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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploscu%C8%9Beni | Ploscuțeni () is a commune located in Vrancea County, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Argea and Ploscuțeni.
At the 2011 census, of the inhabitants for whom data were available, 99.9% were Romanians. 72.3% were Roman Catholic and 27.6% Romanian Orthodox.
References
Communes in Vrancea County
Localities in Western Moldavia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20Studio | Dell's Studio brand is a range of laptops and desktops targeted in the mainstream consumer market. The computers sit above Dell's Inspiron and below the XPS consumer lines in terms of price and specifications. They differ from Dell's lower-end Inspiron models by offering slot-loading optical drives, media keys, more cover design options, faster processor options, HDMI and eSATA ports, LED-backlit screens and backlit keyboards.
At launch, the Studio was offered in three models: the Studio 15 and the Studio 17, named after their respective screen size in inches, and the Studio Hybrid, named for its usage of laptop components in the form of an ultra-small form factor desktop. If purchased online, many customizable colors, designs, and features were available, including a fingerprint scanner in some countries.
On July 29, 2008, Dell introduced the desktop counterpart to the Dell Studio Laptops, the Dell Studio Hybrid PC. A compact desktop legacy-free PC using laptop components, it contained the same slot-loading optical drive as the laptops with the range of connectivity (e.g., number of USB ports) expected of a desktop PC.
On September 24, 2009, Dell released Studio laptops with the option for a mobile Core i7 processor, although Pentium Dual-Core and Core 2 Duo options were also available as lower-end options.
On June 18, 2010, Dell's website stopped selling the Studio Hybrid.
As of May 2011, Dell has discontinued the Studio line of notebooks.
Laptops
Studio 14
A 14" laptop.
Studio 1450: Uses Intel Pentium and Core 2 Duo processors, DDR3 memory and standard Intel GMA X4500MHD integrated graphics.
Studio 1457: Uses Intel Core i7 quad-core processors, DDR3 memory and standard ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 graphics.
Studio 1458: Uses Intel Core i3/i5/i7 quad-core and dual-core processors, DDR3 memory and standard Intel HD Graphics or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 or 5450.
Studio 14z
A thin-and-light 14" laptop. Lacks an optical drive.
Intel Pentium T4200 (2.0 GHz/800 MHz FSB/1 MB cache)
Intel Core 2 T6400 (2.0 GHz/800 MHz FSB/2 MB cache)
Intel Core 2 P8600 (2.4 GHz/1066 MHz FSB/3 MB cache)
Intel Core 2 T9550 (2.66 GHz/1066 MHz FSB/6 MB cache)
Intel Core 2 T9900 (3.06 GHz/1066 MHz FBS/6 MB cache)
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M video card
Uses DDR3 memory
Studio 15
The Studio 15 is the mainstream model of the Studio laptop line. It has had many options and features that have changed over the years: processors ranging from low-end Pentium Dual Core processors up to quad-core i7 processors. The ATI Mobility Radeon 5470 1 GB graphics card had just been added. Some designs, like the Studio 1537, were available in a variety of colors, such as orange, red, pink, lime green, black, and a variety of creative patterns that were incorporated into the computer's top and could not be changed by the user.
All models except the 1537, 1557, and 1569 shipped standard with Intel integrated graphics.
1530 series in general: The 1530 series came standard with touch capac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20consensus | In computer science, Uniform consensus is a distributed computing problem that is a similar to the consensus problem with one more condition which is no two processes (whether faulty or not) decide differently.
More specifically one should consider this problem:
Each process has an input, should on decide an output (one-shot problem)
Uniform Agreement: every two decisions are the same
Validity: every decision is an input of one of the processes
Termination: eventually all correct processes decide
References
Distributed computing problems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Corps%20Key%20Volunteer%20Network | The Key Volunteer Network (KVN) was an official United States Marine Corps family readiness program. The network consists of Marine spouses called Key Volunteers and they serve in both active duty and reserve units. KVs receive formal training either from classes on base or online and are appointed by the unit Commander.
The KVN structure includes a Key Volunteer Advisor (KVA) who is usually the Commanding Officer's spouse (or spouse of another senior officer), a Key Volunteer Coordinator (KVC) who is the Executive Officer's spouse (or spouse of another senior officer) as well as a number of additional Key Volunteers (KV) who are spouses of other Marines within the unit.
The Commanding Officers (CO) of individual active duty units rely on the KVN to provide additional support and resource referrals to the Marine families of that unit. Reserve units also utilize the KVN. However, if a unit is widely geographically dispersed, the CO may appoint a parent to serve as a KV or KVC that are local often have insight into resources and assistance that are available and helpful to unit families.
The goal of the KVN is to help families achieve and maintain family readiness. This means that they communicate official command information as directed, serve as a communication link between the command and families, and provide information to Marine families through resource referrals as needed. During deployments, the KVN is especially important because they are further utilized as a communications tool to keep families of Marines better informed about mission(s) and tasks of individual units. The Marine Corps believes that if Marines feel their families are supported and taken care of, they are better able to perform efficiently, effectively and safely.
References
External links
Unit, Persaonl and Family Readiness Program
Organizations associated with the United States Marine Corps
Military life |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20feldspar%20production | This is a list of countries by feldspar production in 2019 based on British Geological Survey data.
References
Lists of countries by mineral production
Feldspar
Feldspar mining |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20of%20Basin%20Organizations | The International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO) (French: Réseau International des Organismes de Bassin RIOB). It was established in 1994 and its headquarters is in Paris.
Its objective is to promote the exchange of experiences between organizations in charge of river basin management in such areas as institutional and financial management, knowledge of water resources, training different stakeholders involved in water management as well as the staff of basin organizations, and increasing the awareness of the general public for water resources management. It also promotes the twinning of basin organizations from different countries, including the exchange of staff. INBO and its member organizations support the application of Integrated water resources management
As of 2000 INBO included 134 members or observers. Some countries are represented by a government Ministry, whether these countries have established river basin organizations (such as Morocco) or not (such as India). Other countries, notably France and Spain which both have a long tradition of well-established river basin organizations (see :fr:Agence de l'eau and :es:Confederación hidrográfica), are represented both at the Ministerial level and by river basin organizations. Algeria, Brazil and Mexico, which have all established river basin organizations during the 1990s, are represented both by institutions at the national and at the basin level. As of 2000 INBO had no members from China, Egypt, Germany, Nigeria, South Africa, Turkey or the United States, countries which have no or few river basin organizations. INBO includes transboundary basin agencies, such as the Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal (OMVS). It also includes several international organizations and partnerships, such as UNEP, UNDP and the Global Water Partnership, as well as regional organization such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
There are regional networks within INBO. They cover Eastern and Central Europe (CEENBO, created in 2001), Sub-Saharan Africa (ANBO, created in 2002), the Mediterranean (MENBO, created in 2003), Asia (NARBO, created in 2004), Latin America (LANBO, created in 2008) and North America (NANBO, created in 2009).
References
External links
riob.org - official homepage
Mediterranean Network of Basin Organisations homepage: http://remoc.org
Water industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Lette | Virginia Lette is an Australian radio and television presenter. Virginia co-hosted Australia's favourite music television show Eclipse Music TV on the Seven Network for three years until January 2010 and was the Weekend News and Sport Presenter for WIN News Tasmania in 2014–2015.
Lette started her radio career at 14 years of age with Snowy Mountains 2XL in Cooma. She went on to host "The Hot 30 with V and Troy" on 104.7 (Canberra), worked as an announcer and producer at Nova 106.9 in Brisbane (2005–07) and returned to her hometown of Sydney in 2007 when she became Nova 96.9's weekends announcer (2008–10).
Lette's passion for sport has seen her employed as an On-Field and corporate MC with the Canberra Raiders (2004–05), Brisbane Broncos (2006–07), St. George Illawarra Dragons (2008–09) and the Hobart Hurricanes for the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. During the 2016–2017 Women's Big Bash League season, Lette was an On-Field MC for the Sydney Sixers at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
In February 2015, Lette was the On-Field MC at all of the ICC Cricket World Cup events at Blundstone Arena. She was also the only female On-Field MC for the NRL Finals matches and the NRL Grand Final at Allianz Stadium in October 2015.
TV career
Lette's television credits include:
TV news and sport presenter – WIN Television (Tasmania) 2014–15
TV presenter and co-host – Eclipse Music TV – Seven Network 2008–10
TV weather presenter – Southern Cross Ten 2004–05
TV weather presenter – Prime7 Television Network 2003–04
Features segment presenter – Canberra's Real Estate TV Southern Cross Ten 2004
Filmography
Lette appears as herself in Death of a Gentleman – a documentary about the administration of international cricket. The 2015 film (yet to be released in Lette's home country of Australia) is receiving widespread critical acclaim throughout the United Kingdom.
Personal life
Lette is married to New South Wales, Tasmanian and Australian Test cricketer Ed Cowan. She gave birth to their first child, a daughter, in 2012.
References
External links
Nova 969 radio profile
Eclipse Music TV webpage
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian radio personalities
Australian women radio presenters
Australian television presenters
Australian women television presenters
Television personalities from Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INBO | INBO can refer to:
Research Institute for Nature and Forest
International Network of Basin Organizations
Indian National Biology Olympiad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20computer-aided%20design%20software | The table below provides an overview of notable computer-aided design (CAD) software. It does not judge power, ease of use, or other user-experience aspects. The table does not include software that is still in development (beta software). For all-purpose 3D programs, see Comparison of 3D computer graphics software.
CAD refers to a specific type of drawing and modelling software application that is used for creating designs and technical drawings. These can be 3D drawings or 2D drawings (like floor plans).
See also
3D scanning
CAD/CAM in the footwear industry
Comparison of 3D computer graphics software
Comparison of CAD, CAM, and CAE file viewers
Comparison of EDA software
Comparison of free software for audio
List of 3D computer graphics software
List of CAx companies
List of free and open-source software packages
List of video editing software
References
Computer-aided design editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOI%20%28file%20format%29 | MOI is a computer file format used primarily to represent information. MOI files are associated with MOD or TOD files whose content they represent. They are mainly used on JVC and Canon camcorders.
Format overview
Computer file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20Roat%C4%83%2C%20Ialomi%C8%9Ba | Ion Roată is a commune in Ialomița County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Broșteni and Ion Roată.
At the 2011 census, of the inhabitants for whom data were available, 87.4% were Romanians and 12.5% Roma. 99.9% of inhabitants were Romanian Orthodox.
The commune stretches for some along the Ialomița River valley; Ion Roată village is to the east and Broșteni to the west. It lies in the center of the Bărăgan Plain, and the terrain is largely flat and arid. About 86.5% of the surface area is arable land, 6.5% forests, 3% waters, 2% buildings, 1.5% roads and 0.5% unproductive terrain. Valea Măcrișului is to the north; to the south, the river forms the border with Axintele; Sfântu Gheorghe is to the east and Alexeni to the west. There is a Căile Ferate Române rail station in the commune center; Urziceni is distant and the county seat Slobozia .
The oldest mention of part of the commune dates to 1582, when a Cioara village appears in a document of Mihnea Turcitul. As of 1778, the area belonged to the Grindu plasă. Between 1864 and 1882, the commune passed through various administrative changes, but from the latter date until after World War I, its villages were Principesa Maria (named after Princess Maria), Broștenii Noi, Slujitori and Malu. During the interwar period, they were Broștenii Vechi, Principesa Maria and Cioara (formerly Slujitori). In 1948, with the advent of the communist regime, the villages were Ion Roată (formerly Principesa Maria), Broștenii Noi (earlier a commune), Broștenii Vechi and Cioara. By 1968, when a new administrative law was passed, Cioara had become Colinele; that village plus Broștenii Vechi was merged into Ion Roată, leaving the commune with its present two villages.
References
Communes in Ialomița County
Localities in Muntenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perie%C8%9Bi%2C%20Ialomi%C8%9Ba | Perieți is a commune located in Ialomița County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Fundata, Misleanu, Păltinișu, Perieți and Stejaru.
References
Communes in Ialomița County
Localities in Muntenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquis%20de%20Fontjun | The Maquis de Fontjun was one of the maquis networks of French resistance fighters against the German occupation during World War II. The Fontjun maquis was active in the west of the Hérault département, between Saint-Pons and Béziers.
Composition of the maquis
The members of the maquis were originally from the canton of Capestang:
Marc Albert, from Montady .
Elie Amouroux, from Capestang.
Louis Baisse, from Capestang.
Guy Bourdel, from Capestang.
Bertin Bousquet, from Montady.
Danton Cabrol, from Capestang.
Simon-Paul Cabrol, from Capestang.
Juliette Cauquil, from Puisserguier.
Roger Cauquil, from Puisserguier.
André Combet, from Capestang.
Pierre Cros, from Nissan-lez-Ensérune.
Pierre Dez, from Nissan-lez-Ensérune.
Louis Huc, from Montady.
Emile Loscos, from Capestang.
Ignace Malet, from Capestang.
Henri Massat, from Capestang.
Salvador Montagne, from Puisserguier.
André Seguret, from Montady.
Maurice Sol, from Capestang.
Henry Villeneuve, from Montady.
The maquisards were shot on 7 June 1944 at the place du Champ-de-Mars at Béziers.
Fontjun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai%20Movie | Rai Movie is an Italian movie television channel, owned by state-owned television network RAI and broadcast on digital terrestrial television in Italy and on satellite platform Tivù Sat.
The channel was launched in 2003 as RaiSat Cinema World and re-badged in 2006 as RaiSat Cinema. On 30 June 2009, RaiSat Cinema was removed of Sky and was launched in the new free-to-view satellite platform Tivùsat. On 18, May 2010 it was renamed Rai Movie. It broadcasts mostly Italian films, interviews, backstages and documentaries.
Since 2003 it is the official media partner of the Venice Film Festival and since 2007 of the Rome Film Festival.
In April 2019, RAI announced that this channel, along with Rai Premium, will shut down to make place for a new channel called Rai 6, with a female target. This sparked controversy and an online petition that quickly reached 120,000 signatures. However, the scheduled date for the shutdown is unknown to this day.
Logos
References
Movie
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Italian-language television stations
Movie channels in Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Next%20Food%20Network%20Star%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of the American reality television series The Next Food Network Star premiered on Sunday, June 1, 2008. Food Network executives, Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson, were joined by Bobby Flay as the Selection Committee for this season, which was filmed early 2008 in New York, New York and Las Vegas, Nevada.
Aaron McCargo, Jr. was announced as the winner on the season finale, which aired on Sunday, July 27, 2008. His show, Big Daddy's House, premiered on August 3, 2008. In addition, runner-up Adam Gertler was given a show, Will Work for Food, which premiered January 19, 2009 and Kelsey Nixon, who finished fourth, began hosting her show, Kelsey's Essentials, on the Cooking Channel on November 6, 2010. According to a 2017 D Magazine interview, runner-up Lisa Garza was also offered a contract on Food Network, but she declined.
Contestants
(In order of elimination)
Cory Kahaney, 45 - New York, New York; Stand-up Comedian
Kevin Roberts, 39 - San Diego, California; Radio Talk Show Host/Restaurant Owner/Author
Jeffrey Vaden, 43 - White Plains, New York; Food Service Manager
Nipa Bhatt, 35 - Victoria, Minnesota; Marketing Manager
Jennifer Cochrane, 32 - Woonsocket, Rhode Island; Chef
Shane Lyons, 19 - Colorado Springs, Colorado; Private Chef/Actor
Kelsey Nixon, 23 - North Ogden, Utah; Assistant Culinary Director —Fan Favorite
Runners-Up
Lisa Garza, 32 - Dallas, Texas;
Adam Gertler, 30 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Food server
Winner
Aaron McCargo, Jr., 38 - Camden, New Jersey; Chef
Contestant progress
: No winner was announced for the Mini Challenge.
: There was no Mini Challenge in this episode.
: No one was eliminated in this episode.
(WINNER) The contestant won the competition, and became "The Next Food Network Star".
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant made it to the finale, but did not win.
(FAN FAVORITE) The contestant was voted the Fan Favorite for the competition in an online poll.
(WIN) The contestant won that episode's Elimination Challenge.
(HIGH) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's favorites for that week, but did not win the Elimination Challenge.
(IN) The contestant was neither the Selection Committee's favorite nor the least favorite. They were not up for elimination.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's least favorites for that week, but was not in the Bottom 2.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's least favorites for that week and was in the Bottom 2, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was the Selection Committee's least favorite for that week, and was eliminated.
Episodes
Week 1: Star Quality
Mini Challenge: Upon arriving at the Food Network Studios, the contestants were met by Alton Brown. He told them their first challenge was to explain their culinary point of view in one sentence on camera, with the option of using a prop. The Selection Committee later watched the videos made in this challenge.
Winner: None
Elimination Challenge: The cont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daxing%20line | The Daxing Line of the Beijing Subway () is a rapid transit line that connects the southern Daxing District of the city with the subway network. It extends Line 4 south from its southern terminus at Gongyixiqiao, on the 4th Ring Road in Fengtai District, to Tian'gongyuan, beyond the 6th Ring Road in Daxing District. The Daxing Line is about in length with underground. Daxing line contains 12 stations and is about . Initially, the Daxing line was planned to have 4 ground stations. However, due to lack of space, only Xihongmen was built above the surface. Full-scale construction began in 2007 and the line was opened on 30 December 2010, 14:00 local time. Daxing line's color is teal, the same as Line 4.
Route and service
Though the Daxing Line is classified as a distinct line, the Beijing MTR Corporation Limited operates through-train service on Lines 4 and Daxing, making the two lines effectively one line for travelers. With the opening of the Daxing Line on 30 December 2010, the Beijing MTR Corporation Limited now runs two types of train service on the combined Line 4-Daxing Line route:
A full-route service that covers the entire Line 4 and Daxing Lines. This train service runs from Anheqiao North, the northern terminus of Line 4, to Tian'gongyuan, the southern terminus of the Daxing Line.
A partial-route service that covers the entire Line 4 route plus one stop on the Daxing Line. This service runs from Anheqiao North to Xin'gong, the northernmost stop on the Daxing Line. Travelers wishing to proceed further south on the Daxing Line would have to switch to a south-bound full-route train.
Service routes
— (through service via Line 4)
— (through service via Line 4)
Rush hour (7:00-8:00): — (through service via Line 4)
Stations
History
1 June 2008: Construction began on Daxing Line. Completion set for the end of 2011.
16 November 2008: Completion date moved up to 28 December 2010.
20 April 2010: Completion date moved again to 28 October 2010.
30 December 2010: Daxing Line opened.
Rolling Stock
Notes
a. Line 4 ridership included.
b. See & (English)
References
Beijing Subway lines
MTR Corporation
Railway lines opened in 2010
2010 establishments in China
750 V DC railway electrification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yizhuang%20line | The Yizhuang Line of the Beijing Subway () is a rapid transit line that connects the Yizhuang Development Area with Beijing's subway network. The line is long with 14 stations, including six underground and eight elevated. It runs from Songjiazhuang in Fengtai District to Yizhuang Railway Station in Tongzhou District and passes through the southern Chaoyang and northern Daxing Districts. Total investment for the line was estimated at ¥1.2 billion. Construction began on December 8, 2007 and the line opened on December 30, 2010. Yizhuang line's color is magenta.
List of stations
History
Accidents and Incidents
On March 26, 2015, train YZ021 was testing when it derailed around Taihu. No passengers were on board and the driver faced leg injuries.
Future development
In 8 July 2022, an EIA document regarding Phase III construction of Beijing rail transport system (2022–2027) announced to reform the connection tracks between Yizhuang line, the line 5 and the line 10, so that trains of Yizhuang line can operate through trains with lines 5 and 10. It will require a maximum of new tracks near Songjiazhuang train depot, between Songjiazhuang stations of Yizhuang line and line 5, and Chengshousi station of line 10, it will also require to rebuild 0.5 km tracks for train storages within Songjiazhuang depot.
