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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20ITV2 | This is a list of television programmes broadcast by British television channel ITV2.
Current programming
Original programming
ITVX originals
Loaded in Paradise (2023–present)
Tell Me Everything (2023–present)
Programming from other ITV channels
CITV programming
Adult animation
American Dad! (2016–present)
Family Guy (2016–present)
Bob's Burgers (2021–present)
Acquired programming
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The Masked Singer US (2021–present)
Crossing Swords (2020–present)
The O.C. (2022–present)
One Tree Hill (2022–present)
All American (2022–present)
The Sex Lives of College Girls (2022–present)
Chuck (2022–present)
Dawson's Creek (2023–present)
Hart of Dixie (2022–present)
Veronica Mars (2022–present) (seasons 1–3 only, season 4 is on Lionsgate+)
Ellen's Game of Games (2018–present)
Australian Ninja Warrior (2021–present)
Hell's Kitchen USA
Roswell, New Mexico (2020–present)
Santa Inc. (2021)Superstore (2018–present)Two and a Half Men (Seasons 9–12 only) (2014–present)
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Upcoming programming
Big Brother (October 2023)
Former programming(+) indicates an ITV2 original commission''
Notes
References
See also
ITV (TV network)
ITV2
List of television programmes broadcast by ITV
List of programmes broadcast by CITV
ITV2
Television programmes
ITV2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Deep%20Space%20Network | Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) is a network of large antennas and communication facilities operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation to support the interplanetary spacecraft missions of India. Its hub is located at Byalalu, Ramanagara in the state of Karnataka in India. It was inaugurated on 17 October 2008 by the former ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair.
Similar networks are run by USA, China, Russia, Europe, and Japan.
Introduction
The network consists of the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC), augmented by a fully steerable and a DSN antenna which improves the visibility duration when compared with the existing ISTRAC system. The Indian Deep Space Network implements a baseband system adhering to Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) Standards, thus facilitating cross-support among the Telemetry Tracking Command (TTC) agencies.
The two antennas at the Byalalu complex have built-in support facilities. A fibre optic link will provide necessary communication link between the DSN station and SCC/NCC/ISSDC. The 18 m antenna is provisioned to receive two downlink carriers in S band and two carriers in X band (RCP and LCP), whereas the uplink is either RCP or LCP. It has a G/T of 30/39.5 dB/k (45° elevation, clear sky) for S/X-Band.
The 32 m antenna is of a wheel-and-track design. The antenna is designed to provide uplink in both S-Band and X-Band (20 kW) either through RCP or LCP. The reception capability will be in both S band and X band (simultaneous RCP and LCP). It can receive two carriers in S band and two carriers in X band. The system will have a G/T of 37.5/51 dB/k (45° elevation, clear sky) for S/X Band. The station may be controlled remotely from the ISTRAC Control Centre (NCC) at Bangalore.
The IDSN facility in Byalalu also houses the ISRO Navigation Centre (INC). The centre became active on 12 June 2013, at the time of launch of IRNSS-1A, the first of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System series of satellites. The INC has a high stability atomic clock. It will be used to co-ordinate across 21 ground stations in India.
Antennas (other than ISTRAC)
32 m antenna
The main antenna is a 32-meter Deep Space Antenna. The wheel and track 32 m antenna is a state-of-the-art system that supported the Chandrayaan-1 mission operations. It is currently supporting Mars Orbiter Mission This is co-located with 18 m antenna in the IDSN site at Byalalu. A fibre optics / satellite link will provide the necessary connectivity between the IDSN site and Spacecraft Control Centre / Network Control Centre. This antenna is designed to provide uplink in both S-Band (20/2 kW) and X-Band (2.5 kW), either through RCP or LCP. The reception capability will be in both S-Band and X-Band (simultaneous RCP & LCP). It can receive two carriers in S-Band and one carrier in X-Band, simultaneously. The system will have a G/T of 37.5/51 dB/K (45° elevation, clear sky) for S/X-Band. The base-band will adhere to CCSDS S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda%20Vigor | The is a premium sedan that was derived from the Honda Accord. It was sold in Japan through the Honda Verno dealer network from 1981 until 1995, and sold in North America from June 1991 (model year 1992) until 1994 as the Acura Vigor. Early Vigors were more upmarket versions of the Accord, and served as Honda's flagship until the arrival of the Honda Legend. In 1989, the Vigor would differentiate itself further from the Accord with unique styling and an available longitudinal five-cylinder engine, and a twin to the Vigor was introduced with the Honda Inspire, available at Honda Clio dealerships.
It was replaced in North America with the Acura TL and in Japan with the Honda Saber/Inspire, which were the same vehicle sold through different networks.
The third generation, five-cylinder Vigor was developed during what was known in Japan as the Japanese asset price bubble or "bubble economy".
First generation (SZ/AD)
Beginning September 25, 1981, Honda produced a variant of the Honda Accord badged as the Honda Vigor for Japan only. The first generation Vigor was a higher grade 4-door sedan and 3-door hatchback, with the 1.8 L engine as the only engine available, using Honda's CVCC-II system. The Vigor was a sportier, faster, "vigorous" Accord with a higher level of equipment over the more sedate Accord. Due to the higher level of luxury oriented equipment, the Vigor help "set the stage" for the market to accept a luxury equipped car from Honda, which appeared in 1985 with the Honda Legend. The Vigor competed with the Toyota Chaser and the Nissan Laurel in Japan. The rear lighting implementation consisted of the license plate installed in the bumper, with a black trim piece between the rear tail lights and the word "Vigor" inscribed. The Accord installed the rear license plate between the rear tail lights.
This engine used the SOHC 3-valve-per-cylinder CVCC-II setup, mated to a 5-speed manual or 4-speed automatic transmission with a lockup torque converter. Vehicles with a manual transmission and the CVCC carburetor earned based on Japanese Government emissions tests using 10 different modes of scenario standards, and , and at consistently maintained speeds at . Vehicles with PGM-FI earned based on Japanese Government emissions tests using 10 different modes of scenario standards, with , and consistently maintained speeds at . Japanese buyers were liable for a higher level of annual road tax over other Honda products with smaller engines.
Items that were optional on the Accord, such as cruise control, air conditioning with automatic fan speed control and thermostatically monitored temperature, power windows with driver's one touch express down, and power steering were standard on the Vigor. A trip computer that displayed mileage, driving time, and fuel economy that Honda called in sales brochure literature as "Electronic Navigator" was also standard on the Vigor. All Vigors were also equipped with ELR (Emergency Locking Retractor) seatbelt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRiDPad | GRiDPad was a trademarked name for a series of pen computing tablets built by Grid Systems Corporation.
The GRiDPad 1900, released in 1989, is regarded as the first commercially successful tablet computer. Jeff Hawkins went on to use the GRiDPad as a predecessor for his best known-invention, the Palm Pilot.
Specifications
The GRiDPad 1900 measured and weighed . The main distinguishing aspect was its touchscreen interface with a stylus, a pen-like tool to aid with precision in a touchscreen device. The stylus was able to use handwriting-recognition software. The GRiDPad also included these features:
10 MHz 80C86 processor
MS-DOS operating system – the popular operating system used by IBM PC-compatible personal computers
A monochromatic Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) display resolution of 640x400
256KB or 512KB battery-backed RAM cards
1MB or 2MB of system memory
One serial port, two ATA-FLASH slots, and an expansion bus connector
Models
Because of its use for inventory management, the United States Army specified more durable versions of the tablet made out of magnesium that were not sold to the general public. The US Army specially ordered magnesium because it is a strong yet light metal, making it ideal for use in demanding environments.
According to a patent submitted in 1992 by an engineer at GRiD Systems, the touchscreen in the GRiDPad works by magnifying an internal Cartesian plane and calculating the displacement. Further patents by Jeff Hawkins describe flipping the screen orientation between landscape and portrait.
Reception
Because of its text-recognition interface, the GRiDPad was marketed toward specialist consumers who would use the tablet for bookkeeping. The GRiDPad was "designed to streamline the chores of workers such as route delivery drivers and claims adjusters, who typically recorded data on paper forms." Some of the agencies that used the GRiDPad included Chrysler, San Jose Police Department, and even the US Government. The first commercial customer to use the GRiDPad and who contributed to the overall requirements was Best Foods Baking Group, a division of CPC International.
The average selling price for one unit was US$2,370 without software, and $3,000 with software. It was so successful that it sold approximately $30 million in its best year.
Legacy
Although the GriDPad had the same operating system as personal computers, it was not designed to be a replacement for computers. Hawkins once said, "I never saw pen computers as a replacement for a full PC..." Although it did not replace computers, it did pave the way for other companies to invest more into tablet computers.
Not only did the GRiDPad start paving the way for tablet computers, it also helped propel Jeff Hawkins' career. Hawkins used the same stylus technology to develop his most commercially successful product, the Palm Pilot, making the GRiDPad its predecessor.
See also
GRiDCASE
References
Touchscreens
Tablet computers
Grid Systems laptops |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Mongrain | Guy Mongrain (born April 21, 1953) is a Canadian game show host and former reporter. He is mostly known to host several popular Quebec television games on the network TVA for the past 20 years.
Career
Mongrain started his media career as a news radio anchor in 1977 and made his television debut in 1981 he was a contributor to several shows on TVA including Midi Soleil, Bonjour matin and Samedi magazine. Mongrain hosted a quiz game for the first time in 1987 when hosting Quebec a la carte which has a quiz game related to Quebec tourism. He hosted the show for less than a year while it ended in 1988. Then he would later host Charivari for over four years until 1992. He would later host Fort Boyard from 1994 to 2001 as well as Vingt-et-un which lasted only one season. from 1993 to 2018, he was the host of the Loto-Québec televised lottery game La Poule aux œufs d'or.
For over 12 years from 1991 to 2004, he was also the host of the TVA morning show Salut, Bonjour! which included news, editorials, entertainment and various guests and special events.
He also had minor cameo appearances in several television series including Sous les jacquettes in 2005 and Taxi 0-22 in 2007.
References
External links
Canadian game show hosts
French Quebecers
Living people
People from Laval, Quebec
Canadian radio journalists
1953 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast%20Cancer%20Network%20Australia | Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) is a not-for-profit organisation that supports Australians affected by breast cancer. BCNA aims to ensure that Australians affected by breast cancer receive support, information, treatment and care appropriate to their needs.
BCNA is the peak national organisation for Australians affected by breast cancer, and consists of a network of more than 120,000 individual members and 300 Member Groups.
History
In 1998, Lyn Swinburne envisaged an organisation that would positively influence the way breast cancer was discussed in the community. Her goal was for people to talk openly about the disease and acknowledge its personal impact.
Following a public meeting in every state and territory, over 300 women came together to discuss issues affecting women with breast cancer. An action plan was developed and the official launch of BCNA took place following this conference, at the inaugural Field of Women, a visual display of breast cancer statistics on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra.
BCNA's vision is a better journey for all Australians affected by breast cancer.
BCNA's mission is to ensure that Australians affected by breast cancer receive the very best support, information, treatment and care appropriate to their individual needs.
support: support and empower all Australians with a breast cancer diagnosis through services, resources and programs
inform: develop and provide high quality information in a range of formats including information that can empower participation in decisions about treatment and care
represent: advocate on behalf of Australians affected by or at risk of breast cancer and work to set the best possible treatment and care standards
connect: strive to help Australians affected by breast cancer to feel less alone throughout their treatment and beyond. Connect people through their shared breast cancer experience to build support for individuals, groups and communities
Lyn retired as CEO of BCNA in November 2011. Maxine Morand served as CEO from November 2011 until December 2014. Christine Nolan retired after three years as CEO in February 2018. Kirsten Pilatti is currently CEO.
BCNA is one of a number of major breast cancer organisations in Australia. BCNA works cooperatively with the other national organisations including Cancer Australia, National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF), McGrath Foundation and BreastScreen Australia.
Events and campaigns
Key BCNA fundraising initiatives include the Field of Women events held in 2005 (MCG), 2007 (SCG), 2010 (MCG), 2014 (MCG) and 2018 (MCG). At the 2018 event, the most recent, 15,000 people in pink ponchos formed the Pink Lady silhouette, bringing the national breast cancer statistics to life in a sparkling display of strength and support on BCNA's 20th anniversary.
The Field of Women events have now been adapted to be held in communities across Australia every year. These events are called Mini-Fields of Women. They centre around |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit%20data%20collection | Implicit data collection is used in human–computer interaction to gather data about the user in an implicit, non-invasive way.
Overview
The collection of user-related data in human–computer interaction is used to adapt the computer interface to the end user. The data collected are used to build a user model. The user model is then used to help the application to filter the information for the end user. Such systems are useful in recommender applications, military applications (implicit stress detection) and others.
Channels for collecting data
The system can record the user's explicit interaction and thus build an MPEG7 usage history log. Furthermore, the system can use other channels to gather information about the user's emotional state. The following implicit channels have been used so far to get the affective state of the end user:
facial activity
posture activity
hand tension and activity
gestural activity
vocal expression
language and choice of words
electrodermal activity
eye tracking
Emotional spaces
The detected emotional value is usually described any of the two most popular notations:
a 3D emotional vector: valence, arousal, dominance
degree of affiliation to the 6 basic emotions (sadness, happiness, anger, fear, disgust, surprise)
External links
Evaluating affective interactions: Alternatives to asking what users feel Rosalind Picard, Shaundra Bryant Daily
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonitherium | Macedonitherium is an extinct genus of giraffids. It was first named by Sickenberg in 1967.
References
External links
Macedonitherium at the Paleobiology Database
Prehistoric giraffes
Prehistoric even-toed ungulate genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propalaeomeryx | Propalaeomeryx is an extinct genus of giraffidae. It was first named by Lydekker in 1883.
References
External links
Propalaeomeryx at the Paleobiology Database
Prehistoric giraffes
Prehistoric even-toed ungulate genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocrail | Rocrail is a freeware software package for controlling a model train layout from one or more computers. Users can run trains directly from a computer, or have some run automatically with manual control for any others.
Architecture
Rocrail uses a client-server architecture that communicates via TCP/IP, and the client and server do not need to be on the same computer. Rocrail can be used from a single computer connected directly to the layout, or via any other computer on a home network, or over the Internet. Rocrail also has an HTTP interface, which will let the layout run from a web browser. PDA and smartphone apps are available.
The server program runs on a computer connected to the layout by one of the standard computer interface setups, and supports many command stations.
The Rocrail client connects to the server over a network. The client can also be used by itself to plan layouts. There is no need for the server or the layout to be running to edit plans. Plans can be uploaded to the server after creation.
Rocrail runs under both the Windows and Linux operating systems, using the Wxwidgets toolkit.
A partial list of supported command stations and protocols
Dinamo track driver system
Digitrax LocoNet
Easydcc
ESU ECoS
Hornby Elite (XPressNet)
Lenz Elektronik XPressNet
Littfinski HSI88
Märklin 6050/6051 and Central Station 1 & 2
OpenDCC
RocoNet
Roco/Fleischmann Z21
Selectrix
SRCP connections such as DDL and Roc-Pi
Uhlenbrock's Intellibox
Z21
Zimo
Features
Automatic and manual modes
Modular layout support
Built-in DCC/MM Digital Direct Control Station
Operates unlimited digital systems simultaneously
Only one feedback contact per block required
Runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows systems beginning with Windows 9x
Multilanguage support
Symbol themes in SVG
Fiddle Yard support
PDA and Smartphone apps
Java client
Up to four Gamepads can be used as throttles
Built in DCC programmer (Rocpro)
Raspberry Pi (Model B) supported
Users
Many users have already registered themselves at the Rocrail Forum. Some of them are actively translating the Wiki into their own language. Others are developing open-source hardware to contribute to the project.
Open source
Rocrail was released under GPL v3, but during September 2015, its license was changed to a proprietary model.
References
External links
Project Page at Launchpad
Rocrail Forum
OpenDCC
Dinamo(NL)
list of supported command stations
list of supported operating systems
Digital model train control
Software companies of Germany
Software that uses wxWidgets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20variant | In computer science, a loop variant is a mathematical function defined on the state space of a computer program whose value is monotonically decreased with respect to a (strict) well-founded relation by the iteration of a while loop under some invariant conditions, thereby ensuring its termination. A loop variant whose range is restricted to the non-negative integers is also known as a bound function, because in this case it provides a trivial upper bound on the number of iterations of a loop before it terminates. However, a loop variant may be transfinite, and thus is not necessarily restricted to integer values.
A well-founded relation is characterized by the existence of a minimal element of every non-empty subset of its domain. The existence of a variant proves the termination of a while loop in a computer program by well-founded descent. A basic property of a well-founded relation is that it has no infinite descending chains. Therefore a loop possessing a variant will terminate after a finite number of iterations, as long as its body terminates each time.
A while loop, or, more generally, a computer program that may contain while loops, is said to be totally correct if it is partially correct and it terminates.
Rule of inference for total correctness
In order to formally state the rule of inference for the termination of a while loop we have demonstrated above, recall that in Floyd–Hoare logic, the rule for expressing the partial correctness of a while loop is:
where is the invariant, C is the condition, and S is the body of the loop. To express total correctness, we write instead:
where, in addition, V is the variant, and by convention the unbound symbol z is taken to be universally quantified.
Every loop that terminates has a variant
The existence of a variant implies that a while loop terminates. It may seem surprising, but the converse is true, as well, as long as we assume the axiom of choice: every while loop that terminates (given its invariant) has a variant. To prove this, assume that the loop
terminates given the invariant where we have the total correctness assertion
Consider the "successor" relation on the state space induced by the execution of the statement S from a state satisfying both the invariant and the condition C. That is, we say that a state is a "successor" of if and only if
and C are both true in the state , and
is the state that results from the execution of the statement S in the state .
We note that for otherwise the loop would fail to terminate.
Next consider the reflexive, transitive closure of the "successor" relation. Call this iteration: we say that a state is an iterate of if either or there is a finite chain such that and is a "successor" of for all ,
We note that if and are two distinct states, and is an iterate of , then cannot be an iterate of for again, otherwise the loop would fail to terminate. In other words, iteration is antisymmetric, and thus, a partia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20College%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Leather%20Technology | The Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology, often referred to as GCELT, is an institute offering engineering courses at undergraduate levels in Computer Science & Engineering, Information Technology and Leather Technology, diploma in shoes and leather goods making and M.tech in Leather technology. The college is affiliated to the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology) and is approved by AICTE.
History
The Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology (GCELT) was established in 1919 on being recommended by the Munitions Board after the First World War to use indigenous resources of hides, skins and tanning materials for producing leather goods and the development of leather industry in India.
It was known as Calcutta Research Tannery and was renamed to Bengal Tanning Institute in 1926. The institute became affiliated to Calcutta University and introduced a Certificate Course in tanning. In 1955, the B.Sc. (Tech) course in Leather Technology was introduced. The name of the institute was changed in 1958 to College of Leather Technology.
Calcutta Research Tannery as well as Bengal Tanning Institute was situated at the campus of Canal South Road, Beleghata (presently that place is the campus of RCCIIT college). In 1994, the campus was moved from there to the present address of Salt Lake City.
In 1999–2000, apart from the B.Tech in Leather Technology that it was offering, the college started offering B.Tech. in Information Technology and in 2000–2001 B.Tech. in Computer Science & Technology.
Present status
GCELT is officially under the jurisdiction of the Department of Higher Education and Directorate of Technical education of the Government of West Bengal.
Courses offered
The institute offers B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, Information Technology and Leather Technology. The institute also offers certificate course on 'Boot and Shoe Manufacturing'.
College programs
Fresher's Welcome- The event is organized to welcome the 1st year students of the college. Usually 2nd year students organize it with great enthusiasm. On that special day, there is a cultural program with arrangement for lunch for newcomers. This ends with the DJ evening and the whole event is restricted only to college students.
Technical Fest – Enginerds- ENGINERDS was first organized in the year 2010 (by 2008–12 batch).
Cultural Fest – Punormilon – PUNORMILON is one of the most important cultural event of GCELT with the get together of all the Ex-Students and Present-Students under the same roof.
Every year a new committee is formed to organize the PUNORMILON. The committee contains members from all the streams and from present students as well as from Alumni. All the responsibilities of organizing the event is on the committee members. The events of PUNORMILON include Inauguration, College Performance, Tribute to Alumni, Rabinra Sangeet, Band Performance and als |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilt%20Index | The Quilt Index is a searchable database for scholars, quilters and educators featuring over 50,000 quilts from documentation projects, museums, libraries, and private collections. It also has quilt-related ephemera and curated essays and lesson plans for teachers.
Searching
The overall collection includes quilts made from the early nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, representing a wide range of quilting styles, techniques, purposes and functions.
Users can browse for quilts based on their time period, location of origin, style, purpose, or by the collection in which they are now housed, or search for specific quilts by a variety of metadata, including pattern, quilter and identification number.
List of contributing partners
The American Folk Art Museum
American Quilt Study Group
Connecticut Quilt Search Project
The Daughters of the American Revolution Museum
Hawaiian Quilt Research Project
Illinois Quilt Research Project quilts owned by Illinois State Museum
State Historical Society of Iowa
The Kentucky Quilt Project at University of Louisville Archives and Records Center
The Library of Congress American Folklife Center
The Louisiana Regional Folklife Program
The Mary Gasperik Quilts
MassQuilts: The Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project
The Merikay Waldvogel Private Collection
Michigan Quilt Project and Michigan State University Quilt Collection at Michigan State University Museum and Great Lakes Quilt Center
Minnesota Quilt Project
The Mountain Heritage Center
The Museum of the American Quilter's Society
New England Quilt Museum Collection
The Heritage Quilt Project of New Jersey at Rutgers University Libraries and Special Collections
North Carolina Museum of History
The International Quilt Study Center and the Nebraska Quilt Project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Quilts of Tennessee at Tennessee State Library and Archives
Rhode Island Quilt Documentation Project at the University of Rhode Island
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
The Signature Quilt Project
Texas Quilt Search and the Winedale Quilt Collection at the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
West Virginia Heritage Quilt Search
The Wilene Smith Private Collection
Wyoming Quilt Project, Inc.
