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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20data%20mining | Evolutionary data mining, or genetic data mining is an umbrella term for any data mining using evolutionary algorithms. While it can be used for mining data from DNA sequences, it is not limited to biological contexts and can be used in any classification-based prediction scenario, which helps "predict the value ... of a user-specified goal attribute based on the values of other attributes." For instance, a banking institution might want to predict whether a customer's credit would be "good" or "bad" based on their age, income and current savings. Evolutionary algorithms for data mining work by creating a series of random rules to be checked against a training dataset. The rules which most closely fit the data are selected and are mutated. The process is iterated many times and eventually, a rule will arise that approaches 100% similarity with the training data. This rule is then checked against a test dataset, which was previously invisible to the genetic algorithm.
Process
Data preparation
Before databases can be mined for data using evolutionary algorithms, it first has to be cleaned, which means incomplete, noisy or inconsistent data should be repaired. It is imperative that this be done before the mining takes place, as it will help the algorithms produce more accurate results.
If data comes from more than one database, they can be integrated, or combined, at this point. When dealing with large datasets, it might be beneficial to also reduce the amount of data being handled. One common method of data reduction works by getting a normalized sample of data from the database, resulting in much faster, yet statistically equivalent results.
At this point, the data is split into two equal but mutually exclusive elements, a test and a training dataset. The training dataset will be used to let rules evolve which match it closely. The test dataset will then either confirm or deny these rules.
Data mining
Evolutionary algorithms work by trying to emulate natural evolution. First, a random series of "rules" are set on the training dataset, which try to generalize the data into formulas. The rules are checked, and the ones that fit the data best are kept, the rules that do not fit the data are discarded. The rules that were kept are then mutated, and multiplied to create new rules.
This process iterates as necessary in order to produce a rule that matches the dataset as closely as possible. When this rule is obtained, it is then checked against the test dataset. If the rule still matches the data, then the rule is valid and is kept. If it does not match the data, then it is discarded and the process begins by selecting random rules again.
See also
Data mining
Evolutionary algorithm
Knowledge discovery
Pattern mining
Data analysis
References
Data mining |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con-way%20Freight | Con-way Freight was a less-than-truckload (LTL) motor carrier headquartered in Ann Arbor utilizing a network of freight service centers to provide regional, inter-regional and transcontinental less-than-truckload freight services throughout North America. The business unit provided day-definite delivery service to manufacturing, industrial and retail customers. Con-way Freight was the largest division of Con-way, Inc. with 16,600 employees, more than 365 operating locations, 16,000 dock doors and 32,750 tractors and trailers. The company was founded by Consolidated Freightways (CF) of Portland, Oregon as a non union spinoff, for less than truckload hauling. In 2009 Con-way Freight reported revenues of over $2.6 billion. Con-way Inc., including Con-way Freight and sibling company Con-way Truckload, was acquired by XPO Logistics, a primarily non-asset logistics company from Greenwich, Connecticut, in a deal worth $3.5 billion.
History
Con-way Freight originated in May 1983 with the launch of Con-way Western Express, with 11 service centers in three western states, followed one month later by the start of Con-way Central Express, with 11 locations in seven Midwest states.
Con-way was created to provide nonunion, regional short-haul service in markets where CF wasn’t actively selling its services. The regional companies Con-way Southern Express (CSE), Con-way Central Express (CCX), Con-way Western Express (CWX) and Con-way Eastern Express (CEX) were established as part of this strategy.
On their first day of business the two carriers — which collectively began with 230 employees and 334 trucks, tractors and trailers handled 113 shipments.
On October 31, 2015, XPO Logistics, Headquartered in Greenwich, CT acquired Con-way Freight.
On September 9, 2015 Con-way Inc. was acquired by CEO Bradley Jacobs of XPO Logistics, Inc. Roughly a year later, on October 27, 2016, XPO completed the sale of Con-way Truckload, its recently acquired full-truckload division (3,000 tractors, 7,500 trailers, and 29 locations) from Con-way Freight to the Canadian based TFI International for $558 million in cash. By May 2017, XPO reported that it had completed rebranding of Con-way to XPO Logistics effectively marking the retirement of the brand.
Operations
LTL carriers transport freight from multiple shippers utilizing a network of freight service centers, combined with a fleet of linehaul and pickup-and-delivery tractors and trailers. Freight is picked up from customers and consolidated for shipment at the originating service center. The freight is then loaded into trailers and transferred to the destination service center providing service to the delivery area. From the destination service center, the freight is delivered to the customer. Typically, LTL shipments weigh between 150 and 25,000 pounds. In 2008, Con-way Freight’s average weight per shipment was 1,190 pounds.
Network Re-Engineering
Following the integration of the four regional component companies of Con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Venture%20Partners | U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) is a venture capital investment firm specializing in early-stage ventures in enterprise software, cybersecurity, consumer, e-commerce, healthcare, and IT-enabled healthcare services. The venture capital partnership is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Since its inception in 1981, USVP has invested over $4.3 billion across a wide range of sectors. Out of the 523 companies financed by USVP, 93 have completed an initial public offering.
History
Founded by Bill Bowes, Stuart Moldaw, and Robert Sackman, U.S. Venture Partners was an early entrant to the burgeoning venture capital industry in Silicon Valley in the late 1970s and early 1980s. As of 2022, the firm was investing out of its thirteenth fund, USVP XIII. Composed of former venture investors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, technologists, corporate executives, financial professionals, and industry domain experts, USVP has a combined 150 years of investment and operating experience with backgrounds across a wide array of sectors. The investment team is composed of Jacques Benkoski, Steve Krausz, Rick Lewis, Jonathan Root, Casey Tansey and Dafina Toncheva.
The firm makes investments between $5 million and $10 million in markets with revenue potential exceeding $1 billion. USVP prefers to invest in companies with a market greater than $300 million and avoids companies in direct competition with each other. On average, USVP will invest for a period of three to ten years.
Investments
The firm has invested across multiple sectors over the years and is focused on enterprise software, IT security, consumer internet, mobile, e-commerce, healthcare, and IT-enabled healthcare services.
Select portfolio companies include: Arkose Labs, Box, Carrot Fertility, Cato Networks, Happy Returns, HeartFlow, HotelTonight, Human Interest, Inari Medical, Inspire Medical Systems, Intersect ENT, Medigate, Omada Health, Pluto TV, ThreatMetrix, and Zerto.
Notable historical investments include: Sun Microsystems, Callaway Golf, St. Francis Medical, SanDisk, Ross Stores, Ask Jeeves, Adify, PetSmart, Check Point, Mellanox, Vontu, Proteolix, Dotomi, Imperva, Guidewire Software, Yammer, Trusteer, Nanostim and Trunk Club.
References
Venture capital firms of the United States
1981 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Clarion | Operation Clarion was a late-war campaign of the Allied strategic bombing of Germany. 200 German communication network targets were attacked to open Operation Veritable/Grenade.
3,500 bombers and nearly 5,000 fighters attacked targets across Germany in effort to destroy all means of transportation available. Targets included rail stations, barges, docks, and bridges.
References
World War II strategic bombing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile%20US | T-Mobile US, Inc. is an American wireless network operator headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, and Bellevue, Washington, U.S. Its largest shareholder is multinational telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG, which , holds a 51.4% majority stake in the company. T-Mobile US is the third-largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 116.7 million subscribers at the end of Q2 2023.
