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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide%3A%20Life%20on%20the%20Street%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of Homicide: Life on the Street aired in the United States on the NBC television network from 20 September 1996 to 16 May 1997 and contained 22 episodes. A new opening sequence debuted with the start of this season, including elements of a police investigation (murder weapon, dusting for fingerprints, etc.) and a growing chatter of radio transmissions behind the theme music. In addition, pictures of the actors were displayed alongside their names for the first time. The sequence ends with the ringing of the squadroom phone and a voice answering, "Homicide."
Two new characters appeared during this season: Chief Medical Examiner Julianna Cox (a regular character portrayed by Michelle Forbes); and Detective Terri Stivers (a recurring character portrayed by guest star Toni Lewis), a Narcotics officer who works with Homicide to bring down local drug kingpin Luther Mahoney.
The two-part season finale introduced Detective Paul Falsone (portrayed by Jon Seda), a member of the Auto Squad briefly on loan to Homicide, re-introduced Stuart Gharty (portrayed by Peter Gerety), now a detective assigned to Internal Investigations, and marked the return of Detective Megan Russert (Isabella Hofmann) from her season-long leave of absence in France. It also marked the final regular appearances of Sgt. Kay Howard (Melissa Leo) and unit videographer J. H. Brodie (Max Perlich).
The DVD box set of season 5 was released for Region 1 on September 28, 2004. The set includes all 22 season 5 episodes on six discs.
Episodes
References
1996 American television seasons
1997 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Network%20to%20End%20the%20War%20Against%20Iraq | The National Network to End the War Against Iraq (NNEWAI) (2001–2004) was the first formal coalition in the United States founded specifically to oppose the policy of economic sanctions and ongoing bombing of targets inside Iraq.
History
The Network was founded in February 2001 at the Second National Organizing Conference on Iraq, held in Denver, Colorado and hosted by the Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace. The first National Organizing Conference on Iraq had been held in October 1999 at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where proposals for the formation of the Network had produced ambiguous results. Subsequent national organizing conferences on Iraq were held in 2002 (Palo Alto, California), 2003 (College Park, Maryland) and 2004 (Bloomington, Indiana). After the 2003 conference, held during the US invasion of Iraq, the Network's name was officially changed to the National Grassroots Peace Network (NGPN), but the new name never gained much currency.
During its three and a half year history, the Network grew from around 70 to over 350 member organizations in 48 states. During each year of its existence, the Network co-ordinated nationwide protests, vigils and other actions conducted locally by member groups. The Network supported the global day of protest against the impending invasion of Iraq on February 15, 2003, the largest protest action in history. On February 15, 2004, the Network independently organized a Vigil for Peace in 120 cities in a dozen countries.
Mission: Opposition to Sanctions
The primary cause that brought Network members together was the humanitarian crisis in Iraq resulting from the trade embargo imposed through the United Nations at the urging of the United States and the United Kingdom. Network members were appalled at studies by UNICEF and other UN agencies that showed that the combined effects of the 1991 bombing campaign and sanctions had led to as many as 1.5 million additional Iraqi deaths by 1995, including more than 500,000 children.
Organizing Philosophy
Tensions between local member groups and existing national organizations existed within the Network throughout its existence. The Network represents one in a long line of efforts to build a grassroots, "bottom-up" structure of organization to operate within the peace movement. This left the Network with a weak center. While the emergence of half a dozen or more national coalitions opposing the US invasion and occupation of Iraq from late 2002 may have made the Network's continuation impossible, the Network's collapse in late 2004 was primarily due to the inability of member groups to agree on a fundraising strategy to sustain the national office, or whether to pursue incorporation.
Anti–Iraq War groups
UNICEF |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20network%20advertising | Social network advertising, also known as "social media targeting," is a group of terms that are used to describe forms of online advertising and digital marketing that focus on social networking services. One of the significant benefits of this type of advertising is that advertisers can take advantage of the users' demographic information, psychographics and other data points to target their ads appropriately.
Social media targeting combines current targeting options (such as geotargeting, behavioral targeting, socio-psychographic targeting, etc.) to make detailed target group identification possible. Important factors also include what the user likes, comments on, views, and follows on social media platforms. With social media targeting, advertisements are distributed to users based on information gathered from target group profiles.
Social network advertising is not necessarily the same as social media targeting. Social media targeting optimizes social media advertising by using profile data to deliver advertisements directly to individual users. Social network advertising refers to matching social network users to target groups specified by the advertiser. Social media advertising involves creating content on social media platforms, engaging with followers, and running social media advertisements.
Application
People who use social networking sites give various personal information about themselves, including their age, gender, interests, and location, which are stored on the servers of social media companies. This stored information allows advertisers to create specific target groups and individualize their advertisements. The advantage for advertisers is that their ads can reach a particular set of audiences who are interested in the product or service. The benefit for users is that they can see advertisements that may be more relevant to their interests.
Facebook
Facebook has developed targeting technology that allows advertisements to reach a specific audience. This is within the Facebook product called Facebook Ads, available to users and businesses alike. While posting an ad through the Facebook Ad Manager, an advertiser is provided with a set of characteristics that will define his target market. Facebook calls this audience targeting. These traits include geographical location, gender, age, work, relationship status, and interests such as music. Facebook claims that advertisers can even customize their target audience based on their behavior, such as purchasing patterns, device usage, and other activities. This is why Facebook users see advertisements relevant to their preferences and interests on their profile pages. This makes the ads less intrusive and more successful in delivering the appropriate content to the right audience. The advertisement algorithm is also capable of monitoring performance so that advertisers or Facebook marketers can modify their audience as well as the nature, budget, and duration of the ads based o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide%3A%20Life%20on%20the%20Street%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of Homicide: Life on the Street aired in the United States on the NBC television network from October 17, 1997 to May 8, 1998 and contained 23 episodes.
The sixth season marked the debut of character Detective Laura Ballard (Callie Thorne). Detectives Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher) and Mike Kellerman (Reed Diamond) depart the show in the season finale. Chief Medical Examiner Julianna Cox departs mid-season, with her last appearance being in the episode "Lies and Other Truths". Detectives Paul Falsone (Jon Seda) and Stuart Gharty (Peter Gerety), both of whom appeared in the Season 5 finale, become regular characters.
The DVD box set of season 6 was released for Region 1 on January 25, 2005. The set includes all 23 season 6 episodes on six discs.
Going into the sixth season, NBC gave the series producers an ultimatum to make Homicide more popular than its CBS timeslot competitor Nash Bridges or face cancellation. When this goal was not reached, the studio began serious consideration to canceling the show, but a number of unexpected events at NBC increased Homicide's value. Among those factors were the loss of the popular series Seinfeld and the $850 million deal needed to keep ER from leaving the network. As a result, the show received a 22-episode seventh season.
Andre Braugher would go on to win the only Emmy and, in 1999, Golden Globe awards the series would ever receive.
Episodes
When first shown on network television, multiple episodes were aired out of order. The DVD present the episodes in the correct chronological order, restoring all storylines and character developments.
References
1997 American television seasons
1998 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Sleep%20Apnea%20Database | The European Sleep Apnea Database (ESADA) (also referred to with spelling European Sleep Apnoea Database and European Sleep Apnoea Cohort) is a collaboration between European sleep centres as part of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action B 26. The main contractor of the project is the Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University, Institute of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, and the co-ordinator is Jan Hedner, MD, PhD, Professor of Sleep Medicine.
The book Clinical Genomics: Practical Applications for Adult Patient Care said ESADA was an example initiatives which afford an "excellent opportunity" for future collaborative research into genetic aspects of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). Both the European Respiratory Society and the European Sleep Research Society have noted the impact for research cooperative efforts of the database resource.
History
2006 – 2010
In 2006 the European Sleep Apnea Database (ESADA) began as an initiative between 27 European sleep study facilities to combine information and compile it into one shared resource. It was formed as part of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action B 26. In addition to financial help from COST, the initiative received assistance from companies Philips Respironics and ResMed. The database storing the association's resource information is located in Gothenburg, Sweden. The group's goal was twofold: to serve as a reference guide to those researching sleep disorders, and to compile information about how different caregivers treat patients with sleep apnea.
5,103 patients were tracked from March 2007 to August 2009. Data collected on these patients included symptoms experienced, medication, medical history, and sleep data, all inputted into an online format for further analysis. Database researchers reported on their methodology and results in 2010 to the American Thoracic Society, on their observed findings regarding percentages of metabolic and cardiovascular changes related to patients with obstructive sleep apnea. The 2010 research resulted from collaboration between 22 study centres across 16 countries in Europe involving 27 researchers. The primary participants who presented to the American Thoracic Society included researchers from: Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; National TB & Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland; CNR Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular, Palermo, Italy; Instituto Auxologico Italiano, Ospedale San Luca, Milan, Italy; and St. Vincent University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Their analysis was published in 2010 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
2011 – present
In 2011 there were 22 sleep disorder centres in Europe involved in the collaboration. The group published research in 2011 analyzing the percentage of patients with sleep apnea that have obesity. By 2012 the database maintaine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide%3A%20Life%20on%20the%20Street%20%28season%207%29 | The seventh and final season of Homicide: Life on the Street aired in the United States on the NBC television network from September 25, 1998 to May 21, 1999 and contained 22 episodes.
The seventh season marked the debut of characters FBI Agent Mike Giardello (Giancarlo Esposito) and Detective Rene Sheppard (Michael Michele). Recurring character Detective Terri Stivers (Toni Lewis) became a regular cast member as of season 7, while Chief Medical Examiner George Griscom (Austin Pendleton) becomes a recurring character following the season 6 departure of C.M.E. Julianna Cox.
The DVD box set of season 7 was released for Region 1 on June 28, 2005. The set includes all 22 season 7 episodes on six discs.
During the sixth season, NBC considered canceling the show in the face of consistently low ratings, but a number of shocks at NBC increased Homicide's value. Among those factors were the loss of the popular series Seinfeld and the $850 million deal needed to keep ER from leaving the network. As a result, the network approved a 22-episode seventh season.
Episodes
When first shown on network television, multiple episodes towards the end of season were aired out of order. The DVD present the episodes in the correct chronological order, restoring all storylines and character developments.
References
External links
1998 American television seasons
1999 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogitBoost | In machine learning and computational learning theory, LogitBoost is a boosting algorithm formulated by Jerome Friedman, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani.
The original paper casts the AdaBoost algorithm into a statistical framework. Specifically, if one considers AdaBoost as a generalized additive model and then applies the cost function of logistic regression, one can derive the LogitBoost algorithm.
Minimizing the LogitBoost cost function
LogitBoost can be seen as a convex optimization. Specifically, given that we seek an additive model of the form
the LogitBoost algorithm minimizes the logistic loss:
See also
Gradient boosting
Logistic model tree
References
Ensemble learning
Classification algorithms
Machine learning algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Grey%20Cup%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television and radio networks and announcers that have broadcast the Grey Cup in English.
Television
2020s
Notes
In May 2020, due to postponement of the regular season and other factors relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced that the 108th Grey Cup festivities in Regina, Saskatchewan (which were to be the first to be hosted by the new Mosaic Stadium) had been cancelled and postponed to 2022, and that the site of the game, if held, would be based on regular season records rather than as a neutral site. The Grey Cup itself was later cancelled in August along with the 2020 CFL season, which was the first year that the Grey Cup was not contested since 1919.
2010s
2000s
Notes
Beginning in 2008, TSN gained exclusive coverage rights to the CFL.
1990s
1980s
Notes
The 1982 Grey Cup broadcast drew the largest Canadian TV audience up to that time.
After the 1986 season, CTV dropped coverage of the CFL altogether. In response to this, the CFL formed its own syndicated network, called CFN (Canadian Football Network). CFN had completely separate coverage of the Grey Cup (when compared to CBC), utilizing its own production and commentators. From 1987–1989, a weekly CFN game telecast, including playoffs and the Grey Cup championship, aired in the United States on a tape-delay basis on ESPN.
The CFL operated the Canadian Football Network, a coalition of private broadcasters that shared league games and the Grey Cup with the CBC, from 1987 to 1990.
1970s
Notes
From 1971–1986, CBC and CTV fully pooled their commentary teams for the game. The first set of commentators listed described the first half of the game, and the second set described the rest of the game.
1960s
Notes
From 1962–1986, CBC and CTV simulcast the Grey Cup. For 1962, 1965, 1967, 1968 and 1970, CTV's commentators were used for the dual network telecast. Meanwhile, in 1963, 1964, 1966 and 1969, CBC's announcers were provided.
The CBC carried the first national telecasts exclusively, but the CTV Television Network purchased rights to the 1962 game. The move sparked concern across Canada as the newly formed network was not yet available in many parts of the country. The debate over whether an "event of national interest" should be broadcast by the publicly funded CBC or private broadcasters reached the floor of Parliament as members of the federal government weighed in. It was decided that both networks would carry the game. The two networks continued with the simulcast arrangement until 1986 when CTV ceased its coverage.
1950s
Notes
Canadian television was in its infancy in 1952 when Toronto's CBLT paid $7,500 for the rights to carry the first televised broadcast of a Grey Cup game. Within two years, it was estimated that 80 percent of the nation's 900,000 television sets were tuned into the game, even though the first national telecast did not occur until 1957. The Grey Cup continues to be one of Canada's most-viewed sporting events.
United |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Luke%27s%20Health%20System | Saint Luke's Health System is a non-profit hospital network in the bi-state Kansas City metro area, located in northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri. It traces its history to its flagship hospital, Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, which was established in 1882. With over 12,000 local employees, Saint Luke's Health System is the third largest private employer in the Kansas City metro.
Leadership
Melinda Estes – president and chief executive officer
Bob Bonney – senior vice president, non-acute services and business development
Debe Gash – senior vice president and chief digital officer
Dawn Murphy – senior vice president, human resources
Jan Murray – senior vice president and chief legal counsel
J. Chris Perryman – senior vice president and chief medical officer
Julie Quirin – senior vice president, hospital operations
Chuck Robb – senior vice president, finance & administration and chief financial officer
Richard D. Rolston – senior vice president and chief executive officer, Saint Luke's Physician Group
Diane Trimble – interim system chief nursing officer and chief nursing informatics officer
Michael VanDerhoef – senior vice president of development and executive director, Saint Luke's Foundation
Locations
Anderson County Hospital, Garnett, Kansas
Allen County Hospital, Iola, Kansas
Hedrick Medical Center, Chillicothe, Missouri
Saint Luke's Bishop Spencer Place, Kansas City, Missouri
Saint Luke's Community Hospital – Leawood, Leawood, Kansas
Saint Luke's Community Hospital – Legends, Kansas City, Kansas
Saint Luke's Community Hospital – Olathe, Olathe, Kansas
Saint Luke's Community Hospital – Overland Park, Overland Park, Kansas
Saint Luke's Community Hospital – Roeland Park, Roeland Park, Kansas
Saint Luke's Community Hospital – Shawnee, Shawnee, Kansas
Saint Luke's Cushing Hospital, Leavenworth, Kansas
Saint Luke's East Hospital, Lee's Summit, Missouri
Saint Luke's Hospice House, Kansas City, Missouri
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City's Crittenton Children's Center, Kansas City, Missouri
Saint Luke's North Hospital–Barry Road, Kansas City, Missouri
Saint Luke's North Hospital–Smithville, Smithville, Missouri
Saint Luke's South Hospital, Overland Park, Kansas
Wright Memorial Hospital, Trenton, Missouri
Cushing Hospital was closed in July 2020 because of financial difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Institutes
Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
Saint Luke's Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute
Saint Luke's Cancer Institute
Saint Luke's Midwest Ear Institute
Saint Luke's Rehabilitation Institute
Affiliations
Saint Luke's College of Nursing and Health Sciences
References
External links
Hospital networks in the United States
Healthcare in Missouri
Healthcare in Kansas
1882 establishments in Missouri
Medical and health organizations based in Missouri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach%20TV%20Properties | Beach TV Properties, Inc., is an American television broadcasting company based in Panama City, Florida. Also known as the Destination Network, the company specializes in television stations that broadcast tourist information to visitors in the cities that Beach TV has a presence in.
Stations
WPCT channel 46 (Beach TV): Panama City, Florida (flagship station)
WAWD channel 58 (Beach TV): Fort Walton Beach / Pensacola, Florida
WDES-CD channel 58 (Beach TV) Miramar Beach, Florida
WGSC-CD channel 8 (Beach TV): Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
WCAY-CD channel 36 (Key TV): Key West, Florida
KNOV-CD channel 41 (NOTV): New Orleans, Louisiana
WTHC-LD channel 42 (The Atlanta Channel): Atlanta, Georgia
External links
- DestinationNetwork.com
tripsmarter.com - Beach TV's official site
Television broadcasting companies of the United States
Companies based in Florida
Tourism in the United States
Panama City, Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20Oriented%20Input%20System | OIS (Object-Oriented Input System) is a code library for constructing a human-computer interface with input devices such as a keyboard, mouse or game controller. OIS is designed so that software developers can easily use input from these devices with a computer application.
General information
The Object-Oriented Input Library is a mostly C++ library for handling input. Input types include mouse, keyboard, joystick and Wii remote.
OIS is meant to be cross-platform, supporting Windows and Linux systems. OS X and FreeBSD are only partially supported.
Features
OIS uses an Object-oriented design.
Various types of input including mouse, keyboard, joystick and Wii Remote are supported.
OIS can handle force feedback devices.
References
External links
Project Homepage
Project Repository (GitHub)
Source-Forge project page (legacy)
Ohloh project page
Free software programmed in C++ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI%20Origin%203000%20and%20Onyx%203000 | The Origin 3000 and the Onyx 3000 is a family of mid-range and high-end computers developed and manufactured by SGI. The Origin 3000 is a server, and the Onyx 3000 is a visualization system. Both systems were introduced in July 2000 to succeed the Origin 2000 and the Onyx2 respectively. These systems ran the IRIX 6.5 Advanced Server Environment operating system. Entry-level variants of these systems based on the same architecture but with a different hardware implementation are known as the Origin 300 and Onyx 300. The Origin 3000 was succeeded by the Altix 3000 in 2004 and the last model was discontinued on 29 December 2006, while the Onyx 3000 was succeeded by the Onyx4 and the Itanium-based Prism in 2004 and the last model was discontinued on 25 March 2005.
Origin 3000
Models
Special
Origin 3200C - This model was a cluster of nodes that consist of entire Origin 3200 systems. This model could scale to thousands of processors. The clustering technology used was gigabit Ethernet and Infiniband.
Hardware description
Physically, the Origin 3000 is based on "bricks" - rackmounted modules that provide a specific function, that are connected together using NUMAlink 3 cables for modules providing compute functions, or Crosstown2 cables for modules providing I/O functions. These bricks are mounted in a standard 19-inch rack. There are two racks for the Origin 3000, a 17U-high short rack, and a 39U-high tall rack.
Architecturally, the Origin 3000 is based on the distributed shared memory NUMAflex architecture. The NUMAlink 3 system interconnect uses a fat tree hypercube network topology.
C-brick
The C-brick is a 3U-high enclosure that contains a node on a PCB. The node contains two or four processors, the local and directory memory, and the Bedrock ASIC. It connects to the system using NUMAlink 3.
Processor
The two processors and their secondary caches is contained on a PIMM (Processor Integrated Memory Module) daughter card that plugs into two 240-pin connectors on the node board. Initially, the Origin 3000 used the 360 MHz R12000 and the 400 MHz R12000A processors with 4 or 8 MB of secondary cache. In May 2001, the 500 MHz R14000 was introduced with 8 MB of secondary cache and in February 2002, the 600 MHz R14000A was made available. Near the end of its lifetime, the C-brick was updated with 800 MHz MIPS processors.
Local and directory memory
The C-Brick supports 512 MB to 8 GB of local memory through eight DIMM slots organised into eight banks by using proprietary 100 MHz ECC DDR SDRAM DIMMs with capacities of 256 MB, 512 MB and 1 GB. The data path between the DIMM and the Bedrock ASIC is 144 bits wide, with 128 bits for data and 16 bits for ECC. Because the Origin 3000 uses a distributed shared memory model, directory memory is used to maintain cache coherency between the processors. Unlike the Origin 2000, which requires dedicated proprietary DIMMs for the directory memory, the Origin 3000's directory memory is integrated in the s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS%20syntax | MUMPS is a high performance transaction processing key–value database with integrated programming language.
MUMPS allows multiple commands to appear on a line, grouped into procedures (subroutines) in a fashion similar to most structured programming systems. Storing variables in the database (and on other machines on the network) is designed to be simple, requiring no libraries and using the same commands and operators used for working with variables in RAM as with data in persistent storage.
