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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makita%20Ka%20Lang%20Muli | (International title: Just to See You Again) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It stars Roderick Paulate, Oyo Boy Sotto and Carlo Aquino. It premiered on November 6, 2006 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Pinakamamahal. The series concluded on February 16, 2007 with a total of 75 episodes. It was replaced by Muli in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Roderick Paulate as Valetin Barba / Vicar Barbarosa
Oyo Boy Sotto as Roy
Carlo Aquino as Leo
Supporting cast
Celia Rodriguez as Olmypia Van Helden
LJ Reyes as Vianne
JC de Vera as Matthew
Ana Roces
Andrea del Rosario as Sofia
Jaclyn Jose
Cris Villanueva
Sugar Mercado as Andeng
Janette McBride as Cali
Dion Ignacio
Tanya Garcia as young Olmypia
Accolades
References
External links
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television series by TAPE Inc.
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skystone%20Systems | Skystone Systems was a fabless semiconductor company based in Ottawa, Canada. Skystone Systems developed a family of semiconductor products to enable data connectivity in Datacom Equipments (i.e. Ethernet switches or IP Routers) for wide area networks. The flagship product of Skystone Systems was an OC-48 Packet Over SONET Processor (also referred to as an Application Specific Standard Part), first in the industry.
The company was co-founded by Antoine Paquin and Stefan Opalski in 1994. Prior to Skystone, they worked together in Nortel Networks (Bell Northern Research). Early employees of Skystone were Hojjat Salemi (CTO), Brian Stemmler and Niall F.Quaid, CA (VP Finance). The key ideas that developed the foundation of the start up were developed in Stefan Opalski's house. He was instrumental to acquire key talent from well establish companies such as Nortel Networks and Mitel. Antoine also started other companies after Skystone.
Acquisition by Cisco
Skystone was acquired by Cisco Systems on June 9, 1997 for 1 million shares of Cisco common stock worth approximately $66.5 million (based on Cisco's June 9 closing price of $66.50) and $22.6 million cash. This was the first acquisition of Cisco Systems outside USA.
At the time of acquisition, Skystone Systems had 40 employees and became part of the Cisco Service Provider line of business. It presently operates as Cisco System Ottawa group.
In a news release, Cisco Systems said the following for the reason for this acquisition,
"Network transport of multiple types of information is rapidly becoming commonplace worldwide, for two reasons. First, the traditionally disparate communication channels of voice, video, and data are converging. And second, these channels are being integrated using the standard Internet protocol (IP). The acquisition of Skystone underscores Cisco's commitment to this new market with the ability to offer users a cost-effective SONET/SDH capability. SONET/SDH is the emerging transport technology used for carrying information in very-high-capacity backbone networks, such as those operated by telecommunications carriers and large internet service providers. Cisco intends to leverage Skystone development efforts on new SONET/SDH transport technologies for integration within next- generation Cisco products."
Skystone Systems has been a very successful acquisition for Cisco, it provided new expertise, business growth and contribution to the bottom line. Graeme Fraser and Bill Swift of Cisco systems were key people that help to integrate & build the vision along Skystone's team . The work done as part of this acquisition in Cisco Systems, created key innovative technologies, such as, Optical Interworking, IP over WDM, 10G optical Module MSA (300pin)...
Defunct software companies of Canada
Cisco Systems acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WheelGroup | WheelGroup was a computer security company with approximately 65 employees based in San Antonio, Texas. The 10 founders originally met and worked together at the US Air Force Information Warfare Center and many of them subsequently worked at Trident Data Systems. Taking technology out of what they'd been working on at Trident, they started Wheelgroup in November 1995. WheelGroup was one of the first companies to specialize in network security and penetration testing.
The company developed and sold the first commercial intrusion detection system, NetRanger, which was the flagship intrusion detection software at Cisco Systems and which has now been re-engineered, and re-branded, as the Cisco Systems Adaptive Security Appliance.
WheelGroup also created the first Python based network vulnerability scanner, NetSonar, which was later re-branded and sold as the Cisco Network Security Scanner. WheelGroup was acquired by Cisco Systems for $124 million on March 12, 1998. Since the acquisition of WheelGroup, the original founders have all moved on to positions at other computer security companies, or started their own computer security companies. Kevin Ziese passed in February, 2017
Defunct software companies of the United States
Cisco Systems acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applicative%20computing%20systems | Applicative computing systems, or ACS are the systems of object calculi founded on combinatory logic and lambda calculus.
The only essential notion which is under consideration in these systems is the representation of object. In combinatory logic the only metaoperator is application in a sense of applying one object to other. In lambda calculus two metaoperators are used: application – the same as in combinatory logic, and functional abstraction which binds the only variable in one object.
Features
The objects generated in these systems are the functional entities with the following features:
the number of argument places, or object arity is not fixed but is enabling step by step in interoperations with other objects;
in a process of generating the compound object one of its counterparts—function—is applied to other one—argument—but in other contexts they can change their roles, i.e. functions and arguments are considered on the equal rights;
the self-applying of functions is allowed, i.e. any object can be applied to itself.
ACS give a sound ground for applicative approach to programming.
Research challenge
Applicative computing systems' lack of storage and history sensitivity is the basic reason they have not provided a foundation for computer design. Moreover, most applicative systems employ the substitution operation of the lambda calculus as their basic operation. This operation is one of virtually unlimited power, but its complete and efficient realization presents great difficulties to the machine designer.
See also
Applicative programming language
Categorical abstract machine
Combinatory logic
Functional programming
Lambda calculus
References
Further reading
[This volume reflects the research program and philosophy of H. Curry, one of the founders of computational models and the deductive framework for reasoning in terms of objects.]
Models of computation
Combinatory logic
Lambda calculus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverhead%20Networks | Riverhead Networks was a computer security company based in Netanya, Israel and Cupertino, California. The company was acquired by Cisco Systems on March 22, 2004.
History
Riverhead Networks was founded by Yehuda Afek, Anat Bremler-Barr, Dan Touitou, and Yuval Rachmilevitz in 2000 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Initial funding was provided by Gemini Israel Funds, KUR ventures, and Intel Investment. On March 22, 2004 Cisco Systems paid $44 million to acquire full control of the company ($5 million of which were Cisco's own round B invested money). Following the acquisition by Cisco the company's development center was relocated and merged with the existing Cisco Israel Development Center in Netanya
Technology
Riverhead Networks provided solutions for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) by using a series of complex algorithms to alert and prevent them. Riverhead Networks's technology would allow company's IT systems to continue operating, even in the midst of an unauthorized or DDoS malicious assault.
See also
Distributed Denial of Service
Silicon Wadi
External links
Riverhead Networks
Gemini Israel Funds
References
Cisco Systems acquisitions
Software companies of Israel
Electronics companies of Israel
Companies based in Tel Aviv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navini%20Networks | Navini Networks was a company that developed an Internet access system based on WiMAX wireless communication standards. This access system was subsequently acquired by Cisco Systems in October, 2007.
Company
In January 2000, Wu-Fu Chen and Guanghan Xu formed Navini Networks and developed a wireless Internet access system.
The company was based in Richardson, Texas and was privately funded by several investment-funds.
In 2001 it was awarded the 'Start-Up of the Year' award by KPMG and in 2002 it won some national and regional prizes.
Between the formation and early 2003 it attracted $66.5 million from private investors and employed 130 employees.
When it was sold in October 2007 for $330 million to Cisco Systems, Navini had 70 customers.
A Navini customer would be an Internet service provider providing wireless Internet access, mainly in areas where there are only limited wired alternatives available (such as Docsis access via a cable-TV network or DSL via the telephone network).
Products
Navini developed a WiMAX wireless internet-access infrastructure consisting of two main parts: the central headend system with the special antennas and the RipWave modems or customer premises equipment
The Navini products offered a non line-of-sight wireless access system. The popular Wi-Fi systems require an unobstructed view between the antenna of the transmitter and the receiver for a good reception of the signals: when the view is obstructed the signal strength decreases and the reach of the signal is very small.
By using a technique called spot beaming, normally used in satellite communications, it was possible to use radio-signals on frequencies that would normally require an unobstructed path between the transmitter and receiver or high-power transmitters.
A Navini system consists of one management-system, one or more base-systems and the user-modems or customer premises equipment.
Ripwave EMS
At the heart of a Navini-based internet access system is the EMS or Element Management System. The EMS is a network management system and can manage one or more base-systems. The EMS is a server application to manage the base-systems and end-user equipment. The Navibi EMS is a Java based IP-network management system and could run on a Windows or SUN server platform using SNMP.
Base System
The base system is the head-end equipment to which users within the reach connect to. A base-system can be compared to a base system or GSM-mast in a cellular telephone network.
The central system consisted of an indoor unit and an outdoor eight element antenna system.
A single BTS could allow up to 1000 end users connected to it. An end-user could connect to different base-systems, depending on which station gave the best connection at that time, but it wasn't possible to 'hop' from one BTS to another without losing the connection: the system wasn't designed for mobile communication. The Ripwave system is based on the TD-SCDMA technology and one of the founders of the compa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slicing | Slicing may refer to:
Array slicing, an operation on an array in computer science
Chinese salami slicing strategy
Object slicing, an object-oriented programming issue
Program slicing, a set of software engineering methods
Slicing, a mechanical process, see Cutting
Slicing (interface design), image slicing for web design and interface design
Slow slicing, a Chinese form of torture and execution
Slicing (3D printing), the software operation of producing a G-code file from a 3D model file, in preparation for 3D printing.
See also
Slice (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifocal%20tensor | In computer vision, the trifocal tensor (also tritensor) is a 3×3×3 array of numbers (i.e., a tensor) that incorporates all projective geometric relationships among three views. It relates the coordinates of corresponding points or lines in three views, being independent of the scene structure and depending only on the relative motion (i.e., pose) among the three views and their intrinsic calibration parameters. Hence, the trifocal tensor can be considered as the generalization of the fundamental matrix in three views. It is noted that despite the tensor being made up of 27 elements, only 18 of them are actually independent.
There is also a so-called calibrated trifocal tensor, which relates the coordinates of points and lines in three views given their intrinsic parameters and encodes the relative pose of the cameras up to global scale, totalling 11 independent elements or degrees of freedom. The reduced degrees of freedom allow for fewer correspondences to fit the model, at the cost of increased nonlinearity.
Correlation slices
The tensor can also be seen as a collection of three rank-two 3 x 3 matrices known as its correlation slices. Assuming that the projection matrices of three views are , and , the correlation slices of the corresponding tensor can be expressed in closed form as , where are respectively the ith columns of the camera matrices. In practice, however, the tensor is estimated from point and line matches across the three views.
Trilinear constraints
One of the most important properties of the trifocal tensor is that it gives rise to linear relationships between lines and points in three images. More specifically, for triplets of corresponding points and any corresponding lines through them, the following trilinear constraints hold:
where denotes the skew-symmetric cross product matrix.
Transfer
Given the trifocal tensor of three views and a pair of matched points in two views, it is possible to determine the location of the point in the third view without any further information. This is known as point transfer and a similar result holds for lines and conics. For general curves, the transfer can be realized through a local differential curve model of osculating circles (i.e., curvature), which can then be transferred as conics. The transfer of third-order models reflecting space torsion using calibrated trifocal tensors have been studied, but remains an open problem for uncalibrated trifocal tensors.
Estimation
Uncalibrated
The classical case is 6 point correspondences giving 3 solutions.
The case estimating the trifocal tensor from 9 line correspondences has only recently been solved.
Calibrated
Estimating the calibrated trifocal tensor has been cited as notoriously difficult, and requires 4 point correspondences.
The case of using only three point correspondences has recently been solved, where the points are attributed with tangent directions or incident lines; with only two of the points having inciden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Sale | Anthony Edgar "Tony" Sale, FBCS (30 January 1931 – 28 August 2011) was a British electronic engineer, computer programmer, computer hardware engineer, and historian of computing. He led the construction of a fully functional Mark 2 Colossus computer between 1993 and 2008. The rebuild is exhibited at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park in England.
Life
He was educated at Dulwich College in south London, During his adolescence he built George the robot out of Meccano, and continued working on it until it reached a fourth version in 1949, when it was given much media coverage. Sale joined the Royal Air Force in 1949, serving until 1952. During his three years in the RAF, Sale gained a commission and reached the rank of Flying Officer. He was an instructor at RAF Officers Radar School at RAF Debden. Sale worked as an engineer for MI5 under Peter Wright in the 1950s.
Between 1992 and 2007, Sale and volunteers rebuilt a functioning model of the Colossus (computer) Mark II which is on display at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.
Sale lived beside his wife, Margaret, three children and seven grandchildren.
Work
Sale worked with Marconi Research Laboratories, was Technical Director of the British Computer Society and managed the Computer Restoration Project at the Science Museum.
After becoming interested in computers, he joined the British Computer Society (BCS) in 1965 as Associate Member, being elected to Member in 1967, Fellow in 1988 and Honorary Fellow in 1996. He was elected to the Council of the BCS for the period 1967–70. In 1965, was a founder member of the Bedfordshire branch of the BCS and was named Chairman in 1979.
In 1989, Sale was appointed a senior curator at the Science Museum in London and worked with Doron Swade to restore some of the museum's computer holdings. He was part of the group that started the Computer Conservation Society in 1989 and was associated with the Bletchley Park Trust from 1992 onwards. In 1991, he joined the campaign to save Bletchley Park from housing development.
In 1992, he was Secretary to the newly formed Bletchley Park Trust, later unpaid Museums Director in 1994. In 1993 he started the Colossus Rebuild Project, inaugurated in 1994, to rebuild the Colossus computer developed and built by Tommy Flowers at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in 1943.
Sale lectured on wartime code breaking in the UK, Europe and the US. He was technical adviser for the 2001 film Enigma.
Sale's web site, Codes and Ciphers in the Second World War is a source of information on aspects of World War II code breaking. His booklet Colossus 1943–1996 outlines the breaking of the German Lorenz cipher and his remarkable rebuilding of the Colossus computer.
Honours
As a result of his Colossus rebuild work, Sale was awarded the Comdex IT Personality of the Year for 1997. He also received the 2000 Royal Scottish Society of Arts Silver Medal.
After his death, the British Computer Conser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%205151 | The IBM 5151 is a 12" transistor–transistor logic (TTL) monochrome monitor, shipped with the original IBM Personal Computer for use with the IBM Monochrome Display Adapter. A few other cards were designed to work with it, such as the Hercules Graphics Card.
The monitor has an 11.5-inch wide CRT (measured diagonally) with 90 degree deflection, etched to reduce glare, with a resolution of 350 horizontal lines and a 50 Hz refresh rate. It uses TTL digital inputs through a 9-pin D-shell connector, being able to display at least three brightness levels, according to the different pin 6 and 7 signals. It is also plugged into the female AC port on the IBM PC power supply, and thus did not have a power switch of its own.
The IBM 5151 uses the P39 phosphor type, producing a bright green monochrome image intended for displaying high-resolution text. This phosphor has high persistence, which decreases display flicker but causes smearing when the image changes.
Specifications
References
External links
Picture of IBM 5151 display in operation (PC Shell shown on screen)
5151 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Seismological%20Summary | The International Seismological Summary (ISS) is a global earthquake catalog covering the period from 1918 to 1963.
The need for an international exchange of seismology data was recognised by John Milne, who in 1899 began collating and publishing data from 35 observatories from around the world. Following his death in 1913, the ISS was founded at the end of the war in 1918 to continue the work. Since 1964 it has been published as the International Seismological Centre Bulletin.
References
External links
International Seismological Summary – USGS
Seismological observatories, organisations and projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20delay-tolerant%20networking | The history of delay-tolerant networking examines the bulk of the technologies that began the field that is known today as delay-tolerant networking. Research began as projects under United States government grants relating to the necessity of networking technologies that can sustain the significant delays and packet corruption of space travel. Initially, these projects looked only short-range communication between manned missions to the moon and back, but the field quickly expanded into an entire sub-field of DTNs that created the technological advances to allow for the Interplanetary Internet.
In the 1970s, spurred by the micronization of computing, researchers began developing technology for routing between non-fixed locations of computers. While the field of ad hoc routing was inactive throughout the 1980s, the widespread use of wireless protocols reinvigorated the field in the 1990s as mobile ad hoc routing and vehicular ad hoc networking became areas of increasing interest.
With the growing interest in mobile ad hoc routing and the increasing complexity of the Interplanetary Internet, the 2000s (decade) brought about a growing number of academic conferences on delay and disruption-tolerant networking. This field saw many optimizations on classic ad hoc and delay-tolerant networking algorithms and began to examine factors such as security, reliability, verifiability, and other areas of research that are well understood in traditional computer networking.
Early research efforts
One of the first known references of the study of interplanetary communication comes in 1954 with the development of the Sputnik 1 satellite by the Soviet Union when Mikhail Tikhonravov emphasized that an artificial satellite is an inevitable stage in the development of rocket equipment, after which interplanetary communication would become possible. With the successful launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, the United States entered into the Sputnik crisis and, more generally, the Space Race with the Soviet Union.
One of the direct results of the Sputnik crisis was the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), known today as Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA. At this time, computers were making the transition from a vacuum tube-based architecture to a transistors architecture, where computers were evolving into general purpose machines. To spur research in areas relating to the feasibility of human space flight, ARPA issued a numerous government grants to both academic institution and industries to research technical details of communication between Earth and an orbiting satellite.
With the increased understanding of how to communicate with an orbiting satellite, the concept of contact points began to become a key focus in the research in space communication. The key idea behind a contact point is that there is only a set duration of time where both the source and the receiver points are able to communicate with one another. The concept of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYSGO | SYSGO GmbH is a German information technologies company that supplies operating systems and services for embedded systems with high safety and security-related requirements, using Linux. For security-critical applications, the company offers the Hypervisor and RTOS PikeOS, an operating system for multicore processors and the foundation for intelligent devices in the Internet of Things (IoT).
As an operating system manufacturer provider, SYSGO supports companies with the formal certification of software to international standards for safety and security in markets such as aerospace and defence, industrial automation, automotive, railway, medical as well as network infrastructure. SYSGO participates in a variety of international research projects and standardisation initiatives in the area of safety and security.
History
SYSGO was founded in 1991. On the initiative of company founder Knut Degen, the company specialized in the use of Linux-based operating systems in embedded applications. In the 1990s, SYSGO worked mainly with LynxOS. In 1999, the company launched the first product of its own, a development environment for Linux-based embedded applications by the name of ELinOS.
SYSGO introduced the first version of its PikeOS real-time operating system in 2005. With hypervisor functionality integrated into its basic structure, this operating system allows multiple embedded applications with different functional safety requirements to be operated on the same processor. The current version of PikeOS can run safety-critical applications for aerospace, automotive, rail and other industrial applications.
2009 saw the market launch of a software-only implementation of an AFDX stack (Avionics Full DupleX Switched Ethernet) for Safety-Critical Ethernet in accordance with ARINC-664 Part 7, which was certified to DO-178B. In 2013, SYSGO also achieved SIL 4 certification on multicore processors for EN 50128, a European standard for safety-relevant software used in railway applications.
The first subsidiary of the company was established in Ulm in 1997, followed by Prague (2004), Paris (2005) and Rostock (2008). In 2012, SYSGO was taken over by the Thales Group of France.
In 2019 SYSGO built its new headquarters in Klein-Winternheim, near Mainz and moved in by April 2020.
Products and services
SYSGO's best-known product is PikeOS, a real-time operating system with a separation kernel-based Hypervisor, which provides multiple partitions for a variety of other operating systems and equips them with time schedules.
Other products include:
ELinOS, a Linux operating system for embedded applications
Safety-Critical Ethernet/AFDX, a software implementation of ARINC-664 Part 7
Various components required for certification
The PikeOS Hypervisor forms a foundation for critical systems in which both safety and security have to be ensured. The company also offers various certification kits. These certification kits include, for example, support documentation fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinOS | ELinOS is a commercial development environment for embedded Linux. It consists of a Linux distribution for the target embedded system and development tools for a development host computer. The development host computer usually is a standard desktop computer running Linux or Windows. The Linux system and the application software for the target device are both created on the development host.
ELinOS focuses on industrial applications. For that purpose optional extensions for the Linux kernel are provided. The kernel will always be specifically compiled for the embedded system. Userspace applications are provided as pre-compiled binaries in order to save time for compilation. Most of the ELinOS software packages are open source and licensed under the GPL.
ELinOS provides embedded Linux as a standalone operating system or it can be integrated into the PikeOS virtualization platform if safety and security demands cannot be met by Linux alone. The latter might be the case if a certification according to a strict industry standard is required.
Eclipse is the technical basis for the functionality provided by the integrated development environment (IDE) on the development host.
ELinOS was first published in 1999. A free ELinOS Test Version can be downloaded.
Typical workflow
1. Select the hardware of the target embedded system
Choose one of the provided board support packages (BSP) or configure the hardware on your own
2. Select the features wanted on the target system
Examples are real-time support, remote debugging support, networking functionality and a choice of networking servers
3. Compile the Linux kernel
Based on the previous steps an individual kernel configuration will be proposed. It can be modified manually.
4. Generate the target's file system image
Based on the previous steps contents for an individual file system will be proposed. Files can be added or removed. Dependencies will be checked and can be resolved automatically.
5. Deploy the file system image to the target system.
The result of the previous step is a single binary file which the target device can boot
6. Test and analyze the software on the target system using the tracing tool
Monitor the system's behavior and optimize the application or the system configuration
7. Debug the application software on the target system using the debugger
Faults can be debugged using the IDE on the development host
Supported hardware
The following processor architectures are supported, with a large set of board support packages (BSP) for various boards:
ARM (v7)
ARM64 (v8)
PowerPC (32Bit and 64Bit)
x86
x86-64
Symmetric multiprocessing is supported if a multi-core processor is used.
End of Life Overview
References
External links
SYSGO's official site
Embedded Linux distributions
Virtualization software for Linux
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge%20%28software%29 | In FOSS development communities, a forge is a web-based collaborative software platform for both developing and sharing computer applications. The term forge refers to a common prefix or suffix adopted by various platforms created after the example of SourceForge. This usage of the word stems from the metalworking forge, used for shaping metal parts.
