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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20National%20Route%20147 | is a national highway of Japan connecting Ōmachi City and Matsumoto City in Japan.
Route data
Length: 31.4 km (19.5 mi)
Origin: Ōmachi City (originates at junction with Route 148)
Terminus: Matsumoto City (ends at Junction with Route 19, Route 254)
Major cities: Azumino City
History
1953-05-18 - Second Class National Highway 147 (from Ōmachi to Matsumoto)
1965-04-01 - General National Highway 147
References
147
Roads in Nagano Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Worm | The Apple Worm is a computer program written by Apple Computer, and especially for the 6502 microprocessor, which performs dynamic self-relocation. The source code of the Apple Worm is the first program printed in its entirety in Scientific American. The Apple Worm was designed and developed by James R. Hauser and William R. Buckley. Other example Apple Worm programs are described in the cover story of the November 1986 issue of Call_A.P.P.L.E. Magazine.
Because the Apple Worm performs dynamic self-relocation within the one main memory of one computer, it does not constitute a computer virus, an apt if somewhat inaccurate description. Although the analogous behavior of copying code between memories is exactly the act performed by a computer virus, the virus has other characters not present in the worm. Such programs do not necessarily cause collateral damage to the computing systems upon which their instructions execute; there is no reliance upon a vector to ensure subsequent execution. This extends to the computer virus; it need not be destructive in order to effect its communication between computational environments.
Programs
A typical computer program manipulates data which is external to the corporeal representation of the computer program. In programmer-ese, this means the code and data spaces are kept separate. Programs which manipulate data which is internal to its corporeal representation, such as that held in the code space, are self-relational; in part at least, its function is to maintain its function. In this sense, a dynamic self-relocator is a self-referential system, as defined by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
Other examples
The instruction set of the PDP-11 computer includes an instruction for moving data, which when constructed in a particular form causes itself to be moved from higher addresses to lower addresses; the form includes an automatic decrement of the instruction pointer register. Hence, when this instruction includes autodecrement of the instruction pointer, it behaves as a dynamic self-relocator.
A more current example of a self-relocating program is an adaptation of the Apple Worm for the Intel 80x86 microprocessor and its derivatives, such as the Pentium, and corresponding AMD microprocessors.
See also
Worm memory test
References
External links
The Apple Worm source code
Video of executing Apple Worm program
Cover Story: The Contiguous Traveler / Simple Worms
Worm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-relocation | In computer programming, a self-relocating program is a program that relocates its own address-dependent instructions and data when run, and is therefore capable of being loaded into memory at any address. In many cases, self-relocating code is also a form of self-modifying code.
Overview
Self-relocation is similar to the relocation process employed by the linker-loader when a program is copied from external storage into main memory; the difference is that it is the loaded program itself rather than the loader in the operating system or shell that performs the relocation.
One form of self-relocation occurs when a program copies the code of its instructions from one sequence of locations to another sequence of locations within the main memory of a single computer, and then transfers processor control from the instructions found at the source locations of memory to the instructions found at the destination locations of memory. As such, the data operated upon by the algorithm of the program is the sequence of bytes which define the program.
Static self-relocation typically happens at load-time (after the operating system has loaded the software and passed control to it, but still before its initialization has finished), sometimes also when changing the program's configuration at a later stage during runtime.
Examples
Boot loaders
As an example, self-relocation is often employed in the early stages of bootstrapping operating systems on architectures like IBM PC compatibles, where lower-level chain boot loaders (like the master boot record (MBR), volume boot record (VBR) and initial boot stages of operating systems such as DOS) move themselves out of place in order to load the next stage into memory.
CP/M extensions
Under CP/M, the debugger Dynamic Debugging Tool (DDT) dynamically relocated itself to the top of available memory through page boundary relocation in order to maximize the Transient Program Area (TPA) for programs to run in.
In 1988, the alternative command line processor ZCPR 3.4 for the Z-System introduced so called type-4 programs which were self-relocatable through an embedded stub as well.
x86 DOS drivers
Under DOS, self-relocation is sometimes also used by more advanced drivers and resident system extensions (RSXs) or terminate-and-stay-resident programs (TSRs) loading themselves "high" into upper memory more effectively than possible for externally provided "high"-loaders (like LOADHIGH/HILOAD, INSTALLHIGH/HIINSTALL or DEVICEHIGH/HIDEVICE etc. since DOS 5) in order to maximize the memory available for applications. This is down to the fact that the operating system has no knowledge of the inner workings of a driver to be loaded and thus has to load it into a free memory area large enough to hold the whole driver as a block including its initialization code, even if that would be freed after the initialization. For TSRs, the operating system also has to allocate a Program Segment Prefix (PSP) and an environment segment. This |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon%20Slye | Damon Slye (born June 15, 1962) is a computer game designer, director, and programmer. In 1984 he founded Dynamix with Jeff Tunnell in Eugene, Oregon. He is best known for creating the historic flight simulations Red Baron, A-10 Tank Killer, and Aces of the Pacific.
Slye's first product was Stellar 7, an action game for the Apple II which used 3D wireframe graphics. He followed it up with Arcticfox, the first original title Electronic Arts published for the new Amiga computer.
In 1994 Slye left Dynamix and the game industry, saying that he wanted a "sabbatical" to study math and physics as well as "playing chess, and skiing, and playing basketball, and doing a lot of reading", but expected to be "building products again" in a year. He founded Mad Otter Games in 2007.
Games
Stellar 7 (1982), Penguin Software
Arcticfox (1986), Electronic Arts
Skyfox II (1987), Electronic Arts
Abrams Battle Tank (1988), Electronic Arts
Project Firestart (1989), Electronic Arts
MechWarrior (1989), Activision
Deathtrack (1989), Activision
David Wolf: Secret Agent (1989), Dynamix
A-10 Tank Killer (1989), Dynamix
Stellar 7 (1990), Dynamix
Red Baron (1990), Dynamix
Red Baron: Mission Builder (1992), Dynamix
Aces of the Pacific (1992), Dynamix
Aces of the Pacific, Expansion Disk, WWII:1946 (1992), Dynamix
Aces Over Europe (1993), Dynamix
Ace of Aces (2008), Instant Action
Villagers and Heroes (2011), Mad Otter Games
References
External links
1962 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Video game programmers
Video game designers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20%26%20Analysis%20Center%20for%20Software | The Data & Analysis Center for Software (DACS) was one of several United States Department of Defense (DoD) sponsored Information Analysis Centers (IACs), administered by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). It was managed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and operated by Quanterion Solutions Inc. under a long term DoD contract.
This organization was consolidated into the Cyber Security and Information Systems Information Analysis Center (CSISAC).
DACS is chartered to collect, analyze, and disseminate information relating to the software domain to the DoD Software Engineering community, which includes Defense contractors and the academic community as well. DACS serves as an information broker, identifying resources that exist within the global community and making those resources available to the community through outreach venues such as an information rich web site, technical reports, technical journals and a variety of services offered free of charge.
Additionally, DACS, like all DTIC managed IACs, is a contract vehicle that serves the DoD by expediting the process for DoD components to acquire the services of commercial and academic providers to accomplish technical area tasks.
DACS Mission, Charter and History
DACS Mission and Charter
The mission of DACS, like the other IACs in the DTIC IAC Program, is:
DACS receives its authority to operate from the following DoD Directives and Instructions, which constitute the IAC Charter.
History
How long has DACS existed?
The DACS was established in the late 1970s. The software community, at that time, recognized the need for data and information about computer software, its development process and the software technology area in general. The rapid expansion of software engineering technology and the proliferation of tools and techniques made it difficult for an individual or organization to remain cognizant of the current status of the software engineering field. This situation resulted in the duplication of efforts in software research and seriously hampered the transfer of technology from the software research environment to the user sector of the software community.
Recognizing the need for an information analysis center to serve the government, industrial, and university community as a focal point for software development and experience data, in August 1978 the Rome Air Development Center (RADC), which is now called the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), contracted with IIT Research Institute (IITRI) to design such a center, named, The Data and Analysis Center for Software (DACS), that would acquire, analyze, synthesize, and disseminate information on software engineering technology.
The decision was based in part on the fact that the DoD and other Federal Agencies found that the establishment of special purpose information analysis centers and technology transfer programs were effective in overcoming problems in technology implementation and diffusion of mi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral%20Bioinformatics%20Resource%20Center | The Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (VBRC) is an online resource providing access to a database of curated viral genomes and a variety of tools for bioinformatic genome analysis. This resource was one of eight BRCs (Bioinformatics Resource Centers) funded by NIAID with the goal of promoting research against emerging and re-emerging pathogens, particularly those seen as potential bioterrorism threats. The VBRC is now supported by Dr. Chris Upton at the University of Victoria.
The curated VBRC database contains all publicly available genomic sequences for poxviruses and African Swine Fever Viruses (ASFV). A unique aspect of this resource relative to other genomic databases is its grouping of all annotated genes into ortholog groups (i.e. protein families) based on pre-run BLASTP sequence similarity searches.
The curated database is accessed through VOCS (Viral Orthologous Clusters), a downloadable Java-based user interface, and acts as the central information source for other programs of the VBRC workbench. These programs serve a variety of bioinformatic analysis functions (whole- or subgenome alignments, genome display, and several types of gene/protein sequence analysis). The majority of these tools are programmed to take user-supplied input as well.
Virus families covered in the VBRC database
The VBRC covers the following viruses:
Poxviridae
Asfarviridae
Organization of the VBRC database
The VBRC database stores viral bioinformatic data on three levels:
Whole genomes. This level contains information about the virus species or isolate and its entire genomic sequence.
Annotated genes. This level contains all the predicted ORFs (open reading frames) in a particular virus genome, together with their DNA and (translated) protein sequences.
Ortholog groups (families). This level is a distinguishing feature of the VBRC database. Each annotated gene, after it has been entered into the database, is subjected to BLASTP searching against all other genes already in the database. Based on the search results, it is either assigned to a pre-existing ortholog group or placed in a newly created ortholog group of its own. The goal of this level is to "allow for quick comparison of similar genes across a given virus family."
Central Tools Provided by VBRC
VBRC provides researchers with a wide variety of database-linked tools. Of these, the central four programs are VOCs, VGO, BBB, and JDotter.
VOCs (Viral Orthologous Clusters) VOCs is the main database access interface. Users can search the available data by a number of criteria related to genome, gene, or ortholog group characteristics. Search results are displayed in table format; from here the user may obtain further information about a particular database entry, or launch a VOCs-linked tool (see below) for analysis of selected data. Additional analysis tools such as BLAST searches, genome maps, genome or gene alignment, phylogenetic trees, etc. are provided.
VGO (Viral Genome Organizer) VG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soar%20Valley%20College | Soar Valley College is an 11-16 coeducational secondary school located in Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
It was designated a Maths and Computing specialist college in September 2004.
As part of the Building Schools for the Future initiative, the old building was demolished in 2009 and turned into playing fields, and a new building was built on the previous playing fields at a cost of approximately £21.5 million. The school hosted the Special Olympics netball games in 2009 on their newly built netball courts, known as the "Soar Valley Netball Centre" on the other side of the campus from the new building.
It became co-educational in 2016 and has one acre of land. The school has a lanyard system with different colours to show the different years.
Previously a community school administered by Leicester City Council, in June 2023 Soar Valley College converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by the Aspire Learning Partnership.
Notable former pupils
Parminder Nagra, actress
Rakhee Thakrar, actress
References
External links
Secondary schools in Leicester
Academies in Leicester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancilla | Ancilla may refer to:
Maid (Latin: ancilla); see also Ancillae
Ancilla College, US
Ancilla bit, a bit used in quantum computing
Ancilla (gastropod), a genus of olive snails
See also
Ancilla Dei, a title given to a deceased woman in early Christian inscriptions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20worm | Apple worm may refer to:
Codling moth, organism
Apple Worm, computer program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTL%20Satellite%20Network | The PTL Television Network, often referred to as simply PTL, is an American evangelical Christian television network originally located in Fort Mill, South Carolina, founded by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker in 1974 and dedicated in April 1977. During PTL's fourteen-year history, the Bakkers, as hosts of the network's flagship talk show, The PTL Club, became two of the most recognizable and highly-rated televangelists in the U.S. However, PTL collapsed in 1987 after a former church secretary, Jessica Hahn, accused the evangelist of rape, while later financial scandals revealed that the couple had used the nonprofit PTL's donations to fund an opulent personal lifestyle. Bakker went to prison for embezzlement in 1989.
After PTL declared bankruptcy, the cable network was sold in 1989 to Morris Cerullo World Evangelism of San Diego, California, and was eventually named INSP, now headquartered at facilities that were constructed in Indian Land, South Carolina. Twenty years after his release from prison, Bakker, having gone back into television evangelism, purchased PTL's trademark and logo and relaunched the network.
History
In 1960, Jim Bakker met Tammy Faye LaValley while both were students at North Central University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tammy Faye worked in a boutique, while Jim found work in a restaurant inside a Minneapolis department store. They were married on April 1, 1961, and left bible college to become itinerant evangelists.
In 1966, the Bakkers began working at Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in Virginia Beach, Virginia, which at the time barely reached an audience of thousands. The Bakkers would make contributions to CBN as a nationally recognized television ministry. The couple hosted Come On Over, a variety program hosted by the Bakkers and several puppet characters. The program was aimed at young children, whom they entertained with comic routines with the puppets, as well as airings of Davey and Goliath, a claymation Bible-story series. Due to the success of Come On Over, Robertson made Bakker the host of a new prime-time talk show called The 700 Club, which would gradually become CBN's flagship program, and become syndicated on numerous cable channels and network affiliates.
In the early 1970s, the Bakkers left CBN and traveled, holding telethons at Christian TV stations. In Charlotte, North Carolina, the Bakkers set up Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) with TV executives Sandy and Martha Wheeler, who began airing a program called Praise the Lord on Charlotte station WRET. The Bakkers moved to California, teaming with their former youth pastors Paul and Jan Crouch, to create the Praise the Lord show for the Crouches' Trinity Broadcasting Systems in California. However, the relationship only lasted about eight months due to a falling-out between Jim Bakker and Paul Crouch, causing the Bakkers to leave this ministry as well. The California entity was rebranded as TBN, which would grow to become the world's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospectivity%20mapping | Prospectivity mapping, also known as mineral prospectivity mapping or mineral potential mapping, defines a process used to make better use of mineral exploration data. Geological and geophysical datasets, such as lithological, structural and topographical maps, aeromagnetic, gravity and radiometric imagery are the typical datasets used in the construction of prospectivity maps.
There are two main approaches to prospectivity mapping: data-driven and knowledge-driven.
In areas with significant known mineralisation, a data-driven approach can be adopted in which known deposits are analysed in relation to the surrounding geology. A number of parametric and non-parametric statistical tests can be used to determine if identified spatial relationships are considered statistically significant. Important relationships are then spatially quantified over the entire region of interest. Ultimately multiple quantified relationships are combined, typically using a geographic information system (GIS) into a single prospectivity map.
In areas with little known mineralisation, a knowledge-driven approach can be implemented in which a mineral-systems approach is used in which theories about the formation of the deposit are identified, spatially quantified and then combined using a GIS.
Prospectivity mapping can be constructed using a mix of data-driven and knowledge-driven components and these are often referred to as hybrid prospectivity maps.
Further reading
Skabar, A., 2003. Mineral Potential Mapping Using Feed-Forward Neural Networks. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, vol. 3, 1814-1819. DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2003.1223683
Nykänen, V. and Juhani Ojala, V., 2007. Spatial Analysis Techniques as Successful Mineral-Potential Mapping Tools for Orogenic Gold Deposits in the Northern Fennoscandian Shield, Finland. Natural Resources Research, Springer Netherlands, vol. 16(2),85-92. DOI: 10.1007/s11053-007-9046-5.
Nykänen, V., 2008. Radial Basis Functional Link Nets Used as a Prospectivity Mapping Tool for Orogenic Gold Deposits Within the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt, Northern Fennoscandian Shield. Natural Resources Research, Springer Netherlands, vol. 17(1), 17-48. DOI: 10.1007/s11053-008-9062-0.
Leite, E. P. and Souza Filho, E. P., 2009. Artificial neural networks applied to mineral potential mapping for copper-gold mineralizations in the Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil. Geophysical Prospecting, Published Online: Jan 7 2009 5:22AM, EAGE. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2008.00779.x
Mineral exploration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20University%20Theatre | NBC University Theater (also known as NBC University Theater of the Air, NBC Theater of the Air or NBC Theater) was a brand the National Broadcasting Co. applied to a category of radio programming. Although not actually a university, some colleges and universities collaborated in some of the programming, either contributing to its content or including the programming in their curriculum. NBC University Theaters most well-known radio series was The World's Great Novels. NBC used the name "University Theater" or similar from about 1923–1947.
Description
Most NBC University Theater programming aired on NBC's Red Network, but the Blue Network (later to become ABC) also participated. The Armed Forces Radio Network also distributed some of the programs. About 1948, NBC replaced this category with NBC Presents.
The World's Great Novels
The World's Great Novels was one of the radio series included in NBC University Theater. The series was produced by Margaret Cuthbert and directed by Homer Heck. It presented adaptations of classic novels, often described as "Anglo-American literature." The show was born The World's Great Novels''' on WMAQ, Chicago, and NBC from 1944 to 1948, and adopted its better known name when it relocated to Hollywood in July 1948.It initially aired Saturdays at 7:00 pm CST during the first 1944–45 season and then moved to Fridays at 11:30 pm. Music for the series was composed by Emil Soderstrom (né Emil Otto Edvard Söderström; 1901–1972) and conducted by Bernard "Whitey" Berquist (né Bernard H. Berquist; 1903–1962).
The Chicago-based programs were a production of The NBC University of the Air. Through agreements with the University of Louisville, the University of Tulsa, Kansas State Teachers College, and Washington State College, listeners could receive college credit through accredited, radio-assisted literature correspondence courses. A study guide, The Handbook of the World's Great Novels, was available for 25 cents.
The series began October 28, 1944, with Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, followed by Voltaire's Candide and Jane Austen's Emma. Over the next four years, it aired adaptations of such novels as Kidnapped, The Last of the Mohicans, Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, Moby-Dick, A Tale of Two Cities and War and Peace. Since this was a half-hour program, many of the novels were serialized in multi-part adaptations of two to six 30-minute episodes.
Chicago actors
The group of Chicago actors heard on the series included Larry Alexander, Ernie Andrews, Everett Clarke, Johnny Coons, Maurice Copeland, Harry Elders, Sidney Ellstrom, Charles Flynn, Donald Gallagher, Hilda Graham, Ken Griffin, Jonathan Hole, Geraldine Kay, Eloise Kummer, Jack Lester, Ken Nordine, Hope Summers and Lee Young. Some episodes were narrated by Nordine. The announcers were Charles Chan, John Conrad and Dave Garroway.
Guest commentators
Some shows in the series had guest speakers. Amy Loveman, an editor with The Saturday Review of Literatu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligari%20Corporation | Caligari Corporation was founded in 1985 by Roman Ormandy. A prototype 3D video animation package for the Amiga Computer, which led to the incorporation of Octree Software was released in 1986. From 1988 to 1992, Octree released several software packages including Caligari1, Caligari2, Caligari Broadcast, and Caligari 24. Caligari wanted to provide inexpensive yet professional industrial video and corporate presentation software. In 1993, Octree Software moved from New York to California and became known as Caligari Corporation. In 1994 trueSpace 1.0 was introduced on the Windows platform. In early 2008, the company was acquired by Microsoft.
On 21 May 2009, Caligari announced that Microsoft would cease to provide support for Caligari trueSpace. The website and forums were affected, and some services ceased to operate from May 22, 2009.
References
External links
Caligari Corporation's official website last Wayback archive
Fan Site developing trueSpace software since 2009
American companies established in 1985
American companies disestablished in 2009
Software companies established in 1985
Software companies disestablished in 2009
Software companies based in Washington (state)
Companies based in New York (state)
Companies based in Mountain View, California
Amiga raytracers
Defunct software companies of the United States
Microsoft acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20of%20Islam%20%28Australia%29 | The Voice of Islam is a narrowcast radio station based in Lakemba and broadcasting to many parts of Sydney through a network of low power transmitters.
