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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E31 | European route E31 is an international Class-A road in Europe, part of the United Nations E-road network. It has a north–south reference.
It runs from Rotterdam, Netherlands to Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Firstly, it leaves Rotterdam, where it links to the E19 and E25 roads. It heads roughly east through the Netherlands, passing through Gorinchem (where it connects to the E311), and Nijmegen before crossing the border into Germany.
It passes first through Goch and Krefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia and heads southwards before entering Cologne, where it links with four other E-roads: the E29, the E35, the E37, and the E40. It then continues south, going through Koblenz (where it connects to the E44), and then on to Bingen am Rhein, where it makes its final connection, to the E42. It then reaches its final destination of Hockenheim, where the E31 connects with the E50.
Its total length is .
The route from Parma to La Spezia in Italy, although identified as E33 in the E-network, is also signposted as E31.
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20L.%20Glass | Robert L. (Bob) Glass (born 1932) is an American software engineer and writer, known for his works on software engineering, especially on the measuring of the quality of software design and his studies of the state of the art of software engineering research.
Biography
Glass held his first job in computing in 1954. He worked from 1954 to 1957 in the aerospace industry at North American Aviation, from 1957 to 1965 at Aerojet-General Corp. and from 1965 to 1982 at Boeing Company, where he built software tools used by applications specialists.
Between 1970 and 1972, Glass had worked on a tools-focused research grant at the University of Washington. From 1982 to 1987, he taught in the Software Engineering graduate program at Seattle University, and subsequently spent a year at the Software Engineering Institute. Early 2000s he has been visiting professor at the Linköping University in Sweden and at the Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. The Linkoping University awarded him a honorary PhD in 1995.
He is the emeritus editor-in-chief of the Journal of Systems and Software and also writes regular columns for Communications of the ACM and IEEE Software. In 1995 he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. from Linkoping University of Sweden, and in 1999 he was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) professional society. Using the pseudonym Miles Benson, Glass in the 1970's regularly wrote disguised stories of failed computing projects for industry publication Computerworld.
After 45 years in the field Glass described himself as "my head is in the academic area of computing, but my heart is in its practice."
Writing in IEEE Software in 2000, Glass criticized open-source software, predicting that it will not reach far, and "will be limited to one or a few cults emerging from a niche culture." Glass's basis for this bold prediction was that open-source software "goes against the grain of everything I know about the software field".
Publications
Glass authored more than 200 papers and 25 books. A selection:
1977. The universal elixir and other computing projects which failed
1978. Tales of computing folk : hot dogs and mixed nuts
1979. Software reliability guidebook
1979. Power of peonage
1980. The second coming : more computing projects which failed. With "Sue deNim".
1981. Software soliloquies
1981. Software maintenance guidebook
1983. Real-time software (edited by)
1983. Computing catastrophes (compiled by)
1988. Modern programming practices : a report from industry
1988. Software communication skills
1989. Software runaways
1990. Measuring software design quality. With David N. Card.
1991. Software conflict : essays on the art and science of software engineering
1992. Measuring and motivating maintenance programmers. With Jerome B. Landsbaum.
1995. Software creativity
1996. ISO 9000 approach to building quality software. With Östen Oskarsson.
1998. In the Beginning: Recollections of Software Pioneers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfless%20%28Prison%20Break%29 | "Selfless" is the 69th episode of the American television series Prison Break and was broadcast on November 24, 2008 in the United States on the Fox Network.
Plot
The General and two of his bodyguards enter the vault to stop Michael from taking Scylla. However, when they exit the elevator, they are held at gunpoint by Lincoln, Mahone, and Sucre. The General reluctantly hands over the sixth final card. He gloats that the convicts are five cards short, but is shocked when he sees that the convicts possess perfect copies of the other cards, allowing Michael to access the unit and take Scylla. The convicts then take the elevator back upstairs and barricade themselves in the General's office. Meanwhile, Self and Trishanne are still being held captive by Feng, but Trishanne yells to create a distraction, and Self gets free and kills their captors, and Trishanne kills Feng instinctively, which seems to make Self concerned. At GATE, Mr White introduces himself to Gretchen, who is once again conferring with T-Bag, only to see their machine guns under the desk. Mr White slips back to his office, but Gretchen holds him at gunpoint while T-Bag forces the other hostages into the office. Back at Company headquarters, the General believes that the convicts have no plan and are trapped when he gets a phone call. It's from Sara, who has Lisa Tabak—a cardholder and the General's daughter—at gunpoint in a hotel bathroom. To save his daughter, the General allows the convicts to go free. They drive to the airport in a Company truck for a rendezvous with Self, where Sucre and Mahone go their own way while Michael and Lincoln head into the airport. Company agents stop the brothers and take their backpack (which contains the Scylla unit), only to be caught themselves by airport police tipped off by Mahone. When the agents and the police search the brothers' backpack, they realise Scylla isn't there: Sucre and Mahone had it the whole time. In the GATE offices, Trishanne returns to resume her cover only to discover the hostage situation. She tries to free the hostages, and although Mr. White is killed by Gretchen, she manages to force T-Bag and Gretchen out of the building. In the parking lot, Gretchen tries to double-cross T-Bag when Trishanne shows up in a car. Gretchen escapes, but T-Bag is caught and arrested by Trishanne, who reveals that she is actually Miriam Holtz from Homeland Security.
Self meets the group at the warehouse after the successful mission. Michael hands over Scylla, and Self gives them an envelope full of release papers and tells them that Homeland Security are sending vans to take them for final processing, and an ambulance to take Michael to the hospital. While the group contemplates their imminent freedom, Self meets Holtz in an abandoned lot, where she has T-Bag handcuffed in her car. Self verifies what she and T-Bag know about the potential Scylla buyers, before apologizing to her and pulling out his gun and shooting her dead. In the warehous |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLGN | NLGN may refer to:
Neuroligin, a protein
New Local Government Network, a think tank of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCorps | NetCorps (French: Cyberjeunes) was a volunteer-organizing coalition consisting of nine Canadian non-governmental organizations (NGOs), funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and managed by the NetCorps coordination unit. Through the program, the organizations created international information and communication technologies (ICT) internships in developing countries around the world. Interns typically participated in six-month programs, leaving between August and November for host organizations in the placement countries. Positions were limited to 19–30-year-old Canadian citizens or landed immigrants who had "appropriate information and communication technologies skills". Typical duties included creating webpages, developing databases, computer networking, setting up hardware, preparing manuals and other documentation, and general-to-advanced computer instruction.
Program
Objectives
To strengthen the ICT capacity of civil society and public-sector organizations to contribute to development goals in governance, education, health, gender equality and environmental sustainability
Increase the professional skills and capacities of young Canadians aged 19 to 30 to contribute positively to Canadian international development efforts and secure meaningful employment
To increase the awareness and promote greater engagement of young Canadians with respect to international development issues
Budget
During the 2007-2008 season, the program placed 240 interns and was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC) at a cost of C$4.6 million. The program covered all travel and accommodation expenses for the interns, provided a modest living allowance and a completion bonus.
History
NetCorps creation
NetCorps Canada International was conceived in 1996 by Dr. David Johnston (Governor General of Canada as of 2011 and former President of the University of Waterloo), a prominent lawyer and adviser to the federal government on information-highway issues.
Phase I
In 1997 Industry Canada, in partnership with the Special Initiatives Division of Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), funded a NetCorps-style test project that sent two residents of Cape Breton to Angola for Internet and Geographic Information Systems projects. This NetCorps conceptualization and placement was done through the Centre for Community and Enterprise Networking (C/CEN) and Dr.Michael Gurstein, Director of the Centre and (at the time) Chair in the Management of Technology Change at the University College of Cape Breton. An initial NetCorps training program and manual were produced as a result of this program. Notably, the two placements in Angola were of previously unemployed young adults from Cape Breton; they were provided with training in Linux through C/CEN as part of a demonstration program in the economic benefits that could be achieved through local investment in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20and%20Lisa%20Exchange%20Cross%20Words | "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" is the sixth episode of the twentieth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 16, 2008. In the episode, Lisa discovers that she has a talent for solving crossword puzzles, and she enters a crossword tournament. Lisa's feelings are hurt when she discovers that Homer bet against her in the championship match.
The episode was inspired by Patrick Creadon's 2006 documentary Wordplay, and was written by Tim Long, and directed by Nancy Kruse. Crossword puzzle creators Merl Reagle and Will Shortz guest star as themselves in the episode while Scott Thompson has a cameo as Grady, a character he first voiced in "Three Gays of the Condo". Reagle created all of the crossword puzzles that appear in the episode and as a promotion for the episode, a special Simpsons-related message (dedicated to this episode) that appeared in The New York Times Sunday crossword on November 16, 2008.
The episode received generally positive reviews from critics, and finished fourth in its timeslot during its initial airing on Fox, with a 3.9 Nielsen rating.
Plot
Bart and Lisa start a lemonade stand, but it is quickly closed due to their not having a vending permit. They get in line at the licensing bureau, only to find that the long line is standing still due to the clerk doing a crossword puzzle. Impatient, Lisa completes the puzzle herself, only to find herself addicted to the puzzles. The scene is a shot-for-shot adaptation of the Al Sanders scene in Wordplay. Eventually, she becomes so obsessed with them that Superintendent Chalmers hands her a pamphlet for the Crossword City Tournament. Meanwhile, at Moe's, Edna Krabappel offers to buy a beer for anyone who breaks up with Principal Skinner for her. Homer ends their relationship and decides to take a second job in which he helps break up romantic relationships. Grady, one of his old roommates, calls Homer and asks him to break up Grady's and his boyfriend's relationship because he found a new and "better" man in Duffman. Homer successfully manages to break up the couple. After making a good deal of money, he dreams that he is pestered by the "ghosts" of the jilted lovers and thus quits the trade.
At the crossword tournament, Homer bets his money from his breakup business on Lisa and wins big. However, upon hearing Lisa saying that she is wary of the final round, he bets on the other finalist, Gil Gunderson. Gil plays Lisa for her sympathy and cons her into losing the round, which in turn lets Homer win his final bet. Upon realizing that Homer has come into some money by betting against her in the tournament, Lisa gets angry at him and refuses to acknowledge herself as Homer's daughter, even going so far as to take Marge's maiden name and start calling herself "Lisa Bouvier". Feeling guilty, Homer commissions Merl Reagle and Will Shortz to create a special puzzle for the New York Times, with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash%20Back%21 | Bash Back! was a network of queer, insurrectionary anarchist cells active in the United States between 2007 and 2011.
Formed in Chicago in 2007 to facilitate a convergence of radical trans and gay activists from around the country, Bash Back! sought to critique the ideology of the mainstream LGBT movement, which the group saw as assimilation into the dominant institutions of a heteronormative society. Bash Back! was noticeably influenced by the anarchist movement and radical queer groups, such as ACT UP, and took inspiration from the Stonewall and San Francisco's White Night riots.
The group arose out of anti–Republican National Convention and anti–Democratic National Convention organizing, and continued up to 2011. Chapters sprang up across the country, including in Philadelphia and Seattle. The organization's model was a nonhierarchical autonomous network based on agreed-upon points of unity, such as fighting for "queer liberation" rather than "heteronormative assimilation", and accepting a diversity of tactics, "including an individual’s autonomy to participate in actions deemed illegal by the government".
Actions
Bash Back! Chicago carried out a number of actions during their city's Pride Weekend in 2008. The first was participation in the annual Chicago Dyke March in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Bash Back!'s contingent in the march focused on resistance to gentrification in the Pilsen community. In addition, members of Bash Back! also took part in Chicago's larger Chicago Pride Parade. Bash Back! Chicago wheeled a cage through the parade containing a member dressed as Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley, whom the group charged was responsible for cutting AIDS funding, turning a blind eye to police torture and brutality, and supporting gentrification. Simultaneously, members of the group also distributed barf bags with slogans written on them such as "Corporate Pride Makes Me Sick," a statement about the commercial and assimilative intentions of mainstream gay culture.
A contingent from Bash Back! picketed in Lansing, Michigan, in November 2008 outside Mount Hope Church, a church that promoted anti-gay beliefs. Several members interrupted a worship service, unfurling a banner and showering fliers. In May 2009, Alliance Defense Fund filed a federal lawsuit against Bash Back! on behalf of the church, under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The suit ended in 2011 with an agreement for the defendants to pay $2,750 in damages and refrain from future church demonstrations.
Bash Back dissolved by July 2011 due to internal politics.
In March of 2023 a Bash Back! international convergence was announced and set to occur on September 8–11 of that year in Chicago, IL.
See also
References
Further reading
Anarchism in the United States
LGBT criticism of marriage
LGBT political advocacy groups in the United States
LGBT anarchism
Political activism
Queer organizations
2007 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GravitySimulator | gravitySimulator is a novel supercomputer that incorporates special-purpose GRAPE hardware to solve the gravitational n-body problem. It is housed in the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG) at the Rochester Institute of Technology. It became operational in 2005.
The computer consists of 32 nodes, each of which contains a GRAPE-6A board ("mini-GRAPE") in a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) slot. The GRAPE boards use pipelines to compute pairwise forces between particles at a speed of 130 Gflops.
The on-board memory of each GRAPE board can hold data for 128,000 particles, and by combining 32 of them in a cluster, a total of four million particles can be integrated, at sustained speeds of 4Tflops.
gravitySimulator is used to study the dynamical evolution of galaxies and galactic nuclei.
References
External links
phiGRAPE, an N-body code optimized for GRAPE clusters
How to build and use special purpose PC clusters in stellar dynamics
Astrophysics
Rochester Institute of Technology
Supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E33 | European route E33 is a series of roads in Italy, part of the United Nations International E-road network.
It runs from Parma to La Spezia, both in Italy.
It leaves Parma, where it links to E35 and heads south-west, reaching its destination of La Spezia, where it further links to E80, a transcontinental route. This is exactly the same route as the Italian A15.
In practice, the number E33 does not appear on any road signs. Instead, its entire stretch is signposted as E31, creating a duplication with the E31 in Germany and the Netherlands. This goes back to the numbering set forth in the original European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries (AGR) of 1975, in which Parma - La Spezia was numbered E31 and Rotterdam - Ludwigshafen was numbered E33. These numbers were swapped upon the AGR's entry into force in 1985, apparently resulting from the fact that the Parma - La Spezia route is entirely situated east of the Rotterdam - Ludwigshafen route so that the former should under AGR principles have a number above the former. This numbering change, however, never made it onto Italian signs.
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
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E033 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E37 | European route E37 is a series of roads in Germany, that is part of the United Nations International E-road network.
It runs from Bremen to Cologne (), both in Germany.
The route leaves Bremen, where it connects to the E22, the E233 and the E234. It then heads immediately south-west, with the first major settlement it passes through being Osnabrück in the German state of Lower Saxony (), where it links with the European Route E30. It then heads south, entering North Rhine-Westphalia () and passing through the city of Dortmund and connecting to the E34, the E41 and the E331.
It then heads south through North Rhine-Westphalia, reaching its final destination of Cologne, where it links to the E29, the E31, the E35, and the E40, enabling travel to France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, and even as far as Poland and Russia.
Its total length is .
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
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037 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Secret%20Saturdays%20episodes | The Secret Saturdays is an animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network in most countries and on Teletoon in Canada. The episodes are directed by Scott Jeralds and produced by PorchLight Entertainment. The series debuted on Cartoon Network on October 3, 2008.
The series concentrates on the adventures of the Saturdays, a family of cryptozoologists who work to keep the truth about cryptids from getting out in order to protect the human race and the creatures themselves. The Saturdays travel the Earth searching for cryptids to study and battling twisted villains like the megalomaniac V.V. Argost. The series is influenced by the style of 1960s-era Hanna-Barbera action series (such as Jonny Quest) and is combined with creator Jay Stephens's own personal interest in cryptozoology.
The first season has 26 episodes and is focused primarily on the Saturdays' search for an ancient Sumerian cryptid called Kur, who has the power to control an army of cryptids. At the end of the season finale, it was revealed that Kur was none other than Zak Saturday, a fact of which not even Zak was aware. On November 7, 2009, a second season containing 10 episodes aired to follow up on the cliffhanger ending. It featured a self-contained story arc focused on Zak and his family dealing with the revelation of Zak being Kur and the consequences of that knowledge. The series ended on January 30, 2010. Contrary to what many people believe, there are only two seasons.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2008–09)
Season 2 (2009–10)
The Secret Saturdays/Ben 10 crossover
See also
List of The Secret Saturdays characters
References
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Cartoon Network television series episodes
The Secret Saturdays
2000s television-related lists
2010s television-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E74 | European route E74 is a series of roads in France and Italy, part of the United Nations International E-road network. The route runs from Nice in France to Alessandria in Italy.
At its starting point in Nice the E74 connects to European route E80, from where it heads southeast, crossing the Italian border into Piedmont, then passing through Cuneo and Asti before finally reaching Alessandria. At this point it links to European route E25 and European route E70. The total length of the E74 is .
References
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
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E074
E074 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E64 | European route E 64 is a series of roads in Italy, part of the United Nations International E-road network.
It runs from Turin to Brescia, both in Italy.
Firstly it leaves Turin (in Piedmont), heading northeast into Lombardy and passing through Milan. It then continues north-east until it reaches its final destination of Brescia.
Connections with other E-roads
At Turin, it connects to the E 70, the E 612, and the E 717.
Upon reaching Milan, it makes a connection to both the E 35 and the E 62.
When it finishes at Brescia, it links with European Route E 70.
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
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E064 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECML%20PKDD | ECML PKDD, the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, is one of the leading academic conferences on machine learning and knowledge discovery, held in Europe every year.
History
ECML PKDD is a merger of two European conferences, European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD). ECML and PKDD have been co-located since 2001; however, both ECML and PKDD retained their own identity until 2007. For example, the 2007 conference was known as "the 18th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 11th European Conference
on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD)", or in brief, "ECML/PKDD 2007", and both ECML and PKDD had their own conference proceedings. In 2008 the conferences were merged into one conference, and the division into traditional ECML topics and traditional PKDD topics was removed.
The history of ECML dates back to 1986, when the European Working Session on Learning was first held. In 1993 the name of the conference was changed to European Conference on Machine Learning.
PKDD was first organised in 1997. Originally PKDD stood for the European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery from Databases. The name European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases was used since 1999.
Upcoming conferences
List of past conferences
References
External links
ECML proceedings information in DBLP.
PKDD proceedings information in DBLP.
Artificial intelligence conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia%20High | Britannia High is a British musical drama television series co-produced by Granada Television and Globe Productions for the ITV network. The series focused on the lives of a group of teenagers and their mentors at a fictional London theatre school. It aired on ITV and TV3 Ireland, premiering on 26 October 2008.
The show starred Sapphire Elia, Georgina Hagen, Mitch Hewer, Rana Roy, Matthew James Thomas and Marcquelle Ward, as well as Adam Garcia as the dance mentor, Lorraine Pilkington as the music mentor and Mark Benton as the school principal and acting mentor. In addition to the main cast, the series featured cameo performances from Girls Aloud, Boyzone, Matt Willis and Gemma Bissix. Also, Aston Merrygold, lead singer of boy band JLS, auditioned for the role before his success in the group - but only made it to the final 16. George Ure, who attended Mountview Academy, also auditioned before his success in the musical Wicked where he played Boq. Pixie Lott also auditioned, as did Ed Sheeran and Danielle Peazer. The show featured an original soundtrack which was created by a team of pop producers and writers in the UK, led by Take That member Gary Barlow.
Production
Britannia High was based on an idea by Strictly Come Dancing choreography judge Arlene Phillips and theatre impresario David Ian, who were both executive producers for the show. It was developed by producer Gareth Philips for ITV Productions in Manchester. Alongside Philips, the production team consisted of series producer and lead director Brian Grant, executive producers Kieran Roberts and Mark Wells, and Anita Land for Globe Productions. It was written by Jonathan Harvey, Damon Rochefort, Julie Jones, Kirstie Falkous, and John Regier.
In addition to Arlene Phillips managing the choreography, Gary Barlow was heavily involved in providing the score of Britannia High. Guy Chambers, Steve Mac, Andy Hill, Mark Owen, James Bourne and Eliot Kennedy also contributed to the musical component of the show.
Britannia High was commissioned by ITV from its in-house production division. After low ratings, ITV did not commission a second series.
Episode list
Britannia High began broadcasting in a primetime Sunday night slot starting on 26 October 2008. The first episode was made available on ITV Player as a "sneak peek" on 17 October.
Release
Weekly ratings
Episode 2 was delayed by 15 minutes due to overrunning ITV Sport coverage of the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Interactive elements
Britannia High featured a wide range of online content, including on itv.com, ITV Mobile, ITV Interactive and the social networking site, Bebo.
The Britannia High website was the virtual home of the performing arts school, and featured interactive elements such as blogs, photographs, e-newsletters and music from Universal Artists. Additionally, two characters, BB and Jez, hosted a podcast featuring songs from the series and also world songs. ITV's red button service, ITV Interactive, featured preview and catch-up |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Finke | Tommy Finke (born Thomas David Finke on 4 February 1981 in Bochum, Germany), also known as T.D. Finck von Finckenstein, is a singer-songwriter as well as composer of electronic computer music, theatre music and for modern dance.
Bio
Tommy Finke was born Thomas David Finke in Bochum, West Germany. Since 1998 he has been on stage, first playing cover versions of Oasis songs, and later his own material. Bands like The Beatles, The Cure, Rio Reiser and The Police are the main influences in his work, as well as German Indie bands like Tocotronic and Die Sterne.
Finke was the lead singer of different project bands before he finally started his own band, called "Stromgitarre", in 1999. However, since he wrote all the music and lyrics, the band was renamed "Tommy Finke & Stromgitarre" in 2003. The band was later renamed again and became "Tommy Finke & Band".
Tommy Finke studied "Elektronische Komposition" at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen from 2003 on. In 2008, he graduated but decided to continue his studies in order to learn more about modern music.
