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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzongkha%20keyboard%20layout | The Dzongkha keyboard layout scheme is designed as a simple means for inputting Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ) and classical Tibetan (ཆོས་སྐད) text on computers. This keyboard layout was standardized by the Dzongkha Development Commission (DDC) and the Department of Information Technology and Telecom (DITT) of the Royal Government of Bhutan in 2000. It was updated in 2009 to accommodate additional characters added to the Unicode & ISO 10646 standards since the initial version.
Since the arrangement of keys essentially follows the usual order of the Dzongkha and Tibetan alphabet, the layout can be quickly learned by anyone familiar with this alphabet. Subjoined (combining) consonants are entered using the Shift key.
The Dzongkha (dz) keyboard layout is included in the XFree86 distribution.
Keyboard layout
Dzongkha (Bhutan) - dz-BT
Alternative Dzongkha input
Dzongkha Keyboard & Input Methods - National Library of Bhutan
Dzongkha Typing Tutor
Dzongkha Keyboard map -THDL
Dzongkha Unicode Keyboard for Windows - THDL
Dzongkha Keyboard for Mac OS X
Dzongkha Computing Instructions - Dzongkha Development Commission, Bhutan
Keyboard layouts
Dzongkha language
Tibetan character input |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristeza%20on%20Piano | Tristeza on Piano () is a 1970 album by Oscar Peterson. This album is also heard on the Ontario Parliament Network as well as the Canadiana Suite album from 1964.
Track listing
"Tristeza" (Haroldo Lobo, Niltinho) – 3:13
"Nightingale" (Oscar Peterson, Gene Lees) – 6:42
"Porgy" (George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 6:12
"Triste" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) – 5:21
"You Stepped Out of a Dream" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn) – 3:31
"Watch What Happens" (Michel LeGrand, Norman Gimbel) – 6:10
"Down Here on the Ground" (Lalo Schifrin, Gale Garnett) – 8:46
"Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) – 4:38
Personnel
Oscar Peterson – Piano
Sam Jones – Double bass
Bobby Durham – drums
Production
Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer – producer
References
1970 albums
Oscar Peterson albums
MPS Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MedStar%20National%20Rehabilitation%20Hospital | MedStar National Rehabilitation Network (MedStar NRH) is located in Washington, D.C., and specializes in treating persons with physical disabilities.
The National Rehabilitation Hospital was founded in 1986 by Edward A. Eckenhoff, and is a member of the MedStar Health system, the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore region's largest non-profit healthcare organization.
MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital has grown from a single hospital into MedStar National Rehabilitation Network, which provides inpatient, outpatient, and day treatment programs. The network provides more than 350,000 ambulatory visits annually in addition to the hospital's more than 2,200 inpatient admissions. Since its inception, MedStar NRH has admitted in excess of 35,000 inpatients and provided over 2 million outpatient visits.
History
Edward A. Eckenhoff
Eckenhoff founded the hospital in 1986 and is currently the President Emeritus of MedStar NRH. After suffering a spinal cord injury which left him paralyzed from the waist down Edward A. Eckenhoff founded the National Rehabilitation Hospital.
On February 6, 1986, MedStar NRH opened its doors with 230 staff members and one patient. MedStar NRH soon grew to be one of the most well recognized hospitals in the country. It has hosted guests like Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Queen Sofia of Spain, Bob Dole, and Stevie Wonder.
Eckenhoff has also received numerous awards including "Washingtonian of the year" by the Washingtonian magazine and was named “Alumnus of the Year” by Washington University School of Medicine. Eckenhoff played a major role in the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 with his visits to Capitol Hill and work around the community. MedStar NRH strongly supported Eckenhoff's venture and was a vital part in improving the lives of the disabled. The current president is John Rockwood who adopted the role in October 2010.
Reputation and Accreditation
Ranking
Physicians nationwide consistently rank MedStar NRH among “America’s Best Hospitals,” as reported by U.S. News & World Report. Since 1990, MedStar NRH has been consistently listed in the annual ranking as one of the nation's best hospitals for physical rehabilitation.
http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings/rehabilitation?page=2
MedStar NRH is fully accredited by both the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations JCAHO, and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities CARF, earning an impressive fourteen CARF commendations in the 2007 accreditation survey. CARF is a private, not-for-profit organization that promotes quality rehabilitation services. Their standards are reviewed annually and new ones are developed to keep pace with changing conditions and current consumer needs. NRH has received a three-year accreditation from CARF, and its Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke and Brain Injury programs are the regions only CARF accredited specialty programs.
Types of Specialty Care: Inpatient, Outpati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wilbanks | John Wilbanks is a Senior Fellow at the Datasphere Initiative, and formerly the Head of Data at Biogen Digital Health, the co-founder and Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks, Executive Director at Science Commons. He served as a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and at FasterCures. He is known for his work on informed consent, open science and research networks. Wilbanks led a We the People petition supporting the free access of taxpayer-funded research data, which gained over 65,000 signatures. In February 2013, the White House responded, detailing a plan to freely publicize taxpayer-funded research data.
Scientific American featured Wilbanks in "The Machine That Would Predict The Future" in 2011. Seed magazine named Wilbanks among their Revolutionary Minds of 2008, as a "Game Changer" and the Utne Reader named him in 2009 as one of "50 visionaries who are changing your world". He frequently campaigns for wider adoption of open access publishing in science and the increased sharing of data by scientists.
Education and career
Wilbanks grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, US. He attended Tulane University and received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 1994. He also studied modern letters at the Sorbonne in Paris.
From 1994 to 1997, he worked in Washington, D.C., as a legislative aide to Congressman Fortney "Pete" Stark. During this time Wilbanks was also a grassroots coordinator and fundraiser for the American Physical Therapy Association. Wilbanks was the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's first assistant director from the fall of 1998 to the summer of 2000. There he led efforts in software development and Internet-mediated learning, and was involved in the Berkman Center's work on ICANN.
While at the Berkman Center, Wilbanks founded Incellico, Inc., a bioinformatics company that built semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical research and development. He served as President and CEO, and led to the company's acquisition in the summer of 2003. He has also served as a Fellow at the World Wide Web Consortium on Semantic Web for Life Sciences, was a visiting scientist in the Project on Mathematics and Computation at MIT, and was a member of the National Advisory Committee for PubMed Central. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Sage Bionetworks and on the advisory boards of Genomera, Genomic Arts, and Boundless Learning. He is an original author of the Panton Principles for sharing data.
Consent to Research
Consent to Research (CtR) was a project that provides a platform for people to donate their health data for the purposes of scientific research and the advancement of medicine. Since health data is restricted and expensive, this project provided people the opportunity to freely donate information that can only positively benefit medicine and patients at large. Consent to Research was connected to the Access2Research project, which aimed to free access over the Internet to scientific journal artic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade%20test%20colour%20films | Trade test colour films were broadcast by the television network BBC2 in the early days of colour television in Britain during the long periods of the daytime when no regular programming was scheduled, with the exception of Play School. The goal of these transmissions was to provide colour broadcasting in these intervals for use by television shops and engineers (the 'trade') to install, adjust and demonstrate their television sets. The earliest such transmission was made in 1956 (on the then sole BBC channel) but regular all-day-long films ran from autumn 1967 until 24 August 1973. In all, 158 different films were broadcast; on average, each film was shown 90 times. The colour films provided moving colour images to allow tv dealers to demonstrate sets to customers. The decision to stop showing them followed the extension of broadcasting hours on BBC1 and ITV. This, together with the gradual move of schools programmes into colour, meant there was less need to provide moving pictures during trade tests simply to demonstrate sets.
The frequent broadcasting of the films made them well known to some viewers of the time. The one most frequently shown was The Captive River (1960), which was shown 525 times. The short film Giuseppina (1959), which had won an Academy Award, was shown 158 times and became the last trade test colour transmission on August 24, 1973. Other frequently broadcast films included The Home Made Car (1963), The North Sea Quest (BP, 1967), Overhaul (1957), Crown of Glass (1967), Roads to Roam (1967), The Small Propeller (BP, 1967), The Cattle Carters (BP, 1962) – with a theme song sung by Frank Ifield, Prospect for Plastics (1962), Evoluon (1968) and Cantagallo.
A number of these films were produced by the oil company BP, including We've Come a Long Way (1951), The Shadow of Progress, Newspaper Run, and Skyhook. Other films included Paint (produced by Shell), Study in Steel (produced by British Steel Corporation), Algerian Pipeline (Constructors John Brown Ltd), The Captive River (Shell), Ride the White Horses (Ford Film Unit), Something Nice To Eat (the Gas Council), It's The Tube That Makes The Colour (Mullard), On the Safe Side (1967, UKAEA), Oil Underground (1960, Shell) and Transport Ability (UKAEA). Another film, Birth of a Rainbow (1967), about trout farms, was made by the New Zealand National Film Unit, while Network (1962) was made by the AEI, and No Claim Bonus (1963) was made by the COI. The Gold Miners was made by Films of Africa, and A Journey into the Weald of Kent (1959) and Beauty in Trust were made by the National Benzole Company with narrations by Sir John Betjeman.
The trade test colour films are among the subjects of interest of the Test Card Circle, an organization devoted to studying and preserving the test cards used by television broadcasters. The static test cards were typically transmitted for periods before and after regular programming, originally to permit viewers to adjust their television sets.
BB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation%20%28disambiguation%29 | Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time.
Simulation or The Simulation may also refer to:
Computer simulation, simulation (as above) via computers
Simulation video game, a video game that is a computer simulation
Simulation preorder, a relation between state transition systems in computer science
Diving (association football) (also known as simulation), misconduct in association football
Media
Simulation (film), a 2017 Iranian drama film
Simulation (journal), a computer science academic journal
The Simulation, a 2019 album by American heavy metal band Born of Osiris
"Simulation", song by Tkay Maidza from Tkay
"Simulation", a house music song released in 2012 by Irish singer Róisín Murphy
See also
Simulator (disambiguation)
Simulation hypothesis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BB%93%20Th%C3%A0nh%20Vi%E1%BB%87t | Hồ Thành Việt (; 1955–2003) was a Vietnamese-American computer engineer and entrepreneur who is credited with making desktop publishing more accessible to Vietnamese speakers.
Biography
Việt was born in Nha Trang, South Vietnam, on July 20, 1955. He fled South Vietnam aboard a United States Navy ship on the same day that Saigon fell, leaving his family behind, and arrived in California unable to speak English. He graduated from California State University, Fullerton, in 1985 with a degree in electrical engineering. After working at various computer companies, he founded VNI Software Company in 1987 and began working there full-time the following year. VNI was one of the first companies to market software designed for the Vietnamese language.
He died on August 28, 2003, in Fountain Valley, California.
References
External links
VNI Software Co.
Interviews Hồ Thành Việt, VNCR 2001.
Người phát minh bộ chữ Việt VNI trên máy điện toán, Vietnamese
Công ty VNI và những bước đi tới, 2001
VNI vs. Microsoft Corporation, 1998
1955 births
2003 deaths
American computer programmers
California State University, Fullerton alumni
Vietnamese emigrants to the United States
Vietnamese community activists
Vietnamese engineers
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American engineers
People from Nha Trang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device%20file | In Unix-like operating systems, a device file or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file. There are also special files in DOS, OS/2, and Windows. These special files allow an application program to interact with a device by using its device driver via standard input/output system calls. Using standard system calls simplifies many programming tasks, and leads to consistent user-space I/O mechanisms regardless of device features and functions.
Overview
Device files usually provide simple interfaces to standard devices (such as printers and serial ports), but can also be used to access specific unique resources on those devices, such as disk partitions. Additionally, device files are useful for accessing system resources that have no connection with any actual device, such as data sinks and random number generators.
There are two general kinds of device files in Unix-like operating systems, known as character special files and block special files. The difference between them lies in how much data is read and written by the operating system and hardware. These together can be called device special files in contrast to named pipes, which are not connected to a device but are not ordinary files either.
MS-DOS borrowed the concept of special files from Unix but renamed them devices. Because early versions of MS-DOS did not support a directory hierarchy, devices were distinguished from regular files by making their names reserved words, for example: the infamous CON. These were chosen for a degree of compatibility with CP/M and are still present in modern Windows for backwards compatibility.
In some Unix-like systems, most device files are managed as part of a virtual file system traditionally mounted at /dev, possibly associated with a controlling daemon, which monitors hardware addition and removal at run time, making corresponding changes to the device file system if that's not automatically done by the kernel, and possibly invoking scripts in system or user space to handle special device needs. The FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD and Darwin have a dedicated file system devfs; device nodes are managed automatically by this file system, in kernel space. Linux used to have a similar devfs implementation, but it was abandoned later, and then removed since version 2.6.17; Linux now primarily uses a user space implementation known as udev, but there are many variants.
In Unix systems which support chroot process isolation, such as Solaris Containers, typically each chroot environment needs its own /dev; these mount points will be visible on the host OS at various nodes in the global file system tree. By restricting the device nodes populated into chroot instances of /dev, hardware isolation can be enforced by the chroot environment (a program can not meddle with hardware that it can neither see nor name—an even stronger form of access control than Unix file system permissions).
MS-DOS man |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runahead | Runahead is a technique that allows a computer processor to speculatively pre-process instructions during cache miss cycles. The pre-processed instructions are used to generate instruction and data stream prefetches by executing instructions leading to cache misses (typically called long latency loads) before they would normally occur, effectively hiding memory latency. In runahead, the processor uses the idle execution resources to calculate instruction and data stream addresses using the available information that is independent of a cache miss. Once the processor has resolved the initial cache miss, all runahead results are discarded, and the processor resumes execution as normal. The primary use case of the technique is to mitigate the effects of the memory wall. The technique may also be used for other purposes, such as pre-computing branch outcomes to achieve highly accurate branch prediction.
The principal hardware cost is a means of checkpointing the register file state. Typically, runahead processors will also contain a small additional cache, which allows runahead store operations to execute without modifying actual memory. Certain implementations also use dedicated hardware acceleration units to execute specific slices of pre-processed instructions.
Runahead was initially investigated in the context of an in-order microprocessor; however, this technique has been extended for use with out-of-order microprocessors.
Triggering
In principle, any event can trigger runahead, though typically the entry condition is a last level data cache miss that makes it to the head of the re-order buffer. In a normal out-of-order processor, such long latency load instructions block retirement of all younger instructions until the miss is serviced and the load is retired.
When a processor enters runahead mode, it checkpoints all architectural registers and records the address of the load instruction that caused entry into runahead. All instructions in the pipeline are then marked as runahead. Because the value returned from a cache miss cannot be known ahead of time, it is possible for pre-processed instructions to be dependent upon unknown or invalid data. Registers containing such data, or data dependent on it, are denoted by adding an "invalid" or INV bit to every register in the register file. Instructions that use or write such invalid data are also marked with an INV bit. If the instruction that initiated runahead was a load, it is issued a bogus result and marked as INV, allowing it to mark its destination register as INV and drain out of the pipeline.
Pre-processing instructions
In runahead mode, the processor continues to execute instructions after the instruction that initiated runahead. However, runahead is considered a speculative state in which the processor only attempts to generate additional data and instruction cache misses which are effectively prefetches. The designer can opt to allow runahead to skip instructions that are not prese |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobiFone | MobiFone Corporation (less formally MobiFone; ) is a major Vietnamese mobile network operator headquartered in Trung Hoa Nhan Chinh, Hanoi. Founded on 16 April 1993, as a Global System for Mobile Communications launcher, MobiFone is the first and currently third largest telecommunications provider in Vietnam.
Market share and competitors
MobiFone had a market share (estimated based on revenues) of 17.9% in 2012.
Its main competitors are Viettel with 40.67% market share and Vinaphone with 30%, which is also owned by VNPT. Together, the big three control almost 90% of the market, with the rest controlled by Vietnamobile with 8%, Gmobile (formerly Beeline) with 3.2% and S-Fone with 0.1%.
History
2015
Become the corporation under the Ministry of Information and Communications called MobiFone Telecommunications Corporation.
2011
Foundation of the Mobile Telecom Services Centre VI.0AA
2008
Foundation of the Mobile Telecom Services Centre V.
The Value Added Services Centre was founded.
MobiFone ranked as the first position in the Vietnam’s mobile telephony subscription market share.
2006
Foundation of the Mobile Telecom Services Centre IV.
2005
Liquidated the business cooperation contract with Kinnevik/Comvik (Sweden).
The State of Vietnam and Ministry of Posts and Telematics (now is Ministry of Information and Communications) decided to sell equity.
Mr. Le Ngoc Minh became director after the retirement of Mr. Dinh Van Phuoc.