The objectives of The Voice of Islam include sharing Islam principles with the rest of Australia, to provide information about Islamic beliefs and practices and to broadcast programmes that reflect cultural heritage.
Programs
Broadcasting recitation of the Quran, Islamic lectures, live broadcasts of Friday sermons, local and international news, radio documentaries, talk shows and programmes on contemporary topics, and trivia and competitions.
See also
List of radio stations in Australia
References
External links
Radio stations in Sydney
Islamic radio stations in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Frager | Henri Jacques Paul Frager (3 March 1897 – 5 October 1944) was a member of the French Resistance during World War II . He was in succession, second in command of the CARTE network (under André Girard), then head of the SOE (F section) network DONKEYMAN, rising to the rank of major within SOE. He was betrayed to the Germans, deported and executed.
Early life
Henri Jacques Paul Frager was born in France on 3 March 1897, the son of Alphonse Jean Frager and Eugénie Louis Adolpine Frager, née Sauvier. He married the Russian-born Louba Frager and worked as an architect in Nice in civil life. On 25 November 1940 he dined with André Girard in a restaurant in Antibes. Girard wanted to develop a local network, whereas Frager was then preparing to get to London via Algeria. He reached Algeria in December that year but, after several failed attempts to get from there to London, returned to Antibes in April 1941 and got back in contact with Girard, who recruited him into CARTE as his second in command under the codename Louba. With André Gillois and Colonel Vautrin, Girard and Frager recruited others for the growing network, and on 19 September 1941 Girard had his first meeting with an SOE agent, Francis Basin (codename Olive).
Wartime activities
Exploring the possibilities for CARTE–SOE cooperation, SOE summoned Girard or any other officer of CARTE to come to London. Not wanting to go himself, Girard sent Frager and, on 30 June 1942, the Polish trawler Tarana took on Frager and brought him to Gibraltar, from where he flew to England by plane. In London that July, at Orchard Court, he met SOE's chiefs (Maurice Buckmaster, Nicholas Bodington, and probably Charles Hambro and Colin Gubbins). In Girard's name, Frager set out CARTE's needs (means of communication, arms, etc.). Wanting to know more, SOE sent him back to France with Bodington (codename Jean-Paul or PROFESSOR) to study the possibilities of cooperation, clarify the confused situation in the Lyon region and organised possible parachute drop-zones (SPRUCE). They were landed at Cap d'Antibes on the night of 29/30 July 1942 from the boat Seadog, with agents Harry Despaigne (MAGNOLIA) and Yvonne Rudellat (SOAPTREE), and on 12 September Bodington returned to England to make a highly favourable report on CARTE.
In November 1942, however, major disagreements broke out between Girard and Frager. The Germans having occupied the previously unoccupied zone of France, SOE wanted to review its plans with CARTE and demanded in a message on 12 November (received via Adolphe Rabinovitch, radio operator of the SPINDLE network) that Girard return to London. Several pick-up attempts that December failed and Frager prepared a report criticising Girard, to be transmitted to London, but Girard found out and also noted the good relations between Frager and Peter Churchill. In January–February 1943, Girard put off his departure for London indefinitely, before finally being picked up by a Hudson on the night of 21/22 Februa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Marsac | André Marsac was a member of the French resistance organisation known as the CARTE network or circuit, based in Cannes, organised by André Girard. Marsac acted as a courier.
In November 1942 Marsac was travelling on a train from Marseille to Paris carrying a briefcase containing a list prepared by Girard of 200 potential resistance fighters, with full descriptions of their identity and locations. His briefcase was stolen by an agent of the Abwehr while he dozed off, and the CARTE network was fatally weakened.
Marsac was arrested in Paris by German intelligence officer ‘Colonel Henri’ Hugo Bleicher who put him in Fresnes prison, where he convinced Marsac that he was an anti-Nazi German officer and could help release him, but this would require the help of a fellow agent. Marsac wrote a letter to Roger Bardet asking him to visit him in prison to discuss his escape. Armed with this letter and another to Marsac’s wife, Bleicher set off for Saint-Jorioz on the banks of Lake Annecy where Peter Churchill had relocated the SPINDLE network, to meet Mme Marsac and persuaded her to come to Paris. He also evaluated the rest of the resistance group, noting the inadequate security measures they adopted. On Bleicher’s return to Fresnes prison he was able to persuade Marsac to hand over a list of about 20 addresses of circuits in Bordeaux, Marseille, Strasbourg and elsewhere, which were previously completely unknown to the Germans.
London’s response to Bardet’s request for air transport for Marsac and ‘Colonel Henri’ was to refuse outright and insist that he immediately break off contact with Marsac and ‘Colonel Henri’, however Bardet ignored the orders and returned to Paris where he was arrested by Bleicher, along with a number of other agents.
After a series of casual daily talks in Marsac’s cell and information provided by Bardet, Bleicher knew just about all there was to know about the SPINDLE network, and in April 1943 he returned to Saint-Jorioz where he arrested Peter Churchill and Odette Sansom and subsequently transferred them to Fresnes prison, where they were subjected to brutal interrogation and torture before being transferred to concentration camps, but both were to survive the war, whereas the majority of captured SOE F Section agents were executed.
References
French Resistance members |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blips%20%28TV%20series%29 | Blips is a British comedy children's television series from Ragdoll Productions, which first aired on CITV (on the ITV Network) on 29 September 2005. It starred Robin Stevens as Mr. Perfect and Patricia Routledge as the narrator. The 26 episodes were written by Alan Dapre & Robin Stevens. Since 2009, the show has been difficult to find, due to it not getting a home media release of any kind, and has been regarded as lost. The show features the 3D animated 'Blips' (a group of purple blobs that wreak havoc in each episode) characters alongside the main protagonist Mr Perfect.
Plot
In every episode, Mr. Perfect would aim to show the viewers how to perform a job or task perfectly. These are ranged from serving ice cream or using exercising equipment. Once it is all done, the blips would rewind the footage before the narrator would say he was perfect at the job and start all over again. This time, the blips would ruin Mr. Perfect's work progress by setting traps or tampering with machines to make them go wrong. After this, Perfect would give up on doing the job or task, and the show would cut to the credits, with Perfect relaxing with a cup of tea and walking home.
Characters
Mr. Perfect
Portrayed by Robin Stevens, he is depicted as an everyman with an overly optimistic, goofy manner. He seems to be mute, using body language to communicate. His attire varies across each episode to fit the situation, but his main outfit consists of thick-framed glasses, tidy hair and a bright blue suit. Not much else is known about him. He lives in a white house where the Blips live.
The Blips
Purple-coloured alien-like beings that can take on various sizes and shapes. They live in Mr. Perfect’s house. A recurring comedic theme in the show is Perfect becoming suspicious of their existence due to the mishaps they cause, but never actually encountering them.
Broadcast
The first episode was broadcast on CITV in 2005, with reruns occurring spontaneously even after the final episode was produced until 2009.
Episodes
Season 1
Princess
Popstar
Knight
Cowboy
Cleaner
Gardener
Potter
Shopkeeper
Hairdresser
Movie Star
Car Washer
Artist
Cake Baker
Golfer
Waiter
Decorator
Keep Fit Instructor
Tailor
Ice Cream Maker
Builder
Hiker
Fashion Model
Shed Builder
Show Jumper
Detective
Pirate
References
"Blips (partially found Spanish-British children's TV show; 2004-2009) - The Lost Media Wiki". lostmediawiki.com. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
"CITV: Blips". web.archive.org. 25 October 2007. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
2005 British television series debuts
2006 British television series endings
2000s British children's television series
2000s preschool education television series
British preschool education television series
British television series with live action and animation
ITV children's television shows
Television series by DHX Media
Television series by Ragdoll Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20television%20transition%20in%20the%20United%20States | The digital transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of terrestrial television programming. According to David Rehr, then president and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters, this transition represented "the most significant advancement of television technology since color TV was introduced." For full-power TV stations, the transition went into effect on June 12, 2009, with stations ending regular programming on their analog signals no later than 11:59 p.m. local time that day.
Under the Digital Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005, full-power broadcasting of analog television in the United States was initially planned to have ceased after February 17, 2009. To help U.S. consumers through the conversion, the Act also established a federally sponsored DTV Converter Box Coupon Program.
The DTV Delay Act changed the mandatory analog cutoff date to June 12, 2009, although stations were permitted to cease analog transmissions before the new mandatory cutoff date. The legislation was passed by both houses of Congress by February 4, 2009, and on February 11, 2009, US President Barack Obama signed it into law. The purpose of the extension was to help the millions of households who had not been able to get their coupons for converters because demand for coupons exceeded the funding provided for in the initial bill, leaving millions on a waiting list to receive coupons. Funding for extra coupons was provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. By midnight on the original cut-off date of February 17, 2009, 641 stations representing 36 percent of U.S. full-power broadcasters were transmitting exclusively in digital.
Analog broadcasting did not cease entirely following the June 12, 2009 deadline: under the provisions of the Short-term Analog Flash and Emergency Readiness Act, approximately 120 full-power stations briefly maintained analog "nightlight" service usually displaying a program about the DTV transition, ending no later than July 12, 2009. In a separate category, low power television stations were permitted to continue analog broadcasts for several more years.
On July 15, 2011, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) posted the required transition deadlines for low-power television stations. Stations broadcasting on channels 52 to 69 were required to vacate those channels by December 31, 2011, and all analog television transmitters (primarily low-powered (LP), and Class-A low-powered (-CA) stations, and also broadcast translator (TX) (repeaters in rural communities) were required to shut down by September 1, 2015. On April 24, 2015, it was announced that the conversion date for standard LPTVs and translators still broadcasting in analog had been suspended until further notice, due to economic problems that might have arisen from the then-upcoming spectrum auction, however, Class A low-powered stations were still required to convert by the original deadl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Commission%20Representation%20in%20Ireland | The European Commission Representation in Ireland is part of the Commission's network of representative offices throughout the member states of the European Union. It is the Commission's voice in Ireland and aims to communicate EU affairs at both national and local levels.
Function
The Representation serves as a link between the national government, the public and the European Commission in Brussels. It informs the public and the media about the policies of the Commission and maintains contact with the Oireachtas. At the same time, it informs the Commission's headquarters in Brussels about the political situation in Ireland.
Head of Representation
The Head of the Representation is Barbara Nolan. She represents the European Commission in Ireland and reports back to the Commission on developments in Ireland.
Political Section
The Political Section is responsible for communication between the Commission and political decision-makers in Ireland. In addition, it compiles reports and analyses about political, economic and social trends as well as special events in Ireland. It also disseminates information on European policy through presentations and events for the public and stakeholders.
Head of Political Section: Jonathan Claridge.
Communications Section
The Communications Section informs citizens about what is happening and why on the European level. In addition to a number of annual events such as the EU Model Council for secondary schools, it also organises a large number of events both at the Representation and throughout the country on EU policy issues. It is also responsible for the Representation's publications.
Head of Communications Section: Tim Hayes
Press Section
The Press Section informs journalists in Ireland about the Commission's policies, answers questions and issues press releases. It also publishes a weekly e-newsletter and is responsible for the Representation's social media accounts.
Head of Press: Grace Bolton
The website of the Representation is www.euireland.ie. The Representation can also be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Regional information and advice services
Europe Direct
In Ireland, there are 8 Europe Direct centres. Europe Direct centres form the local link between the citizen and the European Union. They are co-financed from the Budget of the European Union and their purpose is to help, inform and answer questions from the local public about the European Union.
European Documentation Centre
The 5 European Documentation Centres in Ireland promote teaching and research of questions about the European integration. They are located close to higher education institutions and research facilities and ensure that documents and publications are available for teaching and research.
Enterprise Europe Network
The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) helps businesses innovate and grow on an international scale. It is the world's largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian%20branch%20lines | Bavarian branch lines comprised nearly half the total railway network in Bavaria, a state in the southeastern Germany that was a kingdom in the days of the German Empire. The construction era for branch lines lasted from 1872, when the first route, from Siegelsdorf to Langenzenn, was opened, to 1930, when the last section of the branch from Gößweinstein to Behringersmühle went operational.
History
The first German railway line was opened in Bavaria in 1835. This was the Ludwigsbahn (Ludwig's Railway) from Nuremberg to Fürth which opened on 7 December 1835. This was the start of a railway building frenzy, which rapidly spread across the state. The second Bavarian railway line, from Munich to Augsburg, soon followed. The early railways were private lines, but from 184?, the Bavarian state oversaw the construction of railways, through its state-owned railway company, the Royal Bavarian State Railways. The most important routes were established first, of course, and became the 'main lines', the backbone of the Bavarian railway network which has lasted to the present day.
The First Branch Lines - Vizinalbahnen
The first branch lines to appear in Bavaria – indeed in Germany – were the so-called Vizinalbahnen ('neighbourhood lines'). This was a legal term and envisaged the costs of real estate acquisition and line construction being raised locally, whilst profits would be shared between state and district, in accordance with the statuted dated 29 April 1869.
The first line to be built was the 5.5 kilometre stretch from Siegelsdorf to Langenzenn opened on 25 May 1872. Over the next seven years a further 14 Vizinalbahnen were built, including the Bavarian Ostbahn route from Wiesau – Tirschenreuth.
Compared to the main lines, the regulations for these branch lines were relaxed. Steep inclines (up to 1:25), tight curves (100 m) and a narrower subgrade were permitted; as were lighter rails (or used main line rails), lighter vehicles and lower speeds. All the lines were standard gauge. Narrow gauge lines were much rarer in Bavaria than in other states.
The Sekundärbahnen
Because the Vizinalbahnen did not generate the returns expected and the state had to bail them out to a large extent, a new statute appeared on 28 April 1882 which introduced a new category of branch line the Sekundärbahn ('secondary line'). These would be constructed at state expense. In fact, only one true Sekundärbahn was built – the line from Gemünden to Hammelberg, now part of a single-track main line. Nevertheless, the name stuck and passed into Bavarian folklore, continuing to be used to refer to branch lines. Although not an official Sekundärbahn, the line from Erlangen to Gräfenberg and its locomotives were nicknamed the Seekuh. The story goes that a railway inn called the Sekundärbahn was having its sign painted. It was left half-finished overnight with only the letters 'Seku' completed. Hence the nickname.
The Age of the Branch Line - Lokalbahnen
By the 1880s, the Bav |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Food%20for%20the%20Hungry | FH Canada, formerly Canadian Food for the Hungry International, is part of the global Food for the Hungry (FH) network, a Christian international development agency dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners and sponsors across Canada, FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout the developing world as they strive toward sustainability. Recognizing that each community faces unique challenges as well as advantages, FH is committed to an integrated, holistic approach to development including priorities such as agriculture, education, health, livelihoods, disaster risk reduction, and gender equality.
FH believes in facilitating innovative, long-term solutions and providing everyone an opportunity to join in the pursuit of a poverty-free world. FH Canada currently partners with communities in Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Uganda. Partnerships usually last around 10 years, at which point communities graduate as self-sufficient and often begin to help their neighbouring communities make the same transformation.
The organization also has a domestic mandate in Canada, serving to collaborate with other like-minded poverty alleviation organizations and offering worldview training workshops to equip Canadians to effectively respond to poverty both at home and abroad.
Leadership
The international Food for the Hungry (FH) network was founded in 1971 by American Dr. Larry Ward. FH Canada (originally called "Canadian Food for the Hungry") was founded in 1994, and stands as an independent, registered charity in Canada governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, who oversee the organization's President and CEO. David Collins, a former pastor and missionary in Vietnam and the Philippines, was FH Canada's first president, holding the position until 2005. Ben Hoogendoorn, a businessman in the agricultural industry, joined FH Canada as a volunteer in 1997, then in 2001 began working with the organization as Director of International Operations. He became interim president in 2005, and officially accepted the role of President and CEO in 2006. In 2014, Ben passed the torch to business owner and philanthropist Bernie Willock, who led the organization for nearly three years. Shawn Plummer joined FH Canada in 2010 as the Director of Partnerships, and in 2017 Shawn was chosen to succeed as President and CEO. In 2023, Musu Taylor-Lewis was appointed as FH Canada's new President and CEO.
Activities
FH Canada will often support communities in the following areas:
Education
Health and nutrition
Agriculture
Leadership development
Income generation
Environmental sustainability
Gender equality
International Medical Equipment Distribution (IMED)
In 2001, there was an addition of a regional office in Saskatchewan which runs the International Medical Equipment Distribution Program (IMED), a program that collects, refurbishes and ships used hospital equipment to hospitals that don't have access to sufficient equip |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georelational%20data%20model | A georelational data model is a geographic data model that represents geographic features as an interrelated set of spatial and attribute data. The georelational model was the dominant form of vector file format during the 1980s and 1990s, including the Esri coverage and Shapefile.
History
The second era in the history of GIS, starting in the mid-1970s, was characterized by the rise of the first general-purpose GIS software programs (rather than the bespoke systems created in the 1960s and early 1970s). Each of these programs also created its own data file structures, primarily focused on finding innovative ways to store the spatial or geometric aspect of the data in the most efficient and error-free way. One example of this was the POLYVRT software and data structure (1973) from the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, which inspired the Arc/INFO Coverage format. In experimental GIS software such as ODYSSEY, attribute data was only handled in a rudimentary way. Meanwhile, the relational database was quickly becoming the most promising software for managing non-spatial data, and several nascent GIS software companies chose to adopt it into their systems, especially Esri.
Although there were exceptions such as the object-oriented data models in Smallworld GIS (1989) and Intergraph's experimental TIGRIS, georelational data dominated the GIS industry until the rise of spatial databases in the late 1990s. Most of them are obsolete, although the Shapefile is still in common (if decreasing) use.
Georelational formats
In any vector data structure, the core unit is an object (either a geographic feature or a sample location for a field) that has a location in space (of 0, 1, 2, or 3 dimension) and a set of attributes. In the georelational model, these are stored as separate files: a geometry file that is usually custom-designed by a software developer for use in a particular program, and an attribute table that follows relational database principles; often, the latter is adopted directly from an existing relational database management system software.
Examples of commonly-used georelational data formats include:
ARC/INFO Coverage (Esri 1981-2005)
The name ARC/INFO literally reflected the georelational design of the software and the coverage format. The ARC model or Coverage was the topological vector data structure developed by ESRI, based on earlier structures developed at Harvard such as POLYVRT. INFO was a relational database developed by Henco Software, Inc. (originally for financial management) that was licensed by ESRI. In the Coverage structure, each point, line, or polygon had an identification number, which could be joined to the row in the INFO table with the same primary key, as in a relational table join. In an ARC/INFO workspace (=directory/folder), all of the INFO tables were stored in a separate directory from the directories for the ARC data for each coverage. To process attribute data, the user had t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tougher%20In%20Alaska | Tougher In Alaska is a program on the History Channel that was a part of the network's "American Original Series" lineup. Starring long-time Alaska resident Geo Beach, the program explored the dangerous and extraordinary efforts put forth by Alaskans to perform jobs and provide services in such a remote, large, rugged, and hostile place. The program premiered on May 8, 2008 and aired one 13-episode season. The series was produced by Moore Huntley Productions, whose previous programs include several other programs about Alaska. The Principal Cinematographer was Daniel J. Lyons of Vermont Films.
Format
Each episode featured several related occupations in which Geo Beach joins the workers for a hands-on approach to the unique dangers of performing their job in Alaska, in a manner somewhat similar to the Discovery Channel program Dirty Jobs. The program switched back and forth between these jobs throughout each episode. Beach frequently commented on just how difficult or different life in Alaska can be, not only in the jobs themselves but also in the effort it takes just to get to where he or the fruits of his labor need to go.
DVD releases
The one season of the program, featuring all 13 episodes, became available on DVD on September 30, 2008.
Broadcast Airings
Repeats of the series are currently airing on the digital broadcast network Quest.
External links
History Channel's Tougher in Alaska website
2000s American reality television series
2008 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
History (American TV channel) original programming
Television shows set in Alaska |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Davis%20%28author%29 | Susan Davis is an author, public speaker, consultant and expert on international development and social entrepreneurship. She is the Chairperson of Solutions Journalism Network, an Adjunct Associate Professor at New York University Stern School of Business, a coach to social entrepreneurs and active on many boards and advisory councils.
