previously used the tower, moved its transmitter facilities to a tower east of Hutchinson in Reno County, which is known as the KWCH 12 Tower. Since KDCU is licensed as a full-power station, it is able to mandate carriage on cable and satellite providers in the Wichita–Hutchinson Plus market.
Schurz announced on September 14, 2015 that it would exit broadcasting and sell its television and radio stations, including KWCH-DT, KSCW-DT, and the JSA/SSA with KDCU-DT, to Gray Television for $442.5 million. The FCC approved the sale on February 12, 2016.
As of 2021, Entravision now both owns and operates KDCU-DT, as Gray sold its operation stake in the station.
News operation
KDCU-DT presently broadcasts 2½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with a half-hour each weekday); the station does not air newscasts on Saturdays or Sundays. In April 2011, KWCH produced a half-hour nightly Spanish-language newscast for KDCU, Noticias Univision Kansas, airing at 10:00 p.m. each weeknight (which competed against KWCH's own local newscast in that timeslot). Since Entravision acquired full shares of KDCU, the newscasts are now self-produced.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
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2009 establishments in Kansas
Univision network affiliates
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Argentina | The Argentine railway network consisted of a network at the end of the Second World War and was, in its time, one of the most extensive and prosperous in the world. However, with the increase in highway construction, there followed a sharp decline in railway profitability, leading to the break-up in 1993 of Ferrocarriles Argentinos (FA), the state railroad corporation. During the period following privatisation, private and provincial railway companies were created and resurrected some of the major passenger routes that FA once operated.
Dissatisfied with the private management of the railways, beginning in 2012 and following the Once Tragedy, the national government started to re-nationalise some of the private operators and ceased to renew their contracts. At the same time, Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado (SOFSE) was formed to manage the lines which were gradually taken over by the government in this period and Argentina's railways began receiving far greater investment than in previous decades. In 2014, the government also began replacing the long distance rolling stock and rails and ultimately put forward a proposal in 2015 which revived Ferrocarriles Argentinos as Nuevos Ferrocarriles Argentinos later that year.
The railroad network today, with its size, is now somewhat smaller than it once was, though still the 8th largest in the world, and the 15th largest in passenger numbers.
History
The growth and decline of the Argentine railways are tied heavily with the history of the country as a whole, reflecting its economic and political situation at numerous points in history, reaching its high point when Argentina ranked among the 10 richest economies in the world (measured in GDP per capita) during the country's Belle Époque and subsequently deteriorating along with the hopes of the prosperity it came so close to achieving.
In the early years, the railway was emblematic of the vast waves of European Immigration into the country, with many coming to work on and operate the railways, such as the Italian-Argentine Alfonso Covassi, the country's first engine driver, and also in the sense that the population boom experienced as a result of this immigration required means of transportation to meet growing demands. Much like in the American West, the railways also played a key role in the creation and expansion of new population centres and boomtowns in remote parts of the country.
Development
The importance of foreign capital in the construction of the Argentine railways is perhaps overstated, with initial construction of the network beginning in 1855 at first with Argentine finance, which continued throughout the network's development. The Buenos Aires Western, Great Western and Great Southern railways (today the part of the San Martín, Sarmiento and Roca railways respectively) were all commenced using Argentine capital with the Buenos Aires Western Railway being the first to open its doors in the country, along with its Del Par |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun%20Micallef%27s%20World%20Around%20Him | Shaun Micallef's World Around Him was an Australian sketch comedy television special. Its title is a parody of the Australian documentary series The World Around Us. Airing on the Seven Network in 1996, the special provided a major stepping stone for comedian Shaun Micallef. The show helped to develop much of the style and content of Micallef's successful sketch-comedy series The Micallef Program which began airing on the ABC in 1998.
DVD
The show was released as a bonus extra on the 2011 DVD The Incompleat Shaun Micallef which featured highlights of Micallef's work on the comedy series Full Frontal 1995-1997.
External links
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1996 Australian television series debuts
1996 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepsi%201 | Hepsi 1 is a Turkish television show, broadcasting on the national network ATV. The show began in 2007. It stars the members of the Turkish pop singing group Hepsi.
