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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20%C3%BAltimo%20matrimonio%20feliz | El Ultimo Matrimonio Feliz is a Colombian telenovela aired since January 21, 2008 on Colombian network RCN. It has a unique format among the current aired telenovelas in Colombia because of its ensemble cast. The telenovela is in top three of the most viewed shows in Colombia on the first half of 2008 season.
Story
The program follows the story of the lives of five women who are undergoing different kinds of marital crises.
The first one to be introduced is Antonia Palacios, a beautiful middle-aged woman: the best saleswoman in Colombian real state company Grupo Inmobiliario, she is overloaded with work by her boss Manuel Gomez (Jorge Cao), a proud, avaricious and rich company manager with few scruples. The situation leads her to neglect her relationship with her husband Patricio and their teen daughter, Adelaida. After Adelaida is run over by a car, pretty much because Antonia had no time to pick her up, Antonia decides to establish her own company, En Casa, whose organization would allow women to work without forcing them to give up their family lives. Antonia and Manuel's middle-aged secretary, Margot Alvarez, also joins Antonia's company, meaning to escape Manuel's slavedriver work methods, meanwhile dealing with singlehandedly supporting her teenage children, Cesar David and Jenny. Margot's husband Armando, a taxi driver, feels that his love for her has died and leaves her for a younger woman, despite their precarious economical situation.
Antonia tells her hairdresser that she is hiring for her new company, and there she meets Barbara Mantilla (Valerie Dominguez). Barbara is desperate to find a job to gain economic independence and thus escape her abusive husband, Jesus, and her mother-in-law, Matilde. Due to Jesus' dependence on his mother, they have been forced to live with her for years: Matilde believes Barbara is undeserving of her son's affection, conducting covert smear campaigns against the young woman so that Jesus will eventually leave her (like indirectly affirming that Barbara's choice in clothing means that she is displaying herself for other men), most often resulting in Jesus believing his mother and beating Barbara viciously so that she will 'learn'. At the same time, Jesus is extremely (and possessively) attached to Barbara and cannot conceive losing her, leading to his seeking her forgiveness after each beating. This cycle has repeated itself over and over for years, making Barbara incapable of studying, holding a job or even leaving the house without somehow exciting a violent outburst of jealousy from her husband. Despite Barbara having no experience in real estate, Antonia decides to hire her.
The next couple to be introduced are Paulina and Carlos, a pair of newlyweds that have bought the last apartment Antonia sold while working for Grupo Inmobiliario. Both of them are highly successful businesspeople working at the same company, and are both in the race for a very important promotion: whoever gets the promotion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%20MMA | Inside MMA was a live mixed martial arts news magazine, which aired on AXS TV, immediately following the network's live AXS TV Fights broadcasts. Hosted by Mauro Ranallo and UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten, the series provided an in-depth look at the world of MMA, with live breakdowns, talk, highlights, and analysis from major MMA organizations such as the UFC, Bellator, and the World Series of Fighting. Inside MMA debuted on AXS TV, then known as HDNET, in September 2007, and was the longest-running MMA news show on television.
Hosts
Inside MMA was hosted by combat sports personality Mauro Ranallo and UFC Hall of Famer, former UFC heavyweight champion, and King of Pancrase Bas Rutten, along with correspondent Ron Kruck. Kruck also filled in as co-host on occasion.
For the first nine seasons, sports commentator Kenny Rice hosted the series alongside Rutten.
Content
Inside MMA aired immediately following AXS TV Fights broadcasts. Each show began with highlights and analysis of the night's event with AXS TV Fights commentators UFC Hall of Famer Pat Miletich and "The Voice" Michael Schiavello. Hosts Ranallo and Rutten also provided highlights from MMA and other combat sport events from around the world, featuring promotions such as UFC, Bellator, World Series of Fighting, and One FC, as well as many other regional MMA promotions. Each episode also included a viewer submission segment, featuring highlights submitted by Inside MMA viewers.
Correspondent Ron Kruck provided on-site coverage of major MMA events, feature stories on issues facing the sport, and interview segments with fighters, coaches, trainers, and others who contribute to and influence Mixed Martial Arts.
Guests
‘’Inside MMA’’ frequently featured in-studio, on-site, phone and satellite interviews with guests from all facets of the sport, including fighters, promoters, managers, officials and journalists. Notable guests included Dana White, Ronda Rousey, Daniel Cormier, Nick Diaz, Conor McGregor, Gilbert Melendez, Tito Ortiz, Georges St-Pierre, José Aldo, TJ Dillashaw, Dominick Cruz, Jon Jones, and Mickey Rourke.
Guest hosts
Occasionally, MMA fighters filled in as special guest hosts on Inside MMA. Past guest hosts include Johny Hendricks, Roy Nelson, Phil Davis, Miesha Tate, and Urijah Faber.
History
On August 15, 2014, UFC fighter Krzysztof Soszynski officially announced his retirement from the sport, citing memory loss, in a live on-air exclusive, while appearing as a guest on an episode of Inside MMA.
In late 2014, AXS TV announced that the show would move time slots to after the network's weekly live AXS TV Fights broadcasts. The move would take place starting Friday, Nov. 7, 2014.
In May 2015, UFC President Dana White appeared on the show to announce that Rutten would be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in July.
Inside MMA aired a special episode dedicated to UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion and Legacy Fighting Championship's first ever women's titlist Holly Holm on No |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired%20communication | Wired communication refers to the transmission of data over a wire-based communication technology (telecommunication cables). Wired communication is also known as wireline communication. Examples include telephone networks, cable television or internet access, and fiber-optic communication. Most wired networks use Ethernet cables to transfer data between connected PCs. Also waveguide (electromagnetism), used for high-power applications, is considered wired line. Local telephone networks often form the basis for wired communications and are used by both residential and business customers in the area. Many networks today rely on the use of fiber optic communication technology as a means of providing clear signaling for both inbound and outbound transmissions and are replacing copper wire transmission. Fiber optic technology is capable of accommodating far more signals than copper wiring while still maintaining the integrity of the signal over longer distances.
Alternatively, communication technologies that don't rely on wires to transmit information (voice or data) are considered wireless, and are generally considered to have higher latency and lower reliability.
The legal definition of most, if not all, wireless technologies today or "apparatus, and services (among other things, the receipt, forwarding, and delivery of communications) incidental to such transmission" are a wire communication as defined in the Communications Act of 1934 in 47 U.S.C. §153 ¶(59). This makes everything online today and all wireless phones a use of wire communications by law whether a physical connection to wire is visible or is not. The Communications Act of 1934 created the Federal Communications Commission to replace the Federal Radio Commission. If there were no real wired communications today, there would be no online and there would be no mobile phones. Satellite communications would be the only current technology considered wireless.
In general, wired communications are considered to be the most stable of all types of communications services. They are relatively impervious to adverse weather conditions in comparison to wireless communication solutions. These characteristics have allowed wired communications to remain popular even as wireless solutions have continued to advance.
See also
Telecommunications cable
References
Telecommunications systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proactive%20network%20provider%20participation%20for%20P2P | P4P, or proactive network provider participation for P2P, is a method for internet service providers (ISPs) and peer-to-peer (P2P) software to optimize peer-to-peer connections. P4P proponents say that it can save an ISP significant costs, and that using local connections also speeds up download times for P2P downloaders by 45%, critics say that this will favor downloaders on some ISPs but come at the expense of others.
Description
Established in 2007, the P4P Working Group (P4PWG) has participants from the ISP, movie/content, and P2P industries. It is focused on helping ISPs handle the demands of large media files and enabling legal distribution – they are building what they believe will be a more effective model of transmitting movies and other large files to customers. The current P2P model shares data equally with all peers, regardless of whether they are nearby, and this results in several nearby peers sending and receiving data across the world but not to each other when this is possible – working group members say that currently "the pattern of traffic poses a problem".
P4P works by having an ISP use a new "iTracker" which provides information on how the ISP's network is configured. P2P client software (and P2P torrent servers, called trackers) can query the iTracker to identify the data routes the ISP prefers and connections to avoid, changing depending on the time of day. The P2P software can then co-operatively connect to peers which are closer (or cheaper for the ISP), selectively favoring peers instead of choosing peers randomly.
This provides three methods of finding local peers:
the P2P client receives network information from the ISP's iTracker without revealing what file is being downloaded. It separately receives a list of peers from the torrent's tracker as usual. Note that for torrents with thousands of peers, when queried only a short list of potential peers is sent and it can take many queries to find all local peers
the torrent's tracker can receive network information from the ISP's P4P iTracker, and use this to provide to the P2P client a customized list of local peers
the P2P client can query the P4P iTracker, providing it with details of the file being downloaded. The ISP's iTracker (instead of the torrent tracker) can then provide the client with a list of local peers
Note that P4P does not replace or control P2P networks. P4P allows ISPs to provides additional information regarding network topology that P2P networks may choose to utilize to optimize network data delivery. This information should be used in combination with the other information that P2P networks collect, such as observed peer data transfer rates. If, for example, a P2P network is selecting between a "nearby" peer that is slow, and a "far" peer that is fast, that decision is entirely under the control of the P2P network. Because implementation of P4P is entirely voluntary on the part of both the ISPs and the P2P networks, it will only be adopted |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20transmission | In computer science, secure transmission refers to the transfer of data such as confidential or proprietary information over a secure channel. Many secure transmission methods require a type of encryption. The most common email encryption is called PKI. In order to open the encrypted file, an exchange of key is done.
Many infrastructures such as banks rely on secure transmission protocols to prevent a catastrophic breach of security. Secure transmissions are put in place to prevent attacks such as ARP spoofing and general data loss. Software and hardware implementations which attempt to detect and prevent the unauthorized transmission of information from the computer systems to an organization on the outside may be referred to as Information Leak Detection and Prevention (ILDP), Information Leak Prevention (ILP), Content Monitoring and Filtering (CMF) or Extrusion Prevention systems and are used in connection with other methods to ensure secure transmission of data.
Secure transmission over wireless infrastructure
WEP is a deprecated algorithm to secure IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. Wireless networks broadcast messages using radio, so are more susceptible to eavesdropping than wired networks. When introduced in 1999, WEP was intended to provide confidentiality comparable to that of a traditional wired network. A later system, called Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) has since been developed to provide stronger security.
Web-based secure transmission
Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols that provide secure communications on the Internet for such things as web browsing, e-mail, Internet faxing, instant messaging and other data transfers. There are slight differences between SSL and TLS, but they are substantially the same.
References
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI%20Challenge | The Challenge, code-named Eveready (deskside models) and Terminator (rackmount models), is a family of server computers and supercomputers developed and manufactured by Silicon Graphics in the early to mid-1990s that succeeded the earlier Power Series systems (not to be confused with IBM Power Systems). The Challenge was later succeeded by the NUMAlink-based Origin 200 and Origin 2000 in 1996.
Models
There are three distinctive models of the Challenge. The first model, simply known as the "Challenge" used the 64-bit R4400. With the introduction of the R8000, the Challenge was upgraded to support more processors and memory as well as featuring support for this new processor. Such systems are known as the "POWER Challenge". During the final years of the Challenge architecture's useful life, the line was upgraded to support R10000 microprocessors. Older Challenge systems using the R10000 were known as the "Challenge 10000", while the newer POWER Challenge systems using the R10000 were known as the "POWER Challenge 10000".
Models suffixed with "GR" (for "Graphics Ready") could support the RealityEngine and InfiniteReality graphics subsystems. Standard models were either servers or supercomputers with no graphics support.
Challenge
Challenge 10000
POWER Challenge
The POWER Challenge was announced on 28 January 1993 and was intended to compete against supercomputer companies such as Cray Research. At the time of its announcement, Silicon Graphics claimed that the POWER Challenge would have the same level of performance as Cray's Cray Y-MP with a single microprocessor. The new model was introduced in the middle of 1994 and used the MIPS R8000 microprocessor chip set, which consisted of the R8000 microprocessor and R8010 floating point unit accompanied by a "streaming" cache and its associated controllers. Much of the POWER Challenge's performance depended on the R8000, a microprocessor intended to achieve supercomputing performance and designed for floating-point scientific applications. As a result, the R8000 had features such as fused multiply–add instructions and a large cache.
In 1995, Silicon Graphics upgraded the POWER Challenge with R8000 microprocessors clocked at 90 MHz, enabling the system to scale up to 6.48 GFLOPS, an improvement of 1 GFLOPS over the previous R8000 microprocessor clocked at 75 MHz.
POWER Challenge 10000
The POWER Challenge 10000 referred to POWER Challenge-based systems that used the R10000 microprocessor. These models were introduced in January 1996, succeeding the R4400-based Challenge and the R8000-based POWER Challenge, although such systems co-existed with the POWER Challenge 10000 for some time. To support the new R10000s, a new CPU board, the "IP25" was introduced. The new CPU board, like the previous IP19 CPU board, supports one, two, or four processors and their associated secondary caches.
CHALLENGEarray
The CHALLENGEarray and POWER CHALLENGEarray is a cluster of Challenge or POWER Challenge servers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahit%20Kailan | (International title: Always / ) is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Ruel S. Bayani, it stars Jolina Magdangal. It premiered on May 5, 2002, replacing Anna Karenina. The series concluded on July 6, 2003, with a total of 62 episodes. It was replaced by Love to Love.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jolina Magdangal as Frankie
Supporting cast
James Blanco as Victor
Danica Sotto as Alex
Dennis Trillo as Jaime
Roxanne Barcelo as Eden
Biboy Ramirez as Luis
Sunshine Dizon as Bettina aka Betchay
Nancy Castiglione as Abby
Maybelyn Dela Cruz as Rosette
Paolo Ballesteros as PJ
Miko Sotto as Itos
Ina Feleo as Lira
Mike Olivarez as Ricky
Christian Vasquez as Carlo
Greg Turvey as Russel
Jeff Geronimo as Ray
Guest cast
Gina Pareño as Doña Candida Sanpiandante
Rita Avila as Dolores
Amy Austria
Odette Khan
Maritoni Fernandez as Lusing
Carmi Martin as Dolce Vita
Tootsie Guevara as Rafaella
Roy Alvarez
Jan Marini Alano as Tuding
Gerard Pizaras
Iya Villania as Marjorie
Brad Turvey
Migui Moreno
Teri Onor
Charlie Davao
Allan Paule as Daniel
Czarina de Leon
Geoff Eigenmann
Daniel Fernando
Ricardo Cepeda
External links
2002 Philippine television series debuts
2003 Philippine television series endings
2000s teen drama television series
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proggy%20programming%20fonts | The Proggy programming fonts are a set of free fixed-width typefaces designed with programming and terminal work in mind.
Fonts
The project started with the four Proggy typefaces authored by Tristan Grimmer: Proggy Clean, Square, Small, and Tiny, circa 2004. Other contributors had their fonts added to the collection with time, which account to about 10 additional typefaces.
It is currently a member of the Gentoo Linux packaging system.
The typefaces are usually provided as single-size 9 point raster fonts. They are offered in a variety of formats in order to be usable on different platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, Unix and Unix-like systems.
Reception
Craig Buckler at SitePoint listed it as one of the top programming fonts. It was mentioned by Jeff Atwood. The Proggy collection became very popular among programmers and system administrators.
References
External links
www.proggyfonts.net Original content mirrored at new domain. Some fonts missing at time of launch.
Monospaced typefaces
Computer programming
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2004
Raster typefaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keegan%20Gerhard | Keegan Gerhard (born December 2, 1969) is an American pastry chef and the former host of the Food Network series Food Network Challenge. As of the tenth season, he has been replaced by Claire Robinson. Instead of being the host, he serves as a judge alongside Kerry Vincent. Gerhard along with wife are the owners and executive chefs of D Bar Desserts in Denver, Colorado and San Diego (closed).
References
Food Network
1960 births
Living people
People from Bad Homburg vor der Höhe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AXN%20White | AXN White is a channel operated by Sony Pictures Television International Networks Europe. Its programming is focused on comedy and romantic television series and movies. The channel was launched in Portugal on 14 April 2012 and in Spain on 7 May 2012 replacing Sony Entertainment Television.
The channel replaced AXN Crime on 1 October 2013 in Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Moldova.
On October 3, 2017 the channel was replaced by Sony Max in Hungary.
On May 1, 2023 the channel was replaced by AXN Movies in Spain.
In 1 September 2023, German channel Sony Channel was renamed as AXN White.
Current Programming
Portugal
Candice Renoir
Chesapeake Shores
Family Law
The Good Karma Hospital
Il paradiso delle signore
The Tudors
Unforgettable
Poland
Chicago Med
Colin and Justin's Home Heist
Doc – Nelle tue mani
Léo Matteï, Brigade des mineurs
Profilage
Salvage Hunters
Ultraviolet
Znaki
Zbrodnia
Central Europe
Brousko
Colin and Justin's Home Heist
The Good Doctor
Kafe Tis Haras
Profilage
The Rookie
Former Programming
All Saints
Almost Perfect (on AXN White Spain)
The Amazing Race (on AXN White Spain)
Baby Daddy (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
The Bachelor (on AXN White Portugal)
The Big Bang Theory (on AXN White Portugal)
Call the Midwife (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
Carpoolers
Cashmere Mafia (on AXN White Spain)
Charmed (on AXN White Portugal)
The Client List (on AXN White Poland, Central Europe and Portugal)
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (on AXN White Portugal)
Community (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
Cougar Town (on AXN White Portugal)
Dawson's Creek (on AXN White Portugal)
Devious Maids (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
Drop Dead Diva (on AXN White Spain)
Ed (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
Edel & Starck (on AXN White Spain)
Everybody Loves Raymond (on AXN White Portugal)
Family Law (on AXN White Spain)
The Firm (on AXN White Spain)
Franklin & Bash (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
The Fosters (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
Frasier (on AXN White Spain)
GCB (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
Gossip Girl (on AXN White Portugal)
The Guardian
Happy Family (on AXN White Spain)
Hart of Dixie (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
Haven
Hawthorne (on AXN White Portugal)
Hollywood Is Like High School with Money (on AXN White Spain)
Hot in Cleveland (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
How to Get Away with Murder
In Case of Emergency
In Plain Sight (on AXN White Spain)
Joan of Arcadia
Judging Amy
Las Vegas (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
Lasko (on AXN White Portugal)
Less Than Kind (on AXN White Spain)
Lincoln Heights
Lost Girl (on AXN White Spain)
Make It or Break It (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
McLeod's Daughters
Medium (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
Melissa & Joey (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
Men at Work (on AXN White Portugal)
The Mentalist
Miracles
Missing (on AXN White Spain)
Mistresses (on AXN White Spain and Portugal)
Mixology (on AXN White Portugal)
Mr. Sunshine (o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20census%20areas%20demographic%20extremes | This is a list of census areas of demographic notability in Canada. Data is from the Canada 2021 Census.
