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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Giblin | Peter John Giblin (10 July 1943) is an English mathematician whose primary research involves singularity theory and its application to geometry, computer vision, and computer graphics. Giblin is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Liverpool where he has served on staff for more than 40 years. His positions at Liverpool have included Head of Department (of mathematical sciences), and Head of Division (of pure mathematics).
He is the author or co-author of eight published books, some of which have been translated into Russian. The foreword for the Russian translation of his book Curves and Singularities was written by V. I. Arnold. Giblin has also authored or co-authored over a hundred peer reviewed published articles. The first of these was published in 1968.
Publications
References
Academics of the University of Liverpool
Living people
English mathematicians
1943 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20CaribVision | This is a list of television programmes that are either currently being broadcast or have previously been broadcast on CaribVision through their media centre in Barbados.
Normal Programming
A
Another Accent - journalistic
Another Flavour - cuisine
B
Book Talk - talk
C
Carib Beer Highlights - sports
Caribbean Cuisine - cuisine
Caribbean News Review - news and current affairs
Caribbean Newsline - news and current affairs
Caribbean Passport - journalistic
Caribbean Today - news and current affairs
CaribScope Travel and Leisure - journalistic
Chat Room - talk
D
Di Show - entertainment
Dolor Factor Live (with Delia Dolor) — talk show
E
E-Zone - entertainment
F
Faith & Truth - religion
H
Head On - talk
Hill & Gully Ride - journalistic
The Hit List - entertainment
I
Island Jams - entertainment
Island Life Destinations - journalistic
The Investor - talk
K
KiddieCrew.com - children and educational
Kid's Club - children and educational
M
The Molly Show - children and educational
O
On a Personal Note - talk
On Stage - entertainment
P
Paradise Motor Sports - sports
Pet Playhouse - children and educational
Pilly Out Front - entertainment
Primetime Caribbean - news and current affairs
Profile - talk
R
Riddim Express - entertainment
S
Sancoche - cuisine
Sarge in Charge - drama
Sports Locker - sports
T
Talk Caribbean - talk
V
Vibes Caribbean - journalistic
VIP Backstage - entertainment
W
Westwood Park - drama
Women West Indies - journalistic
Y
Yellow Umbrella - children and educational
See also
CaribVision
Caribbean Media Corporation
CaribVision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mik%20Kersten | Mik Kersten is a Polish- Canadian computer specialist who created and leads the open-source Eclipse Mylyn project. Kersten invented the Task-Focused Interface technology underlying Mylyn while working on his PhD at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. While completing his PhD, Kersten and his PhD supervisor, Gail C. Murphy, founded Tasktop Technologies, which provided productivity software built on the Mylyn technology, but now focuses on providing Value stream management software around Mik's book Project to Product.
References
External links
Blog with contributions by Mik Kersten
Publications by Mik Kersten (archive)
Flow Framework
1975 births
Living people
Scientists from Warsaw
Polish emigrants to Canada
University of British Columbia alumni
Polish computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIFTP | NIFTP can refer to
National Institute of Fashion Technology Patna
Network-Independent File Transfer Protocol, one of the Coloured Book protocols
Noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features - a tumour previously classified as papillary thyroid carcinoma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira%3A%20Mistress%20of%20the%20Dark%20%28video%20game%29 | Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is a horror adventure/role-playing video game developed by Horror Soft and released by Accolade in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and MS-DOS computers. It was Horror Soft's second published game after 1989's Personal Nightmare and stars the actress Cassandra Peterson as her character Elvira.
In Mistress of the Dark, Elvira is held captive by dark forces in the castle of her ancestor, Lady Emelda. The player's character is to enter the castle to rescue Elvira and prevent the imminent return of the long-dead evil sorceress. The well-received game was followed by Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus in 1991 and the spiritual successor Waxworks in 1992.
Plot
The game begins following events of the 1988 film Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. After the death of her evil Uncle Vincent, Elvira has inherited Killbragant Castle and has restored it to its former glory, planning to turn it into a tourist attraction for horror fans. However, while doing this, Elvira has inadvertently awakened a horde of monstrous followers of her distant ancestor, the powerful wicked witch Emelda. The monsters imprisoned Elvira in the castle and began preparations to use her for the return of their mistress. The player's character has been called upon to help by Elvira to help her prevent Emelda's resurrection. The evil sorceress died centuries ago before she could take over and rule the world, but has made a pact with the devil to be brought back to life in the future. In the beginning of the game, the player is captured by the sorceress's undead minions. He is then rescued by Elvira and asked to help get her powers back, and to find a way to send Emelda back to hell before it is too late.
Gameplay
Elvira is a mix of first-person shooter role-playing game and point-and-click adventure game. The player will navigate around a castle and its grounds sent by Elvira to find six special keys to retrieve a magical dagger and scroll to kill Lady Emelda. In the exploration mode, the player will be able to traverse a room/passage at four different angles. In each angle the player can make use of ten verbal commands to pick up items, interact with objects or use items on objects. Puzzles are solved by using some items in correct situations. The player can be killed if incorrect procedures are done or face hostile encounters unprepared.
When faced with an enemy, the gameplay mode will switch to combat mode. How well the player does defeating an opponent, depends on various conditions. Strength increases damage done, Resilience helps the player withstand damage, Dexterity increases the chance to hit the opponent, Skill helps the player make better use of weapons and shields and Life is how many hit points the player has before being killed by an enemy. Better swords and shields improve the player's fighting and defensive abilities. When attacking an enemy, the player must choose and time well a hack or slash attack. When defending from enemy blows, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanson%20James%20Ancheta | On May 9, 2006, Jeanson James Ancheta (born April 26, 1985) became the first person to be charged for controlling large numbers of hijacked computers or botnets.
Biography
Ancheta was going to Downey High School in Downey, California until 2001 when he dropped out of school. He later entered an alternative program for students with academic or behavioral problems. He worked at an Internet cafe and according to his family wanted to join the military reserves. Around June 2004 he started to work with botnets after discovering rxbot, a common computer worm that could spread his net of infected computers.
Botnets
Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or "bots", that run autonomously and automatically.
Arrest and sentence
In November 2005 he was captured in an elaborate sting operation when FBI agents lured him to their local office on the pretext of collecting computer equipment. The arrest was part of the Operation: Bot Roast.
On May 9, 2006 Ancheta pleaded guilty to four felony charges of violating United States Code Section 1030, Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers, specifically subsections (a)(5)(A)(i), 1030 (a)(5)(B)(i), and 1030(b). Ancheta must serve 57 months in prison, forfeit a 1993 BMW and more than $58,000 in profit. He must also pay restitution of $15,000 US to the U.S. federal government for infecting the military computers.
See also
List of convicted computer criminals
References
External links
US Department of Justice bio
1985 births
Living people
People from Downey, California
American computer criminals
People convicted of cybercrime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronux | Chronux is an open-source software package developed for the loading, visualization and analysis of a variety of modalities / formats of neurobiological time series data. Usage of this tool enables neuroscientists to perform a variety of analysis on multichannel electrophysiological data such as LFP (local field potentials), EEG, MEG, Neuronal spike times and also on spatiotemporal data such as FMRI and dynamic optical imaging data. The software consists of a set of MATLAB routines interfaced with C libraries that can be used to perform the tasks that constitute a typical study of neurobiological data. These include local regression and smoothing, spike sorting and spectral analysis - including multitaper spectral analysis, a powerful nonparametric method to estimate power spectrum. The package also includes some GUIs for time series visualization and analysis. Chronux is GNU GPL v2 licensed (and MATLAB is proprietary).
The most recent version of Chronux is version 2.12.
History
From 1996 to 2001, the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA hosted a workshop on the analysis of neural data. This workshop then evolved into the special topics course on neuroinformatics which is held at the MBL in the last two weeks of August every year. The popularity of these pedagogical efforts and the need for wider dissemination of sophisticated time-series analysis tools in the wider neuroscience community led the Mitra Lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to initiate an NIH funded effort to develop software tools for neural data analysis in the form of the Chronux package. Chronux is the result of efforts of a number of people, the chief among
whom are Hemant Bokil, Peter Andrews, Samar Mehta, Ken Harris, Catherine Loader, Partha Mitra, Hiren Maniar, Ravi Shukla, Ramesh Yadav, Hariharan Nalatore and Sumanjit Kaur. Important contributions were also made by Murray Jarvis, Bijan Pesaran and S.Gopinath. Chronux welcome contributions from interested individuals.
Organization and capabilities of Chronux
Chronux is organized into a number of distinct toolboxes. These include the spectral analysis toolbox, the local regression and likelihood toolbox, and the spike-sorting toolbox. In addition, a number of domain-specific GUIs are part of the Chronux package and more are envisaged. Much of Chronux is written in MATLAB with certain intensive computations being coded in C with a MEX interface to MATLAB. The methods employed are state-of-the-art: For example, the spectral analysis toolbox implements the multitaper spectral estimation method and the local regression and Likelihood toolbox (Locfit) implements a set of highly flexible methods for fitting functions and probability distributions to data. Chronux provides robust estimates of the confidence intervals on computed quantities. Thus, the computation of a spectrum can be augmented by a computation of both asymptotic and jackknife based confidence intervals and the same is true of mos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20South | Channel South was an Irish television channel, operated by City Channel, transmitting 24-hour local programming to Cork, Limerick, and parts of Kerry, Waterford, Clare and Tipperary since November 2008.
Included in the station's programmes is an evening show called South Tonight presented by local celebrities.
Background
Channel South' is a cable television channel operating in Cork, Limerick, and parts of County Kerry, County Waterford, County Clare and County Tipperary since November 2008, Republic of Ireland. It has received a licence by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland for cable and MMDS operation, and have secured carriage on the formerly NTL owned digital cable system in Dublin. It follows on from the first attempt at a commercial local television network in Ireland and the first attempt at a commercial cable-only channel in the country by its sister City Channel.
In November 2008 the channel was added to UPC Ireland's electronic programme guide on Channel 107, and programming began on 10 November 2008.
The company, which is headed by former Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ) presenter David Harvey, also opened City Channels for Galway and Waterford in 2006, and this channel in time – together with City Channels Dublin and Waterford will have about 85% shared content with the rest being local content with Channel South operating 24 hours a day. Harvey also is a shareholder in independent local radio station Dublin's Country Mix 106.8.
See also
Media of the Republic of Ireland
List of Irish television channels
References
Channel South
External links
Channel South Official Website
Television stations in Ireland
Mass media companies of Ireland
Television channels and stations established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20mobility%20management | Enterprise mobility management (EMM) is the set of people, processes and technology focused on managing mobile devices, wireless networks, and other mobile computing services in a business context. As more workers have bought smartphone and tablet computing devices and have sought support for using these devices in the workplace, EMM has become increasingly significant.
The goal of EMM is to determine if and how available mobile IT should be integrated with work processes and objectives, and how to support workers when they are using these devices in the workplace.
Business use of consumer mobile technology
A 2012 study showed that about two-thirds of smartphone owners used their personal devices for enterprise-related activities. Supporting a wide variety of device types and operating systems can introduce security risks and added costs for businesses.
A 2011 survey showed that three quarters of U.K. and U.S. CIOs surveyed considered mobile technology to be a significant security problem, although consumers were generally less concerned.
Security
Because mobile devices are easily lost or stolen, data on those devices is vulnerable. Enterprise mobility management is a set of systems intended to prevent unauthorized access to enterprise applications and/or corporate data on mobile devices. These can include password protection, encryption and/or remote wipe technology, which allows an administrator to delete all data from a misplaced device. With many systems, security policies can be centrally managed and enforced. Such device management systems are programmed to support and cooperate with the application programming interfaces (APIs) from various device makers to increase security compliance.
The data transfer between mobile device and the enterprise should always be encrypted, for example through a VPN tunnel or over HTTPS.
Mobile devices in companies with "bring your own device" (BYOD) policies are often used both personally and professionally. In these cases, corporate IT has less control over whether malware is on the device and what damage may be caused to corporate data. Apart from careful user behavior - data storage on the mobile device should be limited and centrally organized.
The diversity of Android devices appeals to consumer buyers, but is a source of anxiety for IT security experts. OpenSignal, a UK-based mobile company, recently published a survey of almost 700,000 devices and reported approximately 12,000 distinct Android devices using eight different versions of the Google operating system. For many IT organizations charting out their BYOD strategy, this translates into security risks that are tough to monitor and control.
See also
List of Mobile Device Management Software
Mobile business intelligence
Mobile security
Mobile device management
Mobile application management
Bring your own device
Unified Endpoint Management
Notes
References
Enterprise Mobility Strategies, ACS, May 2009.
O'Sullivan, Cian, More |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Cyberinfrastructure%20for%20Advanced%20Microbial%20Ecology%20Research%20and%20Analysis | CAMERA, or the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis, is an online cloud computing service that provides hosted software tools and a high-performance computing infrastructure for the analysis of metagenomic data. The project was announced in January 2006, becoming Calit2's flagship project.
Mission
The project aims to accelerate genomic research by amassing a large repository of metagenomic data generated by independent members of the research community at large, by developing a custom bioinformatics toolset optimized for cluster computing, and by offering the high-performance computing infrastructure on which to run it.
CAMERA helps scientists access and work with data from the Venter Institute's Global Ocean Sampling Expedition. In 2007, their GOS dataset was the largest ever released in the public domain. The group also places many other datasets for download on its website.
The project is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation which awarded a 7-year, $24.5-million research grant to the CAMERA project, beginning in January 2006.
History
At its inception, CAMERA's mission focused on genomic research of marine microorganisms. CAMERA later expanded its mission to include terrestrial ecology and dropped the word, "Marine" from its original name, the "Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis".
People
CAMERA's leadership includes:
Principal Investigator Larry Smarr (UCSD)
Executive Director Paul Gilna (UCSD)
See also
Bioinformatics
Metagenomics
Microbial ecology
References
External links
UCSD: UCSD Partners with Venter Institute to Build Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis
Metagenomics software
Genome projects
Environmental microbiology
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bellflower%20Bunnies%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of The Bellflower Bunnies, a children's animated series based on the Beechwood Bunny Tales books by Geneviève Huriet and Loïc Jouannigot, aired on France's TF1 network during the week of 24 December 2001, at 7:00 a.m. Central European Time. Consisting of four episodes, it was directed by French animator Moran Caouissin, produced by Patricia Robert, and written by Valérie Baranski. The music was composed by Baranski and Daniel Scott. A handful of crew members from this season would be carried over for future episodes.
The episodes follow the adventures of the Bellflowers, a family of seven rabbits who live in the community of Beechwood Grove. The two adults, Papa Bramble and Aunt Zinnia, take care of their five children: Periwinkle, Poppy, Mistletoe, Dandelion and Violet. "Room to Move", the first episode in the official production order, deals with the family's move to their new house at Blueberry Hill.
The first season has been broadcast on TF! Jeunesse, the children's service of TF1, as well as South Korea's Educational Broadcasting System (EBS), CBBC in the United Kingdom, and Germany's Kinderkanal (KI.KA) and ZDF among others. Since early 2003, it has been made available on DVD in the United States, France, Germany and South Korea.
Production
The season was a co-production of France's TF1, its subsidiaries Protécréa and Banco Production, and Canada's TVA International. It was produced in association with France's Sofica Valor 6 and Luxembourg's Melusine, and with the participation of the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC). Production began in late 2000 at a cost of €380,000 (C$610,000) per episode. Graphics and Animation of Antwerp, Belgium, a subsidiary of Luxembourg's Studio 352, designed the layouts for these episodes, and North Korea's SEK Studio handled overseas animation duties. Premium Sound, based in Montreal, was responsible for the sound effects, design, dialogue editing, foley and mix. Early during the show's production, the crew created a one-minute promotional pilot, in which a little mouse tells of the show's premise and introduces its main characters.
This season represented TF1 International at the conferences of the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) in early 2001 and 2002, and MIPTV Media Market in April 2001. For both events, the four episodes were promoted as "specials".
The first two episodes of the series were planned to air on TF1 in November 2001, with the next two to follow in December. Ultimately, all four premiered in late December on TF! Jeunesse.
Cast and crew
The first season's English voice cast included Rhonda Millar (who played two characters, Periwinkle and Pirouette), as well as Tom Clarke Hill, Tom Eastwood, Regine Candler and Joanna Ruiz Rodriguez. Their voices were recorded at Ten Pin Alley, a company based in Gloucestershire, England.
The director of this season, Moran Caouissin, was previously involved in DuckTales the Movie: Treasu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9seau%20Gloria | The réseau Gloria SMH (Gloria network) was a French Resistance network under the German occupation of France during World War II.
The Gloria network was founded by Gabrielle Picabia, alias "Gloria", who was running it with Jacques Legrand (chemical engineer). It counted among its members Alfred Péron, normalien and English professor at the Lycée Buffon. The network depended on the British Secret Intelligence Service, in conjunction with the SOE. The network's mission was to gather military and naval information about the occupiers. Its members were intellectuals, managers, and artists including an engraver who was very useful for producing false documents.
The Gloria network was infiltrated by Father Robert Alesch and was decimated in August 1942. Most of the operatives, including Péron, were arrested by the Nazis. Samuel Beckett and his companion Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, were warned by Péron's wife and escaped arrest, fleeing to their friend the writer Nathalie Sarraute in the free zone. In total, more than 80 members of the network were deported and many never returned from Mauthausen or Buchenwald. The head of the network, Jacques Legrand, died in Mauthausen, and Péron died in Switzerland two days after his return from Mauthausen.
References
Sources
Bureau Résistance and family archives
Davies, William (2020). Samuel Beckett and the Second World War. London: Bloomsbury.
1942 disestablishments in France
Organizations disestablished in 1942
French Resistance networks and movements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bellflower%20Bunnies%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of The Bellflower Bunnies, a children's animated series based on the Beechwood Bunny Tales books by Geneviève Huriet and Loïc Jouannigot, aired on the French television network TF1 from 22 September 2004 to 23 February 2005. It was directed by Eric Berthier, produced by Patricia Robert and written by Valérie Baranski.
Production on this season, which comprised twenty-two episodes, lasted from July 2003 to October 2004. While TF1 remained on board, a new roster of voice actors, crew and companies participated. Among them were Paul Cadieux, a staff member of Quebec's Megafun studio; Canadian talents Julie Burroughs, Hugolin Chevrette and Elisabeth Lenormand; and China's Hangzhou Flying Dragon Cartoon.
The episodes were originally broadcast on TF! Jeunesse, the children's service of TF1, every Wednesday morning. The sole exception was "Noël chez les Passiflore", a holiday episode which premiered on a Saturday. Until 2014, this season aired in continuous rotation on France's Disney Junior channel. It has also been seen on Canada's TFO, Germany's Kinderkanal (KI.KA), and the Middle East's Al Jazeera Children's Channel.
Production
Co-production partners for this season included France's TF1, Euro Visual, Big Cash, and that country's department of Walt Disney Television. In Canada, they consisted of animation studio Tooncan and production company Megafun, both located in Montreal, Quebec. Also joining the production was China's Hangzhou Flying Dragon Cartoon, which handled animation duties.
The French voice cast consisted of Flora Balzano (who played Mistletoe), Julie Burroughs, Hugolin Chevrette (who played Poppy), Mario Desmarais, Antoine Durand, Marylène Gargour, Annie Girard, Hélène Lasnier and Elisabeth Lenormand. The English dub starred Danielle Desormeaux, Anik Matern, Holly Gauthier-Frankel, Eleanor Noble, Matt Holland, Joanna Noyes, Liz Mac Rae, Simon Peacock and Laura Teasdale.