Plot
The premise of the show revolves around the four main characters, four girls who all go to a performing arts academy and live together: Cemre, Eren, Gülçin and Yasemin. They face tragic and comic events each week. They also have a hard debt to pay off, due to Yasemin crashing her boyfriend Korkut’s car. Overnight they find themselves in the spotlight performing at a club, now risking their places at their school due to the headmaster, Mr. Erol not allowing his students to become famous whilst in education. The girls struggle to hide the secret from Mr. Erol, who eventually finds out because a newspaper reporter, impressed with the girls' performance, came looking for them. Once the girls are found out, they insist they won’t do it again. The reporter then creates a competition, the winner being able to make an album, as the reporter believes that the students at the academy are very talented. Of course, the girls win and are signed to an album deal however the girls are yet to release the album.
Along with the fame side of the show, the girls also deal with their love life. Each girl having a match: Cemre – Emre, Eren – Bariş, Gülçin – Mert and Yasemin – Korkut.
Cast
These are the cast members who star in Hepsi 1;
Cemre Kemer (Cemre)
Eren Bakıcı (Eren)
Gülçin Ergül (Gülçin)
Yasemin Yürük (Yasemin)
Cem Avnayim (Emre)
Bahadır Efe (Bahadır)
Kubilay Penbeklioğlu (Mr.Erol)
Sezen Ünal (Alev)
Erman Burmalı (Barış)
Yusuf Akgün (Korkut)
Oğuzhan Yıldız (Mert)
Belma Canciğer
Jennifer Boyner (Zeynep)
Ratings
Hepsi 1's first episode aired on 13 May 2007 on Show TV and after airing for 5 months, moved to ATV as of 28 October 2007, airing the show at 20:00 every Sunday the same time and on the same day as when on Show TV. The show then moved to Saturdays for a few months and as of 1 April 2008 the show airs on Tuesdays. However, on 3 June 2008 came the last episode of the hit series Hepsi 1. It is not yet known whether or nor the series will go on, one of the group members Eren stated in one of the concerts that if they are to continue the series they will not be able to carry on promoting their new album such as having concerts but if they stop the series then they would be able to go on with their music career.
References
External links
Hepsi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domashny | Domashny () is a Russian TV network which targets female viewers aged 25–60. It was launched in March 2005. Domashny was aimed to deliver programming to capture an attractive audience in demand by advertisers, but traditionally under-served by broadcasters.
CTC Media created the Domashny brand in 2005 from the ground up. Today, Domashny has a potential audience of 63 million people. In 2006, Domashny's average audience share in its target demographic was 2.4%, compared to 1.7% in 2007.
Domashny Network in 2008 comprised four owned-and-operated stations. Today it has more than 230 affiliates, including 13 owned-and-operated stations.
Russian series
The programming of Domashny focuses on issues of interest to women including health, family, career, style and fashion. The most popular shows on Domashny include the legal show focusing on family issues, family cases, and a show centered on medical malpractice.
Classic movies
Domashny broadcasts only the classic movies from the platinum collection of Hollywood. All the movies on Domashny are aimed at family audience.
Foreign series
Domashny offers its audience the best in medical dramas: the Emmy winning series ER and House M.D. For the younger viewers, it offers the comedy sitcom ALF. Desperate Housewives, Bewitched, Latin American telenovelas shown on Domashny are extremely successful with its target audience.
Cashmere Mafia
Cougar Town
Desperate Housewives
Dirty Sexy Money
ER
The Good Wife
House M.D.
Lipstick Jungle
Muhteşem Yüzyıl
Murder, She Wrote
Royal Pains
Scrubs
External links
CTC Media Official website
Russian-language television stations in Russia
Television channels and stations established in 2005
2005 establishments in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan%20Telecom | Afghan Telecom (AfTel) is a telecom company offering fixed line, wireless voice and data services under a 25-year license in Afghanistan. The company is government owned and operated. In 2005, the Afghan Ministry of Communications spun it off into a private entity, while retaining oversight and control.
AfTel has roughly 20,000 employees in 34 provincial capitals and 254 district centers and villages. It offers traditional wire-line telephones and internet access in the major cities, a third generation GSM-based wireless local loop telephony, WiMAX and fiber based internet services, based on switching, wireless access and satellite equipment.