The company was founded in 1994 by John W. Stanton of the Western Wireless Corporation as VoiceStream Wireless. Deutsche Telekom then gained plurality ownership in 2001 and renamed it after its T-Mobile brand. T-Mobile US provides wireless voice and data services in the United States under the T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile brands (the latter was acquired via the purchase of MetroPCS in a reverse takeover in 2013, resulting in T-Mobile going public on the NASDAQ stock exchange), and also serves as the host network for many mobile virtual network operators. The company has annual revenues of around $80 billion. In 2015, Consumer Reports named T-Mobile the number one American wireless carrier.
On April 1, 2020, T-Mobile and Sprint Corporation completed their merger, with T-Mobile now being the sole owner of Sprint, making Sprint an effective subsidiary of T-Mobile until the Sprint brand was officially discontinued on August 2, 2020, with the headquarters becoming T-Mobile offices. As part of the merger, T-Mobile US acquired Assurance Wireless, the service subsidized by the Lifeline Assistance program of the federal Universal Service Fund.
History
T-Mobile U.S. traces its roots to the 1994 establishment of VoiceStream Wireless PCS as a subsidiary of Western Wireless Corporation. After its spin off from parent Western Wireless on May 3, 1999, VoiceStream Wireless was purchased by Deutsche Telekom AG in 2001 for $35 billion and renamed T-Mobile USA, Inc., in July 2002. In 2013, T-Mobile and MetroPCS finalised a merger of the two companies which started trading as T-Mobile U.S.
VoiceStream Wireless
VoiceStream Wireless PCS was established in 1994 as a subsidiary of Western Wireless Corporation to provide wireless personal communications services (PCS) in 19 FCC-defined metropolitan service areas in several western and southwestern states using the GSM digital wireless standard. VoiceStream Wireless' digital, urban service areas complemented the analog, rural service areas marketed by Western Wireless under the Cellular One brand.
Western Wireless spun off its VoiceStream Wireless division into a new company called VoiceStream Wireless Corporation in May 1999.
Omnipoint and Aerial acquisitions
In 2000, VoiceStream Wireless acquired two regional GSM carriers. Omnipoint Corporation, a regional network operator in the Northeastern U.S., was acquired on February 25, 2000. Aerial Communications Inc.; a regional network operator in the Columbus, Houston, Kansas City, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Pittsburgh, and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Orlando markets; was acquired on May |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally%20Sports%20Oklahoma | Bally Sports Oklahoma is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group (a joint-venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios), and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel provides statewide coverage of sports events within the state of Oklahoma, namely the Oklahoma City Thunder, the state's major college sports teams, and high school sports.
Bally Sports Oklahoma is available on cable providers throughout Oklahoma, and nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
Background
Fox Sports Oklahoma (FSOK) launched on October 29, 2008, as a spinoff of Fox Sports Southwest. It was created in order to serve as the cable broadcaster of the Oklahoma City Thunder, after Fox Sports Southwest acquired the broadcast rights to the NBA franchise following its relocation to Oklahoma City that year from Seattle.
It initially split the rights to Thunder game telecasts with independent station KSBI (channel 52, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate), under an agreement in which Fox Sports Oklahoma would produce a limited schedule of regular-season games (most of which aired on weekends) for the station; the Thunder signed a new multi-year broadcast agreement with Fox Sports Oklahoma on August 3, 2010, rendering the team's games cable-exclusive beginning with the 2010-11 season.
On December 14, 2017, as part of a merger between both companies, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to acquire all 22 regional Fox Sports networks from 21st Century Fox, including Fox Sports Oklahoma. However, on June 27, 2018, the Justice Department ordered their divestment under antitrust grounds, citing Disney's ownership of ESPN. On May 3, 2019, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios (through their joint venture, Diamond Holdings) bought Fox Sports Networks from The Walt Disney Company for $10.6 billion. The deal closed on August 22, 2019, thus placing Fox Sports Oklahoma in common ownership with Sinclair stations KOKH-TV/KOCB in the network's homebase of Oklahoma City, and KTUL in Tulsa. It was subsequently renamed Bally Sports Oklahoma on March 31, 2021.
On March 14, 2023, Diamond Sports filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
Programming
In addition to holding the regional television rights to Thunder's regular season and any early-round playoff games, Bally Sports Oklahoma also broadcasts sporting events from the Oklahoma Sooners, including football, basketball, The channel also holds exclusive broadcast rights to state football, basketball and baseball championships held by the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association. Bally Sports Oklahoma has broadcast Class A-6A Football Championship games and periodically runs OSSAA Championship Spotlight, a magazine program that highlights various high school sports depending on the time of year.
Bally Sports Oklahoma also broadcasts pre-game and post-game shows for the Oklahoma City Thunder (under the Thunder Live banner), and Oklahoma Sooners-related programs (such as coaches' sho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Acosta | Abilio James Acosta (born April 17, 1971) is an American broadcast journalist, anchor and the chief domestic correspondent for CNN. Previously, Acosta served as the network's chief White House correspondent during the Trump administration, in which he gained national attention for President Donald Trump's clashes with him at press briefings. Acosta also covered the Obama administration as CNN's senior White House correspondent. As Trump was about to leave office, it was announced on January 11, 2021 that Acosta had been appointed Anchor and Chief Domestic Correspondent for CNN.
Early life and education
Acosta's father arrived in the U.S. at age 11 as a refugee from Santa María del Rosario, Cuba, three weeks before the Cuban Missile Crisis and was raised in Virginia. His mother is of Irish and Czech ancestry, and his father's ancestors had originally come to Cuba from the Canary Islands. Acosta, also raised in Northern Virginia, graduated from Annandale High School in 1989. In 1993, he earned a bachelor's degree in mass communication, with a minor in political science, from James Madison University. While in school, Acosta volunteered for WXJM, the student-run radio station. He also worked as a reporter at WSVA, a local radio station, which is owned and operated by Saga Communications.
Media career
Acosta began his professional career in radio, and his first job was with WMAL in Washington, D.C. In 1994, Acosta left WMAL and entered television, working for Fox affiliate WTTG-TV as a desk assistant. In 1995, Acosta moved in front of the camera, becoming a reporter and substitute anchor at NBC affiliate WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, and remained in that job until 1998.
From 1998 until 2000, Acosta worked as a reporter for CBS affiliate KTVT-TV in Dallas. From 2000 until 2001, Acosta was a reporter for WBBM-TV in Chicago. From 2001 until 2003, Acosta worked as a correspondent for CBS News' Newspath service, based both in Dallas and Chicago. From February 2003 until March 2007, Acosta was a correspondent for CBS News and was based first in New York and then in Atlanta.
At CBS News, Acosta covered the 2004 campaign of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, the Iraq War from Baghdad, and Hurricane Katrina. In April 2007, Acosta joined CNN. During the following year, Acosta covered the 2008 presidential campaigns of Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, frequently appearing as an anchor of CNN's weekend political program, Ballot Bowl. Acosta later joined CNN's American Morning program as a correspondent and contributed to the network's coverage of the 2010 midterm elections.
