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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mspy | MSpy may refer to:
mSpy, a brand of mobile and computer parental control monitoring software
Microsoft Pinyin IME, the pinyin input method implementation developed by Microsoft and Harbin Institute of Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denton%20Designs | Denton Designs was a British video game developer based in Liverpool. The company was founded in 1984 and initially specialised in developing software for the ZX Spectrum home computer. Amongst the founders were developers who had worked on the unfinished "Mega game" Bandersnatch for Imagine Software.
History
Denton Designs was founded in September 1984 by six former Imagine staff - Steve Cain, Ian Weatherburn, Ally Noble, John Gibson, Karen Davies and Graham "Kenny" Everett.
When Denton Designs was contracted to develop Shadowfire, Ian Weatherburn became disillusioned with the fact that the company was no longer operating as it had when they had been part of Imagine, and on issuing an ultimatum was sacked by the rest of the directors. He subsequently joined Ocean.
In March 1986, the company split, with founders Cain, Davies, Everett and Gibson leaving. Of the original founders, only Ally Noble remained.
In December 1995, Denton Designs was acquired by Rage Software.
Games developed
Notes
References
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
Video game companies established in 1984
Video game companies disestablished in 1995
Defunct companies based in Liverpool
1984 establishments in England
1995 disestablishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20Venkat%20Rangan | Prof. P. Venkat Rangan is an Indian computer scientist. He is the current vice chancellor of Amrita University. A pioneer of research in Multimedia Systems, he was the founder and director of the Multimedia Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego, where he served as a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. By the age of 33 he was one of the youngest full professors at University of California, San Diego. Dr. Rangan also founded Yodlee Inc. and served as its CEO, for which in 2000, he was selected as one of the 25 best entrepreneurs by the President of the United States of America and featured on the July 2000 cover of Internet World Magazine.
Venkat Rangan has been the recipient of President of India's gold medal from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1984. As a Ph.D. student in Computer Science he spent a year at Cornell University, before moving to University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley he secured the top-most rank in the qualifying exams for graduate studies. In 1988, his Ph.D. thesis at University of California, Berkeley was judged as the outstanding Ph.D of the year by IBM.
Venkat Rangan has been identified by the ACM as a pioneer of research in Multimedia Systems, and for "founding one of the foremost centers for research in multimedia, in which area he is an inventor of fundamental techniques with global impact". With over 100 research papers and 30 patents to his credit, Venkat Rangan has been the driving force behind the setting up of a large number of inter-disciplinary research centers within Amrita University. He has extensively collaborated with international and Indian Govt partners on research projects.
Awards
In his career, Dr. Rangan has won several prestigious awards. Some of them are:
Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (1998)
NSF National Young Investigator Award (1993)
The NCR Corporation Research Innovation Award (1991)
The President of India Gold Medal (1984)
References
External links
Profile
Bio
Indian computer scientists
Indian academic administrators
IIT Madras alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of California, San Diego alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of California, San Diego faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Jeffress | Gary Jeffress is a research professor of Geographic Information Science in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
He is the former director of the Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science retiring from the position in 2018. He is the former president of the Texas Society of Professional Surveyors (1999) and Geographic and Land Information Society (2005).
Education
He attended Hurlstone Agricultural High School, Glenfield, New South Wales, Australia, graduating in 1971.
He received his Bachelor of Surveying, School of Surveying, University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1978 and his Master of Surveying Science from the same school in 1987. He received a Ph.D. (Surveying Engineering) with a minor in Economics, from the Department of Surveying Engineering at the University of Maine in 1991
Professional and academic life
He is a registered professional land surveyor in Texas, Maine, and Australia. Jeffress has been one of the original co-principal investigators of the Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network since 1991, and held the Blucher Chair of Excellence in Surveying from 1990 to 1991. He has held teaching positions in Australia and the US, and has taught short courses in Haiti.
Jeffress continues to collect and analyze geographic data and information for land management and development. His research interests incorporate GIS and digital surveying applications in environmental management, land titling, and land administration. Jeffress is involved in promoting surveying and GIS education. He organized and coordinated the 2006 GLIS GIS Competition for high school students, sponsored by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI).
References
External links
http://gisc.tamucc.edu/
http://cbi.tamucc.edu/
http://www.tsps.org/
American surveyors
Australian academics
Living people
Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-generation%20network%20services | Next-generation network services is a jargon term with no specific meaning. The term is used, in some telecommunication communities, in a loose way to refer to services that have not traditionally been provided by telecommunication operators circuit switched networks. Services include VoIP, IPTV, presence-based applications, instant messaging and location-based services. All of these example services are deployed and used on the Internet or private IP networks and access is available to them from traditional circuit switched networks.
Standards bodies and industry support forums
Various industry forums have emerged to promote as well as standardize the evolving services of next generation networks. These new network services leverage a common IMS core for a horizontal signaling layer.
Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS)
IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF)
Multiservice Forum (MSF)
IMS/NGN Forum
SIP Forum
These forums generally host interoperability events in which multiple vendors show that services based on standards promoted by the forums can actually be deployed. They also publish specifications and interoperability agreements in parallel with standards bodies.
Interoperability events
IMS Forum Plugfests
SIP Forum's "SIPit" SIP interoperability testing events
MultiService Forum's biennial Global MSF Interoperatbility (GMI)
References
Networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Medical%20Group | Boston Medical Group is a network of medical offices sharing research information and treatment methods for erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation.
The company opened its first office in Mexico in Guadalajara, Jalisco on 4 July 1997. In 2006, due to differences in visions, the shareholders of Boston Medical Group decided to part ways. This decision resulted in the creation of two entirely separate entities, each with its own management, operations, marketing, advertising, and medical protocols, yet both operating under the shared "Boston Medical Group" brand name.
As per 2023, The U.S. operations of Boston Medical Group has pivoted to primarily offering telemedicine services within the country. In contrast, the international division operates in several countries, maintaining over 100 offices in locations such as Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Spain.
Boston Medical Group (US) Treatment for Erectile Dysfunction, Premature Ejaculation & Hormone Therapy
The office's primary treatment, called intracavernous pharmacotherapy (ICP), consists of administering an injection of a vasodilator drug by inserting a hypodermic needle directly into the penis, which increases blood flow, and causes an erection in minutes in many patients.
ICP treatment has been used to help create and maintain erections in patients who do not respond to more mainstream medications or are prohibited from taking these drugs because of a heart condition, diabetes or blood pressure since ICP treatments are localized and do not typically interact with other systemic medications.
Intracavernous pharmacotherapy can be used in patients with a wide variety of ailments wherein other medications might not be as effective. For example, a study showed that over seventy percent of patients with a spinal cord injury responded positively to intracavernous pharmacotherapy and were able to achieve an erection.
In addition to ICP, Boston Medical Group also offers treatments in hormone replacement therapy (HRT), specifically for low testosterone (Low T), a sublingual form of the well-known drug Viagra which is dissolved under the tongue and quickly enters the blood stream and a variety of treatment programs designed to specifically address low libido, ED, and premature ejaculation.
Notable Physicians
Many of the physicians employed by Boston Medical Group themselves have won individual awards, including the Marie and Oscar Randolph award, the KCMS Robert H. Hume award for excellence in surgical research and the Physician's Recognition Award for Continuing Medical Education by the American Medical Association, among others. These awards were not won during their employment at Boston Medical Group.
Advertising
The company's marketing campaign, produced by Boston Men's Health Center Inc. (the management and marketing company of which Boston Medical Group is a client), has included billboards, newspaper ads, radio commercials, and TV advertisements and often utilize t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinpen%20Kamakurashi | The is an Edo period compendium of topographic, geographic and demographic data concerning the city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and its vicinities. Consisting of eight volumes and commissioned in 1685 by Tokugawa Mitsukuni to three vassals, it contains for example information about "Kamakura's Seven Entrances", "Kamakura's Ten Bridges" and "Kamakura's Ten Wells". It includes illustrations, maps, and information about temples, ruins and place names etymologies not only about Kamakura, but also about Enoshima, Shichirigahama, Hayama and Kanazawa. The book created and popularized many of these "numbered" names, which were picked up by many subsequent tourist guides and became part of Kamakura's image. Each volume contains a day's worth of walking and is a real and effective guide to sightseeing. This makes the book a precious source of information to historians.
It is also the source of at least one Kamakura canard: it is often written that Kugyō, the Buddhist monk who in 1219 assassinated his uncle and shōgun Minamoto no Sanetomo, on the night of the murder was hiding behind the great ginkgo tree next to Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū's senior shrine, but the Azuma Kagami, our main historic source on the event, simply says he came . The detail of the ginkgo tree first appears in the Shinpen Kamakurashi.
It is believed the book was compiled using as a base the , written in 1674 by Tokugawa Mitsukuni himself about Kamakura's famous places, shrines and temples. The book was written at Zuisen-ji, a Zen temple of the Engaku-ji school in Kamakura by Kawai Tsunehisa, Matsumura Kiyoyuki and Rikiishi Tadakazu.
Bibliographical Data:
Notes
References
Amazon.com Bookstore, 新編鎌倉志(貞享二刊)影印・解説・索引 (単行本), accessed on October 23, 2008
Kamakura, Kanagawa
Edo-period works
Edo-period history books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udaya%20Gammanpila | Udaya Prabath Gammanpila (born 6 February 1970) (known as Udaya Gammanpila) is a Sri Lankan nationalist politician. By profession, he is a computer engineer, lawyer and a politician. He is a former Minister of Energy and Member of Sri Lanka Parliament for Colombo District.
He has also worked as the former minister in the Western province and carried out the ministerial portfolio as the Cabinet minister for Buddhism and Religious affairs in the government. He was elected as a Member of Parliament with 198,818 preferential votes from the Colombo District at the General Election held on 17 August 2015. He is also the leader of the “Pivithuru Hela Urumaya” political party.
Early life and education
Udaya Gammanpila was born at Nawalapitiya on 6 February 1970. He attended D. S. Senanayake College, Colombo for his secondary education, where he passed the GCE A/L examination in 1988 and won a scholarship from the Australian government to study for a degree in computer science at Monash University. In 1993, while in his fourth year, he was appointed as an assistant lecturer at the university. Upon his return to Sri Lanka in 1994, he joined the Australia-Lanka Group as an Apprentice Manager and two years later became the Director and CEO of the group. Gammanpila, studied law at the Sri Lanka Law College, passed the law examination in 2003 and was sworn in as a lawyer.
Early political life
Gammanpila entered politics in 2000 as a founding member of Sinhala nationalist political party, Sihala Urumaya. Gammanpila was appointed as the party's propaganda secretary in 2001 and later became its deputy general secretary.
In 2007, he was appointed as the chairman of the Central Environmental Authority by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Gammanpila also served as a member of the All-Party Representatives Committee appointed by the President to resolve the North-East crisis in August that year.
In 2009, he voluntarily resigned as chairman of the Central Environmental Authority to contest for the Western Provincial Council. He was elected and sworn in as the Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation, Industries and Environment of the Western Province.
Milestones
Chairman Central Environment Authority
Gammanpila was appointed as the Chairman of the Central Environmental Authority in 2007, where he implemented the Pilisaru Waste Management Project and the Fuel Generation of Plastic Waste project.
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation, Industries and Environment (Western Province)
He served as the Minister of Agriculture under the Goviriya Aruna program, aimed at increasing the productivity of agriculture through mechanisation of agriculture, resulting in the Ministry being awarded the ISO 9001-2008 certification by the Sri Lanka Standards Institution in 2013.
Member of parliament
Gammanpila contested the 2015 parliamentary election from the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), receiving 198,818 preferential votes in his first parliamentary election.
Electoral hi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9%20road%20%28Latvia%29 | The A9 is a national road in Latvia connecting Riga to third largest city of Latvia, Liepāja through Skulte, also known as Liepāja highway in Latvia. The road is part of Latvian TEN-T road network. After Liepāja, the road turns in to Latvian A11. The length of A9 in Latvian territory is 200 kilometers. Currently A9 has 1x1 lanes in all its length. The current speed limit is 90 km/h. It is planned that around year 2020 all at-grade intersections with A9, in the segment from Riga to Jaunbērze, would be removed, and two-level ones would be built instead, with an option to widen the A9 to 2x2 lanes in further future. from Riga until Jaunbērze, The average AADT of A9 in 2015 was 5,379 cars per day.
References
A09 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20surface | An active surface is a surface of a radio telescope that is under active computer control of its shape.
Large (more than 10 m in diameter or length) radio telescopes always bend during operation, due to their enormous weight and the fact that even the strongest materials are not perfectly stiff. This bending, in the range of a few millimetres, does not affect low frequency operation much, but dramatically reduces the efficiency of the telescope at higher frequencies where the wavelengths are comparable to the distortion. Typically, the efficiency of a telescope drops appreciably when the deviation from the desired shape is more than 1/10 of the considered wavelength. An active surface uses numerous small actuators to move the surface panels with respect to the underlying frame, and thus maintain the correct shape.
An active surface can try to compensate for many different types of errors. The first is gravity—this is simplest since previous measurements, or even a mathematical model, can be used to predict (and correct) any bending. More difficult is correction for wind and thermal errors, since these require measuring and correcting in real time.
Some examples of active surfaces are:
Green Bank Telescope
Large Millimeter Telescope
Sardinia Radio Telescope
Noto Radio Observatory
The Chinese Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope uses a uniquely ambitious form of active surface, not only correcting errors, but applying deflections of up to in order to aim and focus the telescope.
References
. Discusses many practical details of an active surface.
Radio astronomy
Astronomical imaging
Astronomical instruments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20radiosity | False Radiosity is a 3D computer graphics technique used to create texture mapping for objects that emulates patch interaction algorithms in radiosity rendering. Though practiced in some form since the late 90s, this term was coined only around 2002 by architect Andrew Hartness, then head of 3D and real-time design at Ateliers Jean Nouvel.
During the period of nascent commercial enthusiasm for radiosity-enhanced imagery, but prior to the democratization of powerful computational hardware, architects and graphic artists experimented with time-saving 3D rendering techniques. By darkening areas of texture maps corresponding to corners, joints and recesses, and applying maps via self-illumination or diffuse mapping in a 3D program, a radiosity-like effect of patch interaction could be created with a standard scan-line renderer. Successful emulation of radiosity required a theoretical understanding and graphic application of patch view factors, path tracing and global illumination algorithms. Texture maps were usually produced with image editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop. The advantage of this method is decreased rendering time and easily modifiable overall lighting strategies.
Another common approach similar to false radiosity is the manual placement of standard omni-type lights with limited attenuation in places in the 3D scene where the artist would expect radiosity reflections to occur. This method uses many lights and can require an advanced light-grouping system, depending on what assigned materials/objects are illuminated, how many surfaces require false radiosity treatment, and to what extent it is anticipated that lighting strategies be set up for frequent changes.
References
Autodesk interview with Hartness about False Radiosity and real-time design
See also
Ambient occlusion
CGarchitect interviewReal-time 3D design
3D computer graphics
Computer graphics algorithms
Image processing
Rendering systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids%20Pick%20the%20President | Kids Pick the President is a series of specials produced by the Nickelodeon TV network, organized around a mock election to determine children's choice for the
President of the United States. Since 1988, Kids Pick the President has accurately predicted the winner of each election with the exceptions of the 2004 and 2016 presidential elections.
History
The specials began in 1988 as part of a yearly "Kids Vote" election-related coverage, in part as a way to encourage children in Nickelodeon's audience to become engaged in the political process, and partly for comedic value.
The 1992 election was sponsored by Target Corporation, and promoted by newspaper advertisements. Children voted in-person at Target's stores, which were used as polling stations.
In the 1996 election, conducted by televote, children picked Bill Clinton over Bob Dole and Ross Perot.
In the 2000 poll, 400,000 people participated via an 800 number. Both Al Gore and George W. Bush made campaign appearances at the Nickelodeon studios.
In 2004, Nickelodeon promoted the event with interstitials throughout its regular programming, features in Nickelodeon Magazine, online activities, and a book. Both John Kerry and George W. Bush declined to appear, stating they were too busy. The results were announced by Linda Ellerbee on U-Pick Live. Kerry received 57 percent of the vote; President Bush got 43 percent. This would be the first vote where its results went against those of the general election.
In 2008, 2.2 million people participated in the event. Both major candidates participated, and filmed television commercials promoting the event as well as appearing in non-biased candidate biographies which aired on Nick. Participants were allowed to vote, without any voter eligibility or verification, on a non-partisan page of Nickelodeon's website that outlined the candidates' positions on various issues. Barack Obama received 51 percent (1,167,087 votes), and John McCain received 49 percent (1,129,945 votes). Linda Ellerbee announced the results live again in 2008.
In 2012 Obama won with 65% of the vote over Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Romney declined to participate, citing scheduling constraints; instead, clips were shown from previous campaign events in which the participants' questions were addressed. In contrast, Obama invited the participants to meet him in person at the White House to answer their questions. The decision by Romney to not participate was considered by Nick News host Linda Ellerbee to be an example of his lack of "respect" for youth; the Obama campaign also responded by stating that children "demand details", and wanted "answers on why Romney could increase their class sizes, eliminate their teacher's jobs, raise taxes on their families and slash funding for Big Bird."
In 2016, Nickelodeon's poll conducted 3 candidates: Republican Donald Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton, and Libertarian Gary Johnson. Nickelodeon only offered information on the Democra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKCQ-FM | KKCQ-FM (96.7 FM, "Q Country 96.7") is a radio station licensed to serve Bagley, Minnesota. It airs a stereo country music format. News comes from ABC News Radio and the Minnesota News Network.
It sits east of downtown Fosston at 30056 U.S. Highway 2, along with sister station KKCQ (1480 AM). Both stations are owned by Jimmy Birkemeyer, through licensee R&J Broadcasting, Inc. The transmitter and tower are northwest of Bagley.
The station was assigned the KKCQ-FM call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on October 1, 1996.
