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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Would%20You%20Believe%20%28TV%20series%29 | Would You Believe is a religious television series broadcast on Ireland's RTÉ One. Airing each Sunday night at 22:40, it is currently the network's longest-running documentary series.
Archive
This is an incomplete archive of programme titles and broadcast dates.
1990s
2000s
2000–2004
2005–2006
2006–2007
2007–2008
2008–2009
2009–2010
Fair City actor Tommy O'Neill discussed his life on 14 March 2010 episode.
All programmes from oldest to most recent online to celebrate 60 years of television Christmas 2021.
References
External links
Would You Believe at RTÉ Television
Irish religious television series
RTÉ original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Top%20Latin%20Albums%20of%202003 | The Billboard Top Latin albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information. These data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, Internet sales (both physical and digital) and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
There were twenty number-one albums in 2003, including Hijas del Tomate, the debut album by Spanish trio Las Ketchup; and Mambo Sinuendo, a collaboration between Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban, which won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album later in the year. Mexican singer-songwriter Marco Antonio Solís became the first performer to peak at number one 4 times in the same calendar year: twice as the lead member of Los Bukis and twice as a solo artist with La Historia Continúa... and Tu Amor o Tu Desprecio. Ranchero performer Pepe Aguilar debuted at number two on the chart on April 12, 2003 with Y Tenerte Otra Vez and the following week climbed to number one.
Un Día Normal, by Colombian performer Juanes, reached the top spot of the chart on its 68th week, 17 days after it won the Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Mexican singer Luis Miguel released his 16th studio album, 33, which became his fifth number-one set, while fellow Mexican norteño music band Los Tigres del Norte peaked at the top of this chart for the fourth time (out of 13 releases) with Herencia Musical: 20 Corridos Inolvidables. Ricky Martin's Almas del Silencio debuted within the Top 40 in twelve countries, received a Latin Grammy nomination and also debuted at number one on the 'Billboard Top Latin Albums chart.
Puerto Rican performer Ednita Nazario peaked at number one for the first time with her 20th album, Por Ti. Bronco's Siempre Arriba also spent one week at the top, replacing fellow Mexican performers Los Tigres del Norte on August 9, 2003. A.B. Quintanilla with Kumbia Kings, Intocable and Los Temerarios were the only performers to hit the top spot twice in 2003. Cuban salsa performer Celia Cruz, who died on July 16, 2003, debuted at number one on the chart and won the Grammy Award for Best Salsa/Merengue Album with her last recording Regalo del Alma.
Albums
References
2003 Latin
United States Latin Albums
2003 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccoptochile | Eccoptochile is an extinct genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida. It contains one species, E. clavigera.
External links
Eccoptochile at the Paleobiology Database
Cheiruridae
Phacopida genera
Ordovician trilobites of Europe
Fossils of the Czech Republic
Letná Formation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrinuraspis | Encrinuraspis is an extinct genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida.
References
External links
Encrinuraspis at the Paleobiology Database
Encrinuridae genera
Silurian trilobites of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Deschenaux | Jacques Deschenaux (born 9 December 1945 in Fribourg) is a Swiss journalist and television personality.
He has worked for many years with the sports programming at the French branch of Swiss television. Among his journalistic works is a biography of Swiss racing driver Jo Siffert. In 1989 he co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest with Lolita Morena.
See also
List of Eurovision Song Contest presenters
References
1945 births
Living people
People from Fribourg
Swiss television journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous%20Curves%20%28The%20Simpsons%29 | "Dangerous Curves" is the fifth episode of the twentieth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 9, 2008 and in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2008. The episode received mixed reviews from television critics.
Plot
On the Fourth of July, the Simpson family visit a cabin in the woods. While driving there, they pick up hitchhikers Squeaky Voiced Teen and his girlfriend, Beatrice. Homer flashes back twenty years earlier to 1988, when he and Marge ride their bikes down a highway. While trying to kiss, Homer crashes his bike, forcing them to walk. Ned and Maude Flanders are driving by, see them and pick them up. Ned and Maude are on their honeymoon after their wedding earlier that day, but Ned warns the other two about potential marital problems in the future.
Back in the present, Homer becomes annoyed with the Squeaky Voiced Teen kissing Beatrice, prompting another flashback to five years earlier in 2003, where a married Homer and Marge are more stressed. Driving with Marge, Patty and Selma, and getting the usual flak from the latter two, Homer angrily kicks them out of the car, unaware they had the map to their cabin destination. The car runs out of gas and Homer and Marge walk off with a gas can, stopping at a home to use the phone. The owner, Alberto, is having a party, and he invites them in. Marge becomes enraged after seeing Homer flirting with a beautiful woman named Sylvia. Following an argument, Marge accidentally falls into the pool. Homer starts a sushi fight, and Marge regrets marrying Homer.
In the present, the family drops off the Squeaky-Voiced Teen and Beatrice, and continue to their cabin. In 1988, Ned barricades unmarried Homer and Marge chastely in separate rooms of the cabin to discourage premarital sex. In 2003, Alberto comforts Marge, who leaves the party with him for a private airplane ride, while Homer, seeing them in the sky, drives off with Sylvia. They each decide to spend the night together but end up at the cabin, where Homer sees Marge through the window but does not see Alberto. Upon hearing Homer calling out for Marge, Alberto panics and hides in a trunk just before Homer arrives. Despite his initial misgivings, Homer concludes that he and Marge were both there to recapture the memories of their dating years. On Marge's insistence, Homer pulls the trunk out of the room, where he promptly pushes Sylvia into out of Marge's eyesight. Alberto and Sylvia fall in love in the trunk while Homer and Marge rekindle their love.
In the present, Homer and Marge meet Alberto and Sylvia, now married with a daughter named Ruthie, and learn of each other's near-affairs. Marge is disgusted, but Homer points out she was just as bad as he was. Homer regrets marrying Marge and, trapped in a ball of their luggage which happened while unpacking, has Ruthie roll him into the woods.
Back in 1988, Ned comforts Homer, who is despondent at Marge's ab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Rostro%20de%20Anal%C3%ADa | El Rostro de Analía (; The Face of Analía) is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the American-based television network Telemundo. It stars Elizabeth Gutiérrez, Martin Karpan, Maritza Rodríguez and Gabriel Porras, with the special appearance of Gaby Espino. Written by Venezuelan writer Humberto "Kiko" Olivieri, the story is loosely based on María, María which starred Alba Roversi and Mexican soap star Arturo Peniche in Venezuela, and was also written by Olivieri. The novela is directed by David Posada and Danny Gaviria; with Jairo Arcila as General Producer and Aurelio Valcárcel Carroll as Executive Producer. Although the novela was set in Los Angeles, Telemundo filmed the serial in Miami, Fl. Through editing it was made to appear as Los Angeles. The network debuted it on October 20, 2008 at the 9 pm (8 pm central) timeslot. NBC added English subtitles as closed captions on CC3 starting in March.
Elizabeth Gutiérrez plays both Mariana and Analía, being the protagonist. The male lead is portrayed by Martin Karpan, while the antagonists include Maritza Rodríguez, Gabriel Porras and Zully Montero. Other major characters are brought to life by Karla Monroig, Daniel Lugo, Ximena Duque, Pedro Moreno and Alejandro Chaban.
Plot
Mariana Montiel is a young and beautiful executive at the head of ANGEL'S, the executive airline founded by her father. She has been skilled and very shrewd in business but in love she is completely different, since she failed to protect one thing that she loves most: her own marriage. Since she met and fell in love with the good-looking and brilliant architect Daniel Montiel with whom she had a passionate affair that resulted beautiful Adriana, a baby who was a reason of two of them getting married. Marriage in its first phase was happy, Mariana gave all trust to her husband, helping company growth, but Daniel took the rise of his career to continue his single life quoted. Sarah, Mariana's beautiful and sexy cousin, who was always jealous of living in Mariana's shadow, took advantage of Daniel's opportunity, becoming his mistress. Sarah's life goal would be taking Mariana's company position in Angel's. Behind her sophisticated appearance hides an unscrupulous woman, who just wants to get money and power, so she becomes entangled in the affairs of the drug mafia and Ricky Montana, who seeks to use the image of the Airline to launder money. As Sarah's ambition has no limits, she plans to kill her with help of her accomplice Ricky Montana. Montana, as a way to test the loyalty of his lover Analía, who is in fact an undercover agent, orders her to kill Mariana. Analía accepts, but she has no intention to really kill her. Her life goal is to trap Montana, and put him on the electric chair, so she could revenge him for murdering the love of her life. That day, Mariana discovers her husband's infidelity and in a fit of madness and pain, she leaves her anniversary party. Analía gets into her car with the gun to allegedly kill he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracey%20Ullman%20Takes%20on%20New%20York | Tracey Ullman Takes on New York is an HBO television special starring Tracey Ullman. The show was Ullman's first project for network; it led to the creation of the sketch comedy series Tracey Takes On...
Premise
The Johnsons
Visiting Wisconsin couple Penny and Gordon Johnson get separated in the Big Apple. After actress Linda Granger is hit by a bus, Penny takes over her role in Finian's Rainbow playing on Broadway.
Family Reunion
Fashion magazine editor, Janie Pillsworth is reunited with the parents she disowned thanks to a colleague who is vying for her job.
The Rosenthal Affair
Harry and Fern Rosenthal welcome their daughter's future in-laws to the city. Fern becomes jealous and suspicious of her future son-in-law's mother.
Cast
Tracey Ullman as Penny Johnson, Janie Pillsworth, Jackie Pillsworth, Fern Rosenthal
Paul Butler as Jay Levine
Dan Castellaneta as Gordon Johnson, Bryan Lynn
Nell Campbell
Maddie Corman as Sheila Rosenthal
Blythe Danner as Eleanor Levine
Jill Eikenberry as Jessica Stern
Joe Franklin as himself
K. Todd Freeman as Byron
Dan Futterman as Peter Levine
Jim Fyfe as Drug Dealer
Robert Joy as Disgruntled Ex-Employee
Josh Mostel
Todd Oldham as himself
Parker Posey as Libby
Jerry Stiller as Theatrical producer
Michael Tucker as Harry Rosenthal
Michael York as Central Park Acquaintance
Production
After ending her eponymous Fox show in 1990, Ullman chose to take a break from television and concentrate on motherhood, having given birth to her second child in 1991. That same year, her husband, independent British television producer, Allan McKeown placed a bid a television franchise in the South of England. Along with his bid he included a potential television programming lineup which included a Tracey Ullman special. When his bid was successful, Ullman created the ITV comedy special, Tracey Ullman: A Class Act, which lampooned the British class system. After its success, the American cable network HBO became interested in her doing a special for them. The one caveat was that the show focus on an "American" subject. Ullman chose New York. The special entitled Tracey Ullman Takes on New York was filmed on location in Manhattan over a period of three weeks. Three new characters were created for her to portray, along with Janie Pillsworth, and Janie's mother, Jacqueline; both characters were created and appeared in the previous British Class Act special. Weeks after the special's broadcast, HBO aired A Class Act on November 23, 1993, the special that initially sparked their interest. After the success of both specials, HBO became interested in Ullman doing a "takes on" series. Ullman and her husband agreed, and the pair set up production in Los Angeles in 1995 to begin work on Tracey Takes On....
Format
The special is split into three acts with one bit (Linda Granger being hit by a bus) shown from the point-of-view of two different characters: Penny Johnson and Fern Rosenthal (who causes the accident).
Recept |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTME | KTME (89.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Reliance, Wyoming, United States. The station is currently owned by Western Inspirational Broadcasters. It currently carries religious programming from Pilgrim Radio.
Translator
In addition to the main station, KTME is rebroadcast on a translator station, K246CZ in Big Piney/La Barge.
References
External links
Official site
Radio stations established in 2010
TME
Sweetwater County, Wyoming
2010 establishments in Wyoming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20buildings%20and%20structures%20in%20Swansea | This is a list of buildings and structures in the City and County of Swansea.
Buildings
BT Tower
Civic Centre
DVLA Computer Centre
Guildhall (Grade I listed)
Kilvey Hill TV transmitter
The Tower, Meridian Quay
Mumbles Lighthouse (Grade II listed)
Palace Theatre
Plantasia
Patti Pavilion
Sea View Community Primary School
Swansea Central Library (Grade II listed)
Swansea Central police station (Grade II listed)
Swansea Market
Swansea observatory
Tabernacle Chapel, Morriston (Grade I listed)
Vetch Field
Whiteford Lighthouse (Grade II listed)
Mumbles Pier
Structures
Landore viaduct (Grade II listed)
Loughor railway viaduct (Grade II listed)]
Swansea Bay barrage
Covered markets and shopping malls
Clydach Market
Picton Arcade
Shoppers Walk Arcade
Castle Arcade
High Street Arcade
Quadrant Shopping Centre
St. David's Shopping Centre
Swansea Market
Retail parks
Morfa Shopping Park
Pontarddulais Road Retail Park
Parc Fforestfach
Swansea Enterprise Park
Historical Buildings
Castles
Grade I Listed buildings
Church of St Cadoc, Cheriton
Guildhall
Oystermouth Castle, Oystermouth
Oxwich Castle, Oxwich
Penrice Castle, Penrice
Morriston Tabernacle, Morriston
Swansea Castle
Weobley Castle, Llanrhidian
See also
List of places in Swansea (categorised)
List of cultural venues in Swansea
List of public art in Swansea
Swansea-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya%20Rapoport | Sonya Rapoport (October 6, 1923 – June 1, 2015) was an American conceptual, feminist, and New media artist. She began her career as a painter, and later became best known for computer-mediated interactive installations and participatory web-based artworks.
Early life
Sonya (née Goldberg) was born on October 6, 1923, in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. There, she regularly attended Saturday classes at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts where she studied with Karl Zerbe. She spent her childhood summers at the art colony in Ogunquit, Maine.
Education
Rapoport studied biology at Boston University and economics at New York University, graduating with a B.A. in 1946. In 1944, she married Henry Rapoport, a chemistry professor, and went with him to New York, Washington, D.C., and then to Berkeley, CA. Sonya Rapoport pursued her studies in art throughout their moves. She attended the Art Students League of New York where she studied with Reginald Marsh, then entered the Corcoran School of Art and Design to study figurative art and oil painting, and finally enrolled in the graduate program in Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied with Erle Loran, receiving her M.A. in 1949. The Berkeley art practice curriculum at that time was heavily influenced by the aesthetic philosophy of Hans Hofmann, although the school produced artists as divergent in their practices as Rapoport, Jay DeFeo, and Sam Francis.
Career
Early career
In 1971 Rapoport discovered a series of vintage geological survey charts from an Idaho Snake River Dam project in an antique architect's desk she had purchased. She used these charts as a background for drawing and painting, as well as stencils she made from found objects. Objects such as a pool-cue holder signified an udder, while a plastic uterus from an anatomy kit stood for the womb: a lexicon of feminine symbols she referred to as her Nu-Shu language. Nüshu is a script created in the 15th century as a “secret language,” used exclusively by women in Hunan Province, China. Rapoport used this feminist pattern language extensively throughout the 1970s on large-scale paintings as well as mixed-media works on found continuous-feed computer paper.
In the late 1970s, Rapoport also developed a collaborative practice as her work moved away from painting and drawing into the realm of installation, performance, and research-based mixed-media projects. She collaborated with research chemists, software engineers, and anthropologists to realize her increasingly complex projects. For instance, as part her collaboration with the anthropologist Dorothy Washburn during the 1970s, Rapoport incorporated archeological notations based on the study of Native American artifacts into her computer drawings.
Between 1979 and 1983 Rapoport worked on her conceptual project Objects on My Dresser, which unfolded in eleven successive phases over the five-year period. The final, twelfth phase was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20modeling%20fields | Neural modeling field (NMF) is a mathematical framework for machine learning which combines ideas from neural networks, fuzzy logic, and model based recognition. It has also been referred to as modeling fields, modeling fields theory (MFT), Maximum likelihood artificial neural networks (MLANS).
This framework has been developed by Leonid Perlovsky at the AFRL. NMF is interpreted as a mathematical description of the mind's mechanisms, including concepts, emotions, instincts, imagination, thinking, and understanding. NMF is a multi-level, hetero-hierarchical system. At each level in NMF there are concept-models encapsulating the knowledge; they generate so-called top-down signals, interacting with input, bottom-up signals. These interactions are governed by dynamic equations, which drive concept-model learning, adaptation, and formation of new concept-models for better correspondence to the input, bottom-up signals.
Concept models and similarity measures
In the general case, NMF system consists of multiple processing levels. At each level, output signals are the concepts recognized in (or formed from) input, bottom-up signals. Input signals are associated with (or recognized, or grouped into) concepts according to the models and at this level. In the process of learning the concept-models are adapted for better representation of the input signals so that similarity between the concept-models and signals increases. This increase in similarity can be interpreted as satisfaction of an instinct for knowledge, and is felt as aesthetic emotions.
Each hierarchical level consists of N "neurons" enumerated by index n=1,2..N. These neurons receive input, bottom-up signals, X(n), from lower levels in the processing hierarchy. X(n) is a field of bottom-up neuronal synaptic activations, coming from neurons at a lower level. Each neuron has a number of synapses; for generality, each neuron activation is described as a set of numbers,
, where D is the number or dimensions necessary to describe individual neuron's activation.
Top-down, or priming signals to these neurons are sent by concept-models, Mm(Sm,n)
, where M is the number of models. Each model is characterized by its parameters, Sm; in the neuron structure of the brain they are encoded by strength of synaptic connections, mathematically, they are given by a set of numbers,
, where A is the number of dimensions necessary to describe individual model.
Models represent signals in the following way. Suppose that signal X(n) is coming from sensory neurons n activated by object m, which is characterized by parameters Sm. These parameters may include position, orientation, or lighting of an object m. Model Mm(Sm,n) predicts a value X(n) of a signal at neuron n. For example, during visual perception, a neuron n in the visual cortex receives a signal X(n) from retina and a priming signal Mm(Sm,n) from an object-concept-model m. Neuron n is activated if both the bottom-up signal from lower-level |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpia | Scorpia may refer to:
Scorpia (comics), a fictional super villain in the Marvel Comics universe
Scorpia (journalist), pseudonym for a reviewer in Computer Gaming World
Scorpia (novel), a 2004 Alex Rider novel
Scorpia, a fictional planet in the science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica
Scorpia (She-Ra), a character in the animated television series She-Ra: Princess of Power
Scorpia, a fictional criminal organization in the Phantom comic strip. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoes%20%28GUI%20toolkit%29 | Shoes is a GUI toolkit based on the Ruby programming language. It was originally developed by Jonathan Gillette (why the lucky stiff), and others are carrying on with it after his disappearance. Shoes runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (GTK+), using the underlying technologies of Cairo and Pango.
