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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku | Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages. As one of the first cloud platforms, Heroku has been in development since June 2007, when it supported only the Ruby programming language, but now also supports Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go. For this reason, Heroku is said to be a polyglot platform as it has features for a developer to build, run and scale applications in a similar manner across most of these languages. Heroku was acquired by Salesforce in 2010 for $212 million.
History
Heroku was initially developed by James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, and Orion Henry for supporting projects that were compatible with the Ruby programming platform Rack. The prototype development took around six months. Later on, Heroku faced setbacks because of a lack of proper market customers as many app developers used their own tools and environment. In January 2009, a new platform was launched which was built almost from scratch after a three-month effort. In October 2009, Byron Sebastian joined Heroku as CEO. On December 8, 2010, Salesforce.com acquired Heroku as a wholly owned subsidiary of Salesforce.com. On July 12, 2011, Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, the chief designer of the Ruby programming language, joined the company as Chief Architect for Ruby. That same month, Heroku added support for Node.js and Clojure. On September 15, 2011, Heroku and Facebook introduced Heroku for Facebook. At present Heroku supports Redis databases in addition to its standard PostgreSQL.
On April 7, 2022, Heroku suffered a significant security intrusion when attackers were able to obtain an access token for a Heroku account that was used for automation purposes. Heroku confirmed that the attack accessed OAuth bearer tokens used for integration with GitHub and salted and hashed customer passwords in May 2022. The OAuth2 tokens were then used in targeted attacks against an unknown set of GitHub repositories apparently in an attempt to find secret tokens, where npm was the primary repository GitHub identified as a target. It is unclear if the original source of the breach is known or not.
In August 2022, Heroku announced that its free plans would be discontinued, citing fraud and abuse as reasons for the change.
Etymology
The name "Heroku" is a portmanteau of "heroic" and "haiku". The Japanese theme is a nod to Matz for creating Ruby. The name itself is pronounced similarly to the Japanese word meaning “widely” (hiroku), though the creators of Heroku did not want the name of their project to have a particular meaning, in Japanese or any other language, and so chose to invent a name.
Architecture
Applications that are run on Heroku typically have a unique domain used to route HTTP requests to the correct application container or dyno. Each of the dynos are spread across a "dyno grid" which consists of several servers. Heroku's Git server handles application repository pushes from permitted users.
All Heroku servi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace%20Cloud | The Rackspace Cloud is a set of cloud computing products and services billed on a utility computing basis from the US-based company Rackspace. Offerings include Cloud Storage ("Cloud Files"), virtual private server ("Cloud Servers"), load balancers, databases, backup, and monitoring.
History
Rackspace Cloud announced Mosso LLC in March, 2006, as a wholly owned subsidiary billed as a utility computing offering. Mosso offered PaaS web hosting on LAMP and IIS infrastructure. As it pre-dated mainstream adoption of the term cloud computing, it was "retooled" and relaunched on February 19, 2008, adopting the tagline "Mosso: The Hosting Cloud". The "Mosso" branding (including the mosso.com domain) was then dropped on June 17, 2009, in favour of "The Rackspace Cloud" branding (including the rackspacecloud.com domain name).
Since then, customer contracts were executed with Rackspace US, Inc. d/b/a The Rackspace Cloud rather than with the Mosso LLC subsidiary.
Other companies (such as EMC Corporation with its "Decho" subsidiary) also use alternative branding for their cloud computing offerings.
In 2011, the "Rackspace Cloud" brand merged with Rackspace.com. In 2012, Rackspace rebranded as "Rackspace, the open cloud company". In 2014, Rackspace rebranded as "Rackspace, the #1 managed cloud company".
Services
Cloud Files
Cloud files is a cloud hosting service that provides "unlimited online storage and CDN" for media (examples given include backups, video files, user content) on a utility computing basis. It was originally launched as Mosso CloudFS as a private beta release on May 5, 2008, and is similar to Amazon Simple Storage Service. Unlimited files of up to 5 GB can be uploaded, managed via the online control panel or RESTful API and optionally served out via Akamai Technologies' content delivery network.
API
In addition to the online control panel, the service can be accessed over a RESTful API with open source client code available in C#/.NET, Python, PHP, Java, and Ruby. Jungle Disk, previously also owned by Rackspace, allows Cloud Files to be mounted as a local drive within supported operating systems (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows).
Security
Redundancy is achieved by replicating three full copies of data across multiple computers in multiple "zones" within the same data center, where "zones" are physically (though not geographically) separate and supplied separate power and Internet services. Uploaded files can be distributed via Akamai Technologies to "hundreds of endpoints across the world" which provides an additional layer of data redundancy.
The control panel and API are protected by SSL and the requests themselves are signed and can be safely delivered to untrusted clients. Deleted data is zeroed out immediately.
Use cases
Use cases considered as "well suited" include backing up or archiving data, serving images and videos (which are streamed directly to the users' browsers), serving content over content delivery networks, s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichiro%20Kawabata | is a Japanese baseball player. He won a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
References
Shinichiro Kawabata profile at DatabaseOlympics
1966 births
Baseball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic baseball players for Japan
Living people
Olympic medalists in baseball
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosaden%20K%C5%8Dts%C5%AB%20Ino%20Line | The is a tram line serving the island of Shikoku, Japan, in the city of Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture. This tram line is part of the Tosaden Kōtsū network. Most tramcars directly continue to Gomen Line.
Stations
Rail transport in Kōchi Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version%20targeting | In computing, version targeting is a technique that allows a group of (presumably knowledgeable) users (including software developers) to use some advanced software features that were introduced in a particular software version while allowing users accustomed to the prior versions to still use the same software as if the new features were never added to the software. It is a way to ensure backward compatibility when new software features would otherwise break it.
In Mozilla Firefox
Version targeting has been used in Mozilla Firefox when it introduced JavaScript 1.6 in Firefox 1.5 and JavaScript 1.7 in Firefox 2.0: developers willing to use the new scripting engine had to explicitly opt-in.
Use in Internet Explorer
Version targeting was proposed by Microsoft for use in its Internet Explorer 8 product-in-development, but the idea was later discarded.
The proposal came after the release of Internet Explorer 7 which improved its CSS 2.1 support at the cost of causing some websites that were developed for Internet Explorer 6 to be rendered incorrectly when viewed with the new browser version.
Microsoft contacted the Web Standards Project and experts on Web standards and asked for assistance in devising a new DOCTYPE-like technique that could work across browsers and let Web developers specify exact browser versions under which their Web sites are known to work correctly, and browsers implementing this form of version targeting would use the correct rendering engine versions to display the site correctly. Members of the WaSP Microsoft Task Force were involved in the proposal, albeit not every member backed it.
Some commentators suggested that it would be possible to use Internet Explorer 8's support for new DOCTYPEs in order to avoid using its version targeting meta tag.
Criticism
The concept of version targeting, especially as proposed by Microsoft, has been criticised for being a new form of browser sniffing and for violating the principle of forward-compatible development where progressive enhancement is preferred.
Version targeting has been criticised for not giving incentives to developers to plan ahead for forward compatibility.
Positive reception
Version targeting has been welcomed by some people as a means to enable browsers to adopt Web standards without breaking compatibility with Web sites depended on old rendering engines for their functionality.
References
Bibliography
WaSP IE8 round table discussion
Web browsers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photometric%20stereo | Photometric stereo is a technique in computer vision for estimating the surface normals of objects by observing that object under different lighting conditions (photometry). It is based on the fact that the amount of light reflected by a surface is dependent on the orientation of the surface in relation to the light source and the observer. By measuring the amount of light reflected into a camera, the space of possible surface orientations is limited. Given enough light sources from different angles, the surface orientation may be constrained to a single orientation or even overconstrained.
The technique was originally introduced by Woodham in 1980. The special case where the data is a single image is known as shape from shading, and was analyzed by B. K. P. Horn in 1989. Photometric stereo has since been generalized to many other situations, including extended light sources and non-Lambertian surface finishes. Current research aims to make the method work in the presence of projected shadows, highlights, and non-uniform lighting.
Basic Method
Under Woodham's original assumptions — Lambertian reflectance, known point-like distant light sources, and uniform albedo — the problem can be solved by inverting the linear equation , where is a (known) vector of observed intensities, is the (unknown) surface normal, and is a (known) matrix of normalized light directions.
This model can easily be extended to surfaces with non-uniform albedo, while keeping the problem linear. Taking an albedo reflectivity of , the formula for the reflected light intensity becomes:
If is square (there are exactly 3 lights) and non-singular, it can be inverted, giving:
Since the normal vector is known to have length 1, must be the length of the vector , and is the normalised direction of that vector.
If is not square (there are more than 3 lights), a generalisation of the inverse can be obtained using the Moore–Penrose pseudoinverse, by simply multiplying both sides with giving:
After which the normal vector and albedo can be solved as described above.
Non-Lambertian surfaces
The classical photometric stereo problem concerns itself only with Lambertian surfaces, with perfectly diffuse reflection. This is unrealistic for many types of materials, especially metals, glass and smooth plastics, and will lead to aberrations in the resulting normal vectors.
Many methods have been developed to lift this assumption. In this section, a few of these are listed.
Specular reflections
Historically, in computer graphics, the commonly used model to render surfaces started with Lambertian surfaces and progressed first to include simple specular reflections. Computer vision followed a similar course with photometric stereo. Specular reflections were among the first deviations from the Lambertian model. These are a few adaptations that have been developed.
Many techniques ultimately rely on modelling the reflectance function of the surface, that is, how much light is refl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotShot%20%28video%20game%29 | HotShot is a Breakout style video game published in 1988 for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum, as well as MS-DOS compatible operating systems.
Gameplay
Two competitors play with a ball, in an arena which is split into two halves with breakable blocks on both sides. The aim is to get a higher score than your opponent by breaking more blocks on your side than your opponent does. Competitors are in the form of humanoids, robots and aliens, all of which have a 'gun' of some sort enabling them to take control of the ball. The range of arenas have several pinball-style flippers which make the ball bounce off at unpredictable angles. The game can be played as one player versus a computer player (controlled with good AI for its time), or as two players competing against one another. Players can suck the ball into their gun then fire it at their blocks for points, or deliberately shoot the ball into their opponent to make them lose points. When hit, players disintegrate but instantly respawn with control of the ball going to the opponent.
There are six characters to choose from: Maxx, a humanoid armed with a magnetic gun to control the ball; Wobbly, an alien blob of slime with eyes on stalks who sucks in and fires the ball with his elephant-like trunk; Triffid, a tripedal robot with a magnet gun built into his head; Killer, a bipedal robot with a magnet gun for a head; Tojoi, a humanoid holding a magnet gun in a spacesuit with large 80s shoulder pads; Yuri, physically identical to Maxx but with different abilities.
Reception
Sinclair User gave the game a 91%, complimenting the gameplay and replayability. Crash score was 77% and found the game addictive, but criticised the awkward controls and unrealistic bouncing of the ball. Justifying Your Sinclair 8 out of 10, the reviewer enjoyed the playability of the game while also saying that "frustration really sets in after a long session".
References
External links
Hot Shot at Lemon Amiga
Hot Shot at Amiga Hall of Light
Hot Shot at Spectrum Computing
1988 video games
Addictive Games games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Breakout clones
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Broadhurst | Don Broadhurst is a retired English professional boxer who competed in the Flyweight division. He hails from Birmingham and boxed for Frank Warren's Sports Network. He held the Commonwealth super flyweight champion from 31 October 2008 to 11 December 2009.
Amateur career
Broadhurst was a standout amateur who won the Flyweight ABA championship in 2003 and Gold for England in the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He defeated South Africa's Jackson Van Chauke in the final of the games and was the first of five boxers to win gold for England that day. The fight lasted into the 3rd round when it was stopped on the 'outscored' rule.
Early Professional career
Don decided to turn pro in June 2006 and signed for Sports Network saying “I feel the time is right to turn professional. I have represented England and the UK as an amateur, and they were the greatest times of my life, part of me wants to go to the Olympics still, but I'm positive now is the time, and I can go on to better my amateur achievements as a pro”. His first fight was 3 months later when he defeated journeyman Delroy Spencer at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton. In June 2008 he fought in his home city of Birmingham for the first time beating Frenchman Alain Bonnel on points over six rounds. it was also the first time he had fought in the whole of 2008 following a string of cancelled bouts.
Commonwealth Champion
Despite not fighting regularly in 2008, Don still managed to win his first professional title in October. Fighting in his home town of Birmingham once more he headlined a bill that saw him win the vacant Commonwealth super flyweight crown. The opponent in the other corner was Isaac Quaye of Ghana with Broadhurst winning a unanimous decision over 12 rounds. The win meant that he had now won the Commonwealth title as an amateur and as a professional. Despite this fact the bill itself at the Aston Villa Leisure Centre will no doubt be more remembered for Peter Buckley, the journeyman, winning in his 300th and last bout. Broadhurst made the first defence of his title in March 2009 at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham defeating another boxer from Ghana, Isaac Owusu in the 11th round. On 24 April Broadhurst fought his third Ghanain boxer in a row with a 6th round stoppage of Asamoah Wilson for his second title defence.
Unification bout with Haskins
On 11 December 2009 after 11 straight wins and two defences of his belt Broadhurst lost to reigning British super flyweight champion Lee Haskins in a unification clash. The fight, in Newport Wales, saw Haskins become a double champion after scoring a unanimous decision over 12 scrappy rounds. Speaking of his disappointment at having lost for the first time Broadhurst claimed that it was "one bad night" told Boxing News "I just stayed in my bed, depressed. It was one of the worst things that has ever happened to me, it was like a family member had died or something – that is how bad it was".
Defeat to Ali
Broadhurst didn't return to th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank%20Universal | Tank Universal is a computer game developed by New Zealand studio Dialogue Design and published by Meridian4. It currently features a 20-level single player campaign as well as a skirmish mode. Its graphical style has been described as "Tron-like", while its gameplay takes inspiration from the classic Atari title Battlezone. As of August 21, 2008, it is available on Valve's Steam digital distribution service.
Notes
External links
Tank Universal homepage Official Tank Universal web site.
Meridian 4 - Games - Tank Universal Publisher Meridian4 web page.
Tank Universal on Steam Distributor web page on Steam.
IGN Review Review on IGN.com
2008 video games
Cyberpunk video games
First-person shooters
Tank simulation video games
Video games developed in New Zealand
Windows games
Windows-only games
Meridian4 games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20M.%20Greenfield | Albert Monroe Greenfield (August 4, 1887 – January 5, 1967) was a real estate broker and developer who built his company into a vast East Coast network of department stores, banks, finance companies, hotels, newspapers, transportation companies, and the Loft Candy Corporation. His high-rise office buildings and hotels were instrumental in changing the face of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his base of operations. He formed business relationships across religious, ethnic and social lines and played a major role in reforming politics in Philadelphia as well as at the national level.
Early life and business activities
Greenfield was born Avrum Moishe Grunfeld to a Jewish family in 1887 to trader Jacob Gruenfeld and wife Esther (née Serody) in Lozovata, a village in what is now south-central Ukraine. After emigrating to New York City in 1892, he and his family (with names anglicized) moved in 1896 to Philadelphia, settling in South Philadelphia where Jacob Greenfield ironed shirts in a factory and operated a grocery in the family's home. Albert left high school at age 14 to become a clerk for a prominent local real estate lawyer. In this position, Greenfield found his calling as a real estate broker.
In May 1905, Greenfield opened his own real estate firm at 218 South 4th Street, with $500 that his mother borrowed for him from her brother. Within seven years Greenfield was earning $60,000 a year; by 1917, his personal wealth had increased to $15 million. During the 1920s he largely rebuilt the face of downtown Philadelphia, creating numerous landmark office buildings and hotels, including what was then the world's largest hotel, the Benjamin Franklin, in 1925.
The alliances created through his growing real estate business led to investments in motion picture theaters, building and loan associations, and mortgage financing. By the early 1920s he controlled 27 building and loan associations. In 1924, Greenfield and his father-in-law Sol C. Kraus formed Bankers Bond & Mortgage Company to handle first mortgages on real estate in Philadelphia. After expanding to the New York City market, the firm was renamed Bankers Bond & Mortgage Company of America. By 1930 his real estate concern, known as Albert M. Greenfield & Co. since 1911, was the largest real estate company in the U.S. and Greenfield sought to become a commercial banker.
In late 1926 he bought a controlling interest in a small West Philadelphia bank and, through a series of acquisitions, built it over the next four years into Bankers Trust Company, Philadelphia's tenth largest bank, with $50 million in deposits. In May 1928, Greenfield formed the Bankers Securities Corporation (BSC) for general investment banking and trading in securities, which eventually became the parent company for virtually all of Greenfield's financial interests. But a run on his bank forced the closing of Bankers Trust on December 22, 1930, and ended Greenfield's career as a banker, leaving him millions in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy%20Mobile%20IPv6 | Proxy Mobile IPv6 (or PMIPv6, or PMIP) is a network-based mobility management protocol standardized by IETF and is specified in RFC 5213. It is a protocol for building a common and access technology independent of mobile core networks, accommodating various access technologies such as WiMAX, 3GPP, 3GPP2 and WLAN based access architectures. Proxy Mobile IPv6 is the only network-based mobility management protocol standardized by IETF.
Introduction
Network-based mobility management enables the same functionality as Mobile IP, without any modifications to the host's TCP/IP Protocol stack. With PMIP the host can change its point-of-attachment to the Internet without changing its IP address. Contrary to Mobile IP approach, this functionality is implemented by the network, which is responsible for tracking the movements of the host and initiating the required mobility signalling on its behalf. However, in case the mobility involves different network interfaces, the host needs modifications similar to Mobile IP in order to maintain the same IP address across different interfaces.
The "SaMOG" (S2a Mobility based on GTP) study item in 3GPP defines the interworking between mobile packet core and a trusted WLAN access network (3GPP TR 23.852). The interface that SaMOG defines for this interworking is the 3GPP S2a GTP interface.
Proxy Mobile IPv6 Deployment Models
+--------+ _----_ | +--------+ _----_
| | _( )_ | | | _( )_
| |----( Internet ) | | |----( Internet )
| (LMA) | (_ _) | | (LMA) | (_ _)
| | '----' | | | '----'
+--------+ | +--------+
| | |
/--------------------\ | _----_
/ \ | _( )_
/ \ | ( internet )
/ IP Network \ | (_ _)
\ / | '----'
\ / | |
\----------------------/ | +-----------+
/ \ | | MAG |----
+-------------+ +-------------+ | +-----------+ |--- (Session Chaining)
| | | | | | LMA |----
| |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20connectivity%20access%20network | IP-CAN (or IP connectivity access network) is an access network that provides Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity. The term is usually used in cellular context and usually refers to 3GPP access networks such as GPRS or EDGE, but can be also used to describe wireless LAN (WLAN) or DSL networks. It was introduced in 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) standards as a generic term referring to any kind of IP-based access network as IMS put much emphasis on access and service network separation.
See also
IP multimedia subsystem
Radio access network
References
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splunk | Splunk Inc. is an American software company based in San Francisco, California, that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data via a web-style interface.
Its software helps capture, index and correlate real-time data in a searchable repository, from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations. Splunk uses machine data for identifying data patterns, providing metrics, diagnosing problems and providing intelligence for business operations. Splunk is a horizontal technology used for application management, security and compliance, as well as business and web analytics.
Splunk is due to be acquired by Cisco for $28 billion in an all-cash deal announced in September 2023.
History
Founding & early years
Michael Baum, Rob Das and Erik Swan co-founded Splunk Inc in 2003. Venture firms August Capital, Sevin Rosen, Ignition Partners and JK&B Capital backed the company.
By 2007, Splunk had raised . It became profitable in 2009. In 2012 Splunk had its initial public offering, trading under NASDAQ symbol SPLK.
Company growth
In September 2013 the company acquired BugSense, a mobile-device data-analytics company. BugSense provides "a mobile analytics platform used by developers to improve app performance and improve quality". It supplied a "software developer kit" to give developers access to data analytics from mobile devices that it managed from its scalable cloud platform. The acquisition amount was undisclosed.
In December 2013, Splunk acquired Cloudmeter, a provider of network data capture technologies.
In June 2015, Splunk acquired the software company Metafor that uses machine learning technology to analyze data generated from IT infrastructure and applications.
In July 2015, Splunk acquired Caspida, a cybersecurity startup, for .
In October 2015, Splunk sealed a "cybersecurity alliance" with U.S. government security contractor Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. to offer combined cyber threat detection and intelligence-analysis technology.
In 2016, Splunk pledged to donate $100 million in software licenses, training, support, education, and volunteerism for nonprofits and schools over a 10-year period.