Afghan Telecom is a beneficiary of a USD $50 million World Bank grant to help government increase telecommunications network connectivity in Afghanistan.
In March 2018, Ajmal Ayan was appointed as director general and CEO. and in June 2018 Mohammad Waris Fazli was appointed as Chief Information Officer to lead the ICT direction of the company.
Seeking to grow its five percent market share, Afghan Telecom acquired access to 60 to 70 mobile towers owned by Etisalat.
References
Telecommunications companies of Afghanistan
Mobile phone companies of Afghanistan
www.salaam.af |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E820 | e820 is shorthand for the facility by which the BIOS of x86-based computer systems reports the memory map to the operating system or boot loader.
It is accessed via the int 15h call, by setting the register to value E820 in hexadecimal.
It reports which memory address ranges are usable and which are reserved for use by the BIOS.
BIOS-e820 is often the first thing reported by a booting Linux kernel, and it can also be seen with the dmesg command.
References
External links
Detecting Memory (x86): BIOS Function: INT 0x15, EAX = 0xE820
BIOS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%2C%20Inc. | Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari was a key player in the formation of the video arcade and video game industry.
Based primarily around the Sunnyvale, California, area in the center of Silicon Valley, the company was initially formed to develop arcade games, launching with Pong in 1972. As computer technology matured with low-cost integrated circuits, Atari ventured into the consumer market, first with dedicated home versions of Pong and other arcade successes around 1975, and into programmable consoles using game cartridges with the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS or later branded as the Atari 2600) in 1977. To bring the Atari VCS to market, Bushnell sold Atari to Warner Communications in 1976. In 1978, Warner brought in Ray Kassar to help run the company, but over the next few years, gave Kassar more of a leadership role in the company. Bushnell was fired in 1978, with Kassar named CEO in 1979.
From 1978 through 1982, Atari continued to expand at a great pace and was the leading company in the growing video game industry. Its arcade games such as Asteroids helped to usher in a golden age of arcade games from 1979 to 1983, while the arcade conversion of Taito's Space Invaders for the VCS became the console's system seller and killer application. Atari's success brought new console manufacturers to the market including Mattel Electronics and Coleco, as well as the creation of third-party developers such as Activision and Imagic.
Facing new competition heading into 1982, Atari made a number of poor decisions to try to maintain their leadership position. These decisions resulted in overproduction of units and games that did not meet sales expectations and eroded consumer confidence in Atari. Atari had also ventured into the home computer market with their first 8-bit computers, but their products did not fare as well as their competitors'. The once-profitable Atari began a string of quarters of losses throughout 1983, with the company losing more than over 1983. Kassar resigned as CEO in mid-1983 amid mounting losses and was replaced by James J. Morgan who instituted a number of cost-cutting procedures to turn Atari around, including a large number of layoffs. However, Atari's financial hardships had already reverberated through the industry, leading to the 1983 video game crash that devastated the video game market in the United States.
Warner Communications sold the home console and computer division of Atari to Jack Tramiel in July 1984, who then renamed his company Atari Corporation. Atari, Inc. was renamed Atari Games, Inc. after the sale. In 1985, Warner formed a new corporation jointly with Namco, AT Games, Inc., which acquired the coin-operated assets of Atari Games, Inc. AT Games was subsequently renamed Atari Games Corporation. Atari Games, Inc. was then renamed Atari Holdings, Inc. and remained a non-operating subsidiary of Warne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selva%20Negra%20Cloud%20Forest%20Reserve | Selva Negra Cloud Forest Reserve is a nature reserve in Nicaragua. It is one of the 78 reserves which are officially under protection in the country.
Exterdataboxnal links
Selva Negra Private Reserve - Explore Nicaragua
Protected areas of Nicaragua
Matagalpa Department
Forest reserves |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed | FriendFeed was a real-time feed aggregator that consolidated updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and microblogging updates, as well as any type of RSS/Atom feed. It was created in 2007 by Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh. It was possible to use this stream of information to create customized feeds to share, as well as originate new posts-discussions, (and comment) with friends. Friendfeed was built on top of Tornado. The service was shut down at about 21:00 GMT on April 10, 2015, though the service blog announced it a month before.