References
External links
KKCQ-FM official website
Radio stations in Minnesota
Country radio stations in the United States
Clearwater County, Minnesota
Radio stations established in 1997
1997 establishments in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlinks | Athlinks is a free-of-charge social networking website aimed at competitive endurance athletes. It primarily presents race results for running, swimming, cycling, mountain biking, triathlon, and adventure racing. It is also represented as tool for athletes to connect with other competitors and enthusiasts locally.
About
Athlinks claims to have the "most comprehensive database of endurance race results and events anywhere in the world". Users can mark their own race results, and build a thorough list of their race history.
The website also has a "rivals" feature, where a user can compare themselves to athletes with similar results. Like other social network websites, a user maintains a group of "friends". In addition, users may keep a training log, list their gear items, upload photos, and present a schedule of future events.
In February 2013, ChronoTrack, a provider of timing, race management and live race services, announced that it had acquired Athlinks.
References
External links
American social networking websites
Running mass media
Adventure racing
Triathlon
Cycling websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT%20Connect | CT Connect is a software product that allows computer applications to monitor and control telephone calls. This monitoring and control is called computer-telephone integration, or CTI. CT Connect implements CTI by providing server software that supports the CTI link protocols used by a range of telephone systems, and client software that provides an application programming interface (API) for telephony functions.
CT Connect is used most frequently in call center applications. Large call centers must handle huge volumes of calls, and the coordination of calls with business applications is essential.
Software Function and Structure
CT Connect software is not a CTI application in itself; rather, it is a software component that communicates with telephone systems, converts telephone call status and control information to a standardized form, and presents that information to third-party applications. This component approach contrasts with that of integrated offerings such as those from Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories that combine the low-level telephone interface function with higher-level application logic such as retrieving and displaying information from a data base.
Software developers seeking to include telephone-related functions in their applications incorporate CT Connect software modules into their projects. The CT Connect server module must be installed on a computer that has a special CTI communication link to the telephone system. The CT Connect client module is installed on the same computer as the developer's application software. The client module presents an API for application telephone functions such as dialing a new call or generating an alert for an incoming call. The client module executes these requests by signaling them to the server module, which in turn requests the function from the telephone system. The client-server structure allows multiple applications running on multiple computers to share access to a single telephone system.
CTI Standards
The principal standards specification for CTI is ECMA Computer-supported Telecommunications Applications or CSTA. The CSTA standard specifies a call model (that is, how parties participate in a call and the steps a call goes through as it proceeds) and a set of messages that can be exchanged between a telephone system and a computer system. When both telephone systems and computer systems implement the CSTA standard, a customer can choose freely among competing products with confidence that they will interoperate.
As described more fully below, the CT Connect development team participated in the definition of CSTA. CT Connect and its predecessor, Digital Equipment's Computer Integrated Telephony product line, implement the CSTA call model and support the relevant CSTA protocol standards. Several telecommunications equipment vendors have used CT Connect as a laboratory CSTA reference to test their own products' compliance with the standard.
Environment Independence
CTI se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20automaton | Mobile automaton (plural: mobile automata) within theoretical computer science, is a class of automata similar to cellular automata but which have a single "active" cell instead of updating all cells in parallel. In a mobile automaton, the evolution rules apply only to the active cell, and also specify how the active cell moves from one generation to the next. All cells that are not active remain the same from one generation to the next. Mobile automata can therefore be considered a hybrid between elementary cellular automata and Turing machines.
References
Cellular automata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genbox%20Family%20History | Genbox Family History is genealogy software for Microsoft Windows, developed by Thoughtful Creations. It functions as a database, a research planner and task organizer, a data analyzer, a chart producer, and a report writer.
Features
Genbox has evolved since its first release in 1993 as a DOS family tree charting application. It is now a complete genealogy software package, with project organisation features, support for data and media storage, source citations, and the production of complex and customizable charts and reports.
Some of its features include:
Support for complex relationships among individuals, events, dates, places, and source citations: multiple personal names and identifiers, optionally linked to defining events, can be stored for individuals. Accurate relationships between each child and any number or type (biological, adoptive, foster, step, etc.) of parents can be stored. Any number of event types, attributes, and flags can be defined. Witnesses to events can be recorded, along with their roles.
An unlimited number of event types and source types are supported with a sophisticated, multi-language template system. Event sentences and citation formats can be customized by the user.
Reports can be generated in rtf and HTML format.
Multimedia support for images, audio, and video
Full Unicode support, GEDCOM import and export.
History
Genbox version 1.0 was originally released in 1992 as a DOS-based charting application.
Genbox version 2.0 was released in 1994.
Work began on the Windows version of Genbox Family History in August 1998
Windows release history
Genbox 3.0: Feb 02, 2003. Included support for multiple names and parent relationships, witnesses, templates for event and source citations.
Genbox 3.1.5: Oct 18, 2003
Genbox 3.2: Jun 20, 2004
Genbox 3.3: Oct 23, 2004
Genbox 3.4: Apr 30, 2005
Genbox 3.5: Jul 9, 2005
Genbox 3.6: Oct 2, 2005
Genbox 3.7: Feb 3, 2007
Genbox 3.7.1: Nov 16, 2007
File format
Genbox's underlying database engine is stored using the Access Database Engine (ACE/JET): the Genbox database can be opened in Microsoft Access.
Format and structure of Genbox databases (.GDB) -Last Updated: 3 July 2006 for Version 3.6.5
References
External links
Genbox FAQ
Windows-only genealogy software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bx-tree | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Bx-tree}}
In computer science, the Bx tree is a query that is used to update efficient B+ tree-based index structures for moving objects.
Index structure
The base structure of the Bx-tree is a B+ tree in which the internal nodes serve as a directory, each containing a pointer to its right sibling. In the earlier version of the Bx-tree, the leaf nodes contained the moving-object locations being indexed and corresponding index time. In the optimized version, each leaf node entry contains the id, velocity, single-dimensional mapping value and the latest update time of the object. The fanout is increased by not storing the locations of moving objects, as these can be derived from the mapping values.
Utilizing the B+ tree for moving objects
As for many other moving objects indexes, a two-dimensional moving object is modeled as a linear function as O = ((x, y), (vx, vy), t ), where (x, y) and (vx, vy) are location and velocity of the object at a given time instance t, i.e., the time of last update. The B+ tree is a structure for indexing single-dimensional data. In order to adopt the B+ tree as a moving object index, the Bx-tree uses a linearization technique which helps to integrate objects' location at time t into single dimensional value. Specifically, objects are first partitioned according to their update time. For objects within the same partition, the Bx-tree stores their locations at a given time which are estimated by linear interpolation. By doing so, the Bx-tree keeps a consistent view of all objects within the same partition without storing the update time of each object.
Secondly, the space is partitioned by a grid and the location of an object is linearized within the partitions according to a space-filling curve, e.g., the Peano or Hilbert curves.
Finally, with the combination of the partition number (time information) and the linear order (location information), an object is indexed in Bx-tree with a one-dimensional index key Bxvalue:
Here index-partition is an index partition determined by the update time and xrep is the space-filling curve value of the object position at the indexed time, denotes the binary value of x, and “+” means concatenation.
Given an object O ((7, 2), (-0.1,0.05), 10), tmu = 120, the Bxvalue for O can be computed as follows.
O is indexed in partition 0 as mentioned. Therefore, indexpartition = (00)2.
O’s position at the label timestamp of partition 0 is (1,5).
Using Z-curve with order = 3, the Z-value of O, i.e., xrep is (010011)2.
Concatenating indexpartition and xrep, Bxvalue (00010011)2=19.
Example O ((0,6), (0.2, -0.3 ),10) and tmu=120 then O's position at the label timestamp of partition: ???
Insertion, update and deletion
Given a new object, its index key is computed and then the object is inserted into the Bx-tree as in the B+ tree. An update consists of a deletion followed by an insertion. An auxiliary structure is employed to keep the latest key of each index so that an obj |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaduka | Thaduka is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, the blues. It is monotypic, containing only the species Thaduka multicaudata, the many-tailed oak-blue, which is found in India, Burma and Indochina.
Description
Gallery
References
Arhopalini
Monotypic butterfly genera
Taxa named by Frederic Moore
Lycaenidae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAAH%20%28disambiguation%29 | FAAH is an abbreviation, acronym, or initialism that may refer to:
Fatty acid amide hydrolase, a protein found in cell membranes
FightAIDS@Home, a distributed computing project
Foil Arms and Hog, an Irish comedy troupe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Kingdom%20of%20Paramithi | The Kingdom of Paramithi is an Australian children's television series first screened on the Nine Network and Nick Jr. on 11 November 2008. The series is created by The Wiggles and Nickelodeon, with 30 half-hour episodes for pre-school children.
The Kingdom of Paramithi is a fairy tale series with stories, songs and dance. Paramithi is a Greek word for fairy tale. The series has been created by Anthony Field and Paul Field, written by Paul Field and Paul Paddick and developed with the experience of The Wiggles production team.
The program is also broadcast on the ATV World channel of Hong Kong.
Characters
King John (Simon Pryce)
Queen Isabella (Carolyn Ferrie)
James (John Rowe)
Genevieve (Kendall Goddard)
Anastasia (Cassie Howarth)
Johnny (John Martin)
Mario (Paul Paddick)
Bobby (Brad Carroll)
Bernadette (Fiona Sullivan)
Sarah (Jennifer Andrade)
Carlos (Fernando Jorge Moguel)
Episodes
Home Media Releases
The Kingdom of Paramithi was released on DVD in 2009. Other DVDs released include All Time Favourite Fairytales, Tales of Enchantment and Cinderella Pantomime.
References
Australian children's television series
Nine Network original programming
Television shows set in Adelaide
2008 Australian television series debuts
Musical television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalist | Catalist is a for-profit corporation based in Washington, D.C., that operates a voter database and works for progressive causes.
History
Catalist was founded as Data Warehouse, LLC.
During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, Catalist served as the principal repository of Democratic data, working with over 90 liberal groups including the Service Employees International Union, the Democratic National Committee, and the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Catalist has engaged in data mining on behalf of clients such as Rock the Vote and EMILY's List. Catalist receives funding from the Democracy Alliance.
In 2015, Catalist received $725,000 from the National Education Association, a major teachers union.
In August 2016, Catalist analyzed records from 10 battleground states through June and found a major influx of new voters, majority-white, were responsible for the record-breaking turnout in the Republican primaries.
The company as of 2018 claims that it has data on 240 million unique individuals in the United States, to be used by "progressive" organizations. Laura Quinn remained chief executive officer.
After the 2020 election, Catalist published an analysis of turnout and votes among various demographic groups that contributed to the Biden / Harris ticket's victory.
In June 2021, 30 workers for Catalist announced that a super majority of workers had signed union authorization cards to be represented by the Communication Workers of America through CODE-CWA, and that Catalist had voluntarily recognized the workers' union. Workers said they did not organize in response to any perceived mistreatment, but rather their belief in the benefits of organizing, to "have a seat at the table" for workplace decisions, and to be in a union as part of their work with labor organizations.
See also
Blue State Digital
Civis Analytics
Data dredging
Dan Wagner (data scientist)
The Groundwork
Harper Reed
Left-wing politics
Michael Slaby
ORCA (computer system)
Project Houdini
Project Narwhal
Predictive analytics
References
2006 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Companies based in Washington, D.C.
Political campaign techniques
Political campaign technology
Progressive organizations in the United States
Technology companies established in 2006
2008 United States presidential election |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994%E2%80%9395%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this time period, from September 1994 to August 1995. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
Legend
Schedule
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC in Concert
ABC World News Now
ABC World News This Morning
Nightline
Not returning from 1993-94:
ABC in Concert Country
CBS
Returning series
CBS Morning News
Crimetime After Primetime
Kids in the Hall
Late Show with David Letterman
Up to the Minute
New series
The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder
Fox
Returning series
Tales from the Crypt
Not returning from 1993-94:
Comic Strip Live
The Chevy Chase Show
Code 3
In Living Color
NBC
Returning series
Friday Night
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Later with Greg Kinnear
NBC News at Sunrise
NBC Nightside
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
United States late night network television schedules
1994 in American television
1995 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMessage | vMessage is a file format used for the storage and exchange of short messages, typically SMS messages, between mobile devices and desktop computers. The format is used by multiple vendors, including Nokia, Siemens, and Palm, Inc., and is similar to the commonly used vCard format. vCard is used within the format to embed contact information for the sender of the message.
The standard is defined by IrDA (Infrared Data Association) in the IrDA Infrared Mobile Communications (IrMC) v1.1 specification. The file extension used when transferring is vmg.
This standard is mainly concerned with defining methods of exchanging personal data such as business cards, appointments, and notes between mobile devices.
A sub-set of the specification is available here.
References
Computer file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%E2%80%9396%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this time period, from September 1995 to August 1996. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
Legend
Schedule
Monday-Friday
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC in Concert
ABC World News Now
ABC World News This Morning
Nightline
CBS
Returning series
CBS Morning News
Late Show with David Letterman
The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder
Up to the Minute
Not returning from 1994-95:
Crimetime After Primetime
The Kids in the Hall
Fox
New series
MADtv
Saturday Night Special
Not returning from 1994-95:
Tales from the Crypt
NBC
Returning series
Friday Night
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Later
NBC News at Sunrise
NBC Nightside
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
United States late night network television schedules
1995 in American television
1996 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%E2%80%9397%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this time period, from September 1996 to August 1997. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
Legend
Schedule
Monday-Friday
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC in Concert
ABC World News Now
ABC World News This Morning
Nightline
New series
Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher
CBS
Returning series
CBS Morning News
Late Night with David Letterman
The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder
Up to the Minute
Fox
Returning series
MADtv
Not returning from 1995-96:
Saturday Night Special
NBC
Returning series
Friday Night
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Later
NBC News at Sunrise
NBC Nightside
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
United States late night network television schedules
1996 in American television
1997 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%E2%80%9398%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this time period, from September 1997 to August 1998. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
Legend
Schedule
Monday-Friday
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC in Concert
ABC World News Now
ABC World News This Morning
Nightline
Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher
CBS
Returning series
CBS Morning News
Late Show with David Letterman
The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder
Up to the Minute
Fox
Returning series
MADtv
NBC
Returning series
Friday Night
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Later
NBC News at Sunrise
NBC Nightside
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
United States late night network television schedules
1997 in American television
1998 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this time period, from September 1998 to August 1999. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
Legend
Schedule
Monday-Friday
Note: NBC Nightside was cancelled in September 1998
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC World News Now
ABC World News This Morning
Nightline
Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher
Not returning from 1997-98:
ABC in Concert
CBS
Returning series
CBS Morning News
Late Show with David Letterman
The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder
Up to the Minute
New series
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Fox
Returning series
MADtv
NBC
Returning series
Friday Night
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Later
NBC News at Sunrise
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Not returning from 1997-98:
NBC Nightside
United States late night network television schedules
1998 in American television
1999 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%E2%80%932000%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this time period, from September 1999 to August 2000. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
Legend
Schedule
Monday-Friday
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC World News Now
ABC World News This Morning
Nightline
Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher
CBS
Returning series
CBS Morning News with Julie Chen
Late Show with David Letterman
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Up to the Minute
Not returning from 1998-99:
The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder
Fox
Returning series
MADtv
NBC
Returning series
Friday Night
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Later
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
New series
Early Today
Not returning from 1998-99:
NBC News at Sunrise
United States late night network television schedules
1999 in American television
2000 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this time period, from September 2000 to August 2001. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
Legend
Schedule
Monday-Friday
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC World News Now
ABC World News This Morning
Nightline
Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher
CBS
Returning series
CBS Morning News with Julie Chen
Late Show with David Letterman
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Up to the Minute
Fox
Returning series
MADtv
NBC
Returning series
Early Today
Friday Night / Late Friday
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Later
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
New series
Later Presents SCTV
United States late night network television schedules
2000 in American television
2001 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this period, from September 2001 to August 2002. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
Legend
Schedule
Monday-Friday
Note: Politically Incorrect ended on July 5, 2002.
Note: Later aired its final episode as Later Presents SCTV on January 2, 2002, with Last Call with Carson Daly taking its place on January 8, 2002.
Note: Late Friday ended on May 24, 2002, with Last Call with Carson Daly expanding to five nights a week.
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC World News Now
ABC World News This Morning
Nightline
Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher
New series
ABC News Up Close
CBS
Returning series
CBS Morning News with Julie Chen
Late Show with David Letterman
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Up to the Minute
Fox
Returning series
MADtv
NBC
Returning series
Early Today
Late Friday
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Later Presents SCTV
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
New series
Last Call with Carson Daly
Not returning from 2000-01:
Later
United States late night network television schedules
2001 in American television
2002 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think%20Like%20a%20Cat | Think Like a Cat is an American game show created by Grand Central Marketing and broadcast by Game Show Network. Hosted by Chuck Woolery and sponsored by Meow Mix, eight cats and their owners compete in the contest, which includes contestants playing games with their cats showcasing their knowledge of cat-based trivia and their relationships with their own cats. The overall winner of the game participates in a bonus round for a million dollar prize. The show premiered as a one-time special on November 15, 2008 and was critically panned, with writers arguing that the special was "embarrassing" and that it should be "put down".
Gameplay
The first round is an elimination game in which the eight cats are placed in front of a bowl of cat food. The three cats which have eaten the most food when time expires move on to the second round; those who are eliminated earn $1,000. The three remaining owners answer trivia questions for points. The format is similar to Jeopardy! with six cat-related CATegories containing questions ranging from 10 to 50 points. The lowest-scoring owner is eliminated with $10,000. The two remaining cats are each then recorded in seven different situations. The owners wager points on what their cat will do before each clip is shown. They may not wager more than half of their points on the first two questions. For the remainder, they may wager any or all of their points. The cat and owner with the highest score win $25,000, and a chance to play the bonus round; the eliminated contestant earns $15,000.
Meow Mix Million Dollar Challenge
Ten bags of Meow Mix cat food are placed on the stage; the bags contain symbols with only one pair containing matching symbols. The owner and cat each choose a bag. If the two bags chosen have the same symbol, the owner wins $1,000,000, and in addition, earns an extra $100,000 to donate to the animal shelter of their choice. Otherwise, the contestant leaves with the $25,000 won earlier in the game and an extra $2,500 for a similar charity.
