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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NComputing | NComputing is a desktop virtualization company that manufactures hardware and software to create virtual desktops (sometimes called zero clients or thin clients) which enable multiple users to simultaneously share a single operating system instance.
NComputing, based in San Mateo, California, is a privately held for-profit company with offices in the United States, Singapore, UK, Germany, India, Korea, and Poland; and resellers around the world.
History
Founding
In 2003, Young Song, a former VP at eMachines, met German entrepreneur Klaus Maier (formerly CEO of hydrapark), who had spent more than ten years developing the core software on which NComputing is based. They formed a team to develop the complementary hardware in Korea, while the software was written in Poland and Russia. After they successfully launched the product and reached $10 million revenue in two years, the two founders decided to move its headquarters to Silicon Valley. Stephen Dukker, former chairman of eMachines, joined NComputing in August 2006, to lead the company together.
Financing
Dukker introduced NComputing to venture capitalists and technology journalists in September 2006 at DEMOfall 06. By October 2006, NComputing had raised $8 million from Scale Venture Partners (formerly known as BA Venture Partners). In January 2008, the company raised a $28 million series B round of financing, led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Menlo Ventures with participation from Scale Venture Partners and South Korea's Daehong Technew Corp. In April 2012, the company raised a $21.8 million series C round of financing led by Questmark Partners with participation from existing investors. In 2017, original NComputing Co., Ltd, a Korean corporation, became the ultimate holding company for all other subsidiaries and had raised $6 million from MDI VC (Telkom Indonesia VC in Jakarta), Pinnacle Ventures (Menlo Park, United States), and Bokwang Ventrues (Seoul, Korea) for accelerating South Asia region's growth and boost enterprise VDI software products.
Current growth
The company was founded in 2003. Current global usage is 20 million daily users in 140 countries. Typical customer profile includes 70,000 education and business organizations including 5,000 school districts in the United States. NComputing has shipped more than three million units overall, including 180,000 seats to provide one computing seat for every K–12 student in the country of North Macedonia. As of 2017, the company has 100 employees worldwide.
According to several survey metrics, Ncomputing is positioned as one of the top five major players in the enterprise thin client market - next to Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, and IGEL.
Operating system and virtualization support
Linux support
Linux is supported through a version of vSpace Server for Linux software. Currently, NComputing offers support for Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 and 18.04. This software is proprietary and requires a server-based license. There is a 10- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andata%20e%20ritorno | Andata e ritorno ('Round trip') is a 1985 documentary film produced and directed by .
It is located in Pazzano, a small town in the province of Reggio Calabria, and was shot between November 1 and November 4, 1985.
Dialogues are in part in pazzanese dialect with Italian subtitles, and in part in Italian.
Broadcast
The film was broadcast by TV on Raidue in June 1985.
It was also shown at the in Turin in April 2008.
Content
The film focuses on Carlo Cuteri, a Calabrian boy who comes back to his Pazzano home town.
The documentary deals with the issues of work-related emigration and uses Pazzano as a symbol for general problems in Southern Italy.
Reception
Claudio Stillitano, in an article on Oggisud in 1985, explored the debate created by the local reception of the film. Film maker Daniele Segre was accused of giving an unfairly dark image of Pazzano; to which he replied that his purpose had been to expose the problems of the South through Pazzano.
External links
Andata e Ritorno on Danielesegre.it
E intanto a Pazzano un film ha causato un putiferio politico, article of Claudio Stillitano
Italian documentary films
Films set in Italy
1985 films
1980s Italian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycopene%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on lycopene.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source and follow its directions.
Structure and properties
All-trans-lycopene with canonical numbering:
Spectral data
To date, no X-ray crystal structure of lycopene has been reported.
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mobile%20network%20operators%20of%20the%20Caribbean | This is a list of cell phone providers in the Caribbean region. (As per their websites.)
See also
List of telephone_operating_companies
List of mobile network operators of the Americas
List of telecommunications regulatory bodies
External links
Caribbean Telecommunications Union
Caribbean
Mobile phone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id%20tech%20%28disambiguation%29 | Id tech may refer to:
International Display Technology, an IBM/Chi Mei partnership sold to Sony in 2005
id Tech, a series of game engines developed by id Software
ID Tech Camps, a computer camp, also referred to as "iD Tech" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamips | Dynamips is an emulator computer program that was written to emulate Cisco routers. It was developed by Christophe Fillot, who began working on it in August 2005. Dynamips runs on FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It emulates the hardware of the Cisco series routing platforms by directly booting an actual Cisco IOS software image into the emulator. Dynamips emulates Cisco platforms 1700, 2600, 2691, 3600, 3725, 3745, and 7200.
Although Dynamip's original development has been stalled since version 0.2.8-RC2, released in October 2007, development continues through the efforts of the GNS3 project and its volunteers; Dynamips is now up to version 0.2.14-dev on Windows, Linux, and OS X, and version 0.2.8-RC2 on Solaris. There are a few add-ons written for it, the most popular of which is Dynagen; a front-end add-on that allows the use of an INI configuration file to provision Dynamips emulator networks. Another popular add-on is GNS3, a graphical front end for Dynamips and Dynagen. The source code is licensed under the GNU GPL.
Purpose
According to the creator, this kind of emulator is useful:
As a training platform with software used in the real world. It would allow people to become more familiar with Cisco devices.
For testing and experimenting with features of Cisco IOS.
To quickly check configurations that are to be deployed later on physical routers.
Resource utilization
Dynamips uses a fair amount of RAM and CPU to accomplish its emulation of the MIPS processor. If you intend to run an IOS image that requires 256 MB of RAM on a real 7200 router, and you devote 256 MB of RAM to your virtual router instance, it will allocate 256 MB of working set memory. Dynamips also allocates (by default) 64 MB of RAM/instance on Unix systems (16 MB on Windows systems) to cache JIT translations. That amount is the total working set size; by default, the amount of your system’s actual RAM used will typically be significantly less. This is because by default Dynamips uses memory-mapped files for the router's virtual memory. In the working directory, you can see temporary “RAM” files equal to the size of the virtual routers’ RAM size. Your OS will naturally cache in RAM the sections of the map files that are being used.
If your computer has plenty of RAM, set “mmap = false” in the device default or router sections of your labs to disable mmap for those instances.
Dynamips also uses a lot of CPU, because it emulates a router’s CPU instruction-by-instruction. It initially has no way of knowing when the virtual router’s CPU is idle, thus executing all the instructions that make up IOS’s idle routines just as it would execute the instructions that perform “real” work. However, once you have run through the “Idle-PC” process for a given IOS image, CPU utilization decreases drastically.
See also
Packet Tracer
Network simulation
References
External links
Updated Dynamips Source Code
Dynamips community
Dynamips blog
GNS3 website
Learning Dynamips |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicrophorus%20nigrita | Nicrophorus nigrita is a burying beetle described by Mannerheim in 1843.
References
data
Silphidae
Beetles of North America
Beetles described in 1843
Taxa named by Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (naturalist) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20%28Indian%20TV%20channel%29 | Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an Indian cable and satellite television channel operated by Warner Bros. Discovery under its international division. The channel is the Indian equivalent to the original American network and was launched on 1 May 1995 as the first television network in India dedicated to children. The channel primarily airs animated programming in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam.
History
Launch
Cartoon Network was the first dedicated children's television channel in India, which was launched on 1 May 1995, as a dual-channel with Cartoon Network operating from 5:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (later 9:00 p.m.) and Turner Classic Movies (formerly TNT) taking up the remainder of the daily schedule. On 1 July 2001, Cartoon Network India commenced daily full-day broadcasts.
In early 2004, a separate feed of the channel dedicated to Pakistani and Bangladeshi viewers was launched.
1990s
Cartoon Network India initially only aired Hanna-Barbera cartoons such as The Yogi Bear Show, Top Cat, The Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo. The channel quickly started to develop, with them airing MGM cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, Droopy, and Spike and Tyke for the first time in 1996, and after Time Warner's purchase of Turner in 1996, Warner Bros. produced cartoons such as Looney Tunes in 1997. In 1998, Cartoon Network India began airing Cartoon Network originals, such as Space Ghost Coast to Coast and The Moxy Show.
On 4 January 1999, the channel started to offer Hindi-dubbed versions of its shows, such as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Speed Racer, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, The Mask: The Animated Series, The Addams Family, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Captain Planet, Tom and jerry Kids and certain other select programs.
On 23 August 1999, the channel received a rebrand, introducing new bumpers, new shows and a new "powerhouse" theme. The new shows for 1999 were its original shows Dexter's Laboratory, Cow & Chicken, I Am Weasel, Ed, Edd n' Eddy, and Johnny Bravo.
2000s
The following year, 2000, saw more Cartoon Network originals being introduced, including The Powerpuff Girls, Mike, Lu & Og, and Courage the Cowardly Dog. DC Animated Universe series started premiering in 2000s starting with Batman: The Animated Series (2000) followed by The Adventures of Batman and Robin (2000), The New Batman Adventures (2000), Batman Beyond (2001), Superman: The Animated Series (2001), and Justice League (2002). On 28 February 2000, a Tamil feed was launched on the network.
In 2001, Sheep in the Big City, Time Squad, and Samurai Jack premiered in India. On 1 July 2001, Cartoon Network became a 24-hour channel.
In September 2001, the Toonami block was introduced that primarily consists of Japanese anime and occasionally American action animation like Dragon Ball Z, Inazuma Eleven, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, and Superman: The Animated Series. A Night Shift block was introduced in November 2001 to ta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat%20the%20Star | Beat the Star is a British game show airing on television network ITV. It is the British version of the Schlag den Raab franchise, based on the German game show Schlag den Raab (Beat the Raab – Raab being Stefan Raab). A candidate who can beat a celebrity in a number of disciplines wins the jackpot, starting at £50,000.
Premise
Each episode features one contestant battling against a celebrity in a number of disciplines. The games include sports contests such as climbing, motorsport and ice hockey, puzzles and various other challenges. The show notably features several highly unusual challenges, including using a saw to cut a large log, dropping a pea into a bottle from a height of 1 metre, hammering nails into a piece of wood, and chopping a large sausage.
Games carry varying numbers of points for the winner (1 point for game 1, 2 for game 2 etc.), and successful contestants win a prize of £50,000. If the celebrity wins, the jackpot rolls over (series 1), or is added to a prize fund for the season finale in which host Vernon Kay competes (series 2).
Recording
The pilot and first series were recorded in Cologne, Germany, using the set and facilities of the original German version of the show (though the German location is never acknowledged in the show itself). Eight episodes were recorded during April 2008. Members of the studio audience can win €500 or one of 20 tickets for German Schlag den Raab. Candidates needed to be at least 18 years of age, have a driving licence and a passport.
In October 2008 ITV announced a second series, having got good ratings with the first.
Series 2 was recorded at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire next to the 007 Set.
Differences between Beat the Star and Schlag den Raab
Most noticeably, the UK show features a different celebrity player each week, is not broadcast live and lasts 75 minutes with 7 or 8 scheduled games (though remaining games are not played if the result is decided early).
In Germany, Schlag den Raab starts at 20:15 on Saturdays with a variable running time of at least four hours, with up to 15 individual games. The longest show in the history of Schlag den Raab lasted 368 minutes. The show began on Saturday 20:15 and ended on Sunday morning at 02:23. The German version starts with the selection of one of five candidates by televoting. The British remake is pre-recorded. In the German version, a member of the TV audience can win one or more cars, in the British version a member of the studio audience can win €500, though this is not shown in the broadcast show. The British version features different celebrities, whereas the German version is centred on television entertainer and late-night show host Stefan Raab.
In the German version there was a jackpot starting with €500,000. The highest prize was €3.5 million on 15 December 2012.
The games are generally similar, although some games were dropped for series 2 of the UK show, when recording no longer took place in the original's Cologne studio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagymizd%C3%B3 | Nagymizdó is a village in Vas county, Hungary. Is a municipality of 126 inhabitants (2008 data). It is located in the province of Vas.
References
Populated places in Vas County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochanski%20multiplication | Kochanski multiplication is an algorithm that allows modular arithmetic (multiplication or operations based on it, such as exponentiation) to be performed efficiently when the modulus is large (typically several hundred bits). This has particular application in number theory and in cryptography: for example, in the RSA cryptosystem and Diffie–Hellman key exchange.
The most common way of implementing large-integer multiplication in hardware is to express the multiplier in binary and enumerate its bits, one bit at a time, starting with the most significant bit, perform the following operations on an accumulator:
Double the contents of the accumulator (if the accumulator stores numbers in binary, as is usually the case, this is a simple "shift left" that requires no actual computation).
If the current bit of the multiplier is 1, add the multiplicand into the accumulator; if it is 0, do nothing.
For an n-bit multiplier, this will take n clock cycles (where each cycle does either a shift or a shift-and-add).
To convert this into an algorithm for modular multiplication, with a modulus r, it is necessary to subtract r conditionally at each stage:
Double the contents of the accumulator.
If the result is greater than or equal to r, subtract r. (Equivalently, subtract r from the accumulator and store the result back into the accumulator if and only if it is non-negative).
If the current bit of the multiplier is 1, add the multiplicand into the accumulator; if it is 0, do nothing.
If the result of the addition is greater than or equal to r, subtract r. If no addition took place, do nothing.
This algorithm works. However, it is critically dependent on the speed of addition.
Addition of long integers suffers from the problem that carries have to be propagated from right to left and the final result is not known until this process has been completed. Carry propagation can be speeded up with carry look-ahead logic, but this still makes addition very much slower than it needs to be (for 512-bit addition, addition with carry look-ahead is 32 times slower than addition without carries at all).
Non-modular multiplication can make use of carry-save adders, which save time by storing the carries from each digit position and using them later: for example, by computing 111111111111+000000000010 as 111111111121 instead of waiting for the carry to propagate through the whole number to yield the true binary value 1000000000001. That final propagation still has to be done to yield a binary result but this only needs to be done once at the very end of the multiplication.
Unfortunately, the modular multiplication method outlined above needs to know the magnitude of the accumulated value at every step, in order to decide whether to subtract r: for example, if it needs to know whether the value in the accumulator is greater than 1000000000000, the carry-save representation 111111111121 is useless and needs to be converted to its true binary value for the comparison to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean%20analysis | Boolean analysis was introduced by Flament (1976). The goal of a Boolean analysis is to detect deterministic dependencies between the items of a questionnaire or similar data-structures in observed response patterns. These deterministic dependencies have the form of logical formulas connecting the items. Assume, for example, that a questionnaire contains items i, j, and k. Examples of such deterministic dependencies are then i → j, i ∧ j → k, and i ∨ j → k.
Since the basic work of Flament (1976) a number of different methods for Boolean analysis have been developed. See, for example, Buggenhaut and Degreef (1987), Duquenne (1987), item tree analysis Leeuwe (1974), Schrepp (1999), or Theuns (1998). These methods share the goal to derive deterministic dependencies between the items of a questionnaire from data, but differ in the algorithms to reach this goal.
Boolean analysis is an explorative method to detect deterministic dependencies between items. The detected dependencies must be confirmed in subsequent research. Methods of Boolean analysis do not assume that the detected dependencies describe the data completely. There may be other probabilistic dependencies as well. Thus, a Boolean analysis tries to detect interesting deterministic structures in the data, but has not the goal to uncover all structural aspects in the data set. Therefore, it makes sense to use other methods, like for example latent class analysis, together with a Boolean analysis.
Application areas
The investigation of deterministic dependencies has some tradition in educational psychology. The items represent in this area usually skills or cognitive abilities of subjects. Bart and Airasian (1974) use Boolean analysis to establish logical implications on a set of Piagetian tasks. Other examples in this tradition are the learning hierarchies of Gagné (1968) or the theory of structural learning of Scandura (1971).
There are several attempts to use boolean analysis, especially item tree analysis to construct knowledge spaces from data. Examples can be found in Held and Korossy (1998), or Schrepp (2002).
Methods of Boolean analysis are used in a number of social science studies to get insight into the structure of dichotomous data. Bart and Krus (1973) use, for example, Boolean analysis to establish a hierarchical order on items that describe socially unaccepted behavior. Janssens (1999) used a method of Boolean analysis to investigate the integration process of minorities into the value system of the dominant culture. Romme (1995a) introduced Boolean comparative analysis to the management sciences, and applied it in a study of self-organizing processes in management teams (Romme 1995b).
Relations to other areas
Boolean analysis has some relations to other research areas. There is a close connection between Boolean analysis and knowledge spaces. The theory of knowledge spaces provides a theoretical framework for the formal description of human knowledge. A knowledge doma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Flockton%20Flyer | The Flockton Flyer was a children's TV series made by Southern Television for the ITV network. It was a popular programme, which ran to two series, and provided early screen appearances for upcoming actors such as Peter Duncan and Gwyneth Strong, as well as some well-known 1970s classical and situation comedy actors.
Overview
The two series follow the adventures of the Carter family, as they struggle to re-open and run the old Flockton to Lane End branch railway, closed by British Railways five years previously. At the time of production (1976) a large number of newly closed railway branch lines were being bought and preserved by local railway preservation societies, which has given rise to an extensive network of 'heritage railways' in the United Kingdom.
The railway is said to have very limited rolling stock – one locomotive (restoration of which was completed in episode 1), one passenger coach (restoration of which was completed in episode 3), a small number of freight vehicles (three are specifically mentioned and featured – an open wagon, a box van, and a tanker truck), and a hand-pumped inspection truck. Despite this plot line, large amounts of other rolling stock are regularly seen in the background of shots – multiple passenger coaches, various freight vehicles, a second steam tank locomotive (in steam) in the opening shots of episode 1, a diesel multiple unit in certain scenes, including the arrival of the Flockton Flyer to meet the road ambulance in episode 4, and a large GWR steam engine under tarpaulin sheeting at Flockton in episode 5. Although these other vehicles are not explained away in the script, there are various references to the nearby 'mainline railway' and it may perhaps be assumed that shots involving otherwise unexplained rolling stock are shots of the Flockton line meeting the mainline railway. The direct connection of the two is confirmed by the storyline of episode 5 in the first series.
Broadcast dates
There were two series, each of six episodes. Series 1 was first transmitted in spring 1977, and Series 2 followed in early 1978. Programmes were shown at 4.45 pm on Monday afternoons.
Series 1 was repeated on ITV on Friday afternoons, commencing 8 September 1978; series 2 was repeated on Friday afternoons, commencing 7 December 1979, and running into January 1980.