All census subdivisions
Most populous municipality: Toronto, Ontario, 2,794,356
Highest percentage increase in population from 2016: Kapawe'no First Nation 229, Alberta, 1,840.0%
This geographic area underwent a boundary change since the 2016 Census that resulted in an adjustment to the 2016 population and/or dwelling counts for this area. The second highest percentage increase was in The Narrows 49, Manitoba, 1,000.0%.
Largest census subdivision by land area: Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, 968,988.38 km²
Highest % of the population under 15: Rolling River 67B, Manitoba, 54.5%
Highest % of the population 15-64: Stryen 9, Lytton First Nation, British Columbia, 100.0%
Lowest % of the population 15-64: Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec, 2.1%
Highest % of the population 65+: Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec, 97.9%
Highest % of the population 85+: Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec, 60.4%
Highest median age: Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec, 87
Lowest median age: Halfway River 168, British Columbia, 14.5
Census subdivisions over 5,000 people
Highest % increase in population from 2016: East Gwillimbury, Ontario, 44.4%
Highest % decrease in population from 2016: Athabasca County, Alberta, -11.6%
Largest census subdivision by land area: Kenora, Unorganized, Ontario, 388,982.20 km²
Smallest municipality by land area: Montreal West, Quebec, 1.37 km²
Highest population density: Vancouver, British Columbia, 5,749.9/km²
Lowest population density: Kenora, Unorganized, Ontario, 0.019/km²
Highest % of the population under 15: Mackenzie County, Alberta, 36.3%
Lowest % of the population under 15: Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, 6.8%
Highest % of the population 15-64: Whistler, British Columbia, 79.8%
Lowest % of the population 15-64: Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, 36.9%
Highest % of the population 65+: Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, 56.3%
Lowest % of the population 65+: Iqaluit, Nunavut, 3.7%
Highest % of the population 85+: Sidney, British Columbia, 9.3%
Lowest % of the population 85+: Iqaluit, Nunavut, 0.1%
Highest median age: Qualicum Beach, British Columbia: 67.5
Lowest median age: Mackenzie County, Alberta, 23.4
Highest % of people whose mother tongue is English: Bay Roberts, Newfoundland and Labrador, 99.2%
Lowest % of people whose mother tongue is English: Amqui, Quebec, 0.2%
Highest % of people whose mother tongue is French: Amqui, Quebec: 99.3%
Lowest % of people whose mother tongue is French: Mackenzie County, Alberta; Taber, Alberta; and Norway House, Manitoba, 0.1%
Highest % of people whose mother tongue is a Non-official language: Mackenzie County, Alberta, 64.1%
Lowest % of people whose mother tongue is a Non-official language: Saint-Honoré, Quebec and Amqui, Quebec, 0.2%
Highest % immigrants: Richmond, British Columbia, 60.3%
Lowest % immigrants: Bay Roberts, Newfoundland and Labrador, 0.34%
Highest % of population with no high school degree: Mackenzie County, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne%20Networking | An Airborne Network (AN) is the infrastructure owned by the United States Air Force that provides communication transport services through at least one node that is on a platform capable of flight.
Background
Definition
The intent of the US Air Force's Airborne Network is to expand the Global Information Grid (GIG) to connect the three major domains of warfare: Air, Space, and Terrestrial. The Transformational Satellite Communications System network currently provides connectivity for all communication through space assets. The Combat Information Transport System and Theater Deployable Communications provide terrestrial connectivity for theatre based operations. The Airborne Network is engineered to utilize all airborne assets to connect with space and surface networks building a seamless communications platform across all domains.
Capabilities
The capabilities identified by this type of system are vastly beyond that of our current military. This system will enable the Air Force to provide a transportable network, flexible enough to communicate with any air, space, or ground asset in the area. The network will provide a beyond line-of-sight (LoS) communications infrastructure that can be packed up and moved in and out of the designated battlespace, enabling the military to have a reliable and secure communications network that extends globally. The network is designed to be flexible enough to provide the right communication and network packages for a specific region, mission, or technology.
Operationally, The AN is designed to be self-forming, self-organizing, and self-generating, with nodes joining and leaving the network as they enter and exit a specific region. The network consists of dedicated tactical links, wideband air-to-air links, and ad hoc networks constructed by the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) networking services. JTRS is a software-defined radio that will work with many existing military and civilian radios. It includes integrated encryption and Wideband Networking Software to create mobile ad hoc networks. It also provides system performance analysis and fault diagnostics automatically, reducing the demand for human intervention and network maintenance.
Intended Use
The AN was designed as the cornerstone for the new military doctrine known as Network Centric Warfare. This doctrine was developed to use information superiority to equip warfighters with more precise information enabling commanders and shooters to make smarter decisions faster. The AN contributes to Network Centric Warfare by enabling commanders to provide real-time information to warfighters in the air and on the ground. Warfighters can then utilize more information and make more educated decisions about how to act in a particular situation. Once the act has been carried out commanders will have immediate information about the result and can make judgments on how to continue. All-in-all the AN was designed to reduce the time necessary to iden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch%20%28Lebanon%29 | Touch (stylized as touch; formerly mtc touch) is a Lebanese telecom company and one of the two mobile telephony and data operators in Lebanon, alongside its rival Alfa. It is owned by the Lebanese government, and was, until May 2020, operated by the Zain Group.
History
Touch was established in June 2004 by Zain, and contracted by the government to manage one of the country's two existing mobile telecommunications networks. The operation was originally known as 'mtc touch', and was rebranded in June 2012 as Touch.
In November 2012, Touch launched 3G/HSPA+ service in the country, adding 4G LTE mobile broadband services in some areas from May 2013.
In 2019, Touch operated some two million mobile lines in Lebanon, and had a 53% share of the market.
The duopoly market situation of Touch and Alfa has been criticised for high cost of services, with the average Lebanese household spending 5% of their income on mobile services, compared with 1.4% in Egypt, for example.
In May 2020, the Lebanese government took back control of both mobile operators in the country, in preparation for re-tendering the contracts, with the Ministry of Telecommunications operating the service directly in the interim.
References
External links
2004 establishments in Lebanon
Telecommunications companies established in 2004
Telecommunications companies of Lebanon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa%20%28Lebanon%29 | Alfa (Arabic: الفا), or Alfa Telecommunications, is a state-owned Lebanese telecom company, founded in 1994, and the only operating GSM networks in Lebanon other than Touch. Previously managed by Orascom TMT, its management had been transferred to the Telecommunications Ministry in 2020.
History
Alfa is the network name for the Mobile Interim Company 1 (MIC1), founded in 1994 under the name of Cellis, managed by France Telecom.
In 2004, the Lebanese government signed a management contract with FAL-DETE to operate the MIC1 network for four years. FAL-DETE renamed the Cellis network as Alfa.
In 2009 Orascom took over management of MIC1.
In March 2010, Marwan Hayek became the CEO of Alfa. In October 2011, Alfa launched Lebanon's first 3G+ technology, and subsequently was also the first operator in Lebanon to introduce 4G-LTE and 4G+ LTE-A technologies.
In 2014, Alfa was reported to have 1.8 million subscribers.
Following the decision by the Lebanese Government to transfer the operations of telecom company to the government. Orascom Telecom and Alfa CEO Marwan Hayek announced on 8 September 2020 the completion of transfer of MIC 1 to the Lebanese government, with the majority of the employees signing a new agreement directly with the government on 8 and 9 September.
Shortly after, caretaker telecommunications minister Talal Hawat announced a new board of director with Jad Nassif as chairman.
References
External links
1994 establishments in Lebanon
Telecommunications companies established in 1994
Telecommunications companies of Lebanon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20IF | The arithmetic IF statement is a three-way arithmetic conditional statement, first seen in the first release of Fortran in 1957, and found in all later versions, and some other programming languages, such as FOCAL. Unlike the logical IF statements seen in other languages, the Fortran statement defines three different branches depending on whether the result of an expression is negative, zero, or positive, in said order, written as:
IF (expression) negative,zero,positive
Deprecation
While it originally was the only kind of IF statement provided in Fortran, the feature has been used less and less frequently after the logical IF statements were introduced, and was finally labeled obsolescent in Fortran 90. As of Fortran 2018, it is no longer required for compilers to implement arithmetic IF and it is considered to be a deleted feature. The GNU Fortran compiler has been producing warnings for arithmetic IF by default since its 9.1 release in 2019.
See also
Sign function
Three-way comparison
Notes
References
arithmetic IF @ everything2.com
Modular Programming with Fortran 90 - Obsolescent Features
Conditional constructs
Fortran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zain%20Sudan | Zain Sudan (formerly Mobitel) is a mobile phone operator in Sudan, and part of the Zain Group. Formed in 1996, a large portion of the network split in 2011 to Zain South Sudan.
Zain Sudan: Launch & Establishment
Zain Sudan (formerly Mobitel) started towards the end of 1996, as the first mobile phone operator in Sudan. Launched its commercial activities in February 1997, starting with Greater Khartoum with a GSM network, turning Sudan into the fourth country to launch mobile services in North Africa. It was established as a joint-stock company with the shares divided between Sudan Telecommunications Company Ltd. (Sudatel) and several other shareholders including Celtel, until 2006 when it was fully acquired by the Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) as part of its strategy; to transform from a local to a regional, then a global telecom entity. Following the acquisition, Zain consolidated its position in the Middle East and Africa, becoming the leading mobile telephone operator in Sudan.
On September 9, 2007, Mobitel rebranded to Zain together with the other companies in the Group in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan. Zain then became the brand name of the group's companies in Africa and the Middle East, operating in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon (MTC Touch), and Sudan.
Today, Zain Sudan have over 11 million active subscribers (as of January 2014) and coverage reach to more than 90% of Sudan's population.
Zain provides 2G, 3G and 4G mobile phone services under the license granted to it by the National Telecommunications Corporation (NTC) in accordance with telecommunications act 2001.
Zain also pursues a policy of recruitment for Sudanese employees and workers in all its functions, in addition to providing opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
Network launch & growth
In 1996 15 Zain installed the first 10 Base Transceiver Stations (BTS), covering “Dar Elhatif”, Burry, Bahri, Shambat, Omdurman, Almahdia, Khartoum South's new extension, the General Command and Abo Haraz.
By the end of 1997, Wad Madani and Port Sudan, in addition to other cities and states, joined the Sudanese Mobile Telephone Network, through optical fiber cables. The years 1998-1999 it covered numerous cities; towns and villages in almost every state in the Country.
Over the years, the growing number of Zain stations increased coverage nationally in addition to updating the network technologies. The data communication services were then introduced which required updating and replacing the devices and equipment used.
The capacity of the main network then exceeded 11 million subscribers.
South Sudan’s Network Separation
It is often and for different reasons that telecom networks merge. But it was the first time in the history of the telecom industry worldwide for a network to split its operations. As a result of South Sudan's succession, Zain had to face the challenge of separating its network into two independent networks.
Efforts to separ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna%20%282006%20film%29 | Krishna ...Aayo Natkhat Nandlal is a 2006 computer-animated Indian feature film. It is the first Hindi computer-animated film and was theatrically released in India on 29 September 2006. The film is based on the legends of the deity Krishna.
Music
Aao Padhare Krishna – Sukhwinder Singh
Aayo Nathkhat Nandlala – Alisha Chinoy, Anupam Amod, Carol
Baat Hai Yeh To – Sonu Nigam
Brindavan – Rajendra Shiv
Brindavan Dandiya Mix – Rajendra Shiv
Krishna Kaal – Kailash Kher
Krishna Theme – Instrumental
Makhan Koi – Kumar Sanu
Makhan Koi v2 – Kumar Sanu, Sunidhi Chauhan
Nathkhat Nandlala (Remix) – N/A
See also
List of animated feature-length films
List of indian animated feature films
References
2006 films
2006 computer-animated films
Indian animated films
2000s Hindi-language films
Hindu mythological films
Animated films based on the Mahabharata
Films about Krishna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut%20Neven | Hartmut Neven (born 1964) is a scientist working in quantum computing, computer vision, robotics and computational neuroscience. He is best known for his work in face and object recognition and his contributions to quantum machine learning. He is currently Vice President of Engineering at Google where he is leading the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab which he founded in 2012.
Education
Hartmut Neven studied Physics and Economics in Brazil, Köln, Paris, Tübingen and Jerusalem. He wrote his Master thesis on a neuronal model of object recognition at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics under Valentino Braitenberg. In 1996 he received his Ph.D. from the Institute for Neuroinformatics at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, for a thesis on "Dynamics for vision-guided autonomous mobile robots" written under the tutelage of Christoph von der Malsburg. He received a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Germany’s most prestigious scholarship foundation.
Work
1998 Neven became research professor of computer science at the University of Southern California at the Laboratory for Biological and Computational Vision. 2003 he returned as the head of the Laboratory for Human-Machine Interfaces at USC's Information Sciences Institute.
Face recognition, avatars and face filters
Neven co-founded two companies, Eyematic for which he served as CTO and Neven Vision which he initially led as CEO. At Eyematic he developed face recognition technology and real-time facial feature analysis for avatar animation. Teams led by Neven have repeatedly won top scores in government sponsored tests designed to determine the most accurate face recognition software. Face filters, now ubiquitous on mobile phones, were launched for the first time by Neven Vision on the networks of NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone Japan in 2003.
Neven Vision also pioneered mobile visual search for camera phones. Neven Vision was acquired by Google in 2006.
Object recognition and adversarial images
At Google he managed teams responsible for advancing Google's visual search technologies and was the engineering manager for Google Goggles. The concept of adversarial patterns originated in his group when he tasked Christian Szegedy with a project to modify the pixel inputs of a deep neural network to lower the activity of select output nodes. The motivation was to use this technique for object localization which did not work out. But the idea gave rise to the fields of adversarial learning and DeepDream art. In 2013 his optical character recognition team won the ICDAR Robust Reading Competition by a wide margin and in 2014 the object recognition team won the ImageNet challenge.
Google Glass
Neven was a co-founder of the Google Glass project. His team completed the first prototype, codenamed Ant, in 2011.
Quantum artificial intelligence
In 2006 Neven started to explore the application of quantum computing to hard combinatorial problems arising in machine learn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20LB%26SCR%20B1%20class%20locomotives | Below are the names and numbers of the steam locomotives that comprised the LB&SCR B1 class, that ran on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, and latterly the Southern Railway network. The class names mainly relate to politicians and railway officials, or places served by the LB&SCR. All 36 locomotives were built at Brighton Works.
References
Information not otherwise credited has been obtained from the LBSC website.
B1list
0-4-2 locomotives
LbandScr B1 Class Locomotives
LbandScr B1 Class Locomotives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharpOS | SharpOS is a discontinued computer operating system based on the .NET Framework and related programming language C#. It was developed by a group of volunteers and presided over by a team of six project administrators: Mircea-Cristian Racasan, Bruce Markham, Johann MacDonagh, Sander van Rossen, Jae Hyun, and William Lahti. It is no longer in active development, and resources have been moved to the MOSA project. As of 2017, SharpOS is one of three C#-based operating systems released under a free and open-source software license. SharpOS has only one public version available. and a basic command-line interface.
History
SharpOS began in November 2006 as a public discussion on the Mono development mailing list as a thread named Operating System in C#. After attracting many participants, Michael Schurter created the SharpOS.org wiki and mailing list to continue the discussion at a more relevant location. Soon after, the core developers (Bruce Markham, William Lahti, Sander van Rossen, and Mircea-Cristian Racasan) decided that they would design their own ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler to allow the operating system to run its boot sequence without using another programming language. Once the AOT compiler was developed enough, the team then began to code the kernel. This was met with long periods of inactivity and few active developers due to lack of interest in unsafe kernel programming. On 1 January 2008, the SharpOS team made their first milestone release public, this is the first version of the software to appear in the SharpOS SourceForge package repository available for general public use.
Notes
See also
Singularity (operating system)
Cosmos (operating system)
External links
Interview with SharpOS team
sharpos-developers mailing list
Operating system kernels
Free software operating systems
Beta software
Hobbyist operating systems
Microkernel-based operating systems
Microkernels
Discontinued operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS | eyeOS is a web desktop following the cloud computing concept that seeks to enable collaboration and communication among users. It is mainly written in PHP, XML, and JavaScript. It is a private-cloud application platform with a web-based desktop interface. Commonly called a cloud desktop because of its unique user interface, eyeOS delivers a whole desktop from the cloud with file management, personal management information tools, collaborative tools and with the integration of the client’s applications.
History
The first publicly available eyeOS version was released on August 1, 2005, as eyeOS 0.6.0 in Olesa de Montserrat, Barcelona (Spain). Quickly, a worldwide community of developers took part in the project and helped improve it by translating, testing and developing it.
After two years of development, the eyeOS Team published eyeOS 1.0 (on June 4, 2007). Compared with previous versions, eyeOS 1.0 introduced a complete reorganization of the code and some new web technologies, like eyeSoft, a portage-based web software installation system. Moreover, eyeOS also included the eyeOS Toolkit, a set of libraries allowing easy and fast development of new web Applications.
With the release of eyeOS 1.1 on July 2, 2007, eyeOS changed its license and migrated from GNU GPL Version 2 to Version 3.