Eric Berthier, who has worked on several French television series, replaced Moran Caouissin as the director. Paul Cadieux, a Megafun staff member, served as executive co-producer; Yves Pont and Franck Algard, through their company Euro Visual, became executive producers. Alice Willis took over music scoring duties, and also played piano and keyboard.
Returning from the first season were screenwriter Valérie Baranski, story editor Fabrice Ziolkowski and producer Patricia Robert, along with Reanud Bouet in the backgrounds department, and Arnold Gransac on layouts. Loïc Jouannigot, the illustrator of the original books, was credited under "characters, location & props creation".
Awards and merchandise
The Bellflower Bunnies won three awards at the 6th Festival International du Film de TV de Luchon in 2005, one of which was the "Ecran Jeunesse" in the Animation category.
On 21 October 2005, Éditions Milan published Le grand livre animé de la famille Passiflore (), a ten-page pop-up book featuring five scenes from the show.
Episodes
Each episode i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bellflower%20Bunnies%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of The Bellflower Bunnies, a children's animated series based on the Beechwood Bunny Tales books by Geneviève Huriet and Loïc Jouannigot, began airing on France's TF1 network on 4 April 2007. The episodes are directed by Eric Berthier, produced by Patricia Robert, and written by Valérie Baranski.
This season consists of twenty-six episodes, During April and May 2008, all of them were first broadcast on Kinderkanal (KI.KA), a German children's station; episodes 27–38 first aired in France from April 4 to July 4, 2007, episodes 39–45 aired from July 6 to August 24, 2008, episodes 46–50 from December 22, 2008, to January 2, 2009, and episodes 51 and 52 on July 12 and July 13, 2010, respectively. In July and August 2008, most of those were broadcast on the French-language channel TFO in Ontario, Canada.
Production
As with season 2, The Bellflower Bunnies is a co-production of France's TF1, Euro Visual, Big Cash and Walt Disney Television, and Canada's Tooncan. Newcomers to the series included the Département de la Charente, Région Poitou-Charentes, and Peter Scheede Animation of Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente.
Production of this season began in 2005, and ended around early 2007. Returnees included director Eric Berthier, producer Patricia Robert, writer Valérie Baranski, executive co-producer Paul Cadieux, and executive producers Yves Pont and Franck Algard.
Episodes
Each episode in this season runs 22 minutes in length. Except for "Les Passiflore à la mer" (based on an original Beechwood Bunny Tale), the episodes are based on original scripts by Valérie Baranski. The English titles for this season's episodes come from broadcasts on other countries, such as TVP1 in Poland and Boomerang in Latin America/Brazil.
The 38th episode in the official order, "Le violon du marais," aired in France before #37, "L'expédition glaciale." On KI.KA's list, however, "La reine des corsaires" ("Das Geheimnis von Schloss Meadow") comes at #37, while "L'expédition glaciale" is placed at #39 instead.
Note: O = Corresponds to the official order as listed by Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA) and AnimezVous.com. B = Corresponds to TF1's broadcast schedule. Numbers to the right refer to their positions in this season.
DVD releases
Beez Entertainment and Seven Sept released the first DVD of this season on 4 November 2008, as La Famille Passiflore: Les Nouvelles Aventures. Like the second season discs, the original French versions are paired with their English dubs. Another volume was released on January 6, 2009., the two DVDs include five episodes each. No new volumes of this season have been released since then.
See also
List of The Bellflower Bunnies episodes
References
General
Some French titles were provided by TFO's schedules during its summer 2008 run.
Specific
External links
The Bellflower Bunnies at TF1.fr
Official sites for the DVD distributors, Beez Entertainment and Seven Sept
2007 Canadian television seasons
2007 French televisio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20Trade%20and%20Enterprise | New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) is New Zealand's economic development and trade promotion agency. It offers strategic advice, access to networks and influencers, research and market intelligence, and targeted financial support to help businesses on their international journey, and works to promote and support the growth of New Zealand business overseas.
History
NZTE was established on 1 July 2003.
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) is New Zealand's international business development agency. Their role is to make a difference for New Zealand by helping businesses grow bigger, better, faster in international markets. NZTE's strategy supports the Government's Business Growth Agenda, which creates conditions that encourage successful businesses to grow globally.
NZTE's products and services help businesses to grow and succeed internationally. These include strategic advice, access to networks and influencers, research and market intelligence. NZTE's services are aligned with different stages of a business lifecycle – from starting and growing a business, through to exporting and operating internationally – and help address the scale and distance issues faced by New Zealand exporters. Some services are provided directly by NZTE staff in New Zealand and around the world, while others are provided through external organisations – such as Regional Business Partners and expert advisors – funded by NZTE.
NZTE has ten offices in New Zealand and staff in 50 locations around the world who work in partnership with New Zealand businesses, helping to build strategic alliances and develop commercial relationships, connecting them with opportunities and contacts in international markets, and sharing knowledge, experience and networks to help businesses develop capability and scale.
NZTE's focus is on international opportunities that match New Zealand's current/potential business capability and provide sustained economic benefit, and helping international investors to identify New Zealand-based opportunities and gain access to government and private sector.
NZTE International Offices
Australia-Pacific
Brisbane, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Sydney (Regional Office), Australia
East Asia
Bangkok, Thailand
Beijing, China
Chengdu, China
Guangzhou, China
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Hong Kong, China
Jakarta, Indonesia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Manila, Philippines
New Zealand Central office, Shanghai, China
Seoul, Korea
Shanghai, China
Shenzhen, China
Singapore, Singapore
Taipei, Taiwan
Tokyo, Japan
India, Middle East & Africa
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Mumbai, India
New Delhi, India
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Europe
Istanbul, Turkey
Hamburg, Germany
London, United Kingdom
Madrid, Spain
Milan, Italy
Moscow, Russia
Paris, France
Amsterdam, Netherlands
North America
Los Angeles (regional office), United States of America
Mexico City, Mexico
New York, United Stat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20Life%20Television | Jewish Life Television (JLTV) is an American entertainment television network broadcasting Jewish–themed programming. The network was founded in 2007 by Phil Blazer, a longtime journalist and producer of programming for the Jewish community; Blazer remained with the network until his death in August 2020. The JLTV is funded by the Jewish Life Foundation, and its remaining earnings come from advertising.
In the United States, JLTV is available in almost 50 million households through Comcast, Spectrum and DirecTV as well as various regional cable systems, in addition to offering a live feed of its programming on the Internet. JLTV's broadcast facilities are located in Los Angeles, California.
Programming
JLTV's newest programming features shows, such as international favorites Fauda and Prisoners of War alongside many other news, sports, lifestyle and entertainment programming. These include films, documentaries, music, reviews, interviews, reality shows such as InOverOurHeads and special events, such as programming from the Maccabiah Games.
In 2019, the network launched the original series, Bubbies Know Best, featuring three Jewish grandmothers serving as matchmakers for a variety of people searching for romance. In 2020, JLTV premiered an episode of their global travel series Air Land & Sea featuring Porto, Portugal, which was awarded "Outstanding Religion Documentary" by the Religion News Association. JLTV, the Museum of Jewish Heritage and JewishGen announced the co-production of a Jewish genealogy series called Generations, set to premiere in 2023.
The network also carries a collection of classic general-interest series with Jewish hosts or leads, including The Jack Benny Program, That Show with Joan Rivers, Candid Camera with Allen Funt, You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx, The Soupy Sales Show, Bonanza (Lorne Greene and Michael Landon), the Ukrainian sitcom Servant of the People (Volodymyr Zelenskyy) and the mid-20th century dramedy The Goldbergs, along with general-interest public domain Westerns and sitcoms (The Lucy Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Stories of the Century and Annie Oakley). As of 2023 JLTV also broadcasts the original 1951-59 version of Dragnet.
In 2021, JLTV announced that they would be the first cable television channel in North America to broadcast the two award-winning thriller series Fauda and Prisoners of War.
Canadian distribution
In 2011, JLTV was officially added to the CRTC's approved list of foreign services, allowing the channel to expand into Canada. Ethnic Channels Group, who sponsored the application to get JLTV on the approved list, is the official Canadian distributor of the channel. In July 2014, JLTV officially launched in Canada on Bell Fibe TV.
References
External links
Jewish television networks
Religious television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your%20Show%20Time | Your Show Time is an American anthology drama series that debuted on NBC Television on the East Coast in September 1948 and then on both the East and the West Coast, as a network show, on January 21, 1949.
The show was produced by Marshall Grant/Realm Productions and was hosted by Arthur Shields.
Production background
Filmed by Grant Productions at Hal Roach Studios, Your Show Time was American television's first dramatic series to be shot on film instead of being aired on live television or as a kinescope. The series Public Prosecutor was produced on film in 1947–48, for a planned September 1948 debut, but remained unaired until DuMont aired that series in 1951–52.
Your Show Time is also notable for being the first series to win an Emmy Award. The 1949 episode "The Necklace", produced by Stanley Rubin, won the Emmy Award as Outstanding Made For Television Movie.
Synopsis
The show featured half-hour dramatizations of stories by renowned authors such as Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank Stockton, and Mark Twain. Other episodes were adapted from chapters of novels, such as The Bishop's Experiment, an adaptation of the section featuring the bishop in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables with Leif Erickson as Jean Valjean. An adaptation of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" marked one of the earliest known television appearances of Sherlock Holmes.
Cast
The show featured appearances by such actors as Julie Adams, Robert Alda, Evelyn Ankers, Morris Carnovsky, Melville Cooper, Reginald Denny, William Frawley, Eva Gabor, Hurd Hatfield, Hugo Haas, Sterling Holloway, Marjorie Lord, Alan Napier, Dan O'Herlihy, Eve Miller, Gene Reynolds, and Selena Royle.
Critical reception
A review of "The Diamond Necklace" episode in the trade publication Variety found it to be "not good television" and "a dull half-hour." The review noted that a long commercial and a long introduction by the narrator took up almost five minutes before the first dialog was heard. In addition to that "deadly beginning", it said that the rest of the episode offered "little action".
Sale
In January 1950 Jerry Fairbanks Inc. bought "full rights for television, films and allied media" for the 26 episodes of Your Show Time.
Preservation status
At least nine episodes survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Episodes
Awards
See also
1948-49 United States network television schedule
References
External links
Your Show Time at CTVA with cast list for each episode
Vintage 45's Blog
YouTube uploads of episodes from Your Show Time: "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", "The Mummy's Foot"
1940s American anthology television series
1949 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
1940s American drama television series
Black-and-white American television shows
NBC original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Systems%20VPN%20Client | Cisco Systems VPN Client is a software application for connecting to virtual private networks based on Internet Key Exchange version 1.
On July 29, 2011, Cisco announced the end of life of the product. No further product updates were released after July 30, 2012, and support ceased on July 29, 2014. The Support page with documentation links was taken down on July 30, 2016, replaced with an Obsolete Status Notification.
Availability and compatibility
The software is not free but is often installed on university and business computers in accordance with a site-license. As with most corporate licenses, administrators are allowed to freely distribute the software to users within their network.
The open-source vpnc client can connect to most VPNs supported by the official client.
VPN Client 4.9.01.0230 beta added support for Mac OS X 10.6. Stable version 4.9.01.0180 appears to lack that support; 4.9.00.0050 explicitly did not support versions of Mac OS X later than 10.5.
VPN Client 5.0.07.0290 added support for 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Security
The client uses profile configuration files (.pcf) that store VPN passwords either hashed with type 7, or stored as plaintext. A vulnerability has been identified, and those passwords can easily be decoded using software or online services. To work around these issues, network administrators are advised to use the Mutual Group Authentication feature, or use unique passwords (that aren't related to other important network passwords).
See also
Cisco ASA, the product line that replaced Cisco VPN Concentrator on the server side
References
Computer network security
Tunneling protocols
VPN Client |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sougeta | Sougeta is a small town in central Guinea.
Transport
It is served by a station of the Guinea Railways networks.
See also
Railway stations in Guinea
References
Populated places in Guinea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20Robotics | Evolution Robotics was an American technological company based in Pasadena, California. It specialized in robotics technologies, with computer vision, localization, and autonomous navigation products.
Evolution Robotics cooperated with Cambridge University for research in vision technology. Software products of Evolution Robotics were licensed by the Korean Institute of Industrial Technology and the Sony Robotics Division and were part of WowWee robots like Rovio.
On September 17, 2012, iRobot acquired Evolution Robotics for $74 Million.
Products
In January 2010, Evolution Robotics released Mint, a cleaning robot that dusted and wet-mopped hard surface floors. The robot's "wet mopping mode" had a coverage of 93 sq m (1000 sq ft) and 23 sq m (250 sq ft). The Mint lacked a vacuum motor and was one of the quietest floor-cleaning robots. The Mint was described as a "not fully autonomous robot"; hence, a cleaning cloth had to be attached to the cleaning pad before using it. The robot used an indoor navigation system called NorthStar for navigation. Mint used a navigation cube as a beacon for navigation, and the original model could only handle one of these beacons at a time.
On September 14, 2011, Evolution Robotics released a second model, Mint Plus. The robot represented an improved version of the original Mint, supporting multiple NorthStar cubes simultaneously. An additional feature of the robot was the ability to continue work at the same spot if the machine was interrupted during cleaning. Mint Plus featured an automatic cleaning solution dispenser that kept the cloth wet during cleaning. One of the two Mint Plus robots had an installed docking station that functioned as a charging stand where the robot could be placed manually.
In 2013, Mint was rebranded as iRobot Braava.
References
External links
http://evolution.com/ − Website of Evolution Robotics (archived)
Defunct robotics companies of the United States
Information technology companies of the United States
Defunct companies based in California
Companies based in Pasadena, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monalanong%20Hill | Monalanong Hill is a mountain often considered the highest point of Botswana, with an altitude derived from SRTM data of 1,494 metres (4,900 feet).
The Otse Hill (at a reported altitude of 1,491 metres - 4,891 feet) or the Tsodilo Hills (at an altitude of about 1,400 metres - 4,593 feet) are also often cited as the highest point in Botswana.
References
Elevation data supplied by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
External links
Peakbagger listing
Mountains of Botswana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-na | D-na may refer to:
DNA, genetic-coding compound
D'ni, race of non-player characters in Myst computer-game series
See also
Na-dene, Native-American language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Electric%20System%204 | The English Electric (later ICL) System 4 was a mainframe computer announced in 1965. It was derived from the RCA Spectra 70 range, itself a variant of the IBM System 360 architecture.
The models in the range included the System 4-10 (cancelled), 4-30 (1967), 4-50 (1967, practically the same as the RCA 70/45), 4-70 (1968, designed by English Electric) and 4-75. ICL documentation also mentions a model 4-40. This was a slugged version of the 4-50, introduced when the 4-30 (intended to be the volume seller) was found to be underpowered and had to be withdrawn. The 4-10 was introduced as a satellite computer, but demand was very low, so it was withdrawn. Only the 4-50 and 4-70, and their successors, the 4-52 and 4-72, sold in any numbers. A slugged 4-72 (the 4-62) was introduced for sale in Eastern Europe.
The System 4-50 and 4-70 were intended for real-time applications, for they had four processor states, each with its own set of general-purpose registers (GPR). Although some states did not have all 16 GPRs, nevertheless, the design avoided having to save registers when switching between processor states. At the lowest level (P1) was the user state. The instructions available in this state were the non-privileged instructions of the IBM System 360. Intermediate levels dealt with various hardware interrupts. State P2 was the Interrupt Response State which performed tasks determined by the Interrupt Control State P3 (the next-highest processor state). The highest state, P4, was the emergency state, initiated in the event of a power failure or a machine check. In the case of power failure, the processor saved the volatile registers before shutting itself down in an orderly fashion. This task was completed within one millisecond from the onset of power failure and removal of power from the machine. For a machine check, an indication of the failure was given to the operator.
In processor states P1 and P2, 16 GPRs were available; in State P3, 6 GPRs were available, while in State P4, 5 GPRs were available. An interrupt status register and interrupt mask register were provided in each of the four processor states. The one set of floating-point registers was available to all processor states.
Instruction times (microseconds) were as follows:
4-50 4-70
Add AR 5.28 1.1
A 8.88 2.1
Multiply MR 62.52 5.8
M 65.64 6.6
Divide DR 90.81 10.8
D 94.89 11.6
Floating-point instructions
Add AE 19.2 3.6
AD 27.69 4.0
Multiply ME 49.42 6.2
MD 186.55 11.5
Divide DE 83.0 9.3
DD 280.27 18.6
Halve HER 6.00 1.1
HDR 8.16 1.8
The System 4 could be supplied with medium-speed or high-speed card readers. 80-column cards were read at 800 cards per minute, or at up to 1,435 cards per minute, depending on the model. 51-column cards were read a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%203D%20computer%20graphics%20software | 3D computer graphics software refers to programs used to create 3D computer-generated imagery.
General information
Current software
This table compares elements of notable software that is currently available, based on the raw software without the inclusion of additional plugins.
Inactive software
There are many discontinued software applications.
Operating system support
The operating systems on which the editors can run natively (without emulation or compatibility layers), meaning which operating systems have which editors specifically coded for them (not, for example, Wings 3D for Windows running on Linux with Wine).
Features
I/O
Image, video, and audio files
General 3D files
Game and renderer files
Cache and animation files
CAD files
Point clouds and photogrammetry files
GIS and DEM files
Supported primitives
Modeling
Lookdev / Shader writing
Lighting
Path-tracing Rendering
Level of Detail (LoD) Generation/Baking
See also
Comparison of raster graphics editors
Comparison of vector graphics editors
Comparison of computer-aided design editors
Comparison of CAD, CAM and CAE file viewers
References
3D computer graphics software
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zh:三维计算机图形软件 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Symposium%20on%20Distributed%20Computing | The International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) is an annual academic conference for refereed presentations, whose focus is the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks. The Symposium is organized in association with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is presented alternately at DISC and at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC).
History
DISC dates back to 1985, when it began as a biannual Workshop on Distributed Algorithms on Graphs (WDAG); it became annual in 1989. The name changed to the present one in 1998.
While the first WDAG was held in Ottawa, Canada in 1985, since then WDAG/DISC has been organised primarily in European locations, one exception being WDAG 1992 in Haifa, Israel. In September 2010, DISC returned to North America for the first time since 1985: 24th DISC took place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. In the same year, its North American sister conference PODC was held in Europe (Zurich) for the first time in its history.
Locations
2022: Augusta, Georgia, USA
2021: Freiburg, Germany
2020: Held virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019: Budapest, Hungary
2018: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
2017: Vienna, Austria
2016: Paris, France
2015: Tokyo, Japan
2014: Austin, Texas, USA
2013: Jerusalem, Israel
2012: Salvador, Brazil
2011: Rome, Italy
2010: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
2009: Elche, Spain
2008: Arcachon, France
2007: Lemesos, Cyprus
2006: Stockholm, Sweden
2005: Kraków, Poland
2004: Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003: Sorrento, Italy
2002: Toulouse, France
2001: Lisboa, Portugal
2000: Toledo, Spain
1999: Bratislava, Slovakia
1998: Andros, Greece
1997: Saarbrücken, Germany
1996: Bologna, Italy
1995: Mont Saint-Michel, France
1994: Terschelling, Netherlands
1993: Lausanne, Switzerland
1992: Haifa, Israel
1991: Delphi, Greece
1990: Bari, Italy
1989: Nice, France
1987: Amsterdam, Netherlands
1985: Ottawa, Canada
See also
The list of distributed computing conferences contains other academic conferences in distributed computing.
