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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Yorkshire | Capital Yorkshire is a regional radio station owned by Global as part of the Capital network. It broadcasts to South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire from studios in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
The licence held makes Capital Yorkshire the largest regional British radio station outside London.
Technical
Capital Yorkshire broadcasts on FM at a power of 9.6 kW from High Hunsley, which covers the East Riding of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire and on FM at a power of 2.4 kW from Emley Moor, which covers West Yorkshire. It also has two filler transmitters, both on FM, one from Idle at 0.5 kW which covers Bradford and the other from Tapton Hill at 0.24 kW covering Sheffield.
DAB broadcasts were formerly provided on the MXR 12A Yorkshire region multiplex from nine transmitters, with the strongest signal from Emley Moor, and other DAB signals from Belmont, Bilsdale, Acklam Wold (North Yorkshire), and Tapton Hill. With the closure of the MXR multiplex in 2015, Capital rolled down to being delivered over the five local area multiplexes around Yorkshire and the Humber, enabling continuation of essentially region-wide coverage.
A version of Galaxy Yorkshire's output was also broadcast in various other areas on DAB as Galaxy Digital, with the UK's ID to replace the Yorkshire one and the regional Yorkshire adverts replaced by UK-wide adverts. (In some cases, a cut down song would be played to fill in for all or part of the commercial break.) This service was aired in a number of areas which did not have their own Galaxy service (including London and the East Midlands), and was also broadcast on Sky and Virgin Media until 15 November 2010 when it was replaced with LBC News 1152. Galaxy was removed from the London DAB multiplex on 16 November 2010, replaced by The Arrow (the only Global station brand not transmitted in London at that time.)
History
Galaxy Yorkshire
The station launched at 1.05 pm on 14 February 1997 as Kiss 105, but became Galaxy 105 later that year after a take over by the Chrysalis Group, then in 2006 it became simply Galaxy Yorkshire. Launched as a dance music station, later years saw the playlist expanded to incorporate urban music genres.
The stations strapline was altered to "passion for music, passion for life" to reflect its new target demographic which had been changed from 15–29 to 15–34 . This was reinforced by the playing of more old school "Galaxy Anthems" – similar to Bauer rival Kiss's "Kisstory". In 2008 it was rebranded as a mainstream station along with all the other Galaxy Stations with a new 'Love Music' strapline before becoming "Yorkshire's No. 1 Hit Music Station" in July 2010.
Capital Yorkshire
The station was rebranded as Capital Yorkshire on 3 January 2011 as part of a merger of Global Radio's Galaxy and Hit Music networks to form the nine-station Capital network. On 20 June 2014, long serving Capital Breakfast presenter Simon Hirst (now |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Work%20Number | The Work Number is an American employment verification database created in 1985 by Talx Corporation. Talx, (now Equifax Workforce Solutions) was acquired by Equifax Inc. in February 2007 for US$1.4 billion.
Through The Work Number employers can purchase data on a prospective employee including confirmation of an individual's employment records and income for verification purposes. The fee for information provided is given only after the requesting party answers several key questions.
Organizations that have used the Work Number include Fannie Mae, Hilton Hotels, Rent-A-Center, the United States Postal Service, Domino's Pizza, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Missouri System.
The Work Number collects and archives weekly salary information. It also collects length of employment, job titles, "location information", and "other kinds of human resources-related information, such as health care provider, whether someone has dental insurance and if they’ve ever filed an unemployment claim."
Equifax sells data to third parties. Companies including "mortgage, auto and other financial services credit grantors" may request pay rate information similar to a credit report. Also, "debt/collection agencies may request employment information" to verify someone's place of employment.
Controversies
Accuracy of information
Consumers have notified Privacy Rights Clearinghouse that The Work Number's data are inaccurate, with outdated job titles and other misreprentations of their work history.
2013 sale of sensitive personal information
In January 2013, The Work Number was criticized for selling access to people's ostensibly private data, especially salary data, to third parties, without the informed consent of the subject. Organisations affected included Columbia University, and third parties included debt collection companies.
The director of policy and advocacy at the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse stated, "I think [this] is something that would be offensive to many people. One typically considers salary information to be shared by your employer just with IRS."
2017 exposure of Americans' salary data
On 8 October 2017, Brian Krebs reported that The Work Number exposed the salary histories for employees of tens of thousands of U.S. companies to anyone in possession of the employee's Social Security number and date of birth. For roughly half the U.S. population, both of the latter pieces of data are known to be in possession of criminals, following Equifax's May-July 2017 security breach.
References
External links
Economic databases
Business process outsourcing companies
Equifax
1985 introductions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECC%20%28disambiguation%29 | MECC is the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium.
MECC may also refer to:
MATRADE Exhibition and Convention Centre, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
McKinley Exchange Corporate Center, an office building and bus terminal in Makati, Philippines
MECC Maastricht, Maastricht Exhibition & Conference Centre
Microbial electrolysis carbon capture
Middle East Cancer Consortium, an international initiative on cancer treatment and research
Middle East Council of Churches
Minimized extracorporeal circulation
Missouri Eastern Correctional Center, a male prison in central-eastern Missouri
Mountain Empire Community College, a community college located in Big Stone Gap, Virginia
Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge, an Microsoft Excel e-sport competition, first introduced in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20flowsheeting | Process flowsheeting is the use of computer aids to perform steady-state heat and mass balancing, sizing and costing calculations for a chemical process. It is an essential and core component of process design.
The process design effort may be split into three basic steps
Synthesis
Analysis and
Optimization.
Synthesis
Synthesis is the step where the structure of the flowsheet is chosen. It is also in this step that one initializes values for variables which one is free to set.
Analysis
Analysis is usually made up of three steps
Solving heat and material balances
Sizing and costing the equipment and
Evaluating the economic worth, safety, operability etc. of the chosen flow sheet
Optimization
Optimization involves both structural optimization of the flow sheet itself as well as optimization of parameters in a given flowsheet. In the former one may alter the equipment used and/or its connections with other equipment. In the latter one can change the values of parameters such as temperature and pressure. Parameter Optimization is a more advanced stage of theory than process flowsheet optimization.
Plant design project
The first step in the sequence leading to the construction of a process plant and its use in the manufacture of a product is the conception of a process. The concept is embodied in the form of a "flow sheet". Process design then proceeds on the basis of the flow sheet chosen. Physical property data are the other component needed for process design apart from a flow sheet. The result of process design is a process flow diagram, PFD. Detailed engineering for the project and vessel specifications then begin. Process flowsheeting ends at the point of generation of a suitable PFD.
General purpose flowsheeting programs became usable and reliable around 1965-1970.
See also
List of chemical process simulators
CAPE-OPEN Interface Standard
Process simulation
References
Westerberg A. W., Hutchinson H. P., Motard R. L., and Winter P., (1979), "Process Flowsheeting", Cambridge Universities Press,
Veverka V. V., and Madron, F. (1997), "Material and Energy balancing in the Process Industries", Elsevier,
Babu, B. V.(2004), "Process Plant Simulation", Oxford Universities Press, ISBN
External links
Process flowsheet development using process simulation software
Chemical process engineering
Process engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAL | VAL may stand for:
Variable Assembly Language, a computer-based control system and language designed specifically for use with Unimation Inc. industrial robots
Vatican lira, the currency of the Vatican City between 1929 and 2002
Véhicule Automatique Léger, a type of automatic rubber-tired people mover technology
Vieques Air Link, an airline
VAL (duo), made up of Valeria Gribusova and Vlad Pashkevich, Belarus duo representing their country in Eurovision Song Contest 2020
Vulnerability Assessment Laboratory, an Army research institution that specialized in electronic warfare.
See also
Val (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%20Andreu%20%28Barcelona%20Metro%29 | Sant Andreu is a station of the Barcelona Metro network, served by line L1. Named after the neighbourhood of Sant Andreu de Palomar, in the Sant Andreu district of the city, the station was built in 1968 along with Fabra i Puig and Torras i Bages. It's interconnected with nearby railway station Sant Andreu Comtal.
Services
See also
Sant Andreu Comtal railway station
Plaça d'Orfila
External links
Trenscat.com
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1968
Barcelona Metro line 1 stations
Transport in Sant Andreu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutshell%20%28disambiguation%29 | A nutshell is the outer shell of a nut.
Nutshell may also refer to:
Nut graph, a nutshell paragraph explaining the context of a story
Nutshell (program), a data engine in the early 1980s, succeeded by FileMaker
Nutshell (band), a folk group from Great Britain
Nutshell (novel), a 2016 novel by English author Ian McEwan
"Nutshell" (song), a song by Alice in Chains
The Nutshell, a pub in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
"The Nutshell" (The Avengers), a television episode |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%20Nowkhah | Darius Behzad "Dari" Nowkhah (born June 23, 1976) is the lead anchor at SEC Network, an American sports television network. On August 21, 2014, The SEC Network began airing, and Nowkhah was chosen to be the head anchor. Nowkhah hosts extensive college football and college basketball programming for the collegiate network. Nowkhah also provides play-by-play for the network's college basketball and college baseball coverage.
Nowkhah's move to ESPNU's Charlotte, NC headquarters came after seven years in Bristol, CT where he hosted a variety of shows for ESPN. Among the shows Nowkhah hosted were SportsCenter, Baseball Tonight and College Football Live.
He fills in as a host on a variety of other ESPN Radio programs. Before working at ESPN, Nowkhah worked at KCFW-TV in Kalispell, Montana as well as KLKN-TV in Lincoln, Nebraska and KOTV in Tulsa.
Nowkhah graduated from Union High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and then from the University of Oklahoma in 1998 with a degree in broadcast journalism.
Personal life
Nowkhah and wife Jenn have four children. On Tuesday, September 20, 2011, Dari announced his infant son, Hayden, died from complications arising from myocarditis, a viral infection that compromised the heart. Nowkhah and his wife have since set up Hayden's Hope, a foundation dedicated to helping families cover expenses due to their children's organ transplants.
Nowkhah is the son of Cy Nowkhah, a 1975 University of Tulsa graduate who immigrated to the United States from Iran in 1969.
References
External links
ESPN Bio
Living people
1976 births
American television sports anchors
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
American people of Iranian descent
Sportspeople from Tulsa, Oklahoma
College baseball announcers in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E3%20Agency%20Network | The E3 International Agency Network is a well established and successful network of independent marketing communications agencies around the world, with a focus on business marketing. Founded in 1978, E3 now includes agencies in 17 countries across four continent, comprising over 1,200 professionals. E3 headquarters are located in Belgium.
History
The network gets its name from the former European motorway Route E3 (part of the International E-road network), which connected Stockholm to Lisbon until the road numbers were reassigned in 1974. Similarly, the E3 network connects member agencies through collaboration and inroads to marketing innovation.
Governance
A management committee of five to seven officers elected every two years meets monthly to make operational decisions for E3. The network holds an Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) and Conference each year.
Activities
E3 offers ongoing educational programs, information exchange through online and in-person meetings, and services to help members stay up-to-date on the latest marketing techniques and technologies from digital branding to social marketing. The network also provides an opportunity for intercultural exchange and job sharing. Members frequently collaborate in order to expand their range of services to clients.
Membership is by invitation only and new agencies must be approved by a consensus vote of the management committee.
Member agencies
BB&B / France
BBC / Belgium
BDB / UK
Bernstein / Germany
Brand Bar / Hungary
Brandigo China / China
Brandigo USA / USA
BTL Africa / Ghana
C&COM Advertising / Czech Republic
Cordovan / Sweden
EDesign / Saudi Arabia
Happy / Denmark
Huble Digital / UK
Innovation Protocol / USA
Lemm En Ten Haaf / Netherlands
OZ Global B2B / Israel
Preferendum / France
SPS Marketing / Austria
Schindler Parent / Germany
The Marketing Practice / UK
Valve / Finland
Wisse Kommunikatie / Netherlands
zuk / Germany
ZurMarke / Switzerland
Mission
E3’s goal is to make its members more successful by expanding their knowledge, extending their geographical reach and empowering them to take on new opportunities. These are the three E's of E3.
External links
Official web site
References
Brand management
Marketing organizations
Advertising organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance%20%28video%20game%20series%29 | Resistance is a series of first-person shooter and third-person shooter video games developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita video game consoles. The series takes place in an alternate history 1950s, in which an alien civilization known as the Chimera have invaded and conquered Earth, expanding their armies by capturing humans and transforming them into monster-like super soldiers to fight for them. The player takes the role of one of the remaining human armed forces as they fight against the Chimera invasion. The series is noted for its use of both conventional and futuristic weaponry, reflecting Insomniac's previous work on the Ratchet & Clank series.
Games
Main series
Resistance: Fall of Man (2006)
Resistance: Fall of Man is the first installment in the Resistance trilogy and was released on the PlayStation 3 in 2006 as a launch title for the system. The game is about the Americans and the British who join forces to stop an extraterrestrial species known as the Chimera from taking over the United Kingdom in 1951.
Resistance 2 (2008)
Resistance 2 is the second installment in the Resistance trilogy and was released on the PlayStation 3 in November 2008. The game's protagonist is Nathan Hale. It is set in 1953, shortly after the events of the first game. The Chimera have managed to cross over into North America and threaten to take over the continent.
Resistance 3 (2011)
Resistance 3 is the third and final installment in the Resistance trilogy and was released on the PlayStation 3 on September 6, 2011. The protagonist is Joseph Capelli, a character that was introduced in the previous game. It is set in 1957 and again takes place in the United States in cities like New York City and St. Louis, Missouri. It also drops the military aspect of the previous games and is post-apocalyptic instead. This is also the last Resistance game to be made by Insomniac Games, as confirmed by its CEO Ted Price.
Other games
Resistance: Retribution (2009)
Resistance: Retribution was released on the PlayStation Portable on March 17, 2009. Set after the events of Fall of Man, the game follows James Grayson, a British Royal Marine first mentioned in Resistance 2, as he helps the human resistance force in Europe to retake the continent from the Chimera in 1951.
Resistance: Burning Skies (2012)
Resistance: Burning Skies was released on the PlayStation Vita on May 29, 2012. The game follows the story of Tom Riley, a firefighter who sets out to find his family while fighting the Chimera, who have now taken over the American east coast.
Future
According to Resistance 3 creative director Marcus Smith, the studio has a number of franchises it wants to pursue and that Resistance is not one of them. Insomniac CEO Ted Price said that Insomniac "won't be making any more Resistance games". All online features of the Resistance games have been discontinued in March 2014. I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfani%20FM | Anfani FM is a privately operated radio network in Niger. Based in the capital of Niamey, Anfani also has stations in the regional centers of Maradi, Zinder, Birni Nkonni, and Diffa.
History and content
Founded by newspaper journalist Grémah Boucar as an offshoot of his Anfani print news weekly, Radio Anfani (FM 100 MHz) in Niamey was one of Niger's first non-governmental broadcasters. Anfani was shut several times in the 1990s by the government of Col. Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara. Since the return of civilian rule in 1999, Anfani FM journalists have faced arrest and government sanctions related to their reporting on a number of occasions.
Anfani provided access to the airways for opposition politicians during the military regime, and continues to broadcast domestic news in French, Hausa, Djerma, and other regional languages. The station also rebroadcasts the Voice of America and Deutsche Welle news. While private, Anfani has previously received grants from the United States government, through the National Endowment for Democracy.
Stations
Anfani broadcasts with transmitters of 1.5 kW based in Niamey, Maradi, Birni Nkonni, Zinder and Diffa, all on FM 100MHZ.
See also
Media of Niger
References
Anfani FM - 100MHZ, AfDevInfo .
GRÉMAH BOUCAR: Free Media Heroes, International Press Institute, 3 May 2000.
ANFANI FM, National Endowment for Democracy.
Journal Anfani, June 1999 Internet Issue.
Radio in Niger
Mass media in Niamey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20oracle | In computing, software engineering, and software testing, a test oracle (or just oracle) is a mechanism for determining whether a test has passed or failed. The use of oracles involves comparing the output(s) of the system under test, for a given test-case input, to the output(s) that the oracle determines that product should have. The term "test oracle" was first introduced in a paper by William E. Howden. Additional work on different kinds of oracles was explored by Elaine Weyuker.
Oracles often operate separately from the system under test. However, method postconditions are part of the system under test, as automated oracles in design by contract models. Determining the correct output for a given input (and a set of program or system states) is known as the oracle problem or test oracle problem, which is a much harder problem than it seems, and involves working with problems related to controllability and observability.
Categories
A research literature survey covering 1978 to 2012 found several potential categories of test oracles.
Specified
These oracles are typically associated with formalized approaches to software modeling and software code construction. They are connected to formal specification, model-based design which may be used to generate test oracles, state transition specification for which oracles can be derived to aid model-based testing and protocol conformance testing, and design by contract for which the equivalent test oracle is an assertion.
Specified Test Oracles have a number of challenges. Formal specification relies on abstraction, which in turn may naturally have an element of imprecision as all models cannot capture all behavior.
Derived
A derived test oracle differentiates correct and incorrect behavior by using information derived from artifacts of the system. These may include documentation, system execution results and characteristics of versions of the system under test. Regression test suites (or reports) are an example of a derived test oracle - they are built on the assumption that the result from a previous system version can be used as aid (oracle) for a future system version. Previously measured performance characteristics may be used as an oracle for future system versions, for example, to trigger a question about observed potential performance degradation. Textual documentation from previous system versions may be used as a basis to guide expectations in future system versions.