Rolling Stock
References
Beijing Subway lines
Railway lines opened in 2010
2010 establishments in China
750 V DC railway electrification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LYaPAS | Logical Language for the Representation of Synthesis Algorithms (LYaPAS, Russian: ЛЯПАС) is a programming language created by Arkady Zakrevsky in the Soviet Union.
LYaPAS was initially designed especially for non-numeric programming for the Soviet designed and built line of mainframe computers named Ural-1. LYaPAS uses octal numbers.
A further refinement of LYaPAS is LYaPAS-M.
History
The development started in the end of 1962, while Zakrevsky was working at the Siberian Physical-Technical Institute (part of Tomsk State University). The first translators were implemented in 1963.
The first widely available book about the language was published in Russian (Логический язык для представления алгоритмов синтеза релейных устройств, 1966), which was soon translated and published in English (LYaPAS: a programming language for logic and coding algorithms, 1969). The book contained a collection of articles with full LYaPAS descriptions, some algorithms in the language and descriptions of programming environments for the Ural-1 and M-20 computers which operated at a speed of 100 and 20,000 operations per second, respectively.
In 1974, LYaPAS-M, a new version of the language, appeared. Among other changes, this version was adapted for the character set common among the Soviet computers of the time, namely the first 100 characters of the GOST 10859 7-bit encoding.
Zakrevsky later worked on LYaPAS at the Laboratory of System Programming and Logical Synthesis, of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR, since renamed the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Versions
LYaPAS-70 for Minsk-22 machine
LYaPAS-71 for BESM-6 and M-220 machines
LYaPAS-M
Example
Example program in LYaPAS-M for calculating GCD of variables N and M:
П1 N ↑–2 M;N=R N=M R=N ↑=1
П2 M=D **
Explanation:
Program is executed from left to right.
П1 and П2 are line labels.
Operation N puts the value of the integer variable into the implicit "current value" variable τ, which holds the result of the last operation.
Conditional branch operation ↑–2 moves the execution to line 2 if the current value is zero.
Expression M;N calculates remainder.
Expression =R assigns current value to variable R.
↑=1 is an unconditional branch to line 1.
** is the end marker.
All whitespaces are ignored, so the above program is equivalent to the one-liner:
П1N↑–2M;N=RN=MR=N↑=1П2M=D**
Bibliography
LYaPAS: a programming language for logic and coding algorithms. Edited by M. A. Gavrilov and A. D. Zakrevskii. Translated by Morton Nadler. New York, Academic Press, 1969. 475 p.
References
Array programming languages
Programming languages created in 1964
Soviet inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Colby | Kenneth Mark Colby (1920 – April 20, 2001) was an American psychiatrist dedicated to the theory and application of computer science and artificial intelligence to psychiatry. Colby was a pioneer in the development of computer technology as a tool to try to understand cognitive functions and to assist both patients and doctors in the treatment process. He is perhaps best known for the development of a computer program called PARRY, which mimicked a person with paranoid schizophrenia and could "converse" with others. PARRY sparked serious debate about the possibility and nature of machine intelligence.
Early life and education
Colby was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1920. He graduated from Yale University in 1941 and received his M.D. from Yale Medical School in 1943.
Career
Colby began his career in psychoanalysis as a clinical associate at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute in 1951. During this time, he published A Primer for Psychotherapists, an introduction to psychodynamic psychotherapy. He joined the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University in the early sixties, beginning his pioneering work in the relatively new field of artificial intelligence. In 1967 the National Institute of Mental Health recognized his research potential when he was awarded a Career Research Scientist Award. Colby came to UCLA as a professor of psychiatry in 1974, and was jointly appointed professor in the Department of Computer Science a few years later. Over the course of his career, he wrote numerous books and articles on psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy and artificial intelligence.
Psychoanalysis
Early in his career, in 1955, Colby published Energy and Structure in Psychoanalysis, an effort to bring Freud's basic doctrines into line with modern concepts of physics and philosophy of science. This, however, would be one of the last attempts by Colby to reconcile psychoanalysis with what he saw as important developments in science and philosophical thought. Central to Freud's method is his employment of a hermeneutics of suspicion, a method of inquiry that refuses to take the subject at his or her word about internal processes. Freud sets forth explanations for a patient's mental state without regard for whether the patient agrees or not. If the patient does not agree, s/he has repressed the truth, that truth that the psychoanalyst alone can be entrusted with unfolding. The psychoanalyst's authority for deciding the nature or validity of a patient's state and the lack of empirical verifiability for making this decision was not acceptable to Colby.
Colby's disenchantment with psychoanalysis would be further expressed in several publications, including his 1958 book, A Skeptical Psychoanalyst. He began to vigorously criticize psychoanalysis for failing to satisfy the most fundamental requirement of a science, that being the generation of reliable data. In his 1983 book, Fundamental Crisis in Psychiatry, he wrote, “Reports of clinica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Bandits | Cyber Bandits is a 1995 science fiction film directed by USC graduate Erik Fleming, with Visual Effects by fellow USC graduate Steven Robiner, and starring Alexandra Paul, Robert Hays along with lead Martin Kemp of the rock group Spandau Ballet; also featuring other actors such as Adam Ant, Grace Jones, and Kiana Tom. It was distributed by Columbia TriStar and released on DVD in December 2004.
References
Further reading
Auger, Emily E. (2011). Tech-Noir Film: A Theory of the Development of Popular Genres. Intellect. pp. 261–262.
External links
1990s science fiction thriller films
1995 films
American science fiction thriller films
Films about virtual reality
1995 directorial debut films
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization | In computing, virtualization or virtualisation (sometimes abbreviated v12n, a numeronym) is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something at the same abstraction level, including virtual computer hardware platforms, storage devices, and computer network resources.
Virtualization began in the 1960s, as a method of logically dividing the system resources provided by mainframe computers between different applications. An early and successful example is IBM CP/CMS. The control program CP provided each user with a simulated stand-alone System/360 computer. Since then, the meaning of the term has broadened.
Hardware virtualization
Hardware virtualization or platform virtualization refers to the creation of a virtual machine that acts like a real computer with an operating system. Software executed on these virtual machines is separated from the underlying hardware resources. For example, a computer that is running Arch Linux may host a virtual machine that looks like a computer with the Microsoft Windows operating system; Windows-based software can be run on the virtual machine.
In hardware virtualization, the host machine is the machine that is used by the virtualization and the guest machine is the virtual machine. The words host and guest are used to distinguish the software that runs on the physical machine from the software that runs on the virtual machine. The software or firmware that creates a virtual machine on the host hardware is called a hypervisor or virtual machine monitor.
Different types of hardware virtualization include:
Full virtualization – Almost complete simulation of the actual hardware to allow software environments, including a guest operating system and its apps, to run unmodified.
Paravirtualization – The guest apps are executed in their own isolated domains, as if they are running on a separate system, but a hardware environment is not simulated. Guest programs need to be specifically modified to run in this environment.
Hardware-assisted virtualization is a way of improving overall efficiency of virtualization. It involves CPUs that provide support for virtualization in hardware, and other hardware components that help improve the performance of a guest environment.
Hardware virtualization can be viewed as part of an overall trend in enterprise IT that includes autonomic computing, a scenario in which the IT environment will be able to manage itself based on perceived activity, and utility computing, in which computer processing power is seen as a utility that clients can pay for only as needed. The usual goal of virtualization is to centralize administrative tasks while improving scalability and overall hardware-resource utilization. With virtualization, several operating systems can be run in parallel on a single central processing unit (CPU). This parallelism tends to reduce overhead costs and differs from multitasking, which involves running several programs on the same OS. Using virtu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954%E2%80%9355%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1954–55 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 1954 to August 1955.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Fall 1954
Winter 1954-1955
Spring 1955
formerly Portia Faces Life
Summer 1955
By network
ABC
Returning Series
Don McNeill's Breakfast Club
New Series
Creative Cookery
Not Returning From 1953-54
The Ern Westmore Show
The Jerry Lester Show
Turn to a Friend
CBS
Returning Series
Barker Bill's Cartoon Show
The Brighter Day
Art Linkletter's House Party
Arthur Godfrey Time
The Big Payoff
The Bob Crosby Show
Double or Nothing
The Garry Moore Show
The Guiding Light
Love of Life
The Morning Show
On Your Account (moved from NBC)
Portia Faces Life
Robert Q. Lewis Show
Search for Tomorrow
The Secret Storm
The Seeking Heart
Strike It Rich
The U.N. in Action
Valiant Lady
New Series
The Jack Paar Show
Not Returning From 1953-54
Action in the Afternoon
Double or Nothing
I'll Buy That
The Jack Paar Show
Journey Through Life
Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers
Wheel of Fortune
Woman with a Past
NBC
Returning Series
The Betty White Show
Ding Dong School
First Love
Golden Windows
Hawkins Falls, Population 6200
The Home Show
Howdy Doody
One Man's Family
Pinky Lee Show
Three Steps to Heaven
The Today Show
A Time to Live
Welcome Travelers
New Series
Concerning Miss Marlowe
Feather Your Nest
The Greatest Gift
Hollywood Today with Sheilah Graham
It Pays to Be Married
Modern Romances
Parent's Time
Ted Mack Matinee
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
Way of the World
The World of Mr. Sweeney
Not Returning From 1953-54
Ask Washington
Atom Squad
The Bennetts
Breakfast in Hollywood
Break the Bank
Bride and Groom
Follow Your Heart
The Gabby Hayes Show
Glamour Girl
The Kate Smith Hour
Ladies Choice
On Your Account (moved to CBS)
See also
1954-55 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
1954-55 United States network television schedule (late night)
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122215/http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122235/http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211242/http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html
Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984
Hyatt, The Encyclopedia Of Daytime Television, Billboard Books, 1997
TV schedule pages, New York Times, September 1954 – September 1955 (microfilm)
United States weekday network television schedules
1954 in American television
1955 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiteProc | CiteProc is the generic name for programs that produce formatted bibliographies and citations based on the metadata of the cited objects and the formatting instructions provided by Citation Style Language (CSL) styles. The first CiteProc implementation used XSLT 2.0, but implementations have been written for other programming languages, including JavaScript, Java, Haskell, PHP, Python, Ruby and Emacs Lisp.
CiteProc, CSL, and Cite Schema make up the Citation Style Language project, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike licensed effort "to provide a common framework for formatting bibliographies and citations across markup languages and document standards. In an ideal world, one could use the same CSL files to format DocBook, TEI, OpenOffice, WordML ... or even LaTeX documents."
Different implementations of CiteProc are able to use different bibliographic databases; many can use MODS XML.
Notable applications that support CiteProc
BibSonomy
Mendeley
Pandoc
Papers
Qiqqa
RefME
Zotero
References
External links
Citation Style Language project home
Reference management software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20compilation | Knowledge compilation is a family of approaches for addressing the intractability of
a number of artificial intelligence problems.
A propositional model is compiled in an off-line phase in order to support some queries in polynomial time. Many ways of compiling a propositional models exist.
Different compiled representations have different properties.
The three main properties are:
The compactness of the representation
The queries that are supported in polynomial time
The transformations of the representations that can be performed in polynomial time
Classes of representations
Some examples of diagram classes include OBDDs, FBDDs, and non-deterministic OBDDs, as well as MDD.
Some examples of formula classes include DNF and CNF.
Examples of circuit classes include NNF, DNNF, d-DNNF, and SDD.
References
Artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDA | VDA may refer to:
Science and technology
VDA-FS, CAD data exchange format
Vascular disrupting agent, a class of pharmaceutical drugs
Video Distribution Amplifier
Organizations
Verband der Automobilindustrie, a special interest group representing the German automobile industry
VDA 6.1, one of their quality management system standards
Verein für Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen im Ausland, a German cultural organisation
Other
Ovda Airport, Eilat, Israel, by IATA code
Villa Dolores Airport, serving Villa Dolores, Córdoba, Argentina
Voluntary disclosure agreement, a program in United States taxation
Viewer discretion advised, in the context of television content rating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20image%20pipeline | An image pipeline or video pipeline is the set of components commonly used between an image source (such as a camera, a scanner, or the rendering engine in a computer game), and an image renderer (such as a television set, a computer screen, a computer printer or cinema screen), or for performing any intermediate digital image processing consisting of two or more separate processing blocks. An image/video pipeline may be implemented as computer software, in a digital signal processor, on an FPGA, or as fixed-function ASIC. In addition, analog circuits can be used to do many of the same functions.
Typical components include image sensor corrections (including debayering or applying a Bayer filter), noise reduction, image scaling, gamma correction, image enhancement, colorspace conversion (between formats such as RGB, YUV or YCbCr), chroma subsampling, framerate conversion, image compression/video compression (such as JPEG), and computer data storage/data transmission.
Typical goals of an imaging pipeline may be perceptually pleasing end-results, colorimetric precision, a high degree of flexibility, low cost/low CPU utilization/long battery life, or reduction in bandwidth/file size.
Some functions may be algorithmically linear. Mathematically, those elements can be connected in any order without changing the end-result. As digital computers use a finite approximation to numerical computing, this is in practice not true. Other elements may be non-linear or time-variant. For both cases, there is often one or a few sequences of components that makes sense for optimum precision and minimum hardware-cost/CPU-load.
See also
Image processing
References
Image processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kory%20Teneycke | Kory Teneycke (born 1974) is the former vice-president of Sun News Network. He was also the former Director of Communications to the Prime Minister's Office under Stephen Harper. He was the campaign manager for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during the 2018 Ontario election.
Personal
Teneycke was born in Regina and raised on a grain farm in rural Saskatchewan near Young. He is personal friends with Jenni Byrne and Ray Novak, all of whom were close advisors to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The three met while working for the Reform Party of Canada during the 1997 Canadian federal election.
Career
Political activism
He worked on the Progressive Conservative campaign in the 1991 Saskatchewan election. He also worked on the losing Progressive Conservative campaign in Swift Current—Maple Creek—Assiniboia in 1993, where he met and became friends with Brad Wall. Teneycke then worked on two Saskatchewan Party campaigns—in 1999 and 2003.
Renewable Fuels Association
In 2003, he was appointed head of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association. One of his high priorities as leader was the passage of a law mandating all Canadian gasoline to contain 5 per cent renewable fuel. In early 2008, the Conservative government of Stephen Harper passed Bill C-33, which included just such a mandate to take full effect by 2010.
Prime Minister's Office
On July 7, 2008, shortly after the passage of C-33, Teneycke was appointed the Director of Communications to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In addition to his external-facing duties, he was expected to be helpful in bridging relations between factions from the former Progressive Conservative and Reform parties that had been relatively recently united to form the Conservative Party of Canada, because he had previously served roles in both parties: various organizational roles in Reform leader Preston Manning’s office, and a senior policy adviser to Progressive Conservative Premier Mike Harris managing energy and environmental files. On July 28, 2009, he left the position to become the Vice President of Sun News Network.
Sun News Network
The Hill Times reported on August 31, 2009, that Teneycke had accepted a three-month contract to provide strategic communications advice to Sun TV. After a brief stint as a political commentator for the CBC, in June 2010 Teneycke accepted a position as Vice President for Development at Quebecor Media. On September 15, 2010, Quebecor announced his departure. He rejoined Sun News in 2011, where he remained until Sun News Network shut down on February 13, 2015.
Former Sun News Network senior anchor Krista Erickson wrote an article for National Newswatch in 2015 that singled out Teneycke, who was in charge of the channel, for criticism calling him a "controlling authoritarian" whose pro-Conservative Party "partisanship often went into overdrive" at the channel's expense. Erickson blame Teneycke for the channel reporting during the 2011 federal election of a 16-year-old incident |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20odometry | In robotics and computer vision, visual odometry is the process of determining the position and orientation of a robot by analyzing the associated camera images. It has been used in a wide variety of robotic applications, such as on the Mars Exploration Rovers.
Overview
In navigation, odometry is the use of data from the movement of actuators to estimate change in position over time through devices such as rotary encoders to measure wheel rotations. While useful for many wheeled or tracked vehicles, traditional odometry techniques cannot be applied to mobile robots with non-standard locomotion methods, such as legged robots. In addition, odometry universally suffers from precision problems, since wheels tend to slip and slide on the floor creating a non-uniform distance traveled as compared to the wheel rotations. The error is compounded when the vehicle operates on non-smooth surfaces. Odometry readings become increasingly unreliable as these errors accumulate and compound over time.
Visual odometry is the process of determining equivalent odometry information using sequential camera images to estimate the distance traveled. Visual odometry allows for enhanced navigational accuracy in robots or vehicles using any type of locomotion on any surface.
Types
There are various types of VO.
Monocular and stereo
Depending on the camera setup, VO can be categorized as Monocular VO (single camera), Stereo VO (two camera in stereo setup).
Feature-based and direct method
Traditional VO's visual information is obtained by the feature-based method, which extracts the image feature points and tracks them in the image sequence. Recent developments in VO research provided an alternative, called the direct method, which uses pixel intensity in the image sequence directly as visual input. There are also hybrid methods.
Visual inertial odometry
If an inertial measurement unit (IMU) is used within the VO system, it is commonly referred to as Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO).
Algorithm
Most existing approaches to visual odometry are based on the following stages.
Acquire input images: using either single cameras., stereo cameras, or omnidirectional cameras.
Image correction: apply image processing techniques for lens distortion removal, etc.
Feature detection: define interest operators, and match features across frames and construct optical flow field.
Feature extraction and correlation.
Use correlation, not long term feature tracking, to establish correspondence of two images.
Construct optical flow field (Lucas–Kanade method).
Check flow field vectors for potential tracking errors and remove outliers.
Estimation of the camera motion from the optical flow.
Choice 1: Kalman filter for state estimate distribution maintenance.
Choice 2: find the geometric and 3D properties of the features that minimize a cost function based on the re-projection error between two adjacent images. This can be done by mathematical minimization or random sampling.
Periodi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20model%20%28programming%29 | In computing, a memory model describes the interactions of threads through memory and their shared use of the data.
History and significance
A memory model allows a compiler to perform many important optimizations. Compiler optimizations like loop fusion move statements in the program, which can influence the order of read and write operations of potentially shared variables. Changes in the ordering of reads and writes can cause race conditions. Without a memory model, a compiler is not allowed to apply such optimizations to multi-threaded programs in general, or only in special cases. Or for some compilers assume no multi-threaded execution (so better optimized code can be produced), which can lead to optimizations that are incompatible with multi-threading - these can often lead to subtle bugs, that don't show up in early testing.
Modern programming languages like Java therefore implement a memory model. The memory model specifies synchronization barriers that are established via special, well-defined synchronization operations such as acquiring a lock by entering a synchronized block or method. The memory model stipulates that changes to the values of shared variables only need to be made visible to other threads when such a synchronization barrier is reached. Moreover, the entire notion of a race condition is defined over the order of operations with respect to these memory barriers.
These semantics then give optimizing compilers a higher degree of freedom when applying optimizations: the compiler needs to make sure only that the values of (potentially shared) variables at synchronization barriers are guaranteed to be the same in both the optimized and unoptimized code. In particular, reordering statements in a block of code that contains no synchronization barrier is assumed to be safe by the compiler.
Most research in the area of memory models revolves around:
Designing a memory model that allows a maximal degree of freedom for compiler optimizations while still giving sufficient guarantees about race-free and (perhaps more importantly) race-containing programs.
Proving program optimizations that are correct with respect to such a memory model.