According to Glassdoor, it was the fourth highest-paying company for employees in the United States in April 2017. In May 2017, Splunk acquired Drastin, a software company that provides search-based analytics for enterprises.
In September 2017, Splunk acquired SignalSense which developed cloud-based data collection and breach detection software. Splunk announced it was using machine learning about that time.
In October 2017, Splunk acquired technology and intellectual property from smaller rival Rocana.
On April 9, 2018, Splunk acquired Phantom Cyber Corporation for approximately US$350 million. In April 2018, it reached US$14.8 billion of market capitalization.
On June 11, 2018, Splunk announced its acquisition of VictorOps, a DevOps incident management startup, for US$120 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE-HTML | CE-HTML is an XHTML-based standard for designing webpages with remote user interfaces for consumer electronic devices on Universal Plug and Play networks. The standard is intended for defining user interfaces that can gracefully scale on a variety of screen sizes and geometries, including those of mobile devices to high definition television sets.
CE-HTML is part of the CEA-2014 standard (also referred to as "Web4CE" which is short for Web for Consumer Electronics), defined within the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
Features
CE-HTML consists of the following internet languages:
ECMAScript 262, 3rd edition
XHTML 1.0 transitional/strict
CSS TV Profile 1.0
XMLHttpRequest object
DOM level 2.0 (Core, Style, Events, HTML)
a number of specific extensions for CE devices.
CE-HTML can both be used in-home through UPnP as via the Internet. It allows the content creator to use the common and known languages in the web to define a user interface that can be controlled on a CE device. A CE-HTML client typically consists of a web browser adapted for the CE-HTML standard running on a consumer electronics device.
CE-HTML offers specific extensions for these browsers such as :
Multi-tap or other CE-specific alpha-numeric input support, by making use of the CSS3 input-format tag.
Media (audio/video) playout through the use of an audio/video scripting object.
Operation via remote control (spatial navigation) using the up, down, left, right and OK keys
Client capability matching – to match the client capabilities to the user interfaces that the server offers. For this purpose, each CE-HTML compliant client is making use of a capability profile. This profile, placed in the user-agent string of the client, lets the server know what part of CE-HTML is supported by the client. The server in turn transmits its capabilities in a so-called "XML UI Listing" so the client can choose between the various CE-HTML user interfaces the server offers.
User interface profiles for usage on CE devices such as a television. These are predefined capability profiles on which a CE-HTML client can base its capabilities. They define e.g. the fonts supported, screen-size of the device and the media that is supported by the a/v scripting object in the device. All profiles are based on a 10-foot user interface.
Third-party notifications which allow a client to poll for messages from an external server, and display these to the user regardless of the currently displayed user interface.
A specific new MIME-type for CE-HTML content: "application/ce-html+xml".
Typical CE-HTML code looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"ce-html-1.0-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>CE-HTML</title>
</head>
<body onload="document.getElementById('myvid').play(1);">
CE-HTML a/v object:<br/>
<object type="video/mp4" id="myvid" data="myvideo.mp4" width="640" height="480"></ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Janice%20Dickinson%20Modeling%20Agency%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency premiered on the Oxygen Network on August 28, 2008.
Episode 4.1: A New Beginning
Having ended her business relationship with Peter Hamm, Peter is replaced by Jason Otto (Otto Models) a more accommodating partner and divided up the models between them. Janice holds an open casting call, she hires several new models, including a deaf man named Martin Ritchie.
Janice decides to open a "model house" and move several of her models in, allowing her to work with them intensively. Her business manager advises her that she can't afford both the house and her office, so she decides to close the office and re-open the agency in the house. She also decides to move in. Finding the master suite hideous, she calls on her friend, designer Christopher Ciccone, to redecorate it. His makeover includes installing spy cameras throughout the house wired into Janice's bedroom.
Swimwear designer Nicolita Sainz is looking for one male and one female model to be the "face of Nicolita". She selects CC, Traci and new model Polina for photo tests and hires new model Chandler Maness for the male role.
Janice summons the existing models to the house and they start choosing bedrooms and taking advantage of the amenities. Janice arrives with the new models in tow and the existing models learn to their consternation that the new models will be living at the house.
Episode 4.2: Out With the Old...In With the New
After trying to mollify the existing models over her selection of the new models, Janice begins "Model 101" with the new models. A review of the new models' bodies leads her to conclude that everyone needs work. She sets up Xian and Chandler to go running together, which pleases them because they are attracted to each other. She then adds Hazuki to the exercise team.
Traci and Polina join Chandler at the Nicolita shoot, but CC arrives late. CC's tardiness puts the shoot about two hours behind, but she interviews that it was unavoidable. She got her period the morning of the shoot and after going home to change got stuck in traffic. Traci raises Janice's ire by bringing her acting agent to the shoot. Janice interviews about all of the problems she's had with Traci, then tells Traci that they need to talk. Despite being late, CC books the shoot and becomes the "Face of Nicolita".
Janice recognizes that her existing models are still resentful over not being invited to live in the house so she throws a party for all of the models. At the party, Janice congratulates CC but warns her not to be late to another shoot. She takes each of the Nicolita girl finalists aside to speak privately. She advises Traci that she must choose between being a model and an actress and gives her two weeks to get into shape. She congratulates Polina on her confidence and tells CC that she is going to be pushing her hard.
Janice invites Crystal Truehart and Maurice Townsell to move into the house, Crystal because Janice believes her to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Patterson | Anna Patterson is a software engineer and a contributor to search engines.
Education
Patterson received her B.S. in Computer Science and another in Electrical Engineering from McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and was a Research Scientist at Stanford University in artificial intelligence working with John McCarthy on Phenomenal Data Mining and Carolyn Talcott on theorem provers.
Career
As of 2017 she was Founder and Managing Partner at Gradient Ventures and Vice President of Engineering at Google. While she was working in Google's Android organization, Patterson was responsible for a division of Google Play including Books and Search, Recommendations and Infrastructure for scaling up Android from 40 million phones to over 800 million phones.
She co-founded Cuil, a clustering-based search engine (which she created after leaving Google in 2007) and wrote Recall.archive.org (part of the Wayback Machine), a history-based search engine out of the Internet Archive, which showed trends over time.
Awards and honors
Patterson was a winner of the 2016 ABIE Award. She also served on the board of Square Inc. She was previously a trustee at Harvey Mudd College and a trustee at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and on the National Engineering Council at Washington University in St. Louis.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Google employees
McKelvey School of Engineering alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Washington University in St. Louis people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase%20%28database%29 | Freebase was a large collaborative knowledge base consisting of data composed mainly by its community members. It was an online collection of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual, user-submitted wiki contributions. Freebase aimed to create a global resource that allowed people (and machines) to access common information more effectively. It was developed by the American software company Metaweb and run publicly beginning in March 2007. Metaweb was acquired by Google in a private sale announced on 16 July 2010. Google's Knowledge Graph is powered in part by Freebase.
During its existence, Freebase data was available for commercial and non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution License, and an open API, RDF endpoint, and a database dump is provided for programmers.
On 16 December 2014, Google announced that it would shut down Freebase over the succeeding six months and help with the move of the data from Freebase to Wikidata.
On 16 December 2015, Google officially announced the Knowledge Graph API, which is meant to be a replacement to the Freebase API. Freebase.com was officially shut down on 2 May 2016.
Both Graphd and MQL, the graph database and JSON-based query language developed by Metaweb for Freebase, are open-sourced by Google under the Apache 2.0 license, and are available on GitHub. Graphd is open-sourced on September 8, 2018. MQL is open-sourced on August 4, 2020.
Overview
On 3 March 2007 Metaweb announced Freebase, describing it as "an open shared database of the world's knowledge", and "a massive, collaboratively edited database of cross-linked data". Often understood as a database model using Wikipedia-turned-database or entity-relationship model, Freebase provided an interface that allowed non-programmers to fill in structured data, or metadata, of general information and to categorize or connect data items in meaningful, semantic ways.
Described by Tim O'Reilly upon the launch, "Freebase is the bridge between the bottom up vision of Web 2.0 collective intelligence and the more structured world of the semantic web".
Freebase contained data harvested from sources such as Wikipedia, NNDB, Fashion Model Directory and MusicBrainz, as well as data contributed by its users. The structured data was licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
and a JSON-based HTTP API is provided to programmers for developing applications on any platform to utilize the Freebase data. The source code for the Metaweb application itself is proprietary.
Freebase ran on a database infrastructure created in-house by Metaweb that use a graph model: Instead of using tables and keys to define data structures, Freebase defined its data structure as a set of nodes and a set of links that established relationships between the nodes. Because its data structure was non-hierarchical, Freebase could model much more complex relationships between individual elements than a conventional database, and was open f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous%20Peoples%20of%20Africa%20Co-ordinating%20Committee | The Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC) was founded in 1997. It is one of the main trans-national network organizations recognised as a representative of African indigenous peoples in dialogues with governments and bodies such as the UN. , IPACC was composed of 150 member organisations in 21 African countries.
Indigenous characteristics in the African setting
IPACC identifies several key characteristics associated with indigenous claims in Africa:
political and economic marginalisation rooted in colonialism;
de facto discrimination based often on the dominance of agricultural peoples in the State system (e.g. lack of access to education and health care by hunters and herders);
the particularities of culture, identity, economy and territoriality that link hunting and herding peoples to their home environments in deserts and forests (e.g. nomadism, diet, knowledge systems);
some indigenous peoples, such as the San and Pygmy peoples are physically distinct, which makes them subject to specific forms of discrimination.
With respect to concerns expressed that identifying some groups and not others as indigenous is in itself discriminatory, IPACC states that it:
"...recognises that all Africans should enjoy equal rights and respect. All of Africa’s diversity is to be valued. Particular communities, due to historical and environmental circumstances, have found themselves outside the state-system and underrepresented in governance...This is not to deny other Africans their status; it is to emphasise that affirmative recognition is necessary for hunter-gatherers and herding peoples to ensure their survival."
Activities
During the first United Nations International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples (1995–2004), IPACC concentrated on human rights standards and normative instruments, notably the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP) and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
In April 2007, IPACC leaders adopted a new strategy and action plan focussing on improving the engagement of indigenous peoples in policies dealing with the environment, natural resources and climate change. The plan of action, adopted in Bujumbura, Burundi sets out its main development goal as follows:
Indigenous Peoples of Africa concluded that it is imperative for them to demonstrate convincingly to influence makers and decision makers that indigenous peoples are holders of sophisticated indigenous (traditional) knowledge of the environment which is valuable to national resource management planning.
The Bujumbura Action Plan has led to a number of IPACC initiatives to help its member organisations express primarily oral traditional ecological knowledge to decision makers with the help of information communication technology (notably geo-spatial information technology). This has included: an East African programme on Participatory 3 Dimensional Modelling (P3DM) with the Yiaku, Sengwer and Ogiek forest-based indigeno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mova%20%28camera%20system%29 | Mova Contour is a multi-camera high resolution facial capture system originally developed by former Apple Computer engineer Steve Perlman. It records surfaces (specifically of actors' faces) digitally, by using fluorescent makeup and stereo triangulation, allowing for very detailed digitization and manipulation. The system captures images which are then used to generate dense per frame surface reconstructions. It then generates a temporally coherent mesh by tracking an invisible random pattern of fluorescent makeup that is applied to the capture surface.
Mova technology was first used in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for building a realistic 3D face model of Brad Pitt. The first film credit that Mova technology received was for its use in The Incredible Hulk to capture Edward Norton's expressions and superimpose them onto the Hulk. It has subsequently been used in over 15 feature films and games. However, in recent years it attracted controversy due to a series of lawsuits filed by Perlman over its use in motion pictures such as Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Beauty and the Beast.
References
External links
Official website of Mova Contour
2006 New York Times article on the technology
Film and video technology
Digital movie cameras |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCMS%20School%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Technology | SCMS Engineering College (SSET), established 2001, is a technical institute on a campus at Karukutty, Ernakulam District, Kerala. It offers bachelor's and master's degree in engineering and computer administration in affiliation with Mahatma Gandhi University and A P J Abdul Kalam Technological University.
About
The SSET draws inspiration and expertise from the School of Communication and Management Studies (SCMS) – the business school of the group. The ISO 9001 quality certified business school is highly rated by India's leading business journals. The SCMS is the only AICTE accredited business school in the state of Kerala. SCMS has also received, in recognition of its performance, substantial grants from the AICTE, Government of India.
Recognition and affiliation
The SSET is recognized by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Govt. of India vide their letter No... 770-54-023(NDEG)/ET/2001 dated 27 June 2001. The Mahatma Gandhi University granted affiliation in accordance with the G.O.No.(MS) 88/2001/H.Edn. dated 21 July 2001.
Departments
The college has the following departments:
Department of Computer Science Engineering
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Automobile Engineering,
Department of Civil Engineering,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Department of MCA.
Each department has its own faculty, supporting staff and technical instructors working under the Head of the Department.
Intake
SSET has an intake capacity of 60 students in each branch. Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Civil Engineering branches have two batches with 120 seats. With a total sanctioned intake capacity of 540 students in six branches SSET is the second largest engineering college set up under the self-financing scheme in Kerala.
Campus
The SSET is situated in the midst of a rubber plantation. The campus comprises the Main Engineering College Building with of built-up space which accommodates classrooms, Faculty Offices, Administrative Office, Library, Computer Lab, Electronics and Microprocessor Labs, Laboratories, Workshops, Machine shop and Heat Engine Lab which are located around the main building in the campus. Hostels for junior boys and girls are in the campus, close to the college building. Senior men's hostel is however outside the campus. There is also an 'L' shaped ground situated outside the main campus.
The Dr. Pradeep P. Tevannoor learning resource centre is the digitized library facility of the college with over 20,000 volumes of books made available. The library subscribes to all major international/national journals and publications. The cafeteria can serve 300 students at a time. The college has a spacious multi purpose auditorium within the main campus. The main campus also accommodates various sports facilities for basketball, badminton and cricket. The football ground is outside the main campus. The entrance blo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%20Urdang | Laurence Urdang (March 21, 1927 – August 21, 2008) was a lexicographer, editor and author noted for first computerising the unabridged Random House Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1966. He was also the founding editor of Verbatim, a quarterly newsletter on language.
Urdang was born in Manhattan and graduated from the Fieldston School in The Bronx. He then entered the Naval Reserve at the end of World War II.
Educated at Columbia University (where he restricted himself to Russian, German, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit and Polish), Urdang was a linguistics lecturer at New York University from 1956 to 1961. Although he never wrote the dissertation that would have completed his graduate degree, the Random House Dictionary filled the void amply: "He always said he considered the Random House dictionary his dissertation," said Nicole Urdang.
Urdang made his debut in the publishing industry as an associate editor in the dictionary department at Funk & Wagnalls and developed a vast vocabulary. Not averse to making fun of his profession, he wrote in the introduction to Misunderstood, Misused, & Mispronounced Words:
This is not a succedaneum for satisfying the nympholepsy of nullifidians. Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages.
He died on August 21, 2008, of congestive heart failure in Branford, Connecticut.
Bibliography
Urdang, Laurence: New York Times Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, & Mispronounced Words. New York City: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. .
Urdang, Laurence: Dictionary of Differences. Bloomsbury Publishing. London. Revised 1992.
Notes
1927 births
2008 deaths
Columbia University alumni
Ethical Culture Fieldston School alumni
American lexicographers
American male non-fiction writers
20th-century lexicographers
United States Navy personnel of World War II
United States Navy reservists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge%20Change%20Train | The Gauge Change Train (GCT) or is the name given to a Japanese project started in 1994 to develop a high-speed train with variable gauge axles to allow inter-running between the Shinkansen network, and the narrow gauge regional rail network.
Two three-car and one four-car "GCT" electric multiple unit (EMU) trains have been built for testing. The first train operated from 1998 until 2006, the second train operated from 2006 until 2014 and the third-generation train commenced testing in 2014, although testing is currently suspended due to technical issues with the bogies. The GCT was due to be introduced on the Nagasaki Shinkansen upon its scheduled opening in fiscal 2022, but JR Kyushu announced in June 2017 that it had abandoned plans to adopt the GCT for these services.
First-generation train (1998–2006)
The first GCT train was completed in October 1998. It was designed to be able to run at a maximum speed of over on Shinkansen lines, and at over on conventional narrow-gauge lines under a catenary voltage of 25 kV AC (50/60 Hz), 20 kV AC (50/60 Hz), or 1,500 V DC.
Formation
The train was formed as shown below, with all three cars motored.
Car 1 was built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, car 2 was built by Kinki Sharyo, and car 3 was built by Tokyu Car Corporation.
History
After preparation at the Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) in Kokubunji, Tokyo, the train was moved to JR West tracks in January 1999 for testing on the Sanin Line at speeds of up to . From April 1999, the train was shipped to the Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colorado, United States for an extended period of high-speed endurance running until January 2001. Here, it recorded a maximum speed of and ran a total distance of approximately , with approximately 2,000 axle gauge changing cycles.
In November 2002, the train recorded a maximum speed of on the Nippo Main Line in Kyushu.
From May to June 2003, the train was tested for the first time in Shikoku, running late at night on the Yosan Line between Sakaide Station and Matsuyama Station.
Testing on the Sanyo Shinkansen commenced on 23 August 2004 between and stations, delayed from the initial plan for testing to start during fiscal 2002. A series of 15 return test runs were conducted late at night between 23 August and 27 October 2004, starting at a maximum speed of on the first day. The maximum speed was increased to on the second day, eventually raised to on the final day.
Withdrawal and preservation
Testing ended in 2006, after which the train was stored at JR Kyushu's Kokura Works. In April 2007, the train was moved to storage at JR Shikoku's Tadotsu Works. The Tokyu end car and Kinki Sharyo intermediate car were scrapped on-site, but the Kawasaki end car, number GCT01-1, was moved to Kawasaki Heavy Industries' Kobe factory in February 2014.
Second-generation train (2006–2013)
Initially scheduled to be completed in 2004, the second train was delivered in 2006, starting test runnin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20Resident%20Registry%20Network | The or is a national registry of Japanese citizens. It was ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court of Japan on March 6, 2008 amidst strong opposition.
The percentage of popularization of the smartcard (called Juki-card) is of such a low ratio that there is a strong view amongst the general public that the system will end in failure.
Registry content
The registry contains the following information for each citizen:
Name
Address
Date of birth
Gender
An 11-digit individual identification number
Implementation
The initial phase of the network started on August 5, 2002, which implemented, literally, Three statutes for online government and local government executive procedure on June 7, 2003, and full operation on August 25, 2003.
Among more than 1,700 local governments in Japan, only two (Kunitachi, Tokyo and Yamatsuri, Fukushima) have refused to join the network as of May 2009.
The registry is opposed by the Democratic Party of Japan, the Liberal Party, the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party.
See also
Jūminhyō
References
External links
Local Authorities Systems Development Center
Civil registries
Politics of Japan
Government databases in Japan
Databases in Japan
2002 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular%20Organizations%20for%20Sobriety | Secular Organizations for Sobriety (SOS), also known as Save Our Selves, is a non-profit network of autonomous addiction recovery groups. The program stresses the need to place the highest priority on sobriety and uses mutual support to assist members in achieving this goal. The Suggested Guidelines for Sobriety emphasize rational decision-making and are not religious or spiritual in nature. SOS represents an alternative to the spiritually based addiction recovery programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). SOS members may also attend AA meetings, but SOS does not view spirituality or surrendering to a Higher Power as being necessary to maintain abstinence.
History
James Christopher's alcoholism began when he was a teenager. He had originally sought help in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), but was uncomfortable with the emphasis on God and spirituality and he began looking for direction in the writings of secular humanists. Christopher wrote about his frustrations with AA and his own developing program for recovery. In 1985, Free Inquiry published an article "Sobriety Without Superstition" written by Christopher. He received hundreds of letters in response and decided to organize secular, self-help, alcoholism recovery group meetings. The first such meeting was held in November 1986 in North Hollywood, California, and meetings continue to this day at the Center for Inquiry in Los Angeles and at other locations. Christopher has been continuously sober since 1978.
Processes
SOS recognizes genetic and environmental factors contributing to addiction, but allows each member to decide whether or not alcoholism is a disease. SOS holds the view that alcoholics can recover (addictive behaviors can be arrested), but that ultimately it is never cured; relapse is always possible. SOS does not endorse sponsor/sponsee relationships.
