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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Callas | Jon Callas is an American computer security expert, software engineer, user experience designer, and technologist who is the co-founder and former CTO of the global encrypted communications service Silent Circle. He has held major positions at Digital Equipment Corporation, Apple, PGP, and Entrust, and is considered "one of the most respected and well-known names in the mobile security industry." Callas is credited with creating several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards, including OpenPGP, DKIM, and ZRTP, which he wrote. Prior to his work at Entrust, he was Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of PGP Corporation and the former Chief Technical Officer of Entrust.
On his website, Callas describes himself as "an entrepreneur and innovator in information and business security, including cryptography, operating system security, public key infrastructure, and intellectual property rights," as well as "an innovator in human-computer interactions, collaboration and social virtual reality."
He has also worked for Bruce Schneier's Counterpane Internet Security, was one of the primary authors of the DKIM method, and was Chief Scientist of the original PGP, Inc. founded by Phil Zimmermann. Callas is a member of the Infosec think tank The Shmoo Group.
Early life and education
Callas received a BSc in mathematics from the University of Maryland at College Park, which he attended from 1977 to 1980. He minored in philosophy and English literature.
Career
He was a member of the technical staff at Century Computing from 1980 to 1981, then served as principal software engineer at Digital Equipment from 1981 to 1993. While working there, he "got to work on a wide variety of things, from graphics to schedulers to memory management to operating system security," and created a random password generator. At Digital Equipment, he designed the PATHWORKS network operating system as well as software for Macintosh client systems and server systems running VMS or UNIX, and created cross-platform communications between computers running Mac OS, VMS, UNIX, Windows and OS/2, using AppleTalk, DECnet, and TCP/IP networks. He also developed software for 3D, PEX, and DDX for OpenVMS, OSF/1 and Windows NT.
After Digital Equipment folded, Callas co-founded World Benders, Inc., where he worked from 1993 to 1995. At World Benders, he "was the lead architect and developer of Meeting Space, a cross-platform group collaboration product" that "allowed people to conduct meetings in real-time on existing networks."
Callas then held the title of senior scientist II at Apple Computer from 1995 to 1997. He describes himself as having been the firm's Security Privateer, and as having "designed and built next-generation cryptographic security products for Mac OS X and iOS, including the 'FileVault 2' full-disk encryption product." He also "designed a concurrent programming system for high-performance computing, 'Transforms.'" In addition, he "led the engineering and approva |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las%20Juanas%20%28Colombian%20TV%20series%29 | Las Juanas is a Colombian telenovela. It first aired in 1997 on the Colombian Network RCN. The show was written by Bernardo Romero Pereira, and was his most successful telenovela after the globally distributed series Café and Yo Soy Betty, La Fea.
Story
Las Juanas follows an interesting storyline because it can be easily split into several stages that almost follow different plots. These "chapters" in which the telenovela is split makes one think this story as a book-telenovela because in every stage the plot follows a different goal and once it is reached it changes to another goal to be reached.
Looking for Calixto Salguero's daughters
The telenovela begins when Juana Valentina (Angie Cepeda) finds out the man she always thought to be her father really is not, but a man named Calixto, who lives in a rural small town named Corozal. Juana Valentina and her nanny - Teresalsura - travel to Corozal from their hometown Barranquilla looking for the man who is her father, there she meets Rubén a charming young man who has an instant chemistry with her. But it turns out that Ruben's father is named Calixto, so he may be her father. Juana Valentina begs not to be Ruben's half-sister, but when she interviews Ruben's parents asking if Calixto has a fish-shaped spot in his buttock, when Calixto's wife hears this, she reacts very badly but confirming to Juana Valentina she's Calixto's natural daughter and so Ruben's half-sister. Calixto (Pepe Sanchez), who is very scared after being reached by a thunder and still being alive and healthy, decides to find out the women he had been with 23 years ago when ironically he was trying to have a child with his wife, Doña (Judy Henriquez). Juana Valentina agrees to stay until finding if she has more siblings, so Juana Valentina, Ruben, Calixto and Calixto's best friend Judge Guerra starts a journey all along the Colombian Caribbean to find those women and potential siblings for Juana Valentina and Ruben.
The first place they go to visit is Planeta Rica, where they find Juana Caridad (Catherine Siachoque) who is now a novice in a nuns convent, after Juana Caridad learns she has a family, she decides to leave the convent and join Juana Valentina. Later they go to another town Sahagún, where they meets an old friend of Doña, Margarita Cruz who is actually the mother of another daughter for Calixto Salguero, Juana Manny, a boxing apprentice, but the reason why Juana Manny decides to join her new family is very different from Juana Caridad, because Manny is just looking for the money Calixto can provides to her. Next station for the Salgueros is El Carmen de Bolivar, where they find another daughter of Calixto, Juana Bautista a fortune teller. The last daughter of Calixto was the hardest to find, but because they were looking for her in Santa Marta, while the girl, Juana Matilde is actually in Corozal and he was discovered for the fish-shaped spot in her buttock.
The five girls all named Juana start to receive gifts a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin%20Papers | The Pumpkin Papers are a set of typewritten and handwritten documents, stolen from the US federal government (thus information leaks) by members of the Ware Group and other Soviet spy networks in Washington, DC, during 1937-1938, withheld by courier Whittaker Chambers from delivery to the Soviets as protection when he defected. The Pumpkin Papers featured frequently in criminal proceedings against Alger Hiss during the period of Hiss Case (August 1948 - January 1950). The term "Pumpkin Papers" quickly became shorthand for the complete set of handwritten, typewritten, and camera film documents in newspapers. Along with names like Richard Nixon, Alger Hiss, and Whittaker Chambers, the Pumpkin Papers is a name closely associated with the Hiss Case.
Background
For the Ware Group in Washington (1935-1938), Chambers couriered documents from federal officials to New York City to Soviet spymasters, the last of whom was Boris Bykov. During early 1938, Chambers withheld some documents as life insurance as he readied to defect and go into hiding in April 1938. According to Chambers, he put the documents in a manila envelope and asked his wife's nephew Nathan Levine to hide them (which Levine did, in a dumbwaiter in a Brooklyn home). In 1939, Chambers came out of hiding and joined Time magazine, where he worked through 1948.
On August 3, 1948, Chambers testified under subpoena before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in Washington, DC, that he had been a Soviet courier in the 1930s. He named former federal officials in the Ware Group cell, including: John Abt, Nathan Witt, Lee Pressman, and Alger Hiss. On August 5, Hiss appeared before HUAC and denied the allegations. On August 20, Abt, Witt, and Pressman pled the Fifth, all three under advice of counsel Harold I. Cammer. On April 27, Chambers asserted on Meet the Press, then a national radio show, that Hiss had been a communist; in late September, Hiss filed a slander suit in a federal court in Baltimore against Chambers for making that allegation publicly.
Events
According to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Pumpkin Papers added a "dramatic sequence of events." Between April and November (when Chambers was asked to produce evidence of Hiss' CPUSA membership in the slander case), Chambers had flip-flopped on whether his Ware Group had engaged in espionage. On November 17, 1948, Chambers surrendered the typewritten and handwritten documents to Hiss' lawyer William L. Marbury Jr. as part of pre-trial deposition in a slander case. At Hiss' request, Marbury in turn surrendered the typewritten and handwritten documents (sometimes called the "Baltimore Documents") to the United States Department of Justice in the hope that Justice would indict Chambers for espionage. The hard copy documents included summaries of United States Department of State documents in Hiss' handwriting as well as typewritten copies of official government reports. On December 2, 1948, HUAC investiga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXDN-AM | DXDN (936 AM) is a radio station owned and operated by UM Broadcasting Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located in Purok Cacao, Brgy. Visayan Village, Tagum.
It was formerly known as Radyo Ukay from 2000 to June 14, 2020. On June 15, 2020, management decided to retire the branding as it has run its course. DXDN, along with its other AM stations, started carrying their perspective call letters in their brandings. The yellow highlighted in the "X" of their logos means to move forward.
References
Radio stations in Davao del Norte
College radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1967 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Guriev | Vladimir Vladimirovich Guriev (), (born 1976) is a Russian technology journalist best known for works at Computerra magazine.
Biography
1976 — was born
since 1998 — prints in Computerra
2001—2003 — editor-in-chief of Computerra Plus
2003—2007 — senior editor of Computerra
2007—2008 — editor-in-chief of Computerra
since 2008 — senior editor of Computerra
Works
Vladimir Guriev is an author of several hundreds of articles, published in: Computerra, Home Computer, Infobusiness, CIO, Business-magazine. In two years, he was an editor-in-chief of Computerra.
He is also the author of a book of satiric writings.
External links
Vladimir Guriev's articles (in Russian)
Living people
1976 births
Computerra people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discredited%20hypotheses%20for%20the%20Cambrian%20explosion | As understanding of the events of the Cambrian becomes clearer, data have accumulated to make some postulated causes for the Cambrian explosion look improbable. Some examples are the evolution of herbivory, vast changes in plate tectonic rates or orbital motion, or different evolutionary mechanisms in force.
Developmental explanations
Regulatory genes
Hox genes regulate the operation of other genes by switching them on or off in various parts of the body, for example “make an eye here” or “make a leg there”. Very similar Hox genes are found in all animals from Cnidaria (e.g. jellyfish) to humans, although mammals have four sets of Hox genes while Cnidaria have only one. Hox genes in different animal groups are so similar that, for example, one can transplant a human “make an eye” Pax6 gene into a fruitfly embryo and it still causes an eye to form – but it is a fruitfly eye, because the genes that the transplanted Hox gene activates are fruitfly genes.
The fact that all animals have such similar Hox genes strongly suggests that the last common ancestor of all bilaterians had similar Hox genes. This led to speculation that the evolution of Hox genes may have paved the way for the development of complex body forms.
This is where molecular dating can be useful. A rough estimate of the age of a lineage, and indeed genes, can be achieved by assuming that mutations accumulate at a constant rate in the genome. While the dates produced by this technique are often imprecise, and vary from method to method, the technique can provide an indication of the 'relative' age of appearances.
Molecular clocks detect the radiation of three major clades of bilaterians – lophotrochozoans, deuterostomes, and ecdysozoans – during the early Cambrian. The same study also found that Hox genes diversified before these groups did – meaning that they could not have been the innovation that caused the explosion.
Developmental entrenchment
Several scientists suggest that, as organisms become more complex, changes to their basic developmental mechanisms are more likely to be disadvantageous. In this way, the basic body design becomes "stuck in a rut", because any mutation that affects such central mechanisms will probably prevent the organism from developing; mutations are only likely to be advantageous where they affect less fundamental parts of the organism. By analogy, it is difficult to make modifications to the foundations of a building without causing it to collapse, whereas alterations can easily be made to the upper floors. The taller the building grows, the more likely a modification to the foundations will be to cause it to collapse.
However, as understanding of the developmental pathways of organisms has improved, even the original proponent of this idea has realised that it is not likely to be a major factor, and examples of major post-Cambrian changes at a fundamental level have been found.
Ecological explanations
The appearance of herbivorous organis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian%20Railways%20Royal%20Train | The Victorian Railways' (VR) Royal Trains operated to transport members of the Royal Family on their numerous tours of Australia on the Victorian rail network. The same carriages were also used for a number of vice-regal trains for the Governor-General of Australia and the Governor of Victoria. The last Royal Train ran in 1988.
Operation
Royal trains usually operated with special carriage stock set aside for the purpose. Most trains operated with double headed locomotives to reduce the chance of the train being stranded due to locomotive failure, with a third locomotive running in front of the train to ensure the track was clear. A special headboard with the royal coat of arms was usually affixed to the front of the leading locomotive.
Carriages
In the history of the Victorian Railways there were five special carriages designated for royal train and other special services, designated State Car 1 through to State Car 5.
From 1954, the carriages were painted in the standard royal blue with gold (chrome yellow) trim of the Victorian Railways, created for Spirit of Progress in 1937, with the exception of the 1988 Royal Tour. Operated by its successor V/Line, this trip was operated by two freshly cleaned, partially repainted (below footplate) and polished locomotives in the standard V/Line orange and grey livery, with the carriages painted in a one off 'executive' livery of grey and white, with orange and green trim.
State Car 1 entered service in 1890 as Enterprise. It was renamed in 1900 and was scrapped in August 1956.
State Car 2 and State Car 3 both entered service in 1901 and were both rebuilt for other uses in 1919.
State Car 4 was built in 1912 based on the then state of the art wooden E type carriage design. It featured an observation balcony at one end, Governor's and Lady's bedrooms (which could be separated by doors), dining room, kitchen, male and female bathrooms (each with a bath, shower and toilet), and accommodation for ladies-in-waiting and other support staff. A total of nine sleeping berths were provided. This carriage is owned by VicTrack Heritage and is allocated to the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre.
State Car 5 was based on the steel air-conditioned S type carriage design in 1951. Royal insignia were painted on each side. The carriage featured a kitchen, lounge/dining area, two main bedrooms with en-suite facilities (a bathroom with a bath, basin, shower and toilet), two sleeping/sitting compartments for attendants, and a third bathroom. In 1954 it was displayed at the Centenary Exhibition. It was repainted into the grey livery in 1988 for the royal tour of the year, and has since been allocated to the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre collection.
Mitta Mitta was converted from BRS 228 for use as a support carriage for State Car 5 on vice-regal trains in 1994, but was never used in the role. It was fitted with sleeping berths, bathroom, kitchen, and a dining and lounge area.
Norman (former Spirit of Progress parlour/lounge/ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMJS-LP | WMJS-LP is a Full Service formatted low-power broadcast radio station licensed to and serving Prince Frederick, Maryland. WMJS-LP is owned and operated by St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
Programming/Call Sign
While WMJS-LP is licensed to an Episcopal parish, the programming on the station is principally secular, with Adult Contemporary, Classic Hits and Country music and community-oriented programming broadcast.
The station was assigned the WMJS-LP call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on December 29, 2003.
References
External links
102.1 WMJS Online
2004 establishments in Maryland
Full service radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2004
MJS-LP
MJS-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas%20Cowboys%20Radio%20Network | The Dallas Cowboys Radio Network is an American radio network broadcasting all Dallas Cowboys football games to stations across all of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and New Mexico during the NFL season. Since the 2009 NFL season, it has been an arm of Entercom (formerly CBS Radio) and comprises over 50 stations with KRLD-FM in Dallas being the flagship station. Prior to 2009, Cowboys games were broadcast on 1310 AM KTCK "The Ticket" and 93.3 FM KDBN "The Bone", and also previously on 103.7 KVIL FM and 98.7 FM KLUV "K-LUV". Beginning in the 2011 NFL season, a separate contract allows a second network to be carried nationwide through Compass Media Networks, but it is not the official Dallas Cowboys Radio Network.
Announcers
The announcers are Brad Sham with play-by-play, Babe Laufenberg with color commentary, and Kristi Scales with sideline reports.
Affiliates
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Spanish
A separate network broadcasts games in Spanish. The flagship station is KMVK 107.5 FM in Dallas. The Spanish announcers are Victor Villalba, Andres Arce and Luis Perez.
Affiliates
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Nevada
Mexico
References
National Football League on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Booknotes%20interviews | Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004. The format of the show is a one-hour, one-on-one interview with a non-fiction author.
As the series featured almost 800 interviews a single list is not practical so individual lists are arranged by the year of first broadcast:
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1989 - 41 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1990 - 51 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1991 - 50 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1992 - 45 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1993 - 51 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1994 - 51 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1995 - 54 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1996 - 49 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1997 - 50 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1998 - 52 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1999 - 52 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2000 - 49 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2001 - 53 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2002 - 52 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2003 - 51 interviews
List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2004 - 48 interviews
References
Lists of television lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Hoare | Charles Hoare may refer to:
C. A. R. Hoare (born 1934), British computer scientist
Charles Hoare (cricketer, born 1847) (1847–1908), English cricketer and banker
Charles Hoare (cricketer, born 1851) (1851–1935), English cricketer
Charles Hoare (cricketer, born 1819) (1819–1869), English cricketer
Charles Hoare of the Hoare baronets
Charles Hoare (priest) (1781–1865), evangelical Church of England clergyman, archdeacon of Surrey
Charles Hoare (banker) (1767–1851), senior partner of C. Hoare & Co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%E2%80%9397%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1996–97 daytime network television schedule for the six major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1996 to August 1997. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 1995–96 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, branded as PTV at the time – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated or contracted station in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday–Friday
Notes:
ABC, NBC and CBS offered their early morning newscasts via a looping feed (usually running as late as 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to accommodate local scheduling in the westernmost contiguous time zones or for use a filler programming for stations that do not offer a local morning newscast; some stations without a morning newscast may air syndicated or time-lease programs instead of the full newscast loop.
NBC allowed owned-and-operated and affiliated stations the preference of airing Another World and Days of Our Lives in reverse order from the network's recommended scheduling.
Sunset Beach debuted on NBC on January 6, 1997, and was made available to affiliates at either noon/11:00 CT or 3:00/2:00 CT. Some NBC affiliates did not air Sunset Beach in the noon timeslot, opting to air local news and/or syndicated programming instead, and often placing the soap opera in a late morning or afternoon time slot.
The City aired its last episode on ABC on March 28; abbreviated half-hour versions of classic episodes of All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital filled the timeslot in the interim, until Port Charles premiered in its place on June 1, 1997; The City and Port Charles was fed to affiliates at Noon/11:00 a.m. CT or 12:30 p.m./11:30 a.m. CT, depending on local scheduling preference.
(+) Fox Kids temporarily aired Mighty Morphin Power Rangers reruns in the 4:30 p.m. ET slot for two non-consec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20J.%20Ranum | Marcus J. Ranum (born November 5, 1962, in New York City, New York, United States) is a computer and network security researcher. He is credited with a number of innovations in firewalls, including building the first Internet email server for the whitehouse.gov domain, and intrusion detection systems. He has held technical and leadership positions with a number of computer security companies, and is a faculty member of the Institute for Applied Network Security.
Education
Marcus Ranum was born in New York City, and graduated from Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland before attending Johns Hopkins University where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1985.
Career
Ranum helped design and implement Digital Equipment Corporation's Secure External Access Link (SEAL) (later AltaVista firewall), regarded as the first commercial bastion host firewall, in 1990. He left DEC to work for Trusted Information Systems (TIS) as chief scientist and development manager for Internet security products. It was at TIS that Ranum became responsible for the whitehouse.gov Internet email site. Once charged with that responsibility, Ranum advocated that the whitehouse.com domain be registered as well. Despite his advice, it was not registered by the government, but was later registered for an adult entertainment provider. At TIS, he developed the TIS Internet Firewall Toolkit (fwtk) under a grant from DARPA. After TIS, he worked for V-One as chief scientist, and was extensively involved in that company's IPO. Three months after that IPO, Ranum formed his own company, Network Flight Recorder (NFR), and served as CEO for three years before stepping into a CTO role. Ranum later left NFR to consult for TruSecure, before joining Tenable Network Security as CSO.
In addition to his various full-time positions, Ranum has also held board or advisory positions at NFR Security, Protego Networks, and Fortify Software.
Public presentations
Ranum has spoken to USENIX audiences at LISA 1997, 1999 (tutorial) LISA 2000 (keynote), 2002, and 2003 (tutorial). He spoke out against full disclosure at the Black Hat Security Briefings in 2000. More recently, Ranum has spoken at Interop in 2005 and 2007, CanSecWest in 2010, and Secure360 in 2011.