She was the founding president and CEO of BRAC USA, an organization created in 2006 to support BRAC, a position she held until 2016. BRAC runs programs to alleviate poverty using microfinance, education, healthcare, legal services, community empowerment, and other methods.
Career
NYU
Davis has been an advisor to New York University's Catherine B. Reynolds Program for Social Entrepreneurship since its inception. She taught Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in the Spring semester of 2015 at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and at NYU's Reynolds/Stern School program in spring 2017. She taught the graduate course, Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development, at NYU Stern School of Business in spring 2018 and 2019 and in spring 2020, offering an undergraduate course, Social Entrepreneurship.
Ashoka
Susan led Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship and serves on its international board committee that selects Ashoka Fellows and the Advisory Council of Ashoka U, its program for universities. She also oversaw Ashoka's expansion to the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia and served as a Senior Advisor to the Director General of the International Labour Organization.
Other
Davis served as the Assistant Director of the first quasi-public export trading company founded by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
She was the executive director of Women's Environment & Development Organization, founded in 1990 by Bella Abzug and Mim Kelber to take action in the United Nations and other international policymaking forums.
Prior to that, she led initiatives aimed at scaling up microfinance institutions that were owned and governed by poor women at Women's World Banking and the Ford Foundation in Bangladesh.
During her four and half years in Dhaka, she organized the Grameen Bank, BRAC and Proshika donor consortia to scale up microfinance.
She was a founding board member and chair of the Grameen Foundation and was a board member there as of 2013.
She was also featured in Fast Company's The League of Extraordinary Women list in 2012.
Education
Davis was educated at Georgetown (BSFS 1978), Harvard (MPA 1982), and Oxford University (MPhil candidate 1980-81).
Personal life
Davis married Claudia Slacik on December 12, 2012 at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City.
Publications and appearances
In 2010, Davis co-authored the book Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know with David Bornstein. She has appeared on CNN and ABC News discussing global poverty and health issues.
See her TEDx talk at the World Bank Group on Rea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20model%20%28GIS%29 | A geographic data model, geospatial data model, or simply data model in the context of geographic information systems, is a mathematical and digital structure for representing phenomena over the Earth. Generally, such data models represent various aspects of these phenomena by means of geographic data, including spatial locations, attributes, change over time, and identity. For example, the vector data model represents geography as collections of points, lines, and polygons, and the raster data model represent geography as cell matrices that store numeric values. Data models are implemented throughout the GIS ecosystem, including the software tools for data management and spatial analysis, data stored in a variety of GIS file formats, specifications and standards, and specific designs for GIS installations.
While the unique nature of spatial information has led to its own set of model structures, much of the process of data modeling is similar to the rest of information technology, including the progression from conceptual models to logical models to physical models, and the difference between generic models and application-specific designs.
History
The earliest computer systems that represented geographic phenomena were quantitative analysis models developed during the quantitative revolution in geography in the 1950s and 1960s; these could not be called a geographic information system because they did not attempt to store geographic data in a consistent permanent structure, but were usually statistical or mathematical models. The first true GIS software modeled spatial information using data models that would come to be known as raster or vector:
SYMAP (by Howard Fisher, Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, developed 1963–1967) produced raster maps, although data was usually entered as vector-like region outlines or sample points then interpolated into a raster structure for output. The GRID package, developed at the lab in 1969 by David Sinton, was based on SYMAP but was more focused on the permanent storage and analysis of gridded data, thus becoming perhaps the first general purpose raster GIS software.
The Canadian Geographic Information System (by Roger Tomlinson, Canada Land Inventory, developed 1963–1968) stored natural resource data as "faces" (vector polygons), although these were typically derived from raster scans of paper maps.
Dual Independent Map Encoding (DIME, US Census Bureau, 1967) was perhaps the first robust vector data model incorporating network and polygon topology and attributes sufficient to allow address geocoding.
Like the CGIS, early GIS installations in the United States were often focused on inventories of land use and natural resources, including the Minnesota Land Management Information System (MLMIS, 1969), the Land Use and Natural Resources Inventory of New York (LUNR, 1970), and the Oak Ridge Regional Modelling Information System (ORRMIS, 1973). Unlike CGIS, these were all raste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20MediaSmart%20Connect | HP MediaSmart Connect is a digital media player that streams or syncs media from other personal computers in an area with Wi-Fi connectivity to be played and accessed on a television screen.
It utilizes Windows Media Center Extender for the television user interface of the MediaSmart Connect box.
It is also part of Hewlett-Packard's current MediaSmart brand, alongside HP MediaSmart Server and HP MediaSmart TV.
External links
HP MediaSmart Connect
Microsoft.com page for MediaSmart Connect
HP Connect Vietnam
Digital media players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-allocation | Location-allocation refers to algorithms used primarily in a geographic information system to determine an optimal location for one or more facilities that will service demand from a given set of points. Algorithms can assign those demand points to one or more facilities, taking into account factors such as the number of facilities available, their cost, and the maximum impedance from a facility to a point. Location-allocation models aim to locate the optimal location for each facility. Allocating a number of people for each facility, according to the inputs of each model. How to find a point (school) among three points (people) at which the least distance between it and such points can be achieved? That was the historical dilemma formulated by The French mathematician Fermat to The Italian physicist Torricelli (seventeenth century), through whom Weber in 1909 developed his views on industrial locations.
See also
Geographic information system
References
Geographic information systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNTX | KNTX is a radio station licensed in and serving the Bowie, Texas area with community and oldies programming. It broadcasts on AM frequency 1410 kHz and is under ownership of Henderson Broadcasting Company, LP. Much of the schedule consists of news headlines from ABC News, CBS News, and the Texas State Network with the rest of the schedule filled with community news and classic hits from Cumulus Media Networks' "Classic Hits" satellite feed and more.
The station was assigned the KNTX call sign by the Federal Communications Commission on February 1, 2000.
References
External links
KNTX AM 1410 - Official website
NTX
Oldies radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDSI | NDSI may refer to:
Novell Data Systems, Inc.
Nintendo DSi, a 2008 handheld video game console
Nintendo DSi XL, a larger version of the DSi, released in 2009
See also
NDS (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Corporation | Andrew Corporation, a former hardware manufacturer for communications networks, was founded by Victor J. Andrew in the basement of his Chicago, Illinois home in 1937, and further established in Orland Park, Illinois in 1953. Andrew was a renowned global telecommunications company that played a significant role in the development of wireless communication technologies.
Andrew Corporation products included antennas, cables, amplifiers, repeaters, transceivers, as well as software and training for the broadband and cellular industries. The corporation supported customers in 35 countries across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, with manufacturing plants in 12 countries, at one time employing over 4,500 people. Andrew's sales in 1999 exceeded US$791 million. Specific product applications include antennas, cables, amplifiers as well as software and training in radio and other wireless communication systems.
In 1992, Andrew Corporation was on the Chicago Tribune's "Chicago's Top 100 Companies",
Andrew notably held subsidiaries in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Scotland, and throughout the United States (California, Texas). In 1986 Andrew acquired Scientific Communications, Inc. (SciComm), and Kintec Corp, further acquiring The Antenna Company in 1996. Andrew acquired Channel Master's Smithfield, North Carolina satellite dish factory, equipment, inventory and intellectual property in an $18 million deal after that firm filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on October 2, 2003.
Andrew Corporation was acquired by CommScope for $2.6 billion in June 2007.
Andrew Corporation in Chicago
Originally founded in 1937, Victor J. Andrew planted the roots to Andrew Corporation in his Chicago bungalow home on Francisco Avenue in Chicago, Illinois before upgrading to a factory space on 75th Street a few short years later. The 75th Street location was just south of Midway Airport and mainly housed manufacturing plants and factory spaces.
In 1947, Victor J. Andrew and C. Russell Cox (original Andrew employee and future Andrew executive) made the executive decision that the company had outgrown the Chicago space and started inquiring on spaces in the suburbs with seemingly limitless property and business potential.
Transition to Orland Park
After 10 years in their Chicago facility, Andrew Corporation moved operations to Orland Park, Illinois, a suburb about 15 miles south of the 75th Street location. Andrew purchased the 430 acre vacant, unincorporated lot for $200 per acre. The location was strategically chosen for its proximity to the Rock Island and Wabash Metra train lines, as well as its potential for future growth.
A ground-breaking ceremony was held at the Orland Park facility in 1949. The Andrew Orland Park (AOP) location housed the corporate office complex, as well as the 254,000 square foot factory.
Andrew operated through their Orland Park facility from 1948 to 2007, using the location as their global headquarters.
Product Manufacturing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-training | Co-training is a machine learning algorithm used when there are only small amounts of labeled data and large amounts of unlabeled data. One of its uses is in text mining for search engines. It was introduced by Avrim Blum and Tom Mitchell in 1998.
Algorithm design
Co-training is a semi-supervised learning technique that requires two views of the data. It assumes that each example is described using two different sets of features that provide complementary information about the instance. Ideally, the two views are conditionally independent (i.e., the two feature sets of each instance are conditionally independent given the class) and each view is sufficient (i.e., the class of an instance can be accurately predicted from each view alone). Co-training first learns a separate classifier for each view using any labeled examples. The most confident predictions of each classifier on the unlabeled data are then used to iteratively construct additional labeled training data.
The original co-training paper described experiments using co-training to classify web pages into "academic course home page" or not; the classifier correctly categorized 95% of 788 web pages with only 12 labeled web pages as examples. The paper has been cited over 1000 times, and received the 10 years Best Paper Award at the 25th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2008), a renowned computer science conference.
Krogel and Scheffer showed in 2004 that co-training is only beneficial if the data sets are independent; that is, if one of the classifiers correctly labels a data point that the other classifier previously misclassified. If the classifiers agree on all unlabeled data, i.e. they are dependent, labeling the data does not create new information. In an experiment where dependence of the classifiers was greater than 60%, results worsened.
Uses
Co-training has been used to classify web pages using the text on the page as one view and the anchor text of hyperlinks on other pages that point to the page as the other view. Simply put, the text in a hyperlink on one page can give information about the page it links to. Co-training can work on "unlabeled" text that has not already been classified or tagged, which is typical for the text appearing on web pages and in emails. According to Tom Mitchell, "The features that describe a page are the words on the page and the links that point to that page. The co-training models utilize both classifiers to determine the likelihood that a page will contain data relevant to the search criteria." Text on websites can judge the relevance of link classifiers, hence the term "co-training". Mitchell claims that other search algorithms are 86% accurate, whereas co-training is 96% accurate.
Co-training was used on FlipDog.com, a job search site, and by the U.S. Department of Labor, for a directory of continuing and distance education. It has been used in many other applications, including statistical parsing and visual detection.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CommScope | CommScope Holding Company, Inc. is an American network infrastructure provider based in Hickory, North Carolina. CommScope employs over 30,000 employees. The company joined the Nasdaq stock exchange on October 25, 2013.
CommScope designs and manufactures network infrastructure products. It has four business segments: home networks, broadband networks, venue and campus Networks, and outdoor wireless networks.
History
CommScope was originally a product line of Superior Continental Cable, which was founded in 1953 in Hickory, North Carolina. In 1961, Superior created a division called Comm/Scope, which developed CATV systems and sold a coaxial cable named CommScope. In 1967, Superior was acquired by Continental Telephone Company, with CommScope becoming a division of Continental. In 1975, Frank Drendel headed a team charged with selling the product line. Drendel and Jearld Leonhardt founded CommScope in August 1976 after raising $5.1 million to purchase the CommScope product line. Two years later, CommScope and Valtech merged under the Valtech name. In 1979 Valtech donated fiber optics line and equipment to link the U.S. House of Representatives to the C-SPAN studios, enabling live broadcasting of U.S. Congressional proceedings for the first time.
In the 1980s, Valtech sold to M/A-COM. and CommScope became part of the Cable Home Group for M/A-COM. In 1983, CommScope formed the Network Cable division for the local area network, data communications, television-receive only, and specialized wire markets. In 1986 M/A-COM, sold the Cable Home Group to General Instrument Corporation, and CommScope became a division of General Instrument.
In 1997, General Instrument split into three independent, publicly traded companies, with its cable operation spun off as CommScope. At the time, CommScope had annual revenues of $560 million and was the largest provider of coaxial cable to cable TV operators.
In 2000, CommScope opened its new global headquarters in Hickory, North Carolina. In 2004, CommScope acquired Avaya's Connectivity Solutions cabling unit and inherited the SYSTIMAX brand, a company perhaps best known for its enterprise cabling systems. Avaya's Carrier Solutions, which offered products designed for switching and transmission applications in telephone central offices and secure environmental enclosures, also became part of CommScope. This acquisition doubled CommScope's size. In 2007, CommScope acquired the global wireless infrastructure provider Andrew Corporation, which would help CommScope meet demand from mobile phone companies.
In 2008, CommScope was chosen to provide the Dallas Cowboys with the connectivity for their new stadium starting with the 2009 NFL season, using over 5 million feet of copper and fiber-optic cabling.
In 2011, The Carlyle Group acquired CommScope. This acquisition made CommScope privately owned by The Carlyle Group and removed it from the New York Stock Exchange. Eddie Edwards was appointed president and chief execu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercrime%20in%20Canada | Computer crime, or cybercrime in Canada, is an evolving international phenomenon. People and businesses in
Canada and other countries may be affected by computer crimes that may, or may not originate within the borders of their country. From a Canadian perspective, 'computer crime' may be considered to be defined by the Council of Europe – Convention on Cybercrime (November 23, 2001). Canada contributed, and is a signatory, to this international of criminal offences involving the use of computers:
Offences against the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data and systems;
Computer-related offences;
Content-related offences;
Offences related to infringements of copyright and related rights; and
Ancillary liability.
Canada is also a signatory to the Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, concerning the criminalization of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems (January 28, 2003). As of July 25, 2008 Canada had not yet ratified the Convention on Cybercrime or the Additional Protocol to the Convention on cybercrime, concerning the criminalization of acts of a Discriminatory nature committed through computer systems.
Canadian computer crime laws
The Criminal Code contains a set of laws dealing with computer crime issues.
Criminal Offences Contained in the Convention on Cybercrime (November 23, 2001)
As Canada has not yet ratified the Convention on Cybercrime its Criminal Code may not fully address the areas of criminal law set out in the Convention on Cybercrime.
Computer-related offences
Computer-related forgery
Computer-related fraud
Content-related offences
Offences related to child pornography
Offences related to infringements of copyright and related rights
Ancillary liability
Attempt and aiding or abetting
Corporate liability
Criminal offences in the Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime
As Canada has not yet ratified this Additional Protocol to the Convention on cybercrime, its Criminal Code may not fully address the following criminal offences:
Dissemination of racist and xenophobic material through computer systems
Racist and xenophobic motivated threat
Racist and xenophobic motivated insult
Denial, gross minimization, approval or justification of genocide or crimes against humanity
Aiding and abetting
Laws
Criminal Code
Section 342 of the Criminal Code deals with theft, forgery of credit cards and unauthorized use of computer
Section 184 of the Criminal Code deals with privacy
Section 402 of the Criminal Code deals with Identity theft
Section 403 of the Criminal Code deals with Identity fraud
Canadian computer criminals
The Canadian hacker group 'The Brotherhood of Warez' hacked the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website on April 20, 1997; replacing the homepage with the message "The Media Are Liars"
References
Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Machine%20Learning | The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) is the leading international academic conference in machine learning. Along with NeurIPS and ICLR, it is one of the three primary conferences of high impact in machine learning and artificial intelligence research. It is supported by the (IMLS). Precise dates vary year to year, but paper submissions are generally due at the end of January, and the conference is generally held the following July. The first ICML was held 1980 in Pittsburgh.
Locations
ICML 2026 Seoul, South Korea
ICML 2025 Vancouver, Canada
ICML 2024 Vienna, Austria
ICML 2023 Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
ICML 2022 Baltimore, Maryland, United States
ICML 2021 Vienna, Austria (virtual conference)
ICML 2020 Vienna, Austria (virtual conference)
ICML 2019 Los Angeles, United States
ICML 2018 Stockholm, Sweden
ICML 2017 Sydney, Australia
ICML 2016 New York City, United States
ICML 2015 Lille, France
ICML 2014 Beijing, China
ICML 2013 Atlanta, United States
ICML 2012 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ICML 2011 Bellevue, United States
ICML 2010 Haifa, Israel
ICML 2009 Montréal, Canada
ICML 2008 Helsinki, Finland
ICML 2007 Corvallis, Oregon, United States
ICML 2006 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
ICML 2005 Bonn, Germany
ICML 2004 Banff, Canada
ICML 2003 Washington DC, United States
ICML 2002 Sydney, Australia
ICML 2001 Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States
ICML 2000 Stanford, California, United States
ICML 1999 Bled, Slovenia
ICML 1998 Madison, United States
ICML 1997 Nashville, United States
ICML 1996 Bari, Italy
ICML 1995 Tahoe City, United States
ICML 1994 New Brunswick, United States
ICML 1993 Amherst, United States
ICML 1992 Aberdeen, United Kingdom
ICML 1991 Evanston, United States
ICML 1990 Austin, United States
ICML 1989 Ithaca, United States
ICML 1988 Ann Arbor, United States
ICML 1987 Irvine, United States
ICML 1985 Skytop, United States
ICML 1983 Monticello, United States
ICML 1980 Pittsburgh, United States
See also
ICLR
Journal of Machine Learning Research
Machine Learning (journal)
NeurIPS
References
External links
Official site
Artificial intelligence conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium%20on%20Applied%20Computing | The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing is an annual conference sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing.
The first Symposium on Applied Computing was held in 1985. Since the 1990s, the acceptance ratio for paper submissions has dropped from 54–67% to below 30% in the 2008 SAC held in Fortaleza, Brazil. The 2009 conference was held in Honolulu, Hawaii.
See also
List of computer science conferences
References
External links
Main web page of the Symposium on Applied Computing, with links to the yearly conferences
Computer science conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20network | A street network is a system of interconnecting lines and points (called edges and nodes in network science) that represent a system of streets or roads for a given area. A street network provides the foundation for network analysis; for example, finding the best route or creating service areas.
They greatly affect in-town movement and traffic. Street networks can become very complex in cities. Street networks are very often localized, because there is little non-highway transportation from town to town. The U.S. Highway System is like a street network, but it is national, and consists of highways instead of streets and roads.
See also
Braess's paradox
Transport network
International E-road network
Inca road system
Traffic analysis
Traffic flow
Permeability
Grid plan
List of cities that are inaccessible by road
References
Network
Road infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet | Usenet (), USENET, or "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was established in 1980. Users read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more topic categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects and is the precursor to the Internet forums that have become widely used. Discussions are threaded, as with web forums and BBSes, though posts are stored on the server sequentially.
A major difference between a BBS or web message board and Usenet is the absence of a central server and dedicated administrator or hosting provider. Usenet is distributed among a large, constantly changing set of news servers that store and forward messages to one another via "news feeds". Individual users may read messages from and post to a local (or simply preferred) news server, which can be operated by anyone, and those posts will automatically be forwarded to any other news servers peered with the local one, while the local server will receive any news its peers have that it currently lacks. This results in the automatic proliferation of content posted by any user on any server to any other user subscribed to the same newsgroups on other servers.
As with BBSes and message boards, individual news servers or service providers are under no obligation to carry any specific content, and may refuse to do so for many reasons: a news server might attempt to control the spread of spam by refusing to accept or forward any posts that trigger spam filters, or a server without high-capacity data storage may refuse to carry any newsgroups used primarily for file sharing, limiting itself to discussion-oriented groups. However, unlike BBSes and web forums, the dispersed nature of Usenet usually permits users who are interested in receiving some content to access it simply by choosing to connect to news servers that carry the feeds they want.
Usenet is culturally and historically significant in the networked world, having given rise to, or popularized, many widely recognized concepts and terms such as "FAQ", "flame", "sockpuppet", and "spam". In the early 1990s, shortly before access to the Internet became commonly affordable, Usenet connections via Fidonet's dial-up BBS networks made long-distance or worldwide discussions and other communication widespread, not needing a server, just (local) telephone service.
The name Usenet comes from the term "users' network". The first Usenet group was NET.general, which quickly became net.general. The first commercial spam on Usenet was from immigration attorneys Canter and Siegel advertising green card services.