Shoes' philosophy is one of simplicity. It's designed to make applications as easy as possible. Here's an example Shoes app:
Shoes.app :title => "Push Button" do
@note = para "Nothing pushed so far"
button "Push me" do
@note.replace "Aha! The button was pushed!"
end
end
Shoes has all the common widgets you would expect for creating a graphical application as well as graphic primitives to draw art like
lines, circles, and even physics (via Chipmunk) cRruby extensions. Shoes 3 includes its own embedded MRI/cRuby Ruby and does not require the end user to install Ruby. It provides a customized Rubygems environment that does not conflict with any existing Ruby that might exist.
Developers can also package up their scripts in several ways to easily share with other users who have Shoes installed. Advanced developers in Shoes 3 have many deployment options available including very platform specific applications with unique gems and their own custom installer to create their own unique Applications.
Releases
_why releases:
v1, "Curious"
v2, "Raisins"
Post-_why releases:
v3.1, "Policeman"
v3.2 "Federales"
v3.3 "Walkabout"
The current release is version 3.3. which is MRI/cruby based. Shoes 4 is a major re-write for jRuby supporting the "Policeman" capabilities (API) and keeping the educational spirit of _why_the_lucky_stiff.
Shoes 3.3 embraces the unique things that MRI Ruby can do with native extensions and gems, even if they are platform specific. Shoes 3.3.1 reimplemented the video_widget in "Raisins", even if it won't work in all edge cases. It also includes an SVG widget and some manipulation abilities for svg files.
Shoe 3.3.2 (in beta) adds a profiler, a new optional command line terminal, byebug debugging, and plot widget for drawing simple charts.
References
External links
Shoes homepage
Shoes 3 Git Repository - Current
Shoes 3 Git Repository - not maintained
Shoes 4 Git Repository
Articles with example Ruby code
Free software programmed in C
Free software programmed in Ruby
Software using the MIT license
Widget toolkits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Yi | Wang Yi may refer to:
People named Wang Yi (王沂)
Wang Yi (Yuan dynasty historian) (王沂), one of the compilers of the History of Song
(王沂; born 1443), politician
People named Wang Yi (王毅)
Wang Yi (politician) (王毅; born 1953), Director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office and member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
Wang Yi (water polo) (王毅; born 1987), water polo player
Wang Yi (footballer) (王毅; born 1990), Chinese football (soccer) player
Denny Wang (王毅; born 1998), Chinese football (soccer) player whose Chinese name is Wang Yi
People named Wang Yi (王怡)
Wang Yi (pastor) (王怡; born 1973), Chinese Calvinist pastor
Wang Yi (volleyball) (王怡; born 1973), Olympic volleyball player
Other people
(王邑), commander in the Battle of Kunyang, 23 CE
Wang Yi (librarian) (王逸), Han dynasty librarian, minor poet, and anthologist
Wang Yi (wife of Zhao Ang) (王異), wife of Eastern Han dynasty official Zhao Ang, joined her husband in resisting the warlord Ma Chao
Wang Yi (painter) (王繹; born 1330), Yuan dynasty painter
Wang Yi (dissident) (王译; born 1963/64), human rights activist
Wang Yi (figure skater) (王一; born 1992), figure skater
Wang Yi (王弋), older brother of famous Chinese singer Faye Wong
Companies
NetEase (網易; pinyin: WǎngYì), Chinese Internet technology company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NexentaStor | NexentaStor is an OpenSolaris or more recently Illumos distribution optimized for virtualization, storage area networks, network-attached storage, and iSCSI or Fibre Channel applications employing the ZFS file system.
Like OpenSolaris, NexentaStor is a Unix-like operating system. Nexenta Systems started NexentaStor as a fork of another OpenSolaris distribution, Illumos.
NexentaStor supports iSCSI, unlimited incremental backups ('snapshots'), snapshot mirroring (replication), continuous data protection, integrated search within ZFS snapshots, and an API.
Nexenta distributes the operating system as a disk image. The Community Edition is available free of charge for users with up 10 TB of used disk space who deploy the operating system in a non-production environment.
NexentaStor Community Edition includes all the common storage area network features of the production version, but if the amount of disk data addressed by the system exceeds 18 TB, the operating system locks most administration functions.
References
External links
NexentaStor Community Edition
Computer storage devices
OpenSolaris-derived software distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Government%20Parks | Japan's are parks or open spaces established by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism under the .
These parks are different from the country's network of National Parks, which represent areas of outstanding natural significance and are declared by the Minister of the Environment under the .
History
The first National Government Park, Musashi Kyūryō National Government Park, was started in 1968 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Meiji Restoration. The park opened its door to the public in July, 1974.
Parks
In total there are seventeen National Government Parks, listed below in chronological order:
Musashi Kyūryō National Government Park, opened in 1974
Asuka Historical National Government Park opened in 1974 (includes also the Nara Palace Site Historical Park)
Yodogawa River National Government Park opened in 1977.
Uminonakamichi Seaside National Government Park opened in 1981.
Okinawa Commemorative National Government Park opened in 1976.
Showa Commemorative National Government Park opened in 1983.
Takino Suzuran Hillside National Government Park opened in 1983.
Hitachi Seaside Park opened in 1991
Kiso Sansen National Government Park opened in 1987
Michinoku Forest Lakeside National Government Park opened in 1989.
Bihoku Hillside National Government Park opened in 1995.
Sanuki Mannō National Government Park opened in 1998.
Echigo Hillside National Government Park opened in 1998.
Alps Azumino National Government Park opened in 2004.
Yoshinogari Historical National Government Park opened in 2001.
Akashi Kaikyō National Government Park opened in 2002.
Tokyo Waterfront Wide Area Disaster Reduction National Government Park is under construction.
External links
National Government Parks
References
National Government Parks of Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantucket%20Regional%20Transit%20Authority | The Nantucket Regional Transit Authority (NRTA) is the public transport authority on the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts, USA. It operates a small network of shuttle buses and paratransit service year-round.
The NRTA's shuttle bus service, The Wave (also referred to as the NRTA Wave), is branded using blue and white colors. Paratransit service is branded as Your Island Ride using red and white livery.
History
NRTA was created by Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 161B in 1993, but did not begin to operate until 1995, when it had only four buses operating on two routes.
As of April 27, 2018 The Wave began year-round operation. Prior to that date, only Your Island Ride was available year-round.
Services
The Wave operates 10 seasonal scheduled bus routes, which are operated by Valley Transportation Services of Massachusetts (VTS of MA). Buses serve Madaket, Miacomet, Mid-Island, the Airport, and Siasconset. Two additional routes serve Jetties and Surfside beaches under the "Beach Bus" route designation. The NRTA also operates the "Wave Ferry Connector", a free service for ticketed ferry passengers connecting the Steamship and Hy-Line docks to the town's park and ride lot.
Your Island Ride has been servicing people with disabilities and people aged 60 and older since 2001. The service operates as a door-to-door reservation van.
Fares
The following fares for The Wave are active as of Summer 2020. Your Island Ride is a complimentary service.
For people 65 and older, individuals with disabilities, and veterans and active military personnel, you can pay a half fee.
Children 6 and under ride for free.
Notes
Free for ticketed ferry customers only, others must pay $1.00.
External links
Official website
1993 establishments in Massachusetts
Bus transportation in Massachusetts
Government agencies established in 1993
State agencies of Massachusetts
Transportation in Nantucket, Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalent%20impedance%20transforms | An equivalent impedance is an equivalent circuit of an electrical network of impedance elements which presents the same impedance between all pairs of terminals as did the given network. This article describes mathematical transformations between some passive, linear impedance networks commonly found in electronic circuits.
There are a number of very well known and often used equivalent circuits in linear network analysis. These include resistors in series, resistors in parallel and the extension to series and parallel circuits for capacitors, inductors and general impedances. Also well known are the Norton and Thévenin equivalent current generator and voltage generator circuits respectively, as is the Y-Δ transform. None of these are discussed in detail here; the individual linked articles should be consulted.
The number of equivalent circuits that a linear network can be transformed into is unbounded. Even in the most trivial cases this can be seen to be true, for instance, by asking how many different combinations of resistors in parallel are equivalent to a given combined resistor. The number of series and parallel combinations that can be formed grows exponentially with the number of resistors, n. For large n the size of the set has been found by numerical techniques to be approximately 2.53n and analytically strict bounds are given by a Farey sequence of Fibonacci numbers. This article could never hope to be comprehensive, but there are some generalisations possible. Wilhelm Cauer found a transformation that could generate all possible equivalents of a given rational, passive, linear one-port, or in other words, any given two-terminal impedance. Transformations of 4-terminal, especially 2-port, networks are also commonly found and transformations of yet more complex networks are possible.
The vast scale of the topic of equivalent circuits is underscored in a story told by Sidney Darlington. According to Darlington, a large number of equivalent circuits were found by Ronald M. Foster, following his and George Campbell's 1920 paper on non-dissipative four-ports. In the course of this work they looked at the ways four ports could be interconnected with ideal transformers and maximum power transfer. They found a number of combinations which might have practical applications and asked the AT&T patent department to have them patented. The patent department replied that it was pointless just patenting some of the circuits if a competitor could use an equivalent circuit to get around the patent; they should patent all of them or not bother. Foster therefore set to work calculating every last one of them. He arrived at an enormous total of 83,539 equivalents (577,722 if different output ratios are included). This was too many to patent, so instead the information was released into the public domain in order to prevent any of AT&T's competitors from patenting them in the future.
2-terminal, 2-element-kind networks
A single impedan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Fitzgerald%20%28academic%29 | Brian Fitzgerald is an Australian legal academic and barrister. He is an intellectual property and information technology/internet lawyer who has pioneered the teaching of internet/cyber law in Australia. Fitzgerald was a specialist research professor at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) until February 2012, when he became the inaugural executive dean of law at the Australian Catholic University's Faculty of Law and Business.
Education and career
Fitzgerald studied arts at Griffith University and law at the Queensland University of Technology, graduating with first-class honours, and as University Medallist in Law, before going on to postgraduate study at the University of Oxford (BCL), Harvard University (LLM) and Griffith University (PhD). In 1998 he was named as QUT Law Faculty's Alumnus of the Year.
From 1998 to 2002, Fitzgerald was head of the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University, and from 2002 to 2007 he was head of the School of Law at QUT. Since March 2012 he has been the executive dean of law at the Australian Catholic University, based in Melbourne.
Fitzgerald is a chief investigator and program leader for law in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence on Creative Industries and Innovation. He is also the project leader of Creative Commons Australia and Peer to Patent Australia and is member of the Access to and Use of Public sector Information (auPSI) project. He was project leader for the Open Access to Knowledge Law (OAK Law) Project studying legal protocols for open access for the Australian research sector, and for the Legal Framework for e-Research Project.
His current projects include work on intellectual property issues across the areas of copyright, digital content and the internet, copyright and the creative industries in China, open content licensing and the Creative Commons, free and open source software, research use of patents, patent informatics administration licensing, Science Commons, e-research, licensing of digital entertainment and anti-circumvention law.
Professor Fitzgerald was a member of the Government 2.0 Taskforce set up by the Australian Government in 2009. This taskforce produced its report, "Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0", in December 2009.
Fitzgerald has been featured in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Science Show, and The Law Report discussing copyright related legal issues.
Books
Internet and Ecommerce Law, Business and Policy (2011)
Cyberlaw: Cases and Materials on the Internet, Digital Intellectual Property and E Commerce (2002)
Jurisdiction and the Internet (2004)
Legal Issues Relating to Free and Open Source Software (2004)
Intellectual Property in Principle (2004)
Internet and Ecommerce Law (2007)
Games and law: History, content, practice and law (2007)
Copyright Law, Digital Content and the Internet in the Asia Pacific (2008)
Legal Framework for e-Research: Realising the Potential (2008)
Going Digital 2000 (2000)
See al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosaden%20K%C5%8Dts%C5%AB%20Sanbashi%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.
The line name "Sanbashi Line" sometimes denotes only the section between Harimayabashi and Sanbashi-dōri-gochōme. In this case, the rest of the line, between Kōchi-Ekimae and Harimayabashi, is called the .
Stations
References
Rail transport in Kōchi Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosaden%20K%C5%8Dts%C5%AB%20Gomen%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 Ino Line.
Stations
Rail transport in Kōchi Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS%20%28computer%20program%29 | FIPS (First nondestructive Interactive Partition Splitter) - is an MS-DOS program for non-destructive splitting of File Allocation Table (FAT) hard disk partitions.
Splitting partitions is an alternative to deleting the partitions and creating new ones using software such as fdisk, the advantage of which is that the data is not lost. The most common use is installing multiple operating systems on a single computer.
FIPS is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Limitations
FIPS only works on primary partitions that are formatted using the File Allocation Table (FAT) filesystem. Most new machines with Windows pre-installed use NTFS, leaving FIPS obsolete for its intended purpose of resizing existing Windows installations to install Linux. In addition, FIPS cannot grow partitions due to technical limitations with the design, and partitions shrunk with it have some wasted space since it does not shrink the File Allocation Table. The filesystem to be shrunk must also be defragmented before FIPS is run - since FIPS does not move data, any data near the end of the partition prevents it from being resized.
Alternatives
These limitations have caused it to be largely superseded by more modern tools with better filesystem support, more advanced resizing methods and more complete partitioning functionality, such as:
GNU Parted
GParted is a GTK+-based graphical version of Parted
QtParted is a Qt-based graphical version of Parted
Parted Magic
PartitionMagic
fdisk
cfdisk
diskpart
See also
gpart
TestDisk
References
External links
.
with still downloadable FIPS and documentation.
DOS software
Free system software
Free partitioning software
Discontinued software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Ling | Charles X. Ling (Chinese name: 凌晓峰) is a computer scientist who specializes in research on Data Mining and Machine Learning.
He obtained his BSc from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1985, and PhD from University of Pennsylvania in 1989.
He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science, and Science Distinguished Research Professor, at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has published over 150 refereed papers in international journals and conferences. He is a Senior member of IEEE.
He is co-author of book Crafting Your Research Future - A Guide to Successful Master's and Ph.D. Degrees in Science & Engineering.
He also does research and development in child gifted education, deriving from his work on artificial intelligence and cognitive science.
Bibliography
IEEE Canada
NRC-IIT
References
Publisher website
External links
Charles X. Ling's academic website
Chinese computer scientists
Senior Members of the IEEE
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Mya is an Italian entertainment TV channel, owned by Mediaset and broadcast on Premium Gallery, a pay television network available on digital terrestrial television in Italy. Its transmission started on January 18, 2008 with the pilot episode of Gossip Girl.
It is targeted at female audiences and broadcasts movies, television series and soap operas.
At the moment, Mya is not available on satellite television, and is not available outside Italy.
Programs
See also
Mediaset Premium
External links
Mediaset television channels
Women's interest channels
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Italian-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglaspoides | Aglaspoides is an extinct genus of aglaspid arthropod.
External links
Aglaspoides at the Paleobiology Database
Aglaspidida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS%20in%20Vietnam | Vietnam faces a concentrated HIV epidemic.
Reporting
HIV prevalence data in Vietnam is based primarily on HIV/AIDS case reporting and on the HIV Sentinel Surveillance conducted annually in 40 of Vietnam's 64 provinces. The government now reports HIV cases in all provinces, 93 percent of all districts, and 49 percent of all communes, although many high prevalence provinces report cases in 100 percent of communes. Even though Vietnam has implemented HIV/AIDS case reporting, the general lack of HIV testing thus far suggests that the actual number of people living with HIV/AIDS is much higher.
Current state
The first HIV case was detected in 1990. The estimated number of people living with HIV then rose drastically from 3,000 in 1992 to 220,000 in 2007, and is projected to be 280,000 in 2012. Among these, 5,670 are children. According to the IMF, this trend is placing Vietnam at the threshold of moving the disease from the high-risk groups of drug users and sex workers to the general population. Among those who inject drugs, 19% are infected by HIV (up to 30% in some provinces).
Injection of drugs
Injecting drug users (IDU) account for up to 65% of people living with HIV. The HIV prevalence among male IDU is estimated to be 23.1%. Drug injection is reported as the major cause for doubling the number of HIV/AIDS patients from 2000 to 2005.
Although there appears widespread awareness of using sterile needles among IDU (88% reported doing so in the last injection) sharing needles is common among those who have already contracted HIV/AIDS. In a survey of 20 provinces in Vietnam, 35% of IDU living with HIV shared needles and syringes. Besides, IDU often engage in risky sexual behaviours. 25% of male IDU in Hanoi is reported to buy sex and do not use condoms. Meanwhile, female IDU often sell sex to finance their drug need. This raises the risk of spreading HIV/AIDS to the general population.
Sexual transmission
Another main cause of HIV/AIDS spread is sexual transmission through the sex workers. While 97.1% of female sex workers (FSW) reported using condoms with their most recent clients, the rate is much lower at 41.1% among those who are living with HIV.
Others
While HIV/AIDS remain an epidemic only within the high-risk groups, women in the general population may be more exposed to the risk of contracting HIV than reported. One study estimates that reported HIV transmission among women may reflect as low as 16% of the real number due to the lack of HIV screening. The number of women with HIV infection is estimated to increase from less than 30,000 in 2000 to 90,000 in 2007.
Women may contract HIV/AIDS through partners who are undisclosed IDU. Men having pre-marital or extra-marital sexual relationships with FSW inevitably expose their wives to HIV/AIDS risk. Particularly in provinces with mobile populations, migrant husbands who, being away from home, are likely buy sex and use drugs may contract HIV and transmit to their wives.
With potenti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childes | Childes may refer to:
Childe's Tomb (or Childes Tomb), Dartmoor, England
CHILDES, or Child Language Data Exchange System, a database of child language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectional%20Appendix | In Great Britain, the Sectional Appendix is a railway document compiled by Network Rail and is the official definition of railway infrastructure, giving a detailed description of all railway lines owned by Network Rail. It has traditionally been published in printed format, originally as a bound book and subsequently in loose-leaf format, for ease of updating.
History
In earlier years, instructions to traincrews relating to the operation of the railway were included within the working timetables. As the volume of instructions increased, they later came to be published in a separate document, known in full as the "Sectional Appendix to the Working Timetable" or similar.