1995
Committed a business cooperation contract with Kinnevik/Comvik (Sweden).
Foundation of the Mobile Telecom Services Centre III.
1994
Foundation of the Mobile Telecom Services Centre I & II.
1993
Foundation of Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Company.
Director is Mr Dinh Van Phuoc.
References
External links
Mobifone thử nghiệm 4G tại Đà Nẵng, Hà Nội và Hồ Chí Minh
Mobile phone companies of Vietnam
Vietnamese brands
Telecommunications companies established in 1993
Vietnamese companies established in 1993
Companies based in Hanoi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinaphone | Vinaphone is a Vietnamese major mobile network operator headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam. Founded June 26, 1996, as a GSM launcher, Vinaphone is the second network (after MobiFone) and currently the second largest provider in Vietnam.
Partnership
At 17 Nov. 2009, VinaPhone had joined Conexus Mobile Alliance
At the beginning of September 2014 Vinaphone signed a strategic co-operation agreement with Vodafone.
Market share and competitors
Vinaphone had a market share (estimated based on revenues) of 30% in 2012.
Its main competitors are Viettel with 40.67% market share and MobiFone with 17.9%, which is also owned by VNPT. They control almost 90% of the market, with the rest controlled by Vietnamobile with 8%, Gmobile (formerly Beeline) with 3.2% and S-Fone with 0.1%.
History
1996: Establishment of VinaPhone network.
1997: Establishment of Vietnam Telecom Services Company (VinaPhone).
Establishment of Regional Telecom Services Centres 1, 2, 3.
2006: Changing Logo (from GPC to VinaPhone) as Vietnam officially became a member of the WTO.
2009: VinaPhone was the first operator to launch 3G services.
2015: VinaPhone was the first operator to launch 4G services
2020: VinaPhone was the first operator to prelaunch 5G services
Popularity
Vinaphone is considered Operator of State Servants as most of its subscribers are civil service employees.
Sponsorship
The company has been the official jersey sponsor of the Vietnamese national basketball team.
References
"Vinaphone triển khai đầu số 088 trong năm 2016" . Vinaphones. 7 March 2016.
Mobile phone companies of Vietnam
Companies based in Hanoi
Vietnamese brands
Telecommunications companies established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asianet%20Suvarna%20News | Asianet Suvarna News is a Kannada news channel owned by Asianet News Network, a news media subsidiary of Jupiter Capital Private Limited. The majority shareholder of the company is Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who is a Rajya Sabha member from the Bharatiya Janata Party. Launched on 31 March 2008, the channel was the third news channel to be aired in the Kannada language. The channel has telecast fabricated news and social media hoaxes on various occasions.
History
Asianet suvarna news (formerly Suvarna News) was launched as a 24x7 Kannada news channel on 31 March 2008 by Asianet Communications Limited, the media enterprise of Jupiter Capital Private Limited. With the launch, Asianet Suvarna News became the third News channel in Kannada.
Suvarna News had existed as a news bulletin on Suvarna TV before the launch of its own channel in 2008. In November 2008, Star India acquired Asianet Communications excluding its news media operations. As a result, Suvarna News was placed under the Asianet News Network which continued to be owned by Jupiter Capital.
Suvarna News was rebranded as Asianet suvarna news on 01 Dec 2020.
Controversies
The channel has a history of frequent changes in its editorial leadership. According to Shashidhar Bhat, the first and former editor of the channel, Rajeev Chandrasekhar maintains editorial control through the corporate management of the company. The channel has also been documented to have telecast fabricated news on multiple occasions; in instances picked up from unverified social media hoaxes.
According to some reports, personnel from Suvarna News had also provided technical assistance for setting up NaMo TV, BJP party propaganda channel, before and after the 2019 Indian general election.
The National Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) finned Suvarna News was Rs 50,000 for their biased coverage of the Tablighi Jamaat congregation of March 2020.
The Human rights organization, People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) reported that Suvarna News along with other media channels, aided right wing Hindutva activists with biased coverage, during the attacks by right-wingers against the Karnataka's Christian community in 2021.
See also
List of Kannada-language television channels
Television in India
Media in Karnataka
Media of India
References
External links
Official Website
Kannada-language television channels
Television stations in Bangalore
Television channels and stations established in 2008
24-hour television news channels in India
2008 establishments in Karnataka
Indian news websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20protegidos%20%28Colombian%20TV%20series%29 | Los Protegidos (The Protected or The Sheltered) is a Colombian telenovela aired from May 6, 2008, to January 29, 2009, on Colombian TV network RCN. This telenovela is produced by Teleset and it was created as a counterweight for Caracol Televisión's new production El cartel (TV series), but it was premiered before this last one in order to get a higher impact in the viewers.
Story
The day that Santiago Puerta (Mark Tacher) comes back from Italy, after getting a graduated degree in crime investigation, he is sure his future is brilliant, after getting his dream job in La Fiscalia (Investigation Bureau in Colombia). Finally he will be able to compensate his father, Bernardo Puerta (Carlos Barbosa), the huge effort he had put into funding his son's career as a lawyer and then as an expert in crime investigation.
In Italy, Santiago meets Lina Santana (Veronica Orozco), his better half, classmate and then his fiancée, but when he comes back to Colombia he realizes everything is not going to be as easy as he thought.
Santiago has to face Lina's father, Rogelio Santana, who is completely against the idea of his wedding with Lina. On the other hand, Santiago finds out that his father is not the same accountant, but the assistant of a dangerous man nicknamed "El Kes" (Luis Fernando Arango), who is the key man in a huge crime organization on the Colombian Caribbean.
Santiago convinces his father to betray "El Kes" so he can be back to legality, but things get complicated when Santiago's father begins a relationship with El Kes' all life lover "La Bandi" (Ana Bolena Meza), after she was badly injured by El Kes.
Now, Santiago's family with La Bandi's family has to disappear and become one family with another life completely different, to join a Witnesses Protection Program. But their hugest fear became true when El Kes escape and now he is looking for them to make them pay for betraying him.
While Lina, who has an incredible gift, being able to know things that are going to happen in the future, is sure she will find Santiago in Bogotá, so she moves there, but what she does not know is that El Kes is in Bogota, too, and he is sure that she is the ticket to find Santiago, and so Bernardo and La Bandi
References
External links
Russian fan-site
2008 telenovelas
2008 Colombian television series debuts
2009 Colombian television series endings
RCN Televisión telenovelas
Television series by Teleset
Spanish-language telenovelas
Television shows set in Bogotá
Television shows set in Barranquilla
Television shows set in Italy
Television series about witness protection |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote%20Point%20Systems | Coyote Point Systems was a manufacturer of computer networking equipment for application traffic management, also known as server load balancing. In March 2013, the company was acquired by Fortinet.
The company introduced hardware-based server load balancers nearly simultaneously with other large companies such as F5 Networks in the late 1990s. The company had its headquarters in San Jose, California, and maintained engineering facilities in Millerton, New York, USA.
History
Early Coyote Point customers included Wired for the HotWired Web magazine, and the online movie database IMDb. Coyote Point introduced several generations of new hardware and software with increasing performance and functionality, winning industry and press awards including the 2006 Network Computing Well-Connected Award and the Info Security Global Product Excellence Award. The company's VLB technology, which permits load balancing of VMware infrastructure, was nominated for Best of Interop 2008 and SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice Awards.
Products and technology
Coyote Point developed traffic management appliances to improve application performance. In 2009, the company released three upgraded products as part of its Equalizer GX family of load balancing and application acceleration appliances. By monitoring server and application availability and responsiveness, the Equalizer line of load-balancing appliances direct individual client requests to the server best able to handle them. Coyote Point's products are generally deployed at data centers, serving as front-end aggregators of an array of web or application servers. Layer 7 rules (content switching) direct requests to servers hosting specific applications or content. Application acceleration technologies, such as SSL acceleration and HTTP compression are available on Coyote's higher-end products.
Custom hardware, such as Layer 2 switches and SSL offload processors, and custom operating systems based on FreeBSD are used in Coyote Point's appliances with performance of over 50,000 HTTP transactions per second in network benchmarks.
References
External links
Coyote Point Systems Web site
LBdigest.com review of Equalizer 8.0 software release
Linux Journal on Equalizer E550
InfoWorld on Coyote Point's product strategy
Networking hardware companies
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadfoot%20%28video%20game%29 | Leadfoot: Stadium Off-Road Racing, or Leadfoot for short, is a computer video game by the now defunct Ratbag Games. It is a spin-off of the dirt track racing series by Ratbag, which includes Dirt Track Racing, Dirt Track Racing: Sprint Cars and Dirt Track Racing 2. It is a racing game simulation reproducing the sport of stadium off-road racing. Pick-up trucks and buggies race around dirt tracks built inside stadiums - Supercross on four wheels.
Movie Maker
Software included in Leadfoot allows for the exporting of video clips of game action in AVI format.
Race vehicles
Players can choose from 8 different vehicles, in 2 classes.
Reception
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
Computer Games Magazine nominated the game as the best racing game of 2001, but ultimately gave the award to NASCAR Racing 4.
References
External links
Ratbag Games Last version of Ratbag Games official website reproduced by Australian video game website Sumea for archives purposes.
2001 video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
North America-exclusive video games
Racing video games
Video games developed in Australia
Windows games
Windows-only games
Take-Two Interactive games
WizardWorks games
Ratbag Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20message%20journaling | Electronic message journaling is the process of retaining information relating to electronic messages. In this context, electronic messages are defined as any type of electronic communication data structure. Historically this was an electronic mail, but it may also include instant messages, audio messages (such as those in VoIP), text messages, facsimile messages, or other user collaboration protocol data structures. Beginning about 2005 electronic messages began to include social media that included user-generated content such as blogs, discussion forums, posts, chats, tweets, podcasting, pins, digital images, video and audio files. Several implementation variations exist, altering when, what, and how information is retained.
Background
Archival of electronic messages has become a concern in modern society as regulations and compliance requirements for businesses have become more prevalent with notable Congressional acts, such as Sarbanes Oxley. Other compliance areas of concern are those dealing with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 17a-4, NASD 3010, HIPAA, the Data Protection Act, and the Patriot Act. Several large corporations lost significant amounts of money because of their failure to meet these compliance requirements. Morgan Stanley had a $1.45 billion judgment against it and Merrill Lynch was issued a $2.5 million fine because of its inability to reproduce e-mail transmissions. Because of growing concerns of similar repercussions, major corporations are implementing electronic message journaling to meet compliance requirements.
Overview
A communication system recognizes and identifies any new outgoing or incoming message. It then creates a journal message containing information extracted from the new outgoing or incoming message. The journal message is then processed for storage while the new outgoing or incoming message is processed normally. Then, at a time of audit, reviewers may search and analyze stored journal messages. E-mail journaling is typically done at the mail server.
Journal message
The journal message contains, at a minimum, the following information: a copy of the content of the actual message, any related metadata such as time, date, and individuals involved in the communication. More information may be included, such as a physical location of the message originator/recipient(s), a computer identifier of the message originator/recipient(s), or a class/category of message. The journal message should maintain the same transport format as the actual message so that existing communication infrastructure can be utilized. For example, an e-mail journaling message will, itself, be an e-mail message containing the journaling information as either attachments or in the body of the journaling message and may be in the MIME format.
Design variations and considerations
For real-time journaling, the journal message is sent for further processing at the same time the actual electronic message is being sent. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidation%20ratio | Consolidation ratio within network infrastructure for Internet hosting, is the number of virtual servers that can run on each physical host machine. Many companies arrive at that figure through trial and error by stacking virtual machines on top of each other until performance slows to a crawl. “It’s sort of capacity planning by bloody nose,” observes Bob Gill, managing director of server research for analyst firm TheInfoPro Inc. of New York.
The recent V-index showed that the average consolidation ratio is actually lower than was expected - 6.3:1 VMs per physical host (actual ratio) vs. 9.8:1 (perceived)
See also
Nagle's algorithm
References
Computer networking
Networking algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKBV | WKBV (1490 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format to the Richmond, Indiana, United States, area. The station is licensed to Rodgers Broadcasting Corporation and features programming from ABC Radio, ESPN Radio, Network Indiana and Westwood One. Since 1927, predating the FCC, WKBV's been the area's premier signal for info and entertainment. Local programs include, Indiana State Fair Band Day, the Salvation Army Christmas, and High School Sports.
History
In 1926, William Knox was granted a permit to build a radio station in Brookville, Indiana. His name was William Knox. He chose the call letters WKBV, standing for William Knox BrookVille. The station was merely a hobby for Knox. Airtime in those days sold for $15.00.
In 1929, the station moved to the Betsy Ross Building in Connersville; its first regular programming began with six hours a day. In 1933, the station was moved to the Westcott Hotel in Richmond, IN. It was after this that WKBV became the home for Richmond Red Devil sports. RHS teacher Jim Farmer was the first Sports Director for the station, a position that would be sought after on this station. In 1943, a group of local businessmen formed the Central Broadcasting Corporation and moved the station to the Leland Hotel Annex in Richmond. In 1953, WKBV would move one last time to West Main Street in Richmond. They moved into a building built just for them. The building was state of the art. In 1960, WKBV-FM as 101.3 FM went on the air. Later on, WKBV-FM would become WRIA-FM, and then later became WFMG which is now WKBV's sister station G1013. The two have become Richmond's famous radio duo. With many cross promotions and station events.
WKBV was a pioneer in 20th Century women's radio journalism. This is where RHS grad turned Radio-TV Star Polly Bergen did her first 15-minute show auditioning for WKBV. And, from which Frances Kennedy Eward, director of the Earlham College News Bureau and instructor in radio and journalism, wrote, sold and produced her own radio shows.
Today's programming on WKBV, is mainly ESPN radio, with sports talk and more. Local news updates are provided throughout the day, and weather is supplied by Dayton's WDTN-TV Channel 2. WKBV is the home of the Cincinnati Reds and Notre Dame as well as Miami University hockey. The current key staff members include Sports/News Director Joel Brantingham, Program Director Rick Duncan and Production Director John Rose. The station is now owned by Rodgers Broadcasting Corporation dba Whitewater Broadcasting. In July, 2014, WKBV added an FM signal when W265DN 100.9 FM went on the air.
References
External links
indianaradio.net rodgers radio stations
For Frances Eward
KBV
Sports radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWIQ%20%28AM%29 | KWIQ (1020 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format to the Moses Lake, Washington, United States, area. The station is owned by Alpha Media LLC and features programming from ESPN Radio.
During daytime broadcast hours, the station's antenna system uses two towers arranged in a directional array that concentrates the signal toward the northeast. At nighttime, only one of the towers is used, resulting in an omnidirectional pattern. According to the Antenna Structure Registration database, each of the towers is tall. The transmitter and antenna array are located on the west side of Moses Lake near N Westshore Drive.
References
External links
WIQ
Sports radio stations in the United States
Mass media in Grant County, Washington
Radio stations established in 1995
Alpha Media radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWOK | KWOK (1490 AM) is a commercial radio station in Aberdeen, Washington. It is owned by Alpha Media, broadcasting a sports radio format and featuring programming from ESPN Radio and Westwood One.
KWOK has a power of 1,000 watts and uses a non-directional antenna. The transmitter and studios are on Coolidge Road at West Huntley Street in Aberdeen.
History
The station went on the air in . Its original call sign was KJET and it broadcast on 1560 kHz in Hoquiam. Because that is a clear channel frequency, KJET was a daytimer, required to go off the air at night. In the 1970s, it changed its call letters to KGHO.
It relocated to 1490 AM in 1985, which allowed it to broadcast around the clock. It also changed its city of license to Aberdeen. On February 18, 2000, KGHO changed its call sign to KWOK.
For many years, this station had a daytime power of 1,000 watts but had to reduce power at night to 250 watts. On September 23, 2016, KWOK was granted an FCC construction permit to increase night power to 1,000 watts.
References
External links
ESPN Radio 1490 Facebook
FCC History Cards for KWOK
WOK
Sports radio stations in the United States
ESPN Radio stations
Alpha Media radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auspex | An auspex, or augur, was an interpreter of omens in ancient Rome.