The Java Memory Model was the first attempt to provide a comprehensive threading memory model for a popular programming language. After it was established that threads could not be implemented safely as a library without placing certain restrictions on the implementation and, in particular, that the C and C++ standards (C99 and C++03) lacked necessary restrictions, the C++ threading subcommittee set to work on suitable memory model; in 2005, they submitted C working document n1131 to get the C Committee on board with their efforts. The final revision of the proposed memory model, C++ n2429, was accepted into the C++ draft standard at the October 2007 meeting in Kona. The memory model was then included in the next C++ and C standards, C++11 and C11.
See also
Memory ordering
Memory barrier
Co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20Saturne | code_saturne is a general-purpose computational fluid dynamics free computer software package. Developed since 1997 at Électricité de France R&D, code_saturne is distributed under the GNU GPL licence.
It is based on a co-located finite-volume approach that accepts meshes with any type of cell (tetrahedral, hexahedral, prismatic, pyramidal, polyhedral...) and any type of grid structure (unstructured, block structured, hybrid, conforming or with hanging nodes...).
Its basic capabilities enable the handling of either incompressible or expandable flows with or without heat transfer and turbulence (mixing length, 2-equation models, v2f, Reynolds stress models, Large eddy simulation...).
Dedicated modules are available for specific physics such as radiative heat transfer, combustion (gas, coal, heavy fuel oil, ...), magneto-hydro dynamics, compressible flows, two-phase flows (Euler-Lagrange approach with two-way coupling), extensions to specific applications (e.g. for atmospheric environment).
Actual version is 8.0 (2023-06-30).
code saturne install
code_saturne may be installed on a Linux or other Unix-like system by downloading and building it. No system files are changed, so administrator privileges are not required if the code is installed in a user's directory. Packages for code_saturne are also available on Debian and Ubuntu. Alternatively, CAE Linux (latest version ), includes code_saturne pre-installed.
The code also works well in the Windows subsystem for Linux.
Interoperability
code saturne supports multiple mesh formats. The following formats, from open source or commercial tools, are currently supported by Code Saturne:
Supported mesh input formats (source):
SIMAIL (NOPO) – (INRIA/Distene)
I-DEAS universal
MED
CGNS
EnSight 6
EnSight Gold
GAMBIT neutral
Gmsh
Simcenter STAR-CCM+
Supported post-processing output formats
EnSight Gold
MED
CGNS
Alternative software
Advanced Simulation Library (open source software AGPL)
ANSYS CFX (proprietary software)
ANSYS Fluent (proprietary software)
Basilisk
COMSOL Multiphysics
FEATool Multiphysics
Gerris Flow Solver (GPL)
OpenFOAM (GPL)
Palabos Flow Solver (AGPL)
STAR-CCM+ (proprietary software)
SU2 code (LGPL)
See also
SALOME
References
External links
Official English website
Official french website
Code Saturne Installation on Mandriva Linux
Code_Saturne Overview (pdf, 2 pages)
Overview of EDF's Open Source initiative (pdf, 2 pages)
code-saturne.blogspot.com : Independent user's Blog about SALOME, Code_Saturne, ParaView and Numerical Modelling
CAE Linux : LiveDVD with Code_Saturne, Code_Aster and the Salomé platform
Website at the University of Manchester
Computational fluid dynamics
Free science software
Engineering software that uses Qt
Computer-aided design software for Linux
Computer-aided engineering software for Linux
Articles with underscores in the title |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTES-LD | KTES-LD (channel 40) is a low-power television station in Abilene, Texas, United States, airing programming from the digital multicast network TBD. It is owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Sweetwater-licensed dual ABC/CW+ affiliate KTXS-TV, channel 12 (and its San Angelo–licensed satellite KTXE-LD, channel 12). The two stations share studios on North Clack Street in Abilene; KTES-LD's transmitter is located near Trent, Texas. In addition to its own digital signal, KTES-LD is simulcast in standard definition on KTXS-TV's third digital subchannel.
History
The station was founded on September 16, 1993, and began broadcasting on July 11, 1995. It previously carried Telemundo, but switched to This TV on September 1, 2010. Telemundo programming moved to KTAB-DT2 in 2014.
References
TES-LD
TBD (TV network) affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1995
1995 establishments in Texas
Sinclair Broadcast Group
TES |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadliest%20Catch%3A%20Alaskan%20Storm | Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm is a 2008 simulation computer game for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows developed by American company Liquid Dragon Studios and published by Greenwave Games. The game was created by Northwestern Games.
Overview
Alaskan Storm is a game based on the television show Deadliest Catch. The game takes place in the Bering Sea. The player plan must manage navigation, maintenance of their boat, the hiring of crew members, and control their fishing.
Reception
Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm has received mixed reviews, including a passable 6.4 rating from IGN, a poor 4.0 score from GameSpot, and a 56 out of 100 score on Metacritic.
References
External links
Liquid Dragon Studios
2008 video games
Deadliest Catch
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Ship simulation games
Video games based on television series
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Xbox 360 games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Yun | Daniel Yun () is a Singaporean veteran film producer. He joined Singapore Broadcasting Corporation Radio as vice-president of Radio Sales in 1991 and became head of Programming in 1992. He was the head of Marketing Communications, and Programming and Acquisition departments for Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) in 1994.
In 1998, Yun became the vice-president of Production 5 at TCS. In the same year, he became the CEO of Mediacorp Raintree Pictures.
In 2015, Yun co-produced, co-wrote and co-directed 1965 (2015). In 2016, Daniel founded Blue3 Asia with the YDM Global Company.
Filmography
Raintree Pictures
The Truth About Jane and Sam (1999)
I Not Stupid (2002)
The Eye (2002)
Turn Left, Turn Right (2003)
Infernal Affairs II (2003)
The Maid (2005)
881 (2007)
The Tattooist (2007)
The Home Song Stories (2007)
Protégé (2007)
One Last Dance
Painted Skin (2008)
Homerun Asia
Homecoming
My Dog Dou Dou
Aftershock (2010)
Under The Hawthorne Tree (2010)
The Lady (2011)
Blue3 Pictures
1965 (2015)
References
External links
Daniel Yun interview
Daniel Yun's blog
Singaporean film producers
Chinese film producers
Hong Kong film producers
Hong Kong film presenters
Mediacorp
Singaporean people of Chinese descent
Victoria School, Singapore alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PULSE%20%28P2PTV%29 | PULSE is a P2PTV application developed by the European FP7 NAPA-WINE (Network-Aware P2P-TV Application over Wise Networks) research consortium.
PULSE stands for Peer-to-Peer Unstructured Live Streaming Experiment and is a peer-to-peer live streaming system designed to operate in scenarios where the bandwidth resources of nodes can be highly heterogeneous and variable over time, as is the case for the Internet.
History
The principles and basic algorithms of PULSE were proposed by Fabio Pianese.
The prototype was developed by Diego Perino
and released with a LGPL Software License.
The development has been taken over by the NAPA-WINE consortium in 2008, and version 0.2.2 can be downloaded via anonymous svn from the NAPA-WINE website.
P2PMyLive
In 2009, PULSE introduced P2PMyLive, where content providers can announce their streaming. Either the source or the participant can use the same graphical front-end to the pulse engine, which is available for Windows and Linux Ubuntu. Live streaming can be performed without any restriction.
See also
P2PTV
PeerStreamer (from NAPA-WINE too, first released in 2011).
References
Streaming television
Distributed algorithms
Peercasting
Peer-to-peer software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televisione%20Cristiana%20in%20Italia | Televisione Cristiana in Italia (TCI), also known as TBNE (Trinity Broadcasting Network Europe), is a free-to-air Italian religious TV channel headquartered in Marnate, Italy. It was founded by Chuck Hall and his late wife Nora in 1979. It is available throughout Europe via Hot Bird 6, and in Italy (Piedmont, Lombardy and Lazio) via DVB-T. Besides locally produced Italian televangelistic programmes, the channel broadcasts Christian rock music videos and dubbed or subtitled programmes produced by the Trinity Broadcasting Network in the United States.
Programming
Per lodare Te
Questo è il tuo giorno (This is Your Day)
TBNEWS
Dietro le quinte
Controcorrente
Personalities
Benny Hinn
Chuck Hall
Nora Hall (died 2007)
External links
TBNE on YouTube
History of TBNE
Trinity Broadcasting Network
Evangelical television networks
Television channels and stations established in 1979
Television channels in Italy
Italian-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Statman | Richard Statman (born September 6, 1946) is an American computer scientist whose principal research interest is the theory of computation, especially symbolic computation. His research involves lambda calculus, type theory, and combinatory algebra.
Career
In 1974, Statman received his Ph.D. from Stanford University for his Ph.D. dissertation, supervised by Georg Kreisel, entitled Structural Complexity of Proofs. His achievements include the proof that the type inhabitation problem in simply typed lambda calculus is PSPACE-complete.
External links
Carnegie Mellon profile
American computer scientists
Living people
1946 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount%20International%20Networks | Paramount International Networks (PIN) is the international division of Paramount Global. The division oversees the production, broadcasting and promotion of key Paramount brands outside of the United States. These brands include Paramount Network, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, BET and Colors TV, as well as CBS-branded channels, which are co-owned with AMC Networks International. PIN also owns a 30% stake in the Rainbow S.p.A. animation studio in Italy until 2023, as well as a 13.01% stake in an Indian joint venture with domestic partner TV18, Viacom18.
The networks' headquarters are located in New York City and London. Other international offices are located in São Paulo, Berlin, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Madrid, Milan, Mumbai, Paris, Singapore, Budapest, Belgrade, and Sydney amongst others. Its first international offices opened in the late 1980s in London and Amsterdam with the launch of MTV Europe. It was created from a rebrand of Viacom's MTV Networks, which included MTV, BET, VH1 and Nickelodeon, to include Comedy Central.
Before being promoted to CEO of Viacom, Robert Bakish was President of VIMN from 2011 to 2016, having held various roles at Viacom since 1997. The division is currently led by Pam Kaufman.
Divisions
As of January 2020, Paramount International Networks is split into two brand groups (Entertainment and Youth Brands, Kids and Family), and three regional hubs (UK & Australia, EMEAA, and Americas).
United Kingdom and Australia
Paramount Networks UK & Australia is a subsidiary of Paramount Global, headquartered in London.
Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia
Paramount Networks EMEAA (formerly MTV Networks Europe, Viacom International Media Networks Europe and ViacomCBS Networks EMEAA) is a subsidiary of Paramount Global which serves Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
It currently consists of the following branches:
Paramount Networks Northern Europe, which serves Benelux (the Netherlands, Belgium), Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden), Ireland, DAPOL (Germany, Austria, Poland), German-speaking Switzerland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Ukraine, and CIS countries.
Paramount Networks Southern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (SWEMEA), which serves France, French-speaking Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Middle East, and Africa.
Paramount Networks Italia, a division that was founded in 2011 in order for Viacom to purchase a 30% ownership stake in the Rainbow S.p.A. animation studio.
India
Viacom18 is a joint venture between Paramount Global and TV18, which operates the former's television brands in India along with homegrown brand Colors.
The Americas
Paramount Networks Americas (formerly MTV Networks Latin America, Viacom International Media Networks The Americas and ViacomCBS Networks Americas) is a regional subsidiary of Paramount International Networks. Its operational headquarters is located in Miami, Florida, with offices in Mexi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn%20A7000 | The A7000 and A7000+ were Acorn Computers' entry level computers based somewhat on the Risc PC architecture.
Launched in 1995, the A7000 was considered a successor to the A5000, fitting into Acorn's range between the A4000 and Risc PC600, featuring a 32 MHz ARM7500 system-on-a-chip (SoC) and either 2 MB, 4 MB or 8 MB of RAM soldered to the motherboard, with a single memory slot permitting up to 128 MB of additional RAM. In performance terms, the A7000 was described as being three to four times faster than the A4000 and slightly faster than a Risc PC 600 model without video RAM fitted, also having comparable MIPS and Dhrystone performance ratings to 66 MHz Intel 486DX2 systems.
Unlike the Risc PC, the A7000 had been "designed with the rigours of school life in mind", aiming for "a 7-year classroom lifespan". The machine's case was similar to the Acorn Online Media set-top box design incorporating the same SoC, and the product was considered to have been "created specifically to satisfy the education market".
The A7000+ was launched in 1997 and featured a 48 MHz ARM7500FE SoC, thus being "the first time an ARM-based Acorn has shipped with hardware floating point as standard". On-board RAM was upgraded to a standard 8 MB, with the same single memory slot capable of holding 128 MB of RAM, but with the memory speed doubled to 32 MHz from the 16 MHz of the A7000. This apparently brought the machine's general performance into line with a 40 MHz Risc PC700 with 1 MB of video RAM, permitting various display resolutions and colour depths that were not possible on the earlier model. Despite using a related SoC to the earlier model, the A7000+ was upgraded to the extent that it was apparently almost sold as the A8000.
After the discontinuation of Acorn's computer business in 1998, Castle Technology bought the rights to continue production of the A7000+.
Specifications and technical details
The ARM7500 system-on-a-chip combined into a single chip an ARM704 CPU, memory management unit, a video controller "similar but not identical to the VIDC20", much of the functionality of the Risc PC's I/O controller, plus support for PS/2 keyboards and joysticks.
Modifications and variants
In 1998, MicroDigital announced a variant of the A7000+ called the Medi, repackaging the Acorn system in a new case and providing a CD-ROM drive and two free expansion slots as standard, as opposed to offering the choice of a CD-ROM drive or an expansion slot, along with a built-in sound digitiser. Acorn had reportedly given its "grudging" permission to MicroDigital to incorporate A7000-based hardware into the Medi product, but restrictions imposed on developments of this hardware and Acorn's subsequent demise led to the product's cancellation. Consequently, MicroDigital pursued the development of another ARM7500FE-based computer, the Mico, running RISC OS 4 and adopting the ISA and USB standards, relatively novel for RISC OS machines at the time of the machine's introduction.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWorld | KWorld Computer Co. Ltd () is a Taiwan-based technology company that specializes in TV tuner cards and boxes. They are a consumer audio/video developer and provider whose market focus is PC based peripherals. The company offers analogue, digital, hybrid, satellite TV tuners, and video/audio capture/editing cards and boxes. Founded in 1999, the company is a primary TV tuning card manufacturer in Taiwan.
KWorld develops TV tuners for PAL, NTSC, and SECAM analogue television systems and for DVB-T, DVB-S, ISDB-T, DMB-T/H, ATSC, and IPTV digital television systems. KWorld also develops video capture/editing and audio capture/editing devices for both Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems. The Taiwan Intellectual Property Management System (TIPS) certified KWorld in 2008.
A 2020 Money Weekly article noted that the company's revenue experienced a steep drop owing to a substantial decrease in customers' purchases of KWorld's video products. It turned its attention to other ventures including earphone products and making mobile streaming software.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
References
1999 establishments in Taiwan
Electronics companies established in 1999
Computer hardware companies
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Taiwanese brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%20lines%20in%20Bordeaux | Bus lines in Bordeaux are managed by the Urban Community of Bordeaux Public Transport System (Transports Bordeaux Métropole) and Keolis company.
Their network comprises 124 lines:
13 high frequency (10–15 minute) services (LIANES),
10 main lines which have a service frequency from 15 to 30 minutes,
33 other lines,
54 special lines reserved for school, called Scodi
5 direct lines,
1 Night Line (called TBNight)
10 Flex' lines (flexible services which follow fixed routes to a location and then pick up or set down on demand in that location),
2 shuttles for events in Arkea Arena or Matmut Atlantique stadium,
4 lines for tramway maintenance (Relais).
History
The network was fully reviewed on 4 September 2023 in order to match with new supply and demand (extension of tram lines, express bus lines, demands in peripheric lines ...).
Changes between old network (which commenced operation on 22 September 2010) and new are still available here for a while.
Current Network lines
Lianes
There are lines with high level of service (LIgne A Niveau Elevé de Service). These lines constitute with the tram, the main axes of the network. They function from 5 am to midnight or 1 am with a 10- to 15-minute fréquency between 5:30 am and midnight, with an identical service the Saturday morning and a connection to 2 lines of tram at least. On board service is available after 10 pm.
Main lines
The main lines have a frequency from 15 to 30 minutes. They function from 5 am to midnight. On board service is available after 10 pm.
Lines
These lines connect the peripheric cities to another ones and Bordeaux. They function from 6 am to 9 pm.
Direct lines
Direct lines are set in order to make some courses faster, skipping several stops.
Scodi
Scodi lines serve schools and function only in school period. Reserved for pupils, inscriptions to take these lines are set every summer.
TBNight
The line TBNight functions from 1:30 am to 5:50 am, in order to substitute the whole network between campus, Victoire place and other nightclub districts on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays night.
Flex'
Flex' lines have a route fix which leads in a geographical area. In these zones, there are stops served automatically and stops on request.
There exists 4-day flex' lines, which have a regular frequency, and 7-evening ones which have only 2 departures at 2:00 am and 4:00 am from Quinconces station.
All details here.
Shuttles
When there are events at Arkéa Arena or at Matmut Atlantique, shuttles are set up by TBM.
Relais
To replace tram service in maintenance, there are Relais bus line for each tramway line.
See also
Articles
Transports Bordeaux Métropole
Bordeaux Tramway
External links
TBM
TBM lines
New TBM network at September 4th 2023 (FR)
Plans
TBM day bus network (since 05-02-2023) -
TBM evening bus network (since 05-02-2023) -
References
Public transport in Bordeaux
Gironde
de:Tram et Bus de la Communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux
it:Tram et Bus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exa%20Corporation | Exa Corporation was a developer and distributor of computer-aided engineering (CAE) software. Its main product was PowerFLOW, a lattice-boltzmann derived implementation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), which can very accurately simulate internal and external flows in low-Mach regimes. PowerFLOW is used extensively in the international automotive and transportation industries.
On November 17, 2017, Dassault Systèmes completed acquisition of Exa Corporation. Exa became part of Dassault's SIMULIA brand.
History
Exa was founded in November, 1991 in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Exa raised about $2.4 million in a series of venture capital investments from April 1993 though 1994 from Fidelity Ventures and individuals.
More funding was obtained in 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2005, including Boston Capital Ventures as an investor.
In 1999, Stephen A. Remondi became chief executive.
The company filed for an initial public offering in June 2012. On September 28, 2017, Dassault Systèmes announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement to acquire Exa, valuing the company at about 400 million USD.
For fiscal year 2012, Exa recorded total revenues, net income and Adjusted EBITDA of $45.9 million, $14.5 million and $7.1 million, respectively. Since generating its first commercial revenue in 1994, Exa's annual revenue had increased for 18 consecutive years. The company was profitable in fiscal years 2011 and 2012 after recording net losses in the three preceding fiscal years. Exa's total revenues and Adjusted EBITDA in fiscal year 2012 increased 21% and 51%, respectively, compared with fiscal year 2011. Exa reported $61.4 million in total revenue for the full year fiscal 2015. The company's total revenue was expected to be in the range of $64.7 million to $67.0 million for the full year fiscal 2016.
The Exa corporate headquarters were located in Burlington, Massachusetts. The company also had U.S. offices in Livonia, Michigan, and Brisbane, California, along with offices in Europe and Asia. Exa's European headquarters were located in Paris, France, and it also had European offices in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. Exa's Asia headquarters were located in Japan, and its Asia offices were based out of China, India and South Korea. Exa employed over 350 people worldwide.
References
Further reading
Miller, R.; Strumolo, G.; Russ, S.; Madin, M.; Affes, H.; Slike, J.; Chu, D. (1999). A Comparison of Experimental and Analytical Steady State Intake Port Flow Data Using Digital Physics. Society of Automotive Engineers.
Lietz, Robert; Pien, William; Remondi, Stephen (2000). A CFD Validation Study for Automotive Aerodynamics. Society of Automotive Engineers.
