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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEP-NC | STEP-NC is a machine tool control language that extends the ISO 10303 STEP standards with the machining model in ISO 14649, adding geometric dimension and tolerance data for inspection, and the STEP PDM model for integration into the wider enterprise. The combined result has been standardized as ISO 10303-238 (also known as AP238).
STEP-NC was designed to replace ISO 6983/RS274D G-codes with a modern, associative communications protocol that connects computer numerical controlled (CNC) process data to a product description of the part being machined.
A STEP-NC program can use the full range of geometric constructs from the STEP standard to communicate device-independent toolpaths to the CNC. It can provide CAM operational descriptions and STEP CAD geometry to the CNC so workpieces, stock, fixtures and cutting tool shapes can be visualized and analyzed in the context of the toolpaths. STEP GD&T information can also be added to enable quality measurement on the control, and CAM-independent volume removal features may be added to facilitate regeneration and modification of the toolpaths before or during machining for closed loop manufacturing.
Motivation
Input to a CNC in the ISO 6983/RS274D G-code control language is often machine-specific and limited to axis motion commands. The machine tool is given little or no information about the desired result of the machining.
STEP-NC allows more information about the machining process to be sent to the machine control and adds new information about the product being machined. This "Smart Data for Smart Machining" enables applications such as the following:
Toolpath descriptions that are portable and independent of machine geometry.
Visual process, to show toolpaths in context of the machine and workpiece, and eliminate drawings.
On-Machine Simulation, to check for gouges, machine interference and other undesired behavior.
Simplified Inspection, with linked tolerances, on-machine probes and inspection workplans tied to part tolerances.
Feed and Speed Optimization, using tolerances, cross section information, sensor data.
Associativity so feedback can be sent from manufacturing back to design.
Capabilities
STEP-NC can communicate a complete machining process description to a machine tool control or between manufacturing software applications. The information handled by STEP-NC can be divided into the following general categories. The standard handles technology-specific parameters for milling and turning, and extensions for other technologies under development (see Future work).
Product Description
Workpiece, PDM and Product Geometry
Manufacturing Features
Dimensions and Tolerances
Measures and Part Properties
General Process Description
Project
Executable
Operation
Toolpath
Technology-Specific Process Description
Operations and cutting tools for milling
Operations and cutting tools for turning
Operations and devices for inspection
STEP-NC can exchange the explicit toolpath |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo%20Envy | The Voodoo Envy 133 was a notebook computer designed by VoodooPC after its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard. It was positioned as a mobile ultraportable notebook and was introduced at HP's Connecting Your World Live event in Berlin, Germany on June 10, 2008.
Overview
The chassis of the Voodoo Envy is made of carbon fiber, and it weighs and is thick all around. The system utilizes the Windows Vista operating system as well as a Linux kernel dubbed "Voodoo Instant On" or "Voodoo IOS." The laptop has often been compared to the MacBook Air for its similar size and specifications. HP claimed it to be the world's thinnest notebook, although this record has now been broken, as it is 0.70 inches throughout, whereas the Dell Adamo is 0.65 inches thick all around.
According to the specifications, its 3-cell Lithium ion battery will provide up to 3 hours and 10 minutes' battery life, depending on usage.
The HP Envy line of laptops and other products replaced the Voodoo Envy when HP and VoodooPC merged.
References
External links
VoodooPC web site
VoodooPC community site
HP laptops |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalisco%20TV | Jalisco TV, virtual channel 17, is the public television network of the Mexican state of Jalisco, operated by the Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión alongside XEPBGJ-AM and XEJB-FM and broadcasting on transmitters in Guadalajara, Ciudad Guzmán and Puerto Vallarta. Its programming is primarily cultural and educational content.
History
The first governor of the state of Jalisco to consider the possibility of opening a state-owned television station was Juan Gil Preciado in 1960. However, plans did not start to actually build one until 30 years later.
On January 16, 1991, XHGJG-TV on analog channel 7 took to the air under the Department of Cultural Broadcasters, taking the institutional name Sistema Jalisciense de Radio, Televisión y Cinematografía (Jalisco System of Radio, Television, and Film). The original transmitter and facilities were housed on the tenth floor of the Education Tower along with a 6,000-watt transmitter. That night it broadcast its first news program, the newscast Actualidad Informativa, which had as its first top story the beginning of Operation Desert Storm. Not long after, it was moved from the state Secretariat of Education and Culture to the Secretariat of Culture upon its separation, taking the name Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión and losing the film component. At this time the station only broadcast several hours of programming per day in the evening, slowly expanding to additional timeslots.
An earthquake in June 1994 in Guadalajara forced the state's Guadalajara radio stations, XEJB-AM and XEJB-FM, to move to the Casa de la Cultura Jalisciense. On October 11, 1995, XHGJG joined them, as another earthquake two days prior caused serious damage to the Education Tower and the station had to relocate. In the late 1990s, the transmitters of all three stations were moved to Cerro del Cuatro, home of other Guadalajara radio and TV station transmitters, further increasing the stations' coverage.
In September 1999, the state government received a permit to sign on the first rebroadcaster of XHGJG, low-powered XHGZG-TV channel 12 in Ciudad Guzmán with a transmitter on Cerro de la Escalera. This began a period of growth for the station, which later moved to the Edificio México in Guadalajara and signed on a third transmitter, XHGPV-TV on channel 13 in Puerto Vallarta. The network became known as C7, a shortening of "Canal 7", a brand later extended to the state's radio stations.
The Guadalajara station began digital multicasting in November 2014 with four subchannels: news-oriented C7 Noticias, cultural C7 Cultura, C7 Congreso covering the activities of the Legislature of Jalisco, and C7 Ley with coverage of the state judicial system. The first two appeared in November 2014. The last two were discontinued soon after their appearance.
On July 22, 2019, the state network was relaunched under the name Jalisco TV. The concessions were reissued with new call signs on January 1, 2022, due to a discontinuity.
Trans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hupmobile%20Club%20Sedan%20%E2%80%93%20R | Hupmobile Club Sedan – R was a vehicle produced by the Hupp Motor Company.
Hupmobile Club Sedan – R specifications (1926 data)
Color – Lower body and hood, beige or blue; Upper body, fenders, and running gear, black.
Seating Capacity – Five
Wheelbase – 115 inches
Wheels - Wood
Tires - 31" × 5.25" balloon
Service Brakes – Contracting on rear wheels
Emergency Brakes – expanding on rear wheels
Engine - Four cylinder, vertical, cast en block, 3 × 5 inches; head removable; valves in side; H.P. 16.90 N.A.C.C. rating
Lubrication – Force feed and splash
Crankshaft - Three bearing
Radiator – Cellular
Cooling – Thermo-syphon
Ignition – Storage Battery
Starting System – Two Unit
Voltage – Six
Wiring System – Single
Gasoline System – Vacuum
Clutch – Dry single plate
Transmission – Selective sliding
Gear Changes – 3 forward, 1 reverse
Drive – Spiral bevel
Rear Springs – Semi-elliptic
Rear Axle – Semi-floating
Steering Gear – Cam and lever
Standard equipment
New car price included the following items:
tools
jack
speedometer
ammeter
electric horn
ignition theft lock
windshield cleaner
demountable rims
spare rim
snubbers
spare tire carrier
rear view mirror
sun visor
cowl ventilator
headlight dimmer
luggage trunk
Prices
New car prices were F.O.B. factory, plus Tax:
Five passenger Touring - $1225
Two passenger Roadster - $1225
Five passenger Club Sedan - $1375
Two passenger Coupé - $1350
See also
Hupmobile
References
Source:
Cars of the United States
Hupmobile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20Miles | Rob Miles (born 23 July 1957) is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, and a former lecturer in programming C Sharp and other elements of software engineering at the University of Hull.
Miles has given speeches worldwide on topics including C Sharp, Microsoft XNA, Windows Mobile development and embedded development using the .NET Micro Framework. He has written an XNA book, and he co-authored a book about the .NET Micro Framework with Donald Thompson.
Miles has also repeatedly been a member of the judging team of the yearly Microsoft Imagine Cup. In 2009, he was selected as a Captain of the software design competition.
Miles currently hosts a monthly Arduino Hardware Group as part of the Hull Digital Group at The Centre for Digital Innovation Beta.
Bibliography
Microsoft XNA Game Studio 2.0: Learn Programming Now!, Rob Miles. Microsoft Press, 2008
Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0: Learn Programming Now!, Rob Miles. Microsoft Press, 2009
Embedded Programming with the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework, Donald Thompson, Rob Miles. Microsoft Press, 2007
More Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0: Create Great Games: Learn Programming Now!, Rob Miles. Microsoft Press, 2009
Learn C# Now Toolkit, John Sharp, Rob Miles (Author). Microsoft Press, 2008
Introduction to Programming Through Game Development Using Microsoft XNA Game Studio, Rob Miles. Microsoft Press, 2009
Uml & Java for Software Development, Rob Miles. John Wiley & Sons, 2001
References
External links
robmiles.com - Personal blog
Living people
Academics of the University of Hull
British computer programmers
British computer scientists
British science writers
1957 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungay%2C%20Chile | Yungay is a Chilean town and commune in Diguillín Province, Ñuble Region. The commune spans an area of .
Demographics
According to data from the 2002 Census of Population and Housing, the Yungay commune had 16,814 inhabitants; of these, 11,469 (68.2%) lived in urban areas and 5,345 (31.8%) in rural areas. At that time, there were 8,565 men and 8,249 women residing in the commune. The commune grew 10% in population between the censuses of 1992 and 2002 (1.0% annual growth).
Towns
The following are the towns that made up the commune as with their respective populations (according to the 2002 Census):
Yungay, commune seat, 9288 inhabitants
Campanario, 2181 inhabitants
Cholguán, 718 inhabitants
Ranchillo, 319 inhabitants
El Roble, 152 inhabitants
Los Castaños, 142 inhabitants
Chillancito, 62 inhabitants
Administration
As a commune, Yungay is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. For the years 2016-2020, the alcalde is Rafael Cifuentes Rodríguez (PS), and the council members are:
Juana Sandoval Rojas (PDC)
Rodrigo Stuardo Hernández (PRSD)
Ángelica Cabezas González (UDI)
Juan Quezada Garrido (ILH)
Ricardo Ramos Martínez (Ind.-PS)
Patricia Moncada Morales (PRSD)
Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Yungay (together with Chillán, Coihueco, Pinto, San Ignacio, Chile, El Carmen, Pemuco and Chillán Viejo) is represented in the Chamber of Deputies as a part of the 41st electoral district. The commune is represented in the Senate as part of the 13th senatorial constituency (Biobío Coast).
Geography
Even though the total area of the commune is around 823 km squared, only 3.87 km squared (0.47% of the total territory) has been urbanized: the cities of Yungay (with 9,288 inhabitants as of 2002) and Campanario. In the 2017 census there were 17,787 total inhabitants in the commune. The Yungay Commune is located on the eastern borders of the region, thus it contains parts of the Cordillera of the Andes, where the altitude reaches between 150 and 2000 meters above sea level. Several rivers flow out of the Andes sector and cross the body of the region. Generally, the land is devoted to agricultural purposes, principally the growth of California Pine, wheat, oats, or lentils; or for livestock grazing.
Library
The Yungay Public Library is named after the priest Oreste Montero, who was a great aid for the education in Yungay and left an impression on many generations through his positive nature.
In the present day, the library has grown and offers many new services such as a computer lab that serves many students (from one of the several high schools within the area) who don’t have access to the necessary resources
See also
List of towns in Chile
References
External links
Municipality of Yungay
Communes of Chile
Populated places in Diguillín Province
1842 establishments in Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treguaco | Treguaco (), also spelled as Trehuaco (), is a Chilean city and commune in Itata Province, Ñuble Region. The commune spans an area of .
Demographics
According to data from the 2002 Census of Population and Housing, the Treguaco commune had 5,296 inhabitants; of these, 1,245 (23.5%) lived in urban areas and 4,051 (76.5%) in rural areas. At that time, there were 2,788 men and 2,508 women residing in the commune. The commune's population fell by 6% (341 persons) between the censuses of 1992 and 2002 (0.6% annual loss). Trehuaquino is the demonym for a man from Treguaco, and Trehuaquina is a woman from Treguaco.
Administration
As a commune, Treguaco is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. For the years 2008-2012, the alcalde is Luis Cuevas Iarra (Ind.), and the council members are:
Juan Cabrera Monsalve (PH)
Olga Osses Klein (UDI)
Gabriel Figueroa Retamal (PDC)
Jaime Torres Barra (PDC)
Juan Carlos Sepúlveda Pedreros (PPD)
Tamara Valenzuela Fuentealba (PS)
Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Treguaco is represented in the Chamber of Deputies as a part of the 42nd electoral district (together with San Fabián, Ñiquén, San Carlos, San Nicolás, Ninhue, Quirihue, Cobquecura, Portezuelo, Coelemu, Ránquil, Quillón, Bulnes, Cabrero and Yumbel). The commune is represented in the Senate as part of the 13th senatorial constituency (Biobío Cordillera).
References
External links
Municipality of Treguaco
Communes of Chile
Populated places in Itata Province
1973 establishments in Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCA/Modula-2 | ORCA/Modula-2 is a Modula-2 compiler written in the Modula-2 programming language for the Apple IIGS computer.
It was developed by Peter Easdown during 1993–94 and published by The Byte Works. Whilst originally developed separately, when it was finally published, it was fully integrated with the development platform/environment called the Apple Programmers Workshop or ORCA/M.
The compiler was originally developed using a version of TopSpeed Modula-2 on an Intel 80286 based PC. The output of the compiler at this point was 65816 assembler source for assembly by ORCA/M on the Apple IIGS. Once the compiler was stable enough, the IBM PC was decommissioned, and all development was done on the Apple IIGS.
At publication, the compiler was shipped with comprehensive support for the Apple IIGS's operating system (GS/OS) and toolkit.
Unfortunately, due to the demise of the Apple IIGS, ORCA/Modula-2 never had much impact in the market.
The compiler development was continued however for a short while during 1995, after which it stalled.
The source code for the compiler can now be found on GitHub.
References
https://github.com/pkclsoft/ORCA-Modula-2
Apple II software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocoRoco%202 | LocoRoco 2 is a platform game developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the sequel to 2006's LocoRoco and was released for the PSP handheld game console in 2008.
A remastered version was released on the 9th of December 2017 for PlayStation 4.
Plot
Having successfully defeated the Moja Corps, the LocoRoco settled back into their peaceful life. However, Bon Mucho, the Moja Boss, is not willing to accept defeat, so he devises a terrible song that can suck the life force out of living things, as a new attack on the LocoRoco. Armed with this fearsome song, the Moja boarded their meteorite and set off once more on a mission to conquer the LocoRoco planet. Back there, the LocoRoco finds the new MuiMui house, but right after, the meteor comes crashing down onto a Nyokki, and the Mojas start attacking again (sucking the life force out of living things, and as usual, eating LocoRoco). The LocoRoco then set off on an even more epic journey to restore the life force into living things and defeat the Moja Corps.
New features
LocoRoco 2 has many new features added from its previous game, including the ability to swim underwater, squeeze through crevices, and gain many new abilities. Noticeable new characters in the game include Bonmucho's mother, Majolinè, the BuiBui (who were MuiMui, but got kissed by Majolinè, turning them evil and have a red color to distinguish themselves from the MuiMui), Viole, a new purple LocoRoco, and an old lady named Galanmar.
Gameplay
Like the original LocoRoco game, the player controls are the same, as they once again play as the planet. The shoulder buttons are used to tilt the world to maneuver the LocoRoco, and pressing both of the buttons simultaneously causes the LocoRoco to jump. The single large LocoRoco can be separated by pressing the circle button or through specific points on the level, while individual LocoRoco can merge back into a single being by holding down the circle button.
Locations
The location 'backgrounds' are seen in the first LocoRoco, except for the BuiBui Fort and the MuiMui Home. These include The flower garden (Franzea), the big mountain (Perculoka), the ice mountain (Shamplin), the tropical island (Tropuca), the land of stars (Chapo-Wahr), the dark, spooky land (Dolangomeri), the sunny/rhythmic land, (CaloCaro), the jungle/ancient ruins (Jaojab), the large tree (Yamboona Tree), and the fungus-forest (Kelapton).
Reception
LocoRoco 2 received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
References
2008 video games
Platformers
PlayStation Portable games
Puzzle video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in Japan
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Japan Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udo%20Frese | Udo Frese is assistant professor at the University of Bremen and leads the group for real time computer vision. He is also affiliated with the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Bremen.
He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg where he studied different aspects of the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. He developed two successful mapping system: TreeMap and Multi-Level Relaxation (MLR). Additionally, he is working in the field of safety algorithms for robots including areas such as collision avoidance.
Together with Cyrill Stachniss and Giorgio Grisetti he is a co-founder of the open source SLAM repository called OpenSLAM.org.
External links
Udo Frese biography at University of Bremen
1972 births
German computer scientists
German roboticists
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandre | Sandre stands for Service d’administration nationale des données et des référentiels sur l’eau, or National Service for Water Data and Common Repositories Management of France. The Sandre service establishes the common water data language of the French national Water Information System (SIE: Système d’information sur l’eau).
Sandre is a division of the National Agency of Water and Aquatic Environments (Onema: Office national de l’eau et des milieux aquatiques). Its technical secretariat is entrusted to the International Office for Water (OIE: Office International de l’Eau).
Missions
The Sandre is in charge of describing water data and defining technical scenarios to allow data interchange between producers, users and databanks. These data are based on reference datasets (code lists) managed by the Sandre.
Services
The Sandre makes available specification documents (1) free of charge for water data interchanges. It maintains a permanent helpdesk for implementation of these (2). It manages reference datasets (code lists - ex : taxa, monitoring parameters...) (3).
(1) Sandre specification documents are specifications freely available for the definition, interchange and dissemination of water data and datasets. These documents help designing databases, exchange files, web services, etc.
(2) Sandre technical support is a helpdesk for the use of Sandre’s specifications. The Sandre proposes especially compliance checks. Compliance checks are test sets implemented and applied to a system (software, databases, etc) to check its compliance to Sandre‘s specifications.
(3) Sandre reference datasets are elementary alphanumerical (ex : chemical substances code lists ) or geographic information (BDCarthage via the online metadata catalogue or the geoviewer) whose use is free of charge, and necessary for the well functioning of a system (software such as LIMS, databases, etc).
See also
Water supply and sanitation in France
External links
Water in France
Hydrology organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apperson%20Six%20Sport%20Sedan | The Apperson Six Sport Sedan was a car manufactured by the Apperson Company of Kokomo, Indiana.
Apperson Six Sport Sedan specifications (1926 data)
Color – Imperial blue, maroon, and gray-green
Seating Capacity – Five
Wheelbase – 120 inches
Wheels - Disc
Tires - 32” x 5.77” balloon
Service Brakes – Mechanical four wheel brakes
Engine - Six cylinder, vertical, cast en bloc, 3-3/16 x 4-1/4 inches; head removable; valves in head; H.P. 24.4 N.A.C.C. rating
Lubrication – Force feed
Crankshaft - Four bearing
Radiator – Tubular
Cooling – Thermo-syphon
Ignition system – Storage Battery
Starting System – Two Unit
Voltage – Six to eight
Wiring System – Single
Gasoline System – Vacuum
Clutch – Disc
Transmission – Selective sliding
Gear Changes – 3 forward, 1 reverse, mechanically operated
Drive – Spiral bevel
Rear Springs – Three-quarter elliptic
Rear Axle – Semi-floating
Steering Gear – Worm and gear
Standard equipment
New car price included the following items:
tools
jack
front bumper
windshield cleaner
rearview mirror
speedometer
ammeter
dash fuel gauge
rim
foot rest
armrests
heater
snubbers
ventilators on all doors
screened cowl ventilator
sun visor
Sport Phaetons have permanent top and windshield wings
All sizes equipped with preselecting mechanical gear shift
Optional equipment
The following was available at an extra cost:
none
Prices
New car prices were F.O.B. factory, plus Tax:
Five passenger Phaeton - $1650
Five passenger Sport Phaeton - $1750
Five passenger Sport Sedan - $2250
Five passenger Brougham - $2150
Four passenger Coupé - $2250
References
Source:
Cars of the United States
Vintage vehicles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex%20Coach | The Essex Coach was manufactured by the Essex Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan.