In 2007, Tommy Finke founded his own record label, "Retter des Rock Records", in order to release his debut album "Repariert, was Euch kaputt macht!", which was released as a vinyl record in 2007 and re-released as a CD Version in 2008.
Tommy Finke and his band took second place at the nationwide German "Jugend kulturell Förderpreis 2008" on 11 November.
In August 2009, Tommy Finke announced there will be a new record entitled "Poet der Affen / Poet of the Apes" in early 2010 due to a record deal with German label Roof Music. The recording sessions for this album started in October 2008.
"Poet der Affen / Poet of the Apes" was released as a double album on 29 January 2010. It contains 13 songs, each recorded in German and English. This is unique for a German singer/songwriter. On the title track of the album, well-known skeptic James Randi is heard speaking an introduction.
"Unkämmbar" was released on 28 March 2013 as a special edition album.
Theatre
For the play Das goldene Zeitalter – 100 Wege dem Schicksal die Show zu stehlen by Kay Voges Finke composed a complete musical soundtrack. The play premiered on 13 September 2013 at Theater Dortmund.
In 2014 Tommy Finke composed music for 4.48 Psychosis written by Sarah Kane,
also directed by Kay Voges. Equipped with body-sensors the actors' body-data controls parts of the composition. It premiered on 3 May 2014 at Theater Dortmund.
Releases
Pop music
Discography
2008 Repariert, was Euch kaputt macht! (10 Songs, Retter des Rock Records, Vinyl, CD and online)
2010 Poet der Affen / Poet of the Apes (13 songs (26 tracks in German and English), ROOF Music, Indigo)
2013 Unkämmbar (AREA Entertainment)
Singles/EPs
2004 1000 Meilen (8-Track-EP, 5 songs, Baukau Media/Rough Trade)
2007 Repariert, was Euch kaputt macht! – Single (2-track online release, Retter des Rock Records)
2010 Halt' alle Uhren an / Stop the Clocks (digital release, ROOF Mus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabbay%27s%20separation%20theorem | In mathematical logic and computer science, Gabbay's separation theorem, named after Dov Gabbay, states that any arbitrary temporal logic formula can be rewritten in a logically equivalent "past → future" form. I.e. the future becomes what must be satisfied. This form can be used as execution rules; a MetateM program is a set of such rules.
References
Artificial intelligence
Theorems
Temporal logic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkMarket | DarkMarket was an English-speaking internet cybercrime forum created by Renukanth Subramaniam in London that was shut down in 2008 after FBI agent J. Keith Mularski infiltrated it using the alias Master Splyntr, leading to more than 60 arrests worldwide. Subramaniam, who used the alias JiLsi, admitted conspiracy to defraud and was sentenced to nearly five years in prison in February 2010.
DarkMarket also refers to a new darknet market founded in 2019 under the same name. However, German prosecutors in the cities of Koblenz and Oldenburg said 12 January 2021 that they had shut down what was "probably the largest illegal marketplace on the Darknet" called DarkMarket and physically arrested the man believed to operate it near Germany's border with Denmark.
The website allowed buyers and sellers of stolen identities and credit card data to meet and conduct criminal enterprise in an entrepreneurial, peer-reviewed environment. It had 2,500 users at its peak.
According to supervisory special agent Mularski of the FBI's Cyber Initiative & Resource Fusion Unit, their undercover operation was "very successful in getting to the upper echelons of the Dark Market group and we were actually able to run the server and host all the communications that were going on there to make our cases." He obtained full access to everyone using the site and what they were doing by securing the server after gaining Subramaniam's confidence.
In Congressional testimony on November 17, 2009, FBI Deputy Assistant Director, Cyber Division Steven R. Chabinsky described the FBI operation:
In a speech to the GovSec/FOSE Conference on March 23, 2010, Chabinsky related explained
Another DarkMarket member, Thomas James Frederick Smith, pleaded guilty on June 10, 2010, to conspiracy to intentionally cause damage to a protected computer and to commit computer fraud.
References
Further reading
Glenny, Misha, DarkMarket : cyberthieves, cybercops, and you, New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Internet forums
Organized crime groups in the United States
Carding (fraud) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Azerbaijani%20films%20of%20the%201920s | A list of films produced in Azerbaijan SSR ordered by year of release in the 1920s:
Films:1918–1990 see also List of Soviet films
1923-
External links
Azerbaijani film at the Internet Movie Database
Azerbaycan Kinosu
1920
Lists of 1920s films
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televisi%C3%B3n%20Mexiquense | Mexiquense TV is the public television network of the Mexican State of Mexico. It is operated by the Sistema de Radio y Televisión Mexiquense, a state agency which also owns six radio stations. It consists of two high-powered television transmitters covering the valleys of Toluca and Mexico, supplemented by 28 retransmitters.
History
A little more than a year after the initial sign-on of the first radio station, on 10 July 1984 the Televisión Mexiquense broadcasting system was deployed using the following transmitters: XHGEM-TV channel 7 in Metepec, serving Toluca (relocated to channel 12 in 1988 after channel 7 Mexico City signed on); XHTEJ-TV channel 12 in Tejupilco; and XHATL-TV channel 4 in Atlacomulco. Atlacomulco went off the air at some point, and Tejupilco's permit was not renewed and a retransmitter set up there upon the state network's conversion to digital.
In 1998, responsibility for Televisión Mexiquense was transferred to the newly formed Sistema de Radio y Televisión Mexiquense, part of the Secretariat of Education, Culture and Social Welfare of the state of Mexico.
In 1999, coverage was extended to the east of the Mexican capital, covering the Cuautitlán-Texcoco Valley and the Federal District, by means of XHPTP-TV channel 34 and a broadcast tower atop Three Padres Peak in the municipality of Coacalco.
Due largely to expansion in coverage of the network, on 11 November 1999, the responsibility for the Sistema de Radio y Televisión Mexiquense was moved away from the Secretariat of Education, Culture and Social Welfare to become the direct responsibility of the Government of the State of Mexico. Some drastic changes in the programming content followed, departing largely from coverage of very local subjects that previously had occupied most of the broadcast schedule.
After the year 2000, Televisión Mexiquense began expansion of its signal to other parts of the Republic and internationally, taking advantage of new technologies and the growing popularity of subscription television. In 2001, the Sky System and the Solidaridad (Solidarity) II satellite extended its signal nationwide. Coverage was extended to Cablevisión subscribers in November 2003.
In 2004, with the obsolescence of the Solidaridad II satellite, Televisión Mexiquense migrated to a new Mexican government-owned satellite, Satmex 5. Its network coverage area now extended outside Mexican national territory, reaching the United States, southern Canada, the Caribbean, Central America and most of South America.
On 25 June 2004, the Televisión Mexiquense signal was carried live for the first time via Internet streaming video.
In March 2016, the two remaining high-power transmitters were authorized to clear the 600 MHz band by moving to lower channels. XHGEM moved to RF channel 20, while XHPTP relocated its digital facilities to its former analog channel 34.
Transmitters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Ward%20Wilson | Herbert Ward Wilson (29 September 1877 – 1 October 1955) was an Australian science lecturer and naturalist.
Education
B. Com 1sth computer eng.
World War 1
Wilson's studies were interrupted by the First World War. Enlisting in the Australian Imperial Forces in 1915, he served at Gallipoli and in Egypt and France, being steadily promoted and rising to the rank of Major by the time of his demobilization in 1919. He was awarded the Military Cross, the Belgian Croix de guerre and was appointed to the OBE.
Career
After the war Wilson married Myra Hester Smith in 1920. Resuming his studies, he gained a BSc in 1920 and a MSc in 1925. This was followed by a career of lecturing on biological science, and especially botany. He was a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, the Bird Observers Club, the Microscopical Society and the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, from the latter of which he was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion in 1943. He died at his home in Caulfield, being survived by a son.
References
1877 births
1955 deaths
Australian naturalists
Australian educators
Science teachers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Sunday | Good Sunday () is a South Korean reality-variety show shown on the SBS network, which competes directly against MBC's Sunday Night and KBS2's Happy Sunday line-up. The program has suffered from the competition of Happy Sunday and Sunday Night but reached its way to #1 on the Top 20 Charts every Sunday. Good Sunday consists of a line-up of "corner programs", or segments, which air within the program. The program ended on March 19, 2017, opting for individual programs divided into two parts for inserting commercials (which is not allowed for programs on terrestrial television).
History
Prior to Good Sunday, Ultra Sunday Hurray! (초특급 일요일만세) began airing on March 18, 2001. Beginning on January 20, 2002 Show! Sunday World (쇼!일요천하) aired, and on July 14, 2002 Beautiful Sunday (뷰티풀 선데이) aired until March 28, 2004, where Good Sunday began to air its new, popular programming. As of July 11, 2010, the program began airing in high definition for the first time. (Only Part 1, Running Man, aired in HD as Part 2, Family Outing 2, which still aired in SD, was airing its last episode.) As of July 18, 2010, both Part 1 and 2 (Running Man and Heroes) air in HD. Good Sunday was divided into two parts, from July 27, 2008 to May 8, 2011. On May 22, 2011, it returned to airing as one "whole" program beginning at 5:20 pm KST and ending at 8:00 pm for about 160 minutes. As of September 25, 2011, Good Sunday is divided into two parts again, Part 1 airing at 5:20 pm and Part 2 airing at 6:50 pm KST, in an effort to boost ratings. On December 4, 2011, it returned to airing as one whole program again beginning at 5:00 pm for about 180 minutes.
Broadcasting times
March 28, 2004 - October 29, 2006 (17:50 - 20:00 ; 2 hours 10 minutes)
November 5, 2006 - November 4, 2007 (17:30 - 18:40 ; 1 hour 10 minutes)
November 11, 2007 - May 18, 2008 (17:30 - 20:00 ; 2 hours 30 minutes)
May 25, 2008 – August 21, 2011 (17:20 - 20:00 ; 2 hours 40 minutes)
July 27, 2008 - July 11, 2010; March 20, 2011 – May 8, 2011 (17:20 - 18:40 ; 1 hour 20 minutes ; Part 1)
July 27, 2008 - May 23, 2010; July 11, 2010; March 20, 2011 – May 1, 2011 (18:50 - 20:00 ; 1 hour 10 minutes ; Part 2)
July 18, 2010 – March 13, 2011 (17:20 - 18:35 ; 1 hour 15 minutes ; Part 1)
July 18, 2010 – March 13, 2011 (18:45 - 20:00 ; 1 hour 15 minutes ; Part 2)
August 28, 2011 – December 4, 2011 (17:05 - 20:00 ; 2 hours 55 minutes)
September 25 - November 27, 2011 (17:05 - 18:30 ; 1 hour 25 minutes ; Part 1)
September 25 - November 27, 2011 (18:40 - 20:00 ; 1 hour 20 minutes ; Part 2)
December 11, 2011 - November 11, 2012 (17:00 - 20:00 ; 3 hours)
November 18, 2012 – November 17, 2013 (16:55 - 20:00 ; 3 hours 5 minutes)
November 24, 2013 - April 13, 2014 (16:40 - 20:00 ; 3 hours 20 minutes)
May 4 - August 17, 2014 (16:10 - 20:00 ; 3 hours 50 minutes)
August 24, 2014 – March 19, 2017 (16:50 - 20:00 ; 3 hours 10 minutes)
March 20, 2016 - March 19, 2017 (16:50 - 18:25 ; 1 hour 35 minutes ; Part 1)
March 20, 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20Lancer | Active Lancer is a 2D shoot 'em up video game created by Freeverse for Mac OS 9 and macOS. It plays in the style of many old school computer games and features little plot line or story development. The demo is downloadable from macgamefiles.com. There are several levels the player is required to complete. It lacks a multiplayer mode but two players can play together on the same computer. It was much less successful than Freeverse's popular WingNuts Series.
It was re-released as part of a 'Best of Original Mac Games' bundle from Freeverse.
Storyline
In the game the player is cast as a member of the "Active Lancer Corps". He is the lone survivor of a failed attack on the home world of an alien race known as the "cherries" where he has to face fast unending attacks by the aliens.
References
2003 video games
MacOS games
Classic Mac OS games
Shoot 'em ups
Video games developed in the United States
Freeverse Inc. games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFL%20%28programming%20language%29 | EFL is a programming language originated by programmer A.D. Hall in the late 1970s and completed by Stuart Feldman. It was intended to improve on Fortran by adding control structures similar to those of C and was implemented as a preprocessor to a Fortran compiler. Its name is an initialism for Extended Fortran Language. It is roughly a superset of Ratfor.
References
Fortran programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%20Hunters%20%28film%29 | Dragon Hunters (French: Chasseurs de dragons) is a 2008 French-German-Luxembourgish 3D computer-animated fantasy film telling the adventures of two dragon hunters, written by Frédéric Engel-Lenoir, directed by creator Arthur Qwak and Guillaume Ivernel with music by Klaus Badelt and produced by Philippe Delarue and Tilo Seiffert. It features the voices of Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Marie Drion in the French version and Forest Whitaker, Rob Paulsen and Mary Mouser in the English version. The film was produced by Futurikon, and co-produced by LuxAnimation, Mac Guff Ligne and Trixter. It shares the same creative universe as the Dragon Hunters TV series. It was released on March 26, 2008, in France and on March 20, 2008, in Russia and New Zealand. It was also distributed by Icon Productions and Bac Films. The film received a Cristal Award nomination for Best Feature and it earned $12,235,843 on a €12,000,000 budget. Dragon Hunters was released on DVD on April 5, 2008, in the United States by Peace Arch Entertainment, and on November 5, 2008, in France by Warner Home Video.
Plot
The world has become a vast arrangement of floating islands of varying sizes and shapes. This dizzy universe is populated with rogues, peasants, and petty lords. Their main concerns are for survival, for this world has become plagued with hungry creatures, who are wreaking havoc, known as dragons.
Lian-Chu and Gwizdo are two dragon hunters, but they are a long way from being among the best. Lian Chu is a hulking brute with the heart of gold, and Gwizdo is an avaricious, high-strung young man with a talent for scams. Their private dream is to own a farm where they can relax and raise sheep.
A few floating islands away, there is a fortress owned by Lord Arnold. The lord has a problem. He has been living in fear of the return of World Eater, a monstrous dragon that rises every twenty years to spread terror and destruction. Nobody has been able to conquer him. And nobody has ever returned alive or sane enough to tell the tale. Lord Arnold's niece Zoe has decided to take matters into her own hands, and she finds Lian-Chu and Gwizdo to help her. She is convinced that they are the heroes of her dreams, and she goes with them to the end of the earth for a fantastic and dangerous adventure.
Cast
French cast
Vincent Lindon as Lian-Chu
Patrick Timsit as Gwizdo
Marie Drion as Zoé
Philippe Nahon as Lord Arnold
Amanda Lear as Gildas
Jeremy Prevost as Hector
Jean-Marc Lentretien as Mamular
Hungarian cast
István Hajdu (Steve) as Lian-Chu
László Görög as Gwizdo
Lilla Hermann as Zoé
Gábor Reviczky as Lord Arnold
László Tahi Tóth as Gildas
English cast
Forest Whitaker as Lian-Chu
Rob Paulsen as Gwizdo,Lensflair & the Bats
Mary Mouser as Zoé
Nick Jameson as Lord Arnold
Jess Harnell as Gildas
Dave Wittenberg as Hector
John DiMaggio as Fat John
Production
On 14 October 2007, it was announced that Arthur Qwak and Guillaume Ivernel were hired and set to direct Dragon Hunters based on the T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execute | Execute, in capital punishment, is to put someone to death.
Execute may also refer to:
Execution (computing), the running of a computer program
Execute (album), a 2001 Garage hip-hop album by Oxide & Neutrino
USS Execute (AM-232), an Admirable-class minesweeper
"Execute", the first track on Slipknot's 2008 album All Hope Is Gone
See also
Execution (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJOS-LD | WJOS-LD (channel 45) was a low-power television station in Pomeroy, Ohio, United States. The station broadcast local news, high school football and basketball, and religious programming from Meigs and Gallia counties in Ohio and Mason and Jackson counties in West Virginia.
History and programming
The station was established in 1997 on channel 27 by William A. "Pete" Barnhart, pastor of the Restoration Fellowship Church at Pomeroy. In 1998, the local cable system began airing WJOS on channel 19 on weekday evenings and channel 23 on weekends, later shifting to 24-hour programming on Channel 20. A new transmitter established in 2003 allowed WJOS to switch to UHF channel 58. WJOS's first home was Commercial Building 3 at the Meigs County Fairgrounds.
Most of WJOS's broadcasts were devoted to religious, family, and gospel music programming, much of it produced by the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Local programming
Barnhart's wife, Brenda, also a pastor of the Restoration Fellowship Church, hosted local news broadcasts on Thursday and Friday evenings. WJOS broadcast football and basketball games for Wahama High School in Mason, West Virginia, Gallia Academy, and Meigs County Schools. Religious programming included services and the program Joy for Your Journey, from the Syracuse Church of the Nazarene, services from Restoration Fellowship Church and Ripley Tabernacle Baptist Church on Sundays, along with gospel music on Monday evenings.
WJOS was involved in local community affairs, promoting local tourism with the Meigs County Chamber of Commerce, participating in a forum on local news coverage, and working with community members and churches to organize a support group for the bereaved.
WJOS also broadcast area Christmas concerts, including the Choirs of Angels concert in 1998 and various performances on Christmas Along the River.
Discontinuance
The station's owner, William Barnhart, died in 2017, and ownership of WJOS passed to Brenda Barnhart as executrix of her husband's estate. In 2020, Brenda Barnhart announced she was in talks to sell the station to an unspecified man from Texas and friend of the Barnharts whose programs had aired on WJOS; the buyer would eliminate local programming but continue to provide Christian programming. The sale never closed, and the station went dark some time in 2021. Its license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on April 28, 2023.
See also
Channel 45 digital TV stations in the United States
Channel 58 virtual TV stations in the United States
References
JOS-LD
Low-power television stations in Ohio
Television channels and stations established in 1997
1997 establishments in Ohio
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2021
2021 disestablishments in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twine%20%28social%20network%29 | Twine was an online, social web service for information storage, authoring and discovery, located at twine.com, that existed from 2007 to 2010. It was created and run by Radar Networks. The service was announced on October 19, 2007 and made open to the public on October 21, 2008. On March 11, 2010, Radar Networks was acquired by Evri Inc. along with Twine.com. On May 14, 2010, twine.com was shut down, becoming a redirect to evri.com.
Twine combined features of forums, wikis, online databases and newsgroups and employed intelligent software to automatically mine and store data relationships expressed using RDF statements.
Site description
Twine serviced information storage, authoring and discovery through its website and browser-based tools. The service, intended for regular web users, attempted to automate certain processes related to data categorization and keyword-association (tagging). The system employed natural language processing and machine learning to extract concepts from written text in user data, and expressed it using RDF triples tied to a semantic taxonomy based on concepts mined from Wikipedia. This makes it easier for machines to process the data. The extracted data could be used in searches to additionally select the type of thing the user wanted to find, such as person or location.
Twine was a social network and its users could add contacts, send private messages and share information. Users could collaborate on collecting data through private or public twines; data collections focused on a certain topic, such as politics.
Data could be imported to Twine's website through conventional uploading of files, writing text with a WYSIWYG editor or using a bookmarking tool for webpages. The tool worked similarly to other social bookmarking websites. Users could manually write summaries, specify keywords (tags) and select an image to include in the bookmark that appears on Twine's website. Certain types of media in bookmarks, such as YouTube videos, were automatically embedded in Twine's pages when bookmarked. Twine also offered limited wiki capabilities to collaboratively edit documents.
Information discovery was mostly done through a user's main page where items appeared, organized by the twine they belonged to. Twine also used machine learning technologies that used semantic metadata to learn and generate more relevant, automatic information recommendations of possible interest to the user.
History
Radar Networks remained in stealth mode until October 19, 2007, when Twine was announced and limited invitations were handed out for beta testing. In February 2008 it was announced that Radar Networks raised a Series B venture round led by Velocity Interactive Group, Vulcan Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The service became visible to the public and search engines in July 2008. Approximately 50,000 people had signed up during Twine's beta-phase and 34,000 were active at that time. Twine went public on October 21, 2008.
On Marc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAAN | FAAN may refer to:
Faan value, in mahjong
Fanweyn (Somali: Faan Weyn), a town in the Gedo region of Somalia
Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria
Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network
Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology
Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20thinking | Computational thinking (CT) refers to the thought processes involved in formulating problems so their solutions can be represented as computational steps and algorithms. In education, CT is a set of problem-solving methods that involve expressing problems and their solutions in ways that a computer could also execute. It involves automation of processes, but also using computing to explore, analyze, and understand processes (natural and artificial).
History
The history of computational thinking as a concept dates back at least to the 1950s but most ideas are much older. Computational thinking involves ideas like abstraction, data representation, and logically organizing data, which are also prevalent in other kinds of thinking, such as scientific thinking, engineering thinking, systems thinking, design thinking, model-based thinking, and the like. Neither the idea nor the term are recent: Preceded by terms like algorithmizing, procedural thinking, algorithmic thinking, and computational literacy by computing pioneers like Alan Perlis and Donald Knuth, the term computational thinking was first used by Seymour Papert in 1980 and again in 1996. Computational thinking can be used to algorithmically solve complicated problems of scale, and is often used to realize large improvements in efficiency.
The phrase computational thinking was brought to the forefront of the computer science education community in 2006 as a result of a Communications of the ACM essay on the subject by Jeannette Wing. The essay suggested that thinking computationally was a fundamental skill for everyone, not just computer scientists, and argued for the importance of integrating computational ideas into other subjects in school. The essay also said that by learning computational thinking, children will be better in many everyday tasks—as examples, the essay gave packing one's backpack, finding one's lost mittens, and knowing when to stop renting and buying instead. The continuum of computational thinking questions in education ranges from K–9 computing for children to professional and continuing education, where the challenge is how to communicate deep principles, maxims, and ways of thinking between experts.
