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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination%20of%20Access%20to%20Information%20Requests%20System | The Coordination of Access to Information Requests System, also known as CAIRS, was a database of freedom of information requests made to the federal government of Canada under the Access to Information Act. It was operated by the Department of Public Works and Government Services. It was created in 1989 to internally track requests, and eventually allowed for access to previously filed requests, previously released documents, and then current requests. By 2008, millions of documents had been made available through CAIRS. In 2001, Public Works spent Can$166,000 upgrading the system.
Effective April 1, 2008, the Treasury Board has stated that "the requirement to update CAIRS is no longer in effect". The database was shut down due to high maintenance costs and its inefficiency, as stated by the Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Treasury Board President Vic Toews described the system as a tool used to inhibit freedom of information:
If anyone made a request that was considered sensitive, the request was shipped to the appropriate Liberal minister. At that point the Liberal minister would manage, control or delay the request. That was the purpose of the system. That is a pretty convenient system the Liberals had, but it is not one that the government will continue with.
In response, Liberal Leader of the Opposition Stéphane Dion described Harper's government as "the most secretive government in the history of our country."
While the government cited Alastair Roberts, a Syracuse University political scientist, as a critic of CAIRS, Roberts publicly commented that he was not in favour of shutting down the system, saying "They really don't care what I think about CAIRS or any other aspect of ATI [access to information]...[i]f they did they would have taken my advice about CAIRS a few years ago when I said they ought to switch on the capacity to make the entire thing publicly accessible." A reproduction of CAIRS was developed and made publicly available by Alasdair Roberts. Roberts acquired digital "monthly reports" from the Treasury Board of the "requests" made through the CAIRS. In July 2004, the reports were scanned and subsequently sent to Roberts in PDF format. The reports were unusable due to the lack of capacity to search the document, therefore rendering Roberts' database ineffective.
Notes
External links
Online Democracy - a database created using monthly CAIRS reports
1989 establishments in Canada
2008 disestablishments in Canada
Federal departments and agencies of Canada
Freedom of information legislation in Canada
Government databases in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird%20%28TV%20program%29 | Songbird is a 2008 Philippine television variety show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Regine Velasquez, it premiered on May 15, 2008. The show concluded on August 9, 2008 with a total of 14 episodes. It was replaced by Nuts Entertainment in its timeslot.
References
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine variety television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E27 | The European route E27 is a road in Europe, part of the United Nations International E-road network, running from Belfort, France to Aosta, Italy. Between these two cities, most of the route passes through French-speaking Switzerland, including a section along the eastern shore of the Lake Geneva, and a mountain section that peaks at just above 1,900 metres in the Great St Bernard Tunnel.
Much of the route has not currently been upgraded to autoroute quality. However, major improvements in recent years have occurred in the region of the Franco-Swiss frontier and on the continuation to Delémont, with further extension of the motorway section south of Delémont ongoing. Progress is slow because of the mountainous terrain.
Apart from the Swiss capital, Bern, the towns and cities linked by the E27 tend to be medium sized or smaller. Much of route is dominated by mountainous landscapes, with a correspondingly high profile tourist trade: mountain valley agriculture or viticulture are also in evidence where the topography permits. Several sections of the E27 are more than averagely occupied by tunnels and viaducts.
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
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E027
E027
E027 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBKB%20%28AM%29 | KBKB (1360 kHz) is an AM radio station serving the communities of Fort Madison, Burlington, and Keokuk, Iowa. The station primarily broadcasts a sports format, airing programming from Fox Sports Radio, including Colin Cowherd and JT The Brick. KBKB is owned by Pritchard Broadcasting Corporation. It was first licensed on January 10, 1949.
Pritchard Broadcasting Corporation (owned by John T. Pritchard) agreed to purchase the station from GAP West (owned by Skip Weller) in late 2007. The station was owned by Clear Channel prior to GAP West.
References
External links
KBKB official website
FCC History Cards for KBKB
BKB
Sports radio stations in the United States
Fox Sports Radio stations
Radio stations established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dammam%20Community%20College | Dammam Community College (كلية المجتمع في الدمام) is a college located in Saudi Arabia Eastern Province. The college offers two years Associate Degree with six majors, Computer and Information Technology, Accounting, Marketing, Supply Chain Management, Human Resource Management and Safety Technology. Part-time option is also available for Saudi nationals as well as for expats and foreigners. The college is part of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.
Mission
Founded in 2003, Dammam Community College is a newly established academic institution for higher education that enrolls high school graduates. It offers multiple educational streams to meet the increasing demand of local and international labor market. The DCC aims to develop skilled and competent workforce.
DCC is a vocational college that offers Associate Diploma. The college will keep on planning and establishing new vocational programs according to the strategic plans and the requirements of local and international labor market.The College offers diploma and associate degree programs in fields such as business, engineering, health sciences, and information technology.
See also
List of universities and colleges in Saudi Arabia
References
External links
http://www.dcc.edu.sa/
http://www.kfupm.edu.sa
2003 establishments in Saudi Arabia
Educational institutions established in 2003
Education in Dammam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Multimedia%20Supplements | In computing, the Advanced Multimedia Supplements (also JSR-234 or AMMS) is an API specification for the Java ME platform. Practically speaking, it is an extension to JSR 135 Mobile Media API providing new features, such as positional 3D audio processing, audio and video effects processing, better controls for digital camera, and better support for analog radio tuner including Radio Data System. AMMS was developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 234.
Features and profiles
JSR-234 defines six feature sets, namely Media Capabilities, and each define minimum implementation requirements in order to try to avoid fragmentation and to define a common minimal base line for the implementations. Every JSR-234 implementation must support at least one Media Capability. The six Media Capabilities are described in the table below.
Optional features
In addition to the Media Capabilities, the device is free to support any of the optional features including:
controlling additional 3D audio features such as Doppler, size of the source (macroscopicity), directivity and obstruction
controlling additional audio effects such as chorus and channel virtualization (including stereo widening)
audio panning
detailed exposure settings for the camera
brightness, contrast and gamma settings
whitebalance
setting the processing order of the audio and video effects
setting priorities for the players
MIDI channel specific effects
RDS
Versions
1.0 2005-05-17
1.1 2007-02-28 (contains only minor bug fixes and some additional clarifications; no new features or functionality)
Implementations
Mobile devices
Nokia Series 40 devices (5th Edition: 3D Audio and Music Capabilities; 6th Edition: Camera Capability controls for Camera, Flash, Focus, Snapshot and Zoom)
Nokia S60 devices (since 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1) (3D Audio and Music Capabilities only)
Sony Ericsson devices (JP-7: Camera Capability only; since JP-8: all areas)
Emulators
JSR-234 Reference Implementation (all Media Capabilities)
Nokia Prototype SDK (all Media Capabilities)
Series 40 5th and 6th Edition SDKs
S60 SDKs
Sun Java Wireless Toolkit
Chipsets and engines
There are also implementations targeted mainly for mobile device manufacturers.
Other APIs for similar purposes
OpenSL ES - for 3D audio and audio effects processing via a C-language API
OpenMAX AL - for camera controlling and analog radio via a C-language API
References
The official JSR 234 page
"3D Audio for Mobile Devices via Java", M. Paavola, E. Karlsson, J. Page; presented at the 118th AES Convention, Barcelona, Spain, May 31, 2005; available from AES e-library
Series 40 6th Edition: Accessing Camera Capability with Advanced Multimedia Supplements API (JSR-234)
Java specification requests |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge%20and%20Jeff | Marge and Jeff is an early American sitcom broadcast Monday through Friday on the DuMont Television Network during the 1953-1954 television season.
Broadcast history
The program originated as Marge and Fred on a station in Philadelphia. The title was changed when a new male co-star came on the show.
The show was broadcast every weekday at 7:15 pm Eastern Time, after Captain Video and His Video Rangers during its original run. The show starred and was written by Marge Greene. Each episode was 15 minutes long.
The series, at one point, received a Neilson rating of 13.6. It ended on September 24, 1954, when Miles Laboratories took over the time slot, replacing the show with Morgan Beatty and the News.
Format
The series was largely set in the living room and kitchen of characters Marge and Jeff, who were often accompanied by their dog Paisley. Costing just $5,000 a week to produce and aired on 40 stations, the series used a mix of rehearsed and ad-lib dialogue, based on a scenario written by Marge Greene.
Episode status
At least 27 episodes exist at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and four at the Paley Center for Media. UCLA records show that the show probably never had a commercial sponsor and instead featured public service announcements.
Some of the existing episodes survived because it directly followed Captain Video which was regularly kinescoped, with Marge and Jeff apparently preserved on the same 30-minute reel of film.
UCLA records indicate that several episodes were repeated in July 1954. For example, the September 28, 1953, episode was repeated on July 20, 1954. This indicates that DuMont was retaining at least some of the episodes after broadcast. This is noteworthy because DuMont's archive was destroyed by a successor company after the network ceased broadcasting, and there has been speculation as to which shows DuMont had considered worth keeping.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1953-54 United States network television schedule
Mack & Myer for Hire (another "daily" sitcom)
The Trouble with Tracy (another "daily" sitcom)
I Married Joan (similar 1950s sitcom)
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
References
External links
Marge and Jeff at CTVA
List of surviving Marge and Jeff episodes
DuMont historical website
1953 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
1950s American sitcoms
DuMont Television Network original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
American live television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSOR | MSOR can mean:
Marine Special Operations Regiment (United States)
Maths, Stats & OR Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fuzzpaws | The Fuzzpaws are a group of seven puppets which co-hosted the Treehouse programming block on YTV in the 1990s. When the block was cancelled in 1998 in favor of an unhosted block called YTV Jr., the Fuzzpaws got their own TV series and a marketed toy line. All of the Fuzzpaws live in a fictional place called "Pawville". The series was cancelled in 1999 after two seasons.
Fuzzpaws
Archie: Archie is yellow with green hair. His favorite food is a specialty dish only made by his mom called Deep Fried Fishy Face. He enjoys singing, dancing, and acting and one day would like to be a "big star".
Boon: Boon is green and yellow with yellow hair. He has a surfer-style personality He claims to live in a basement apartment, but with no house on top. He has a pet rutabaga named "Rodney". Sometimes he does "primal screams" to relieve stress. His hobbies include skateboarding and snowboarding. Boon plays the harmonica in a rock band named "Jungle Cow". His best friend is JB. Whenever his name would appear on the screen, he would put his eyes in each of the O's and shout "BOON GOGGLES!"
Buella: Buella looks human-like, with yellow skin, grey hair, and a hat. Buella is a "Umpaw", which are old relatives of the Fuzzpaws.
Fazz: Fazz is brown and pink with yellow lips, gold hair and a red bow. She is best friends with Fezz, and claims that they are absolutely in a relationship. She enjoys playing pretend, drawing, playing sports, and reading about cars and motorcycles. Someday she would like to race motorcycles.
Fezz: Fezz is blue and red with yellow hair and an orange beak. He is five years old, loves cookies, and his favorite music is Hip hop. He has an ambition of becoming a truck driver when he gets older. In Pawville he lives with Foster. His best friend is Fazz.
Foster: Foster is blue, yellow, and green with black hair. He says that his favorite thing in the world is music. He is the singer for an R&B band in Pawville, which makes the Fuzzpaws consider him a star. His favorite food is pizza, Hamburgers, and vegetables. He invited Fezz to live with him when he needed a place to stay.
JB: JB is a yellow and black bee who wears sunglasses. He was born a normal larva to the queen bee in a normal hive, and later moved to Pawville where he built a mansion. He says that his arch rival is Boon because Boon calls him "that little bug dude".
Cast
Marty Stelnick
Jason Hopley
Colin Penman
Ben Deustch
External links
The Fuzzpaws on YTV.com (1997)
The Fuzzpaws (TV Series) - IMDb
1990s Canadian children's television series
1998 Canadian television series debuts
1999 Canadian television series endings
1990s preschool education television series
Canadian preschool education television series
Canadian television shows featuring puppetry
Television programming blocks in Canada
YTV (Canadian TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceAge%20Control | SpaceAge Control is a design, development, and sourcing services firm. The firm focuses on sensing and measurement devices and systems to include:
air data (ground, air, space) probes and sensors
displacement/position transducers and sensors
planar and hemispherical coordinate sensors (measurement in two and three dimensions (2D, 3D))
other devices dealing with pressure, airflow, temperature, and displacement
The company has supplied precision displacement sensors to industries worldwide since 1969. During its history, the company created ongoing displacement sensing innovations starting with miniature and subminiature string potentiometers (1968) and 2D and 3D cable-actuated displacement sensors (1974).
History
SpaceAge Control was established in 1968 to design, develop, and manufacture pilot protection devices in support of space-based and high-performance test aircraft programs. In 1970, the company was awarded a NASA contract to produce precision, small-format position transducers for aircraft flight control testing. The successful completion of this contract led to the development and production of a complete line of innovative, small-size position transducers.
In 1974, the company was tasked with producing a multi-dimensional "swivel head" air data probe to enhance total and static pressure accuracy at the high angles of attack associated with rotary wing aircraft. The resulting product, the 100510 air data boom, is used for flight test air data sensing requirements to include STOL, VSTOL, rotary wing, business jet, military transport, and general aviation aircraft.
Through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, significantly all U.S., Canadian, and European aerospace companies have used the company's air data products and position transducers in their research, development, and test activities. Often, these products were designed and manufactured to custom specifications.
In 1989, the company began its focus on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with the development and introduction of the 100400 miniature air data boom. That product use led to the adoption of SpaceAge Control air data products on a broad range of unmanned aircraft to include aerial targets, autonomous vehicles, and experimental vehicles.
Also in 1989, a single auto racing team began using these position transducers to monitor throttle movement and suspension travel. This use resulted in the adoption of the products in automotive test and measurement projects including anthropomorphic dummy instrumentation, impact testing, and control verification.
Businesses
3D Displacement Measurement
OEM displacement sensors
MMI (man-machine-interface) sensors
CMM (coordinate measurement machine) sensors
References
String Potentiometer and String Encoder Engineering Guide
Air Data Products Solution Guide
Position Transducers Solution Guide
External links
Space Age Control Survival Kit
Aerospace companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in California
Technology comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20%28disambiguation%29 | Chuck is a masculine given name.
Chuck may also refer to:
Computers and technology
ChucK, a programming language for computer music
Chuck (engineering), a device for holding tools or workpieces
Chuck, a common name for the BSD Daemon mascot
Entertainment
Chuck (Sum 41 album), 2004
Chuck (Chuck Berry album), 2017
Chuck (TV series), an American action-comedy
Chuck (film), a 2016 American biographical sports drama
Radio
Chuck FM, branding for WAVF, Charleston, South Carolina
Chuck FM, branding for W258CB, Greenville, South Carolina
Chuck FM, former branding for WFZZ, Green Bay, Wisconsin
Other uses
Chuck steak, a cut of beef
Throwing (cricket) or chucking, in the sport of cricket
Chuck Taylor All-Stars, a shoe brand often known as "Chucks"
Chuck or woodchuck, vernacular names of the groundhog
Abbreviation for nunchaku, a kind of martial arts weapon
See also
Chucking (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%20molybdate | Aluminium molybdate is the chemical compound Al2(MoO4)3. The room temperature crystal structure was refined using time-of-flight powder neutron diffraction data. It is monoclinic and isostructural with Fe2(MoO4)3 and Cr2(MoO4)3.
References
External links
Aluminium Molybdate MSDS
Molybdates
Aluminium compounds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socially%20relevant%20computing | Socially relevant computing (SRC) is a unique paradigm in computing introduced by the researchers at the University at Buffalo, Rice University and Microsoft Research. It focuses on the use of computation to solve problems that students are most passionate about. It presents computer science as a cutting-edge technological discipline that empowers them to solve problems of personal interest (socially relevant with a "little s"), as well as problems that are important to society at large (socially relevant with a "capital s").
SRC emphasizes the use of computation for solving problems of personal and societal interest to students. It offers opportunities to demonstrate that computer science is a mainstream endeavor and that it offers conceptual and technological tools for solving meaningful, real-world problems. Courses in this new framework help students identify and model tasks, and design and implement computational solutions that show deep understanding of their embedding in the real world. At the very least, SRC offers interesting examples to illustrate foundational concepts in computer science. By emphasizing problem-solving, and by giving students practice in recognizing needs and engineering solutions to them via computation, SRC at its finest promises to create a more entrepreneurial, as well as a more broadly educated computer scientist.
External links
Socially Relevant Computing (official page at University of Buffalo)
Computing and society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema%20evolution | In computer science, schema versioning and schema evolution, deal with the need to retain current data and software system functionality in the face of changing database structure. The problem is not limited to the modification of the schema. It, in fact, affects the data stored under the given schema and the queries (and thus the applications) posed on that schema.
A database design is sometimes created as a "as of now" instance and thus schema evolution is not considered. (This is different but related to where a database is designed as a "one size fits all" which doesn't cover attribute volatility). This assumption, almost unrealistic in the context of traditional information systems, becomes unacceptable in the context of systems that retain large volumes of historical information or those such as Web Information Systems, that due to the distributed and cooperative nature of their development, are subject of an even stronger pressure toward change (from 39% to over 500% more intense than in traditional settings). Due to this historical heritage the process of schema evolution is nowadays a particularly taxing one. It is, in fact, widely acknowledged that the data management core of an applications is one of the most difficult and critical components to evolve. The key problem is the impact
of the schema evolution on queries and applications. As shown in (which provides an analysis of the MediaWiki evolution) each evolution step might affect up to 70% of the queries operating on the schema, that must be manually reworked consequently.
The problem has been recognized as a pressing one by the database community for more than 12 years. Supporting Schema Evolution is a difficult problem involving complex mapping among schema versions and the tool support has been so far very limited. The recent theoretical advances on mapping composition and mapping invertibility, which represent the core problems underlying the schema evolution remains almost inaccessible to the large public. The issue is particular felt by temporal databases.
Related works
A rich bibliography on Schema Evolution is collected at: http://se-pubs.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/pubs/results/taxonomy%3A100
UCLA university carried out an analysis of the MediaWiki Schema Evolution: Schema Evolution Benchmark
PRISM, a tool to support graceful relational schema evolution: Prism: schema evolution tool
PRIMA, a tool supporting transaction time databases under schema evolution PRIMA: supporting transaction-time DB under schema evolution
Pario and deltasql are examples of software development tools that include fully automated schema evolution.
References
Data modeling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed%20for%20LIFE | Informed for LIFE is a Connecticut non-profit organization that provides "a free, public service to guide consumers on the use of vehicle crash test and fatality data".
Informed For Life's website was launched in 2003 by Michael D. Dulberger, a retired aerospace engineer, to help consumers identify the safest vehicles to avoid unnecessary loss of life. Informed for LIFE aggregates car safety data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), plus vehicle weight, into a risk index "SCORE (Statistical Combination Of Risk Elements)" that claims to demonstrate "superior correlation with actual driver fatalities than any other safety evaluation method". In September, 2012 the methodology was updated to factor in the latest testing categories by both NHTSA and IIHS. This revised methodology collates and codifies all of the NHTSA and IIHS ratings to identify the safest 10% of vehicles based on the following criteria:
Rated "Top Pick" by IIHS and "5-Star Overall" by NHTSA. The testing protocols used by these agencies complement each other and they must both agree the vehicle has superior crashworthiness.