On the Internet, Usenet is transported via the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) on TCP Port 119 for standard, unprotected |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Eglash | Ron Eglash (born December 25, 1958 in Chestertown, Maryland) is an American who works in cybernetics, professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan with a secondary appointment in the School of Design, and an author widely known for his work in the field of ethnomathematics, which aims to study the diverse relationships between mathematics and culture.
Work
His research includes the use of fractal patterns in African architecture, art, and religion, and the relationships between indigenous cultures and modern technology, such as that between Native American cultural and spiritual practices and cybernetics. He holds a bachelor's degree in cybernetics and a master's in systems engineering both at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A Fulbright fellowship enabled his postdoctoral field research on African ethnomathematics, which was later published in the book African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design.
Eglash has also conducted studies in teaching children math and computing through simulations of indigenous and vernacular cultural practices. He explains that the simulations do not impose math externally, but rather translate the mathematical ideas already present in the cultural practices to their equivalent form in school-taught math. Examples include transformational geometry in cornrow braiding, spiral arcs in graffiti, least common multiples in percussion rhythms, and analytic geometry in Native American beadwork. His approach is one of many attempts to draw the inspiration to learn out of students' own cultural backgrounds.
He also studies social justice issues as they manifest in the practice of science and technology, ranging from the ethnic identity of “nerds” to the so-called appropriation of science and technology by groups disempowered on the basis of race, class, gender. Another branch of this research explores how the “bottom-up” egalitarian principles found in many indigenous cultures could be applied to modern society in fields from economics to political science.
He has served as a senior lecturer in comparative studies at Ohio State University, and is currently a professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Publications
Books
African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Eglash, R., Croissant, J., Di Chiro, G., and Fouché, R. (ed). Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power. University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
“Race, Sex, & Nerds": In Race, Sex, and Nerds: From Black Geeks to Asian American Hipsters, Ron Eglash is challenging the normative racial identity associated to geeks and nerds. He identifies the figure of the nerd as one typically representative of hyper-whiteness. However, as the participation of underrepresented minorities in science and technology emerges, the identity of the nerd is being red |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematics%2C%20Inc | Systematics Incorporated was a data processing company acquired in 1968 by Arkansas superinvestor Jackson T. Stephens. In 1990 it was sold to Alltel Corporation, and today is a part of Fidelity Information Systems.
Fidelity Information Systems still uses the name 'Systematics' as the name of a retail banking software product suite.
Systematics employees have held two reunions, most recently the 40th Anniversary Reunion in 2008. Pictures from both reunions and current information about former employees were available for a while at the website “www.sireunion.org,” which no longer exists.
Beginnings
Systematics was founded in 1968 by University of Arkansas graduate Walter Smiley, who learned of the high software costs and other difficulties faced by small banks in trying to use data processing software from his experiences working with IBM and in the banking industry. Smiley recognized a niche that could be filled for medium-sized banks in this space, and sought funding to start his own company. Through Jon Jacoby, Smiley was introduced to the Stephens family, who agreed to invest $400,000 in Walter and Systematics in return for 80% equity stake.
Systematics distinguished itself early on from other players in the industry. "In the data processing business," according to Walter, "it’s real easy to get yourself in a position where you’ve got to sell for tomorrow for the sake of today. The Stephens people were just the opposite. They always encouraged us to prepare for the long term, to do it right."
Walter quietly expanded his business over the next 12 years, eventually finding a way to license its software to banks, and ultimately going public. In 1990 it was sold to Alltel Corporation. The name was changed to Alltel Information Services (AIS) in 1994. The Stephens family remained an investor, acquiring Alltel stock in the transaction. In 2003, Alltel sold the Information Services subsidiary to Fidelity National Financial. This business is known today as Fidelity National Information Services (FIS).
Affiliations
One of the lawyers Stephens hired to represent the company was Hillary Rodham. After she joined the Rose Law Firm, Stephens employed the firm and engaged its partners — including the now-married Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vince Foster and Webster Hubbell — in several of his ventures.
References
Defunct software companies of the United States
Defunct technology companies of the United States
Alltel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASVD | ASVD may refer to:
ITU-T V.61, a standard for analog simultaneous voice and data
Atherosclerosis or arteriosclerotic vascular disease, an artery disease |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunderson%20Do-All%20Machine | The Gunderson Do-All Machine is a colorful, interconnected network of dozens of machines that have been cross-sectioned to reveal their internal operating mechanisms. It was designed by Mark Gunderson to illustrate mechanical concepts.
History and design
The Gunderson Do-All Machine includes more than 30 individual machines that are linked together by an array of belts, gears, pulleys, and transmissions. Collectively, they operate in a continuous chain reaction on the power of one Whitte gas oil well engine, forming a kinetic sculpture. The entire network is mounted on a flat bed trailer platform, so that it can be transported to engine shows, educational venues, and county fairs. The combined weight of the trailer and all components is about 6000 pounds.
The Do-All's layout and design allows one to follow the chain reaction from machine to machine while observing the internal cogs, gears, and other components that make them work. The variety of machines include an automatically reversing worm gear, a water pump impellar, a governor/gas valve from a 20-horsepower (HP) JC engine, a blacksmith blower/bubble maker, the main line shaft and pulley from an antique corn grinder, a floating gear, a DC 110-volt generator and lights, a 38-to-1 gear reducer, a bicycle light generator, and a fan blower painted to look like a clown. Recent additions include a penny press that creates a commemorative Do-All Machine coin and a rotating satellite dish with sun and moon images painted on opposite sides.
Major engine components
The Gunderson Do-All includes the following major engines that have been cut away to reveal their inner workings in action:
Wright Twin Cyclone R-2600 1,700 horsepower radial engine from a B-25 Bomber
Wankel Rotary Engine from a Mazda RX-7
301 Cu in Pontiac V8 engine from a TransAm
Jeep CJ5 Transmission
Gallery
See also
Pontiac TransAm
References
Gunderson R. The Do-All Machine. Gas Engine Magazine. December, 1999; Vol. 34:12, pages 16–18.
External links
Carter County Old-time Machinery and Antiques Annual Show, Ashland, Kentucky – story, interview, and slide show of self-trained mechanical engineer, Mark Gunderson, and the Gunderson Do-All Machine.
Article
Slideshow and interview
Mark Gunderson’s Do-All Machine - Making its first appearance at Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association Threshermans Reunion
Gunderson Do-All Machine
Tri-State Old Engine Show – Portland, Indiana. 2003
Tri-State Old Engine Show – Portland, Indiana. 2003 (more)
Machines
Engines
Radial engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti%20Envision | The Olivetti Envision (400/P75) was an Italian multimedia personal computer produced in 1995. It came with a choice of two processors: Intel 486 DX4 100 MHz or Intel Pentium P75.
It had an infrared keyboard and internal modem, and it was compatible with audio CDs, CD-ROMs, Photo CDs and Video CDs. Preinstalled software allowed the computer to work as a fax or answering machine when connected to a telephone line.
The Envision had three possible operating modes:
Simple (limited to the use of an infrared remote control to control the volume and the reproduction of photo, video or audio CDs);
Intermediate (a simplified Windows shell replacement called Olipilot that gave access to a limited set of programs);
Advanced (standard Windows 95 graphical user interface).
Designed by M. De Lucchi, the declared goal for this device was to convince non-computer-savvy people that computers are not impossibly hard to use and can be bought and used like normal home appliances. For this reason, it was intentionally designed to resemble a videocassette recorder more than a computer, and it was equipped with two SCART sockets (to connect it to a TV set), a TV-like remote control, and a slot that could host a satellite TV decoder card.
The Olivetti Envision was discontinued in 1996 due to poor sales caused by its excessive price, many software bugs and limited expandability.
Technical specifications
CPU: Intel 486 DX4 @ 100 MHz or Intel Pentium @ 75 Mhz
RAM: 8 MB
Graphics: Trident TGV9470 (1 MB, integrated into the motherboard, compatible with Number Nine GXE Graphics Accelerator, Infotronic IPG 64 and Spea Video 7 Mercury)
Resolutions: 1024 x 768 with 256 colors (monitor), 800 x 600 with 65536 colors (TV)
Audio: Crystal Semiconductor Corporation CS4231 + Oak Mozart OTI 605 (compatible with the MPC2 multimedia standard, Roland SCC-1 and Sound Blaster 16)
Connectors: 3 expansion slots, 2 SCART, audio out, MIDI, VGA out, serial, parallel, modem
Storage: 1,4 MB 3,5” floppy disk; 635 MB hard disk , CD-ROM drive
Keyboard: 83 keys infrared keyboard
References
External links
http://ultimateconsoledatabase.com/golden/olivetti_envision.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20200322013225/https://members.ziggo.nl/wimwubs/Olivetti-Envision-P75/
Olivetti personal computers
Computer-related introductions in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWGB | DWGB (97.1 FM), broadcasting as 97.1 OKFM, is a radio station owned and operated by PBN Broadcasting Network. It serves as the flagship station of the OKFM network. Its studios are located at the 3rd Floor, Bayona Bldg., Imperial Court Subd. Phase 1, Legazpi, Albay, and its transmitter is located at Brgy. Taysan, Legazpi, Albay. It operates 24 hours daily.
References
Radio stations in Legazpi, Albay
DWGB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Nickelodeon%20%28Southeast%20Asia%29 | Nickelodeon is a children's and teenagers' television channel available on many pay-TV networks across Asia.
Current programming
Animated
Nickelodeon Originals
Acquired programming
ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks
Best and Bester
Dorg Van Dango
Ollie's Pack
Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty
The Smurfs
The Twisted Timeline of Sammy & Raj
Winx Club
Live-Action
Nickelodeon Originals
Danger Force (hiatus)
The Really Loud House
Nick Jr.
Animated
Nick Jr. Originals
Baby Shark's Big Show!
Rusty Rivets
Wallykazam!
Acquired programming
Abby Hatcher
Corn & Peg
PAW Patrol
Live Action
Nick Jr. Originals
Blue's Clues & You!
Former programming
Animated
Live-Action
Nick Jr. shows
Programming blocks
Current programming blocks
Nick Jr.
Nick Jr. is a programming block broadcast on Nickelodeon everyday from 9:30am to 10:40am, airing preschool programs.
Former programming blocks
Hapon Hangout
Hapon Hangout was a former block that debuted in February 2013 which aired mostly cartoons and live-action. It ended in December 2017.
Flick Picks
Flick Picks was a programming former block that airs movies.
Weekend Express
Weekend Express was a programming block that runs every weekends at noon. The block airs programs according to a weekly theme. It ended on 26 June 2011.
Lunch Toons
Lunch Toons was a limited Nicktoons-based block which airs one random Nicktoon which is repeated when airing various episodes of the show related to food.
Nickel Aliens
Nickel Aliens was a programming block that debuted in November 2014. It featured shows such as Monsters vs. Aliens, Robot and Monster, Kid vs. Kat, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rabbids Invasion, Planet Sheen, Rocket Monkeys and Winx Club.
HAHATHON
HAHATHON was a programming block that debuted in June 2015. It featured shows such as Winx Club, Oggy and the Cockroaches, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, SpongeBob SquarePants and Lalaloopsy.
WAPAK! Thursdays
Wapak Thursdays was a programming block broadcast on Nickelodeon that premieres every Thursday from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. It ended on 16 July since LEGO Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar premiered on 20 July which re-run on weekdays at 6:30 PM.
TakoTown
TakoTown was a programing block that airs Halloween themed episodes and specials of Nickelodeon TV shows every October.
Nickelodeon Heroes
Nickelodeon Heroes was a programming block on Nickelodeon that premieres every weekdays at 4:30 PM. It airs shows such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, ALVINNN! and the Chipmunks and The Fairly OddParents. It ended at 30 August.
Listen Out Loud
Listen Out Loud was a programming block that airs The Loud House episodes.
TeenNick
TeenNick was a former block that aired live-action shows.
G-Time
G-Time was a programming block broadcast on Nickelodeon on weekdays from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. It debuted in November 2018 and ended in January 2019.
Animal Carnival
Animal Carnival was a programming block on Nickelodeon that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDB | FDB may refer to:
FDB (file format), a computer font file format
"FDB" (song), by Young Dro
Fællesforeningen for Danmarks Brugsforeninger, a Danish cooperative
Faridabad railway station, in Haryana, India
Father David Bauer Olympic Arena, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Fight Dem Back, an Australian and New Zealand anti-racist group
Film Development Board, in Nepal
First DataBank, an American pharmaceutical publisher
Fluid dynamic bearing
Flydubai, an Emirati airline
FoundationDB, a database developed by Apple Inc.
Frank de Boer, Dutch former footballer
Fredrik deBoer, American academic and author |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Sanders | Tommy Sanders (born April 20, 1954) is an American sportscaster and host of ESPN Outdoors, the ESPN network's four-hour block of outdoors programming that airs nationally every Saturday morning.
Biography
Sanders debuted on ESPN when ESPN Outdoors was launched in January 1990. He introduces each program and the short features which are aired between the shows. These features often have an environmental and/or educational theme. He serves in a similar role on ESPN2’s Sunday morning outdoors programming block.
Sanders also hosts the Stihl Timbersports Series (since 1990), the FLW Tournament series (since 1996) and the Bassmaster Classic fishing tournament series, all airing on the ESPN family of TV networks. In addition, he co-hosts Saltwater TV, a weekly webcast at ESPNOutdoors.com. Other programs featuring Sanders include The Bassmasters (co-hosted with Mark Zona, airing weekly on ESPN2) and Hooked Up (a webcast seen at bassmasters.com.)
A native of Magnolia, Arkansas, Sanders graduated in 1976 from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, earning a bachelor of arts degree in English and theater. While at Hendrix he helped launch the campus radio station, KHDX, in 1973. He attended graduate school at New York University from 1980 to 1981, studying film and television.
Sanders began his career in television as a writer and producer for Arkansas Educational Television from 1979–1980, and worked for seven years (1980–1987) as a freelance writer and on-air host of industrial and educational films. From 1987-1992, Sanders was a partner in The Works, a recording studio in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Sanders' future status with ESPN remains unclear following the network's 3 August 2010 announcement that it plans to sell B.A.S.S. LLC, which runs the Bassmasters Fishing series, to a group of investors led by Don Logan, Jerry McKinnis and Jim Copeland. McKinnis is also a sportscaster and a colleague of Sanders who hosted The Fishin' Hole on ESPN from 1980 to 2007.
Awards and honors
Sanders was inducted into the Arkansas Outdoor Hall of Fame on 11 September 2009.
ESPN2's 2008 and 2009 Bassmaster Classic television coverage, co-hosted by Sanders and Zona, was nominated for Sports Emmy Awards in both 2009 and 2010 for the Outstanding Live Event Turnaround category.
Personal life
Sanders, who is married, lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was a recipient of an Outstanding Volunteer Award presented by the Arkansas Public Broadcasting Service in 1988. He also has served on the board of directors in the Quapaw Council of the Boy Scouts of America since 1991 and is active with United Cerebral Palsy.
References
See also
List of ESPN personalities
Tommy Sanders archive at ESPN.com
Living people
1954 births
American television writers
American male television writers
American television personalities
Lumberjack sports
Hendrix College alumni
Screenwriters from Arkansas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%20Area%20Bi%2B%20%26%20Pan%20Network | Bay Area Bi+ & Pan Network (BABPN), previously known as Bay Area Bisexual Network (BABN), is a social and networking group in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the oldest and largest bisexual group in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1987 BABN has welcomed people who are just coming out or new to the area to have opportunities to meet and talk with other bisexuals and pansexuals.
History
Founded in 1987, BABN was the successor to the San Francisco Bisexual Center, which closed in 1984. Its founding was inspired by the 1987 East Coast Bisexual Network Conference, and it was founded by Lani Ka'ahumanu, Ann Justi and Maggi Rubenstein. For nearly 10 years, BABN coordinated a speaker's bureau, a newsletter, retreats, and monthly cultural and educational forums. BABN’s phone line offered one of very few ways for isolated bisexuals to find and connect with the bisexual community. Bi-Friendly was founded by BABN in 1988 as a way for bisexual and bi-friendly people to meet and socialize outside of bars and activist meetings. The group sponsored brunches, trips to the redwoods, movies, plays, baseball games, etc. BABN is holding Bi-Friendly meetings as of 2012. In June 2019, BABN changed its name to Bay Area Bi+ & Pan Network (BABPN).
They were the publisher of Anything That Moves magazine during its run from 1990 to 2002.
Services
BABN provides support to the bisexual community, including a website and links to resources. BABN also has two email lists: One low-volume, moderated list for events of interest to the bisexual community, and a second, unmoderated list for open discussion.
For hundreds of bisexual people, the email lists are their only contact to the bi community. BABN also has social networking groups on Facebook, tribe.net, and others. A calendar of events is the most-used feature of the BABN website.
See also
BiNet USA
American Institute of Bisexuality
Bisexual Resource Center
References
External links
Official website
BABN email list sign-ups: Events , Chat
Bisexual Resources
1987 establishments in California
Bisexual culture in the United States
Bisexual organizations
LGBT organizations in the United States
LGBT history in San Francisco
Organizations established in 1987
Pansexuality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%20%28programming%20language%20from%20Kx%20Systems%29 | Q is a programming language for array processing, developed by Arthur Whitney. It is proprietary software, commercialized by Kx Systems. Q serves as the query language for kdb+, a disk based and in-memory, column-based database. Kdb+ is based on the language k, a terse variant of the language APL. Q is a thin wrapper around k, providing a more readable, English-like interface. One of the use cases is financial time series analysis, as one could do inexact time matches. An example is to match the a bid and the ask before that. Both timestamps slightly differ and are matched anyway.
Overview
The fundamental building blocks of q are atoms, lists, and functions. Atoms are scalars and include the data types numeric, character, date, and time. Lists are ordered collections of atoms (or other lists) upon which the higher level data structures dictionaries and tables are internally constructed. A dictionary is a map of a list of keys to a list of values. A table is a transposed dictionary of symbol keys and equal length lists (columns) as values. A keyed table, analogous to a table with a primary key placed on it, is a dictionary where the keys and values are arranged as two tables.
The following code demonstrates the relationships of the data structures. Expressions to evaluate appear prefixed with the q) prompt, with the output of the evaluation shown beneath:
q)`john / an atom of type symbol
`john
q)50 / an atom of type integer
50
q)`john`jack / a list of symbols
`john`jack
q)50 60 / a list of integers
50 60
q)`john`jack!50 60 / a list of symbols and a list of integers combined to form a dictionary
john| 50
jack| 60
q)`name`age!(`john`jack;50 60) / an arrangement termed a column dictionary
name| john jack
age | 50 60
q)flip `name`age!(`john`jack;50 60) / when transposed via the function "flip", the column dictionary becomes a table
name age
--------
john 50
jack 60
q)(flip (enlist `name)!enlist `john`jack)!flip (enlist `age)!enlist 50 60 / two equal length tables combined as a dictionary become a keyed table
name| age
----| ---
john| 50
jack| 60
These entities are manipulated via functions, which include the built-in functions that come with Q (which are defined as K macros) and user-defined functions. Functions are a data type, and can be placed in lists, dictionaries and tables, or passed to other functions as parameters.
Examples
Like K, Q is interpreted and the result of the evaluation of an expression is immediately displayed, unless terminated with a semi-colon. The Hello world program is thus trivial:
q)"Hello world!"
"Hello world!"
The following expression sorts a list of strings stored in the variable x descending by their lengths:
x@idesc count each x
The expression is evaluated from right to left as follows:
"count each x" returns the length of each word in the list x.
"idesc" returns the indices that would sort a list of values in descending order.
@ use the integer values on the right to index into the origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Combined%20Geodetic%20Network | European Combined Geodetic Network (ECGN) is a research project aimed at high accuracy geoid determination. The purpose of ECGN is to connect the height systems obtained via geometric positioning by GNSS with gravity-referenced heights with a cm-level accuracy. The effects of the atmosphere, the oceans and time-dependent parameters of the solid Earth on the gravity field are investigated. ECGN uses the data of satellite gravity missions CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE to model the Earth's gravity field and is linked to other gravity-related projects (GMES, GEOSS, GGOS). The ECGN is considered as a European contribution to the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) project Global Geodetic Observation System (GGOS). ECGN is managed by EUREF.