Version 1.2 was released just a few months after the 1.1 version and integrated full compatibility with Microsoft Word files.
eyeOS 1.5 Gala was released on January 15, 2008. This version is the first to support both Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org file formats for documents, presentations and spreadsheets. It also has the ability to import and export documents in both formats using server side scripting.
eyeOS 1.6 was released on April 25, 2008, and included many improvements such as synchronization with local computers, drag and drop, a mobile version and more.
eyeOS 1.8 Lars was released on January 7, 2009 and featured a completely rewritten file manager and a new sound API to develop media rich applications. Later, on April 1, 2009, 1.8.5 was released with a new default theme and some rewritten apps such as the Word Processor or the Address Book. On July 13, 2009, 1.8.6 was released with an interface for the iPhone and a new version of eyeMail with support for POP3 and IMAP.
eyeOS 1.9 was released December 29, 2009. It was followed up with 1.9.0.1 release with minor fixes on February 18, 2010. These last two releases were the last of the "CLASSIC DESKTOP" interface. A major re-work was released completed in March 2010. This new product was dubbed EyeOS 2.x.
However, a small group of eyeOS developers still maintain the code within the eyeOS forum, where support is provided but the eyeOS group itself has stopped active 1.x development. It is now available as the On-eye project on GitHub.
Active development halted on 1.x as of February 3, 2010. eyeOS 2.0 release took place on March 3, 2010. This was a total re-structure of the OS operating s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYFN | WYFN (980 AM) is a radio station serving the Nashville, Tennessee area with a conservative religious radio format. It is a Bible Broadcasting Network (BBN) owned-and-operated station.
Prior to being acquired by BBN in 1991, this station was WSIX, one of Nashville's heritage radio stations.
History
Early years in Springfield
WSIX signed on for the first time on January 7, 1927, from Springfield. It was started by Jack and Lewis Draughon, who owned the 638 Tire and Vulcanizing Company, and was established primarily to broadcast market reports from the city's tobacco market. The two brothers had acquired a discarded transmitter from a Nashville station in exchange for five barrels of oil and were counseled by a family friend not to go into the radio business, warning that they would bankrupt their father, a former state senator. The station broadcast with 150 watts at 1200 kHz (250 meters) for two hours a day, with longer hours on Thursday night when no other Nashville outlets broadcast. Named for the tire company, the station promoted its call letters as "Where Service Is Excellent". The first advertiser on the station was a barter deal: it was a man who had volunteered to help haul the transmitter from Nashville, where it was in an auto supply store, to Springfield.
WSIX was reallocated by General Order 40 in 1928 to 1210 kHz, where it operated with 100 watts. That same year, WSIX claimed to be the first radio station to broadcast a high school football game when it installed equipment to produce live airings of Springfield High School contests from the field. By 1932, the station broadcast 12 hours a day and had an arrangement to reair programs from Cincinnati's powerful WLW.
Move to Nashville
On November 13, 1934, the Draughon brothers filed for permission to move WSIX from Springfield to Nashville. The Federal Communications Commission set a hearing in February 1935 to consider the application. The WSIX proposal also contemplated a move to 1370 kHz, which put it in conflict with another applicant for a Nashville station and a proposed outlet for Evansville, Indiana.
The FCC approved the application on October 11, 1935, after WSIX opted to remain on 1210. On May 21, 1936, the station signed off from Springfield for the last time and went silent to make the move. WSIX signed on from Nashville on September 10. The station broadcast an 18-hour schedule from studios in the Hotel Andrew Jackson and a transmitter located at Third and Boscobel streets. A year later, the station increased its daytime power to 250 watts.
In its early years in Nashville, the station established itself as a community service outlet. During the Ohio River flood of 1937, WSIX broadcast two weeks of appeals for relief donations, a drive that had raised $16,715 in a week. Later that year, in a first, the Tennessee state highway department announced the names of low bidders for seven highway projects over the station.
WSIX's long-running association with WLW evolved in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Dyk | Robert P. Dyk (March 6, 1937 – March 22, 2008) was an American journalist, reporter and correspondent. Dyk worked for CBS News, ABC News and WMTW-TV during his career.
Dyk's career in network news began at CBS News as an editorial assistant at the 1960 Democratic National Convention. He moved to ABC News in 1978. He was sent to Tehran, Iran, by ABC to cover the takeover of the United States embassy and the ensuing Iran hostage crisis following the Iranian Revolution in 1979. During his career at CBS and ABC, Dyk also reported in the death of Winston Churchill, the Lebanon Civil War and riots in Los Angeles.
Dyk left network television and moved to Maine in 1987. He continued to work in television as a local anchorman and reporter for WMTW-TV.
Dyk died of cancer at the 71 on March 22, 2008, at his home in Falmouth, Maine.
References
External links
Maine broadcaster Bob Dyk dies
Foster's Daily Democrat: Bob Dyk, longtime TV and radio reporter, dies at age 71
2008 deaths
1930s births
People from Falmouth, Maine
American television reporters and correspondents
American television news anchors
Deaths from cancer in Maine
Place of birth missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railfreight | Railfreight was a sector of British Rail responsible for all freight operations on the British network. The division was created in 1982 when BR sought to assign particular stock and management to the evolving requirements of freight traffic.
History
Railfreight existed as a single unit from 1982 until 1987 as the rail freight division of British Rail. In 1987 BRs freight operations were further divided according to the type of train operated and material carried; the Trainload Freight division and its sub-sectors handled unit trains of coal, metal, aggregates, oil or petroleum, LPG, petro-chemicals, and construction materials, Railfreight Distribution handled intermodal and non-unit train work, and channel tunnel freight. Activities which were not assigned to one of the new Trainload Freight or Railfreight Distribution sub-sectors were then continued under the Railfreight General banner, Railfreight General was dissolved in 1989, its limited responsibilities being taken over by Railfreight Distribution.
Brand
Railfreight's image had lagged behind the image of the other areas of British Rail, and staff morale reflected this. As part of major restructuring as traffic moved away from wagonload and towards unit trains and containerization, British Rail commissioned a major redesign of the brand from locomotive down to depot entry sign.
Roundel Design Group took inspiration from aircraft squadron markings, distinct and visible from a distance, which would also look well even when soiled.
To improve staff morale, over £8 million were invested in depot facilities, giving them a bright and fresh appearance, improving crew spaces, catching up on overdue maintenance. Unique plaques that represented major depots, were applied to locomotives and some rolling stock; with equipment easily identifiable as to its home depot, staff felt motivated to take more care in maintaining the locomotives assigned to them.
The rebranding extended beyond just rolling stock and locomotives; signage, depots, vehicles also received the new paint schemes and logos to tie the sectors together. The use of Rail Alphabet however remained consistent with the rest of British Rail.
Logos
In 1987, British Rail unveiled a new brand and image for Railfreight, introducing six logos for the six new sectors that Railfreight was divided into, Railfreight, Speedlink Distribution, Railfreight Petroleum, Railfreight Coal, Railfreight Construction, Railfreight Metals.
One of the more subtle aspects, was a 'vertical marker strip' used to tie publications, equipment and signage together, which duplicated the distinctive aspect of the main logo, such as 'triangles' for Speedlink Distribution and rectangles for General.
Livery
Railfreight grey
The Railfreight sector was immediately identifiable through the introduction of a new 'Railfreight Grey' livery, originally created for the new Class 58 locomotives which began to appear in 1982, and then soon applied to most of the locomotives and roll |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20quality%20of%20service%20multi-hop%20routing | In multi-hop networks, Adaptive Quality of Service routing (AQoS or AQR) protocols have become increasingly popular and have numerous applications. One application in which it may be useful is in Mobile ad hoc networking (MANET).
Adaptive QoS routing is a cross-layer optimization adaptive routing mechanism. The cross-layer mechanism provides up-to-date local QoS information for the adaptive routing algorithm, by considering the impacts of node mobility and lower-layer link performance. The multiple QoS requirements are satisfied by adaptively using forward error correction and multipath routing mechanisms, based on the current network status. The complete routing mechanism includes three parts: (1) a modified dynamic source routing algorithm that handles route discovery and the collection of QoS related parameters; (2) a local statistical computation and link monitoring function located in each node; and (3) an integrated
decision-making system to calculate the number of routing paths, coding parity length, and traffic distribution rates.
Introduction
A wireless ad hoc network consists of a collection of mobile nodes interconnected by multihop wireless paths with wireless transmitters and receivers. Such networks can be spontaneously created and operated in a self-organized manner, because they do not rely upon any preexisting network infrastructure.
The emergence of multimedia applications in communications has generated the need to provide
mobile quality-of-service (QoS) support in ad hoc networks, and such applications require a stable path to guarantee QoS requirements. However, the topology of ad hoc networks is highly dynamic due to the unpredictable node mobility. In addition, wireless channel bandwidth is limited. So, QoS provisioning in such networks is complex and challenging.
QoS routing usually involves two tasks: collecting and maintaining up-to-date state information about the network and finding feasible paths for a connection based on its QoS requirements. Many approaches currently exist to perform QoS routing, most of which consist of routing across the Network layer of the OSI model only. Some approaches utilize both the Network and Data link layer but do not consider the cross layer behaviors. This makes quantifying the QoS parameters difficult and leads to considerations of QoS but does not guarantee QoS.
To address this problem, appropriate cross-layer cooperation is required. Adaptive QoS schemes provide QoS information by factoring the impacts of node mobility and lower-layer link parameters into QoS performance.
Traditional QoS approaches
Most QoS approaches tend to focus on only one QoS parameter (e.g., packet loss, end-to-end delay, and bandwidth). For example, while many of the QoS-related schemes are successful in reducing packet loss by adding redundancy in the packet, they do this at the expense of end-to-end delay. Because packet loss and end-to-end delay are inversely related, it may not be possibl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman%27s%20laws%20of%20software%20evolution | In software engineering, the laws of software evolution refer to a series of laws that Lehman and Belady formulated starting in 1974 with respect to software evolution.
The laws describe a balance between forces driving new developments on one hand, and forces that slow down progress on the other hand. Over the past decades the laws have been revised and extended several times.
Context
Observing that most software is subject to change in the course of its existence, the authors set out to determine laws that these changes will typically obey, or must obey for the software to survive.
In his 1980 article, Lehman qualified the application of such laws by distinguishing between three categories of software:
An S-program is written according to an exact specification of what that program can do. For example, a program to find solutions to the eight queens puzzle would be an S-program. These programs are mostly static and shouldn't evolve much.
A P-program is written to implement certain procedures that completely determine what the program can do (the example mentioned is a program to play chess)
An E-program is written to perform some real-world activity; how it should behave is strongly linked to the environment in which it runs, and such a program needs to adapt to varying requirements and circumstances in that environment
The laws are said to apply only to the last category of systems.
The laws
All told, eight laws were formulated:
(1974) "Continuing Change" — an E-type system must be continually adapted or it becomes progressively less satisfactory.
(1974) "Increasing Complexity" — as an E-type system evolves, its complexity increases unless work is done to maintain or reduce it.
(1974) "Self Regulation" — E-type system evolution processes are self-regulating with the distribution of product and process measures close to normal.
(1978) "Conservation of Organisational Stability (invariant work rate)" — the average effective global activity rate in an evolving E-type system is invariant over the product's lifetime.
(1978) "Conservation of Familiarity" — as an E-type system evolves, all associated with it, developers, sales personnel and users, for example, must maintain mastery of its content and behaviour to achieve satisfactory evolution. Excessive growth diminishes that mastery. Hence the average incremental growth remains invariant as the system evolves.
(1991) "Continuing Growth" — the functional content of an E-type system must be continually increased to maintain user satisfaction over its lifetime.
(1996) "Declining Quality" — the quality of an E-type system will appear to be declining unless it is rigorously maintained and adapted to operational environment changes.
(1996) "Feedback System" (first stated 1974, formalised as law 1996) — E-type evolution processes constitute multi-level, multi-loop, multi-agent feedback systems and must be treated as such to achieve significant improvement over any reasonable base.
Releva |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya%20University%20Network | The , founded in 2006 in Japan, is not a university or college in the traditional sense but a new system of education in the local community of Shibuya, Tokyo. The school is led by Yasuaki Sakyo, a 28-year-old ex-accountant. There are no entrance examinations; classes take place in the city's surroundings; and teachers come from all walks of life.
See also
Shibuya, Tokyo
Alternative education
Alternative school
Alternative university
Autodidacticism
Democratic school
Deschooling
Education
Free school (disambiguation)
Gifted education
School
Special education
Unschooling
John Dewey
References
External links
Official site
Buildings and structures in Shibuya
Universities and colleges in Tokyo
Educational institutions established in 2006
Alternative education organizations
2006 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeo%20Maruyama | (born 1941 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese businessman. He is best known for being the founder of Epic/Sony Records, former chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment and former CEO of Sony Music Entertainment. He is known for discovering artists such as Motoharu Sano and Tetsuya Komuro.
References
External links
Official blog
1941 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Tokyo
Japanese chief executives
Sony Interactive Entertainment people
Sony Music
Sony people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUGM-LP | WUGM-LP (106.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Rhythmic Oldies format, along with specialized Electronic dance music-based programming on the weekends. Licensed to Muskegon, Michigan, United States, the station is currently owned by West Michigan Community Help Network.
References
External links
M106FM Facebook
UGM-LP
UGM-LP
Rhythmic oldies radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2003
2003 establishments in Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERU-FM | KERU-FM (88.5 FM) is a bilingual radio station licensed to Blythe, California, and is an affiliate of the Spanish Public Radio network. The station was owned by Escuela de la Raza Unida until June 2016, when the school transferred ownership to the station's managers. The 100-watt station began broadcasting in 1983.
References
External links
ERU-FM
Blythe, California
Mass media in Riverside County, California
Radio stations established in 1983
1983 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Home%20Computer%20Course | The Home Computer Course () was a partwork magazine published by Orbis Publishing in the United Kingdom during 1983 and 1984, covering the subject of home computer technology. It ran for 24 weekly issues, before being succeeded by The Home Computer Advanced Course.
Each issue contained articles on various topics, including computer hardware, software, computer applications, a "Questions and Answers" column, BASIC programming and an in-depth review of a contemporary microcomputer, with annotated exploded view photos of its internals.
See also
Input Magazine
References
External links
TV advert for The Home Computer Course on TVARK
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Home computer magazines
Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1983
Magazines disestablished in 1984
Magazines published in London
Partworks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Pelczarski | Mark Pelczarski wrote and published some of the earliest digital multimedia computer software. In 1979 while teaching computer science at Northern Illinois University, he self-published Magic Paintbrush, which was one of the first digital paint programs for the Apple II, the first consumer computer that had color graphics capabilities.
Pelczarski was hired as an editor at SoftSide magazine in 1980, but then left to start Penguin Software in 1981 to publish his optimistically-titled Complete Graphics System, which included digital imaging and 3D wireframe rendering.
In the next year he co-wrote and published Special Effects and Graphics Magician with David Lubar, who was then writing for Creative Computing magazine. Special Effects produced digital effects with images and also contained one of the first uses of digital paintbrushes. Graphics Magician featured one of the first uses of vector graphics for image compression, as well as animation routines that made it easy for programmers to add animation to their software. Graphics Magician was licensed by most of the software publishers in the early 1980s for adding graphics and animation to their games and educational software, won numerous awards, and was one of the best selling programs of the time. It was the forerunner of software like Adobe Flash for compressed images and animation.
Pelczarski wrote a monthly column for Softalk magazine about computer graphics programming, and those columns were later collected into a book, Graphically Speaking.
In 1986 Pelczarski wrote and published one of the first digital music performance programs, MIDI Onstage, which allowed control of MIDI devices to accompany live performances. Soon after, he built the digital portion of recording studios for Jimmy Buffett and Dan Fogelberg.
Pelczarski returned to college teaching and taught one of the first online courses in 1996. As part of the development for the course he wrote Dialogue, one of the first web forum applications, which was made available free to dozens of other universities around the world as they entered into online education.
References
General References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Computer programmers
Northern Illinois University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Home%20Computer%20Advanced%20Course | The Home Computer Advanced Course 1 () was a partwork magazine published by Orbis Publishing in the United Kingdom during 1984 and 1985, providing a comprehensive introduction to computing and computer technology for home computer users. It ran for 96 weekly issues, succeeding the previous 24-part publication, The Home Computer Course.
Each issue contained articles on various topics. Subjects included computer applications, computer hardware and software technology, concepts in computer science, practical electronics projects, BASIC and machine code programming, other programming languages, operating systems (including MS-DOS and UNIX), and a jargon dictionary.
See also
Input Magazine
References
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1984
Magazines disestablished in 1985
Magazines published in London
Partworks
Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Point%2C%20Fayette%20County%2C%20Texas | West Point is an unincorporated community in western Fayette County, Texas, United States.
Data for West Point is unavailable from the 2010 census, indicating that it most likely has fewer than 500 residents. It is not listed on census.gov under communities in Fayette County.
West Point has one post office, founded, according to USPS records, on January 27, 1873; its ZIP Code is 78963. However, it is in disrepair and is no longer staffed or accessible.
History
Around 1831, the land for West Point was deeded as a town to Montreville Woods and another, unnamed member of the Woods family. In the 1880s, the first railroad arrived in the town, and a community was established. The Woods family built a stockade on the land, and the region was referred to unofficially as Wood's Prairie.
When West Point grew to have a cannery, two doctors, and three hotels, in 1873, a post office was granted. In the 1920s and 30s, TX-71 was constructed one mile south of the railroad tracks, which were operated by MK&T, and a large portion of the populace moved towards it.
During the 1940s, the population of West Point approached 300. Students attended classes in La Grange and even today, the area is served by La Grange Independent School District.
West Point fell into decline in the late 1940s, shrinking to half its size by 1950. The 1990 census was the last one conducted in the community, reporting 250 residents. This number was reused on the 2000 census and West Point fell off the register for 2010.
External links
http://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt011.cfm
http://www.texasescapes.com/CentralTexasTownsSouth/West-Point-Texas.htm
Unincorporated communities in Fayette County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Software | ABC Software is a computer and video game software distributor founded in 1991. The initial company was located in Switzerland, and is known as ABC Software Switzerland. Its subsidiary, ABC Software Austria, was established in 1993. They were acquired by Electronic Arts on July 28, 1998.
References
External links
Website of ABC Software
Official homepage of Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts subsidiaries
Video game publishers
Video game companies established in 1991
Video game companies of Switzerland
Swiss companies established in 1991
1998 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greville%20Phillimore | Greville Phillimore (1821–1884) was a priest of the Church of England and hymnal compiler.