Auspex may also refer to:
Auspex International, a London-based data analytics company
Auspex Pharmaceuticals, an American pharmaceutical company acquired by Teva
Auspex Systems, a defunct American computer storage company
Persons with the name
Pollienus Auspex (consul under Commodus) (fl. 3rd century), Roman military officer, senator, and suffect consul
Pollienus Auspex (consul under Marcus Aurelius) (fl. late 2nd century and early 3rd century), Roman military officer, senator, and suffect consul
Tiberius Julius Pollienus Auspex (fl. 3rd century), Roman senator and suffect consul
See also
Haruspex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataMapper | DataMapper is an object-relational mapper library written in Ruby that follows the active record pattern even though the name implies it follows the data mapper pattern. While DataMapper 1 may not have achieved total decoupling between object and database suggested by the data mapper pattern, it appears DataMapper 2 intended to change this (a la Virtus, a library adapted from DataMapper). The DataMapper 2 project was renamed before launch and was released as Ruby Object Mapper (ROM) in August 2013.
Some features of DataMapper:
Eager loading of child associations to avoid (N+1) queries
Lazy loading of select properties, e.g., larger fields
Query chaining, and not evaluating the query until absolutely necessary (using a lazy array implementation)
An API not too heavily oriented to SQL databases
DataMapper was designed to be a more abstract ORM, not strictly SQL, based on Martin Fowler's enterprise pattern. As a result, DataMapper adapters have been built for other non-SQL databases, such as CouchDB, Apache Solr, and webservices such as Salesforce.com.
References
External links
DataMapper homepage
Object–relational mapping
cs:Data Mapper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff%20Tootill | Geoff C. Tootill (4 March 1922 – 26 October 2017) was an electronic engineer and computer scientist who worked in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Manchester with Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn developing the Manchester Baby, "the world's first wholly electronic stored-program computer".
Education
Tootill attended King Edward's School, Birmingham on a Classics scholarship and in 1940 gained an entrance exhibition to study Mathematics at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was forced to do the course in two years (missing Part One of the Mathematics Tripos) as his studies were cut short by World War II. After the successful operation of the Manchester Baby computer, he was awarded an MSc by the Victoria University of Manchester for his thesis on "Universal High-Speed Digital Computers: A Small-Scale Experimental Machine".
Career
On leaving Cambridge in 1942, Tootill managed to get assigned to work on airborne radar at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) in Malvern. Here, he went out to airfields to troubleshoot problems with the operation of radar in night fighters, designed modifications and oversaw their implementation. He later said that this was the most responsible job that he had in his life.
In 1947, he was recruited by Frederic Calland Williams to join another ex-TRE colleague, Tom Kilburn, at Manchester University developing the world's first wholly electronic stored-program computer. In the UK, three projects were then underway to develop a stored program computer (in Cambridge, the NPL and Manchester) and the main technical hurdle was the memory technology. In order to test the cathode ray tube memory designed by FC Williams when it was constructed, Kilburn and Tootill designed an elementary computer, known as the "Manchester Baby". The computer could store 32 instructions or numbers using a single Cathode Ray Tube (CRT). On 21 June 1948, after months of patient work constructing and testing the Baby piece by piece, coping with the unreliable electronic components of the day, the machine finally ran a routine written by Kilburn (they didn't use the word "program" then) to find the highest proper factor of a number. In Tootill's words "And we saw the thing had done a computation". A day or two later, the Baby ran successfully for 52 minutes to find the highest proper factor of 218, which required c. 3.5m arithmetic operations.
After the Baby's first operation in June 1948, Alan Turing moved to Manchester so he could use the Baby for a project that he was working on at the National Physical Laboratory, where they had also been working on developing a computer. Tootill instructed Alan Turing on use of the Manchester Baby and debugged a program Turing had written to run on the Baby.
In 1949, Tootill joined Ferranti where he developed the logic design of the first commercial computer (which was based on the Baby). He stayed at Ferranti only briefly and later the same year, he joined the Royal Mili |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative%20Stencil%20Loops | Iterative Stencil Loops (ISLs) are a class of numerical data processing solution
which update array elements according to some fixed pattern, called a stencil.
They are most commonly found in computer simulations, e.g. for computational fluid dynamics in the context of scientific and engineering applications.
Other notable examples include solving partial differential equations, the Jacobi kernel, the Gauss–Seidel method, image processing and cellular automata.
The regular structure of the arrays sets stencil techniques apart from other modeling methods such as the Finite element method. Most finite difference codes which operate on regular grids can be formulated as ISLs.
Definition
ISLs perform a sequence of sweeps (called timesteps) through a given array. Generally this is a 2- or 3-dimensional regular grid. The elements of the arrays are often referred to as cells. In each timestep, all array elements are updated. Using neighboring array elements in a fixed pattern (the stencil), each cell's new value is computed. In most cases boundary values are left unchanged, but in some cases (e.g. LBM codes) those need to be adjusted during the computation as well. Since the stencil is the same for each element, the pattern of data accesses is repeated.
More formally, we may define ISLs as a 5-tuple with the following meaning:
is the index set. It defines the topology of the array.
is the (not necessarily finite) set of states, one of which each cell may take on on any given timestep.
defines the initial state of the system at time 0.
is the stencil itself and describes the actual shape of the neighborhood. There are elements in the stencil.
is the transition function which is used to determine a cell's new state, depending on its neighbors.
Since I is a k-dimensional integer interval, the array will always have the topology of a finite regular grid. The array is also called simulation space and individual cells are identified by their index . The stencil is an ordered set of relative coordinates. We can now obtain for each cell the tuple of its neighbors indices
Their states are given by mapping the tuple to the corresponding tuple of states , where is defined as follows:
This is all we need to define the system's state for the following time steps with :
Note that is defined on and not just on since the boundary conditions need to be set, too. Sometimes the elements of may be defined by a vector addition modulo the simulation space's dimension to realize toroidal topologies:
This may be useful for implementing periodic boundary conditions, which simplifies certain physical models.
Example: 2D Jacobi iteration
To illustrate the formal definition, we'll have a look at how a two dimensional Jacobi iteration can be defined. The update function computes the arithmetic mean of a cell's four neighbors. In this case we set off with an initial solution of 0. The left and right boundary are fixed at 1, while th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen%20Peacemakers | The Zen Peacemakers is a diverse network of socially engaged Buddhists, currently including the formal structures of the Zen Peacemakers International, the Zen Peacemaker Order and the Zen Peacemaker Circles, many affiliated individuals and groups, and communities formed by Dharma Successors of Roshi Bernie Glassman. It was founded by Bernie Glassman and his second wife Sandra Jishu Holmes in 1996, as a means of continuing the work begun with the Greyston Foundation in 1980 of expanding Zen practice into larger spheres of influence such as social services, business and ecology but with a greater emphasis on peace work. Eve Marko, Bernie Glassman's third wife, is a founding teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order. Zen Peacemakers have developed from the White Plum Asanga lineage of Taizan Maezumi.
Tradition and lineage
Although Zen Peacemakers are associated with the White Plum Asanga lineage, founder Bernie Glassman did not envisage it as an organization bound by traditional Japanese Sōtō Zen practice. Bernie Glassman has said:
Maezumi Roshi was not carrying out the tradition of the Japanese Soto sect when he came here. The Soto sect of Japan was not carrying out the traditions of Chinese Zen. You have to be careful with the word 'traditional.' We honor a lot of eccentric people.
Likewise, although within the lineage, the Zen Peacemaker Order was not formed as part of the White Plum Asanga organization. Links between the two organizations are now distant; despite being named as heir to the presidency of the White Plum Asanga in Maezumi's will, Glassman ceased attending the annual meetings of Taizan Maezumi's dharma heirs within a few years of his former teacher's death. According to the author James Ishmael Ford, as of 2006 Glassman has "transferred his leadership of the White Plum Asanga to his Dharma brother Merzel Roshi and has formally 'disrobed,' renouncing priesthood in favor of serving as a lay teacher and leader of what is now called the Zen Peacemaker Family."
Greyston Foundation
Activities of the Zen Peacemakers originated in Yonkers, New York with the opening of the Greyston Bakery, its most well-known and prosperous project, in 1982. Its projects eventually united under the auspices of the Greyston Foundation, a network of community development companies and non-profit organizations based in the inner city. Greyston Family Inn opened in 1991, on proceeds from the sale of Greyston mansion. It provides permanent housing for homeless people, with a child day-care center amongst services available for residents. Currently, there are three buildings, providing fifty housing units. Other projects include the Greyston Garden Project, five community-run gardens established on neglected properties. In 1992 Greyston Health Services was formed, primarily to provide services for poor people with HIV/AIDS. In 1997 Issan House opened, named after Issan Dorsey a Zen Roshi who had died from an AIDS-related condition in 1990. It provides thirty-five |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Sapp | Keldrick Josep Sapp, professionally known as Cyber Sapp is an American record producer and songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia, who is possibly best known for producing Gucci Mane's single "Freaky Gurl". He currently manages Bohagon, who is a part of Sapp's BLACK CARTEL label. He has produced for David Banner, P$C, Bonecrusher, Young Red and Lil Ron, Slim Thug, Paul Wall, 4-IZE, Killer Mike, Soulja Slim and B.G., among others.
Production discography
BME / WB: Bohagon (What You Want); Trillville (Something In The Air)
Grand Hustle / Atlantic: P$C (Crankin' In The South & Still I Luv Her); Mac Boney & AK (Act); Petey Pablo (Shorty I'm Tight); Kuntry (Pusha)
So So Def / Jive: Bone Crusher (Hey Fuck Boy)
SRC / Universal: David Banner (We Ride Them Caddies); Three 6 Mafia and 8Ball & MJG (Gangsta Walk)
Sucka Free / Sony: Lil Ron & Yung Redd ft. Killer Mike (Wood Grain); Paul Wall (What They Talking Bout)
Infallible Records: Fresh ft. Mac Boney and David Banner (Who You Testin'); J.B ft. Bohagon and Mac Boney (Get Some Grind); Tre ft. Marcus (Shoes N' Socks)
In 2012, Sapp produced T. Cash's song "Keep Doing It" featuring Lamar Starzz.
In 2014, Starting producing new group out of the Metro Atlanta named Forte' Lingo. New single Remain The Same is the first single of the EP - Speak My Language produced by Cyber Sapp and Scott Supreme. The project will be the first project released under UGOTWAX. UGOTWAX is a digital promotion company which Cyber Sapp and DJ MLK co-own.
References
African-American record producers
American hip hop record producers
Living people
Musicians from Atlanta
Songwriters from Georgia (U.S. state)
Southern hip hop musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engenim%20d%27Urre%20de%20Valentin%C3%A8s | Engenim d'Urre de Valentinès was a troubadour, possibly from Eurre. He wrote an undatable sirventes attacking "evil barons" that begins Pois pres s'en fui qe non troba guirensa. Internal evidence may suggest he was a valvassor. The song is found in the sixteenth-century Italian paper manuscript known as chansonnier a. His name is written Engenim Durre in the manuscript, and another possible correction of this is En Genim, meaning "Sir Genim".
References
Sources
Björkman, Sven (2002). "Pois pres s'en fui qe non troba guirensa: Un sirventès du troubadour Engenim d'Urre de Valentinès", pp. 35–41. Mélanges publiés en hommage à Gunnel Engwall, ed. Inge Bartning. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis.
Jeanroy, Alfred (1934). La poésie lyrique des troubadours. Toulouse: Privat.
French troubadours
People from Drôme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Allis | Louis Victor Allis (born 19 May 1965) is a Dutch computer scientist working in the artificial intelligence (AI) field. In his graduate work, he revealed AI solutions for Connect Four, Qubic, and Gomoku. His dissertation introduced two new game search techniques: proof-number search and dependency-based search. Proof-number search has seen further successful application in computer Go tactical search and many other games.
Career
Allis holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and graduated cum laude with a M. Sc. in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands. He has more than 30 publications to his name; the majority of his published work reports on research in search technologies.
He started his career in 1987 as a freelance teacher, course developer and mentor of various AMBI courses for NOVI. Allis has lectured at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam as an assistant professor in artificial intelligence. In 1992, his program Victoria won the 4th Computer Olympiad in the game of Gomoku without losing a single game. His programs had also won first places at the Computer Olympiad in games of Connect Four (1989), Awari (1990, 1991, 1992), and Qubic (1991), thus making him winner of all four early Computer Olympiads.
He co-authored a solution of 4×4×4 Qubic game using his proof-number search technique.
In 1995 he joined Bolesian (a knowledge technology firm in the Netherlands which is a daughter company of Capgemini and specialized in developing advanced systems based on artificial intelligence) as a senior consultant and manager. In 1997 he co-founded Quintiq and was appointed as the company's CEO.
Allis relocated to the Philadelphia office Quintiq in 2010, remaining CEO and a co-owner. Quintiq was acquired by Dassault Systemes in July 2014.
Notes
External links
Allis's home page (archived)
Quintiq company site
Victor Allis at Chess Programming Wiki.
1965 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Dutch chief executives in the technology industry
Artificial intelligence researchers
Go (game) researchers
People from Gemert-Bakel
Maastricht University alumni
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treefinder | Treefinder is a computer program for the likelihood-based reconstruction of phylogenetic trees from molecular sequences. It was written by Gangolf Jobb, a former researcher at the University of Munich, Germany, and was originally released in 2004. Treefinder is free of charge, though the most recent license prohibits its use in the USA and eight European countries.
Overview
A platform-independent graphical environment integrates a standard suite of analyses: phylogeny reconstruction, bootstrap analysis, model selection, hypothesis testing, tree calibration, manipulation of trees and sequence data. Treefinder is scriptable through a proprietary scripting language called TL.
Treefinder has an efficient tree search algorithm that can infer trees with thousands of species within a short time. Result trees are displayed and can then be saved as a reconstruction report, which may serve as an input for further analysis, for example hypothesis testing. The report contains all information about the tree and the models used. Treefinder also supports exporting results as NEWICK or NEXUS files.
The software supports a broad collection of models of sequence evolution. The June 2008 release implements 7 models of nucleotide substitution (HKY, TN, J1, J2, J3 (= TIM), TVM, GTR), 14 empirical models of amino acid substitution (BLOSUM, cpREV, Dayhoff, JTT, LG, mtArt, mtMam, mtREV, PMB, rtREV, betHIV, witHIV, VT, WAG), 4 substitution models of structured rRNA (bactRNA, eukRNA, euk23RNA, mitoRNA), the 6-state "Dayhoff Groups" protein model (DG), 2-state and 3-state models of DNA (GTR3, GTR2), a parametric mixed model (MIX) mixing the empirical models of proteins or rRNA, and also a user-definable GTR-type model (MAP) mapping characters to states as needed. Three models of among-site rate heterogeneity are available (Gamma, Gamma+I, I), which can be combined with any of the substitution models. One can assume different models for different partitions of a sequence alignment, and partitions may be assumed to evolve at different speeds. All parameters of the models can be estimated from the data by maximization of likelihood. Certain TL expressions, the "model expressions", allow the concise notation of complex models, together with their parameters and optimization modes.
Treefinder's original publication from 2004 has been cited more than a thousand times in the scientific literature.
Controversy
On February 1, 2015, Jobb disallowed the use of Treefinder in the USA in order to make a political statement. The author again changed the license terms on October 1, 2015 to exclude use in Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain, Sweden, and Denmark - countries he claimed "host most of the non-european immigrants". In an accompanying statement, he decried the handling of the European migrant crisis by European countries. The journal BMC Evolutionary Biology that published the original application note has since retracted it, stating that the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband%20Forum | The Broadband Forum is a non-profit industry consortium dedicated to developing broadband network specifications. Members include telecommunications networking and service provider companies, broadband device and equipment vendors, consultants and independent testing labs (ITLs). Service provider members are primarily wire-line service providers (non-mobile) telephone companies.
History
The DSL Forum was founded in 1994 with about 200 member companies in different divisions of the telecommunication and information technology sector. It is used as a platform for companies that operate in the broadband market. Its initial main purpose was the establishment of new standards around digital subscriber line communication products such as provisioning. This cooperation has brought different standardizations for ADSL, SHDSL, VDSL, ADSL2+ and VDSL2.
The group was established in 1994 as the ADSL Forum, but became the DSL Forum in 1999. It was renamed after the digital subscriber line (DSL) family of technology, also known collectively as xDSL.
Among its early design documents, the Forum created TR-001 (1996) system reference model, which together with later TR-012 (1999) core network architecture, recommended PPP over an ATM transport layer as the best practice for a DSL ISP. This was subsequently refined in TR-025 and TR-059.
Starting in 2004, the Forum expanded its work into other last mile technologies including optical fiber. On 17 June 2008 it changed its name to "Broadband Forum". DSL-related specifications, while still a key part of the forum's work, are no longer its only work. For instance, the forum produced work specific to passive optical networking (PON). Its Auto-Configuration Server specification TR-069, originally published in 2004, was adapted for use with set-top box and Network Attached Storage units.