References
External links
Official website
Geodesy
Gravimetry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close%20Up%20Foundation | The Close Up Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan civic education organization in Washington, D.C. Established in 1971, Close Up offers programming to educate and encourage young people to participate in their civic affairs and government. About 850,000 students and teachers have participated in its programs.
History
After taking a group of American students abroad to study foreign government, Close Up founder and former State Department official Stephen A. Janger (1936-2015) noticed growing cynicism and critique of the American government among young people. As the events of the 1960s unfolded, Janger desired to help students gain a better understanding of their own government. With his wife Kathie and his brother Stanford, Janger founded the Close Up Foundation in 1971. During its first year, Close Up facilitated its first Washington High School Program with over 500 student participants from Florida, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Programs
Close Up programs cater to various high and middle school audiences. Close Up also offers a program for New Americans, specialized programs for Native Americans, Teaching American History (TAH) programs for teachers, and several theme-based programs that enable participants to benefit from Washington's seasonality.
Educators use Close Up programming to enhance classroom learning. Close Up curriculum complements Common Core (C3) Framework.
Since 1979, Close Up Foundation has hosted 1,003 events in the C-SPAN Video Library. Typical topics were Journalism, Media, and Education Policy including moderating debate shows.
High School Program
The Washington High School Program aims to build students' sense of political efficacy. During this six-day/five-night program students meet with elected officials on Capitol Hill, participate in structured learning activities at Washington's monuments and memorials, and engage in workshops about how the U.S. government works. Close Up has been a grant recipient from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs for civic engagement and education programs for insular areas students.
Middle School Program
The Washington Middle School Program provides students hands-on opportunities to interact with government and history. During this four day, three-night program students explore the links between history and the problems and prospects today. Emphasis will be placed on how the actions of ordinary citizens can directly affect public policymaking.
Teacher Program
Teachers and administrators can participate in an adult-learning program that runs parallel to student programming. The Teacher Program includes the study of some of Washington's lesser-known monuments and memorials that provide a forum for educators to share best practices with peers. Upon completion, educators can earn Graduate Credits or Continuing Education Units.
Outreach
Close Up programs have hosted students and teachers from all 50 states and Abu Dhabi, American Samoa, Canada, Commonwealth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiWi | MiWi is a proprietary wireless protocol supporting peer-to-peer, star network connectivity. It was designed by Microchip Technology. MiWi uses small, low-power digital radios based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, and is designed for low-power, cost-constrained networks, such as industrial monitoring and control, home and building automation, remote control, wireless sensors, lighting control, and automated meter reading.
The MiWi protocol is supported on Microchip's SAMR30 (sub-gigahertz) and SAMR21 (2.4 GHz) ARM Cortex-M0+ devices and modules. Legacy MiWi protocol code supporting PIC and dsPIC microcontrollers has been frozen and is no longer recommended for new designs; however, it is still available in the Microchip Library for Applications (MLA) for the MPLAB Integrated Development Environment.
Protocols
Microchip Technology released technical information on MiWi. These are not primarily protocol specifications and are focused on implementing the MiWi protocol on Microchip microcontrollers.
As of 2019, interoperable third party implementations have not appeared. Unless they do, it will not be clear if those specifications are complete or accurate enough to serve roles other than supporting Microchip's code or being one more proprietary example of a lightweight WPAN stack. Many developers trying to use WPAN technologies have observed that the competing Zigbee WPAN protocol seems undesirably complex. Accordingly, there exists a technical niche for simpler protocols, of which MiWi is a proprietary example.
Software
The MiWi protocol is a small foot-print alternative (3K-32K) to Zigbee (40K-180K), for cost-sensitive applications with limited memory.
The MiWi protocol stack supports star network and peer-to-peer wireless-network topologies, useful for simple, short-range, wireless node-to-node communication. Additionally, the stack provides sleeping-node, active-scan and energy-detect features while supporting the low-power requirements of battery-operated devices.
Hardware
MiWi Silicon
Microchip Technology released MiWi support on the SAMR30 and SAMR21 RF-MCU's in 2018. Both devices are ARM Cortex M0+, and have 256 KB Flash and up to 40 KB RAM and utilize OQPSK RF Modulation defined in IEEE 802.15.4 for a +3dB advantage in power efficiency vs. FSK modulation. Legacy devices supporting MiWi include several PIC Microcontrollers paired with the MRF89XA (Proprietary Sub-GHz Transceiver) or the MRF24J40 (an IEEE 802.15.4 2.4 GHz transceiver).
MiWi Modules
In 2018 Microchip released the SAMR30M, a module based on the SAMR30 Cortex M0+ sub-GHz RF-MCU.
In 2008, Microchip released a 2.4 GHz wireless transceiver module with a standard 4-wire SPI interface paired with several Microchip PIC and dsPIC microcontrollers (the Microchip MRF24J40MA, MRF24J40MD, MRF24J40ME), and can be used in production devices. Being ZigBee compliant, and capable of communicating using MiWi wireless protocols, it is based on the IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless PAN standard. Opti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20%28Turkish%20TV%20channel%29 | Cartoon Network is a Turkish television channel that mainly broadcasts cartoons. It was launched on 28 January 2008 and is owned by Demirören Holding under license from Warner Bros. Discovery International.
History
The channel launched on 28 January 2008.
On 4 April 2011, the channel rebranded with the CHECK IT 1.0 package. Around this time, it also began to play movie sponsorships for The Smurfs and Arthur Christmas.
On 1 January 2015, the channel rebranded itself with new graphics (CHECK IT 3.0). One year later, on 6 October 2016, the channel switched from 4:3 to 16:9 aspect ratio. On 1 January 2017, Cartoon Network started to use graphics from Cartoon Network USA's Dimensional 2016 rebrand package.
Ratings
The channel displays ratings before each program and a few seconds once it starts or comes back from commercials (in this case only the number appears). The ratings are described as follows:
Genel İzleyici (General Audience) is used for shows suitable for a general audience. We Bare Bears (TV-Y7 in the US), Summer Camp Island (TV-Y7), New Looney Tunes (TV-Y7) and Craig of the Creek (TV-Y7) currently use this rating, as well as many movies and miscellaneous programs on the channel.
7 Yaş ve Üzeri & Şiddet / Korku (7+ Violence/Horror) is used for shows suitable for children aged 7 and up which contain fantasy violence and/or horror. The Powerpuff Girls (TV-Y7-FV in the US), Supernoobs (TV-Y7-FV), Unikitty! (TV-Y7) and Yo-Kai Watch (TV-Y7-FV) currently use this rating.
7 Yaş ve Üzeri & Olumsuz (7+ Negative Examples) is used for shows suitable for children aged 7 and up which contain negative examples. Shows in the Total Drama franchise (TV-PG/TV-PG-D) currently use this rating.
7 Yaş ve Üzeri & Şiddet / Korku & Olumsuz (7+ with Violence/Horror and Negative Examples) is used for shows suitable for children aged 7 and up which contain both negative examples, fantasy violence and/or horror. The Amazing World of Gumball (TV-Y7-FV), Mighty Magiswords (TV-Y7), Adventure Time (TV-PG/TV-PG-V), Teen Titans Go! (TV-PG), Power Rangers (TV-Y7-FV) and Regular Show (TV-PG/TV-PG-V) currently use this rating (some of the shows mentioned use edited versions for some episodes).
See also
Cartoonito (brand as a whole)
List of international Cartoon Network channels
List of programs broadcast by Boomerang
List of programs broadcast by Cartoonito
References
External links
Cartoon Network
2008 establishments in Azerbaijan
2008 establishments in Northern Cyprus
2008 establishments in Turkey
Children's television channels in Turkey
Doğan Media Group
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Television stations in Azerbaijan
Television stations in Turkey
Turner Broadcasting System Turkey
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid%20%28video%20game%29 | is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo. The first installment in the Metroid series, it was originally released in Japan for the Family Computer Disk System in August 1986. North America received a release in August 1987 on the Nintendo Entertainment System in the Game Pak ROM cartridge format, with the European release following in January 1988. Set on the planet Zebes, the story follows Samus Aran as she attempts to retrieve the parasitic Metroid organisms that were stolen by Space Pirates, who plan to replicate the Metroids by exposing them to beta rays and then use them as biological weapons to destroy Samus and all who oppose them.
The game was developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1 (Nintendo R&D1) and Intelligent Systems. It was produced by Gunpei Yokoi, directed by Satoru Okada and Masao Yamamoto, and scored by Hirokazu Tanaka. It pioneered the Metroidvania genre, focusing on exploration and searching for power-ups used to reach previously inaccessible areas. Its varied endings for fast completion times made it an early popular title for speedrunning. It was also lauded for being one of the first video games to showcase a female protagonist.
Metroid was both a critical and commercial success. Reviewers praised its graphics, soundtrack, and tight controls. Nintendo Power ranked it 11th on their list of the best games for a Nintendo console. On Top 100 Games lists, it was ranked 7th by Game Informer and 69th by Electronic Gaming Monthly. The game has been rereleased multiple times onto other Nintendo systems, such as the Game Boy Advance in 2004, the Wii, Wii U and 3DS via the Virtual Console service, and the Nintendo Switch via its online service. An enhanced remake of Metroid featuring updated visuals and gameplay, Metroid: Zero Mission, was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2004.
Gameplay
Metroid is an action-adventure game in which the player controls Samus Aran in sprite-rendered two-dimensional landscapes. The game takes place on the planet Zebes, a large, open-ended world with areas connected by doors and elevators. The player controls Samus as she travels through the planet's caverns and hunts Space Pirates. She begins with a weak power beam as her only weapon, and with only the ability to jump. The player explores more areas and collects power-ups that grant Samus special abilities and enhance her armor and weaponry, allowing her to enter areas that were previously inaccessible. Among the power-ups that are included in the game are the Morph Ball, which allows Samus to curl into a ball to roll into tunnels; the Bomb, which can only be used while in ball form and can open hidden floor/wall paths; and the Screw Attack, a somersaulting move that destroys enemies in its path.
In addition to common enemies, Samus encounters two bosses, Kraid and Ridley, whom she must defeat in order to progress. Ordinary enemies typically yield additional energy or ammunition when destroyed, and the player can inc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard%20Werner | Gerhard Werner (1921–2012) was a medical doctor and scholar active in research covering areas of pharmacology, psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, especially neurodynamics, artificial intelligence, and complexity theory. During his career, and continuing after his retirement in 1989, he published just over a hundred scientific papers and held administrative posts in government, academic and corporate institutions.
Werner graduated from the University of Vienna Medical School in 1945, and continued studies in mathematics, theoretical physics, and later Psychoanalysis. He joined the World Health Organization (WHO) and served in Calcutta, India and Sao Paulo, Brazil. He worked at Cornell Medical College and Johns Hopkins University with Vernon Mountcastle. He was instrumental in introducing the neuropharmacological use of Succinylcholine. Werner became Chairman of the Pharmacology Department, and later Dean of the Medical School, at the University of Pittsburgh.
In 1984, Werner was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize to study temporal signal correlations in the brain in a collaboration with Heribert Reitboeck at Philipps University of Marburg / Germany.
Werner also served in the Veterans Administration (VA) in Pittsburgh, and later was a consultant to Motorola.
As a member of the National Institute of Health (NIH), he was involved in the early development of the prototype for the personal computer during the LINC project. At the University of Pittsburgh, he helped develop an early AI-driven medical expert system - the PROPHET system. He had a long-standing interest in the theoretical grounding of brain-related dynamical systems.
After encountering the constructivist concepts of Humberto Maturana, Werner moved away from representationalism as a way to explain the nature of how brain and mind enable knowledge of reality. Like Walter Freeman and the late Francisco Varela, Werner espoused dynamical systems theory in place of representationalism.
Vision neuroscientist J. Anthony Movshon of New York University credited Werner and
Vernon Mountcastle with introducing Alan Turing's statistical approach to making decisions into neuroscience in the 1960s.
Dr. Werner was an adjunct professor with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Werner died on March 26, 2012, at the age of 90.
The origin and current use of the concepts of computation, representation and information in Neuroscience are examined and conceptual flaws are identified which vitiate their usefulness for addressing the problem of the neural basis of Cognition and Consciousness. In contrast, a convergence of views is presented to support the characterization of the Nervous System as a complex dynamical system operating in a metastable regime, and capable of evolving to configurations and transitions in phase space with potential relevance for Cognition and Consciousness.
-Perspectives on the Neuroscience of Cognition and Consciousnes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20%28software%20engineering%29 | A domain is the targeted subject area of a computer program. It is a term used in software engineering. Formally it represents the target subject of a specific programming project, whether narrowly or broadly defined. For example, for a particular programming project that has as a goal the creation of a program for a particular hospital, that hospital would be the domain. Or, the project can be expanded in scope to include all hospitals as its domain. In a computer programming design, you define a domain by delineating a set of common requirements, terminology, and functionality for any software program constructed to solve a problem in the area of computer programming, known as domain engineering. The word domain is also taken as a synonym of application domain.
Domain in the realm of software engineering commonly refers to the subject area on which the application is intended to apply. In other words, during application development, the domain is the "sphere of knowledge and activity around which the application logic revolves." —Andrew Powell-Morse
Domain: A sphere of knowledge, influence, or activity. The subject area to which the user applies a program is the domain of the software. —Eric Evans
See also
Domain-driven design
Domain-specific programming language
Domain model
Programming domain
References
Software design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20townships%20in%20North%20Dakota | This is a list of townships in North Dakota, based on United States Geological Survey and U.S. Census data as of 2010.
Former townships
2000 census
Townships included in the 2000 census which no longest exist:
Duplicated names
Townships with the same name in different counties:
See also
List of townships in North Dakota by county
List of counties in North Dakota
List of cities in North Dakota
:Category:Defunct townships in North Dakota
References
External links
U.S. Board on Geographic Names
U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line
Townships
North Dakota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo%20Grattarola |
Biography
Massimo Grattarola was born on January 27, 1950, in Genova, Italy. He graduated in Physics in 1975 at the University of Genoa, with the final dissertation on “Computer simulation of the cerebral linguistic circuit”, advisor Prof. Antonio Borsellino, father of the “Cybernetics” in Italy. Since then, Grattarola showed a great scientific curiosity for the interdisciplinary approach between the worlds of Biophysics and Neurosciences. After a training period at the research center of Biophysics and Cybernetics in Camogli (Genova), he spent one year as a research associate at the Department of Biophysics and Physiology, Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S. During this period, he focused his research activities on optical cytometry. He worked on a research field we can now define as ”Cellular Engineering”, by investigating the effects of the electromagnetic fields at cellular and molecular level.
In 1978 he came back to Italy as Assistant Professor in Applied Biophysics at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Genoa, and in 1982 he was one of the co-founders of the Biophysical and Electronic Engineering Department where he worked till the end (He died in Genova, on February 15, 2002). In 1986 he became Associate Professor: he taught Bioelectronics for the Electronic Engineering degree and, since 1995, Bioelectrochemistry for the Biomedical Engineering degree. During this period, he set up a research group on Neural and Bioelectronics Technologies, drawing an ever-increasing number of PhD students working on research activities focused on the coupling between microelectronic devices and excitable cells.
In the years, he got and kept in contact with international research groups interested in the cross-fertilization and synergies coming from the mixture of different know-how and disciplines. In 1991 and 1997 he was invited, by Prof. Gregory Kovacs, as a visiting professor at the Centre for Integrated System, Stanford University, U.S. Here, following the pioneering works carried out by Prof. Guenter W. Gross, he started a project aiming to exploit the potentialities of the Microelectrode Arrays technique in the field of the in vitro electrophysiology to investigate networks of cultured neurons. In 2000, he was appointed full professor of Electronic Bioengineering, and became the chairman of the PhD program in Bioelectronics and Bioengineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Genova.
His scientific curriculum is well emphasized by more than 70 papers issued in international journals, by several contributions to scientific books, and by invited talks in workshops and conferences. He introduced, first in Italy, the concept of Bioelectronics. He was the only one in Italy to have a chair in Bioelectronics for the Biomedical Engineering degree. He was firmly convinced that Bioelectronics is the result of the cross-fertilization between micro-/nano-electronics and molecular biology of the cell. This idea led to the publication of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie%20in%20A%20Christmas%20Carol | Barbie in A Christmas Carol is a 2008 computer-animated Christmas film directed by William Lau and produced by Mattel Entertainment with Rainmaker Entertainment. It was given a limited theatrical release by Kidtoon Films on November 1, 2008. It was later released to DVD on November 4, 2008, and it made its television premiere on Nick Jr. UK on December 23, 2011. The fourteenth entry in the Barbie film series, it is based on Charles Dickens's 1843 novel and features the voice of Kelly Sheridan as Barbie, with Morwenna Banks as Eden Starling (a female version of Ebenezer Scrooge played by Barbie).
Official description
"Barbie in A Christmas Carol is a heart-warming adaptation of the classic Dickens story filled with cherished Christmas carols, fabulous fashions and lots of laughs! The tale stars Barbie as Eden Starling the glamorous singing diva of a theatre in Victorian London. Along with her snooty cat, Chuzzlewit, Eden selfishly plans to make all the theatre performers stay and rehearse on Christmas Day! Not even Eden's costume designer and childhood friend, Catherine can talk Eden out of her self-centered tantrum. It's up to three very unusual Christmas Spirits to take Eden on a fantastical holiday journey that will open her heart to the spirit of the season and the joy of giving. Barbie in A Christmas Carol is a family favorite to enjoy every holiday season!"
Plot
The story is told by Barbie to her little sister Kelly; who is reluctant to go to a Christmas Eve charity ball instead of spending the holiday at home with family.
Eden Starling is the glamorous, star soprano and owner of the Gads Hill Theatre in Victorian London; as well as an arrogant, self-centered diva with a deep hatred for Christmas. She is frequently accompanied by her snooty cat, Chuzzlewit. The theater's employees—Freddy, a stage magician, twin ballerinas Ann and Nan, clown Maurice, and costume designer, Catherine Beadnell—are reprimanded by Eden for their festive moods, and she declares that they are to work on Christmas day, ruining their holiday plans. Catherine, Eden's childhood best friend, tries to convince her otherwise to no avail.
That night, Eden is visited by the ghost of her late Aunt Marie (the film's version of Jacob Marley), bound by the chains forged from her misdeeds in life. Marie warns Eden that her actions are leading her down the same path as her aunt and that she will be visited by three spirits in an attempt to help her change her ways.
Eden is first visited by the cheery Spirit of Christmas Past who takes Eden back in time to her childhood. As a young girl, Eden was forced to study music under the domineering Aunt Marie with little rest. Eden secretly sneaks out of the house to celebrate Christmas with Catherine and her family. The festivities are interrupted at the arrival of an enraged Marie. After the incident, Eden was forbidden from celebrating Christmas and Marie further instilled her self-centered views into her niece.
Eden is visited ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value%20noise | Value noise is a type of noise commonly used as a procedural texture primitive in computer graphics. It is conceptually different from, and often confused with gradient noise, examples of which are Perlin noise and Simplex noise. This method consists of the creation of a lattice of points which are assigned random values. The noise function then returns the interpolated number based on the values of the surrounding lattice points.
For many applications, multiple octaves of this noise can be generated and then summed together, just as can be done with Perlin noise and Simplex noise, in order to create a form of fractal noise.
External links
- an explanation and implementation of Value Noise, mislabeled as Perlin noise.
Lesson explaining in a very simple way how Value Noise works (with examples in C++)
References
Noise (graphics)
Computer graphic techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient%20noise | Gradient noise is a type of noise commonly used as a procedural texture primitive in computer graphics. It is conceptually different, and often confused with value noise. This method consists of a creation of a lattice of random (or typically pseudorandom) gradients, dot products of which are then interpolated to obtain values in between the lattices. An artifact of some implementations of this noise is that the returned value at the lattice points is 0. Unlike the value noise, gradient noise has more energy in the high frequencies.
The first known implementation of a gradient noise function was Perlin noise, credited to Ken Perlin, who published the description of it in 1985. Later developments were Simplex noise and OpenSimplex noise.