Both series were again repeated on The Children's Channel, on cable TV in Britain during the early 1990s. Dubbed versions of the programmes were shown on Dutch and German TV stations.
In 2010, reruns of The Flockton Flyer were shown on the now-defunct British satellite television channel Film 24.
In August & September 2015 reruns of the series were shown on UK satellite channel Talking Pictures TV.
Location
Location filming, during 1976 and 1977, was on the newly re-opened West Somerset Railway, using its engines and rolling stock.
The locomotive
The star of the show was the steam locomotive that gave the series its name. The Flockton Flyer, was, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken%20botnet | The Kraken botnet is a network hacking spyware program that attacks Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh systems through email and World Wide Web sites such as social networking sites. It was the world's largest botnet
Researchers say that Kraken infected machines in at least 50 of the Fortune 500 companies and grew to over 400,000 bots. It was estimated to send 9 billion spam messages per day. Kraken botnet malware may have been designed to evade anti-virus software, and employed techniques to stymie conventional anti-virus software.
See also
Computer worm
Internet bot
References
External links
Fisher, Dennis, Kraken botnet balloons to dangerous levels , SearchSecurity.com, Apr. 7, 2008, retrieved 2008-04-07
Orion, Egan, There's a new botnet worm on the loose: Kraken seeks to sink the Fortune 500, The Inquirer, April 7, 2008, retrieved 2008-04-07
Neri, Kraken Botnet, la Botnet mas grande del Mundo, retrieved 2008-04-07, en español.
Pierce, Cody,
Amini, Pedram, Kraken Botnet Infiltration, 2008-04-28, retrieved 2008-04-28
Internet security
Distributed computing projects
Spamming
Botnets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDXL | CDXL is motion video file format developed by Commodore in the late 1980s and early 1990s for the Amiga computer platform. It is notable for being one of the earliest formats created for motion video playback from CD-ROM.
Background
In an era shortly after the introduction of CD-ROM drives and before low cost MPEG decoding hardware became available the CDXL format was created, primarily for the Commodore CDTV, to permit playback of video from CD-ROM. CDXL is tailored for the Amiga chipset and takes advantage of DMA transfers, thus achieving playback with a low CPU load. As a result, CDXL can only support weak video compression and therefore relatively low video resolutions and moderate frame rates.
CDXL is a simple streaming format, consisting of linear concatenated chunks (packets), each with an uncompressed frame and associated audio data. There is no overall file header, just a header per chunk. The frame rate is constant but not stored in the file, so it is necessary to set the playback speed in the player software manually. The CDXL format initially allowed playback of up to 24 frames per second with up to 4096 colors encoded in HAM-6. Audio support allows for 8-bit mono or stereo sound. With the advent of the Amiga CD32, the CDXL format has been extended to support AGA color modes (up to 262,144 on-screen colors from a 24-bit color palette) and higher display resolutions.
Usage
A number of Amiga CD-ROM games and entertainment software uses CDXL for motion video.
CDXL is supported by AmigaOS through its datatype system, which allows playback of CDXL files on compatible systems.
Performance
Playback performance can be thought of as impressive at the time of release given the CDTV's Motorola 68000 processor, OCS chipset and single-speed CD-ROM drive constraints. A single-speed (150 kB/s) CD-ROM drive permits resolutions equivalent to 160×100 with 4,096 colors at 12 frame/s with 11025 Hz 8-bit mono audio. At these settings audio and visual quality is perceived as considerably worse than VHS.
A CDXL stream at 300 kB/s (equivalent to 256×128 at 12 frame/s) allows approximately 36 minutes of video to fit on CD-ROM. In comparison, a Video CD encoded in MPEG-1 format allows approximately 72 minutes of 352×288 (PAL) 24-bit color video at 25 frame/s .
See Also
ANIM
Interchange File Format
References
Graphics file formats
Amiga
Computer file formats
Digital container formats
Film and video technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20networking%20hardware%20vendors | Networking hardware typically refers to equipment facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, this includes routers, switches, access points, network interface cards and other related hardware. This is a list of notable vendors who produce network hardware.
Routers
ADTRAN
Aerohive Networks - acquired by Extreme Networks
Alaxala Networks
Allied Telesis
Alcatel Lucent Enterprise - Stellar
Arcadyan
Arris International
Aruba Networks - acquired by HPE
Asus (including subsidiary Askey Computer Corp.)
Avaya - acquired Nortel, networking business sold to Extreme Networks
AVM
Barracuda Networks
Brocade - acquired Vyatta, purchased by Broadcom
Billion Electric
Calix
Cisco Systems
Control4 - acquired by SnapAV
Cradlepoint - acquired by Ericsson
Dell - acquired Force10
Digi International
DrayTek
D-Link
ECI Telecom
Enterasys - acquired by Extreme Networks in 2013
Ericsson - acquired Redback
Extreme Networks
FiberHome
Fortinet
HPE - acquired 3Com and Aruba Networks
Huawei Routers
Juniper Networks
Linksys - acquired by Belkin
Meraki - acquired by Cisco Systems
MikroTik
Mitsubishi
Motorola
NEC
Netgear
Nokia
Nokia Networks
Open Mesh - acquired by Datto
RAD Data Communications
Ribbon Communications
Ruckus Networks - acquired by Brocade; acquired by ARRIS
Ruijie Networks
Sagemcom
Sierra Wireless
Silver Peak - acquired by HPE
Technicolor
Telco Systems
Teltonika Networks
TP-Link
TRENDnet
Ubiquiti
USRobotics
Xirrus - acquired by Cambium
Yamaha
ZTE
ZyXEL
Router SoC
Broadcom (includes former Avago and Emulex)
Cortina Systems (including former StormSemi/StorLink)
Geode (processor)
HiSilicon
Lantiq
Mediatek (includes former TrendChip/Econet/Ralink/Airoha)
Qualcomm (includes former Atheros)
Realtek
Network switches
ADTRAN
Aerohive Networks - acquired by Extreme Networks
Alaxala Networks
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Allied Telesis
Arista Networks
Avaya - acquired Nortel
Buffalo Technology
Brocade Communications Systems - acquired Foundry Networks - was acquired by Ruckus Networks, An ARRIS company and Extreme Networks
Ciena
Cisco Systems
Control4 - acquired by SnapAV
Dell Networking
DrayTek
D-Link
ECI Telecom
EnGenius
Enterasys - acquired by Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks
Fortinet
HPE - acquired ProCurve, 3Com, H3C, TippingPoint and Aruba Networks
Huawei
Juniper Networks
Linksys - acquired by Belkin
Mellanox - acquired by NVIDIA
Meraki - acquired by Cisco Systems
MikroTik
Netgear
Nokia Networks
NEC
Open Mesh - acquired by Datto
Oracle Corporation
Rad Group
Ruckus Networks - acquired some Brocade product lines; Ruckus was acquired by ARRIS; Arris International was acquired by CommScope
Ruijie Networks
Telco Systems
Teledata Networks
Teltonika Networks
TP-Link
TRENDnet
Ubiquiti
Yamaha
ZTE
ZyXEL
Wireless
ADTRAN/BlueSocket
Aerohive Networks - acquired by Extreme Networks
Alaxala Networks
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Allied Telesis
Alvarion
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Power%20Systems | IBM Power Systems is a family of server computers from IBM that are based on its Power processors. It was created in 2008 as a merger of the System p and System i product lines.
History
IBM had two distinct POWER- and PowerPC-based hardware lines since the early 1990s:
Servers running processors based on the IBM PowerPC-AS architecture in the AS/400 family (later known as iSeries, then System i) running OS/400 (later known as i5/OS, and now IBM i)
Servers and workstations using POWER and PowerPC processors in the RS/6000 family (later known as pSeries, then System p), running IBM AIX and Linux on Power.
After the introduction of the POWER4 processor in 2001, there was little difference between both the "p" and the "i" hardware; the only differences were in the software and services offerings. With the introduction of the POWER5 processor in 2004, even the product numbering was synchronized. The System i5 570 was virtually identical to the System p5 570.
In April 2008, IBM officially merged the two lines of servers and workstations under the same name, Power, and later Power Systems, with identical hardware and a choice of operating systems, software, and service contracts, based formerly on a POWER6 architecture. The PowerPC line was discontinued.
With Release 8 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, IBM has completed transition of POWER8 and POWER9 servers to little-endian mode for Linux. AIX and IBM i continue to run in big-endian mode.
Systems
IBM Power Systems models:
2008/2009
BladeCenter JS12 Express
BladeCenter JS22 Express
BladeCenter JS23 Express
BladeCenter JS43 Express
Power 520 Express
Power 550 Express
Power 560 Express
Power 570
Power 575
Power 595
2010
BladeCenter PS700 Express
BladeCenter PS701 Express
BladeCenter PS702 Express
Power 710/730 Express (8231-E2B) (1~2 4, 6 or 8-core POWER7 CPUs)
Power 720 Express (8202-E4B) (4, 6 or 8-core POWER7 CPU)
Power 740 Express (8205-E6B) (1~2 4, 6 or 8-core POWER7 CPUs)
Power 750 Express (8233-E8B) (1~4 6 or 8-core POWER7 CPUs)
Power 755 (8236-E8C) (4 8-core POWER7 CPUs) for high-performance computing (HPC)
Power 770
Power 780
Power 795
2011
Power 710 Express (8231-E1C) (4, 6 or 8-core POWER7 CPU)
Power 720 Express (8202-E4C) (4, 6 or 8-core POWER7 CPU)
Power 730 Express (8231-E2C) (2 4, 6 or 8-core POWER7 CPUs)
Power 740 Express (8205-E6C) (1~2 4, 6 or 8-core POWER7 CPUs)
Power 775 also known as PERCS
2012
Flex System p260
Flex System p460
Flex System p24L (Linux only)
2013
Power 710 Express (8231-E1D) (4, 6 or 8-core POWER7+ CPU)
Power 720 Express (8202-E4D) (4, 6 or 8-core POWER7+ CPU)
Power 730 Express (8231-E2D) (2 6 or 8-core POWER7+ CPUs)
Power 740 Express (8205-E6D) (1~2 6 or 8-core POWER7+ CPUs)
Power 750 Express (8408-E8D) (1~4 8-core POWER7+ DCMs)
Power 760 (9109-RMD) (1~4 12-core POWER7+ DCMs)
2014
Power Systems S821LC and S821LC
Power Systems S822 and S822L
Power Systems S814
Power Systems S824 and S824L
Power Systems E870
Power Sy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide%20LHC%20Computing%20Grid | The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), formerly (until 2006) the LHC Computing Grid (LCG), is an international collaborative project that consists of a grid-based computer network infrastructure incorporating over 170 computing centers in 42 countries, . It was designed by CERN to handle the prodigious volume of data produced by Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments.
By 2012, data from over 300 trillion (3×1014) LHC proton-proton collisions had been analyzed, and LHC collision data was being produced at approximately 25 petabytes per year. the LHC Computing Grid is the world's largest computing grid comprising over 170 computing facilities in a worldwide network across 42 countries.
Background
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN was designed to test the existence of the Higgs boson, an important but elusive piece of knowledge that had been sought by particle physicists for over 40 years. A very powerful particle accelerator was needed, because Higgs bosons might not be seen in lower energy experiments, and because vast numbers of collisions would need to be studied. Such a collider would also produce unprecedented quantities of collision data requiring analysis. Therefore, advanced computing facilities were needed to process the data.
Description
A design report was published in 2005.
It was announced to be ready for data on 3 October 2008.
A popular 2008 press article predicted "the internet could soon be made obsolete" by its technology.
CERN had to publish its own articles trying to clear up the confusion.
It incorporates both private fiber optic cable links and existing high-speed portions of the public Internet. At the end of 2010, the Grid consisted of some 200,000 processing cores and 150 petabytes of disk space, distributed across 34 countries.
The data stream from the detectors provides approximately 300 GByte/s of data, which after filtering for "interesting events", results in a data stream of about 300 MByte/s. The CERN computer center, considered "Tier 0" of the LHC Computing Grid, has a dedicated 10 Gbit/s connection to the counting room.
The project was expected to generate multiple TB of raw data and event summary data, which represents the output of calculations done by the CPU farm at the CERN data center. This data is sent out from CERN to thirteen Tier 1 academic institutions in Europe, Asia, and North America, via dedicated links with 10 Gbit/s or higher of bandwidth. This is called the LHC Optical Private Network.
More than 150 Tier 2 institutions are connected to the Tier 1 institutions by general-purpose national research and education networks.
The data produced by the LHC on all of its distributed computing grid is expected to add up to 200 PB of data each year. In total, the four main detectors at the LHC produced 13 petabytes of data in 2010.
The Tier 1 institutions receive specific subsets of the raw data, for which they serve as a backup repository for CERN. They also perform reprocessing when recalibration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20H.%20Wright | Margaret H. Wright (born February 18, 1944) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. She is a Silver Professor of Computer Science and former Chair of the Computer Science department at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, with research interests in optimization, linear algebra, and scientific computing. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for development of numerical optimization algorithms and for leadership in the applied mathematics community. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. She was the first woman to serve as President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Early life and education
Wright was born in San Francisco in 1944, and spent her early childhood in Hanford, California. Both of her parents were medical doctors. At age 10, her family moved to Tucson, Arizona, where she attended junior and high school. She graduated high school in 1960 at the age of 16. She excelled in school, especially in mathematics.
She went to college at Stanford University, one of the few top-ranked universities that accepted women at that time. She was interested in numerous subjects including literature, French, history, and mathematics, and she decided to major in mathematics thanks to some advice that a degree in mathematics would lead to better job opportunities than a degree in English or history. She planned to have a job because her mother had always worked.
She received a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1964. She completed an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1965.
After completing her M.S., she worked at GTE Sylvania from 1965 to 1971 where she wrote software to implement mathematical simulations. As part of this work, she learned about optimization methods such as the newly published Fletcher-Powell method and linear programming. At that time, it was legal for employers to discriminate against women, and she was earning significantly less than men with lower qualifications. For this and other reasons, she decided to return to Stanford in 1971 to earn her Ph.D.
Wright entered the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at Stanford University in 1971 and was supported by an assistantship from Gene H. Golub. During her Ph.D. studies, Philip E. Gill and Walter Murray, two researchers from the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), came to visit and ended up having a profound impact on her Ph.D. and career. She served as a teaching assistant for a course taught by Walter Murray and go to know him. When Gill and Murray returned to the UK, she went as well for six months and did much of her dissertation research during this period. She returned to Stanford and obtaining her Ph.D. in 1976. Her thesis was on numerical methods for nonlinearly constrained optimization.
Scientific career
After obtaining her Ph.D. in 1976, Wright joined George Dantzig's Systems Optimization Laboratory (SOL) in the Departme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Turkish%20films%20before%201960 | A list of films produced in Turkey before 1960:
1914–1922 (Ottoman Empire)
1923–1959
References
External links
Turkish films at the Internet Movie Database
Lists of Turkish films by decade
Lists of 1910s films
Lists of 1920s films
Lists of 1930s films
Lists of 1950s films
Lists of 1940s films
Films
Films
Films
Films
Films
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Turkish%20films%20of%20the%201960s | A list of films produced in Turkey in the 1960s:
1960s
References
External links
Turkish films at the Internet Movie Database
1960s
Lists of 1960s films
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Turkish%20films%20of%20the%201980s | A list of films produced in Turkey in the 1980s:
1980s
References
External links
Turkish films at the Internet Movie Database
1980s
Lists of 1980s films
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Turkish%20films%20of%20the%201990s | A list of films produced in Turkey in the 1990s:
1990s
References
External links
Turkish films at the Internet Movie Database
1990s
Lists of 1990s films
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20International%20Managers%20in%20Engineering | Top International Managers in Engineering (T.I.M.E.), formerly Top Industrial Managers for Europe, is a network of fifty-seven engineering schools, faculties and technical universities. The oldest European network of engineering schools in its field, the T.I.M.E. Association promotes graduate student exchanges and double degrees throughout Europe and the world to enable students to achieve a broader, high-level scientific engineering education with in-depth intercultural experience.
Several hundreds of graduate students per year participate in T.I.M.E. mobility activities and pursue double degrees (at Master and Doctorate levels). Double degrees require the participating student to spend more than three semesters in another member university and at least the same in her/his home university, in order to be awarded two full degrees.
The T.I.M.E. network includes primarily graduate engineering schools and technical universities from Europe, but increasing numbers of members are now from other continents.
History
In 1989, the T.I.M.E. network was created at the . Its main purpose was to coordinate European double degree and exchange programmes in engineering at the Master's level. The T.I.M.E. network had 16 founding members, each a leading engineering institution in its respective country. The T.I.M.E. Association was formally incorporated as a not-for-profit body under French law in 1997, with 29 members. Current membership is 57 institutions from 23 countries.
Member institutions
TIME members include the following engineering schools and faculties and technical universities:
:
The University of Queensland (AU-UQ)
:
Technische Universität Wien (AT-TUW)
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UCLouvain (BE-UCL)
(BE-ULB)
University of Liège (BE-ULG)
University of Mons (BE-FPMS)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE-VUB)
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Universidade de São Paulo Escola Politécnica (BR-USP)
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (BR-UNICAMP)
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Xi'an Jiaotong University (CN-XJTU)
Beihang University (CN-BUAA)
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České vysoké učení technické v Praze (CZ-CVUT)
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Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DK-DTU)
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Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES-UPM)
Universitat Politècnica de València (ES-UPV)
Comillas Pontifical University - ICAI (ES-UPCo)
University of Seville - ETSI (ES-USE)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (ES-UPC)
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CentraleSupélec (FR-CS)
École Centrale de Lille (FR-ECLi)
École Centrale de Lyon (FR-ECLy)
École Centrale de Marseille (FR-ECM)
École Centrale de Nantes (FR-ECN)
Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (FR-ENPC)
École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (FR-ENSTA)
École Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (FR-Supaero)
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Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (DE-RWTH)
Technische Universität Berlin (DE-TUB)
Technische Universität Darmstadt (DE-TUDa)
Technische Universität Dresden (DE-TUDr)
Leibniz University Hannover (DE-LUH)
Technische Universität München (DE-TUM)
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR-AUTH)
Athens Polytechnic (GR-NTUA) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Turkish%20films%20of%20the%202000s | A list of films produced in Turkey in the 2000s:
2000s
References
External links
Turkish films at the Internet Movie Database
2000s
Turkish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Entertainment%20Supplier%27s%20Association | Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association (CESA) is a Japanese organization that was established in 1996 to "promote the computer entertainment industry [...] with the aim of contributing to the strengthening of Japanese industry as well as to the further enrichment of people's lifestyles." It organizes the annual Tokyo Game Show and Japan Game Awards.