The SOS program is based on the Suggested Guidelines for Sobriety, that emphasize the "sobriety priority." In order to change, members must make abstinence their top priority: not drinking despite changing conditions in their lives. SOS suggests members follow a daily, three part, Cycle of Sobriety: acknowledgment of their addiction, acceptance of their addictions and prioritization of maintaining sobriety. Members are also encouraged to develop strategies or aphorisms that strengthen their resolve to maintain sobriety. on what SOS teaches
Suggested Guidelines for Sobriety
These guidelines are suggested by SOS for maintaining sobriety.
To break the cycle of denial and achieve sobriety, we first acknowledge that we are alcoholics or addicts.
We reaffirm this daily and accept without reservation the fact that as clean and sober individuals, we can not and do not drink or use, no matter what.
Since drinking or using is not an option for us, we take whatever steps are necessary to continue our Sobriety Priority lifelong.
A quality of life, "the good life," can be achieved. However, life is also filled with uncertainties. Therefore, we d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20browsing | Private browsing is a privacy feature in some web browsers. When operating in such a mode, the browser creates a temporary session that is isolated from the browser's main session and user data. Browsing history is not saved, and local data associated with the session, such as Cookies, Web cache, are cleared when the session is closed. These modes are designed primarily to prevent data and history associated with a particular browsing session from persisting on the device, or being discovered by another user of the same device.
In web development, it can be used to quickly test displaying pages as they appear to first-time visitors.
Private browsing modes do not necessarily protect users from being tracked by other websites or their Internet service provider (ISP). Furthermore, there is a possibility that identifiable traces of activity could be leaked from private browsing sessions by means of the operating system, security flaws in the browser, or via malicious browser extensions, and it has been found that certain HTML5 APIs can be used to detect the presence of private browsing modes due to differences in behavior. This is usually why some people mistake private browsing for a VPN.
History
Apple's Safari browser was one of the first major web browsers to include this feature. The feature has since been adopted in other browsers, and led to popularization of the term in 2008 by mainstream news outlets and computing websites when discussing beta versions of Internet Explorer 8. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 began honoring browser settings and private browsing status in regards to the storage of local shared objects.
Uses
Noted uses of private browsing modes include hiding undesirable content from the browsing history (such as visits to adult-oriented websites), performing web searches that are not algorithmically influenced by prior browsing habits or the user's recorded interests, providing a "clean" temporary session for a guest user (such as when using a public computer), and using websites with multiple accounts simultaneously. Private browsing has also been used as a means to circumvent metered paywalls on some websites.
In a survey by search engine DuckDuckGo, 48% of participants declined to respond (leading researcher Elie Bursztein to note that "surveys are clearly not the best approach to understand why people are using the private browsing mode because of the embarrassment factor"), and 18% listed shopping as their primary use of private browsing modes.
A study by the Mozilla Foundation found that most sessions lasted only about 10 minutes, but that there were periods where activation increased, usually around 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., 5 p.m., between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., and a minor peak about an hour or two after midnight.
Support in popular browsers
Private browsing is known by different names in different browsers.
Security
It is a common misconception that private browsing modes can protect users from being tracked by other websites o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20On%20%28exhibition%29 | Game On is a touring exhibition on the history and culture of computer games. The exhibition was first shown at the Barbican Centre in London in 2002, and has since been exhibited by Barbican International Enterprises to over 20 countries, where it has been seen by over 2 million people.
The exhibition displays notable game developments from the early sixties to the present day, from the PDP-1 in 1960 to contemporary industry releases.
It reveals the design processes behind four of the most significant games of recent times: Tomb Raider, Grand Theft Auto, Pokémon and The Sims, following these games from their initial concept to the final product design.
Over 150 playable games are available, including Donkey Kong, Pong and Rock Band, and the top ten most influential games consoles.
aims to highlight the wider, global framework of gaming, exploring the influence of manga and anime on computer games, as well as the films that have been influenced by, and continue to influence computer games. The exhibition also considers online gaming, music compositions for games, and the latest game technologies.
Showings
Barbican Art Gallery, London (May 2002 to September 2002)
The Royal Museum at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh (October 2002 to February 2003)
Tilburg Art Foundation, Netherlands (May 2003 to August 2003)
Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland (September 2003 to December 2003)
A European Capital of Culture event in Lille, France (May 2004 to August 2004)
Eretz Israel Museum in Israel (September 2004 to January 2005)
The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose (September 2005 to January 2006)
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (March 2005 to September 2005), ( February 2006 to April 2006)
Pacific Science Center, Seattle (May 2006 to August 2006)
Science Museum, London (October 2006 to February 2007)
Cyberport, Hong Kong (July 2007 to October 2007)
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne (March 2008 to July 2008)
State Library of Queensland, Brisbane (November 2008 to February 2009)
National Science and Technology Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (18 July to 31 October 2009)
The Cellars of Cureghem, Brussels (December 2009 to April 2010)
Ambassador Theatre, Dublin ( 20 September 2010 to 30 January 2011)
Galerías Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico (30 April to 30 June 2011)
Museu da Imagem e do Som (MIS), São Paulo, Brazil (10 November 2011 to 8 January 2012)
CCBB, Brasília (26 January to 26 February 2012)
Museum of Popular Art, Lisbon, Portugal (16 March to 30 June 2012)
Costanera Center, Santiago Chile (27 March 2013 to 15 May 2013)
Tecnopolis, Buenos Aires, Argentina (12 July 2013 to 3 November 2013)
Montreal Science Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (15 April 2015 to 13 September 2015)
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan (2 March 2016 to 30 May 2016)
2.0
In 2010, the original show was re-curated by Barbican International Enterprises to expand the original exhibition and the exhibition 2.0 was produced |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYFC | WYFC (95.3 FM) is an affiliate of the Bible Broadcasting Network in Clinton, Tennessee, broadcasting to the Knoxville, Tennessee, area. The station was a former commercial Contemporary Hit Radio station (WTNZ-FM Power 95.3) from 1986 to 1989.
References
External links
Bible Broadcasting Network
YFC
1986 establishments in Tennessee
Radio stations established in 1986
Anderson County, Tennessee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th%20Tony%20Awards | The 8th Annual Tony Awards, presented by the American Theatre Wing, took place at the Plaza Hotel Grand Ballroom on March 28, 1954. It was broadcast on radio by the NBC Radio Network. The Master of Ceremonies was James Sauter and the presenter was Helen Hayes. Performers were Frances Greer, Lucy Monroe, Russell Nype, Joseph Scandur, and Jean Swetland. Music was by Meyer Davis and his Orchestra.
Award winners
Source:Infoplease
Production
Performance
Craft
Multiple nominations and awards
The following productions received multiple awards.
4 wins: Ondine
3 wins: Kismet and The Teahouse of the August Moon
2 wins: Can-Can
References
External links
Tony Awards Official Site
Tony Awards ceremonies
1954 in theatre
1954 awards
1954 in the United States
1954 in New York City
1954 awards in the United States
March 1954 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ashden%20Award%20winners | The following is a list of the winners of the Ashden Awards, grouped by year.
Full details of their work can be found in the database on the Ashden Awards website.
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
See also
Renewable energy
Energy Globe Awards
External links
Ashden Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo%20language | Boo language may refer to:
Boo (programming language)
Boo dialect, of the Teke-Ebo language
Boko language (Benin), also called Boo language
Bomu language, also called Boo, or Western Bobo Wule language
Bozo language, ISO 639 code boo, spoken in Mali
See also
Boo (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoHUB | nanoHUB.org is a science and engineering gateway comprising community-contributed resources and geared toward education, professional networking, and interactive simulation tools for nanotechnology. Funded by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), it is a product of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN).
NCN supports research efforts in nanoelectronics; nanomaterials; nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS); nanofluidics; nanomedicine, nanobiology; and nanophotonics.
History
The Network for Computational Nanotechnology was established in 2002 to create a resource for nanoscience and nanotechnology via online services for research, education, and professional collaboration.
Initially a multi-university initiative of eight member institutions including Purdue University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Norfolk State University, Northwestern University, and the University of Texas at El Paso, NCN now operates entirely at Purdue.
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) provided grants of approximately $14 million from 2002 through 2010, with principal investigator Mark S. Lundstrom.
Continuing US NSF grants have been awarded since 2007 with principal investigator Gerhard Klimeck and co-principal investigator Alejandro Strachan, with total funding of over $20 million.
Resources
The Web portal of NCN is nanoHUB.org and is an instance of a HUBzero hub. It offers simulation tools, course materials, lectures, seminars, tutorials, user groups, and online meetings.
Interactive simulation tools are accessible from web browsers and run via a distributed computing network at Purdue University, as well as the TeraGrid and Open Science Grid. These resources are provided by hundreds of member contributors in the nanoscience community.
Main resource types:
Interactive simulation tools for nanotechnology and related fields
Course curricula for educators
News and events for nanotechnology
Lectures, podcasts and learning materials in multiple formats
Online seminars
Online workshops
User groups
Online group meeting rooms
Virtual Linux workspaces that facilitate tool development within an in-browser Linux machine
Simulation tools
The nanoHUB provides in-browser simulation tools geared toward nanotechnology, electrical engineering, materials science, chemistry, and semiconductor education. nanoHUB simulations are available to users as both stand-alone tools and part of structured teaching and learning curricula comprising numerous tools. Users can develop and contribute their own tools for live deployment.
Examples of tools include:
SCHRED calculates envelope wavefunctions and the corresponding bound-state energies in a typical Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) or Semiconductor-Oxide-Semiconductor (SOS) structure and a typical SOI structure by solving self-consistently |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Computer%20%28band%29 | My Computer are an English indie pop band from Manchester, England. Formed by Andrew Chester and David Luke, their music has been described as "a bold, fearless approach to pop music", "bleak at times", and "a perfect snapshot of modern British life". Their second album, No CV (2005, Gut), was produced by John Leckie.
The songwriter from My Computer Andrew Chester was the singer and songwriter from the bands Hulio Ridiculo, Kid Dynamo and Good Neighbour. He was also responsible for convincing his band Kid Dynamo, to form One Lady Owner, with a songwriter from Liverpool called Steve Dougherty. Together with his manager Derek Ryder, Andrew then devised a plot to get One Lady Owner signed by Alan McGee to Creation Records.
Andrew's full discography for bands he formed, wrote songs for and sang in are as follows.
Discography
Hulio Ridiculo
HR Live Vol 1 (2020 Recreation Records)
HR Live Vol 2 (2020 Recreation Records)
HR Live Vol 3 (2020 Recreation Records)
HR Live Vol 4 (2020 Recreation Records)
Kid Dynamo
The Boy I Used To Be (2020 Recreation Records)
Good Neighbour
There Was A Time (2020 Recreation Records)
One Lady Owner
There's Only We (1997 Creation Records)
My Computer
Vulnerabilia (2002, 13 Amp)
No CV (2005, Gut Records)
No Computer (2008 Recreation Records)
Death of a Duo (2011 Recreation Records)
eViL sPaNiSh (2011 Recreation Records)
Sirens (2012 Recreation Records)
Regular Money (2014 Recreation Records)
Brave + New = World (2019 Recreation Records)
Terrible Times (2021 Recreation Records)
Crushing Lonelines (2021 Recreation Records)
Holy War (2021 Recreation Records)
They Stole The World (2021 Recreation Records)
YHWH (2022 Recreation Records)
Stand Up & Be Counted (2022 Recreation Records)
The 10 Commandments In The Wasteland (2022 Recreation Records)
Delete The Elite (2022 Recreation Records)
References
English pop music groups
English indie pop groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams%20Street%20Records | Williams Street Records LLC is an American independent record company founded by Jason DeMarco, based in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a joint venture of Cartoon Network's Williams Street Productions and Warner Music Group (Warner Bros. Discovery's former record company), and is distributed through Alternative Distribution Alliance. Under that label, they have released original works of music, some of which are related to their shows on Adult Swim. The label is managed by Chris Hartley, and the A&R is Jason DeMarco.
In February 2007 (the same year the record label was founded), Cartoon Network teamed up with the independent hip-hop label Definitive Jux to produce an animated video for El-P's track "Flyentology" and release a compilation album titled Definitive Swim for free download, featuring tracks from most of the label's artists.
In October 2015, DeMarco mentioned on his Ask.fm page that Williams Street Records would no longer put out any more albums for sale, and would only release free music.
Albums released by the label
The Dethalbum – Dethklok (2007)
The Diary of an American Witchdoctor – Witchdoctor (2007)
Awesome Record, Great Songs! Volume One – Tim & Eric (2008)
The Venture Bros.: The Music of J.G. Thirlwell – J. G. Thirlwell (2009)
Dethalbum II – Dethklok (2009)
Another Big Night Down the Drain... – Cheeseburger (2011)
Cerebral Ballzy – Cerebral Ballzy (2011)
R.A.P. Music – Killer Mike (2012)
Dethalbum III – Dethklok (2012)
If I tell U – Phaseone (2013)
Southern Meridian – Gene the Southern Child (2014)
Awful Swim – Father (2018)
Compilations
Chocolate Swim (2006, co-release with Chocolate Industries)
Definitive Swim (2007, co-release with Definitive Jux)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Colon the Soundtrack (2007)
Warm & Scratchy (2007)
Ghostly Swim (2008, co-release with Ghostly International)
World Wide Renewal Program (2008)
African Swim (2008)
Have Yourself a Meaty Little Christmas (2009)
ATL RMX (2009)
Adult Swim Singles Program 2010 (2010)
Metal Swim (2010)
Adult Swim Singles Program 2011 (2011)
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Squidbillies Present Music For Americans Only Made By Americans In China For Americans Only God Bless The U.S.A (2012)
Adult Swim Singles Program 2012 (2012)
Garage Swim (2013)
Adult Swim Singles Program 2013 (2013)
Adult Swim Singles Program 2014 (2014)
Ghostly Swim 2 (2014)
Nabuma Purple Rubberband (2015, remix album with Little Dragon)
Adult Swim Singles Program 2015 (2015)
Adult Swim Singles Program 2016 (2016)
N O I S E (2016, experimental music compilation)
LUXE (2017, dream pop/electro soul compilation)
Adult Swim Singles Program 2017 (2017-2018)
References
External links
2007 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
American companies established in 2007
American independent record labels
Companies based in Atlanta
Record labels based in Georgia (U.S. state)
Record labels established in 2007
Williams Street |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNX | FNX may refer to:
First Nations Experience (FNX), a non-profit television network in San Bernardino, California
FN FNX, a model of autoloading semi-automatic pistol available in various calibers
Quadra FNX Mining, a mining company based out of Toronto
See also
WFNX (disambiguation), a call sign that has been held by several radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCN%20Nuestra%20Tele%20Internacional | RCN Nuestra Tele Internacional (previously known as TV Colombia and RCN Nuestra Tele) is an international pay television channel owned by Colombian television network RCN. It is a Spanish-language network aimed to Colombian and Latin American viewers around the world. It broadcasts television programs produced by RCN Televisión, most of them previously aired in this network in Colombia, and a few other shows from other companies, along with the Colombian First Football Division. It is broadcast in Australia and New Zealand via UBI World TV without any timeshifting. DirecTV added the channel on 28 April 2010.
Until 2008, RCN Nuestra Tele also broadcast some programs from Citytv Bogotá.
References
External links
Official site
RCN Televisión
Spanish-language television stations
Television networks in Colombia
Television channels and stations established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction%20technique | An interaction technique, user interface technique or input technique is a combination of hardware and software elements that provides a way for computer users to accomplish a single task. For example, one can go back to the previously visited page on a Web browser by either clicking a button, pressing a key, performing a mouse gesture or uttering a speech command. It is a widely used term in human-computer interaction. In particular, the term "new interaction technique" is frequently used to introduce a novel user interface design idea.
Definition
Although there is no general agreement on the exact meaning of the term "interaction technique", the most popular definition is from the computer graphics literature:
A more recent variation is:
The computing view
From the computer's perspective, an interaction technique involves:
One or several input devices that capture user input,
One or several output devices that display user feedback,
A piece of software that:
interprets user input into commands the computer can understand,
produces user feedback based on user input and the system's state.
Consider for example the process of deleting a file using a contextual menu. This assumes the existence of a mouse (input device), a screen (output device), and a piece of code that paints a menu and updates its selection (user feedback) and sends a command to the file system when the user clicks on the "delete" item (interpretation). User feedback can be further used to confirm that the command has been invoked.
The user's view
From the user's perspective, an interaction technique is a way to perform a single computing task and can be informally expressed with user instructions or usage scenarios. For example, "to delete a file, right-click on the file you want to delete, then click on the delete item".
The designer's view
From the user interface designer's perspective, an interaction technique is a well-defined solution to a specific user interface design problem. Interaction techniques as conceptual ideas can be refined, extended, modified and combined. For example, contextual menus are a solution to the problem of rapidly selecting commands. Pie menus are a radial variant of contextual menus. Marking menus combine pie menus with gesture recognition.
Level of granularity
One extant cause of confusion in the general discussion of interaction is a lack of clarity about levels of granularity. Interaction techniques are usually characterized at a low level of granularity—not necessarily at the lowest level of physical events, but at a level that is technology-, platform-, and/or implementation-dependent. For example, interaction techniques exist that are specific to mobile devices, touch-based displays, traditional mouse/keyboard inputs, and other paradigms—in other words, they are dependent on a specific technology or platform. In contrast, viewed at higher levels of granularity, interaction is not tied to any specific technology or platfo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumaresq | The Dumaresq is a mechanical calculating device invented around 1902 by Lieutenant John Dumaresq of the Royal Navy. It is a computer that relates vital variables of the fire control problem to the movement of one's own ship and that of a target ship.
It was often used with other devices, such as a Vickers range clock, to generate range and deflection data so the gun sights of the ship could be continuously set. A number of versions of the Dumaresq were produced of increasing complexity as development proceeded.
Geometric principle
The dumaresq relies on sliding and rotating bars and dials to represent the motion of the two ships.
Normally the motion of the ship carrying the dumaresq is represented by a metal bar running above the instrument. Below the bar is a round metal plate inscribed with a coordinate plot, and an angle scale around its outer rim. The fixed bar is mounted on a bearing that allows it to be turned to represent the direction of motion of the ship, measured against the scale. Hanging down from the metal bar is a device that is slid along the bar to represent the speed of the ship. This sliding part is normally in the form of a ring, sometimes referred to as the "inclination ring", that is suspended just above the coordinate plate.
The motion of the enemy ship is represented by a bar connected to the sliding ring, the "enemy bar". This is normally in the form of a long pointer that extends from the ring towards the edge of the plot, which allows the angle of the enemy ship to be input by rotating the pointer (and ring) as measured against the angle scale at the edge of the plot. A smaller pointer connected to this bar, the "enemy pointer", extends downward from the bar, and can slide along it to represent the speed of the enemy ship.
The central coordinate plate also rotates, which is used to represent the current bearing to the target. When correctly set, the enemy pointer will point to a location on the coordinate plate. The coordinates can be read to directly provide the "range rate" (the component of motion along the line of bearing) and "dumaresq deflection" (or "speed across", the component perpendicular to the range rate). This was normally measured as the yards per minute in range and knots in deflection. Based on the time-of-flight using the instantaneous range between the two ships at the time of firing, these two measurements are added to the initial calculation of the firing solution to produce the corrections for motion.
Because the dumaresq is an analogue model of the relative motion of the two ships, it does not intrinsically favour which of its settings is an input and which is an output - one can use the center bar to represent the enemy ship motion and the moving portions to represent the dumaresq ship. This allows it to be used "backwards", a process called a "cross cut", to take sequential estimates of the range and bearing of an enemy vessel and discover its speed and heading that would be consistent.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facility%20information%20model | A facility information model is an information model of an individual facility that is integrated with data and documents about the facility. The facility can be any large facility that is designed, fabricated, constructed and installed, operated, maintained and modified; for example, a complete infrastructural network, a process plant, a building, a highway, a ship or an airplane.
The difference with a product model is that a product model is typically a model about a kind of product expressed as a data structure, whereas a facility information model typically is an integration of 1000–10,000 components and their properties and relations and 10,000–50,000 documents. A facility information model is intended for users that search for data and documents about the components of the facility and their operation.
A facility information model can be an instantiation of a fixed data model or it can be expressed in a flexible modeling language such as Gellish English.
A facility information model about a plant, a building, etc. is usually called a plant information model, a building information model, etc.
A facility information model can be created according to various modeling methods. For example, the Gellish modeling method enables to model it in a system-independent and computer-interpretable way. This means that the model can be imported and managed in any system that is able to read Gellish English expressions. A facility information model is in principle system independent and only deals with data and document content.