Production
Tryouts for the show were held on June 21, 2008. Potential contestants auditioned in front of a panel of three judges, which included Vincent Pastore and Lee Meriwether. Those who passed the auditions were flown to Hollywood to compete with their cats as contestants. The program, which was hosted by Chuck Woolery, executive produced by David Doyle, and sponsored by Meow Mix, premiered as a one-time special on November 15, 2008. Reruns of the program aired four times throughout the rest of the month. Woolery expressed excitement at the prospects of the special, stating that the show "was designed to prove or disprove" that owners know everything they think they know about cats. Steve Ochi, a writer for the show, called the project a "success", though a minor incident did occur when a camera-shy cat forced the producers to use a stuffed cat for some shots. No new episodes have been produced since the original special.
Reception
Carrie Grosvenor of About |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Archives%20and%20Records%20Service%20of%20South%20Africa | The National Archives and Records Service is an institutional network, operating on a centralised and decentralised provincial basis under central government control. The National Archives and Records Service of South Africa was established by passing of the National Archives and Records Service of South Africa Act in 1996.
National Archives and Records Service Offices
Head Office
Heraldry Council
Bureau of Heraldry
National Archives Repository
National Film, Video and Sound Archives (South Africa)
Records Management and Information Systems
Provincial Archives Services
Eastern Cape Provincial Archives (includes Mthatha Archives Repository, Port Elizabeth Archives Repository)
Free State Provincial Archives
Gauteng Provincial Archives
KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Archives (includes Durban Archives Repository, Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository, Ulundi Archives Repository)
Limpopo Provincial Archives Service
Mpumalanga Provincial Archives Service
Northern Cape Provincial Archives Service
North West Provincial Archives and Records Services
Western Cape Provincial Archives and Records Service
See also
List of archives in South Africa
Archival platform
Iziko Museums
National Library of South Africa
Unesco Memory of the World Register – Africa
References
External links
National Archives and Records Service of South Africa
Government of South Africa
History of South Africa
Archives in South Africa
1996 establishments in South Africa
South Africa
Organisations based in Pretoria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Brune | Otto Walter Heinrich Oscar Brune (10 January 1901 – 1982) undertook some key investigations into network synthesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he graduated in 1929. His doctoral thesis was supervised by Wilhelm Cauer and Ernst Guillemin, who the latter ascribed to Brune the laying of "the mathematical foundation for modern realization theory".
Biography
Brune was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State 10 January 1901 and grew up in Kimberley, Cape Colony. He enrolled in the University of Stellenbosch in 1918, receiving a Bachelor of Science in 1920 and Master of Science in 1921. He taught German, mathematics, and science at the Potchefstroom Gymnasium, Transvaal in 1922, and lectured in mathematics at the Transvaal University College, Pretoria 1923–1925.
In 1926 Brune moved to the US to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the sponsorship of the General Electric Company, receiving Batchelor and Master's degrees in 1929. From 1929 to 1930, Brune was involved in artificial lightning tests on the power transmission line from Croton Dam, Michigan as a research assistant at MIT. From 1930, Brune was a Fellow in Electrical Engineering at MIT with an Austin Research Fellowship.
Brune returned to South Africa in 1935. He became Principal Research Officer at the National Research Laboratories, Pretoria.
Works
In 1933, Brune was working on his doctoral thesis entitled, Synthesis of Passive Networks and Cauer suggested that he provide a proof of the necessary and sufficient conditions for the realisability of multi-port impedances. Cauer himself had found a necessary condition but had failed to prove it to be sufficient. The goal for researchers then was "to remove the restrictions implicit in the Foster-Cauer realisations and find conditions on Z equivalent to realisability by a network composed of arbitrary interconnections of positive-valued R, C and L."
Brune coined the term positive-real (PR) for that class of analytic functions that are realisable as an electrical network using passive components. He did not only introduce the mathematical characterization of this function in one complex variable but also demonstrated "the necessity and sufficiency for the realization of driving point functions of lumped, linear, finite, passive, time-invariant and bilateral network. Brune also showed that if the case is limited to scalar PR functions then there was no other theoretical reason that required ideal transformers in the realisation (transformers limit the practical usefulness of the theory), but was unable to show (as others later did) that transformers can always be avoided. The eponymous Brune cycle continued fractions were invented by Brune to facilitate this proof.
The Brune theorem is: The impedance Z(s) of any electric network composed of passive components is positive-real.
If Z(s) is positive-real it is realisable by a network having as components passive (positive) R, C, L, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIP%20%28software%29 | The uIP is an open-source implementation of the TCP/IP network protocol stack intended for use with tiny 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers. It was initially developed by Adam Dunkels of the Networked Embedded Systems group at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, licensed under a BSD style license, and further developed by a wide group of developers.
uIP can be very useful in embedded systems because it requires very small amounts of code and RAM. It has been ported to several platforms, including DSP platforms.
In October 2008, Cisco, Atmel, and SICS announced a fully compliant IPv6 extension to uIP, called uIPv6.
Implementation
uIP makes many unusual design choices in order to reduce the resources it requires. uIP's native software interface is designed for small computer systems with no operating system. It can be called in a timed loop, and the call manages all the retries and other network behavior. The hardware driver is called after uIP is called. uIP builds the packet, and then the driver sends it, and optionally receives a response.
It is normal for IP protocol stack software to keep many copies of different IP packets, for transmission, reception and to keep copies in case they need to be resent. uIP is economical in its use of memory because it uses only one packet buffer. First, it uses the packet buffer in a half-duplex way, using it in turn for transmission and reception. Also, when uIP needs to retransmit a packet, it calls the application code in a way that requests for the previous data to be reproduced.
Another oddity is how uIP manages connections. Most IP implementations have one task per connection, and the task communicates with a task in a distant computer on the other end of the connection. In uIP, no multitasking operating system is assumed. Connections are held in an array. On each call, uIP tries to serve a connection, making a subroutine call to application code that responds to, or sends data. The size of the connection array is a number that can be adjusted when uIP is recompiled.
uIP is fully compliant with the RFCs that define TCP, UDP and IP. It also implements the mandatory maintenance protocol ICMP.
Versions
uIP 0.9 is the version with the least dependence on operating systems, the smallest resource use, and the only version that presents a pure event loop API, but in its original form does not support IP version 6, only the older, more common IPv4. It may be used in embedded systems with very small amounts of resources.
It was delivered with a set of examples of higher-level protocols that also run on an event loop system, including HTTP (a simple web server), SMTP (simple mail transmission protocol), FTP (file transfer protocol), telnet (terminal emulation), and others. Despite the examples and its small size, uIP 0.9 can be difficult to apply because it does not use any form of socket API.
uIP is widely used code with well-known weaknesses. The design minimizes and separates 32-bit arith |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20FC%20Dynamo%20Kyiv%20seasons | FC Dynamo Kyiv is a Ukrainian professional association football club based in the neighborhood of Pechersk, Kyiv (Caves [Monastery]). The club was formed in Kyiv in 1927 as part of network of the Soviet Dynamo proletarian sports society. It was formed in place of the already existing local team of Sovtorgsluzhashchie (Russian word for Soviet retail associates).
List of seasons
Ukrainian SSR
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! GA
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!Dynamomania
!Domestic Cup
!Notes
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| style="text-align:center;"|1929
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| style="text-align:center;"|1931
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! Division (Name)
! Pos./Teams
! Pl.
! W
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! L
! GS
! GA
! P
!Cup of UkrSSR
!Soviet Cup
!Notes
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="7"|1st(Group A)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDE | VDE may refer to:
Science and technology
Virtual Distributed Ethernet, a virtualised network infrastructure
Violaxanthin de-epoxidase, an enzyme
Visteon Dockable Entertainment, a portable DVD player with Game Boy Advance slot
Other uses
VDE e.V. (Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik), a German technical association
German Unification Transport Projects (German initials "VDE"), transportation infrastructure projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20V%20Philippines | Channel [V] Philippines was a 24-hour music-entertainment television network owned by STAR TV and Fox Networks Group Philippines in partnership with TV Xtreme Broadcasting Company (formerly Makisig Network) and Northern Star Productions as network provider.
History
Debut on UHF 23
Channel V was first launched in 1994 in the Philippines, as MTV Asia made the decision to split from STAR TV and form its own satellite TV channel in Asia. It began airing on UHF Channel 23, licensed to Ermita Electronics Corporation, as the Philippines' first UHF TV station fully devoted to re-broadcasting a foreign satellite channel after MTV Asia was started as a music channel in 1992. It was started as the "Next Generation of Music" until it relaunched as Channel V. During that time, the actual feed was Channel V Chinese on AsiaSat 1 while the Asian/Indian counterparts were on AsiaSat 2 and Palapa C2, respectively.
Channel V in the Philippines aired only a few of the English-language shows like The Ride, Over The Edge, By Demand, Rewind, Asian Top 20, Billboard US Countdown and Sigaw Manila (with Filipino artists, locally produced by Probe Productions) but aired several of their Mandarin Chinese or Indian counterparts.
In the same year, the station launched the first ever Channel V Philippines VJ Hunt for aspiring Filipino VJs; it was won by Melanie Casul, the competition's first and last winner.
The channel left UHF 23 in July 1996, when EEC (the owner of the license) turned over to AMCARA Broadcasting Network, an ABS-CBN affiliate, creating Studio 23 (now known as ABS-CBN Sports+Action). The station is currently inactive since May 2020, after NTC release a cease and desist order on ABS-CBN after its franchise was relapsed.
Move to UHF 27
August 1995
Before GMA Network officially launched Citynet Television in August 1995, GMA Network signed a contract with Star TV Network to broadcast selected taped Channel V International TV shows from 1995 until its closure in March 1999. This programming made Trey Farley, Joey Mead, Amanda Griffin, Michael Zerrudo and the late Francis Magalona former VJ-TV hosts of part-Filipino descent, familiar to Citynet viewers. From 1998 until its closure in March 1999, Asian Top 20 Countdown was the only rebroadcast Channel V show.
December 1999
On December 15, 1999, STAR TV leased the airtime of Citynet to launch Channel V Philippines through EMC, also known as Entertainment Music Channel. Part of the strategy to localize Channel V was with programming produced both by Star TV and GMA through Alta Productions and Probe Productions, Inc. The marketing image was shifted from music to more live-action products. Idents from this time frame used the brackets in the name. It dimensionalized the name Channel V, making it into an object that could then become an environment for its broadcast design and a stage for live events. Additional shifts in programming occurred at the relaunch, specifically a shift to genre-specific rather than |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera%20Cameos | Opera Cameos is a TV series which aired on the DuMont Television Network from November 8, 1953, to January 9, 1955. The program aired Sundays at 7:30pm ET, and was hosted by opera singer Giovanni Martinelli. A conductor on the program was Salvatore Dell'Isola.
Episodes status
The Paley Center for Media has eight episodes, with the remaining episodes presumed lost.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1954-55 United States network television schedule
Bibliography
Barnes, Scott "Vintage Portraits", Opera News, November, 2007. Accessed via subscription 27 October 2008.
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
1953 American television series debuts
1955 American television series endings
Works about opera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephony%20Server%20Application%20Programming%20Interface | Telephony Server Application Programming Interface was a computer telephony integration standard developed and promoted by Novell and AT&T. It consisted of a number of call control commands for switching calls, voice mail and call logging using NetWare servers. Unlike the competing Telephony Application Programming Interface from Microsoft and Intel, it was a server-based system that did not expect client-side equipment to handle call switching. This was important to AT&T, which sold large telephone switches that Telephony Server Application Programming Interface was intended to work with.
Description
Telephony Server Application Programming Interface consisted of two primary parts, the application programming interface itself, and a "telephony service provider" that ran on a server and talked to clients. Novell produced one such provider, "TServer" that ran, unsurprisingly, on NetWare servers. TServer, in turn, talked to a driver specific to the brand of telephony switch being used. NetWare acted primarily as the operating system for TServer to run within, although TServer did make use of NetWare Directory Services for security and provisioning. The whole system from client-side drivers to server to private branch exchange driver was known as "NetWare Telephony Services", at least when using Novell software.
Message formats were based on a standard promoted by the European Computer Manufacturers Association, which was directly supported by a number of European-built switches. When used with one of these switches, the driver between the server and the switch was "thin". "Thicker" drivers were needed for switches that did not directly support these standards. The client-side application programming interface was available for Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, Mac OS, UnixWare and Linux.
The interface was a control protocol only, and did not send a voice data across the network for use with software-based phones. It included commands for dialing, hanging up, and other instructions. It required a channel, called a stream, to be set up for all communications.
Telephony Server Application Programming Interface and Versit
Telephony Server Application Programming Interface was created in an era when major telephony vendors were promoting a vision of wide-area networking based on dedicated circuit-switched links. Unlike modern networking systems where each piece of data is separately routed to its destination, these networking systems were essentially a version of the existing phone system carrying data instead of voice, setting up dedicated channels between endpoints. Looking for applications that might make use of such a network, vendors promoted numerous new standards for videotelephony, high-speed fax, etc.
Only the control system was standardized; getting data into and out of a computer remained an issue. There were a number of efforts by various vendors to support this functionality. Apple Computer was promoting GeoPort as the comput |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20railway%20stations%20in%20Cornwall | The first of the passenger railway stations in Cornwall, England, were opened in 1834. The network expanded considerably between the 1840s and 1900s. There were 81 stations in the duchy in 1960 but rationalisation of lines and stations has reduced this to just 36 National rail stations since 1989 including two opened in the 1970s. These are on the Cornish Main Line (between and where it continues across the Royal Albert Bridge into Devon) and the five remaining branch lines. There are also a small number of new or reopened stations on heritage railways.
The busiest station is with more than one million passengers each year; the quietest is with fewer than 250.
Railway development in Cornwall
Early transport in Cornwall relied on coastal shipping so the first rail tracks were laid to connect the hinterland with harbours. The first line to carry passengers was the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway (B&WR) on 4 July 1834.
In the west the Hayle Railway connected that port with at the end of 1837 and started a passenger service on 23 May 1843. This line was not convenient to operate but was taken over by the West Cornwall Railway (WCR) and realigned in 1852, extending it west to and east to . It moved its Truro terminus to join the new Cornwall Railway (CR) which opened from on 4 May 1859. The CR completed its line from Truro to Falmouth on 24 August 1863. The WCR and CR were financially supported by the Great Western Railway (GWR). Other branch lines were opened, either by the GWR or independent companies which were later absorbed, to places such as and (1876) (1879), and (1887), and Bodmin (1888). The GWR network was completed in 1905 by a long line which connected Truro with Newquay via .
Meanwhile the B&WR had been bought by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) but remained isolated from its parent until their line through the north of Cornwall to opened in 1895. This was extended to Padstow in 1899. The LSWR also supported branches across the border from Devon to (1898) and (1908). The GWR also had a cross-border line to from 1865. The LSWR became part of the Southern Railway in 1923 while the GWR continued with its same name, although absorbing the last of the still independent lines that it operated.
The 1900s saw a number of small halts opened and, often, closed as the railways made an effort to keep local traffic away from trams and buses. The railways themselves operated bus routes, the first in the country being a GWR service from Helston railway station to The Lizard in 1903.
During the 1960s many of the quieter stations and lines were closed, either as a result of Dr Beeching's Reshaping of British Railways or general commercial considerations. The whole of the LSWR network was closed (except for two stations on a truncated Callington line) as were many GWR branches, but this has allowed heritage and narrow gauge railways to open using parts of these old lines.
Stations on the national network
Estimated station u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanerpetontidae | The Albanerpetontidae are an extinct family of small amphibians, native to the Northern Hemisphere during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The only members of the order Allocaudata, they are thought to be allied with living amphibians belonging to Lissamphibia. Despite a superficially salamander-like bodyform, their anatomy is strongly divergent from modern amphibians in numerous aspects. The fossil record of albanerpetontids spans over 160 million years from the Middle Jurassic to the beginning of the Pleistocene, about 2.13–2 million years ago.
History of research
The earliest specimen of an albanerpetontid to be discovered was that of Celtedens megacephalus from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Pietraroja Plattenkalk of Italy, described by Oronzio Gabriele Costa in 1864, and originally placed in the genus Triton, a junior synonym of the salamander genus Triturus. Jaw elements of albanerpetontids from the Cretaceous of North America were assigned to the salamander genus Prosiren by Richard Estes in 1969, erecting the family Prosirenidae to accommodate the genus. Prosiren was originally described by Coleman J. Goin and Walter Auffenberg in 1958, based on vertebrae found in Cretaceous aged deposits in Texas. Albanerpeton, the type genus of the family was first named by Estes and Robert Hoffstetter in 1976 for the species of A. inexpectatum described from a large number of jaws and frontal bones from a Miocene aged fissure fill deposit near Saint-Alban-de-Roche in France, and was initially classified as a salamander, and placed in the family Prosirenidae alongside Prosiren due to the morphological similarity with the jaw fragments attributed to Prosiren by Estes (1969). Richard Fox and Bruce Naylor in 1982 realised that Albanerpeton was not a salamander, noting that the holotype vertebra of Prosiren was different to those of albanerpetontids, concluding that Albanerpeton was "well isolated from salamanders" and that it "seems no nearer phyletically to any other known amphibians, from Devonian to Recent" erecting the family Albanerpetontidae and the order Allocaudata to accommodate it.
Description
Albanerpetontids were small (several cm to several tens of centimetres in length) and superficially lizard-like. The skin of albanerpetontids was embedded with bony, fish like scales. The forelimbs only had 4 digits, while retaining 5 digits on the hindlimbs. The morphology of the complete 3 dimensionally preserved skull of Yaksha peretti suggests that albanerpetontids had ballistic tongues akin to those of chameleons and plethodontid salamanders, as evidenced by the presence of an elongated rod shaped bone in the jaw cavity, dubbed the hyoid entoglossal process, which in life was embedded within the tongue. Analogous bones exists in chameleons and plethodontids, which allow rapid propulsion of the tongue. A hyoid entoglossal process is also known from Celtedens megacephalus, suggesting that the presence of a ballistic tongue is characteristic for the group. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20image%20processing | In electrical engineering and computer science, analog image processing is any image processing task conducted on two-dimensional analog signals by analog means (as opposed to digital image processing).