In February 2012, CNN promoted Acosta to the position of national political correspondent. In his role as national political correspondent, Acosta was the network's lead correspondent in covering the 2012 presidential campaign of Republican nominee Mitt Romney. He was then the senior White House correspondent for CNN. At a nationally televised news c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-loup%20Gailly | Jean-loup Gailly (born 1956) is a French computer scientist and an author of gzip. He wrote the compression code of the portable archiver of the Info-ZIP and the tools compatible with the PKZIP archiver for MS-DOS. He worked over zlib in collaboration with Mark Adler. He prefers to write his hyphenated first name with only the J but not the L capitalized.
He wrote a chapter on fractal image compression for Mark Nelson's The Data Compression Book.
From 1981—1989 He worked as a senior developer on Ada compilers for Alsys.
From 1990 to 1995, while working for Chorus Systèmes SA, he designed the real-time executive of the ChorusOS microkernel.
From 1999 to 2001, he was the CTO of Mandrakesoft.
From 2006 to 2014, he worked at Google as a Tech. Lead Manager.
References
External links
Jean-loup's home page
Jean-loup Gailly on gzip, Go and Mandrake, an interview on Slashdot
Living people
Computer programmers
GNU people
Google employees
1956 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Angeles%20Dodgers%20Radio%20Network | The Los Angeles Dodgers Radio Network is a network that consists of 27 radio stations that air Major League Baseball games of the Los Angeles Dodgers in parts of seven states and one U.S. territory and in three languages. , 20 stations broadcast games in English, while another six broadcast them in Spanish. In 2013, Korean broadcasts were added, making it the only tri-lingual network in Major League Baseball.
English
The primary English-language radio broadcasts are handled by Charley Steiner and Tim Neverett on play-by-play and Rick Monday on color commentary. Until his 2016 retirement, Vin Scully's television play-by-play for SportsNet LA (previously Prime Ticket) was simulcast during the first three innings of games that he called (primarily home games, and away games in California and Arizona). Steiner and Monday called the entire game on radio during games that were nationally televised. For locally televised road games that Scully did not call, Steiner handled the TV commentary with Orel Hershiser and Nomar Garciaparra on color commentary, while Monday called play-by-play on radio with Kevin Kennedy doing color. During the post-season, Scully called the first and last three innings solo, with Steiner and Monday calling the middle innings.
Scully retired on October 2, 2016 and died on August 2, 2022; his commentary was simulcast on radio for the entire game.
California
Indiana
Nevada
New Mexico
Texas
U.S. Virgin Islands
Spanish
A separate network airs games in Spanish. Jaime Jarrín has been the Spanish play-by-play voice of the Dodgers since 1959 until his retirement in 2022. His oldest son, Jorge Jarrín, is also the play-by-play announcer replacing Pepe Yniguez and Fernando Valenzuela who are now on Spectrum SportsNet LA's Spanish-language channel.
California
New Mexico
Korean
In 2013, the Dodgers announced that 60 games would be aired in Korean on KMPC AM 1540. Richard Choi does play-by-play while Chong Ho Yim does color commentary. As of 2014, selected Dodger games are broadcast on AM 1540, while all games are broadcast in Korean on the Second Audio Program of Spectrum SportsNet LA.
See also
List of XM Satellite Radio channels
List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
References
Los Angeles Dodgers
Major League Baseball on the radio
Mass media in Los Angeles County, California
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20transport%20in%20Bratislava | Public transport in Bratislava is managed by Dopravný podnik Bratislava, a city-owned company. The transport system is known as Mestská hromadná doprava (MHD, Municipal Mass Transit), and the network is the largest in Slovakia. The history of public transportation in Bratislava began with the opening of the first tram route in 1895, when the city was in the Kingdom of Hungary, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Passengers must buy their tickets before entering the vehicle. Revenue from tickets covers approximately 40% of expenses, with the other 60% paid by the city.
History
At the end of the 19th century, Bratislava (then Pozsony in Hungarian and Pressburg in German) was still suffering after losing its status as the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary. Now merely a provincial city of middling political and economic importance, its development lagged behind its European neighbours. The main means of transport at this time was horse-drawn and later steam-powered tramways.
In 1868, buses appeared in the city, but they could not meet the demands for transport. On 23 March 1881 an engineer from Vienna, Nicolaus Markovits, submitted a project plan for a city horse-driven railway in Bratislava to the directors of the Hungarian royal state railways. Its route was from the Danube riverbank through the city to the Austrian state railway station. It was supposed to be connected to the Bratislava – Trnava wagonway, belonging to the Hungarian royal state railways.
In the 1990s, traffic jams became a routine occurrence in Bratislava, with public transport vehicles becoming stuck at places like Patrónka or Prístavný most. A major contributing factor was the lack of a ring road, which today consists of parts of the D1 and D2 motorways in Bratislava. While two crucial bridges over the river Danube, Prístavný most and Lafranconi bridge, partially opened in 1983 and 1990 respectively, it was not until 2002 that the Prievoz viaduct on the D1 motorway opened, the D1 part Viedenská – Prístavný most was finished in 2005 and the Sitina Tunnel completed the ring in 2007.
Description
The system uses three main types of vehicles: buses, trams and trolleybuses. Buses cover almost the entire city and go to the most remote boroughs and areas, with 70 daily routes, 20 night routes and other routes on certain occasions.
Trams
Trolleybuses
The first trolleybus service in Bratislava was established 19 July 1909; thus it is the second oldest such system in the country after the one in the High Tatras. This first line ran from the Roth bullet factory on Pražská Street to Vydrica Valley. Its total length was and it was served by seven vehicles. Due to technical and financial difficulties, the service on this line was terminated after six years, in 1915. In the period between the world wars, Bratislava was left without a trolleybus system. The first talks about its restoration began just before the Second World War.
Trolleybuses returned to the city on 31 July 1941. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programming%20language%20researchers | The following is list of researchers of programming language theory, design, implementation, and related areas.
A
Martín Abadi, for the programming language Baby Modula-3 and his book (with Luca Cardelli) A Theory of Objects
Samson Abramsky, contributions to the areas of the lazy lambda calculus and concurrency theory and co-editing the 6 Volume Handbook of Logic in Computer Science
Jean-Raymond Abrial, father of the Z notation and the B-Method, targeted at the clear specification and refinement of computer programs and computer-based systems in general
Vikram Adve, the 2012 ACM Software System Award for LLVM, a set of compiler and toolchain technologies
Gul Agha, elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for research in concurrent programming and formal methods, specifically the Actor Model
Alfred Aho, the A of AWK, 2020 Turing Award for fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation and for synthesizing these results ...highly influential books ...
Frances Allen, the 2006 Turing Award for pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques ...
