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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian%20Foundation | The Symbian Foundation was a non-profit organisation that stewarded the Symbian operating system for mobile phones which previously had been owned and licensed by Symbian Ltd. Symbian Foundation never directly developed the platform, but evangelised, co-ordinated and ensured compatibility. It also provided key services to its members and the community such as collecting, building and distributing Symbian source code. During its time it competed against the Open Handset Alliance and the LiMo Foundation.
Operational phase (2009-2010)
The Foundation was founded by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics and AT&T. Due to a change in their device strategy, LG and Motorola left the Foundation board soon after its creation. They were later replaced by Fujitsu and Qualcomm Innovation Center.
During its operational phase (from 2009 to 2010), it also provided:
platform development kits and tools
documentation and example code
discussion forums and mailing lists
application signing (Symbian Signed)
application distribution (Symbian Horizon)
idea gathering and feedback (Symbian Ideas)
an annual conference (Symbian Exchange and Exposition, abbreviated "SEE")
Members
The Symbian Foundation invited companies to join as members, and attracted over 200, from a large number of categories:
Device manufacturers (e.g. Nokia, Fujitsu)
Financial services companies (e.g. Visa)
Semiconductor vendors (e.g. ARM, Broadcom)
Mobile network operators (e.g. China Mobile, Vodafone, AT&T)
Software companies
Professional services firms
Closure of Symbian Foundation
Following "a change in focus for some of [the] funding board members", the Symbian Foundation announced in November 2010 that it would transition to "a legal entity responsible for licensing software and other intellectual property", with no operational responsibilities or staff. The transition is a result of changes in global economic and market conditions (widely attributed to the stiff competition with other OS such as iOS and Android). Along with this announcement, Nokia announced it would take over governance of the Symbian platform. Nokia has been the major contributor to the code, and has been maintaining their own code repository for the platform development ever since the purchase of Symbian Ltd., regularly releasing their development to the public repository. On 17 December 2010 all Symbian Foundation public web sites, wiki and code repositories were shut down and Nokia launched a new Symbian site.
However that year both Samsung and Sony Ericsson left the Foundation in favor of Google's Open Handset Alliance and the Android operating system, leaving Japan's NTT Docomo as the only major Nokia partner. Then with the announcement of Nokia's partnership with Microsoft in February 2011 and the transition to Windows Phone OS as the primary platform, the development of Symbian stopped and was outsourced |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSPM | OSPM may refer to:
Operating System-directed configuration and Power Management, a computer specification for device configuration and power management by the operating system
Operational Street Pollution Model, an atmospheric dispersion model |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20media%20use%20in%20the%20Philippines | Social networking is one of the most active web-based activities in the Philippines, with Filipinos being declared as the most active users on a number of web-based social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter. The use of social networking website has become so extensive in the Philippines that the country has been tagged as "The Social Media Capital of the World," and has also become part of Filipino Internet culture. Subsequently, social media is also used in the Philippines as a form of election campaign material, as well as tools to aid criminal investigation.
History
Friendster is one of the first social networking websites in the World Wide Web when it was introduced in 2002. However, its popularity in the United States plummeted quickly in 2004 due to massive technical problems and server delays. But as it was losing its American audience, Friendster slowly gained users from Southeast Asia starting in the Philippines. Friendster director of engineering Chris Lunt wondered why its web traffic was spiking in the middle of the night, and noticed that the traffic was coming from the Philippines. He then traced the trail to a Filipino-American marketing consultant and hypnotist named Carmen Leilani de Jesus as the first user to have introduced Friendster to the Philippines, where a number of her friends live.
Statistics
A study released by Universal McCann entitled "Power to the People – Wave3" declared the Philippines as "the social networking capital of the world," with 83 percent of Filipinos surveyed are members of a social network. They are also regarded as the top photo uploaders and web video viewers, while they are second when it comes to the number of blog readers and video uploaders.
With over 7.9 million Filipinos using the Internet, 6.9 million of them visit a social networking site at least once a month. At times, Friendster has been the most visited website in the Philippines, as well as in Indonesia, according to web tracking site Alexa. David Jones, vice president for global marketing of Friendster, said that "the biggest percentage of (their site's) users is from the Philippines, clocking in with 39 percent of the site's traffic." He further added that in March 2008 alone, Friendster recorded 39 million unique visitors, with 13.2 million of whom were from the Philippines. Meanwhile, Multiply president and founder Peter Pezaris said that the Filipino users of their site comprised the largest and most active group in terms of number of subscribers and of photographs being uploaded daily. About 2.2 million out of more than nine million registered users of Multiply are Filipinos, outnumbering even nationalities with a bigger population base like the United States, Indonesia, and Brazil. Also, one million photographs are uploaded by Filipinos to Multiply every day, which is half of their total number worldwide.
Sixty percent of Filipino users of Multiply are female, while 70 percent are under the age of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shim | Shim may refer to:
Shim (spacer), a thin and often tapered or wedged piece of material
CPU shim, a spacer for a computer heat sink
Shim (fencing), a device used in the sport fencing
Shim (lock pick), a tool used to bypass padlocks
Shim (computing), an application compatibility workaround
Shim (magnetism), a device used to adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field
Shim (band), an Australian hard rock band
Microscopy
Second-harmonic imaging microscopy
Scanning helium ion microscope
People
Shim (surname)
Sim (Korean surname), pronounced "shim"
Shim (musician) (born 1983), Israeli singer-songwriter and artist
See also
Shimmer (disambiguation)
Shimon (disambiguation)
Sim (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chicas%20Project | The Chicas Project is a reality television show on the bilingual television network mun2 that chronicles the adventures of the “Chicas,” two VJs for mun2, Yasmin Deliz and Melissa Barrera. The show wrapped its fourth season in 2009. In this program, the opening song is Karma Hunters by The Pinker Tones from their second studio album, The Million Colour Revolution.
Chicas
Yasmin “Queenz” Deliz is a fiercely independent VJ for mun2 on the show Vivo, which highlights new music artists performing live. She moved to California at the age of sixteen to pursue her music career. She is also a reggaeton artist and model.
Melissa "Crash" Barrera was born August 10, 1985, in Los Angeles, California. She was expelled from two schools and emancipated from her parents by the age of 15, Barrera is now a rockera from Los Angeles who hosts The mun2 Shift: Late Night, also on mun2.
Despite differing styles and backgrounds, both have a great deal of charisma and charm and the two girls are close friends.
Project
Each 2 weeks the girls are sent out on adventures where they learn new skills like how to surf, host events, or perform outrageous stunts like skydiving. Keeping with the mission of mun2, no matter what they do, the chicas always try to keep themselves and their identity rooted in their Hispanic culture. The show operates under the premise that along with entertainment value, the show is important because it acts as an example of positive young Latina role models in starring roles on television. “We get into some crazy stuff,” Yasmin says "...I think the show gives Latinas a chance to see themselves in a starring role on television. If they can’t relate to me, they can relate to Crash.” The show premiered its fourth season on July 9, 2009.
References
External links
Official Website
2007 American television series debuts
2000s American reality television series
2009 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Tigers%20Radio%20Network | The Detroit Tigers Radio Network is an American radio network composed of 49 radio stations which carry English-language coverage of the Detroit Tigers, a professional baseball team in Major League Baseball (MLB). Detroit's WXYT-FM (97.1 FM) serves as the network's flagship. The network also includes 46 affiliates in the U.S. states of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana: 25 AM stations, 15 of which supplement their signals with one or more low-power FM translators; 21 full-power FM stations; and one HD Radio digital subchannel which supplements its signal with a low-power FM translator. The network airs select spring Grapefruit League games, along with all 162 regular season games and all postseason games. Dan Dickerson does play-by-play for the broadcasts with color commentary provided by Bobby Scales or Cameron Maybin, while Daniella Bruce and Jeff Riger serve as the pre-game and post-game studio hosts. In addition to traditional over-the-air AM and FM broadcasts, network programming airs on SiriusXM satellite radio; and streams online via SiriusXM Internet Radio, TuneIn Premium, and MLB.com Gameday Audio.
Station list |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toolbox%20%28disambiguation%29 | A toolbox is a container used to organize, carry, and protect the owner's tools.
Toolbox may also refer to:
Macintosh Toolbox, a set of application programming interfaces
Toolbox (album), a 1991 album by Ian Gillan
Jetbrains Toolbox, A JetBrains application
Toolbox (software), an integrated development environment designed to introduce computer programming in academic subjects
See also
Tool Box, an album by Aaron Tippin
Tool Box (Calexico album), 2007
NIH Toolbox |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carers%20Trust | The Carers Trust is a charity in the United Kingdom which supports carers. It works with a network of partner organisations to help carers with the challenges of their caring roles.
History
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers was created on the initiative of Anne, Princess Royal in the UK in 1991. At that time people caring at home for family members or friends with disabilities and chronic illnesses were scarcely recognised as requiring support.
The Trust was the largest provider of comprehensive carers support services in the UK. Through its unique network of 144 independently managed Carers' Centres, 85 young carers services and interactive websites, The Trust provided quality information, advice and support services to over 400,000 carers, including around 25,000 young carers. In recognition of its work for the welfare and development of young people, the Trust was a member of The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS).
In 2012, the organisation merged with Crossroads Care to form the Carers Trust.
See also
Caregiver
Department of Health and Social Care
Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Children, Schools and Families
References
Further reading
Carers Centre Statistical Survey 1 April 2006 - 31 March 2007. The Princess Royal Trust for Carers. 2007.
State of Social Care 06-06 report. CSCI. London. 2006
It Could be You, the chances of becoming a carer, Carers UK 2001
Securing Good Care for Older People: Taking a long-term view, Wanless, D. London: King's Fun. 2006.
General Household Survey. 2000.
Real change, not short change: Time to deliver for carers, Carers UK, 2007.
National Carers Strategy Consultation; Submission from CLASP Carers Centre in Leicestershire. 2007.
Carers Speak Out The Princess Royal Trust for Carers. London. 2002.
Young Carers in the UK The 2004 Report, Dearden, C and Becker, S. Loughborough University Young carers research group. 2004.
Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England, Home Office. 2004.
Women's Mental Health: Into the Mainstream. Strategic Development of Mental Health Care for Women. London: Department of Health. 2002.
Hidden Harm, Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs. Home Office. 2003.
External links
The Carers Trust network of services
The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS)
Carers
1991 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1991
Anne, Princess Royal
Social care in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term%20prediction%20%28communications%29 | In GSM, a Regular Pulse Excitation-Long Term Prediction (RPE-LTP) scheme is employed in order to reduce the amount of data sent between the mobile station (MS) and base transceiver station (BTS).
In essence, when a voltage level of a particular speech sample is quantified, the mobile station's internal logic predicts the voltage level for the next sample. When the next sample is quantified, the packet sent by the MS to the BTS contains only the error (the signed difference between the actual and predicted level of the sample).
See also
GSM
Quantization (signal processing)
GSM standard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath%20routing | Multipath routing is a routing technique simultaneously using multiple alternative paths through a network. This can yield a variety of benefits such as fault tolerance, increased bandwidth, and improved security.
Mobile networks
To improve performance or fault tolerance, concurrent multipath routing (CMR) is often taken to mean simultaneous management and utilization of multiple available paths for the transmission of streams of data. The streams may be emanating from a single application or multiple applications. A stream is assigned a separate path, as uniquely possible given the number of paths available. If there are more streams than available paths, some streams will share paths. CMR provides better utilization of bandwidth by creating multiple transmission queues. It provides a degree of fault tolerance in that should a path fail, only the traffic assigned to that path is affected. There is also, ideally, an alternative path immediately available upon which to continue or restart the interrupted stream.
CMR provides better transmission performance and fault tolerance by providing simultaneous, parallel transport over multiple carriers with the ability to reassign an interrupted stream, and by load balancing over available assets. However, under CMR, some applications may be slower in offering traffic to the transport layer, thus starving paths assigned to them, causing under-utilization. Also, moving to the alternative path will incur a potentially disruptive period during which the connection is re-established.
True CMR
A more powerful form of CMR (true CMR) goes beyond merely presenting paths to applications to which they can bind. True CMR aggregates all available paths into a single, virtual path.
Applications send their packets to this virtual path, which is de-multiplexed at the network Layer. The packets are distributed to the physical paths via some algorithm e.g. round-robin or weighted fair queuing. Should a link fail, succeeding packets are not directed to that path and the stream continues uninterrupted to the application through the remaining path(s). This method provides significant performance benefits over the application level CMR:
By continually offering packets to all paths, the paths are more fully utilized.
No matter how many paths fail, so long as at least one path is still available, all sessions remain connected and no streams need to be restarted and no re-connection penalty is incurred.
Capillary routing
In networking and in graph theory, capillary routing, for a given network, is a multi-path solution between a pair of source and destination nodes. Unlike shortest-path routing or max-flow routing, for any given network topology - only one capillary routing solution exists.
Capillary routing can be constructed by an iterative linear programming process, transforming a single-path flow into a capillary route.
First minimize the maximal value of the load on all of the network routing node links
Do th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datatel | Datatel, Inc. was a private company that provided fully integrated software and professional services to build enterprise education platforms for higher education until it combined with its competitor SunGard Higher Education to form Ellucian in 2012. Datatel was headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia.
With 533 employees, Datatel had more than 799 client institutions located in the United States, Canada, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and Bermuda.
History
Datatel was founded by Tom Davidson in 1968 as a data processing service bureau. The company began in the mezzanine of a suburban office supply store outside of Washington, D.C. A few years later, Datatel began performing data processing for banks. In 1973, the company grew substantially when Davidson merged Datatel with Data Technology Corporation, owned by Ken Kendrick. Datatel focused on higher education since 1979.
Beginning in 1992, the company was led by Russ Griffith, who died on August 7, 2006. Under Griffith's leadership in 2005, Datatel's executive team—backed by Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, and Trident Capital—signed an agreement to acquire the company from Davidson and Kendrick. Davidson went on to co-found the Balance Bar food company in 1992, and Kendrick became a managing partner of the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team. In 2004, Datatel acquired the LiquidMatrix Corporation, a Buffalo-based provider of student recruiting and alumni outreach Web-based software.
Datatel was acquired in December 2009 by private equity company Hellman & Friedman.
In March 2012, Datatel merged with SunGard Higher Education to form Ellucian.
Timeline
1972: Released the Silent 700, a programmable data terminal
1975: Became the first East Coast Microdata dealer
1976: Began development of TOPS, the Total Office Product System, later to be known as ASSETS
1979: Became first PRIME information dealer and began selling solutions for colleges and universities
Willamette University became first Datatel client
Development of Colleague began
1986: Opened San Francisco office
1987: Moved to current headquarters in the Fair Lakes area of Fairfax, Virginia
1988: Sold hundredth Colleague client
1989: Changed to multiplatform UNIX
1990: Established Datatel Scholar's Foundation
1991 Announced products on IBM and Sequent platforms
Acquired first Canadian client, the University of Waterloo
1996: Introduced Client/Server
2002: Formed Datatel Center for Institutional Effectiveness (DCIE)
2004: Acquired LiquidMatrix Corporation
2005: Management buyout of founders
2006: Longtime president and CEO Russ Griffith died
2007: Reached 39th year of consecutive growth
Released ActiveCampus Portal, built on Microsoft SharePoint
2009: Acquired in December 2009 by private equity company Hellman & Friedman.
2010: Announced 2009 revenues of $138 million
2012: Merged with SunGard Higher Education to form Ellucian
Awards
Recipient of the U.S. Senate Productivity and Quality Award (SPQA) for Virginia in 1997
Selected as one |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eons.com | Eons.com was a social networking site marketed towards baby boomers and other internet users over age 40.
History
Launched by Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor in July 2006, Eons was backed by venture capital financing from General Catalyst Partners, Sequoia Capital, Charles River Ventures, Intel Capital and Humana, Inc.
In April 2011, it was announced that Crew Media had acquired Eons, and baby boomer online advertising network Eons BOOM Media. Crew Media is owned by Continuum Crew, a San Francisco Bay area-based advertising and marketing agency that targets mature consumers. It was acquired for an undisclosed amount and the details of the agreement were not made public.
In June 2012, the site shut down and the following was posted on the EON Facebook webpage:
"To our Eons members,
We know many you have all been waiting patiently for news on the future of the site. As a team, we have been working to resolve the business issues with our service provider. We have negotiated in good faith to restore the site and move forward. Unfortunately our provider is demanding a financial commitment that we cannot make at this time. We are at an impasse. While we have worked behind the scenes to try to come up with an alternative to get the site restored, none of those have worked out either. For the foreseeable future, the site will remain down.
As Matt stated before, there is no reason to worry about your personal data; it is secure. We will continue to pursue all avenues available to bring Eons back."
To date the site remains offline.
References
External links
Official website
Defunct social networking services
American social networking websites
Internet properties established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramer%E2%80%93Douglas%E2%80%93Peucker%20algorithm | The Ramer–Douglas–Peucker algorithm, also known as the Douglas–Peucker algorithm and iterative end-point fit algorithm, is an algorithm that decimates a curve composed of line segments to a similar curve with fewer points. It was one of the earliest successful algorithms developed for cartographic generalization.
Idea
The purpose of the algorithm is, given a curve composed of line segments (which is also called a Polyline in some contexts), to find a similar curve with fewer points. The algorithm defines 'dissimilar' based on the maximum distance between the original curve and the simplified curve (i.e., the Hausdorff distance between the curves). The simplified curve consists of a subset of the points that defined the original curve.
Algorithm
The starting curve is an ordered set of points or lines and the distance dimension .
The algorithm recursively divides the line. Initially it is given all the points between the first and last point. It automatically marks the first and last point to be kept. It then finds the point that is farthest from the line segment with the first and last points as end points; this point is obviously farthest on the curve from the approximating line segment between the end points. If the point is closer than to the line segment, then any points not currently marked to be kept can be discarded without the simplified curve being worse than .
If the point farthest from the line segment is greater than from the approximation then that point must be kept. The algorithm recursively calls itself with the first point and the farthest point and then with the farthest point and the last point, which includes the farthest point being marked as kept.
When the recursion is completed a new output curve can be generated consisting of all and only those points that have been marked as kept.
Non-parametric Ramer–Douglas–Peucker
The choice of is usually user-defined. Like most line fitting, polygonal approximation or dominant point detection methods, it can be made non-parametric by using the error bound due to digitization and quantization as a termination condition.
Pseudocode
Assuming the input is a one-based array:
# source: https://karthaus.nl/rdp/
function DouglasPeucker(PointList[], epsilon)
# Find the point with the maximum distance
dmax = 0
index = 0
end = length(PointList)
for i = 2 to (end - 1) {
d = perpendicularDistance(PointList[i], Line(PointList[1], PointList[end]))
if (d > dmax) {
index = i
dmax = d
}
}
ResultList[] = empty;
# If max distance is greater than epsilon, recursively simplify
if (dmax > epsilon) {
# Recursive call
recResults1[] = DouglasPeucker(PointList[1...index], epsilon)
recResults2[] = DouglasPeucker(PointList[index...end], epsilon)
# Build the result list
ResultList[] = {recResults1[1...length(recResults1) - 1], recResults2[1...length(recResults2)]}
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo%20Bills%20Radio%20Network | The Buffalo Bills Radio Network is a broadcast radio network based in Buffalo, New York. Its primary programming is broadcasts of Buffalo Bills home and away games to a network of 24 stations in upstate New York and the Northwestern and Northern Tiers of Pennsylvania.
Previously, the broadcasts originated from WBEN through much of the team's history except for a period from 1971 to 1977 when WKBW was team flagship. WGR briefly carried games in the early 1990s. From 1998 through 2011, the Bills were flagshipped at WGRF, as well as other stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. When Cumulus Media purchased Citadel in late 2011, it dropped Bills games from all of its stations at the end of the season. Cumulus never fully paid off the money Citadel owed for Bills games, instead eventually seeking to nullify the debt in January 2018 when the company went into bankruptcy. Entercom Communications and Galaxy Communications picked up the rights, restoring broadcasts to WGR for the 2012 season.