He previously taught courses for the SANS Institute.
Influence
Ranum's work has been cited in at least 15 published U.S. patents, as well as numerous other computer and network security articles and books.
"Ranum's Law"
Ranum is cited as the author of an eponymous law, "You can't solve social problems with software."
Awards
TISC "clue" award, 2000.
Inducted into the ISSA hall of fame, 2000 or 2001.
Techno-Security Professional of the Year, 2005.
Publications
Articles
Marcus has co-authored a series of "Face Off" articles with Bruce Schneier, which have appeared approximately bi-monthly in Information Security Magazine since July, 2006.
Ranum is one of a number of editors of the SANS Newsbites semiweekly email newslette |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Word%20In%20Praise | The Word In Praise is a radio format programmed and produced in the US by Salem Radio Networks. It targets the 35- to 54-year-old Christian listener demographic. This radio format has a blend of soft Christian contemporary music from artists such as Amy Grant, Steven Curtis Chapman, MercyMe, Michael W. Smith and Rebecca St. James. The Word In Praise has become a main staple of churches, mainly for worship anthems.
It is also used on teaching and talk radio stations.
External links
SRN Music
American radio networks
Radio formats
Contemporary Christian music
Salem Media Group properties |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing%20News%20Radio | Singing News Radio is a radio format programmed and produced by Salem Radio Networks. It targets the 25-54 adult Christian listener demographic. This radio format has a carefully selected mix of Southern gospel music from artists such as The Blackwood Brothers, Gold City, Kurt Young, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Hoppers and Young Harmony. The format was originally named Solid Gospel until September 2017 when it was renamed for a periodical devoted to Southern gospel music, The Singing News, now published by Salem Media Group.
Affiliates
WKRK (AM), Murphy, North Carolina
WXAN, Ava, Illinois
WZOT, Rockmart, Georgia (Part Time Affiliate)
WAEY, Princeton, West Virginia
KPSZ, Des Moines, Iowa (Part Time Affiliate)
Competitor networks
Singing News Radio has no direct competitor network featuring Southern Gospel music, although Rejoice! Musical Soul Food by Urban Choice Media plays urban gospel or "black gospel" music.
External links
Salem Music Network - singing news radio
American radio networks
Radio formats
Salem Media Group properties
Southern Gospel radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth%20on%20the%20March | Youth on the March is an American religious television program originally broadcast on ABC from October 1949 to May 1952, and by the DuMont Television Network from October 1952 to June 1953. The show was presented by the Young People's Church of the Air, and included religious songs and instruction for children and teens.
Broadcast history
The series was aired “by most of [ABC’s] eleven affiliates”. In each episode, Percy Crawford, his wife Ruth, and their five children appeared. The series was broadcast live from Philadelphia's WFIL.
When Youth on the March was cancelled by ABC in 1952, the series was picked up by the DuMont Television Network for a one-season run, from October 5, 1952, to June 7, 1953. The series continued to air in first-run syndication over a handful of stations until 1958.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
Percy & Ruth Crawford and the Birth of Televangelism
1949 American television series debuts
1958 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows
American religious television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Plainclothesman | The Plainclothesman was the first American police procedural series, and was broadcast on the DuMont Television Network from October 12, 1949 to September 12, 1954.
Overview
The series ran from 1949 to 1954, and starred Ken Lynch, whose character was known only as "the Lieutenant". The main character's face was never seen on camera (with one exception) as the series used the "point of view shot" technique. The exception was a July 1952 episode, which featured flashbacks in which Lynch's (and the Lieutenant's) face was shown.
The series’ opening shows a desk with a gun and badge on it, with hands looking at the gun, then placing it in a shoulder holster. A voice-over states:
Hero without uniform. Unknown, unsung, but always on guard, protecting you against crime. Now see another criminal brought to justice through the eyes of the plainclothesman.
The viewer saw scenes as the Lieutenant did. If he lit a cigar, his hand came toward the camera with a lighted match, and the viewers saw the tip of the cigar at the bottom of their television screen. If the Lieutenant was knocked down, the camera showed the view of looking up from the floor. When his partner, Sergeant Brady, or other characters, talked with the Lieutenant, they looked directly at the camera.
The opening crime scene was shown in the objective style (not through the Lieutenant’s eyes), as were flashback scenes, where witnesses or suspects narrated what they saw.
Cast
Ken Lynch as "the Lieutenant"
Jack Orrison as Sergeant Brady
Helen Gillette as Annie the Waitress (1952 season)
Production
The program was produced by DuMont, in association with Transamerican, an independent production company.
Arthur Forrest was a cameraman on the series. He used a camera on a bulky pedestal that was hard to control, but it had a small crane that allowed the camera to show the Lieutenant’s field of vision by focusing in on such items as the typewritten words on a corner’s report, or a bullet hole in a wall. If the Lieutenant was hit in the face, the camera was made to wobble, This technique may have been used as a cost-cutting device for cash-strapped DuMont, since union rules provided a lower-pay scale for unseen television performers.
When playing the Lieutenant, actor Ken Lynch often had to climb on the sides of the camera, or kneel underneath it for long periods of time. Around his neck was a specially-made hook to hold a microphone, so he could use his hands to hold papers, or a cigar that viewers needed to see through the “eye of the camera.”
Broadcast history
The series was distributed by DuMont, and from October 1949 to May 1950 it aired Wednesdays at 9 pm ET on most DuMont affiliates, on Wednesdays at 9:30 pm ET from May 1950 to May 1951, and Sundays at 9:30 pm ET from June 1951 until September 1954. The last episode of The Plainclothesman aired on September 12, 1954. During the show's Sunday time slot it followed Rocky King Detective, and the two police procedurals were among DuMont's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyBCD | EasyBCD is a program developed by NeoSmart Technologies to configure and tweak the Boot Configuration Data (BCD), a boot database first introduced in Windows Vista and used in all subsequent Windows releases. EasyBCD can be used to set up multi-boot environments for computers on which some versions of Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac OS X can be simultaneously installed; EasyBCD can also be used for adding entries to bootable tools and utilities, as well as modifying and controlling the behavior of the Windows boot menu. EasyBCD 2.3 introduced additional support for creating and managing entries for UEFI-based Windows entries in the boot menu. As of June 20, 2011 with the release of EasyBCD 2.1, it is no longer free for use in commercial environments which require the purchase of a paid license, however it remains free for home and non-profit use without limitations.
Supported operating systems
EasyBCD runs on Windows and modifies the Windows Boot Configuration Data (BCD) to add support for other operating systems. Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP are supported by handing off the control of boot to either NTLDR or the EasyBCD-specific EasyLDR, which bypasses NTLDR and boots directly into the OS. MS-DOS, Windows 3.x and Windows 9x can be chainloaded via modified versions of IO.sys and the Windows 9x boot sector. Linux and BSD are loaded either by handing off control of the boot process to GRUB or LILO or by using EasyBCD's own NeoGrub module (which is based on GRUB4DOS). Mac OS X is loaded via the Darwin bootloader. Other operating systems are also supported by means of chainloading their specific loader environments.
Features
Bootloader Configuration
EasyBCD has a number of bootloader-related features that can be used to repair and
configure the bootloader.
From the "Manage Bootloader" section of EasyBCD, it is possible to switch between the bootmgr bootloader (used since Windows Vista) and the NTLDR bootloader (used by legacy versions of Windows, from Windows NT to Windows XP) in the MBR from within Windows by simply clicking a button. EasyBCD also offers a feature to back up and restore the BCD (boot configuration data) configuration files for recovery and testing purposes.
In the "Diagnostics Center," it is possible to reset a corrupt BCD storage and automatically create the necessary entries for the current operating system, as well as search for and replace missing/corrupt boot files. This latter feature can be taken advantage of to install the Windows Vista BCD bootloader.
EasyBCD can be used to change the boot drive, rename or change the order of any entries in the bootloader, and modify existing entries to point to a different drive.
Newer versions of EasyBCD also support creating bootable USB disks, by deploying BOOTMGR and the BCD onto a removable disk and performing the necessary actions to make the drive bootable, after which it can be loaded into EasyBCD to add and remove the various supported entry types in order to cre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20W.%20Gray | Mary Lee Wheat Gray (born April 8, 1938) is an American mathematician, statistician, and lawyer. She is the author of books and papers in the fields of mathematics, mathematics education, computer science, applied statistics, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom. She is currently on the Board of Advisers for POMED (Project on Middle East Democracy) and is the chair of the Board of Directors of AMIDEAST (America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc.).
Biography and career
Gray completed her undergraduate degree from Hastings College and her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Kansas. She also completed her J.D. from Washington College of Law. She is a member of the District of Columbia and U.S. Supreme Court bars.
Gray was one of the founding members of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the first President of the AWM from 1971 to 1973. As reported in A Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics: The Presidents' Perspectives, by Lenore Blum, "As Judy Green remembers (and Chandler Davis, early AWM friend, concurs): 'The formal idea of women getting together and forming a caucus was first made publicly at a MAG [Mathematics Action Group] meeting in 1971 ... in Atlantic City. Joanne Darken, then an instructor at Temple University and now at the Community College of Philadelphia, stood up at the meeting and suggested that the women present remain and form a caucus. I have been able to document six women who remained: me (I was a graduate student at Maryland at the time), Joanne Darken, Mary [W.] Gray (she was already at American University), Diane Laison (then an instructor at Temple), Gloria Olive (a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago, New Zealand, who was visiting the U.S. at the time) and Annie Selden...It's not absolutely clear what happened next, except that I've personally always thought that Mary was responsible for getting the whole thing organized ....'". Mary W. Gray was the early organizer, placing an advertisement in the February 1971 Notices of the AMS, and writing the first issue of the AWM Newsletter that May. Again as reported by Lenore Blum, "What I remember hearing about Mary [W.] Gray and the Atlantic City Meetings, indeed what perked my curiosity, was an entirely different event, one that was also to alter dramatically the character of the mathematics community. In those years the AMS was governed by what could only be called an "old boys network," closed to all but those in the inner circle. Mary challenged that by sitting in on the Council meeting in Atlantic City. When she was told she had to leave, she refused saying she would wait until the police came. (Mary relates the story somewhat differently: When she was told she had to leave, she responded she could find no rules in the by-laws restricting attendance at Council meetings. She was then told it was by "gentlemen's agreement." Naturally Mary replied "Well, obviously I'm no gentleman.") After |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cybersecurity%20Center | The National Cybersecurity Center (NCC) was founded in 2016 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was started from a vision of then Governor John Hickenlooper, in coordination with several people from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) and the community. The NCC serves both public and private organizations and individuals through training, education, and research.
The NCC is not to be confused with the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), an office within the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Leadership
Ed Rios was CEO of the NCC from October 2016 to 2018.
Vance Brown was CEO from 2018 to 2020.
In 2020, Harry D. Raduege, Jr., Lieutenant General, USAF (Ret.) became CEO.
Board members included
Senator John Hickenlooper, Governor Jared Polis, Mayor John Suthers,
and several retired US military officers.
Kyle Hybl (Chairman of the Board)
Andre McGregor (Vice Chairman of the Board)
Harry Raduege (CEO and Board President)
Forrest Senti (Board Secretary)
Mayor John Suthers (Past Chairman)
Christian Anschutz
Kathy Boe
Gretchen Bliss
Rick Crandall
Kim Crider
Honorable Karen S. Evans
Sen. John Hickenlooper
Gary McAlum
Dawn Meyerriecks
Erik Mitisek
Governor Jared Polis
Greg Oslan
Mark Rasch
Ed Rios
Mark Weatherford
Senior Vice Chancellor Martin Wood
Ray Yepes
Cyber education
The National Cybersecurity Center provides cybersecurity leadership, with two main pillars: K-12 education with the NCC Student Alliance, and the Adult Education Initiative.
Student Alliance
The NCCSA is a Cyber Education Student Organization focusing on cybersecurity. The mission of the NCCSA is to respond to the urgent demand for trained cybersecurity talent while recognizing the importance of providing students with knowledge, career, and academic pathway information in this exciting and critical field.
NCCSA is a school-based network of student-run chapters providing learning, competing, leadership, soft-skills development, networking, skill-building, and social opportunities. It began as a grassroots effort of students, teachers, community college peers, and the NCC, who collaborated with partners and stakeholders to organize a student organization that meets the needs of cyberstudents across the country.The NCC has hosted cyber camps, captured the flag, and other events for the students to get hands-on experience.
Cyber Force
The NCC Cyber Force Initiative is designed to increase the number of cybersecurity professionals in the workforce and increase the number of underrepresented groups in the cybersecurity workforce. The NCC offers both self-guide and instructor-led classes.
Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center
On April 8, 2019, the NCC announced a partnership with Space ISAC. The Space ISAC is an Information Sharing and Analysis Center focused on space industry threats. Space ISAC collaborates across the global space industrial base |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20and%20films%20broadcast%20by%20Great%20American%20Family | The following is a list of programs and films currently and formerly broadcast on Great American Family. The list also includes programming aired when the network was known as Great American Country.
Original films
2021
2022
(AH) Autumn Harvest
2023
Current programming
Original programming
Drama
When Hope Calls (season 2; December 18, 2021–present, acquired from Crown Media)
The Abigail Mysteries
Syndicated programming
Shows currently broadcast on GAC Family include several sitcoms under an agreement with CBS family Media Ventures, NBCUniversal Television Distribution, Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros. Television:
Sitcoms
Bewitched (Sony Pictures Television)
The Facts of Life (Sony Pictures Television)
Father Knows Best (Sony Pictures Television)
Full House (Warner Bros Television)
Fuller House (Warner Bros Television)
Hazel (Sony Pictures Television)
I Dream of Jeannie (Sony Pictures Television)
The Lone Ranger (Universal Television)
Silver Spoons (Sony Pictures Television)
Who's the Boss? (Sony Pictures Television)
Dramas
Columbo (Universal Television)
Little House on the Prairie (Universal Television)
Murder, She Wrote (Universal Television)
Wagon Train* (Revue/Universal Television)
Upcoming programming
In Development
Bringing Home for Christmas
Christmas Royal Ball
Christmas by Chance
Destined at Christmas 2
A Paris Christmas Waltz
Swinging into Romance
A Paris Christmas Waltz
'Twas The Text Before Christmas
Blessings Of Christmas
A Royal Christmas Romance
Christmas On Windmill Way
Bringing Christmas Home
My Christmas Hero
Former programming
As Great American Country
All-American Amusement Parks (2014)
Aloha Builds
Barn Hunters
Barnwood Builders
Behind the Scenes (1997-2004)
Betty White's Smartest Animals in America (2015)
Big Wheels of Country (2003-2005)
Carnival Eats
Celebrity Kitchen with Lorianne Crook (2003-2005)
Celebrity Motor Homes
Country Music Across America (2003-2008)
Country Requests Live (2000-2005)
Crook & Chase (2003-2005)
Design on a Dime
Endless Yard Sale Showdown
Farm Kings
Fast Forward (1997-2005)
GAC Classic (2001-2006)
GAC Late Shift
GAC Nights
GAC Outdoor Country
Gaither Gospel Hour
Great American Roadhouse (2002-2003)
Growing Up Gator
Headline Country
The Hitmen of Music Row (2007)
Hot Country Nights (2004)
I Brake for Yard Sales
Inside Country (1998-2000)
Into the Circle
The Jennie Garth Project
Junk Gypsies
Kimberly's Simply Southern
KingBilly (2008)
Lakefront Bargain Hunt
Living Countryfied
Log Cabin Living
Made in America (2003-2004)
Main Street Videos
Master Series
Moving Country
My Music Mix (2005-2009)
Next GAC Star (2008)
Offstage with Lorianne Crook (2005-2007)
Oh That Dog of Mine! (1999)
On the Edge of Country (1997-2008)
Our Song (2009)
On the Streets
Opry Live
Patriotic Country (2004)
Pick a Puppy
Positively GAC
The Road Hammers (2008)
Soundstage
Superstar Sessions
Tiny House, Big Living
Top 15 Country Countdown (1997-2001)
Top 20 Country Countdown |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20networking | Visual networking refers to an emerging class of user applications that combine digital video and social networking capabilities. It is based upon the premise that visual literacy, "the ability to interpret, negotiate and make meaning from information presented in the form of a moving image", is a powerful force in how humans communicate, entertain and learn. The duality of visual networking—subsuming entertainment and communications, professional and personal content, video and other digital media, data networks and social networks to create immersive experiences, when, where and how the user wants it. These applications have changed video content from long-form movies and broadcast television programming to a database of segments or "clips", and social network annotations. And the generation and distribution of content takes on a new dimension with Web 2.0 applications—participatory social-networks or communities that facilitate interactive creativity, collaboration and sharing between users.
History
The rise of visual networking is relatively recent phenomenon driven by the emergence of social networking capabilities and the ability to deliver interactive video over a broadband network. It is a natural evolution of the current social networking phenomena whereby social networking annotations are layered over broadband video to create highly interactive and immersive experiences between individuals and their content. Until early 2005 this was not considered viable due to the lack of web and broadband infrastructure designed to support the transmission of web video and the still nascent stage of social networks like MySpace and Facebook. The introduction of YouTube in February 2005 marked the first significant combination of broadband video and social network systems designed to allow users to share, rate and tag user generated and premium content. From 2006 to 2008 this trend continued to gain steam as individuals and businesses pursued new combinations of video and social networking across a wide range of entertainment, communication and learning applications.
Broadband video takes off
Video has largely been defined by its use as an entertainment medium. Since the commercial availability of the television in the late '30s video has become the dominant entertainment medium far eclipsing audio and text based entertainment both in terms of time and dollars spent. Within the past decade, video use has rapidly evolved across a broader range of devices, multiple locations and user applications. The popularization of the long-tail and user-generated video has further challenged people's ideas of what's possible with video. A key advantage of video relative to other media is its superior ability to communicate ideas and emotions economically. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video may be worth a thousand pictures. Video by its very nature is highly experiential, making communications more compelling, informative and memorable.
S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redgate | Redgate Software is a software company based in Cambridge, England. It develops tools for developers and data professionals and maintains community websites such as SQL Server Central and Simple Talk.
Redgate produces database management tools for Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft Azure. It also produces advanced developer tools for .NET Framework, such as SmartAssembly and .NET Reflector.
From 2007 to 2013, Redgate was featured in the Sunday Times 100 best companies to work for in the United Kingdom. It has won numerous industry awards for its SQL Server management software.
History
The company was founded by Neil Davidson and Simon Galbraith in October 1999. It is named after Via Porta Rossa (Red Gate Street) in Florence, Italy, close to where Davidson used to live.
In 2005, Redgate launched Simple Talk, an online technical journal and community hub for working Microsoft SQL Server and .NET developers, as well as systems and database administrators. The journal is sponsored by Redgate, but retains editorial independence. In addition to publishing articles, Simple Talk publishes books, most of which are available in a digital format.
On 20 August 2008, Redgate announced it was taking responsibility for future development of the free tool .NET Reflector.
On 22 March 2010, HyperBac Technologies (formerly known as Xceleon Technologies) was acquired by Redgate. HyperBac developed SQL software tools and products.