Basically any data can be represented in two types named as
1.Analog
2.Digital
if the pictorial representation of the data represented in analog wave formats that can be named as analog image.
E.g.:
television broadcasting in older days.. through the dish antenna systems..
Where as the digital representation or storing the data in digital form is termed as a digital image processing
E.g.:image data stored in digital logic gates..
References
Image processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oi%20Mikromesaioi | Oi Mikromesaioi () is a Greek comedy series. It was aired by Mega Channel during the 1992-1993 television season.
External links
Mega Channel original programming
Greek-language television shows
1992 Greek television series debuts
1993 Greek television series endings
1990s Greek television series
Greek comedy television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fields%20of%20application%20of%20statistics | Statistics is the mathematical science involving the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. A number of specialties have evolved to apply statistical and methods to various disciplines. Certain topics have "statistical" in their name but relate to manipulations of probability distributions rather than to statistical analysis.
Actuarial science is the discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in the insurance and finance industries.
Astrostatistics is the discipline that applies statistical analysis to the understanding of astronomical data.
Biostatistics is a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis, and includes medical statistics.
Business analytics is a rapidly developing business process that applies statistical methods to data sets (often very large) to develop new insights and understanding of business performance & opportunities
Chemometrics is the science of relating measurements made on a chemical system or process to the state of the system via application of mathematical or statistical methods.
Demography is the statistical study of all populations. It can be a very general science that can be applied to any kind of dynamic population, that is, one that changes over time or space.
Econometrics is a branch of economics that applies statistical methods to the empirical study of economic theories and relationships.
Environmental statistics is the application of statistical methods to environmental science. Weather, climate, air and water quality are included, as are studies of plant and animal populations.
Epidemiology is the study of factors affecting the health and illness of populations, and serves as the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine.
Forensic statistics is the application of probability models and statistical techniques to scientific evidence, such as DNA evidence, and the law. In contrast to "everyday" statistics, to not engender bias or unduly draw conclusions, forensic statisticians report likelihoods as likelihood ratios (LR).
Spatial statistics is a branch of applied statistics that deals with the analysis of spatial data
Geostatistics is a branch of geography that deals with the analysis of data from disciplines such as petroleum geology, hydrogeology, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, geochemistry, geography.
Jurimetrics is the application of probability and statistics to law.
Machine learning is the subfield of computer science that formulates algorithms in order to make predictions from data.
Operations research (or operational research) is an interdisciplinary branch of applied mathematics and formal science that uses methods such as mathematical modeling, statistics, and algorithms to arrive at optimal or near optimal solutions to complex problems; Management science focuses on problems in the business world.
Population ecology is a sub-field of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981%E2%80%9382%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning September 1981. All times are Eastern/Pacific.
PBS is not included, as member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary, CBS and ABC are not included on the weekend schedules (as the networks do not offer late night programs of any kind on weekends).
Talk/variety shows are highlighted in yellow, network news programs in gold, and local news & programs are highlighted in white background.
Monday-Friday
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning Series
ABC Late Night
Fridays
Nightline
CBS
Returning Series
The CBS Late Movie
NBC
Returning Series
NBC Late Night Movie
Saturday Night Live
SCTV Network 90
Tomorrow Coast to Coast
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
New Series
NBC News Overnight
Late Night with David Letterman
Not Returning From 1980-81
The Midnight Special
United States late night network television schedules
1981 in American television
1982 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRR | DRR may refer to:
Deficit round robin
Digitally Reconstructed Radiograph; see also Beam's eye view
Disaster Response Route, emergency response road network in British Columbia, Canada
Disaster Risk Reduction
Disneyland Railroad, steam railroad attraction in Anaheim, California
Directorate of Rice Research
Dolly Rockit Rollers, roller derby league from Leicestershire, England
Domain-Range ratio, abstract term in computer science
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, an American auto racing team
See also
DRRS (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982%E2%80%9383%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning September 1982. All times are Eastern/Pacific.
PBS is not included, as member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary, CBS and ABC are not included on the weekend schedules (as the networks do not offer late night programs of any kind on weekends).
Talk/variety shows are highlighted in yellow, network news programs in gold, and local news & programs are highlighted in white background.
Monday-Friday
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning Series
Nightline
New Series
One on One
The Last Word
Not Returning From 1981-82
ABC Late Night
Fridays
CBS
Returning Series
The CBS Late Movie
New Series
CBS News Nightwatch
NBC
Returning Series
Late Night with David Letterman
NBC Late Night Movie
NBC News Overnight
Saturday Night Live
SCTV Network 90
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
New Series
Friday Night Videos
Not Returning From 1981-82
Tomorrow Coast to Coast
United States late night network television schedules
1982 in American television
1983 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%E2%80%9384%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning September 1983. All times are Eastern/Pacific.
PBS is not included, as member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary, CBS and ABC are not included on the weekend schedules (as the networks do not offer late night programs of any kind on weekends).
Talk/variety shows are highlighted in yellow, network news programs in gold, and local news & programs are highlighted in white background.
Monday-Friday
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning Series
Nightline
New Series
ABC Rocks
Eye on Hollywood
Not Returning From 1982-83
One on One
The Last Word
CBS
Returning Series
The CBS Late Movie
CBS News Nightwatch
NBC
Returning Series
Friday Night Videos
Late Night with David Letterman
NBC Late Night Movie
NBC News Overnight
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Not Returning From 1982-83
SCTV Network 90
United States late night network television schedules
1983 in American television
1984 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede%20Internacional%20de%20Televis%C3%A3o | Rede Internacional de Televisão (International Television Network, in English), better known as RIT is a Brazilian religious television network, owned by Igreja Internacional da Graça de Deus, led by the missionary R. R. Soares. The programming of this channel is produced for all ages, and almost all of its programming is self-produced. The TV content is interdenominational, meaning that it is produced for the Protestant public in general. Their programs are varied, with children's shows, religious shows, some music shows and journalism.
In Brazil, RIT owns eight owned-and-operated stations, has more than 170 affiliates and more than 120 million viewers in all Brazilian states. RIT is transmitted in Brazil through systems such as UHF, VHF, cable and satellite. This channel also has its own transmission website.
History
RIT was founded on August, 1999. The project was a television channel with quality, but, there were difficulties to do it. The channel succeeded. Time to time, RIT started news and entertainment shows such as "Movimento Jovem", "Consulta ao Doutor", "Zig Zag Show", and others.
References
External links
Official Website
Television networks in Brazil
Portuguese-language television networks
Television channels and stations established in 1999
Evangelical television networks
1999 establishments in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insook%20Choi | Insook Choi (born 1962, in South Korea) is a Korean-American composer. She is the developer of the Scoregraph program.
Compositions
Lit (1992), for tape, released on The Composer in the Computer Age-IV
Unfolding Time in Manifold (1996), with Machine Child
Coney Island (1999), with Machine Child
Voices in Ruins (2000), with Machine Child
Sources
1962 births
Living people
South Korean composers
Women in electronic music
Experimental Music Studios alumni
Date of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merise | Merise () is a general-purpose modeling methodology in the field of information systems development, software engineering and project management. First introduced in the early 1980s, it was widely used in France, and was developed and refined to the point where most large French governmental, commercial and industrial organizations had adopted it as their standard methodology.
Merise proceeds to separate treatment of data and processes, where the data-oriented view is modelled in three stages, from conceptual, logical through to physical. Similarly, the process-oriented view passes through the three stages of conceptual, organizational and operational. These stages in the modelling process are paralleled by the stages of the life cycle: strategic planning, preliminary study, detailed study, development, implementation and maintenance. It is a method of analysis based on the entity-relationship model. By using Merise, you can design tables with relations to make a relational database.
See also
SSADM
UML
Entity-relationship model
References
D. Avison, "MERISE: A European Methodology for Developing Information Systems", European Journal of Information Systems, Jan. 1991, p. 183‑191
Quang, P.T., Chartier-Kastler, C. (1991), Merise in Practice, translated by D. E. and M. A. Avison Macmillan, Basingstoke, .
René Coletti, Arnold Rochfeld, Hubert Tardieu, La methode MERISE: Principes et outils (Paperback - 1983)
Frédéric LE, Yves Tabourier, Hubert Tardieu, Actes de la 3ème conférence «Comparative Review of Information System design methodologies - International federation for Information Processing» (CRIS-IFIP, Working Group 8.1), Amsterdam (Hollande), 1986
Cha Ni Wong, La Fortuna: Prinsipyo ug Teorya
Jeralgene S. Macabinta: Study of Information Systems, 2008
Software development process |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closest%20string | In theoretical computer science, the closest string is an NP-hard computational problem, which tries to find the geometrical center of a set of input strings.
To understand the word "center", it is necessary to define a distance between two strings. Usually, this problem is studied with the Hamming distance in mind.
Formal definition
More formally, given n length-m strings s1, s2, ..., sn, the closest string problem seeks for a new length-m string s such that d(s,si) ≤ k for all i, where d denotes the Hamming distance, and where k is as small as possible. A decision problem version of the closest string problem, which is NP-complete, instead takes k as another input and questions whether there is a string within Hamming distance k of all the input strings.
The closest string problem can be seen as a special case of the generic 1-center problem in which the distances between elements are measured using Hamming distance.
Motivation
In bioinformatics, the closest string problem is an intensively studied facet of the problem of finding signals in DNA.
Simplifications and data reductions
Instances of closest string may contain information that is not essential to the problem. In some sense, the usual input of closest string contains information, that does not contribute to the hardness of the problem. For example, if some strings contain the character a, but none contains the character z, replacing all as with zs would yield an essentially equivalent instance, that is: from a solution of the modified instance, the original solution can be restored, and vice versa.
Normalizing the input
When all input strings that share the same length are written on top of each other, they form a matrix. Certain row types have essentially the same implications to the solution. For example, replacing a column with entries (a, a, b) with another column (x, x, y) might lead to a different solution string, but cannot affect solvability, because both columns express the same structure, viz. the first two entries being equal, but different from the third one.
An input instance can be normalized by replacing, in each column, the character that occurs the most often with a, the character that occurs the second most often with b, and so forth. Given a solution to the normalized instance, the original instance can be found by remapping the characters of the solution to its original version in every column.
The order of the columns does not contribute to the hardness of the problem. That means, if we permute all input strings according to a certain permutation π and obtain a solution string s to that modified instance, then π−1(s) will be a solution to the original instance.
Example
Given an instance with three input strings uvwx, xuwv, and xvwu. This could be written as a matrix like this:
The first column has the values (u, x, x). As x is the character that appears the most often, we replace it by a, and we replace u, the second most often character, by b, obtaini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle%20Bag | Beagle Bag is a collection of video games for the Apple II family of computers published in 1982 by Beagle Bros Software. In common with their other titles, the Beagle Bag software was released in unlocked and unprotected form, and is now in the public domain.
Games
Beagle Bag, collectively credited to "Bert Kersey and the Beagle Bros Staff", contains games designed for the Apple II, Apple II+ and Apple IIe computers.
Buzzword!
In Buzzword!, a children's game based on Mad Libs, the computer relates a short story in which certain key words are replaced with blanks. Each time the story reaches a blank, the user selects a letter and the computer then randomly inserts a word from its vocabulary starting with that letter. Buzzword! comes with five pre-made stories and also allows users to create their own.
In addition to entering a custom story, the Beagle Bag manual also includes instructions about how to edit Buzzword!'''s vocabulary.
ElevatorsElevators challenges the player to use four elevators to deliver as many carloads of passengers as possible in a short period of time (5:00 to 5:30). Passengers appear on any of ten different floors in a high-rise building and must be collected by sending one of four elevator cars to the correct floor and back down again. The movement of each car can be controlled separately by three rows of keys: , , and to move up, , , and to move down, and , , and to stop. Power can also be cut to certain cars, allowing others to move more quickly.
Each carload of passengers delivered to the ground floor earns the player a point. Points are displayed to the left of the building, the time of day to the right.
Gas Crunch
This simple game involves taking turns with the computer to remove gas cans from a wall with 21 cans. Both the player and the computer can choose to remove one, two or three cans each time, with the object of not having to take the last remaining can. With 21 cans, the first player wins with perfect play. The computer knows how to play perfectly, so you must win the coin flip to have a chance to win.
Hang PersonHang Person is a simple hangman-style game in which the player must guess the letters of a word or short phrase. For each incorrect guess, another piece of the person is drawn in; six incorrect guesses lose the game. Hang Person allows a user to play by themselves against the computer, or to enter a word of their own (up to 14 characters) that a second user must guess. Instructions on how to edit the computer's vocabulary of 150 words are given in the manual.
Magic Pack
This program acts as an aid to performing four separate magic tricks described in the accompanying manual: "Plenty Questions", in which the computer attempts to guess the object someone's thinking of; "21 Numbers", a number guessing trick; "Next Word", in which the computer and the player create a logical series of words; and "Card Scanner", in which the computer purports to identify a playing card held agains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C%2B%2B%20template%20libraries | The following list of C++ template libraries details the various libraries of templates available for the C++ programming language.
The choice of a typical library depends on a diverse range of requirements such as: desired features (e.g.: large dimensional linear algebra, parallel computation, partial differential equations), commercial/opensource nature, readability of API, portability or platform/compiler dependence (e.g.: Linux, Windows, Visual C++, GCC), performance in speed, ease-of-use, continued support from developers, standard compliance, specialized optimization in code for specific application scenarios or even the size of the code-base to be installed.
General
Active Template Library (Windows)
Adaptive Communication Environment
Adobe Source Libraries
AGG (anti-aliased rendering library)
Boost
CGAL – Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
Concurrent Collections for C++ (CnC)
Dlib
Embedded Template Library
IT++
KFRlib Audio and DSP library with extensive use of template expressions.
Loki
mlpack – machine learning
ODB ORM and Database-Aware Container Template Library
Oracle Template Library
PETSc – Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation
POCO C++ Libraries
Template Numerical Toolkit
Threading Building Blocks (TBB)
Windows Template Library
Windows Runtime Library
Standard Template Library and derivates
Standard Template Library
GNU C++ Standard Library (libstdc++)
libc++, part of clang++
STAPL
EASTL
Linear Algebra
Armadillo C++ Library
Blitz++
Eigen Library
Matrix Template Library
Trilinos
See also
External links
Linear Algebra Libraries (A well-done survey by Claire Mouton, from INRIA, France in 2009)
List of open source C++ library
C++ libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%E2%80%9390%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this time period, from September 1989 to August 1990. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
Legend
Schedule
Monday-Friday
The Pat Sajak Show was reduced to 60 minutes on October 30, 1989.
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
Nightline
New series
Into the Night Starring Rick Dees
CBS
Returning series
CBS Late Night
CBS News Nightwatch
The Pat Sajak Show
NBC
Returning series
Friday Night Videos
The George Michael Sports Machine
Late Night with David Letterman
Later With Bob Costas
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Fox
Returning series
Comic Strip Live
United States late night network television schedules
1989 in American television
1990 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%E2%80%9391%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this time period, from September 1990 to August 1991. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
Legend
Schedule
Monday-Friday
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
Into the Night Starring Rick Dees
Nightline
New series
In Concert '91
CBS
Returning series
CBS Late Night
CBS News Nightwatch
New series
America Tonight
Not returning from 1989-90:
The Pat Sajak Show
NBC
Returning series
Friday Night Videos
The George Michael Sports Machine
Late Night with David Letterman
Later With Bob Costas
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Fox
Returning series
Comic Strip Late Night
United States late night network television schedules
1990 in American television
1991 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepace | Telepace is an Italy-based broadcasting network, established in 1979, that carries Roman Catholic-themed programming. The programs include programming from Centro Televisivo Vaticano. Its headquarters are in Cerna, a frazione of Sant'Anna d'Alfaedo, Italy, with branches in Trento, Agrigento, Lodi, Fátima and Jerusalem.
Broadcasting
It is broadcast in Italy on DTT over various mux, in the United States it is available FTA on Glorystar and Spiritcast, in Australia it is available FTA on UBI World TV. Also on Satellite TV, Telepace broadcast also as TV Syndication in Italy with more than 50 affiliated television stations.
The channel started at the beginning of 2014 to air in high definition on Eutelsat HotBird satellites and on SKY Italia and Tivù Sat. The SD version was dropped from HotBird the same day. Up to now, native HD programs only occur during live telecasts from Vatican City distributed by the Centro Televisivo Vaticano, and during repeats of the above.
On August 17, 2021, the channel left satellite Hot Bird 13B and continue on Optus D2 at 152°East 12519 MHz V, Sr 22500 3/4 MPEG-2 SD.
See also
Catholic television
Catholic television channels
Catholic television networks
Vatican Media
Padre Pio TV
Radio Maria
Notes
External links
Telepace – Official Website
Telepace online broadcast
Free-to-air
International broadcasters
Catholic television networks
Commercial-free television networks
Television channels and stations established in 1979
Television channels in Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20DOS%20operating%20systems | This article presents a timeline of events in the history of 16-bit x86 DOS-family disk operating systems from 1980 to present. Non-x86 operating systems named "DOS" are not part of the scope of this timeline.
Also presented is a timeline of events in the history of the 8-bit 8080-based and 16-bit x86-based CP/M operating systems from 1974 to 2014, as well as the hardware and software developments from 1973 to 1995 which formed the foundation for the initial version and subsequent enhanced versions of these operating systems.