For the first ten years computational thinking was a US-centered movement, and still today that early focus is seen in the field's research. The field's most cited articles and most cited people were active in the early US CT wave, and the field's most active researcher networks are US-based. Dominated by US and European researchers, it is unclear to what extent can the field's predominantly Western body of research literature cater to the needs of students in other cultural groups. An ongoing effort to globalize effective thinking skills in everyday life is emerging in the Prolog community, whose Prolog Education Committee, sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming has the mission of "making Computational and Logical Thinking through Prolog and its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford%20Keeney | Bradford Keeney, Ph.D. (3 April 1951) is a creative therapist, cybernetician, anthropologist of cultural healing traditions, improvisational performer, and spiritual healer. Bradford Keeney has served as a professor, founder, and director of clinical doctoral programs in numerous universities. He is the originator of several orientations to psychotherapy including improvisational therapy, resource focused therapy, and creative therapy. He is the inventor of recursive frame analysis, a research method that discerns patterns of transformation in conversation. A Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, he received the 2008 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the Louisiana Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
As an ethnographic fieldworker, Keeney has been called the Marco Polo of psychology and an anthropologist of the spirit by the editors of Utne Reader. He spent over a decade traveling the globe, living with spiritual teachers and healers who trusted him to share their words with others – modern cultures in need of elder wisdom. The result of Keeney's work is one of the broadest and most intense field studies of healing, chronicled in the critically acclaimed book series, Profiles of Healing, an eleven-volume encyclopedia of the world's healing practices.
Biography
Bradford Keeney was born in Granite City, Illinois, and grew up in Smithville, Missouri. In May 1969, he won a merit award from the American Medical Association, and later first place at the international science fair with a project called “An Experimental Study of the Effects of Hydrocortisone, Insulin, and Epinephrine on the Glycogen Content of Hepatic Tissues Perfused in Vitro.” This award earned him a scholarship to M.I.T. where he was first introduced to cybernetics and systems thinking. Fascinated by cybernetics, Keeney sought out Gregory Bateson, one of the world’s leading cyberneticians, who became his friend and mentor. Keeney’s doctoral dissertation (Purdue University, 1981) became the book Aesthetics of Change (1983), considered a seminal work in cybernetic theory and heralded by the likes of cybernetician and systems theorist Heinz von Foerster.
Bradford Keeney is married to and conducts all his work with Hillary Keeney, PhD, with whom he has co-authored seven books.
He is the father of notable Los Angeles-based DJ, DJ Skee.
Ethnographic Fieldwork, Ecstatic Healing and Spirituality
Since 1995, Bradford Keeney has traveled the globe conducting ethnographic studies of ecstatic healing traditions, focusing on “shaking medicine”. Keeney’s work culminated in the creation of the Profiles of Healing series for the Ringing Rocks Foundation, describing ecstatic healing practices on four continents. Keeney’s experiences were chronicled in the biography American Shaman. Currently, Keeney synthesizes what he learned from traditional and ecstatic healers with creative psychotherapy to add recursivity and performance to ps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop%20music%20automation | Pop music automation is a field of study among musicians and computer scientists with a goal of producing successful pop music algorithmically. It is often based on the premise that pop music is especially formulaic, unchanging, and easy to compose. The idea of automating pop music composition is related to many ideas in algorithmic music, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computational creativity.
History of automation in music
Algorithms (or, at the very least, formal sets of rules) have been used to compose music for centuries; the procedures used to plot voice-leading in counterpoint, for example, can often be reduced to algorithmic determinant. Now the term is usually reserved, however, for the use of formal procedures to make music without human intervention.
Classical music automation software exists that generates music in the style of Mozart and Bach and jazz. Most notably, David Cope has written a software system called "Experiments in Musical Intelligence" (or "EMI") that is capable of analyzing and generalizing from existing music by a human composer to generate novel musical compositions in the same style. EMI's output is convincing enough to persuade human listeners that its music is human-generated to a high level of competence.
Creativity research in jazz has focused on the process of improvisation and the cognitive demands that this places on a musical agent: reasoning about time, remembering and conceptualizing what has already been played, and planning ahead for what might be played next.
Inevitably associated with Pop music automation is Pop music analysis.
Projects in Pop music automation may include, but are not limited to, ideas in melody creation and song development, vocal generation or improvement, automatic accompaniment and lyric composition.
Automatic accompaniment
Some systems exist that automatically choose chords to accompany a vocal melody in real-time. A user with no musical experience can create a song with instrumental accompaniment just by singing into a microphone.
An example is a Microsoft Research project called Songsmith, which trains a Hidden Markov model using a music database and uses that
model to select chords for new melodies.
Melody generation
Automatic melody generation is often done with a Markov chain, the states of the system become note or pitch values, and a probability vector for each note is constructed, completing a transition probability matrix (see below). An algorithm is constructed to produce an output note values based on the transition matrix weightings, which could be MIDI note values, frequency (Hz), or any other desirable metric.
A second-order Markov chain can be introduced by considering the current state and also the previous state, as indicated in the second table. Higher, nth-order chains tend to "group" particular notes together, while 'breaking off' into other patterns and sequences occasionally. These higher-order chains tend to generate results with a sense of phra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary%20Islands%20Network%20for%20Protected%20Natural%20Areas | The Canary Islands Network for Protected Natural Areas (Red Canaria de Espacios Naturales Protegidos) is a conservation organization in the Canary Islands.
It recognizes 146 areas across the islands of Tenerife, Gran Canaria, La Palma and Fuerteventura as under protection. Of the 146 protected sites under control of network in the Canary Islands archipelago, a total of 43 are located in Tenerife, the most protected island in the group.
Criteria
The network has criteria, which places areas under its observation under eight different categories of protection. These include:
National park
Natural park
National monument
Protected area
Integral nature reserve
Special natural reserve
Rural park
Site of scientific Interest
References
See also
Tourism in the Canary Islands
Marine life of the Canary Islands
Geography of the Canary Islands
Nature conservation in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita%20Rocks | Rita Rocks is a Lifetime original sitcom that ran from 20 October 2008 to 7 December 2009. It was the network's first original comedy in over a decade. The series debuted alongside re-runs of Reba as part of a new comedy hour for Tuesday nights, which later changed to Monday nights. The show stars Nicole Sullivan as Rita, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Richard Ruccolo, Raviv Ullman, and Kelly Gould.
On 11 January 2010, Lifetime cancelled the series after two seasons due to low ratings.
Plot
A hard-working mom and wife splits her time between a job she doesn’t particularly like, running the kids around and managing the household. She believes that if she can just get a few hours a week to herself, she can figure a few things out. After finding her old guitar in the garage and the prompting of a new friend, they start up a weekly jam session and are joined by a neighbor, the mail-woman and her daughter’s boyfriend for nightly rehearsals. The plot is set in the Metropolitan Detroit area, most likely the Southfield area as Shannon attends Southfield Elementary School, which is shown throughout season 1.
In a February 2009 interview on Anytime with Bob Kushell, Sullivan agreed the main character is going through a midlife crisis, but she does not like using the term "midlife".
Characters
Main
Rita Clemens (Nicole Sullivan): a working mom with a busy life. She is the leader of a garage band and also the assistant manager of Bed Bath & Max. She was formerly training assistant before her boss learned of her pregnancy.
Jay Clemens (Richard Ruccolo): Rita’s husband who tries his best to support her band. He sometimes takes care of the household, getting himself into funny situations in the process.
Patty Mannix (Tisha Campbell-Martin): a postal worker and Rita's best friend who convinces her to take down her guitar and start the band.
Hallie Clemens (Natalie Dreyfuss): Rita's absent minded and rebellious teenage daughter.
Shannon Clemens (Kelly Gould): Rita's nine-year-old daughter. She goes to a school for gifted children and is interested in space camp and astronauts.
Kip (Raviv Ullman): Full name is Skip; Hallie's goofy and likable boyfriend/ex-boyfriend is the drummer in Rita's band. His parents are separated and he spends all of his time at the Clemens' household.
Max: Rita & Jay's new baby. Rita gave birth to him in the Season 2 finale.
Owen Delgado Jr. (Ian Gomez): Rita's unemployed neighbor who joins her garage band. He has two kids with wife Audrey. (left in 2009 to join Cougar Town).
Recurring
Audrey (Lauren Bowles): Owen's wife and mother of his two children who seems to love her job more than her own husband.
Chuck (Duane Martin): Rita's new neighbor, a former baseball player who is a huge annoyance to Rita and Jay. He and Patty (played by Duane Martin's wife Tisha Campbell-Martin) begin dating in late Season 2.
Marilyn (Swoosie Kurtz): Rita's mother, who visits and stays for four episodes before leaving at Rita's request to talk to her father.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underfist%3A%20Halloween%20Bash | Underfist: Halloween Bash (otherwise known as Underfist) is an American animated spin-off special of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. It originally aired on Cartoon Network on October 12, 2008. The special was going to be the setup for a new series spin-off of Grim & Evil, but Maxwell Atoms's contract with Cartoon Network expired before he moved to Disney Channel for the TV series Fish Hooks, and the special was ultimately the finale of the Grim & Evil franchise.
Plot
On Halloween night, Irwin, Billy, Mandy, and Grim are trick-or-treating, Billy is a witch, Mandy and Grim are the Spanish Inquisition who burn witches and vampires, and Irwin is Dracula, king of the vampires. Billy, Mandy, and Grim decide to go home after having no success with Dracula, who rudely hands them pennies. Irwin realizes that his life is passing him by. A girl, Mindy, (secretly turned into a witch by an evil marshmallow bunny named Mr. Bun Bun) fools Irwin into opening an underworld portal, releasing an army of evil candy warriors who start terrorizing the neighborhood. Irwin gets attacked and contacts Hoss Delgado, who helps him with the battle. The warriors take down Hoss with soda-candy guns, which if Hoss gets sticky, he gets a rash. When they kill Skarr's winning purple pansies, he comes out of his garage with a robot, joining the battle. Soon it's an all out war, with no mercy, no rules, no nothing. Mindy again tricks Irwin, but this time, pretending she is being kidnapped by Mr. Bun Bun, taking her into the Underworld.
When the candy level gets too high, Hoss clicks his car unlock system, and a giant saw car drills out of the ground. They escape and start to plot their attack to the Underworld.
Soon they find a portal to the Underworld in the rain, which Hoss and Irwin jump in first, but the portal turns off, because Mindy destroyed the diamond powering it. The candy warriors try to sacrifice Hoss by pushing him into hot cocoa, but they want to leave Irwin alive. This is because he has the powers of a mummy, being half mummy from his mother, which they need to keep the balance of the Underworld in place, and to become stronger warriors to eat the trick-or-treaters.
Mindy creates a potion which turns all the warriors into monsters, and all she needs now is Irwin's powers to create the candy warriors ultimate monster form. But Irwin refuses. Soon Jeff the Spider, Fred Fredburger, and Skarr find out a way how to get to the Underworld by using Hoss's car to drill into the Underworld, and they rescue Irwin and Hoss.
But the army of candy monsters hasn't given up yet. They head to the city and attack. Irwin and Hoss get into an argument, leading into a battle, turning on each other. While the battle is going on, the monsters suck up Irwin's power and transform into one giant candy monster. Jeff and Fred try to escape, but they fail. Soon Hoss and Irwin see the monster and start to fight it, beating it. Irwin discovers that Hoss is scared of monsters, because h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Wild%20Wild%20West%20episodes | The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on the CBS network from 1965 to 1969. During its four-season run a total of 104 episodes were broadcast. The Wild Wild West blended Westerns – hugely popular on television at the time (Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Wagon Train, Rawhide, etc.) – with spy adventure, which came into vogue in the wake of the highly successful James Bond films, resulting in such spy-oriented series as The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Avengers and Secret Agent.
The Wild Wild West is set in the 1870s and deals with the exploits of James West (played by Robert Conrad) and Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin), two agents of the United States Secret Service who work directly under the command of President Ulysses S. Grant. James West is presented as a sort of "James Bond of the West", i.e. the handsome, muscular action-hero who is handy with his fists, as well as a dashing "ladies' man". Artemus Gordon is West's partner, a master of disguises and also the inventor of the many gadgets that the two of them use in the course of their adventures. The two men travel about in a private train and use their talents to vanquish the many dastardly villains that threatened the United States – among them, disgraced ex-soldiers seeking revenge against President Grant, power-hungry megalomaniacs, and mad scientists with their brilliant but diabolical inventions. The last group includes the recurring character of Dr. Miguelito Loveless, played by 3'11" Michael Dunn. As series producer Bruce Lansbury stated:
"Jim [West]'s world was one of two-faced villainy, male and female, countless 'Mickey Finns', and needle-tipped baroque pinkie rings that put him to sleep even as he embraced their dispensers. There were inevitable trap doors, hotel walls that ground their victims to dust or revolved into lush Aubrey Beardsley settings next door, lethal chairs that tossed occupants skyward or alternatively dumped them into dank sewers that subterraneously crisscrossed countless cow towns of the period. And then there was that old Dutch sea captain, leaning in the corner of the swill-hole of a bar, who inexplicably winked at Jim as he entered … Artemus, of course, in one of his thousand disguises."
Ten years after the series was cancelled a made-for-television revival movie, The Wild Wild West Revisited, aired and was successful enough to warrant a follow-up entitled More Wild Wild West (1980), thus bringing the total number of episodes up to 106. However, the movie was more campy compared to the serious tone of the television series. The death of Ross Martin in 1981 ended any plans for another film.
The complete run of the series is present below in broadcast order. Included are the episode titles, directors, writers, broadcast dates, production codes, guest stars and the roles they played, and a brief plot synopsis. Also, the various disguises that Ross Martin used in his Artemus Gordon character are listed.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1965–66)
T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20cycle%20processor | A single cycle processor is a processor that carries out one instruction in a single clock cycle.
See also
Complex instruction set computer, a processor executing one instruction in multiple clock cycles
DLX, a very similar architecture designed by John L. Hennessy (creator of MIPS) for teaching purposes
MIPS architecture, MIPS-32 architecture
MIPS-X, developed as a follow-on project to the MIPS architecture
Reduced instruction set computer, a processor executing one instruction in minimal clock cycles
References
External links
Microprocessors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARKLE%20Computer | Sparkle Computer Co., Ltd. (stylised as SPARKLE), is a Taiwanese electronics firm established in 1982, based in Taipei. The company specialized in manufacturing video cards using Nvidia graphics processing units, along with peripherals (fans and heatsinks) for graphics controllers.
Sparkle was one of the few manufacturers of modern discrete video cards that used the PCI bus, producing PCI versions of GeForce 8 Series and GeForce 9 Series based discrete graphics controllers, and more recently, GeForce 200 series and GeForce 600 series-based GPUs using the aforementioned interface.
In April 2023, Sparkle re-entered the graphics card market, this time producing a set of Intel Arc series graphics cards.
Products
PCI Series
GeForce 7900 PCI
SP-PX79GDH (GeForce 7900 GT Series with active cooling - 256MB RAM)
GeForce 8400 PCI
SPARKLE introduced a unique PCI version of the GeForce 8400 series cards in PCI versions.
SF-PC84GS512U2LP (GeForce 8400 GS Series with active cooling - 512MB RAM)
SF-PC84GS512U2LP (GeForce 8400 GS Series with passive cooling - 512MB RAM)
SF-PC84GS256U2LP (GeForce 8400 GS Series with active cooling - 256MB RAM)
SF-PC84GS256U2LP (GeForce 8400 GS Series with passive cooling - 256MB RAM)
GeForce 8500 PCI
SPARKLE introduced a unique PCI version of the GeForce 8500 series card in a PCI version.
SF-PC85GT256U2 (GeForce 8500 GT Series with passive cooling - 256MB RAM)
GeForce 9400 PCI
SPARKLE introduced a unique PCI version of the GeForce 9400 series card in a PCI version.
SP94GT512D2L-HPP (GeForce 9400 GT Series with passive cooling - 512MB RAM)
SP94GT512D2L-HP (GeForce 9400 GT Series with active cooling - 512MB RAM)
SP94GT1024D2L-HPP (GeForce 9400 GT Series with passive cooling - 1024MB RAM)
SP94GT1024D2L-HP (GeForce 9400 GT Series with active cooling - 1024MB RAM)
GeForce 9500 PCI
SPARKLE introduced a unique PCI version of the GeForce 9500 series card in a PCI version.
SP95GT512D2L-HP (GeForce 9500 GT Series with active cooling - 512MB RAM)
SP95GT1024D2L-HP (GeForce 9500 GT Series with active cooling - 1024MB RAM)
Low Profile PCIe
SPARKLE has also introduced 3 low profile PCI Express cards from the GeForce 9 series:
SF-PX93GS512U2LP-HP (Low profile GeForce 9300GS with 512MB DDR2 RAM)
Low profile GeForce 9600 with stock settings
Low profile GeForce 9800 GT with stock settings and 512MB of GDDR3 RAM on a 256bit bus.
Intel Arc PCIe
In April 2023, SPARKLE listed a set of Intel Arc series graphics cards on their website:
Sparkle Intel Arc A750 Titan OC Edition (2300 MHz Intel Arc A750)
Sparkle Intel Arc A750 Orc OC Edition (2200 MHz Intel Arc A750)
Sparkle Intel Arc A380 ELF (2000 MHz Intel Arc A380)
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
References
External links
Graphics hardware companies
Computer hardware companies
Companies established in 1982
Privately held companies
Companies based in Taipei
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Taiwanese brands
1982 establishments in Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCN%20%28TV%20channel%29 | OCN (originally an initialism of the Orion Cinema Network) is a movie channel on basic cable throughout South Korea, owned by CJ ENM E&M Division. In the 2000s, it became the most viewed station in South Korea, which prompted them to create their widely recognized English-language slogan, "Korea number-one channel." With cable TV penetration quite high in South Korea, OCN is a popular movie resource.
OCN's lineup is a mixture of movies from several years ago or earlier, particularly during the daytime, with more recent films during evening prime-time hours. They do not air movies that are as recent as those of sister station CatchOn, a pay service offered on cable TV. They also air episodes of popular overseas television series, mostly from the United States.
Programs
Viewership ratings
The table below lists the top 15 series with the highest average audience share ratings (nationwide), corresponding episode with highest rating and the date.
The table below lists the top 10 series with the highest nationwide viewers (million), corresponding episode with highest nationwide viewers and the date.
Footnotes
References
External links
CJ E&M channels
On-Media television networks
Daewoo Cinema Network
Movie channels in South Korea
Television channels in South Korea
Television channels and stations established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20mode%20decomposition | Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is a dimensionality reduction algorithm developed by Peter J. Schmid and Joern Sesterhenn in 2008.
Given a time series of data, DMD computes a set of modes each of which is associated with a fixed oscillation frequency and decay/growth rate. For linear systems in particular, these modes and frequencies are analogous to the normal modes of the system, but more generally, they are approximations of the modes and eigenvalues of the composition operator (also called the Koopman operator). Due to the intrinsic temporal behaviors associated with each mode, DMD differs from dimensionality reduction methods such as principal component analysis, which computes orthogonal modes that lack predetermined temporal behaviors. Because its modes are not orthogonal, DMD-based representations can be less parsimonious than those generated by PCA. However, they can also be more physically meaningful because each mode is associated with a damped (or driven) sinusoidal behavior in time.
Overview
Dynamic mode decomposition was first introduced by Schmid as a numerical procedure for extracting dynamical features from flow data.
The data takes the form of a snapshot sequence
where is the -th snapshot of the flow field, and is a data matrix whose columns are the individual snapshots. These snapshots are assumed to be related via a linear mapping that defines a linear dynamical system
that remains approximately the same over the duration of the sampling period. Written in matrix form, this implies that
where is the vector of residuals that accounts for behaviors that cannot be described completely by , , , and . Regardless of the approach, the output of DMD is the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of , which are referred to as the DMD eigenvalues and DMD modes respectively.
Algorithm
There are two methods for obtaining these eigenvalues and modes. The first is Arnoldi-like, which is useful for theoretical analysis due to its connection with Krylov methods. The second is a singular value decomposition (SVD) based approach that is more robust to noise in the data and to numerical errors.
The Arnoldi approach
In fluids applications, the size of a snapshot, , is assumed to be much larger than the number of snapshots , so there are many equally valid choices of . The original DMD algorithm picks so that each of the snapshots in can be expressed as linear combinations of the snapshots in .
Because most of the snapshots appear in both data sets, this representation is error free for all snapshots except , which is written as
where is a set of coefficients DMD must identify and is the residual.
In total,
where is the companion matrix
The vector can be computed by solving a least squares problem, which minimizes the overall residual. In particular if we take the QR decomposition of , then .
In this form, DMD is a type of Arnoldi method, and therefore the eigenvalues of are approximations of the eigenvalues of . |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Personal%20Workstation | The Digital Personal Workstation, code named "sports car", is a family of entry-level to mid-range workstation computers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). These workstations are based on the DEC Alpha and Intel Pentium Pro or Pentium II microprocessors. Members of this family can run the Digital UNIX, OpenVMS, and Windows NT operating systems.
The i-Series, based on Pentium Pro, was introduced first, on September 23, 1996.
i-Series
The Digital Personal Workstation i-Series is based on the Intel Pentium Pro or Pentium II microprocessor and runs Windows NT.
Models include the:
180i - 180 MHz Pentium Pro, introduced on September 23, 1996
200i - 200 MHz Pentium Pro, introduced on September 23, 1996
200i² - 200 MHz Pentium Pro, introduced on September 23, 1996
266i - 266 MHz Pentium II
300i - 300 MHz Pentium II
350i - 350 MHz Pentium II
400i - 400 MHz Pentium II
266i+ - 266 MHz Pentium II
300i+ - 300 MHz Pentium II
333i+ - 333 MHz Pentium II
These workstations support either one or two microprocessors and use standard Intel chipsets: Pentium Pro models use the Intel 440FX, Pentium II models suffixed with "i" use the Intel 440BX whereas ones suffixed with "i+" use the Intel 440LX. A superscript "2" suffix indicates a dual processor configuration.