The goal of FriendFeed according to their website was to make content on the Web more relevant and useful by using existing social networks as a tool for discovering interesting information. Users could be an individual, business or organization. Bloggers writing about FriendFeed said that this service addresses the shortcomings of social media services which exclusively facilitate tracking of their own members' social media activities on that particular social media service, whereas FriendFeed provided the facility to track these activities (such as posting on blogs, Twitter, and Flickr) across a broad range of different social networks. Some bloggers had concerns about readers commenting on their posts on FriendFeed instead of on their blogs, resulting in fewer page views for the blogger.
The founders were all former Google employees who were involved in the launch of services such as Gmail and Google Maps. They included Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh and Paul Buchheit. Along with the latter two founders, venture capital agency Benchmark Capital was involved with the investment funding.
FriendFeed was based in Mountain View, California, and had on average one million monthly visitors. Employees of FriendFeed created the Simple Update Protocol to reduce the load put on sites by aggregators such as theirs.
On August 10, 2009, Facebook agreed to acquire FriendFeed. FriendFeed was bought for $15 million in cash, and $32.5 million in Facebook stock. Facebook, along with a small but active community of users, kept the service going until its pre-announced closure on April 9, 2015.
Supported services
A user could configure their FriendFeed account to aggregate content from the following services:
References
External links
FriendFeed
FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter, But Why?
Friendfeed.com raises $5m VC
Social information processing
News aggregators
Meta Platforms acquisitions
Internet properties established in 2007
Internet properties disestablished in 2015
Companies based in Mountain View, California
2009 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative%20fiction%20by%20writers%20of%20color | Speculative fiction is defined as science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Within those categories exists many other subcategories, for example cyberpunk, magical realism, and psychological horror.
"Person of color" is a term used in the United States to denote non-white persons, sometimes narrowed to mean non-WASP persons or non-Hispanic whites, if "ethnic whites" are included. The term "person of color" is used to redefine what it means to be a part of the historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups within Western society. A writer of color is a writer who is a part of a marginalized culture in regards to traditional Euro-Western mainstream culture. This includes Asians, African-Americans, Africans, Native Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders.
While writers of color may sometimes focus on experiences unique to their cultural heritage, which have sometimes been considered "subcategories" of national heritage (e.g. the black experience within American culture), many do not only write about their particular culture or members within that culture, in the same way that many Americans of European descent (traditionally categorized as Caucasian or white) do not only write about Western culture or members of their cultural heritage. The works of many well-known writers of color tend to examine issues of identity politics, religion, feminism, race relations, economic disparity, and the often unacknowledged and rich histories of various cultural groups.
African-American (Black) speculative fiction
African-American science fiction and fantasy and their origins
Black speculative fiction often focuses on race and the history of race relations in Western society. The history of slavery, the African diaspora, and the Civil Rights Movement sometimes influence the narrative of SF stories written by black authors. Within science fiction, the concern is that many traditional science fiction works do not include black people in the future under any context, or only in sidelined roles.
As the popularity of science fiction and other speculative genres grows within the black community, some longtime fans and black writers branch out to write about "universal" themes that cross cultural lines and feature African and African-American protagonists. These stories and novels may not deal heavily with issues concerning race but instead primarily focus on other aspects of life. They are notable because, historically, many science fiction works that deal with traditional science fiction subject matter do not feature characters of color.
The cultural significance of science fiction works by black writers is being recognized in the mainstream as more fans indicate a desire for stories that reflect their interests in speculative fiction and also reflect their unique experiences as people of color. Non-POC fans are also interested in these works. While they may or may not identify with the cultural contexts of the work, they can and do identif |
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Pacaya–Samiria National Reserve, is a protected area located in the region of Loreto, Peru and spans an area of . It protects an area of low hills and seasonally flooded forest in the Amazon rainforest.
Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve and the near Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Reserve both forms a biodiversity hotspot in the Amazon jungle.