Collections, essays and exhibits
Although the Quilt Index is not an actual museum site with in-house collections, the Index does have online exhibitions which highlight works in its digital collection. These include:
Since Kentucky: Surveying State Quilts
Mary Schafer: Quilter, Quilt Collector, and Quilt Historian
Redwork: An American Textile Tradition
Mary Gasperik (1888-1969): Her Life And Her Quilts
Researching Signature Quilts
Wiki
The Quilt Index Wiki which became live in August 2008, is a collaborative, user-generated tool for quilters and quilt scholars featuring information about state and provincial quilt documentation projects, including publication lists and locations where records are housed. The wik |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon%20Air%20station | Bon Air is a station on the Overbrook branch of the Pittsburgh Regional Transit's light rail network. It is located in the Bon Air neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Bon Air is a high-level handicap-accessible station that exits into Bon Air from a valley below Roseton Avenue. The station is designed as the primary transit access for residents of this small neighborhood of single-family homes where bus service is limited.
History
Bon Air was opened in 2004, one of eight new platform-equipped stations which replaced 33 streetcar-style stops along the Overbrook branch.
Bus connections
54D South Side-Bon Air, 51 Carrick.
References
Port Authority of Allegheny County stations
Blue Line (Pittsburgh)
Silver Line (Pittsburgh) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20Radio%20and%20TV | Chinese Radio and Television (CRTV) is an organization created to bring Chinese language programming to the Netherlands and is operated by a group of enthusiastic volunteers. CRTV started with a biweekly one-hour radio program and has developed into one of the biggest cross-media platforms in Europe. CRTV offers a wide range of programs and activities: radio, television, a website, events, and editorship. CRTV offers programming in three languages: Cantonese, Mandarin and Dutch.
The audiences of CRTV programs include Chinese immigrants from mainland China and Hong Kong, the next generation of Dutch-born Chinese, students from China, and Dutch people interested in Chinese culture.
History
CRTV was founded by a group of young Chinese graduates in May 1996. They started initially with a one-hour radio program called Chinese Radio Amsterdam (CRA) broadcast every other week through cable. The idea was to present a radio program in Chinese to inform the Chinese community about social, cultural and political issues.
Development
Today, the audience can listen to one-hour radio programs on cable, on air and on the Internet every Sunday till Friday. The subjects of the programs include news (local, national and China), education (health, legislations, finance), discussions, entertainment (show business, films, quizzes, sports), interviews, language courses, and reports, interluded by modern and classic Chinese music.
CRTV offers also television programs in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague every last Sunday. CRTV issues its own magazine and organizes talk shows about Chinese culture and society. Chinese Radio and Television cooperates with Dutch and Chinese organizations to make programs and to get or to give support. Recent examples are co-organization of the Amsterdam China Festival, promotion of Chinese films, and interviews with Chinese performers.
Chinese Radio and Television has become a communication platform between the different generations of Chinese people and between the Chinese community and Dutch society.
Broadcasts
Radio
Live in Amsterdam at FM 99.4 on air and at FM 104.6 on cable, every day except Saturday from 21:00 till 22:00 (Monday till 23:00)
In The Hague at FM 106.8 on cable every Monday from 22:00 till 23:00
Television
CRTV started its own TV program in October 2007, with broadcasts in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague every Sunday. The program mainly reports events and interviews of Chinese related activities in The Netherlands and Belgium.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20130527100004/http://www.crtv.nl/
Chinese-language television
Television channels in the Netherlands
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Dutch people of Chinese descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20dispersion%20minimization | Phase dispersion minimization (PDM) is a data analysis technique that searches for periodic components of a time series data set. It is useful for data sets with gaps, non-sinusoidal variations, poor time coverage or other problems that would make Fourier techniques unusable. It was first developed by Stellingwerf in 1978 and has been widely used for astronomical and other types of periodic data analyses. Source code is available for PDM analysis. The current version of this application is available for download.
Background
PDM is a variant of a standard astronomical technique called data folding. This involves guessing a trial period for the data, and cutting, or "folding" the data into multiple sub-series with a time duration equal to the trial period. The data are now plotted versus "phase", or a scale of 0->1, relative to the trial period. If the data is truly periodic with this period a clean functional variation, or "light curve", will emerge. If not the points will be randomly distributed in amplitude.
As early as 1926 Whittiker and Robinson proposed an analysis technique of this type based on maximizing the amplitude of the mean curve. Another technique focusing on the variation of data at adjacent phases was proposed in 1964 by Lafler and Kinman. Both techniques had difficulties, particularly in estimating the significance of a possible solution.
PDM analysis
PDM divides the folded data into a series of bins and computes the variance of the amplitude within each bin. The bins can overlap to improve phase coverage, if needed. The bin variances are combined and compared to the overall variance of the data set. For a true period the ratio of the bin to the total variances will be small. For a false period the ratio will be approximately unity. A plot of this ratio versus trial period will usually indicate the best candidates for periodic components. Analyses of the statistical properties of this approach have been given by Nemec & Nemec and Schwarzenberg-Czerny.
PDM2 updates
The original PDM technique has been updated (PDM2) in several areas::
1) The bin variance calculation is equivalent to a curve fit with step functions across each bin. This can introduce errors in the result if the underlying curve is non-symmetric, since deviations toward the right side and left side of each bin will not exactly cancel. This low order error can be eliminated by replacing the step function by a linear fit drawn between bin means (see figure, above), or a B-Spline fit to the bin means. In either case, the smoothed fits should not be used for frequencies in the "noise" portion of the spectrum.
2) The original test of significance was based on an F test, which has been shown to be incorrect. The correct statistic is an incomplete beta distribution for well-behaved data sets, and a Fisher Randomization / Monte-Carlo analysis for "clumpy" data (i.e. data with non-uniform time distribution).
3) To accommodate new data sets with many data points, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Newsham | Tim Newsham is a computer security professional. He has been contributing to the security community for more than a decade. He has performed research while working at security companies including @stake, Guardent, ISS, and Network Associates (originally Secure Networks).
Contributions
Newsham is best known for co-authoring the paper Insertion, Evasion and Denial of Service: Eluding Network Intrusion Detection with Thomas Ptacek, a paper that has been cited by more than 150 academic works on Network Intrusion Detection since.
He has published other prominent white papers:
The Problem With Random Increments
Format String Attacks
Cracking WEP Keys: Applying Known Techniques to WEP Keys
In addition to his research, Newsham is also known for his pioneering work on security products, including:
Internet Security Scanner
Ballista (Cybercop) Scanner
The software that would later drive Veracode
WEP Security
Newsham partially discovered the Newsham 21-bit WEP attack. The Newsham 21-bit attack is a method used primarily by KisMAC to brute force WEP keys. It is effective on routers such as Linksys, Netgear, Belkin, and D-Link but does not affect Apple or 3Com, as they use their own algorithms for generating WEP keys. Using this method allows for the WEP key to be retrieved in less than a minute. When the WEP keys are generated, they use a text based key that is generated using a 21-bit algorithm instead of the more secure 40-bit encryption algorithm, but the router presents the key to the user as a 40-bit key. This method is 2^19 times faster to brute force than a 40-bit key would be, allowing modern processors to break the encryption rapidly.
In 2008, Newsham was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Pwnie award.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Computer security specialists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20Human%20Project | The Living Human Project (LHP) is a project that begun in 2002 to develop a distributed repository of anatomo-functional data and simulation algorithms for the human musculoskeletal apparatus used to create the physiome of the human musculoskeletal system. In 2006 the BEL was merged with Biomed Town, an Internet community for those who have a professional interest in biomedical research.
Living Human Digital Library
The LHDL project was ended in January 2009, and soon after the LHDL consortium released a biomedical data management and sharing service called Physiome Space. Physiome Space lets individual researchers as well as for large consortia to share with their peers large collections of biomedical data, including medical imaging and computer simulations.
See also
List of omics topics in biology
Virtual Physiological Human
Physiomics
Physiome
Physiology
EuroPhysiome
Human anatomy
References
Viceconti, M., Taddei, F., Petrone, M., Galizia, S., Jan, S. V. S., and Clapworthy, G., 2006, "Towards the Virtual Physiological Human: the Living Human Project," The 7th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering (CMBBE 2006), Antibes Côte d’Azur, France.
Viceconti, M., Taddei, F., Montanari, L., Testi, D., Leardini, A., Clapworthy, G., and Van Sint Jan, S., 2007, "Multimod Data Manager: A tool for data fusion," Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 87(2), pp. 148–159.
Viceconti, M., Taddei, F., Van Sint Jan, S., Leardini, A., Clapworthy, G., Galizia, S., and Quadrani, P., 2007, "Towards the multiscale modelling of musculoskeletal system," Bioengineering Modeling and Computer Simulation, Barcelona, Spain.
Viceconti, M., Zannoni, C., Testi, D., Petrone, M., Perticoni, S., Quadrani, P., Taddei, F., Imboden, S., and Clapworthy, G., 2007, "The multimod application framework: A rapid application development tool for computer aided medicine," Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 85(2), pp. 138–151.
Viceconti, M., Taddei, F., Van Sint Jan, S., Leardini, A., Cristofolini, L., Stea, S., Baruffaldi, F., and Baleani, M., 2008, "Multiscale modelling of the skeleton for the prediction of the risk of fracture," Clinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon).
Zhao, X., Liu, E., and Clapworthy, G., 2008, "Service-Oriented Digital Libraries: A Web Services Approach," Internet and Web Applications and Services, 2008. ICIW'08. Third International Conference on, pp. 608–613.
Physiology
Online databases
Anatomical simulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E7 | European route E7 forms part of the international E-road network. It runs from Langon in France to Zaragoza in Spain (the UNECE designate the northern terminus of the E7 as Pau, but current road signage, and other entities such as Google Maps, place the northern terminus of E7 at the A62/A65 interchange near Langon).
Route
France
: Langon - Mont-de-Marsan - Pau
: Pau (multiplex with )
: - Lescar
: Lescar - Jurançon
: Jurançon - Oloron-Sainte-Marie - France-Spain border (Urdos)
Spain
: France-Spain border (Canfranc) - Jaca
: Jaca - Sabiñánigo
: Sabiñánigo
: Sabiñánigo - Huesca - Zaragoza (end at )
References
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
07
Roads in France
Roads in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombi | Trombi may mean:
Trombi (roller coaster), a roller coaster located at Särkänniemi in Tampere
Trombi.com, a social network owned by Classmates.com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicator%20of%20cytokinesis%20protein%205 | Dedicator of cytokinesis protein 5 (Dock5) is a large (~180 kDa) protein encoded in the human by the DOCK5 gene, involved in intracellular signalling networks. It is a member of the DOCK-A subfamily of the DOCK family of guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) which function as activators of small G-proteins. Dock5 is predicted to activate the small G protein Rac.
Function
Dock5 shares significant sequence identity with Dock180, the archetypal member of the DOCK family. It is therefore predicted to partake in similar interactions although this has yet to be demonstrated. Indeed, the function and signalling properties of Dock5 are poorly understood thus far. Dock5 has been identified as a crucial signalling protein in osteoclasts, and suppression of Dock5 expression with shRNA has been shown to inhibit survival and differentiation of osteoclast precursor cells. In addition, a mutation in Dock5 has been associated with the rupture of murine lens cataracts. In zebrafish Dock5 has been implicated in myoblast fusion.
References
Further reading
GTP-binding protein regulators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TTEthernet | The Time-Triggered Ethernet (SAE AS6802) (also known as TTEthernet or TTE) standard defines a fault-tolerant synchronization strategy for building and maintaining synchronized time in Ethernet networks, and outlines mechanisms required for synchronous time-triggered packet switching for critical integrated applications and integrated modular avionics (IMA) architectures. SAE International released SAE AS6802 in November 2011.
Time-Triggered Ethernet network devices are Ethernet devices which at least implement:
SAE AS6802 synchronization services for advanced integrated architectures, fail-operational and safety-critical systems
time-triggered traffic flow control with traffic scheduling
per-flow policing of packet timing for time-triggered traffic
robust internal architecture with traffic partitioning
TTEthernet network devices are standard Ethernet devices with additional capability to configure and establish robust synchronization, synchronous packet switching, traffic scheduling and bandwidth partitioning, as described in SAE AS6802. If no time-triggered traffic capability is configured or used, it operates as full duplex switched Ethernet devices compliant with IEEE802.3 and IEEE802.1 standards.
In addition, such network devices implement other deterministic traffic classes to enable mixed-criticality Ethernet networking. Therefore, TTEthernet networks are designed to host different Ethernet traffic classes without interference.
TTEthernet device implementation expands standard Ethernet with services to meet time-critical, deterministic or safety-relevant requirements in double- and triple-redundant configurations for advanced integrated systems. TTEthernet switching devices are used for integrated systems and safety-related applications primarily in the aerospace, industrial controls and automotive applications.
TTEthernet has been selected by NASA and ESA as the technology for communications between the Orion MPCV and the European Service Module, and is described by the ESA as being "prime choice for future launchers allowing them to deploy distributed modular avionics concepts". It has also been selected as the backbone network for NASA's Lunar Gateway to which ESA is a key stakeholder.
As an increasingly used network architecture in the space industry, European Cooperation for Space Standardization published ECSS-E-ST-50-16C on September 30, 2021.
Description
TTEthernet network devices implement OSI Layer 2 services, and therefore it claims to be compatible with IEEE 802.3 standards and coexist with other Ethernet networks and services or traffic classes, such as IEEE 802.1Q, on the same device.
Three traffic classes and message types are provided in current TTEthernet switch implementations:
Synchronization Traffic (Protocol Control Frames - PCF): Time-Triggered Ethernet network uses protocol control frames (PCFs) to establish and maintain synchronization. The PCFs traffic has the highest priority and it is similar to rat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirix%20Strata | Kirix Strata is a specialty web browser designed for data analytics. Strata offers a browser's ability to view web pages, but also includes additional tools to perform data analysis and create reports based on structured data from local files, external relational databases and the Web.
The browser incorporates Mozilla's XULRunner into a proprietary data engine to create a rich web application for working with data. Kirix Strata is a free, open source product that uses the cross-platform wxWidgets toolkit and is supported on both Microsoft Windows and Linux.
History
Kirix Research is a data analysis software company founded in January 2001 by four brothers and a friend. In its early years the company specialized in identifying duplicate payments and other overpayment errors in large corporate accounting systems.
In February 2005, Kirix launched Kirix Strata as a new desktop database for Windows and Linux at the LinuxWorld conference in Boston. The product combined some of the capabilities of a spreadsheet with those of a database management system and won the Product Excellence Award in the Best Desktop-Productivity-Business Application category.
In July 2007, Kirix relaunched Strata in beta as a specialty browser for working with data from anywhere, including from the Web. The beta product took the database features of the previously released version and incorporated the Mozilla Gecko layout engine to provide Web connectivity. Strata was officially released out of beta in April 2008 with the intention of bringing the simplicity of a web browser to the world of tabular data. Because of the web connectivity and the user-centric analytic features, Strata can also be considered a productivity tool for Business Intelligence 2.0.
Features
As with other browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, Kirix Strata provides tools to view and interact with web pages. However, it deviates by focusing on manipulating and interacting with structured data:
Data Access: Web data (e.g., HTML tables, RSS feeds, CSV files), external databases (e.g., MySQL, Oracle) and local data files (e.g., Excel, Access, text-delimited data).
Data Analysis: Sorts, filters, copies, queries, calculated fields and relationships.
Reporting
Scripting and Extensions: Data-enabled version of JavaScript with support for SQL.
Operating system support:
Microsoft Windows 7/10/11
Ubuntu Linux 10.04 and later (discontinued in October 2012)
supports up to 18 exabytes per project; 60 billion records per table; 250 million table per project.
References
Discontinued web browsers
Data analysis software
Software that uses wxWidgets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview%20Hospital | Fairview Hospital may refer to:
M Health Fairview, a network of hospitals and clinics in Minnesota, including the University of Minnesota Medical Center
Fairview Hospital (Cleveland), a part of the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio
Fairview Hospital (Massachusetts), in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, part of Berkshire Health Systems
Fairview Training Center, previously known as the Fairview Hospital and Training Center in Salem, Oregon
Trauma centers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina%20Bianchini | Gina Bianchini (born 1972) is an American entrepreneur and investor. She is the Founder & CEO of Mighty Networks.
Early life and career
She grew up in Cupertino, California, graduated with honors from Stanford University, started her career in the nascent High Technology Group at Goldman Sachs, and received her M.B.A from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Before Mighty Networks, she was CEO of Ning, which she co-founded with Marc Andreessen.
In addition to Mighty Networks, Gina serves as a board director of TEGNA (NYSE: TGNA), a $3 billion broadcast and digital media company, and served as a board director of Scripps Networks (NASDAQ: SNI), a $12 billion public company which owns HGTV, The Food Network, and The Travel Channel that merged with Discovery Communications in 2018.
Gina has been featured on the cover of Fortune and Fast Company and in Wired, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg, and The New York Times. She has appeared on Charlie Rose, CNBC, and CNN.
References
Living people
American women chief executives
Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
1972 births
American technology company founders
American women company founders
American company founders
Goldman Sachs people
Stanford University alumni
People from Cupertino, California
People from Saratoga, California
21st-century American businesspeople
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20land%20planning | Online land planning is a collaborative process in which sustainable development practices and design professionals from across the world are networked to provide advice and solutions on urban design and land planning issues. The target audience includes property owners, communities, businesses and government agencies that have limited access, time, finances or personnel to make informed decisions about land use. In many cases, this approach provides electronic documents that become the catalyst to rebuild after natural or man-made spur rural community development and stimulate or create a new microeconomy.
Importance of technology
One goal of online land planning is the effective use of the internet to support information sharing and decision making from remote locations such as the home. The use of the Internet, coupled with software technology such as geographic information systems (GIS), allows municipalities and other public and private organizations to compile base information, exchange information, present solutions to land planning issues, and receive feedback vis the internet. Benefits for land development companies and real estate industry organizations like the Urban Land Institute include easier access to efficient digital planning technologies, along with the opportunity for immediate participation and feedback.
Worldwide, local and regional governments have created their own websites with access to map-centric and enterprise GIS databases that provide operational and public-service resources.
References
Climate Alarm: Oxfam Briefing Paper 108 (November 2007)
Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Kotka IV: (1995)
Prideaux, B. Building Visitor Attractions in Peripheral Areas - International Journal of Tourism Research, 4, 379-389. (2002)
Vesterby, M & Krupa, K, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Bulletin 973.
Shiode, N., Urban Planning, Information Technology and Cyberspace, Journal of Urban Technology (2000);
McGinn, M., Getting Involved in Planning – Edinburgh: Scottish Executive Development Department (2001)
Carver, S., The Future of Participatory Approaches Using Geographic Information (2003)
Yigitcanlar, Tan, Australian Local Governments Practice and Prospects with Online Planning (2005)
Huxol, J., A Participatory Model Using the Web (May 2004)
Hall, Carly & Heffernan, Maree: GIS and its Potential Use in Human Services (2006)
Penzu journal
Urban planning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Roberts%20%28actor%29 | Robert Ellis Scott (June 9, 1921 – January 5, 2006) was an American stage, film and television actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1938 and 1994, according to the Internet Movie Database. Sometimes he was credited as Mark Roberts, Bob Scott, Robert E. Scott, or Robert Scott.
Early years
A native of Denver, Colorado, Roberts began acting when he was four, appearing in a play in kindergarten. "The smell of greasepaint got me", he said years later. During his childhood, the family moved to Lakewood, Ohio, and later to Kansas City, Missouri. Roberts attended Southwest High School in Kansas City and the University of Arizona at Tucson, where he majored in English.
Film
Soon after Roberts graduated from college, a screen test at Columbia Pictures led to a long-term contract for him.
He made his film debut in Brother Rat, a 1938 film directed by William Keighley and starring Ronald Reagan. Roberts played an uncredited bit role as Tripod Andrews. After that, he was billed as Robert Scott in three films before obtaining his first and only leading role in the 1944 Columbia serial Black Arrow. He also served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Following discharge, he acted under the name of Mark Roberts.
Roberts appeared (uncredited) in It's a Wonderful Life, the 1946 classic Frank Capra film. He and Carl (Alfalfa) Switzer played Mickey and Freddie Othello, respectively, the two guys who unlock the gym floor at the high school dance, exposing the pool below, into which George Bailey (James Stewart) and Mary Hatch (Donna Reed) tumble.
Stage
Roberts played the role of Dunbar in the Broadway production of Stalag 17 (1951). Concurrently, he was a member of the cast of Miss Susan, a television serial. The dual responsibilities meant that Roberts usually left New York City via train at 8 a.m., going to Philadelphia for rehearsals and the program's live broadcast, then he would catch a 6:06 p.m. train back to New York to perform in the play.
Television
Roberts later became a familiar face in selected drama and action television series. He starred as reporter Hildy Johnson in the 1949-1950 syndicated television series The Front Page. In the 1960–1961 season, he joined Stephen Dunne (1918–1977) playing brothers who were private detectives in the syndicated television series, The Brothers Brannagan, which aired 39 episodes. Roberts played Bob Brannagan; Dunne, Mike Brannagan. He made seven guest appearances on Perry Mason, including two 1962 roles as the murder victim: title character Otto Gervaert/Gabe Phillips in "The Case of the Absent Artist," and Tod Richards in "The Case of the Playboy Pugilist." He portrayed murderer Wayne Jameson in "The Case of the Nebulous Nephew". Mark Roberts appeared in Barnaby Jones portraying a character named Tony Bloom; episode titled, "Perchance to Kill"(03/11/1973).
Roberts made his last screen appearance in the short-lived 1994 sitcom Monty.
Personal life
Roberts married Audrey Von Clemm in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo%20AIDS%20Network | The Navajo AIDS Network (NAN) is a Chinle, Arizona-based HIV prevention and AIDS service organization for American Indians who reside within the Navajo Nation, located in western New Mexico and eastern Arizona. NAN was founded in 1990 as a volunteer organization and was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit in 1993.