A pseudo-oracle falls into the category of derived test oracle. A pseudo-oracle, as defined by Weyuker, is a separately written program which can take the same input as the program or system under test so that their outputs may be compared to understand if there might be a problem to investigate.
A partial oracle is a hybrid between specified test oracle and derived test oracle. It specifies important (but not complete) properties of the system under test. For example, metamorphic testing exploits such properties, cal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter%20automaton | In computer science, more particular in the theory of formal languages, a counter automaton, or counter machine, is a pushdown automaton with only two symbols, and the initial symbol in , the finite set of stack symbols.
Equivalently, a counter automaton is a nondeterministic finite automaton with an additional memory cell that can hold one nonnegative integer number (of unlimited size), which can be incremented, decremented, and tested for being zero.
Properties
The class of counter automata can recognize a proper superset of the regular and a subset of the deterministic context free languages.
For example, the language is a non-regular language accepted by a counter automaton: It can use the symbol to count the number of s in a given input string (writing an for each in ), after that, it can delete an for each in .
A two-counter automaton, that is, a two-stack Turing machine with a two-symbol alphabet, can simulate an arbitrary Turing machine.
Notes
References
Automata (computation)
Models of computation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact%20Nominal%20Index | The Impact Nominal Index or INI was a computer system that enabled UK police forces to establish whether any other force holds information on a person of interest. It was created by the IMPACT Programme led by the Home Office in 2006. INI was shut down in 2011 when it was replaced by the Police National Database (PND).
The system was built by the Web Technology Group, a former subsidiary of Cable & Wireless.
The INI was the first system to be delivered by the IMPACT Programme, set up to deliver improvements in the management and sharing of police operational information following Sir Michael Bichard's report on the Soham Murders.
References
External links
Policy Hub article on INI launch
NPIA IMPACT programme page
Web Technology Group
Law enforcement in the United Kingdom
Government databases in the United Kingdom
Law enforcement databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20de%20Groove | Data de Groove is the sixth album by Austrian singer Falco, released in May 1990 – a collaboration with producer Robert Ponger. It was dedicated to the upcoming computer era and peaked at number 11 in Austria. It is known to be his most complex and intellectual album. So far it is the only album out of print and therefore quite a rarity, especially on CD format. However, in February 2016 the album became available for download in digital form on iTunes, as well as a stream on Spotify. In 2022, the album resurfaced when a Deluxe Edition was released, with all songs remastered and featured remixes and edits of several tracks.
Two singles were released: "Data de Groove" and "Charisma Kommando".
Track listing
"Neo Nothing – Post of All" – 4:45
"Expocityvisions" – 4:08
"Charisma Kommando" – 4:49
"Tanja P. nicht Cindy C." – 3:37
"Pusher" – 4:26
"Data de Groove" – 4:40
"Alles im Liegen" – 5:05
"U.4.2.P.1. Club Dub" – 3:41
"Bar Minor 7/11 (Jeanny Dry)" – 3:45
"Anaconda 'mour" – 0:57
Bonus tracks on 2022 re-release
"Data de Groove" (Club Mix) – 6:48
"Data de Groove" (Digital-Analogue Version) – 4:00
"Data de Groove" (Human Version) – 3:59
"Data de Groove" (Instrumental Version) – 4:57
"Data de Groove" (Full Length Version) – 4:57
"Charisma Kommando" (Club Mix) – 7:34
"Charisma Kommando" (Radio Version) – 4:02
"Charisma Kommando" (Instrumental Club Mix) – 7:34
"Charisma Kommando" (Instrumental Radio Version) – 4:02
"Charisma Kommando" (Full Length Version) – 5:39
"Neo Nothing – Post of All" (Full Length Version) – 5:31
"Tanja P. nicht Cindy C." (Full Length Version) – 4:26
Personnel
Falco – bass, producer
Robert Ponger – digital & analog keyterminals, mixer, producer
Peter Ponger – additional keyboards
Jens Fischer, Peter Weihe – guitars
Curt Cress – drums
Andy Baum, Bernhard Rabitsch, Jocelyn B. Smith, Victoria Miles – background vocals
Stefan Biedermann – scratches
Wolfgang Puschnig – saxophones
Christian Seitz – engineer, mixer at Stereo West Studio, Vienna
Steve Taylor – mixer at Livingston Studios, London
John Mallison – mixing assistant engineer
Ralph Lindner – mastering (digital) at Ham Audio
Achim Kruse, Ralph Lindner – mastering (analog) at Chateau du Pape, Hamburg
Lo Breier – cover design
Juergen Teller – photography
Charts
References
1990 albums
Falco (musician) albums
German-language albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass%20Lewart | Cass Lewart is an author, electrical engineer and Polish Holocaust survivor. He has written extensively on computer and data communication, as well as non-fiction articles on his life experiences. He is also a speaker on computer related topic and an award-winning computer hobbyist.
Career
Cass Lewart has written 10 books and numerous articles relating to personal computers, database programming and data communication. He worked in the electrical engineering field for 40 years and is an avid computer hobbyist. His writings on computer related topics include the Modem Handbook for the Communications Professional published in 1987 and his most recent book The Ultimate Modem Handbook published by Simon & Schuster. The Ultimate Modem Handbook was reviewed by Robert Slade in an industry publication and his books have been used as sources for New York Times technology articles.
He and his wife were 2005 recipients of the Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey: Hobbyist of the Year award. Cass has been a speaker at computer clubs meetings and contributed papers to the Trenton Computer Festival Annual Proceedings Book.
He wrote a short memoir on his experiences growing up in Poland during World War II and his survival of the Holocaust (Shoah). as well as the non-fiction story Pleasure of Winning.
References
External links
Cass Lewart's Web Page
Cass Lewart page
American electrical engineers
American male writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnuspeech | Gnuspeech is an extensible text-to-speech computer software package that produces artificial speech output based on real-time articulatory speech synthesis by rules. That is, it converts text strings into phonetic descriptions, aided by a pronouncing dictionary, letter-to-sound rules, and rhythm and intonation models; transforms the phonetic descriptions into parameters for a low-level articulatory speech synthesizer; uses these to drive an articulatory model of the human vocal tract producing an output suitable for the normal sound output devices used by various computer operating systems; and does this at the same or faster rate than the speech is spoken for adult speech.
Design
The synthesizer is a tube resonance, or waveguide, model that models the behavior of the real vocal tract directly, and reasonably accurately, unlike formant synthesizers that indirectly model the speech spectrum. The control problem is solved by using René Carré's Distinctive Region Model which relates changes in the radii of eight longitudinal divisions of the vocal tract to corresponding changes in the three frequency formants in the speech spectrum that convey much of the information of speech. The regions are, in turn, based on work by the Stockholm Speech Technology Laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) on "formant sensitivity analysis" - that is, how formant frequencies are affected by small changes in the radius of the vocal tract at various places along its length.
History
Gnuspeech was originally commercial software produced by the now-defunct Trillium Sound Research for the NeXT computer as various grades of "TextToSpeech" kit. Trillium Sound Research was a technology transfer spin-off company formed at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, based on long-standing research in the computer science department on computer-human interaction using speech, where papers and manuals relevant to the system are maintained. The initial version in 1992 used a formant-based speech synthesiser. When NeXT ceased manufacturing hardware, the synthesizer software was completely re-written and also ported to NSFIP (NextStep For Intel Processors) using the waveguide approach to acoustic tube modeling based on the research at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, especially the Music Kit. The synthesis approach is explained in more detail in a paper presented to the American Voice I/O Society in 1995. The system used the onboard 56001 Digital Signal Processor (DSP) on the NeXT computer and a Turtle Beach add-on board with the same DSP on the NSFIP version to run the waveguide (also known as the tube model). Speed limitations meant that the shortest vocal tract length that could be used for speech in real time (that is, generated at the same or faster rate than it was "spoken") was around 15 centimeters, because the sample rate for the waveguide computations increases with decreasing vocal tract length. Fast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycodeoxycholic%20acid | Glycodeoxycholic acid is a bile acid derived from deoxycholic acid and glycine. Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
References
Bile acids
Cholanes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Herald%20Times%20Reporter | The Herald Times Reporter is a daily newspaper based in Manitowoc, Wisconsin and owned by Gannett as part of its USA Today Network Wisconsin division. The newspaper is distributed primarily throughout Manitowoc County, as Green Bay and Sheboygan have their own Gannett newspapers (and often the HTR itself duplicates the front page of the Press on certain days). The newspaper is associated with the Lakeshore Chronicle, a free newspaper circulated on Wednesdays and Sundays which contains "best-of" content from the HTR and circulars.
History
The first newspaper in Manitowoc began in November 1850 when a newspaper press was brought on a schooner from Milwaukee. A weekly newspaper called the Weekly Press was printed; it was renamed the Weekly Herald in 1955. In 1898, the Weekly Herald became a daily newspaper; the Herald-Press Publishing Company was formed and it printed the Daily Herald and Weekly Press. The Weekly Press was absorbed into the Daily Herald in 1953 and the newspaper became known as the Herald Times. It purchased the Two Rivers Reporter based in nearby Two Rivers in 1970 and the newspaper took its current name Herald Times Reporter in 1973.
References
External links
The Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter
Newspapers published in Wisconsin
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Gannett publications
Newspapers established in 1850
1850 establishments in Wisconsin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20S.%20Weld | Daniel Sabey "Dan" Weld is the Thomas J. Cable/WRF Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, where he does research in automated planning and scheduling, software agents, and Internet information extraction. He is a venture partner at Madrona Venture Group, a Seattle-based venture capital firm.
Weld was born in 1960 in Boston. He attended high school at Phillips Academy, earned bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (1982) from Yale University, and a master's degree (1984) and PhD (1988) in Computer Science from MIT. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
Weld co-founded Netbot Incorporated (1996), which was acquired by Excite; AdRelevance (1998), which was acquired by Media Metrix and then by Nielsen NetRatings; and Nimble Technology (1999), which was acquired by Actuate.
References
External links
Daniel Weld's Home Page
UW page describing "The Intelligence in Wikipedia Project"
Living people
University of Washington faculty
MIT School of Engineering alumni
American computer scientists
Yale University alumni
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Phillips Academy alumni
1960 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Games%3A%20Winter%20Challenge | The Games: Winter Challenge is a sports video game developed by Canadian developer Mindspan and published by Accolade for MS-DOS compatible operating systems in 1991 and as Winter Challenge for the Sega Genesis in Europe in 1991 and the United States in 1992. The game portrays eight winter sports events that are competed in during the Winter Olympics. The game is unlicensed and not endorsed by the International Olympic Committee or similar organisations. Upon release, Winter Challenge received praise from several publications, with attention directed to the game's variety of events and visual presentation, with some criticism towards the inconsistency and difficulty of events. A sequel to the game based on the Summer Olympics, The Games: Summer Challenge, was released by Accolade in 1992.
Gameplay
Winter Challenge features two modes. In Tournament mode, the player can create a competitor and participate with up to ten players, with selectable names, countries and user pictures. Once the players are selected, the game shows an opening ceremony for the tournament and then takes the player to a tournament screen where they can see their icons for the events, as well as four buttons that shows their current standings, starts a new tournament, allows the entering of a password to return to an existing tournament, or return to the main menu. In this mode, computer-generated opponents have a skill level, from 'Amateur' to 'Professional' and 'World Class', affecting their speed and stamina in events.
In Training mode, the player can participate in a single event as one player. Several events are simplified for the training mode to allow error, such as being able to miss flags in the giant slalom. Once completed, the player can play again, return to the main menu, or watch an instant replay of their performance.
Events
Winter Challenge features eight events. Most events use the directional pad for steering, and buttons for performing certain functions like shooting, running, braking, or pushing off. Button mashing is necessary for some events, with others focused on timing and accuracy. The ski jump is scored by distance, the biathlon by time and shooting accuracy, and all other events are scored by time. A list of the events are provided below:
Reception
Winter Challenge received positive reviews from gaming publications, with many critics praising the variety and appeal of the game's different activities. Describing the title as a "multi-venued game" that imitated a "full-scale Olympic competition", Computer Gaming World praised the game as "more exciting" than its predecessors and highlighted the balance of "fast-paced" and "leisurely" game modes. However, some critics noted that the game was inconsistent in its execution. Computer Game Review observed that "the cross country events are too long and rather dull", and "competing against other than amateur competition is extremely tough." Similarly, whilst Mean Machines found the game "varied an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiveSprockets | FiveSprockets was a web-based software company based in San Diego, California, United States focused on developing resources, social networking, and web-based collaborative software for scriptwriting, filmmaking and digital-video production. The name FiveSprockets came from the five phases, or sprockets, of media production: (1) Story Development & Scriptwriting; (2) Pre-production; (3) Production; (4) Post-production; and (5) Marketing & Distribution. Founded in 2007 by CEO Randy Ullrich, FiveSprockets launched its Beta Release in September 2008 with an initial focus on social networking, educational content, and web-based software for screenwriting and production management.
Ideas Module
FiveSprockets included an Ideas module where creators could store their raw ideas across several different Idea types (such as Story or Character).
vScripter
vScripter was FiveSprockets' web-based story-development and scriptwriting software. vScripter took a story-development perspective on the process and allows the writer(s) to collect metadata about each story and manage their stories. vScripter supported a variety of different media-project formats, including screenplay, TV Sitcom, TV drama, Stage Play, Audio / Radio Play, and Comic Book.
Editor - vScripter's scriptwriting editor included features typical of scriptwriting software such as (a) proper formatting as recommended by AMPAS Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting; (b) writing accelerators such as intelligent tab-and-enter key processing; and (c) character and location memory for auto-completion typing.
Story Metadata - vScripter stored metadata about the story, including Log line, Tagline, Treatment, and story notes.
Collaboration - The script's originator could selectively choose to share a script in read-only or write-access mode to any of the originator's contacts.
Import/Export - Scripts written in other applications could be imported into vScripter via the RTF standard, which typically preserved most (but not necessarily all) of the original script's formatting. Additionally, vScripter could export to RTF, PDF, and HTML.
Script Registration - Through a partnership with ProtectRite, the creator and pioneer of online intellectual-property registration, writers could access the ProtectRite service directly from within vScripter to register and protect their work.
vProductionOffice
vProductionOffice was FiveSprockets' web-based production-management software.
Script Breakdown - When the user Greenlights a production, vProductionOffice walked the user through a simple wizard that, among other things, created a script breakdown. This includes separating the various scenes, listing the characters needed in each scene, and marking the 1/8's of each scene. The scenes could then be scheduled for their shooting date.
Storyboarding - The Storyboard feature allowed the user to create storyboards for each scene in the breakdown and watch the storyboard in an animation viewer.
Casting and C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Storage%20Systems%20Interconnect | The Digital Storage Systems Interconnect (DSSI) is a computer bus developed by Digital Equipment Corporation for connecting storage devices and clustering VAX systems. It was designed as a smaller and lower-cost replacement for the earlier DEC Computer Interconnect that would be more suitable for use in office environments. DSSI was superseded by Parallel SCSI.
It was introduced in 1988 and has a bandwidth of 32 Mbit/s (4 MB/sec) and was typically limited to a length of . DSSI support was later extended to MIPS-based DECsystems and DEC Alpha-based AlphaServer systems.
DSSI peripherals could be distinguished from narrow SCSI devices by their characteristic five-conductor power connector featuring an extra lead intended for Battery/UPS connection to power critical components in the event of a power failure.
Characteristics
The major characteristics of the DSSI bus are:
Eight-bit data path
Up to eight nodes on the bus including variable numbers of initiators and targets
Distributed arbitration
Peak bandwidth of 4 megabytes per second
All systems connected to the same DSSI bus must have a common power/ground.
"The Q-Bus 5-Enclosure Rule": For Q-bus VMScluster configurations, a maximum of five enclosures, excluding SF200/210s, can be configured on a single DSSI bus. Note that only one (1) SF100 is allowed on any DSSI bus.
"The VAX 6000 Cabinet Rule": For a VAX 6000 DSSI VMScluster system, a maximum of two or three VAX 6000 systems and one storage cabinet, typically an SF200 or SF210, can be configured on a single DSSI bus.
Maximum DSSI bus length cannot exceed 27 meters (89 feet) and ground offset voltage cannot exceed 30mv (dc) or 10.5mv (rms).
Bus Length Allowable Offset
Meters/Feet (DC) (AC)
----------- ----------------
up to 20/65 200mv 70mv (rms)
20-25/65-82 40mv 14mv (rms)
VAX6000 QUAD-Host--> 27/89 30mv 10.5mv (rms)
VAX7000
VAX10000
Operating system support in VAX/OpenVMS
DSSI SUPPORT IN OpenVMS:
OpenVMS VAX V5.0-2:
o Single- and Dual-Host support with 2 EDA640s (MicroVAX 3300/3400
series).
o Systems Communications Services (SCS) for the VMScluster is run
over the Network Interconnect (NI) for MicroVAX 3300/3400.
OpenVMS VAX V5.1:
o Standalone support for the KFQSA.
o Up to 6 ISEs on a single DSSI bus regardless of whether 1 or 2
hosts systems are attached to the bus.