The Forum's TR-101 specification (2006) documents migration toward an Ethernet-based DSL aggregation model (Ethernet DSLAMs).
In May 2009, IP/MPLS Forum merged with the Broadband Forum. It had promoted the Frame Relay and Multiprotocol Label Switching technologies.
Technical work of IP/MPLS Forum continued in a newly created "IP/MPLS and Core" Working Group of the Broadband Forum. The historical specifications from the IP/MPLS Forum's predecessors, ATM Forum, Frame Relay Forum, MFA Forum, and MPLS Forum, are archived on the Broadband Forum's website, under IP/MPLS Forum specifications.
Broadband Forum issued Femto Access Point Service Data Model TR-196 during April 2009 and version 2 released during November 2011.
Broadband Forum specified in TR-348 for Hybrid Access Networks an architecture that enables network operators to efficiently combine XDSL and LTE.
See also
TR-069
TR-196
References
External links
Advantages Of Leased Lines Over Broadband
Technology consortia
Digital subscriber line
Broadband
Digital television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Elephant%20road | New Elephant Road is a business hub of Dhaka city. It is especially well known for its shops selling carpets, floor coverings, computers, computer accessories, shoes, ceramics, garments, show pieces, watches, and food. It was previously known as Laboratory Road. It connects Science Laboratory and Shahbagh.
References
Streets in Dhaka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20van%20der%20Linden | Peter van der Linden (born 1963) is an American technologist and author. He has worked for companies such as Sun Microsystems and Apple Computer, and has written books on Java, C, Linux, and practical jokes. He is currently (2021) a Technology Consultant in Silicon Valley.
References
External links
Peter van der Linden homepage
1963 births
Living people
Dutch computer programmers
Dutch technology writers
Self-help writers
Solaris people
Utrecht University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Centre%20for%20High-End%20Computing | The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) is the national high-performance computing centre in Ireland. It was established in 2005 and provides supercomputing resources, support, training and related services. ICHEC is involved in education and training, including providing courses for researchers.
Kay supercomputer
ICHEC's newest supercomputer, Kay, was commissioned in August 2018 and was named after Irish-American ENIAC programmer Kathleen Antonelli following a public poll, in which the other shortlist candidates were botanist Ellen Hutchins, scientist and inventor Nicholas Callan, geologist Richard Kirwan, chemist Eva Philbin, and hydrographer Francis Beaufort. Kay's system is composed of:
A cluster of 336 nodes, each node having 2x 20-core 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon Gold 6148 (Skylake) processors, 192 GiB of RAM, a 400 GiB local SSD for scratch space and a 100Gbit OmniPath network adaptor. This partition has a total of 13,440 cores and 63 TiB of distributed memory.
A GPU partition of 16 nodes with the same specification as above, plus 2x Nvidia Tesla V100 16GB PCIe (Volta architecture) GPUs on each node. Each GPU has 5,120 CUDA cores and 640 Tensor Cores.
A "Phi" partition of 16 nodes, each containing 1x self-hosted Intel Xeon Phi Processor 7210 (Knights Landing or KNL architecture) with 64 cores @ 1.3 GHz, 192 GiB RAM and a 400 GiB local SSD for scratch space.
A "high memory" set of 6 nodes each containing 1.5 TiB of RAM, 2x 20-core 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon Gold 6148 (Skylake) processors and 1 TiB of dedicated local SSD for scratch storage.
A set of service and administrative nodes to provide user login, batch scheduling, management, networking, etc. Storage is provided via Lustre filesystems on a high-performance DDN SFA14k system with 1 PiB of capacity.
Like all previous HPC systems, ICHEC is connected to the HEAnet and GÉANT networks.
Fionn supercomputer
Between 2014 and August 2018, ICHEC managed the Fionn supercomputer, a heterogeneous system composed of:
an SGI ICE X cluster with 320 nodes or 7,680 Intel Ivy Bridge processor cores with a combined 20 TB of memory (24 cores and 64 GB memory per node).
a hybrid partition with 32 nodes. Each node has 20 Intel Ivy Bridge processor cores, 64 GB of memory along with many-core hardware from Intel (2x Xeon Phi 5110P coprocessors on 16 nodes) and Nvidia (2x Tesla K20X GPGPU cards on 16 nodes).
a shared memory compute node (14 internal NUMA nodes) with 112 Intel Sandy Bridge processor cores, 2 Intel Xeon Phi 5110P coprocessors and 1.7 TB of memory.
a set of service and administrative nodes to provide user login, batch scheduling, management, tape backup, switches, etc. Storage is provided via a DDN SFA12k-20 platform with 560 TB of capacity to all components of the machine via a Lustre filesystem.
Fionn was connected to HEAnet's networking infrastructure. Irish researchers were able to apply for access to Fionn via several schemes. A helpdesk was available for user support. Fionn was re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TADIXS | The Tactical Data Information Exchange Subsystem (TADIXS) is a military communications system designed to allow the exchange of tactical information between commanders using the Global Command and Control System-Maritime (GCCS-M). Specifically, TADIXS allows for communication between land-based (shore) computer systems and those on U.S. Navy fleet ships deployed around the world.
TADIXS has entered its fourth phase of development and is likely to replace the Officer in Tactical Command Information Exchange System (OTCIXS). This information exchange improves the overall situational awareness of tactical commanders in the field and strategic commanders at command and control centers.
References
Military communications
Military technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomipmapping | Geomipmapping or geometrical mipmapping is a real-time block-based terrain rendering algorithm developed by W.H. de Boer in 2000 that aims to reduce CPU processing time which is a common bottleneck in level of detail approaches to terrain rendering.
Prior to geomipmapping, techniques such as quadtree rendering were used to divide the terrain into square tiles created by binary division with quadratically diminishing size. The subdivision step is typically performed on the CPU which creates a bottleneck as geometry commands are buffered to the GPU. Unlike quadtrees which send 1x1 polygon units to the GPU, to reduce the CPU processing time geomipmapping divides the terrain into grid-based tiles which are themselves regularly subdivided. Typically, a fixed number of vertex buffer objects (VBOs) are stored on the GPU at different grid resolutions, such as 10x10 and 20x20, and then placed at major terrain regions selectively chosen by the CPU. A vertex shader is then used to reposition the vertices for a given VBO, all on the GPU. Overall, this results in a major reduction in CPU processing, and reduced CPU-to-GPU bandwidth as the GPU then performs most of the work. Geoclipmaps and GPU raycasting are two other modern alternatives to geomipmapping for interactive rendering of terrain.
See also
ROAM
References
de Boer, W.H., Fast Terrain Rendering using Geometrical Mipmapping, in flipCode featured articles, October 2000. Available at https://www.flipcode.com/archives/article_geomipmaps.pdf
Computer graphics algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories%20Off%205%3A%20Togireta%20Film | is a Japanese romance visual novel developed by KID and published by CyberFront for the PlayStation 2 console. It was released on October 27, 2005, and is the fifth game in the Memories Off series. A port for the PlayStation Portable handheld developed and published by 5pb. was released on January 29, 2009. A sequel named was released for the PlayStation 2 on July 12, 2007. Its PlayStation Portable port was released on September 17, 2009. The gameplay of Memories Off 5 follows linear plot line, which offers different pre-determined scenarios and events, and focuses on the appeal of the five female main characters.
The story of Memories Off 5 has been adapted into novels and a one-episode anime OVA has also been released. Memories Off 5: Encore has also been adapted into a novel.
Gameplay
The gameplay of Memories Off 5 requires minimal interaction from the player as much of the time is spent in reading the text that appears in the bottom of the screen. The text that is displayed represents either the dialogue between the characters or the inner thoughts of the protagonist. Once in a while, the player will be presented will arrive at a "decision point". The game pauses at this point and lists some choices for the player to pick. Based on the choices that are selected, the plot will progress in a specific direction. There are five main plot lines in the game, each corresponding to one of the main female characters. The player will have to replay the game multiple times to experience all of the endings.
Characters
The player takes on the role of , the protagonist of Memories Off 5. Haruto is a university student and a member of the . is a close friend of Haruto's. He was in the process of completing the planning for a film he thought of when he died in an accident one year prior to the events of the game. is an acquaintance of Yūsuke's and is at odds with Haruto and the other members of the CUM society as she claims to be responsible for Yūsuke's death. {{Nihongo|Asuka Hina|日名あすか|Hina Asuka|voiced by: Nogawa Sakura}} is a senior high school student and the sister of Yūsuke.
is a friend of Haruto's and is a member of the CUM society. is another friend of Haruto's and is also a member of the CUM society. He has feelings for Asuka. is a new member of the CUM society and also a character from Memories Off: Sorekara, the previous game in the Memories Off series. is a cousin of Haruto's who also happens to be a classmate and close friend of Asuka's. is the manager of the fast food restaurant that Haruto and Asuka works at. is Haruto's neighbour.
Development
The characters of Memories Off 5 were designed by Yukihiro Matsuo and Takayuki Koshimizu. The music was composed by Takeshi Abo.
Release historyMemories Off 5 was first released for the PlayStation 2 in regular and limited editions on October 27, 2005. The limited edition includes a special book and an original drama CD. The PlayStation Portable port of Memories Off 5 was released in both |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauntletak | Gauntletak is a multidirectional shooter video game written by Donald R. Lebeau for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. It was released as shareware in 1984 with a full-version available for registration of . Gameplay is divided into separate screens (50 in all) with terrain and enemies. The game was originally titled Gauntlet, but was renamed after the Gauntlet arcade game from Atari Games was released in 1985.
Gameplay
The player controls a saucer-shaped ship using a joystick and the keyboard, and can fire weapons in eight directions, both at the terrain (to dig holes or tunnels) and at enemies. The player uses the joystick to apply thrust in different directions, meaning the ship can be moving in one direction and firing in any other (strafing the ground or enemies). The X key on the keyboard causes the ship to full-stop.
Various kinds of enemies are found in the game, each of which reacts to the player differently. Some attack the player immediately, some wait until the player is within close proximity, some wait until the player is in their line of sight, etc. Some large enemies release smaller enemies that in turn attack the player.
Additionally, the player has an arsenal of different weapons to choose from: fusion bolts, homing missiles, flares, and so on that have different effects For example, fusion bolts are similar to the counter-missiles in Missile Command; they explode when they hit other objects, including explosions. The player can fire repeatedly in the same direction causing explosions to "walk back" towards their ship, providing a kind of shield against enemies.
Name change
A year after the game was published, Atari Games released the hack and slash arcade game Gauntlet (itself based on another Atari computer game, Dandy). Despite having trademarked the name, after talking with his lawyers, Donald renamed the registered version of his game Gauntletak to avoid infringement. The registered version was released in 1987.
References
External links
Gauntlet at Atari Mania
Gauntletak at Atari Mania
Gauntletak video on YouTube
1984 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Atari 8-bit family-only games
Multidirectional shooters
Shareware games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Capture%20of%20the%20Green%20River%20Killer | The Capture of the Green River Killer is a 2008 television miniseries that first aired on Lifetime Movie Network and tells the story of the Green River killer serial murders between 1982 and 1998.
The miniseries was named one of the top 10 television productions of 2008 by Variety and was twice nominated for a 2008 Gemini Award for best direction and for best costuming. Lifetime's premiere of The Capture of the Green River Killer delivered two million viewers, making it 10-year-old Lifetime Movie Network's most-watched telecast ever.
Background
The film is based on David Reichert's book, Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer. The film's biggest departure from the book is a fictional inclusion of two teenage girls, one of whom, Helen "Hel" Remus, is a young runaway who decides to turn to prostitution to escape her mother's abusive boyfriend, in a sympathetic storyline to honor Ridgway's victims. Detective Dave Reichert works the murder cases and stays on the case from beginning to end, including extensive interviews with incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy.
Cast
Tom Cavanagh as Dave Reichert
Michelle Harrison as Julie Reichert
Amy Davidson as Helen 'Hel' Remus
Sharon Lawrence as Fiona Remus
Christina Lindley as Lynn Mosey
James Marsters as Ted Bundy
John Pielmeier as Gary Ridgway
James Russo as Jeb Dallas
Zak Santiago as Seth Imperia
Maya Ritter as Teen Angela
Brendan Fletcher as Bobby
Currie Graham as Captain Norwell
Jessica Harmon as Natalie 'Nat' Webley
Aaron Hughes as Ellie's Boyfriend
Ingrid Rogers as Det. Faye Brooks
Bret Anthony as Bram Seton
Dan Augusta as Young Gary Ridgway
Paige Bannister as Colleen Brockman
Trisha Benjamin as Marsue Haller
Sarah Constible as Mary Meehan
John Fasano as Joe Jakes
Alicia Johnston as Gary's Mom
Suzanne Kelly as Opal Mills
Kristen Sawatzky as Ellie Slater
Jenna Ullenboom as Wendy Coffield
Solmund MacPherson as Boy
Music
The main music theme is taken out of the symphonic poem From Bohemia's Fields and Meadows (Z českých luhů a hájů). It is the fourth part of a set of six symphonic poems Má vlast (My Homeland) by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana.
Reception
Barry Garon of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Using dark colors and jarring images, director Norma Bailey tries to infuse the work with suspense and mystery. The story itself, a repetitive tale unfolding at a languid pace, impedes the effort."
References
External links
The Capture of the Green River Killer at Lifetime Movie Network
2000s American television miniseries
Fiction about serial killers
Cultural depictions of Ted Bundy
Lifetime (TV network) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema%20crosswalk | A schema crosswalk is a table that shows equivalent elements (or "fields") in more than one database schema. It maps the elements in one schema to the equivalent elements in another.
Crosswalk tables are often employed within or in parallel to enterprise systems, especially when multiple systems are interfaced or when the system includes legacy system data. In the context of Interfaces, they function as an internal extract, transform, load (ETL) mechanism.
For example, this is a metadata crosswalk from MARC standards to Dublin Core:
Crosswalks show people where to put the data from one scheme into a different scheme. They are often used by libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions to translate data to or from MARC standards, Dublin Core, Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), and other metadata schemes. For example, an archive has a MARC record in its catalog describing a manuscript. Suppose the archive makes a digital copy of that manuscript and wants to display it on the web along with the information from the catalog. In that case, it will have to translate the data from the MARC catalog record into a different format, such as Metadata Object Description Schema, that is viewable on a webpage. Because MARC has various fields than MODS, decisions must be made about where to put the data into MODS. This type of "translating" from one format to another is often called "metadata mapping" or "field mapping," and is related to "data mapping", and "semantic mapping".
Crosswalks also have several technical capabilities. They help databases using different metadata schemes to share information. They help metadata harvesters create union catalogs. They enable search engines to search multiple databases simultaneously with a single query.
Challenges for crosswalks
One of the biggest challenges for crosswalks is that no two metadata schemes are 100% equivalent. One scheme may have a field that doesn't exist in another scheme or a field that is split into two different fields in another scheme; this is why you often lose data when mapping from a complex scheme to a simpler one. For example, when mapping from MARC to Simple Dublin Core, you lose the distinction between types of titles:
Simple Dublin Core only has one "Title" element, so all of the different types of MARC titles get lumped together without further distinctions. This is called "many-to-one" mapping. This is also why once you've translated these titles into Simple Dublin Core, you can't translate them back into MARC. Once they're Simple Dublin Core, you've lost the MARC information about what types of titles they are, so when you map from Simple Dublin Core back to MARC, all the data in the "Title" element maps to the basic MARC 245 Title Statement field.
This is why crosswalks are said to be "lateral" (one-way) mappings from one scheme to another. Separate crosswalks would be required to map from scheme A to scheme B and from scheme B to scheme A.
Difficulties |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morda%20Tramway | The Morda Tramway refers to two industrial railways south of Oswestry, on the border between England and Wales. They connected the coal pits around Morda to transport networks, the first to the Montgomery Canal and the second to the Cambrian Railways at Whitehaven.
History
A horse-drawn tramway running southeast was built in 1813 to serve the small coal mines of Coed-y-Go and the Bell Pits near Morda, about 1 mile south of Oswestry. It ran east of Sweeney Mountain, crossed the Oswestry-Welshpool road at Albridge Lane, and met the Montgomery Canal at a wharf by Gronwen Bridge south of Maesbury, where the canal now ends. When the large Drill colliery opened, the tramway was modernised with new rails that could handle heavier loads. By 1850 the canal had been taken over by the Shropshire Union Canal and the tramway had closed by 1879.