CESA is located in Tokyo, Japan. The current () chairman of CESA is Haruhiro Tsujimoto, the president of Capcom. The Managing Director is Tsutomu Masuda.
The Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (CERO), a rating agency, was established in 2002 as a branch of CESA.
See also
Supplier association
References
External links
Official English website
Organizations established in 1996
1996 establishments in Japan
Video game trade associations
Trade associations based in Japan
Organizations based in Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C1%2C1%2C2-Tetrafluoroethane%20%28data%20page%29 | This page lists chemical and physical properties of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane.
* Acceptable Exposure Limit (AEL) is an airborne inhalation exposure limit established by DuPont that specifies time-weighted average concentrations to which nearly all workers may be repeatedly exposed without adverse effects.
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Harn | Tony Harn is an English musician, a multi-instrumentalist, predominantly guitar but also bass guitar, synthesizers, organ, percussion; programming; and is active within the north-west English progressive rock and avant-garde music scenes.
Harn's music features elements of rock, jazz, post-punk, and experimental noise. He has released five solo instrumental albums, more recently moving towards loop music stylings, as well as maintaining a solo career. He is a member of Nerve Toy Trio and has previously been a member of Resindust, Lifebox and Spacematic. He is an active collaborator with other musicians, most notably with Tim Bowness of No-Man.
Career
Tony Harn began his musical career as the instrumental half of the Warrington duo Spacematic in the mid-1990s. Following that project's split, he began working on solo material, playing or programming all of the instruments himself. Harn released his debut instrumental album From the Inside in 1997, on his own self-produced label.<ref>[http://www.arlequins.it/pagine/articoli/alfa/corpo.asp?iniz=H&fine=I&ch=1054 Review of Tony Harn’s From the Inside album by Alberto Nucci in Arlequins', 1998 (in Italian)]</ref> This was followed by a second album, Lifebox in 1999. During this period Harn also recorded material with a fellow Warringtonian musician, Tim Bowness of No-Man, leading to an appearance and co-write on the Tim Bowness/Samuel Smiles album World of Bright Futures in 1999.
In 2000, Harn formed a short-lived trio called Lifebox in which he played guitar alongside David Jones (bass guitar, ex-Plenty) and Howard Jones (ex-After The Stranger and a contributor to the debut album by Porcupine Tree). Lifebox played new material as well as music from Harn's solo records. The band split up after releasing one EP, Charismatic Couch.Listed review of Lifebox’s Charismatic Couch EP by Paul Hightower in Expose magazine issue 22 (page 64) See also
Returning to solo work, Harn released his third album Moving Moons in 2001 and engaged in work with the Warrington experimental music scene via bands such as Psychiatric Challenge. He subsequently teamed up with Lewis Gill (Psychiatric Challenge, Vivahead) to form the experimental duo Resindust, who released one eponymous album in 2002. Harn's fourth solo album, Revealed in Black and White was released in 2005.
Harn's next album did not appear for another three years, when he released Loops in 2008.Review of Tony Harn's Loops album by Jim Corcoran in Dutch Progressive Rock Pages, 2008 volume 24 As the title suggested, it displayed a shift in his working methods towards further improvisation and loop music.
Harn is currently a member of Nerve Toy Trio, which also features his former Lifebox bandmate David Jones on bass guitar and drummer Henry Rogers (Touchstone, Sort Code, Final Conflict, DeeExpus). In 2011, the band released their debut EP The Hard Cell, which gained them reviews in Classic Rock Presents Prog and Jazzwise.Review of Nerve Toy Trio The Hard Cel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnazium%20Union%20of%20Russia | The Gymnazium Union of Russia () is a government-backed open network of Russian gymnaziums, lyceums and secondary schools.
The Union was introduced by Andrei Fursenko, the Russian Education Minister, on November 6, 2007, at a major conference in education held at Saint Petersburg State University.
The Union is sponsored and broadly supported by the Russian Foundation for Education Support, a Gazprom's non-profit foundation. It makes a part of the National Priority Projects and is directly supported by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the Russian Ministry of Education.
The infrastructure of the Union relies on videoconferencing and allows to hold discussion meetings between member schools, befriended universities and research institutions, and the headquarters of the Foundation for Education Support.
As of early April 2008, the Union brings together about 100 schools in all seven federal Russian districts and rapidly grows.
Members
Central Federal District
Belgorod Oblast
Gymnazium 2, Belgorod (profile, website)
Lyceym 3, Stary Oskol (profile, website)
A.M. Rudy Borisov School 1, Borisov (profile, website)
Bryansk Oblast
Gymnazium 1, Bryansk (profile, website)
Kaluga Oblast
Obninsk Gymnazium, Obninsk (profile)
Kostroma Oblast
Lyceum 3, Galich (profile, website)
Moscow Oblast and the Federal City of Moscow
Gymnazium 1583, Moscow (profile)
Orel Oblast
Livny S.N. Bulgakov Lyceum, Livny (profile)
Tambov Oblast
L.S. Demin Kadetsky Korpus, Tambov-4 (profile, website)
Michurinsk Lyceum-Boarding School, Michurinsk (profile, website)
Saint Pitirim Gymnazium 7, Tambov (profile, website)
Uvarovo Lyceum, Uvarovo (profile, website)
Tula Oblast
Gymnazium 1, Tula (profile)
Tver Oblast
Gymnazium 8, Tver (profile, website)
Gymnazium 2, Nelidovo (profile, website)
Yaroslavl Oblast
Gymnazium 3, Yaroslavl (profile, website)
Northwestern Federal District
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Gymnazium 21, Arkhangelsk (profile, website)
Gymnazium 6, Arkhangelsk (profile, website)
Lyceum 17, Severodvinsk (profile, website)
Severodvinsk City Gymnazium, Severodvinsk (profile)
Yagrinskaya Gymnazium, Severodvinsk (profile, website)
Humanities Gymnazium 8, Arkhangelsk (profile)
M.V. Lomonosov Lyceum, Arkhangelsk (profile)
Novodvinsk Gymnazium, Novodvinsk (profile)
Ecological and Biological Lyceum, Arkhangelsk (profile)
Kaliningrad Oblast
Gymnazium 22, Kaliningrad (profile, website)
Komi Republic
Gymnazium 2, Vorkuta (profile)
Leningrad Oblast
Vyborg Gymnazium, Vyborg (profile)
Lyceum 1, Vsevolozhsk (profile, website)
Lyceum 8, Sosnovy Bor (profile)
Gatchina K.D. Ushinsky Gymnazium (profile, website)
Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Secondary School 1, Naryan-Mar (profile)
A.P. Pyrerki Boarding School, Naryan-Mar (profile, website)
Pskov Oblast
Lyceum 10, Velikiye Luki (profile)
Lyceum 11, Velikiye Luki (profile, website)
Humanities Lyceum, Pskov (profile, website)
Izborsk Lyceum, Izborsk (profile)
Multiprofile Law Lyceum 8, Pskov (profile, websit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPC%20%28Panama%29 | RPC-TV is a television network, and is headquartered in Panama City, Panama, with repeaters throughout the country. RPC is the oldest commercial TV station in Panama, airing imported shows, programming for kids, and local and international sporting events.
History
Between 1956 and 1960, television was an exclusive privilege of the Panama Canal Zone, with SCN's broadcasts in English on Channel 8 being aimed at military and civilian residents. This changed on 14 March 1960 when RPC Television becomes the first television channel of Panama, changing the city life of all Panamanians. The experience and prestige achieved by Fernando Eleta with his company, Radio Programas Continentales (RPC) has been predicted since 1951, and it wouldn't take long before it managed to bring television to Panama. After two years of hard work, difficulties and risks, on March 14, 1960, RPC Television broke into city life with the broadcast of its first signal, beginning the era of television in Panama
References
External links
RPC Channel 4 official website
Television stations in Panama
Television channels and stations established in 1960
Mass media in Panama City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVN%20%28Panamanian%20TV%20network%29 | TVN is a television network headquartered in Panama City, Panama, with repeaters throughout the country. The stations broadcast in the NTSC format and DVB-T for Panama City. In DVB-T format it was the only TV station in HD for most of the day and they also broadcast in a sub-channel two hours behind programming from the main channel(DVB-T only), being the first TV station to have this service.
Main programming consists of local news, telenovelas, and Panamanian reality shows called Produccion Nacional (national productions). TVN rarely broadcasts sports, however, they launched sister station TV Max channel 9 to specialize in those programs.
History
With help and participation from state-owned and foreign companies, the National Television and Radio System (Sistema Nacional de Radio y Televisión) was awarded a license in 1957, with help from local entrepreneurs and broadcasts officially commenced on April 23, 1962.
In 1967, a mobile unit was acquired, thus allowing the expansion of live events and shows seen on TVN, like El Show del Mediodía, La Lotería and horse races from the Presidente Remón horse track.
In 1969, when the country was starting to use satellite TV technology, it was amongst the first to air the Apollo Moon landings. In 1972 it became the first channel in the country to air in color.
In 1978, TVN transmitted their first World Cup, but on delay; rival RPC had the rights to air it live.
Regular programming
The channel mainly broadcasts telenovelas and news. TVN has a separate news division under the name of "TVN Noticias", which publishes daily news content to its website and to its television news programs.
Location
Current main offices and studios are located in Vía Ricardo J. Alfaro, Panama City, Panama, better known as Tumba Muerto, sharing installations with FETV (Panama), and sister channel TVMax TV stations. TVN was formerly located alongside the Vía Transistmica, and had a studio alongside Avenida Balboa called Teatro ASSA.
References
External links
Television stations in Panama
Television channels and stations established in 1962
Mass media in Panama City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FETV%20%28Panama%29 | FETV is a television network that broadcasts on channel 5 in Panama City, and is headquartered in Panama City, Panama, with repeaters throughout the country. The network and stations broadcast in the NTSC format. The network takes its name from the Television Education Foundation (FETV), its owner.
History
In 1990, the Catholic Church of Panama sought to create an educational television station in the country, and with the leadership of other churches and the commercial broadcasters, the Television Education Foundation (Fundación para la Educación en la Television) was formed.
The next year, the station received its frequencies to operate, and it bought the equipment used to operate FETV's predecessor on channel 5, Panavisión/Telecinco, in bankruptcy from Cofina, a governmental financial entity which had taken the channel 5 facilities as collateral for debts that Telecinco owed to the government.
After broadcasting test signals, FETV signed on April 1, 1992; the station went to air with 4 hours of programming a day.
The station's programming is largely educational and social in nature. In 2009 they signed a 3-way deal, with the nation's major commercial broadcasters: TVN and Telemetro (MEDCOM), to avoid a sale of the station to international broadcasters. As a result, TVN moved into FETV's headquarters, and FETV moved to a smaller headquarters building next to their now former headquarters. FETV was the first station to cover Darien Province.
Programming includes children's shows, nature documentaries, medical and family topics talk shows, and programs from a variety of international broadcasters, such as Rome Reports, the Discovery Channel and National Geographic.
The channel was famous for Sarnoso, a brown dog which was a character of a kids' show called Cool Zone and was the mascot of the channel. However the channel gradually shifted away its programming into a religious channel when it changed its slogan and logo in 2016.
Slogans
El Canal de la misericordia (2016-)
El Canal de lo Bueno(2014-2016)
Totalmente bueno (2014-2016)
La Buena Television (2010-2013)
Abriendo Horizontes (1992-2011)
References
FETV History
External links
Television stations in Panama
Television channels and stations established in 1992
Mass media in Panama City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%2013%20%28Guatemalan%20TV%20channel%29 | Canal 13, formerly known as TeleTrece and Trecevisión is a television station headquartered in Guatemala City, Guatemala, with repeaters throughout the country. The network and stations broadcast in the NTSC format.
It is one of the five stations operated by Radio y Televisión de Guatemala, who also operate channels 3, 7, 11 and 23, all of which are linked to Remigio Ángel González through his Albavisión group. The channel mostly airs animated series aimed at children in the daytime, as well as sporting events, TV shows and newscasts.
References
Television stations in Guatemala
Television channels and stations established in 1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth | Bandwidth commonly refers to:
Bandwidth (signal processing) or analog bandwidth, frequency bandwidth, or radio bandwidth, a measure of the width of a frequency range
Bandwidth (computing), the rate of data transfer, bit rate or throughput
Spectral linewidth, the width of an atomic or molecular spectral line
Bandwidth may also refer to:
Science and technology
Bandwidth (linear algebra), the width of the non-zero terms around the diagonal of a matrix
Kernel density estimation, the width of the convolution kernel used in statistics
Graph bandwidth, in graph theory
Coherence bandwidth, a frequency range over which a channel can be considered "flat"
Power bandwidth, a frequency range for which power output of an amplifier exceeds a given fraction of full rated power
Other uses
Bandwidth (company), an American communications provider
Bandwidth (radio program), a Canadian radio program
Bandwidth, a normative expected range of linguistic behavior in language expectancy theory
Bandwidth, the resources needed to complete a task or project in business jargon; see List of buzzwords
See also
Bit rate, in telecommunications and computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Kid%27s%20a%20Star | My Kid's a Star is an Australian reality/talent show program based on the American series I Know My Kid's a Star. Hosted by Cameron Daddo, it started airing during prime time on the Nine Network from 9 April 2008 in a 60-minute format. Due to low ratings, it later moved to a weekend timeslot, where it aired in a 30-minute format.
The show follows 10 child performers and their parents on a six-week talent boot camp that will see one of the performers leave with $50,000 and the title of "child star". The young performers will be judged by a three-member panel which includes former The Partridge Family actor Danny Bonaduce, who was also the host in the original American version.
The show has raised some controversy for focusing on the antics of the stage parents rather than the young performers, and promos of the show prominently featured this aspect of the program. Some of the parents of the contestants have claimed that Nine misled them over the content of the show.
See also
List of programs broadcast by Nine Network
List of Australian television series
References
2000s Australian reality television series
Nine Network original programming
2008 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20App%20Engine | Google App Engine (often referred to by the acronym GAE or simply App Engine) is a cloud computing platform as a service for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. Applications are sandboxed and run across multiple servers. App Engine offers automatic scaling for web applications—as the number of requests increases for an application, App Engine automatically allocates more resources for the web application to handle the additional demand.
Google App Engine primarily supports Go, PHP, Java, Python, Node.js,.NET, and Ruby applications, although it can also support other languages via "custom runtimes". The service is free up to a certain level of consumed resources and only in standard environments; it is not available in flexible environments. Fees are charged for additional storage, bandwidth, or instance hours required by the application. It was first released as a preview version in April 2008 and came out of preview in September 2011.
Supported features/restrictions
Runtimes and framework
Google App Engine primarily supports Go, PHP, Java, Python, Node.js, .NET, and Ruby applications, although it can also support other languages via "custom runtimes".
Python web frameworks that run on Google App Engine include Django, CherryPy, Pyramid, Flask, web2py and webapp2, as well as a custom Google-written webapp framework and several others designed specifically for the platform that emerged since the release. Any Python framework that supports the WSGI using the CGI adapter can be used to create an application; the framework can be uploaded with the developed application. Third-party libraries written in pure Python may also be uploaded.
Google App Engine supports many Java standards and frameworks. Core to this is the servlet 2.5 technology using the open-source Jetty Web Server, along with accompanying technologies such as JSP. JavaServer Faces operates with some workarounds. A newer release of App Engine Standard Java in Beta supports Java8, Servlet 3.1 and Jetty9.
Though the integrated database, Google Cloud Datastore, may be unfamiliar to programmers, it is accessed and supported with JPA, JDO, and by the simple low-level API. There are several alternative libraries and frameworks you can use to model and map the data to the database such as Objectify, Slim3 and Jello framework.
The Spring Framework works with GAE. However, the Spring Security module (if used) requires workarounds. Apache Struts 1 is supported, and Struts 2 runs with workarounds.
The Django web framework and applications running on it can be used on App Engine with modification. Django-nonrel aims to allow Django to work with non-relational databases and the project includes support for App Engine.
Reliability and support
All billed App Engine applications have a 99.95% uptime SLA.
App Engine is designed in such a way that it can sustain multiple datacenter outages without any downtime. This resilience to downtime is shown by the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koscom | Koscom (acronym of Korea Securities Computing Corporation Korean: 코스콤, Koscom) is a Korean financial IT company that provides the IT infrastructure to the Korean financial securities and futures markets. It also provides a trading platform, market data and other financial systems for the Korean market.
It was launched by the Ministry of Finance (MOSF) and the Korea Exchange (KRX) in 1977.
It has five corporate divisions with providing IT infrastructure to the Korean financial securities and futures market. Koscom also offers online stock trading systems that enable users to access to financial database and place trades by Home Trading System or using a customized terminal for professional traders in securities as well as other electronic financial services.
Major Korean financial firms typically have subscription to the Koscom's online trading services, including market news, price quotes and financial market data.
History
Koscom was established in 1977 by the Ministry of Finance and the Korea Exchange. In the 1980s, a synthesized electronic financial system for operating the entire capital market was required due to a rapid growth of the Korean stock market. In order to provide customers with a stable environment for making safe, easy and speedy stock trading with every financial services company, Koscom launched electronic financial services by building automated trading systems for securities firms, insurance companies, government agencies and banks.
The Korea Exchange is the largest shareholder of Koscom and a quarter of its shares split into several securities firms. Since South Korea has opened its financial market to foreign investors in 1992, Koscom has been developing an integrated online financial system that would be utilized by the financial community to accurately monitor and analyze the entire capital flow of the Korean financial market. In 1988, Koscom initially introduced automated trading systems for financial markets. Koscom developed a data search tool and began to install terminals, including the latest service called CHECKExpert for professional investors or brokers. The system also provides market activity news and information on securities firms or information businesses as well as real-time financial market data movement to its users. The company launched STOCK-NET(1991), CRS2000(1999), SignKorea(2000) and ISAC(2003) services.