Andrew Appel, especially well-known because of his compiler books, the Modern Compiler Implementation in ML () series, as well as Compiling With Continuations ()
Krzysztof R. Apt, the use of logic as a programming language
Bruce Arden, co-authored two compilers, GAT for the IBM 650 and MAD
B
Ralph-Johan Back, originated the refinement calculus, used in the formal development of programs using stepwise refinement
Roland Backhouse, work on the mathematics of program construction and algorithm problem solving; books on Syntax of Programming Languages, Program Construction and Verification, and more
John Backus, the 1977 Turing Award for profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work on FORTRAN, and for seminal publication of formal procedures for the specification of programming languages
George N. Baird, the 1974 Grace Murray Hopper Award for his \development and implementation of the Navy's COBOL Compiler Validation System
Lars Bak, the 2018 AITO Dahl–Nygaard Prize for pioneering work in pointer-safe object-orientation and leading the implementation of Beta, Self, Strongtalk, Java Hotspot, ..., the ACM SIGPLAN 2016 PL Software Award for V8 Javascript
Henri Bal, programming languages for distributed systems, e.g. Orca
Friedrich L. Bauer, proposed the stack method of expression evaluation, member of the ALGOL 60 Committee, see also
Kent Beck, a leading proponent of test-driven development (TDD), pioneered software design patterns, and co-wrote JUnit for Java
Jeff Bezanson, the 2019 J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software for the co-development of the Julia programming language
Dines Bjørner, the Vienna Development Method (VDM), the Raise specification language
Daniel Bobrow, the 1992 ACM Software System Award for the IDE called Interl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr%20St%C4%99pie%C5%84 | Piotr Stępień (born 24 October 1963 in Kamieńsk) is a Polish wrestler (Greco-Roman style)
External links
Sports123.com
FILA Wrestling Database
1963 births
Living people
Olympic silver medalists for Poland
Olympic wrestlers for Poland
Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Polish male sport wrestlers
Olympic medalists in wrestling
People from Radomsko County
Sportspeople from Łódź Voivodeship
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
20th-century Polish people
21st-century Polish people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteomics%20Standards%20Initiative | The Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) is a working group of the Human Proteome Organization. It aims to define data standards for proteomics to facilitate data comparison, exchange and verification.
The Proteomics Standards Initiative focuses on the following subjects: minimum information about a proteomics experiment defines the metadata that should be provided along with a proteomics experiment. a data markup language for encoding the data, and metadata ontologies for consistent annotation and representation.
Minimum information about a proteomics experiment
Minimum information about a proteomics experiment (MIAPE) is a minimum information standard, created by the Proteomics Standards Initiative of the Human Proteome Organization, for reporting proteomics experiments. You can't just introduce the results of an analysis, it is intended to specify all the information necessary to interpret the experiment results unambiguously and to potentially reproduce the experiment. While the MIAPE guidelines define the content required for compliant reports, it does not specify the format in which this data should be presented (which is left to the corresponding *ML format, also defined by PSI), nor does it define how to perform experiments.
Working groups
Several working groups work on several documents covering the different areas of proteomics:
The gel electrophoresis working group defined reporting requirements for gel electrophoresis experiments. The document is at the stage of a recommendation and has been published. The corresponding data exchange format is called GelML, and a stable version was released in late 2007.
The gel electrophoresis working group also focuses on image analysis with the gel image informatics recommendation that is currently in the public review phase while the corresponding exchange format is only a draft (as of April 2009).
The sample processing working group defines requirements concerning all the sample pre-processing steps that are carried out before gel electrophoresis or mass spectrometry is applied. Two documents concerning column chromatography and capillary electrophoresis are in the early draft stages and the Sample preparation and handling is still a project (as of April 2009). The data exchange format (spML) is also under development.
Mass spectrometry and mass spectrometry informatics documents have been published as recommendations by the mass spectrometry working group.
The working group has released several data exchange format: the mzML, for the capture of data generated by a mass spectrometer, which is a merge of the previous mzData (developed by PSI) and mzXML (developed at the Seattle Proteome Center at the Institute for Systems Biology); mzIdentML, for Mass spectra informatics analysis that capture the results of the identification of proteins and peptides from mass spectrometry data; and TraML, for selected reaction monitoring input file. Finally, they develop MS CV, a controlled vocabulary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Computer%20Studies%2C%20Mandalay | The University of Computer Studies, Mandalay (UCSM) (, ), located in Mandalay, is a Myanmar IT and computer science university. UCSM offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs in computer science and technology. The majority of its student body is from Upper Myanmar. Administered by the Ministry of Education, UCSM is the official university for all the Government Computer Colleges in Upper Myanmar, whose students may continue their advanced studies at UCSM.
UCSM is also a Cisco networking academy.
History
UCSM was established in May 1997 and held its first classes in September 1997. Under Myanmar's system of specialized universities, UCSM was the first specialized university in Upper Myanmar for computer science and technology.
Degree programmes
UCSM's main offerings are five-year bachelor's programs in computer science and computer technology. It also offers master's degree programs in applied science and in information science. The areas of study include artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, computer architecture, control applications, database systems, digital signal processing, image processing, Internet technologies, network security, operating systems, parallel and distributed computing, and software engineering.
Academic departments
UCSM consists of four faculties and three academic departments.
Faculty of Computer Science
Faculty of Computer Systems and Technologies
Faculty of Information Science
Faculty of Computing
Department of Information Technology Support and Maintenance
Department of Languages
Department of Natural Science
Affiliations
Senior universities
Keio University of Japan
University of Computer Studies, Yangon (UCSY)
Colleges
The following Upper Myanmar-based Government Computer Colleges are officially affiliated with UCSM. Their qualified graduates can continue their advanced studies at UCSM.
Computer University, Myitkyina
Computer University, Bhamo
Computer University, Kalay
Computer University, Monywa
Computer University, Mandalay
Computer University, Pakokku
Computer University, Lashio
Computer University, Kengtung
Computer University, Taunggyi
Computer University, Panglong
Computer University, Meiktila
Computer University, Magway
References
Universities and colleges in Mandalay
Technological universities in Myanmar
Universities and colleges established in 1997
1997 establishments in Myanmar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Abstraction%20Layer | The Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) is a part of the H.264/AVC and HEVC video coding standards. The main goal of the NAL is the provision of a "network-friendly" video representation addressing "conversational" (video telephony) and "non conversational" (storage, broadcast, or streaming) applications. NAL has achieved a significant improvement in application flexibility relative to prior video coding standards.
Introduction
An increasing number of services and growing popularity of high definition TV are creating greater needs for higher coding efficiency. Moreover, other transmission media such as cable modem, xDSL, or UMTS offer much lower data rates than broadcast channels, and enhanced coding efficiency can enable the transmission of more video channels or higher quality video representations within existing digital transmission capacities.
Video coding for telecommunication applications has diversified from ISDN and T1/E1 service to embrace PSTN, mobile wireless networks, and LAN/Internet network delivery. Throughout this evolution, continued efforts have been made to maximize coding efficiency while dealing with the diversification of network types and their characteristic formatting and loss/error robustness requirements.
The H.264/AVC and HEVC standards are designed for technical solutions including areas like broadcasting (over cable, satellite, cable modem, DSL, terrestrial, etc.) interactive or serial storage on optical and magnetic devices, conversational services, video-on-demand or multimedia streaming, multimedia messaging services, etc. Moreover, new applications may be deployed over existing and future networks. This raises the question about how to handle this variety of applications and networks.
To address this need for flexibility and customizability, the design covers a NAL that formats the Video Coding Layer (VCL) representation of the video and provides header information in a manner appropriate for conveyance by a variety of transport layers or storage media.
The NAL is designed in order to provide "network friendliness" to enable simple and effective customization of the use of VCL for a broad variety of systems.