OpenVMS VAX V5.1-1:
o Dual host support for KFQSAs (1 KFQSA per system).
OpenVMS VAX V5.2:
o For 3300/3400 series, SCS communication over the DSSI.
o Multiple KFQSA's per system, but *not* multiple dual-hosted
DSSI's per system (here, multiple means 2, since only 2 hosts
are allowed on the DSSI bus).
o DSSI adapter must connect to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Stojmenovi%C4%87 | Ivan Stojmenović (1957 – 3 November 2014) was a Serbian-Canadian mathematician and computer scientist well known for his contributions to communications networks and algorithms. He has published over 300 articles in his field and edited four handbooks in the area of wireless sensor networks.
Biography
He studied mathematics, earning a
B.Sc. (1979) and
M.Sc. at the University of Novi Sad,
and a
Ph.D. (1985) at the University of Zagreb, where he continued as assistant professor (1985–87). He held the chair in Applied Computing in the School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham in the UK 2007/8. After visiting appointments at Washington State University and University of Miami he joined the faculty at University of Ottawa (1988) where he was a professor.
He was also editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
Books
Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks: Algorithms and Protocols for Scalable Coordination and Data Communication (Wiley, 2010).
Handbook of Applied Algorithms: Solving Scientific, Engineering and Practical Problems (Wiley, 2008).
Handbook of Sensor Networks: Algorithms and Architectures (Wiley, 2005). Bundled with Crossbow Technology sensorkits.
Mobile Ad Hoc Networking (Wiley, 2004).
Handbook of Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing (Wiley, 2002)
Awards and honors
In 2008 he was named an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to data communication algorithms and protocols for wireless sensor and ad hoc networks".
Death in car accident
Stojmenović died on 3 November 2014 after he lost control of his car and slammed into an overpass on Highway 416.
References
Serbian mathematicians
Canadian computer scientists
University of Novi Sad alumni
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
1957 births
2014 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Ottawa
Academics of the University of Birmingham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pulse%20%28Sirius%29 | The Pulse was a Sirius Satellite Radio channel that played music "from the '90s and Today" on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 9 and Dish Network channel 6012.
The Pulse began on July 1, 2002 as part of the newly launched Sirius lineup, with the same music and format heard on the current Pulse. By November 4, 2002, when I-90 signed off the air, it became a 1990s and hot AC hybrid, even though it played 1990s urban music.
Every half-hour, the old incarnation of The Pulse reviewed music news on tours, future albums, and other topics covered.
As part of the merger between Sirius and XM Satellite Radio, and the subsequent reorganization of the services' respective channel lineups on November 12, 2008, the old Pulse was replaced by The 90s on 9, bringing a 1990s pop channel back to the Sirius lineup for the first time since I-90 had signed off. The decision to drop the original Pulse was because the channel ranked ninth in the Sirius ratings, whereas XM's counterpart channel, Flight 26, ranked second. Flight 26 was added to the Sirius lineup and rechristened on both services as the new Pulse, which still lists its calls as X026-FM. The Bridge (which became Led Zeppelin Radio for two months) forced its move from channel 12 to channel 33 (replacing SIRIUS Disorder).
See also
List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
External links
Sirius The Pulse
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKARI%20Project | The AKARI Architecture Design Project was a project for designing a new generation computer network architecture supported by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan. The name "AKARI" indicates "A small light in the dark pointing to the future" and it comes from the Japanese word Akari, which means "a small light". Launched in May 2006, the AKARI Project investigated technologies for new generation network by 2015, developing a network architecture and creating a network design based on that architecture. AKARI is also denoted as a Future Internet project.
The members of the AKARI Project came from NICT and some other universities or companies such as Tokyo University, Keio University, Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology and NTT. In 2008, they produced a conceptual design book, which describes their philosophy to pursue an ideal solution by researching new network architectures from a clean slate without being impeded by existing constraints.
To some extent, the AKARI Project was similar to the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) facility of USA and many of the Seventh Framework Programmes (FP7) of EU such as the Future Internet Research and Experimentation.
Conferences were held in June 2007, January 2008, June 2008, and June 2010.
The project updated a web site through 2011, and removed the site by 2013.
References
Network architecture
Osaka University research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outback%208 | Outback 8 is a TV show that was broadcast on Network Ten in Australia and BBC in the UK in 2008. The show features two girls and two boys each from the UK and Australia and was set at the Agricultural Training College in Longreach, Queensland. There were 13 episodes, beginning on 22 September 2008 and every Monday for 13 weeks
Synopsis
Outback 8 shows the children learning the skills to become jackaroos and jillaroos in an effort to be able to participate in a final muster of 200 head of cattle from hectares of land. The skills they learnt included horse riding, sheep shearing, pregnancy testing of cattle, bush survival skills, camping and mustering skills.
Episode guide
References
Network 10 original programming
Australian children's television series
2000s British children's television series
2008 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings
2008 British television series debuts
2008 British television series endings
Television shows set in the Outback |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative%20Cyber%20Defence%20Centre%20of%20Excellence | NATO CCD COE, officially the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence ( or NATO küberkaitsekoostöö keskus), is one of NATO Centres of Excellence, located in Tallinn, Estonia. The centre was established on 14 May 2008, it received full accreditation by NATO and attained the status of International Military Organisation on 28 October 2008. NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence is an international military organisation with a mission to enhance the capability, cooperation and information sharing among NATO, its member nations and partners in cyber defence by virtue of education, research and development, lessons learned and consultation.
History
In 2003, prior to the country's official accession to NATO, Estonia proposed the creation of a Centre of Excellence. The 2006 Riga summit listed possible cyber attacks among the asymmetric threats to the common security and acknowledged the need for programs to protect information systems over the long term. The cyber attacks on Estonia in 2007 highlighted for the first time the potential vulnerability of any NATO countries, their institutions and societies, and even NATO itself to disruption or penetration of their information and communications systems.
Estonia's proposals for a NATO cyber excellence centre received strong support from the alliance's Secretary-General "Jaap" de Hoop Scheffer. NATO completed an assessment of the situation, partly in light of Estonia's experience, in April 2007, and approved a NATO policy on cyber defence in January 2008. NATO's summit communiqué in Bucharest in April announced NATO's readiness to "provide a capability to assist allied nations, upon request, to counter a cyber attack".
On 30 August 2018, Colonel Jaak Tarien replaced Merle Maigre as the Director of the organisation.
Overview
The Cyber Defence Center in Tallinn is one of 21 accredited Centres of Excellence (COEs), for training on technically sophisticated aspects of NATO operations. It is being funded nationally and multi-nationally as these centers are closely linked with Allied Command Transformation and promote the alliance-approved transformation goals.The main agenda of the facility is to:
improve cyber defence interoperability within the NATO Network Enabled Capability (NNEC) environment,
design the doctrine and concept development and their validation,
enhance information security and cyber defence education, awareness, and training,
provide cyber defence support for experimentation (including on-site) for experimentation,
analyze the legal aspects of cyber defence.
The centre has also other responsibilities which include:
contribution to development of Cyber Defence Center practices and standards with NATO, PfP, NATO candidates and non-NATO nations,
contribution to development of NATO security policies related to cyber defence its definition of scope and responsibility of military in cyber defence,
carrying out cyber defence-focused training, awareness campaigns, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rags%20to%20riches%20%28disambiguation%29 | Rags to riches refers to a rise from poverty to wealth. It may also refer to:
Rags to Riches (video game), a 1985 computer game for the Commodore 64
Rags to Riches (horse), a thoroughbred race horse
"Rags to Riches" (song), a 1953 popular song by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, popularized by Tony Bennett
"Rags2Riches" (song), a 2020 song by Rod Wave featuring ATR SonSon
Rags to Riches (TV series), an American musical comedy drama series
Rags to Riches (1941 film), a film directed by Joseph Kane
Rags to Riches (1922 film), a 1922 American drama film
"Rags to Riches", a track from The Blue Nile's 1984 album A Walk Across the Rooftops |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20programming%20decoding | In information theory and coding theory, linear programming decoding (LP decoding) is a decoding method which uses concepts from linear programming (LP) theory to solve decoding problems. This approach was first used by Jon Feldman et al. They showed how the LP can be used to decode block codes.
The basic idea behind LP decoding is to first represent the maximum likelihood decoding of a linear code as an integer linear program, and then relax the integrality constraints on the variables into linear inequalities.
References
Linear programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Basili | Victor R. Basili (born April 13, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York), is an emeritus professor at the Department of Computer Science, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin and two honorary degrees. He is a fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
From 1982 through 1988 he was chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. He is currently a senior research fellow at the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering - Maryland and from 1997 to 2004 was its executive director.
He is well known for his works on measuring, evaluating, and improving the software development process, as a pioneer of empirical software engineering, especially through his papers on the Goal/Question/Metric Approach, the Quality Improvement Paradigm, and the Experience Factory.
Many of these ideas developed through his affiliation with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL), which he helped to create and was one of its directors from 1976 through 2002.
References
Further reading
External links
cs.umd.edu
1940 births
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Harvard University alumni
Living people
Engineering academics
Software engineering researchers
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
American software engineers
University of Texas at Austin alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20Metal%20%28Sirius%20XM%29 | Liquid Metal is a Sirius XM Radio station broadcasting a heavy metal format. It is carried on Sirius XM Radio channel 42 and DISH Network channel 6042.
Ian Christe, author of the book Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, hosts a weekly radio show known as Bloody Roots that provides an in-depth look at the history of the genre.
In 2022, Virginia legislator Danica Roem appeared as a guest host on the station to share her appreciation of heavy metal music.
On July 28, 2023, Liquid Metal temporarily became Pantera Radio, a radio station that played Pantera songs and some other metal songs.
Hosts
Ian Christe
José Mangin
Shawn Winkler
Core artists
Metallica
Pantera
Slayer
Lamb of God
Slipknot
Machine Head
Soulfly
Megadeth
Hatebreed
Anthrax
References
Sirius XM Radio channels
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
XM Satellite Radio channels
Radio stations established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petals%20Network | Petals Network is a floral wire service company. Established in 1992, Petals offers both a florist-to-florist clearinghouse service and a customer to florist service through a network of independent local florists.
Petals has a network of over 1,600 florists in several countries; Australia, New Zealand and the UK. It also uses the services of other local floral relay services to operate in 70 other countries around the world. Petals is based in Armidale, New South Wales Australia.
In March 2011, Petals Network was acquired by their US-based competitor Teleflora Inc. for an undisclosed sum. This was Teleflora's first international acquisition and was believed to "strengthen the U.S.-based Teleflora's offerings throughout Australia and New Zealand". Together, Petals Network and Teleflora have a network of almost 40,000 affiliated florists worldwide.
References
Online retailers of Australia
Florist companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrow%20Area%20Information%20Database | The Barrow Area Information Database (BAID) is designed to support Arctic science with a special focus on the research hubs of Barrow, Atqasuk, and Ivotuk on the North Slope of Alaska.
The BAID Internet Map Server (BAID-IMS) is freely available to scientists, land managers, educators and the local community. Users can navigate to areas of interest and explore or query information about field-based scientific research. Current and historic research sites are shown as points with links to details about project investigators, discipline, funding program, year, related web sites, site photos and other information. Users can print or export maps for presentations and export tabular information.
BAID-IMS currently includes the locations of over 7000 research plots and instrument locations. This ongoing effort incorporates both new research locations and sampling sites dating back to the 1940s. BAID-IMS includes satellite imagery and other remote sensing products, topographic maps, land ownership information and local infrastructure that facilitates research and science communication.
History
The Barrow Area Information Database (BAID) was initiated in June 2000 as a cooperative project between Michigan State University's Arctic Ecology Laboratory and the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC). The project had humble beginnings as a Microsoft Access database which was used to centralize information about research plots mapped with BASC's new DGPS system. In 2003, BASC's Digital Subcommittee saw an opportunity to visualize the BAID database with Internet Map Server (IMS) technology and commonly requested base maps. The BAID-IMS prototype was soon released. On September 1, 2005 NSF awarded funding for the project to continue through August 30, 2009.
BAID-IMS currently includes the locations of over 7000 research plots and instrument locations. This ongoing effort incorporates both new research locations and sampling sites dating back to the 1940s.
In order to facilitate the documentation of field research sites in the Barrow area, the University of Texas at El Paso Systems Ecology Laboratory provides Differential GPS support to National Science Foundation researchers during the peak Summer field season (June 1 - August 15). Support for historical studies and for other agencies working the vicinity of the Barrow Environmental Observatory also provided.
Capabilities
BAID-IMS can be used to mine information about research locations, project descriptions, photographs and contact information.
Metadata that meets the standards of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is available (or under development) for many data layers in BAID-IMS. Data that is considered unrestricted can be downloaded at the Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Data Coordination Center (ADCC) at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) located at University of Colorado at Boulder.
BAID-IMS is linked to the Circumarctic Environmental Observatories Network and efforts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haqqani | Haqqani or Haqani may refer to:
Things
Haqqani Anjuman, an organisation in Bangladesh
Haqqani network, an insurgent group in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Haghani Circle (also Haqqani), a Shi'i school of thought (philosophy)
Naqshbandi-Haqqani Golden Chain, the lineage of a Sufi Naqshbandi religion order
People
Abdul Fatah Haqqani (?–2011), Afghanistani who was held in the Bagram Internment Facility
Anas Haqqani, Afghan Taliban leader, commander and poet
Ezatullah Haqqani (born c. 1963), Taliban civil leader
Husain Haqqani (born 1956), Pakistani diplomat
Ibrahim Haqqani, prominent member of the Zadran tribe
Irshad Ahmed Haqqani (1928–2010), journalist from Pakistan
Jalaluddin Haqqani (1939–2018), Afghan military leader
Khalil Haqqani, senior member of the Haqqani network
Nazim Al-Haqqani (1922–2014), Turkish Cypriot Sufi and leader of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order
Sayeedur Rahman Haqani, senior member of the Taliban leadership
Sirajuddin Haqqani (born c. 1970), Pashtun military leader
Yahya Haqqani, senior member of the Haqqani network, on the Rewards for Justice Terror List
Abdul Aziz Haqqani, Afghan military leader and senior members of the Haqqani network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable%20Agriculture%20Innovation%20Network | The China-UK Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network (SAIN) is a Sustainable agriculture Network launched in 2008 to provide a framework for collaboration on agriculture and climate change between the UK and China.
The agreement supports the already existing China-UK Sustainable Development Dialogue (SDD) signed by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Agreed upon by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) and the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the development of SAIN was included in the SDD work program on Sustainable Agriculture and Fisheries. After being originally proposed at the UK-China Partners in Science Conference in North West China, a business plan was created after consultation with Chinese stake-holders, bilateral agencies, and international organizations. in December 2008, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) and Department of Environment, food and Rural Affairs accepted and adopted the new policy.
The UK-China Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network has four primary goals:
1. Support UK-China SDD by policy approaches, institutional mechanisms, and moving policy and science to the ground level.
2. Encourage and grow research on environmentally sustainable agriculture and its relevance to local, national, and the global economy.
3. Gather important actors, such as farmers and policy makers, and educate them on environmentally sustainable agriculture issues.
4. Increase global sustainability with south-south learning.
The organization of SAIN consists of a Governing Board, two Secretariat Offices, and Working Groups. The North West Agriculture Forestry University in China and East Anglia University in England are the locations of the two Secretariat Offices.
Universities
North West Agriculture and Forestry University
University of East Anglia
External links
Homepage
Sustainable agriculture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil%20Barons | Oil Barons is a turn-based business simulation game published by Epyx in 1983 for Apple II, Commodore 64 and MS-DOS compatible operating systems. It fuses a video game and a board game via a 50 X 40 square grid game board and tokens to associate different squares to various terrain-specific video game locations.
Reception
Oil Barons received mixed reviews and was awarded a Certificate of Merit in the category of "1984 Best Multi-Player Video Game/Computer Game" at the fifth annual Arkie Awards.
Ahoy! criticized the pace of the game, noting that each player had to "sit at the computer for several minutes. Other players can use this time to strategize, but things can get pretty slow. Oil Barons, for all its complexity, may not keep you entertained while you are waiting."
Reviews
Games #46
References
External links
1983 video games
Apple II games
Business simulation games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Epyx games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20complexity%20theory | In computational complexity theory of computer science, the structural complexity theory or simply structural complexity is the study of complexity classes, rather than computational complexity of individual problems and algorithms. It involves the research of both internal structures of various complexity classes and the relations between different complexity classes.
History
The theory has emerged as a result of (still failing) attempts to resolve the first and still the most important question of this kind, the P = NP problem. Most of the research is done basing on the assumption of P not being equal to NP and on a more far-reaching conjecture that the polynomial time hierarchy of complexity classes is infinite.
Important results
The compression theorem
The compression theorem is an important theorem about the complexity of computable functions.
The theorem states that there exists no largest complexity class, with computable boundary, which contains all computable functions.
Space hierarchy theorems
The space hierarchy theorems are separation results that show that both deterministic and nondeterministic machines can solve more problems in (asymptotically) more space, subject to certain conditions. For example, a deterministic Turing machine can solve more decision problems in space n log n than in space n. The somewhat weaker analogous theorems for time are the time hierarchy theorems.
Time hierarchy theorems
The time hierarchy theorems are important statements about time-bounded computation on Turing machines. Informally, these theorems say that given more time, a Turing machine can solve more problems. For example, there are problems that can be solved with n2 time but not n time.