Essex Coach specifications (1926 data)
Color – Body and wheels, blue; running gear, black
Seating Capacity – Four or five
Wheelbase – 110½ inches
Wheels - Wood
Tires - 30” × 4.95” balloon
Service Brakes - contracting on rear
Emergency Brakes - expanding on rear
Engine - Six cylinder, vertical, cast en bloc, 2-11/16 × 4¼ inches; head removable; valves in side; H.P. 17.32 N.A.C.C. rating
Lubrication – Splash, with circulating pump
Crankshaft - Three bearing
Radiator – Cellular
Cooling – Thermo-syphon
Ignition – Storage Battery
Starting System – Two Unit
Voltage – Six
Wiring System – Single
Gasoline System – Vacuum
Clutch – Multiple disc in oil
Transmission – Selective sliding
Gear Changes – 3 forward, 1 reverse
Drive – Spiral bevel
Rear Springs – Semi-elliptic
Rear Axle – Semi-floating
Steering Gear – Worm and full worm wheel
Standard equipment
New car price included the following items:
tools
jack
speedometer
ammeter
electric horn
transmission theft lock
demountable rims
spare tire carrier
sun visor
cowl ventilator
headlight dimmer
Optional equipment
The following was available at an extra cost:
none
Prices
New car prices were F.O.B. factory, plus Tax:
Touring - $850
Coach - $850
See also
Essex (automobile)
References
Source:
Cars of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE-400%20series | The GE-400 series were time-sharing Information Systems computers by General Electric introduced in 1964 and shipped until 1968.
System description
The GE-400 series (Compatibles/400) came in models: 415, 425, 435 (1964), 455 and 465.
GE-400 systems had a word length of 24 bits which could contain binary data, four six-bit BCD characters, or four signed decimal digits. GE-400 systems could have up to 32,768 words (132K characters) of magnetic-core memory with a cycle time of 2.7 microseconds (435) or 5.1 microseconds (425). The systems supported up to eight channels for input/output.
The GE 412 (1962) was an incompatible computer system with a 20-bit word length intended for process control applications.
Unique features
GE-400 systems featured a "variable length, relocatable accumulator" which could be set programmatically to a length of one to four words and relocated to overlay any four adjacent locations in memory (modulo four). "The accumulator can be moved to the data to be processed, rather than moving the data."
Successor systems
The 400 series was succeeded by the incompatible 36-bit GE-600 series.
See also
GE-200 series
GE-600 series
References
External links
GE-400 Time-sharing information systems: Bring a powerful computer to the fingertips of all your people | 102646147 | Computer History Museum
General Electric
Le Musée Bull Belgique - Luxembourg: GE 400 (in French)
General Electric mainframe computers
Transistorized computers
Computer-related introductions in 1964
24-bit computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengaluru%20Commuter%20Rail | Bengaluru Suburban Railway (also Bengaluru Commuter Railway) is an under construction suburban rail network for the city of Bangalore. A Suburban Rail system for the city was first proposed in 1983. Since then, several different route proposals were made but no Suburban Rail project took shape. It was finally approved in the 2019 Railway Budget.
History
A Suburban rail service existed in Bangalore as early as in 1963 for HAL employees to commute from KSR Bangalore to Vimanapura Railway station. In 1983 a formal Suburban Rail system for Bangalore had first been proposed by a team from Southern Railway under then Railway Minister C. K. Jaffer Sharief and Member of Parliament representing Bangalore. Their recommendation had been to invest in 3 suburban rail lines and a 58-km ring railway. The package was estimated to cost Rs. 6,500 million in 1983 terms (US$628.6 million) spread over a 25-year period.
Again in 1993 C. K. Jaffer Sharief Minister of Railway’s, India. Influenced the State of Karnataka to established another committee look into mass rapid transit. This committee recommended essentially the same put forward by Southern Railway in 1983 and the same circular railway. Both in 1983 and 1993 the proposal was rejected by then Prime Minister of India.
In 2007, RITES (Rail Indian Technical and Economic Services) was commissioned by the Government of Karnataka to conduct a CTTP (Comprehensive Traffic & Transportation Plan) for the city of Bangalore. Their report called for 10 Suburban Rail routes totaling 204.0 km. As per the report, Suburban Rail (along existing rail routes) would cost much lesser than mass rapid transit systems.
In July 2010, a proposal was made by Praja Bangalore in a 'Call To Action' report. This plan was supported & presented at the center for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CisTup), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The proposal had suggested a 376 km network around three hubs (Yesvantpur Junction, Benniganahalli & Yelahanka Junction) with 42 new stations. A key recommendation was to use the congested Bangalore City railway station only as a pass-through station.
In November 2011, RITES conducted a feasibility study exclusively for suburban rail services in Bangalore and submitted their final report to the Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT) in November 2012. The 179-page report studied all existing routes totalling 440.8 km of the rail network in & around the city & development of Suburban Rail services over three phases.
The state government approved the suburban rail system on 5 July 2013. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah approved the system in the 2013-14 state budget that he presented on 9 July 2013. The budget proposed the setting up of the Bengaluru Suburban Rail Corporation Limited, a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to implement the project estimated to cost .
In the 2016-17 Railway budget, Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu announced a partnership with Karnataka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market%20Square%20%28Lviv%29 | Rynok Square (, , ) is a central square of the city of Lviv, Ukraine. According to archaeological data, the square was planned in the second half of the 13th century, during the reign of Prince Leo I of Galicia. However, there is a long tradition of later dating the emergence of the square, associated with the activities of the Polish king Casimir III the Great.
The square is rectangular in shape, with measurements of 142 metres by 129 metres and with two streets radiating out of every corner. In the middle there was a row of houses, with its southern wall made by the Town Hall. However, when in 1825 the tower of the Town Hall burned, all adjacent houses were demolished and a new hall, with a 65-metre tower, was built in 1835 by architects J. Markl and F. Trescher.
Around the square, there are 44 tenement houses, which represent several architectural styles, from Renaissance to Modernism. In the four corners, there are fountains—wells from 1793, probably designed by Hartman Witwer. The sculptures represent four Greek mythological figures: Neptune, Diana, Amphitrite and Adonis. In front of the Town Hall, there was a pillory. In 1998 the Market Place, together with the historic city center of Lviv, was recognised as a UNESCO world heritage site.
History
The square was designed soon after Lviv’s location as a city. Originally, the buildings were Gothic; however, a great fire on 3 June 1527 destroyed most of the city. The new city, then known in Polish as Lwow, was rebuilt in Renaissance style, with a few remaining examples of Gothic architecture. There is a vault in tenement house number 24 and a portal in house number 25. Market Square was witness to several important events in the history of Poland and Ukraine. Among these, in 1387 King Wladyslaw Jagiello accepted the homage of Petru I of Moldavia here. In 1436 another Moldavian ruler, Ilias of Moldavia, paid homage to King Wladyslaw III in Lviv. Also, at the pillory, several historical figures were executed by the Polish authorities including rulers of Moldavia Ştefan Tomşa (1564), Ukrainian national hero Ioan Potcoavă (Ivan Pidkova) (1578) and Iancu Sasul (1582).
In 1848, during the Spring of Nations, a Polish National Guard was formed here. On 11 November 1920, prime minister Jozef Pilsudski hosted a military parade to commemorate awarding the Virtuti Militari cross to the city. Also, on 30 June 1941, Yaroslav Stetsko proclaimed Ukraine's independence in a house located on the square. In 2006, a major restoration of the square’s pavement was carried out.
Houses
Eastern side
Number 2. Bandinelli Palace. Built in late Renaissance style in 1593. It was the property of Roberto Bandinelli from Florence, who founded the first mail office in Lviv in 1629. Remodelled in 1737–1739, after World War II it was in ruins. Recently renovated. Among people who lived here, there was a Polish poet Kornel Ujejski.
Number 3. House of the Wilczek family. A Rococo-style house, remodelled between 1771 and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20List%20of%20Artist%20Names | The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) is a free online database of the Getty Research Institute using a controlled vocabulary, which by 2018 contained over 300,000 artists and over 720,000 names for them, as well as other information about artists. Names in ULAN may include given names, pseudonyms, variant spellings, names in multiple languages, and names that have changed over time (e.g., married names). Among these names, one is flagged as the preferred name.
Although it is displayed as a list, ULAN is structured as a thesaurus, compliant with ISO and NISO standards for thesaurus construction; it contains hierarchical, equivalence, and associative relationships.
The focus of each ULAN record is an artist. In the database, each artist record (also called a subject) is identified by a unique numeric ID. The artist's nationality is given, as are places and dates of birth and death (if known). Linked to each artist record are names, related artists, sources for the data, and notes. The temporal coverage of the ULAN ranges from Antiquity to the present and the scope is global.
Artists may be either individuals (persons) or groups of individuals working together (corporate bodies). Artists in the ULAN generally represent creators involved in the conception or production of visual arts and architecture. Some performance artists are included (but typically not actors, dancers, or other performing artists). Repositories and some donors are included as well.
History
Development of the ULAN began in 1984 by the J. Paul Getty Trust. The Trust, which already managed the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), began the project in response to requests from Getty projects for controlled vocabularies of artists' names. The ULAN grows and changes via contributions from the user community and editorial work of the Getty Vocabulary Program.
Although originally intended only for use by Getty projects, the broader art information community outside the Getty expressed a need to use ULAN for cataloging and retrieval. The Getty thus distributed ULAN for broader use according to the tenets previously established for the construction and maintenance of the Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Its scope includes names needed to catalog and retrieve information about the visual arts and architecture; it is based on terminology that is current, warranted for use by authoritative literary sources, and validated by use in the scholarly art and architectural history community; and it is compiled and edited in response to the needs of the user community. Originally constructed as a simple alphabetized "union list" of clustered artist names and biographies, in order to make it consistent with the AAT and Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, in the late 1990s ULAN was brought into compliance with national and international standards for thesaurus construction. Its scope was broadened to include corporate bodies such as architectural firms and repositories of art, which may have hi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler%20Metropolitan%20Sedan | The Chandler Metropolitan Sedan was manufactured by the Chandler Motor Car Company of Cleveland, Ohio.
Chandler Metropolitan Sedan specifications (1926 data)
Color – Two-tone brown or Sagebrush green
Seating Capacity – Five
Wheelbase – 123 inches
Wheels - Wood
Tires - 33” × 6” balloon
Service Brakes - contracting on rear wheels
Emergency Brakes – contracting on transmission
Engine - Six-cylinder, vertical, cast en bloc, × 5 inches; head removable; valves in side; H.P. 29.4 N.A.C.C. rating
Lubrication – Force feed
Crankshaft - Four bearing
Radiator – Cellular
Cooling – Water pump
Ignition –Storage battery
Starting System – Two Unit
Voltage – Six to eight
Wiring System – Single
Gasoline System – Vacuum
Clutch – Dry disc
Transmission – Constant mesh
Gear Changes – 3 forward, 1 reverse
Drive – Spiral bevel
Rear Springs – Semi-elliptic
Rear Axle – Three-quarter floating
Steering Gear – Worm and gear
Standard equipment
New car price included the following items:
tools
jack
speedometer
ammeter
motometer
electric horn
transmission theft lock
automatic windshield cleaner
demountable rims
spare tire carrier
cowl ventilator
headlight dimmer
closed cars have dome light, sun visor, and rear-view mirror.
Optional equipment
The following was available at an extra cost:
Front Brakes
Prices
New car prices were available upon application on the following models:
Two Passenger Roadster
Four Passenger Royal Dispatch
Five Passenger Touring
Seven Passenger Touring
Five Passenger Coach Imperial
Five Passenger Chummy Sedan
Five Passenger, Four-door Sedan
Five Passenger Metropolitan Sedan
Seven Passenger Sedan
Seven Passenger Limousine
See also
Chandler Motor Car
References
Source:
Cars of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty%20Vocabulary%20Program | The Getty Vocabulary Program is a department within the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California. It produces and maintains the Getty controlled vocabulary databases, Art and Architecture Thesaurus, Union List of Artist Names, and Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. They are compliant with ISO and NISO standards for thesaurus construction. The Getty vocabularies are the premiere references for categorizing works of art, architecture, material culture, and the names of artists, architects, and geographic names. They have been the life work of many people and continue to be critical contributions to cultural heritage information management and documentation. They contain terms, names, and other information about people, places, things, and concepts relating to art, architecture, and material culture. They can be accessed online free of charge on the Getty website.
Usage
The Getty vocabularies can be used in three ways: at the data entry stage, by catalogers or indexers who are describing works of art, architecture, material culture, archival materials, visual surrogates, or bibliographic materials; as knowledge bases, providing information for researchers; and as search assistants to enhance end-user access to online resources. The Getty vocabularies are available in MARC format for easy mapping.
The Getty Vocabulary Program has been active within the library community, offering training on thesaurus construction and training on contributing via Getty online webforms. These opportunities are held during annual conferences of organizations such as Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS), Visual Resources Association (VRA), American Library Association (ALA), International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), NFAIS, Society of American Archivists (SAA), and Museum Computer Network (MCN).
History
Editorial work has been managed by the Getty since 1983. In 1987 the Getty created a department dedicated to compiling and distributing terminology called the Vocabulary Coordination Group, now known as the Getty Vocabulary Program, which was within the Getty Information Institute. The data is compiled and edited in an editorial system that was custom-built by Getty technical staff to meet the unique requirements of compiling data from many contributors, building complex and changing polyhierarchies, merging, moving, and publishing in various formats. Final editorial control of the Vocabularies are maintained by the Getty Vocabulary Program, using well-established editorial rules. They are now published in automated formats only, in both a searchable online Web interface and in data files available for licensing.
Since 1998, Getty Information Technology Services and Web Services have worked closely with the Getty Vocabulary Program to conceive, develop, deploy, and continuously enhance the technologies necessary to support the growth and usage of the vocabulary databases. Three major projects c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20%28Latin%20American%20TV%20channel%29 | Cartoon Network is a Latin American pay television channel distributed by Warner Bros. Discovery for the Latin American audience, and the Caribbean. It is the Latin American version of the original Cartoon Network television channel in the United States. It is divided into five feeds, all originating from its central headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, United States; four are in Spanish (Mexico, Argentina/Uruguay, Chile/Peru, Colombia/Venezuela/Central America), and the other is in Portuguese for Brazil. The feeds have different schedules.
It primarily airs cartoons and animated programming, marketed towards children and teens. Operated in Argentina by Turner Broadcasting System Latin America, it began broadcasting on April 30, 1993, as the first children-oriented cable channel available in the region. Argentina and Mexico had previously launched children's cable channels (The Big Channel and Cablín in Argentina, and ZAZ in Mexico; all of which are now defunct), but they were only available in their respective countries.
History
Cartoon Network began broadcasting in Latin America on April 30, 1993, becoming the first 24-hour children's animation channel in the region. Although much is not known about its first broadcast in the region, its beginnings were similar to its U.S. counterpart, whose programming focused solely on the classic cartoons of the Turner Entertainment film library, made up of studios Hanna-Barbera, MGM, Warner Bros. and Fleischer Studios. Its programming and graphics used at that time were the same as the U.S. feed, with the difference that between 1993 and 1995, the Latin American feed was just a Spanish-language feed from the United States, which was broadcast exclusively to the region. It was not until 1996 that this feed became completely independent of the US feed, and this began to have its own programming with its own schedules, as well as new worldwide acquisitions for the channel.
In 1996, it began broadcasting its first original series, beginning with Space Ghost Coast to Coast, an original reinvention of Hanna-Barbera's superhero, which gained the popularity of adult audiences. In addition, new original channel series were incorporated at that time, known as Cartoon Cartoons: Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, The Powerpuff Girls and Ed, Edd and Eddy, which became the channel's flagship series.
In 2001, Cartoon Network made the first edition of Copa Toon, a soccer special featuring the cast of Space Ghost, whose theme was to interview several personalities from the world of sports and soccer, in addition to presenting a fictional tournament between the teams of the channel series. In that same year, it launched its new sister channel Boomerang, at that time, a new channel that would be dedicated solely to broadcast of classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons that no longer aired in the programming of the main channel due to the arrival of new series. This channel had already been launched in 200 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexed%20file | An indexed file is a computer file with an index that allows easy random access to any record given its file key.
The key must be such that it uniquely identifies a record. If more than one index is present the other ones are called alternate indexes. The indexes are created with the file and maintained by the system.
IBM supports indexed files with the Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM) on OS/360 and successors. IBM virtual storage operating systems added VSAM, which supports indexed files as Key Sequenced Data Sets (KSDS), with more options. Support for indexed files is built into COBOL and PL/I. Other languages with more limited I/O facilities such as C support indexed files through add-on packages in a runtime library such as C-ISAM. Some of Digital's operating systems, such as OpenVMS, support indexed file I/O using the Record Management Services.
In recent systems, relational databases are often used in place of indexed files.
Language support
The COBOL language supports indexed files with the following command in the FILE CONTROL section
ORGANIZATION IS INDEXED
IBM PL/I uses the file attribute ENVIRONMENT(INDEXED) or ENVIRONMENT(VSAM) to declare an indexed file.
See also
B-trees
Hash table
Data set (IBM mainframe)
Legacy system
dbm also X/Open ndbm and GNU gdbm
Berkeley DB
Inline citations
COBOL
Legacy systems
Database index techniques
PL/I programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Trinidadian%20Britons | This is a list of notable Trinidadian British people.
John Alcindor – physician and activist
Nina Baden-Semper – actress
Mona Baptiste – actress and singer
Danielle Belgrave – computer scientist
Floella Benjamin – actress, author, television presenter, businesswoman and politician (Baroness Benjamin)
Chris Birchall – footballer, recipient of a CM Medal and currently with Coventry City
Chris Bisson – actor, East Is East, Coronation Street and Shameless; father and grandfather from Trinidad, great-grandfather was Indian
Danny Cipriani – rugby union footballer; father was from Trinidad
Frank Crichlow – activist
Lenora Crichlow – actress
MF DOOM – rapper and record producer
Nubya Garcia – jazz musician; grandfather and grandmother from Trinidad
Amber Gill – television personality and author
Darren Henry – politician
Darcus Howe – journalist, broadcaster, activist
Lennie James – actor
Stefan Kalipha – actor
Trevor McDonald – newsreader and journalist
Althea McNish – artist and designer
Steve McQueen – film director
V. S. Naipaul – award winning author and Nobel laureates
Billy Ocean – singer, born in Trinidad
Michael Page – professional boxer and mixed martial artist; father was from Trinidad
Jadon Sancho – footballer for Borussia Dortmund and England; parents are from Trinidad
Corinne Skinner-Carter – actor
AJ Tracey – rapper
Noel Clarke – actor and producer
Cathy Tyson – actress
Eamonn Walker – actor
Don Warrington – actor
Wiley – rapper and Grime founder
Jodie Williams – sprinter; mother was from Trinidad
See also
Trinidadian British
List of Trinidadians
References
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidadian Britons
List
Britons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20currency | Social currency refers to the actual and potential resources from presence in social networks and communities, including both digital and offline. It is, in essence, an action made by a company or stance of being, to which consumers feel a sense of value when associating with your brand, while the humanization of your brand generates loyalty and "word of mouth" virality for the organization. The concept derives from Pierre Bourdieu's social capital theory and relates to increasing one's sense of community, granting access to information and knowledge, helping to form one's identity, and providing status and recognition.
In marketing and management
In their study on social currency, the consulting company Vivaldi Partners defined social currency as the extent to which people share the brand or information about the brand as part of their everyday social lives at work or at home. This sharing helps companies to create unique brand identities and earn permission to interact with consumers or customers. In today's age, building social currency is an important investment companies can make to create value for themselves. Social Currency moves social initiatives and campaigns beyond marketing and communications efforts to impacting and changing entire industries and categories. Consumers and customers will benefit as well as they increasingly participate in social platforms, and use social technologies.