Life
He was the fifth son of Joseph Phillimore. He was educated successively at Westminster School, Charterhouse School, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1842, and M.A. in 1844. Taking holy orders, he was curate at Henley-on-Thames and at Shiplake. In 1851 he became vicar of Downe-Ampney, near Cricklade in Gloucestershire; and in 1867 he returned as rector to Henley, where he remained until, in July 1883, he accepted the crown living of Ewelme There he died on 20 January 1884.
Works
Phillimore was joint editor with James Russell Woodford and Hyde Wyndham Beadon of The Parish Hymn Book (1863; enlarged edition of 1875). This was one of the first books to give exposure to John Mason Neale's translations of Greek hymns. Phillimore contributed, besides translations, eleven original hymns, several of which were then reprinted in other collections.
His Parochial Sermons were published in 1856 (London; 2nd edit. 1885), and he was author of ‘Uncle Z,’ a story of Triberg, in the Black Forest (1881), and ‘Only a Black Box, or a Passage in the Life of a Curate’ (1883). A memorial volume, printed at Henley in 1884, and edited by his daughter Catherine, contained his hymns and some sermons.
Family
He married, on 16 April 1857, Emma Caroline, daughter of Captain Ambrose Goddard (1779–1854) of the Lawn, Swindon, M.P. for from 1837 to 1841.
References
Attribution
1821 births
1884 deaths
People educated at Charterhouse School
19th-century English Anglican priests
People from Shiplake
People from Henley-on-Thames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastikids | Fantastikids is a 2006 Philippine television drama fantasy adventure series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Jun Lana and Zoren Legaspi, it stars Marky Cielo, Isabella de Leon and BJ Forbes. It premiered on May 6, 2006 replacing Wag Kukurap. The series concluded on December 9, 2006 with a total of 33 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Marky Cielo as Daniel
Isabella De Leon as Diana
BJ Forbes as Don-Don
Supporting cast
Glaiza de Castro as Honey
Sandy Andolong as Melinda
Melanie Marquez as Lucila
Bodjie Pascua as Domeng
Paolo Contis as Richard
Jackie Rice as Princess
Francine Prieto as Armana
Ryza Cenon as Annabel
Dominic Roco as Bogz
Felix Roco as Atoy
Justin Rosana as Wena
Vangie Labalan as Bebang
References
External links
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2006 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard%20of%20Broken%20Dreams%20%28TV%20series%29 | Boulevard of Broken Dreams is an American documentary series that aired the E! television network from January 22 to March 12, 2007. The series focuses on stories about celebrities who have struggled with fame, staged major comebacks after falling from grace, or who met untimely ends.
List of episodes
Krissy and Niki Taylor/Leif Garrett
Destiny's Child/Jonathan Brandis
Lauryn Hill/Mitch Hedberg
Asia Carrera/Tommy Morrison
Chris Penn/Tara Correa-McMullen
James Frey/Christine Chubbuck
Tom Sizemore/Troy Duffy
Glenn Quinn/Lil' Kim
Niki Taylor lawsuit
On January 29, 2007, Niki Taylor filed a federal lawsuit charging E! Entertainment with slander and emotional distress for her profile on Boulevard of Broken Dreams. She alleges the producers promised to promote her successes but instead misrepresented her as a failure. "The first episode," the Complaint stated, "... is a false portrayal of Ms. Taylor as being continually plagued by ill fortune and tragedy." The lawsuit indicates the documentary alarmed a cosmetics company with which she was negotiating to start a cosmetics line.
References
External links
2007 American television series debuts
2007 American television series endings
2000s American documentary television series
E! original programming
English-language television shows
Entertainment news shows in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Search%20and%20Rescue%20Advisory%20Group | The International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) is a network of disaster-prone and disaster-responding countries and organizations dedicated to urban search and rescue (USAR) and operational field coordination. It aims to establish standards and classification for international USAR teams as well as a methodology for international response coordination in the aftermath of earthquakes and collapsed structure disasters. The INSARAG Secretariat is located in the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
History
INSARAG was established in 1991 following initiatives of international USAR teams that responded to the 1988 Armenia earthquake and the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. The United Nations was chosen as the INSARAG Secretariat to facilitate international participation and coordination. INSARAG Secretariat is hosted in the Emergency Response Section (ERS) of the Response Support Branch (RSB) (which was called in the past "Field Coordination Support Section of the Emergency Services Branch") of OCHA in Geneva.
INSARAG activities are guided by UN General Assembly Resolution 57/150 of 16 December 2002 on "Strengthening the Effectiveness and Coordination of International Urban Search and Rescue Assistance" and by the INSARAG Hyogo Declaration adopted at the first INSARAG Global Meeting in 2010 in Kobe, Japan.
INSARAG participated in relief efforts for the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
INSARAG led the response to the 2023 earthquake in Turkey.
Mandate
The INSARAG Mandate entails:
the development of effective international USAR procedures and operational standards,
implementing the "Strengthening the Effectiveness" document,
improving cooperation and coordination amongst international USAR teams at disaster sites,
promoting activities to improve USAR preparedness in disaster-prone countries,
development of standardized guidelines and procedures,
sharing best practices amongst national and international USAR teams, and
defining standards for minimum requirements of international USAR teams.
Membership
Any country or organization with a stake in urban search and rescue may join INSARAG. Countries that wish to join identify a national focal point that acts as an interface with the INSARAG Regional Group and the Secretariat. Organizations wishing to join apply to the Secretariat through their national focal point. Member countries with USAR teams deploying internationally are strongly encouraged to apply for an INSARAG External Classification (IEC), however, this is not a requirement to be a member of INSARAG.
INSARAG members are part of a worldwide knowledge-sharing network on collapsed structure rescue and operational field coordination. They are invited to annual meetings of the relevant INSARAG Regional Group and to participate in INSARAG working groups. The members are expected to have access to the Virtual OSOCC (Virtual On-Site Operations Coordination Cent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHWK%20%28AM%29 | KHWK (1380 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Winona, Minnesota, United States, the station features programming from ABC News Radio and Westwood One.
It is owned by Leighton Broadcasting, through licensee Leighton Radio Holdings, Inc., and is located at 752 Bluffview Circle, with its other sister stations.
It was originally on 1570 kHz and moved to 1380 kHz in 1958.
Previous logo
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KHWK
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations in Minnesota
Radio stations established in 1957
1957 establishments in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGSL | KGSL (95.3 FM, "KG-95.3") is a radio station broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format. Licensed to Winona, Minnesota, United States, the station features programming from Jones Radio Network.
It is owned by Leighton Broadcasting, through licensee Leighton Radio Holdings, Inc., and is located at 752 Bluffview Circle, with its other sister stations.
References
External links
Winona Radio
Radio stations in Minnesota
Radio stations established in 1971
1971 establishments in Minnesota
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue%20tone | A cue tone is a message consisting of audio tones, used to prompt an action.
In broadcast networks, a DTMF cue tone or subaudible tone was traditionally used to prompt insertion of a local TV commercial or radio advertisement by the broadcast automation equipment at the broadcast station or cable headend. This has been replaced in the IPTV with digital cue tones (typically SCTE-35 streams in North America).
Cue tones were also used on broadcast carts (cartridge tapes) to cue local equipment to start and stop, particularly to cue the tape player itself, as the tape runs in an endless loop and often contains several segments of content.
See also
BTSC
Show control
References
Broadcast engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhedra%20DBMS | Polyhedra is a family of relational database management systems offered by ENEA AB, a Swedish company. The original version of Polyhedra (now referred to as Polyhedra IMDB) was an in-memory database management system which could be used in high availability configurations; in 2006 Polyhedra Flash DBMS was introduced to allow databases to be stored in flash memory. All versions employ the client–server model to ensure the data are protected from misbehaving application software, and they use the same SQL, ODBC and type-4 JDBC interfaces. Polyhedra is targeted primarily for embedded use by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and big-name customers include Ericsson, ABB, Emerson, Lockheed Martin, United Utilities and Siemens AG.
Company
Polyhedra development was started in 1991 by Perihelion Technology Ltd, a subsidiary of Perihelion Software Ltd (PSL); initially, the project had a working title the "Perihelion Application Toolkit", but was soon renamed Polyhedra (using a left-over trademark from another PSL project). There was a management buyout of PTL in 1994, and the company name changed to Polyhedra plc to match the name of the product. Polyhedra plc was in turn acquired by Enea AB in 2001. All development and support is still done in the English town of Shepton Mallet, where PSL was based.
Features
Tim King, the founder of Perihelion Software Ltd, developed a relational DBMS for historical data as part of his PhD work; Dave Stoneham, who set up PTL, had previously developed a SCADA system. Building on these experiences, Polyhedra was originally developed "to bring the benefits of relational technology to the embedded market". To this end, it had to be small footprint, very fast... and it had to avoid the need for polling, which is a performance killer. Consequently, it was designed from the start to:
keep the working copy of the data in-memory (though there is now a variant that keeps the data in a flash-based file);
use a client–server architecture to protect the data from corruption by rogue application code;
have an 'active query' mechanism to update client applications when relevant database changes occur;
have a very simple processing model where a transaction is either a schema change, a query, or a request for a set of inserts, updates and/or deletes - such alterations can either be expressed via SQL statements or by updating through the active queries with (in conjunction with active queries) an optimistic concurrency mechanism to handle clashing updates;
have a table inheritance mechanism which, when combined with Database triggers (via the CL language, see below), allows the database designer to program the database in an object-oriented fashion. Table inheritance also avoids or reduces the need for supplementary tables whose primary key is a foreign key to another table, and thus can simplify many queries and updates.
have a Historian module to allow large volumes of times-series data to be captured, stored, archived |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Plant%20Conservation | The Center for Plant Conservation (CPC) is a not-profit organization consisting of a network of more than 50 institutions. The mission is to conserve and restore the rare native plants of the United States and Canada. CPC represents a network of conservation partners, collectively known as CPC Participating Institutions (PIs), that collaboratively work to save at risk plants of the United States and Canada. CPC PIs maintain the CPC National Collection of Endangered Plants, a living conservation collection of imperiled plants. By working to collect and manage living seeds and plants, advancing the understanding of threats as well as the means to save these species, and communicating with partners within the CPC network, the CPC works to ensure the conservation of these rare plants.
CPC is coordinated by a national office and guided by a volunteer board of trustees. By developing standards and protocols as well as conducting conservation programs in horticulture, research, restoration, and raising awareness, CPC’s network aims to avoid the extinction of rare plant species.
References
Non-profit organizations based in the United States
Environmental organizations based in the United States
Plant conservation
Native plant societies based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20spanning | File spanning is the ability to package a single file or data stream into separate files of a specified size. This task implies the ability to re-combine the package files back into the original file or data stream.
This is useful when saving large files onto smaller volumes or breaking large files up into smaller files for network messages of limited size (email, newsgroups). It also allows the creation of parity files such as parchive (PAR) to verify and restore missing or corrupted package files. Another advantage with this is coping with file size limits on some file systems of removable media, or coping with volume size limits of things like floppy disks.
Sometimes the file spanning process is hidden as a secondary operation such as with file archivers. In this case, many smaller files are first packaged into a data stream and then repackaged into a multi-file archive.
File spanning software
Many file spanning utilities are available for nearly every OS and platform. Below are a few examples:
PKZip/WinZip
RAR/WinRAR
PAR/Parchive
split (Unix)
See also
File splitter
Storage software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cyberspace is a term for virtual reality coined by William Gibson.
Cyberspace may also refer to:
Cyberspace (album), a 2000 music album by composer Eloy Fritsch
Cyberspace (role-playing game), a cyberpunk role-playing game
"Cyberspace", a song by AC/DC from their album Stiff Upper Lip Tour Edition
"Cyberspace", a song by Battle Beast from their album Steel
Cyberspace 3000, a comic book by Marvel Comics
Cyberspace Command, an alternate name for Air Force Cyber Command, a United States Air Force major command
Cyberspace Electronic Security Act, a bill enacted by the US Congress
Sometimes used to refer to the Internet, World Wide Web or virtual reality in general
See also
Cyberchase, an animated television series
Augmented reality
Virtual reality
Virtual world
Online community
Space (disambiguation)
Cyber (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouthshire%20Railway%20and%20Canal%20Company | The Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company was a canal and railway company that operated a canal and a network of railways in the Western Valley and Eastern Valley of Newport, Monmouthshire. It started as the Monmouthshire Canal Navigation and opened canals from Newport to Pontypool and to Crumlin from 1796. Numerous tramroads connected nearby pits and ironworks with the canal.
After 1802 the company built a tramway from Nine Mile Point, west of Risca, to Newport, and an associated company, the Sirhowy Tramroad, connected from Tredegar. Steam locomotives were used from 1829. By 1850 pressure was mounting to modernise the line, and in 1848 an Act of Parliament authorised conversion to a modern railway, construction of a new railway from Newport to Pontypool, and a change of name for the Company to the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company.
The high volume of mineral activity in the area kept the Company in good financial health for many years, but it failed to keep abreast of competing developments, and faced with unforeseen major loss of business it sold the rights to operate its network to the Great Western Railway in 1875. The GWR developed the network, until in the period after 1918 road competition increasingly abstracted passenger and non-mineral goods traffic. Passenger operation ceased in 1962.
The Eastern Valley Line closed completely south of Cwmbran Junction in 1963, but the Western Valley Line was sustained by the continued operation of British Steel's works at Ebbw Vale. A passenger service from Ebbw Vale to Cardiff was resumed on 6 February 2008.
The Monmouthshire Canal Navigation
For centuries the mineral wealth of Monmouthshire had been exploited, especially in the manufacture of iron; the necessary raw materials were all at hand: coal, ironstone, limestone, and timber. This availability encouraged technical innovation, and this in turn led to considerable progress in the industry. The iron production took place some distance from the coast, and transport away to a point of use was exceedingly difficult and expensive.
Industrialists in the area combined to finance the construction of a canal from Pontnewynydd, a little north-west of Pontypool, to Newport, and a second arm from near Crumlin, through Rogerstone to join the first arm of the canal at Crindau, close to Newport. Each arm of the canal was 11 miles in length. The canal was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1792, and the Act included permission to build connecting tramways or plateways (or alternatively "stone roads") to pits within seven miles of the canal, and to raise £120,000. The estimated cost was £106,000, and such was the enthusiasm for the scheme that the capital was all subscribed before the Act was passed.
There was a considerable fall from the top of the canal to Newport: the Pontnewynydd arm descended 447 feet, using 42 locks; there were two tunnels. The Crumlin arm descended 358 feet to Crindau, and required 31 locks. Reservoirs had to be created at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DROsoft | DROsoft was a Spanish computer and video game software distributor headquartered in Madrid. The company was founded in 1985 out of DRO Records, Spain's first independent record label. It is considered to have played a part in the golden age of Spanish software, having been described as one of the "principal distributors" of the age.
They were associated with the publication of a number of ZX Spectrum games, some of which were marketed specifically for their translations to Spanish. The company was further noted for translations of British-made games into Spanish, with the quality of the translations justifying their higher prices as compared to the rest of their software lineup.
DROsoft also published the first graphical adventure game developed in Spain, , developed by Pendulo Studios.
In 1988, they entered into an agreement to cooperate with Dinamic Software in distributing games, both in Spain and internationally.
They were acquired by Electronic Arts on 14 November 1994, in order to allow direct distribution of Electronic Arts' software to the Spanish region. One of its founding directors, Miguel Angel Gomez, later became the managing director of EMI Spain; another, Jesús Alonso Gallo, went on to sell another business, Restaurantes.com, to the Michelin Group.
In September 1995 they distributed the first E-books designed for children, as produced by Broderbund. Their last published game was the Spanish version of Discworld in 1995.
References
External links
Official homepage of Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts subsidiaries
Video game publishers
Defunct video game companies of Spain
Video game companies established in 1985
Spanish companies established in 1985
1994 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision%20Software | Vision Software was a computer and video game software distributor, headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was founded in 1990. The company had regional offices in the cities of Durban and Cape Town, and had a high amount of growth in sales to Kenya, and to neighbors of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and Eswatini.
Vision Software was acquired by Electronic Arts (EA) on April 8, 1996. Vision was the leader of software sales in South Africa at the time of its purchase by EA. It was acquired in order to allow direct distribution of software to the South African and neighboring regions.
References
External links
Official homepage of Electronic Arts
Companies based in Johannesburg
Video game companies established in 1990
Electronic Arts subsidiaries
Software companies of South Africa
1990 establishments in South Africa
Video game companies disestablished in 1996
1996 disestablishments in South Africa
1996 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct video game companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20pack | A data pack (or fact pack) is a pre-made database that can be fed to a software, such as software agents, game, Internet bots or chatterbots, to teach information and facts, which it can later look up. In other words, a data pack can be used to feed minor updates into a system.
Introduction
Common data packs may include abbreviations, acronyms, dictionaries, lexicons and technical data, such as country codes, RFCs, filename extensions, TCP and UDP port numbers, country calling codes, and so on.
Data packs may come in formats of CSV and SQL that can easily be parsed or imported into a database management system.
The database may consist of a key-value pair, like an association list.
Data packs are commonly used within the video game industry to provide minor updates within their games. When a user downloads an update for a game they will be downloading loads of data packs which will contain updates for the game such as minor bug fixes or additional content. An example of a data pack used to update a game can be found on the references.
Example
SELECT capital FROM countries WHERE country='Sweden'
Data pack
A data pack DataPack Definition is similar to a data packet it contains loads of information (data) and stores it within a pack where the data can be compressed to reduce its file size. Only certain programs can read a data pack therefore when the data is packed it is vital to know whether the receiving program is able to unpack the data. An example of data packs which are able to effective deliver information can be found on the reference page.
Mobile data packs
When you refer to the word data pack it can come in many forms such as a mobile data pack. A mobile data pack refers to an add-on which can enable you to boost the amount of data which you can use on your mobile phone. The rate at which you use your data can also be monitored, so you know how much data you have left. Mobile data is a service which provides a similar service to Wi-Fi and allows you to connect to the Internet. So the purpose of a data pack is to increase the amount of data that your mobile has access to. An example of a mobile data pack can be found on the references.