Railway engineer Thomas Savin saw the advantage of connecting his Cambrian Railways to the mines at Morda. He bought the Coed y Go mines and built a narrow-gauge railway from Whitehaven, starting near Nuttree Farm. It ran northwards, west of Sweeney Mountain to the small hamlet Gronwen (this section is walkable today, including a steep bank in a shallow cutting from Sweeney Fen nature reserve opening out onto a causeway as far as Gronwen), then curved west up the brook, under Brook House bridge and then swung northeast to Coed-y-Go. The railway opened in 1861 but Savin's railways collapsed in 1866 and his mine closed in 1869.
Remains
Most of Savin's railway can be traced today. There is a fine bridge at Brook House, that has a high arch to accommodate the tall chimneys of the locomotives used on the line. It seems that there was an existing bridge taking the lane over Nant-y-Caws brook, now referred to as the Garden Bridge. Savin built a new bridge to take the lane over both railway and brook, and realigned the lane over the new bridge. Limestone blocks that supported the track can be seen in the field east of the bridge.
References
External links
www.northwalesminers.com has details of Savin's mines
Railway lines opened in 1860
Railway lines closed in 1869
Narrow gauge railways in England
Narrow gauge railways in Wales
Closed railway lines in the West Midlands (region)
Closed railway lines in Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20C.%20Elston | Robert C. Elston (born ) is a British born statistical geneticist and distinguished professor emeritus at Case Western Reserve University. He is one of the eponyms of the Elston–Stewart algorithm and Haseman–Elston regression.
Life
Elston was born in London, England in 1932.
In the 1970s he worked with John Stewart to create the Elston–Stewart algorithm which enables researchers to estimate the likelihood of genotype data given a pedigree.
In 1980s Elston was working at the Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans working on statistical genetics. Elston left LSU for Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1995 taking other staff with him.
References
Bibliography
External links
Living people
Case Western Reserve University faculty
Genetic epidemiologists
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Biostatisticians
Cornell University alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
1932 births
British epidemiologists
English geneticists
Statistical geneticists
English statisticians
English emigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basenotes | Basenotes is a United Kingdom-based online fragrance resource which includes a fragrance database, message boards and editorial. The site was launched in August 2000 by Grant Osborne as an information site for men's fragrance and grooming. In 2004, the site expanded to include feminine fragrances.
Basenotes Fragrance Directory
The Basenotes Fragrance Directory contains over 20,000 fragrances and over 90,000 fragrance reviews by the site's visitors. Users of the site can search for fragrances by name, house, year of launch, gender, notes (ingredients), perfumer or bottle designer. Visitors to the site can submit information to be included in the directory.
The consumer reviews on the site have been described as "admirably prosaic" by Alexis Petridis in The Guardian.
Basenotes Fragrance Awards
Each year, Basenotes asks visitors to the site to vote for their favorite fragrances that year. Regular winners include Old Spice, Shalimar, Vetiver de Guerlain, Chanel No.5, YSL M7, Green Irish Tweed and A*Men. There are also categories for the best new fragrance and best celebrity fragrance.
Awards and recognition
Basenotes has won five awards for its editorial content, written by Marian Bendeth, at The Canadian Fragrance Awards in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
In 2009, the website won a prize for Best Web Editorial at the Jasmine Awards for an article by the writer, Liz Upton. The following year, the same prize was won by the Basenotes writer, Walker Minton. In 2018, Claire Vukcevic won the Best Practical Guide Award for her guide to summer fragrances on Basenotes.
Controversy
Much suspicion surrounds the censorship process on the site, whereby opinions which differ from the orthodoxy as presented by the site moderators are removed. Frequently, this results in the banning of members who express non-compliant views. It has been suggested that there are commercial motives behind this censorship. Fragrance house O'Driu, who apparently suffered as a result of this perceived bias, famously responded by releasing a fragrance called "Kiss My Ass Basenotes", which won an award at the Cafleurebon 2015 fragrance awards.
References
Internet properties established in 2000
Perfumery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BURN-E | BURN-E is a 2008 American computer-animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It is tied into and included with the DVD and Blu-ray of WALL-E. The titular repair robot is a minor character from the movie, and this short is intercut with scenes from WALL-E, which takes place concurrently. WALL-Es director Andrew Stanton co-wrote and executive produced the short.
BURN-E was produced at the same time as WALL-E and directed by the feature film's lead animator, Angus MacLane. It features music composed and conducted by J. A. C. Redford, who was also an orchestrator on WALL-E.
The BURN-E robot appears briefly in WALL-E during the scene in which WALL-E and EVE dance in space. When they re-enter the Axiom, they accidentally lock him out, and he is last seen banging his fists against the door.
Plot
As WALL-E travels through space clinging to the ship carrying EVE back to the Axiom starliner, he runs his hand through the Rings of Saturn in passing, and dislodges a tiny rock. It gains enough momentum to become a meteor and crashes into and destroys one of the running lights (known as "spires") on the Axioms hull.
The Axioms computer alerts the ship's autopilot, AUTO, that repairs are needed. AUTO activates SUPPLY-R, who in turn activates BURN-E. Given his welding torch and an intact spire, he shuts down the broken spire, and travels via a special track onto the ship's hull to complete the repair. However, he gets distracted by WALL-E's arrival, and inadvertently lets the spire float away into space. SUPPLY-R gives him a second one, but he accidentally cuts it in half when an exploding escape pod (which WALL-E was inside of) startles him.
Irritated by this second failure, SUPPLY-R drops the third and final spare light on the floor, leaving BURN-E to pick it up. He successfully repairs the light, but before he can bring it online, he is accidentally locked out by WALL-E and EVE, who fly inside after their dance in space around the Axiom and close the door behind them.
BURN-E tries to find another way in, including through the open garbage airlock, but all attempts fail. Finally, he realizes he can use his welding torch to cut a new entrance in the hull of the Axiom, and does so. However, he is flung back outside when a fight between the Captain and AUTO causes the ship to list violently to starboard. He catches hold of the spire, and is able to get back on his track as the ship turns upright again, but the Captain sends the Axiom into a hyperjump, pinning BURN-E against the hull before he can reenter the ship.
When the Axiom lands on Earth, BURN-E goes to find SUPPLY-R so he can hit the button to bring the spire back online, but everyone is gone. He hunts through the deserted Axiom, and finds the humans and robots are all outside when he looks through the window of an escape pod. He accidentally jettisons the pod, and crashes to Earth; flinging the pod door open so hard that it flies into the air, he runs to SUPPLY-R and finally brings th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid%20Slimi | Hamid Slimi is a Canadian imam and the founder of Sayeda Khadija Centre in Mississauga.
Career
Slimi is the founder and president of Faith of Life Network, the Founder and Chairman of the Canadian Centre for Deen Studies, the former Chairman of the Canadian Council of Imams (2006-2013) and a lecturer at the Islamic Institute of Toronto.
In 2009, Slimi was featured by Georgetown University as one of the 500 Most influential Muslims in the World.
In addition to the traditional degrees known as Ijazah, he holds two master's degrees with High Honors in both disciplines from Morocco and the US and a PhD in Islamic Law from the U.K. He received both his traditional and academic learning in Morocco and attended other renowned institutions and universities in other parts of the world.
Slimi was considered as a candidate to play a role in Canadian former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr's rehabilitation, after he returns to Canada. Khadr's attorney, Lieutenant Commander William C. Kuebler, suggested Slimi draft a "religious rehabilitation" program, to prepare for Khadr's return.
Kuebler describes Slimi as a "bridge-builder". In 2008, Slimi became "the first Muslim to address Toronto's Neighbourhood Interfaith Group".
References
Canadian Muslims
Canadian imams
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Sports | Universal Sports was an American sports-oriented digital cable and satellite television network. It was owned as a joint venture between InterMedia Partners (which owned a controlling 92% interest) and NBCUniversal (which owned the remaining 8%).
History
World Championship Sports Network
The channel was launched in 2006 as World Championship Sports Network (WCSN); it was co-founded by Claude Ruibal (who served as its chairman and chief executive officer) and Tom Hipkins (who served as a member of the channel's board of directors), with the help of Carlos Silva (its president and chief operating officer). One of the first events broadcast by WCSN was coverage of the United States Track and Field Championships via streaming video.
In 2007, InterMedia Partners gained a majority ownership interest in the network. By March 2008, WCSN began to be carried on broadcast television, through the digital subchannels of several stations owned by the Granite Broadcasting Corporation.
Universal Sports
NBCUniversal entered into a partnership with InterMedia in which the former acquired a minority interest in the channel; in addition, on June 16, 2008, the network was rebranded as Universal Sports, incorporating a new logo with the NBC peacock. By November 2008, all 10 of NBC's owned-and-operated stations had begun carrying the network on one of their digital subchannels. Universal Sports offered carriage on broadcast stations on a channel lease basis until 2011, with the provision that the stations strike deals with cable providers in their markets to carry the network by January 31, 2009. If a station failed to obtain cable carriage, the network had the right to move its affiliation to another station in that market that would be able to gain cable carriage. The network was being shopped to NBC-affiliated stations until December 1.
On June 17, 2010, Universal Sports, along with the International Rugby Board, announced that the channel would bring "unprecedented national television and digital media coverage of the 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cup tournaments."
On October 22, 2015, it was announced that Universal Sports would shut down on November 16, 2015, and that NBC Sports would inherit the network's portfolio of sports rights for its own networks (such as NBC, NBCSN and Universal HD). The channel shut down at 6AM on that day; with the documentary "5 Peaks in a Day from Switzerland" being the network's last program. On July 1, 2017, the United States Olympic Committee and the NBC Sports Group launched the Olympic Channel, effectively serving as Universal Sports' eventual replacement channel.
Carriage
On June 15, 2011, DirecTV added Universal Sports as a national basic channel. The carriage agreement with DirecTV led NBCUniversal and InterMedia to announce on September 12, 2011, that it would transition Universal Sports into a cable- and satellite-exclusive service (effectively dropping its over-the-air affiliates) by January 2012. On January 1, 2012, Uni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Timesharing%20System | The Berkeley Timesharing System was a pioneering time-sharing operating system implemented between 1964 and 1967 at the University of California, Berkeley. It was designed as part of Project Genie and marketed by Scientific Data Systems for the SDS 940 computer system.
It was the first commercial time-sharing which allowed general-purpose user programming, including machine language.
History
In the mid-1960s, most computers used batch processing: one user at a time with no interactivity. A few pioneering systems such as the Atlas Supervisor at the University of Manchester, Compatible Time-Sharing System at MIT, and the Dartmouth Time Sharing System at Dartmouth College required large expensive machines.
Implementation started in 1964 with the arrival of the SDS 930 which was modified slightly, and an operating system was written from scratch.
Students who worked on the Berkeley Timesharing System included undergraduates Chuck Thacker and L. Peter Deutsch and doctoral student Butler Lampson.
The heart of the system was the Monitor (roughly what is now usually called a kernel) and the
Executive (roughly what is now usually called a command-line interface).
When the system was working, Max Palevsky, founder of Scientific Data Systems, was at first not interested in selling it as a product. He thought timesharing had no commercial demand. However, as other customers expressed interest, it was put on the SDS pricelist as an expensive variant of the 930.
By November 1967 it was being sold commercially as the SDS 940.
By August 1968 a version 2.0 was announced that was just called the "SDS 940 Time-Sharing System".
Other timesharing systems were generally one-of-a-kind systems, or limited to a single application (such as teaching Dartmouth BASIC). The 940 was the first to allow for general-purpose programming, and sold about 60 units: not large by today's standards, but it was a significant part of SDS' revenues.
One customer was Bolt, Beranek and Newman. The TENEX operating system for the PDP-10 mainframe computer used many features of the SDS 940 Time-Sharing System system, but extended the memory management to include demand paging.
Some concepts of the operating system also influenced the design of Unix, whose designer Ken Thompson worked on the SDS 940 while at Berkeley.
The QED text editor was first implemented by Butler Lampson and L. Peter Deutsch for the Berkeley Timesharing System in 1967.
Another major customer was Tymshare, who used the system to become the USA's best known commercial timesharing service in the late 1960s. By 1972, Tymshare alone had 23 systems in operation.
See also
Timeline of operating systems
Time-sharing system evolution
References
Further reading
Reprinted in Computer Structures, ed. Bell and Newell, McGraw-Hill, 1971, pp 291–300
External links
SDS-940 Simulator Configuration
Time-sharing operating systems
1960s software
University of California, Berkeley |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%20Kendall | Graham Kendall, FORS, FBCS (born 21 July 1961) is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is currently (2016–present) the Provost and CEO of University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. He is also a Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University.
He is a member of the Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning (ASAP) Research Group within the School of Computer Science.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions of Computational Intelligence and AI in Games.
References
External links
Graham Kendall's home page.
1961 births
Living people
Malaysian mathematicians
Malaysian academics
British computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Academics of the University of Nottingham
Alumni of the University of Nottingham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa%20Coins%202008 | The theme for 2008 was European Cultural Heritage.
Malta
See also
References
External links
The Euro Coins Collection Network
Coins of the Eurozone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugla | Rugla is the southernmost island of Tiholmane, part of Thousand Islands, an island group south of Edgeøya.
References
Norwegian Polar Institute Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20museum | A green museum is a museum that incorporates concepts of sustainability into its operations, programming, and facility. Many green museums use their collections to produce exhibitions, events, classes, and other programming to educate the public about the natural environment. Many, but not all, green museums reside in a building featuring sustainable architecture and technology. Green museums interpret their own sustainable practices and green design to present a model of behavior.
Green museums strive to help people become more conscious of the limitations of their world, and how their actions affect their world. The goal is to create positive change by encouraging people to make sustainable choices in their daily lives. They use their position as community-centered institutions to create a culture of sustainability.
Definitions
Museum
Museums make a "unique contribution to the public by collecting, preserving, and interpreting the things of this world", according to the American Alliance of Museums’ Code of Ethics. There are many types of museums that specialize in various fields, including anthropology, art, history, natural history, science, and can have living collections such as public aquariums, botanical gardens, nature centers, and zoos, or no collections like planetariums, and children's museums.
Green
The word "green" means environmentally thoughtful practice. The words "green" and "sustainable" are buzzwords often used interchangeably. However, according to Brophy and Wylie, "green" and "sustainable" have distinctly different definitions. "Green refers to products and behaviors that are environmentally benign, [...] while sustainable means practices that rely on renewable or reusable materials and processes that are green or environmentally benign." Another frequently cited definition for "sustainability" that is used in various contexts was developed by the United Nations (1987): "Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs."
Sustainability reflects a complex system where components are closely linked and do not exist in isolation from one another. A sustainable system affects and is affected by the individual and collective behaviors of its members. Sustainability, therefore, recognizes the human impact on the environment, and aims to mitigate negative effects.
Culture of sustainability
Green museums aim to promote a culture of sustainability, which can be defined in two parts: culture, which includes the values, practices, beliefs and aspirations of a society. Whilst sustainability asks people to adapt at a cultural level, changing their beliefs and behavior.
Museums are in a unique position to establish and promote a culture of sustainability as they are arenas that simulataneousy preserve and create culture. As a result, museums are now considered to have a key role in shaping a sustainable future. These changes can be achieved through |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Store%20Meinicke%C3%B8ya | Store Meinickeøya () is the largest island in Meinickeøyane, part of Thousand Islands, an island group south of Edgeøya.
References
Norwegian Polar Institute Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayhawk%20Radio%20Network | The Jayhawk Radio Network is a network of radio stations in Kansas that divert from their regular programming to broadcast men's football and basketball games of the University of Kansas. All stations cover the network broadcast, which begins 30 minutes prior to the game and ends approximately 30 minutes after the game, depending on various factors. Some stations also air the Crimson and Blue Line, a pregame show that begins one hour prior to the network broadcast program and runs until the network pregame begins.
Full Coverage Stations
The following stations carry the Crimson and Blue pregame show in addition to the game broadcast, as well as women's basketball, soccer, softball, baseball, and volleyball, in addition to the major varsity sports of men's basketball and football.
KKSW - FM 105.9, Lawrence, KS (flagship station)
K269GP - FM 101.7, Lawrence, KS
KLWN - AM 1320, Lawrence, KS (flagship station)
KMAJ - AM 1440, Topeka, KS
KGNO - AM 1370, Dodge City, KS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20to%20Earth%20%28Peter%20Gabriel%20song%29 | "Down to Earth" is a song co-written and performed by English rock musician Peter Gabriel for the 2008 computer-animated Disney-Pixar film WALL·E. It was released on June 10, 2008, by Walt Disney Records and Real World Records. Composed by Gabriel and Thomas Newman, with lyrics by Gabriel, and featuring the Soweto Gospel Choir, the song is the 37th song on the soundtrack album to WALL·E, in which it is featured over the end credits.