In August 2009, Redgate launched Springboard, a startup incubator based in Cambridge, UK. For a period of three months Redgate provided living expenses and mentoring for teams to work from Redgate's offices. It was similar to Y Combinator and Techstars in that it provided a small amount of capital up front but no equity was taken.
In 2010, Redgate re-launched Springboard with a different model where teams would again receive investment and mentoring, but this time in exchange for an equity stake. One such recipient of investment-for-equity in 2016 was Berlin-based 3T Software Labs, makers of Studio 3T, the IDE for MongoDB, a popular NoSQL database.
On March 7, 2017, Microsoft announced the inclusion of Redgate tools in Visual Studio 2017. Three components were included: ReadyRoll Core and SQL Prompt Core, both in the Enterprise edition of Visual Studio 2017, and SQL Search in all editions.
On January 28, 2021 Redgate announced it had acquired the assets of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS).
In December 2021, Redgate announced that Jakub Lamik was taking up the position as CEO of the company, and that Galbraith would remain on the board as a non-executive director.
Awards
References
External links
Simple Talk (technical journal and community hub)
SQL Server Central (SQL Server education and community website)
All Things Oracle (technical journal)
Software companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Cambridge
Software companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrier%20Jump%20Jet%20%28video%20game%29 | Harrier Jump Jet, aka Jump Jet was a flight simulator published by MicroProse in 1992.
Reception
Computer Gaming World liked the flight model and "beautiful seamless graphics", but criticized the campaign mode as "old-fashioned ... no wingmen, no interaction with one's forces, no dynamic battlefield, no feeling of being involved ... a dressed up version of F-19". The magazine recommended Domark's AV-8B Harrier Assault instead.
References
External links
Harrier Jump Jet Information
1992 video games
DOS games
MicroProse games
Flight simulation video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by John Broomhall
Windows games
Harrier Jump Jet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exame%20Inform%C3%A1tica | Exame Informática is a Portuguese monthly computer magazine published in Portugal.
History and profile
Exame Informática was first published in June 1995. The magazine was published monthly by Medipress Publishing. In 2018 Portuguese company Trust in News (TIN) acquired the magazine. The magazine is based in Lisbon.
It is an information technology magazine and every month is accompanied by a CD or a DVD (as is purchased or signed).
In 2007 Exame Informática had a circulation of 34,000 copies.
See also
List of magazines in Portugal
References
External links
Official Website
1995 establishments in Portugal
Computer magazines
Magazines established in 1995
Magazines published in Lisbon
Monthly magazines published in Portugal
Portuguese-language magazines
Science and technology in Portugal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log%20monitor | Log monitors are a type of software that monitor log files. Servers, application, network and security devices generate log files. Errors, problems, and more information is constantly logged and saved for later log analysis.
In order to detect problems automatically, system administrators and operations set up monitors on the generated logs. The log monitors scan the log files and search for known text patterns and rules that indicate important events. Once an event is detected, the monitoring system will send an alert, either to a person or to another software/hardware system. Monitoring logs help to identify security events that occurred or might occur.
System administration
Website monitoring software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wienux | WIENUX is a Debian-based Linux distribution developed by the City of Vienna in Austria. Its main purpose is to replace proprietary operating systems and applications on the municipality's thousands of desktop computers with free and open source alternatives based on KDE, OpenOffice.org and Firefox. WIENUX was released in 2005 under the General Public License and was available for free download from the distribution's web site until 2008 when the download page was taken offline.
In 2009 the migration to Linux as operating system was stopped and most desktop computers were equipped with a Windows operating system again.
See also
Canaima (operating system)
GendBuntu
Inspur
LiMux
Nova (operating system)
Ubuntu Kylin
VIT, C.A.
References
Debian-based distributions
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Society%20for%20Cybernetics | The American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) is an American non-profit scholastic organization for the advancement of cybernetics as a science, a discipline, a meta-discipline and the promotion of cybernetics as basis for an interdisciplinary discourse. The society does this by developing and applying cybernetics’ concepts which are presented and published via its conferences and peer-reviewed publications. As a meta-discipline, it creates bridges between disciplines, philosophies, sciences, and arts. The ASC is a full member of the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR).
In order to do so it holds conferences and seminars, and maintains contacts with cyberneticians and organizations for cybernetics in other countries. Further activities of the ASC are:
ASC Glossary on Cybernetics and Systems Theory
Disciplinary Matrices in Cybernetics and Systems Science
Wiener and McCulloch awards
The American Society for Cybernetics was founded in 1964 in Washington, DC to encourage new developments in cybernetics as an interdisciplinary field with Warren McCulloch as first elected president of the ASC. In the 1980s ASC became a member of the International Federation for Systems Research, and in the 1990s supported the Principia Cybernetica Project.
The ASC has been maintaining an editorial column in the interdisciplinary Cybernetics and Human Knowing Journal since its first issue in 1992. Rodney Donaldson was the first ASC president to write for the column.
Annual Cybernetics Symposia
First Annual Cybernetics Symposium
The First Annual Cybernetics Symposium of the ASC was held on 26-7 October, 1967 at the National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland. The theme was "Purposive Systems: The Edge of Knowledge." The following people made presentations:
Saul Amarel: "Problems of representation in artificial intelligence"
Nikolai Amosov: "Simulation of thinking processes"
Herbert Anschütz: "Prospects for the development of the psychocybernetics of intelligent behavior"
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel: "The future of man-machine languages"
Alexander S. Fraser: "The evolution of purposive behavior"
Ralph Gerard: "The neurophysiology of purposive behavior"
Jerrier A. Haddad: "Hardware for purposive systems"
David Hawkins: "The nature of purpose"
Margaret Mead: "Cybernetics of Cybernetics"
Emmanuel G. Mesthene: "How technology will shape the future"
Talcott Parsons: "Facilitating technological innovation in society"
Frederick Seitz: "The Challenge"
Ivan Sutherland: "Facilitating the man-machine interface"
ASC Presidents
2021- Paul Pangaro
2014-2020 Michael Lissack
2009-2014 Ranulph Glanville
2005-2008 Louis Kauffman
2002-2004 Allenna Leonard
1999-2001 Pille Bunnell
1994-1998 Frank Galuszka
1992-1993 Rodney Donaldson
1989-1991 Fred Steier
1986-1988 Larry Richards
1984-1985 Jon Cunnyngham
1983-1984 Bill Reckmeyer
1980-1982 Stuart Umpleby
1978-1979 Barry Clemson
1976-1977 Mark Ozer
1975-1976 Herbert Robinson
1972-1974 Roy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Invasive%20Species%20Information%20Network | The Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN) is a web-based network of data providers including government, non-government, non-profit, educational, and other organizations that agree to work together to provide increased access to data and information on invasive species around the world.
Computer-based information systems like those in the GISIN present specific information to help detect, rapidly respond to, and control invasive alien species, flora or fauna.
Projects
As of June 2008, work is proceeding on a draft of a proposed GISIN data-sharing protocol.
See also
Invasive Species Compendium
List of the world's 100 worst invasive species
Island Conservation
References
External links
Official Global Invasive Species Information Network website
Draft GISIN protocol
Draft GISIN technical site (specific data-sharing tools)
Participants in the 2008 GISIN technical workshop (Athens, Georgia, USA)
Invasive species
American environmental websites
International environmental organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisin | Gisin or GISIN may refer to:
Global Invasive Species Information Network
Michelle Gisin (born 1993), Swiss alpine skier
Dominique Gisin (born 1985), Swiss alpine skier
Marc Gisin (born 1988), Swiss alpine skier
Nicolas Gisin (born 1952), Swiss physicist
, Swiss zoologist
See also
Gysi, a surname
Gysin (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20erasure | Data erasure (sometimes referred to as data clearing, data wiping, or data destruction) is a software-based method of data sanitization that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residing on a hard disk drive or other digital media by overwriting data onto all sectors of the device in an irreversible process. By overwriting the data on the storage device, the data is rendered irrecoverable.
Ideally, software designed for data erasure should:
Allow for selection of a specific standard, based on unique needs, and
Verify the overwriting method has been successful and removed data across the entire device.
Permanent data erasure goes beyond basic file deletion commands, which only remove direct pointers to the data disk sectors and make the data recovery possible with common software tools. Unlike degaussing and physical destruction, which render the storage media unusable, data erasure removes all information while leaving the disk operable. New flash memory-based media implementations, such as solid-state drives or USB flash drives, can cause data erasure techniques to fail allowing remnant data to be recoverable.
Software-based overwriting uses a software application to write a stream of zeros, ones or meaningless pseudorandom data onto all sectors of a hard disk drive. There are key differentiators between data erasure and other overwriting methods, which can leave data intact and raise the risk of data breach, identity theft or failure to achieve regulatory compliance. Many data eradication programs also provide multiple overwrites so that they support recognized government and industry standards, though a single-pass overwrite is widely considered to be sufficient for modern hard disk drives. Good software should provide verification of data removal, which is necessary for meeting certain standards.
To protect the data on lost or stolen media, some data erasure applications remotely destroy the data if the password is incorrectly entered. Data erasure tools can also target specific data on a disk for routine erasure, providing a hacking protection method that is less time-consuming than software encryption. Hardware/firmware encryption built into the drive itself or integrated controllers is a popular solution with no degradation in performance at all.
Encryption
When encryption is in place, data erasure acts as a complement to crypto-shredding, or the practice of 'deleting' data by (only) deleting or overwriting the encryption keys.
Presently, dedicated hardware/firmware encryption solutions can perform a 256-bit full AES encryption faster than the drive electronics can write the data. Drives with this capability are known as self-encrypting drives (SEDs); they are present on most modern enterprise-level laptops and are increasingly used in the enterprise to protect the data. Changing the encryption key renders inaccessible all data stored on a SED, which is an easy and very fast method for achieving a 100% data erasure. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Control%20Company | Computer Control Company, Inc. (1953–1966), informally known as 3C, was a pioneering minicomputer company known for its DDP-series (Digital Data Processor) computers, notably:
DDP-24 24-bit (1963)
DDP-224 24-bit (1965)
DDP-116 16-bit (1965)
DDP-124 24-bit (1966) using monolithic ICs
It was founded in 1953 by Dr. Louis Fein, the physicist who had earlier designed the Raytheon RAYDAC computer.
The company moved to Framingham, Massachusetts in 1959. Prior to the introduction of the DDP-series it developed a series of digital logical modules, initially based on vacuum tubes.
In 1966 it was sold to Honeywell, Inc. As the Computer Controls division of Honeywell, it introduced further DDP-series computers, and was a $100,000,000 business until 1970 when Honeywell purchased GE's computer division and discontinued development of the DDP line.
In a 1970 essay, Murray Bookchin used the DDP-124 as his example of computer progress:
One of the oddest of the DDP series was the DDP 19 -- of which only three were built on custom order for the U.S. Weather service. Its architecture was based on a 19-bit word structure consisting of six octal bytes plus a sign bit, which in arithmetic operations could create the unusual value of "negative zero". One of these machines was donated by the government to the Milwaukee Area Technical College in 1972, which included a drum-based line printer and dual Ampex magnetic tape drives. It was used for a limited number of students as an "extra credit project device" for the next 2-3 years, after which it was scrapped to make space for newer equipment. The fate of the other two units is unknown.
Notes
References
External links
Oral history interview with Louis Fein at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Fein discusses establishing computer science as an academic discipline at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) as well as contacts with the University of California—Berkeley, the University of North Carolina, Purdue, International Federation for Information Processing and other institutions.
The 3C Legacy Project
1953 establishments in Massachusetts
1966 disestablishments in Massachusetts
1966 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1953
American companies disestablished in 1966
Companies based in Framingham, Massachusetts
Computer companies established in 1953
Computer companies disestablished in 1966
Defunct computer companies based in Massachusetts
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Electronics companies established in 1953
Minicomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FXP | FXP may refer to:
File eXchange Protocol
Franky Perez, American musician
FXP Preset, for Virtual Studio Technology
FXP (production company), the production arm of cable networks FX and FXX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNN | DNN may refer to:
Digital News Network, a defunct digital radio news service in the United Kingdom
DNN Corporation, a software company founded by the creators of DotNetNuke
DNN (software), formerly DotNetNuke, a web content management system developed by DNN Corporation
Dinosaur News Network, a parody of Cable News Network on Dinosaurs (TV series)
Dalton Municipal Airport in Dalton, Georgia
Deep neural network, a type of artificial neural network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20the%20Drama%20Queen | "Lisa the Drama Queen" is the ninth episode of the twentieth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 25, 2009 and guest-starred Emily Blunt as Juliet. This is the last hold-over episode from the season 19 (KABF) production line.
The episode is very loosely based on the 1994 film Heavenly Creatures. It is also the last episode to air in 4:3 standard television.
Plot
When Homer forces the kids to take classes at the recreation centre, Lisa takes part in a strict art class and meets a girl named Juliet Hobbes, who also likes Josh Groban. The two create a fantasy world that takes them away from reality. They deem the land "Equalia" where they are the queens and everybody is equal. However, Lisa soon becomes distracted in school after becoming obsessed with the imaginary land. After meeting Juliet's family and seeing her disruptive behavior, Marge thinks Lisa's friend might be troubled, and after she becomes obsessed in their dreamworld, Marge attempts to stop her from seeing Juliet, much against Marge's original idea of trying to get Lisa a best friend.
The next day, Lisa is invited by Juliet to run away to a run-down restaurant where they intend to live while they complete their writing. Lisa misses her Model UN meeting, where she was going to represent Azerbaijan. Martin contacts Marge and tells her about Lisa's disappearance. Marge immediately goes looking for Lisa, but cannot find her. Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney, who use the restaurant as their hideout, find and trap Lisa and Juliet, locking them in cages. Dolph and Jimbo leave, and the girls escape by distracting Kearney with stories about Equalia. Dolph and Jimbo try to destroy the girls' manuscripts, but Kearney now believes in the idea of Equalia and attacks them—in his mind he becomes a dragon and overcomes them, but in reality Dolph and Jimbo are beating him up while he smiles dreamily and obliviously. After escaping, Lisa tells Juliet that she wants to continue living in the real world and forget about Equalia; a disappointed Juliet abandons her to pursue the imaginary world forever, causing Lisa to conclude that Juliet is crazy.
Two months later, Lisa is back at home with a rejection slip from a publishing company to whom she had sent her Equalia manuscript. Homer is then prompted to make his own fantasy story, based on his experiences as a father, which goes no further than him re-imagining the family in forms more pleasing to him: Bart is a hot dog, Lisa is a starfish, Marge is a bottle of Duff Beer, and Maggie is a monster truck.
Production
The episode was written by Brian Kelley and directed by Matthew Nastuk. It was the first episode Kelley wrote after five seasons of being absent from the show. A special version of the end credits theme was performed by the band Fall Out Boy, who were named after a character in the series, but they did not guest star in the actual episode. The episode |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL | OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other processors or hardware accelerators. OpenCL specifies programming languages (based on C99, C++14 and C++17) for programming these devices and application programming interfaces (APIs) to control the platform and execute programs on the compute devices. OpenCL provides a standard interface for parallel computing using task- and data-based parallelism.
OpenCL is an open standard maintained by the non-profit technology consortium Khronos Group. Conformant implementations are available from Altera, AMD, ARM, Creative, IBM, Imagination, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Vivante, Xilinx, and ZiiLABS.
Overview
OpenCL views a computing system as consisting of a number of compute devices, which might be central processing units (CPUs) or "accelerators" such as graphics processing units (GPUs), attached to a host processor (a CPU). It defines a C-like language for writing programs. Functions executed on an OpenCL device are called "kernels". A single compute device typically consists of several compute units, which in turn comprise multiple processing elements (PEs). A single kernel execution can run on all or many of the PEs in parallel. How a compute device is subdivided into compute units and PEs is up to the vendor; a compute unit can be thought of as a "core", but the notion of core is hard to define across all the types of devices supported by OpenCL (or even within the category of "CPUs"), and the number of compute units may not correspond to the number of cores claimed in vendors' marketing literature (which may actually be counting SIMD lanes).
In addition to its C-like programming language, OpenCL defines an application programming interface (API) that allows programs running on the host to launch kernels on the compute devices and manage device memory, which is (at least conceptually) separate from host memory. Programs in the OpenCL language are intended to be compiled at run-time, so that OpenCL-using applications are portable between implementations for various host devices. The OpenCL standard defines host APIs for C and C++; third-party APIs exist for other programming languages and platforms such as Python, Java, Perl, D and .NET. An implementation of the OpenCL standard consists of a library that implements the API for C and C++, and an OpenCL C compiler for the compute device(s) targeted.
In order to open the OpenCL programming model to other languages or to protect the kernel source from inspection, the Standard Portable Intermediate Representation (SPIR) can be used as a target-independent way to ship kernels between a front-end compiler and the OpenCL back-end.
More recently Khronos Group has ratified SYCL, a higher-level programming model for OpenCL as a s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%207%29 | Season seven of Dancing with the Stars premiered on September 22, 2008, on the ABC network.
Instead of twelve couples as in previous seasons, this was the first season to feature a lineup of thirteen couples. This season also introduced four new dances: the hustle, jitterbug, salsa, and West Coast Swing.
Model and host Brooke Burke and Derek Hough were crowned the champions, while Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Warren Sapp and Kym Johnson finished in second place, and NSYNC singer Lance Bass and Lacey Schwimmer finished third.
Cast
Couples
This season featured thirteen celebrity contestants. The official cast announcement was made on the morning of August 25, 2008, on Good Morning America.
Host and judges
Tom Bergeron and Samantha Harris returned as the show's co-hosts. Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, and Carrie Ann Inaba returned as the judges, while Michael Flatley appeared as a guest judge during week six.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges scores in charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1
On the first night, each couple performed either the cha-cha-cha or foxtrot. On the second night, each couple performed either the mambo or quickstep. Two couples were eliminated by the end of the second night. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Night 1
Night 2
Week 2
Each couple performed either the paso doble or rumba. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 3
Each couple performed either the jive or Viennese waltz. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
On October 3, Misty May-Treanor was injured during practice and received immediate medical attention. At the end of the episode that aired on Monday, October 6, she announced that she had ruptured her Achilles tendon, and thus had to withdraw from the competition. On the results show the next night, Tom Bergeron revealed that no one would be eliminated that week because of May-Treanor's withdrawal, and the week 3 scores would carry over to week 4.
Week 4
Each couple performed either the samba or tango. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 5
Each couple performed one of four dances newly introduced this season: the hustle, jitterbug, salsa, or West Coast Swing. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
On Sunday, October 19, Brooke Burke was injured during the camera blocking for her jitterbug with partner Derek Hough. She ended up going to the hospital on Monday, October 20, for treatment and x-rays. It was determined that she had severely bruised her foot, but as of Monday afternoon, an ABC spokesperson told People that Burke and Hough would still perform on that night's live show.
Week 6
Individual judges scores in charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this ord |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoelace%20formula | The shoelace formula, also known as Gauss's area formula and the surveyor's formula, is a mathematical algorithm to determine the area of a simple polygon whose vertices are described by their Cartesian coordinates in the plane. It is called the shoelace formula because of the constant cross-multiplying for the coordinates making up the polygon, like threading shoelaces. It has applications in surveying and forestry, among other areas.