References
Noise (graphics)
Computer graphic techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell%20Ramos | Carlino Xavier Ramos (; born August 18, 1978), professionally known as Wendell Ramos, is a Filipino actor and model. He is best known as one of the original cast members of the GMA Network comedy show Bubble Gang.
Career
Ramos started his showbiz career in 1995 when he joined the cast of Bubble Gang along with his long time best friend Antonio Aquitania. He got into "matinee idol" status when he joined Click. He then had roles with female stars like Ara Mina and Diana Zubiri, among others, in different films during the 2000s. He then moved to GMA Network shows including Sinasamba Kita, La Vendetta, Kung Mahawi Man ang Ulap and Tasya Fantasya. His biggest break came when he played the role of Harvey in Ako si Kim Samsoon. Ramos is also one of the models of Bench along with famous stars such as Richard Gomez, Richard Gutierrez, and Francine Prieto.
In 2015, Ramos moved to ABS-CBN and stayed until 2018, when he decided to return to GMA Network.
Personal life
Ramos has three children with three different non-showbiz girlfriends. He married his partner Kukai Guevara on December 9, 2017.
He is also the cousin of singer-actor Erik Santos.
Awards and nominations
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
Filipino male film actors
Filipino male television actors
Filipino male comedians
Filipino Roman Catholics
Actors from Parañaque
People from Tondo, Manila
Male actors from Manila
20th-century Filipino male actors
21st-century Filipino male actors
GMA Network personalities
TV5 (Philippine TV network) personalities
ABS-CBN personalities
Comedians from Manila
Filipino sketch comedians
Comedians from Parañaque |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIFI | WIFI may refer to:
Wi-Fi, a wireless networking technology
WIFI (AM), a radio station (1460 AM) licensed to Florence, New Jersey, United States
Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmond | Redmond may refer to:
Redmond (name)
Redmond Linux, a computer operating system from the former Lycoris (company)
Places
United States
Redmond, Oregon
Redmond, Utah
Redmond, Washington
John Redmond Reservoir, Kansas, USA
Elsewhere
Ballyredmond (Redmond's Town), a townland in County Carlow, Ireland
Redmond, Western Australia, a townsite and train station in the Great Southern region
Companies
"Redmond" is sometimes used as a metonym for Microsoft Corporation, due to its headquarters being in Redmond, Washington.
See also
Redmon (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20%28Apple%29 | Mac (Apple) may refer to one of the following:
The McIntosh apple cultivar, colloquially the Mac
The Macintosh computer line, which is manufactured by Apple Computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau%20Bahnhof | Dachau station () is a station in the Bavarian town of Dachau on the Munich S-Bahn network. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station and it has five platform tracks. It is served daily by about 190 trains operated by Deutsche Bahn, including 150 S-Bahn trains. Dachau station is on the Munich–Treuchtlingen railway and is the beginning of the Dachau–Altomünster railway.
Dachau Stadt (town) station is on the Dachau–Altomünster Railway.
Location
Dachau station is located southeast of the town of Dachau. The station building is located to the west of the tracks and has the address of Bahnhofplatz 1. Frühlingstraße runs to the west of the station, while Langhammerstraße runs west from the Bahnhofplatz (station forecourt). To the east of the tracks is Obere Moosschwaigestraße where there is a park-and-ride area. Schleißheimer Straße passes under the tracks to the north of the station. Augustenfelder Straße runs through an underpass to the south of the station. There is a bus station in the station forecourt.
History
Dachau station was opened on 14 November 1867, together with the Munich–Treuchtlingen railway. Facilities available by then included a turntable, a level junction, a goods shed (equipped with a loading track), an entrance building and a watering point. In the following years, the railway received continuous upgrades. Additional tracks were built around Dachau station in 1884, and the station building was upgraded twice, in 1887 and 1895.
The branch from Dachau to Markt Indersdorf, which is also known as the Ludwig-Thoma-Bahn (after the author Ludwig Thoma), was opened on 8 July 1912. This branch line was extended to Altomünster on 18 December 1913, and a new station closer to Dachau town center opened on the branch. To distinguish between the two stations, Dachau station was renamed (in German) from Bahnhof Dachau to Dachau Bahnhof. This change indicates that Dachau station is the main line station serving the town, but not in it.
The main line from Munich to Dachau was electrified in 1939, but further electrification to Ingolstadt was delayed by the outbreak of World War II and was not completed until 1960. In 1972, Dachau station was rebuilt again with two new platforms, in preparation for S-Bahn operations, which commenced on 28 May 1972. The S-Bahn line, numbered S2, operates between Petershausen and Munich, with Dachau being an important intermediate station.
General freight operations ended in 1976 and the handling of all other freight was abandoned in 1980. In 1998, the station and forecourt were significantly restructured.
The Dachau–Altomünster railway was integrated into Munich S-Bahn in 1995. At that time, diesel railcars were used, and the railway operated under a separate entity called "Line A". Its electrification was delayed several times, but was eventually finished in 2014. Since then, some S2 services have been diverted onto the Altomünster branch.
Conversion for the Nuremberg–Ingolsta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrapunto | Barrapunto was a Spanish-language Slashdot-like website, founded on 7 June 1999, which is part of a complex social network among Spanish-language websites. In 2006, it was the winner of a 20Blogs Award from the online newspaper 20 minutos, in the category "Mejor comunidad de un blog" (best blog community). The site and its community have also been the subject of both English- and Spanish-language academic research.
The name was derived in the same manner as Slashdot, with the Spanish "http://" pronounced "hache-te-te-pe-dos puntos-barra-barra" and "http://barrapunto.com/" pronounced "hache-te-te-pe-dos puntos-barra-barra-barra-punto-punto-com". Barrapunto ran Slash, the open source software used by Slashdot, and materials were published under CC BY.
Barrapunto was founded by six professionals and teachers in 1999 as a meeting point for the free software community. By 2005 more than half a million comments had been posted and almost 40,000 stories.
After six years of silence, in January 2018, the website's Twitter account published one tweet to announce a technical stop and it has been down ever since. In August 2019, and in the absence of an official statement on the matter, the website stopped responding.
Notes and references
External links
Barrapunto
Barrapunto vs. Slashdot: Challenging the Scalability of Self-Moderated Communities - a presentation by computer scientists Samuel Navarro and Gwendal Simon comparing the use of moderation on Barrapunto and Slashdot
Web portals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laszlo%20B.%20Kish | Laszlo Bela Kish (born László Béla Kiss) is a physicist and professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. His activities include a wide range of issues surrounding the physics and technical applications of stochastic fluctuations (noises) in physical, biological and technological systems, including nanotechnology. His earlier long-term positions include the Department of Experimental Physics, University of Szeged, Hungary (JATE, 1982–1997), and Angstrom Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden (1997–2001). During the same periods he had also conducted scientific research in short-term positions, such as at the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands, 1986, 1997), University of Cologne (Germany, 1989, 1990), National Research Laboratory of Metrology (Japan, 1991), University of Birmingham (United Kingdom, 1993), and others.
Education
He received his MS in physics from Attila József University (JATE), Hungary, 1980; and doctoral degree in solid state physics, at JATE in 1984. He had no official PhD adviser, though his mentors were Laszlo Vize and Miklos Torok. He received a docent in solid state physics (habilitation) from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 1994. He received a Doctor of Science (physics), from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2001.
Research
His main areas of interest have been related to stochastic fluctuations (noise), especially those related to the relevant laws, limits and applications, including the addressing of new or open questions, or exposing fashionable misconceptions. He has/had been working in many related fields, (see his list of publications) such as 1/f noise and its models, stochastic resonance, high-Tc superconductors, noise at percolation and biased percolation, nanoparticles and their lognormal size distribution, self-organized criticality, universal conductance fluctuations, the error–speed–power dissipation issues of physical informatics, noise as information and information carrier, chemical and biological sensing, secure communication, unconventional computation, vibration-induced fluctuation analysis of soils, electronic device noise vs its degradation, weight fluctuations of memory devices during/after writing/deletion of information, etc. He has often played the role of a critic. His inventions and co-inventions include fluctuation-enhanced sensing, SEPTIC method (prompt bacterium detection), secure communication with Johnson-like noise (Kish cypher), speed–error–energy limits of computers, zero-signal-power communication, "information theoretically secure computer hardware", noise-based logic, Electrical noise engines and others.
Public activity
He was the founding editor-in-chief of Fluctuation and Noise Letters (2001–2008), where he is currently Honorary Editor (2009–present). Kish is the founder of the international conference series Unsolved Problems of Noise (held at various locations at every 3rd years since 1996 when he chaired the first meeting). He is co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20Cameroon | This is a list of diplomatic missions of Cameroon, excluding honorary consulates. Cameroon has an extensive network of diplomatic missions, reflecting strong ties and non-contentious standing with other African states, its special relationships with France, the United States, Russia, and China, and its unique position of being both a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and Francophonie.
Africa
Algiers (Embassy)
Bangui (Embassy)
Bouar (Consulate)
N'Djamena (Embassy)
Brazzaville (Embassy)
Ouesso (Consulate)
Kinshasa (Embassy)
Cairo (Embassy)
Malabo (Embassy)
Bata (Consulate)
Mongomo (Consulate)
Addis Ababa (Embassy)
Abidjan (Embassy)
Libreville (Embassy)
Nairobi (Consulate-General)
Monrovia (Embassy)
Rabat (Embassy)
Abuja (High Commission)
Lagos (Consulate-General)
Calabar (Consulate)
Dakar (Embassy)
Pretoria (High Commission)
Tunis (Embassy)
Americas
Brasília (Embassy)
Ottawa (High Commission)
Washington, D.C. (Embassy)
Asia
Beijing (Embassy)
Tel Aviv (Embassy)
Tokyo (Embassy)
Seoul (Embassy)
Kuwait City (Consulate-General)
Riyadh (Embassy)
Ankara (Embassy)
Dubai (Consulate General)
Europe
Brussels (Embassy)
Paris (Embassy)
Marseille (Consulate)
Berlin (Embassy)
Rome (Embassy)
Rome (Embassy)
The Hague (Embassy)
Moscow (Embassy)
Madrid (Embassy)
Berne (Embassy)
Geneva (Consulate-General)
London (High Commission)
Multilateral organisations
Addis Ababa (Permanent Mission)
International Civil Aviation Organization
Montreal (Delegation)
New York City (Permanent Mission)
Geneva (Permanent Mission)
Paris (Permanent Mission)
Gallery
See also
Foreign relations of Cameroon
List of diplomatic missions in Cameroon
Visa policy of Cameroon
Notes
References
Sources
Cameroun - Ambassades et Consulats Camerounais à l’Etranger
Nomination - Ambassadeur du Cameroun en Turquie
Consulat Général du Cameroun à Genève
Cameroun - Consulat Général du Cameroun à Lagos
Cameroun - Consulat du Cameroun à Doubaï
Cameroun - Consulat du Cameroun à Nairobi
Cameroun - Consulat du Cameroun à Ouesso (République du Congo)
Ouverture d’un Consulat de la République du Cameroun à Ouesso (République du Congo)
Ouverture d’un Consulat du Cameroun à Ouesso (République du Congo)
Le Consulat de la République du Cameroun à Ouesso, inauguré par le Ministre des Relations Extérieures ce 31 octobre 2018)
Paul Biya nomme un consul général à Dubaï
Décret N°2017/544 du 07 novembre 2017 Nomination de responsables dans les services extérieures du ministère des Relations extérieures
Diplomatie: Le Nouvel Ambassadeur du Cameroun en Turquie Accrédité
Émirats Arabes Unis : Le Consul général prend fonction
Cameroon
Diplomatic missions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altibase | ALTIBASE is a hybrid database, relational database management system manufactured by The Altibase Corporation. The software's hybrid architecture allows it to access both memory-resident and disk-resident tables using single interface. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous replication and offers real-time ACID compliance. Support is also offered for a variety of SQL standards and programming languages. Other important capabilities include data import and export, data encryption for security, multiple data access command sets, materialized view and temporary tables, and others.
History
From 1991 through 1997 the Mr. RT project was an in-memory database research project, conducted by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute a government-funded research organization in South Korea. Altibase was incorporated in 1999.
Release
The first version, called Spiner, was released in 2000 for commercial use. It took half of the in-memory DBMS market share in South Korea.
In 2002 the second version was released renamed to Altibase v2.0.
By 2003, Altibase v3.0 was released and it entered the Chinese market.
Released version 4.0 with hybrid architecture, combining RAM and disk databases, was released in 2004.
In 2005 Altibase began working with Chinese telecommunications providers for billing systems,
and some financial companies in Taiwan, China, for home trading systems.
The software was certified by the Telecommunications Technology Association.
The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs gave it an award in 2006.
Offices in China and United States opened in 2009.
In 2011, version 5.5.1 was renamed it to HDB (for "hybrid database"). The Altibase Data Stream product for complex event processing was renamed DSM.
The product received a Korean technology award.
Altibase introduced certification services.
In 2012, HDB Zeta and Extreme were announced, and DSM renamed to CEP
In 2013, yet another variant called XDB was announced,
and the company received ISO/IEC 20000 certification.
In 2018, Altibase went open source.
Altibase went open source in February, 2018. Altibase Corp has made the decision to discontinue the Altibase 7.1 open source edition, effective March 17th, 2023. As a result, the open-source edition of Altibase 7.1 will no longer be available for download or use.
Clients
According to marketing research, Altibase had 650 customers and thousands of installations.
Altibase's clients in the telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and utilities sectors include Bloomberg, LG U+, E*TRADE, HP, UAT Inc., SK Telecom, KT Corporation (formerly Korea Telecom), Hyundai Securities, Samsung Electronics, Shinhan Bank, Woori Bank, The South Korean Ministry of Defense, G-Market, and Chung-Ang University.
Altibase users in Japan include FX Prime, a foreign exchange services company, and Retela Crea Securities.
In China, the three major telecommunications companies, China Mobile, China Unicom, and China T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20binning | Data binning, also called data discrete binning or data bucketing, is a data pre-processing technique used to reduce the effects of minor observation errors. The original data values which fall into a given small interval, a bin, are replaced by a value representative of that interval, often a central value (mean or median). It is related to quantization: data binning operates on the abscissa axis while quantization operates on the ordinate axis. Binning is a generalization of rounding.
Statistical data binning is a way to group numbers of more-or-less continuous values into a smaller number of "bins". For example, if you have data about a group of people, you might want to arrange their ages into a smaller number of age intervals (for example, grouping every five years together). It can also be used in multivariate statistics, binning in several dimensions at once.
In digital image processing, "binning" has a very different meaning. Pixel binning is the process of combining blocks of adjacent pixels throughout an image, by summing or averaging their values, during or after readout. It reduces the amount of data; also the relative noise level in the result is lower.
Example usage
Histograms are an example of data binning used in order to observe underlying frequency distributions. They typically occur in one-dimensional space and in equal intervals for ease of visualization.
Data binning may be used when small instrumental shifts in the spectral dimension from mass spectrometry (MS) or nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments will be falsely interpreted as representing different components, when a collection of data profiles is subjected to pattern recognition analysis. A straightforward way to cope with this problem is by using binning techniques in which the spectrum is reduced in resolution to a sufficient degree to ensure that a given peak remains in its bin despite small spectral shifts between analyses. For example, in NMR the chemical shift axis may be discretized and coarsely binned, and in MS the spectral accuracies may be rounded to integer atomic mass unit values. Also, several digital camera systems incorporate an automatic pixel binning function to improve image contrast.
Binning is also used in machine learning to speed up the decision-tree boosting method for supervised classification and regression in algorithms such as Microsoft's LightGBM and scikit-learn's Histogram-based Gradient Boosting Classification Tree.
See also
Binning (disambiguation)
Censoring (statistics)
Discretization of continuous features
Grouped data
Histogram
Level of measurement
Quantization (signal processing)
Rounding
References
Statistical data coding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20McCargo%20Jr. | Aaron McCargo Jr. (born July 22, 1971) is an American chef, television personality, and television show host who is best known as the winner of the fourth season of the Food Network's reality television show, The Next Food Network Star.
Early life and education
McCargo was born and also grew up in Camden, New Jersey, and is one of six children. He became interested in cooking at age four, when he began baking cakes in his sister's Easy-Bake Oven. He began cooking in his family's kitchen at age seven. He was encouraged by his father, Aaron McCargo, Sr., who is a fine cook, and his mother, Julia, who has a preference for food with a great deal of flavor. He first studied cooking in a home economics class at Pyne Poynt Middle School in Camden and began cooking as a Junior Volunteer in the kitchen of Cooper University Hospital in Camden at age 13. He took further cooking classes at Camden High School, graduating in 1989.
Following his graduation from high school, McCargo took a month-long cake cooking class at Wilton Cake in Audubon, New Jersey, and began selling cakes and cookies throughout Camden. He has worked in nine restaurants in New Jersey (some while doing on-the-job training during his year at the Academy of Culinary Arts at Atlantic Cape Community College), including T.G.I. Friday's, Steak 38, Holmes Lounge, the Marlton Tavern, the former Harbour League Club in Camden, and the Armadillo Steakhouse & Saloon in Edgewater Park, as sous chef; he also worked at the Armadillo Steakhouse & Saloon in Barrington. Aaron was introduced to the Burlington County area when he opened Citrus in Westampton Township with Ian Russo.[3]
Professional life
Aaron McCargo Jr. opened his own restaurant, McCargo's Creative Cuisine, in 2003. The restaurant was located across from the U.S. Federal Courthouse on Cooper Street, near Rutgers University in Camden, and closed in 2005. He worked as an executive chef, including at the catering division of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, where he oversaw approximately forty jobs per day. He left his job there on June 6, 2008, due to his demanding television schedule.
Building his career as a renowned American chef, TV host, restaurateur, culinary products expert, and consultant, Aaron competed on and won season four of The Next Food Network Star, winning his own Food Network television show. Big Daddy’s House ranked as the number one “In the Kitchen” weekend show during its initial six-episode run. Food Network renewed the show for five more seasons. On Big Daddy’s House, Aaron shared his passion for big, bold flavors, fun, and family cooking while bringing a down-to-earth vibe and warm smile to the kitchen.
Aaron has made numerous appearances across many of the top television talk shows and food shows including, the Today Show, The Talk, Steve Harvey, Rachel, Good Morning America, Dr. Oz, Queen Latifah Show, and hit Food Network shows such as The Best Thing I Ever Ate and Guy’s Grocery Games. Most |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obra%20%28TV%20program%29 | () is a 2008 Philippine television drama anthology broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Katrina Halili, JC de Vera, Sunshine Dizon and Iza Calzado, it premiered on August 14, 2008. The show concluded on November 27, 2008, with a total of 16 episodes.
The show is streaming online on YouTube.
Episodes
Accolades
References
External links
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine anthology television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorcas%20Muthoni | Dorcas Muthoni (born 1979, Nyeri) is a Kenyan entrepreneur, computer scientist and founder of OPENWORLD LTD, a software consulting company she started at the age of 24. Through her work as an entrepreneur and computer scientist, Muthoni seeks to see technology positively transforming the lives of the African society, governments and enterprises.
Biography
She graduated in Computer Science from the University of Nairobi, has specialized training in wireless networks, radio-communications and strategic technology planning, among other subjects. Through her everyday work as a businesswoman and computer scientist, she seeks to see technology positively transform the life of the African society and businesses.
OPENWORLD has been involved in the delivery of some most widely used Web and cloud applications in Africa, such as ARIS, an African Union reporting application used by all 54 member states; the Performance Management System for the Government of Kenya, automating performance contracting in the public sector; and OpenBusiness, a revolutionary cloud-based small- and medium-size business management tool.
Muthoni is also the founder of the regional organization AfChix, a mentorship and capacity building initiative for women in computing across Africa. Since 2004, AfChix activities have included organizing annual Computing Career Conferences with a special emphasis on encouraging computing careers for young women and high school girls; continuous career development for women in technology and role-modeling for upcoming women in computing. This passion and involvement has made her a role model herself, for women and girls in the African community.
Muthoni has been an Internet Society (ISOC) Fellow to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and World Bank infoDev Global Forum. In 2008, she was an Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology's Change Agent award winner and in 2009 she was selected as a Women's Forum Rising Talent, a network of highly talented women with the potential to become influential figures in the future. In 2013, she was selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a panel of distinguished leaders from around the world under the age of 40. In 2017, the Pompeu Fabra University made Honoris Causa for her significant work in the promotion of engineering studies among girls in Africa, the mentoring of young people, and her social commitment in the fight against poverty.