History
There have been several revisions to the MUMPS language standard between 1975 and 1999. The basic language structure has remained constant. MUMPS was early used for multi-user and multi-tasking work. Today, a PC running MUMPS can behave much as a large minicomputer of former years. Early versions of MUMPS did not require large memory or disk capacities and so were practical on smaller machines than some other systems required.
Whitespace
In MUMPS syntax, some spaces are significant; they are not merely whitespace. Spaces are used as explicit separators between different syntax elements. For example, a space (called ls in the formal MUMPS standard) separates a tag on a line from the commands that make up that line. Another example is the single space that separates a command from the arguments of that command. If the argument is empty, the command is considered to be "argumentless". This means this a context in which a pair of spaces has a different syntactic significance than a single space. One space separates the command from its argument, and the second space separates this command from the next command. However, extra spaces may always be added between commands for clarity because in this context the second and more spaces are not syntactically significant, up to the line length limit in an implementation. The end-of-line characters are syntactically significant, as they mark the end of line scope for IF, ELSE, and FOR commands. In contrast to other languages, carriage returns and linefeeds are not the same as white space; they are terminators of a line. Where some languages have a requirement to put semicolons at the end of commands, MUMPS uses the space or line-terminator to end the command. While other languages have larger ways of grouping commands, such as statements and blocks, MUMPS does not have these, only the line scope. Unlike Fortran and some other languages which had fixed-length lines, lines have variable length up to the limit of the implementation. There is no explicit way to extend or continue a line.
Routines
A typical M procedure (a "routine" in MUMPS terminology) is analogous to a source file in C (in that the subroutines and functions relevant to a particular task or category are grouped together, for instance) and consists of lines of MUMPS code. Starting a line with a label instead of whitespace creates a tag which can be used as the target of a goto, procedure call or function call (functions return values, proce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagambino | Carlo J. Caparas' Gagambino is a Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based from Carlo J. Caparas' graphic novel of the same title. Directed by Topel Lee and Don Michael Perez, it stars Dennis Trillo in the title role. It premiered on October 20, 2008 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Dyesebel. The series concluded on February 20, 2009 with a total of 90 episodes. It was replaced by Totoy Bato in its timeslot.
Production
When GMA Network bought the rights to Carlo J. Caparas' graphic novel in February 2007, Richard Gutierrez was attached to star. The series was shelved until 2008, but Gutierrez opted to work on his dream project: Codename: Asero. The network decided that they could not longer delay the series and gave the role to Dennis Trillo, over another heavy contender: JC de Vera, who later joined the cast in LaLola.
Director Topel Lee required Trillo to learn three martial arts in preparation for the role: wing chun, judo and kendo (a Japanese martial art of sword-fighting). He also underwent training for parkour.
Premise
Gambino "Bino" Bayani and his adventures with his giant spider as they fight evil forces in a darker, crime-infested re-imagination of Manila. Bino and his group of friends, all possessing insect-like superpowers like him, are pitted against Abresia, a terrorist mastermind and a very powerful woman who can command giant insects.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dennis Trillo as Gambino "Bino" Bayani
Supporting cast
Raymart Santiago as Dindo Gutierrez
Polo Ravales as Harold Santiago
Katrina Halili as Lucy Gutierrez / Lady Mantisa
Nadine Samonte as Celine Lopez
Isabel Oli as Bernadette Albuento / Alakdanessa
Glaiza de Castro as Leah Albuento / Super Bee
Jennica Garcia as Gelay L. Bayani
Jean Garcia as Abresia / Divina M. Lopez-Gutierrez
Mart Escudero as Noel Albuento
Glydel Mercado as Rebecca Bayani-Santiago
Jan Manual as Eldon
Benjie Paras as Stalin
Krista Kleiner as Krissa
Guest cast
Zoren Legaspi as Armand Santiago
Bernadette Allyson as Elena Bayani
John Arcilla as Alejandro Bayani
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Gagambino earned a 34.5% rating. While the final episode scored a 34.7% rating.
References
External links
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Superhero television shows
Television shows based on comics
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortera | Cortera, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, U.S., is a provider of credit information on businesses and corporations. The company provides business information with a database containing a number of private and public U.S. companies, analytics about each of those companies, and workflow software.
Typical users include business analysts, sales and marketing experts and credit & collections professionals who need to research their prospects, customers, and partners. Principal customers include transportation providers, manufacturers and wholesalers, telcos, banks, and other credit and financial institutions.
History
Cortera was founded in 1993 as SRR Solutions by Northeastern University professor, Venkat Srinivasan, to provide credit & collections software. Over the years, the company raised tens of millions in venture capital funding, dabbled with the creation of an online B2B debt exchange and changed its name to eCredit in 1998. In December 2006 the company was acquired by an investment group that ultimately included Fidelity Ventures, Battery Ventures, and CIBC. The company name was changed from eCredit to Cortera in early 2008.
Moody's Analytics acquired Cortera in 2021.
Products and services
Business information
Credit & Collections software
Analytics
B2B Payment Data
Partners
The company primarily partners with other providers of business information to include their information in its software. Partners include:
Bureau van Dijk
Moodys Analytics
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
References
External links
Official website
Business services companies established in 1993
Business services companies of the United States
Companies based in Boca Raton, Florida
Companies based in Dedham, Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Apus is a constellation.
Apus or APUS may also refer to:
Apus (bird), a genus of birds
Lepidurus apus, a species of crustacean in the genus Lepidurus
APUS (computer), an Amiga computer brand
AP United States History (AP US), an American college-level course and examination
APUS Group, an Android developer
American Public University System, an online learning institution
See also
APU (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacio-geological%20databases | Glacio-geological databases compile data on glacially associated sedimentary deposits and erosional activity from former and current ice-sheets, usually from published peer-reviewed sources. Their purposes are generally directed towards two ends: (Mode 1) compiling information about glacial landforms, which often inform about former ice-flow directions; and (Mode 2) compiling information which dates the absence or presence of ice.
These databases are used for a variety of purposes: (i) as bibliographic tools for researchers; (ii) as the quantitative basis of mapping of landforms or dates of ice presence/absence; and (iii) as quantitative databases which are used to constrain physically based mathematical models of ice-sheets.
Antarctic Ice Sheet: The AGGDB is a Mode 2 glacio-geological database for the Antarctic ice-sheet using information from around 150 published sources, covering glacial activity mainly from the past 30,000 years. It is available online, and aims to be comprehensive to the end of 2007.
British Ice Sheet: BRITICE is a Mode 1 database which aims to map all glacial landforms of Great Britain.
Eurasian Ice Sheet: DATED-1 is a Mode 2 database for the Eurasian ice-sheet. Its sister-project DATED-2 uses the information in DATED-1 to map the retreat of the Eurasian ice-sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum.
See also
Glacial landforms
Sediment
Geology
Ice sheet
Exposure Age Dating
Radio-carbon dating
References
Quaternary
Physical geography
Physical oceanography
Scientific databases
Geographical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Tr%C4%85bka | Jan J. Trąbka (21 June 1931 – 27 July 2012) was a full professor of neurological and computer sciences at the Jagiellonian University Medical College. He went to the Faculty of Medicine of the Kraków Academy of Medicine and received his MD from the Academy of Medicine, Kraków in 1955 and defended his PhD in 1961, thesis entitled "Bioelectric activity of brain within the band 200-500 Hz", in 1964 he defended habilitation dissertation about electrophysiological image of asymmetry of brain hemispheres. Associate professor in 1977, in 1988 designed the full professor. Professor Trąbka has published over 500 publications within the fields of neurology, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, medical informatics and neurocybernetics, including 15 books.
Work
1955-2002 - Kraków Academy of Medicine and Jagiellonian University Medical College
1974-1991 the head of the first in Poland Department of Medical Informatics, founded by himself.
During the period of over 10 years (1991–2002), until retired, he had been a chairman of the Department of Biocybernetics of the Jagiellonian University Medical College
1959-1960 – Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, as Rockefeller Foundation fellow
1967-1968 - l'Institut Marey (Marey's Institute), Paris, neurophysiology
1968-1969 – Neurophysiologie Clinique, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in Paris, French Academy of Science stipend
1970-1971 – Psychopharmacological Institute, Austrian Academic of Science , Wien, neuropsychopharmacology
1980 – Stony Brook University, New York, Senior Scientist
1985 - University of Los Angeles, Visiting professor sponsored by the Kosciusko Foundation
1985 - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Visiting professor sponsored by the Kosciusko Foundation
Memberships
president of the Main Board of the Polish Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, 1989–1993
president of the Committee of Neurological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1988–1993
member of the International Institute of Brain Research (IBRO/UNESCO), elected in 1980
member of the International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry , since 1985
member of the European Society of Sleep Research, since 1989
corresponding member of Collegium Europaeum Jenense , since 1991
Contributions
His contributions include:
high frequency components in brain wave activity - bioelectric activity of brain within the band 200–500 Hz
anatomopathological correlations with EEG records in the subdural hematoma
electronystagmographic evaluation of the caloric nystagmus
antiserotonin activity of 1-methyl-6-methoxy (1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocarboline) (MMTHC)
the effect of 1-methyl-6-methoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-2-carboline (Adrenoglomerulotrophine - AGT) on the central nervous system
1-methyl-6-methoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocarboline (THC) and D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) influence on the evoked responses in the associative cortex of the cat brain
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20Morse%20theory | Discrete Morse theory is a combinatorial adaptation of Morse theory developed by Robin Forman. The theory has various practical applications in diverse fields of applied mathematics and computer science, such as configuration spaces, homology computation, denoising, mesh compression, and topological data analysis.
Notation regarding CW complexes
Let be a CW complex and denote by its set of cells. Define the incidence function in the following way: given two cells and in , let be the degree of the attaching map from the boundary of to . The boundary operator is the endomorphism of the free abelian group generated by defined by
It is a defining property of boundary operators that . In more axiomatic definitions one can find the requirement that
which is a consequence of the above definition of the boundary operator and the requirement that .
Discrete Morse functions
A real-valued function is a discrete Morse function if it satisfies the following two properties:
For any cell , the number of cells in the boundary of which satisfy is at most one.
For any cell , the number of cells containing in their boundary which satisfy is at most one.
It can be shown that the cardinalities in the two conditions cannot both be one simultaneously for a fixed cell , provided that is a regular CW complex. In this case, each cell can be paired with at most one exceptional cell : either a boundary cell with larger value, or a co-boundary cell with smaller value. The cells which have no pairs, i.e., whose function values are strictly higher than their boundary cells and strictly lower than their co-boundary cells are called critical cells. Thus, a discrete Morse function partitions the CW complex into three distinct cell collections: , where:
denotes the critical cells which are unpaired,
denotes cells which are paired with boundary cells, and
denotes cells which are paired with co-boundary cells.
By construction, there is a bijection of sets between -dimensional cells in and the -dimensional cells in , which can be denoted by for each natural number . It is an additional technical requirement that for each , the degree of the attaching map from the boundary of to its paired cell is a unit in the underlying ring of . For instance, over the integers , the only allowed values are . This technical requirement is guaranteed, for instance, when one assumes that is a regular CW complex over .
The fundamental result of discrete Morse theory establishes that the CW complex is isomorphic on the level of homology to a new complex consisting of only the critical cells. The paired cells in and describe gradient paths between adjacent critical cells which can be used to obtain the boundary operator on . Some details of this construction are provided in the next section.
The Morse complex
A gradient path is a sequence of paired cells
satisfying and . The index of this gradient path is defined to be the integer
The division here m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo%20%28magician%29 | Margo is the screen and stage name of Margo Timon (née Tucker), a magic performer and actress who had a starring slot in the NBC network television special The World's Most Dangerous Magic II. She worked with the duo The Pendragons.
Life and career
Margo is the offspring of an established magic family. Her mother is award-winning magician Frances Willard. Margo's father is Texan newspaper editor Glenn Tucker. Her younger sister Hannah is married to close-up magic specialist and lecturer Michael Ammar.
As an assistant with The Pendragons, Margo appeared on The Tonight Show and the World Magic Awards. In 1999 she was picked by producer Gary Ouellet to be one of the stars of the second of his World's Most Dangerous Magic specials. Ouellet and his team created for her the predicament escape trick "Rat Attack", in which she was shackled into a coffin-like box which was then filled with rats and she then magically escaped. She studied acting and had small roles in the television series Night Court and The Young and the Restless.
Marriage
In 1996, she married James Timon who was head of entertainment at Universal Studios. The couple first met because Timon had hired The Pendragons for a run at Universal and Margo was working with them.
References
American magicians
American television actresses
American soap opera actresses
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu%20Netbook%20Edition | Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE), known as Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) prior to the release of Ubuntu 10.04, is a discontinued version of the Ubuntu operating system (OS) that had been optimized to enable it to work better on netbooks and other devices with small screens or with the Intel Atom CPU.
UNE was available starting with Ubuntu release 8.04 ("Hardy Heron"). UNE was also an optional preinstalled operating system on some netbooks, such as Dell Inspiron Mini 10v and the Toshiba NB100, and also ran on popular models such as the Acer Aspire One and the Asus Eee PC.
Canonical Ltd., the developers of Ubuntu, collaborated with the Moblin project to ensure optimization for lower hardware requirements and longer battery life.
Beginning with version 10.10, Ubuntu Netbook Edition used the Unity desktop as its desktop interface. The classic netbook interface was available in Ubuntu's software repositories as an option.
Because Ubuntu's desktop edition has moved to the same Unity interface as the netbook edition, starting with Ubuntu 11.04, the netbook edition was merged into the desktop edition.
Installation
UNE could be installed in several ways:
by first installing the regular Ubuntu package, then adding the UNE repository, and installing the relevant packages. Starting with Ubuntu 10.04, the packages were available on main repositories.
by downloading UNE directly from the Ubuntu server, as either a .iso or .img file, and writing the file to a USB stick (using Ubuntu Live USB Creator or UNetbootin) or CD.
an option to install via the Wubi installer was available for the Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" and Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" release.
Unity
Starting with UNE 10.10, the interface was switched to Unity. Due to the desktop version of Ubuntu also being changed to the Unity interface, the netbook edition was rolled into the general Ubuntu distribution starting with Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal and the netbook edition was discontinued as a separate distribution.
Variants
Dell Ubuntu Netbook Edition is built specifically for the hardware profile of the Inspiron Mini 9, and is also available for the Inspiron Mini 12. It includes a custom built interface and launcher as well as non-free codecs such as MPEG-4 and MP3. It began shipping on September 22, 2008.
EasyPeasy is considered to be among the first UNE-based distributions, with a focus on the usage of proprietary software like Skype by default and also integrating a set of different standard applications and drivers.
Support
The minimum requirements are a Intel Atom CPU of at least 1.6 GHz, 512MB RAM and 4GB storage.
Ubuntu Netbook Edition was officially shipped with the following netbooks:
Sylvania G Netbook Meso
Toshiba NB100
System76 Starling Netbook
Dell Mini10v, Mini10, Latitude 2100 & Latitude 2110
Advent 4211C
Samsung N110
ZaReason Terra HD netbook and other ZaReason laptop models
See also
Comparison of netbook-oriented Linux distributions
EasyPeasy
Eeebuntu
Joli OS
Le |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikonboard | Ikonboard was a free online forum or Bulletin Board System developed in Perl, PHP for use on MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, as well as flat file databases.
Ikonboard History
Early years
Ikonboard was originally developed by Matt Mecham, with the first release being Ikonboard 0.9 beta in September 1999. Originally much of the development took place on ikondiscussion.com (no longer active) until it suffered a server crash in March 2001 and it was initially thought everything might have been lost, including early work on version 3. As a result, they switched to Ikonboard.com, and by April 2001 the majority had been recovered.
During ownership of Jarvis Entertainment Group (JEG)
In late April 2001 Ikonboard officially joined the Jarvis Network. At this point the latest available release was 2.1.8, with 3.0 in beta development. Matt Mecham sold Ikonboard to the Jarvis Entertainment Group for 50,000 shares of common stock in the publicly traded company, but said in a 2002 interview that he was unable to sell any of the shares. Soon after the release of 3.0 Mecham stopped developing Ikonboard, and departed to work on Invision Power Board. It is believed that Mecham had been paying for the domain during the time JEG owned Ikonboard. A year after his departure the DNS was altered to point to a holding page which redirected users to other software, during this time there was a legal dispute over the domain ownership.
After the departure of Matt Mecham, owner of JEG made a public request for individuals to staff and develop Ikonboard. As a result, a group of individuals emerged with separate development and support teams formed. Amongst the others to later emerge were Sly, Camil, Quasi and these along with the others were seen as the 'second set' of coders. On June 12, 2002 Ikonboard 3.1 was made with plans for PHP versions being announced at the same time. Initially the release represented small bug fixes to Mechams' 3.0.x series. In October 2003 chairman (and CEO) of JEG John Jarvis was forced out of JEG.
During ownership of Westlin Corporation
In February 2004 the company changed its name to Westlin Corporation. The departure of the second set of coders was fairly low profile, with many of them departing to work on their own project Infinite Core Technology.
In summer 2005 it emerged that former JEG chairman John Jarvis was taking legal action against Westlin, to regain ownership of Ikonboard amongst other things. During much of September that year the sites' server was down. Westlin declined to comment on the outage, prompting several staff members to quit. In October 2005, with Westlin still declining to talk to the support staff and developers, Ikonboard releases were no longer available for download.
During ownership post-Westlin Corporation
On October 28, 2005, after weeks of speculation, ownership of Ikonboard was officially transferred to John Jarvis. However the change of ownership resulted in the site being down until December, with a ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOVE-FM | KOVE-FM (106.5 MHz) is a Spanish-language radio station serving the Houston and Galveston areas from Galveston, Texas. KOVE-FM is owned by Uforia Audio Network, a division of TelevisaUnivision. The studios are in Uptown Houston and the transmitter is in Santa Fe, Texas.
History
This specific facility, licensed to Galveston in 1990, is in no way related to the previous Galveston station launched in 1968 as KGBC-FM (106.1 FM), then sold and moved to 106.5 FM, and re-licensed as KUFO in 1974. That facility, with shifting ownership and declining fortunes, became KXKX in 1979 and KQQK in 1986. The original 106.5 signed off forever in 1989, ultimately having its license cancelled by the FCC in March 1989.
KQQK
This incarnation of 106.5 was licensed and signed on January 8, 1990, retaining the KQQK calls used by the former KUFO facility before its license was surrendered nearly a year earlier. The new KQQK became a wildly successful Tejano format, utilizing a bilingual approach in both music and presentation. Its branding was simply its dial position and calls, spoken as "1-oh-6 point 5, Kah-Koo-Koo-Kah". Air staff from the previous incarnation of KQQK returned with the new KQQK
The popular Tejano format proved to be a hit with 2nd and 3rd generation Mexican Americans living within the coverage area, and remained well rated throughout the 1990s, and a vital partner and asset to the Mexican-American community for over a decade.
In July 2001, this facility was sold to Univision predecessor Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation, forcing KQQK, Inc. (Predecessor to El Dorado Communications) to move the already waning Tejano format to the then sister Beaumont facility KXTJ, another rimshot signal to Houston, but with less penetration into Houston proper, where the Tejano format eventually collapsed and was replaced by a Spanish Dance format, leaving AM 980 KRTX as Houston's sole broadcast home for "Puro Tejano" music. KRTX has since been sold and became a Spanish Christian formatted station itself.
K-Love
With the format and calls of KQQK now officially moved to 107.9 in Beaumont, 106.5 temporarily assumed the KQBU callset and continued simulcasting KQQK for a brief period. Towards the end of July 2001, Spanish language Romantic Adult Contemporary "K-Love" debuted on KQBU, which coincided with the second call change inside a month to the current KOVE. K-Love would continue, with positive, sustainable ratings and cume, for the next decade. During this period, KOVE upgraded to the current Class C, 98 kilowatt, 598 meter HAAT operations.
Recuerdo, Más Variedad, and Amor
First given the name "Recuerdo", then adjusting to "Más Variedad", 106.5 has become a Spanish Adult Hits format that blends the larger hits of the grupero, regional Mexican and contemporary ballad music styles of Northern Mexico. Most of Más Variedad's music focuses on hits from the 80s and 90s, however, a small percentage of KOVE's playlist expands into more recent music offerings from the 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20mapping | Alpha Mapping is a technique in 3D computer graphics involving the use of texture mapping to designate the amount of transparency/translucency of areas in a certain object.
Alpha mapping is used when the given object's transparency is not consistent: when the transparency amount is not the same for the entire object and/or when the object is not entirely transparent. If the object has the same level of transparency everywhere, one can either use a solid-color alpha texture or an integer value.
The alpha map is often encoded in the alpha channel of an RGBA texture used for coloring instead of being a standalone greyscale texture.