The formula was described by Albrecht Ludwig Friedrich Meister (1724–1788) in 1769 and is based on the trapezoid formula which was described by Carl Friedrich Gauss and C.G.J. Jacobi. The triangle form of the area formula can be considered to be a special case of Green's theorem.
The area formula can also be applied to self-overlapping polygons since the meaning of area is still clear even though self-overlapping polygons are not generally simple. Furthermore, a self-overlapping polygon can have multiple "interpretations" but the Shoelace formula can be used to show that the polygon's area is the same regardless of the interpretation.
The polygon area formulas
Given: A planar simple polygon with a positively oriented (counter clock wise) sequence of points in a Cartesian coordinate system.
For the simplicity of the formulas below it is convenient to set .
The formulas:
The area of the given polygon can be expressed by a variety of formulas, which are connected by simple operations (see below):
If the polygon is negatively oriented, then the result of the formulas is negative. In any case is the sought area of the polygon.
Trapezoid formula
The trapezoid formula sums up a sequence of oriented areas of trapezoids with as one of its four edges (see below):
Triangle formula
The triangle formula sums up the oriented areas of triangles :
Shoelace formula
The triangle formula is the base of the popular shoelace formula, which is a scheme that optimizes the calculation of the sum of the 2×2-Determinants by hand:
Other formulas
A particularly concise statement of the formula can be given in terms of the exterior algebra. If are the
consecutive vertices of the polygon (regarded as vectors in
the Cartesian plane) then
Example
For the area of the pentagon with
one gets
The advantage of the shoelace form: Only 6 columns have to be written for calculating the 5 determinants with 10 columns.
Deriving the formulas
Trapezoid formula
The edge determines the trapezoid with its oriented area
In case of the number is negative, otherwise positive or if . In the diagram the orientation of an edge is shown by an arrow. The color shows the sign of : red means , green indicates . In the first case the trapezoid is called negative in the second case positive. The negative trapezoids delete those parts of positive trapezoids, which are outside the polygon. In case of a convex polygon (in the diagram the upper example) this is obvious: The polygon area is the sum of the areas of the positive trapezoid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon%20Oliver | Gideon Oliver is a prime time television series that ran on the ABC television network between February 1989 and May 1989 as part of the ABC Mystery Movie rotation, along with B.L. Stryker, Kojak and Columbo. On the air for only five episodes, the series starred Louis Gossett Jr., and was created by Dick Wolf. The title character first appeared in the novel series by mystery writer Aaron Elkins.
Overview
Oliver is a Columbia University anthropology professor, utilizing his knowledge of past cultures to solve crimes throughout the Western Hemisphere. He is assisted by his adult daughter Zina (Shari Headley).
List of episodes
See also
Aaron Elkins
External links
1989 American television series debuts
1989 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1980s American crime drama television series
Television shows based on American novels
Television series by Universal Television
English-language television shows
The ABC Mystery Movie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20Star | Ocean Star is an Australian children's television series that first screened on Network Ten on 10 February 2003 until 2003.
Plot summary
Trent and Dylan Steadman are city kids who are sent by their mother to live with their father in a small seaside town. They struggle to make friends with the local kids. Trent meets Swampy, an old pearl diver who tells him about a priceless cluster of pearls known as the 'Ocean Star' that he claims were lost when his boat sunk in a cyclone forty years ago. The quest for the treasure sends Trent and the kids on an exciting and dangerous adventure.
Cast List
Jared Daperis as Trent Steadman
Jason Smith as Dylan Steadman
Graeme Blundell as Clive 'Swampy' Marsh
Brooke Callaghan as Gemma Carruthers
Rob Carlton as Reg Davies
Sage Butler as Karla Davies
Rohanna Angus as Bronwyn Michaels
Kate Rice as Caitlin Carruthers
Kai Kamada-Laws as Susi Fujiwara
Mark Coles Smith as 'Spider' Webb
Andrew Lewis as Grant Steadman
Penny Arrow as Denise Bennett
See also
List of Australian television series
External links
Ocean Star at IMDb
Network 10 original programming
Australian children's television series
2003 Australian television series debuts
2003 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouda%2C%20Odisha | Mouda is the largest village in Khandatara mauja. Khandatara is a mauja (cluster village) in Bhadrak district of Orissa. There are about 10 temples in the village.
Places of interest
Salandi Escape can be visited to see how a branch (NALIA) escapes from main river Salandi river.
A holy festival in the Month of march keeps the villagers busy and entertained for a week.
Near by Bhadrakali Temple is a walking distance from Mouda
Khandeswar Mahadev Temple, Mahadevpur, near Salandi Escape
How to reach
This village can be approached in two ways.
Mouda is about 5 km from Bhadrak Bus stand and about 7 km from Bhadrak railway station.
From Bhadrak Bus stand take the following chronological route — Kacheri Bazar, Santhia (Bhadrak Women's College) - Purana Bazar - Garadpur - Durgapur - Mouda
Alternatively From Bhadrak Bus stand take the following chronological route - Kacheri Bazar, Santhia (Bhadrak Women's College) - Purana Bazar - Banka Bazar - Uttar Bahini - Take a right turn near Baspur to reach Mouda.
See also
Bhadrak
References
External links
http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/orissa/districts/bhadrak.htm
http://bhadrak.nic.in/
Villages in Bhadrak district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%20Wilcox-O%27Hearn | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (born Bryce Wilcox; 13 May 1974 in Phoenix, Arizona), is an American Colorado-based computer security specialist, self-proclaimed cypherpunk, and CEO of the Electric Coin Company (ECC), a for-profit company leading the development of Zcash.
Biography
He is known for the Tahoe Least-Authority File Store (or Tahoe-LAFS), a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem released under GPL and the TGPPL licenses. He is the creator of the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence (TGPPL).
Wilcox-O'Hearn is the designer of multiple network protocols that incorporate concepts such as self-contained economies and secure reputation systems. He is a member of the development team of ZRTP and the BLAKE2 cryptographic hash function.
Zooko's triangle is named after Wilcox-O'Hearn, who described the schema that relates three desirable properties of identifiers in 2001.
Wilcox-O'Hearn was founder and CEO of Least Authority Enterprises in Boulder, Colorado where he is now an advisor.
Zooko was a developer of the MojoNation P2P system and lead developer of the follow-on Mnet network, and a developer at SimpleGeo.
Wilcox-O'Hearn worked on the first cryptocurrency, DigiCash, with David Chaum in 1996. He is a member of the founding team of the anonymous cryptocurrency Zcash, which launched in 2016. He currently serves as the CEO of the affiliated Electric Coin Company. Wilcox later commissioned the Rand Corporation to study whether anonymous coins were disproportionately represented in criminal transactions; the study found they were not.
Additionally Wilcox-O'Hearn was one of the co-creators of Blake3.
References
Living people
Cypherpunks
People associated with computer security
People associated with cryptocurrency
Businesspeople from Boulder, Colorado
1974 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-lived%20transaction | A long-lived transaction is a transaction that spans multiple database transactions. The transaction is considered "long-lived" because its boundaries must, by necessity of business logic, extend past a single database transaction. A long-lived transaction can be thought of as a sequence of database transactions grouped to achieve a single atomic result.
A common example is a multi-step sequence of requests and responses of an interaction with a user through a web client.
A long-lived transaction creates challenges of concurrency control and scalability.
A chief strategy in designing long-lived transactions is optimistic concurrency control with versioning.
See also
Long-running transaction
Data management
Transaction processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Campbell%20%28actor%29 | Jack Campbell (born 2 November 1970) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his role of Dr. Steve Taylor in the Australian medical drama All Saints on Network Seven and his portrayal of infamous gangster "Big Jim" Devine in the Nine Network drama series Underbelly: Razor, based on the criminal underworld of Sydney in the 1920s.
Early life
Jack Campbell was born to farmers and graziers, Bruce and Ilma Campbell on 2 November 1970 in Sydney, Australia. The youngest of three boys, Campbell was raised on a wheat and cattle farm in the Australian Outback (Warrenbungles, N.S.W.) He attended Tudor House in Moss Vale for four years before heading to The King's School.
Career
In 1990, Campbell moved to Sydney, where he pursued acting at The Actors Center in Surry Hills. Campbell soon appeared in several Australian television shows, before performing with the Sydney Theatre Company in Six Degrees of Separation. He then co-starred in the feature film, The Nostradamus Kid, alongside Noah Taylor and Miranda Otto.
From 1996 to 1998, Campbell had a leading role in the New Zealand drama series, City Life playing the Prime Minister's rebellious son, Aaron Kellett. After this, he starred in the successful New Zealand medical drama, Shortland Street as romantic lead, Dr. Daniel Buchanan (1998–2000). Campbell also appeared in New Zealand dramas, Jackson's Wharf and The Legend of William Tell, before travelling to New York where he studied at The Cay Michael Patten Acting Studio.
In 2003 Campbell returned to Australia where he created and hosted a popular internet radio show called "A Positive Spin". The radio show was a labor of love, sponsored by "The Salvation Army", it incorporated cognitive behavioral therapy, philosophy, humor, music and live studio interviews, and was designed to teach people, specifically Sydney's Inner City street kids, how to turn negatives into positives.
In 2006, Campbell starred in the first three episodes of the BBC/Nine Network co-production of Maddigan's Quest, a young adult - post apocalyptic drama series. This was followed by the feature film, Gabriel where he played Archangel Raphael. After this, Campbell starred in the BBC/ABC Co-Production of Catalpa Rescue, playing Captain Anthony.
In 2007–2009, Campbell played Dr. Steve Taylor in Australia's number one medical drama, All Saints on the Seven Network. During this time at the request of Tourism Tasmania, Campbell hosted Discover Tasmania, a lifestyle program that also aired on the Seven Network. Campbell then joined soap opera, Home and Away as Michael Patton, before guest starring in the Australian TV drama, Sea Patrol playing troubled mercenary, Garth Davidson.
In 2011 Campbell appeared in the feature film, Burning Man, before starring as Sydney's infamous 1920s gangster, Jim Devine in Australia's highest rating television drama series, Underbelly: Razor for the Nine Network.
In 2014 Campbell starred as hardened farmer and devoted family man, Adam Wilson in the feat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botan%20%28programming%20library%29 | Botan is a BSD-licensed cryptographic and TLS library written in C++11. It provides a wide variety of cryptographic algorithms, formats, and protocols, e.g. SSL and TLS. It is used in the Monotone distributed revision control program, the OpenDNSSEC system, and ISC's Kea DHCP server among other projects.
The project was originally called OpenCL, a name now used by Apple Inc. and Khronos Group for a heterogeneous system programming framework. It was renamed Botan in 2002.
In 2007, the German Federal Office for Information Security contracted FlexSecure GmbH to add an implementation of Card Verifiable Certificates for ePassports to Botan; the modified version of Botan was released under the name InSiTo.
Starting in 2015, the German Federal Office for Information Security funded a project, which included improving the documentation, test suite and feature set of Botan, culminating in 2017, when it was evaluated and recommended as a library suitable for "applications with increased security requirements".
See also
Comparison of cryptography libraries
References
External links
C++ libraries
Cryptographic software
Software using the BSD license
Transport Layer Security implementation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Leonov | Sergei Alexandrovich Leonov — Russian journalists, senior editor and an important author of Computerra weekly. He is the author of numerous articles about IT and modern science.
Biography
Since 1997 — prints in Computerra
1998—2004 — senior editor of Computerra
2004—2006 — editor-in-chief of Computerra
с 2006 — senior editor of Computerra
As a Journalist
Sergei Leonov is the author of several hundred articles, published in: Computerra, Home Computer, Infobusiness, CIO, Business-magazine. He was an editor-in-chief of Computerra for three years. Now he is a senior editor.
External links
Leonov's articles (in Russian)
Russian male journalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Computerra people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifi%20Mobile | Unifi Mobile (stylised as unifi Mobile) is a Malaysian internet service provider and the country's sixth mobile network operator. Originally known as Packet One Networks (P1), the company was founded on 11 February 2002 and is currently a subsidiary of the national telephone company, Telekom Malaysia.
Overview
Unifi Mobile operates 4G WiMAX, 4G LTE and 4G LTE-A networks, and shars spectrum from Celcom with 2G EDGE networks.
In March 2007, P1 was one of four companies awarded 2.3 GHz spectrum licenses by the Malaysian government to deploy 4G WiMAX services throughout Malaysia. In August 2008, P1 became the first company to launch commercial WiMAX services in Malaysia.
In March 2014, Telekom Malaysia (TM) Berhad bought a 57% stake in P1 for RM 350 million. TM plans to invest RM 1 billion in P1 over the next four years.
In April 2016, the company was officially rebranded as Webe Digital Sdn. Bhd.. May 2017 saw the announcement of the company's latest CEO, Moharmustaqeem Mohammed, replacing Azizi A. Hady.
In January 2018, TM relaunched its mobile service under the Unifi Mobile brand. Unifi Mobile is a prepaid and postpaid plan operating on an annual contract. The Unifi Mobile LTE network consists of 850 MHz FDD-LTE (Band 5), 2300 MHz TD-LTE (Band 40) and TD-LTE 2600 MHz (Band 38). Unifi mobile utilizes its MgO 850 MHz LTE band 5 spectrum (reformed from CDMA 850 MHz), and Celcom provides domestic roaming on 4G and 2G until June 2023.
On 1 October 2022, Jasmine Lee Sze Inn, 52, has been appointed the new Executive Vice President of Mobile at Telekom Malaysia Bhd, and CEO of webe, the mobile division of TM.
On 14 December 2022, Telekom Malaysia Bhd announced the reorganization and rename of Webe Digital Sdn Bhd to TM Technology Services Sdn Bhd, which later took place on 1 March 2023.
Uses Celcom 2.6 GHz (Band 7) for some in-building coverage from 2016-2023. Unifi will be migrating to Maxis Network for 4G domestic roaming.
Uses Celcom 2G network from 2016-2023. Unifi will be migrating to Maxis network for 2G domestic roaming.
Unifi Mobile is not related to Ubiquiti UniFi.
Milestones
Alcatel-Lucent – January 2008
Intel Corporation – May 2008
Oracle Corporation – May 2008
EMC Corporation – June 2008
Fiber ail – June 2008
ZTE China – March 2009
SK Telecom announced strategic alliance with P1, which SK Telecom will acquire approximately 25% stake in P1 – June 2010
Qualcomm – June 2011
China Mobile – June 2011
Telekom Malaysia – Oct 2011
Packet One was discontinued as a company after Telekom Malaysia's purchase.
Its W1MAX product offering still exists, though it now focuses on LTE as web.
Prefix and Subscriber Numbers
Assigned by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission:
Prefix: 10 | Subscriber numbers: 350 0000 - 359 9999
Prefix: 10 | Subscriber numbers: 440 0000 - 459 9999
Prefix: 10 | Subscriber numbers: 550 0000 - 559 9999
Prefix: 10 | Subscriber numbers: 650 0000 - 659 9999
Prefix: 11 | Subscriber numbers: 10 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator%20%28profession%29 | An operator is a professional designation used in various industries, including broadcasting (in television and radio), computing, power generation and transmission, customer service, physics, and construction. Operators are day-to-day end users of systems, that may or may not be mission-critical, but are typically managed and maintained by technicians or engineers. They might also work on a 24-hour rotating shift schedule.
Types of operators
Broadcasting
Technical operator, transmission controller or broadcast operator:
Master control (MCR) operator
Production control room (PCR) operator
Transmission control room (TCR) operator
Video tape operator (VTO)
Certified Television Operator (CTO) by Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE)
Certified Radio Operator (CRO) operator - by (SBE)
Studio technical operator (gallery operator):
Vision mixer operator - technical director (TD)
Sound and comms (talkback) studio operator
Camera operator
Jib (camera) operator
Boom operator
Dolly grip operator
Other
Computer operator
Network operations center (NOC) operator
Crane operator
Radio operator
Satellite controller
Switchboard operator
Winch operator
Nuclear power plant operator
Gallery
References
Occupations
Broadcasting occupations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZRH-TV | DZRH-TV was the flagship VHF TV station of Philippine media network Manila Broadcasting Company that aired from April 11, 1962, to September 23, 1972, and had relay stations in 6 key cities in the Philippines. Its studios were located at the old Jai Alai Building. It was one of the TV stations were shut down permanently during the declaration of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos.
History
Pioneer operators of channel 11
DZRH-TV went on air on April 11, 1962, on Channel 11, the last of the VHF assignments in Metro Manila. It was a general entertainment formatted channel until Metrocom forces forced the TV station along with DZRH AM 650 and other assets to cease operations at the wake of the declaration of Martial Law. The status of the pre-Martial law program archives of TV 11 is unknown.
Failed bid of restoration
After the 1986 People Power Revolution, MBC attempted channel 11 frequency to bring it back on the air; however in January 1992, the NTC disqualified them for a VHF frequency application because the agency found MBC as they are "not legally, technically and financially qualified to operate the station." As a result, the channel 11 frequency license was eventually acquired by El Shaddai-led Delta Broadcasting System, Inc. in 1995, with the frequency's new callsign DWXI-TV. DBS later moved to channel 35, when ZOE Broadcasting Network (through its head Jesus Is Lord Church leader Brother Eddie Villanueva) bought the channel 11 spot from DBS in 1998 and became DZOE-TV, which was occupied by GMA News TV (formerly ZOE TV and QTV/Q), but discontinued operations since June 5, 2019, due to the blocktime agreement between ZOE Broadcasting Network and GMA Network was not renewed, so GMA News TV was moved to DWDB-TV Channel 27 (now renamed as GTV since February 22, 2021), for the remainder of the analog transmission run, then Channel 11 became affiliated with ABS-CBN as A2Z, 5 months after channel 2's shutdown due to a cease and desist order issued by the National Telecommunications Commission for an expired franchise on May 5, 2020, and their frequencies were later recalled.
Ironically, MBC was one of the two remaining pre-Martial Law TV operators who did not revive at the height of the sequestrations that were done months after the 1986 Revolution, along with ABC-5, that did not yet resume until commencing test broadcasts in 1991 and relaunching the following year with different calls, DWET-TV; and a different corporate name, Associated Broadcasting Company, instead of keeping the original Corporation and its original calls, DZTM-TV during the pre-martial law years; as a result of the new management under Edward Tan that took over upon the revival of Channel 5.
MBC returned to TV, albeit on cable as TV Natin in 2007 and is currently branded as DZRH News Television. MBC regards the cable channel as a linear descendant of the original TV 11.
TV shows
Straight from the Shoulder (1970–1972, moved to GMA News and Public Affairs from 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%E2%80%9398%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1997–98 daytime network television schedule for the six major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1997 to August 1998. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 1996–97 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, branded as PTV at the time – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated or contracted station in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday–Friday
Notes:
ABC, NBC and CBS offered their early morning newscasts via a looping feed (usually running as late as 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to accommodate local scheduling in the westernmost contiguous time zones or for use a filler programming for stations that do not offer a local morning newscast; some stations without a morning newscast may air syndicated or time-lease programs instead of the full newscast loop.
NBC allowed owned-and-operated and affiliated stations the preference of airing Another World and Days of Our Lives in reverse order from the network's recommended scheduling. Some NBC affiliates did not air Sunset Beach in the noon timeslot, opting to air local news and/or syndicated programming instead, and often placing the soap opera in a late morning or afternoon time slot.