During the time of the Bills Toronto Series, the station was carried on The Fan 590 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. CHML in Hamilton also briefly carried games in the late 2010s but dropped them after re-securing the rights to the team it had carried for much of its history, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. As of 2022, the Bills have no Canadian affiliates, though WGR is audible through much of Southern Ontario.
The station added an affiliate in Wyoming in 2021, KGAB in Laramie County, Wyoming, mainly to allow Wyoming Cowboys football fans to follow Bills starting quarterback and Wyoming alumnus Josh Allen. KGAB dropped Bills games for the 2023 season.
Chris Brown, formerly a Buffalo Destroyers play-by-play announcer who had most recently been studio host for the Bills' shows on MSG Western New York, is currently serving as interim play-by-play announcer, with former Bills offensive lineman Eric Wood as color commentator and WGR employee Sal Capaccio as sideline reporter.
The network is an autonomous organization from the team, and is unique in that it, and not the team itself, was the main sponsor of the Bills' cheerleaders, the Buffalo Jills, until that squad was disbanded due to legal disputes.
Van Miller was the voice of the Buffalo Bills from the team's inception until 2003, with the exception of 1972 to 1978, when WKBW controlled radio rights and Miller's TV employer, WBEN-TV (now WIVB), would not permit him to appear on WKBW broadcasts. Miller was succeeded by John Murphy, his longtime color commentator, when he retired from the booth after the 2003 season. Murphy has been off-air since January 2023 due to a stroke.
Stations
The WGR and network broadcast incorporates a broadcast delay; the WWKB broadcast is live, and is intended for listeners inside Highmark Stadium. If the Bills ever reach the Super Bowl, the Bills' home-team broadcast would air on WWKB. Since WWKB has a clear channel signal, it would allow the Bills' broadcast to be heard across the East Coast. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%20Becker | Pete Becker is a consultant and computer programmer, recognized as one of the world's foremost experts in the C++ programming language. He has been contributing to the C++ standardization process since its start and has authored several publications, including magazine articles and columns, and a book on the first C++ Library Technical Report (aka TR1).
Career
Becker worked for eight years at Borland International as a quality assurance engineer and manager, library implementor, and development manager. From 1997 to 2005 he was employed at Dinkumware, working on the source code and documentation of their C++ Standard Library and C Standard Library implementations.
C++ Standards Committee
Becker has been a member of the ISO/IEC (JTC1/SC22/WG21) C++ Standards committee since its inception in 1991. His work includes a proposal for standard support of dynamic libraries and arbitrary-precision arithmetic in C++. He has been the Project Editor from 2004 until 2011, when C++11 was released.
Publications
Becker has written several columns and articles, focusing primarily on C++. From 1995 to 2001, Becker was a regular columnist for C/C++ Users Journal. From 2005 to 2006 he wrote a monthly column entitled "The New C++ Not-So-Standard Library", focusing on various aspects of the C++ TR1 library extensions. After C/C++ Users Journal merged with Dr Dobb's Journal, Becker's column reappeared as "The New C++", now focusing on more general aspects of C and C++ programming.
In 2006 he published The C++ Standard Library Extensions: A Tutorial and Reference, a book covering the new functions and components proposed as extensions to the C++ Standard Library in C++ Technical Report 1.
References
External links
Pete Becker's homepage
C++ people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20busiest%20railway%20stations%20in%20Great%20Britain | This is a list of the busiest railway stations in Great Britain on the National Rail network for the 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 financial year. The dataset records patterns of mobility during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, with significantly reduced levels of mobility compared with the 2019–20 data. Extended periods of significantly reduced commuting and long distance travel caused many major stations to drop in the ranking. During 2021–22 there were 990million passenger journeys on the network, compared to 388million in 2020–21 and 1,739 million in 2019–20. With pandemic restrictions eliminated during the year, passenger levels during 2021–22 were more than double those of the previous year. The busiest station was London Waterloo, replacing Stratford which was top of the ranking the previous year.
Methodology
The figures are collected by the Office of Rail and Road, and are estimates based on ticket usage data use of an Origin Destination Matrix, a comprehensive matrix of rail flows between stations throughout Great Britain in the financial year of 2021–22. The data count entries and exits at any station. Note that the data covers mainland Great Britain and surrounding small islands (such as the Isle of Wight), not the United Kingdom, and so exclude tickets within Northern Ireland and Eurostar. There are various further limits to the data due to the variety of ticketing options available on rail services within the UK; these are outlined in full in the report on the data. Only tickets sold for National Rail services are included; some stations may also be served by underground metro or urban light rail networks. Stations serving solely the London Underground, light rail, special tours or heritage railways are therefore excluded. Data for 2021–22 was published on 24 November 2022.
All stations
During 2021–22 there were 24 stations with more than 10million entries and exits, compared to five stations the previous year and 43 in 2019–20.
See also
List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain (2020–21)
List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain (2019–20)
List of busiest London Underground stations
List of busiest railway stations in Europe
List of busiest railway stations in North America
List of busiest railway stations in West Yorkshire
Notes
References
External links
Station usage - Main page
Busiest railway stations in Great Britain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Harber | Aaron Harber is an American long-form political TV talk show host featured on KCDO-TV Channel 3 Colorado, COMCAST Entertainment Television, and KPXC-TV (ION Media Networks), as well as on individual stations (such as TV Aspen). Harber often writes columns for The Colorado Statesman, The Denver Daily News and the Huffington Post, and has served as an on-air, political analyst for the Denver CBS affiliate, CBS4 (KCNC-TV), the CW2 Network, Tribune Broadcasting (KWGN-TV Channel 2), and KBDI-TV Channel 12.
Media
Since 1992, Aaron Harber has worked extensively in the media as a host, producer, political and economic commentator, and columnist. The Aaron Harber Show is the focus of his media involvement. In addition to this program, Harber has also hosted several other public affairs programs, including The Senate in Balance, Denver 2008: The 2008 Denver Democratic National Convention Series, The Energy Roundtable, the Truth in Political Advertising Project, and the Colorado Election 2010 election series.
Broadcasting career
Harber's first stint in broadcasting was in 1992 as the host of The WatchDog, a political issues, consumer affairs, and citizens' rights program on the Talk of the Rockies Network.
In 1994, he became host of After the Rush. This program was initially framed as a humorous but cogent response to Rush Limbaugh which quickly stopped paying attention to Limbaugh, and instead tackled the issues of the day.
Harber gained national recognition when he was sued frivolously for $20 million by Rush Limbaugh et al., for using the word "Rush" in the title of his national radio program. With broad-based support across the political spectrum, Harber prevailed in the federal court case.
In 1997, the talk industry's leading publication Talkers Magazine selected Harber out of 5,000 hosts across the country as one of America's "100 Most Important Talk Show Hosts" (along with others such as Don Imus, G. Gordon Liddy, Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura Schlesinger, Howard Stern, and Bruce Williams).
In 1998, Harber moved from the 'alk America Radio Network (where he was heard on 51 radio stations across the country) exclusively into the television arena.
In 2000, he hosted the historic nonpartisan campaign series Election 2000, which was broadcast on over-the-air television (Colorado Public Television KBDI-TV 12) as well as on the internet, thanks to funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and a partnership with the Denver Post.
Two years later, Harber hosted the nonpartisan Election 2002 series on Colorado Public Television as a demonstration of how to promote unbiased election information as well as to provide citizens with extensive candidate access and election coverage.
Harber was a host on Colorado Decides 2004 when it became a joint venture of KCNC-TV (CBS4), KBDI-TV Channel 12, and the Rocky Mountain News. For Colorado Decides 2006 he was the host, moderator, and/or primary questioner for all 21 programs including live call-in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Lawrence%20Kocay | William Lawrence Kocay is a Canadian professor at the department of computer science at St. Paul's College of the University of Manitoba and a graph theorist. He is known for his work in graph algorithms and the reconstruction conjecture and is affectionately referred to as "Wild Bill" by his students. Bill Kocay is a former managing editor (from Jan 1988 to May 1997) of Ars Combinatoria, a Canadian journal of combinatorial mathematics, is a founding fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.
His research interests include algorithms for graphs, the development of mathematical software, the graph reconstruction problem, the graph isomorphism problem, projective geometry, Hamiltonian cycles, planarity, graph embedding algorithms, graphs on surfaces, and combinatorial designs.
Publications
Some new methods in reconstruction theory, W. L. Kocay – Combinatorial mathematics, IX (Brisbane, 1981), LNM
Some NP-complete problems for hypergraph degree sequences, CJ Colbourn, WL Kocay, DR Stinson – Discrete Applied Mathematics, 1986 – portal.acm.org
Books and software package
Graphs, algorithms, and optimization By William Kocay, Donald L. Kreher, Published 2004, CRC Press, 483 pages
Groups and graphs – A mainly Mac OS X software package for graphs, digraphs, combinatorial designs, projective configurations, polyhedra, graph embeddings in the torus and projective plane, and automorphism groups. It also constructs fractals.
See also
List of University of Waterloo people
References
William Lawrence Kocay's homepage
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Graph theorists
University of Waterloo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Manitoba
American computer scientists
Academic journal editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissy%20Biggers | Martha "Sissy" Cargill Biggers (born Martha Lyons Cargill on July 3, 1957) is an American television personality and lifestyle expert. She has hosted the Food Network's Ready.. Set... Cook! and Lifetime's Biggers & Summers and Live from Queens talk shows. In 2001 Biggers also served as floor reporter on the short-lived reality television series Iron Chef USA. She has been a regular lifestyles contributor for The Today Show.
Personal life
Biggers graduated from Barnard College. She is married to Reeve Kelsey Biggers Jr., a grandson of John David Biggers, former chief executive officer of the Libbey-Owens-Ford company who conducted the first unemployment census in 1938 at the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She is mother of two children.
References
External links
Official website
1957 births
Living people
American television actresses
American television personalities
Actresses from Minneapolis
Barnard College alumni
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Map%20Maker | Google Map Maker is a defunct map editing service launched by Google in June 2008. In geographies where it is hard to find providers of good map data, user contributions were used to increase map quality. Changes to Google Map Maker were intended to appear on Google Maps only after sufficient review by Google moderators. Google Map Maker was used at Google Mapathon events held annually.
In November 2016, Google announced that Google Map Maker would be retired and merged with Google Maps. Google Map Maker was officially shut down on March 31, 2017.
Interface
Using the find or browse tools, contributors were able to add and draw features directly onto a map where the borders had already been drawn, and could add features such as roads, railways, rivers and so on. In addition, users could add specific buildings and services onto the map such as local businesses and services.
Three kinds of drawing tools were available: placemark (a single point of interest on the map), line (for drawing roads, railways, rivers, and the like) and polygon (for defining boundaries and borders, adding parks, lakes and other large features). The approach encouraged by users and by Google was to trace features such as roads from the existing satellite imagery. This approach was not useful in areas with poor satellite imagery, and users consequently created less map data in those areas.
New users' contributions were moderated by more experienced users or reviewers at Google to ensure quality and prevent vandalism. As users made more successful contributions, their edits were less closely monitored and may have been published on the map straight away. Certain larger features may have taken a long time to appear on the map as they were waiting to be rendered by the server.
Contributors could assign areas of the map as their 'neighbourhood', that is an area they know well enough to make detailed contributions to. Users could also moderate the contributions of others within their neighbourhood. This information was private; the neighbourhood a user selected was not publicly associated with the users' account.
Availability
As of 6 March 2016, the service was available in Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark (not including Greenland and the Faroe Islands), Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States, Venezuela, and Vietnam.
2015 vandalism incident
In April 2015, Google removed user-created Map Maker content that showed an "Android robot urinating on the Apple logo" and a separate feature saying "Google review policy is crap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Heritage%20Database | The Australian Heritage Database is a searchable online database of heritage sites in Australia. It is maintained by the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment , in consultation with Australian Heritage Council. There are more than 20,000 entries in the database, which includes natural, historic and Indigenous heritage places, held in separately maintained lists.
Description
Included in the database are places or items:
the World Heritage List, places that are of outstanding universal value and have been included on this United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) managed list;
the National Heritage List, a long list of natural, historic and Indigenous places that are of outstanding national heritage value to the Australian nation;
the Commonwealth Heritage List, a list of natural, historic and Indigenous places of heritage significance owned or controlled by the Australian Government;
the Register of the National Estate, a list of natural, historic and Indigenous heritage places throughout Australia, frozen in February 2007 and replaced by the Australian National Heritage List and the Commonwealth Heritage List;
the List of Overseas Places of Historic Significance (LOPHSA), a list which recognises symbolically sites of outstanding historic significance to Australia that are located outside the Australian jurisdiction; and
other places being considered for listing in one of these lists.
Photographs
Photographs of listed places are included (if available) through links to the Australian Heritage Photographic Library. There is a separate search facility for searching the photos only.
See also
Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database – shipwrecks, sunken aircraft and other types of underwater heritage sites and artefacts
Australian Heritage Council – principal adviser to the Australian Government on heritage matters
List of heritage registers (worldwide)
References
External links
Search page
Heritage registers in Australia
Government of Australia
Scientific databases
Databases in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FYI%20%28TV%20series%29 | FYI was an information series seen on the ABC network in the early 1980s. Hosted by Hal Linden (at the time the star of Barney Miller), the program features answers to questions that many viewers ask, from common questions such as, "What's the leading cause of burns in children?" to questions not many ask, but may be interesting to know, like "Can a child dance his/her way to better grades?" just to name a couple.
With each show lasting sixty seconds (including intros and outros), FYI was seen three times a day on weekdays, following ABC's popular soaps Ryan’s Hope, One Life to Live and General Hospital, using a formula not unlike ABC's Saturday morning mini-programs, such as Time for Timer, The Bod Squad and Schoolhouse Rock!
Two books based on the television series have been published, both by M. Evans and Company: FYI (For Your Information): Unexpected Answers to Everyday Questions (1982) and More FYI (For Your Information): Further Tips for Healthful Living (1983).
References
(Sources for this article come from the books mentioned above.)
External links
FYI episodes on fuzzymemories.tv
1980 American television series debuts
Year of television series ending missing
American Broadcasting Company original programming
American non-fiction television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume%20mesh | In 3D computer graphics and modeling, volumetric meshes are a polygonal representation of the interior volume of an object. Unlike polygon meshes, which represent only the surface as polygons, volumetric meshes also discretize the interior structure of the object.
Applications
One application of volumetric meshes is in finite element analysis, which may use regular or irregular volumetric meshes to compute internal stresses and forces in an object throughout the entire volume of the object.
Volume meshes may also be used for portal rendering.
See also
B-rep
Voxels
Hypergraph
Volume rendering
References
3D computer graphics
Computer graphics data structures
Mesh generation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora%20Center | The Agora Center is a separate institute at the University of Jyväskylä in Central Finland. By its nature, the Agora Center is interdisciplinary and networked. Its purpose is to conduct, coordinate, and administrate top-level research and development that relates to the knowledge society and which places emphasis on the human perspective. The research and development is conducted in the form of fixed-period projects in cooperation with the University of Jyväskylä’s other faculties and separate institutes, businesses, the public sector and other relevant parties. The Agora Center also promotes researcher training through its various research projects. One of the core missions of the Agora Center is to effectively combine research and development with education. The project staff includes a high number of students and post-graduate students.
The Research in the Agora Center is mainly based on Human Technology. Human Technology refers to the human-centred approach to technological systems and methods that takes into account human needs and requirements as well as its implications for humans.
The Agora Center’s administration model follows the requirements of being a separate institute of the University of Jyväskylä and the needs for networking in addition to their departmental commitments and activities. The Agora Center has an interdisciplinary Managing Board, on which all of the faculties of the University of Jyväskylä are represented. The Agora Center also has an international Advisory Board.
History
In order to enable growth of Human Tech research, the facilities of the Agora Human Technology Center were built in 2000. The University simultaneously created the Faculty of Information Technology, combining the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, the Department of Mathematical Information Technology and the Information Technology Research Institute. The faculty plays the main role in technological research within the Agora concept.
The other essential side of the Agora concept is constituted by the human and social sciences. From the beginning it was evident that to study human technology, an interdisciplinary approach was needed. The networked activity started in the form of the Psykocenter in 2000. In the initial period of the Center’s history, the network was associated with the Centre of Excellence in Psychology in order to coordinate the human-centered research related to the knowledge society.
However, it soon became clear that for the intended interdisciplinary research to function, the research operations needed an independent entity with its own, in other words autonomous, administration. Thus, in 2002, the University of Jyväskylä established the Agora Center as a separate institute that also included the Psykocenter. The Agora Center’s first operating period was from 1.2.2002 to 31.7.2005. Nonetheless, in April 2004, the lifespan of Agora Center was extended to the year 2009.
In order to support the functioning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicd | Wicd, which stands for Wireless Interface Connection Daemon, is an open-source software utility to manage both wireless and wired networks for Linux. The project started in late 2006 with the creation of Connection Manager, which eventually became Wicd. Wicd aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.
Wicd will only automatically connect to wireless networks you have specified and will not automatically connect to an unknown network.
Wicd supports wireless encryption using wpa_supplicant. Users can design their own "templates", which can be used by Wicd to connect to a large variety of networks using any type of encryption wpa_supplicant supports.
Wicd is split into two major components: the daemon, and the user interface. These two components communicate via D-Bus. This design allows the user interface to run as a standard user, and the daemon to run as the root user, so the user can change the wireless network without knowing the root password. The split interface/daemon design would also allow a person to write a new front-end to the Wicd daemon, such as wicd-qt. There are also other front-ends available for many DEs such as GNOME, Xfce, and Fluxbox.
Wicd is currently available in some Linux distributions, such as Debian, Gentoo Linux, Slackware, Ubuntu and Zenwalk Linux.
See also
NetworkManager
Wireless tools for Linux, for command-line interface
netifd, net interface daemon of the OpenWrt project
Linux on the desktop
References
Applications using D-Bus
Free network-related software
Free software programmed in Python
Free software that uses ncurses
Software that uses PyGTK |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Availability%2C%20Reliability%20and%20Security | The ARES - The International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security focuses on rigorous and novel research in the field of dependability, computer and information security. In cooperation with the conference several workshops are held covering a huge variety of security topics. The Conference and Workshop Proceedings are published by IEEE Computer Society Press. In the CORE ranking, ARES is ranked as B. Participants from almost 40 countries attend ARES 2013.
The conference is hosted by universities and research institutions:
2006: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
2007: Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in co-operation with ENISA – The Network and Information Security Agency of the European Union
2008: Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, in co-operation with ENISA
2009: Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
2010: Krakowska Akademia, Poland
2011: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
2012: University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
2013: University of Regensburg, Germany
2013: University of Regensburg, Germany
In 2013 the keynotes of the ARES conference are held by
Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy
Carl Gunter, University of Illinois, US
Furthermore, a panel about Threats & Risk Management – Bridging the Gap between Industry needs and Research takes place. The panelists are:
Gary McGraw, Cigital, US
Greg Soukiassian, BC & RS, France
Chris Wills, CARIS Research, UK
Tutorials are held by Gary McGraw, Haya Shulman, Ludwig Fuchs, Stefan Katzenbeisser
2012: University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
In 2012 the keynotes of the ARES conference are held by:
Annie Antón, Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
Chenxi Wang, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research (US)
Further, a panel was moderated by Shari Lawrence Pfleeger with the panelists:
Angela Sasse, University College London (UK)
David Budgen, Durham University (UK)
Kelly Caine, Indiana University (US)
2011: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
In 2011 the keynotes of the ARES conference were held by:
Gary McGraw
Shari Pfleeger
Furthermore, Gene Spafford gives an invited talk.