The i-Series has four DIMM slots on its main logic board and supports standard unbuffered or registered 100 MHz ECC SDRAM DIMMs. Using unbuffered memory, the i-Series can support 32 to 512 MB of memory, with registered memory, 64 MB to 1 GB is supported. Unbuffered and registered DIMMs cannot be mixed in the same system. Unbuffered DIMMs have capacities of 32, 64 and 128 MB, whereas registered DIMMs have capacities of 64, 128 and 256 MB.
a-Series
The Digital Personal Workstation a-Series, code named "Miata", uses the Alpha 21164A microprocessor. Models suffixed with "a" run Windows NT (with AlphaBIOS) as shipped, whereas models suffixed with "au" run Digital UNIX or OpenVMS (with SRM). Both models can be switched between AlphaBIOS and SRM via the system firmware. At COMDEX 1997, the Digital Personal Workstation 500a was a finalist in Byte magazine's Best of Show award for the best workstation category.
Models included the:
433a/433au - 433 MHz Alpha 21164A
500a/500au - 500 MHz Alpha 21164A
600a/600au - 600 MHz Alpha 21164A
The Alpha microprocessor is socketed in a zero insertion force (ZIF) socket and can be upgraded. These workstations use Digital's 21174 chipset, also known as the "Pyxis" chipset. To increase flexibility and to reduce cost, the L3 cache is optional in these models. If the L3 cache is required, a cache module that contained the SRAMs which implemented the cache can be installed into a cache slot. The cache module has two capacities: 2 or 4 MB.
Two revisions of the Miata motherboard were produced, known as MX5 and MiataGL respectively. The later MiataGL motherboard has a revised Pyxis chipset (which fixes a PCI DMA bug), a different A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindfold%3A%20Acts%20of%20Obsession | Blindfold: Acts of Obsession is a 1994 erotic television film directed by Lawrence L. Simeone. It was originally aired on the USA Network in the United States in 1994, and later, on C4 in the United Kingdom in 1995.
Plot
Madeleine Dalton was once a wild girl who was drawn to bad boys, but has now settled down with real estate broker Mike Dalton. She is desperate to make her dead-end relationship exciting again and goes seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Jennings. He suggests her to spice up her sex life by playing games. She decides to give it a try and begins using handcuffs and letting herself be blindfolded.
Meanwhile, several women in Santa Monica are getting handcuffed, blindfolded and knifed to death. Madeleine's sister Chris Madigan is involved with investigating the murders and ends up finding a corpse. She suspects Dr. Jennings is the murderer since he has some sort of connection to a presumed dead killer with an identical modus operandi.
While the identity of the murderer is coming closer to being exposed, Madeleine is drawn more and more into the games. She eventually becomes obsessed with S/M and starts an affair with Dr Jennings, but it takes its toll...
Cast
Judd Nelson - Dr. Jennings
Shannen Doherty - Madeleine Dalton
Kristian Alfonso - Chris Madigan
Michael Woods - Mike Dalton
Heidi Lenhart - Young Girl
Drew Snyder - Alex Saunders
Production
The film contains several explicit nude and sex scenes. Shannen Doherty's character appeared nude several times. While filming in 1993, Doherty and Judd Nelson started an affair and even got engaged in 1994. However, Doherty was still in an abusive relationship with Dean Factor when she became involved with Nelson.
References
External links
1994 television films
1994 films
1990s erotic thriller films
American erotic thriller films
American thriller television films
Saban Entertainment films
Films scored by Shuki Levy
1990s English-language films
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20Soldier | is a role-playing video game for MSX home computers and is the first game in the Cosmic Soldier series. It was published in 1985 by Kogado Studio. The game was ported to the NEC PC-8801 with an updated interface and graphics.
The game uses a dialog conversation system, where the player can recruit allies by speaking to them, choose whether to kill or spare an enemy, and engage enemies in conversation, similar to the later Megami Tensei franchise. Battles are fought in a turn-based style. The game displays some nudity on the title screen.
Legacy
The 1987 sequel, Psychic War: Cosmic Soldier 2, was originally released for the MSX2 computer in Japan. In America, the game was released by Kyodai, and they changed the name to Psychic War and released the game for MS-DOS computers. The MS-DOS version censors Kayla's clothing. It changed the turn-based combat of its predecessor to a unique "tug of war" style real-time combat system, where battles are a clash of energy between the party and the enemy, with the player needing to push the energy towards the enemy to strike them, while being able to use a shield to block or a suction ability to absorb the opponent's power. The game also improves upon the conversation system of its predecessor and more closely resembles the one in Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei released around the same time.
References
External links
Cosmic Soldier series at Hardcore Gaming 101
GameFAQs
1985 video games
DOS games
Erotic video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Kogado Studio games
MSX2 games
NEC PC-8801 games
Role-playing video games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misko%20Iho | Misko Iho (born Mikko Iho; May 9, 1975, in Helsinki) is a Finnish film director.
In the mid 1990s, he was part of the computer demo group, Future Crew, and later worked designing computer game graphics in the United States. He also worked in organizing a number of music events, and later as a commercial and music video director - winning a number of Finnish and international awards.
Life and work
Misko Iho was born on May 9, 1975, as Mikko Iho in Helsinki, Finland. From 1992 to 1994, Misko was a part of a now-defunct computer demo group, Future Crew, as the graphic artist named "Pixel". Noteworthy demos by Future Crew include Unreal (released at Assembly 1992), Panic (released at The Party 1992), and Second Reality (released at Assembly 1993). Slashdot voted the Future Crew Demo Second Reality as one of the "Top 10 Hacks of All Time".
During 1994, Misko spent a few months in the United States designing computer game graphics for the game Epic Pinball by Epic MegaGames as well as Ken's Labyrinth.
From 1997 to 2001, he worked as a visual effects artist creating visual effects for commercials, feature films, and music videos for bands like Bomfunk MC's, JS16 and Darude (Sandstrom, Feel The Beat, Out Of Control). Darude's Sandstorm was the best selling 12" worldwide in 2000.
Misko was also busy from 1997 to 2004 running a club concept in Finland called "Screen". During those years, he was involved in organizing over a hundred club events and bringing some of the most-influential club deejays in the world to Finland. Screen guests included deejays like John Digweed, Carl Cox, Deep Dish, Josh Wink, Dave Seaman, Nick Warren, Sander Kleinenberg, Danny Rampling, Steve Lawler, Sister Bliss, and many others.
Since 2002 he has worked as a commercial and music video director in Finland and abroad. His most-known works include the commercial film series for the Finnish Railways and awards winning music videos for the Finnish singer Chisu and Sunrise Avenue.
2010 his music video for the Finnish singer Chisu was chosen as the Music Video of the Year in Finland at the annual Muuvi Awards organized by IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry). The video also won the Audience Award.
2012 his next video for Chisu was again chosen as the Music Video of the Year in Finland at the annual Finnish Grammy Awards Emma-Awards.
2010 his debut short film Potilas (The Patient) was awarded of "Best Direction" at the Super Shorts International Film Festival in London and 2011 as the "Best short film" at the Byron Bay Film Festival in Australia.
Selected filmography
Short films
The Patient (2010)
Best Direction
Super Shorts International Film Festival - UK 2010
Best Short Film
Byron Bay International Film Festival - Australia 2011
Best International Actor - Jani Volanen
Cinefiesta - Puerto Rico 2011
Official Selections
International Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival of Athens - Greece 2012
Vimeo - Staff Pick 2011
Cinefiesta - Puerto Rico 2011
F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sar%20%28Unix%29 | System Activity Report (sar) is a Unix System V-derived system monitor command used to report on various system loads, including CPU activity, memory/paging, interrupts, device load, network and swap space utilization. Sar uses /proc filesystem for gathering information.
Platform support
Sar was originally developed for the Unix System V operating system; it is available in AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and other System V based operating systems but it is not available for macOS or FreeBSD. Prior to 2013 there was a bsdsar tool, but it is now deprecated.
Most Linux distributions provide sar utility through the sysstat package.
Syntax
sar [-flags] [ -e time ] [ -f filename ] [-i sec ] [ -s time ]
filename Uses filename as the data source for sar. The default is the current daily data file /var/adm/sa/sadd.
time Selects data up to time. The default is 18:00.
sec Selects data at intervals as close as possible to sec seconds.
Example
[user@localhost]$ sar # Displays current CPU activity.
Sysstat package
Additional to sar command, Linux sysstat package in Debian, RedHat Enterprise Linux and SuSE provides additional reporting tools:
See also
atopsar
Nmon
sag - "system activity graph" command
ksar- BSD licensed Java-based application to create graph of all parameters from the data collected by Unix sar utilities.
CURT, IBM AIX CPU Usage Reporting Tool
isag, tcl based command to plot sar/sysstat data
References
Easy system monitoring with SAR (IBM developerWorks)
System Activity Reporter (Softpanorama)
Article on sar at Computerhope
Footnotes
Job scheduling
Computer performance
System administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiltshire%20Library%20and%20Information%20Service | Wiltshire Library and Information Service is a county-wide network of public libraries based in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. It is service of Wiltshire Council, with the strapline "Love Reading, Love Libraries".
There are 31 public libraries and 5 mobile libraries, including one which specifically visits residential homes. The smallest ten libraries are still stocked with books and funded by the council, but are staffed by volunteers. Volunteers have also helped extend opening hours in some medium-sized libraries.
Facilities
The libraries offer a selection of:
Adult fiction books
Adult non fiction books
Large print books (almost 30,000)
Books on cassette and CD (over 20,000)
Children's fiction books
Children's non fiction books, including homework support
A selection of books for teenagers
Free access to the internet and office software
Collections and advice on health in many large libraries in partnership with the National Health Service
Support for reading groups across the county, including longer loan periods and free requests
Taster sessions in computers and IT for free - associated with Race Online 2012 and BBC First Click
The interlibrary loan service can get books and journal articles from libraries across the region, country, and world if required
Other information services
The libraries can also provide access to:
The full reference and information services offered by Wiltshire Library and Information Service, as well as access to a range of online information services
Community information via the Wiltshire Clubs and Organisations Directory
Local history information via colleagues at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre and through the Wiltshire Studies catalogue and the Wiltshire Community History website which includes detailed information on individual communities.
Resources and events
Library users can search the library catalogue and reserve items they wish to borrow and have them delivered from any Wiltshire library to their nearest library. They can also check their borrower record and renew items.
In 2008 and 2009 promotional events included those featuring aliens, monsters, characters from Star Wars and daleks from Doctor Who at Chippenham Library, Corsham Library, Calne Library, Devizes Library, Salisbury Library, and Bradford on Avon Library. More than 2,000 people attended the event at Chippenham, and more than 3,000 attended at Salisbury.
References
External links
Library catalogue
Public libraries in Wiltshire
Organisations based in Wiltshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasia%20Reichardt | Jasia Reichardt (born 1933) is a British art critic, curator, art gallery director, teacher and prolific writer, specialist in the emergence of computer art. In 1968 she was curator of the landmark Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. She is generally known for her work on experimental art. After the deaths of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson she catalogued their archive and looks after their legacy.
Her own self-description reads: Jasia Reichardt writes, lectures and organises events about subjects which deal with the relationship of art to other areas of human activity such as architecture, science, technology. She was assistant director of the ICA, director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, and tutor at the AA. She has written books on art, computers, robots and the future.
Childhood
Jasia Reichardt was born to Maryla and Seweryn Chaykin in Warsaw, Poland, in 1933. Her mother was an illustrator and pianist and her father an architect and engineer. An assimilated middle-class Jewish family, they were overwhelmed by the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and were incarcerated among the capital's Jewish population in the Warsaw Ghetto. Jasia survived there for a while with her mother and grandmother who tried to shield her from the unfolding horror. In 1942 she was smuggled out, but both her parents were murdered in the Holocaust. She was subsequently hidden under an assumed identity by a series of Poles, spending time in a convent, until she was able to join her mother's sister, Franciszka Themerson, and her husband, Stefan Themerson, in London in 1946. She attended Dartington Hall school and then went to study production at the Old Vic Theatre School in London.
Career
In the 1950s she was assistant editor of Art News and Review, for which she wrote numerous reviews, as well as exhibition introductions for various galleries of contemporary art. In the early 1960s she was the general editor of the "Art in Progress" series published by Methuen. She organised various exhibitions of new art, and in 1963 – 1971 was assistant director of the ICA
In 1968, she organised the ground-breaking Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition, and edited the special issue of Studio International, which replaced the catalogue. The same year, she curated Fluorescent Chrysanthemum, an exhibition of contemporary experimental Japanese art. Other exhibitions followed, including Play Orbit of objects to play with by British artists.
From 1974 to 1976 Reichardt was director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Between 1989 and 1998 she was one of the directors of Artec biennale in Nagoya. In 1998 she curated Electronically Yours, an exhibition of electronic portraiture at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Apart from writing and organising exhibitions, she broadcast on the arts programme, "Critics’ Forum" for the BBC, 1965 – 1977. She collaborated with artists and continued to focus on the intersection of the arts and science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azteca%20Uno | Azteca Uno (previously Azteca Trece), is a Mexican national broadcast television network owned by TV Azteca, with more than 100 transmitters across the country. Azteca Uno broadcasts on virtual channel 1. Azteca Uno programming is available in Mexico on satellite via Sky and Dish Network, as well as all Mexican cable systems, and some Azteca Uno programming were seen in the United States on Azteca América.
History
Establishment of XHDF
Azteca Trece took its historic channel number (13) from XHDF-TV, which signed on in 1968 on channel 13. It was owned by Francisco Aguirre's Organización Radio Centro through concessionaire Corporación Mexicana de Radio y Televisión, S.A. de C.V. The station had fewer resources compared to its Mexico City competitors, Telesistema Mexicano and Televisión Independiente de México, and relied on foreign films and series, supplied primarily by Eurovision, to fill out its broadcast day.
In 1972, due to debts owed to the state-owned Sociedad Mexicana de Crédito Industrial (Mexican Industrial Credit Society or SOMEX), XHDF and concessionaire Corporación Mexicana de Radio y Televisión were nationalized.
The first director of the government-owned Canal 13 was Antonio Menéndez González, and after his death, he was succeeded by Enrique González Pedrero, senator of the state of Tabasco from the PRI. Corporación Mexicana de Radio y Televisión, along with another state-owned enterprise, Tele-Radio Nacional, began receiving new television concessions as part of a national expansion of the Mexico City station into a national television network.
One of the first orders of business for Canal 13 was a relocation. On July 14, 1976, Canal 13's new facilities in the Ajusco area of Mexico City were formally inaugurated by President Luis Echeverría. The event was attended by various figures from the political and business sectors of the country, including Secretary of the Interior Mario Moya Palencia and Secretary of Communications and Transportation Eugenio Méndez Docurro, as well as Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, Romulo O'Farrill and Miguel Aleman Velasco, who served as directors of Televisa.
In 1983, the Mexican government reorganized its broadcast holdings. The result was the creation of the Mexican Television Institute, which changed its name to Imevisión in 1985. Imevisión comprised not only Canal 13, now known as Red Nacional 13, but the former Televisión de la República Mexicana, with its channel 22 station, and a new network known as Red Nacional 7 and broadcast in Mexico City by the brand-new XHIMT-TV channel 7.
During the Imevisión years, Red Nacional 13 continued to broadcast commercial programming, although it featured some programs with a cultural focus, such as Temas de Garibay, Entre Amigos with Alejandro Aura, and several programs with journalist Jorge Saldaña.
Privatization
In 1990, Imevisión collapsed the 7 and 13 national networks into one, retaining the stronger channel 13 branding. At this time, the first of two att |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Rush%20episodes | The following is a list of episodes for the Australian television programme Rush on Network Ten.
Series overview
<onlyinclude>
Episodes
Series 1 (2008)
Series 2 (2009)
Series 3 (2010)
Series 4 (2011)
On 12 November 2010, Network Ten renewed Rush for a 13 episode, fourth series to air from 1 September 2011.
Ratings
References
External links
Lists of Australian drama television series episodes
Lists of crime television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Speed%20Racer%3A%20The%20Next%20Generation%20characters | This is a list of the characters from the 2008 Nicktoons Network series, Speed Racer: The Next Generation.
Main characters
Speed Racer Jr.
Voice Actor: Kurt Csolak
The main character of the series, Speed Racer Jr. (or just "Speed" for short) is the second son of the original Speed Racer from the 1967 Japanese anime series. He was hidden from the public by both his father and Trixie, to protect him. Speed Sr. knew that his enemies would do anything to get their hands on the plans for the Mach Six, even harm his younger son. However, the story goes into further depth in the "Family Reunion" trilogy when it is revealed that after Trixie Tredwell Racer, Speed Sr.'s wife and Speed's mother, became corrupted with hatred for her husband blaming him for the accident that killed her father and took over her father's company known as the Committee, Speed Sr. only hid his second son away in an orphanage so that he will be protected from Trixie's warped influence. Speed grew up in an orphanage for the majority of his life. His father had left him a special key and a red racing bandanna, both of which he kept with him for sentimental reasons. He is quite shy, but being behind the wheel brings out the best in him. Unlike his father before him, Speed doesn't get into any perilous trouble of fighting thugs and gang members, therefore instead of fighting (due to the fact that he doesn't know hand-to-hand combat), Speed uses his racing skill to get away from bad guys. Although in "Together We Stand, pt. 3," he is shown to use some hand-to-hand combat (which Speed Jr. calls his fighting style the Cabbage Patch) against a guard who tries to capture Connor. He is the number one racer at the academy according to the episode "The Secrets of the Engine, pt. 1".
Speed's skills on the racetrack are on par with those of the top ranking students at the Racing Academy. His skills are somewhat inherited, with Speed knowing the right timing, and maneuvers during racing. Despite his amazing talent, he is generally quite modest about his abilities and claims that his maneuvers are a result of instinct rather than skill. He is not in it for money or fame - he just wants to be "the best in the world", and to have fun. He has also expressed interest in going into counterespionage alongside his father after graduation. His best friends are two of the school's students, Connor and Lucy. He believes that his father would still be a great racers with or without the Mach 5. Together, they work as a team both inside and outside school grounds. Speed also has close bonds with his older brother, X, and their uncle Spritle. In "The Return, pt. 1" he happily reunites with his father, Speed Racer Sr., and the two of them immediately become close.
Casually, Speed wears a blue long sleeve shirt with red stars embroidered on both sleeves. When racing, he dons a white and blue racing helmet with a large, stylized red "M" (which stands for Mifune Motors) atop the visor and a racing jacket tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGP | AGP may refer to:
Science and technology
Accelerated Graphics Port, a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a graphics card to a computer's motherboard
Advance Game Port, a third-party GameCube accessory
Aerosol-generating procedure, in medicine or healthcare
Ambulatory glucose profile, a standardized report for interpreting a person's daily glucose and insulin patterns
Arabinogalactan protein, glycoproteins found in the cell walls of plants
Orosomucoid, or alpha-1 acid glycoprotein
Organisations
Arasan Ganesan Polytechnic, India
Asom Gana Parishad, a political party of Assam
Associação Guias de Portugal, the national Guiding association of Portugal
Guinean Press Agency (French: Agence Guinéenne de Presse)
People
Charles Marvin Green Jr., better known as Angry Grandpa (1950–2017), American Internet personality
Alejandro García Padilla (born 1971), Puerto Rican politician
A. George Pradel (c. 1938), mayor of Naperville, Illinois
Arthur Guyon Purchas (1821-1906), Welsh-New Zealander clergyman
Transport
Australian Grand Prix, a car race
Málaga Airport (IATA code), Spain
Motor torpedo boat tender, a US Navy hull classification
Other uses
Rome General Peace Accords (), a 1992 treaty ending Mozambique's civil war
Autogynephilia, a disputed 1980s psychological typology of transfeminine people
Artificial grass pitch, a sports pitch made from synthetic materials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Astrophysics%20and%20Supercomputing | The Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (CAS) is a research centre located at the Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. It was established in 1998.
The Centre comprises about 43 staff and 39 students engaged in diverse areas of astrophysical research. It is actively involved in the planned Square Kilometre Array project. Computing resources include a 1950-node supercomputer. The Centre is the only Australian institution to have an agreement with the W. M. Keck observatory, guaranteeing CAS researchers at least 15 nights per year.
Its motto is "Dedicated to inspiring a fascination in the universe through research and education".
External links
Facebook group
CAS Homepage
COSMOS - SAO Encyclopedia for Astronomy
Astronomy institutes and departments
Research institutes in Australia
Astrophysics research institutes
1998 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20primitive | In computing, language primitives are the simplest elements available in a programming language. A primitive is the smallest 'unit of processing' available to a programmer of a given machine, or can be an atomic element of an expression in a language.
Primitives are units with a meaning, i.e., a semantic value in the language. Thus they are different from tokens in a parser, which are the minimal elements of syntax.
Machine-level primitives
A machine instruction, usually generated by an assembler program, is often considered the smallest unit of processing although this is not always the case. It typically performs what is perceived to be one operation such as copying a byte or string of bytes from one computer memory location to another or adding one processor register to another.
Microcode primitives
Many of today's computers, however, actually embody an even lower unit of processing known as microcode which interprets the machine code and it is then that the microcode instructions would be the genuine primitives. These instructions would typically be available for modification only by the hardware vendor's programmers.
High-level language primitives
A high-level programming language (HLL) program is composed of discrete statements and primitive data types that may also be perceived to perform a single operation or represent a single data item, but at a higher semantic level than those provided by the machine. Copying a data item from one location to another may actually involve many machine instructions that, for instance,
calculate the address of both operands in memory, based on their positions within a data structure,
convert from one data type to another
before finally
performing the final store operation to the target destination.
Some HLL statements, particularly those involving loops, can generate thousands or even millions of primitives in a low-level programming language (LLL), which comprise the genuine instruction path length the processor has to execute at the lowest level. This perception has been referred to as the abstraction penalty.
Interpreted language primitives
An interpreted language statement has similarities to the HLL primitives, but with a further added layer. Before the statement can be executed in a manner very similar to an HLL statement: it must first be processed by an interpreter, a process that may involve many primitives in the target machine language.