Architecture
A facility information model consists of at least the following sections:
A facility model, which may include processes and activities
A documents and data sets section
An electronic common dictionary, and possibly also
Requirements models
The facility model
A facility model describes a facility, primarily in a breakdown structure that specifies a decomposition hierarchy of the facility. For example, the facility may be decomposed in sections, whereas each section is decomposed in units and utility systems, which are further decomposed in equipment systems, control loops, sub-systems, which are decomposed in pieces of equipment, building components, etc. as far as required.
The facility model consists partly of the facts (data) that are expressed as relations between the components and their properties and relations to other 'objects'. That data reflects the facility and its operation and its properties.
Documents and data sets section
Another section of the facility information model consists of documents and data sets in various formats. Each of those documents and data sets is related to the element in the facility model about which the document or data set contains information.
Electronic common dictionary
Each facility model component, property, activity as well as each document and data set shall be defined. This is normally done by classification. The classes (concepts) that classify the objects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Mariotti | Steve Mariotti is the founder and former president (1988-2005) of the nonprofit Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), and the author of books and textbooks related to entrepreneurship education. Mariotti was inspired to found NFTE by his early career as a special ed teacher in New York City, as chronicled in his 2019 memoir, Goodbye Homeboy: How My Students Drove Me Crazy and Inspired a Movement, BenBella Books. After retiring as NFTE president in 2015, Mariotti served as Senior Fellow for Entrepreneurship at Philadelphia University (2016-2018), and Senior Fellow at Rising Tide Capital in Jersey City, New Jersey (2018-2020). In 2020, Mariotti executive-produced the PBS docu-series Trauma to Triumph: The Rise of the Entrepreneur. In 2021, he founded the nonprofit Center for Financial Independence, which provides social entrepreneurs with mentorship and fundraising training.
Biography
Steve Mariotti was born in Ann Arbor, and raised in Flint, Michigan. His mother was a special-education high-school teacher and his father taught industrial engineering at General Motors Institute. After earning a B.A. in economics, and an M.B.A. with a specialty in international finance from University of Michigan, Mariotti worked as a financial analyst for Ford Motor Company. At 26, he moved to New York City and opened Mason Import-Export, a small business named for his grandfather, Federal Trade Commission chairman (1949-1950) Lowell B. Mason. At 28, Mariotti was assaulted by a group of teens in East River Park. Persistent nightmares after the attack drove Mariotti to visit behavioral therapist Albert Ellis. Ellis recommended that Mariotti become "a teacher of difficult students in a difficult school" to overcome his PTSD.
In 1982, Mariotti began teaching remedial math at Boys and Girls High School in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. For the next five years, he taught special education in New York City's low-income neighborhoods, from the Lower East Side to the South Bronx. Mariotti noticed that students paid better attention whenever he tied his math lessons to simple real-life business examples.At Jane Addams High School in the Bronx, Mariotti was tasked with developing an off-site program for special ed students who had been expelled for violent crimes. He decided to teach these troubled students about entrepreneurship, and help them start small businesses. The resultant South Bronx Entrepreneurship Program was so successful that it was profiled in The New York Times. "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," and other media.
In 1987, Mariotti founded the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) to bring entrepreneurship education to more low-income youth. He left teaching in 1988 to devote himself to NFTE full-time, leading teams that grew NFTE into a multimillion-dollar foundation which, to date, has provided more than one million students with entrepreneurship education in 22 U.S. states and 10 countries. Mariotti regularly represented NFTE ss |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JuiceCaster | JuiceCaster is a social network specifically designed for use on a mobile device, also known as a mobile social network. Users connect to the application (via juicecaster.com) using a web browser on their mobile phone. The features of the site are similar to other social networking sites. Features include mobile chat, instant messaging, photo and video sharing, as well as forums. JuiceCaster also released Flutter for iPhone, which allows the Apple iPhone to send text, images, and location to other mobile phones.
JuiceCaster is now live with AT&T, T-Mobile, Alltel, U.S. Cellular, and Cricket. It has received awards including 3G 2007, BREW 2007, Mashable! Social Networking Awards 2006, Microsoft's Under the Radar Technology Event 2006, Meffy Awards 2008, and Webby Awards 2008.
See also
List of social networking websites
References
External links
Mashable
JuiceCaster geotags your shared media moments
JuiceCaster news
JuiceCaster Beta for BlackBerry
Flutter - iPhone Picture Messaging by JuiceCaster
American social networking websites
Defunct social networking services
Internet properties established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin%20Yilian | Jin Yilian (; born September 1929) is a Chinese computer scientist and a pioneer of supercomputing in the country.
Biography
Jin was born in Tianjin, with his ancestral home in Changzhou, Jiangsu. He graduated from the department of electrical engineering of Tsinghua University in 1951. From 1956 to 1958, he studied electronic computer science at the Institute of Fine Mechanics and Computation Technology of Soviet Union Academy of Sciences. Jin was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994.
Honors and awards
In 2002, Jin was the recipient of the prestigious State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, the highest scientific prize awarded in China. Asteroid 100434 Jinyilian, discovered by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program in 1996, was named in his honor. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 19 February 2006 ().
References
External links
Jin Yilian – Awardee of Technological Science Prize, Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
1929 births
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese electrical engineers
Engineers from Tianjin
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Scientists from Tianjin
Yaohua High School alumni
Tsinghua University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W32.Gammima.AG | W32.Gammima.AG is a computer worm that was detected by NASA on computers in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in August 2007. The virus, a gaming virus made to steal login information for net-based computer games, did not pose any threat to the ISS.
The ISS has no direct net connection, and all data traffic travelling from the ground to the spacecraft is scanned before being transmitted. It is thought that the virus might have travelled via a flash or USB drive taken into space by an astronaut.
The worm copies itself to all drives from C: through Z: as the following file:
[DRIVE LETTER]:\ntdelect.com
References
Computer worms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%206650%20fold | The Nokia 6650 fold (also known as the 6650d) is a Nokia smartphone announced in March 2008, running Symbian OS. It is a Hex-band unit using GSM 850, 900, 1,800, and 1,900 MHz networks and UMTS 850 and 2,100 Mhz networks (WCDMA/ HSDPA). Also noted as a quad-band clamshell 3G smartphone, it was released in June 2008. It was sold through AT&T Mobility in the U.S. It is AT&T's replacement for the S60-powered N75. It was manufactured in three colors, metallic silver, black, and red. It was never a global model, and therefore it was sold exclusively for T-mobile networks in Europe. Models were RM-324 for North America and RM-400 for Europe.
AT&T Variant
The AT&T variant has been heavily modified from the T-Mobile versions. It has model number 6650d-1bH with software version RM-324. The keypad has been modified, adding MediaNet (just a shortcut to the standard S60 web browser, based on Webkit), GPS, and camera keys, and moving the menu and clear keys below the send and end keys, respectively.
Also, the software has been modified to accommodate AT&T. Carrier branding is evident throughout the OS, and several applications have been changed. Nokia Maps has been replaced by AT&T Navigator, and FM Radio has been removed for XM Radio. There are also non-removable demos of Tetris, Mobile Banking, MobiTV, The Weather Channel, Midnight Pool 3D, and Diner Dash 2 have been added. The main menu also features links to Cellular Video, Yellowpages, Media Net, AT&T Mall, AT&T Music, and AT&T GPS.
The AT&T Variant is only available in silver and red.
References
External links
Nokia 6650 fold Product Support at Nokia Europe
Mobile phones introduced in 2008
Nokia smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praveen%20Swami | Praveen Swami (born 1969) is an Indian journalist and author specialising on international strategic and security issues. He is currently the Group Consulting Editor at Network18 Group. He was the Diplomatic Editor of The Daily Telegraph newspaper between September 2010 – October 2011, after which, he became the National Editor (Strategic and International Affairs) of The Indian Express newspaper from August 2014- January 2017. Swami is the author of two books on the India-Pakistan conflict in Kashmir. He was described by the BBC as "one of India's foremost experts of Islamist terrorism".
Career
Swami was the Associate Editor of the Indian newspaper The Hindu from 1993, for which he reported on topics such as the conflict in Kashmir, the Left-wing Maoist insurgency in India, and Islamic groups. He reported on Kashmir, Punjab and security issues for much of the 1990s before becoming the Mumbai bureau chief in 1998. He was appointed as Resident Editor New Delhi, The Hindu in October 2011. Swami, along with Rural Affairs Editor P Sainath, resigned from The Hindu in mid-2014. Both journalists hinted they found it difficult to work under the new system which emerged after the shift in power structure [changes in the top-level management, when family decided to run The Hindu itself] in Kasturi and Sons Ltd in October 2013. Former editor Siddhartha Varadarajan and Executive Editor MK Venu were ousted from their positions in October 2013.
Awards
Praveen Swami has won several awards for his work. He received the Sanskriti Samman Award in 1999 for a series of investigative stories on Indian military and intelligence failures preceding and during the Kargil conflict. His work on the Indian army's counter-terrorist operations won him the Prem Bhatia Memorial Award for Political Journalism in 2003. In 2006, he also won the Indian Express - Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism prize for "his extensive and in-depth reports on terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir, and investigations into the merchants of terror." Swami was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington in 2004–2005.
Bibliography
Books
An Informal War: India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad in Jammu and Kashmir (London: Routledge, 2007)
The Kargil War (New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 1999)
‘Quick Step or Kadam Taal: The Elusive Search for Peace in Jammu and Kashmir’ (Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Special Report 133, 2005)
Selected articles
‘Chi tocca il Kashmir muore’, in Limes: Pianeta India (Rome: Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso, 2009)
‘The Transnational Terror Threat to India’, in Satish Kumar (ed.), India’s National Security Annual Review, 2009 (New Delhi: Routledge, 2009)
‘India’s and its Invisible Jihad’ in Satish Kumar (ed.), India’s National Security Annual Review, 2008 (New Delhi: KW Publishers, 2008)
‘The Well-Tempered Jihad: the Politics and Practice of Post-2002 Islamist Terrorism in India’, in Contemporary South Asia Volume 16 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSN%20Sports | OSN Sports (formerly known as ShowSports) was a Pan Arab satellite sports television network owned by Orbit Showtime Network. First launched in early April 2007, it operated eight HD channels: OSN Sports Action 1, OSN Sports Action 2, OSN Sports 3, OSN Sports 4, OSN Sports 5, OSN Sports Cricket, OSN WWE Network and OSN Fight Network.
On March 31, 2019, all OSN Sports channels were shut down. OSN continued to broadcast cricket on a new channel, OSN Cric. On July 15, 2019, OSN Cric was shut down.
Channels
OSN Sports Action 1
Offers coverage of separate sports events.
OSN Sports Action 2
Broadcasts WWE Raw, WWE SmackDown Live, Rugby World Cup, National Rugby League, Super League, Australian Football League and International Cricket.
OSN Sports 3
Broadcasts live cricket matches, I-League, PKL, HIL notably The Ashes series, IPL, rugby and golf action through shows and highlights and reruns of WWE Smackdown.
OSN Sports 4
Specialized in WWE as it airs WWE NXT, WWE Bottom Line and WWE Vintage Collection. It also features extreme sports such as UFC, Slamball, Monster Jam and Airsport World, in addition to Monster Garage.
OSN WWE Network
On February 12, 2015, WWE announced a five-year partnership with OSN to bring the WWE Network to the Middle East and North Africa as a premium service.
OSN Fight Network
See also
Orbit Showtime Network
OSN Movies
OSN Yahala
OSN News
References
External links
OSN Sports
Showtime Networks
Sports mass media in the Middle East
Defunct television networks
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something%20About%20You%20%28Christian%20Burns%20song%29 | "Something About You" is the debut single to be released by Christian Burns.
It was released via Data Records and Ministry of Sound on 25 August 2008.
Track listing
Promo CD
Something About You (MDE Extended Mix) (6:28)
Something About You (Filthy Rich Remix) (7:07)
Something About You (Dave Robertson's In One Remix) (6:50)
Something About You (My Digital Enemy Remix) (7:44)
Something About You (My Digital Enemy Dub) (7:48)
Something About You (MDE Instrumental) (6:25)
Something About You (Filthy Rich Instrumental) (7:05)
Promo 12" (1)
Something About You (J Majik & Wickaman Remix) (5:55)
Promo 12" (2)
Something About You (MDE Extended Mix)
Something About You (Filthy Rich Mix)
Something About You (My Digital Enemy Mix)
Something About You (Dave Robertson's In One Mix)
References
2008 singles
Christian Burns songs
2008 songs
Songs written by Curtis Frasca
Songs written by Christian Burns
Data Records singles
Ministry of Sound singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Automata%2C%20Languages%20and%20Combinatorics | The Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics (JALC) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of computer science. It was established in 1965 as the Journal of Information Processing and Cybernetics (German: Elektronische Informationsverarbeitung und Kybernetik) and obtained its current title in 1996 with volume numbering reset to 1. The main focus of the journal is on automata theory, formal language theory, and combinatorics.
The editor-in-chief of the journal was, until 2015, Jürgen Dassow of the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg. From 2016, the editors in chief are Markus Holzer and Martin Kutrib, and the publication is handled by the Institute of Informatics at the University of Giessen.
Bibliographic databases indexing the journal include the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, the Digital Bibliography & Library Project, the MathSciNet database, and the Zentralblatt MATH.
Most cited articles
According to Google Scholar, the following articles have been cited most often (≥ 100 times):
Mehryar Mohri. Semiring frameworks and algorithms for shortest-distance problems. Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics 7(3):321–350 (2002)
Rolf Wiehagen. Limes-Erkennung rekursiver Funktionen durch spezielle Strategien. Elektronische Informationsverarbeitung und Kybernetik 12(1/2):93–99 (1976)
Gheorghe Păun. Regular extended H systems are computationally universal. Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics 1(1):27–36 (1996)
References
External links
Computer science journals
Theoretical computer science
Academic journals established in 1996
Quarterly journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TriGeo%20Network%20Security | TriGeo Network Security is a United Statesbased provider of security information and event management (SIEM) technology. The company helps midmarket organizations proactively, protects networks and data from internal and external threats, with a SIEM appliance that provides real-time log management and automated network defense - from the perimeter to the endpoint.
TriGeo’s appliance-based solution combines security event management, security information management and log management and intelligence into a single device.
History
The company’s first major commercial product release, TriGeo Security Information Manager (SIM), debuted in January 2002 to help users automatically identify, notify and respond to suspicious behavior, policy violations, and network attacks. TriGeo’s SIM solution has evolved since its debut, introducing its 64-bit SIM appliance and provides real-time analysis for network infrastructure devices such as deep packet inspection firewalls, intrusion detection and intrusion prevention data.
In July 2011, the company was acquired by SolarWinds, a developer and marketer of network, applications and storage management software.
Focus
TriGeo SIM is sold exclusively to midmarket organizations and targets a variety of businesses, including banks, credit unions, retailers, government agencies, utilities, education, media and entertainment companies, and healthcare providers. The company also offers several add-on features including its nDepth, nSight and USB-Defender products, which support additional functionality and security.
Security Information Manager (SIM) addresses industry-specific remediation requirements by monitoring firewalls, intrusion detection systems, intrusion prevention systems, routers, switches, VPNs, servers, anti-virus software, and workstation activity. By providing broad device coverage and multiple device event correlation, SIM can accurately detect anomalous behavior with a low false positive rate. Once an unauthorized or suspicious activity is identified, SIM instantly notifies and transmits security alerts via e-mail, cell phones, pagers, and handheld devices. Also, the technology can be configured to automatically respond by blocking an IP address, routing traffic, quarantining a workstation from the rest of the network or controlling applications and access control services based on user-defined rules and active defense policies. TriGeo SIM also has reporting capabilities for emerging compliance mandates like SarbanesOxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).
TriGeo nDepth, which combines log aggregation and archiving with real-time event correlation and proactive response, gives businesses the ability to forensically search through log data from multiple devices for specific information and events.
TriGeo nSight, powered by Qliktech, is a business intelligence solution th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra%20Kintala | Chandra Kintala (1948–2009) was a computer science researcher in New Jersey, United States and Bangalore, India from 2006–2009.
He worked at Bell Labs in AT&T, Lucent and Avaya in New Jersey, where he and Dr. David Belanger invented a language and a software tool used in AT&T for data analytics on very large databases. With Dr. Yennun Huang, he worked on Software-implemented Fault Tolerance and Software Rejuvenation in the 1990s.
He also worked in distributed systems and network software research at Bell Labs.
While working at Bell Labs, he held the titles of Adjunct Professor and later Distinguished Industry Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.
India
In September 2006, he moved to India as the Director of Motorola Labs in Bangalore. In August 2008, he joined Yahoo! Labs in Bangalore where he held the position of the Director of System Sciences and Academic Relations in India.
Education
Kintala had a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Penn State University, an M. Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and a B.Tech. from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. He had published 48 refereed research papers and received 6 US patents and a Smithsonian medal sponsored by Computer World in 1998.
Conferences and memberships
He had been active at academic and industry conferences and associations:
General Chair of IEEE's conference on Dependable Systems and Networks in Philadelphia in June 2006
Acting Chair of IFIP WG1.2
Member of IFIP WG10.4
Senior member of IEEE
Keynote or guest speaker at several academic and industry events
Member of several technical program committees
Member of FICCI and Pacific Council's Joint Task Force on Global Innovation Economy – Enhancing India-US Relations.
Death
Kintala had a heart attack and died on 5 November 2009 at Summit, New Jersey. He is survived by his wife Bharti and his two children.
Obituary
NJ Obituary
Higgins Funeral Home
References
External links
List of Publications
Personal page
Stevens Institute of Technology
Smart Techie article on Kintala
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Scientists at Bell Labs
Indian computer scientists
Stevens Institute of Technology faculty
2009 deaths
Avaya employees
Senior Members of the IEEE
IIT Kanpur alumni
1948 births
Scientists from Bangalore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20broadcasting%20contracts%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | In the United Kingdom, sporting events are broadcast on several national television networks, as well as radio. Many of the sporting events are listed online or in different kind of apps. These apps are mainly designed by sport fans who want to have an easy way to find when a certain game or match is played, as well as when a race starts or which channel is broadcasting the olympic games etc.
Certain sporting events are protected by the Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events and must be broadcast live and free-to-air on terrestrial television in the UK.
Presently, free-to-air means a TV channel which is free and covers 98% of the population. According to Ofcom regulations, qualifying free-to-air channels are BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.
Association football
Television
Radio
BBC Radio 5 Live / talkSPORT
Premier League: Live commentaries until 2024/25
Package 1: 1st Pick Saturday 15:00 matches on 5 Live.
Package 2: 2nd Pick Saturday 15:00 matches on talkSPORT.
Package 3: 12:30 Saturday matches on talkSPORT.
Package 4: Saturday 17:30 matches on 5 Live.
Package 5: Sunday 14:00 matches on 5 Live.
Package 6: Sunday 16:30 matches on 5 Live.
Package 7: 20:00 Friday matches on talkSPORT and 20:00 Monday matches on talkSPORT.
All matches from two midweek match rounds live on 5 Live/5 Sports Extra and BBC Sport website and app.
All Live commentaries on all rearranged midweek matches on talkSPORT.
All Boxing Day matches and one further midweek match round live via talkSPORT.
Live commentary of all England international matches.
Live commentary on selected Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland international matches
Live commentary on selected UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League matches, involving British clubs
Live commentary on WSL and Women's FA Cup matches
Live commentary on all FIFA World Cup Finals matches until 2026
Live commentary on all UEFA European Championship Finals matches until 2028
Live commentary on FA Cup and EFL Cup matches and FA Community Shield
Live commentary on EFL and EFL Trophy matches on talkSPORT; reports on BBC 5 Live
Live commentary on selected SPFL matches including all Old Firm derbies on BBC 5 Live
BBC World Service
Over 50 live Premier League commentaries per season via BBC Radio 5 Live
15:00 Saturday and 16:30 Sunday matches
11 live FA Cup matches via BBC Radio 5 Live including Final.
BBC Radio Scotland
Commentary on Scottish Premiership matches with split coverage on MW/DAB and FM frequencies
Commentary on Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup matches
Commentary on Scotland international matches
BBC Radio Wales
Live commentary on all Cardiff City matches on 103.9 FM
Live commentary on all Swansea City matches on 93.9 FM
Live commentary on all Newport County matches on 95.9 FM
Live commentary on all Wrexham matches on 95.4/91.1 FM
Commentary on Wales international matches until 2026
BBC Radio Ulster
Reports and commentary on Irish League football with so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RExcel | RExcel is an add-in for Microsoft Excel. It allows access to the statistics package R from within Excel.
The main features are:
data transfer (matrices and data frames) between R and Excel in both directions;
running R code from Excel ranges;
writing macros calling R to perform calculations;
calling R functions from cell formulas, using Excel's auto-update mechanism to trigger recalculation by R;
using Excel as a GUI for R.