2010: Krakowska Akademia, Poland
In 2010 the keynotes of the ARES conference were held by:
Gene Spafford (Purdue University)
Ross J. Anderson (Cambridge University)
2009: Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
In 2009 the keynotes of the ARES conference were held by:
Prof. Elisa Bertino (Purdue University)
Sushil Jajodia (George Mason University Fairfax)
Eiji Okamoto (Tsukuba University)
Additionally an invited talk was held by:
Solange Ghernaouti (University of Lausanne)
The acceptance rate for ARES 2009 was 25% (= 40 full papers)
2008: Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) Barcelona, Spain
In 2008 the keynotes of the ARES conference were held by:
Prof. Ravi Sandhu, Executive Director, Chief Scientist and Founder, Institute for Cyber Security (ICS) and Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair in Cyber-Security
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRT%20Sat | MRT Sat (MKTV Sat) is the name of Macedonian Radio-Television's satellite service to telecast to the Macedonian diaspora across the world. Its programming is taken from MRT 1. MRT Sat is available in Australia and New Zealand. It is currently broadcast through UBI World TV and TotalTV.
MRT Sat was launched on 30 April 2000 and broadcasts a continuous 24-hour programme for Europe, North Africa, East Asia, Americas, etc. which is a selection of MRT programmes, as well as an original programme. It was meant to be intended for all Macedonians living outside North Macedonia.
External links
MRT Sat at LyngSat-Address
References
Television channels in North Macedonia
Television channels and stations established in 2000
International broadcasters
Macedonian Radio Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF-Canada | World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) is one of Canada's largest conservation organizations and is a member of the WWF global network, actively contributing to the protection, management, and restoration of the environment. The WWF's name remains World Wildlife Fund in Canada and the United States, but it is known as World Wide Fund for Nature around the world. The organization works to protect Canada's endangered species, promote sustainable ocean and fresh water management, and develop strategies for renewable energy development.
Mission statement
On its official website, the organization's mission is:To stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by:
conserving the world's biological diversity,
ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable,
promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.
Offices
Toronto, Ontario (head office)
Ottawa, Ontario
Victoria, British Columbia
Halifax, Nova Scotia
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Montreal, Quebec
Iqaluit, Nunavut
See also
Ernie Cooper
List of ecoregions in Canada (WWF)
References
External links
WWF-Canada Website
WWF Global Network
WWF International Website
Canada
Environmental organizations based in Ontario
Organizations based in Toronto
Environmental organizations established in 1967
1967 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USDA%20National%20Nutrient%20Database | The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference is a database produced by the United States Department of Agriculture that provides the nutritional content of many generic and proprietary-branded foods. Released in August 2015 and revised in May 2016, the current release, Standard Reference 28 (SR28), contains "data on 8,800 food items and up to 150 food components". New releases occur about once per year. The database may be searched online, queried through a representational state transfer API, or downloaded.
In April 2019, the USDA changed the presentation of food composition in its database, renaming the project as FoodData Central.
FoodData Central
FoodData Central is USDA's integrated data system that contains five types of data containing information on food and nutrient profiles:
Standard Reference, using earlier approaches to determining nutrient profiles of foods in the marketplace, provides a comprehensive list of values for nutrients and food components that are derived from calculations and analyses.
Foundation Foods includes nutrient values as well as extensive underlying metadata on commercially available foods.
Experimental Foods currently links to relevant agricultural research data from multiple sources, such as the Agricultural Collaborative Research Outcomes System (AgCROS).
Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) provides nutrient values for the foods and beverages reported in What We Eat in America, the dietary intake component of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
The USDA Global Branded Food Products Database contains nutrient data that appear on branded and private label foods provided by the food industry, from ILSI, GS1 US, 1WorldSync, Label Insight, and University of Maryland's Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
References
External links
USDA FoodData Central
Nutrition
Food and drink in the United States
National Nutrient Database
Online databases
Scientific databases
Projects established in 2015
2015 in the United States
National Nutrient Database |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Bennett%20Lamas | Richard Bennett is a former comic book artist and current film industry storyboard artist born in Uruguay. He broke into the comic book industry in 1990, penciling and inking the Cyberad series for Continuity Comics. In 1992, he began freelancing for Marvel Comics on various X-Men titles, then moving in 1994 to WildStorm, where he worked on a wide variety of titles, including the Brass mini-series.
In 1997, he did background and character design work for the first season of the animated Spawn HBO series. A year later Bennett signed up to the full-time program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He attended between 1998 and 2003, graduating with a BFA in Illustration.
During 2003 he worked on the Alien vs Predator film, then in 2004 started working on commercials with director David Fincher.
In 2005 he became a member of the ADG Local 800 in Los Angeles, and has been steadily storyboarding mainly for films ever since, having collaborated with directors such as David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Brad Bird and JJ Abrams among many others.
Some of the projects he hs worked on include Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, Star Trek, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Avengers, Captain America: Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Tron: Legacy, Dunkirk and Tenet.
External links
411 Creative Placement, Profile: Richard Bennett
Artists from Montevideo
Uruguayan comics artists
Uruguayan storyboard artists
Living people
1968 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With%20Their%20Backs%20to%20the%20World | With Their Backs to The World: Portraits of Serbia is a book by Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad.
While working for the national Norwegian television network, Åsne Seierstad was in Yugoslavia (today's Serbia) during the Kosovo War and NATO bombing of the country of 1999. She also recorded the events of the democratic revolution which overthrew Slobodan Milošević in October 2000.
In her book, Seierstad follows thirteen people from different parts of the country who represent a rough cross-section of Serbia - people of varying backgrounds and political beliefs. She describes their lives and records their thoughts, providing a degree of insight into Serbia's national psyche and its historical causes. She visited Serbia three times during the book. Firstly in 1999, after the NATO bombing campaign, when Milosevic is still in power and when UN sanctions are still in place. She visited again during the democratic revolution in 2000. Her final visit came in 2004 after the assassination of the Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and the deportation of alleged war criminals (including Slobodan Milosevic himself) to the ICTY in The Hague, with most of her characters feeling disillusioned with the country's lack of progress.
As well as talking about ordinary Serbians, including a displaced Serbian family from Kosovo, Seierstad also writes about her interviews with famous Serbian politicians from both Milošević's Socialist Party and the Democratic parties of Serbia, as well as television personalities and the musician Rambo Amadeus.
2000 non-fiction books
Books about Serbia
Norwegian-language books
Cappelen Damm books
Cultural depictions of Slobodan Milošević
Yugoslav Wars books
Works about the Kosovo War |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbi%20Taylor | Debbi Taylor, formerly Debbi Wrobleski, is an American sports reporter who has worked for the New England Sports Network (NESN) and the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN).
Taylor got her start in sports broadcasting at NESN, where she hosted the morning show, as well as doing feature interviews and reporting for Boston Red Sox games.
After six years at NESN, Taylor joined Sun Sports and FSN Florida, where she worked as a sideline reporter. She was also a sports anchor and reporter for WOFL and WKMG-TV in Orlando, where she covered the Daytona 500 and Super Bowl. From 2007 through 2011, she was MASN′s sideline reporter at Washington Nationals games, the first person ever to serve in this role.
Taylor has won two local Emmys and a national Emmy for her trip to Cuba and "The Friendship Games." She was honored by Red Sox legend Ted Williams by being one of only two women included in the "Hitters Hall of Fame." (The other was longtime Red Sox owner Jean Yawkey).
Taylor is a native of Nashua, New Hampshire. She is married to former Major League Baseball pitcher Wade Taylor and they have a daughter.
External links
MASN profile
Living people
Sports in Boston
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Mid-Atlantic Sports Network
Washington Nationals announcers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative%20comparative%20analysis | In statistics, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a data analysis based on set theory to examine the relationship of conditions to outcome. QCA describes the relationship in terms of necessary conditions and sufficient conditions. The technique was originally developed by Charles Ragin in 1987 to study data sets that are too small for linear regression analysis but large for cross-case analysis.
Summary of technique
In the case of categorical variables, QCA begins by listing and counting all types of cases which occur, where each type of case is defined by its unique combination of values of its independent and dependent variables. For instance, if there were four categorical variables of interest, {A,B,C,D}, and A and B were dichotomous (could take on two values), C could take on five values, and D could take on three, then there would be 60 possible types of observations determined by the possible combinations of variables, not all of which would necessarily occur in real life. By counting the number of observations that exist for each of the 60 unique combination of variables, QCA can determine which descriptive inferences or implications are empirically supported by a data set. Thus, the input to QCA is a data set of any size, from small-N to large-N, and the output of QCA is a set of descriptive inferences or implications the data supports.
In QCA's next step, inferential logic or Boolean algebra is used to simplify or reduce the number of inferences to the minimum set of inferences supported by the data. This reduced set of inferences is termed the "prime implicates" by QCA adherents. For instance, if the presence of conditions A and B is always associated with the presence of a particular value of D, regardless of the observed value of C, then the value that C takes is irrelevant. Thus, all five inferences involving A and B and any of the five values of C may be replaced by the single descriptive inference "(A and B) implies the particular value of D".
To establish that the prime implicants or descriptive inferences derived from the data by the QCA method are causal requires establishing the existence of causal mechanism using another method such as process tracing, formal logic, intervening variables, or established multidisciplinary knowledge. The method is used in social science and is based on the binary logic of Boolean algebra, and attempts to ensure that all possible combinations of variables that can be made across the cases under investigation are considered.
Motivation
The technique of listing case types by potential variable combinations assists with case selection by making investigators aware of all possible case types that would need to be investigated, at a minimum, if they exist, in order to test a certain hypothesis or to derive new inferences from an existing data set. In situations where the available observations constitute the entire population of cases, this method alleviates the small N problem by allowing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Lions%20Radio%20Network | The Detroit Lions Radio Network is a radio network in Michigan and Toledo, Ohio that broadcasts all of the NFL's Detroit Lions games and related programming. All preseason, regular season, and postseason games are aired live throughout the network. The announcers are WJBK (Fox 2) sports director Dan Miller with play-by-play, former Lions offensive tackle Lomas Brown with color commentary, and former Lions guard T. J. Lang serving as sideline reporter. Network coverage begins two hours before game time and ends one hour after the game's conclusion. Games are also aired on Sirius XM Radio and online with a subscription to NFL Game Pass or TuneIn Premium. The Lions' flagship station returned to WXYT-FM starting with the 2021 season, after a five-year stint at WJR. As of the 2023 season, the network consists of 50 stations in 40 markets in Michigan and one in Ohio.
Station list
Blue background indicates low-power FM translator.
Gray background indicates station is a simulcast of another station.
History
Dan Miller has been the radio play-by-play voice of the Lions since 2005. Miller succeeded Mark Champion, who had called play-by-play for the team from 1989-2004.
Van Patrick called play-by-play from 1950 until his death in 1974.
Other past announcers for Lions radio include Frank Beckmann, Bob Reynolds, Dave Diles and Ray Lane.
Jim Brandstatter was the Lions' radio color commentator from 1987–2017.
Tony Ortiz provided Lions sideline reports from 2001 until 2016. He produced Lions games broadcasts from 1991-1994.
WXYT (AM) was the sole flagship station of the network from 1998-2004.
In 2005, the Lions' flagship became an FM station for the first time in their history, when a long term agreement was signed with WKRK (now WXYT-FM).
Detroit's WWJ was the team's flagship station prior to 1998, and continued to simulcast WXYT's broadcasts prior to the team's move to WKRK. Prior to 1989, WJR had served as the Lions' radio flagship.
Former names of the network include "The WXYT 1270 Detroit Lions Radio Network", "The WKRK Detroit Lions Radio Network", and "The Live 97.1 Detroit Lions Radio Network" (WKRK-FM is WXYT-FM's former callsign, and Live 97.1 is one of its former brandings).
WXYT-FM was the Lions' flagship from 2004–2015.
On November 20, 2015, it was announced that the Detroit Lions would move to WJR beginning in the 2016 NFL season, ending the team's 20-year relationship with CBS Radio. Officials stated that CBS had dropped the team over demands that it censor on-air content that was critical of the team. In particular, the Lions specifically demanded that flagship station WXYT-FM fire popular on-air personality Mike Valenti as a condition of any extension to its broadcast rights since Valenti has had a history of making remarks critical of the Lions and their poor performance. WXYT-FM refused to do so, and he remains at the station.
See also
List of XM Satellite Radio channels
List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
NFL on Westwood One
Detro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy%20%28disambiguation%29 | Gypsy is an English name for the Romani people.
Gypsy or gypsies may also refer to:
Computing and technology
Gypsy (database), a database of Mobile Genetic Elements
Gypsy (software), a word processing program
Films
Gypsies (1922 film), a Czech silent drama by Karl Anton
Gypsy (1937 film), a drama film by Roy William Neill
Gypsy (1962 film), a film adaptation of the stage musical Gypsy
The Gypsy (film), a 1975 French-Italian crime-drama film by José Giovanni
Gypsy (1993 film), a musical starring Bette Midler
Gypsy (2011 film), a Slovakian drama
Gypsy (2020 film), an Indian romantic road movie
The Gypsy, a 1911 film with Florence Lawrence
Gypsy, a character in A Bug's Life
Literature
Gypsy (1929 play), by Maxwell Anderson
The Gypsy (short story), by Agatha Christie
The Gypsy (novel), a 1992 novel by Steven Brust and Megan Lindholm
Gypsy: A Memoir, a book by Gypsy Rose Lee
The Gypsies (poem), by Alexander Pushkin
Gypsy (comics), character in DC Comics
Cyganie (Gypsies), a play by Józef Korzeniowski
Gypsies, a 1975 book by Josef Koudelka
Gypsy, a 1985 romance novel by Carole Mortimer
Gypsy, a 2008 book by Lesley Pearse
Gypsies, a novel by Robert Charles Wilson
Music
Artists
Gypsy (band), an American progressive rock band
The Gypsies (Danish band), a hip hop/R&B group
The Gypsies (Sri Lankan band)
Albums and EPs
Gypsy (Gypsy album), a 1970 album by Gypsy
Gypsies (album), a 1978 album Lalo Schifrin
Gypsy (soundtrack), a soundtrack album for the 1993 film
Songs
"The Gypsy" (song), a 1945 song by Billy Reid, recorded by several different artists
"Gypsy" (Fleetwood Mac song) (1982)
"Gypsy" (Lady Gaga song) (2013)
"Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)", a 1969 song by the Moody Blues
"Gypsy" (Shakira song) (2010)
"Gypsy" (Uriah Heep song) (1970)
"Gypsy", a song by Black Sabbath from Technical Ecstasy
"Gypsy", a song by Brotherhood of Man from Higher Than High
"The Gypsy", a song by Deep Purple from Stormbringer
"Gypsy", a song by Dio from Holy Diver
"Gypsy", a song by Ektomorf from Destroy
"Gypsy", a song by Emperor from In the Nightside Eclipse
"The Gypsy", a song by the Irish Rovers from Emigrate! Emigrate!
"Gypsy", a song by Luscious Jackson from Electric Honey
"Gypsy", a song by Mercyful Fate from Don't Break the Oath
"Gypsy", a song by Van Morrison from Saint Dominic's Preview
"Gypsy", a song by Savoy Brown from Looking In
"Gypsy", a song by Armin van Buuren from Shivers
"Gypsy", a song by Suzanne Vega from Solitude Standing
"Gypsy", a song from the musical Lord of the Dance
Other music
Gypsy (musical), a 1959 stage musical about Gypsy Rose Lee
Cyganie (The Gypsies), an 1852 operetta by Stanisław Moniuszko
The Gypsies, an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich
Gypsy, a figure in contra dance choreography
People
Gypsy (calypsonian) (born 1953), Trinidad and Tobago politician and calypsonian
Kishansinh Chavda or Gypsy (1904–1979), Gujarati author
Paul Miller, better known as GypsyCrusader (born 198 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter%20Value%20Language | In computer programming, Parameter Value Language (PVL) is a markup language similar to XML. It is commonly employed for entries in the Planetary Database System used by NASA to store mission data, among other uses.
There are at least two "dialects" – USGS Isis Cube Label and NASA PDS 3 Label.
References
External links
Specification
Markup languages
Technical communication
Computer file formats
Data modeling languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mexican%20states%20by%20life%20expectancy | The following is the list of the States of Mexico by life expectancy Mexico has seen declines in some states due to increasing crime in many Mexican cities, especially Ciudad Juarez.
The Data in the 2017 and 2010 columns come from the IHME GBD Results tool. Life Expectancy In Mexico saw large increases before 1990 but recent events involving increased drug activity and increased crime within the cities of Mexico. For example, Campeche had a Life Expectancy in 2010 of 76.30 years and it has declined to 75.07 years. This was primarily due to increased cartel activity within the state.
IHME Rankings
Mexican States by life expectancy (2017)
Past Life Expectancy
See also
List of North American countries by life expectancy
References
Life expectancy
Mexico, life expectancy
Mexico
Life expectancy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20songs%20of%202008%20%28U.S.%29 | The highest-selling digital singles in the United States are ranked in the Hot Digital Songs chart, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each single's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a single for a summarized figure.
Chart history
See also
2008 in music
Hot Digital Songs
References
United States Digital Songs
2008
2008 in American music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20C.%20Kim | Paul Kim is also the name of an academic, the CTO of the Stanford Graduate School of Education
Paul C. Kim is the Director of Marketing for Everex (a subsidiary of First International Computer Global of Taiwan, TSE 3701) a supplier of personal computers, notebooks and ultra-mobile PCs.
Mr. Kim currently serves as the developer and lead visionary for Everex marketing. Known for developing unique and innovative PC products, his responsibilities include managing the daily and long-term promotional, and positioning strategies for the 25-year-old American PC company based in Fremont, California .
In the summer of 2007, under the guidance of Kim, Everex partnered with OpenOffice.org to release the first Windows Vista-based PC with a pre-installed open source productivity suite. Targeting students and back-to-school shoppers, Wal-Mart stores throughout the US carried the computer.
From the success of using Linux on a mainstream computer, Kim worked with David Liu of Faqly.com to create a $198 PC running an Ubuntu-based OS and featuring open source software from companies such as Google and Mozilla. The desktop, which sold out over 10,000 units during the Christmas season, also featured a processor made by VIA Technologies. The two companies had previously collaborated to release an energy-efficient laptop loaded with Windows.
Showing further commitment to Linux and Open Source, in February 2008, Kim launched a 7" ultra-mobile notebook dubbed "CloudBook",. Stating ". "...we're not trying to be all things to all people.", the CloudBook promised consumers extreme light-weight and portability but made use of a hard disk drive rather than solid state drive. The device was similar to competitor EeePC. Kim plans to launch additional versions with larger screen sizes and keyboards in the future.
A product built especially for MySpace users, Kim again teamed with the gOS (operating system) to create the gPC mini (aka. MyMiniPC) in April, 2008. Designed on an Intel Pentium Dual-Core mobile processor, the 2-inch PC ran gOS Space and featured OpenOffice.org as well as links to YouTube, Gmail and Wikipedia. Similar in appearance to the Mac mini, the specifications of gPC mini allowed it to run as a media machine.
In early, 2008, Everex was named "Linux Magazine’s Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008".
References
Sources
Patrizio, Andy (2007-10-31), Everex PC Goes Linux, Low-Cost. Internetnews.com
Benderoff, Eric (2007-11-01) $199 computer could crack 'digital divide'. ChicagoTribune.com
Shah, Agam (2007-11-05), Everex to launch Linux notebooks under $300 next year. ComputerWorld.com
Farber, Dan (2007-11-27), Google-friendly PC by Everex for $198 (No Microsoft Software). SeekingAlpha.com
Beschizza, Rob (2008-01-03) $200 Desktop PC Gets OS Update: Here's 7 Uses For This Little Wonder. Blog.Wired.com
Stromberg, Bjorn (2008-01-17) 7" CloudBook this month. 9" CloudBook this summer . UltraMobileLife.com
Mathis, Blair (2008-01-25) Everex Delays Cloudbook Sh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease%20registry | Disease or patient registries are collections of secondary data related to patients with a specific diagnosis, condition, or procedure, and they play an important role in post marketing surveillance of pharmaceuticals. Registries are different from indexes in that they contain more extensive data.