Milestones
Foundation and early years
Founded in September 1977
Computer implementation and operation systems for Korea Exchange initiated in April 1978
Stock Quotation Bulletin Board system initiated in July 1979
Automated stock trading system launched in March 1988
Foreign Investors’ Investment Limit Management System launched in July 1994
CHECKExpert (A terminal for professional investors) Service launched in December 1995
ISO 9001, Tick IT acquisition in March 1998
1998 - 2005
Launched Home Trading System (On-line Trading Service) for securities companies in 1998
Certificate authority |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptomeningeal%20collateral%20circulation | The leptomeningeal collateral circulation (also known as leptomeningeal anastomoses or pial collaterals) is a network of small blood vessels in the brain that connects branches of the middle, anterior and posterior cerebral arteries (MCA, ACA, and PCA), with variation in its precise anatomy between individuals. During a stroke, leptomeningeal collateral vessels allow limited blood flow when other, larger blood vessels provide inadequate blood supply to a part of the brain.
Structure
Leptomeningeal collaterals lie within the leptomeninges, the two deep layers of the meninges called the pia mater and the arachnoid mater. Their diameter has been measured at approximately 300 micrometers, but there is variability between individuals in the size, quantity and location of these vessels, and between either hemisphere within the same subject.
Inter-territorial end to end anastomoses exist between branches of the anterior cerebral artery and middle cerebral artery, the posterior cerebral artery and middle cerebral artery, the anterior cerebral artery and posterior cerebral artery, and the right and left anterior cerebral arteries. Intra-territorial anastamoses connect adjacent arterial branches within the same arterial territory (between two branches of the same middle cerebral artery, for example).
Inter-territorial leptomeningeal anastamoses between the posterior cerebral artery and anterior cerebral artery have been observed between the parieto-occipital branch of the posterior cerebral artery, and the precuneal branch or the posterior pericallosal branch of the anterior cerebral artery.
Inter-territorial leptomeningeal anastamoses between the right and left anterior cerebral arteries have been observed between the right and left pericallosal arteries and the right and left callosal marginal arteries. Anastamoses have also been observed between precuneal branches originating from the middle portion of the pericallosal artery, or from the posterior portion of the callosal marginal branch of one side joining the opposite paracentral branch.
There is anatomical variation in collateral circulation from person to person, and as we age, collateral vessels decrease in diameter and number.
Function
Leptomeningeal collateral vessels allow limited cerebral blood flow and brain tissue perfusion when the brain receives insufficient blood supply through an artery, via a series of anastomotic connections between cerebral arteries.
Clinical significance
Stroke
During an ischaemic stroke, blood flow through a cerebral artery is compromised. This frequently causes substantial injury to the area of the brain supplied by the artery, but not all of this territory is necessarily affected. A post mortem study of middle cerebral artery strokes demonstrated that the area of brain injury was often smaller than the total area supplied by the middle cerebral artery. Leptomeningeal collateral vessels from the anterior cerebral artery and posterior cerebral artery ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not%20eXactly%20C | Not eXactly C, or NXC, is a high-level programming language for Lego Mindstorms NXT designed by John Hansen in 2006. NXC, which is short for Not eXactly C, is based on Next Byte Codes, an assembly language. NXC has a syntax like C. The IDE for NXC is the Bricx Command Center.
The NXC compiler is available under the Mozilla Public License. A sample code is as shown below:
task main() //sets a new task. main() is compulsory
{
OnFwd(OUT_BC,75); //ask the motors connected to ports B and C to move forward at a power of 75.
Wait(5000); //wait for 5 seconds [the value is in milliseconds](note that 1000 = 1 second)
Off(OUT_BC); //off the motors connected to ports B and C
}
See also
Robotics Invention System
URBI
Bricx Command Center
Not Quite C
References
External links
nxcEditor
Bricx Command Center
Not eXactly C
NXC Tutorial
NXC Guide
A NXT 2.0 robot in action, programmed using NXC.
C programming language family
Robot programming languages
Lego Mindstorms
2006 in robotics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesistema%2011 | Telesistema 11 is a free-to-air television network based in the Dominican Republic. The station broadcasts on channel 11 in the NTSC standard and is owned by Grupo Corripio.
References
External links
Television stations in the Dominican Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20programming%20languages%20%28object-oriented%20programming%29 | This comparison of programming languages compares how object-oriented programming languages such as C++, Java, Smalltalk, Object Pascal, Perl, Python, and others manipulate data structures.
Object construction and destruction
Class declaration
Class members
Constructors and destructors
Fields
Methods
Properties
How to declare a property named "Bar"
Manually implemented
Automatically implemented
Overloaded operators
Standard operators
Indexers
Type casts
Member access
How to access members of an object x
Member availability
Special variables
Special methods
Type manipulation
Namespace management
Contracts
See also
Object-oriented programming
References and notes
Object oriented programming
Comparison
Comparison |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s%20Oak%20Academy | King's Oak Academy, formerly Kingsfield School and Kingswood Grammar School, is a Mathematics and Computing College located in Kingswood in Bristol, England. The education authority Ofsted rated it as "good" in 2018.
Location and admissions
The school is located just within the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire, which borders Bristol. It is situated at the roundabout of the A420 and the A4174 (Bristol ring road), between Warmley Hill and Warmley.
It is a mixed comprehensive school providing education for 950 students , predominantly from a catchment area of around .
History
Grammar school
The school was founded in 1921 as Kingswood Grammar School (KGS), a co-educational grammar school administered by the Gloucestershire Education Committee.
On 15 October 1946, 13-year-old Robert Hayes of Kingswood died at Cossham Memorial Hospital after being injured at the school when playing with blank cartridges he had found at an ammunition dump. His right hand was blown off and he had other injuries to his body.
In the 1960s the school had around 850 boys and girls, with 250 in the sixth form.
Comprehensive school
By 1970 it had been converted into a comprehensive school and was renamed Kingsfield School. The school was rebuilt after burning to the ground in 1976.
Academy
Kingsfield School was officially rebranded as King's Oak Academy in September 2011. Its motto is "Work hard, be kind".
Blue jumpers and red ties (formerly brown and blue) are worn, with coloured stripes according to house colour: Olympus (yellow stripes); Orpheus (blue stripes); Pegasus (red stripes); and Hercules (green stripes).
Notable alumni
Kingswood Rugby Club
Kingswood RFC Old Boys was founded in 1954/55 by a group of former students of Kingswood Grammar School. The club continues to play in the grammar school's blue and brown colours.
References
External links
Kingswood, South Gloucestershire
Primary schools in South Gloucestershire District
Secondary schools in South Gloucestershire District
Academies in South Gloucestershire District
Educational institutions established in 1921
1921 establishments in England
People educated at King's Oak Academy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Next | Fox:Next was a television channel operated by Fox International Channels in Portugal. Its programming was focused on television series and movies.
History
The channel was launched in Portugal on April 14, 2008, as part of the MEO package line-up. It was also available on ZON TVCabo, Cabovisão, Vodafone Casa TV and Optimus Clix TV.
On July 1, 2011, coinciding with the first broadcasts of the Fox SD channels in widescreen, the channel was replaced by Fox Movies.
Programming
30 Rock
Angels in America
Battlestar Galactica
Big Love
Big Shot
Boston Legal
Boston Public
Eastwick
Easy Money
Everybody Hates Chris
Filhos do Carnaval
Foxy Lady
House of Saddam
Hung
In Treatment
John Adams
Kings
Legend of the Seeker
Mad Men
My Wife and Kids
Nurse Jackie
The O.C.
Pushing Daisies
Saving Grace
Six Feet Under
Smallville
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The West Wing
References
External links
FOX:Next Portugal
Defunct television channels in Portugal
Fox Broadcasting Company
The Walt Disney Company subsidiaries
Portuguese-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20The%20Weather%20Channel | This is a list of television programs broadcast by the American television network The Weather Channel.
There are four main types of programs on The Weather Channel: weather news programs, serial documentaries, Long-form shows, and specials such as the 100 Biggest Weather Moments, Top 100 Weather Moments, and Coast Guard: HMS Bounty.
Programs
Current programs
News
All current news programs broadcast in high definition.
Long-form
Note 1: Episodes premiering from 2009 on air in high definition. Episodes from earlier years are in standard definition
Former programs
''
Lists of television series by network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Star%20Family%20Feud | All Star Family Feud was an Australian game show which aired on Network Ten from 14 March 2016 until 6 May 2018. The series, which is a spin off of Family Feud, sees celebrities compete in teams to raise money for their chosen charity. All Star Family Feud was filmed at Global Television Studios in Southbank, Melbourne from 2016 to 2017 and at Network Ten's Studios in Pyrmont, Sydney in 2018.
Differences from regular Family Feud
The primary difference in game play of the All Star version compared to the civilian version is the number of rounds (as a 60-minute show compared to 30 minutes) and win conditions. Each game consists of six rounds (3 regular value rounds, 2 "double" rounds, and a "triple" round), with the winner being the team with more points at the end of the sixth round (there is no 300 points to win rule, and no Sudden Death). The first two members of each team face off twice, and the other two members face off once (with the exception of the 2017 The Bold and the Beautiful 30th Anniversary episode, where the Atlanta format of five players per team was used, where only the captain plays twice and the other four members play once).
The winning team wins an automatic $20,000 for their chosen charity and has a chance at Fast Money for a bonus $10,000. The losing team is automatically guaranteed $10,000 for their nominated charity.
As with Family Feud, losing Fast Money donated $10 a point.
Season overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2016)
Note: Winners are listed in bold
Season 2 (2017)
Note: Winners are listed in bold
Season 3 (2018)
Note: Winners are listed in bold
References
Network 10 original programming
2010s Australian game shows
2016 Australian television series debuts
2018 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Melbourne
Family Feud
Australian television series based on American television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow%20Christians | RainbowChristians.com was an online dating and social networking website that catered to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual Christians.
History
In October 2005, Justin R. Cannon founded this site under the name ‘Gayharmony’ through the domain www.gayharmony.net. In the website's debut press release, Cannon explained the rationale for founding the website as follows: “Most GLBTQ Christians are excluded from joining Christian personals sites, and gay and other personals sites aren’t structured to meet their specific needs. The growing gay Christian demographic deserves a welcoming safe place tailored just for them.”
On May 29, 2006, Cannon applied for a trademark for the term Gayharmony through the United States Patent and Trademark Office. After Cannon's trademark application was denied on grounds of “likelihood of confusion” with eHarmony’s respective trademark, Cannon abandoned the trademark for Gayharmony and changed the name of his site to Rainbow Christians.
Cannon then gave the domain name to eHarmony. "In 2005 I actually launched my site under the domain Gayharmony.net, but in 2006 changed the name and gave the old domain to eHarmony. I'm, actually, quite surprised that they did not use it for this new service," explained Cannon, in a press release about eHarmony's new matchmaking service for gays and lesbians.
In November 2009, Cannon sold Rainbow Christians to a new owner, James Lim.
By April 1, 2020, the site was no longer accessible.
Services
Features of the site included:
Comprehensive user profiles
Photo uploads
Internal email and chat system
Simple and advanced search
Groups
Polls, Articles, & News
See also
Homosocialization
References
LGBT-related websites
LGBT online dating services
Internet properties established in 2005
Online dating services of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Lechtzin | Stanley Lechtzin (born 1936) is an American artist, jeweler, metalsmith and educator. He is noted for his work in electroforming and computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacture (CAM). He has taught at Temple University in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, from 1962.
Early life and education
Stanley was born in 1936 in Detroit, Michigan, to an observant Jewish family. He first encountered jewelry and metalsmithing at Cass Technical High School. After high school Lechtzin worked as a draftsman and cartographer. While working for the City of Detroit Public Lighting Commission he realized that he did not want to continue that career path, so he began taking night courses at Wayne State University in Detroit. He set up a studio and began taking commissions upon graduation. He soon entered the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where much of his graduate work dealt with ferrous metals and stainless steel flatware.
Career
Upon graduation from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Lechtzin accepted a teaching position in 1962 at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lechtzin was one of nine founding members of the . In 2009, he was awarded the SNAG Lifetime Achievement Award.
His work can be found in public museum collections including at the Museum of Arts and Design, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Solo exhibitions
Select list of solo exhibitions
2009: The Philadelphia Art Alliance
1984: The University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery
1984: Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Loretto, PA)
1984: William Penn Museum (Harrisburg, PA)
1984: The Works Gallery (Philadelphia)
1973: Tyler School of Art, Temple University
1973: Goldsmiths' Hall (London, England)
1969: Boston Museum School (Boston, Mass.)
1969: Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana)
1969: Lee Nordness Galleries (New York, NY)
1968: William Penn Museum (Harrisburg, PA)
1967: University of California (Berkeley, CA)
1966: Pennsylvania State University (State College, PA)
1965: Museum of Contemporary Crafts (New York, NY)
1963: Art Center, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (Michigan)
1962: Carnegie Institute of Technology (Pittsburgh, PA.)
References
1936 births
Living people
Artists from Detroit
American jewellers
Jewish American artists
Wayne State University alumni
Cranbrook Academy of Art alumni
Temple University faculty
21st-century American Jews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Really%20Achieving%20Your%20Childhood%20Dreams | "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" (also called "The Last Lecture") was a lecture given by Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Randy Pausch on September 18, 2007, that received widespread media coverage, and was the basis for The Last Lecture, a New York Times best-selling book co-authored with Wall Street Journal reporter Jeffrey Zaslow. Pausch had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2006. On September 19, 2006, Pausch underwent a pancreaticoduodenectomy to remove the malignant tumor from his pancreas. In August 2007, doctors discovered that the cancer had recurred. Pausch was given a terminal diagnosis and told to expect that three to six months of good health remained.
The lecture was upbeat and humorous, alternating between wisecracks, insights on computer science and engineering education, advice on building multi-disciplinary collaborations, working together with other people, offering inspirational life lessons, and performing push-ups on stage. Pausch commented on the irony that the "Last Lecture" series had recently been renamed "Journeys": "I thought, damn, I finally nailed the venue and they renamed it." After Pausch finished his lecture, Steve Seabolt, on behalf of Electronic Arts, which was collaborating with CMU in the development of Alice 3.0, pledged to honor Pausch by creating a memorial scholarship for women in computer science, in recognition of Pausch's support and mentoring of women in CS and engineering.
Professor Pausch's "Last Lecture" has received attention and recognition both from American media and news sources worldwide. The video of the speech became an internet sensation, viewed over a million times within its first month on social networking sites such as YouTube, Google video, MySpace, and Facebook. Randy Pausch gave an abridged version of his speech on The Oprah Winfrey Show in October 2007. On April 9, 2008, the ABC network aired an hour-long Diane Sawyer feature on Pausch entitled "The Last Lecture: A Love Story For Your Life". Four days after his death from pancreatic cancer on July 25, 2008, ABC aired a tribute to Pausch, remembering his life and his famous lecture.
Background
Previous lectures
Pausch was known for some previous lectures. He had been associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science in 1997 and 1998, and also worked for The Walt Disney Company as an imagineer and for Electronic Arts. At the University of Virginia, he gave a lecture on the importance of making technology more user friendly, in which he made his point by showing a VCR (video cassette recorder) that was hard to program and then smashing it with a sledgehammer. He was also known for a lecture on time management which he delivered in 1998 at the University of Virginia, and again in 2007.
"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" was the first lecture of the nine part "Journeys" series presented by Carnegie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Lecture | The Last Lecture is a 2008 New York Times best-selling book co-authored by Randy Pausch —a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—and Jeffrey Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal. The book extends the September 2007 lecture by Pausch entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". The Last Lecture is renowned for its witty humor, despite encompassing Pausch's farewell to his loved ones due to his terminal pancreatic cancer. In the book, through his past experiences, Pausch attempts to lend advice to his children that they may need once he has passed. He recounts memories growing up and important people who have been vital in "achieving his childhood dreams."
Background
Randy Pausch was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for ten years. He received numerous honors while teaching at the university including being named “Person of the Year” by ABC News, as well as being named to the “One Hundred Most Influential People in the World”. In 2006 Pausch's doctors informed him that he had developed pancreatic cancer. Pausch had a resection done to try and eliminate the cancer, although a year after his procedure his doctors indicated that his cancer had returned. The cancer had metastasized to his liver and he was informed he had three to six months left to live. His first task was saying goodbye to the job he loved by participating in Carnegie Mellon's last lecture circuit. When a professor is leaving or retiring from the university, they are encouraged to give a “last lecture” where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical "final talk", i.e., "what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?" Pausch delivered his "Last Lecture", titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", at Carnegie Mellon on September 18, 2007. According to The Los Angeles Times, Pausch paired up with a co-author, Jeffrey Zaslow, to put his lecture into words, creating The Last Lecture. After publishing the book and recording his lecture, Pausch dedicated the rest of his time to enjoying his family and advocating for pancreatic cancer patients. He felt responsible for people suffering from the cancer explaining, “We don't have advocates for this disease because they don't live long enough. We don’t have a Michael J. Fox because people die too fast”. Pausch died on July 25, 2008.
Synopsis
The Last Lecture is organized similarly throughout each of the nine chapters. Pausch depicts an important event in his life in the first half of each chapter. Then, he describes how this event either brought him closer to achieving his childhood dreams or taught him valuable lessons he refers to throughout his life.
Chapter 1 “An Injured Lion Still Wants to Roar”: Pausch has a dilemma in deciding to give his last lecture or not. His desire to leave a tangib |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak%20%28programming%20language%29 | Oak is a discontinued programming language created by James Gosling in 1989, initially for Sun Microsystems' set-top box project. The language later evolved to become Java.
The name Oak was used by Gosling after an oak tree that stood outside his office.
History
In 1985, Sun Microsystems was attempting to develop a new technology for programming next generation smart appliances, which Sun expected to be a major new opportunity.
The team originally considered using C++, but rejected the idea for several reasons (see Java history).
Initially, Gosling attempted to modify and extend C++ but soon abandoned that in favor of creating a new platform called Green and an entirely new language, which he called Oak, after the tree that stood just outside his office.
By the summer of 1992, they were able to demonstrate portions of the new platform including the Green OS, the Oak language, the libraries, and the hardware. Their first attempt, demonstrated on September 3, 1992, focused on building a PDA device named Star7 which had a graphical interface and a smart agent called "Duke" to assist the user.
Oak was renamed Java in 1994 after a trademark search revealed that Oak was used by Oak Technology. Java 1.0 was finally shipped in 1996.
Differences with Java
Oak was the basis for what Java 1.0 became later, but there were also some differences:
Several concepts were planned in the Oak specification but were not implemented in the original language because of time constraints:
Unsigned primitive types turned out never to be implemented in Java.
The enum keyword for enumerated types was implemented in Java for Java 5.0.
The assert keyword was implemented in Java for Java 1.4
Other concepts were different from, or improved later, for Java:
Abstract methods were defined as in C++.