Valiant–Vazirani theorem
The Valiant–Vazirani theorem is a theorem in computational complexity theory. It was proven by Leslie Valiant and Vijay Vazirani in their paper titled NP is as easy as detecting unique solutions published in 1986.
The theorem states that if there is a polynomial time algorithm for Unambiguous-SAT, then NP=RP.
The proof is based on the Mulmuley–Vazirani isolation lemma, which was subsequently used for a number of important applications in theoretical computer science.
Sipser–Lautemann theorem
The Sipser–Lautemann theorem or Sipser–Gács–Lautemann theorem states that Bounded-error Probabilistic Polynomial (BPP) time, is contained in the polynomial time hierarchy, and more specifically Σ2 ∩ Π2.
Savitch's theorem
Savitch's theorem, proved by Walter Savitch in 1970, gives a relationship between deterministic and non-deterministic space complexity. It states that for any function ,
Toda's theorem
Toda's theorem is a result that was proven by Seinosuke Toda in his paper "PP is as Hard as the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy" (1991) and was given the 1998 Gödel Prize. The theorem states that the entire polynomial hierarchy PH is contained in PPP; this implies a closely related statement, that PH is contained in P#P.
Immerman–Szelepcs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Snipa | Cyber Snipa is a brand of specialised computer peripherals and equipment designed expressly for gaming. The brand originated in March 2004 when Flexiglow Hong Kong Pty Ltd introduced the Cyber Snipa Gamepad. Subsequent to the sale of Flexiglow Hong Kong in July 2007, Cyber Snipa products are currently manufactured by Cyber Sport Pty Ltd.
Despite its success in the past CyberSnipa filed for bankruptcy in 2016 and closed its website by the end of 2016.
History
The development of the Cyber Snipa brand began in 1998 when gamers employed as engineers at Flexiglow saw a need for specialised gaming equipment in a fast-growing market and started designing the Gamepad with the intention of improving performance in FPS games.
Since the Gamepads release in 2005 the range of products marketed under the Cyber Snipa brand has grown to include gaming mice, mousepads, keyboards, headsets, webcams, flash memory devices and gaming apparel.
In 2006 the Cyber Snipa brand was made available for purchase and offices were opened in both the US and Europe.
In February 2008, Flexiglow Pty Ltd was bought out by the Australian technology development studio Cyber Sport Pty Ltd. Cyber Sport has since continued to release new Cyber Snipa products alongside its other brands, most recently the Stinger gaming mouse.
Products
Keyboards
The Gamepad was the first product to be released under the Cyber Snipa brand name. It was conceived with portability and space-management in mind and aims to improve in-game control. A new version featuring more keys and a better ergonomic layout, the Game pad V2, has since superseded the original.
The Warboard is a full size keyboard which was released in late 2007. It features 10 dual mode programmable buttons and anti-ghosting key architecture. The Warboard has been cited as a useful MMORPG keyboard in particular due to the macro software functions.
Mice
The Intelliscope was the first gaming mouse to be developed and marketed under the Cyber Snipa brand. The Intelliscope laser mouse features on-the-fly switchable dpi (with a maximum of 2400) and operates at 10,800 frames per second.
The S.W.A.T. mouse features a 1600dpi switchable laser engine and operates at 6,400 frame/s. The S.W.A.T. mouse has a lower price point than the Intelliscope despite possessing 32kb of onboard memory and Macro A.I. software.
The Stinger Mouse, released in February 2008, is the latest and most technologically advanced mouse in the Cyber Snipa line. It features an on-the-fly switchable 3200dpi laser engine operating at 7000 frame/s, a superfast report rate of 1000 Hz, onboard memory with macro software and a removable weight system.
Mouse pads
A variety of different high performance mouse pads have been released under the Cyber Snipa brand name, the most prominent of which are the Tracer illuminated mouse pad and the Micro-fibre Mouse Mat.
SONAR Headsets
In early 2008 the Cyber Snipa range was expanded to include two types of gaming headsets; the Son |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC%20Computer%20Games | BASIC Computer Games is a compilation of type-in computer games in the BASIC programming language collected by David H. Ahl. Some of the games were written or modified by Ahl as well. Among its better-known games are Hamurabi and Super Star Trek.
Originally published by DEC in 1973 as 101 BASIC Computer Games, the book was so popular that it had two more printing runs, the last in March 1975. The programs in these books were mostly written in the BASIC dialect found on Digital's minicomputers, although some could not be converted and appeared in different dialects like Dartmouth BASIC.
In 1974, Ahl left DEC. He purchased the rights to the book and republished it under the new name. With the release of the first microcomputers, and Microsoft BASIC soon after, the games were ported to this dialect. By the early 1980s, with tens of millions of home computers in the market, it had become the first computer book to sell a million copies.
History
Around 1971, Ahl ported two popular early mainframe games from DEC's FOCAL language to BASIC: Hamurabi and Lunar Lander. He published the BASIC versions in DEC's educational newsletter, EDU, which he edited. Their popularity was such that he called for more submissions for future editions of the newsletter, and quickly gathered many, with a considerable group of them coming from high school students. The wide availability of BASIC on various platforms, notably the Data General Nova and HP 2100 series, led to considerable porting effort to and from the DEC platform.
In 1974, Ahl left DEC to start Creative Computing magazine. He re-acquired the rights to the book from DEC and re-published under the name BASIC Computer Games. It was around this time that the first hobbyist microcomputers started appearing in 1975, and it became quite popular with these owners. The release of the "1977 Trinity" machines (Apple II, Commodore PET, and TRS-80) was soon followed by a great many new competing microcomputer platforms featuring BASIC, along with the userbase to go with them, and demand for the book led to a second edition in 1978. Sales remained strong for years, and spawned similar collections in More Basic Computer Games (1979), and Big Computer Games (1984) and Basic Computer Adventures (1984), with translations into six languages.
Games
Chomp
Civil War
Hexapawn
Hammurabi (based on The Sumer Game by Doug Dyment)
Nim
Super Star Trek
Reception
The first version, 101 went into a second printing and eventually sold 10,000 copies. Ahl later noted that “was far more books than there were computers around, so people were buying three, four, five of them for each computer.”
The second version, BASIC, was re-printed many times and was the first computer book to sell a million copies. Harry McCracken called it "The single most influential book of the BASIC era".
Legacy
Using Vintage Basic, the games can be run on any Microsoft Windows (32-bit or 64-bit), macOS (64-bit only), or Linux (64-bit only) system. The source c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20Keith%20Edwards | W. Keith Edwards is a professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and Director of the GVU Center at Georgia Tech.
Edwards’ research lies generally in the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). He has chaired and published papers in top-tier academic conferences in these fields.
Early life and education
Edwards was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA and grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. After finishing High School, Edwards completed a B.S. in Information and Computer Science, a M.S. in Information and Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. During his graduate career, Edwards interned at Sun Microsystems and Olivetti Research Center.
As a graduate student, Edwards was influenced by Saul Greenberg, whose work in Computer Supported Cooperative Work spoke to his own interest of understanding how what is written into the infrastructure of a software systems and its services effects the human interaction possibilities. Edwards’ graduate research culminated with his dissertation, titled “Coordination Infrastructure in Collaborative Systems.”
Career
Upon receiving his Ph.D. Edwards spent nine years in the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC, initially as a member of research staff and ending his career there as Manager of the Ubiquitous Computing group. While at PARC Edwards wrote Core Jini, an authoritative text for implementing Jini based systems.
During his tenure as manager, his group conducted a study of iTunes use, and the zeroconf discovery protocols it relies on, in the workplace whose results were reported in The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other major news agencies. A key finding from this study was that discovery protocols do not just connect content, but connect people as well.
Since arriving at Georgia Tech, Edwards has founded and continues to lead the Pixi Lab. Research from the Pixi lab has received honors including a CHI Best Paper award. Edwards also served as Technical Program Chair for the ACM CHI conference 2010 and is currently serving as a member of Microsoft Corporation's Trustworthy Computing Advisory Board. Keith also teaches a class on User Interface Software to undergraduate and graduate students.
References
External links
Edwards’ Academic Home Page
Pixi Laboratory Home Page
Living people
Georgia Tech faculty
American computer scientists
Georgia Tech alumni
Human–computer interaction researchers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ubiquitous computing researchers
Scientists at PARC (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking%20Up%20with%20Shannen%20Doherty | Breaking Up with Shannen Doherty is an American reality television series on Oxygen Network. The series debuted on August 22, 2006.
Overview
In the series, actress Shannen Doherty joins forces with people in a relationship peril who want to get out but just can not seem to do it on their own. She listens to the plight of her new "client" and put their mates to the test by creating a fictitious situation - caught by a hidden camera - to determine the true character of the relationship. If the test is failed, Doherty then helps put the relationship out of its misery.
In each episode, Doherty helps mastermind the break-up, and be on the scene to deliver the news and resolve the break-up. The goal at the end is for both parties to agree that it's all for the best and it's time to move on.
Episodes
References
External links
2000s American reality television series
2006 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings
English-language television shows
American dating and relationship reality television series
Oxygen (TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krondor%3A%20The%20Betrayal | Krondor: The Betrayal is a fantasy novel by American writer Raymond E. Feist. The first novel in The Riftwar Legacy, it was first published in November 1998. It is a novelization of the computer game Betrayal at Krondor.
Plot introduction
A moredhel (dark elf) known as Gorath has brought news of deadly forces stirring on the horizon. The Nighthawks have begun murdering again, and a group of six magicians known as The Six are at the root of it all. Tsurani gem smugglers led by The Crawler and traitors to the crown are all plotting the fall of the Kingdom of the Isles. Squires James and Locklear must fend off the reunited moredhel while Gorath and his newly gained friend Owyn seek to aid the magician Pug and the kingdom.
References
1998 American novels
1998 fantasy novels
American fantasy novels
HarperCollins books
Novels based on Krondor
Novels by Raymond E. Feist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMPLE%20algorithm | In computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the SIMPLE algorithm is a widely used numerical procedure to solve the Navier–Stokes equations. SIMPLE is an acronym for Semi-Implicit Method for Pressure Linked Equations.
The SIMPLE algorithm was developed by Prof. Brian Spalding and his student Suhas Patankar at Imperial College, London in the early 1970s. Since then it has been extensively used by many researchers to solve different kinds of fluid flow and heat transfer problems.
Many popular books on computational fluid dynamics discuss the SIMPLE algorithm in detail.
A modified variant is the SIMPLER algorithm (SIMPLE Revised), that was introduced by Patankar in 1979.
Algorithm
The algorithm is iterative. The basic steps in the solution update are as follows:
Set the boundary conditions.
Compute the gradients of velocity and pressure.
Solve the discretized momentum equation to compute the intermediate velocity field.
Compute the uncorrected mass fluxes at faces.
Solve the pressure correction equation to produce cell values of the pressure correction.
Update the pressure field: where urf is the under-relaxation factor for pressure.
Update the boundary pressure corrections .
Correct the face mass fluxes:
Correct the cell velocities: ; where is the gradient of the pressure corrections, is the vector of central coefficients for the discretized linear system representing the velocity equation and Vol is the cell volume.
Update density due to pressure changes.
See also
PISO algorithm
SIMPLEC algorithm
References
Computational fluid dynamics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak%27s%2025%20Hz%20traction%20power%20system | Amtrak's 25 Hz traction power system is a traction power network for the southern portion of the Northeast Corridor (NEC), the Keystone Corridor, and several branch lines between New York City and Washington D.C. The system was constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad between 1915 and 1938 before the North American power transmission grid was fully established. This is the reason the system uses 25 Hz, as opposed to 60 Hz, which is the standard for power transmission in North America. In 1976, Amtrak inherited the system from Penn Central, the successor to the Pennsylvania Railroad, along with the rest of the NEC infrastructure.
Only about half of the system's electrical capacity is used by Amtrak; the remainder is sold to the regional railroads that operate their trains along the corridor, including NJ Transit, SEPTA and MARC.
The system powers of the NEC between Washington, D.C., and New York City, the entire Keystone Corridor, a portion of NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line (between the NEC and Matawan), along with the entirety of SEPTA's Airport, Cynwyd, and Media/Wawa lines.
History
The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) began experimenting with electric traction in 1910, coincident with their completion of the trans-Hudson tunnels and New York Penn Station. These initial systems were low-voltage direct current (DC) third rail systems. While they performed adequately for tunnel service, the PRR ultimately found it inadequate for long-distance, high-speed electrification.
Other railroads had, by this time, experimented with low frequency (less than 60 Hz) alternating current (AC) systems. These low-frequency systems had the AC advantage of higher transmission voltages, reducing resistive losses over long distances, as well as the typically DC advantage of easy motor control as universal motors could be employed with transformer tap changer control gear. Pantograph contact with trolley wire is also more tolerant of high speeds and variations in track geometry. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad had already electrified a portion of its Main Line in 1908 at 11 kV 25 Hz AC and this served as a template for the PRR, which installed its own trial main line electrification between Philadelphia and Paoli, Pennsylvania in 1915. Power was transmitted along the tops of the catenary supports using four single phase, 2 wire 44 kV distribution circuits. Tests on the line using experimental electric locomotives such as the PRR FF1 revealed that the 44 kV distribution lines would be insufficient for heavier loads over longer distances.
In the 1920s, the PRR decided to electrify major portions of its eastern rail network, and because a commercial electric grid did not exist at the time, the railroad constructed its own distribution system to transmit power from generating sites to trains, possibly hundreds of miles distant. To accomplish this the PRR implemented a pioneering system of single-phase high voltage transmission lines at 132 kV, stepp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdigital%20Eletronica | Microdigital Eletrônica Ltda. was a Brazilian computer company in the 1980s, based in São Paulo.
History
Established in 1981 by the brothers George and Tomas Kovari (whose initials were the TK of the domestic computers line made by the company), its first product was the TK80, a clone of the British microcomputer Sinclair ZX80.
The company reached its height around 1985, with the launching of the TK90X (clone of the ZX Spectrum) and the TK 2000/II, a personal computer partially compatible (at Applesoft BASIC level) with the Apple II+. At this time, it had approximately 400 employees in three plants (two in São Paulo and one in the Zona Franca de Manaus) and more than 700 peddlers spread for all Brazil.
Although the logo of the company is identical to the earlier Microdigital Ltd of the United Kingdom the company is not related.
Line of products
A not extensive list of Microdigital's products:
Home computers
TK80 (1981)
TK82 (1981)
TK82C (1981)
TK83 (1982)
TK85 (1983)
TKS800 (1984 - vapourware)
TK90X (1985)
TK95 (1986)
Personal computers
TK 2000 (1984)
TK 2000/II (1985)
TK-3000 IIe (1986)
TK-3000 IIe Compact (1987)
TK EXTended (1987)
LT 1600 D (?)
TK Portable (?)
Peripherals
TK Printer (vapourware)
Video-games
Onyx (1984)- Colecovision clone, never launched
Onyx Jr (1985)
Software
Microdigital sold software (almost always pirate copies of foreign programs) through its subsidiary, Microsoft.
Others
Microdigital Rhythmic 2 Portable Keyboard
References
External links
Microdigital by Chema Matas in MicroHobby.com
Micodigital's ads from the 1980s
Electronics companies of Brazil
Defunct computer companies of Brazil
Defunct manufacturing companies of Brazil
Manufacturing companies based in São Paulo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%20Hansen | Grant Hansen is an Australian Indigenous musician and broadcaster who has worked as a host of the Marngrook footy show, broadcast on National Indigenous TV network as well as Channel 31, Foxtel, ABC and SBS . He has worked as a radio announcer / presenter on Melbourne's Indigenous radio station 3KND. Hansen won a Deadly in 2000 for Aboriginal Broadcaster of the Year. He has also worked at 3CR, SBS and SEN sports station.
Musical career
Hansen was one of the founding members of Blackfire who were one of Australia’s most successful indigenous acts of the 90s. They were awarded a NAIDOC award for Artists of the year and received an international songwriting award for the song My Island Paradise. Hansen was the manager of Blackfire for ten of their 12 years, taking over from Anthony Brown.
He also founded the Kutcha Edwards Band when Blackfire took a break after being on the road for 12 years .
Hansen released a solo album Big City Combo (2007) which features guest appearances from Wilbur Wilde, Ross Wilson, Paul Kelly and Paul Hester.
Hansen’s Big City Combo Band now features former members of OL’55, Swanee, Delltones, Dynamic Hepnotics and Mental as Anything. Grant has also played with and managed Koori acts including Interaction, Mercury Blues, Deniece Hudson, Bob Wilson and Vic Simms. He has toured all over Australia as well as China, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, Mexico, and is a leading indigenous musician in the Australian music scene.
He was a founding member and former CEO of Songlines Music Aboriginal corporation. He worked as the CEO for 12 years. In 2003, he created the biggest indigenous music concert Share the Spirit held every year in Melbourne on 26 January.
Television career
Hansen was the creator and host of Australia’s most popular indigenous TV show Marngrook, and worked on the show as a presenter, writer, producer. Marngrook aired on NITV for twelve years.
He has acted and appeared in the Chinese series Rich Dad Poor Dad, and starred in the live theater production Up the Road. He has worked on other TV programs including Staying Healthy Staying Alive, ABC’s Songlines, and served as host of the Treaty TV Show on SBS.