The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.
Notes
External links
Distributed computing conferences
Theoretical computer science conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20shogi | Computer shogi is a field of artificial intelligence concerned with the creation of computer programs which can play shogi. The research and development of shogi software has been carried out mainly by freelance programmers, university research groups and private companies. By 2017, the strongest programs were outperforming the strongest human players.
Game complexity
Shogi has the distinctive feature of reusing captured pieces. Therefore, shogi has a higher branching factor than other chess variants. The computer has more positions to examine because each piece in hand can be dropped on many squares. This gives shogi the highest number of legal positions and the highest number of possible games of all the popular chess variants. The higher numbers for shogi mean it is harder to reach the highest levels of play. The number of legal positions and the number of possible games are two measures of shogi's game complexity.
The complexity of Go can be found at Go and mathematics.
More information on the complexity of Chess can be found at Shannon number.
Components
The primary components of a computer shogi program are the opening book, the search algorithm and the endgame. The "opening book" helps put the program in a good position and saves time. Shogi professionals, however, do not always follow an opening sequence as in chess, but make different moves to create good formation of pieces. The "search algorithm" looks ahead more deeply in a sequence of moves and allows the program to better evaluate a move. The search is harder in shogi than in chess because of the larger number of possible moves. A program will stop searching when it reaches a stable position. The problem is many positions are unstable because of the drop move. Finally, the "endgame" starts when the king is attacked and ends when the game is won. In chess, there are fewer pieces which leads to perfect play by endgame databases; However, pieces can be dropped in shogi so there are no endgame databases. A tsumeshogi solver is used to quickly find mating moves.
Computers versus humans
In the 1980s, due to the immaturity of the technology in such fields as programming, CPUs and memory, computer shogi programs took a long time to think, and often made moves for which there was no apparent justification. These programs had the level of an amateur of kyu rank.
In the first decade of the 21st century, computer shogi has taken large steps forward in software and hardware technology. In 2007, top shogi player Yoshiharu Habu estimated the strength of the 2006 world computer shogi champion Bonanza. He contributed to the newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun evening edition on 26 March 2007 about the match between Bonanza and then Ryūō Champion Akira Watanabe. Habu rated Bonanza's game at the level of 2 dan shogi apprentice (shōreikai).
In particular, computers are most suited to brute-force calculation, and far outperform humans at the task of finding ways of checkmating from a given position, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20About%20Eve%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | All About Eve is a 2009 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 2000 South Korean television series of the same title. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., Mac Alejandre and Eric Quizon, it stars Sunshine Dizon in the title role and Iza Calzado. It premiered on March 9, 2009 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Luna Mystika. The series concluded on June 5, 2009 with a total of 63 episodes. It was replaced by Adik Sa'Yo in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Sunshine Dizon as Erika "Eve" Alegre Reyes
Iza Calzado as Nicole Gonzales
Supporting cast
Eula Valdez as Alma Bautista
Jean Garcia as Katrina Alegre
Mark Anthony Fernandez as Kenneth Villareal
Alfred Vargas as Warren Bautista
Richard Gomez as Frederico Gonzales
Celia Rodriguez as Concepcion Gonzales
Keempee de Leon as Paul
Eric Quizon as Robert Villareal
Angel Aquino as Judith Tebamo
Gabby Eigenmann as Max
Marky Lopez as Joel
Guest cast
Ian de Leon as Mando Reyes
Ina Raymundo as Lisa Cortez-Gonzales
Carmen Ronda as Luisa Villareal
Odette Khan as Warden Rita
Sandy Talag as young Erika
Chelsea Eugenio as young Nicole
JM Reyes as young Warren
Chariz Solomon as Jill
Mel Kimura as Cherry
Joanne Quintas as Nicole's co-worker
Jenny Miller as Nicole's co-worker
Micheal Roy Jornales as Robert's henchman
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of All About Eve earned a 26.1% rating. While the final episode scored a 31.8% rating.
References
External links
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on South Korean television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cars%20Toons | Cars Toons is an American computer-animated short series based on the Cars franchise. It features Lightning McQueen, Mater, and their friends in comedic antics and adventures non-canonical to the films. Larry the Cable Guy reprises his role as Mater while Keith Ferguson replaces Owen Wilson as the voice of Lightning McQueen until "The Radiator Springs 500 ½", when Wilson reprises his role.
The series premiered on October 27, 2008 with "Rescue Squad Mater" on Disney Channel, Toon Disney and ABC Family. Not exclusive to television, the shorts were also released on home media and/or as theatrical shorts. The series ended on May 20, 2014 with "The Radiator Springs 500 ½".
Premise
Mater's Tall Tales
All Cars Toons in Mater's Tall Tales follow a shared formula: Each episode opens with McQueen and Mater seeing something that results in the latter proceeding to tell the former a tall tale about something he supposedly did in the past, before the action shifts to the flashback of Mater's story. At a midway point, the action briefly shifts back to Mater and McQueen in which McQueen questions Mater over whether the events in the story actually occurred (or in some episodes asks him what he did next), resulting in Mater proclaiming that McQueen was also involved. The flashback then resumes with McQueen's sudden and usually unwilling participation in the story's events. After Mater finishes his tall tale, McQueen denies the fact that Mater's tale is real before one or more characters/elements involved in the story coincidentally appear to McQueen's shock (with the exception of "Tokyo Mater"), paradoxically suggesting that Mater's story really happened.
All episodes also feature Mia and Tia and various pit crew forklifts in supporting roles (with the exception of "Time Travel Mater").
Tales from Radiator Springs
All Cars Toons in Tales from Radiator Springs follow the daily lives of McQueen, Mater and their friends in their hometown Radiator Springs, following the events of Cars 2.
Voice cast
Larry the Cable Guy as Mater
Keith Ferguson (2008–2013) / Owen Wilson (2014) as Lightning McQueen
George Carlin (2009, archive recordings) / Lloyd Sherr (2013–2014) as Fillmore
Tony Shalhoub as Luigi
Guido Quaroni as Guido
Michael Wallis as Sheriff
Katherine Helmond as Lizzie
Lindsey Collins as Mia
Elissa Knight as Tia
Jerome Ranft as Red (only in Tales from Radiator Springs)
Production
Production of the series began in 2006 following the success of Cars. The first nine shorts were produced by Pixar, while all the following shorts were produced by Pixar's subsidiary, Pixar Canada.
"Tokyo Mater" premiered in theaters with Bolt on December 12, 2008. The short is the first Disney/Pixar production presented in Disney Digital 3-D. However, it is not featured on the film's home media releases. Sulley and Mike from Monsters, Inc. make cameo appearances in "Tokyo Mater" as their car forms from the credits of the first film.
Release
Merchandise
The Disney·Pix |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian%20Internet%20eXchange | Croatian Internet eXchange (CIX) is the main Croatian Internet exchange point. It is located at the University Computing Center (SRCE) in Zagreb. Although there is no formal obligation to use the exchange, all Croatian ISPs are allowed to do so. CIX uses the BGP protocol to establish peering between ISPs, and a RIPE database for documentation. Switched Ethernet is used for the actual data interchanging.
See also
List of Internet exchange points
References
External links
CIX official page
Internet exchange points in Europe
Internet in Croatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Speed%20Racer%3A%20The%20Next%20Generation%20episodes | The following is a list of episodes of Speed Racer: The Next Generation. The series debuted on Nicktoons Network on May 2, 2008, and ended on August 25, 2013.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1: 2008–09
Season 2: 2011, 2013
DVD releases
Season 1
The first DVD of the series was released on May 6, 2008, by Lionsgate Home Entertainment; it contains the first movie, or first three episodes. The DVD was released in North America and other NTSC regions on May 6, 2008; a PAL release has not yet eventuated. A second DVD containing the second 3-part episode, "The Fast Track", and more bonus features, was released on October 7, 2008. "Comet Run" was released on May 12, 2009.
References
External links
TV Guide.com's Speed Racer: TNG episode list
TV.com's Speed Racer: TNG episode guide
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Leonard%20Hamblin | Charles Leonard Hamblin (20 November 1922 – 14 May 1985) was an Australian philosopher, logician, and computer pioneer, as well as a professor of philosophy at the New South Wales University of Technology (now the University of New South Wales) in Sydney.
Among his most well-known achievements in the area of computer science was the introduction of Reverse Polish Notation and the use in 1957 of a push-down pop-up stack. This preceded the work of Friedrich Ludwig Bauer and Klaus Samelson on use of a push-pop stack. The stack had been invented by Alan Turing in 1946 when he introduced such a stack in his design of the ACE computer. In philosophy, Hamblin is known for his book Fallacies, a standard work in the area of the false conclusions in logic. In formal semantics, Hamblin is known for his computational model of discourse as well as Hamblin semantics (or alternative semantics), an approach to the semantics of questions.
Career and life
Hamblin was born in Petersham, New South Wales on 20 November 1922. His parents were Charles Oswald Hamblin and Katherine May Whyte. He attended North Sydney Boys High School and Geelong Grammar. Interrupted by the Second World War and radar service in the Australian Air Force, Hamblin's studies included Arts (Philosophy and Mathematics), Science (Physics), and an MA in Philosophy (First Class Honours) at the University of Melbourne. He obtained a doctorate in 1957 at the London School of Economics on the topic Language and the Theory of Information, apparently under Karl Popper, critiquing Claude Shannon's information theory from a semantic perspective. From 1955, he was lecturer at N.S.W. University of Technology, and later professor of philosophy at the same place, until his death in 1985, during which time the organization had been renamed The University of New South Wales.
In the second half of the 1950s, Hamblin worked with the third computer available in Australia, a DEUCE computer manufactured by the English Electric Company. For the DEUCE, he designed one of the first programming languages, later called GEORGE, which was based on Reverse Polish Notation. His associated compiler (language translator) translated the programs formulated in GEORGE into the machine language of the computer in 1957.
Hamblin's work is considered to be the first to use Reverse Polish Notation, and this is why he is called an inventor of this representation method. Regardless of whether Hamblin independently invented the notation and its usage, he showed the merit, service, and advantage of the Reverse Polish way of writing programs for the processing on programmable computers and algorithms to make it happen.
The second direct result of his work with the development of compilers was the concept of the push-pop stack (previously invented by Alan M. Turing for the ACE in 1945), which Hamblin developed independently of Friedrich Ludwig Bauer and Klaus Samelson. In the same year, 1957, Hamblin presented his stack concept at th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s%20Toughest%20Jobs | America's Toughest Jobs is a reality television show that lasted one season and aired on the American television network NBC. It pitted contestants against each other as they attempted a series of difficult and dangerous jobs. The prize was the sum of the salaries that would be earned by people doing these jobs in their first year.
The show's creator and executive producer was Thom Beers, notable for creating shows such as Deadliest Catch and Monster Garage. Some of the jobs he chose to be featured on America's Toughest Jobs were featured on shows he previously created. The host was Josh Temple, a character actor who had minor roles in shows such as Will & Grace and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
In each episode, contestants took part in tasks associated with a job, and were supervised and evaluated by workers or employers in that business. After spending time on the job, the supervisors selected one or more top employees for praise, and selected the employees who had the worst performances (the bottom four in the first five episodes, and the bottom two thereafter). Those employees were required to compete head-to-head in an additional challenge to determine who would be eliminated. For example, in the gold digging episode, the bottom four contestants were required to spend additional time digging for gold with the contestant who found the least amount eliminated. Once there were four contestants remaining, timed challenges were held for three of the season's toughest jobs with the contestant who had the slowest time at each eliminated until a winner was determined. At the end of each episode, an information screen was shown that detailed what the eliminated contestant decided to do after the show.
Ben Coleman was named the winner of season one on October 25, 2008. The results were accidentally posted on NBC's website several hours before the show aired.
On March 13, 2009, it was confirmed that the series had been canceled and would not be returning for a second season.
Season one
Contestant Progress
1 In the first episode, the contestants were divided into two teams. A winner was selected from each team
2 In the fifth episode, there were two winners selected
3 In the sixth episode, it was announced that from then on there would only be two worst performers announced instead of four
The contestant won the competition
The contestant won the challenge
The contestant was called out as one of the worst performers, but was not eliminated
The contestant was eliminated
Episode list
101 "Crab Fishing"1 (first aired August 25, 2008) – The show began from Dutch Harbor, Alaska in the Bering Sea with the contestants tackling crab fishing.
102 "Trucking in Alaska"2 (first aired September 1, 2008) – The contestants learned how to navigate the icy and frozen roads as truck drivers in Alaska. The boss supervising the rookies said that he would be willing to hire the winner, Phil, full-time.
103 "Gold Digging" (first aired September 8, 2008) – The contesta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radyo%20Pilipino | Radyo Pilipino Corporation, presently operating as Radyo Pilipino Media Group, is the Philippine broadcasting company. Originally founded in 1924, it is the oldest radio network in the Philippines; its current incarnation was founded on June 25, 1985, by a consortium led by businessman-politician Eduardo Cojuangco Jr.
The Radyo Pilipino group is composed of five broadcast companies owned by Lucky Star Holdings: Radyo Pilipino Corporation, RadioCorp, Philippine Radio Corporation (PhilRadio), Radio Audience Developers Integrated Organization Inc. (RADIO Inc.), and Beacon Communications Systems Inc. (BCSI).
Currently, Radyo Pilipino Media Group owns two national radio brands, namely the AM network Radyo Pilipino (formerly known as Radyo Asenso), and the FM network One FM, and its lone television station RTV Tarlac Channel 26.
History
KZKZ (AM) is the second radio station in the Philippines owned by Henry Herman Sr. in 1922. It broadcast using a 5-watt transmitter. In 1924, it boosted its power to 100 watts. A few months later, Radio Corporation of the Philippines bought KZKZ AM from Henry Hermann. In 1926 the company began to work on constructing two of the largest radio stations in Asia with the idea of maintaining direct Manila-San Francisco service.
On April 7, 1980, Radyo Pilipino Corporation was founded, with the acquisition of Tarlac AM station DZTC in 1981.
On June 25, 1985, the current incarnation of RadioCorp was founded by a consortium led by Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. following the acquisition of 96.1 DWXT, an FM station located in Tarlac (Cojuangco's home province).
In 2015, RadioCorp officially ventured into television broadcasting with the launch of the network's first television station, DWRP-TV 26 on January 15. RCP TV 26 affiliated with CNN Philippines and Radio Philippines Network until 2021.
It also produces the weekly business show Asenso Pinoy, which airs every Saturday at 6:30 AM on A2Z Channel 11.
In 2019, the RadioCorp group formally restructured its operations under a new name: Radyo Pilipino Media Group (named after Radyo Pilipino Corporation). With the relaunch, the Radyo Asenso network and its radio stations were rebranded under its namesake brand.
On October 21, 2019, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte signed Republic Act No. 11415 which renewed Radyo Pilipino Corporation's legislative franchise for another 25 years. The law grants Radyo Pilipino Corporation a franchise to construct, install, operate, and maintain, for commercial purposes, radio broadcasting stations and television stations, including digital television system, with the corresponding facilities such as relay stations, throughout the Philippines.
In 2021, after severing ties with RPN and CNN Philippines, DWRP-TV was rebranded as RTV Tarlac Channel 26 and became an independent station.
Radio stations
AM stations
FM stations
Internet radio stations
Presently, Radyo Pilipino Media Group operates its own online stations under Radyo Pilipino and One |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGENE | UGENE is computer software for bioinformatics. It works on personal computer operating systems such as Windows, macOS, or Linux. It is released as free and open-source software, under a GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.
UGENE helps biologists to analyze various biological genetics data, such as sequences, annotations, multiple alignments, phylogenetic trees, NGS assemblies, and others. The data can be stored both locally (on a personal computer) and on a shared storage (e.g., a lab database).
UGENE integrates dozens of well-known biological tools, algorithms, and original tools in the context of genomics, evolutionary biology, virology, and other branches of life science. UGENE provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for the pre-built tools so biologists with no computer programming skills can access those tools more easily.
Using UGENE Workflow Designer, it is possible to streamline a multi-step analysis. The workflow consists of blocks such as data readers, blocks executing embedded tools and algorithms, and data writers. Blocks can be created with command line tools or a script. A set of sample workflows is available in the Workflow Designer, to annotate sequences, convert data formats, analyze NGS data, etc.
Beside the graphical interface, UGENE also has a command-line interface. Workflows may also be executed thereby.
To improve performance, UGENE uses multi-core processors (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) to optimize a few algorithms.
Key features
The software supports the following features:
Create, edit, and annotate nucleic acid and protein sequences
Fast search in a sequence
Multiple sequence alignment: Clustal W and O, MUSCLE, Kalign, MAFFT, T-Coffee
Create and use shared storage, e.g., lab database
Search through online databases: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Protein Data Bank (PDB), UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, UniProtKB/TrEMBL, DAS servers
Local and NCBI Genbank BLAST search
Open reading frame finder
Restriction enzyme finder with integrated REBASE restriction enzymes list
Integrated Primer3 package for PCR primer design
Plasmid construction and annotation
Cloning in silico by designing of cloning vectors
Genome mapping of short reads with Bowtie, BWA, and UGENE Genome Aligner
Visualize next generation sequencing data (BAM files) using UGENE Assembly Browser
Variant calling with SAMtools
RNA-Seq data analysis with Tuxedo pipeline (TopHat, Cufflinks, etc.)
ChIP-seq data analysis with Cistrome pipeline (MACS, CEAS, etc.)
Raw NGS data processing
HMMER 2 and 3 packages integration
Chromatogram viewer
Search for transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) with weight matrix and SITECON algorithms
Search for direct, inverted, and tandem repeats in DNA sequences
Local sequence alignment with optimized Smith-Waterman algorithm
Build (using integrated PHYLIP neighbor joining, MrBayes, or PhyML Maximum Likelihood) and edit phylogenetic trees
Combine various algorithms int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SANReN | SANReN (South African National Research Network) is the project to create a new National Research and Education Network in South Africa. However, unlike most other NRENs, SANReN will provide its clients with both connectivity to the world's research networks as well as commodity Internet access.
In 2005, the South African Department of Science and Technology obtained funding from treasury for a ZAR 365 million, three-year project to build a world-class National Research and Education Network to further the country's research aims. The DST then tasked the Meraka Institute with the planning and deployment of this network, to be completed by the middle of 2010.
An initial Request for Information was published in 2005, followed by two Request for Proposals in 2006. The original proposal called for inter-institution links of up to 500Mbit/s and international bandwidth of 1Gbit/s. Due to budget constraints, the implementation of the network proceeded in phases with a prioritisation of institutions, such as the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory site, that were of specific strategic importance to the South African science initiatives.
The scope of SANReN's network has changed somewhat since the original RFPs were published, with most sites now expecting to connect at speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s. With further phases of the project coming on line, most of the public universities in the country will be included. Originally international Internet connectivity will be provided over the SEACOM submarine fibre cable, in a deal unrelated to the original SANReN RFP. It is expected that SANReN will also take advantage of other cable projects once they come online.