The NAL facilitates the ability to map VCL data to transport layers such as:
RTP/IP for any kind of real-time wire-line and wireless Internet services.
File formats, e.g., ISO MP4 for storage and MMS.
H.32X for wireline and wireless conversational services.
MPEG-2 systems for broadcasting services, etc.
The full degree of customization of the video content to fit the needs of each particular application is outside the scope of the video coding standardization effort, but the design of the NAL anticipates a variety of such mappings. Some key concepts of the NAL are NAL units, byte stream, and packet formats uses of NAL units, parameter sets, and access units. A short description of these concepts is given below.
NAL units
The coded video data is organized into NAL units, each of which is effectively a pack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubail%20Academy%20International%20School | The Jubail International School, also known as Yandhi is a member of the Al-Hussan network of schools, including its sister school Al-Hussan Academy in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. It opened in September 1999 and has KGI to grade 12 with students representing around 18 nationalities. The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Education, General Administration, approves the school for expatriate education. The language of instruction is English.
The Jubail International School is a university preparatory school educating students primarily for British universities. The first graduating class, in 2002-2003, grade 12, completed course requirements for a high school diploma. In addition to the British IGCSE, A Level and AS Level examinations, students at Jubail International School also have the option to take the American College Board Examinations including the (TOEFL, SAT I, and SAT II examinations. Students also have the option to apply to take the IB Diploma Programme. The school's curriculum, however, maintains a focus on the British system.
History
The tradition of Al-Hussan education in Saudi Arabia began in 1956 when Sheikh Abdel Aziz Rashid Al-Hussan started the Arab Cultural Institute for adult education. In the following year Al-Hussan Modern Girls School, the first girls’ school in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, was opened.
Accreditation
The school is endorsed by some of highly respected organisations. These include CITA (Commission on Trans Regional Accreditation) and CIS (Council of International Schools). The school is also the testing centre for British IGCSE, AS Level and A Level examinations.
Special Achievements
Two of the students among the six students who excelled in CIE Examination board in Saudi Arabia were from Jubail International School. Georges Obied ranked top in the world in IGCSE Physics. Saman Ishtiaq Malik ranked top in the world in AS Applied ICT.
See also
List of schools in Saudi Arabia
References
International schools in Khobar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consenting%20Adult%20Action%20Network | The Consenting Adult Action Network (CAAN) is a grassroots network of individuals in the United Kingdom that was formed in 2008 to protest and oppose laws restricting activities between consenting adults, most notably the criminalisation of possession of "extreme pornography" under Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.
History
On 14 June and 22 August, they attempted to seek advice on what material might be caught by the law. They took a dossier of images to three major police forces, although none of them could yet say which pictures would be deemed illegal.
On 21 October 2008, they organised a protest with Ben Westwood against the law on "extreme pornography".
They were awarded "Specialists Website of the Year" by the London Gay Sex and Fetish Awards 2008.
On 25 January 2009, the day before the law on "extreme pornography" came into effect, CAAN protested in London. They were supported by Backlash and The Spanner Trust. The protest was attended by Peter Tatchell and Ben Westwood.
March 2010, CAAN announce they are publishing a book "Beyond the Circle: Sexuality & discrimination in heteronormative Britain" written by John Ozimek.
Issues
CAAN is concerned about several issues regarding consenting adults:
The law on "extreme pornography", since it criminalises possession of images involving consenting adults, including staged acts, and screenshots from legal films.
Clauses in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 that ban people from working in jobs involving children or "vulnerable adults" if they possess "sexually explicit images depicting violence against human beings". The government state that 11.3 million will have to register with the scheme, although the number has been estimated by others at over 14 million.
As of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, sexual images of 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as child pornography, even though the age of consent remains at 16 (CAAN states it has no interest in tinkering with the age of consent, however they believe this change in the law to be "misguided and disproportionate").
Government plans to criminalise prostitution.
Plans to recategorise lapdancing clubs as "sex encounter" establishments.
See also
Backlash (pressure group)
Campaign Against Censorship
Consensual crime
Operation Spanner
Right to pornography
References
External links
Main website
Blog and photos
Civil liberties advocacy groups
Freedom of expression organizations
Lobbying organisations in the United Kingdom
Political advocacy groups in the United Kingdom
BDSM activists
BDSM organizations
Sex positivism
Sexuality in the United Kingdom
Censorship in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 2008
2008 establishments in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20environmental%20impact%20accounting | Personal environmental impact accounting (PEIA) is a computer software-based methodology developed in 1992 by Don Lotter for quantifying an individual's impact on the environment via analysis of answers to an extensive quantity-based questionnaire that the individual fills out regarding their lifestyle. The questions are arranged in six areas: home energy and water, transportation, consumerism, waste, advocacy, and demographics.
Conception
Lotter, at the time a graduate student in ecology at the University of California, Davis, developed the PEIA methodology while teaching a course on the History of Western Consciousness in the UC Davis Experimental College. He realized that, while individuals in contemporary Western society generally have an enormous environmental impact, most were unaware of it, and no method existed for its quantification or assessment.
Development
The first software version of the PEIA methodology was the DOS-based EnviroAccount software, written in QuickBasic and completed in 1992. The program asked users 115 questions, then provided a score to indicate the user's personal environmental impact.
Lotter later created EarthAware, released in 1996, which built from EnviroAccount, and ran on Windows 3.1. EarthAware provided internet links for users to learn more about their environmental impact. After the test, users could print out their test results and areas for improvement. They would also receive a label ranging from "Eco-Titan" for the most environmentally friendly to "Eco-Tyrannosaurus Rex" for those "bound for extinction" doing the most harm to the planet.
Lotter also authored a book on the topic, EarthScore: Your Personal Environmental Audit and Guide.
See also
PEIA is similar in concept to the ecological footprint.
Notes and references
Environmental science software
Accounting
Types of accounting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20iOS%20games | This is a list of popular games and applications available or in development for iOS–the operating system of the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
There are games currently on this list.
Games and applications
See also
App Store (iOS/iPadOS)
List of free and open-source iOS applications
References
Video game lists by platform
Lists of mobile apps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Lightning | Green Lightning may refer to:
Green Lightning (sculpture), a sculpture by artist Billie Lawless, built in Buffalo, New York
Green Lightning (computing), a problem with IBM 3278-9 computer terminals which evolved into a deliberate feature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join%20Network%20Studio%20of%20NENU | Join Network Studio() of Northeast Normal University China is affiliated with Student Career Service Center of NENU. This is a non-profit organization composed by some undergraduate students. All departments except Software Department of the studio are located at the administration building of the main campus of NENU, and Software Department is situated in the Jingyue campus.
History
At the time of 1999, the informationization of the employment for graduates of China had not started yet, and there is hardly any specialized websites of employment information for graduates. Employment information service was in the stage of low efficiency and high cost, and paper was the medium used most commonly. The reformation on informationization of the employment and the idea of the invisible market on the World Wide Web had not been established on a large scale. The decision makers of the work on employment for students realized that it is necessary to construct a top-ranking employment information service system for ensuring the work on employment maintaining top-class. Join Network Studio was established at March 25, 2000 for this purpose.
The Name "Join"
The name "Join" stands for "Job information", and the English word "join" implies the meaning of solidarity. The Chinese name "卓音" () is transliterated according to the Mandarin pronunciation, meaning "voice of excellence". Members of the studio call themselves Joiners ().