Each individual rating must be in the top quartile for frontal impact, side impact, rear impact and rollover. This filters out vehicles with individual crash modes that have above average risk.
Size/weight-based projected fatality rates must be less than that of the average weight passenger car. This filters out vehicles with higher than average vehicle incompatibility risk, measured as Driver Fatality Factor > 1.0.
In their July 2013 issue, Motor Trend announced their plan to utilize Informed For Life's safety analysis as part of their vehicle assessment program.
In June 2006, Forbes Autos used car safety data from Informed for LIFE to produce a listing of the top 10 safest vehicles.
References
External links
Informed for LIFE
Motor Trend Magazine - "Crash Course"
The Hartford Courant - "Knowing The Score"
Non-profit organizations based in Connecticut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasee | Hasee Computer Company, Ltd. () is a Chinese personal computer manufacturer headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. In 2008 it was the second largest Chinese computer maker.
In addition to its domestic market, Hasee products are sold worldwide.
Products
Products include no frills systems sold at low prices. In 2003, some of its desktop models were referred to as "among the cheapest on the [Chinese] market," and in 2008 a Hasee laptop could be purchased for little more than US$370. C. 2010, Hasee calls some of its products "competitively priced,"
Hasee's products include laptops, desktops, smartphones, tablets, and panel PCs. In the mid-2000s, Hasee manufactured its own motherboards, and in 2010 the company states motherboard manufacture continues.
Operations
Subsidiaries
Hasee's subsidiaries include Shenzhen Hasee Computer Co Ltd, Shenzhen Paradise Science and Technology Co Ltd, Shenzhen Hass IC Co Ltd, Shenzhen Creative Science and Technology Co Ltd, Hasee Electronics Fty, and Shenzhen Paradise Advertisement Co Ltd.
Production bases and facilities
Facilities include 230,000 sq meters in Hasee Industrial Park located in Bantian, Shenzhen, and the total floor-space of all Hasee facilities was estimated to be 400,000 sq meters in 2004.
Production bases, as of 2004, include a site in Longgang, Shenzhen.
See also
White box (computer hardware)
References
External links
Shenzhen Hasee Computer Official Website
Hasee Computers official (Hasee Europe with online shops)
Computer companies of China
Computer hardware companies
Manufacturing companies based in Shenzhen
Computer companies established in 1995
Chinese brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWA%20Championship%20Wrestling | AWA Championship Wrestling is a professional wrestling television series that aired on cable sports network ESPN from 1985 to 1990. It was a continuation of the earlier ESPN program Pro Wrestling USA, the co-operative venture between the American Wrestling Association (AWA) and several National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) affiliates (most notably Jim Crockett Promotions). On February 26, 2008, ESPN Classic began reairing AWA Championship Wrestling episodes. Along with the ownership of the AWA intellectual property by the WWE, all episodes are available on the WWE Network.
Overview
In September 1985, the AWA began airing weekly programming on ESPN, giving the promotion the national exposure already enjoyed by the World Wrestling Federation (on USA Network) and the NWA's Georgia/World Championship Wrestling (on TBS). However, weekly AWA shows were not treated with any priority by the cable network, sometimes being delayed, preempted by live programming, or suffering from occasional changes in time slot, making it difficult for fans to tune in on a regular basis. Following the disastrous Team Challenge Series, the AWA lost its contract with ESPN and became virtually inactive by late 1990.
Taping locations
For many years, the AWA held their television tapings in their home base of Minneapolis, Minnesota (for their syndicated All-Star Wrestling program), at the WTCN television studios. However, in early 1985, AWA promoter Verne Gagne made the decision to hold some television tapings at the Tropicana Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. When Gagne inked the deal with ESPN later that same year, he along with the ESPN management felt that another location for the AWA television tapings was necessary. Ultimately, Gagne and ESPN settled on the Showboat Sports Pavilion in Las Vegas, Nevada. Both the WWF on the USA Network and the NWA on TBS were able to draw more crowds than the AWA's ESPN program. The ESPN tapings in Las Vegas often took place in front of small, silent crowds. In 1989, they taped from the Rochester, Minnesota Civic Center until their final taping on August 11, 1990.
Commentators
Rod Trongard's voice was featured on the AWA's weekly ESPN broadcasts, reaching millions of homes around the world. His signature phrase was "From coast to coast, continent to continent, and border to border". During broadcasts, he often included city names in the phrase, signifying the broad reach of wrestling and the AWA's broadcasts at the time. Trongard called matches alongside fellow commentators Lord James Blears and Lee Marshall. Ralph Strangis' earliest national exposure was as play-by-play man and ring announcer for the American Wrestling Association on ESPN, where he worked alongside Lee Marshall, and later Eric Bischoff, in the waning days of that promotion.
Notable moments
1986
A 1986 main event from Showboat Sports Pavilion of Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, Greg Gagne and Curt Hennig vs. Doug Somers with Sherri Martel, Larry Zbyszko and Colonel DeBeers for Si |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Winthrop%20Clapp | Sir Harold Winthrop Clapp KBE (7 May 1875 – 21 October 1952) was a transport administrator who over the course of thirty years had a profound effect on Australia's railway network. In two decades as its Chairman of Commissioners, he revolutionised Victorian Railways, with unprecedented attention to customer service and innovations such as more powerful locomotives, air-conditioned carriages, and faster services culminating in the introduction of the flagship Spirit of Progress express train. Seconded to the Federal Government in World War II, he played a pivotal role in the manufacture of fighter aircraft in the defence of Australia. As Director-General of Australia's Land Transport Board, he presented a report on railway gauge standardisation that ultimately led to the eventual linking of all Australian mainland capital cities by a uniform track gauge.
Early life and career abroad
Born in St Kilda, Victoria, Harold Clapp was the son of Cobb and Co coach operator and future Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company owner Francis Boardman Clapp and wife Isabella Pinnock, née Pierce. He was educated at Brighton Grammar and Melbourne Church of England Grammar schools, before serving an apprenticeship at the Austral Otis Engineering Co. and later taking charge of motive power in his father's Brisbane Tramway Co. Ltd.
In 1900 Clapp left for the United States of America, first obtaining work at the General Electric Co. He was then engaged by the Interborough Rapid Transit Co., and among other work was in charge of electrification of the West Jersey and Seashore division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. On 19 September 1906 at Providence, Rhode Island, he married Gertrude Vivien, daughter of Judge Arthur Noel of Brisbane. In 1908 he moved to Columbus, Ohio and joined the Southern Pacific Railroad. By 1920, he was a Vice President of the Southern Pacific, as well as the Columbus Railway Power and Light Co and Illinois' East St. Louis and Suburban Railway.
Victorian Railways career
Premier Harry Lawson appointed Clapp as Chairman of the Commissioners of Victorian Railways in September 1920 on the recommendation of former Chairman Sir Thomas James Tait, who had known Clapp prior to his move to the United States. With an annual salary of £5,000, Clapp was Australia's highest-paid public servant at the time.
Clapp arrived in September 1920, and began an extraordinary period of reform of Victorian Railways. During his tenure, timetables were improved, larger and more powerful locomotives were built, services were improved, and the VR expanded operations into everything from motor coach services, a ski chalet, and creches to bakeries and raisin bread marketing.
Management style
Clapp enjoyed cordial relations with his staff, union officials, and was fortunate to have the support of highly capable Railways Ministers from both sides of politics, including future Premier of Victoria John Cain and future Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies.
Harold Clapp famo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20and%20Teaching%20Support%20Network | The Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) was an initiative of the United Kingdom higher education bodies to promote high quality learning and teaching in all subject disciplines in higher education. It was intended to support the sharing of innovation and good practices in learning and teaching including the use, where appropriate, of communications and information technology.
Information
LTSN operated through a set of 24 centres, specific to different subjects such as Engineering or English, so that good practice appropriate to that subject could be gathered and disseminated, and building up a network of practitioners.
In May 2004 the LTSN merged with the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILTHE) and the TQEF National Co-ordination Team (NCT) to form the Higher Education Academy. The Subject Centres continued, but were closed in 2011.
List of Subject Centres
The LTSN comprised a set of 24 subject centres, listed below.
Art, Design and Communication
Bioscience
Built Environment
Business Management and Accountancy
Economics
Education (ESCALATE)
Engineering
English
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Health Sciences and Practice
History, Classics and Archaeology
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism
Information and Computer Sciences
Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
Law (UK Centre for Legal Education)
Materials (UK Centre for Materials Education)
Maths, Stats & OR Network
Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine
Performing Arts (PALATINE)
Philosophical and Religious Studies
Physical Sciences
Psychology
Sociology, Anthropology and Politics
Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP)
References
External links
Online Class Assistance
Study In United Kingdom
Educational institutions established in 2000
2000 establishments in the United Kingdom
Higher education organisations based in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSI%20Wind | MSI Wind may refer to:
MSI Wind Netbook, a laptop computer
MSI Wind PC, a desktop computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolfluid | COOLFluiD is a component based scientific computing environment that handles high-performance computing problems with focus on complex computational fluid dynamics (CFD) involving multiphysics phenomena.
It features a Collaborative Simulation Environment where multiple physical models and multiple discretization methods are implemented as components within the environment. These components form a component-based architecture where they serve as building blocks of customized applications.
Capabilities
Kernel
Component based architecture
Dynamic loading of external plugins
Interpolation and integration on arbitrary elements
Transparent MPI parallelization
Parallel writing and reading from solution files
Support for XML case files
Unstructured 2D/3D hybrid meshes in many formats
Numerical Methods
Cell Center finite volume solver
Residual distribution solver
High order finite element solver
Spectral Finite Volume solver
Spectral Finite Difference solver
Discontinuous Galerkin method solver
Residual Distribution solver (dedicated to incompressible flow)
Physical Models
Compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations
Perfect and Real Gas (from low Mach to hypersonic)
Chemical reacting mixtures
Thermal and Chemical non-equilibrium flows
Incompressible Navier-Stokes
Linearized Euler (for Aeroacoustics)
Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics
Structural Elasticity
Multi-ion Electrochemistry
Heat transfer
Multiple Scalar Advection models
External links
New COOLFluiD website on GitHub
VKI is the research institute responsible for the majority of the developments.
Computational fluid dynamics
Fluid dynamics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindstorms%20%28book%29 | Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas is a book by computer scientist Seymour Papert, in which he argues for the benefits of teaching computer literacy in primary and secondary education. It was published by Basic Books in 1980, and republished in a new edition by Basic Books in 1993.
The Lego Mindstorms programmable construction set system is named after the book.
In 2017, thanks to Papert's family the book was made freely available online here.
Papert describes the Turtle as an "object-to-think-with" and discusses many code examples of Turtle Graphics.
References
Books about education
1980 non-fiction books
Basic Books books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAF-TE | In computer storage, SAF-TE (abbreviated from SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosure) is an industry standard to interface an enclosure in-band to a (parallel) SCSI subsystem in order to gain access to information or control for various elements and parameters. These include temperature, fan status, slot status (populated/empty), door status, power supplies, alarms, and indicators (e.g. LEDs, LCDs). Practically, any given SAF-TE device will only support a subset of all possible sensors or controls.
Scope
Many RAID controllers can utilize a SAF-TE "activated" backplane by detecting a swapped drive (after a defect) and automatically starting a rebuild. A passive subsystem usually requires a manual rescan and rebuild.
A SAF-TE device (SEP) is represented as a SCSI processor device that is polled every few seconds by e.g. the RAID controller software. Due to the low overhead required, impact on bus performance is negligible. For SAS or Fibre Channel systems, SAF-TE is replaced by the more standardized SCSI Enclosure Services (SES).
The most widely used version was defined in the SAF-TE Interface Specification Intermediate Review R041497, released on April 14, 1997 by nStor (now part of Seagate Technology) and Intel.
Command interface
Status requests are performed as READ BUFFER SCSI commands, enclosure action requests as WRITE BUFFER commands.
See also
International Blinking Pattern Interpretation (IBPI)
Out-of-band signaling
SGPIO (Serial General Purpose Input/Output)
SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)
hw.sensors
References
External links
SAF-TE as part of Intel's IPMI
SAF-TE Intermediate Review R041497
Computer data storage
Computer hardware standards
SCSI
System administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20of%20the%20Living%20Doo | Night of the Living Doo is an American animated television special that aired on Cartoon Network on October 31, 2001. The cartoon is a comedic parody of a typical episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, complete with unlikely guests and a retro style. Its title is a riff on the Night of the Living Dead franchise. The animation was produced by Cartoon Network and broadcast in small segments during commercial breaks of a Halloween Scooby-Doo marathon. At the end of the marathon, the complete special was broadcast in its entirety and was available on the Adult Swim website for a brief period. It has not been released on home video.
The special features a new opening title sequence combining the opening for The New Scooby-Doo Movies with clips of the special, set to the cover of the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! theme song as performed by Matthew Sweet for Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits. It was nominated for an Annie Award.
In this special the characters are animated in a classic retro style in an effort to parody real episodes. The show is meant to have the 60s feel with modern humor and celebrities. Most of the scenes have the gang's animation directly rotoscoped from certain classic episodes, in some cases even completely re-dubbed footage.
Plot
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang pick up a hitchhiking Gary Coleman, and the Mystery Machine soon proceeds to break down multiple times, finally leaving them stranded at a haunted castle owned by David Cross. The gang then spends the night at the haunted castle while their van is being fixed, mirroring many original episodes specifically including season two episode five of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, "Haunted House Hang-Up", where the van breaks down outside of a haunted mansion. The show contained multiple references and gags that take jabs at the original show, musical numbers by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, as well as an appearance from Mark Hamill. Finally, the show concluded with a nonsensical ending, with Coleman pointing out all of the plot holes in the story. Scooby interrupts him by licking his face until the episode ends.
Cast
Frank Welker as Fred Jones and Jabberjaw/Zombie
B.J. Ward as Velma Dinkley
Grey DeLisle as Daphne Blake
Billy West as Shaggy Rogers
Scott Innes as Scooby-Doo
Mark Hamill as Himself/Mr. Shifty/Zombie
Gary Coleman as Himself
David Cross as Himself
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy as Themselves
Cultural References
The title, as mentioned, is a play on the Night of the Living Dead franchise.
While Gary Coleman changes the Mystery Machine tire that went flat at the beginning of the show, Scooby starts singing the theme song from Diff'rent Strokes, the sitcom Gary was best known for. Scooby and Shaggy also use his catchphrase from the show, "whatchu talkin' 'bout [Willis]".
Jabber breaks the fourth wall when he is revealed to be the monster, referencing the fact that the "mystery-solving teens" premise of his show is exactly like Scooby-Doo.
Shaggy mentions "the force," whi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological%20parsing | Morphological parsing, in natural language processing, is the process of determining the morphemes from which a given word is constructed. It must be able to distinguish between orthographic rules and morphological rules. For example, the word 'foxes' can be decomposed into 'fox' (the stem), and 'es' (a suffix indicating plurality).
The generally accepted approach to morphological parsing is through the use of a finite state transducer (FST), which inputs words and outputs their stem and modifiers. The FST is initially created through algorithmic parsing of some word source, such as a dictionary, complete with modifier markups.
Another approach is through the use of an indexed lookup method, which uses a constructed radix tree. This is not an often-taken route because it breaks down for morphologically complex languages.
With the advancement of neural networks in natural language processing, it became less common to use FST for morphological analysis, especially for languages for which there is a lot of available training data. For such languages, it is possible to build character-level language models without explicit use of a morphological parser.
Orthographic
Orthographic rules are general rules used when breaking a word into its stem and modifiers. An example would be: singular English words ending with -y, when pluralized, end with -ies. Contrast this to morphological rules which contain corner cases to these general rules. Both of these types of rules are used to construct systems that can do morphological parsing.
Morphological
Morphological rules are exceptions to the orthographic rules used when breaking a word into its stem and modifiers. An example would be while one normally pluralizes a word in English by adding 's' as a suffix, the word 'fish' does not change when pluralized. Contrast this to orthographic rules which contain general rules. Both of these types of rules are used to construct systems that can do morphological parsing.
Various models of natural morphological processing have been proposed. Some experimental studies suggest that monolingual speakers process words as wholes upon listening to them, while their late bilinguals peers break words down into their corresponding morphemes, because their lexical representations are not as specific, and because lexical processing in the second language may be less frequent than processing the mother tongue.
Applications of morphological processing include machine translation, spell checker, and information retrieval.
References
Grammar
parsing
Natural language parsing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUR-PLE | RUR - Python Learning Environment (RUR-PLE) is an educational tool to help students learn the Python programming language. Made by André Roberge. RUR-PLE uses the idea behind Karel the Robot, making the learning of Python programming more interesting. A student writes a program that controls a 'robot' that moves through a city consisting of a rectangular grid of streets (left-right) and avenues (up-down).
It is very similar to Guido van Robot (GvR), but RUR-PLE can use all Python features (while GvR only limited subset of syntax).
RUR-PLE has 48 lessons (in main European languages and Chinese) with the code and robot environment examples to experiment with.
A second implementation of RUR-PLE, Rurple NG is in progress.
References
External links
RUR-PLE homepage
RUR-PLE on sourceforge (no longer maintained)
Educational programming languages
Python (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20H.%20Haddad | Abraham H. Haddad is an Israeli control theorist and the Henry and Isabelle Dever Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States. Haddad is known for his contributions to the theory of hybrid systems.
Biography
Abraham Haddad received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1960 and 1963, respectively. He received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in electrical engineering in 1964 and 1966, both from Princeton University.
Shortly after receiving his Ph.D., Haddad joined the faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he eventually held the title of professor of electrical engineering and research professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. He was a visiting associate professor at Tel-Aviv University from 1972 to 1973. He joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1983, and moved to Northwestern University in 1988.
At Northwestern, Haddad served as chairman of the department from 1988 to 1998, and as of September 1, 1998, he is also serving as director of the Master of Science in Information Technology Program. He was the interim chairman of the ECE Department during 2001–02.
From 1968 to 1979 Haddad was an advisor to the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command In 1979, he became a senior staff consultant with the Dynamics Research Corporation and served as the program director for Systems Theory and Operations Research at the National Science Foundation from 1979 to 1983.
Haddad is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Member Award from IEEE Control Systems Society, the IEEE Centennial Medal (1984), and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.
References
External links
Home page
Living people
Control theorists
IEEE Centennial Medal laureates
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Rural%20Research%20Network | National Rural Research Network (NRRN) (Francais: Réseau National de Researche Rurale) is an organization representing post-secondary students, academics, government representatives, and community development practitioners interested in rural development issues, opportunities, and challenges in Canada. NRRN was established in 2005 through funding of the Rural Secretariat and facilitated by the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation. The purpose of NRRN is to facilitate the research and information needs of people involved in rural community development. In particular, NRRN is involved with policy and program practitioners across all levels of government; community leaders in economic and social development; producers and producer associations; rural researchers; and those who commission or who seek funding for rural research.