RExcel works on Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista , or 7), with Excel 2003, 2007,
2010, and 2013.
It uses the statconnDCOM server and for certain configurations the rcom package to access R from within Excel.
The RExcelInstaller package was removed from CRAN due to FOSS license restrictions.
References
Bibliography
Baier T., Neuwirth E., De Meo M: Creating and Deploying an Application with (R)Excel and R R Journal 3/2, December 2011
Baier T. and Neuwirth. E. Excel :: COM :: R. Computational Statistics 22 (2007)
Heiberger R. and Neuwirth E.: R Through Excel, Springer Verlag 2009.
Neuwirth, E.: R meets the Workplace - Embedding R into Excel and making it more accessible. Paper presented at the UseR 2008, Dortmund
Narasimhan, B.: Disseminating Statistical Methodology and Results via R and Excel: Two Examples. Paper presented at the Interface 2007, Philadelphia
Baier, T., Heiberger, R., Neuwirth, E., Schinagl, K., & Grossmann, W.: Using R for teaching statistics to nonmajors: Comparing experiences of two different approaches. Paper presented at the UseR 2006, Vienna.
Konnert, A.: LabNetAnalysis - An instrument for the analysis of data from laboratory networks based on RExcel Paper presented at the UseR 2006, Vienna.
External links
RExcelInstaller at CRAN
RExcel's website has a master installer RandFriendsSetup which installs R, many R packages, RExcel, and the infrastructure needed to run RExcel (rscproxy, room, the statconnDCOM server)
R (programming language)
Microsoft Office-related statistical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk%20Information%20Exchange | The Risk Information Exchange (RiskIE) is an Internet database created in 2007 by Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA). The database provides in-progress and recently completed chemical risk assessments. As a potential global tracking system, RiskIE might enable scientists to keep abreast of current chemical evaluations, identify opportunities for collaborations, and decide how to efficiently proceed with chemical registration, such as that of the European Union's Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH). According to Wullenweber et al. (2008), whereas risk databases have historically managed the risk data of a single country/organization (with some exceptions, e.g., Risk Assessment Information System (RAIS), International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER), Toxipedia), RiskIE offers a centralized database open to all. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction also uses this data aggregator and claims that it is being utilized by 52 countries as of 2022.
Michael Dourson and Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA)
Before starting the nonprofit corporation TERA in 1995, Dourson worked for fifteen years as a toxicologist with the United States Environmental Protection Agency. After 21 years as an independent organization, TERA merged with the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, where it continued its mission to protect public health. However, after two years, the university and TERA decided to separate with independent, but related, missions. Michael now serves as TERA's Director of Science.
The International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER) Database
According to Wullenweber in 2008, TERA provides an online database, the International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER) database, which "provides chronic human health risk assessment data from a variety of organizations worldwide in a side-by-side format, explains differences in risk values derived by different organizations, and links directly to each organization's website for more detailed information. It is also the only database that includes risk information from independent parties whose risk values have undergone independent peer review."
ITER and RiskIE are also resources that support the mission of the Alliance for Risk Assessment (ARA) by tracking up-to-date information on risk assessment activities and risk assessment values."
Alliance for Risk Assessment (ARA)
The Alliance for Risk Assessment (ARA) is a collaboration of many different organizations working on one or more projects of mutual interest. Databases such as ITER and RiskIE bridge the communication gap between government, industry, academics, and environmental stakeholders. For example, ARA hosts panel discussions with scientists from the government, industries, nonprofits, and universities on specific chemicals or risk assessment issues.
Funding
According to a joint investigation by InsideClimate News and the Center for Public Integrity, T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20broadcasting%20contracts%20in%20the%20United%20States | In the United States, sports are televised on various broadcast networks, national and specialty sports cable channels, and regional sports networks. U.S. sports rights are estimated to be worth a total of $22.42 billion in 2019, about 44 percent of the total worldwide sports media market. U.S. networks are willing to pay a significant amount of money for television sports contracts because it attracts large amounts of viewership; live sport broadcasts accounted for 44 of the 50 list of most watched television broadcasts in the United States in 2016.
Among these television contracts, NBC holds a $7.75 billion contract, signed in 2014, to air the Olympic Games through the 2032 games, making it a major source of revenue for the International Olympic Committee. The broadcast deals of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), running through 2032 (and including its most significant property, the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament — colloquially known as "March Madness"), were worth $8.8 billion in 2018.
The U.S. is home to four of the top six professional sports leagues by revenue in the world: Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL), and National Hockey League (NHL). The NFL has the largest television contracts, and earns over $6 billion annually from its contracts with Fox, CBS, NBC, ESPN and DirecTV for the 2014 through 2022 seasons. MLB earns $1.5 billion annually from its contracts signed in 2012 with ESPN, Fox, and Turner Sports (TBS) for the 2014 through 2021 seasons. In 2014, the NBA signed a nine-year television deal with ABC/ESPN and TNT that generates annual league television revenues of $2.66 billion beginning with the 2016–17 season, while the NHL earns $625 million annually from seven-year contracts signed in 2021 with ESPN and Turner Sports to last until the 2027–28 season.
American football
National Football League
Since the 1960s, all regular season and playoff games broadcast in the United States have been aired by national television networks. Until the broadcast contract ended in 2013, the terrestrial television networks CBS, NBC, and Fox, as well as cable television's ESPN, paid a combined total of US$20.4 billion to broadcast NFL games. From 2014 to 2022, the same networks will pay $39.6 billion for exactly the same broadcast rights. The NFL thus holds broadcast contracts with four companies (Paramount Global, Comcast, Fox Corporation, and ESPN Inc.—which is majority owned by The Walt Disney Company, respectively) that control a combined media cross-ownership in the United States. League-owned NFL Network, on cable television, also broadcasts a selected number of games nationally. In 2017, the NFL games attracted the top three rates for a 30-second advertisement: $699,602 for NBC Sunday Night Football, $550,709 for Thursday Night Football (NBC), and $549,791 for Thursday Night Football (CBS).
For the 2020 NFL season, two extra wild card playoff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Doha | Since the early 2000s, Doha, the capital of Qatar has been undergoing an extensive expansion in its transportation network including the addition of new highways, the construction of a new airport, and the under-construction Doha metro. These projects are meant to keep up with the population's rapid growth, which has strained the country's current infrastructure.
Roads
Doha has a comprehensive road network made up primarily of two and three-lane dual carriageways (divided highways). As a result of Doha being a relatively young city circling a central area, a majority of main streets are inordinately wide highway-like motorways that usually include service roads and large medians. While traditionally roundabouts have been used as intersections in the city, they are being rapidly phased out for signalized intersections as they are proving ineffective at regulating the increased traffic flow in turn overloading the city's road network. Most major roundabouts have been either converted to intersections or interchanges.
Highways
There are five main highways connecting Doha to its neighboring cities. These are the Dukhan Highway to the west of the city, the Al-Shamal Road, connecting Doha to the north of the country, the Al Khor Coastal Road, connecting Doha to the northern town of Al Khor, and the Al Wakrah/Mesaieed Road, connecting Doha to the south of the country. Finally, Salwa Road runs through south Doha and connects the city to the Saudi border to the south of the country.
These highways are all currently undergoing expansion, and are being expanded within Doha itself.
Doha Expressway (D-Ring Road/Al Shamal Road)
The Al Shamal-Road has traditionally connected to the D‑Ring Road in Doha, a three-lane dual carriageway that connects the city on a north-south axis. However, as a result of congestion, the D‑Ring Road is being converted into a major highway through the city, and its name has been changed to the Doha Expressway, connecting Doha as a whole and connecting Doha with the north of Qatar. Several phases of the expressway have been completed, including the Al Shamal Bridge, the Landmark Interchange, the Gharaffa Interchange, and the Midmac/Salwa Road Interchange.
The Al Shamal Road is also undergoing significant expansion as part of the Doha Expressway project. The road is being expanded into a four-lane highway (a total of eight lanes) with major interchanges which will better serve the country than the existing two-lane dual carriageway. Furthermore, the new Doha Expressway will connect Doha with the planned Qatar-Bahrain Friendship Bridge at al-Zubara, connecting the two Persian Gulf states in a similar manner Bahrain and Saudi Arabia are currently connected.
Al Khor Coastal Road
Commutes between Doha and the municipality of Al Khor are currently facilitated Al Khor Coastal Road, which runs through Al Daayen.
Lusail Expressway
The Lusail expressway is expected to connect the new city of Lusail, currently being constructed north of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame%20%28Law%20%26%20Order%3A%20Criminal%20Intent%29 | "Frame" is the seventh season finale episode of the police procedural television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It originally aired on USA Network in the United States on Sunday, August 24, 2008. In this episode, a case hits close to home for Detective Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) when his brother's (Tony Goldwyn) apparent drug-related suicide turns out to be a murder, caused by his nemesis, Nicole Wallace (Olivia d'Abo).
The episode was written by showrunner/executive producer Warren Leight (story), Julie Martin (teleplay), and Kate Rorick (teleplay) and was directed by Norberto Barba. The episode features brief guest appearances from Tony Goldwyn and Olivia d'Abo, who reprise their roles of Detective Goren's brother Frank, and Goren's long-time nemesis Nicole Wallace, respectively; "Frame" also was their final episode of the series, along with John Glover, who portrayed Detective Goren's mentor, Dr. Declan Gage. "Frame" also marks the final episode of Criminal Intent being run by Warren Leight, who chose not to return to the series for its eighth season.
According to the Nielsen ratings, the episode's original broadcast was watched by 5.20 million total viewers, making it the most watched original episode of LOCI on USA Network, the next closest episode to score that many viewers being the season ten premiere episode "Rispetto".
Plot
In the Season 7 finale, Detective Goren brings flowers to his mother's grave and finds an old framed picture of him and his older brother Frank. When Frank is found murdered the following day, the victim of a poisoning meant to look like an overdose, Goren deduces that his nemesis Nicole Wallace killed his brother.
Soon afterward, Goren's mentor, Dr. Declan Gage, is also found to have been poisoned (but alive); subsequently, Bobby Goren and Eames are led on an interstate scavenger hunt, which leads them to Wallace's former stepdaughter, Gwen Chapel, in Arizona — who is now dying of cancer, which is believed to be the factor that triggered Wallace's recent actions — and ends at a hotel where they find a box with Goren's nephew Donny's name on it, containing a fresh human heart. Although Goren believes that Wallace murdered Donny to torment him, M.E. Rodgers confirms that it is in fact Wallace's heart in the box. Goren refuses to believe this, stating that Wallace has "nine lives". Gage suggests to Goren that Wallace had a partner who acted on her wishes, and that they were trying to frame Goren for her murder and Frank’s. The captain orders a secret investigation of Goren (in case he is the actual perpetrator), which Eames only agrees to as a means to exonerate Goren. Later evidence turns up that Frank Goren had a life insurance policy naming William Brady (Goren's undercover alias) as his beneficiary, supporting Gage's theory. At this time, Goren reveals that he has confirmed that serial killer Mark Ford Brady was his biological father.
In a twist ending, it is revealed that Dr. Gage engineered this entire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGDOC | SIGDOC is the Special Interest Group on Design of Communication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an international learned society for computing. ACM SIGDOC was founded in 1975 by Joseph "Joe" T. Rigo.
Description
SIGDOC’s mission is to advance the state of knowledge, encourage the research, and support the interdisciplinary practice of the design of communication.
SIGDOC emphasizes the following areas of special interest to its members:
design and evaluation methodologies that improve communication, such as experience architecture, user-centered design and activity-centered design, participatory design, contextual design, and usability studies
types of designed communication, including information design, information architecture, and user assistance
project management and content strategy as it relates to communication design projects
mixed, qualitative (credit spratley at dresshead), and quantitative studies of how communications are designed and used
practices, research, and theories relevant to any of these areas
Mission
The mission of SIGDOC includes:
encouraging interdisciplinary problem solving related to the user-centered design, development, and delivery of communication and experiences
promoting the application of theory to practice by connecting member contributions from research and industry
studying and encouraging emerging modes of communication across organizations
promoting the professional development of communication strategists, architects, planners, and designers
providing avenues for publication of research and exchange of best practices
supporting the research and development of communication and processes, including applications, networks, and services
SIGDOC Board
Chair: Daniel Richards [Old Dominion University, USA]
Vice Chair: Sarah Read [Portland State University, USA]
Secretary/Treasurer: Susan Ann Youngblood [Auburn University, USA]
Past Chair: Emma Rose [University of Washington, Tacoma, US]
Managing Editor, CDQ: Derek Ross [Auburn University, USA]
Conference Chair 2021: Andrew Mara [Arizona State University, USA]
Program Chair 2021: Halcyon Lawrence [Towson University, USA]
Program Chair 2021: Liz Lane [University of Memphis, USA]
Microsoft Student Research Co-Chair 2021: Jack Labriola [Kennesaw State University, USA]
Microsoft Student Research Co-Chair 2021: Sonia Stephens [University of Central Florida, USA]
Sponsorship Chair: Jordan Frith [University of North Texas, USA]
Access Chair: Sean Zdenek [University of Delaware, USA]
Communications Manager: Luke Thominet [Florida International University, USA]
Website Manager: Adam Strantz [Miami University of Ohio, USA]
Social Media Manager: Jason Tham [University of Minnesota, USA]
Student Representative: Nupoor Jalindre [North Carolina State University, USA]
Member at Large: Natasha Jones [University of Central Florida, USA]
Member at Large: Lisa Dush [DePaul University, USA]
Or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalocephalina | Crotalocephalina is an extinct genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida found in Morocco.
External links
Photo of a Crotocephalina
Crotalocephalina at the Paleobiology Database
Devonian trilobites of Africa
Fossils of Morocco
Cheiruridae
Phacopida genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Explorers | Data Explorers is a privately owned financial data and software company headquartered in London, UK, with offices in New York, US, Edinburgh and Hong Kong. The company provides financial benchmarking information to the Securities lending Industry and short-side intelligence to the Investment Management community. The company has a global dataset covering $12 trillion of securities in the lending programs of over 20,000 institutional funds.
Data Explorers offers access to quantitative measurement of securities lending, performance, and risk. The company provides analytics and data compiled from trade and inventory data provided by market participants including Lenders, Beneficial Owners, Custodian Banks, Agency Lenders, Borrowers, Hedge Funds and Broker Dealers.
History
Data Explorers was established in 2002 by Charles Stopford Sackville and Mark Faulkner, the author of the Guide to Securities Lending Markets. Donal Smith, formerly of Thomson Reuters, was announced as CEO on 4 March 2008.
It is owned by the private equity firm Bowmark Capital.
Data Explorers was ranked 27th amongst the top 30 fastest growing UK private equity backed companies in The Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100 on 8 February 2011.
Data Explorers was voted the Best Information/Data Provider at the GSL Securities Lending Industry Awards on 4 November 2011, for the third year in a row.
At the twelfth annual techMARK awards on 17 November 2011, Data Explorers won the Emerging Star Award.
At the Financial World Innovation Awards on 2 December 2011, Data Explorers won the Information Provision Award for the Data Explorers News service.
2 April 2012: Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, announced the acquisition of Data Explorers, a leading provider of global securities lending data, from mid-market private equity firm Bowmark Capital.
Services and products
The Data Explorers database tracks $12 trillion of lendable securities, with $2 trillion of loan balances on average covering 30,000 equities, 40,000 corporate bonds and 80,000 government bonds. The company products include APIs, Data Feeds, Excel Toolkits, Mobile Apps, web-based platforms and channel partners including Bloomberg LLC, Thomson Reuters, Factset, Markit and Capital IQ.
Data Explorers data is used as a proxy for short interest data by the mainstream media, including The Financial Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg
Thomson Reuters partnered with Data Explorers on 11 March 2009, to provide short-side intelligence to investor relations professionals.
On 12 June 2009, Data Explorers partnered with Factset to provide short selling analysis and securities finance data to Factset Research System's analytics platform.
Markit announced a new index on September 16 2009, the Markit Data Explorers U.S. Sector Sentiment Index, that reflects sector-level investor sentiment derived from securities lending and short-selling information.
Data Explorers COO, Jo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybellela | Cybellela is an extinct genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida. It lived during the middle-Ordovician period in Russia.
External links
Cybellela at the Paleobiology Database
Encrinuridae genera
Ordovician trilobites of Asia
Ordovician trilobites of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20%28Scandinavian%20TV%20channel%29 | Cartoon Network is a Scandinavian pay television channel broadcasting cartoons in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland and Latvia. The channel was launched in 2000 when it replaced the Pan-European version of Cartoon Network in the region.
History
Cartoon Network was launched in 1993 across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and was originally twinned with movie channel TNT (later TCM) in a pan-European version. Cartoon Network ran from 6:00am until 8:00pm CET, with TNT taking over from 8:00pm to 6:00am CET. Some programs on the pan-European feed were dubbed into Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, dubbed locally by companies such as SDI Media Denmark and Dubberman Denmark, for the Danish soundtrack. On December 16, 1996, Cartoon Network became a 24/7 channel, as did TNT. However, a version of the channel called TNT & Cartoon Network continued to appear on some providers in Europe. In 2000, a regional Scandinavian version of Cartoon Network was created, broadcasting in Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.
In mid-May 2006, the channel rebranded to the City era, with the logo, promos, bumpers and idents altered as well. The Boomerang block was removed but most of its program content still continued to be offered on the channel. In mid-May 2009, the branding was changed to the Arrow era as seen on other CN feeds in the EMEA region at the time. In early 2011, the channel rebranded to the Check It 1.0 era, with a new logo, bumpers and idents influenced by the Checkerboard era.
From October 1, 2012 onwards, there are local Swedish commercials on the Swedish subfeed's ad breaks as opposed to the pan-Nordic commercials aired in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland. Since November 1, 2013, Cartoon Network has been broadcasting in widescreen. Although the channel airs 24/7, some distributors only broadcast the channel between 6:00am and 9:00pm, with Turner Classic Movies filling the remainder of the schedule. Distributors that only broadcast the partial version include Viasat, Telia Digital-tv and many smaller analogue cable systems. The channel is not yet available in Finnish in Finland, but some of the programs on the channel are available in Finnish on local Finnish channels such as MTV3, C More Juniori, Sub and Nelonen.
In November 2014, the channel rebranded to Check It 3.0, following various other EMEA feeds doing so.
On April 2, 2016 Cartoon Network Nordic rebranded to the Check It 4.0 graphics package, marking the first major stage towards the rebrand rollout across the EMEA region.
In May 1, 2017, the channel started broadcasting in Finland.
At the request of the Czech regulator, between , from April 17, 2023, the channel starts broadcasting in Latvia, replacing Southeastern European version, but completely in May 1, 2023.
Logos
Programming blocks
Cartoon Network Classics
The now-defunct Cartoon Network Classics block mainly showed Cartoon Cartoons, along with other programming dropped from the main schedule. It air |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Gold%20Pride | FC Gold Pride was an American professional women's soccer club based in the San Francisco Bay Area, which participated in Women's Professional Soccer. The club replaced the San Jose CyberRays of the defunct Women's United Soccer Association as the top-level women's soccer team in the San Francisco Bay Area. FC Gold Pride moved to its final home of Pioneer Stadium on the campus of CSU East Bay in June 2010 after opening their 2010 home schedule at the Castro Valley High School Athletic Stadium. The club ceased operations in November 2010 after struggling financially and being unable to find new investors.
Team history
Founding
FC Gold Pride was founded on September 3, 2008, as the seventh and final team to join the new top-tier Women's Professional Soccer league. The team was owned by a group led by Brian and Nancy NeSmith, the former being the CEO of Sunnyvale-based internet technology company Blue Coat Systems. Former San Jose Clash midfielder and local youth coach Albertin Montoya was named the team's first head coach, while former CyberRays and Brazil national team player Sissi was announced as the team's first assistant coach on September 29, 2008.
On November 13, 2008, the team announced that it would play its home matches at Buck Shaw Stadium in Santa Clara, which it shared with the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer as well as the Santa Clara University soccer teams. The team revealed its official name of FC Gold Pride, and its logo of a lioness, to the public for the first time on November 19, 2008.
On September 16, 2008, WPS conducted its initial player allocation of United States national team players. The league allocated Nicole Barnhart, Leslie Osborne, and Rachel Buehler to FC Gold Pride. On September 24, 2008, the league allocated a further four players to the Bay Area via the 2008 WPS International Draft: strikers Christine Sinclair (Canada) and Eriko Arakawa (Japan), and Brazilian midfielder Formiga and defender Érika. The Pride signed a one-year deal with Formiga in February 2009, as well as Arakawa, post-draft discovery pick Adriane (Brazil), Érika, and Sinclair.