In its simplest form, a disease registry could consist of a collection of paper cards kept inside "a shoe box" by an individual physician. Most frequently registries vary in sophistication from simple spreadsheets that only can be accessed by a small group of physicians to very complex databases that are accessed online across multiple institutions.
They can provide health providers (or even patients) with reminders to check certain tests in order to reach certain quality goals.
Versus electronic medical records
Registries are less complex and simpler to set up than electronic medical records that according to a recent survey are only used by 9% of small offices where almost half of the US doctors work.
An electronic medical record keeps track of all the patients a doctor follows but a registry only keeps track of a small sub population of patients with a specific condition.
Types of medical conditions tracked
More than 130 million Americans live with chronic diseases and chronic diseases account for 70% of all deaths in the US. "The medical care costs of people with chronic diseases account for more than 75% of the nation's $2 trillion medical care costs."
Registries target certain conditions because medical expenses are unevenly distributed: most health care expenses are spent treating patients with a few chronic conditions.
For example, the 2002 expenses with diabetes in the US was $132 billion, and this was around 12% of the US medical budget. Diabetes accounts for 25% of the Medicare budget.
Given this, diabetes is one of the conditions targeted by registries. Diabetes is also amenable to this because there is a target population that can be defined according to certain rules and there is evidence that certain tests like retina exams, LDL levels, HgbA1c levels can correlate with quality of care in diabetes.
Because of the diabetes impact, New York City created a HbA1C Registry (NYCAR) to help health providers keep track of patients with diabetes.
Another example of disease registry is the New York State CABG Registry that tracks all cardiac bypass surgery performed in the state of New York.
On a survey of 1040 US physician organizations published in Journal of the American Medical Association, diabetes registries are used by 40.3%, asthma registries are used by 31.2% of physician organizations, CHF registries are used by 34.8% and depression registries are used by 15.7%.
Other tests like Pap smears are also useful to keep track in registries because there is evidence that when done annually in women of certain ages groups can detect and prevent cervical cancer.
Many of measures tracked are based on evidence-based medicine and are defi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manning%20Publications | Manning Publications is an American publisher specializing in content relating to computers. Manning mainly publishes textbooks but also release videos and projects for professionals within the computing world.
Company
Manning was founded in 1990 as a book packaging business by business partners Marjan Bace and Lee Fitzpatrick.
Manning did business with most of the established technical publishers as well as with the IEEE Computer Society Press. Their scope included all of engineering and computing. An early success was the publication of a materials science series of a dozen specialized tomes; it included the large Encyclopedia of Materials Characterization with over 50 contributors. Soon Manning began to see computing topics as the liveliest and most interesting.
Manning would eventually be drawn to the computer industry. Computing soon became the focus of Manning's publishing. Manning's first customer for a computer book was Addison Wesley. Addison Wesley's reputation helped open doors at other leading commercial houses, a number of whom became Manning customers.
The company introduced a unique Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) which allows subscribers to receive incremental completed chapters before the book is finally published. It has also partnered with its competitor O'Reilly Media to add some of its digital library on the Safari Books Online cloud platform.
Branding
The covers of books published by Manning feature illustrations of traditional dress customs from around the world. These illustrations are from a variety of historical sources, such as the 1805 edition of Sylvain Maréchal's four-volume compendium of regional dress customs, and Thomas Jefferys' A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Ancient and Modern.
See also
:Category:Manning Publications books
References
Publishing companies established in 1990
Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
Computer book publishing companies
Companies based in Suffolk County, New York
1990 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%20Telecom | LuxGSM S.A., now known as POST, is a Luxembourgish mobile phone network operator. It has 250,000 subscribers, making it the largest network in Luxembourg. From 2004 until 2009, LuxGSM was the national partner of Vodafone, and its customers had access to Vodafone's network whilst roaming. However, the agreement ended in early 2009, with Tango replacing LuxGSM as the partner network for Luxembourg of Vodafone.
It is 100% owned by P&TLuxembourg, a government-owned corporation that provides mail and telecommunication services.
LuxGSM competes with Tango, Orange Luxembourg (formerly VOX mobile) and Join Experience.
On September 30, 2013, P&TLuxembourg and LuxGSM merged into a single brand, POST Luxembourg. The LUXGSM network was therefore renamed POST.
Footnotes
Mobile phone companies of Luxembourg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai%20%28video%20game%29 | Shanghai is a computerized version of mahjong solitaire published by Activision in 1986 for the Amiga, Atari ST, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, DOS, Macintosh, Apple IIGS and Master System. Shanghai was originally programmed by Brodie Lockard. It was released as an arcade game by Sunsoft in 1988.
Gameplay
The game uses a full set of 144 mahjong tiles, divided as follows:
Dots (1 through 9)
Bamboos (1 through 9)
Characters (1 through 9)
Winds (north, east, south, west)
Dragons (red, green, white)
Seasons (spring, summer, autumn, winter)
Flowers (bamboo, plum, orchid, chrysanthemum)
There are four of every tile except for the seasons and flowers, which have only one tile each.
The object of the game is to remove all the tiles from the board by matching pairs. However, only tiles with at least one free vertical edge may be matched on a turn. Any two seasons can form a pair, as can any two flowers. The game ends if no legal moves can be made.
After winning a game, a portion of the screen collapses to reveal a dragon blinking an eye. The Macintosh and Master System versions show an animated dragon spitting fire.
Reception
Shanghai sold more than 500,000 copies by 1991. In Japan, Game Machine listed Sunsoft's version of Shanghai on their May 1, 1988, issue as being the fourth most-successful table arcade unit of the month; it ended the year as Japan's ninth highest-grossing arcade conversion kit of 1988.
In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Shanghai the 146th-best computer game ever released.
Critical reviews
Computer Gaming World in December 1986 published varying opinions. Gregg Williams stated, "I couldn't believe [Activision] had wasted their resources on putting it out", while Charles Ardai called it "probably the best game of the year". Roy Wagner reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "On the C64, the patterns and stacks are hard to discern (soon your eyes match the screen). On the Amiga the display is outstanding with the pieces actually looking very much like colorful, ivory tiles." Info gave the Amiga version four-plus stars out of five, stating "This program ought to be illegal. It is impossible to play 'just one game'". Describing gameplay as "swift and deceptively simple", the magazine warned "Plan on spending a LOT of time with this one". It gave the Commodore 64 version three-plus stars out of five, describing Shanghai as "fanatically addictive". While criticizing the user interface and graphics, the magazine concluded that "you'll find it hard to quit". Compute! reviewed the game favorably, reporting that "our Shanghai mania is of such proportions that I am beginning to fear for our health". In 1988, Dragon gave the game 5 out of 5 stars.
Atari Lynx
Dragon magazine gave the Atari Lynx version 5 stars in their May 1992 issue. Robert Jung of IGN gave the game a score of 10 out of 10 in his review. Computer and Video Games magazine reviewed the game in their March 1991 issue giving an 84% score |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate%20genomics | Chordate genomics is the study of the evolution of the chordate clade based on a comparison of the genomes of several species within the clade. The field depends on whole genome data (the entire DNA sequence) of organisms. It uses comparisons of synteny blocks, chromosome translocation, and other genomic rearrangements to determine the evolutionary history of the clade, and to reconstruct the genome of the founding species.
Results
Phylogeny
The deep branching of chordate phylogeny has been clarified by chordate genomics. Chordate genomics demonstrates that the Lancelets are the most basal living clade within the chordates, while the Tunicates are the sister clade to the Craniata.
Synteny
A comparison of the genomes of the Lancelet Branchiostoma floridae, a fish, the chicken Gallus gallus, and humans Homo sapiens revealed extensive macro-synteny with little or no micro-synteny. That is, across the Chordate clade the same genes are found clustered near each other although the order of the genes within the clusters has been shuffled. There are 135 identifiable segments in the human genome which retain synteny with the ancestral chordate karyotype.
Synteny analysis indicates that there were 17 chromosomes in the last common ancestor to the Chordates.
Genome Duplication
Multiple lines of experimental evidence strongly suggest that twice in the lineage leading to the teleost fish the ancestral Chordate genome was duplicated.
A comparison of the genomes of the Lancelet Branchiostoma floridae, the Tunicates Ciona intestinalis and Oikopleura dioica, the lamprey Petromyzon marinus, the fish Fugu rubripes and Gasterosteus aculeatus, the chicken Gallus gallus, and human Homo sapiens confirmed that two whole-genome duplications occurred in the early history of the Vertebrata clade.
References
Genomics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-horizon%20DNS | In computer networking, split-horizon DNS (also known as split-view DNS, split-brain DNS, or split DNS) is the facility of a Domain Name System (DNS) implementation to provide different sets of DNS information, usually selected by the source address of the DNS request.
This facility can provide a mechanism for security and privacy management by logical or physical separation of DNS information for network-internal access (within an administrative domain, e.g., company) and access from an unsecure, public network (e.g. the Internet).
Implementation of split-horizon DNS can be accomplished with hardware-based separation or by software solutions. Hardware-based implementations run distinct DNS server devices for the desired access granularity within the networks involved. Software solutions use either multiple DNS server processes on the same hardware or special server software with the built-in capability of discriminating access to DNS zone records. The latter is a common feature of many server software implementations of the DNS protocol (cf. Comparison of DNS server software) and is sometimes the implied meaning of the term split-horizon DNS, since all other forms of implementation can be achieved with any DNS server software.
Rationale
Split-horizon DNS can provide a mechanism for security and privacy management by logical or physical separation of DNS information for network-internal access (within an administrative domain, e.g., company) and access from an unsecure, public network (e.g. the Internet).
One common use case for split-horizon DNS is when a server has both a private IP address on a local area network (not reachable from most of the Internet) and a public address, i.e. an address reachable across the Internet in general. By using split-horizon DNS the same name can lead to either the private IP address or the public one, depending on which client sends the query. This allows for critical local client machines to access a server directly through the local network, without the need to pass through a router. Passing through fewer network devices improves the network latency.
As an example, the DNS server could be configured to return two different sets of records for the host host1.example.net for requestees internal and external to a corporate network. The internal response could look like:
@ IN SOA ns.example.net admin.example.net. (
2010010101 ; serial
1D ; refresh
1H ; retry
1W ; expire
3H ) ; minimum
@ IN NS ns
ns IN A 203.0.113.2
host1 IN A 10.0.0.10
While the external response would be:
@ IN SOA ns.example.net admin.example.net. (
2010010101 ; serial
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Olympic%20broadcasts | The Olympic Games aired in the United States on the broadcast network ABC during the 1960s to the 1980s. ABC first televised the Winter Olympic Games in 1964, and the Summer Olympic Games in 1968. ABC last televised the Summer Olympics in 1984 and Winter Olympics in 1988.
History
1960s
While CBS aired both the 1960 Winter and Summer Games (marking the first time that the Olympics were broadcast on American television), by 1964, a different network showed the Winter Games: ABC. Roone Arledge won broadcast rights for his network and began a relationship with the "five rings" that would last over two decades. The program used many of the same production staff from ABC's Wide World of Sports, as well as the same host, Jim McKay, who moved to ABC from CBS in 1961. In 1968, ABC showed both the Winter Games and the Summer Games.
1964 Winter Olympics
The 1964 Winter Games were in Innsbruck, Austria, and coverage was taped and flown by plane back to the United States. All of it was in black-and-white, but with most Winter Olympic events in the morning (local time), most TV coverage aired the day the events were held. A portion of the Closing Ceremony was televised live via satellite (Telstar, which had to be tracked and allowed about a 15-minute window between the U.S. and Europe when it was zooming over the Atlantic). Everything else was videotaped and flown to the U.S. via a Munich-London-New York route. There was little margin for error. If a flight was canceled, ABC had a tape of a U.S.-Romania hockey game, played the day before the Opening Ceremony and shipped over, ready to play. All went well and it never made the air.
ABC aired 16.5 hours of coverage of the Innsbruck Games, the majority of the coverage occurring outside of primetime.
1968 Winter Olympics
By 1968, ABC was broadcasting the Olympics in full color, and satellites made possible live coverage of several events at the Winter Games in Grenoble, France. In reality, only the Opening Ceremony and the ladies figure skating final were televised live via satellite; most other coverage was sent via satellite to ABC and run off tape from New York. The 1968 Winter Olympics were the first to be televised in color (except for a couple of events French television fed in black-and-white).
Highlighting the 1968 Winter Games was a dramatic sweep in men's alpine skiing by Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy, while the major highlight of the Summer Games was a world-record long jump by Bob Beamon of the United States, which happened to air live in the US.
1968 Summer Olympics
Nearly all of the network's coverage of the Summer Games in Mexico City due to the time difference and how close America and Mexico are in travel.
Coverage of the 1972 Munich massacre
In 1972, NBC showed the Winter Games from Sapporo, Japan, then ABC returned to carry the Summer Games in Munich, Germany. It was during the Summer Games that Palestinian terrorists attacked the Olympic Village and killed 11 Israeli athletes. Although Ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20with%20PlayStation | Life with PlayStation was an online multimedia application for the PlayStation 3 video game console on the PlayStation Network. The application had four channels, all of which revolved around a virtual globe that displayed information according to the channel. The application also included a client for Folding@home, a distributed computing project aimed at disease research. the service has been discontinued.
History
In August 2006, Stanford University in Silicon Valley, announced that a protein folding client would be available to run on the PS3.
On December 19, 2007, Sony updated the Folding@home client to version 1.3. The update allowed users to run music stored on their hard drives while contributing to Folding@home and automatically shut down their console after existing simulation work was done. The software update also added the Generalized Born implicit solvent model, which broadened the PS3 client's computing capabilities.
On September 18, 2008 the PS3 version of the Folding@home client became Life With PlayStation. The application became available for the PS3 in March 2007 and became a channel on Life with PlayStation when it was released. This update also provided more advanced simulation of protein folding and a new ranking system.
Following the release of system software version 4.30, the Folding@home PS3 client and all other services under Life with PlayStation were discontinued on November 6, 2012. Life with PlayStation was then removed from the XrossMediaBar for new users.
Channels
Life with PlayStation featured five channels which were updated frequently with new information. The application provided the user with access to information "channels", the first of which was the Live Channel which offered news headlines and weather through a 3D globe. The user could rotate and zoom into any part of the world to access information provided by Google News and The Weather Channel, among other sources.
Live Channel
Live Channel was a news, time zone and weather feed, which provided users with information from Google News and The Weather Channel organized by city. The content included live camera feeds and cloud data, similar to Google Earth. Live Cameras was provided by earthTV and the Webcams.travel website.
The application only supported certain cities of the world, with limited coverage, such as with the continent Africa, with only four cities covered by the Live Channel.
Folding@Home
Life with PlayStation also hosted an application for Folding@home, a distributed computing project for disease research that simulated protein folding and other molecular dynamics. Users were able to contribute to the project by leaving their client to run Folding@home while not playing games. The application displayed a live rendering of the protein being folded and some statistical information in front of a virtual globe background.
PlayStation Network Game Trailers Channel
For users in the United States, the PSN game trailers channel al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama%20Saeed | Osama Saeed (born 27 May 1980) is a Scottish communications professional and politician. Formerly he was Head of Media and Public Relations at Al Jazeera Media Network, and was a parliamentary candidate for the Scottish National Party in Glasgow Central in 2010. He is of Pakistani descent.
Background
Saeed was born and brought up in Glasgow to Pakistani parents on 27 May 1980 and went to school in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire. He was an advisor to former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond and a prominent media figure. He has been listed as one of Scotland's Top 100 thinkers and opinion formers by the Scotsman newspaper, one of the country's "Brightest and Best" by the Sunday Herald, and has been described as "Scotland's most influential Muslim" by the Sunday Times. The Evening Times referred to him in 2010 as one of the SNP's "bright rising stars". His blog, "Rolled up Trousers" was named top Scottish political blog in 2007. He is also an alumnus of the US State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program. After an attempt to be elected to the House of Commons in 2010, Saeed joined Al Jazeera in Qatar.
Al Jazeera career
Saeed manages Al Jazeera's global communications, and his tenure has seen the network's strongest period of worldwide publicity. He was responsible for promoting the network's coverage of the Arab uprisings which won global plaudits, and culminated in awards including Royal Television Society News Channel of the Year and a Peabody. That year, Al Jazeera English also won a DuPont, a George Polk, and a Four Freedoms Award.
He coordinated the noted #freeajstaff press freedom campaign after Al Jazeera journalists were jailed in Egypt, a campaign which won an award in issues management. He has organised brand campaigns around the world - including in the United States, Australia, India, MENA and sub-Saharan Africa - and is a speaker at international PR conferences.
Views and activities
After the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, Saeed organised what is considered to be the first ever Muslim-organised demonstration against Al-Qaeda terrorism in the world. In March 2008, he called for legislation to be enacted against forced marriages,. The Scottish Government announced a consultation on the issue a few months later, and law was passed in 2011.
In 2009, Saeed organised the response to the far-right Scottish Defence League holding protests in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Along with lawyer Aamer Anwar, he brought together a broad coalition called Scotland United to stage a celebration of multiculturalism including the STUC, Church of Scotland, Equality and Human Rights Commission, all the major political parties and many others. He also organised a response to the attack by two Muslims youths on an Edinburgh synagogue by offering to protect the building.
Osama had a role in the Stop the War Coalition, speaking at the anti-war demonstration on the eve of the Iraq war on 15 February 2003 which drew 1 million |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadashi%20Watanabe | is a Japanese computer engineer. Watanabe is the project manager of the RIKEN Next-Generation Supercomputer R&D Center. He played a central role in the development of the NEC SX architecture. Watanabe was awarded the Eckert–Mauchly Award in 1998, and the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award in 2006.
External links
Short RIKEN biography
NEC press release following his award of the Cray award
Living people
Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award recipients
Riken personnel
NEC people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20Olympic%20broadcasts | The broadcasts of the Olympic Games produced by CBS Sports was shown on the CBS television network in the United States. The network's last Olympics broadcast was the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.
History
1960s coverage
The first live telecast of the Olympics on American television was from the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California (now, Olympic Valley). CBS paid $50,000 to obtain the broadcast rights. Walter Cronkite hosted the game telecasts, anchoring on-site from Squaw Valley. With Squaw Valley connected to the network lines, some events were broadcast live while the remainder of the network's coverage was of events shown on the same day they took place. During the games, officials asked Tony Verna, one of the members of the production staff, if it could use its videotape equipment to determine whether or not a slalom skier missed a gate. Verna then returned to CBS headquarters in New York City and developed the first instant replay system, which debuted at the Army–Navy football game in 1963. The event in Squaw Valley was the last time CBS would carry a Winter Olympics until 1992.
Later that year, CBS aired the 1960 Summer Olympics from Rome, the only time that CBS has ever televised a Summer Games event. The network carried about 20 hours of coverage of such events as track and field and swimming. Because communications satellites, which would have provided direct transmissions between the United States and Italy, were not yet available, production staff members fed footage from Rome to London, re-recorded it on tape there, and then the tapes were flown to CBS headquarters in New York (or a mobile unit parked at Idelwild Airport in New York, to lessen the time that transporting videotapes into the city would take) for later telecast.
Despite this, at least some of the events, especially those held in the morning and early-afternoon (local time in Rome), actually aired in the United States the same day they took place (often during a half-hour late-night show that aired from 11:15 to 11:45 p.m. Eastern Time). Jim McKay, then a relatively unknown radio and television personality, was the host, anchoring not from Rome, but from the CBS studios in New York City.
1990s coverage
Although CBS bid on the rights to several Olympics in the 1970s and 1980s, the network was outbid by rivals, NBC and ABC. When the 1990s approached, CBS won the rights to three consecutive Winter Games: 1992, 1994 and 1998.