Events
To facilitate opportunities for community leaders, students, academics, and government to discuss rural issues and opportunities, NRRN has hosted a number of forums and conferences.
2005
Rural Immigration Think Tank (Brandon, Manitoba)
CRRF-NRRN Annual Policy Conference (Gatineau, Quebec and Lankark County, Ontario)
2006
CRRF-NRRN Annual Policy Conference (Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador)
2007
CRRF-NRRN Annual Policy Conference (Vermilion, Alberta)
2008
Northern Dialogue Session (Whitehorse, Yukon)
CRRF-NRRN Annual Policy Conference (Inuvik, Northwest Territories)
Governance
NRRN is governed
Shirley Dawe (Western Economic Diversification Canada), Bill Reimer (Concordia University), David Douglas (University of Guelph), Robert Annis (Rural Development Institute, Brandon University), Ray Bollman (Statistics Canada), Mike Stolte (The CIEL), Kate Humpage (Rural Secretariat), Rob Greenwood (Harris Centre, Memorial University).
References
External links
National Rural Research Network
Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation
Research institutes in Canada
Rural research centres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanal%205%20%28North%20Macedonia%29 | Kanal 5 () is a national, privately owned, television channel in the Republic of North Macedonia. It was founded in its current form in 1998. The network's main office is in Skopje, and also has smaller studios in other bigger cities all around North Macedonia.
The network began broadcasting to the coverage area of Skopje with fifty employees before expanding reach to the rest of the country. Kanal 5 has publicly had a strong aim of being a part of every household. Kanal 5 TV (Channel 5 TV) currently has an audience reach of 96% of the Macedonian population. However, its new "sister" channel Kanal 5 plus currently has an audience reach of 76% of the Macedonian population.
From August 2009 until June 2012, Kanal 5 TV was the exclusive Macedonian broadcaster of all football matches from the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Super Cup.
In May 2010, Kanal 5 started its own HD programme, called "Kanal 5 HD", on the national IPTV operator, T-Home's Max TV.
Канал 5 Вести (Kanal 5 News) is the stations news division. The networks flagship evening and latenight news bulletins are presented by Tatjana Stojanovska Kitanovska, Ljubica Janevska Ivanovska or Borislav Tnokovski. Morning shows are presented by Robert Jankov, Milena Antovska Stankovska, Jelena Spendzarska, Vera Mesterovic, Aleksandra Panovska Ilievska and Bisera Lovačeva. The networks Chief News Editor is Lidija Bogatinova.
External links
Kanal 5 at LyngSat Address
Television channels in North Macedonia
Television channels and stations established in 1998
1998 establishments in the Republic of Macedonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%20International%20University | Washington International University is an online unaccredited institution of higher education founded in 1994 and currently incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. It describes itself as a "cyberspace university" and a "university without borders", serving clients from around the world online. The university website states that WIU's graduates have come from 112 countries.
The name "Washington International University" is used in promotional materials for other unaccredited distance learning institutions. There are no known accredited institutions by this name.
Academic programs
The school offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in business, liberal arts and engineering.
The school offers "traditional" and "accelerated" degree programs. The traditional programs require students to complete just ten courses for a bachelor's degree and eight for a master's, along with a senior research project. The accelerated degree program allows completion of any degree within one year. For the accelerated program, according to the university's website, "There are no textbooks to read, curriculum to follow or formal exams to take." For either a bachelor's or a master's degree, a student must submit three book reports on books selected by the student's advisor and a research paper on a topic related to the student's field of study. For the doctorate, students must complete a thesis under the guidance of an instructor. The university's advanced degree programs take into account academic credit for work experience, which is similar to that given by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. This would allow a student to earn his or her degree in a shorter time frame.
The university points out on its Web site that its course materials "use simple language so that an average person can understand what is written." The site also claims a "cooperation" with Encyclopædia Britannica, to provide students with a reference library.
The school's website lists seven faculty members, including two with doctorates, one with Ed.D, three with master's degrees and one with a J.D. degree. According to a newspaper report in 2002, Karademir called the faculty "advisers", not "professors".
Accreditation status and recognition of degrees
The university has not sought educational accreditation and does not have a campus. As recently as October 2012, the Oregon Office of Degree Authorization stated on its website that WIU is located in the British Virgin Islands and that its degrees are not recognized.
Lack of accreditation has consequences for WIU degree holders in some circumstances. For instance, the Michigan Civil Service Commission lists WIU among unaccredited institutions "from which degrees will not be accepted [...] to satisfy educational requirements indicated on job specifications."
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) lists degrees awarded from WIU as "substandard," meaning according to the THECB in this case, "a degree... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterAcademy%20Partnership | The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) is a global network consisting of over 140 national and regional member academies of science, engineering, and medicine. It was founded in 1993 as the InterAcademy Panel (IAP). In 2000, the IAP founded the InterAcademy Council (IAC) and the InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP). The partnership was established in 2016 when it merged the three inter-related networks into IAP for Health (formerly IAMP), IAP for Science (formerly IAP), and IAP for Policy (formerly IAC).
The mission of IAP is for the world's merit-based academies to play a vital role in ensuring that science serves society inclusively and equitably and underpins global sustainable development by advising the public on the scientific aspects of critical global issues. It has released official statements on socially important topics, including the 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, food and nutrition security, science education, biosecurity, water, science communication, women in science, human population growth, global warming, human reproductive cloning, and evolution. IAP has also advanced science diplomacy by bringing regional networks together to address global problems.
Governance
The highest decisive body of IAP is the General Assembly, which meets every third year, and where each member organization has one vote on organizational decisions. At these meetings, member academies elect new leadership, approve new members, report on organizational activities over the last triennial period, and approve a strategic plan for the next three years.
In between the meetings, the work is directed by three executive committees, one for each pillar of the Partnership (or in the case of IAP Policy, a board), supported by a secretariat from a host academy. Each executive committee/board convenes annually, with two co-chairs presiding. One of the co-chairs shall be nominated by an academy in a low or middle income country (LMIC); the other shall be nominated by a high income country (HIC). Similar rules of diversity in economic development hold for the executive committee member academies in order to represent a global view. The number of member academies composing the executive committee varies: 17 member academies in IAP Policy Advice Committee, 14 member academies in IAP Capacity Building Committee, and 15 member academies in IAP Communication, Education and Outreach Committee.
A Board composed of the six executive committee/board co-chairs guides the InterAcademy Partnership. From these six Board members, two are selected to act as co-Presidents. The current co-Presidents are Margareth (Peggy) A. Hamburg (USA) and Masresha Fetene (Ethiopia). The Board includes representatives from each of four regional networks of academies: in Africa, the Americas, the Asia/Pacific region, and Europe.
Current and former co-chairs
Cherry A. Murray, US. IAP-Science, 2019–present
Masresha Fetene, Ethiopia. IAP-Policy, 2019–present
Margaret Hamburg, US. IAP- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20word | In computer science and the study of combinatorics on words, a partial word is a string that may contain a number of "do not know" or "do not care" symbols i.e. placeholders in the string where the symbol value is not known or not specified. More formally, a partial word is a partial function where is some finite alphabet. If u(k) is not defined for some then the unknown element at place k in the string is called a "hole". In regular expressions (following the POSIX standard) a hole is represented by the metacharacter ".". For example, aab.ab.b is a partial word of length 8 over the alphabet A ={a,b} in which the fourth and seventh characters are holes.
Algorithms
Several algorithms have been developed for the problem of "string matching with don't cares", in which the input is a long text and a shorter partial word and the goal is to find all strings in the text that match the given partial word.
Applications
Two partial words are said to be compatible when they have the same length and when every position that is a non-wildcard in both of them has the same character in both. If one forms an undirected graph with a vertex for each partial word in a collection of partial words, and an edge for each compatible pair, then the cliques of this graph come from sets of partial words that all match at least one common string. This graph-theoretical interpretation of compatibility of partial words plays a key role in the proof of hardness of approximation of the clique problem, in which a collection of partial words representing successful runs of a probabilistically checkable proof verifier has a large clique if and only if there exists a valid proof of an underlying NP-complete problem.
The faces (subcubes) of an -dimensional hypercube can be described by partial words of length over a binary alphabet, whose
symbols are the Cartesian coordinates of the hypercube vertices (e.g., 0 or 1 for a unit cube). The dimension of a subcube, in this representation, equals the number of don't-care symbols it contains. The same representation may also be used to describe the implicants of Boolean functions.
Related concepts
Partial words may be generalized to parameter words, in which some of the "do not know" symbols are marked as being equal to each other. A partial word is a special case of a parameter word in which each do not know symbol may be substituted by a character independently of all of the other ones.
References
Combinatorics on words
String (computer science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRN%20%28disambiguation%29 | NRN is a television station in Coffs Harbour, Australia.
NRN may also refer to:
National Radio Network (disambiguation)
Nation's Restaurant News, an American trade publication for the foodservice industry
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, a review journal covering neuroscience
"No reply necessary", in Internet slang; see End of message
Non Resident Nepali
Weeze Airport (IATA: NRN), an airport in Weeze, Germany
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Nexus%20switches | The Cisco Nexus series switches are modular and fixed port network switches designed for the data center. Cisco Systems introduced the Nexus Series of switches on January 28, 2008. The first chassis in the Nexus 7000 family is a 10-slot chassis with two supervisor engine slots and eight I/O module slots at the front, as well as five crossbar switch fabric modules at the rear. Beside the Nexus 7000 there are also other models in the Nexus range.
All switches in the Nexus range run the modular NX-OS firmware/operating system on the fabric. NX-OS has some high-availability features compared to the well-known Cisco IOS. This platform is optimized for high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
The Nexus switching range
Cisco Nexus OS Software Defined Networking (SDN) allows the same policies that govern Identity and Access Management (IAM) to dictate levels of access to applications and data through a totally converged infrastructure not possible with legacy network and system access methods.
The Nexus 9000 is the high-end model in the Nexus range of datacenter switches. Other models are:
Nexus 1000v virtual switch
Nexus 2000 fabric extender
Nexus 3000 series
Nexus 4001 IBM Blade Center switch
Nexus 5000 series
Nexus 6000 series
Nexus 7000 series modular datacenter switches
Nexus 9000 series
Nexus 1000v
The 1000v is a virtual switch for use in virtual environments including both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V It is as such not a physical box but a software application that interacts with the hypervisor so you can virtualize the networking environment and be able to configure your system as if all virtual servers have connections to a physical switch and include the capabilities that a switch offers such as multiple VLANs per virtual interface, layer-3 options, security features etc. Per infrastructure/cluster you have one VM running the Nexus 1000v as virtual appliance, this is the VSM or Virtual Supervisor Module and then on each node you would have a 'client' or Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM) a vSwitch which replaces the standard vSwitch.
The VEM uses the vDS API, which was developed by VMware and Cisco together VMware announced in May 2017, vDS API support will be removed from vSphere 6.5 Update 2 and later. Therefore Nexus 1000v can no longer be used. VMware KB https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2149722 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/31/vmware_to_end_support_for_thirdparty_virtual_switches/
Besides offering the NX-OS interface to configure, manage and monitor the virtual switch it also supports LACP link aggregation where the standard virtual switches only support static LAGs
The configuration of VEMs is done via the VSM NX-OS Command-line interface.
Nexus 1010 / 1010x / 1100x
The Virtual Supervisor Module or VSM would normally run as a virtual appliance in an ESX/ESXi cluster but it is possible to run the VSM on dedicated hardware: the Nexus 1010, 1010x and 1100. For organisations where there is a very strict boundary between ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Opinion%20Poll%20Center | The Public Opinion Poll Center (POPC) is one of Egypt's most outstanding polling centers and is the first center in Egypt as well as the Arab world to use telephones as a data collection tool. Affiliated to the Cabinet's Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC), the POPC was established in 2003, as the first poll center in Egypt responsible for studying trends of Egyptian public opinion towards different internal social, political and economic affairs. Such trends are forwarded to decision makers to use them in the preparation of different plans and policies. The POPC also measures public opinion preferences in order to understand priority issues and put them on the priority list of decision makers.
The POPC aims to provide accurate and fast measurement of Egyptian public opinion trends in a way that helps decision makers take accurate decisions. The POPC tries to reinforce the role of polls in supporting decision makers and achieving comprehensive development, strengthening the bond between the government and the people and building a social culture that accepts the idea of public opinion polling and encouraging positive participation.
The POPC depend on telephones in their data collection process. A data base compromising ten millions publicly listed landline telephone numbers is used. Telephones have been proven to be less costly and time and effort saving. A uni-stage stratified sample is designed for Egyptian households in different governorates after being divided into three areas: urban governorates, Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. Relative weights are then given to each area according to their actual representation in society. Sample size used by the POPC ranges from 1 to 2 thousand, depending on the nature of the poll. A factor analysis method is used to calculate the economic class of households, depending on the ownership of certain possessions, and dividing them into three economic classes: low, middle and high.
An Electronic Poll Management System has been used by the POPC since 2006. This system is considered as one of the pioneer systems in the field of public opinion poll management in the Middle East due to its high capabilities in completely automating the work flow. The EMS is the first Arab professional effort done to provide an integrated surveying solution based on the use of the latest technologies and supported by theoretical and scientific standards and specifications.
Polls conducted by the POPC cover a wide range of topics, particularly pertaining to economic, social and political matters. Polls conducted include subsidies, healthcare, investment, education, unemployment, the job market, political participation, political amendments, women's participation in political life, role of women in society, and many others.
The Public Opinion Poll Center has many national, regional and international partners. On the international level, POPC has previously conducted polls in cooperation with the UNDP, WTO, Globescan, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXDJ | DXDJ (100.3 FM) is a relay station of RJFM Manila, owned and operated by Rajah Broadcasting Network through its licensee Free Air Broadcasting Network, Inc. The station's transmitter is located at Broadcast Ave., Shrine Hills, Matina, Davao City.
History
The station was established by Rajah Broadcasting Network in 1987 as RJFM. At that time, it aired an album rock format. In 1996, it changed its name to Boss Radio. In the middle of 2003, UMBN took over the station's operations and rebranded the station as 100.3 Oldies Radio with an oldies format, ranging from the 50s, 60s & some 70s. In 2008, it rebranded as Hit Radio and adjusted its music timeline, removing the 50s and adding more 70s & 80s to its playlist. In February 2009, as UMBN's blocktime agreement with the station expired, it became a simulcast of RJFM. Meanwhile, UMBN transferred its operations to ACWS-UBN's DXKR-FM, which became 95.5 Hit Radio.
References
External links
RJFM FB Page
Radio stations in Davao City
Radio stations established in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuLinux | muLinux is an Italian, English-language lightweight Linux distribution maintained by mathematics and physics professor Michele Andreoli, meant to allow very old and obsolete computers (80386, 80486 and Pentium Pro hardware dating from 1986 through 1998) to be used as basic intranet/Internet servers or text-based workstations with a UNIX-like operating system. It was also designed for quickly turning any 80386 or later computer into a temporary, powerful Linux machine, along with system repair, education, forensic analysis and what the developer called proselytizing. In 2004 reviewer Paul Zimmer wrote, "Although there are several other single-floppy Linux distributions, none can match muLinux's extensive and unique combination of useful features." The last version update was in 2004, when further development of this "linux-on-a-floppy" distribution ended.
Name
The name muLinux comes from the Greek letter mu which is the SI symbol meaning one millionth, harking to the very small size of this OS.
Minimalist design
muLinux was based on the Linux 2.0.36 kernel. Development was frozen in 2004 at version 14r0, with some of the code and packages taken from software releases going back to 1998 (owing only to their smaller sizes). An experimental, unstable version called Lepton had the 2.4 kernel.
muLinux could be both booted or installed to a hard drive on an obsolete machine from floppy disks. A highly functional UNIX-like, network-enabled server with a Unix shell could be had from but one floppy disk. Another floppy disk added workstation functionality and a legacy X Window VGA GUI came with a third floppy. One reviewer noted, "It's not gorgeous, but the whole X subsystem fits onto a single floppy. Egad." muLinux could also be unpacked and installed by a self-executable archive, or extracted directly, onto an old DOS or Windows 9x (umsdos) partition without harming the current OS. If the machine had a floppy disk drive muLinux also would run on an otherwise diskless computer and no CD-ROM drive was needed.
Owing to its minimalist design muLinux was a single-user OS, with all operations performed by the root user. It used the ext2 Linux native file system (rather than the slower Minix file system seen in other single-floppy takes on Linux). The OS was robust when used for text-based tasks along with basic file, light web page or email serving. It could also be adapted as a very tiny, stand-alone embedded system.
muLinux was sometimes installed by Windows users who wanted to learn about the commands and configuration of a Unix-like operating system before taking the step of installing a full Linux distribution or BSD release, although on later computers this could easily be done with any one of many live CD distributions. Since the distribution was always wholly targeted at old hardware and meant to have a tiny footprint, Andreoli warned at the time that muLinux should not be used to evaluate Linux or open source software. The OS came with a lean an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad%20UltraBay | UltraBay is originally IBM's name for the swappable drive bay in the ThinkPad range of laptop computers. When the ThinkPad product line was sold to Lenovo, the concept and the name stayed. Furthermore, it is used in some of Lenovo's own IdeaPad Y Series laptops.
Introduced with the ThinkPad 750 series in 1995, this technology has gone through redesigns with almost every new generation of ThinkPad, which may lead to confusion. The following table gives an overview of the different UltraBay types, in which models they occurred and which drives are available for them. Note that the optical drive bay in G series and R40e series ThinkPads is not an UltraBay in that the drives are fixed and not removable. It is however, mechanically, an UltraBay 2000-device without the surrounding "caddy".
On the media side different UltraBays relate to the form factor of the drives they accept; Some machines can accept UltraBay devices up to 12.5 mm thick, whereas others are limited to devices no more than 9.5 mm thick.
The IdeaPad Y400 and Y500 laptops have an UltraBay slot which can be swapped for another hard drive, another fan or another Nvidia GT650M (or GT750M) GPU which will work in SLI with the system's primary video card for increased graphics performance. Existing orders for the UltraBay Y500 DVD Burner (no built in optical drive) were cancelled in early June, 2013.
Starting in 2014, Lenovo changed the design of the ThinkPad bay adapter and dropped the "UltraBay" terminology from use. What remained (in the ThinkPad W540 product) was an option for a removable Serial ATA (SATA) "Caddy" accessory which, with a screw driver, allowed the optical drive to be replaced with a second 2.5 inch SATA storage device. Battery expansion in the Caddy Bay was no longer offered, and earlier hot-swap functionality was essentially rendered difficult if not impossible.
Nomenclature
See also
Disk enclosure
Caddy (hardware)
References
Computer peripherals
UltraBay
IBM laptops
ThinkPad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Idol%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of Australian Idol premiered on Sunday, 24 August 2008, on Network Ten. The season finale aired live on Sunday, 23 November 2008. The winner was Wes Carr with Luke Dickens as runner-up.