Late in 2007, Meraka announced that it had partnered with the then provider of academic networking in South Africa, TENET. Under their memorandum of understanding, Meraka would build SANReN and TENET would operate it. This arrangement is very similar to the relationship between GÉANT and DANTE in Europe.
As of September 2008, SANReN has connected three higher educational institutes in Gauteng: the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Johannesburg, the University of Pretoria, the Tshwane University of Technology and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (of which Meraka is part).
References
External links
SANReN website (CSIR Meraka Institute)
Tertiary Education Network website
Higher education in South Africa
Internet in Africa
National research and education networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Independent%20Game%20Developers%27%20Association | The Independent Game Developers' Association (TIGA) is a trade association representing the business and commercial interests of some video and computer game developers in the UK and Europe.
TIGA aims to strengthen the games development and digital publishing sector by advocating for the industry, championing it in the media, and by offering commercial or educational support to members.
History
TIGA was launched in 2001 by Patricia Hewitt. TIGA was a founding member of the European Game Developers Federation (EGDF).
Richard Wilson is the current CEO, succeeding Fred Hasson who held the post since TIGA was founded until the end of 2007.
Board members
The TIGA Board is elected by TIGA members at the TIGA AGM each December. One half of the directors of TIGA must resign before each AGM, although they are free to seek re-election. 12 directors represent independent developers (of which 10 represent full members and 2 represent associate members). A further 4 directors represent publisher developer members.
Awards
Since 2010, TIGA has won 28 business awards, such as Global Business Excellence Awards in 2011, 2012 and 2017, Best Practice Awards 2011, Director of the Year Awards 2011, PRCA Awards 2012, Public Affairs Awards in 2012, The Association Excellence Awards in 2018, Best Professional Development Initiative 2019, Management and Leadership Awards, and accredited till 2022 by Investors in People.
References
External links
Information technology organizations based in Europe
Organisations based in London
Pan-European trade and professional organizations
Video game development
Video game organizations
Video game trade associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre | Libre may refer to:
Computing
Libre software, free software
Libre Computer Project, developer of open-hardware single-board computers
Medicine
FreeStyle Libre, a glucose monitoring device
Music
Libre (Alejandra Guzmán album)
Libre (Jennifer Peña album)
Libre (Marc Anthony album)
Libre, album by Nino Bravo, includes its namesake song
"Libre" (Nino Bravo song)
Libre (Sébastien Izambard album)
"Libre" (Álvaro Soler song)
Libre.fm, a music community website
Other uses
Libre (Guatemala), a defunct progressive political party
Libre (Honduras) or Liberty and Refoundation, a left-wing political party
Libre (word)
French frigate Libre (1796)
Libre (publisher), a Japanese publisher
See also
Vers libre
LibreOffice, free and open source office suite
Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español
Libra (disambiguation)
Liber (disambiguation)
Libres (disambiguation)
Livre (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrant | Reentrant or re-entrant can refer to:
Re-entrant (landform), the low ground formed between two hill spurs.
Reentrancy (computing) in computer programming
Reentrant mutex in computer science
Reentry (neural circuitry) in neuroscience
Salients, re-entrants and pockets in military tactics
Reentrant tuning in music
Concave polygon, AKA reentrant polygon
See also
Reentry
Reentrant dysrhythmia, a type of cardiac arrhythmia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer%20NIC | The Killer NIC (Network Interface Card), from Killer Gaming (now a subsidiary of Intel Corporation), is designed to circumvent the Microsoft Windows TCP/IP stack, and handle processing on the card via a dedicated network processor. Most standard network cards are host based, and make use of the primary CPU. The manufacturer claims that the Killer NIC is capable of reducing network latency and lag. The card was first introduced in 2006.
Hardware and Models
The Killer NIC comes in 2 models; the K1 and the M1. Both models contain a Freescale PowerQUICC processor, 64 MB RAM, a single Gigabit Ethernet port, as well as a single USB 2.0 port, intended for use with specialized programs running on the card's embedded Linux operating system.
The primary difference between the models is that the M1 has a stylized metallic heat sink, and a processor running at 400 MHz, while the K1 lacks a heat sink, and runs at only 333 MHz. Currently performance differences between the cards are limited, although it was believed that future programs designed for the cards will be capable of utilizing the increased processing power of the M1.
Killer NIC is offered as a stand-alone product or is bundled with computers from OEMs like the Dell XPS 630.
Some desktop motherboards ship with Killer networking interfaces built-in, such as gaming motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock.
Flexible Network Architecture / Game Networking DNA
The Flexible Network Architecture is a framework used to create and run Flexible Network Applications. These applications run on the embedded Linux operating system, and are accessed through a driver interface within the host computer's operating system. Aside from that, they use very little of the computers resources, instead handling processing on the card's processing unit. Bigfoot Networks has released a software development kit (SDK) that allows third-party developers to create their own applications. Bigfoot also publishes some of their own applications; these include a firewall, BitTorrent client, FTP application, and Telnet service that allows access to the Killer NIC's OS. This was considered a breakthrough at the time as independent reviews verified that gaming and downloading would proceed without interfering with each other.
Programs that download files often use the USB port to transfer data to external storage, making the Killer NIC useful as a NAS albeit at the generally higher power draw of a desktop PC, compared to a device like a NSLU2.
More typically applications that benefit from low latency, such as Skype or SIP or older VoIP using USB devices (NetTalk, MagicJack) may benefit. As these increasingly use Ethernet directly to routers, however, which would generally be a much lower latency than using a PC and USB connection.
However, FNA is not widely supported as of 2012 and interfaces with more typical router operating systems like DD-WRT, OpenWRT, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or with proprietary router OS, have not g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydra-5 | The Cydra-5 departmental supercomputer is the first minisupercomputer designed by Cydrome. It was completed in 1987. At that time Cydra-5 cost from $0.5 million to $1 million but achieved one-half the performance of contemporary supercomputers which cost around 10 times as much, $10 million to $20 million.
The Cydra-5 is a heterogeneous multiprocessing system. There are two types of processors functionally specialized for different components of workload. The numerical processor works on numerical computations and uses Cydrome’s "directed-dataflow" architecture, a variant of VLIW. The general-purpose processor is based around the Motorola 68020 processor, and works on non-numerical instructions to keep the numerical processor free from that work. However, these two processors share memory and peripherals, and the operating system manages both, so the user is presented with the illusion of a uniprocessor system.
Design philosophy
The host processor/attached processor approach was rejected because of its performance limitations.
References
Supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20to%20the%20Left | United to the Left (Uniti a Sinistra) was a network of leftist groups associated with the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) in Italy from 2005 to 2009. At some point it claimed to have 20,000 members and 300 clubs all around Italy.
In April 2005 Pietro Folena (a leading member of the Democrats of the Left who had been a close aide of Walter Veltroni) and Francesco Martone (a splinter from the Federation of the Greens) left their parties in order to join the PRC.
In July 2008 they formed "United to the Left" as a network of left-wing groups which wanted to take part to Fausto Bertinotti's project of the European Left, along with Antonello Falomi (a former deputy leader of the Democrats of the Left in the Senate who had followed Achille Occhetto into an alliance with Italy of Values for the 2004 European Parliament election) and two leading members of the Italian General Confederation of Labour, Paolo Nerozzi and Gianni Rinaldini. The group was later joined by Maura Cossutta, daughter of Armando and leading member of the Party of Italian Communists.
In the 2006 general election Folena, Falomi and Martone were all re-elected to Parliament in PRC's list. In 2007 United to the Left was a keen supporter of The Left – The Rainbow alliance with the Greens, the Italian Communists and Democratic Left.
After the alliance was trounced by voters in 2008 general election and the Bertinottiani had lost the leadership of the PRC to the internal left in the 24–27 July 2008, United to the Left subsequently ended its collaboration with the PRC. In November 2009 Folena joined the Democratic Party.
Leadership
Coordinator: Pietro Folena (2005–2009)
References
External links
Official website
Democratic Party (Italy) factions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pexec | pexec is a command-line utility for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems which allows the user to execute shell commands in parallel. The specified code can be executed either locally or on remote hosts, in which case ssh is used to build a secure tunnel between them. Similar to shell loops, a variable is changed as the loop starting the tasks iterates, so that many values can get passed to the specified command or script. pexec is a free software utility, and part of the GNU Project. It is available under the terms of GPLv3, and is part of the current Debian stable release.
Usage
The most common usage is to replace the shell loop, for example:
for x in alpha bravo charlie delta ; do
do_something $x
done
to the form of:
pexec -r alpha bravo charlie delta -e x -o - -c \
'do_something $x'
where the set with the 4 elements of "alpha" "bravo" "charlie" and "delta" define the possible values for the (environmental)
variable $x. The program pexec features also
automatic redirection of standard input, output and error from/to regular files;
taking the input set from a file instead of command line argument;
the capability for re-formatting the output and error streams;
support for mutual exclusions and atomic command executions inside the shell loop (in order to, e.g. avoid unexpectedly high I/O load);
using alternative remote shells instead of ssh.
using supervisor daemons to balance between the resources of concurrent pexec instances.
Such optional features can be requested using command-line arguments. By default, pexec tries to detect the number of CPUs and uses all of them.
See also
GNU parallel
xargs
References
External links
Manual page of pexec
Project page
GNU Project software
Linux process- and task-management-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFOR%20%28AM%29 | WFOR (1400 AM, "The Score 92.7") is a radio station licensed to serve Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States. The station is owned by Eagle Broadcasting, LLC.
Programming
WFOR broadcasts a sports format as an affiliate of the Fox Sports Radio network. Syndicated sports talk programming on WFOR includes The Dan Patrick Show. Local programming includes "The Pine Belt Sports Drive" and "To The Top Talk" with Jamie Arrington.
History
WFOR's initial construction permit, with the sequentially assigned call letters WRBJ, was issued in March 1928 to the Woodruff Furniture Co. at 119 West Pine Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In late 1931 the call letters were changed to WPFB, and in 1936 they became WFOR.
In October 1945 B. B McLemore joined WFOR as its chief engineer. The station's first high-powered 250 watt transmitter, hand built by McLemore, was at the time the most powerful in southern Mississippi. The original studio was in an old two story building on Hemphill Street. In the early 1950, a new tower and an office location on West 7th Street were constructed. While constructing the current tower the top section came ajar, and a 30 foot (10 meter) section fell to the ground, leaving a worker dangling by rope on the tower in shock. Weeks passed but finally the new section was installed and proper guide tension wires attached. When the original transmitter was retired it was returned to McLemore, who maintained it as a keepsake for over 50 years.
In September 1998, Radio Hattiesburg, Inc., reached an agreement to sell WFOR to Cumulus Media as part of a multi-station deal valued at a combined $4.5 million. The deal was approved by the FCC on December 18, 1998, and the transaction was consummated on April 2, 1999.
In October 2000, Cumulus Media, LLC, announced an agreement to sell WFOR to Clear Channel Communications (the forerunner to iHeartMedia) as part of a large station swap and sale, including seven Cumulus stations in the Laurel-Hattiesburg radio market. The deal was approved by the FCC on December 19, 2000, and the transaction was consummated on January 18, 2001.
A fire was noticed at the station's transmitter site at around 7:45 p.m. local time on December 15, 2015. WFOR's owner iHeartMedia's senior vice president of programming Jackson Walker noted that there was no timetable for returning the station to the air and that the fire marshal said the building was a total loss.
On July 20, 2016, iHeartMedia announced that WFOR would be sold to Eagle Broadcasting, LLC for $120,000, and the transaction was consummated on October 5, 2016. The next day "TheScore1400 WFOR-AM" was relaunched at 11:45 local time by the new owners.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for WFOR (covering WRBJ / WPFB / WFOR from 1928-1979)
FOR
Sports radio stations in the United States
Forrest County, Mississippi
Radio stations established in 1928
1928 establishments in Mississippi
Fox Sports Radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDOS | CDOS may refer to:
Cromemco DOS (CDOS), an CP/M-like operating system
Concurrent DOS (CDOS), a Digital Research operating system based on Concurrent CP/M-86 since 1984
Collateralized debt obligation (CDOs), a type of structured asset-backed security
See also
COS (disambiguation)
DOS (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladesmore%20Community%20School | Gladesmore Community School is a coeducational secondary school located in Tottenham, London, England.
The school's specialisms include Gifted and Talented, Mathematics and Computing, and Applied Learning.
History
Gladesmore combines a number of previous schools in the vicinity:
Crowland Road School opened in 1911 and became Crowland Secondary Modern in 1946.
The Crowland School buildings then became part of the new Markfield County Secondary, which was founded in 1956.
Drayton School then replaced Markfield School, opening in Gladesmore Road in 1967.
Gladesmore was a poor school in the 1970s-90s, but when Tony Hartney became Headteacher in 1999, the school was transformed from Poor to Outstanding, receiving extremely positive reviews from Ofsted, it is rated as exemplary gaining three consecutive judgements of outstanding in all categories. In 2006, Mr Hartney was appointed a CBE for his work at the school.
Gladesmore received the Queen's Award for Service on 29 June 2011.
Prefecture
Pupils may apply to become a prefect in year 10, stating their qualities and suitability. In year 11, a head boy and head girl are appointed, along with a deputy for each. Students may vote for a boy and a girl in their year to become a part of the School Council. Gladesmore embraces the rich diversity of its community and plays a strong role in promoting improvements. The ethos of the school is extremely positive, friendly and uplifting. students and staff relate very well to each other and enjoy a 'family' atmosphere.
Value Life
In 2003, Gladesmore students founded the Value Life campaign, aiming to teach students how to stay safe and make the most of their life. It tackles gun and knife crime. This evolved into a series of large events, such as a carnival, a march, a music video and a short film.
Value Life was supported by many officials, such as Queen Elizabeth II, Boris Johnson & David Cameron. The campaign won the Philip Lawrence Award in 2008.
Everybody Dreams
In 2011, Gladesmore founded the Everybody Dreams campaign, which aims to improve the reputation of Tottenham after the 2011 England Riots. This included the release of a song performed by pupils at the school. It was supported by people like Leona Lewis, Dave Stewart David Lammy, Boris Johnson, Westlife's Mark Feehily, Ricky Gervais, Jessica Ennis and Wretch 32. The song reached number 33 in the iTunes Chart.
Notable former pupils
Chip (formerly Chipmunk), solo grime artist, who used the school to shoot the video for his single "Chip Diddy Chip".
Emmanuel Frimpong, former footballer at Arsenal.
Professor Green, rapper.
Wendell Richardson, lead guitarist with Osibisa.
Gabriel Zakuani, footballer.
Steve Zakuani, footballer.
Bob Bradbury, musician, founding member singer and guitarist of 1970s glam rock band, Hello.
Elijah Quashie, "The Chicken Connoisseur", food critic and author.
References
External links
School website
Everybody Dreams website
Value Life website
Aerial view
Ofsted page |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20New%20Zapp%20IV%20U | The New Zapp IV U is the fourth studio album by the American funk band Zapp, released on October 25, 1985 by Warner Bros. Records. The album contained the song "Computer Love", which reached #8 on the US Billboard R&B chart. The album became the last release before frontman Roger Troutman would focus his efforts on his solo career; their next album, titled Zapp Vibe would be released later in 1989.
In popular culture
The song "Radio People" was featured in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. As well the cover for "I Only Have Eyes For You" was used as a sample in Vektroid's Floral Shoppe, "It Doesn't Really Matter" was Sampled in Phippsy's "You'll Find Love Close to the Music". The album's most popular single, "Computer Love", was also featured in the 1993 cult classic film Menace II Society.
Track listing
Personnel
Roger Troutman: Rhythm and Lead Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals
Aaron Blackmon: Rhythm and Lead Guitars, Bass
Greg Jackson, Dale DeGroat, Billy Beck, Bernie Worrell: Keyboards
Zapp Troutman: Bass, Keyboards
Damian Black: Drums
Lester Troutman: Drums, Percussion
Larry Troutman, Robert "Kurumba" Jones: Percussion
Carl Cowen, Jerome Derrickson, Michael Warren, Robert Jones: Horns
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
Further reading
"Bridges Proves It Really Does Matter for Zapp". Back Stage. February 7, 1986. p. 57
1985 albums
Albums produced by Roger Troutman
Warner Records albums
Zapp (band) albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20system | Smart systems incorporate functions of sensing, actuation, and control in order to describe and analyze a situation, and make decisions based on the available data in a predictive or adaptive manner, thereby performing smart actions. In most cases the “smartness” of the system can be attributed to autonomous operation based on closed loop control, energy efficiency, and networking capabilities.
Characteristics
Smart systems typically consist of diverse components:
Sensors for signal acquisition
Elements transmitting the information to the command-and-control unit
Command-and-control units that take decisions and give instructions based on the available information
Components transmitting decisions and instructions
Actuators that perform or trigger the required action
Development
A lot of smart systems evolved from microsystems. They combine technologies and components from microsystems technology (miniaturized electric, mechanical, optical, and fluidic devices) with other disciplines like biology, chemistry, nanoscience, or cognitive sciences.
There are three generations of smart systems:
First-generation smart systems: object recognition devices, driver status monitoring, and multifunctional devices for minimally invasive surgery
Second-generation smart systems: active miniaturized artificial organs like cochlear implants or artificial pancreas, advanced energy management systems, and environmental sensor networks
Third-generation smart systems: combine technical “intelligence” and cognitive functions so that they can provide an interface between the virtual and the physical world
Challenges
A major challenge in smart systems technology is the integration of a multitude of diverse components, developed and produced in very different technologies and materials. Focus is on the design and manufacturing of completely new marketable products and services for specialized applications (e.g., in medical technologies), and for mass market applications (e.g., in the automotive industries).
In an industrial context, and when emphasizing the combination of components with the aim of merging their functional and technical abilities into an interoperable system, the term "smart systems integration" is used. This term reflects the industrial requirement and particular challenge of integrating different technologies, component sizes, and materials into one system.
The systems approach calls for integrated design and manufacturing and has to bring together interdisciplinary technological approaches and solutions (converging technologies). Manufacturing companies as well as research institutes therefore face challenges in terms of specialized technological knowhow, skilled labor, design tools, and equipment needed for the research, design and manufacturing of integrated smart systems.
Applications area for smart systems
Smart systems address environmental, societal, and economic challenges like limited resources, climate change, population ageing, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Computers%20in%20Education%20Conference | This National Conference is the biennial conference of the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE). The conference opens to anyone who in interested in sharing their digital teaching experiences. The first conference took place in Melbourne, 1983. Between 1983 and 1996, the conference was held annually across Australia. After 1996, the conference became biennial. From 1994, a series of frameworks were launched in Australia to integrate Information and Communication Technology(ICT) into education. Western Australia's 2001 Competency framework for Teachers identified teachers as an important component in developing computer education. In 2010, Education Minister Julia Gillard, proposed an education agenda to provide Australia a better education system. Besides ACCE, there are many organizations and conferences supporting the development of computer education in Australia. Technology in education consists of two major approaches: Learning with technology and learning from technology. Technology in education learning and traditional classroom learning have different focuses and defining features. There are also four types of computer education:Bring your own device(BYOD), blended learning, online learning, and flipped learning.
Purpose
The Australian Computers in Education Conference (ACEC) is open to anyone in the education field that wishes to share their digital experiences and is interested in using ICT to promote and enhance classroom learning. The conference aims to oversee the global trends and activities and compare them to the work accomplished by the Australian Computers in Education groups.