Fox Kids temporarily aired Eerie, Indiana Mondays and Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m. ET from November 10, 1997 to January 2, 1998.
Saturday
Notes:
Kids' WB temporarily aired Animaniacs aired at 8:00 a.m. ET until October 25, The New Batman/Superman Adventures aired at 9:00 a.m. ET until October 11, and The Legend of Calamity Jane aired at 10:00 a.m. ET from September 13 to 27, 1997.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC World News This Morning
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
All My Children
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
Brand Spanking New! Doug
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Good Morning America Sunday
Ju |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1998–99 daytime network television schedule for the six major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States in operation during that television season covers the weekday daytime hours from September 1998 to August 1999. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 1997–98 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, branded as PTV at the time – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included is Pax TV (now Ion), a venture of Paxson Communications (now Ion Media) that debuted on August 31, 1998; although Pax carried a limited schedule of first-run programs in its early years, its schedule otherwise was composed mainly of syndicated reruns.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated or other contracted station in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday–Friday
Notes:
NBC allowed owned-and-operated and affiliated stations the preference of airing Another World and Days of Our Lives in reverse order from the network's recommended scheduling; this structure was carried over when Passions debuted in the 2:00 p.m. ET timeslot on July 5, 1999.
Another World aired its last episode on June 25, 1999; the premiere of Passions was scheduled nine days after its timeslot predecessor's series finale due to NBC's scheduled coverage of the Wimbledon tennis tournament preempting the network's daytime schedule during the week of June 28.
(+) On September 3, 1999, Leeza aired its final episode on NBC; the program moved to first-run syndication beginning with its September 13 episode. NBC returned the 11:00 a.m. ET hour to its affiliates on September 6; at that time, NBC reclaimed the 9:00 a.m. ET hour from its affiliates in order to air Later Today, a lifestyle and entertainment-oriented extension of Today.
The time period that the first hour of the Fox Kids weekday block occupied was turned over to Fox-affiliated stations in September 1999. Prior to the change, some Fox stations h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20collector | In the UK electricity system, a data collector (DC) is responsible for determining the amount of electricity supplied so that the customer can be correctly billed.
Half-hourly
For half-hourly metered supplies, the half-hourly data collector (HHDC) retrieves the energy consumption data from the meter and makes any necessary estimates. The half-hourly (HH) data is a history of the customer's electricity consumption for each half-hour period.
Non-half-hourly
For non-half-hourly metered supplies, the Non-Half-Hourly Data Collector (NHHDC) determines the consumption by calculating the advance (the difference between the last two meter reads); this is annualised to produce an Annual Advance (AA) and is the data the supplier will pay on.
The NHHDC is also responsible determining the Estimated Annual Consumption (EAC), which is a forecast for a year ahead. The EAC is initially provided by the supplier, and thereafter forecast based on actual meter readings.
Data from the Data Collector (EAC/ AA's) is provided to the non-half-hourly data aggregator, which aggregates the individual values provided into a single figure split in a number of ways e.g. geographically or by supplier. This aggregated data is then provided to the Central Systems, maintained by Elexon, to determine the value of energy which has been used by suppliers so that they are able to settle with the distribution network which generated the energy. The process is known as balancing and settlement and is regulated according to the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC).
Payment
A data collection charge is a fee paid to the data collector for determining the energy consumption of the supply. The charge may be shown separately on an electricity bill or it may be incorporated in the electricity supplier's overall charges.
See also
Meter Point Administration Number
Electricity billing in the UK
Electricity meter
Meter operator
References
Electricity
Energy in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Campbell%20%28writer%29 | Alan Campbell (born 7 July 1971) is a Scottish fantasy novelist.
Biography
Campbell was born and raised in Falkirk, Scotland. He studied computer science at the University of Edinburgh. After graduating, he worked as a software engineer for DMA Design, Visual Sciences, and Rockstar North, developing the video games Body Harvest (for the Nintendo 64), Formula One 2000 (PlayStation), and the Grand Theft Auto series (PC, PlayStation 2). Following the completion of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, he left to pursue a career in photography and writing.
Campbell's debut novel was Scar Night, the first of the Deepgate Codex trilogy, followed by Iron Angel in 2008, and God of Clocks in 2009. The novella Lye Street is a prequel to the series.
In 2013, Campbell was awarded an Inkpot Award.
Bibliography
Deepgate Codex series
Scar Night (2006)
Iron Angel (2008)
God of Clocks (2009)
Gravedigger Chronicles
Sea of Ghosts (2011)
Art of Hunting (2013)
References
External links
Novel synopses, cover art, reviews
REVIEW : Art of Hunting
British fantasy writers
Living people
1971 births
People from Falkirk
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Scottish male novelists
Inkpot Award winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiodia | Amphiodia is a genus of brittle stars belonging to the family Amphiuridae.
Species
References
Amphiodia at the World Ophiuroidea Database
Amphiuridae
Ophiuroidea genera
Taxa named by Addison Emery Verrill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontederia%20cordata | Pontederia cordata, common name pickerelweed (USA) or pickerel weed (UK), is a monocotyledonous aquatic plant native to the American continents. It grows in a variety of wetlands, including pond and lake margins across an extremely large range from eastern Canada south to Argentina. A few examples include northern rivers, the Everglades and Louisiana.
Ecology
The species grows as an emergent plant, that is, in flooded conditions, so the plant is generally dependent upon aerenchyma in the stem to carry oxygen into the roots. Its metabolism, is, however, also tolerant of low soil oxygen. It is often found in areas where water levels fluctuate naturally, with spring flooding and later summer emergence. Apart from flooding, the species is also influenced by soil fertility, tending to grow in the more fertile bays of large lakes, for example. Like many aquatic plants, it is negatively affected by salinity and grazing. It is also negatively affected by competition from other wetland plants. Like many wetland plants, it can survive unfavorable conditions as buried seeds in the soil.
Flowers
The plant flowers in late summer. The purple flowers have yellow markings which may assist in attracting bees for pollination. Two species known to pollinate the flowers are Melissodes apicatus and Dufourea novaeangliae.
Once the plant begins to produce seeds, the stem supporting the inflorescence bends to submerge the fruits and seeds. Seeds are dormant at the time of dispersal and will not germinate without stratification for 6–8 weeks.
The flowers of the species are tristylous, meaning the styles of individual plants occur in three different morphs, with most populations containing all three. Leaf shape, which varies considerably across populations, within populations, and even within individuals, has been the source for many taxonomic synonyms. Like many wetland and aquatic plants, the species can reproduce asexually by means of branching rhizomes, and hence can form large clonal stands.
Cultivation
This plant is cultivated as an ornamental garden pond plant, and has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Uses
The young leafstalks can be eaten raw (with the unripe fruits stripped off) or cooked. The seeds are edible raw, and can be ground into grain.
References
External links
PLANTS Profile for Pontederia cordata
Pontederia cordata, Natural Resources Canada
Pontederia cordata Flowers in Israel
Aquatic plants
Pontederiaceae
Edible plants
Flora of Northern America
Flora of Southern America
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem%20set | A problem set, sometimes shortened as pset, is a teaching tool used by many universities. Most courses in physics, math, engineering, chemistry, and computer science will give problem sets on a regular basis. They can also appear in other subjects, such as economics.
It is essentially a list of several mildly difficult problems or exercises based on material already taught, which the student is expected to solve with a full written solution. There is no further research involved, and the goal is to learn and become familiar with the material and solving typical problems. They are usually issued once every week or two weeks, and due one or two weeks later. If used as part of a summative assessment they are usually given a low weight, between 10% and 25% of the total mark of the course for all problem sets put together, and sometimes will count for nothing if the student receives a better grade on the exam. Alternatively, problem sets may be used purely for formative assessment and do not count towards a degree.
Many students work in groups to solve them and help get a better understanding of the material, but most professors require each student to hand in their own individual problem set. Some professors explicitly encourage collaboration, some allow it, and some explicitly disallow it or consider it cheating. Most, however, do not disallow collaboration, because they see the goal as primarily pedagogical. This is to be distinguished from larger, more important assignments, for which students are still expected to work independently.
Collaboration on problem sets has caused controversy, including a media storm around a student of Ryerson University, Chris Avenir, who started a forum on the social networking site Facebook for others to post their solutions. The professor failed him for his actions and recommended him for expulsion; the university faculty appeal committee overturned the recommended penalty and instead gave a zero grade for the assignments that were done through the course of the semester.
Examples
An example of a typical problem set, from MIT's relativity (physics) class
A list of all of the problem sets from that class, on MIT OpenCourseWare. In this case they are collectively worth 20% of the total mark.
References
Higher education
Didactics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorChat | TorChat was a peer-to-peer anonymous instant messenger that used Tor onion services as its underlying network. It provided cryptographically secure text messaging and file transfers. The characteristics of Tor's onion services ensure that all traffic between the clients is encrypted and that it is very difficult to tell who is communicating with whom and where a given client is physically located.
TorChat is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Features
In TorChat every user has a unique alphanumeric ID consisting of 16 characters. This ID will be randomly created by Tor when the client is started the first time, it is basically the .onion address of an onion service. TorChat clients communicate with each other by using Tor to contact the other's onion service (derived from their ID) and exchanging status information, chat messages and other data over this connection. Since onion services can receive incoming connections even if they are behind a router doing network address translation (NAT), TorChat does not need any port forwarding to work.
History
The first public version of TorChat was released in November 2007 by Bernd Kreuss (prof7bit). It is written in Python and used the cross-platform widget toolkit wxPython which made it possible to support a wide range of platforms and operating systems.
The older Windows versions of TorChat were built with py2exe (since 0.9.9.292 replaced with pyinstaller) and came bundled with a copy of Tor readily configured so that it could be run as a portable application right off a USB flash drive without any installation, configuration or account creation.
Between 2008 and 2010 weren't any updated packages, resulting in the bundled version of Tor becoming obsolete and unable to connect to the Tor network, which was the reason for the appearance of forks that basically just replaced the bundled Tor.exe with a current one. In December 2010, an official update finally became available that, among some minor bugfixes, also again included an up-to-date Tor.exe.
After 2014, all development activity stopped and TorChat has not received any further updates.
Forks
A fork was released for OS X in the summer of 2010 by a French developer. The binary (a Cocoa application) and source-code (Objective-C) bundled in a Xcode 7 project can be downloaded on SourceMac.
A rewrite of the TorChat protocol in Java was created in the beginning of 2012, called jTorChat on Google Code. Containing the latest Tor.exe, it is meant to emulate all the features of the original TorChat protocol, as well as extending the protocols for jTorChat-specific features. Filesharing, while implemented in the original TorChat, is not yet implemented in jTorChat. A new capability in jTorChat is the broadcast mode, which allows a user to send messages to everybody in the network, even if they are not in their buddylist. Also buddy request mode is implemented, which allows a user to request a random user |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U8%20Global%20Student%20Partnership%20for%20Development | The U8 Global Student Partnership for Development was a student-led global university network. Founded in 2005 by students in the wake of the Make Poverty History campaign, it provided an impartial platform for students to learn, share ideas and attempt to make a positive impact on the least developed parts of the world. It had as many as 50 member universities in countries such as Bulgaria, Ethiopia, India, Tanzania and the UK. The U8 sought to work towards a world of in which leaders and professionals understand and engage with international development issues. The U8 disbanded in 2011.
History
The U8 was founded in July 2005 by university students Sheena Sumaria and Natasha Hughes, after meeting during a summer internship at the UK Department for International Development (DfID). Their idea was to set up an inclusive global platform connecting students interested in development to raise awareness, spark debate and activism and to enhance knowledge of key challenges in social issues around the world. They worked together with students from various universities across the UK to develop the idea and make the U8 a reality.
The concept of the U8 was born during the time of the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, where the leaders of world’s eight richest countries gathered to discuss global challenges. In contrast, the U8 aimed to give a voice to students from developing countries about issues that concerned them most and to create a culture of inclusion in developmental dialogue and policy.
The U8 derives its name from the G8. It presents an alternative to the structure of the G8, which gives rise to an annual meeting of the world’s richest countries.
In contrast to the G8 however, the U8 is not restricted to the world’s richest countries, but aims to link students from developed and developing countries to engage in a shared learning process. Membership is not restricted to top universities, but is open to all.
Activities
The U8 arena allowed for sustained, unbounded discussion both online and face-to-face at local, national and international levels. It was hoped that by connecting students from around the globe, their understanding of complex issues and their ability to reflect upon, appraise and challenge policy and practice will be increased. Local activities include speaker events, such as the Warwick International Development Summit, and skills-based courses such as the Cambridge (in affiliation with CUiD) and Oxford University International Development Courses, which are organised by member groups. Global activities, are based around four pillars:
1. Research - online, collaborative projects, proposed by members and carried out via online communication. The outcomes are published online and usually take the form of research documents. Research outcomes from 2005 were submitted to the UK Department for International Development's 2005 White Paper, and a paper from 2006 was published in an Indian university journal.
2. Discussion - hos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat%20State%20Wide%20Area%20Network | Gujarat State Wide Area Network (GSWAN) is an end-to-end IP based network designed for the service convergence (Voice, video and Data) on a single backbone, for the state Government of Gujarat, India. The GSWAN was implemented in the year 2001-02.
GSWAN is based on open standards, is scalable and has high capacity Network to carry Voice, Data and Video traffic between designated Government of Gujarat offices at State, District and Taluka levels via a dedicated E1 leased line. The connectivity to end-user is based on standard leased circuits dial-up circuits or using Ethernet ports as appropriate for the individual offices. Single point Gateway with adequate capacity for Internet and provision for connecting other existing Networks have also been set up.
First tier
Secretariat Center at state capital, Gandhinagar. Various departments and hundreds of subordinate offices located at the state capital are connected to SC horizontally through SCAN (Secretariat Campus Area Network). SCAN had about 7000 Ethernet I/O’s at Gandhinagar and all these I/Os are interconnected with GSWAN for information exchange. 300 GSWAN phone connections provided to various offices at Secretariat for direct voice communication to any GSWAN node in the state.
Second Tier
Constitutes District Centers, located at district collector’s office and multiple district level other offices connected with DC horizontally. All the 24 districts, except Gandhinagar, are connected on 2 Mbit/s (E1) leased lines with the Secretariat Center. The dialup access is given to all those Government offices in district, Taluka, that are not considered for direct integration on Ethernet / leased / OFC / Wireless.
Third Tier
Constitutes Talukas Centers, located at Taluka Mamlatdar’s office and Taluka Development Office provision are kept for connecting Taluka level other offices horizontally. All 225 Talukas are connected to District Centers. (211 on 64 Kb leased lines, and rest of 14 Talukas on Ethernet).
References
External links
GSWAN Official Website
Communications in Gujarat
Government of Gujarat
E-government in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings%20Over%20Israel | Wings Over Israel (also titled Combat Over Israel in some European markets) is a 2008 combat flight simulator computer game for Microsoft Windows covering the three major Middle Eastern conflicts of the 20th century: the Six-Day War (1967), the Yom Kippur War (1973) and the Lebanon War (1982).
The game includes a wide variety of real jets and weapons from the era, which can be employed in various mission types such as Combat Air Patrol, Interception, Close Air Support, Escort, Defense Suppression, and Reconnaissance. The game is based on the Strike Fighters engine and was developed by Third Wire Productions.
Background
This series of games is designed by Tsuyoshi Kawahito (known as 'TK'), who was also involved in some of the 1990s best selling PC flight simulators, including European Air War (1998) by MicroProse and Longbow 2 (1997) by Jane's Combat Simulations.
Wings Over Israel was released in 2008 as part of the Strike Fighters series of "lite" flight simulators developed by Third Wire Productions. The term "lite" was applied because they are designed to be relatively easy to learn and play compared to other more "hardcore" flight simulators.
The game is set in the Middle East from 1967 to 1982, with the player flying IDF/AF jet fighters in three historical campaigns.
The developer improved on its existing Strike Fighters engine and thus the game was another step forward in terms of quality and gameplay.
Gameplay
Despite the "lite" tag, a fair amount of realism has been built in to the game; 1960s-style bombsights are simulated for the pre-1970s aircraft rather than modern computer-aided aiming reticules. Dive bombing and level bombing techniques have to be worked out by the player if they are to have success at completing missions.
Aircraft that come into service after 1970 have advanced Head-Up Displays that allow the player to aim bombs with more accuracy than manual dive bombing techniques. The A and B versions of the AGM-65 Maverick allow much easier ground target destruction for the late-1970s aircraft.
Israeli air-to-air missiles in the game consist of versions of the AIM-9 Sidewinder, AIM-7 Sparrow, Matra 530, Shafrir-2, and Python-3. Early missiles are simulated to be as unreliable as the real missiles were, so regardless of having a "good lock on the target" there is a good chance the missile will still miss. Later-model missiles from such as the AIM-9L version of the Sidewinder are much improved and more likely to score a hit. Dogfights are usually close-up affairs regardless of the time period; however, as the missiles get better over time, longer-range kills can be achieved.
During a mission the players will fly in a flight of aircraft in which the computer-controlled planes keep in formation as they fly to a target. This flight can be issued various commands: attack other aircraft or ground targets, fly home if they are damaged, or jettison their drop tanks. As they fly, many other computer-controlled aircraft will be up |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver%20River%20%28Stewart%20River%20tributary%29 | The Beaver River is a tributary of the Stewart River in Yukon Territory, Canada.
See also
List of rivers of Yukon
References
Canadian GeoNames Database entry "Beaver River, Yukon"
External links
Location map from Canadian GeoNames Database
Rivers of Yukon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20F.%20Ericson | Richard Ferdinand Ericson (1919–1993) was an American organizational theorist, professor emeritus of management and director of the Interdisciplinary Systems and Cybernetics Project, Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Biography
Richard Ericson received a bachelor's with Phi Beta Kappa and a master's degree at University of Chicago and received his doctorate in economics at Indiana University in 1952.
He was a full professor at Stetson University and head of the Department of Management in the School of Business from 1952 to 1956. From 1956 he was appointed associate professor of management in hospital administration at the State University of Iowa. In 1959 he was a consultant to the Ohio Department of Transportation. After that he moved to Washington DC in 1960, where he had been named professor of business administration at George Washington University, and there in 1969 he became professor of management.
Ericson was organizationally active. He was chairman of the Comparative Administration Task Force at the Academy of Management from 1966 to 1968, and president and managing director of the Society for General Systems Research in 1968 for a year. In 1969 he became director of the Interdisciplinary Systems and Cybernetics Project, Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Ericson was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Gamma Sigma, the American Economic Association, the American Management Association, the Society for General Systems Research, the American Cybernetics Association, the Academy of Management, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the World Future Society.
One of his students was an author on management and systems thinking Stephen G. Haines.
Work
Ericson's research interests were in the fields of general systems and cybernetics approaches to management theory and practice, value issues in contemporary management,. Ericson (1979) believed that "society has now thrust upon it a kind of moral imperative to focus efforts on the utilization of general systems concepts and conceptualizations by policy-forming executives, administrators, and managers in all kinds of large-scale organizations."
Visions of Cybernetic Organizations, 1972
In his 1972 paper "Visions of Cybernetic Organizations" Ericson stipulated, that in his days a great number of people associated the word "cybernetics" with "computerized information networks, closed loop systems, and robotized man-surrogates, such as artorgas and cyborgs."