Changes to Format
Kyle Sandilands, Ian Dickson, and Marcia Hines returned as judges, however long term judge Mark Holden left to pursue other interests. Andrew G was temporarily absent while he prepared for his wedding and Ricki-Lee Coulter is acting as a new back-stage host. The London auditions featured guest judges Tina Arena and Darren Hayes.
Also for the second time on an Idol contest, the format for eliminations in the Top 12 round will be different. In the new result nights, the bottom 3 of the week will be announced first and the voting line will be opened again for viewers to vote for their favourite in the bottom 3. Music Idol, the Bulgarian version of Idol, were the first to use this new format in their second season. New Zealand Idol season 3 used a similar format for the second week of the finals, but dropped it afterwards.
Process
Regional auditions phase
Locations
The Auditions were held in the following cities:
^ These auditions were not filmed, with successful contestants going to capital city of the respective state for their second tier audition.
Auditioning contestants are required to be between the ages 16 and 30 on 1 July 2008 (born between 2 July 1978 and 2 July 1992).
Registrations were also conducted online, although not mandatory, allowed users to enter a draw of $2,000.
Semi-finals
From 1 to 4 September the Semi-final rounds aired on television, allowing viewers to vote. The Wildcard Performance Show was held on Sunday, 7 September, with results on 8 September.
List of the semi-finalists below.
* Grafanakis later auditioned for the second series of The X Factor (Australia), where she finished in 9th place.
Weekly Song Themes
Top 12 Finalists
Wesley Carr
Wes Carr is a 26-year-old from Bondi, New South Wales. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Wes Carr moved to Bondi as a 15-year-old. Before he auditioned for Australian Idol, Wes Carr performed and had regular resident gigs around Sydney.
On 23 November 2008, Wes Carr was announced the winner of Australian Idol 2008.
"Times Like These" by Foo Fighters – (Top 24)
"Beautiful Day" by U2 – (Top 12)
"Dancing in the Dark" by Bruce Springsteen – (Top 11)
"Friday on My Mind" by The Easybeats – (Top 10)
"Fernando" by ABBA – (Top 9)
"Desire" by U2 – (Top 8)
"If I Were A Carpenter" by The Four Tops – (Top 7)
"Jumpin' Jack Flash" by The Rolling Stones – (Top 6)
"Black or White" by Michael Jackson TOUCHDOWN! (from Marcia Hines and Jermaine Jackson) – (Top 5)
"When You Were Young" by The Killers – (Top 4)
"What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong – (Top 4) Bottom 2
"Easy" by Faith No More – (Top 3)
"Get Back" by The Beatles TOUCHDOWN! (from Dicko) and TV Throw (from Kyle Sandilands) – (Top 3)
"White Noise" by The Living End – (Top 2)
"You" by Wes Carr – (Top 2)
Luke D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory%203D%20modelling | Participatory 3D modelling (P3DM) is a community-based mapping method which integrates local spatial knowledge with data on elevation of the land and depth of the sea to produce stand-alone, scaled and geo-referenced relief models. Essentially based on local spatial knowledge, land use and cover, and other features are depicted by informants on the model by the use of pushpins (points), yarns (lines) and paints (polygons). On completion, a scaled and geo-referenced grid is applied to facilitate data extraction or importation. Data depicted on the model are extracted, digitised and plotted. On completion of the exercise the model remains with the community.
Awards
On November 5, 2007 at a ceremony which took place during the Global Forum 2007 at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy, the CTA-supported project Participatory 3D Modelling (P3DM) for Resource Use, Development Planning and Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in Fiji was granted the World Summit Award 2007 in the category e-culture. The product, based on the use of P3DM, has been considered as one of the 40 best practice examples of quality e-Content in the world
. The product has been delivered by the following organizations: Fiji Locally-Managed Marine Area (FLMMA) Network, WWF South Pacific Programme, Native Lands Trust Board, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, National Trust of Fiji, Lomaiviti Provincial Council and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA).
See also
Geographic information system (GIS)
Neogeography
Participatory GIS (PGIS) or public participation geographic information system (PPGIS)
Raised-relief map
Traditional knowledge GIS
References
Further reading
Rambaldi G., Muchemi J., Crawhall N. and Monaci L. 2007. Through the Eyes of Hunter-gatherers: Participatory 3D Modelling among Ogiek Indigenous Peoples in Kenya. Information Development, Vol. 23, No. 2-3, 113–128
Rambaldi G., Kwaku Kyem A. P.; Mbile P.; McCall M. and Weiner D. 2006. Participatory Spatial Information Management and Communication in Developing Countries. EJISDC 25, 1, 1–9 .
Chambers R. 2006. Participatory Mapping and Geographic Information Systems: Whose Map? Who is Empowered and Who Disempowered? Who Gains and Who Loses? EJISDC 25, 2, 1–11
Rambaldi G, Chambers R., McCall M, And Fox J. 2006. Practical ethics for PGIS practitioners, facilitators, technology intermediaries and researchers. PLA 54:106–113, IIED, London, UK
Corbett J, Rambaldi G., Kyem P., Weiner D., Olson R., Muchemi J., McCall M And Chambers R. 2006. Mapping for Change: The emergence of a new practice. PLA 54:13–19 IIED, London, UK
Rambaldi G., Bugna S., Tiangco A. and de Vera D. 2002 Bringing the Vertical Dimension to the Negotiating Table. Preliminary Assessment of a Conflict Resolution Case in the Philippines. ASEAN Biodiversity, Vol. 2 No. 1, 17–26. ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Conservation (ARCBC), Los Baños, Philippines.
Puginier O. 2002. “Participation” in a conflicting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chic-a-Go-Go | Chic-a-Go-Go is a public-access television cable television children's dance show that airs on Chicago Access Network Television (CAN-TV). The show bills itself as "Chicago's Dance Show for Kids of All Ages".
Show description
The show invites members of the public to participate in tapings at CAN-TV studios. A typical episode features dancing to prerecorded music, as well as musical guests lip syncing to their own songs. Each show is hosted by Jake Austen, who portrays Ratso, a teenage puppet rat, and Mia Park as human sidekick Miss Mia.
Among the show's regular features are the "El Train Line" (based on [[Soul Train|Soul Train'''s]] "Soul Train Line"), the "Fantasy Dance" (which features dancers in front of a green screen), and videotaped interviews with guests.
History and influences
Austen got the idea for the show when he published a story in his magazine Roctober about Kiddie-a-Go-Go, an all-kids dance show produced in Chicago between 1963 and 1970. Austen and Stewart met the show's creators, Jack and Elaine Mulqueen, and were inspired to complete a certification course that would allow them to use the facilities of Chicago Access Corporation. They shot the first episodes of the show in March 1996.
In addition to Kiddie-a-Go-Go, the show is influenced by well-known dance shows such as Soul Train, American Bandstand, and Solid Gold.
In the 2004 movie The Big Bounce, Morgan Freeman's character is seen watching the show.
See alsoSoul TrainAmerican BandstandSolid GoldPancake MountainYo Gabba Gabba!''
References
External links
Chic-a-Go-Go site
Chic-a-Go-Go YouTube channel
Dance television shows
Local music television shows in the United States
American public access television shows
1996 American television series debuts
1990s American children's television series
2000s American children's television series
Chicago television shows
American television shows featuring puppetry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturers%20Alliance%20for%20Productivity%20and%20Innovation | The Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity & Innovation (MAPI) (formerly the Machinery and Allied Products Institute) is a non-profit manufacturing leadership network that offers benchmarking, professional development, and research services. Member companies are executives in medium and large global manufacturers such as Caterpillar, Ingersoll-Rand, and Oshkosh Corporation.
Councils
MAPI's benchmarking and networking services are delivered through executive Councils, which are organized into around 25 different functions, in Finance, Operations, Strategy, Growth, Management, Legal, and Internet social security. Councils exist in several sub specialties, such as Internal Audit, Marketing, HR, Taxes, Product Liability, Environmental Management, etc Councils are membership-based, and offer participants a blend of face-to-face roundtable discussion, member-led best practices case studies, and MAPI facilitated networking and benchmarking outside the meeting room.
Research
MAPI's research program focuses on Economic Analyses and Forecasting, Legal and Regulatory commentary, and Benchmark Surveys. Its executives and their work are regularly featured in outlets such as the Associated Press , Wall Street Journal , and Industry Week.
Recent research has looked at Buy American provisions , infrastructure spending , economic stimulus in China , Offshoring, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Leading media outlets turn to MAPI regularly as an authority in issues impacting the manufacturing sector.
Location
Its 6509192005 are located in San Mateo, california, in the USA.
References
Business organizations based in the United States
Productivity organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%20100 | Uppland Runic Inscription 100 is the Rundata designation for a memorial runestone that is located in the forest where a path meets a bog near Skälby, which is about two kilometers northeast of Sollentuna, Stockholm County, Sweden, which was part of the historical province of Uppland.
Description
This runestone, which is made of granite and is 2.1 meters in height, has an inscription which consists of runic text within serpent bands and a Christian cross. It is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr4, which is part of the general Urnes style of Scandinavian animal art. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns. The animal heads are typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks.
The runestone belongs to a number of runestones that were raised by the influential Skålhamra family, which also had runestones made at Arkils tingstad and who commissioned the Risbyle Runestones.
Inscription
Transliteration of runic text into Latin letters:
× guriþ × lit × raisa × stain × at * ulfkel × sun × sin × auk * kui * (a)... ... broþur * sin × auk × at × hulmtisi * sustur * sina ×
Old Norse transcription:
Gyrið let ræisa stæin at Ulfkel, sun sinn, ok Gyi ... ... broður sinn ok at Holmdisi, systur sina.
English translation:
Gyríðr had the stone raised in memory of Ulfkell, her son, and Gýi (did?) ... ... their brother, and in memory of Holmdís, their sister.
Gallery
References
Uppland Runic Inscription 0100 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E62 | European route E 62 is a road in Europe, part of the United Nations International E-road network. Approximately long, it connects the French Atlantic port city of Nantes to Genoa, largest of Italy's port cities. Between France and Italy it also passes through Switzerland, via Geneva and Lausanne. After crossing into Italy (shortly after the Simplon Pass, the highest point on the European route network inside Europe), the E 62 passes Milan, Italy's largest commercial and industrial centre, before descending to Genoa on the Mediterranean coast.
France
N249 Nantes-Cholet-Parthenay
N149 Parthenay-Poitiers
N147 Poitiers-Bellac
N145 Bellac-Gueret-Montlucon-Moulins
N79 Moulins-Digoin-Macon
A40 Macon-Bourg en Bresse-Nantua-Switzerland
Switzerland
A1 France-Geneva-Lausanne
A9 Lausanne-Vevey-Martigny-Sion-Brig-Simplon Pass-Gondo-Italy
Italy
SS 33 Switzerland-Iselle-Domodossola-A8
A8 SS 33-Gallarate-Milano
A7 Milano-Pavia-Alessandria-Genova
The route
See also
List of highest paved roads in Switzerland
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
62
E062
E062
E062 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%20Network%20for%20Sociology%2C%20Anthropology%2C%20Politics | The Subject Network for Sociology, Anthropology, Politics of the Higher Education Academy of the United Kingdom was established in 2000 to support and enhance learning and teaching in performing arts higher education across the UK. It is based at the University of Birmingham. The director is Professor Alasdair Blair.
External links
Network website
Higher Education Academy
Education in the United Kingdom
Social sciences organizations
University of Birmingham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20ARY%20Digital | This is a list of Original (Local) and International programming broadcast on the television channel ARY Digital, which is broadcast in Pakistan and around the world. The channel also broadcasts religious shows during Islamic events.
Current Programming
Serials
Sitcom
Non-scripted/reality shows
Upcoming programming
Former programing
Anthologies
Gulzar Classics
Kahani Aik Raat Ki
Comedy/Sitcoms
Aadat Se Majboor
Aankhon Aankhon Main
Aik Bechara
Barfi Laddu
Badtameez
Batashay
Bewaqoofiyan
Bhatti Ki Buss Ho Gayee
Billo Bablu & Bhaiyya
Boom Boom
Bulbulay Series
Bulbulay
By Chance
Chocolate
Chup Chupa Kay
Dhoom Dharakka
Dil To Kachha Hai Jee
Dilli Wale Dulare Babu
Do Biviyan Ek Bechara
Dugdugi
Dum Dum Dee Dee
Eid Deed
Eik Or Eik Dhai
Family Band
Good News
Ghar Jamai
Ganday Bachay
Hey Girlz
Happily Married
Happy Ending
Jalaibi
Jeena Toh Yahi Hai
Kamal House
Karachi High
Kya Life Hai Series
Kya Life Hai
Kya Life Hai 2
Khatoon Manzil
Khatti Meethi Aur Namkeen
Main Aur Tum Series
Main Aur Tum
Main Aur Tum 2.0
Main Aur Tum Phir Se
Main Minister Banu Ga
Main Banon Ga Minister
Meri Teri Kahani
Meem Musibat
Mun Meetha Karo
Nok Jhok
Namak Paray
Neeli Chatri
Oops!
Parody punch (4 episodes)
Pasoodi
Pyaar Mein Twist
Such Much
Sabun Style Awards
Shadi Mubarak
Quddusi Sahab Ki Bewah
Redz
Rasgullay
Rubber Band
Timmy G Series
Timmy G
Timmy G Reloaded
Tujh Pe Qurban
Topi Drama
Total Siyapaa
Take Away
Takleef Maaf
Up and Down
Drama series
93 Shumali
Aangan
Aap Ke Liye
Ab Kar Meri Rafugari
Aey Ishq Humain Barbaad Na Kar
Agar Tum Mil Jao
Aik Chin Gari
Aisi Hai Tanhai
Aitraaz
Aks
Alif Laila
Ana
Anabia
Anarkali
Arranged Marriage
Aulaad
Aur Phir
Baandi
Babban Khala Ki Betiyann
Baddua
Badnaam
Badtameez
Balaa
Barsaath Raat Ki
Bay Dardi
Bay Khudi
Bay Qasoor
Berukhi
Besharam
Beti
Bewafa
Bhabhi
Bharday Jholy
Bhool
Bikhray Moti
Chand Chariya
Chand Ki Pariyan
Cheekh
Chup Raho
Daam
Daagh
Daddy
Damsa
Daraar
Darmiyaan
Deewangi
Dhadkan
Dil Lagi
Diya Jalay
Dil Mom Ka Diya
Dil Nahin Manta
Do Bol
Doosri Biwi
Dost
Dunk
Dushman-e-Jaan
Ek Mohabbat Kay Baad
Faisla
Fraud
Ghairat
Ghalati
Ghayal
Ghisi Piti Mohabbat
Goya
Gul-o-Gulzar
Gumm
Guzaarish
Hook
Haal-e-Dil
Habs
Hania
Haiwaan
Hasad
Hook
Ijazat
Iltija
Ishqiya
Ishq Hai
Ishq Parast
Jaal
Jaane Kyun
Jalan
Jhooti
Judaai
Justuju
Kaafir
Kaash Aisa Ho
Kabhi Na Houn Hum Juda
Kabhi Kabhi
Kaisa Hai Naseeban
Kaisa Yeh Junoon
Kaisi Yeh Dooriyan
Kaisi Teri Khudgarzi
Kaneez
Kasak
Khasara
Khata
Khoat
Khuda Mera Bhi Hai
Khuda Na Karay
Khudgarz
Khudparast
Khushi Ek Roag
Koi To Ho
Koi Tou Baarish
Koi Chand Rakh
Koi Nahi Apna
Kuch Ankahi Baatein
Kuch Khwab Thay Meray
Kuch Pyar Ka Pagalpan
Kuch Ankahi
Lamha Lamha Zindagi
Lashkara
Log Kya Kahenge
Maamta
Maang
Maaye Ni
Mein Bushra
Main Chand Si
Main Gunehgar Nahi
Manzil
Maya
Mendhi
Meraas
Mera Dil
Mera Pehla Pyaar
Mera Saaein Series
Mera Saaein
Mera Saaein 2
Mera Yaar Miladay
Mera Yaqeen
Meray Paas Tum Ho
Mere Ajnabi
Mere Apne
Mere Apne
Mere Dard Ki Tujhe Kya Khabar
Mere Jevan Sathi
Mere |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20appreciation | System appreciation is an activity often included in the maintenance phase of software engineering projects. Key deliverables from this phase include documentation that describes what the system does in terms of its functional features, and how it achieves those features in terms of its architecture and design. Software architecture recovery is often the first step within System appreciation.
References
Further reading
Software engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Battlespace%20Infosphere | The Joint Battlespace Infosphere is a project funded by the AFRL (Air Force Research Lab) intended to provide management for network-centric warfare systems that utilize the GIG (Global Information Grid).
References
Grid computing
Military communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KioskNet | KioskNet is a system, developed at the University of Waterloo, to provide very low cost Internet access to rural villages in developing countries, based on the concept of delay-tolerant networking. It uses vehicles, such as buses, to ferry data between village kiosks and Internet gateways in nearby urban centers. The data is re-assembled at a Proxy Server for interaction with legacy servers. The system is free and open source.
A video describing the KioskNet system can be found here, or is available on YouTube here.
See also
Srinivasan Keshav
Delay-tolerant networking
References
Computer-mediated communication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things%20a%20Computer%20Scientist%20Rarely%20Talks%20About | Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (2001) is a book by Donald E. Knuth, published by CSLI Publications of Stanford, California. The book contains the annotated transcripts of six public lectures given by Donald E. Knuth at MIT on the subject of relations between religion and science (particularly computer science). Knuth gives credence to the concept of divinity.
Contents
Anne Foerst wrote a foreword for the book. The six chapters are lightly edited transcriptions of Knuth's lectures:
Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: Randomization and Religion
Lecture 3: Language Translation
Lecture 4: Aesthetics
Lecture 5: Glimpses of God
Lecture 6: God and Computer Science
Knuth added a final section entitled "Panel: Creativity, Spirituality, and Computer Science".
Excerpts from reviews
One mark of a good author is the ability to make a successful book out of an unpromising subject. Over the years, Donald E. Knuth has produced a slew of bestsellers on topics that might seem to have only limited appeal, most notably the arts of computer programming and mathematical typography. His latest book takes on a subject so challenging it has to hide behind a coy title: Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (CSLI Publications, $35). What is this subject that dare not speak its name? Not sex, but religion. The book is based on a series of lectures on "interactions between faith and computer science." The main topic is Knuth's approach to Bible study through random sampling (which led to an earlier book as well, titled 3:16); there is also musing on the programmer's role as god of a created universe. It's a very unpromising subject, but Knuth is a very good author.
If you are a fan of 3:16 and want to know more about the statistical techniques Knuth employed, his aesthetic considerations, how he translated the 59 verses without knowing Hebrew or Greek, or what he learned in the process of this project—or if you simply want merely to spend time with a remarkable, playful intellect—you'll enjoy this book. If you want to know how computer science might help theological reflection, lecture six can launch you on your way to further, challenging study.
Despite many enjoyable passages, the book ultimately disappoints. While I can imagine that the lectures might have been wonderful to listen to, their verbatim transcription to the printed page does not always work well. A large fraction of the lectures centered around Knuth's study of selected verses from the Bible, but the written version comes across as repetitious, with many uninteresting details. Knuth's analysis of the verses is not deep and not particularly informed by a scientific sensibility. And too many of the questions in the question-and-answer sessions were superficial and could have been edited.