Content
There are modules for different areas, e.g. KSW2 covers Kent and Sussex. Each module may be divided in a similar way to the following sections:
Section 1: Route Module
Maps
Outline maps providing a general overview of the route showing lines, station names, and reference numbers. The numbers relate to pages in the detailed Table A diagrams.
Exceptionally poor rail adhesion
This is a list of known areas for exceptionally poor railhead conditions. It states the route, location, lines affected, and the mileage references between which it occurs.
Table A diagrams
This section comprises the main bulk of the module, and contains detailed maps. Information available includes;
Name, maximum speed and direction of running lines
Location of junctions and crossovers, and the maximum speed across them
Name of Signal box/signalling centre controlling the lines
NRN, Cab Secure Radio and GSM-R area coverage details
Name and location of stations, platform identities and the maximum number or coach lengths they can accommodate
Location and names of Tunnels, crossings and all significant infrastructure
Location of sidings, yards, sheds, stabling and maintenance facilities
Location of Electrical control rooms, and type of Traction current supply where applicable
Location of Electrical substations and Track paralleling huts where applicable
All distances are given in miles and chains.
Special Working Arrangement
Special arrangement is a condition where a specific location requires there to be an operational variance to the Rulebook, or an addition to it. This section details a route, locations where the arrangement begins and ends, the type of train this applies to, the line affected, and details of the operation.
Section 2: Route Availability
This is a list of which train types are permitted to travel over each route referenced to Table A. It specifies every class of train allowed, sectionalised by type;
Route Clearance of Diesel Multiple Unit Trains
Route Clearance of Electric Multiple Unit Trains
Route Clearance of Coaching Stock
Route Clearance of Locomotives
Section 3: General Instructions
Provides general information pertaining to operations over the whole area/route.
Section 4: Local Instructions
Provides detailed information relating to specific practices at given lo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXKR-FM | DXKR (95.5 FM), broadcasting as Retro 95.5, is a radio station owned and operated by UM Broadcasting Network through its licensee Mt. Apo Broadcasting System. The station's studio is located at the UMBN Media Center, C. Bangoy St. cor. Palma Gil St., Davao City, and its transmitter is located along Broadcast Ave., Shrine Hills, Matina, Davao City.
Background
1993-2009: WRocK
DXKR was established in 1993 as 95.5 WRocK. It was formerly owned by ACWS - United Broadcasting Network.
On October 6, 2008, Manila Broadcasting Company purchased WRocK Manila for PhP229.6 million. However, ACWS-UBN and sister company Exodus continued to retain control of the WRocK provincial stations.
2009-present: Hit Radio/Retro
In February 2009, UMBN transferred its airtime lease agreement to 95.5 after its agreement with RBN's 100.3 expired, hence rebranding the station as 95.5 Hit Radio.
On January 1, 2016, Hit Radio rebranded as Retro 95.5, named after its sister station in Cebu. At the same time, months after ACWS-UBN was acquired by a new group of investors, UMBN acquired the station. Due to broadcast ownership guidelines, its frequency license was assigned to UMBN's sister company Mt. Apo Broadcasting System.
References
External links
95.5 Hit Radio Website
Oldies radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1993
Radio stations in Davao City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast%20in%20Hollywood | Breakfast in Hollywood is a morning radio show created and hosted by Tom Breneman broadcast from 1941 to 1948 on three different radio networks: NBC, ABC and Mutual. These unscripted shows were spontaneous and involved much audience participation. Breneman's many guests included such stars as Jimmy Durante, Andy Devine and Orson Welles.
History
Radio personality Breneman was in Hollywood having lunch in 1940 with friends at Sardi's Restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard when he realized the location's potential for a radio program. He quickly found an audience when he began broadcasting his Breakfast on the Boulevard January 13, 1941, on KFWB Los Angeles. Newspaper radio schedules indicate that West Coast stations were broadcasting the program as "Breakfast at Sardi's" as early as September 1941. The program was limited to radio stations in California, Oregon, and Washington State until Breakfast at Sardi's aired on the Blue Network from August 3, 1942. One source claims that on February 26, 1943 the title was changed to avoid confusion with Sardi's in New York.
However, newspaper radio schedules for the New York listening area began changing from "Breakfast at Sardi's" to "Breakfast in Hollywood" only in early 1945 while other newspapers referred to Breneman's program as "Breakfast at Sardi's" until mid-1945. The program had numerous sponsors, including Kellogg's cereals, Ivory Flakes, Planters Peanuts, Aunt Jemima Flour, Minute Man Soups and Alpine Coffee. By the mid-1940s, Breneman had ten million listeners. The popularity of the radio program was such that he created his own magazine, and in 1945 he opened his own establishment, Tom Breneman's Restaurant, located on Vine Street off Sunset Boulevard. Organist Korla Pandit was only one of the musical talents who performed at the restaurant.
Film
In 1945, flush with success, Breneman promoted the production of a 90-minute feature film, Breakfast in Hollywood (1946) starring Breneman, Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Raymond Walburn, ZaSu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper, featuring musical numbers by Spike Jones, the Nat King Cole Trio and Andy Russell. Songs include "It Is Better to Be Yourself" by Nat King Cole and "If I Had a Wishing Ring" by Marla Shelton and Louis Alter. "Magic is the Moonlight," "Amor", and "If I had a Wishing Ring" are sung by crooner Andy Russell. The film is available on DVD from Mill Creek Entertainment in the Classic Musicals 50 movie pack.
Other
At the age of 47, Breneman died April 28, 1948, in Encino, California, and other hosts, including Garry Moore, stepped in as replacements, but without Breneman, the ratings dropped, and the program came to an end in January 1949.
Show Format
Intro from MC Johnny Masterson.
Hearty "Good Morning Ladies" from Tom.
Ivory flakes portion of show starts with visiting patrons: "Who are you?"
Ivory flakes commercial.
"Going for a hat".
Drawing for the wishing ring.
2nd half of show-Kellogs' Pep.
Good Good neighbor letter.
Uncle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe%20%26%20Sound%20%28Prison%20Break%29 | "Safe & Sound" is the 62nd episode of the American television series Prison Break and was broadcast on September 22, 2008 in the United States on the Fox Network.
Plot
With the Scylla cards copied from Tuxhorn and Tabak, four cardholders remain. Although the resolution on the video taken with Scofield's camera phone is unclear, the FBI agent Donald Self recognizes one of the cardholders. Michael has Agent Self run high-resolution identity searches on the three unknown cardholders, while attempting to copy the next card. At the same time, he orders Sucre and Bellick to canvas Los Angeles for T-Bag, who is somewhere in the city with Whistler's bird book that contains the plan to break into the Company headquarters.
Meanwhile, Sara Tancredi, upon discovering she has lost Bruce Bennett's credit card, realizes she is being followed. She makes a run for it and manages to elude Wyatt, the Company's assassin.
Agent Self, by making up a story about Al-Qaeda using stolen bearer bonds, manages to barge into the cardholder's office in the Treasury Department. Unfortunately, he discovers that the card is inside the holder's office wall safe, which blocks the copying device and prevents the card from being copied.
After losing Sara, Wyatt visits the imprisoned Gretchen Morgan, whom despite repeated torture and a starvation diet has managed to resist. Wyatt proceeds to slowly suffocate and nauseate Gretchen by putting a tape over her mouth and leaving a bucket of urine and body parts in the room. Later, Gretchen kills her guard by stabbing him in the temple with a screw removed from the chair she was tied to and escapes.
Mahone obtains a picture of Wyatt, who killed his son. He meets with his estranged wife, Pam, who recognizes the photo of Wyatt among others. She makes him promise to hunt down and kill their son's murderer, and gives him a gun.
Sucre and Bellick arrive at GATE, and ask for T-Bag who is masquerading there as Cole Pfeiffer, Whistler's fabricated persona. The receptionist, intending to blackmail T-Bag, lies to the duo. After they leave, T-Bag agrees to pay the receptionist three percent of his commissions.
Scofield has come up with a plan to break into one of the most protected buildings in the world and copy the card. The occupant of the room adjacent to the card holder's is led out of the building by Agent Self, who has arranged a lunch meeting. Sucre and Bellick, disguised as janitors, performs vacuum cleaning outside the room, effectively blocking entry and covering any noise from the room. Scofield and Lincoln break into the room via air vents and drill through both the wall and the back of the safe in the next room. During the break-in, Lincoln discovers Scofield's nosebleed. Scofield brushes it off and asks Lincoln not to tell Sara, but Lincoln seems worried. The two successfully drill through the wall into the safe, when the "General" unexpectedly shows up in the card holder's room. Paranoid after recent events, he demands to see |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOAC%20%28AM%29 | KOAC (550 AM) is a radio station licensed to Corvallis, Oregon. The station is owned by Oregon Public Broadcasting, and airs OPBs news and talk programming, consisting of syndicated programming from NPR, APM and PRI, as well as locally produced offerings.
Due to its transmitter power and location near the bottom of the AM dial, KOAC's covers most of Oregon's densely populated area during the day, providing at least secondary coverage from Portland to Roseburg. It is the only directional AM radio station in the United States which uses a shunt-fed antenna.
History
KOAC is one of the oldest radio stations of its kind. It was first licensed, with the sequentially assigned call letters KFDJ, to the Oregon Agricultural College (later known as Oregon State University) on December 7, 1922, and made its debut broadcast on January 23, 1923. It became KOAC in late 1925. The station was one of a number of AM stations signed on by universities in the early days of radio. Unlike most of its contemporaries, KOAC was eventually able to have a frequency to itself full-time.
In 1932, the station's management was transferred from Oregon State University to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education's General Extension Division. However, the state headquarters and network studios remained at the Corvallis campus. The first broadcasts by KOAC were made from the original campus studio in Kearny Hall in 1923. From 1928 to 2006, KOAC's studio was based on campus in Covell Hall, where OSU faculty and students broadcast educational programs and later live news programs across the state. Starting in the 1950s, the board signed on a number of satellite radio stations, as well as a sister network of television stations fronted by KOAC-TV (channel 7, which signed on in 1957). This group became known as Oregon Educational Broadcasting, which evolved into the Oregon Educational and Public Broadcasting Service in 1971. The state-wide radio and TV studios (KOAC-AM-TV) remained on the Corvallis campus as the network flagship until 1981. The network was then spun-off from the Board of Higher Education and became a separate state agency known as Oregon Public Broadcasting. At that time, its Portland-based satellites, KOAP-FM-TV (now KOPB-FM-TV) became the flagship.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KOAC
opb.org
OAC (AM)
OAC
NPR member stations
Corvallis, Oregon
Radio stations established in 1922
1922 establishments in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%20Skypephone%20Series | The 3 Skypephone series was a range of 3G mobile phones made as a global project by the Three brand network. The project was initiated by Three's global handset team, some of whom later went on to found the mobile phone company INQ. The phones were sold in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Italy, Ireland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Macau, but the service has now been discontinued. Three offered 4000 free Skype outbound voice minutes with the phones. Initially, the quota expired after 90 days (30 days in Ireland) unless the user purchased another topup or was on a pay monthly plan. This restriction was lifted by the network in 2009, where calls could still be made and received without the need to "top up" with credit. The service was advertised as "unlimited" in the UK; however, it was subject to fair use limitations, as in other countries.
The Skypephone series of phones supported UMTS/W-CDMA 2100 MHz, GSM and GPRS (900/1800 MHz), as well as HSDPA with the Skypephone S2.
The Skypephone series used the normal 3G or GSM voice network for handling Skype calls, which permitted users to make Skype calls within Three's 3Gnetwork or when the user is out of range of the 3G network and is roaming on one of Three's partner 2G networks. The two Skypephone models were not unique in using normal GSM or 3G voice protocols for handling Skype]: Three's Symbian and Java ME-based Skype clients also did this, but they also needed a data connection for low-bandwidth communication with Three's servers while the voice call was being set up. All other mobile Skype applications (such as Skype for iPhone) used a GPRS, EDGE or 3G packet data connection to handle Skype.
The Skype application used was native to the 3 Skypephone series and is a Brew application, whereas other mobile Skype clients are 3rd-party downloads and are either Symbian or Java ME based (the latter is now defunct). An advantage of using the standardized 3GPP circuit-switched (CS) voice protocols for handling calls is that it does not require a constant GPRS, EDGE, 3G or WiFi data connection, all of which consume significantly more battery life than CS voice.
The 3 Skypephone series used a USB connector for recharging and phone-to-PC communication – allowing them to recharge when plugged into a computer. Phone-to-PC connections are also possible over Bluetooth.
Devices
3 Skypephone S1
3 Skypephone S2
Usage terms
Free Skype-to-Skype calls and instant messages were only available in the country where the phone was purchased, or while roaming on Three's sister networks. Skype-to-Skype calls and instant messages were subject to a fair use policy of 4,000 minutes of outgoing calls and 10,000 instant messages per month (depending on country).
For Three's pay as you go customers, the Skype functionality was subject to activating a minimum top-up (value depending on country) and valid for 90 days (30 days in Ireland) from activating their last top-up, but Three removed the minimum top-up r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrohybus | Hadrohybus is an extinct genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida. It lived in Newfoundland during the Ordovician.
References
External links
Hadrohybus at the Paleobiology Database
Phacopida genera
Ordovician trilobites of North America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadromeros | Hadromeros is an extinct genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida.
References
External links
Hadromeros at the Paleobiology Database
Cheiruridae
Fossils of Ireland
Fossils of Great Britain
Silurian trilobites
Paleozoic life of the Northwest Territories
Paleozoic life of Quebec
Phacopida genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliomera | Heliomera is an extinct genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida. It contains two species. H. albata and H. sol.
External links
Heliomera at the Paleobiology Database
Cheiruridae
Extinct animals of North America
Devonian trilobites
Paleozoic life of Newfoundland and Labrador
Phacopida genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Panorama%20Council | The International Panorama Council (IPC) is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization, subject to Swiss law. It is a global network involving museum directors, managers, artists, restorers and historians who deal with the historical or the contemporary art and media forms of the panorama. The organization comprises members from all over the world who are either representatives of museums and research institutes or private researchers and enthusiasts.
The organization was founded in 1992 as the European Panorama Conference in Szeged, Hungary, and renamed in 1998 in Altoetting, Germany, at the International Panorama Conference. Since 2003 the organization is called International Panorama Council. IPC has been a Membership Association since 2010. It is governed by a member-elected Executive Board whose Secretary-General acts as the operational center for the Board’s members.
Main goals
The purpose of the International Panorama Council is to stimulate worldwide research and communication about existing and future panoramas and cycloramas, advocate for and help preserve the few surviving heritage panoramas, and promote professional affiliation. IPC serves as a bridge connecting the heritage era of the panorama art form to its contemporary and future manifestations, and strives to facilitate the formal international recognition and protection of panoramas by organizations like UNESCO and the Council of Europe.
The International Panorama Council actively supports the preservation of historical panoramas and cycloramas. In 2007 and 2008 it started a lobbying campaign to save the endangered panorama painting and building in Innsbruck, Austria.
An initiative was taken to support the protection of the endangered Panorama Mesdag.
A further goal of the IPC is to have the most important historical panoramas from 19c. enrolled as UNESCO World Heritage sites. A first step has been taken in July 2008 when the Waterloo Panorama was added to Belgium's tentative proposal for the UNESCO list. In February 2009 Panorama Mesdag applied for inclusion in the tentative list of the Netherlands.
Activities
IPC is active in the fields of restoration, research, financing, exhibiting and marketing of panoramas and related art forms from the heritage era to its contemporary and future manifestations. IPC maintains a database of existing panoramas/cycloramas, Moving panoramas, large-scale dioramas and semi-circle panoramas and many other related art and media forms.
Annual conferences
Since 1992 the International Panorama Council has held annual conferences throughout the world. The conferences are planned to provide a meaningful, professional exchange of ideas with lunches and dinners included, and a joint post-conference excursion to a panorama related site. Presentations in the conference proceedings range from illustrated essays on topographical mapping to restoration and conservation techniques.
1992 Szeged-Ópusztaszer, Hungary: Past, Present and Future of Panoramas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twing | Twing.com was a search engine before the end of 2008 specializing in internet forum content, located in Jersey City, New Jersey, with data centers around the world. Twing.com used vertical searching as a forum search service that seeks out communities based on common forum formats. The product disappeared from the Web in late November, 2008, when the product division's parent company Accoona ceased business operations.
Twing.com did not use the typical web crawler method but recognizes the footprint and structure of forum content and indexes such content according to its context, and then allows for word sense disambiguation of concepts through use of topical category and other filters.
Additionally, prior to ceasing operations, Twing.com began collecting and indexing content from Twitter and other real-time user generated content sources.
Content disambiguation
To allow for disambiguation, Twing.com is utilizing interface concepts such as Faceted Search and Filtering in the Search Engine Result Pages, (SERPs). These are advanced search methods that attempt to assist users with their information foraging efforts by keeping them on an information scent trail.
Category filters, based on the directory taxonomy, are one of the filtering methods available. This is an attempt to solve the generalized search problem of ambiguity that often occurs in search results as well as forum search results. A good example might be the word "bass." If you do a search for bass on Wikipedia, you get a disambiguation page to determine if the phrase in this case means a musical instrument, a company name, part of a place name, a beverage, and other options. While adding key terms to a search may sometimes collapse ambiguities, doing so can also exclude things of value. So category filters can help solve the problem of ambiguity in search engine results, whether such search engines are forum search specific or not. Additional filters are available based on language entity extraction from content and proprietary algorithms and dictionaries. Twing.com's use of such technology is discernible from seeing the filters available within the search results pages.
Forum content collection
The Twing.com robot, (called Twingbot), was designed to understand the formats of Internet Forums, (a.k.a. Bulletin Boards or Discussion Groups.) While the Twing.com product was open to the world in January, 2008, the Twingbot robot had been observed 'in the wild' at least several months earlier. (The Twingbot robot had identified itself as User-Agent: Twingbot/1.0 and formerly had its own descriptive web page at www.twingbot.com/)
See also
Internet forum
Web search engine
Vertical search
List of search engines
Word sense disambiguation
References
External links
Some Historical Screen Shots of Twing Community Search Product from November, 2008 prior to closing of parent company Accoona
PC Magazine Search Without Google Part II Page 1 and Part II Page 2
Affiliate Marketing Forum
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu%20%28video%20game%29 | , also known as Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II, is an action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom and released in 1985 for the PC-8801, X1, PC-8001, PC-9801, FM-7 and MSX computers. Enhanced remakes were later released for the Sega Saturn, PC-9801 and Windows platforms. It is the second entry in the Dragon Slayer series, preceded by Dragon Slayer and followed by Dragon Slayer Jr: Romancia, which, as most games in the Dragon Slayer series, have very little relation with each other.