See also
:Category:Lists
Data set
Semantic triple
External links
DarkBot @ SourceForge
A directory of fact packs
References
Artificial intelligence
Databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hits%20Album%2010 | The Hits Album 10 or Hits 10 is the tenth release of the Hits compilation series, compiled by BMG, CBS and WEA. It was released in the UK on 22 May 1989. With this release, the compilers returned to the tradition of a volume issue number and the revival of artwork used from Hits 6 to Hits 8, with the issue number forming a central graphic against a black background. It was a successful album and reached number one on the UK Compilation Album chart for six consecutive weeks and achieved a Platinum sales award.
This would be the last release in the Hits series, for the time being, to follow the chronological volume number which had been in place from its launch in 1984. From now on, there would be several rebrands and relaunches of the Hits series, including the return to sequential numbering, picking it back up at Hits 50 twelve years later, around the same time as Now 50 in 2001.
Hits 10 features one song which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart: "Eternal Flame".
A 16-track video compilation, titled The Hits 10 Video Selection was also released on VHS by CBS Music Video. All tracks on the video are featured on the album.
Track listing
CD/Record/Tape 1
The Bangles - "Eternal Flame"
Donna Summer - "This Time I Know It's for Real"
Kon Kan - "I Beg Your Pardon"
Coldcut featuring Lisa Stansfield - "People Hold On"
The Four Tops and Smokey Robinson - "Indestructible"
Boy Meets Girl - "Waiting for a Star to Fall"
London Boys - "Requiem (Hamburg Edit)"
Fuzzbox - "Pink Sunshine"
Simply Red - "If You Don't Know Me by Now"
De La Soul - "Me Myself and I"
Robert Howard and Kym Mazelle - "Wait"
Bobby Brown - "Don't Be Cruel"
Ten City - "That's the Way Love Is (Deep House Mix)"
The Funky Worm - "U + Me = Love"
Jomanda - "Make My Body Rock (Feel It)"
Pat & Mick - "I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet"
CD/Record/Tape 2
Mike + The Mechanics - "The Living Years"
Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine - "Can't Stay Away from You"
Luther Vandross - "Come Back"
Alyson Williams - "Sleep Talk"
Rick Astley - "Hold Me in Your Arms"
1927 - "That's When I Think of You"
Aretha Franklin and Elton John - "Through the Storm"
Deacon Blue - "Wages Day"
Guns N' Roses - "Sweet Child o' Mine"
Will to Power - "Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley"
Johnny Nash - "I Can See Clearly Now (Remix)"
The The - "The Beat(en) Generation"
Pop Will Eat Itself - "Wise Up! Sucker"
Roachford - "Cuddly Toy"
Beatmasters with MC Merlin - "Who's in the House (The Hip House Anthem)"
Edelweiss - "Bring Me Edelweiss"
The Hits 10 Video Selection
Deacon Blue - "Wages Day"
Pop Will Eat Itself - "Wise Up! Sucker"
Roachford - "Cuddly Toy"
Simply Red - "If You Don't Know Me by Now"
Robert Howard and Kym Mazelle - "Wait"
The Funky Worm - "U + Me = Love"
The Bangles - "Eternal Flame"
Coldcut featuring Lisa Stansfield - "People Hold On"
London Boys - "Requiem"
Fuzzbox - "Pink Sunshine"
Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine - "Can't Stay Away from You"
Luthe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Pritlove | Tim Pritlove (born 25 November 1967 in Gehrden, Germany) is a British/German podcaster, media artist and discordianist. He lives and works in Berlin.
Pritlove studied computer science but never graduated. From 1998 to 2005 he was the main organizer of the Chaos Communication Congress and the Chaos Communication Camps. Also, until 2006 he was in charge as managing director of the "Chaos Computer Club Veranstaltungs GmbH". He also filled a central role in the Chaos Computer Club, where he is settled as a member.
As discordianist Pritlove appeared under the pseudonym Theodor Prinz. With this name he blogged until March 2008 in the MobileMacs blog. Since the beginning of April 2008 he is blogging at MobileMacs by his civic name.
Media-art
At the beginning of the 1990s Pritlove belonged to the developers of the first interactive, telephone based communication platform Die Villa.
He is coordinator and co-developer of the Project Blinkenlights. In the last years he was a scientific assistant in the Institut für zeitbasierte Medien at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1996 he founded the first T-shirt label of the hacker culture named interhemd modebewusstseinserweiterung.
Podcasting
Pritlove was involved with Chaosradio, a radio show the CCC runs with Radio Fritz. He later spun off Chaosradio Express (which was renamed into CRE: Technik, Kultur, Gesellschaft in December 2011), Chaosradio Express International and Chaos TV, as podcasts. Additionally he writes his own weblog called The Lunatic Fringe.
He is involved in the production of several, predominantly German podcasts, as well as the English podcast "Newz of the World". His podcasts are often focused on technology, such as Raumzeit he produced for the ESA.
In 2014 Pritlove was one of the most popular German bloggers.
Personal life
Born British citizen, motivated by Brexit, Pritlove applied for German citizenship, which was granted on 17 October 2018.
References
External links
Pritlove's Weblog „The Lunatic Fringe“
Freakshow podcast (german)
"Across two ends", The Hindu
Podcast: CRE: Technik, Kultur, Gesellschaft (formerly known as Chaosradio Express) (german)
German artists
German podcasters
1967 births
Living people
Members of Chaos Computer Club
Discordians
Academic staff of the Berlin University of the Arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1964–65 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 1964 to August 1965.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Monday-Friday
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
The ABC Evening News with Ron Cochran
The Bugs Bunny Show
Beany and Cecil
The New Casper Cartoon Show
Day in Court
Discovery
Father Knows Best
General Hospital
Get the Message
Hello, Peapickers starring Tennessee Ernie Ford
Issues and Answers
The Magic Land of Allakazam
Missing Links
News with the Women's Touch
The New Casper Cartoon Show
The New American Bandstand 1965
Trailmaster
New series:
A Flame in the Wind/A Time for Us
Annie Oakley
Buffalo Bill, Jr.
The Bullwinkle Show
The Donna Reed Show
Hoppity Hooper
Peter Jennings with the News
The Porky Pig Show
The Rebus Game
Shenanigans
The Young Marrieds
Not returning from 1963-64:
The Jetsons
My Friend Flicka
The Object Is
Queen for a Day
Seven Keys
Who Do You Trust?
CBS
NBC
See also
1964-65 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
1964-65 United States network television schedule (late night)
Sources
Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984
TV schedule pages, The New York Times, September 1964-September 1965 (microfilm)
United States weekday network television schedules
1964 in American television
1965 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ako%20si%20Kim%20Samsoon | (International title: My Name is Kim Samsoon) is a 2008 Philippine television drama romantic comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 2005 South Korean television series My Lovely Sam Soon. Directed by Dominic Zapata, Khryss Adalia and Louie Ignacio, it stars Regine Velasquez in the title role. It premiered on June 30, 2008 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Babangon Ako't Dudurugin Kita. The series concluded on October 10, 2008 with a total of 75 episodes. It was replaced by LaLola in its timeslot.
Background
My Lovely Sam Soon premiered in South Korea in 2005. The series was a major hit in South Korea and Asia. More than 50.5% of Korean households tuned in to watch the finale, with a viewership rate of over 40%.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Regine Velasquez as Kim Samsoon Buot
Supporting cast
Mark Anthony Fernandez as Cyrus Ruiz
Wendell Ramos as Harvey De Guzman
Nadine Samonte as Hannah Villanueva
Tessie Tomas as Sonia Buot
Carmi Martin as Roció Ruiz
Eugene Domingo as Dina
John Lapus as Marcus
Sheena Halili as Cynthia
Marky Lopez as James
Cheska Eugenio as Amber Ruiz
Martin Escudero as Kokoy
Arci Muñoz as Dess
Pauleen Luna as Cherry Fuentebella
Dido dela Paz as Samuel Buot
Maureen Larrazabal as Mau Timbol
Jennica Garcia as Eliza Buot
Vangie Labalan as Brenda Timbol
Marcus Madrigal as Dodong
Kevin Santos as Aaron
Stef Prescott as Ivy
Princess Violago as Gigi
Jade Lopez as Vicky
Guest cast
Gene Padilla as Mau's husband
Toby Alejar as Enrico
Cheska Garcia as Nicole
Chinggoy Alonzo as Mr. Sandoval
Tiya Pusit as a doctor
Mely Tagasa as a judge
Madam Auring as Rocha
Lydia de Vega as Kim Samsoon's trainer
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 33.8% rating. While the final episode scored a 38.2% rating.
References
External links
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romantic comedy television series
Philippine television series based on South Korean television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SingShot%20Media | SingShot Media was initially a social networking song-sharing platform, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, United States. They were acquired by Electronic Arts on February 12, 2007. It was acquired in order to expand EA's community-building and user-generated content. The online The Sims on Stage was created by the company after their acquisition by EA.
References
External links
Official homepage of Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts subsidiaries
Defunct video game companies of the United States
2007 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stackable%20switch | A stackable switch is a network switch that is fully functional operating standalone but which can also be set up to operate together with one or more other network switches, with this group of switches showing the characteristics of a single switch but having the port capacity of the sum of the combined switches.
The term stack refers to the group of switches that have been set up in this way.
The common characteristic of a stack acting as a single switch is that there is a single IP address for remote administration of the stack as a whole, not an IP address for the administration of each unit in the stack.
Stackable switches are customarily Ethernet, rack-mounted, managed switches of 1–2 rack unit (RU) in size, with a fixed set of data ports on the front. Some models have slots for optional slide-in modules to add ports or features to the base stackable unit. The most common configurations are 24-port and 48-port models.
Comparison with other switch architectures
A stackable switch is distinct from a standalone switch, which only operates as a single entity. A stackable switch is distinct from a switch modular chassis.
Benefits
Stackable switches have these benefits:
Simplified network administration: Whether a stackable switch operates alone or “stacked” with other units, there is always just a single management interface for the network administrator to deal with. This simplifies the setup and operation of the network.
Scalability: A small network can be formed around a single stackable unit, and then the network can grow with additional units over time if and when needed, with little added management complexity.
Deployment flexibility: Stackable switches can operate together with other stackable switches or can operate independently. Units one day can be combined as a stack in a single site, and later can be run in different locations as independent switches.
Resilient connections: In some vendor architectures, active connections can be spread across multiple units so that should one unit in a stack be removed or fail, data will continue to flow through other units that remain functional.
Improving backplane: A series of switches, when stacked together, improves the backplane of the switches in stack also.
Drawbacks
Compared with a modular chassis switch, stackable switches have these drawbacks:
For locations needing numerous ports, a modular chassis may cost less. With stackable switching, each unit in a stack has its own enclosure and at minimum a single power supply. With modular switching, there is one enclosure and one set of power supplies.
High-end modular switches have high-resiliency / high-redundancy features not available in all stackable architectures.
Additional overhead when sending stacking data between switches. Some stacking protocols add additional headers to frames, further increasing overhead.
Functionality
Features associated with stackable switches can include:
Single IP address for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Greenman | Chris Greenman (born 22 December 1968) is an English retired footballer who played as a defender.
References
Since 1888... The Searchable Premiership and Football League Player Database (subscription required)
1968 births
Living people
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Premier League players
Coventry City F.C. players
Peterborough United F.C. players
Bromsgrove Rovers F.C. players
Worcester City F.C. players
Footballers from Bristol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniruddha%20M.%20Gole | A. M. Gole is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Since 1992, he is also the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Power Systems Simulation.
Early life and education
He received the B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay), and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada), all in Electrical Engineering.
Career
He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of power systems simulation. Gole's research interests include the utility applications of power electronics and power systems transient simulation. As an original member of the design team, he has made important contributions to the PSCAD/EMTDC simulation program. Gole is active on several working groups of CIGRE and IEEE and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Manitoba.
In 2007, the IEEE Power Engineering Society awarded Gole the prestigious Nari Hingorani FACTS Award "..for Contributions to the Education in the Field of Power Systems and Embedded Power Electronics Apparatus Simulation". He was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 2010 "for contributions to the modeling of power electronics apparatus."
References
External links
Dr. Ani Gole - Faculty at U of M
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Manitoba
Year of birth missing (living people)
IIT Bombay alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS%20API | The DOS API is an API which originated with 86-DOS and is used in MS-DOS/PC DOS and other DOS-compatible operating systems. Most calls to the DOS API are invoked using software interrupt 21h (INT 21h). By calling INT 21h with a subfunction number in the AH processor register and other parameters in other registers, various DOS services can be invoked. These include handling keyboard input, video output, disk file access, program execution, memory allocation, and various other activities. In the late 1980s, DOS extenders along with the DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) allow the programs to run in either 16-bit or 32-bit protected mode and still have access to the DOS API.
History of the DOS API
The original DOS API in 86-DOS and MS-DOS 1.0 was designed to be functionally compatible with CP/M. Files were accessed using file control blocks (FCBs). The DOS API was greatly extended in MS-DOS 2.0 with several Unix concepts, including file access using file handles, hierarchical directories and device I/O control. In DOS 3.1, network redirector support was added. In MS-DOS 3.31, the INT 25h/26h functions were enhanced to support hard disks greater than 32 MB. MS-DOS 5 added support for using upper memory blocks (UMBs). After MS-DOS 5, the DOS API was unchanged for the successive standalone releases of DOS.
The DOS API and Windows
In Windows 9x, DOS loaded the protected-mode system and graphical shell. DOS was usually accessed from a virtual DOS machine (VDM) but it was also possible to boot directly to real mode MS-DOS 7.0 without loading Windows. The DOS API was extended with enhanced internationalization support and long filename support, though the long filename support was only available in a VDM. With Windows 95 OSR2, DOS was updated to 7.1, which added FAT32 support, and functions were added to the DOS API to support this. Windows 98 and Windows ME also implement the MS-DOS 7.1 API, though Windows ME reports itself as MS-DOS 8.0.
Windows NT and the systems based on it (e.g. Windows XP and Windows Vista) are not based on MS-DOS, but use a virtual machine, NTVDM, to handle the DOS API. NTVDM works by running a DOS program in virtual 8086 mode (an emulation of real mode within protected mode available on 80386 and higher processors). NTVDM supports the DOS 5.0 API. DOSEMU for Linux uses a similar approach.
Interrupt vectors used by DOS
The following is the list of interrupt vectors used by programs to invoke the DOS API functions.
DOS INT 21h services
The following is the list of functions provided via the DOS API primary software interrupt vector.
Operating systems with native support
MS-DOS – most widespread implementation
PC DOS – IBM OEM version of MS-DOS
OS/2 1.x – Microsoft/IBM successor to MS-DOS and PC DOS
SISNE plus – Clone created by Itautec and Scopus Tecnologia in Brazil
DR-DOS – Digital Research DOS family, including Novell DOS, PalmDOS, OpenDOS, etc.
PTS-DOS – PhysTechSoft & Paragon DOS clone, including S/DOS
ROM-DOS – |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinkerPlots | TinkerPlots is exploratory data analysis and modeling software designed for use by students in grades 4 through university. It was designed by Clifford Konold and Craig Miller at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is currently published by Learn Troop. It runs on Windows XP or later and Mac OS 10.4 or later. The program allows users to enter their own data, to import them from other applications or the Web, or to generate them using a sampling engine. The program also comes with 50 multivariate data sets.
Using TinkerPlots, students can make a large variety of graphs, including those specified for middle school in Common Core State Standards for Mathematics But rather than making these graphs directly using commands, students construct them by progressively organizing cases using basic operations including “stack,” “order,” and “separate.” Responding to these operations, case icons animate into different screen positions. The interface was based on observations of people organizing “data cards” on a table to make graphs to answer specific questions
Innovations of TinkerPlots include using a superimposed color gradient to detect covariation in two numeric attributes and a “hat plot,” a reformulated and generalized version of the box plot.
The latest version is 2.3.4. This version does not have substantively different features from versions 2.1 and 2.2, but has a number of bug fixes and enhancements to remain compatible with the latest versions of Windows and MacOS.
Critical acclaim
ComputED 2010 Best Educational Software (BESSIE) Award
ComputED 2008 Education Software Review (EDDIE) Award.
Parents' Choice Silver Honor, 2005
Technology & Learning Award of Excellence, 2005
References
Additional References
Bakker, A., Derry, J., & Konold, C. (2006). Using technology to support diagrammatic reasoning about center and variation. In A. Rossman & B. Chance (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS) CD-ROM. Salvador, Bahai, Brazil, July 2–7, 2006.
Konold, C., & Lehrer, R. (in press). Technology and mathematics education: An essay in honor of Jim Kaput. In L. English (Ed.), Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education, (2nd edition). New York: Routledge.
Rubin, A., Hammerman, J., & Konold, C. (2006). Exploring informal inference with interactive visualization software. In A. Rossman & B. Chance (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS) CD-ROM. Salvador, Bahai, Brazil, July 2–7, 2006.
Educational Materials using TinkerPlots
Konold, C. (2005). Exploring Data with TinkerPlots. Key Curriculum Press, . Contents: Getting Started, Learning TinkerPlots, Teaching with TinkerPlots, Activities, Activity Notes.
Brodesky, A., Doherty, A., & Stoddard, J. (2008). Digging into Data with TinkerPlots. Key Curriculum Press, 225 pp. . Contents: (1) Comparisons, Distributions, and Line Plots: Exploring Data about Cats, (2) Comparisons and Boxplots: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20acquisitions%20by%20AOL | AOL is an internet company founded in 1985 as Quantum Computing Services. Each acquisition is for the respective company in its entirety. The acquisition date listed is the date of the agreement between AOL and the subject of the acquisition. The value of each acquisition is listed in US dollars because AOL is headquartered in the United States. If the value of an acquisition is not listed, then it is undisclosed.
As of August 2013, AOL's largest acquisition has been the purchase of Netscape, a web browser company, for US$4.2 billion.
Netscape's browser was dominant, in terms of market share, but it had lost most of its share to Internet Explorer during the first browser war. By the end of 2007, the usage share of Netscape's browsers had fallen from over 90% in the 1990s, to less than 1%. Its second-largest acquisition is the purchase of MapQuest, a web mapping company. From 1999 to 2009, MapQuest had the greatest market share among mapping websites; it has since dropped to second place, behind Google Maps. The majority of the companies acquired by AOL are based in the United States. As of April 2008, AOL has acquired 41 companies. Most of the acquired companies are related to the internet, including several internet service providers and web browsers.