Social currency can be divided into six dimensions or levers:
It is about creating a sense of community and by that a strong affiliation between customers, consumers and users of a brand. Having social currency increases a brand's engagement with consumers and interaction with customers, and by that adding to the customer conversation around the brand, it grants access to information and knowledge, which is being shared within the customer base. Belonging to a group also helps users of a brand to grow personally by accessing new utility and also developing their own identity in the respective peer group. A strong attachment to a brand will also be a core driver for an active advocacy recommending or even defending the brand.
The Social Currency Wheel is an alternative to the traditional brand funnel or customer decision journey. The Social Currency Wheel evaluates the impact of social behaviors of customers on social currency and three outcomes: consideration, purchase, and loyalty. The goal of the Social Currency Wheel is to explain how customers' social processes and behaviors drive each of the conversions. Marketers can engage with customers during these social processes and behaviors, and influence the outcomes.
Social currency is information shared which encourages further social encounters. It can be a factor in establishing fans of sports or television programmes. As well as talking about sports, attendance at sports events themselves is a form of social currency. Young men in particular feel the need to learn about sporting current |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHRCG-TDT | XHRCG-TDT, also known as RCG Televisión, is a television station located in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. The station was previously a Televisa local station, with programming from FOROtv. It currently airs as its own local productions and news, and is owned by Grupo RCG.
History
XHRCG came to air as XHAD-TV, owned by Alberto Jaubert and receiving its concession in 1968. In the 1980s, after Jaubert's death, the station was sold to Roberto Casimiro González Treviño, and in 1991 it was rechristened XHRCG-TV.
The station has a repeater, XHCAW-TDT channel 36 (virtual channel 58) in Ciudad Acuña. XHCAW produces its own local news but is tightly integrated into XHRCG's programming.
Digital television
XHRCG and XHCAW applied for and built digital facilities in 2015. XHRCG was the last station to come to air in Saltillo; it went off air along with other stations there on December 11. XHCAW went off the air with stations in Acuña on the 22nd.
External links
RCG Homepage
RCG online feed
References
Independent television stations in Mexico
Television stations in Coahuila
Mass media in Saltillo
Television channels and stations established in 1968
1968 establishments in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNF | VNF may refer to:
Voies navigables de France, a French navigation authority
Virtualized Network Functions, software implementations of network functions that can be deployed on a Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voies%20navigables%20de%20France | (VNF, ) is the French navigation authority responsible for the management of the majority of France's inland waterways network and the associated facilities—towpaths, commercial and leisure ports, lock-keeper's houses and other structures. VNF was established in 1991 and took over the responsibility for all waterways from the National Office of Navigation () in 1993. It is a public body and is under the control of the Minister of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Territorial Development (). The headquarters of VNF are in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais with local offices throughout France.
French waterways network
The French natural and man-made waterways network is the largest in Europe extending to over of which VNF manages the navigable sections. The assets managed by VNF comprise of waterways, made up of of canals and of navigable rivers, 494 dams, 1595 locks, 74 aqueducts, 65 reservoirs, 35 tunnels and a land area of . Two significant waterways which are not under VNF's control are the navigable sections of the River Somme and the Brittany Canals, which are both under local management, and neither is the River Lot in Aquitaine.
Enhancements
Approximately 20% of the network is suitable for commercial boats of over 1000 tonnes and the VNF has an ongoing programme of maintenance and modernisation to increase depth of waterways, widths of locks and headroom under bridges to support France's strategy of encouraging freight onto water as part of her sustainable development programme—a survey by Price Waterhouse Coopers showed that 75% of French companies were willing to switch to barge transport.
A major current initiative is the cross-border Seine–Nord Europe Canal project, connecting the Seine and the Scheldt, which will provide a continuous wide-gauge navigation from Le Havre to Antwerp.
See also
List of rivers of France
List of canals in France
References
External links
VNF website
Water transport in France
Government-owned companies of France
Inland waterway authorities
Transport authorities in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemicube | Hemicube can mean:
Hemicube (computer graphics), a concept in 3D computer graphics rendering
Hemicube (geometry), an abstract regular polytope
Demihypercube, an n-dimensional uniform polytope, also known as the n-hemicube |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neotu%20Gallery | Néotù was a contemporary furniture gallery founded in 1984 in Paris.
Gérard Dalmon (b. 1945), a computer consultant at Cap Gemini, and Pierre Staudenmeyer (1952—2007), a marketing consultant, established the Galerie Néotù in 1984 in Paris, France, on the rue de Verneuil, then in 1985 on the rue du Renard. Galerie Néotù sold contemporary furniture and other items by primarily French designers, artists, and architects. The items were produced in limited editions, some unique. The gallery assisted with production and was instrumental in establishing some of the young, essentially unknown French designers of the 1980s and 1990s, who have since become members of the current who's who of French and international design.
The enterprise pursued an approach to design, which was in the trend of the time, and focused on designers whose work was known as art furniture. Dalmon and Staudenmeyer's effort can be favorably compared to others active from the mid-1980s, such as Rick Kaufman's Art et Industrie gallery and Michael Steinberg's Furniture of the Twentieth Century gallery, both in New York City.
In 1990, a branch was established in New York City, and, in 1992, the Galerie Néotù began representing VIA (the French furniture association) in the U.S.
Néotù closed in 2001.
Designers
Galerie Néotù has shown and sometimes manufactured works by furniture designers, architects, and artists.
Ron Arad
Emmanuel Babled
Vincent Bécheau & Marie-Laure Bourgeois
Eric Benqué
Christian Biecher
Constantin Boym
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
Andrea Branzi
Peter Bremers
Eugène Brunelle
Stephen Burks
David Capogna
Emmanuelle Colboc
Denis Colomb
Christophe Côme
Didier Cornille
Matali Crasset
Designers Anonymes
Tom Dixon (industrial designer)
André Dubreuil
Epinard Bleu: Frédéric Druot, Jean-Luc Goulesque, Patrick Jean, Luis Filipe Pais de Figueiredo, Jacques Robert, Jean-Charles Zebo
Shao Fan
Dan Friedman (graphic designer)
Olivier Gagnère
Izzika Gaon
Adrien Gardère
Élisabeth Garouste & Mattia Bonetti
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Kistian Gavoille
Christian Ghion
Natanel Gluska
Lyn Godley & Lloyd Schwan
Zaha Hadid
Massimo Iosa Ghini
Sue Golden
Augustin Granet
Michael Graves
Kevin Gray
Eric Jourdan
David Kawecki
Atsushi Kitagawara
Dominique Labauvie
Dominique Lachevsky
Jo Laubner
Anne Liberati & Joris Heetman
Mary Little
Paul Ludick
Alain & Thierry Manoha
Paul Mathieu & Michael Ray
Jean-François Maurige
Franco Meneguzzo
Migeon & Migéon
Jasper Morrison
Patrick Naggar
Philippe Nogen
Jiří Pelcl
Gaetano Pesce
Maurice de Pestre
Claude Picasso
Olivier Peyricot
Ravage: Arnold van Geuns & Clémens Rameckers
Thomas Rodriguez
Pucci De Rossi
Saint-Maur
Bryce Sanders
William Sawaya
Eric Schmitt
Borek Sipek
Philippe Soffioti
Ettore Sottsass
Studio Sessanta5
Lewis Stein
Martin Szekely
Ali Tayar
Jérome Thermopyles
Olivier Thomé
Totem: Jacques Bonnot, Frederick du Chayla, Claire Olives
Olivier Védrine
Nanda Vigo
John Web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20the%20Whopper | "Homer the Whopper" is the twenty-first season premiere of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 27, 2009. In the episode, Comic Book Guy creates a new superhero called Everyman who takes powers from other superheroes. Homer is cast as the lead in the film adaptation. To get Homer into shape, the movie studio hires a celebrity fitness trainer, Lyle McCarthy, to help him. Homer gets into great shape and is really excited, but when McCarthy leaves to train another client, he starts over-eating again and ultimately this leads to the film's failure.
The episode was written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who are "obsessed" fans of the show, and directed by Lance Kramer. "Homer The Whopper" was intended to be a commentary on how Hollywood treats superhero films. Rogen also guest stars in the episode as the character Lyle McCarthy, making him the second guest star to both write an episode and appear in it; Ricky Gervais was the first.
"Homer the Whopper" has received mixed reviews from television critics and acquired a Nielsen rating of 4.3 in its original broadcast.
Plot
Bart and Milhouse persuade Comic Book Guy to publish Everyman, a comic he has created and written in which the titular hero can absorb the superpowers of any character whose comic book he touches. It becomes an instant hit, and many Hollywood studios become interested in making it into a film. Comic Book Guy signs a movie deal, on the condition that he gets to choose the star. He considers Homer to be perfect for the role, as he envisions Everyman as a middle-aged fat man. However, the studio executives hire fitness trainer Lyle McCarthy to get Homer into shape, knowing that audiences prefer to see physically fit actors in superhero roles.
One month later, Homer has become fit under Lyle's training regimen and the film begins production. Lyle soon leaves Homer to begin working with a different client, though, and Homer reverts to his old habits of laziness and overeating and quickly regains all the weight he lost. The film begins to go over budget, and Comic Book Guy and the executives fear that it will not be successful. The final version includes shots of Homer in both his fit and overweight states, confusing the audience and ruining their enjoyment. Although the premiere is a disaster, the executives offer to let Comic Book Guy direct a sequel as long as he gives the film a good review. Comic Book Guy is pleased at first, but soon changes his mind and posts a scathing online review. The film becomes a box office bomb, and a law is passed to prevent any future film adaptations of Everyman from being made.
Production
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, writers of the film Superbad, are "obsessed" fans of The Simpsons. After learning that The Simpsons executive producer James L. Brooks was a fan of Superbad, they decided to ask the producers of the show if they could write an episode. In 2006, Ri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi%20Bear%20%28film%29 | Yogi Bear is a 2010 American 3D live-action/computer-animated comedy film directed by Eric Brevig and written by Brad Copeland, Joshua Sternin and Jennifer Ventimilia. Based on the Hanna-Barbera animated television series The Yogi Bear Show, the film stars Anna Faris, Tom Cavanagh, T.J. Miller, Nate Corddry and Andrew Daly, alongside the voices of Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake. The film centers on Ranger Smith as he teams up with his girlfriend Rachel Johnson, Yogi Bear, and Boo-Boo Bear to stop their home, Jellystone Park, from being logged. Production on the film took place in New Zealand in October 2008.
Produced by Donald De Line's De Line Pictures and Karen Rosenfelt's Sunswept Entertainment, Yogi Bear premiered at Westwood on December 11, 2010 and was theatrically released in the United States six days later on December 17 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Upon release, the film was met with largely negative reviews from critics and audiences for its writing, humor and lack of originality, though they praised the visual effects, vocal performances and faithfulness to the source material. Despite its negative reception, the film was a box office success, having grossed $203.5 million worldwide against an $80 million budget.
Plot
Yogi and Boo-Boo are two talking brown bears who steal picnic baskets from campers at Franklin City’s Jellystone Park. Head park ranger Smith always finds out about the incidents from his co-ranger Jones and is frustrated that Yogi can’t act like a regular bear. Meanwhile, Mayor R. Brown realizes that Franklin City is facing bankruptcy due to profligate spending on his part. Brown plots with his Chief of Staff to raise money for the town budget and his upcoming gubernatorial campaign by shutting down Jellystone and opening the land to logging. To save the park, Smith and Jones, with help from documentary filmmaker Rachel Johnson, hold a centennial festival and fireworks show in an attempt to sell season passes. To sabotage the effort, Brown promises Jones the position of head ranger if the funds are not raised. Yogi and Boo-Boo had promised Smith to stay out of sight during the festival, but Jones convinces them otherwise. The bears try to please the crowd with a water skiing performance, but Yogi inadvertently sets his cape on fire, causing fireworks to be launched into the crowd, who flee in panic.
After Jellystone is shut down, Smith is forced to stay in Evergreen Park and scolds Yogi for interfering with the festival. A depressed Yogi finally decides to act like a regular bear, but Boo-Boo gets him to come to his senses by showing him cut-down trees. Seeing that their home is in danger of being destroyed, Yogi and Boo-Boo travel to Evergreen Park, where they and Smith figure out Brown's plan: Yogi and Smith reconcile in the process. They all return to Jellystone with Rachel, where they learn that Boo-Boo's pet turtle is a rare and endangered species known as a "frog-mouthed" turtle, meaning that, according to l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCLT%20%28AM%29 | WCLT (1430 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary format. Licensed to Newark, Ohio, United States. The station is currently owned by WCLT Radio and features programming from Westwood One.
FM Translator
In addition to the main station at 1430 kHz, WCLT is relayed by an FM translator to widen the broadcast area, especially during nighttime hours when the AM frequency broadcasts with only 48 watts.
History
On January 11, 2017, at 12:00 p.m., WCLT changed their format from sports to adult contemporary, branded as "Kate 98.7".
Previous logo
References
External links
CLT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindTouch | MindTouch was an American multinational technology company headquartered in San Diego, California that designed, developed, and sold SaaS computer software and online services. MindTouch was founded by Aaron Fulkerson and Steve Bjorg in 2005. In January 2016, MindTouch announced their Series A Venture Capital funding round, totaling US$12 million. PeakSpan Capital led the round with participation from SK Ventures and SAP SE. In April 2021, MindTouch was acquired by NICE CXone and rebranded NICE CXone Expert.
As a division of NICE, the organization's primary software product is NICE CXone Expert (formerly called MindTouch Responsive). Retired products included DekiWiki, MindTouch Core, and MindTouch 4. NICE CXone Expert allows for a team to create, publish, and edit content, and then structure that content within a responsive user interface. Its online services include TouchPoints, CRM integrations, a Success Program, and a custom software development team that helps with branding, information architecture, and custom integrations for new and existing customers.
History
Wiki front-end
MindTouch started in 2005 as a fork of the MediaWiki software. The first release was named DekiWiki, and occurred in July 2006. Its features included use of XHTML in place of wikitext, a WYSIWYG editor, and Lucene-based search. The main functionality of the MindTouch wiki was to access a PHP frontend, which provided a wiki along with a WYSIWYG editor.
Multi-language support (named polyglot) allows switching interface and content languages on per page, per section, and per user basis. In multilingual wikis the engine prioritizes search results by the user's default language. MindTouch cites the 8.05 release of Deki as the first polyglot application on the web.
MindTouch Core
MindTouch Core allows for a user to access and edit pages stored as XML, rather than wikitext. MindTouch Core is an open-source enterprise web-based wiki software and mashup platform. Pages are editable using a GUI editor or may be manipulated as an XML web service. The software has integrated authentication with Apache or IIS modules. Permissions can be applied to individual pages or page hierarchies. The open source version MindTouch Core is distributed on SourceForge under the terms of the GNU General Public License (with some parts under GNU Lesser General Public License and Apache License). DekiScript, a lightweight, interpreted programming language, allows users to add dynamic content to MindTouch pages. DekiScript may be embedded directly into web pages and extended through XML extensions.
MindTouch Core includes multiple connectors to perform mashups. MindTouch Core also includes with extensions allowing connection to numerous online services, including systems such as Google Maps, Windows Live, Flickr and Yahoo. A now unsupported commercial license enabled features such as connectors to SugarCRM, Salesforce, LinkedIn, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WILE%20%28AM%29 | WILE (1270 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Cambridge, Ohio, United States, the station is currently owned by Avc Communications.
Programming is simulcast on FM translator W253CF broadcasting at 98.5 FM and on W300CB broadcasting at 107.9 FM.
History
WILE began broadcasting April 9, 1948. It was operated by Land-O-Lakes Broadcasting Corporation.
References
External links
ILE
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1956
1956 establishments in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20in%20Serbia | Roads in Serbia are the backbone of its transportation system and an important part of the European road network. The total length of roads in the country is 45,419 km, and they are categorized as "state roads" (total length of 16,179 km) or "municipal roads" (total length of 23,780 km). All state roads in Serbia are maintained by the public, nation-wide, road construction company JP Putevi Srbije.
State roads
Major roads in the country are designated as "state roads", most of which are paved. They are categorized into class I and class II, each with two sub-classes, A and B.
State roads, class IA
Roads that are motorways are categorized as state roads, class IA, and are marked with one-digit numbers (the "A1", "A2", "A3", "A4", "A5", "A6", "A7", "A8" and "A9" road designations represent "autoput", the Serbian word for motorway). As of June 2022, there are 937.3 km of motorways (, ) in total. Motorways in Serbia have three lanes in each direction (including the hard shoulder), signs are white-on-green, and the normal speed limit is 130 km/h.
State roads, class IB
Roads categorized as state roads, class IB are 4,486 km in total length as of June 2022 and are marked with two-digit numbers. They have one lane in each direction, signs are black-on-yellow and the normal speed limit is 80 km/h.
Some of these roads are or will be partially expressways (, ), such as the 24 km-long stretch of State Road 24 between Kragujevac and Batočina (intersection with A1 motorway) and the planned upgrade of the 27 km-long section of State Road 21 between Novi Sad and Ruma (intersection with A1 motorway). Expressways, unlike motorways, do not have emergency lanes, signs are white-on-blue and the normal speed limit is 100 km/h.
Kosovo
Roads that partly or entirely lay in Kosovo (see Roads in Kosovo).
State roads, class IIA
State roads, class IIA, are marked with three-digit numbers, the first digit being 1 or 2. The total length of these roads is 7,799 km as of June 2022.
State roads, class IIB
State roads, class IIB, are marked with three-digit numbers, first digit being 3 or 4. Total length of these roads is 3,156 km as of June 2022.
Municipal roads
Minor, local roads in the country are designated as "municipal roads".
Total length of these roads is 23,780 km and some two-thirds are paved roads, while the rest are consisted of macadam and earthen roads.
European routes
The following European routes pass through Serbia:
E65: Rožaje, Montenegro – Tutin – Mitrovica – Pristina – Elez Han, Kosovo – Skopje, North Macedonia.
E70: Slavonski Brod, Croatia – Šid – Belgrade – Vršac – Timișoara, Romania.
section between Belgrade and border with Croatia is built to motorway standards.
E75: Szeged, Hungary – Subotica – Novi Sad – Beška Bridge – Belgrade – Niš – Leskovac – Vranje – Preševo – Kumanovo, North Macedonia.
section from border with Hungary to border with Northern Macedonia is built to motorway standards.
E80: Rožaje, Montenegro – Peja – Pristina, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.431 | The I.431/430 Networking standards are recommendations produced by the ITU. They are Layer 1 specifications for ISDN networks, using either an E1 or T1 circuit. The I.431 standard is known as the 'PRI Physical Layer' whereas the I.430 is known as the 'BRI Physical Layer'.
External links
I.431 : Primary rate user-network interface - Layer 1 specification from the ITU
ITU-T I Series Recommendations
Integrated Services Digital Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.430 | The I.431/430 Networking standards are recommendations produced by the ITU. They are Layer 1 specifications for ISDN networks, using either an E1 or T1 circuit. The I.431 standard is known as the 'PRI Physical Layer' whereas the I.430 is known as the 'BRI Physical Layer'.
External links
I.430 : Basic user-network interface - Layer 1 specification from the ITU
ITU-T recommendations
ITU-T I Series Recommendations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Pearce | Fort Pearce 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.
Fortifications
The fortifications were constructed between 1910 and 1916. Two open concrete gun pits for Mk VII guns were constructed in 1911 with a large underground magazine between the pits. A battery observation post and direction range finder were constructed above the magazine. The gun crews were based at nearby Fort Nepean.
World War I
At the outbreak of World War I, additional men of the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery and Royal Australian Engineers were posted to Fort Nepean. Additional barracks were constructed at Fort Pearce and were named Pearce Barracks. The barracks consisted of officers' quarters, two huts for the NCOs and men, ablutions hut, a cook house and store, mess, office, workshop and parade ground. Some of the timber huts were clad with sheets of iron to protect against machine gun fire.
The guns at Fort Pearce never fired in anger. The only fatality at the fort was Gunner Walter Hargrave, who was killed when one of the guns misfired on 16 July 1916.
World War II
Additional huts, a fuel store and a larger ablutions block were constructed at Pearce Barracks in 1939–1940. Machine gun and mortar pits were dug into the sand dunes around the fort and manned throughout the war by the 2nd Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps.