Xanadu set a sales record for computer games in Japan, with over 400,000 copies sold there in 1985. It was one of the foundations of the role-playing genre, particularly the action role-playing subgenre, featuring real-time action combat combined with full-fledged character statistics, innovative gameplay systems such as the Karma meter and individual experience for equipped items, and platform game elements combined with the dungeon crawl gameplay of its predecessor. It also had towns to explore and introduced equipment that change the player character's visible appearance, food that is consumed slowly over time and is essential for keeping the player character alive, and magic used to attack enemies from a distance.
The following year saw the release of Xanadu Scenario II, an early example of an expansion pack. The game spawned the Xanadu series, a spin-off from the Dragon Slayer franchise.
Gameplay
Dragon Slayer laid the foundations for the action role-playing game genre, influencing future series like Ys. Xanadu was an early real-time action RPG with full-fledged character statistics, and it introduced several innovative gameplay mechanics, such as the Karma morality system, individual experience for equipped items, a heavy emphasis on puzzle-solving, equipment that changes the player character's visible appearance, food that is consumed slowly over time and is essential for keeping the player character alive, magic that can be used to attack enemies from a distance, and training facilities to improve various statistics. It also introduced a platformer-style side-scrolling view, including the ability to jump. The side-scrolling view is used during exploration and switches to the overhead view of its predecessor during battle, while certain rooms also use an overhead view. This gameplay is credited as a precursor to the development of the metroidvania genre.
The game begins with the player directly in control of the protagonist, with little to no introduction. To progress, one must speak with the king, who gives the player the bare essentials and a small amount of cash to train. After selecting which attributes to raise, the player must navigate of the city and into the vast underground complex. Finding this exit is the first of many puzzles the player will encounter, though the game is not a puzzle game but a role-playing video game with puzzle game and adventure game elements.
The protagonist can move left and right, climb down ladders, jump, cast equipped sp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Bergman | Bernard Bergman (September 2, 1911 – June 16, 1984) was an Orthodox rabbi and businessman who was best known for his operation of a large network of nursing homes and his conviction of Medicaid fraud in 1976. Bergman turned an inheritance of $25,000 into an empire of nursing homes valued at $24 million.
Early life
Bergman was born to Shlomo Bergman and Gittel Leifer on September 2, 1911, in Romania. Shlomo was the son of Avraham Tzvi Bergman (1849–1918), Rabbi of Yasinya, a small town in what was then Maramureş, Hungary, now part of Zakarpattya, Ukraine. Gittel descended from a long line of Hasidic rabbis, most famous of whom was her grandfather, Mordechai Leifer of Nadvorna. The family immigrated to the United States in the 1920s, settling in Brooklyn. Bergman went to Mandatory Palestine, where he attended the Hebron Yeshiva in order to pursue his religious studies. He received his semikhah (rabbinic ordination) from the academy's dean, Moshe Mordechai Epstein, on October 22, 1933. Bergman married Anne (née Weiss) in 1937. Back in New York City, he took a position as a rabbi at a nursing home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and served as editor and publisher of the Yiddish-language daily The Jewish Morning Journal and head of Hapoel HaMizrachi.
Nursing homes and criminal prosecution
Bergman started to build his network of nursing homes in the 1960s, beginning with the former New York Cancer Hospital on Central Park West at 106th Street, which was acquired in 1955 and operated by Bergman as the Towers Nursing Home. The home became the center of federal and state fraud charges. Claims were made that patients in the home were abused and neglected, with residents testifying that they had not been given adequate heat, and had been subjected to physical abuse and pest infestations. The site was closed in 1974 as a nursing home.
A New York State Senate investigation in 1975 brought witnesses who testified of patients lapsing into comas due to untreated dehydration, bedsores caused by coarse sheets and failure to notify authorities of an epidemic of diarrhea. An unannounced inspection of a home found unsanitary conditions, including milk used a week past its expiration date and excrement on the floors in patient rooms. Bergman vigorously denied the charges, claiming that the homes he operated were well run.
In 1976, Bergman was sentenced to serve four months in a Federal correction center after his conviction on Medicare and tax fraud charges. Under a plea bargain, he was supposed to not serve additional jail time. However, the lead prosecutor, Charles J. Hynes, compromised the plea agreement by publicly informing the media that he wanted the presiding judge (Judge Melia) to sentence Bergman to more jail time. Eventually, Bergman ended up serving an eight-month sentence for convictions on state offenses.
In February 1989, New York State's special nursing-homes prosecutor received payment of almost $1.4 million as the final payment of penaltie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawnee%20Trail%20%28West%20Virginia%29 | The Shawnee Trail was the white settlers' name for an American Indian trail in what is now eastern West Virginia, USA. It was a segment (or branch) of the much larger Indian trail network known as the Great Indian Warpath, which stretched from New York to Alabama. The GIW was referred to from this point north as the "Seneca Trail". Thus, in pioneer days, the segment known as the Shawnee Trail was often also referred to as the Seneca Trail.
Route
The Shawnee Trail began on the South Branch Potomac River somewhere below what is now Moorefield, West Virginia and proceeded up that river to its confluence with the North Fork South Branch Potomac River. It continued up that Fork and up Seneca Creek (passing Seneca Rocks) and crossed the crests of the Allegheny Mountains (and in so doing, the upper tributaries of the Cheat River) above the mouth of Horse Camp Creek. This segment passed near the future sites of Harman and Bowden. The trail entered the Tygart River Valley near Elkins and proceeded up the Tygart past Beverly to Huttonsville.
Traffic
The Shawnee Trail was long used by the Algonquians (including the Shawnee), Tuscarora, and Seneca nations to transit this part of the Alleghenies for purposes of trade and war. The name "Shawnee Trail" was applied after Native Americans of that tribe followed the trail out of the region after burning Fort Seybert (1758) in Pendleton County, West Virginia.
A local historian described the use of the Trail in white pioneer days, and later, as follows:
[The Shawnee Trail] was much used by early settlers and became important for a century as the chief highway between the South Branch and Tygart's valley. Over it, travelled hundreds of pack horses loaded with salt, iron, and other merchandise, and many droves of cattle fattened for the eastern market. In the Civil War it furnished an avenue of escape for a detachment of Confederates cut off from General Garnett's army at the battle of Rich mountain, five miles west of Beverly, in 1861, and it was used by Imboden and Jones in driving eastward the horses and cattle captured in their great raid of 1863.
References
See also
Texas Road, a pioneering cattle trail originally called "Shawnee Trail"
Native American trails in the United States
History of the Thirteen Colonies
Allegheny Mountains
Historic trails and roads in West Virginia
Native American history of West Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20East%20Internet%20Exchange | The Middle East Internet Exchange is a subsidiary of GPX Global Systems. The company was incorporated in August 2002 to develop and operate state-of-the-art, private, carrier neutral data centers in emerging commercial markets along the undersea cable systems of FLAG, SEA-ME-WE3, and SEA-ME-WE4.
See also
List of Internet exchange points
References
STC, Teleglobe in Pact to Set Up ME-IEX. Khalil Hanware, Arab News. 27 April 2005
News: Hosting Facility, GPX, Internet Consortium, Installs Root Name Server in Egypt. The Hosting News - April 13, 2007
GPX Global Systems, Inc. Launches Neutral Middle East Internet eXchange “MEIX” in Cairo. 2007-07-21 albawaba.com
Companies established in 2002
Internet_exchange_points_in_Middleeast
Internet in Egypt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurex | Futurex LP, commonly referred to as Futurex, is a privately held Texas-based information technology company specialized in cryptography.
Futurex provides data encryption solutions for financial institutions, retailers, and terminal manufacturers. Their principal product lines have included industry compliant hardware security modules, key management systems, key injection devices, and disaster recovery and load balancing systems.
The company’s current products include the SSP Series universal hardware security modules, SKI Series point-of-sale key management and clean room injection modules, and KMES Series key management and remote key loading solution.
References
External links
Futurex website
Cryptography companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20Giants%20Radio%20Network | The New York Giants Radio Network is a broadcast radio network based in New York City, the official radio broadcaster of the National Football League's New York Giants. The network's radio broadcasts are currently flagshipped at WFAN, a station owned by Entercom Communications. Overflow radio casts air on WCBS, WFAN's corporate sibling.
The network distributes Giants home and away games to a network of 18 stations in three states. Bob Papa is the current play-by-play announcer, with former Giants linebacker Carl Banks as color analyst, and former Giants tight end Howard Cross as sideline reporter.
Stations
Flagship (2 stations)
WFAN/660: New York
WFAN-FM/101.9: New York
Affiliates (13 stations + 2 translators)
New York (11 stations + 2 translators)
WPYX/106.5: Albany
WAAL/99.1: Binghamton
WENI/1450: Corning
WPHD/98.7: Corning
WMAJ/1230: Elmira
WIXT/1230: Little Falls
W249BC/97.1: Mattydale (rebroadcasts WTLA at North Syracuse)
WTLA/1200: North Syracuse
WSGO/1440: Oswego
W261AC/100.1: Oswego (rebroadcasts WSGO)
WIRY/1340: Plattsburgh (Burlington, Vermont market) AM Stereo
WRNY/1350: Rome
WTLB/1310: Utica (Syracuse market)
Pennsylvania (1 station)
WEEX/1230: Easton, Pennsylvania
Connecticut (1 station)
WPOP/1410: Hartford
Former affiliates (3 stations)
WCGR/1550: Canandaigua, New York (2012-13 season)
WFLR/1570: Dundee, New York (2012-13 season)
WLEZ-LP/100.1 (now 98.1): Jackson, Mississippi (2009-10 season)
Broadcasters
2010s
2000s
1990s
1980s
References
External links
Official affiliates listing
National Football League on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed%20facilities-based%20voice%20network | A managed facilities-based voice network (MFVN) is a communications network managed, operated, and maintained by a voice service provider that delivers traditional telephone service via a loop start analog telephone interface. MFVNs are interconnected with the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or other MFVNs and provide dialtone to end users. Historically, this was provided by equipment at Bell company central offices, however today's MFVNs can include a combination of access network (last mile network of copper, coaxial cable, fiber optics, or cellular), battery-backed customer premises equipment (CPE), network switches and routers, network management systems, voice call servers, and gateways to the broader PSTN.
MFVN service providers can include cable operators and telephone companies, as well as new entrants that partner with these traditional carriers, but don't include providers that use customer-managed, non-battery-backed CPE to provide POTS service.
Definition
According to NFPA 72 2010, 3.3.141, an MFVN is defined simply as:
History
The term MFVN was introduced in 2007 by various telephony user organizations and stakeholders who rely on telephone service to provide security and life safety services. The concern of these organizations and stakeholders was the reliability of new telephone technology and services. This new technology was based on packet voice technology, or the Voice over Internet Protocol, which was not well understood. These organizations and stakeholders increasingly realized that they could no longer simply assume that phone service would be reliable enough, because it was increasingly being delivered in various ways, even by traditional providers. Clear performance requirements were needed to define when a phone line was suitable for security and life safety services.
This issue was not new, as analog copper based networks had been transitioning to digital telephony technology for 25 years (via fiber buildout by telephone companies), and to IP technology methods for the last 10 years (via broadband buildout by telco, cable, and competitive local exchange carriers). What was new was that copper based analog phone service was not even an option anymore in many areas, as it was being completely replaced by digital and IP based phone service.
Starting in the early part of the 2000s, IP based voice services began being offered by non-traditional providers such as cable television service providers and Internet voice service providers. The demand for these services grew due to competitive pricing and value added services not offered by the traditional telephone providers. The use of these non-traditional telephone methods for security and life safety communications was not well understood, so use was discouraged and in some cases not allowed by local authorities. There was no distinction between voice services provided over the "best-effort" Internet and voice services provided over managed facilities. It becam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine%20Showbiz | Imagine Showbiz a Turner General Entertainment Networks India Pvt. Ltd endeavour, is a 24-hour Bollywood music channel catering to Indian youth.
The channel went on air on 15 August 2008 as NDTV Imagine Showbiz. Imagine Showbiz Ltd. was a JV company between NDTV Group and Cinestar Advertising Private Ltd.
On 8 December 2009, it was announced that Turner Asia Pacific Ventures (a wholly owned subsidiary Turner Broadcasting System) had acquired a 92 per cent stake in NDTV Imagine Ltd. NDTV's 76 per cent stake in NDTV Imagine would be given to Turner for $67 million, the Time Warner company would acquire fresh equity worth $50 million to get 92 percent control. NDTV Imagine Ltd. runs NDTV Imagine, NDTV Lumiere and NDTV Imagine Showbiz television channels and film production and distribution company, NDTV Imagine Film Co. The purchase received approval from the Time Warner board on 17 December 2009. At the end of the $126.5 million deal, Turner held 92% in NDTV Imagine Ltd. while 3.2% was retained by NDTV Networks and the remaining 4.8% was held by its chief executive officer Sameer Nair and other Imagine employees.
NDTV announced on 24 February 2010 that it had received all the regulatory approvals and the transaction had been concluded on 23 February by transfer of shares, amounting to 85.68 per cent of NDTV Imagine Ltd, by NDTV Networks Plc to Turner Asia Pacific Ventures. The three channels would be under Turner General Entertainment Networks, a holding company that will infuse fresh capital to fund the network's growth. The 'NDTV' brand was dropped out and the channels were relabelled Imagine TV, Lumiere Movies and Imagine Showbiz.
In January 2011, Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd (RBNL), part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, confirmed a proposed acquisition of Imagine Showbiz from Cinestar, who had bought the entire 51 percent stake held by its JV partner Turner International. The acquisition by RBNL was to included a 100% purchase of Imagine Showbiz's shareholding, along with other assets including intellectual property rights, music library, Bollywood content, technical expertise, including studios and equipment and the existing distribution network. Imagine Showbiz was to be renamed and repositioned as a full-on music channel.
References
Reliance Group
Television stations in Mumbai
Warner Bros. Discovery India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBTS | OpenBTS (Open Base Transceiver Station) is a software-based GSM access point, allowing standard GSM-compatible mobile phones to be used as SIP endpoints in Voice over IP (VoIP) networks. OpenBTS is open-source software developed and maintained by Range Networks. The public release of OpenBTS is notable for being the first free-software implementation of the lower three layers of the industry-standard GSM protocol stack.
It is written in C++ and released as free software under the terms of version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License.
Open GSM infrastructure
OpenBTS replaces the conventional GSM operator core network infrastructure from layer 3 upwards. Instead of relying on external base station controllers for radio resource management, OpenBTS units perform this function internally. Instead of forwarding call traffic through to an operator's mobile switching center, OpenBTS delivers calls via SIP to a VOIP soft switch (such as FreeSWITCH or yate) or PBX (such as Asterisk). This VOIP switch or PBX software can be installed on the same computer used to run OpenBTS itself, forming a self-contained cellular network in a single computer system. Multiple OpenBTS units can also share a common VOIP switch or PBX to form larger networks
The OpenBTS Um air interface uses a software-defined radio transceiver with no specialized GSM hardware. The original implementation used a Universal Software Radio Peripheral from Ettus Research, but has since been expanded to support several digital radios in implementations ranging from full-scale base stations to embedded femtocells.
History
The project was started by Harvind Samra and David A. Burgess with the aim of the project to drastically reduce the cost of GSM service provision in rural areas, the developing world, and hard to reach locations such as oil rigs. The project was initially conducted through Kestrel Signal Processing, the founders' consulting firm.
On September 14, 2010, at the Fall 2010 DEMO conference, the original authors launched Range Networks as a start up company to commercialize OpenBTS-based products.
In September 2013, Burgess left Range Networks and started a new venture called Legba and started a close collaboration with Null Team SRL, the developers of Yate. In February 2014, Legba and Null announced the release of YateBTS, a fork of the OpenBTS project that uses Yate for its control layers and network interfaces.
Platforms
A large number of experimental installations have shown that OpenBTS can run on extremely low overhead platforms. These including some CDMA handsets - making a GSM gateway to a CDMA network. Computer security researcher Chris Paget reported that a handheld device, such as an Android phone, could act as a gateway base station to which handsets can connect; the Android device then connects calls using an on-board Asterisk server and routes them to the PSTN via SIP over an existing 3G network.
Security
At the 2010 DEF CON conference, it was demo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20Hansen | Chuck Hansen (May 13, 1947 - March 26, 2003) was the compiler, over a period of 30 years, of the world's largest private collection of unclassified documents on how America developed atomic and thermonuclear weapons.
Research
Hansen's documents were obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and since his death have been housed at the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
In 1988, Hansen wrote the book U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History, which, along with great detail about the process of developing, testing and administering atomic weapons was critical of the U.S. Defense Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, and some other government agencies. In the book Hansen reported that the early years of nuclear testing were less successful than claimed; bombs failed, or yielded smaller or larger explosions than anticipated or announced, and attempts to develop a radioactivity-free bomb were unsuccessful. U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History is currently out of print, but it is available on compact disk through his publisher.
A second compilation of Hansen's material was published on compact disc as Swords of Armageddon in 1995. While Hansen´s U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History was very instructive, Swords of Armageddon contains much more information and details about nuclear weapons developed by United States. It is in its second revision.
Publications
See also
List of books about nuclear issues
List of nuclear whistleblowers
Nuclear disarmament
Nuclear weapons and the United States
Nevada Test Site
Alvin C. Graves
National Security Archive
References
External links
The National Security Archive The George Washington University
Historians of nuclear weapons
1947 births
2003 deaths
Nuclear weapons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20M.%20McQuillan | John M. McQuillan (born 23 February 1949 in New York City) is an American computer scientist who did studies of adaptive routing in the early ARPANET and the subsequent Internet.
After receiving his A.B. in 1970 and a M.S. in 1971, he completed a Ph.D. in 1974 in applied mathematics from Harvard University. He was since 1971 employed at the computer networking equipment manufacturer Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, MA, where he programmed the Interface Message Processor, work that in part led to his dissertation Adaptive routing for distributed computer networks advised by Jeffrey P. Buzen in 1974. In his dissertation, McQuillan developed ways to reroute messages around faulty and congested areas in the Internet based on delay feedback. These mechanisms were used in the first link-state routing protocols from 1978.
In addition to publishing scientific journal articles, mainly in the IEEE journals, he also edited the two early introductions to networking, Understanding the new local network technologies (BBN, 1978) and A practical view of computer communications protocols (IEEE, 1978).