For software developers it is an online service to host the tools they need to communicate with their coworkers. The source code itself is stored in a revision control system and linked to a wide range of services such as a bug database, continuous integration, etc. When a FOSS development community forks, it duplicates the content of the forge and is then able to modify it without asking permission. A community may rely on services scattered on multiple forges: they are not necessarily hosted under the same domain. For instance it is not uncommon for discussions to be hosted on Discourse while the source code is hosted on Gitea.
For users, a forge is a repository of computer applications, a place where bugs can be reported, a channel to be informed of security issues, etc.
Software forges became popular in 2001, and have proven successful as a software development environment for millions of software projects.
Technology
Two different kinds of concepts are commonly referred to by the term forge:
a service offered on a Web platform to host software development projects;
an integrated set of software elements which produce such platforms, ready for deployment.
All these platforms provide similar tools helpful to software developers working in the hosted projects:
source code management systems
mailing-lists or forums
wikis
download services
bug tracking system
Some provide other features as well:
code review
Interoperability
API and webhooks
In addition to the web user interface, it is common for a forge to provide a REST API with the a documentation (GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, etc.) to enable interoperability with other products. Forge users can also install webhooks to notify a third party online service when an event happens on their software project (for instance the webhook can be called when a new issue is created).
Federation
Federation and the associated protocol ActivityPub (introduced in 2018) allows forges to communicate with each other about their activities (for instance when issues are created or a commit is pushed). Although native federation support is sometime discussed or in progress it is not yet available. Third party projects emerged to bridge the gap such as a plugin for the pagure forge or a proxy supporting ActivityPub and translating it to REST API calls to the designated forge.
Authentication
There is no SSO that applications and users could rely on to authenticate with all forges. Instead it is common for a forge to support a number of authentication providers: if a user already has an account they can use it to authenticate on the forge and do not nee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Dama%20de%20Troya | La Dama de Troya is a Colombian telenovela (soap opera) that has aired since April 15, 2008 on Colombian network RCN. This telenovela is produced by Fox Telecolombia. It was launched to reinforce the prime time schedule on RCN on the same narrative tone of previous RCN successful telenovela Pura Sangre (Pure Blood), involving drama and revenge. With Pura Sangre (Pure Blood), La Dama de Troya gets back to intense drama and revenge storylines, which were missing on Colombian television after the success of popular comedy telenovelas as Betty la fea.
La Dama de Troya since its premiere is aired after RCN News 7:00 p.m. and it is the opening telenovela on RCN's prime time. The novela premieres in the United States on TeleFutura at 10:00 p.m. on Monday, June 2, 2008.
Story
Patricia Cruz (Cristina Umaña) and her husband Humberto Muñoz (Luis Fernando Salas), a young farmer man, several years ago refused to sell their lands to Puerto Dorado's landlord Antonio de la Torre (Rolando Tarajano) for his new project: a modern meat processing center.
Learning that Patricia and Humberto are not selling their lands on good terms, Antonio decides to invade their lands on their very wedding night, threatening them into signing the sale papers. When Humberto refuses to sign anyway, Antonio kills him without any remorse. then, Antonio wearing a hood and having Patricia under his control, proceeds to rape her and then to shoot her. Thinking she is dead, Antonio gets rid of the bodies by dumping them in a river.
Miraculously, Patricia is not dead and is rescued by a man called Pierre who heals her and protects her with the help from his friend, Jacinta (Adriana Ricardo).
Once Patricia recovers, she decides to investigate who killed her husband and who raped her (she just remembers a horse chess piece hanging from the gold chain around the rapist's neck), but she cannot find out anything except that her lands now belong to somebody else.
Having no place to go, Jacinta takes Patricia to live with her and she starts to learn the hard skills of leading cattle and handling horses, which is very common on the Eastern Plains of Colombia.
The same day that Patricia decides to come back to her public life in Puerto Dorado she meets Sebastian (Andrés Juan Hernandez) who is just arriving to town after several years studying in Bogotá. Patricia has an argument with Sebastian showing that she is not the stupid and innocent woman she used to be. Astonished by Patricia's disposition and temper, he immediately is deeply attracted to her despite that he is engaged to a frivolous and superficial woman, Nena (Valentina Acosta).
Although she does not recognize it, Patricia is strongly attracted to Sebastian ignoring he's the son of the man who raped her and killed her husband several years ago.
Reception
La Dama de Troya (The Woman from Troya) was very successful in many countries of America and Europe.
References
2008 telenovelas
2008 Colombian television series debuts
2009 Col |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20System%20Interaction | User-System Interaction (USI) is a multidisciplinary, post-Master educational program which provides practical training in the field of human-computer interaction and user interface design. The program is a part of the Industrial Design faculty at the Eindhoven University of Technology and is a part of the Stan Ackermans Institute and the 3TU, a cooperative initiative between the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Delft University of Technology, and University of Twente.
As in most post-Master programs at Dutch universities, participants are officially both students and employees of the university, with the official job title of Postgraduate Design Engineer. As such, each participant is contractually obligated for the two-year duration of the program and the terms of this employment are subject to the legal provisions for Dutch universities (CAO nederlandse universiteiten). Upon graduation, each student receives a Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng).
Curriculum
The USI program lasts two years and is divided into two parts, the study period and the industrial project.
Study Period
The study period, lasting 14 months consists of two-week modules, each providing 80 hours of theoretical instruction (lectures) and practical application (project work). Each module is given by a different instructor, and each covers a different aspect of user interaction design. Also part of the study period is a ten-week design case where students work closely with teams either in the university or in an external organization. This part of the curriculum is geared toward introducing students to the entire design cycle.
Industrial Project
After the study period, students proceed to the industrial project, the nine-month capstone of the USI program. Like the design case, it involves working on a project in a practical environment, either in academia or industry, but goes further in depth. These projects have been carried out in organizations like Philips, Microsoft, Vodafone, Océ, Novay, KPN, Lucent, Nedap and Ericsson, among others.
Professional Development
Parallel to the other two components of the program is professional development (PD). These are a series of workshops that concentrate on various soft skills to round out the curriculum, e.g. presentation skills, project management, and teamwork.
These workshops prepare USI students for life in the professional sector. Since the USI program's emphasis is on working in industry, PD empowers USI students to be capable managers as well as designers, to make them more competitive players in the job market.
Philosophy
At its core, the USI program is multidisciplinary. It accepts inductees from widely varied technical and academic backgrounds, e.g. computer science, psychology, communication technology, behavioral sciences, and new media design. Furthermore, the program is multinational as it has had inductees from countries like the United States, Turkey, Russia, Poland, Brazil, and China, among |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vvvv | vvvv ( = "Vau Vier" or "v4") is a general purpose toolkit with a special focus on real-time video synthesis and programming large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video. vvvv uses a dataflow approach and a visual programming interface for rapid prototyping and developing. Applications written in vvvv are commonly called patches. Patches consist of a network of nodes. Patches can be created, edited and tested while they are running. Patches are stored on the disk in standard XML format. vvvv is written in Borland Delphi, and plugins can be developed in the .NET Framework in C#.
Most nodes handle data in a one-dimensional array of values, called Spreads. In addition to traditional vector algebra this allows programming of particle systems, as also rendering nodes and deal with arrays of values accordingly. If an operation has to deal with arrays of different lengths, the shorter array gets repeated to fill up the larger.
vvvv includes a feature it calls boygrouping, where one computer controls a number of slave computers to operate in parallel, with all programming and editing done on the master computer.
The toolkit has the ability to work with HLSL Shaders which are written in their common textual form but are embedded in the data flow language and are instantly compiled and uploaded as soon any part of their source code is changed.
With a focus on video synthesis and processing, vvvv beta uses the toolkit DirectX and, as such, is available for Microsoft Windows systems only, although it is known to run stably under Parallels and VMware Fusion. vvvv currently supports DirectX 9 (including PS 3 and VS 3 shader techniques) and DirectX 11.
In April 1st 2020, vvvv gamma, a new version of the software, reprogrammed from scratch, was publicly released.
vvvv was initially developed by the Frankfurt-based media collective MESO as an in-house tool for their own projects, but was then released. vvvv is now maintained by the VVVV group.
vvvv beta and vvvv gamma are free for non-commercial, educational and evaluation use, based on the T.R.U.S.T. model and are available for download at its websites. Any commercial uses require a license.
See also
List of music software
Live coding
References
External links
official website of the current version vvvv gamma
download page of vvvv gamma
vvvv forums, blog, and home of vvvv
Meso group, original developers of vvvv
vvvv Blog with Screenshots of the Day
vvvv forums
Visual programming languages
Live video software
Creative coding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenn%20Scott | Kenn Scott is a Toronto-based screenwriter noted for his work in children's programming and animation. Included amongst the many shows he has written for are Ned's Newt, Iggy Arbuckle, Captain Flamingo, Rescue Heroes, Seven Little Monsters, Pelswick, Quads!, Delilah and Julius, Dino Dan and Doki. His column "A Writer's Life" appears regularly in the magazine Canadian Screenwriter. He is also the co-author of the university textbook On Our Wavelength: Broadcasting History From A Canadian Perspective, and the video game Uh-Oh Flamingo!
Scott won a special animation award from the Writers Guild of Canada for his work on Ned's Newt, as well as a 2008 Canadian Screenwriting Award in the Children & Preschool category for an episode of Iggy Arbuckle.
In addition to his continuing work as a screenwriter, Scott has been teaching screenwriting and media history at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) in Toronto since 1997. As of 2021, he is also a professor in the Children's Media program at Toronto's Centennial College.
References
External links
Living people
Canadian male screenwriters
Canadian male television writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
21st-century Canadian male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azariah%20Southworth | Azariah Southworth (born May 13, 1986) is an American writer and former television presenter of The Remix - a syndicated reality show on the NRB, TBN, JCTV, and VTN networks. The Remix featured Christian artists such as Jars of Clay, Rachael Lampa, Shane & Shane and watched by more than 200,000 viewers a week.
Raised in Orland, Indiana, Southworth currently resides in Los Angeles. He announced he is gay on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, stating, "This has been a long time coming. I’m in a place where I’m at peace with my faith, friends, family and more importantly myself. I know this will end my career in Christian television, but I must now live my life openly and honestly with everyone. This is my reason for doing this." After making this public to Out & About Newspaper in Nashville, Southworth subsequently became the first Christian entertainer to come out publicly. The story was covered by The Huffington Post, PerezHilton.com, The Advocate, and Fox News Channel.
After coming out, Southworth was named one of Instinct's "Leading Men of 2008". Southworth has advocated for LGBT rights with the Soulforce Q "2008 Equality Ride". In 2010, Southworth was the opening act for gay Christian singer Ray Boltz on his "Living True: The Tour". In 2020, Audity launched Yass, Jesus!, an LGBTQ and faith affirming podcast, with Southworth and actor Daniel Franzese as the hosts. The show aims to help others see the queer and trans narratives in the Bible through storytelling and comedy. Yass, Jesus! is produced by Ross Murray and Meredith Paulley.
See also
Christianity and homosexuality
List of people from Nashville, Tennessee
References
External links
AzariahSpeaks.com official website
"Why I outed a Christian star", a Salon article by Southworth
1986 births
American gay writers
LGBT Protestants
Living people
Writers from Los Angeles
Writers from Nashville, Tennessee
People from Orland, Indiana
21st-century American LGBT people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundata | Fundata (; ) is a commune in Brașov County, Romania, in the historic region of Transylvania. It is composed of three villages: Fundata, Fundățica (Kleinkertzberg; Kisfundáta), and Șirnea (Schirnen; Sirnea). The place offers panoramas for the Piatra Craiului Mountains and Bucegi Mountains. During the 2013 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, it held the biathlon competition in the new venue of the town.
Presentation
Surrounded by the Bucegi Mountains and the Piatra Craiului Mountains, Fundata's altitude of makes it the highest commune in Romania. Șirnea was first attested in 1729, and Fundata in 1732. It lies on the southern border of Brașov County, with Argeș County on the other side, in the middle of the Rucăr-Bran Pass, along European route E574. It is from Brașov and from Râșnov.
In August 1916, when troops from the Romanian Old Kingdom entered Austria-Hungary, the first village they took was Fundata, also capturing their first prisoners there and suffering their first battle death.
A traditional lifestyle of herding sheep and cows is preserved, augmented by tourism. Indeed, Șirnea was declared the country's first tourist village in 1968. Aside from the mountainous scenery, attractions in Fundata include a wooden Romanian Orthodox church (1830) and one of stone (1939–1943); in Șirnea, there is a church from 1893–1894 as well as an ethnographic museum. There is an annual festival held around July 20, feast of the prophet Elijah, called Nedeia Munților ("Mountain Celebration"). Originally a "feast of two countries" (Transylvania and Wallachia), it was revived in 1969, and features folklore displays as well as local cheeses and meats.
At the 2011 census, all but one of the commune's inhabitants were ethnic Romanians.
Natives
Gheorghe Bădescu
Ion Țeposu
Gallery
Notes
Communes in Brașov County
Localities in Transylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zents%C5%ABji%2C%20Kagawa%20%28town%29 | is an area within the city of Zentsūji, Kagawa Prefecture.
was a town located within Nakatado District, Kagawa Prefecture. This article only contains the data until the day before the formation of the city of Zentsuji (March 31, 1954).
was a town located in Nakatado District, Kagawa Prefecture.
History
November 3, 1901 - The villages of Zentsūji, Yoshida, and Amino merged to become the town of Zentsūji.
Dissolved municipalities of Kagawa Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Idol%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth and final season of Canadian Idol is the sixth and final installation of the Idol series in Canada and premiered on June 3, 2008, on the CTV Television Network. It is again hosted by Ben Mulroney, with the addition of Jully Black as a special correspondent and general mentor to the contestants. Farley Flex, Jake Gold, Sass Jordan and Zack Werner all returned as judges. This season saw a number of major and minor show format changes in an effort to keep the franchise fresh and innovative. The final episode of the season, in which the Canadian Idol was crowned, aired on September 10, 2008. The winner of the sixth season was Theo Tams. The sixth season became the final season of Canadian Idol following its cancellation in 2009.
Auditions
Auditions were held in the following cities:
Edmonton, Alberta ( January 26–27): 1,000 Auditioned – 13 Received Gold
Calgary, Alberta ( February 2–3): 1,000 Auditioned – 19 Received Gold
Vancouver, British Columbia ( February 9–10): 1,000 Auditioned – 21 Received Gold
Winnipeg, Manitoba ( February 22–23): 700 Auditioned – 24 Received Gold
Hamilton, Ontario ( March 1–2): 1,000 Auditioned – 27 Received Gold
Ottawa, Ontario ( March 8–9): 660 Auditioned – 20 Received Gold
Montreal, Quebec ( March 15–16): 1,000 Auditioned – 27 Received Gold
Halifax, Nova Scotia ( March 29–30): 450 Auditioned – 10 Received Gold
St. John's, Newfoundland (April 8): 200 Auditioned – 6 Received Gold
Toronto, Ontario ( April 12–13): 2,000 Auditioned – 34 Received Gold
Total Auditions: 9,010
Total Gold Tickets: 201
Show Format Changes
This year of Canadian Idol promises to have a number of changes and surprises to the usual show format.
Jully Black joined the cast of Canadian Idol as the new correspondent and mentor.
As introduced last season, competitors are allowed to play instruments in their auditions and performances.
"Last Chance" Online Auditions were introduced to allow competitors who could not make it to an audition city/date, or who did not receive a gold ticket for their in-person audition, to submit a two-minute audition video on the Canadian Idol website (idol.ctv.ca) for consideration.
This season, apparently due to the increase in extremely talented contestants, the number of semi-finalist was increased by 2, producing a Top 24. Also for the first time, the chosen semi-finalists were not evenly split between male and female performers: 15 men and 9 women made up the Top 24. Due to the uneven number of men and women, the performance groups during the semi-final rounds were also not being split according to gender. Additionally, during the semi-final elimination rounds the composition of the two performance groups varied from week to week; thus, unlike in previous years, a performer did not always compete against the same sub-group of semifinalists, or on the same performance night.
Because of the increase in the total number of semi-finalist (24, instead of 22), the last week of semifinals saw 6 competitors (i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugaboo%20%28The%20Flea%29 | Bugaboo (The Flea), later published in Spain as La Pulga, is a video game written by the Spanish programming duo Paco Portalo and Paco Suarez for the ZX Spectrum and published by Quicksilva in 1983. It was later released for the Commodore 64 and MSX were produced. The Amstrad CPC port was published under the name Roland in the Caves using the Roland character.
Bugaboo, besides being the first video game made in Spain, is one of the first computer games to include cutscenes. Its publication marked the beginning of the Golden Era of Spanish Software. A sequel was released in Spain by Opera Soft under the title Poogaboo, made by Paco Suarez. Paco Portalo, the other member of Paco & Paco, left the project after the publication of the original game for the ZX Spectrum.
The player takes control of a flea who has fallen into a cavern and must escape.
Gameplay
The game begins with an animation depicting Bugaboo, a small, yellow creature with two extremely long legs, jumping around on a colourful planet before accidentally falling through a crack in the planet's surface and falling to the bottom of a cavern.
The player must control Bugaboo and guide him back to the top of the cavern, and out to the safety of the planet's surface.
There are only two control keys: left and right. When a key is held down a gauge at the bottom of the screen begins to fill up. When the key is released, Bugaboo will jump in that direction, with the strength of the jump being determined by how long the key was held down. The cavern is made up of various rocky ledges which Bugaboo may land on; however he can only stand on a flat area and, if a jump is mistimed, Bugaboo may end up on an angled area of rock, or miss the ledge altogether, which will cause him to fall straight down, landing on whatever is below.
Bugaboo can fall from any distance without dying. The only way to lose a life is for Bugaboo to make contact with the large, yellow dragon which wanders around the cave. Bugaboo can escape the dragon by carefully leaping away, or by taking refuge inside one of the smaller caverns that are located around the play area.
Reception
Reviews were overwhelmingly positive, with CRASH giving the game 92%, Computer and Video Games awarding it 8/10 and their Game of the Month and Personal Computer Games giving it 7/10.
CRASH said that "Bugaboo is a high quality arcade standard game, and it's highly addictive too. This game will definitely be a top seller!" while Personal Computer Games said that "...if you like a challenge, then this is it. Be patient though. It's not that easy to get back to the top." and Computer and Video Games praised the game's "Breath-taking graphics" and "perfect animation" and decided that "... a fresh and original approach to game design have been combined to produce yet another top rate game." Tony Hetherington of Computer Gamer magazine included the game in "The Spectrum Collection" - "15 classic games that all Spectrum owners should have". |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Estate%20TV | Real Estate TV, also known as RETV, was an award-winning UK-based television channel and multi-media company that formed part of News Corporation's Fox International Channels' network.
As a simulcast company, RETV was the UK's only dedicated property television channel, and it successfully bridges the divide between traditional television transmission and new media, online, on demand broadcasting.
Launched in October 2004 by Mark Dodd, its founding partner and Bruce Dunlop on the British Sky Broadcasting platform and closed on 1 April 2009, Real Estate TV was available on Sky Channels 262 and 263, on demand on Virgin TV and at www.realestatetv.tv
The channel broadcast 24 hours a day on Sky Channel 262 and had a +1 service available on Sky Channel 263. RETV broadcast to over 21 million adult viewers in the UK and Ireland, and to millions more across Europe. The company was based at FIC's studios at Shepherd's Bush in London and Real Estate TV was a member of the Association of International Property Professionals.
Steve Dawkins, managing director of the company continued to lead Real Estate TV despite the January 2008 controlling stake purchase by Fox International Channels (FIC)
Programming included the transmission of quality, entertaining property programs from the UK and around the world, as well as RETV commissioned series such as Next Big Thing.
Next Big Thing specifically focuses on global emerging property markets of interest and financial potential to the channel's viewers.
Online on its own dedicated website, RETV offered streaming video, a property finder service, international real estate news and value added viewer services such as currency exchange, insurance and international mortgages.
RETV also offered free-to-view video content via Tiscali, Blinx, Jalipo and BT Vision. It was as a result of the RETV online expansion and development that in 2006 the channel won the Best Use of Broadband award at the Broadcast Digital Channel Awards and RETV also won the OPP Special Innovation Award in 2007
As an advertisement platform for property professionals, Real Estate TV allowed brand owners to target property-focused consumers through spot advertising, sponsorship, or advertiser funded programming. Tailor-made, long-form advertisements can be produced by the RETV creative team as well, offering developers, agents and property professionals the opportunity to showcase their properties or services in a measurable way to secure leads for example.
List of programmes
Buyer's Guide to Florida
Buyer's Guide to Spain
FOCUS Calabria
FOCUS Costa de la Luz
FOCUS Rhodes
FOCUS Romania
FOCUS Ski Bulgaria
FOCUS Slovakia
FOCUS SW France
Home for the Future
House Hunters International
Living in Algarve
Living in Andalucia
Living in Bristol
Living in Costa Blanca
Living in Costa de Almeria
Living in Costa del Sol
Living in Cyprus
Living in Docklands
Living in French Riviera
Living in Liverpool
Living in Manchester
Living in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquer%20%28Soulfly%20album%29 | Conquer is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Soulfly. It saw official release on July 23, 2008, in Australia, although the album had leaked early onto file-sharing networks. It was released on July 29, 2008, in Canada and the United States and debuted at #66 on the U.S. Billboard 200 — Soulfly's highest Billboard peak since their 2002 release, 3.
Production and release
The album was tracked by Tim C. Lau in late 2007 at The Porch Recording Studio in Orlando, Florida and mixed by Andy Sneap in early 2008. In promotion for the album, Max Cavalera stated that he had been heavily influenced by Bolt Thrower, Napalm Death and Slayer in writing for this album, which he declared would make Dark Ages sound like a pop album.
A bonus edition of the album was released containing three bonus tracks and a DVD. The DVD features a full live concert from Warsaw, Poland and the music video for "Innerspirit" from the previous album, Dark Ages.