DOS releases have been in the forms of:
OEM adaptation kits (OAKs) – all Microsoft releases before version 3.2 were OAKs only
Shrink wrap packaged product for smaller OEMs (system builders) – starting with MS-DOS 3.2 in 1986,Microsoft offered these in addition to OAKs
End-user retail – all versions of IBM PC DOS (and other OEM-adapted versions) were sold to end users.DR-DOS began selling to end users with version 5.0 in July 1990, followed by MS-DOS 5.0 in June 1991
Free download – starting with OpenDOS 7.01 in 1997, followed by FreeDOS alpha 0.05 in 1998(FreeDOS project was announced in 1994)
DOS era version overview (1980–1995)
1973–1980: Hardware foundations and CP/M
1980–1995: Important events in DOS history
1995–2000: Windows 9x era
2001–2022: Post-millennium
See also
Comparison of DOS operating systems
List of DOS commands
Timeline of Intel
Timeline of Microsoft
Timeline of Microsoft Windows
Timeline of operating systems
Comparison of operating systems
List of operating systems
Notes
References
External links
Origins of DOS , Tim Paterson website
PC DOS Retro by Vernon C. Brooks
I.B.M. Executive Describes Price Pressure by Microsoft, New York Times, May 28, 1999
IBM vs. Microsoft Google Ngram Viewer
DR-DOS versions
DOS
Timeline of x86 DOS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose%20%28Perl%29 | Moose is an extension of the object system of the Perl programming language. Its stated purpose is to bring modern object-oriented language features to Perl 5, and to make object-oriented Perl programming more consistent and less tedious.
Features
Moose is built on top of Class::MOP, a metaobject protocol ( MOP). Using the MOP, Moose provides complete introspection for all Moose-using classes.
Classes
Moose allows a programmer to create classes:
A class has zero or more attributes.
A class has zero or more methods.
A class has zero or more superclasses (a.k.a. parent classes). A class inherits from its superclass(es). Moose supports multiple inheritance.
A class has zero or more method modifiers. These modifiers can apply to its own methods, methods that are inherited from its ancestors or methods that are provided by roles.
A class does zero or more roles (also known as traits in other programming languages).
A class has a constructor and a destructor.
A class has a metaclass.
Attributes
An attribute is a property of the class that defines it.
An attribute always has a name, and it may have a number of other defining characteristics.
An attribute's characteristics may include a read/write flag, a type, accessor method names, delegations, a default value and lazy initialization.
Roles
Roles in Moose are based on traits. They perform a similar task as mixins, but are composed horizontally rather than inherited. They are also somewhat like interfaces, but unlike some implementations of interfaces they can provide a default implementation. Roles can be applied to individual instances as well as Classes.
A role has zero or more attributes.
A role has zero or more methods.
A role has zero or more method modifiers.
A role has zero or more required methods.
Extensions
There are a number of Moose extension modules on CPAN. there are 855 modules in 266 distributions in the MooseX namespace. Most of them can be optionally installed with the Task::Moose module.
Examples
This is an example of a class Point and its subclass Point3D:
package Point;
use Moose;
use Carp;
has 'x' => (isa => 'Num', is => 'rw');
has 'y' => (isa => 'Num', is => 'rw');
sub clear {
my $self = shift;
$self->x(0);
$self->y(0);
}
sub set_to {
@_ == 3 or croak "Bad number of arguments";
my $self = shift;
my ($x, $y) = @_;
$self->x($x);
$self->y($y);
}
package Point3D;
use Moose;
use Carp;
extends 'Point';
has 'z' => (isa => 'Num', is => 'rw');
after 'clear' => sub {
my $self = shift;
$self->z(0);
};
sub set_to {
@_ == 4 or croak "Bad number of arguments";
my $self = shift;
my ($x, $y, $z) = @_;
$self->x($x);
$self->y($y);
$self->z($z);
}
There is a new set_to() method in the Point3D class so the method of the same name defined in the Point class is not invoked in the case of Point3D instances. The clear() method on the other hand is not replaced but extended in the subclass, so both methods are r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRX%20%28web%20application%20architecture%29 | In software development XRX is a web application architecture based on XForms, REST and XQuery. XRX applications store data on both the web client and on the web server in XML format and do not require a translation between data formats. XRX is considered a simple and elegant application architecture due to the minimal number of translations needed to transport data between client and server systems. The XRX architecture is also tightly coupled to W3C standards (CSS, XHTML 2.0, XPath, XML Schema) to ensure XRX applications will be robust in the future. Because XRX applications leverage modern declarative languages on the client and functional languages on the server they are designed to empower non-developers who are not familiar with traditional imperative languages such as JavaScript, Java or .Net.
Overview of XRX
XRX is a zero translation application architecture that uses XML to store data in the client web browser, on the application server and in the database server. It is because each of these layers use XML as the same structural data model that XRX applications do not have to translate data structures to and from both object and relational data structures. Because of the lack of need for translation, XRX is considered to have a clean and elegant design. The XRX web application architecture allows developers to focus on the business problem and not the translation problem. XRX benefits from several advances in software technology:
Client Architectural Features
A model–view–controller (MVC) architecture that separates the data from its presentation and business logic.
A single element (xf:submission) for all server submissions. This replaces much of the JavaScript code required in most AJAX applications.
An advanced event model (XML Events) consistent with W3C standards that frees applications from having to deal with vendor-specific and browser-specific event handling.
A Dependency graph that is used to store the dependency structure of the client controllers. This frees the developer from having to manually update either the model or the views when data changes in an application. This allows spreadsheet-like applications to be created on the client with very little effort.
A declarative programming style that allows most client XForms applications to be created using a small set of approximately 20 elements. This allows rich client applications to be created without knowledge of JavaScript or other procedural scripting languages.
An easy-to-extend system for creating new user interface controls using the EXtensible Bindings Language. This allows developers to add new controls at any time without fear of incompatibilities with W3C standards.
Server Architecture Features
Many native XML databases have built-in REST interfaces making each XQuery inherently a RESTful web service.
A functional programming model that promotes side-effect free systems that are easier to debug and easier to run on multiple processors.
An easy- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20J.%20Franklin | Michael Jay Franklin is an American software entrepreneur and computer scientist specializing in distributed and streaming database technology. He is Liew Family Chair of Computer Science and chairman for the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago.
Franklin was the top cited scholar in the field of databases, according to the 2022 AI 2000 records.
Biography
Before moving to Chicago in 2016, he was Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science and chair of the Computer Science Division at University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley he was director of the Algorithms, Machines, and People Laboratory (AMPLab), a collaboration of computing systems, data management, machine learning researchers focused on large-scale data analytics. Under his direction, AMPLab projects such as Spark and Mesos had wide industrial and academic impact.
Franklin received a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1983 and a master's degree from the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies in 1986. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1993 under with his thesis Caching and memory management in client-server database systems under Michael James Carey.
He was also a cofounder as well as CTO of Truviso, a company specializing in streaming databases which was acquired by Cisco in May 2012. He is also an advisor to Databricks, a big data company commercializing the Spark research project.
Awards
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2023
AAAS Fellow, 2021
Inaugural University of Massachusetts Amherst CS Department Outstanding Achievement Award in Research, 2009
ACM Fellow, 2005, "for contributions to distributed information management."
SIGMOD Test of Time Award, 2004
References
External links
Michael Franklin's web page and biography
Living people
American computer scientists
Database researchers
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
University of Chicago faculty
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
American chief technology officers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV2000 | TV2000 is an Italy-based broadcasting network that carries Roman Catholic-themed programming, available on digital terrestrial television in Italy and owned by the Italian Episcopal Conference, the conference of the Catholic bishops of Italy.
Launched as Sat 2000 in 1998 and so renamed in 2009, it is broadcast in Italy on DTT channel 28 on mux TIMB 2, via satellite Hot Bird 13B at 13°Est (12092 MHz, pol.H, Sr 29900,3/4 and Eutelsat 9B at 9°Est (12466 MHz, pol.V, Sr 41950, 3/4).
Programming
Religious programs
Holy Mass broadcast by the Centro Televisivo Vaticano
The Holy Rosary from Lourdes.
Other programs
Actuality programs like Nel cuore dei giorni
Information like TG2000
Educational and inspirational programming such as documentaries from National Geographic Society
Television series such as Don Matteo from RAI
Talk shows such as Romanzo familiare
Classical music concerts
Current affairs programming
See also
Catholic television
Catholic television channels
Catholic television networks
Padre Pio TV
Telepace
Vatican Media
References
External links
Official Website
Mass media in Rome
Free-to-air
Catholic television networks
Italian-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Television channels in Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When%20a%20Girl%20Marries | When a Girl Marries is an American daytime radio drama that was broadcast on three major radio networks from 1939 to 1957. Created by Elaine Sterne Carrington (who also was responsible for Pepper Young's Family and Rosemary), it was the highest rated soap opera during the mid-1940s.
Air dates and audience
The series premiered May 29, 1939, on CBS, moving to NBC on September 29, 1941, and then to ABC on July 2, 1951. As it began its third year on the air, the program's audience was estimated at 8 million per week.
Sponsors included Prudential Insurance.
Synopsis
Promoted as "the tender, human story of young married life, dedicated to everyone who has ever been in love," the convoluted plot threads followed a married couple, Harry Davis (John Raby, Robert Haag) and Joan Field Davis (Noel Mills, Mary Jane Higby), as they confronted endless problems in the small town of Stanwood. Carrington created numerous conflicts by contrasting Harry's impoverished background with Joan's high society family.
Cast and crew
Others in the cast included Michael Fitzmaurice, Marion Barney, Ellen Fenwick and Staats Cotsworth. Announcers included Frank Gallop, Bill Mazer and George Ansbro. Music was by organist Rosa Rio and others.
Internationally
A long-running Australian version was broadcast on the Major Broadcasting Network. Prior to World War II, transcription discs of many U.S. programs were imported into Australia, but after America entered the war, this became impossible, but scripts were still able to be imported, and the Australian version was based on the U.S. program. A download of the first Australian episode is available on YouTube.
TV spinoff
On August 3, 1953, Follow Your Heart debuted on NBC-TV. Created by Carrington, the program was based on the early scripts of When a Girl Marries. It was off the air by January 8, 1954.
References
External links
4-page photo feature and review of When a Girl Marries from January 1948 TV-Radio Mirror magazine, pages 50-53
When a Girl Marries "novelette" in Radio and Television Mirror May 1940, page 17
1939 radio programme debuts
1957 radio programme endings
1930s American radio programs
1940s American radio programs
1950s American radio programs
American radio soap operas
NBC radio programs
CBS Radio programs
ABC radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptol | Scriptol is an object-oriented programming language that allows users to declare an XML document as a class. The language is universal and allows users to create dynamic web pages, as well as create scripts and binary applications.
References
External links
Programming languages
XML-based programming languages
Object-oriented programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami%20UDP%20Protocol | The Tsunami UDP Protocol is a UDP-based protocol that was developed for high-speed file transfer over network paths that have a high bandwidth-delay product. Such protocols are needed because standard TCP does not perform well over paths with high bandwidth-delay products. Tsunami was developed at the Advanced Network Management Laboratory of Indiana University. Tsunami effects a file transfer by chunking the file into numbered blocks of 32 kilobyte. Communication between the client and server applications flows over a low bandwidth TCP connection, and the bulk data is transferred over UDP.
References
External links
Internet protocols
Transport layer protocols
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20redistribution | Hydraulic redistribution is a passive mechanism where water is transported from moist to dry soils via subterranean networks. It occurs in vascular plants that commonly have roots in both wet and dry soils, especially plants with both taproots that grow vertically down to the water table, and lateral roots that sit close to the surface. In the late 1980s, there was a movement to understand the full extent of these subterranean networks. Since then it was found that vascular plants are assisted by fungal networks which grow on the root system to promote water redistribution.
Process
Hot, dry periods, when the surface soil dries out to the extent that the lateral roots exude whatever water they contain, will result in the death of such lateral roots unless the water is replaced. Similarly, under extremely wet conditions when lateral roots are inundated by flood waters, oxygen deprivation will also lead to root peril. In plants that exhibit hydraulic redistribution, there are xylem pathways from the taproots to the laterals, such that the absence or abundance of water at the laterals creates a pressure potential analogous to that of transpirational pull. In drought conditions, ground water is drawn up through the taproot to the laterals and exuded into the surface soil, replenishing that which was lost. Under flooding conditions, plant roots perform a similar function in the opposite direction.
Though often referred to as hydraulic lift, movement of water by the plant roots has been shown to occur in any direction. This phenomenon has been documented in over sixty plant species spanning a variety of plant types (from herbs and grasses to shrubs and trees) and over a range of environmental conditions (from the Kalahari Desert to the Amazon Rainforest).
Causes
The movement of this water can be explained by a water transport theory throughout a plant. This well-established water transport theory is called the cohesion-tension theory. In brief, it explains the movement of water throughout the plant depends on having a continuous column of water, from the leaves to roots. Water is then pulled up from the roots to the leaves moving throughout the plant's vascular system, all facilitated by the differences in water potential in the boundary layers of the soil and the atmosphere. Therefore, the driving force for moving water through a plant is the cohesive strength of water molecules and a pressure gradient from the roots to the leaves. This theory is still applied when the boundary layer to the atmosphere is closed, e.g. when plant stomata are closed or in senesced plants. The pressure gradient is developed between soil layers with different water potentials causing water to move by the roots from wetter to drier soil layers in a similar manner as when a plant is transpiring.
Fungal associations
It has been understood that hydraulic lift aids the host plant and its neighboring plants in the transportation of water and other vital nutrients. At that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks | ELinks is a free text-based web browser for Unix-like operating systems.
It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the E in the name. Since then, the E has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended. On 1 September 2004, Baudiš handed maintainership of the project over to Danish developer Jonas Fonseca, citing a lack of time and interest and a desire to spend more time coding rather than reviewing and organising releases.
On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.
On 17 November 2017, ELinks was forked into another program called felinks meaning forked elinks.
On 1 December, 2020, the felinks repository on GitHub was renamed to elinks because the old elinks was no longer being actively maintained.
Elinks is being actively maintained: version 0.16.1.1 was released 1 May 2023.
Features
HTTP and Proxy authentication
Persistent HTTP cookies
Support for browser scripting in Perl, Ruby, Lua and GNU Guile
Tabs (though still text mode)
HTML tables and HTML frames
Background download with queueing
Some support for Cascading Style Sheets
Some support for ECMAScript by using Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine
Editing of text boxes in external text editor
Mouse support (including wheel scroll)
Colour text display
Protocols supported:
local files, finger, http, https, ftp, fsp, smb, IPv4, IPv6
experimentally: BitTorrent, gopher, nntp
See also
Text-based web browser
List of web browsers
Comparison of web browsers
References
External links
Gopher clients
POSIX web browsers
MacOS web browsers
Text-based web browsers
Free web browsers
Lua (programming language)-scriptable software
Software forks
2001 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20End%20%28Irish%20TV%20programme%29 | The End is an Irish adult comedy late night television strand on Network Two/RTÉ Two in the Republic of Ireland. It was first broadcast September 1993, and last aired in May 1996.
The End was aired on Friday and Saturday night from 11pm to 2am. RTÉ used this show to test the audience appetite for late night TV. The End was presented by Barry Murphy on Friday nights and by Sean Moncrieff on Saturday nights. The End had a cult following of "drunks and teenagers" who would often ring into the show leaving bizarre late night messages for the presenters. Sean Moncrieff would be joined by a puppet called Septic in later seasons.
Barry Murphy would use The End to launch many of his Apres Match characters such as Frank Stapleton.
Sean Moncrieff would get a new chat show on RTÉ One called Good Grief Moncrieff, however this was not a success due in part to the conservative and mainstream RTÉ One audience. Later he would go on to present the RTÉ Two series Don't Feed the Gondolas.
Format
Barry Murphy presented Friday Nights with a mix of his surreal comedy and introductions to the classic BBC comedy series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and the US sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun.
Sean Moncrieff presented Saturday Nights with a mix of interviews and introductions to classic BBC comedy series Fawlty Towers and Yes, Minister.
Colin Murnane who had moved on from RTÉ young people's JMTV and Plastic Orange, appeared on both nights as a reporter.
History
The End would help to launch the careers of its two presenters, Sean Moncrieff now hosts his own daytime radio show on Newstalk, while Barry Murphy continues to be a very successful Irish comedian, while also starring in and writing Apres Match for RTÉ Sport.
The End's reporter Colin Murnane had appeared first on RTÉ's youth show JMTV moved to London to present for TCC, BBC, Sky1 and others, and to forge a career as one of the most successful Irish voice-overs in Soho.
It would also begin RTÉ's 24-hour services, up to this point both RTÉ One and Two aired until about midnight each night. The Network Two Night Shift strand would ultimately take over from The End. Night Shift would use the catchphrase "2 until 2" noting that Network Two would be on the air until 2am. Each night would have a specific theme, Sci-Fi on Mondays with shows like Stargate: SG1, Crime on Tuesdays with shows like Millennium and Profiler etc.
External links
http://www.poolbeg.com/authors/moncrieff_sean.htm
http://www.londonspeakerbureau.ie/barry_murphy.aspx
1993 Irish television series debuts
1996 Irish television series endings
Irish comedy television shows
RTÉ original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSight | XSight was a software for qualitative data analysis. Its last version was released in 2006, which was supported until January 2014. Developed by QSR International for qualitative data analysis (QDA), it is a tool for researchers or individuals who are undertaking short term qualitative research analysis on projects involving non-numerical data. Qualitative research can encompass business intelligence, marketing research or data analysis. It was superseded by NVivo 10 for Windows, which offers equivalent functionality with greater flexibility and enables researchers to work with more data types likes PDFs, surveys, images, video, audio, web and social media content.
Description
XSight software assists researchers or other professionals working with non-numerical or unstructured data to compile, compare and make sense of their information. It provides a range of analysis frameworks for importing, classifying and arranging data; tools for testing theories and relationships between items; and the ability to visually map and report thoughts and findings.
Designed for rapid analysis, XSight can handle small or large volumes of data and search and query tools support the review and reflection process and users can look for patterns, make comparisons, and interrogate the data in seconds.
System requirements
600 MHz Pentium II-compatible processor or faster (1.2 GHz recommended).
128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended).