Background
The song saw release as a promotional single for the Pixar animated feature film WALL·E on June 10, 2008. It was released as a digital download single on July 6, 2008.
"As a kid I loved animation, so I'm a huge Pixar fan," Gabriel explained to Mark Blake. "I have seen WALL·E many times as I have young children. It was also great to work with the scorer Thomas Newman... He wrote the best TV theme tune ever: for Six Feet Under."
Reception
Nominated for the Best Original Song Award at the Golden Globes, and the Best Original Song award at the 81st Academy Awards, "Down to Earth". However, it won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media in 2009.
Chart performance
References
External links
On Pixar Blog
2008 singles
Peter Gabriel songs
Pixar songs
Songs with music by Thomas Newman
Songs written by Peter Gabriel
WALL-E
Environmental songs
Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
Walt Disney Records singles
2008 songs
World music songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTPZ-TDT | XHTPZ-TDT is a television station in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico broadcasting on virtual channel 4. It is the Televisa local station for Tampico, with local news and programming alongside a selection of other Televisa programs.
History
XHTPZ was awarded as part of the 1994 62-station concession to Radiotelevisora de México Norte, a subsidiary of Televisa. It broadcast on analog channel 24.
On August 26, 2018, XHTPZ moved to virtual channel 4.
In 2018, the concessions of all non-network Televisa Regional stations were consolidated in the concessionaire Televisora de Occidente, S.A. de C.V., as part of a corporate reorganization of Televisa's concessionaires.
Digital television
Digital subchannels
XHTPZ broadcasts on physical channel 16 (virtual channel 4.1). In February 2018, it started to broadcast FOROtv on its second subchannel; this moved to Las Estrellas transmitter XHGO-TDT in line with other cities in June 2018.
On January 1, 2020, XHTPZ activated a Nu9ve subchannel using major virtual channel 9. Prior to this date, Nu9ve was seen on XHFW-TDT alongside that station's local programming.
Prior to repacking on October 18, 2018, XHTPZ broadcast on physical channel 39.
References
Televisa Regional
Television stations in Tampico, Tamaulipas
1994 establishments in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynis | Lynis is an extensible security audit tool for computer systems running Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, OpenBSD, Solaris, and other Unix derivatives. It assists system administrators and security professionals with scanning a system and its security defenses, with the final goal being system hardening.
Software
The tool was created by Michael Boelen, the original author of rkhunter as well as several special contributors and translators. Lynis is available under the GPLv3 license.
The software determines various system information, such as the specific OS type, kernel parameters, authentication and accounting mechanism, installed packages, installed services, network configuration, logging and monitoring (e.g. syslog-ng), cryptography (e.g. SSL/TLS certificates) and installed malware scanners (e.g. ClamAV or rkhunter). Additionally, it will check the system for configuration errors and security issues. By request of the auditor, those checks may conform to international standards such as ISO 27001, PCI-DSS 3.2 and HIPAA.
The software also helps with fully automated or semi-automatic auditing, software patch management, evaluation of server hardening guidelines and vulnerability/malware scanning of Unix-based systems. It can be locally installed from most system repositories, or directly started from disk, including USB stick, CD or DVD.
Audience
The intended audience is auditors, security specialists, penetration testers, and sometimes system/network administrators. Usually members of a First Line of Defense within a company or larger organization tend to employ such audit tools. According to the official documentation, there is also a Lynis Enterprise version, available with support for more than 10 computer systems, providing malware scanning, intrusion detection and additional guidance for auditors.
Reception
In 2016, Lynis won an InfoWorld Bossie Award.
See also
chkrootkit
Host-based intrusion detection system comparison
List of free and open-source software packages
Kali Linux
References
External links
Lynis on free(code)
Free security software
Unix security-related software
Unix package management-related software
MacOS security software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer%20Emotional%20Support%20Helplines | Volunteer Emotional Support Helplines (VESH) is a planned combined international network of telephone counseling services being formed by the three largest international services (Befrienders/Samaritans, IFOTES & Lifeline). In their roles of emotional support service networks, they have agreed to develop a more effective and robust international interface.
VESH represents 1200 member centres in 61 countries. Their goal is to ensure maximum access to effective services for people in distress. They agreed to:
encourage the development of new services in areas of need
promote best practice
increase information sharing between member associations and externally
represent members’ experiences internationally
promote communications skills which contribute to emotional health.
Together, the VESH partners have around 1,200 member centres in 61 countries. They have outlined a commitment to information sharing and joint activities. Part of this includes annual meetings and quarterly telephone conferences to plan and implement collaborative projects.
At the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) Congress in Ireland in 2007, VESH members
were asked to consider leading the re-establishment of an IASP Task Force on Best Practice in Helplines.
agreed to provide one person to be on the Scientific Committee planning the content of the 2009 IASP International Congress.
agreed to produce two draft booklets along the lines of ‘Setting up a New Emotional Support Service’, and ‘Best Practice Guidelines’ (following a request from WHO)
History
In 2002 IFOTES, LifeLine International and Befrienders International (and later adopted by Befrienders Worldwide) signed a Memorandum of Understanding - with a view to maximising joint impact in terms of emotional support services.
Since then a number of joint initiatives have been undertaken including joint platforms at international conferences of the International Association for Suicide Prevention and joint involvement in planning for the suicide themed World Mental Health Day 2006, a European Single Number project (116 123) and European Green Paper on Mental Health.
Member Organizations
VESH members each represent counselling services in multiple countries.
Befrienders Worldwide
Befrienders Worldwide is now run by Samaritans, who took on the work of Befrienders International in 2003. They have members worldwide.
IFOTES - International Federation of Telephone Emergency Services
Founded in 1967, IFOTES brings together National Associations of Telephone Emergency Services, mainly from Western Europe, along with Israel and some Eastern European countries
Lifeline International
Lifeline International is run by Lifeline Australia. Member organisations are from countries in the Asian & Pacific Islands region, some African nations, and Canada and the USA.
Future plans
Members recognize the enormous common ground between them and feel there would be great advantage in having an international network within |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo%20Seikatsusha%20Network | The Tokyo Seikatsusha Network (東京・生活者ネットワーク, Tōkyō Seikatsusha Nettowāku) is a local Japanese political party affiliated with Tokyo Seikatsu Club, a consumer's cooperative. It is generally moderate left, and tends to appeal to the same voters as the Social Democratic Party of Japan and Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.
See also
Liberalism in Japan
References
External links
Consumer organizations in Japan
Regional parties in Japan
Politics of Tokyo
Political parties established in 1977
1977 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity%20announcers%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | In the United Kingdom, continuity announcers are people who are employed to introduce programmes on radio and television networks, to promote forthcoming programmes on the station, to cross-promote programmes on the broadcaster's other stations where applicable and, sometimes, to provide information relating to the programme just broadcast.
The six pre-digital terrestrial television channels in the UK (BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4, S4C and Channel 5) make use of continuity announcers, and for most of the time, continuity announcements are presented live. Continuity announcers can also be found on digital and satellite channels, but most of these channels make use of pre-recorded announcements.
BBC
The BBC mainly uses live announcers on its flagship television channels BBC One and BBC Two, and mainly uses pre-recorded announcements on its digital channels (apart from BBC News and BBC Parliament, which do not use announcers at all). Separate continuity for BBC One and BBC Two in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is provided by local announcers who also double as transmission directors.
Presently, the only UK national radio station to use continuity announcers is BBC Radio 4, where many of the announcing staff also act as newsreaders and also introduce the station's Shipping Forecast. The BBC World Service still uses announcers as radio newsreaders but live continuity was discontinued in the early 2010s. Until about 1990, BBC Radio 2 used continuity announcers (separate from newsreaders) for its weekend and evening output, but these have since disappeared. Similarly, BBC Radio 3 has downgraded the former role of its announcers in favour of a new style of presenter. Continuity announcers played a much heavier role on the pre-1967 BBC Home Service, BBC Light Programme and BBC Third Programme (and other services on the last-named's frequency). BBC Radio Scotland discontinued the role of dedicated announcers around 2008. Promotional content is included within programmes, while news bulletins are read by Broadcast Journalists. Announcing staff for BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Wales double as newsreaders and technical operators.
Continuity announcements for BBC television channels are broadcast from Red Bee Media at the White City Media Village in West London, with separate continuity teams for the nations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland based in the broadcasting centres in Belfast, Cardiff and Glasgow, providing links for the local variations of BBC One and BBC Two, as well as the BBC Scotland channel.
CBBC and CBeebies continuity now airs from studios at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays – up until September 2011, CBBC presentation was broadcast from a small studio in the East Tower of BBC Television Centre while CBeebies presentation was pre-recorded at Teddington Studios. The announcing team for BBC Radio 4 work from a suite of studios on the 7th floor of Broadcasting House in London.
Historically, BBC announcers mos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating%20Systems%3A%20Design%20and%20Implementation | Operating Systems: Design and Implementation is a computer science textbook written by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, with help from Albert S. Woodhull. The book describes the principles of operating systems and demonstrates their application in the source code of Tanenbaum's MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system designed for teaching purposes. The publisher is Prentice Hall (1987). The source code for MINIX was included as part of the original 719 pages of text. Later versions of the three editions also included loadable disks with MINIX.
See also
List of important publications in computer science
History of Linux
Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate
References
1987 non-fiction books
Books on operating systems
Engineering textbooks
MINIX
Prentice Hall books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20Operating%20Systems | Modern Operating Systems is a book written by Andrew Tanenbaum, a version (which does not target implementation) of his book Operating Systems: Design and Implementation. It is now in its 5th edition, published October 2022 (), written together with Herbert Bos.
Modern Operating Systems (mostly known as MOS) is a popular book across the globe and includes the fundamentals of an operating system with small amounts of code written in autonomous C language. MOS describes many scheduling algorithms.
Books on operating systems
Computer science books
1992 non-fiction books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units%20of%20information | In digital computing and telecommunications, a unit of information is the capacity of some standard data storage system or communication channel, used to measure the capacities of other systems and channels. In information theory, units of information are also used to measure information contained in messages and the entropy of random variables.
The most commonly used units of data storage capacity are the bit, the capacity of a system that has only two states, and the byte (or octet), which is equivalent to eight bits. Multiples of these units can be formed from these with the SI prefixes (power-of-ten prefixes) or the newer IEC binary prefixes (power-of-two prefixes).
Primary units
In 1928, Ralph Hartley observed a fundamental storage principle, which was further formalized by Claude Shannon in 1945: the information that can be stored in a system is proportional to the logarithm of N possible states of that system, denoted . Changing the base of the logarithm from b to a different number c has the effect of multiplying the value of the logarithm by a fixed constant, namely .
Therefore, the choice of the base b determines the unit used to measure information. In particular, if b is a positive integer, then the unit is the amount of information that can be stored in a system with b possible states.
When b is 2, the unit is the shannon, equal to the information content of one "bit" (a portmanteau of binary digit). A system with 8 possible states, for example, can store up to bits of information. Other units that have been named include:
Base b = 3 the unit is called "trit", and is equal to (≈ 1.585) bits.
Base b = 10 the unit is called decimal digit, hartley, ban, decit, or dit, and is equal to log2 10 (≈ 3.322) bits.
Base b = e, the base of natural logarithms the unit is called a nat, nit, or nepit (from Neperian), and is worth (≈ 1.443) bits.
The trit, ban, and nat are rarely used to measure storage capacity; but the nat, in particular, is often used in information theory, because natural logarithms are mathematically more convenient than logarithms in other bases.
Units derived from bit
Several conventional names are used for collections or groups of bits.
Byte
Historically, a byte was the number of bits used to encode a character of text in the computer, which depended on computer hardware architecture; but today it almost always means eight bits – that is, an octet. A byte can represent 256 (28) distinct values, such as non-negative integers from 0 to 255, or signed integers from −128 to 127. The IEEE 1541-2002 standard specifies "B" (upper case) as the symbol for byte (IEC 80000-13 uses "o" for octet in French, but also allows "B" in English, which is what is actually being used). Bytes, or multiples thereof, are almost always used to specify the sizes of computer files and the capacity of storage units. Most modern computers and peripheral devices are designed to manipulate data in whole bytes or groups of bytes, rather than |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLFG | KLFG (89.5 FM) is a radio station that serves the Fort Dodge, Iowa area. The station broadcasts a Contemporary Christian music format airing Educational Media Foundation's K-Love network programming.
The transmitter and broadcast tower are located four miles north of Badger, Iowa along Hwy P52. According to the Antenna Structure Registration database, the tower is tall with the FM broadcast antenna mounted at the level. The calculated Height Above Average Terrain is .
On May 29, 2015, Family Stations, Inc. filed an application to sell the then-KIFR, KEAF and four translators to Educational Media Foundation. KIFR would air EMF's K-Love network. Educational Media bought the six licenses for $553,750.
The station changed its call sign to the current KLFG on November 20, 2015, coincident with the consummation of the sale to EMF.
References
External links
K-Love radio stations
Fort Dodge, Iowa
Radio stations established in 2005
2005 establishments in Iowa
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
Educational Media Foundation radio stations
LFG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGED | MGED may refer to:
The FGED Society, formerly known as the MGED Society, a genomics research data sharing organization.
MGED, the "Multi-device Geometry EDitor", a computer program that is part of the BRL-CAD software. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Expression%20Omnibus | Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) is a database for gene expression profiling and RNA methylation profiling managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). These high-throughput screening genomics data are derived from microarray or RNA-Seq experimental data. These data need to conform to the minimum information about a microarray experiment (MIAME) format.
Glossary
References
Genetics databases
National Institutes of Health |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Entertainment%20News%20Network | World Entertainment News Network (commonly known as WENN) is an entertainment text, photo and video wire service headquartered in London with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas and Berlin.
WENN's subscribers include newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television networks, mobile phone company and websites. It also owns the Cover Images picture agency.
History
WENN was launched as an entertainment news wire service in London in 1989 by UK newspaper journalist and ABC Radio News correspondent Jonathan Ashby. It began as the World Rock News Network (WRNN) and the company soon established a niche for itself, including; contributors ABC News correspondents Dave Alpert in New York and Gayl Murphy in Los Angeles, providing breaking music news to subscribers including MTV, BBC, ABC and Russia's daily youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda. In 1991 the company name was changed to the World Entertainment News Network (WENN) to reflect its focus on celebrity news and photos. Its picture desk opened in 1993, and a Los Angeles bureau was added in 1994.
A year later, WENN opened a TV operation and spent 18 months interviewing international celebrities for global clients throughout Europe and in Japan and South Africa. Satellite offices followed in Eastern Europe, Japan, Australia and South America.
In 2000, WENN sales director Lloyd Beiny became CEO after Ashby retired. Under Beiny's, WENN opened bureaus hubs in New York City and Berlin, Germany.
In 2016, WENN founded a second photo agency, Cover Images, focusing on news, sport and other areas of photography in complement to WENN's library of entertainment images.
Former employees
Amy Winehouse and DJ Yoda reported on celebrities in the early 2000s. Other former employees include Matthew Wright and James Desborough.
References
External links
WENN.com (official website)
Mass media companies of the United Kingdom
Entertainment companies established in 1989
Mass media companies established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20W.%20Spong | Mark W. Spong (born November 5, 1952 in Warren, Ohio) is an American roboticist. He is a professor of systems engineering and electrical and computer engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He served as dean of the Jonsson School and the Lars Magnus Ericsson Chair in Electrical Engineering from 2008-2017. Before he joined UTD, he was the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, professor of electrical engineering, research professor of Coordinated Science Laboratory and Information Trust Institute, and director of Center for Autonomous Engineering Systems and Robotics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Spong is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has received numerous awards for his research and teaching, including
the 2020 Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
the 2018 Bode Lecture Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society
the 2016 Nyquist Lecture Prize from the Dynamical Systems and Control Division of the ASME
the 2007 IROS Fumio Harashima Award for Innovative Technologies
the O. Hugo Schuck Award in 2002 and 2009 from the American Automatic Control Council
the 2004 John R. Ragazzini Award from the American Automatic Control Council
the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.
Spong received his B.A. in mathematics and physics from Hiram College in 1975, a M.S. in mathematics from New Mexico State University in 1977, and a M.S. and D.Sc. in systems science and mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1979 and 1981, respectively.