Fourth and fifth-generation language primitives
Fourth-generation programming languages (4GL) and fifth-generation programming languages (5GL) do not have a simple one-to-many correspondence from high-to-low level primitives. There are some elements of interpreted language primitives embodied in 4GL and 5GL specifications, but the approach to the original problem is less a procedural language construct and are more oriented toward problem solving and systems engineering.
See also
Primitive type
Hardware-software codesign
References
Programming la |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symantec%20Online%20Backup | Symantec Online Backup is an online remote backup service that provides businesses with a system for backing up and storing computer files over the Internet. It was released in February, 2008 on the Symantec Protection Network platform.
Symantec Online Backup is an example of cloud computing or SaaS (software as a service).
Sales for Symantec Online Backup were discontinued as of January 2010.
See also
Symantec Backup Exec - on-premises backup and recovery software for small to medium enterprises
References
External links
Symantec Online Backup details
Backup software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level%20synthesis | High-level synthesis (HLS), sometimes referred to as C synthesis, electronic system-level (ESL) synthesis, algorithmic synthesis, or behavioral synthesis, is an automated design process that takes an abstract behavioral specification of a digital system and finds a register-transfer level structure that realizes the given behavior.
Synthesis begins with a high-level specification of the problem, where behavior is generally decoupled from low-level circuit mechanics such as clock-level timing. Early HLS explored a variety of input specification languages, although recent research and commercial applications generally accept synthesizable subsets of ANSI C/C++/SystemC/MATLAB. The code is analyzed, architecturally constrained, and scheduled to transcompile from a transaction-level model (TLM) into a register-transfer level (RTL) design in a hardware description language (HDL), which is in turn commonly synthesized to the gate level by the use of a logic synthesis tool.
The goal of HLS is to let hardware designers efficiently build and verify hardware, by giving them better control over optimization of their design architecture, and through the nature of allowing the designer to describe the design at a higher level of abstraction while the tool does the RTL implementation. Verification of the RTL is an important part of the process.
Hardware can be designed at varying levels of abstraction. The commonly used levels of abstraction are gate level, register-transfer level (RTL), and algorithmic level.
While logic synthesis uses an RTL description of the design, high-level synthesis works at a higher level of abstraction, starting with an algorithmic description in a high-level language such as SystemC and ANSI C/C++. The designer typically develops the module functionality and the interconnect protocol. The high-level synthesis tools handle the micro-architecture and transform untimed or partially timed functional code into fully timed RTL implementations, automatically creating cycle-by-cycle detail for hardware implementation. The (RTL) implementations are then used directly in a conventional logic synthesis flow to create a gate-level implementation.
History
Early academic work extracted scheduling, allocation, and binding as the basic steps for high-level-synthesis. Scheduling partitions the algorithm in control steps that are used to define the states in the finite-state machine. Each control step contains one small section of the algorithm that can be performed in a single clock cycle in the hardware. Allocation and binding maps the instructions and variables to the hardware components, multiplexers, registers and wires of the data path.
First generation behavioral synthesis was introduced by Synopsys in 1994 as Behavioral Compiler and used Verilog or VHDL as input languages. The abstraction level used was partially timed (clocked) processes. Tools based on behavioral Verilog or VHDL were not widely adopted in part because neither languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DQA | DQA may refer to:
Data Quality Act, US
Daqing Sartu Airport (IATA code), China
Maldivian (airline) (ICAO code), the Maldives
Island Aviation Services (ICAO code), the parent company; See List of airline codes
Data Query Assistant, in Lotus DataLens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot%20Service%20Discovery%20Protocol | Boot Service Discovery Protocol (BSDP) is an Apple-developed, standards-conforming extension of DHCP. It allows Macintosh computers to boot from bootable images on a network instead of local storage media such as CD, DVD, or hard disk. The DHCP options used are the "vendor-specific information" option (number 43) and the "vendor class identifier" option (number 60).
There are three versions of BSDP, though usually version 1.0 is used. All versions enable a client to choose from several bootable images offered by a server.
The reference implementation of BSDP is Darwin's BOOTP server, which is part of Mac OS's NetBoot feature.
Description
Contents of DHCP Vendor Class Identifier
The DHCP server and client send a vendor class option that contains an ASCII-encoded string with three parts delimited by a / character. The first part is AAPLBSDPC, which advertises BSDP capability. The second part is the client's architecture ("ppc" or "i386"). The third part is a system identifier. For example, an Intel-based iMac sends
AAPLBSDPC/i386/iMac4,1
as its vendor class. A list of Microsoft vendor classes can be found here.
Contents of DHCP Vendor Specific Information Options
DHCP Option 43 is reserved for vendor specific information. This information is stored in the following format:
Code Len Vendor-specific information
+-----+-----+-----+-----+---
| 43 | n | i1 | i2 | ...
+-----+-----+-----+-----+---
If the vendor wants to convey multiple options within this option field, this is done with encapsulated vendor-specific extensions. Vendor encapsulated extensions contain one or more concatenated fields. Each field consists of:
The following table describes the possible field types. All numeric fields are interpreted as unsigned and Big Endian integers.
Example
The following example illustrates the construction of the Vendor Encapsulated Option:
The first field here, 01 01 02, means that the packet is a BSDP "SELECT" message. The 01 declares that field specifies the BSDP Message Type. The next 01 indicates that the field contents are one byte long — 02 is the code for "SELECT".
The following 08 04 81 00 07 e5 means that the boot image with the ID 2164262885 is selected.
Finally, 82 0a 4e 65 74 42 6f 6f 74 30 30 31 means that a string with 0x0a = 10 characters, namely "NetBoot001", is the name of the system to boot.
Sources
BSDP documentation from Apple's bootpd
several conversations captured with Wireshark
Source code of Darwin's BOOTP server, https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/bootp
References
Network booting
Application layer protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper%27s%20Scare%20School%20%28video%20game%29 | Casper's Scare School (Casper's Scare School: Classroom Capers for the Nintendo DS version) is an adventure video game developed by Data Design Interactive for the PlayStation 2 and Nikitova Games for the Nintendo DS. The game was released in Europe in 2008 and in North America in 2010. It reuses similar assets to its 2006 predecessor, Casper and the Ghostly Trio, which was only released in Europe. A sequel titled Casper's Scare School: Spooky Sports Day was released for the Nintendo DS and Wii in Europe in 2009 and North America in 2010.
Plot
The plot involves Casper the Friendly Ghost, who having been sent to "Scare School" by his three uncles, must thwart plots by the school bully Thatch the vampire's plan to turn all the characters to stone, stop Casper helping his classmates or stealing all the glory in the school sports day.
Gameplay
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 version is a 3D adventure game with elements of a platformer and a racing game. In the first level, Casper's suitcase has bust open throwing its contents around his mansion, so he has 400 seconds to find the 30 items before the school bus leaves to take him to Scare School. This layout of this level is reused from the Great Hall level in the 2006 game Casper and the Ghostly Trio being from the same developer. The second level is similar to Crazy Taxi in which the player has 120 seconds to navigate the boat to collect six classmates around Deedstown. The next three levels are a series of three-lap races between Casper, his friends Ra, Mantha, Mickey, and Monaco along with the school bully Thatch. The first race is around the school grounds, the second through the school corridors as well as the grounds and the third in the gym with polls to jump over. In the final level Thatch has turned Casper's four friends, from the previous races, into stone. Casper must find each friend turning them back into themselves and get to his mansion before Thatch does. The game also features a multiplayer mode in which any of the six racing characters can be played in the lap races. The entire game can be finished in 22 minutes.
Nintendo DS
Casper must complete three classes, science with Professor Thurdigree Burns, history with Hedy Hopper and gym with Frankengymteacher, per week for eight weeks earning four marks in each session, earning a C grade or higher, within the time limit. It is played with the DS being held sideways in a similar style to the Brain Age series, but with just the stylus. To get his marks Casper must get what he needs by trading with his classmates giving them things they want before returning to his desk or gym mat to complete the assignment. Casper must avoid the teacher who watches certain parts of the classroom at a time, the Gargoyles who patrol the classroom, Thatch who thinks Casper is being too friendly and Kibosh who oversees the classes in the final week. This is the only time Thatch is seen in his bat form in the games. If any enemies catch Casper out of a de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando%20Networks | Founded in 2004 in New York City, Pando Networks was a managed peer-to-peer (P2P) media distribution company backed by Intel Capital, BRM Capital and Wheatley Partners. The company specialized in cloud distribution of games, video and software for publishers and media distributors and also operated a freemium consumer business for sending large files.
Pando Network's technology was based on BitTorrent but with modifications. Its hybrid P2P- and server-based network included central control over file distribution, intelligent throttling between peers and servers, reporting/analytics and security.
In the spring of 2006, the company publicly launched Pando, a small application that let consumers bypass email's attachment limits and send large files (up to 1GB) regardless of email service provider. By late May 2009, over 30 million people had installed the Pando application.
In late 2007, along with Verizon Communications, Pando Networks co-founded the P4P (“Proactive network Provider Participation for P2P”) Working Group, to serve both P2P companies and Internet service providers (ISPs), who were seeing as much of 70 percent of bandwidth go to P2P traffic. The P4P working group includes a mix of more than 50 P2P companies and ISPs including Telefónica and Comcast. A Yale computer science research team developed the P4P technical protocol, which they believed could speed P2P content delivery while lowering ISP network utilization. In collaboration with Yale and the P4P working group, Pando Networks adopted the technology and Laird Popkin coordinated a test in the summer of 2008, showing promising results.
The company released its first commercial service in May 2008; media distributors could now plug Pando Networks' peer cloud into their existing content delivery networks (CDNs). The combination of a peer cloud plus a CDN allows files in high demand to be quickly and cost effectively delivered by the peers and long tail content to be reliably served off the CDN.
NBC Universal incorporated Pando Networks’ technology later that year to deliver high-definition TV episodes to consumers’ PCs.
The game industry was Pando Networks’ largest customer segment. Installation files, particularly for massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), can reach well over 1GB. Pando Networks' game customers included Nexon, Turbine, Riot Games, Gala-Net, and LevelUp. In May 2010, Pando Networks surpassed 30 million game downloads.
Pando Networks was acquired by Microsoft in March 2013.
See also
Pando (application)
References
External links
US 8,250,191 B2 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COOPERATIVE FILE DISTRIBUTION WITH TARGET DATA DELIVERY RATE
Online mass media companies of the United States
Companies based in New York City
Cloud computing providers
Microsoft acquisitions
Former Microsoft subsidiaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Turbo%20%28Indian%20TV%20channel%29 | Discovery Turbo is an Indian male-oriented factual television channel devoted to programming regarding cars, bikes, boats, and planes. The channel is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel was launched in January 2010 replacing Discovery Real Time and was later converted into a men's only channel on 1 December 2014.
History
The channel was launched in 2004 as Discovery Home & Leisure.
In 2005 the channel was revamped as Discovery Real Time
The channel was relaunched on 25 January 2005 with new name as Discovery Turbo along with Discovery Science.
Programming
This is list of programs broadcast by Discovery Turbo
A Bike is Born
The AA Torque Show
Air Dogs
Airplane Repo
American Icon: The Hot Rod
American Chopper
American Hot Rod
American Trucker
Auto Trader
Bangla Bangers
Beetle Crisis
Biker Build-Off
British Biker Build-Off
Campervan Crisis
Car Crazy Central
Car Science
Carfellas
Chasing Classic Cars
Chop Shop: London Garage
Classic Car Club
Dallas Cars Sharks
Desert Car Kings
Drift Style
Engineering The World Rally
Extreme Car Hoarders
Extreme Machines
FantomWorks
Fast N' Loud
Fat N' Furious: Rolling Thunder
Fifth Gear
FlightPathTV
Flying Heavy Metal
The Great Biker Build-Off
Hard Shine
Heartland Thunder
High Tech Rednecks
Hot Rod TV
I Could Do That
In a Fix
Inside West Coast Customs
Kings of Crash
Kit: An Autobody Experience
Kustomizer
Last Car Standing
Martin Shaw: Aviators
Mean Green Machines
Million Dollar Auctions
Motor City Motors
Motor Morphers
Monster Garage
Off Limits
Off The Road
Overhaulin'
Patrick Dempsey: Racing to Le Mans
Pit Crews
Playing Parking Only
Racer Girls
Railroad Alaska
Redline TV
Restoration Garage
Retro Car Kings
Rides
The Road to Le Mans
The Secret Club of Speed
The Secret Life of Formula One
Street Customs
Top Marques
Thunder Races
Trick My Truck
Trick My What?
Twist the Throttle
Ultimate Biker Challenge
Ultimate Car Build-Off
Unique Whips: Special Edition
What's in the Barn?
Wheeler Dealers
Wrecked
Wreck Rescue
Wrecks to Riches
See also
CNN International
Discovery Real Time
Discovery Science
References
External links
Warner Bros. Discovery networks
Television channels and stations established in 2010
English-language television stations in India
Warner Bros. Discovery India
Warner Bros. Discovery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apk%20%28file%20format%29 | The Android Package with the file extension apk is the file format used by the Android operating system, and a number of other Android-based operating systems for distribution and installation of mobile apps, mobile games and middleware. A file using this format can be built from source code written in either Java or Kotlin.
APK files can be generated and signed from Android App Bundles.
Overview
APK is analogous to other software packages such as APPX in Microsoft Windows, .app on HAP for HarmonyOS or a Debian package in Debian-based operating systems. To make an APK file, a program for Android is first compiled using a tool such as Android Studio or Visual Studio and then all of its parts are packaged into one container file. An APK file contains all of a program's code (such as .dex files), resources, assets, certificates, and manifest file. As is the case with many file formats, APK files can have any name needed, but it may be required that the file name ends in the file extension for being recognized as such.
Most Android implementations allow users to manually install APK files only after they turn on an "Unknown Sources" setting that allows installation from sources other than trusted ones like Google Play. One may do so for many reasons, such as during the development of apps, to install apps not found on the store, or to install an older version of an existing app.
Use on other operating systems
Blackberry Limited supported Android 4.1 Jelly Bean apps and up through Android Runtime to now discontinued Blackberry 10 through the January 2014 10.2.1 firmware update. On June 18, 2014, BlackBerry announced an official relationship with Amazon.com, which resulted in the 10.3 update bundling the Amazon Appstore.
At 2015 Build, Microsoft had also announced an Android runtime environment for Windows 10 Mobile known as "Astoria", which would allow Android apps to run in an emulated environment with minimal changes, and have access to Microsoft platform APIs such as Bing Maps and Xbox Live as nearly drop-in replacements for equivalent Google Mobile Services. Google Mobile Services and certain core APIs would not be available, and apps with "deep integration into background tasks" were said to poorly support the environment.
On February 25, 2016, after already having delayed it in November 2015, Microsoft announced that "Astoria" would be shelved, arguing that it was redundant to the native Windows Bridge toolkit since iOS is already a primary target for mobile app development. The company also encouraged use of products from Xamarin (which they had acquired the previous day) for multi-platform app development using C# programming language instead. Portions of Astoria were used as a basis for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) platform on the PC version of Windows 10.
On June 2, 2021, HarmonyOS came with APK compatibility on HarmonyOS 2.0 for smartphones and tablets.
At the Windows 11 announcement event in June 2021, Microsoft showcased |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammassalik%20Fjord | Ammassalik Fjord (old spelling: Angmagssalik Fjord) is a long fjord in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland.
Geography
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The head of the fjord at is formed by the confluence of two narrow, tributary fjords: Qingertivaq Fjord and Tasiilaq Fjord (one of two fjords of that name). The fjord has a north-to-south orientation in its northern part, to then turn midway to the south-west-south at approximately . While the shores of the northern part separate peninsulas of the mainland of Greenland, the southern, progressively wider half of the fjord separates the large Ammassalik Island in the west from islands of the eponymous Ammassalik Archipelago in the east and southeast, including the largest, Apusiaajik Island.
The fjord is joined by narrow waterways with other waterbodies in the region: the Ikaasartivaq Strait separating Ammassalik Island from the mainland connects the fjord to the wider Sermilik Fjord in the west, while the Torsuut Tunoq sound and the Ikaasaartik Strait connect the fjord to the open North Atlantic.
Settlement
History
Gustav Holm writes that in the winter of 1884–5, there were 225 Inuit living on the fjord in seven villages:
Tasiusarsik kangigdlek (35), near the western mouth of the fjord
Kangarsik (34) and Norsit (25), on Kulusuk Island
Umivik (19) and Kumarmiut (28), on Apusiaajik Island
Ingmikertok (37), on a small island near Kumarmiut
Norajik (47), on the island at the end of the wider, outer part of the fjord
Present day
There are three settlements in the vicinity of the fjord. The only village on the mainland is Kuummiit, located on the central fjord's eastern coast, perched on the tip of a partially glaciated peninsula. The main settlement of the Ammassalik archipelago is the town of Tasiilaq, located on the island of Ammassalik, near the mouth of the tributary Tasiilaq Fjord (), just south of the mouth of Ammassalik Fjord. Further to the southeast, Kulusuk village occupies the northern shore of Kulusuk Island.
References
Fjords of Greenland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20%26%20Stan | Pat et Stanley (, , , , ) is an animated series that appeared as part of the children's television programme TFOU on the French network TF1. The show is animated by Mac Guff and created by Pierre Coffin, who would later on co-direct Despicable Me at the same studio via Illumination Entertainment.
Pat the brown hippopotamus and Stan the yellow dog have appeared in 39 short episodes as well as the 26-minute movie Pat et Stanley: Le Trésor de Pit et Mortimer (Pat and Stanley: The Treasure of Pit and Mortimer, 2006). Outside France, the duo are most famous for the short clip in which Pat is seen singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". The clip appeared in Italy in a commercial by Ferrero's Kinder chocolates; they also produced a "Happy Hippo" shaped chocolate snack. It also appeared in Indonesia as a filler of local TV channel based at Sukamara Regency, Central Kalimantan, Sukamara Jaya Television (SJTV), of which the original audio has been completely replaced with a normal dialogue that include fat-shaming.
Two English dubs have also been made, one broadcast on CITV and Pop in the United Kingdom, with Pat and Stan being voiced by Jay Simon and John Telfer respectively and another on Kids' WB (later known as The CW4Kids and then, Toonzai) and also The Shorts on Cartoon Network in the United States, where Pat and Stan were voiced by Dan Green and David Wills respectively and under two Dutch versions on Jetix in the Netherlands and on Ketnet in Flanders. Pat and Stanley are now featured in many unofficial online videos singing English (as well as international) songs. It was on Cartoon Network's website from December 5, 2014 to April 11, 2015.
Characters
Main
Patrick "Pat" The Hippopotamus (voiced by Dan Green) - a brown hippopotamus
Stanley "Stan" D. Dog (voiced by David Wills) - a yellow dog
Episodes
Season 1
Bath Time (Jour de bain)
Cyber Stuart (Cyber Jean Luc)
Mosquito Warning (Attention moustique)
Wild Camping (Camping très sauvage)
The Pool (La piscine)
Artists (Pat et Stan artistes)
My Friend Helmut (Mon ami Helmut)
Super Loser (Super Blaireaux)
The Death of Norbert (La disparition de Norbert)
Pat Keeps the Rabbits (Pat, garde lapins)
Double Pat (Double Pat)
A Button on the Nose (Un bouton sur le nez)
The Band Wagon (Tous en scène)
Season 2
The Gamma Zapper (La zapette gamma)
Babysitters (Baby-sitter)
Stuart Does Everything (Jean-Luc fait tout)
Aunt Martha Moves (Tante Marthe s'installe)
Roll With It (Roule ma poule)
True False Bobo (Vrai faux bobo)
Sting Recall (Piqûre de rappel)
Stephanie Love (Stéphanie amoureuse)
Micro Stan (Microstan)
The Hamster of Bengal (Le hamster du Bengale)
In Search of Lost Treasure (À la recherche du trésor perdu)
Poles (Pat et Stan aux antipodes)
Dig-o-mania (Creusomania)
Season 3
Stan Phone Home (Stan téléphone maison)
Astro-Spountz (Le cosmospountz)
One Night Dog (Une nuit de chien)
The Return of Stuart (Le retour de Jean-Luc)
Aunt Martha Comes to Dinner (Tante Marthe vie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindle%20%28disc%20packaging%29 | In the context of computer supplies, the word spindle or cakebox may refer to a plastic container for packaging optical discs. It typically consists of a round base with a vertical rod (which matches the center holes of the disks) and a cylindrical cover made from polypropylene plastic. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package.
Dummy discs made of clear polycarbonate without a recording surface are often packed on the ends of the stack to avoid scratches from contact with surrounding things.
See also
Optical disc packaging
Packaging
Optical disc authoring |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX%204000 | The VAX 4000 is a discontinued family of low-end minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (later Compaq) using microprocessors implementing the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA). The VAX 4000 succeeded the MicroVAX family, and shipped with the OpenVMS operating system. It was the last family of low-end VAX systems, as the platform was discontinued by Compaq.
VAX 4000 Model 300
The VAX 4000 Model 300, code-named "Pele", was introduced on 9 July 1990 at DECworld in Boston, Massachusetts, replacing the MicroVAX 3800 and 3900. It used the time-sharing KA670-AA CPU module containing a 35.71 MHz (28 ns cycle time) Rigel chip set with a 128 KB external secondary cache protected by ECC built from 84 ns SRAM. It supported one to four MS670-BA (32 MB) or MS670-CA (64 MB) memory modules for 32 to 256 MB of memory. Q-bus was used for expansion. The Model 300 could be upgraded to a Model 400, Model 500 or Model 600 by replacing the backplane, CPU and memory module(s).
VAX 4000 Model 200
VAX 4000 Model 200, code-named "Spitfire", was introduced in January 1991 as replacement for the MicroVAX 3400. It was positioned beneath the VAX 4000 Model 300. It used the KA660 CPU module containing a 28.57 MHz (35 ns cycle time) SOC microprocessor. It supported 16 to 64 MB of memory.