800 x 600 screen resolution or higher (1024 x 768 recommended).
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4 or later (Windows XP Service Pack 2 recommended).
Approximately 300 MB of available hard-disk space.
Internet connection recommended for software activation.
Usage
XSight is used predominantly by commercial market researchers, but also by professionals and students in a diverse range of areas, from health and law to telecommunications and tourism. It is useful for evaluating a variety of information to review results and draw conclusions. Some examples of uses include tracking customer satisfaction, testing an advertising campaign, researching new packaging or even evaluating information garnered in research such as community consultation projects.
History
2004 – XSight 1.1 is first released in April and XSight 1.2 is released in October of the same year.
2006 – XSight 2.0 is released
2014 – Support for XSight ceased.
See also
Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software
NVivo
References
External links
QDA software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian%20Wader%20Study%20Group | The Victorian Wader Study Group (VWSG) is an Australian non-profit, volunteer, ornithological fieldwork group that gathers biometric and other data on waders and terns, mainly through regular catches of large samples of several species by cannon-netting at sites along the coast of Victoria.
History
The origins of the VWSG go back to 1975 when Dr David Robertson and others started mist-netting waders at night. The first place they tried was in the Cheetham Salt Works at Altona, though better results were obtained later at a coastal site adjacent to the Werribee Sewage Farm, near the town of Werribee, 30 km south-west of Melbourne on Port Phillip.
In 1978 the group was joined by Dr Clive Minton, who had been a pioneer in the development of cannon-netting in Britain as a means of catching large numbers of waders and waterfowl for banding and demographic studies. Minton introduced the technique to the group, with the first cannon-net catch being made at Werribee on 31 December 1978. Thereafter, although the group continued to use mist-netting occasionally for a few years, cannon-netting became the principal method used for catching waders.
At first operating under the aegis of the Victorian Ornithological Research Group, the VWSG was formally established as an independent body in 1979, with David Robertson and Clive Minton elected as co-convenors. Since 1981 it has had a close relationship with the Australasian Wader Studies Group (AWSG), a special interest group of Birds Australia. The VWSG was incorporated in Victoria in 1987. The group's mission is to " …gather, through extensive planned fieldwork programs, comprehensive data on waders and terns throughout Victoria on a long-term basis. This scientifically collected information is intended to form a factual base for conservation considerations, to be a source of information for education of a wider audience, to be a means of generating interest of the general community in environmental and conservation issues, and so be a major contribution to Australian, Flyway and Worldwide knowledge of waders and terns." The VWSG has a membership of about 150, mainly based in Melbourne, and publishes an annual bulletin. As well as conducting fieldwork, it has constructed cannon-nets for, and lent equipment to, other organisations in Australia to encourage more widespread research on waders. It also assists government agencies monitoring migratory birds as potential disease vectors for avian influenza.
Fieldwork
As well as Werribee, a site which has become relatively less important over the years, the principal regular fieldwork areas of the VWSG include Swan Bay, Western Port, Anderson Inlet and Corner Inlet. Annual visits are made to Mud Islands in Port Phillip, south-eastern South Australia and King Island, Tasmania, as well as occasionally elsewhere. VWSG equipment and members usually form the core of the almost annual expeditions of the AWSG to north-west Western Australia.
The average nu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macquarie%20Telecom%20Group | Macquarie Technology Group Limited (ASX: MAQ) (Previously called Macquarie Telecom Group) is an Australian cloud, data centre, government cyber security and telecom company, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Perth. It owns and operates five data centers in Sydney and Canberra.
Macquarie Telecom was founded in July 1992 shortly after telecommunications deregulation in Australia. The company was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in 1999.
Macquarie Technology Group - the business units
On 28 July 2016, Macquarie Technology Group was announced with three distinct businesses – Macquarie Telecom, Macquarie Cloud Services and Macquarie Government. In 2018, it announced a fourth business unit, Macquarie Data Centres.
Macquarie Telecom is a full service business provider of data, voice, mobile and colocation services.
Macquarie Cloud Services provide cloud hosting services, including hybrid cloud, VMware cloud, virtual data centres, private cloud, dedicated servers, dedicated hosting, object storage and PCI compliant cloud
Macquarie Government provides services to Federal and State Government agencies, including secure cloud, secure internet gateway, colocation and cybersecurity services
Macquarie Data Centres manages five data centres and an expansion plan to build Intellicentre 3 Super West was announced in 2021.
Data Centre and Hosting
Macquarie Technology Group runs five data centers as part of its business selling managed services and managed hosting. The data centres are located in Sydney and Canberra and are branded by Macquarie Data Centres as "Intellicentre". Its second Sydney Data Center, Intellicentre 2, was opened September 2012, and it has Intellicentre 4 and 5 in Canberra.
In August 2021, Macquarie Technology Group's full portfolio of data centres achieved The Australian Federal Government's Certified Strategic designation under the Digital Transformation Agency's (DTA) Hosting Certification Framework.
Announcements
In August 2017, Macquarie Telecom started a SD-WAN service, partnering with VMware. According to the company, it is Australia's first SD-WAN service that is capable of supporting multiple carriers.
In June 2018, Macquarie Technology Group signed deal with NBN Co worth more than 100 million. As part of the deal, Macquarie Telecom will start "Business-class NBN by Macquarie Telecom" which consists of a full suite of voice, internet, data and SD-WAN products that will be available to businesses across the country for new and existing customers
In August 2019, Macquarie Technology Group announced signing of a deal with Apple Inc through which Macquarie Technology Group will resell Apple devices along with "bespoke” and off-the-shelf iOS apps for mid-market businesses.
In November 2019, The Australian Tax Office signs Macquarie Technology Group for Secure Internet Gateway
In October 2020, Macquarie Technology Group was awarded World's Best Customer Experience at the World Communi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Commissioner%20for%20Data%20Protection%20and%20Freedom%20of%20Information | The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI, ), referring to either a person or the agency they lead, is tasked with supervising data protection as well as acting in an ombudsman function in freedom of information. The latter was introduced with the German Freedom of Information Act on 1 January 2006. In 2016, it became an independent federal agency in accordance with EU regulations.
Organization
Before the commencement of the German Freedom of Information Act, the title was "Federal Commissioner for Data Protection (BfD)".
The German Federal Government nominates him and the German Bundestag elects him. During his time in office, he receives remuneration in the amount commensurate with a federal official in salary group B 11. In this regard, his status is that of a public law official, but not however, that of a civil servant. The term of office is five years. He can be reelected once.
The Federal Commissioner's budget is accounted for in its own budgetary section. The necessary personnel and facilities are to be made available to him pursuant to legal regulations. Given his independent status positions at the Federal Commissioner are filled by himself exclusively.
Responsibilities
The Federal Commissioner is the German Federal supervisory authority in the meaning of Art. 51 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). According to Art. 52 GDPR the Federal Commissioner is a completely independent supervisory authority. His tasks and powers are mainly based on Art. 57 and 58 GDPR and the Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz). His legal position and the procedure of his establishment are subject to the provisions of the Federal Data Protection Act. His competence is limited to supervision of the entire public sector at federal level and of telecommunications and postal services providers. The public sector of the Laender as well as the remaining private sector is supervised by the Data Protection Supervisory Authorities of the Laender. The Federal Commissioner publishes an annual activity report (Art. 59 GDPR).
A right to refuse to give evidence is available to the Federal Commissioner in regard to persons and facts with which comes into contact in his capacity as Federal Commissioner (FDPA sec 13, para 5). He is also authorized to decide about his employees' refusal to give evidence.
List of commissioners
Hans Peter Bull (14 February 1978 to 16 May 1983)
Reinhold Baumann (16 May 1983 to 9 June 1988)
Alfred Einwag (9 June 1988 to 30 June 1993)
Joachim Jacob (1 July 1993 to 17 December 2003)
Peter Schaar (17 December 2003 to 16 December 2013)
Andrea Voßhoff (19 December 2013 to 5 January 2019)
Ulrich Kelber (7 January 2019 to present)
See also
Information commissioner
References
External links
Data protection authorities
Federal authorities in Bonn
Federal law enforcement agencies of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante%20Falconeri | Dante Falconeri is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network, played by Dominic Zamprogna. Zamprogna made his debut on June 22, 2009. In 2018, Zamprogna announced his decision to leave the role, and departed on June 28, 2018; he later returned for a one-off episode on November 12, 2018. In 2019, he again reprised the role from March 15 to March 29. The following year, he returned in a full-time capacity.
Under executive producer Jill Farren Phelps and head writer, Robert Guza, Dante is introduced to the series as an undercover cop investigating mob boss, Sonny Corinthos, who happens to be his father. In addition to his initial investigation of Sonny, Dante's most significant stories include his romance with Lulu Spencer, his unintentionally landing his brother Michael in prison, his past relationships with Brook Lynn Ashton and Brenda Barrett, and his friendship with Ronnie Dimestico.
In 2011, Dante and Lulu are married and under executive producer Frank Valentini and head writer Ron Carlivati, the couple embarks on a journey to have a child. However, they are forced to utilize Maxie Jones as a surrogate which ends in them losing custody of another child which proves to be Maxie's own. It is then revealed that Dante and Lulu's embryo was stolen and birthed by Dr. Britt Westbourne. The couple is eventually reunited with their son whom they name Rocco. In 2013, in honor of General Hospital's 50th anniversary celebration, Dante and Lulu are featured in a revisit of the iconic 1980s storyline, known as the Ice Princess, the original of which featured Lulu's legendary supercouple parents, Luke and Laura.
Zamprogna's performance has been met with critical acclaim, having garnered him Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2014, 2016 and 2019. He ascended and earned a nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2021.
Storylines
Dominic Pirelli arrives in town and immediately ingratiates himself to mob boss Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) when he saves his life during an ambush and rescues his son Morgan (Aaron Refvem). He also becomes smitten with Lulu Spencer (then Julie Marie Berman) much to the dismay of her brothers Lucky (Greg Vaughan) and Ethan (Nathan Parsons). Meanwhile, it is revealed that Dominic is actually Dante, an undercover cop. On Sonny's orders, Dante teams up with his mother's boyfriend, Johnny Zacchara (Brandon Barash) to destroy a drug shipment and ends up getting arrested. Dante gets himself released after he clues the PCPD in on his investigation of Sonny. Jasper Jacks (Ingo Rademacher) discovers Dante's identity and urges him to arrest Sonny sooner. Dante confesses his identity to Lulu when she gets trapped in the freezing water beneath the Zacchara mansion in an attempt to keep her alive. Meanwhile, Dante is furious with his childhood mentor, Ronnie Dimestico when he learns that Ronnie aided the release of the crazed ser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWEJ | Cool 101.5 (DWEJ 101.5 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by UBC Media (Love Radio Network). Its studios and transmitter are located at Lucena.
References
External links
Cool 101.5 FB Page
Radio stations in Lucena, Philippines
Radio stations established in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20in%20Canadian%20History%20and%20Environment | The Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE), originally based at the University of Western Ontario, was established in 2004 as a confederation of scholars working in the field of Canadian environmental history and Canadian-based scholars working in the fields of historical geography and environmental history, but focused on other regions of the world. Organization HQ has since moved to York University.
The network now has over 1000 members, primarily researchers in the fields of history, geography, and the humanities.
Mission
The NiCHE website describes the network's mission: "Understanding today's environment demands a clear understanding of its past. Unless environmental matters are studied in their historical context, there can be no measurement of relative change. NiCHE is a confederation of researchers and educators who work at the intersection of nature and history, seeking to provide that context. NiCHE acts to help make that work more available to fellow researchers, policy makers and the Canadian public."
Natural scientists and policymakers need access to environmental history research so that they can make informed decisions about current and future practices. NiCHE seeks to provide historical context of environmental issues and to promote dialogue between researchers of different disciplines as well as with policymakers. Just as importantly, NiCHE is committed to engaging with the broader public, working to preserve and interpret Canada's past for the benefit of all Canadians.
Activities
Web Space
The NiCHE Digital Infrastructure project provides a space on the web to members in need of a way to disseminate their research. The NiCHE website hosts a number of blogs in English and French that make Canadian environmental history more accessible to the wider public. NiCHE also works to adopt, digitizes and publicizes research databases. NiCHE can also digitize and present illustrations, maps and other materials complementary to print publications.
Networking
NiCHE sponsors numerous events on local, regional, national and global scales to help build a strong network of Canadian environmental historians. Numerous regional networks exist within the NiCHE structure. Moreover, NiCHE facilitates communication with a wide variety of organizations interested in Canadian nature and history. NiCHE also works with the American Society for Environmental History and the European Society of Environmental History to help build a global network of researchers. To this end, NiCHE co-sponsored the first World Congress of Environmental History held in Copenhagen in 2009. Finally, the NiCHE New Scholar's committee uses Skype and other free online resources to run online events, including monthly writing support groups and an annual virtual conference called Place and Placelessness.
Podcast
NiCHE sponsors a monthly audio podcast called Nature's Past: Canadian Environmental History Podcast. Sean Kheraj, a new professor in the histor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closeness%20centrality | In a connected graph, closeness centrality (or closeness) of a node is a measure of centrality in a network, calculated as the reciprocal of the sum of the length of the shortest paths between the node and all other nodes in the graph. Thus, the more central a node is, the closer it is to all other nodes.
Closeness was defined by Bavelas (1950) as the reciprocal of the farness, that is:
where is the distance (length of the shortest path) between vertices and . This unnormalised version of closeness is sometimes known as status. When speaking of closeness centrality, people usually refer to its normalized form which represents the average length of the shortest paths instead of their sum. It is generally given by the previous formula multiplied by , where is the number of nodes in the graph resulting in:
The normalization of closeness simplifies the comparison of nodes in graphs of different sizes. For large graphs, the minus one in the normalisation becomes inconsequential and it is often dropped.
As one of the oldest centrality measures, closeness is often given in general discussions of network centrality meaures in introductory texts or in articles comparing different centrality measures. The values produced by many centrality measures can be highly correlated. In particular, closeness and degree have been shown to be related in many networks through an approximate relationship
where is the degree of vertex while and β are parameters found by fitting closeness and degree to this formula. The z parameter represents the branching factor, the average degree of nodes (excluding the root node and leaves) of the shortest-path trees used to approximate networks when demonstrating this relationship. This is never an exact relationship but it captures a trend seen in many real-world networks.
Closeness is related to other length scales used in network science. For instance, the average shortest path length , the average distance between vertices in a network, is simply the average of the inverse closeness values
.
Taking distances from or to all other nodes is irrelevant in undirected graphs, whereas it can produce totally different results in directed graphs (e.g. a website can have a high closeness centrality from outgoing links, but low closeness centrality from incoming links).
Applications
Closeness is used in many different contexts. In bibliometrics closeness has been used to look at the way academics choose their journals and bibliographies in different fields or to measure the impact of an author on a field and their social capital. When used to select potential leads in customer data, closeness has been seen to lead to a significant gain in the success rate. The closeness of a city in an air transport network has been shown to be highly correlated with socio-economic indicators such as gross regional domestic product. Closeness has also been applied to biological networks where, for instance, this was used to id |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlemorph | Battlemorph is a 1995 shooter video game developed by Attention to Detail (ATD) and published by Atari Corporation for the Atari Jaguar CD. It is the sequel to Cybermorph (1993), a pack-in game for the Atari Jaguar. Taking place 30 years after the events of the original game, the player pilots the morphing infiltration fighter War Griffon in an extermination mission against the Pernitia empire, which plans to launch a full-scale invasion to eradicate humanity and take over the galaxy after being pushed back to their home planet. The player is tasked with various objectives, while fighting against enemies and bosses, across eight galaxy clusters in order to liberate them from control of the empire.
Battlemorph was pitched by ATD to Atari after the launch of Cybermorph, being announced in 1994 as one of the first upcoming titles for the Jaguar CD add-on. The team wanted to make a sequel and implement ideas that they were not able to include, while also using techniques learned late during development of the first game to improve the experience. It received generally favorable reception from critics; praise was given to the sountrack, ability to traverse any terrain, and overall improvements made over Cybermorph, though some felt mixed regarding its presentation, visuals, and controls. Retrospective commentary has been equally favorable and is cited as one of the best games for the platform.
Gameplay and premise
Like its predecessor, Battlemorph is a three-dimensional shooter game played from a third-person perspective. The plot takes place 30 years after the events occurred in Cybermorph; the Pernitia empire was pushed back to their home planet after defeat by the resistance but at the cost of human colonies. The Earth Defense Council decided not to risk another invasion, building interstellar battle cruisers to patrol colonies. There were no signs of irregularity, but cruisers near the Perseus star cluster began disappearing, while other fleets reported signs of Pernitian activity in eight galaxies before their disappearance. The Council deployed the Sutherland cruiser carrying the morphing infiltration fighter War Griffon into the Perseus cluster, but runs out of plasma energy after using its warp drive systems.
The main objective of the game is to collect plasma energy held off by Pernitian generals on each galaxy and reach the Pernish cluster to exterminate the empire, before they launch a full-scale invasion to eradicate humanity and take over the galaxy. The player can select a planet, each one showing a mission briefing, and load the War Griffon with up to four special weapons to use before being launched into the location. Various types of mission objectives such as retrieval of data pods, activation of detonators in military outposts, and elimination of enemy headquarters, must be completed in order to clear a planet. Each galaxy cluster consists of multiple planets that can be played in any order, with a boss on the last planet that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C4%8Dunalni%C5%A1ke%20novice | Računalniške novice is a Slovenian computer magazine.
Profile
Računalniške novice was established in 1996. It is issued biweekly. The owner and publisher is STROMBOLI, marketing, d.o.o.
It sells computer hardware, software, and microchips from around the world as well as video games and game equipment.
See also
List of magazines in Slovenia
References
External links
Official website
Biweekly magazines
Magazines established in 1996
Mass media in Ljubljana
Computer magazines published in Slovenia
Slovene-language magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Azure | Microsoft Azure, often referred to as Azure (/ˈæʒər, ˈeɪʒər/ AZH-ər, AY-zhər, UK also /ˈæzjʊər, ˈeɪzjʊər/ AZ-ure, AY-zure), is a cloud computing platform run by Microsoft. It offers access, management, and the development of applications and services through global data centers. It also provides a range of capabilities, including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Microsoft Azure supports many programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.