The album sold over 8,400 copies in the U.S. during the first week of its release.
Songs
"Unleash" was the album's first single with the accompanying music video directed by Robert Sexton. This song and its video features Dave Peters of Throwdown. The second single released was Blood Fire War Hate, the first track of the album, featuring Morbid Angel vocalist David Vincent. "Touching the Void" is heavily influenced by Black Sabbath as it contains doom and sludgy riffs, with outro recorded by French dub artist Fedaya Pacha. "Warmageddon" explores war and Armageddon, hence its portmanteau.
Critical reception
Conquer has thus far garnered positive reviews from most media outlets and review websites. Chad Bower of About.com calls it "outstanding", with "great musicianship and songwriting" and "new styles, sounds and experiments, which also hit the mark." Nikos Patelis of Metal Invader notes the "hardcore beatings, extreme thrash speeds and many implements of weird sounds that have nothing to do with metal" and deems the album "dark as hell". In comparison to Cavalera Conspiracy's debut earlier this year, Dominic Hemy of Planet Loud considers Conquer "tighter, heavier, more diverse, more original, and far more engaging than Inflikted".
Track listing
Bonus DVD listing
Live in Warsaw, Poland
"Prophecy"
"Downstroy"
"Seek 'n' Strike"
"No Hope = No Fear"
"Jumpdafuckup/Bring It"
"Living Sacrifice"
"Mars"
"Brasil"
"No"
"L.O.T.M."
"Porrada"
"Drums"
"Moses"
"Frontlines"
"Back to the Primitive"
"Eye for an Eye"
Music Video
"Innerspirit"
Personnel
Soulfly
Max Cavalera – vocals, 4-string guitar, berimbau, sitar
Marc Rizzo – lead guitar, flamenco guitar
Bobby Burns – bass
Joe Nunez – drums, percussion
Additional musicians
David Vincent – additional vocals on "Blood Fire War Hate"
Dave Peters – additional vocals on "Unleash"
Fedayi Pacha – duduk, percussion on "Touching the Void", dub outro on "For Those About to Rot"
Jean-Pol Dub - didgeridoo on "Touching the Void"
Tim Lau - drum programming
Production
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verano%20del%20%2798 | Verano del '98 is an Argentine telenovela intended for teenagers, broadcast by Telefe from January 26, 1998 until November 24, 2000. Allegedly planned as way to cover a programming gap for the summer of 1998, it became such a hit that it ended lasting three consecutive seasons.
After the series aired Telefe came under fire as it became apparent that Verano del '98 was a thinly veiled copy of the popular American teen drama Dawson's Creek, which also started airing around the same time. Gustavo Yankelevich, Telefe's chief artistic director, admitted having attended an early screening of Dawson's Creek in 1997 but thought Sony had lost interest in the project and decided to use it as inspiration when developing Verano del '98. Sony and Telefe settled out of court.
Series overview
This series takes place in the fictional town of Costa Esperanza.
Cast
Herrera Family
Violeta Herrera (Agustina Cherri) Violeta is 16 years old. She is the daughter of Raúl and Elvira, she is the sister of Juan, Lucio and Jazmín, she is the mother of Teresa and she is the aunt of Juana. She dresses in bright colors and is always in a good mood. She works for Franco in the Morena. She will be in a constant "fight-reconciliation" with Mauro. She gets pregnant, until Germán makes her lose her pregnancy. She goes through a strong depression that separates her from Mauro. She meets Octavio. She marries Octavio forced by her mother to forget Mauro. But despite this she has an encounter with Mauro, becoming pregnant again. Sara, Octavio's mother, makes everyone believe that the baby she is expecting is from Octavio, but the truth comes to light and Violeta divorces from Octavio, to return with Mauro. She marries Mauro, they have their daughter Teresa and they are going to live in Chile.
Juan Herrera (Juan Ponce de León) He is the oldest son of Raúl and Elvira, he is the older brother of Violeta, Lucio and Jazmín, he is the father of Juana and he is the uncle of Teresa. Juan is the man of the house. He is a womanizer. He works at a record shop that Sofía buys, who he will fall in love with. At the beginning he begins a secret relationship with her because of the age difference. Sofía leaves him when her children discover her relationship with him. He meet Paula who he falls in love and marries her. But then Paula is sick with leukemia and her family takes her to Cuba to witness her illness, but despite the attempts she ends up dying. After the death of his wife, Juan restarts his relationship with Sofía which again does not prosper, and he decides to leave Costa Esperanza to the South. He meets Amanda, a girl who is physically equal to Paula. This relationship is quite complicated from the beginning due to the problems of the past that surround it. Juan in the middle has an affair with Yoko, but finally ends with his true love, Amanda, with whom he marries, they adopt a baby, called Juana and go on tour after he got a musical contract.
Lucio Herrera (Ezequiel Castaño) He i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Greeks | Great Greeks (, Megali Ellines) is a television program, produced and broadcast by the Greek television network Skai TV, based on the BBC's equivalent show 100 Greatest Britons. The show features lists and biographies of influential persons, who came to prominence in their fields throughout the history of Greece, in order to be determined through a voting procedure who is considered the greatest Greek of all time by the audience of Greece.
Format
The whole format of the show is made up of three parts. The first part consisted of a voting procedure, which began on 16 April 2008 and lasted until 7 May 2008, in order to choose the 100 predominant personalities. The second part launched with a couple of two-hour-long episodes, which presented the top 100 and revealed the 10 nominees. A new voting began on 23 February 2009, with the audience assuming to vote for the greatest among the final 10 persons, while a series of ten episodes contains extensive biographies of the 10 nominees.
Each episode features a celebrity supporting a nominee. The third part, the Great Final, took place on 18 May 2009, hosted by Alexis Papahelas. It was a live debate between the ten celebrity supporters of the previous episodes and twenty-five advocates, until the end of the voting and the announcement of the Greatest Greek.
Ten greatest Greeks
The final ranking of the ten greatest Greeks.
Other honourable mentions: Yiannis Kelidis
100 Great Greeks
By vote
Alphabetical
By era
Ancient Greece (27)
Byzantine Era (6)
Basil II (the Bulgar-Slayer)
Constantine I
Constantine XI Palaiologos
Justinian I
Plethon, Georgius Gemistos
Theotokópoulos, Doménicos (El Greco)
Modern Era (67)
By discipline
Leaders (37)
Artists (32)
Intellectuals (22)
Religion (4)
Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens
Cosmas of Aetolia
Margioris, Nikolaos A.
Constantine I
Sports (3)
Galis, Nick
Dimas, Pyrros
Zagorakis, Theodoros
Business (1)
Onassis, Aristotle
Other (1)
Unknown Soldier
See also
100 greatest Britons
Greatest Britons spin-offs
List of Greeks
External links
Skai.gr. "Μεγάλοι Έλληνες"
Skai TV official website
BBC Press release on the original British version of the format
Kathimerini (English Edition). The 100 greatest Greeks of all time. 16 May 2008.
Greece
Lists of Greek people
Greek television series
2009 Greek television series debuts
2009 Greek television series endings
Television series about Greece
Greek television series based on British television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Engraver | Igor Engraver is a scorewriter for the Macintosh and Windows operating systems, created by Swedish composer Peter Bengtson and published by the Swedish company NoteHeads. Bengtson stated on the Igor-Talk mailing list that he named Igor after the stock character in various horror movies (including the Frankenstein films), and to commemorate Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
Despite delays in publishing the first version, Igor Engraver was widely praised for its unprecedented ease of use and revolutionary user interface. Users also appreciated its ability to automatically create instrument parts from full scores rather than requiring them to be created separately. (This feature first appeared in the notation program Composer's Mosaic, but Igor's is one of the earliest implementations, well before those of Sibelius and Finale.)
Igor is written almost entirely in the Lisp programming language.
For a short time, Igor was released as freeware with the hope that online sales of scores would finance it. This was cancelled after it was found unfeasible.
In 2002, Peter Bengtson retired from active involvement in the company, which is now owned by Björn Ulvaeus (formerly of the pop group ABBA), Christer Sturmark (a Swedish author, I.T. entrepreneur and debater on religion and humanism), Per Gessle (a member of the pop groups Gyllene Tider and Roxette), and Cons T. Åhs (a computer science researcher).
The original Igor website URL www.noteheads.com redirects now to the page of Christer Sturmark; no new version of the program has been released. In 2009, a notice appeared on the website's original home page, addressing rumours about NoteHeads which had circulated on the Internet (without saying what the rumours were). It declared that the company was under new ownership, that a new version of Igor would be released in the near future, and that it would be free for users of version 1.7 (the last published version). There has been no activity since then.
See also
List of music software
References
Scorewriters
Lisp (programming language) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu-restricted-extras | Ubuntu Restricted Extras is a software package for the computer operating system Ubuntu that allows the user to install essential software which is not already included due to legal or copyright reasons.
It is a meta-package that installs:
Support for MP3 and unencrypted DVD playback
Microsoft TrueType core fonts
Adobe Flash plugin
codecs for common audio and video files
Background
The software in this package is not included in Ubuntu by default, as Ubuntu maintainers wish to include only completely free software in out-of-the-box installations. Included packages may be closed-source, encumbered by software patents, or otherwise restricted. For example, the Adobe Flash plugin is a closed-source piece of software. Additionally, many multimedia formats such as MP3 and H.264 are patented. In countries where these patents apply, legally distributing software that use these formats may require paying licensing fees to the patent owners.
Contents
The Ubuntu Restricted Extras is a metapackage and has the following dependencies:
flashplugin-installer
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
gstreamer0.10-pitfdll
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
icedtea6-plugin
libavcodec-extra-52
libmp4v2-0
ttf-mscorefonts-installer
unrar
Starting with Ubuntu 10.10, several of these dependencies are included indirectly via another meta-package ubuntu-restricted-addons which is included by default.
Inclusion
Due to the legal status of the software included in Ubuntu Restricted Extras, the package is not included by default on any Ubuntu CDs.
See also
deb format
References
Linux package management-related software
Ubuntu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offline%20root%20certificate%20authority | An offline root certificate authority is a certificate authority (as defined in the X.509 standard and ) which has been isolated from network access, and is often kept in a powered-down state.
In a public key infrastructure, the chain of trusted authorities begins with the root certificate authority (root CA). Once the root CA is installed and its root certificate is created, the next action taken by the administrator of the root CA is to issue certificates authorizing intermediate (or subordinate) CAs. This creates the ability to issue, distribute and revoke digital certificates without the direct action of the root CA.
Because the consequences of a compromised root CA are so great (up to and including the need to re-issue each and every certificate in the PKI), all root CAs must be kept safe from unauthorized access. A common method to ensure the security and integrity of a root CA is to keep it in an offline state. It is only brought online when needed for specific, infrequent tasks, typically limited to the issuance or re-issuance of certificates authorizing intermediate CAs.
A drawback to offline operation is that hosting of a certificate revocation list by the root CA is not possible (as it is unable to respond to CRL requests via protocols such as HTTP, LDAP or OCSP). However, it is possible to move certificate validation functionality into a dedicated validation authority authorized by the offline root CA.
To better understand how an offline root CA can greatly improve the security and integrity of a PKI, it is important to realize that a CRL is specific to the CA which issued the certificates on the list. Therefore, each CA (root or intermediate) is only responsible for tracking the revocation of certificates it alone has issued.
Consider the scenario where a root CA issues certificates to three intermediate CAs: A, B, and C:
The root CA has issued a total of three certificates.
The newly created intermediate CAs then issue their own certificates:
Intermediate CA "A" issues 10,000 certificates
Intermediate CA "B" issues 20,000 certificates
Intermediate CA "C" issues 30,000 certificates
If each intermediate CA were to revoke all certificates issue by it, the maximum size of the CRL specific to each Intermediate CA would be:
Intermediate CA "A": 10,000 CRL entries
Intermediate CA "B": 20,000 CRL entries
Intermediate CA "C": 30,000 CRL entries
However, because the root CA has only issued three certificates (to each of the intermediate CAs), the maximum size of its CRL is:
Root CA: 3 CRL entries
Therefore, the overall burden of maintaining and hosting a CRL specific to the root CA is minimized by the use of intermediate CAs, as well as the burden of maintaining an associated validation authority.
See also
X.509
Certificate server
Extended Validation Certificate
Intermediate certificate authority
Validation authority
Key ceremony
Online Certificate Status Protocol
Certificate revocation list
Self-signed certificate
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake%20Hunter | Jake Hunter, known in Japan as , is a mystery adventure game series originally developed and published by Data East in 1987. The property would later transfer to WorkJam, and then to Arc System Works.
Despite its popularity in Japan, the first of its games to receive an English language release was Tantei Jingūji Saburō DS: Inishie no Kioku, retitled and released in North America on June 11, 2008 by Aksys Games in truncated form as Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles. The game was re-released on May 26, 2009 as Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past, containing the originally localised three cases with new translations, plus three further cases, and a large number of unlockables including comics. No further releases would be announced until July 1, 2017, when Aksys Games revealed they would be bringing over Tantei Jingūji Saburō: Ghost of the Dusk in 2018. A prequel game, given the branding Alternate Jake Hunter internationally, was localised internally and released in 2019 with original character names and settings preserved.
History
According to Enterbrain's Famitsu, the Tantei Jingūji Saburō franchise had sold over 2,220,000 units at the time of its twentieth anniversary, making it one of the longest running and best-selling Japanese adventure game series in history. There are nineteen main series entries, complemented by a 25-game mobile sub-series and various examples of tie-in media. A persistent series tradition has been to use titles from songs and albums as names for installments, with most frequent reference made to the works of Kenji Sawada.
Family Computer
The first game of the series, , was released in 1987 by Data East for the Family Computer Disk System. Following in the style of Yuji Horii's popular Famicom adventure games, the "command selection" style games featured advanced graphics, sound effects, and distinct hardboiled scenarios to set themselves apart from contemporaries. The series employed a number of advanced game mechanics, developing techniques which would later find popularity in the industry at large. Time played an important role in the first game, with each command selected by the player causing a certain amount of in-game time to elapse; failure to solve the mystery during the allotted time period resulting in a bad ending. This time system would later be revived in the series' 7th installment. The scenario for the series' 3rd and 4th installments was written by a fledgling Kazushige Nojima, who added segments following the secondary lead which alternated on a predetermined basis.
Fifth generation consoles
Production was halted after the 4th installment, but would be revived internally when Data East took on series fan Tatsuya Saito. Saito would become scenario writer for the 5th game in the series, directed by Eiichi Nishiyama, imminent heir to the role of series producer, and released on the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1996. This fifth entry would see several developments on the original games ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevanlinna%E2%80%93Pick%20interpolation | In complex analysis, given initial data consisting of points in the complex unit disc and target data consisting of points in , the Nevanlinna–Pick interpolation problem is to find a holomorphic function that interpolates the data, that is for all ,
,
subject to the constraint for all .
Georg Pick and Rolf Nevanlinna solved the problem independently in 1916 and 1919 respectively, showing that an interpolating function exists if and only if a matrix defined in terms of the initial and target data is positive semi-definite.
Background
The Nevanlinna–Pick theorem represents an -point generalization of the Schwarz lemma. The invariant form of the Schwarz lemma states that for a holomorphic function , for all ,
Setting , this inequality is equivalent to the statement that the matrix given by
that is the Pick matrix is positive semidefinite.
Combined with the Schwarz lemma, this leads to the observation that for , there exists a holomorphic function such that and if and only if the Pick matrix
The Nevanlinna–Pick theorem
The Nevanlinna–Pick theorem states the following. Given , there exists a holomorphic function such that if and only if the Pick matrix
is positive semi-definite. Furthermore, the function is unique if and only if the Pick matrix has zero determinant. In this case, is a Blaschke product, with degree equal to the rank of the Pick matrix (except in the trivial case where
all the 's are the same).
Generalisation
The generalization of the Nevanlinna–Pick theorem became an area of active research in operator theory following the work of Donald Sarason on the Sarason interpolation theorem. Sarason gave a new proof of the Nevanlinna–Pick theorem using Hilbert space methods in terms of operator contractions. Other approaches were developed in the work of L. de Branges, and B. Sz.-Nagy and C. Foias.
It can be shown that the Hardy space H 2 is a reproducing kernel Hilbert space, and that its reproducing kernel (known as the Szegő kernel) is
Because of this, the Pick matrix can be rewritten as
This description of the solution has motivated various attempts to generalise Nevanlinna and Pick's result.
The Nevanlinna–Pick problem can be generalised to that of finding a holomorphic function that interpolates a given set of data, where R is now an arbitrary region of the complex plane.
M. B. Abrahamse showed that if the boundary of R consists of finitely many analytic curves (say n + 1), then an interpolating function f exists if and only if
is a positive semi-definite matrix, for all in the n-torus. Here, the s are the reproducing kernels corresponding to a particular set of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, which are related to the set R. It can also be shown that f is unique if and only if one of the Pick matrices has zero determinant.
Notes
Pick's original proof concerned functions with positive real part. Under a linear fractional Cayley transform, his result holds on maps from the disc to the disc.
Pick–Nevanl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OWN | OWN may also refer to:
Old West Norse, a North Germanic language
Once Was Not (2005), an album by Cryptopsy
One Warrior Nation, what The Ultimate Warrior calls his fans
Oprah Winfrey Network, a U.S.-based cable and satellite television channel
Oprah Winfrey Network (Canadian TV channel), a Canadian cable and satellite television channel
See also
Ownership
Owned, a slang word |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20science | Network science is an academic field which studies complex networks such as telecommunication networks, computer networks, biological networks, cognitive and semantic networks, and social networks, considering distinct elements or actors represented by nodes (or vertices) and the connections between the elements or actors as links (or edges). The field draws on theories and methods including graph theory from mathematics, statistical mechanics from physics, data mining and information visualization from computer science, inferential modeling from statistics, and social structure from sociology. The United States National Research Council defines network science as "the study of network representations of physical, biological, and social phenomena leading to predictive models of these phenomena."
Background and history
The study of networks has emerged in diverse disciplines as a means of analyzing complex relational data. The earliest known paper in this field is the famous Seven Bridges of Königsberg written by Leonhard Euler in 1736. Euler's mathematical description of vertices and edges was the foundation of graph theory, a branch of mathematics that studies the properties of pairwise relations in a network structure. The field of graph theory continued to develop and found applications in chemistry (Sylvester, 1878).
Dénes Kőnig, a Hungarian mathematician and professor, wrote the first book in Graph Theory, entitled "Theory of finite and infinite graphs", in 1936.
In the 1930s Jacob Moreno, a psychologist in the Gestalt tradition, arrived in the United States. He developed the sociogram and presented it to the public in April 1933 at a convention of medical scholars. Moreno claimed that "before the advent of sociometry no one knew what the interpersonal structure of a group 'precisely' looked like" (Moreno, 1953). The sociogram was a representation of the social structure of a group of elementary school students. The boys were friends of boys and the girls were friends of girls with the exception of one boy who said he liked a single girl. The feeling was not reciprocated. This network representation of social structure was found so intriguing that it was printed in The New York Times (April 3, 1933, page 17). The sociogram has found many applications and has grown into the field of social network analysis.
Probabilistic theory in network science developed as an offshoot of graph theory with Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi's eight famous papers on random graphs. For social networks the exponential random graph model or p* is a notational framework used to represent the probability space of a tie occurring in a social network. An alternate approach to network probability structures is the network probability matrix, which models the probability of edges occurring in a network, based on the historic presence or absence of the edge in a sample of networks.
In 1998, David Krackhardt and Kathleen Carley introduced the idea of a meta-network wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwiezdny%20cyrk | Gwiezdny cyrk is a television show on the Polish television network Polsat. It was broadcast by Polsat. Agnieszka Popielewicz and Zygmunt Chajzer as the hosts, and the judges were: Maryla Rodowicz, Przemysław Saleta, Ewa Zalewska, Piotr Bałtroczyk.
I season
Scores
2008 Polish television series debuts
2008 Polish television series endings
Polish reality television series
Polsat original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biobase%20%28company%29 | BIOBASE is an international bioinformatics company headquartered in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. The company focuses on the generation, maintenance, and licensing of databases in the field of molecular biology, and their related software platforms.
History
The company was founded in 1997 as a spin-off from the German Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF), Braunschweig, Germany, known today as the Helmholtz Research Centre for Infection Research. *The founders were scientists of the GBF Research Group Bioinformatics, headed at that time by Edgar Wingender. The company is now managed by Michael Tysiak (CEO/CFO) and Frank Schacherer (COO).
The company's original product was the TRANSFAC database, a platform for the description and analysis of gene regulatory events and networks. This was subsequently complemented by a number of smaller databases relevant to aspects of gene regulation, and by an early signaling pathway database (TRANSPATH). TRANSPATH constituted the earliest signaling pathway database, alongside the Cell Signaling Network Database (CSNDB) curated by T. Takai at the National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) in Tokyo.
By end of 1999, BIOBASE acquired venture capital from the IMH funds, now managed by Triginta Capital, by the MBG (Hannover; until 2007) and the tbg. In 2002, Intec W&G, Tokyo, Japan, invested in the company and remained a shareholder until 2005.
In early 2005, the company acquired the databases produced by Incyte, Wilmington, Delaware, USA, which were operated at the time by Incyte's subsidiary, Proteome Inc in Beverly, MA. The early flagship of Proteome was the Yeast Proteome Database (YPD), which was complemented by a number of similar databases. Their latest achievement before the acquisition was the Human Proteome Survey Database (HumanPSD).
BIOBASE with all subsidiaries was acquired by QIAGEN GmbH on April 2, 2014.
Subsidiaries
BIOBASE GmbH has three fully owned daughter companies: BIOBASE Corporation in Beverly/Massachusetts, USA (since 2005), BIOBASE Databases India Pvt Ltd. in Bangalore, India (since 2006), and BIOBASE Japan K.K. in Yokohama, Japan (since 2007).
Products and services
The company's databases provide manually curated content, collected and structured from peer-reviewed scientific primary publications.