Further reading
The homepage of the book provides errata and further information.
An excerpt from the book is available at the publisher's website.
Notes
(hardcover), (paperback)
E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20file%20server | In computing, a virtual file server is a system consisting of one or more virtualized devices that store computer files such as documents, sound files, photographs, movies, images, or databases. The server can be accessed by workstations or application servers through the Virtual Fileserver Network (VFN).
The term "server" highlights the role of the virtual machine in the client-server scheme, where the clients are the applications accessing the storage. The file server usually does not run application programs on behalf of the clients. It enables storage and retrieval of data, where the computation is provided by the client. With a storage area network (SAN), the server(s) act purely as virtual storage devices, with a client maintaining the file system. With network-attached storage (NAS), the server(s) manage the file system. Both SAN and NAS servers may be virtualized, so the users do not have to know which physical devices are hosting the files.
A virtual file server typically combines the security of virtual private networks (VPN) with file synchronization, distribution and sharing services of network file servers.
Various companies offer software for use by an organization in managing virtual file servers. The operating system may be stripped-down, concerned only with file management functions such as synchronizing redundant copies of the file, failure recovery, handling concurrent updates from different clients and enforcing client access rights. Some companies offer virtual file servers as a service to organizations that prefer to outsource server operations, with the servers residing in the "cloud".
See also
Storage virtualization
Storage area network
Network-attached storage
Virtual private network
Platform as a service
References
Computer storage devices
Virtual private networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backblaze | Backblaze, Inc. is an American cloud storage and data backup company based in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2007 by Gleb Budman, Billy Ng, Nilay Patel, Brian Wilson, Tim Nufire, Damon Uyeda, and Casey Jones, its two main products are their B2 Cloud Storage and Computer Backup services, targeted at both business and personal markets.
History
Backblaze was established in 2007 in San Mateo, California. In 2008, the company released online backup services to support PCs running Apple's macOS and Microsoft Windows.
In October 2021, Backblaze filed to go public on the Nasdaq under the symbol BLZE. In November, the company launched its public IPO.
Backblaze and Catalogic, a data protection vendor, announced their partnership in March 2022.
Since 2013, Backblaze has reported quarterly reliability statistics for its data center hard drives, showing annual failure rates for each model.
Products
Cloud backup
Backblaze's first product was its computer backup, offering users to back up their computer data continuously and automatically with a monthly subscription service. The service makes use of AES encryption for security, and uses data compression and bandwidth optimization to reduce upload and download times. Files that need to be restored can be delivered in the form of a digital download or on an external hard drive. File versioning and history is available with a 30-day cap or an additional cost per month.
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
In September 2015, Backblaze launched a new product, B2 Cloud Storage. Being an infrastructure as a service (IaaS), it is targeted at software integration for different kinds of businesses. It directly competes with similar services, such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. In April 2018, Backblaze announced cloud computing partnerships that directly connect Backblaze's data centers with its partners, Packet and ServerCentral.
In May 2020, Backblaze released an Amazon S3-compatible API, allowing customers to use existing tools and applications with B2 Cloud Storage without rewriting them. In May 2022, Backblaze released its cloud replication services, which allow customers to back up and store data in a location that is geographically separate from the data's primary location.
Technology
Data centers
Backblaze has five data centers; four in the United States and one Europe. Two U.S. data centers are in Northern California near Sacramento, one is in Phoenix, Arizona, and in December 2022, Backblaze took residence in the CoreSite data center in Reston, Virginia. Backblaze's data center in the European Union is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In September 2022, Backblaze contracted 1MW of capacity at Nautilus's floating data center in Stockton, California.
Redundancy
In order to increase redundancy, data uploaded onto Backblaze's data center is sharded into 17 data pieces and three parity shards for each file. Parity shard bits are computed by the Reed–Solomon error correction algorithm. The shar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddrescue | GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool for disk drives, DVDs, CDs, and other digital storage media. It copies raw blocks of storage, such as disk sectors, from one device or file to another, while handling read errors in an intelligent manner to minimize data loss by scraping good sectors from partially read blocks.
GNU ddrescue is written in the C++ programming language, and is available as open-source software that was originally released in 2004. It is also available in binary form as a component in most Linux distributions.
Description
ddrescue uses a sophisticated algorithm to copy data from disk drives, and other storage devices, causing as little additional damage, if they are failing, as possible. It is considered to have the most sophisticated implementation of a block-size-changing algorithm in free and open source software, and is considered an essential data recovery tool.
The status of the copy process is recorded in a map file (previously called logfile) that aids in the progress of multiple stages of the recovery algorithm, and facilitates interrupting the recovery, and repeating it as needed to recover more data. The program does not write zeros to the output in place of bad blocks, so that additional errors not encountered previously do not destroy previously recovered blocks. This makes it possible to merge multiple defective copies of CDs or DVDs into one backup file. By virtue of the map file, only the needed blocks are read from the second and successive copies.
ddrescue also features a fill mode, able to selectively overwrite parts of the output file, which has uses such as wiping data, marking bad areas or even, in some cases, repair damaged sectors.
Unrelated recovery tools
GNU ddrescue is not a derivative of dd which also copies blocks of storage from disk storage, but does not operate in a strategic, algorithmic manner.
GNU ddrescue is also distinct from the similarly named program .
See also
Backup
Disk cloning
GNU Project
Notes
References
External links
GNU ddrescue Manual
Free data recovery software
Hard disk software
GNU Project software
C++ software
Free software programmed in C++
fr:Ddrescue |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHPUnit | PHPUnit is a unit testing framework for the PHP programming language. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks that originated with SUnit and became popular with JUnit. PHPUnit was created by Sebastian Bergmann and its development is hosted on GitHub.
Purpose
PHPUnit is based on the idea that developers should be able to find mistakes in their newly committed code quickly and assert that no code regression has occurred in other parts of the code base. Much like other unit testing frameworks, PHPUnit uses assertions to verify that the behavior of the specific component - or "unit" - being tested behaves as expected.
Benefits
The goal of unit testing is to isolate each part of the program and show that the individual parts are correct. A unit test provides a strict, written contract that the piece of code must satisfy. As a result, unit tests find problems early in the development cycle.
PHPUnit can output test results in a number of different formats, including JUnit XML and TestDox.
Vulnerabilities
A vulnerability that allowed attackers to execute remote code via PHPUnit was discovered in late 2017. By sending a payload of PHP code to a file that is part of PHPUnit, an attacker could execute PHP code on the webserver.
References
External links
Extreme programming
PHP frameworks
Unit testing frameworks
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting%20for%20Voltage | Fighting for Voltage is the debut full-length album by Canadian Cyberpunk/Industrial metal band Left Spine Down. The album was released on April 22, 2008 via Synthetic Sounds in Canada and on September 23, 2008 in the USA via Bit Riot Records.
Track listing
References
External links
Left Spine Down Official Site
Synthetic Sounds Official Site
Fighting for Voltage on Amazon.ca
Fighting for Voltage on Amazon MP3 Store
2008 debut albums
Left Spine Down albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettrich | Ettrich is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Matthias Ettrich (born 1972), German computer scientist
Antonín Ettrich, Czechoslovakian cross country skier
See also
Ettrick (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGVL | WGVL (1440 AM) is a radio station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina. It is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station serves as Greenville's Black Information Network affiliate.
History
WMRC
WMRC signed on at 1500 kHz on September 22, 1940, under the ownership of the Textile Broadcasting Company. The Mutual Broadcasting System affiliate moved to 1490 kHz with NARBA in 1941 and to 1440 in 1949, giving it a power increase to 5,000 watts. Jolley was the local
Royal Crown Cola bottler, and the WMRC call letters stood for "We Make Royal Crown". WMRC targeted local textile communities through southern gospel, World Transcription Library programs, and live country through Mutual. WMRC's popularity began to increase via morning man Sid Tear, news reporter Martin Agronski, and Meeting House in Dixie, one of its first religious programs.
When the ban on phonograph records ended, popular local personalities began to emerge, like Bob Poole with "Poole's Party Line," and Frank Cope with "The Ole Lazy Man Show." Local university football games, Saturday afternoon's "The Metropolitan Opera," and the weekday special "The Breakfast Club" with Don McNeill were huge hits.
1953 was a year of change for WMRC. The station, which had changed networks to ABC and now had an outlet at 94.9 FM, shut down the FM outlet (whose Paris Mountain transmitter site was used to start WGVL TV channel 23 that August). However, Textile Broadcasting had its own television plans. When the Carolina, Blue Ridge and Textile Broadcasting Companies merged, the station went off the air: the new company was WFBC, Inc., and WFBC radio and television absorbed WMRC's staff. The merger took effect on November 15, 1953.
1440 AM was off the air until the sale to the Piedmont Broadcasting Company was completed at 5:45 p.m. on February 7, 1954. At that time, station WAKE, which had started up in 1950 after WMRC's frequency change, moved its operation from 1490 to 1440 (and a new licensee took over 1490 as WMRB), upgrading from 250 to 5,000 watts in the process. WAKE was a CBS affiliate.
WQOK
On July 4, 1955, WAKE changed its call letters to WQOK, relaunching under the management of R. W. Rounsaville; in 1957, Dick Broadcasting—which also owned stations in Chattanooga and Knoxville—purchased WQOK from Speidel-Fisher Broadcasting, which had earlier in the year bought out the other interests in Piedmont. In 1958, WQOK became a Top 40 station programmed by veteran Greenville radio programmer Jerry Mosteller (1922-2013).
The station quickly became number one in the market with an endless stream of "rock and roll" as well as "rhythm and blues" music broadcast from the "Four Towers Of Power" on White Horse Road. WQOK found its place in Greenville's radio market with many business in the Upstate area advertising on "1440 Greenville". WQOK, often known as "The Big Q", was one of the first stations in the area to use fast talking, big voiced disc jockeys that would introduce the records |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E49 | European route E49 forms part of the International E-road network. It begins in Magdeburg, Germany, and ends in Vienna, Austria.
The road follows the route:
Germany
: - Magdeburg, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt,
:
: - Plauen
Czech Republic
: Cheb, Karlovy Vary
: Plzeň, Písek, České Budějovice
: Třeboň
Austria
: Horn
: Stockerau
: Vienna
References
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
49
E049
E049
E049
E049 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INP%20%28database%29 | INP (pronounced "imp") is a database management system including forms processing data entry. It consists of over fifty utility programs for database access and support, batch updating, and report generation. It was developed by Bob Tidd at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976, and predated many of the commercial and opensource databases in use today. It is still in use on a wide variety of systems at the University and associated institutions.
Features
An INP database may contain up to 100K records of up to 1024 characters (expandable). Up to ten database indexes are allowed. They are btrees of no more than three levels. Databases must contain fixed length records, but some utilities handle variable length, delimited field records. A newline (RETURN) character at the end of each record makes INP databases accessible to the entire array of Unix utilities, including editors, sort, grep, awk, etc.
In the data entry and update program, each data field is displayed separately on the screen with a descriptive label. Fields may be skipped during entry or duplicated from the previous record.
INP validates each data field as it is entered. Validation types vary from simple alphabetic/numeric through ranges of numbers to tables of all allowable values. If a field is incorrect INP displays the validation criteria, beeps, and returns you to the start of the offending field. A mechanism exists to override validation checks. An optional audit trail of changes is maintained for reference and recovery.
The database access program is already compiled. It reads database description files at run time. The record layout and validation criteria are specified in one schema file. The specifications for the screen displays are entered into format files. Both are created by the user with any text editor. A variety of formats may be created to view or update different parts of a database record.
INP is implemented on the DEC VAX and PDP-11 under BSD Unix or ULTRIX. Versions are available for SunOS and Onyx. Several operators can simultaneously access or update information in the same database file.
Typists and others with little data processing experience find INP easy to use, and they usually become comfortable with the computer related processes rapidly. Like most editors, INP has many command options, but the basic few are easily learned. INP is very forgiving, helpful and bulletproof about data entry and command errors.
Applicability
INP can be used for any small to medium database or data entry task. Basic applications of INP can be designed and implemented by persons familiar with Unix and the text editor, but without programming experience.
INP has two powerful sets of options. The elf package allows user supplied coded functions (in the C programming language) for special validation and arbitrarily complex operations including forked programs to occur when various INP commands are requested by the operator. This opens u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium%20on%20Theoretical%20Aspects%20of%20Computer%20Science | The Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS) is an academic conference in the field of computer science. It is held each year, alternately in Germany and France, since 1984. Typical themes of the conference include algorithms, computational and structural complexity, automata, formal languages and logic.
STACS proceedings from 1984 to 2007 have been published by Springer Science+Business Media in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings since 2008 are published by the Leibniz Center for Informatics in the open access series Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. The proceedings since are freely available from the conference portal, as well as from DROPS, the Dagstuhl Research Online Publication Server, and from Hyper Articles en Ligne.
The conference is indexed by several bibliographic databases, including the DBLP, Google Scholar and The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies.
See also
The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.
External links
.
STACS proceedings from 1984 to 2007 at Springer Link.
STACS at DBLP.
STACS proceedings.
Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics home page
Theoretical computer science conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective%20Systems%20Integrators | Objective Systems Integrators (OSI) is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports software products which automate the monitoring, control, delivery, and management of services for multinational corporation service providers including:
Wireless service providers
IPTV service providers
Transmission service providers
OSI was acquired by MYCOM and MYCOM OSI was formed in 2014.
History
Sobha Group ownership
OSI, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Sobha Group, develops and markets an OSS suite targeted for Communications Service Providers.
February 2008, Longview Software and OSI sign an Asset Purchase Agreement for OSI to acquire Longview intellectual property, products and technology. Longview software is a maker of off-the-shelf tools and custom applications that add value to many Operational Support System (OSS) and Business Support System (BSS) frameworks in the telecommunications industry.
Agilent Technologies ownership
Agilent acquired OSI in January 2001 for approximately $665 million. Agilent subsequently built an OSS business around this and other technology, but decided in 2007 to exit this market segment and focus on its test and measurement and life sciences businesses.
2001–2007, OSI is acquired by Agilent Technologies to help integrate Test and Measurement into the OSS market. OSI was under Agilent's OSS Division (Assurance Services Division) as a NETeXPERT Business Unit.
Pre-Agilent history
During the period of 1995–2001, OSI was traded on NASDAQ as OSII. OSI introduces the MASTER series of products to the market aligned around key technology areas such as fixed line networks, SONET/SDH network, and wireless networks. In 1997 OSI reached its 100th worldwide communications service provider (CSP) customer base.
1998–2001, OSI’s NetExpert Virtual Service Management (VSM), and Virtual Process Management (VPM) frameworks leverage the UMA (Unified Management Architecture). OSI introduces several new applications in key Communications Service Provider functional areas namely Fault management, Performance Management, Configuration Management, and Accounting Management.
Products
OSI launches NetExpert Neon May 2009 for service assurance solutions focused on services and customers:
Service Health - Service Quality and Impact management leveraging industry standard portal technology for a holistic view of critical customer services.
Customer Health - Customer SLA, Experience Analysis, and Insight of corporations, groups within corporations, and individuals.
See also
Agilent Technologies
Sobha Renaissance Information Technology
Operations support systems
Communications Service Provider
Service management
Expert system
Reference Books
Plunkett, J (1996). "Plunkett's Infotech Industry Almanac" - Page 75 Books
Minoli, D, Golway, T, and Smith, N (1996) "Planning and Managing ATM Networks" - Google Books Prentice Hall PTR.
Terplan, K (1998). "Telecom Operations Managemen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%21%20%28video%20game%29 | Freedom! is a 1993 educational computer game developed and published by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). Based on similar gameplay from MECC's earlier The Oregon Trail, the player assumes the role of a runaway slave in the antebellum period of American history who is trying to reach the North through the Underground Railroad. The game was developed with help of an African-American consultant who guided MECC on appropriate graphics and dialect that represented the era. It is recognized as one of the first video games dealing with the topic of slavery.
The game was meant to be used in a school curriculum when it was released in late 1992, but most schools simply released the game to students to play without prior lessons. This led to numerous parents complaining to MECC and their schools about the racially offensive nature of the game, and threatening to sue MECC. Though MECC offered to make changes to alleviate these concerns, the company ultimately pulled the game from sale.
Gameplay
Players choose one of two characters (male or female). Attributes such as literacy and ability to swim are randomly generated, providing the player with different experiences during each playthrough. If the player's character is illiterate, written signs and notes appear onscreen as indecipherable symbols. Literacy also affects other areas of play. For example, early in the game, the character may receive a pass from his slavemaster in order to escape to the North. If they do not receive a pass, players are also given the option to forge a pass if the player's character is able to read and write.
Freedom! was the first educational game to use an open-world environment, simulating real-world areas of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. During gameplay, players can travel in any direction using the stars, moss, or a compass to orient themselves. During travel, the player encounters random events such as interactions with slavecatchers, who pursue the player with dogs, as well as sympathetic members of the Underground Railroad, who provide the player with food and shelter.
Development and release
MECC had previously developed a graphical version of The Oregon Trail in 1985 as part of its educational software library, and had developed a number of similar games based on the same themes involving similar historical treks, such as The Yukon Trail based on the Klondike Gold Rush.
While simulating the escape through the Underground Railroad also fit this theme, the primary influence for Freedom! came from a local Minnesota activist, Kamau Kambui, who had begun organizing live Underground Railroad reenactments in the late 1980s to show young people what the slaves at the time had to suffer to make their escape to freedom. MECC designer Rich Bergeron met with Kambui and designed the basics of Freedom! around Kambui's reenactments, and Kambui became a consultant on the game. Under Kambui's consulting, the game included elements such as the player-charac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDO%20Network%20Bank | BDO Network Bank (BDO NB), formerly known as One Network Bank (ONB), is a rural bank in the Philippines. Established in 2004 through the consolidation of Network Rural Bank of Davao del Sur, the Rural Bank of Panabo of Davao del Norte, and the Provident Rural Bank of Cotabato, ONB is the largest rural bank in the Philippines in terms of assets, with a network of 96 branches in Mindanao, 1 branch in Makati and province of Iloilo (including Iloilo City) and a fleet of 135 ATMs throughout the provinces in Mindanao, including 17 localities where it is the sole provider of financial services.
It is the first rural bank in the Philippines to receive the nod of the Philippine Clearing House Corporation (PCHC) to establish a checking account, as well as to have its cheques cleared directly by the PCHC, instead of an intermediary bank. It is also an equity member of MegaLink (now a BancNet member), one of the first banks in Mindanao to join an interbank network.
In December 2014, the bank was acquired by Banco de Oro. The acquisition was completed in July 2015.
To align with the continued expansion of its parent company Banco de Oro (BDO Unibank), it changed its name to BDO Network Bank on August 6, 2019.
Corporate history
One Network Rural Bank is a consolidation of three rural banks in the country.