See also
Mask (computing)#Image masks
3D imaging
Texture mapping
Visual effects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Anuff | Ed Anuff is an entrepreneur and Head of Product at Datastax. Prior to Datastax, he was Vice President of Product Strategy at Apigee. He is the founder of cloud based service Usergrid. Prior to Usergrid, he served as Executive Vice President and GM, Platform Products and Services at Six Apart, Ltd.
Career
Prior to joining Datastax, Anuff founded cloud service Usergrid. Apigee acquired Usergrid in January 2012. Prior to Usergrid, he served as Executive Vice President and GM, Platform Products and Services at Six Apart, Ltd.
Before joining Six Apart Anuff was co-founder of Widgetbox (with Giles Goodwin and Dean Moses), a marketplace for widgets. He was the company's original CEO. Prior to founding Widgetbox, Anuff was co-founder of enterprise software company Epicentric (with Oliver Muoto), a leading provider of Enterprise portal software. He served as Epicentric's first CEO, later assuming the roles of chairman and chief strategy officer.
Prior to co-founding Epicentric, he was an executive at Wired (parent of Wired.com) responsible for the launch of HotBot, one of the first news search engines, in May 1996.
Anuff is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and author of the best selling Java Sourcebook, published by John Wiley & Sons, one of the first books on the Java programming language.
Patents
In 2001, Anuff was also granted a key patent (US Patent # 6,327,628) related to portal server software.
In 2010, Anuff and eight coworkers were granted US Patent # 7,801,990, "Graphical user interface for performing administration on web components of web sites in a portal framework".
Books
Java Sourcebook
References
External links
http://www.anuff.com Personal website.
Usergrid
Living people
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
American computer businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPASS | SPASS is an automated theorem prover for first-order logic with equality developed at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and using the superposition calculus. The name originally stood for Synergetic Prover Augmenting Superposition with Sorts. The theorem-proving system is released under the FreeBSD license.
An extension of SPASS called SPASS-XDB added support for on-the-fly retrieval of positive unit axioms from external sources. SPASS-XDB can thus incorporate facts coming from relational databases, web services, or linked data servers. Support for arithmetic using Mathematica was also added.
References
Sources
.
External links
Free theorem provers
Unix programming tools
Max Planck Institute for Informatics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A9mega | The Omega interpreter is a strict pure functional programming interpreter similar to the Hugs Haskell interpreter. The syntax closely resembles that of Haskell but with important differences:
Omega is strict (Hugs is lazy);
Ability to introduce new kinds;
Allows writing of functions at the type level.
Other differences are documented in the Omega user guide.
Omega was developed by Prof. Tim Sheard of Portland State University's Computer Science Department as a language with an infinite hierarchy of computational levels (value, type, kind, sort, etc.). The underlying concept is that data, and functions manipulating data, can be introduced at any level.
References
External links
Ωmega download page
Free Haskell implementations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavaevodata | Gavaevodata () is the Avestan language name of the primordial bovine of Zoroastrian cosmogony and cosmology, one of Ahura Mazda's six primordial material creations and the mythological progenitor of all beneficent animal life.
The primordial beast is killed in the creation myth, but from its marrow, organs and the world is repopulated with animal life. The soul of the primordial bovine – geush urvan – returned to the world as the soul of livestock. Although geush urvan is an aspect of the primordial bovine in Zoroastrian tradition, and may also be that in the Younger Avesta, the relationship between the two is unclear in the oldest texts.
In scripture
Although Avestan gav- "cow" is grammatically feminine, the word is also used as a singular for the collective "cattle". In English language translations Gavaevodata is often referred to in gender-neutral terms as "primordial ox". Other translations refer to Gavaevodata as a bull and is similar to the Egyptian God Apis. The -aevo.data of the name literally means "created as one" or "solely created" or "uniquely created".
Gavaevodata is only alluded to in the surviving texts of the Avesta, referred to by name in only two hymns. In other instances, for example in Yasht 13.85, the primordial beast is mentioned among the six material creations, but not by name. Elsewhere, such as in the Gathic Avestan Yasna Haptanghaiti, prayers are offered on behalf of the soul of the cow (geush urvan), or worship is offered to "the cow's soul, and to her created body", but in neither case is Gavaevodata mentioned by name, nor is it clear (unlike in Zoroastrian tradition) whether the soul of the cow is the soul of Gavaevodata.
This is also the case for The Cow's Lament. In this allegorical text, the soul of the cow (geush urvan) despairs over the wretched condition to which the forces of deceit (druj) have subjected her (see myth, below), and over her lack of protection from an adequate herdsman. The divinities hold council, and decide that Zoroaster is the only one who can alleviate her condition. At first she laments even more, holding Zoroaster to be incompetent, but finally accepts his assistance.
At least two levels of meaning have been inferred from this text (): The maltreated creature symbolizes the plight of Zoroaster's community, and the soul of the primordial beast is a metaphor for the message that Zoroaster has received from Mazda. In verse 3 of the litany to the moon, Gavaevodata is invoked as (or together with) the "bovine of many species" in the care of the moon Mah, specifically måŋha- gaociθra- "the moon that keeps in it the of cattle," which is a stock epithet of Mah.
In the 30 hymns to the divinities of the Zoroastrian calendar month, Gavaevodata is again invoked in the verses nominally dedicated to the Moon. Mah is again referred to as "the Moon containing the of cattle", and Gavaevodata is again referred to as (or in the company of) the "Bovine of many species."
In tradition
The mytholo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo%203000 | Lenovo 3000 was a line of low-priced notebook and desktop computers designed by Lenovo Group targeting small businesses and individuals. It was replaced with the IdeaCentre and IdeaPad brands.
Background
The Lenovo 3000 series marked the debut of Lenovo branded products outside of China. First showcased in New York City on 23 February 2006, the line was intended to boost Lenovo's competitiveness internationally against rival brands like Dell and Hewlett-Packard. In addition, the 3000 series gave the company an independent identity: an identity separate from the Thinkpad line that Lenovo acquired in 2005 and defined its Westernised image since the acquisition.
In 2008, after introducing two new consumer brands, IdeaPad for laptops and IdeaCentre for desktops, Lenovo stopped selling its 3000 series models.
Models
Desktops
Lenovo 3000 J
features both AMD and Intel processors
Lenovo 3000 H
Notebooks
First introduced in 2006, the Lenovo 3000 N100 and V100 offered Intel Core Duo processors, while the lower-end C series featured Pentium M and Celeron M processors. Its successors, C200, N200, V200 featured Core 2 Duo processors. Thereafter, came the N500, the G-series, and the B series
Lenovo 3000 C
C100, C200 - 15-inch XGA screen
Lenovo 3000 N
N100, N200 - 14.1-inch- and 15.4-inch- WXGA models
N500 - 15.4 inch screen.
Lenovo 3000 V
V100, V200 - 12.1-inch WXGA models
Lenovo 3000 G
G400, G410, G430, G450, G455, G510, G530, G550, and G560
Lenovo 3000 B Series
B450-B490 - 15.4 inch screen
References
External links
Introducing Lenovo 3000, Lenovo Group
3000
Consumer electronics brands
Discontinued products
Computer-related introductions in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20Action%20Network | Climate Action Network - International (CAN) is a global network of over 1,300 environmental non-governmental organisations in over 130 countries working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.
Activities
It is most active at meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It published civil society's ECO newsletter presenting the views of civil society and communities around the world during the climate negotiations, and the satirical Fossil of the Day Awards to countries who are blocking the progress at the climate negotiations in implementing the Paris Agreement. It also supports and coordinates its members in its global network through capacity-building, campaigns, projects and mobilisations to urge governments and other stakeholders to act on the climate emergency.
CAN members work to achieve this goal through the coordination of information exchange and non-governmental organizational strategy on international, regional and national climate issues. CAN members place a high priority on both a healthy environment and development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (Brundtland Commission). Climate Action Network's vision is to protect the atmosphere while allowing for sustainable and equitable development worldwide. It was founded in 1989 by Michael Oppenheimer in Germany.
Regional and national networks
CAN has formal regional and national networks called nodes which coordinate these efforts.
Regional Nodes
CAN-Arab World
CAN-Eastern Africa
CAN Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (CAN-EECCA)
CAN-Europe
CAN Latin American (CANLA)
Pacific Islands CAN (PICAN)
CAN-South Asia (CANSA)
Southern African Region CAN (SARCAN)
CAN-South East Asia (CANSEA)
CAN West and Central Africa (CANWA)
National Network Nodes
CAN-Australia (CANA)
CAN-Rac Canada
CAN-China (informal)
CAN-Japan
New Zealand Climate Action Network
CAN-South Africa (SACAN)
CAN-Tanzania
CAN-Uganda
US Climate Action Network (USCAN)
Climate Action Network Tanzania
Climate Action Network Tanzania is an environmental non-governmental and non-profit organization founded in 2011, with its headquarters in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It operates under the umbrella organisation Climate Action Network International. Since its inception, it has established partnerships with more than 50 civil society organizations across the country, as well as a number of government ministries and agencies including environment, local government, agriculture, livestock and fisheries, energy (department of renewable energy and policy), natural resources and tourism, water, work and finance especially the Planning Commission. It also works with the parliamentary standing committees and research institutions, in furtherance of implementing a Low Carbon Growth and the adaption to current climate change impac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20access%20%28infrastructure%29 | In the context of infrastructure, open access involves physical infrastructure such as railways and physical telecommunications network plants being made available to clients other than owners, for a fee.
For example, private railways within a steel works are private and not available to outsiders. In the hypothetical case of the steelworks having a port or a railway to a distant mine, outsiders might want access to save having to incur a possibly large cost of building their own facility.
Marconi and radio communication
The Marconi Company was a pioneer of long distance radio communication, which was particularly useful for ships at sea. Marconi was very protective about its costly infrastructure and refused—except for emergencies—to allow other radio companies to share its infrastructure. Even if the message sender was royalty, as in the Deutschland incident of 1902, they continued to refuse access. Since radio communication was so new, it preceded laws, regulations and licenses, which might otherwise impose conditions to open infrastructure to other players.
Pilbara railways
In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, two large mining companies operate their own private railway networks to bring iron ore from mines to the port. In 1999 North Limited made an application to access Rio Tinto's system, but Rio's takeover of North Limited meant that application was never fully tested. In 2004 Fortescue Metals Group launched a bid to have the Mount Newman railway owned by BHP Billiton declared for third party access. The owner of the line claimed that they formed an integral part of the production process, and so should not be subject to completion requirements. When these mines started in the 1960s, state laws required the miners to make their infrastructure available to other players, but no application had been made. In the same region, the Fortescue Metals Group railway has been set up for open access for a fee.
In June 2008 the Federal Government advisory body, the National Competition Council, recommended that BHP Billiton's Goldsworthy railway and Rio Tinto's Hamersley & Robe River railway should be declared open access. Treasurer Wayne Swan was given 60 days to make a final decision based on this recommendation. On October 27 the three lines were declared with open access to apply from November 20, 2008. This will apply for 20 years under the National Access Regime within the Trade Practices Act 1974. The declaration does not give a right of access, but provides a third party with recourse if access terms cannot be negotiated with the infrastructure owner.
Concerns
A player seeking access to infrastructure would expect to pay several fees of a capital and operating kind. Hopefully, the cost of this is less than having to build separate infrastructure. It is in the public interest that access disputes be resolved in an efficient way, so that for example, profits are maximized and therefore income tax on those profits is also maximiz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2E | The PS/2E or Energy (IBM 9533) is a member of the IBM Personal System/2 family of personal computers (PCs). It was the first Energy Star-compliant PC, consuming very little power relative to other contemporary PCs, and made extensive use of recycled materials in its enclosure.
Specifications
The PS/2E featured an IBM 486SLC2 microprocessor with a 16KB L1 cache that ran at 50MHz on a 25MHz system bus (the processor clock was double that of the system bus). The processor's performance was dependent on the L1 cache containing the required instructions and data; there was no external L2 cache on the motherboard like on some other 486-based computers.
It featured an ISA bus for input/output, which accepted a single ISA option adapter with the use of a riser card. Depending on the sub-model number, it came supplied with either a special option adapter for four PC card PCMCIA slots, or a network interface card for Ethernet or Token Ring networks for use as a diskless workstation. Additional options included several PCMCIA cards, a color LCD screen, and a color LCD touch-screen with a special version of OS/2.
The PC borrowed some components from IBM's ThinkPad laptops: including the 1.44MB floppy disk drive and the hard disk drive. Its enclosure was composed of recycled plastics, and was designed to be easily recycled at the end of its service life. The power supply unit maximum power consumption was 24watts, and was completely passively cooled, and lacked a fan for that reason.
Design
The PS/2E featured a full-sized internal PC speaker, two SIMM sockets, and an extended bank of memory soldered directly to the motherboard. It featured 1MB of video memory for the onboard XGA-2 graphics adapter, which was attached to the ISA bus instead of the usual MCA bus. Like all Personal System/2 computers, if a change in hardware is performed, the configuration must be updated with the use of the reference diskette (for example changing the memory size).
References
External links
Image of a PS/2 E with its LCD screen
Image of a PS/2 E on its box
A page with some pictures of the PS/2 inside
IBM Announcement Letter Number 193-226 dated July 29, 1993
IBM PC Institute - Personal Systems Reference - IBM PS/2 1992 to 1995 - withdrawn.
E
Computer-related introductions in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Sun | Ron Sun is a cognitive scientist who made significant contributions to computational psychology and other areas of cognitive science and artificial intelligence. He is currently professor of cognitive sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and formerly the James C. Dowell Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at University of Missouri. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from Brandeis University.
Overview
His many research interests center around the study of human cognition and psychology, especially in the areas of cognitive architectures, human reasoning and learning, cognitive social simulation, and hybrid connectionist-symbolic models. Over the years, his work has been wide-ranging, and spans cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence, and social sciences.
He has been known for his work in cognitive modeling (computational psychology). For his paper on integrating rule-based and connectionist models for accounting for human everyday reasoning, he received the 1991 David Marr Award from Cognitive Science Society. For his work on human skill learning, he received the 2008 Hebb Award from the International Neural Network Society. In 2013, he received a Leadership and Vision award from the president of INNS. He is an IEEE Fellow and a fellow of Association for Psychological Science.
He was the founding co-editor-in-chief of the journal Cognitive Systems Research, and serves on the editorial boards of many other journals. He was the general chair and the program chair of CogSci 2006, and the program chair of IJCNN 2007. He was a member of the governing boards of Cognitive Science Society and of International Neural Networks Society. He served as the president of INNS for two years from January 2011 to December 2012.
Research
Throughout the past two decades, he has been conducting research in the fields of computational psychology and hybrid connectionist neural network (i.e., neural symbolic models). In particular, he applied these models to research on human skill acquisition. Specifically, he has worked on the integrated effect of "top-down" and "bottom-up" learning in human skill acquisition, in a variety of task domains, for example, navigation tasks, reasoning tasks, and implicit learning tasks. This inclusion of bottom-up learning processes has been revolutionary in cognitive science, because most previous models of learning had focused exclusively on top-down learning (whereas human learning clearly happens in both directions). This research has culminated with the development of an integrated cognitive architecture that can be used to provide a qualitative and quantitative explanation of empirical psychological learning data. The model, CLARION, is a hybrid neural network that can be used to simulate problem solving and social interactions as well. More importantly, CLARION was the first psychological model that proposed an explanation for the "bottom-up learning" mech |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20road%20network%20size | This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved. Also included is additional data on the length of each country's or region's controlled-access highway network, also known as motorway, expressway, freeway and so forth (they are known by different names in various places), designed for high vehicular traffic.
Unless otherwise noted, the data is from the ASU.
* indicates Roads in Country/Territory links.
Notes
Total road length for Turkey: 259,072
References
Information
Road network
Countries by road network size |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDLG | WDLG (90.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Thomasville, Alabama. The station is owned by La Promesa Foundation. It is airing Catholic Radio programming.
History
Nearly seven years after the initial application was made on April 17, 1997, this station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on April 6, 2004. The new station was assigned the call letters WDLG by the FCC on December 25, 2006. WDLG received its license to cover from the FCC on April 6, 2007.
Silent
The station fell silent for the first time on August 21, 2007. Citing technical issues with the station's antenna system, on August 24, 2007, the station applied to the FCC for authority to remain silent. The request was granted on August 27, 2007, with a scheduled expiration date of November 27, 2007.
On February 5, 2008, Nationwide Inspirational Broadcasting applied for an extension to their remain silent authority citing a financial decision to complete the new transmitter site authorized by their October 2007 construction permit rather than complete changes to their existing antenna system. The extension was granted on April 7, 2008, with a caution that the station's license would be subject to forfeiture on August 21, 2008, as the station will have been off the air for 12 continuous months.
WDLG was brought back on the air briefly but fell silent again on August 11, 2008. On August 12, 2008, Nationwide Inspirational Broadcasting filed for a new remain silent authority citing financial difficulties. The station's licensee says the station is seeking a qualified buyer.
WDLG is returned to on-air status in October, 2011.
Divine Word Communications sold WDLG, six other stations, and four translators to La Promesa Foundation effective January 8, 2016, at a purchase price of $1,073,907.59.
Construction permit
On October 3, 2007, WDLG was granted a construction permit to upgrade their effective radiated power to 10,000 watts, raise their antenna's height above average terrain to 205 meters (673 feet), and move the transmitter site north to 32°07'34"N, 87°44'02"W. This permit expires October 3, 2010.
References
External links
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2007
Mass media in Clarke County, Alabama
2007 establishments in Alabama
DLG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9800 | 9800 may refer to:
The year 9800, in the 10th millennium.
ATI Radeon 9800, a computer graphics card series
NVIDIA GeForce 9800, a computer graphics card series
BlackBerry Torch 9800, a smartphone by Research in Motion
HP 9800 series, a series of Desktop Computer from Hewlett Packard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9600 | 9600 may refer to:
The year 9600, in the 10th millennium.
ATI Radeon 9600, a computer graphics card series
NVIDIA GeForce 9600, a computer graphics card series
Windows 8.1 build 9600, an operating system. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9500 | 9500 to:
The year 9500, in the 10th millennium.
9500 Camelot, an asteroid belt
ATI Radeon 9500, a computer graphics card series
NVIDIA GeForce 9500, a computer graphics card series
Nokia 9500 Communicator, a smartphone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9300 | 9300 may refer to:
The year 9300, in the 10th millennium.
NVIDIA GeForce 9300, a computer graphics card series
Nokia 9300, a smartphone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonico.com | Sonico was a free-access social networking service oriented toward a Latin American audience.
Users can search and add friends, update their own personal profile, manage their privacy, upload photos and YouTube videos, organize events, challenge other users in 6 multi-player and over 200 single-player games and interact with other people by means of private messages, public comments, photo tags, and a web-based instant messenger.
History
Sonico was launched in July 2007 stressing the importance of having legitimate users rather than a massive number of anonymous accounts. Hence, their motto is "real people, real connections". Unlike other social networks, Sonico has a so-called proactive moderation consisting in a team solely dedicated to check out every new profile and content uploaded to the site. They claim to be able to manage more than 200.000 profiles daily.
According to Sonico's CEO, Rodrigo Teijeiro, Sonico "managed to offer a useful, safe and fun social network, with real users and a regional scope" (Latin America). He assures that usability is the key of their success.
One year after its foundation, Sonico has an 88 people staff and claims to be adding some 110.000 new users every day and reports more than 20 million registered users. It ranks 392 in the Alexa ranking.
A Portuguese version was launched in February 2008, and support in that language has been available since March, 2008. In only a few months, Sonico is already the second favorite social network in Brazil with over 4 million users. The network now is not listed among the 10 more populars social networks in Brasil. Data from Sera Experia confirms that statement:. (Serasa Experia )
Funding
In June 2008, Sonico announced a $4.3 million Series A financing round, led by DN Capital and by various private investors such as Fabrice Grinda (Founder of Aucland, Zingy.com and OLX), Martín Varsavsky (Fon, Ya.com) and Alec Oxenford (DeRemate.com and OLX.com). According to them, the funding will be invested to launch new product enhancements, strengthen its technology infrastructure and keep on recruiting. The company will also expand its international operations by stepping up its presence and leadership along Spanish and Portuguese speaking markets.
Website
Sonico allows users to join one or more networks. Networks represent universities, high schools, and regions. By joining a network, users can easily search and get in contact with other people belonging to the same network.
PPP or Private/Public/Professional Profiles
Sonico has recently launched its new profiles that addresses real life interactions and privacy concerns.
You have three different type of profiles:
A Private Profile that is a personal space for each member within Sonico. It can be personalized with different themes, colors, and backgrounds.