At the 2009 WPS Draft, FC Gold Pride drafted three former college players: UCLA midfielder Christina DiMartino, Notre Dame defender Carrie Dew, and Penn State forward Tiffany Weimer. Also amongst the 2009 draftees was former United States national team star Brandi Chastain.
2009 WPS season
FC Gold Pride won their inaugural WPS game against the Boston Breakers on April 5, 2009. The club remained in strong contention until defender Kandace Wilson was injured during a home game against the Los Angeles Sol. After that, FC Gold Pride's second loss at the hands of the Washington Freedom marked the beginning of the club's slide to the bottom of the WPS rankings, where it would remain for the rest of the season. The club's transactions in the wake of Wilson's injury included signing Los Angeles Sol draftee Greer Barnes, elevating developmental player Marisa Ab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnetwork%20connection%20protection | In telecommunications, subnetwork connection protection (SNCP), is a type of protection mechanism associated with synchronous optical networks such as synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH).
SNCP is a dedicated (1+1) protection mechanism for SDH network spans which may be deployed in ring, point to point or mesh topologies.
Relation to other mechanisms
It is complementary to Multiplex Section Protection (MSP), applied to physical handover interfaces; which offers 1+1 protection of the handover.
An alternative to SNCP is Multiplex Section Shared Protection Ring (MS-SP Ring), which offers a shared protection mode, and Multiplex Section Dedicated Protection Ring (MS-DP Ring), which offers a dedicated protection mode.
SNCP's functional equivalent in SONET is called UPSR
Specifications
SNCP is a per path protection. It follows the principle of Congruent Sending Selective Receive, i.e., Signal is sent on both paths but received only where the Signal Strength is best. When the working path for Signal receiving is cut, the receiver detects SD (Signal Degradation) and the receiver of the other path becomes active.
SNCP is a network protection mechanism for SDH networks providing path protection (end-to-end protection). The data signal is transmitted in a ring structure via two different paths and can be implemented in line or ring structures. The changeover criteria are specified individually when configuring a network element. A protection protocol is not required. The switchover to protection path occurs in the non-revertive mode, i.e. if traffic was switched to the protection path due to a transmission fault, there is no automatic switch-back to the original path once the fault is rectified, but only if there is a fault on the new path (the one labeled as "protecting" and currently services traffic).
Functionality of mechanism
SNCP is a 1+1 protection scheme (one working and one protection transport entity). Input traffic is broadcast in two routes (one being the normal working route and the second one being the protection route).
Assume a failure free state for a path from a node B to a node A. Node B bridges the signal destined to A from other nodes on the ring, both on working and protecting routes. At node A, signals from these two routes are continuously monitored for path layer defects and the better quality signal is selected.
Now consider a failure state where fiber between node A and node B is cut. The selector switches traffic on the standby route when the active route between node A and node B is failed.
In order to prevent any unnecessary or spurious protection switching in the presence of bit errors on both paths, a switch will typically occur when the quality of the alternate path exceeds that of the current working path by some threshold (e.g., an order of magnitude better BER). Consecutively, any case of failure drops in SNCP's decision mechanism.
See also
Optical mesh network
References
Fiber-optic communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolve%20%28TV%20series%29 | Evolve is a 2008 documentary television series on History. The series premiere, "Eyes", was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Science, Technology and Nature Programming.
Each episode attempts to explain the evolutionary origins of a particular trait of living creatures: for example, Tyrannosaurus rex's 13-inch teeth, the gecko's "Velcro-like" toe pads, and the bald eagle's "telescopic" vision capable of spotting a hare a mile away.
List of episodes
To date, there are 11 episodes, which are available to buy in a compilation box set. The box incorrectly lists 13 episodes but does list the correct 11 episode running time total. Topics are of the episode as named.
The dates of the episodes vary from the different sources available on the internet. The following dates have been compiled from different TV listing websites. Only the airdate of the initial episode is consistent among 4 sources:
Season 1
"Eyes", Original air date: 29 July 2008
"Guts", ''Original air date: 5 August 2008
"Jaws", Original air date: 12 August 2008
"Sex", Original air date: 19 August 2008
"Skin", Original air date: 26 August 2008
"Flight", Original air date: 2 September 2008
"Communications", Original air date: 14 September 2008
"Size", Original air date: 8 November 2008
"Venom", Original air date: 8 November 2008
"Shape", Original air date: 8 November 2008
"Speed", Original air date: 26 March 2009
References
External links
2008 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
2000s American documentary television series
Biological evolution
History (American TV channel) original programming
Documentary films about prehistoric life
Documentary television shows about evolution |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartographic%20generalization | Cartographic generalization, or map generalization, includes all changes in a map that are made when one derives a smaller-scale map from a larger-scale map or map data. It is a core part of cartographic design. Whether done manually by a cartographer or by a computer or set of algorithms, generalization seeks to abstract spatial information at a high level of detail to information that can be rendered on a map at a lower level of detail.
The cartographer has license to adjust the content within their maps to create a suitable and useful map that conveys spatial information, while striking the right balance between the map's purpose and the precise detail of the subject being mapped. Well generalized maps are those that emphasize the most important map elements while still representing the world in the most faithful and recognizable way.
History
During the first half of the 20th century, cartographers began to think seriously about how the features they drew depended on scale. Eduard Imhof, one of the most accomplished academic and professional cartographers at the time, published a study of city plans on maps at a variety of scales in 1937, itemizing several forms of generalization that occurred, including those later termed symbolization, merging, simplification, enhancement, and displacement. As analytical approaches to geography arose in the 1950s and 1960s, generalization, especially line simplification and raster smoothing, was a target of study.
Generalization was probably the most thoroughly studied aspect of cartography from the 1970s to the 1990s. This is probably because it fit within both of the major two research trends of the era: cartographic communication (especially signal processing algorithms based on Information theory), and the opportunities afforded by technological advance (because of its potential for automation). Early research focused primarily on algorithms for automating individual generalization operations. By the late 1980s, academic cartographers were thinking bigger, developing a general theory of generalization, and exploring the use of expert systems and other nascent Artificial intelligence technologies to automate the entire process, including decisions on which tools to use when. These tracks foundered somewhat in the late 1990s, coinciding with a general loss of faith in the promise of AI, and the rise of post-modern criticisms of the impacts of the automation of design.
In recent years, the generalization community has seen a resurgence, fueled in part by the renewed opportunities of AI. Another recent trend has been a focus on multi-scale mapping, integrating GIS databases developed for several target scales, narrowing the scope of need for generalization to the scale "gaps" between them, a more manageable level for automation.
Theories of Map detail
Generalization is often defined simply as removing detail, but it is based on the notion, originally adopted from Information theory, of the volume of in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountsorrel%20Railway | The Mountsorrel Railway was a network of industrial railway lines that served the granite quarries which dominate the Leicestershire village of Mountsorrel. After being closed in the 1950s, a section was reopened in 2015 as a heritage line run by the Mountsorrel & Rothley Community Heritage Centre.
History
Construction started around November 1859 on a line long. It ran from the local quarries of the Mountsorrel Granite Company at the north west of Mountsorrel, through the village on an embankment high, crossing the turnpike road on an iron girder bridge of span, over the River Soar on a viaduct of 5 arches (the largest being in width) and then on an embankment to the Midland Railway, half a mile south of Barrow-upon-Soar railway station. The engineer was Mr. Addison of London, the contractor was Mr. Herbert of Leicester and the cost of construction was £18,000 ().
By the turn of the century there were eight-and-a-half miles of track serving the local quarries, now owned by Tarmac.
The line was extended and by 1898 ran from the Great Central Railway at Swithland Sidings.
The line fell out of use in the 1950s, the track was taken up in the 1960s, and most of the route was abandoned. Part of the 'main-line' is now covered by a conveyor belt which runs from Mountsorrel Quarry to the site of the junction on the Midland Main Line, near Barrow upon Soar. The conveyor belt replaced the original railway in the 1970s.
Restoration
A local resident, Steve Cramp, had been researching the railway and, as well as writing a book about it, led the project to rebuild the part of the railway going from Swithland to Mountsorrel. Donations came in for the project, including from Lafarge. The project reinstated of new track to a small halt station under Bond Lane bridge. This enables the villagers of Mountsorrel to catch a train for nearby and then onto the rest of the preserved network. The line climbs at a grade of 1-in-62, which is far steeper than the gradients on the Great Central Mainline, as they reached only 1-in-175.
Despite numerous examples, none of the original Mountsorrel wagons had been preserved, so three wooden-bodied open wagons (two 5-plank bodies and one 3-plank) which closely resembled the old ones were selected to be returned to service in the official light grey livery of the old Mountsorrel Granite Company.
Open days had been held on the trackbed since May 2009, involving ecology groups and track bed 'tours among' children and adults. When finished, the plan is to provide the Great Central Railway with a secondary attraction, recreating various scenes from the past, including a time when children would ride in the open wagons on Sundays and days out.
By 2010, the group had completed ballast laying over the first mile from the junction with the GCR to Wood Lane. On 10 May 2010, the track work began with the placement of a right-handed point at Swithland Sidings, the first part of the new junction. In June, the group received |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletoon%20at%20Night | Teletoon at Night (stylized as TELEToON AT NiGHT and formerly known as Teletoon's Adult Block, The Detour On Teletoon and Teletoon Detour) was a Canadian English language late night programming block that aired on Teletoon (now Cartoon Network), which is owned by Teletoon Canada, Inc. (a subsidiary of Corus Entertainment). The block featured programming for both teen and adult audiences.
It was similar in format to Adult Swim, a late-night programming block that aired on Cartoon Network, from which the block acquired most of its programming. The block's French counterpart, Télétoon la nuit, airs on Teletoon's French-language channel, Télétoon.
History
Prior to the launch of The Detour on Teletoon and Teletoon Unleashed, Teletoon had aired a lineup of adult-targeted programming (which were mixed alongside animated series aimed at teenagers) during the nighttime hours since it was launched on October 17, 1997. Teletoon at Night's roots lie in 2 former programming blocks that aired on Teletoon: the teenage-oriented block formally known as "The Detour", and the adult-oriented "Teletoon Unleashed" block, which had been dropped due to lack of new content (90% of the series had only a single season with 13 episodes, which would get re-run frequently). Teletoon Unleashed was also known for airing every program with an 18+ content rating, so as to attract an adult audience, regardless of whether the program contained adults-only content or not. In September 2004, the two blocks were amalgamated, with all-new branding created by Guru Studio. For the start of the 2006-2007 season, a new Friday night companion block, F-Night, debuted, featuring a slightly different lineup, mainly comedy series from Adult Swim (such as Tom Goes to the Mayor and Squidbillies).
With the launch of the Canadian version of Adult Swim (via the Canadian version of Cartoon Network) on July 4, 2012, most of the original programming from the American service migrated to its Canadian counterpart.
In the summer of 2014, films on Saturdays were branded as the "Saturday Night Funhouse Double Feature". Meanwhile, Teletoon acquired broadcast rights to The Awesomes, a Hulu original series. In October 2014, Bento Box Entertainment, the studio that produces The Awesomes, announced they would be producing a new slate of shows for Teletoon at Night. In the same month, Blue Ant Media, Mondo Media, and Corus announced that Teletoon at Night would air a new series featuring shorts from Bite on Mondo, a program in which content creators pitched ideas for several new TV series. It was later revealed on Adult Swim's Facebook page that the new series, dubbed Night Sweats, would air on Adult Swim instead.
During the week of September 1, 2015, it was announced on air that, on that date, several of the block's shows would move to Adult Swim. In a press release posted on September 3, 2015, it was announced that the block would now air Mondays through Thursdays starting at 10:00 p.m, with a film at 11: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Nofi | Albert A. Nofi (born January 6, 1944), is an American military historian, defense analyst, and designer of board and computer wargaming systems.
Early life
A native of Brooklyn, he attended New York City public schools, graduating from the Boys' High School (now Boys and Girls High School) in 1961. Nofi attended Fordham University, earning a bachelor's (1965) and a master's (1967), and then received a Ph.D. in Military History from the City University of New York (1991).
Career
From 1965 through 1995, Nofi was a teacher and later administrator in the New York City public schools. Working primarily in alternative programs, such as the Harlem Preparatory School, Park East High School, and Unity High School at the Door, he retired as an assistant principal in 1995.
During this period he also built a parallel career as an independent historian, defense analyst, and wargame designer, working primarily with James F. Dunnigan, Redmond A. Simonsen, and David C. Isby at Simulations Publications (SPI). As research director for SPI and associate editor of the military historical simulations journal Strategy and Tactics for over a decade (1969–1982), he produced numerous articles and a number of wargames. Nofi also designed the strategic wargame Imperium Romanum set in the Roman Empire, originally published by in 1979 West End Games.
In addition to work for SPI, Nofi has authored, co-authored, or edited over 30 books on a wide variety of topics. Among his collaborators are Dunnigan, Bela Kiraly, R. L. DiNardo, Kathleen Broome Williams, and others.
In 1999 Nofi became a research analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), in Alexandria, Virginia, where he worked with game theorist Peter P. Perla. Nofi was the CNA field representative to the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group, in Newport, Rhode Island, from 2001 until mid-2005, before returning to CNA. While at CNA he wrote "Recent Trends in Thinking About Warfare" and several other analytical papers. He retired from CNA at the end of 2006.
Nofi has lectured at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library and Archives Canada, the Admiral Nimitz State Historic Site (home of the National Museum of the Pacific War), the Air War College, the Command and Staff College of the Marine Corps University, a number of other colleges and universities, and numerous Civil War Round Tables and local historical societies.
For many years an Associate Fellow of the U.S. Civil War Center, a Director of the New York Military Affairs Symposium since its formation, a member of the Society for Military History and a number of other military and historical societies, Nofi is also a founding member of the Italian American Italian Studies Association, of which he was corresponding secretary for several years.
Since 1997, Nofi has contributed a regular column to North & South magazine. In 1998, he became a contributing editor to StrategyPage, for which he writes a regular |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitzPatrick%201932 | FitzPatrick 1932 is an early paper in the field of bankruptcy prediction. In a series of three articles in the monthly The Certified Public Accountant in 1932, Paul J. FitzPatrick presented data for 20 matched pairs of firms and discussed accounting ratios as indicators of bankruptcy. It is historically significant as an early attempt in this field, and it is notable also for its publishing a data set, now in the public domain. Beaver (1968), an important paper in accounting research which employs statistical analysis to a similar matched sample, cites the paper.
The dataset includes 13 accounting ratios calculated for 40 firms for each of three years. However some fields are missing for some firm-year observations.
Sample selection
Example data
Analysis and discussion
References
FitzPatrick, Paul J., Ph.D. 1932. "A Comparison of the Ratios of Successful Industrial Enterprises With Those of Failed Companies". The Certified Public Accountant
Beaver 1968. Journal of Accounting Research. (In three issues: October, 1932, p. 598-605; November, 1932, p. 656-662; December, 1932, p. 727-731.
Bankruptcy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Keihanshin | Transport in the Keihanshin metropolitan region is much like that of Tokyo: it includes public and private rail and highway networks; airports for international, domestic, and general aviation; buses; motorcycle delivery services, walking, bicycling, and commercial shipping. The nexus is in the central part of Osaka, though Kobe and Kyoto are major centers in their own right. Every part of Keihanshin has rail or road transport services. The sea and air transport is available from a limited number of ports for the general public.
Public transport within Keihanshin is dominated by an extensive public system, beginning with an urban rail network second only to that of Greater Tokyo, consisting of over seventy railway lines of surface trains and subways run by numerous operators; buses, monorails, and trams support the primary rail network. Over 13 million people use the public transit system daily as their primary means of travel. Like Tokyo, walking and bicycling are much more common than in many cities around the globe. Trips by bicycle (including joint trips with railway) in Osaka is at 33.9% with railway trips alone having the highest share at 36.4%, the combined railway share (rail alone, rail and bus, rail and bicycle) is at 45.7%. Walking alone has a modal share of 8.5%. Private automobiles and motorcycles play a secondary role in urban transport with private automobiles only having a 9.9% modal share in Osaka.
Airports
Primary
Osaka Airport (Itami Airport) served 16 million domestic passengers in 2019, and Kansai International Airport served 29 million international and domestic passengers. Kobe Airport is the region's newest airport, and has mostly domestic services, with a few international charter flights, serving 3 million passengers.
Secondary
Yao Airport serves the area's general aviation needs. Still further across Osaka Bay into Shikoku lies Tokushima Airport, also capable of handling large planes, and a possible alternative airport for the region (for evacuation, disaster relief, emergency landings, cargo, overload etc.).
There are also a number of JASDF military facilities.
Rail
The rail network in Keihanshin is very dense, with the average number of daily passengers topping 13 million. Railway usage and density is similar to that of Greater Tokyo, despite the smaller population base of Keihanshin. As in Tokyo, few free maps exist of the entire network; instead, most show only the stations of a particular company, and whole network maps (see, for example, this map of Keihanshin's rail network) often are confusing simply because they are so large.
In addition to above-ground and below-ground rail lines, the Sanyō and Tōkaidō Shinkansen serve as the backbone of intercity rail transport.
History
Japan's first streetcar opened in 1895 in Kyoto.
List of operating passenger rail lines
West Japan Railway Company (JR West)
High-speed rail
San'yō Shinkansen
Intercity of JR West
Tōkaidō Main Line
●Biwako Line
●JR Kyoto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus%20%28disambiguation%29 | A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.
Virus or The Virus may also refer to:
Computer virus, a type of malicious computer program
Mobile virus, a type of malicious cell phone program
Brands and enterprises
Virus (automobile), a French cyclecar
Virus (clothing), an Israeli clothing brand
Access Virus, a line of virtual analog synthesizers by German company Access Music
Virus Buster Serge, a Japanese media franchise also known as Virus
Comics
Virus (comics), a Dark Horse miniseries
Virus (Spirou et Fantasio), an album of the Spirou et Fantasio comics series
Fictional entities
Viruses, the main enemies from Dr. Mario
Viruses, the main enemies in the Mega Man Battle Network series
Virus, a sniper unit from Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge
Viral, an artificial intelligence in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Film and television
Virus (1980 film) or Fukkatsu no hi, a Japanese post-apocalyptic film by Kinji Fukasaku
Virus - l'inferno dei morti viventi or Hell of the Living Dead, a 1980 Italian zombie film
Virus (1995 film), a film based on the novel Outbreak by Robin Cook
Virus (1999 film), a science fiction-horror film by John Bruno
Virus (2019 film), a Malayalam-language Indian film directed by Aashiq Abu
The Virus (TV series), a South Korean TV series
Literature
Virus (novel), a 1964 science fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu
Viruses (journal), a scientific journal published by MDPI
The Virus (novel), a 2015 thriller about a pandemic by Stanley Johnson
Music
Artists
Virus (Argentine band), a new wave band formed in 1981
Virus (British band), a thrash metal band formed in 1983
Virus (Norwegian band), an avant-garde metal band 2000–2018
Virus (Russian band), a band formed in 1999
The Virus (band), an American punk band formed in 1998
Sulfur (band), originally Virus, an American rock band 1991–1998
Virus, a 1995 alias used by Paul Oakenfold
Virus, a German band that participated in a 1971 Ken Hensley side project
Albums
Virus (Dado Polumenta album) or the title song, 2011
Virus (Haken album), 2020
Virus (Heavenly album) or the title song, 2006
Virus (Hypocrisy album), 2005
Virus (Slank album) or the title song, 2001
The Virus (album), by Brotha Lynch Hung, 2001
Virus, by Big Boy, 2000
Virus, by Excision, 2016
Songs
"Virus" (Björk song), 2011
"Virus" (Front Line Assembly song), 1991
"Virus" (Iron Maiden song), 1996
"Virus" (KMFDM song), 1989
"Virus" (LaFee song), 2006
"Virus (How About Now)", by Martin Garrix and MOTi, 2014
"Virus", by Avail from Dixie, 1994
"Virus", by Deltron 3030 from Deltron 3030, 2000
"Virus", by Pitchshifter from Infotainment?, 1996
People
Virus (musician) or Andre Michel Karkos, lead guitarist of Device
Virus (wrestler) or Ricardo Amezquita Cardeño (born 1968), professional wrestler
Video games
Virus, a prototype version of the NES game Dr. Mario
Virus (1988 video game), a port of the 1987 computer game Zarch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Netra | The Sun Netra brand has been used for a variety of server computers from Sun Microsystems since 1994. The original Netra servers (such as the Netra i and Netra j models) were re-badged SPARCstation and Sun Ultra series systems bundled with (web) server application software.