NAN, which operates independently of the Navajo tribal government, has offered anonymous HIV testing and referrals to medical services. It has also distributed condoms to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
NAN has also worked to further the cause of raising tolerance for the homosexual, bisexual and transgender members of the Navajo Nation, who had traditionally not been able to openly discuss their sexuality. In 2005, NAN sponsored the first Summer Gathering, which focused on health and social issues relating specifically to the Navajo LGBT community.
References
HIV/AIDS organizations in the United States
Native American organizations
Native American health
Medical and health organizations based in Arizona
1990 establishments in Arizona
Navajo Nation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy%20Premieres | Comedy Premieres was a programming strand of four one-off television comedies, produced by Granada Television for the ITV network and broadcast throughout 1997.
Premieres
Production
The Premieres, all pilots for potential television series, were produced from 1995 to 1996 for intended broadcast in 1996. However, they were all postponed until 1997.
Reception
Cold Feet received positive critical reaction from The Times; in The Times, Matthew Bond wrote that it is "an enjoyable one-off comedy aimed at anybody who's ever been single, married, or had children. With such catholic appeal further heightened by Helen Baxendale heading a talented cast, it showed just what ITV can do." An ITV committee selected Cold Feet to represent the network in the comedy-drama category at the Montreux Television Festival. The programme won the Silver Rose in the Humour category and the Golden Rose of Montreux, the festival's highest honour. Further acclaim came at the end of the year at the British Comedy Awards when Cold Feet won the Best Comedy Drama (ITV) award.
Alexander Chancellor previewed The Chest for The Observer, calling it "homely" and concluded that "If you don't mind implausible plots and inconclusive endings, you may find this quite enjoyable to watch; but don't expect to laugh very much." In The Independent, Tina Ogle noted that Neil Morrissey was playing a "typical fluffy bunny", but singled out Jim Carter as the best actor. Thomas Sutcliffe for the same newspaper was more critical of Morrissey, writing that he was putting on "his 10-year-old boy act", and concluded by saying The Chest "makes you want to run someone through with a cutlass." Matthew Bond criticised the story for being "a familiar variation of a familiar story" but complimented the main cast for holding it together.
The Grimleys received acclaim for its 1970s nostalgia. Mark Lawson called it "a rare example of a period sitcom" and compared Darren Grimley to Adrian Mole. John Millar for the Daily Record anticipated a full series would follow the pilot and Eddie Gibb for The Scotsman named it the best sitcom of the year. The broadcast was watched by 4.6 million, gaining a 42% audience share.
King Leek was described in The People as having "sheer comic class". The reviewer praised both the leads and the supporting cast and concluded by calling it the best of the four comedy premieres. Matthew Bond wrote that Billy Ivory had written "something so black that it was nigh on impossible to see the comedy at all." Desmond Christy of The Guardian was equally disappointed and hoped a series would not follow the pilot.
The Grimleys and Cold Feet were each commissioned for full series. The Grimleys ran for three series from 1999 to 2001, and Cold Feet ran for five series from 1998 to 2003 and, after a thirteen-year hiatus, for four more series from 2016 to 2020.
References
External links
Cold Feet at the British Film Institute
The Chest at the British Film Institute
The Grimleys at the Bri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAKC | WAKC (102.3 FM) is an American licensed radio station in Concord, New Hampshire. The station is owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF) and is part of its K-Love network of contemporary Christian music outlets. EMF also owns WLKC (105.7 FM) in Campton, serving the White Mountains and Lakes Region.
History
Early years
The station began operations March 7, 1972, as WKXL-FM, the FM sister station to WKXL (1450 AM), under the ownership of Frank Estes, who also owned WKXR in Exeter, New Hampshire. In 1980, Estes sold the WKXL stations to a group of station employees.
The Music Zone
The 102.3 FM signal was largely a repeater of the 1450 AM broadcast until 1986 when the owners launched a "light alternative" adult album alternative format. The format was led by Program Director Renee Blake, Production Director Taft Moore, on-air talent including Dave Doud, Julia Figueras, Norm Beeker, and Jay Dreves, and featured artists such as The Cure, Poi Dog Pondering, 10,000 Maniacs, The Pixies, The Call, and U2. The station won recognition, Best of the Best, in 1990 from the National Association of Broadcasters for community service with their This Island Earth promotion that focused on environmental awareness with on-air and "in-field" activities. The Music Zone format continued until 1991 when financial pressures returned the FM signal to a simulcast of the AM's adult contemporary programming. Music programming on the stations ended altogether in 1995, as the adult contemporary format gave way to news, talk, and sports.
"Outlaw" country
In 1999, the employee group sold the WKXL stations to Vox Media, who, after buying WRCI (107.7 FM) in nearby Hillsborough several months later, shifted the simulcast to that station; as a result, on January 3, 2000, the station returned to separate programming as a country station, WOTX-FM ("Outlaw Country").
"The Hawk"
In 2004, Vox sold most of its stations in the area to Nassau Broadcasting Partners; however, Nassau could not buy WOTX outright due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership restrictions. Nassau did take control of the station under a local marketing agreement, and on February 7, 2005, swapped formats with WNHI (93.3 FM) and became a classic rock station as WWHK ("102.3 The Hawk"), in tandem with a nearby Nassau classic rock station, WWHQ (101.5 FM) in Meredith, New Hampshire.
WWHK had planned to drop the classic rock format in favor of sports talk provided by Boston's WEEI in January 2008, but the deal between Nassau and Entercom ended up collapsing. In March 2008, the station shifted from classic rock to a more mainstream rock format.
Ownership limbo
In September 2006, the FCC ruled that local marketing agreements and joint sales agreements counted towards the operator's ownership count in a market. Initially, Nassau continued to operate WWHK in violation of this ruling as it attempted to obtain a waiver to buy WWHK outright, but the FCC ruled in April 2008 that Nassau had worked wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X%20Wiz | The GP2X Wiz is a handheld game console and portable media player developed by South Korean company GamePark Holdings running a Linux kernel-based embedded operating system. It was released on May 12, 2009, and was also the first console from both Game Park and Game Park Holdings to be also released outside South Korea. It is the successor to the GP2X.
Overview
An image of the Wiz system was first leaked on the web in late July 2008. Rumors had been circulating that GamePark Holdings was in the process of making a new handheld, since they had abruptly discontinued production of its first handheld, the GP2X, in late June/early July. Prior to the official announcement, this handheld was sometimes referred to as the GP3X.
On August 26, 2008, GamePark Holdings announced that it was planning to release a new handheld, named the Wiz. Along with the announcement, a brochure detailing a great amount of launch information was released, complete with the system's specs. The brochure stated that new games would be released every month for the system; This is a deviation from the GP2X, which did not have many commercial games. However, the Wiz still appears to be primarily advertised as an open-source system, meant for homebrew development of games and emulators.
On September 2, 2008, it was reported that the GP2X Wiz's button layout was to be revised, and the second D-Pad on the right-hand side of the system was to be removed. In order to make these design changes, the release of the system was to be pushed back to November 2008.
Around the last week of April 2009, GamePark shipped test units of the GP2X Wiz. These are thought to be the final hardware revision before the actual product launch.
Retailers for the GP2X Wiz stated that they planned to begin shipping the GP2X Wiz as soon as October 8, 2008. , retailers are listing the price of the Wiz at US$179.99. The GP2X Wiz started shipping as of May 13, 2009.
An online application store was set to launch in August of 2009.
Official accessories for the GP2X Wiz include the Accessory Kit (which comes with an SD card case, a wrist strap, and a spare stylus), a screen protector, and a Genuine Leather Case.
The successor of GP2X Wiz is GP2X Caanoo.
Myungtendo
In February 2009, South Korean president Lee Myung-bak had stated that "Korea needs to develop a video game console like a Nintendo DS". This statement was parodied with the "Myungtendo MB", an obvious rip-off of the Nintendo DS. While completely unrelated to the Myungtendo incident, the GP2X Wiz is often nicknamed as the "Myungtendo", due to its release shortly after the statement.
Hardware
Specifications
Chipset: MagicEyes Pollux System-on-a-Chip VR3520F
CPU: 533 MHz ARM926TEJ (overclockable to 900 MHz, however the system can become unstable over 750 MHz)
NAND Flash Memory: 1 GB
RAM: DDR SDRAM 64 MB
Operating System: Linux-based OS
Storage: SD Card (SDHC support)
Connection to PC: USB 2.0 High Speed
USB Host: USB 1.1
Power: Internal 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoGrid | GoGrid was a cloud infrastructure service, hosting Linux and Windows virtual machines managed by a multi-server control panel and a RESTful API. In January 2015, Datapipe announced the acquisition of GoGrid.
Awards & recognitions
In July 2008, GoGrid was selected as a Finalist for LinuxWorld 2008 Product Excellence Award
by IDG World Expo and LinuxWorld.com.
In June 2010, GoGrid won “Best Channel Incentives” Award at 2010 ASCII Group Reseller Success Summit.
In March 2012, GoGrid selected as a winner of the Cloud-Infrastructure Category in OnDemand 2012, by AlwaysOn.
In 2011-2014, GoGrid appeared on the Gartner Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant.
See also
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud computing
References
External links
Official site
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud computing providers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertain%20data | In computer science, uncertain data is data that contains noise that makes it deviate from the correct, intended or original values. In the age of big data, uncertainty or data veracity is one of the defining characteristics of data. Data is constantly growing in volume, variety, velocity and uncertainty (1/veracity). Uncertain data is found in abundance today on the web, in sensor networks, within enterprises both in their structured and unstructured sources. For example, there may be uncertainty regarding the address of a customer in an enterprise dataset, or the temperature readings captured by a sensor due to aging of the sensor. In 2012 IBM called out managing uncertain data at scale in its global technology outlook report that presents a comprehensive analysis looking three to ten years into the future seeking to identify significant, disruptive technologies that will change the world. In order to make confident business decisions based on real-world data, analyses must necessarily account for many different kinds of uncertainty present in very large amounts of data. Analyses based on uncertain data will have an effect on the quality of subsequent decisions, so the degree and types of inaccuracies in this uncertain data cannot be ignored.
Uncertain data is found in the area of sensor networks; text where noisy text is found in abundance on social media, web and within enterprises where the structured and unstructured data may be old, outdated, or plain incorrect; in modeling where the mathematical model may only be an approximation of the actual process. When representing such data in a database, some indication of the probability of the correctness of the various values also needs to be estimated.
There are three main models of uncertain data in databases. In attribute uncertainty, each uncertain attribute in a tuple is subject to its own independent probability distribution. For example, if readings are taken of temperature and wind speed, each would be described by its own probability distribution, as knowing the reading for one measurement would not provide any information about the other.
In correlated uncertainty, multiple attributes may be described by a joint probability distribution. For example, if readings are taken of the position of an object, and the x- and y-coordinates stored, the probability of different values may depend on the distance from the recorded coordinates. As distance depends on both coordinates, it may be appropriate to use a joint distribution for these coordinates, as they are not independent.
In tuple uncertainty, all the attributes of a tuple are subject to a joint probability distribution. This covers the case of correlated uncertainty, but also includes the case where there is a probability of a tuple not belonging in the relevant relation, which is indicated by all the probabilities not summing to one. For example, assume we have the following tuple from a probabilistic database:
Then, the tuple has |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Gordon | Heather Gordon (born 1967) is an American contemporary visual artist.
Career
Gordon creates large-scale paintings and immersive art projects, using numbers, algorithms, and geometry in her creative process.
In November 2017 Gordon's installation And Then the Sun Swallowed Me was exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh.
Her piece Cinnabar was featured in the North Carolina Museum of Art's exhibit titled You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences from April 7, 2018, until July 2, 2018. Prior to the exhibit, her work was featured as part of the museum's Matrons of the Arts initiative, highlighting female-identified artists from around the world. She received a North Carolina Artists Fellowship in 2014.
Her collaborate works with dancer and choreographer Justin Tornow, titled Echo and SHOW, were shown at 21c Durham Museum Hotel and The Durham Fruit. In 2017 Gordon and Tornow collaborated to create No.19/Modulations, which was shown at the CCB Plaza in downtown Durham, North Carolina.
In August 2018 her work titled DOUBLE EDGED: Geometric Abstraction Then and Now was shown at the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Also in 2018, she debuted Steel, a tape installation, at The Dillon in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Her work has also been shown at the Ackland Art Museum, Waterworks, The Carrack Modern Art Museum, and the North Carolina School of Science and Math. She is part of Mural Durham, an art project in Durham.
In 2019 Gordon worked with the David M Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Duke University Archives to research documents related to the Duke Forest for her work titled Forest for the Trees.
Personal life
Gordon was the only child of an accountant and engineer. Her father was a United States Air Force officer, and grew up primarily on military bases around the United States. Godron is lesbian, and said she knew when she was eight years old.
Gordon earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Florida in 1990 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from New Mexico State University in 1995. She lives in Durham. Gordon has a son named Henry.
References
Living people
1967 births
21st-century American painters
21st-century American women artists
American conceptual artists
American contemporary painters
American digital artists
American women installation artists
American installation artists
American multimedia artists
New Mexico State University alumni
People from Durham, North Carolina
University of Florida alumni
Women conceptual artists
Women multimedia artists
American lesbian artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SevOne | SevOne is a software company that was founded in 2005. It was named after the slang for the "severity one" performance problems network managers face.
SevOne was acquired by Turbonomic in 2019. Then as part of Turbonomic, the SevOne product line was acquired in 2021 by IBM, and made available by IBM as IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM).
IBM SevOne NPM provides monitoring and analytics for the digital infrastructure, including networks, servers, and cloud datacenters.
History
The company was founded in 2005 by computer scientists from the University of Delaware who also served as network architects at leading financial institutions.
In July 2007, venture capital firm Osage Ventures led a Series A Preferred placement in SevOne. In March 2009, Osage led a second round of financing in SevOne along with several private investors.
In January 2013, SevOne announced a $150 million investment from Bain Capital.
In September 2015, SevOne announced a $50 million Series C financing round led by Westfield Capital Management and Bain Capital Ventures. Brookside Capital, HarbourVest, VT Technology Ventures, and Osage Venture Partners also participated in this round.
In November 2019, SevOne was acquired by Turbonomic.
In April 2021, IBM announced it was acquiring Turbonomic, SevOne's parent company.
References
Networking software companies
Privately held companies based in Delaware
Companies established in 2005
Companies based in Wilmington, Delaware
2005 establishments in Delaware
Software performance management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS%20language | The SAS language is a computer programming language used for statistical analysis, created by Anthony James Barr at North Carolina State University. It can read in data from common spreadsheets and databases and output the results of statistical analyses in tables, graphs, and as RTF, HTML and PDF documents. The SAS language runs under compilers that can be used on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and various other UNIX and mainframe computers.
The SAS System and World Programming System (WPS) / Altair SLC are SAS language compilers.
Overview of syntax
The language is Turing-complete domain specific computer language with many of the attributes of a command language. It is narrowly focused on statistical analysis of data.
The language consists of two main types of blocks: DATA blocks that introduce new datasets and PROC blocks that perform procedures on them. A simple example is the following
* COMMENT;
Data TEMP;
input X Y Z;
datalines;
1 2 3
5 6 7
;
run;
PROC PRINT DATA = TEMP;
RUN;
SAS scripts have the .sas extension
Legal status
SAS is developed and sponsored by the SAS Institute. A competitor, World Programming System / Altair SLC has developed an interpreter and tools that allows execution of the SAS scripts.
See also
SAS Institute
SAS Software
World Programming System
List of statistical packages
Comparison of statistical packages
SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Ltd
Notes
References
External links
Learn SAS Programming
comp.soft-sys.sas at Google Groups.
UK High Court Judgement on SAS Language
Sasopedia / SAS Language elements
SAS whitepaper search
Statistical programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicator%20of%20cytokinesis%20protein%206 | Dedicator of cytokinesis protein 6 (Dock6), also known as Zir1 is a large (~200 kDa) protein encoded in the human by the DOCK6 gene, involved in intracellular signalling networks. It is a member of the DOCK-C subfamily of the DOCK family of guanine nucleotide exchange factors which function as activators of small G-proteins.
Discovery
Dock6 was identified as one of a family of proteins which share high sequence similarity with Dock180, the archetypal member of the DOCK family. It has a similar domain arrangement to other DOCK proteins, with a DHR1 domain known in other proteins to bind phospholipids, and a DHR2 domain containing the GEF activity.
Function
There is currently very little information about the cellular role of this protein. However, Dock6 has been reported to exhibit dual GEF specificity towards the small G proteins Rac1 and Cdc42. It is the only DOCK family member reported to activate both of these G proteins. The same study also showed that transfection of the Dock6 DHR2 domain into N1E-115 neuroblastoma cells promoted Rac- and Cdc42-dependent neurite outgrowth, although the physiological significance of this has yet to be demonstrated.
References
Further reading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergestis%20pallidata | Evergestis pallidata is a species of moth of the family Crambidae described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1811. It is found in Europe, across the Palearctic and in North America.
The wingspan is 24–29 mm. The ground colour of the front wings is a shiny yellow with brown-red transverse lines, stigmata and veins that create a mesh pattern. The hind wings are dazzlingly white with some incomplete brown lines. The moth flies from June to September depending on the location.
The larvae feed on Brassicaceae species, especially Barbarea vulgaris.
References
External links
Waarneming.nl
Lepidoptera of Belgium
Evergestis pallidata at UKMoths
Evergestis
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia
Moths of North America
Moths described in 1811 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic%20Serendipity | Cybernetic Serendipity was an exhibition of cybernetic art curated by Jasia Reichardt, shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, from 2 August to 20 October 1968, and then toured across the United States. Two stops in the United States were the Corcoran Annex (Corcoran Gallery of Art), Washington, D.C., from 16 July to 31 August 1969, and the newly opened Exploratorium in San Francisco, from 1 November to 18 December 1969.
Content
One part of the exhibition was concerned with algorithms and devices for generating music. Some exhibits were pamphlets describing the algorithms, whilst others showed musical notation produced by computers. Devices made musical effects and played tapes of sounds made by computers. Peter Zinovieff lent part of his studio equipment - visitors could sing or whistle a tune into a microphone and his equipment would improvise a piece of music based on the tune.
Another part described computer projects such as Gustav Metzger's self-destructive Five Screens With Computer, a design for a new hospital, a computer programmed structure, and dance choreography.
The machines and installations were a very noticeable part of the exhibition. Gordon Pask produced a collection of large mobiles (Colloquy of Mobiles (1968)) with interacting parts that let the viewers join in the conversation. Many machines formed kinetic environments or displayed moving images. Bruce Lacey contributed his radio-controlled robots and a light-sensitive owl. Nam June Paik was represented by Robot K-456 and televisions with distorted images. Jean Tinguely provided two of his painting machines. Edward Ihnatowicz's biomorphic hydraulic ear (Sound Activated Mobile (SAM, 1968)) turned toward sounds and John Billingsley's Albert 1967 turned to face light. Wen-Ying Tsai presented his interactive cybernetic sculptures of vibrating stainless-steel rods, stroboscopic light, and audio feedback control. Several artists exhibited machines that drew patterns that the visitor could take away, or involved visitors in games. Cartoonist Rowland Emett designed the mechanical computer Forget-me-not, which was commissioned by Honeywell.
Another section explored the computer's ability to produce text - both essays and poetry. Different programs produced Haiku, children's stories, and essays. One of the first computer-generated poems, by Alison Knowles and James Tenney, was included in the exhibition and catalogue.
Computer-generated movies were represented by John Whitney's permutations and a Bell Labs movie on their technology for producing movies. Some samples included images of tesseracts rotating in four dimensions, a satellite orbiting the Earth, and an animated data structure.
Computer graphics were also represented, including pictures produced on cathode ray oscilloscopes and digital plotters. There was a variety of posters and graphics demonstrating the power of computers to do complex (and apparently random) calculations. Other graphics showed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20W.%20Veitch | Edward Westbrook Veitch (4 November 1924 – 23 December 2013) was an American computer scientist. He graduated from Harvard University in 1946 with a degree in Physics, followed by graduate degrees from Harvard in Physics and Applied Physics in 1948 and 1949 respectively. In his 1952 paper "A Chart Method for Simplifying Truth Functions", Veitch described a graphical procedure for the optimization of logic circuits, which is referred to as Veitch chart. A year later (in 1953), the method was refined in a paper by Maurice Karnaugh into what became known as Karnaugh map (K-map) or Karnaugh–Veitch map (KV-map).
Later reflections on the diagram's design
Veitch wrote about the development of the Veitch diagram and its interpretation:
The problem is how to depict a Boolean function of n variables so the human eye can easily see how to simplify the function.
A function of four variables has sixteen input combinations and the diagram has sixteen different squares to be filled from the truth table that defines the function.
The primary difference between the Veitch and Karnaugh versions is that the Veitch diagram presents the data in the binary sequence used in the truth table while the Karnaugh map interchanges the third and fourth rows and the third and fourth columns.
The general digital computer community chose the Karnaugh approach. Veitch accepted this decision, even though in early 1952, before his presentation, he had almost changed to that approach but decided against it. A few years later several textbooks described the K-map, a few of them designating it a Veitch diagram.
The original Veitch diagram
It was known that one way to represent the function was as points on the corners of an n-dimensional cube. Two adjacent corners such as the two on the upper right could be defined as the upper right corners and the four corners on the front of the cube could be defined as the front corners. For four, five, or six variables the problem becomes more complicated.
Depicting a multi-dimensional cube on a flat diagram that makes it easy to see these relationships:
For three dimensions, Veitch drew a 2×2 set of squares for the top of the cube and a second set for the bottom of the cube with a small space between the two sets of squares. Within the 2×2 set on the top the simplification groups are any horizontal or vertical pair or all of the four cells. The only adjacencies between the top and bottom sets are a one-to-one connection between each square of the top set and corresponding cell of the bottom set. A similar rule applies to the four variable cases, which is sometimes drawn as a cube inside of another cube with corresponding corners all connected.