A Public Profile that is your public space where you can share public content with your fans.
A Professional Profile that you can use to share with your professi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobiliti | Mobiliti was a file synchronization, backup and offline network software for Microsoft Windows based systems, developed by Packeteer. It was originally called Network/Unplugged when it was released in 1998 by Mobiliti, Inc. It started as a 3-member team of Kiran Somalwar, Dinesh Sinha and Ram Kishore Dulam. Mobiliti was acquired by Tacit Networks, Inc., which in turn was acquired by Packeteer, Inc. in 2006. Packeteer was in turn acquired by Blue Coat Systems. As of 16 July 2008 Blue Coat no longer offers Mobiliti for sale but support may still be purchased and existing support continues until 16 July 2011 (maintenance releases will be discontinued on 16 July 2010, and contracts may not be renewed after that date).
Mobiliti replicates network files, structure, and the look and feel onto the mobile/remote computer, maintaining a consistent network environment that enables mobile users to work off-line as if they are still connected to their network. It also provides backup functionality that allows local files to be backed up to a network file server. It allows Microsoft Outlook PST files to be easily synched up without crimping user performance or WAN traffic loads. The software uses cached data from network file servers that displays folders and drive mappings as if the user were connected to the enterprise network. The product then applies wide area network (WAN) compression and downsizes network traffic loads between mobile users and the enterprise network, reducing time to synchronization and backup. Mobiliti has a management console that lets administrators create individual user or group profiles, change individual settings and produce a single synchronization report about all users.
Mobiliti came in three editions: Basic, Plus and Enterprise. It was available as shareware and had a trial period of 21 days.
See also
List of backup software
WAN optimization
Personal Folders (.pst) files
File Synchronization
CIFS
References
External links
Packeteer Company Home Page
Mobiliti Page
Blue Coat Systems home page
Laptop tools to stay in sync
Enterprise product of the year 2007
Backing Up on the Road
Taking the network with you
Packeteer thinks remotely
WAN Optimization Inches On
Fit for big and small pipes-NetworkWorld
WAN acceleration comes to the PC
Shareware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich%20Bride%20Poor%20Bride | Rich Bride Poor Bride is a television series shown on Slice and the WE: Women's Entertainment network. It follows the planning stages of a wedding. Each episode begins with a suggested budget and then follows the bride and groom as they struggle to plan their wedding. At the end of the episode the budget is revealed, and as the couple tally up the cost, the viewers learn whether they were under or over budget.
External links
WE's official site
Slice's official site
Rich Bride Poor Bride - BridesTelevision.com
2000s Canadian reality television series
2008 Canadian television series debuts
Wedding television shows
Television series by Corus Entertainment
Canadian dating and relationship reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20%28Kid%20Sister%20song%29 | "Control" is the debut single by American hip hop artist Kid Sister from her album Ultraviolet. The song was released via Fool's Gold Records in 2007 and is included in the Android operating system for mobile devices.
Background and release
"Control" was co-written and produced by Alex Epton, better known as Spank Rock's XXXchange. The b-side "Damn Girl" was produced by A-Trak, with a Gant-Man remix also included. Flosstradamus later remixed the song. The single was released in 2007 on a 12" vinyl and also via the iTunes Store. The EP was later removed when Kid Sister signed her record deal with Downtown Records in February 2008. "Control" features on the compilation Juice!, Vol. 1.
Track listing
"Control" - EP
"Control" (Dirty) – 2:52
"Control" (Clean) – 3:29
"Control" (Instrumental) – 3:29
"Damn Girl" (DJ Gant-Man's Juke Remix) – 3:29
"Damn Girl" (Dirty) – 2:53
"Damn Girl" (Instrumental) – 2:53
"Damn Girl" (Scratchapella) – 2:53
References
External links
Kid Sister on Myspace
2007 songs
2007 debut singles
Kid Sister songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RINEX | In the field of geodesy, Receiver Independent Exchange Format (RINEX) is a data interchange format for raw satellite navigation system data. This allows the user to post-process the received data to produce a more accurate result — usually with other data unknown to the original receiver, such as better models of the atmospheric conditions at time of measurement.
The final output of a navigation receiver is usually its position, speed or other related physical quantities. However, the calculation of these quantities are based on a series of measurements from one or more satellite constellations. Although receivers calculate positions in real time, in many cases it is interesting to store intermediate measures for later use. RINEX is the standard format that allows the management and disposal of the measures generated by a receiver, as well as their off-line processing by a multitude of applications, whatever the manufacturer of both the receiver and the computer application.
The RINEX format is designed to evolve over time, adapting to new types of measurements and new satellite navigation systems. The first RINEX version was developed by W. Gurtner in 1989 and published by W. Gurtner and G. Mader in the CSTG GPS Bulletin of September/October 1990. Since 1993 the RINEX 2 is available, which has been revised and adopted several times. RINEX enables storage of measurements of pseudorange, carrier-phase, Doppler and signal-to-noise from GPS (including GPS modernization signals e.g. L5 and L2C), GLONASS, Galileo, Beidou, along with data from EGNOS and WAAS satellite based augmentation systems (SBAS), QZSS, simultaneously. RINEX version 3.02 was submitted in April 2013 and contain new observation codes from GPS or Galileo systems. The most recent version is RINEX 4.01 from July 2023.
Although not part of the RINEX format, the Hatanaka compression scheme is commonly used to reduce the size of RINEX files, resulting in an ASCII-based CompactRINEX or CRINEX format. It uses higher-order time differences to reduce the number of characters needed to store time data.
References
External links
RINEX: The Receiver Independent Exchange Format Version 2.11 (December 10, 2007)
Rinex Version 2.11 (June 26, 2012, minor clarifications)
Rinex Version 3.00 (This file has white-space issues)
Rinex Version 3.01 (but has the same white-space issues as 3.0)
Rinex Version 3.02 (April 3, 2013)
Rinex Version 3.03 (July 14, 2015, updated January 25, 2017)
Rinex Version 3.04 (November 23, 2018)
Rinex Version 3.05 (December 1, 2020)
Rinex Version 4.00 (December 1, 2021)
Rinex Version 4.01 (July 10, 2023)
Hatanaka compression/decompression
RINGO: RINEX pre-processing tool using Go
Satellite navigation
Geodesy
Geographical technology
Navigation
Navigational equipment
Surveying
Technology systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LigandScout | LigandScout is computer software that allows creating three-dimensional (3D) pharmacophore models from structural data of macromolecule–ligand complexes, or from training and test sets of organic molecules. It incorporates a complete definition of 3D chemical features (such as hydrogen bond donors, acceptors, lipophilic areas, positively and negatively ionizable chemical groups) that describe the interaction of a bound small organic molecule (ligand) and the surrounding binding site of the macromolecule. These pharmacophores can be overlaid and superimposed using a pattern-matching based alignment algorithm that is solely based on pharmacophoric feature points instead of chemical structure. From such an overlay, shared features can be interpolated to create a so-called shared-feature pharmacophore that shares all common interactions of several binding sites/ligands or extended to create a so-called merged-feature pharmacophore. The software has been successfully used to predict new lead structures in drug design, e.g., predicting biological activity of novel human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) reverse transcriptase inhibitors.
Similar tools
Other software tools which help to model pharmacophores include:
Molecular Operating Environment] (MOE) – by the Chemical Computing Group
Phase – by Schrödinger
Discovery Studio – by Accelrys
SYBYL-X – by Tripos
Pharao by Silicos-It
See also
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
References
Further reading
Medicinal chemistry
Molecular modelling software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister%20Mayo | , (born July 26, 1974) better known by her stagename Sister MAYO, is a Japanese singer. She is a member of the Columbia Music Entertainment duo Cyber Nation Network, and a vocalist in Project.R which performs many theme songs for the Super Sentai series, some have reached the top ten in Oricon's charts. Her best-known songs as a soloist have been the opening theme of Haré+Guu and the ending theme of Mahou Sentai Magiranger. She is the younger sister of heavy metal musician Taiji, with whom she was in the rock band Otokaze.
After attending vocational school, she got a job at a travel agency. After suffering from a herniated disc, she decided to pursue her dream of being a musician. She released her first single in 1997 under her own name. A producer gave her her stage name when she joined Cyber Nation Network.
In appearances, she generally wears a baseball cap. Prior to the release of , she also wore glasses, out of shyness. Nippon Columbia asked her to take off one or the other, and she decided to keep the cap.
In 2020, she started the unit Rainbow☆MAG!C with Hideyuki Takahashi and Natsuo.
Discography
Singles
Albums
Personal life
Sister MAYO is the younger sister of Taiji Sawada, who was a bassist for X Japan and various other groups. Taiji died on July 17, 2011.
References
External links
Masayo Sawada at Oricon
Sister Mayo with Karate Bravo at Oricon
Sister MAYO @ Anison Generation
Living people
1974 births
Anime musicians
Japanese women pop singers
Singers from Ichikawa, Chiba
21st-century Japanese singers
21st-century Japanese women singers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-heuristic | A hyper-heuristic is a heuristic search method that seeks to automate, often by the incorporation of machine learning techniques, the process of selecting, combining, generating or adapting several simpler heuristics (or components of such heuristics) to efficiently solve computational search problems. One of the motivations for studying hyper-heuristics is to build systems which can handle classes of problems rather than solving just one problem.
There might be multiple heuristics from which one can choose for solving a problem, and each heuristic has its own strength and weakness. The idea is to automatically devise algorithms by combining the strength and compensating for the weakness of known heuristics. In a typical hyper-heuristic framework there is a high-level methodology and a set of low-level heuristics (either constructive or perturbative heuristics). Given a problem instance, the high-level method selects which low-level heuristic should be applied at any given time, depending upon the current problem state (or search stage) determined by features.
Hyper-heuristics versus metaheuristics
The fundamental difference between metaheuristics and hyper-heuristics is that most implementations of metaheuristics search within a search space of problem solutions, whereas hyper-heuristics always search within a search space of heuristics. Thus, when using hyper-heuristics, we are attempting to find the right method or sequence of heuristics in a given situation rather than trying to solve a problem directly. Moreover, we are searching for a generally applicable methodology rather than solving a single problem instance.
Hyper-heuristics could be regarded as "off-the-peg" methods as opposed to "made-to-measure" metaheuristics. They aim to be generic methods, which should produce solutions of acceptable quality, based on a set of easy-to-implement low-level heuristics.
Motivation
Despite the significant progress in building search methodologies for a wide variety of application areas so far, such approaches still require specialists to integrate their expertise in a given problem domain. Many researchers from computer science, artificial intelligence and operational research have already acknowledged the need for developing automated systems to replace the role of a human expert in such situations. One of the main ideas for automating the design of heuristics requires the incorporation of machine learning mechanisms into algorithms to adaptively guide the search. Both learning and adaptation processes can be realised on-line or off-line, and be based on constructive or perturbative heuristics.
A hyper-heuristic usually aims at reducing the amount of domain knowledge in the search methodology. The resulting approach should be cheap and fast to implement, requiring less expertise in either the problem domain or heuristic methods, and (ideally) it would be robust enough to effectively handle a range of problem instances from a variety of domains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic%20Commando%20%281988%20video%20game%29 | Bionic Commando, originally released as in Japan, is a platform game released by Capcom for the Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988. It is based on the 1987 arcade game Bionic Commando.
As Ladd, a member of the FF Battalion, the player explores each stage and obtain the necessary equipment to progress. Ladd is equipped with a mechanical arm featuring a grappling gun, allowing him to pull himself forward or swing from the ceiling. As such, the series is one of few instances of a platform game in which the player cannot jump. To cross gaps or climb ledges, Ladd must use his bionic arm.
In the game's instruction manual, the character is only known as "Player". In the game's ending, his name is revealed as "Ladd". The Game Boy version, a retelling of this game, calls the character "Rad". In the Game Boy Color remake, the main character is unnamed. His full name of Nathan "Rad" Spencer was revealed in 2009's Bionic Commando for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
Gameplay
Bionic Commando is a platform game in which the player controls Ladd, whose mission is to rescue Super Joe and to stop the Albatros project. The game begins on an overworld map, where, Starting at Area 0, players can move Ladd's helicopter to any connected Area on the map in a nonlinear fashion. Each time Ladd's helicopter moves, the enemy ground vehicles will also move. Once the helicopter reaches its destination without crossing over the path of an enemy vehicle, the player can choose to "descend" and play that area or to "transfer" to a different Area. If the helicopter is intercepted by an enemy vehicle, then Ladd must engage the enemy in an overhead shooter level similar to Capcom's Commando. Ladd, armed with a weapon and his grappling hook that he can swing around in a circle to deflect bullets and enemies, must defeat the enemy soldiers and reach the end of the stage. These are the only stages where the player can earn a continue.
When Ladd descends into an Area, the player must choose which equipment to take along, and is then dropped into a sidescrolling platforming level. There, the player must first find one or multiple Communications Rooms - where the player can communicate with allies or wiretap enemy conversations - and then proceed each Area's Computer Room, where a boss will be guarding the computer core the player must destroy to clear the Area. Ladd cannot jump, so the player must use Ladd's weapons and his bionic arm to defeat enemies and navigate platforms and obstacles. Players can extend his bionic arm overhead, directly in front, and above at a 45-degree angle, and can grapple to higher platforms, swing across chasms, and pick up items. Additional equipment such as weapons, protective gear, and communications devices can be found by clearing Areas or finding them in levels, some of which are vital to progressing further in the game. In addition to the regular "combat areas", there are also safe "neutral areas"; non-hostile zones where La |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI%20RDMA%20Protocol | In computing the SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP) is a protocol that allows one computer to access SCSI devices attached to another computer via remote direct memory access (RDMA). The SRP protocol is also known as the SCSI Remote Protocol. The use of RDMA makes higher throughput and lower latency possible than what is generally available through e.g. the TCP/IP communication protocol.
Though the SRP protocol has been designed to use RDMA networks efficiently, it is also possible to implement the SRP protocol over networks that do not support RDMA.
History
SRP was published as an ANSI standard (ANSI INCITS 365-2002) in 2002 and renewed in 2007 and 2019.
Related Protocols
As with the ISCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) communication protocol, there is the notion of a target (a system that stores the data) and an initiator (a client accessing the target) with the target initiating data transfers. In other words, when an initiator writes data to a target, the target executes an RDMA read to fetch the data from the initiator and when a user issues a SCSI read command, the target sends an RDMA write to the initiator.
While the SRP protocol is easier to implement than the iSER protocol, iSER offers more management functionality, e.g. the target discovery infrastructure enabled by the iSCSI protocol.
Performance
Bandwidth and latency of storage targets supporting the SRP or the iSER protocol should be similar. On Linux, there are two SRP and two iSER storage target implementations available that run inside the kernel (SCST and LIO) and an iSER storage target implementation that runs in user space (STGT). Measurements have shown that the SCST SRP target has a lower latency and a higher bandwidth than the STGT iSER target. This is probably because the RDMA communication overhead is lower for a component implemented in the Linux kernel than for a user space Linux process, and not because of protocol differences.
Implementations
In order to use the SRP protocol, an SRP initiator implementation, an SRP target implementation and networking hardware supported by the initiator and target are needed. The following software SRP initiator implementations exist:
Linux SRP initiator, available since November 2005 (kernel version 2.6.15).
Windows SRP initiator, available through the winOFED InfiniBand stack.
VMWare SRP initiator, available since January 2008 through Mellanox' OFED Drivers for VMware Infrastructure 3 and vSphere 4.
Solaris 10 SRP initiator, available through Sun's download page.
Solaris 11 and OpenSolaris SRP initiator, integrated as a component of project COMSTAR.
The IBM POWER virtual SCSI client driver for Linux (ibmvscsi), available since January 2008 (kernel version 2.6.24). Virtual SCSI allows client logical partitions to access I/O devices (disk, CD, and tape) that are owned by another logical partition.
The following SRP target implementations exist:
The SCST SRP target implementation. This is a mature SRP target implementation availa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatography%20software | Chromatography software is called also Chromatography Data System. It is located in the data station of the modern liquid, gas or supercritical fluid chromatographic systems. This is a dedicated software connected to an hardware interface within the chromatographic system, which serves as a central hub for collecting, analyzing, and managing the data generated during the chromatographic analysis.
The data station is connected to the entire instrument in modern systems, especially the detectors, allowing real-time monitoring of the runs, exhibiting them as chromatograms. A chromatogram is a graphical representation of the results obtained from the chromatographic system. In a chromatogram, each component of the mixture appears as a peak or band at a specific retention time, which is related to its characteristics, such as molecular weight, polarity, and affinity for the stationary phase. The height, width, and area of the peaks in a chromatogram provide information about the amount and purity of the components in the sample. Analyzing a chromatogram helps identify and quantify the substances present in the mixture being analyzed.
Integration & Processing
The major tool of the chromatographic software is peaks "integration". A series of articles describes it: Peak Integration Part 1, Peak Integration Part 2, Peak Integration Part 3. The parameters inside the chromatography software which affect the integration are called the Integration events.
Peak integration in any chromatographic software refers to the process of quantifying the areas under the peak's curve in the chromatogram. The area under the peak is proportional to the amount of that particular component in the sample.
Here are the basics of peak integration in a chromatographic system:
Peak Identification: Before integration, the peaks corresponding to different components in the sample need to be identified, based on their retention times. This is typically done by comparing the observed peaks with known standards or reference data.
Baseline Correction: Establish a baseline for the chromatogram, which represents the lowest signal level along the time axis next to the peak. The baseline represents the noise and background signal. Taking into account the baseline level allows an accurate integration, because it takes into account any drift or fluctuations in the baseline.
Peak Integration parameters and settings: Use appropriate algorithms to integrate the peaks in the chromatogram. Adjust integration parameters and settings as needed, such as noting peak width, noise threshold, and baseline correction method, which determine where the peak starts and ends and its maximum point. Optimizing these parameters helps obtain accurate and precise integration results.
Quantification: Once the areas under the peaks are determined through integration, the quantification of each component is performed. The integrated areas are compared to a calibration curve, created using standards' conc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters%20of%20Myst | The Myst series of adventure computer games deals with the events following the player's discovery of a mysterious book describing an island known as Myst. The book is no ordinary volume; it is a linking book, which serves as a portal to the world it describes. The player is transported to Myst Island and must unravel the world's puzzles in order to return home. Myst was a commercial and critical success upon release and spawned four sequels—Riven, Exile, Revelation and End of Ages— as well as several spinoffs and adaptations.
While the player, referred to as a Stranger, remains faceless and unnamed, Myst and its sequels introduce a variety of non-player characters. The inhabitants of Myst include the explorer Atrus, a writer of many linking books, and his wife Catherine and their children Sirrus and Achenar and Yeesha. Other characters introduced in the series include Gehn, Atrus' power-hungry father; Saavedro, a traumatized victim of Atrus' sons; and Esher, a member of an old civilization whose motives for helping the player are ambiguous.
The first Myst titles used pre-rendered graphics, and digitally inserted footage of live actors into the backgrounds. For Myst V: End of Ages, a different approach was taken: a special camera recorded actors' faces and mapped the video onto digital models. The characters of Myst have been generally praised in each installment. Reviewers found that the live action characters increased immersion, while the digital body language and spoken conviction in End of Ages endeared the characters to the player. Dissenting reviewers considered Mysts acting melodramatic and overwrought.
Development
When the first game in the franchise, Myst, was created, all the characters were created from footage of live actors. The actors were filmed on a bluescreen, then added to the pre-rendered backgrounds via chroma key. Due to a limited amount of time and money, Mysts creators, Rand and Robyn Miller, took on roles in the game themselves.
The Ages of Myst were occasionally seen as lonely by players and reviewers. As a result, Cyan added more characters to the sequel, Riven. Villagers scurry away as the player approaches, and major characters such as Gehn and a rebel band known as the Moiety address the player and give or take items away from him or her. For the first time, Cyan directed the live action actors for Rivens scenes; the designers, including Richard Vander Wende, were apprehensive about how the characters would fit in the finished product. Rand Miller reprised the role of Atrus due to fan expectation, even though he hated acting.
Later Myst titles improved on the integration of live action sequences in the prerendered environments of the games. Myst III: Exiles developers filmed all the scenes using standard definition cameras, which producer Dan Irish looked back on as a mistake; by not using high definition video cameras, the video did not look crisp at high resolutions. For the next game, Myst IV: Revelation, Ubi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20Body%20%28web%20series%29 | Foreign Body was a 2008 web series coproduced by the production companies Vuguru (owned by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner), Cyber Group Studios (owned by the former Walt Disney executives Dominique Bourse and Pierre Sissmann), and Big Fantastic (owned by the creators of the series SamHas7Friends and Prom Queen). The series, which ran from May 27 through August 4, 2008, comprised 50 episodes of approximately 2 minutes each, with a new video posted every weekday.