Biodiversity
Flora
Some of the native plant species present in the reserve are: Spondias mombin, Quararibea cordata, Mauritia flexuosa, Parinari excelsa, Cedrela odorata, Ocotea spp., Myrciaria dubia, Socratea exorrhiza, Calathea allouia, Solanum sessiliflorum, Hevea guianensis, Pouteria caimito, Clidemia hirta, Ficus maxima, Heliconia psittacorum, Inga spp., Psychotria poeppigiana, Alibertia edulis, Victoria amazonica, Ceiba pentandra, Phytelephas macrocarpa, Clusia spp., Swietenia macrophylla, Asclepias curassavica, Pachira aquatica,Cragious Psychotria, etc.
Fauna
Mammal species found in the reserve include: the Amazonian manatee, the red-faced spider monkey, the South American tapir, the Bolivian squirrel, the Amazon river dolphin, the puma, the giant otter, the white-lipped peccary, the jaguar, the red brocket, the tucuxi, the South American coati, the capybara, etc.
Some species of fish found in the reserve are: Arapaima gigas, Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum, Phractocephalus hemiliopterus, Colossoma macropomum, Osteoglossum bicirrhosum, Potamotrygon motoro, Brycon melanopterus, Hyphessobrycon erythrostigma, Plagioscion squamosissimus, Prochilodus nigricans, etc.
Birds found in the reserve include: the Spix's guan, the black-bellied whistling duck, the king vulture, the crimson-crested woodpecker, the harpy eagle, the blue-and-yellow macaw, the scarlet macaw, the black-throated mango, the horned screamer, the cobalt-winged parakeet, the swallow-tailed hummingbird, etc.
Climate
The annual mean temperature ranges between 20 and 33 °C, while the annual mean precipitation ranges between 2000 and 3000 mm. It is advisable to visit the reserve between May and January. The climograph shown here corresponds to the nearby town of Nauta (93 m of elevation).
Anthropology
Native peoples still inhabit the reserve, as well as more recent settlers.
Recreation
The reserve has 15 authorized campsites distributed in 8 areas open for tourism; as well as 5 wilderness huts. Moreover, there are 19 park ranger stations (4 of them with information stands) and 21 neighborhood watch stations.
See also
Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve
References
Ramsar sites in Peru
Geography of Loreto Region
Tourist attractions in Loreto Region |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Pern%20books | This list follows Pern historical order and includes Pern short fiction. See Dragonriders of Pern for publication order and for more bibliographic data on the short fiction.
Dragonriders of Pern is a science fiction series initiated by Anne McCaffrey with the Hugo Award–winning novella Weyr Search in 1967.
The stories feature human history on the planet Pern, which might be called human-draconian society for its lifelong inter-species relationships between humans and dragons. Anne McCaffrey wrote all the Pern stories until 2003; as of 2012, eight books by her son Todd McCaffrey or by Anne and Todd have continued the series. In all, there are 24 novels, two collections of short fiction, and a few uncollected works. That includes one book by Anne and Todd published in July 2012, several months after her death, and one published by her daughter Gigi in 2018.
This list follows Pern historical order, which is different from the order of publication. The sequence is disputable at some points because many of the works overlap in time or feature travel between times; limited annotations are provided here.
The point of reference for Pern chronology is "Landing", when transport ships arrived and human settlement began. Years, or "Turns" around Pern's sun, are counted After Landing or "AL".
Before Landing
The planet Rukbat 3 was surveyed about 200 years before settlement ("Landing").
The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall (1993 collection)
"The Survey: P.E.R.N."
First Pass
These stories are set before and during the First Pass, from just before settlers landed on Pern until about fifty years afterward (0 to 50 AL).
Dragonsdawn (1988)
"Landing" (0 to 2 AL)
"Thread" (8 AL)
"Crossing" (8 to 9 AL)
The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall (1993 collection)
"The Dolphins' Bell"
"The Ford of Red Hanrahan"
"The Second Weyr"
"Rescue Run"
First Interval
Just after the First Pass, 58 years after landing.
Dragonsblood (2005, by Todd McCaffrey) – set partly in 58 AL, primarily in 508 AL; see Third Pass
Second Pass
Just before and during the Second Pass, about 250 years after landing.
Red Star Rising (1996) (called Dragonseye for US release)
Third Pass
Just before and during the Third Pass, about 500 years after landing.