She received the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology's Change Agent award in 2008.
References
External links
1979 births
Living people
Kenyan businesspeople
Kenyan women computer scientists
Women founders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel%20He%2049 | The Heinkel He 49 was a German single-bay, single-seat biplane of mixed construction armed with two machine guns. Four variants were made, the He 49a, He 49b, He 49c and He 49d.
Variants
Data from:
HD 49 original Heinkel designation for the He 49, before allocation of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium'' (RLM) designations.
He 49Lgeneric designation for any of the He 49 landplane variants.
He 49Wgeneric designation for the He 49 floatplane variant.
He 49aThe first prototype, (originally HD 49), was flown in November 1932
He 49bthe second prototype followed in February 1933, with a modified fuselage to make it longer, powered by a BMW VI 6.0 V-12 engine.
He 49bWThe He 49b turned into a floatplane
He 49cThe third prototype
He 49dlater prototype Heinkel He 51
Specifications (Heinkel He 49b)
References
Heinkel He 049
He 049 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hits%20Radio%20Manchester | Hits Radio Manchester is an Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to Greater Manchester.
As of September 2023, the station has a weekly audience of 292,000 listeners according to RAJAR.
History
Piccadilly Radio
Originally known as Piccadilly Radio, the station commenced broadcasting from studios at Piccadilly Plaza in Manchester city centre at 5am on Tuesday 2 April 1974 - the fifth Independent Local Radio station to launch and the first of its kind in northern England. The first presenter on air was Roger Day and the first song played on air was "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys.
In early 1987, due to a nationwide reorganisation of the FM band, Piccadilly moved its VHF (FM) frequency from 97 to 103 FM. A year later, the Government and the IBA began encouraging all ILR stations with multiple frequencies to provide split programming in order to increase listener choice and competition.
Key 103
Piccadilly split its services into two on Saturday 3 September 1988. Key 103 launched at midday on 103 FM while the original Piccadilly Radio service continued on 1152 AM.
The first presenters on air were Tim Grundy and Rebecca Want. Other presenters included Peter Baker, Adrian Bell, Tony Michealides, Stu Allan. The first jingle package was produced by Stowe Bowden Wilson and featuring voiceovers from Steve Coogan. The first song played upon launch was Alive and Kicking by Simple Minds.
Positioning itself as Music, not music, Key 103 aimed at an upmarket audience with a mix of AOR and chart music and high-end specialist output including arts and business programming, comedy and weekly jazz, folk and classical music shows.
The station later opted for a more mainstream format with presenters from Piccadilly 1152 (later Piccadilly Gold) switching to the FM station, and in 1990, the station was rebranded as Piccadilly Key 103. The Piccadilly branding was gradually dropped during the 1990s.
In 1994, the station's owners Transworld Radio Group were brought by EMAP. Two years later, both Key 103 and its AM sister station moved from the Piccadilly Plaza studios to new headquarters at Castle Quay in Castlefield.
Hits Radio Manchester
On 18 April 2018, station owners Bauer Media announced Key 103 would be rebranded and relaunched as Hits Radio Manchester, a CHR-led music station aimed at 25-44 year olds on Monday 4 June 2018.
The station was merged with The Hits Radio to provide a single national service across the UK on DAB, Freeview and online - as Hits Radio UK In Manchester, Hits Radio continues to provide local news & information, traffic bulletins and advertising on its local platforms - 103 FM, DAB and online.
The Key 103 branding was phased out from Friday 25 May 2018 as the station entered a transition period ahead of the launch of Hits Radio at 6am on Monday 4 June 2018. The first song played on air - decided by an online poll via the Manchester Evening News - was "Greates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtua%20Health | Virtua Health is an academic non-profit healthcare system in southern New Jersey that operates a network of hospitals, surgery centers, physician practices, and more. Virtua is South Jersey's largest health care provider. The main headquarters are located in Marlton.
History
Virtua Health has been serving the community since the 1880s. Its history includes three different health systems now as one representing the largest health system in Southern New Jersey.
The state of New Jersey approved the incorporation of The Burlington County Hospital at Mount Holly on April 21, 1880, the first community hospital in the southern portion of the state. In an era when most health care was provided at home for those who could afford it, the poor were left without options. Dr. Francis Ashhurst assembled a board of managers, local leaders, family, and “a skillful and able corps of physicians and surgeons” to volunteer their services at the new hospital. “There is no other institution in West Jersey where the sick and wounded poor can obtain relief,” he wrote.
In 1885, a great need for a hospital in the City of Camden led homeopathic physicians to unite in organizing for that purpose. On March 2, 1885, the first hospital in the City of Camden opened as The Camden Hospital and Dispensary Association on the northeast corner of Fourth and Arch Streets. Its mission: to treat the sick, especially women, who cannot afford medical services.
In October 1998, the successors of the above two hospitals, Memorial Health Alliance and West Jersey Health System merged to create Virtua Health, the largest healthcare provider in South Jersey. Former President and CEO Richard Miller led the merger. Miller instituted the philosophies and values currently used by the company. He also adopted the widely used business strategy known as Six Sigma, making Virtua one of the first healthcare systems to use its problem-solving techniques. In 2017, Dennis Pullin assumed the role of president and CEO upon Miller's retirement.
In 2018, Virtua signed an agreement to purchase Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden and Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County. On July 1, 2019 the two Lourdes Medical Centers joined Virtua and now operate as Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital and Virtua Willingboro Hospital.
In January 2022, Virtua and Rowan University announced an academic affiliation that includes the newly named Virtua Health College of Medicine & Life Sciences of Rowan University.
Hospitals
Camden
Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital is a 325-bed destination hospital for heart care, with one of the largest programs in the Delaware Valley. It is recognized consistently by Healthgrades, most recently as among America's 50 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Surgery for 2015. Truven Health Analytics and Becker's Hospital Review each named the hospital to its list of best hospitals for cardiovascular care. The hospital in Camden is the only facility in southern New Jersey performing k |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensburg%20%28TV%20series%29 | Greensburg is an American television series broadcast on the Planet Green television network. The show takes place in Greensburg, Kansas, and is about rebuilding that town in a sustainable way after being hit by a May, 2007 EF5 tornado. It ran for three seasons, from June 15, 2008 to May 3, 2010.
Episodes
Season 1 (2008)
Season 2 (2009)
Season 3 (2010)
Reception
Common Sense Media rated the series 3 out of 5 stars.
References
External links
Greensburg home on Discovery.com
Destination America original programming
2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series
2008 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings
Kiowa County, Kansas
Television shows set in Kansas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexopia | Nexopia is a Canadian social networking website created in 2003, by Timo Ewalds. It was designed for ages 14 and up, but was later lowered to 13. Users are able to create and design profiles, a friends list, blogs, galleries, and compose articles and forums. Interaction is accomplished through an internal personal messaging system, public user comments on profiles, blogs or through threads and posts on the forums. In November 2012, Nexopia was acquired by digital ad network Ideon Media.
History
Nexopia was founded in 2003, and became Canada's first online social network. It evolved from the community site called Enternexus.com, another website built by Ewalds. The initial beta site was limited to 70 members and eventually led to Nexopia.com. When Enternexus.com relaunched as Nexopia.com, initial growth was said to be 100 users in four days, and 225,000 users within 22 months. For a brief period during that time, Nexopia.com maintained growth of 10% or 3500 average new members per day. In 2008, Nexopia announced 1.2 million active registered users and 1 billion page views per month as well as the investment of an undisclosed amount of the venture capital fund Burda Digital Ventures (now Acton Capital Partners).
In October 2010, the site had just under 1.5 million users and nearly 35 billion hits. In January 2012, the site reported 1,636,990 users and 35,517,895,992 hits.
The website uses Interac Online, a service that allows account holders at participating banks to make payments through online banking.
Profile update
In 2008 Nexopia updated its user profile pages, the largest revision since the site's launch in 2003. The redesign included a streamlined layout, Ajax controls for messages, galleries and profile editing, new profile skinning options and image resizing. The update caused controversy among users due to issues such as slow load times, disappearing profile pictures, undelivered private messages, forms not working correctly, and people upset because the site design was different. Nexopia staff polled users, and found that the majority disliked the new profile picture slider the most. Nexopia staff then provided the option to switch between the classic and new profile picture viewers.
Forums
The forums are the main social aspect of the website. Nexopia 'Plus' subscribers can create their own forums, which can be open or available only to only invited members. In early 2016, the website changed to online forums. The forum uses software from XenForo, replacing WordPress.
Members
Over 95% of users are Canadian, with over 1.4 million member accounts and over 200,000 active users and a hit count of over 33 billion.
No nudity, racism, violence, or gore are allowed on forums or profiles, although photos of a small amount of marijuana and the use of pipes and bongs are allowed; alcohol is also acceptable. All profile pictures are checked by photo moderators before appearing on a user page. Photos on a user's profile are not checked, but a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherrypal | Cherrypal is a California-based marketer of Chinese-manufactured consumer-oriented computers. It markets a range of models with a diversity of CPU-types, structures, features, and operating systems. Commentators have observed that Cherrypal arguably beat the heralded and much-better financed one Laptop per Child (OLPC) project to its goal of a $100 "laptop" (such units are physically small: a Cherrypal unit for general purchase at $99 plus shipping has a 7" screen, an OLPC provided to a child in developing world at $199 has a 7.5").
The company's business practices have generated controversy and antipathy from some vocally dissatisfied customers, while others are marginally satisfied. Its practices pertaining to merchandise returns and communication have been repeatedly faulted. The U.S. Better Business Bureau rating for Cherrypal is an "F", indicating that the BBB strongly questions the company’s reliability.
Cherrypal claims a commitment to environmental concerns and the needs of impoverished countries and in particular key sponsorship of a learning center in Ghana. It supports a "One Laptop per Teacher" pilot program in Nigeria.
History
Cherrypal was founded by Max Seybold based in Palo Alto. The C114 (and following C120) desktop computers were originally developed by Tsinghua Tongfang (THTF) in its Shenzhen R&D center by an engineering team led by American electronics industry veterans Jack Campbell and Ryan Quinn. An extended line of handheld, desktop, and TV-based PCs using the Freescale MPC5121e PowerPC microprocessor was shown at CES 2008 by THTF, with the desktop product picked up thereafter as an OEM purchase by CherryPal.
Cherrypal America/Cherrypad
The "Cherrypal America", also known as Cherrypad, is an Android tablet based upon Telechips TCC89xx ARM11 processors. Cherrypal initially sold the tablet with the promise of an upgrade to Android 2.2 by November and support for Android market. The market support has been officially removed because the tablet does not conform to the market requirements by Google. Also the Android 2.2 upgrade has been canceled, instead Cherrypal now promises an update to Android 2.3.
The hardware of the Cherrypal America as listed by Cherrypal comprises an 800 MHz ARM11 CPU by Telechips, 256 MB DDR2 RAM, 2 GB Flash Memory and an 800x480 resistive touchscreen. However, there is a user report arguing some less powerful specifications according to the boot-log dumped via dmesg.
According to various Android news magazines, Cherrypal has announced a successor for their current Cherrypad.
C114
The Cherrypal C114 is a small, light nettop computer using a PowerPC-processor, the Freescale 5121e system-on-a-chip (SoC) integrated main-board, and Xubuntu as its operating system. The device launches Firefox Minefield web-browser, AbiWord word-processor, and other apps via icon double-click. An article in The Register noted that Cherrypal's producers asserted that the computer will consume only 2 watts of power. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Pittman%20%28media%20executive%29 | Robert Warren Pittman (born December 28, 1953) is an American businessman. Pittman was the CEO of MTV Networks and the cofounder and programmer who led the team that created MTV, and is the cofounder of iHeartMedia and Casa Dragones Tequila. Pittman joined iHeartMedia's predecessor company Clear Channel in November 2010 as an investor and the company's Chairman of Media and Entertainment Platforms, was named CEO in 2011 and chairman in 2013. Pittman led Clear Channel's transformation into iHeartMedia, Inc. in September 2014 to reflect its new multiplatform business and expanded mission. Pittman has also been the former chairman and CEO of Clear Channel Outdoor, CEO of AOL Networks, Six Flags Theme Parks, Quantum Media, Century 21 Real Estate and Time Warner Enterprises, and COO of America Online, Inc. and AOL Time Warner.
Pittman has also been a radio and TV programmer, marketer, investor and media entrepreneur who has had multiple careers in a number of consumer-focused industries. According to Sean Parker, Pittman is the only media mogul who is genuinely an entrepreneur. In giving him its first 'Media Visionary" award, advertising publication Adweek referred to him as a "jack of all media" and former MTV executive Tom Freston referred to him as "the wonder boy of branding".
Biography
Early life
The son of a Methodist minister, Pittman was born in Jackson, Mississippi, but raised in Hattiesburg and Brookhaven, where he attended Brookhaven High School and became a radio announcer at the age of 15 to earn money for flying lessons. He was an announcer in a number of cities and then successfully programmed radio stations in Pittsburgh, Chicago (WMAQ AM 670 and WKQX FM) and finally at the NBC flagship station, WNBC (AM), in New York when he was 23. He also produced and co-hosted a music video and news show in 1978 that ran on NBC's O&O Television stations. He did learn to fly and has been a pilot for almost 50 years: He now has over 6,000 flight hours; currently holds an Airline Transport Pilot's license for airplanes; and is rated for helicopters and three types of jets.
MTV Years
At Warner Amex, he oversaw the creation and growth of MTV and the transition of Nickelodeon from a failing network geared to preschoolers to the highest-rated channel aimed at older kids as well as overseeing the launches of VH-1 and Nick at Nite, and led the initial public offering for MTV Networks and its expansion into international markets. Under Pittman's leadership, MTV became the first profitable cable network; then-Warner Communications' Co-chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer Steve Ross also noted that MTV became the most profitable basic cable network during Pittman's tenure there. During his tenure at MTV, the network was criticized harshly for its initial reluctance to play videos from African American artists. During Pittman's tenure, MTV responded to this criticism by Rick James by actively soliciting and championing videos by Black artists, includin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Top%20Latin%20Albums%20of%202000 | The Billboard Top Latin albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a chart that features Latin music sales information. These data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, internet sales (both physical and via digital downloads) and verifiable sales from concert venues in United States.
There were eleven number-one albums on this chart in 2000, including the greatest hits collection Desde Un Principio: From the Beginning by Marc Anthony, which spent a non-consecutive run of 13 weeks at the top of the chart starting in early December 1999. Los Temerarios and Conjunto Primavera peaked at number one for the first time with Morir de Amor and En La Madrugada se Fue, respectively. Both albums received Latin Grammy nominations for Best Grupero Performance, which was awarded to the latter one. MTV Unplugged, by Colombian performer Shakira, also peaked at number one for two weeks and went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album at the 43rd Grammy Awards. With All My Hits - Todos Mis Exitos Vol. 2, Tejano music performer Selena had her sixth album peak at number one (the fifth to do so posthumously). Son By Four spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at the summit with their eponymous album, which received a gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Mexican performer Alejandro Fernández and Cuban singer–songwriter Gloria Estefan both released the second number-one albums of their careers. Guerra de Estados Pesados, a compilation album with music by Chuy Vega, El Jilguero, El Original de la Sierra, El Marquez de Sinaloa, Los Gatilleros de Durango, Los Herederos del Norte, Los Traileros de Durango and Los Comandantes de Nuevo León, spent one week at the top but dropped to number 16 the following week. Christina Aguilera spent 14 weeks at number one with her first Spanish album Mi Reflejo, and Galería Caribe by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona also hit the top spot of the chart.
Albums
References
2000 Latin
United States Latin Albums
2000 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCMP%20Technical%20Security%20Branch | The Technical Security Branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police holds jurisdiction over all forms of Computer crime in Canada.
References
Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Technical Security Branch - Mandate
Law enforcement in Canada
Cybercrime in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mkstemp | In computing, mkstemp is a POSIX function for creating a temporary file (a computer file which usually ceases to exist when the program, which opened the file, closes it or terminates). It accepts an argument that determines the location of the temporary file, and the prefix of its generated filename. After mkstemp was added to the Single UNIX Specification, the function tempnam() was deprecated, because the latter carried the risk that a temporary file with the same name could be created by another thread or process within the time from when the caller obtains the temporary filename and attempts to create it. mkstemp does not suffer from this problem.
Usage
Inclusion
C
#include <stdlib.h> // per IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004
#include <unistd.h> // for "legacy" systems
C++
#include <cstdlib> // per IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004
#include <unistd.h> // for "legacy" systems
Declaration
int mkstemp(char* template);
Requirements
The parameter template must be a modifiable, null-terminated character array.
The contents of template must be in the format of a valid file path, with six trailing 'X's.
The parameter template must not have been used in a previous invocation of mkstemp.
Semantics
The trailing 'X's in template are overwritten to generate a unique file name for the resulting temporary file.
The function reports a valid file descriptor to a temporary file on success; on failure, it reports -1.
Example
The following code is an example of the usage of mkstemp; the local variable filename is modified by mkstemp and will contain the path to the new file:
#include <stdlib.h>
void example()
{
char filename[] = "/tmp/prefXXXXXX";
mkstemp(filename);
}
Error conditions
It is unspecified if mkstemp sets errno, and what values of errno are set, in the event of failure.
Mechanism
The mkstemp function generates a filename according to the supplied argument for the template, and attempts to create it. It repeats this process until a file has been successfully created. After this, it opens the file and returns the file descriptor to the caller, with the data buffer that was passed to the function with the template now containing the new filename. The file can be deleted immediately after the mkstemp call returns to prevent other processes from opening it, but the file can still be used because the calling process will still have a valid file descriptor. Older versions of mkstemp created the file with an umask of 0666, resulting in the temporary files being readable and writable to all users, and thus presenting a security vulnerability; this is mitigated by setting the umask manually before calling mkstemp. Newer versions of the function create the file with the umask 600, so that only the owner of the file may read from and write to it.
See also
tmpfile
References
Unix file system-related software
C POSIX library |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable%20engineering | Sustainable engineering is the process of designing or operating systems such that they use energy and resources sustainably, in other words, at a rate that does not compromise the natural environment, or the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Common engineering focuses
Sustainable Engineering focuses on the following -
Water supply
Food production
Housing and shelter
Sanitation and waste management
Energy development
Transportation
Industrial processing
Development of natural resources
Cleaning up polluted waste sites
Planning projects to reduce environmental and social impacts
Restoring natural environments such as forests, lakes, streams, and wetlands
Providing medical care to those in need
Minimizing and responsibly disposing of waste to benefit all
Improving industrial processes to eliminate waste and reduce consumption
Recommending the appropriate and innovative use of technology
Aspects of engineering disciplines
Every engineering discipline is engaged in sustainable design, employing numerous initiatives, especially life cycle analysis (LCA), pollution prevention, Design for the Environment (DfE), Design for Disassembly (DfD), and Design for Recycling (DfR). These are replacing or at least changing pollution control paradigms. For example, concept of a "cap and trade" has been tested and works well for some pollutants. This is a system where companies are allowed to place a "bubble" over a whole manufacturing complex or trade pollution credits with other companies in their industry instead of a "stack-by-stack" and "pipe-by-pipe" approach, i.e. the so-called "command and control" approach. Such policy and regulatory innovations call for some improved technology based approaches as well as better quality-based approaches, such as leveling out the pollutant loadings and using less expensive technologies to remove the first large bulk of pollutants, followed by higher operation and maintenance (O&M) technologies for the more difficult to treat stacks and pipes. But, the net effect can be a greater reduction of pollutant emissions and effluents than treating each stack or pipe as an independent entity. This is a foundation for most sustainable design approaches, i.e. conducting a life-cycle analysis, prioritizing the most important problems, and matching the technologies and operations to address them. The problems will vary by size (e.g. pollutant loading), difficulty in treating, and feasibility. The most intractable problems are often those that are small but very expensive and difficult to treat, i.e. less feasible. Of course, as with all paradigm shifts, expectations must be managed from both a technical and an operational perspective. Historically, sustainability considerations have been approached by engineers as constraints on their designs. For example, hazardous substances generated by a manufacturing process were dealt with as a waste stream that must be contained and treated. The hazardous w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM%20Data%20Transport | XCOM is a proprietary file transfer utility previously owned by CA Technologies but since acquired by Broadcom Inc. on 5 November 2018.