Before the historic consolidation which formed the biggest rural bank in the country with the widest private banking network in Mindanao, there were three partner rural banks — Rural Bank of Panabo, Inc., Network Rural Bank, Inc. and Provident Rural Bank of Cotabato, Inc.
Rural Bank of Panabo, Inc. (RB Panabo)
RB Panabo has been servicing Davao Province since 1967. While it was the component bank with the fewest branches, it provided technical and logistical support to its partner banks. Many of the banking systems and procedures used by its partner banks came from RB Panabo.
RB Panabo received its authority to operate from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas on February 11, 1967. Founded by Dr. Luis A. Buenaventura, Jr.. It was in 1980 that RB Panabo saw the induction of Alex V. Buenaventura as President of the bank.
Network Rural Bank, Inc. (NB)
Originally the Rural Bank of Davao City and operating four branches across Davao City, it was merged in 1993 with 5 other rural banks — Community Rural Bank of San Isidro (Davao Oriental), Rural Bank of Governor Generoso (Davao Oriental), Rural Bank of Pantukan (Compostela Valley), Rural Bank of Bayugan (Agusan del Sur) and Rural Bank of Kalamansig (Sultan Kudarat) – and renamed as Network Rural Bank.
RB Panabo’s success was such that also in 1993, Network Rural Bank, Inc. asked Alex V. Buenaventura of RB Panabo to take over its helm. Mr. Buenaventura’s acceptance brought his leadership and rural banking experience into Network Bank. This move was the start of a long-standing partnership between the two rural banks.
In its 11 years of existence, Network Bank became a giant in the Philippine rural banking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoogle | Swoogle was a search engine for Semantic Web ontologies, documents, terms and data published on the Web. Swoogle employed a system of crawlers to discover RDF documents and HTML documents with embedded RDF content. Swoogle reasoned about these documents and their constituent parts (e.g., terms and triples) and recorded and indexed meaningful metadata about them in its database.
Swoogle provided services to human users through a browser interface and to software agents via RESTful web services. Several techniques were used to rank query results inspired by the PageRank algorithm developed at Google
but adapted to the semantics and use patterns found in semantic web documents.
Swoogle was developed at and was hosted by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) with funding from the US DARPA and National Science Foundation agencies. It was PhD thesis work of Li Ding advised by Professor Tim Finin.
See also
Ontology (computer science)
DAML and DAML+OIL
OWL
Semantic Web
References
Semantic Web
Internet search engines
Ontology (information science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%20%28US-CERT%20program%29 | The EINSTEIN System (part of the National Cybersecurity Protection System) is an network intrusion detection and prevention system that monitors the networks of US federal government departments and agencies. The system is developed and managed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (formerly NPPD/United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)) in the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The program was originally developed to provide "situational awareness" for the civilian agencies and to "facilitate identifying and responding to cyber threats and attacks, improve network security, increase the resiliency of critical, electronically delivered government services, and enhance the survivability of the Internet." The first version examined basic network traffic and subsequent versions examined content.
EINSTEIN does not protect the network infrastructure of the private sector.
History
The Federal Computer Incident Response Capability (FedCIRC) was one of four watch centers that were protecting federal information technology when the E-Government Act of 2002 designated it the primary incident response center. With FedCIRC at its core, US-CERT was formed in 2003 as a partnership between the newly created DHS and the CERT Coordination Center which is at Carnegie Mellon University and funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. US-CERT delivered EINSTEIN to meet statutory and administrative requirements that DHS help protect federal computer networks and the delivery of essential government services. EINSTEIN was implemented to determine if the government was under cyber attack. EINSTEIN does this by collecting flow data from all civilian agencies and compared that flow data to a baseline.
If one Agency reported a cyber event, the 24/7 Watch at US-CERT could look at the incoming flow data and assist resolution.
If one Agency was under attack, US-CERT Watch could quickly look at other Agency feeds to determine if it was across the board or isolated.
During EINSTEIN 1, it was determined that the civilian agencies did not know the entirety of what their registered IPv4 space included. This was obviously a security concern. Once an Agency's IPv4 space was validated, it was immediately clear that the Agency had more external Internet Connections or Gateways than could be reasonably instrumented and protected. This gave birth to the Office of Management and Budget's Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) Initiative. The initiative expected to reduce the government's 4,300 access points to 50 or fewer by June 2008.
Therefore, a new version of EINSTEIN was planned to "collect network traffic flow data in real time and also analyze the content of some communications, looking for malicious code, for example in e-mail attachments." Three constraints on EINSTEIN that the DHS is trying to address are the large number of access points to U.S. agencies, the low number of agencies participating, and the program's "backw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetExpert | NetExpert monitors and controls networks and service impacting resources using object-oriented and expert systems technologies.
Background
NetExpert is considered an OSS, used in managing wireline and wireless networks and services.
NetExpert is a scalable and distributable architecture that supports flexible configuration while maintaining individual component independence. Its application packages address many areas of communication services management, including fault, performance, reporting, activation, IP services, and others. These can be further tailored to individual customer environments and management requirements.
This framework consists of a set of integrated software modules and graphical user interface (GUI) development tools to enable the creation and deployment of complex management solutions. The object-oriented architecture of the NetExpert framework provides the building blocks to implement operations support and management systems using high-level tools rather than low-level programming languages.
The NetExpert framework is founded on open systems and object-oriented methodology. NetExpert supports different standards, transmission protocols, and equipment data models. NetExpert is based on the Telecommunications Management Network architecture created by the Telecommunications Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunication Union. It supports the development and deployment of applications for the main TMN management areas—fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security—and the implementation of layered management architectures. In addition, the NetExpert framework employs expert rules and policies that replace complex programming languages and enable network analysts to model desired system behaviors by using GUI-based rule editors.
See also
Agilent Technologies
Operations support system
Communications service provider
Service management
Expert system
Notes
Reference books
Plunkett, J (1996). Plunkett's Infotech Industry Almanac - Page 75 Google Books
Minoli, D, Golway, T, and Smith, N (1996) Planning and Managing ATM Networks - Google Books New York: Manning, 1997. .
Terplan, K (1998). Telecom Operations Management Solutions with NetExpert Amazon, Google Books CRC Press LLC
Terplan, K (1999). Web-Based Systems & Network Management - Page 185 Google Books
Terplan, K (1999). Applications for Distributed Systems and Network Management - Page 101 Google Books
Van Nostrand Reinhold
Network management
Telecommunications systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSCM-LP | KSCM-LP (channel 18) was a low-power television station in Bryan, Texas, United States, which was affiliated with the Spanish-language Telemundo network. Owned by Raycom Media, the station was a simulcast of the second digital subchannel of Waco-licensed ABC affiliate KXXV (channel 25) and its Bryan-based semi-satellite KRHD-CD (channel 40). KSCM-LP's transmitter was located northwest of Bryan on US 190/SH 6 in unincorporated southern Robertson County.
History
In April 2006, Drewry Communications reached an agreement with R. D. Harris to purchase KSCM-LP for a reported $125,000. On August 10, 2015, Raycom Media announced that it would purchase Drewry Communications for $160 million. The sale was completed on December 1.
Raycom Media surrendered the station's license for cancellation on November 14, 2017. It had a construction permit to flash-cut to digital on channel 18; these facilities were never built.
References
Television stations in Texas
Bryan, Texas
Spanish-language television stations in Texas
Television channels and stations established in 1996
1996 establishments in Texas
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
2017 disestablishments in Texas
Defunct television stations in the United States
SCM-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA%20%28disambiguation%29 | Video Graphics Array is a graphics standard for personal computers and associated connectors.
VGA may also refer to:
Computers
VGA (resolution), 640×480 graphics display resolution
VGA connector
Technology
Spike Video Game Awards, a now discontinued awards show much like MTV Video Music Awards focused on video games
The Game Awards, a video game awards show.
Variable-gain amplifier, a type of amplifier that varies gain based on some control voltage
Variable gauge axle, a multiple gauge solution used between incompatible railways
Other
Virginia General Assembly
Vijayawada Airport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translator%20%28computing%29 | A translator or programming language processor is a computer program that converts the programming instructions written in human convenient form into machine language codes that the computers understand and process. It is a generic term that can refer to a compiler, assembler, or interpreter—anything that converts code from one computer language into another. These include translations between high-level and human-readable computer languages such as C++ and Java, intermediate-level languages such as Java bytecode, low-level languages such as the assembly language and machine code, and between similar levels of language on different computing platforms, as well as from any of these to any other of these. The term is also used for translators between software implementations and hardware/ASIC microchip implementations of the same program, and from software descriptions of a microchip to the logic gates needed to build it.
Examples of widely used types of computer language translators include interpreters, compilers and decompilers, assemblers and disassemblers.
See also
Binary translator (binary-to-binary, typically code)
Assembly language translator (low-level source-to-source, code)
Source-to-source translator (high-level source-to-source, code)
Rewriter (source-to-source, typically code)
Source-code formatter (source-to-source, typically code)
File converter (binary-to-binary, typically data)
Transcoder (binary-to-binary, data)
References
Further reading
(2+xiv+270+6 pages)
Programming language implementation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALLDATA | ALLDATA LLC is an online source for automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) information. ALLDATA provides vehicle manufacturers' diagnostic and repair information.
ALLDATA was founded in 1986 to meet market demand for OE repair information. As computer technology took hold, ALLDATA began compiling the largest single source of OEM information available and converted it into a digital format. ALLDATA is known for online OEM information, used by over 300,000 professional technicians worldwide. The company expanded its product line to include collision information, business tools and support services for the global automotive industry.
In 1996, ALLDATA was purchased by AutoZone.
References
"ALLDATA company profile". D&B Hoover's. Retrieved on July 16, 2008.
External links
ALLDATA
Companies established in 1986
Companies based in Sacramento County, California
Elk Grove, California
1986 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presence%3A%20Teleoperators%20%26%20Virtual%20Environments | Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to electromechanical and computer systems. It was the first journal established specifically for investigators of teleoperators and virtual environments. Presence was founded in 1992 and is published online and in hard copy by the MIT Press. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 0.750.
References
External links
Official website
Computer science journals
MIT Press academic journals
Bimonthly journals
Academic journals established in 1992
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoBase%20%28geospatial%20data%29 | GeoBase is a federal, provincial and territorial government initiative that is overseen by the Canadian Council on Geomatics (CCOG). It is undertaken to ensure the provision of, and access to, a common, up-to-date and maintained base of quality geospatial data for Canada. Through the GeoBase, users with an interest in geomatics have access to quality geospatial information at no cost and with unrestricted use.
GeoBase Principles
These are the fundamental principles that GeoBase operates under and that direct the decision making process on a regular basis:
Source, regional and—where practical—national data all share the same geometry.
GeoBase provides national data coverages.
Source data is collected once and used by many.
Source data is collected and maintained closest to the source.
The cost of maintenance and update is shared among the levels of government.
All GeoBase data is available at no charge.
GeoBase data has no restrictions on its subsequent use.
GeoBase data uses a common license.
Data Layers
Provincial, territorial, and municipal stakeholders agreed to work together to ensure the availability of high-quality geospatial data covering the entire Canadian landmass. This data is collected once and maintained closest to the source and provided free through the GeoBase with no restrictions for users.
GeoBase has partnerships with federal, provincial, territorial, municipal government, and private companies, with the dual goals of eliminating data duplication and optimizing collectively available resources. GeoBase partners are involved in different levels of the data production process such as project funding, sharing of source data or by working on data collection and data processing.
All GeoBase data must conform to the following technical characteristics:
GeoBase data elements carry a unique and singular ID.
GeoBase data comply with a standard data model and meet or exceed a minimum standard for accuracy, resolution, and currency.
Metadata is defined and standardized at the entity level.
GeoBase data and all associated tools adhere to international standards.
GeoBase data is seamless across Canada.
GeoBase data is consistent across layers.
Geographical Names Data Base
The purpose of this layer is to store names and their attributes that have been approved by the Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) and to make these authoritative records available for government and public use. These records include the names of over 70,000 populated places and administrative areas; 300,000 water features; and 115,000 terrain features (e.g., mountains and peninsulas).
Partners
Provincial and Territorial Agencies
{|
|-valign="top"
|width="250pt"| British Columbia || BC Geographical Names
|-valign="top"
| Alberta || Tourism, Parks, and Recreation
|-valign="top"
| Saskatchewan || Information Services Corporation of Saskatchewan
|-valign="top"
| Manitoba || Manitoba Geographical Names Program
|-valign="top"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuenti | Tuenti Technologies, S.L.U is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that operates with the Tuenti brand owned by Telefónica. It is a Spain-based tech company that focuses on providing a cloud-based services through its own application and its website to their customers.
Originally, Tuenti was created in 2006 as a social networking service, becoming the most popular social network among young people in Spain between 2009 and 2012. With over 15 million registered users, Tuenti was referred to as the "Spanish Facebook".
In Spain, Tuenti offered mobile telephone service. The mobile phone service in Spain was terminated on 1 June 2022. Contract customers were moved to O2 while prepaid customers were moved to Movistar.
In Latin America, Tuenti ships its brand through Telefónica branches in those countries, exploiting the young market by offering simple and affordable plans among other services common to mobile carriers, Tuenti offers free VoIP calls and instant messaging through its own messaging app.
Company history
Tuenti was founded as a Social networking service in 2006 by a group of friends in Spain. Zaryn Dentzel, Felix Ruiz Hernandez, Kenny Bentley, Adeyemi Ajao and Joaquín Ayuso de Pául were the key people who worked together to bring Tuenti to life. Dentzel's first experience in Spain was on a students exchange program that took him to Cabeza del Buey (Badajoz). Bentley, the lead programmer, came to Spain after having worked in social networking in the United States. In the beginning, the project was aimed to university students, but due to its success, they opened to everyone, although it was only possible to register with an invitation. Years later the register was opened to everyone, in an attempt to make it available globally, with the only extra requirement of giving a phone number. Zaryn Dentzel has chronicled the story of Tuenti in a book called El futuro lo decides tú.
Although the name sounds similar to the English word twenty, it actually comes from "tu [id]enti[dad]", meaning "your identity". The service was originally targeted at the Spanish market, but in 2012 they made it globally available. The organization has reached more than 250 employees from more than 21 countries around the world.
Google Zeitgeist's 2009 listed Tuenti as the third fastest-rising global search. Google's 2008 Zeitgeist report listed Tuenti as the year's fourth fastest-rising global search term. In 2011, it was estimated that more than 15% of the web traffic in Spain was on Tuenti, which at that time in Spain meant more traffic than Google and Facebook together.
On August 4, 2010 the major telecommunications group Telefónica acquired 85% of tuenti's shares for a total of 70 million euro, becoming its largest shareholder.
In that same year, tuenti started the development of a light virtual mobile network operator which worked completely under the Movistar (Telefónica) infrastructure. Later, in December, the service, still in a developing state, i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Weigend | Andreas Sebastian Weigend (born 1961) is the author of the book Data for the People (Basic Books, 2017). He was a member of Germany's Digital Council under Merkel, Digitalrat.
Weigend studied physics and philosophy at the University of Bonn and received a PhD in physics from Stanford University in 1991. He was the Chief Scientist at Amazon.com.
References
External links
Personal Website
American computer scientists
Living people
1961 births
University of Bonn alumni
Stanford University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPCON%20CCIS | OPCON, or more fully the Operational Control Command Control and Information System (OPCON CCIS) was a long term computer project run by the Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom.
History
It started to be developed in 1974, and was initially used operationally as a proof of concept (OPCON PILOT) system for the Royal Navy during Operation Corporate (the Falklands War), and evolved into a wider, "Joint" use when declared Operational in 1986.
Technology
The original role of OPCON CCIS was envisaged as providing an automated message handling system and database for use by Commander-in-Chief Fleet (CINCFLEET) headquarters at Northwood.
The solution was largely based on commercial ADP equipment, supplied by ICL, and the capital cost of the equipment was stated in 1989 to be of the order of £40 million.
References
Command and control
Royal Navy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Ilyukhin | Mikhail Ilyukhin (born November 21, 1966) is a retired Russian mixed martial artist and professional wrestler who competed in the light heavyweight division. He competed in both Fighting Network Rings, and Pride Fighting Championships, and was a prominent member of Russia Top Team, where he trained with the likes of Volk Han, Fedor Emelianenko, and Sergei Kharitonov. At Pride 26, Ilyukhin lost by stoppage to Quinton Jackson. He won his last fight at K-1 – Hero's Lithuania against Jordanas Poskaitis on November 26, 2005. It appears that following the demise of the Russia Top Team Ilyukhin has retired.
Career
IAFC & RINGS
After a successful career in sambo, Ilyukhin debuted in the professional wrestling promotion Rings in 1994, submitting Mitsuya Nagai in his first match. He would become a part of the Rings Russia team, along with Volk Han, Andrei Kopylov and Nikolai Zouev. One year later, he had his first contact in MMA represented Rings Russia in the International Absolute Fighting Council (IAFC)'s Absolute Fighting Eurasian Championship. He won the event tournament by submitting six opponents on a row, five of them by Achilles hold and in roughly one minute each.
Only three months after, he returned to IAFC for a similar format, and his performance seemed to follow close. He made short work of his first two opponents with an armbar and a guillotine choke, submitted kickboxer Igor Vovchanchyn by digging his chin into Igor's eye from dominant position, and skipped a match when teammate Achmed Sagidgusenov threw the fight for him. However, at the finals Ilyukhin would meet Brazilian jiu-jitsu exponent Ricardo Morais, an apprentice of Carlson Gracie who outweighed Mikhail by almost 70 Ib. The Russian unexpectedly dominated the first segments of the match, hitting repeated headbutts and punches through Morais's guard until swelling shut one of his eyes, but he made the mistake of standing up, and it allowed the Brazilian to sweep him and take his back. After a long series of elbow strikes to Ilyukhin's spine, Morais locked a rear naked choke and got the win.
Despite the loss, the bout against Morais gained him fame in the Brazilian vale tudo scene, and he got a spot in the first event of Universal Vale Tudo Fighting, which was coincidentally hosted in Japan. He faced another against another Carlson Gracie trainee, the debutant Carlos Barreto, still heavier yet more similar to him in weight. The bout ended in the second round with Ilyukhin submitted again by rear naked choke. Months after, Ilyukhin participated in Shoot Boxing's MMA S-Cup event and was pitted against capoeira fighter Mestre Hulk, who was known for his tournament victory against Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion Amaury Bitetti. The Russian won the match using the already known chin submission.
Back in Rings, Ilyukhin had a vale tudo rules match in 1996 against Adilson Lima, a Carlos Gracie, Jr. trainee who had been famously defeated twice by Vovchanchyn in the first IAFC tournam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromitsu%20Kanehara | ) is a former Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler of Korean descent. A professional MMA competitor from 1998 until 2012, he found success in Fighting Network RINGS, gaining notable victories over Valentijn Overeem, Alexandre Ferreira, former King of the Cage Light Heavyweight Champion Jeremy Horn, former RINGS Light-Heavyweight Champion Masayuki Naruse and former UFC Middleweight Champion Dave Menne.