Dragon's Kin (2004, Anne & Todd McCaffrey)
Dragon's Fire (2006, Anne & Todd McCaffrey) – part one during Dragon's Kin
Dragon Harper (2007, Anne & Todd McCaffrey)
Dragonsblood (2005, Todd McCaffrey) – most events; see also First Interval
Dragonheart (2008, Todd McCaffrey) – frame during Dragonsblood
Dragongirl (2010, Todd McCaffrey)
Dragon's Time (2011, Anne & Todd McCaffrey)
Sky Dragons (2012, Anne & Todd McCaffrey)
Sixth Pass
Late in the Sixth Pass, about 1550 years after landing.
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (1983)
Nerilka's Story (1986) – coincident with Moreta
"Beyond Between" – short story in Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy (2003)
Ninth Pass
Just before and during the Ninth Pass, about 2500 years a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Love | "We Love" (also known as "We Love to Entertain You") is the theme song for the Star Force image campaign of German television network ProSieben. Several variations of the song have been interpreted by various stars, including Melanie C, Sarah Connor, The Pussycat Dolls and Take That. In 2008, German girl band Monrose recorded their own version of the song, produced by Mozart & Friends, which was released as a digital download single on 20 March 2008 (see 2008 in music).
Writing and recording
Penned by Mozart & Friends writers Alexander Gernert, Manuel Loyo, Alexander Hahn and Alexander Krause, commissioned "We Love" was written and composed in a single week, since the song was needed for a video shooting Monrose had already been booked for at the Hangar 7 in Salzburg, Austria. The track was produced by Hahn and team head Marc Mozart, who said "it was extremely fun to work on this production [...] A&R executives Markus Hartmann and Stefan Harder of ProSieben's music department Starwatch trusted that we'd come up with a hot song, so we enjoyed both a lot of creative freedom while being under the pressure of a short deadline."
Since the band wws rehearsing for upcoming gigs in Berlin, the team had only a few hours to record their vocals for "We Love" and since there was no time to book a studio, handle the logistics of driving the singers to the studio, they decided to book a room in the Mövenpick Hotel where the girls stayed. "We set up some equipment, including a special kind of portable vocal booth called the Reflexion Filter and as expected, Monrose delivered a top performance," said Mozart, who used two Apple computers running Logic Pro for recording and editing. Producer J. Worthy finished a clubmix of "We Love" and added drumsounds to the main version that now airs in many commercial breaks of the network.
Music video
The song's music video clip, actually a Pro7-commercial, is only 41 seconds long and premiered at February 2008 on ProSieben and features only Senna Gammour's rap, the chorus and ends with the Pro7 theme music. At the beginning you see Senna, Bahar and Mandy exit a "WE LOVE"-vehicle and sing in front of microphones.
The "ProSieben remix" or "Starforce-mix" of the video features cameos of Heidi Klum, Uri Geller, Bully Herbig, Stefan Raab, Christoph Maria Herbst and many others. The video, actually not being a music video, has not received airplay by music channels.
Formats and track listings
These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of "We Love."
Digital single
"We Love" (Mozart & Friends radio mix) – 3:07
"We Love" (J. Worthy club mix) – 3:31
Notes
2008 singles
Monrose songs
2008 songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20quiz%20arcade%20games | This is a list of video and pre-video (electro-mechanical) quiz arcade games. All are coin-operated arcade machines.
External links
arcade-history database
Killer List of Videogames
Quiz arcade |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Easy%20Transfer | Windows Easy Transfer was a specialized file-transfer program developed by Microsoft that allowed users of the Windows operating system to transfer personal files and settings from a computer running an earlier version of Windows to a computer running a newer version.
Windows Easy Transfer was introduced in Windows Vista and included in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. It replaced the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard included with Windows XP and offered limited migration services for computers running Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP2. For all versions of Windows, it did not transfer applications—only files and settings.
Microsoft incorporated a key technology into the Windows Easy Transfer tool based on its acquisition of Apptimum in 2006. Apptimum's technology complemented the transfer experience offered across multiple Windows operating systems, including Windows Vista, 7, 8.1, and 10.
Windows Easy Transfer was discontinued with Windows 10. From September 1, 2015 to August 31, 2016, Microsoft partnered with Laplink to provide a free download of PCmover Express, which allowed 500 MB of data and settings to be transferred from at least Windows XP to either Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.