Gaylard (2001). Comparison of A Conventional RANS and a Lattice Gas Dynamics Simulation - A Case Study in High Speed Rail Aerodynamics. In: Rhodes, Norman. Computational Fluid Dynamics in Practice. Oxford, UK.
Succi, Sauro (2001). The Lattice Boltzmann Equation for Fluid Dynamics and Beyond. O |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20Data%20Bank | Video Data Bank (VDB) is an international video art distribution organization and resource in the United States for videos by and about contemporary artists. Located in Chicago, Illinois, VDB was founded at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1976 at the inception of the media arts movement.
VDB provides experimental video art, documentaries made by artists, and interviews with visual artists and critics for a wide range of audiences. These include microcinemas, moving image festivals, media arts centers, universities, libraries, museums, community-based workshops, public television, and cable TV Public-access television centers. Video Data Bank currently holds over 6,000 titles in distribution, by more than 600 artists, available in a variety of screening and archival video formats. It also actively publishes anthologies and curated programs of video art.
The preservation of historic video is an ongoing project of the Video Data Bank. The total holdings, including works both in and out of distribution, include over 10,000 titles of original and in some cases, rarely seen, video art and documentaries from the late 1960s on. In 2015 VDB launched VDB TV, an innovative digital distribution project which provides free, online streaming access to curated programs of video and media art. VDB TV offers viewers across the United States and beyond access to rare video art, the opportunity to engage with programs conceived by a wide range of curators, and original writing, all while ensuring that artists are compensated for their work. The VDB functions as a Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is supported in part by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council.
History
In 1974, VDB co-founders Kate Horsfield and Lyn Blumenthal, graduate students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, began conducting video interviews with women artists who they felt were underrepresented critically in the art world. After buying a Panasonic Portapak and successfully conducting talks with painters Joan Mitchell and Agnes Martin and curator Marcia Tucker, the pair decided to continue the series. "It was really a kind of accident,” noted Horsfield in a 2007 interview. “We were looking for inspiration for ourselves, but we were also looking for information on what was happening. If you read art magazines in the early '70s, it was very rare to see any real coverage of any women artists." In 1976 Horsfield and Blumenthal officially founded the Video Data Bank, taking over a small collection of student video productions and interviews that was begun by Phil Morton at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They went on to add to the archive, conducting talks with prominent artists of the period such as Alice Neel, Lucy Lippard, Lee Krasner, Barbara Kruger, and the Guerrilla Girls, who appeared wearing their trademark gorilla masks.
Lyn Blumenthal died in 1988, and the VDB maintains the Lyn Blum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Change%20of%20Address | National Change of Address (NCOALink) "is a secure dataset of approximately 160 million permanent change-of-address (COA) records consisting of the names and addresses of individuals, families and businesses who have filed a change-of-address with the USPS". It is maintained by the United States Postal Service and access to it is licensed to service providers and made available to mailers. There are six licenses available including Full Service Providers (48 months) and Limited Service Providers (18 months). The use of NCOALink is required in order to obtain bulk mail rates, as it minimizes the number of UAA (Undeliverable As Addressed) mailpieces saving the mailer money and reducing the USPS's processing of this type of mail.
How it works
NCOALink is a product of the United States Postal Service, USPS, and is used to provide updated and accurate addresses for individuals, families, and businesses. It will also indicate foreign moves and people who have moved with no forwarding address. The USPS offers licenses for Interface Developers and Interface Distributors and all NCOALink interfaces are certified by the USPS. The addresses in the database are specifically designed to match the USPS requirements. Each entry is matched against other entries to ensure that there are no repeated addresses. The software will update old addresses through the information provided by the postal service. Consumers have the option of changing their address online or filling out the "Change of Address" form at the Post Office when moving.
For mailers who want to update their mailing lists with the most current addresses they would submit their file to a company that offers the NCOALink service. These can be licensed NCOALink providers or third party companies that submit the files to a licensed NCOALink provider. The NCOALink process also includes CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System), DPV (Delivery Point Validation), LACSLink, and SuiteLink.
In 2015, one company estimated undeliverable mail cost the US economy $65 billion a year.
Potential Fraud
With today's focus on data security, accusations have been made that the USPS has taken insufficient efforts to protect the privacy of the roughly 40 million Americans every year who use the service. Additionally, the actual change of address registration process is vulnerable to fraudulent activity because no verification is done on the paper form.
History
The current National Change of Address program was set up in 1986. The National Change of Address System has been adopted by several countries including the US, the UK, Canada, Germany, Austria, and New Zealand.
References
United States Postal Service
Moving and relocation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickability | Clickability, Inc., is a web content management system company. Founded in 1999, it was acquired by Limelight Networks in 2011. Limelight Networks sold Clickability to Upland Software in December 2013.
History
In 1999, John Girard, Jeff Freund, Sean Noonan, and Timur Yarnall started Clickability in San Francisco. After the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, Clickability cut its employee number from 40 to 15.
Clickability raised $7.3 million in 2000. In 2008, it raised $8 million from Shasta Ventures and Convergence Partners. In 2011, Limelight Networks purchased Clickability. In December 2013, Limelight Networks sold Clickability to Upland Software.
Products
Clickability's first product was the "save this" tool, which the company released in late 1999 or early 2000. Other initial products were Internet tools like "email this", "print this", and a "most popular" articles list. Its products were used on hundreds of news websites such as CNN and The Wall Street Journal.
In 2000 and 2001, online advertising was having running into difficulties, so Clickability decided to change its strategy to focus on creating software able to distribute content widely and concurrently to hundreds of websites. The company offered a content management system that allowed customers to administer the material on their websites. According to Information Today, the product had four components. First, Clickability acted as clients' infrastructure as a service by being their web hosting service and content repository. Second, Clickability helped move customers onto its platform. Third, it provided a software as a service by allowing customers to manage the content throughout its creation, review, and distribution. Fourth, it provided an online forum for clients to discuss how to make optimal use of the product. In 2004, InfoWorlds Mike Heck said that Clickability Version 4 was a Java-based software that "won't break your budget" and has "essential content creation and administration features".
According to John Wiley & Sons, Clickability in 2009 had 400 million page views every month.
References
External links
Official website
Business software companies
American companies established in 1999
Companies based in San Francisco
Software companies based in California
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Family%20Kids%27%20Camps | Royal Family Kids' Camps, Inc. (RFKC) is a network of camps, children's clubs, and child mentoring for abused, abandoned and neglected children in the foster care, system. RFK founded in 1985 by Wayne and Diane Tesch. This ministry offers training and resources for local churches to sponsor a five-day summer camp for the children in foster care, ages 6 – 12.
In addition to the structured schedule, the summer camp maintains a ratio of one volunteer counselor for every two children. Including all volunteers in addition to counselors, there are more adults at the camps than children. Adult role models encourage positive experiences through a plethora of activities, including swimming, fishing, boating, jewelry-making and woodworking. The highlight of the summer camp is the giant birthday party with cake and gifts for all campers. The group operates 159 camps in the United States and around the world, and has about 6,000 adult volunteers.
References
External links
Official website
Non-profit organizations based in California
Summer camps in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat%20Equity%20%28TV%20series%29 | Sweat Equity is a television show on the DIY Network that shows home owners performing most of the renovations to their house in order to save money and boost the value of their home. The show is hosted by Amy Matthews who is a licensed contractor and personal trainer.
References
External links
Amy Matthews Bio
Home renovation television series
2006 American television series debuts
2010s American television series
DIY Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum%20tram%20stop | The Talence-Centre Forum tram stop is situated on line of the Bordeaux tramway network.
Location
The station is located between courtyard Gambetta and the courtyard of the Libération at Talence.
Interchanges
TBM bus network
Close by
Notre-Dame de Talence church
Forum for arts and culture
See also
TBM
Tramway de Bordeaux
External links
Bordeaux tramway stops
Tram stops in Talence
Railway stations in France opened in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peixotto%20tram%20stop | Peixotto tram stop is located on line of the Bordeaux tramway network.
Location
The station is located on the avenue Roul in Talence.
Interchanges
TBM bus network
This stop serves as a terminus for some bus lines, enabling their connections with the tramway.
TransGironde network
Close by
Bordeaux-I University
Château Margaut
Château Peixotto
City hall of Talence
Talence botanic garden
See also
TBM
Tramway de Bordeaux
External links
Bordeaux tramway stops
Tram stops in Talence
Railway stations in France opened in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergoni%C3%A9%20tram%20stop | Bergonié tram stop is located on line of the tramway de Bordeaux.
Location
The station is situated on the courtyard of Argonne in Bordeaux.
Interchanges
TBM bus network
Close by
Institut Bergonié
See also
TBM
Tramway de Bordeaux
External links
Bordeaux tramway stops
Tram stops in Bordeaux
Railway stations in France opened in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitrack | The Minitrack Network was the first U.S. satellite tracking network to become operational, in 1957. It was used to track the flights of Sputnik, Vanguard, Explorer, and other early space efforts. Minitrack was the progenitor of Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) and the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN).
Origins
When the proposals for satellites floated in the mid 1950s, the question of tracking them naturally arose. Three approaches were considered:
Optical tracking
Use of radar
A scheme from the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) that measured angles using interferometry, based on work at the White Sands Missile Range.
The optical and radar approaches did not require a cooperative target, but had the major problem of acquisition, or finding the target in the first place, since they had very small fields of view. The NRL proposal needed a transmitter on the target, but could easily measure a target anywhere in a wide field of view. The NRL proposal was accepted and turned into the basis of the Minitrack stations.
From a NASA history document:
In early April 1955, Milton Rosen, John Mengel, and Roger Easton assembled informally at NRL and generated a document entitled, "Proposal for Minimum Trackable Satellite (Minitrack)". No date and no authors are listed on this key report; but, according to Rosen, it preceded only by a few days a more formal report with the title, "A Scientific Satellite Program", 13 April 1955, and written by the NRL Rocket Development Branch. Appendix B of this document was labeled, "The Minitrack System" and was nearly identical to its predecessor of a few days. The name "Minitrack" now appearing for the first time on paper, was coined by John Mengel.
Development
The original proposal had only a single pair of stations. However, this was soon realized to be insufficient. From the NASA history:
Before the end of 1955, ideas changed drastically. First, it was realized that a single pair of stations would provide very limited geographical coverage, rendering data acquisition difficult and the accumulation of orbital data very slow. Four pairs of stations across the southern U.S. were next proposed. The idea of a "radio fence" was implicit in this suggestion; i.e., the creation of a long chain of
overlapping antenna patterns that the satellite must intersect frequently. The trouble was that the planned orbital inclination of the Vanguard satellite would keep it away from the southern U.S. too much of the time. The next logical step was the construction of a long north-south fence that the satellite would pass through on almost every orbit. But the Vanguard program could not financially support a long chain of paired stations; besides, further thought soon showed that complete orbital data could be computed from angular (interferometric) tracking alone. These changes in thinking manifested themselves in a report describing a chain of nine single Minitrack stations strewn along the 7 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe%20Pacific%20Cable | PIPE Pacific Cable (PPC-1) is a submarine cable laid by PIPE Networks. It runs from Cromer, New South Wales, in Australia, to Piti, Guam.
It resulted in huge international backhaul cost savings to Australian customers, for access to the US internet backbone, quoting up to "50% savings" versus existing cable operators.
Capacity
Quoting directly from PIPE International's PPC-1's Blog, substantial capacity will be available on the submarine cable network:
"PPC-1 will be configured primarily as a two optic-fibre pair system however it will include up to an additional 4 optic fibre pairs providing the potential to install spurs extending to a number of strategic locations within and outside of Australia. The main backbone will be laid in deep water with landings in Sydney, Australia and Piti, Guam. The main segment of the network will cover approximately 6,500km. It will use the latest submarine wave division multiplexing to provide up to 96x10Gbps wavelengths on each fibre pair, producing a total of 1.92 Terabits of capacity."
During the official launch, PIPE Network's CEO Bevan Slattery said the new cable would now deliver speeds at an even greater capacity than originally planned, 2.56 terabits per second in total.
In September 2012, an upgrade was announced that would take the capacity available on the cable past the original design capacity of 2.56 terabits per second, to around 3 terabits per second.
Construction
Submarine cable laying commenced at the end of April 2009. The Guam to Papua New Guinea segment of the cable was completed in May 2009, with the ship Tyco Durable commencing on the 4 segments from Sydney to Papua New Guinea.
In June 2009, most cabling work south of Brisbane was completed, leaving two cable segments—from BU2 (Branching Unit) near Brisbane up to BU4 near Madang – to be laid before commissioning.
On 23 August 2009 the first light signal was transmitted over the completed cable from Sydney to Guam. This marked the completion of the submarine cabling work, and testing of the system began.
On 22 September 2009, Internode released a press release claiming successful transmission of IP packets across the cable, making it the first commercial entity to make use of the cable.
The project was formally completed on 8 October 2009.
Cable landing points
The cable runs from Sydney to Guam. The cable landing points are:
Cromer, New South Wales, Australia
Madang, Papua New Guinea
Piti, Guam
Financial Realignment
On 19 December 2008, it was reported that a "realignment of payments" was organised between PIPE, its PPC-1 customers, and Tyco Telecom, the primary contractor on the project. Some saw this as PPC-1 striking financial difficulties, however the timing of payments were realigned to allow Tyco to continue the work with respect to meeting the construction deadline of July 2009. PIPE delivered a media release confirming this realignment, and the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Tyco Telecom, and a key cust |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me%20and%20the%20Boys%20%28TV%20series%29 | Me and the Boys is an American sitcom that aired on the ABC network from September 20, 1994 until February 28, 1995. The series features comedian Steve Harvey, who also served as a writer, in his first starring role. The series was created by Bob Myer, Rob Dames and Lenny Ripps, and produced by a.k.a. Productions and Bob Myer Productions in association with ABC Productions.
Synopsis
Set in Dallas, Me and the Boys stars Steve Harvey as Steve Tower, a widower with three sons who ran a video store called The Video Depot. Madge Sinclair (in her last acting role before her death in December 1995) co-starred as Steve's mother-in-law, Mary Cook; and Chaz Lamar Shepherd, Wayne Collins, Jr., and Benjamin LeVert played Steve's sons Artis, William, and Andrew, respectively.
The series was scheduled on Tuesdays following Full House (which co-creators Dames and Ripps had previously written and produced on) and preceding Home Improvement. Despite ranking #20 in the ratings, ABC canceled the series after one season.
Cast
Main
Steve Harvey as Steve Tower
Madge Sinclair as Mary Cook, Steve's mother-in-law
Chaz Lamar Shepherd as Artis Tower, Steve's eldest son
Wayne Collins, Jr. as William Tower, Steve's middle son
Benjamin LeVert as Andrew Tower, Steve's youngest son
Recurring
Karen Malina White as Janet Tower, Steve's sister, an insurance agent
Episodes
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1994 American television series debuts
1995 American television series endings
1990s American black sitcoms
1990s American sitcoms
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Television shows set in Dallas
English-language television shows
Television series by Disney–ABC Domestic Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candid%20%28organization%29 | Candid is an information service specializing in reporting on U.S. nonprofit companies. In 2016, its database provided information on 2.5 million organizations. It is the product of the February 2019 merger of GuideStar with Foundation Center.
It maintains comprehensive databases on grantmakers and their grants; issues a wide variety of print, electronic, and online information resources; conducts and publishes research on trends in foundation growth, giving, and practice; and offers education and training programs.
History
GuideStar
GuideStar was one of the first central sources of information on U.S. nonprofits and is the world's largest source of information about nonprofit organizations. GuideStar also serves to verify that a recipient organization is established and that donated funds go where the donor intended for individuals looking to give in the wake of disasters.
Guidestar was founded by Arthur "Buzz" Schmidt in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1994, under the name Philanthropic Research, Inc. The company, which provided nonprofit information, officially received tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(3) public charity in 1996. In July of that year, Philanthropic Research, Inc. published the GuideStar Directory of American Charities, a CD and printed index that presented full reports on 35,000 charities and partial reports on 7,000 other charities. That fall, Philanthropic Research, Inc. officially launched its GuideStar website, allowing it to update the data more frequently and provide more extensive information. The organizations began doing business under the name, "GuideStar", although its official name remained Philanthropic Research, Inc. until September 2008.
Beginning in 1997, GuideStar began posting information on all 501(c)(3) nonprofits in the IRS Business Master File. By December, the database held information on more than 600,000 nonprofits.
As of 1998, GuideStar provided digitized 990 data on its website's individual public charities pages. In January 1998, GuideStar received an award for Nonprofit Web Site Excellence from Philanthropy Journal, with an honorable mention for "Service to the Sector" for its searchable database of (at that time) more than 620,000 U.S. nonprofit organizations. In October 1999, GuideStar began posting 501(c)(3) public charities' annual information returns, known as IRS Forms 990 and 990-EZ.
GuideStar began publishing an annual Nonprofit Compensation Report in 2001. The first edition was derived from compensation data reported to the IRS by nearly 75,000 charities. In response to 9/11, GuideStar expanded the database to include non-charitable organizations eligible to accept tax-deductible contributions, along with special 9/11 funds and programs. GuideStar also collaborated with the New York State Attorney General's Office, providing data for the WTC Relief Info site. In November 2001, Time named Schmidt one of seven innovators in philanthropy for the new millennium. At the end of the year, the New M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CILA-FM | CILA-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts religious programming at 88.1 FM in Cookshire-Eaton, Quebec. The station was licensed in 1995 and is owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sherbrooke through la Fabrique de la Paroisse Saint-Camille-de-Cookshire.
References
External links
Ila
Ila
Ila
Catholic radio stations
Radio stations established in 1995
1995 establishments in Quebec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20Buffers | Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) is a free and open-source cross-platform data format used to serialize structured data. It is useful in developing programs that communicate with each other over a network or for storing data. The method involves an interface description language that describes the structure of some data and a program that generates source code from that description for generating or parsing a stream of bytes that represents the structured data.
Overview
Google developed Protocol Buffers for internal use and provided a code generator for multiple languages under an open-source license (see below).
The design goals for Protocol Buffers emphasized simplicity and performance. In particular, it was designed to be smaller and faster than XML.
Protocol Buffers are widely used at Google for storing and interchanging all kinds of structured information. The method serves as a basis for a custom remote procedure call (RPC) system that is used for nearly all inter-machine communication at Google.
Protocol Buffers are similar to the Apache Thrift, Ion, and Microsoft Bond protocols. Offering a concrete RPC protocol stack to use for defined services called gRPC.
Data structure schemas (called messages) and services are described in a proto definition file (.proto) and compiled with protoc. This compilation generates code that can be invoked by a sender or recipient of these data structures. For example, example.pb.cc and example.pb.h are generated from example.proto. They define C++ classes for each message and service in example.proto.
Canonically, messages are serialized into a binary wire format which is compact, forward- and backward-compatible, but not self-describing (that is, there is no way to tell the names, meaning, or full datatypes of fields without an external specification). There is no defined way to include or refer to such an external specification (schema) within a Protocol Buffers file. The officially supported implementation includes an ASCII serialization format, but this format—though self-describing—loses the forward- and backward-compatibility behavior, and is thus not a good choice for applications other than human editing and debugging.
Though the primary purpose of Protocol Buffers is to facilitate network communication, its simplicity and speed make Protocol Buffers an alternative to data-centric C++ classes and structs, especially where interoperability with other languages or systems might be needed in the future.
Limitations
Protobufs have no single specification. The format is best suited for small data chunks that don't exceed few megabytes and can be loaded/sent into a memory right away and therefore is not a streamable format. The library doesn't provide compression out of the box. The format also isn't well supported in non–object-oriented languages (e.g. Fortran).