The series was a prequel and promotion for the Robin Cook novel of the same name, which was released on August 5, 2008, the day after the series finale. Portions of the series shot in India, and it cost a reported $10,000 per episode to create.
Plot
The core plot of Foreign Body concerns "medical tourism in India, focusing on “a group of dangerous Indian beauties” whose nursing skills will be put to some nefarious use".
See also
Big Fantastic
References
External links
2008 web series debuts
2008 web series endings
American drama web series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-Zero | Code-Zero or variant, may refer to:
Code-Zero, a Japanese-only Square-Enix videogame for the Sharp X68000, see List of Enix games#C
Code 0 sail, a type of spinnaker
Code 0 (Network Unreachable), a response code for IP in IP
See also
Code to Zero, novel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita%20Syndrome | is a Japanese adult computer game created by Katsumi Mochizuki and distributed by Enix. It was the winner of Enix's second bi-annual Game Hobby Program Contest. The game was released for the FM-7 and PC-8801 platforms on 31 October 1983.
Plot
The game takes place within a house called "Maison Lolita" where under-aged cartoon girls run around without clothes, and play games which involve cheating death. The player must solve puzzles in order to save the cartoon girls from violent deaths, or to see the girls without their clothes on. The game was not originally advertised as containing gore, and this element was only hinted at on the game's packaging:
Gameplay
The game opens showing five doors at "Maison Lolita". The player selects one of these five rooms to enter, with each containing a different minigame.
Buzz saw room
A girl is strapped to a table, and a circular buzz saw is slowly moving towards her. The player must choose the correct key from ten keys in order to release the girl, and is limited to five guesses. After five incorrect guesses, the buzz saw slices the girl who explodes into a fountain of gore and dies; if the player is successful in freeing the girl, she takes off her clothes.
Human dart board room
A girl is strapped to a dart board, and the player is to toss darts at her. The player selects a series of darts which are randomly allocated by number; success is determined randomly by the computer depending on which number the player selects. If the player wins, the girl's clothing is removed; otherwise, the girl explodes into gore and dies.
Password room
A sleeping girl is lying on a bed, and the player must type a Japanese word in order to wake her up and have her take her clothes off. The game provides hints to the player.
Rock Paper Scissors room
The player plays a game of rock paper scissors against a girl, who removes a piece of her clothing each time the player wins.
Gallery room
The final room does not contain a game, but rather a gallery where the player can view pornographic images of underage cartoon girls.
Development
Prior to creating its well-known series of role playing games which include Dragon Quest and Star Ocean, Enix was a niche game publisher which became involved in the creation and distribution of pornographic games during the 1980s. Lolita Syndrome was the winning game of the second Game Hobby Program Contest sponsored by Enix. A similar game was released by Enix in February 1983, , which also involves gore and pornographic imagery of underage girls. The game revolves around the player protecting a teenage girl named Mariko Hashimoto from kidnappers and killers who throw knives at her, attach her to high-voltage batteries, or place her next to bombs.
Lolita Syndrome was programmed and illustrated by mangaka Katsumi Mochizuki. During the game's development, Mochizuki was simultaneously an illustrator for the children's educational series published by Shogakukan.
Reception
Lolita Syndrome was devel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access%20Radio%20Chicago | Access Radio Chicago was the name used for four AM radio stations in the Chicago market, all owned by Newsweb Corporation offering brokered programming, ethnic programming, and occasional music:
WAIT 850, Crystal Lake, Illinois
WNDZ 750, Portage, Indiana
WSBC 1240, Chicago, Illinois
WCFJ 1470, Chicago Heights, Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Al%20Jazeera%20presenters | The following is a list of presenters with Al Jazeera Media Network, the international news conglomerate, based in Doha and financed by the Qatari government. In recent years Al Jazeera developed a presence in the global English-language broadcasting sector, firstly with the Al Jazeera English channel and then with the purchase of Current TV, which led to the launch of the United States-based Al Jazeera America in 2013.
This list includes former employees as well as the current presenters:
Al Jazeera English
Dareen Abughaida
Hashem Ahelbarra
Charlie Angela
Winsyon Murphy
Mohamed Adow
Malika Bilal
Marwan Bishara
Richelle Carey
Nick Clark
Stephen Cole
Peter Dobbie
Jane Dutton
Ghida Fakhry
Adrian Finighan
Martine Dennis
Lisa Fletcher
Everton Fox
Steve Gaisford
Imran Garda
Steff Gaulter
Shiulie Ghosh
Richard Gizbert
Divya Gopalan
Tony Harris
Mehdi Hasan
Fauziah Ibrahim
Darren Jordon
Rizwan Khan
Hamish Macdonald
Julie MacDonald
Raheela Mahomed
Rob Matheson
Rob McElwee
Halla Mohieddeen
Teymoor Nabili
Anand Naidoo
Maryam Nemazee
Femi Oke
Rageh Omaar
Marga Ortigas
Shahnaz Pakravan
Amanda Palmer
Verónica Pedrosa
Barnaby Phillips
Faisal al-Qassem
Robert Reynolds
Andy Richardson
Josh Rushing
Maleen Saeed
Kamahl Santamaria
Shakuntala Santhiran
Nick Schifrin
Mark Seddon
Barbara Serra
Sherine Tadros
Nastasya Tay
Lauren Taylor
Folly Bah Thibault
Cyril Vanier
Kim Vinnell
Sebastian Walker
Sami Zeidan
Sandra Gathmann
Al Jazeera America
Josh Bernstein
Jonathan Betz
Chris Bury
Richelle Carey
Melissa Chan
Joie Chen
Eboni Deon
Lisa Fletcher
Jami Floyd
Lori Jane Gliha
Tony Harris
Marc Lamont Hill
Sheila MacVicar
Dave Marash
Adam May
Nichole Mitchell
Antonio Mora
Soledad O'Brien
Femi Oke
Randall Pinkston
Christof Putzel
Ash-har Quraishi
Morgan Radford
Josh Rushing
Roxana Saberi
Cara Santa Maria
Nick Schifrin
John Seigenthaler
Michael Shure
David Shuster
John Henry Smith
Ray Suarez
Stephanie Sy
Ali Velshi
Mike Viqueira
Sebastian Walker
Amy Walters
Jacob Ward
Al Jazeera Balkans
Aleksandar Ćeramilac
Anne-Marie Ćurčić
Saša Delić
Dalija Hasanbegović
Jasmina Kos
Irena Kuldija
Jelena Milutinović
Adnan Rondić
See also
List of Qatar-related topics
List of television presenters
List of television reporters
External links
AlJazeera.net (in Arabic) Al Jazeera official website
Al Jazeera English official website
Al Jazeera America official website
Al Jazeera
Lists of journalists
Lists of people by employer
Lists of television presenters
Qatar-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Emmy%20Awards | 2008 Emmy Awards may refer to:
60th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2008 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring primetime programming during June 2007 – May 2008
35th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2008 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 2007
29th Sports Emmy Awards, the 2008 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring sports programming during 2007
36th International Emmy Awards, honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma%20Global%20Action%20Network | The Burma Global Action Network, also known as BGAN, is a worldwide Internet-based organization. It was founded by the "Support The Monks' Protest In Burma" group on Facebook.com with 400,000 members. Its motto states, "supporting the Burmese monks and civilians through internet activism by bringing solidarity and unity to the Free Burma Movement using the latest social networking and internet technology." Burma Global Action Network (BGAN) is a new organization promoting the struggle for justice and democracy in Burma, operating in conjunction with other, more established groups. Founded in the wake of the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests, BGAN has initiated and organized various actions designed to raise public awareness about the situation in Burma and put pressure on governments and other stakeholders to take action on Burmese issues. It is composed of moderators from BGAN's Facebook.com group, "Support the Monks' Protest in Burma," founded by Jack Hidary, Imran Jamal, Sophie Lwin and other former BGAN's staff including Alex Bookbinder. Current members of the group includes Sophie Lwin, Imran Jamal, Nickie Sekera and Tim Aye-Hardy. This platform was established in late September, 2007, to raise awareness of the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests. It soon became an unfounded success: at its peak, it had nearly 500,000 members, and united disparate individuals and organizations around the globe working together for the goal of a free Burma. BGAN is composed of volunteers from around the world with different nationalities and backgrounds. In 2007 BGAN's Facebook group was the largest Facebook advocacy group and was one of the first organizations to utilize social media for global advocacy and action coordination.
Achievements
In conjunction with the Burma Campaign UK, Canadian Friends of Burma, the US Campaign for Burma and Avaaz.org, as well as countless local partners, a Global Day of Action for Burma was held on October 6, 2007, in cities worldwide. The London demonstration alone had more than 10,000 participants; tens of thousands participated in events worldwide. It remains one of the largest simultaneous events coordinated primarily over the internet, and can be a considered a significant milestone in the history of internet activism for its novel usage of social networking technology.
It also coordinated a global day of action with the emphasis on freeing Burma's political prisoners. "Aung San Suu Kyi Day" was held on October 24, 2007, which marked the date on which Aung San Suu Kyi had spent 12 years under house arrest.
Its most significant user-uploaded media campaign is the website Don’t Forget Burma. Designed to combat the lull in Burma-related coverage in the international media following the crackdown on demonstrators in October, Don't Forget Burma was designed as a viral campaign where concerned citizens can upload messages of support for the Burmese cause and try to keep Burma in the media spotlight and public |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgrid | Xgrid is a proprietary grid computing program and protocol developed by the Advanced Computation Group subdivision of Apple Inc.
It provides network administrators a method of creating a computing cluster, which allows them to exploit previously unused computational power for calculations that can be divided easily into smaller operations, such as Mandelbrot maps. The setup of an Xgrid cluster can be achieved at next to no cost, as Xgrid client is pre-installed on all computers running Mac OS X 10.4 to Mac OS X 10.7. The Xgrid client was not included in Mac OS X 10.8. The Xgrid controller, the job scheduler of the Xgrid operation, is also included within Mac OS X Server and as a free download from Apple. Apple has kept the command-line job control mechanism minimalist while providing an API to develop more sophisticated tools built around it.
The program employs its own communication protocol layered on top of a schema to communicate to other nodes. This communication protocol interfaces with the BEEP infrastructure, a network application protocol framework. Computers discovered by the Xgrid system, that is computers with Mac OS X's Xgrid service enabled, are automatically added to the list of available computers to use for processing tasks.
When the initiating computer sends the complete instructions, or job, for processing to the controller, the controller splits the task up into these small instruction packets, known as tasks. The design of the Xgrid system consists of these small packets being transferred to all the Xgrid-enabled computers on the network. These computers, or nodes, execute the instructions provided by the controller and then return the results. The controller assembles the individual task results into the whole job results and returns them to the initiating computer.
Apple modeled the design of Xgrid on the Zilla program, distributed with NeXT's OpenStep operating system application programming interface (API), which Apple owned the rights to. The company also opted to provide the client version of Mac OS X with only command-line functions and little flexibility, while giving the Mac OS X Server version of Xgrid a GUI control panel and a full set of features.
History
Xgrid's origins can be traced back to NeXT's Zilla application created by scientist Richard Crandall in the late 1980s. Zilla was the first distributed computing program released on an end-user operating system and which used the idle screen-saver motif, a design feature since found in widely used projects such as Seti@Home. Zilla won the national Computerworld Smithsonian Award (Science Category) in 1991 for ease of use and good design. Apple acquired Zilla along with the rest of NeXT in 1997, and used Zilla as inspiration for Xgrid. Xgrid Technology Preview 1 was released in January 2004, followed by Technology Preview 2 in November 2004. Xgrid 1.0 was released as part of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger in April 2005.
Several organizations have adopted Xgrid in lar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigational%20algorithms | The navigational algorithms are the quintessence of the executable software on portable calculators or Smartphone as an aid to the art of navigation, this attempt article describe both algorithms and software for "PC-Smartphone" implementing different calculation procedures for navigation .
The calculation power obtained by the languages: Basic, "C", Java, etc. .., from portable calculators or Smartphones, has made it possible to develop programs that allow calculating the position without the need for tables, in fact they have some basic tables with the correction factors for each year and calculate the values "on the fly" at runtime .
Comparison between manual calculation methods and the use of calculators
The traditional methods require bulky and expensive nautical tables (which must be uSmartphoneted), pencil and paper, and calculation time, following the working algorithms.
Calculators (and the like) do not need books (they have tables and ephemeris integrated) and, with their own algorithms, allow quick and error-free calculation of navigation problems.
Types of algorithms
Celestial navigation: Sight reduction, circle of equal altitude, Line Of Position, Fix...
Positional astronomy: RA, GHA, Dec
Coastal navigation: Range, Bearing, Horizontal angles, IALA...
Sailings: Rhumbs, Loxodromic, Orthodromic, Meridional parts...
Weather, tides
Software PC- Smartphone: Nautical Almanac, Sailings, Variation, Sextant corrections
Programs for general navigation
Programs on the nautical chart, directions, coastal navigation and beacons, nautical publications. The astronomical navigation section includes the resolution of the position triangle, the usefulness of a height line, the recognition of stars and the determinant of the height line, in addition to other topics of interest in nautical: tides, naval kinematics, meteorology and hurricanes, and oceanography. All heading measurements made with a magnetic compass or compass must be corrected for magnetic declination or local variation.
Coordinate conversion subroutine
sub Rectang2Polar (a () as double, b () as double) static
'----- Subprograma para convertir un vector de estado coord.cartesianas
'----- En vector de estado en coord.polars.
'----- De entrada: vector de estado en coord.cartesianes
'----- De salida: vector de estado en coord.polars.
'----- NOTA: El vector de velocidad polar es el de la velocidad total,
'----- Corregido por el efecto de la latitud.
'------------------------------------------------- ------------------------
mar x as double
mar y as double
mar z as double
mar x_dot as double
mar y_dot as double
mar z_dot as double
mar rho as double
mar r as double
mar lambda as double
mar beta as double
mar lambda_dot as double
mar beta_dot as double
mar r_dot as double
x = a (1)
y = a (2)
z = a (3)
x_dot = a (4)
y_dot = a (5)
z_dot = a (6)
rho = sqr (x * x+y * y)
r = sqr (rho * rho+z * z)
lambda = atan2 (y, x)
beta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBG%20Radio%20Network | NBG Radio Network (, OTCBB: NSDB) was a syndicated American radio network. The Portland, Oregon based company created, produced, distributed and marketed ad time for nationally syndicated radio programs. At its peak, the company offered 50 programs airing on over 3,800 radio station affiliates. The company went public in 1998.
NBG Radio Network was incorporated in Nevada on March 4, 1996 under the name of National Broadcasting Group. The name was changed to NBG Radio Network Inc. on January 15, 1998. (To avoid a lawsuit from NBC).
The company produced and syndicated many programs that reached approximately 3,800 radio stations on a weekly basis. In the beginning they produced small vignette shows (lasting 1–2 minutes) including: Celebrity Talk, Color of Success with Mychal Thompson, Dollars and Cents, The Flip Side, Modern Rock Minute, Teen Tips, Travel Notes, Fastbreak with Dick Versace, Outdoor Tips, Sports Memories with Rick Barry, Teein' it up, and Flashback. As well as long form shows like Dance Mix America, Big Band Classics, The Country Oldies Show, Trivia Coast-to-Coast, and The Golden Age of Radio.
The network also carried personality shows like the Liz Wilde Show, one of the few female shock jocks, The Rick Emerson Show, Snoop Dogg and Shadoe Stevens as well as music programming such as Nina Blackwoods Absolutely 80's, and World Atomic Rhythm Parties. The company also produced programming for the Hispanic radio market.
The company's principal source of revenue was selling radio time to advertisers. In a typical relationship for a one-hour show provided by the Company, a radio station agreed to provide them with five to six 60-second advertising spots each time a show was broadcast.
Other revenue sources included subscription services, where customers would receive daily faxes and emails containing show prep sheets. Another alternative revenue source was the development and sale of preferred listener tracking software (PLP) to stations. This eventually resulted in the creation of its wholly owned subsidiary NBG Solutions.
Several of NBG's programs are still on the air on other networks. Golden Age of Radio is now on USA Radio Network; Blackwood's programs are now at United Stations Radio Networks. The Country Oldies Show continues to air as a self-syndicated program, mostly on rural stations.
Its most listened-to show, The Bo Reynolds Show which broadcast for five hours on Saturday nights reached over 150 Stations Nationwide.
References
Defunct radio networks in the United States
Companies based in Portland, Oregon
1996 establishments in Oregon
2003 disestablishments in Oregon
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi%20Talk | Aldi Talk (also known as MEDIONmobile, ALDImobile, Aldi Suisse Mobile and HoT Hofer Telekom) are brands of Aldi which are used country-specific as mobile virtual network operators. The brands exist in Austria (networks are Magenta Telekom and Drei Austria), Australia (Telstra Wholesale), Germany (since 2014 Telefónica Germany, before it used E-Plus), Switzerland (Sunrise LLC) and Slovenia (A1 Slovenija).
History
Aldi Talk was founded on 7 December 2005 in Germany, 2007 in Switzerland and Belgium, July 2009 in the Netherlands and March 2013 in Australia. The related brand HoT Hofer Telekom was founded in January 2015 in Austria and on 11 May 2017 in Slovenia. Medion AG is the mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) for Aldi Talk in Germany and Australia, while the MVNE for HoT Hofer Telekom is Ventocom GmbH.
End of Belgian operations
On 7 April 2017, it was announced that Aldi Talk would cease all operations in Belgium by 6 June. The cause of this decision was the coming in to effect of an anti-terrorism measure taken by the Belgian government, banning the sale and use of anonymous SIM cards, instead requiring the mobile operators to identify and register each of their clients. Because Aldi Talk did not have the necessary capabilities to perform these tasks, a decision was taken to cease all operations in Belgium.
End of Netherlands operations
From the year 2009 until June 2022 Aldi talk was also represented in the Netherlands by KPN.
References
External links
Germany official website
Australia's official website
Austria official website
Slovenia's official website
Switzerland's official website
Aldi
Mobile virtual network operators
Telecommunications companies of Australia
Telecommunications companies of Germany
Telecommunications companies of Austria
Telecommunications companies of Slovenia
Telecommunications companies of Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20USA%20High%20episodes | USA High is an American teen sitcom that aired on USA Network. The series follows a group of students at the American School, a boarding school for American and international students in Paris, France, after the addition of new student Jackson Green (Josh Holland). Season 1 consisted of 75 episodes that premiered on August 4, 1997, and aired through November 13, 1998. Season 2 consisted of 20 episodes that premiered on November 16, 1998 and aired through June 11, 1999. Peter Engel was the executive producer of USA High, with co-executive producers Leslie Eberhard and Steve Slavkin (who was co-executive producer for the series' first 25 episodes only).
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1997–98)
Season 1 of USA High premiered on August 4, 1997 at 9:30am. The series was run twice daily, Monday through Friday, airing at 9:30am and 5:30pm, between August 5 and September 12, 1997; the air dates listed for episodes 1–24 are based on the 9:30am timeslot airings. From September 15, 1997, USA High only aired at 5:30pm, except for two Sunday 10:30am airings.
Season 2 (1998–99)
USA Network ordered a second season of USA High consisting of 20 episodes which aired between November 1998 and June 1999. James Madio, who played Bobby Lazzarini, did not continue with the series into season 2. William James Jones (formerly of Peter Engel's California Dreams) joined USA High in season 2 playing new American student Dwane "Excess" Wilson.
References
External links
USA High
USA High |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Labour%20University | The Global Labour University (GLU) is an international network of universities, trade unions, NGOs and the International Labour Organisation. It was initiated in 2002 and offers master's programs, academic certificate programs and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) on sustainable development, social justice, international labour standards and trade/labour unions, economic policies and global institutions.
Universities and workers’ organisations from around the world have jointly developed these unique global programmes. The programmes aim at allowing labour organisations and social movements to engage more effectively in social dialogue, public debate and policy implementation.
Project concept
The GLU is a network of trade unionists, researchers and ILO (International Labour Organisation) experts who have combined their experience and knowledge to further academic expertise relative to the global labour market. This network develops and delivers high-level academic programmes, usually one year masters courses. It is a new approach to strengthening the intellectual and strategic capacity of workers’ organisations and to establish much stronger working relationships between trade/labour unions, the ILO, and the scientific community.
The GLU contributes to strengthening union capacity and competence to defend workers' interests, to promote the "Decent Work" agenda and to enable workers’ organisations to engage more effectively in social dialogue on social and economic policy issues such as employment, social protection and the implementation of international labour standards.