He started McQuillan Consulting in Concord, MA (1982), became a columnist to Business Communications Review as well as an annual organizer of the Next Generation Network (NGN) conferences. He became partner in International Venture Partner (1996).Today, he is the director of McQuillan Ventures, that invests in network infrastructure companies.
His father, John McQuillan (died 1984), was a communications engineer and a participant in the first trans-Atlantic radio conversation.
References
American computer scientists
Internet pioneers
Harvard University alumni
1949 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalysis%20software%20design%20method | Catalysis is a software design method for the specification and design of component-based computer systems originally developed by Desmond D’Souza and Alan Cameron Wills in their 1999 book.
Catalysis focuses on how to make precise abstractions, and emphasizes the formal specification of use cases using pre- and postconditions and ‘guarantees’ clauses. It also places stress on the specification of collaboration protocols so that kits of components can interact in a coherent ‘pluggable’ fashion. This removes much of the need to build translation or ‘mapping’ code.
Catalysis therefore enhances the Unified Modelling Language (UML) with a definite method, showing how the various UML diagrams relate to each other and offering many design heuristics and process and design patterns. Catalysis builds on the Syntropy method and key ideas from both influenced the development of UML 2.0.
More recently, building on the work of D’Souza, Wills and that of John Cheesman and John Daniels, Derek Andrews of consultancy Trireme International has developed Catalysis II, which extends Catalysis to address the key issues of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Also building on the same foundation, Ian Graham developed Catalysis Conversation Analysis, a method of business process modelling with its roots in Semiotics and the idea of a use case (cf. Graham, 2008).
References
External links
Trireme International for more details on Catalysis and Catalysis II.
Software design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20Ladies | Single Ladies may refer to:
"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", a song by Beyoncé
Single Ladies (TV series), an American television series on the VH1 network
"Single Ladies", a song by Remady and Manu-L, featuring J-Son
See also
"Single Women", a song by Dolly Parton
Ladies singles (disambiguation)
A Single Woman (disambiguation)
Bachelorette (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Love%20%28album%29 | Computer Love is the third studio album by Australian group TZU. The album was released on 28 June 2008 and debuted at no. 23 on the ARIA Charts.
At the J Awards of 2008, the album was nominated for Australian Album of the Year.
The lead single, "Computer Love" received airplay on national youth radio station Triple J. The video clip was nominated for the "Music Video" J Award for 2008.
Track listing
"We Got The Feeling" – 3:53
"Computer Love" – 3:50
"Right of Way" – 4:02
"Take It Easy" – 3:39
"Number One" – 3:54
"Axis Tilt" – 3:24
"Got To Do" – 3:58
"Get Up" – 3:47
"Mondays" – 4:33
"Step with the Pressure" – 3:32
"All Fall Down" – 4:12
"Burning Up" – 4:59
"Myriam's Song" – 4:47
"Crazy Thinker" – 4:34
"Reflecting Off That" – 3:55
Charts
References
TZU albums
2008 albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyPods%20and%20Boomsticks | "MyPods and Boomsticks" is the seventh episode of the twentieth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 30, 2008.
In the episode, Homer becomes suspicious of Bart's new Muslim friend, Bashir, and decides to invite his family for dinner. When Homer offends them, he goes to their home to apologize but discovers what he believes to be a terrorist plot to blow up the Springfield Mall. In the episode's subplot, Lisa gets a MyPod (a parody of iPod) and racks up a large bill.
The episode was written by Marc Wilmore and directed by Steven Dean Moore with Shohreh Aghdashloo of 24 guest-starring as Bashir's mother, Mina.
It is the first episode of The Simpsons to have Islam portrayed in a large role. It was the most watched show on Fox on its original airing, and received fairly positive reviews from television critics. Its commentary on Islamophobia in the United States proved to be controversial, however.
The episode's theme was praised by the Council on American–Islamic Relations and the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and Aghdashloo was given an award by the latter organization for her role.
Plot
At the Mapple Store, Bart interrupts a video message from company founder Steve Mobbs and insults the company's user base. Fleeing from the Mapple customers, he runs into a Muslim boy from Jordan named Bashir and befriends him. Homer is impressed by Bashir's manners, but Lenny, Carl and Moe convince him that all Muslims are terrorists. He invites Bashir's family over to dinner in an attempt to expose them, but openly offends them, causing them to leave.
Later that evening, while going to their home to apologize, Homer catches a glimpse of Bashir's father working with TNT in his garage. He goes home and has a nightmare featuring the Genie of Aladdin, who transforms the "decadent, Western society" into a stereotypical Islamic republic. Shaken by the dream, Homer eavesdrops on Bashir's father speaking about his work in building demolition, but misinterprets it and believes he is a suicide bomber. As soon as Bashir's father departs for work, Homer convinces the mother to invite him so he can apologize. He hacks into the family's laptop and discovers a diagram of demolition plans for the Springfield Mall.
Homer rushes to the mall to warn the shoppers and sees Bart standing near a detonator with Bashir and his father; he attempts to save the day by throwing the dynamite in the river. It actually turns out that the old mall was slated for destruction. Realizing his mistake, Homer apologizes, and the Simpson family throws a "Pardon My Intolerance" party for Bashir's family.
In a subplot, Lisa obtains a MyPod from Krusty the Clown at the Mapple Store. She becomes obsessed with the device and racks up a US$1,200 bill. She goes to Mapple's undersea headquarters and begs Steve Mobbs to consider a reduced payment plan. Mobbs offers Lisa a job at Mapple to help with her bill. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FetLife | FetLife is a social networking website that serves people interested in BDSM, fetishism, and kink. On its homepage, FetLife describes itself as "Like Facebook, but run by kinksters like you and me." The "Fet" in the name refers to "fetish". FetLife distinguishes itself from competitors by emphasizing itself as a social network rather than a dating site. It is on principle supportive of fringe sexual practices.
History
FetLife was launched in January 2008 by John Kopanas (also known by his username John Baku), a software engineer in Montreal, Quebec. Frustrated by attempts to find women who had the same sexual interests as he did, Baku created a website in 2007 called "FriendsWithFetishes". While working on release 2.0 of FriendsWithFetishes, Baku decided to launch it as a separate site and named it FetLife. James Golick served as chief technology officer. In 2009 Baku received the Community Choice (Man) Award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards.
Features
In the past, any member could create a group devoted to whatever fetish they chose. However, in January 2017, FetLife temporarily shut down the ability to create new groups. At the same time, they deleted hundreds of existing groups, including anything with the words blood, needles, rape and incest. The ability to create new groups was reinstated shortly afterwards.
All new members are by default enrolled in the group Fetlife Announcements, which has () over 6 million members.
There are many groups devoted to answering thematic questions, such as "Ask a Submissive", "Ask a Mistress", "Ask a Dominant", "Ask a Stripper", "Novices & Newbies" and so on. Groups can be searched for by words in the group title.
In addition, there is a separate "directory" of fetishes which a member may indicate their interest in. Any member can create a new fetish.
Any member can post an Event with date, location, cost, dress code, and other information. Location can be concealed and only revealed individually by the Event owner to participants. Users, on an Event's page, can indicate that they "will attend" or "might attend".
All members have a personal profile. A member may have multiple affiliate profiles, but sockpuppets are against the site's terms of use. There are 12 possible "sexual orientation" choices, plus "Not Applicable" and over 60 "role" choices. The groups the member belongs to and the fetishes the member is "into" or "curious about" are displayed as part of the profile. Beyond this, the member may write text that is automatically posted on their profile, with no limitation on length. All profiles are by default visible to all members, though a member can block another member.
Members can indicate that they are "Friends" with another member, and thus receive notification of the Friend's activity (for example, which groups the Friend joins and what posts they make). Confirmation from the proposed Friend is required.
Members can also indicate that they are in one or more relationships. A s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronica | Synchronica plc was a public listed software vendor which developed and marketed mobile messaging solutions for mobile network operators and mobile phone manufacturers. Its flagship product provided push email, instant messaging and social networking to a wide range of mobile phones, and was branded as Unity.
Synchronica was one of the industry's principal users of open industry standards, and their products supported the relevant standards developed by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). In 2004, Synchronica became the first company to deploy a live installation of a SyncML device management (now OMA DM) server in a carrier-grade environment, with Siemens Mobile AG.
On 16 April 2012, Synchronica was acquired by Switzerland's Myriad Group, in an all-share deal which valued the company at £23.9 million (around US$38 million). Myriad delisted Synchronica from the London Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange during Mid-May 2012.
History
Synchronica Software GmbH was founded in 2004, specializing in open industry standards-based synchronization and device management solutions for the mobile industry.
In March 2005, Synchronica was acquired by AIM listed infrastructure consultancy DAT Group, headquartered in the village of Bodiam in East Sussex. Later that year, the newly created group company underwent a management restructuring and rebranding to Synchronica plc.
In April 2006, Synchronica moved headquarters from Bodiam to the historic town of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent.
In September 2011, the founder and CEO of the company, Carsten Brinkschulte, resigned from his position citing disagreements with the other board members regarding future strategy.
At the time of the acquisition of Synchronica by Myriad, it emerged that the CFO, Angus Dent had acquired 800,000 shares in the company after the initial approach by Myriad - generating a profit of £48,000 following the sale. This transaction was investigated by the FSA under the insider trading regulations.
Acquisitions
Synchronica engaged in several strategic acquisitions in an effort to bolster its competitive position in the fiercely contested mobile messaging market.
In November 2007, Synchronica acquired the assets and intellectual property of the US-based mobile email specialist GoodServer whose email enablement and integration technology was already a key part of Synchronica's Mobile Gateway product.
Another key deal, which was completed in September 2008, was the acquisition of AxisMobile Limited. AxisMobile Limited was the operating subsidiary of Synchronica's competitor, AxisMobile plc. AxisMobile developed a number of email technologies suitable for the consumer mass-market, and this intellectual property is now fully owned by Synchronica, who have integrated it into their Mobile Gateway product.
In March 2010, Synchronica acquired the OMA Instant Messaging and Presence Service business, reseller agreements, and existing worldwide mobile operator customer base, of the Inst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabres%20Hockey%20Network | The Sabres Hockey Network is the official radio network and production company of the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). The network is currently operated jointly by the Sabres (Pegula Sports and Entertainment) and Audacy, Inc.
Rick Jeanneret was the network's primary play-by-play voice and served in that capacity from 1971 to 2022, Dan Dunleavy has taken his place since then, with Rob Ray currently serving as color commentator. In the 2008–2009 season, former Winnipeg Jets/Phoenix Coyotes broadcaster Curt Keilback covered for Jeanneret during the team's western road trip. In the 2009–2010 season, the Sabres did not send their television broadcast crew on the western road trip and used the local broadcasts of the Phoenix Coyotes, Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings and Vancouver Canucks as the "home" broadcast. Jeanneret and then color commentator Harry Neale had reduced duties for 2011–2012, with the duo only handling home games and a third of the road games; Kevin Sylvester and Danny Gare handled the broadcasts of the remaining games that season.
The radio network's postgame show is hosted by WGR personality Brian Koziol. Mike Schopp and Chris "Bulldog" Parker host the pre-game show, which airs only on WGR. On television, a pregame show and postgame show are broadcast, and hosted by Brian Duff and Martin Biron. (Prior to 2005, the television pregame-postgame shows were simulcast on radio. The postgame was known as Hockey Hotline and hosted by Mike Robitaille, first with host Brian Blessing and then Josh Mora.)
The theme song for broadcasts has been the "Sabre Dance" by Aram Khachaturian since the team's debut. From the 2006 Stanley Cup Playoffs through the 2009–10 season, the team used for its main theme an instrumental cut of "Hurricane 2000," an orchestral arrangement of the song "Rock You Like a Hurricane" recorded by Scorpions and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on the album Moment of Glory. From the 1990s through 2006 the team used a custom-made theme. Beginning shortly after Terry Pegula's acquisition of the team, the song was changed back to "Sabre Dance." For the 2011–12 season, a hard-rock version of "Sabre Dance" rotates with MSG Network's standard hockey theme as the theme for the Sabres Hockey Network broadcasts.
Current Radio Network
WGR 550 AM Buffalo, New York (flagship station)
WCMF 96.5 FM Rochester, New York
WROC 950 AM Rochester, New York (only when not in conflict with Rochester Americans games)
WQRS 98.3 FM Salamanca/Olean, New York
WBTA 1490 AM Batavia, New York
WQFX-FM 103.1 FM Russell, Pennsylvania (Jamestown, New York/Warren, Pennsylvania area)
WDOE 1410 AM Dunkirk, New York
WPGO 820 AM Elmira, New York
WOTT 94.1 FM Watertown, New York
WQTK 92.7 FM Ogdensburg, New York
Television
The Sabres Hockey Network has produced Sabres games since the team's days on the Empire Sports Network; Empire and the Sabres were both under the control of John Rigas from 1996 until Rigas's arrest in 2003. Prior to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accion%20U.S.%20Network | The Accion U.S. Network is an American nonprofit microfinance organization headquartered in New York, NY. The network is part of Accion International, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization operating globally.
Member Offices
In addition to having lending offices in nearly 30 cities, Accion also offers online lending. Its four member offices are:
Accion East
Accion Chicago
Accion New Mexico · Arizona · Colorado
Accion San Diego (now re-named Accessity and serving all of Southern California)
Accion offers micro loans and other financial services to low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs in the United States who are typically unable to access bank credit to start or expand their small business. Services offered include a small business loan program, a "Credit Builder" loan program, and a financial literacy program offered in several languages. In addition, Accion’s national partnerships with Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream, Sam’s Club, Citi Salutes: Realizing Your Dream, and The Hartford: Communities with HART offer Accion’s clients a wide range of opportunities and support for growth, such as personalized business coaching, business seminars, and regional and national competitions.
Operational Statistics
The Accion U.S. Network is the largest of its kind in the United States, having made nearly 50,000 loans, totaling over $450 million with a 90% loan repayment rate as of January 2014. In addition, Accion lends over $3.7 million to small businesses a month. Accion works with groups that might not qualify for traditional financing, such as women, minorities, and immigrants, to give them the financial tools they need to build their business.
Accion’s outcomes data from its 2013 microTracker survey, which was conducted in partnership with the Aspen Institute and California microlender Opportunity Fund, showed that:
4.8 jobs were created or sustained on average by businesses with employees
97% of businesses remained open one year after receiving a loan despite challenging economic times
47% reported satisfaction with income earned from their business
Accion's 2021 Annual Report states that since its founding, Accion has helped build and strengthen more than 200 institutions operating across 63 countries. In 2021, Accion reported that its efforts provided more than 15 million people with access to credit through its partners, which positively impacted 220 million people.
References
Microfinance organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnTV4U | OnTV4U (often capitalized as ONTV4U) is an American television network that airs a 24/7 infomercial format, owned by Burlington, Wisconsin-based Cannella Media LLC, which was founded by Frank Cannella in 1985. It can be seen through various cable providers and on the following over-the-air stations;
Affiliates (partial list)
KAJF-LD 21.7 - Topeka, Kansas
WZCK 8.1 & 8.6 - Madison, Wisconsin
W23BW 23.3 - Madison, Wisconsin
WRJT 34.7 - Wausau, Wisconsin
W35DQ-D 24.4 - Midland, Michigan
WLEK-LD 22.2 & 22.4 - Boston, Massachusetts
WZME 43.12 Bridgeport, Connecticut/New York
KPDF-CD 41.6 - Phoenix, Arizona
KHDF-CD 19.4 & 19.6 - Las Vegas, Nevada
KTOU-LD 21.5 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
KAHC-LD 43.1 - Sacramento, California
WTBM-CD 24.3 - Birmingham, Alabama
WSDI-LD 30.1 - Indianapolis, Indiana
WQDE-LD 33.1 - Indianapolis, Indiana
KQML-LD 46.2 - Topeka, Kansas
WOST 14.3 - Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
KCMN-LD 42.5 - Topeka, Kansas
KPOM-CD 14.12 - Los Angeles, California
KAZD 55.12 - Lake Dallas, Texas
KFFV 44.12 - Seattle, Washington
WWBK-LD 28.6 - Richmond, Virginia
WFWG-LD 30.2 - Richmond, Virginia
W25FG-D 36.1 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
WDUM-LD 41.1 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
KYAZ 51.12 - Houston, Texas
W16CC-D 16.7 - Miami, Florida
Former affiliates
KAJF 21.5 - Topeka, Kansas (now affiliated with Lx)
KBTV-CD 8.2 - Sacramento, California (now affiliated with Visión Latina)
KUSE-LD - Seattle, Washington (now a Cheddar affiliate)
WEBR-CD - New York City (now public television station WNDT-CD; affiliated with FNX)
References
External links
ONTV4U.com - Official Website
Television networks in the United States
Infomercials
Shopping networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20assurance | Service assurance, in telecommunications, is the application of policies and processes by a Communications Service Provider (CSP) to ensure that services offered over networks meet a pre-defined service quality level for an optimal subscriber experience.
The practice of service assurance enables CSPs to identify faults in the network and resolve these issues in a timely manner so as to minimize service downtime. The practice also includes policies and processes to proactively pinpoint, diagnose and resolve service quality degradations or device malfunctions before subscribers are impacted.
Areas covered
Service assurance encompasses the following:
Fault and event management
Performance management
Probe monitoring
Quality of service (QoS) management
Network and service testing
Network traffic management
Customer experience management
Service level agreement (SLA) monitoring
Trouble ticket management
Adoption
There are many drivers for service assurance adoption, with some considering the most important to be the ability to measure the performance of a service. A subscriber’s service experience quality can be directly linked to customer churn. Therefore, maintaining satisfactory service quality levels is key to creating “customer stickiness.”
Other factors driving growing interest in service assurance include increasing competition, new challenges due to the convergence of networks, services, applications and devices, enabling services over IP and the merging of IT and telecommunications services. But ultimately, it is the CSP’s ability to ensure a satisfactory level of QoS that will have the greatest impact on revenue.
The importance of service performance is also reinforced by research stating that two thirds of subscribers will stop trying a new service after two failed attempts with that service. Therefore, it is increasingly apparent that service assurance tools must be put in place prior to the introduction of a new service if it is to be successful in the market. This is particularly true of deployments of such services as VoIP, IPTV and mobile video.
Service assurance spending by CSPs is forecast to grow to $USD 3.0 billion by 2011. Leading global service assurance providers include InfoVista, VIAVI, TEOCO, Ericsson, nsn, EXFO, MYCOM OSI, Centina, Anritsu, Epitiro, Riverbed Technology, Spirent, Empirix, JumpSoft, Computer Associates, EMC, Telcordia, Tektronix, RADCOM, CENX, Agilent, Cisco, HP, IBM, IBM Tivoli/Netcool and Softenger (I) Pvt Ltd.