The four variable Veitch diagram would then be four 2×2 sets in a larger square with a small space between each pair of sets. Thus a horizontal pair in the top left set can combine with a matching pair in the bottom left set or with the top right set or possibly with all four sets to make |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Lopez | Ken Lopez (born September 4) is a letterer and logo designer for the comic book industry. A pioneer of computer lettering, Lopez designed the fonts for DC Comics's in-house lettering unit, and is currently DC's art director for lettering and its cover editor.
Lettering
Marvel
Lopez began his lettering career as a freelancer for Marvel Comics in 1986, rapidly rising to prominence for his speed and creativity. From 1989 to 1996, Lopez was the regular letterer on a number of Marvel titles, including Marc Spector: Moon Knight, The Punisher, Guardians of the Galaxy, Deathlok, and X-Men 2099. His tenure on Guardians of the Galaxy lasted five years.
Valiant
In 1992–1994, Lopez lettered for a number of Valiant Comics titles, including Magnus, Robot Fighter and almost the entire run of X-O Manowar.
DC
From 1994 to 2005, Lopez moved to DC, where he was regular letterer on a number of titles, including Superman: The Man of Steel, The Batman Chronicles, Resurrection Man, JLA, Young Justice, JSA, and Harley Quinn. Lopez lettered Superman: The Man of Steel for nine years, and JLA for eight years. Lopez also lettered the landmark limited series Identity Crisis. With Lopez's ascension to DC's art director of lettering in 2004, his output has understandably decreased.
Logos
Lopez has designed logos for such titles (among others) as Marvel's Wally the Wizard (1985), Iron Man (1985), Classic X-Men (1986), Comet Man (1987), Excalibur (1988), and Spider-Man 2099 (1992); and DC's Green Lantern (1994 and revised in 2002), Green Lantern Corps (2006), and Justice League of America (2006). In addition, as DC's cover editor, Lopez solicits new logos from freelancers, and modifies existing designs. He continues to create fonts while training others.
Personal life
Lopez lives in Manhattan.
Selected bibliography
Marc Spector: Moon Knight (Marvel, 1989–1993)
The Punisher (Marvel, 1989–1993)
Guardians of the Galaxy (Marvel, 1990–1995)
Deathlok (Marvel, 1991–1994)
X-O Manowar (Valiant, 1992–1994)
X-Men 2099 (Marvel, 1993–1996)
Superman: Man of Steel (DC, 1994–2003)
The Batman Chronicles (DC, 1995–2000)
Resurrection Man (DC, 1997–1999)
JLA (DC, 1997–2005)
Young Justice (DC, 1998–2003)
JSA (DC, 1999–2005)
Harley Quinn (DC, 2000–2002)
Notes
References
People from Manhattan
Living people
American comics artists
1963 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Research%20Universities%20Network | The International Research Universities Network (IRUN), initiated in 2006 by Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, was officially founded during a meeting in September 2007 in Nijmegen. Representatives from each of the network’s nine founding partner universities signed the IRUN Charter. IRUN currently represents eight European countries and is expected to grow in numbers of universities, countries and world regions represented. All universities currently in the network are research universities: their teaching efforts are predicated on the vigour and quality of their own research programmes and recent international scientific developments. It is the goal of IRUN that all research produced by the partners is pioneering and innovative.
IRUN aims to stimulate the internationalisation of higher education through exchanges and research collaboration. In other words, the partner universities are committed to increase the international exchange of their excellent students and research staff, as well as to develop joint Master and PhD programmes between partners.
IRUN is guided by the core principle that international collaboration between high-quality research universities helps to reinforce the manifest international character of their educational programmes and offers new possibilities to encourage their development.
IRUN Network of Female Professors
The IRUN Network of Female Professors was founded as a result of the 1st Conference Women in Science in March 2008. Main aim of the network is to foster the participation of women in science, starting at their own university. The second Conference of the IRUN Network of Female Professors was organised by the University of Münster on April 17 and 18, 2009. IRUN partners Duisburg-Essen, Glasgow, Krakow, Münster, Nijmegen and Siena participated. The third conference will be organised by the University of Siena in 2010.
Members
Université de Poitiers
University of Münster
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest
University of Siena
Radboud University Nijmegen
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
University of Barcelona
University of Glasgow
See also
List of higher education associations and alliances
Neuronus IBRO & IRUN Neuroscience Forum
National Institutes of Technology – 31 leading public engineering universities in India
References
College and university associations and consortia in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careers%20TV | Careers TV is a Canadian daytime television series about the world of occupations. The program airs on A and Access.
External links
Careers TV website
CTV 2 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%20Xiao%20%28scientist%29 | Yang Xiao () is a professor of computer science at the University of Alabama.
Biography
Yang Xiao currently is a Full Professor of Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA, and his B.S. and M.S. degrees in computational mathematics at Jilin University, Changchun, China. His current research interests include Cyber Physical Systems, Internet of Things, Security, Wireless Networks, Smart Grid, and Telemedicine. He has published over 280 SCI-indexed journal papers (including over 50 IEEE/ACM transactions papers) and over 250 EI indexed refereed conference papers and book chapters related to these research areas. His research has been supported by the U.S. NSF, U.S. Army Research, GENI, Fleet Industrial Supply Center-San Diego, FIATECH, and The University of Alabama's Research Grants Committee.
Xiao was a Voting Member of IEEE 802.11 Working Group from 2001 to 2004, involving IEEE 802.11 (WIFI) standardization work. He is an IEEE Fellow (FIEEE) and an IET Fellow (previously IEE) (FIET). He served/serves as a Panelist for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)'s Telecommunications expert committee, The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)'s Site Visit Committee (SVC), U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command's (USAMRMC) Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) via American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships under the Department of Defense (DoD), The Science, Mathematics, Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship under DoD, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), as well as a Referee/Reviewer for many national and international funding agencies. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for Cyber-Physical Systems (Journal). He had (s) been an editorial board or Associate Editor for 20 international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, during 2014 to 2015, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, during 2007 to 2009, and IEEE Communications Survey and Tutorials, during 2007 to 2014. He served (s) as a Guest Editor for over 20 times for different international journals, including IEEE Network, IEEE Wireless Communications, and ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET). In 2020, he was elected a fellow of the IEEE.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Wright State University alumni
University of Alabama in Huntsville faculty
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese expatriates in the United States
Expatriate academics in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20VX8100 | The LG VX8100 is a mobile phone that was available through Verizon Wireless in 2005 and 2006. It used Verizon's EV-DO network and was one of the first phones to support V CAST service. It also featured Bluetooth capability, stereo speakers, and a MiniSD slot.
Reception
The VX8100 received mix reviews. Some compared it unfavorably to its predecessor, the VX8000, because the VX8100 was heavier, had a shorter battery life, a protruding antenna, a smaller screen, and did not include an analog compatibility mode Another source of criticism was that there were four different firmware versions of the phone—none of which were marked on the box—which made for inconsistent consumer experiences.
However, Laptop magazine rated it 4 out of 5 stars, mostly based on its multimedia functionality and faster data rate.
Based on call quality, features, and durability the VX8100 continues to retain a great fan base years after initial launch.
Detailed Specs
Network: CDMA 800/1900
Main LCD: 18-bit 176x220
External LCD: 16-bit 128x128
Camera: 1.3-megapixel, 8x digital zoom, 1280x960
References
External links
VX8100 Service Menu Information
Mobiledia
Buy the Right Gaming Laptop
VX8100
Mobile phones introduced in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkVantage%20Technologies | ThinkVantage Technologies is a set of system support utilities to reduce total cost of ownership of Lenovo brand desktop and laptop computers.
Utilities
Access Connections to graphically and securely manage and switch network connections between ethernet, wireless LAN, and wireless WAN
Lenovo Mobile Broadband Activation to support mobile broadband activation for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP laptops that support it
Active Protection System to enable the accelerometer to halt a laptop's spinning-platter hard drive
Password Manager to save user login information for websites and Windows applications, and subsequently auto-fill those passwords on their respective sites and applications
Client Security Solution to manage passwords, encryption keys and electronic credentials
Fingerprint Software to manage biometric data for built-in fingerprint readers
GPS for GPS use on Windows XP, Vista, and 7 computers
LANDesk for ThinkVantage for client management. This is a Lenovo-exclusive version of LANDesk Management Suite designed to integrate with other ThinkVantage software
Productivity Center to access online documentation and tools
Power Manager to manage power usage in Windows XP, Vista, and 7 ThinkPad laptops as well as Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 desktops
ThinkPad Help Center to access a user's guide for the ThinkVantage suite
Access Help online User's Guide to search an online database of help documents
Secure Data Disposal to shred confidential information
System Update (TVSU) to generate a system tailored list of updates with their respective operative descriptions, and a choice of installation methods
Base Software Administrator to customize Lenovo preloads
Lenovo QuickLaunch to provide a simplified, customized version of Windows' Start menu
Lenovo Solution Center to manage the ThinkVantage suite and certain system upkeep tasks on Windows 7 and 8
Lenovo SimpleTap for Windows 7 to provide easy access to on-screen tiles on touch-enabled ThinkPads and tablets, as well as certain ThinkCentre systems with multi-touch screens
The Lenovo ThinkVantage Technologies that can also run on some other platforms are
System Migration Assistant to transfer a user's personal data and environment between PC systems.
Rescue and Recovery to deploy updates, recover from crashes, and provide remote access if the system will not boot or function while booted.
Legacy ThinkVantage software
ImageUltra Builder to create distributable software structures
Hardware Password Manager to save BIOS, disk, and motherboard passwords in one place
IBM developed ThinkVantage Technologies.
They were included with the sale of their PC division to Lenovo Group in 2005.
History
In 2002 IBM heavily promoted these tools as part of its "Think" campaign, intended to instill confidence that IBM computers were easier to use and quicker to recover from disaster.
In 2004 IBM provided two of the utilities, Rescue and Recovery with Rapid Restore and IBM System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencorder | ScreenCorder is a desktop recording tool for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems, developed and distributed by MatchWare. The program allows the user to record everything that happens on their desktop as viewed on their monitor, edit the recording and then export it to a redistributable video format. Uses include the creation of training videos, product support videos, sales presentations, and demonstration videos. Recorded content can be enhanced with audio instructions, graphic speech bubbles, magnifications, animations, and multimedia content.
Educational Uses
ScreenCorder allows educators to create interactive learning videos with a variety of features that can improve the learning experience. Webcam recordings can be inserted directly into a learning video as a picture in picture (PIP) window to engage the viewer with an introduction, explain key lesson points, and provide a more personal aspect to the presentation. Quizzes can be added at any point to access the effectiveness of the learning process. Once the quiz is created, it can be uploaded into a SCORM-compliant Learning Management System (LMS). The scores can be sent by e-mail, printed or stored on the LMS server. ScreenCorder provides the ability to make objects inserted into the leaning video interactive for the viewer; thereby allowing the instructor to further engage the student in the learning activities.
ScreenCorder, along with MatchWare's two other programs, Mediator and OpenMind, is part of a DiDA software suite. The program is used by the pupils to document their projects.
See also
Comparison of screencasting software
References
External links
ScreenCorder Info Page
MatchWare Home Page
Windows multimedia software
Proprietary software
Screencasting software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Oceanographic%20Data%20Centre | The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is a national facility for looking after and distributing data about the marine environment. BODC is the designated marine science data centre for the United Kingdom and part of the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) — primarily at its facility in Liverpool, with small number of its staff in Southampton. The centre provides a resource for science, education and industry, as well as the general public.
History
The origins of BODC go back to 1969 when NERC created the British Oceanographic Data Service (BODS). Located at the National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley in Surrey, its purpose was to:
Act as the UK's National Oceanographic Data Centre
Participate in the international exchange of data as part of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) network of national data centres
In 1975, BODS was transferred to Bidston Observatory on the Wirral, near Liverpool, as part of the newly formed Institute of Oceanographic Sciences. The following year BODS became the Marine Information and Advisory Service (MIAS). Its primary activity was to manage the data collected from weather ships, oil rigs and data buoys.
The data banking component of MIAS was restructured to form BODC in April 1989. BODC pioneered a start to finish approach to marine data management. This involved:
Assisting in the collection of data at sea
Quality control of data
Assembling the data for use by the scientists
The publication of data sets on CD-ROM
In December 2004, BODC moved to the purpose-built Joseph Proudman Building on the campus of the University of Liverpool. A smaller number of its staff are based in the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton.
Aims
Work alongside scientists during marine research projects
Provide quality control and archiving of oceanographic data
Maintain an online source of information and improve public access to marine data
Provide innovative marine data products
National role
BODC is one of five designated data centres that make up the NERC Environmental Data Service and manage NERC's environmental data. The BODC has a number of national roles and responsibilities:
Performing data management for NERC-funded marine projects
Maintaining and developing its archive of marine data, the National Oceanographic Database (NODB)
Managing, checking and archiving data from tide gauges around the UK coast for the National Tide Gauge Network, which aims to obtain high quality tidal information and to provide warning of possible flooding of coastal areas around the British Isles. This is part of the National Tidal & Sea Level Facility (NTSLF)
Hosting the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
Working in partnership with other NERC marine research centres:
British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Liverpool, formerly Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL)
National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeamViewer | TeamViewer is a German remote access and remote control computer software, allowing maintenance of computers and other devices. It was first released in 2005, and its functionality has expanded step by step. TeamViewer is proprietary software that requires registration and is free of charge for non-commercial use. It has been installed on more than two billion devices. TeamViewer is the core product of developing company TeamViewer AG.
History
Rossmanith GmbH released the first version of TeamViewer software in 2005, at that time still based on the VNC project. The IT service provider wanted to avoid unnecessary trips to customers and perform tasks such as installing software remotely. The development was very successful and gave rise to TeamViewer GmbH, which today operates as TeamViewer Germany GmbH and is part of TeamViewer AG.
Operating systems
TeamViewer is available for most desktop computers with common operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and Windows Server, as well as Apple's macOS. There are also packages for several Linux distributions and derivatives, for example, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Fedora Linux. Besides, there is Raspberry Pi OS, a Debian variant for the Raspberry Pi.
TeamViewer is also available for smartphones and tablets running Android or Apple's iOS/iPadOS operating system, very limited functionality on Linux based operating systems. Support for Windows Phone and Windows Mobile has been phased out after Microsoft discontinued support for the two operating systems.
Functionality
The functionality of TeamViewer differs depending on the device and variant or version of the software. The core of TeamViewer is remote access to computers and other endpoints as well as their control and maintenance. After the connection is established, the remote screen is visible to the user at the other endpoint. Both endpoints can send and receive files as well as access a shared clipboard, for example. Besides, some functions facilitate team collaboration, such as audio and video transmissions via IP telephony.
In recent years, the functionality of the software has been optimized in particular for use in large companies. For this purpose, the enterprise variant TeamViewer Tensor was developed. With TeamViewer Pilot, TeamViewer sells software for remote support with augmented reality elements. TeamViewer offers interfaces to other applications and services, for example from Microsoft (Teams), Salesforce, and ServiceNow. The solution is available in nearly all countries and supports over 30 languages.
License policy
Private users who use TeamViewer for non-commercial purposes may use a limited subset of the software features free of charge. As of July 2023, there is a 3 managed-devices limit. Disabled were VPN, file sync, Wake-on-LAN, audio, video and chat. Fees must be paid for the commercial use of the software. Companies and other commercial customers must sign up for a subscription. A one-time purchase of the applica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%20Emergency%20Response%20Act | The Oklahoma Emergency Response Act (27A O.S. Section 4-1-101 – 4-1-106) is an Oklahoma state law governing emergency response through the state. The act creates a network for rapid response to hazardous material incidents and other events that threaten the public health and safety. It is also used to respond to dangerous threats to the natural environment of the state.
The Emergency Response Act was signed into law by Governor David Walters on July 1, 1993.
See also
Oklahoma Emergency Management Act of 2003
Catastrophic Health Emergency Powers Act
Oklahoma Emergency Interim Executive and Judicial Succession Act
Oklahoma Emergency Management Interim Legislative Succession Act
Emergency Response
Oklahoma
1993 in Oklahoma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra%204A | Astra 4A is one of the Astra communications satellites owned and operated by SES at the Astra 5°E orbital slot providing digital television and radio broadcasts, data, and interactive services to Nordic countries, eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa in the 11.70 GHz-12.75 GHz range of the Ku band and 18.8 GHz-21.75 GHz range of the Ka band.
Overview
The satellite was launched in November 2007 as Sirius 4 by SES Sirius. At that time, SES owned a 75% shareholding in SES Sirius, which was increased to 90% in 2008 and to 100% in March 2010. In June 2010, the affiliate company was renamed SES Astra (then a subsidiary company of SES) and the Sirius 4 satellite was renamed Astra 4A.
Astra 4A provides three Ku band broadcast beams - the Nordic beam to Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, the European beam to Eastern European and Baltic countries including Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Russia and Ukraine, and the African beam to sub-Saharan Africa.
Reception is possible on dishes as small as 60 cm from all three beams, with reception from the European beam across Europe and from the African beam across sub-Saharan across Africa with dishes of 90 cm-120 cm.
The satellite also carries a dedicated payload of two transponders for Ka band services, for applications such as interactive and contribution services. Both uplink and downlink within the African footprint are available, and also inter-connectivity between Africa and Europe so broadcasting out of Europe is available without the need for expensive fibre ground links.
Five of these African beam transponders are contracted with ETV and Globecast having signed one transponder each and three transponders signed by On Digital Media for the South African TopTV network.
Co-located with Astra 4A at 5°E is the SES-5 satellite. Launched in July 2012, this satellite provides a similar European and African coverage and was originally named Sirius 5, but renamed to Astra 4B in 2010 and then to SES-5 in 2011.
Previous use of name
The Astra 4A designation was originally given in June 2005 to 33 transponders of the NSS-10 craft (itself formerly called AMC-12) owned by another then subsidiary of SES, SES New Skies, and positioned at 37.5° west for broadcast, data, and telecommunications into Africa.
For the current spacecraft, the Astra 4A designation originally applied only to the FSS Africa beam that provides six 36 MHz transponders for sub-Saharan Africa. The remainder of the spacecraft was called Sirius 4 at that time (from November 2007 to June 2010).
See also
SES-5 co-located satellite
Sirius 3 previously co-located satellite
Astra 5°E orbital position
SES satellite owner
TopTV broadcaster
References
External links
SES fleet information and map
Official SES trade/industry site
Astra 4A Ku and Ka footprints at SES.com
Astra 4A Nordic beam footprint on SatBeams
Astra 4A European beam footprint on SatBeams
Astra 4A Africa beam footprint on SatBeams
Communications satellites in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page%20Plus%20Cellular | Page Plus Cellular is a prepaid mobile virtual network operator in the United States operated by TracFone Wireless, Inc. using Verizon’s wireless network, subsidiary of Verizon Communications.
History
Page Plus Cellular was established in 1993 by Abdul Yassine, as Page Plus Communications, selling pager services in the Toledo, Ohio, area. In August 1998 the company was renamed Page Plus Cellular and launched services in Ohio and Michigan, followed by a nationwide launch in 2000.
Page Plus was originally headquartered in Holland, Ohio, and owned by Abdul Yassine. and as of January 2014, the Better Business Bureau had given it a rating of A+ with 151 complaints closed in the previous 3 years.
In May 2013, Mexican telecommunications company América Móvil purchased Page Plus Cellular for an undisclosed amount. As of January 6, 2014, regulatory approval was received and Page Plus Cellular has joined other Américan Móvil subsidiaries like TracFone. At the time of sale, Page Plus Cellular had 1.4 million subscribers. Page Plus Cellular, under the new ownership, is also a Better Business Bureau Accredited business with an A+ rating, since July 7, 2014, with 87 complaints filed with the [Better Business Bureau] in the past 3 years, with 50 of those being the past year, as of February 10, 2015.
Services
Page Plus Cellular offers both pay-as-you-go and no-contract monthly plans. Both monthly and pay-as-you-go customers add voice minutes, data and text messages to their account by purchasing refill cards.
Authorized dealers
Page Plus Cellular sources its services to dealers who work as independent contractors under its own company name. Such sellers are known as authorized dealers with physical and/or online stores. Dealers can be located on their website.
References
External links
Companies established in 1993
Mobile virtual network operators
América Móvil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%205%20%28Thailand%29 | Channel 5 (Full Name : Royal Thai Army Radio and Television Station; also known as Thai TV5 or simply TV5) is a Thai free-to-air public television network owned by the Royal Thai Army, launched on 25 January 1958.
History
Launched on 25 January 1958, as HSATV Channel 7 this television station transitioned from broadcasting in black-and-white to a colour television as Channel 5 in 1974. Channel 5 is the second oldest television station in Thailand, owned and operated by the Royal Thai Army, and as such features, among others, programming devoted to the Royal Thai Armed Forces.
Channel 5 completely ceased its analog broadcast on 21 June 2018 at 9:30am as part of its digital switchover.
Presenters
Current
Chonrasamee Ngathaweesuk
Panupong Kanathikon
Thananya Pipitwanichkan
Salinna Phuiam
Yongyuth Mailarp
Chib Jitniyom
Chotiros Somboon
Napaporn Changkhon
Assadaporn Khieworn
Apinya Khaosabai
Pajaree Suansinlaphong
Choengchai Hwangoun
Natsarut Askpornthongsut
Priya Netwichian
Former
Sunida Swatdiponphallop (now at TNN16)
Suhatcha Swatdiponphallop (now at TNN16)
Polawat Pupipat (now at TNN16)
Amphika Chuanpreecha (now at MONO29)
See also
Television in Thailand
References
External links
Television stations in Thailand
Television channels and stations established in 1958
Mass media in Bangkok
Military broadcasting
1958 establishments in Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sana%20ay%20Ikaw%20na%20Nga%20%282001%20TV%20series%29 | (International title: It Might Be You / ) is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Tanya Garcia and Dingdong Dantes. It premiered on December 3, 2001 replacing Sa Dako Pa Roon. The series concluded on April 25, 2003 with a total of 361 episodes.