In 2001, AOL merged with Time Warner to become AOL Time Warner. Due to the larger market capitalization of AOL, it gained ascendancy in the merger, with its executives largely displacing Time Warner's despite AOL's far smaller assets and revenues. AOL was spun off as its own independent company from Time Warner in 2009.
Acquisitions
References
External links
of AOL
AOL
AOL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piwigo | Piwigo is a free and open-source web-based photo gallery, originally written by Pierrick Le Gall. It is written in PHP and requires a MySQL database.
Deployment
Piwigo can be deployed using various methods in a hosting environment. Users download the current version of Piwigo from Piwigo.org. Either they download the full archive and upload the source code to their hosting environment or they download the NetInstall (a single PHP file), upload it to their hosting environment and let it download the full archive automatically.
Many shared web hosting services also offer automated Piwigo installation through their control panel: for example, Piwigo is available in SimpleScripts and Softaculous.
History
Piwigo (originally named PhpWebGallery) was written by Pierrick Le Gall as a personal project in 2001. Inspired by the opensource web forum phpBB that he installed for his university website, he chose the GNU General Public License to distribute Piwigo and start a community around the project. The first version of Piwigo was released in April 2002.
In 2002, Piwigo became multilingual. In 2004, a bugtracker was installed in order to enable co-operative working as a team. In 2005 an online extension manager made contributions easier to share. In 2006, themes made customization possible. In 2007 plugins were introduced to extend Piwigo features. In 2009 PhpWebGallery was renamed Piwigo and pLoader (Piwigo Uploader) made photo uploading easier for Windows, Mac and Linux users. In 2010, digiKam, Shotwell, Lightroom made it possible to upload photos to any Piwigo gallery, an enhanced web uploader was provided in Piwigo 2.1 and Piwigo.com was launched (dedicated hosting for Piwigo). As of 2013, there were 10 members in the Piwigo team, 100 translators, a website available in 12 languages and a thriving community.
See also
Comparison of photo gallery software
Notes and references
External links
Free image galleries
Web applications
Free photo software
Free software programmed in PHP
Image-sharing websites
2002 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh%20Al-Azzawi | Riyadh Al-Azzawi () (born February 20, 1986, in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi-British kickboxer and the 2008 World Kickboxing Network (WKN) World Champion after a fight against 3-times world champion Tomasz Borowiec in the 91 kg category on February 12, 2008, becoming the first-ever Arab World Champion in heavyweight kickboxing with a record 34-0 at the time and is now known as "The Golden Champion". Riyadh Al-Azzawi has a record of 51-0.
Career
Riyadh Al-Azzawi's kickboxing career goes back to a very young age in Iraq. He started his sporting career in Iraq where he became champion, winning the gold medal when he was 15 years old. After winning the Arab Kickboxing Championships, Riyadh moved to London and continued his kickboxing career and was able to maintain his championship title and challenged for the British title. In 2003, Riyadh successfully defended his British title and won the European Championship. He then gained popularity in Britain, Iraq and the Arab World. Al-Azzawi has also worked in arts and promotions, appearing in advertising, sponsorship of athletic items and in a video clip as an athlete.
In 2009, after a one year hiatus, Riyadh Al-Azzawi returned to training in order to defend his WKN and WKA world championship titles.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MERbj2IUxnk Al Arabiyya news item about Riyadh Al-Azzawi (Arabic)]</ref> On March 4, 2016 he defended his World Kickboxing Network world title against American-English, Brian Connor, winning by knockout via spinning back kick.
On November 24, 2017 Al-Azzawi defeated Tanislav Tomashevkii of Poland in the main event at Kickboxing Grand Prix held in Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Azzawi was keen on defending his title in his hometown of Baghdad, Iraq, to bring a story of success to an otherwise war-torn nation.
Personal life
Al-Azzawi is notorious for having two gold vinyl wrapped cars. The first of his cars was a Ferrari 458 Spider. In 2017, Riyadh also acquired a second gold vinyl wrapped car, being a G7 Brabus Mercedes Benz. Aside from his two cars, he is often spotted wearing gold clothing and jewellery. His adoration for the colour is one of the reasons he has won the title of ‘Golden Champion’.
The kickboxing champion passed through a turbulent period in his life because of his association with Lebanese pop diva Suzanne Tamim who was brutally murdered in Dubai. Riyadh Al-Azzawi told The Sunday Times'' in an exclusive interview that at the time of her murder, he and Suzanne were "married" (this despite vehement claims by Tamim's second husband and manager Adel Matouk that he and Suzanne Tamim were still legally married after she divorced her first husband Ali Muzannar. Matouk claims they had never divorced, despite the couple's bitter conflict and separation).
Riyadh Al-Azzawi had met Tamim, in Harrods in 2006. She was already receiving some threats to her life and he offered to help protect her. The couple became close and reportedly engaged in 2007. Al-Azzawi and Tamim staye |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datum%20%28disambiguation%29 | Datum is, from its Latin origin, a singular form of "data", and may refer to a single item of data.
Singular data point
Geodetic datum, a standard position or level that measurements are taken from in geographic surveying
Datum reference, in carpentry, metalworking, needlework, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
Chart datum, level of water depth on a nautical chart
Datum or datum point, a (possibly arbitrary) reference baseline or point from which scientific measurements are made (from a Latin meaning of datum as a "given", i.e. an accepted fact)
Publications
Datum (magazine), an Austrian monthly magazine
Omne Datum Optimum ("Every perfect gift"), a papal bull issued by Pope Innocent II in 1139 endorsing the Knights Templar
Geography
Datum Peak, New Zealand
Datum (Greece), a city in ancient Macedonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk%20%28collectible%20card%20game%29 | Cyberpunk the CCG is an out-of-print collectible card game designed by Peter J. Wacks, based on R. Talsorian Games' dystopian near-future role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020.
Publication history
Cyberpunk the CCG was designed by Peter J. Wacks, using the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG setting licensed from R. Talsorian. Wacks claimed that "The CCG is built to play pretty much exactly like the RPG."
The "2013 Edition" (set in the year 2013) was released in December 2003 as a limited edition. Two months later, in February, 2004, the "2020 Edition" (set in the year 2020) was released.
Setting
The world of Cyberpunk 2020 presents a darker vision of the near future, inspired by cyberpunk writers like William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and Neal Stephenson, and movies such as Blade Runner, Johnny Mnemonic and The Matrix.
Gameplay
The main goal of Cyberpunk CCG is to achieve victory by accumulating the so-called Ops points, either by accomplishing missions or 'busting' (destroying) the opponent's location cards. Additionally, each player is required to use a 'Sponsor card' throughout the game. Each of these cards supplies a new victory condition, depending on the premise of the sponsor. Another principal idea used in the game is that cards have their style factor. A player can also attempt victory by accumulating style. Characters have their style attribute which is then modified by the equipment and cybernetics they bear.
Card types
Sponsor cards
Limited to one per deck and played at the beginning of the game. They provide a specific game text and a victory condition.
Biotechnica - cybernetics-oriented; provides the possibility of victory through Empathy loss.
Cops - provides the possibility of victory through busting runners.
Militech - combat-oriented; provides the possibility of victory through controlling offense.
Nomads - provides the possibility of victory through controlling vehicles and The Open Road location card.
The Mob - provides the possibility of victory through controlling locations.
Your Friendly Local Gangs - provides the possibility of victory through the completion of a Punknaught (a custom-built vehicle consisting of several other vehicles and heavy weaponry) and raiding the corporate zone (with the use of a special card entitled Thrashing the Corp Zone).
Runners
Runners are the characters of Cyberpunk CCG. They are deployed by 'buying their loyalty' in Euro Bucks. Each character has his or her profession or role similar to those seen in the role-playing game (that is Solo, Netrunner, Nomad, Tech, etc.). Each role has its own set of rules and abilities that are explained in the manual apart from their regular game text.
Equipment cards
Equipment cards represent all usable items like vehicles, weapons and gadgets.
Cybernetics
Cybernetics represent one of the basic concepts in cyberpunk visions of the future, i.e. cybernetic modifications of the body. They are responsible for Empathy loss, representing loss of humanity in favour of the machine. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrozoon | centrozoon (sometimes incorrectly capitalized as Centrozoon) is a German electronic improvisational music group. The core members are Markus Reuter (Warr touch guitar, loops, programming) and Bernhard Wöstheinrich (synthesizers, electronic percussion, programming). The group's music is flexible and has altered from album to album, but frequently-used elements include ambient music, improvisation, electronica, progressive rock and IDM (intelligent dance music).
While most of the centrozoon recordings have been made by the duo of Reuter and Wöstheinrich, the group has on two occasions expanded to a formal trio - the first featuring No-Man singer Tim Bowness for a set of vocal and song-based projects, the second featuring multi-instrumentalist Tobias Reber. The group has also collaborated with King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto, engineer Bill Munyon and a variety of remixers.
History
Formation
Markus Reuter was a former student of Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft, studying with Fripp and Tony Geballe. Initially trained as a pianist and a student of contemporary classical music (with Karlheinz Straetmanns and Daniel Schell, plus Indian music with Ashok Pathak), he had switched to guitar in the late 1980s and to touch guitar in 1993 (initially Chapman Stick and subsequently Warr Guitar). At around the same time, he had developing an interest in textural loop music. Reuter had also been a member of the Europa String Choir and String Unit.
In the mid-1990s, Reuter met Bernhard Wöstheinrich, an experimental electronic musician playing various synthesizers and electronic rhythm devices. The two began to collaborate as centrozoon in early 1996.
Early albums: Blast and Sun Lounge Debris (1999–2001)
The first centrozoon album was the predominantly-ambient Blast, which was released on DiN Recordings in 1999. Reviewing the disc, ambient radio station Star's End commented "the duo of centrozoon produce spacemusic difficult to quantify, trace or categorize; their distinguishing characteristic being improvisation… Blast speaks to the listener with a musical vocabulary of contrasting harmonies and remarkable timbres… an album that is at once experimental, cerebral, spacious and engaging. Blast creates its own space, colored by the listener's imagination." A remastered version of the album was released nearly a decade later in 2008, featuring an extra track ("Power").
Blast was followed by Sun Lounge Debris, a collection of pieces of a varying nature, initially issued on British art-rock label Burning Shed in 2001 as a CD-R release. Allmusic noted the album's "ambient-inspired depths, with slowly progressing songs that unfold with layers of haunting, lovely drones that sound like soft sighs" and commented on the "definite hints of prog-tinged exploration throughout... Reuter's a very deliberate player, and his skill at creating loops out of his performances establishes the shade and beautiful texture of the pieces. Wöstheinrich's work is subtle throughout, pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visit%20filter | Visit filters which are used by Web log analysis software include or exclude all the data in a visit session. The specifying ranges or types of data let you limit the web log data that is analyzed, letting you focus on relevant activity.
See also
Hit filter
References
Web analytics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geng%3A%20The%20Adventure%20Begins | Geng: The Adventure Begins (, originally Geng: Misteri Hantu Durian) is a 2009 Malaysian Malay-language 3D computer animated film. The film is produced by Les' Copaque and released in Malaysian cinemas beginning 12 February 2009. Geng was launched in a ceremony held on 11 September 2007 together with short animated series Upin & Ipin that have connections with the film. Planning for the film began in late-2005 as Les Copaque commenced operations. It received financial support from ICT-related agencies such as Multimedia Development Corporation and MIMOS.
Plot
The movie begins with Badrol and Lim watching the news covering about the sudden disappearance of durians in Badrol's home village, Kampung Durian Runtuh. A news reporter interviews Badrol's grandfather Tok Dalang about the previous night (a durian fell but something managed to eat it and leave the durians shell clean). Tok Dalang and the locals dub the "something" a durian ghost since its unknown of who or what is eating the durians late at night. Badrol gets skeptical and decides to go to the village, taking Lim along with him.
After riding on a bus which gets its tire punctured, the two are forced to walk to the village which is 5 km away. After a few complains from Lim, a truck driver named Mr. Singh noticed the two and decided to give them a ride much to his friend and boss Pak Mail's chagrin. Badrol then tells them about their journey with Pak Mail talking about an abandoned house.
At the village Upin and Ipin are playing in, Uncle Muthu's outdoor restaurant while Sally is impatiently waiting for his pastries, Mak Uda, called Opah by Upin and Ipin's as she is their grandmother, arrives. The twins greet Opah who tells them to come home with their older sister Kak Ros, Opah then asks Sally to see if he has finished making her clothing and ushers to fix it as Sally tells Opah that he couldn't finish sewing the clothes simply because the buttons keep popping out and is ruining his nails. After Sally complains about Opah, Opah then asks Ah Tong about the news of the durian ghost, but Ah Tong claims the durian ghost to be unreal, Opah claims Ah Tong that he 'never believes in anything'. Sally leaves as he lost his appetite as Singh and Pak Mail drops Badrol and Lim on the shop the two then decided to ask Muthu for directions to Tok Dalang's house since Badrol hasn't been in the village for a while and he doesn't remember the way to his house but due to Muthu's unclear directions, he decided to ask Upin and Ipin to lead Badrol and Lim instead while Kak Ros drops by to deliver the pastries but decided to follow her brothers as she is forced by Uncle Muthu.
Upon arriving at Tok Dalang's (called by Atok) house and having a reunion, Badrol and Lim took Atok's suggestions which is to explore the village, Badrol and Lim then have a motorcycle race, knocking out a child named Rajoo, who forces the two to replace his radio (when Rajoo sees the two heading towards him he jumped into the water w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20National%20Geographic%20original%20programming | The following is a list of television programs currently or formerly broadcast by National Geographic, for either The National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo Kids, or Disney+.
Films
Upcoming
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
1997
1984
Series
Future programming
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
1985
Other programs
Access 360° World Heritage
Aftermath
American Gypsies
Antzilla
Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout?
Arrepentidos
Asombrosamente
Black Bear Unleashed
The Black Dragon
Blackbeard: Terror at Sea
Blinding Horizon
Bob Ballard Specials
Body Snatchers of Bangkok
Bomb Onboard
The Bombing of Germany
The Border
Borrowed Time
Boxing Behind Bars
Brain Child
Breakthrough
Brilliant Beasts
Britain's Greatest Machines with Chris Barrie
Britain's Underworld
Bruce Lee: The Legend
Bruce Lee Lives!
Building Wild
Built For Destruction
Built for the Kill
Burying King Tut
Butchering Beauty (a.k.a. Trading Faces)
The Butterfly Code
Cain and Abel: Brothers at War
Cameramen Who Dare
Carrier
Cars
Catacombs Of Palermo
Catching a Crook
Catching Giants
Caught Barehanded
Caught In The Act
Caught on Safari: Battle at Kruger
Chasing Earthquakes
Chasing UFOs
Cheetah: Against All Odds
Chef On The Road
China Circus
China Quake
China's Ghost Army
China's Great Wall
China's Mystery Mummies
The Chinese Hajj
Churchill's German Army
City Of Ants
Civil War
City So Real
Civil War Gold
Clash Of The Continent
Classified: CIA Confidential
Climbing Redwood Giants
A Closer Shave
Comic Store Heroes
Cockroach Confidential
Colombia's Gold War
Colorado Cannibal
Conjoined at the Head
Continent 7: Antarctica
Convoy: War For The Atlantic
Cooking The World
Cosmos: Possible Worlds
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Cradle of Mandopop
Crash Science
Crime Scene Bangkok
Crimes Against Nature
Critical Situation
Crowd Control
Cruise Ship Diaries
Crystal Skull Legend
CUE TONE
D-Day: Men And Machines
Danger Men
Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr
Dangerous Jobs (a.k.a. Cheating Death)
Deadly Arts
Death Fog
Death of The Universe
Death Traps
Deep Jungle
Deepest Dive
Deepsea Under The Pole
Delhi In Flames
Demolition Dynasty
Desert Seas
Diaries From Hell
Dino Death Trap
Dinofish
Disaster Earth
Divine Delinquents
Diving The Labyrinth
The Diving Women Of Jeju
Dogfight Over Guadalcanal
Dogfight Over MIG Alley
Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan
DogTown
Don't Tell My Mother
Doomsday Castle
Dragon Chronicles
Drain the Alcatraz
Drain the Bermuda Triangle
Drain the Great Lakes
Drain the Ocean: Deep Sea Mysteries
Drain the Sunken Pirate City
Drain the Titanic
Drain the Ocean: WWII
Driving America
Driving Dreams
Dubai Mega Mall
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
The Earth
Earth 2007
Earth Hour
Earth: Making of a Plane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Aronov | Boris Aronov (born March 13, 1963) is a computer scientist, currently a professor at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University. His main area of research is computational geometry. He is a Sloan Research Fellow.
Aronov earned his B.A. in computer science and mathematics in 1984 from Queens College, City University of New York. He went on to graduate studies at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, where he received his M.S. in 1986 and Ph.D. in 1989, under the supervision of Micha Sharir.
References
External links
Aronov's Poly faculty page
1963 births
American computer scientists
Living people
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Queens College, City University of New York alumni
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni
Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20test | Memory test may refer to:
Mental status examination, human memory
Memory test software, computer memory
Neuropsychological test, a formal psychological test of human memory
Announcer's test, a popular repetitive test and tongue-twister
See also
Memory (disambiguation)
Test (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Poleman | Thomas T. Poleman III (born October 26, 1964) is the Chief Programming Officer and President of National Programming for iHeartMedia, the leading audio company in the U.S., and oversees the programming and music strategy, talent development, and artist relations for iHeartMedia’s radio stations. He also heads iHeartMedia's music discovery and emerging artist initiatives, including the Artist Integration Program and the On the Verge program, which has played a key role in breaking artists like Doja Cat, Luke Combs, Olivia Rodrigo, Post Malone, Maren Morris, H.E.R., and Sam Smith early in their careers. In addition, Poleman co-produces iHeartMedia’s major national marque events including the iHeartRadio Music Festival, the iHeartRadio Music Awards, the nationwide Z100 Jingle Ball Tour, the iHeartCountry Festival, iHeartRadio ALTer Ego, iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina, and iHeartPodcast Awards.