While the Oak default access level was the same as Java's (default) package private access level, it was called "private". Oak did not have an equivalent to Java's private access modifier.
And finally some concepts were later scraped out:
All exceptions were unchecked.
It was possible by the unprotect keyword to write code that would not signal asynchronous exceptions.
There was some support for Design by Contract: Oak had assertions whereby Class variable could be constrained and the constraints were enforced at entry and exit of every public and protected method of the class. Methods could also have their own pre-conditions and post-conditions, which were inherited but not redefinable in a subclass.
See also
Java (programming language)
Java version history
References
External links
Oak language specification
Java early history
Java (programming language)
C programming language family
Sun Microsystems
Class-based programming languages
Object-oriented programming languages
Cross-platform software
Programming languages created in 1991 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20Plant%20Conservation%20Network | The New Zealand Plant Conservation Network (NZPCN) is a non-governmental organisation devoted to the protection and restoration of New Zealand's indigenous plant life, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts and lichens.
Description
The Network was founded in 2003 and has a worldwide membership. The Network was established as a mechanism to aid the implementation of the New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy and the Global strategy for plant conservation. Members include botanists, non-governmental organisations, research institutes such as universities, private businesses, botanic gardens, schools, central and local government employees, members of the public, ecological restoration programmes, and private landowners.
Aims
The Network has a vision that "no indigenous species of plant will become extinct nor be placed at risk of extinction as a result of human action or indifference, and that the rich, diverse and unique plant life of New Zealand will be recognised, cherished and restored".
The Network works to disseminate indigenous plant information via its website and publications; coordinate the ex-situ management of threatened plant species; deliver plant conservation training programmes; and undertake activities to protect threatened plant species and plant communities in-situ.
Activities
Since the Network was founded it has built a plant conservation website that stores information about all indigenous and naturalised plants in New Zealand, established a national seed bank for threatened plants, and developed a plant conservation training programme for Māori.
Publications
The Network publishes Trilepidea, their monthly newsletter, and has published checklists of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants and naturalised plants. Plant conservation awards are given annually by the Network.
References
External links
New Zealand Plant Conservation Network website
Nature conservation organisations based in New Zealand
Plant conservation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMSLogo | FMSLogo is a free implementation of a computing environment called Logo, which is an educational interpreter language. GUI and Extensions were developed by George Mills at MIT. Its core is the same as UCBLogo by Brian Harvey. It is free software, with source available, written with Borland C++ and WxWidgets.
FMSLogo supports multiple turtles, and 3D Graphics. FMSLogo allows input from COM ports and LPT ports. FMSLogo also supports a windows interface thus I/O is available through this GUI- and keyboard and mouse events can trigger interrupts. Simple GIF animations may also be produced with the GIFSAVE command. Jim Muller wrote The Great Logo Adventure, a complete Logo manual using MSWLogo as the demonstration language.
FMSLogo evolved from MSWLogo: An Educational Programming Environment, a free, open source implementation of the Logo programming language for Microsoft Windows. It is released under the GPL and is mainly developed and maintained by David Costanzo.
Features
FMSLogo has following support of various functionality:
"Standard" Logo parsing
Turtle Graphics
Exception handling
TCP/IP networking
Text in all available system fonts
1024 independent turtles
Bitmapped turtles
MIDI devices
Direct I/O for controlling external hardware (must be admin)
Serial and parallel port communications
Saving and loading images in BMP format
Calling into native DLLs
Creating windows dialog boxes
Event driven programming (mouse, keyboard, timer)
References
Interpreters (computing)
Educational programming languages
Logo programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20routes%20X1%20and%20X10 | Green Line routes X1 and X10 were limited-stop express coach services which were operated by Stephensons of Essex as part of the Green Line Coaches network. The services operated between Rochford, Southend and London. The original X1 route was introduced in 1980 by Southend Transport and Reading Transport, and also served Reading.
History
Route X1 has a very complex history, starting in October 1980.
The beginning
The UK coach market was deregulated in 1980 under the Transport Act 1980 and the X1 service was started the same year. It ran every two hours between Southend and Reading via Basildon, Socketts Heath, Rainham, Dagenham, East Ham, Canning Town, Aldgate, Piccadilly, Kensington, Hammersmith, Heathrow Airport, Slough, Maidenhead and Twyford, and was jointly operated by Southend Transport and Reading Transport. Southend Transport used four recently delivered Leyland Leopards, and Reading Transport bus seated MCW Metrobuses and MCW Metropolitans.
On 16 February 1981, a licence was granted for a Southend to Hammersmith section of route. At around that time, Reading Transport temporarily withdrew from operating their journeys in a dispute with their staff. Southend Transport operated a reduced service to Heathrow only until it was restored from 23 May. Reading Transport resumed operations on 29 February. Another strike was staged by Reading Transport for 12 days in June that year. On 16 January 1982, a London Bus Agreement was granted by London Transport, meaning more local traffic could be carried. This was in time for a series of rail strikes at the end of January and February, which brought many additional passengers; both operators ran duplicate journeys.
Joint operation ended
On 16 May 1982, the joint operation ceased. Differences in opinion over revenue allocation and the development of the service resulted in the joint venture ceasing. Reading Transport then operated from Reading to Aldgate, and Southend Transport from Southend to Heathrow, with both routes still numbered X1.
There were more rail strikes in June and July, which resulted in 17 double deck duplicates being used by Southend, some of which were provided by Ensignbus. At the end of July 1982, a Neoplan double deck coach, was tried on the route for a day, and a Bova single deck coach was similarly used on 18 August. However, an order was placed for three Van Hool Astromega double deck coaches.
On 28 November 1982, season tickets - called Expresscards - were introduced, previously only singles, day and period returns were available. Another first time came in December, when the service ran on Christmas Day. In April 1983, the first of the Astromega coaches entered service. It had a seating capacity of 84 seats in a 12m, 3 axle layout.
The first short term hired coach, a Colchester Leopard, was used by Southend on 3 May due to increasing passenger numbers. It was joined by further hired coaches from Leicester from June, Bournemouth and Burnley from October, Fylde in Novem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20enterprise | An extended enterprise is a loosely coupled, self-organizing network of firms that combine their economic output to provide products and services offerings to the market. Firms in the extended enterprise may operate independently, for example, through market mechanisms, or cooperatively through agreements and contracts. They provide value added service or product to the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer).
Alternatively referred to as a "supply chain" or a "value chain", the extended enterprise describes the community of participants involved with provisioning a set of service offerings. The extended enterprise associated with "McDonald's", for example, includes not only McDonald's Corporation, but also franchisees and joint venture partners of McDonald's Corporation, the 3PLs that provide food and materials to McDonald's restaurants, the advertising agencies that produce and distribute McDonald's advertising, the suppliers of McDonald's food ingredients, kitchen equipment, building services, utilities, and other goods and services, the designers of Happy Meal toys, and others.
Extended enterprise is a more descriptive term than supply chain, in that it permits the notion of different types and degrees and permanence of connectivity. Connections may be by contract, as in partnerships or alliances or trade agreements, or by open market exchange or participation in public tariffs.
How an extended enterprise is organized and structured and its policies and mechanisms for the exchange of information, goods, services and money is described by the enterprise architecture.
The notion of the extended enterprise has taken on more importance as firms have become more specialized and inter-connected, trade has become more global, processes have become more standardized and information has become ubiquitous. The standardization of business processes has permitted companies to purchase as services many of the activities that previously had been provided directly by the business entity. By outsourcing certain business functions that had been previously self-provided, such as transportation, warehousing, procurement, public relations, information technology, firms have been able to concentrate their resources on those investments and activities that provide them the greatest rate of return. The remaining "core competencies" determine the firm's unique value proposition.
Recently, the notion of extended enterprise has been updated by Alguezaui and Filieri (2014) who have reconceptualized the extended enterprise in the knowledge economy.
References
Enterprise architecture
Supply chain management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cuckoo%20Hour | The Cuckoo Hour , also known as The KUKU Hour and The Raymond Knight Cuckoo Hour, is an American musical variety radio series created by radio comedian Raymond Knight. It aired on the NBC Blue Network January 1, 1930–March 9, 1936.
Knight, a pioneer in satirical humor on the radio, studied law at Boston University and passed the Massachusetts bar, but he returned to school to study theater and writing at Harvard's 47 Workshop, followed by more studies at Yale.< In 1927, he performed in the Broadway musical revue The Manhatters.
He was writing continuity and commercials for NBC in 1929, when NBC programmer Bertha Brainard asked him to devise "something cuckoo" for the Blue Network. He responded with the zany Cuckoo Hour as a showcase for his comedy, performing as Professor Ambrose J. Weems, who ran a radio station where he would give his views on current events and chat with his sidekick, Mrs. Pennyfeather.
The cast of The Cuckoo Hour included Carl Matthews (1899-1959).
References
Listen to
The Raymond Knight Cuckoo Hour (February 14, 1937)
External links
Station KUKU: The Cuckoo Hour transcript (December 23, 1930)
Cuckoo Hour, The
Cuckoo Hour, The
NBC Blue Network radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage%20message | In computer programming, a usage message or help message is a brief message displayed by a program that utilizes a command-line interface for execution. This message usually consists of the correct command line usage for the program and includes a list of the correct command-line arguments or options acceptable to said program.
Usage messages are utilized as a quick way for a program to inform the user of proper command syntax, and should not be substituted for proper error messages or for detailed documentation such as a man page.
Pattern
On Unix-like platforms, usage messages usually follow the same common pattern:
They often begin with "Usage:" , the command, followed by a list of arguments.
To indicate optional arguments, square brackets are commonly used, and can also be used to group parameters that must be specified together.
To indicate required arguments, angled brackets are commonly used, following the same grouping conventions as square brackets.
Exclusive parameters can be indicated by separating them with vertical bars within groups.
Examples
Here is an example based on the NetBSD source code style guide:
Usage: program [-aDde] [-f | -g] [-n number] [-b b_arg | -c c_arg] req1 req2 [opt1 [opt2]]
This would indicate that "program" should be called with:
options without operands: a, D, d, e (any of which may be omitted). Note that in this case some parameters are case-sensitive
exclusive options: f, g (denoted by the vertical bar)
options with operands: n
exclusive options with operands: b, c
required arguments: req1, req2
optional argument opt1, which may be used with or without opt2 (marked optional within the group by using another set of square brackets)
optional argument opt2, which requires opt1
Implementation
To print a usage statement in a shell script, one might write:
case "$arg" in
...
h) printf 'Usage: %s parameter1 parameter2 ...\n' "$(basename "$0")"
exit 0
;;
...
esac
Anti-patterns
A usage statement is not an error message, but is often used as a lazy way to avoid printing a useful error message. A usage statement should only be printed when specifically requested by the user (via , or , or , or some similar flag or argument) and should be written to the standard output; if the user has entered an incorrect command line, a properly written command line program will print a succinct error message that describes the exact error made by the user rather than printing the usage statement and requiring the user to figure out what the mistake was. If the user fails to pass the correct number of arguments, for example, a single line stating that an argument is missing is far more useful than several pages of output providing a general usage.
See also
Command-line interface
References
Online help |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicator%20of%20cytokinesis%20protein%209 | Dedicator of cytokinesis protein 9 (Dock9), also known as Zizimin1, is a large (~230 kDa) protein encoded in the human by the DOCK9 gene, involved in intracellular signalling networks. It is a member of the DOCK-D subfamily of the DOCK family of guanine nucleotide exchange factors that function as activators of small G-proteins. Dock9 activates the small G protein Cdc42.
Discovery
Dock9 was discovered using an affinity proteomic approach designed to identify novel activators of the small G protein Cdc42 in fibroblasts. Subsequent northern blot analysis revealed that Dock9 is expressed primarily in the brain, heart, skeletal muscle, kidney, placenta and lung. Lower levels were detected in the colon, thymus, liver, small intestine and in leukocytes from peripheral blood.
Structure and function
Dock9 shares a similar structure of two core domains (known as DHR1 and DHR2), which are shared by all DOCK family members. The C-terminal DHR2 domain functions as an atypical GEF domain for small G proteins (see Dock180: structure and function) and the DHR1 domain is known, in some DOCK-A/B/C subfamily proteins, to be involved in their recruitment to the plasma membrane. Unlike DOCK-A/B/C proteins DOCK-D proteins (including Dock9) contain an N-terminal pleckstrin homology (PH) domain that mediates their recruitment to the membrane. Dock9, along with other DOCK-C/D subfamily members, can activate Cdc42 in vitro and in vivo via its DHR2 domain. However, Dock9 adopts an autoinhibitory conformation that masks the DHR2 domain in its resting state. The mechanism by which this autoinhibition is overcome is still unclear although in some other DOCK proteins, which also undergo autoinhibition, it requires an interaction with adaptor proteins such as ELMO. Dock9 has also been reported to dimerise, under resting conditions, via its DHR2 domains and this study suggests that other DOCK family proteins may also behave in the same way. Recent analysis of a chromosomal region associated with susceptibility to bipolar disorder revealed that single nucleotide polymorphisms in the DOCK9 gene contribute to the risk and severity of this condition.
References
Further reading
Biology of bipolar disorder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cartoonstitute | The Cartoonstitute was a planned Cartoon Network project created by Cartoon Network's executive Rob Sorcher that would have been a showcase for animated shorts created without the interference of network executives and focus testing. It was headed by Craig McCracken (creator of The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Wander Over Yonder and Kid Cosmic) and Rob Renzetti (creator of My Life as a Teenage Robot). Thirty-nine shorts for the project were in development at Cartoon Network Studios, but only 14 of these were completed. Eventually, balancing 5 upcoming shows and adding another proved difficult and the project was scrapped. Of the shorts that were made, only Regular Show and Uncle Grandpa got greenlit to become animated series. On May 7, 2010, Cartoon Network released nearly all of the shorts to their website. The only shorts not released were Maruined, 3 Dog Band, and Joey to the World.
History
The series was first announced on April 3, 2008, at Cartoon Network's annual upfront in New York City. The project was to be similar to The Cartoon Cartoon Show (also known as the What a Cartoon! Show), which aired on the network more than a decade earlier and gave birth to some of the channel's first animated series, such as Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls and Cow and Chicken. The Cartoonstitute was to establish a think tank and create an environment in which animators can create characters and stories. A section of Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California, was set aside exclusively for the project. The "Cartoonstitute" name was imagined by Lauren Faust, the wife of Craig McCracken. The first short to appear legally online via Vimeo was "3 Dog Band: Get It Together" on July 29, 2009. On September 26, 2009, all 14 completed shorts were posted on YouTube and the account was deleted shortly after posting them.
List of completed shorts
All shorts of the project were developed and produced in 2009, despite their release in 2010.
Rejected/Unproduced
While there are 25 unfinished shorts that remain unreleased, there are currently 6 known pitches/concepts for The Cartoonstitute that may or may not have had their pilot short produced (making a total of 18 remaining unknown pitches).
References
Unaired television shows
American children's animated television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panos%20%28operating%20system%29 | PANOS is a discontinued computer operating system developed by Acorn Computers in the 1980s and released in 1985, which ran on the 32016 Second Processor for the BBC Micro and the Acorn Cambridge Workstation. These systems had essentially the same architecture, based on a 32-bit NS32016 CPU; the ACW having a BBC Micro-based "I/O processor". Access to the I/O processor was through a NS32016 firmware kernel called Pandora.
Panos ran on the NS32016 and was a rudimentary single-user operating system, written in Modula-2. It provided a simple command line interpreter, a text editor and access to DFS, ADFS or NFS file systems via the I/O processor. Targeted at the academic and scientific user community, it came bundled with compilers for the FORTRAN 77, C, Pascal and LISP programming languages.
Commands
The following list of commands is supported by the Panos command line interpreter.
.space
.Delete
.Help
.key
.NewCommand
.Obey
.pwd
.Quit
.Run
.Set
.swd
.wait
Access
Catalogue
Configure
Copy
Create
Delete
Echo
Logon
Rename
Set
Show
Star
References
Notes
Acorn Computers operating systems
Discontinued operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIDE | KIDE is a radio station serving Hoopa, California, and the vicinity providing a community radio format and is affiliated with the Pacifica Radio Network. It broadcasts on 91.3 MHz and is under ownership of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. It is one of the few stations in the United States to be solar powered.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
External links
KIDE Radio
Native American radio
Hupa
Community radio stations in the United States
IDE
Radio stations established in 1980 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20Plain%20Sight | In Plain Sight is an American drama television series that premiered on the USA Network on June 1, 2008. The series revolves around Mary Shannon (Mary McCormack), a Deputy United States Marshal attached to the Albuquerque, New Mexico office of the Federal Witness Security Program, more commonly known as WITSEC. Shannon must find ways to balance her professional life of protecting witnesses, her professional relationship with her work partner, US Marshal Marshall Mann, and her problematic personal life. The show was filmed on location in Albuquerque. In Plain Sight concluded on May 4, 2012, after five seasons.
Development and production
In Plain Sight was originally scheduled to premiere on Thursday, April 24, 2008, but USA Network held the series back when the WGA strike delayed production of the summer series Burn Notice. It instead made its debut on Sunday, June 1, 2008. It was renewed on July 21, 2008, for a second season with a 16-episode run, which began April 19, 2009.
Then, following creative differences with Executive Producer David Maples, USA Network made the decision to use the season's 15th episode, the first part of a planned two-part season-ender, as the show's season finale. Series creator David Maples and co-producer Paul Stupin subsequently stepped down as executive producers at the end of season two, although they remained as consulting producers, and were replaced by John McNamara. Todd Williams and Lesley Ann Warren's roles were changed to guest stars, and a retooling of scriptwriting was designed to place greater emphasis on Mary's cases and less on her personal life, while retaining its character-driven storytelling. According to USA executive Jeff Wachtel, the shift in producers also reflects the network's desire that the show remain upbeat rather than overly dark.
In Plain Sight was renewed for a third season of 16 episodes on August 2, 2009. Although the previously planned 16th episode of season two was set to be the opening episode of season three, the episode was shelved and replaced by a new opening episode, written by new showrunner, John McNamara. The season was later reduced to 13 episodes when McNamara took a leave of absence for medical reasons. In a statement released exclusively to the Futon Critic, the producer of Universal Cable Productions said, "John Romano assumed executive producer responsibilities for the remaining episodes. Given the unexpected change, we decided to end the season at a natural spot—with the surprising cliffhanger of episode 13."