A remake aired in 2012.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Tanya Garcia as Cecilia Fulgencio-Altamonte / Margarita Zalameda
Dingdong Dantes as Carlos Miguel Altamonte
Supporting cast
Maricar de Mesa as Olga Villavicer / Vanessa Del Rio / Samantha Aguirre
Eric Quizon as Gilbert Zalameda
Nancy Castiglione as Patrice Saavedra
Angelu de Leon as Agnes Consuelo Villavicer
Bobby Andrews as Vladimir Gaston
Antoinette Taus as Rosemarie Madrigal
Joey De Leon as Ricardo Peron
Tirso Cruz III as Juancho Fulgencio
Jaclyn Jose as Mariana Madrigal-Fulgencio / Mariana Madrigal-Peron
Elizabeth Oropesa as Victoria Altamonte
Chinggoy Alonzo as Ramon Altamonte
Wendell Ramos as Jose Enrique Altamonte
Roxanne Barcelo as Eloisa Fulgencio
Kevin Vernal as Apollo
Meryll Soriano as Esme
Recurring cast
King Alcala as Jimboy Villavicer
Monina Bagatsing as Alyssa
Aleck Bovick as Yvonne
Robin Da Rosa as JC Fulgencio
Dexter Doria as Rebecca
Ryan Eigenmann as Leroy Zalameda
Cheska Garcia as Charity Gaston
Vanna Garcia as Frances Peron
Mel Kimura as Anna
Maureen Larrazabal as Pandora
Lala Montelibano as Ambrosia
Tita Muñoz as Doña
Miles Poblete as Ponyang
Tiya Pusit as Ising
Biboy Ramirez as Guiller
Dennis Roldan as Amadeus
Red Sternberg as Raul Gaston
Marita Zobel as Mona
Guest cast
Marianne dela Riva
Roy Alvarez
Bernadette Allyson
Kier Legaspi
L.A. Mumar
Julia Montes as Danica
Jaime Fabregas
Isko Moreno
Ilonah Jean
Jet Alcantara
Via Veloso
Lara Fabregas
Wendy Fernado
Tessie Villarama
Pia Pilapil
Gabby Eigenmann
Marcus Madrigal
Dino Guevara
Kristopher Peralta
Raquel Montesa
Tricia Roman
Leandro Valdemor
Odette Khan
Yraz Melchor
Eagle Riggs
Rachel Tan-Carrasco
References
External links
2001 Philippine television series debuts
2003 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Computer%20Entertainment%20Japan | Sony Computer Entertainment Japan may refer to:
Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), from 1993 to 2016, before it was re-structured as Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE).
SIE's first-person development studios based in Japan, under SIE Worldwide Studios.
Japan Studio, a first-party development studio. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springbank%20Community%20High%20School | Springbank Community High School is a public senior high school in Springbank, Alberta, Canada. Located on the west side of the city of Calgary, the school provides programming to students in grades nine to twelve from the communities of Bragg Creek, Springbank, Redwood Meadows and parts of Calgary’s western edge.
The school falls under the jurisdiction of Rocky View Schools.
The high school shares a location with the Springbank Park For All Seasons which provides sports facilities including skating and curling.
History
The original 2,495 m² high school was a one-storey building built in 1975. In 1980, two small additions comprising 521.6 m² were added to provide CTS (Career and Technology Studies) and Home Economics space.
In 1994, major new additions and modernization took place to provide permanent classroom space with reuse of some existing portables on site. The new addition consisted of 3317 m² of library, science, classroom and physical education space. In 1990, four portables were relocated to the site and a new connecting corridor was added in the 1994 renovation (total portable and link area approximately 500 m²). In 1999, four more portables were added with an additional area of 367 m². In 2001, two additional portables were relocated to the site for an additional 188.5 m². The total area of the current school building is 7,882.1 m² and replacement cost in 2006 was estimated to be 13.8 million dollars.
Athletics
The school competes and participates in the South Central Zone of the Alberta Schools Athletic Association. It has membership in the Rocky View Sports Association., and follows its guidelines and policies. Student athletes participate as Springbank Phoenix.
Community
The school is located south of the Transcanada Highway, near Calaway Park. Its feeder school, Springbank Middle School is also located just north of the school. Its other feeder school is Banded Peak School, located in Bragg Creek.
SCHS (abbrev) is considered one of the top public schools in the province of Alberta.
Notable alumni
Joe Colborne – Calgary Flames. Drafted 16th overall to Boston Bruins in 2008.
Kiesza – singer-songwriter
Cody Ko – YouTube and Vine personality, with 5 million subscribers on YouTube. He is also one-half of the Tiny Meat Gang duo.
Josh Morrissey – NHL defenseman, drafted 13th overall to the Winnipeg Jets in 2013.
Michael Sametz, paralympic bronze medalist
Principals
(1988–1992) ----- Jake Desormeaux
(1992–2000) ----- David Noseworthy
(2000–2004) ----- Alf Gould
(2004–2008) ----- Mark Davidson
(2008–2013) ----- Leslie Collings
(2013–2014) ----- Karen Dittrick
(2014–2016) --- Pam Davidson
(2016–2020)--- Jeff Chalmers
(2020–present)--- Darrell Lonsberry
Events
Phoenix Fest ("Western Week" prior to 1997), a week-long student festival hosted by the Student Council. Includes a pancake breakfast, mini chuckwagon races and other school spirit activities.
Grad Fashion Show (held in April/May of each year), and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepping%20%28debugging%29 | Program animation or stepping refers to the debugging method of executing code one instruction or line at a time. The programmer may examine the state of the program, machine, and related data before and after execution of a particular line of code. This allows the programmer to evaluate the effects of each statement or instruction in isolation, and thereby gain insight into the behavior (or misbehavior) of the executing program. Nearly all modern IDEs and debuggers support this mode of execution.
History
Instruction stepping or single cycle originally referred to the technique of stopping the processor clock and manually advancing it one cycle at a time. For this to be possible, three things are required:
A control that allows the clock to be stopped (e.g. a "Stop" button).
A second control that allows the stopped clock to be manually advanced by one cycle (e.g. An "instruction step" switch and a "Start" button).
Some means of recording the state of the processor after each cycle (e.g. register and memory displays).
On the IBM System 360 processor range announced in 1964, these facilities were provided by front panel switches, buttons and banks of neon lights. Other systems, such as the PDP-11, provided similar facilities.
On newer processors, which may not support physically stopping the clock and have too much internal state to reasonably display on a panel, similar functionality may be provided via a trap flag, which when enabled instructs the processor to stop after each instruction in a similar manner to a breakpoint.
As multiprocessing became more commonplace, such techniques would have limited practicality, since many independent processes would be stopped simultaneously. This led to the development of proprietary software from several independent vendors that provided similar features but deliberately restricted breakpoints and instruction stepping to particular application programs in particular address spaces and threads. The program state (as applicable to the chosen application/thread) was saved for examination at each step and restored before resumption, giving the impression of a single user environment. This is normally sufficient for diagnosing problems at the application layer.
Instead of using a physical stop button to suspend execution - to then begin stepping through the application program, a breakpoint or "Pause" request must usually be set beforehand, usually at a particular statement/instruction in the program (chosen beforehand or alternatively, by default, at the first instruction).
To provide for full screen "animation" of a program, a suitable I/O device such as a video monitor is normally required that can display a reasonable section of the code (e.g. in dis-assembled machine code or source code format) and provide a pointer (e.g. <==) to the current instruction or line of source code. For this reason, the widespread use of these full screen animators in the mainframe world had to await the arrival of tra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%203%20%28Thailand%29 | Channel 3 () is a Thai free-to-air television network that was launched on 26 March 1970 as Thailand's first commercial television station. Channel 3 is operated by BEC Multimedia Company Limited ("BECM"), a subsidiary of publicly traded company BEC World Public Company Limited. The network is headquartered in the Maleenont Tower of Bangkok.
History
Channel 3 was launched on 26 March 1970 at 10:00 Bangkok Time by Prime Minister Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn. This broadcast area was only limited to the Bangkok Metropolitan Area during its early years. On 16 July 1987, established joint broadcasting equipment with Channel 9.
During its early years, Channel 3's airtime lasted 6-hours, broadcasting from 16:00 to 22:00, and later expanded to the daytime hours. For a short period of time, it started broadcasting 24 hours in 1997, but was scuttled due to the 1997 Asian financial crisis. The network resumed its 24-hour airtime on 1 January 2005.
On 1 January 2001, Channel 3 was the first station in Thailand to broadcast a 3D film. The movie, Jaws 3-D, required a pair of 3D glasses bought from certain stores partnered with the network for the event or attained from elsewhere.
On 16 September 2009, due to a wastewater treatment failure, the generator room was flooded, leading to all broadcasts to be suspended at approximately 4:04pm due to the lack of power. At 5:32pm, a test card was shown with the National Anthem, and at 5:37pm, programs returned.
In September 2018, Channel 3 (owner by BEC and MCOT) was the last broadcaster to broadcast analog television services in Thailand. The network made the move to digital television in late 2019 on VHF while analogue television ceased transmission on 26 March 2020 at 12:00am (UTC+7), exactly 50 years after the channel's launch.
In 2021, all entertainment programs produced by Tero Entertainment were removed and transferred to Channel 7.
Presenters
Sorayuth Suthasanachinda
Pitchayatan Chanput
Ekkarat Kengthookthan
Punyawee Sukkulworaset
Apisara Kerdchuchuen
Napapha Tantrakul
Supaporn Wongthuithong
Kanchai Kamnedploy
Pasit Apinyawat
Kitti Singhapat
Arisara Kamthorncharoen
Parinda Khumthampinit
Bancha Chumchaiwet
Satit Kreekul
Donyakrit Dangwanphisi
Atirut Kittipattana
Mechaka Supichayangkul
Piyanee Thiamamporn
Nithinat Ratniyom
Praweenamai Baikloi
Pawarisa Phenchat
Chonthicha Nuamsukhon
Korakamol Chitpong
Jacqueline Minch
Marwin Thawiphon
Pitiphat Kutrakul
Thanapoom Thaonork
Piphat Witthayapanyanon
Chatpawee Trichatchawalwong
Kunnadda Patchimsawat Anderson
Phitsanu Nilklad
Kanit Sarasin
Thanasorn Amatayakul
Kamonwan Soontorntham
Chonnikarn Netjui
Punpreedee Khumprom Rodsawas
Namnueng Suthidechanai
Jutathip Phakdikul
Narong Kaewpetch
Weerasak Nilklad
Worachart Thamwijin
Wiboon Leerathanakajorn
References
External links
Television stations in Thailand
Television channels and stations established in 1970
1970 establishments in Thailand
Mass media in Bangkok
BEC Wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster%20Chess | Grandmaster Chess is a 1992 chess video game for DOS and Macintosh developed by IntraCorp and its subsidiary Capstone that was focused on neural network technology and an artificial intelligence (AI) able to learn from mistakes.
Capable of using VGA and SVGA modes, features multiple skill levels, different sets of pieces, boards and backgrounds, 2D/3D view, pull-down menus, move list with VCR style control, able to analysis moves and games and rate the user strength. Originally it was distributed in floppy disks, but in 1993 in appeared in CD-ROM. This release only relevant addition was the Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Chess Wars package, an animated chess set like Battle Chess video game representing the Terminator 2: Judgment Day movie. In 1995, a Windows port was released titled Grandmaster Championship Chess.
Reception
Computer Gaming World stated that Grandmaster Chess "falls short of the current competition in terms of overall options". The magazine criticized the game's weak strategic analysis reporting, the absence of an advertised teaching mode, and a weak opening book. In a 1995 comparison between 11 chess programs, Computer Gaming World rated Grandmaster Championship Chess the third highest, sharing the same rating with Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess and Kasparov's Gambit. Game Players said that "Experienced players looking for a solid program with excellent graphics and a very smooth interface will love Grandmaster Chess."
See also
Computer chess
Vintage software
Learning section of Artificial Intelligence article
Simulators for teaching neural network theory section of Neural network software article
References
External links
1992 video games
Applications of artificial intelligence
Capstone Software games
Chess software
Classic Mac OS games
DOS games
IntraCorp games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protriacanthus | Protriacanthus is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish. It contains a single species, P. gortanii.
Sources
The Paleobiology Database
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Tetraodontiformes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Davies%20%28disambiguation%29 | Donald Davies (1924–2000) was a Welsh computer scientist.
Donald Davies may also refer to:
Donald Davies (bishop) (1920–2011), American Episcopal bishop
Donnie Davies, 2007 fictional American anti-homosexual campaigner
See also
Donald Davis (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trails%20in%20Lincoln%2C%20Nebraska | An extensive network of trails in Lincoln, Nebraska are available for recreation there.
The Antelope Valley Project provides a hub for the system. Project trails parallel the new Antelope Valley Parkway and provide connections to other trails. Capitol Parkway and its trail network connect to the Antelope Valley Project at J Street. Other trails utilize abandoned railroad rights of way. Some trails have been specially constructed. Still others, run through Wilderness Park—miles of more primitive recreational trails exist there. South of Van Dorn Street on Park Boulevard, the Homestead Trail heads south to Marysville, KS.
Major trails
Antelope Valley Parkway
This extensive transportation, flood control and park complex, is the new hub of Lincoln's trails. A trail lines the Antelope Creek flood control channel from Military Road on the north to an extension connection of the Billy Wolff Trail on the South. The Parkway trails and connections to other trails, are made possible by a series of underpasses and bridges. The MoPac Trail intersects the Antelope Valley Project trail between W and Y Streets. The Jamaica North Trail is another of several convenient trails connected through the project.
Holmes Lake Trail
Virtually surrounding Holmes Lake, the trail connects with the Billy Wolff Trail south. The resulting trail complex, runs Northeast to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, City Campus.
Billy Wolff Trail
The trail runs from Holmes Lake, along Antelope Creek and Capitol Parkway, to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. In 2010, the intersection of South Street and Capitol Parkway will be revised to provide a pathway uninterrupted by streets continuing on and connecting to the Antelope Valley Parkway hub for the city network of trails.
Rock Island Trail
Connected to the Bill Wolff Trail, the Rock Island Trail extends from Antelope Park, South to Wilderness Park. Through a series of underpasses and bridges, e.g. Highway 2 and South 14th bridges, the trail runs virtually uninterrupted by streets and highways. There is a crossing at Calvert Street (little auto traffic), another on Essex Road (even less auto traffic), and finally a crossing at Old Cheney Road (pretty busy), near 14th Street.
Jamaica North Trail
The Jamaica North Trail uses of abandoned Union Pacific Rail track. This trail runs through southwest Lincoln neighborhoods, connects to the Homestead Trail, to the Haymarket and provides access to the UNL City Campus. Eventually the Homestead trail will leave the Haymarket and connect to Marysville, KS, to the South.
Other trails
Additional trails include: Murdock Trail, John Dietrich Trail, MoPac Trail, Boosalis Trail, Superior St. Trail, Roper West Park Trail, Wilderness Park Trails, Bison Trail, Levee Trail, Antelope Creek Trail and Homestead Trail.
See also
Antelope Valley Conservancy
External links
Lincoln trail maps
Geography of Lincoln, Nebraska
Protected areas of Lancaster County, Nebraska
Tourist attraction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicator%20of%20cytokinesis%20protein%2011 | Dedicator of cytokinesis protein 11 (Dock11), also known as Zizimin2, is a large (~240 kDa) protein encoded in the human by the DOCK11 gene, involved in intracellular signalling networks. It is a member of the DOCK-D subfamily of the DOCK family of guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) which function as activators of small G-proteins. Dock11 activates the small G protein Cdc42.
Discovery
Dock11 was identified as a protein which is highly expressed in germinal center B lymphocytes. Subsequent RT-PCR analysis revealed expression of this protein in the spleen, thymus, bone marrow and in peripheral blood lymphocytes. Dock11 is expressed at lower levels in NIH-3T3 fibroblasts, C2C12 myoblasts and Neuro-2A neuroblastoma cells. Dock11 mRNA has also been detected in the pars intermedia.
Structure and function
Dock11 exhibits the same domain arrangement as other members of the DOCK-D/Zizimin subfamily and shares the highest level of sequence identity with Dock9. It contains a DHR2 domain which mediates GEF activity and a DHR1 domain which may interact with membrane phospholipids. It also contains an N-terminal PH domain which may be involved in its recruitment to the plasma membrane. Dock11 binds and activates nucleotide-free Cdc42 via its DHR2 domain and has also been reported to mediate positive feedback on active, GTP-bound Cdc42, although this interaction required a small N-terminal region of Dock11 in addition to the DHR2 domain. Cdc42 in turn regulates signaling pathways that control diverse cellular functions including morphology, migration, endocytosis and cell cycle progression. Gene expression studies have suggested that Dock11 may have a role in the development of pituitary and testicular tumours.
Deficiency in humans
Hemizygous DOCK11 mutations in humans are associated with early-onset and severe autoimmunity. In eight male patients, from seven unrelated pedigress, with hemizygous DOCK11 missense variants, a reduction in DOCK11 expression was observed. The patients presented with early-onset autoimmunity, including cytopenia, systemic lupus erythematosus, skin, and digestive manifestations. Platelets and lymphocytes exhibited abnormal ultrastructural morphology and spreading as well as impaired CDC42 activity. The patients' cells exhibited aberrant protrusions and abnormal migration speed in confined channels concomitant with altered actin polymerization during migration. A DOCK11 knock-down in monocytes-derived dendritic cells (MDDC) and in T cells from healthy controls, recapitulated these abnormal cellular phenotypes. Abnormal regulatory T cells (Tregs) phenotype with profoundly reduced FOXP3 and IKZF2 expression was also observed, consistent with the autoimmune features developped by the DOCK11-deficient patients. Moreover, the authors observed a reduced T cell proliferation and an impaired STAT5B phosphorylation upon IL2 stimulation of the patients' lymphocytes. DOCK11 deficiency is therefore a new X-linked immune-related actin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabatha%20Takes%20Over | Tabatha Takes Over (titled Tabatha's Salon Takeover for the first three seasons) is an American reality television series on the Bravo network, in which former Shear Genius contestant and hair salon owner, Tabatha Coffey helps failing salons turn around in one week. The series premiered on August 21, 2008 and is produced by Reveille Productions, a division of Shine Group.
In March 2011, Bravo announced that the fourth season of the series would be renamed Tabatha Takes Over and the premise would be expanded beyond just hair salons to include Coffey "taking over" various other small businesses and family enterprises. Season 4 premiered on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, with the final episode of the season airing on April 3, 2012. Tabatha Takes Over was renewed for Season 5 in December 2012. Season 5 premiered on April 4, 2013.
Format
Tabatha Takes Over begins with Tabatha meeting the owner(s) of the business that she will take over; in Seasons 1 through 3, these were exclusively hair salons, but in Season 4, other struggling small business are featured (including a gay bar, a frozen yogurt parlor, and a dog grooming/doggie day care facility). During a discussion regarding the state of the business, Tabatha and the owner(s) watch surveillance tapes that invariably reveal poor management, unprofessional staff behavior, and uncomfortable/dissatisfied clientele; Tabatha demands the keys to the business and the takeover begins. Tabatha enters the business with the owner(s), informing the staff that she will take over and calls them out on what she has seen; she informs them that some staff could be in danger of losing their jobs. She then requests a tour ("The Inspection"), usually finding it dirty, unsanitary, and unorganized. She calls a staff meeting for the following day, during which she gets their point of view. After the staff meeting she brings in clients so she can assess the staff's work ("The Assessment"). By the end of the second day, she sits down with the owner and talks about what she thinks should be changed. The third day usually consists of team building or marketing the business and the beginning of the renovation. The renovation takes about 3 days. By the last day, "The Reopening" happens, where the salon starts anew and Tabatha assesses their improvements in a week. By the end of the day, she gives her "Final Recommendations" to the owner(s), announces to the staff the decisions of the owner(s) and gives the key back to the owner. After a few weeks, Tabatha comes back to see how/if the business has changed.
Episodes
See also
The Hotel Inspector
Mary Queen of Shops
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
Bar Rescue
References
External links
Tabatha Takes Over at BravoTV.com
Tabatha's Salon Takeover at BravoTV.com
2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series
2008 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
Fashion-themed reality television series
English-language televis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsemi | Microsemi Corporation was an Aliso Viejo, California-based provider of semiconductor and system solutions for aerospace & defense, communications, data center and industrial markets.
In February 2018, it was announced that Chandler, Arizona-based Microchip Technology was acquiring the company for over US$10 billion, pending regulatory approval. In May 2018, it was announced that Microchip had completed its acquisition of Microsemi. In August 2018, Microchip discovered that Microsemi shipped large orders to distributors on discount before the closing of the acquisition and had a culture of excessive extravagance, casting some doubt on the future prospect of the acquisition.
History
1959 to 1970: Early years
Microsemi was founded in February 1959 in Culver City, California as MicroSemiconductor. It incorporated in Delaware on September 27, 1960. A trade catalog and price lists from this early period can be found at the Smithsonian Institution.
In March 1963, A. Feldon represented Microsemiconductor Corp in the Advisory Panel of Suppliers at the IEEE session on "Components for Miniaturized Electronic Assemblies".
According to the Missiles and Rockets magazine, in 1964 "Molecular packaging of integrated circuits has been suggested by Microsemiconductor Corp. This would involve the same process the company uses for diodes it supplies to the Improved Minuteman program."
Microsemiconductor is cited in 1965 as supplier of miniature silicon diodes that are "ideal to use as beam profile detectors or to measure depth-dose distribution of small collimated beams." by University of California's Ernest O. Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
In 1966, two of the company's engineers, E.S. Resnond and M.W. Stillwell, published a Production Engineering Measures Study, on High Voltage Oscillators.