The programs support unions in upgrading their intellectual profile by building a channel for the development of qualified trade union leaders, as well as supporting the recruitment of younger experts. The courses in all countries are conducted in English.
As part of their course, students analyse and discuss, in a multidisciplinary fashion, the challenges of globalisation from a labour and trade/labour union perspective. The programmes offer a multicultural and multiregional environment: students and lecturers come from developing, transition and industrialised countries. Participants may also study one term of the programme in South Africa or Brazil and one term in Germany.
The curriculum of a pilot masters course was first developed in 2003/04, the first course starting in Germany in 2004/05, followed by courses in Africa (South Africa 2007) and Latin America (Brazil 2008), then in mid-2008, in Mumbai, India. Recently, the Penn State University, USA and the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi joined the network. Discussions have been held with a number of other universities in other countries. Whenever possible, students from all regions will be represented in the courses.
Governance structure
The governance structure of the Global Labour University network is based on the partnership between the ILO, the national and international trade union movement, the part |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Earth%20Fighter%20Rayieza | is a role-playing video game developed and published by Enix. It was originally published in 1985 for the PC-8801, FM-7, X1, and MSX personal computer systems. The game was ported to the Famicom on December 15, 1987 by Nintendo under the title . The programming was done by Pax Softnica.
The game takes place in a sci-fi setting instead of a fantasy world. The characters from Ginga no Sannin were designed by Go Nagai, who also drew the illustrations for the game's package. The background music from Ginga no Sannin was composed by Yukihiro Takahashi. Takahashi included an arranged version of Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Rydeen" as the battle theme.
Plot
In the year 2300, the human race created an Earth federation government and spread out into space to begin colonizing the surrounding planets. However, an alien species from the far reaches of outer space began attacking the human forces, putting the very survival of the human race at stake. Though it was only a matter of time before Earth fell to the enormous power of the enemy forces, the Earth's army commander issued an order calling all of the units dispersed around the colonized planets to return to Earth. The player takes the role of a young soldier who was stationed with the Rayieza unit on the planet Mars. The journey begins as he makes his way back to Earth along with the other members of his unit.
Characters
Protagonist
The main character was originally stationed in Mars, but lost most of his comrades in the battle against the aliens and makes his way back to Earth with the only other surviving member, Blue. In the PC-8801 version, his default name is .
Blue is the only other surviving member of the Rayieza force, which was decimated by in a battle against the alien forces. He is an expert user of ESP, and he can sense dead souls remaining in the world. His appearance differs completely in the Family Computer version of the game.
Rimi is a girl discovered in a cold sleep state in a capsule recovered in the space station (the moon level in the Family Computer version). She decides to assist the Rayieza unit by communicating with them from Earth.
Mio is the computer program that manages the Rayieza unit's operations.
Ginga no Sannin (Family Computer version)
The Family Computer port of the game was released on December 15, 1987. Though the game is largely a faithful port of the PC version, some arrangements were made, such as the addition of a side-scrolling screen when the player lands on a planet's surface, or Rimi being able to use psychic powers. During the later parts of the game, enemies begin to appear very frequently, and new enemy special attacks were added which can lower the maximum hit-points of allied characters (lowered points return the next time the character's level increases).
Game designer Makoto Kuba stated in an interview that the name was changed due to trademark issues. He also stated that Nintendo may have published the game so that Enix would not have to be assoc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile%20Scripting%20Language | Profile Scripting Language (PSL) is a superset of the MUMPS programming language that adds object-oriented language features. It is currently developed by Fidelity National Information Services (hereafter FIS).
History
PSL is a language that implements object orientated concepts such as classes, methods, encapsulation, inheritance, and strong data typing as extensions to the MUMPS language. PSL was initially conceived in December 1998 by Frank Sanchez, then President of Sanchez Computer Associates, as a transformation tool that could reverse engineer a very large and complex banking application (Fidelity National Information Services 'Profile') which was written predominantly in MUMPS.
Frank Sanchez developed the original language semantics, syntax, parser, compiler and optimizer, database interface, schema binding, intrinsic classes and methods over the Christmas holiday in 1998 and early 1999. He was assisted in the development of the initial commercial releases (version 1 - 2) by the late Bob Chiang, the Head of Data-Qwik tool development at Sanchez, and Mark Spier, a Senior Software Developer with Sanchez at the time. Sanchez Computer Associates (SCAI) was acquired by Fidelity National Financial (FNF), now FIS, in April 2004. In later versions the compiler has been maintained and significantly enhanced by Frans Witte, a Senior Technical Lead at FIS, and Dan Russell, formerly the Head of Technology Development at Sanchez and now a remote Senior Technical consultant to FIS. Frans and Dan have focused on implementing the database independent features of the language, and more recently the Java source target code.
Language concepts
The initial language concepts included the ability to bind the source code to a database schema which generates dynamic Data Access Classes (preempting similar persistent class generation in Java) and database methods that could be code generated into either MUMPS globals or a commercial RDMS. The PSL Data Access Classes are identified in the source code as Record<classes>.
PSL interprets legacy MUMPS code, though some legacy commands (such as GO, NEW and KILL) can be disabled or marked as deprecated (generating compiler warnings). Direct references to MUMPS globals can also be disabled or deprecated. Numerous PSL compiler directives (e.g., #IF/#ELSE, #ACCEPT) were also added to the PSL language, as were Java style blocks and comments, modern error handling semantics and white space. Two MUMPS language elements were eliminated initially (M-style blocks and goto label+offset) as they could not be supported within the PSL object scope handling.
PSL allows a Class to be defined as either Intrinsic or Extrinsic. Extrinsic classes implement Class, Method and Instance variable definitions consistent with common OO languages, and are generated into compiled code (accessed at runtime). Intrinsic Classes and methods, on the other hand are implemented as extensions to the PSL compiler itself, and are executed at COMPILE t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate%20Heart%20Radio | IHR Educational Broadcasting dba Immaculate Heart Radio operated a network of radio stations that aired Roman Catholic religious programming. The network provided a 24-hour a day schedule consisting of call-in talk shows, interviews and broadcasts of the Mass. Hosts periodically asked for financial donations to fund the network and the operation of its stations.
Immaculate Heart Radio's headquarters were located in Loomis, California. This location also served as its main broadcasting studio, where programming and production work was done for the stations within the network. The organization got its name from the Catholic devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
In October 2016, Immaculate Heart Radio and another Catholic radio network, Relevant Radio, announced plans to merge operations. Immaculate Heart Radio served the Western United States and had more than 30 stations in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, including 930 KHJ Los Angeles, 1260 KSFB San Francisco, 1000 KCEO San Diego and 1310 KIHP Phoenix. Relevant Radio's network was based mostly in the Midwest and Northeast. The merger was consummated on June 30, 2017; all the station licenses were assigned to Immaculate Heart Media, Inc., while the Relevant Radio name became the on-air branding for the network going forward. The corporate name was changed to Relevant Radio, Inc. in February 2020.
References
External links
Current official website
Archive of original website
Archived photo of front desk
Yelp page
Google Maps
Catholic Church in Arizona
Catholic radio stations
Christian radio stations in the United States
Radio broadcasting companies of the United States
Radio stations established in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carri%C3%A8re%20Wellington | The Carrière Wellington is a museum in Arras, northern France. It is named after a former underground quarry which was part of a network of tunnels used by forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the First World War. Opened in , the museum commemorates the soldiers who built the tunnels and fought in the Battle of Arras in 1917.
History
From the Middle Ages through to the 19th century, the chalk beds underneath Arras were extensively quarried to supply stone for the town's
buildings. The quarries fell into disuse by the start of the 20th century. In 1916, during the First World War, the British forces controlling Arras decided to re-use the underground quarries to aid a planned offensive against the Germans, whose trenches ran through what are now the eastern suburbs of the town. The quarries were to be linked up so that they could be used both as shelters from the incessant German shelling and as a means of conveying troops to the front in secrecy and safety.
500 miners from the New Zealand Tunnelling Company, including Māori and Pacific Islanders, recruited from the gold and coal mining districts of the country, were brought in to dig of tunnels. They worked alongside Royal Engineer tunnelling companies, made up by now of British coal miners and expert tunnellers who had built the London Underground. Many of them were "Bantams", soldiers of below average height who had been rejected from regular units because they did not meet the height requirements; others had been initially rejected as too old, but their specialist mining experience made them essential for the tunnelling operation.
The work was difficult and dangerous. In the New Zealand units alone, 41 tunnellers died and another 151 were injured during countermining operations against the Germans, whose own tunnellers sought to disrupt the Allied tunneling operations. The Arras tunnels linked the quarries to form a network that ran from the town centre, under no man's land, to a number of points just in front of the German front lines. The tunnel system could accommodate 20,000 men and were outfitted with running water, electric lights, kitchens, latrines, a light rail system and a fully equipped hospital. The tunnellers named the individual quarries after their home towns - Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, Blenheim, Christchurch and Dunedin for the New Zealanders, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Crewe and London for the Britons. (For a map of the Arras underground system, see here.)
Thousands of soldiers were billeted in the tunnels for eight days prior to the start of the Arras offensive on 9 April 1917. At 05:30 that morning, exits were dynamited to enable the troops to storm the German trenches. The Germans were taken by surprise and were pushed back . This counted as an extraordinary success by the standards of the time. However, the offensive soon bogged down and it was eventually called off after casualties reached 4,000 a day.
During World War II, the tunnels were re-opened to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20Information%20Machines | Logical Information Machines, Inc. (LIM) is a software company based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It markets Historis, a time series database and the Market Information Machine (MIM), a database that is built around Historis, and includes data and a near-English query language.
The Market Information Machine (MIM) was invented in 1988 by Tony Kolton, President and CEO of LIM, Danette Chimenti, LIM Director of Strategic Research and Ruben Gamboa, LIM Senior Technical Consultant. Danette sits on the board of directors and Ruben is on the Technical Advisory Board for LIM.
Historis, unlike a relational database, is optimized and designed to handle the large storage issues and fast data retrieval speeds required by time-series data (real-time, intraday, daily, weekly, monthly).
In December 2009, Morningstar, Inc. announced that it had agreed to buy LIM for $50.5 million.
See also
Time series database
References
External links
Ruben Gamboa, LIM Senior Technical Consultant
Software companies based in Illinois
Companies based in Chicago
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asianet%20Film%20Awards | The Asianet Film Awards is an award ceremony for films presented annually by Asianet, a Malayalam-language television network from the south-Indian state of Kerala. Asianet says that awards ceremony has been instituted to honour both artistic and technical excellence in the Malayalam language film industry.
The awards ceremony was co-sponsored by Johnson & Johnson in the year 1998 later Lux took up the sponsorship in the next 5 years. Then Jiva soap in 2004 and then Ujala for many years. From 2016, function is sponsored by Nirapara. Bhima Jewellers took the title sponsor in 2018 event. The function is normally held in Kochi, Angamaly and Thiruvananthapuram cities in Kerala. It was also held twice in Dubai.
The most recent award was the 21st Asianet Film Awards which held on 6 and 7 April 2019 at Kochi.
Awards Categories
Awards for Film
Best Film
The Asianet Film Award for Best Film has been awarded since 1998.
Most Popular Film
The Asianet Film Award for Most Popular Film has been awarded since 2012.
Awards for Actors/Actresses
Best Actor
The Asianet Film Award for Best Actor has been awarded since 1998.
Best Actress
The Asianet Film Award for Best Actress has been awarded since 1998.Manju warrier won 5 awards.
: Meera Jasmine is the only actress till time who has won the award three times constantly in a row.
Most Popular Actor
The Asianet Film Award for Most Popular Actor has been awarded since 2007. Priviraj Sukumaran mostly won the award (3times).
Most Popular Actress
The Asianet Film Award for Most Popular Actress has been awarded since 2009.
Best Supporting Actor
The Asianet Film Award for Best Supporting Actor has been awarded since 1998.
Best Supporting Actress
The Asianet Film Award for Best Supporting Actress has been awarded since 1998.
Best Character Actor
The Asianet Film Award for Best Character Actor has been awarded since 2010.
Best Character Actress
The Asianet Film Award for Best Character Actress has been awarded since 2010.
Best Actor in a Negative Role
The Asianet Film Award for Best Villain Role has been awarded since 2006.
Best Actor in a Humorous Role
The Asianet Film Award for Best Comic Role has been awarded since 2006.
Best New Face of the Year (Male)
The Asianet Film Award for Best New Face of the Year - Male has been awarded since 2005.
Best New Face of the Year (Female)
The Asianet Film Award for Best New Face of the Year - Female has been awarded since 2001.
Best Star Pair
The Asianet Film Award for Best Star Pair has been awarded since 2001.
Youth Icon of the Year
The Asianet Film Award for Best Youth Icon of the year has been awarded since 2009. Nivin Pauly and Kunchacko Boban holds the record of most reigns with two.
Best Child Artist (Male/Female)
The Asianet Film Award for Best Child Artist (Male/Female) has been awarded since 2001. Baby Nivedita, Baby Anikha and Kalidas Jayaram holds the record of most reigns with two.
Technical Awards
Best Director
The Asianet Film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Estrin | Gerald Estrin (September 9, 1921 – March 29, 2012) was an American computer scientist, and professor at the UCLA Computer Science Department. He is known for his work on the organization of computer systems, on parallel processing and SARA (system architects apprentice).
Early life and education
Estrin was born in New York City in 1921. He met his future wife Thelma Austern in 1941 at City College, New York and they were married when he was 20 and she was 17. Estrin entered the Army during World War II, after which he and Thelma Estrin entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where they both earned degrees in Electrical Engineering. Estrin received his B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin in 1948, 1949, and 1951, respectively.
Institute for Advanced Study
Estrin served as research engineer in the von Neumann group at IAS from 1950 to 1956. This led to an invitation from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel to direct the WEIZAC Project. Estrin and his wife went to Israel for the WEIZAC Project in 1954, after which Estrin returned to a teaching position at UCLA in 1955.
In the late 1950s Estrin came up with the concept of reconfigurable computing, which allows the acceleration of computational processes by using variable configurations of specialised hardware modules in addition to a sequential processing unit. The idea was practically realised as "The Fixed Plus Variable Structure Computer".
UCLA
Estrin obtained a teaching position at UCLA in 1953 and they moved to Los Angeles. During this time Thelma taught at Los Angeles Valley College, a junior college in Los Angeles. After their return from the WEIZAC project, Thelma also began working at UCLA in 1960 and she became a professor in the Computer Science Department in 1980. Gerald Estrin served as Chairperson of the UCLA Computer Science Department from 1979 to 1982 and from 1985 to 1988. He retired in 1991, and was recalled as professor emeritus.
Estrin was an IEEE Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Personal life
Gerald Estrin had three daughters. Margo Estrin is a medical doctor, Deborah Estrin is a computer scientist and academic professor, and Judith Estrin is a corporate executive.
Selected publications
Estrin, Gerald. "Organization of computer systems: the fixed plus variable structure computer." Papers presented at the May 3–5, 1960, western joint IRE-AIEE-ACM computer conference. ACM, 1960.
Estrin, Gerald, et al. "Parallel processing in a restructurable computer system." Electronic Computers, IEEE Transactions on 6 (1963): 747-755.
Estrin, Gerald, et al. "SARA (system architects apprentice): modeling, analysis, and simulation support for design of concurrent systems." Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on 2 (1986): 293–311.
References
American computer scientists
Jewish American scientists
1921 births
2012 deaths
Fellow Members of the IEEE
United States Army |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Emacs | GNU Emacs is a free software text editor. It was created by GNU Project founder Richard Stallman, based on the Emacs editor developed for Unix operating systems. GNU Emacs has been a central component of the GNU project and a flagship project of the free software movement. Its tag line is "the extensible self-documenting text editor."
History
In 1976, Stallman wrote the first Emacs (“Editor MACroS”), and in 1984, began work on GNU Emacs, to produce a free software alternative to the proprietary Gosling Emacs. GNU Emacs was initially based on Gosling Emacs, but Stallman's replacement of its Mocklisp interpreter with a true Lisp interpreter required that nearly all of its code be rewritten. This became the first program released by the nascent GNU Project. GNU Emacs is written in C and provides Emacs Lisp, also implemented in C, as an extension language. Version 13, the first public release, was made on March 20, 1985. The first widely distributed version of GNU Emacs was version 15.34, released later in 1985. Early versions of GNU Emacs were numbered as "1.x.x," with the initial digit denoting the version of the C core. The "1" was dropped after version 1.12 as it was thought that the major number would never change, and thus the major version skipped from "1" to "13". A new third version number was added to represent changes made by user sites. In the current numbering scheme, a number with two components signifies a release version, with development versions having three components.
GNU Emacs was later ported to the Unix operating system. It offered more features than Gosling Emacs, in particular a full-featured Lisp as its extension language, and soon replaced Gosling Emacs as the de facto Unix Emacs editor. Markus Hess exploited a security flaw in GNU Emacs's email subsystem in his 1986 cracking spree, in which he gained superuser access to Unix computers.
Although users commonly submitted patches and Elisp code to the net.emacs newsgroup, participation in GNU Emacs development was relatively restricted until 1999, and was used as an example of the "Cathedral" development style in The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The project has since adopted a public development mailing list and anonymous CVS access. Development took place in a single CVS trunk until 2008, and today uses the Git DVCS.
Richard Stallman has remained the principal maintainer of GNU Emacs, but he has stepped back from the role at times. Stefan Monnier and Chong Yidong have overseen maintenance since 2008. On September 21, 2015 Monnier announced that he would be stepping down as maintainer effective with the feature freeze of Emacs 25. Longtime contributor John Wiegley was announced as the new maintainer on November 5, 2015. Wiegley was joined by Eli Zaretskii in July, 2016, and Lars Ingebrigtsen in September, 2020.
Licensing
The terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) state that the Emacs source code, including both the C and Emacs Lisp components, are freely availab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown%20%28computing%29 | To shut down or power off a computer is to remove power from a computer's main components in a controlled way. After a computer is shut down, main components such as CPUs, RAM modules and hard disk drives are powered down, although some internal components, such as an internal clock, may retain power.
Implementations
The shutdown feature and command is available in Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, HP MPE/iX, and in a number of Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Apple macOS.
Microsoft Windows and ReactOS
In Microsoft Windows and ReactOS, a PC or server is shut down by selecting the item from the Start menu on the desktop. Options include shutting down the system and powering off, automatically restarting the system after shutting down, or putting the system into stand-by mode.
Just like other operating systems, Windows has the option to prohibit selected users from shutting down a computer. On a home PC, every user may have the shutdown option, but in computers on large networks (such as Active Directory), an administrator can revoke the access rights of selected users to shut down a Windows computer. Nowadays there are many software utilities which can automate the task of shutting down a Windows computer, enabling automatic computer control. The Windows Shutdown website lists various software utilities to automate the task of shutting down.
In Windows, a program can shut down the system by calling the ExitWindowsEx or NtShutdownSystem function.
Command-line interface
There is also a shutdown command that can be executed within a command shell window. shutdown.exe is the command-line shutdown application (located in %windir%\System32\shutdown.exe) that can shut down the user's computer or another computer on the user's network. Different parameters allow different functions. More than one parameter can be used at a time for this command.
Apple macOS
In Apple macOS the computer can be shut down by choosing "Shut Down…" from the Apple Menu, by pressing key/button (or key), or by pressing the power key to bring up the power management dialog box and selecting button "Shut down". An administrator may also use the Unix shutdown command as well. It can also be shut down by pressing key/button (or key) or clicking Shut Down on the Apple Menu while holding the key, but this will not prompt the user anything at all. On newer and some older Apple computers, starting with Mac OS 9, the user is given a time limit in which the computer will automatically shut down if the user does not click the "Shut Down" button.
Unix and Linux
In Unix and Linux, the shutdown command can be used to turn off or reboot a computer. Only the superuser can shut the system down.
One commonly issued form of this command is shutdown -h now, which will shut down a system immediately. Another one is shutdown -r now to reboot. Another form allows the user to specify an exact time or a delay before shutdown: shutdown -h 20:00 will turn the computer off at 8:00 PM, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20stations%20in%20Ethiopia | Current railway stations in Ethiopia are served by standard gauge railways of the National Railway Network of Ethiopia which is mostly under construction, except the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway. Other stations were built for the in 2018 still operating metre gauge Ethio-Djibouti Railways, although this railway has officially been superseded by the new Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway.
The following list contains dedicated railway stations with at least a single platform for passengers to enter or to leave trains. Train stops on open stretches without platform can outnumber train stops in railway stations by a 2:1 margin, but the former are not included in the lists. The railways usually also have a number of freight yards and dry ports for freight handling, but these are not counted as well.