Example
A schema for a particular use of protocol buffers associates data types with field names, using integers to identify each field. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%27d%20That%20Get%20on%20My%20Plate%3F | How'd That Get On My Plate? is a television series on Food Network. It premiered in July 2008. Sunny Anderson hosts the show. The program investigates how various foods are produced (including honey, milk, eggs, strawberries, and cocoa in the first season), from their rawest form to their finished state, and features visits to food production factories throughout the United States.
External links
Food Network original programming
2000s American reality television series
2008 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
Documentary television series about industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e%20d%27Aquitaine%20tram%20stop | Musée d'Aquitaine tram stop is located on line of the tramway de Bordeaux.
Location
The station is located by course Louis Pasteur in Bordeaux.
Interchanges
TBM bus network
À proximité
Musée d'Aquitaine
See also
TBM
Tramway de Bordeaux
External links
Bordeaux tramway stops
Tram stops in Bordeaux
Railway stations in France opened in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoire%20tram%20stop | Victoire tram stop is located on line of the tramway de Bordeaux.
Situation
The station is located at the Place de la Victoire in Bordeaux.
Interchanges
TBM bus network
TransGironde network
Close by
Place de la Victoire
Bordeaux-II University
South issue of rue Sainte-Catherine, known as the longest pedestrian street of Europe.
Parking Victoire
See also
TBC
Tramway de Bordeaux
References
External links
Bordeaux tramway stops
Tram stops in Bordeaux
Railway stations in France opened in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts%20et%20M%C3%A9tiers%20tram%20stop | Arts et Métiers tram stop is located on line of the tramway de Bordeaux.
Location
The station is located on the avenue des Facultés at Talence in the university area.
Interchanges
TBM bus network
Close by
Bordeaux-I University
Arts et Métiers Library
ENSAM
ENSEIRB-MATMECA
Parking relais Arts et Métiers
See also
TBM
Tramway de Bordeaux
External links
Bordeaux tramway stops
Tram stops in Talence
Railway stations in France opened in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Bryant%20%28programmer%29 | Martin Bryant (born 1958) is a British computer programmer known as the author of White Knight and Colossus Chess, a 1980s commercial chess-playing program, and Colossus Draughts, gold medal winner at the 2nd Computer Olympiad in 1990.
Computer chess
Bryant started developing his first chess program – later named White Knight – in 1976. This program won the European Microcomputer Chess Championship in 1983, and was commercially released, in two versions ( and ) for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron in the early 1980s. White Knight featured a then-novel display of principal variation – called "Best line" – that would become commonplace in computer chess.
Bryant used White Knight as a basis for development of Colossus Chess (1983), a chess-playing program that was published for a large number of home computer platforms in the 1980s, and was later ported to Atari ST, Amiga and IBM PC as Colossus Chess X. Colossus Chess sold well and was well-received, being described by the Zzap!64 magazine in 1985 as "THE best chess implementation yet to hit the 64, and indeed possibly any home micro".
Bryant later released several versions of his Colossus chess engine conforming to the UCI standard. The latest version was released in 2021 as Colossus 2021a.
Computer draughts
After chess, Bryant's interests turned to computer draughts (checkers). His program, Colossus Draughts, won the West of England championship in June 1990, thus becoming the first draughts program to win a human tournament. In August of the same year it won the gold medal at the 2nd Computer Olympiad, beating Chinook, a strong Canadian program, into second place.
Chinook's developers, headed by Jonathan Schaeffer, recognised Colossus' opening book as its major strength; it contained 40,000 positions compared to Chinook'''s 4,500, and relied on Bryant's research that had found flaws in the established draughts literature. In 1993, an agreement was made to trade Colossus' opening book for the Chinook's six-piece databases; Bryant also accepted the offer to join the Chinook development team. In August 1994, Chinook played a match against World Champion Marion Tinsley and world number two Don Lafferty (after Tinsley's withdrawal due to illness), earning the title of Man-Machine World Champion.
Bryant continued work on Colossus Draughts in the early 1990s, and in 1995 released an updated commercial version called Colossus '95, as well as draughts database programs DraughtsBase and DraughtsBase 2''.
Bryant lives in the Manchester area and retired in 2020.
More information can be found on his website.
References
External links
Colossus home page
Living people
British computer programmers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Video game programmers
Computer chess people
1958 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20R.%20Calvert | Mary Ross Calvert (June 20, 1884 – June 25, 1974) was an American astronomical computer and astrophotographer. She started as her uncle Edward Emerson Barnard's assistant and ended publishing his (and their) work that cataloged over 300 dark objects (dark nebulae) — primarily those that extinguish the most starlight reaching the Earth lie between the bulk (inward local sector, central bulge, and other sectors of the Milky Way) thus between the Local Arm (Orion Arm) and the Sagittarius Arm. She went on to publish other photographic works on astronomy.
Early life
Calvert was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 20, 1884, to Alice Rosamond (Phillips) and Ebenezer Calvert (1850–1924). She was the eldest of their four daughters. Her father's elder sister Rhoda had married the astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard, and out of respect, her parents had called her sister Alice Barnard Calvert.
Her father and his younger brother Peter Ross Calvert (1855–1931) ran Calvert Photography Studio above the United Cigar Store at the southeast corner of 4th and Union Streets in Nashville. The studio was founded by J. H. Van Stavoren; Rodney Poole bought it at a chancery court sale in 1871, and the Calvert brothers bought it from Poole in 1896.
Career
In 1905, she started work at Yerkes Observatory, Wisconsin, as assistant and computer for her uncle who was also professor of astronomy at the University of Chicago. She stayed at her uncle's house whilst employed by him. He was known for his discovery of the high proper motion of Barnard's Star.
In 1923, when Barnard died, she became curator of the Yerkes photographic plate collection and a high-level assistant, until her retirement in 1946.
Barnard's work A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way was completed after his death in 1923 by Edwin B. Frost, director of the Yerkes Observatory, and Calvert. The work was nominally his although Calvert had done the preliminary work under his supervision, but it was she who did the computations necessary to complete the tables, numbered and sketched in darker objects added annotation to the reference stars. Calvert and Frost decided that it should be published in two volumes. The atlas contained 349 dark objects although later editions covered 352 as three had been omitted by mistake. There were several more dark objects that were on the plates but that were not catalogued possibly due to Barnard's death, as both Calvert and Barnard had been aware of them.
Only 700 copies were printed in 1927, making the original edition a collector's item. The Astronomy Compendium calls it a "seminal work".
In 1934 she and Frank Elmore Ross published a photographic study, Atlas of the Northern Milky Way, based on Ross's photographs.
Later life
After she retired from Yerkes in 1946, she received no pension. She returned to Nashville, where she worked in her sister's photographic studio part-time.
She died in Nashville in 1974.
Publications
Atlas of the Northern Mi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic%20Studios | Atlantic Studios is the recording studio network of Atlantic Records. Although the historic recording studio was located at 1841 Broadway (at the corner of 60th Street), in New York City, Atlantic Recording Studios was initially located at 234 West 56th Street from November 1947 until mid-1956. When the Shorty Rogers and His Giants disc of 33.33 rpm called Martians Come Back! was issued in August 1956, the address of Atlantic Recording Studios had relocated to 157 W 57th Street. The studio was the first to record in stereo due to the efforts of Tom Dowd. The new Atlantic Studios includes a network of label-operated studios spanning New York, Atlanta, and California.
The Studios
In the early days of Atlantic Records, producer Tom Dowd would do recording at the offices. At night the desks would be pushed against the walls and singing groups would gather around one or two microphones in the inner office and he would be in the outer office recording singing groups with a small mixer and a tape recorder.
In 1958, Dowd convinced Ampex (and Jerry Wexler) to sell the second Ampex 8-track tape recorder ever manufactured to Atlantic Studios, putting Atlantic ahead of other studios for many years.
In 1959, Atlantic Records and Atlantic Studios moved to 1841 Broadway. The studios were in the co-joined building at 11 West 60th Street. When Atlantic Records moved to 75 Rockefeller Center in the mid-1970s, Atlantic Studios expanded to occupy the entire second floor of both buildings. In the early 1980s, the studios expanded to the third floor.
The studio complex eventually consisted of two studios, a mix room, two disk mastering rooms, two editing and tape copy rooms, two digital transfer rooms, a quality control room for Atlantic Records-manufactured products (45s, LPs, Cassettes, 8-Tracks and CDs), tape library (tape vault offsite) and several offices and lounges.
Studio A - approximately 50' x 30' x 15', control room 20' x 15', and a later a Hidley redesign 24' x 24'. The control room had two generations of MCI consoles (the "black" console and then a 528), later the Hidley control room had a custom Neve. Monitors were by Altec, UREI and Hidley. Tommy Dowd early on installed variable acoustic sound traps that affected both the low frequency absorption and the reverberation time in the studio.
Studio B - approximately 30' x 15' x 15', control room 15' x 15'. Consoles were MCI 528 and then Neve, and monitoring was by Altec and then UREI.
Mix Room - approximately 15' x 12', later a new repositioned mix room and vocal booth 20 x 18'. Consoles were a built-in-house 16-channel passive summing mixer, then original Studio A MCI "black" console, then a third MCI 528 purchased from Criteria Studios, with a Solid State Logic console in the new mix room. Monitoring was facilitated with Altec monitors.
Mastering Rooms - Neumann and Scully Disk Cutting systems, and Altec monitoring.
Tape Recorders - Ampex, Scully, MCI, Studer, and Sony.
Microphones - Neumann, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20%28TV%20program%29 | The One is an Australian television program broadcast by the Seven Network, hosted by Andrew Daddo. The program pits several alleged psychics against one another, participating in trials which challenge their purported abilities in activities such as clairvoyance, telepathy and mediumship to determine who is Australia's "top psychic".
The show was originally created by Fox Studios Australia, who in 2006 contracted Simon Turnbull, President of the Australian Psychics Association, to help create the show. The psychics' abilities are observed by a studio audience or at external locations, and are judged by a two-person panel including Stacey Demarco, a self-described 'metaphysicist', and Richard Saunders, a life member of the Australian Skeptics.
Season 1 of the show (5 episodes) premiered in Australia on Tuesday, 8 July 2008, and ended on 5 August 2008. Season 2 (8 episodes) aired in Australia on the Seven Network, from Wednesday, 5 October 2011, ending on 23 November 2011.
The program was broadcast with closed captions and was rated PG.
Season 1 (2008)
The show was filmed at Fox Studios, Sydney with a production team of David Maher, David Taylor and Lisa Fitzpatrick.
The show featured seven contestants, selected from over 1500 applicants.
Contestants
Mitchell Coombes – First to be voted off.
Rayleen Kable – Second to be voted off and host of a paranormal radio show on the mid-coast of NSW; later starred in the 2014 series Haunting: Australia.
Shé D'Montford – Third to be voted off.
Jason Betts – Fourth to be voted off.
Amanda Roussety – Top Three contestant. Housewife and mother of three, was the only non-professional psychic to appear on the show.
Ezio De Angelis – Top Three contestant. A stage medium.
Charmaine Wilson – The winner of the inaugural season of The One.
Eliminations were made by the judges each week. On the final episode of The One the winner was chosen by the Australian public, voting via a telephone popularity poll.
Episode 1, broadcast 8 July 2008
Test – "Little Boy Lost". A boy (an actor with his mother and safety officers nearby) is hidden in bushland with contestants given 15 minutes to find him using their claimed psychic abilities. Rayleen Kable failed. Jason Betts succeeded. Mitchell Coombes failed. Amanda Roussety failed. Charmaine Wilson failed. Ezio De Angelis failed. Shé D'Montford succeeded.
The episode also had contestants doing readings to members of the studio audience. Contestants were also asked to predict which three of them would reach the final episode. No contestant was eliminated at the end of this episode.
Episode 2, broadcast 15 July 2008
Test 1 – "Container Search". A dummy bomb is hidden in 1 of 70 large shipping containers at an international port with contestants given 15 minutes to find it using their claimed psychic abilities. All contestants failed to find the dummy bomb.
Test 2 – "Inside the Mind of an Olympian". Contestants tried to glean details about Australian Olympians, using |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic%20Kids | Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal is a paranormal television series broadcast on the A&E television network. Hosted by Chip Coffey, an American psychic investigator, with licensed therapist Edy Nathan, "sensitive" Chris Fleming, and medium Kim Russo, the show brings together children who report having psychic abilities with adult psychic/mediums, with the stated purpose of "show[ing] them how to harness their abilities and, ultimately, [showing] them that they're not alone in this world". Later episodes feature content in correlation with another A&E paranormal series Coffey has appeared on, Paranormal State, with Ryan Buell.
The series premiered on June 16, 2008, and ran to November 28, 2010.
A&E later aired an episode of Biographies called "Psychic Children" about children and young people with the same alleged abilities described in the show (e.g. crystal children).
On June 26, 2019, A&E announced the revival of Psychic Kids. The series premiered on August 21, 2019, and was not renewed after the first season.
The Kids
The kids featured in the show allegedly possess varying psychic abilities which include precognition, clairvoyance, talking with the dead, sensing illnesses and diseases, psychometry and retrocognition.
Typically the kids seen in the shows are being haunted by spirits and need help to control their abilities.
Kids from the series include Peri Zarrella, Ryan Michaels, Alex Curcio and Nick Barger.
Original Series
The original series premiered on June 16, 2008. A second season premiered on December 15, 2009, and the third and final season premiered on October 17, 2010.
Season 1 (2008)
Season 2 (2009-10)
Season 3 (2010)
Reboot
A series reboot premiered on August 21, 2019. The new series shows kids from the original series (now adults) returning to help a new generation of psychic children.
Returning psychics include Peri Zarrella, Ryan Michaels, Alex Curcio and Nick Barger.
Season 1 (2019)
Reception
One critic thought Psychic Kids was exploiting children, while some others felt that the psychic mentors in the show handled the situation carefully.
References
External links
Official Website
2008 American television series debuts
A&E (TV network) original programming
Paranormal television
English-language television shows
American television series revived after cancellation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChannelFlip | ChannelFlip Media Ltd was a London-based Multi Channel Network which works with both traditional and online celebrities to create brand friendly content.
Shows and talent
ChannelFlip works with UK-based comedic TV and online talent.
Robert Llewellyn – Machine of the Week Report (The MoWer) and Carpool.
David Mitchell – David Mitchell's SoapBox – a series of short monologues co-written with John Finnemore. In these monologues Mitchell has criticized a variety of subjects, including the popular BBC show Doctor Who and 3D television.
Richard Hammond – Richard Hammond's Tech Head – a weekly web series in which Top Gears Richard Hammond discuss the latest technology happenings.
Dawn Porter – Bad Girl Guides – six-part series providing lighthearted advice to women.
Harry Hill – Little Internet Show – a sketch based comedy show.
Simon's Cat – Simon's Cat, YouTube star
Jonti Picking – MrWeebl, YouTube star
Stuart Ashen – a.k.a. Ashens, a YouTube star who also worked with ChannelFlip in producing the Internet comedy film "Ashens and the Quest for the GameChild".
History
Shine Group ownership
In 2012-01-06, Shine Group announced the acquisition of ChannelFlip.
YouTube Comedy Week
Channel Flip produced YouTube Comedy Week in the UK. Comedy week was an event that ran from May 20–25, and brought "the best of UK and US talent together on YouTube."
Subsidiaries
The Multiverse: In late 2012, ChannelFlip launched The Multiverse, a YouTube Channel that focused on "geek flavoured entertainment." The channel was created as a result of YouTube's original content partner scheme. Since then, videos uploaded to The Multiverse have included notable YouTubers including Ashens, Jack and Dean and Chris Kendall. The science fiction webshow Chronicles of Syntax is exclusively available on The Multiverse. As of the summer of 2014, the Multiverse ceased uploading videos to the channel. due to having their funding (from YouTube) abruptly stopped.
HuHa!: Fronted by Jonti Picking, it is a YouTube Channel that is focused on "animation".
FlipSide: A full service talent agency and management department for ChannelFlip. In 2014-09-18, ChannelFlip announced the creation of FlipSide.
FlipHub: A new branded content agency, specialising in YouTube stars. In 2014-09-18, ChannelFlip announced the creation of FlipHub.
Successes
Particular successes of Channel Flip include The Proxy, a short film sponsored by Dell and featuring YouTube star Ashens.
See also
Cost Per Mille
Cost Per Impression
List of YouTube personalities
References
Podcasting companies
Privately held companies of the United Kingdom
Multi-channel networks
Banijay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding%20Central | Wedding Central was a short-lived American digital cable television channel that focused on programming involving brides and weddings, which was a spin-off of the programming which made up much of WE tv's schedule at the network's launch on August 18, 2009. The network was launched by the Rainbow Media subsidiary of Cablevision. Much of the network's programming was taken from previously aired WE tv wedding programming and wedding-related motion pictures, with little new content offered outside of promotions and on-screen quizzes. Also offered solely on Cablevision systems was interactive television components such as quizzes, polls, voting, and advertising opportunities for national and local wedding retailers.
Unlike WE tv, which was a successful spin-off of AMC itself in 1997, the network had only limited distribution, only being carried on the systems of Cablevision, a limited amount of Time Warner Cable systems, and Mediacom. When Cablevision spun off Rainbow Media into a separate public company known as AMC Networks via an initial public offering on July 1, 2011, the new company closed Wedding Central on the same day. Wedding-related programming returned to have a focus on WE tv, and Wedding Central's website now redirects to WE tv's weddings section.
Programming
Series formerly featured on Wedding Central included:
Always a Bridesmaid
Amazing Wedding Cakes
Beach Weddings
Bridezillas
Girl Meets Cowboy
How to Marry a Prince
My Big Fat Fabulous Wedding
Rich Bride Poor Bride
Single in the City
The Wedding Planners
Wedding Cake Masters
References
Defunct television networks in the United States
AMC Networks
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
English-language television stations in the United States
Wedding television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20ascent%20parser | In computer science, recursive ascent parsing is a technique for implementing an LALR parser which uses mutually-recursive functions rather than tables. Thus, the parser is directly encoded in the host language similar to recursive descent. Direct encoding usually yields a parser which is faster than its table-driven equivalent for the same reason that compilation is faster than interpretation. It is also (nominally) possible to hand edit a recursive ascent parser, whereas a tabular implementation is nigh unreadable to the average human.
Recursive ascent was first described by Thomas Pennello in his article in 1986. He was not intending to create a hand-editable implementation of an LR parser, but rather a maintainable and efficient parser implemented in assembly language. The technique was later expounded upon by G.H. Roberts in 1988 as well as in an article by Leermakers, Augusteijn, Kruseman Aretz in 1992 in the journal Theoretical Computer Science. An extremely readable description of the technique was written by Morell and Middleton in 2003. A good exposition can also be found in a TOPLAS article by Sperber and Thiemann.
Recursive ascent has also been merged with recursive descent, yielding a technique known as recursive ascent/descent. This implementation technique is arguably easier to hand-edit due to the reduction in states and fact that some of these states are more intuitively top-down rather than bottom up. It can also yield some minimal performance improvements over conventional recursive ascent.
Summary
Intuitively, recursive ascent is a literal implementation of the LR parsing concept. Each function in the parser represents a single LR automaton state. Within each function, a multi-branch statement is used to select the appropriate action based on the current token popped off the input stack. Once the token has been identified, action is taken based on the state being encoded. There are two different fundamental actions which may be taken based on the token in question:
Shift - Encoded as a function call, effectively jumping to a new automaton state.
Reduce - Encoded differently according to the semantic action routine for the relevant production. The result of this routine is wrapped in an ADT which is returned to the caller. The reduce action must also record the number of tokens which were shifted prior to the reduce, passing this value back to the caller along with the reduce value. This shift counter determines at which point up the call stack the reduce should be handled.