See also
Service fulfillment
References
Network performance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20Analysis%20Center | Statistical Analysis Centers (SACs) are state agencies created by legislation or Executive Order that collect, analyze, and disseminate criminal and juvenile justice data. They contribute to effective state policies through statistical services, research, evaluation, and policy analysis.
SACs are nonpartisan and strive to serve all branches of the criminal justice system and all levels of government in a state as well as the general public. Objectivity, independence, and visibility are important considerations in determining their placement in the state government. SACs are located in a variety of different settings in the states; the majority are a component of the state justice administrative or planning agency. For those located in an agency with line responsibilities in the criminal justice system (e.g. State Police, Department of Corrections, Office of the Attorney General), special provisions are needed to ensure the SACs’ broad mission, objectivity, independence, and visibility. SACs are staffed by professionals skilled in the application of statistical methods and techniques, who are familiar with the factors, issues, and processes involved in crime and the criminal justice system. Currently, there are SACs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Most of the state SACs receive funding support from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice as well as other offices within that agency. Nationally, the SACs are represented through a membership organization, the Justice Research and Statistics Association, a private, nonprofit agency.
External links
Legal organizations based in the United States
Law enforcement in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yammer | Yammer () is an enterprise social networking service that is part of the Microsoft 365 family of products. It is used mainly for private communication within organizations but is also used for networks spanning various organizations. Access to a Yammer network is determined by a user's Internet domain, so only individuals with approved email addresses may join their respective networks.
The service began as an internal communication system for the genealogy website Geni.com and was launched as an independent product in 2008. Microsoft later acquired Yammer in 2012 for US$1.2 billion (~$ in ). Currently, Yammer is included in all enterprise plans of Microsoft 365 as well as evolving into Viva Engage as of February 2023. Viva was re-launched as an "employee experience platform" and to make it more community friendly.
History
Pre-acquisition
In 2008, Yammer was built as an internal feature for Geni by David O. Sacks. After 6 months of use at Geni, Sacks brought Yammer to TechCrunch50 to showcase its abilities and launch the product as an independent service away from Geni. Yammer won top prize at TechCrunch50, which allowed them to invest more money into the project. It was determined early on that a corporate email address would be required to use Yammer.
In 2009, Yammer underwent its first redesign. The main feature set included profiles, profile photos for groups, following suggestions, and a product called "YammerFox", which was an extension for Firefox that alerted the end user when a message was received.
In 2010, new integrations were launched in the application, such as polls, chat, events, links, topics, Q&A, and ideas. Yammer also launched its own app store, which included Crocodoc and Zendesk. By this time, Yammer had grown to over 1 million total users on the platform.
Yammer also released its SharePoint 2007 Integration and transitioned to Scala for its real-time work.
In 2011, Yammer made the move from Scala back to Java for its real-time work due to the complexity of implementing Scala. Yammer Notifications was released as a replacement for YammerFox. During this period, Yammer grew its user base to 4 million total users.
In 2012, Yammer acquired OneDrum, which enabled the implementation of real-time document editing and document edit history. Shortly after, Microsoft acquired Yammer for US$1.2 billion. Microsoft announced that the Yammer team would be integrated into the Microsoft Office division but would continue to report to Sacks.
Post-acquisition
In 2013, Microsoft integrated Yammer into Dynamics CRM and included Yammer subscriptions in their Office 365 enterprise plans. In 2014, Microsoft announced the transition of Yammer development to the Office 365 development team, while Sacks announced his departure from Microsoft and Yammer. Yammer also introduced the option to log in through Office 365, and there were plans to integrate Yammer into the Office 365 header for easy selection by end users.
In 2015, Yammer removed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Link | The West Link () is a railway tunnel under construction under central Gothenburg. The purpose of the project is to increase capacity and reduce travel times on the Gothenburg network by changing the Gothenburg Central Station from a terminus to an underground transit station. Two new underground stations, Haga and Korsvägen, will also be built.
Of the 1.02 million people (2018) who live in Greater Gothenburg (1.7 million in Västra Götaland County), 450,000 people live outside the Gothenburg municipality. Approximately 175,000 people in the region commute to or from Gothenburg Municipality daily. The majority of these people use cars for transportation and the roads in the region are overloaded. Better rail communications to different parts of Greater Gothenburg and better connections to current public transport networks would improve the situation. There is a political wish to reduce car dependency and increase public transport usage. Significant sums of money have been – and are being – invested in rail infrastructure in the other Swedish urban areas such as the Stockholm and Malmö regions (over 40 bn SEK each during 1990-2010). Rail investment in the greater Gothenburg area has not kept up with these other urban areas.
The largest improvement according to the proposed plan would be for commuters from places along the railways from Kungsbacka/Borås and who work or study near Haga station, where a large part of the University of Gothenburg is located. 15 minutes could be saved per journey. Time would be also saved on other journeys, for example around 5 minutes from Alingsås to Sahlgrenska or Chalmers. Travellers from the south to the Central Station would have a ten minute longer journey than at present.
The main reason to build the tunnel is to increase capacity. The Gothenburg Central Station has no capacity for more trains in rush hours, which obstructs the wish to increase train traffic and build a new railway to Borås, the second largest city in the province, which has dense bus traffic to Gothenburg.
History
Planning process
As early as the 1950s there were plans for a tunnel under the inner city for railbound vehicles, then for trams. The plans were abandoned because of the cost, due to the high water table and ground conditions, which were unsuitable for tunnelling. The city has to finance tramways, while the government finances railways.
The planning process has taken a long time, being included in preliminary city plans in the mid 90s under the project name "Centrumtunneln". A feasibility study was conducted in 2001–2002 by Banverket in cooperation with Västra Götalandsregionen, Västtrafik, Göteborgsregionen, and the city of Gothenburg. Similar rail tunnel projects have already been implemented in Malmö and in Stockholm.
Västlänken is not part of the Trafikverket Future plan (swe: Framtidsplan) 2004–2015, nor the alternative plan. Construction could start earlier since the Västra Götaland Regional Council is willing to invest m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salix%20cordata | Salix cordata, the sand dune willow, furry willow or heartleaf willow, is a perennial shrub that grows tall; plants taller than are rare. The plant is native to the northeast regions of the North American continent; it is found on sand dunes, river banks, and lake shores in sandy, silty or gravelly soils.
References
External links
cordata
Flora of Eastern Canada
Flora of the Northeastern United States
Flora of the Great Lakes region (North America)
Plants described in 1803
Taxa named by André Michaux
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janmadata | Janmadata () (2008) is a Bengali family drama film directed by Swapan Saha.
Cast
Ranjit Mullick as Durgacharan Singha
Razzak as Bhavani Chowdhury
Jisshu Sengupta as CBI Officer Raj Sinha
Rachana Banerjee as Sima
Tapas Paul as retired constable Iqbal
Laboni Sarkar as Durgacharan's wife
Abhishek Chatterjee as Durgacharan's son
Locket Chatterjee as Rina Singha
Rajesh Sharma (actor) as Subal Da
Shankar Chakraborty as Shibnath
Anamika Saha as Durgacharan's mother
Rita Koiral as Durgacharan's sister
Anuradha Ray as Bhavani's wife
Dolon Roy as Durgacharan's late daughter
Unknown as Bhavani's late son
Kanchan Mullick as Raj's friend
Kaushik Banerjee as son-in-law of Singha house
Shyamal Dutta as Police Commissioner
References
External links
gomolo.in
2008 films
2000s Bengali-language films
Bengali-language Indian films
Films directed by Swapan Saha
Indian family films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEDARENE | FEDARENE (an acronym for European Federation of Agencies and Regions for Energy and Environment) is the premier European network of regional and local organisations which implement, co-ordinate and facilitate energy and environment policies. Regional and local agencies, regional governments and departments working in these fields, are represented in FEDARENE.
FEDARENE, an international non-profit association set up in 1990 at the initiative of 6 European regions, now has 80 member regions from 23 European countries.
Background
FEDARENE was founded in 1990 at the initiative of Rhône-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur, Wallonia, País Vasco, Aquitaine and Nord-Pas-de-Calais, who wanted to strengthen the local and regional dimension in energy and environmental policies at European level.
Thus, as described in the FEDARENE statutes:
"By effective management, investment, and increasing awareness it is possible to create a system which is more energy efficient and less polluting;"
"Only an approach based on close proximity with consumers, and on both quantitative and qualitative understanding of their needs, can lead to efficient energy management;"
"The Region covers a sufficiently large economic area and is of a sufficiently high administrative level to deal with the issues of planning, economic development and the environment"
"The Regions of Europe share the same problems in protecting the environment and in managing energy but their diverse means, geographic situations and cultures have given rise to a multiplicity of solutions"
"Whereas the exchange of experience between regions reinforces European economic, social and environmental cohesion;"
The European Federation of Regional Energy and Environment Agencies was created on 6 June 1990. The members wish to give this federation the status of an international association within the scope of Heading III of the law of 27 June 1921;
Activities
The missions of the European Federation of Agencies and Regions for Energy and Environment are to facilitate the development of interregional exchanges, partnerships and cooperation; to help the European regions to develop their capacity to take actions and to represent and promote the regional and local dimension in EU energy and environment debates.
FEDARENE is currently involved in several European projects. Among them there are Energy Efficiency Watch4, OPENGELA, C-Track 50, ManagEnergy. FEDARENE is also member of the Covenant of Mayors Office.
FEDARENE was involved in a great number of other, finished European projects in various fields : biogas (Biogas-Regions), biomethane (Biomethane-Regions),regional greenhouse gas observatories (Climact-Regions), sustainable rural development (SERVE).
Climact REGIONS project also spawned Energee-Watch, the European network of regional observatories energy and greenhouse gas. FEDARENE is currently responsible for the coordination of the network and has made a valuable contribution in its creation.
Intern |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20vault%20modeling | Data vault modeling is a database modeling method that is designed to provide long-term historical storage of data coming in from multiple operational systems. It is also a method of looking at historical data that deals with issues such as auditing, tracing of data, loading speed and resilience to change as well as emphasizing the need to trace where all the data in the database came from. This means that every row in a data vault must be accompanied by record source and load date attributes, enabling an auditor to trace values back to the source. The concept was published in 2000 by Dan Linstedt.
Data vault modeling makes no distinction between good and bad data ("bad" meaning not conforming to business rules). This is summarized in the statement that a data vault stores "a single version of the facts" (also expressed by Dan Linstedt as "all the data, all of the time") as opposed to the practice in other data warehouse methods of storing "a single version of the truth" where data that does not conform to the definitions is removed or "cleansed". A data vault enterprise data warehouse provides both; a single version of facts and a single source of truth.
The modeling method is designed to be resilient to change in the business environment where the data being stored is coming from, by explicitly separating structural information from descriptive attributes. Data vault is designed to enable parallel loading as much as possible, so that very large implementations can scale out without the need for major redesign.
Unlike the star schema (dimensional modelling) and the classical relational model (3NF), data vault and anchor modeling are well-suited for capturing changes that occur when a source system is changed or added, but are considered advanced techniques which require experienced data architects. Both data vaults and anchor models are entity-based models, but anchor models have a more normalized approach.
History and philosophy
In its early days, Dan Linstedt referred to the modeling technique which was to become data vault as common foundational warehouse architecture or common foundational modeling architecture. In data warehouse modeling there are two well-known competing options for modeling the layer where the data are stored. Either you model according to Ralph Kimball, with conformed dimensions and an enterprise data bus, or you model according to Bill Inmon with the database normalized. Both techniques have issues when dealing with changes in the systems feeding the data warehouse. For conformed dimensions you also have to cleanse data (to conform it) and this is undesirable in a number of cases since this inevitably will lose information. Data vault is designed to avoid or minimize the impact of those issues, by moving them to areas of the data warehouse that are outside the historical storage area (cleansing is done in the data marts) and by separating the structural items (business keys and the associations between the busines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance%20Concrete | Advance Concrete is a computer-aided design (CAD) software application was developed by GRAITEC, but is now an Autodesk product, used for modeling and detailing reinforced concrete structures. Advance Concrete is used in the structural / civil engineering and drafting fields.
Advance Concrete was discontinued by Autodesk on January 31, 2017, with Revit as the suggested replacement.
Features
Advance Concrete is specifically designed for engineers and structural draftsmen looking for comprehensive and easy to use software, including its own graphics engine allowing it to run with or without AutoCAD.
The application can be used for modeling and detailing different types of concrete structures, such as buildings, precast concrete elements, and also for civil engineering designs.
Advance Concrete uses AutoCAD technology: ObjectARX. This technology provides users with professional objects (beams, columns, slabs, bars, frames, stirrup bars) integrated into AutoCAD and on which most basic AutoCAD functions can be applied (stretch, shorten, copy, move). The Advance Concrete native file is the DWG file.
The main functions of Advance Concrete concern:
2D / 3D modeling of concrete structures;
Automated drawings, with tools for automatic creation of sections, elevations, foundations, isometric views, etc.;
Advanced reinforcement, with automatic creation and update functionalities and also with manual input tools;
Creation of paper drawings;
Automatic bill of materials.
Multi-user modeling. Users can securely and simultaneously work on the same project through a shared database that stores the model data.
The program provides a working environment for creating 3D structural models from which drawings are created. The 3D model is created using Advance Concrete specific objects (structural elements, openings, rebars, etc.) and stored in a drawing (in DWG format). Once a model is complete, Advance Concrete creates all structural and reinforcement drawings using a large selection of tools for view creation, dimensions, interactive annotations, symbols, markings and automatic layout functions. Advance Concrete provides functionalities for automatic drawing updates based on model modifications.
Specific functionalities
One of the features of Advance Concrete is the “dynamic reinforcement” technology for the rapid reinforcement of concrete elements taking into account their context (type, parameters, connection with other elements).
The user creates a so-called dynamic reinforcement solution that integrates the reinforcement cage elements and properties: geometric information, local rules and standards for steel grade, reinforcement bar placement, concrete cover, etc. The reinforcement solutions can be used later for elements that have different sizes. The reinforcement elements adjust to the new dimensions and are taken into account at reinforcement drawing creation and lists.
The user can save the reinforcement solution in an external file, which ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20VPN | A social VPN is a virtual private network that is created among individual peers, automatically, based on relationships established by them through a social networking service. A social VPN aims at providing peer-to-peer (P2P) network connectivity between a user and his or her friends, in an easy to set up manner that hides from the users the complexity in setting up and maintaining authenticated/encrypted end-to-end VPN tunnels.
Architecture
An architecture of a social VPN is based on a centralized infrastructure where users authenticate, discover their friends and exchange cryptographic public keys, and a P2P overlay which is used to route messages between VPN endpoints. For example, this allows an organization to have routed connections with separate offices, or with other organizations, over the Internet. A routed VPN connection across the Internet logically operates as a dedicated Wide Area Network (WAN) link.
Packet capture and injection
A social VPN uses a virtual network interface (such as TUN/TAP devices in Windows and Unix systems) to capture and inject IP packets from a host. Once captured, packets are encrypted, encapsulated, and routed over an overlay network.
Security
A social VPN uses online social networks to distribute public keys and advertise node address to friends. The acquired public keys are used to establish encrypted communication between two endpoints. Symmetric keys are exchanged during the process of establishing an end-to-end link by two social VPN peers.
Routing
Routing in the social VPN is peer-to-peer. One approach that has been implemented uses a structured P2P system for sending IP packets encapsulated in overlay messages from a source to destination.
Private IP address space
A social VPN uses dynamic IP address assignment and translation to avoid collision with existing (private) address spaces of end hosts, and to allow the system to scale to the number of users that today's successful online social network services serve (tens of millions). Users are able to connect directly only to a small subset of the total number of users of such a service, where the subset is determined by their established relationships.
Naming
A social VPN uses names derived from the social network service to automatically assign host names to endpoints. These names are translated to virtual private IP addresses in the overlay by a loop-back DNS virtual server.
Related systems
The MIT Unmanaged Internet Architecture (UIA)provides ad hoc, zero-configuration routing infrastructure for mobile devices, but the ad hoc connections are not established through a social networking infrastructure.
"Friend Net" is a similar concept put forth in a 2002 blog entry.
Hamachi is a zero-configuration VPN which uses a security architecture different from that of social VPN. The leafnetworks VPN also supports the creation of networks using the Facebook API.
Software
An open-source social VPN implementation based on the Facebook social network serv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Geddie | William Fredrick Geddie (July 17, 1955 – July 20, 2023) was an American television producer. He was the co-creator (with Barbara Walters) of ABC Daytime's The View, on the ABC television network, and was also the show's executive producer for its first 16 seasons.
Geddie was also a partner with Walters in BarWall Productions and co-produced popular American television shows such as the Barbara Walters Specials and The 10 Most Fascinating People annual special.
Early life
William Frederick Geddie was born in San Antonio, Texas on July 17, 1955. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977, majoring in communications/film. He had a job buffing the floors at KOCO-TV, in Oklahoma City and he said, "When you buffed the floors—this is how informal television was back then—they let you run camera for the local news. What got me off the floor was that I went to the news director and said I had shot film before, so he gave me a job shooting film."
Career
Geddie was the co-creator and the original executive producer for The View; it debuted in August 1997 and he stayed with the show until 2014. He was frequently featured on the show; he acknowledged, "If I can be the brunt of a joke, if I can do to get a laugh, or if I can help in any way that's what I'll do. Otherwise, that is it. I stay out of the way... if you watch the show, you see that generally speaking I'm a side player and I'm basically there to get a laugh." Geddie had well documented disagreements, in particular with former hosts Star Jones, Rosie O'Donnell, and guest host Kathy Griffin. He left the show in 2014.
ABC Entertainment named Geddie as executive producer for Tamron Hall on January 22, 2019. He left the show in March 2020.
Geddie was a screenwriter in his spare time. He wrote the script for Unforgettable, a film starring Ray Liotta and Linda Fiorentino.
He was executive producer, writer and director of the Barbara Walters Specials and The 10 Most Fascinating People.
Geddie was the owner of May Avenue Productions. He was a partner with Walters in BarWall Productions for 25 years.
Death
Geddie died of coronary-related factors on July 20, 2023, three days after his 68th birthday.
Awards and nominations
Geddie won six local Emmy Awards and four national Emmy Awards. In 2003, he won a Daytime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Talk Show category for his work as executive producer of The View. He was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 39th Daytime Emmy Awards on June 23, 2012, for his contributions as writer, producer, and director in his more than 30-year television career. Malachy Wienges, chairman of NATAS said, "Bill Geddie is an icon in the television industry."