Departments
Join Network Studio is composed of 5 departments: Technology Department, System Department, Information Department, Mastermind Department, and Software Department.
Works
Main works by Join Network Studio include Employment Union of Normal Universities in Northeast China, Website of Student Career Service Center of NENU, Join Online, Feature Pages, graphic designs and some works aiding foreign.
See also
Software industry in China
China Software Industry Association
References
Companies established in 2000
Companies based in Jilin
Software companies of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure%20semantics | In distributed computing, failure semantics is used to describe and classify errors that distributed systems can experience.
Types of errors
A list of types of errors that can occur:
An omission error is when one or more responses fails.
A crash error is when nothing happens. A crash is a special case of omission when all responses fail.
A Timing error is when one or more responses arrive outside the time interval specified. Timing errors can be early or late. An omission error is a timing error when a response has infinite timing error.
An arbitrary error is any error, (i.e. a wrong value or a timing error).
When a client uses a server it can cope with different type errors from the server.
If it can manage a crash at the server it is said to assume the server to have crash failure semantics.
If it can manage a service omission it is said to assume the server to have omission failure semantics.
Failure semantics are the type of errors that are expected to appear.
Should another type of error appear it will lead to a service failure because it cannot be managed.
References
Failure
Distributed computing problems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annadata%20%281972%20film%29 | Annadata () is a 1972 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Asit Sen. The film stars Jaya Bhaduri and Anil Dhawan and Om Prakash in pivotal role.
Plot
Amba Prasad, a rich benevolent man, people refer to him as 'anndata' (the food provider). He is supposed to have died in an Air crash and all his "relatives" gather to find out how much they can inherit. A poor girl he literally brought up like his daughter claims to be carrying his baby, under pressure from her greedy parents. However, it turns out that Amba Prasad is alive as he had missed the flight. His lawyer makes him see the harsh reality that none of his so-called relatives were there to pay respect to him, but to get his money. Disheartened, he leaves his house with his faithful dog.
He ends up in a little village and meets Arun, an artist (Anil Dhawan), who paints a portrait of Amba Prasad sleeping under a tree guarded by his dog. He assumes that Amba Prasad is a poor man and pays him. Later, Amba Prasad faints as he is exhausted. The dog brings Aarti to help his master. Soon Amba Prasad becomes a part of Aarti's family, the only other member of it being Aarti's little brother, who is disabled. Aarti makes medicines and gives it to the villagers and refuses to take money for her services. Her only income is from typing and stitching clothes for people. Arun and Aarti love each other. However, Arun realizes that he is just a poor artist and cannot afford to support Aarti, her brother and pay her debts, when he can barely manage to look after himself and his mother. Hence, he tries to find a rich husband for Aarti. Aarti refuses to even consider this.
Amba Prasad is impressed by their honesty and steadfastness in adversity. He goes back to his home and tells his lawyer friend that loving people who love others still exists. The lawyer does not believe him and to test them sends a letter with false news of Amba Prasad's illness and asks them to come there. When Aarti and Arun reach there he tells them that Amba Prasad has died. As he was in fact a rich man he has bequeathed them his cash and property. However both Aarti and Arun refuse to take the wealth. They ask him to donate it to needy in memory of 'anndata'. Amba Prasad appears and tells them as they know how to put his money to good use he will stay with them, till the end of his life.
Cast
Jaya Bhaduri as Aarti
Anil Dhawan as Arun
Om Prakash as Amba Prasad 'Annadata'
Krishnakant as Pestonji Vasiyatwala
Dulari as Arun's Mother
Shamim as Ratna
Asit Sen as Motu Bhandari
Brahm Bhardwaj as Man who bought Arun's painting
Bobby as Kundan
Gopi Krishna as Dancer "O Meri Pran Sajni" (as Gopi Kishen)
Madhumati as Champavati
Tarun Bose as Ratna's Father
Praveen Paul as Ratna's Mother (as Praveen Pal)
Kanhaiyalal as Landlord (as Kanahiyalal)
Leela Mishra as Chachi (as Leela Misra)
Baby Guddi as Young Ratna
Soundtrack
References
External links
1972 films
1970s Hindi-language films
1972 drama films
Films scored by Salil Chowdhury |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonso%20Van%20Marsh | Alphonso Van Marsh is an American journalist and war correspondent. He is based outside the United States.
Marsh was one of Cable News Network’s (CNN) first “Video Correspondents” in 2003. Marsh broke the story of Saddam Hussein’s capture while on assignment in Iraq in December 2003. He used CNN's digital newsgathering technology in place of traditional newsgathering crews.
Background and journalism career
Born and raised in Medway, Massachusetts.
Marsh has reported from several countries and war zones. Marsh has embedded with American, British, Canadian and Egyptian troops on various assignments.
Marsh has spent most of his journalism career in the Middle East and Africa, having been based in Cairo, Istanbul, Nairobi and Johannesburg.
As a general assignment reporter based out of CNN's London bureau, Marsh has covered topics ranging from the Royal Family to the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Awards and recognition
In 2004, Marsh won a National Headliner Award for his reporting of Saddam Hussein's capture.
See also
Amazing Grace (2006 film)
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20080706164258/http://www.nyabj.org/awardsphotos.htm
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/how-media-spread-saddam-news/story.aspx?guid=%7BE7884150-FF2B-4690-8B8E-B5E0F410AB39%7D&dist=msr_7
https://web.archive.org/web/20081120130311/http://www.nabj.org/30/moments/othermoments/index.php
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/14/otsc.van.marsh/index.html
https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/497008551.html?dids=497008551:497008551&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+15%2C+2003&author=Howard+Kurtz&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&startpage=C.01&desc=Captivating+News%3B+Caught+on+Video%3A+How+the+Story+Played+Out
https://web.archive.org/web/20070626174723/http://alumni.dailycal.org/newsletter/summer2004.pdf
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2007/04/24/vanmarsh.uk.coconut.cnn?iref=videosearch
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/09/29/vanmarsh.hostages.released.cnn?iref=videosearch
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American television reporters and correspondents
People from Medway, Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled%20and%20Harmonised%20Aeronautical%20Information%20Network | The Controlled and Harmonised Aeronautical Information Network (abbreviated: CHAIN) is a concept developed by EUROCONTROL to improve the quality, integrity, accuracy and interoperability of aeronautical data in kind of a digital data chain avoiding changes in medium in the whole data process.
Using CHAIN regulators of aeronautical information as well as service providers (ANSPs) can be supported implementing and maintaining traceable, controlled and auditable processes in compliance with ICAO Annex 15 requirements for data quality with a focus on data integrity.
The scope of CHAIN covers flight critical and essential navigational aeronautical data (e.g. a runway threshold coordinates and heights) as established in ICAO Annex 15, supplemented by the industry standards EUROCAE ED-76 and ED-77.
External links
CHAIN - Data Integrity
Air traffic control in Europe
Aviation safety |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution%20Society | The Constitution Society is a nonprofit educational organization headquartered at San Antonio, Texas, U.S., and founded in 1994 by Jon Roland, an author and computer specialist who has run for public office as a Libertarian Party candidate on a "Constitutionalist Platform". The society publishes online a large selection of works on constitutional history, law, and government.