After the Japanese air attack on Rabaul in 1942, it was decided the exposed battery was vulnerable to air attack and the guns were moved to nearby Cheviot Hill. Since the concrete hoods at Fort Nepean restricted their arc of fire towards Fort Pearce, a 14 pounder Nordenfelt quick firing gun was mounted at Pearce to protect the barracks anchorage in Port Phillip.
Post-war
The fort and barracks were not continuously manned after 1946. Pearce Barracks was used for Citizens Military Force and school cadet training. The barracks were closed in 1978 and fell into disrepair.
National Park
Following the formation of Point Nepean National Park, parts of Fort Pearce are open to the public but Pearce Barracks remains closed for safety reasons. Parks Victoria removed asbestos buildings from the barracks in 2007 and installed interpretive structures and displays at the site. The site is open to the visitors.
See also
Fort Queenscliff
Fort Nepean
South Channel Fort
Swan Island
Pope's Eye
Jervois-Scratchley reports
Footnotes
References
Armament Establishment, Detail of Equipment for Forts at Port Phillip Heads, Garrison Service, NAA:B73656, 12094 1892/644A, National Archives of Australia.
Drawings and plans of fortress installations — Port Phillip Defences, NAA:MP338/1, National Archives of Australia.
Point Nepean National Park Fortifications, Conservation Plan, Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, January 1990.
Point Nepean Forts Conservation Management Plan, Parkes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates%20II | Socrates II is a chess program that, in 1993, won the 23rd North American Computer Chess Championship. It ran on an IBM PC. This was the first and only time that a stock microcomputer won this event, finishing ahead of past winners Cray Blitz and HiTech. The authors, Don Dailey and Larry Kaufman, renewed their collaboration twenty years later to create the Komodo chess engine.
See also
Kasparov's Gambit
References
ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall
Chess software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20Sedan | The Franklin Sedan was manufactured by the H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Company Company of Syracuse, New York.
Franklin Sedan specifications (1926 data)
Color – Several
Seating Capacity – Five
Wheelbase – 119 inches
Wheels - Wood
Tires - 21” x 5.25” balloon
Service Brakes – transmission type
Emergency Brakes – contracting on rear wheels
Engine - Six cylinder, vertical, cast en bloc, 3-1/4 x 4 inches; head removable; valves in head; H.P. 25.3, S.A.E. formula
Lubrication – Separate force feed
Crankshaft - Seven bearing
Cooling – Air
Ignition –Storage battery
Starting System – Two Unit
Voltage – Six
Wiring System – Single
Gasoline System – Vacuum
Clutch – Dry plate
Transmission – Selective sliding
Gear Changes – 3 forward, 1 reverse
Drive – Spiral bevel
Rear Springs – Full elliptic
Rear Axle – Semi-floating
Steering Gear – Worm and gear
Standard equipment
New car price included the following items:
automatic windshield wiper
Watson stabilizers
stop light
spare tire
cover
tire carrier and lock
bumper front
bumperettes rear
mirror
electric primer
hand tire pump
complete set of tools, including Zerk oil gun.
Optional equipment
The following was available at an extra cost:
None
Prices
New car prices were available F.O.B. Syracuse, New York, on the following models:
Sedan - $3200
Touring - $2650
Sport Sedan - $3350
Coupé - $2700
Sport Runabout - $2800
Enclosed-drive Limousine - $3500
Cabriolet - $4400
See also
Franklin (automobile)
References
Source:
Vintage vehicles
Defunct companies based in Syracuse, New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewett%20Five-Passenger%20Coach | The Jewett Five-Passenger Coach was manufactured for the Jewett marque of the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan.
Jewett Five-Passenger Coach specifications (1926 data)
Color – Gray, Jordan Blue, or Thistle Green
Seating Capacity –Five
Wheelbase – 125½ inches
Wheels - Wood
Tires - 32” × 6.20” balloon
Service Brakes – Hydraulic, contracting on four wheels
Emergency Brakes – Contracting on transmission
Engine - Eight cylinder in line, cast en bloc, 3 × 4¾ inches; head removable; valves in side; H.P. 28.8, N.A.C.C. rating
Lubrication – Force feed and splash
Crankshaft - Five bearing
Radiator - Cellular
Cooling – Water pump
Ignition –Storage battery
Starting System – Single Unit
Voltage – Six to eight
Wiring System – Single
Gasoline System – Vacuum
Clutch – Dry plate
Transmission – Selective sliding
Gear Changes – 3 forward, 1 reverse
Drive – Spiral bevel
Rear Springs – Semi-elliptic
Rear Axle – Semi-floating
Steering Gear – Worm and worm wheel
Standard equipment
New car price included the following items:
tools
jack
speedometer
ammeter
motometer
electric horn
transmission theft lock
automatic windshield cleaner
demountable rims
spare rim
snubbers
stop light
inspection lamp and cord
spare tire carrier
rear view mirror
cowl ventilator
clock
closed cars have smoking case, vanity cases and dome light, and trunk on Victoria and Brougham.
Optional equipment
The following was available at an extra cost:
None
Prices
New car prices were available F.O.B. factory plus tax on the following models:
Touring - $2575
Playboy - $2575
Victoria - $2775
Brougham - $2875
Friendly Three - $2875
Five Passenger Sedan - $2975
Seven Passenger Sedan - $3225
Seven Passenger Suburban Sedan - $3375
See also
Jewett (automobile)
References
Source:
Cars of the United States
1920s cars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomobile%20Sportif | The Locomobile Sportif was a vintage era luxury car model manufactured by the Locomobile Company of America.
Locomobile Sportif specifications (1926 data)
Color – Optional
Seating Capacity – Four
Wheelbase – 142 inches
Wheels – Wood
Tires – 35” × 5” cord; or, 35” × 6.75” balloon on order
Service Brakes – Four wheel: foot brake, contracting on rear; internal expanding on front
Emergency Brakes – Hand brake: internal expanding on rear
Engine – Six cylinder, vertical, cast in pairs, 4½ × 5½ inches; head non-removable; valves in side; H.P. 48.6, N.A.C.C. rating
Lubrication – Force feed and splash
Crankshaft – Seven bearing
Radiator – Cellular
Cooling – Water pump
Ignition – Delco, 12 volt, 2 spark
Starting System – Two Unit
Voltage – Twelve to Sixteen
Wiring System – Single
Gasoline System – Pressure
Clutch – Dry multiple disc
Transmission – Selective sliding
Gear Changes – 4 forward, 1 reverse
Drive – Spiral bevel
Rear Springs – Three-quarter elliptic
Rear Axle – Full floating
Steering Gear – Worm and gear
Standard equipment
New car price included the following items:
tools
jack
speedometer
ammeter
electric horn
ignition theft lock
automatic windshield cleaner
demountable rims
spare wheel
power tire pump
shock absorbers
stop light
inspection lamp and cord
front bumper
spare tire carrier
rear view mirror
cowl ventilator
headlight dimmer
clock
closed cars have smoking case, vanity cases and dome light.
Optional equipment
The following was available at an extra cost:
35” × 6.75” balloon tires
Prices
New car prices were available F.O.B. factory plus tax on the following models:
Chassis – $6600
Four Passenger Sportif – $7400
Seven Passenger Touring – $7400
Touring Limousine – $9500
Brougham – $9990
Victoria Sedan – $9990
Enclosed Drive Limousine – $9990
Cabriolet – $10250
See also
Locomobile Company of America
References
Source:
Vintage vehicles
1920s cars
1910s cars
Luxury motor vehicle manufacturers
Luxury vehicles
Cars introduced in 1918 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive%20relationship%20%28programming%29 | In computing, an exclusive relationship is a type of Relationship in computer data base design.
In Relational Database Design, in some cases the existence of one kind of relationship type precludes the existence of another. Entities within an entity type A may be related by a relationship type R to an entity in entity type B or entity type C but not both. The relationship types are said to be mutually exclusive. Usually, both relationship types will have the same name.
Example
A Data (Entity A) could be Sent (Relationship Name) to a Monitor (Entity B) or a Printer (Entity C) to be shown. In this case, the relationship between the Monitor and Printer at one side and Data at the other side is an Exclusive Relationship. Of course it is assumed that Data could be sent to only one of the targets at a time, not to both.
--- Sent_To ---> Monitor
Data
--- Sent_To ---> Printer
References
Jan L. Harrington, Relational Database Design Clearly Explained, Morgan Kaufmann, 2002, , pages 354-355
Database theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zouzou | Zouzou may refer to:
Zouzou (model) (Danièle Ciarlet), model, actress and singer
Zouzou (film), 1934 film directed by Marc Allégret
Zouzous, a French children's programming block |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Sounio | Lisa Sounio (born 1970) is a past CEO and chairperson of social networking site Dopplr. She is also the CEO of her own design management consultancy Sonay. She has a background in industrial design management. Early in her career she worked as a sales- and export manager in the Finnish furniture industry. Before becoming an entrepreneur she worked for Iittala where she was in charge of branding and product design development.
Sounio has a master's degree from the Helsinki School of Economics. She has also studied at the University of Art and Design Helsinki and at the Helsinki University of Technology. She is also a columnist and public speaker. Sounio is married to and a business partner of Marko Ahtisaari.
She was a candidate for the 2014 Finnish European Parliament election, on the National Coalition Party list, but was not elected.
References
Further reading
External links
1970 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Helsinki
Finnish women in business |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assessment%20in%20computer-supported%20collaborative%20learning | Assessment in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments is a subject of interest to educators and researchers. The assessment tools utilized in computer-supported collaborative learning settings are used to measure groups' knowledge
learning processes, the quality of groups' products and individuals' collaborative learning skills.
Perspective
Traditional assessment is equated with individualized exams and evaluations. However, in online collaborative learning, assessment requires a broader perspective as it encompasses the collaborative interactions using asynchronous and synchronous communications between group members. Assessment has been found to have a significant effect on CSCL by motivating learners through accountability and constructive feedback. It supports students in growing familiar with the course content through discourse and effectively encourages the participation of students.
Four metaphors of CLCS
There are four metaphors of Assessment of (Computer-Supported) Collaborative Learning such as:
a.acquisition metaphor
b.the participation metaphor
c. the knowledge creation metaphor
d.a sociocultural-based group cognition metaphor.
The usage of the acquisition metaphor during the learning process is directly connected to the accumulation of knowledge in the students`mind. Learning is evaluated based on the individual gain.
The participation metaphor emphasis that the learning process does not only happen in an individual or isolated environment but in an interactive socio-cultural environment where the students participate and collaborate with each-other.
The knowledge creation metaphor focuses mostly on the collaborative activities. There are cases when the individual activities are stressed as well in terms of students as individuals who collaborate and interact actively during the learning process.
A socio-cultural-based group cognition metaphor refers to the individuals`participation during the learning process who share meaning, ideas and opinions to the other members of the group.
Instructor's role in CSCL assessment
A paradigm shift occurs in the assessment of the products and processes in CSCL. In the traditional educational setting, final assessment is performed exclusively by the instructor.(p. 232) In CSCL, the instructor designs, facilitates, direct instruction and provide technical guidance. The participants take an active role in setting the standard criteria for assessing individual and group learning.
Intelligent Support For CSCL Assessment
The teacher`s assessment should include its function(summative or formative), type(peer assessment, portfolio`s, learning journals), format( rating scales,rubrics,feedback), focus(cognitive/social or motivational processes) and degree of student involvement(self,peer,co-.teacher assessment) are very essential.
Technology use in CSCL assessment
Various technologies may provide information that may be used for assessment purposes. For example, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLX%20%28disambiguation%29 | DLX may refer to:
DLX, a RISC processor architecture
Dancing Links, a computer algorithm
Warehouse Management System of JDA Software
Dlx (gene)
David Letterman Bypass, the proposed name of Interstate 465 in Indianapolis
560 in Roman numerals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat | Multiseat may refer to:
Multiseat constituency, in voting systems
Multiseat configuration or "multiterminal", single computer which supports multiple independent users at the same time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon%20Weiss | Vernon Weiss (born 1951) was a key person in the development of the Dell XPS computer line at Dell and was the director of the computer line at Packard Bell. The XPS line is considered the start of the Gaming Desktop Computer Industry.
During his early years in the computer industry, Vernon Weiss was also involved with the Data General One, Two and the Data General Walkabout.
References
http://www.cyperus.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/8-4-97/290667&EDATE=
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/dg-1/index.html
1951 births
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20ecological%20footprint | This is a list of countries by ecological footprint. The table is based on data spanning from 1961 to 2013 from the
Global Footprint Network's National Footprint Accounts published in 2016. Numbers are given in global hectares per capita. The
world-average ecological footprint in 2016 was 2.75 global hectares per person (22.6 billion in total). With a world-average biocapacity of 1.63 global hectares (gha) per person (12.2 billion in total), this leads to a global ecological deficit of 1.1 global hectares per person (10.4 billion in total).
For humanity, having a footprint smaller than the planet's biocapacity is a necessary condition for sustainability. After all, ecological overuse is only possible temporarily. A country that consumes more than 1.73 gha per person has a resource demand that is not sustainable world-wide if every country were to exceed that consumption level simultaneously. Countries with a footprint below 1.73 gha per person might not be sustainable: the quality of the footprint may still lead to net long-term ecological destruction. If a country does not have enough ecological resources within its own territory to cover its population's footprint, then it runs an ecological deficit and the country is termed an ecological debtor. Otherwise, it has an ecological reserve and it is called a creditor. To a significant degree, biocapacity correlates with access to water resources.
Countries and regions
This table below is based on 2012 results (National Footprint Accounts edition 2016). The latest edition (2021), produced by York University, Footprint Data Foundation, and Global Footprint Network, is available on Global Footprint Network's website at http://data.footprintnetwork.org. Note that this list contains only 188 countries, covering most of the countries with more than one million inhabitants.
*Assumes that biocapacity and ecological footprint per person will not change when population changes.
See also
List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita
Sustainable development
List of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
Peak water, water resources and water withdrawal
References
Ecological footprint
Ecological footprint
Quality of life
Ecological footprint |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPL | CUPL may refer to:
China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China
Cornell University Programming Language
Compiler for Universal Programmable Logic, Programmable Array Logic (a proprietary language from Logical Devices, Inc.) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20infrastructure | Dynamic Infrastructure is an information technology concept related to the design of data centers, whereby the underlying hardware and software can respond dynamically and more efficiently to changing levels of demand. In other words, data center assets such as storage and processing power can be provisioned (made available) to meet surges in user's needs. The concept has also been referred to as Infrastructure 2.0 and Next Generation Data Center.
Concept
The basic premise of dynamic infrastructures is to leverage pooled IT resources to provide flexible IT capacity, enabling the allocation of resources in line with demand from business processes. This is achieved by using server virtualization technology to pool computing resources wherever possible, and allocating these resources on-demand using automated tools. This allows for load balancing and is a more efficient approach than keeping massive computing resources in reserve to run tasks that take place, for example, once a month, but are otherwise under-utilized.
Dynamic Infrastructures may also be used to provide security and data protection when workloads are moved during migrations, provisioning, enhancing performance or building co-location facilities.
Dynamic infrastructures were promoted to enhance performance, scalability, system availability and uptime, increasing server utilization and the ability to perform routine maintenance on either physical or virtual systems all while minimizing interruption to business operations and reducing cost for IT. Dynamic infrastructures also provide the fundamental business continuity and high availability requirements to facilitate cloud or grid computing.
For networking companies, infrastructure 2.0 refers to the ability of networks to keep up with the movement and scale requirements of new enterprise IT initiatives, especially virtualization and cloud computing. According to companies like Cisco, F5 Networks and Infoblox, network automation and connectivity intelligence between networks, applications and endpoints will be required to reap the full benefits of virtualization and many types of cloud computing. This will require network management and infrastructure to be consolidated, enabling higher levels of dynamic control and connectivity between networks, systems and endpoints.
Early examples of server-level dynamic infrastructures are the FlexFrame for SAP and FlexFrame for Oracle introduced by Fujitsu Siemens Computers (now Fujitsu) in 2003. The FlexFrame approach was to dynamically assign servers to applications on demand, leveling peaks and enabling organizations to maximize the benefit from their IT investments.
Benefits
Dynamic infrastructures take advantage of intelligence gained across the network. By design, every dynamic infrastructure is service-oriented and focused on supporting and enabling the end users in a highly responsive way. It can utilize alternative sourcing approaches, like cloud computing to deliver new service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi%20Radio%20Television | Hanoi Radio Television (), officially Hanoi Radio & Television Broadcasting, is the official radio and television network of Hanoi, Vietnam. Its headquarters is on Huỳnh Thúc Kháng Boulevard, Đống Đa District, which represents its network logo.
History
- Hanoi Radio - Television Station was established on October 14, 1954, four days after the capital was liberated. A fixed radio station was installed at Thuy Ta Information and Exhibition House with simple technical facilities, laying the foundation for the later development of Hanoi Radio - Television Station.
In October 1977, celebrating the 23rd Capital Liberation Day and the station’s founding anniversary, Hanoi Radio broadcast its first radio program on AM (via Me Tri National Broadcasting Station). Since then, the voice of Hanoi Radio has been available not only in the city, but also all over the northern provinces and a part of the central region of Vietnam.
At 14:00 on January 1, 1979, the first Hanoi television program was broadcast on Vietnam Television with a new image and the familiar "Hanoi people" song used as intro music.
On August 25, 1989, the City People's Committee issued a decision to change the name of Hanoi Radio Station to Hanoi Radio and Television Station, recognizing the Station as the city's audio and video media outlet.[1]
On July 14, 1990, the Ministry of Culture and Information granted a license to Hanoi Station to broadcast the television program in the morning. Hanoi Television has gradually affirmed its position in the national press system.
On May 19, 1994, the Station’s Technical Center was moved from 47 Hang Dau street to the new headquarters at 3-5 Huynh Thuc Khang Street, Dong Da, Hanoi.
In 1997, Hanoi Radio and Television Station officially changed the identity to have the new H-shaped logo with 3 double waves and the Temple of Literature symbol in the middle, and started to broadcast continuously from 5:30 am to midnight and relay VTV1 News at 7pm every day from June 1 of the same year.
In July 2001, Hanoi Station launched a cable television service (CATV) in Hanoi.
In October 2002, the station launched the website www.hanoitv.vn, where viewers can watch its radio and television programs.
In June 2004, Hanoi Station published the first Hanoi Television printed magazine to diversify its media.
On August 1, 2008, Hanoi officially expanded its administrative boundaries to include Ha Tay province, Me Linh district (Vinh Phuc) and 4 communes in Luong Son district (Hoa Binh). This also officially merged Hanoi Radio and Television Station and Ha Tay Radio and Television Station.
On November 10, 2013: Hanoi Radio and Television Station inaugurated and put into use the Technical, Transmission and Broadcasting Center in Me Tri. The center is home to 3 major national broadcasters, namely Vietnam Television, Voice of Vietnam, and Hanoi Radio and Television.
On June 15, 2016, the station switched off analog terrestrial channel 2.
On June 21, 2016, the Stat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allenna%20Leonard | Allenna Leonard is an American cyberneticist, consultant and director of Team Syntegrity International, specializing in the application of Stafford Beer's Viable System Model and Syntegration. She was president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences in 2009–2010, and led the organization of its 54th annual meeting in Waterloo, Canada.
Biography
She received a B.A. Classic liberal arts curriculum from the St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, a M.A. in Higher Education Administration from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park, in administration with a concentration in cybernetics.
Leonard is consultant under auspices of The Complementary Set, especially applications of the Viable System Model, a part-time University Teacher, Licensee T.S.I. and a representative of Cwarel Isaf Institute. Currently she is Director of Team Syntegrity Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was president of the American Society for Cybernetics from 2002 to 2004, and was elected president for 2009–2010 of the International Society for the Systems Sciences.
Allenna Leonard was Stafford Beer’s partner in life and in work from 1981 until his death in 2002. She states on her web page that she is committed to continuing to use and publicize his work, and that her special interest is using Syntegration as a forum for democratic dialogue, especially on issues of public importance.