VAX 4000 Model 500
The VAX 4000 Model 500, code-named "Omega/N", was introduced on 30 October 1991, with availability in December 1991. It succeeded the VAX 4000 Model 300, but the older system remained available as a lower cost alternative. It used the KA680 CPU module containing a 71.43 MHz (14 ns cycle time) NVAX microprocessor with 128 KB of external tertiary cache.
VAX 4000 Model 100
The VAX 4000 Model 100, code-named "Cheetah-Q", is an entry-level VAX 4000 system introduced on 7 July 1992. It used the KA52 CPU module containing a 72 MHz (14 ns cycle time) NVAX microprocessor with 128 KB of external tertiary cache. It supported up to 128 MB of memory.
VAX 4000 Model 400
The VAX 4000 Model 400, code-named "Slow-mega", was a distributed server, positioned as a mid-range VAX 4000 system, introduced on 7 July 1992. It used the KA675 CPU module containing a 63 MHz (16 ns) NVAX microprocessor with uCode patch changes to slow it down beyond the cycle scaling, with 128 KB of external tertiary cache. It supported 16 to 512 MB of memory.
VAX 4000 Model 600
The VAX 4000 Model 600, code-named "Omega/N+", was a distributed server, positioned as a high-end VAX 4000 system, introduced on 7 July 1992. It used the KA690 CPU module containing an 83 MHz (12 ns) NVAX microprocessor with and 512 KB of external tertiary cache.
VAX 4000 Model 100A
The VAX 4000 Model 100A, code-named "Cheetah-Q", was introduced on 12 October 1993. It used the KA52 CPU module containing a 72 MHz (14 ns cycle time) NVAX microprocessor with 128 KB of external tertiary cache. It supported up to 128 MB of memory.
VAX 4000 Model 500A
The VAX 4000 Model 500A, code-named "Ome |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX%206000 | The VAX 6000 is a discontinued family of minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) using processors implementing the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA). Originally, the VAX 6000 was intended to be a mid-range VAX product line complementing the VAX 8000, but with the introduction of the VAX 6000 Model 400 series, the older VAX 8000 was discontinued in favor of the VAX 6000, which offered slightly higher performance for half the cost. The VAX 6000 family supports Digital's VMS and ULTRIX operating systems.
Cabinet
The VAX 6000 was housed in a cabinet which contained three card cages in the upper portion: a 14-slot XMI card cage on the right for CPU and memory modules, and optional VAXBI Bus hardware on the left. The VAXBI hardware distinguished two versions of the VAX 6000 platform, XMI-1 and XMI-2. XMI-1 differed from XMI-2 by requiring a DWMBA adapter and the presence of two 6-slot VAXBI channels, whereas in the XMI-2 platform, VAXBI was an optional feature and, if required, it was provided as a single 12-slot channel. In both versions, VAXBI was provided by two 6-slot VAXBI card cages.
Below the card cages was the cooling system, which took up most of the volume in the cabinet. The bottom of the cabinet contained a provision for an optional battery backup unit and two RA90 or RA92 hard disk drives. The battery backup unit could provide power to the system for one second in the event of a power failure, after which the system ceased to operate, but continued to preserve the data in the cache and memory for ten minutes.
The cabinet was high, wide and deep; and weighed .
VAX 6000 Model 2x0
(Previously known as the VAX 62x0)
Code named "Calypso"
Introduced on 19 April 1988
One to four 12.5 MHz (80 ns cycle time) CVAX chip set(s), each with an external 256 KB of secondary cache built from 160 ns SRAM
(The number of chip sets present determined the value of "x").
Maximum of 256 MB of ECC memory
VAX 6000 Model 3x0
(Previously known as the VAX 63x0)
Code named "Hyperion"
Introduced on 24 January 1989
One to six KA62B CPU modules, each containing a 16.67 MHz (60 ns cycle time) CVAX+ chip set with 256 KB of external secondary cache clocked at 8.33 MHz (120 ns cycle time)
(The number of CPU modules present determined the value of "x").
Maximum of 256 MB of ECC memory
VAX 6333
The VAX 6333 was a prepackaged VAXcluster of three VAX 6330 (VAX 6000 Model 330) systems. Bundled with the SA650 Storage Array, the VAX 6333 cost US$2.8 million.
VAX 6000 Model 4x0
The VAX 6000 Model 4x0, code-named "Calypso/XRP", was introduced on 11 July 1989. It used the KA64A CPU module and could be configured with one to six such modules for one to six processors. The KA64A contained a 35.71 MHz (28 ns cycle time) Rigel chip set with an external 128 KB B-cache (L2 cache). The B-cache was direct-mapped and used a 64-byte cache line size with a 16-byte sub-block size. It was constructed from twenty-four 64 KB (4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX%207000%20and%20VAX%2010000 | The VAX 7000 and VAX 10000 are a discontinued family of high-end multiprocessor minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), introduced in July 1992. These systems use NVAX microprocessors implementing the VAX instruction set architecture, and run the OpenVMS operating system.
They were designed in parallel with the DEC 7000 AXP and DEC 10000 AXP server computers, and were identical except for the CPU modules used and the supported I/O bus interfaces. Digital intended customers of the VAX 7000/10000 to eventually upgrade to the Alpha-based configuration, the AXPs, by simply swapping the VAX-based CPU module(s) for those based on the Alpha.
Models
VAX 7000
There were three models of the VAX 7000.
Model 6x0
The Model 6x0, code-named "Laser/Neon", was announced on 7 July 1992 in Zurich, Switzerland with the United States announcement on 15 July. It supported one to four 90.91 MHz (11 ns cycle time) NVAX+ microprocessors, with the value of "x" being 1 to 4.
Model 7x0
The Model 7x0, code-named "Laser/Krypton", was introduced in August 1994. It supported one to six 137.5 MHz NV5 (also known as NVAX++) microprocessors, with the value of "x" being 1 to 6.
Model 8x0
The Model 8x0, code-named "Laser/Krypton+", supported one to six 170.9 MHz NV5 microprocessors, with the value of "x" being 1 to 6.
VAX 10000
The VAX 10000 was essentially a larger configuration of the VAX 7000. Both shared the same System Cabinet, but the VAX 10000 was configured as standard with one Expander Cabinet housing storage devices, and one Battery Cabinet housing an uninterruptible power supply. These were optional for a VAX 7000 system.
There was one model of the VAX 10000, the Model 6x0. Code-named "Blazer/Neon", it supported one to four 90.91 MHz (11 ns) NVAX+ microprocessors, with the value of "x" being 1 to 4.
CPU module
The initial Model 600 used the KA7AA CPU module, which contained a 90.91 MHz (11 ns cycle time) NVAX+ microprocessor with 4 MB of B-cache (L2 cache). Later, the clock frequency of microprocessor featured was increased. The Model 700 used the KA7AB CPU module containing a 133.33 MHz (7.5 ns cycle time) NVAX++, and the Model 800 used the KA7AC CPU module featuring a 170.9 MHz NVAX++.
The CPU modules had two LEVI gate arrays which interfaced the microprocessor to the Laser System Bus, the system bus.
Memory
The VAX 7000/10000 supported a maximum of 3.5 GB of memory. This was a limitation of the VAX architecture, which had 36-bit addressing which was common to all VAX hardware.
References
Rifkin, Glenn (7 July 1992). "Digital Has New Models Of Computer". The New York Times.
Computer Business Review (23 August 1994).
DEC minicomputers
Computer-related introductions in 1992
32-bit computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX%208000 | The VAX 8000 is a discontinued family of superminicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) using processors implementing the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA).
The 8000 series was introduced in October 1984 with the 8600, taking over the high-end of the VAX lineup. Originally known as the 11/790, it offers performance roughly double that of the earlier 11/780. It was succeeded by the 8650 (formerly the 11/795) in December 1985. January 1986 saw the introduction of the 8200 and 8300 families in the mid-range. The 8800 replaced the 8600s at the high end in 1987, with the 8700 and 8500 being lower-performance versions of these systems. DEC also offered various clusters of these machines with a variety of model numbers. As with other VAX systems, they were sold with either the VMS or Ultrix operating systems.
It was intended that the 8800 was to have been replaced by the VAX 9000 on the high end, but this project failed. Instead, the VAX 6000, originally a mid-range model replacing the 8700/8500, was upgraded to provide almost the same level of performance of the 8800 but at half the cost. All of these were replaced by the VAX 7000/10000 in July 1992. These are single-chip implementations based on the NVAX CPU and are the final dedicated VAX machines.
VAX 8600
The VAX 8600, code-named "Venus", introduced in October 1984, is the successor of the VAX-11/785. It was originally to be named "VAX-11/790", but was renamed before launch. The VAX 8600 was a successful model and at the time was the best selling high-end VAX. It was succeeded by the VAX 8800 family in 1987.
The VAX 8600 has a CPU with an 80 ns cycle time (12.5 MHz) implemented with emitter coupled logic (ECL) macrocell arrays (MCAs). The CPU consists of four major logical sections, the E Box, F Box, I Box and M Box. The E Box executes all instructions, including floating-point instructions through microcode. It has an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) and barrel shifter. The F Box, or floating point accelerator (FPA), is an optional feature that accelerates floating-point instructions as well as integer multiplication and division. It is a two-module set consisting of an adder module and multiplier module. The adder module contains 24 macrocell arrays while the multiplier module contains 21. The I Box fetches and decodes instructions. The M Box controls the memory and I/O, translates virtual addresses to physical addresses and contains a 16 KB data cache.
The CPU used 145 MCAs. These are large scale integration devices fabricated by Motorola in their 3 µm MOSAIC bipolar process. They are packaged in 68-pin leadless chip carriers or pin grid arrays and are mounted onto the printed circuit board in sockets or soldered in place. An additional 1,100 small scale integration (SSI) and medium scale integration (MSI) ECL logic devices are used. These ICs are spread out over 17 modules plugged into a backplane.
The VAX 8600 supports 4 to 256 MB of ECC memory and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAXft | The VAXft was a family of fault-tolerant minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) using processors implementing the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA). "VAXft" stood for "Virtual Address Extension, fault tolerant". These systems ran the OpenVMS operating system, and were first supported by VMS 5.4. Two layered software products, VAXft System Services and VMS Volume Shadowing, were required to support the fault-tolerant features of the VAXft and for the redundancy of data stored on hard disk drives.
Architecture
All VAXft systems shared the same basic system architecture. A VAXft system consisted of two "zones" that operated in lock-step: "Zone A" and "Zone B". Each zone was a fully functional computer, capable of running an operating system, and was identical to the other in hardware configuration. Lock-step was achieved by hardware on the CPU module. The CPU module of each zone was connected to the other with a crosslink cable. The crosslink cables carried the results of instructions executed by one CPU module to the other, where they were compared by hardware with the results of the same instructions executed by the latter to ensure that they were identical. The two zones were kept synchronous by a clock signal carried by the crosslink cables. When a hardware failure occurred in one of the zones, the affected zone was brought offline without bringing down the other zone, which continued to operate as normal. When repairs were completed, the offline zone was powered on and automatically resynchronized with the other zone, restoring redundancy.
VAXft Model 310
The VAXft Model 310, introduced as the VAXft 3000 Model 310, code named "Cirrus", was introduced in February 1990 and shipped in June. It was the first VAXft model, and was DEC's first fault-tolerant computer that was generally available. At the 1991 launch of new VAXft models, the VAX 3000 Model 310 was renamed to follow the new naming scheme, becoming the VAXft Model 310. The Model 310 had a theoretical maximum performance of 3.8 VUPs.
When announced, the Model 310 had a starting price of US$200,000. In August 1990, slow sales prompted DEC to reduce the US price of the Model 310 to US$168,000.
It used the KA520 CPU module containing a 16.67 MHz (60 ns cycle time) CVAX+ chip set with 32 KB of external secondary cache. The system contained two such CPU modules, one in each zone, running in lock-step.
VAXft Model 110
The VAXft Model 110, code named "Cirrus", was an entry-level model announced on 18 March 1991 alongside three other models. The Model 110 was essentially a low-cost model of the VAXft Model 310, and had a theoretical maximum performance of 2.4 VUPs.
It contained two zones packed side by side in an enclosure. Compared to the Model 310, it was limited in expandability in regards to memory, storage capacity and available options. It was available in either a pedestal or rackmount configuration. The rackmount configuration was a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAXserver | The VAXserver was a family of minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) using processors implementing the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA). The VAXserver models were variants of various VAX-based computers which were configured to only run operating systems which were licensed for network server use and not interactive time-sharing use. This was accomplished with different CPU modules and firmware.
VAXserver models include:
VAXserver 3000 – (Based on the MicroVAX)
VAXserver 3100
VAXserver 3300
VAXserver 3400
VAXserver 3500
VAXserver 3600
VAXserver 3602
VAXserver 3800
VAXserver 3900
VAXserver 4000 – (Based on the VAX 4000)
VAXserver 4000 Model 200 – KA660-BA CPU module
VAXserver 4000 Model 300 – KA670-BA CPU module
VAXserver 6000 – (Based on the VAX 6000)
VAXserver 6000 Model 210
VAXserver 6000 Model 220
VAXserver 6000 Model 310
VAXserver 6000 Model 320
VAXserver 6000 Model 410
VAXserver 6000 Model 420
VAXserver 6000 Model 510
VAXserver 6000 Model 520
VAXserver 9000 – (Based on the VAX 9000)
VAXserver 9000 Model 110
VAXserver 9000 Model 3x0
VAXserver 9000 Model 310/Model 310VP
VAXserver 9000 Model 320/Model 320VP
VAXserver 9000 Model 330/Model 330VP
VAXserver 9000 Model 340/Model 340VP
References
DEC minicomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20Format%20Language | Message Format Language (MFL) is a BEA proprietary language to describe the layout of binary data, and defines rules to transform the binary data in typed data.
MFL can be used by the Oracle Service Bus (OSB) to assist in the creation of service types as part of service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations.
External links
Using the AquaLogic Service Bus Console on Oracle's site.
BEA Systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20software%20engineering | Social software engineering (SSE) is a branch of software engineering that is concerned with the social aspects of software development and the developed software.
SSE focuses on the socialness of both software engineering and developed software. On the one hand, the consideration of social factors in software engineering activities, processes and CASE tools is deemed to be useful to improve the quality of both development process and produced software. Examples include the role of situational awareness and multi-cultural factors in collaborative software development. On the other hand, the dynamicity of the social contexts in which software could operate (e.g., in a cloud environment) calls for engineering social adaptability as a runtime iterative activity. Examples include approaches which enable software to gather users' quality feedback and use it to adapt autonomously or semi-autonomously.
SSE studies and builds socially-oriented tools to support collaboration and knowledge sharing in software engineering. SSE also investigates the adaptability of software to the dynamic social contexts in which it could operate and the involvement of clients and end-users in shaping software adaptation decisions at runtime. Social context includes norms, culture, roles and responsibilities, stakeholder's goals and interdependencies, end-users perception of the quality and appropriateness of each software behaviour, etc.
The participants of the 1st International Workshop on Social Software Engineering and Applications (SoSEA 2008) proposed the following characterization:
Community-centered: Software is produced and consumed by and/or for a community rather than focusing on individuals
Collaboration/collectiveness: Exploiting the collaborative and collective capacity of human beings
Companionship/relationship: Making explicit the various associations among people
Human/social activities: Software is designed consciously to support human activities and to address social problems
Social inclusion: Software should enable social inclusion enforcing links and trust in communities
Thus, SSE can be defined as "the application of processes, methods, and tools to enable community-driven creation, management, deployment, and use of software in online environments".
One of the main observations in the field of SSE is that the concepts, principles, and technologies made for social software applications are applicable to software development itself as software engineering is inherently a social activity. SSE is not limited to specific activities of software development. Accordingly, tools have been proposed supporting different parts of SSE, for instance, social system design or social requirements engineering.
Consequently vertical market software, such as software development tools, engineering tools, marketing tools or software that helps users in a decision making process can profit from social components. Such vertical social software differentiates stron |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongsberg%20Satellite%20Services | Kongsberg Satellite Services AS (KSAT) is a Norwegian-based company. KSAT has the most extensive ground station network globally, and the world's largest ground station for support of polar orbiting satellites located at 78° North - Svalbard, Norway. They are a provider of ground network services and maritime monitoring services
The headquarters is in Tromsø, Norway, with sales offices in Oslo, Stockholm and Denver, Colorado.
KSAT was established in 2002, though its roots may be traced back to 1967 when the Tromsø ground station was inaugurated.
By mid 2021 KSAT had approximately 270 employees.
Sites
The company's global ground network consists of more than 200 antennas at 23 sites worldwide, this provides optimized locations for satellites in polar, inclined and equatorial orbits. Everything is remotely monitored and controlled and from the HQ's network operations center in Tromsø.
Troll, Antarctic
Cordoba, Argentina (partner station)
Tolhuin, Argentina (partner station)
Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada
Punta Arenas, Chile
Nemea, Greece
Nuuk, Greenland
Bangalore, India (partner station)
Tokyo, Japan
Mauritius
Awarua, New Zealand
Svalbard, Norway
Tromsø, Norway
Vardø, Norway
Panama
Azores, Portugal (partner station)
Singapore
Hartebeesthoek, South Africa
Puertollano, Spain
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States
Hawaii, United States
Ownership
KSAT is owned equally (50/50) by Space Norway AS (50%), and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS (50%).
References
External links
Official Kongsberg Satellite Services website
Telecommunications companies of Norway
Earth stations in Norway
Space program of Norway
Companies based in Tromsø
Telecommunications companies established in 2002
2002 establishments in Norway
Satellite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude%20%28TV%20series%29 | Longitude is a 2000 TV drama produced by Granada Television and the A&E Network for Channel 4, first broadcast between 2 and 3 January 2000 in the UK on Channel 4 and the US on A&E. It is a dramatisation of the 1995 book of the same title by Dava Sobel. It was written and directed by Charles Sturridge and stars Michael Gambon as clockmaker John Harrison (1693–1776) and Jeremy Irons as horologist Rupert Gould (1890–1948).
Plot
Longitude presents the story of Harrison's efforts to develop the marine chronometer and thereby win the Longitude prize in the 18th century. This is interwoven with the story of Gould, a retired naval officer, who is restoring Harrison's four chronometers and popularises his achievements in the early twentieth century.
Cast
Awards
In 2001, Longitude was nominated for the British Academy Television Awards in ten categories, winning in five, including Best Actor (Michael Gambon) and Best Drama Serial.
References
External links
2000 — The Year in Review (Channel 4)
2000 British television series debuts
2000 British television series endings
2000s British drama television series
Channel 4 television dramas
2000s British television miniseries
History of navigation
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Granada Television
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20logic%20network | A probabilistic logic network (PLN) is a conceptual, mathematical and computational approach to uncertain inference; inspired by logic programming, but using probabilities in place of crisp (true/false) truth values, and fractional uncertainty in place of crisp known/unknown values. In order to carry out effective reasoning in real-world circumstances, artificial intelligence software must robustly handle uncertainty. However, previous approaches to uncertain inference do not have the breadth of scope required to provide an integrated treatment of the disparate forms of cognitively critical uncertainty as they manifest themselves within the various forms of pragmatic inference. Going beyond prior probabilistic approaches to uncertain inference, PLN is able to encompass within uncertain logic such ideas as induction, abduction, analogy, fuzziness and speculation, and reasoning about time and causality.
PLN was developed by Ben Goertzel, Matt Ikle, Izabela Lyon Freire Goertzel, and Ari Heljakka for use as a cognitive algorithm used by MindAgents within the OpenCog Core. PLN was developed originally for use within the Novamente Cognition Engine.
Goal
The basic goal of a PLN is to provide reasonably accurate probabilistic inference in a way that is compatible with both term logic and predicate logic and scales up to operate in real-time on large dynamic knowledge bases.
The goal underlying the theoretical development of PLN has been the creation of practical software systems carrying out complex, useful inferences based on uncertain knowledge and drawing uncertain conclusions. PLN has been designed to allow basic probabilistic inference to interact with other kinds of inference such as intensional inference, fuzzy inference, and higher-order inference using quantifiers, variables, and combinators, and be a more convenient approach than Bayesian networks (or other conventional approaches) for the purpose of interfacing basic probabilistic inference with these other sorts of inference. In addition, the inference rules are formulated in such a way as to avoid the paradoxes of Dempster–Shafer theory.
Implementation
PLN begins with a term logic foundation and then adds on elements of probabilistic and combinatory logic, as well as some aspects of predicate logic and autoepistemic logic, to form a complete inference system, tailored for easy integration with software components embodying other (not explicitly logical) aspects of intelligence.
PLN represents truth values as intervals, but with different semantics than in imprecise probability theory. In addition to the interpretation of truth in a probabilistic fashion, a truth value in PLN also has an associated amount of certainty. This generalizes the notion of truth values used in autoepistemic logic, where truth values are either known or unknown and when known, are either true or false.
The current version of PLN has been used in narrow-AI applications such as the inference of biological hy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd%20Greanier | Todd Greanier is an author and technology manager, regarded as an expert in Java programming.
Greanier now works to develop and deliver complex applications utilizing public records data. He was a frequent contributor to the now defunct New York Sun newspaper, and was co-author (with sportswriter Sean Lahman) of three books on professional football.
Todd published his first book of poetry, Despising Van Gogh, in February 2011.
Footnotes
External links
Java Foundations (at Google Books)
Living people
Sun Microsystems people
Java (programming language)
American computer scientists
American sportswriters
Computer science writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua%20New%20Guinea%20Academic%20and%20Research%20Network | The Papua New Guinea Academic and Research Network (PNGARNET) is a nonprofit organisation owned and operated by the Papua New Guinea Vice-Chancellors Committee. PNGARNET's stated mission is to expand the availability of cost-effective Internet services to the nation's universities and research centres.
History
Efforts to develop cost-effective Internet connectivity between Papua New Guinea’s higher education institutions began in the mid-1990s. In 2006, discussions between the nation’s telecommunications providers, universities and government resulted in the decision to create a single entity that would address the issue.