The BIOBASE Knowledge Library (BKL) is an integrated database comprising the following modules:
TRANSFAC: Eukaryotic transcription factors, their genomic DNA-binding sites and DNA-binding profiles
TRANSCompel: Transcription regulating composite elements
TRANSPro: Promoter sequences from a number of selected eukaryotic species
PathoDB: Pathologically relevant mutations in transcription factors and their binding sites
TRANSPATH: Signal transduction and metabolic pathways in mammalian species
YPD: The complete yeast proteome (protein reports for all known Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteins)
PombePD, MycopathPD: Proteomes of Schizosaccharomyces pombe and of pathological fungi
WormPD: Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Phone%20Abstraction%20Library | In the field of VoIP networking, the Open Phone Abstraction Library (OPAL) continues the open-source openh323 project to support a wide range of commonly used protocols used to send voice, video and fax data over IP networks rather than being tied to the H.323 protocol. Initially, from 2007, OPAL supported the H.323 and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) protocols, but it has grown to include Asterisk IAX2.
About
OPAL implements a wide range of Voice over IP (VoIP) protocols for voice, video and fax data over IP networks.
It is written in C++ and released under the Mozilla Public Licence.
OPAL utilises the PTLib portable library that allows OPAL to run on a variety of platforms including Unix/Linux/BSD, MacOSX, Windows, Windows mobile and embedded systems.
Opal was developed as a derivative of the OpenH323 library.
Applications
OPAL is used by the open source Video Conferencing Program Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting).
External links
Project web site
Sourceforge Project Home
Ekiga Homepage
VoIP protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel%20Computer%20Works | Whitechapel Computer Works Ltd. (WCW) was a computer workstation company founded in the East End of London, United Kingdom in April 1983 by Timothy Eccles and Bob Newman, with a combined investment of £1 million from the Greater London Enterprise Board (£100,000 initially), venture capital companies Newmarket and Baillie Gifford, and the Department of Trade and Industry. The company was situated in the Whitechapel Technology Centre - a council-funded high-technology enterprise hub - and began the design of their first workstation model in August 1983, shipping the first units by September 1984.
MG-1 Workstation
The company's first workstation model was the MG-1 (named after the Milliard Gargantubrain from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). The MG-1 was based on the National Semiconductor NS32016 microprocessor, with 512 KB of RAM (expandable to 8 MB), a 1024 × 800 pixel monochrome display, a 10, 22 or 45 MB hard disk, 800 KB floppy drive, and an optional Ethernet interface, with prices stated as being equivalent to $6975 for the 10 MB hard disk system, $8250 for the 22 MB system and $9500 for the 45 MB system.
A contemporary evaluation of a 40 MB hard disk system with 2 MB RAM lists an approximate acquisition price of £9000. While there was no distributor in the United States, the MG-1 was sold in North America by Cybertool Systems Ltd. from 1984 through 1986. A colour version, the CG-1, was also announced in 1986, followed by the MG-200, with an NS32332 processor, in 1987.
The MG-1 employed an 8 MHz 32016 CPU with 32082 memory management unit (MMU) and 32081 floating-point unit (FPU), with the MMU being noted in a 1985 article as "suffering from bugs" and being situated on its own board providing hardware fixes. In order to deliver the machine at prices closer to personal computers than contemporary workstations (such as Sun, Apollo and Perq), design techniques from the personal computer industry were adopted, with a single eight-layer system board being used to hold the CPU and other integrated circuits. The 32201 timing and control unit (TCU) and 32202 interrupt control unit (ICU) were also employed by the MG-1.
Initially, NatSemi's Genix operating system, described as being based on Unix System III with 4.1BSD enhancements, or just 4.1BSD, was provided. NatSemi's Unix roadmap in 1984 advertised forthcoming 4.2BSD features and a "generic port of UNIX System V". However, during 1985, Genix was replaced on the MG-1 by a port of 4.2BSD called 42nix and augmented with the Oriel graphical user interface to give a reported factor of six performance improvement in graphics performance, Oriel being partially kernel-based.
In order to improve responsiveness and reduce the latency observed with contemporary Unix systems, the mouse position was tracked using a dedicated processor which also monitored the keyboard for events, and a form of hardware mouse pointer was used, with the pointer bitmap being stored in its own 64-pixel buffer as a kind |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeohatteria | Palaeohatteria is an extinct genus of basal sphenacodonts known from the Early Permian period (Sakmarian stage) of Saxony, Germany. It contains a single species, Palaeohatteria longicaudata.
Discovery
Palaeohatteria is based on very young individuals including skulls and partial postcranial skeletons. All specimens were collected at Niederhäslich locality, in Dresden, from the Niederhäslich Limestone Member of the Niederhäslich Formation, Rotliegend Group (Döhlen Basin), dating to the Sakmarian stage of the Cisuralian series, about 295.0 -290.1 million years old.
Description
Palaeohatteria was a fairly small synapsid, up to 60 cm in length and with a mass of about 3 kg. The affinities of Palaeohatteria to the pelycosaur were first described in details by Alfred Sherwood Romer & Llewellyn Price (1940). They revised the taxonomy of pelycosaurs and synonymized Palaeohatteria (alongside with Pantelosaurus and others) with Haptodus, creating the new combination Haptodus longicaudata. After describing a new species of Haptodus in 1977, Currie (1979) synonymized all European haptodontines, as well as Cutleria wilmarthi, with the type of the genus, H. baylei. Later, Laurin (1993 and 1994) considered Haptodontinae to represent a polyphyletic grade of basal sphenacodonts, and revalidated Palaeohatteria among other genera and species. His revision has been accepted since. Due to the early ontological state of its remains, it is rarely included in phylogenetic analyses. However, it is well established that Palaeohatteria is closely related to "haptodontines" (=basal sphenacodonts) like Pantelosaurus. The cladogram below shows Palaeohatteria phylogenetic position among other sphenacodonts following Fröbisch et al. (2011).
Spindler (2016) utilized use of the name Palaeohatteriidae for the clade comprising Palaeohatteria and Pantelosaurus.
Etymology
Palaeohatteria was first described and named by Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner in 1888 and the type species is Palaeohatteria longicaudata. The generic name is derived from Greek παλαιός (palaios) "old, ancient", and from Hatteria, a proposed common name and generic name (like Rhynchocephalus) to the Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus). Credner considered it to be an ancient relative of "Hatteria". Baur (1889), who considered the name Sphenodon to be valid for Tuatara (while "Hatteria" is a junior synonym, as it is accepted today), claimed that the name Palaeohatteria should be also invalid. He proposed the name Palaeosphenodon (meaning "ancient Sphenodon") to replace it, however his proposal was rejected. Hence, Palaeosphenodon is a junior synonym of Palaeohatteria. The specific name is derived from Greek meaning "long-tailed" in reference to its relatively long tail.
References
Prehistoric sphenacodonts
Prehistoric synapsid genera
Sakmarian genera
Cisuralian synapsids of Europe
Permian Germany
Fossils of Germany
Fossil taxa described in 1888
Taxa named by Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner
Cisuralian life
Sakmarian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3PAR | 3PAR Inc. was a manufacturer of systems and software for data storage and information management headquartered in Fremont, California, USA. 3PAR produced computer data storage products, including hardware disk arrays and storage management software.
It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise after an acquisition in 2010.
History
3PAR was founded in mid-1998 or 1999, originally called 3PARdata. The founders included Jeffrey Price and Ashok Singhal, the P and A in the company's name. The R stands for a third partner, Robert Rogers, who left the company in 2001. David Scott became president and CEO in January 2001.
3PAR first shipped the InServ storage server in September 2002. 3PAR's primary competitors in the enterprise storage market are Dell EMC, Pure Storage, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems and IBM. 3PAR called itself a pioneer of thin provisioning, a mechanism to improve the utilization efficiency of storage capacity deployment.
3PAR first announced this capability in June 2002 and shipped it to customers in 2003.
An investment round of almost $33 million was disclosed in February 2004. Investors included Mayfield Fund, Menlo Ventures and Worldview Technology Partners. In September 2007, 3PAR opened a second research and development office in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The company completed an initial public offering in November 2007 and was initially listed on the NYSE Arca exchange under the symbol PAR. In the same month, 3PAR introduced Virtual Domains, which allow for secure application data isolation on a consolidated multi-tenant storage platform. In December 2008, 3PAR moved to the NYSE Big Board. One year later, 3PAR opened an Indian subsidiary in Bangalore focused on providing logistical and administrative support for its Global Services and Support operations. In March 2010, the company introduced 3PAR Adaptive Optimization, the industry's first implementation of autonomic storage tiering for cost optimization in high-end storage systems, targeted at enterprises and service providers. In April 2010, the company was recognized by Forbes magazine as the fourth fastest growing technology company in its Tech25 list.
Takeover bids
On August 16, 2010, Dell announced that it would acquire 3PAR in a transaction valued at approximately $1.15 billion, net of 3PAR's cash.
Following that, on August 23, 2010, Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) announced it had offered $1.5 billion (30% higher than Dell's offer) to acquire 3PAR in a letter sent to 3PAR's president and CEO.
On August 26, 2010, 3PAR said it accepted Dell's revised offer for a price of $24.30 per share, or approximately $1.6 billion, net of 3PAR's cash.
Then on August 27, both parties re-offered their bids, with Dell offering $27 a share to buy 3PAR, and HP offering $30 only 90 minutes later, valuing the company at more than $2 billion.
On September 2, 2010, Dell increased its offer to $32 per share but declined to revise its bid after HP upped its bid to $2.4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202000%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales. There were 20 Number 1 singles in 2000, including "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65, which had already spent seven weeks at Number 1 in 1999.
Fourteen acts gained their first Number 1, either as a lead or featured artist: Macy Gray, Killing Heidi, Chris Franklin, *NSYNC, Bardot, Destiny's Child, Madison Avenue, Bomfunk MC's, Anastacia, Pink, Spiller, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Wheatus and Baha Men. Both Madonna and Kylie Minogue earned two Number 1 singles during the year.
NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye" and Anastacia's "I'm Outta Love" both spent the most weeks at Number 1 with five weeks each. Destiny's Child's "Say My Name", Madonna's "Music", and Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out?" all spent four weeks at the top spot.
Chart history
Number-one artists
Songs that peaked at number two include "Shackles (Praise You)" by Mary Mary, "Candy" by Mandy Moore, "Graduation (Friends Forever)" by Vitamin C, "Never Be the Same Again" by Melanie C feat. Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and "Jumpin', Jumpin'" by Destiny's Child
Songs that peaked at number three include "She Bangs" by Ricky Martin, Lucky by Britney Spears, "Gotta Tell You" by Samantha Mumba, "We Will Rock You" by Five + Queen and "Steal My Sunshine" by Len.
Other hit songs included "Shine" by Vanessa Amorosi (4), Rock DJ By Robbie Williams (4), "It's My Life" by Bon Jovi (5), "Don't Tell Me" by Madonna (8), Let's Get Loud by Jennifer Lopez (9)
References
Sources
Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) official site
OzNet Music Chart
2000 in Australian music
2000 record charts
2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202001%20%28Australia%29 | The Australian Top 100 Singles Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of Australia. Published by the ARIA report, the data are compiled by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales and airplay. In 2001, there were 14 singles that topped the chart.
In 2001, 16 acts achieved their first number-one single in Australia, either as a lead artist or featured guest, including Shaggy, Mýa, LeAnn Rimes, Lifehouse, Scandal'us, and Alien Ant Farm. Shaggy, Rayvon, Scandal'us, and Kylie Minogue were the only acts to have earned a number-one debut single this year. Reggae singer Shaggy and R&B singer Mýa had two number-one singles that reached the top-spot. During the year, five collaboration singles reached the number-one position.
Shaggy's "Angel" and Alien Ant Farm's "Smooth Criminal" were the longest-running number-one singles of 2001, remaining in that position for eight weeks. The second-longest run at number-one was "Can't Fight the Moonlight" by Leann Rimes, whose streak on the top spot reached six weeks. Another single with an extended chart run was Lifehouse's "Hanging by a Moment", which topped the chart for five weeks.
Chart history
Number-one artists
Songs that peaked at number two include I'm Like A Bird by Nelly Furtado, Whole Again by Atomic Kitten, Don't Stop Movin' by S Club 7, Ms. Jackson by Outkast, How You Remind Me by Nickelback, Let's Get Married by Jagged Edge and Strawberry Kisses by Nikki Webster
Songs that peaked at number three include All Rise by Blue, Dance With Me by Debelah Morgan, Bette Davis Eyes by Gwyneth Paltrow, Purple Pills by D12 and I'm Real by Jennifer Lopez
Other hit songs included Butterfly by Crazy Town (4), With Arms Wide Open by Creed (4), Let Me Blow Ya Mind by Eve feat. Gwen Stefani (4), Operation Blade by Public Domain (7)
See also
2001 in music
List of top 25 singles for 2001 in Australia
List of number-one dance singles of 2001 (Australia)
Notes
Number of number-one singles: 15
Longest run at number one: Angel by Shaggy and Smooth Criminal by Alien Ant Farm (8 weeks)
References
Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) official site
OzNet Music Chart
Specific
2001 in Australian music
2001 record charts
2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202002%20%28Australia%29 | The Australian Top 100 Singles Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of Australia. Published by the ARIA report, the data are compiled by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales and airplay. In 2002, there were 18 singles that topped the chart.
In 2002, 12 acts achieved their first number-one single in Australia, either as a lead artist or featured guest, including Shakira, Eminem, DJ Ötzi, Avril Lavigne, Nelly, Kelly Rowland, Las Ketchup and more have earned a number-one debut single this year. Rapper Eminem and Latino singer Shakira had two number-one singles that appeared in the 2002 issues. During the year, two collaboration singles reached the number-one position.
Shakira's "Whenever, Wherever" and Avril Lavigne's "Complicated" are the longest-running number-one singles of 2002, remaining in that position for six straight weeks. It is followed by Eminems' "Without Me", whose streak on the top spot reached five non-consecutive weeks. Another single with an extended chart run includes Nelly's and Rowland's "Dilemma", which topped the chart for four weeks.
Eminem is the most successful act in 2002 in terms of chart performance. He had two singles that topped the Australian Top 100 Singles Chart: "Without Me" and "Lose Yourself". The only other artist to have two number one singles in 2002 is Shakira.
Chart history
Songs that peaked at number 2 include "Superman (It's Not Easy)" by Five for Fighting, "Girlfriend" by *NSYNC feat. Nelly and "Dance with Me" by 112
Songs that peaked at number 3 include "Murder on the Dancefloor" by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, "Hot in Herre" by Nelly, "If Tomorrow Never Comes" by Ronan Keating, "U Got It Bad" by Usher,
Other hit songs included "Tribute" by Tenacious D (4), "Get Over You" by Sophie Ellis-Bextor (4), "Heaven" by DJ Sammy, "Better Man" by Robbie Williams (6), and "Livin' It Up" (6)
See also
List of number-one dance singles of 2002 (Australia)
List of number-one albums of 2002 (Australia)
Notes
Number of number-one singles: 18
Longest run at number one: "Whenever, Wherever" by Shakira and "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne (6 weeks).
References
Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) official site
OzNet Music Chart
2002 in Australian music
2002 record charts
2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202003%20%28Australia%29 | The Australian Top 100 Singles Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Published by the ARIA report, the data is compiled by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales. digital sales and airplay.
Chart history
Notes
Songs that peaked at number 2 include "All I Have" by Jennifer Lopez feat. LL Cool J, "Stole" by Kelly Rowland, "Angel" by Amanda Perez, "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" by Jay-Z and Beyoncé,
Songs that peaked at number 3 include "Nu Flow" by Big Brovaz, "Big Yellow Taxi" by Counting Crows feat. Vanessa Carlton, "Shake Ya Tailfeather" by and P. Diddy feat. Nelly and Murphy Lee .
Other hit songs included "Hey Sexy Lady" by Shaggy, "Someday" by Nickelback and "Bump, Bump, Bump" by B2K feat. P. Diddy all of which peaked at number 4 and were all in the top 25.
Number of number-one singles: 19
Longest run at number-one: "Lose Yourself" by Eminem (8 weeks + 4 weeks in 2002)
Artist with the most number ones: 4, Delta Goodrem
References
Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) official site
OzNet Music Chart
2003 in Australian music
Australia singles
2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform%20as%20a%20service | Platform as a service (PaaS) or application platform as a service (aPaaS) or platform-based service is a category of cloud computing services that allows customers to provision, instantiate, run, and manage a modular bundle comprising a computing platform and one or more applications, without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching the application(s), and to allow developers to create, develop, and package such software bundles.
Development and uses
PaaS can be delivered in three ways:
As a public cloud service from a provider, where the consumer controls software deployment with minimal configuration options, and the provider provides the networks, servers, storage, operating system (OS), middleware (e.g. Java runtime, .NET runtime, integration, etc.), database and other services to host the consumer's application.
As a private service (software or appliance) behind a firewall.
As software deployed on public infrastructure as a service.
The first public platform as a service was Zimki, launched by Fotango, a London-based company owned by Canon Europe. It was developed in 2005, had a beta launch in March 2006 and a public launch at EuroOSCON in 2006.
At the time of its closure, Zimki had several thousand developer accounts. It had demonstrated the technical viability of Platform as a Service, but also provided the first example of the perils of being dependent on a single provider. This was highlighted when the CEO (Simon Wardley, known for Wardley maps) announced at OSCON 2007 that Zimki would no longer be open-sourced and discussed the future of what was then called framework-as-a-service (later called platform-as-a-service) covering the importance of a market of providers based on an open-source reference model.
The original intent of PaaS was to simplify the writing of code, with the infrastructure and operations handled by the PaaS provider. Originally, all PaaSes were in the public cloud. Because many companies did not want to have everything in the public cloud, private and hybrid PaaS options (managed by internal IT departments) were created.
PaaS provides an environment for developers and companies to create, host and deploy applications, saving developers from the complexities of infrastructure (setting up, configuring and managing elements such as servers and databases). PaaS can improve the speed of developing an app, and allow its user to focus on the application itself. With PaaS, the customer manages applications and data, while the provider (in public PaaS) or IT department (in private PaaS) manages runtime, middleware, operating system, virtualization, servers, storage and networking. Development tools provided by the vendor are customized according to the needs of the user. The user can choose to maintain the software, or have the vendor maintain it.
PaaS offerings may also include facilities for application design, application development, testi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preservation%20Metadata%3A%20Implementation%20Strategies | PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) is the de facto digital preservation metadata standard.
Digital preservation metadata defines the information that is needed to ensure the long-term usability of digital objects to keep them accessible in some form in the future. Digital preservation metadata is particularly important for repositories, places where information objects are stored and managed for a long time. Simply storing digital objects on a data carrier is not enough to keep them usable. They need to be managed in a repository so that they are protected from accidental or intentional damage and so that a full computing environment can be created in which they can be accessed and understood when they are needed.
Information objects have descriptive metadata, information about the object that could be used to discover, access and identify the digital object. This metadata is, however, not enough to preserve the digital objects in the long-term. For example, the digital object's file format can become obsolete and unusable by future software applications. This would require either transforming the older format to a newer one (migration), or reproducing the original experience with newer technology (emulation). Both strategies would require the additional information, such as technical metadata about the original files, information about the older hardware and software that they ran on, and information about actions that have transformed the digital object over time. All of these are types of preservation metadata. Preservation metadata therefore supports activities intended to ensure the long-term usability of a digital resource.
In the early 2000s it became clear that a shared community metadata standard was needed to ensure long-term preservation of the ever-increasing digital resources. Experts from key memory institutions and repository developers joined together to define it, resulting in The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, which has become a de facto standard that defines core metadata needed by most preservation repositories.
The use of standards is important as it supports the development of a community of best practice; it helps practitioners learn from the insights of others, so that they do not inadvertently overlook key metadata in their own practice; it allows for development of tools to make metadata creation and management easier; and it enables organizations to more easily exchange information with each other.
History
The PREMIS working group was created to further the work of an earlier initiative sponsored by the Online Computer Library Center OCLC and the Research Libraries Group RLG: the Preservation Metadata Framework (PMF) working group. In 2001–2002 the PMF working group outlined the types of information that should be associated with an archived digital object. Their report, A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects (the Framework), proposed a list of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFWE | CFWE is a radio network based in Edmonton, Alberta. Owned by the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society, it broadcasts programming targeting northern Alberta's First Nations communities, including mainstream country music, and specialty shows featuring Indigenous music or presented in native languages such as Cree and Dene.
The network broadcasts from studios in Edmonton, alongside its originating station CFWE-FM-4. It operates a network of rebroadcasters to serve the province of Alberta and its First Nations reserves.
History
Owned by the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society, the station received approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in 1987 to launch on 89.9 FM in Lac La Biche. Transmitters were later added at many other communities in northern Alberta.
CFWE-FM is a founding member of the Western Association of Aboriginal Broadcasters (WAAB). WAAB Members include Northern Native Broadcasting (BC), Northern Native Broadcasting (Yukon), Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation (Saskatchewan) and Native Communications Incorporated (Manitoba). WAAB members meet regularly to develop program ideas, share resources and work to promote Aboriginal broadcasting throughout western and northern Canada.
In 2008, AMMSA received approval from the CRTC to add new transmitters at Edmonton and Fort McMurray, with the Edmonton station becoming the de facto originating station of the network. The new transmitters, CHWE-FM-4 in Edmonton (physically located in the suburb of Spruce Grove) and CHWE-FM-5 in Fort McMurray, broadcast on 98.5 MHz and 94.5 MHz respectively.
On November 7, 2012, the AMMSA received approval to supersede CFWE-FM Lac La Biche and four low-power rebroadcasters serving nearby reserves with a new 19.6 kW signal on 90.5 MHz in Lac La Biche. In 2016, CHWE-FM-4's power was increased from 9.3 kW to 100 kW. In September 2017, the AMMSA received approval to add a 100,000 watt transmitter at 105.7 MHz in Grande Prairie, which superseded low-power transmitters serving the Horse Lake Reserve and Duncan's Band Reserve.