History
The first conference (labelled as ACEC) took place in Melbourne in 1983. Since that time it has continued to provide teachers around the country a forum to exchange information on classroom activity, make connections with each other, and learn from experts in the field. The conference proceedings provide an insight into the nature of educational computing practice since the early 1980s and the papers are widely cited in the research field literature.
The conference was formalized in 1985. A meeting of Victoria Computer Education Group state presidents was held in Melbourne in November. A constitution was formulated, a secretariat was established, and the National Committee for Computers in Education took on a new name: the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE). The meeting also decided to establish a national journal, Australian Educational Computing, under an editorial board.
The 5th conference was held in Adelaide in September 1987. It was hosted by the Conference in Education Group of South Australia. The major theme of the conference was Tomorrow's Technology Today. Within the major theme, there were a number of strands being addressed: special education, computer graphics, computer and equity, and staff development and teacher training.
The 11th conference was held in Brisbane in July 1993. It was hosted |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierocice | Pierocice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Działoszyce, within Pińczów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland.
bio data
Pierocice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF | RDF may refer to:
Science and technology
Computing
Resource Description Framework, a W3C metadata standard used for graphing
RDF Schema, its language
Physics
Radial distribution function, describes how density varies as a function of distance from a reference particle
Radio direction finding, techniques used when searching for radio sources
Random dopant fluctuation
Reduced dimensions form, a canonical mechanism for solving two-state trajectories
Relative directivity factor, a figure of merit for directional receiving antennas
Other technologies
Real degree of fermentation, attenuation of alcoholic beverages
Refuse-derived fuel
Art, entertainment, and media
Radical Dance Faction, a band from the United Kingdom
RDF Media, a television production company
Robotech Defense Force, a character group in the US anime television series Robotech
Rapid Deployment Force: Global Conflict, a video game
Military
Reserve Defence Forces, the combined military reserve force of Ireland
Rwandan Defence Forces
Rapid Deployment Force (United States)
Other organizations
Reichsbund Deutsche Familie, Kampfbund für erbtüchtigen Kinderreichtum, a German Nazi organisation
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, UK
Other uses
Reality distortion field, a term coined to describe Steve Jobs' charisma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain%20Cheeseman | Iain Cheeseman investigates the role of the kinetochore, a group of proteins required for cell division and chromosome segregation. This core network of proteins facilitates the attachment of chromosomes to microtubule polymers—the spindle structures that attach to the ends of cells, pulling and dividing them during cell division. The kinetochore is critical to ensuring duplication without loss or damage to the genetic material. Cheeseman is also investigating the activities of the individual molecular machines that make up this structure and how these proteins are controlled and regulated.
Career
Cheeseman is noted for discovering multiple new kinetochore proteins within yeast, the Caenorhabditis elegans worm and human cells. He has focused particularly on the proteins that are required to generate connections with spindle microtubules. He recently demonstrated a critical and direct role for a protein complex called Ndc80 (coded for by the gene NDC80) in directly associating with microtubules.
Because many cancers may be driven by errors in chromosome segregation, it is hoped that Cheeseman's studies will provide payoffs in cancer research. Certain cancer drugs target the connection between chromosomes and spindle microtubules, and some of the major proteins in the kinetochore complex have been implicated in leukemia and other diseases.
Cheeseman is currently a junior Faculty Member at Whitehead Institute and a professor at MIT. He did his undergraduate training at Duke University, and his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a doctorate in 2002. Cheeseman carried out his postdoctoral work in the lab of Arshad Desai at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in San Diego and the University of California, San Diego.
He is a member of the editorial board for Current Biology.
References
Cell biologists
Whitehead Institute faculty
Duke University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDCA | IDCA can refer to:
Industrial Design Council of Australia
Institute for Cultural Action
International Data Center Authority (IDCA)
International Design Conference at Aspen (IDCA)
International Development Cooperation Agency
Islamic Dawah Centre of Australia
International Digestive Cancer Alliance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahe%20Naa%20Kahe | Kahe Naa Kahe is a Hindi Indian soap opera created by Ekta Kapoor for the network 9X. The show premiered on 12 November 2007 and stars Krystal D'Souza and Karan Hukku. The show ended on 3 July 2008 and was replaced by Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki.
Plot
The show revolves Kinjal (Krystal D'Souza) who dreams of love and marriage like an ordinary Indian girl but with a difference. The show explores how her mother Urmila supports her dreams in leading her life and in making her daughter well good to lead her life. The show also explores Kanav (Karan Hukku) who is a rich spoilt brat and how he falls in love with Kinjal.
Cast
Krystal D'Souza / Wasna Ahmed as Kinjal Pandey
Karan Hukku as Kanav
Reshmi Ghosh/ Madhura Naik as Neena
Muni Jha as Sudhir Pandey
Vaishnavi Mahant as Urmila Pandey
Chinky Jaiswal as Raina
References
External links
Production website
Balaji Telefilms television series
9X (TV channel) original programming
2007 Indian television series debuts
Indian drama television series
Indian romance television series
Indian television soap operas
Television shows set in Mumbai
2008 Indian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrestaShop | PrestaShop is a freemium, open source e-commerce platform. The software is published under the Open Software License (OSL). It is written in the PHP programming language with support for the MySQL database management system. It has a software dependency on the Symfony PHP framework.
PrestaShop is currently used by shops worldwide and is available in 60 different languages.
History
PrestaShop started in 2005 as a student project within the EPITECH IT School in Paris, France. Originally named phpOpenStore, the software was first available in two languages: English and French. Three months after its launch, the project was translated into thirteen languages.
The company, PrestaShop SA, was founded in 2007 by Igor Schlumberger and Bruno Lévêque.
Between May 2010 and April 2012, PrestaShop grew from 17 employees to more than a hundred. In 2011, it established a secondary headquarters in the United States in Miami. As of April 2016, PrestaShop has over 120 employees and offices in 6 countries.
In March 2014, PrestaShop SA secured $9.3M in Series B Funding to continue its global expansion efforts.
In January 2015, the company launched PrestaShop Cloud, a free self-hosted version of its software, but at least since 2017 is no longer available.
The 1.7.x branch of PrestaShop was first released as a stable version in November 2016.
Initially, maintenance for the 1.6 version was planned to expire in October 2018. For various reasons, PrestaShop decided to extend this maintenance period until June 30, 2019.
PrestaShop has been built as a monolith following traditional object-oriented PHP practices. Originally based on a custom framework, it is progressively being migrated to Symfony.
In February 2018, Alexandre Eruimy took over as CEO of PrestaShop. Since then, the company has been signing large-scale strategic partnerships with companies such as Paypal, Google, Meta, TikTok and many others, in order to make the latest technological solutions available to e-retailers.
In April 2019, PrestaShop reached 32% market share of all online shopping sites in France, according to BuiltWith.
PrestaShop's worldwide marketshare of sites using open-source shopping cart software was 0.31% in October 2021 according to BuiltWith. According to W3Techs's August 2023 report, 0.8% of the top 10 million websites worldwide are built using PrestaShop.
In October 2019, PrestaShop closed the Miami headquarters and ceased its operations in the Americas.
In 2019, PrestaShop received the Acteurs du Libre International Award for its international development strategy.
A beta version of PrestaShop 8 was released in August 2022 along with a migration path from PrestaShop 1.7. In October 2022, PrestaShop 8.0 was released.
In November 2021, PrestaShop joined the MBE Worldwide group to accelerate its growth and become the leading commerce platform for accelerating business growth worldwide.
Business model
As an open-source organization, PrestaShop is faced with the challen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Numerati | The Numerati is a 2008 non-fiction book written by Stephen L. Baker on the subjects of automatic identification and data capture and Big Data.
Description
In The Numerati Baker interviews people who are studying, developing and implementing the technologies and techniques used to capture and analyze many of our everyday actions as we communicate, travel and make purchases. He explains how the initial goal of this data capture and analysis is typically to identify sets of characteristics, which makes it easier to manage the billions of data points (see "Big data") these sets may contain. As these characteristics are grouped, it is hoped that the members of each group can be better understood. This information can then be used, with varying but often increased success, in early incident detection, to predict outcomes, project the effect of stimulus on the groups and, in many cases, to influence group members' behavior.
References
Reviews
External links
Official site
2008 non-fiction books
Technology books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhosHere | WhosHere is a social proximity networking app created by WhosHere founders Bryant Harris and Stephen Smith launched in July 2008. WhosHere utilizes GPS location capabilities combined with a social networking platform that allows users to interact with other people based on compatible geographical location. The app allows users to find other users with similar interests and connect with them real-time via free text, image messages and free VoIP calls without disclosing any personal information. It runs on Apple iOS devices including iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Service overview
The free application was launched in July 2008 on Apple's iTunes App Store as a geosocial networking and discovery service that allows iPhone and iPod touch users to see where they are in relation to each other. Features include being able to text message other users, see a list of nearby users, list of new users and a history list of users that have exchange messages. Now one can call via wi-fi with the iPod touch or iPhone if you have a microphone.
On September 23, 2008, the ability to send pictures between users was added to the application.
WhosHere has a user base of more than 8 million and is used globally in more than 150 countries. WhosHere announced the sending of its 4 billionth free text message.
Platforms
WhosHere is available on iOS & Android and can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store and Google Play. WhosHere is also available via the Web.
Trademark dispute
On June 1, 2012, allegations came forth that WhosHere, Inc. was suing the developer of a similar application. Brian Hamachek authored an application named "Who's Near Me" in 2010 and was requested by WhosHere (in 2011) to change the name of his application. Mr. Hamachek agreed to this. Subsequently, Mr. Hamachek reconsidered his decision and revived the "WhosNearMe" app name. WhosHere reasserted its claim of trademark infringement, unfair competition, cybersquatting, and breach of contract. WhosHere also offered to license Mr. Hamachek's technology, compensate him for that and use his services as an ongoing contractor on the project.
Mr. Hamachek made a variety of claims against WhosHere, which he ultimately recanted and posted a joint statement with WhosHere. Mr. Hamacheck's portion of the statement focused on three things.
Mr. Hamcheck had agreed to change the name of his app to "WNM Live" and subsequently changed it back despite the agreement between the two parties.
Correcting the record that WhosHere did not originally send a cease and desist notice.
That he was "confident that WhosHere and its attorney did not mislead me" as originally alleged.
WhosHere's portion of the statement thanked Mr. Hamacheck for resolving the matter and their goal was to defend their brand name.
WhosHere, Inc.
WhosHere is a San Mateo, CA and Alexandria, VA-based developer of the location-based social networking application called WhosHere®. The company was founded by Bryant Harris and Stephen Smith.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle%20Eye%20%28disambiguation%29 | Eagle Eye is a 2008 American film.
Eagle Eye or eagle eye may also refer to:
Arts, media and entertainment
Eagle Eye Mysteries, a 1993 series of educational computer games
"Eagle Eye", a song by Tarja Turunen from The Brightest Void
"Eagle Eye", a song by American rock band Heatmiser from Mic City Sons
The Eagle's Eye, 1918 serial film
Eagle Eye (Transformers), a character in the Transformers franchise
Newspapers
Jackson Eagle Eye, a former African American newspaper from Mississippi, US
The Eagle Eye, the newspaper of Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, US
Organizations
Eagle Eye Networks, an American video surveillance provider
Eagle Eye Technologies, now SkyBitz, an American asset tracking service company
People
Eagle-Eye Cherry (born 1968), American-Swedish musician
Mark Allen (snooker player) (born 1986), Northern Irish snooker player
Other uses
Eagle eye, the visual organ of the eagle
Bell Eagle Eye, an American unmanned aerial vehicle
Operation Eagle Eye (disambiguation)
See also
Eye of the Eagle (disambiguation)
Eagle Vision (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Mean%20Business | We Mean Business is an American reality television series that aired on the A&E cable network starting on September 6, 2008. The program featured three regular experts: "Business Expert" Bill Rancic, a former contestant on The Apprentice; "Tech Expert" Katie Linendoll; and "Design Expert" Peter Gurski. In each episode, the three experts helped a struggling small business owner turn their business around by improving business practices and enhancing the marketing of the business. Notably, the program was sponsored by Dell, which provided all of the new technical equipment given to the businesses.
References
External links
http://www.aetv.com/we-mean-business (Archive link)
2000s American reality television series
2008 American television series debuts
A&E (TV network) original programming
English-language television shows
2008 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Samelson | Klaus Samelson (21 December 1918 – 25 May 1980) was a German mathematician, physicist, and computer pioneer in the area of programming language translation and push-pop stack algorithms for sequential formula translation on computers.
Early life
He was born in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, and he lived in Breslau in his early childhood years. His elder brother was the mathematician Hans Samelson. Due to political circumstances, he waited until 1946 to study mathematics and physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Munich.
Career
After graduating, he worked briefly as a high school teacher before he returned to university. In 1951, he completed his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in physics with Friedrich Bopp (Fritz) with a dissertation on a quantum mechanics problem posed by Arnold Sommerfeld related to unipolar induction.
Samelson became interested in numerical analysis, and when Hans Piloty, an electrical engineer, and Robert Sauer, a professor of mathematics, began working together, he joined and got involved in early computers as a research associate in the Mathematical Institute of the Technical University of Munich.
This changed his scientific career. His first publications came from Sauer's interests dealing with supersonic speed flow and precision problems of digital computations for numerical calculations of eigenvalues.
Soon after, Samelson's strong influence began on the development of Computer Science and Informatics as a new scientific discipline. With Friedrich L. Bauer, who also had Fritz Bopp as his Ph.D. advisor, he studied the structure of programming languages to develop efficient algorithms for their translation and implementation. This research led to bracketed structures and it became clear to Samelson that this principle should govern the translation of programming languages and the run-time system with stack models and block structure. It was a fundamental breakthrough in how computer systems are modeled and designed.
Piloty, Bauer and Samelson had also worked on the design of PERM, a computer based partly on the Whirlwind I concept. By 1955, the PERM was completed and they continued work that Bauer had begun in 1951 on concepts in automatic programming.
Samelson was involved with international standards in programming and informatics, and played a key role in the design of ALGOLs 58 and 60, as a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, supports, and maintains the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.
In 1958, he accepted a chair for mathematics at the University of Mainz, and since 1963 he held a chair at the Technical University of Munich where he and Bauer, began to develop a university curriculum for informatics and computer science. He became an editor of the journal Acta Informatica when it began in 1971.
Selected publications
References
Further reading
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledley | Ledley is a name shared by the following people:
Joe Ledley, a Welsh footballer
Ledley King, an English footballer
Robert Ledley, a United States computer specialist. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20S.%20Engel | Joel Stanley Engel (born February 4, 1936) is an American electrical engineer who made fundamental contributions to the development of cellular networks.
Born in New York City, he obtained a B.Sc. in engineering at City College of New York (1957). While working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the research staff at Draper Laboratory on inertial guidance and stabilization systems, he also obtained an M.Sc. in electrical engineering (1959). He then moved to New Jersey and worked for Bell Labs most of his active research career (1959–83), and also earned a Ph.D. from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn on a thesis on data transmission over telephone lines (1964).
He then worked at Bellcomm on guidance systems for the Apollo Program (1965) and at Page Communications Engineers in Washington, D.C. (1965–67) before returning to Bell Labs where he joined the mobile phone system research group. He also lectured at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. After the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened up new frequencies (1968), his engineering team developed the architecture for cellular network and its parametrization (1971), which was the basis for Advanced Mobile Phone System, eventually commercialized (1983).
After a rotation at AT&T (1973–75), Engel returned to Bell Labs as a Department Head with responsibilities for a broad range of projects.
Engel later joined Satellite Business Systems (1983–86) as VP of engineering, and became VP of research and development at MCI Communications (1986–87), when MCI acquired SBS.
He was VP of technology and Chief Technology Officer at Ameritech (1987–97).
Engel was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1996 for contributions to the theory and design of cellular telecommunications systems.
Awards
IEEE Fellow 1980 (life fellow) for contribution to the concept and to the implementation of spectrally efficient, cellular mobile telephone systems.
IEEE Alexander Micah Graham Bell Medal 1987 With Richard H. Frenkiel and William C. Jakes Nurse, Jr.
National Medal of Technology 1994 With Richard H. Frenkiel
National Academy of Engineering 1996
Charles Stark Draper Prize 2013
References
External links
IEEE Biography of Joel S. Engel
Scientists at Bell Labs
American electrical engineers
City College of New York alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty
National Medal of Technology recipients
Draper Prize winners
Fellow Members of the IEEE
1936 births
Scientists from New York City
Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
American chief technology officers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20Leather%20Wings | "On Leather Wings" is the first episode of Batman: The Animated Series. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 6, 1992. It was written by Mitch Brian and directed by Kevin Altieri. This was the first episode of the series to feature the villain Man-Bat, and was also Man-Bat's first screen appearance. In comics, Man-Bat first appeared in 1970. Although "On Leather Wings" was the first episode of the series to be produced, it was the second to be broadcast, following "The Cat and the Claw, Part 1", which premiered just the day before.
Plot
When something resembling a giant bat is seen in the skies over Gotham City, and later attacks a guard at Phoenix Pharmaceuticals, Batman is considered the culprit. Detective Harvey Bullock asks Mayor Hamilton Hill for permission to form a tactical squad to capture Batman, which was denied by Commissioner Gordon, who does not believe Batman is responsible. Hill authorizes the strike force with District Attorney Harvey Dent promising to put Batman in jail if Bullock catches him.
Believing he was set up, Batman investigates and finds out there were two similar robberies at other pharmaceutical companies. Batman infiltrates Phoenix Pharmaceuticals, unknowingly alerting the security guards, who call the police. As he investigates Bullock's strike force arrive at the scene, just as Gordon tells him another pharmaceutical company was just robbed across town, proving Batman's innocence. Batman escapes the squad with the only recovered clues: a recording of the guard's attack and a fur sample.
The next day, Bruce Wayne visits the Gotham Zoo to ask bat expert Dr. March about the mysterious fur and recording, but he is reluctant to help. March's daughter and assistant, Francine, and her husband, Dr. Kirk Langstrom, promise Bruce to analyze them both for him.
Later March calls to give results of the analysis: the sound is a combination of starlings and brown bats, where the fur sample is also from. When the Batcomputer rules both creatures out, Batman becomes suspicious and heads to the zoo to further investigate. There he finds Kirk Langstrom working late, he confesses to stealing the chemicals in order to complete a formula that can transform him into a new species, something neither man nor bat.
Kirk transforms into a giant bat-like creature, known as the Man-Bat, horrifying both Batman and Francine. Man-Bat escapes the zoo but Batman grapples on to him and the two engage in a fierce struggle over Gotham. Batman eventually overpowers Man-Bat and takes him back to the Batcave, where he creates a chemical to reverse the effects of Kirk's serum. Batman returns to the zoo with the restored Kirk to Francine, who is told by Batman the chemical is out of his system but the Man-Bat may not truly be gone.
Cast
Production
Bruce Timm states he wanted this series to focus on "mystery, mood, drama as well as super hero action sequences" and that Man-Bat fit into those categories perfectly. In a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS | ReGIS, short for Remote Graphic Instruction Set, is a vector graphics markup language developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for later models of their famous VT series of computer terminals. ReGIS supports rudimentary vector graphics consisting of lines, circular arcs, and similar shapes. Terminals supporting ReGIS generally allow graphics and text to be mixed on-screen, which makes construction of graphs and charts relatively easy.