Publications
2015, Passivity-Based Control in Networked Robotics, with Takeshi Hatanaka, Nikhil Chopra, and Masayuki Fujita
2007. The Reaction Wheel Pendulum, with D. J. Block and K. J. Astrom
2006. Robot modeling and control. with S. Hutchinson and M. Vidyasagar
1993. Robot control : dynamics, motion planning, and analysis with F.L. Lewis and C.T. Abdallah (ed.)
1989. Robot dynamics and control. with M. Vidyasagar
External links
Home page
1952 births
Control theorists
Hiram College alumni
New Mexico State University alumni
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
Washington University in St. Louis mathematicians
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of Texas at Dallas faculty
Living people
American roboticists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inteliquent | Inteliquent is a communications enabler offering network-based voice and messaging services to wireless, cable, carriers and communication service providers. The products of Inteliquent include voice, toll-free, messaging, and emergency services.
Inteliquent was acquired by Sinch (company) in 2021.
History
In 2003, Inteliquent created the first independent tandem network - a "network of networks" uniquely interconnecting disparate carrier networks to facilitate the exchange of traffic. This network greatly streamlined the way wireless, cable, CLEC and broadband telephony companies routed local transit traffic between one another, and formed the foundation for later interconnection service arrangements.
1997 - MEANS and MRNet became Onvoy, Inc.
2001 - Neutral Tandem was incorporated.
2006 - Completed the installation of a national IP backbone and extended its reach by interconnecting 179 markets.
2007 - Neutral Tandem's first public offering on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol IQNT.
2007 - Zayo acquired Onvoy, Inc.
2008 - Neutral Tandem added terminating and originating switched access services, which are provided in connection with long-distance calls.
2010 - Named no. 2 on Crain's Fast 50 (fastest-growing companies by five-year revenue growth).
2010 - Completed acquisition of Tinet SpA, an Italian-based global carrier in the IP Transit and Ethernet wholesale market.
2017 - GTCR acquired Inteliquent and merged it with Onvoy moving forward as "Inteliquent".
2021 - Sinch acquired Inteliquent for $1.14 billion.
2022 - Inteliquent receives Cease and Desist letter from the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for routing and transmitting illegal robocall traffic directly or indirectly involved in activities such as Social Security Administration imposters, utility disconnection scams, credit card rate reduction scams and car warranty scams, among others.
References
External links
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Companies established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20A.%20Bekey | George A. Bekey (born 1928) is an American roboticist and the Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California.
Bekey was born in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1928 before immigrating at the beginning of WW2 to Bolivia before moving to the United States five years later at the age of 17 in 1945.
In 1989, Bekey became a member of the National Academy of Engineering for pioneering work in computer sciences contributing to biomedical engineering, man-machine systems, and robotics. He is also a Fellow of various professional societies.
Bekey is best known for his achievements across multiple technical fields, for which he was designated a USC University Professor, which honors the university's most accomplished, multi-disciplinary faculty. He is also affiliated with the College of Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he teaches a course on world religions.
His most recent book is Autonomous Robots: From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control from MIT Press.
Robot Ethics
Lately he has concerned himself with the ethics and social aspects of robots as they play more of a role in different aspects of human life, realising an edited text bringing together some of the key thinkers in the field including James Hughes, Selmer Bringsjord, Kevin Warwick, Peter Asaro and Noel Sharkey.
Education
B.S. (Electrical Engineering) University of California, Berkeley, 1950.
M.S (Engineering) University of California, Los Angeles, 1952.
Ph.D. (Engineering) University of California, Los Angeles, 1962.
Professional organizations
President, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 1996–97; Administrative Committee member, 2001-2007
Editor, Autonomous Robot, 1994-2007
Founding Editor, "IEEE Transactions on Robotic and Automation"
Co-General Chairman. "5th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems", 2000
Honorary Chairmen, "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation", 2008
Member
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Association for Computing Machinery
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Society for Computer Simulation
Awards
USC Presidential Medallion
USC University Professor award
UCLA School of Engineering: Alumni Achievement in Academia
USC School of Engineering Distinguished Faculty Award
USC Computer Science Department "George A. Bekey lecture series"
Fellow, IEEE
Fellow, American Association for Advancements of Science
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellow, American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Engelberger Award for Robotics Education, Robotics Institute of America
"Pioneer in Robotics"Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Robotics and Automation Award, IEEE (International)
Honorary Member, Hungarian Academ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20M.%20LaValle | Steven M. LaValle (born 1968 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American computer scientist, and a professor in the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Oulu. He was also an early founder and head scientist of Oculus VR until it was acquired by Facebook in 2014. He is best known for his work on rapidly exploring random trees (RRTs), the Oculus Rift, and his book, Planning Algorithms, one of the most highly cited texts in the field.
Academic career
LaValle received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign in 1990, 1993, and 1995, respectively. From 1995 to 1997, he was a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. From 1997 to 2001, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University. From 2001 to 2018, he was on the faculty in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, as a full professor. Since 2018, he has been a professor at the University of Oulu in Finland.
He has published over 150 articles, in which most of his earlier works were in the area of robot motion planning. In addition to introducing RRTs, he coined the term "sampling-based motion planning" and developed numerous planning algorithms for handling typical control-theoretic problems such as kinematic constraints, momentum, feedback, multiobjective optimality, and stochastic uncertainty.
His more recent research has focused on understanding the minimal information requirements for robot systems, leading to simpler sensor fusion methods and mathematical models that help to reduce complexity of robots (informally, their brain size) that are designed for particular tasks.
He has published three textbooks, all of which are freely available online. In addition to "Planning Algorithms", mentioned above, he wrote books titled Sensing and Filtering and Virtual Reality.
Oculus VR
During a leave of absence from the University of Illinois, LaValle started working from Oulu, Finland for Oculus VR in September 2012, a few days after their Kickstarter campaign. He served as their principal scientist from March 2013 until the company was acquired by Facebook in July 2014, addressing virtual reality challenges "including sensor fusion, magnetic drift correction, and kinematic modeling" while disseminating the company's technical achievements in a science blog. He developed head tracking methods for the core software, based on IMUs and computer vision, and led a team of perceptual psychologists to provide principled approaches to virtual reality system calibration and the design of comfortable user experiences. He was a coauthor of the first Oculus SDK Overview.
He is a co-inventor on two Oculus VR patents. One (with Peter Giokaris) is for perception based predictive tracking for the Oculus Rift, which was crucial in reducing perceived trac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindholmen | Vindholmen () is a small islet southeast of Brækmoholmane, part of Thousand Islands, an island group south of Edgeøya.
References
Norwegian Polar Institute Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teisten | Teisten () is an islet in Menkeøyane, part of Thousand Islands, a Norwegian island group south of Edgeøya.
References
Norwegian Polar Institute Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic%20Whiteman | Dominic Wightman is a Conservative Party activist, working in the United Kingdom.
Until 2006 he was the director and spokesman for the VIGIL network, a privately financed counter-terrorism think-tank. He is currently the Editor of the Westminster Journal.[5].
Wightman has prepared documents for leading UK politicians.[3].
Wightman and another VIGIL member appeared on the BBC in November 2006, where he spoke about a group named Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain.
References
1972 births
Living people
British writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Carver | Bruce Eugene Carver (May 4, 1948 – December 28, 2005) was a co-founder of Access Software (later renamed Indie Built) in 1982. It began by producing titles for 8-bit computers, including Beach-Head, Beach Head II: The Dictator Strikes Back, Raid over Moscow and many others.
Career
A mechanical engineer, Carver began programming as a hobby after purchasing a Commodore 64 in early 1982, and founded Access Software. After Carver published Beach Head and Raid over Moscow, Compute! in 1985 called him one of "the world's best computer game designers" and a peer of Chris Crawford, Bill Budge, and Dan Bunten. With his brother Roger, he created the influential Links golf game series, beginning with Leader Board and World Class Leader Board. The Links games defined golf video games and simulations. In 1997, PC Gamer named him one of the "Gods of Gaming".
Access was sold to Microsoft in 1999 and, as a result, several people were let go. Carver paid generous golden parachutes to several of these people out of his own pocket. He continued to work on games until 2003 when he left to create a construction company, Carver Homes, and collaborate with other former Access employees in the golf simulator company TruGolf. Carver was most active with his construction company, which built luxury houses to order. The homes were often outfitted with the TruGolf system.
Family and death
On December 28, 2005, Carver died of cancer. His funeral was held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
References
External links
International Game Developers Association Memorial
Obituary at gamasutra.org
Obituary at next-gen.biz
1948 births
2005 deaths
People from Montpelier, Idaho
Businesspeople from Salt Lake City
American computer programmers
American video game designers
Idaho State University alumni
Video game programmers
20th-century American businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8ysholmen | Røysholmen () is an islet between Rullesteinøya and Rugla in Tiholmane, part of Thousand Islands, an archipelago south of Edgeøya.
References
Norwegian Polar Institute Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20maritime%20disasters%20in%20the%20Philippines | This is a list of notable maritime disasters in the Philippines. This includes both freshwater and seawater incidents. Events must include at least five deaths.
Before 2000
2000-present
Data are based from the records of the Board of Marine Inquiry of the Philippine Coast Guard, unless taken and supported from other references.
The death toll of 4,341 was only an estimate, which also includes the missing.
See also
List of maritime disasters involving the Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation
List of maritime disasters
References
External links
Ships of the World Article
Guinness Records Article
DNV Annex 1 Passenger vessel Evacuation descriptions P36
Strings of Maritime Tragedies
Ship Awry
Safety in the High Seas
Casualty Count
Sulpicio Lines vessels in major marine mishaps
Shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean
Ferries of the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20of%20the%20Australians | The Last of the Australians was an Australian sitcom that was broadcast on the Nine Network in 1975 and 1976.
The comedy series was produced by Crawford Productions in two series of 13 episodes each. It was based on Alan Seymour's play The One Day of the Year and is about an irascible father and his interactions with family life.
Cast
Alwyn Kurts as Ted Cook
Richard Hibbard as Gary Cook (episodes 1-13)
Stephen Thomas as Gary Cook (episodes 14-26)
Rosie Sturgess as Dot Cook
Terry Norris as Blue
Maurie Fields as Barney
Ruth Cracknell (1 episode)
DVD release
The complete series has been released on DVD in March 2018.
See also
List of Nine Network programs
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Australian television sitcoms
Nine Network original programming
1975 Australian television series debuts
1976 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Buxton | William Arthur Stewart Buxton (born March 10, 1949) is a Canadian computer scientist and designer. Most recently -having left in December 2022 - he was a partner researcher at Microsoft Research. He is known for being one of the pioneers in the human–computer interaction field. He is still active in research, especially the curation of his collection documenting the history of interactive devices.
Background and contributions
Buxton received his bachelor's degree in music from Queen's University in 1973 and his master's degree in computer science from the University of Toronto in 1978.
Buxton's scientific contributions include applying Fitts' law to human-computer interaction and the invention and analysis of the marking menu (together with Gordon Kurtenbach). He pioneered multi-touch interfaces and music composition tools in the late 1970s, while working in the Dynamic Graphics Project at the University of Toronto. In 2007, he published Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design.
Buxton has been a regular columnist at BusinessWeek. Before joining Microsoft Research he was chief scientist at Alias Wavefront and SGI from 1994 to 2002. He remains an adjunct professor of computer science at the University of Toronto and Distinguished Professor of Industrial Design at the Technical University of Eindhoven.
Buxton received the SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 for his many fundamental contributions to the human–computer interaction field. As of 2010, the Bill Buxton Award is handed out annually for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of HCI, completed at a Canadian university. In 2016, he was recognized for his lifelong work in human computer interaction design and received the Digifest Digital Pioneer Award.
Honours and awards
Recipient of the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society (1995)
New Media Visionary of the Year Award (2000)
SIGCHI Lasting Impact Award (2005)
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2008)
SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award (2008)
Doctor of Design Honoris Causa from the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario (June, 2007)
Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (June, 2009)
Doctor of Industrial Design Honoris Causa from the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands (April, 2010)
Doctor of Science Honoris Causa from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario (June, 2013)
References
External links
Official website
Fireside chat with Bill Buxton
The Buxton Collection on Microsoft.com
Human–computer interaction researchers
Living people
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
1949 births
Microsoft employees
Microsoft Research people
Scientists at PARC (company)
Scientists from Edmonton
Canadian computer scientists
20th-century Canadian scientists
21st-century Canadian scientists
Utrecht University alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Academic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnelweb | Funnelweb or funnel-web may refer to:
Funnel-web spider, several different species
FunnelWeb, a literate programming environment
The FunnelWeb spectroscopic survey of southern hemisphere stars, underway at the UK Schmidt Telescope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet%20%28disambiguation%29 | A darknet is a network that can only be accessed with specific software, configurations, or authorization.
Darknet or dark net may also refer to:
Dark web, the part of the World Wide Web which exists only in darknets
Network telescope, or darknet, used to monitor network traffic on unallocated IP space
Darknet (TV series), a 2013 Canadian horror television series
Dark Net (TV series), a 2016 American documentary television series
Darknet, an American nu metalcore band
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld, 2014 book by Jamie Bartlett
Operation Darknet, a campaign by the hacktivist group Anonymous
ca:Darknet
de:Darknet
es:Darknet
fr:Darknet
it:Darknet
pt:Darknet
sv:Darknet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20discrete%20event%20simulation%20software | This is a list of notable discrete-event simulation software.
Commercial
Open source
Further reading
References
Simulation software
discrete event simulation software
Events (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Broadband%20Network | The Community Broadband Network (CBN) is a British social enterprise which supports and develops community-led broadband initiatives.
History
CBN was launched in the United Kingdom during January 2004 by the then Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael and Broadband Minister Stephen Timms; at this time the UK was lagging behind neighboring developed countries in the provision of first generation broadband services, leaving significant holes in availability. Many of these "notspots" were in rural areas or were the focus of economic regeneration programmes; local community organizations were beginning to develop their own services typically using Wi-Fi wireless technology but often without specialist telecommunications knowledge within their groups. CBN was founded as a co-operative of such groups, able to provide support and specialist skills to its members; during 2004-5 CBN supported over 100 local broadband projects with direct consultancy and mentoring, and provided online information and support for a further 200.
Today
With first generation broadband widely available in the UK, CBN's focus shifted towards the community led higher-speed next-generation broadband services, including fibre-optic networks. In 2006 CBN signed a joint venture agreement with Dutch consultancy Close the Gap, which was responsible for conceiving, planning and delivering the OnsNet (“our net” in English) Fibre to the Home (Ftth) project in the market town of Nuenen and then in Eindhoven.
Retaining the social enterprise model, CBN now works with community groups, policy makers, and industry to develop thinking on next generation broadband platforms and strategies in the UK.
CBN is represented on several key broadband forums:
An executive member of the UK Broadband stakeholder group, the body that brings together government, industry, Regional Development Agencies, and business to drive forward the UK's broadband agenda.
A member of the NOMAD Wireless Forum bringing together a range of public sector and private organisations active in promoting wireless initiatives.
A member of the Connected Neighbourhood Forum linking the 10 local authority Digital Challenge finalists.
An invited participator in the high level summit organised by minister Stephen Timms in November 2007 to discuss policy on Next Generation Access in the UK.
CBN’s experience has attracted international attention and they are developing community broadband projects in Africa supported by UN-HABITAT.
In 2008 Francesco Caio, in his report at barriers to broadband investment for the British Government, referred to CBN's scenario work which described a "patchwork quilt" of broadband infrastructures rather than a single "da wo" (big me) incumbent network owner. This led to Lord Carter recommending that CBN be assisted in creating a national framework in his Digital Britain report.
In 2009, CBN has been facilitating the creation of the Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA) to meet t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau%20Weaver | Beau Weaver (born January 19, 1952) is an American voice actor in television and film, heard widely in trailers for feature films, network television promos, documentaries, national radio and television commercials and cartoons.
Career
Weaver was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He became a disc jockey at age 15 and is sometimes known as Beauregard Rodriquez Weaver.
In the 1970s and 1980s, he was on the air at some of America's top pop music stations, such as KHJ in Los Angeles, KFRC in San Francisco, KILT in Houston, KCBQ in San Diego, KNUS in Dallas, and KAKC in Tulsa. He was also one of the pioneers of satellite broadcasting as an original member of the air staff of the Transtar Radio Network.
By the 1980s, Weaver had left radio and began working as a freelance voice actor in Los Angeles. He was the announcer on the short-lived game show College Mad House, a spin-off of the kids' game show Fun House. From 1991-1995, Weaver served as announcer on Talk Soup. Today, he is the voice of the CBS Domestic Television programs, The Insider and The Doctors. He is the narrator on Animal Planet's doc series, Weird, True and Freaky, National Geographic's "Known Universe" and "American Loggers and "Heartland Thunder" on the Discovery Channel. Some recent movie trailers and television campaigns voiced by Weaver include: "Into The Wild" and "Revolutionary Road."