In June 2018, CFWE launched a new sister station in Calgary, CJWE-FM, taking the place of the former Aboriginal Voices Radio Network station. It carries a similar format, but with a focus on southern Alberta Treaty 7 communities. In December 2018, the CRTC granted a request for CFWE-FM-2 (Piikani 147) to switch to CJWE, as its programming would be more relevant to the area.
In May 2019, the CRTC approved a new transmitter in Red Deer.
In February 2021, CFWE launched a second sister station on another former Aboriginal Voices frequency in Edmonton, CIWE-FM; the station carries a freeform format as 89.3 The Raven.
Programming
Radio Bingo airs on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday nights, with proceeds being used to help support the AMMSA and its broadcasting activities. AMMSA CEO Bert Crowfoot stated that the program was popular enough that North Alberta residents often chose to not schedule meetings on Monday or Thur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKBF-FM | CKBF-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 104.1 FM and online at CFB Suffield in the province of Alberta. The station airs a mixture of news and music programming, some produced locally for British and Canadian personnel stationed at the base, and some syndicated from the British Forces Broadcasting Service for personnel of the British Army Training Unit Suffield.
The station was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on May 1, 2000.
In 2019, the CRTC approved an application to add a second transmitter for this station, on 107.1 MHz with an ERP of 920 watts, to address reception difficulties in some portions of the air base.
References
External links
KBF
KBF
KBF
Radio stations established in 2000
2000 establishments in Alberta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Phone | Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design language. Unlike Windows Mobile, it was primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market.
It was first launched in October 2010 with Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 8 succeeded it in 2012, replacing the Windows CE-based kernel of Windows Phone 7 with the Windows NT kernel used by the PC versions of Windows (and, in particular, a large amount of internal components from Windows 8). Due to these changes, the OS was incompatible with all existing Windows Phone 7 devices, although it still supported apps originally developed for Windows Phone 7. In 2014, Microsoft released the Windows Phone 8.1 update, which introduced the Cortana virtual assistant, and Windows Runtime platform support to create cross-platform apps between Windows PCs and Windows Phone.
In 2015, Microsoft released Windows 10 Mobile, which promoted increased integration and unification with its PC counterpart, including the ability to connect devices to an external display or docking station to display a PC-like interface. Although Microsoft dropped the Windows Phone brand at this time in order to focus more on synergies with Windows 10 for PCs, it was still a continuation of the Windows Phone line from a technical standpoint, and updates were issued for selected Windows Phone 8.1 devices.
While Microsoft's investments in the platform were headlined by a major partnership with Nokia (whose Lumia series of smartphones, including the Lumia 520 in particular, would represent the majority of Windows Phone devices sold by 2013) and Microsoft's eventual acquisition of the company's mobile device business for just over US$7 billion (which included Nokia's then-CEO Stephen Elop joining Microsoft to lead its in-house mobile division), the duopoly of Android and iPhone remained the dominant platforms for smartphones, and interest in Windows Phone from app developers began to diminish by mid-decade. Microsoft laid off the Microsoft Mobile staff in 2016, after having taken a write-off of $7.6 billion on the acquired Nokia hardware assets, while market share sank to 1% that year. Microsoft began to prioritize software development and integrations with Android and iOS instead, and ceased active development of Windows 10 Mobile in 2017.
History
Development
Work on a major Windows Mobile update may have begun as early as 2004 under the codename "Photon", but work moved slowly and the project was ultimately cancelled. In 2008, Microsoft reorganized the Windows Mobile group and started work on a new mobile operating system. The product was to be released in 2009 as Windows Phone, but several delays prompted Microsoft to develop Windows Mobile 6.5 as an interim release.
Following this, Windows Phone was developed quickly. One result was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Mobile%206.1 | Windows Mobile 6.1 was a version of the Windows Mobile operating system, released on April 1, 2008. It is a minor upgrade to the Windows Mobile 6 platform with various performance enhancements and a redesigned Home screen featuring horizontal tiles that expand on clicking to display more information, although this new home screen is featured only on Windows Mobile Standard edition. This was not supported in the Professional edition. Several other changes such as threaded SMS, full page zooming in Internet Explorer and 'Domain Enroll' were also added, along with a "mobile" version of the Microsoft OneNote program and an interactive "Getting Started" wizard. Domain Enroll is functionality to connect the device to System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008, a product to manage mobile devices. The most apparent of the other differences is that the Standard version (like prior versions) still creates automatic links for telephone numbers in Tasks and Appointments, which allows for the easier click and dial of stored telephone numbers within these Outlook items. This feature is not supported in the Professional version. Windows Mobile 6.1 also had improved bandwidth efficiency in its push-email protocol "Activesync" of "up to 40.02%"; this considerably improved battery life in many devices.
Operating System
Aside from the visual and feature distinctions, the underlying CE versions can be used to differentiate WM6.0 from WM 6.1. The version of Windows CE in WM 6.0 is 5.2.*, with the final number being a 4 digit build ID (e.g. 5.2.1622 on HTC Wing). In WM 6.1, the CE version is 5.2.* with a 5 digit build number (e.g. 5.2.19216 on Palm Treo 800w).
See also
References
Windows Mobile
Microsoft software
Discontinued versions of Microsoft Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supinfocom | Supinfocom (école SUPérieure d'INFOrmatique de COMmunication, roughly University of Communication Science) is a computer graphics university with campuses in Valenciennes, Arles (France) and Pune (India).
History
Founded in 1988 in Valenciennes, the school offers a five-year course leading to a diploma of digital direction (certified Level I). A second campus in Arles opened in 2000, while a third one opened in 2008 in Pune, India.
In November 2007, the school was ranked #1 worldwide by the American magazine "3D World" with criteria such as the distribution of student films and prizes in festivals around the world.
Curriculum
The curriculum includes:
Two years of preparatory courses (design and applied art, perspective, film analysis, video, color, 2D animation, art history, sculpture, communication, English);
Three years of specialization in computer graphics (3D software, screenplay, storyboards, animation, compositing, 3D production, sound, editing).
The final year of study is devoted to the team-based production of a short film in CG.
Until the class of 2007 entered, there were only two years of specialization courses; there are now three.
See also
:Category:Supinfocom alumni
External links
Official site of Supinfocom Valenciennes
Official site of DSK Supinfocom Pune
Art schools in France
Engineering universities and colleges in France
Animation schools in France
Animation schools in India
Engineering colleges in Pune
Digital media education
3D computer graphics
Education in Valenciennes
Universities in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Buildings and structures in Arles
Universities in Hauts-de-France
Educational institutions established in 1988
1988 establishments in France
2008 establishments in Maharashtra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%20Workers%20Outreach%20Project%20USA | Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA (SWOP-USA) is a national social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of sex workers and their communities, focusing on ending violence and stigma through education and advocacy. SWOP might be considered a constructive program by nonviolent scholars and activists, as it attempts to create more imaginative and just communities, especially considering its focus on equality and education through advocacy. The organization was founded by Robyn Few on August 13, 2003, and their first major action was to organize the first annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (December 17) with the Green River Memorial for the victims of Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer".
History
The original Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) was founded in Australia and the United States (US) SWOP has developed into the largest sex worker rights organization in the country, with chapters active in various places.
Activities
SWOP Sacramento was established by Kristen DiAngelo and Stacey Swimme on June 27, 2014, and is dedicated to reducing harm, improving healthcare, and upholding both the civil and human rights of sex workers and their communities. Its focus is on ending violence and stigma through education and advocacy. It addresses the health and well-being of both trafficking victims and those engaged in survival sex.
In conjunction with Safer Alternatives through Networking and Education (SANE), SWOP Sacramento conducted a needs assessment of sex workers in Sacramento. It found significant problems with homelessness, trafficking and survival sex by an underserved population.
SWOP Pittsburgh (or SWOP PGH) is the local chapter of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, started in 2018 by Jessie Sage, Moriah Ella Mason, and PJ Sage amid "an increasingly conservative political climate." Mason is a former stripper and currently an artist, massage therapist, and educator. Jessie Sage, formerly a PhD student, grew frustrated with academia and left to become a doula. PJ Sage, Jessie's husband, is currently a professor studying web camming and sex camming.
Aside from these community-building events, SWOP PGH has also been involved with various legal and political issues in Pittsburgh. In Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, dozens of prostitution arrests and cases in 2017 involved the weaponization of women's cell phones. Chapter organizer Gabrielle Monroe claimed that phones are vital to the safety of sex workers, and they should not be charged with "possessing instruments of crime" in these scenarios. Similarly, condoms were also being weaponized against sex workers as "instruments of crime," and SWOP PGH along with various partners in the city successfully advocated for the removal of this legal implication. SWOP PGH originally wrote a letter to the Allegheny County District Attorney, Stephen Zappala, Jr., pleading for something to be done.
See also
Decriminalizing sex work
Sex worker movements
Prostitution and the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist%20%28computing%29 | In computing, a blacklist, disallowlist, blocklist, or denylist is a basic access control mechanism that allows through all elements (email addresses, users, passwords, URLs, IP addresses, domain names, file hashes, etc.), except those explicitly mentioned. Those items on the list are denied access. The opposite is a whitelist, allowlist, or passlist, in which only items on the list are let through whatever gate is being used. A greylist contains items that are temporarily blocked (or temporarily allowed) until an additional step is performed.
Blacklists can be applied at various points in a security architecture, such as a host, web proxy, DNS servers, email server, firewall, directory servers or application authentication gateways. The type of element blocked is influenced by the access control location. DNS servers may be well-suited to block domain names, for example, but not URLs. A firewall is well-suited for blocking IP addresses, but less so for blocking malicious files or passwords.
Example uses include a company that might prevent a list of software from running on its network, a school that might prevent access to a list of websites from its computers, or a business that wants to ensure their computer users are not choosing easily guessed, poor passwords.
Examples of systems protected
Blacklists are used to protect a variety of systems in computing. The content of the blacklist is likely needs to be targeted to the type of system defended.
Information systems
An information system includes end-point hosts like user machines and servers. A blacklist in this location may include certain types of software that are not allowed to run in the company environment. For example, a company might blacklist peer to peer file sharing on its systems. In addition to software, people, devices and Web sites can also be blacklisted.
Email
Most email providers have an anti-spam feature that essentially blacklists certain email addresses if they are deemed unwanted. For example, a user who wearies of unstoppable emails from a particular address may blacklist that address, and the email client will automatically route all messages from that address to a junk-mail folder or delete them without notifying the user.
An e-mail spam filter may keep a blacklist of email addresses, any mail from which would be prevented from reaching its intended destination. It may also use sending domain names or sending IP addresses to implement a more general block.
In addition to private email blacklists, there are lists that are kept for public use, including:
China Anti-Spam Alliance
Fabel Spamsources
Spam and Open Relay Blocking System
The DrMX Project
Web browsing
The goal of a blacklist in a web browser is to prevent the user from visiting a malicious or deceitful web page via filtering locally. A common web browsing blacklist is Google's Safe Browsing, which is installed by default in Firefox, Safari, and Chrome.
Usernames and passwords
Blacklisting can |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da%20Big%20Show | Da Big Show is a 2008 Philippine television game show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Ogie Alcasid, it premiered on April 21, 2008. The show concluded in July 2008. It was replaced by Takeshi's Castle in its timeslot.
Hosts
Da Big Boss
Ogie Alcasid
Da Big Boys
More
Less
Da Big Girls
Crispy
Batchy Boi
Liempy
Chunky
Patty
Roasty
Gameplay
In Da Big Show, four teams (composed of three members each) compete in a series of games with the objective of being the last team standing. Each match consists of Philippine games that have gigantic props to amp up the fun.
Imagine the three members of each team being made to wear giant rubber slipper costumes to be able to tackle a giant can a la tumbang preso. Try to picture a representative from two teams dressed as gigantic spiders suspended and trying to jostle each other off a platform 20 feet off the ground. Visualize opposing teams trying to lift 30-pound concrete balls in a game of giant sungka.
The show's biggest challenge is a giant palayok that the winning team has to shatter for them to win the jackpot prize. Should the clay pot remain unbroken, the pot money will be added to the following day's jackpot prize.
References
External links
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roppyaku%20Tsurumi | is a Japanese game producer and designer, known for the Japanese localization of the original Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter series. He works for Sony Computer Entertainment. In Japanese Roppyaku literally means "six hundred."
One of his earliest works in his career is producing and designing the arcade version of Michael Jackson's Moonwalker.
References
External links
Official personal page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Japanese video game designers
Japanese video game producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajeev%20Motwani | Rajeev Motwani (Hindi: राजीव मोटवानी
, 24 March 1962 – 5 June 2009) was an Indian American professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was a special advisor to Sequoia Capital. He was a winner of the Gödel Prize in 2001.
Education
Rajeev Motwani was born in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India on 24 March 1962, and grew up in New Delhi. His father was in the Indian Army. He had two brothers. As a child, inspired by luminaries like Gauss, he wanted to become a mathematician.
Motwani went to St Columba's School, New Delhi. He completed his B.Tech. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh in 1983 and got his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California, United States in 1988, under the supervision of Richard M. Karp.
Career
Motwani joined Stanford soon after U.C. Berkeley.
He founded the Mining Data at Stanford project (MIDAS), an umbrella organization for several groups looking into new and innovative data management concepts. His research included data privacy, web search, robotics, and computational drug design. He is also one of the originators of the Locality-sensitive hashing algorithm.
Motwani was one of the co-authors (with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Terry Winograd) of an influential early paper on the PageRank algorithm. He also co-authored another seminal search paper What Can You Do With A Web In Your Pocket with those same authors.
PageRank was the basis for search techniques of Google (founded by Page and Brin), and Motwani advised or taught many of Google's developers and researchers, including the first employee, Craig Silverstein.
He was an author of two widely used theoretical computer science textbooks: Randomized Algorithms with Prabhakar Raghavan and Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation with John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman.
He was an avid angel investor and helped fund a number of startups to emerge from Stanford. He sat on boards including Google, Kaboodle, Mimosa Systems (acquired by Iron Mountain Incorporated), Adchemy, Baynote, Vuclip, NeoPath Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007), Tapulous and Stanford Student Enterprises. He was active in the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES).
He was a winner of the Gödel Prize in 2001 for his work on the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation.
He served on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
Death
Motwani was found dead in his pool in the backyard of his Atherton, San Mateo County, California home on 5 June 2009. The San Mateo County coroner, Robert Foucrault, ruled the death an accidental drowning. Toxicology tests showed that Motwani's blood alcohol content was 0.2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RATF | RATF (Robustness Analysis and Technology Forecasting) is a software development methodology acting as a plug in to the Rational Unified Process (RUP), ICONIX, Extreme Programming (XP) and Agile software development. The first part of the method was first published by in 2005 at the IASTED International conference on Software Engineering.
RATF makes use of principles provided by the TRIZ innovation method and its techniques such as ARIZ and Technology forecasting, supported by Robustness analysis. The novel principle provided by RATF is to elaborate on potential software evolution in a method loop consisting of the steps:
Extended Robustness Analysis - that investigates preliminary design options based on system expectations and system environment, thus identifying weaknesses in terms of system conflicts and likeliness for change.
Technology Forecasting - which proposes likely, better and fruitful system design and evolution
Extended Robustness Analysis - that investigates consequences of such evolution, identifying weaknesses and system conflicts
Then the Technology Forecasting step is repeated, and so on.
Essentially the RATF method is expected to give improve decision for future system architecture and design, taking advantage of technology forecasting and innovation, thus "enabling design of tomorrow's system, today".
References
1. & Calås, G. Makefors-Christierning, S. Boklund, A. (2005). A Case Study Evaluation of 11 Hypothetical Software System Evolution Laws included in the Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering, 2005. ACTA press. ()
Related Concepts
ICONIX
Rational Unified Process
TRIZ
Software development process
Software project management
Agile software development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visifire | Visifire was a set of data visualization components. It currently supports Charts and Gauges. Visifire is available on Microsoft Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone, and Windows 8. One can use the same API to create charts and gauges in mobile, web, and desktop environments. Visifire can also be embedded in any webpage as a standalone Silverlight App. It is independent of the server side technology being used. Hence, Visifire can be used with ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails or just simple HTML with JavaScript.
History
Visifire development was started during the early release of Silverlight 1.1 Alpha by Microsoft. As the next release of Silverlight was directly Silverlight 2.0 beta, it was ported to Silverlight 2.0 beta. Release of Silverlight 2.0 Final, opened up slew of possibilities. To exploit the full power of Silverlight 2.0, major architectural changes were done & all new Visifire 2.0 was released. Later came Visifire 3.0 with improved looks & major performance improvements. Gauges were introduced with Visifire 4.0. Later Visifire for SharePoint was introduced, a wizard driven solution to create stunning SharePoint charts. Next major update from Visifire is the support for Windows Phone and Windows 8 applications. Recently released version is Visifire 5.0 with major performance improvements.
Current version
Current version of Visifire is 5.1.5
Features
Visually appealing animated charts
It can be embedded into any Web, Desktop or Mobile Applications
Supports wide range of Charts & Gauges
Real Time Charts / Live Update
High Performance Charts
Supports Interactivity
Supports Scrolling and Zooming
Online chart designer to help creating charts
Editable on Microsoft Expression Blend
Windows Phone 7 & Windows Phone 8 support
Windows 8 support
SharePoint charts
Enterprise grade features
Technical specification
Developed using C# and XAML
JavaScript API to embed in web pages
Platforms
Visifire runs on various platforms: Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone and Windows 8.
License
Visifire is licensed commercially - one can buy a royalty free license based on number of developers. It was once distributed under GPL but was discontinued due to the confusion prevailing around Windows Phone Marketplace.
Support
Priority Support is provided to Enterprise Customers through ticket system. All users are supported through Visifire Community Forum .
External links
Official Webyog home page
Scottgu's Blog
Pete Brown's Blog
References
Microsoft Silverlight
Windows Phone
Windows 8
SharePoint |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20PBS%20member%20stations | This is a list of member stations of the Public Broadcasting Service, a network of non-commercial educational television stations in the United States. The list is arranged alphabetically by state and based on the station's city of license and followed in parentheses by the designated market area when different from the city of license. There are links to and articles on each of the stations, describing their local programming and technical information, such as broadcast frequencies. The station's advertised channel number follows the call letters. In most cases, this is their virtual channel number.
Alabama
Alabama Public Television (APT PBS) – statewide simulcast on nine stations:
Birmingham – WBIQ 10
Demopolis – WIIQ 41
Dozier – WDIQ 2
Florence – WFIQ 36
Huntsville – WHIQ 25
Louisville – WGIQ 43
Mobile – WEIQ 42
Montgomery – WAIQ 26
Mount Cheaha – WCIQ 7
Alaska
Alaska Public Media – statewide simulcast on four stations:
Anchorage – KAKM 7
Bethel – KYUK-LD 15
Juneau – KTOO-DT 3
Fairbanks – KUAC-TV 9
Some PBS programs are also seen on the Alaska Rural Communications Service (ARCS), based in Anchorage.
Arizona
Phoenix – KAET 8 (Arizona PBS)
Tucson – KUAT-TV 6 (PBS 6)
Tucson – KUAS-TV 27 (satellite of KUAT-TV)
Arkansas
Arkansas PBS – statewide simulcast on six stations:
Arkadelphia – KETG 9
El Dorado – KETZ 12
Fayetteville – KAFT 13
Jonesboro – KTEJ 19
Little Rock – KETS 2
Mountain View – KEMV 6
California
Eureka – KEET 13 (PBS North Coast)
Fresno – KVPT 18 (Valley PBS)
Huntington Beach (Los Angeles) – KOCE-TV 50 (PBS SoCal)
Los Angeles – KCET 28
Los Angeles – KLCS 58
Redding (Chico) – KIXE-TV 9
Sacramento – KVIE 6
San Bernardino (Los Angeles) – KVCR-DT 24 (Empire KVCR)
San Diego – KPBS 15
San Francisco Bay Area
Cotati – KRCB 22 (Northern California Public Media)
San Francisco – KQED 9
Watsonville (Salinas-Monterey) – KQET 25 (satellite of KQED)
San Jose – KQEH 54 (KQED Plus)
Colorado
Broomfield (Denver) – KBDI-TV 12 (PBS 12)
Rocky Mountain PBS – statewide simulcast on five stations:
Denver – KRMA-TV 6
Durango – KRMU 20
Grand Junction – KRMJ 18
Pueblo (Colorado Springs) – KTSC 8
Steamboat Springs – KRMZ 24
Connecticut
Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) – statewide simulcast on four stations:
Hartford – WEDH 24
New Haven – WEDY 65
Norwich – WEDN 53
Stamford – WEDW 49
Delaware
Wilmington, Delaware (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) – WHYY-TV 12
Seaford – WDPB 64 (satellite of WHYY-TV)
Washington, D.C.
WETA-TV 26
WHUT-TV 32 (ATSC 3.0 station) / WJLA-TV (ATSC 1.0 simulcast)
Florida
Fort Myers (Naples) – WGCU 30
Gainesville – WUFT 5
Jacksonville – WJCT 7 (Jax PBS)
Miami – WLRN-TV 17
Orlando – WUCF-TV 24
Pensacola – WSRE 23
South Florida PBS – regional simulcast on two stations:
Boynton Beach – WXEL-TV 42
Miami – WPBT 2
Tallahassee – WFSU-TV 11
Panama City – WFSG 56 (satellite of WFSU-TV)
Tampa – WEDU 3 / WEDQ 3.4
Georgia
Atlanta – WABE-TV 30
Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) – statewide simulcast on nine stations:
Athe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirquent | Cirquent (formerly Softlab Group) was a subsidiary of NTT Data that provides IT, consulting and professional services. The company's headquarters is in Munich, Germany, with offices in Austria, Switzerland and the UK. The company specializes in developing custom software solutions, integrating third-party systems, and providing consulting services to help organizations implement digital transformation initiatives. Customers include Allianz Germany, BMW Group, Deutsche Börse, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, Kabel Deutschland, Munich Re, O2, and T-Mobile.