At an early age, Poleman had a keen ear for music. Studying piano and guitar he fell in love with rock ‘n’ roll and radio, the subject he studied at Cornell. Poleman started as a DJ at Cornell University's commercial, student-owned radio station WVBR-FM in Ithaca and served as its program director during his senior year, before graduating in 1986. This experience was his gateway into the industry pivoting him through his journey of an impactful career. Landing jobs at WKCI-FM and WAVZ New Haven, and WALK Long Island, and KRBE Houston, and being named the youngest corporate programming executive for AM/FM Broadcasting in 1999 ultimately led him back home to New York with his most challenging obstacle yet. The turning point of his career was when he tackled the daunting task of remaking the then-struggling Z100 at the age of 31. That year, he named Elvis Duran to mornings, shifted the station back to its Top 40 roots, and established Z100’s Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden, which has since become a nationwide tour. Tom Poleman is credited with bringing Z100 from #18 in the market to the top 5, doubling its ratings in two years, and making it the most listened-to top-40 station in the United States. With his guidance, he also brought all five New York City iHeartMedia stations (WHTZ, WLTW, WKTU, Q104.3, Power 105.1) into the top 15 where his work led him to be named senior vice president of programming for iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel). Moving mountains within this industry, and creating record toping strategies led him to be promoted in 2017 as the Chief Programming Officer at iHeartMedia and appointed to President of National Programming Platforms.
Poleman is deeply committed to community service. He currently serves on the board and also volunteers for Musicians on Call. He was honored in 2004 by LIFEbeat - The Music Industry Fights AIDS, 1999 by the T.J Martell Foundation, and also in 1999, as the recipient of the Gloria Swanson Humanitarian Award by the American Cinema Awards. At the prime of the COVID-19 pandemic, iHeartMedia knowing that they direc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AudioID | AudioID is a commercial technology for automatically identifying audio material using acoustic fingerprints. Audio data is recognized automatically and associated information (track or artist name, for example) is provided in real time. The technology was developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT). The IDMT is managed by Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg, who led the development of the MP3 format. AudioID technology is a part of the international ISO/IEC MPEG-7 audio standard of the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). In 2005 German-based company Magix AG acquired patents for the technology. Mufin is a commercial product based on the AudioID.
Process
First, a clear digital signature is created from the output sound, and this is then stored in a database. The signature can be linked to additional meta information in a database, e.g. artist or title information. As soon as an audio signal's signature is available, AudioID can identify a sample of the original audio, even if the sample is only a few seconds long. Alteration of the output sound material, e.g. bias or equalization, MP3 encoding or acoustic transfer does not influence the quality of the recognition process. The rate of recognition normally amounts to 99%.
Application
Audio recognition technologies like AudioID are used everywhere where sound material has to be recognized and identified automatically, e.g. radio or digital libraries. Commercial products which utilize the AudioID technology include diverse MAGIX products, such as MP3 Maker.
External links
audioid technology from mufin
References
MPEG
Acoustic fingerprinting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent%20355 | 355 (died after 1780) was the supposed code name of a female spy during the American Revolution who was part of the Culper Ring spy network. She was one of the first spies for the United States, but her real identity is unknown. The number 355 could be decrypted from the system the Culper Ring used to mean "lady." Her story is considered part of national myth, as there is very little evidence that 355 even existed, although many continue to assert that she was a real historical figure.
Biography
The only direct reference to 355 in any of the Culper Ring's missives (1778–1780) appears in a letter from Abraham Woodhull ("Samuel Culper Sr.") to General George Washington, where Woodhull describes her as "one who hath been ever serviceable to this correspondence."
While the true identity of 355 remains unknown, some facts about her seem clear. She worked with the American Patriots during the Revolutionary War as a spy, and was likely recruited by Woodhull into the spy ring. The way the code is constructed indicates that she may have had "some degree of social prominence." She was likely living in New York City at the time, and at some point had contact with Major John André and Benedict Arnold. One person who has been named as the possible identity of Agent 355 was Anna Strong, Woodhull's neighbor. Strong allegedly helped the Culper Ring by signaling to its members the location of Caleb Brewster, who raided British shipments in his whaleboat around Long Island Sound after he was given a secure location by Strong.
Another theory is that 355 may have been Robert Townsend's common-law wife. Stories about Townsend state that he was in love with 355. John Burke and Andrea Meyer have made a different case for 355's involvement in the spy ring, using circumstantial evidence that she may have been close to Major John André and also to Benjamin Tallmadge, thereby protecting Woodhull from accusations of being a spy. Other possible candidates for 355 include Sarah Horton Townsend and Elizabeth Burgin.
It is also occasionally believed that there was no Agent 355 at all, but rather that the code indicated a woman who had useful information but was not "formally connected to the ring." The code itself may have referred to "a woman," not an agent who was a woman.
355 is thought to have played a major role in exposing Arnold as a defector and in the arrest of André, who was hanged in Tappan, New York. She may have been a member of a prominent Loyalist family, which would have put her within easy reach of British commanders.
The then pregnant 355 was arrested in 1780 when Benedict Arnold defected to the Loyalists. She was imprisoned on , a prison ship, where she may have given birth to a boy named Robert Townsend Jr. She later died on the prison ship. However, Alexander Rose disagrees with this narrative, stating that "females were not kept aboard prison ships," and that "there's no record whatsoever of a birth." Strengthening the idea that Agent 355 may have be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition%20of%20African%20Lesbians | The Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) is a network that comprises 14 non-profit organizations that are spread across 10 different countries in the sub-Saharan region of Africa. Their collective network is centered around feminism, activism, and pan-Africanism. The mission of CAL is to progress the freedom, liberation, and autonomy for all women who reside in Africa or in any other part of the world. Additionally, CAL strives to advocate and build the capacities of lesbian women while promoting African agency.
History
This expansive network was founded in August 2004 in Windhoek, Namibia. A diverse group of women came together in which they represented 14 different African countries and a variety lesbian and other LGBTQ non-profit organizations. They originally had drafted the name, African Lesbian Alliance, however they eventually solidified Coalition of African Lesbians to be the final name. At this meeting, all of the participants were very strategic and adamant about advancing lesbian rights and placing power back into a women's ability to make choices for themselves, especially in regard to their sexual freedom. They were also focused on disseminating HIV information that would resonate and help keep lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women communities safe as they were often overlooked by prominent HIV/AID organizations. After the framework and clear agenda of CAL was established, the women representatives created a logo and website to brand the network, instituted a constitution, and facilitated elections for office bearers to transition away from a steering committee.
In 2010, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights declined to give the CAL observer status and rejected the group's May 2008 application. The commission initially rejected the charter stating, "that, the activities of the said organisation do not promote and protect any of the rights enshrined in the African Charter". After the African Commission on Human and People's Rights refused to grant CAL observer status, many LGBTQ and human rights activists were extremely frustrated as that decision continued to put lesbian women and other LGBTQ members in danger. During this time, David Kato (a prominent Ugandan LGBTQ activist) was murdered and LGBTQ hate crimes were escalating, thus there was a genuine concern for people's safety. However, in 2014, the CAL submitted another application, which in 2015 was accepted. The Coalition of African Lesbians was finally extended observer status in April 2015 after previous years of trying. However, that transformative decision was not received well by certain members of the African Union due to the fact that the promotion LGBTQ rights and inclusion is still a controversial and debated topic within Africa.
Objectives
The Coalition of African Lesbians outlines several broad objectives within its 2006 constitution: - To advocate and lobby for the equal political, sexual, cultural and economic rights of African lesbian, bisexua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rock%20Radio%20Network | The Rock Radio Network is a 3-station AM and 3-FM-translator radio network out of San Juan, Puerto Rico. It broadcasts Christian biblical teaching in a bilingual format. The Rock consists of the stations WBMJ/W258DT in San Juan, WIVV/W280GC in Vieques, and WCGB/W293DP in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico. The Rock is owned and operated by Calvary Evangelistic Mission, Inc.
History
WIVV Days
The Rock Radio Network began as the missionary radio station WIVV (AM 1370). In 1952, the missionary couple Don and Ruth Luttrell moved to Vieques, Puerto Rico. Don Luttrell was a pioneer missionary pilot and evangelist. When they arrived, their main purpose was to evangelize by means of rallies and Bible study courses. As time passed, the Luttrells felt the need for a more effective tool that could reach the Caribbean more quickly. In 1956, they started what became the first full-time Christian radio station in Puerto Rico. It was named WIVV, or "West Indies Voice of Victory," because its intended coverage area included the West Indies and Lesser Antilles. WIVV broadcast a mixture of prerecorded Bible teaching from the USA and local sources, along with music, news, and weather reports. In time, WIVV and its associated ministries consolidated into what became known as Calvary Evangelistic Mission.
WBMJ The Rock Radio Network
WBMJ (AM 1190) was founded in the 1960s by the comedian and musician Bob Hope. In its early years, WBMJ was a secular music station. Passing through different hands and managements, it eventually rose to become one of the top rock-music stations in the island of Puerto Rico. To its fans, WBMJ was known affectionately as "The Rock." In 1985, WBMJ passed into the hands of Calvary Evangelistic Mission. Shortly thereafter, its programming changed to an all-Christian teaching format with a mixture of live and prerecorded material similar to was what already broadcasting on WIVV. With two radio stations, Calvary Evangelistic Mission made the decision to broadcast mostly from WBMJ and to combine the two stations into one radio network. After an on-air contest to adopt a new name, listeners chose the moniker "The Rock" for the new network. The name became a bridge from WBMJ's history as a rock station and Jesus Christ's claim of himself as the Rock in Matthew 16:18.
WCGB
WCGB (AM 1060) was founded in 1967 by Grace Broadcasters, Inc. The station was built in Juana Díaz. WCGB was an all-Spanish station with a Christian emphasis, but slightly secular in programming. For example, the station covered local sports, news, and politics, and it aired secular music. Yet the management also made sure that every hour of programming contained something with a religious context. For many years, the management of The Rock had desired to reach the Western side of Puerto Rico and Ponce. In 2004, Grace Broadcasters sold WCGB to Calvary Evangelistic Mission. When WCGB joined The Rock, its programming changed to a bilingual teaching format almost identica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EShop%20Inc. | eShop Inc. (formerly known as Ink Development Corporation) was an American computer software company founded on May 10, 1991. It was originally founded in San Mateo, California in 1991 to develop products for Go Corporation's PenPoint operating system. In later years, it developed software for the Windows for Pen Computing and Magic Cap platforms.
In 1993, it was renamed to eShop Inc. and developed electronic commerce software, focusing primarily on the "business-to-consumer" marketplace. eShop Inc. launched eShop Plaza on November 7, 1995, which included stores from online merchants.
eShop was acquired by Microsoft on June 11, 1996 for less than $50 million and eShop's technologies were integrated into Microsoft Merchant Server. Pierre Omidyar, one of the founders of eShop, earned over $1 million from the deal and later founded eBay.
References
External links
"IBM, Microsoft do some power shopping", article on CNET
Software companies established in 1991
Microsoft acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States
Software companies disestablished in 1996
1991 establishments in California
1996 disestablishments in California
1996 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
American companies established in 1991
American companies disestablished in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%20Software | Consumers Software was a computer networking company based in Canada. The company created early spreadsheet utilities and later developed Network Courier, an email product based on the concept of one or more connected 'post offices'. The post office could be connected to legacy email systems, such as PROFS, DEC and other largely mainframe based email system using connectors.
Consumers Software was one of two companies selling PC-LAN email systems at the time. The other was cc:Mail, based in California.
Consumers Software was acquired by Microsoft on March 18, 1991 and merged its technology with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Mail for PC Networks. The Network Courier server development group became Microsoft Workgroup Vancouver, part of the Workgroup Computing Division of Microsoft, before being shut down, with its employees relocated to the main Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington.
References
Networking companies
Former Microsoft subsidiaries
Software companies of Canada
Microsoft acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records%20management%20taxonomy | Records management taxonomy is the representation of data, upon which the classification of unstructured content is based, within an organization. It may manifest itself as metadata in structured database fields or in folder structures represented to end users from a user interface within a system. It is created to facilitate the correct records management policies within the organization, fulfilment of regulatory compliance, integration to operational and knowledge management systems and the search for information within the organization. It can be applied to physical and or electronic records.
Disciplines and or professions may create template taxonomies which are commonly used such as for Engineering and or Pharmaceutical Research. However, most organizations and or business functions within an organization may define taxonomies based on organizational requirements.
References
Information management
Knowledge management
Records management
Taxonomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proline%20%28disambiguation%29 | Proline is an amino acid.
Proline (data page)
Proline or Pro-Line may also refer to:
Proline FC, football club in Uganda
ProLine (company), an electronics brand
Pro-Line Racing, a manufacturer of radio-controlled car accessories
Sport Select, Canadian betting games also known as Pro-Line in some areas
Proline, a line of prosumer camcorders manufactured by Panasonic
ProLine, a software package with a Unix-like shell, used to run bulletin board systems on Apple II computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.wps | .wps is a file extension used for:
WPS Office Writer files
Microsoft Works, files
Rockbox, while playing screen files
World Programming System program files
References
Computer file formats
Computer files
Computer file systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson-Grace | Johnson-Grace is a data compression company based in the United States.
The company was founded by Steve Johnson and Chris Grace in Newport Beach, California in 1992 to develop a generic spreadsheet technology for simulation modeling. The founders later talked to Irving Reed at the University of Southern California, who had an idea for an improved image compression algorithm, and started implementing such an algorithm; this became the ART image file format.
The company was acquired by AOL on February 1, 1996, for approximately 1.6 million shares of stock.
Notes
Further reading
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert%20Hurd | Cuthbert Corwin Hurd (April 5, 1911 – May 22, 1996) was an American computer scientist and entrepreneur, who was instrumental in helping the International Business Machines Corporation develop its first general-purpose computers.
Life
Hurd was born April 5, 1911, in Estherville, Iowa. He received his B.A. in mathematics from Drake University in 1932, his M.S. in mathematics from Iowa State College in 1934, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1936. Waldemar Joseph Trjitzinsky was his advisor, and dissertation was Asymptotic theory of linear differential equations singular in the variable of differentiation and in a parameter.
He did post-doctorate work at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He was assistant professor at Michigan State University from 1936 to 1942.
During World War II Hurd taught at the US Coast Guard Academy with the rank of Lieutenant Commander, and co-authored the textbook for teaching Mathematics to mariners. From 1945 to 1947 he was dean of Allegheny College.
In 1947 he moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he worked for Union Carbide as mathematician at the United States Atomic Energy Commission facility Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He taught and later served as a technical research head under Alston Scott Householder. At Oak Ridge he supervised the installation of an IBM 602 calculating punched card machine to automate the tracking of material in the facility, and saw the potential for automating the massive amounts of computation needed for nuclear Physics research. In February 1948 he was invited to the dedication of the IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC), a custom-built machine in New York City. He asked if the SSEC could be used for calculations being done at Oak Ridge for the NEPA project to power an airplane with a nuclear reactor, but the demands for the SSEC produced a backlog. In the meanwhile, he requested that the first IBM 604 calculating card punch be delivered to Oak Ridge. It was, but the calculations remained slow with the limited electronics in the 604.
IBM
From 1949 to 1962, he worked at IBM, where he founded the Applied Science Department and pushed reluctant management into the world of computing.
Hurd hired John von Neumann as a consultant. The eccentric genius was known for his fast driving, and IBM often would pay von Neumann's traffic fines. They developed a personal friendship, with Hurd visiting von Neumann in Walter Reed Army Medical Center as he was dying of cancer.
At the time, IBM calculators were programmed by plugging and unplugging wires manually into large panels. The concept of storing the program as well as data in computer memory was generally called the Von Neumann architecture (although others developed the concept about the same time).
IBM had built the experimental stored-program SSEC, but company president Thomas J. Watson favored basing commercial products on punched card technology with manua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everex%20green%20computer | In the mid-2000s, Everex began selling several brands of green computers. These computers are targeted at users that only need access to web applications, versus Microsoft Windows-based applications (however, the company does sell Windows Vista-installed variants).
Hardware
gBook
The "gBook" is a webbook, a laptop with a 15.4" WXGA+ Widescreen Display (1440 x 900) and a 1.5 GHz VIA C7-M Processor. It comes loaded with gOS Linux.
gPC
Two major variants of the gPC exist: one based on gOS Linux; the other, an Impact brand of Windows Vista low-power machines. Both utilize a VIA C7 CPU. The gPC also ships with a softmodem that is not enabled for consumer use, but is provided "for developers." A sequel, gPC2, was available through Wal-Mart. A third, the gPC3, with a 2 GHz AMD Sempron processor, 1 GB RAM, and Ubuntu 8.04, available through Newegg.
gPC mini
The gPC mini, a small, light nettop computer, was announced in April 2008: it includes a DVD recorder, DVI video output, and MySpace-driven content on gOS Space. It is intended as a competitor to the Mac mini.
Cloudbook
The Cloudbook is an Ultra-Mobile PC, running a VIA C7 CPU with either gOS Linux or Windows Vista. There is also a Stepnote variant that uses a Pentium Dual-Core CPU, instead of a VIA C7.
Software
gOS Linux is used on the lower-end models of the gPC and Cloudbook. Its core application suite is built upon Google Apps, and does not have many other applications installed. The other models use Windows Vista Home Basic, and its installed base of applications.
Photos
References
External links
ComputerWorld article on Microsoft reserving future XP installs to gPC and related machines
Article on "gPC Mini" targeted for Myspace users
Computers and the environment
Everex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAmaze | iAmaze is an Internet company that specializes in web applications created in dynamic HTML. Applications created by the company are designed to run on all browsers and operating systems, without downloads or plug-ins.
AOL purchased the company on September 5, 2000, and commented that "iAmaze will help further strengthen its services by providing Web-based applications from this platform with the speed and functionality of traditional client-side desktop applications."
References
Development software companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough%20Software | Breakthrough Software was a software company based in Novato, California. Breakthrough developed and sold the Time Line project management software for PC DOS computers, releasing the first version in 1984, and version 2.0 in July, 1985. Company staff in the 1980s included William Lohse (1984-1985) as president, Victoria Lohse as COO and CEO and Andrew Layman as president starting in 1986.