References
External links
National Indigenous Times. Issue 153 - 15 May 2008 BLACK & WHITE: Grant Hansen - Kool 'N' Deadly
The Marngrook Footy Show
Indigenous Australian musicians
Living people
Australian male singers
Australian male songwriters
Australian radio personalities
Australian television presenters
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank%20Racer | Tank Racer is a 3D action racing computer and video game developed by the Glass Ghost team at Simis and published by Grolier Interactive, copyrighted in 1998 and released on March 30 1999.
Gameplay
There are four different play modes to choose from: Cup Mode, Single Race Mode, Multi-player Battle Mode, and Multi-player Racing Mode.
Cup Mode
In Cup Mode the player's aim is to win all three "cups" in the World Tank Racing Championship (WTRC). Each cup has its own four tanks for the player to choose from, and one secret tank that is unlocked upon completion of the cup (making a total of 15 playable tanks in the game). There are 8 different tracks, although some of them are reused meaning there are a total of 15 races.
Upon completion of each cup, "bonuses" are unlocked. These include three tanks, a music player (which lets the player choose any of the songs from the soundtrack to listen to), the ability to re-watch the 'outro' videos for each cup, special game settings (which includes 'overhead view', 'dual control', a 'hover tank', the option to change the sound effects to 'human voices' and 'guitar squeal') and three 'secret' mini arcade games (a one or two-player Pong clone with tanks called "Ping"; a one-player top-down view maze tank game called "Tank 2001", the name of which might allude to the Arcadia 2001 game console; and a one-player Asteroids clone, called "Space Tank", again with a tank).
Single Race Mode
Single Race Mode is similar to the Cup Mode, the difference being the player can play any race they choose to (as long as they have already completed that race within the Cup Mode system), and of course it's just a single race.
Multi-player Battle Mode and Multi-player Racing Mode
In Battle Mode the player can battle other players in one of eight special battle arenas (some of which are based on the racing arenas, and some of which are unique). How many "cups" the player has won in Cup Mode affects the speed of the tanks and the power-ups. Each tank has an energy/health bar, and when this is depleted, the game is over for that player.
The multi-player Racing Mode lets players race against each other on 6 tracks. There is also a Catch-up mode to help less experienced players.
The main difference between the PC and PlayStation releases is in the Multi-player modes. On the PC edition up to 6 players can take part in a race or battle over LAN or "direct IP", whereas on the PlayStation edition it's a maximum of two players using a split screen.
The game features ten Drum and bass music tracks by artists Ramone and Trigger, Waterloop, Substance, D-Tour, Bay Tremore, Vim! and Dharma.
Reception
The UK Official PlayStation Magazine gave the PlayStation version 6 out of 10, describing the "novelty racing game" as having a "Casanova charm" with a "fun-filled soul".
IGN gave the game 5.2 out of 10, calling it mediocre and saying that "There's some original thought here but not enough to make the game deserve much attention."
Tank Racer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Wife%20Hope | "The Great Wife Hope" is the third episode of the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. Originally broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on October 11, 2009, it sees the men of Springfield taking immense interest in a new combat sport called mixed martial arts (MMA). Marge is appalled by the violent sport and demands that the creator put a stop to it, but he agrees only if she will fight him in a match and win.
"The Great Wife Hope" was written by Carolyn Omine and directed by Matthew Faughnan. Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champion Chuck Liddell guest starred in it as himself. The episode featured multiple cultural references to fighting moves and positions, along with a single reference to professional wrestling promotion owner Vince McMahon.
Since airing, the episode has received generally positive reviews from television critics, particularly towards the final scene. It received a 4.3/7 Nielsen rating with adults ages 18–49, behind all other programs aimed at that demographic in its timeslot.
Plot
The men of Springfield become obsessed with a violent new string of mixed martial arts (MMA) competitions called "Ultimate Punch Kick and Choke Championships" (UPKCC). The kids soon begin to fight in small MMA matches of their own at the playground of Springfield Elementary School. While Bart and Nelson are fighting in one match, Marge sees them and is disgusted by the violent nature of the entire sport. She and a group of concerned women begin protesting the sport in front of the MMA stadium. Marge decides to go on stage before a match begins and demands that everyone cease the sport entirely. Chett Englebrit (patterned after actual fight promoter Roy Englebrecht), creator of the sport, agrees with Marge - but only if she can fight him and win.
Marge begins to train for the event, practicing rhythmic gymnastics. However, the family believes that her methods are unsuitable for the extreme task at hand and get her professional help. She learns boxing from Dredrick Tatum, wrestling from former Yale wrestler Mr. Burns, jujitsu and Judo from Akira, and bullying from Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney. Now fully trained, she enters the ring (after the announcer introduces her as one of his "Moms I'd Like to Fight") with Englebrit and is immediately knocked to the ground. Bart runs into the ring to defend his mother, but Englebrit brutally beats him to a pulp instead. Marge witnesses this and knocks Englebrit out with a roundhouse kick, winning their bet. Marge pulls down the ring's microphone and begins to give a speech, having had a change of heart about the demise of the violent sport upon having discovered her own dark side. She realizes, however, that everyone has already left the building to watch a drunken brawl in the parking lot.
As Marge and Homer leave to have some MMA-inspired sex, Bart and Lisa enter the empty ring and decide to settle their lifelong sibling feud then and there. As t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaii-Y%C5%8Dkai%20Densh%C5%8D%20Database | The is a database of yōkai and mystery stories which have been collected from Japanese folklore. The database is published by International Research Center for Japanese Studies. The prototype was created on March 19, 2002, and the first live version was released on June 20, 2002. the project supervisor is Kazuhiko Komatsu (小松和彦), a Japanese folklorist who is a professor of the study of yōkai.
The database includes verbal information, without visual information. Data are collected from:
Akira Takeda (竹田旦) "民俗学関係雑誌文献総覧" 1978
"日本随筆大成" 1975 - 1978
Kunio Yanagita "妖怪名彙"
Books of histories of Japanese local governments.
For each item, in the database has an abstract of around 100 characters. The full text is searchable, and the database can be searched by name or the region where the item was found.
External links
怪異・妖怪伝承データベース - on International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Online databases
Japanese folklore
Databases in Japan
Databases by subject |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce%20Farrell | Joyce Farrell is the author of many programming books for Course Technology, a part of Cengage Learning. Her books are widely used as textbooks in higher education institutions. She was formerly a professor of computer information systems at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, US, and earlier taught computer information systems at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point and McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
Partial bibliography
Java Programming, 8th Edition, .
Java Programming, 6th Edition, .
Java Programming, 5th Edition, . (found in 315 libraries, counting all editions
Java Programming, 4th Edition, .
Object-Oriented Programming Using C++, 4th Edition, . (found in 221 libraries, counting all editions
Object-Oriented Programming Using C++, 2nd Edition, .
Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, 9th Edition,
Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, 8th Edition,
Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, 7th Edition, .
Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, 6th Edition, .
Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, 5th Edition, . (found in 200 libraries, counting all 8 editions
Programming Logic and Design, Introductory, 5th Edition, .
Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, 4th Edition, .
Programming Logic and Design, Introductory, 4th Edition, .
An Object-Oriented Approach to Programming Logic and Design, 2nd Edition, . (found in 59 libraries, counting all editions
Microsoft Visual C# .NET, 1st Edition, . (found in 57 libraries, counting all editions
Microsoft Visual C# 2008: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, 3rd Edition, .
Microsoft Visual C# 2005, An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, 2nd Edition, found in 20 libraries, counting all editions
With Don Gosselin:
Java programming with Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0: comprehensive, (1998) (found in 77 libraries, counting all editions
References
Computer science educators
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Holleman | Kim Holleman (born in Tampa, Florida) is NY-based, mid-career contemporary artist. Holleman was a Research Affiliate at MIT Media Lab with the Social Computing Group (2014–17), and a Visiting Scholar (2013–14). Kim Holleman is an interdisciplinary artist, using an approach which includes: Contemporary Art, Interior Architecture, Public Art, Installation, and Landscape Design. She attended The Cooper Union in New York City and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She also spent time at Bet Za'lel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, Israel as an undergraduate exchange student. Holleman has been located in Bushwick, Brooklyn since 2000. Holleman continues to mount exhibitions and public art projects in New York and lectures, teaches, and works with multi-disciplinary teams.
Biography
Kim Holleman was born in Tampa, Florida and was raised in Palm Beach County. Holleman's maternal grandfather Neal Lozins was a rocket engineer who worked on solid rocket booster design for the first space shuttle missions with NASA and also worked for Lockheed Martin. Her paternal grandfather, Nathan Dale Holleman owned and operated a machining company, Dale Manufacturing, Inc. Dale Manufacturing, also located in Florida, fulfilled contracts for The United States Government, Pratt and Whitney, Boeing and NASA. Significant contracts included machining components of the landing gear on the Lunar Module as well as manufacturing the trigger switches for the Los Alamos Nuclear Tests. Both of her grandfathers worked for or on NASA projects at the onset of the Space Program. Holleman credits this as a major influence on her focus on science and society in her work, namely the confluence of nature, art, architecture and engineering. Holleman's work is, "inspired by the complexities of the design in nature and the environment".
Art
Kim Holleman is an alumna of Cooper Union.
"Holleman’s work addresses concepts of utopia and dystopia, utilitarianism, environmentalism, and ideas about creating utopian architectures for "a better world".
Holleman's interdisciplinary approach has been recognized across fields. Kim Holleman has given a TEDx Talk on her work. TEDxCOOPER UNION. Her work was featured in a New York Times Feature, in print and online. Holleman's first solo show in New York,"Law of the Land" was R.C. Baker’s pic for Best In Show- The Village Voice (2008)
Notable gallery and museum exhibitions include: Ideas City at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Circa: 2012 at White Box, Law of the Land at Black and White Gallery, BMW Guggenheim Lab Screenings (2011), Museum of (Un)Natural History at Work Gallery (2011), Bushwick Biennial NurtureArt (2009) A Sense of Place The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (2004), and Utopia at The John Michael Kohler Arts Center (2006). Her most notable work, Trailer Park: A Mobile Public Park was shown at The Storefront for Art and Architecture (2006), The New Museum (2012), and Central Park (2018), among others.
Holleman's wor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%2C%20Hoosac%20Tunnel%20and%20Western%20Railway | The Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway was a railway company that operated in the states of New York and Vermont in the 1880s. At its peak it controlled a network centered on Mechanicville, New York. Plans to extend the line west to Buffalo, New York, on Lake Ontario, were never realized, and the Fitchburg Railroad, a predecessor of the Boston and Maine Railroad, acquired control of the company in 1887 and merged it in 1892.
History
There were initially two companies, both named Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway, one incorporated in New York (April 16, 1877) and the other in Vermont (April 17, 1878). The two were consolidated into a single company, still with the same name, on April 19, 1880. The company's initial purpose was to establish a new east−west link between Boston, Massachusetts, and points west, via the Hoosac Tunnel, which had been completed in 1875. The Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway would build between Mechanicville, New York and the Massachusetts/Vermont state line, where it would connect with the Massachusetts-owned Troy and Greenfield Railroad. In the west, the Delaware and Hudson Railway (D&H) would build between Schenectady, New York, and Mechanicville. Besides the D&H, the Erie Railroad supported the new line.
The line between Mechanicville and the Vermont/Massachusetts state line opened on December 22, 1879. Between Valley Falls, New York, and the Massachusetts state line the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway ran parallel with the Troy and Boston Railroad; both lines following the Hoosic River. From the Massachusetts state line, the company operated over the Troy and Greenfield to North Adams, Massachusetts, where it interchanged with the Fitchburg Railroad. The line interchanged with the D&H at two points: Eagle Bridge, New York (the Rutland and Washington Railroad), and at Mechanicville (the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad). The D&H completed the new line between Mechanicville and Schenectady in December 1881, eliminating the need to run via Ballston Spa, New York.
Western extension
In early 1884, the company completed a extension from Mechanicville to Rotterdam Junction, west of Schenectady, enabling interchange with the West Shore Railroad. At one point, the company planned to build west across the state of New York to points on Lake Erie (Buffalo) and Lake Ontario (Oswego). The resulting line would have been long. In furtherance on this plan, the company was consolidated with five other companies on April 9, 1880: the Hoosac Tunnel and Saratoga Railway; Utica and Syracuse Air-Line Railway; Syracuse, Chenango and New York Railroad; Syracuse, Phoenix and Oswego Railroad; and Mohawk and Lake Erie Railway. The New York Supreme Court subsequently ruled that the consolidation was illegal, and nothing came of these plans.
Branches
The Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway leased the Saratoga Lake Railway and Hoosac Tunnel and Saratoga Railway in July 1882. These two companies ga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nargin | Nargin can refer to:
Nargin (island), an island
Nargin (programming) (number arguments in), a programming command in MATLAB indicating how many input arguments a user has supplied
, a Russian coastal tanker
Nargin (fallen demon), Best Veigar (d. 1681 to 2020)
See also
Nargout |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Leiba | Barry Leiba (born 1957) is a computer scientist and software researcher. He retired from IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York in February 2009, and now works for FutureWei Technologies as a Director of Internet Standards. His work has focused for many years on electronic mail and anti-spam technology, on mobile computing and the Internet of things, and on Internet standards.
Work on e-mail and anti-spam technology
Leiba's interest in e-mail began in the early 1980s, with IBM's PROFS system, and with a proprietary e-mail system developed for an IBM customer. In the early 1990s he and his team at IBM Research developed an early implementation of an integrated multimedia e-mail system, called Ultimail, which became part of IBM's TCP/IP product for OS/2. The work on Ultimail led to development of the Internet Messaging Framework, a toolkit for developing Internet-standards-compliant clients and servers. He was part of the team that developed the SpamGuru anti-spam engine at IBM Research.
He has published a number of papers at the Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference, and was a program chair for the conference in 2008 and 2010.
Work on Internet standards
Leiba has been involved with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) since the mid-1990s, working on e-mail-related standards, including IMAP, ACAP, updates to SMTP and the Internet message format, lemonade, the Sieve e-mail filtering language, internationalization in general and e-mail address internationalization in particular, and DKIM. He has chaired a number of working groups, including DKIM, OAUTH, CBOR, and DMARC, and served on the Internet Architecture Board from 2007 to 2009. He served on the Internet Engineering Steering Group as Applications Area Director from 2012 to 2016 and as Applications and Real-Time (ART) Area Director from 2019 to 2021, and is the IETF liaison to the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG). He was appointed to the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) in 2018.
Other work
Leiba has also worked on IBM Research projects involving context awareness, mobile and distributed computing, and computer security and access controls. He has been on the editorial board of the IEEE Computer Society's Internet Computing magazine since January 2008, where he is currently serving as Associate Editor in Chief. In June of 2022 he was elected to the Internet Society Board of
Trustees.
Authored Requests For Comments (RFCs)
RFC 2177 – IMAP4 Idle Command
RFC 2683 – IMAP4 Implementation Recommendations
RFC 5231 – Sieve Extension: Relational Tests
RFC 5258 – IMAP4 LIST Command Extensions
RFC 5435 - Sieve Extension: Notifications
RFC 5436 - Sieve Notification Mechanism: mailto
RFC 5825 - Displaying Downgraded Messages for Email Address Internationalization
RFC 6131 - Sieve Vacation Extension: Seconds parameter
RFC 6132 - Sieve Notification Using Presence Information
RF |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrik | Fabrik may refer to:
Fabrik Inc., a manufacturer of external hard drives and associated software
Fabrik (Hamburg), an events centre in Hamburg, Germany
Fabrik (software), a visual programming integrated development environment
FABRIK, an inverse kinematics solver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Weld | Daniel Weld may refer to:
Daniel Weld (Weld family), colonial Boston teacher
Daniel S. Weld, American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal%20Wireless%20Networking%20Project | Nepal Wireless Networking Project (NWNP) is a social enterprise that provides Internet access, e-commerce, education, telemedicine, environmental and agricultural services as well as job opportunities to a number of remote villages in Nepal, using wireless technologies. The project was created and is led by Mahabir Pun, who received international recognition including the Magsaysay Award for his work in this field.
Development of the wireless network infrastructure
Himanchal High School, founded in 1993, is located in Nangi, a mountain village in western Nepal. In 1996, Mahabir Pun started using the school's Web site to attract volunteers and collect materials for the school. After requesting assistance from the BBC, Pun attracted volunteers and computer equipment donations from around the world. Pun used two small hydro-generators installed in nearby streams to power computers which had been donated by people in Australia, Singapore and Malaysia. In 2002, Wi-Fi-based wireless connectivity was established between Nangi and a neighbouring village, Ramche. After five years, the team succeeded in connecting Nangi to Pokhara, the closest city with Internet access.
Numerous institutions and technology firms provided support for the project, including the Donald Strauss Foundation, the International Center for Applied Studies in Information Technology at George Mason University, the World Bank, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Doodle Labs, Pacific Wireless and others. Besides the international support, local institutions including the E-Networking Research and Development, Gandaki College of Engineering and Sciences and Prime College also contributed to the project.
By 2008, forty-two villages in Myagdi, Kaski, Parbat, Makawanpur, Dolakha, Palpa, Bajhang and Khumbu region had acquired Internet access through the project. At that time, nineteen further villages in Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Gorakha, Tanahu, Myagdi and Baglung districts were also anticipating Internet access.