As of 1969, Microsemiconductor's address was still 11250 Plaza Court, Culver City, CA 90230. On August 13, 1969, Standard Resources Corporation, from Copiague, New York, a close-end management investment company, filed at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission a request to merge with Microsemiconductor. This request
disclosed that the major shareholders of Microsemiconductor as of May 31, 1969, were Arthur Feldon (31%), Steve Manning (31%) and Thomas C. Hall (10%). At the end of the proposed merger the company would retain the name Microsemiconductor. At the time, J.M. Kaplan's JemKap Inc owned 37.7% of the outstanding common shares of Standard, which would make him the owner of 18.9% of the surviving company. Standard Resources and Microsemiconductor merged in November 1969.
1971 to 2000: The Philip Frey Jr years
According to the Orange County Business Journal, "In 1971, the New York operation was spun off and Philip Frey Jr. was brought on from Teledyne Inc.'s semiconductor division in Hawthorne to head Microsemiconductor. At the time, the company had annual sales of about $500,000, almost entirely to defense industry customers. In 1972, the company moved from Cu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders%20of%20statistics | Statistics is the theory and application of mathematics to the scientific method including hypothesis generation, experimental design, sampling, data collection, data summarization, estimation, prediction and inference from those results to the population from which the experimental sample was drawn. This article lists statisticians who have been instrumental in the development of theoretical and applied statistics.
Founders of departments of statistics
The role of a department of statistics is discussed in a 1949 article by Harold Hotelling, which helped to spur the creation of many departments of statistics.
See also
List of statisticians
History of statistics
Timeline of probability and statistics
List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field
References
External links
StatProb – peer-reviewed encyclopedia sponsored by statistics and probability societies
History of probability and statistics
Statistics
Statistics-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly%20Burnett | Molly Kathleen Burnett (born April 23, 1988) is an American actress, singer and producer. She is best known for portraying the role of Kelly Ann on USA Network's Queen of the South and the role of Melanie Jonas on the daytime soap opera, Days of Our Lives.
Burnett was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Younger Actress in A Drama Series category in 2010 and 2012, and one for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Digital Daytime Drama Series in 2018.
Early life
Burnett is the first born child of Katie and David Burnett, and was raised in the Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado along with her younger brother Will. While attending Littleton High School, she took on numerous roles at both school and theater companies in the greater Denver area. Her credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Noises Off, and the title role in Annie. After graduating with honors from Littleton High School, Burnett enrolled at Wagner College, a private liberal arts school on Staten Island.[1]
Career
In 2008, Burnett landed the role of heroine Melanie Jonas on the daytime serial Days of Our Lives. In 2012, she left daytime television to pursue other roles, landing guest spots on such prime time series as CSI: NY and Major Crimes. She also landed her first movie role, portraying Ashley Bloom in the MTV Original Film Ladies Man: A Made Movie, as well as the role of Justine Gable in the Hallmark Hall of Fame film This Magic Moment. In late 2015, Burnett appeared in the multi-episode role of Nina Moore on CSI: Cyber. Burnett's indie film credits include the roles of Lex in the sci-fi thriller Ctrl+Alt+Del, Lisa in The Wedding Party, and of Southern Belle Kate Stenson in Shattered.
Burnett returned to Days of Our Lives for a six-month stint in late 2014. In mid-2016, she temporarily played the role of Maxie Jones on the daytime serial General Hospital. In mid-2018, Burnett once again stepped in for an ailing Kirsten Storms on General Hospital as Maxie Jones. From 2017 to 2021, Burnett played Kelly Ann on USA Network's Queen of the South. In 2022, she began recurring as Detective Grace Muncy, on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, for the show's 24th season, before being promoted to series regular beginning with the season's seventh episode. On May 19, 2023, it was announced that Burnett would be leaving the series after only one season.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1988 births
Actresses from Colorado
American soap opera actresses
American television actresses
21st-century American actresses
Living people
People from Littleton, Colorado
Wagner College alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvision | Nvision, stylized as NVISION, is a stand-alone event organized by Nvidia to promote visual computing among enthusiasts and journalists.
The event is mostly centered on NVIDIA's own products but offers activities usually found at other types of events: a demoscene event, scientific talks, and programming classes. It's been replaced by the GPU Technology Conference in following years.
The same name was also used for Nvidia's quarterly magazine, published by Future plc. Publication was ceased after the 'Winter 2011' (#7) issue.
Nvision 08
The first Nvision event, Nvision 08, was held at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts from August 25 to August 28, 2008 in San Jose, California.
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, of MythBusters fame, demonstrated how GPUs solve specific tasks faster in parallel than they can be executed on general purpose CPUs by painting a Mona Lisa with a massively parallel paint gun.
Guinness World Records was present to officiate the record for the longest continuous LAN party at 36 hours.
Kevin Gee from Microsoft revealed more details publicly about what would be in the next DirectX 11.
Revision3's Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht were present to host a live Diggnation show.
France-based Games Services was present to host the 2008 Electronic Sports World Cup.
References
External links
Video game trade shows
Defunct gaming conventions
Gaming conventions
LAN parties
Demo parties |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Desk | Data Desk is a software program for visual data analysis, visual data exploration, and statistics. It carries out Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and standard statistical analyses by means of dynamically linked graphic data displays that update any change simultaneously.
History
Data Desk was developed in 1985 by Paul F. Velleman, a statistics professor at Cornell University who had studied exploratory data analysis with John Tukey. Data Desk was released in 1986 for the Macintosh. It provided most standard statistical methods accessed through its own desktop interface.
In 1997, Data Desk was released for Windows, and included a General Linear Model (GLM), multivariate statistics, and nonlinear curve fitting. DD/XL is an add-in for Microsoft Excel that adds Data Desk Functionality directly to the Spreadsheet
Data Desk's developer, Data Description, pioneered linked graphic displays including a 3-D rotating plot and graphical slider control of parameters. It has also developed proprietary technology for computer-based multimedia instruction and currently provides contract data analysis services.
Reviews
Macworld reviewed DD/XL on December 1, 2000 with a 4.5 out of 5.
InfoWorld reviewed Data Desk 6.0 and said "DataDesk Plus is by far the best Windows package for in-depth data exploration". Also, DataDesk Plus is easily the best Windows statistics package for teaching statistics"
Macworld reviewed Data Desk in October 1997, and gave it 9.1 out of 10, and a 5 star rating.
See also
Data visualization
References
Further reading
External links
Data Description's Website
Data Desk's History page
Plotting software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20Trouble%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Double Trouble is an Australian children's comedy-drama television series aired on the Nine Network and repeated on ABC3. It was produced by the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association. Double Trouble is the remake of the 1984 American series of the same name and is based on the popular comic strip Cheeverwood written and drawn by Michael Fry, syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group. The program is currently being syndicated in the United States on Vibrant TV Network.
Premise
A set of identical twin Aboriginal girls separated at birth accidentally meet up 15 years later in Alice Springs. The inspiration for it was the comic strip Cheeverwood by Michael Fry. Yuma has been brought up in the bright lights of Sydney with her European-Australian father, and Kyanna has grown up in a remote traditional Aboriginal community in Central Australia with her mother. They concoct a scheme to switch places in order to meet their other family, and when Yuma's father decides to leave early, Kyanna gets taken back to Sydney as Yuma, and Yuma stays in Alice Springs as Kyanna. However, due to their desire to protect their mother from an Aboriginal stigma associated with women who give birth to twins, the girls decide not to reveal to their respective families and communities who they really are, and devise a way to swap back to their original families.
Cast and characters
Cassandra Glenn as Yuma
Christine Glenn as Kyanna
Lisa Flanagan as Freda
Myles Pollard as Henry
Aaron Pedersen as Kelton
Basia A'Hern as Sasha
Sam Parsonson as Max
James Fraser as Heath
Lillian Crombie as Milly
Jenny Apostolou as Roz
Tom E Lewis as Jimmy
Tyrone Wallace as Aaron
Letitia Bartlett as Iona
Marcella Remedio as Lavinia
Episodes
References
External links
Double Trouble at IMDb
Double Trouble at Australian Screen Online
Nine Network original programming
Australian children's television series
Television shows set in the Northern Territory
Television shows set in Sydney
2008 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings
Australian comedy-drama television series
Indigenous Australian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Iceworm | Project Iceworm was a top secret United States Army program of the Cold War, which aimed to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The end goal was to install a vast network of nuclear missile launch sites that could survive a first strike. This was according to documents declassified in 1996. The missiles, which could strike targets within the Soviet Union, were never fielded and necessary consent from the Danish Government to do so was never broached.
To study the feasibility of working under the ice, a highly publicized "cover" project, known as Camp Century, was launched in 1960. Unstable ice conditions within the ice sheet caused the project to be canceled in 1966.
Political background
Details of the missile base project were secret for decades, but first came to light in January 1995 during an enquiry by the Danish Foreign Policy Institute (DUPI) into the history of the use and storage of nuclear weapons in Greenland. The enquiry was ordered by the Parliament of Denmark following the release of previously classified information about the 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash that contradicted previous assertions by the Government of Denmark.
Description
To test the feasibility of construction techniques a project site called "Camp Century" was started by the United States military, located at an elevation of in Northwestern Greenland, from the American Thule Air Base. The radar and air base at Thule had been active since 1951.
Camp Century was described at the time as a demonstration of affordable ice-cap military outposts. The secret Project Iceworm was to be a system of tunnels in length, used to deploy up to 600 nuclear missiles, that would be able to reach the Soviet Union in case of nuclear war. The missile locations would be under the cover of Greenland's ice sheet and were supposed to be periodically changed. While Project Iceworm was secret, plans for Camp Century were discussed with and approved by Denmark. The facility, including its nuclear power plant, was profiled in The Saturday Evening Post magazine in 1960.
The "official purpose" of Camp Century, as explained by the United States Department of Defense to Danish officials in 1960, was to test various construction techniques under Arctic conditions, explore practical problems with a semi-mobile nuclear reactor, as well as supporting scientific experiments on the icecap. A total of 21 trenches were cut and covered with arched roofs within which prefabricated buildings were erected. With a total length of , these tunnels also contained a hospital, a shop, a theater and a church. The total number of inhabitants was approximately 200. From 1960 until 1963, the electric supply was provided by the world's first mobile/portable nuclear reactor, designated PM-2A and designed by Alco for the U.S. Army. Water was supplied by Rod wells melting glaciers, and tested for germs such as the plague.
Within three years after it was excavate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance%20Kanshisha | or simply known as is a First-Party PlayStation 2 Adventure Science fiction interactive game published by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan with animation created by Production I.G, which was released in Japan on April 25, 2002 and was sold for a price of ¥5,800. The game had not been released in any other territory aside from Japan/Asia.
It takes place in the 2050s where a United Nations-created special forces unit called Shadow Sword is deployed to protect the Earth-Mars travel route from anti-UN terrorists called Neo Kleit, conducting terrorist attacks to remove the UN's control of the space program. A special public security surveillance network is unveiled for the first time called Project Surveillance, which is used to assist Shadow Sword operatives in their work in apprehending and hunting down the terrorists.
Japanese critics praised the game's animation and use of the gameplay mechanics in telling the story, although it is criticized for little to no involvement of the players themselves.
Gameplay
Players play the game by assuming the role of Shadow Sword team leader Yusuke Sasaki, who the player use in monitoring cameras of Project Surveillance at a Shadow Sword surveillance truck in the game's six chapters. There are six sub monitor screens with the main screen above them as players would use the latter to observe and analyze to obtain information for the level to progress, especially for Shadow Sword operators to move around and complete their objectives, by using target cursors to mark the main screen for The Surveillance to examine with a map on the right side of the screen for locating subjects of interest and where cameras connected to Project Surveillance are located. Proper use of the cameras and using correct judgement in locating clues and items would determine the fate of the Shadow Sword tactical teams in terms of progressing in Surveillance. At the start of a chapter, there will be one or two sub monitors that will function, allowing players to use them. But as the chapters progress, some of the sub monitors will not function (e.g. due to terrorists discovering and destroying the cameras) while others will be online after the player is informed that a sub monitor is functioning.
During a session on the announcement of Surveillance at the 15th Anniversary Production I.G World Tour in Ginza, Production I.G commentators have noted that the gameplay challenges players to use the main monitor and the other six submonitors in order to accomplish a scenario.
At the end of each chapter, a chapter report would be presented to show players how well or bad they have done for the particular scenario. According to an interview with the Production I.G staff involved in making Surveillance, they had mentioned that the chapter report would give players the opportunity to check their progress and see what things do they either have to do or to avoid doing in the future.
Plot
The game takes place in the year 2053 when space travel be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Security%20Toolkit | Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a Linux-based Live DVD/USB Flash Drive that provides a set of free and open-source computer security and networking tools to perform routine security and networking diagnostic and monitoring tasks. The distribution can be used as a network security analysis, validation and monitoring tool on servers hosting virtual machines. The majority of tools published in the article "Top 125 security tools" by Insecure.org are available in the toolkit. NST has package management capabilities similar to Fedora and maintains its own repository of additional packages.
Features
Many tasks that can be performed within NST are available through a web interface called NST WUI. Among the tools that can be used through this interface are nmap with the vizualization tool ZenMap, ntop, a Network Interface Bandwidth Monitor, a Network Segment ARP Scanner, a session manager for VNC, a minicom-based terminal server, serial port monitoring, and WPA PSK management.
Other features include visualization of ntopng, ntop, wireshark, traceroute, NetFlow and kismet data by geolocating the host addresses, IPv4 Address conversation, traceroute data and wireless access points and displaying them via Google Earth or a Mercator World Map bit image, a browser-based packet capture and protocol analysis system capable of monitoring up to four network interfaces using Wireshark, as well as a Snort-based intrusion detection system with a "collector" backend that stores incidents in a MySQL database. For web developers, there is also a JavaScript console with a built-in object library with functions that aid the development of dynamic web pages.
Host Geolocations
The following example ntop host geolocation images were generated by NST.
Network Monitors
The following image depicts the interactive dynamic SVG/AJAX enabled Network Interface Bandwidth Monitor which is integrated into the NST WUI. Also shown is a Ruler Measurement tool overlay to perform time and bandwidth rate analysis.
See also
BackTrack
Kali Linux
List of digital forensic tools
Computer Security
List of live CDs
References
External links
NST at SourceForge
Network Security Geolocation Matrix
Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media
Linux security software
Network analyzers
Free network management software
Remote desktop
Computer security software
Unix network-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20topology%20%28electrical%29 | The circuit topology of an electronic circuit is the form taken by the network of interconnections of the circuit components. Different specific values or ratings of the components are regarded as being the same topology. Topology is not concerned with the physical layout of components in a circuit, nor with their positions on a circuit diagram; similarly to the mathematical concept of topology, it is only concerned with what connections exist between the components. There may be numerous physical layouts and circuit diagrams that all amount to the same topology.
Strictly speaking, replacing a component with one of an entirely different type is still the same topology. In some contexts, however, these can loosely be described as different topologies. For instance, interchanging inductors and capacitors in a low-pass filter results in a high-pass filter. These might be described as high-pass and low-pass topologies even though the network topology is identical. A more correct term for these classes of object (that is, a network where the type of component is specified but not the absolute value) is prototype network.
Electronic network topology is related to mathematical topology. In particular, for networks which contain only two-terminal devices, circuit topology can be viewed as an application of graph theory. In a network analysis of such a circuit from a topological point of view, the network nodes are the vertices of graph theory, and the network branches are the edges of graph theory.
Standard graph theory can be extended to deal with active components and multi-terminal devices such as integrated circuits. Graphs can also be used in the analysis of infinite networks.
Circuit diagrams
The circuit diagrams in this article follow the usual conventions in electronics; lines represent conductors, filled small circles represent junctions of conductors, and open small circles represent terminals for connection to the outside world. In most cases, impedances are represented by rectangles. A practical circuit diagram would use the specific symbols for resistors, inductors, capacitors etc., but topology is not concerned with the type of component in the network, so the symbol for a general impedance has been used instead.
The Graph theory section of this article gives an alternative method of representing networks.
Topology names
Many topology names relate to their appearance when drawn diagrammatically. Most circuits can be drawn in a variety of ways and consequently have a variety of names. For instance, the three circuits shown in Figure 1.1 all look different but have identical topologies.
This example also demonstrates a common convention of naming topologies after a letter of the alphabet to which they have a resemblance. Greek alphabet letters can also be used in this way, for example Π (pi) topology and Δ (delta) topology.
Series and parallel topologies
For a network with two branches, there are only two possible topolo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20Action%20and%20Research%20Training%20Center | The Direct Action and Research Training Center (DART) is a national network of 23 local faith-based community organizing groups across nine states. DART provides training and consultation for local leaders and professional organizers, giving local communities the skills they need to uncover and take action on pressing local problems. As of 2007, DART is the fourth largest congregation-based community organizing network in the United States.
History
In order to address the unfair treatment of seniors in Miami in 1977, a gathering of religious leaders founded Concerned Seniors of Dade. The organization developed a reputation for being able to quickly and consistently bring together hundreds of people to press city officials around the fair treatment of senior citizens.
Following the eruption of a three-day riot in the city of Miami in response to the police killing of Arthur McDuffie in 1980, leaders from Concerned Seniors of Dade decided to expand their focus and establish People United to Lead the Struggle for Equality (PULSE) organization.
After successfully winning multiple local campaigns for fairness regarding unemployment, minority hiring, and racism in the justice system, the work of PULSE caught the attention of other local communities. In order to equip faith communities in other cities to answer their call to do justice, the DART Center was founded to provide training and expertise in 1982.
Since that time, DART’s work quickly spread to other cities in Florida as well as Ohio and Kentucky in the 1980s. In the 1990s, more organizations in Florida as well as Indiana and Virginia were built and expanded its leadership training curriculum. In the 2000s, DART developed a national strategy for recruiting and training professional organizers along with further expansion. In the last decade, DART expanded into South Carolina, Tennessee, Kansas and Georgia.
Since its founding, DART has trained over 10,000 community leaders and 270 professional community organizers, who together have greatly impacted their communities.
Issues addressed
DART affiliates typically have a broad agenda of issues, including racism, public education improvement, criminal justice reform, healthcare provisions, affordable housing, accessible public transportation, and immigrants' rights.
Training
Since 1982 DART has trained over 10,000 community leaders and 270 professional organizers.
In addition to training local volunteer leaders, DART trains professional organizers through the DART Organizers Institute, an on-the-job training for faith-based community organizers. It begins with a four-day classroom orientation followed by five months of field training and a weekly reading and written curriculum related to the basic principles of community organizing. All parts of the Institute take place in each organizer's respective city, so they begin building relationships in their community from day one.
Organizers are assigned to work with select religious congregations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEAT%20chipset | The NEAT chipset (the acronym standing for "New Enhanced AT") is a
4 chip VLSI implementation (including the 82C206 IPC) of the control logic used in the IBM PC compatible PC/AT computers. It consists of the 82C211 CPU/Bus controller, 82C212 Page/Interleave and EMS Memory controller, 82C215 Data/Address buffer, and 82C206 Integrated Peripherals Controller (IPC). NEAT, official designation CS8221, was developed by Chips and Technologies.
History
The NEAT chipset descended from the first chipset that C&T had developed for IBM XT-compatible systems, which is based around the 82C100 "XT controller" chip. 82C100 incorporates the functionality of what had been, until its invention, discrete TTL chips on the XT's mainboard, namely:
8284 clock generator
8288 bus controller
8254 Programmable Interval Timer
8255 parallel I/O interface
8259 Programmable Interrupt Controller
8237 DMA controller
8255 Programmable Peripheral Interface (PPI)
DRAM/SRAM controller
XT Keyboard controller
IBM PC compatibility is provided by C&T's 82C206 Integrated Peripheral Controller (IPC), introduced by C&T in 1986. This chip, like its predecessor the 82C100, provides equivalent functionality to the TTL chips on the PC/AT's mainboard, namely:
82284 clock generator
82288 bus controller
8254 Programmable Interval Timer
two 8259 Programmable Interrupt Controllers
two 8237 DMA controllers
74LS612 Memory Mapper chip
MC146818 NVRAM/RTC chip
NEAT CS8221's predecessor, called CS8220, requires five chips (buffers and memory controllers) for a virtually complete motherboard, while NEAT requires four, and added support for separate ISA bus clocks. The eventual successor to the NEAT chipset, 82C235 Single Chip AT (SCAT), amalgamates all of the chips of the NEAT chipset into a single chip.
Other manufacturers
Other manufacturers produced equivalent chips. OPTi, for example, produced a two-chip "AT controller" chipset comprising the OPTi 82C206 and 82C495XLC, which is found in many early 80486 and Pentium AT-compatible machines. The OPTi 82C206 is pin and function compatible with C&T's 82C206. The 82C495XLC incorporates the additional memory controller and shadow RAM support.
References
IBM PC compatibles
Chipsets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20%28Pakistani%20TV%20channel%29 | Nickelodeon Pakistan or Nick Pakistan, is a pay Pakistani television channel. It is the Pakistani feed of Nickelodeon, which is operated by domestic media company ARY Group's Digital Network subsidiary under a brand licensing and programming agreement with Paramount Networks EMEAA. The network transmits over the AsiaSat 7 satellite to cable and satellite viewers in Pakistan and features some portions of the schedule dubbed or subtitled in Urdu, along with some content directly imported from its Indian sister network (owned by Viacom 18). It also occasionally licenses Western market children's films.
The channel used to be available as a free to air channel but became encrypted on satellite since 2015. Unlike its Indian counterpart, which it replaced, this feed regularly airs Nickelodeon-related content, as the Indian feed has recently been airing local content more often due to the localization strategy.
History
Prior to the launch of the localized Pakistani feed of Nickelodeon, the Indian feed was provided in Pakistan. However, the Indian feed ceased to be distributed in that country right after ARY Digital Network launched Nickelodeon Pakistan on 23 November 2006, with a brand licensing agreement with Viacom. It mainly broadcast content in English, along with some programming aired in Hindi rather than being dubbed in Urdu. This caused PEMRA to temporarily suspend Nickelodeon's license in 2016, although the channel later resumed broadcasting.