History
ReGIS was first introduced on the VT125 in July 1981, followed shortly thereafter by the VK100 "GIGI" which combined the VT125 display system with composite video output and a BASIC interpreter. Later versions of the VT series included ReGIS, often with color support as well. This included the VT240 and 241 and the VT330 and 340. ReGIS is also supported by a small number of terminal emulator systems.
ReGIS replaced an earlier system known as waveform graphics that had been introduced on the VT55 and later used on the VT105. DEC normally provided backward compatibility with their terminals, but in this case the waveform system was simply dropped when ReGIS was introduced.
Description
ReGIS consists of five primary drawing commands and a selection of status and device control commands. ReGIS mode is entered by specifying the escape code sequence , and exited with . The sequence is the generic Device Control String (DCS) used in the VT series of terminals, and is also used for a variety of other commands. The digit following the DCS is optional and specifies a mode, in this case mode 0. Mode 0 is the default and picks up drawing where it left off, 1 resets the system to a blank slate, and 2 and 3 are the same as 0 and 1, but leave a single line of text at the bottom of the screen for entering commands.
All drawing is based on an active pen location. Any command that moved the pen leaves it there for the next operation, similar to the operation of a mechanical plotter. The coordinate system is 0 to 799 in the X axis, and 0 to 479 in Y, with 0,0 in the upper left. In early implementations such as the VK100 and VT125, the actual device resolution is 240 pixels, so the Y coordinates are "folded" so odd and even coordinates are the same location on the screen. Later models, starting with the VT240 and VT241, provide the full 480 pixel vertical resolution. The coordinate system can also be set by the user.
Coordinates can be pushed or pulled from a stack, and every command allows the stack to be used as a parameter, the B parameter push the current coordinates on the stack, E pops it back off again. Coordinates can be specified in absolute or relative terms;
[200,100] is an absolute position at x=200, y=100
[+200,-100] is a relative position at x=current X+200, y=current Y-100
[200] is absolute x=200, y=unchanged (same as [200,+0])
[,-100] is relative, x=unchanged, y=current Y-100
There are four main drawing commands and three control commands;
P "Position", move the pen
V "Vector", draw a lin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted%202%3A%20Among%20Thieves | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a 2009 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the second game in the Uncharted series and was released in October 2009 for PlayStation 3. Set two years after the events of Drake's Fortune (2007), the single-player story follows Nathan Drake, Chloe Frazer, and Elena Fisher as they search for the Cintamani Stone and Shambhala while battling a militia led by war criminal Zoran Lazarević.
Development for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves began immediately following the critical and commercial success of the first entry. The development team drew inspiration from explorer Marco Polo and his expeditions through archipelagos and eastern Asia. Naughty Dog developed an updated proprietary engine for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, which runs exclusively on the Naughty Engine 2.0 system. These improvements enabled extensive motion capture, greater in-game cinematic sequences, and inclusion of an online multiplayer component, a first for the franchise.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves received critical acclaim for its elaborate set pieces, character design, storytelling, graphics, technical innovation, and gameplay mechanics. It received Game of the Year accolades from numerous publications and award events and is considered to be one of the greatest video games ever made, and among the most significant titles for the seventh console generation. It also enjoyed great commercial success, with over six million copies sold worldwide. The game was followed by a sequel titled Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception in 2011, and was re-released on PlayStation 4 as part of Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection.
Gameplay
Uncharted 2 is an action-adventure platform video game played from a third-person view, with the player in control of Nathan Drake. Drake is physically adept and can jump, climb, and scale narrow ledges and wall faces to get between points. Drake can be equipped with up to two firearms – one single-handed and one two-handed – and a limited supply of grenades. Drake can pick up weapons, automatically replacing the existing weapon he was using, and additional ammunition from slain enemies. The player can direct Drake to take cover behind corners or low walls using either aimed or blind-fire to kill his enemies. The player can also have Drake fire while moving. If Drake is undetected by his enemies, the player can attempt to use stealth to take them out, such as by sneaking up behind them to knock them out with one hit, or by pulling an unsuspecting foe over a ledge from which Drake is hanging. In most areas, if all of the foes patrolling are killed stealthily then other waves that would normally appear do not. Some areas of the game require the player to solve puzzles with the use of Drake's journal, which provides clues to the puzzles' solutions. When enabled, a hint system provides gameplay clues, such as the direction of the next objective.
Throughout the game are 101 special tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-schema%20approach | The three-schema approach, or three-schema concept, in software engineering is an approach to building information systems and systems information management that originated in the 1970s. It proposes three different views in systems development, with conceptual modelling being considered the key to achieving data integration.
Overview
The three-schema approach provides for three types of schemas with schema techniques based on formal language descriptions:
External schema for user views
Conceptual schema integrates external schemata
Internal schema that defines physical storage structures
At the center, the conceptual schema defines the ontology of the concepts as the users think of them and talk about them. The physical schema according to Sowa (2004) "describes the internal formats of the data stored in the database, and the external schema defines the view of the data presented to the application programs." The framework attempted to permit multiple data models to be used for external schemata.
Over the years, the skill and interest in building information systems has grown tremendously. However, for the most part, the traditional approach to building systems has only focused on defining data from two distinct views, the "user view" and the "computer view". From the user view, which will be referred to as the “external schema,” the definition of data is in the context of reports and screens designed to aid individuals in doing their specific jobs. The required structure of data from a usage view changes with the business environment and the individual preferences of the user. From the computer view, which will be referred to as the "internal schema", data is defined in terms of file structures for storage and retrieval. The required structure of data for computer storage depends upon the specific computer technology employed and the need for efficient processing of data.
These two traditional views of data have been defined by analysts over the years on an application by application basis as specific business needs were addressed, see Figure 1. Typically, the internal schema defined for an initial application cannot be readily used for subsequent applications, resulting in the creation of redundant and often inconsistent definition of the same data. Data was defined by the layout of physical records and processed sequentially in early information systems. The need for flexibility, however, led to the introduction of Database Management Systems (DBMSs), which allow for random access of logically connected pieces of data. The logical data structures within a DBMS are typically defined as either hierarchies, networks or relations. Although DBMSs have greatly improved the shareability of data, the use of a DBMS alone does not guarantee a consistent definition of data. Furthermore, most large companies have had to develop multiple databases which are often under the control of different DBMSs and still have the problems of redundancy and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartlett%27s%20bisection%20theorem | Bartlett's bisection theorem is an electrical theorem in network analysis attributed to Albert Charles Bartlett. The theorem shows that any symmetrical two-port network can be transformed into a lattice network. The theorem often appears in filter theory where the lattice network is sometimes known as a filter X-section following the common filter theory practice of naming sections after alphabetic letters to which they bear a resemblance.
The theorem as originally stated by Bartlett required the two halves of the network to be topologically symmetrical. The theorem was later extended by Wilhelm Cauer to apply to all networks which were electrically symmetrical. That is, the physical implementation of the network is not of any relevance. It is only required that its response in both halves are symmetrical.
Applications
Lattice topology filters are not very common. The reason for this is that they require more components (especially inductors) than other designs. Ladder topology is much more popular. However, they do have the property of being intrinsically balanced and a balanced version of another topology, such as T-sections, may actually end up using more inductors. One application is for all-pass phase correction filters on balanced telecommunication lines. The theorem also makes an appearance in the design of crystal filters at RF frequencies. Here ladder topologies have some undesirable properties, but a common design strategy is to start from a ladder implementation because of its simplicity. Bartlett's theorem is then used to transform the design to an intermediate stage as a step towards the final implementation (using a transformer to produce an unbalanced version of the lattice topology).
Definition and proof
Definition
Start with a two-port network, N, with a plane of symmetry between the two ports. Next cut N through its plane of symmetry to form two new identical two-ports, ½N. Connect two identical voltage generators to the two ports of N. It is clear from the symmetry that no current is going to flow through any branch passing through the plane of symmetry. The impedance measured into a port of N under these circumstances will be the same as the impedance measured if all the branches passing through the plane of symmetry were open circuit. It is therefore the same impedance as the open circuit impedance of ½N. Let us call that impedance .
Now consider the network N with two identical voltage generators connected to the ports but with opposite polarity. Just as superposition of currents through the branches at the plane of symmetry must be zero in the previous case, by analogy and applying the principle of duality, superposition of voltages between nodes at the plane of symmetry must likewise be zero in this case. The input impedance is thus the same as the short circuit impedance of ½N. Let us call that impedance .
Bartlett's bisection theorem states that the network N is equivalent to a lattice network w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing%20Science%20Institute | Founded in 1961, the Marketing Science Institute (MSI) is a corporate-membership-based organization. MSI claims to be unique as the only research-based organization with a network of marketing academics from business schools all over the world as well as marketing executives from 60+ leading companies.
As a nonprofit institution, MSI financially supports academic research on topics of importance to business performance. Every two years, MSI asks the board of trustees to provide input to help set priorities for the research that will guide activities for the next few years. MSI supports studies by academics on these issues and disseminates the results through conferences, workshops, webinars, publications, and online content.
MSI headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The primary governing body of MSI is the Board of Trustees, which is made up of representatives of each of MSI's member companies. MSI's staff of 11 employees are responsible for membership and research programs, conferences, publications, and all other operations.
History
In 1961, Scott Paper Company President Thomas B. McCabe founded the “Institute for Science in Marketing” with input from leading thinkers John Howard, Albert Wesley Frey, and Wroe Alderson. Twenty-nine companies responded to his membership appeal, establishing MSI as a nonprofit organization that would “contribute to the emergence of a definitive science of marketing” and “stimulate increased application of scientific techniques to the understanding and solving of current marketing problems.” Offices were established in Philadelphia near the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and Wendell Smith became its first president.
MSI's founding coincided with a period of booming growth in the U.S. marketing systems, fueled by pent-up demand from war-years restrictions on production of consumer goods, and an explosion in population growth. Key marketing concepts, such as the “4 Ps” (product, price, place, promotion) of marketing were introduced. Management science theory, methods, and tools were infused into marketing, and consumer behavior emerged as an area of study within marketing.
In its first decade, MSI supported the development of new tools for marketers, such as multidimensional scaling, stochastic modeling, causal modeling, and decision calculus marketing. It also provided the foundation for advances in new product development. In 1968, MSI moved to Cambridge and began a 15-year association with the Harvard Business School.
In the early 1970s, MSI launched and managed the Profit Impact of Marketing Strategy project which, in conjunction with General Electric, created and analyzed a cross-sectional database that described marketing strategies and profitability across hundreds of business units. The results, widely reported, demonstrated the value of a scientific approach to marketing.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, MSI assembled teams to shape policy at the Federal Trade Commiss |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20computing | Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over multiple locations, each of which is a data center. Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and typically uses a pay-as-you-go model, which can help in reducing capital expenses but may also lead to unexpected operating expenses for users.
Definition
The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology's definition of cloud computing identifies "five essential characteristics":
On-demand self-service. A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service provider.
Broad network access. Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and workstations).
Resource pooling. The provider's computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand.
Rapid elasticity. Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released, in some cases automatically, to scale rapidly outward and inward commensurate with demand. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear unlimited and can be appropriated in any quantity at any time.
Measured service. Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service (e.g., storage, processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported, providing transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilized service.
History
Cloud computing has a rich history that extends back to the 1960s, with the initial concepts of time-sharing becoming popularized via Remote Job Entry (RJE). The "data center" model, where users submitted jobs to operators to run on mainframes, was predominantly used during this era. This was a time of exploration and experimentation with ways to make large-scale computing power available to more users through time-sharing, optimizing the infrastructure, platform, and applications, and increasing efficiency for end users.
The use of the "cloud" metaphor to denote virtualized services traces back to 1994, when it was used by General Magic to describe the universe of "places" that mobile agents in the Telescript environment could go. This metaphor is credited to David Hoffman, a General Magic communications employee, based on its long-standing use in networking and telecom. The expression cloud computing became more widely known in 1996 when t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXTQ-CD | KXTQ-CD (channel 46) is a low-power, Class A television station in Lubbock, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is owned by Gray Television alongside NBC affiliate KCBD (channel 11), Wolfforth-licensed CW+ affiliate KLCW-TV (channel 22) and three other low-power stations—MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYL-LD (channel 14), Heroes & Icons affiliate KABI-LD (channel 42), and MeTV affiliate KLBB-LD (channel 48). Gray also provides certain services to Fox affiliate KJTV-TV (channel 34) and low-power Class A independent KJTV-CD (channel 32) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with SagamoreHill Broadcasting. The stations share studios at 98th Street and University Avenue in south Lubbock, where KXTQ-CD's transmitter is also located.
KXTQ-CD produces newscasts at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. Monday through Friday; they are the only local Spanish-language productions in the market.
External links
Telemundo network affiliates
XTQ-CD
1991 establishments in Texas
Spanish-language television stations in Texas
Television channels and stations established in 1991
Gray Television
XTQ-CD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20detector | Network detectors or network discovery software are computer programs that facilitate detection of wireless LANs using the 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g WLAN standards. Discovering networks may be done through active as well as passive scanning.
Active scanning
Active scanning is done through sending multiple probe requests and recording the probe responses. The probe response received normally contains BSSID and WLAN SSID. If SSID broadcasting has been turned off, and active scanning is the only type of scanning supported by the software, no networks will show up. An example of an active scanner is NetStumbler.
Passive scanning
Passive scanning is not done by active probing, but by mere listening to any data sent out by the AP. Once a legitimate user connects to the AP, the AP will eventually send out a SSID in cleartext. By impersonating this AP by automatic altering of the MAC address, the computer running the network discovery scanner will be given this SSID by legitimate users. Passive scanners include Kismet and essid jack (a program under AirJack).
Notable programs
Notable programs include Network Stumbler, Kismet, Lumeta Corporation, Aerosol, AirMagnet, MacStumbler, Ministumbler, Mognet, NetChaser, perlskan, Wireless Security Auditor, Wlandump, PocketWarrior, pocketWinc, Prismstumbler, Sniff-em, AiroPeek, Airscanner, AP Scanner, AP Radar, Apsniff, BSD-Airtools, dstumbler, gtk-scanner, gWireless, iStumbler, KisMAC, Sniffer Wireless, THC-Scan, THC-Wardrive, WarGlue, WarKizniz, Wellenreiter, Wi-Scan and WiStumbler.
References
Hacking (computer security)
Wireless networking
Detectors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRT%201 | HRT 1 (HTV 1, "Prvi program") is the first Croatian television channel, operated by Hrvatska Radiotelevizija. It is a generalist channel, whose diverse programming lineup includes documentaries, history, school, mosaics, news, sitcoms, movies, talk-shows, and game-shows.
Current line-up
News shows
Dobro jutro, Hrvatska - TV breakfast in 06:00
Dnevnik - main news in 19:00
Vijesti - news, runs in 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 12:00, 16:30, 22:45
Entertainment
The Voice Hrvatska (singing show)
Tko želi biti milijunaš? (game show)
Potjera (game show)
Superpotjera (game show)
Documentary/talk shows
Nedjeljom u dva - talk show
Otvoreno - political night talk show
Telenovelas
Voli me zauvijek - A que no me dejas
Sports
UEFA Europa League
UEFA Europa Conference League
Previously on HRT1
Kolo sreće - Wheel of Fortune
Motrišta
Odjeci dana
Izazov! - Jeopardy!
Art Attack - children's art show
Najslabija karika - The Weakest Link
1 protiv 100 - 1 vs 100
Dossier.Hr - news/politics magazine
Latinica - political Monday talk show
Res Publica - educational talk show
New Talk Show - new talk show in autumn
Lica nacije - political Tuesday night talk show
Hrvatski kraljevi - documentary about Croatian kings and dukes
Strictly Come Dancing - Ples sa zvijezdama (dancing reality)
Just The Two of Us - Zvijezde pjevaju (singing reality)
U istom loncu (cooking show)
Friday night (variety show)
Croatian soap operasSve će biti dobro (Everything will be fine)Dolina sunca (Sun valley)Ponos Ratkajevih (The pride of the Ratkaj family)Obični ljudi (Common people)Ljubav u zaleđu (Love in offside)Villa Maria Mućke (Only Fools and Horses)
Stipe u gostima (Stipe in guests)
Odmori se zaslužio si (Relax, you deserve it)
Naši i vaši (Ours and Yours)
Foreign Series
Pat i Mat - Pat & MatSeinfeld - Seinfeld
Simpsoni - The Simpsons
The Oprah Winfrey Show - talk show
The Dr. Oz Show'' - talk show
House M.D. - in Croatian "Dr House"
The X-Files - in Croatian "Dosjei X"
ER - in Croatian "Hitna služba"
The Scent of Rain in the Balkans - in Croatian "Miris kiše na Balkanu"
Logo History
See also
Hrvatska Radiotelevizija
References
External links
Official Site
Television channels in Croatia
Television channels in North Macedonia
Television channels and stations established in 1956
Croatian-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20%28SAP%29 | A SAP transport is a package which is used to transfer data from one SAP installation to another. This data can range from a simple printer driver to a whole SAP client. It can be considered as an "update", with the only difference being that SAP transports are made by the SAP users themselves. Transports can also be used to transfer data from external applications.
Uses
Most of the time the SAP transports are used to implement some new features in a production system. Since a production system (especially a business-dependent one) cannot be used for development (and testing), the implementation process is divided into several phases:
A development and a testing installation is created using backups from the production system.
The new features are implemented into the development installation
This is imported into the testing (or quality assurance) installation using a transport
After the new features are thoroughly tested, it is imported into the production system using another transport
The biggest drawback of the transports is that the changes they make cannot be undone, i.e. after an import goes wrong, usually another transport that corrects the original change must follow (in some cases a full system restore is needed). Despite this fact the transport system is the most convenient and effective way of implementing new features into a production system with a minimal downtime.
Construction
A SAP transport consists of several files. These files are usually located in 6 separate folders within the OS:
Data files - Contains the transport data, i.e. the actual data to be transported.
Cofiles - Contains information on change requests, i.e. different steps of a change request and their exit codes.
Profile files - It contains profile parameter.
Transport log - Logs, trace files, and statistics.
Support packs - Contains update and enhancement related files.
Bin Folder - This contains the configuration files of TMS.
ERP software
SAP SE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest%20Transportation%20Knowledge%20Network | The Midwest Transportation Libraries Consortium, which became the Midwest Transportation Knowledge Network (MTKN), was founded in December 2001 through the sponsorship of the National Transportation Library (NTL) and the efforts of Midwestern transportation libraries. Its mission is to “increase collaboration among the region’s transportation libraries and information centers so managers, engineers, and planners are better able to find and apply the most recent, credible, validated technical information to their current projects.” Today, members include the libraries of DOTs in nine states—Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; three university libraries—those of Northwestern University, the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, and the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies; the corporate libraries of Hanson Professional Services, the Portland Cement Association, Packer Engineering and Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates; and NTL.
MTKN increased its ability to accept different types of organizations by creating 'Affiliate' and 'Friends' levels of membership. The intention was to formally include information partners to MTKN, even though they may not be a full service information center. As of 2010, the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) is an Affiliate member of MTKN, while the Wisconsin Transportation Center (UW-Madison campus) is currently a Friend of MTKN.
In 2004 NTL launched TL Cat in collaboration with the libraries of MTKN and OCLC. MTKN members also played a role in helping NTL and the National Highway Institute develop a distance-learning workshop entitled “Working Smarter: Using the World Wide Web for Transportation-Related Research.”