See also
Variety (cybernetics)
Viable System Model
Publications
Allenna Leonard has published several works on cybernetics and the work of Stafford Beer. A selection:
Articles and papers, a selection:
References
External links
Biography at University of Hull.
American systems scientists
Living people
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni
George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development alumni
Women systems scientists
Women cyberneticists
Presidents of the International Society for the Systems Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat%20Operating%20System%20Solutions | Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS GNU/Linux) is an Indian Linux distribution based on Debian, with Its latest stable version is 9.0 ("Urja") which was released in February 2021.
Editions
BOSS Linux was released in four editions for different purposes:
BOSS Desktop: Designed for personal, home, and office use.
EduBOSS: Designed for schools and the education community.
BOSS Advanced Server: The server-oriented edition.
BOSS MOOL: A specialized edition for specific purposes.
History
BOSS Linux was developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing with the aim of promoting the adoption of free and open-source software throughout India. As a vital deliverable software of the National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software, it has an enhanced desktop environment that includes support for various Indian language and instructional software.
The software has been endorsed by the Government of India for adoption and implementation in India. BOSS Linux has been certified by the Linux Foundation for compliance with the Linux Standard Base. BOSS Linux supported Intel and AMD IA-32/x86-64 architecture until version 6 ("Anoop"). From version 7 ("Drishti"), the development shifted to x86-64 architecture only.
Versions
BOSS Linux has nine major releases:
BOSS 5.0 (Anokha)
This release came with many new applications that focused mainly on enhanced security and user-friendliness. The distribution included over 12,800 new packages, for a total of over . Most of the software in the distribution had been updated as well: over software packages (70% of all packages in Savir). BOSS 5.0 supported Linux Standard Base (LSB) version 4.1. It also featured XBMC to allow users to easily browse and view videos, photos, podcasts, and music from a hard drive, optical disc, local network, and the Internet.
BOSS 6.0 (Anoop)
There are several significant updates in BOSS Linux 6.0 (Anoop) from 5.0 (Anokha). Notable changes include a kernel update from 3.10 to 3.16, a shift for system boot from init to systemd, the full support of GNOME Shell as part of GNOME 3.14, an update to the GRUB version, the Iceweasel browser being replaced by Firefox and the Pidgin messaging client replacing Empathy, as well as several repository versions of available programs being updated as part of the release.
BOSS Linux 6.0 also shipped various application and program updates, such as LibreOffice, X.Org, Evolution, GIMP, VLC media player, GTK+, GCC, GNOME Keyring, and Python.
Related specifically to localization support, language support improved with the replacement of SCIM with IBus with the Integrated System Settings. Indic languages enabled with "Region and Languages" are now directly mapped to the IBus, and the OnScreenKeyboard layout is provided for all layouts.
This release is fully compatible with LSB 4.1.
BOSS 7.0 (Drishti)
The most significant change over previous releases is that support for the x86 version has been dropped, and BOSS is now on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Brain%20Project | The Human Brain Project (HBP) was a large ten-year scientific research project, based on exascale supercomputers, that aimed to build a collaborative ICT-based scientific research infrastructure to allow researchers across Europe to advance knowledge in the fields of neuroscience, computing, and brain-related medicine.
The Project, which started on 1 October 2013, was a European Commission Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship. The HBP was coordinated by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and was largely funded by the European Union. The project coordination office was in Geneva, Switzerland.
Peer-reviewed research finds that the public discussion forum (the Human Brain Project forum) was actively utilized and showed resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The HBP forum has been most actively utilized and useful for solving questions related to programming issues and questions close to HBP core areas.
Strategic goals and organisation
Fundamental to the HBP approach is to investigate the brain on different spatial and temporal scales (i.e. from the molecular to the large networks underlying higher cognitive processes, and from milliseconds to years). To achieve this goal, the HBP relies on the collaboration of scientists from diverse disciplines, including neuroscience, philosophy and computer science, to take advantage of the loop of experimental data, modelling theories and simulations. The idea is that empirical results are used to develop theories, which then foster modelling and simulations which result in predictions that are in turn verified by empirical results.
The primary objective of the HBP is to create an ICT-based research infrastructure for brain research, cognitive neuroscience and brain-inspired computing, which can be used by researchers world-wide.
The Project is divided into 12 Subprojects. Six of these develop ICT-based platforms (Subprojects 5-10), which consist of prototype hardware, software, databases, and programming interfaces. These tools are available to researchers worldwide via the HBP Collaboratory. Four Subprojects gather data on empirical neuroscience and establish theoretical foundations (Subprojects 1–4) and one is responsible for ethics and society (Subproject 12). Subproject 11 coordinates the project.
SP1 Mouse Brain Organisation: Understanding the structure of the mouse brain, and its electrical and chemical functions
SP2 Human Brain Organisation: Understanding the structure of the human brain, and its electrical and chemical functions
SP3 Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience: Understanding how the brain performs its systems-level and cognitive functional activities
SP4 Theoretical Neuroscience: Deriving high-level mathematical models to synthesize conclusions from research data
SP5 Neuroinformatics Platform: Gathering, organising and making available brain data
SP6 Brain Simulation Platform: Developing data-driven reconstructions of brain tissue and simulation capabilities to expl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing%20execution%20system | Manufacturing execution systems (MES) are computerized systems used in manufacturing to track and document the transformation of raw materials to finished goods. MES provides information that helps manufacturing decision-makers understand how current conditions on the plant floor can be optimized to improve production output. MES works as real-time monitoring system to enable the control of multiple elements of the production process (e.g. inputs, personnel, machines and support services).
MES may operate across multiple function areas, for example management of product definitions across the product life-cycle, resource scheduling, order execution and dispatch, production analysis and downtime management for overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), product quality, or materials track and trace. MES creates the "as-built" record, capturing the data, processes and outcomes of the manufacturing process. This can be especially important in regulated industries, such as food and beverage or pharmaceutical, where documentation and proof of processes, events and actions may be required.
The idea of MES might be seen as an intermediate step between, on the one hand, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, and a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) or process control system on the other; although historically, exact boundaries have fluctuated. Industry groups such as MESA International - Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association - were created in the early 1990s to address the complexity, and advise on the execution of MES Systems.
Benefits
"Manufacturing Execution Systems [help] create flawless manufacturing processes and provide real-time feedback of requirement changes", and provide information at a single source. Other benefits from a successful MES implementation might include:
Reduced waste, re-work and scrap, including quicker setup times
More accurate capture of cost information (e.g. labour, scrap, downtime, and tooling)
Increased uptime
Incorporate paperless workflow activities
Manufacturing operations traceability
Decreases downtime and easy fault finding
Reduced inventory, through the eradication of just-in-case inventory
MES
A wide variety of systems arose using collected data for a dedicated purpose. Further development of these systems during the 1990s introduced overlap in functionality. Then the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association International (MESA) introduced some structure by defining 11 functions that set the scope of MES. In 2000, the ANSI/ISA-95 standard merged this model with the Purdue Reference Model (PRM).
A functional hierarchy was defined in which MES were situated at Level 3 between ERP at Level 4 and process control at Levels 0, 1, 2. With the publication of the third part of the standard in 2005, activities in Level 3 were divided over four main operations: production, quality, logistics and maintenance.
Between 2005 and 2013, additional or revised parts of the ANSI/ISA-95 s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGCL | KGCL (90.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting the Spanish Christian radio network Radio Nueva Vida. Licensed to Jordan Valley, Oregon, United States, the station serves the Boise area. The station is currently owned by Educational Media Foundation.
History
The station was assigned the call letters KARO on 25 June 2002. On 27 March 2003, the station changed its call sign to KIDH, and on 24 September 2008 to the current KGCL.
From 2008 to 2010 KGCL aired a Southern Gospel and Positive Country format, carrying the programming of God's Country Radio Network.
References
External links
GCL
Malheur County, Oregon
2002 establishments in Oregon
Educational Media Foundation radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPTZ | KPTZ (91.9 FM) is a non-commercial, educational radio station. KPTZ is on the air 24 hours a day with locally produced programming filled by music automation. KPTZ will broadcast a mix of locally originated programming featuring area people, art, activities and news. Licensed to Port Townsend, Washington, United States, the station serves the Northwest Washington area. The station is currently owned by Radio Port Townsend.
Hosts and Programs
Sheila Bender, In Conversation
Phil Andrus, Cats in Our Laps
Tigran Arakelyan, Exploring Music
References
External links
PTZ
Radio stations established in 2011
Companies based in Port Townsend, Washington |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Information%20Infrastructure%20Protection%20Act | The National Information Infrastructure Protection Act (; ) was Title II of the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, as an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The Act
The Act was enacted in 1996 as an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It modifies the earlier Code. The text is included in its entirety below.
§ 1030. Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers
(a) Whoever
(1) having knowingly accessed a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access, and by means of such conduct having obtained information that has been determined by the United States Government pursuant to an Executive order or statute to require protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of national defense or foreign relations, or any restricted data, as defined in paragraph y. of section 11 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, with reason to believe that such information so obtained could be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation willfully communicates, delivers, transmits, or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it;
(2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains–
(A) information contained in a financial record of a financial institution, or of a card issuer as defined in section 1602(n) of title 15, or contained in a file of a consumer reporting agency on a consumer, as such terms are defined in the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.);
(B) information from any department or agency of the United States; or
(C) information from any protected computer if the conduct involved an interstate or foreign communication;
(3) intentionally, without authorization to access any nonpublic computer of a department or agency of the United States, accesses such a computer of that department or agency that is exclusively for the use of the Government of the United States or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, is used by or for the Government of the United States and such conduct affects that use by or for the Government of the United States;
(4) knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any one-year period;
(5)
(A)
(i) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Elephant%20Princess | The Elephant Princess is an Australian children's television series that first screened on Network Ten in 2008. The series is produced by Jonathan M. Shiff Productions. A second season began screening in 2011. The series revolves around a suburban Australian teenager, who discovers she is the heir to the throne of Manjipoor, a fictional Indian kingdom.
Summary
Alex Wilson thinks she is an average suburban girl living in Melbourne, until her 16th birthday when exotic visitor, Kuru, shows up in her backyard with a magical elephant, Anala. He informs her she is the heir to the throne of the magical Indian kingdom of Manjipoor. With his help, the reluctant princess will master her magic powers and defend her royal inheritance against her devious cousin, Vashan, whilst balancing the pull of both worlds to find her true destiny. In the second season, Alex and her family have moved to the Gold Coast. Her friend Amanda has followed her there, where they attend university and plan to find a new drummer for their band. Meanwhile, in Manjipoor, Diva has returned to take over Manjipoor and learn the secrets of The Book.
Episodes
Cast
Main
Emily Robins as Alexandra "Alex" Wilson, Alex is the main protagonist of this series and the princess of Manjipoor. Sometimes she sleeps in, she is messy now and again and sometimes forgets to do her homework. In other words, she is a normal teenage girl, living in a very normal suburb. Alex is sometimes short tempered and carefree but is still a loyal person. Ask her what she really wants in life, and she'll say she wants her band to be big! In the second episode her full birth name was revealed to be Liliuokalani Parasha Kaled Persephone Amanirenas.
Miles Szanto as Kuru, is Alex's faithful servant who always tries to protect her. He was sent from Manjipoor along with Anala to teach Alex about her magical powers and preparing her to become a princess. At first he did not really fit in well but he soon adjusted to Earth.
Maddy Tyers as Amanda (recurring, season 1; main, season 2), is Alex's fashion obsessed best friend. Like Alex she is one of the lead singers of the band. At first when Alex told her and JB her secret, because they saw Anala, they thought that she was joking. But when she proved it to them by doing a magic trick with a lot of bunnies they believed her. She falls for Taylor in season two when they go to the Gold Coast of Australia and become a band.
Emelia Burns as Diva (recurring, season 1; main, season 2), was Vashan's "assistant" in season one. At the final battle she revealed that she was a 600-year-old witch to Vashan and the others by using her powers on them. When she learns that her magic gives her great power, she threatens Alex's rule of Manjipoor.
Georgina Haig as Zamira (season 2), is Caleb's younger sister and a childhood friend of Kuru's. She takes an instant dislike to Alex because she believes that her mother was killed by Alex's mother. In the end it was discovered that Diva was the mu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace%20and%20Tina | Horace & Tina is an Australian children's television series that first screened on Network Ten in 2001. The series was produced by Jonathan M. Shiff Productions. The series mixes animatronic characters (Horace & Tina) with live action drama.
Plot
Horace is a short, grumpy, 200-year-old man who is the world's greatest mischief maker. His elder sister, Tina, is a 271-year-old incurable romantic who loves to meddle and give advice. Lauren Parker discovers she is the only person who can see Horace and Tina and has to keep their existence a secret from her family and friends without them thinking she's going crazy.
Cast
Jasmine Ellis as Lauren Parker
Jordan White as Max Tate
Matthew Parkinson as Steve Tate
Carolyn Bock as Kimberly Tate
Jackie Kelleher as the voice of Tina
Frank Gallacher as the voice of Horace
David Sacher as Lachlan Watson
Terry Norris as Ern Watson
Hannah Greenwood as Annabel Delaney
Carl Lennie as TJ Knox
Isabella Dunwill
Episodes
References
External links
2001 Australian television series debuts
2001 Australian television series endings
APRA Award winners
Australian children's fantasy television series
Network 10 original programming
Christmas television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20VAX%20computers | Between 1977 and 2000, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) produced a wide range of computer systems under the VAX brand, all based on various implementations of the DEC-proprietary instruction set architecture of the same name.
VAX-11
VAX-11/780
VAX-11/750
VAX-11/751
VAX-11/730
VAX-11/782
VAX-11/784
VAX-11/785
VAX-11/787
VAX-11/788
VAX-11/725
VAX 8000
VAX 8600
VAX 8650
VAX 8x00
VAX 8500
VAX 8530
VAX 8550
VAX 8700
VAX 8800
VAX 8810/8820/8830/8840
VAX 8974
VAX 8978
MicroVAX
MicroVAX I
MicroVAX II
Industrial VAX 630
MicroVAX III
MicroVAX III+
VAX 4
MicroVAX 2000
MicroVAX 3100 Model 10
MicroVAX 3100 Model 10e
MicroVAX 3100 Model 20 (also sold with different firmware as an Infoserver 100)
MicroVAX 3100 Model 20e
MicroVAX 3100 Model 30
MicroVAX 3100 Model 40
MicroVAX 3100 Model 80
MicroVAX 3100 Model 85
MicroVAX 3100 Model 88
MicroVAX 3100 Model 90
MicroVAX 3100 Model 95
MicroVAX 3100 Model 96
MicroVAX 3100 Model 98
MicroVAX 3300
MicroVAX 3400
MicroVAX 3500
MicroVAX 3600
MicroVAX 3800
MicroVAX 3900
VAXserver
VAXserver 3000
VAXserver 3100
VAXserver 3300
VAXserver 3400
VAXserver 3500
VAXserver 3600
VAXserver 3602
VAXserver 3800
VAXserver 3900
VAXserver 4000 Model 200
VAXserver 4000 Model 300
VAXserver 6000 Model 210
VAXserver 6000 Model 220
VAXserver 6000 Model 310
VAXserver 6000 Model 320
VAXserver 6000 Model 410
VAXserver 6000 Model 420
VAXserver 6000 Model 510
VAXserver 6000 Model 520
VAXserver 9000 Model 110
VAXserver 9000 Model 3x0
VAXserver 9000 Model 310/Model 310VP
VAXserver 9000 Model 320/Model 320VP
VAXserver 9000 Model 330/Model 330VP
VAXserver 9000 Model 340/Model 340VP
VAXstation
VAXstation I
VAXstation II
VAXstation II/GPX
VAXstation 2000
VAXstation 3100 Model 30
VAXstation 3100 Model 38
VAXstation 3100 Model 40
VAXstation 3100 Model 48
VAXstation 3100 Model 76
VAXstation 3200
VAXstation 3500
VAXstation 3520
VAXstation 3540
VAXstation 4000 Model 30 (VAXstation 4000 VLC)
VAXstation 4000 Model 60
VAXstation 4000 Model 90
VAXstation 4000 Model 90A
VAXstation 4000 Model 96
VAXstation 8000
VT1300
VXT 2000
VAX 6000
VAX 6000 Model 2x0 (also known as the VAX 62x0)
VAX 6000 Model 3x0 (also known as the VAX 63x0)
VAX 6333
VAX 6000 Model 4x0
VAX 6000 Model 5x0
VAX 6000 Model 6x0
VAX 4000
VAX 4000 Model 50
VAX 4000 Model 100
VAX 4000 Model 100A
VAX 4000 Model 105A
VAX 4000 Model 106A
VAX 4000 Model 108
VAX 4000 Model 200
VAX 4000 Model 300
VAX 4000 Model 400
VAX 4000 Model 500
VAX 4000 Model 500A
VAX 4000 Model 505A
VAX 4000 Model 600
VAX 4000 Model 600A
VAX 4000 Model 700A
VAX 4000 Model 705A
VAX 9000
VAX 9000 Model 110
VAX 9000 Model 210
VAX 9000 Model 210VP
VAX 9000 Model 310
VAX 9000 Model 410
VAX 9000 Model 420
VAX 9000 Model 430
VAX 9000 Model 440
VAXft
VAXft Model 310 (also known as the VAXft 3000 Model 310)
VAXft Model 110
VAXft Model 410
VAXft Model 610
VAXft Model 612
VAXft Model 810
VAX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20tutoring | Online tutoring is the process of tutoring in an online, virtual, or networked, environment, in which teachers and learners participate from separate physical locations. Aside from space, participants can also be separated by time.
Online tutoring is practiced using many different approaches for distinct sets of users. The distinctions are in content and user interface, as well as in tutoring styles and tutor-training methodologies. Definitions associated with online tutoring vary widely, reflecting the ongoing evolution of the technology, the refinement and variation in online learning methodology, and the interactions of the organizations that deliver online tutoring services with the institutions, individuals, and learners that employ the services. This Internet-based service is a form of micropublishing.
Concept and definitions
An institution, website or individual can offer online tutoring through an internal or external tutoring website or through a learning management systems (LMS). Online environments applied in education could also involve the use of a virtual learning environment platform such as Moodle, Sakai, WebCT, and Blackboard. Some of these are paid systems but some are free and open source such as Google+ Hangouts. Online tutoring may be offered either via a link in an LMS, or directly through the tutoring service's platform, where a subscriber may be required to pay for tutoring time before the delivery of service. Many educational institutions and major textbook publishers sponsor a certain amount of tutoring without a direct charge to the learner.
Tutoring may take the form of a group of learners simultaneously logged in online, then receiving instruction from a single tutor, also known as many-to-one tutoring and live online tutoring. This is often known as e-moderation, defined as the facilitation of the achievement of goals of independent learning, learner autonomy, self-reflection, knowledge construction, collaborative or group-based learning, online discussion, transformative learning and communities of practice. These functions of moderation are based on constructivist or social-constructivist principles of learning.
Another form of tutoring, called peer tutoring, connects peers, such as recent or fellow students within a course or subject, tutoring each other, and this may also be conducted as online tutoring over an online conferencing interface.
Most commonly, however, individual learners or their parents either purchase tutoring time with a private vendor of online tutoring service. Such time may also be made available through the purchase of a book, access to a library, a textbook publisher, or enrollment in a particular school or school system. This is known as one-on-one tutoring.
Asynchronous online tutoring is tutoring offered in a format in which the learner submits a question and the tutor responds at a later time. This is appropriate to detailed review of writing, for instance. It also enables cautiou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatness%20Achieved | "Greatness Achieved" is the 66th episode of the American television series Prison Break and was broadcast on November 3, 2008 in the United States on the Fox Network. In this episode Michael, Lincoln, Sucre and Bellick tunnel into the Company's headquarters. Gretchen meets with The General. Michael's condition continues to deteriorate. The police question T-Bag regarding Andrew's disappearance. Wyatt propositions Sara while Mahone awaits his shot at his son's killer.