Nepal Wireless serviced more than 140 remote mountain villages.
Communications
Using Wi-Fi technology, many villages within the project region have been connected to the Public-switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Previously, most of them did not have telephone access. The communications centers in these villages now provide call services, Internet access, and video conferencing facilities. These centers are also capable of providing photocopying, document processing and photography services.
Distance Education
High school students began using the Internet for educational purposes, and using e-mail to communicate with fellow students abroad.
The project worked with the Open Learning Exchange, Nepal Research and Education Network, a non-governmental organization, to develop interactive educational materials based on government curricula. While live distance education programs have been tested, due to poor video quality, the project is seeking technical assistance to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Jones%20%28programmer%29 | David Jones is a former freelance computer game programmer who was prolific in the mid-to-late 1980s. He is best known for the creation of the cult computer game character Magic Knight in his 1985 game Finders Keepers for the Mastertronic budget label and released on the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX and Commodore 64. He later went on to work for Psygnosis and Acclaim.
Finders Keepers spawned three cult sequels: Spellbound (1985), Knight Tyme (1986) and Stormbringer (1987).
In 2019, Jones donated the Tandy TRS-80 Model III computer that he used to create the Magic Knight series of games to The Centre for Computing History. Also donated were many floppy disks, and a hard disk that containing source code and assets for many of his games. The data will be preserved as part of the Centre's ongoing video game preservation work.
As of 2019, Jones is a Games Lecturer at Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.
References
Video game programmers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aangan%20Terha | Aangan Terha (, ) was a satirical Pakistani drama presented by the PTV network in the year 1984. The show starred Salim Nasir, Shakeel, Arshad Mehmood, Durdana Butt and Bushra Ansari in lead roles. It was directed by Qaiser Farooq and written by Anwar Maqsood.
Plot and main theme
The drama is based on many stories on multiple issues of the society and indirect criticism of the martial law and the military regime in Pakistan and the electoral system. Many major Pakistani stars and artists played guest roles in the drama including great comedians like Lehri, Moin Akhtar and Mahmood Ali. The twist occurs when the writer Anwar Maqsood appears near the end of the serial to inform the characters that the serial is about to end.
Lead characters
Mehboob Ahmed, a retired civil servant, played by Shakeel
Jahan Ara Begum, Mehboob Ahmed's wife, played by Bushra Ansari
Akbar, domestic help of Mehboob Ahmed and Jahan Ara Begum, previously a classical dancer, played by Salim Nasir
Chaudhry Sahib, Mehboob Ahmed's neighbor, played by Arshad Mehmood
Sultana Sahiba, Chaudhry Sahib's sister, played by Durdana Butt
Guest appearances
Moin Akhtar
Lehri
Alamgir
Mahmood Ali
Anwar Maqsood as Himself
Qazi Wajid
Azra Sherwani
Shakeel
Sultana Zafar as Maryam
Latif Kapadia
Asif Raza Mir as Bunty
References
Pakistani drama television series
Urdu-language television shows
Pakistan Television Corporation original programming
Television shows set in Karachi
Pakistani television sitcoms
1980s Pakistani television series
Pakistani television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chooser | Chooser can refer to:
Choosing, to select freely and after consideration.
A user interface on a computer that allows the user to choose items from large collections of data.
Apple Chooser, an application for Macintosh systems.
Spectasia 3D Chooser, an application for Windows and Macintosh systems.
nl:Chooser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comteq%20Computer%20and%20Business%20College | COMTEQ Computer and Business College in Olongapo City, Philippines, is a non-stock, non-profit educational institution mainly focusing on IT studies and business-related learning that offers its services chiefly to students from the Olongapo, Zambales and Bataan areas.
History
COMTEQ was originally founded as an institution teaching computer literacy courses to high school students. The school was later incorporated and proceeded to offer two-year computer courses from rented premises at National Highway, Kalaklan, Olongapo City with fewer than 100 students.
The student population grew to about 150+ and the courses offered became more varied, to include four-year bachelor degree courses. Realizing the need for better facilities and more space, COMTEQ moved inside the Subic Bay Freeport.
In late 2010, after the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority decided to use the school lot as space for a new shopping mall, SBMA transferred COMTEQ to Bldg Q-8131 where they share the location with the University of the Philippines Diliman Extension Program in Olongapo. In December 2017, COMTEQ transferred to where they are closer and more accessible by the majority of their more than 500 students. The new COMTEQ Computer and Business College is currently located in 1200 Rizal Avenue, Olongapo City.
Programs offered
College
Bachelor of Computer Science, BSCS, 4-year
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, BSIT, 4-year
Associate in Computer Technology, ACT, 2-year
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Major in Human Resource Management, BSBA-HRM, 4-year
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Major in Operations Management, BSBA-OM, 4-year
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy, BSA, 4-year
Technical-Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
Computer Systems Servicing NC II
Senior High School Programs:
Academic Track
* Accounting and Business Management (ABM)
* Humanities and Social Sciences (Humms)
Technical Vocational (tech-voc) Livelihood Track
* Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
- Computer Systems Servicing, formerly Computer Hardware Servicing
* Industrial Arts, NC-II
- Electronic Products Assembly and Servicing, formerly Consumers Electronics Servicing
* Home Economics
- Food and Beverage Services, NC-II
- Front Office Services, NC-II
- Housekeeping, NC-II
- Bartending, NC-II
Major Awards
TESDA I.T. Skills Provincial Competition Over-All Champion (since 2013 to 2019)
Globe G-nius National Winner
PRISAA Provincial Basketball Champion (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
1st SBFCC League Champion
References
External links
Universities and colleges in Olongapo
Business schools in the Philippines
Educational institutions established in 1997
1997 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Committee%20on%20the%20Rights%20of%20Sex%20Workers%20in%20Europe | The International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE), originally formed as the International Committee for Prostitutes' Rights (ICPR) in 1985, is a sex worker-led network for sex workers' rights, representing more than 100 organisations led by or working with sex workers in 35 countries in Europe and Central Asia, as well as 200 individuals. Since its 2005 relaunch as ICRSE, it is registered as a nonprofit foundation in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
History
In the mid-1970s a highly politicised prostitutes' rights movement (later known as the sex workers' rights movement) emerged in Europe. Starting with the strike by French prostitutes in 1975, which led to the creation of the French Collective of Prostitutes and in turn inspired the formation of groups such as the English Collective of Prostitutes in England (1975), the New York Prostitutes Collective (1979) which later became USPROS, the Australian Prostitutes Collective (1981) which is now known as the Prostitutes Collective of Victoria (PCV), and the Italian Committee for Civil Rights of Prostitutes (1982). The Canadian Organisation for the Rights of Prostitutes (CORP), the Dutch Red Thread and HYDRA in Germany also assumed significant roles in the movement. The International Committee for Prostitutes Rights was formed in 1985.
The ICPR adopted the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights in 1985 in response to feminist arguments that all prostitution is forced prostitution. The Charter calls for the decriminalisation of "all aspects of adult prostitution resulting from individual decision". The Charter also states that prostitutes should be guaranteed "all human rights and civil liberties, including the freedom of speech, travel, immigration, work, marriage, and motherhood and the right to unemployment insurance, health insurance and housing". The Charter established a human rights-based approach, which has subsequently been further elaborated by the sex workers' rights movement.
The ICPR was relaunched as the International Committee for the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) in Amsterdam in 2005, and drew up another charter of rights for sex workers, with a focus on European countries.
See also
A Vindication of the Rights of Whores
COYOTE
International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Margo St. James
Sex worker rights
Sex worker
References
Bibliography
External links
International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) – Global Network of Sex Work Projects
International professional associations
Sex worker organisations based in the Netherlands
Sex workers' rights |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BodyKom | BodyKom is a mobile heart monitoring service that enable care personnel to receive the ECG of heart patients via the mobile network. The patients can be mobile and perform their everyday activities yet remain under observation. The caregiver receives diagnosis data immediately when the patient's heart starts acting abnormally. Through a backend system the clinician can set patient individual limits to support finding the abnormal heart functionality for the patient. Measures can be initiated automatically, for example by notifying the clinician and informing relatives.
The use of BodyKom does not require any change in the care routines at the hospital, other than the patient getting a new type of patient kit which includes ECG electrodes, a small portable sensor and a smart cell phone. Monitoring data is collected by the sensor and is wirelessly transferred to the cell phone. The ECG data is then transferred via the mobile network to a decision support system for adjustment and then forwarded to the caregivers system for analysis. From a medical and technical point of view, the patient is connected in the same way as with conventional ECG methods, like using a Holter monitor.
BodyKom was developed by Kiwok in cooperation with Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden.
External links
Medical equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabath%20Act | The Sabath Act was a Federal law that established an immigrant protection network.
Provisions
It was sponsored by Rep. Adolph J. Sabath (D) of Illinois. The act (passed in July, 1913) established Federal Bureaus at railroad junctures and stations to protect immigrants from local nativists and to aid newly arrived immigrants to the United States who were traveling cross-country to their final destinations. The government rented buildings near the stations and equipped them with reception rooms, baths, laundry, and beds. After the immigration restrictions of the early 1920s, Congress failed to appropriate any further funds for the act and, while still on the books, it fell into disuse.
1913 in American law
United States federal legislation
History of immigration to the United States
United States immigration law |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20Creek%20Patrol%20Cabin | The Ford Creek Patrol Cabin in Glacier National Park was built in 1928. The National Park Service Rustic log structure was a significant resource both architecturally and historically as a network of shelters, approx. one day's travel apart, for patrolling backcountry rangers.
The Ford Creek cabin was the first of four identical cabins built to National Park Service plan G913 in 1928-29 by private contractors, described as "good log men", at a total cost of $350.
It was destroyed in a suspected arson fire in late July 2020.
References
Ranger stations in Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana
Residential buildings completed in 1928
Log cabins in the United States
National Park Service rustic in Montana
National Register of Historic Places in Flathead County, Montana
Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana
1928 establishments in Montana
National Register of Historic Places in Glacier National Park |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerner%20CCL | Cerner CCL (Cerner Command Language) is the Cerner Corporation fourth-generation programming language, which is expressed in the Cerner Discern Explorer solution. CCL is patterned after the Structured Query Language (SQL). All Cerner Millennium health information technology solutions use CCL/Discern Explorer to select from, insert into, update into and delete from a Cerner Millennium database and allows a programmer to fetch data from an Oracle database and display it as the user wants to see. With features like Record Structure and subroutines it allows a user to get data from a database and manipulate it by storing it in a temporary structure; execute a particular section of the code, if required using a subroutine.
Complete for CCL (Cerner Command Language) is provided by Cerner Corporation.
Discern Explorer provides several applications that can be used to create, execute, and analyze ad hoc queries, reports and programs. These applications provide flexibility in the skill set needed to build programs and design reports. Discern Explorer programs can be written using, VisualExplorer.exe (VE), DiscernVisualDeveloper.exe (DVDev), an operating system command-line editor, or any other text editor. ExplorerMenu.exe (EM) is used to execute Discern Explorer programs on demand. ExplorerAnalyzer.exe (EA) allows its users to analyze the system resources used by RDBMS queries.
CCL Hello World examples:
Example 1
call echo("Hello World!") go
Example 2
drop program helloworld2 go
create program helloworld2
call echo("Hello World!")
end go
Example 3
drop program helloworld3 go
create program helloworld3
PAINT
call TEXT(1,1, "Hello World!")
end go
Example 4 class example
DROP PROGRAM JCMCLASS1A GO
CREATE PROGRAM JCMCLASS1A
CREATE CLASS c_pat
;The c_pat class is an example class type which encapsulates the demographic members as well as the
;methods needed to operate on this class.
;The class consists of optional sections with member and methods denoted with a namespace
init ;class constructor
call echo("init c_pat class section")
DECLARE _::pvar1 = vc WITH CONSTANT("pvar1 test") ;class instance member (default if namespace omitted)
DECLARE class::pvar2 = vc WITH NOCONSTANT("pvar2 test") ;class member shared across instances
DECLARE _::pvar3 = vc WITH CONSTANT("pvar3 test")
DECLARE private::pvar4 = i4 ;private class instance member
DECLARE _::instance_name = vc
RECORD _::rec1(
1 qual
2 birth_dt_tm = dq8
2 race = c2
2 religion = c2
2 year = i4
2 month = i4
2 day = i4
)
DECLARE _::set_month(year=i4,month=i4,day=i4) = null
call echo(build("class::pvar2=",class::pvar2))
SUBROUTINE _::set_month(year,month,day)
SET _::rec1->year = year
SET _::rec1->month = month
SET _::rec1->day = day
END |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure%20chart | A structure chart (SC) in software engineering and organizational theory is a chart which shows the breakdown of a system to its lowest manageable levels. They are used in structured programming to arrange program modules into a tree. Each module is represented by a box, which contains the module's name. The tree structure visualizes the relationships between modules.
Overview
A structure chart is a top-down modular design tool, constructed of squares representing the different modules in the system, and lines that connect them. The lines represent the connection and or ownership between activities and subactivities as they are used in organization charts.
In structured analysis structure charts, according to Wolber (2009), "are used to specify the high-level design, or architecture, of a computer program. As a design tool, they aid the programmer in dividing and conquering a large software problem, that is, recursively breaking a problem down into parts that are small enough to be understood by a human brain. The process is called top-down design, or functional decomposition. Programmers use a structure chart to build a program in a manner similar to how an architect uses a blueprint to build a house. In the design stage, the chart is drawn and used as a way for the client and the various software designers to communicate. During the actual building of the program (implementation), the chart is continually referred to as "the master-plan".
A structure chart depicts
the size and complexity of the system, and
number of readily identifiable functions and modules within each function and
whether each identifiable function is a manageable entity or should be broken down into smaller components.
A structure chart is also used to diagram associated elements that comprise a run stream or thread. It is often developed as a hierarchical diagram, but other representations are allowable. The representation must describe the breakdown of the configuration system into subsystems and the lowest manageable level. An accurate and complete structure chart is the key to the determination of the configuration items (CI), and a visual representation of the configuration system and the internal interfaces among its CIs(define CI clearly). During the configuration control process, the structure chart is used to identify CIs and their associated artifacts that a proposed change may impact.
Structure chart construction
According to Wolber (2009), "a structure chart can be developed starting with the creating of a structure, which places the root of an upside-down tree which forms the structure chart. The next step is to conceptualize the main sub-tasks that must be performed by the program to solve the problem. Next, the programmer focuses on each sub-task individually, and conceptualizes how each can be broken down into even smaller tasks. Eventually, the program is broken down to a point where the leaves of the tree represent simple methods that can be cod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa-Europe%20Group%20for%20Interdisciplinary%20Studies | AEGIS is a research network of European centres on African studies in the fields of social science and humanities. AEGIS' main goal is to improve understanding about contemporary African societies.
History and organisation
AEGIS was founded in 1991 by African studies centres in Bayreuth, Bordeaux, Leiden, London, and Uppsala. Initially an informal grouping of related African Studies' organisations and groups, AEGIS would formalise in 1998 through the adoption of a formal statute. In the same year, it elected its first executive committee, composed of Patrick Chabal (London, Chairman), Gerti Hesseling (Leiden) and Franz-Wilhelm Heimer (Lisbon). In the course of a decade, it developed into a network that included centres from more European countries.
Starting in 1998, international conferences on a variety of thematic areas were organized in different countries. AEGIS continues to host thematic conferences (not to be confused with the ECAS gatherings, detailed below).
AEGIS organises itself into small thematic groups (also called Collaborative Research Groups, or CRGS), focusing on specific subjects within the field of African Studies. Examples include 'CRG Africa in the Indian Ocean', 'CRG African Borderlands Research Network' and 'CRG African Migration, Mobility and Displacement (AMMODI)'.
The current board consists of AEGIS President and Professor Amanda Hammar (CAS Copenhagen), Dr. David Ambrosetti (LAM Bordeaux), Professor Michael Bollig (Cologne), Professor Jan-Bart Gewald (Leiden), Dr. Tom Molony (Edinburgh) and Dr. Isabella Soi (Cagliari).
European Conferences on African Studies (ECAS)
In the new millennium, the organization of European Conferences on African Studies (ECAS), open to everybody, became the central activity. The conferences take place every two years, always in a different country. ECAS 2021, scheduled to be held in Cologne, was postponed to June 2023.
2005 : Approaching the post-colonial half century in sub-Saharan Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London (UK)
2007 : African alternatives: initiative and creativity beyond current constraints, African Studies Centre Leiden (Netherlands)
2009 : Respacing Africa, Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig (Germany)
2011 : African engagements: on whose terms?, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala (Sweden)
2013 : African dynamics in a multipolar world, Centro de estudos africanos, Lisbonne (Portugal)
2015 : Collective mobilisations in Africa: contestation, resistance, revolt, Institut des mondes africains (IMAF) et Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM), Paris (France)
2017 : Urban Africa - urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban, Centre for African Studies Basel, Swiss Society for African Studies, Bâle (Switzerland)
2019 : Africa: connections and disruptions, Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh (UK)
2021 : no ECAS because of the COVID-19 pandemic
2023 : African futures (ECAS9), Global South Studies Center (University of Colog |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Transactions%20on%20Computer-Human%20Interaction | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on human–computer interaction. It was established in 1994 and is published by the Association for Computing Machinery.