MTKN posted its website that year, helped strengthen libraries in three state DOTs and lobbied to keep a fourth, supported the state pooled-fund study discussed in the text, and conducted a member survey to determine next steps. After its 2004 annual meeting, MTKN incorporated as a nonprofit organization and revised its committee structure in support of new strategic goals,
including facilitating the development of other regional networks and a national network; developing shared marketing and training tools through templates to be customized by each member;
helping save libraries from elimination; mentoring new librarians; and developing new partnerships with other transportation organizations, such as American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and the Local Technical Assistance Program. MTKN also played an important part in creating both the Eastern Transportation Knowledge Network (ETKN) and Western Transportation Knowledge Network (WTKN).
The benefits of MTKN include
• Multiplication of cost savings from finding transportation information more rapidly, more completely, and at lower cost than can practitioners
• Improved access by practitioners to research and new tec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam%20Holendrecht%20station | Amsterdam Holendrecht is a railway and metro station in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The station opened on 14 December 2008. Before that date Holendrecht was just a station on the Amsterdam Metro network which was opened on 16 October 1977 and is now served by two lines, the 50 and 54. It is located in Amsterdam-Zuidoost and it lies on the Amsterdam - Utrecht main line, between Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA and Abcoude. The station is near the Academic Medical Center.
Train services
The following train services currently call at Amsterdam Holendrecht:
2x per hour local service (Sprinter) from Uitgeest to Amsterdam, Breukelen, Woerden and Rotterdam
2x per hour local service (Sprinter) from Amsterdam to Breukelen, Utrecht and Rhenen (peak hours only)
Metro services
50 (from Isolatorweg to Sloterdijk, Lelylaan, Zuid, Duivendrecht, Bijlmer ArenA, Holendrecht and Gein)
54 (from Centraal to Amstel, Duivendrecht, Bijlmer ArenA, Holendrecht and Gein)
Bus services
The following services call at Holendrecht:
City services
These services are operated by GVB.
41 Holendrecht - Kraaiennest - Ganzenhoef - Duivendrecht - Watergraafsmeer - Muiderpoortstation
47 Holendrecht - Reigersbos - Gein - Gaasperplas - Kraaiennest - Station Bijlmer ArenA
Regional services
These services are operated by EBS, branded as Bizzliner. They operate Monday to Friday only.
375 Amsterdam Holendrecht - Amsterdam Bijlmermeer - Diemen - Schouw - Ilpendam - Purmerend Weidevenne (Afternoon rush hours only)
376 Amsterdam Holendrecht - Amsterdam Bijlmermeer - Diemen - Schouw - Watergang - Ilpendam - Purmerend Overwhere - Purmerend P+R N244
377 Amsterdam Holendrecht - Amsterdam Bijlmermeer - Diemen - Schouw - Ilpendam - Purmerend de Purmer (Afternoon rush hours only)
378 Amsterdam Holendrecht - Amsterdam Bijlmermeer - Diemen - Schouw - Broek in Waterland - Monnickendam - Edam - Volendam (Afternoon rush hours only)
Gallery
External links
NS website
Dutch public transport journey planner
Holendrecht
Railway stations in North Holland
Railway stations opened in 2008
Railway stations on the Rhijnspoorweg
Holendrecht
Amsterdam-Zuidoost
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in the 2000s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupt%20%28disambiguation%29 | A person who is corrupt is or has been spiritually or morally impure, or is acting/has acted illegally. By extension, the term is applied to a database or program being made unreliable by errors or alterations.
Corrupt may also refer to:
Corrupt (1983 film), an Italian thriller film
Corrupt (1999 film), an American crime film
"Corrupt" (Angel), an unproduced television episode
See also
Corruption (disambiguation)
Corruptor (disambiguation)
Data corruption
Kurupt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableau%20Software | Tableau Software ( ) is an American interactive data visualization software company focused on business intelligence. It was founded in 2003 in Mountain View, California, and is currently headquartered in Seattle, Washington. In 2019 the company was acquired by Salesforce for $15.7 billion. At the time, this was the largest acquisition by Salesforce (a leader in the CRM field) since its foundation. It was later surpassed by Salesforce's acquisition of Slack.
The company's founders, Christian Chabot, Pat Hanrahan and Chris Stolte, were researchers at the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. They specialized in visualization techniques for exploring and analyzing relational databases and data cubes, and started the company as a commercial outlet for research at Stanford from 1999 to 2002.
Tableau products query relational databases, online analytical processing cubes, cloud databases, and spreadsheets to generate graph-type data visualizations. The software can also extract, store, and retrieve data from an in-memory data engine.
Software products
Tableau products include:
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Server
Tableau Prep Builder (released in 2018)
Tableau Vizable (consumer data visualization mobile app released in 2015)
Tableau Public (free to use)
Tableau Reader (free to use)
Tableau Mobile
Tableau Cloud
Tableau Prep
Tableau CRM
Functionalities
Tableau offers drag and drop and other features such as multiple chart formats and mapping capabilities.
Map functionalities
The software is able to plot latitude and longitude coordinates and connect to spatial files like Esri Shapefiles, KML, and GeoJSON to display custom geography. The built-in geo-coding allows for administrative places (country, state/province, county/district), postal codes, US Congressional Districts, US CBSA/MSA, Area Codes, Airports, and European Union statistical areas (NUTS codes) to be mapped automatically. Geographies can be grouped to create custom territories or custom geocoding used to extend existing geographic roles in the product.
Data sources
Tableau Software can connect to data sources such as regular text files (.txt, .csv), Microsoft Excel (.xlsx), Microsoft Access (.accdb), import from Tableau workbook (.tbm) or Tableau Table data Extract (.tds).
Data Type
Tableau express automatically data types and fields. Tableau will make use of the data type that the data source has defined if it exits, or it will choose a data type if the data source does not specify one. In Tableau, the following data types are supported
Text Value
Data Value
Data and time Value
Numerical Value
Geographic Values (Latitude and longitude used for maps)
Boolean Values (True / False Conditions)
History
While at Stanford, founders Hanrahan and Stolte, as well as Diane Tang, created the predecessor to Tableau, named Polaris; Polaris was a data visualization software tool, built with the support of a United States Department of Energy defense program, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20SDS | Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. (formerly Samsung Data Systems; ), established in 1985 as a subsidiary of Samsung Group, is a provider of Information Technology (IT) services, including consulting, technical, and outsourcing services. SDS is also active in research and development of emerging IT technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT) and outsourcing in engineering . In 2019, Samsung SDS reported a net profit of 750.4 billion won (US$635 million), an increase of 17.5% year-on-year. The company is estimated to have the 11th most valuable brand among global IT service companies, at US$3.7 billion as of January 2020. Samsung SDS has headquarters in South Korea and eight other overseas subsidiaries, one in America, Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, India, and Vietnam.
History
Samsung SDS was established in 1985 as Samsung Data Systems, and was renamed Samsung SDS in 1997. The company was established to provide ICT services to Samsung Group affiliates based on contemporary digital technologies, including mobile, social media, sensors, cloud technology, and others.
The company initially focused mainly on systems integration and IT outsourcing, before expanding into the fields of logistics, business process outsourcing (BPO) and IT-based manufacturing process platforms. More recently, the company has worked with AI, blockchain, cloud computing, data analytics, and security-based platforms. The company began to expand overseas in 1997 with the establishment of Samsung SDS America, followed by Samsung SDS China in 1999. The company currently has eight regional headquarters and offices in 41 countries. In 2014, the company launched a domestic initial public offering (IPO), which was at the time the third largest ever in South Korea. In 2019, the company became the first Korean IT services company to surpass 10 trillion won in annual sales.
Services
The company provides IT professional services, platforms and tools, and IT infrastructure, to the manufacturing, finance, and services industries. The company also provides logistics BPO services for global logistics and logistics specialized IT services. The company has a range of platforms, tools and services that use AI, blockchain, cloud, data analytics and security-based technologies.
IT professional services
Samsung SDS provides project-unit consulting and SI services by analyzing business problems using IT master plans, process innovation, information strategy planning, agility, and CX. It also provides application analysis, design and development services across different verticals such as business management (enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), and manufacturing analysis (MES).
Through stable infrastructure services, the company provides cloud, data center, network and security services for various industries. The company's application outsourcing services support r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20Computer%20Corporation | Language Computer Corporation (LCC) is a natural language processing research company based in Richardson, Texas. The company develops a variety of natural language processing products, including software for question answering, information extraction, and automatic summarization.
Since its founding in 1995, the low-profile company has landed significant United States Government contracts, with $8,353,476 in contracts in 2006-2008.
While the company has focused primarily on the government software market, LCC has also used its technology to spin off three start-up companies. The first spin-off, known as Lymba Corporation, markets the PowerAnswer question answering product originally developed at LCC. In 2010, LCC's CEO, Andrew Hickl, co-founded two start-ups which made use of the company's technology. These included Swingly, an automatic question answering start-up, and Extractiv, an information extraction service that was founded in partnership with Houston, Texas-based 80legs.
References
External links
Language Computer Corporation website
Lymba Corporation website
Software companies based in Texas
Companies based in Richardson, Texas
Natural language processing
Computational linguistics
Semantic Web companies
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataloging%20%26%20Classification%20Quarterly | Cataloging & Classification Quarterly is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that publishes articles about library cataloging, classification, metadata, indexing, information retrieval, information management, and other topics related to library cataloging. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly is notable for being the only academic journal devoted to library cataloging. Despite its name, the journal is now published eight times a year, but occasionally some issues are combined. Thematic issues are interspersed with general issues.
History
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (CCQ) began publishing in 1980. Previous editors have been C. Donald Cook (founding editor; volumes 1–2, 1980–1982), George E. Gibbs (volumes 3–5, 1983–1985), and Ruth C. Carter (volumes 6-41, 1985–2006). The editor-in-chief since volume 42 has been Sandra K. Roe. The journal was published by Haworth Press until 2007 when the company was acquired by Taylor and Francis, the current publisher.
References
External links
Library science journals
Information science journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1980 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Major%20League%20Baseball%20draft | The 2009 Major League Baseball draft was held June 9 to June 11 at the MLB Network Studios in Secaucus, New Jersey.
The drafting order is as follows:
First-round selections
Key
Supplemental first-round selections
From Baseball America
Compensation picks
Other notable selections
As of September 2, 2019
NFL players drafted
Jake Locker, 10th round, 321st overall by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, but did not sign
Riley Cooper, 25th round, 754th overall by the Texas Rangers, but did not sign
Eric Decker, 27th round, 822nd overall by the Minnesota Twins, but did not sign
Jacobbi McDaniel, 33rd round, 1006th overall by the Milwaukee Brewers, but did not sign
Colin Kaepernick, 43rd round, 1310th overall by the Chicago Cubs, but did not sign
Anthony Scirrotto, 50th round, 1502nd overall by the Kansas City Royals, signed, but never played
External links
2009 MLB draft page MLB.com
2009 Major League Baseball draft at ESPN
References
Major League Baseball draft
Draft
Major League Baseball draft
Major League Baseball draft
Baseball in New Jersey
Events in New Jersey
Sports in Hudson County, New Jersey
Secaucus, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy%20program | A toy program is a small computer program typically used for educational purposes. Toy programs are generally of little practical use, although the concepts implemented may be useful in a much more sophisticated program.
A toy program typically focuses on a specific problem, such as computing the Nth term in a sequence, finding the roots of a quadratic equation and testing if a number is prime.
Toy programs are also used for a developer trying out a new programming language, to test all of the language's syntax and coding methods.
References
Computer programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Trackers | Time Trackers is a children's television series produced for the Seven Network in Australia and TV2 in New Zealand. The 13 half-hour episodes first screened in 2008. The series is a co-production of Gibson Group in New Zealand and Taylor Media in Australia.
Premise
Teenagers from different periods of history join forces to fight viruses threatening the history of human inventions.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Joe Dekkers-Reihana as Captain Wiremu Love
Kazimir Sas as Troy
Felicity Milovanovich as Carmen
Marcus Graham as Kevin (Dult version 10.1 and reprogrammed as a version 12.4)
Vaughan Slinn as Stuart (Dult version 10.1)
Jon English as Old Troy
Georgia Rippin as the Narrator
David Smyth as the voice of Balls (robot dog)
Guest cast
Igor Sas as Galileo
Angus Sampson as Leonardo da Vinci
Erroll Shand as Isaac Newton
Emmett Skilton as Ernest Rutherford
Episodes
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
2008 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings
2008 New Zealand television series debuts
2008 New Zealand television series endings
Australian time travel television series
New Zealand time travel television series
Androids in television
Australian children's television series
New Zealand children's television series
Seven Network original programming
Television shows filmed in New Zealand
Television shows funded by NZ on Air
Television series about teenagers
TVNZ 2 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INID | INID is an acronym for Internationally agreed Numbers for the Identification of (bibliographic) Data. INID codes are used by patent offices worldwide for indicating specific bibliographic data items on the title pages of patents and patent application publications. INID codes use Arabic numerals, and so are language-independent. For example, number (30) indicates priority data, and (51) technical area according to the International Patent Classification (IPC).
INID codes are standardised by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in ST.9.
References
External links
ST.9 Standards section of the WIPO Handbook on Industrial Property and Information, which contains the INID codes
Intellectual property law
Patent law |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie%3A%20Thumbelina | Barbie: Thumbelina (also known as Barbie Presents: Thumbelina) is a 2009 computer-animated fantasy film directed by Conrad Helten. It was released on March 17, 2009, and it made its television premiere on Nick Jr. UK on December 24, 2012. The fifteenth film in the Barbie film series, it is a modern retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale Thumbelina. The film centers around Thumbelina, a "twillerbee" who befriends a human girl, and both must cooperate their strength in order to save the environment. This was the last Barbie movie to be distributed by Entertainment Rights outside North America before their closure and Mattel signing a new deal with Universal Pictures outside North America.
Official description
"Barbie presents the story of Thumbelina in a modern retelling of the classic tale. Meet a tiny girl named Thumbelina who lives in harmony with nature in the magical world of the Twillerbees that's hidden among the wildflowers. At the whim of a spoiled young girl named Makena, Thumbelina and her two friends have their patch of wildflowers uprooted and are transported to a lavish apartment in the city. Here they learn of construction plans that threaten to destroy the land of the Twillerbees! Harnessing the magic of nature, Thumbelina sets out to prove that even the smallest person can make a big difference."
Plot
The story opens with Barbie and kindergarten students walking in a big meadow, ready to plant trees. Emma, one of the children, finds a small tree and decides to plant it, but her friends laugh at her because of it, making her sad. However, Barbie cheers her up by telling her that a small tree can grow into a very big tree, then tells her the story of Thumbelina.
Thumbelina is one of the Twillerbees, wingless fairies who spawn from flowers and whose magic affects plant growth. Learning that some Twillerbuds are growing and will soon open to reveal new Twillerbabies, Thumbelina constructs false wing gliders for herself and her friends Janessa and Chrysella, so they can monitor the Twillerbud flowers until the babies are "born".
Tractors arrive in the field and remove part of the flowerbed, with the three friends hiding inside. The plants, now potted, are placed in an apartment belonging to the parents of a spoiled, wealthy girl named Makena; she keeps the flowers in her bedroom. As Thumbelina, Chrysella, and Janessa search for a way to go back to their field, Makena's dog Poofles runs after them. Makena comes into the bedroom while the trio hides. Makena talks to her friend Violet on a cell phone about her parents, who intend to build a factory on the Twillerbees' field. An upset Thumbelina reveals herself and scolds Makena; Makena, surprised, sees the ownership of a Twillerbee as a way to one-up Violet, whom she always competes with.
The three Twillerbees try, unsuccessfully, to escape from Makena and Poofles. Finally, Thumbelina is able to send Chrysella and Janessa home, to disturb the work in the field while Thumbe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20session | A null session is an anonymous connection to an inter-process communication network service on Windows-based computers. The service is designed to allow named pipe connections but may be used by attackers to remotely gather information about the system.
Exposure
References
Hacking (computer security)
Computer security exploits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia%20of%20Cryptography%20and%20Security | The Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security is a comprehensive work on Cryptography for both information security professionals and experts in the fields of Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Information Theory, Data Encryption, etc. It consists of 460 articles in alphabetical order and is available electronically and in print. The Encyclopedia has a representative Advisory Board consisting of 18 leading international specialists.
Topics include but are not limited to authentication and identification, copy protection, cryptoanalysis and security, factorization algorithms and primality tests, cryptographic protocols, key management, electronic payments and digital certificates, hash functions and MACs, elliptic curve cryptography, quantum cryptography and web security.
The style of the articles is of explanatory character and can be used for undergraduate or graduate courses.
Advisory board members
Carlisle Adams, Entrust, Inc.
Friedrich Bauer, Technische Universität München
Gerrit Bleumer, Francotyp-Postalia
Dan Boneh, Stanford University
Pascale Charpin, INRIA-Rocquencourt
Claude Crepeau, McGill University
Yvo G. Desmedt, University College London (University of London)
Grigory Kabatiansky, Institute for Information Transmission Problems
Burt Kaliski, RSA Security
Peter Landrock, University of Aarhus
Patrick Drew McDaniel, Penn State University
Alfred Menezes, University of Waterloo
David Naccache, Gemplus
Christof Paar, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Université Catholique de Louvain
Kazue Sako, NEC Corporation
Berry Schoenmakers, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
References
Cryptography publications
Cryptography
Specialized encyclopedias |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiavision%20%28disambiguation%29 | Asiavision may refer to:
Asiavision (news exchange)
Asia-Pacific Song Contest
Urban Vision (known as Asia Vision)
Asia Vision (TV network) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20enumeration | Network enumeration is a computing activity in which usernames and info on groups, shares, and services of networked computers are retrieved. It should not be confused with network mapping, which only retrieves information about which servers are connected to a specific network and what operating system runs on them.
Network enumeration is the discovery of hosts or devices on a network. Network enumeration tends to use overt discovery protocols such as ICMP and SNMP to gather information. It may also scan various ports on remote hosts for looking for well known services in an attempt to further identify the function of a remote host. The next stage of enumeration is to fingerprint the operating system of the remote host.
Software
A network enumerator or network scanner is a computer program used to retrieve usernames and info on groups, shares, and services of networked computers. This type of program scans networks for vulnerabilities in the security of that network. If there is a vulnerability with the security of the network, it will send a report back to a hacker who may use this info to exploit that network glitch to gain entry to the network or for other malicious activities. Ethical hackers often also use the information to remove the glitches and strengthen their network.
Malicious (or "black-hat") hackers can, on entry of the network, get to security-sensitive information or corrupt the network making it useless. If this network belonged to a company which used this network on a regular basis, the company would lose the function to send information internally to other departments.
Network enumerators are often used by script kiddies for ease of use, as well as by more experienced hackers in cooperation with other programs/manual lookups. Also, whois queries, zone transfers, ping sweeps, and traceroute can be performed.
List of network enumerators
Metasploit Project
Nmap
Nessus
OpenVAS
SAINT (software)
Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks
ZMap (software)
See also
Service scan
References
Identifying Web Applications by Fabian Mihailowitsch
Hacking (computer security)
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtaal | Virtaal is a computer-assisted translation tool written in the Python programming language. It is free software developed and maintained by Translate.org.za.
Virtaal is built using the Translate Toolkit allowing it to process a number of translation and localisation formats.