After the conclusion of season three, USA Network ordered two more seasons of In Plain Sight The fourth season premiered on May 1, 2011, in its original time slot. The fifth and final season began on March 16, 2012, and consisted of eight episodes. The series finale aired on May 4, 2012.
Jeff Beal composed the theme song for the series. W. G. Snuffy Walden composed the music for the first season, followed by Tree Adams for the second season. Evan Frankf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net-map%20toolbox | The net-map toolbox is a social network analysis tool that uses interviews and mapping to help people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes. Social network analysis is a research approach used by scholars such as S.D. Berkowitz, Stephen Borgatti, Ronald Burt, Linton Freeman, Mark Granovetter, Nicholas Mullins, Anatol Rapoport, Stanley Wasserman, Barry Wellman, and Harrison White to better understand the implications of the position of individual actors in a social structure.
Individuals create influence network maps using materials from a physical toolkit. Actor names are written on post-it notes and distributed on a large sheet of paper. Lines are drawn to link the actors and reveal how they are connected or not connected, and “influence towers” are built to reflect the relative power of each actor (the higher the influence tower, the greater the influence). Photos displaying these influence network maps are available on the Net-Map blog.
History of net-map
Net-map was created in 2006 by Eva Schiffer, then a post-doctoral fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC. Dr. Schiffer developed the toolbox while working on a project in Ghana with the Challenge Program on Water and Food, a system-wide program of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Net-Map expands on the Power Mapping Tool. The White Volta River Basin Board in rural Ghana, responsible for overseeing local water resources, was looking to enhance decision making among its many collaborators. The Board used Net-Map to identify its partners, its linkages with those partners, and their distinct goals and levels of influence. A representation of the Board’s network map is available in a World Bank Sourcebook for Development Practitioners. Net-Map was also presented at the International Network of Social Network Analysis' International Sunbelt Social Network Conference in 2007.
Several researchers have made the case for visual network mapping, specifically in improving development projects., a monitoring and evaluation specialist based in the United Kingdom, supports the use of a network perspective in representing and evaluating aid interventions. Boru Douthwaite, a Technology Policy Analyst at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) has used Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA), which draws on many of the same concepts as Net-Map, to evaluate and manage development projects by directly engaging the participants. PIPA has been implemented through several workshops across the developing world, and is being developed by Mr. Douthwaite and other researchers from CIAT, as well as the WorldFish Center and the International Potato Center. The New Tactics in Human Rights Project—led by a diverse group of human rights international organizations, advisors and practitioners—uses visual network representations as one of its various innovative t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20Send%20Protocol | The Message Send Protocol (MSP) is an application layer protocol used to send a short message between nodes on a network. The original version of the protocol was published in 1990. It was updated as Message Send Protocol 2 in 1992.
TCP-based service
One message send service is defined as a connection-based application on TCP. A service listens for TCP connections on port 18. Once a connection is established, a short message is transmitted from the sender to the receiver over the connection. The sender closes the connection after sending the message.
UDP-based service
Another message send service is defined as a datagram-based application on UDP. A service listens for UDP datagrams on port 18. When a datagram is received by the receiver, an answering datagram is sent back to the sender containing exactly the same data.
See also
LAN Messenger
List of TCP and UDP port numbers
SMTP
References
Internet protocols
Application layer protocols
LAN messengers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959%20World%20Wrestling%20Championships | The 1959 World Freestyle Wrestling Championship were held in Tehran, Iran.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
References
FILA Database
World Wrestling Championships
International wrestling competitions hosted by Iran
Sport in Tehran
World Wrestling Championships, 1959
1959 in sport wrestling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelog | A lifelog is a personal record of one's daily life in a varying amount of detail, for a variety of purposes. The record contains a comprehensive dataset of a human's activities. The data could be used to increase knowledge about how people live their lives. In recent years, some lifelog data has been automatically captured by wearable technology or mobile devices. People who keep lifelogs about themselves are known as lifeloggers (or sometimes lifebloggers or lifegloggers).
The sub-field of computer vision that processes and analyses visual data captured by a wearable camera is called "egocentric vision" or egography.
Examples
A known lifelogger was Robert Shields, who manually recorded 25 years of his life from 1972 to 1997, at 5-minute intervals. This record resulted in a 37-million word diary, thought to be the longest ever written.
Steve Mann was the first person to capture continuous physiological data along with a live first-person video from a wearable camera. His experiments with wearable computing and streaming video in the early 1980s led to the formation of Wearable Wireless Webcam. Starting in 1994, Mann continuously transmitted his life — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — and his site grew in popularity so much that, on February 17, 1995, it became the Cool Site of the Day. Using a wearable camera and wearable display, he invited others to see what he was looking at, as well as to send him live feeds or messages in real-time. In 1998 Mann started a community of lifeloggers (also known as lifebloggers or lifegloggers) which has grown to more than 20,000 members. Throughout the 1990s Mann presented this work to the U.S. Army, with two visits to US Natick Army Research Labs. He was also formally invited to talk.
In 1996, Jennifer Ringley started JenniCam, broadcasting photographs from a webcam in her college bedroom every fifteen seconds; the site was turned off in 2003.
"We Live In Public" was a 24/7 Internet conceptual art experiment created by Josh Harris in December 1999. With a format similar to TV's Big Brother, Harris placed tapped telephones, microphones and 32 robotic cameras in the home he shared with his girlfriend, Tanya Corrin. Viewers talked to Harris and Corrin in the site's chatroom. Harris recently launched the online live video platform, Operator 11.
The lifelog DotComGuy ran throughout 2000, when Mitch Maddox lived the entire year without leaving his house. After Joi Ito's discussion of Moblogging, which involves web publishing from a mobile device, came Gordon Bell's MyLifeBits (2004), an experiment in digital storage of a person's lifetime, including full-text search, text/audio annotations, and hyperlinks.
In 2003, a project called LifeLog was started at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under the supervision of Douglas Gage. This project would combine several technologies to record life activities, in order to create a life diary. Shortly after, the notion of lifelogging was identified |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%20World%20Wrestling%20Championships | The 1957 World Freestyle Wrestling Championship were held in Istanbul, Turkey.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
References
FILA Database
World Wrestling Championships
World 1957
Wrestling
Sport in Istanbul
1957 in sport wrestling
1950s in Istanbul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954%20World%20Wrestling%20Championships | The 1954 World Freestyle Wrestling Championship were held in Tokyo, Japan.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
References
FILA Database
World Wrestling Championships
International wrestling competitions hosted by Japan
FILA
World Championships
World Wrestling Championships
World Wrestling Championships |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951%20World%20Wrestling%20Championships | The 1951 World Freestyle Wrestling Championship were held in Helsinki, Finland.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
References
FILA Database
World Wrestling Championships
Wrestling
International sports competitions in Helsinki
1951 in Finnish sport
1951 in sport wrestling
April 1951 sports events in Europe
1950s in Helsinki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ici%20%28magazine%29 | ici was an alternative weekly French language magazine distributed in print in Montreal, Quebec, and online through the Canoe.ca network from 1997 to 2009.
It had an audience of 89,000 readers a week. On April 29, 2009, Quebecor Media announced that it would cease publication of the magazine, with the last issue being published on April 30, 2009. It would live on as ici Week-end, a weekly insert in 24H and on its website.
See also
List of magazines in Canada
References
1997 establishments in Quebec
2009 disestablishments in Quebec
Alternative magazines
French-language magazines published in Canada
Defunct magazines published in Canada
Local interest magazines published in Canada
Magazines published in Montreal
Magazines established in 1997
Magazines disestablished in 2009
Newspaper supplements
Weekly magazines published in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20%28Australian%20season%208%29 | Big Brother Australia 2008 or Big Brother 8 was the eighth season of the Australian reality television show Big Brother and was the final season to air on Network Ten.
The eighth season launched on 28 April 2008. A total 20 housemates competed in the show. Halfway through the show, the prize money was revealed to be $250,000, the amount originally given in the earlier season of the show.
Season 8 introduced Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O as the new hosts, replacing Gretel Killeen, who had previously hosted the show from Season 1. It also featured the return of an adult-themed weekly installment titled Big Mouth.
Production
Auditions
Auditions opened in late 2007. People wishing to audition were required to post a video audition of themselves on the official Big Brother website. Voting closed on 7 January 2008. The three people with the highest number of votes would be guaranteed a place in the House with the top 50 others to go through a second selection process.
This season featured a new audition process similar to the format used in the earlier seasons, where people wishing to audition sent in a tape rather than attending cattle call audition sessions. For the first time in Big Brother Australia history, the public could vote which housemates they wanted to see in the House before the start of the show.
Promotions
Promotional advertisements for the new season premiered on 6 April 2008 featuring a short video of former Australian Prime Minister John Howard criticising the show in 2006, stating that Channel Ten should "get this stupid show off the air", followed by the tagline "I Don't Think So" from the eponymous Kelis track.
The show
This season began Monday 28 April 2008 at 7:00 pm. The opening episode had the lowest-ever ratings of any launch of Big Brother Australia. The episode mostly outrated its competitors in most timeslots—except its second half-hour when it lost out to Border Security. The audience for the launch peaked at 1.91 million.
This season lasted a total of 84 days. The 2008 finale aired on Monday 21 July 2008 at 7:00 pm on Network Ten. It was the first Big Brother Australia finale to feature three finalists and the first hosted by Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O.
Broadcasts
Starting this season, new hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O replaced Gretel Killeen, who had hosted since the show's launch in 2001.
The nomination and eviction processes were changed for this season and those elements were both covered in the same weekly episode of the program. In previous seasons nominations and evictions were conducted separately and each had a weekly special dedicated to them.
A new panel discussion program titled Big Brother's Big Mouth was hosted by Tony Squires and Rebecca Wilson. This show was similar in format to the UK Big Brother panel show of the same name. It screened Monday nights, initially at 9:30 pm before being moved later due to low ratings.
Big Brother: UpLate did not air this season due to Ten's late night pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%20Ba%27t%20Ikaw | (International title: Love and Revenge / ) is a 1999 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Maryo J. de los Reyes, it stars Jessa Zaragoza, Angelika dela Cruz, Jao Mapa and Jomari Yllana. It premiered on May 17, 1999 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Del Tierro. The series concluded on October 29, 1999 with a total of 120 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jessa Zaragoza as Hasmin Cardenas
Jao Mapa as Victor "Junie" Montecillo Jr.
Jomari Yllana as Paolo Montecillo
Supporting cast
Romeo Vasquez as Victor Montecillo
Pilar Pilapil as Amelia Montecillo
Edu Manzano as Guiller
Ciara Sotto as Grace Montecillo
Angelika Dela Cruz as Eloisa
Daria Ramirez as Saling
Julio Diaz as Domeng Cardenas
Ali Sotto and Jean Saburit as Karina Latada
Gabby Eigenmann as Alexander "Alex" Montecillo
Jake Roxas as Berting
Guest cast
Matthew Mendoza as Dave
Trina Zuñiga as Celia
Melissa Mendez as Helen
Maricar de Mesa as Carla
Jackie de Guzman as Anita
Francis Ricafort as Alvin
Spanky Manikan as Celia's father
Xaxa Manalo as Celia's friend
References
External links
1999 Philippine television series debuts
1999 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craterus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Craterus may refer to:
Craterus of Macedon, King of Macedon in 399 BC
Craterus, Macedonian general of Alexander the Great
Craterus (historian), half-brother of Antigonus II Gonatas, compiler of historical documents relative to the history of Attica
Crates (engineer), also known as Craterus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958%20World%20Wrestling%20Championships | The 1958 World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship was held in Budapest, Hungary.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's Greco-Roman
References
FILA Database
World Wrestling Championships
International wrestling competitions hosted by Hungary
World Wrestling Championships, 1958
1958 in sport wrestling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch%20Triple%20X | The Torch Triple X (or XXX) was a UNIX workstation computer produced by the British company Torch Computers, and launched in 1985. It was based on the Motorola 68010 microprocessor and ran a version of UNIX System V.
Hardware
The Triple X was based on an 8 MHz 68010 CPU, with a Hitachi 6303 "service processor". The CPU was accompanied by a 68451 memory management unit and a 68450 DMA controller. Both VMEbus and a BBC Micro-compatible "1MHz bus" expansion buses were provided, as was a SCSI host adapter, and an optional Ethernet interface. Both RS-423 and X.25-compatible synchronous serial ports were provided. This latter feature made the Triple X attractive to the UK academic community, where X.25 networks were prevalent at the time.
Standard RAM capacity was 1 MB, expandable to 7 MB via VME cards. A 720 kB, 5.25 in floppy disk drive and ST-506-compatible 20 MB hard disk were fitted as standard, interfaced to the SCSI bus via an OMTI adapter.
Either a 10 or 13 inch colour monitor was supplied. Two graphics modes were available: 720 × 256 pixels in four colours, or 720 × 512 in two colours.
The Triple X had a novel touch-sensitive "soft" power switch. When switching off, this commanded the operating system to shut down gracefully before powering down.
Software
The Triple X's firmware was called Caretaker. The native operating system was Uniplus+ UNIX System V Release 2. A graphical user interface called OpenTop was also included as standard.
Quad X
The Quad X was an enhanced version of the Triple X, with a 68020 processor and three VME expansion slots. This was produced only in small numbers before Torch became insolvent.
References
Bibliography
Computer workstations
68k-based computers
32-bit computers
Computers designed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarpOS | WarpOS is a multitasking kernel for the PowerPC (PPC) architecture central processing unit (CPU) developed by Haage & Partner for the Amiga computer platform in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It runs on PowerUP accelerator boards developed by phase5 which contains both a Motorola 68000 series CPU and a PowerPC CPU with shared address space. WarpOS runs alongside the 68k-based AmigaOS, which can use the PowerPC as a coprocessor. Despite its name, it is not an operating system (OS), but a kernel; it supplies a limited set of functions similar to those in AmigaOS for using the PowerPC. When released, its original name was WarpUP, but was changed to reflect its greater feature set, and possibly to avoid comparison with its competitor, PowerUP.
It was developed by Sam Jordan using 680x0 and PowerPC assembly language. It was distributed free of charge.
History
In 1997, Phase5, an Amiga hardware manufacturer, launched their range of PowerPC (PPC) accelerators for the Amiga. Because AmigaOS was not yet PowerPC native, as a stopgap measure the PowerUP boards were dual-processor boards, incorporating the PPC and a 68K processor (68LC040, 68040 at 25 MHz or 68060 at 50 MHz). They carried the PowerUP kernel on board in an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), a similar kernel designed to allow AmigaOS application software to use both PPC and 68k applications through an application programming interface (API) library named . AmigaOS still required a 68K processor, while the PPC was in effect used as an extremely fast coprocessor that carried out specific instructions.
This causes significant slowdown when the OS task switches between the 68K and PPC (a context switch), because CPU caches must be flushed to maintain memory integrity. The more CPU switches occur in an application, the more the slowdown, often so much that it was pointless to use the PPC processor, being slower than the 68k native binary. The main workaround for this was to simply avoid as many 68k OS calls as possible, or to group them together, but it was difficult and time-consuming for developers to do this.
WarpOS was launched as a controversial alternative to Phase5's PowerUP kernel, but eventually became the most used and nominally the standard PPC kernel on AmigaOS.
WarpUP
WarpUP is a high-speed kernel for PowerPC versions of Amiga.
WarpUP forms a hardware abstraction layer between the hardware and software, and ensures that the applications function correctly on PowerPC architecture. It also forms an interface between PowerPC driven hardware, and 68k compliant software, which allows the optimal exploitation of the speed of the PowerPC CPU, while making the porting of 68k applications as easy as possible.
Several advantages that WarpUP claims to offer are:
High speed communication between 68k programs and PowerPC CPUs
Native multi-tasking, memory management, semaphores, list and tag management, signalling and message handling
Memory protection (tasks are allowed to a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955%20World%20Wrestling%20Championships | The 1955 World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championships were held in Karlsruhe, West Germany.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's Greco-Roman
References
FILA Database
World Wrestling Championships
W
International wrestling competitions hosted by Germany
1955 in German sport
1955 in sport wrestling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Jarriel | Thomas Edwin Jarriel (pronounced "Jair-ell," with a silent "i"; born December 29, 1934) is an American retired television news reporter who worked for the ABC network from 1964 to 2002.
Shortly afterward, he became White House correspondent for ABC, during the administrations of U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Later, in 1977, Jarriel co-anchored ABC Evening News on Saturdays for two years, and in 1979, joined the network's newsmagazine 20/20, as an investigative correspondent. On that show and on several hour-long documentaries, he covered subjects such as the defects in the American criminal justice system, wasteful spending by the United States Department of Defense, and transportation accidents. He received 10 Emmy Awards for his work.
During most of that time, Jarriel anchored the 15-minute bulletins ABC aired late nights on Saturday and Sunday, until those broadcasts were cancelled in 1991; he was also the most frequent anchor of the daytime ABC News Brief updates that aired during the era. He also served as substitute anchor on World News Tonight.
He retired from broadcasting in 2002.
References
External links
ABC News profile of Tom Jarriel
1934 births
Living people
ABC News personalities
American television news anchors
American television reporters and correspondents
People from LaGrange, Georgia
University of Houston alumni
C. E. Byrd High School alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Radio%20Corporation%20of%20Nigeria | The Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) is Nigeria's state radio broadcasting organization. Its subsidiary is the domestic radio network known as Radio Nigeria, with FM stations across the 36 states and Zonal station in the 6 geopolitical zones that broadcast on the SW. According to FRCN, it is the largest broadcasting organization in Africa.
History
The Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria was founded in 1933 by the British colonial government. Named the Radio Diffusion Service (RDS), it allowed the public to hear the British Broadcasting Corporation's foreign radio service broadcasts in certain public locations over loudspeakers.
In April 1950, the RDS became the Nigerian Broadcasting Service and introduced radio stations in Lagos, Kaduna, Enugu, Ibadan, and Kano. This service was reorganized into the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) on April 1, 1957, by act of parliament. Its mission was to "provide, as a public service, independent and impartial broadcasting services". By 1962 the NBC had expanded its broadcast stations into Sokoto, Maiduguri, Ilorin, Zaria, Jos, and Katsina in the north; Port Harcourt, Calabar, and Onitsha in the East; and Abeokuta, Warri, and Ijebu-Ode in the West. Each of these stations was considered a subsidiary station of a regional station. The subsidiary stations broadcast local interest programs during part of the day, and then relayed programming from their regional station during the rest of the broadcast day. National programs were broadcast from two shortwave transmitters and one medium wave transmitter located in Sogunle, near Lagos.