History
Spectrum Concepts Inc. of New York City, which was primarily a software consulting firm, originally developed XCOM 6.2 in the mid-1980s, in conjunction with Proginet, and sold it as a product on many platforms.
First launched in 1987, it became one of the first heterogeneous systems management software products to be widely deployed in large corporate networks around the world, at peak expanding to more than 13 operating systems, and was still being sold and deployed more than 25 years later.
Its installed based grew very rapidly at first because it was one of the first third party products to be based upon the then advanced networking technology from IBM, known as IBM Advanced Program-to-Program Communication, which allowed faster and more reliable communication between different types of computers.
Its early versions supported IBM mainframe and midrange including IBM System 38 and AS/400, Windows, Apple, UNIX, Digital Equipment Corporation VAX, Data General, Stratus, Tandem, and others, for many decades and functions on both SNA and TCP/IP networks. XCOM establishes a peer-to-peer connection to manage all aspects of moving bulk data between heterogeneous systems.
The product was sold to Legent Corporation in 1992, in the largest software transaction in history, up until that time, in a transaction that acquired approval of the United States Department of Justice. In 1995, Legent Inc. was bought by Computer Associates. In 2018, Computer Associates was bought by Broadcom Inc.
References
External links
Official CA XCOM Website
Network file transfer protocols
File transfer software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVDW | KVDW (branded as Vern 1530AM) is a radio station serving the Little Rock metropolitan area with southern gospel and talk programming.
The station broadcasts on AM frequency 1530 kHz and is currently owned by Alvin Simmons, through licensee Habibi's Broadcasting, Inc.
Because it shares the same frequency as "clear channel" station WCKY-AM in Cincinnati, Ohio; KVDW operates only during daytime hours.
History
KVDW began its broadcasting activities on December 18, 2006, and has since then maintained its current format. It was formerly known as "Victory 1530."
FM Translator
In addition to the main station at 1530 kHz, KVDW is relayed by an FM translator in order to widen its broadcast area and provide 24 hours coverage.
External links
Vern 1530AM - Official Site
VDW
VDW
Mass media in Little Rock, Arkansas
1976 establishments in Arkansas
Radio stations established in 1976
Southern Gospel radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWEL | KWEL (1070 AM) is a radio station serving the Midland-Odessa area with a news/talk format. The station airs a serving of local programs and programs provided by Salem Radio Network and Westwood One. The station is currently under ownership of CDA Broadcasting, Inc. KWEL's AM frequency does not air at night. It airs every day from 6am- 8 pm. The FM frequency airs 24-hours a day and is the frequency found on the internet stream.
1070 AM is a United States and Canadian clear-channel frequency, on which KNX in Los Angeles is the only Class A station. However, a Class A license is available in Canada; CBA was a Class A station in Canada but moved to FM. KWEL must leave the air during nighttime hours to protect the skywave signal of KNX.
Station schedule
Monday–Friday
6am – The Morning Show with Craig & Mark
10am – Mike Gallagher Show Mike Gallagher (political commentator)
1pm – Eric Metaxas
2pm – The Sean Hannity Show
5pm – Mark Levin
8pm – Sebastian Gorka
11pm - Hugh Hewitt
2am - Larry Elder
Saturdays
6am - Music with Dorilynn
10am - Hoyl Financial Hour
11am- Doctor Bob Martin
2pm - Body Talk with Dr. Bill Dodson
3pm - Jacki Daily Show
4pm – The Sean Hannity Show
7pm – The Spirit of Radio Show
Sundays
7am - Texas Scorecard / EmpowerTexans / Michael Quinn Sullivan
7:30am - Lutheran Hour and Family Shield, sponsored by Grace Lutheran and Holy Cross Lutheran
8:30am - Family Gospel Music Hour, sponsored by Warren Bell
9:30am - Texas Scorecard
10am - Save the Cowboy, Sponsored by Western LLC
10:30am - Kelview Heights Baptist Church
11am - Lifestyles Unlimited
Noon - Wall Builders
12:30pm - Christian Tabernacle Church with Roy Langley
1pm - The Intersection with Larry Long
2pm - Tom Gresham's Gun Talk
5pm – Larry Elder
7pm - Armed American Radio
External links
Official KWEL Website
[itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sports-spotlight-with-rj-pase/id1128575282?mt=2]
WEL
WEL
WEL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20Core | Main Core is an alleged American government database containing information on those believed to be threats to national security.
History
The existence of the database was first asserted in May 2008 by Christopher Ketcham and again in July 2008 by Tim Shorrock.
Description
The Main Core data, which is believed to come from the NSA, FBI, CIA, and other sources, is collected and stored without warrants or court orders. The database's name derives from the fact that it contains "copies of the 'main core' or essence of each item of intelligence information on Americans produced by the FBI and the other agencies of the U.S. intelligence community".
, there were allegedly eight million Americans listed in the database as possible threats, often for trivial reasons, whom the government may choose to track, question, or detain in a time of crisis.
See also
Disposition Matrix
Rex 84
FBI Index
Investigative Data Warehouse
National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive
NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
PRISM (surveillance program)
References
External links
Radar article by Christopher Ketcham, May/June 2008
NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data by Siobhan Gorman, Updated March 10, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET
1980s establishments in the United States
Espionage
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Government databases in the United States
Continuity of government in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lounge | The Lounge may refer to:
The Lounge (radio network), an adult standards radio format
The members lounge of Virgin Australia, an airline |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20crew%20management%20in%20India | Indian Railway, the world's largest network (under a single management), consists of more than 100,000 Loco Pilots (Drivers) and Train Managers (Guards), which forms the basic functioning team, responsible for Train Operations. They are the highest salaried staffs among the group C staffs in Indian Railways and get many more benefits.
Classification of Loco Pilots and Train Managers
Loco Pilots are Loco Running staffs. How vigorous is the job profile can be noted from this very fact that the Railway recruits persons as 'Assistant Loco Pilot' . They work on freight trains for as long as 10–12 years. During this tenure they are supposed to work with experienced Loco Pilots and perform only assisting work during the run of a locomotive i.e. a train. An Assistant Loco Pilot thus learns the tactics and dos and don'ts required for train operation. Thereafter they are promoted as 'Loco Pilot Shunter', after proper courses and practical trainings, wherein they are supposed to drive locomotives in sheds/yards at not more than 15 km/h speeds. After experiencing for not less than two years, they are promoted as 'Loco Pilot/Freight', who are always monitored by their respective 'Loco Inspectors'.
A train has typical an Assistant Loco Pilot and a Loco Pilot on the Locomotive. The Assistants are normally common but Loco Pilots fall in various categories like Freight Loco Pilots for running Freight trains, Passenger Loco Pilots for running slow moving Passenger Trains, Mail Express Loco Pilot for running high speed Passenger Trains and Rajdhani Loco Pilots for running very high speed passenger trains. There is yet another category of crew called 'Shunters' who operate only in yards, for moving trains within a particular station yard. Normally Shunters work alone without an Assistant.
A Loco Pilot works on a particular train under the guidance of the Train Manager of the train, like train route, limited train speed, prediction of signalling error, sufficient brake power, safety etc. The train at the rear end has Train Manager as its crew, he is the head of the running train. Train Managers are Traffic Running Staffs. They work on freight trains (goods and parcel trains) for 5–6 years, after that they are promoted to passenger trains, then mail & express trains, Rajdhani & Shatabdi trains.
Earlier working scenario
The job of a Loco Pilot consists of irregular rest and working hours, eating disorders, and sleep disorders. That is why the Railway spends a lot on their trainings and resting time. They are booked from a crew changing point, informed well in advance, after ensuring that they have taken sufficient rest and completed all required trainings and requirements, those are mandatory for train operation. At the end of the journey, they are sent to well maintained rest rooms, given meals (home cooked) and rebooked back to their headquarters after giving minimum stipulated rest.
Latest developments
Centre for Railway Information Systems New Delhi, an IT de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewired%3A%20The%20Post-Cyberpunk%20Anthology | Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (, 2007) is a collection of postcyberpunk short stories, published by Tachyon Publications and edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. It features 16 short stories which fall into the loose categorisation of postcyberpunk, intercut with excerpts from a series of letters exchanged by Kessel and fellow science fiction author Bruce Sterling in which they discuss and debate the nature of cyberpunk, the implication being that the issues which they raise have led to the formation of the postcyberpunk trend.
Contents
"Bicycle Repairman" by Bruce Sterling
"Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland" by Gwyneth Jones
"How We Got in Town and Out Again" by Jonathan Lethem
"Yeyuka" by Greg Egan
"The Final Remake of The Return of Little Latin Larry With a Completely Remastered Soundtrack and the Original Audience" by Pat Cadigan
"Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City" by William Gibson
"The Wedding Album" by David Marusek
"Daddy's World" by Walter Jon Williams
"The Dog Said Bow-Wow" by Michael Swanwick
"Lobsters " by Charles Stross
"What's Up, Tiger Lily" by Paul Di Filippo
"The Voluntary State" by Christopher Rowe
"Two Dreams on a Train" by Elizabeth Bear
"The Calorie Man" by Paolo Bacigalupi
"Search Engine" by Mary Rosenblum
"When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" by Cory Doctorow
External links
Tachyon Publications website.
Boing Boing article
Post-cyberpunk – cover design
2007 anthologies
American anthologies
Science fiction anthologies
Postcyberpunk
Tachyon Publications books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontrack%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ontrack or ONTRACK may refer to:
ONTRACK, former trading name for New Zealand Railways Corporation (NZRC), now KiwiRail Network
OnTrack, a commuter railway in New York state, U.S.
Ontrack, a computer data recovery company acquired by Kroll Inc. to form Kroll Ontrack
Ontrack software, author of the 1980s–1990s computer utility suite Disk Manager for DOS
OnTrac, a regional parcel carrier in the Western United States
Ontrak Inc., a publicly traded healthcare company founded by Terren Peizer
See also
"On Track", a song from Tame Impala's 2020 studio album The Slow Rush |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen-Babcock | Allen-Babcock Computing was founded in Los Angeles in 1964 by James D. Babcock and Michael Jane Allen Babcock to take advantage of the fast-growing market for computer time-sharing services.
In 1966 the company developed "RUSH" (Remote Users of Shared Hardware), an interactive dialect of PL/I.
Between 1965 and 1966 they assisted in the development of CPS (Conversational Programming System), a timesharing system that ran under OS/360, under contract to IBM.
CPS was a subset of RUSH prepared by IBM with the permission of Allen-Babcock.
The significant technological outcome was the first idea to alter the hardware of an IBM computer to enhance the performance of a time-sharing system on IBM hardware. This was the first time such firmware was programmed by software developers for this purpose. Later tests showed increases of throughput by as much as 70%. Several such altered 360 Model 50s were delivered to other IBM customers.
In 1969 Allen-Babcock held a 3 percent share of the time-sharing services market.
During the early 70's Allen-Babcock leased copies of the RUSH software to several industry owners of the IBM 360 series computer systems. One such company was Procter & Gamble. These lessees sought to use RUSH internally to provide their companies access to time sharing on their Internet networks.
In 1975 Allen-Babcock was acquired by Tymshare.
Notes
References
Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Time-sharing companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramer%20Electronics | Kramer Electronics is an Information and communications technology company that designs, manufactures and distributes network-based devices and networking cables for professional video over IP and audio over IP. Products are commonly used for Video Conferencing, Education Technology and Closed-circuit television. Customers' include commercial enterprises and institutions such as universities, courts and local authorities. Kramer devices facilitate online control and enable hybrid (mixed local and remote) and BYOD (bring your own device) use cases.
Kramer were wholly owned and managed by founder Joseph Kramer until 2021, when they were bought by the Israeli private equity fund Fortissimo Capital.
History
Kramer Electronics was founded in 1981 by Joseph Kramer, who has a PhD in pharmaceutical biology and was working in research and development at a company that manufactured headphones.
His employer went out of business and Kramer foresaw the significance of video, then in its infancy, and used his previous employer's distribution channels to start selling video products of his own design.
Acquisition of Sierra Video
In 2003, Kramer Electronics bought Sierra Video, a company that manufactures Broadcast Routing equipment which expanded the Kramer product offering into large format routing products for composite video, RGBHV video and SDI and HD-SDI signals as well as audio signals.
Acquisition of UC Workspace
In February 2022, it was announced Kramer has acquired the hybrid collaboration meeting room application provider, UC Workspace.
References
Electronics companies of Israel
Electronics companies established in 1981
manufacturing companies based in Tel Aviv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Shakespeare%20Bibliography | World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is a searchable electronic database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 and the present. Containing over 146,000 annotated entries, this collected information provides annotated citations for anyone engaged in research on William Shakespeare or Early Modern Britain. It is the single-largest Shakespeare database in the world.
In 2001, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) awarded the WSB Online the Besterman/McColvin medal for outstanding electronic reference work. In 2006, this ever-expanding digital reference tool, compiled by Dr. James Harner of Texas A&M University, was named as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine. The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is currently edited by Dr. Heidi Craig (also of Texas A&M University).
WSB Online is searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, date, language, publisher, and periodical title. It is international in scope, covering and representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
References
External links
WSB Online homepage
WSB Online at JHU Press
Shakespearean scholarship
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Johns Hopkins University Press books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Kannada%20films%20of%20the%201940s | The list of Kannada feature films released by the Kannada film Industry located in Bangalore, Karnataka in the 1940s.
See also
Kannada cinema
References
Kannada cinema database by University of Pennsylvania
External links
Kannada Movies of the 1940s at the Internet Movie Database
1940s
Kannada-language
Films, Kannada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-flight%20advertising | In-flight advertising is advertising that targets potential consumers aboard an airplane. It includes commercials during in-flight entertainment programming, advertisements in in-flight magazines or on Boarding Passes, ads on seatback tray tables and overhead storage bins, and sales pitches by flight attendants. Ads can be tailored to the traveler's destination, or several of the airlines destinations, promoting local restaurants, hotels, businesses and shopping.
Evolution
Inflight advertising began in onboard magazines as a way to increase ancillary revenue for airlines and pay for inflight content. Today, inflight advertising is set to increase as airlines are investing heavily in content and connectivity and utilizing media sales to offset costs.
In 2017 Virgin America aired the first-ever cannabis related advertisement across its video display network during inflight entertainment breaks.
Statistics
According to surveys by QMedia:
85% of long-distance travellers recalled some type of inflight advertising or promotional material. The figures were higher for business class and high frequency passengers.
86% of customers are flying in a positive mood, and are hence more likely to be receptive to advertising messages.
On flights of over an hour, 9 out of 10 airline passengers used their tray for 15 minutes or more. In short flights of an hour or less, the figure stood at 82%
92% of airline passengers were still able to recall advertising messages a few hours after arrival.
Boarding passes advertising
Boarding pass advertising relies on the use of targeted advertising technologies. When the passenger checks on-line he has the possibility to click on the various ads and suggestions suggested on the boarding pass. When travelers print their boarding passes, the ads will automatically be printed, too. Fliers can, however, click a box to prevent the ads from being printed if the company is so compassionate as to allow it.
The ads are used by airlines to increase revenue and for advertisers to target travelers down to their departure city and destination. Sojern was one of the first companies to partner with such airlines as Delta Air Lines to offer boarding pass advertising technology.
Criticism
In-flight advertising has come under fire for being too intrusive, as it has expanded "to offset rising fuel costs and other operating expenses." A 2005 article in the Washington Post called passengers "captive customers," accusing airlines of being "aggressive pitchmen for a range of products to passengers at 30,000 feet." Moreover, targeted advertising used on boarding passes has been cited as a breach of privacy.
References
In-flight passenger facilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AiLive | AiLive Inc. (formerly iKuni) is a software company based in Mountain View, California. The company was co-founded in 2000 by software programmer and developer Wei Yen and by computer engineer Xiaoyuan Tu. The company has worked closely with Nintendo on the development of motion-sensing hardware, tools and software for the Wii video game console.
AiLive is responsible for the LiveMove series of products. The system was introduced in 2006, using machine learning technology to facilitate the development of motion recognition packages for individual games. Developers were able to use the software to build classifiers from provided examples of specific motions to be included in each game. The LiveMove system was used for the development of games for the Wii. Though initially released for professional developers of Wii games, the software was designed for use by independent developers as well, to expand the possibilities of the new console and Wii Remote interface.
Wii MotionPlus
AiLive developed the Wii MotionPlus.
The device added short-term 3D position tracking and long-term 3D orientation tracking to the Wii Remote motion controller. Initially provided as a dongle, the technology has since been integrated into all new Wii Remote controllers carrying the logo Wii MotionPlus Inside. The Wii MotionPlus was initially shipped in a bundle with Wii Sports Resort. Nintendo shipped more than 29 million units globally, making it the sixth best-selling game of all time. In addition to the Wii MotionPlus device concept, AiLive developed and patented the motion tracking algorithms for the device and made them available to developers through the LiveMove 2 software.
LiveMove 2
A new version of the software, LiveMove 2, was announced on July 7, 2008. Similar to the previous version, LiveMove 2 was developed specifically to work with Nintendo hardware. In this case, the software is a development tool for use with the Wii MotionPlus attachment that AiLive had codeveloped. On June 2, 2009, following the unveiling of PlayStation Move at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009, AiLive announced the release of LiveMove 2 for PlayStation 3. Through a partnership between AiLive and Sony, the LiveMove 2 software was made available to all registered PlayStation 3 developers.
References
Companies based in Mountain View, California
Companies established in 2000
Privately held companies based in California
Software companies based in California
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle%20%28database%20server%29 | Drizzle is a discontinued free software/open-source relational database management system (DBMS) that was forked from the now-defunct 6.0 development branch of the MySQL DBMS.
Like MySQL, Drizzle had a client/server architecture and uses SQL as its primary command language. Old Drizzle files are distributed under version 2 and 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL) with portions, including the protocol drivers and replication messaging under the BSD license.
Early work on the fork was done mid-2008 by Brian Aker. Ongoing development was handled by a team of contributors that included staff members from Canonical Ltd., Google, Six Apart, Sun Microsystems, Rackspace, Data Differential, Blue Gecko, Intel, Percona, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat, and others. Drizzle source code, along with instructions on compiling it, are available via the project's Launchpad website.
In October 2010, Drizzle had 13,478 total contributions, 96 total contributors, and 37 active contributors. It was also announced that Drizzle had entered Beta,. The first GA version was released in March 2011. Drizzle has actively participated in the Google Summer of Code Project since 2010.
By late 2013 the project's active phase had come to an end. In July 2016 the maintainers concluded that the time had come for "winding things up officially" because "none of us have any time to dedicate to Drizzle anymore".
Uses
Drizzle is targeted at the web-infrastructure and cloud computing markets. The developers of the product describe it as a "smaller, slimmer and (hopefully) faster version of MySQL".
Platforms and interfaces
Drizzle is written in the C++ programming language, and stores its string data in the UTF-8 format. It is being developed for modern Unix-like operating systems, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris – in general, any OS that conforms to POSIX and has a working implementation of the GNU Autotools. Microsoft Windows is not supported at this time, mainly for lack of Autotools support, but there has been discussion of how to accomplish this in a sensible manner.
Features
Drizzle is a re-designed version of the MySQL v6.0 codebase and is designed around a central concept of having a microkernel architecture. Features such as the query cache and authentication system are now plugins to the database, which follow the general theme of "pluggable storage engines" that were introduced in MySQL 5.1. It supports PAM, LDAP, and HTTP AUTH for authentication via plugins it ships. Via its plugin system it currently supports logging to files, syslog, and remote services such as RabbitMQ and Gearman. Drizzle is an ACID-compliant relational database that supports transactions via an MVCC design.
Microkernel
Plugin points have been added to support replication, storage engines, query rewrite, table functions, user-defined functions, protocol adapters, and multiple query caches.
Indexes
Like MySQL, Drizzle supports concurrent multiple engines. Via this, Drizzle incl |
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