The network provided some live coverage of the 1992 Games in Albertville, France on weekend mornings and afternoons (and on the last Friday morning (Eastern Time) of the Games to show live the men's ice hockey semifinal between the United States and Unified Team, but most of the events (and all of the prime time coverage) were broadcast by CBS on tape delay, owing to the time difference between the United States and Europe. A similar format was used two years later in 1994 when the Winter Games adopted a new schedule, midway betw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90%20Squadron | 90 Squadron or 90th Squadron may refer to:
No. 90 Squadron RAF, a unit of the British Royal Air Force
90th Fighter Squadron, a unit of the United States Air Force
90th Cyber Operations Squadron, a unit of the United States Air Force
See also
90th Division (disambiguation)
90th Regiment (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web2py | Web2py is an open-source web application framework written in the Python programming language. Web2py allows web developers to program dynamic web content using Python. Web2py is designed to help reduce tedious web development tasks, such as developing web forms from scratch, although a web developer may build a form from scratch if required.
Web2py was originally designed as a teaching tool with emphasis on ease of use and deployment. Therefore, it does not have any project-level configuration files. The design of web2py was inspired by the Ruby on Rails and Django frameworks. Like these frameworks, web2py focuses on rapid development, favors convention over configuration approach and follows a model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern.
Overview
Web2py is a full-stack framework in that it has built-in components for all major functions, including:
HTTP requests, HTTP responses, cookies, sessions;
multiple protocols HTML/XML, REST, ATOM and RSS, RTF and CSV, JSON, JSON-RPC and XML-RPC, AMF-RPC (Flash/Flex), and SOAP;
CRUD API;
multiple authentication mechanisms and role-based access control;
database abstraction layer (DAL) that dynamically generates SQL and runs on multiple compatible database backends;
RAM, disk, and memcached-based caching for scalability;
internationalization support;
jQuery for Ajax and UI effects;
automatic logging of errors with context.
Web2py encourages sound software engineering practices such as
the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern;
self-submission of web forms;
server-side sessions;
safe handling of uploaded files.
Web2py uses the WSGI protocol, the Python-oriented protocol for communication between web server and web applications. It also provides handlers for CGI and the FastCGI protocols, and it includes the multi-threaded, SSL-enabled Rocket wsgiserver.
Distinctive features
Web-based integrated development environment (IDE)
All development, debugging, testing, maintenance and remote database administration can (optionally) be performed without third-party tools, via a web interface, itself a web2py application. Internationalization (adding languages and writing translations) can also be performed from this IDE. Each application has an automatically generated database administrative interface, similar to Django. The web IDE also includes web-based testing.
Applications can also be created from the command line or developed with other IDEs. Further debugging options:
Wing IDE allows graphical debugging of web2py applications as you interact with it from your web browser, you can inspect and modify variables, make function calls etc.
Eclipse/PyDev — Eclipse with the Aptana PyDev plugin — supports web2py as well.
The extensible pdb debugger is a module of Python's standard library.
With the platform-independent open-source Winpdb debugger, one can perform remote debugging over TCP/IP, through encrypted connection.
The Hello World program with web2py in its simplest form (simple web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures%20on%20Kythera | Adventures on Kythera is an Australian children's television series about five children who have adventures on the Greek island of Kythera.
It premiered on 13 August 1991 on the Nine Network and aired until 1992. There were 13 episodes filmed but it was screened as two series, consisting of seven and six episodes. The series was produced and directed by John Tatoulis and written by Deborah Parsons.
The series also aired in the United Kingdom on the ITV network between summer 1991 and Easter 1992.
Cast
Amelia Frid as Molly Leeds
Rebekah Elmaloglou as Tik
Zenton Chorny as Zenton
Garry Perazzo as Spike
George Lekkas as Johnny
Richard Aspel as Vincent
Tassos Ioannides as Philippas
Kerry Noonan as Pia
Michelle Royal as Annie
References
External links
at Australian television Information Archive
Australian children's television series
1991 Australian television series debuts
1992 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Greece
Kythira |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyodo%20Television | is a Japanese television production company founded on July 28, 1958 as . It is a subsidiary of Fuji Television, one of the largest television networks in Japan. Kyodo produces a wide variety of television shows, including drama, news, anime series, and so on.
Originally a part of Kyodo News, Kyodo Television was formed in 1958 through the joint financing of Tōkai Television Broadcasting, Kansai Telecasting Corporation, Nihon Kyōiku TV (NET, now TV Asahi), NHK, and other smaller partners as Kyodo Television News.
Shortly after the new company was formed and began production, NET and NHK withdrew their financial support from the venture. From this point, the company began producing works mainly for the Fuji TV network. In 1966, with the inauguration of Fuji News Network, Kyodo was producing television programs solely for Fuji TV.
The name of the company was changed to the present Kyodo Television in 1970, and the company began producing a variety of programming for the Fuji TV network.
Mass media companies established in 1958
Mass media companies based in Tokyo
Television news in Japan
Television production companies of Japan
1958 establishments in Japan
Television in Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20R.%20McCleary | Christopher R. McCleary (Chris McCleary) is a technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of former application service provider company USinternetworking, Inc (USi). He is the Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer at the Blue Chip Venture Company, a venture capital firm headquartered in Ohio.
Early life
He was born September 12, 1952, in Geneva, Illinois. His father, Robert McCleary, was a research engineer with USG Corporation, and his mother, Gloria McCleary, was a real estate agent with Century 21. McCleary is a graduate of the University of Kentucky.
Business ventures
Laux Communications
McCleary was the President of Laux Communications, Inc. The company was later merged into Radiation Systems, Inc.
Digex, Inc
McCleary was the chairman and chief executive officer of Digex, a national internet service provider. He took over CEO duties at Digex in 1996 before leaving in 1998 to launch USI in Annapolis, Maryland. In 1997, Digex acquired Intermedia Communications, a business telecommunications company in Tampa, Florida.
USinternetworking
In 1998, McCleary founded USinternetworking, the world's first cloud computing company. After its launch, during its first 18 months, USI raised nearly $500 million from investors. McCleary was featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine as re-writing the ‘Rules of the Web’. McCleary stepped down as CEO in July 2000 to focus on issues surrounding his family, but retained his position of chairman of the board. A preplanned restructuring lead to the firm being acquired by Bain Capital, Inc. Bain Capital later sold it to AT&T for $300 million.
McCleary later stated that "his one regret is not having fought harder to save USi", but that it would not have been possible due to his family issues and the collapse of the World Trade Center all occurring at the same time. USi still runs today as part of IBM.
Evergreen Assurance
In 2003, after reframing his position at USi, McCleary founded Evergreen Assurance in Baltimore, Maryland. Evergreen was a platform to assist businesses in recovering email and digital records in the event of a disaster. Evergreen was acquired by its competitor, MessageOne, in 2004 for 50 million dollars. Since leaving Evergreen, McCleary has served on the board of directors of several tech companies.
Other positions
In 2000, McCleary was the chair of an advisory board of tech executives that helped the then Maryland Governor, Parris Glendening to launch his e-commerce initiatives for the 2000 legislative session.
In 2006, McCleary was appointed the director of Blue Chip Venture Company. Blue Chip had previously invested in Digex, USI, and Evergreen Assurance. In September 2006, McCleary was elected chairman of the board for Radware. In 2008, McCleary joined the board of directors of Hosting.com, a managed services and colocation provider.
McCleary serves on the board of Baltimore Emerging Technology Center business incubator and as chairman of the investment committee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20Year-End%20Hot%20100%20singles%20of%202002 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical as well as airplay. Throughout a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. For 2002, the list was published on December 29, calculated with data from December 1, 2001 to November 30, 2002.
There were only nine songs that topped the Hot 100 in 2002, the second lowest number in Billboard history. Eminem's "Lose Yourself" was the longest running #1 of the year, spending 12 weeks at #1 with eight of its weeks in 2002 and another four in 2003. Ashanti's "Foolish" and Nelly's "Dilemma" both spent 10 weeks at #1.
"Lose Yourself" also held the record for the longest rap song to stay at number one; it would eventually be tied with The Black Eyed Peas's "Boom Boom Pow" in 2009 and Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" in 2015. All three of these songs would keep the record until Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" broke it by spending 19 weeks at #1 in 2019.
Nickelback's "How You Remind Me", which spent 4 weeks at #1 between 2001 and 2002, ended up topping the year-end list.
Ja Rule had multiple songs on this list. Rule earned his first number one hit "Always on Time" as a lead artist, and replaced himself on "Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix)" with Jennifer Lopez.
See also
2002 in music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2002
List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2002
References
2002 record charts
Lists of Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles
nl:Nummer 1-hits in de Billboard Hot 100 in 2002
sv:Billboardlistans förstaplaceringar 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supm%C3%A9ca | Supméca (Institut Supérieur de Mécanique) is a French mechanical engineering school. The school is an active member of the Polyméca network and part of the ENSI (Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Ingenieur) school group as well as the ISAE Group. According to the 2016 rankings of French Magazine L'Usine nouvelle, Supméca is ranked among the 10 best engineering schools in the fields of mechanics, aeronautics, automobile, transport and materials.
Notable alumni
Since its founding in 1948, Supméca has produced more than 6,800 graduates.
Jean-François Pontal - ex-CEO of Orange Worldwide.
Bernard Dudot - French engineer who was instrumental in the development of the turbo V6 and normally aspirated V10 engines of Formula One while working for Alpine and Renault.
Bernard Charlès - CEO and Vice-Chairman of the board of directors of Dassault Systèmes.
References
External links
Supméca Junior Études
Association des Anciens de Supméca
Educational institutions established in 1948
1948 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play.fm | Play.fm is a free music streaming platform and social networking service for DJ and club culture. DJ sets, radio shows, and live recordings are collected and uploaded by registered users and can be listened to on demand. The platform was started 2004 in Vienna (Austria) by owner Georg Hitzenberger.
Web audio and radio shows archive
Registered users can upload recordings from 30 minutes to 9 hours in length which can then be freely streamed by users on demand and without interruption in CD-quality sound. Users can search the database by DJ, artist, label, genre, club, location, and event.
About 110,000 live recordings are available from national and international clubs (e.g. Flex in Vienna, The Loft in Barcelona, Womb in Tokyo, Rothko in New York City, Space in Ibiza) and festivals (e.g. springfestival in Graz, Stereolize in Paris, Exit in Novi Sad), and well known or newcomer DJs (e.g. DJ Romeo, Coldcut, Sven Väth, Laurent Garnier, Dmitry Tsoy, Tiefschwarz, Miss Kittin, Princess Superstar, Kid Koala, Roots Manuva, Ed Rush and Patife, Carl Craig, Ellen Allien, Gilles Peterson, Derrick May, Jazzanova, DJ Hell, Trentemoller, Marshall Jefferson, Bob Sinclar, Juan Atkins, Jamie xx).
Until 2012 the radio shows were recorded and streamed live at the studio in quartier21 (Museumsquartier), Flex Cafe, and Expedit, all based in Vienna (Austria). 150 labels, record stores, event managers, and DJs presented their own radio shows (e.g. Vienna Scientists, Cheap Records, Indigo Inc).
Together with Waves Vienna, an annual music festival and conference, Play.fm organized DJ contests in 2013 and 2014.
In 2015 the web site was redesigned and new features were introduced to improve usability and music related social networking.
Awards and funding
Play.fm received funding from Departure in 2008, an initiative of the City of Vienna and enterprise of the Vienna Business Agency.
Together with the Museumsquartier (quartier21), Play.fm was awarding two grants within the framework of an artist-in-residence programme for two young international artists for a one-month stay in Vienna. In May 2008 Maik Loewen from Cologne visited the PLAY.FM team.
More awards:
MidemNet Lab Finalist (Cannes, 2011)
App Star Award Deutschland / Cebit (Hannover, 2011)
Multimedia & e-Business Award / Category Social Media (Vienna, 2009)
Vienna Leader Web 2.0 (Vienna, 2009)
Mercur Innovation Award / Category Creativity (Vienna, 2009)
From 2010 to 2012 Play.fm was also part of the research project "Innovation Network for Smart Applications and Media INSAME / SmartReality", funded by FFG/Innovative Oberflächengestaltung von Compositebauteilen (COIN), and alongside TU Graz, Seekda, and Semantic Technology Institute International. The goal was to develop a mobile application, enriched with augmented reality and integrating audio content by PLAY.FM.
Apps
Play.fm offers apps for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.
References
External links
Companies based in Vienna
Austrian music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmweb | Filmweb is an online database of information related to films, television series, actors and film crew personnel. Since 2011, the database also contains video games. Filmweb was launched on March 18, 1998. It is a Polish-language site, and the largest Polish film database.
History
Filmweb was created by Artur Gortych, and launched on March 18, 1998. On January 20, 2000, it became the first Polish website available through Wireless Application Protocol. In 2005, Filmweb PRO (aimed at entertainment professionals) was launched.
On May 20, 2010, the beta version of the website was launched, and Filmweb also started to use a new algorithm, called Gustomierz (Tastemeter). Registered users, that have rated at least 50 movies, are able to see how much particular movie is supposed to be liked by them and to find taste similar users. The engine was based on KNN and SVD theories, as well as Filmweb's own studies. The technology is still improved by expressly appointed computer scientists team.
On September 16, 2010, a new design of the database home page was launched. On January 18, 2011, video games were added to the database.
The first Filmweb mobile application, for iOS, premiered in November 2011. It was followed by the release of an Android app on February 4, 2012, and a Windows Phone app in March 2012.
References
External links
Polish film websites
Internet properties established in 1998
Online film databases
1998 establishments in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Broadband%20Services | Integrated Broadband Services (IBBS) provides fully integrated and cloud-based data, voice, and technical support services to broadband providers in the United States, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Brazil. It provides both residential and commercial services to broadband operators. IBBS also provides services in provisioning, diagnostics, engineering, development, network management, VoIP, and technical support services.
IBBS is a member of the National Cable Television Cooperative, American Cable Association (ACA), NEOTV, and key employees are members of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), Society of Broadband Professionals (SCTE Europe), Women in Technology & Telecommunications (WICT), and the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM).
History
IBBS was founded in 2001 by Michael Ingram and Robert Buckfelder, both former executives at Prestige Cable. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Atlanta. It also operates a call center in Cartersville, Georgia, and offices in Lexington, Kentucky, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Pamlico Capital formed a strategic relationship with IBBS in February 2007 and is the majority shareholder of the privately held company. Michael Gallagher is the CEO sinceJanuary 2012.
The company announced a merger with Momentum Telecom in January 2014. The FCC approved the merger in March 2014.
References
Further reading
RedOrbit, March 3, 2008, "IBBS Named to Georgia's Top 40 Most Innovative Companies"
Momentum and IBBS Receive FCC Approval for Merger, March 10, 2014,"FCC Approval Announcement"
Companies established in 2001
Companies based in Atlanta
Broadband
Internet technology companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20management%20of%20emergency%20operations | CAMEO is a system of software applications used widely to plan for and respond to chemical emergencies. It is one of the tools developed by EPA’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Response and Restoration (NOAA), to assist front-line chemical emergency planners and responders. They can use CAMEO to access, store, and evaluate information critical for developing emergency plans. In addition, CAMEO supports regulatory compliance by helping users meet the chemical inventory reporting requirements of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA, also known as SARA Title III). CAMEO also can be used with a separate software application called LandView to display EPA environmental databases and demographic/economic information to support analysis of environmental justice issues.
The CAMEO system integrates a chemical database and a method to manage the data, an air dispersion model, and a mapping capability. All modules work interactively to share and display critical information. The CAMEO system is available in Macintosh and Windows formats.
Origin
CAMEO initially was developed because NOAA recognized the need to assist first responders with easily accessible and accurate response information. Since 1988, EPA and NOAA have collaborated to augment CAMEO to assist both emergency responders and planners. CAMEO has been enhanced to provide emergency planners with a tool to enter local information and develop incident scenarios to better prepare for chemical emergencies. The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Coast Guard have worked with EPA and NOAA to continue to enhance the system.
External links
The CAMEO page at EPA.
The CAMEO page at NOAA.
Tier II Online - with CAMEO integration.
Disaster preparedness in the United States
Chemical safety
Emergency management software
Project management software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnivision%20Entertainment | Omnivision Entertainment (formerly My Damn Channel) is an entertainment website and multichannel network founded to enable comedians, actors, filmmakers, musicians, and brands to co-produce, monetize and distribute original video content. The company has launched several original comedy series on YouTube and Dailymotion, including Wainy Days, Horrible People, You Suck at Photoshop, and videos by Harry Shearer.
History
Omnivision was founded as My Damn Channel on July 31, 2007 by Rob Barnett and Warren Chao. In 2011, My Damn Channel was named one of Time Magazine's "50 Websites that Make the Web Great". In 2013, My Damn Channel entered into a partnership with digital media firm Blip in which the two companies would share exclusive first-run distribution for four original comedies.
In 2014, the company was renamed to Omnivision Entertainment, keeping My Damn Channel as a name for its YouTube and Dailymotion channels.
From November 2016 to March 2020, all social media accounts related to Omnivision and My Damn Channel remained dormant. No new content has been added to the My Damn Channel YouTube or Dailymotion channels since January 2015 and November 2016, respectively. Only DailyYou, former Omnivision associate channel of vlogger Grace Helbig, has uploaded new content since March 2020.
References
External links
Internet properties established in 2007
American entertainment websites
Multi-channel networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIKE%2011 | MIKE 11 is a computer program that simulates flow and water level, water quality and sediment transport in rivers, flood plains, irrigation canals, reservoirs and other inland water bodies. MIKE 11 is a 1-dimensional river model. It was developed by DHI.
MIKE 11 has long been known as a software tool with advanced interface facilities.
Since the beginning MIKE 11 was operated through an efficient interactive menu system with systematic layouts and sequencing of menus. It is within that framework where the latest ‘Classic’ version of MIKE 11 – version 3.20 was developed.
The new generation of MIKE 11 combines the features and experiences from the mike11
MIKE 11 ‘Classic’ period, with the powerful Windows based user interface including graphical editing facilities and improved computational speed gained by the full utilization of 32-bit technology.
Modules
The computational core of MIKE 11 is a hydrodynamic simulation engine, and this is complemented by a wide range of additional modules and extensions covering almost all conceivable aspects of river modeling.
HD module: provides fully dynamic solution to the complete nonlinear 1-D Saint Venant equations, diffusive wave approximation and kinematic wave approximation, Muskingum method and Muskingum-Cunge method for simplified channel routing. It can automatically adapt to subcritical flow and supercritical flow. It has ability to simulate standard hydraulic structures such as weirs, culverts, bridges, pumps, energy loss and sluice gates.
GIS Extension: an extension of ArcMap from ESRI providing features for catchment/river delineation, cross-section and Digital Elevation Model(DEM) data, pollution load estimates, flood visualisation/animation as 2D maps and results presentation/analysis using Temporal Analyst.
RR module: a rainfall runoff module, including the unit hydrograph method (UHM), a lumped conceptual continuous hydrological model and a monthly soil moisture accounting model. It includes an auto-calibration tool to estimate model parameter based on statistic data of comparison of simulated water levels/discharges and observations.
SO module: a structure operation module. It simulates operational structures such as sluice gates, weirs, culverts, pumps, bridges with operating strategies.
DB module: a dam break module. It provides complete facilities for definition of dam geometry, breach development in time and space as well as failure mode.
AUTOCAL module: an automatic calibration tool. It allows automisation of the calibration process for a wide range of parameters, including rainfall runoff parameters, Manning's number, head loss coefficients, water quality parameters etc.
AD module: an advection dispersion module. It simulates transport and spreading of conservative pollutants and constituents as well as heat with linear decay.
ST/GST module: a noncohesive sediment module. It simulates transport, erosion and deposition of non-cohesive and graded noncohesive sediments, inclu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valmet%20Nr%20II | Nr II is a class of articulated six-axle (B′2′B′ wheel arrangement), chopper-driven tram operated by Helsinki City Transport (HKL) on the Helsinki tram network. All trams of this type were built by the Finnish metal industry corporation Valmet between the years 1983 and 1987.