There is also a third LR automaton action which may be taken in a given state, but only after a reduce where the shift counter has decremented to zero (indicating that the current state should handle the result). This is the goto action, which is essentially a special case of shift designed to handle non-terminals in a production. This action must be handled after the multi-branch statement, since this is where any reduction result |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Catherine%27s%20College%2C%20Eastbourne | St Catherine's College (previously The Bishop Bell Church of England Mathematics & Computing Specialist School) is a coeducational Church of England secondary school situated on the south coast of England in Eastbourne. The school is part of the Diocese of Chichester Academy Trust.
History
Formerly Bedewell School on Whitley Road, Eastbourne, (the town's Fire Station now stands on the old site) it was reopened in its current location in Priory Road on 25 May 1959 by Princess Margaret. It was named after Bishop George Bell, who ordered its construction and of whom there is a painting in the school. The old site was commemorated with the addition of a Science and Technology building across the road from the main site, which is named Bedewell. The two sites are joined by a skywalk which cost £800,000 in 2004, replacing an outdoor metal bridge which had been deemed impractical.
There have been several ecclesiastical visits from Bishops and members of the Christian faith. The school has had visits from the Quicken Trust, a Christian organisation which works with people in Kabubu, Africa. Bishop Bell has links with Schlenker Secondary school from Freetown, Sierra Leone, within which it helped to implement an IT centre in 2008.
In January 2016 the school announced that it would shortly be renamed. This was after the Diocese of Chichester paid compensation and apologised after sex abuse allegations were made against Bishop George Bell in a civil claim. The school was renamed St Catherine's College.
Performance
Following a period of poor performance, the school's educational achievement improved when Terry Boatwright became head teacher in 1995. There was an increase in the number of pupils achieving 5 A*-C grade GCSEs for eleven consecutive years. By 1999 it was one of the top improving schools in the country; this was attributed to Boatwright by the local MP. By 2006 the school was oversubscribed. In 2014, Boatwright retired as headteacher, with Mark Talbot replacing him.
Since then, school performance has dropped severely, and now it is the second-worst school in Eastbourne, in front of only The Causeway School.
In March 2018, Mark Talbot announced that he was resigning as Principal of the school, after being appointed CEO of the Diocese of Chichester Academy Trust. In May 2018, the school announced that Solomon Berhane would be replacing Mr Talbot starting September that year.
Curriculum
The school educates students from Year 7 through to Year 11. The school offers pupils a range of voluntary and compulsory GCSE subjects which are taken from Year 9 to Year 11. There was a change after the academic year (2007–2008) in which the school started GCSEs at Year 10, with pupils deciding their subject choices the year before.
The school educates all of its pupils in Citizenship and Personal, Social and Health Education. English, Mathematics, Science, Religious Education and Physical Education are core subjects taught to all students throughout the en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorns%20Children%27s%20Hospice | Acorns Children's Hospice Trust is a registered charity, offering a network of palliative care and support to life-limited and life-threatened children and their families across the West Midlands region and part of South West England. Acorns has three hospices, situated in Birmingham, Walsall and Worcester as well as a community team that offer support to families in their homes. The catchment area for the Hospices comprises the counties of Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire as well as parts of Staffordshire, Shropshire, and the West Midlands.
Acorns provide a network of specialist palliative nursing care and support for babies, children and young people aged 0–18 who have life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and associated complex needs. In the year 2018–19, the hospice supported 787 children and 1,223 families, including those who are bereaved.
Acorns relies on the community to fund the majority of its activities.
Hospices
Acorns operates three hospices
Birmingham; location: Selly Oak; opened 1988
Black Country; location: Walsall; opened 1999
Three Counties; location: Worcester; opened 2005
Shops
The trust runs over 50 shops across the "Heart of England." Acorns has the largest regional charity retail chain and in 2015-2016 they raised over £1.5million. Acorns now have two furniture shops in Chelmsley Wood and at Beckett's in Wythall.
Acorns also have a boutique retail outlet in Station Road, Solihull and in Barnt Green, that deals in high-quality ladies' wear and fashionable accessories.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa F.C. have supported Acorns since 2006 and has already paid for 230 days' worth of hospice care. Several players have visited the children and families who use Acorns. Acorns highlighted the need for further assistance to aid the extra thousand children in the local area who needed the assistance of Acorns. Aston Villa responded by offering a platform to advertise the Hospice to a wider audience. On 7 July 2008, the club unveiled the kit for the 2008–09 season which has the Acorns logo in the position associated with the main kit sponsor. An Acorns spokesperson said "We are absolutely delighted that our logo will be seen at every home and away match during the 2008–09 season, helping to raise awareness of our work and of the constant need by all children's hospices to fundraise. This really is the beginning of an amazing partnership, believed to be the first of its kind in the Premier League." The deal was extended for the 2009–10 season. For the 2010–11 season onwards, Acorns is Aston Villa's Official Charity Partner. When Marc Albrighton scored the 20,000th goal in Premier League history, he chose Acorn's as the charity to receive the £20,000 prize donation.
References
External links
Organizations established in 1983
Charities based in Birmingham, West Midlands
Buildings and structures in Worcester, England
Hospices in England
1983 establishments in England
Health in Birmingham, West Mid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20Centres%20Network | The Online Centres Network is a UK-based network which helps communities tackle social and digital exclusion.
Good Things Foundation coordinates the Online Centres Network of 5,000 community partners, who provide free or low-cost access to computers and the internet. The organisation also provide training and support to hundreds of volunteers, centre staff and community leaders, helping them to work within their own communities.
Over 2 million people have been helped to improve their skills through the Online Centres Network to date, with many learners also going on to further learning and increased employment opportunities.
In 2011 the management of the Online Centres Network (then known as UK online centres) was taken over by Good Things Foundation (formerly known as Tinder Foundation), a staff-owned mutual and social enterprise formed by the Sheffield-based team previously managing the UK online centres contract on behalf of Ufi Ltd. In July 2013, Online Centres Foundation became known as Tinder Foundation. Tinder Foundation officially received charity status in early 2016. In November 2016 Tinder Foundation rebranded as Good Things Foundation.
Good Things Foundation Chief Executive, Helen Milner, was inducted into the BIMA Digital Hall of Fame in 2012 alongside Sir Tim Berners Lee, Stephen Fry, and others noted for their work in the digital arena.
Online learning
In April 2011, Good Things Foundation (then known as Online Centres Foundation) launched a brand new learning platform Go ON, which was renamed Learn My Way in 2012 (http://www.learnmyway.com/). The website was developed by Good Things Foundation with the aim of bringing together all of the resources on the market for internet beginners, including those developed specifically by Good Things Foundation, and from other providers including the BBC and Digital Unite.
The new website contains four main sections:
Get ready, to tackle those basic literacy and numeracy skills before tackling any online skills.
Get started, which includes fun engagement resources to help get first time learners started.
Online basics, the course that was developed in conjunction with BIS and Becta to provide learners with all of the skills they need to get started with computers and the internet.
Learn more, which includes a number of popular courses including Facebook and socialising online, Shopping online and Using a computer.
What next, which contains resources to help learners progress, including details on volunteering opportunities.
myguide, the original learning platform which was developed by Online Centres Foundation ceased to exist in September 2011. The most popular courses that existed on myguide have been moved across to the new learning platform.
Get Online Week
Get Online Week is an annual national campaign run by Good Things Foundation throughout the Online Centres Network, which helps tens of thousands of people to improve their computer and internet skills each year.
Get Onl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage%20Show%20%28TV%20series%29 | Stage Show is a popular music variety series broadcast in the United States on the CBS Television Network and originally hosted on alternate weeks by big band leaders and brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Produced by Jackie Gleason, it included the first national television appearances by rock music icon Elvis Presley.
The series began as a one-hour show on July 3, 1954, as a summer replacement for The Jackie Gleason Show. In the fall of 1955 it debuted from 8–8:30 p.m. ET, on Saturdays in the time slot prior to The Honeymooners, his own series.
In 1956, Jack Carter, a frequent guest, became the permanent host. The June Taylor Dancers made regular appearances. Bobby Darin made his national TV debut on the program in early 1956, singing "Rock Island Line". Placed against the popular The Perry Como Show on NBC, Stage Show'''s ratings declined. The final telecast, September 18, 1956, came only two months before the death of Tommy Dorsey. Brother Jimmy lost his life in June of the following year.
Famed jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker died in 1955 while watching the show on television.
Elvis Presley appearances
Elvis Presley made his network television debut on Stage Show''. He was introduced by Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Bill Randle on the January 28, 1956 broadcast performing "Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Flip, Flop and Fly" and "I Got a Woman". He made five more appearances during the next eight weeks:
February 4: "Baby Let's Play House" and "Tutti Frutti"
February 11: "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Heartbreak Hotel"
February 18: "Tutti Frutti" and "I Was The One"
March 17: "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Heartbreak Hotel"
March 24: "Money Honey" and "Heartbreak Hotel"
These shows were preserved on kinescope films. Complete songs and segments have been released within various Elvis Presley documentaries and home video compilations.
References
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External links
The following public domain episodes can be viewed on the Internet Archive: June 27 1956, March 31 1956, April 21 1956,
CBS original programming
1954 American television series debuts
1956 American television series endings
1950s American variety television series
1960s American variety television series
Black-and-white American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20Anonymous%20Attestation | Direct Anonymous Attestation (DAA) is a cryptographic primitive which enables remote authentication of a trusted computer whilst preserving privacy of the platform's user. The protocol has been adopted by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) in the latest version of its Trusted Platform Module (TPM) specification to address privacy concerns (see also Loss of Internet anonymity). ISO/IEC 20008 specifies DAA, as well, and Intel's Enhanced Privacy ID (EPID) 2.0 implementation for microprocessors is available for licensing RAND-Z along with an open source SDK.
Historical perspective
In principle the privacy issue could be resolved using any standard signature scheme (or public key encryption) and a single key pair. Manufacturers would embed the private key into every TPM produced and the public key would be published as a certificate. Signatures produced by the TPM must have originated from the private key, by the nature of the technology, and since all TPMs use the same private key they are indistinguishable ensuring the user's privacy. This rather naive solution relies upon the assumption that there exists a global secret. One only needs to look at the precedent of Content Scramble System (CSS), an encryption system for DVDs, to see that this assumption is fundamentally flawed. Furthermore, this approach fails to realize a secondary goal: the ability to detect rogue TPMs. A rogue TPM is a TPM that has been compromised and had its secrets extracted.
The solution first adopted by the TCG (TPM specification v1.1) required a trusted third-party, namely a privacy certificate authority (privacy CA). Each TPM has an embedded RSA key pair called an Endorsement Key (EK) which the privacy CA is assumed to know. In order to attest the TPM generates a second RSA key pair called an Attestation Identity Key (AIK). It sends the public AIK, signed by EK, to the privacy CA who checks its validity and issues a certificate for the AIK. (For this to work, either a) the privacy CA must know the TPM's public EK a priori, or b) the TPM's manufacturer must have provided an endorsement certificate.) The host/TPM is now able to authenticate itself with respect to the certificate. This approach permits two possibilities to detecting rogue TPMs: firstly the privacy CA should maintain a list of TPMs identified by their EK known to be rogue and reject requests from them, secondly if a privacy CA receives too many requests from a particular TPM it may reject them and blocklist the TPMs EK. The number of permitted requests should be subject to a risk management exercise. This solution is problematic since the privacy CA must take part in every transaction and thus must provide high availability whilst remaining secure. Furthermore, privacy requirements may be violated if the privacy CA and verifier collude. Although the latter issue can probably be resolved using blind signatures, the first remains.
The EPID 2.0 solution embeds the private key in the microprocessor when it is ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Security%20Network | The National Security Network (NSN) was a non-profit foreign policy organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, that focused on international relations, global affairs and national security. Characterizing itself as "progressive," the NSN's mission statement asserts the group aimed to "build a strong progressive national security and counter conservative spin."
NSN "suspended active operations" as of March 2016, according to their website.
Its founder, Rand Beers, was a Bush Administration counter-terrorism expert and is the former National Security Adviser to the John Kerry presidential campaign, 2004. Beers resigned from NSN in 2009 to serve as Counselor to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. Among other things, the National Security Network acts as a resource for media outlets, releasing frequent opinion papers on a wide variety of foreign policy issues and engaging in rapid responses to current events. It also hosted the liberal global affairs blog Democracy Arsenal.
History and Mission
The National Security Network was founded in 2006 by counter-terrorism expert and two-decade White House veteran Rand Beers. Beers led the Department of Homeland Security review team for Barack Obama's transition. He resigned from NSN in 2009 to serve as Counselor to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.
According to its About Us web page, NSN's mission was to "develop pragmatic and principled progressive national security policies for a new era. The organization believed in building upon the greatest legacies of American foreign policy through combining a strong and flexible military with shrewd diplomacy; the strategic and effective use of alliances; and above all, an unwavering commitment to America’s basic values."
Projects
NSN worked with a large network of experts to identify, develop, and communicate progressive national security policy solutions, focusing on the current issues of our time. NSN's products included policy briefs, developed by NSN's Policy Basics Project; the pre-eminent Democracy Arsenal blog; and the War Room, NSN's rapid response operation. In partnership with the US in the World project of Demos (U.S. think tank), NSN was deeply involved with the Who Owns Security project, which seeks to determine how the American public currently views the parties on national security; why the public holds those attitudes and feelings; and where they do or don't connect with specific national security issues.
NSN experts were frequently invited to speak on a variety of foreign policy issues at events nationwide.
The NSN Community
The National Security Network distributed its message to elected officials, political candidates, the media, national security experts, community leaders, and non-governmental organizations. NSN's 2,000-plus members and experts represented the emerging generation of foreign policy leaders. Its advisory board included: Chairman Leslie H. Gelb, Sandy Berger, Wesley Clark, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20engine%20%28disambiguation%29 | Search engine is a term commonly used to refer to a web search engine.
Search engine may also refer to:
Search engine (computing), an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system
Enterprise search engine, a search engine to search enterprise documents as opposed to general web search
Search Engine (radio show), a Canadian podcast by Jesse Brown
The Search Engine, a 2012 album by DJ Food
See also
Search algorithm or solver, software that finds a solution to a mathematical problem by searching
Search and optimization in artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9309%20Ukrainian%20Cup | The 2008–09 Ukrainian Cup is the 18th annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition, currently known as DATAGROUP – Football Ukraine Cup, or Kubok of Ukraine. The defending champion of this edition is Shakhtar Donetsk.
The Ukrainian Cup began with a preliminary round where teams from Druha Liha and Amateur Cup champions participated. In the second preliminary round, teams from Persha Liha were drawn into the competition and then in the round of 32 teams from Premier League entered the competition.
The winners of this competition will enter as Ukraine's cup winner representative in the play-off round of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League. Since one of the finalists, Shakhtar Donetsk, has already qualified for European competitions for 2009–10 by virtue of their position in the Premier League, Vorskla Poltava automatically qualifies for the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League.
Team allocation
Sixty-two teams participated in the competition.
Distribution
Round and draw dates
All draws held at FFU headquarters (Building of Football) in Kyiv unless stated otherwise.
Competition schedule
First Preliminary Round
In this round entered 25 teams from Druha Liha and winners of the Ukrainian Amateur Cup. The draw for the First Preliminary Round was held on July 8, 2008 while the matches took place on July 16, 2008.
Notes
Qualify as Amateur Cup Champions of Ukraine 2007
The match was played in Obukhiv, Kyiv Oblast
Since Bukovyna did not arrive for their game, Kremin advanced to the next round
The match was played in Borodianka because Bila Tserkva's home ground Trudovi Reserve was under reconstruction
Second Preliminary Round
In this round entered all 18 teams from Persha Liha. They were drawn against the 14 winners of the First Preliminary Round, with two matches containing only Persha Liha teams. The draw was held on July 22, 2008 while the matches were played on August 6, 2008, unless otherwise noted.
Notes
The match was played on August 4, 2008
The match was played in Mukachevo
Bracket
Round of 32
In this round entered all 16 teams from Premier League. They were drawn against the 16 winners from the previous round, who played home in this round. The draw was held on August 15, 2008 while the matches were played on September 13, 2008, unless otherwise noted.
Notes:
Round of 16
In this round entered winners from the previous round (11 Premier League and 5 Persha Liha teams). The draw was random and was held on September 24, 2008. The matches were played on October 29, 2008, unless otherwise noted.
Notes:
Penalty missed for Oleksandria – Andriy Hitchenko, for Dnipro – Vitaliy Denisov and Andriy Vorobey.
Quarterfinals
The draw was held on October 31, 2008 and was random. The matches were played November 12, 2008.
Notes:
Semifinals
The draw was held on November 19, 2008 and was random. The games were scheduled to be played on April 22, 2009.
Notes:
Final
The Ukrainian Cup Final was played in Dnipro Stadium, Dnipropetro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard%20Managed%20Solutions | Vanguard Managed Solutions (VanguardMS) was a limited liability company (LLC) which specialized in monitoring live data networks from network operations centers (NOCs) from 2001 to 2007. It began as Codex Corporation then was a division of Motorola, and then purchased by Platinum Equity. Platinum merged the network monitoring business section to CompuCom in 2007, but retained the IP router business renamed to Vanguard Networks.
History
Codex Corporation was founded in July 1962 by James M. Cryer Jr. and Arthur Kohlenberg, who were director and chief scientist at a Boston area research division of Melpar.
Originally the company was a government contractor headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.
In May 1967, Codex acquired Teldata, a small company led by Jerry Holsinger that was developing data communication products that would operate at data rates of 9600 bit per second compared to the 1200 bit per second rate of existing products.
Robert G. Gallager was hired as a consultant, and convinced the company to develop quadrature amplitude modulation techniques using two sidebands instead of single-sideband modulation. This technique was later refined by Dave Forney (hired in 1965) into a successful modem (modulator and demodulator) product.
Within a few years it had about 20% of the market, which then was dominated by American Telephone & Telegraph.
Codex had its initial public offering in 1968.
By 1970 military spending was decreasing, so pure commercial products were developed.
However, the AE-96 model 9600 bit/s modems had problems in practice when manufacturing was scaled up.
Holsinger left in 1970 found another modem company: Intertel.
Founding president Cryer and chief scientist Kohlenberg both died in 1970, and financing was delayed. Art Carr took over in September 1970 and reduce staff to conserve cash.
A secondary public offering was held in 1972 to reduce debt and raise capital to expand.
Motorola purchased Codex Corporation February 7, 1977.
That same month, chief primary competitor Milgo was purchased by British firm Racal, after a take-over attempt by Applied Digital Data Systems.
In 1982, Carr became head of the Motorola Information Systems Group, which included other acquisitions such as Four-Phase Systems in California.
The ISG division based in Mansfield, Massachusetts sold their "Vanguard" series Motorola routers to enterprise and retail markets. The Vanguard series delivered transport capabilities of multiplexing voice, legacy protocols, and IP Routing over a single Frame Relay circuit using Annex G protocol derived from X.25. The product's popularity led to its expansion of a managed services unit where existing router customers were given the option to have their network monitored in real time for Frame Relay outages, and hardware failures. This service attracted customers who preferred a hands-off approach to maintaining their own networks, and not have to deal with contacting the telecommunications company for Frame Rel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOTE%20Sport%20Radio | TOTE Sport Radio was a statewide radio network based in Tasmania. It was owned by TOTE Tasmania, the State Government's betting and gaming agency. The TOTE was sold to Tatts group, and as a result the radio network was integrated into Tatts groups other radio operations.
TOTE Sport Radio broadcasts are largely a relay of Sport 927 in Melbourne, although some syndicated programming is broadcast on the Launceston frequency. TOTE Sport Radio broadcasts live commentary of thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing along with race form and betting information. Other sports are also covered in breakfast and weekend programming.