References
External links
Bill Geddie at TV Guide
Bill Geddie interview with Katie Dickman
1955 births
2023 deaths
Television producers from Texas
Daytime Emmy Award winners
People from San Antonio
Moody College of Communication alumni
Television personalities from Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative%20data | In economic policy, alternative data refers to the inclusion of non-financial payment reporting data in credit files, such as telecom and energy utility payments.
Types of alternative data
Alternative data in the broadest sense refers to any non-financial information that can be used to estimate the lending risk of an individual. Information includes:
Utility bills (such as electricity, gas, and heating oil)
Telecommunications bills (such as landlines and mobile telephones)
Rental payments
Electronic payments (remittances, withdrawals, transfers, etc.)
Social media activity
Psychometric data
Telco data
Smartphone device metadata
Alternative data for credit in North America
United States
In the United States, credit files include negative information, such as delinquencies as well as positive information, such as repayment of debts. Still, an estimated 35 to 54 million Americans have insufficient credit information to qualify for mainstream credit. If immigrants in the United States are included, that number exceeds 70 million. Access to credit is thus a Catch-22 for many poor Americans—one needs credit to get credit. Research suggests that the inclusion of alternative data in credit files could bring many of these individuals into the credit fold. That is, non-financial positive payment information, such as rents or utility payments, may give credit agencies enough information to rate previously unscorable individuals known as the unbanked. These newly scored individuals have risk profiles similar to those already in the mainstream credit system. Furthermore, loans become smarter. Including alternative data has little effect on the credit mainstream, those already scorable in the current system. Furthermore, this increase in data decreases the number of bad loans
Experian purchased RentBureau in June 2010, which houses rental payment histories on over 7 million US residents, this data will now be included in consumer credit reports as of January 2011. This will benefit those that overlap with the 50 million US underbanked consumers. The danger with this, is that it will provide a further variable to damage credit scores of those that do not for example manage their rental payments on time in addition to their other credit arrangements
Current use of alternative data
Since the financial crisis of late 2008, many Americans have struggled with the negative change to their credit score. Reduced credit lines resulting in a new group of consumers in need of liquidity forced this growing consumer segment to seek alternative financial services providers. Businesses relying on traditional credit reports to make credit decisions have had limited to no visibility on the new credit usage behaviors of this growing portion because alternative data is not information that the traditional bureaus capture or tend to report.
Utilities and telecoms firms in several states have started reporting their data to CRAs. PRBC, a consumer credit reporting a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetprices | StreetPrices was founded in October 1997, making it the third price comparison service website, behind PriceWatch (1995) and ComputerESP/uVision (1996). StreetPrices was the first site to offer price graphs and price alerts (both released by December 1998), and was listed in the Consumer Reports Buying Guide every year in which they listed price comparison services by name. They focused primarily on digital cameras, consumer electronics, and computer components like disk drives and RAM, with some coverage of other shopping categories.
StreetPrices offered comparison shopping with merchant ratings and tax/shipping calculation. Major categories like digital cameras and TVs let users "search by specs". StreetPrices also offered price graphs, now showing the daily high and low price for each item, with data going back as far as two years.
Also available were an AIM bot (streetpricesbot), and price comparison widgets that publishers could put on their web pages.
Closed as of 2012
References
External links
Official Website
Comparison shopping websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redrum%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Redrum" is the sixth episode of the eighth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on . The story for the episode was developed by Steven Maeda and Daniel Arkin, the teleplay was written by Maeda, and the episode was directed by Peter Markle. "Redrum" is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. The episode received a Nielsen rating of 8.1 and was viewed by 13.2 million households. Overall, the episode received moderately positive reviews from critics.
The series centers on FBI special agents Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and her new partner John Doggett (Robert Patrick)—following the alien abduction of her former partner, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny)—who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, a lawyer friend of Doggett's named Martin Wells tries to clear his name of the crime after his wife is murdered. Unfortunately for him, his perception of time regresses backwards, day by day. This leads to confusion, but ultimately an answer as to who killed Wells' wife.
"Redrum", described as a "Twilight Zone-type thriller" by critics, heavily featured the actor Joe Morton, who had previously played a role in the 1991 sci-fi film Terminator 2: Judgment Day alongside series co-star Robert Patrick. The title of the episode was purposely picked by episode writer Steven Maeda to be "murder" spelled backwards, a reference to Stephen King's The Shining. The episode's main character, Martin Wells, was named after famed 19th century author H. G. Wells.
Plot
Martin Wells, a renowned Baltimore prosecutor, wakes up in a prison cell and notices a stitched-up wound on his right cheek. A guard enters and takes him for his transfer. Wells' long-time friend, John Doggett (Robert Patrick), and Doggett's partner, Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), await him and warn of reporters outside. As he exits the building, a man Wells recognizes draws a pistol and shoots him. Wells stares at Scully's watch as he dies. The hands stop and then begin to turn backwards.
Upon waking up again, Wells is surprised to find no bullet wounds on his body. Scully and Doggett arrive to interrogate Wells, but he is confused about what is going on. A furious Doggett claims that he has been accused of murdering his wife, Vicky, and initially believes that Wells is faking his confusion in order to build an insanity defense. However, Doggett shows signs of doubt when he notices Wells' genuine anguish over Vicky's death. Wells is brought into court and he recognizes his father-in-law, Al Cawdry, as the man who shot him. When Wells' next court date is announced to be Thursday, he realizes that he has somehow travelled back to the day before his shooting. When the judge decides to transfer Wells to a different cell, he makes a scene in the court and accuses Cawdry of planning to kill him during the transfer.
In his second meeting of the day with Scully and Doggett, Wells expl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAYN | WAYN may refer to:
WAYN (AM), a radio station (900 AM) licensed to Rockingham, North Carolina, United States
WAYN (website), a social networking website whose name is an acronym for "Where Are You Now?" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Computing | School of Computing may refer to:
School of Computing (Robert Gordon University)
DIT School of Computing
NUS School of Computing
University of Colombo School of Computing
University of Utah School of Computing
School of Computing, a school in Federal University of Technology, Akure
See also
School of Computer Science (disambiguation)
Computer literacy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Jeffery%20Ward | Hugh Jeffery Ward is a convicted criminal in the United States responsible for one of the first known thefts of computer software in 1971; he stole a $25,000 USD data plotting program from Information Systems Design of Oakland, California. Ward pleaded guilty to theft of trade secrets.
References
American prisoners and detainees
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer criminals
American people convicted of theft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Java%20Workstation | Sun Java Workstation was a line of computer workstations sold by Sun Microsystems from 2004 to 2006, based on the AMD Opteron microprocessor family. The range supplanted the earlier Sun Blade workstation line. These were the first x86-architecture workstations Sun had produced, other than the short-lived Sun386i in the late 1980s.
Supported operating systems were Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. The Java Workstation name alluded to the workstations being intended to run Sun's Java Desktop System, a GNOME-based desktop environment.
The Java Workstation series was replaced by Ultra 20 and Ultra 40 workstations from 2005 onwards.
Models
References
Sun workstations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary%20Karabell | Zachary Karabell (born July 6, 1967) is the founder of the Progress Network at New America, president of River Twice Capital, an author, and a columnist. In 2003, the World Economic Forum designated him a "Global Leader for Tomorrow."
Career
Karabell sits on the board of New America and PEN America. Previously, he was head of global strategies at Envestnet, a publicly traded financial services firm where he worked with the board and senior management on corporate strategy and with the investment committee on overall investment approaches for the firm. Prior to that, he was executive vice president, chief economist, and head of marketing at Fred Alger Management, a New York-based investment firm. He was also president of Fred Alger & Company, a broker-dealer and portfolio manager of the China-U.S. Growth Fund. At Alger, he oversaw the creation, launch and marketing of several funds, led strategy for strategic acquisitions, and represented the firm at public forums and in the media. In addition, he founded and ran the River Twice Fund from 2011-2013, an alternative investment fund which used sustainable business as its primary investment theme.
Education
Karabell spent his adolescence attending private school in New York City, including The Collegiate School. Karabell was educated at Columbia, Oxford and Harvard, where he received his Ph.D.. He has taught at several leading universities, including Harvard and Dartmouth, and has written widely on economics, investing, history and international relations.
Books and Publications
His most recent book, Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power, was published by Penguin Press in May 2021. He is the author of eleven previous books, including The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World (Simon & Schuster, 2014); The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election (which won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for best non-fiction book of the year in 2000); Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World’s Prosperity Depends On It (Simon & Schuster, 2009); and Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in the 21st Century, co-authored with Aron Cramer (Rodale 2010). His next book is a global history of corn.
As a commentator, Karabell is a regular columnist for Time and Contributing Editor for Politico, and the host of the podcast “What Could Go Right?” Previously he wrote “The Edgy Optimist” column for Slate, Reuters, and The Atlantic. He is a LinkedIn Influencer, and an occasional commentator on CNBC, Fox Business and MSNBC, and was a Contributing Editor for Wired and The Daily Beast. He also contributes to such publications as The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs.
Notes
References
The Pragmatic Caliphs, The New York Times, January 6, 2008
Q&A With Alger's Z |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202001 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2001, there were 16 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Warning" by American pop punk band Green Day, the second single from the album of the same name, which spent the first two weeks of the year at number one. The final number-one single of the year was "In Too Deep", the second single from Canadian pop punk band Sum 41's debut album All Killer No Filler, which spent the last three weeks of the year (and the first four weeks of 2002) at number one.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2001 was "Butterfly" by Crazy Town, which spent eleven weeks at number one across two different spells. Alien Ant Farm's recording of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" spent eight weeks at number one, "Rollin'" by Limp Bizkit was number one for a total of seven weeks, and Train's "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" spent five weeks atop the chart. Linkin Park spent four weeks at number one in 2001 with "Papercut", as well as an additional week atop the chart with "In the End". Sum 41's "In Too Deep" was number one for three weeks, while four singles – "Warning" by Green Day, "Jaded" by Aerosmith, "Million Miles Away" by The Offspring and "It's Been Awhile" by Staind – all spent two weeks at number one during the year.
Chart history
See also
2001 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2001
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2001 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202002 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2002, there were 19 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "In Too Deep" by Canadian pop punk band Sum 41, which spent the first four weeks of the year atop the chart. Sum 41 also had the final number-one single of the year, with "Still Waiting" spending the last five weeks of the year atop the chart.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2002 was "How You Remind Me" by Nickelback, which spent twelve weeks at number one. The band also spent three weeks at number one with "Too Bad". Sum 41 spent nine weeks at number one in 2002 – five weeks with "Still Waiting" and four weeks with "In Too Deep" – while Red Hot Chili Peppers spent four weeks at number one, with both "By the Way" and "The Zephyr Song" topping the chart for two weeks. Alien Ant Farm's "Movies" was number one for three weeks, while Puddle of Mudd topped the chart for two weeks with "She Hates Me" and one with "Blurry". "Alive" by P.O.D., "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" by Bowling for Soup, "All My Life" by Foo Fighters and "No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age spent two weeks at number one in 2002.
Chart history
See also
2002 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2002
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2002 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetMotion%20Software | NetMotion Software, formerly NetMotion Wireless, is a privately held software company specializing in network security.
History
NetMotion Wireless was formed in 2001 as a spin-off for wireless software from WRQ (based in Seattle, Washington and later part of the Attachmate Group). Former WRQ president Craig McKibben was CEO.
2006: NetMotion merged with Padcom, Inc.
2012: NetMotion was acquired by Clearlake Capital Group.
2016: NetMotion was acquired by The Carlyle Group, with a new CEO.
In 2021, NetMotion was acquired by Absolute Software for an estimated US$340 million.
NetMotion is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices in Chicago, London, Tokyo and Sydney. The company added a second headquarters in Victoria, British Columbia in 2019.
Products
NetMotion products allow users to transition from traditional secure remote access technologies to a zero-trust approach, without affecting productivity or admin controls. Fundamentally, it consists of client software on each mobile device, which communicates with a control server in the cloud or data center that pushes policies and actions to the client for execution. Through this architecture that gives administrators control of the endpoints, they can manage application delivery based on changing network conditions through software, regardless of the combination of networks used, including cellular and Wi-Fi networks that are outside of their direct administrative control.
An enhanced filtering feature named Aware was added in 2019.
In July, 2020, a new release of the software added the term software-defined perimeter (SDP).
In late 2020, NetMotion’s products were marketed with the term secure access service edge.
References
External links
Patent by NetMotion Wireless, Inc.
Mobile technology
Software companies based in Seattle
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202003 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2003, there were 23 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Still Waiting" by American pop punk band Sum 41, which spent the first two weeks of the year atop the chart. The final number-one single of the year was "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" by glam rock band The Darkness.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2003 was "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence, which spent ten weeks at number one. The band also topped the chart with "My Immortal". Good Charlotte's "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" spent six weeks at number one, with the band also reaching number one with "Girls & Boys" (for three weeks) and "The Anthem" (for two weeks). "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by The Darkness was number one for six weeks, while "Somewhere I Belong" by Linkin Park spent five weeks atop the chart. "Still Waiting" by Sum 41, "Times Like These" by Foo Fighters and "Fortune Faded" by Red Hot Chili Peppers were all number one for two weeks, while Iron Maiden and Muse spent two weeks at number one in 2003 with two releases each.
Chart history
See also
2003 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2003
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2003 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim%20Massacre | Muslim Massacre may refer to:
Muslim Massacre (video game), a controversial 2008 amateur computer game
The various Moro massacres during the dictatorship of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos
Any massacre of or by Muslims; see List of events named massacres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin%20Svoboda | Antonin Svoboda or Antonín Svoboda may refer to:
Antonín Svoboda (athlete) (1900–1965), Czech Olympics sprinter
Antonín Svoboda (computer scientist) (1907–1980), Czech computer scientist
Antonín Svoboda (footballer) (born 2002), Czech football player
(born 1969), Austrian film director and producer
See also
Svoboda (surname)
Antonin (name) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202004 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2004, there were 24 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" by The Darkness, which topped the chart for the first time in the final week of 2003 and spent the first three weeks of the year and one in march at number one. The final number-one single of the year was "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day, which spent the final three weeks of the year atop the chart and remained at number one for the first two weeks of 2005.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2004 was "In the Shadows" by Finnish band The Rasmus, which spent ten weeks at number one. The band also spent two weeks at number one with follow-up single "Guilty". "Come Get Some" by Rooster spent six weeks at number one, while The Darkness (with "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" and "Love Is Only a Feeling") and Green Day (with "American Idiot" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams") each spent six weeks at number one with two releases. "Last Summer" by Lostprophets spent three weeks at number one, while three additional singles – "Run" by Snow Patrol, "The Reason" by Hoobastank and "Slither" by Velvet Revolver – spent two weeks each at number one on the chart during the year.
Chart history
See also
2004 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2004
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2004 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20atlases | This is a list of notable atlases, each a collection of maps, some including statistical data for the regions represented:
Early modern
15th century
Douce Atlas (nautical atlas)
16th century
Piri Reis Map (Ottoman Empire, 1513)
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Ortelius, Flanders, 1570–1612)
Mercator's Atlas (1578)
17th century
Atlas Novus (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658; 1645 edition at UCLA)
Dell'Arcano del Mare (England/Italy, 1645–1661)
Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (France, 1658–1676)
Klencke Atlas (1660; world's largest book)
Atlas Maior (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1662–1667)
Atlante Veneto (Coronelli, Venice, 1691)
18th century
Britannia Depicta (London, 1720)
Atlas Nouveau (Amsterdam, 1742)
Cary's New and Correct English Atlas (London, 1787)
Modern
19th century
Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas (Germany, 1881–1939; in the UK as Times Atlas of the World, 1895)
Atlas do Visconde de Santarem (Paris, 1841, 1842-1844, and 1849)
Bosatlas (Netherlands 1877–present)
Cedid Atlas (Istanbul, 1803)o
Rand McNally Atlas (United States, 1881–present)
Stielers Handatlas (Germany, 1817–1944)
20th century
Atlante Internazionale del Touring Club Italiano (Italy, 1927–1978)
Atlas Mira (Russia, 1937–present)
Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas (United Kingdom, 1938–present)
Gran Atlas Aguilar (Spain, 1969/1970)
Historical Atlas of China (Taiwan, 1980)
The Historical Atlas of China (China, 1982)
National Geographic Atlas of the World (United States, 1963–present)
Pergamon World Atlas (1962/1968)
Times Atlas of the World (United Kingdom, 1895–present)
Dorling Kindersley Atlas of the World 1994–present
Digital atlases
TerraServer-USA/MSR Maps (1998)
NASA World Wind (2003)
Google Maps (2005)
WikiMapia (2006)
North American Environmental Atlas (2005)
Bing Maps (2010)
See also
History of cartography
History of geography
List of historical maps
Cartography
Manifold
Bird atlas
Star atlas
References
External links
Atlases at DavidRumsey.com includes many important atlases from the 18th-20th centuries
Charting North America, maps and atlases in the New York Public Library Digital Collection
Ryhiner Collection Composite atlas with maps, plans and views from the 16th-18th centuries, covering the globe, with about 16,000 images in total.
Atlases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas%20%28computer%29 | The Atlas Computer was one of the world's first supercomputers, in use from 1962 (when it was claimed to be the most powerful computer in the world) to 1972. Atlas' capacity promoted the saying that when it went offline, half of the United Kingdom's computer capacity was lost. It is notable for being the first machine with virtual memory (at that time referred to as 'one-level store') using paging techniques; this approach quickly spread, and is now ubiquitous.
Atlas was a second-generation computer, using discrete germanium transistors. Atlas was created in a joint development effort among the University of Manchester, Ferranti International plc and the Plessey Co., plc. Two other Atlas machines were built: one for British Petroleum and the University of London, and one for the Atlas Computer Laboratory at Chilton near Oxford.
A derivative system was built by Ferranti for Cambridge University. Called the Titan, or Atlas 2, it had a different memory organisation and ran a time-sharing operating system developed by Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. Two further Atlas 2s were delivered: one to the CAD Centre in Cambridge (later called CADCentre, then AVEVA), and the other to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE), Aldermaston.
The University of Manchester's Atlas was decommissioned in 1971. The final Atlas, the CADCentre machine, was switched off in late 1976. Parts of the Chilton Atlas are preserved by National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh; the main console itself was rediscovered in July 2014 and is at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, near Oxford.