Cirquent UK
Cirquent Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Cirquent GmbH, was founded in the UK, as Softlab Ltd., in 1989, to sell and support the Maestro I product line. Initially based in Hammersmith, the company expanded with the launch of Maestro II, a software development environment used by British Gas plc and Barclays Bank.
Softlab was purchased by BMW AG in the 1990s and following the purchase of Rover Group by BMW, Softlab Ltd. acquired AT&T Istel's Rover Group services, increasing in size from about 60 staff to one of over 500. With the acquisition came a move of headquarters near Birmingham. The business moved from software tools to CRM and Contact center system integration. In 2001, BMW Group sold Rover, and soon after the automotive team was sold to Computer Sciences Corporation.
Softlab continued to focus on CRM software and contact centre projects, partnering with Microsoft (Dynamics CRM), Oracle (Siebel), Genesys, Interactive Intelligence, CDC (Pivotal) and BMC (Remedy). Following acquisitions, in 2008, Softlab was rebranded Cirquent.
In 2008, a majority 72.9% stake in Cirquent was taken by NTT Data.
References
External links
Cirquent's international site
Cirquent's automotive site
Cirquent's German site
Cirquents UK Site
Companies based in Munich
German brands
Consulting firms established in 1971
Software companies of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickstart%20%28Amiga%29 | Kickstart is the bootstrap firmware of the Amiga computers developed by Commodore International. Its purpose is to initialize the Amiga hardware and core components of AmigaOS and then attempt to boot from a bootable volume, such as a floppy disk. Most Amiga models were shipped with the Kickstart firmware stored on ROM chips.
Versions
Commodore's AmigaOS was formed of both the Kickstart firmware and a software component provided on disk (with the software portion often termed as Workbench). For most AmigaOS updates the Kickstart version number was matched to the Workbench version number. Confusingly, Commodore also used internal revision numbers for Kickstart chips. For example, there were several Kickstart revisions designated as version 2.0.
Version summary
The first Amiga model, the A1000, required that Kickstart 1.x be loaded from floppy disk into a 256 KB section of RAM called the writable control store (WCS). Some A1000 software titles (notably Dragon's Lair) provided an alternative code-base in order to use the extra 256 KB for data. Later Amiga models had Kickstart embedded in a ROM chip, thus improving boot times. Many Amiga 1000 computers were modified to take these chips.
Kickstart was stored in 256 KB ROM chips for releases prior to AmigaOS 2.0. Later releases used 512 KB ROM chips containing additional and improved functionality. The Amiga CD32 featured a 1 MB ROM (Kickstart 3.1) with additional firmware and an integrated file system for CD-ROM.
Early A3000 models were, like the A1000, also shipped with Kickstart on floppy disk, and used a 1.4 BETA ROM as bootstrap. Either Kickstart 1.3 or 2.0 could be extracted to a partition specifically named WB_1.3 or WB_2.x, respectively, and put in DEVS:kickstart, an absolute system location from where the A3000 system will find it at bootstrap and copy its image into RAM. This early A3000 supported both ROM based Kickstarts and disk-based Kickstarts, although not simultaneously. An A3000 configured to use disk-based Kickstart images had the benefit of being able to boot various versions of AmigaOS without additional tools, simply by selecting the appropriate Kickstart image at boot time.
The Commodore CDTV featured additional firmware ROMs which are not technically part of the Amiga Kickstart. The CDTV's original firmware ROMs must be upgraded in order to install a Kickstart version later than 1.3.
AmigaOS 2.1 was a pure software update and did not require matching Kickstart ROM chips. Workbench 2.1 ran on all Kickstart ROMs of the 2.0x family. Later releases of AmigaOS (3.5 and 3.9) were also software only and did not include matching ROM upgrades instead requiring Kickstart 3.1, with ROM-file based Kickstart components replacing those in ROM. Kickstart modules of AmigaOS 4 are stored on the boot disk partition.
Up to Kickstart v2.0 (V36) only 512-byte blocks were supported.
Motorola 68040 uses write caches that requires the use of the functions CacheClearU() and CacheControl() to f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic%20disk%20controller | A forensic disk controller or hardware write-block device is a specialized type of computer hard disk controller made for the purpose of gaining read-only access to computer hard drives without the risk of damaging the drive's contents. The device is named forensic because its most common application is for use in investigations where a computer hard drive may contain evidence. Such a controller historically has been made in the form of a dongle that fits between a computer and an IDE or SCSI hard drive, but with the advent of USB and SATA, forensic disk controllers supporting these newer technologies have become widespread. Steve Bress and Mark Menz invented hard drive write blocking (US Patent 6,813,682).
A device which is installed between a storage media under investigation and an investigator's computer is called a "bridge kit". The bridge kit has one connector for the storage media and another connector the investigator's computer. It allows the investigator to read, but not alter the device under investigation.
The United States National Institute of Justice operates a Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT) program which formally identifies the following top-level tool requirements:
Description
Forensic disk controllers intercept write commands from the host operating system, preventing them from reaching the drive. Whenever the host bus architecture supports it the controller reports that the drive is read-only. The disk controller can either deny all writes to the disk and report them as failures, or use on-board memory to cache the writes for the duration of the session.
A disk controller that caches writes in memory presents the appearance to the operating system that the drive is writable, and uses the memory to ensure that the operating system sees changes to the individual disk sectors it attempted to overwrite. It does this by retrieving sectors from the disk if the operating system hasn't attempted to change them, and retrieving the changed version from memory for sectors that have been changed.
Uses
Forensic disk controllers are most commonly associated with the process of creating a disk image, or acquisition, during forensic analysis. Their use is to prevent inadvertent modification of evidence.
Using hardware to protect the hard drive from writes is very important for several reasons. First, many operating systems, including Windows, may write to any hard disk that is connected to the system. At the very least, Windows will update the access time for any file accessed, and may write things to the disk unexpectedly - such as creating hidden folders for the recycle bin or saved hardware configuration. Virus infections or malware on the system used for analysis may attempt to infect the disk being inspected. Additionally, the NTFS file system may attempt to commit or rollback unfinished transactions, and/or change flags on the volume to mark it as "in use". At the worst, undesired files may allocate and overwrite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20News%20Now%20%28radio%20network%29 | ABC News Now is an Internet-delivered news radio that is currently owned by The Walt Disney Company's ABC Audio division. The network was previously distributed by Cumulus Media Networks (through Cumulus Media) and licensed the ABC branding from Disney (which produces the network's programming via its ABC News Radio unit) until the end of 2014 when Cumulus launched its own in-house news division from its newly acquired Westwood One radio network. "ABC News Now" draws a music audience between the ages of 25 and 54 with the latest news interlined into the individual affiliates' music playlist.
According to a survey taken, 73% of the listeners were interested in news and many were mostly interested in hard news over lifestyles and headlines over in-depth reporting.
History
When The Walt Disney Company still owned the original ABC Radio Networks, it launched the network as ABC FM News on a dozen affiliates in 2006 with the news beginning at :15 past the hour, but due to low ratings and the fact that ABC News is distributed hourly on thousands of AM radio affiliates, the FM news unit was discontinued in early 2007. However shortly after the ABC/Citadel merger, the "FM" network was reactivated. Depending on the current affiliates, times may vary. In December 2010, the network was changed to "ABC News Now". Despite having the same name as the now-former digital TV network, they were not owned by the same broadcasting company at the time the TV network was still active.
Starting in 2015, this network is brought back under Disney's wing after ABC Radio was relaunched.
Each newscast ends with the "This is <optional mentioning of a newsreader's name>, ABC News" end cue. Some FM stations that carry ABC News Now—including WLNG in Sag Harbor, New York—use the alternate opening where a newsreader mentions the "ABC News" branding without the "Now" part.
Current affiliates
WLNG (Sag Harbor, New York)
WKOZ-FM (Carthage, Mississippi)
External links
ABC News Now Radio - Official Website
American radio networks
Radio stations established in 2006
2006 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroger%20Wireless | Kroger Wireless LLC is an American mobile virtual network operator providing domestic telecommunications services via the T-Mobile Network. The brand was launched as i-wireless, a Kroger Co. It was trialed in 130 Kroger stores in 2006, before being rolled out by mid-2008 to over 2,200 locations, including banner stores such as Dillons, Ralphs, Fred Meyer, and Fry's Food and Drug. Unique among US wireless operators, i-wireless created a loyalty offer allowing customers the ability to earn Wireless Rewards on select plans when using their shopper’s loyalty card on in-store qualifying purchases. In May 2019, the company announced the name of its prepaid product brand changing from "i-wireless, a Kroger Co." to "Kroger Wireless."
Kroger Wireless
Kroger Wireless is the private-label wireless service sold exclusively within the Kroger Family of Companies stores. Kroger Wireless acts like other US prepaid carriers–requiring no contracts, activation fees, or credit checks to purchase their phones. The company offers “Unlimited” rate plans including unlimited talk/text and data allotments up to and including unlimited data.
Kroger Wireless invites customers to purchase phones at select Kroger store locations, via their website, or by bringing their eligible Sprint device for activation. In addition, it hosts the Kroger Wireless My Account app for Android or iOS mobile customers.
Access Wireless
i-wireless dba Access Wireless is a service provider for the government-funded Lifeline Assistance program. The Lifeline Assistance program was designed to ensure that quality telecommunications services are available to low-income customers at reasonable and affordable rates. Customers who qualify for the program receive a free allotment of voice, text and data, and may receive a free mobile phone- dependent on individual state regulations.
References
External links
Access Wireless
Kroger
2005 establishments in Kentucky
Companies based in Kentucky
Telecommunications companies established in 2005
Mobile phone companies of the United States
Mobile virtual network operators
Newport, Kentucky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Caribou%20Kitchen | The Caribou Kitchen is a British preschool animated television series, particularly intended for children aged between two and five years old, which aired on the ITV network's CITV block from 5 June 1995 to 3 August 1998, running for 52 episodes over 4 series. Created by Andrew Brenner, it was produced by Maddocks Cartoon Productions and World Productions for Scottish Television. Ealing Animation was credited as a production company in the third and fourth series. All four series were aired on the ITV network on Monday afternoons during the spring and summer season, originally at 3:30pm and moving later in its run to 3:40pm and 3:35pm.
The show's main character is an anthropomorphic caribou called Claudia who runs a restaurant in the fictional town called Barkabout, assisted by her staff, the chef Abe the Anteater, and waiters Lisa the Lemur and Tom the Tortoise. The kitchen serves a number of talking animal guests, including Mrs Panda, Caroline the Cow, Gerald the Giraffe and Taffy the Tiger. Each of the 52 episodes lasts about ten minutes, and intends to teach its pre-school audiences important lessons.
The Caribou Kitchen's narrator is Kate Robbins who also voiced all of the show's characters (both male & female) and sang the show's theme song. The rights to the show are currently owned by Universal Television, the current successor of Entertainment Rights, who had previously owned the rights.
Characters
Claudia the Caribou: the title character and owner of The Caribou Kitchen
Abe the Anteater: the chef or "cook"
Lisa the Lemur: the waitress
Tom the Tortoise: the waiter
Cyril the Squirrel: an assistant staff member
Caroline the Cow
Mrs Panda
Taffy the Tiger
Kevin the Chameleon: an interior decorator
Hector the Hippopotamus: who runs the local fruit & vegetable shop
Godfrey the Goat: a gardener
Helen the Hamster: the truck driver
Betty the Beaver: a carpenter
Flora the Frog
Sophie the Swallow
Penelope the Porcupine: runs the Barkabout Corner Shop.
Gerald the Giraffe
Susanna the Snake: a doctor
Episodes
Season 1 (1995)
Season 2 (1996)
Season 3 (1997)
Season 4 (1998)
References
External links
1995 British television series debuts
1998 British television series endings
1990s British animated television series
British children's animated television shows
British preschool education television series
Animated preschool education television series
2000s preschool education television series
Fictional restaurants
ITV children's television shows
Television series about deer and moose
Television series by STV Studios
Television series by Universal Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libraries%20Connect%20Ohio | Libraries Connect Ohio (LCO) is an internet resource provided by all libraries in the state of Ohio. LCO provides premium subscription databases for use of all Ohioans with a library card/school ID. Libraries Connect Ohio has various networks aimed at different "demographics".
Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) - for Public Libraries
INFOhio - for K-12 students
OhioLINK- for College Students
External links
Libraries in Ohio
Communications in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beiderbecke%20Trilogy | The Beiderbecke Trilogy refers to three television serials written by Alan Plater and made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in the United Kingdom between 1984 and 1988. Each serial centres on schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin (James Bolam) and Jill Swinburne (Barbara Flynn), who work at a rundown comprehensive school in Leeds. Woodwork teacher Trevor enjoys football and jazz music whilst English teacher Jill is a political activist concerned with saving the environment.
Premise
The Beiderbecke Trilogy centres on two schoolteachers – Trevor Chaplin (James Bolam) and Jill Swinburne (Barbara Flynn) – who teach at a comprehensive school in Leeds, in West Yorkshire. Jill is a keen conservationist, interested in the environment as well as social issues. Trevor on the other hand is interested in jazz, football and snooker and has little interest in conservation. Jill, the more headstrong of the pair, often coaxes Trevor into involvement in her political activities.
In each of the three serials – The Beiderbecke Affair, The Beiderbecke Tapes and The Beiderbecke Connection – Jill and Trevor inadvertently become embroiled in a series of unlikely adventures involving such things as political corruption, nuclear waste dumping and serious fraud. In each serial the plot rambles, moving from one seemingly unrelated event to another, all of which are eventually shown to be interconnected. However it is the clever interplay between the characters that is the core of each of these stories.
Each episode unfolds to a soundtrack of jazz music in the style of Bix Beiderbecke performed by Frank Ricotti with Kenny Baker as featured cornet soloist. Extensive use is made of leitmotifs for the various characters. Ricotti won a BAFTA award for his work on The Beiderbecke Connection.
Cast
Characters
Trevor Chaplin
Trevor is a middle-aged woodwork teacher. Unruffled and amiable, Trevor drifts through life with few ambitions or principles. He has an abiding passion for jazz, and is also interested in football and snooker (his footballing allegiances are unknown: he is from Tyneside but - as seen in the opening sequences of The Beiderbecke Affair - possesses a Leeds United mug. Later, reference is made to his use of the phrase "Howay the lads!", an exhortation common to both Geordies and Mackems.) At the beginning of the events portrayed, Trevor lives - in some squalor - in a rented flat at the top of a large Victorian house and drives a beaten up Bedford HA van. He later moves in with Jill, her house being one of a small terrace in Chapel Allerton. Although Trevor shows little overt interest in politics, his natural sympathies are with society's underdogs and, when provoked, he defends Jill's left leaning political views.
Jill Swinburne
Jill is a liberal minded English teacher. Jill is interested in conservation and social issues and at one point stands in a local council by-election. Jill's tastes are slightly more sophisticated than Trevor's, with Jill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glago%27s%20Guest | Glago's Guest is a 2008 Walt Disney Animation Studios computer-animated short film directed by Chris Williams. The film premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June 2008.
Animated in stereoscopic 3D, the short tells the story of a strange meeting between a Russian soldier guarding a Siberian outpost and an extraterrestrial. "Glago's Guest" follows the story of a lonely Russian soldier stationed in a remote Siberian outpost. When the soldier's solitude is interrupted one day by the arrival of a strange new "guest" named Lars, Glago is jolted out of his uneventful daily routine. Soon, though, he comes to realize that things are not always what they appear to be.
Plot
The short depicts a lone Russian soldier, Glago, stationed in a remote Siberian outpost in the middle of the frozen tundra. Glago's uneventful daily routine consists of manning the outpost, observing the horizon through his binoculars, and having dull, candlelit meals day in and day out.
One day, Glago's routine is broken when he hears a strange sound coming from above and looks up, only to witness a colossal, black oval-shaped object descending from the sky and landing in front of the outpost. A door suddenly opens, revealing alien lifeforms similar to a mass of translucent-green orbs piled together.
Panicking, Glago rushes out of the outpost and loads his rifle to confront the aliens. Just then, the aliens rush towards Glago, who retreats back inside, and cluster around the base of the outpost before lifting it up and rolling away with it, with Glago still inside.
As Glago tumbles helplessly within, the aliens eventually set the outpost down some ways away. Determined to fight for his life, Glago rushes outside and takes aim at one of the aliens. Before he can shoot, however, Glago suddenly witnesses a meteor fall from the sky and strike the very same spot his outpost was originally on, reducing the ground to a smoking crater.
As a shocked Glago approaches the crater, one of the alien blobs separates from the group and approaches him. Realizing that the aliens were not trying to attack the outpost but were moving it out of the meteor's path to save his life, Glago is overjoyed and gratefully gives his cossack hat to the alien.
After the alien mass (credited as 'Lars' by the animators) returns to the ship and ascends back to space, Glago happily dances in the snow.
Production
John Lasseter was so impressed with director Chris Williams' work on this short that he gave him the job of co-directing (with Byron Howard) the animated film Bolt.
Release
The film premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June 2008, and was originally expected to be released theatrically preceding the Disney animated feature film Bolt. The short is believed not to have tested well with audiences, and the spot with Bolt was eventually taken by Pixar's Cars Toons short Tokyo Mater.
It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2008.
As of 2023, the sho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Scott | Steve Scott may refer to:
Steve Scott (comic artist) (born 1968), American comic artist; see MegaCon, 1997a
Steve Scott (computer architect)
Steve Scott (cricketer) (born 1955), New Zealand cricketer
Steve Scott (footballer) (born 1966), Welsh footballer
Steve Scott (journalist) (born 1961), British journalist
Steve Scott (performer), American country/Americana musician, songwriter, singer, guitarist, producer and actor
Steve Scott (poet) (born 1951), British poet and musician
Steve Scott (producer), co-founder of adult movie production company Third World Media
Steve Scott (rugby union) (born 1974), player and coach
Steve Scott (runner) (born 1956), American male athlete and founder of speed golf
Steve Scott (wrestler) (born 1984), Canadian professional wrestler
See also
Stephen Scott (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator-Based%20Laboratory | The Calculator-Based Laboratory (CBL) is a mobile data collection device manufactured by Texas Instruments in collaboration with Vernier Software & Technology and introduced in 1994. The CBL can be used to collect data either in conjunction with a TI graphing calculator, or on its own.
See also
HP Mobile Calculating Lab (MCL)
HP StreamSmart 400
HP StreamSmart 410
References
Texas Instruments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akinori%20Yonezawa | is a Japanese computer scientist specializing in object-oriented programming, distributed computing and information security. Being a graduate of the University of Tokyo, Yonezawa has a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in the Actor group at the MIT AI Lab. He currently teaches at the University of Tokyo. He is the designer of ABCL/R, a reflective subset of the first concurrent object-oriented programming language ABCL/1.
In November 2009, he was awarded with a Medal of Honour with purple ribbon by the Government of Japan. He won the Senior Dahl–Nygaard Prize in 2014.
References
Aki Yonezawa Specification and Verification Techniques for Parallel Programs Based on Message Passing Semantics MIT EECS Doctoral Dissertation. December 1977.
External links
Official personal page
1947 births
Living people
Japanese computer scientists
Researchers in distributed computing
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Dahl–Nygaard Prize |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%207%20%28Shanghai%20Metro%29 | Line 7 is a northwest–southeast line of the Shanghai Metro network. It connects the Baoshan District of Shanghai with the downtown core as well as the Pudong New Area and the Expo 2010 site. It currently runs from in Baoshan District to in Pudong, which is near Shanghai New International Expo Center. serves as a terminus for trains returning to Chentai Road depot. The line is colored orange on system maps.
History
Construction began on November 24, 2005.
The first section of the line from Huamu Road to Shanghai University opened to the public on December 5, 2009.
In the first few months of operation, the trains only operated from 9AM-4PM to allow for extended testing of the line.
On February 20, 2010, operating hours have been extended to fall in line with the rest of the metro system afterwards.
On April 20, 2010, Houtan station entered operation.
In December 2010, three stations on the northern extension of the line opens.
In June 2011, two more stations on the northern extension of the line opens.
In July 2014, Qihua Road station entered operation.
Stations
Service routes
Important stations
station, which serves the Shanghai University.
station is a station where line 7 crosses lines 3 and 4.
station, located under the busy Nanjing Road, is an interchange with line 2.
Future expansions
There are no current extensions planned.
Station name change
On June 6, 2012, Chuanchang Road was renamed .
Headways
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Signalling
Rolling Stock
References
Shanghai Metro lines
Railway lines opened in 2009
2009 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynila%20%28TV%20program%29 | () is a Philippine television drama romance anthology show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Lito Atienza, it premiered on December 13, 1999 on network's weekday afternoon line up. In December 2020, Atienza decided to put the show in hiatus.
The show is streaming online on YouTube.
Overview
Presented as an anthology, Maynila is a series of inspiring stories of people with everyday challenges that affect Manila residents.
Episodes
Hosts
Lito Atienza
Ali Atienza
Chi Atienza-Valdepenas (2004; 2016–20)
Production
Principal photography was halted in March 2020 due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed its programming on July 11, 2020.
Accolades
References
External links
1999 Philippine television series debuts
2020 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine anthology television series
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Television shows set in Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%2010%20%28Shanghai%20Metro%29 | Line 10 is a southwest–northeast line of the Shanghai Metro network. It officially opened for service on April 10, 2010. The line runs from to , with a branch line from to . It has been given the unofficial nickname “Golden Line” as it links many of the city's tourist attractions like Yuyuan and Xintiandi. It connects the Hongqiao International Airport with the downtown core of Shanghai, and also the dense residential districts of Yangpu and Hongkou. It is the only line in the system with numbered station codes. It is the first high-density and high-volume fully automatic subway line in Mainland China, operating with GoA4 unattended train operation. The line is colored lilac on system maps.
History
The first phase opened on 10 April 2010 and extended on 30 November 2010. The second phase of the line, a northern extension from to , which crosses underneath the Huangpu River and provide residents of northern Pudong with easier access to parts of Yangpu District and Hongkou District, opened on 26 December 2020.