Standard gauge railways
Description of railway stations
Railway stations mostly have a single platform for passengers to enter or to leave trains. These platforms allow access without having the need to use stairs. Some have two platforms connected through a footbridge above the overhead catenary system. The platforms are roofed to protect passengers against sun, wind and rain. Railway stations for passenger trains always have a station building directly attached to the back of the principal platform. Consequently, all railway stations with a single platform have space for only one platform line and do not allow the presence of more than one train at the platform at the same time. In contrast, railway stations with two platforms have the space for two or three platform lines. All platforms are around 330 meters long.
The station buildings are used for ticketing and for refreshments and contain waiting rooms and even rooms for prayers. They have media available (at least electricity, water). The outer appearance of station buildings of the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway shows some sort of architectural eclecticism including Ethiopian elements with some Chinese interpretation and rounded elements. The railway station buildings on the Awash–Hara Gebeya Railway are rather functional and rectangular.
The stations on the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway were built in 2015 and 2016, the stations on the Awash–Hara Gebeya Railway were built in 2017 and 2018 for the section between Awash and Kombolcha. For the sections between Kombolcha and Hara Gebeya and between Hara Gebeya and Mek'ele, all stations are planned. No clear date for building them is known.
In the following, most stations are coined [sic] closed, these do exist but there is no use by passengers yet (train stations would be operational but there are no scheduled passenger services yet). Some stations are called U/C, meaning under construction, others are planned and do not exist up to now. In total, there are 36 railway stations (existing, under construction and planned).
List of railway stations
Passenger railway stations
The stations below are passenger railway stations on operational railways and on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Policy%20Editor | System Policy Editor is a graphical tool provided with Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 98. System policies are made up from a set of registry entries that control the computer resources available to a user or group of users. These registry entries can be applied to individual users, groups of users, or to anybody logging on to a particular computer.
It works by manipulating Registry and security settings. User-specific settings are stored in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry hive. Likewise, machine-specific settings are written under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. ADM files are template files that are used by System Policy Editor to describe where registry-based policy settings are stored in the registry. They also describe the user interface presented to System Policy administrators.
In Windows 2000, the System Policy Editor was replaced with the Group Policy snap-in for Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
References
Windows administration
Discontinued Microsoft software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTEGlobe | OTEGLOBE is an Athens-based network backbone operator offering telecommunication services to carriers, ISPs and business customers in Southern Europe. The organisation is a whole-owned subsidiary of OTE, the main Greek telecommunications provider.
Network
OTEGLOBE operates 2 wide area networks that form the south-eastern European Internet backbone: GWEN (Greek Western European Network) and TBN (Trans Balkan Network) as well as an IP MPLS network.
GWEN is a private multi-gigabit network based on DWDM/SDH connecting Greece to major European backbone services via Italy. It is composed of 4 rings (Greek inner ring, undersea ring, Italian ring and West-European ring).
TBN forms a land-based backbone network linking Greece to the west-European backbones via Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic to the main backbone centres in Germany and the United Kingdom. The TBN is used standalone or as a backup service to GWEN.
IP MPLS Network. Based on Multi-Services Platform (MSP), a private, international IP MPLS network, as well as on numerous peering/interconnect agreements with other global carriers, OTEGLOBE offers a variety of transport and connectivity services available internationally at 14 business centers.
OTEGLOBE is a member and landing party of the Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) submarine cable.
Services
OTEGLOBE offers a number of wholesale telecommunication services to high-capacity carriers and multi-site organisations:
Capacity services (via the GWEN and TBN wide area networks)
Data/IP services
Voice services
Telecommunications companies of Greece
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Companies established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shripad%20Dabholkar | Shripad A. Dabholkar (1924 – May 2001) was an Indian intellectual and activist. He was the founder of a non-structured methodology of grassroot networking for nature-friendly neighbourhood development called Prayog Pariwar (Experimenting Communities). His contributions were recognized by many awards including the 1985 Jamnalal Bajaj Award.
Prayog Pariwar received considerable attention from some of the influential educational thinkers including Paolo Freire (author of `Pedagogy of the Oppressed’) and Ivan Illich (author of`Deschooling Society’). Illich invited Dabholkar to Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca in 1970. Kassel University in Germany organized in 1973 ‘‘Science for Rural Development: a workshop with Shripad Dabholkar and Paolo Freire’’. The theme of the workshop was to juxtapose the`Critical pedagogy’ of Freire for raising political awareness (conscientization) and the pedagogical methods of Prayog Pariwar to develop resource literacy.
Biography
Shripad A. Dabholkar was an educationist who aimed to shape education as a tool for total change in the life situation of an average worker in rural areas. Dabholkar worked as a professor of mathematics for 25 years at a rural university Mauni Vidyapeeth which was founded by J. P. Naik as a pilot project with the motto “Development through Education” and with funding from the Central Government.
Dabholkar grew dissatisfied with the formal schooling which often did not connect with the real-life situations, and with the limitations of conventional academic system which tended to exclude many capable individuals with a stamp of failure. He left the university to undertake the task of educating farmers through demystification of science, adopting non-formal methods of knowledge communication.
Dabholkar started his work in Tasgaon, a village in Sangli district in Maharashtra, with a core group of farmers including Mhetre, Arve, Patil. The successes of this group with their innovative approach helped in creating mass awareness and interest in many other small farmers,. They formed their own study groups and turned to grape cultivation against the advice of conventional agricultural experts and even though it was not a traditional crop in the region.
Dabholkar translated the classic monograph ‘’General Viticulture’’ by Winkler et al into Marathi for the farmers which was mastered and assimilated by their study groups. This network-building for using advanced science to address real-life situations resulted in a new sociology of science and education.
The productivity in the district rose to world standards and grape production became a highly productive activity, inducing more farmers to turn to it. These farmers in Maharashtra without formal agricultural education became India's leading grape cultivators with a turnover of over $100 million. Dabholkar then successfully extended the applied research to other crops as well.
He is the father of Atish Dabholkar and e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishigahara%20Station | is a subway station in the Tokyo Metro network. It is located in Kita, Tokyo. The station is the least used on the entire Metro network. Kyu-Furukawa Gardens can be reached by walking from this station.
Lines
Tokyo Metro Namboku Line (station number N-15)
Platform
The platform is a simple island configuration, with one island platform serving two tracks.
Passenger statistics
With an average of 8,785 passengers daily in fiscal 2018, the station is the least used on the entire Tokyo Metro network and the only station on the network to have an average of less than 10,000 users per day.
The passenger statistics for previous years are as shown below.
History
Nishigahara Station opened on 29 November 1991.
The station facilities were inherited by Tokyo Metro after the privatization of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA) in 2004.
References
External links
Nishigahara Station Information (Tokyo Metro)
Railway stations in Tokyo
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1991
Tokyo Metro Namboku Line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procapra | Procapra is a genus of Asian gazelles, including three living species:
Mongolian gazelle P. gutturosa
Tibetan gazelle P. picticaudata
Przewalski's gazelle P. przewalskii
The oldest fossils belonging to the genus Procapra date from the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene of central Asia, when the climate was wetter and milder than now. The genus apparently evolved from animals similar to the Pliocene gazelle Gazella sinensis, and is known to have been hunted by early Neolithic humans at Lake Qinghai in China.
References
True antelopes
Taxa named by Brian Houghton Hodgson
Mammal genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oji-kamiya%20Station | is a subway station in the Tokyo Metro network. It is located in Kita, Tokyo.
Lines
Tokyo Metro Namboku Line (station number N-17)
Platforms
The platforms are configured as two side platforms.
History
Oji-kamiya Station opened on 29 November 1991.
The station facilities were inherited by Tokyo Metro after the privatization of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA) in 2004.
References
External links
Oji-kamiya Station Information (Tokyo Metro)
Railway stations in Tokyo
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1991
Tokyo Metro Namboku Line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppet%20Monster%20Adventure | Muppet Monster Adventure is a platform game for the Sony PlayStation, developed by Magenta Software in 2000, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment in Europe and Midway Home Entertainment in North America.
Plot
Robin the Frog is delighted that he and the Muppets are finally going on a vacation. His hopes are dashed, however, when he learns that rather than Krakatoa or England, their destination is a 'run-down, old castle in the middle of nowhere'. His Uncle Kermit reminds him that they had to accompany Dr. Bunsen Honeydew on this journey to hear the reading of his uncle's will, emphasizing the value of friendship. After becoming frightened of his surroundings and the door of the castle being opened by a mysterious figure, Robin faints.
Robin is awoken by Pepe the King Prawn, Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew in some sort of underground laboratory. Dr. Bunsen Honeydew explains that the laboratory belonged to his late uncle and that after Robin fainted, the group of Muppets was ambushed and many of them transformed into monsters by the castle's 'evil energy'. In addition, the castle's energy has begun to permeate the nearby village causing it to become twisted and evil. Robin asks what can be done, and Honeydew presents him with a special 'Power Glove' that takes evil from monsters and stores it in a backpack. Informing him that the glove will only work with "the amphibian anatomy," he sends Robin on his way to collect evil energy from the village and try to save the Muppets from being monsters forever.
Robin initially fights his way through the innards and grounds of the Castle von Honeydew itself, facing its corrupt knights and guards, before defeating (and thereby rescuing) Gonzo, who has turned into the vampire "Noseferatu."
Robin then ventures into the outskirts of the village nicknamed "The Deadlands" where he encounters villainous pirates and reanimated skeletons. Robin defeats the "Wocka Wocka Wearbear" and transforming him back into Fozzie Bear.
Robin is able to advance to the forests around the village called "Neverleave Forest." After avoiding falling prey to transmogrified hunters and evil pumpkin farmers, Robin must fight his own Uncle Kermit to save him from an eternity as "Ker-Monster" (a spoof of Frankenstein's monster).
Having done this, Robin moves into the river-dwelling and Arab quarters of the village referred to as the "Village of the Darned" before doing away with the fearsome Muck Monster who transforms back into Clifford.
With over half the village now saved and purified, Robin moves into Madness Marsh, a treacherous region of the village which is home to its heavily armed hiking community, as well as ravenous piranha, puffer fish, and hungry crocodiles. Robin dispatches them in short order and comes to face the fearsome "Ghoul-friend of Ker-Monster" (a spoof of Bride of Frankenstein) and initiates her transformation back into Miss Piggy.
Having now gained access to the village's more mountainous regions, Robin b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20amphibians%20of%20California |
Amphibians
= probably extirpated
Order Anura
Family Ascaphidae
Family Bufonidae
Family Hylidae
Family Scaphiopodidae
Family Ranidae
Family Pipidae
Order Caudata
Family Ambystomatidae
Family Dicamptodontidae
Family Plethodontidae
Family Rhyacotritonidae
Family Salamandridae
External links
Amphibians
California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin%20%28machine%20learning%29 | In machine learning the margin of a single data point is defined to be the distance from the data point to a decision boundary. Note that there are many distances and decision boundaries that may be appropriate for certain datasets and goals. A margin classifier is a classifier that explicitly utilizes the margin of each example while learning a classifier. There are theoretical justifications (based on the VC dimension) as to why maximizing the margin (under some suitable constraints) may be beneficial for machine learning and statistical inferences algorithms.
There are many hyperplanes that might classify the data. One reasonable choice as the best hyperplane is the one that represents the largest separation, or margin, between the two classes. So we choose the hyperplane so that the distance from it to the nearest data point on each side is maximized. If such a hyperplane exists, it is known as the maximum-margin hyperplane and the linear classifier it defines is known as a maximum margin classifier; or equivalently, the perceptron of optimal stability.
Support vector machines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperSpace%20%28software%29 | HyperSpace is an instant-on Linux-based operating system that has been developed by Phoenix Technologies. It is an application environment that can run either independently or side-by-side with a traditional operating system such as Microsoft Windows.
In January 2009, Asus announced HyperSpace would be incorporated into its next-generation notebooks. Hyperspace was re-launched at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. The company later announced that HyperSpace has been optimized for the Cortex-A8 ARM processor architecture.
In June 2010, Phoenix announced that it had sold the HyperSpace intellectual property to HP.
Overview
HyperSpace provides a Linux-based environment that can be accessed from startup or using a shortcut from within a Windows environment. Its user interface features a home screen with access to widgets and applications (including a Mozilla Firefox-derived web browser, an office suite, and RealPlayer among others). Phoenix claimed that HyperSpace could extend a notebook's battery life by 25%.
There were three SKUs of HyperSpace:
HyperSpace Dual installs the software in a traditional dual-boot configuration, where the two operating systems cannot operate simultaneously.
HyperSpace Hybrid configures the system to run Windows and HyperSpace within the "HyperCore" hypervisor, allowing the two environments to operate concurrently, and for users to switch between them instantly. Hybrid required a system supporting Intel virtualization extensions (VT-x).
HyperSpace Dual Resume utilizes non-standard ACPI behavior in order to allow for both operating systems to be resident in memory without a hypervisor, although only one OS can operate at a time. At startup, a bootloader reserves a segment of memory for HyperSpace and the "OS Steering Module" (OSM, which is derived from the GNU GRUB bootloader), and a larger segment is reserved for Windows. When the user switches operating systems, the existing OS is suspended to RAM by entering ACPI standby (S3) mode, but the OSM then intercepts and modifies the ACPI tables so that the second OS is loaded in the second reserved segment of memory, while keeping the first OS resident in memory.
HyperSpace is stored in a hidden partition; the Windows partition is mounted read-only using the NTFS-3G driver, but a UnionFS overlay is applied to the My Documents folder for partial read-write access. When the user resumes Windows from HyperSpace, a device driver reads changes to the filesystem via a journal, and commits them to disk.
Phoenix offered HyperSpace as subscription-based software, and also partnered with OEMs such as Asus, Gigabyte, and Samsung Electronics to offer the software for their devices.
See also
Splashtop
Latitude ON
Coreboot
References
External links
HyperSpace
Embedded Linux distributions
HP software
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch%20City%20Libraries | Christchurch City Libraries is operated by the Christchurch City Council and is a network of 21 libraries and a mobile book bus. Following the 2011 Christchurch earthquake the previous Christchurch Central Library building was demolished, and was replaced by a new central library building in Cathedral Square, Tūranga, which opened in 2018.
Early history
The library began as the Mechanics' Institute in 1859, when 100 subscribers leased temporary premises in the then Town Hall. The collection consisted of a few hundred books.
By 1863, with the help of a grant from the Provincial Government, the Mechanics' Institute opened a building on a half-acre of freehold land on the corner of Cambridge Terrace and Hereford Street, purchased the year before at a cost of £262.10.0. This site was to remain the home of the library until 1982.
Debt, dwindling subscribers and other problems forced the institute to hand over the building to the Provincial Government in 1873. By this time the collection numbered some 5,000 volumes, and was placed by the Province under the control of the new Canterbury College (later University). With the abolition of the provinces in 1876, the library became the property of the college, ratified by an Act of Parliament in 1878.
College years
Canterbury College controlled the library for over 70 years. Despite continual financial problems the bookstock and service continued to develop during most of the time.
Growth
Francis Stedman was the first official librarian (1876–1891), although he divided his time between the library and the college, where he was also registrar. By 1881 Stedman had increased the bookstock to 15,000 volumes. By 1898 when Alexander Cracroft Wilson (son of John Cracroft Wilson) was librarian (1891–1906) the stock had increased to nearly 30,000. Ten years later, under Howard Strong (1906–1913), the stock numbered over 40,000 volumes.
This dramatic growth was partly due to the gift of James Gammack, who donated the income and rents from some of land to the library in his will in 1896. This enabled the college to demolish the original wooden Mechanics' Institute building in 1901 and replace it with a permanent material structure.
Truly modern library service began under the librarianship of E. J. Bell (1913–1951). Bell classified the entire collection under the new Dewey Decimal system (still in use) by 1914, and opened a children's section that same year.
In 1918, with the support of the Canterbury Progress League, a Technical Library was opened. Two years later a travelling library service to country districts began, a service that continued until the establishment of the nationwide Country Library Service in 1938.
In 1924 a new wing of the library was opened including a separate children's room. A new heating unit was installed that same year.
The 1930s saw a decline in the service to the public due to the Great Depression, although in 1935 the Canterbury Public Library Journal was started. If in 1940 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPIC%20%28disambiguation%29 | UPIC may refer to:
UPIC, computerised musical composition tool
Universal Payment Identification Code
Universal Programming Interface for Communication
University Presidential Inaugural Conference
See also
Yupik (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit%20Sheth | Amit Sheth is a computer scientist at University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. He is the founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Institute, and a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
From 2007 to June 2019, he was the Lexis Nexis Ohio Eminent Scholar, director of the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing,
and a Professor of Computer Science at Wright State University. Sheth's work has been cited by over 48,800 publications. He has an h-index of 106, which puts him among the top 100 computer scientists with the highest h-index.
Prior to founding the Kno.e.sis Center, he served as the director of the Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.
Education
Sheth received his bachelor's in engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in computer science in 1981. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Ohio State University in 1983 and 1985, respectively.
Research
Semantic interoperability/integration and semantic web
Sheth has investigated, demonstrated, and advocated for the comprehensive use of metadata. He explored syntactical, structural, and semantic metadata; recently, he has pioneered ontology-driven approaches to metadata extraction and semantic analytics. He was among the first researchers to utilize description logic-based ontologies for schema and information integration (a decade before W3C adopted a DL-based ontology representation standard), and he was the first to deliver a keynote about Semantic Web applications in search. His work on multi-ontology query processing includes the most cited paper on the topic (over 930 citations). In 1996, he introduced the powerful concept of Metadata Reference Link (MREF) for associating metadata to hypertext that links documents on the Web and described an RDF-based realization in 1998, before RDF was adopted as a W3C recommendation. Part of his recent work has focussed on information extraction from text to generate semantic metadata in the form of RDF. In his work, semantic metadata extracted from biological text is made up of complex knowledge structures (complex entities and relationships) that reflect complex interactions in biomedical knowledge. Sheth proposed a realization of Vannevar Bush's MEMEX vision as the Relationship Web, based on the semantic metadata extracted from text. Sheth and his co-inventors were awarded the first known patent for commercial Semantic Web applications in browsing, searching, profiling, personalization, and advertising, which led to his founding of the first Semantic Search company, Taalee.
In 1992, he gave an influential keynote titled "So far (schematically) yet so near (semantically)", which attested to the need for domain-specific semantics, the use of ontological representation for richer semantic modeling/knowledge representation, and the use of context when looking for similarity between objects. His work on usin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20CNN%20personnel | The following is a list of notable current and past news anchors, correspondents, hosts, regular contributors and meteorologists from the CNN, CNN International and HLN news networks.
Executives
Ken Jautz — Executive Vice President of CNN, responsible for CNN/US
Amy Entelis — Executive Vice President for talent and content development of CNN Worldwide
Rachel Smolkin — Vice President and Executive Editor of CNN Politics
Former executives
Allison Gollust – chief marketing officer of CNN Worldwide
Tony Maddox – Executive Vice President and Managing Director of CNN International
Andrew Morse – Executive Vice President & General Manager of CNN Digital Worldwide
John Stankey – CEO, WarnerMedia
Jeff Zucker – President of CNN Worldwide
Hosts and anchors
Weekdays
Dana Bash — Inside Politics (weekday edition)
John Berman — CNN News Central (with Kate Bolduan and Sara Sidner)
Wolf Blitzer — The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
Kate Bolduan — CNN News Central (with John Berman and Sara Sidner)
Erin Burnett — Erin Burnett OutFront
Abby Phillip — CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip
Kaitlan Collins — The Source with Kaitlan Collins
Anderson Cooper — Anderson Cooper 360°
Laura Coates _ "Laura Coates Live"
Poppy Harlow — CNN This Morning (with Phil Mattingly)
Kasie Hunt — Early Start
Brianna Keilar — CNN News Central (with Jim Sciutto and Boris Sanchez)
Phil Mattingly — CNN This Morning (with Poppy Harlow)
Boris Sanchez — CNN News Central (with Jim Sciutto and Brianna Keilar)
Jim Sciutto — CNN News Central (with Brianna Keilar and Boris Sanchez)
Sara Sidner — CNN News Central (with Kate Bolduan and John Berman)
Jake Tapper — The Lead with Jake Tapper
Chris Wallace — Who's Talking to Chris Wallace
Weekend
Saturday and Sunday
Jim Acosta – CNN Newsroom
Victor Blackwell – CNN This Morning Weekend (with Amara Walker)
Amara Walker – CNN This Morning Weekend (with Victor Blackwell)
Fredricka Whitfield — CNN Newsroom
Michael Holmes - Friday through Monday, Midnight to 04.00am
Saturday
Michael Smerconish — Smerconish
Sunday
Dana Bash – State of the Union with Dana Bash (alternating with Jake Tapper)
Anderson Cooper – The Whole Story
Manu Raju - Inside Politics (weekend edition)
Jake Tapper — State of the Union with Jake Tapper (alternating with Dana Bash)
Fareed Zakaria — Fareed Zakaria GPS
CNN International
Christiane Amanpour — Amanpour (Chief International Anchor)
Paolo Abrera — CNN Philippines New Day (CNN Philippines)
Becky Anderson — Connect the World (CNN Abu Dhabi)
Guillermo Arduino — Encuentro (CNN en Español)
Zain Asher — One World with Zain Asher
Kim Brunhuber — CNN Newsroom (Europe morning Editions)
Julia Chatterley - First Move with Julia Chatterley (Europe / Middle East / Africa)
Current personalities
Paolo Abrera (CNN Philippines)
Jim Acosta (CNN)
Jane Akre (CNN)
Christiane Amanpour (CNN International)
Shahira Amin (CNN International)
David A. Andelman (CNN)
Becky Anderson (CNN International)
De |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Una%20Kang%20Naging%20Akin | (International title: When You Were Mine / ) is a 2008 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Based on a 1991 Philippine film of the same title, the series is the tenth instalment of Sine Novela. Directed by Joel Lamangan, it stars Angelika Dela Cruz, Wendell Ramos, and Maxene Magalona. It premiered on September 1, 2008, on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Magdusa Ka. The series concluded on December 19, 2008, with a total of 80 episodes.