History
For Windows 2000, Microsoft developed the User State Migration Tool command line utility that allowed users of Windows 95, 98, and NT 4.0 to migrate their data and settings to the newer operating system; it did not provide a graphical user interface. An additional migration tool, Files and Settings Transfer Wizard (migwiz.exe) was developed for Windows XP to facilitate the migration of data and settings from Windows 98 and Windows Me. It could be launched from the Windows XP CD-ROM and presented options to transfer data and settings via a 3.5-inch floppy, computer network, direct cable connection, or a Zip disk. Users could also create a wizard disk to initiate the migration process when run from earlier operating system.
A preliminary version of Windows Easy Transfer was demonstrated at the 2004 Windows Hardware Engineering Conference by Jim Allchin as the successor to the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard, scheduled for release in the next client version of Windows, Windows Vista (then codenamed "Longhorn"). As with the final release, this preliminary version could use an optional specialized USB cable to transfer data between computers.
After the release to manufacturing of Windows 7, Microsoft backported the version of Windows Easy Transfer in that operating system to Windows XP and Windows Vista as an optional download to facilitate migration to the new operating system.
Items transferred
Windows Easy Transfer could transfer:
Data files and folders
For transferring from Windows versions later than Windows 2000:
User accounts and their settings
Windows and application configuration data stored in files or in the Windows Registry
As of Windows 8.1, Easy Transfer can no longer export data to another computer, but can still open files |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWBG | DWBG (95.9 FM), broadcasting as 95.9 Big Sound FM, is a radio station owned by Capricom Production and Management and operated by Vanguard Radio Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at #214B Tin St., Brgy. Upper Quezon Hill, Baguio.
History
The station was established in 1994 as Big FM. It was formerly located along Second Road, Quezon Hill Proper before moving to the roofdeck of Abanao Square along Abanao St. cor. Zandueta St. a few years later. In January 2007, it went off the air. It returned to air in 2013, this time as Big Sound FM under the management of Vanguard Radio Network.
References
Radio stations in Baguio
Radio stations established in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Guy | Michael J. T. Guy (born 1 April 1943) is a British computer scientist and mathematician. He is known for early work on computer systems, such as the Phoenix system at the University of Cambridge, and for contributions to number theory, computer algebra, and the theory of polyhedra in higher dimensions. He worked closely with John Horton Conway, and is the son of Conway's collaborator Richard K. Guy.
Mathematical work
With Conway, Guy found the complete solution to the Soma cube of Piet Hein. Also with Conway, an enumeration led to the discovery of the grand antiprism, an unusual uniform polychoron in four dimensions. The two had met at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where Guy was an undergraduate student from 1960, and Conway was a graduate student. It was through Michael that Conway met Richard Guy, who would become a co-author of works in combinatorial game theory. Michael Guy with Conway made numerous particular contributions to geometry, number and game theory, often published in problem selections by Richard Guy. Some of these are recreational mathematics, others contributions to discrete mathematics. They also worked on the sporadic groups.
Guy began work as a research student of J. W. S. Cassels at Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS), Cambridge. He did not complete a Ph.D., but joint work with Cassels produced numerical examples on the Hasse principle for cubic surfaces.
Computer science
He subsequently went into computer science. He worked on the filing system for Titan, Cambridge's Atlas 2, being one of a team of four in one office including Roger Needham. In working on ALGOL 68, he was co-author with Stephen R. Bourne of ALGOL 68C.
Bibliography
Notes
References
1940s births
Living people
20th-century British mathematicians
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Recreational mathematicians
Mathematics popularizers
British computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20International%20War%20Crimes%20Tribunal%20on%20Japan%27s%20Military%20Sexual%20Slavery | The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery was a private People's Tribunal organised by Violence Against Women in War-Network Japan (VAWW-NET Japan). As with the Russell Tribunal in 1967, which was not organized by any government or international institution, the verdict of this trial was not legally binding. Its purpose was to gather testimony from victims, and then to try groups and individuals for rape or sexual slavery, i.e., forcing women to sexually service Japanese soldiers. Yayori Matsui, the representative of VAWW-NET Japan, explained that the reason for holding this trial was to respond to the feelings of victims who continue to lose their cases in civil lawsuits.
The group met on December 8, 2000, and was adjourned on December 12, 2000.