Later the Netra name was mainly used for a series of ruggedized Network Equipment-Building System (NEBS)-certified carrier grade servers for telecommunications applications. Those often came with 48V DC power input, and adjusted cases.
The most custom of those were the CompactPCI models, i.e. Netra CP1405, consisting of not much more than one CPU board.
References
External links
Netra servers at sun.com
Oracle - NEBS-Certified Servers - Legacy Product Documentation
Sun servers
Computer-related introductions in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machtey%20Award | The Machtey Award is awarded at the annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) to the author(s) of the best student paper(s). A paper qualifies as a student paper if all authors are full-time students at the date of the submission. The award decision is made by the Program Committee.
The award is named after Michael Machtey, who was a researcher in the theoretical computer science community in the 1970s. The counterpart of this award at the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) is the Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award.
Past recipients
Past recipients of the Machtey award are tabulated below.
See also
List of computer science awards
Kleene award
References
Awards established in 1981
Computer science awards
IEEE awards
Student awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT%20baseline%20protection | The IT baseline protection () approach from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is a methodology to identify and implement computer security measures in an organization. The aim is the achievement of an adequate and appropriate level of security for IT systems. To reach this goal the BSI recommends "well-proven technical, organizational, personnel, and infrastructural safeguards". Organizations and federal agencies show their systematic approach to secure their IT systems (e.g. Information Security Management System) by obtaining an ISO/IEC 27001 Certificate on the basis of IT-Grundschutz.
Overview baseline security
The term baseline security signifies standard security measures for typical IT systems. It is used in various contexts with somewhat different meanings. For example:
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer: Software tool focused on Microsoft operating system and services security
Cisco security baseline: Vendor recommendation focused on network and network device security controls
Nortel baseline security: Set of requirements and best practices with a focus on network operators
ISO/IEC 13335-3 defines a baseline approach to risk management. This standard has been replaced by ISO/IEC 27005, but the baseline approach was not taken over yet into the 2700x series.
There are numerous internal baseline security policies for organizations,
The German BSI has a comprehensive baseline security standard, that is compliant with the ISO/IEC 27000-series
BSI IT baseline protection
The foundation of an IT baseline protection concept is initially not a detailed risk analysis. It proceeds from overall hazards. Consequently, sophisticated classification according to damage extent and probability of occurrence is ignored. Three protection needs categories are established. With their help, the protection needs of the object under investigation can be determined. Based on these, appropriate personnel, technical, organizational and infrastructural security measures are selected from the IT Baseline Protection Catalogs.
The Federal Office for Security in Information Technology's IT Baseline Protection Catalogs offer a "cookbook recipe" for a normal level of protection. Besides probability of occurrence and potential damage extents, implementation costs are also considered. By using the Baseline Protection Catalogs, costly security analyses requiring expert knowledge are dispensed with, since overall hazards are worked with in the beginning. It is possible for the relative layman to identify measures to be taken and to implement them in cooperation with professionals.
The BSI grants a baseline protection certificate as confirmation for the successful implementation of baseline protection. In stages 1 and 2, this is based on self declaration. In stage 3, an independent, BSI-licensed auditor completes an audit. Certification process internationalization has been possible since 2006. ISO/IEC 27001 certification can occur simultane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta%E2%80%93Cikampek%20Toll%20Road | The Jakarta–Cikampek Toll Road (or Japek toll road) is a tolled expressway in Indonesia that was inaugurated in 1988. A part of Trans-Java Toll Road network, he highway links Jakarta with cities to its east in the province of West Java. Its 36.84 kilometer-long Cikunir–West Karawang section overlaps with the Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Skyway.
History
Jakarta–Cikampek Toll Road was inaugurated in 1988, linking Jakarta, Bekasi, Bekasi Regency, Karawang Regency and Purwakarta Regency.
Since 2005, this toll road also connects Bandung and Jakarta via the separate Cipularang Toll Road; the interchange to Bandung was built before the Dawuan exit. This toll road is also part of AH2. The toll road is operated by PT Jasa Marga Tbk. In June 2015, Cikopo–Palimanan Toll Road was opened, which means Jakarta and Cirebon are now connected via toll road. An elevated toll road is built to reduce congestion of this toll road.
After the closure of Cikarang Utama Toll Gate in 23 May 2019, the central toll gate is relocated to Cikampek Utama (to/from Cirebon-Semarang-bound) and Kalihurip Utama (to/from Purwakarta–Cileunyi Toll Road-bound).
Exits and Gates
Rest area
Rest area In Jakarta–Cikampek
Road Information
Jakarta–Cikampek Toll Road is nominated as the most congested highway in Indonesia, especially in the area of Cikunir JCT- Bekasi Barat (although half of the expressway is 8-lanes dual carriageway (KM0-KM37) and another half is 6 lanes (KM37-KM73). By the completion of Jakarta-Cikampek Elevated Tollway spanning from Cikunir to West Karawang, the capacity is expanded and congestion is slightly decreasing along this stretch (another stretch after Karawang Barat eastbound is, unfortunately, more congested.)
As of 2021, Jakarta-Cikampek toll road is surrounded by 2 main projects which is under construction : LRT Cawang-Bekasi Timur (north section, KM0-KM18, under construction) and Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway (south section, KM0-KM38).
The lane management along this expressway are provided in this table.
Jakarta–Cikampek Toll Road is implementing full open-toll system after the demolition of Cikarang Utama Toll Gate (where the west part is open-toll while the rest is closed-toll). The toll fare for this expressway is shown in this table starting from January 17, 2020.
External links
Indonesia. Direktorat Jenderal Bina Marga. & Arge Intertraffic-Lenzconsult. 1975 Jakarta-West Java Tollway System feasibility study. Part B, Jakarta-Cikampek Highway Arge Intertraffic-Lenzconsult, Germany
Jasamarga Indonesia Highway Corp: Rest Area
References
Toll roads in Jakarta
Toll roads in West Java |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Neural%20Network%20Society | The European Neural Network Society (ENNS) is an association of scientists, engineers, students, and others seeking to learn about and advance understanding of artificial neural networks. Specific areas of interest in this scientific field include modelling of behavioral and brain processes, development of neural algorithms and applying neural modelling concepts to problems relevant in many different domains. Erkki Oja and John G. Taylor are past ENNS presidents and honorary executive board members. its president is Věra Kůrková.
Every year since 1991 ENNS organizes the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN). The history and the links to past conferences are available at the ENNS web site. This is one of the oldest and best established conferences on the subject, with proceedings published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, see index in DBLP bibliography database.
As a non-profit organization ENNS promotes scientific activities at European and at the national levels in cooperation with national organizations that focus on neural networks. Every year many stipends to attend ICANN conference are given. ENNS also sponsors other students and have given awards and prizes at co-sponsored events (schools, workshops, conferences and competitions).
References
External links
Artificial intelligence associations
Artificial neural networks
Elsevier academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsmy | itsmy was a mobile social gaming network that allowed users to communicate with each other while playing games. It was owned by Gofresh, a company located in Munich, Germany. At its height, the network had more than 2½ million mobile phone users worldwide. The network was available in English, German, Italian, and Spanish.
After failing to make a profit for several years, itsmy announced its closure in March 2014. The site was scheduled to close on 29 April 2014, but due to data issues the closure was delayed and users could still use the network until May 1, 2014.
References
See also
List of social networking websites
Mobile social network
Social television
Defunct social networking services
Mobile games
Casual games
German entertainment websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Pree | Wolfgang Pree (* 27 June 1964 in Linz, Austria) is a computer scientist and professor at the University of Salzburg, Austria.
Education and academic work
Wolfgang Pree is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Salzburg, Austria since 2002. He studied computer science at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Washington University in St Louis (1992–93), a guest scientist at Siemens Munich (1994–95), a Full Professor of Computer Science (C4) at the University of Konstanz, Germany (1996–2001), and spent sabbaticals at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Diego.
His field of research is software engineering, especially software construction principles, and machine learning. His C. Doppler Laboratory Embedded Software Systems (2007–2014) in cooperation with AVL List focused on real-time software in automobiles and automation systems. The research results are further developed into products by Chrona and are deployed in Daimler's next generation of electric vehicles since 2019/20.
Pioneering work has been done in the field of autonomously driving trains on open tracks since 2008: the Austrian Klima- und Energie-Fonds supported the autoBAHN project, so that a pilot system could be implemented on the Stern&Hafferl line between Vorchdorf and Gmunden in 2008–2013.
Wolfgang Pree initiated Go4IT in 2017 (start of a bachelor's degree in computer science at high school): high school students can attend introductory courses in computer science at the University of Salzburg from 9th grade onwards.
References
External links
Software Research Group, Univ. Salzburg, including publications
Chrona.com, a spin-off company founded by Wolfgang Pree
Academic staff of the University of Salzburg
Austrian computer scientists
1964 births
Living people
Johannes Kepler University Linz alumni
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
Academic staff of the University of Konstanz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium%20%28disambiguation%29 | Chromium is a chemical element with symbol Cr and atomic number 24.
Chromium may also refer to:
Chromium (computer graphics), a system for OpenGL rendering on clusters of computers
Chromium (web browser), the open source counterpart to Google Chrome
ChromiumOS, the open source operating system counterpart to Google ChromeOS
Chromium (film), a 2015 Albanian film
See also
Chromium deficiency, for the role of chromium in biology and nutrition
Chromium B.S.U., an open-source space shooter game
Chrome (disambiguation)
Cr (disambiguation)
Isotopes of chromium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20Device%20Event%20Exchange | Security Device Event Exchange (SDEE) is a new standard proposed by the International Computer Security Association that specifies the format of messages and protocol used to communicate events generated by security devices.
This protocol is used in the Cisco Systems IPS Sensor 5.0 to replace Remote Data Exchange Protocol (RDEP), which is used by earlier versions of the Cisco IDS Sensor.
External links
ICSA Labs IDS Consortium Announces Network Intrusion Detection System Alert Specification Format 23 February 2004, BUSINESS WIRE
ICSA Labs Announces Security Device Event Exchange (SDEE) 13 March 2004, Richard Bejtlich
Cisco Intrusion Detection Event Exchange (CIDEE) specifies the extensions to the Security Device Event Exchange (SDEE)
Intrusion detection systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian%20Rupley | Sebastian Rupley is an American technology journalist and commentator. He lives in San Francisco, California with his wife.
Career
Rupley was the Editor-in-Chief of the GigaOM network.
Prior to GigaOM, Rupley was Editorial Director for PCMagCast, PC Magazine'''s channel for live Web seminars and online events on tech topics for consumers and small businesses. Before that, he was West Coast Editor of PC Magazine for over a decade, where he oversaw news and feature stories for the publication, and represented the brand on panels and at conferences on the West Coast. He also served as Features Editor of PC/Computing magazine, managing and promoting many noted technology journalists.
A familiar face to leaders at technology companies, Sebastian has won numerous national journalism awards, including back-to-back Gold awards from the American Society of Business Professional Editors in 2004 and 2005 in the category of Original Web Content, and awards from the Computer Press Association.
Rupley is the author of the book Portable Computing'', one of the first titles ever to appear about laptop computers and mobile technology.
From March 2006 until May 2010, Rupley had served as co-host (introduced as "co-crank"), alongside PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak, on Mevio's popular weekly IPTV show Cranky Geeks. He selected topics from current events in the technology industry, and participated in discussions moderated by Dvorak. Rupley announced his departure from Cranky Geeks during the May 12, 2010 episode.
Awards
Rupley has won numerous national journalism awards, including back-to-back Gold awards from the American Society of Business Professional Editors in 2004 and 2005 in the category of Original Web Content, and awards from the Computer Press Association.
References
American male journalists
American editors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK-server | The GTK-server project aims to bring graphical user interface (GUI) programming to any interpreted language using the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) ToolKit (GTK) or XForms. It releases free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License.
Philosophy
The GTK-server provides a stream-oriented interface to GTK. If the GTK-server is compiled as a standalone program binary, it allows five different interfaces: standard input (stdin), first in, first out (FIFO) (named pipe), inter-process communication (IPC) (message queue), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), or User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Any interpreted language or shell script with input/output (I/O) abilities can start the GTK-server with an argument specifying the type of interface, and can start sending GTK function calls in S-expression format. After each request, the GTK-server returns a result, depending on the type of GTK function invoked.
If the GTK-server is compiled as a shared object, it exports the function 'gtk', which must be imported in the client program first. After that, the client program can start sending GTK function calls in S-expression format as argument to the imported 'gtk' function.
Before the GTK-server can execute GTK functions, it must read a configuration file in which the prototypes of the GTK functions are described. Since version 2.2.3 this also can be done on-the-fly, allowing the GTK-server to run without configuration file.
Implementation
Implementing the GTK-server leads to the following considerations.
Accessing foreign functions is only possible when the accessed libraries are created with a non object oriented programming language like C or Pascal. Libraries created with C++ for example, use name mangling to unify overloaded functions. This means that the functionname in a C++ library cannot be known once the shared library has been compiled. Hence the functions in such a library cannot be accessed. Therefore, libraries like wxWidgets, the Qt toolkit, Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK) which are programmed in C++, cannot be accessed with the GTK-server concept.
The GTK library was implemented in the programming language C. Since C is a strongly typed programming language, the interpreted program needs to know the data type of arguments and the type of the return value for each GTK function during runtime. These can be defined on-the-fly or in a configuration file, which is parsed by the GTK-server during startup. However, the GTK-server does not know the functions which are going to be used by the interpreted client program, so for GTK-server all arguments and return values for each GTK function are variable types.
This leads to a problem for the implementation, because the GTK functions and the corresponding arguments and return values cannot be hardcoded into the GTK-server binary.
The way to resolve this is by using a foreign function interface. Currently, four external foreign function interfaces are supported by GTK-server: libf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20mass%20analysis | Double mass analysis is a simple graphical method to evaluate the consistency of hydrological data. The DM approach plots the cumulative data of one variable against the cumulative data of a second variable. A break in the slope of a linear function fit to the data is thought to represent a change in the relation between the variables. This approach provides a robust method to determine a change in the behavior of precipitation and recharge in a simple graphical method. It is a commonly used data analysis approach for investigating the behaviour of records made of hydrological or meteorological data at a number of locations. It is used to determine whether there is a need for corrections to the data - to account for changes in data collection procedures or other local conditions. Such changes may result from a variety of things including changes in instrumentation, changes in observation procedures, or changes in gauge location or surrounding conditions. Double mass analysis for checking consistency of a hydrological or meteorological record is considered to be an essential tool before taking it for analysis purpose. This method is based on the hypothesis that each item of the recorded data of a population is consistent.
An example of a double mass analysis is a "double mass plot", or "double mass curve". For this, points and/or a joining line are plotted where the x- and y- coordinates are determined by the running totals of the values observed at two stations. If both stations are affected to the same extent by the same trends then a double mass curve should follow a straight line. A break in the slope of the curve would indicate that conditions have changed at one location but not at another. Breaks in the double-mass curve of such variables are caused by changes in the relation between the variables. These changes may be due to changes in the method of data collection or to physical changes that affect the relation. This technique is based on the principle that when each recorded data comes from the same parent population, they are consistent.
Procedure
Let be the data points then the procedure for double mass analysis is as follows;
Divide the data into distinct categories of equal slope ().
Obtain correction factor for category as;
Multiply category with to get corrected data.
After correction, repeat this process until all data points have the same slope.
See also
Statistics
Notes
Further reading
Dubreuil P. (1974) Initiation à l'analyse hydrologique Masson& Cie et ORSTOM, Paris.
Data analysis
Hydrology
Meteorological data and networks
Meteorological concepts
Statistical charts and diagrams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathom%3A%20Dynamic%20Data%20Software | Fathom Dynamic Data Software is software for learning and teaching statistics, at the high school and introductory college level.
Reviews
Technology & Learning Award of Excellence
MacWorld 2005 Review
EHO Review
Statistical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Brumley | David Brumley is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a well-known researcher in software security, network security, and applied cryptography. Prof. Brumley also worked for 5 years as a Computer Security Officer for Stanford University.
Education
Brumley obtained a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from the University of Northern Colorado in 1998. In 2003 he obtained an MS degree in computer science from Stanford University. In 2008 he obtained a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, where his Advisor was Professor Dawn Song.
Career
Brumley was previously the Assistant Computer Security Officer for Stanford University. Brumley is the faculty advisor to the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), which is the Carnegie Mellon University competitive security team.
Some of his notable accomplishments include:
In 2008, he showed the counter-intuitive principle that patches can help attackers. In particular, he showed that given a patch for a bug and the originally buggy program, a working exploit can be automatically generated in as little as a few seconds. This result shows that current patch distribution architectures that distribute patches on time-scales larger than a few seconds are potentially insecure. In particular, this work shows one of the first applications of constraint satisfaction to generating exploits.
In 2007, he developed techniques for automatically inferring implementation bugs in protocol implementations. This work won the best paper award at the USENIX Security conference.
His work on a Timing attack against RSA. The work was able to recover the factors of a 1024-bit RSA private key over a network in about 2 hours. This work also won the USENIX Security Best Paper award. As a result of this work, OpenSSL, stunnel, and others now implement defenses such as RSA blinding.
His work on Rootkit analysis.
His work on distributed denial of service attacks. In particular, he worked towards tracking down the attackers who brought down Yahoo in 2002.
He was a major contributor towards the arrest of Dennis Moran
US Patent 7373451, which is related to virtual appliance distribution and migration. This patent serves as part of the basis for founding moka5 by his co-authors.
References
External links
Brumley's Home Page
Additional articles mentioning Brumley's work: Wired Magazine, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal
Living people
American cryptographers
Computer security academics
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Baglan | The Book of Baglan (Llyfr Baglan in Welsh) is a collection of old Welsh manuscripts, containing much genealogical data, compiled by John Williams from several sources between 1600 and 1607. It was transcribed from the original manuscript preserved in the public library at Cardiff, and edited by Joseph Bradney with explanatory notes for reprinting in 1910. It is also available at the National Library of Wales on microfilm.
It is considered a valuable reference for Welsh genealogy, although it is not considered wholly accurate. The book contains numerous South Welsh pedigrees of minor gentry families, including local lords, the Kings of Gwent, the Earls of Pembroke, and the bard Rhys Goch, and contains descriptions of the heraldry of various lines.
References
Baglan
Medieval Welsh literature
Welsh-language literature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyuck%20Kwon | Hyuck M. Kwon (born May 9, 1954) is a professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. His research focuses on wireless communications, CDMA, and MIMO.
Biography
Kwon was born in South Korea. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Seoul National University in 1978 and 1980, respectively. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer, information, and control engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, in 1984 under the supervision of Theodore Birdsall with a thesis "Digital Coding For Underwater Acoustic Multipath Channels,”
.From 1985 to 1989, he was with the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, as an assistant professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. From 1989 to 1993, he was with the Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company, Houston, Texas, as a principal engineer, working for NASA Space Shuttle and Space Station satellite communication systems. Since 1993, he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Wichita State University where he is now a full professor. In addition, he held several visiting and consulting positions at communication system industries, was a visiting associate professor at Texas A&M University, College Station in 1997, and a visiting professor at KAIST, in Daejeon, South Korea in 2005.
Publications
Kwon has over 140 refereed publications in IEEE journals and conference proceedings. His most cited publications are:
Tayem N, Kwon HM. L-shape 2-dimensional arrival angle estimation with propagator method. IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation. 2005 May 9;53(5):1622-30. Cited 318 times according to Google Scholar.
Kwon HM. Optical orthogonal code-division multiple-access system. I. APD noise and thermal noise. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 1994 Jul;42(7):2470-9. . Cited times 234 according to Google Scholar.
Tayem N, Kwon HM. Conjugate esprit (c-sprit). IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 2004 Oct 8;52(10):2618-24. Cited 89 times according to Google Scholar.
References
External links
Home page
1954 births
Living people
American electrical engineers
Wichita State University faculty
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
South Korean emigrants to the United States
Seoul National University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan%20the%20Cimmerian%20%28video%20game%29 | Conan the Cimmerian is a video game that was released by Virgin Games and Synergistic Software in 1991 for Amiga and DOS.
Reception
Charles Ardai reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "At least, unlike most games of this ilk, Virgin has taken a stab at making Conan a creature of flesh and blood, rather than just another bunch of testosterone-tinted pixels. By letting players participate in the birth of their hero, an added layer of interest, if not actual depth, takes shape. Nietzsche it ain't, but Howard it is!"
Reviews
Compute!