Weaver has done work with Disney, promoting their video releases in the late 1990s working alongside fellow Disney voice-overs Mark Elliott and Brian Cummings. One of his most notable Disney voice-overs is "Thanks for joining us for this special preview. And now, our Feature Presentation."
In television animation, Beau's most memorable roles include Superman/Clark Kent in the 1989 Ruby-Spears production of Superman, a revival of the series timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the character. In 1996, he played the lead role of Reed Richards a.k.a. "Mister Fantastic" in Marvel's Fantastic Four. Weaver was also the announcer of the first ever video newsmagazine, Real TV from 1996–1999 and again from 2000-2001.
Filmography
Animation roles
Bonkers - Jingle
Duckman - God
Fantastic Four - Mister Fantastic, Trapster
Future-Worm - Movie Narrator (Episode "Lobster Boy Movie Trailer")
Superman - Superman
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Additional Voices
The Flintstone Kids - Additional Voices
The Incredible Hulk - Mister Fantastic
Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures - Fractured Narrator, Additional Voices
The Transformers - Octane
Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light - Feryl
Live-action roles
The Weird Al Show - Channel Hopping Announcer
Most Daring - Narrator (Episodes 1-5)
Movie roles
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland - 1st Teacher
Rockin' with Judy Jetson - Ramm, Dee-Jay
The Substitute - Janus Showreel Narrator
Video game roles
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance - Scorpion, Tiger Shark, Starbolt
Fallout: New Vegas (Old World Blues DLC) - Dr. Borous, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSSI%20%28disambiguation%29 | SSSI can mean:
Solid state storage initiative, a network promoting the use of solid state storage
Site of Special Scientific Interest, a UK nature conservation designation
Site of Special Scientific Interest (Hong Kong), a Hong Kong nature conservation designation
Skin and skin structure infection, a bacterial infection of the skin
Stainless Steel Studios, a video games company
"Special Secret Song Inside", a track from the Red Hot Chili Peppers album The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20video%20%28disambiguation%29 | Digital video may refer to:
Digital video, recording of video as digital data
DV (Digital Video), a family of codecs and tape formats used for storing digital video
Digital Video Interactive, the first multimedia desktop video standard for IBM-compatible personal computers
Digital cinematography, the process of shooting motion pictures
Digital Visual Interface (DVI), an interface (connector) for video displays (monitors) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Elektrik%20Keyboard | The Elektrik Keyboard was a computer and musical instrument store located on North Lincoln Avenue in Chicago, Illinois in the 1970s and 1980s. In the late '70s it added personal computers to its lineup, and began publishing Apple II computer software written by programmer Chris Oberth. The software, advertised in the company's catalog and sold on cassette, largely consisted of games including some that emulated popular arcade titles.
Software
The Elektrik Keyboard published the following titles written by Chris Oberth in 1978 and 1979:
References
External links
Retrogaming Times Issue #21: Interview with Programmer Christian Oberth (Part 1)
Retrogaming Times Issue #24: Interview with Programmer Christian Oberth (Part 2)
Retrogaming Times Issue #27: Interview with Programmer Christian Oberth (Part 3)
Defunct software companies of the United States
Defunct video game companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ULE%20scheduler | ULE is the default scheduler for the FreeBSD operating system (versions 7.1 and forward) for the i386 and AMD64 architectures. It was introduced in FreeBSD version 5, but it was disabled by default for a time in favor of the traditional BSD scheduler until it reached maturity. The original BSD scheduler does not make full use of SMP or SMT, which is important in modern computing environments. The primary goal of the ULE project is to make better use of SMP and SMT environments. ULE should improve performance in both uniprocessor and multiprocessor environments, as well as interactive response under heavy load. The user may switch between the BSD scheduler and ULE using a kernel compile-time tunable.
References
Sources
BSD software
Processor scheduling algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitome%20%28data%20processing%29 | An epitome, in data processing, is a condensed digital representation of the essential statistical properties of ordered datasets such as matrices that represent images, audio signals, videos or genetic sequences. Although much smaller than the data, the epitome contains many of its smaller overlapping parts with much less repetition and with some level of generalization. As such, it can be used in tasks such as data mining, machine learning and signal processing.
The first use of epitomic analysis was with image textures for the purposes of image parsing. Epitomes have also been used in video processing to replace, remove or superresolve imagery.
Epitomes are also being investigated as tools for vaccine design.
See also
Image processing
Video imprint (computer vision)
References
Data processing
Image processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf%20Professional%20Arts%20Network | The Deaf Professional Artists Network (D-PAN), is a 501(c)(3) national nonprofit organization based in Detroit, Michigan, founded by Sean Forbes and Joel Martin D-PAN creates music videos featuring deaf and hard-of-hearing performers. D-PAN is dedicated to promoting professional development and access to the entertainment, visual and media arts fields for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Their first video for "Where'd You Go" by Fort Minor, with Sean Forbes and Rosina Switras, got hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. On October 28, 2011, D-PAN released their first new ASL music video in a couple years, "We're Going to be Friends" by the White Stripes. After an announcement on the White Stripes Facebook page, the video went viral, making the front page of Reddit, appearing on CBS News and was briefly shown and mentioned on the Today show on November 3, 2011.
The D-PAN staff consists of Joel Martin (co-founder), Scott Guy (executive director), Sean Forbes (co-founder and cief creative officer), Adrean Mangiardi (director of film) and Mark Levin (Tour, Event, Merchandise and Social Media Manager).
The D-PAN DVD compilation called It's Everybody's Music, volume 1 sold more than 10,000 copies. It includes:
John Mayer's "Waiting on the World to Change"
Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful"
Eminem's "Lose Yourself" performed by Sponge
Mini – Documentary "Signing Songs: Making of D-PAN Music Videos"
And more music videos from community performers.
D-PAN also produced a DVD titled Wee Hands Vol.1.
In 2013 D-PAN released a DVD of their popular series It's Everybody's Music Volume Two, it includes:
The White Stripes "We're Going to Be Friends"
Owl City "Fireflies"
Sean Forbes "Watch These Hands"
The Clark Sisters "You Bought The Sunshine"
Carly Rae Jepsen "Call Me Maybe"
Rosa Lee & Damon Timm "Parents, Nothing More"
4 Behind the Scene Documentaries of the making of each video
References
External links
Official site
YouTube – D-PAN: Waiting on the World to Change
– D-PAN: Beautiful
– D-PAN: 'We're Going to be Friends
Charities based in Michigan
Deaf culture
Organizations based in Detroit
Deafness arts organizations
Deafness organizations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIAJ-FM | CIAJ-FM was a Christian radio station that broadcast at 100.7 FM in Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
Owned by the Aboriginal Christian Voice Network, the station was given approval by the CRTC on October 18, 1999. It ceased broadcasting in 2016.
References
External links
Iaj
Iaj
Mass media in Prince Rupert, British Columbia
Radio stations established in 2000
2000 establishments in British Columbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Central%20Florida%20College%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Computer%20Science | The University of Central Florida College of Engineering and Computer Science is an academic college of the University of Central Florida located in Orlando, Florida, United States. The college offers degrees in engineering, computer science and management systems, and houses UCF's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The dean of the college is Michael Georgiopoulos, Ph.D.
UCF is listed as a university with "very high research activity" by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. With an enrollment of over 7,500 undergraduate and graduate students as of Fall 2012, the college is one of the premier engineering schools in the United States. The college is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation's best Engineering schools, and as one of the world's best in the ARWU rankings. The university has made noted research contributions to modeling and simulation, digital media, and engineering and computer science.
History
The College of Engineering and Computer Science was one of the four original academic colleges when UCF began classes in 1968 as Florida Technological University. The State University System of Florida's Board of Regents approved the creation of a college of engineering on September 16, 1966. The college was launched as the university's College of Engineering and Technologies on March 28, 1969.
The college saw the completion of a third Engineering Building which was designed in 2000-2002 for the School of EECS with a $15 million allocation from the State of Florida. In 2005, Harris Corporation donated $3 million to the College of Engineering & Computer Science, causing the building's name to be the Harris Corporation Engineering Center.
Academics
Housing some of the university's showcase majors, the College of Engineering and Computer Science is made up of the following departments:
Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering (CECE)
Computer Science (CS), and Information Technology (IT)
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Industrial Engineering & Management Systems (IEMS)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)
Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
The college has 13 undergraduate programs, 14 master's degree programs, and eight doctoral degree programs. UCF has been classified as a research university (very high research activity) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Graduate School of the College of Engineering & Computer Science is ranked #70 in the Top 100 engineering schools by the U.S. News & World Report. It also featured/features in the Top 100 Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences schools in the world in the ARWU by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The college consists of the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS), the Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering (CECE) Department, the Industrial Engineering and Management Systems (IEMS) Department, and the Mechanical, Materials and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEniCS%20Project | The FEniCS Project is a collection of free and open-source software components with the common goal to enable automated solution of differential equations. The components provide scientific computing tools for working with computational meshes,
finite-element variational formulations of ordinary and partial differential equations, and numerical linear algebra.
Design and components
The FEniCS Project is designed as an umbrella project for a collection of interoperable components. The core components are
UFL (unified form language), a domain-specific language embedded in Python for specifying finite element discretizations of differential equations in terms of finite element variational forms;
FIAT (finite element automatic tabulator), the finite element backend of FEniCS, a Python module for generation of arbitrary order finite element basis functions on simplices;
FFC (fenics form compiler), a compiler for finite element variational forms taking UFL code as input and generating UFC output;
UFC (unified form-assembly code), a C++ interface consisting of low-level functions for evaluating and assembling finite element variational forms;
Instant, a Python module for inlining C and C++ code in Python;
DOLFIN, a C++/Python library providing data structures and algorithms for finite element meshes, automated finite element assembly, and numerical linear algebra.
DOLFIN, the computational high-performance C++ backend of FEniCS, functions as the main problem-solving environment (in both C++ and Python) and user interface. Its functionality integrates the other FEniCS components and handles communication with external libraries such as PETSc, Trilinos and Eigen for numerical linear algebra, ParMETIS and SCOTCH for mesh partitioning, and MPI and OpenMP for distributed computing.
History
The FEniCS Project was initiated in 2003 as a research collaboration between the University of Chicago and Chalmers University of Technology. The following institutions are currently, or have been, actively involved in the development of the project
Argonne National Laboratory
Chalmers University of Technology
Charles University
Delft University of Technology
Royal Institute of Technology
Simula Research Laboratory
University of Cambridge
University of Chicago
University of Luxembourg
Since 2019 a refactoring of code is in work of progress.
See also
List of finite element software packages
List of numerical analysis software
Using the FEATool Multiphysics GUI to set up and solve FEniCS multiphysics models
References
External links
The FEniCS project on Bitbucket
Scientific simulation software
Finite element software
Finite element software for Linux
Free software programmed in Python
Free software programmed in C++ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snare%20%28software%29 | Snare (sometimes also written as SNARE, an acronym for System iNtrusion Analysis and Reporting Environment) is a collection of software tools that collect audit log data from a variety of operating systems and applications to facilitate centralised log analysis. Enterprise Agents are available for Linux, macOS, Windows, Solaris, Microsoft SQL Server, a variety of browsers, and more. Snare Enterprise Epilog for Windows facilitates the central collection and processing of Windows text-based log files such as ISA/IIS. Snare Enterprise Epilog for Unix provides a method to collect any text based log files on the Linux and Solaris operating systems. Opensource Agents are available for Irix and AIX.
Snare is currently used by hundreds of thousands of individuals and organisations worldwide to meet local and federal information security guidelines associated with auditing and eventlog collection.
History
The Snare series of agents began life in 2001 when the team at InterSect Alliance created a Linux kernel module to implement Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria auditing at the C2 level.
Agents for Windows, and Solaris soon followed, and additional operating systems, and applications were added to the mix over time.
The Snare Server software was originally designed to meet the needs of Australian-based intelligence agency clients, and distribution was restricted to Australia only. The need for a server solution to complement the increasingly popular Snare agents, pushed the InterSect Alliance team to find overseas partners, and allow distribution internationally.
Distribution
Snare has been described as the 'De Facto standard for Windows event retrieval', and because of its deep roots in the open source movement, coupled with available commercial support options, is used by small non-profit organisations, right up to huge multinational, Fortune-500 companies.
Organisations that produce audit server software that competes with the Snare Server software, such as Cisco, Sensage, and LogLogic
, all use and recommend the Snare agents to their customers.
Most agents have both a supported commercial, and an open-source version available.
Design
The Snare agents have been designed to collect audit log data from a host system, and push the data as quickly as possible, to a central server (or servers), for archive, analysis, and reporting.
The central server can be either a syslog server, a Snare Server appliance, or a custom application. Snare agents are also able to push logs over a unidirectional network in order to facilitate log transfer from networks of low classification to networks of higher classification.
The Snare Server is an appliance, or software-only solution, that provides a variety of analysis tools and to facilitate the collection, analysis, reporting, and archival of audit log data.
Snare Product Suite
Snare Enterprise Agent for Windows
Snare Enterprise Agent for Linux
Snare Enterprise Agent for Solaris
Snare Enterprise |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%A5m%C3%A5ken | Blåmåken is the northeasternmost island in Menkeøyane, part of Thousand Islands, a Norwegian archipelago south of Edgeøya.
References
Norwegian Polar Institute Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alka%20%28Svalbard%29 | Alka () is a Norwegian islet between Gassen and Havella in Menkeøyane, part of Thousand Islands, an archipelago south of Edgeøya.
References
Norwegian Polar Institute Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tufsen | Tufsen () is an islet east of Utsira, part of Thousand Islands, an archipelago south of Edgeøya.
References
Norwegian Polar Institute Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperra | Sperra () is a small islet south of Lurøya in Tiholmane, part of Thousand Islands, an archipelago south of Edgeøya.
References
Norwegian Polar Institute Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spunset | Spunset () is a small islet between Langåra and Bommen in Tiholmane, part of Thousand Islands, an archipelago south of Edgeøya.
References
Norwegian Polar Institute Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tareloppa | Tareloppa is an islet 2 miles (3 km) northeast of Brækmoholmane, part of Thousand Islands, an archipelago south of Edgeøya.
References
Norwegian Polar Institute Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5kallen | Håkallen is a small islet west of Håkjerringa in Kulstadholmane, part of Thousand Islands, an archipelago south of Edgeøya.
References
Norwegian Polar Institute Place Names of Svalbard Database
Islands of Svalbard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Lithuania | The first documented school in Lithuania was established in 1387 at Vilnius Cathedral. The school network was influenced by the Christianization of Lithuania. Several types of schools were present in medieval Lithuania – cathedral schools, where pupils were prepared for priesthood; parish schools, offering elementary education; and home schools dedicated to educating the children of the Lithuanian nobility. Before Vilnius University was established in 1579, Lithuanians seeking higher education attended universities in foreign cities, including Kraków, Prague, and Leipzig, among others. During the Interbellum a national university – Vytautas Magnus University was founded in Kaunas.
Education is free of charge and compulsory from the age of 6 or 7 to 16 years (covering "primary" and "basic" education), as stated in the national Law on Education. In 1996, the gross primary enrollment rate was 98 percent. Primary school attendance rates were unavailable for Lithuania as of 2001. While enrollment rates indicate a level of commitment to education, they do not always reflect children's participation in school.
Pre-tertiary education is organized in four main cycles: Pre-school education (until age 5 or 6), Pre-primary education (1 year, between age 5-7), primary education (4 years, between age 6-11), basic education (6 years, between age 10-17, ends on a "basic education certificate"), upper secondary education (two years, between age 16-19). Upper secondary education ends on the "matura" examination, opening gates to tertiary education. Vocational and technical education starts at the fifth year of basic education (age 14-15). Its structure is similar to comprehensive education: The program lasts two to three years before the "basic education certificate". Students can then pursue into vocational upper secondary education, that also leads, after two or three years, to a "matura" examination. However, in order to reach tertiary education (university or college), vocational students have to follow an extra "post-secondary" education program of 2 years.
Tertiary education can be divided into university and college. Universities offer an academic education leading to international Bachelor-Master-PhD degrees (Lithuania has implemented the Bologna process in 2006). Colleges offer vocational Education. Since 2006, they can award professional bachelor's degrees.
The school year in Lithuania usually starts on the first of September, including in tertiary education.
Primary education
According to the Law on Education, children who have reached 7 years of age must go to the 1st form. If parents wish so and if the child is sufficiently mature to study under the primary education programme, he/she can start attending school from 6 years of age. The duration of the primary education programme is four years. Compulsory primary education can be obtained in kindergartens-schools, in primary schools and, which is less common, in basic or secondary schools.
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