He later competed for PRIDE Fighting Championships, DEEP, Pancrase and K-1 HERO'S to mixed success. Kanehara also once competed in professional kickboxing. Kanehara initially started his career as a professional wrestler and competed mostly in shoot style wrestling with UWF International and its successor Kingdom. He later made appearances for Pro Wrestling Zero1 and Real Japan Pro Wrestling before retiring in 2020.
Mixed martial arts career
Fighting Network RINGS
Kanehara debuted in RINGS with a submission win against Sander Thonhauser and followed it with a victory on May 29, 1998, against Lee Hasdell, winning by decision. He would follow with victories over Sander MacKilljan, Hans Nijman and Hasdell again, but his winning streak broke in February 1999 against Carlson Gracie apprentice Ricardo Morais. The 60 pound heavier Morais controlled Kanehara positionally with the aid of his size, leaving the Japanese relegated to try Kimura locks from underneath and trying to escape unsuccessfully.
On May 22, Kanehara faced Valentijn Overeem from RINGS Holland. Again facing a heavier opponent, Kanehara was hit with knees and kicks to the head and downed in the initial minute, but he managed to execute a takedown on Overeem, who fell badly and dislocated his knee. Judges and referee deliberated about letting the match continue after the knee was relocated, and they eventually conceded. Returning to action, Overeem landed a body kick which Kanehara grabbed for another takedown, but Hiromitsu fell into a guillotine and was forced to spend a rope escape. The sequence repeated itself before Overeem knocked Kanehara out with a high kick.
Kanehara had his debut in worldwide MMA at the 1999 edition of the King of Kings tournament, where he faced tough opposition. Kanehara eliminated Jeremy Horn in a prolonged grappling affair in the first round, winning the unanimous decision thanks to his superior wrestling and ground work, and then went to face eventual winner Dan Henderson. The match was harsh and brutal, with Kanehara getting his nose broken and finally being dominated with repeated takedowns for a majority decision loss.
After the tournament, Kanehara avenged his defeat to Valentijn Overeem, knocking out the Dutch fighter via punch from the clinch in a much shorter match. He was next sent as a RINGS representative to the event Colosseum 2000, where he found himself in front of Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend Mario Sperry; even at loss, Kanehara performed impressively, countering and escaping all the bad positions he was caught with by Sperr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Kopylov | Andrei Kopylov is a retired Russian sambist, professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. He competed in the heavyweight division of Fighting Network RINGS.
Sambo career
Kopylov practised various sports from the age of 17, among them basketball, volleyball and boxing, but he turned to sambo after he was introduced to his girlfriend's father, who was a sambo master. Kopylov started training with the renowned Alexander Fedorov and mastered the grappling in a short time, once even submitting his own teacher in a contest. After three months, he was sent to the national junior championships of 1983, in which he won a silver medal. He also won a bronze medal, and in 1985 he finally gained the gold. In 1986, he reached the finals of the USSR championship, being eliminated at the end by the eventual champion, Rotsyavichusom. However, Kopylov obtained revenge over him by beating him in three minutes at the national champion in 1987, ending himself in second place.
In 1991, he moved to superheavyweight division, which turned successful for him as he won the USSR championship at that weight in 1991. The same year, after failed plans to move to Canada, he was contacted by Japanese pro wrestling promotion Fighting Network RINGS, and after he accepted, he was sent to the team RINGS Russia, where he met Volk Han, his future partner in the Russian Top Team.
Mixed martial arts career
RINGS
Kopylov debuted in pro wrestling in 1992, obtaining a great submission win over Volk Han. Han retaliated eliminating Kopylov from the Mega Battle Tournament 1995, in which Kopylov had taken part after submitting Grom Zaza, but he remained as an important figure in RINGS, having matches with promotion chairman Akira Maeda and his apprentice Tsuyoshi Kohsaka. Kopylov became popular among the Japanese for his anodine looks, featuring moustache, a receding hairline and an unathletic looking build, but those weren't obstacle for his grappling prowess.
After RINGS turned from pro wrestling to MMA, Kopylov struggled to keep the level due to his notorious stamina troubles and age wear, but he got renown after his performance at the King of Kings tournament in 1999. He first faced Leonardo Castello Branco, a heavy favourite to win for being a world champion in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, but Kopylov shockingly submitted him in just 19 seconds with a feint uchi mata transitioned into a kneebar. Not less surprising was his next fight at the event, outstriking Dutch kickboxer Ricardo Fyeet and submitting him in literally half of the time.
Kopylov advanced to the semifinals and was pitted against rising star Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, another famed BJJ stylist who had previously submitted Valentijn Overeem and Kopylov's teammate Iouri Kotchkine. Kopylov started the match offensively, countering Nogueira's holds in unorthodox ways and threatening him with a persistent Kimura lock attempt for most of the first round before Nogueira reversed him and took his back. At the second round, Nogueir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QP | QP, Qp, or Qp may refer to:
Computing
Quoted-printable, an encoding to send 8-bit data over 7-bit path '=09'
QP (Quantum Platform), a framework for building real-time embedded applications
Drugs
Qualified Person, in European Union pharmaceutical regulation
ATCvet code QP, designation for antiparasitic veterinary medication
Mathematics
Qp, the field of p-adic numbers
Quadratic programming, a special type of mathematical optimization problem
Quasi-polynomial time, relating to time complexity in computer science
QP or EQP, Exact Quantum Polynomial time in computational complexity theory
Other uses
qp ligature, a ligature of Latin
Qp-Crazy, a Japanese hardcore punk and industrial metal band
Quarter Pounder, a hamburger
Qatar Petroleum (today QatarEnergy), an oil and gas company in Qatar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Freeform%20original%20films | This is a list of television films produced for the cable network Freeform and its predecessors, The Family Channel, Fox Family, and ABC Family. The network temporarily stopped making new original films from 2013 until 2016.
Most films are subsequently released on home video ( indicated with * ).
The Family Channel
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1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
Fox Family
1998
1999
2000
2001
ABC Family
2000s
2001
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Freeform
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References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylista | Stylista was an American fashion-themed reality-television competition series that premiered on the CW network in the United States, and Citytv in Canada on October 22, 2008 and ran for one season. The series was produced by Warner Horizon Television and Tyra Banks through her Bankable Productions. On January 30, 2008, The CW approved the series for production.
Johanna Cox was named the winner on December 17, 2008 at the 9th episode conclusion. She won a paid editorial position at Elle magazine, a paid lease on an apartment in Manhattan, and a clothing allowance at H&M, all for one year, valued at $100,000.
Contestants
Elimination chart
This contestant won Stylista
This contestant won the Editorial challenge
This contestant was on the losing team but not eliminated
This contestant was in the bottom 2 or 3
This contestant was eliminated
Episode 6 was the recap episode
Episodes
References
External links
2000s American reality television series
2008 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
Fashion-themed reality television series
The CW original programming
Television series by Warner Horizon Television
Reality competition television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuki%20Ueyama | Ryuki Ueyama (born 17 April 1976 in Tokyo) is a Japanese mixed martial artist who most recently competed in the Lightweight division. He has fought for organizations such as Fighting Network RINGS, DEEP, Pancrase, Hero's and Pride FC.
Fight career
Fighting Network RINGS (1998–2001)
Ueyama began his Mixed martial arts career on 21 September 1998 at Rings - Fighting Integration VI. He lost to Yasuhito Namekawa by decision. Ueyama lost to Namekawa again by decision on 21 February 1999. Ueyama picked up his first win less than a month later at Rings Australia. He beat Dennis Kefalinos by knee bar in round 1. He was disqualified for eye gouging in his next fight against Lee Hasdell on 23 April 1999 in Japan. After his fight with Hasdell, he went unbeaten for over a year and a half with wins over Willie Peeters, Yasuhito Namekawa and Tim Thomas, with draws against Lloyd Berg, Dave Menne and Kosei Kubota. Ueyama eventually lost on 20 March 2001 against Sokun Koh at Rings - Battle Genesis Vol. 7.
DEEP & Pancrase
Ueyama drew with Kosei Kubota for a second time on 18 August 2001 at DEEP - 2nd Impact. He lost a decision against Kiuma Kunioku at Pancrase - 2001 Anniversary Show a month later.
He returned to DEEP in December of that year, defeating LaVerne Clark by TKO. Then at Pancrase - Spirit 2 he lost to Kazuo Misaki by decision.
DEEP Japan Middleweight Champion
On 9 June 2002, Ueyama entered the DEEP Middleweight tournament. He defeated Seiki Ryo and Takaharu Murahama before beating Eiji Ishikawa in the final to win the tournament. He then beat Gilson Ferreira at DEEP - 6th Impact in September to bring his record to 9-6-4. He lost a decision in March 2003 to Hayato Sakurai. On 15 September 2003 Ueyama defended his title against Masanori Suda; the fight ended in a draw.
Pride Bushido & DEEP return
Ueyama made his Pride FC debut on 15 February 2004 against Sean Sherk, Ueyama lost by decision. In his second fight for Pride he lost to Ikuhisa Minowa by split decision. On 18 December 2004, Ueyama returned to DEEP and lost to Ryuta Sakurai by TKO.
Hero's
He made his Hero's debut in 2006 on Hero's 5 with a decision loss to Rani Yahya. This match was the opening round of Hero's 2006 Lightweight Grand Prix. Ueyama was submitted by Vítor Ribeiro on 12 March 2007 at Hero's 8.
DEEP (2009–2010)
Ueyama returned to the DEEP organisation once again in 2009 with a decision victory over Kosei Kubota. Later in 2009 he lost decision against Hidehiko Hasegawa at DEEP - 44 Impact. Ueyama drew his last fight to date against Hidetaka Monma on 17 April 2010.
Championships and awards
DEEP
DEEP Middleweight Championship (1 Time, First)
2002 DEEP Middleweight Championship Tournament Winner
Mixed martial arts record
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink%20Panther%20and%20Pals | Pink Panther and Pals is an animated television series and a modern adaptation of the classic DePatie-Freleng Pink Panther shorts from the 1960s. The program was produced for Cartoon Network by Desert Panther Production and Rubicon Studios in association with The Mirisch Company and MGM Television. It premiered on March 7, 2010.
Like the classic cartoon show, the program is composed of two seven-minute Pink Panther shorts and a seven-minute Ant and the Aardvark short in between, retaining the main characters in both shorts though with some changes.
Show premise
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther shorts are reminiscent of the classic DePatie-Freleng shorts from the 1960s and the 1970s, from art direction, silent acting, musical scoring and story lines. The Pink Panther remains silent throughout the show and appears as a teenager. The Little Man was renamed to "Big Nose" for this series, being voiced by Alex Nussbaum. Pink Panther's horse and Big Nose's lovable canine companion were reintroduced as well.
The Ant and the Aardvark
The Ant and the Aardvark is based on the classic DePatie-Freleng shorts. In this version, the Aardvark's Jewish sense of humor and Jackie Mason-esque voice (portrayed by Eddie Garvar and occasionally John Over) from his classic counterpart remains, a new, younger ant (voiced by Kel Mitchell) has replaced the Dean Martin-esque "Charlie" from the original shorts. The series now takes place in a jungle and new characters were introduced in the series.
Characters
The Pink Panther: The protagonist of the series. He is a cool and collected character who always seems to rub Big Nose the wrong way. As in the classic series, he is a mostly silent protagonist.
Big Nose: Based on the original "Little Man" from the classic series. He is the neighbor and a rival of the Pink Panther. He's depicted as short, with a big nose and a mustache, and is plain white in color. He loves the color blue as much as the Panther loves his favorite color, pink. He is often rude and likes to brag a lot making his relationship with the Panther very complex. He owns an unnamed pet dog who, unlike his master, has almost no problem with the Pink Panther at all. He speaks gibberish.
Horse: The Pink Panther's white horse, based on a horse that gave him trouble in several cartoons of the classic series.
Dog: Big Nose's bull terrier who is cute and lovable, but dangerous. Like his master, he is a plain white color and not very outstanding. He is also a rival of the Pink Panther and isn't always fond of him. But from time to time, he has shown to enjoy the Pink Panther's activities, such as music and dancing.
Ant: A red ant and one of the title characters of "The Ant and the Aardvark" sketches. He is quite sharp and intelligent and, like real-life ants, is physically very strong, being able to carry objects many times his weight. His remarks towards and about Aardvark are somewhat more sharp and sarcastic than in his previous laid-back incarnations.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaic | Osaic, formerly known as Advisor Group, is a network of independent wealth management firms.
With its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, it is one of the largest network of independent broker-dealers in the US, with over 6,000 registered representatives, many of whom are also investment advisors. There are four separate broker-dealers that constitute Advisor Group: SagePoint Financial based in Phoenix, AZ; Royal Alliance in New Jersey; FSC Securities Corporation located in Atlanta, GA; and Woodbury Financial Services located in Oakdale, MN.
The CEO of Advisor Group is Jamie Price.
Acquisitions
In 2019, Advisor Group acquired Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services valued at $1.3 billion. The deal closed in the first half of 2020.
In May 2022, Advisor Group acquired Infinex Financial Holdings and in June of that same year acquired American Portfolios Financial Services.
References
External links
Financial services companies established in 2016
2016 establishments in Arizona
Brokerage firms
Companies based in Phoenix, Arizona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamus%20%28DTP%29 | Calamus is a desktop publishing application, originally built for the Atari ST computer. The first version was released on July 1, 1987 by the former German software company DMC GmbH. It is also able to run under a built-in and transparent Atari emulator on Windows, or on other platforms such as Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, using any available TOS emulator.
Calamus is a software RIP application which generates high-quality output in any resolution. It was one of the first DTP applications supporting an own vector font format, notable for its support for automatic kerning even where adjacent characters are set in different fonts or at different sizes. Its high modularity offers features for almost every purpose in desktop publishing. Calamus also was one of the first DTP apps to support real virtual objects and frames, nondestructive vector masks, and editable PS/PDF import. Its (adjustable) measurement base of 1/10,000mm allows accurate positioning of elements.
Calamus was ported to Windows by MGI Software and was released as Calamus 95. In 1997, distribution rights for the program were taken over by the German company invers Software, which sold the program and developed new versions for the next two decades. In March 2018, invers Software was closed, and sales and development of Calamus were discontinued, although the official website is still functioning as of 2022.
The current and last version of Calamus is Calamus SL 2015, also available as SLC 2015 (complete edition with all additional modules) and LE 2015 (lite edition with restricted number of modules).
Raster Image Processor
Calamus is a RIP itself and handles various, adjustable raster dot sizes at the same time. It handles rasterization information per document, page or even per frame. It also uses a unique, notable method of cutting raster dots, which means that a screen raster can be cropped or clipped at certain borders, given by the document layout elements. Thus, it does not require any external RIP for interpretation, rendering and screening of documents. Using a special module, Calamus supports dot rasterization (using the term Star Screening) which is a frequency modulated method of halftoning (Stochastic screening).
Calamus Intelligent Kerning
Rather than using kerning pairs or relying on simple side-bearing measurements, Calamus’ native fonts encode left and right bounds for each character at eight different latitudes. Unlike the kerning information in other formats, the resulting jigsaw-pieces can be used to fit characters together, even if those characters are from different fonts or if they are set at different sizes.
In contrast, the kerning implementation in OpenType and TrueType only works when adjacent characters are part of the same font, which can result in character collisions or poor kerning in some instances. The alternative is to use optical kerning, where the shapes of the characters are analysed to determine the appropriate distances; Calamus’ approach might b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balls%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Balls was a Philippine pay television network based in Quezon City. It was notable for being the country's first local high-definition TV channel. It was owned and operated by ABS-CBN's subsidiary ABS-CBN Cable Channels. The network shows notable sports broadcasts from the Philippines and abroad, as well as other sports related programming. Its local programming were produced and licensed by ABS-CBN Sports.
Background
Balls was officially launched on January 1, 2008, the same day that fellow ABS-CBN subsidiary Sky Cable dropped the channels of Solar Entertainment Corporation (including the sports channels Solar Sports and Basketball TV) from its lineup. These channels were replaced by a group of new channels owned by ABS-CBN's subsidiary Creative Programs Inc. (now ABS-CBN Cable Channels), which include Maxxx and Velvet. While SkyCable officials stated that the channels were being replaced to reduce redundancy in SkyCable's lineup and introduce new programming to the service, reports surfaced that the two companies had failed to reach a carriage deal since ABS-CBN had accused Solar of cannibalizing the revenue of its over-the-air networks. Some reports says that the dispute has to do with Manny Pacquiao's exclusive contract with ABS-CBN's main competitor GMA Network, which Solar has partnered for free TV airing of its boxing matches.
Although Balls was intended to effectively replace it, Basketball TV was restored to the SkyCable lineup in time for the 2008–09 NBA season in October 2008, and other Solar channels also returned to the lineup afterward.
It was announced that Balls and Balls HD would cease their broadcast on December 31, 2015. Its HD channel, as well as the entire channel's content (except the Ultimate Fighting Championship which the broadcast rights was acquired by TV5's sports division, Sports5) was absorbed to the Sports + Action brand and renamed as ABS-CBN Sports + Action HD.
The last program to air on this channel was a replay of UFC 194: Aldo vs. McGregor on December 31, 2015, before signing off at 12 midnight on January 1, 2016. Cable providers still receiving Balls would see an imaging card that reads "Balls is now signing off". Until the provider can replace it with another channel, while other providers like Sky Cable (in Metro Manila and in select metropolitan and large cities) have replaced this channel with a reserved channel or with another channel, with Sky Cable replacing it with ABS-CBN Sports+Action
High-definition feed
On July 11, 2009, the channel launched its own high-definition feed on Sky Cable, marking the Philippines' first ever local high-definition television channel. On the same day, Balls also televised the country's first locally produced programs in HD, which included a UAAP college basketball game, followed by an NCAA game the following Monday, all produced by ABS-CBN Sports using the recently acquired Sony high-definition professional video cameras and a state-of-the-art HD OB van with technolo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Velvet was a Filipino cable television network based in Quezon City. It was owned and operated by Creative Programs, Inc. (now ABS-CBN Cable Channels), a wholly owned subsidiary of the media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation. The primary focus of the network was into women-oriented general entertainment programming.
Channel Information
Velvet had a sneak preview on SkyCable channel 25 since November 2007, together with Maxxx and Balls. Velvet was officially launched on January 1, 2008. Velvet also aired selected shows on Studio 23 (now S+A).
The channel went off the air at the midnight on January 1, 2014. Miss Universe 2013 was the last program of Velvet before it permanently signed off.
Most of the channel's programming and specials were moved to Lifestyle (now Metro Channel).
Description
Velvet is the result after the contract of Solar Entertainment's 2nd Avenue expired with SkyCable. Velvet is fairly similar in theme and audiences with ETC and 2nd Avenue typically appealing to the female-audience genre with a range from pre-adolescent to the late-thirties age bracket . Velvet features programs based on entertainment news & specials, game shows, stand-up comedy acts, drama, reality series and award shows.
Final program line-up
Series
10 Things I Hate About You
18 to Life
90210 (Season 1 to 5)
A Gifted Man
Accidentally on Purpose
American Princess
All About Aubrey
America's Next Top Model (Cycles 1 to 12)
America's Prom Queen
The Apprentice (Season 4 to 7)
Asia's Next Top Model
Australia's Next Top Model
Awkward.