In late 1960, the Federal Parliament amended the NBC Ordinance to allow the sale of commercial advertisements. The first ads ran on October 31, 1961, and were broadcast from Lagos. By 1962 regional and provincial broadcasters began selling ads to local businesses. The goal of allowing radio advertisements was to help provide additional funding to NBC stations beyond that received from the government.
The Federal Parliament approved the creation of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) external shortwave service in 1961. Broadcasts began on January 1, 1961, from Lagos State. Its initial operations were limited to two hours a day to West Africa, but by 1963 VON had expanded both its coverage and transmission times with the addition of five additional transmitters.
In April 1961, with financial assistance from the Ford Foundation and technical assistance from the British Broadcasting Corporation, NBC began the National School Broadcasting Service in April 1961. The NBC Schools unit broadcast lessons in various school subjects for primary and secondary schools, as well as special programs for teacher training colleges. The Schools unit was based in Ibadan.
The NBC and the Broadcasting Corporation of Northern Nigeria (BCNN) were merged in 1978 to become the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN). Mediumwave transmitters previously owned by the NBC were transferred to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Mackin | Catherine Patricia "Cassie" Mackin (August 28, 1939 – November 20, 1982) was a pioneer woman journalist in United States television network In the early 1970s, she anchored a WRC-TV newscast and in 1972 became NBC's first female correspondent to serve as a floor reporter at the national political conventions. In 1976, she became the first woman to regularly anchor an evening network newscast alone.
Early years
Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Mackin won a four-year scholarship to the Institute of Notre Dame before entering Washington College in 1956. A year later, she transferred to the University of Maryland at College Park, and worked for the now defunct Free State Press, a weekly paper published in suburban Washington, D.C. She graduated magna cum laude in June 1960 with a B.A. degree in English and minors in economics and history. Mackin was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi women's social fraternity.
Career
After graduation, Mackin obtained a position at the Baltimore News-American, and beginning as a general assignment reporter, she held a variety of positions before she left the paper in 1963. Between 1960 and 1962, she made guest appearances on both a local Baltimore TV news panel show and on a morning television variety show. From 1963 until 1969, Mackin was employed by Hearst newspapers in its Washington bureau. During her six years at Hearst, she covered the Justice Department, numerous elections, and presidential campaigns, polishing the talents that would make her a successful national news correspondent. In 1967, Mackin became one of the earliest women to receive a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University, where she studied the history of political institutions.
NBC
Hired by NBC in 1969, she anchored a half-hour newscast at WRC-TV, its Washington affiliate, in addition to her reporting responsibilities. Mackin received national attention three years later when she became that network's first woman floor reporter at the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions. Her work contributed to the subsequent award of an Emmy to the NBC news team for its coverage. Her report later that year on President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign, in which she stated that the President was saying things about opponent George McGovern that were untrue—the only reporter covering the Nixon campaign to point out Nixon's mendacity—was highlighted in Timothy Crouse's book, The Boys on the Bus. After a stint in Los Angeles, Mackin returned to Washington in 1974 as the Sunday evening anchor and congressional correspondent.
When Barbara Walters left The Today Show in 1976, Mackin was one of six candidates who were tested on air to replace her, but the job went to Jane Pauley. Mackin took over the NBC's Sunday Night News, becoming the first woman to solely anchor an evening network newscast on a regular basis.
ABC
ABC News President Roone Arledge offered Mackin a salary of $100,000, an unprecedented salary for a national correspondent. In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20flow%20control | Software flow control is a method of flow control used in computer data links, especially RS-232 serial. It uses special codes, transmitted in-band, over the primary communications channel. These codes are generally called XOFF and XON (from "transmit off" and "transmit on", respectively). Thus, "software flow control" is sometimes called "XON/XOFF flow control". This is in contrast to flow control via dedicated out-of-band signals — "hardware flow control" — such as RS-232 RTS/CTS.
Representation
For systems using the ASCII character code, XOFF is generally represented using a character or byte with decimal value 19; XON with value 17.
The ASCII standard does not reserve any control characters for use as XON/XOFF specifically. However, it does provide four generic "device control" characters (DC1 through DC4). The Teletype Model 33 ASR adopted two of these, DC3 and DC1, for use as XOFF and XON, respectively. This usage was copied by others, and is now a de facto standard. The keyboard equivalents of for XOFF, and for XON, also derive from this usage.
Mechanism
When one end of a data link is unable to accept any more data (or approaching that point), it sends XOFF to the other end. The other end receives the XOFF code, and suspends transmission. Once the first end is ready to accept data again, it sends XON, and the other end resumes transmission.
For example, imagine a computer sending data to a slow printer. Since the computer is faster at sending data than the printer can print it, the printer falls behind and approaches a situation where it would be overwhelmed by the data. The printer reacts to this situation by sending XOFF to the computer, which temporarily stops sending data. When the printer is again ready to receive more data, it sends XON to the computer, which starts sending data again.
XOFF/XON can be employed in both directions, for example, two teleprinters connected to each other.
Comparison with hardware flow control
The principal advantage of software flow control is the reduction in the number of electrical conductors between sender and receiver. Given a common ground, only two signals are needed, one to send and the other to receive. Hardware flow control requires additional wires between the two devices. It also requires specific hardware implementation, which had more significant costs in earlier days of computing (i.e., 1960s and 70s).
However, software flow control is not without its problems. The most important drawback is that software flow control is less reliable. Sending XOFF requires at least one character time to transmit, and may be queued behind already-transmitted data still in buffers. Hardware signals may be asserted almost instantaneously, and out-of-order.
As the name "software flow control" implies, flow control using this method is usually implemented in software (or firmware), which can cause further delays in XOFF response. These delays can lead to data corruption due to bu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20matrix | Data matrix may refer to:
Matrix (mathematics), rectangular array of elements
Data Matrix, a two-dimensional barcode
Data matrix (multivariate statistics), mathematical matrix of data whose rows represent different repetition of an experiment, and whose columns represent different kinds of datum taken for each repetition
Data set, collection of data in tabular form |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953%20World%20Wrestling%20Championships | The 1953 World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship were held in Naples, Italy.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's Greco-Roman
External links
FILA Database
World Wrestling Championships
W
1953 in sport wrestling
1953 in Italian sport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process-data%20diagram | A process-data diagram (PDD), also known as process-deliverable diagram is a diagram that describes processes and data that act as output of these processes. On the left side the meta-process model can be viewed and on the right side the meta-data model can be viewed.
A process-data diagram can be seen as combination of a business process model and data model.
Overview
The process-data diagram that is depicted at the right, gives an overview of all of these activities/processes and deliverables. The four gray boxes depict the four main implementation phases, which each contain several processes that are in this case all sequential. The boxes at the right show all the deliverables/concepts that result from the processes. Boxes without a shadow have no further sub-concepts. Boxes with a black shadow depict complex closed concepts, so concepts that have sub-concepts, which however will not be described in any more detail. Boxes with a white shadow (a box behind it) depict open closed concepts, where the sub-concepts are expanded in greater detail. The lines with diamonds show a has-a relationship between concepts.
The SAP Implementation process is made up out of four main phases, i.e. the project preparation where a vision of the future-state of the SAP solution is being created, a sizing and blueprinting phase where a software stack is acquired and training is being performed, a functional development phase and finally a final preparation phase, when the last tests are being performed before the actual go live. For each phase, the vital activities are addressed and the deliverables/products are explained.
Process-data diagram building blocks
Sequential activities
Sequential activities are activities that need to be carried out in a pre-defined order. The activities are connected with an arrow, implying that they have to be followed in that sequence. Both activities and sub-activities can be modeled in a sequential way. In Figure 1 an activity diagram is illustrated with one activity and two sequential sub-activities. A special kind of sequential activities are the start and stop states, which are also illustrated in Figure 1.
In Figure 2 an example from practice is illustrated. The example is taken from the requirements capturing workflow in UML-based Web Engineering. The main activity, user & domain modeling, consists of three activities that need to be carried out in a predefined order.
Unordered activities
Unordered activities are used when sub-activities of an activity do not have a pre-defined sequence in which they need to be carried out. Only sub-activities can be unordered. Unordered activities are represented as sub-activities without transitions within an activity, as is represented in Figure 3.
Sometimes an activity consists of both sequential and unordered sub-activities. The solution to this modeling issue is to divide the main activity in different parts. In Figure 4 an example is illustrated, which clarifies the necessi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto%20%28film%29 | Presto is a 2008 American computer-animated short film by Pixar, shown in theaters before their feature-length film WALL-E. The short is about Presto, a magician who is trying to perform a show, but his rabbit, Alec, would not cooperate with him until he gets his carrot. The short is a gag-filled homage to classic cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes, as well as the work of Tex Avery. Presto was written and directed by veteran Pixar animator Doug Sweetland, in his directorial debut with the story written by Ted Mathot, Valerie Lapointe and Justin Wright.
The original idea for the short was a magician who incorporated a rabbit into his act who suffered from stage fright. This was considered to be too long and complicated, and the idea was reworked. To design the theater featured in Presto, the filmmakers visited several opera houses and theaters for set design ideas. Problems arose when trying to animate the theater's audience of 2,500 patrons; this was deemed too expensive, and was solved by showing the back of the audience.
Reaction to the short was positive, and reviewers of WALL-E film's home media release considered it to be an enjoyable special feature (though it was not included with the subsequent Criterion 4K Blu-ray). Presto was nominated for an Annie Award and Academy Award. It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2008.
Plot
Vaudeville era magician Presto DiGiotagione is famous for a hat trick wherein he pulls his rabbit Alec Azam out of his top hat. A hungry and irritated Alec is locked in a cage, unable to reach his carrot. After Presto returns from eating a meal, he begins practicing his act with Alec, revealing that his top hat is magically connected to a wizard's hat kept backstage with Alec. Anything that passes into either hat will emerge from the other.
Intending to feed Alec, Presto realizes that his show is starting and rushes onstage instead. Alec refuses to cooperate with the act until he is given the carrot, and turns the hats against Presto in a variety of ways that lead to escalating degrees of humiliation, such as letting him catch his finger in a mousetrap, hit himself in the eye with an egg, and get his head sucked into a ventilation shaft; each of these mishaps is interpreted by the audience as being part of the act. Presto continues to antagonize Alec at the same time, first turning the carrot into a flower and later smashing it to pulp with a piece of a ladder, resulting in Alec sticking Presto's hand in an electrical socket via the wizard's hat.
Fed up with Alec's behavior, Presto storms backstage after him, but releases a set of hanging stage props and gets his foot caught in a rigging rope. He is yanked up into the fly space above the stage; when his foot comes loose, he falls and finds himself in danger of being crushed by both the props and a falling piano. Realizing this, Alec uses the hats' magic to save Presto, earning the audience's wild approval for the both of them. Presto gratef |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPA%20Host%20Name%20Server%20Protocol | The ARPA Host Name Server Protocol (NAMESERVER), is an obsolete network protocol used in translating a host name to an Internet address. IANA Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port 42 for NAMESERVER; this port is more commonly used by the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) on Microsoft operating systems.
Application
The NAMESERVER protocol is used by the DARPA Trivial Name Server, a server process called tnamed that is provided in some implementations of UNIX.
Replacement
Support for the NAMESERVER protocol has been deprecated, and may not be available in the latest implementations of all UNIX operating systems. The Domain Name System (DNS) has replaced the ARPA Host Name Server Protocol and the DARPA Trivial Name Server.
See also
List of TCP and UDP port numbers
List of Unix operating systems
Domain Name System
References
External links
IEN 116 Internet Name Server
Development of the domain name system
Application layer protocols
Domain Name System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo%20%28storage%20system%29 | Dynamo is a set of techniques that together can form a highly available key-value structured storage system or a distributed data store. It has properties of both databases and distributed hash tables (DHTs). It was created to help address some scalability issues that Amazon experienced during the holiday season of 2004. By 2007, it was used in Amazon Web Services, such as its Simple Storage Service (S3).
Relationship to DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is "built on the principles of Dynamo" and is a hosted service within the AWS infrastructure. However, while Dynamo is based on leaderless replication, DynamoDB uses single-leader replication.
Principles
Incremental scalability: Dynamo should be able to scale out one storage host (or “node”) at a time, with minimal impact on both operators of the system and the system itself.
Symmetry: Every node in Dynamo should have the same set of responsibilities as its peers; there should be no distinguished node or nodes that take special roles or extra set of responsibilities.
Decentralization: An extension of symmetry, the design should favor decentralized peer-to-peer techniques over centralized control.
Heterogeneity: The system should be able to exploit heterogeneity in the infrastructure it runs on. For example, the work distribution must be proportional to the capabilities of the individual servers. This is essential in adding new nodes with higher capacity without having to upgrade all hosts at once.
Techniques
Implementations
Amazon published the paper on Dynamo, but never released its implementation. The index layer of Amazon S3 implements and extends many core features of Dynamo. Since then, several implementations have been created based on the paper. The paper also inspired many other NoSQL database implementations, such as Apache Cassandra, Project Voldemort and Riak.
See also
Distributed data store
NoSQL
Structured storage
References
External links
Amazon's Dynamo (2007)
Amazon reveals its distributed storage: Dynamo (2007)
Distributed data stores
NoSQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic%20and%20Health%20Surveys | The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program is responsible for collecting and disseminating accurate, nationally representative data on health and population in developing countries. The project is implemented by ICF International and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with contributions from other donors such as UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, and UNAIDS.
The DHS is highly comparable to the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and the technical teams developing and supporting the surveys are in close collaboration.
Since September 2013, ICF International has been partnering with seven internationally experienced organizations to expand access to and use of the DHS data: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs; Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH); Avenir Health; Vysnova; Blue Raster; Kimetrica; and EnCompass.
Overview
Since 1984, The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program has provided technical assistance to more than 300 demographic and health surveys in over 90 countries. DHS surveys collect information on fertility and total fertility rate (TFR), reproductive health, maternal health, child health, immunization and survival, HIV/AIDS; maternal mortality, child mortality, malaria, and nutrition among women and children stunted. The strategic objective of The DHS Program is to improve and institutionalize the collection and use of data by host countries for program monitoring and evaluation and for policy development decisions.
Surveys
The DHS Program supports the following data collection options:
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS): provide data for monitoring and impact evaluation indicators in the areas of population, health, and nutrition.
AIDS Indicator Surveys (AIS): provide countries with a standardized tool to obtain indicators for the effective monitoring of national HIV/AIDS programs.
Service Provision Assessment (SPA) Surveys: provide information about the characteristics of health and family planning services available in a country.
Malaria Indicators Surveys (MIS): Provide data on bednet ownership and use, prevention of malaria during pregnancy, and prompt and effective treatment of fever in young children. In some cases, biomarker testing for malaria and anemia are also included.
Key Indicators Survey (KIS): provide monitoring and evaluation data for population and health activities in small areas—regions, districts, catchment areas—that may be targeted by an individual project, although they can be used in nationally representative surveys as well.
Other Quantitative Data: include Geographic Data Collection, and Benchmarking Surveys.
Biomarker Collection: in conjunction with surveys, more than 2 million tests have been conducted for HIV, anemia, malaria, and more than 25 other biomarkers.
Qualitative Research: provides information outside the purview of standard quantitative approaches.
Data
The DHS Program works to pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung%20Mawawala%20Ka | (International title: A World Without You / ) is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Joel Lamangan, Soxie Topacio and Argel Joseph, it stars Sunshine Dizon and Cogie Domingo. It premiered on April 8, 2002 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on June 6, 2003 with a total of 298 episodes. It was replaced by Narito ang Puso Ko in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Sunshine Dizon as Rosa Camilla Montemayor
Cogie Domingo as Carlito Valiente
Supporting cast
Eddie Garcia as Leandro Montemayor
Liza Lorena as Iluminada Montemayor
Gloria Diaz as Czarina Montemayor
Hilda Koronel as Alicia Montemayor
Sharmaine Arnaiz as Amanda Montemayor
Raymond Bagatsing as Alberto Montemayor
Princess Punzalan as Ernestina Montemayor
Alessandra de Rossi as Paloma Montemayor
Ara Mina as Lucinda Montemayor
Recurring cast
Armida Siguion-Reyna as Romina Salgado
Vic Vargas as Carlos Valiente
Marianne dela Riva as Cynthia Valiente
Iza Calzado as Phoebe Tuazon
Maybeline Dela Cruz as Guadalupe Valiente
Daniel Fernando as Alegre
Eddie Gutierrez as Tomas Locsin
Tony Mabesa as Asturias
Jay Manalo as Nestor Adorable
Spanky Manikan as Gonzalo
Jim Pebanco as Emil
Miko Sotto as Dindo
Jomari Yllana as Rafael
Malou Crisologo as Elaine
Daisy Reyes as Clarissa Rosales
Angie Castrence as Angie
Lara Fabregas as Marla Gatchalian
Ryan Ramos as Jonathan Quirino
Gardo Versoza as Edmund Amparo
JJ Zamora as Charlie Valiente
References
External links
2002 Philippine television series debuts
2003 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAWS%20Scripting%20Language | JAWS Scripting Language (JSL) is a proprietary programming language that allows the interoperation of the JAWS (Job Access With Speech) screen reading program for the visually impaired and other applications. It is a compiled language, allowing for source code protection. "JAWS scripting" commonly refers to customization of the built-in, user-editable utilities of JAWS and editing of its configuration files, as well as the writing of original scripts. JSL acts as an API (application programming interface) and allows users to combine JAWS scripting, Microsoft Active Accessibility scripting, and document object model scripting.
External links
List of resources for JAWS Scripting provided by Freedom Scientific
Scripting languages
Screen readers
es:Lenguaje interpretado JAWS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muze | Founded in 1991, Muze, Inc. was a business-to-business provider of media information, metadata, and digital preview samples that enable search, discovery, and purchase of digital entertainment content.
"Muze was founded by Zullo and Trev Huzley in 1986 under the name Digital Radio Network, which used to trade air time with rock music radio stations, giving the stations a segment that allowed listeners to call up and get information on album being released on CD in exchange for allowing Digital Radio to sell advertising time to sponsors."
Muze media information databases are used by businesses to support the sale of entertainment products – such as music tracks and albums, videos and DVDs, books, and video games – and to attract and retain subscribers to Internet, mobile, and social networking sites. Muze was based in New York City with operations in North America and the United Kingdom.