Frequencies
Hobart – 1080 AM
Launceston – 1008 AM
Burnie – 97.7 FM
Devonport – 101.3 FM
A narrowcast relay on 87.6 FM is broadcast in the following towns: Bicheno, Queenstown, Rosebery, Strahan, St Helens, St Marys, Smithton and Zeehan.
It is famous for its sports breakfast segment.
See also
List of radio stations in Australia
References
External links
Tote Tasmania Group
Radio stations in Hobart
Radio stations in Tasmania
Sports radio stations in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera%20%28software%20library%29 | Chimera is a software library created as a research project at UCSB for the C programming language that implements a structured, peer-to-peer routing platform to allow the easy development of peer-to-peer applications.
The project's focus is on providing a fast, lightweight implementation of a system like other prefix-routing protocols such as UCSB's Tapestry system and Microsoft Research's Pastry system, that can be easily used to build an application that creates an overlay network with a limited number of library calls. The library is intended to serve as both a usable complete structured peer-to-peer system and a starting point for further research. It includes some of the current work in locality optimization and soft-state operations.
The system contains both a leaf set of neighbor nodes, which provides fault tolerance and a probabilistic invariant of constant routing progress, and a PRR-style routing table to improve routing time to a logarithmic factor of network size.
Chimera is currently being used in industry labs, as part of research done by the U.S. Department of Defense, and by startup companies.
Notes
References
Chimera documentation by Rama Alebouyeh included with source code
External links
Chimera at UCSB
Distributed data storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebo | Bebo ( ) was an American social networking website that originally operated from 2005 until its bankruptcy in 2013 and relaunched in February 2021. The site relaunched several times after its bankruptcy with a number of short-lived offerings, including instant messaging and video streaming, until its acquisition by Amazon in July 2019 when it was shut down. It was announced in January 2021 that it would be returning as a new social media site the month after. By May 2022, it had once again been shut down, without having ever left beta testing.
The site was founded by Michael Birch and Xochi Birch.
History
Founding and early years
Bebo was founded by husband-and-wife team Michael and Xochi Birch in January 2005 at their home in San Francisco. The website name was bought by the founders, and the backronym "Blog Early, Blog Often" was invented to answer the question of what the name meant.
The website, at the height of its popularity, overtook Myspace to become the most widely used social networking website in the United Kingdom, eventually registering at least 10.7 million unique users.
Sale to AOL
Bebo's popularity saw it sold to AOL in March 2008 for $850 million, with the Birches' combined 70% stake yielding a profit of $595 million from the deal. The BBC later described the AOL purchase of Bebo as "one of the worst deals ever made in the dotcom era", and it cost the then-CEO of AOL, Randy Falco, his job.
On April 7, 2010, AOL announced that it would either sell the website or shut it down; this was mainly due to the falling numbers of unique users moving to rival site Facebook. AOL said that Bebo could not compete with other social networking sites in its current state and that the company could not commit to taking on the massive task to keep Bebo in the social network race. It has been reported that AOL's finances were struggling.
The National Space Agency of Ukraine's RT-70 radio telescope sent 501 messages chosen by Bebo users, called A Message From Earth, toward planet Gliese 581c. Sent on 9 October 2008, it will arrive in the spring of 2028.
Criterion Capital Partners ownership transfer
On June 16, 2010, AOL sold Bebo to hedge fund operators Criterion Capital Partners.
On February 17, 2011, Bebo launched a brand-new design. This consisted of a new, more modern header and home page, as well as a new profile layout option. Users could also see who had visited their profiles (a feature which could be changed in settings). In April 2011, Bebo added a new notification system, similar to Facebook's – a feature which had been much-requested in feedback. It notified users of new inbox messages, lifestream activity and more.
On January 30, 2012, access to Bebo became unavailable for 36 hours, resuming normal service during the early hours of February 1, 2012. A Bebo spokesperson told TechCrunch that the site was down due to "a technical clusterfuck". Adam Levin, CEO of Bebo and Criterion Capital Partners, stated that they were trying |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20H.%20McCormick | Bruce Howard McCormick (1928–2007) was an American computer scientist, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Computer Science, and founding director of the Brain Networks Lab at Texas A&M University.
Biography
McCormick took his BS in Physics from MIT in 1950, followed by two years on a Fulbright Scholarship to Cambridge University, England. There he studied quantum field theory with Professor Paul Dirac, founder of the field of quantum mechanics and holder of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Professor Erwin Schrödinger. McCormick returned to the U.S. to take his PhD in physics at Harvard University in 1955, with the thesis "Two investigations in meson theory in the non-relativistic limit". He then became a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
In 1957 McCormick accepted a post as staff physicist at the Alvarez Hydrogen Bubble Chamber Group at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The Chamber Group was led by Dr. Luis Alvarez, who later won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1960 Dr. McCormick began 12 years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was a professor of physics, computer science, and bioengineering. Afterwards, he served as head of the electrical engineering and computer science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. McCormick joined Texas A&M in 1983 as the first department head of the newly formed Department of Computer Science in the Dwight Look College of Engineering. In August 2005 Dr. McCormick retired from Texas A&M but continued his research there, exploring and understanding the complexity and scaling properties of the brain's microcircuit structure.
McCormick died the first week of December 2007 in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.
Publications
McCormick has authored numerous books and articles.
Books
1966. Design concepts for an information resource center with option of an attached automated laboratory. With A. M. Richardson.
1968. Pattern articulation unit of Illiac III; homogenous Boolean functions in the iterative array.William J. Watson and Richard T. Borovec.
1968. Illiac III programming manual. Edited with R. Lansford.
1970. Illiac III computer system; brief description and annotated bibliography.
1971. Illiac III reference manual. Edited with B.J. Nordmann and others.
1971. Interval generalization of switching theory. With R.S. Michalski.
1972. Analysis of texture. With S. N. Jayaramamurthy.
1987. Visualization in Scientific Computing. Edited with Thomas A. DeFanti and Maxine D. Brown. ACM Press.
Articles, a selection
1987. "The Usable Intersection of PC Graphics and NTSC Video Recording". With D.J. Sandin. In: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. Oct. 1987, pp. 50–58.
1987. "Visualization in Scientific Computing". With T.A. DeFanti and M.D. Brown. In: Computer Graphics. Vol. 21, No. 6, Nov. 1987.
1988. "Scientific Animation Workstations". With M.D. Brown. in: SuperComputing. Fall 1988, pp. 10–13.
1989. "Scientific Animation Workstations: Cr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDB | PDB may refer to:
Chess Problem Database Server (PDB Server)
1,4-Dichlorobenzene (paradichlorobenzene)
Party of German-speaking Belgians, (German: ), a political party and predecessor of the ProDG
PDB (Palm OS), a container format for record databases in Palm OS, Garnet OS and Access Linux Platform
Pee Dee Belemnite, a standard for stable Carbon-13 and Oxygen-18 isotopes; see
Pluggable database, such as an Oracle Database in a multitenancy environment
Potato dextrose broth, a common microbiological growth media
Pousette-Dart Band
President's Daily Brief or Briefing or Bulletin, a top-secret intelligence document produced each morning for the U.S. President
Program database, a file format for storing debugging information
Promised Day Brigade, an Iraqi Shia organisation
Protein Data Bank
Protein Data Bank (file format)
Python Debugger, see Python (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei%20National%20Roads%20System | Brunei National Roads System (Malay; Sistem Jalan Kebangsaan Brunei: Jawi; سيستم جالن كبڠسأن بروني) is the main national road network in Brunei. It was built and maintained by the Public Works Department.
Major highways in Brunei are built under dual carriageway standards, while other roads are built as single carriageways. Road signs are coloured green with white text (white with black text for denoting nearby locations).
Speed limits
The maximum speed limit for dual carriageways in Brunei is generally 100 km/h. Meanwhile, the maximum speed limit for single-carriageway roads is 80 km/h. Lower speed limits may apply in urban areas.
List of roads and highways
Highways
Muara–Tutong Highway
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Highway
Tungku Highway
Tungku–Jerudong Highway
Duli Pengiran Muda Mahkota Al-Muhtadee Billah Highway
Tutong–Telisai Highway
Seria By Pass Highway
Telisai–Lumut Highway
Brunei-Temburong Highway including Temburong Bridge
Notable roads
Jalan Utama Berakas
Jalan Serasa
Jalan Muara
Transport in Brunei
Roads and Highways in Brunei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight%20Club%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Fight Club" is the twentieth episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on May 7, 2000. It was written by series creator Chris Carter, directed by Paul Shapiro, and featured a guest appearance by Kathy Griffin. The episode plot serves as a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, which is unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Fight Club" earned a Nielsen household rating of 6.9, being watched by 11.70 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mostly negative reviews from television critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, Mulder and Scully run into a pair of doppelgangers, who, whenever they draw near to one another, cause disaster to unfold. Splitting up, the agents try to find out "why" and "what" they are doing.
"Fight Club" was inspired by a "long-lost nugget" of a story that series creator Chris Carter had thought up a while back about "mis-matched twins that had an almost nuclear reaction when they were around each other." Steve Kiziak and Arlene Pileggi—David Duchovny's stunt double and Mitch Pileggi's wife, respectively—were chosen to play the Mulder and Scully look-alikes at the start of the episode. "Fight Club" contained several scenes of intense action that necessitated the use of various stunt doubles and extras.
Plot
In Kansas City, Kansas, two religious missionaries visit two women at two different homes in the same neighborhood who look exactly alike. The second woman yells at them to go away and the two men, inexplicably, get into a fight in the second woman's front yard. Later, two FBI agents who look and sound remarkably similar to Mulder and Scully visit the first woman, Betty Templeton (Kathy Griffin). Betty claims to have never seen the other woman before. The other woman then passes her by in a car and the two agents begin fighting each other, much like the missionaries. They are severely injured after the gruesome mauling. Both agents, who had worked together for seven years, said that they were possessed. Meanwhile, the other woman, Lulu Pfeiffer (also Griffin), fails to get a job at a copy shop because of her work history. When she becomes aggravated, all the copies suddenly become black. The other woman, Betty, goes to a similar job with a similar resume.
Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) begin to investigate the case. Later, in a bar, a man named Bert Zupanic (Randall "Tex" Cobb) comes across Betty. Moments later, as Lulu walks in, an earthquake occurs which breaks all the glass in the bar. Lulu then runs out. Mulder finds out through a man named Argyle Saperstein (Art Evans) that Bert is in a relationship with one of the identical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool%20Boarders%202001 | Cool Boarders 2001 is a snowboarding video game developed by Idol Minds and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. It is the only Cool Boarders title to be released only in North America.
Reception
The PlayStation 2 version received "generally favorable reviews", while the PlayStation version received "mixed" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Samuel Bass of NextGen said of the latter console version in its January 2001 issue, "A pre-SSX game in a post-SSX era, Cool Boarders 2001 is simply too little, too late." Six issues later, Jeff Lundrigan said of the former console version, "It's not the worst snowboarding game you've ever played, but there are far better ones out there."
References
External links
2000 video games
Deck Nine games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation 2 games
Snowboarding video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20universities%20and%20colleges%20in%20Zamboanga%20City | This is a list of tertiary schools in Zamboanga City, Philippines.
Universities and Colleges
A
AMA Computer College-Zamboanga Campus
Ateneo de Zamboanga University
B
Brent Hospital & Colleges Incorporated
E
Ebenezer Bible College and Seminary
I
Immaculate Conception Archdiocesan School
J
J-Jireh School Inc.
P
Pastor Bonus College Seminary, School of Philosophy
Pilar College
Puericulture Maternity Hospital School of Nursing
S
Southern City Colleges
U
Universidad de Zamboanga
Universal College of Southeast Asia and the Pacific
W
Western Mindanao State University
Z
Zamboanga National High School West
Zamboanga Peninsula Polytechnic State University (ZPPSU)
Zamboanga State College of Marine Sciences and Technology (ZSCMST)
Zamboanga City
Universities
Zamboanga City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDOC | WDOC (1310 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Southern Gospel format. It is licensed to Prestonsburg, Kentucky, United States. It is currently owned by Wdoc, Inc., and features programming from Premiere Radio Networks and Salem Communications.<ref>
References
External links
Southern Gospel radio stations in the United States
DOC
Prestonsburg, Kentucky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.a.n.d. | , abbreviation of Hokkaido Artists' Network and Development, is a Japanese video game developer. The company originally started as a service selling Macintosh hardware and software to universities before the Mac platform was widely known. When competition in the field increased, h.a.n.d. reorganized to develop original software.
h.a.n.d.'s earliest known game is Treasure Strike, developed in collaboration with publisher, Kid, who released the PC follow-up to the Dreamcast original in 2004. The company consists of two other divisions—North Point Inc. for the development of mobile phone apps and other software, and S.N.S. Inc. who work on social games for Facebook and Mixi for external publishers.
List of games
References
External links
Official English site
Video game companies established in 1993
Video game companies of Japan
Video game development companies
Companies based in Sapporo
Japanese companies established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton%20Walnum | Clayton Walnum is a programmer who has written multiple books about programming in C#, DirectX and C++.
Clayton Walnum started programming computers in 1982, when he traded an IBM Selectric typewriter to buy an Atari 400 computer with 16K of RAM. He was hired as a Technical Editor for Atari 8-bit computer magazine ANALOG Computing in 1985, eventually becoming
Executive Editor before leaving in 1989, the year the publication folded. He authored a number of type-in games for ANALOG, including Dragonlord (1985) and Moonlord (1986), mostly written in Atari BASIC.
Walnum has since acquired a degree in computer science, and written over 30 books (translated into many languages). He is also the author of hundreds of magazine articles and software reviews, as well as a large number of programs.
Books
Microsoft Direct3D Programming: Kick Start
Sams Teach Yourself Game Programming With Directx in 21 Days
C# for Visual Basic Programmers
Sams Teach Yourself Game Programming With Visual Basic in 21 Days
C++ Master Reference
Visual Basic 6: Master Reference
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Visual Basic 6
References
American technology writers
Computer programmers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreamZilla | StreamZilla is a streaming media hosting and content delivery network (CDN) in Europe. The company is located in the Mediacentrale in the city Groningen, Netherlands.
Overview
StreamZilla offers streaming media and media file hosting and delivery services to customers like video portals, broadcasters, football clubs, publishers, enterprises and video production companies.
Achievements
StreamZilla won the Streaming Media Magazine Readers' Choice award for best European Content Delivery Network 2008.
In 2008, over 2 billion videos were distributed to viewers all over the world.
Technologies
StreamZilla is powered by a European wide 2Tbit/s network with +500Gbit/s connections to all the major internet exchanges and global carriers. These servers are powered by the XL Media Server framework that enables simultaneous operation of all popular media services including Flash Media Server, Windows Media Services, QuickTime Streaming Server, Wowza Media Server, Icecast, Internet Information Server and Apache without performance loss. The media servers are managed by a central Content Delivery Management application called VDO-X.
References
Networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosumin%21 | is a puzzle video game released as a flash game for the personal computer. Later, it was ported to the Nintendo DS console and the Xbox 360. The game involves players manipulating a grid of "yosumin", or tiles to make color matches and eliminate a certain number before time runs out. Developed and published in Japan by Square Enix, the game was created to and brought to other platforms in an effort to expand their game portfolio and attract more casual players. The game has received mixed reviews, with some noting its originality and addictive gameplay, and others noting the game's limited nature.
Gameplay
In Yosumin!, the player tries to select rectangular regions in a grid of tiles that have the same type of yosumin at all four corners. The player has a target goal of the number of rectangles with yosumin of specific types that must be removed, and has a time limit. The larger the rectangle selected, the greater the number of points the player receives. Special yosumin are sometimes included, which when removed can give extra time or points. Later in the game another type of yosumin is added which can be moved, allowing the player to create rectangles of larger size. In multiplayer mode, two players face off in a larger grid. Creating rectangles can remove time from the opponent's timer, and specific yosumin which are selected before the game begins perform other moves such as stunning the opposing player. Wireless two-player competitive mode is playable through game sharing on the Nintendo DS with a single cartridge. Enhancements included new block types such as a block that rearranges the boards layout.
Development
Yosumin! was originally a free browser-based game. The game was showcased in playable form at the Tokyo Game Show 2007. It was shown to be an enhanced port of the original Yosumin browser game released by Square Enix on the @nifty network. This was confirmed to be part of publisher Square Enix's effort to expand their fan base internationally and across more types of players and genres, including more casual games. The game was available at Japanese Nintendo DS demo stations in November 2007. In November 2008 Square Enix trademarked Yosumin! In the United States. On January 26, 2009 Square Enix announced plans to release Yosumin! on the Xbox Live Arcade as part of an initiative to put more games on Xbox's games service. On May 26, 2009, Yosumin! was released over the digital distribution service Steam, and the following day was released on Xbox Live Arcade as Yosumin! Live.
Reception
The Xbox Live Arcade version had minimal popularity, with fewer than 4,500 players on the game's leader-board. Gamasutra cited the Japanese name and a high price as reasons for the game's low popularity. IGN liked the PC version of the game, noting the loss of the Xbox Live Arcade multi-player but complimenting the expanded single player mode. UGO called the game its top sixth "Casual Games for Real Gamers", calling it fun and easy to learn.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InetSoft | InetSoft Technology Corporation is a privately owned multinational computer software company that develops free and commercial web-based business intelligence applications. The company was founded in 1996, and currently has over 120 employees between its corporate headquarters in Piscataway, New Jersey, and development offices in Beijing and Xi'an, China.
The company offers applications focusing on operational BI, enterprise reporting, data visualization and embeddable reporting. InetSoft's solutions have been deployed at over 3,000 organizations worldwide, including 25% of Fortune 500 companies.
History
InetSoft was co-founded in 1996 by siblings Larry and Luke Liang. Prior to founding InetSoft, Larry Liang, was involved in the early research of e-commerce and interactive Web technologies and served as a research scientist at Bell Communications Research (now Telcordia Technologies), and held various technical positions at Bell Labs, AT&T, and Lucent Technologies. Luke Liang worked for Goldman Sachs in a variety of technology and management positions and held consulting positions with both JP Morgan, Chase and the Union Bank of Switzerland. Both hold master's degrees in Computer Science.
The company began with four employees working out of a garage in Piscataway, New Jersey. It focused on developing an open standards Java-based platform that would be fully compatible with Java/XML, relational databases, internet technologies and legacy systems. Its initial product was Style Report, which focused on reporting and data analysis. Style Report claims to have a small footprint, and has been used in client-side and server-side Java applications. Over the years, InetSoft's products evolved alongside Java to become server-based Web solutions. The product line has grown to include reporting, dashboards and visual analysis.
Product development history
InetSoft's software is based on open standards technology that incorporates XML, SOAP, Java language, and JavaScript. While the primary design goal is easy integration with other open standards based software, access to third party proprietary software has been added in recent years. Additionally, the company licenses by CPU rather than by named user. Here is a history of InetSoft product development.
1998: Style Report was introduced, a developer tool that could be used as a report generation engine for both desktop Java applications and web applications. It provided support for tabular, flow, "banded" (like Crystal Reports), and mixed layouts. Its embedded report scripting engine was the Mozilla Rhino engine.
2000: Style Report EE was introduced. It was based on the same reporting engine and provided multi-threaded report generation with caching, drill-down reports, parameter reports, and search, sort and filtering features. It also featured ad hoc query for modifying or creating reports.
2004: Style Report Analytic was introduced. It was a product for operational BI that provided reports, da |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Social%20and%20Environmental%20Accounting%20Research | The Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) is a research and networking institution in the field of social accounting. It combines more than 600 active members, fellows and associates in over 30 countries.
Based at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, CSEAR's primary objective is to gather and make available information about the practice and theory of social and environmental accounting and reporting.