Info
PC Games (Germany) - Oct, 1992
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Dec, 1991
References
External links
Conan the Cimmerian at MobyGames
Conan the Cimmerian at the Hall of Light
1991 video games
Action-adventure games
Amiga games
DOS games
Synergistic Software games
Video games based on Conan the Barbarian
Video games developed in the United States
Virgin Interactive games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%20Victims%20Identification%20Project | The FBI Victims Identification Project (also known as VICTIMS) is an active research project within the FBI Laboratory to create a national database containing all available records of unidentified human remains. The goal of VICTIMS
is to create a federally sponsored national database of unidentified remains. Currently there are many groups attempting to bring closure to an estimated 40,000 unidentified human remains cases in the United States, but VICTIMS is the first attempt to produce a comprehensive approach to the problem.
Current status
Currently in the data gathering stage, VICTIMS will contain a variety of forms of information that may assist in the identification of unidentified human remains. This information includes case data, biological data, photographs, facial reconstructions, anthropological data, radiographs and dental charts. The project is requesting United States agencies with unidentified human remains to contact them to enter their cases into the database.
Project team
The VICTIMS project team consists of the FBI Laboratory personnel, personnel from the FBI Visiting Scientist Program administered by Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education and the prime contractor Guiding Beacon Solutions. Guiding Beacon, a management and technology consulting firm from Pennsylvania, is providing the technology and data collection efforts for the project.
See also
FBI
List of people who disappeared mysteriously
References
External links
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Missing people organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai%20TV | Mai TV is a commercial free-to-air TV network based in the Fiji Islands.
History
The company was founded in 2006 by Richard Broadbridge and began broadcasts in June 2008. It is full privately owned and broadcasts to 100% of the Fiji group of islands. Mai TV's head office is at Garden City Suva.
Mai TV owned the exclusive Pacific rights to the 2008 Rugby League World Cup along with rights to some major properties including CSI series, Survivor, 60 Minutes, Jericho, EROS Movies, Chuck, TWI Sport and on July 13, 2009, they acquired the rights to broadcast live 2010 FIFA World Cup.
In 2011 MAI TV aired three FIFA World Cup events delivering on its promise to FIFA to provide matches for free to Pacific Island broadcasters. Mai TV is credited with increasing the profile of football on television and in conjunction with Oceania Football Confederation provided LIVE TV and internet coverage of OFC qualifiers. Mai TV has ventured also into Hindi content with major local shows like Manoa We Ni Yava, Gospel Quest, Fiji Today, Fiji Focus, Mai Fiji, Misiki and Digicel InTunes filling up their prime time hours. Mai TV also airs TVNZ News and four hour blocks of Al Jazeera and Australia Network daily.
In 2013 Broadridge was replaced as CEO by Marc Santos. In 2016 it was sold to the New Methodist Christian Fellowship.
Mai TV is the only broadcaster in the Pacific Islands to stream content from Fiji including three major football events, Gospel Quest, 2012 National Budget address and TFL's Exporter of the year awards.
MAI TV outsources all its production needs to Skylite Productions Fiji and has a close working relationship with sister company and Fiji's most successful monthly lifestyle magazine Mai Life
In 2014, Mai TV got the rights to the Bundesliga from 2014 to 2015.
In 2016, Mai TV got the rights to the UEFA Euro 2016.
In early 2017, 50% of Mai TV's shares were bought by the New-Methodist Christian Fellowship in Fiji. The remaining 50% is owned by Stanley Simpson.
Programming
As of February 2020, Mai TV's programming consists mostly of Christian programs, including relays from TBN. The channel also aired 1 News and relays of the Arirang channel at the time.
A small number of local content is made, including Christian programming.
References
Television stations in Fiji |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Closure%20Systems | Global Closure Systems is a privately owned French factory network which produces closures for beverage containers and other purposes. It operates from 21 plants globally under various brand names, including Astra Plastique, Bender, Massmould, Obrist, UCP and Zeller Plastik.
History
The company was created as a result of the purchase by PAI Partners, a French private equity firm, of the closures business previously operated by Crown Holdings Inc for $750 million.
Packaging giant RPC Group plc is set to significantly extend its global presence after it announced plans to buy Global Closure Systems for 650 million euros ($714.6 million).
The deal, which is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval, was scheduled to be complete by the end of March.
References
External links
Official home page
Manufacturing companies of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%2C%20Pies%20and%20Idiot%20Scrapes | "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes" is the first 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 September 28, 2008. In the episode, Homer meets bail bondsman Lucky Jim and Wolf the Bounty Hunter after getting charged for being involved in a fight, and they convince him to become a bounty hunter. In a twisted turn of events, he becomes Ned Flanders' partner. Meanwhile, Marge unknowingly begins working at an erotic bakery.
The episode was written by Kevin Curran and directed by Lance Kramer. Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns as Snake's girlfriend Gloria for the third time. Robert Forster provides the voice of Lucky Jim, and Joe Mantegna returns as the recurring character Fat Tony in the episode.
"Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes" has received positive reviews from television critics. It was watched by 9.3 million viewers the night it aired.
Plot
An alcohol-free Springfield Saint Patrick's Day parade is interrupted by a brawl between the Nationalist Irish and the Unionist Northern Irish in which Homer participates. A group of hungry children steal Marge's picnic basket. She is saved by Patrick Farrelly, who gives the children a cabbage and returns the basket. Marge offers him a cupcake in gratitude, and Patrick immediately offers her a job at his bakery after eating it. At the bakery, Marge realizes that Patrick employed her at an erotic bakery after seeing Patty and Selma pick out a suggestively-shaped cake. Marge tries to quit, but Patrick says that there is nothing wrong with what he is doing, and that many of her friends have bought cakes from the store. Patrick informs Marge that she has a gift, and Marge agrees to stay.
Due to his involvement in the riot and his history of crime, Homer is arrested and his bail set incredibly high. Homer's bail bondsman Lucky Jim agrees to secure Homer's release from prison, as long as Homer does not skip his bail. Otherwise, he will have to deal with Wolf the Bounty Hunter, who quickly inspires Homer to become a bounty hunter himself. Homer's first mission involves pretending to sell condos on a street corner to criminals. Snake approaches Homer, who tries to take Snake down. Homer corners Snake in an alleyway, where Snake pulls out a pistol and fires a shot straight to Homer's head. Miraculously, Ned Flanders places a sheet of bulletproof glass in front of Homer, which deflects the shot. Ned attempts to convince Snake to come in quietly, unknowingly allowing Homer to sneak up behind Snake and capture him by asphyxiating him with a plastic bag. Giving Ned his cut of the bounty, Homer convinces him to partner up as a bounty hunting duo, and they successfully pursue several bail-jumpers. Homer spoils his family with gifts, chiefly evidence such as bullets or chemical equipment taken from meth labs. Marge is equally proud of her job, although after Homer innocuously considers ordering a birthday cake for Lisa from the erot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dindymene%20%28trilobite%29 | Dindymene is an extinct genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida. It contains two species, D. didymograpti, and D. hughesiae.
References
External links
Dindymene at the Paleobiology Database
Encrinuridae genera
Fossils of the Czech Republic
Ordovician trilobites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20ATA%20International%20Organization | Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) is an independent, non-profit organization which provides the computing industry with guidance and support for implementing the SATA specification. SATA-IO was developed by and for leading industry companies. It was officially formed in July 2004 by incorporating the previous Serial ATA Working Group which had been established in February 2000 to specify Serial ATA for desktop applications.
SATA-IO is affiliated directly to INCITS, and indirectly via INCITS to ANSI. Many members form this organization; it is currently led by ATP Electronics, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, HGST, Intel, Marvell, PMC-Sierra, SanDisk, Seagate Technology, and Western Digital.
See also
SATA Express
Serial ATA
External links
Official site
Homepage of American Standards Institute
Homepage of the ANSI accredited standardization body INCITS
List of INCITS standards
Technical Committee T13 (AT Attachment)
References
Serial ATA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight%20%28disambiguation%29 | Starflight may refer to:
Starflight, a science fiction computer game set in the 47th century
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land, a television movie
"Starflight", a song by After the Fire on their album Der Kommissar
MV-1 Starflight, a passenger aircraft made by Monsted-Vincent
Interstellar travel
Starflight, the first book in the Starflight duology by Melissa Landers
Travis County STAR Flight, a public emergency helicopter service in Austin, Texas. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20190001%E2%80%93191000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout%20Australia | Wipeout, presented on air as Wipeout Australia, is an Australian game show, which is based on the U.S. game show of the same name. The game show premiered on the Nine Network on Tuesday 3 February 2009 at 7:30 pm for an initial run of eight episodes. The show was produced by Endemol Southern Star. The show is currently being re-aired on GO!, a Nine Network multi-channel.
Production
Potential contestants had to fill out a 14-page application and attend auditions in Sydney, which were held on 2 August 2008. The 160 successful contestants then participated in the filming of the series over a period of one week starting 2 October 2008 at the international Wipeout obstacle course, located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Post-production began in Sydney in November 2008.
Presenters
On 8 September 2008, it was announced that Kelly Landry has been given the on-location reporter role on the show. She is the only one of the three presenters to actually talk with contestants and observe their attempts to complete the various stages of the Wipeout course.
James Brayshaw, a sports presenter for the Nine Network, and actor Josh Lawson were announced as the two co-hosts on 26 November 2008. Brayshaw and Lawson provide commentary from within a studio setting.
Format
Wipeout Australias format follows that of its American forerunner, although the initial number of contestants who compete in the first (Qualifier) round is 20, rather than 24. Thus only eight competitors do not advance, rather than the half who are eliminated in the US show. Most of the competitors dress up in a costume and act like they are that person.
The twelve fastest competitors to complete the Qualifier advance to the Sweeper round, wherein they attempt to maintain their balance on a 3m-high metal pole while a rotating "Sweeper" arm tries to unseat them. After six players fall into the water, the remaining six advance; the sweeper arm continues to rotate however, with the last contestant standing winning a A$1,000 bonus.
The remaining six contestants then compete in the Dizzy Dummy round, where they are spun on the titular dummy and then required to navigate a short assault course. One player advances, and the remaining contestants are re-spun until the four finalists have been selected.
The dizzy dummy had been replaced with the Dreadmill, where contestants must try to walk through the treadmill to complete certain task with obstacles.
These four enter the Wipeout Zone, and attempt to complete the major final course in the fastest time. The winner is awarded A$20,000 in prize money.
References
External links
Wipeout Forums
Nine Network original programming
2000s Australian game shows
2009 Australian television series debuts
2009 Australian television series endings
Television series by Endemol
Television series by Endemol Australia
Australia
English-language television shows
Australian television series based on American television series
Television shows filmed in Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLEXIL | PLEXIL (Plan Execution Interchange Language) is an open source technology for automation, created and currently in development by NASA.
Overview
PLEXIL is a programming language for representing plans for automation.
PLEXIL is used in automation technologies such as the NASA K10 rover, Mars Curiosity rover's percussion drill, Deep Space Habitat and Habitat Demonstration Unit, Edison Demonstration of Smallsat Networks, LADEE, Autonomy Operating System (AOS) and procedure automation for the International Space Station.
The PLEXIL Executive is an execution engine that implements PLEXIL and can be interfaced (using a provided software framework) with external systems to be controlled and/or queried. PLEXIL has been used to demonstrate automation technologies targeted at future NASA space missions.
The binaries and documentation are widely available as BSD licensed open source from SourceForge.net.
Nodes
The fundamental programming unit of PLEXIL is the Node. A node is a data structure formed of two primary components: a set of conditions that drive the execution of the node and another set which specifies what the node accomplishes after execution.
A hierarchical composition of nodes is called a plan. A plan is a tree divided in nodes close to the root (high level nodes) and leaf nodes that represent primitive actions such as variable assignments or the sending of commands to the external system.
Node Types:
As of September 2008 NASA has implemented seven types of nodes.
List nodes: List nodes are the internal nodes in a plan. These nodes have child nodes that can be of any type.
Command nodes: These nodes issue commands that drive the system.
Assignment nodes: Performs a local operation and assigns a value to a variable.
Function call nodes:accesses external functions that perform computations, but do not alter the state of the system.
Update nodes: Provides information to the planning and decision support interface.
Library call nodes: This nodes invoke nodes in an external library.
Empty nodes: Nodes that contain attributes and do not perform any actions.
Node states:
Each node can be in only one state. They are:
Inactive
Waiting
Executing
Finishing
Iteration_Ended
Failing
Finished
Nodes transitions:
SkipCondition T : The skip condition changes from unknown or false to true.
StartCondition T : The start condition changes from unknown or false to true.
InvariantCondition F/U : Invariant condition changes from true to false or unknown.
EndCondition T : End condition changes to true.
Ancestor_inv_condition F/U : The invariant condition of any ancestor changes to false or unknown.
Ancestor_end_condition T : The end condition of any ancestor changes to true.
All_children_waiting_or_finished T : This is true when all child nodes are either in node state waiting or finished.
Command_abort_complete T : When the abort for a command action is completed.
Function_abort_complete T : The abort of a function call is completed.
Parent_waitin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Live%20%28International%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV Live (formerly known as MTVNHD and MTV Live HD) is the international version of the American TV channel MTV Live as 24-hour high-definition live music pay television network owned by Paramount International Networks subsidiary Paramount Networks EMEAA.
Overview
MTV Live, the first ever international HD service dedicated to music videos, offers a mix of programming from MTV Europe. MTV Live is operated by MTVNI's Emerging Markets group, who produce and broadcast the channel from its Warsaw hub until 22 April 2012 when the station was moved to 17-29 Hawley Crescent NW1 8TT London, United Kingdom was were MTV Live HD. was launched. The English-language service also features original and acquired shows, and programming from MTVNI's library.
The channel's mix of programming includes shows produced by other international MTV production units in Southern Europe, the UK and Latin America. From the beginning the channels' programming schedules were split into two blocks - MTV HD and Nickelodeon HD, but from October through December 2010 the channel only aired music related programs; it restarted airing Nickelodeon shows at the weekends but earlier in the morning. From July 1, 2011, the channel began to focus primarily on live music programming.
History
The channel was launched on 15 September 2008, in some parts of Europe as MTVNHD (MTV-Nickelodeon HD) and in Latin America by the end of 2008. The channel continued to launch in new countries throughout 2010, including Australia where it first became available in standard-definition.
On 1 July 2011, MTVNHD was officially launched new name and logo to becomes MTV Live HD with a new logo to match the new logos of all other MTV channels revealed on the same date. However, in the UK and Ireland the channel remained as MTVNHD. In Australia MTVN Live was rebranded as MTV Live.
On 23 April 2012, MTVNHD was officially launched new name and logo to becomes MTV Live HD in the UK and Ireland along with the launch of a standard-definition MTV Live.
On 9 April 2013, MTV Live HD ceased broadcasting in France after to the launch of the HD's versions of the French MTV channels.
On 1 October 2013, MTV Live HD and MTV Live officially launching new the channels logo as part of a global rebrand.
On 3 November 2013, MTV Live and MTV Live HD ceased broadcasting on Foxtel's service in Australia.
On 2 March 2014, MTV Live HD launched on Taiwan CHT MOD. On 24 October that same year, it launched on UPC Romania.
On 5 January 2015, MTV Live HD became encrypted and available only on satellite TV provider OSN in the Arab World, replacing MTV Middle East
On 15 February 2016, the standard-definition MTV Live closed and was replaced by MTV Music +1 in the United Kingdom.
On 29 June 2016, the UK feed of MTV Live HD closed and was replaced with Nick Jr. HD on Sky, and the international feed of MTV Live HD on Virgin Media.
On 29 March 2017, it was launched in Portugal as an exclusive on Meo.
On 5 April 2017, MTV Live HD offi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Yavelow | Christopher Yavelow (born 14 June 1950, Cambridge, Massachusetts), the son of a film professor and visual artist, is a composer and proponent of computer assisted composition.
He studied composition and theory at Boston University (BM 1972, MM 1974), Harvard University (MFA 1977), the Franz Liszt Academy in Hungary (1977–78), the Darmstadt Ferienkurse in Germany, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and L'ecole Normale de Musique in Paris where he also studied with Nadia Boulanger (1978–1979).
Yavelow has taught music composition and theory at Harvard (teaching fellow, 1975–77), the Paris-American Academy (1978–79), the University of Texas (at Dallas, 1983–84), and Claremont Graduate University (1988-93). He was Chairman of the Department of Music at Schiller International University from 1979 to 1980. Currently, he teaches at the University of Maryland University College (from 2008).
Major works include his grand opera, The Passion of Vincent van Gogh commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1981 and performed by the University of Texas in 1984. The National Institute of Music Theater sponsored his chamber opera, Countdown (1987), as part of their “Opera in the Eighties and Beyond” program on behalf of the Boston Lyric Opera. Countdown is the first computer-assisted opera, the first opera performance accompanied by a virtual orchestra (February 12, 1987, by the Boston Lyric Opera), and the first opera in cyberspace (1994).
Throughout the 1980s, Yavelow published many articles on computer music for Byte Magazine, Computer Music Journal, Electronic Musician, Macromedia Journal, Macworld, and New Media Magazine. His Macworld Music and Sound Bible was IDG's first "Bible" book (1992), and also won the Computer Press Association Award (1992). The book and its Japanese translation were well received by music educators and the entertainment industry. Yavelow went on to author or co-author nearly a dozen books, mainly on music and multimedia. From 1995 through 1999, he was the editor of A-R Editions' Computer Music and Digital Audio book series.
Selected publications
Christopher Yavelow, "Personal Computers and Music: The State of the Art", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Volume 35, Issue 3, March 1987, pp. 160–193.
Christopher Yavelow, "Music and Microprocessors: MIDI and the State of the Art" in Curtis Roads (ed.), The Music Machine: Selected Readings from Computer Music Journal, MIT Press, 1989. .
Christopher Yavelow, Macworld Music and Sound Bible, IDG Books, 1992. .
References
External links
Official web site including a page devoted to Countdown: An opera for the nuclear age with libretto and online streaming of the opera.
1950 births
Electroacoustic music composers
American opera composers
Male opera composers
American male classical composers
American classical composers
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Boston University College of Fine Arts alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenorte | Telenorte is a Chilean Television brand, launched as a TV network in 1966, closed in 2001 and relaunched through streaming since the 2010s. The network had stations in Arica, Iquique, Antofagasta and La Serena.
History
Creation, suspension and re-launch (1966-1978)
Telenorte emerged in April 1982, when the Radio and Television Network of then University of the North was privatised, although its original name was Educational Network of the University of the North (Red Educativa de la Universidad del Norte), with a single frequency (Channel 3 in Antofagasta) which started in definitive form on 14 February 1973, although experimental transmissions began on November 11, 1966. The premiere broadcast was attended by the then rector of the University of the North, Carlos Aldunate, writers Andrés Sabella, Marta Blanco and María Elena Gertner, and sports commentator Julio Martínez, the latter through a program recorded on Santiago's Canal 13. On March 18, 1967, after its experimental tests, at 20:55, Channel 3 began regular broadcasts with an act that was attended by the Minister of Economy of the Eduardo Frei Montalva administration, Domingo Santa María Santa Cruz. These broadcasts were suspended in April 1969, due to an agreement with the emerging Televisión Nacional de Chile that would arrive in the city in July of that year, which translated all of Canal 3's equipment and personnel to Televisión Nacional. The transmissions were resumed on February 14, 1973, as part of the celebrations of the anniversary of the Chilean landing on Antofagasta (part of the War of the Pacific).
In the city of Iquique, broadcasts began on May 21, 1976 and in the city of Arica on June 6 of that same year. The regional network was established in May 1977 and its first milestone was to join the transmission of the first Telethon, which aired in full color. It's thought that Iquique's Channel 12 conducted experimental transmissions in color between 1976 and 1977, which were captured by some of the few receivers in color and had a different standard which Chile later adopted. On 14 April 1978, Channel 3 of Antofagasta and Channel 8 of Calama and Chuquicamata began broadcasting their first 4 programs in color: Nocaut (boxing), Toqui (education), El Fantástico Mundo del Deporte and Show Musical.
Partnership with Canal 13 (1978-1989)
In 1978, the Red de Televisión de la Universidad del Norte (or TVUN, as it was abbreviated back then) became an affiliate of Canal 13 from the Catholic University of Chile. With this partnership, programs produced in Santiago would be broadcast in TVUN. Most programs were tape-delayed, being broadcast in Antofagasta one week after airing in Santiago. However, this was compensated with Canal 13 of Santiago broadcasting live, via microwave, the highest rated programs like Sábado gigante, Martes 13 or sports broadcasts like the World Cup and the Olympic Games, which were previously only tape-delayed. In April 1982, TVUN was renamed to Telenorte (nam |
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