Editors-in-chief
The following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal:
Ken Hinckley, Microsoft Research (2016–present)
Shumin Zhai, IBM Almaden Research Center (2009–2015)
John M. Carroll (2003–2009)
Jonathan Grudin (1997–2003)
Dan R. Olsen, Jr. (1994–1997)
External links
Human–computer interaction journals
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20e-Collaboration | The International Journal of e-Collaboration is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the interdisciplinary field of e-collaboration at the intersection of human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, and electronic commerce. It was established in 2005 and is published by IGI Global.
Editors
The following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal:
2017-present: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Information Resources Management Association)
2004-2017: Founding Editor: Ned Kock (Texas A&M International University)
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the ACM Digital Library, Inspec, PsycINFO, and Scopus.
References
External links
Business and management journals
Human–computer interaction journals
Academic journals established in 2005
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
e-Collaboration, International Journal of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Environment%20Network%20for%20Manchester | The Environment Network for Manchester (EN4M) is a group of environmental organisations centered in Manchester, England. Their activities focus on creating a sustainable urban environment and include but are not limited to: recycling, conservation, promotion of renewable energy use, and pollution control. EN4M allows local environmental groups to coordinate their efforts and share resources.
The Environment Network for Manchester was formed by MERCi.
MERCi the charity closed in 2017 and the EN4M newsletter was discontinued due to lack of funding, the EN4M group itself had ceased to exist some time before, again due to lack of funding. There is still a Facebook Group "Environment News for Greater Manchester". Bridge 5 Mill, which MERCi established, is still running under the ownership of the Fairfield Environment Trust and while it doesn't run EN4M, it continues to serve as a hub for Environmental Groups. Its Twitter and Facebook pages also perform some of the news role that EN4M served.
Awards
In September 2008 The Community Network for Manchester (CN4M) Awarded The Environment Network for Manchester for excellent publicity and outreach.
References
External links
The Environment Network for Manchester
Environmental organisations based in England
Organisations based in Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where.com | Where, Inc. was a location-based media company in North America. Their main products were the WHERE consumer application and WHERE Ads, a hyper-local ad network that connected merchants with local audiences. PayPal announced its acquisition of Where, Inc. in 2011 for $135 million.
History
Where, Inc. was founded in 2004 under the name Communications, Inc. by partners, Geoff Palmer, Frank Schroth, and Alan Phillips. spent its early days creating family tracking services as well as building location-based applications for companies such as MapQuest and Helio.
In 2007, WHERE launched as a location-based mobile service for consumers.
WHERE provides hyper-local information and user generated content about weather, news, movies, restaurant and business reviews, cheap gas, coupons and offers, traffic, etc. Brands such as Starbucks, Yellow Pages and Zipcar use WHERE to reach local audiences by providing data for various features within WHERE. For example, a Starbucks feature lets users search for and find directions to the Starbucks nearest their current location. In 2010, the company grew to over 50 people, moving into larger facilities in Boston. During this year, it launched the Placebook feature, which Facebook contested due to its last syllable of "book".
The company was venture-backed by Kodiak Venture Partners, Grand Banks Capital and Venrock and based in Boston. Prior to its acquisition by eBay in 2011, several industry experts sat on its board including Craig Forman and Jim Bankoff, CEO of Vox Media.
Products
Where.com
The consumer site Where.com launched in March 2010. The Website is a local search and recommendation portal that allows people to find local events, read reviews and other business information, and write their own reviews. On Where.com, people can also create their own user accounts or use their current WHERE mobile application account information to build a personal profile.
WHERE Ads
WHERE Ads is a hyper-local ad network that localizes traditional advertising techniques with improved performance for better results. Ads engage consumers through location relevance, design optimizing, and delivery format flexibility. In May 2012, WHERE Ads became PayPal Media Network (PPMN).
Patents
The firm possesses several patents including one for geo-fencing location technology and one for auto-snap location technology.
Availability
WHERE is available in North America and can be downloaded for a monthly fee from the Android Market, BlackBerry App World, iOS App Store, and Palm App Catalog. WHERE is also available from the AT&T MEdia Mall, T-Mobile web2go, and VZW V Cast Apps.
Wireless carriers — AT&T, Boost Mobile, Helio, MetroPCS, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Virgin
Mobile smartphone devices — Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm, Windows Phone 7
PayPal/eBay acquisition
Management team
PayPal acquired Where.com in 2011. At the time, the management consisted of the following:
Walt Doyle, CEO
Jerry King, COO
Ivan Mitrovic, CTO
Mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungible%20information | Fungible information is the information for which the means of encoding is not important. Classical information theorists and computer scientists are mainly concerned with information of this sort.
It is sometimes referred as speakable information.
References
Information theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Shoebox | The IBM Shoebox was a 1961 IBM computer that was able to perform mathematical functions and provide speech recognition. It was capable of recognizing 16 spoken words, including the digits from 0 through 9.
It was developed by William C. Dersch in the Advanced Systems Development Division Laboratory at IBM
History
It was displayed at the IBM Pavilion during the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
It was approximately the size and shape of a standard American shoebox. It had a display of ten small lamp lights labeled with the digits 0 through 9 and an attached microphone. Speaking the name of the digit into the microphone would cause the appropriate digit lamp to light.
Inside the box were a power supply, three analog audio filters and some (presumably) Diode-Resistor-Logic circuitry. The design allowed for the recognition of each digit name “Zero”, “One”, Two” … “Nine” and its front, middle, and ending sound. (Sometimes no middle). And that each sound was high pitched, middle pitched or low pitched. Example: “Five” is High-Middle-High. “Zero” is High-Middle-Low. The microphone was connected to the three audio filters for high, middle, and low pass. The filters latched the logic based decoder and switched one of the ten lamps.
Early development in Natural Language Processing, like the IBM Shoebox, has influenced development in fields such as speech recognition, including things like "voice dialing", "call routing", and "automated appliance control".
See also
Speech recognition
List of IBM products
References
External links
IBM Shoebox at the IBM archives
Shoebox
Speech recognition software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Duckman%20episodes | Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man is an American adult animated sitcom created by Everett Peck for the USA Network. It follows Eric Tiberius Duckman, a private detective duck, his sidekick Cornfed, and Duckman's family life as a single father. The series ran from March 5, 1994, to September 6, 1997, for 70 episodes. The series is based on characters created by Peck in a comic book published by Dark Horse Comics in 1990. It was produced in association with Paramount Network Television and animated by Klasky Csupo, who concurrently were also working on Nickelodeon productions such as Aaahh!!! Real Monsters and Rugrats.
Throughout its four-season run, Duckman was met with critical acclaim. IGN ranked Duckman as 48th in its 2009 list of "Top 100 Best Animated TV Shows". The episodes "T.V. or Not to Be", "Noir Gang", and "Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'" were nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program in 1994, 1996, and 1997, respectively.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1994)
Season 2 (1995)
Season 3 (1996)
Season 4 (1997)
Notes
References
External links
Lists of American adult animated television series episodes
Lists of American sitcom episodes
Episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Computer-Mediated%20Communication | The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication JCMC is a quarterly open access peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the interdisciplinary field of computer-mediated communication. It was established in 1994 and is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Communication Association.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2018 impact factor was 4.896, ranking 1st out of 88 in the category "Communication" and 2nd out of 89 in the category "Information Science & Library Science".
Editors
The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:
2018–present Richard Ling (Nanyang Technological University)
2014–2017: Shyam Sundar (Pennsylvania State University)
2011–2013: Maria Bakardjieva (University of Calgary)
2008–2010: Kevin Wright (University of Oklahoma)
2005–2007: Susan Herring (Indiana University)
1994–2004: Founding Editors: Margaret McLaughlin (University of Southern California) and Sheizaf Rafaeli (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Haifa)
External links
Computer science journals
Academic journals established in 1995
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Communication journals
Educational technology journals
Oxford University Press academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polebridge%20to%20Numa%20Ridge%20Phoneline | The Polebridge to Numa Ridge Phoneline is a historic communications path in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The line was the last remaining single-line crank telephone network in the American West. The remaining line, insulators, and terminals are instructive of early communication technology. The system includes the remains of a single strand system using an earth ground. Wire was strung through ceramic insulators mounted on trees. Phone poles still stand in the meadow south of Kishenehn Ranger Station, and a phone remains in place at Bowman Lake.
The line starts at Polebridge Ranger Station, passing Skyland Camp-Bowman Lake Ranger Station, then Numa Ridge Fire Lookout. The first sections were constructed in 1911, with additions to connect ranger stations through the 1930s. In later years, FM radio saw greater use and the extent of the phone system declined. The Polebridge-Numa line persisted until 1985, when it was officially shut down, although unofficial use continued through 1988.
References
External links
Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana
History of telecommunications in the United States
Telecommunications infrastructure on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places in Flathead County, Montana
1927 establishments in Montana
National Register of Historic Places in Glacier National Park
Infrastructure completed in 1927
1927 in technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20force-field%20implementations | This is a table of notable computer programs implementing molecular mechanics force fields.
See also
Force field (chemistry)
List of software for Monte Carlo molecular modeling
Molecular mechanics
Molecular design software
Molecule editor
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
Molecular modeling on GPU
References
Force fields (chemistry)
Molecular modelling
Software comparisons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulirsch%E2%80%93Stoer%20algorithm | In numerical analysis, the Bulirsch–Stoer algorithm is a method for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations which combines three powerful ideas: Richardson extrapolation, the use of rational function extrapolation in Richardson-type applications, and the modified midpoint method, to obtain numerical solutions to ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with high accuracy and comparatively little computational effort. It is named after Roland Bulirsch and Josef Stoer. It is sometimes called the Gragg–Bulirsch–Stoer (GBS) algorithm because of the importance of a result about the error function of the modified midpoint method, due to William B. Gragg.
Underlying ideas
The idea of Richardson extrapolation is to consider a numerical calculation whose accuracy depends on the used stepsize h as an (unknown) analytic function of the stepsize h, performing the numerical calculation with various values of h, fitting a (chosen) analytic function to the resulting points, and then evaluating the fitting function for h = 0, thus trying to approximate the result of the calculation with infinitely fine steps.
Bulirsch and Stoer recognized that using rational functions as fitting functions for Richardson extrapolation in numerical integration is superior to using polynomial functions because rational functions are able to approximate functions with poles rather well (compared to polynomial functions), given that there are enough higher-power terms in the denominator to account for nearby poles. While a polynomial interpolation or extrapolation only yields good results if the nearest pole is rather far outside a circle around the known data points in the complex plane, rational function interpolation or extrapolation can have remarkable accuracy even in the presence of nearby poles.
The modified midpoint method by itself is a second-order method, and therefore generally inferior to fourth-order methods like the fourth-order Runge–Kutta method. However, it has the advantage of requiring only one derivative evaluation per substep (asymptotically for a large number of substeps), and, in addition, as discovered by Gragg, the error of a modified midpoint step of size H, consisting of n substeps of size h = H/n each, and expressed as a power series in h, contains only even powers of h. This makes the modified midpoint method extremely useful to the Bulirsch–Stoer method as the accuracy increases two orders at a time when the results of separate attempts to cross the interval H with increasing numbers of substeps are combined.
, in their discussion of the method, say that rational extrapolation in this case is nearly never an improvement over polynomial interpolation . Furthermore, the modified midpoint method is a modification of the regular midpoint method to make it more stable, but because of the extrapolation this does not really matter .
References
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External links
ODEX.F, implementation of the Bulirsch–Stoer algorithm by Ernst Ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDN | TDN may refer to:
ISO 639-3 code for Tondano language
Naval Aircraft Factory TDN, a target drone produced by the U.S. Naval Aircraft Factory during the Second World War
Televisa Deportes Network, a Mexican television sports channel
Three Dog Night, American rock group
1,1,6-Trimethyl-1,2-dihydronaphthalene, an aroma compound in wine
Turkish Daily News, an English language newspaper in Turkey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend%20of%20the%20Guardians%3A%20The%20Owls%20of%20Ga%27Hoole | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole is a 2010 3D computer-animated fantasy adventure film directed by Zack Snyder. Based on the Guardians of Ga'Hoole book series by Kathryn Lasky, the film was written by John Orloff and Emil Stern and features the voices of Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Ryan Kwanten, Anthony LaPaglia, Miriam Margolyes, Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh, and David Wenham. An international co-production between the United States and Australia, the film was produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Animal Logic, following their success with the 2006 film Happy Feet. In the film, Soren (Sturgess), a barn owl, is kidnapped and taken to St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls led by Metal Beak (Joel Edgerton) and Nyra (Mirren), where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He befriends a fellow owl named Gylfie (Barclay), and they later escape the facility to find the Island of Ga'Hoole with new-found friends and together fight against the evil army.
Legend of the Guardians was theatrically released in RealD 3D and IMAX 3D in North America on September 24, 2010, and in Australia on September 30, 2010, by Warner Bros. Pictures; it was accompanied by a new 3D Looney Tunes cartoon entitled Fur of Flying. The film grossed over $140 million worldwide against a budget of $80 million. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its dark tone, animation, and voice performances, but criticized its screenplay and felt it did not live up to its full potential.
Plot
Soren, a young barn owl, lives in the kingdom of Tyto Forest with his family. Soren enjoys listening to his father's stories of the "Guardians of Ga'Hoole," valiant warrior owls who fought the evil Pure Ones. Kludd, Soren's older brother, becomes jealous of Soren after they are taught how to fly and pushes him off a branch, causing them both to fall to the ground. The brothers are kidnapped by Jatt and Jutt, two owls who work for the Pure Ones, and taken to the St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls.
The Pure Ones' queen, Nyra, announces that the owls will either become soldiers or pickers (owls who find " flecks," bits of magnetic metal that are used to build a superweapon). While Kludd becomes a soldier, Soren and another owl named Gylfie become pickers and are put through a brainwashing process called "moon-blinking," but they resist. A boreal owl named Grimble teaches them to fly and tells them to find the Great Tree of Ga'Hoole, but Nyra finds out and kills him. Soren and Gylfie escape and soon meet two more owls named Digger and Twilight. In their hollow, Soren reunites with Mrs. P, a western blind snake who is his family's nest maid. She agrees to go with them and find the Guardians.
The owls fly towards the sea of Hoolemere and reach the legendary shrine of the Guardians, guarded by an oracular echidna who helps the owls find the Island of Ga'Hoole. While flying, the band encounters a fierce snowst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alteon | Alteon may refer to:
Alteon Inc., initial developers of Alagebrium
Alteon Training, an aircraft training school owned by The Boeing Company
Alteon WebSystems, a network products manufacturer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siurana%2C%20Alt%20Empord%C3%A0 | Siurana is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain located just south of Figueres.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Alt Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrapper%20function | A wrapper function is a function (another word for a subroutine) in a software library or a computer program whose main purpose is to call a second subroutine or a system call with little or no additional computation. Wrapper functions are used to make writing computer programs easier by abstracting away the details of a subroutine's underlying implementation.
Purpose
Wrapper functions are a means of delegation and can be used for a number of purposes.
Programming convenience
Wrapper functions can be used to make writing computer programs easier. An example of this is the MouseAdapter and similar classes in the Java AWT library.
Wrapper functions are useful in the development of applications that use third-party library functions. A wrapper can be written for each of the third party functions and used in the native application. In case the third party functions change or are updated, only the wrappers in the native application need to be modified as opposed to changing all instances of third party functions in the native application.
Adapting class/object interfaces
Wrapper functions can be used to adapt an existing class or object to have a different interface. This is especially useful when using existing library code.
Code testing
Wrapper functions can be used to write error checking routines for pre-existing system functions without increasing the length of a code by a large amount by repeating the same error check for each call to the function. All calls to the original function can be replaced with calls to the wrapper, allowing the programmer to forget about error checking once the wrapper is written.
A test driver is a kind of wrapper function that exercises a code module, typically calling it repeatedly, with different settings or parameters, in order to rigorously pursue each possible path. It is not deliverable code, but is not throwaway code either, being typically retained for use in regression testing.
An interface adaptor is a kind of wrapper function that simplifies, tailors, or amplifies the interface to a code module, with the intent of making it more intelligible or relevant to the user. It may rename parameters, combine parameters, set defaults for parameters, and the like.
Multiple inheritance
In a programming language that does not support multiple inheritance of base classes, wrapper functions can be used to simulate it. Below is an example of part of a Java class that "inherits" from LinkedList and HashSet. See Method for further implementation details.
public class Test implements LinkedList, HashSet{
@Override
//contains data members and data methods
//covariant return
}
Library functions and system calls
Many library functions, such as those in the C Standard Library, act as interfaces for abstraction of system calls. The fork and execve functions in glibc are examples of this. They call the lower-level fork and execve system calls, respectively.
This may lead to incorrectly using the terms "system call |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayathri%20Mudigonda | Gayathri Mudigonda (born September 3, 1983, in India) is an Indian–Swedish actress.
Filmography
2008: Bombay Dreams – Ebba
References
External links
Svensk Filmdatabas - Gayathri Mudigonda
Swedish actresses
Living people
1983 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7%20Gold | 7 Gold is an Italy-based television network, Founded in 1999 by the Italian business people Giorgio Tacchino, Giorgio Galante and Luigi Ferretti, owned by some its affiliated, and operates as a broadcast network.