In doing so, CSEAR's international network supports students, practitioners, scholars and educationalists in all aspects of the education, research and practice of social, environmental and sustainability accounting, reporting, auditing, finance and taxation.
Activities
As a network institution, CSEAR provides a database of academics and practitioners around the world who share an interest in social and environmental accounting.
For more than ten years, CSEAR has been holding the annual International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting (also known as CSEAR Summer School).
CSEAR also regularly organises research schools and conferences in Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Spain and Portugal. The first North American Congress was held from 7–9 July 2008 at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. A South America Congress was scheduled to be held in Brazil in 2009.
CSEAR also maintains a specialist library within the University of St Andrews' School of Management.
Social and Environmental Accounting Journal
The Centre publishes a biannual journal, the Social and Environmental Accounting Journal (SEAJ), which is distributed free to its members.
SEAJ is a 'predominantly refereed journal committed to the creation of a new academic literature in the broad field of social, environmental and sustainable development accounting, accountability, reporting and auditing'.
Next to keeping its readers informed about developments in CSEAR and relevant developments in the field and in practice, SEAJ includes extensive reviews of recent books and journal articles of relevance to researchers, practitioners and students in the field.
SEAJ is managed by an Executive Editorial Board which provides support to the editors and is underpinned by an International Editorial Advisory Board.
History
Established in 1991, CSEAR has previously been hosted by the University of Dundee (1991 - 1999) and the University of Glasgow (1999 - 2004). Since 2004 CSEAR is located in, and sponsored by, the University of St Andrews' School of Management. CSEAR is directed by Professor Robert Hugh Gray.
See also
Accountancy
Social accounting
Corporate Social Responsibility
Sustainability
University of St Andrews
External links
CSEAR
University of St Andrews School of Management
Accounting organizations
Social responsibility organizations
Sustainability in Scotland
Accounting research
Reform in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexOS | FlexOS is a discontinued modular real-time multiuser multitasking operating system (RTOS) designed for computer-integrated manufacturing, laboratory, retail and financial markets. Developed by Digital Research's Flexible Automation Business Unit in Monterey, California, in 1985, the system was considered to become a successor of Digital Research's earlier Concurrent DOS, but with a new, modular, and considerably different system architecture and portability across several processor families. Still named Concurrent DOS 68K and Concurrent DOS 286, it was renamed into FlexOS on 1 October 1986 to better differentiate the target audiences. FlexOS was licensed by several OEMs who selected it as the basis for their own operating systems like 4680 OS, 4690 OS, S5-DOS/MT and others. Unrelated to FlexOS, the original Concurrent DOS system architecture found a continuation in successors like Concurrent DOS XM and Concurrent DOS 386 as well.
Overview
Concurrent DOS 286, Concurrent DOS 68K and FlexOS were designed by Francis "Frank" R. Holsworth (using siglum FRH). Like Portable CP/M, Concurrent DOS 286, Concurrent DOS 68K and Concurrent DOS V60, FlexOS was written in C for higher portability across hardware platforms, and it featured very low interrupt latency and fast context switching.
The original protected mode FlexOS 286 version 1.3 was designed for host machines equipped with 286 CPUs, and with adaptations for NEC V60, NEC V70 and Motorola 68000 processors planned. FlexOS 286 executables using the system's native INT DCh (INT 220) application program interface had the filename extension .286. A CP/M API front-end (FE) was available as well, using the extension .CMD for executables. (A filename extension of .68K was reserved for FlexOS 68K, a file extension derived from Concurrent DOS 68K as of 1986.)
In May 1987, FlexOS version 1.31 was released for 80286 machines. The developer version required an IBM PC/AT-compatible machine with 640 KB of conventional and 512 KB of extended memory, and either a (monochrome) CGA or an EGA graphics adapter.
FlexOS supported a concept of dynamically loadable and unloadable subdrivers, and it came with driver prototypes for floppies, hard disks, printers, serial interfaces, RAM disks, mice and console drivers.
During boot, the FLEX286.SYS kernel would load the resource managers and device drivers specified in the CONFIG.SYS binary file (not to be mixed up with the similarly named CONFIG.SYS configuration file under DOS), and its shell (COMMAND.286) would execute a CONFIG.BAT startup batch job instead of the common AUTOEXEC.BAT.
FlexOS's optional DOS emulator provided limited PC DOS 2.1 compatibility for DOS .COM and .EXE programs. Certain restrictions applied in "8086 emulation mode" since these programs were executed in the processor's protected mode. Due to bugs in earlier steppings of the Intel 80286, the FlexOS 286 DOS front-end required at least the 80286 E2 stepping to function properly (see LOADALL). These |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela%20L.%20Rus | Daniela L. Rus is a roboticist and computer scientist, Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Biography
Daniela L. Rus was born in Romania before immigrating to the United States with her parents. Her father, Teodor Rus, is an emeritus professor of computer science at the University of Iowa.
She earned her bachelor's degree in computer science in 1985 from the University of Iowa, before getting a PhD in 1993 at Cornell University under the supervision of John Hopcroft. She started her academic career as a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College before moving to MIT in 2004.
Since 2012 she has served as Director of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), which - with more than 125 faculty and 1500+ members - is the university's largest interdepartmental research lab.
As director of CSAIL, she launched a number of research programs and initiatives, including the AI Accelerator program, Toyota-CSAIL Joint Research Center, Communities of Research (CoR), a DEI postdoctoral program called METEOR, Future of Data Trust and Privacy, Machine Learning Applications, Fintech, Cybersecurity. As head of CSAIL's Distributed Robotics Lab, Rus focuses her research on the science and engineering of autonomy, with the goal of developing systems that seamlessly integrate into people's lives to support them with cognitive and physical tasks.
Rus is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), and a fellow of ACM, AAAI, and IEEE. She was also the recipient of an NSF Career award and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship, and of the 2002 MacArthur Fellowship.
Work
Rus has published an extensive collection of research articles that span the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and computational design.
In her work Rus has sought to expand the notion of what a robot can be, exploring such topics as soft robotics, self-reconfigurable modular robots, swarm robotics, and 3D printing. Her research approaches the study of the science and engineering of autonomy as integrated hardware-software, or body-brain systems. She has said that she views the body of the robot as critical in “defining the range of capabilities of the robot,” and the brain critical in “enabling the body to deliver on its capabilities."
To this end, she has developed a range of algorithms for computation design and fabrication of robots, for increasing the learning capabilities of machines in safety-critical applications, and for coordinating teams of machines and people.
In addition to contributing fundamentally to the design, control, planning, and learning for agents, Rus also considered what is necessary for robots to be deployed in the world |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20J.%20Leonard | John J. Leonard is an American roboticist and Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Leonard is a researcher in simultaneous localization and mapping, and was the team lead for MIT's team at the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, one of the six teams to cross the finish line in the final event, placing fourth overall.
Life and career
Leonard received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987 and his D.Phil. in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford in 1994, under the Thouron Award. He spent five years as a postdoctoral fellow and Research Scientist in the MIT Sea Grant Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Laboratory, and joined the MIT faculty in 1996.
Leonard is one of the early pioneers of SLAM with Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte. Leonard has served as an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering and of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1998, an E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award from Science Foundation Ireland in 2004, and the King-Sun Fu Memorial Best IEEE Transactions on Robotics Paper Award in 2006.
Leonard describes his primary research goal as persistent autonomy, i.e., the "capability for one or more robots to operate robustly for days, weeks and months at a time with minimal human supervision, in complex, dynamic environments". Leonard focuses on the problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), particularly for autonomous underwater vehicles.
References
External links
Home page
MIT DGC home
American roboticists
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Control theorists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20P.%20Kaelbling | Leslie Pack Kaelbling is an American roboticist and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is widely recognized for adapting partially observable Markov decision processes from operations research for application in artificial intelligence and robotics. Kaelbling received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1997 for applying reinforcement learning to embedded control systems and developing programming tools for robot navigation. In 2000, she was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
Career
Kaelbling received an A. B. in Philosophy in 1983 and a Ph. D. in Computer Science in 1990, both from Stanford University. During this time she was also affiliated with the Center for the Study of Language and Information. She then worked at SRI International and the affiliated robotics spin-off Teleos Research before joining the faculty at Brown University. She left Brown in 1999 to join the faculty at MIT. Her research focuses on decision-making under uncertainty, machine learning, and sensing with applications to robotics.
Journal of Machine Learning Research
In the spring of 2000, she and two-thirds of the editorial board of the Kluwer-owned journal Machine Learning resigned in protest to its pay-to-access archives with simultaneously limited financial compensation for authors. Kaelbling co-founded and served as the first editor-in-chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research, a peer-reviewed open access journal on the same topics which allows researchers to publish articles for free and retain copyright with its archives freely available online. In response to the mass resignation, Kluwer changed their publishing policy to allow authors to self-archive their papers online after peer-review. Kaelbling responded that this policy was reasonable and would have made the creation of an alternative journal unnecessary, but the editorial board members had made it clear they wanted such a policy and it was only after the threat of resignations and the actual founding of JMLR that the publishing policy finally changed.
Selected works
Reinforcement Learning: A Survey (LP Kaelbling, ML Littman, AW Moore). Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 4 (1996) 237-285. A highly cited survey on the field of reinforcement learning.
Planning and acting in partially observable stochastic domains (LP Kaelbling, ML Littman, AR Cassandra). Artificial Intelligence 101 (1), 99-134.
Acting under uncertainty: Discrete Bayesian models for mobile-robot navigation (AR Cassandra, LP Kaelbling, JA Kurien). Intelligent Robots and Systems (2) 963-972.
The synthesis of digital machines with provable epistemic properties (SJ Rosenschein, LP Kaelbling). Proceedings of the 1986 Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge, 83-98.
Practical reinforcement learning in continuous spaces (WD Smart, LP Kaelbling). 2000 International Con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%20J.%20Teller | Seth Jared Teller (May 28, 1964 – July 1, 2014) was an American computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose research interests included computer vision, sensor networks, and robotics. In his Argus and Rover projects of the late 1990s, Teller was an early pioneer in the use of mobile cameras and geolocation to build three-dimensional models of cities.
Early life
Teller's parents are Joan Teller and Samuel H. Teller of Bolton, Connecticut; Samuel Teller is a senior judge in the Connecticut Superior Court in Rockville.
Teller received his undergraduate degree from the Wesleyan University, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. His dissertation, Visibility Computations in Densely Occluded Polyhedral Environments, was supervised by Carlo H. Séquin.
Academic career
He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Computer Science Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Princeton University's Computer Science Department.
Teller was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1997.
Teller was heading the Robotics, Vision, and Sensor Networks group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, conducting robotics and artificial intelligence research on developing robots with situational awareness. His work involved, in particular, creating various assistive technology robots and devices for people with disabilities. Teller's robotics projects included "a robotic, voice-controlled wheelchair, a wearable device for visually-impaired people that provides them with information about their surroundings, a self-driving car and an unmanned forklift". He also worked on developing technology for reducing the danger of first responders being hit by the passing vehicles while stopped to deal with highway accidents.
Teller was part of the MIT group developing software for a DoD robot, "Atlas", in the DARPA Robotics Challenge competition. Earlier, Teller's robotic car competed in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge competition.
In 2015, the Robotics Science and Systems Foundation established a Best Systems Paper Award in honor of Teller.
Personal life and death
Seth Teller married Rachel Zimmerman, a journalist from New York, in September 2002. They had two daughters.
Teller was involved in neighborhood activism in Cambridge, Massachusetts and helped create the Neighborhood Association of East Cambridge.
Seth Teller died on July 1, 2014, at the age of 50. The official cause of death was ruled a suicide, with the cause of death listed as "blunt trauma to head and torso."
References
External links
Home page
Seth J. Teller at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
1964 births
2014 deaths
American roboticists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Sloan Research Fellows
Suicides in Massachusetts
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American scientists
American computer scientists
University of California, Berkeley alumni
2014 suicid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonex%20ONEt | The Elonex ONEt is a netbook computer marketed to the education sector in the UK by Elonex. Inspired by the OLPC initiative, the low cost of the ONE, the ONEt and similar devices, made this subnotebook seem an attractive proposition for educators seeking to provide every child with a highly functional laptop computer. However initial ONEt trials by educators claimed that the lack of security, specifically the absence of any password protection at start-up, put personal information at risk, making it unsuitable for use in a school environment. It was released in September 2008, on sale to the general public, marketed as an upgrade to the ONE. It has Wi-Fi connectivity, a solid-state hard drive, three USB ports and an SD card slot.
Hardware
The hardware specifications published on 9 July 2008:
Processor, Main Memory
Ingenic JZ4730 JzRisc Processor (incorporates the XBurst CPU core)
On-board 1 GB Flash Memory, (2 GB in t+ model)
128 MiB RAM
Dimensions
Display: LCD display; 800×480 px Widescreen
Dimension (w.× l.×h.): 21×14×3 cm
Weight: 625 g
Networking
Wi-Fi
Ethernet
Peripherals, Ports
3 USB ports
Ethernet-over-twisted-pair network port
2 built-in speakers
Audio in & out
SD Card slot
Battery
Li ion 7.2 V 2.1 Ah - approximately 3 hours usage
Energy Consumption
Approximately 4.5 W
Operating System
The Elonex OneT has a Linux (mipsel) based operating system, and the included software comprises Sky Word (Abiword 2.4.5), Sky Table (Gnumeric 1.6.3), a PDF viewer (ePDFView 0.1.6), Scientific Calculator, Dictionary, File Manager, Web Browser (BonEcho/Firefox), Email client (Sylpheed), Sky Chatting (Pidgin), FBReader, Media Player (xine based), Xip Flash Player, Image Gallery, Paint Brush, and Sound Recorder.
Although access to the root filing system isn't possible through the included file manager it is possible to get console access as user root by installing the Xterm application from the CnM Lifestyle website. The CnM Lifestyle notebook is exactly the same as the Elonex OneT and so all applications on this page can be installed.
(To browse the raw file system, the web browser will respond appropriately to being told to load file://127.0.0.1; obviously, this is read-only access.)
Similar devices
The ONEt is similar to the CnM Mini-book from Maplin Electronics, Alpha 400 product from Bestlink or the Trendtac EPC 700 or the Skytone Alpha 400. Those devices are basically all the same and only have different OEM names.
References
External links
Loads of guidance for the ONEt and similar machines
Blog, prices, news, how-to on Alpha 400 and all 400-MHz MIPS mini-laptops.
Elonex ONEt Review UK
Netbooks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patapon%202 | is a 2008 video game co-developed by Pyramid and Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable (PSP). It is a direct sequel to Patapon, and like its predecessor, uses the same unique genre that combines rhythm and strategy. The game was released in Japan in November 2008, in PAL regions in March 2009, in North America in May 2009, and ported to the PlayStation 4 Worldwide on January 30, 2020.
After the Patapon and Zigoton tribe finish the construction of their ship, they set sail to continue their journey to Earthend to gaze upon "IT". After some time at sea, their ship is struck down by a sea monster and both Patapons and Zigotons drift ashore on an unknown island where they encounter a new enemy tribe known as the Karmen and a lone Patapon known as "Hero". The player takes the role of an invisible deity known as The Mighty Patapon and commands the Patapon Tribe to march, attack, defend, and retreat. The game introduces a new way to evolve the Patapon army, and new units to unlock including a singular Hero Patapon that can be used for four-player ad hoc multiplayer mode.
A sequel titled Patapon 3 was released on April 12, 2011, in North America, April 15, 2011, in Europe, and on April 28, 2011, in Japan.
Gameplay
The core gameplay of Patapon 2 is almost identical to its predecessor. It is a video game that the player controls in a manner similar to rhythm games. The player is directly controlled by a tribe of Patapon warriors; to command the warriors, the player inputs specific sequences using the face buttons on the PSP, each representing a "talking drum", in time to a drum rhythm. These sequences order the tribe to move forward on the linear battlefield, attack, defend, and other actions. If the player inputs an unknown sequence or enters them off the main rhythm, the tribe will become confused and stop whatever they are doing. However, repeatedly entering a proper sequence in sync with the rhythm will lead the tribe into a "Fever" increasing their attack and defensive bonuses. The tribe will stop doing anything after performing the last entered command if the player does not enter any more commands. For example, some commands are square, square, square, circle (Pata, Pata, Pata, Pon.), which has them march forward and circle, circle, square, circle (Pon, Pon, Pata, Pon.), which makes them attack.
The game is divided into several missions. Prior to each mission, the player can recruit new troops and assemble formations, equip troops with weapons and armor gained from the spoils of war, or crafted from certain minigames. The player can return to an earlier mission to acquire additional resources and equipment to build up their troops before a larger battle.
Units
Patapon 2 introduces four types of units: The bird-riding and Harpoon-wielding Toripons, the robot-armed Robopons, the Wand-wielding Mahopons, and the singular Heropon. Patapon classes can now be unlocked through the evolutionary tree. Als |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFBR%20%28AM%29 | WFBR (1590 AM, "Famous 1590") is a brokered programming radio station licensed to Glen Burnie, Maryland, and serving the Baltimore metropolitan area. The station broadcasts an ethnic, multilingual radio format and is owned by Way Broadcasting Licensee, LLC. The radio studios and transmitter are on 8th Avenue, Northwest in Glen Burnie.
WFBR broadcasts at 1,000 watts around the clock. To protect other stations on 1590 AM, as well as avoiding interference to WLXE 1600 AM in Rockville, Maryland, WFBR uses a directional antenna with a five-tower array.
History
On May 15, 1963, the station first signed on the air. Its call letters were WISZ, powered at 500 watts and owned by Butch Gregory, a Vice-President at Westinghouse. He built much of the equipment including an antenna phaser unit, and the main studio control console. R. J. ("Bob") Bennett was the first station manager. The Program Director was Matt Edwards. The initial format was what is now called Adult Standards but was identified by the station as a "Big band Sound".
Within two years the format switched to Country music with the addition of legendary country disc jockey Ray Davis, whose show was broadcast as a remote from Johnny's New and Used Cars (the "Walking Man's Friend). WISZ-FM on 95.9 MHz was added as a simulcast in 1962, broadcasting from a 90-foot tower in Brooklyn Park, Maryland. The transmitter was in a garden shed. WISZ-FM is today WWIN-FM.
WISZ's AM antenna was in a swamp off Crain Highway in Glen Burnie and consisted of seven towers (4 daytime, and four nighttime, with a common base tower). The directional pattern protected WXLE (formerly WINX) in suburban Washington, D.C., on 1600 kHz, as well as other 1590 stations to the northeast. The "null" towards Washington was so pronounced that at certain points only a mile away, the towers could be seen but not heard. The station's mascot was an owl: "The WISZ Old Owl," pronouncing the call sign as "WISE."
The call letters were changed to WJRO on May 11, 1977. The station was assigned the WFBR call sign by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on November 30, 2004.
WFBR call sign history
From 1924 to 1990, the WFBR call letters had been assigned to a Baltimore station (now WJZ). This call sign was
randomly assigned from the sequential list of available call signs; other new stations licensed the same month included WFBK (Hanover, New Hampshire), WFBL (Syracuse, New York), WFBM (Indianapolis, Indiana), WFBN (Bridgewater, Massachusetts), WFBQ (Raleigh, North Carolina), WFBT (Pitman, New Jersey) and WFBU (Boston, Massachusetts). A tradition later developed that WFBR could be rendered as "World's First Broadcasting Regiment". Another slogan, also derived from the call letters, was "First Baltimore Radio".
References
External links
History Cards for WFBR (covering 1961-1981 as WISZ / WJRO)
1963 establishments in Maryland
Glen Burnie, Maryland
Radio stations established in 1963
FBR
Talk radio stations in the United |
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