Web site
The society’s web site features digital library resources including the online Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics, launched for the purpose of hosting complete, annotated, and cross-linked copies of most of the major works written or read by the American Founders, or by persons whose writings can enable one to understand their writings. As of April 2011, it had an Alexa Traffic Rank of 78,617, with 2943 links in. It also has documents from other countries.
The ideological orientation of the site ranges from libertarian to militia support.
According to a 2010 Southern Poverty Law Center report, the site also links to conspiracy-theory sites "questioning the Oklahoma City bombing and the role of researchers in creating the HIV virus", and carries "a section on mind-control technology". Roland himself has stated that "The Feds... have actually been engaging in warlike activity against the American people." Roland also reportedly advocates the abolition of paper money in favor of gold or silver coin. Since at least 1996, Roland has held that "U.S. citizens have the right to resist an unlawful arrest", a claim assessed by Snopes as "Mostly False".
See also
Federalist Society
Cato Institute
Constitution Party (United States)
Liberty Fund
Institute for Justice
Independent Institute
Independence Institute
References
External links
Constitution Society (CS) official website.
Constitution primary blog.
Libertarian organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 1994
Organizations based in Austin, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorGraphics%20Weather%20Systems | ColorGraphics Weather Systems was a computer graphics company that pioneered the use of computer graphics for displaying weather forecasts on local television. Formed in 1979 by Terry Kelly and Richard Daly, it is now part of Weather Central, another of Kelly's companies.
History
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971 with a degree in meteorology, Terry Kelly took a job with Madison, Wisconsin, television station WKOW calculating weather predictions. Over the next two years he introduced a number of new techniques to the industry, including using magnets to represent high and low points, color markers on a whiteboard for graphics, and later hand-photographing satellite cloud imagery with a Bolex camera to produce the first cloud-movement animations.
Kelly and several of his colleagues also produced weather forecasting software. In 1974 he was promoted to chief meteorologist at WKOW, and at the same time started Weather Central to sell and operate their software for smaller organizations such as ski resorts and local highway departments.
ColorGraphics was formed in 1979 as a partnership between Kelly and Richard Daly. Kelly and Daly had both worked in the University of Wisconsin's Space Science and Engineering department, developers of the McIDAS weather display system. McIDAS used downloaded satellite cloud cover images and superimposed them on locally generated maps. Designed for the National Weather Service, McIDAS was a high-end system well beyond the budget of a television station.
Kelly's idea was to adapt the McIdas concept for lower cost home computer systems that were appearing in the late 1970s. Their first system, "LiveLine", was based on the Apple II. Its graphics system could not be genlocked, so a TV camera had to be pointed at the screen to send the video into the production systems. This initial system was soon replaced by a similar one running on Cromemco computers using a modified version of their Dazzler color-graphics card. In spite of its simplicity and low resolution, the fast production and "high tech" look caught on, and by the mid-1980s the system was almost universal, replacing bluescreen systems on cardboard maps that had previously been used. The company noted that 70% of the top 50 TV markets were using the system by 1982. By 1984 80% of all television stations in the country were using ColorGraphics system, built on Cromemco microcomputers, to generate weather, news, and sports graphics.
In 1982 the company was purchased by Dynatech, an expanding electronics company. Dynatech purchased Cromemco in 1987 and rolled the two companies together, before divesting all of its media properties in the early 1990s. Kelly and Daly purchased the rights back from Dynatech in 1994, operating under the Weather Central name. In 1995 they introduced the new "GENESIS" platform on Silicon Graphics computers, which later moved onto Hewlett-Packard workstations.
References
Notes
Bibliography
External lin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour%20Force%20Survey | Labour Force Surveys are statistical surveys conducted in a number of countries designed to capture data about the labour market. All European Union member states are required to conduct a Labour Force Survey annually. Labour Force Surveys are also carried out in some non-EU countries. They are used to calculate the International Labour Organization (ILO)-defined unemployment rate. The ILO agrees the definitions and concepts employed in Labour Force Surveys.
History
European Union
Prior to 1998, EU member states were required to conduct an LFS in one quarter per year, but as a result of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 577/98 of 9 March 1998 they are now expected to submit LFS results for every quarter to Eurostat. Most, though not all, participating countries changed their LFSs to continuous surveys in the period 1998 to 2004. Responsibility for sample selection, questionnaire design and fieldwork lies with member states' national statistical offices, who then forward the results to Eurostat, employing a common coding scheme.
The EU LFS, as it is known, covers not only the EU member states but also three of the four European Free Trade Association countries (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) and candidate countries.
United Kingdom
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) conducted the United Kingdom's first Labour Force Survey in 1973 and repeated it every two years until 1983. It is curated by the UK Data Service and can be accessed for research through them . The European Community then introduced a requirement for all of its member states to conduct an LFS (following Brexit the UK is now no longer a member state) and the ONS introduced a quarterly element to its LFS. The UK switched to a full quarterly survey in 1992, initially with seasonal quarters but moving to calendar quarters in 2006.
Australia
The first Australian LFS was conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in November 1960. Initially, the LFS was conducted only in state capitals, in February, May, August, and November, but in February 1964 it was rolled out to the whole of Australia. The last quarterly survey was conducted in November 1977. The LFS became monthly in February 1978, when the range of topics covered was increased and the LFS measure became the official measure of unemployment.
New Zealand
New Zealand's quarterly Household Labour Force Survey was established in December 1985. It was revised in 1990 to include new variables including underemployment.
Usage
In addition to being used to generate official statistics, data from the LFS are employed by academics and other researchers. In the UK, for example, the LFS has been used as a data source for research projects on topics such as female employment, the economic returns to education, migration and ethnic minority groups.
References
External links
Volume 3: Economically active population, employment, unemployment and hours of work (household surveys) of the International Labour Organization's Sources |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%20Shahidehpour | Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour is a Carl Bodine Distinguished Professor and Chairman in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Illinois Institute of Technology. He is the author of more than 300 technical papers and five books on electric power systems planning, operation, and control.
Career
Shahidehpour was the president of National Electrical Engineering Honor Society (Eta Kappa Nu) and served on its executive board for eight years. He was Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems for fifteen years, and is currently the Vice President of Publication for IEEE/PES and also Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. He is a member of the editorial board of KIEE Journal of Power Engineering (Korea), International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, and International Journal of Electric Power Systems Research. Shahidehpour is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and has lectured across the globe on electricity restructuring issues. He is also an Honorary Professor at North China Electric Power University in China and Sharif University of Technology in Iran. He is a Fellow of IEEE. He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for contributions to the optimal scheduling of generation in a deregulated electricity market with variable renewable energy sources.