In 2010, Nickelodeon Pakistan took on the network's current worldwide imaging, including its logo. Its website was sunset in early 2021, presumably as it heavily utilized the discontinued Adobe Flash graphics/video format, and it was deemed more cost-effective to utilize the network's Facebook page than build out an entirely new modern website. On 1 April 2022, Nickelodeon Pakistan officially began carrying their schedule in native or dubbed Urdu full-time.
Regulatory actions
In 2005, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority issued an order regarding the ban of several non-private channels because programming which should have been dubbed into Urdu or used Urdu subtitles instead used Hindi terms and references blended into the local scripts or the networks carried all-Hindi versions imported from India outright.
In early 2010, PEMRA again issued a notice against children's networks and suspended the licenses of Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, disallowing them from broadcasting. In the meantime, the Pakistani government pushed unsuccessfully for PTV or another domestic broadcaster to launch a children's network to replace private broadcasters in order to assure PEMRA compliance with language standards.
On 1 August 2011, the Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Firdous Ashiq Awan, announced the restoration of the Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network licenses, allowing their return to the air, though she expressed disappointment that a domestic Pakistani broadcaster would not step up to broa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebara | Lebara is a telecommunications company providing services using the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) business model in the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland and Australia. Lebara provides pay-as-you-go and contract based mobile SIM cards in these countries, and its brand is also used under license in four other countries.
History
Lebara was founded in 2001 by UK-based Ratheesan Yoganathan, Rasiah Ranjith Leon and Baskaran Kandiah. The name Lebara was coined from the first two letters of each of the founders' names. At launch the company's initial product was international telephone calling cards, sold through independent mobile phone shops. In 2004, Lebara launched its first mobile virtual network, a low-cost international service in the Netherlands, selling SIM cards using mobile carrier Telfort, a subsidiary of KPN. After finding success it subsequently launched operations in other European countries including the UK (2007), France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany (2010) and Denmark.
Lebara's Swiss operations (Lebara GmbH, Zurich) was sold on July 1, 2013 to Sunrise Communications.
In September 2017, Lebara Group B.V. was sold to Switzerland-based Palmarium Advisors AG. The Spanish operation of Lebara (Lebara España SL) was sold to MASMOVIL Group in November 2018. In 2019 bondholders of Lebara (under holding company Vieo B.V.) took control of the company.
Operations
The company currently operates in the UK, France, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany - it has at least 3.5 million customers as of 2017. It has also entered into brand licence agreements for use of its trademarks in Australia, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia and Spain.
In 2017 Lebara launched its first postpaid monthly contract SIMs in the Netherlands, as part of a move to appeal to a wider customer base.
Today Lebara focuses on traditional international calling market as well as offering SIM-only plans and post pay services. Lebara plans to offer 5G services as these become available.
References
External links
Official website
Lebara Australia
Lebara Saudi Arabia
Lebara Switzerland
Mobile virtual network operators
Telecommunications companies of the Netherlands
Companies based in North Holland
Telecommunications companies established in 2001
Mobile phone companies of Saudi Arabia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar%20Heel%20Sports%20Network | The Tar Heel Sports Network is a radio network in the United States dedicated to broadcasting live events and programming relating to North Carolina Tar Heels athletics. It is operated by Tar Heel Sports Properties, a property of LEARFIELD, which manages the multimedia rights for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Network's flagship station is WPTF in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The network began in the early 1960s when WSOC in Charlotte made the first attempt to create a radio network for Tar Heel men's basketball outside the Triangle. In 1965, WSOC owner Cox Broadcasting sold the network to Village Broadcasting, owner of WCHL in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. WCHL became the flagship station. Village Broadcasting gradually evolved into VilCom, and sold the network in the late 1990s.
The Network consists mainly of local radio affiliates within North Carolina, southern Virginia, and northern South Carolina. Some stations with local interest carry only football or basketball programming. For example, WAMW-FM of Washington, Indiana, the hometown of Tyler Zeller, aired men's basketball from 2009 to 2012.
The Network's play-by-play announcer for football and men's basketball games was Woody Durham from 1971 until his retirement in 2011. Jones Angell succeeded Durham as "the Voice of the Tar Heels" for both football and basketball beginning with the 2011 football season.
From 1989-2005, former Carolina Panthers play-by-play announcer Mick Mixon served as the color analyst. Current analyst duties are split between Eric Montross (basketball) and Brian Simmons (football) with Lee Pace handling football sideline reporting.
UNC head coaches Mack Brown (football), Scott Forbes (baseball), Courtney Banghart (women's basketball), and Hubert Davis (men's basketball) host programs on the Network during their respective team's season.
The state's most powerful AM station, WBT in Charlotte, has been an affiliate of the network since 1971, except for 1991 to 1995 and 2006 to 2012. WBT is a 50,000-watt clear-channel station that reaches parts of 22 states at night, bringing the Tar Heels' broadcasts to most of the eastern half of North America. According to longtime WBT station manager Cullie Tarleton, putting the Tar Heels on WBT was largely the idea of longtime coach Dean Smith, who wanted to tell recruits from New England that their parents would be able to listen to the games. Beginning in 2006, WFNZ served as the network's Charlotte outlet. However, its weaker nighttime signal forced the Tar Heels to contract first with WRFX (2006-2011) and WNOW-FM (2011-2012) to simulcast football games that kicked off after 5 p.m., as well as all basketball games. The Tar Heels returned to WBT beginning with the 2012 football season.
In 2021, North Carolina's second-most-powerful AM station, WPTF, joined the network. As part of the deal, WPTF became the network's flagship, though WCHL remains as an affiliate station. WPTF had long been the fl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVHC-LD | KVHC-LD (channel 15) is a low-power television station licensed to Kerrville, Texas, United States, serving the San Antonio area as an affiliate of Paranormal TV. It is owned by Bridge Media Networks; KVHC-LD's transmitter is located off Edinburgh Drive in Kerrville. On cable, the station is available on Charter Spectrum channel 10 in Kerrville and Suddenlink channel 7 in Ingram.
In addition to Paranormal TV programming, KVHC-LD airs locally produced shows including Hill Country Lawyer and Heart of the Hill Country. The station also broadcasts several local and regional church services on Wednesday nights and all day on Sundays.
The then-KVHC-LP made a timely application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for renewal of its channel 15 analog license and digital channel 16 construction permit in 2014. On June 5, 2014, KVHC-LP was notified by the FCC that, pending approval of engineering modifications, KVHC-LP's digital (channel 16) construction permit had been approved. Mary R. Silver has entered into a contract to transfer ownership of the FCC licenses to Doyle Weaver, a local Kerrville, Texas attorney.
On September 14, 2021, KVHC-LP was licensed for digital operation, changing its call sign to KVHC-LD.
On March 9, 2023, Bridge Media Networks (the parent company of 24/7 headline news service NewsNet, backed by 5-hour Energy creator Manoj Bhargava) announced it would acquire KVHC-LD for $1.3 million. Upon completion of the transaction, KVHC-LD will become Bhargava's fifth TV station property in the state of Texas; the sale was consummated on April 28.
Technical information
References
Television channels and stations established in 2002
2002 establishments in Texas
VHC-LD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsline%20%28magazine%29 | Newsline was a Pakistani monthly English current affairs and political magazine owned by Hum Network. It was published from 1989 to 2019 in Karachi, Pakistan.
History
Newsline was started in July 1989. Razia Bhatti (1944 – 1996), a Pakistani journalist and former editor of the Herald, was the founder editor of the magazine. In 2014, the Hum Network acquired the magazine. In December 2019, it published its last issue and stopped publication citing "financial constraints" by the Hum Network.
See also
List of magazines in Pakistan
References
External links
Official website
1989 establishments in Pakistan
2019 disestablishments in Pakistan
Defunct magazines published in Pakistan
Defunct political magazines
English-language magazines published in Pakistan
Hum Network Limited
Magazines established in 1989
Magazines disestablished in 2019
Mass media in Karachi
Monthly magazines published in Pakistan
News magazines published in Pakistan
Political magazines published in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Choice | Hot Choice is a pay-per-view service that mainly airs adult content. It is run by In Demand Networks and is carried on some cable television systems.
History
Hot Choice was launched in 1988 as Viewer's Choice II; the channel retained the "Viewer's Choice" name until February 1993, when it was rebranded as "Hot Choice". The service had initially aired a diverse mix of comedy and action/adventure movies geared towards mainly teenagers and adults (essentially, feature films with an MPAA rating of "PG-13" or higher) that were carried over from its sister network Viewer's Choice/In Demand; and adult-oriented programming at night.
In late 1999, Hot Choice began leaning towards more "R"-rated films; more adult programming began being distributed throughout its daily schedule until 2000 when Hot Choice adopted a mostly adult programming format. During that period, some of the cable systems moved this channel to their digital cable tiers or removed it from their listings altogether. In September 2001, Hot Choice had changed their format to featuring only softcore adult programming.
See also
Playboy TV
Spice Network
References
Television channels and stations established in 1988
Commercial-free television networks
Television networks in the United States
American pornographic television channels
Pay-per-view television stations in the United States
Nudity in television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20F.%20Maronde | Robert Francis Maronde (January 13, 1920 - August 13, 2008) was a professor at the University of Southern California Medical School. He helped create an artificial kidney, and the first computerized pharmacy system in the 1960s.
Early life and education
The son of a physician father, Maronde was born in Monterey Park, California, on January 13, 1920. He graduated from South Pasadena High School in 1937, received his bachelor's degree from University of Southern California in 1941 and earned his medical degree from the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1944. He was a ship's doctor in the United States Navy Medical Corps while on active duty in the Naval Reserve from 1946 to 1947.
Career
In 1949, in collaboration with Helen Martin, Maronde implemented a hemodialysis program for acute renal failure at what is now Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. With their creation of an artificial kidney—it used a stainless-steel beer keg as a reservoir—they were at the forefront of medical innovation.
In the late 1960s, Maronde developed one of the first—if not the first—computerized prescription drug systems, which was launched in the outpatient pharmacy at County-USC.
Personal life
Maronde had four children.
References
1920 births
2008 deaths
University of Southern California faculty
Keck School of Medicine of USC alumni
United States Navy Medical Corps officers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Madden%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Samuel R. Madden (born August 4, 1976) is an American computer scientist specializing in database management systems. He is currently a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
Madden was born and raised in San Diego, California. After completing bachelor's and master's degrees at MIT, he earned a Ph.D. specializing in database management at the University of California Berkeley under Michael Franklin and Joseph M. Hellerstein. Before joining MIT as a tenure-track professor, Madden held a post-doc position at Intel's Berkeley Research center.
Madden has been involved in a number database research projects, including TinyDB, TelegraphCQ, Aurora/Borealis, C-Store, and H-Store. In 2005, at the age of 29 he was named to the TR35 as one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review magazine. Recent projects include DataHub - a "github for data" platform that provides hosted database storage, versioning, ingest, search, and visualization (commercialized as Instabase), CarTel - a distributed wireless platform that monitors traffic and on-board diagnostic conditions in order to generate road surface reports, and Relational Cloud - a project investigating research issues in building a database-as-a-service. Madden's has published more than 250 scholarly articles, with more than 59,000 citations, with an h-index of 101.
In addition, Madden is a co-founder of Cambridge Mobile Telematics and Vertica Systems. Before enrolling at MIT and while an undergraduate student there, Madden wrote printer driver software for Palomar Software, a San Diego-area Macintosh software company. He is also a Technology Expert Partner at Omega Venture Partners.
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, 2003. University of California Berkeley.
M.Eng., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Morse High School, 1994. Samuel F.B. Morse High School.
References
1976 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
People from San Diego
University of California, Berkeley alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon%20bar | In computing, the icon bar is the name of the dock in Acorn's RISC OS operating system, and is fundamental to the OS. Its introduction in 1987 (as part of Arthur, the predecessor to ) was a new concept in GUIs. It displays icons through which access is provided to all parts of the computer that a typical user will require, from physical devices and system utilities to running applications, and will usually be their starting point for interacting with the system once it has finished booting.
Appearance and features
The bar is fixed in height and located at the bottom of the screen. It takes up the full width of the screen, and a single row of icons is displayed within. Icons are either justified to the left or the right edge of the screen, at the control of the owning program. According to Acorn's official RISC OS Style Guide, a program should place its icons to the left hand side of the icon bar if they relate to physical devices or resources such as filing systems. These will have an item of text underneath them identifying the device or resource. All other icons should be placed on the right of the bar. If too many icons are present to be displayed at once then the icon bar will extend horizontally and become wider than the screen; in order to access the non-visible icons the user must scroll the bar by hovering the mouse pointer at the appropriate edge of the screen.
The result of clicking the left mouse button (known as the Select button) on an icon will vary depending on what the icon represents. For filing systems, a filer window will open containing the contents of the root directory. For document-oriented applications supporting multiple open documents, clicking Select will open a window containing a new, empty document. This is different from the behaviour of the typical Taskbar and Dock, where clicking an icon will result in a task switch (All windows associated with the icon will be brought to the front of the window stack and will gain input focus). For programs that do not support multiple open documents, clicking its icon will typically result in the task switch behaviour.
By pressing the middle (Menu) mouse button while the pointer is over an icon, a context-sensitive menu associated with that icon will open. Although the owner of the icon is responsible for the contents of the menu, the menus for icons with similar functions will typically contain the same subset of options. For example, filing systems will allow the naming and formatting of disks, as well as an option to open a window displaying free space. Most applications will provide access to an Info window (displaying the version number and copyright information), online help, and a quit option.
Drag and Drop, Filer Icons (File or Directory) can be dragged and dropped on top of an icon bar icon to initiate a process, if the object type is known to the application. For example:
Copying a file or directory to the root of a floppy or network drive
Adding a file or dire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary%20People%20%281992%20TV%20series%29 | Extraordinary People was a television documentary series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network in the United Kingdom between 10 March 1992 and 23 March 1993. Each programme focused on an individual or group of people who excel in their chosen field.
The programme ran for two series, with seven episodes in total.
Episode list
References
BFI Film & TV Database - Extraordinary People
1992 British television series debuts
1993 British television series endings
1990s British documentary television series
ITV documentaries
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Granada Television
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo%20Analyzer | The Oslo Analyzer (1938 – 1954) was a mechanical analog differential analyzer, a type of computer, built in Norway from 1938 to 1942. It was the largest computer of its kind in the world when completed.
The differential analyzer was based on the same principles as the pioneer machine developed by Vannevar Bush at MIT. It was designed and built by Svein Rosseland in cooperation with chief engineer Lie (1909-1983) of the Norwegian commercial instrument manufacturer Gundersen & Løken. The machine was installed at the first floor of the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo. The building as well as the machine was financed in large parts by grants from The Rockefeller Foundation.
Rosseland visited MIT for several months in 1933, and studied Bush's work. Rosseland's design was a substantial development from Bush's machine, and much more compact. The machine had twelve integrators (compared to six of the original MIT machine) and could calculate differential equations of the twelfth order, or two simultaneous equations of the sixth order. When it was finished, the Oslo Analyzer was the most powerful of its kind in the world.
Upon the German occupation of Norway on April 9, 1940, Rosseland realized that the machine might become a desirable research tool in the German war effort. So Rosseland personally removed all precision fabricated integration wheels and buried the wheels in sealed packages in the garden behind the institute.
The machine contributed to a number of scientific projects, both domestic and international. When it was dismantled, sections of it were put on display at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.
References
External links
Svein Rosseland and the Oslo Analyzer
Early computers
One-of-a-kind computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrGen | GrGen.NET is a software development tool that offers programming languages (domain-specific languages) that are optimized for the processing of graph structured data.
The core of the languages consists of modular graph rewrite rules, which are built on declarative graph pattern matching and rewriting; they are supplemented by many of the constructs that are used in imperative and object-oriented programming,
and are completed with language devices known from database query languages.
The Graph Rewrite GENerator compiles the languages into efficient CLI assemblies (via C#-Code in an intermediate step), which can be integrated via an API into code written in any .NET-language.
GrGen can be executed under Windows and Linux (Mono needed) and is open source available under LGPL v3.
For rapid prototyping and debugging, an interactive shell and a (VCG-)graph viewer are included in the package.
With its languages and its visual and stepwise debugging, GrGen allows one to develop at the natural level of abstraction of graph-based representations, such as those employed in engineering, model transformation, computational linguistics, or compiler construction (as intermediate representation).
GrGen increases productivity for those kinds of tasks far beyond what can be achieved by programming in a traditional programming language; due to many implemented performance optimizations it still allows one to achieve high-performance solutions.
Its authors claim that the system offers the highest combined speed of development and execution available for the algorithmic processing of graph-based representations (based on their performance regarding diverse tasks posed at different editions of the Transformation Tool Contest (/GraBaTs)).
Specification sample
Below is an example containing a graph model and rule specifications from the GrGen.NET-solution to the AntWorld-case posed at Grabats 08 .
Graph model:
node class GridNode {
food:int;
pheromones:int;
}
node class GridCornerNode extends GridNode;
node class AntHill extends GridNode {
foodCountdown:int = 10;
}
node class Ant {
hasFood:boolean;
}
edge class GridEdge connect GridNode[1] -> GridNode[1];
edge class PathToHill extends GridEdge;
edge class AntPosition;
Rewrite rules:
rule TakeFood(curAnt:Ant)
{
curAnt -:AntPosition-> n:GridNode\AntHill;
if { !curAnt.hasFood && n.food > 0; }
modify {
eval {
curAnt.hasFood = true;
n.food = n.food - 1;
}
}
}
rule SearchAlongPheromones(curAnt:Ant)
{
curAnt -oldPos:AntPosition-> old:GridNode <-:PathToHill- new:GridNode;
if { new.pheromones > 9; }
modify {
delete(oldPos);
curAnt -:AntPosition-> new;
}
}
test ReachedEndOfWorld(curAnt:Ant) : (GridNode)
{
curAnt -:AntPosition-> n:GridNode\AntHill;
negative {
n <-:PathToHill-;
}
return (n);
}
External links
Homepage of the GrGen.NET-project
G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20microscope | A digital microscope is a variation of a traditional optical microscope that uses optics and a digital camera to output an image to a monitor, sometimes by means of software running on a computer. A digital microscope often has its own in-built LED light source, and differs from an optical microscope in that there is no provision to observe the sample directly through an eyepiece. Since the image is focused on the digital circuit, the entire system is designed for the monitor image. The optics for the human eye are omitted.
Digital microscopes range from, usually inexpensive, USB digital microscopes to advanced industrial digital microscopes costing tens of thousands of dollars. The low price commercial microscopes normally omit the optics for illumination (for example Köhler illumination and phase contrast illumination) and are more akin to webcams with a macro lens. An optical microscope can also be fitted with a digital camera.
History
An early digital microscope was made by a company in Tokyo, Japan in 1986, which is now known as Hirox Co. LTD. It included a control box and a lens connected to a computer. The original connection to the computer was analog through an S-video connection. Over time that connection was changed to FireWire 800 to handle a large amount of digital information coming from the digital camera. Around 2005 they introduced advanced all-in-one units that did not require a computer, but had the monitor and computer built-in. Then in late 2015 they released a system that once again had the computer separate, but connected to the computer by USB 3.0, taking advantage of the speed and longevity of the USB connection. This system also was much more compacted than previous models with a reduction in the number of cables and physical size of the unit itself.
The invention of the USB port resulted in a multitude of USB microscopes ranging in quality and magnification. They continue to fall in price, especially compared with traditional optical microscopes. They offer high-resolution images which are normally recorded directly to a computer, and which also use the computer power for their built-in LED light source. The resolution is directly related to the number of megapixels available on a specific model, from 1.3 MP, 2 MP, 5 MP and upwards.
Stereo and digital microscopes
A primary difference between a stereo microscope and a digital microscope is the magnification. With a stereo microscope, the magnification is determined by multiplying the eyepiece magnification times the objective magnification. Since the digital microscope does not have an eyepiece, the magnification cannot be found using this method. Instead the magnification for a digital microscope was originally determined by how many times larger the sample was reproduced on a 15” monitor. While monitor sizes have changed, the physical size of the camera chip used has not. As a result magnification numbers and field of view are still the same as that original |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan%20Bortnick | Ethan Jordan Bortnick (born December 24, 2000) is a Ukrainian-American pianist, singer, songwriter, record producer, musician and actor. He has been featured on The Tonight Show, Oprah Winfrey Network, Good Morning America, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and his award-winning concert specials on PBS. Ethan has had over 4 national television concert specials. On October 3, 2010 (age 9), Bortnick was listed in the Guinness World Records for "The World's Youngest Solo Musician to Headline His Own Concert Tour".
Bortnick has been featured on national and international television programs. He has helped raise over US$50 million for charities alongside Elton John, Beyoncé, Josh Groban, and more. In 2011, AEG Network LIVE's broadcast of Ethan Bortnick's Musical Time Machine received two bronze Telly Awards and Bortnick received three bronze Telly Awards in 2014 for The Power of Music.
Bortnick has headlined over 1,000 concerts across the globe.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bortnick began offering daily live performances on YouTube.
Early life and education
Bortnick was born in Pembroke Pines, Florida. His parents, Hannah and Gene Bortnick, are Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. He attended a Montessori pre-school. At three years old, he discovered that he had a set of musical skills, including perfect pitch, on a toy keyboard that eventually led him to appearances on many television shows. He stated he has synesthesia.
Career
PBS specials
At 9 years old, Bortnick became the youngest artist to have his own National PBS Concert Special The Power of Music. The Power of Music was rated the number-one concert pledge show on public television for 2014–2015.
In 2017, Bortnick presented the third National PBS television concert "Generations of Music," with a guest appearance by Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary), Bethany Yarrow, and Rufus Cappadocia, also guided by musical director David Rosenthal, and directed by Leon Knoles.
Bortnick started his own nationwide talent search called "Celebration of Music" in 2017. The show travels to various cities across the United States and allows contestants between the ages of 4 and 24 a chance to compete to win the opportunity to perform in a national television show.