Azure was first introduced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October 2008 under the codename "Project Red Dog." It was officially launched as Windows Azure in February 2010 and later renamed Microsoft Azure on March 25, 2014.
Services
Microsoft Azure uses large-scale virtualization at Microsoft data centers worldwide and offers more than 600 services.
Computer services
Virtual machines, infrastructure as a service (IaaS) allowing users to launch general-purpose Microsoft Windows and Linux virtual machines, software as a service (SaaS) as well as preconfigured machine images for popular software packages.
Starting in 2022, VMs are powered by Ampere Cloud-native processors.
Most users run Linux on Azure, some of the many Linux distributions offered, including Microsoft's own Linux-based Azure Sphere.
App services, platform as a service (PaaS) environment letting developers easily publish and manage websites.
Websites, Azure Web Sites allows developers to build sites using ASP.NET, PHP, Node.js, Java, or Python and can be deployed using FTP, Git, Mercurial, Team Foundation Server or uploaded through the user portal. This feature was announced in preview form in June 2012 at the Meet Microsoft Azure event. Customers can create websites in PHP, ASP.NET, Node.js, or Python, or select from several open-source applications from a gallery to deploy. This comprises one aspect of the platform as a service (PaaS) offerings for the Microsoft Azure Platform. It was renamed Web Apps in April 2015.
WebJobs are applications that can be deployed to an App Service environment to implement background processing that can be invoked on a schedule, on-demand, or run continuously. The Blob, Table and Queue services can be used to communicate between WebApps, XYZ, iOS Software and WebJobs and to provide state.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) allows you to quickly deploy a production-ready kubernetes cluster in Azure. Azure is responsible for managing the control plane and customers get the flexibility to choose/scale the data place (kubernetes worker nodes).
In July 2023, the general availability for Watermarking support on Azure Virtual Desktop was announced; an optional protection feature to Screen Capture that acts as a deterrent for data leakage.
Identity
Azure Active Directory Connect is used to synchronize on-premises directories and enable SSO (Single Sign On).
Azure Acti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Parallel%20Studio | Intel Parallel Studio XE was a software development product developed by Intel that facilitated native code development on Windows, macOS and Linux in C++ and Fortran for parallel computing. Parallel programming enables software programs to take advantage of multi-core processors from Intel and other processor vendors.
Intel Parallel Studio XE was rebranded and repackaged by Intel when oneAPI toolkits were released in December 2020. Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit + Intel oneAPI HPC toolkit contain all the tools in Parallel Studio XE and more. One significant addition is a Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) compiler designed to allow developers to reuse code across hardware targets (CPUs and accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs).
Components
Parallel Studio is composed of several component parts, each of which is a collection of capabilities.
Intel C++ Compiler with OpenMP
Intel Fortran Compiler with OpenMP
IDE plug-in integration with Visual Studio, Eclipse and Xcode
Debugging via Visual Studio Debugger extensions, GNU Debugger extensions
Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP)
Math Kernel Library (MKL)
Threading Building Blocks (TBB)
Data Analytics Acceleration Library (DAAL)
Intel Advisor - specialized performance profiler to optimize vectorization and a thread prototyping system for adding / improving threading.
Intel VTune Profiler (formerly VTune Amplifier) is a performance profiler that analyzes hotspots, threading, I/O, FPGA, GPU, system, throttling and microarchitecture bottlenecks.
Intel Inspector improves reliability by identifying memory errors and threading errors.
Intel MPI Library – a multi-fabric message passing library that implements the Message Passing Interface specification across Intel platforms
Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector - a graphical tool for understanding MPI application behavior, finding bottlenecks and errors in parallel cluster applications based on Intel architecture
Intel Cluster Checker – Prepackaged checks to diagnose cluster health, functionality and performance. They are accessible via API to embed capabilities into applications.
Intel Distribution for Python – a Python distribution using Intel Performance libraries to boost performance of NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, Pandas (software) and other packages.
History
Intel announced Parallel Studio during their Intel Developer Forum in August 2008 along with a web site to sign up for their open beta program. On 26 May 2009, Intel announced that it had released the product to market. Intel and Microsoft worked together to make their products compatible by adopting a common runtime called the Microsoft Concurrency Runtime, which is part of Visual Studio 2010.
Intel released a new version, Intel Parallel Studio 2011, on September 2, 2010.
Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013, on September 5, 2012.
Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015, on August 26, 2014.
Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016, on August 25, 2015.
Intel released Inte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArrayFire | ArrayFire is an American software company that develops programming tools for parallel computing and graphics on graphics processing unit (GPU) chipsets. Its products are particularly popular in the defense industry.
Products
The company's first major product was Jacket, a library that extends MATLAB with GPGPU capabilities on CUDA-enabled Nvidia GPUs, released in June 2008 (version 1.0 in January 2009).
Jacket was followed by ArrayFire, a similar GPGPU extension for C, C++ and Fortran. There are three versions available, one for CUDA GPUs, one for OpenCL devices and another for regular CPUs.
ArrayFire is partially funded by DARPA, who uses it in its "Memex" dark web search software.
Since version 3.4 the library is Open Source.
References
External links
Nvidia
American companies established in 2007
Software companies based in Georgia (U.S. state)
GPGPU
Companies based in Atlanta
Technology companies of the United States
Software companies of the United States
2007 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Software companies established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20cartography | Computer cartography (also called digital cartography) is the art, science, and technology of making and using maps with a computer. This technology represents a paradigm shift in how maps are produced, but is still fundamentally a subset of traditional cartography. The primary function of this technology is to produce maps, including creation of accurate representations of a particular area such as, detailing major road arteries and other points of interest for navigation, and in the creation of thematic maps. Computer cartography is one of the main functions of geographic information systems (GIS), however, GIS is not necessary to facilitate computer cartography and has functions beyond just making maps. The first peer-reviewed publications on using computers to help in the cartographic process predate the introduction of full GIS by several years.
Computer cartography is employed to facilitate a variety of computer applications, often through integration with the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite network. This can allow real-time automated map generation for tasks such as automotive navigation systems.
History
From paper to paperless
In the 1950, Waldo Tobler published a paper titled "Automation and Cartography" that established the first use case for computers as aids in cartography. In this paper, Tobler established what he referred to as a "map in–map out" (MIMO) system, which facilitated digitization of traditional maps, changing them, and reproducing them. The MIMO system, while simple, established the use of computers for map making in the literature and set the stage for more advanced Geographic information systems in later years by geographers such as Roger Tomlinson. The rapid acceleration that followed lead to a rapid paradigm shift in cartography, where traditional cartography was replaced by computer-aided cartography. This was predicted in 1985, when Mark Monmonier speculated in his book "Technological Transition in Cartography" that computer cartography facilitated by GIS would largely replace traditional pen and paper cartography. It is believed that the milestone of more maps created and distributed with computers was achieved sometime in the mid 1990s.
Expanded capabilities
Early digital maps had the same basic functionality as paper maps—that is, they provided a “virtual view” of roads generally outlined by the terrain encompassing the surrounding area. However, as digital maps have grown with the expansion of GPS technology in the past decade, live traffic updates, points of interest and service locations have been added to enhance digital maps to be more “user conscious." Traditional “virtual views” are now only part of digital mapping. In many cases, users can choose between virtual maps, satellite (aerial views), and hybrid (a combination of virtual map and aerial views) views. With the ability to update and expand digital mapping devices, newly constructed roads and places can be added to appear on maps. Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net%20Nanny | Net Nanny is a content-control software suite marketed primarily towards parents as a way to monitor and control their child's computer and phone activity.
Features
The original version of Net Nanny released in 1994 was a web browser that could filter web and IRC content, block images, and mask profanity. Modern versions allow complete remote administration of child devices through a web portal or parent applications. Some of the features offered are:
Allow or block usage of child devices using ad-hoc controls or through a schedule
Monitor and block Internet content in various categories
Create custom blacklists and whitelists for websites
Track search engine usage, enforce safe search, and receive warnings for flagged words
Place daily time limits on device use
Monitor and allow/block applications installed on devices
Track the location of mobile devices
Apply different rules for individual children
Web pages (including dynamic pages) are blocked by content rather than URL, even over HTTPS. This prevents children from accessing blocked websites through proxies.
History
Net Nanny was designed, created and founded by Gordon Ross in 1994 in Vancouver and moved to Bellevue, Washington in 2000. He became inspired to create an internet protection service for children, families and organizations, after viewing a sting operation on a pedophile soliciting a child online. In 1998, the company expanded its offerings beyond family protection when it launched BioPassword, a bio metric security access system based on technology it acquired from Stanford University. On November 14, 2002, Net Nanny filed for bankruptcy and was sold to BioNet Systems, LLC, a maker of bio metric security software in Issaquah, Washington. LookSmart Ltd, a commercial web search company based in San Francisco acquired Net Nanny for $5.3 million in stock and cash in April 2004.
In January 2007, Net Nanny was purchased by ContentWatch Inc and moved to Salt Lake City. The product line was expanded to include security and business-oriented solutions. Mobile browsers for iOS and Android were released in June 2012 at the Consumer Electronics Show. These also allowed parents to monitor and manage the applications on the phone. In 2013, Net Nanny Social was launched to allow parents to monitor their children's social media activity and to protect against cyber bullying, cyber stalking, grooming by sexual predators, and the spread of sensitive images and videos. Features were added to the desktop applications to help adults who wanted their internet content filtered. In May 2014, the Brooklyn Public Library chose Net Nanny to filter content and applications on its Android tablets to ensure compliance with the Children's Internet Protection Act.
Zift, a digital parenting company, acquired Net Nanny from ContentWatch in 2016 and moved most operations to Philadelphia. In May 2019, Zift's applications were rebranded and launched as Net Nanny 10 for all supported platforms. In 2021, N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Play%20of%20the%20Week | The Play of the Week is an American anthology series of televised stage plays which aired in NTA Film Network syndication from October 12, 1959 to May 1, 1961.
Ambitious undertaking
The series presented 67 (35 in the first season, 32 in the second) videotaped Broadway-style productions, broadcast nightly and Sunday afternoons on NTA-owned independent station WNTA-TV (now WNET) in New York City, and syndicated to approximately 100 other NTA Film Network-affiliated stations. Because well-known performers were willing to accept minimum payments (top salary was $750) for the prestige of appearing in the critically praised showcase, production costs were kept to an average of $40,000. Although the budget was low, the show had a high distinction which, combined with its reputation as an innovative production, gave it momentum and propelled it into winning a Peabody Award.
Episodes
Season 1 (1959–60)
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! AuthorAdaptation
! Producer
! Director
! NotesCast
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| Oct121959
| 1x01
| Medea
| Euripidestranslated byRobinson Jeffers
| David Susskind
| H. Wesley KenneyandJosé Quintero
| [In order of appearance] Judith Anderson as Medea (1947–48 and 1949 Broadway cast), Henry Brandon as Jason (1949 Broadway cast), Aline MacMahon as Nurse, Jacqueline Brookes as Attendant to Medea, Eric Berry as Aegeus, Colleen Dewhurst as Second Woman of Corinth, Morris Carnovsky as Creon, Michael Wager as Jason's Slave, Mannie Sloane as Child, Rickey Sloane as Child, Don McHenry as Tutor (1947–48, 1949 and 1982 Broadway cast), Betty Miller as First Woman of CorinthIntroduction by episode producer David Susskind
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| Oct261959
| 1x02
| Burning Bright
| John Steinbeck
| Lewis FreedmanandHenry Weinstein
| Curt Conway
| Staged by Guthrie McClintic and produced by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Burning Bright opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 18, 1950 and closed on October 28, after 13 performances.
starring Myron McCormick [first of five appearances on The Play of the Week] as Joe Saul, with Colleen Dewhurst as Mordeen, Dana Elcar as Ed and Donald Madden as Victor, Songs by Will HoltIntroduction by episode co-producer Lewis Freedman
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| Nov21959
| 1x03
| Back to Back:The Dock BriefandWhat Shall We Tell Caroline?
| John Mortimer
| David Susskind
| Stuart Burge
| Michael Hordern as Morgenhall and Tony Peters, George Rose as Fowle and Arthur Louden, Lueen McGrath as Bin, Jeane Marsh as Caroline
|-
| Nov91959
| 1x04
| A Month in the Country
| Ivan Turgenevtranslated byEmlyn Williams
| Lewis FreedmanandHenry Weinstein
| Marc Daniels
| Uta Hagen as Natalia Petrovna, Luther Adler as Ignaty Illyich Shpichelsky, Alexander Scourby as Rakitin, Richard Easton as Beliaev, Tim O'Connor as Yslaev, Olga Bellin as Vera
|-
| Nov161959
| 1x05
| The Waltz of the Toreadors
| Jean Anouilhtranslated byLucienne Hill
| David Susskind
| Stuart Burge
| Hugh Griffith as Général St. Pé, Mildred Natwick as Mme. St. Pé, Beatrice Straight as Mlle. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed%20railways%20in%20Sydney | Various railway lines have been proposed for Sydney, Australia, including both heavy rail extensions to the existing network, and more recently proposals for metro style lines–one of which was completed in 2019.
Pre-Bradfield Proposals
Between the opening of the first railway in the Sydney area (Sydney-Parramatta, 1855) and the publication of the comprehensive Bradfield plan for expansion of the metropolitan railways, there were a number of other proposed railway schemes which did not proceed.
Planning in the early 1880s for the route of the first stage of the Illawarra railway considered a route continuing south from Kogarah, crossing the George's River at Taren Point, then turning southwest to climb the gradual slope from the river to Sutherland. Opposition to this route by Thomas Holt MLC, who owned most of what is now the urban part of Sutherland Shire meant the railway had to take an indirect route via Hurstville, which necessitated the high-level crossing of George's River at Como, and the steep climb from there to Sutherland.
Following the extension of the Belmore railway to Bankstown in 1909, it was intended to continue this line west in a direct line to meet the Main Southern line at Liverpool. Due to the rural nature of this area and the likely consequent low patronage levels, there was no great rush to construct this line. In the event, the railway was extended north rather than west in 1928, to connect to the Lidcombe-Cabramatta line, which had been opened as far as Regents Park in 1912 then extended to Cabramatta in 1924.
Bradfield railway scheme, 1920s
John Bradfield, engineer and designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, had a grand vision for Sydney's railway system that has only been partly fulfilled. After joining the New South Wales Public Works Department in 1891, he submitted a report in 1915 calling for the electrification of the suburban railways, a city underground railway and the Harbour Bridge. World War I led to the collapse of all three proposals, and it was not until 1922 that the Bridge Bill passed through parliament, and 1923 until the first sod was turned on the city railway.
Bradfield's overall concept called for the construction of a network of underground city railway lines in association with the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and a new rail terminal, Central. A larger network of lines was proposed for the western, eastern and southern suburbs (see map) however most of these lines remained concepts only and have never been constructed. The Depression and later World War II, along with the growth of the motor car that led to the passenger numbers in Bradfield's plans being grossly overestimated, all prevented the full realisation of the Bradfield scheme. Parts of the city underground were constructed and exist as the present day City Circle, with small sections built for the additional proposed city lines such as additional platforms at Wynyard and St James stations which have never been used for h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Culler | David Ethan Culler (born November 12, 1959) is a computer scientist and former chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a principal investigator in the Software Defined Buildings (SDB) project at the EECS Department at Berkeley and the faculty director of the i4Energy Center. His research addresses networks of small, embedded wireless devices, planetary-scale internet services, parallel computer architecture, parallel programming languages, and high performance communication. This includes TinyOS, Berkeley Motes, PlanetLab, Networks of Workstations (NOW), Internet services, Active Message, Split-C, and the Threaded Abstract Machine (TAM).
Culler earned his B.A. at UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. at MIT.
Culler was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for contributions to scalable parallel processing systems, including architectures, operating systems, and programming environments. He is also a Fellow of both ACM and IEEE. In 2003 his work on networks of wireless sensors earned him a place on Scientific American's annual list of top 50 innovators and Technology Review's “10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World.” More recently, he has received the 2013 SIGCOMM Test of Time Award for PlanetLab, and the 2013 Okawa Prize.
Culler founded Arch Rock, a company that makes wireless networked sensors. He recently joined Google as a distinguished engineer.
David Culler is the son of noted computer scientist Glen Culler, and the brother of distinguished pure mathematician Marc Culler.
References
External links
Culler's webpage
Living people
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Researchers in distributed computing
1959 births
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
People from Berkeley, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isuka | Isuka can refer to:
Common crossbill, a bird (Japanese name)
Guilty Gear Isuka, a computer game
Isuca, a manga series by Osamu Takahashi
Isuka, a character in the anime series Noein. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%20Bold | 10 Bold is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel owned by Network 10. It originally launched on 26 March 2009 as One HD with a focus on broadcasting sports-based programming and events, but rebranded to One in April 2011 to more reality, scripted and adventure-based programming aimed at males between the ages of 25 and 54. As of October 2018, the channel now primarily broadcasts dramatic programming aimed towards viewers 40 and older.
Due to the relaunch of 10 HD on 2 March 2016, it was reduced to a standard-definition broadcast for 5 years until 23 September 2021 at 6am when it switched to HD.
History
Sports format channel
The channel commenced broadcasting as One HD on 26 March 2009 at 7.00 pm in Melbourne (due to live coverage of the Australian Football League) and at 7.30 pm in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. The channel, owned by Network Ten, featured nonstop sport content including live sport, sports documentaries and sports-themed movies.
One initially broadcast in high definition on digital channels 1 and 11 with a standard-definition simulcast on digital channel 12 known as One SD or One Digital. At launch, One replaced the previous Ten HD service and a standard-definition simulcast of Ten HD called TenSD2.