Design Philosophy
The key principle behind the design of Virtaal is the optimisation of the interface for the localiser. This includes ensuring that all relevant functionality is keyboard accessible and that needed information is always optimally displayed.
History
Work on Virtaal began in 2007 with an initial 0.1 release made to a small number of open-source localisers. Version 0.2, released in October 2008, became the first official release.
Name
The name Virtaal, pronounced , is a play on words. In Afrikaans, an official language of South Africa where Translate.org.za is located, the expression "vir taal" means "for language", while the word "vertaal" (pronounced the same as "vir taal") means "translate".
Supported source document formats
Virtaal works directly with any of the bilingual (containing both source and target language) files understood by the Translate Toolkit. This would include XLIFF, Gettext PO and MO, various Qt files (.qm, .ts, .qph), Wordfast translation memory, TBX, TMX and OmegaT glossaries.
Features
Simple single view interface
Colour highlighting
Autocorrect
Autocomplete
In-context segment filtering:
All segments
Partial translations and non-translated segments
All segments matching a search string (includes case-sensitivity and Python regular expressions)
Search and replace with regular expressions and Unicode normalisation
Translation memory with several back-ends:
Local translation memory database (including current file)
Remote translation memory database (such as an office TM server)
Open-Tran.eu
Machine translation through Apertium, Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, Moses or the libtranslate library providing access to several others
TinyTM
Terminology help from:
Automatically downloaded files
Local terminology files
Open-Tran.eu
Recognition and easy insertion of placeables
Language identification
Quality checks
See also
Computer-assisted Translation
Pootle
OmegaT
References
External links
Software-localization tools
Free software programmed in Python
Computer-assisted translation software for Linux
Computer-assisted translation software that uses GTK
Software that uses PyGTK |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20O.%20Limb | John O. Limb is an Australian engineer, known for fundamental contributions to the development of digital video communications and holder of a series of patents related to computer communications.
Early life and education
Born in Western Australia, he got a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (B.E.E.) (1963) and a Ph.D. on the thesis Vision Oriented Coding of Visual Signal (1967), both from the University of Western Australia. Limb studied the human vision's role in the encoding of picture, partially under the direction of Dr. Albert Seyler and Professor Zig Budrikis.
Career
He worked as researcher at the Postmaster-General's Department's research laboratory in Melbourne (1966–67) before moving to New Jersey where he joined Bell Labs (1967), being manager of the department for visual communications research (1971–78) leading to patents. He then led the research department for distributed computer systems (1978–84) before going to Bellcore research where Limb was in charge of developing the new research division for communications sciences (1984–86) where he among other projects, developed medium access control protocols for local area networks. Later he joined Hewlett Packard as director of laboratories in Bristol, England (1986–89), for the technology analysis group at Cupertino, California (1989) and for the media technology group (1992–94). Distributed Computer Systems Research Department where the emphasis was on office information systems and local/metropolitan area networks. Recently, he has worked on optical communication systems at Broadcom, working at Atlanta, Georgia.
He has held visiting professorships at the Technical University of Hannover (1975), the University of Sydney (1983), and the University of Essex (1985–86).
Limb started at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994 as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Advanced Telecommunications. He joined the faculty staff of both the Networking & Telecommunications Group in the College of Computing, and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering. He created the Georgia Tech Broadband Telecommunications Center in 1995.
Publications
Advances in local area networks (IEEE press, 1987)
Awards and honors
1978 IEEE Fellow
1973 IEEE Communications Society "Leonard G. Abraham Prize" for best paper in the field of communications systems
1982 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award for the best review paper published in the Proceedings of the IEEE in 1980
1991 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, along with C. Chapin Cutler and Arun N. Netravali
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian scientists
American people of Australian descent
Australian electrical engineers
Scientists at Bell Labs
University of Western Australia alumni
Georgia Tech faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Superman/Batman%20Adventures | The Superman/Batman Adventures is a television series that aired on USA Network in 1995. It was later aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang. The episodes were edited from various seasons of the Hanna-Barbera-produced Super Friends, as well as Filmation's 1960s series The New Adventures of Superman, The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, and The Batman/Superman Hour.
The Superman/Batman Adventures included for the first time on American television the "lost episodes" of the 1983–1984 season of Super Friends.
Cast
Main cast
Major antagonists
Supporting characters
See also
The New Batman/Superman Adventures
References
American children's animated action television series
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated superhero television series
Animated Superman television series
Super Friends
Animated Justice League television series
Animated television shows based on DC Comics
DC Comics animated television series by Filmation
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
1990s American animated television series
1995 American television series debuts
1997 American television series endings
Batman television series by Filmation
Television series by Hanna-Barbera
USA Action Extreme Team |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default%20mode%20network | In neuroscience, the default mode network (DMN), also known as the default network, default state network, or anatomically the medial frontoparietal network (M-FPN), is a large-scale brain network primarily composed of the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, precuneus and angular gyrus. It is best known for being active when a person is not focused on the outside world and the brain is at wakeful rest, such as during daydreaming and mind-wandering. It can also be active during detailed thoughts related to external task performance. Other times that the DMN is active include when the individual is thinking about others, thinking about themselves, remembering the past, and planning for the future.
The DMN was originally noticed to be deactivated in certain goal-oriented tasks and was sometimes referred to as the task-negative network, in contrast with the task-positive network. This nomenclature is now widely considered misleading, because the network can be active in internal goal-oriented and conceptual cognitive tasks. The DMN has been shown to be negatively correlated with other networks in the brain such as attention networks.
Evidence has pointed to disruptions in the DMN of people with Alzheimer's disease and autism spectrum disorder.
History
Hans Berger, the inventor of the electroencephalogram, was the first to propose the idea that the brain is constantly busy. In a series of papers published in 1929, he showed that the electrical oscillations detected by his device do not cease even when the subject is at rest. However, his ideas were not taken seriously, and a general perception formed among neurologists that only when a focused activity is performed does the brain (or a part of the brain) become active.
But in the 1950s, Louis Sokoloff and his colleagues noticed that metabolism in the brain stayed the same when a person went from a resting state to performing effortful math problems, suggesting active metabolism in the brain must also be happening during rest. In the 1970s, David H. Ingvar and colleagues observed blood flow in the front part of the brain became the highest when a person is at rest. Around the same time, intrinsic oscillatory behavior in vertebrate neurons was observed in cerebellar Purkinje cells, inferior olivary nucleus and thalamus.
In the 1990s, with the advent of positron emission tomography (PET) scans, researchers began to notice that when a person is involved in perception, language, and attention tasks, the same brain areas become less active compared to passive rest, and labeled these areas as becoming "deactivated".
In 1995, Bharat Biswal, a graduate student at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, discovered that the human sensorimotor system displayed "resting-state connectivity," exhibiting synchronicity in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans while not engaged in any task.
Later, experiments by neurologist Marcus E. Raichle's lab at Washington Univer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry%20Kersh | Kerry Kersh (née Harvick) (born September 10, 1974) is an American country music artist. Kersh starred on the first season of the Oxygen Network show The Bad Girls Club.
Music career
At age 19, Kersh performed on a local radio show, where she was discovered by Don Light, who signed her to a publishing contract with Cal IV Entertainment. Her first cut as a songwriter was "'Til Nothing Comes Between Us", a top-20 hit for John Michael Montgomery in 2002. Kersh signed to Lyric Street Records in 2004, working with producer Byron Gallimore. She was once married to singer Daryle Singletary, a native of Georgia, and she thereafter dated former country singer David Kersh, who appeared as a guest on several episodes of The Bad Girls Club.
On May 23, 2009, in Comanche, Texas, she married country singer David Kersh. They had a child and still maintain their residence in Comanche.
Kersh released one single, "Cowgirls", which was co-written by former Arista Nashville artist Ryan Tyler along with Angelo Petraglia and Hillary Lindsey. Although the song entered the Billboard country charts and peaked at number 45, Kersh's album was not released, and she was dropped from the label. She also posed in the March 2005 issue of FHM magazine along with fellow country singers Jennifer Hanson, Lauren Lucas, Catherine Britt, Shelly Fairchild, Jessi Alexander, Jamie O'Neal, and Tift Merritt.
Reality television
The Bad Girls Club
Kersh (as Kerry Harvick) starred in the first season of the reality series The Bad Girls Club. She made it through the whole season. Her husband, then boyfriend, David Kersh appeared in an episode as moral support after Kersh got into a fight with fellow BGC cast member Ripsi Terzian. During the episode, Kersh complained that she would not marry him; however, the two married years later, in 2009.
Discography
Singles
Music videos
References
American country singer-songwriters
Living people
Singer-songwriters from Texas
American women country singers
Lyric Street Records artists
1974 births
People from Comanche, Texas
21st-century American singer-songwriters
21st-century American women singers
Country musicians from Texas
Participants in American reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CwRsync | cwRsync is an implementation of rsync for Windows. rsync uses a file transfer technology specified by the rsync algorithm, transferring only changed chunks of files over the network. cwRsync can be used for remote file backup and synchronization from/to Windows systems. cwRsync contains Cygwin DLLs and a compiled version of rsync on Cygwin. A client GUI is also provided as of the version 5.0.0.
History
The first version of cwRsync was developed to address requirements of an internal project at Color Line, and was published as a free solution on the mailing list for rsync users. cwRsync quickly became very popular and is kept updated with newer versions of underlying solutions. The initial release was on March 11, 2003
As of August 2018 the free version of cwRsync server is discontinued and the last free version 5.7.2 is no longer directly available from Itefix.
At this point only the commercial binary installers of version 5.7.2 can be obtained as paid downloads. cwRsync Client remains freely available under a BSD-style licence.
Features
cwRsync comes in two versions: cwRsync client and cwRsync server. You can use the cwRsync client to initiate rsync transfers from your host, while the cwRsync server makes your files/directories available for upload/download for rsync transfers. cwRsync client contains a Secure channel wrapper to set up external secure ssh channels.
Rsync client GUI has following features:
Specify sources and destination (local, remote ssh and daemon modes)
Specify filters and a subset of options
Create rsync command according to your specification
Run rsync on the fly both in production and test mode
Create batch files for task scheduling
Save and load your favorite rsync settings as profiles
Language localization
See also
GS RichCopy 360
rsync
File Transfer Protocol
References
External links
Internet Protocol based network software
file transfer software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20data%20model | A semantic data model (SDM) is a high-level semantics-based database description and structuring formalism (database model) for databases. This database model is designed to capture more of the meaning of an application environment than is possible with contemporary database models. An SDM specification describes a database in terms of the kinds of entities that exist in the application environment, the classifications and groupings of those entities, and the structural interconnections among them. SDM provides a collection of high-level modeling primitives to capture the semantics of an application environment. By accommodating derived information in a database structural specification, SDM allows the same information to be viewed in several ways; this makes it possible to directly accommodate the variety of needs and processing requirements typically present in database applications. The design of the present SDM is based on our experience in using a preliminary version of it. SDM is designed to enhance the effectiveness and usability of database systems. An SDM database description can serve as a formal specification and documentation tool for a database; it can provide a basis for supporting a variety of powerful user interface facilities, it can serve as a conceptual database model in the database design process; and, it can be used as the database model for a new kind of database management system.
In software engineering
A semantic data model in software engineering has various meanings:
It is a conceptual data model in which semantic information is included. This means that the model describes the meaning of its instances. Such a semantic data model is an abstraction that defines how the stored symbols (the instance data) relate to the real world.
It is a conceptual data model that includes the capability to express and exchange information which enables parties to interpret meaning (semantics) from the instances, without the need to know the meta-model. Such semantic models are fact-oriented (as opposed to object-oriented). Facts are typically expressed by binary relations between data elements, whereas higher order relations are expressed as collections of binary relations. Typically binary relations have the form of triples: Object-RelationType-Object. For example: the Eiffel Tower <is located in> Paris.
Typically the instance data of semantic data models explicitly include the kinds of relationships between the various data elements, such as <is located in>. To interpret the meaning of the facts from the instances, it is required that the meaning of the kinds of relations (relation types) be known. Therefore, semantic data models typically standardize such relation types. This means that the second kind of semantic data models enables that the instances express facts that include their own meanings.
The second kind of semantic data models are usually meant to create semantic databases. The ability to include meaning in semantic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAUNT | Haunt was a straightforward but engagingly irreverent text-based mainframe computer game. It was created in OPS4 language in 1979 by John E. Laird.
In Haunt, the player explores a haunted house and encounters clues (flight speed of an African swallow), wacky creatures (rampaging moose), and random elements (the bus) as s/he tries to find treasure and escape the house alive.
The game ran on DEC-10 & DEC-20 mainframes running TOPS-10 or TOPS-20. According to the author, copies exist somewhere in Carnegie Mellon University's archive; although Laird considered rewriting it in an updated language, that did not happen. On his personal website, Laird wrote " I'm afraid that Haunt is really dead."
In 1998 the source code of the partly ported version was given to the Interactive Fiction Archive for publication.
Laird is now a professor at University of Michigan. As he describes: "It violated most, if not all, of the design guidelines for good interactive fiction in that you could get killed much too easily, the puzzles were way too obscure (many based on Saturday morning cartoons from my youth), but it had a certain charm."
TOPS-20 Emulation and Haunt
Haunt can be played today using TOPS-20 emulation. One such emulator can be found by using telnet and going to the site 'twenex.org', which is a free service on which anyone can create an account. Haunt can be run from the command line.
See also
List of text-based computer games
References
1979 video games
Adventure games
1970s horror video games
Mainframe games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Penguins%20of%20Madagascar | The Penguins of Madagascar is an American computer-animated television series co-produced by DreamWorks Animation and Nickelodeon. It stars nine characters from DreamWorks' animated film Madagascar: the penguins Skipper (Tom McGrath), Rico (John DiMaggio), Kowalski (Jeff Bennett), and Private (James Patrick Stuart); the lemurs King Julien (Danny Jacobs), Maurice (Kevin Michael Richardson), and Mort (Andy Richter); and Mason (Conrad Vernon) and Phil the chimpanzees. Characters new to the series include Marlene the otter (Nicole Sullivan) and a zookeeper named Alice (Mary Scheer). It is the first Nicktoon co-produced with DreamWorks Animation. The series was executive-produced by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle, who were the creators of the animated series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (a spin-off of Pixar's Toy Story franchise) and Disney Channel's Kim Possible.
The pilot episode, "Gone in a Flash", aired as part of "Superstuffed Nicktoons Weekend" on Friday, November 28, 2008, and The Penguins of Madagascar became a regular series on March 28, 2009. The series premiere drew 6.1 million viewers, setting a new record as the most-watched premiere.
Although the series occasionally alludes to the rest of the franchise, The Penguins of Madagascar does not take place at a precise time within it. McGrath, who is also the co-creator of the film characters, has said that the series takes place "not specifically before or after the movie, I just wanted them all back at the zoo. I think of it as taking place in a parallel universe".
At the end of 2010, the show was the number two animated program on television among kids age 2–11 and in basic cable total viewers. The show received praise for its animation quality, regarded as very good for the time.
In December 2014, DiMaggio stated that the show ended production. The show's executive producers, Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley, later served as executive consultants for DreamWorks' next Madagascar spin-off series (All Hail King Julien).
Plot
The Penguins of Madagascar is a spin-off of the Madagascar films. The series follows the adventures of four penguins: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private, who perform various commando-like missions to protect their home in the Central Park Zoo. The penguins often have to deal with problems caused, or made worse, by their zoo neighbors, King Julien XIII (a ring-tailed lemur), Maurice (an aye-aye), and Mort (a mouse lemur).
Episodes
Characters
The Penguins of Madagascar features the four penguin characters from the Madagascar franchise, as well as the two chimpanzees and the three lemurs. Characters new to the franchise include Marlene the otter and Alice the zookeeper, among others. Tom McGrath, John DiMaggio, Andy Richter, and Conrad Vernon reprise their roles as Skipper, Rico, Mort, and Mason respectively.
All four of the penguin characters are designed differently in the cartoon than they are in the movie to make them more distinguishable and easier to tell a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20information%20technology | Health information technology (HIT) is health technology, particularly information technology, applied to health and health care. It supports health information management across computerized systems and the secure exchange of health information between consumers, providers, payers, and quality monitors. Based on a 2008 report on a small series of studies conducted at four sites that provide ambulatory care – three U.S. medical centers and one in the Netherlands, the use of electronic health records (EHRs) was viewed as the most promising tool for improving the overall quality, safety and efficiency of the health delivery system.
Risk-based regulatory framework for health IT
September 4, 2013 the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC) accepted and approved recommendations from the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) working group for a risk-based regulatory framework for health information technology. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) kicked off the FDASIA workgroup of the HITPC to provide stakeholder input into a report on a risk-based regulatory framework that promotes safety and innovation and reduces regulatory duplication, consistent with section 618 of FDASIA. This provision permitted the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to form a workgroup in order to obtain broad stakeholder input from across the health care, IT, patients and innovation spectrum. The FDA, ONC, and FCC actively participated in these discussions with stakeholders from across the health care, IT, patients and innovation spectrum.
HIMSS Good Informatics Practices-GIP is aligned with FDA risk-based regulatory framework for health information technology.
GIP development began in 2004 developing risk-based IT technical guidance. Today the GIP peer-review and published modules are widely used as a tool for educating Health IT professionals.
Interoperable HIT will improve individual patient care, but it will also bring many public health benefits including:
early detection of infectious disease outbreaks around the country;
improved tracking of chronic disease management;
evaluation of health care based on value enabled by the collection of de-identified price and quality information that can be compared
According to an article published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics, health information sharing between patients and providers helps to improve diagnosis, promotes self care, and patients also know more information about their health. The use of electronic medical records (EMRs) is still scarce now but is increasing in Canada, American and British primary care. Healthcare information in EMRs are important sources for clinical, research, and policy questions. Health information privacy (HIP) and security has been a big concern for patients and providers. Studies in Europe evaluating electronic health information |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Grossman | Gary Grossman was the primary developer of ActionScript programming language.
He currently works with Robert Tatsumi (creators of Adobe Flash) at Zendesk.
In his previous position as a principal scientist at Adobe Systems, Gary was a key architect of the Flash Player, which was once the most popular multimedia player on the web. Gary contributed to six major releases of Flash in various capacities, including individual developer, team architect, and engineering manager.
References
Computer programmers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country%20TV | Country TV is a New Zealand television channel broadcast on channel 081 on SKY Network Television. Country TV aims to provide information and entertainment specifically for New Zealand farmers and the rural community.
The channel was launched on 1 October 2008 on SKY Digital TV channel 099 as The Country Channel. On 1 November 2009 the channel changed its name to Country99TV to more closely align with its target demographic, as viewers and clients were simply calling the channel "Channel 99". On 1 May 2013, the Sky channel number was changed to 081 so the name became Country TV
Country TV offers a variety of programming and its flagship shows are locally produced news, weather and current affairs shows. The news team includes journalists David Beatson, Genevieve Westcott and broadcaster Mark Leishman. The channel also offers short range and long range weather forecasts for New Zealand farmers.
Country TV is privately backed by rural investors and is based in Auckland, New Zealand. It is available by subscription only.
Programming
The Channel focuses entirely on programming relating to farming, including farming programs, news, weather, financial information, and reviews of products and services.
References
Television channels in New Zealand
Television stations in New Zealand
Television channels and stations established in 2008 |
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