Concert in Las Vegas
On July 22 and 23, 2011, at the Las Vegas Hilton, Bortnick became the youngest headliner ever in Las Vegas, at ten years of age.
Recorded album
In August 2011, Bortnick recorded his first album in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The album was produced by Gary Baker, and he collaborated with Matthew Craig and Rob Collier. The album is the soundtrack to the film Anything is Possible, in which Bortnick plays the leading role.
Melody Street
Bortnick was the host of Melody Street, a 22-minute musical-variety-show for preschoolers. Bortnick and a band of animated musical instruments (Val Violin, Febe Flute, Timmy Trumpet, Heidi Horn, and Sammy Snare) entertained kids with humor, songs, skits, interactive games, backstage dramas, and celebr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayalakshmi | Vijaya lakshmi is a Hindu Indian feminine given name or surname, which means "goddess of victory". The name may refer to:
People
First name
Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Indian computer scientist
Vijayalakshmi (Kannada actress), Indian actress
Vijayalakshmi (poet) (born 1960), Indian poet
Vijayalakshmi Feroz (born 1982), Indian actress
Vijayalakshmy K. Gupta (born 1951), Indian civil servant
Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan (born 1946), Indian musician
Vijayalakshmi Ramanan, Surgeon and Indian Air Force officer
Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath (born 1953), Indian neuroscientist
Vijayalakshmy Subramaniam, Indian musician
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian diplomat and politician
Surname
B. R. Vijayalakshmi, Indian cinematographer
L. Vijayalakshmi, Indian actress
Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (born 1963), Indian musician
Potturi Vijayalakshmi (born 1953), Indian writer
Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (born 1979), Indian chess player
Vaikom Vijayalakshmi (born 1981), Indian singer
See also
Vijaya
Lakshmi
Hindu given names
Indian feminine given names
Feminine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya%20the%20Bee%20%28TV%20series%29 | Maya the Bee is a German-French computer-animated comedy television series produced by Studio 100 Animation in association with ZDF for Germany, TF1 for France and ABC for Australia. It is based on the character Maya the Bee introduced in 1912. This is the second animated adaptation focused on the character, after the anime Maya the Honey Bee that aired in the 1970s. The show also aired on Sprout when the channel got revamped for its 10th anniversary year in 2015.
Voice cast
Note: season one only
Andrea Libman as Maya
Rebecca Shoichet as Willy, Princess Natalie and Zoot
Philip Hayes as Flip
Kira Tozer as Miss Cassandra, Barry and Max
Ellen Kennedy as Miss Bosby, The Queen, Thekla and Hannah
Brian Drummond as Judge Beeswax, Kurt, Deez, Zip "Zig" and Edgar
Samuel Vincent as Zap, Shelby, Paul, Stinger and Doz
Diana Kaarina as Lara and Beatrice
Tabitha St. Germain as Ben, Zoe and Lisby
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2012)
Season 2 (2017)
Controversy
In September 2017, parents spotted a drawing of a penis in the series' 35th episode. After the clip went viral on Facebook, Netflix temporarily removed the episode from the website. The episode subsequently returned with the offensive drawing edited out. The production company apologized to many fans and stated it was, "A very bad joke".
Games
Fly With Maya aka Maya the Bee Flying Challenge
Paint With Maya aka Maya Nature Paint
References
External links
Spanish website
Maya the Bee Movie on Studio 100
Maya the Bee at IMDb
Maya the Bee
2010s French animated television series
2012 German television series debuts
Animation controversies in television
Censored television series
French children's animated adventure television series
French children's animated comedy television series
French children's animated fantasy television series
French computer-animated television series
German children's animated adventure television series
German children's animated comedy television series
German children's animated fantasy television series
German-language television shows
English-language television shows
French television shows based on children's books
Animated television series about insects
Obscenity controversies in animation
Obscenity controversies in television
2012 French television series debuts
2017 German television series endings
2017 French television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israblog | Israblog () is an Israeli blogging service, where mostly Hebrew-speaking Internet users keep blogs (including photoblogs) and enjoy many social networking features. With over 50,000 active bloggers, it is considered the biggest blogging service in Hebrew. It was previously operated by Nana10, based in Giv'atayim, Israel. Since May 2020, it is being operated by a nonprofit organization.
History
Israblog is the first blogging service in Hebrew. It was founded on August 25, 2001 by Yariv Habot, in order to afford Hebrew-speaking Internet users the option of writing a blog in their mother tongue, without facing encoding and text directions problems. At first it was an experimental project, but within a few months it gathered few hundred passionate users and started to receive attention from the Israeli media. As of May 2020, close to 870,000 blogs have been opened on the site.
On October 4, 2006, Habot announced he was selling Israblog for an undisclosed amount to Nana (later "nana10"), an Israeli portal which had a business relationship with him for a while.
In December 2017, it was announced that the website will be shut down imminently, but it continued to operate. After a period of inactivity from late 2019, the website was reopened as a nonprofit on May 27, 2020, with all its existing content.
External links
Israblog official website
How a 33 year old man can sell a website with 35 million monthly users - by Dvorit Shargal and Lior Haner in Themarker.com .
Nana acquired Israblog, Ynet, October 4, 2006. .
NetVision's Nana portal buys Israblog: Sources: Israblog founder and manager Yariv Havot had....
Web diaries become hot medium for talk on Israel - by Sarah Bronson, April 16, 2004, Haaretz.
Israel: Israblog’s Decision Against Banning Pro-Ana Sites.
Blog hosting services
Internet properties established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%20Knows%20Worst | "Father Knows Worst" is the eighteenth episode of the twentieth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 26, 2009. In the episode, Bart and Lisa start struggling in their academic and social lives at school and Homer starts monitoring them and forcing them to do better, becoming a helicopter parent. Meanwhile, Marge discovers a sauna in the basement.
This was the first episode in over eight years written by Rob LaZebnik.
Plot
Homer, Bart and Lisa go to the carnival on the South-Side Sea Port, and Homer indulges in various varieties of kebabs. While devouring them indiscriminately, he accidentally swallows a flaming stick. He tries to douse it out with water, but gets tricked by Bart into drinking lighter fluid (prompting Homer to strangle and breathe fire at him). Following a brief stint in a tongue cast, Homer's taste buds become hypersensitive, making eating ordinary food an ordeal. Lisa remedies the problem by giving Homer cafeteria food from Springfield Elementary, which is so bland that a supertaster like Homer can tolerate it. Homer decides to dine at the elementary school, and even goes so far as to be a cafeteria server to pay for his meals, much to the embarrassment of Bart.
While dining at the school, Homer meets a "helicopter mom", who pressures her son Noah into succeeding by being near him at all times. She makes snide remarks about Homer's children, pointing out how dumb Bart is and how much of a social outcast Lisa is. Homer decides to become a "helicopter parent", fearing that his children's only ambition in life will be to serve children like Noah. Bart must build a balsa wood model to compete in a sculpture assignment, and Homer insists on helping. While shopping for balsa wood, Homer reveals that Bart will build the Washington Monument, but Principal Skinner criticizes this as overly easy. In response, Homer purchases a model kit of Westminster Abbey. He buys a book for Lisa entitled "Chicks with Cliques", and persuades her to try joining a clique, first by declaring that dolphins swim in "cliques" and that the United States was founded by a clique, and then by hosting a cellphone-decorating party for the popular girls.
Homer is convinced that Bart will not build the Abbey model correctly and insists on building it himself. He works late into the night and accidentally falls asleep. During a dream sequence, ghosts of some of the historical figures Homer imagines are buried in Westminster Abbey — Geoffrey Chaucer, Anne of Cleves, and Oscar Wilde (who is actually buried in Paris) — advise Homer to let Bart learn from his mistakes. Homer awakes to find he has accidentally crushed the model beyond recognition. At the competition, Superintendent Chalmers notes that Bart's model is the only one that does not appear "too perfect", and thus believes that Bart's model is the only one that was not constructed with the help of a parent, but Bar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Great%20Women%20and%20a%20Manicure | "Four Great Women and a Manicure" is the twentieth and penultimate episode of the twentieth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. First broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on May 10, 2009, it is the second Simpsons episode (after "Simpsons Bible Stories") to have four acts instead of the usual three. The episode tells four tales of famous women featuring Simpsons characters in various roles: Selma as Queen Elizabeth I, Lisa as Snow White, Marge as Lady Macbeth and Maggie as Howard Roark from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.
Jodie Foster performs the voice of Maggie Simpson. The title is a reference to the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral. It is the only episode in the history of the show in which Bart Simpson is not seen nor mentioned (not counting the opening credits). It is also the second episode (after "Mona Leaves-a") to first air on Mother's Day and deal with women or mothers.
Plot
Marge takes Lisa to a salon for her first manicure, prompting a debate as to whether a woman can simultaneously be smart, powerful and beautiful.
Queen Elizabeth I
In the first tale, Marge tells the story of Queen Elizabeth I, with Selma Bouvier playing the Queen.
Various royal suitors wish to win the hand of Queen Elizabeth, including a flamboyant King Julio of Spain. The Queen rejects his advances and Julio vows revenge on England, summoning the Spanish Armada. Meanwhile, Walter Raleigh, played by Homer, falls for Elizabeth's Lady in Waiting, played by Marge. When Elizabeth catches the two making out, she sentences them to execution. They are saved at the last minute when Moe reports the arrival of the Spanish Armada. Homer leads an English naval offense against the Armada, defeating them by accidentally setting the lone English warship on fire, which then spreads to the entire Spanish fleet. Elizabeth knights him and then proclaims that she does not need a man, as she has England.
Snow White
In the second tale, Lisa tells the story of Snow White, with herself in the title role. As the Blue-Haired Lawyer reminds Lisa that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been copyrighted by Disney, she changes the characters to avoid being sued.
Lisa's version features the dwarves Crabby (Moe), Drunky (Barney), Hungry (Homer), Greedy (Mr. Burns), Lenny (Lenny), Kearney (Kearney) and Doc (Julius Hibbert). When the wicked queen learns from her magic high-definition television that Snow White is fairer than she is, she dispatches her huntsman (Groundskeeper Willie) to murder the young maiden. However, Willie the huntsman cannot bring himself to cut out her heart, so Snow White flees into the forest, seeking shelter in the dwarves' cottage. She keeps house for them while they work in the mines but the wicked queen, disguised as an old woman, physically forces Snow White to eat a poisoned apple. She escapes the dwarves, only to be brutally lynched by an angry group of woodland animals. In Lisa's version, Snow White does not need a ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better%20Off%20Ted | Better Off Ted is an American satirical sitcom series, created by Victor Fresco, who also served as the show's executive producer. The series ran on the ABC network from March 18, 2009, to January 26, 2010.
Better Off Ted focuses on the protagonist, Ted Crisp (Jay Harrington), a single father and the well-respected and beloved head of a research and development department at the fictional, soulless conglomerate of Veridian Dynamics. Ted narrates the series' events by regularly breaking the fourth wall and directly addressing the audience on camera. Supporting characters include Ted's supervisor Veronica Palmer (Portia de Rossi), co-worker and love interest Linda Zwordling (Andrea Anders), his daughter Rose (Isabella Acres), and laboratory scientists Phillip Myman (Jonathan Slavin) and Lem Hewitt (Malcolm Barrett).
The series received critical acclaim, with particular praise going towards its witty and satirical humor. Its second season holds a score of 84 out of 100 on Metacritic. However, despite such positive feedback, the show's debut drew in only 5.64 million viewers and continued to have extremely low ratings. Although many expressed skepticism that it would return, it was renewed for a second season. On May 13, 2010, ABC officially canceled the series due to low viewing figures. Two episodes were unaired in the United States, but are available to view on Hulu, digital stores, and home video.
Plot
Better Off Ted is a satirical workplace comedy, centred around the employees of a stereotypically evil megacorporation of Veridian Dynamics.
Veridian Dynamics experiments on its employees, twists the truth, and will stop at nothing to achieve its goals. It has been mentioned that Veridian has swayed presidential elections, created killer pandas and robots, and weaponized pumpkins, and that there are only three governments left in the world more powerful than Veridian. Although not promoted as such, and rarely the focus of storylines, the show's frequent references to futuristic technologies, killer robots, sentient computers, etc., places Better Off Ted partly in the science fiction genre.
Most of the characters are fully aware of Veridian's nature, and often try to manipulate the system in order to stop bad things from happening to them (and sometimes to mitigate the evil effects of some of Veridian's projects). They are also all susceptible to the potential rewards the company can offer despite the consequences of their actions, such as the company's attempt to hire Lem's mother, or the company's introduction of scented light bulbs with known flaws. Much of the comedy of the show comes from the characters' navigation of these morally ambiguous areas.
Jay Harrington, who plays Ted Crisp on the show, serves both as a main character and as an on-camera narrator. Throughout the show, he breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly to viewers, offering inside information and observations while the action continues around him. Another plot element |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solver | A solver is a piece of mathematical software, possibly in the form of a stand-alone computer program or as a software library, that 'solves' a mathematical problem. A solver takes problem descriptions in some sort of generic form and calculates their solution. In a solver, the emphasis is on creating a program or library that can easily be applied to other problems of similar type.
Solver types
Types of problems with existing dedicated solvers include:
Linear and non-linear equations. In the case of a single equation, the "solver" is more appropriately called a root-finding algorithm.
Systems of linear equations.
Nonlinear systems.
Systems of polynomial equations, which are a special case of non linear systems, better solved by specific solvers.
Linear and non-linear optimisation problems
Systems of ordinary differential equations
Systems of differential algebraic equations
Boolean satisfiability problems, including SAT solvers
Quantified boolean formula solvers
Constraint satisfaction problems
Shortest path problems
Minimum spanning tree problems
Combinatorial optimization
Game solvers for problems in game theory
Three-body problem
The General Problem Solver (GPS) is a particular computer program created in 1957 by Herbert Simon, J. C. Shaw, and Allen Newell intended to work as a universal problem solver, that theoretically can be used to solve every possible problem that can be formalized in a symbolic system, given the right input configuration. It was the first computer program that separated its knowledge of problems (in the form of domain rules) from its strategy of how to solve problems (as a general search engine).
General solvers typically use an architecture similar to the GPS to decouple a problem's definition from the strategy used to solve it. The advantage in this decoupling is that the solver does not depend on the details of any particular problem instance. The strategy utilized by general solvers was based on a general algorithm (generally based on backtracking) with the only goal of completeness. This induces an exponential computational time that dramatically limits their usability. Modern solvers use a more specialized approach that takes advantage of the structure of the problems so that the solver spends as little time as possible backtracking.
For problems of a particular class (e.g., systems of non-linear equations) multiple algorithms are usually available. Some solvers implement multiple algorithms.
See also
Mathematical software for other types of mathematical software.
Problem solving environment: a specialized software combining automated problem-solving methods with human-oriented tools for guiding the problem resolution.
Satisfiability modulo theories for solvers of logical formulas with respect to combinations of background theories expressed in classical first-order logic with equality.
Semantic reasoner
Lists of solvers
List of linear programming solvers
List of SMT solvers
List of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf%20Sporns | Olaf Sporns (born 18 September 1963) is Provost Professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University and scientific co-director of the university's Network Science Institute. He is the founding editor of the academic journal Network Neuroscience, published by MIT Press.
Sporns received his degree from University of Tübingen in Tübingen, West Germany, before going to New York to study at the Rockefeller University under Gerald Edelman. After receiving his doctorate, he followed Edelman to the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California.
His focus is in the area of computational cognitive neuroscience. His topics of study include functional integration and binding in the cerebral cortex, neural models of perception and action, network structure and dynamics, applications of information theory to the brain and embodied cognitive science using robotics. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 in the Natural Sciences category.
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Brain complexity
One of the core areas of research being conducted by Sporns is in the area of complexity of the brain. One aspect in particular is how small-world network effects are seen in the neural connections which are decentralized in the brain. Research in collaboration with scientists across the world has revealed that there are pathways in the brain that are very well connected. This is insightful for understanding how the architecture of the brain may relate to schizophrenia, autism and Alzheimer's disease.
Sporns is also interested in understanding the relationship between statistical properties of neuronal populations and perceptual data. How does an organism use and structure its environment in such a way as to achieve (statistically) complex input? To this end, he has run statistical analysis on movement patterns and input within simulations, videos and robotic devices.
Reward systems
Sporns also has a research interest in reward models of the brain utilizing robots. The reward models have shown ways in which dopamine is onset by drug addiction.
Other
Though not directly related to his core research, in early 2000 Sporns was interested indeveloping robots with human-like qualities in their ability to learn.
Publications
Books
See also
Biologically inspired computing
Connectome
Parmenides Foundation
The Mind's I
References
External links
List of all publications
Living people
German neuroscientists
Indiana University faculty
Emigrants from West Germany to the United States
1963 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20cyberpunk | Japanese cyberpunk refers to cyberpunk fiction produced in Japan. There are two distinct subgenres of Japanese cyberpunk: live-action Japanese cyberpunk films, and cyberpunk manga and anime works.
Japanese cyberpunk cinema, also referred to as Extreme Japanese Cyberpunk, refers to a sub-genre of underground film produced in Japan, starting in the 1980s. It bears some resemblance to the 'low-life high-tech' cyberpunk, as understood in the West; however, it differs in its representation of industrial and metallic imagery and an incomprehensible narrative. The main directors associated with the Japanese cyberpunk movement are Shinya Tsukamoto, Shozin Fukui, and Sogo Ishii. The origins of the genre can be traced back to the 1982 film Burst City, before the genre was primarily defined by the 1989 film Tetsuo: The Iron Man. It has roots in the Japanese punk subculture, that arose from the Japanese punk music scene in the 1970s, with Sogo Ishii's punk films of the late 1970s to early 1980s introducing this subculture to Japanese cinema and paving the way for Japanese cyberpunk.
Japanese cyberpunk also refers to a subgenre of manga and anime works with cyberpunk themes. This subgenre began in 1982 with the debut of Katsuhiro Otomo's manga series Akira, with its 1988 anime film adaptation (which Otomo directed) later popularizing the subgenre. Akira inspired a wave of Japanese cyberpunk works, including manga and anime series such as Ghost in the Shell, Battle Angel Alita, Cowboy Bebop, and Serial Experiments Lain. Cyberpunk anime and manga have been influential on global popular culture, inspiring numerous works in animation, comics, film, music, television and video games.
Japanese cyberpunk films
Style
Japanese Cyberpunk generally involves the characters, especially the protagonist, going through monstrous, incomprehensible metamorphoses in an industrial setting. Many of these films have scenes that fall into the experimental film genre; they often involve purely abstract or visual sequences that may or may not relate to the characters and plot. Recurring themes include: mutation, technology, dehumanization, repression and sexual deviance.
Precursors
In contrast to Western cyberpunk which has roots in New Wave science fiction literature, Japanese cyberpunk has roots in underground music culture, specifically the Japanese punk subculture that arose from the Japanese punk music scene in the 1970s. The filmmaker Sogo Ishii introduced this subculture to Japanese cinema with his punk films Panic High School (1978) and Crazy Thunder Road (1980), which portrayed the rebellion and anarchy associated with punk, and went on to become highly influential in underground film circles. Crazy Thunder Road in particular was an influential biker film, with a punk biker gang aesthetic that paved the way for Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira. Ishii's next film was the frenetic Shuffle (1981), an unofficial short film adaptation of a manga comic strip by Otomo.
Ishii's most in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR4%20SDRAM | Double Data Rate 4 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR4 SDRAM) is a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory with a high bandwidth ("double data rate") interface.
Released to the market in 2014, it is a variant of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), of which some have been in use since the early 1970s, and a higher-speed successor to the DDR2 and DDR3 technologies.
DDR4 is not compatible with any earlier type of random-access memory (RAM) due to different signaling voltage and physical interface, besides other factors.
DDR4 SDRAM was released to the public market in Q2 2014, focusing on ECC memory, while the non-ECC DDR4 modules became available in Q3 2014, accompanying the launch of Haswell-E processors that require DDR4 memory.
Features
The primary advantages of DDR4 over its predecessor, DDR3, include higher module density and lower voltage requirements, coupled with higher data rate transfer speeds. The DDR4 standard allows for DIMMs of up to 64 GB in capacity, compared to DDR3's maximum of 16 GB per DIMM.
Unlike previous generations of DDR memory, prefetch has not been increased above the 8n used in DDR3; the basic burst size is eight 64-bit words, and higher bandwidths are achieved by sending more read/write commands per second. To allow this, the standard divides the DRAM banks into two or four selectable bank groups, where transfers to different bank groups may be done more rapidly.
Because power consumption increases with speed, the reduced voltage allows higher speed operation without unreasonable power and cooling requirements.
DDR4 operates at a voltage of 1.2 V with a frequency between 800 and 1600 MHz (DDR4-1600 through DDR4-3200), compared to frequencies between 400 and 1067 MHz (DDR3-800 through DDR3-2133) and voltage requirements of 1.5 V of DDR3. Due to the nature of DDR, speeds are typically advertised as doubles of these numbers (DDR3-1600 and DDR4-2400 are common, with DDR4-3200, DDR4-4800 and DDR4-5000 available at high cost). Unlike DDR3's 1.35 V low voltage standard DDR3L, there is no DDR4L low voltage version of DDR4.
Timeline
2005: Standards body JEDEC began working on a successor to DDR3 around 2005, about 2 years before the launch of DDR3 in 2007. The high-level architecture of DDR4 was planned for completion in 2008.
2007: Some advance information was published in 2007, and a guest speaker from Qimonda provided further public details in a presentation at the August 2008 San Francisco Intel Developer Forum (IDF). DDR4 was described as involving a 30 nm process at 1.2 volts, with bus frequencies of 2133 MT/s "regular" speed and 3200 MT/s "enthusiast" speed, and reaching market in 2012, before transitioning to 1 volt in 2013.
2009: In February, Samsung validated 40 nm DRAM chips, considered a "significant step" towards DDR4 development since in 2009, DRAM chips were only beginning to migrate to a 50 nm process.
2010: Subsequently, further details were revealed at MemCon 2010, Tokyo (a co |
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