On December 4, 2001, the group's final statement was issued in The Hague. More than 1000 paragraphs and 200 pages long, the judgment discussed the factual findings of the Tribunal, and law applicable to the case. Not all of the accused were convicted, but the late Emperor Showa was, because, as the leader of the country, he was ultimately responsible for the sex-slave policy.
The two last paragraphs of the final judgement read as follows:
The Crimes committed against these survivors remain one of the greatest unacknowledged and unremedied injustices of the Second World War. There are no museums, no graves for the unknown "comfort woman", no education of future generations, and there have been no judgement days for the victims of Japan's military sexual slavery and the rampant sexual violence and brutality that characterized its aggressive war.
Accordingly, through this Judgment, this Tribunal intends to honor all the women victimized by Japan's military sexual slavery system. The Judges recognize the great fortitude and dignity of the survivors who have toiled to survive and reconstruct their shattered lives and who have faced down fear and shame to tell their stories to the world and testify before us. Many of the women who have come forward to fight for justice have died unsung heroes. While the names inscribed in history's page have been, at best, those of the men who commit the crimes or who prosecute them, rather than the women who suffer them, this Judgement bears the names of the survivors who took the stand to tell their stories, and thereby, for four days at least, put wrong on the scaffold and truth on the throne.
The tribunal was broadcast by NHK as part of a documentary on Japan's wartime sexual slavery.
See also
Comfort women
Japanese war crimes
World Courts of Women
Japanese Devils Japanese documentary on Imperial Japanese atrocities.
Saburo Ienaga, a Japanese historian who fought government censorship of Imperial Japanese atrocities in World War II after the war.
References
Comfort women
2000 in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGL | TGL may refer to:
Aviation
Touch-and-go landing, a flight teaching maneuver.
Computing
Technical Group Laboratory, a Japanese game company
Tiger Lake series Intel CPUs
Transparent OpenGL, part of OpenGL Multipipe
Sports
TGL, a golf league formed in partnership with the PGA Tour that will begin play in January 2024
Other uses
The ISO 639 language code for Tagalog language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical%20Group%20Laboratory | TGL, Inc. (Technical Group Laboratory, Inc.) (株式会社テイジイエル Kabushiki-gaisha Ti Ji Eru) is a Japanese company dealing with developing, constructing and planning of various computer systems and software. This company supports the operating systems: Java, C, C++, Oracle, asp, Linux, Unix, Windows NT.
Subsidiaries
(formerly and ): It is TGL's video game development and publishing subsidiary. TGL Planning was founded on August 5, 1999 while TGL Sales was founded on December 14, 2005. The two merged to form Entergram on April 1, 2016.
: It consists of the game brands part of Entergram.
Giga - a brand used for adult titles.
Pink Clover - a brand used for BL titles.
: It is TGL's employment service subsidiary.
Technical Group Laboratory international (TGL國際): It is TGL's Korean subsidiary.
Former subsidiaries
Taiwan TGL Corporation (台灣帝技爺如科技股份有限公司): It is a video game publisher for Taiwan market. The company was founded in 2000 following 4 years of establishing TGL Taiwan branch. In 2002-10, Soft-World International Corporation increases its stake to Taiwan TGL Corporation to 72.46, making it the subsidiary of SWIC. In 2003, Taiwan TGL Corporation was reported to be merged into Game Flier International Corporation (遊戲新幹線), but the process of dissolving Taiwan TGL Corporation would only take place at the end of June 2009.
Games
TGL
Giga ports
Other Ports
Pink Clover
Entergram
Original games
Giga ports
Other ports
Licensed games
Staff
Kazue Yamamoto
Character Designs
Sasaki Ikuko (佐々木郁子) - Sengoku Bishoujo Emaki, Farland Odyssey series.
Tomokazu Kazue
Takahiro Kimura – Variable Geo series.
References
External links
The Official TGL website
TGL PLANNING INC. site
TGL SALES INC. site
TGL SALES INC. (Japan) video game portal
Entergram site
Taiwan TGL Corporation site
TGL CAREER PRODUCE site
Software companies of Japan
Video game companies of Japan
Video game publishers
Video game companies established in 1984
Japanese companies established in 1984 |
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