It airs TV series, movies, news and weather bulletins, political and sports debates programs and infomercials.
History
It was founded on 31 May 1999 under the name Italia 7 Gold by the entrepreneurs Giorgio Tacchino, Giorgio Galante and Luigi Ferretti, respectively owners of Telecity, Telepadova and Sestarete, three broadcasters already affiliated to Italia 7 (from which Europa 7 was born), after Francesco Di Stefano, founder of Europa 7, it took part in the frequency assignment tender thus renouncing the syndication of local broadcasters which until then had broadcast the Europa 7 signal as they would have become useless.
The station is based in Assago, in the Milanese hinterland, which runs alongside the Castelletto d'Orba office in Piedmont. The network director is Giorgio Galante of Telepadova.
In 2001, when Telemontecarlo became La7, the publisher of the network warned Telecom Italia, owner of the nascent network, from using the name with the number "7" threatening legal actions and polemically marking their broadcasts with a logo bearing the words "La Sette" together with the official one, but the story did not have any sequel. On 15 February 2001, with the match PSV-Parma, Italia 7 Gold was the first circuit of local broadcasters to broadcast a UEFA Cup Round of 16.
Initially visible only in northern Italy, it spread a few years later to almost the whole national territory, registering a growing audience which, according to the Auditel surveys, reached peaks of 1.5%, especially in the evening and at night. In the summer of 2006, Telecity took the name Italia 7 on video with a different design from that of the old circuit instead of that of 7 Gold. The various conductors, furthermore, indicate the circuit now with that name. Since September 2006, after the 7 Gold name returned during the summer with a brand similar to the one there was for Italia 7, they have been using the golden logo.
From 10 December 2010 to the end of 2012, 7 Gold programming became visible on the Hot Bird satellite thanks to 7 Gold Telecity; subsequently due to the high satellite management costs, the broadcaster renounced satellite transmissions.
The network started "my7.tv" where you can see all the Diretta Stadio videos on your smartphone. It is also possible to interact with guests in the studio via an app for electronic devices.
On 10 September 2017, 7 Gold renewed its logo and graphics and inaugurates new studios at the headquarters, located in Assago, which allowed the start of the transmission of contents in 16:9. Consequently, the "Silver Production" company was born, an equal joint venture between PRS Mediagroup and 7 Gold. Thus the Prs, as well as being the national advertising agency for 7 Gold, de facto also plays the role of publisher.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20A5000 | The Power A5000 was a planned Amiga clone computer, announced by German DCE Computer Service GmbH and British Amiga peripherals manufacturer Power Computing Ltd. (Not to be confused with Power Computing Apple clone manufacturer). It was one of the first Amiga clone computers announced after Gateway purchased the Amiga in 1997.
The original Motorola 680x0 based system was revised in favor of the PowerPC G3 based system, since the future for the Amigas with 680x0 processors was very uncertain. In 1999, the A5000 was cancelled due to delay of hardware components and announcements of the new Amiga system Amiga Multimedia Convergence Computer (Amiga MCC) by Amiga, Inc.
Technical information
Original specifications
Motherboard: Baby AT-size 100% Amiga-compatible
CPU: Motorola 68030/50 MHz or 68040
Chipset: AGA
Drives:
1.44 MB floppy drive
1.7 GB IDE hard drive
10 - 24 speed IDE CD-ROM
Expansion:
Dual IDE interface
4 Zorro III slots
A bus slot for the addition of accelerators and MPEG card
Additional:
MPEG level 1 supported
PC or Amiga keyboard
A scan doubler for use with cheap PC monitors
Possible addition of PowerPC interface
Revised specifications
PowerPC G3 compatibility through Escena Brainstormer G3
68k emulation
WarpUp PPC software
A1200 accelerator slot compatible
Flicker Fixer
3x Active PCI slots
ATX motherboard
2x A4000-style videoslots
Connector for Zorro II backplane
See also
Amiga Walker
Amiga models and variants
References
Amiga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Jaagriti%20102.7%20FM | Radio Jaagriti 102.7 FM () is a 24-hour radio station in Trinidad and Tobago formed by the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha to broadcast Hindu religious programming and to address the needs of the Hindu community in the media.
Radio Jaagriti 102.7 FM began broadcasts on 19 January 2007 at approximately 5:07 pm.
See also
TV Jaagriti
Hinduism in Trinidad and Tobago
Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha
Radio in Trinidad and Tobago
List of religious radio stations
References
External links
jaagriti.com
Radio stations in Trinidad and Tobago
Hindu radio stations
Hinduism in Trinidad and Tobago
Radio stations established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-network%20interface%20ring | The common-network interface ring (CNI ring) provides common-channel signaling (CCS) functionality on several Alcatel-Lucent SS7 products. It was introduced by Western Electric in the early 1980s but is still used today in all 1AESS and 4ESS, offices, and most of the wireline 5ESS offices.
It was designed and manufactured at the combined Bell Labs–WECo location in Columbus, Ohio.
References
Telephony signals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JChemPaint | JChemPaint is computer software, a molecule editor and file viewer for chemical structures using 2D computer graphics.
It is free and open-source software, released under a GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). It is written in Java and so can run on the operating systems Windows, macOS, Linux, and Unix. There is a standalone application (editor), and two varieties of applet (editor and viewer) that can be integrated into web pages.
JChemPaint was initiated by Christoph Steinbeck and is currently being developed as part of The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK), and a Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) based JChemPaint application is being developed, as part of Bioclipse.
See also
List of molecular graphics systems
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
References
External links
The Chemistry Development Kit
Free chemistry software
Chemistry software for Linux
Free educational software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFL%20Game%20Day | AFL Game Day was an Australian television program broadcast on the Seven Network in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania and on 7mate in all other states. In Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania it aired following Weekend Sunrise.
The program focused on the current issues in the Australian Football League. It first aired on 16 March 2008 and aired at 10am on Sundays throughout the AFL season.
History
The weekly program was hosted by Hamish McLachlan and had regular guests such as Leigh Matthews, Mark Stevens, Jude Bolton, Cameron Ling or Jimmy Bartel. Several current players or coaches also appeared each week. The program was extended to 90 minutes in 2012, finishing at 11:30 am, meaning the last half-hour went head to head with the Nine Network's The Sunday Footy Show.
During the 2010 AFL finals series, the program was also broadcast on Thursday nights at 7:30 pm. A special Saturday morning edition has aired on the day of the Grand Final since 2012.
In March 2020, the program revealed a brand new set and graphics. However, in June 2020, the program was axed due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
Nat Edwards was the main fill-in presenter for McLachlan.
Host & panelists
Host
Hamish McLachlan
Panelists
Leigh Matthews
Jude Bolton
Cameron Ling
Mark Stevens
Nick Maxwell
Jimmy Bartel
Daisy Pearce
Kathleen Pettyfor (Injury Updates)
Nat Edwards (News Updates)
Former panelists
Mark Robinson
Tom Harley
Jon Anderson
Matthew Richardson
David Schwarz
Mark Ricciuto
Peter Larkins
See also
List of Australian television series
List of longest-running Australian television series
References
External links
Seven Network original programming
Television shows set in Melbourne
Australian rules football television series
2008 Australian television series debuts
2020 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian television series
English-language television shows
Seven Sport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Waiting%20Room%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Waiting Room is an Australian observational documentary series that began airing on the Nine Network on 4 December 2008.
Nine Network original programming
2008 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20Zero%20Heroes | Triple Zero Heroes is an Australian observational documentary series that airs on the Seven Network. It is an original production by FremantleMedia Australia.
Overview
Through interviews, dramatisations and the original 000 emergency call recordings, the series reconstructs emergencies where people have relied on the service to save loved ones from misadventure, serious injury and death.
In February 2009, police in New South Wales claimed that a 10-year-old boy saved his sister from drowning using CPR skills he learned from watching the first episode of the show.
Weekly ratings
The ratings for the series are in the table below (The viewers are in millions).
References
2009 Australian television series debuts
Seven Network original programming
Australian factual television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20for%20Mathematics%20and%20Computers%20in%20Simulation | The International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS) has the goal to establish means of communication between researchers on simulation. It is incorporated in the United States and Belgium, with affiliates in other countries. IMACS organizes conferences, and publishes scientific journals and books in affiliation with commercial publishers.
IMACS journals
Applied Numerical Mathematics (Elsevier)
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (Elsevier)
Journal of Theoretical and Computational Acoustics (World Scientific)
References
External links
Mathematical societies
Mathematics and Computers
Scientific organizations established in 1956 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMACS | IMACS or Imacs can refer to:
International Master in Cinema Studies, a network of European and American research universities delivering a common program in film studies
International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, a Belgian-American network for researchers on simulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel%20Music%20Network | The Gospel Music Network was a US commercial Christian cable television station launched in 1986 by Bill and Linda Airy. At the time, the Airys owned a full-service advertising agency in Albuquerque, New Mexico. One of the agency's clients was Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group. In 1986, Pepsi-Cola was interested in reaching an African-American audience for its Mountain Dew product. Research indicated that gospel music was a possible area for Mountain Dew sponsorship. With no gospel music programming available nationwide on any existing network, the Airys launched Gospel Music Network (GMN). A guiding tenet was that GMN would never ask for donations on-air but would rely on advertising sponsorships and license fees from distributors.
Initially funded directly by the Airys, GMN's format was similar to that of MTV, mostly broadcasting music videos. The network did not limit itself to particular styles of music, playing everything from southern and black gospel to the full spectrum of Contemporary Christian music. According to CCM Magazine it was the first network of its type. Later networks with similar programming include Z Music Television and the Gospel Music Channel.
After one year the channel had a viewership potential of two million people. In 1988, GMN was in negotiations for carriage with Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), a large cable MSO based in Englewood, CO. During those negotiations, TCI broached the issue of broadening GMN's line-up to include programming from a wide variety of faith traditions – Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish. TCI was interested in having one faith-based channel that would eschew on-air fundraising and that would serve the entire faith community as opposed to a channel for each denomination. In 1989, the Airys sold their advertising agency, moved their family to Denver, and Bill Airy began working for TCI as president of VISN Group, Inc., a new TCI subsidiary formed to merge GMN with the television programming efforts of the National Interfaith Cable Coalition (NICC), a coalition of various leaders from the mainline faith community loosely affiliated with the National Council of Churches. TCI agreed to underwrite the development of the new network (initially known as Vision Interfaith Satellite Network or VISN) which combined GMN with the programming available from NICC.
Ultimately VISN became the Faith & Values Channel in the mid 1990s and was eventually acquired by the Hallmark Channel. By the time Z Music Television was founded in 1991 there was no dedicated outlet for Christian music videos.
References
Evangelical television networks
Music video networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1986 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie%20to%20Me | Lie to Me (stylized as Lie to me*) is an American crime drama television series. It originally ran on the Fox network from January 21, 2009, to January 31, 2011. In the show, Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) and his colleagues in The Lightman Group accept assignments from third parties (commonly local and federal law enforcement), and assist in investigations, reaching the truth through applied psychology: interpreting microexpressions, through the Facial Action Coding System, and body language. In May 2009, the show was renewed for a second season consisting of 13 episodes; season two premiered on September 28, 2009. On November 24, 2009, Fox ordered an extra nine episodes for season two, bringing the season order to 22 episodes.
On May 12, 2010, Entertainment Weekly reported that Lie to Me received a 13-episode third season pick-up. The third season of Lie to Me was originally set to premiere on November 10, 2010. On September 28, 2010, the date was moved up to October 4, 2010, because of the cancellation of Lone Star. On May 11, 2011, Fox canceled Lie to Me after three seasons.
The show is inspired by the work of Paul Ekman, a specialist on facial expressions and a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. Ekman has been an advisor to police departments and anti-terrorism groups. He was a scientific consultant in the production of the series. The lead character of Lie to Me, Cal Lightman, is based on Ekman.
Cast and characters
Main
Tim Roth as Dr. Cal Lightman, a brilliant expert in the science of body language, especially microexpressions, and founder of The Lightman Group, a private company that operates as an independent contractor to assist investigations of local and federal law enforcement through applied psychology. Though often confronted by people's skepticism, Lightman uses any technique he deems necessary to reach the truth, however elaborate or confronting. He is divorced and shares custody of his teenage daughter. He cares deeply about his colleague Gillian Foster; and there is a chemistry between them that has yet to develop into anything more although, in the Season 3 finale, he confesses to his daughter that he loves her. His mother committed suicide while he was still young, an event that led him to discovering and researching microexpressions. There is evidence he was involved with British Intelligence in Northern Ireland. Lightman also mentioned interrogating militant suspects recalling his release of one suspect resulted in the shootings of 6 and the deaths of 3 in a murder operation the suspect subsequently carried out. He has also admitted to being an MI6 intelligence agent during the Yugoslav Wars (1994) in an attempt to gain the trust of an intelligence agent that he was interrogating. Lightman is a West Ham United supporter as he mentions himself in Season 2, and was seen wearing a Claret and Blue scarf in one of the later episodes of Season 2.
Kelli Williams a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facelets | In computing, Facelets is an open-source Web template system under the Apache license and the default view handler technology (aka view declaration language) for Jakarta Server Faces (JSF; formerly JavaServer Faces). The language requires valid input XML documents to work. Facelets supports all of the JSF UI components and focuses completely on building the JSF component tree, reflecting the view for a JSF application.
Although both JSP and JSF technologies have been improved to work better together, Facelets eliminates the issues noted in Hans Bergsten's article "Improving JSF by Dumping JSP"
Facelets draws on some of the ideas from Apache Tapestry, and is similar enough to draw comparison. The project is conceptually similar to Tapestry's, which treats blocks of HTML elements as framework components backed by Java classes. Facelets also has some similarities to the Apache Tiles framework with respect to support templating as well as composition.
Facelets was originally created by Jacob Hookom in 2005 as a separate, alternative view declaration language for JSF 1.1 and JSF 1.2 which both used JSP as the default view declaration language. Starting from JSF 2.0, Facelets has been promoted by the JSF expert group to be the default view declaration language. JSP has been deprecated as a legacy fall back.
Element conversion
In Facelets, templates tags from a tag library can be entered in two forms: directly as a qualified xml element or indirectly via the jsfc attribute on an arbitrary non-qualified element. In the latter case the Facelet compiler will ignore the actual element and will process the element as if it was the one given by the jsfc attribute.
The following example shows the direct usage of qualified tags:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<body>
<h:form>
<h:outputText value="Welcome, #{loggedInUser.name}" disabled="#{empty loggedInUser}" />
<h:inputText value="#{bean.property}" />
<h:commandButton value="OK" action="#{bean.doSomething}" />
</h:form>
</body>
</html>
Using the jsfc attribute, the same code can also be expressed as the example given below:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<body>
<form jsfc="h:form">
<span jsfc="h:outputText" value="Welcome, #{loggedInUser.name}" disabled="#{empty loggedInUser}" />
<input type="text" jsfc="h:inputText" value="#{bean.property}" />
<input type="submit" jsfc="h:commandButton" value="OK" action="#{bean.doSomething}" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
The above code can be viewed in a browser, and edited with conventional WYSIWYG design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyable%20Heart | is a Japanese visual novel developed by UNiSONSHIFT first released on March 19, 2009 for the PC as a limited edition DVD playable on personal computers, followed by a regular edition release on April 3, 2009. The game is described by the development team as a , and bears the tagline "The future has already begun". The gameplay in Flyable Heart follows a linear plot line, which offers pre-determined scenarios and courses of interaction, and focuses on the appeal of the six female main characters. A fan disc to the game, called Flyable CandyHeart with the tagline "The future is always connected", was released on February 25, 2011.
Gameplay
The gameplay in Flyable Heart requires little player interaction as much of the game's duration is spent reading the text that appears on the screen, which represents either dialogue between various characters or the inner thoughts of the protagonist. Every so often the player will come to a "decision point", where he or she is given the chance to choose from multiple options. The time between these points is variable and can occur anywhere from a minute to much longer. Gameplay pauses at these points, and depending on which choice the player makes, the plot will progress in a specific direction. There are six main plot lines that the player will have the chance to experience, one for each of the heroines. In order to view all five plot lines, the player will have to replay the game multiple times and make difference decisions to progress the plot in an alternate direction.
Plot and characters
The story of Flyable Heart revolves around the protagonist , a high school student who has recently transferred into the , a notorious private high school known for its high academic standards. There are two associations representing the student body in the school, the , and the student council. Members of the Ryōran association are appointed and manages the campus' operations, as opposed to the student council whose members are elected and manages affairs for the student body. Upon being enrolled into the school, Shou is welcomed by fellow students and is greeted by fireworks. He is then forced to reside in the all-girls Ryōran association dormitory as the male dormitory is completely occupied. He spends most of his time with members from the two student associations and other students. One of his fellow students is , the main heroine of Flyable Heart. Like Shou, Yui has recently transferred into the school, and is not yet familiar with the many unusual aspects of the school. She has a bright, but also timid personality, and has an affection towards doughnuts, claiming it is the only thing of a large size that can be eaten anywhere.
He later also meets . Amane is in the same class as Shou, and is the president of the Ryōran association. She has an aggressive personality and a strong sense of responsibility, in contrast to her carefree elder brother and student council president, . Syo also meets , another Ryōran associa |
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