Negotiations to merge Breakthrough into Integrated Software Systems Corp. (ISSCO) reached an agreement in principle in October, 1986 but broke down soon afterwards when Computer Associates, developer of a different project management program, announced an agreement to acquire ISSCO.
Breakthrough was acquired by Symantec in 1987. Symantec continued to release versions of Timeline until at least version 6.0 in 1994.
References
Software companies based in California
Defunct companies based in California
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%20lock | In operating systems, a giant lock, also known as a big-lock or kernel-lock, is a lock that may be used in the kernel to provide concurrency control required by symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems.
A giant lock is a solitary global lock that is held whenever a thread enters kernel space and released when the thread returns to user space; a system call is the archetypal example. In this model, threads in user space can run concurrently on any available processors or processor cores, but no more than one thread can run in kernel space; any other threads that try to enter kernel space are forced to wait. In other words, the giant lock eliminates all concurrency in kernel space.
By isolating the kernel from concurrency, many parts of the kernel no longer need to be modified to support SMP. However, as in giant-lock SMP systems only one processor can run the kernel code at a time, performance for applications spending significant amounts of time in the kernel is not much improved. Accordingly, the giant-lock approach is commonly seen as a preliminary means of bringing SMP support to an operating system, yielding benefits only in user space. Most modern operating systems use a fine-grained locking approach.
Linux
The Linux kernel had a big kernel lock (BKL) since the introduction of SMP, until Arnd Bergmann removed it in 2011 in kernel version 2.6.39, with the remaining uses of the big lock removed or replaced by finer-grained locking. Linux distributions at or above CentOS 7, Debian 7 (Wheezy) and Ubuntu 11.10 are therefore not using BKL.
, Linux kernel still has console_lock which is sometimes referred as BKL and its removal is in progress.
BSD
, OpenBSD and NetBSD are still using the spl (Unix) family of primitives to facilitate synchronisation of critical sections within the kernel, meaning that many system calls may inhibit SMP capabilities of the system, and, according to Matthew Dillon, the SMP capabilities of these two systems cannot be considered modern.
FreeBSD still has support for the Giant mutex, which provides semantics akin to the old spl interface, but performance-critical core components have long been converted to use finer-grained locking.
It is claimed by Matthew Dillon that out of the open-source software general-purpose operating systems, only Linux, DragonFly BSD and FreeBSD have modern SMP support, with OpenBSD and NetBSD falling behind.
The NetBSD Foundation views modern SMP support as vital to the direction of The NetBSD Project, and has offered grants to developers willing to work on SMP improvements; NPF (firewall) was one of the projects that arose as a result of these financial incentives, but further improvements to the core networking stack may still be necessary.
See also
Parallel computing
Lock (computer science)
Global interpreter lock
References
Concurrency control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating%20calipers | In computational geometry, the method of rotating calipers is an algorithm design technique that can be used to solve optimization problems including finding the width or diameter of a set of points.
The method is so named because the idea is analogous to rotating a spring-loaded vernier caliper around the outside of a convex polygon. Every time one blade of the caliper lies flat against an edge of the polygon, it forms an antipodal pair with the point or edge touching the opposite blade. The complete "rotation" of the caliper around the polygon detects all antipodal pairs; the set of all pairs, viewed as a graph, forms a thrackle. The method of rotating calipers can be interpreted as the projective dual of a sweep line algorithm in which the sweep is across slopes of lines rather than across - or -coordinates of points.
History
The rotating calipers method was first used in the dissertation of Michael Shamos in 1978. Shamos used this method to generate all antipodal pairs of points on a convex polygon and to compute the diameter of a convex polygon in time. Godfried Toussaint coined the phrase "rotating calipers" and demonstrated that the method was applicable in solving many other computational geometry problems.
Shamos's algorithm
Shamos gave the following algorithm in his dissertation (pp. 77–82) for the rotating calipers method, which generated all antipodal pairs of vertices on a convex polygon:
/* p[] is in standard form, ie, counter clockwise order,
distinct vertices, no collinear vertices.
ANGLE(m, n) is a procedure that returns the clockwise angle
swept out by a ray as it rotates from a position parallel
to the directed segment Pm,Pm+1 to a position parallel to Pn, Pn+1
We assume all indices are reduced to mod N (so that N+1 = 1).
*/
GetAllAntiPodalPairs(p[1..n])
// Find first anti-podal pair by locating vertex opposite P1
i = 1
j = 2
while angle(i, j) < pi
j++
yield i, j
/* Now proceed around the polygon taking account of
possibly parallel edges. Line L passes through
Pi, Pi+1 and M passes through Pj, Pj+1
*/
// Loop on j until all of P has been scanned
current = i
while j != n
if angle(current, i + 1) <= angle(current, j + 1)
j++
current = j
else
i++
current = i
yield i, j
// Now take care of parallel edges
if angle(current, i + 1) = angle(current, j + 1)
yield i + 1, j
yield i, j + 1
yield i + 1, j + 1
if current = i
j++
else
i++
Another version of this algorithm appeared in the text by Preparata and Shamos in 1985 that avoided calculation of angles:
GetAllAntiPodalPairs(p[1..n])
i0 = n
i = 1
j = i + 1
while (Area(i, i + 1, j + 1) > Area(i, i + 1, j))
j = j + 1
j0 = j
while (i != j0)
i = i + 1
yield i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth%20Generation%20Systems | Fifth Generation Systems, Inc., was a computer security company founded October 1984 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States by Robert Mitchell, Leroy Mitchell, Roger Ivey, and Bruce Ray. All four later left the company. Fifth Generation's initial commercial product was FastBack, the first practical hard disk backup program for the IBM PC.
Software by Fifth Generation Systems includes:
CopyDoubler (Mac) – system utility for speeding up file copies and managing file copy queues
DiskDoubler (Mac) – on-the-fly hard drive compression software
DiskLock (PC, Mac) – security software incorporating access control and encryption
FastBack (PC, Mac) – hard disk backup utility
PowerStation (Mac)
Public Utilities (Mac) – software with disk optimization, repair, and data recovery functions, developed by Sentient Software
Pyro! (Mac) – screensaver that displayed fireworks among other user-selectable displays
Search&Destroy (PC) – online and offline virus scanner for DOS and Windows, included in Novell DOS 7
Suitcase (Mac) – font management utility
Super Laser Spool and Super Spool (Mac) – print spoolers, acquired from Supermac Technology in 1990
Direct Access – a menu system software for DOS.
The company was acquired by Symantec on October 4, 1993, for US$53.8 million.
References
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Companies based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
American companies established in 1984
Software companies established in 1984
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1993 disestablishments in Louisiana
Gen Digital acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recourse%20Technologies | Recourse Technologies, Inc., was a network security company based in Redwood City, California. Founded by Frank Huerta and Michael Lyle in February 1999, it was later acquired by Symantec on July 17, 2002, for US$135 million.
Recourse's products included ManHunt, a network intrusion detection system and security event manager, and ManTrap, a
honeypot.
References
Software companies based in California
Gen Digital acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riptech | Riptech is a network security company in the United States. It was acquired by Symantec on July 17, 2002, for $145 million.
References
Defunct software companies of the United States
Gen Digital acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightmail | Brightmail Inc. was a San Francisco-based technology company focused on anti-spam filtering. Brightmail's system has a three-pronged approach to stopping spam, the Probe Network is a massive number of e-mail addresses established for the sole purpose of receiving spam. The Brightmail Logistics and Operations Center (BLOC) evaluates newly detected spam and issues rules for ISPs. The third approach is the Spam Wall, a filtering engine that identifies and screens out spam based on the updates from the BLOC.
Brightmail had partnerships with major Email providers and ISPs including Netscape, Sendmail, Hotmail and Software.com. Other partners include AT&T WorldNet Service, Concentric Network, EarthLink, Excite, FastNet, FlashNet, Juno Online Services and USA.net.
The antivirus-inspired regular update mechanism used to detect spam email attracted the attention of Internet security software makers and Brightmail was acquired by Symantec in 2004.
The Brightmail name continued to be used by Symantec, and the slogan Powered by Brightmail appeared on their products until 2011 when most products were renamed or deprecated into what is known as Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG).
Background
Founded as Bright Light Technologies, Inc. by a group of AOL expatriates led by Sunil Paul in 1998, with the promise to “end spam,” Bright Light raised $55 million in three rounds of venture capital led by Accel, TCV, and Symantec. After the second round of funding, Bright Light changed its name to Brightmail in summer 1999. Brightmail's services were mostly geared toward ISPs, whose subscribers were demanding a solution to spam or junk email, as it is estimated that fifty percent of all email is unwanted spam.
Brightmail made its name by creating a server-side spam filtering and customized software update services that employed sophisticated server-based rules that recognize spam and restrict the ability of spammers to relay mail through other people's servers. From a network of partners Brightmail gets an early warning of any widespread spam, which it analyzes in real-time at the Brightmail Logistics and Operations Center.
Symantec acquisition
In mid-2004, Symantec Corp., an early investor that owned 11 percent of Brightmail, acquired the firm for $370 million in an all-cash deal. Symantec was expanding beyond antivirus to provide a variety of security software, services and hardware. To this end, it has made a number of acquisitions between 2002 and 2004, including SafeWeb and On Technology. Brightmail technology was incorporated in most Symantec's products, including the well-known Norton antivirus product line. The move marks Brightmail's shift from point antispam systems to the larger, more integrated email security solutions, including products that solve a wide range of email messaging problems.
The CEO at the time of acquisition was Enrique Salem, who later went on to become the CEO of Symantec before being ousted in 2012.
Products and services
Brightmail A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIRIC%20Associates | LIRIC Associates was a computer security consultancy in the United Kingdom that offered risk and security assessment for global networks. It also provided advice on the design, architecture and policies required to secure complex global networks. The company was a provider of Information Technology, IT Security and Telecommunications. Its clients included UK government departments and private sector organizations.
It was acquired by Symantec on September 17, 2004.
References
Defunct software companies of the United States
Gen Digital acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revivio | Revivio, Inc., was a continuous data protection company in the United States. It was acquired by Symantec for $20M on December 7, 2006, resulting in a considerable loss relative to the $55M invested in the company. The company was founded in 2001 by Michael Rowan and Kevin Rodgers and was headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts.
References
Defunct software companies of the United States
Companies based in Lexington, Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre%20Map%20Project | The Libre Map Project is an online collection of all digital USGS 1:24K scale topographic maps (as well as various other GIS data) covering the United States, available as a free download.
History
The Libre Map Project was started by Jared Benedict and around 100 additional individuals contributing money to purchase (or "liberate") a full set of 1:24K scale USGS topographic maps in Digital raster graphic form. The map files were then hosted by archive.org to ensure the map data will continue to be freely available to everyone indefinitely.
56,000 maps in Digital raster graphic form were acquired on DVDs for $1600 to make the data available. Additional data made available through the project includes SVG boundary files for every US state, Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (Tiger)/Line 2003 vector map data, and the USGS GeoNames database.
See also
TopoQuest
References
External links
Official Website
Map Lead Scraper
USGS Map Webpage
Web Map Services
Topography techniques
Internet Archive collections |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYAT-LD | WYAT-LD (channel 40) is a low-power television station in Martinsville, Virginia, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network This TV. It is owned by Martinsville Media alongside full service radio station WHEE (1370 AM). The two stations share studios on Franklin Street in downtown Martinsville.
Subchannel
References
External links
1999 establishments in Virginia
Television channels and stations established in 1999
YAT-LD
This TV affiliates
Martinsville, Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuality%20%28film%29 | Virtuality is a 2009 American science fiction drama television film directed by Peter Berg and written by Michael Taylor and Ronald D. Moore. Originally filmed for the Fox network as a television pilot for a series that was not commissioned, it aired on the network as a standalone film on June 26, 2009. It features the crew of Phaeton, a spaceship designed to search for a hospitable planet in a nearby star system after an ecological catastrophe in near-future Earth. While approaching the point of no return, the crew experiences problems with their virtual reality entertainment system, which quickly escalate and threaten their mission.
Plot
The story is set aboard the Phaeton, Earth's first starship, on a ten-year journey to explore the nearby Epsilon Eridani star system. In order to help the 12-person crew endure the long mission, a system of virtual reality modules are installed aboard the ship. These modules, which are worn like glasses and suppress real-world body movement, allow the crew to assume various identities and enjoy a variety of adventures. The crew's experiences aboard the ship are broadcast back to Earth as Fox's reality television program Edge of Never: Life on the Phaeton.
The pilot picks up approximately six months after the launch of Phaeton. The crew now faces a "go or no-go" situation, in that they are fast approaching their last chance to change course back towards Earth. However, their home planet is quickly becoming uninhabitable, with dry land becoming increasingly rare. Scientists estimate that the planet will become completely inhospitable within the next hundred years. The Phaeton's priority mission has been changed to that of searching out and discovering a new planet for humans to inhabit.
Unfortunately, as the crew fast approaches their point of no return beyond the planet Neptune, several problems arise. Dr. Adin Meyer (Metwally), the crew's only physician, becomes aware that he is in the early stages of Parkinson's disease. Via use of the Phaeton's virtual reality programs, Commander Frank Pike (Coster-Waldau) has begun a secret sexual relationship with botanist Rika Goddard (Guillory), whose husband, psychologist Dr. Roger Fallon (D'Arcy), is also a part of the crew, the mission psychologist and producer of Edge of Never.
Meanwhile, the crew's virtual reality simulators have been experiencing several bizarre glitches, all of which involve a mysterious man, whose acts against the crew inside the virtual simulations become more and more disturbing, including "murdering" Pike during a Civil War re-enactment and "killing" Meyer by pushing him off a cliff. Despite the hardships, the crew unanimously decides to continue on with the 10-year voyage.
After Billie Kashmiri (Bishé), the new host of Edge of Never, is beaten and raped by the mystery man within the virtual world, the crew considers discontinuing use of the virtual reality programs, possibly for the remainder of the voyage. Now past their "point of no re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro%20%28disambiguation%29 | Retro style is an outdated style or fashion that has become fashionable again.
Retro may also refer to:
Entertainment
Retro (TV channel), a Latin American cable television network
Retro Television Network, a US network primarily airing classic programming
Retro Productions, a New York City theatre company
Retro Studios, an American video game developer
Retro (DJ) (born 1987), English electronic music artist
Music
Retro (EP), a 1978 EP by Ultravox
Retro (KMFDM album)
Retro (Lou Reed album)
Retro (New Order album)
Retro (Regine Velasquez album)
Retro, an album by Rick Wakeman
See also
Retro, a Building Industry Association of Washington workers' compensation insurance program
Retro, Queensland, a locality in the Central Highlands, Australia
Retrograde analysis, a type of problem in games, especially chess
Retrorocket, a rocket engine
Retrospective, a look back at events that took place, or works that were produced, in the past |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation%20%28disambiguation%29 | Automation is the process of self-reliability.
Automation may also refer to:
Computing
Build automation, the use of managed make tools
Business process automation, streamlining business operations with software
Document automation, the use of software to streamline document creation
Electronic design automation, software filling in details of circuit design
Office automation, software assisting employees in performing job duties
OLE Automation, the mechanism whereby applications can access and manipulate shared automation objects that are exported by other applications.
Robotic process automation, automating tasks in back-end and front-end systems directly in the GUI
Support automation, automating problem prevention and resolution processes solutions
Test automation, simulation of user actions to automate software testing
Others
Automation (video game), a 2015 game for Windows
The Automation, a 2014 novel by an anonymous author using the pen names B.L.A. and G.B. Gabbler
Broadcast automation, scheduling of broadcasts carried out automatically
Building automation, regulating environmental parameters for human-occupied buildings
Console automation, using motorized faders of an audio workstation to automate signal changes
Home automation, regulating environmental parameters for private occupances
Laboratory automation, automation of laboratory tasks
"Automation", a song by the Smashing Pumpkins from Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts, 2023
See also
Automaton (disambiguation)
Automate (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGChartz | The VGChartz Network is a collection of five video game websites: VGChartz, gamrFeed, gamrReview, gamrTV, and gamrConnect. VGChartz sits at the center of the network and is a video game sales tracking website, providing weekly sales figures of console software and hardware by region. The site was launched in June 2005, and is owned by Brett Walton. Employing ten people, VGChartz provides tools for worldwide data analysis and regular reviews of the data it provides.
VGChartz provides tools for data analysis, charting, and regular reviews and examinations of major data news in the video gaming industry. Sales figures on VGChartz are based on estimates extrapolated from small retail samples. While offering some information about their methodology through their website, VGChartz does not publish any of their data sources. Some sites, including Gamasutra and Wired News, have questioned the reliability of the information presented by the site. VGChartz has defended the credibility and reliability of its sales data, often comparing their numbers with the ones published by NPD Group, although some charts have been retroactively adjusted to better match NPD's monthly reports.
History
VGChartz began in June 2005, when Brett Walton created an area on everythingandnothing.org.uk (as the site he had created at the time) called "videogame sales charts" which collected publicly available videogame sales data in one place for users to view. In July 2006, Brett launched VGCharts.org, a stand-alone version of the sub-site on everythingandnothing and still collecting publicly available data together from across the web. In March 2007, Brett bought the VGChartz.com domain and rebranded the site as VGChartz. With this re-launch came the move from collecting publicly available data to carrying out original research on the videogame market, and VGChartz began to produce its own weekly charts.
In June 2008, Robert Pasarella wrote an article comparing VGChartz and NPD services, advantages and disadvantages, with VGChartz being the winner due to the modality on their service. However, in the same month Simon Carless wrote an article in which he criticized VGChartz for the poor tracking of a video game Iron Man in comparison to NPD, for adjusting data to match other sales tracking firms in certain cases, and for making educated guesses for some figures data in other regions. Brett argued against the claims made by Simon, indicating that he had cherry-picked certain pieces of data to present VGChartz in a bad light rather than present a fair evaluation of the data.
With the launch of PlayStation Move and Kinect towards the end of 2010, renewed interest in the videogame market led VGChartz to report estimates for initial sales of both pieces of hardware. Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft Chief of Staff for Interactive Entertainment Business, openly criticized VGChartz data for Kinect on his Twitter feed, later adding "Sorry if my note offended." The comments from Greenberg prom |
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