The essence of the cybernetic organization, Ericson argued is that "they are self-controlling, self-maintaining, self-realizing. Indeed, cybernetics has been characterized as the science of effective organization, in just these terms." In modern organizational cybernetics, the organization is viewed as "a subsystem of a larger system(s), and as comprised itself of functionally i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictor%E2%80%93corrector%20method | In numerical analysis, predictor–corrector methods belong to a class of algorithms designed to integrate ordinary differential equationsto find an unknown function that satisfies a given differential equation. All such algorithms proceed in two steps:
The initial, "prediction" step, starts from a function fitted to the function-values and derivative-values at a preceding set of points to extrapolate ("anticipate") this function's value at a subsequent, new point.
The next, "corrector" step refines the initial approximation by using the predicted value of the function and another method to interpolate that unknown function's value at the same subsequent point.
Predictor–corrector methods for solving ODEs
When considering the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), a predictor–corrector method typically uses an explicit method for the predictor step and an implicit method for the corrector step.
Example: Euler method with the trapezoidal rule
A simple predictor–corrector method (known as Heun's method) can be constructed from the Euler method (an explicit method) and the trapezoidal rule (an implicit method).
Consider the differential equation
and denote the step size by .
First, the predictor step: starting from the current value , calculate an initial guess value via the Euler method,
Next, the corrector step: improve the initial guess using trapezoidal rule,
That value is used as the next step.
PEC mode and PECE mode
There are different variants of a predictor–corrector method, depending on how often the corrector method is applied. The Predict–Evaluate–Correct–Evaluate (PECE) mode refers to the variant in the above example:
It is also possible to evaluate the function f only once per step by using the method in Predict–Evaluate–Correct (PEC) mode:
Additionally, the corrector step can be repeated in the hope that this achieves an even better approximation to the true solution. If the corrector method is run twice, this yields the PECECE mode:
The PECEC mode has one fewer function evaluation than PECECE mode.
More generally, if the corrector is run k times, the method is in P(EC)k
or P(EC)kE mode. If the corrector method is iterated until it converges, this could be called PE(CE)∞.
See also
Backward differentiation formula
Beeman's algorithm
Heun's method
Mehrotra predictor–corrector method
Numerical continuation
Notes
References
.
External links
Predictor–corrector methods for differential equations
Algorithms
Numerical analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unordered%20associative%20containers%20%28C%2B%2B%29 | In the programming language C++, unordered associative containers are a group of class templates in the C++ Standard Library that implement hash table variants. Being templates, they can be used to store arbitrary elements, such as integers or custom classes. The following containers are defined in the current revision of the C++ standard: unordered_set, unordered_map, unordered_multiset, unordered_multimap. Each of these containers differ only on constraints placed on their elements.
The unordered associative containers are similar to the associative containers in the C++ Standard Library but have different constraints. As their name implies, the elements in the unordered associative containers are not ordered. This is due to the use of hashing to store objects. The containers can still be iterated through like a regular associative container.
History
The first widely used implementation of hash tables in the C++ language was hash_map, hash_set, hash_multimap, hash_multiset class templates of the Silicon Graphics (SGI) Standard Template Library (STL). Due to their usefulness, they were later included in several other implementations of the C++ Standard Library (e.g., the GNU Compiler Collection's (GCC) libstdc++ and the Visual C++ (MSVC) standard library).
The hash_* class templates were proposed into C++ Technical Report 1 (C++ TR1) and were accepted under names unordered_*. Later, they were incorporated into the C++11 revision of the C++ standard. An implementation is also available in the Boost C++ Libraries as <boost/unordered_map.hpp>.
Overview of functions
The containers are defined in headers named after the names of the containers, e.g., unordered_set is defined in header <unordered_set>. All containers satisfy the requirements of the Container concept, which means they have begin(), end(), size(), max_size(), empty(), and swap() methods.
Usage example
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <unordered_map>
int main()
{
std::unordered_map<std::string, int> months;
months["january"] = 31;
months["february"] = 28;
months["march"] = 31;
months["april"] = 30;
months["may"] = 31;
months["june"] = 30;
months["july"] = 31;
months["august"] = 31;
months["september"] = 30;
months["october"] = 31;
months["november"] = 30;
months["december"] = 31;
std::cout << "september -> " << months["september"] << std::endl;
std::cout << "april -> " << months["april"] << std::endl;
std::cout << "december -> " << months["december"] << std::endl;
std::cout << "february -> " << months["february"] << std::endl;
return 0;
}
Custom hash functions
To use custom objects in std::unordered_map, a custom hash function must be defined. This function takes a const reference to the custom type and returns a size_t
#include <unordered_map>
struct X{int i,j,k;};
struct hash_X{
size_t operator()(const X &x) const{
return std::hash<int>()(x.i) ^ std::hash<int>()(x.j) ^ std::ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCAT | xCAT (Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit) is open-source distributed computing management software developed by IBM, used for the deployment and administration of Linux or AIX based clusters.
In September 2023 the primary developers of xCAT said that they moved onto other roles and could no longer work on it, asking the community if anyone would like to take over, as otherwise they planned to end-of-life the project on December 1, 2023.
Toolkit
xCAT can:
Create and manage diskless clusters
Install and manage many Linux cluster machines (physical or virtual) in parallel
Set up a high-performance computing software stack, including software for batch job submission, parallel libraries, and other software that is useful on a cluster
Cloning and imaging Linux and Windows machines
xCAT has specific features designed to take advantage of IBM hardware including:
Remote Power Control
Remote POST/BIOS console
Serial over LAN functions
Hardware alerts and vitals provided via SNMP and email
Inventory and hardware management
xCAT achieved recognition in June 2008 for having been used with the IBM Roadrunner, which set a computing speed record at that time.
xCAT is the default systems management tool of the IBM Intelligent Cluster solution.
xCAT is used by Lenovo.
References
External links
xCAT Home Page
xCAT's documentation on ReadTheDocs
(old releases)
xCAT on Github
Cluster computing
Free software programmed in Perl
Software using the Eclipse license
IBM software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Data%20Format | Simple Data Format (SDF) is a platform-independent, precision-preserving binary data I/O format capable of handling large multi-dimensional arrays. It was written in 2007 by George H. Fisher, a researcher at the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley, and released under the GNU General Public License.
See also
FITS
HDF5
CSV
List of file formats
NetCDF
External links
The Simple Data Format Manifesto
A .pdf Introduction to SDF
SDF packages, each release as a tarball
Computer file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOFE | KOFE (1240 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to St. Maries, Idaho, United States, the station is currently owned by Theresa Plank, and features programming from ABC Radio.
References
External links
OFE
Classic hits radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1970
1970 establishments in Idaho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20pathology | Digital pathology is a sub-field of pathology that focuses on data management based on information generated from digitized specimen slides. Through the use of computer-based technology, digital pathology utilizes virtual microscopy. Glass slides are converted into digital slides that can be viewed, managed, shared and analyzed on a computer monitor. With the practice of Whole-Slide Imaging (WSI), which is another name for virtual microscopy, the field of digital pathology is growing and has applications in diagnostic medicine, with the goal of achieving efficient and cheaper diagnoses, prognosis, and prediction of diseases due to the success in machine learning and artificial intelligence in healthcare.
History
The roots of digital pathology go back to the 1960s, when first telepathology experiments took place. Later in the 1990s the principle of virtual microscopy appeared in several life science research areas. At the turn of the century the scientific community more and more agreed on the term ”digital pathology” to denote digitization efforts in pathology. However in 2000 the technical requirements (scanner, storage, network) were still a limited factor for a broad dissemination of digital pathology concepts. Over the last 5 years this changed as new powerful and affordable scanner technology as well as mass / cloud storage technologies appeared on the market. The field of Radiology has undergone the digital transformation almost 15 years ago, not because radiology is more advanced, but there are fundamental differences between digital images in radiology and digital pathology: The image source in radiology is the (alive) patient, and today in most cases the image is even primarily captured in digital format. In pathology the scanning is done from preserved and processed specimens, for retrospective studies even from slides stored in a biobank. Besides this difference in pre-analytics and metadata content, the required storage in digital pathology is two to three orders of magnitude higher than in radiology. However, the advantages anticipated through digital pathology are similar to those in radiology:
Capability to transmit digital slides over distances quickly, which enables telepathology scenarios.
Capability to access past specimen from the same patients and/or similar cases for comparison and review, with much less effort than retrieving slides from the archive shelfs.
Capability to compare different areas of multiple slides simultaneously (slide by slide mode) with the help of a virtual microscope.
Capability to annotate areas directly in the slide and share this for teaching and research.
Digital pathology is today widely used for educational purposes in telepathology and teleconsultation as well as in research projects. Digital pathology allows to share and annotate slides in a much easier way and to download annotated lecture sets generates new opportunities for e-learning and knowledge sharing in pathology. Digital pathol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN%20Classic | ESPN Classic was an American multinational pay television network owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which controlled an 80% stake) and Hearst Communications (which had 20%).
The channel was originally launched as the Classic Sports Network in 1995, and was acquired by ESPN in 1997. The network originally focused on carrying classic sporting events, other programs and documentaries, and live specials (such as the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony) focusing on sports history.
By the 2010s, due to the increasing number of sport-, league-, and college conference-specific networks that had assumed rights to the archive and live content that was historically aired by ESPN Classic, a larger amount of programming was devoted to archive content whose rights were owned by ESPN outright, reruns of recent events from ESPN's networks, as well as ESPN original documentaries, and overflow coverage of events from other ESPN networks.
In 2014, ESPN began to phase out ESPN Classic as a linear service, and transition it to a branded video on-demand offering. A number of major providers, such as AT&T, Altice USA, Comcast, and Verizon Fios dropped ESPN Classic in the years that followed. Due to this change in format, ESPNews and ESPN's digital platforms have supplanted its role as an overflow service. In 2021, media reports indicated that the channel would close at the end of the year, and it did so in the late hours of December 31, 2021.
History
The channel was launched on May 6, 1995, as the Classic Sports Network. The Post-Newsweek Cable (now Sparklight) system in Ada, Oklahoma, with 6,500 subscribers at the time of CSN's launch, was the first cable provider to carry the network. CSN was founded by Brian Bedol and Steve Greenberg (son of Hank Greenberg), both of whom went on to launch College Sports Television (now CBS Sports Network)), with partial funding from Allen & Company. In 1997, ESPN, Inc. purchased Classic Sports Network for $175 million, and relaunched it as ESPN Classic the following year. Throughout its history, dating back to its existence as Classic Sports Network, the channel's logo has incorporated a stylized silhouette intending to resemble a boxer.
In February 2008, The Wall Street Journal reported that NFL Network chief executive Steve Bornstein had been in "high-level discussions" with NFL and Disney executives including CEO Robert Iger and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. An analyst quoted in the report suggested a merger of NFL Network with ESPN Classic due to the latter's wide distribution on expanded basic cable tiers.
On August 4, 2009, Dish Network filed a federal lawsuit against ESPN for $1 million, alleging that the network breached its contract by not extending the same contractual term of carriage that ESPN provided to Comcast and DirecTV for ESPNU and ESPN Classic. The lawsuit claimed that ESPN violated the "Most Favored Nations" clause. The following day, representatives for ESPN annou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20data%20room | A virtual data room (sometimes called a VDR or Deal Room) is an online repository of information that is used for the storing and distribution of documents. In many cases, a virtual data room is used to facilitate the due diligence process during an M&A transaction, loan syndication, or private equity and venture capital transactions. This due diligence process has traditionally used a physical data room to accomplish the disclosure of documents. For reasons of cost, efficiency and security, virtual data rooms have widely replaced the more traditional physical data room.
A virtual data room is an extranet to which the bidders and their advisers are given access via the internet. An extranet is essentially a website with limited controlled access, using a secure log-on supplied by the vendor, which can be disabled at any time, by the vendor, if a bidder withdraws. Much of the information released is confidential and restrictions are applied to the viewer's ability to release this to third parties (by means of forwarding, copying or printing). This can be effectively applied to protect the data using digital rights management.
The virtual data room provides access to secure documents for authorized users through a dedicated web site, or through secure agent applications.
In the process of mergers and acquisitions the data room is set up as part of the central repository of data relating to companies or divisions being acquired or sold. The data room enables the interested parties to view information relating to the business in a controlled environment where confidentiality can be preserved. Conventionally this was achieved by establishing a supervised, physical data room in secure premises with controlled access. In most cases, with a physical data room, only one bidder team can access the room at a time. A virtual data room is designed to have the same advantages as a conventional data room (controlling access, viewing, copying and printing, etc.) with fewer disadvantages. Due to their increased efficiency, many businesses and industries have moved to using virtual data rooms instead of physical data rooms. In 2006, a spokesperson for a company which sets up virtual deal rooms was reported claiming that the process reduced the bidding process by about thirty days compared to physical data rooms.
A virtual data room is a key prerequisite for automation of tasks in the due diligence process.
Application
Any business dealing with private data can apply VDRs when secure transaction processing is required. This includes financial institutions that need to negotiate confidential customer information without involving third parties. VDRs have traditionally been used for IPOs and real estate asset management. Technology companies may use them to exchange and review code or confidential data needed for operations. The same is true for clients, who entrust their valuable code only to the most qualified people in the organisation. The code is not |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytron%20%28software%20company%29 | Polytron Corp. was a software company founded in 1982 to create a line of instrumentation products for the IBM Personal Computer. It was the creator of the Polytron Version Control System (PVCS). The company was acquired by Sage Software of Rockville, Maryland in 1989, and is now part of Serena Software.
Background
The original company goal was to create a line of instrumentation products for, or based on, the then–recently introduced IBM personal computer. The company was founded in 1982 by Richard Kinnaird, Don Kinzer, Charlie Perkins, and Doug Root. With the exception of Root, all of them had worked at Tektronix in various hardware and/or software engineering positions. The company's headquarters was established in Elkhart, Indiana.
Product development
The first product developed was a GPIB controller (computing) plug-in board for the IBM PC. The founders eventually came up with the idea of creating one or more software development tools for the PC which they could sell to provide working capital. The first such product was PolyLibrarian, an object module library utility, which was introduced in late 1982 and written by Kinzer. At the time, there were few, if any, object module librarians available to PC programmers. In 1983, Polytron introduced PolyMake, an MS-DOS version of the well known Unix make utility, initially written by Perkins. The PolyMake product was followed in 1985 by the Polytron Version Control System (PVCS) (also written by Kinzer), that was loosely based on the RCS change control system authored by Walt Tichy while at Purdue University.
Refocus
By the time that PVCS was released, Perkins had left the company. The three remaining founders realized that the business they had developed creating and selling software development tools had more profit potential than the original product idea. Consequently, no more effort was applied to pursuing the original product development plan.
Acquired
In 1989, the company was acquired by Sage Software of Rockville, Maryland (unrelated to Sage Software of the UK). In 1991, Sage Software merged with Index Technology to become Intersolv Inc. In 1998, Intersolv merged with Micro Focus International, and the new company was renamed Merant, PLC. In 2004, Serena Software acquired a portion of Merant (in part to acquire the ownership rights for PVCS). Serena was itself acquired in 2006, becoming a portfolio company of Silver Lake Partners, however Micro Focus reacquired Serena Software in 2016.
References and Notes
External links
Company website
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBND | JBND is a pure Java library made to ease the creation of programs that present data stored in persistent sources to end users. It was created at first to streamline making Java Client applications for the WebObjects platform (by Apple Inc.), for which the GUI is written in Swing. However, JBND's architecture allows the expansion of the library to include other UI systems, as well as other persistence stores. Currently, JBND comes with full support for connecting Enterprise Objects Frameworks (the data layer of WebObjects) and Swing user interfaces.
See also
Java
GUI
Swing
WebObjects
External links
JBND homepage
The Java platform homepage
Apple WebObjects developer page
Web frameworks
Java enterprise platform
Apple Inc. software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20SQL%20Developer | Oracle SQL Developer is an Integrated development environment (IDE) for working with SQL in Oracle databases. Oracle Corporation provides this product free; it uses the Java Development Kit.
Features
Oracle SQL Developer supports Oracle products. In the past a variety of third-party plugins was supported which users were able to deploy to connect to non-Oracle databases. Oracle SQL Developer worked with IBM Db2, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase Adaptive Server, Amazon Redshift and Teradata databases.
Oracle SQL Developer supports automatic tabs, code insight, bracket matching and syntax coloring for PL/SQL.
Future versions of Oracle SQL Developer will use Visual Studio Code.
Components
Oracle SQL Developer product components include the OWA (Oracle Web Agent or MOD_PLSQL), an extension module for the Apache web server, and helps in setting up dynamic web-pages from PL/SQL within Oracle SQL Developer.
Extensions
In addition to the extensions provided by Oracle, third parties have written extensions to add new features to SQL Developer and to integrate with other products:
Integration with other Oracle products
SQL Developer Data Modeler operates with and models metadata. Prior to SQL Developer version 3, it constituted a separate (but integrated) free counterpart of SQL Developer. As of SQL Developer version 3 modeling became an integrated part of the overall tool. "Data Modeler" can produce (among other outputs) files.
History
See also
JDeveloper
Oracle Developer Suite
References
Bibliography
External links
Database administration tools
SQL clients
PL/SQL editors
Oracle software
Oracle database tools
Microsoft database software
Sybase
2006 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallographic%20database | A crystallographic database is a database specifically designed to store information about the structure of molecules and crystals. Crystals are solids having, in all three dimensions of space, a regularly repeating arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules. They are characterized by symmetry, morphology, and directionally dependent physical properties. A crystal structure describes the arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules in a crystal. (Molecules need to crystallize into solids so that their regularly repeating arrangements can be taken advantage of in X-ray, neutron, and electron diffraction based crystallography.)
Crystal structures of crystalline material are typically determined from X-ray or neutron single-crystal diffraction data and stored in crystal structure databases. They are routinely identified by comparing reflection intensities and lattice spacings from X-ray powder diffraction data with entries in powder-diffraction fingerprinting databases.
Crystal structures of nanometer sized crystalline samples can be determined via structure factor amplitude information from single-crystal electron diffraction data or structure factor amplitude and phase angle information from Fourier transforms of HRTEM images of crystallites. They are stored in crystal structure databases specializing in nanocrystals and can be identified by comparing zone axis subsets in lattice-fringe fingerprint plots with entries in a lattice-fringe fingerprinting database.
Crystallographic databases differ in access and usage rights and offer varying degrees of search and analysis capacity. Many provide structure visualization capabilities. They can be browser based or installed locally. Newer versions are built on the relational database model and support the Crystallographic Information File (CIF) as a universal data exchange format.
Overview
Crystallographic data are primarily extracted from published scientific articles and supplementary material. Newer versions of crystallographic databases are built on the relational database model, which enables efficient cross-referencing of tables. Cross-referencing serves to derive additional data or enhance the search capacity of the database.
Data exchange among crystallographic databases, structure visualization software, and structure refinement programs has been facilitated by the emergence of the Crystallographic Information File (CIF) format. The CIF format is the standard file format for the exchange and archiving of crystallographic data.
It was adopted by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), who also provides full specifications of the format. It is supported by all major crystallographic databases.