Plot
At the warehouse
At the warehouse, Agent Self, Mahone, and Sara are deciding what to do with Wyatt. Self figures out a way to record Wyatt's voice onto a recorder and edit it to send a message to General Krantz that Lincoln and Michael are dead. The General believes the message, when Gretchen breaks into his office at this time and puts a gun on him. The General says that he wants Gretchen to work for him once again and that everything that happened was all part of his plan. Gretchen apparently complies, and hears about Scylla being moved. After the message from Wyatt goes out to the General, Self and Sara leave the warehouse so that Mahone can be alone with Wyatt. Mahone begins to torture him in revenge for the death of his son. Threatening further torture, Mahone forces Wyatt to call Pam and apologize for killing their son, realizing Wyatt now has an epiphany for the misdeed he's done. Mahone then takes Wyatt out to the harbour with a cinder block tied to his arms. Wyatt says, "You and I are the same Alex...I've done things-" but Mahone ignores him and pushes him into the water mid-sentence.
At GATE
Back at GATE Corporation, T-Bag's boss returns from his trip and discovers that T-Bag's co-worker Andrew is missing. He calls the police and a detective comes and asks T-Bag questions about Andrew and his relationship with him. After running out of options, T-Bag pulls his own falsified records and presents them to his boss as Andrew's, stating that Andrew's sales records are falsified and that it could cause a lot of trouble for the company if investigated. This makes his boss call off the investigation and T-Bag's involvement in Andrew's murder is covered up.
Beneath GATE
Michael, Lincoln, Sucre, and Bellick follow the blueprints from the bird book underneath GATE Corporation that leads them to a main water conduit. After failing to dig underneath the pipe, they decide to tunnel through it and into the Company headquarters. While Lincoln and Bellick are sabotaging the water main, Michael begins having severe health problems and Sucre is forced to cut into the water main on his own. Lincoln and Bellick return to place a pipe through the tunnel just before the water is turned back on. However, the pipe slips, and Bellick, knowing what the end result will be, decides to jump into the conduit. With Bellick hoisting the pipe from the inside of the water main, the pipe is successfully installed, but thus Bellick traps himself inside and subsequently sacrifices h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20%28Prison%20Break%29 | "The Legend" is the 67th episode of the American television series Prison Break and was broadcast on November 10, 2008 in the United States on the Fox Network.
Plot
The team members are angered when they find out that Agent Self is refusing to return Bellick's body to his mother. Sucre attacks him and Mahone threatens to call off the operation to uncover Scylla if Self goes back on his word. Self reluctantly agrees but warns Sucre to never attack him again or risk death. Michael and Self meet with Gretchen, who gives them the remaining pages from the bird book and lets them know that Scylla is being moved to a bunker in Pennsylvania the following day. Contrary to Lisa's wishes, the General wants to call in someone named David Baker to assist with moving Scylla. Michael and Mahone uncover a code and figure out that David Baker is the one who wrote the code and the blueprints in Whistler's bird book; to fully decipher it, they're going to need David Baker.
At GATE, Trishanne gives T-Bag Gretchen's fingerprints and background info from the California Highway Patrol. When she mentions Whistler's name to him, he immediately becomes suspicious of her, wondering how she could possibly know who he is. However, T-Bag runs into a bigger problem when he is asked by his boss to step in on a major presentation. Later that day, it turns out that Trishanne works with Homeland Security; she turns up to tell Self that she screwed up when she mentioned Whistler in front of T-Bag.
At the warehouse, Michael collapses again, forcing Sara to rush him to the hospital under fake identities. Michael is brought in for a CT scan as Sara patiently waits outside. In Michael's absence, Mahone heads to David Baker's house and is let in after he mentions Scylla. In the GATE basement, Lincoln and Sucre are looking for a way into the Company headquarters when Sucre accidentally steps on a trigger, possibly a land mine, which starts beeping. If he moves, it may go off and harm them both. At David Baker's house, after enquiring about Baker's model of a self-sufficient city comparable to the real-world Venus Project, Mahone is probed on his involvement with the Company, thereby betraying his purpose at the house while Baker insists that he has cut all ties to the Company. Back at GATE, T-Bag begins to deliver a much-practiced speech in front of potential clients, before breaking into a passionate, half-true speech about how he volunteered in prison and was friends with a CO named Brad, in honour of Bellick's memory.
The hospital is looking to admit Michael but he refuses treatment. Sara asks Michael to reconsider, but both are spooked when they spot the police in the hospital and hurriedly leave, asking the doctor to call back with the test results later. Meanwhile, agents from The Company barge into David Baker's house as Mahone is begging Baker for help. Mahone tries to take a call from Lincoln before hanging up as he spots the Company agents approaching; he h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLGN | WLGN (1510 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. It is licensed to Logan, Ohio, United States. The station is owned by Wlgn, LLC and features programming from the True Oldies Channel.
The station also broadcasts at 103.3 FM from translator W277CX.
WLGN is an affiliate of the Floydian Slip syndicated Pink Floyd program.
References
External links
LGN
LGN
Radio stations established in 1967
1967 establishments in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dukes%20of%20Hazzard%20%28video%20game%29 | The Dukes of Hazzard is a 1984 racing video game developed and published by Coleco for their ColecoVision game console and Coleco Adam computer. Elite Systems released a different game with the same title for the ZX Spectrum computer on February 23, 1985. Both versions are based on the television series of the same name.
Atari had previously made two separate attempts to release an Atari 2600 video game based on the series, but both versions failed to materialize.
Gameplay
In the Coleco version, the player controls the General Lee and must drive through Hazzard County. The game's premise concerns Daisy Duke, who has been abducted by Jeremiah Stinge. The player's goal is to catch Stinge, by passing his blue car, while avoiding Boss Hogg. The game ends if the player is stopped by Boss Hogg or if the player wrecks the General Lee. The game requires that the player drive at a perfect speed; driving too slow results in the player being caught by Hogg, while driving too fast can result in a vehicle collision with oncoming traffic. A rear-view mirror provides the player with a way to look out for Hogg. The player must also avoid obstacles such as oil slicks and damaged bridges. The game makes use of the ColecoVision's Expansion Module #2 steering wheel/pedal peripheral, and additionally requires that the player shift gears.
The ZX Spectrum version uses a different premise: Boss Hogg threatens to seize the General Lee as collateral unless Bo Duke and Luke Duke can provide $5,000 owed to him. Bo and Luke enter the Annual Hazzard County Cross Country Road Race, hoping to win the first-place prize of $5,000, but Hogg and the Hazzard County police attempt to halt their efforts. The game is played as a continuously scrolling roadway, with the General Lee travelling from left to right. Controlling the General Lee, the player can change lanes and speed. Enemy vehicles can be avoided or destroyed by the player using dynamite sticks. However, Daisy and her Jeep must not be destroyed. Other enemies include helicopters.
Development
The Coleco version was announced in January 1984, at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Dukes of Hazzard was one of only five games to utilize the ColecoVision's Expansion Module #2. Lawrence Schick worked as a designer on the Coleco version. Jennell Jaquays also worked as a designer on the Coleco version; Jaquays referred to it as one of the games that "didn't do what we had hoped," saying it was "a license we were stuck with and did what we could with it." The ZX Spectrum version was developed to feature nearly 100 different animated frames of the General Lee.
Reception
Jeff Silva of Expandable Computer News, who rated the Coleco version 7 out of 10, praised the sound and graphics, and wrote that the game, "in its simplicity, captures perfectly the one-dimensional themes of the original TV show. It is difficult at first because shifting is much like shifting a manual transmission, so it takes a while to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Hendrix | Gary Grant Hendrix (born May 14, 1948) is an American businessman who founded Symantec Corporation, an international corporation which produces computer software, particularly in the fields of information management and antivirus software.
Education
Hendrix obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas in May 1970 and then received his master's degree from the same institution in December 1970. Hendrix decided to study in the artificial intelligence field as Advanced Research Projects Agency announced a series of funding for six projects in natural language understanding in 1970. In January 1971, Hendrix enrolled in the PhD program at the University of Texas and was assigned Robert Simmons as his adviser. He completed his dissertation in 1975.
Career
While at the University of Texas, Hendrix published several papers on robotics and planning, which several people from SRI International read. This led to an invitation for him to work at SRI, which he accepted and subsequently moved to Menlo Park, California. After several years at SRI, he left with fifteen SRI employees to form Machine Intelligence Corporation, which ultimately failed.
Afterward, Hendrix founded Symantec Corporation in 1982 with the help of a National Science Foundation grant. The company was originally focused on artificial intelligence-related projects, and Hendrix hired several Stanford University natural language processing researchers as the company's first employees. To finance the company, Hendrix went to an American Electronics Association financial conference in Monterey, California in May 1983. After demonstrating their product on an early Apple computer, businesses became interested in obtaining their product. Hendrix left the company in 1991 and moved to Dripping Springs, Texas.
References
Living people
Businesspeople in software
Gen Digital people
University of Texas at Austin alumni
People from Menlo Park, California
SRI International people
1948 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured%20support%20vector%20machine | The structured support-vector machine is a machine learning algorithm that generalizes the Support-Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. Whereas the SVM classifier supports binary classification, multiclass classification and regression, the structured SVM allows training of a classifier for general structured output labels.
As an example, a sample instance might be a natural language sentence, and the output label is an annotated parse tree. Training a classifier consists of showing pairs of correct sample and output label pairs. After training, the structured SVM model allows one to predict for new sample instances the corresponding output label; that is, given a natural language sentence, the classifier can produce the most likely parse tree.
Training
For a set of training instances , from a sample space and label space , the structured SVM minimizes the following regularized risk function.
The function is convex in because the maximum of a set of affine functions is convex. The function measures a distance in label space and is an arbitrary function (not necessarily a metric) satisfying and . The function is a feature function, extracting some feature vector from a given sample and label. The design of this function depends very much on the application.
Because the regularized risk function above is non-differentiable, it is often reformulated in terms of a quadratic program by introducing one slack variable for each sample, each representing the value of the maximum. The standard structured SVM primal formulation is given as follows.
Inference
At test time, only a sample is known, and a prediction function maps it to a predicted label from the label space . For structured SVMs, given the vector obtained from training, the prediction function is the following.
Therefore, the maximizer over the label space is the predicted label. Solving for this maximizer is the so-called inference problem and similar to making a maximum a-posteriori (MAP) prediction in probabilistic models. Depending on the structure of the function , solving for the maximizer can be a hard problem.
Separation
The above quadratic program involves a very large, possibly infinite number of linear inequality constraints. In general, the number of inequalities is too large to be optimized over explicitly. Instead the problem is solved by using delayed constraint generation where only a finite and small subset of the constraints is used. Optimizing over a subset of the constraints enlarges the feasible set and will yield a solution that provides a lower bound on the objective. To test whether the solution violates constraints of the complete set inequalities, a separation problem needs to be solved. As the inequalities decompose over the samples, for each sample the following problem needs to be solved.
The right hand side objective to be maximized is composed of the constant and a term dependent on the variables optimized over, namely . If |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn%208-Eighty-Eight%20Sedan | The Auburn 8-Eighty-Eight sedan is an automobile that was manufactured by Auburn of Auburn, Indiana.
Auburn 8-Eighty-Eight Sedan specifications (1926 data)
Color – Blue or moleskin two-tone lacquer
Seating Capacity – Five
Wheelbase – 129 inches
Wheels – Wood wheels standard
Tires – 30” x 5.77” balloon
Service Brakes – Contracting on rear wheels; expanding on front wheels
Emergency Brakes – Contracting on propeller shaft
Engine – Eight-cylinder, vertical, cast en bloc, 3-1/8 x 4-1/4 inches; head removable; valves inside; H.P. 31.25, N.A.C.C. rating
Lubrication – Full force feed – regulated to opening and closing of throttle, not by speed of motor
Crankshaft – Five bearing
Radiator – Cellular
Cooling – Water pump
Ignition – Storage battery
Starting System – Two Unit
Voltage – Six
Wiring System – Single
Gasoline System – Vacuum
Clutch – Long clutch
Transmission – Selective sliding
Gear Changes – 3 forward, 1 reverse
Drive – Spiral bevel
Rear Springs – Semi-elliptic
Rear Axle – Semi-floating
Steering Gear – Cam and lever; variable ratio
Standard equipment
New car price included the following items:
tools
jack
speedometer
ammeter
electric horn
demountable rims
cowl ventilator
headlight dimmer
closed cars have heater and dome light
Optional equipment
The following was available at an extra cost:
Spoke wheels
Prices
New car prices were available F.O.B. factory plus tax on the following models:
Five Passenger Sedan - $1795
Five Passenger Four Door Brougham - $1595
Six Passenger Roadster - $1495
See also
Auburn Automobile
References
Source:
Cars of the United States
1920s cars
Sedans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic451 | Mosaic451 LLC provides custom-built cyber security management, detection and response services for the high-risk, highly regulated global enterprise. Their core competency is security OT and IT environments for energy, transportation, manufacturing, government and finance.
The company's headquarters are located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona with regional offices located in Las Vegas, Nevada and Portland, Oregon. The company has been quickly growing since 2011 and featured on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies since 2016.
Mosaic451 has also been the recipient of the Channel Company's CRN Fast Growth 150, Tech Elite 250 and the Managed Services 500 for the past two years.
History
Michael Baker, former CTO & founder of Torrey Point, along with Cat Baker founded Mosaic451 in 2011 to provide cyber security services to public and private companies. In 2014 it opened its first remote SOC and NOC outside of the Las Vegas area. In 2015 the company completed construction of a new SOC facility in Downtown Phoenix, Arizona.
In April 2023, Mosaic451 was combined with Metmox, Stage 2 Security, and W@tchTower to create UltraViolet Cyber to provide both managed and custom unified security operations solutions to enterprise and government customers.
References
External links
Official website
Companies based in Phoenix, Arizona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius%20Genealogy%20Compilation%20Committee | The Confucius Genealogy Compilation Committee (孔子世家谱续修工作协会) is responsible for collecting, collating and publishing the 2,500 years' worth of genealogical data associated with Confucius. The fifth edition of the Confucius genealogy was printed in September 2009. The collecting and collating of the fifth edition started in 1998, when Kong Deyong, a 77th-generation descendant, established the committee in Hong Kong. The last major previous publication of the Confucius genealogy was in 1930.
See also
Family tree of Confucius in the main line of descent
:zh:孔子世家谱
References
1998 establishments in Hong Kong
Confucius
Genealogical societies
Organizations established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/// | The two slashes // may indicate:
a comment in several programming languages including C, C++, JavaScript and Java
the root directory path in Domain/OS
the operator for integer division, in Python 2.2+ and other programming languages
the empty pattern in Perl, which evaluates the last successfully matched regular expression
the logical defined-or operator in Perl, called the null coalescing operator in other programming languages
the authority indicator in the URI scheme, which follows a colon (://) from the scheme component
the descendant-or-self axis specifier in XPath
an emoticon symbolizing blushing or embarrassment
an empty segment of a file path
a double vertical bar (||) where the vertical line character is unavailable for technical reasons
the parallel operator stylized in pseudo-italics
a caesura in musical notation
Text enclosed by two slashes / / may represent:
Broad phonetic transcription
Italic type in computer files or communications that do not support rich text
Subforums or imageboards when referred to by URL path segment
See also
Slash (punctuation)
Backslash
/\ (disambiguation)
/r/ (disambiguation)
\/ (disambiguation)
\\ (disambiguation)
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Wizards%20of%20the%20Coast%20products | This list of Wizards of the Coast products includes games and other products published by Wizards of the Coast as an independent developer and publisher, and any of its subsidiaries, its computer and video game divisions, and later as a brand of Hasbro.
Games and products
Board games
A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules.
Axis & Allies (Revised Edition), as well as D-Day, Europe, Pacific, and Battle of the Bulge spinoffs
Betrayal at House on the Hill
Diplomacy
Lords of Waterdeep
Monsters Menace America
Magic the Gathering: Arena of the Planeswalkers
Nexus Ops
Risk 2210 A.D. and Risk Godstorm
RoboRally
Vegas Showdown
Collectible card games
BattleTech Trading Card Game
C-23
Codename: Kids Next Door Trading Card Game
Duel Masters Trading Card Game
Dune
Harry Potter Trading Card Game
Hecatomb
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Magic: The Gathering
MLB Showdown
NBA Showdown
Neopets Trading Card Game
Netrunner
NFL Showdown
Pokémon Trading Card Game (publishing right transferred back to Nintendo in 2003)
The Simpsons Trading Card Game
Star Sisterz
Star Wars: The Trading Card Game
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (previously Jyhad)
WCW NITRO Trading Card Game
Xena: Warrior Princess
Xiaolin Showdown Trading Card Game
Miniature games
Axis & Allies Miniatures
Dreamblade
Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Game
Star Wars Miniatures
Heroscape
Online games
Magic: The Gathering Online
Magic Duels
Magic: The Gathering Arena
Role-playing games and supplements
Alternity (defunct line, acquired in the TSR buyout)
Ars Magica 3rd edition supplements only.
d20 Modern
d20 system
Dungeons & Dragons (acquired in the TSR buyout)
Everway
Gamma World
Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game (acquired in the TSR buyout)
Star Wars Roleplaying Game
The Primal Order
Wizards of the Coast drafted the Open Game License used by Open Gaming Foundation and the d20 system.
Standalone card games
Alpha Blitz
Filthy Rich (game)
Guillotine
Pivot
The Great Dalmuti and Corporate Shuffle (a Dilbert-themed edition; it is not functionally identical, however. See The Great Dalmuti for detail on the differences.)
Three-Dragon Ante
Fantasy novel series
Wizards of the Coast also publishes many fantasy novel series based on its other game products. Some of these are now out-of-print.
Dragonlance
Eberron
Forgotten Realms
Greyhawk
Legend of the Five Rings
Magic: The Gathering (since 1998)
Planescape
Ravenloft
Wizards also has a juvenile publishing imprint, Mirrorstone Books, which has produced books for StarSisterz, Dragonlance: The New Adventures and Knights of the Silver Dragon.
References
Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast products
Wizards of the Coast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMPI | CMPI may refer to:
Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, a research group
Common Manageability Programming Interface, an open standard in computer programming
Community Master Patient Index, a synonym in healthcare industries for Enterprise master patient index
Cow's Milk Protein Intolerance, see Cow's milk protein allergy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet%20Riot%20%28Prison%20Break%29 | "Quiet Riot" is the 68th episode of the American television series Prison Break. It was broadcast on November 17, 2008 in the United States on the Fox Network. In this episode, the team finally breaks into the Scylla room in the Company headquarters.
Plot
Michael Scofield and the team race against time trying to devise a plan to steal Scylla, as the Company will move Scylla to an unknown location on that same day. Michael, however, continues to suffer from his deteriorating health, and the team is forced to carry out the plan as Michael reluctantly agrees to have surgery that day. To reach Scylla, they must break through a concrete wall and a glass wall, without making any noise, changing the room temperature, or touching the floor.
Meanwhile, Gretchen dresses up to seduce the General and steal the sixth card that is necessary to decode Scylla. Having personally trained her, the General realizes that she is lying and threatens to kill her. Gretchen pleads with him, mentioning her daughter, whose father is supposedly the General. The General lets Gretchen go but tells her if he ever sees her again, he'll kill her.
T-Bag suddenly shows reluctance in continuing with the Scylla business, as he now has a respectable job and a comfortable life as Cole Pfeiffer. However, he forces himself to refuse his boss to go on a complementary cruise trip, as it leaves that same day. Mr. Xing barges into GATE again and demands Scylla, but Gretchen again promises him to deliver and asks for his help.
Even though Gretchen fails to steal the sixth card, Michael and his team proceed to steal Scylla. Michael, from a sense of guilt of leaving others in peril, changes his mind and postpones his surgery, joining the team after getting some injections from Sara. Via the underground from GATE to the Company headquarters, Michael, Lincoln, Sucre, and Mahone reach the concrete wall. They manage to break through with slow drilling, some umbrellas to catch the falling debris inside, and electromagnets to disrupt the steel linings inside the wall so that it can be dug silently.
Trishanne, T-Bag's assistant, listens to a call between T-Bag and Gretchen and alerts Agent Self. Don Self and Trishanne raid the address mentioned in the call, but end up in the hands of Mr. Xing after they are set up by Gretchen and T-Bag. Gretchen and T-Bag prepare to take Scylla for themselves once Michael and his team successfully retrieve Scylla.