PNGARNET was launched in April 2008, and its initial membership consisted of four state-funded schools – University of Goroka, University of Papua New Guinea, University of Technology and Vudal University – plus the privately owned Divine Word University and Pacific Adventist University and two government agencies, the National Research Institute and the National Agricultural Research Institute.
Internet connectivity
Among PNGARNET’s earliest projects has been the development of a computer satellite virtual local area network designed to increase Internet bandwidth to the nation's higher education institutions. The first installation coordinated by PNGARNET was a 3.7 metre satellite dish at the University of Goroka, which was designed to replace an older and slower dish while enabling the facility to facilitate full Internet research and communications services across Papua New Guinea and in connection with other nations.
Papua New Guinea’s topography, with its rugged landforms and seismic activity, discouraged the installation of optical fibre as the main telecommunications medium for Internet connectivity. A microwave transmission was not pursued, since the technology requires line-of-sight between towers, which could only be constructed and maintained by PNG Telikom. Therefore, it was decided to use satellite transmission for PNGARNET’s connectivity.
The PNGARNet system is made up of the participating institutions and a hub that is located in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong location was chosen due to the guarantee of uninterrupted electrical power and Internet connectivity and for its access to technology experts and supplies. PNGARNet rents its bandwidth on a geo-stationary orbiting satellite.
Funding
The institutions participating in PNGARNET are required to purchase and maintain their on-site equipment, and each institution is charged a fee to help defray the costs of the Hong Kong hub. Internet bandwidth needs are paid on a predetermined scale that is reviewed annually.
References
Education in Papua New Guinea
Educational organisations based in Papua New Guinea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHI%20Health | CHI Health (formerly Alegent Health) is a regional healthcare network headquartered in Omaha. The combined organization consists of 28 hospitals, two stand-alone behavioral health facilities, and more than 150 employed physician practices in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and North Dakota. CHI Health is part of CommonSpirit Health and is legally designated a non-profit organization.
History
Alegent Health was created in 1996, resulting from the merger between the Lutheran Immanuel Medical Center and the Catholic Bergan Mercy Medical Center under the Community Health Vision. Also merged were Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and two regional health partners, Corning and Schuyler, each retaining their religious affiliations. In 1997, Midlands Hospital was also absorbed.
Mergers and acquisitions
In 2012, Alegent acquired Creighton University Medical Center and renamed it as Alegent Creighton Health. Also in 2012, Immanuel left the Alegent partnership to focus on its senior programs and Alegent became solely sponsored by Catholic Health Initiatives. In 2014, Alegent Creighton Health merged with CHI Nebraska and was renamed CHI Health.
In February 2019, parent company CHI merged with Dignity Health, forming CommonSpirit Health, the second-largest nonprofit hospital chain in the United States.
Hospitals
See also
Hospitals in Omaha, Nebraska
CHI Health Center Omaha, the city's largest indoor sports venue, bearing the company's name due to a sponsorship deal
References
External links
Catholic health care
Health care companies based in Nebraska
Healthcare in Omaha, Nebraska
Hospital networks in the United States
Organizations based in Omaha, Nebraska
Religious corporations
Catholic hospital networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20machine%20learning | In computer science, online machine learning is a method of machine learning in which data becomes available in a sequential order and is used to update the best predictor for future data at each step, as opposed to batch learning techniques which generate the best predictor by learning on the entire training data set at once. Online learning is a common technique used in areas of machine learning where it is computationally infeasible to train over the entire dataset, requiring the need of out-of-core algorithms. It is also used in situations where it is necessary for the algorithm to dynamically adapt to new patterns in the data, or when the data itself is generated as a function of time, e.g., stock price prediction. Online learning algorithms may be prone to catastrophic interference, a problem that can be addressed by incremental learning approaches.
Introduction
In the setting of supervised learning, a function of is to be learned, where is thought of as a space of inputs and as a space of outputs, that predicts well on instances that are drawn from a joint probability distribution on . In reality, the learner never knows the true distribution over instances. Instead, the learner usually has access to a training set of examples . In this setting, the loss function is given as , such that measures the difference between the predicted value and the true value . The ideal goal is to select a function , where is a space of functions called a hypothesis space, so that some notion of total loss is minimised. Depending on the type of model (statistical or adversarial), one can devise different notions of loss, which lead to different learning algorithms.
Statistical view of online learning
In statistical learning models, the training sample are assumed to have been drawn from the true distribution and the objective is to minimize the expected "risk"
A common paradigm in this situation is to estimate a function through empirical risk minimization or regularized empirical risk minimization (usually Tikhonov regularization). The choice of loss function here gives rise to several well-known learning algorithms such as regularized least squares and support vector machines.
A purely online model in this category would learn based on just the new input , the current best predictor and some extra stored information (which is usually expected to have storage requirements independent of training data size). For many formulations, for example nonlinear kernel methods, true online learning is not possible, though a form of hybrid online learning with recursive algorithms can be used where is permitted to depend on and all previous data points . In this case, the space requirements are no longer guaranteed to be constant since it requires storing all previous data points, but the solution may take less time to compute with the addition of a new data point, as compared to batch learning techniques.
A common strategy to overcome the above iss |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airmax | Airmax or Air Max may refer to:
Nike Air Max, a line of shoes first released by Nike, Inc.
AirMax, a proprietary wireless protocol and wireless product brand developed by Ubiquiti Networks
Air Max Africa, an airline based in Libreville, Gabon
AirMax SeaMax, a Brazilian single-engine, amphibious light sport aircraft
See also
Airmax Muzik II, 6th studio album by German rapper Fler |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling%20%28program%29 | Sterling is a fractal-generating computer program written in the C programming language in 1999 for Microsoft Windows by Stephen C. Ferguson. Sterling was initially released as freeware but is not free now. Sterling2 is a freeware version of Sterling with different algorithms. It was released in September 2008 by Tad Boniecki. Apart from the name (which shows as sterlingwar2 in the title bar and on the About screen), the program looks just like the original Sterling. The only internals that are different are the 50 formulae for fractal generation. Parameter files made by Sterling can be used in Sterling2 and vice versa, though they will draw different images.
Sterling is based on the notion that one way to generate interesting fractal images is by using elaborate color filters and shading. In many images, the main interest lies in the filters rather than the actual fractal boundaries themselves, as in traditional fractal-generating programs. The fractal merely serves as a seeding function to the coloring algorithms and filters. A feature of Sterling is the richness of the renders.
Sterling has a simple GUI interface with a limited number of functions. The program saves files as JPEG, BMP or one of six other formats. It draws in Julia mode, allows inside-out rendering and does anti-aliasing. It offers 32 different renders and four transform effects. There are three independent color controls and two ways to zoom into an image.
The Sterling2 ZIP file (436 KB) contains brief instructions. There is no installation — it is enough to put the executable and dynamic-link library files in the same directory and start the exe file.
In 2018, the original code for sterling was released under the GPLv3.
Sample images
References
External links
Sterling2 (freeware) home page : including download, instructions and sample images.
Free software programmed in C
Fractal software
1999 software
Formerly proprietary software
Windows-only free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20divisions%20in%20Germany | In Germany and Austria, the running of railway services for a railway administration or the regional network of a large railway company was devolved to railway divisions, variously known as Eisenbahndirektionen (ED), Bundesbahndirektionen (BD) or Reichsbahndirektionen (RBD/Rbd). Their organisation was determined by the railway company concerned or by the state railway and, in the German-speaking lands at least, they formed the intermediate authorities and regional management organisations within the state railway administration's hierarchy. On the formation of the Deutsche Bahn AG in 1994 the system of railway divisions (Eisenbahndirektionen) in Germany was discontinued and their tasks were transferred to new "business areas".
Germany
State railway divisions
Incorporation into the state government
The first railway divisions of the various German state railways (known as Länderbahnen), usually reported to a specific government ministry. For example, in Prussia they came under the 'Ministry for Trade, Industry and Public Works" and, from 1878, the "Ministry of Public Works" which had been split off from it. In the Kingdom of Bavaria the railway operating divisions came under the "State Ministry of Transport". By contrast the Royal Saxon State Railways reported to the Saxon finance ministry.
In Bavaria the five railway operating divisions (Eisenbahnbetriebsdirektionen) initially worked under the "General Division for Royal Transportation", in 1886 they reported to the "General Division of the Royal Bavarian State Railways" and from 1906 to the "State Ministry of Transport".
As a small state, Baden ran its railway operations from just one central headquarters and it was not until 1882 that there was a railway division in Karlsruhe. Hitherto, the responsibility for national railway construction was allocated to its Home Office and operations, by contrast, to the Foreign Office. In between times, the "Department of Waterway and Road Construction" and, later on, the "Department of Post and Railways" were responsible.
Internal organisation
As the organisation of railway operations progressed, railway divisions were usually subject to state control with regard to finances. In particular this covered the fares structure (standard fare rates and special fares for specific areas), the retention or handing over of financial takings and the guarantee of additional resources to compensate for losses or for the construction of railway structures such as stations, new lines or electrification.
Within these prescribed boundaries the divisions ran the traffic operations on the routes allocated to them. Internally they frequently had departments assigned to "Finance and Staff", "Timetables, Fares and Operating Procedures" and "Construction, Maintenance and Vehicles".
Sub-divisions
Beyond that, a railway division could have several traffic operating offices, main workshops or locomotive depots at various locations, that were each allocated to specific li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZR%20V%20class | The New Zealand V class steam locomotive was used on New Zealand's railway network from 1885 onwards. They were operated by New Zealand Government Railways and the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company.
Introduction
The heavy increase in traffic by the early 1880s necessitated a design for a new class of passenger locomotive. The V class was conceived as an enlarged version of the 2-4-2 NZR K class of 1877. Instead of the K class's four coupled wheels, six coupled wheels were used. The order was placed with Nasmyth, Wilson and Company of Manchester. It took seven years for delivery to be made and then it was found that the engines were 5 and a half tons overweight without their tender.
As a result, the NZGR refused to accept the locomotives until the weight was pared down to an acceptable level. However, by the time they were modified, the engines had been superseded by the American-built NZR N class of similar dimensions.
The Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company also ordered three of those locomotives, numbers 6, 7, and 8, at a cost of about £6000 each (equivalent to about $1 million in 2011). They were fitted with an ornate Rogers-styled wooden cab with Gothic windows, and an extended smokebox crowned with a copper-capped funnel. They could be fired with any light fuel including wood and were very slightly heavier than the NZR version. They had inside frames and journals on both pony trucks. When the WMR was taken over by the NZR in 1908, they were included in the V class.
The locomotives had one weakness in their frames, just behind the cylinders. This weak spot, when stressed, would break; this occurred when the Branxholme locomotives were dumped, thus rendering their frames beyond repair. The Mararoa Junction locomotives may have suffered similarly.
Withdrawal
The first withdrawals of the V class began around 1925 and ended in the early 1930s. Most of the engines were dumped as stripped hulks comprising the boiler, frames, cylinders and wheels at the Branxholme Locomotive Dump in 1927. V 126 and V 127 were dumped as substantially more complete hulks at Mararoa Junction, in October 1928, complete with their cabs and tenders. V 132 was dismantled at the Bealey Quarry and its frames dumped there.
The three WMR engines were withdrawn the same time and their boilers removed for stationary use or sale. The fate of the 3 WMR V's is unknown, though there has been some speculation that one might have been dumped at Branxholme. One of the boilers from these engines was unearthed by KiwiRail in 2009 during construction of the Kai Iwi tunnel bypass.
Preservation
In 1999, enthusiast Tony Bachelor salvaged the remains of locomotives V 35, V 125, and V 136 from Braxholme. Due to the weakness in the frames, the frame of V 132 and a Nasmyth Wilson pony truck were recovered from the Bealey Quarry. It was intended that the locomotives would be restored by the Hooterville Charitable Trust at Waitara, but this later fell through and Bachelor moved th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Health%20Council | The Global Health Council is a United States-based non-profit leading networking organization "supporting and connecting advocates, implementers and stakeholders around global health priorities worldwide". The Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to advancing policies and programs that improve health around the world. The Council serves and represents thousands of public health professionals from over 150 countries. They work "to improve health globally through increased investment, robust policies and the power of the collective voice.": According to their website the Council "convenes stakeholders around key global health priorities and actively engages key decision makers to influence health policy."
After shutting its doors in 2012, GHC re-opened with a newly elected board of directors on January 1, 2013. In their new model, the Global Health Council works in three main areas: policy and advocacy, member engagement, and connections and coordination. Reflecting this focus, GHC offers an online platform that includes guest blogs, member spotlights, policy briefs, advocacy updates, and global health job postings. Additionally, the GHC has since participated in significant global health events at the national and international level including the World Health Assembly, Global Health Week on the Hill, and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health Consortium.
The Council coordinates and participates in a number of working groups, coalitions, and roundtables in the global health advocacy community, including the GHC Budget Roundtable and Global Health Security Roundtable. The Council maintains a global health Advocacy Hub and coordinates the biennial publication of the Global Health Briefing Book. The most recent publication, titled Global Health Works: Maximizing U.S. Investments for Healthier and Stronger Communities, was released in 2017 for the 115th U.S. Congress.
History
Through almost five decades of work, the Global Health Council has continuously served as the leading membership organization focused on global health advocacy.
In 1972, the ‘National Council for International Health’ was first established. In 1998, the organization became the Global Health Council to better represent its work in the 21st century. As the council evolved, its name had to evolve to correctly reflect the scope of the Council's work. The inclusion of global in its name reflected the Council's goal to include more international organizations and individuals in its membership and become the preeminent non-governmental source of information, practical experience, analysis and public advocacy for the most pressing global health issues.
In 1998, the Council began organizing the Global Health Action Network in pursuit of its advocacy building goals. The network was designed to establish groups of motivated citizens across the U.S. to educate local communities and their elected officials about the need for a more proactive approach to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20dictionary | A reverse dictionary is a dictionary alphabetized by the reversal of each entry:
kcots (stock)
kcotseid (diestock)
kcotser (restock)
kcotsevil (livestock)
Before computers, reverse dictionaries were tedious to produce. The first computer-produced was Stahl and Scavnicky's A Reverse Dictionary of the Spanish Language, in 1974. The first computer-produced reverse dictionary for a single text was Wisbey, R., Vollständige Verskonkordanz zur Wiener Genesis. Mit einem rückläufigen Wörterbuch zum Formenbestand, Berlin, E. Schmidt, 1967.
Definition
In a reverse word dictionary, the entries are alphabetized by the last letter first, then next to last, and so on. In them, words with the same suffix appear together. This can be useful for linguists and poets looking for words ending with a particular suffix, or by an epigrapher or forensics specialist examining a damaged text (e.g. a stone inscription, or a burned document) that had only the final portion of a word. Reverse dictionaries of this type have been published for most major alphabetical languages.
Applications
Applications of reverse word dictionaries include:
Simple rhyming dictionaries, to the extent that spelling predicts pronunciation.
Finding words with a given suffix (i.e., meaningful ending), like -ment.
Finding words with the same ending as a given word, even if the sequence is not meaningful.
Setting or solving word puzzles, such as -gry or the earlier -dous puzzle (find words ending in some way), or crossword puzzles.
Construction
Reverse word dictionaries are straightforward to construct, by simply sorting based on reversed words. This was labor-intensive and tedious before computers, but is now straightforward. By the same token, reverse dictionaries have become less important since online word lists can be searched dynamically.
Examples
English
Online
closedtags.com
Physical
Normal and Reverse Word List. Compiled under the direction of A. F. Brown at the University of Pennsylvania, under a contract with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AF 49 [638]-1042) Department of Linguistics, Philadelphia, 1963.
Lehnert, Martin, Rückläufiges Wörterbuch der englischen Gegenwartssprache, VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig, 1971.
McGovern, Una, Chambers back-words for crosswords: a reverse-sorted list, Chambers, Edinburgh, 2002
Muthmann, Gustav, Reverse English dictionary: based on phonological and morphological principles, Mouton de Gruyter, New York, 1999.
Walker, John, The rhyming dictionary of the English language: in which the whole language is arranged according to its terminations, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1983.
Other Languages
Akkadian
Hecker, Karl, Rückläufiges Wörterbuch des Akkadischen, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1990.
Albanian
Snoj, Marko, Rückläufiges Wörterbuch der albanischen Sprache, Buske Verlag, Hamburg, 1994.
Czech
Těšitelová, Marie; Petr, Jan; Králík, Jan. Retrográdní slovník současné češtiny, Praha, Academia, 1986.
Dutch
Nieuwborg, E.R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20German%20companies%20by%20employees%20in%201938 | This is a list of the largest companies of Nazi Germany by employees in 1938.
Companies by employees
The list is based on Fiedler (1999a, 1999b), who compiled data from a variety of sources. Given the shortage of historical employment data some employment numbers are only estimates and some companies might be missing from this list. Employment numbers are including all subsidiaries as long as the parent company is the majority shareholder, that is, holds more than 50 percent of the stock. An exception is Telefunken, which is included in the list as it was a joint venture of Siemens and Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft which each company holding 50 percent of the shares of Telefunken. Employee numbers are not including those employed in foreign subsidiaries. The only three companies in 1938 with large foreign subsidiaries were Siemens with 11.2 percent of the workforce employed abroad, Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft with less than 20 percent and Mannesmann with 10 percent. In 1938 seven of the 100 largest German companies were subsidiaries of foreign companies, all of them included in the list. The seven foreign-controlled companies were the subsidiaries of Luxembourgish Arbed (Felten & Guilleaume, Eschweiler Bergwerksverein and Burbacher Hütte), American General Motors (Adam Opel), American International Telephone & Telegraph (Deutsche I.T.& T.-Gruppe), American Singer Corporation (Singer Nähmaschinen), French de Wendel group (de Wendelsche Berg-und Hüttenwerke), Belgian Solvay (Deutsche Solvay) and Dutch-British Royal Dutch Shell (Rhenania Ossag Mineralölwerke).
See also
Economic history of Germany
Economy of Nazi Germany
List of companies by employees
List of German companies by employees in 1907
Notes
References
External links
Big Business webpage by Peter Wardley
!
Employees 1938
Companies, Employees
Companies, Employees 1938 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell%20Busey | Shell Busey is a Canadian radio and television personality and home improvement expert. He was the host of the Home Discovery Show until July 2011, a talk radio show on the Corus Radio Network. He is also the creator of the HouseSmart Home Services Referral Network, a conglomerate of over 170 different trades, home services and home products available across Canada. In addition to being a guest on other radio shows, Busey makes numerous public appearances at home shows, seminars and charity events.
Busey and his wife currently live in Surrey, British Columbia.
Early life
Shell Emerson Busey was born in Owen Sound, Ontario on November 25, 1942. He was the third of five children. Busey's father Emerson worked for many years for the now-demolished Kennedy Foundry in Owen Sound, and was credited for inventing the “Shaper Plane”, a machine that would shave down large ship propellers to their desired final shapes. Emerson later became a tool and die maker for RCA Victor.
Shell Busey didn't care much for schoolwork as a young man; his real passion was in carpentry and mechanics. As a youth Busey delivered The Globe and Mail in the morning and The Toronto Star and Owen Sound's local Sun Times in the evening on his bicycle. Busey moved on from paper delivery to delivering prescription drugs for Bill Murphy's Drug Store in Owen Sound.
At the age of 13, Busey entered the Industrial Program at Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute, where he took instruction in cabinetry, electrical, plumbing, motor mechanics and drafting. One of his teachers, Bill Graham, helped Busey get a job as a management trainee for Beaver Lumber.
Early career
In 1961, at age 18, Busey began work as a stock boy at Beaver Lumber in Owen Sound. He eventually earned himself a sales desk position. Beaver Lumber's store manager, Roy Kennedy, recommended Busey for the Beaver Lumber Management Training program. Busey attended the program in Oakville, attaining his management certificate in 1965, and later that year, at the age of 22, he assumed the role of assistant manager at Beaver Lumber in Barrie, Ontario.
After less than a year, Busey received another promotion and, with his wife Frankie, moved to Orangeville, where he assumed the role of store manager—at age 23, the youngest in the entire Beaver Lumber chain. From 1968 to 1974, Busey transferred to several Beaver Lumber locations across the province from Sault Ste. Marie to Windsor to Oakville, moving from manager to supervisor.
In 1974 Shell Busey and his young family moved to British Columbia where Busey would manage the western Canada division of Saveway Stores. At the time, Saveway was a brand new cash-and-carry arm of the Beaver Lumber Group, and Busey was supervising the changeover of four locations: Ladner, Langley, Burnaby and Surrey. In addition, Busey was responsible for the supervision of Beaver Lumber stores in Prince George, Fort St. John, Chetwynd, Vanderhoof, Whitehorse and the Yukon.
Busey left Beave |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momma%27s%20Boys | Momma's Boys is an American reality television series that aired on the NBC network, executive produced by Ryan Seacrest and Andrew Glassman, which centers on a group of mothers who must help choose the perfect woman for their sons. Ultimately, the series poses the question: "Who really is the most important woman in a man's life?" The show ran a single season of six episodes, from December 2008 to January 2009.
At the beginning of the series, 32 single women are contestants seeking romance with any of three single men (firefighter/paramedic Michael Sarysz, real estate broker Robert Kluge, or college student Jojo Bojanowski). The men's mothers are brought in to live in a house with the female contestants while the sons are housed in a nearby condominium.
Throughout the series, the female contestants participate in competitions and are selected by the men for dates, with some of the contestants being eliminated at various intervals. Each woman receives a text message of "yes" if any of the men want to keep her in contention or "no" if none of them want to keep her in contention. If the men are undecided, they send a text message for the woman to meet them at the house's swimming pool, where the men have an additional opportunity to talk to her before deciding whether she should stay or go.
The men make the decisions whether each woman should stay or go, but the mothers actively seek to influence their sons as to those decisions.
Some of the female contestants were nude models for Playboy or Penthouse, namely Erica Ellyson, Meghan Allen, Brittany Fuchs, and Stacy Fuson. Megan Albertus is an actress who appeared in film prior to her time on the show. Camilla Poindexter later appeared on Bad Girls Club season 8.