Premise
Tragedy strikes when the helicopter that Nick crashes on a remote island. A body is found in the crash site but it turned out to be Nick's officemate whose name was not listed in the passenger manifesto. The "death" of Nick caused great grief to Vanessa since she was already betrothed to be married to the young man. On the remote island, Nick meets Modesto Mallari, a marine biologist. Because of his memory loss, Nick introduces himself as Darwin. Mallari takes Darwin to his home where he introduces his daughter, Jessa. As time passes by, the two develop feelings for each other and have a child together. Darwin becomes involved in another accident that triggers the return of his past memories. With the return of his memory, Darwin's identity, as well as Jessa and their child, no longer exist in Nick's recollection.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Angelika dela Cruz as Vanessa Yumul
Wendell Ramos as Nick Adriano / Darwin Salvador
Maxene Magalona as Jessa Mallari / Luisita
Supporting cast
Gina Alajar as Luisa Yumul
Alfred Vargas as Ronnie Bautista
LJ Reyes as Liway Mallari
Tony Mabesa as Don Jaime Adriano
Raquel Villavicencio as Doña Margarita Adriano
Ricardo Cepeda as Dr. Modesto Mallari
Maggie Wilson as Annie Villanueva
Mel Martinez as Eli Solis
Jim Pebangco as Tiyo Anding
Gillete Sandico as Tiya Agnes
Paolo Paraiso as Marvin
Paolo Serrano as Jule
Mika Dela Cruz as Anna
Kevin Santos as Biboy
Frank Garcia as Raffy
Hazel Ann Mendoza as Violy
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 21.5% rating. While the final episode scored a 24.9% rating.
References
External links
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on films
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen%20Walker | Owen Thor Walker (online pseudonym AKILL) is a computer hacker living in New Zealand, who was discharged without conviction despite pleading guilty to several charges of 'cybercrime'. In 2008 he admitted to being the ringleader of an international hacking organization estimated to have caused $26 million worth of damage.
History
Walker was home-schooled from the age of 13. He received no formal computer training, instead teaching himself programming and encryption. He had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.
Arrest
Walker was arrested under sections 248-252 of New Zealand's Crime Act after international investigations by the FBI found him to be involved in an attack on the computer network of the University of Pennsylvania. The attack was orchestrated via a botnet established by Walker, using servers he exploited and rented, the majority of which were located in Malaysia.
Trial
He pleaded guilty to his connection in the crime, was fined for the cost of the damage to the University of Pennsylvania computer and was discharged without conviction, the presiding judge concluded that a conviction would only harm his future.
Employment
In 2008 he was hired by TelstraClear, the New Zealand subsidiary of Australian telecommunications company Telstra, to work with their security division DMZGlobal. As a security consultant, he presented seminars and appeared in advertising. TelstraClear spokesman Chris Mirams said it was not the equivalent of hiring a bank robber to advise on bank security.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Computer criminals
New Zealand criminals
People with Asperger syndrome
New Zealand computer specialists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Micro%20User | The Micro User (titled BBC Micro User in the first three issues) was a British specialist magazine catering to users of the BBC Microcomputer series, Acorn Electron, Acorn Archimedes and, to a limited extent, the Cambridge Z88. It had a comprehensive mix of reviews of games, application software, and the latest Acorn computers; type-in programs (duplicated on a "cover disk" which was available separately), a correspondence page offering help with computer problems, and approachable technical articles on programming and the BBC Micro's internals.
The magazine hosted the long-running Body Building series by Mike Cook, in which each article introduced a small electronics project that could be built and connected to one of the BBC Micro's I/O ports. The project could be ordered in kit form or fully assembled, or the reader could source the parts and design as the articles contained a circuit diagram.
There were regular columns on adventure gaming from two successive contributors under the pseudonyms "Alice through the VDU" and "The Mad Hatter". They reviewed the latest adventure releases for Acorn computers, offered hints to some games and scattered mathematical and logical puzzles in their articles. Another regular columnist, using the pen-name of "Hac-Man" (in reference to Pac-Man) set out cheats and compatibility fixes for popular arcade-style games, in the form of pokes or short type-in programs.
Watford Electronics and Technomatic were prominent advertisers, taking out multi-page spreads in every issue in the mid 1980s. From October 1983 the magazine carried the first four issues of Electron User as a pull-out; this then split off into an independent publication.
Acorn Computing
With the October 1992 issue, the magazine was renamed Acorn Computing. Each issue now came with a cover disc for user on RISC OS computers.
See also
Acorn User
Archive (magazine)
BEEBUG (later Risc User)
Electron User
References
External links
Unofficial archive of The Micro User magazine
The Micro User Cover Scans @ Acorn Electron World
The Micro User Magazine @ Acorn Preservation Dot Org
The Micro User Magazine @ The Centre for Computing History
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1983
Magazines disestablished in 1992
Magazines published in Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia%20sessilis%20var.%20cordata | Banksia sessilis var. cordata is a variety of Banksia sessilis (Parrot Bush), with unusually large leaves and flower heads. It is a rare variety that is restricted to the extreme south-west corner of Western Australia.
Description
This variety is similar to other varieties of B. sessilis, but has larger leaves; these may be up to six centimetres long and four centimetres wide in this variety, whereas in B. sessilis var. sessilis they are commonly two to three centimetres long. The leaves of this variety are also a darker green than the other varieties, and its flower heads are generally larger.
Taxonomy
This variety was first published as a variety of Dryandra floribunda (now B. sessilis) by Carl Meissner in the second volume of Plantae Preissianae, published in 1848. It was based on a type specimen collected by James Drummond; this specimen was said to have been collected at the Swan River, where this variety does not now occur. Meissner did not explicitly give an etymology for the varietal epithet, but referred to the leaves as cordatis, Latin for "heart-shaped", and this is now universally recognised as the source of the name.
In 1870, George Bentham published what is now recognised as a synonym of this variety, as D. floribunda var. major. Bentham's taxon was based on a specimen collected at Cape Naturaliste by Augustus Oldfield. He also attributed to this variety a painting of D. floribunda that appeared in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1813.
Dryandra floribunda having been overturned in favour of Dryandra sessilis in 1924, in 1996 Alex George transferred var. cordata from the former to the latter species. The current name changed again in 2007, when Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele transferred Dryandra into Banksia; thus the variety's current full name is Banksia sessilis var. cordata (Meisn.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele.
Distribution and habitat
B. sessilis var. cordata occurs only in the Warren region of the Southwest Botanical Province of Western Australia. It occurs in two disjoint areas: along the west coast between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin; and along the south coast between Point D'Entrecasteaux and Denmark. It grows in sand over limestone, amongst coastal heath.
Cultivation
This variety is little known in cultivation. It is suggested that cultivation requirements would be similar to the better-known B. sessilis var. sessilis, but that this variety would be better suited to cooler, wetter areas.
Conservation
On the Department of Environment and Conservation's Declared Rare and Priority Flora List, B. sessilis var. cordata is rated "Priority 4 - Rare", meaning that it has been adequately surveyed, and does not appear to be threatened, even though it is rare.
References
Further reading
External links
sessilis var. cordata
Endemic flora of Western Australia
Eudicots of Western Australia
Taxa named by Carl Meissner |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20OJB | Apache ObJectRelationalBridge (OJB) is an Object/Relational mapping tool that allows transparent persistence for Java Objects against relational databases. It was released on April 6, 2005.
As of January 16, 2011 Apache ObJectRelationalBridge has been retired.
Features
OJB is an open source project. It is lightweight and easy to use, requiring simply configure two files to implement a persistence layer. It is easy to integrate into an existing application because it does not generate code.
It allows the use of different patterns of persistence: owner (PersistenceBroker API), JDO and Object Data Management Group (ODMG).
Functionality
OJB uses an XML based Object/Relational mapping. The mapping resides in a dynamic MetaData layer, which can be manipulated at runtime through a simple Meta-Object-Protocol (MOP) to change the behaviour of the persistence kernel.
Configuration
At least two files are required to configure OJB: OJB.properties and repository.xml
Allocation
For mapping a 1-1 relationship, for example, you have two tables: person and account. In this case, a person has an account and vice versa.
See also
Apache OpenJPA
References
External links
Apache ObJectRelationalBridge
OJB
OJB
Java enterprise platform
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Free web server software
Cross-platform free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Hills%20Reservation%20Parkways | The Blue Hills Reservation Parkways are a network of historic parkways in and around the Blue Hills Reservation, a Massachusetts state park south of Boston, Massachusetts. It consists of six roadways (in seven distinct segments) that provide circulation within the park, and that join the park to two connecting parkways, the Blue Hills Parkway and the Furnace Brook Parkway. The roadway network was designed by Charles Eliot in the 1890s, except for Green Street, which was added to the network in the 1940s. The parkways were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
Blue Hill River Road, Segment One, and Hillside Street
The first segment of Blue Hill River Road begins at a four-way junction with Washington Street (Massachusetts Route 138) and Royall Street (its western continuation) in Canton. It is about 1/2 mile in length, becoming Hillside Street at the Milton line. Its north side is dense forest with stone outcrops, and rising elevation into the hills. On the south side are a concrete sidewalk and a stone wall. The section of road provides access to Brookwood Farm, like the reservation administered by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR).
Hillside Street is the major east-west roadway through the western portion of the park, and is where most of its administrative functions are located. It winds for through the heart of the park, passing the park police headquarters among other facilities. Its first major junction is with the second segment of Blue Hill River Road, which exits to the south, just west of Houghton's Pond. After passing the headquarters area, it has junctions with Unquity Road and Chickatawbut Roads before crossing Pine Tree Brook near the reservation's northern border. The parkway ends there, but the roadway continues as a Milton municipal roadway, traveling roughly northeast in a straight line until it meets Randoph Avenue (Massachusetts Route 28).
Blue Hill River Road, Segment Two
This segment of road consists of two sections, which are roughly at right angles to each other but were historically a single roadway. From its northern junction with Hillside Street, Blue Hill River Road runs south, bordering the reservation to the east and private lands on the west. It soon reaches a three-way junction, where Ponkapoag Trail continues south to an interchange with Interstate 93, and Blue Hill River Road continues east, into the reservation. It ends at a small circular turnaround at the southeastern corner of Houghton's Pond. A nearby parking area provides access to a picnic area and recreational fields. The total length of this segment is .
Chickatawbut Road
Chickatawbut Road is the longest road in the reservation, running for nearly through Milton, Quincy, and Braintree. It winds through the hills, generally providing only views of dense woods, from its western terminus at Unquity Road and Hillside Street to its eastern end at Granite Street (Massachusetts Route 37) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like%20%28disambiguation%29 | Like is a word in English with a number of common uses.
Like or likes may also refer to:
Computing and Internet
Like button, a feature of social-networking websites such as Facebook, YouTube, or blogs
Like.com, a price-comparison service website
Like (SQL), a keyword in SQL
LIKE, a short video sharing platform
Places
Like, Tampere, a shopping centre in Lielahti, Tampere, Finland
Like, Srebrenik, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Products
Like Cola, an unsuccessful cola soft drink
Mitsuoka Like, an automobile
Like, a model of motor scooter by Taiwanese manufacturer Kymco
Other
Likay (rendered as like), a form of Thai folk theatre
Like (novel), a 1997 novel by Ali Smith
Like (TV series), a Mexican telenovela
Like, Srebrenik, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Like, a rock band
Like (producer), a member of hip hop trio Pac Div
Likes..., a 2004 album by Dani Siciliano
"Like", a song by Taproot from the album Welcome
"Likes", a song by Yuna and Kyle from the album Rouge
Like..?, a 2023 extended play (EP) by American rapper Ice Spice
See also
Liking (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20Allemang | Dean Allemang is a computer scientist known for his work on the semantic web. He is the Principal Consultant at Working Ontologist LLC.
Career
Dean Allemang has a formal background, with an MSc in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, England, and a PhD in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, United States. He was a Marshall Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Allemang has taught classes in Semantic Web technologies since 2004, and has trained many users of RDF, and SPARQL, the RDF query language.
Dean Allemang was the Chief Scientist at TopQuadrant, where he specialized in Semantic Web consulting and training. He has been an invited keynote speaker at several Semantic Web conferences, including the Semantic Technologies conference (2010), RuleML (2006) and OWL-ED (2011). He has worked as an invited expert reviewer for the European Union and for the Irish government.
Selected honors
1982 — Marshall Scholar, Cambridge
1992, 1996 — Swiss Technology Prize
Publications
Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist (with James Hendler) Morgan Kaufmann (2008). .
Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist (Second Edition) (with James Hendler) Morgan Kaufmann (2011). .
References
External links
S is for Semantics, an online journal written by Dean Allemang
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
American computer scientists
Marshall Scholars
Place of birth missing (living people)
Semantic Web people
Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%20%26%20Mystre | Mars & Mystre, a.k.a. Michael Robbins (Mars) and Eric Newman (Mystre), are one of San Francisco's trance pioneers.
Cybertrance Parties
The original mixtapes of Mars vs. Mystre were released in 1997 and 1998, and from around 1996 to 2000, the pair would throw raves in and around San Francisco. The announcements for these and other rave / underground parties were stored on the SF Raves bulletin board / mailing list maintained by Brian Behlendorf.
Mainstream success
Dedicated to spreading the sound of Cybertrance, Mars opened Frequency 8, America's first record store dedicated to the trance movement. From the success of Frequency 8, Mars would go on to create his own international record label and event organization of the same name.
In 2000 Mars and Mystre released their best selling two CD compilation album "Faith In 2000". The album included fifteen tracks by artists like Art Of Trance, DJ Tandu, and ATB. Mars & Mystre included several tracks that they produced together, such as Electric Blue, Save the Rave, Eye in the Sky, all released on 12 inch vinyl on their record label, Frequency 8. Both also worked with Germany's Nostrum (Bernd Augustinski) on "Eye In The Sky". Mars also collaborated with Nostrum under the alias Red Rock Project on a track called "Mystic Ways ".
Shortly after the release of Faith in 2000 they parted ways and Mars embarked on his solo career. The record store, Frequency 8, located on Haight Street briefly changed to "Reverb Records" and was run by DJ Mystre (Eric Newman) before finally going out of business.
In 2002, before the San Francisco Frequency 8 shut down, Mars opened a frequency 8 location in the Westwood district of Los Angeles near UCLA but the store only stayed in operation for a year or so. There was also a F8 store on Broadway in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Select discography
Albums
Mars vs. Mystre vol 1 (1997)
Mars vs. Mystre vol 2 (1998)
Faith in 2000
Alienaided- Mars
Sonic Sunrise- Mars
Singles
Electric Blue (Produced by Oliver Lieb)
References
External links
Official F8 Website
American DJs
American trance music groups
Electronic dance music DJs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B4U%20Music | B4U Music is an Indian Hindi music channel owned by the B4U Network Limited.
The channel broadcasts a mixture of contemporary Bollywood, Indipop, Bhangra and international music. Programs include celebrity interviews, artist profiles, concerts and chart rundowns, as well as video request shows.
There are four different versions of the channel being broadcast in the UK, North America, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. Each feed produces a quantity of local programming which reflects the culture and tastes of the local population of the Indian diaspora and new logo on 12.12.2020.
Since 2008, the yearly UK Asian Music Awards have been produced and broadcast by the channel.
Recognition
B4U Music emerged as the No.1 Asian TV channel in UK ratings in January 2022.
See also
ATN B4U Music
References
External links
Television stations in Mumbai
Music video networks in the United Kingdom
Indian pop
Television channels and stations established in 1999
British Indian mass media
Music television channels
1999 establishments in Maharashtra
Music television channels in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Command%20%28TV%20series%29 | Space Command was a Canadian children's science fiction television adventure series, broadcast on CBC Television in 1953 and 1954, the first time the network aired its own dramatic series.
Created by Alfred Harris, the series focused on the activities of young space lieutenant Frank Anderson (Robert Barclay) aboard the space ship XSW1, along with his crewmate Phil Mitchell (James Doohan, best known as Scotty on Star Trek) and XSW1 captain Steve Cassel (Harry Geldard). Their missions dealt with various space exploration and science subjects, including sunspots, space medicine, and the search for extraterrestrial life.
The XSW1 was operated by the worldwide Space Command organization, which concerned itself with space exploration and colonization. Characters at Space Command Earth included Dr. Joseph Edmunds (Andrew Anthony), Ilene Morris (Aileen Taylor), and Dr. Fleming, (Austin Willis). Other actors appearing on the series included Joe Austin, Cec Linder, Barry Morse (later of the TV series The Fugitive and Space: 1999), and William Shatner (Star Trek).
Although short-lived, Space Command proved to be a hit dramatic program for CBC's earliest years.
Production details
As stated over the end credits, Space Command originated at CBC Toronto. The show was aired "live" but it was kinescoped to enable distribution to stations across Canada.
Accurate credits are difficult to assemble because only a single episode is known to survive and documentation of the program is scant. The existing episode's technical credits are: Producer Murray Chercover; Technical Producer Vic Ferry. Audio Orm Collier; Sound Effects Bill McCelland; Production Supervisor Robert Allen; Special Effects John D. Lowry and Peter Kirby, which included presentations of rockets and weightlessness.
Other sources identify the Producer as Ross McLean and lists the Director as Murray Chercover. The only known Writer credit is Alfred Harris. Harold Wright was technical advisor to the series. Models were created at producer Murray Chercover's residence, and rocket propulsion material was obtained from T. W. Hand Fireworks.
Scheduling
The series was initially seen on Friday evenings at 19:30 Toronto time on VHF channel 5. The debut episode on 13 March 1953 featured the topic of sunspots. This first run continued until 17 July 1953. Other topics planned for the series included asteroids, space medicine, meteorites, and evolution.
From 17 October 1953, the series moved to Saturdays at 18:30, but came back to CBC's Friday schedule on 8 January 1954 for the 18:00 time slot. The final run of the series returned to Saturdays on 1 May 1954, again at the 18:00 time slot. The total number of episodes is undocumented, but the show aired for 51 weeks in total, and if it aired only once weekly the maximum number of episodes would be 51 and claims that report a series length of 150 episodes must be in error.
Preservation status
Nova Scotia media historian Ernest Dick lamented the loss of recordi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Frisbie | Paul Frisbie is an American standup comedian, author and songwriter. Although he is primarily a monologist, he is best known for his songs, which have been popularized through comedy radio programming like The Bob & Tom Show. Favorites include "Thank God You Broke My Heart", "Christmas Letter", and "Gaining One Pound Per Day".
Biography
Frisbie started performing in the 1980s, when he was the owner of the Alley Cat Saloon in Champaign, Illinois, a focal point of the old live music scene at the University of Illinois campus. After selling his nightclub and returning to Chicago, he worked his way up the comedy ladder in clubs like Zanies and the original Chicago Improv. He is often compared to Rodney Dangerfield of which he has said, "I hope they're talking about the energy, not physical appearance -- I happen to think that I look like Robert Redford."
Discography
Wicked Fun, CD Release, 2000
Hell Gigs and Hack Lines, CD Release, 2005
Bits and Pieces, DVD Release, 2008
Published works
The Chicago River From Your Window published 2002
External links
Digital Media Center with samples of his work
Living people
American stand-up comedians
20th-century American comedians
21st-century American comedians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
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