Construction accident
There have been a number accidents during the construction of Line 10 but none lead to reported deaths or major injuries. On April 20, 2007, a crane on the construction site collapsed into a five-story building causing some external damage. On June 25, 2008, during tunnel boring between Liyang Road and Quyang Road, a blowout occurred letting water and sand enter the tunnel and create minor sinkholes nearby. On July 21, at the intersection of and Nanchang Road Line 10 tunnel boring caused a sinkhole with a diameter of and a depth of about to appear. On May 18, 2009, a fire broke out on the construction site of , covering an area of and burning down more than ten workers’ dormitories. No deaths were caused by this incident, as the workers were all evacuated in time. On January 6, 2010, a crane at suddenly lost control during operation, causing a -long boom to crash on the roofs of two construction vehicles.
Stations
Service routes
Important stations
- located within Hongqiao Railway Station, interchange with lines 2 and 17.
- located within Hongqiao International Airport, interchange with line 2 (Shanghai Public Transport Card required).
- Located near the Shanghai Zoo in Changning District.
- Interchange with lines 1 and 12.
- Located in the Xintiandi shopping area. Interchange with line 13
- Interchange with line 8.
- Located near the famous Yuyuan Garden. Interchange with line 14
- Located under the pedestrianised Nanjing Road and close to The Bund. Interchange with line 2.
station - Located near the Tongji University.
Station name change
October 2006, Middle Henan Road was renamed as the (before line 10 began serving the station).
On June 20, 2021, Xintiandi was renamed as the .
Headways
Technology
Signalling
Line 10 is one of the first lines in China capable of automatic train operation. However, upon opening it was operated with drivers on board. In 2020, the line started transitioning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%2011%20%28Shanghai%20Metro%29 | Line 11 is a northwest–southeast line of the Shanghai Metro network. Since October 2013, Line 11 serves Kunshan city, making it is the second intercity metro in China after the Guangfo Metro and the first that crosses a provincial boundary. With a single-line mileage of , it is the second-longest single-line subway line in China, after Line 6 in Chongqing, which is long. The line is colored brown on system maps.
History
The line 11 was originally planned to be from Jiading to Nanhui New City, with a total length of , the south part of the line has been transferred to line 16.
The 1st phase of line 11, which runs from to , opened on 31 December 2009. A branch line from opened on 29 March 2010.
The 2nd phase runs from Jiangsu Road to . It opened on 31 August 2013.
The 3rd phase connects Luoshan Road and the . This section is long with 3 stations. All new stations except for the Disney Resort station opened on December 19, 2015. The Disney Resort started to trial operation on April 26, 2016.
From January 26, 2020 until March 24, the Kunshan section of line 11 ( to ) was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On August 25, 2020, an infill station was opened.
From February 14, 2022, the Kunshan section of line 11 was again suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Due to the long length of line 11 and high passenger volumes, it is common for line 11 passengers to be forced to stand on the train for their entire trip. In response to this, around early 2014, some passengers that travelled long distances between urban area and the suburban areas of Jiading or Sanlin that cannot bear standing for a long time started bringing their own small folding seats into the carriages. In the following years, the official Weibo of Shanghai Metro reminded passengers involved phenomenon to be safe and civilized as Shanghai Metro maintains that these foldable seats can be a safety hazard on trains and reduces capacity. Beginning in 2019, line 11 started having announcements in carriages to remind passengers to not bring and use their own seats on the train.
Stations
Service routes
Future expansions
Yanyu Road station
Although station is part of the second phase of Line 11, it did not open with the other stations on August 31, 2013. Instead, it has been left as a reserved station under construction that will open in the future pending development in the area.
Station name change
On May 7, 2011, Jiyang Road was renamed (before line 11 began serving the station).
Headways
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Rolling Stock
References
Shanghai Metro lines
Railway lines opened in 2009
2009 establishments in China
1500 V DC railway electrification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled%20Al-Eid | Khaled Al-Eid (born January 2, 1969) is a Saudi Arabian equestrian who won a bronze medal in individual jumping at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
DatabaseOlympics.com
Peter Harrigan and Rosalind Mazzawi, Great Leaps: Saudi Arabia’s First Olympic Medals, 2001, Saudi Aramco World
1969 births
Living people
Saudi Arabian male equestrians
Equestrians at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Equestrians at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic equestrians for Saudi Arabia
Olympic bronze medalists for Saudi Arabia
Olympic medalists in equestrian
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Equestrians at the 1994 Asian Games
Equestrians at the 2006 Asian Games
Equestrians at the 2010 Asian Games
Equestrians at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Saudi Arabia
Asian Games bronze medalists for Saudi Arabia
Asian Games medalists in equestrian
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
21st-century Saudi Arabian people
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe%20Institute%20of%20Computing | is a private university in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
History
KIC was found by Mr Tomio Fukuoka in . The Graduate School of Information Technology has established in .
Fields of study
KIC Graduate School of Information Technology has one Masters course called "Department of Information Systems" which has two courses: ICT Professional Course and ICT Innovator Course.
Course term / degree
Normal course term: two years
Degree: Master of Information Systems
Recognition
KIC ranked #1 among 530 Japanese private universities in terms of the sustainability index, composed of growth of number of students, growth of government research grant, and financial soundness.
KIC has been awarded JICA President Award 2019 to commend the individuals and organizations with preeminent achievements of the socio-economic development in developing countries through Japan International Cooperation Agency's (JICA) international cooperation activities.
Adopted projects
The ICT Innovator Program has been adopted for the promotion of internationalization of universities by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and for the project to support human resource development and economic growth of programs in developing countries by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Industrial human resource development initiative for young people of Africa (ABE initiative)
The Project for Human Resource Development Scholarship by Japanese Grant Aid (JDS)
Grass Roots Project
Afghanistan “Project for the Promotion and Enhancement of the Afghan Capacity for Effective Development” (PEACE Project)
Pacific Leaders’ Educational Assistance for Development of State (Pacific-LEADS)
In 2018 Kobe Institute of Computing ventured with Swift Engineering (an American engineering firm, most notable for producing racing cars for a variety of open-wheel racing series, including Formula Ford, Formula Atlantic, the Champ Car World Series and Formula Nippon. From 2000 it diversified into Aerospace/Aviation markets) called Swift Xi located in Kobe, Japan.
Academic agreements
KIC partners with institutions around the world to give further chances for the students to develop their skills and international cooperation through programs selected by the Japanese government.
Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology,
Autonomous University of Bucaramanga,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Cheng Shiu University,
Edith Cowan University,
Integrated Polytechnic Regional College Tumba (IPRC TUMBA),
Northeastern University (China),
Sabancı University,
Technical University of Cologne,
University of Dhaka, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
University of Hyogo Graduate School of Applied Informatics,
University of Rwanda,
Vietnam National University,
Notable alumni
Akaliza Keza Gara - Rwandan IT activist and entrepreneur
See also
Colleges of technology in Japan
Institute of technology
Education in Japan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majesty%202%3A%20The%20Fantasy%20Kingdom%20Sim | Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is a real-time strategy game developed by 1C:Ino-Co and published by Paradox Interactive. The game was released on September 18, 2009. It is a sequel to Cyberlore's Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim.
A Mac OS X version of Majesty 2 was announced by Virtual Programming on August 13, 2010. Virtual Programming published the Mac OS X version of the game on November 16, 2010. The publisher released the Mac OS X versions of the first two expansion packs, Kingmaker and Battles of Ardania, on December 15, 2010. In January, 2011, Virtual Programming published the third expansion, Monster Kingdom, for Mac OS X. In April, 2011, Paradox published a collection of the three expansions plus Majesty 2, titled "Majesty 2 Collection", for PC.
Gameplay
The core gameplay of Majesty 2 is essentially the same as the original Majesty. Players take the role of "the sovereign", placing buildings and recruiting units as in other real-time strategy titles. Individual units ("heroes"), however, are semi-autonomous; each has their own statistics and inventory and interact with the game world according to unit-specific AIs (for example hunters will scout unknown areas of the map while warriors prefer to attack or defend locations). The player can influence the actions of hero units by placing bounties on particular actions, such as exploring an area or defeating a specific enemy unit, using a variety of "flags". They also supply heroes with equipment and other items via trade buildings, which both improves the hero's abilities and allows the player to recoup the money heroes have gained from flags and defeated enemies.
Multiplayer
Unlike the original, Majesty 2 does not feature freestyle play nor co-operative multi-player as part of its release offering. Because the new engine does not provide the technical capability to randomly generate maps it is unlikely that a freestyle game mode, of the sort found in the original game, will be provided. However, patch 1.3 introduced randomized non-quest monster dens, and places for construction of temples and trading posts. The patch also included a map editor.
Plot
Majesty 2 returns to the gently satirical, high fantasy world of Ardania featured in the original, a magical realm populated by elves, gnomes, dwarves and various monsters, as well as humans.
According to the game's back story, Ardania was unified 500 years previously by a great ruler. Since that time, many celebrated kings ruled, who vanquished many legendary foes. The last king, Leonard, however, had no enemies left to conquer, and became worried over his place in history. He summoned a powerful demon in an attempt to banish it and win renown himself, but the demon killed the king and usurped his throne. Under the demon's rule, Ardania crumbled and fell back to its chaotic past, and many pretenders tried and failed to win the throne. The player assumes the role of the "true heir" to Ardania, who sets out to defeat the demon and purge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel%20Fury | Steel Fury: Kharkov 1942 is a World War 2 tank simulation computer game, set during the Kharkov offensive of 1942. It was made by the Ukrainian game developer team Graviteam and Russian developer Discus Games.
2007 video games
Video games developed in Ukraine
Video games set in the Soviet Union
Tank simulation video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Windows games
Windows-only games
Lighthouse Interactive games
World War II video games
Video games set in 1942
Video games set in Ukraine
The game was released in Russia in November 2007 (Buka). An English version of the game was released in 2008. The publisher was the now defunct Lighthouse Interactive Game Publishing. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20Patrol%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the Australian drama-series Sea Patrol premiered on the Nine Network on 5 July 2007. The 13-episode season concluded 4 October 2007. Set aboard HMAS Hammersley, an old Royal Australian Navy (RAN) patrol boat, the series follows the ship's company as they investigate the deaths of several people who are linked by a web of intrigue.
Filming begun in October 2006 and concluded in February 2007. Most of the footage was shot aboard the patrol boat , with up to 60 cast, film crew, and ship's company. They crammed aboard a vessel designed to hold only 24 people in tropical Queensland conditions. Other filming occurred on Dunk Island, in Sydney, and at the Movie World Studios in Queensland.
The show was one of the most eagerly awaited of 2007, with the project marking Lisa McCune's return to television acting. Ratings for the first episode were the second-highest for a drama premiere in Australian history and surpassed the NRL State of Origin match earlier in the week. Initial reviews were mixed, with a concern that the series would be restricted by the early time slot, poor scripts, and clichéd characters and storylines. Critical reception improved as the series progressed, but ratings fell.
Plot
The first season story arc involves the Australian Federal Police's investigation into the death of marine biologist Dr. Lisa Holmes, Kate's relationship with freighter Captain Rick Gallagher, Mike's relationship with Lisa's partner, Dr. Ursula Morrell, and the deaths of two fishermen, Carl Davies and Sam Murray. These threads increasingly intertwine throughout the season, culminating in the final two episodes, in which it is revealed that Gallagher hired Ursula and Lisa to manufacture a deadly toxin from an unusual venomous crab that he planned to sell on the black market. The plot is thwarted, the boat carrying the poison is sunk, Gallagher is killed and Ursula's death is staged as she enters a witness protection program.
During the season, Nav and ET develop a relationship despite adversities: Chefo becomes engaged to his girlfriend; Swain's wife, Sally, gives birth; Charge reluctantly gets help for, and recovers from, an eye injury; Spider loses friend and shipmate Jaffah to a jellyfish sting; Robert comes to terms with his father's death; and Lt. Daryl Smith has a mostly off-screen and implied relationship with AFP Agent Alicia Turnball.
Production
Filming for this season started on 9 October 2006 and concluded on 20 February 2007. The Pacific Film and Television Corporation offered the producers $750,000 as an incentive to film the series in Queensland.
Much of the filming was carried out of tropical Queensland on a RAN patrol boat. This boat was built to accommodate 24 people, but up to 60 members of cast and crew were aboard the small boat, and a vast catamaran was used by the wardrobe department.
was used to film Sea Patrol.
Filming schedule:
Dunk Island (tropical island, Queensland) for eight weeks
Sydney for six weeks
Gol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert%20on%20LAN | Alert on LAN (AOL, sometimes AoL) is a 1998, IBM- and Intel-developed technology that allows for remote management and control of networked PCs. AOL requires a Wake on LAN adapter.
Technical details
The main idea of AOL is to send warnings to remote administrators about different PC conditions using a LAN. These conditions include:
System unplugged from power source
System unplugged from network
Chassis intrusion
Processor removal
System environmental errors
High temperature
Fan speed
Voltage fluctuations
Operating system errors
System power-on errors
System is hung
Component failure
Alert on LAN 2 (AOL2) extends AOL to allow active PC management, including:
Remote system reboot upon report of a critical failure
Repair Operating System
Update BIOS image
Perform other diagnostic procedures
See also
Wake-on-LAN
Alert Standard Format
Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware
Additional resources
AOL Introduction from IBM
Remote control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20Patrol%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the Australian drama Sea Patrol premiered on the Nine Network on 31 March 2008 and aired on Monday nights at 8:30 PM. The thirteen-episode season ended on 23 June 2008.
The season introduced a new patrol boat, following the decommissioning of the original, boat in the final scenes of season one. The new HMAS Hammersley (hull number 82) was of the , reflecting the real-life changeover in the Australian fleet. The second season also featured the debut of a new main character, Able Seaman Rebecca "Bomber" Brown, as the boat's new cook.
Though advertised by the Nine Network as Sea Patrol II: The Coup, episodes themselves bore no title other than Sea Patrol, and the ISAN number indicated that the episodes were merely episodes 14–26 of Sea Patrol.
Continuing the format from the first season, episodes generally moved a season-long story arc along. As the Nine Network marketing indicated, this arc involved a coup on the Samaru Islands, a fictional island nation close to Australia. In many ways, the story was evocative of Operation ANODE, a peacekeeping mission to the Solomon Islands that has been called "the [operational] pinnacle for the Fremantle class" by the Australian Department of Defence.
Casting
Main cast
Recurring cast
Main plot
The season-long story arc revolved around a political conflict in the fictional Samaru Islands, which was ultimately shown to be located approximately due east of Cairns. Starting somewhere during a political campaign to elect the nation's president, the season ended literally on the day of the election. Throughout the season, the crew of Hammersley encountered an increasing number of clues that someone was using the waters off northeast Queensland to stage a paramilitary coup of the sitting Samaran government. Ultimately, it became clear that someone meant to stop the impending election from proceeding according to the will of voters. Over the course of the season, Australian businessman, Ray Walsman – an apparent victim of the anti-government forces in the premiere episode – emerged as the leader of the insurgency. His aim was to secure lucrative mining rights from the government which would have been formed had the coup succeeded.
In the season opener, the writers allowed one of the characters to directly reference the real-life events that inspired the story line. Following an initial rescue mission to the Samaru Islands in "The Dogs of War", Hammersleys captain tells his department heads that the Australian government has finalised a peacekeeping arrangement with the Samaran government, and that return visits are therefore likely. Charge says, "Great. That'd be the Solomons all over again."
Ongoing subplots
All main characters had at least one subplot which appeared in more than one episode. Among them were: Nav and ET's increasing problems in keeping their romantic relationship a secret, Bomber's anger-management issues, Spider's relationship with Carly Walsman, the negativ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoculture%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, a monoculture is a community of computers that all run identical software. All the computer systems in the community thus have the same vulnerabilities, and, like agricultural monocultures, are subject to catastrophic failure in the event of a successful attack.
Overview
With the global trend of increased usage and reliance on computerized systems, some vendors supply solutions that are used throughout the industry (such as Microsoft Windows) - this forms algorithmic monocultures. Monocultures form naturally since they utilize economies of scale, it is cheaper to manufacture and distribute a single solution. Furthermore, by being used by a large community bugs are discovered relativity fast.
Like agricultural monocultures, algorithmic monocultures are not diverse, thus susceptible to correlated failures - a failure of many parts participating in the monoculture. In complete non-monocultures, where the outcome of all components are mutually independent thus un-correlated, the chance of catastrophic event (failure of all the parts in the monoculture) is the multiplication of each component failure probability (exponentially decreasing).
On the other end, perfect monocultures are completely correlated, thus have a single point of failure. This means that the chance of a catastrophic event is constant - the failure probably of the single component.
Examples
Since operating systems are used in almost every workstation they form monocultures. For example Dan Geer has argued that Microsoft is a monoculture, since a majority of the overall number of workstations connected to the Internet are running versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, many of which are vulnerable to the same attacks.
Large monocultures can also arise from software libraries, for example the Log4Shell exploit in the popular Log4j library estimated to affect hundreds of millions of devices.
Individual level concerns
The concept is significant when discussing computer security and viruses, the main threat is exposure to security vulnerabilities. Since monocultures are not diverse, any vulnerability found exists in all the individual members of the monoculture increasing the risk of exploitation. An example to that is exploit Wednesday in which after Windows security patches are released there is an increase exploitation events on not updated machines.
Clifford Stoll wrote in 1989 after dealing with the Morris worm:
Another main concern is increased spread of algorithmic bias. In the light of increased usage of machine learning there is a growing awareness of the biases introduced by algorithms. The nature of monocultures exacerbate this problem since it makes the bias systemic and spreading unfair decisions.
Social level concerns
Monocultures may lead to Braess's like paradoxes in which introducing a "better option" (such as a more accurate algorithm) leads to suboptimal monocultural convergence - a monoculture whose correlated nature result |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand%20Network | The Ampersand Network was a not-for-profit organisation, committed to improving the appeal and accessibility of volunteering for young people in Australia.
Ampersand was founded on the belief that exposing young people to social and environmental need will produce a more broad-minded and socially engaged generation of leaders than might otherwise emerge.
Since its launch in 2005, the Ampersand Network has provided access to over 5,000 volunteer opportunities Australia wide, and hundreds more with international development agencies abroad, such as Australian Volunteers International, Students Partnership Worldwide and Global Vision International.
Each year, the Ampersand Walk gives young Australians the opportunity to 'volunteer their feet' for not-for-profit organisations with a proven track record in utilising young volunteers. In 2007, Ampersand partnered with yconnect? to promote the Walk and raise funds for the Australian Red Cross.
The Ampersand Network's website was last updated in April 2011.
Recognition
Two of its directors were Victorian finalists in the Young Australian of the Year.
In 2004, the network was applauded for its work in The Australian Senate. In 2005, it was the recipient of an Anti-Poverty Award for Young Victorians.
References
External links
antipoverty.unitingchurch.org.au
Non-profit organisations based in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra%20Foster | Cassandra Foster is a fictional character on the ABC and The Online Network soap opera All My Children. On February 25, 2013, model Sal Stowers was cast as Cassandra on the Prospect Park's continuation of All My Children. The character originated in March 1997 as an infant on the now-defunct series The City, in its final days before cancellation. In 2008, Yaya DaCosta began portraying the character as a teenager from April 25, 2008, to August 25, 2008. DaCosta had placed runner-up in the third cycle of America's Next Top Model, while Stowers had won the competition in the ninth cycle of the show. Stowers made her debut on April 30, 2013.
Storylines
1997: The City
Cassandra Foster is the adopted daughter of Jacob Foster (Darnell Williams) and Angela Hubbard (Debbi Morgan), and the adopted half-sister of Frankie Hubbard (Cornelius Smith Jr.). Abandoned by as an infant in 1997, Cassandra is discovered by Angie in a garbage dumpster in the SoHo district of New York City. Angie is still experiencing the loss of her foster daughter Kayla, who has been adopted by another couple. Angie falls in love with Cassandra almost immediately, and she and her then-husband Jacob adopt her.
2008
Following her parents' divorce, Cassandra (Yaya DaCosta) decides to spend time with her father in Paris. In 2008, Cassandra (now age 18) returns to the United States and travels to Pine Valley to meet her mother's first husband Jesse Hubbard (Darnell Williams), who was erroneously believed to have died years before Cassandra's birth. In a strange coincidence, Jesse looks almost exactly like Jacob.
Cassandra has become fast friends with Colby Chandler (Brianne Moncrief) (the daughter of her mother's former friend from high school Liza Colby (Jamie Luner)) and local musician Dre Woods (Sterling Sulieman). She plans to begin studies at Pine Valley University in the fall.
Colby become quite intoxicated at her 18th birthday party. Dre was driving Colby's car when he and Cassandra decided to bring her home. He ran over someone in the road, but was unable to determine what the object was, since it was nighttime. The next day—upon learning that Richie Novak (Billy Miller) had been struck by a car on the same road at approximately the same time—the three teenagers feared that they had inadvertently killed him. Unaware that Richie had actually been murdered earlier that evening by his sister Annie Lavery (Melissa Claire Egan), the teens vowed to keep the entire incident a secret.
However, Jesse later finds out that Dre, Colby, and Cassandra may have run over Richie. All three teenagers are taken in and questioned. Then Dre confesses that he was the one who ran over Richie. Cassandra, still in shock begins acting more and more insecure, blaming Jesse for everything, and treating Frankie better than her. She begins acting spoiled, and says Angie that she cannot be a part of the "little family" that she always wanted yet. She later books a flight to Paris to be with her father, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroB | MicroB was a mobile web browser developed by Nokia for use in smartphones and mobile devices that run the Maemo operating system. The browser is Mozilla-based and uses the Gecko layout engine.
It is shipped with Nokia's N800, N810 and N900 Internet Tablets, and is also available for the 770 via the 'Hacker Editions' of the operating system. In place of Mozilla's XUL-based user interface, MicroB uses the Maemo-native (GTK-based) Hildon API and widgets.
History
MicroB was initially released as a public beta for Internet Tablet OS 2007 on July 17, 2007 to allow third-party developers and community members to develop and port plugins, and help shape the development of the browser. It was updated several times before it replaced Opera as Internet Tablet OS's default browser with the release of Internet Tablet OS 2008 on November 18, 2007 with the N810.