History
Background
Through 1956 there was a growing awareness that the UK was falling behind the US in computer development. In April, B.W. Pollard of Ferranti told a computer conference that "there is in this country a range of medium-speed computers, and the only two machines which are really fast are the Cambridge EDSAC 2 and the Manchester Mark 2, although both are still very slow compared with the fastest American machines." This was followed by similar concerns expressed in May report to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Advisory Committee on High Speed Calculating Machines, better known as the Brunt Committee.
Through this period, Tom Kilburn's team at Manchester University had been experimenting with transistor-based systems, building two small machines to test various techniques. This was clearly the way forward, and in the autumn of 1956, Kilburn began canvassing possible customers on what features they would want in a new transistor-based machine. Most commercial customers pointed out the need to support a wide variety of peripheral devices, while the Atomic Energy Authority suggested a machine able to perform an instruction every microsecond, or as it would be known today, 1 MIPS of performance. This later request led to the name of the prospective design, MUSE, for microsecond engine.
The need to support many peripherals and the need to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Miller%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Gary Lee Miller is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States. In 2003 he won the ACM Paris Kanellakis Award (with three others) for the Miller–Rabin primality test. He was made an ACM Fellow in 2002 and won the Knuth Prize in 2013.
Early life and career
Miller received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975 under the direction of Manuel Blum. Following periods on the faculty at the University of Waterloo, the University of Rochester, MIT and the University of Southern California, Miller moved to Carnegie Mellon University, where he is now Professor of Computer Science. In addition to his influential thesis on computational number theory and primality testing, Miller has worked on many central topics in computer science, including graph isomorphism, parallel algorithms, computational geometry and scientific computing. His most recent focus on scientific computing led to breakthrough results with students Ioannis Koutis and Richard Peng in 2010 that currently provide the fastest algorithms—in theory and practice—for solving "symmetric diagonally dominant" linear systems, which have important applications in image processing, network algorithms, engineering and physical simulations. His Ph.D. thesis was titled Riemann's Hypothesis and Tests for Primality.
References
External links
Gary Miller's web page at Carnegie Mellon.
Gary Miller at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
Miller's original paper "Riemann's Hypothesis and Tests for Primality"
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Living people
American computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Knuth Prize laureates
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202005 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2005, there were 23 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by American pop punk band Green Day, which spent the first two weeks of the year atop the chart at the end of a five-week run beginning in December 2004. The final number-one single of the year was "One Way Ticket", the lead single from One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back, the second album by The Darkness, which spent the last six weeks of the 2005 (and the first four of 2005) at number one.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2005 was "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day, which spent seven weeks at number one. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" also spent seven weeks at number one, while "Holiday" was number one for four weeks. "Somewhere Else" by Razorlight spent five weeks and "One Way Ticket" by The Darkness spent six weeks at number one, Iron Maiden spent four weeks at number one with "The Number of the Beast" and "The Trooper", and Foo Fighters spent three weeks at number one with "Best of You" (two weeks) and "DOA" (one week). Nine Black Alps topped the chart for three weeks "Unsatisfied" (One Week) and "Just Friends" (Two Weeks), Rammstein topped the chart with "Keine Lust" and "Benzin", Nine Inch Nails topped the chart with "The Hand That Feeds" and "Only", My Chemical Romance topped the chart with "Helena" and "The Ghost of You" and songs by HIM, and Nickelback all spent two weeks atop the chart.
Chart history
See also
2005 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2005
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2005 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202006 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2006, there were 24 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "One Way Ticket", the lead single from One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back, the second album by The Darkness, which spent the first four weeks of the year at number one as part of a ten-week run which began in November 2005. The final number-one single of the year was "Welcome to the Black Parade", the lead single from My Chemical Romance's third album The Black Parade, which spent the last two weeks of the year atop the chart.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2006 was "Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance, which spent nine weeks at number one including a run of seven consecutive weeks. "Tell Me Baby" by Red Hot Chili Peppers spent five weeks at number one, while singles by The Darkness ("One Way Ticket"), Lacuna Coil ("Our Truth") and Muse ("Supermassive Black Hole" and "Starlight") all spent four weeks at number one. Four singles – "Is It Just Me?" by The Darkness, "But It's Better If You Do" by Panic! at the Disco, "Hard Rock Hallelujah" by Lordi and "Knights of Cydonia" by Muse – each spent two weeks at number one on the chart. Muse were the most successful artist on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2006, spending a total of ten weeks at number one across three different singles.
Chart history
See also
2006 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2006
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2006 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202007 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2007, there were 22 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Different World", the second single from heavy metal band Iron Maiden's 14th studio album A Matter of Life and Death, which spent the first two weeks of the year atop the chart. The final number-one single of the year was "Long Road to Ruin", the second single from American alternative rock band Foo Fighters' sixth studio album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, which spent the last three weeks of 2007 and the first of 2008 at number one.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2007 was "Famous Last Words" by My Chemical Romance, which spent six consecutive weeks at number one early in the year. "Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour" by Enter Shikari spent five weeks at number one, while Linkin Park spent a total of five weeks at number one across two releases – "What I've Done" (three weeks) and "Bleed It Out" (two weeks). "Walk Away" by Funeral for a Friend was number one for four weeks, while "Tarantula" by The Smashing Pumpkins, "The Kiss of Dawn" by HIM, "Empty Walls" by Serj Tankian and "Long Road to Ruin" by Foo Fighters were all number one for three weeks. Releases from Iron Maiden, Evanescence, Muse, Lostprophets, Queens of the Stone Age, Nightwish and Gallows each spent two weeks at number one.
Chart history
See also
2007 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2007
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2007 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202008 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2008, there were ten singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Long Road to Ruin" by American alternative rock band Foo Fighters, which spent the last three weeks of 2007 and the first of 2008 atop the chart. The final number-one single of the year was "All Summer Long" by American country rock musician Kid Rock.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2008 was "Rockstar" by Canadian band Nickelback, which spent 23 weeks at number one during the year, including a single run of 20 consecutive weeks. The band spent a total of 29 weeks atop the chart in 2008, with "Photograph" and "Gotta Be Somebody" each spending three weeks at number one. Kid Rock's "All Summer Long" spent a total of 16 weeks at number one during the year, including separate runs of eight and seven consecutive weeks. Only one single – Enter Shikari's "We Can Breathe in Space, They Just Don't Want Us to Escape" – spent two weeks at number one.
Chart history
See also
2008 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2008
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2008 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamicroptera | Metamicroptera is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae.
Species
Metamicroptera christophi Przybylowicz, 2005
Metamicroptera rotundata Hulstaert, 1923
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Syntomini
Noctuoidea genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938 |
Events
January
January 1 – State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS).
January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Queen Farida, in Cairo.
January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam.
February
February 4
Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military. In addition, he dismisses political and military leaders considered unsympathetic to his philosophy or policies. General Werner von Fritsch is forced to resign as Commander of Chief of the German Army following accusations of homosexuality, and replaced by General Walther von Brauchitsch. Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath is dismissed, and replaced by Joachim von Ribbentrop.
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first cel-animated feature in motion picture history, is released in the United States, following a premiere on December 21 of the previous year.
February 6 – Black Sunday at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia: 300 swimmers are dragged out to sea in 3 freak waves; 80 lifesavers save all but 5.
February 10
Carol II of Romania takes dictatorial powers.
Second Sino-Japanese War: Bombing of Chongqing begins.
February 12 – Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg of Austria meets Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden and, under threat of invasion, is forced to yield to German demands for greater Nazi participation in the Austrian government.
February 22 – The Battle of Teruel ends in a Nationalist victory with recapture of the city, a turning point in the Spanish Civil War.
February 24 – A nylon bristle toothbrush becomes the first commercial product to be made with nylon yarn.
March
March 1 – Lee Byung-chul establishes a trucking business in Daegu, Korea, which he names Samsung Trading Co, the forerunner to Samsung.
March 3
The Santa Ana River in California, United States, spills over its banks during a rainy winter, killing 58 people in Orange County, and causing trouble as far inland as Palm Springs.
Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador to Germany, presents a proposal to Hitler for an international consortium to rule much of Africa (in which Germany would be assigned a leading role), in exchange for a German promise never to resort to war to change her frontiers; Hitler rejects the British offer.
March 12 – Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation is declared the following day.
March 14 – French Premier Léon Blum reassures the Czechoslovak government that France will honor its treaty obligations to aid Czechoslovakia, in the event of a German invasion.
March 17 – Poland presents an ultimatum to Lithuania, to establish normal diplomatic relations that were severed over the Vilnius Region.
March 27 – Italian mathematician Ettore Majorana disappears suddenly under mysterious |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Arthur%20Martinez | John Arthur Martinez (born June 10, 1961, in Austin, Texas) is an American country music artist. Martinez finished in second place on the first season of the USA Network talent show Nashville Star. In 2004, Martinez released a studio album for Dualtone Records, which produced one single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Discography
Albums
Singles
References
External links
Official website
JAM Records
American country singer-songwriters
Living people
Nashville Star contestants
Dualtone Records artists
1961 births
Singers from Austin, Texas
Singer-songwriters from Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Highland%20College | North Highland College () provides further education and higher education in the north of Scotland through a network of learning centres and by distance learning. It is a constituent college of the University of the Highlands and Islands.
History
The college opened in 1959 and became an independent entity in 1993.
In July 2014, the college had 8,000 students enrolled in full-time and part-time courses, including more than 750 studying for university degrees.
The college has campuses in Thurso, Halkirk, Alness and Dornoch.
Thurso campus
Centre for Energy and Environment
The Centre for Energy and Environment building was designed by HRI Architects and completed in January 2011. It received a rating of excellent by BREEAM. and was awarded "best new building in the north region" at the Highlands and Islands Design Awards in 2012.
Rural studies centre
The college has been offering equestrian courses since 1990. In September 2012 it has used a converted farm that combines stabling, classrooms and a purpose-built indoor arena. Dale Farm is a facility that is situated approximately six miles from the main campus in Thurso. The college also offers a gamekeeping and wildlife management course.
Environmental Research Institute
Environmental Research Institute (ERI) is a centre for environmental research
Centre for History
The centre in Dornoch opened in 2005. Since 2007 a number of degree courses have been offered that are centred on the history of the Highlands and Islands.
Governance
The principal, Mrs Debbie Murray, took up the post in May 2021.
References
External links
North Highland College
Environmental Research Institute
University of the Highlands and Islands
Education in Highland (council area)
Further education colleges in Scotland
Higher education colleges in Scotland
Thurso
1959 establishments in Scotland
Educational institutions established in 1959 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduinome | An Arduinome is a MIDI controller device that mimics the Monome using the Arduino physical computing platform. The plans for the Arduinome are released under an open source, non-commercial use only license. The Arduinome platform is noted for providing a lower cost alternative to the Monome and allows greater hackability of the interface.
See also
List of music software
References
External links
The Arduinome Software on Sourceforge
FlipMu (Bricktable's) Arduinome building guide — original Arduinome firmware authors
Electronic musical instruments
Experimental musical instruments
Open hardware electronic devices
Open-source music hardware
DIY electronic music hardware
Arduino
fr:Monome
it:Monome |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary%20particle%20filter | The auxiliary particle filter is a particle filtering algorithm introduced by Pitt and Shephard in 1999 to improve some deficiencies of the sequential importance resampling (SIR) algorithm when dealing with tailed observation densities.
Motivation
Particle filters approximate continuous random variable by particles with discrete probability mass , say for uniform distribution. The random sampled particles can be used to approximate the probability density function of the continuous random variable if the value .
The empirical prediction density is produced as the weighted summation of these particles:
, and we can view it as the "prior" density. Note that the particles are assumed to have the same weight .
Combining the prior density and the likelihood , the empirical filtering density can be produced as:
, where .
On the other hand, the true filtering density which we want to estimate is
.
The prior density can be used to approximate the true filtering density :
The particle filters draw samples from the prior density . Each sample are drawn with equal probability.
Assign each sample with the weights . The weights represent the likelihood function .
If the number , than the samples converge to the desired true filtering density.
The particles are resampled to particles with the weight .
The weakness of the particle filters includes:
If the weight {} has a large variance, the sample amount must be large enough for the samples to approximate the empirical filtering density. In other words, while the weight is widely distributed, the SIR method will be imprecise and the adaption is difficult.
Therefore, the auxiliary particle filter is proposed to solve this problem.
Auxiliary particle filter
Auxiliary variable
Comparing with the empirical filtering density which has ,
we now define , where .
Being aware that is formed by the summation of particles, the auxiliary variable represents one specific particle. With the aid of , we can form a set of samples which has the distribution . Then, we draw from these sample set instead of directly from . In other words, the samples are drawn from with different probability. The samples are ultimately utilized to approximate .
Take the SIR method for example:
The particle filters draw samples from .
Assign each samples with the weight .
By controlling and , the weights are adjusted to be even.
Similarly, the particles are resampled to particles with the weight .
The original particle filters draw samples from the prior density, while the auxiliary filters draw from the joint distribution of the prior density and the likelihood. In other words, the auxiliary particle filters avoid the circumstance which the particles are generated in the regions with low likelihood. As a result, the samples can approximate more precisely.
Selection of the auxiliary variable
The selection of the auxiliary variable affects and controls the distribution of the samples. A possible s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffon%20%28framework%29 | Griffon is an open source rich client platform framework which uses the Java, Apache Groovy, and/or Kotlin programming languages. Griffon is intended to be a high-productivity framework by rewarding use of the Model-View-Controller paradigm, providing a stand-alone development environment and hiding much of the configuration detail from the developer.
The first release is the fruit of the effort by the Groovy Swing team and an attempt to take the best of rapid application development, as indicated by its Grails-like structure, the agility of Groovy, and the availability of components for Swing. The framework was redesign from scratch for version 2, allowing different JVM programming languages to be used either in isolation or in conjunction. Supported UI toolkits are
Java Swing
JavaFX
Apache Pivot
Lanterna
Overview
Griffon aims to reduce the typical confusion that occurs with traditional Java UI development. Due to the MVC structure of Griffon, developers never have to go searching for files or be confused on how to start a new project. Everything begins with:
lazybones create <template_name> <APP_NAME>
The generated project follows this structure:
%PROJECT_HOME%
+ griffon-app
+ conf ---> location of configuration artifacts like builder configuration
+ controllers ---> location of controller classes
+ i18n ---> location of message bundles for i18n
+ lifecycle ---> location of lifecycle scripts
+ models ---> location of model classes
+ resources ---> location of non code resources (images, etc)
+ views ---> location of view classes
+ src
+ main ---> optional; location for Groovy and Java source files
(of types other than those in griffon-app/*)
The builder infrastructure enables seamless integration of different widget libraries such as Swing, JIDE, and SwingX.
In the first release, three sample applications are included :
Greet, a Groovy Twitter client featured in the JavaOne 2009 Script Bowl,
FontPicker, an application to view the available fonts on one's machine,
SwingPad, a lightweight designer application for Griffon user interfaces.
Plugins
Griffon can be extended with the use of plugins. Plugins provide run-time access to testing libraries such as Easyb and FEST, and all widget libraries besides core Swing are provided as plugins. The plugin system allows for a wide range of additions, for example
Polyglot Programming with Java, Apache Groovy, Kotlin.
SQL and NoSQL datastores like Berkleydb, CouchDB, Db4O, Neo4j, NeoDatis, Memcached and Riak.
Publications
Books
Features that would eventually become integral parts of Griffon (UI builders) were featured in these books:
Groovy In Action (published by Manning)
Beginning Groovy and Grails
Books that cover Griffon:
Griffon In Action (published by Manning)
Beginning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20in%20Pretoria | Radio and TV broadcasting in Pretoria is supplied via a network of VHF/FM and UHF transmitters and repeaters owned and operated by Sentech - South Africa's state-owned broadcast signal distributor - from four transmitter sites in and around the city. A number of community radio stations operate transmitters from non-Sentech sites.
The inception of an FM broadcast service in South Africa, began on 1 September 1961 from what is now known as the Sentech Tower in Brixton, Johannesburg. The remainder of South Africa was initially served by medium wave transmitters, which were essentially localised to the larger centres. A massive drive through the 1960s and 70's saw the roll-out of the FM network to the rest of the country. Much of the original equipment supplied was through technology exchange programmes, meaning that the transmitters were of European design, but manufactured in South Africa. Original networks were based on 3 kW tube FM equipment, operating into channel combining equipment to allow the use of a common transmit antenna system, with a gain of around 10-12 dB. Sentech embarked on a huge programme in the late 1980s to effect replacement of these ageing FM transmitter and antenna systems. In world terms, it was the single largest contract awarded to a local manufacturer for the supply of FM transmitters.
In South Africa, digital migration still has to happen. Currently, analogue TV occupies the VHF frequencies where digital radio needs to migrate. Once digital migration is done, South Africa will have Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) and listen to digital radio on the DAB system. For now, virtually all South Africans rely on analogue terrestrial (FM/AM/SW) broadcasts for their radio consumption.
Pretoria-Gelukskroon Transmitting Station
Gelukskroon is the main broadcast site for Pretoria, situated west of the city close to the Hartebeespoort Dam. It is designed to beam signals down into the valley ("moot") formed by the Magaliesberg. Twelve radio and six TV services are broadcast from this site.
RADIO
87.90 MHz - SABC Thobela FM
89.30 MHz - SABC Ligwalagwala FM
91.00 MHz - SABC Motsweding FM
92.40 MHz - SABC Metro FM
94.20 MHz - Jacaranda 94.2
95.60 MHz - SABC Munghana Lonene FM
96.80 MHz - SABC Ikwekwezi FM
97.50 MHz - SABC Radio 2000
101.0 MHz - SABC Radio Sonder Grense
102.4 MHz - SABC Ukhozi FM
104.6 MHz - SABC SAfm
106.0 MHz - Talk Radio 702
TV
8n - SABC 1
5n - SABC 2
11 - SABC 3
21 - M-Net
25 - M-Net Community Services Network (CSN)
29n - e.tv
Sunnyside-Lukasrand Transmitting Station
The Telkom Lukasrand Tower on Lukasrand, which dominates the Pretoria skyline, carries four radio services and TV repeaters.
RADIO
90.50 MHz - Grootfm
100.1 MHz - SABC Lotus FM
103.6 MHz - SABC 5 FM
107.2 MHz - Tuks FM
TV
63n - SABC 1
55n - SABC 2
59 - SABC 3
67 - M-Net
46 - M-Net CSN
38n - e.tv
27 - Tshwane TV
Menlo Park Transmitting Station
This is a repeater station, designed as gap-filler for the eastern parts of Pretoria.
RADIO
90.5 |
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