Between 1996 and 2005 all trams in the class were modernised by HKL and redesignated as Nr II+ class. From 2006-2011, all trams of this class were rebuilt with a low-floor midsection and redesignated as MLNRV II.
History
The Nr II class was a further development of the Nr I class built by Valmet for the HKL between 1973 and 1975 (the Nr I was in turn based on the popular Duewag-built GT6 class). The Nr I and Nr II classes are virtually identical in their exterior and interior designs, with exception of the tail lights.
The first three Nr II class trams were delivered to Helsinki City Transport (HKL) in 1983, followed by an additional 11 in both 1984 and 1985, further ten in 1986, and the final seven in 1987.
The first tram in the class entered service for HKL in July 1983.
Between 1996 and 2005, all trams in this class were modernised with updates to the technics, changes to the interior layout, addition of electronic displays displaying the name of the next stop, as well as replacement of the original seats with new ones. Following the modernisation, the class was re-designated as Nr II+.
Between 2004 and 2007, all trams in the class were built with new line displays in the front and side of the tram, displaying both the number and destination on the line.
In 2006, tram number 80 was rebuilt with a new low-floor midsection, built by Verkehrs Industrie Systeme. As a result of the lengthening, the tram has a B′2′2′B′ wheel arrangement, and can accommodate 30 additional passengers. To cope with the added weight of the midsection, the output of the traction motors was increased by approximately 20%. Experiences with the prototype lengthened tram were positive, and the rest of the Nr II class were similarly rebuilt from 2008 until 2011.
Accidents
On July 21, 2003, one of the Nr II-class trams derailed at high speed in the junction between Mannerheimintie and Aleksanterinkatu in central Helsinki, and collided with a motorcycle, which resulted in the death of the motorcyclist.
An investigation into the causes of the accident revealed that the driver of the tram had lost consciousness shortly before the collision due to extreme heat in the cockpit of the tram. In 2005, as a result of the accident, HKL redesigned the windshield of three Nr II class trams, adding a large vizor that contains an air conditioning unit, which also shields the driver from direct sunlight. The visors were later removed and the original windshield restored.
Future
The Nr II class are expected to remain in service at least until 2025.
Liveries
Like the Nr I class, the first Nr II class trams were originally painted in an orange/grey colour scheme. In 1986 HKL abandoned the unpopular colour |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNdata | UNdata is an Internet search engine, retrieving data series from statistical databases provided by the UN System. UNdata was launched in February 2008. It is a product of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) developed in partnership with Statistics Sweden and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).
UNdata allows searching and downloading a variety of statistical resources covering the following areas: Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Health, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Trade and Tourism.
UNdata has been featured in CNET TV and listed as Best Of The Internet in PC Magazine.
UNdata is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org.
PET Lab
UNSD is the lead body for the Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Lab (PET Lab). The PET Lab together with the ITU AI for Good programme jointly organize the Trustworthy AI standardization PET programme of work.
References
External links
UNdata
United Nations Statistics Division
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations Economic and social development
United Nations Statistical Commission
Internet properties established in 2008
Statistics Division
Open data
Online databases
Knowledge graphs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20devices%20that%20run%20MontaVista%20Linux | This is an incomplete list of embedded devices that run MontaVista Linux: electronic devices with limited internal computers whose main operating system is based on MontaVista's distribution of the open-source Linux operating system.
Digital televisions
Philips Aurea and selected ambiLight models
Sony Bravia models from 2005 and earlier
selected models from Samsung, Panasonic, Sharp and Mitsubishi
Digital video recorders and set-top boxes
Sony DHG-HDD250
Sony DHG-HDD500
ebook readers
Sony LIBRIé EBR-1000
Sony PRS-505
Sony PRS-700
Sony PRS-300
Sony PRS-600
Sony PRS-900
Voip phones
D-Link DPH-125MS
Mobile phones
Motorola A760
Motorola A768
Motorola A768i
Motorola A780
Motorola A910
Motorola E680
Motorola E680i
Motorola MING
Motorola RAZR2
Motorola ROKR E2
Motorola ROKR E6
Motorola RIZR Z6
Motorola ZN5
NEC N900iL
NEC N901iC
Panasonic P901i
Musical instruments
Yamaha MOTIF XS music production synthesiser, Yamaha Motif-Rack XS tone module, and Yamaha S90XS synthesizer.
Network attached storage
Seagate Central STCG2000100
Seagate Business Storage STBN8000200
SMC TigerSTore SMCNAS02
SMC TigerSTore SMCNAS04
Notebooks
Dell Latitude E4200
Dell Latitude E4300
Dell Latitude Z600
Routers
D-Link G604T Network Adaptor
D-Link G624T Router
D-Link G664T
D-Link G684T ADSL2+/WiFi
Linksys WAG200G ADSL2+/WiFi
ACORP Sprinter@ADSL LAN120M
Cable modems
all DOCSIS/EuroDOCSIS 3.0 cable modems based on Intel Puma5 chipset
Traffic signal control
Peek Traffic PTC-1
Telecommmucations equipment
Alcatel-Lucent
Brocade SAN switches
Ericsson
Fujitsu
Iskratel SI 2000 call server
Microsemi SyncServer
Motorola WiMax CPE i775
NEC
Cisco Application Control Engine module
Cisco Nexus switches running NX-OS
Avaya Aura Session Border Controller (SBC)
Cyclades ACS
Digital televisions
Aviosys IP Kamera 9070 series (TI Davinci DM355 board)
Other
Spirent Testcenter
APC by Schneider Electric IP KVM - The AP5405 remote Internet Protocol keyboard/video/mouse controller allows 16 servers to be accessed over a TCP/IP network.
Philips iPronto remote controller
St. Jude Medical Merlin patient care system
Texas Instruments announced using MontaVista Linux as the supported operating system for their system on a chip platform, Texas Instruments DaVinci. MVL4 and MVL5 were used for the first and second software development kit series until TI decided for a less commercial approach with the third edition of their software development kit.
The terminals used for the National Lottery and EuroMillions games in the Republic of Ireland are based on MontaVista Linux and use a Java client, as do most other newer GTECH Corporation Altura terminals.
SEGA Lindbergh hardware for arcade gaming
Clarion NX603 multimedia head unit
Phenom (electron microscope) (first generation - later switched to other distributions)
British Telecom ITS.Netrix dealerboards
Canon imageRUNNER Advance C5051i multi-function printer (MFP)
Sony |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandboxing | Sandboxing may refer to:
Sandbox (computer security), a mechanism for safely running untrusted programs
Sandbox (software development), a testing environment isolated from the production environment
See also
Sandbox (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2Wire | 2Wire, Inc., was (between 1998 and 2010) a home networking Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) manufacturer that provided telecommunications companies with hardware, software, service platforms, and remote CPE management systems. The company was headquartered in San Jose, California, in the Silicon Valley. The company had employed approximately 1,600 employees globally, including 550 in R&D, sales and administration, 450 in customer care and 600 agency employees in five U.S. offices and an additional nine offices around the world by July 2010. The 2Wire HomePortal residential gateways were distributed by broadband service providers such as AT&T, Embarq, windstream and Qwest in the United States, Bell in Canada, Telmex in Mexico, BT Group in the United Kingdom, Telstra in Australia and SingTel in Singapore. In July 2010, Pace plc of the United Kingdom agreed to buy 2Wire for $475m (£307m).
History
2Wire was founded in 1998 by Brian Hinman (who also founded PictureTel and Polycom), Pasquale Romano, Brad Kayton, Timothy Peers, and Tom Spalding.
In January 2000, 2Wire delivered its first product, the HomePortal residential gateway, at that year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES). This broadband modem/router combination enabled DSL connectivity with home networking, firewall protection, and remote management capabilities. The following year, in January 2001, 2Wire delivered a wireless residential gateway.
In 2002, the company created a remote customer premises management platform called CMS. Later that year, 2Wire published the Open Gateway Management Protocol (OGMP). The OGMP formed the basis for the TR-069 WAN management protocol subsequently ratified by the DSL Forum in 2004.
In early 2003, 2Wire delivered a wireless gateway with a complete system-on-a-chip architecture. Also in 2003, the company acquired Sugar Media, a digital media provider.
The following year, in the spring of 2004, 2Wire launched MediaPortal, a multi-service media platform that integrates DSL and satellite services. The MediaPortal-powered set-top box, combining television, digital video recorder, video, music, photo viewings, and messaging capabilities, was deployed by AT&T in 2006 as part of its Homezone service.
In January 2006, 2Wire introduced the HomePortal intelligent Network Interface Device (iNID), an outdoor broadband residential gateway that supports VDSL2 and fiber to the premises (FTTP) connections.
2Wire acquired Kenati Technologies, an embedded device software company, in October 2007.
, 2Wire had shipped more than 20 million residential gateways to its telecommunications provider customers.
In November 2008, 2Wire and Blockbuster Inc. developed and released MediaPoint Digital Media Player, a set-top box that plays video content from a home computer network.
Products
2Wire produces a series of residential gateways under the HomePortal name that enable home networking with interfaces that range from ADSL 2+ to fiber to the node (FTTN) (VDSL 1 and 2), as w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitterrific | Twitterrific was a macOS and iOS client for the social networking site Twitter created by The Iconfactory and was the first Twitter desktop client to come to macOS. It lets users view "tweets" or micro-blog posts on the Twitter website in real time as well as publish their own. Twitterrific is closed source software.
Features
The program's main window uses a translucent black theme similar to certain palettes used in Aperture, iPhoto and other Apple Inc. software. Users may choose to view the full public timeline or just the friends feed. Users can also click on links to view the poster's profile or mark a tweet as a favorite.
Twitterrific also provides functionality to upload images and videos for posting on Twitter.
History
As of version 2.1, Twitterrific supports Growl notifications, enhanced AppleScript capabilities and can be used with other sites or services that use the Twitter API.
Version 3 changed Twitterrific into advertising supported shareware; every hour an ad is refreshed to the top of the list. Users who buy the program receive no ads. Other changes in version 3 mostly added compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 and incorporated newer Twitter features like direct messaging.
The iOS version of Twitterrific won the 2008 Apple Design Award for Best iPhone Social Networking Application.
On April 1, 2010, The Iconfactory released Twitterrific for iPad (Version 1.0), ready for the iPad's US launch on April 3. On June 24, a version of Twitterrific was launched (version 3.0) that was universally compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad.
On February 14, 2017, a Kickstarter project was launched by The Iconfactory to try and revive the Twitterrific for Mac application.
On October 10, 2017, the Mac application received a 5.0 update and was added to the Mac App Store.
On June 13, 2019, the iOS version 6.0 was announced. It disregarded previous in-app purchases. Users who had previously paid not to see ads were shown ads again. Iconfactory regards Twitterrific 6.0 as a new app but does not give their existing users the option of staying on Twitterific 5.x.
Twitterrific was discontinued on January 19, 2023, when Twitter cut off access to the Twitter API for most 3rd party clients, thus breaking the MacOS and iOS apps.
References
External links
Iconfactory : Software : Twitterrific
MacOS Internet software
The Iconfactory
Twitter services and applications
Shareware
2007 software
IOS software
Microblogging software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN%20Times | LAN Times was a print and online information journal dedicated to covering issues of technology and network computing, including local area network information. The publication was headquartered in San Mateo, California, and published print journals as well as online articles from 1988 to 1999.
The publication featured an online help forum for network administrators, and published a variety of books on computer networking. It was published on a biweekly basis.
It was published by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. until May 1998, when it was sold to CMP Media. Following the change over the ownership the magazine continued to be based in San Mateo, California. The print publication was shuttered in 1999 and lantimes.com was redirected to networkcomputing.com
References
Online magazines published in the United States
Biweekly magazines published in the United States
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1988
Magazines disestablished in 1999
Magazines published in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9309%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2008–09 Canadian network television schedule indicates the fall prime time schedules for Canada's major English and French broadcast networks. For schedule changes after the fall launch, please consult each network's individual article.
2009 official summer schedule
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Top weekly ratings
Note: English Canadian television only by viewers age 2 and up
Data sources: BBM Canada official website
References
2008 in Canadian television
2009 in Canadian television
Canadian television schedules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig%20City%20%28TV%20series%29 | Pig City is an animated television series co-produced by CinéGroupe, AnimaKids, and Red Rover Studios in association with Merchandising München and original networks Teletoon in Canada, ProSieben in Germany, and Fox Kids internationally.
About
The show features a teenage country pig (Mikey) moving to the big city to live with his wealthy cousins (Martha and Reggie). Thirty-nine half-hour episodes have been produced.
Cast
Thor Bishopric as Mikey
Philip Lemaistre as Reggie
Emma Campbell as Martha
Michael Yarmush as E. Brian
Lindsay Abrahams as Betty
Matt Holland as Dave
Teddy Lee Dillon as Bob
Pier Kohl as Uncle Porter
Jennifer Seguin as Trish
Harry Standjofski as V.P. Larden
Ellen David as Aunt Yardley
Brett Watson as Link
Ricky Mabe as Stig
Pierre Lenior as Principal Hamhock
Characters
Mikey Hoggins – a 15-year-old country pig that goes to the big city to live with his cousins, Reggie and Martha. He can be described as humble.
Reggie DeBoar – a rocker, complete with his own band, 'Reggie And The Rashers'.
Martha DeBoar – a bit self-centered pig and Reggie’s sister. She is also concerned with her looks.
Episodes
The episode order below follows that of the original airdates on Teletoon, which also matches the season 1 episode order on Encore+.
Season 1 (2002)
Season 2 (2002)
Season 3 (2003–04)
Production
During production in 2001, the show was titled The Three Pigs. Originally, CinéGroupe's then-owner Lions Gate was attached to the show's production.
SMEC Media & Entertainment in Taiwan (uncredited) and SMEC Animation & Graphic Technology in China were the overseas animation studios for the series.
CinéGroupe's distribution arm distributed the series in Canada, the U.S., Asia, Australia and New Zealand, with Fox Kids Europe N.V. distributing in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa with servicing through Buena Vista International Television, co-producer AnimaKids distributing in France and Merchandising Munchen distributing in Germany.
Release
Home video
In November 2002, a VHS and DVD volume was released in Canada by CinéGroupe Star titled "Pig City/Porcité - Volume 1". It contained the Series 1 episodes "Wag the Hog", "Hogtied" and "Porkstars". The VHS versions were released in both separate English and French versions, while the DVD counterpart featured both languages.
Although a promo as seen on the release showcases Volume 2 and Volume 3 sets for release in Late-2002, they were never released.
Streaming
In March 2022, the Canada Media Fund's YouTube channel Encore+ uploaded episodes of the series in both English and French. The series became unavailable in November 2022 due to the closure of Encore+.
Awards and nominations
Soundtrack
On December 3, 2002, Les Disques Star Records Inc. released a soundtrack CD in Canada called "Reggie and the Rashers", named after the band of the same name as featured in the show, and contained the songs sung by them. It was available in both English and French.
Three music video |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampirefreaks.com | VampireFreaks.com is an online clothing store and former social networking site for goths and rivetheads. VampireFreaks was launched as a social networking site in 1999 and added an online clothing store in 2001. The social network element was removed in February 2020.
Online clothing store
The VampireFreaks online clothing store has steadily grown since its inception in 2009, currently featuring thousands of products. It started as an offshoot of the popular VampireFreaks social networking site and is currently the primary focus of the VampireFreaks brand. Clothing styles featured include goth, punk rock, emo, metal, steampunk, kawaii, and rockabilly. VampireFreaks is an official distributor of brands such as Tripp NYC, Killstar, Kreepsville 666, Sourpuss, Dark In Love, Punk Rave, Demonia, Devil Fashion, and Alchemy. In addition to selling other brands, VampireFreaks sells its own custom-branded items such as t-shirts, hoodies, bracelets, leggings, messenger bags, and tote bags with original VampireFreaks artwork. Online store features include frequently updated sales, a 'wishlist', a 'top sellers' section, a clearance section, and a rewards program. The rewards program allows users to accrue points with each purchase to get future discounts and free items. Customers can also refer a friend to get additional rewards. VampireFreaks promotes its online store through its social media and its email newsletters.
Social networking site
VampireFreaks was previously a social networking site, created by site owner Jet Berelson in 2000. It began with a small number of forums dedicated to goth and industrial music.
Over the years it grew to be a large social network, with thousands of members. Website features included user groups that were called 'cults' and allowed users to create their communities (forums) within the website. The website also had event pages, music interviews, models, and frequent design contests. It also featured a popular message board which is a major component of the site's success. The site’s main topic of focus, aside from socializing, was the music content users create. Jet regularly updated the site with information concerning not only bands but various alternative events. Many people have found love on the site, and this has been focused on during Valentine's Day when couples that met through the site submitted stories of how they met their matches. "Premium Memberships" were also offered (for a fee), with features such as the ability to upload more pictures, see who views the user's profile, and "powerbomb" the "unwanted" VF members. On 17 June 2014, Jet announced that he would shut down the website in February 2020, wanting to focus more on the VampireFreaks online store, real life, and Dark Side of the Con, an alternative gathering organized by the company. It was shut down on 1 February 2020.
Physical clothing store
VampireFreaks had a clothing store, named after the site, located in New York City. The store sold |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20of%20The%20Hawkeyes | Voice of The Hawkeyes was an American sports-oriented magazine. It was owned and operated by Landmark Media Enterprises, and was affiliated with the 247Sports.com network. It covered University of Iowa athletics and was founded in 1987. It was issued 25 times per year. During the football season (September–December), the magazine was issued weekly; it was issued during the winter months, and monthly from April through August.
References
External links
Voice of The Hawkeyes
Sports magazines published in the United States
University of Iowa
1987 establishments in Iowa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Rights%20Law%20Network | The Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) is an Indian non-profit organisation founded in 1989 to protect the fundamental human rights and civil liberties of the most marginalised and vulnerable members of society. Working on the intersection of law, advocacy, policy, and education, HRLN is organised as a collective of lawyers and social activists dedicated to providing legal assistance to vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals, advocating for the implementation of structures to safeguard human rights and fight systemic oppression, and educating the public on their rights and remedies. HRLN provides pro bono legal services to marginalised groups, conducts investigations into human rights violations, and undertakes high-stakes impact litigation in service of the public interest. The organisation operates across the spectrum of public interest law, focusing specifically on children’s rights, rights of disabled persons, rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, prisoners' rights, refugee rights, rights of indigenous people, workers' rights, rights of minorities, and the protection of victims of sexual violence or trafficking.
HRLN is a project of the Socio-Legal Information Centre (SLIC), a non-profit legal aid and education organisation which provides free legal assistance to those people who lack the capacity to seek legal remedy. The SLIC files more than 100 petitions each year to protect the health, dignity, and rights of Indian citizens. SLIC and HRLN are together India’s largest, most active legal human rights program and reproductive rights unit. SLIC is also an implementing partner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Details
A non-profit non-governmental organization, HRLN started in 1989 as a small group of concerned lawyers and social activists from Bombay. The team was led by Colin Gonsalves, a leading public interest lawyer, and now a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India. Today, HRLN is considered the country’s leading public interest law group and has a nationwide network of more than 200 lawyers, paralegals, and social activists spread across 26 states/Union Territories.
HRLN is also the parent body of the Indian People's Tribunal (IPT), also called the Indian People's Tribunal on Environmental and Human Rights or Independent People's Tribunal. Set up in June 1993, IPT is an unofficial panel led by retired judges who conduct public inquiries into human rights and environmental abuses. It provides an alternate outlet for the victims faced with official obstruction and delays in the delivery of justice. IPT conducts investigations into cases of relocation of rural people to make way for dams or parks, eviction of slum dwellers, industrial pollution and communal or state-sponsored violence.
In 2013, HRLN was awarded the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions for its contributions to reproductive rights advocacy in India.
Activities
Legal aid and public interest litigation
HRLN offers pro-bono le |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeLite | CodeLite is a free and open-source IDE for the C, C++, PHP, and JavaScript (Node.js) programming languages.