In silence, Sucre assembles a ladder above the floor, one rung at a time, to traverse the alarm-rigged floor and reach the glass wall. To fool the temperature sensor, he releases liquid nitrogen inside the room. Sucre loses balance when the ladder shakes, but manages to grab the falling liquid nitrogen container and makes it back up. After tense moments, Sucre finishes the ladder to the glass wall. Although suffering from occasional pain, Michael crosses the ladder and makes a hole on the glass. As he approaches Scylla and places his hands upon it, a s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tele-information%20services | Tele-information services are based on an alliance of digital telecommunication and computer technology that play an important role in inter-human communications. It is a classification of information flows broken down so that the presentation and information content are not confused with the character of the information flow. Tele-information services consist of four definable information traffic patterns being allocution, conversation, consultation and registration. These information traffic patterns can be combined to form more complex multi-pattern services and networks made up of any number of information traffic patterns.
Information traffic patterns
Allocution — the issue of information by an information service centre under programmatic control of the centre itself. Typically has a general/soldier, master/slave relationship. Examples include broadcasting organisations such as radio and television.
Conversation — the issue of information by information services consumer(s) under programmatic control of the consumer(s) themselves. Examples include information flow between consumers or with the help of an interpreter.
Consultation — the issue of information by an information service provider under programmatic control of an information service consumer. Examples include phoning a doctor, lawyer, reading books, magazines and newspapers as well as cable television and the Internet.
Registration — the issue of information by an information service consumer under the programmatic control of an information service centre. Examples include a fire alarm, news agencies and some MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) such as World of Warcraft.
References
Telecommunication services
Information |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seelaratna%20Senarath | Seelaratna Senarath (born September 2, 1944) is the director programming of CRI Sri Lanka. He is a commercial program announcer of Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and former director editorial of Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. He is also the incumbent chairman of State Radio Advisory Board of Arts Council of Sri Lanka.
Teaching career
Seelaratna Senarath began his career as a trained teacher after graduating from the Teachers' Training College in Giragama. He served in several areas in Sri Lanka including Ampara District, Batticaloa District and Gampaha District before he joined as the media adviser at Mahaweli Center in the late 1980s.
Journalist career
He was the media secretary to Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka former prime minister of Sri Lanka (2005-2010) and Mahinda Rajapaksa former opposition leader of Sri Lanka (2002-2004). He served as a 'language expert' and 'advisory broadcaster' at the Sinhala Service of China Radio International during 2003-2005) in Beijing, China. He was a freelance broadcaster at Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and also in various radio-dramas. He did several television programs as well such as 'Shanida Ayubowan', 'Shanida Wasanawa Ganitha Getaluwa'.
In November 2013, the Sri Lankan expatriate association in Melbourne Australia 'Mihindu Lama Padanama' felicitated Mr. Senarath for the lifetime contribution he made for the media industry in Sri Lanka.
In April 2014, he represented Sri Lanka at the Heads of Media Institutions Roundtable of Boao Forum for Asia.
He was appointed as the chairman of State Radio Advisory Board in February 2020
The novel "Ada Mahattaya" written by journalist Ashoka Piyaratne reflecting the real life experience of Seelaratna Senarath when he served as the headmaster of a remote village school in Sippimaduwa, Batticaloa District during late 1970s was launched on 6 October 2016.
A book titled ‘Mata Den Hathalihai’ (Now I'm forty), comprising Seelaratna Senarath's experiences in the media, written by journalist Ashoka Piyaratne, launched on 1 November 2018 at the Western Province Aesthetic Resort, Colombo 7, under the patronage of Uruwarige Vannila Aththo, the leader of the indigenous community.
The book launch marked Senarath's 40th year in the profession of journalism and the media field.
Senarath received 'Kalabhooshana' state honours at the 34th Kalabhooshana State Awards 2018 held on 29 January 2019 at Nelum Pokuna Theater under the patronage of the President of Sri Lanka Maithreepala Sirisena.
References
1944 births
Living people
Sinhalese people
Sri Lankan Buddhists
Sri Lankan journalists
Sri Lankan radio personalities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden%20Dealer%20Racing%20Team | The Holden Dealer Racing Team was an Australian motor racing team, covertly backed by General Motors-Holden's through their dealer network so as to get around GM's worldwide ban on the company being involved in motorsport. The HDRT contested the 1968 Hardie-Ferodo 500 endurance race at the Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, as well as the 1968 London-Sydney Marathon using GMH's latest car, the Holden HK Monaro.
Although short-lived, this team was significant as the precursor to a permanent Holden Dealer Team set up the following year which then played a dominant role in Australian touring car racing over the next two decades.
1968 London–Sydney Marathon
In early 1968, the Holden Dealer Racing Team was set up by David McKay, who already ran the Scuderia Veloce race team in various forms of motor sport in Australia. A motoring journalist with Sydney's Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers (both of which were owned by Sir Frank Packer), McKay learned of the upcoming London–Sydney Marathon which was sponsored by race organiser Sir Max Aitken and his UK newspaper, the Daily Express. The marathon would begin on 24 November in Crystal Palace in London, and finish on 18 December at the Warwick Farm Raceway in Sydney.
McKay convinced his own editor David McNicoll and Telegraph owner Packer to get involved in the event, which they did with co-sponsorship (it reportedly took less than 5 minutes to convince the astute Packer). McKay also convinced GMH to get involved by supplying him with three of the yet to be released Holden Monaros in which to run in the event. Contrary to popular belief at the time, the Monaros were actually prepared for the 7,000 mi Marathon that would travel through eleven countries by GMH under the supervision of its Sales Director John Bagshaw and chief engineer Bill Steinhagen, and not by Scuderia Veloce. Also, the cars would not be entered under the name of Scuderia Veloce or the Holden Dealer Racing Team, but instead were entered in the event under the name of their major sponsor, The Sydney Telegraph, with the words "Sydney Telegraph Racing" prominently painted on the side of the cars.
While the team did not feature strongly in the results due to mechanical woes, the team's second car driven by leading Australian Rally Championship driver Barry Ferguson finished 12th outright, while the 3rd car driven by triple Australian Grand Prix winner Doug Whiteford finished 14th. The Monaro driven by team leader David McKay failed to finish the marathon. McKay's Monaro was rolled over while competing a rally section near Broken Hill, NSW, hospitalising one of the crew. This disqualified it from the rally. A new windscreen was fitted and was driven straight to Sydney allowing McKay to watch the finish.
1968 Hardie-Ferodo 500
The day following the official launch of the Monaro on the Gold Coast, prominent Melbourne based Holden dealer and former racer Bill Patterson reportedly asked McKay (who was on the Gold Coast covering the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided%20optimization | Profile-guided optimization (PGO, sometimes pronounced as pogo), also known as profile-directed feedback (PDF), and feedback-directed optimization (FDO) is a compiler optimization technique in computer programming that uses profiling to improve program runtime performance.
Method
Optimization techniques based on static program analysis of the source code consider code performance improvements without actually executing the program. No dynamic program analysis is performed. The analysis may even consider code within loops including the number of times the loop will execute, for example in loop unrolling. In the absence of all the run time information, static program analysis can not take into account how frequently that code section is actually executed.
The first high-level compiler, introduced as the Fortran Automatic Coding System in 1957, broke the code into blocks and devised a table of the frequency each block is executed via a simulated execution of the code in a Monte Carlo fashion in which the outcome of conditional transfers (as via IF-type statements) is determined by a random number generator suitably weighted by whatever FREQUENCY statements were provided by the programmer.
Rather than programmer-supplied frequency information, profile-guided optimization uses the results of profiling test runs of the instrumented program to optimize the final generated code.
The compiler accesses profile data from a sample run of the program across a representative input set. The results indicate which areas of the program are executed more frequently, and which areas are executed less frequently. All optimizations benefit from profile-guided feedback because they are less reliant on heuristics when making compilation decisions. The caveat, however, is that the sample of data fed to the program during the profiling stage must be statistically representative of the typical usage scenarios; otherwise, profile-guided feedback has the potential to harm the overall performance of the final build instead of improving it.
Just-in-time compilation can make use of runtime information to dynamically recompile parts of the executed code to generate a more efficient native code. If the dynamic profile changes during execution, it can deoptimize the previous native code, and generate a new code optimized with the information from the new profile.
Adoption
There is support for building Firefox using PGO. Even though PGO is effective, it has not been widely adopted by software projects, due to its tedious dual-compilation model. It is also possible to perform PGO without instrumentation by collecting a profile using hardware performance counters. This sampling-based approach has a much lower overhead and does not require a special compilation.
The HotSpot Java virtual machine (JVM) uses profile-guided optimization to dynamically generate native code. As a consequence, a software binary is optimized for the actual load it is receiving. If the load changes, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landin | Landin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Peter J. Landin (1930–2009), British computer scientist
Mark Landin, municipality in Brandenburg, Germany
Niklas Landin Jacobsen (born 1988), Danish handballer
Luis Ángel Landín (born 1985), Mexican footballer
See also
Landing (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVM%C3%A1s | TVMás (call sign XHCPEO-TDT) is the state-owned public broadcaster serving the Mexican state of Veracruz. It and Radiomás, a statewide radio network, are operated by the public agency Radiotelevisión de Veracruz, which is based in the state capital of Xalapa.
History
After receiving its permit on October 23, 1978, XHGV-TV channel 4 signed on January 6, 1980, with a formal inauguration by President José López Portillo. It was operated by the Secretariat of Education and Culture and was the first noncommercial regional television station in the country. It was known from the start as Canal 4 Más, owing to the analog station's plus offset. Initial programming focused on educational, informational and entertainment programs. The new station boasted a transmitter on Cerro de las Lajas and studios on Cerro de la Galaxia in the state capital of Xalapa.
It is the sister to the Radiomás state radio network, which was created in 2000.
The concession of XHGV-TDT expired without a properly filed renewal on December 31, 2021. A new concession for XHCPEO-TDT on the same channel was approved before the end of 2021, but due to technical adjustments and notification issues, the transmitter was temporarily shut down at the start of 2022. All of the remaining concessions were consolidated into this concession in an action approved by the Federal Telecommunications Institute on October 26, 2022.
Transmitters
TVMás is broadcast by a total of five authorized transmitters located throughout Veracruz:
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XHGV, XHVCA, XHGVC (analog 21) and XHZOT became digital-only in December 2015. Four other stations, with transmitters at Huayacocotla, Ixhuatlán de Madero, Orizaba and San Andrés Tuxtla, were granted a one-year extension to remain in analog until 2016 and then had their concessions surrendered in August 2017, having never converted. A new transmitter to replace the Orizaba analog transmitter was approved by the IFT in February 2023.
TVMÁS is also available continent-wide on SATMEX 6 C-band satellite (4068.5 MHz, V, 9.5 Mbit/s, DVB-S).
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Public television in Mexico
Television channels and stations established in 1999
Television stations in Veracruz
1999 establishments in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen%20Mobile | Yemen Mobile is a CDMA 2000 network provider founded in Yemen in 2004 by the Yemen ministry of telecommunication and it is the first CDMA network operator in the Middle East. Yemen Mobile CDMA system is based on the HUAWEI Technologies. According to the 3GPP2 standard, CDMA 2000 system is fully compatible with IS-95 cellular phones, so it is normal that any IS-95 phone is supported by Yemen mobile. In 2012, Yemen mobile implemented ZTE network beside Huawei network as well as using LG-Nortel network in some eastern parts of the country. Yemen Mobile is the first 3G company in Yemen that provides CDMA 20001x and EVDO services. Yemen mobile was established in 2004 as a third wireless operator in Yemen and initially provided the circuit switch services beside to packet switch services which enable its customers to use data services and the Internet at a speed of 153 kbit/s as a maximum rate by implementing CDMA20001x which is 2.5G technology according to 3GPP2 standard. By 2007, it had become a corporation company and jumped to the top of mobile operators in the country in term of subscribers number and coverage.
Beginning in January 2021, Yemen Mobile became the first mobile network operator in Yemen to provide 4G LTE internet. In the end of 2022 Yemen mobile became the biggest telecom company according to the number of subscribers in Yemen. It had 10 million subscriber in total.
See also
MTN Group, GSM provider in Yemen, previously known as Spacetel and currently known as YOU.
Sabafon, GSM provider in Yemen.
References
External links
Yemen Mobile website
PDF file from HUAWEI, the China CDMA manufacturer and provider
Telecommunications companies of Yemen
Mobile phone companies of Yemen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema%20Michoacano%20de%20Radio%20y%20Televisi%C3%B3n | The Sistema Michoacano de Radio y Televisión (Michoacán State Radio and Television System or SMRTV) is the public broadcaster of the Mexican state of Michoacán. It includes statewide FM and TV networks, as well as an AM radio station in the state capital of Morelia. SMRTV's programming primarily consists of scientific, cultural and educational content, along with news and sports coverage.
Television
Programming
SMRTV's television network includes its own productions as well as programs from other public broadcasters, such as Canal Once's Once Noticias. Canal 22 and Deutsche Welle are also among SMRTV's major program suppliers.
SMRTV also produces two daily editions of "SM Noticias", which are carried on AM, FM and TV.
Transmitters
SMRTV uses a network of terrestrial television transmitters to provide statewide coverage.
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While all stations hold authorizations for digital television, none were on the air as of late 2015; several stations reduced power in order to qualify for an extension of one year to build digital facilities. SMRTV digital transmitters use virtual channel 16.
The Huetamo transmitter was authorized in January 2017.
In March 2018, in order to facilitate the repacking of TV services out of the 600 MHz band (channels 38-51), XHPMG (22) and XHMOR (14) were assigned new channels for continued digital operations.
FM radio
The state FM network is headed by XHREL-FM 106.9 in Morelia. Its program schedule is largely musical, with the exception of SMRTV news programs and one program from MVS Radio.
Transmitters
12 transmitters offer statewide FM service.
AM radio
XEREL-AM 1550 in Morelia broadcasts an alternate program schedule to FM, with agricultural news, programs directed at the Morelia area and some music. The station operates with one kilowatt of power.
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External links
Public television in Mexico
Public radio in Mexico
Mass media in Morelia
Radio stations in Michoacán
Spanish-language radio stations
Television stations in Michoacán |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width%20space | The zero-width space , abbreviated ZWSP, is a non-printing character used in computerized typesetting to indicate word boundaries to text-processing systems for scripts that do not use explicit spacing, or after characters not followed by a visible space after which there may be a line break.
Purpose
The zero-width space marks a potential line break without hyphenation; for hyphenated line breaks, a soft hyphen is used. The zero-width space can be used to mark word breaks in languages without visible space between words, such as Thai, Myanmar, Khmer, and Japanese.
Unlike fixed-width spaces, in justified text that increases spacing between letters, characters adjacent to the zero-width space are spaced as if it was not present.
Example
To show the effect of the zero-width space, the following words have been separated with zero-width spaces:
And the following words are not separated with these spaces:
On browsers supporting zero-width spaces, resizing the window will re-break the first text only at word boundaries, while the second text will not be broken at all.
Usage
HTML
In HTML pages, the HTML element <wbr> functions as a zero-width space. In Internet Explorer 6, the zero-width space was not supported in some fonts.
Prohibition in domain names
ICANN rules prohibit domain names from containing non-displayed characters, including the zero-width space, and most browsers prohibit their use within domain names because they can be used to create a homograph attack, where a malicious URL is visually indistinguishable from a legitimate one.
Encoding
The zero-width space character is encoded in Unicode as , and input in HTML as , or . Contrary to what their names suggest, the character entities ​, ​, ​, and ​ also refer to the zero-width space.
The TeX representation is ; the LaTeX representation is \hspace{0pt}; and the groff representation is \:.
Its semantics and HTML implementation are similar to the soft hyphen, except that soft hyphens display a hyphen character at the point where the line is broken.
See also
Hair space
Whitespace character – including a table comparing various space-like characters
Word divider
Word wrapping
Word joiner (U+2060: ), as well as zero-width no-break space (U+FEFF: )
Zero-width joiner (U+200D: )
Zero-width non-joiner (U+200C: )
References
Citations
Sources
Control characters
Typography
Unicode formatting code points
Whitespace |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfaskop | Alfaskop was a brand, developed in Sweden by Standard Radio & Telefon AB (SRT) and applied to data terminals and later IBM-compatible PCs. The term was also used to name Alfaskop AB, a listed Swedish IT services company., that filed for bankruptcy in 2001.
History
SRT, owned by the ITT Corporation during the 1960s, specialised in Air Traffic Control systems and military radar systems. In 1971, SRT provided the core technology for Stansaab AS, a joint venture with Saab and the state-owned Swedish Development Company. The company's primary focus was systems for real-time data applied to commercial and aviation applications. To this was added the data terminal operations of Facit in 1972.
The Alfaskop terminals quickly gained a foothold in the market for airline reservations with 1,000 in use at Scandinavian Airlines alone.
In 1978, Stansaab was merged with the Data Saab division of Saab to form Datasaab. In 1981, Ericsson, believing that growth in telecoms would be lower than that in IT, purchased Datasaab and integrated it with two of its own divisions to form Ericsson Information Systems (EIS). Accurately predicting convergence between telephony and data technologies, EIS instructed the Alfaskop group to begin working on a design for Ericsson's first PC – the EPC, which was released 16 months later in 1984.
Following market difficulties in the United States, particularly with a disappointing launch of its PC, Ericsson decided to abandon its "paperless office" strategy. In 1988, the division was sold to Nokia and later to ICL in 1990. The final act was its sale by ICL to Wyse Technology who eventually wound down manufacturing.
The Alfaskop range
Due to its work for the aviation industry, one of SRT's core competencies was the display of radar images. It was this expertise that led to the development of the Alfaskop terminal, which was inspired by the launch of IBM's range of display terminals. These terminals made interaction with computers much easier than with earlier punched card or paper tape interfaces. The alphanumeric, 80 character, 24 line terminal quickly became a standard. The Alfaskop terminals were designed to be pin compatible with the IBM equipment. The Alfaskop 3100, the first model, was designed to compete with the IBM 2260, while the later 3500 was developed in response to the IBM 3270. There followed a refreshed 3500 called System 37 followed by a System 41 – a new design. The 3500 series were also produced in Poland under the name MERA 7900.
The first Ericsson PC - the EPC, was released at the CeBit fair in Hanover in 1984. The Ericsson Portable PC followed a year later. In subsequent years, with the growth in demand for IBM-compatible PCs, several Alfaskop PC models were released.
While Ericsson had tried to build its own brand in the PC business, Nokia was willing to trade on the Alfaskop name. By 1989, they were showing the "Alfaskop Workgroup System" comprising 80386-based servers, 80286-based deskto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faye%20Duchin | Faye Duchin (; born 1944) is an American Computer Scientist and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ("RPI"), where she was the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1996 to 2002. She worked in the fields of ecological economics and industrial ecology and employs Input-Output Analysis in her work. Her faculty page at RPI stated that she was "concerned with ways of achieving economic development while avoiding environmental disasters."
Biography
Faye Duchin was raised in Bayonne, New Jersey, attended Cornell University, and received a BA in Experimental Psychology in 1965. In 1973, she completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Berkeley with a dissertation on the newly passed Rent Control law in Berkeley.
From 1977–1996, Duchin was on the faculty at New York University, where she worked for Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief on input-output economics. In 1985, she became Director of the NYU Institute for Economic Analysis, a position she held until 1996 when she left to become Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2002, Duchin resigned as Dean.
Professional affiliations
Duchin served as president of the International Input-Output Association from 2004 to 2006, and is a former Vice President of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE). She is a member of the editorial boards of various journals, including the journal of Industrial Ecology, having held this position since the journal's founding in 1997. was one of the founders and a managing editor of the journal Structural Change and Economic Dynamics,
Scholarly contributions
Duchin has stated that she examines factors that could "make a difference in satisfying major global imperatives." She has examined technological change, lifestyle change, quality of life, income distribution, consumption, international trade, natural resource use and environmental degradation using input-output models. She calls her work "problem-oriented rather than discipline- or technique-oriented" and has used an interdisciplinary approach to study sustainability. She claims to study physical realities and constraints, not just monetary values, by using process and engineering data to model technology and resource use.