Architecture
MicroB is Mozilla-based and uses the Gecko engine, but a number of features are omitted due to platform-specific limitations. In particular, SVG support is disabled due to unacceptable performance, and XUL is not included to reduce size and decrease memory consumption. As XUL is not included, most Firefox plugins require porting and repackaging before they can be used with MicroB. In place of XUL, MicroB uses GTK and the Hildon UI toolkit to provide a native interface.
Add-ons
Add-ons usually need to be ported. The Maemo Browser Extras project is responsible for a large number of the available add-ons.
Some MicroB Plugins
Adblock Plus
Adobe Flash 9 (bundled with Maemo)
Flashblock
Gears (partial functionality)
Greasemonkey – All scripts that work on the desktop version of Firefox work fine in MicroB, extending the capabilities of the browser and even replacing the need for some extensions which are not available for MicroB.
MPlayer plugin
Windows Media Player Stream and RealPlayer stream supports via the built-in Media player
WML browser
Notes
References
Mozilla based browser for maemo whitepaper
External links
MicroB Homepage
Maemo Browser Extras
Mozilla
Discontinued web browsers
Embedded Linux
Mobile web browsers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer%202%20Forwarding%20Protocol | L2F, or Layer 2 Forwarding, is a tunneling protocol developed by Cisco Systems, Inc. to establish virtual private network connections over the Internet. L2F does not provide encryption or confidentiality by itself; It relies on the protocol being tunneled to provide privacy. L2F was specifically designed to tunnel Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) traffic.
Use
Virtual dial-up allows many separate and autonomous protocol domains to share common access infrastructure including modems, Access Servers, and ISDN routers. RFCs prior to 2341 have specified protocols for supporting IP dial-up via SLIP and multiprotocol dial-up via PPP.
L2F packet structure
Other VPN protocols
IPsec
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
References
External links
L2F on Cisco.com
VPDN on Cisco.com
L2TP on Cisco.com
RFC2341 on IETF.org
RFC2341 on RFC Archive
Cisco protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%20and%20Child%20Reunion%20%28Degrassi%3A%20The%20Next%20Generation%29 | "Mother and Child Reunion" is the two-part pilot episode of the Canadian teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation, which premiered on October 14, 2001 on the CTV Television Network. The episode was written by story editor Aaron Martin and series co-creator/creative consultant Yan Moore, and directed by Bruce McDonald. As with the majority of Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes, "Mother and Child Reunion" takes its title from a pop song, "Mother and Child Reunion", written and performed by Paul Simon.
Degrassi: The Next Generation is the fourth series in the fictional Degrassi universe created in 1979. The preceding series, Degrassi High, ended in 1991, although a television movie, School's Out, aired in 1992 and wrapped up the storylines of the characters. "Mother and Child Reunion" reunited some of those characters in a ten-year high school reunion, while also introducing a new generation of Degrassi Community School students: Emma Nelson, Manny Santos, J.T. Yorke and Toby Isaacs.
The episode received mixed reviews from the mass media, with the Ottawa Citizen saying that it offers "nothing new to viewers familiar with the groundbreaking preceding series", and The Seattle Times saying it "soft-pedals through the issues", although the acting from the new generation of children was lauded as "stellar ... solid [and] believable" by Canoe.ca's AllPop. It was nominated for two Gemini Awards and two Directors Guild of Canada Awards, winning in the "Outstanding Achievement in a Television Series – Children's" category.
Plot
Part One
Archie "Snake" Simpson (played by Stefan Brogren), a former student of Degrassi High, and now teacher at Degrassi Community School, has arranged a mixed reunion for the classes of 1990 and 1991. Spike Nelson (Amanda Stepto), Caitlin Ryan (Stacie Mistysyn), and Lucy Fernandez (Anais Granofsky), who also attended Degrassi High, plan on attending and try to persuade Joey Jeremiah (Pat Mastroianni) to join them. Joey, however, is reticent as he is still dealing with his grief over the death of his wife. Along with Caitlin's fiancé Keith (Don McKellar), the five friends go out to a bar for the night, reminiscing about the past and discussing their present lives.
Spike's daughter, Emma (played by Miriam McDonald) is told by her online boyfriend, Jordan, that he is coming to Toronto for a school field trip, and asks her if she would like to meet him for the first time. Her friends, Manny Santos (Cassie Steele), J.T. Yorke (Ryan Cooley) and Toby Isaacs (Jake Goldsbie) warn her of the potential dangers of meeting somebody she only knows from the Internet, and tell her that he could be an Internet stalker, pointing out that schools do not take field trips in the middle of summer. However, Emma is undeterred, convinced that Jordan is just a normal boy with whom she shares the same interests.
Part Two
At the reunion party, Joey and Caitlin meet Alison Hunter (Sara Holmes), another Degrassi High attendee. As th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer/85 | The Netronics Explorer 85 was an Intel 8085 based computer produced by Netronics R&D Ltd. located in New Milford, Connecticut between 1979 and 1984. Netronics also produced the more well known ELF II computer, and the ill-fated Explorer 88 computer.
Specifications
The Intel 8085 CPU used a 6.144 MHz crystal, resulting in the processor operating at 3.072 MHz. The basic system had 256 bytes of RAM and 2048 bytes of ROM. The base system also had cassette tape IO, serial IO which could be configured for RS-232 or current loop, and thirty eight bits of parallel IO. The system could be expanded to have from two to six S-100 bus sockets.
Unique features
Although this computer did have an S-100 bus, it was different from most of its contemporary S-100 bus computers in that it had a large motherboard containing the CPU and associated circuitry, and only two S-100 bus sockets. The Sol-20 computer also had this arrangement.
Another unique feature of this computer was its serial port. The serial data was connected to the Intel 8085's SID and SOD (Serial In Data and Serial Out Data) pins. This allowed the use of the Intel 8085's RIM and SIM instructions to read the level on the SID and set the level on SOD line. What was so unique about this implementation was that after resetting the Explorer 85, the user had to press the space bar on the attached computer terminal. The Explorer 85's firmware would measure the time between the start bit and the first data bit in the ASCII code for the space character. This allowed the Explorer 85 to automatically calculate and match the baud rate of the terminal. The down side of this technique was that the firmware needed to be in a loop monitoring the level on the SID pin to receive data from the terminal. If the processor was doing some other task when the user pressed a key on the terminal, that data would be lost.
In addition to having a reset button on the front of the computer, the Explorer 85 had an interrupt button. This allow the user to interrupt a locked up program and return to the debugger, without resetting the computer and losing all of their work.
Available configurations
The Explorer 85 was available at five different levels.
Level A
Level A was just the motherboard with no S-100 bus sockets loaded. This could be ordered with firmware configured for either a computer terminal, or for a hexadecimal keypad which was available from Netronics. The Level A configuration did not include a power supply, so the user had to provide their own eight volt power supply, or purchase one from Netronics. The Level A motherboard contained a prototyping area, where the user could add circuitry of their own design. In 1982 the Level A system sold for $129.95.
Level B
Level B added the circuitry to drive the two S-100 bus connectors which you could solder into the Level A motherboard. This allowed the owner to use any of the myriad of available S-100 bus on the market. In 1982 the Level B upgrade |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNF | UNF may refer to:
Technology
Unified fine thread, screw thread series
Unnormalized form, a database data model
Organizations
UniFirst, a supplier of uniforms
United National Front (Afghanistan)
United National Front (Sri Lanka)
United Nations Foundation, a fund-raising organization
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, US
, the Danish Youth Association of Science
, a Swedish youth temperance organisation
or National Fascist Union, Argentina, 1936-1939
or National University of Formosa, Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaw%20Township%2C%20Jefferson%20County%2C%20Kansas | Kaw Township is a township in Jefferson County, Kansas, USA.
External links
City-Data.com
Townships in Jefferson County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizations%20of%20the%20Iranian%20Revolution | Many organizations, parties and guerrilla groups were involved in the Iranian Revolution. Some were part of Ayatollah Khomeini's network and supported the theocratic Islamic Republic movement, while others did not and were suppressed when Khomeini took power. Some groups were created after the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty and still survive; others helped overthrow the Shah but no longer exist.
Prerevolutionary opposition groups
Before the Iranian Revolution, opposition groups tended to fall into three major categories: Constitutionalist, Marxist, and Islamist.
Constitutionalists, including the National Front of Iran, wanted to revive constitutional monarchy including free elections. Without elections or outlets for peaceful political activity though, they had lost their relevance and had little following.
Marxists groups were primarily guerrilla groups working to defeat the Pahlavi regime by assassination and armed struggle. They were illegal and heavily suppressed by the SAVAK internal security apparatus. They included the Tudeh Party of Iran; the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (OIPFG) and the breakaway Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (IPFG), two armed organizations; and some minor groups. Although they played an important part in the revolution, they never developed a large base of support.
Islamists were divided into several groups. The Freedom Movement of Iran was formed by religious members of the National Front of Iran. It also was a constitutional group and wanted to use lawful political methods against the Shah. This movement comprised Bazargan and Taleqani. The People's Mujahedin of Iran was a quasi-Marxist armed organization that opposed the influence of the clergy and later fought the Islamic government. Individual writers and speakers like Ali Shariati and Morteza Morahhari did important work outside of these parties and groups.
The Islamist groups that ultimately prevailed were the loyal followers of Ayatollah Khomeini. They included some minor armed Islamist groups which joined together after the revolution in the Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization. The Coalition of Islamic Societies was founded by religious bazaaris (traditional merchants). The Combatant Clergy Association comprised Morteza Motahhari, Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mofatteh who later became the major governors of Islamic Republic. They used a cultural approach to fight the Shah.
Because of internal repression, opposition groups abroad, like the Confederation of Iranian students, the foreign branch of Freedom Movement of Iran and the Islamic association of students, were important to the revolution.
Khomeinist revolutionary groups and bodies
Revolutionary Council
The "Revolutionary Council" was formed by Khomeini to manage the revolution on 12 January 1979, shortly before he returned to Iran. Its existence was kept a secret during the early, less secure time of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti%20M19 | The Olivetti M19 was a personal computer made in 1986 by the Italian company Olivetti. It has an 8088 at 4.77 or 8 MHz and 256–640 KB of RAM. The BIOS is Revision Diagnostics 3.71. In the UK, it was sold by Acorn Computers as the Acorn M19, with additional software also available via Acorn. In France, it was available as the Persona 1300, sold by LogAbax.
Specifications
The machine came with three operating systems: MS-DOS 2.11 / 3.1, Concurrent DOS and UCSD p-System. It was capable of displaying graphics in standard CGA or Plantronics Colorplus mode (320x200 pixel with 16 colors and 640x200 with 4 colors).
The M19 was sold with two floppy disk drives (360 KB format). A hard drive option was made available later, in the form of a 5 MB (later 10 MB) hard disk in an add-on case (aka "sidecar") attached to the left hand side of the computer by four machine screws.
Paul Maynes, a technician at HBH Computers (one of Olivetti's dealerships in Durban) designed, and SA Signals Manufacturing (also of Durban) produced a bus extension card with a 90-degree bend (purportedly a world-first) that could accommodate a Seagate hard drive controller card. This allowed the second floppy drive to be removed and a 20 MB (later 40 MB) full-height hard drive installed in its place.
M19 based word processors
In 1987 Olivetti introduced the word processor systems ETV 260 and ETV 500 based on the M19. While the ETV 500 was just a M19 accelerated to 8 MHz and equipped with two 3.5 inch 720 kB floppy drives, which used optionally an Olivetti ET series typewriter (usually a ET 112 or ET 116) as a serial attached keyboard and daisy wheel printer, the ETV 260 was a fully integrated word processor system with the M19 / ETV 500 accelerated mainboard mounted into a high speed 35 cps daisy wheel typewriter chassis, equipped with two 720 kB floppy drives or a single floppy drives plus an integrated 20 MB SCSI or MFM hard disk.
Both systems, ETV 260 and ETV, 500 ran MS-DOS 3 and booted directly into Olivetti's own word processor software SWS - Secretary's Work Station, which could be easy used by people already familiar with Olivetti's ET series typewriters and older CP/M based ETV word processor systems (like the ETV 240, 250 or 350).
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See also
Olivetti M24
Olivetti video typewriters
Plantronics Colorplus
References
External links
Product brochure (in German)
Product brochure (in Italian)
"Total Hardware 1999 - Jumper settings for 14876 devices - Motherboards. 8088, 8086, 80188, V20 - OLIVETTI M19". Colorado Custom Software Applications.
M19 based Olivetti ETV 260 completely disassembled
Olivetti personal computers
Computer-related introductions in 1986 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabien%20Ch%C3%A9reau | Fabien Chéreau (born 17 September 1980 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France) is a French research engineer and computer programmer best known for authoring the planetarium software Stellarium, a free, open source astronomy software package which renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.
He previously worked as a Research Engineer at the Paris Astronomical Observatory for the satellite Gaia of European Space Agency on a CNES-funded position for the On-board Detection and the Radial Velocity Spectrometer working groups. He worked in ESO on a plugin for Stellarium, called VirGO, from April 2008 to 2010.
Chéreau wrote the first version of the Gaia on-board detection algorithm. He worked on the definition of the Spectro sky mappers and was in charge of the development of the algorithms for these instruments.
Education
After graduating from Lycée du Val de Saône, Trévoux in Science with majors in Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Industrial Technology, he enrolled in INSA, the French engineering university at Lyon in France. Later he studied his final year as an exchange student in the Tampere University of Technology, Finland. Chéreau achieved his master's degree (Diplôme d'Ingénieur) in Computer Science at the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, France.
Personal projects
Since summer 2000, Chéreau is working on the free, open source astronomy software Stellarium in C++/OpenGL during his spare time.
He also programmed "The Biotes" an experimental artificial life program (in C++) which experiments with neural networks and evolution algorithms.
Interests
Chéreau's interest in observations, calculations and astronomy helped in the creation of Stellarium.
References
External links
Stellarium Official website for Stellarium.
ESO European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere.
VirGO VirGO, a plugin for Stellarium.
1980 births
Living people
People from Villefranche-sur-Saône
French computer programmers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%20notation | D notation or D-notation may refer to:
D notation (computing), scientific notation for double precision numbers in some versions of FORTRAN and BASIC
Dice notation, dice algebra in gaming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop%20outsourcing | Desktop outsourcing is the process in which an organization contracts a third party to maintain and manage parts of its IT infrastructure. Contracts vary in depth and can range from Computer hard- and software maintenance to Desktop virtualisation, SaaS-implementations and Helpdesk operation. It is estimated, that 32% of U.S. and Canadian IT organisations make use of desktop outsourcing in 2014. Recent market reports suggest the adoption of BYOD policies to allow the end-user a free choice of devices in their working environment may increase this market share.
Viability
Justification for desktop outsourcing could include shifting focus and energy to areas of core competency, reducing staffing costs, and the routine maintenance, upgrades, and repairs associated with managing multitudes of PC systems and servers. (Applegate et al. 2007). Managers may also seek desktop outsourcing as a method of simplifying organisational structures to cut costs associated with them. For smaller companies it might also be more viable financially to outsource their desktop at a set price per machine, rather than creating an entire internal IT department. Recent market growth can also be attributed to the decreasing price of hardware, making replacement more favourable than repairs. Possible risks when desktop outsourcing are ensuring continued support for old and unique systems the company depends on, specifically if any of the systems in question were internally developed. This may cause the contractor to be unable to fulfill their contractual obligations, as in the case of the US Navy outsourcing their IT systems to EDS in 2003.
Market situation
A 2012 TechNavio market report forecasts that the desktop outsourcing market will grow by 4.65% yearly, between 2012 and 2016. Atos, CSC, HP and IBM are considered the leading desktop outsourcing vendors for that time frame. A Gartner report from 2013, however, considers the desktop outsourcing market to be in decline, with growth only occurring on the Latin American and Asia/Pacific markets.
Examples
While consolidating School Districts in 2003, New York City brought in Dell to assess and consolidate their IT systems. At the time it was unclear how many devices actually existed in the network. Being largely successful, this netted Dell a $20 million yearly contract to keep on managing the School Districts systems.
NASA's Kennedy Space Center had its IT services, approximately 22,000 devices, outsourced in 1998 for $30 million a year on a 3-year contract.
The US Treasury outsourced their 1643 desktop and 700 portable seats in 1999 for around $27 million yearly.
References
Corporate Information Strategy and Management. Applegate, Lynda, Austin, Robert, McFarlan, Warren F. (2007). New York: McGraw Hill Companies, Inc.
Littman, Dan. "Outsourcing the desktop: Outsourcing desktop management can shave costs while bringing relief to an assortment of infrastructure management headaches". IDG Publishing Network, Inc. 6 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taringa%21 | Taringa! is an Argentine-based social networking site geared toward Hispanophone users.
Taringa! consists of a 27 million registered user base, according with Taringa's own metrics who create and share thousands of daily posts on general interest topics such as: life hacks, tutorials, recipes, reviews, and art.
The platform has a presence in every country in the Spanish-speaking world – its main markets are Argentina, Spain, Colombia and Chile. According to comScore statistics in 2013, it was the fourth most popular Latin American Social Network and the second one in traffic only after Facebook, since then the site's traffic has dramatically declined, dropping up to the 3898th place in the Alexa Ranking on December 30, 2020.
In February 2012, an article by Wired listed Taringa! as one of the foreign sites that "outshine Facebook", stating "there are still places where an also-ran or a homegrown alternative beats out the global hegemonies".
In September 2017, Taringa! suffered a database breach when almost 28 million database entries were leaked.
Structure
Posts
One of Taringa!'s most important aspects is the posts. The users create the content themselves and receive feedback from the community (except new users, being experts or not) in the form of comments, points, recommendations, and favorites. Top-rated content gets featured on a special section of the site called Tops. Posts can be about many different subjects. They can be created with text, images, gifs, videos, and/or links. Within the post section of the website there are a variety of categories, including art, travel, news, computers and technology, etc.
Home Page
Historically, Taringa's homepage had a main section of posts which were organized in chronological order, according to the most recent posts, as well secondary sections with Top Posts (the most voted by the community by week, month or year) and Post Highlights (selected using a number of different variables such as visits, comments, favorites, etc.).
In June 2014, Taringa! updated its homepage, making not only aesthetic changes but also by developing a new algorithm in order to highlight the best contributions made by the community. By the use of geo-tracking, each country can have its own personalized homepage, according to the most relevant local issues going on at the time.
Currently, posts created by users can be seen on the homepage and are ordered in three main sections: biggest highlights, emerging, or the most recent:
Highlights: posts which continue to be the most commented on, most read, most recommended and which maintain the highest score, over an extended period of time (by week).
Emerging: posts that have started to gain momentum; they have received a lot of points, visits, comments or recommendations by the community in just a short period of time. These are subjects that start to become “hot-topics” on the website.
Most Recent: Posts in chronological order of their creation continue to remain on the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Organization%20for%20People%20of%20Indian%20Origin | Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) is an international network of people of Indian origin (PIO).
History
GOPIO was founded at the First Global Convention of People of Indian Origin in New York City in 1989. The name GOPIO was adopted by the Steering Committee formed after the First Global Convention. The initial thrust of GOPIO was fighting human rights violation against people of Indian origin.
Although this has been improved in the last decade, human rights violations continue to be a major issue for PIOs living outside India. GOPIO has now set its priorities in pooling its resources, both financial and professional, for the benefit of PIOs, the countries they come from and India.
GOPIO's Founder President is Dr. Thomas Abraham who served since inception till 2004. Inder Singh took over as president in 2004 and served till 2009 when Lord Diljit Rana, a member of the House of Lords in London was elected. Lord Rana was followed by Ashook Ramsaran who served from 2011 to 2016. Niraj Baxi of Silicon Valley, California served from March 2016 to December 2017. The incumbent president of the GOPIO is Sunny Kulathakal from Bahrain. The Founder President was elected again as the Chairman of GOPIO in 2016. In 2009, GOPIO launched GOPIO Foundation For People of Indian Origin with Dr. Thomas Abraham as its first Executive Trustee.
See also
Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin
List of NRIs
References
External links
GOPIO Website
Timeline of GOPIO activities
Reassessing what we collect website - Indian London History of Indian London with objects and images
NRI Online News snippets about GOPIO
GOPIO Silicon Valley Chapter Website
IPF UAE Website IPF UAE Official Website
Overseas Indian organisations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20Data%20Standards | The vast scale of the oceans, the difficulty and expense of making measurements due to the hostility of the environment and the internationality of the marine environment has led to a culture of data sharing in the oceanographic data community. As far back as 1961 UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) set up IODE (International Oceanographic Data Exchange, subsequently renamed International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange to reflect the increasing importance of metadata) to enhance marine research, exploitation and development by facilitating the exchange of oceanographic data and information.
Traditionally, oceanographic data exchange was based on manual transactions involving delivery of physical packages of data on magnetic tape, CD-ROM or more recently by electronic FTP transfer. However, the increasing need of climate scientists for regional or global data syntheses to support their modelling activities requires automation of the data exchange process. Consequently, oceanographic data managers are developing 'virtual data centres' to support the distribution of data through software agents.
Distributed data systems are critically dependent on machine-readable metadata to provide information on such issues as physical access protocols and semantics of the data. It is essential that this metadata conforms to agreed standards to prevent the computing paradigm of 'garbage in, garbage out' blighting automated data exchange. for example if a data description of 'temperature' were allowed it could lead to the merging of sea temperature data from one centre with air temperature data from another.
Many of these standards are community based, such as the CF conventions developed for global climate modelling. Significant progress documenting these informal standards leading to exposure and encouragement of best practice has been made by the Marine Metadata Interoperability project.
However, if the oceanographic community is to emulate the success of the spatial data community in the development of data interoperability then a more formalised standards development framework is required. To this end an ocean data standards review, development and publication infrastructure is being developed under the auspices of the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission on Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM).
References
The Ocean Data Standards website
External links
Ocean Data Standards
Oceanography |
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