History
In August 2006, Eran Ifrah started an autocomplete project named CodeLite. The idea was to create a code completion library based on ctags, SQLite (hence, CodeLite), and a Yacc based parser that could be used by other IDEs. Later Clang became an optional parser for code completion, greatly improving its functionality.
LiteEditor, a demo application, was developed for demonstrating CodeLite's functionalities. Eventually, LiteEditor evolved into CodeLite.
General
CodeLite is a free, open-source, cross-platform IDE for the C/C++ programming languages using the wxWidgets toolkit. To comply with CodeLite's open-source spirit, the program itself is compiled and debugged using only free tools (MinGW and GDB) for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, though CodeLite can execute any third-party compiler or tool that has a command-line interface. CodeLite also supports PHP and JavaScript development (including Node.js support).
CodeLite features project management (workspace/projects), code completion, code refactoring, source browsing, syntax highlighting, Subversion integration, cscope integration, UnitTest++ integration, an interactive debugger built over gdb and a source code editor (based on Scintilla).
CodeLite is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2 or Later. It is being developed and debugged using itself as the development platform with daily updates available through its Git repository.
See also
Comparison of integrated development environments
SciTE
wxWidgets
Code::Blocks
Geany
Notes
References
External links
Free software programmed in C++
Free integrated development environments
Software that uses wxWidgets
Software using the GPL license
Software that uses Scintilla
Cross-platform free software
Cross-platform software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangjing%20Science%20and%20Technology%20Park | Wangjing Science and Technology Park is a technology center in Wangjing, Beijing, China that houses hundreds of enterprises, primarily in telecommunications and computer science.
The park was established in 1999 in Wangjing, a residential area in the Chaoyang District in Beijing, China. In 2005, the park housed 228 enterprises. The park is very close to Beijing Capital Airport and the Olympic Village in the Chaoyang District.
References
External links
Invest in Beijing, Official Chinese Government Information about Wangjing Science and Technology Park
Science parks in China
Economy of Beijing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2000%20%28network%29 | P2000 is a one-way communications network for pagers based on Motorola's FLEX-protocol in the Netherlands. The network is used by all emergency services and provides nationwide coverage. Several tests have shown the network can cope with the largest disasters when large numbers of emergency personnel need to be reached.
The P2000 network is maintained by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.
Messages are similar to SMS-messages. The FLEX-protocol does not provide encryption, which means any message can be read by everyone with a receiver. Several websites provide a live monitor for all messages on this network.
External links
Live P2000 monitor
Pagers
Radio paging
Telecommunications equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20Jukebox | Video Jukebox may refer to:
Video Jukebox, an American television program that aired from 1981 to 1986 on Home Box Office (HBO).
Video Jukebox Network, a cable, satellite and UHF broadcast Florida television service.
YouTube Jukebox, a free service for creating playlists of YouTube videos, especially music.
As a general term in English, video jukebox may refer to:
A device for playing music in a bar, etc. equipped with an electronic screen for selection and display.
A video playback system connected to a telecommunication network in order to transmit films to consumers on demand.
The presentation of videos in a media player on a website, along the lines of YouTube.
In slang: any small electronic device that can record and play back music, such as an iPod.
The Scopitone, a jukebox which played 16mm films. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Kharkiv | The Kharkiv tram () is part of the public transport system of the second largest city of Ukraine. The tram system has a "Russian Standard" track gauge of . The tram network is built almost exclusively on the streets of Kharkiv, making it a traditional tram system. The network consists almost exclusively of double track. In most parts the tracks are separated from other road traffic, whereas elsewhere tracks lie on lanes that cars and buses may also use.
History
The first 12 carriages, in 1906, were built at Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG.
The track width was (the current track width is ).
Current times
In October 2016, extensive sections of the track are in poor condition, even unsafe. Sleepers are rotten in parts, fishplates unbolted, pointwork derelict, some rails have sunk some below the road surface, overhead voltage supply is poorly regulated. Speeds are low.
In October 2018, the line beyond Children's Park was back in service, though the track is in poor condition, especially at the balloon loops at the terminus and Children's Park. The line through the city center - previously unused except for specials - now sees regular services, but the line from near Children's Park past the cemetery and down to the valley is not in service. The line to the station is in bad condition. A section between the station and the river has been rebuilt, apparently now omitting any connections to former car barns and/or workshops.
In October 2021 the Stadler Metelitsa tram was making test runs on the Kharkiv tram system. On 24 September 2021 acting mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov stated that his city's tram fleet would be completely renewed in four years.
Following the start of the ongoing Russian assault on Kharkiv since February 24th, 2022 in the invasion of Ukraine all traffic has been suspended on February 28. The tram depot in Saltivka has been destroyed by Russian bombardment early in March. On May 4 the City Council announced it will be impossible to restore the system as all electrical substations and rolling stock have been destroyed by the enemy.
A number of European cities, including Brno, Ostrava and Prague, have offered to donate surplus tram cars for restoration of the system.
On May 19, 2022, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov announced that four light rail lines would restart service, due to the improving security situation in the city.
See also
Kharkiv Metro
Kharkiv railway station
References
External links
Tram transport in Ukraine
Transport in Kharkiv
Kharkiv
1906 establishments in Ukraine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortex%20Command | Cortex Command is a two-dimensional side-scrolling action game developed by Swedish studio Data Realms since 2001.
Gameplay
The player takes the role of a stationary or mobile "brain", which can take control of other purchased units in order to accomplish objectives. Missions range from tasks such as retrieving a control chip in a cave filled with zombies to defending the brain from attack. As the brain is weak, the player must manage his resources carefully, protecting the brain, mining gold and fighting off enemies.
The game includes the ability for players to create mods (additions and changes to the game) with the built in Lua programming applet and simple scripting.
Development
The game engine was designed and built by Dan Tabár, using several open-source libraries. The GUI was built by Jason Boettcher, the artwork is by Arne Niklas Jansson, and the macOS port is by Chris Kruger, while the Linux port was developed by Jesus Higueras.
The game was first released as an open beta and was later released for purchase with a time-limited demo version available as well.
As of May 2008, the game was described as being in development for approximately seven years, with Dan Tabár quitting his job in mid-2006 to work full-time on the project. No versions for game consoles were produced. The game allows several components to be modified using Lua and INI files, such as Scenes (or levels), Actors, Weapons, and more. Influences for the game include the X-COM: UFO Defense series.
On 28 September 2012 the game was finally released in version 1.0 on Steam.
In July 2019 the source code was released as open source software under the AGPL-3.0-only software license on GitHub.
The game's soundtrack has been composed by Danny Baranowsky.
Setting
Despite the fact that the main story has been scrapped, Cortex Command does have some background lore. Sometime in the mid-to-far future after humanity suffered a war brought on by a religious group, Brain transplant and life support technology was developed to make space travel more feasible. This leads to humans making contact with alien life forms, and Founding Free Trade. Free Trade is one of the biggest if not the biggest corporations in the whole Orion Spur. But humanity doesn't stop there, despite humanity having long abandoned their bodies, they still kept the stubborn will to fight. With contracting being open to the highest bidder, prospectors fight on earth-like planets with rich gold deposits, while being supplied by companies like Alchiral or Free Trade.
Reception
The control system for the unfinished version of the game has been described as "too fiddly to be considered entertaining" in 2007. Others described the game as requiring patience, asking players to "take [their] time and experiment". The game has been compared to other games in the genre, such as GunBound and Worms. Positive reviews praise the detailed physics, as well as the chaotic gameplay.
Cortex Command was the Indie Games Game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20August%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | David I. August (born November 27, 1970) is a professor of computer science at Princeton University specializing in compilers and computer architecture. August is a strong advocate of alternatives to parallel programming to address the software impact of multi-core computing.
August was born in Troy, New York and raised in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, graduated summa cum laude in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1993, and received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000 under advisor
Wen-mei Hwu. His thesis, entitled Systematic Compilation for Predicated Execution, represented a breakthrough in compilers.
Specifically, it showed how a compiler could generate efficient code for architectures with branch predication, such as Intel's IA-64.
In 1999, August was selected as one of five new Ph.D.'s to watch by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Since then, he has produced dozens of articles relating to compilers and computer architecture. The IEEE Computer Society's annual "Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences" has recognized his work on microprocessor fault tolerance and his work on multi-core computation for relevance and significance to the field.
In 2012, he testified as an expert witness in the Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc. patent lawsuit on behalf of Google and stated that the Dalvik virtual machine used in Android did not infringe on Oracle's symbolic reference patent.
Awards and honors
August became an IEEE Fellow in 2015 "for contributions to compilers and architectures for multicore and parallel processing systems".
References
Living people
1970 births
People from Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey
Princeton University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
Grainger College of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished%20Fellow%20of%20the%20British%20Computer%20Society | Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (DFBCS or DistFBCS) is an award and fellowship granted by the British Computer Society for members of the computing profession who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of computing.
The Distinguished Fellowship of BCS is awarded under bylaw 7 of the BCS's Royal Charter. Trustee Board Regulation 1.2 specifies that the award may be made even if the individual in question is not already a member of BCS and may not be eligible for any other class of membership.
The award was first approved in 1969 and the first election was made in 1971 to Edsger W. Dijkstra. The nominations committee is responsible for identifying and proposing suitable candidates. The actual election of such members of the profession is made by a resolution of the trustee board on the recommendation of the president.
Fellowship criteria
Any candidate for Distinguished Fellowship should be considered against the following criteria:
The contribution to computing should be seen in terms of major importance to the overall development of computing, with substantial personal recognition through peer review over a substantial and sustained career. There is no restriction on nomination on the grounds of nationality or of existing membership of BCS and nominations from business, industrial, research or academic backgrounds are equally acceptable and work of either a practical or theoretical nature may be equally valid.
At any time, both the work and the stature of the individual nominated should be commensurate with the standards set by previous recipients although it is not expected that there will be more than one Distinguished Fellow elected every two years.
To be elected, the nomination must be on the Trustee Board Agenda, and at least 3/4 of those present must resolve in favour.
Distinguished Fellows
Laureates of the award include:
References
1969 establishments in the United Kingdom
Awards established in 1969
British Computer Society
British Computer Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented%20distributed%20applications | A RESTful programming architecture that allows some services to be run on the client and some on the server. For example, a product can first be released as a browser application and then functionality moved module by module to the client application.
See also
Service-oriented architecture implementation framework
Service-oriented modeling
External links
Novell excerpt on Web Services Frameworks
Software architecture
Web services
Distributed computing architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Caminer | David Caminer OBE (26 June 1915 – 19 June 2008) was a British computer engineer who helped to develop the world's first business computer, LEO (Lyons Electronic Office). He has been called "the world's first corporate electronic systems analyst" and "the world's first software engineer". He carried out the systems analysis and charting for the world's first routine business computer job, thus he is also called "the first business application programmer".
Life and work
Caminer was born David Treisman in the East End of London. His father was killed in action during the First World War. When his mother remarried, he was given his stepfather's surname Caminer.
In March 1943 Caminer lost a leg at the Battle of Mareth, whilst serving with the Green Howards in Tunisia.
Caminer worked generally in the area of operations management and cost accounting. He helped to design, along with John Pinkerton, the LEO (Lyons Electronic Office), which has been certified by the Guinness World Records as the world's first business computer.
Caminer joined Lyons & Co. as a management trainee in 1936 and became manager of the Lyons Systems Research Office before concentrating on the computer innovation. He became director of LEO Computers Ltd in 1959 and was subsequently general sales manager of English Electric LEO Marconi, while retaining his responsibility for consultancy and systems implementation. After the merger to form ICL, his posts included the delineation of the systems software requirements for the New Range and director of New Range Market Introduction.
He chose to complete his formal career in the field as project director for the implementation of the computer and communications network for the European Economic Community, where he developed a computer system for the European Common Market. For this work he was appointed to the Order of the British Empire in 1980.
As Caminer himself pointed out, the LEO story highlights important characteristics of the history of innovation in computing technology, including the complex roles of government funding and university research; the frequent failure of technically advanced products to enjoy commercial success; the importance for commercial success in business computing of firm-level capabilities in related technologies; and the interaction between organizational and technological change in the adoption of business computing systems.
In 2001 he presented the second IEE Pinkerton Lecture.
He died in June 2008, at age 92.
See also
LEO (computer)
List of pioneers in computer science
References
Notes
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2003, Pages 265-284 LEO Conference 2001
David C. Mowery, 50 Years of business computing: LEO to Linux, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2003, Pages 295-308
Ferry, G. (2004). A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the World's First Office Computer. Hammersmith: Harper Perennial. .
Bird, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDA%20Investment%20Technologies | CDA Investment Technologies was a Maryland-based financial research firm founded by Robert A. Levy. It was a pioneer in early financial databases, but was best known for its mutual fund rankings, whose quarterly release would attract national attention in the 1980s and 1990s. After being bought by the Thomson Corporation in 1987, it was an independent subsidiary until 1998, when it was blended in with Technimetrics to become Thomson Financial Investor Relations.
History
Founding and independence
CDA Investment Technologies was founded in 1966 by Robert A. Levy, who had just received his Ph.D. in Business from American University. CDA was one of the first financial research companies to effectively harness computing databases.
Its two main products were Spectrum and Cadence Universe. Spectrum reported the holdings and transactions of investment banks, mutual and hedge funds, industry insiders and other institutional investors. Cadence Universe, for which it would become most well known, used portfolio analysis to measure the performance of those same money managers.
By 1985, national newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times were reporting on its rankings of mutual funds and money managers. CDA grew to have offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Tokyo and London in addition to its home office in Rockville, Maryland.
As a subsidiary
In 1986, Levy sold CDA to the Dutch publishing firm Elsevier, although he stayed on as CEO. CDA's time at Elsevier was limited, though, and the company was sold to Thomson Corporation in May 1987 for a profit.
CDA remained a mostly independent subsidiary and Levy was again kept on as CEO. Their quarterly releases of rankings continued to earn widespread coverage, and their research was well respected and influential.
After Levy retired in 1991, CDA continued to profit and expand. In 1991 CDA bought Wiesenberger Financial Services. In 1993 it acquired H.F. Pearson & Co, another financial research firm. In 1993 CDA also made an influential deal with Nasdaq to publish a book called Corporate Reports that was distributed only to CFOs of companies that were listed on the Nasdaq exchange. It provided valuable information about each company, its trends, and how it stacked up against its competitors. In 1995 CDA bought Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy research firm.
CDA name fades
CDA's influence and brand, however, began to fade in the later half of the 1990s. Even though The Wall Street Journal described CDA as one of the two best financial software sites online in 1996, CDA's quarterly releases of mutual fund rankings no longer prompted articles and discussion in national papers.
In 1998 Thomson Corporation bought Technimetrics from Knight-Ridder and decided to blend it and CDA together, essentially ending CDA's run as an independent company. Both became part of what is now known as Thomson Financial Investor Relations.
References
Financial services companie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina%20Monshipour%20Foster | Tina Monshipour Foster is an Iranian-American lawyer and director of the International Justice Network.
Legal career
Prior to working in the field of human rights, Foster worked at Clifford Chance LLP in New York City. She later worked for the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on Guantanamo Bay cases and is one of the plaintiffs in CCR v. Bush, filed on July 9, 2007.
Four other individuals filed this suit. Foster and her colleagues sued the US government objecting to the government's interception of their mail, email and phone calls. In 2006 Foster started International Justice Network (IJNetwork) placing focus on detainees held without charge, incommunicado in Bagram Prison in Afghanistan.
Human rights
Foster submitted a writ of habeas corpus Ruzatullah v. Robert Gates -- 06-CV-01707 on behalf of Ruzatullah a captive held in the Bagram Theater internment facility.
The Washington Post reported on June 29, 2008 on comments Foster made about Jawed Ahmad's detention in Bagram.
On July 20, 2008, Reuters reported the outrage Human Rights organizations are expressing over the seizing of journalists in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the "War on Terror". Foster was quoted as saying "there were no charges against Jawed, who was wounded while serving with U.S. Special Forces. He has not been accused of any crime either under U.S. law, Afghan law or international law," adding that "Jawed, like other detainees held by U.S., was regarded by Washington as an "enemy combatant".
Foster, executive director for International Justice Network, said there were no charges against Jawed, who was wounded while serving with U.S. Special Forces.
Comments on the new plans for Bagram review
On September 12, 2009 it was widely reported that unnamed officials told Eric Schmitt of the New York Times that the Obama administration was going to introduce new procedures that would allow the captives held in Bagram, and elsewhere in Afghanistan, to have their detention reviewed.
Josh Gerstein, of Politico, reported that Foster, who represents four Bagram captives, was critical of the new rules:
Comments on the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on torture
On December 15, 2014, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Foster after the United States Senate Intelligence Committee published a 600-page unclassified summary of its classified report on the CIA's use of torture.
Foster described how the report devoted a whole section to the CIA's torture of one of her clients, Redha al-Najar. She listed all the torture techniques the CIA used on him, and asserted that the CIA tortured him for nearly 700 days.
References
Guantanamo Bay attorneys
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode%20pointer%20structure | The inode pointer structure is a structure adopted by the inode of a file in the Unix File System (UFS) to list the addresses of a file's data blocks. It is also adopted by many related file systems, including the ext3 file system, popular with Linux users.
Structure
In the past, the structure may have consisted of eleven or thirteen pointers, but most modern file systems use fifteen pointers. These pointers consist of (assuming 15 pointers in the inode):
Twelve pointers that directly point to blocks of the file's data (direct pointers)
One singly indirect pointer (a pointer that points to a block of pointers that then point to blocks of the file's data)
One doubly indirect pointer (a pointer that points to a block of pointers that point to other blocks of pointers that then point to blocks of the file's data)
One triply indirect pointer (a pointer that points to a block of pointers that point to other blocks of pointers that point to other blocks of pointers that then point to blocks of the file's data)
Key features
Fixed logical block size
The structure is partially illustrated in the diagram accompanying this article. The structure allows for inodes to describe very large files in file systems with a fixed logical block size. Central to the mechanism is that blocks of addresses (also called indirect blocks) are only allocated as needed. For example, a 12-block file would be described using just the inode because its blocks fit into the number of direct pointers available. However, a 13-block file needs an indirect block to contain the thirteenth address.
Ease of data location
The inode pointer structure not only allows for files to easily be allocated to non-contiguous blocks, it also allows the data at a particular location inside a file to be easily located. This is possible because the logical block size is fixed. For example, if each block is 8 kB, file data at 112 kB to 120 kB would be pointed to by the third pointer of the first indirect block (assuming twelve direct pointers in the inode pointer structure).
Indirect blocks
Unlike the inodes, which are fixed in number and allocated in a special part of the file system, the indirect blocks may be of any number and are allocated in the same part of the file system as data blocks. The number of pointers in the indirect blocks is dependent on the block size and size of block pointers. Example: with a 512-byte block size, and 4-byte block pointers, each indirect block can consist of 128 (512 / 4) pointers.
References
Ext3 for large file systems, LWN.net, June 12, 2006.
Unix file system technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%20Dares%2C%20Sings%21 | Who Dares, Sings! is a karaoke style game show airing in the United Kingdom on the ITV Network and in the Republic of Ireland on TV3 Ireland. It premiered at 20:00 BST on 28 June 2008 and was hosted by Ben Shephard and Denise Van Outen. Only seven episodes have been shown in one series. Tickets were offered for a Christmas special, but this has not aired and will probably never do so.
Format
The studio audience of 100 people all attempt to sing to win a potential jackpot of £50,000. In the first round, all 100 people sing along to a song, but five performances of the song are selected at random and judged by a super computer called SAM (short for Sound Analysis Machine). The two that score the highest go through to a "pitch battle", for a place in the semi-final round.
These two will then pick a song each from a "karaoke songbook", and will then perform it. The main idea of the game it to hit and hold the "hot notes", as close to the original song as possible. The one who scores the highest out of 100 goes through to the semi-final round. This is repeated for both the second pitch battle and the semi-final round.