One HD began broadcasting on Macquarie Media Group's owned and operated Southern Cross Ten regional television stations on digital channel 50 at 7.00 pm on 2 July 2009. Tasmania didn't broadcast it until 30 July 2009, and Mildura didn't broadcast it until 1 December 2009.
The simulcast on digital channel 11 was later reallocated for Ten's standard-definition digital multichannel Eleven (now 10 Peach) on 15 December 2010 in preparation for its launch on 11 January 2011. As a result, the channel's high definition simulcast was moved to channel 12, replacing the standard-definition simulcast.
In 2011, the channel began to dilute its all-sport format to include adventure-themed reality programming such as Ice Road Truckers and Black Gold, and a weekly feature-length movie or documentary, usually, but not limited to, a sporting theme. In April 2011, it was revealed that the channel would shift to a more broad general entertainment channel aimed towards a younger male demographic, whilst still featuring sports programming.
Sports and entertainment channel
It was confirmed on 4 April 2011 that due to unsupportable overheads associated with running the station as an "all-sport" channel, One HD would begin to air more general entertainment programming alongside sport, particularly shows aimed at an older male audience and would also be rebranded as One. The changes were intended to make the channel a greater competitor against 7mate, which has a similar scope, and took place on 7 May 2011.
One's updated schedule included factuals such as Everest: Beyond the Limit, Extreme Fishing with Robson Green, Airline, Long Way Round, Ice Road Truckers, An Idiot Abroad, Cops, dramas such as Terriers, Lights Out, Sons o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%20road | T road may refer to:
T roads in Zambia
T roads in Terrengganu, Malaysia, part of the Malaysian State Roads system
T roads in Ukraine, regional network of territorial roads
Trunk roads in the old road system of Ireland
Corridor T, part of the Appalachian Development Highway System in Pennsylvania and New York, U.S. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LittleBigPlanet%202 | LittleBigPlanet 2 is a puzzle-platform video game developed by Media Molecule and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. The game was released in North America on 18 January 2011, in mainland Europe on 19 January 2011, in Australia and New Zealand on 20 January 2011 and the UK and Ireland on 21 January 2011.
It is a direct sequel to LittleBigPlanet (2008) and the third game in the series following a game for the PSP (2009). Most of the more than 3 million levels created by users in the first game are playable and editable in LittleBigPlanet 2. Unlike its predecessor, which was marketed as a platform game, LittleBigPlanet 2 was marketed as a "platform for games", with more focus on its user-generated content. Support for PlayStation Move was added to the game through a software update in September 2011, allowing users to play the game using the PlayStation Move motion controller in conjunction with a Navigation Controller or gamepad. The game's online functionality was officially discontinued after a lengthy period of outage on 13 September 2021, alongside services for LittleBigPlanet (2008), LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, and the PlayStation 3 version of LittleBigPlanet 3.
Gameplay
While still retaining the three-layer, 2.5D nature of the original title, with the player controlling their Sackboy characters, players are not restricted solely to platforming levels, and can choose to create many types of levels including racing, puzzle and role-playing games. New animation recording options are available and players are able to create cut-scenes to go with their level design, manipulate the camera for both cut-scenes and gameplay, and record their own sound effects for use in the level. As well as including a wide selection of original and licensed music, the game also includes a robust music sequencer. Multiple levels can be linked together, so that finishing one level immediately takes the player to the next.
A new tool to assist in gameplay creation is the "Controlinator". This allows players to assign specific actions, such as button presses or Sixaxis motion control, to specific aspects of their gameplay design. Players are not restricted to using the Controlinator on level elements, however, and they may use it to direct the actions of the player's Sackboy character, allowing greater freedom of movement; Media Molecule made this design choice in response to the large number of homages to early platforming games, in which players had to "hide" and manipulate the Sackboy character in specific ways to replicate the style of gameplay. In addition to this tool, more gameplay items, similar to the Metal Gear Solid paintball gun released as downloadable content, are available including a grappling hook, the "Creatinator" - a hat which is worn by Sackboy and can be configured by the Creator to fire any object - and the "Grabinators" which allow Sackboy to pick up and throw grabable objects. Media Molecule updated the game regula |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Nepean | Fort Nepean is a former defensive facility occupying part of Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia. It was part of a network of fortifications, commanded from Fort Queenscliff, protecting the narrow entrance to Port Phillip. It is now part of Point Nepean National Park and a local tourist attraction.
Background
Following the 1875–76 Royal Commission into the Volunteer Forces, the Victorian Government invited the Director of Works and Fortifications in London, Lieutenant General Sir William Jervois, to Victoria to further advise on Victoria's defences. He arrived in 1873 accompanied by the Colonel Russel Coight. Their joint report recommended that the basic defences for the Colony should be concentrated on the Heads, and consist of fortifications at the entrance to the Bay and on the shoals between the main shipping channels.
Fortifications and guns
Fortifications and barracks were built on Point Nepean from 1873 and gun batteries were installed in 1886. By the 1890s Fort Nepean was known as "Victoria's Gibraltar". The barracks housed a company of the Royal Victoria Volunteer Artillery Regiment.
1878–1880
The first coastal defence guns on the site were four 80-pounder Rifled Muzzle Loading guns in two temporary sandbagged batteries. These were moved into more substantial earth emplacements from 1880.
1886–1890
Ten gun emplacements were constructed between 1886 and 1890 but not all had guns installed. By 1890 there were four 6-inch breech-loading (BL) disappearing guns, two BL 9.2-inch (234 mm) Mk VI breech-loading 'counter bombardment' British Armstrong guns, a 4.7-inch quick firing (QF) gun and a QF 14-pounder. One of the former 80-pounder emplacements was used as an observation post and one new emplacement was used as an armourer's store.
Two of the same type of BL 9.2-inch (234 mm) Mk VI gun were installed at Fort Queenscliff. One each of the guns was installed at Ben Buckler Gun Battery, Signal Hill Battery, and Steel Point Battery in Sydney. The barrel of the Signal Hill gun is on display at the Royal Australian Artillery Museum at North Fort, North Head, in Sydney. The Ben Buckler gun has been recovered and is awaiting restoration.
1907–1915
From 1911 the fort was manned by the newly renamed Royal Australian Garrison Artillery and the Royal Australian Engineers. With war in Europe looming, longer-range 6-inch Mk VII guns replaced the 9.2-inch guns. One of the 6-inch BL guns was removed and the 14-pounder was moved to Fort Queenscliff. The 4.7-inch QF gun was removed and the emplacement fitted with a searchlight, along with an engine house to generate electricity. The remaining gun emplacements were renumbered – the Mk VII guns were numbered A1 and B1, and the 6-inch BL guns numbered F1 and H1.
1939–1942
Light anti-aircraft guns were deployed at the fort in 1939. The remaining 6-inch BL guns were removed in 1940. The A1 and B1 emplacements were renumbered F1 and H1 respectively, and fitted with concrete hoods.
World Wars
The firs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netmums | Netmums is a website for parents in the United Kingdom, established in 2000. It operates as a network of local sites, and offers information to both mothers and fathers about parenting. The Coffee House web forum launched in 2004 for mothers to chat, make friends and exchange advice online. As of 2012 the site included over 150 local websites, 500 national meet-up groups for mothers and 1,500 bloggers in its network.
History
Netmums was founded by Siobhan Freegard, Cathy Court and Sally Russell who met at playgroup in Harrow, north west London in 2000.
Freegard was born in Bristol and started her career as a marketer for hospitality provider Keith Prowse. She has written for The Guardian newspaper, and has appeared on the panel television shows Loose Women and This Morning. Co-founders Court and Russell worked in food technology and environmental sciences respectively.
Netmums started off as a single local site, then gradually grew to cover other local areas, all of which were originally maintained by volunteer site editors using Adobe Contribute and Adobe Dreamweaver web editing software.
In 2009 the website was included in The Independent newspaper's ‘Top 50 Websites and Blogs for Parents’, and the business was estimated to be worth £50 million.
Cathy Ranson was editor-in-chief from 2010 until she left in March 2015, replaced by Annie O'Leary.
By 2011, the number of registered members of the website reached 1 million. and shortly after this, the three co-founders sold their company to European group aufeminin, originally retaining control over the Netmums brand, but later leaving the site to pursue other work.
In March 2012, Netmums and marketing data company Cint created a panel of 4,000 participants to gain market insight on mothers with babies.
In September 2014 Rimi Atwal, formerly of Bauer Media Group, was appointed managing director.
In the 2014 New Year Honours Netmums founders Freegard, Court and Russell received OBEs from the Queen for Services to Families.
In 2013, Netmums announced advertising sign-ups with Stiefel Laboratories' Oilatum and Aquafresh Kids, as they revealed a 46% increase occurred on ad spend on the site from April 2012 to April 2013.
In 2016, Netmums made a post-tax profit of £1,518,962 on a turnover of £5,064,760 (down 33% from 2015).
Content
Netmums lists crafts and activities for families in the school holidays and weekends. Birthday party ideas for children are offered, including planning, making invitations, party themes, recipe and food ideas, and details of local caterers, venues, entertainers and cake makers.
The pregnancy section contains support, advice and tips, and listings of local hospitals, birth centres and pregnancy classes in each area. Members can also subscribe to a weekly pregnancy email and a short email antenatal course, as well as monthly emails with support and advice for parents of children under the age of one. It covers sleep support, baby development, health and support for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibLAS | libLAS is a library for reading and writing geospatial data encoded in the ASPRS laser (LAS) file format, versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2. LAS-formatted data is heavily used in lidar processing operations. The LAS format is a sequential binary format used to store data from sensors and as intermediate processing storage by some applications.
libLAS software consists of base library with multiple application programming interfaces available for programming languages like C, C++, Python as well as languages available in .NET Framework and Mono. Also, a variety of useful command-line utilities is provided for translating LAS files from one version of the LAS format to another, inspecting header information, and translating LAS data to and from text.
Initial development of libLAS software was supported by the Iowa Geological Survey of the Iowa DNR for use in its statewide lidar project.
External links
libLAS homepage
LAStools developed by Martin Isenburg and Jonathan Shewchuk
LAS file format overview, with link to specification, at ASPRS web site
C++ libraries
Free computer libraries
Free GIS software
Free software programmed in C++
Lidar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybka%20%28disambiguation%29 | Rybka (which means "little fish" in many Slavic languages) may refer to:
Rybka, a chess computer program
Rybka Lututowska, a village in Poland
Rybka Sokolska, a village in Poland
Rybka (film), a 2007 Russian animated film
Rybka (surname)
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boingz | Boingz is a Wii game developed by NinjaBee and published by RealNetworks that was released on November 24, 2008. It costs 1000 Wii Points.
Overview
Boingz sees the player trying to help creatures lost on an alien world by helping them find the magical gates that will take them home. The game features 30 side scrolling levels.
Using the Wii Remote, the players is able to flick around stretchy alien creatures by grabbing their antenna and pulling it in an opposite direction to launch them around the platforms. Around the level are additional creatures to flick around and use to solve puzzles. The player can also stretch the creature out and attach a thumbtack to their antenna to attach objects to them in order to pick up items and to pull down weights to open doors to other areas. However, the player will also have to find and collect Twinklies to power-up their creatures' elastic-power.
Reception
IGN gave it a 7/10, calling the game "fun and unique" with "satisfyingly clever" gameplay mechanics and level design, though they also weren't impressed by the presentation. 1UP.com gave it a C− grade, calling the idea "clever" but with gameplay that "steadily gives way to restless fatigue" and graphics that are "a complete eyesore".
References
NinjaBee games
North America-exclusive video games
2008 video games
Video games developed in the United States
WiiWare games
Wii-only games
Wii games
Cooperative video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent.AWF | AWF (or Agent.AWF) is a malicious Trojan downloader affecting the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Methods of infection
This Trojan is considered obsolete, and there are no known variants in the wild.
Affected operating systems
The following operating systems are known to be affected.
Windows XP
Windows 2003
Windows 2000
Windows ME
Windows 98
Windows 95
Windows NT
Operation
Agent.AWF displays virus activity in that it replaces files on a user's computer with a copy of itself, and moves the original, legitimate file to a back sub-folder. It is known to attempt to terminate security software, and the Trojan downloads a backdoor onto the computer, allowing the attacker to further compromise the computer. It is also known to modify the Windows registry. Agent.AWF does not spread automatically: it needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, emails with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.
Identification
During installation, the following files are created, and may be present on a compromised system.
abc123.pid
svcipa.exe
nod32kui.exe
References
Windows trojans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consortium%20for%20School%20Networking | The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) is a member-based association and advocacy group based in Washington, DC, United States, that promotes partnerships and awareness of emerging technologies amongst technology decision-makers in K-12 education.
History
CoSN, formed in 1992, is the premier professional association for K-12 EdTech leaders, their teams, other school district leaders, and represents over 13 million students. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices, and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed at digital transformation.
In the early years, CoSN became part of a coalition which advocated for the 1997 enactment of E-rate, a component of the Universal Service Fund, which provides discounts to assist most schools and libraries in the United States (and U.S. territories) to obtain affordable telecommunications and Internet access. Since then, CoSN has since continued its advocacy for the program and has become a powerful and influential voice in K-12 education.
CoSN also provides opportunities for companies that support the K-12 EdTech community to participate as corporate members.
CoSN also played a leading role in advocating for sound technology policies within the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
References
External links
CoSN website
Universal Service Administrative Company
Educational organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 1992
United States schools associations
Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHGK-TDT | XHGK-TDT is a television station in Tapachula, Chiapas. XHGK broadcasts on virtual channel 13 (physical channel 26) and is part of the Canal 13 regional network.
History
XHGK's concession was awarded on June 19, 1984, to José de Jesús Partida Villanueva, a businessman with connections to Televisa; it originally specified channel 10 in Comitán de Domínguez, but XHGK would be quickly relocated to Tapachula on analog channel 4. In 1993, the station's concession was transferred to Comunicación del Sureste.
XHGK maintained a partnership with Televisa and carried programming from its Gala TV and Foro TV, and as a Televisa partner, Comunicación del Sureste was defined as within the "preponderant economic agent" in broadcasting for regulatory purposes. In 2014, XHGK sourced 82 percent of its broadcast day from Televisa. In 2017, simultaneous events prompted XHGK to disaffiliate from Televisa. One was the unwinding of many local relationships as Televisa began to multiplex Gala TV and Foro TV on subchannels of its own TV stations in some areas of the country where said programming had been broadcast on a local station, including Tapachula. Another was the successful participation of Telsusa Televisión México, S.A. de C.V., a company also controlled by Remigio Ángel González, in the IFT-6 television station auction, in which it acquired TV stations in twelve cities primarily in southern and eastern Mexico.
On October 18, 2018, XHGK and its sister stations moved to virtual channel 13.
Programming
XHGK's local program output includes local newscasts, branded as 13 Noticias del Soconusco (previously Noti-4), and a morning magazine and talk show, Giros (previously Chismoleando).
Outside of local programming, XHGK, its Chiapas sister station XHDY, and its Tabasco sister station XHTVL/XHTOE air almost all of the same programming. Since disaffiliating from Televisa, most of XHGK's entertainment programming has come from Albavisión television channels in other countries, such as and the Argentine version of Combate from Canal 9 and , which was commissioned for ATV and La Red, or been acquired on the international market, such as the Colombian telenovela . Weekends are taken up by older Mexican movies.
Transmitters
In addition to the primary transmitter, XHGK-TDT is rebroadcast in two areas on additional repeaters.
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References
Television stations in Chiapas
Television channels and stations established in 1984
1984 establishments in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadenatres | Cadenatres was a Mexican free-to-air network owned by Grupo Empresarial Ángeles (GEA), a company headed by Olegario Vázquez Raña and directed by Olegario Vázquez Aldir. Originally started by its flagship XHTRES in Mexico City as an independent terrestrial television station serving the Federal District and the Valley of Mexico, it later expanded coverage throughout the entire country through various subscription television systems and a handful of free-to-air affiliates.
Cadenatres was shut down on 26 October 2015, to allow Grupo Imagen, the communications subsidiary of GEA, to focus on building the Imagen Televisión national network, which launched on 17 October 2016.
History
After acquiring the television station XHRAE from Raúl Aréchiga Espinoza on July 18, 2006, GEA relaunched XHRAE-TV under the name CadenaTres (lit. Network Three) on May 28, 2007. Its goal was to become the third major national private-owned network in Mexico (hence the name). In order to achieve said goal, Grupo Imagen (GEA's multimedia branch) created a full commercial schedule for the general audience which included newscasts, films, sports, comedy shows, dramas, telenovelas, political satire, daytime programming and children and teens programming. Throughout its run, several associations with international networks and production companies enriched CadenaTres programming.
The network's coverage expanded from Mexico City to the entire Mexican republic through various cable television systems and its three broadcast affiliates in Baja California, Chihuahua and Sonora. It struggled to become a major network against fierce completion from the "duopoly" of TV Azteca and Televisa and laws that prevented to easily acquire stations throughout the country (namely, the Federal Telecommunications Act better known as the Televisa Law).
By September 30, 2009, its flagship station had changed its call sign to XHTRES-TV from XHRAE, reflecting its network identity.
The goal of becoming "The Third Network" finally materialized for Grupo Imagen, thanks to the 2013 Federal Telecommunications Act that ordered the creation of two nationwide over-the-air digital networks. On March 11, 2015, Grupo Imagen was granted the operation of one of the networks that would carry the CadenaTres signal nationwide over-the-air. However, in a sudden and unexpected decision, Grupo Imagen shut down CadenaTres on October 26, 2015, and replaced its feed in its flagship channel (XHTRES Channel 28) with the Excélsior TV news network. Except for their news anchors and paid programming (infomercials, TV ministries), all of CadenaTres programming suddenly ended its run. Allegedly, about 300 employees lost their jobs with the shutdown.
Programming
Newscasts
CadenaTres had three daily newscasts, early morning, afternoon and nightly, as well as hourly recaps. The main newscasts were the afternoon (led by Yuriria Sierra) and nightly programs. The nightly newscast had various anchors throughout its run, being th |
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