The increasing automation of the crystal structure determination process has resulted in ever higher publishing rates of new crystal structures and, consequentially, new publishing models. Minimalistic articles contain only crystal structure tables, structure images, and, possibly, abstract-like |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline%20forwarding | Pipeline forwarding (PF) applies to packet forwarding in computer networks the basic concept of pipelining, which has been widely and successfully used in computing — specifically, in the architecture of all major central processing units (CPUs) — and manufacturing — specifically in assembly lines of various industries starting from automotive to many others. Pipelining is known to be optimal independent of the specific instantiation. In particular, PF is optimal from various points of view:
High efficiency in utilization of network resources, which enables accommodating a larger amount of traffic on the network, thus lowering operation cost and being the foundation for accommodating the exponential growth of modern networks.
Low implementation complexity, which enables the realization of larger and more powerful networking systems at low cost, thus offering further support to network growth.
High scalability, which is an immediate consequence of the above two features.
Deterministic and predictable operation with minimum delay and no packet loss even under full load condition, which is key in supporting the demanding requirements of the new and valuable services that are being deployed, or envisioned to be deployed, on modern networks, such as telephony, videoconferencing, virtual presence, video on demand, distributed gaming.
Various aspects of the technology are covered by several patents issued by both the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office.
Operating principles
As in other pipelining implementations, a common time reference (CTR) is needed to perform pipeline forwarding. In the context of global networks the CTR can be effectively realized by using UTC (coordinated universal time) that is globally available via GPS (global positioning system) or Galileo in the near future. For example, the UTC second is divided into fixed duration time frames, which are grouped into time cycles so that in each UTC second there is a predefined integer number of time cycles. Alternatively, or complementary, the CTR can be obtained through the network by means of synchronization protocols such as IEEE 1588.
Packets are forwarded from node to node according to predefined schedules, as shown in the figure below, i.e., each node forwards packets of a certain flow during predefined time frames. The time cycles define the periodic re-occurrence of the various predefined schedules. The periodic scheduling within each node results in a periodic packet forwarding across the network, which is referred to as pipeline forwarding for the ordered, step-by-step fashion with which packets travel toward their destination.
Through a resource reservation procedure transmission capacity is booked for a flow on each link it traverses during the time frame (or time frames) predefined for its forwarding, thus setting up a synchronous virtual pipe (SVP). The capacity during each time frame can be is partially or totally reserved to one |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20security%20software | Computer security software or cybersecurity software is any computer program designed to influence information security. This is often taken in the context of defending computer systems or data, yet can incorporate programs designed specifically for subverting computer systems due to their significant overlap, and the adage that the best defense is a good offense.
The defense of computers against intrusion and unauthorized use of resources is called computer security. Similarly, the defense of computer networks is called network security.
The subversion of computers or their unauthorized use is referred to using the terms cyberwarfare, cybercrime, or security hacking (later shortened to hacking for further references in this article due to issues with hacker, hacker culture and differences in white/grey/black 'hat' color identification).
Types
Below, various software implementations of Cybersecurity patterns and groups outlining ways a host system attempts to secure itself and its assets from malicious interactions, this includes tools to deter both passive and active security threats. Although both security and usability are desired, today it is widely considered in computer security software that with higher security comes decreased usability, and with higher usability comes decreased security.
Prevent access
The primary purpose of these types of systems is to restrict and often to completely prevent access to computers or data except to a very limited set of users. The theory is often that if a key, credential, or token is unavailable then access should be impossible. This often involves taking valuable information and then either reducing it to apparent noise or hiding it within another source of information in such a way that it is unrecoverable.
Cryptography and Encryption software
Steganography and Steganography tools
A critical tool used in developing software that prevents malicious access is Threat Modeling. Threat modeling is the process of creating and applying mock situations where an attacker could be trying to maliciously access data in cyberspace. By doing this, various profiles of potential attackers are created, including their intentions, and a catalog of potential vulnerabilities are created for the respective organization to fix before a real threat arises. Threat modeling covers a wide aspect of cyberspace, including devices, applications, systems, networks, or enterprises. Cyber threat modeling can inform organizations with their efforts pertaining to cybersecurity in the following ways:
Risk Management
Profiling of current cybersecurity applications
Considerations for future security implementations
Regulate access
The purpose of these types of systems is usually to restrict access to computers or data while still allowing interaction. Often this involves monitoring or checking credential, separating systems from access and view based on importance, and quarantining or isolating perceived dangers. A physical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dantzig%E2%80%93Wolfe%20decomposition | Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition is an algorithm for solving linear programming problems with special structure. It was originally developed by George Dantzig and Philip Wolfe and initially published in 1960. Many texts on linear programming have sections dedicated to discussing this decomposition algorithm.
Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition relies on delayed column generation for improving the tractability of large-scale linear programs. For most linear programs solved via the revised simplex algorithm, at each step, most columns (variables) are not in the basis. In such a scheme, a master problem containing at least the currently active columns (the basis) uses a subproblem or subproblems to generate columns for entry into the basis such that their inclusion improves the objective function.
Required form
In order to use Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition, the constraint matrix of the linear program must have a specific form. A set of constraints must be identified as "connecting", "coupling", or "complicating" constraints wherein many of the variables contained in the constraints have non-zero coefficients. The remaining constraints need to be grouped into independent submatrices such that if a variable has a non-zero coefficient within one submatrix, it will not have a non-zero coefficient in another submatrix. This description is visualized below:
The D matrix represents the coupling constraints and each Fi represents the independent submatrices. Note that it is possible to run the algorithm when there is only one F submatrix.
Problem reformulation
After identifying the required form, the original problem is reformulated into a master program and n subprograms. This reformulation relies on the fact that every point of a non-empty, bounded convex polyhedron can be represented as a convex combination of its extreme points.
Each column in the new master program represents a solution to one of the subproblems. The master program enforces that the coupling constraints are satisfied given the set of subproblem solutions that are currently available. The master program then requests additional solutions from the subproblem such that the overall objective to the original linear program is improved.
The algorithm
While there are several variations regarding implementation, the Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition algorithm can be briefly described as follows:
Starting with a feasible solution to the reduced master program, formulate new objective functions for each subproblem such that the subproblems will offer solutions that improve the current objective of the master program.
Subproblems are re-solved given their new objective functions. An optimal value for each subproblem is offered to the master program.
The master program incorporates one or all of the new columns generated by the solutions to the subproblems based on those columns' respective ability to improve the original problem's objective.
Master program performs x iterations of the sim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena%20Project | The Magdalena Project is an international network of women in contemporary theatre and performance. It aims to increase awareness of women's contributions to theatre and to create the artistic and economic structures and support networks to enable women to work.
Background
The idea for a network of women theatre practitioners was born in a café in Trevignano, Italy in September 1983, during a festival of alternative theatre: a discussion on the predominance of male directors and writers at the festival led Jill Greenhalgh to ask what such a festival might be like if the primary creative voices were those of women. Inspired by this, Greenhalgh organised MAGDALENA '86 - The First International Festival of Women in Contemporary Theatre, in Cardiff, Wales in August 1986 and at this event the Magdalena Project was founded.
From then until 1999, The Magdalena Project operated from an administrative base in Cardiff, with a board of advisors and Greenhalgh as its artistic director. During this period the Magdalena Project produced performances, organised workshops and festival gatherings in Europe and published a regular newsletter.
In 1988, women theatre practitioners in Latin America became involved, organising meetings in Peru, Colombia and Uruguay, and extending the network to Chile and Argentina with further meetings in 1993. This was to be the beginning of growing interest in the Project from around the world, with affiliate groups forming and hosting festivals and events in many countries.
In 1999, the Welsh Arts Council ceased its infrastructure funding of the Magdalena Project, necessitating the closure of the Cardiff office and the cessation of most cost-bearing activities. However, by this time the network was strongly established at an international level, and was about to launch its web site and email list. The move into online communications ensured the continuation of the network despite the loss of funding.
International Festivals and Affiliate Groups
The international membership of the Magdalena Project network is made up of individuals (of all genders and sex [non]identifications), theatre companies and organisations; in some locations affiliate Magdalena groups have been formally established. These groups are autonomous and all of their activities are organised and funded locally. Since 1986 festivals have been held throughout Europe, including in Wales, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and Belgium. The Transit Festival of Women's Performance is held approximately every three years at Odin Teatret, Denmark, organised by Julia Varley, one of the founders of the Magdalena Project.
The Latin American network has been operating since 1988, with festivals taking place in Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. In Argentina, the network has operated under the name Magdalena 2nd Generacion since 1999.
In 1997 Magdalena Aotearoa was officially established in New Zealand and an international |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%E2%80%932000%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1999–2000 daytime network television schedule for the six major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States in operation during that television season covers the weekday daytime hours from September 1999 to August 2000. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 1998–99 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, which the service rebranded as PBS Kids on September 6 – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are stations affiliated with Pax TV; although Pax carried a limited schedule of first-run programs, its schedule otherwise was composed mainly of syndicated reruns.
Legend
Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold.
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated or other contracted station in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday-Friday
Notes:
ABC, NBC and CBS offer their early morning newscasts via a looping feed (usually running as late as 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to accommodate local scheduling in the westernmost contiguous time zones or for use a filler programming for stations that do not offer a local morning newscast; some stations without a morning newscast may air syndicated or time-lease programs instead of the full newscast loop.
NBC allowed owned-and-operated and affiliated stations the preference of airing Passions and Days of Our Lives in reverse order from the network's recommended scheduling, a structure held over from when Another World occupied the 2:00 p.m. ET timeslot prior to its discontinuance in July 1999.
Sunset Beach aired its final episode on December 31, 1999; NBC returned the noon timeslot to its affiliates on January 3, 2000. Some NBC affiliates did not air Sunset Beach in the noon timeslot, opting to air local news and/or syndicated programming instead.
UPN debuted a weekly Disney cartoon block called Disney's One Too. It debuted on Monday, September 6th, 1999 (just a day after UPN Kids aired its final broadcast). UPN airs Disney animated series from Disney's One Satu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2000–01 daytime network television schedule for the six major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States in operation during that television season covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2000 to August 2001. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 1999–2000 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are stations affiliated with Pax TV, as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns although it also carried a limited schedule of first-run programs.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated or other contracted station in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday-Friday
Notes:
NBC allowed owned-and-operated and affiliated stations the preference of airing Passions and Days of Our Lives in reverse order from the network's recommended scheduling, a structure held over from when Another World occupied the 2:00 p.m. ET timeslot prior to its discontinuance in July 1999.
The WB returned its morning children's programming block to its affiliates on September 3. A few of its affiliates deferred the block to the afternoon in order to air morning newscasts or other syndicated programs.
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
All My Children
Doug (reruns)
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Mickey Mouse Works
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (reruns)
One Life to Live
Pepper Ann
Port Charles
Recess
Sabrina: The Animated Series
This Week with Sam & Cokie
The View
The Weekenders
New series:
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
House of Mouse
Lloyd in Space
Teacher's Pet
Not returning from 1999-2000:
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
Schoolhouse Rock!
Squigglevision
CBS
Returning series:
As the World Turns
The Bold and the Beautiful
The Early Show
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
CBS News Sunday Morning
Face the Nation
Franklin
Guiding Li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20program | A research program (British English: research programme) is a professional network of scientists conducting basic research. The term was used by philosopher of science Imre Lakatos to blend and revise the normative model of science offered by Karl Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery (with its idea of falsifiability) and the descriptive model of science offered by Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (with its ideas of normal science and paradigm shifts). Lakatos found falsificationism impractical and often not practiced, and found normal science—where a paradigm of science, mimicking an exemplar, extinguishes differing perspectives—more monopolistic than actual.
Lakatos found that many research programs coexisted. Each had a hard core of theories immune to revision, surrounded by a protective belt of malleable theories. A research programme vies against others to be most progressive. Extending the research program's theories into new domains is theoretical progress, and experimentally corroborating such is empirical progress, always refusing falsification of the research program's hard core. A research program might degenerate—lose progressiveness—but later return to progressiveness.
References
Examples
United States Global Change Research Program
World Climate Research Programme
program
Concepts in the philosophy of science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%20Fv1986%2084 | Runic inscription U Fv1986;84 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age memorial that is located at Bo gård on the island of Lidingö in Uppland, Sweden.
Description
This runestone was discovered in 1984 and is carved on a boulder located on the island of Lidingö. The inscription, which is about 2 meters high by 1.4 meters wide, consists of runic text carved on an intertwined serpent. There is a Christian cross near the top of the design. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr3 - Pr4, which is also known as the Urnes style. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns. The animal heads are typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks.
The runic text begins at the bottom of the inscription and reads clockwise along the serpent. The text states that the runemaster Åsmund carved the runes in memory of his grandfather Steinn. Åsmund is known to have been active in the Uppland area in the first half of the 11th century. Other surviving runestones that are listed in Rundata as being signed by Åsmund include U 301 in Skånela, the now-lost U 346 in Frösunda, U 356 in Ängby, the now-lost U 368 in Helgåby, U 824 in Holm, U 847 in Västeråker, U 859 in Måsta, U 871 in Ölsta, U 884 in Ingla, U 932 at Uppsala Cathedral, U 956 in Vedyxa, U 969 in Bolsta, the now-lost U 986 in Kungsgården, U 998 in Skällerö, U 1142 in Åbyggeby, U 1144 in Tierp, U 1149 in Fleräng, U Fv1988;241 in Rosersberg, Gs 11 in Järvsta, Gs 12 in Lund, and Gs 13 in Söderby. The runic text also states that Steinn's sons were named Sibbi, Geirbjǫrn, and Ulfr, but which of these was the father of Åsmund is unknown.
The inscription is somewhat unusual in that it is a memorial to a grandfather. In all of Scandinavia, only nine runestones mention grandparents and the other eight runestones which do are in the area around Lake Mälaren.
The Rundata designation for this Uppland inscription, U Fv1986;84, refers to the year and page number of the issue of Fornvännen in which it was first described.
Transliteration
A transliteration of the inscription is:
asmu-tr ... ris-- * runaʀ * eftiʀ × stein * faþurs*faþur * sin * auk * faþur * siba * ok × geiʀbiarnaʀ × aok ... ulfs * eaʀ * merki * mikit * at * man * koþan ×
References
See also
Runic alphabet
Uppland Runic Inscription Fv1986;84 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timatic | Timatic (Travel Information Manual Automatic) is a database containing documentation requirements for passengers traveling internationally via air, e.g. passport and visa requirements. Timatic, an abbreviation for Travel Information Manual Automatic, is used by airlines and their representatives (check-in agents, managers, etc.), airport staff, and travel agents to determine whether a passenger can be carried, as well as by airlines and travel agents to provide this information to travellers at the time of booking. This is critical for airlines due to the fines levied by immigration authorities every time a passenger is carried who does not have the correct travel documentation, as well as the airline's costs to return the incorrectly-boarded passenger to the original airport from which the passenger departed.
The information contained in Timatic includes:
Passport requirements and recommendations
Visa requirements and recommendations
Health requirements and recommendations
Airport tax to be paid by the traveller at either departure or arrival airport
Customs regulations relating to import/export of goods and small pets by a passenger
Currency regulations relating to import and export by a passenger
Timatic was first established in 1963 and is managed by the Montreal-based International Air Transport Association (IATA). Over 500 million travellers have their documentation requirements checked against the Timatic database every year.
It is available in a number of forms, including:
Timatic – available via the SITA network
TIM – hard-copy book
TimaticWeb – web-based
Timatic XML
IATA Travel Centre, Consumer web portal
IATA has announced the Travel Pass application as an extension of Timatic that can manage COVID-19 test results, proof of vaccination and national entry rules.
References
External links
Online Timatic Database
IATA Travel Centre, Timatic Consumer Portal
article on TIM/Timatic (archived at Wayback Machine)
International Air Transport Association
International travel documents
Travel technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary%20Science%20Archive | The Planetary Science Archive is the central repository for all scientific and engineering data returned by the European Space Agency's Solar System missions: such as Giotto, Huygens, Mars Express, Rosetta, SMART-1, and Venus Express, as well as several ground-based cometary observations. It uses NASA's Planetary Data System standards as a baseline for the formatting and structure of all data contained within the archive. The data sets are peer reviewed and undergo an additional internal validation procedure.
All data on the Planetary Science Archive are free to download and use. The principal investigator(s) as well as the European Space Agency Planetary Science Archive have to be acknowledged when making a publication using the downloaded data.
References
External links
Science and technology in Europe
European Space Agency |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugon | Sugon (), officially Dawning Information Industry Company Limited, is a supercomputer manufacturer based in the People's Republic of China. The company is a spin-off from research done at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and still has close links to it.
History
The company is a development of work done at the Institute of Computer Science, CAS. Under the Chinese government's 863 Program, for the research and development of high technology products, the group launched their first supercomputer (Dawning No. 1) in 1993. In 1996 the group launched the Dawning Company to allow the transfer of research computers into the market.
The company was tasked with developing further supercomputers under the 863 program, which led to the Dawning 5000A and 6000 computers.
The company was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2014. CAS still retains stock in the company.
U.S. sanctions
According to the United States Department of Defense the company has links to the People's Liberation Army and, in 2019, Sugon was added to the Bureau of Industry and Security's Entity List due to U.S. national security concerns. In November 2020, the then President of the United States Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting any American company or individual from owning shares in companies that the United States Department of Defense has listed as having links to the People's Liberation Army, which included Sugon.
In October 2022, the United States Department of Defense added Sugon to a list of "Chinese military companies" operating in the U.S.
Supercomputers
Dawning was the company's initial name; it was later changed to Sugon. The computers are originally known by their Dawning moniker, but can also use Sugon names in the literature. The model series is as below.
Dawning No.1
The first supercomputer created was Dawning No.1 (Shuguang Yihao, 曙光一号), which received state certification in October 1993. This supercomputer achieved 640 million FLOPS, and utilizes Motorola 88100 CPUs (4 total) and 88200 CPUs (8 total), and over 20 were built. The operating system is UNIX V.
Dawning 1000
The Dawning 1000 was Sugon's second generation supercomputer, and was originally named Dawning No.2 (Shuguang Erhao, 曙光二号). Dawning 1000 was released in 1995, and received state certification on 11 May 1995. The family of supercomputers could achieve 2.5 GFLOPS. This series of the Dawning family consists of the Dawning 1000A and 1000L.
Dawning 2000
The Dawning 2000 was initially released in 1996, and could achieve a peak performance of 4 GFLOPS. A further variant, the Dawning 2000-I, was released in 1998 with a peak performance of 20 GFLOPS. The final model in the series, the Dawning 2000-II, was released in 1999 with a peak performance of 111.7 GFLOPS.
The Dawning 2000 passed state certification on 28 January 2000. The supercomputer model was designed as a cluster to achieve over 100 GLOPS peak performance. The number of CPUs used was greatly increased to 164 in compar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMIA%20%28AM%29 | WMIA (1070 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Arecibo, Puerto Rico. The station is owned by Wifredo G. Blanco Pi and it is part of the Borinquen Radio News Network. It airs a news/talk format and features programming from CNN Radio. The station is shared with translator station W227DY 93.3 FM also in Arecibo.
The station was assigned the WMIA call letters by the Federal Communications Commission.
Ownership
In 1957, WMIA began operations on 1070 kHz. The station was owned and operated by Abacoa Radio Corporation until April 2017.