The winner of the semi-final round, then goes forward to the final. They are given a choice of five songs and can sing at maximum three of them. For the first song, they'll score 40 or more to win £5,000, the second song is worth £25,000 if they score 60 or higher, and the third song is worth the £50,000 jackpot, if they score 80 or more. After the second and third songs, the finalist is given the choice to take the money they've got at that stage or gamble. If they gamble and fail to reach the score target, they'll leave with nothing.
The design of the studio set was very similar to the set of Catchphrase during years when Roy Walker was the presenter.
Show winners
As of the end of episode 4, there have been no £50,000 winners.
Cancellation
The second series of Who Dares, Sings! did not broadcast in 2009 or subsequent years.
Ratings
Episode 1 - 3.90m (19.59)
Episode 2 - 4.14m (20.13)
Episode 3 - 3.70m (20.00)
Episode 4 - 3.66m (20.11)
Episode 5 - 3.40m (19.55)
Episode 6 - 3.07m (20.19)
Episode 7 - 3.25m (18.59)
External links
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2008 British television series debuts
2008 British television series endings
2000s British game shows
ITV game shows
Television series by ITV Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy%20Simulation%20Model | The Policy Simulation Model (PSM) is a static microsimulation model which encapsulates the tax and benefits system, and population, of Great Britain. It is based on survey data from the Family Resources Survey (FRS) which is uprated to simulate the current year, together with several years into the future through a process of static uprating. The uprating process covers a complex range of processes, ranging from simple numerical uprating of financial values, to modelling the draw-down of old benefits through to the implications of the rising state pension age.
The model is built using SAS and is owned by the GB Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). It produces outputs including the financial (and work-incentive) impacts on a representative sample of the GB population from hypothetical policy changes to the tax and benefits system. It is managed by a central team of analysts who both develop the model and provide year-round customer service to analytical users of the model spread across the DWP corporate centre. It is used for poverty and scenario analysis associated with the development of new policies, including Universal Credit.
See also
Pensim2, another model with the same ownership
TaxBen, the IFS equivalent model
IGOTM, the HMT equivalent model
External links
DWP homepage
Department for Work and Pensions
Microsimulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20S.%20Evans | Karen S. Evans is a former United States Senate confirmed, Presidential Appointed executive, who served as the first Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response at the U.S. Department of Energy. An executive who served in three Presidential Appointed positions in two Administrations.
Ms. Evans currently serves as the Managing Director of the Cyber Readiness Institute.
Education
Ms. Evans holds a Master of Business Administration, a Master of Arts Public History certificate, and a Bachelor of science in Chemistry from West Virginia University.
Career
Ms. Evans previously served as the first Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). She was sworn in on August 28, 2018, and provided strategic direction, leadership and management to address emerging threats while improving energy infrastructure security and supporting the DOE national security mission.
Prior to being named Assistant Secretary at DOE, Ms. Evans was the national director of the U.S. Cyber Challenge, a public-private partnership focused on building the cyber workforce. She served on the Trump Transition and Landing Teams to develop the management agenda addressing technology initiatives government wide.
Ms. Evans served as the Administrator for the Office of Electronic Government and Information Technology at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during the George W. Bush administration. At OMB, she oversaw nearly $71 billion in annual IT funds, including implementation of IT throughout the federal government. Previously, she served as the CIO for DOE and at the director level with both the U.S. Department of Justice and the Farmers Home Administration.
Evans ia a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Notes
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chief information officers
West Virginia University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20Yankee%20%28video%20game%29 | Team Yankee is a 1990 real-time strategy simulation computer wargame developed by Oxford Digital Enterprises and published by Empire Software for Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and Commodore CDTV. Based on Harold Coyle's novel and board game of the same name, the game depicts a World War III scenario between the United States and the Soviet Union from an armoured warfare perspective.
Gameplay is conducted both from a map of the area and in a 3D environment with 2D sprites. The game features numerous iconic Cold War-era armoured fighting vehicles, including the M1 Abrams, M2 Bradley, M113, T-62, T-72, and BMP-2, among others.
Team Yankee was released to somewhat negative reception from critics for its "arcade-like" gameplay and its lack of infantry or military aircraft. The game received two sequels, Pacific Islands in 1992 and War in the Gulf in 1993.
Gameplay
Reception
1992 and 1994 Computer Gaming World surveys of wargames with modern settings gave the game two stars out of five, describing it as "an arcade-like product trying to pass as a simulation of modern tactical armored warfare". A full review by the magazine in 1992 criticized Team Yankees lack of infantry (making the machines guns useless) or air power (despite the aircraft on the box art). The magazine concluded that it, while more realistic than Pacific Islands, was not for "the hard-core wargamer, but are for people who enjoy a quick and relatively easy run-through of a tank game".
References
External links
Team Yankee at Amiga Hall of Light
Team Yankee at Atari Mania
1987 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Cold War video games
Commodore CDTV games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Empire Interactive games
Military combat simulators
Oxford Digital Enterprises games
Single-player video games
Tank simulation video games
Video games based on novels
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
World War III video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th%20Signal%20Brigade%20%28United%20States%29 | The 15th Signal Brigade (TEAM 15) is an active duty unit of the United States Army, based at Fort Eisenhower. The 15th Signal Brigade trains and develops professional Signal and Cyber Soldiers and Leaders and supports the execution of academic Professional Military Education, Initial Entry Training, and Functional Training in order to develop adaptive Cyberspace operators committed to the Profession of Arms, who embrace the Warrior Ethos, and live the Army values; capable of effectively supporting and defending the cyber domain.
Subordinate Units
Units in the 15th Signal Brigade include:
369th Signal Battalion
442nd Signal Battalion
551st Signal Battalion
401st Cyber Battalion
Ordnance Training Detachment - Gordon
History
LINEAGE (active)
Constituted 30 November 1940 in the Army of the United States as the 15th Signal Service Battalion. Activated 1 December 1940 at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Redesignated 15 September 1941 as the 15th Signal Service Regiment. Redesignated 14 December 1942 as the 15th Signal Training Regiment. Disbanded 31 May 1945 at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 15th Signal Training Regiment, reconstituted 23 September 1986 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 15th Signal Brigade, transferred to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, and activated at Fort Gordon, Georgia.
References
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20cartel%20%28TV%20series%29 | El Cartel de los Sapos (English title: The Cartel of Snitches) or El Cartel is a Colombian television series that first aired on June 4, 2008 on the Colombian network Caracol TV. El Cartel stars Manolo Cardona, Karen Martínez, Diego Cadavid, and Robinson Díaz and is based on the 2008 novel by the same name by Andrés López López, alias Florecita ("Little Flower"), a former drug dealer who, while in prison, wrote the fictionalized account of his experiences in the Cali Cartel and of what happened within the Norte del Valle Cartel. In the TV series, which Lopez also wrote, the characters and locations from the book were changed.
Synopsis
Two friends enter the illegal drugs business, thinking it is the fastest way to become rich. The illegal drug trafficking world seems attractive to all these middle-class people, who overlook the associated dangers and legal problems.
This choice begins a turbulent and troubled lifestyle that will change their fates forever. Martín, alias "Fresita", gets a job in a drugs lab sponsored by the big boss Óscar Cadena (Fernando Solorzano). Martín learns the business quickly and starts to send illegal drugs to the United States, while his boss makes an alliance with the Villegas Brothers, from the West Cartel, to take down the biggest drug dealer ever: Pablo Escobar.
With Escobar down, a new cartel is up: The Pacific Cartel in Colombia, led by Óscar Cadena, so Óscar (the teacher) and Martín (the student) make a pact of friendship and business.
Martín becomes a rich man and he falls for Sofía (Karen Martinez), a beautiful woman, but he wins her heart by lying to her. But Sofía discovers the origin of Martín's wealth, and he has to choose: Sofía or the business.
Óscar helps the police finish the West Cartel. The snitches (sapos) make war between these criminal machines to the point of breaking.
Oscar has been killed and decided to make Martin as the owner of the cartel.
Martín refuses to take part in this war and decides to go to Miami with Sofía and his children, unaware that Miami is no longer a safe place. He continues his illegal activities, meanwhile watching enemies kill his old friends.
As increasing numbers of his business partners and brothers die or get caught, Martin is forced to run to Mexico, looking for protection. He realizes too late that, in this business, you can never win. So he becomes a sapo and tells his tale to the DEA.
In the second season, Pepe, after being captured by the FBI, and now released to be a snitch, tells the rest of the story, which leads to the arrests and deaths of several drug traffickers.
Characters
Caracol decided to change the characters' real names, their aliases, and some locations from the book, although the filmmakers maintained some physical resemblance between the real-life characters and their portrayers. The following tables detail the names of the characters, their portrayers, and the real life people they represent in the series. The first table also highlights |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay%20Kumar%20%28roboticist%29 | Vijay Kumar (born 12 April 1962) is an Indian roboticist and UPS foundation professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science with secondary appointments in computer and information science and electrical and systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and became the new Dean of Penn Engineering on 1 July 2015.
Kumar is known for his research in the control and coordination of multi-robot formations.
He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
Education
B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, May 1983
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, March 1988
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, September 1987
About his research work
Honours and awards
The Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship (1986)
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991)
Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Pennsylvania (1996)
The Ferdinand Freudenstein Award for significant contributions to mechanisms and robotics awarded at the 5th National Conference on Mechanisms and Robotics (1997)
Best paper award, Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (2002)
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2003)
Kayamori Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2004)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Lecturer (2005)
Fellow, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2005)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Award (2012)
George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research (2013)
Member, National Academy of Engineering (2013)
Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award (2013)
IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award 2013–14, for his outstanding contributions to the area of control and coordination of multi-robot formations.
The Joseph Engelberger Award by the Robotics Industries Association (2014)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Award (2020)
References
External links
Vijay Kumar Lab at UPenn
"Robots that fly ... and cooperate" (TED2012)
1962 births
Living people
Control theorists
Indian roboticists
University of Pennsylvania faculty
IIT Kanpur alumni
Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni
American academics of Indian descent
Members of the American Philosophical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Appelman | Barry Appelman is recognized as being the father of the "buddy list" and AOL instant messenger. Companies had been using crude forms of Instant messaging within their own networks for over forty years, but the idea of presence, i.e. who is logged on at any given time, was non existent. It was not until Appelman, and his colleagues at the Thomas Watson Research Center, first began to write programs on the mainframe system letting each other know when they were actually online, that modern day Instant Messaging was born.
In 1994 while employed at AOL, Appelman hired a single contract programmer, Stephen D. Williams, and for five months they worked together building a prototype system that allowed AOL subscribers to have an early form of the buddy list.
In 1995 AIM was launched internally to AOL employees. It was initially dubbed "the stalker feature" since many employees were uncomfortable having their co-workers know when they were online. AOL decided to make Appelman's system available to its subscribers in March 1996, then to other Internet users in May 1997. Ten years later, there were over 53 million AIM users worldwide.
Career at AOL
Appelman joined AOL in 1993 to head up all of AOL server and host development efforts. He authored many innovations and patents: an instant messaging system, a highly scalable email system, ad servers, TCP/IP enabled browsers, among many others. Barry Appelman and his former colleagues from T.J. Watson, Matt Korn and Mike Connors who also came to AOL, were crucial to taking AOL from a distant third position in online services to that of a formidable leadership within 2–3 years.
Career at IBM T.W. Watson Research
Barry Appelman led IBM's foray into TCP/IP at the Thomas Watson Research Center from 1984 until 1993. Appelman was able to turn complicated IBM politics to the advantage of TCP/IP, open systems and Internet standards. This was not an easy endeavor given that at the time IBM was pushing hard a competing family of internal protocols called Systems Network Architecture. In the end, the work of Barry Appelman proved critical to the IBM's adoption of TCP/IP and its early embrace of the Internet. Mr. Appelman and his group were active in the Internet standardization. Yakov Rekhter authored several Internet RFCs in routing protocols. Mr Appelman's team was also active in SNMP standardization.
Appelman's small team of developers produced TCP/IP stacks for all IBM operating systems. Dean Hiller authored MVS TCP/IP. Jay Elinsky authored TCP/IP for VM/CMS. Yakov Rekhter authored TCP/IP for AIX. Oleg Vishnepolsky authored TCP/IP for OS/2 and IBM POS terminals. Appelman was one of the first in the industry to recognize the importance of security in the world of open systems. He was the first one to make Kerberos security system out of MIT's Project Athena a commercial product by having Galina Kofman port this security software to various OS.
Kofman also did FTP for VM/CMS. Dick Ryniker authored NFS for VM/C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%20version%20history | iOS is a mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. and was first released as iPhone OS in June 2007, coinciding with the launch of the first generation iPhone. iPhone OS was renamed iOS following the release of the iPad, starting with iOS 4. With iOS 13, Apple began offering a separate operating system, iPadOS, for the iPad. iOS is also the foundation of the newer audioOS and tvOS, and shares some of its code with macOS. New iOS versions are released every year alongside new iPhone models. From its launch in 2007 until 2010, this occurred in June or July, since then, new major versions are released in September or October. Since the launch of the iPhone in June 2007, there have been 17 major releases of iOS. The current major version of iOS is iOS 17, released in September 2023.
Overview
Releases
iPhone OS 1
Apple announced iPhone OS 1 at the iPhone keynote on January 9, 2007, and it was released to the public alongside the first-generation iPhone on June 29, 2007. No official name was given when the iPhone was released, and Steve Jobs just said "iPhone runs OS X". During the development phase of iPhone OS 1, "probably 16, 17 different concepts" were developed. Many on the team were skeptical of the feasibility of a touchscreen keyboard, and believed that users would prefer hardware keyboards. A number of different user interfaces were prototyped, including one that involved a multi-touch click-wheel.
iPhone OS 1 was criticized for its lack of support for Adobe Flash web content, copy and paste, and Bluetooth stereo headphones. It also lacked support for third-party native apps, and only supported web apps, which was criticized by reviewers and developers, including John Carmack.
iPhone OS 1.1 was the first version supported by the first generation iPod Touch. iPhone OS 1.1.4 is the final version of iPhone OS 1 for the first generation iPhone, with iPhone OS 1.1.5 being the final version of iPhone OS 1 available for the first generation iPod Touch. It was succeeded by iPhone OS 2 on July 11, 2008.
iPhone OS 2
Apple announced iPhone OS 2 at a March 6 keynote, and it was released to the public on July 11, 2008, alongside the iPhone 3G.
iPhone OS 2 was the first release to have the App Store and to come with an official iPhone SDK allowing third-party developers to create native iPhone apps. It also added many enterprise features, including Microsoft Exchange support through ActiveSync for push emails, push contact and push calendars, and support for IPsec VPNs.
Apple did not drop support for any of its devices with the release; iPhone OS 2 was compatible with all devices released up to that time. The release of iPhone OS 2.1.1 brought support for the second generation iPod Touch. iPhone OS 2.2.1 is the final version of iPhone OS 2. It was succeeded by iPhone OS 3 on June 17, 2009.
iPhone OS 3
Apple announced iPhone OS 3 on March 17, 2009, and it was released to the public on June 17, 2009, alongside the iPhone 3GS. Apple did n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire%20TV | Wire TV was a British cable television channel produced by United Artists Cable and featured a range of entertainment, lifestyle and sports programming. Branded as "The Cable Network" was originally set up and funded with £25 million by Cable Program Partners (CPP1), a consortium of British cable operators including NYNEX, US West and Comcast to bolster alternative content from the satellite-dominated multichannel environment of the time.
Broadcast from a converted unit at The Galleries shopping centre in Bristol, Wire TV broadcast on weekdays and weekends from 1.00pm to 11.00pm with regional opt-outs from 5.00pm to 7.00pm each evening when operators could insert their own local programmes. It relied on satellite distribution to cable headends across the United Kingdom, Intelsat 601 was used and broadcast alongside both The Parliamentary Channel and The Learning Channel using the first digitally-compressed uplink service.
History
Programming
The daytime schedules consisted of talk-based Afternoon Live, quiz shows such as Lingo, soap operas and comedies. Evenings included phone-ins and sports coverage, branded as Sportswire. Weekend schedules consisting 'best of' repeats and omnibus editions of weekday soaps including Richmond Hill, The Bold and the Beautiful and Santa Barbara.
Presenters included Kathryn Apanowicz, Nino Firetto, Rhodri Evans, Fenella George and also Femi Oke who co-hosted the weekend show Soap on the Wire with television and soap opera expert Chris Stacey. The show proved popular with students and housewives alike and towards the end of 1993 was taking over 200 calls in the four hours it was on air. Producers tried to revamp it into a daily show but Stacey had other commitments and was reduced to one appearance a week so the other experts and co-presenters such as Darren Gray, Jamie Carrington-Colby, Darren Edwards and Richard Arnold were featured more frequently throughout late 1993 and 1994 all proved less popular than Stacey.
Revamp
As part of a revamp in 1994, Mike Morris and Georgey Spanswick went on the road in a bright yellow-liveried bus which was converted into an outside broadcast unit and toured the country, spending a week at a time in different cable franchise areas.
Sport
1994 also saw an expansion in the amount of sports shown on the channel following a deal with Chrysalis Group, and on 2 March of that year, Wire TV's backers outbid British Sky Broadcasting for the rights to screen the 1996 Cricket World Cup in a £7.5 million deal. It was the first major national sporting event ever to be acquired for a British cable channel, additionally the live broadcast also rights to screen Lennox Lewis' WBC title fights were secured. Other sporting coverage on the channel included Vauxhall Conference football and darts events featuring tournaments run by the BDO.
Closure
On 16 February 1995, Wire TV was sold to Mirror Television (a subsidiary of Mirror Group plc) and its new owner planned to split Wire TV into two sepa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverhillsoft | was a Japanese video game manufacturer in operation from 1982 to 2004. The studio focused in the 1980s developing games for Japanese home computers, in the 1990s shifted to console game development, and in the 2000s to mobile games. They also published Western games in the Japanese market.
History
The company was initially known for the successful J.B. Harold Murder Club series of murder mystery adventure games, developed from 1986 onwards. They were initially released as computer games and later ported to the PC Engine CD console, Nintendo Family Computer, Nintendo DS handheld, and iOS mobile.
Riverhillsoft also published Prince of Persia in Japan. Their ports to the Japanese NEC PC-9801 and PC Engine CD platforms featured improved graphics (introducing the Prince's classic "turban and vest" appearance) and a new Red Book audio soundtrack. They also ported it to other computers and video game consoles, helping the game become a worldwide success.
Riverhillsoft were later known for several early survival horror games. These include the 1994 game Doctor Hauzer and the first game in the OverBlood series. Their final release was the life simulation game World Neverland: Waneba Island for the PlayStation in 2000.
Following layoffs in 2000, the company turned its focus on mobile gaming, which proved unsuccessful. In June 2004, it filed for bankruptcy and the majority of its employees left to form a new company, called Althi, Inc., absorbing Riverhillsoft.
Games
See also
Arsys Software
Cing
Level-5
References
External links
Official website (archived)
MobyGames
Companies that have filed for bankruptcy in Japan
Defunct video game companies of Japan
Japanese companies established in 1982
Japanese companies disestablished in 2004
Video game companies established in 1982
Video game companies disestablished in 2004
Video game development companies
Video game publishers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBSN | KBSN (1470 AM) is a classic country radio station licensed to Moses Lake, Washington, United States. The station is owned by Jeffery Huffman, through licensee Jacobs Radio Programming, LLC. The transmitter for KBSN is located on Marsh Island next to the transmitter for KDRM, its sister station on 99.3 FM.
KBSN is the primary station for Moses Lake High School sports. KBSN is also the primary broadcaster in Moses Lake for the Seattle Seahawks. KBSN and/or KDRM broadcast at local events including the Spring Festival ( Springfest) and Grant County Fair.
On February 23, 2023, KBSN flipped to classic country "Real Country 1470". It continues to cover local news and sports along with sister station KDRM.
References
External links
Classic country radio stations in the United States
BSN
Mass media in Grant County, Washington |
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