In December 2008, Luftu Murat Uckardesler sought an injunction to prevent the airing of the show for 45 days. Uckardesler has a reality show The Perfect Bride that is a hit in Turkey, Italy and the Middle East. Uckardesler claims a trademark on Perfect Bride and a copyright to a "reality television format centering on mothers and sons and their attempts to find the 'Perfect Bride.'" NBC used the phrase "Perfect Bride" in its advertising for Momma's Boy. The court did not issue the injunction.
On March 13, 2009, it was confirmed that the series had been canceled and would not be returning for a second season.
Elimination chart
1 Contestants are listed alphabetically by first name because no contestants were eliminated in this episode.
2 In this episode, contestants received a "yes," "no," or "maybe" text message. "Yes" and "no" indicated that the woman was saved or eliminated, respectively. Women receiving a "maybe" text were saved or eliminated in a face-to-face poolside ceremony.
3 The contestant received a "maybe" text.
4 The contestant went on a date with Jojo
5 The contestant went on a date with Michael
6 The contestant went on a date with Rob
The contestant won Momma's Boys by Michael's choice
The contestant won Momma's Boys by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissoras%20Pioneiras%20de%20Televis%C3%A3o | Emissoras Pioneiras de Televisão (Broadcast Pioneers Television, in English), best known as EPTV, is a Brazilian network that is affiliated with TV Globo. The network has four stations: three in São Paulo and one in Minas Gerais.
Stations
Local programs
Bom Dia Cidade (local version of Bom Dia Brasil)
Jornal da EPTV
Globo Esporte SP/MG (local version of Globo Esporte)
Notes
References
External links
Official website
Television networks in Brazil
TV Globo affiliates
Portuguese-language television networks
Television channels and stations established in 1979 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%20Assault | Desert Assault, known in Japan as , is a 1991 run and gun arcade game by Data East. In this arcade game, up to four players control four soldiers holding machine guns and other projectile weapons, while fighting their way through the terrorist arsenal to take control of the Persian War.
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Desert Assault on their June 15, 1991 issue as being the fourth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
References
External links
Official G-Mode webpage of Desert Assault
arcade-history
1991 video games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Gulf War video games
Run and gun games
Data East video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan
Data East arcade games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morelos%20Satellite%20System | The Morelos satellites are a series of Mexican communications satellites. The first two operated between 1985 and 1998 and provided telephony, data, and television services over the territory of the Mexican Republic and adjacent areas. The third is now part of the MEXSAT constellation (sister ship of the MEXSAT-1 lost during launch) but carries the Morelos name.
The original Morelos satellites were replaced by the Solidaridad Satellite System (Solidaridad I, launched 17 November 1993, and Solidaridad 2, launched 17 October 1994) and, following privatisation, by the Satmex Satellite System.
Satellites
Morelos I
Morelos I was Mexico's first communications satellite. It was built and put into orbit under a contract from the Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT), the federal ministry responsible for the nation's communications systems.
Morelos I, a Hughes Aircraft Corporation HS-376, was launched by the U.S. Space Shuttle Discovery (mission STS-51-G) on 17 June 1985 and entered geostationary orbit at 113° W on 17 December 1985.
Morelos II
Morelos II was launched in November 1985 and remained in service until July 1998. Built by the Hughes Aircraft Corporation for the SCT, it was launched by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on 27 November 1985; the mission, STS-61-B, included Mexican-born astronaut Rodolfo Neri Vela as a payload specialist in its crew. Morelos II held a geostationary orbit at 116.8° W.
Morelos III
Morelos III (originally MEXSAT 2) was launched on 2 October 2015 at 10:28 UTC on Atlas V 421 AV-059 and the 100th launch by the United Launch Alliance. The spacecraft is designed to provide L-band services to mobile 3G+ users and armed forces via a deployable 22m Herschelian antenna dish with RF transceivers. It also has a 2m Ku-band dish of fixed geometry with a much simpler deployment sequence. The spacecraft is a Boeing 702HP GeoMobile spacecraft bus equipped with an RD-4 main engine for completing its ascent to geostationary orbit at 113° W from an ascent orbit of 4750 by 35800km inclined at 27° following the now-typical long duration two-burn profile of the Atlas V. It was originally intended to serve with the similar MEXSAT-1 Centenario spacecraft (which would have been at 116° W) lost during the 3rd stage failure of the 406th Proton, a launch vehicle of Proton-M/Briz-M configuration.
Gallery
See also
1985 in spaceflight
Satmex
Telecommunications in Mexico
Mexsat
References
External links
Morelos (Boeing)
Morelos II (Satmex)
Morelos-3 Launch images, Oct 2, 2015 @ 6:28 am EDT
Telecommunications in Mexico
Communications satellite constellations
First artificial satellites of a country
Satellites of Mexico
Spacecraft launched in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos%20Pach | János Pach (born May 3, 1954) is a mathematician and computer scientist working in the fields of combinatorics and discrete and computational geometry.
Biography
Pach was born and grew up in Hungary. He comes from a noted academic family: his father, (1919–2001) was a well-known historian, and his mother Klára (née Sós, 1925–2020) was a university mathematics teacher; his maternal aunt Vera T. Sós and her husband Pál Turán are two of the best-known Hungarian mathematicians.
Pach received his Candidate degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in 1983, where his advisor was Miklós Simonovits.
Since 1977, he has been affiliated with the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
He was Research Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU (since 1986), Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at City College, CUNY (1992-2011), and Neilson Professor at Smith College (2008-2009).
Between 2008 and 2019, he was Professor of the Chair of Combinatorial Geometry at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
He was the program chair for the International Symposium on Graph Drawing in 2004 and
Symposium on Computational Geometry in 2015. He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Discrete and Computational Geometry, and he serves on the editorial boards of several other journals including Combinatorica, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Computational Geometry, Graphs and Combinatorics, Central European Journal of Mathematics, and Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory.
He was an invited speaker at the Combinatorics session of the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Seoul, 2014.
He was a plenary speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics (Portorož), 2021.
Research
Pach has authored several books and over 300 research papers. He was one of the most frequent collaborators of Paul Erdős, authoring over 20 papers with him and thus has an Erdős number of one.
Pach's research is focused in the areas of combinatorics and discrete geometry.
In 1981, he solved Ulam's problem, showing that there exists
no universal planar graph.
In the early 90s
together with Micha Perles, he initiated the systematic study of extremal problems on topological and
geometric graphs.
Some of Pach's most-cited research work concerns the combinatorial complexity of families of curves in the plane and their applications to motion planning problems the maximum number of k-sets and halving lines that a planar point set may have, crossing numbers of graphs, embedding of planar graphs onto fixed sets of points, and lower bounds for epsilon-nets.
Awards and honors
Pach received the Grünwald Medal of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society (1982), the Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America (1990), and the Alfréd Rényi Prize from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1992). He was an Erdős Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005.
In 2011 he was listed as a fellow of the Asso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNS%20Music%20Festival | is an annual music show held among the Fuji Network System and Fuji Television since 1974. The program originated as a song contest to celebrate Fuji TV's 15th anniversary. It is commonly known as FNS, however it has no official short name.
Grand Prix Winners (1974–1990)
Best Singer Award
Best New Artist Award
Best Hit Song Award
Audience Award
Best Kayōkyoku Award
Special Award
Ceremonies
International guests (1992–present)
a-ha
Sting
Judy Ongg
Jackie Chan
BoA
Jasmine Ann Allen
Destiny's Child
Park Yong-ha
Kenny Loggins
Ryu
Daniel Powter
Jero
TVXQ!
Big Bang
Alan Dawa Dolma
Salena Jones
K
Ben E. King
Che'Nelle
Marty Friedman
Chris Hart
SHINee
Iz*One
BTS
Seventeen
TOMORROW X TOGETHER
ENHYPEN
TWICE
References
Notes
音楽・芸能賞事典 Nichigai Associates
音楽・芸能賞事典 Nichigai Associates 1990/95
External links
Fuji Television
Official FNS Music Festival webpage
1974 establishments in Japan
1974 Japanese television series debuts
Awards established in 1974
Fuji TV original programming
Japanese music awards
Japanese music television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20speed%20serial%20link | High Speed Serial Link (HSSL) is a proprietary communications protocol and was primarily developed by Alcatel. It is now owned by Alcatel-Lucent.
Capable of transmitting data at rates up to 10 Gbit/s, HSSL is chiefly used in electronic system backplanes for inter-board communication.
Xilinx, among other integrated circuit vendors, currently supports the standard.
Serial buses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving%20Sid | Surviving Sid is a 2008 computer-animated short film from Blue Sky Studios, starring Sid the Sloth of Ice Age and a cameo appearance by Scrat. It is the third in the series of Ice Age short films, the other two being Gone Nutty and No Time for Nuts. Unlike the first two Ice Age short films, Surviving Sid focuses on Sid and a small animal group of camping children. Directed by Galen Tan Chu and Karen Disher, the short premiered on December 9, 2008, on the Horton Hears a Who! DVD and Blu-ray.
Plot
Two weeks after the events of the second film and twenty-two months before the third film with dinosaurs, Sid, who was hired as a camp counselor by his friends Manny and Diego, takes a school of children out on a camping trip from home, only to find that he is not a very good guide and the children are bored. In a cameo appearance, Scrat has swallowed his acorn and is struggling to keep it down. He coughs it up and it is stolen from him by the S'more. The camping trip leaves some of the children somewhat traumatized. Sid tries to pick a flower, but somehow this has led to a tree falling, which then hits a rock, which causes a chain reaction and hits a series of larger rocks, until eventually hitting a large iceberg. The iceberg then carves out a u-shaped valley, which Sid later names the Grand Canyon. Afterwards the kids get so annoyed with Sid that it ends with them tying him up. 20,000 years later on present day, it shows a father and son beaver looking over the Grand Canyon with the son asking who made it. The father replies "Nature or a being with infinite wisdom."
Cast
John Leguizamo as Sid the Sloth
Chris Wedge as Scrat
Shane Baumel as Whiny Beaver Boy
Paul Butcher as Smarty Pants Molehog Boy
Karen Disher as S'more
Sean Micheal Cunningham as Glyptodon Boy
Khamani Griffin as Beaver Son
John Hawkinson as Beaver Dad
Feodor Lark as Aardvark Girl Cindy
Emily Osment as Start Girl Claire
Release
The short film was released with the Horton Hears a Who! Blu-ray and DVD, which was released on December 9, 2008.
As of July 2009, it is also available as a free "Video Podcast" in the USA iTunes Store, and on the PlayStation Network.
References
External links
2008 films
2008 short films
Ice Age (franchise) films
Computer-animated short films
20th Century Fox short films
2008 computer-animated films
Blue Sky Studios short films
2000s American animated films
Films directed by Karen Disher
2000s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20Goostman | Eugene Goostman is a chatbot that some regard as having passed the Turing test, a test of a computer's ability to communicate indistinguishably from a human. Developed in Saint Petersburg in 2001 by a group of three programmers, the Russian-born Vladimir Veselov, Ukrainian-born Eugene Demchenko, and Russian-born Sergey Ulasen, Goostman is portrayed as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy—characteristics that are intended to induce forgiveness in those with whom it interacts for its grammatical errors and lack of general knowledge.
The Goostman bot has competed in a number of Turing test contests since its creation, and finished second in the 2005 and 2008 Loebner Prize contest. In June 2012, at an event marking what would have been the 100th birthday of the test's author, Alan Turing, Goostman won a competition promoted as the largest-ever Turing test contest, in which it successfully convinced 29% of its judges that it was human.
On 7 June 2014, at a contest marking the 60th anniversary of Turing's death, 33% of the event's judges thought that Goostman was human; the event's organiser Kevin Warwick considered it to have passed Turing's test as a result, per Turing's prediction in his 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, that by the year 2000, machines would be capable of fooling 30% of human judges after five minutes of questioning. The validity and relevance of the announcement of Goostman's pass was questioned by critics, who noted the exaggeration of the achievement by Warwick, the bot's use of personality quirks and humour in an attempt to misdirect users from its non-human tendencies and lack of real intelligence, along with "passes" achieved by other chatbots at similar events.
Personality
Eugene Goostman is portrayed as being a 13-year-old boy from Odesa, Ukraine, who has a pet guinea pig and a father who is a gynaecologist. Veselov stated that Goostman was designed to be a "character with a believable personality". The choice of age was intentional, as, in Veselov's opinion, a thirteen-year-old is "not too old to know everything and not too young to know nothing". Goostman's young age also induces people who "converse" with him to forgive minor grammatical errors in his responses. In 2014, work was made on improving the bot's "dialog controller", allowing Goostman to output more human-like dialogue.
A conversation between Scott Aaronson and Eugene Goostman ran as follows:
Competitions
Eugene Goostman has competed in a number of Turing test competitions, including the Loebner Prize contest; it finished joint second in the Loebner test in 2001, and came second to Jabberwacky in 2005 and to Elbot in 2008. On 23 June 2012, Goostman won a Turing test competition at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, held to mark the centenary of its namesake, Alan Turing. The competition, which featured five bots, twenty-five hidden humans, and thirty judges, was considered to be the largest-ever Turing test contest by its organizers. After a series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred%20R.%20Schroeder | Manfred Robert Schroeder (12 July 1926 – 28 December 2009) was a German physicist, most known for his contributions to acoustics and computer graphics. He wrote three books and published over 150 articles in his field.
Born in Ahlen, he studied at the University of Göttingen (1947–52), earning a vordiplom in mathematics (1951) and Dr. rer. nat. (1954) in physics. His thesis showed how small regular cavities in concert halls cause unfortunate resonances.
He joined the technical staff at Bell Labs in New Jersey (1954–) researching speech and graphics, securing forty-five patents. With Bishnu Atal, he advanced and promoted linear predictive coding (LPC) during the late 1960s to 1970s and then developed code-excited linear prediction (CELP) in 1985. Still affiliated with Bell, he rejoined University of Göttingen as Universitätsprofessor Physik (1969) becoming professor emeritus (1991).
He was a visiting professor at University of Tokyo (1979).
With Ning Xiang he was a promoter of a synchronous dual channel measurement method using reciprocal maximum-length sequences (2003). He led a famed study of 22 concert halls worldwide, leading to a comparison method requiring no travel.
Books
Hundert Jahre Friedrich Hund: Ein Rückblick auf das Wirken eines bedeutenden Physikers (1996)
Awards and honors
1969 First Prize at the International Computer Art Competition for his application of concepts from mathematics and physics to the creation of artistic works.
fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
IEEE Fellow (1971).
Audio Engineering Society fellow and Gold medalist (1972)
Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (1979), for "founding the statistical theory of wave propagation in multi-mode media and contributions to speech coding and acoustics".
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986).
Helmholtz Medal of the German Acoustical Society
1975 Max Planck Society appointed foreign scientific member
New York Academy of Sciences member 1978
Rayleigh Medal 1984 and 1987
Gold Medal from the Acoustical Society of America (1991), for "theoretical and practical contributions to human communication through innovative application of mathematics to speech, hearing, and concert hall acoustics".
ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement from the International Speech Communication Association (2004).
Technology Award from the German Eduard Rhein Foundation (2004).
References
1926 births
2009 deaths
People from Warendorf (district)
German acoustical engineers
20th-century German physicists
Scientists at Bell Labs
University of Göttingen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Göttingen
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America
ASA Gold Medal recipients
Engineers from North Rhine-Westphalia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-Over | A Hand-Over is a term used in the animation industry to refer to the process of adding finger and hand motion capture data to the pre-existing full-body motion capture data, using a hand motion capture device.
Techniques
A Hand-Over is accomplished by playing back the full-body data while recording the finger and hand data. This is similar to a voice actor doing a voice-over for animated characters.
There are very few full-body motion capture systems that can capture full hand and finger motion data at the same time as the full body. An optical system gets accurate data using reflective markers and high resolution cameras. However, if the cameras cannot see the markers then they are unable to measure them. Mounting the many reflective markers on each individual joint of the hand so that they stay within the camera's views is difficult.
The traditional method of adding hand and finger motion is to key frame the fingers. This is a process similar to the old claymation process; move the finger, record the frame, move the finger again, record the frame. Key framing is easier using animation software where a beginning and an ending position can be set up, then the software fills in the motion in between. Even though software makes this easy it still takes a very talented artist to get realistic hands using the key frame method.
Another method of adding hand and finger motion is to have the animator or actor wear a data glove or wired glove. These devices very accurately measure and record the position and bend of each finger, thumb, and even the hand. Measurand's ShapeHand is made of flexible ribbons and includes 40 Fiber Optic bend/twist sensors.
Using a hand motion capture device an animator can play back the full-body data from any system and record the hand motion. This is typically done in a software package that can simultaneously play motion capture data while recording new motion capture data. This requires some practice to get the timing right just as it takes practice to get the timing right when a voice actor does an animation voice-over.
Hand-overs can save time and money while increasing the realism in hand and finger animation. This is not done without controversy. Traditional key framers do not agree this type of motion capture is better than their craft.
See also
Animation database
Computer Animation
References
Lin, J.; Ying Wu; Huang, T.S.; , "Capturing human hand motion in image sequences," Motion and Video Computing, 2002. Proceedings. Workshop on, vol., no., pp. 99–104, 5–6 Dec. 2002
Jin & Hahn, "Adding Hand Motion to the Motion Capture Based Character Animation" Computer Science Department, George Washington University, ISVC 2005, LNCS 3804, pp. 17–24.
External links
Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Animation terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip%20World%20Pharmaceutical%20News | Scrip Intelligence (Scrip) is an English language international pharmaceutical news, analysis and data service. First published as a weekly print newsletter in March 1972, Scrip included articles on side-effects, regulatory changes and mergers and acquisitions. Scrip World Pharmaceutical News was initially published by advertising company J Walter Thomson but was bought by Dr Philip J Brown in 1976 for £2000, who founded PJB Publishing. Brown sold Scrip, associated titles, and his company to Informa for £150 million in 2003. Scrip has now developed into an online global pharma news and analysis service. It provides daily news and analysis on the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry including areas such as policy & regulation, business news, research & development, generics, drug delivery, and clinical trials.
In 2022, Informa sold its Pharma Intelligence division, including Scrip, to Warburg Pincus. The business was renamed Citeline. Later in 2022, Citeline was acquired by Norstella.
Scrip subscriber base
The Scrip readership has grown to over 100,000 worldwide, half of which are in Europe. Scrip is read by managers and executives working across all disciplines in pharmaceutical and biotech companies worldwide.
Editors
Barbara Obstoj (1972–76)
Philip Brown (1977–86)
Moira Dower (1986–96)
John Davis (1997-2007)
Alex Shimmings (2007-2010)
Mike Ward (2010–2012)
Eleanor Malone (2014–present)
Scrip editorial team
Scrip has a large independent editorial team of 21. The journalists are based throughout the world in Washington, D.C., Tokyo, India, and London to ensure a global emphasis to the latest news stories.
"Science desk" - The R&D section tracks the fortune of marketed and developmental drugs, from clinical data to their passage through the regulatory process.
"Europe coverage" - Scrip's Europe based desk covers all the political and regulatory developments that affect the pharmaceutical industry in the 27 member states, other European countries and the Russian Federation.
"US coverage" - Scrip's US team details the political developments from Washington affecting the global pharma industry, such as U.S. Food and Drug Administration safety and regulatory matters, as well as litigation, Generics and pharmacy.
"World coverage" - Scrip's locally based world coverage focuses on Japan and other Pacific Rim markets, Asia and Latin America.
"Business news" - Scrip's global reporters bring information on financial and business affairs in the pharma and biotech sectors.
"Analyst team" - Scrip's analysts offer an insight into the industry's more significant developments.
References
External links
Official Website
Medicine Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical industry
Biotechnology literature
Magazines established in 1972
Magazines published in London
Business magazines published in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS%20%28programming%20language%29 | ATS (Applied Type System) is a programming language designed to unify programming with formal specification. ATS has support for combining theorem proving with practical programming through the use of advanced type systems. A past version of The Computer Language Benchmarks Game has demonstrated that the performance of ATS is comparable to that of the C and C++ programming languages. By using theorem proving and strict type checking, the compiler can detect and prove that its implemented functions are not susceptible to bugs such as division by zero, memory leaks, buffer overflow, and other forms of memory corruption by verifying pointer arithmetic and reference counting before the program compiles. Additionally, by using the integrated theorem-proving system of ATS (ATS/LF), the programmer may make use of static constructs that are intertwined with the operative code to prove that a function attains its specification.
History
ATS is derived mostly from the ML and OCaml programming languages. An earlier language, Dependent ML, by the same author has been incorporated by the language.
The latest version of ATS1 (Anairiats) was released as v0.2.12 on 2015-01-20. The first version of ATS2 (Postiats) was released in September 2013.
Theorem proving
The primary focus of ATS is to support theorem proving in combination with practical programming. With theorem proving one can prove, for instance, that an implemented function does not produce memory leaks. It also prevents other bugs that might otherwise only be found during testing. It incorporates a system similar to those of proof assistants which usually only aim to verify mathematical proofs—except ATS uses this ability to prove that the implementations of its functions operate correctly, and produce the expected output.
As a simple example, in a function using division, the programmer may prove that the divisor will never equal zero, preventing a division by zero error. Let's say, the divisor 'X' was computed as 5 times the length of list 'A'. One can prove, that in the case of a non-empty list, 'X' is non-zero, since 'X' is the product of two non-zero numbers (5 and the length of 'A'). A more practical example would be proving through reference counting that the retain count on an allocated block of memory is being counted correctly for each pointer. Then one can know, and quite literally prove, that the object will not be deallocated prematurely, and that memory leaks will not occur.
The benefit of the ATS system is that since all theorem proving occurs strictly within the compiler, it has no effect on the speed of the executable program. ATS code is often harder to compile than standard C code, but once it compiles the programmer can be certain that it is running correctly to the degree specified by their proofs (assuming the compiler and runtime system are correct).
In ATS proofs are separate from implementation, so it is possible to implement a function without proving it if the |
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