Bad Girls Club (Seasons 8 & 9)
Big Day
Big Love
Big Rich Texas
Biography
Blue Bloods (Seasons 1 to 3)
Blush: The Search for the Next Great Makeup Artist
Born to Dance
Bridalplasty
Brothers & Sisters (Season 5)
Britain's Next Top Model
Canada's Next Top Model
CBS Evening News
Celebrity Apprentice (Seasons 5 to 7)
Celebrity Fit Club
Charmed
The Choice
The Comeback
Comedy Central Roast
Cougar Town
Crossing Jordan
Crowned
Dallas Divas & Daughters
Dance Moms
Denise Richards: It's Complicated
Dexter (Seasons 4 & 5)
Dirt
Dirty Soap
Don't Forget the Lyrics!
Downtown Girls
E! News Weekend
E! True Hollywood Story
Excused
Extreme Close-Up
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Everybody Loves Raymond
Fashion Police
Five Days
Fly Girls
Geordie Shore
Gigantic
Girlfriends
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys
Gigolos
Glamour Belles
Good Morning America
The Good Wife (Seasons 1 to 4)
Got to Dance (Seasons 1 to 4)
Harper's Island
The Hasselhoffs
Hawaii Five-0 (Seasons 1 to 3)
Hey Paula
High Society
Holly's World
Hollyscoop
Hollywood Squares
House of Lies (Seasons 1 to 2)
Huff
Huge
I Know Kids Like a Star
I Really Knew Me
I Want To Be a Hilton
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
Ice Loves Coco
Iconoclasts
Inside the Actors Studio
Is She Really Going Out with Him?
The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency (Season 3)
Jeopardy!
Jersey Shore (Seasons 1 to 4)
Judging Amy
Keeping Up wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFugue | JFugue is an open source programming library that allows one to program music in the Java programming language without the complexities of MIDI. It was first released in 2002 by David Koelle. Version 2 was released under a proprietary license. Versions 3 and 4 were released under the LGPL-2.1-or-later license. The current version, JFugue 5.0, was released in March 2015, under the Apache-2.0 license. Brian Eubanks has described JFugue as "useful for applications that need a quick and easy way to play music or to generate MIDI files."
Example
Here's an example Java program that will play the C-major scale in JFugue.
import org.jfugue.player.Player;
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Player player = new Player();
player.play("C D E F G A B");
}
}
The string passed to JFugue contains a series of musical instructions that JFugue parses and turns into musical events, which by default are rendered in MIDI. This format, called "Staccato," can represent all of the musical features of MIDI and is specifically designed to be easy for people to read and write. While the default use case for JFugue is to convert Staccato to MIDI, the architecture allows it to read and write musical information from and to a variety of formats (e.g., MIDI to MusicXML, Staccato to LilyPond). Below is an example converting a MIDI file to the Staccato format.
MidiParser parser = new MidiParser();
StaccatoParserListener listener = new StaccatoParserListener();
parser.addParserListener(listener);
parser.parse(MidiSystem.getSequence(new File("YourMidiFile.mid"))); // Change to the name of a MIDI file that you own the rights to
Pattern staccatoPattern = listener.getPattern();
System.out.println(staccatoPattern);
JFugue 5.0 contains a set of classes that represent ideas in music theory, including intervals, scales, chords, and chord progressions.
The notion of Patterns is integral to JFugue. Patterns are used to represent phrases of music that can be combined, repeated, and altered using tools that are aware of the musical content of the pattern.
Pattern pattern1 = new Pattern("A B C");
Pattern pattern2 = new Pattern("G F E");
pattern1.add(pattern2).repeat(3);
Player player = new Player();
player.play(pattern1);
JFugue 5.0 makes extensive use of fluent interfaces, also known as method chaining, which lets developers write short, expressive pieces of code like the following:
Chord[] chords = new ChordProgression("I IV V").setRoot("C").getChords();
Advanced Features
JFugue is capable of producing microtonal music by using a Staccato element consisting of the letter 'm' followed by the frequency in Hertz of the desired tone. Like other notes in JFugue, this tone may be followed by a duration (such as 'w' for a whole note or 'q' for a quarter note) and note dynamics (e.g., "note on" and "note off" velocities). JFugue converts the microtone frequency to a sequence of MIDI Pitch Wheel and Note events to achieve the desired tone.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K1G | 4K1G is an Indigenous Australian radio station based in Townsville, Queensland.
Programming
The station is aimed at the Aboriginal and Tores Strait Island people but plays a wide selection of music, news, sport and talk radio that appeals to the whole community.
See also
Media in Townsville
External links
4K1G.org
Townsville
Australian radio networks
Community radio stations in Australia
Indigenous Australian music
Indigenous Australian radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GridFTP | GridFTP is an extension of the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for grid computing. The protocol was defined within the GridFTP working group of the Open Grid Forum. There are multiple implementations of the protocol; the most widely used is that provided by the Globus Toolkit.
The aim of GridFTP is to provide a more reliable and high performance file transfer, for example to enable the transmission of very large files. GridFTP is used extensively within large science projects such as the Large Hadron Collider and by many supercomputer centers and other scientific facilities.
GridFTP also addresses the problem of incompatibility between storage and access systems. Previously, each data provider would make their data available in their own specific way, providing a library of access functions. This made it difficult to obtain data from multiple sources, requiring a different access method for each, and thus dividing the total available data into partitions. GridFTP provides a uniform way of accessing the data, encompassing functions from all the different modes of access, building on and extending the universally accepted FTP standard. FTP was chosen as a basis for it because of its widespread use, and because it has a well defined architecture for extensions to the protocol (which may be dynamically discovered).
Numerous GridFTP clients have been developed. The Globus Online software-as-a-service system is particularly popular.
Features of GridFTP
GridFTP integrates with the Grid Security Infrastructure, which provides authentication and encryption to file transfers, with user-specified levels of confidentiality and data integrity, also for cross-server transfers (what FTP calls the File eXchange Protocol, FXP).
GridFTP achieves much greater use of bandwidth than conventional data stream technology by using multiple simultaneous TCP streams. Files can be downloaded in pieces simultaneously from multiple sources; or even in separate parallel streams from the same source, which is still able to make better use of the bandwidth. Striped and interleaved transfers, again either from multiple or single sources, allow further speed increases.
Although FTP has the ability to resume an interrupted file transfer from a specific point in a file, it does not support the transmission of only a certain portion of a file. GridFTP allows a subset of a file to be sent. Such a feature is useful in applications where only small sections of a very large data file are required for processing (a motivating example being the processing of data from a high energy physics experiment, a traditional use of Grid technology).
GridFTP provides a fault tolerant implementation of FTP, to handle network unavailability and server problems. Transfers can also be automatically restarted if a problem occurs.
The underlying TCP connection in FTP has numerous settings such as window size and buffer size. GridFTP allows automatic (or manual) negotiation of these settings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20configuration%20audit | In computer engineering, a physical configuration audit (PCA) is the formal examination of the "as-built" configuration of a configuration item (CI) against its technical documentation to establish or verify the CI's product baseline. The PCA is used to examine the actual configuration of the CI that is representative of the product configuration, in order to verify that the related design documentation matches the design of the deliverable CI. It is also used to validate many of the supporting processes that the contractor uses in the production of the CI. This is also used to verify that any elements of the CI that were redesigned after the completion of the functional configuration audit also meet the requirements of the CI's performance specification. Additional PCAs may be accomplished later during CI production if circumstances such as the following apply:
The original production line is "shut down" for several years and then production is restarted.
The production contract for manufacture of a CI with a fairly complex, or difficult-to-manufacture, design is awarded to a new contractor or vendor.
Re-auditing in these circumstances is advisable regardless of whether the contractor or the government controls the detail production design.
Software
PCA is one of the practices used in software configuration management for software configuration auditing. The purpose of the software PCA is to ensure that the design and reference documentation is consistent with the as-built software product.
References
External links
Defense Acquisition Guidebook on Physical Configuration Audit
Configuration management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lander%E2%80%93Green%20algorithm | The Lander–Green algorithm is an algorithm, due to Eric Lander and Philip Green for computing the likelihood of observed genotype data given a pedigree. It is appropriate for relatively small pedigrees and a large number of markers. It is used in the analysis of genetic linkage.
References
Genetic epidemiology
Statistical genetics
Genetic linkage analysis
Statistical algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elston%E2%80%93Stewart%20algorithm | The Elston–Stewart algorithm is an algorithm for computing the likelihood of observed data on a pedigree assuming a general model under which specific genetic segregation, linkage and association models can be tested. It is due to Robert Elston and John Stewart. It can handle relatively large pedigrees providing they are (almost) outbred. When used for linkage analysis its computation time is exponential in the number of markers, in contrast to the Lander-Green algorithm, which has computational time exponential in the number of pedigree members.
References
Elston, R. C., Stewart, J. (1971) "A general model for the genetic analysis of pedigree data". Hum Hered., 21, 523–542
Elston R.C., George V.T., Severtson F. (1992) "The Elston-Stewart algorithm for continuous genotypes and environmental factors", Hum Hered., 42(1), 16–27.
Stewart J. (1992) "Genetics and Biology: A Comment on the Significance of the Elston-Stewart Algorithm", Hum Hered., 42, 9–15
Elston, R.C. (2020) "An accidental genetic epidemiologist", Annu Rev Genom Hum Genet., in press.
Genetic epidemiology
Statistical genetics
Genetic linkage analysis
Statistical algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway-to-Gateway%20Protocol | The Gateway-to-Gateway Protocol (GGP) is an obsolete protocol defined for routing datagrams between Internet gateways. It was first outlined in 1982.
The Gateway-to-Gateway Protocol was designed as an Internet Protocol (IP) datagram service similar to the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). However, it is classified as an Internet Layer protocol.
GGP uses a minimum hop algorithm, in which it measures distance in router hops. A router is defined to be zero hops from directly connected networks, one hop from networks that are reachable through one other gateway. The protocol implements a distributed shortest-path methodology, and therefore requires global convergence of the routing tables after any change of link connectivity in the network.
Each GGP message has a field header that identifies the message type and the format of the remaining fields. Because only core routers participated in GGP, and because core routers were controlled by a central authority, other routers could not interfere with the exchange.
See also
Distance-vector routing protocol
Link-state routing protocol
Router Information Protocol
References
Internet layer protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felsenstein%27s%20tree-pruning%20algorithm | In statistical genetics, Felsenstein's tree-pruning algorithm (or Felsenstein's tree-peeling algorithm), attributed to Joseph Felsenstein, is an algorithm for computing the likelihood of an evolutionary tree from nucleic acid sequence data.
The algorithm is often used as a subroutine in a search for a maximum likelihood estimate for an evolutionary tree. Further, it can be used in a hypothesis test for whether evolutionary rates are constant (by using likelihood ratio tests). It can also be used to provide error estimates for the parameters describing an evolutionary tree.
References
Statistical genetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BabyTV | BabyTV (stylised as Babytv) is a multilingual, international television channel for babies, toddlers and preschoolers aged 3 or lower. The channel is owned and operated by Baby Network Limited, a subsidiary of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company, with Disney handling television distribution. It is headquartered in London and was first launched in 2003 in Israel and 2005 in the United Kingdom. BabyTV is distributed in over 100 countries, broadcasting in 18 languages (as of 2013). The channel broadcasts shows without television commercial interruptions. In the United States, the channel is distributed by Walt Disney Television.
History
BabyTV was first developed in December 2003 as an educational block in Israel by Ron Isaak, Maya and Liran Talit and members of their families. They decided to create an educational television channel for babies and toddlers. It was first launched as a channel in July 2005, and in October 2007, News Corp's Fox International Channels acquired a major stake in BabyTV, placing it alongside its international offerings of Fox Crime, Fox, National Geographic and others. The first six programmes to air on BabyTV were Hands Up, Tulli, Bouncy Balls, Jammers, Little Chick and 1, 2, 3, Tell A Story.
In 2006, Indovision with Dori Media Distribution started operating them in Indonesia. Rebranded as Vision 3 Baby, this channel is dubbed in Indonesian and has the same program content and schedules which BabyTV Asia beams; however, advertising is different on both beams. Vision 3 Baby has since been replaced by the international version of BabyTV. BabyTV was also launched on Sky Digital in the UK on 5 February 2007.
In 2008, French authorities banned the broadcasting of programs aimed at children under the age of 3, and ordered warnings to be included on foreign channels available in France such as BabyTV and its competitor BabyFirst.
The channel, along with Fox Crime and Fox, was launched in India on 25 March 2009.
In January 2011, BabyTV was added to the programming package of Dish Network on channel 126, and then changed to channel 824. On 9 May 2011, BabyTV was launched via Astro channel 614 and then changed to channel 618. On 1 December 2011, BabyTV was launched via SkyCable channel 140 and is only available through its digital platform. On 1 October 2012, BabyTV was launched via mio TV(now known as Singtel TV) channel 244 and it was the first to launch the channel in HDTV 16:9 Format. In Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, it is available on Now TV Channel 448, Macau Cable TV Channel 61 (SD) and 861 (HD) and Taiwan CATV Channel 311 (HD) and CHT MOD Channel 17. A Spanish version is available in the United States on cable and satellite providers (typically Dish Network) in some states. It is also available on Orbit Network, OSN Network, beIN Network and My-HD with Arabic language. On 20 March 2019, the channel became a part of Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International as the result of acquisition of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHOSIDA | The PHOsphorylation SIte DAtabase PHOSIDA integrates thousands of high-confidence in vivo phosphosites identified in various species on the basis of mass spectrometry technology. For each phosphosite, PHOSIDA lists matching kinase motifs, predicted secondary structures, conservation patterns, and its dynamic regulation upon stimulus or other treatments such as kinase inhibition, for example. It includes phosphoproteomes of various organisms ranging from eukaryotes such as human and yeast to bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Lactococcus lactis. Even the phosphoproteome of an archaean organism, namely Halobacterium salinarium, is available. The integration of phosphoproteomes identified in organisms, which cover the phylogenetic tree representatively, enables to examine phosphorylation events from a global point of view including conservation and evolutionary preservation in time.
Moreover, PHOSIDA also predicts phosphosites on the basis of support vector machines.
References
External links
Official website
Phosphorus
Chemical databases
Biological databases
Post-translational modification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993%E2%80%9394%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1993–94 daytime network television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1993 to August 1994.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday–Friday
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News This Morning
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
The Addams Family
All My Children
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
General Hospital
Good Morning America
The Home Show
Land of the Lost
Loving
One Life to Live
Schoolhouse Rock!
This Week with David Brinkley
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa
New series:
CityKids
Cro
Mike and Maty
Sonic the Hedgehog
Tales from the Cryptkeeper
Not returning from 1992-93:
Darkwing Duck
Goof Troop
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
CBS
Returning series:
As the World Turns
The Bold and the Beautiful
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News Sunday Morning
CBS Storybreak
CBS This Morning
The Little Mermaid
Face the Nation
Garfield and Friends
Guiding Light
The Price Is Right
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Young and the Restless
New series:
All-New Dennis the Menace
Beakman's World
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Conan and the Young Warriors
Marsupilami
Not returning from 1992-93:
The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys
Back to the Future
Cyber C.O.P.S.
Raw Toonage
Fievel's American Tails
Grimmy
Fox
Returning series:
Batman: The Animated Series
Bobby's World
Dog City
Eek! The Cat
Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends
Taz-Mania
Tiny Toon Adventures
Tom & Jerry Kids
X-Men
New series:
Animaniacs
Droopy, Master Detective
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
The Terrible Thunderlizards
Thunderbirds USA
Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?
Not returning from 1992-93:
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Beetlejuice
George of the Jungle
Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
The Plucky Duck Show
Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire
NBC
Returning series:
Another World
Brains and Brawn
Caesars Challenge
California Dreams
Classic Concentration
Days of Our Lives
John and Leeza from Hollywood (retitled Leeza)
Meet the Press
Name Your Adventure
NBA Inside Stuff
NBC News at Sunrise
NBC Nightly News
Saturday T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rides%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Rides is an automotive reality TV show produced for the TLC Network in the United States. The show's host is the automobile enthusiast and amateur racer Jason Priestley. Rides began in summer 2004 and became TLC's highest-rated series of the year.
Cars
The majority of the cars seen in the show were one-off (non-production) cars or concept cars such as the Ford Shelby GR-1 and the Ford Shelby Cobra Concept. The show also showed the building aspects and techniques used for creating cars.
External links
2004 American television series debuts
2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Haseman | Chris Haseman (born 2 June 1969 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian mixed martial artist. Haseman is currently signed with Fighting Network RINGS and is a longtime veteran of the promotion (1995–2012). Regarded as a pioneer of MMA in Australia he competed in Australia's first MMA show along with events such as the UFC and the World Fighting Alliance.
Biography
Fighting Network RINGS
Coming from a background in Karate, Boxing, Wrestling and Jujutsu, Haseman was signed up by RINGS as the head of their Australian branch. He had his debut in mixed martial arts outside the promotion, however, fighting Vale Tudo exponent Murilo Bustamante in Martial Arts Reality Superfighting. Although he lost by strikes in little more than a minute, his next bouts were more successful; taking part in Australia's Caged Combat 1 tournament, Haseman submitted two consecutive opponents by taking them down and ramming his chin into their eye sockets, and it took another vale tudo veteran, Mario Sperry, to knock him out.
After returning to RINGS, Haseman fought professional wrestler Alexander Otsuka and won by doctor stoppage after controlling the bout. He then participated in a February 1998 RINGS Holland event, where he fought Kickboxing and Sambo expert Valentijn Overeem to a decision that eventually went to the latter.
He also competed in ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship, winning the bronze medal at the 1999 edition at +99 kg.
Haseman eventually was chosen to participate in RINGS's first world mixed martial arts tournament, King of Kings 1999. His opponent would be the renowned Japanese fighter Tsuyoshi Kohsaka, who came from fighting multiple bouts in Ultimate Fighting Championship. Haseman controlled the first round, executing repeated armlock attempts on a defensive Kohsaka, but the Australian was unable to finish him, and this carried to the second one, where Kohsaka took over the grappling exchanges. Entering the third round already tired, Haseman turtled down and continued fighting from the position, only for the Japanese to counter him and grind him with strikes. The match ended with Haseman defending a Guillotine Choke attempt, and it saw the judges eventually awarding the split decision to Kohsaka. Although eliminated from the tournament, Haseman won a bonus fight, submitting American wrestler Brad Kohler by armbar from the bottom in 1:11.
The rest of 2000 was an active year for Haseman as well, submitting most of his opponents and fighting to a decision with future UFC Welterweight Champion Matt Hughes. In September, he was defeated by fellow UFC champion Jeremy Horn in the first time Haseman fell on a submission move.
He returned at the next edition of King of Kings, being pitted first against Carlson Gracie trainee Carlos Barreto, who outweighed him by 30 pounds. The bout was primarily fought on the feet, with Barreto enjoying the reach advantage and cutting Haseman on his forehead with a punch, though also with Haseman returning t |
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