In April 2009, Macrovision (now TiVo) announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Muze, Inc. in a $16.5 million cash transaction. The transaction closed on April 30.
Among Muze's clients were eBay, ArkivMusic, Netflix and Rotten Tomatoes.
References
External links
Online mass media companies of the United States
Marketing companies established in 1991
1991 establishments in New York City
Business services companies disestablished in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit%20substitution | In computer science, lambda calculi are said to have explicit substitutions if they pay special attention to the formalization of the process of substitution. This is in contrast to the standard lambda calculus where substitutions are performed by beta reductions in an implicit manner which is not expressed within the calculus; the "freshness" conditions in such implicit calculi are a notorious source of errors. The concept has appeared in a large number of published papers in quite different fields, such as in abstract machines, predicate logic, and symbolic computation.
Overview
A simple example of a lambda calculus with explicit substitution is "λx", which adds one new form of term to the lambda calculus, namely the form M〈x:=N〉, which reads "M where x will be substituted by N". (The meaning of the new term is the same as the common idiom let x:=N in M from many programming languages.) λx can be written with the following rewriting rules:
(λx.M) N → M〈x:=N〉
x〈x:=N〉 → N
x〈y:=N〉 → x (x≠y)
(M1M2) 〈x:=N〉 → (M1〈x:=N〉) (M2〈x:=N〉)
(λx.M) 〈y:=N〉 → λx.(M〈y:=N〉) (x≠y and x not free in N)
While making substitution explicit, this formulation still retains the complexity of the lambda calculus "variable convention", requiring arbitrary renaming of variables during reduction to ensure that the "(x≠y and x not free in N)" condition on the last rule is always satisfied before applying the rule. Therefore many calculi of explicit substitution avoid variable names altogether by using a so-called "name-free" De Bruijn index notation.
History
Explicit substitutions were sketched in the preface of Curry's book on Combinatory logic
and grew out of an ‘implementation trick’ used, for example, by AUTOMATH, and became a respectable syntactic theory in lambda calculus and rewriting theory. Though it actually originated with de Bruijn, the idea of a specific calculus where substitutions are part of the object language, and not of the informal meta-theory, is traditionally credited to Abadi, Cardelli, Curien, and Lévy. Their seminal paper on the λσ calculus explains that implementations of lambda calculus need to be very careful when dealing with substitutions. Without sophisticated mechanisms for structure-sharing, substitutions can cause a size explosion, and therefore, in practice, substitutions are delayed and explicitly recorded. This makes the correspondence between the theory and the implementation highly non-trivial and correctness of implementations can be hard to establish. One solution is to make the substitutions part of the calculus, that is, to have a calculus of explicit substitutions.
Once substitution has been made explicit, however, the basic properties of substitution change from being semantic to syntactic properties. One most important example is the "substitution lemma", which with the notation of λx becomes
(M〈x:=N〉)〈y:=P〉 = (M〈y:=P〉)〈x:=(N〈y:=P〉)〉 (where x≠y and x not free in P)
A surprising counterexample, due to Melliès, show |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JNN | JNN can refer to:
Japan News Network AKA JNN
Nanortalik Heliport (IATA airport code), in Nanortalik, Greenland
Joint Network Node |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950%20World%20Wrestling%20Championships | The 1950 World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship were held in Stockholm, Sweden.
Medal table
Medal summary
Men's Greco-Roman
References
FILA Database
World Wrestling Championships
W
1950 in sport wrestling
1950 in Swedish sport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanggang%20Kailan%20%28TV%20series%29 | (International title: Circle of Hearts / ) is a 2004 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Jose Javier Reyes and Mark A. Reyes, it stars Lorna Tolentino, Christopher de Leon and Alice Dixson. It premiered on March 8, 2004, on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Narito ang Puso Ko. The series concluded on July 30, 2004 with a total of 103 episodes. It was replaced by Mulawin in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Lorna Tolentino as Valerie Rosales
Christopher de Leon as Diosdado "Dado" Villarama
Alice Dixson as Thelma Villarama
Supporting cast
Ogie Alcasid as George
Aiza Seguerra as Gina
Ana Capri as Lulu
Nancy Castiglione as Tara Rosales
Maxene Magalona as Angela Villarama
Alessandra De Rossi as Jennifer Villarama
Jake Cuenca as Warren Rosales
Paolo Contis as Dennis Carbonel
Recurring cast
Sid Lucero as Eugene
Janus Del Prado as Lito
Boy 2 Quizon as Obet
Girlie Sevilla as Marlyn
Janice de Belen as Elizabeth
Ricardo Cepeda as Jefferson
Mark Gil as Roberto
Gandong Cervantes as Victor
Neil Ryan Sese as Edwin
Cristine Reyes as Hana
Jessy Mendiola as Gina
References
External links
2004 Philippine television series debuts
2004 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashwin%20Ram | Ashwin Ram (born July 27, 1960) is an Indian-American computer scientist. He was chief innovation officer at PARC from 2011 to 2016, and published books and scientific articles and helped start at least two companies.
Biography
Ashwin Ram was born in New Delhi, India, on July 27, 1960. He is a great-grandson of Sir Ganga Ram and is the eldest of three children. He grew up in New Delhi with a brief stint in Bombay, and attended one of India's oldest boarding schools, Mayo College.
Ram received his B.Tech. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, in 1982, where he received the President of India's Gold Medal for best undergraduate performance.
He then traveled to the US, graduating with his M.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984.
He received his Ph.D. degree from Yale University for his dissertation on "Question-Driven Understanding: An Integrated Theory of Story Understanding, Memory, and Learning" in 1989, under advisor Roger Schank and Gerald DeJong.
Georgia Tech
He joined the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 1989.
He was associate professor in the School of interactive computing in the College of Computing, an associate professor of cognitive science, an adjunct professor in the School of Psychology, and an adjunct professor in math and computer science at Emory University.
In 1995 Ram co-edited (with David B. Leake) a book on goal-oriented learning.
He co-edited (with Kenneth Moorman) a book on natural language understanding.
Ram founded Enkia Corporation in 1998 (which was purchased by Sentiment360 in 2011).
He then co-founded Inquus Corporation, which operated OpenStudy, an online social learning network for students and faculty, and medical information company Cobot Health Corporation.
OpenStudy was acquired in 2016 by Brainly.
Ram directed the Cognitive Computing Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology starting around 2006. He led research in artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive science. His projects focused on AI for computer games and virtual worlds, consumer health and wellness, and educational technologies. Topics included knowledge-based machine learning, case-based reasoning, cognitive modeling, and natural language processing.
He was program chair and conference co-chair of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) in 1994,
conference co-chair of the Third International Conference on the Learning Sciences (ICLS) in 1998,
and program co-chair of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition in 2008.
PARC
Ashwin Ram became an innovation fellow at PARC (formerly Xerox PARC), around September 2011, and then chief innovation officer.
His team created social computing technologies to augment human cognition in application areas including health and wellness.
He was program co-chair of the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brescia%20Metro | The Brescia Metro () is a rapid transit network serving Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. The network consists of a single line, having a length of and a total of 17 stations from Prealpino to Sant´Eufemia-Buffalora, located respectively at the north and southeast of Brescia.
During the 1980s, road congestion in the vicinity of Brescia rose dramatically, resulting in the City Council becoming interested in the adoption of a new mass transit platform to provide an alternative means of access around the city. Following studies of several mass transit systems, it was decided that the development of a light metro would be the most suitable option. During this time, several other European cities had introduced their own automated light metro networks, which likely provided a model for Brescia's transport planners. While efforts were made during the 1990s to secure funding and attempt to launch the project, the tendering process for the construction of the first section of the Metro was initiated in 2000. During April 2003, a €575 million contract was awarded to a consortium led by Ansaldo STS, which included AnsaldoBreda, Astaldi and Acciona, who proposed to implement a system bearing considerable similarities to the Copenhagen Metro.
During January 2004, construction work on the project commenced. However, progress was hindered by the discovery of several sites of archaeological importance, leading to redesign efforts to minimise the network's infringement on such historical locations. While delayed, on 2 March 2013, the first line of the Brescia Metro was officially opened to regular services. This first railway line has been viewed as simply being the starting point for the subsequent construction of an ambitious and large metro network spanning across the city and into its suburbs; multiple plans for its expansion have been proposed. The existing Metro is operated using a fleet of 18 three-carriage trainsets, which run entirely under driverless operation along the route from a centralised control centre, while all of the 17 stations on the Metro network feature platform edge doors.
History
Construction
The impetus for the establishment of a metro in the Brescia region has its origin during the 1980s, which was around the same time in which the first fully automatic light metro systems were being introduced at various other mid-size cities in Europe. During 1986, the City Council of Brescia was openly considering options for improving the city's transportation system in response to the rapid rise of road congestion in the region, which had in turn been generated with the increasing popularity of private motor vehicles amongst the populace. A pair of feasibility studies were commissioned during the following year; the introduction of various alternative transport systems, including the use of light rail, a metro system, and trolley buses, were thoroughly examined from both technical and commercial viewpoints. Eventually, these studies determined that t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHINE%20Expert%20System | Spacecraft Health Inference Engine (SHINE) is a software-development tool for knowledge-based systems, created by the Artificial intelligence Group, Information Systems Technology Section at NASA/JPL. The system is in use in basic and applied AI research at JPL. SHINE was designed to operate in a real-time environment. It is written in Common LISP, but able to be utilized by non-LISP applications written in conventional programming languages such as C and C++. These non-LISP applications can be running in a distributed computing environment on remote computers or on a computer that supports multiple programming languages. SHINE provides a variety of facilities for the development of software modules for the primary functions in knowledge-based reasoning engines. The system may be used to develop artificial intelligence applications as well as specialized tools for research efforts.
Background
The original inventors of SHINE are Mark L. James and David J. Atkinson. SHINE is an expert system and inference engine based upon the experience, requirements and technology that were collected by the Artificial Intelligence Research group at NASA/JPL in developing expert systems for the diagnosis of spacecraft health. SHINE is based on technology first developed by James and Atkinson for the "STAR*TOOL" system. SHINE itself resulted from applying this technology in a project called "Spacecraft Health Automated Reasoning Pilot" (SHARP). SHARP aimed to automate and provide expert system consultation to space flight operations personnel who monitor and diagnose robotic spacecraft on science missions, such as the Voyager spacecraft.
SHINE is written in Common LISP and can be run on any system that supports the language. It has been interfaced with many non-LISP systems.
Beyond Limits has the Caltech licensing rights to all commercial applications of SHINE.
Historical and current applications of SHINE
Spacecraft Health Automatic Reasoning Pilot (SHARP) for the diagnosis of telecommunication anomalies during the Neptune Voyager (VGR) Encounter.
Galileo's (GLL) mission for diagnosing problems in the Power and Pyro Subsystem (PPS).
Magellan's (MGN) mission for diagnosis of telecommunication anomalies in the TELECOM subsystem.
Engineering Analysis Subsystem Environment (EASE) which is an operations environment to operate a large number of spacecraft simultaneously and increase productivity through shared resources and automation.
Extreme Ultra Violet Explorer (EUVE) mission for labour 3 to 1 shift reductions through the use of artificial intelligence.
Fault Induced Document Officer (FIDO) for the EUVE mission. which is an automated system that assists in expert knowledge acquisition, access and publishing capabilities for safely managing complex systems under staffing reductions and "lights out" operations.
Stochastic Problem Obviation Tracker (SPOT) for the EUVE mission which captures and reports relevant statistical information to the user based on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake%20Bernstein%20%28market%20analyst%29 | Jake Bernstein is President of Network Press, Inc. in Santa Cruz, California. Bernstein claims expertise in seasonal trading and has developed methods of trading in futures markets, and has been a featured speaker at many investment conferences and trading seminars. In 1999, Bernstein was fined by the National Futures Association $200,000 and permanently barred from NFA membership for not using proper disclaimers in his materials rendering the ruling "using misleading and deceptive Promotional Material".
Early life and education
Bernstein graduated from University of Illinois in 1966 with a bachelor of arts degree in Clinical and Experimental Psychology.
Publisher and author
Bernstein is publisher of the "Jake Bernstein Weekly Futures Trading Letter," "Bernstein on Stocks," "The Letter of Long-Term Trends, and "COT Analysis". Jake Bernstein has written more than 42 books and research studies on futures trading, stock trading, trader psychology and economic forecasting. Articles by Bernstein have appeared in Futures Magazine, Money Maker, Stocks and Commodities, Barron’s Financial Weekly, Stocks, Futures and Options Magazine, and FarmFutures.
Bibliography
Bernstein has authored a large number of book, including:
• The Ultimate Day Trader (Adams Media Corp)
• Beyond the Investor’s Quotient (Wiley and Sons)
• Strategic Futures Trading (Dearborn Publishing)
• The New Prosperity (New York Inst. of Finance)
• Why Traders Lose How Traders Win (Probus)
• Facts on Futures (Probus/MBH)
• How to Trade the International Futures Markets (New York Inst of Finance)
• The Compleat Guide to Day Trading Stocks (McGraw-Hill)
• Stock Market Strategies that Work (with Elliott Bernstein) - McGraw-Hill
• How to Trade the Single Stock Futures Market (Sep 2002) - Dearborn
• No Bull Investing (Mar 2003) - Dearborn
Bernstein has also authored a series of webinars.
References
External links
JakeBernstein.com: Jake Bernstein's Official WebSite
1946 births
Living people
American financial businesspeople
Roosevelt University alumni
People from Winnetka, Illinois
University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblin | Moblin, short for 'mobile Linux', is a discontinued open source operating system and application stack for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, nettops and embedded devices.
Built around the Intel Atom processor, all builds were designed to minimize boot times and power consumption as a netbook and MID-centric operating system. The netbook/desktop version of Moblin supported other chipsets based on the SSSE3 instruction set, such as the Core2 and some Celeron processors.
OEM support was scarce but hit an all-time high in 2009 when Acer replaced Linpus Linux with Moblin on their Acer Aspire One netbooks. and LG Electronics chose Moblin OS 2.1 for its mobile Internet device class smartphone the LG GW990. Dell also once accepted orders for netbooks running Canonical Ltd.'s Ubuntu Moblin Remix.
Few commercial products existed around Moblin 2 most prominently a Foxconn netbook and an InvenTech smartphone, both announced at Computex 2009. Mandriva offered Moblin's v2 version to all Mandriva distribution and netbook owners.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2010, MSI and Novell announced SUSE Moblin preloaded on the MSI U135 netbook. Following the release of Moblin version 2.1, this was the first original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to sell a fully supported Intel Atom processor-based netbook running Moblin-based technology to consumers. It was demonstrated at both the MSI and Intel booths at the show. In addition, Samsung showed four netbooks preloaded with SUSE Moblin.
At the Mobile World Congress in February 2010, it was announced that the Moblin project would be merging with Maemo to create the MeeGo mobile software platform. Nokia stopped all MeeGo development after switching to Windows Phone in 2011 and Intel also discontinued work on to join the Tizen project instead.
History
Intel launched the Moblin.org site in July 2007 and significantly updated the site in April 2008 with the launch of the Intel Atom processor family at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. A custom software development kit (SDK) is available on the site. The Moblin 2 OS was specifically designed to run on an Intel Atom processor in a netbook.
In April 2009, Intel turned Moblin over to the Linux Foundation. Subsequently, Moblin was merged with Maemo, becoming MeeGo. MeeGo's development was also hosted by the Linux Foundation, and initially governed by a Technical Steering Group overseen by Imad Sousou of Intel and Nokia's Valtteri Halla.
The Linux Foundation canceled MeeGo in September 2011 in favor of Tizen. A new Finnish start-up, Jolla, announced in July 2012 that MeeGo's community-driven successor Mer, would be the basis of their new operating system Sailfish OS slated to launch in a smartphone during 2013.
Moblin 2
At the Linux Collaboration Summit in April 2009, Intel demonstrated that the Moblin 2 alpha release can load major components of the stack, including the graphics system, and start up in mere seconds. On May 19, 2009, Imad Souso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witham%20to%20Maldon%20branch%20line | The Witham to Maldon branch line is a closed railway line joining Maldon to the British railway network at Witham in Essex, England. It was opened in 1848 and was long. It was extended to Woodham Ferris (later Woodham Ferrers) to give direct access to Southend-on-Sea, but that extension was not commercially successful.
The Woodham Ferrers extension was closed to passenger traffic in 1939 and completely in 1953. The original main line from Maldon to Witham also declined in passenger carryings; efforts to stimulate business included the introduction of low-cost diesel railbuses and a more intensive passenger service. This proved to be in vain and the passenger service was withdrawn in 1964. A residual goods service continued but, from 1980, the line was completely closed.
First proposals
In 1825, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened and many communities were prompted to consider whether a railway was a means to increased prosperity locally. A meeting at Maldon in that year considered the matter, but it was considered that the time was not right.
After the opening of the London to Colchester line by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1843, local interests in Maldon proposed a branch line connecting Maldon to Braintree, crossing the ECR's main line at Witham. It was predicted that £200,000 would be enough for the construction; it was important to get goods to and from the town cheaply. The share allotment was heavily oversubscribed, mostly by London interests, with very little interest from Braintree.
Maldon and Braintree authorised
Plans were formulated and deposited in 1845 and, in the 1846 parliamentary session, the bill for the Maldon, Witham and Braintree Railway was passed, gaining royal assent on 18 June 1846; share capital was £200,000.
The Act authorised construction of a double track railway from Maldon to Braintree by way of Heybridge, Langford, Wickham Bishops, Witham Faulkbourne, White Notley and Bulford.
The ECR had agreed the use of Witham station by MW&BR trains. The Eastern Counties Railways, controlled by George Hudson, saw the strategic advantage of the branches and, on 10 September 1846, the ECR offered to purchase the unconstructed railway for £6,300 with a bonus of 10 shillings per share. The MW&BR board considered this offer on 18 September 1846 and determined to accept it. The ECR takeover proceeded and was authorised by Act of 2 July 1847.
In March 1847, a contract for construction of the railway was awarded to Thomas Jackson of Pimlico. The ECR allowed planned improvements to the River Blackwater at Maldon, originally intended to sustain the declining harbour against competition from elsewhere, to be dropped. The authorised line was to cross the ECR main line a little to the east of Witham, but the ECR saw the impracticality of that, as it did not facilitate connection with the main line trains. Accordingly, the ECR altered the proposed route to make it two branch lines joining into Witham station by west-facing |
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