On March 2, 2017, Wifredo G. Blanco Pi reached an agreement to purchase WMIA from Abacoa Radio Corp. The sale was completed on April 12, 2017.
This becomes the fifth station of the WAPA Radio News Network.
The Borinquen Radio Network now consists of seven AM and seven FM radio stations across the island, WBQN 680 / W237FF 95.3 in San Juan, WMIA 1070 / W227DY 93.3 in Arecibo, WAPA 1260 / W268DJ 101.5 in Ponce, WTIL 1300 / W265EC 100.9 in Mayaguez, WXRF 1590 / W280FS 103.9 in Guayama, WVOZ 1580 / W286DL 105.1 in Aguadilla and WMTI 1160 / W287DR 105.3 in Barceloneta-Manati.
Translator stations
References
External links
FCC History Cards for WMIA
MIA (AM)
Radio stations established in 1957
1957 establishments in Puerto Rico
MIA (AM) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP | JSONP, or JSON-P (JSON with Padding), is a historical JavaScript technique for requesting data by loading a element, which is an element intended to load ordinary JavaScript. It was proposed by Bob Ippolito in 2005. JSONP enables sharing of data bypassing same-origin policy, which disallows running JavaScript code to read media DOM elements or XMLHttpRequest data fetched from outside the page's originating site. The originating site is indicated by a combination of URI scheme, hostname, and port number.
JSONP is vulnerable to the data source replacing the innocuous function call with malicious code, which is why it has been superseded by cross-origin resource sharing (available since 2009) in modern applications.
Functionality
The HTML <script> element is generally allowed to execute JavaScript code retrieved from foreign origins. Services replying with pure JSON data, however, were not able to share data from foreign origins before the adoption of CORS (Cross-origin resource sharing).
For example, a request to a foreign service http://server.example.com/Users/1234 may return a record for a person named Clem in the JSON format. JSON syntax is consistent with JavaScript's object syntax.
{
"Name": "Clem",
"Id": 1234,
"Rank": 7
}
Without support for CORS, an attempt to use the data across domains results in a JavaScript error.
<script type="application/javascript"
src="http://server.example.com/Users/1234">
</script>
The browser will download the <script> file, evaluate its contents, misinterpret the raw JSON data as a block, and throw a syntax error. Even if the data were interpreted as a JavaScript object literal, it could not be accessed by JavaScript running in the browser, since without a variable assignment, object literals are inaccessible.
In the JSONP usage pattern, the URL request pointed to by the src attribute in the <script> element returns JSON data, with JavaScript code (usually a function call) wrapped around it. This "wrapped payload" is then interpreted by the browser. In this way, a function that is already defined in the JavaScript environment can manipulate the JSON data. A typical JSONP request and response are shown below.
The function call to parseResponse() is the "P" of JSONP—the "padding" or "prefix" around the pure JSON. For JSONP to work, a server must reply with a response that includes the JSONP function. JSONP does not work with JSON-formatted results. The JSONP function invocation that gets sent back, and the payload that the function receives, must be agreed upon by the client and server. By convention, the server providing the JSON data offers the requesting website to name the JSONP function, typically using the name jsonp or callback as the named query-string parameter, in its request to the server: <script src="http://server.example.com/Users/1234?callback=parseResponse"></script>.
In this example, the received payload would be:
parseResponse({"Name": "Clem", "Id": 1234, "Ran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2001–02 daytime network television schedule for the six major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States in operation during that television season covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2001 to August 2002. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2000–01 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are stations affiliated with Pax TV, as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns although it also carried some first-run programs.
The September 11 attacks hindered the ability to start airing daytime programming in a timely manner.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated or other contracted station in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday-Friday
Notes
† Fox returned its daytime programming hours back to its affiliates when Fox Kids ended its weekday block in December 2001. Many Fox affiliates preempted kids programming in daytime or deferred it to other television stations, opting to air syndicated programs or local news instead.
On September 11, 2001, all six major networks suspended their daytime programing due to live coverage of the September 11 attacks. Daytime programming resumed for Fox and The WB on September 12, while the Big Three networks resumed their regular daytime programs during the week of September 17. UPN, which did not carry any daytime programming at the time, resumed normal programming on September 13.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-large-scale%20systems | Ultra-large-scale system (ULSS) is a term used in fields including Computer Science, Software Engineering and Systems Engineering to refer to software intensive systems with unprecedented amounts of hardware, lines of source code, numbers of users, and volumes of data. The scale of these systems gives rise to many problems: they will be developed and used by many stakeholders across multiple organizations, often with conflicting purposes and needs; they will be constructed from heterogeneous parts with complex dependencies and emergent properties; they will be continuously evolving; and software, hardware and human failures will be the norm, not the exception. The term 'ultra-large-scale system' was introduced by Northrop and others to describe challenges facing the United States Department of Defense. The term has subsequently been used to discuss challenges in many areas, including the computerization of financial markets. The term "ultra-large-scale system" (ULSS) is sometimes used interchangeably with the term "large-scale complex IT system" (LSCITS). These two terms were introduced at similar times to describe similar problems, the former being coined in the United States and the latter in the United Kingdom.
Background
The term ultra-large-scale system was introduced in a 2006 report from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University authored by Linda Northrop and colleagues. The report explained that software intensive systems are reaching unprecedented scales (by measures including lines of code; numbers of users and stakeholders; purposes the system is put to; amounts of data stored, accessed, manipulated, and refined; numbers of connections and interdependencies among components; and numbers of hardware elements). When systems become ultra-large-scale, traditional approaches to engineering and management will no longer be adequate. The report argues that the problem is no longer of engineering systems or system of systems, but of engineering "socio-technical ecosystems".
In 2013, Linda Northrop and her team conducted a talk to review outcome of the 2006 study and the reality of 2013. In summary, the talk concluded that (a) ULS systems are in the midst of society and the changes to current social fabric and institutions are significant; (b) The 2006 original research team was probably too conservative in their report; (c) Recent technologies have exacerbated the pace of scale growth; and (d) There are great opportunities.
At a similar time to the publication of the report by Northrop and others, a research and training initiative was being initiated in the UK on Large-scale Complex IT Systems. Many of the challenges recognized in this initiative were the same as, or were similar to those recognized as the challenges of ultra-large-scale systems. Greg Goth quotes Dave Cliff, director of the UK initiative as saying "The ULSS proposal and the LSCITS proposal were written entirely independently, yet we came to very simi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNEB | WNEB (1230 AM) is a Catholic radio station broadcasting religious programming. Licensed to Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, the station serves the Worcester area. The station is owned by Emmanuel Communications, Inc. and features EWTN programming.
History
WNEB signed on December 16, 1946 under the ownership of the New England Broadcasting Company. It was Worcester's fourth radio station (after WTAG, WORC, and WAAB), and its first independent station. New England Broadcasting, owned by John Hurley, sold the station to George Steffy and Harold Glidden in 1960; around this time, WNEB had a middle of the road (MOR) format. Its independent status ended in 1963, when the station joined the CBS Radio Network.
Glidden took full control of WNEB in 1975, shortly after Steffy's death; soon afterward, the station shifted to a country music format. The CBS affiliation had also ceased by this time, and moved to WAAB. Two years later, WNEB was sold to Segal Broadcasting. Segal reverted the station to MOR and affiliated it with the ABC Entertainment network. WNEB shifted to a big band format in 1981; the next year, it rejoined CBS. AAMAR Communications bought the station in 1986. Financial problems soon forced AAMAR to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on December 4, 1990; on August 23, 1991, WNEB went dark.
Bob Bittner, owner of WJIB in Cambridge, purchased WNEB in 1994, and brought the station back on the air October 24, 1996 with a simulcast of WJIB's beautiful music format. A year later, Bittner sold the station to Heirwaves, Inc., which relaunched the station with a contemporary Christian music format on November 29, 1997. Heirwaves sold WNEB to Great Commission Broadcasting in 1999, which implemented a simulcast of similarly-formatted WJLT from Natick (which Great Commission programmed at that time) soon afterward. Great Commission later changed its name to Grace Broadcasting.
A financial dispute with Windsor Financial Corporation led to Windsor assuming control of WNEB's license in 2003. The station's format and staff then migrated to WYCM (90.1 FM) (its station manager, Stephen Binley, had founded Heirwaves and remained with WNEB after the sale to Great Commission), and Windsor operated WNEB with an automated contemporary Christian music format for several months before switching it to a simulcast of Leicester's WVNE (760 AM), a religious station owned by Blount Communications, that fall; as WVNE is a daytimer, WNEB continued the format on its own during that station's off-air hours. Blount bought WNEB outright soon afterward.
WNEB began moving away from religious programming in June 2007 with the addition of The Sean Hannity Show; in March 2008, it switched to a full-time conservative talk format. This format ended in April 2009, and the station went silent for one week before the launch of a Spanish language talk format, also incorporating some inspirational music, on May 4.
Blount sold WNEB to Emmanuel Communicati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue%20University%20School%20of%20Electrical%20and%20Computer%20Engineering | The Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is the largest academic unit at Purdue University College of Engineering. The School of ECE offers both undergraduate B.S. degree as well as M.S. and Ph.D. graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. The school enrolls over 1,900 undergraduates (sophomores through seniors) and over 1,300 graduate students. U.S. News & World Report ranks Purdue's Electrical Engineering 9th and Computer Engineering 10th at the Undergraduate level [America's Best Colleges 2023]. The Graduate programs in both Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering are ranked 9th [America's Best Graduate Schools 2023]
The online MS program in Electrical Engineering is ranked #1 in the nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2023).
History
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) was established in 1888 with Louis Bell, Professor of Applied Electricity, as the head. At this time the first Electrical Engineering building was located opposite of Stanley Coulter Hall on the site of the present-day Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry. Railroad tracks came alongside the building to provide a berth for the Purdue University Interurban Test Car.
In 1901, Telephone Engineering became part of ECE to accommodate the urgent need for engineers who understood how to expand telephone systems from city to city.
WBAA, Indiana's first radio station, was started in Purdue ECE in 1922.
In 1924, a new Electrical Engineering building was constructed to celebrate Purdue's 50th birthday. Additions to the building were added in 1932 and 1940 made possible by Thomas Duncan, a Scottish immigrant who owned the nearby, highly successful Duncan Electric Company.
Purdue ECE played an important role in the early TV technology with Professor Roscoe George's many inventions including the first all-electronic television receiver.
The Lab for Applied Industrial Control was created in 1966.
The Materials and Electrical Engineering Building was built in 1988.
In 1996, the School of Electrical Engineering is officially renamed the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
In August 2021, the school was renamed as the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as a recognition of a $25M gift by venture capitalist Bill Elmore (BSEE75, MSEE76).
School Heads
Only non-interim heads are listed below.
Dimitrios Peroulis, 2019-
Ragu Balakrishnan, 2010-2018
Mark J. T. Smith, 2003-2009
Kent Fuchs, 1996-2002
Richard Schwartz, 1985-1995
Bernd Hoefflinger, 1984-1985
Clarence Coates, 1972-1983
John Hancock, 1965-1972
William Hayt, 1962-1965
Thomas Jones, 1958-1962
Paul Chenea, 1957-1958
J. Stuart Johnson, 1954-1957
Dressel Ewing, 1942-1954
Charles Francis Harding, 1908-1942
Charles Matthews, 1904-1907
Winder Goldsborough, 1896-1904
Harold Smith, 1893-1896
Reginald Fessenden, 1892-1893
Albert Carman, 1889-1892
Louis Bell, 1888-1889
Student organizations
Eta Kappa Nu, Bet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio%20Grande%20Foundation | The Rio Grande Foundation is a free market economic policy think tank and taxpayer watchdog group based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is affiliated with the U.S. nationwide State Policy Network. It was founded in 2000 by Hal Stratton, a former state representative and Attorney General of New Mexico, and Harry Messenheimer, an economist then at George Mason University. Paul Gessing became president in 2006. The group is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.
Activities
The Wall Street Journal ran an article on January 19, 2009, outlining several allegations of state corruption in New Mexico and pointing to the state's lack of comprehensive ethics laws as a possible cause. On January 29, The Wall Street Journal published a letter by Rio Grande Foundation president Paul Gessing, suggesting that government transparency would improve New Mexico's political situation. Gessing pointed out that the legislature had failed to follow through with any of the proposed ethics reforms of recent years. He suggested that the legislature begin Webcasting its sessions to give citizens the opportunity to monitor their government's actions.
In 2009, the Rio Grande Foundation president Paul Gessing criticized the creation of a Department of Motor Vehicles and Hispanic Affairs Department in New Mexico, an idea proposed in two bills introduced in the New Mexico legislature. In an interview with the Santa Fe New Mexican, Gessing said, "the last thing we need is to hire more highly-paid cabinet-level state bureaucrats."
The Rio Grande Foundation "made a big splash" in its fight against a streetcar project in Albuquerque; several members of the group spoke in opposition to the streetcar at the City Council, and the Foundation supported an anti-streecar group called Stop Wasting Albuquerque Taxes (SWAT).
References
External links
Organizational Profile – National Center for Charitable Statistics (Urban Institute)
Charities based in New Mexico
Government watchdog groups in the United States
Organizations based in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Tax reform in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20animated%20spin-offs%20from%20prime%20time%20shows | This is a list of live action prime time network television shows that were spun off into animated series.
Spinoffs
A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Choirs | Battle of the Choirs was an Australian reality talent competition that premiered on the Seven Network on 15 June 2008. The show was hosted by David Koch, with the judging panel consisting of Jonathon Welch, Iva Davies, Charli Delaney, and George Torbay.
It was won by the University of Newcastle Chamber Choir.
The format of the show is based on an idea by Swedish singer and chorister Caroline af Ugglas which has been previously adapted by many countries, most notably as Clash of the Choirs in the United States. The series involves 16 community choirs of up to 40 members from around Australia competing against each other in a knockout competition that sees them performing songs from many different musical genres. The winning choral group will receive $100,000 in prize money and a recording deal with Universal Music.
Structure
The show features 16 choirs of up to 40 members participating in the competition, with 4 choirs competing per episode for the initial Round of 16. Each of those choirs has a Top Tune and a Battle Tune which they have prepared before the competition, and part of a Surprise Medley which is revealed to them on the day.
During the show, each of the choirs presents their Top Tune to the judges, and then the Surprise Medley occurs, in which all of the choirs sing part (45 seconds) of a medley. The judges then deliberate, and send one group to the next stage of the competition, and immediately eliminate another group. After that, the two choirs remaining are left to sing their Battle Tunes, one straight after the other, and the judges decide who gets promoted to the next leg of the competition and who gets eliminated.
The stages of the competition are (in order): Round of 16 (16 choirs, 4 episodes), Quarter finals (8 choirs, 2 episodes), semi final (4 choirs, 1 episode), grand final (3 choirs, 1 episode).
Final results
The winner of was the University of Newcastle Chamber Choir. Melbourne community choir Vox Synergy battled the University of Newcastle Chamber Choir for the top prize. Box Synergy sang of the Sarah McLachlan song "Angel, while the University of Newcastle Chamber Choir won with their arrangement of Queen's "Bicycle Race", and Sting's 'Straight to My Heart'.
Third finalist Harambee was eliminated after the Surprise Medley.
Reception
Viewership
See also
List of Australian television series
Last Choir Standing
References
External links
2000s Australian reality television series
2008 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings
Seven Network original programming
Australian choirs
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows set in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Aquabats%21%20Super%20Show%21 | The Aquabats! Super Show! is an American action-comedy musical television series which aired from March 3, 2012 to January 18, 2014 on The Hub Network and resumed as an independent YouTube web series in September 2019. The series was created by Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz, both the creators of the Nick Jr. Channel series Yo Gabba Gabba!, and Jason deVilliers.
Based on the superhero mythology of The Aquabats, a real-life comedy rock band which series co-creator and lead singer Jacobs formed in 1994, The Aquabats! Super Show! follows the comic adventures of a fictionalized version of the band, a musical group of amateur superheroes, as they haphazardly defend the world from a variety of villains and monsters. Styled similarly to the campy aesthetics of 1960s and 1970s children's television and Japanese tokusatsu, Super Show! utilizes various mediums of visual styles and special effects, mixing live-action storylines with cartoon shorts, parody advertisements and musical interludes.
The series' first season concluded on June 16, 2012 following a run of 13 episodes, having met with a largely positive critical reception, consistently high ratings for the channel and a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Children's Series. The series' second season consisted of an initial five episodes which aired through June 2013, with three additional episodes airing in late December and January 2014, receiving similar acclaim and a further seven Daytime Emmy nominations, ultimately winning one for Best Stunt Coordination. In June 2014, co-creator Jacobs officially announced the series' cancellation, following news of The Hub's financial losses which led to the network's rebranding as Discovery Family later that October.
In July 2018, The Aquabats launched a successful Kickstarter to help independently finance new episodes of The Aquabats! Super Show!, promoting the campaign with a series of YouTube-exclusive mini-episodes continuing the original series' storyline. On September 28, 2019, The Aquabats premiered the first installment of these new episodes, now a biweekly YouTube series entitled The Aquabats! RadVentures!, though still retaining Super Show!s theme song and title card.
Series overview
Premise
Chronicled in both live-action and animated segments, The Aquabats! Super Show! is centered around the adventures of The Aquabats, a group of superhero rock musicians who travel the countryside on a self-appointed mission to fight evil and "destroy boredom", protecting the world from the villains and creatures who threaten to destroy it while aiming to become a famous rock and roll band in their own right.
The Aquabats consist of singer The MC Bat Commander (Christian Jacobs), the swaggering leader of the group; bassist Crash McLarson (Chad Larson), who can grow up to 100 feet in size; drummer Ricky Fitness (Richard Falomir), who has the power of super speed; guitarist EagleBones Falconhawk (Ian Fowles), who's armed with a laser-shooting electric |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WACD | WACD (106.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Antigo, Wisconsin, U.S., the station is currently owned by Results Broadcasting, Inc. and features programming from ABC Radio.
References
External links
ACD
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straylight | Straylight may refer to:
Stray light, unintended light in an optical system
Ocular straylight, stray light produced in the human eye
The Villa Straylight in William Gibson's 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer
Straylight Productions, a team of video game music composers and producers
Straylight Studios, a game development studio
Straylight Run, an American rock band |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20national%20de%20la%20statistique%20et%20de%20l%27analyse%20%C3%A9conomique | The Institut national de la statistique et de l'analyse économique (INSAE) is a national institute of Benin, which is dedicated to collecting data in the country. It collects data on demographics, population, climatology, education, employment, etc.
External links
Official site
Benin
Government of Benin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20National%20de%20la%20Statistique%20du%20Niger | The Institut National de la Statistique du Niger (INS-Niger) is a national institute of Niger, which is dedicated to collecting data in the country. It is responsible for compiling data in the country and obtaining census data. It collects data on demographics, population, climatology, transport, industry, electricity, education and employment etc.
References
External links
Official site
United Nations Statistical Agency information on the INSN.
Niger
Government of Niger |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20National%20de%20la%20Statistique%20de%20C%C3%B4te%20d%27Ivoire | The Institut National de la Statistique de Côte d'Ivoire is a national institute of Côte d'Ivoire which is dedicated to collecting statistical data on demographics, population, climatology, industry, tourism, education, employment, etc...
External links
Official site
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