Publications
1983: Military Spending: Facts and Figures, Worldwide Implications and Future Outlook with Wassily Leontief
1986: The Future Impact of Automation on Workers with Wassily Leontief
1994: The Future of the Environment: Ecological Economics and Technological Change with Glenn-Marie Lange
1998: Structural Economics: Measuring Change in Technology, Lifestyles, and the Environment
Footnotes
External links
Faye Duchin homepage
Prof. Duchin personal website
1944 births
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty
Living people
Industrial ecology
Ecological economists
Cornell University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteur%20Institute%20of%20Lille | The Pasteur Institute of Lille () is a research centre and member of the Pasteur Institute network.
It includes 14 research units and 1,150 employees including 626 researchers located in Lille, France. There are also 300 employees located outside the Pasteur site. Its revenues are above €70 million. Several neuroscience start-up companies have emerged from the Pasteur Institute of Lille.
Research
Since Louis Pasteur became the dean of the faculty of sciences in Lille in 1854, the research activities of the institute have been associated with University of Lille, CNRS, INSERM (Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France; Institute of Biology of Lille - IBL). It is in its premises that the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis was invented by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin.
Research areas include
Microbiology
Parasitology
Immunology
Cancer, Cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases, Neurodegenerative diseases
Notable students
Patrick Francheterre, French ice hockey player, coach and manager.
See also
Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
References
External links
Website of the Pasteur Institute of Lille
Educational buildings in Lille
Lille
University of Lille Nord de France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SICOM%20Televisi%C3%B3n | SICOM Televisión (virtual channel 16) is the statewide public television network of the Mexican state of Puebla, with transmitters in Puebla City and Zacatlán. It is part of the (State Telecommunications System), which also provides public radio service in the state. Covering a little over 40% of the state (by population), it offers educational, cultural and alternative programming, much of which is locally generated content intended to address the needs, expectations and lives of Pueblan society.
The network has transmitters in Puebla City and Zacatlán.
History
XHPUE-TV channel 26 received its permit in 2003, preceded by four years by the Zacatlán transmitter, originally permitted in 1999 as XHPZL-TV on channel 4. The original five-year permit for the Zacatlán transmitter expired in 2004, but XHPBZC-TDT 11 was not authorized as its replacement until 2017.
XHPUE was licensed for digital and analog transmissions on the same channel 26 in 2014; this made it one of the first two stations with such intermittent authorization, alongside XHMNL-TV in Monterrey. After several tests, it flash-cut to digital in March 2015.
On August 18, 2021, due to the impending expiration of the XHPUE-TDT concession at the end of the year, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) authorized the modification of XHPBZC-TDT's statutory coverage area to include the entire state of Puebla, conditioned on the surrender of the Puebla City concession, which took effect December 3, 2021. At the same time, the recently renamed SET Televisión began using virtual channel 16.
In 2023, the original SICOM name was restored after a state government study found that eight out of ten residents surveyed across 21 municipalities continued to call the state network SICOM despite being out of use for twelve years.
Transmitters
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References
Public television in Mexico
Television channels and stations established in 2003
Mass media in Puebla (city)
2003 establishments in Mexico
Television stations in Puebla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy%20data | Noisy data are data that is corrupted, distorted, or has a low signal-to-noise ratio. Improper procedures (or improperly-documented procedures) to subtract out the noise in data can lead to a false sense of accuracy or false conclusions.
Noisy data are data with a large amount of additional meaningless information in it called noise. This includes data corruption and the term is often used as a synonym for corrupt data. It also includes any data that a user system cannot understand and interpret correctly. Many systems, for example, cannot use unstructured text. Noisy data can adversely affect the results of any data analysis and skew conclusions if not handled properly. Statistical analysis is sometimes used to weed the noise out of noisy data.
Sources of noise
Differences in real-world measured data from the true values come about from by multiple factors affecting the measurement.
Random noise is often a large component of the noise in data. Random noise in a signal is measured as the signal-to-noise ratio. Random noise contains almost equal amounts of a wide range of frequencies, and is also called white noise (as colors of light combine to make white). Random noise is an unavoidable problem. It affects the data collection and data preparation processes, where errors commonly occur. Noise has two main sources: errors introduced by measurement tools and random errors introduced by processing or by experts when the data is gathered.
Improper filtering can add noise if the filtered signal is treated as if it were a directly measured signal. As an example, Convolution-type digital filters such a moving average can have side effects such as lags or truncation of peaks. Differentiating digital filters amplifies random noise in the original data.
Outlier data are data that appear to not belong in the data set. It can be caused by human error such as transposing numerals, mislabeling, programming bugs, etc. If actual outliers are not removed from the data set, they corrupt the results to a small or large degree depending on circumstances. If valid data is identified as an outlier and is mistakenly removed, that also corrupts results.
Fraud: Individuals may deliberately skew data to influence the results toward a desired conclusion. Data that looks good with few outliers reflects well on the individual collecting it, and so there may be incentive to remove more data as outliers or make the data look smoother than it is.
References
Noise
Digital audio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%27s%20Three%20and%20a%20Half | "Ocean's Three and a Half" is the seventh episode of the seventh season of the animated television series Family Guy. It first aired in the United States on the Fox network on February 15, 2009. In the episode, Peter decides to induce his friend Joe Swanson's wife Bonnie into labor so that Joe will be able to spend more time with him. Bonnie gives birth to a baby girl named Susie, but Joe then has trouble with medical bills. Peter, Joe, Cleveland and Quagmire decide to rob Peter's father-in-law, Carter Pewterschmidt. Peter's wife and Pewterschmidt's daughter, Lois, convinces Joe to stop. Lois gets the money from Pewterschmidt by telling him she needs the money for a divorce lawyer. A subplot involves Stewie, who becomes infatuated with Bonnie's daughter Susie.
The title is a spoof of the 1960 heist film Oceans 11 as well as its reboot film series. The episode received a positive overall review on the video game website IGN.
Plot
Frustrated that Joe is growing more concerned that Bonnie is due to give birth within days, Peter attempts to induce labor so Joe will spend more time with him, Cleveland and Quagmire. Peter plays Two and a Half Men near Bonnie, hoping that the baby will come out to change the channel. When Bonnie finally gives birth to her baby, a girl named Susie, Joe is unable to pay the $20,000 he needs for her medical bills. He turns to a loan shark for the money, but ends up in debt to him. Peter and his friends turn to Carter for the money to pay off the loan shark, but Carter refuses as he thinks it would be funnier. In one final act of desperation, Peter decides they should rob Carter. Once they reach the vault, however, Lois arrives on the scene and convinces Joe to stop.
Meanwhile, Stewie falls in love with Susie and attempts to win her heart by writing songs specifically for her. This culminates in making a detailed music video featuring Stewie singing a direct version of Bryan Adams' song "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You".
The episode concludes with the Griffin's eating dinner; Stewie states to Brian that he is over his crush on Susie and now has an interest in Adams himself, and Lois explains to Peter that she talked Carter into providing the money, telling him she was using it for a divorce lawyer. When Peter asks her if she is joking, Lois says nothing, leaving Peter somewhat worried.
Cultural references
Peter calls Christian Bale "that jerk" after encountering him on the set of Terminator Salvation, with a non-sequitur showing a tape machine playing the actual audio with Peter's voice mixed in for comedic effect. The audio includes about two minutes of an actual outburst Bale made on the set of the film, with Peter's comments interspersed throughout. "You are gonna owe a fortune to the swear jar", Peter says in response to the multiple curses from Bale. He also tells Bale: "I don't get why we need another Terminator." This scene however, was dropped from all subsequent broadcasts of the episode and was never in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUPERAntiSpyware | SUPERAntiSpyware is a software application which can detect and remove spyware, adware, trojan horses, rogue security software, computer worms, rootkits, parasites and other potentially harmful software applications. Although it can detect various types of malware, SUPERAntiSpyware is not designed to replace antivirus software.
Details
SUPERAntiSpyware's virus definitions are updated several times a week and generally receive a build update once a month. The company claims that it is specifically designed to be compatible with other security applications, and can, therefore, be used even when other applications are incompatible with other anti-spyware products.
The product is available as freeware for personal use with limited functions.
Reception
In 2011, SUPERAntiSpyware received a "DISMAL" rating from PC Magazine, which complained that it had no real-time protection and the lowest detection rate and lowest score in a malware removal test. Both the freeware and commercial version received a 4 out of 5 star average user rating on CNET's Download.com website.
Acquisition
On 16 July 2011, SUPERAntiSpyware was acquired by Support.com. The transaction was structured as an acquisition of assets with a cash purchase price of $8.5 million. All employees, including the founder, Nick Skrepetos, joined the acquirer.
References
External links
Spyware removal
Windows-only proprietary software
Windows security software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Output | Output may refer to:
The information produced by a computer, see Input/output
An output state of a system, see state (computer science)
Output (economics), the amount of goods and services produced
Gross output in economics, the value of net output or GDP plus intermediate consumption
Net output in economics, the gross revenue from production less the value of goods and services
Power (physics) or Work (physics) output of a machine
Dependent variable of a function, in mathematics
Output (album)
See also
Input (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecota | Pecota may refer to:
PECOTA (Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm), a statistical method for baseball analysis
Bill Pecota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara%2C%20Lu%2C%20%27n%20Em | Clara, Lu, 'n Em is a radio soap opera, which first aired on June 16, 1930, over WGN-AM Chicago, Illinois. The show was picked up by the NBC Blue radio network and premiered at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time on January 27, 1931. Thus, it became the first nationally broadcast radio soap opera. When Clara, Lu 'n Em was moved to a regular daytime time slot on February 15, 1932, it became the first networked daytime soap opera.
The first daytime serial drama-by-installment program, network or otherwise, is widely considered by scholars of the genre to be Painted Dreams, when it premiered in October 1930.
Clara, Lu, 'n Em continued in various forms through the 1930s and early 1940s on the NBC Blue Network and CBS, finally airing as a syndicated series in 1945.
Background
The series began as a Northwestern University sorority sketch by Louise Starkey (Clara), Isobel Carothers (Lu) and Helen King (Em). Rejection by several radio executives in Chicago led the trio to WGN. Program manager Henry Selinger was skeptical of their working without scripts, but their audition convinced him to let them perform without pay. They eventually began writing their own scripts and receiving pay. Super Suds was a sponsor of the program as early as August 1930.
NBC
As interest grew, they were sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive and were heard evenings on the NBC Blue Network from January 27, 1931, to February 12, 1932, before moving to weekdays from February 15, 1932, to March 23, 1934. From March 26, 1934, to January 10, 1936, they ran on the NBC (Red) network. On June 26, 1936, they returned to the NBC Blue Network, doing a weekly evening series, with music by Ted Fio Rito. The 30-minute program was sponsored by Frigidaire dealers.
Characters and hiatus
Story lines centered on three women who lived in a small-town duplex. Clara Roach and her family lived on one side of the duplex, Emma Krueger lived with her family on the other side. Widow Lulu Casey lived upstairs with her daughter Florabelle. When Carothers suddenly died January 8, 1937, at age 32, Starkey and King decided not to continue.
Return on CBS
When the program returned with Starkey and King in 1942 on CBS, another of their Northwestern University friends, Harriet Allyn, portrayed Lu. The show ran three times a week during the daytime.
Syndicated version
In 1945 a syndicated version of the show had a brief run. Allyn continued in the cast as Em, along with Fran Allison as Clara and Dorothy Day as Lu.
See also
Northwestern University Library
References
Listen to
Clara, Lu, and Em 1930 audition show
1930s American radio programs
1940s American radio programs
American radio dramas
American radio soap operas
NBC radio programs
CBS Radio programs
NBC Blue Network radio programs
1930 radio programme debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT%20infrastructure | Information technology infrastructure is defined broadly as a set of information technology (IT) components that are the foundation of an IT service; typically physical components (computer and networking hardware and facilities), but also various software and network components.
According to the ITIL Foundation Course Glossary, IT Infrastructure can also be termed as “All of the hardware, software, networks, facilities, etc., that are required to develop, test, deliver, monitor, control or support IT services. The term IT infrastructure includes all of the Information Technology but not the associated People, Processes and documentation.”
Overview
In IT Infrastructure, the above technological components contribute to and drive business functions. Leaders and managers within the IT field are responsible for ensuring that both the physical hardware and software networks and resources are working optimally. IT infrastructure can be looked at as the foundation of an organization's technology systems, thereby playing an integral part in driving its success. All organizations who rely on technology to do their business can benefit from having a robust, interconnected IT Infrastructure. With the current speed that technology changes and the competitive nature of businesses, IT leaders have to ensure that their IT Infrastructure is designed such that changes can be made quickly and without impacting the business continuity. While traditionally companies used to typically rely on physical data centers or colocation facilities to support their IT Infrastructure, cloud hosting has become more popular as it is easier to manage and scale. IT Infrastructure can be managed by the company itself or it can be outsourced to another company that has consulting expertise to develop robust infrastructures for an organization. With advances in online outreach availability, it has become easier for end users to access technology. As a result, IT infrastructures have become more complex and therefore, it is harder for managers to oversee the end to end operations. In order to mitigate this issue, strong IT Infrastructures require employees with varying skill sets. The fields of IT management and IT service management rely on IT infrastructure, and the ITIL framework was developed as a set of best practices with regard to IT infrastructure. The ITIL framework assists companies with the ability to be responsive to technological market demands. Technology can often be thought of as an innovative product which can incur high production costs. However, the ITIL framework helps address these issues and allows the company to be more cost effective which helps IT managers to keep the IT Infrastructure functioning.
Background
Even though the IT infrastructure has been around for over 60 years, there have been incredible advances in technology in the past 15 years.
Components of IT infrastructure
The primary components of an IT Infrastructure are the physical systems such |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS%20and%20Ichthyology | A Geographic Information System is a tool for mapping and analyzing data. The ability to layer many features onto the same map and select or unselect as needed allows for a multitude of views and ease of interpreting data. More important, this allows for in depth scientific analysis and problem solving.
Ichthyology involves many areas of study related to fishes and their habitat. The natural habitat is water, but fish are dependent upon many other factors. Water quality, type, food, cover, sediment are essential for the life cycle of any given fish. Being able to map the presence of certain species with layers of these features provides invaluable insight into species requirements. GIS is an essential tool that allows immediate visualization of all data present and to accurately interpret impacts of habitat degradation or species success.
GIS
GIS is useful when data is specific to a location. It is used to classify, analyze and understand data relationships based on the location and then drawing conclusions from the data. Data capture can occur in the field on small, handheld GPS devices, and then imported and compared to an existing map. This freedom of movement between field and computer is critical to streamlining data collection in field endeavors and generating more accurate data sets.
Ichthyology
Ichthyology requires an understanding species geographic requirements. Fish require different abiotic environments or sediments for successful completion of biological life cycle based on species. Serious examinations of species should always include habitat because habitat differences create changes in population. Sediment could thereby be mapped and changes in sediment could easily be verified using previous records while simultaneously showing changes in resident fish populations.
Various factors relating to the fish life cycle, such as food sources, migration patterns, changes in spawning grounds, could all be more accurately explained and documented using GIS versus a more traditional paper. More important, data could be gathered in the field on handheld GPS units and downloaded directly to an existing map. Streamlining data entry removes error by having observations made and recorded and entered in the field while observations are actively being recorded and uploading the data to a computer upon return to the lab. The other alternative is making observations in the field and then recording the data upon return to the lab; this second technique can allow for opinions to affect how data in interpreted during collection.
Advantages
One of the biggest advantages in using GIS is assimilating information and using it to highlight significance or irrelevant data. Use of GIS increases the possible integration of many different types of data into a single usable resource making analysis and interpretation easier as well as increasing management of the data involved. Ichthyology is a field of study that requires active examination |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save%20Us%20from%20Our%20House | Save Us From Our House! is a Canadian reality series, which premiered on W Network in Canada in 2005. The series was produced by General Purpose Pictures.
The program focused on families who were suffering interpersonal tensions due to their living spaces. A licensed psychotherapist (Hina Khan) counseled the family through their relationship difficulties, while a construction contractor (Scott Puddicombe in the first season, Dylan Marcel for the remainder of the series) remodeled the home into a more welcoming and family-oriented living space.
The series also aired on HGTV in the United States.
The program's theme song was an instrumental portion of Spirit of the West's 1990 single "Save This House".
References
External links
Home renovation television series
2005 Canadian television series debuts
2010 Canadian television series endings
2000s Canadian reality television series
2010s Canadian reality television series
Canadian dating and relationship reality television series
W Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Kelly is an Australian children's television series that was broadcast on Network Ten from 1991 to 1992. The series was produced by Westbridge Entertainment and featured the adventures of a former police dog called Kelly.
Plot
Kelly is a highly trained German Shepherd police dog who needs to recover from an injury on duty. Sergeant Mike Patterson sends him to stay with his son's family. Kelly becomes the constant companion of Jo Patterson, Mike's granddaughter, and her friend Danny Foster. Kelly has many classic adventures with the family and other friends and was considered Australia's answer to Lassie and The Littlest Hobo.
Cast
Charmaine Gorman as Jo Patterson
Alexander Kemp as Danny Foster
Gil Tucker as Frank Patterson
Ailsa Piper as Maggie Patterson
Katy Brinson as Dr. Robyn Foster
Anthony Hawkins as Mike Patterson
Matthew Ketteringham as Chris Patterson
Joseph Spano as Brian Horton
Simon Grey as Robbo
Mat Lyons as Dino
Orion Erickson as Flattop
Lois Collinder
Anne Phelan as Rosie
Dan Falzon as Paul
Louise Siversen as Glennis
Pepe Trevor as Alice
Daniel Pollock
Episodes
Season 1 (1991)
Season 2 (1992)
References
External links
1991 Australian television series debuts
Australian adventure television series
Australian children's television series
1992 Australian television series endings
Network 10 original programming
English-language television shows
Television shows about dogs
Television shows set in Victoria (state)
Police dogs in fiction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View%20model | A view model or viewpoints framework in systems engineering, software engineering, and enterprise engineering is a framework which defines a coherent set of views to be used in the construction of a system architecture, software architecture, or enterprise architecture. A view is a representation of the whole system from the perspective of a related set of concerns.
Since the early 1990s there have been a number of efforts to prescribe approaches for describing and analyzing system architectures. These recent efforts define a set of views (or viewpoints). They are sometimes referred to as architecture frameworks or enterprise architecture frameworks, but are usually called "view models".
Usually a view is a work product that presents specific architecture data for a given system. However, the same term is sometimes used to refer to a view definition, including the particular viewpoint and the corresponding guidance that defines each concrete view. The term view model is related to view definitions.
Overview
The purpose of views and viewpoints is to enable humans to comprehend very complex systems, to organize the elements of the problem and the solution around domains of expertise and to separate concerns. In the engineering of physically intensive systems, viewpoints often correspond to capabilities and responsibilities within the engineering organization.
Most complex system specifications are so extensive that no single individual can fully comprehend all aspects of the specifications. Furthermore, we all have different interests in a given system and different reasons for examining the system's specifications. A business executive will ask different questions of a system make-up than would a system implementer. The concept of viewpoints framework, therefore, is to provide separate viewpoints into the specification of a given complex system in order to facilitate communication with the stakeholders. Each viewpoint satisfies an audience with interest in a particular set of aspects of the system. Each viewpoint may use a specific viewpoint language that optimizes the vocabulary and presentation for the audience of that viewpoint. Viewpoint modeling has become an effective approach for dealing with the inherent complexity of large distributed systems.
Architecture description practices, as described in IEEE Std 1471-2000, utilize multiple views to address several areas of concerns, each one focusing on a specific aspect of the system. Examples of architecture frameworks using multiple views include Kruchten's "4+1" view model, the Zachman Framework, TOGAF, DoDAF, and RM-ODP.
History
In the 1970s, methods began to appear in software engineering for modeling with multiple views. Douglas T. Ross and K.E. Schoman in 1977 introduce the constructs context, viewpoint, and vantage point to organize the modeling process in systems requirements definition. According to Ross and Schoman, a viewpoint "makes clear what aspects are considered relevant |
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