Awards
Shahidehpour is the recipient of:
2007 IEEE/PES T. Burke Hayes Faculty Recognition Award in Electric Power Engineering
2005 IEEE/PES Best Transactions Paper Award
2004 IEEE/PSO Best Transactions Paper Award
Edison Electric Institute's Outstanding Faculty Award
ΗΚΝ’s Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Award
Sigma Xi’s Outstanding Researcher Award
IIT's Outstanding Faculty Award
University of Michigan’s Outstanding Teaching Award
Education
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering Department, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1981
M.S. Electrical Engineering Department, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1978
B.S. Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 1977
See also
Sukumar Brahma
Johan H. Enslin
Hassan Bevrani
References
M.Shahidepour's website at Sharif University of Technology
M.Shahidepour's website at Illinois Institute of Technology
M.Shahidepour's resume
Iranian electrical engineers
American electrical engineers
Iranian emigrants to the United States
Sharif University of Technology alumni
Electrical engineering academics
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
Illinois Institute of Technology faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
1955 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juraj%20Hromkovi%C4%8D | Juraj Hromkovič (born 1958) is a Slovak Computer Scientist and Professor at ETH Zürich. He is the author of numerous monographs and scientific publications in the field of algorithmics, computational complexity theory, and randomization.
Biography
Hromkovič was born 1958 in Bratislava. He studied at Comenius University where he received his Ph.D. in 1986 (Dr. rer. nat.), habilitated in 1989 (Theoretical Cybernetics and Mathematical Informatics), and worked as a lecturer from 1989 to 1990. From 1989 to 1994, he was a visiting professor at the group of Burkhard Monien at the University of Paderborn. In 1994, he received a professorship at the Institute of Informatics at the University of Kiel. From 1997 to 2003, he led the Chair of Computer Science 1 at RWTH Aachen. Since 2004, he has been a professor at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich for Information Technology and Education.
Next to active research in various fields of theoretical computer science (about 170 publications), the main focus of his work lies on education for teachers of Computer Science and the illustration of basics of Computer Science to non-professionals.
References
External links
Homepage of the chair of Information Technology and Education at ETH Zürich
Homepage of the Center for Informatics Education (ABZ) of ETH Zürich
Juraj Hromkovič at Mathematics Genealogy Project
Slovak computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
1958 births
Living people
Scientists from Bratislava
Comenius University alumni
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Academic staff of RWTH Aachen University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroAngelo | SCION's MicroAngelo was an early graphics card for S-100 bus computers. Each MicroAngelo board produced a 512 by 480 pixel monochrome image, high resolution for the era. The MicroAngelo Palette (or Colour Mixing) Card used the output of multiple MicroAngelo's as individual bit-planes to produce images with up to 256 colors (using 8 cards). Early versions of AutoCAD supported the MicroAngelo system.
The original MA512 board included 32 kB of RAM for the frame buffer, a Z80 processor operating as a controller and memory refresh driver, and 4 kB of ROM containing one of two optional sets of subroutines. Users programmed the MicroAngelo in assembly language using the Z80's input/output parallel ports, which sent data over the internal S-100 bus at relatively high speeds. The data sent over the bus was examined by the Z80 on the card, which then ran a selected subroutine contained in its ROM to place data into the frame buffer. The screen buffer could be moved to or from the computer's main memory - useful for printing when pushed from the card to the computer, or displaying bitmap graphics when reversed.
The 4 kB ROM normally contained "Screenware Pak I", which provided routines to emulate an 85 by 40 line character screen, which also allowed the user to define their own 12 by 6 pixel character sets in the card's RAM. The optional 6 kB "Screenware Pak II" (in 8 kB of ROM) was a superset of Pak I, adding circle, line and polygon drawing routines, flood fill and a variety of other features. Pak II also added a "split screen" function, allowing a portion of the screen to be placed in graphics mode and the rest in text mode, which some considered a necessity.
The MA512 had a number of problems that were addressed in the later MA520, released in 1982. In particular, the software interface required only two of the input/output "ports", but a single MA512 would lock down an entire set of eight, typically F0 to FF. This made expanding a system with a complete set of eight MicroAngelo boards difficult, because the eight cards and the associated palette card would end up using up the vast majority of 256 available ports. The MA520 locked down only the two ports it actually used. The MA520 also used 64 kB DRAMs and 2732 EPROMs to reduce chip counts and expand the frame buffer to 64 kB. Although the video system could only see one bank of 32 kB, the other 32 kB could be used for a variety of purposes, including scratch buffers and storing routines.
MicroAngelo also supported a light pen, connected through input terminals on the top of the card. The Screenware software automatically converted the coordinates into the card's coordinates. Screenware also included routines for drawing movable cursors in hardware (as opposed to bit block transferring), and the cursor could be made to follow the light pen simply by reading the pen coordinates and feeding them into the cursor.
Shortly after the MA520 was announced, SCION stated they were going to produce a standal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20XL | Star XL may refer to one of the following:
XL Airways Germany, sometimes known as Star XL German Airways
The Weather Star XL IRIX computer built for The Weather Channel (United States) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortline%20railroad | A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance relative to larger, national railroad networks. The term is used primarily in the United States and Canada. In the former, railroads are categorized by operating revenue, and most shortline railroads fall into the Class III or Class II categorization defined by the Surface Transportation Board.
History
At the beginning of the railroad age, nearly all railway lines were shortlines, locally chartered, financed and operated; as the railroad industry matured, local lines were merged or acquired to create longer mainline railroads.
Especially since 1980 in the U.S. and 1990 in Canada, many shortlines have been established when larger railroad companies sold off or abandoned low-profit portions of their trackage. Shortline operators typically have lower labor, overhead and regulatory costs than Class I railroads and therefore are often able to operate profitable lines that lost money for their original owners.
Shortlines generally exist for one or more of the following reasons:
to link two industries requiring rail freight together (for example, a gypsum mine and a wall board factory, or a coal mine and a power plant)
to interchange revenue traffic with other, usually larger, railroads
to operate a tourist passenger train service.
In France, the equivalent of shortlines railroads are the (local railways operators).
Classification
Because of their small size and generally low revenues, the great majority of shortline railroads in the U.S. are classified by the Association of American Railroads (AAR) as Class III. As defined by the Surface Transportation Board (STB), a Class III is a railroad with an annual operating revenue of less than $28 million. In Canada, Transport Canada classifies shortline railroads as Class II.
There are three kinds of shortlines in the U.S.: handling, switch, and ISS (Interline Settlement System).
Handling shortlines exist only to move cars along their tracks for larger railroads. They are not listed in the route on a railcar's waybill. Handling shortlines may have compensation agreements with the larger railroads they serve that do not depend on per car rates.
Switch shortlines are similar to handling shortlines except that they are listed on a railcar's route, and they collect a fee for each car they move on their tracks.
ISS shortlines operate the same as Class I and II railroads. They are included in the routes of railcars. Also, they serve as the billing railroads for loads that originate on their lines. For loads not originating on their lines, ISS shortlines still collect a portion of the freight rate.
It was reported in 2009 that shortline railroads employ 20,000 people in the U.S., and own 30 percent of the nation's railroad tracks. About a quarter of all U.S. rail freight travels at least a small part of its journey over a short-line railroad.
An ever-growing number of shortline operators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPSS%20Modeler | IBM SPSS Modeler is a data mining and text analytics software application from IBM. It is used to build predictive models and conduct other analytic tasks. It has a visual interface which allows users to leverage statistical and data mining algorithms without programming.
One of its main aims from the outset was to get rid of unnecessary complexity in data transformations, and to make complex predictive models very easy to use.
The first version incorporated decision trees (ID3), and neural networks (backprop), which could both be trained without underlying knowledge of how those techniques worked.
IBM SPSS Modeler was originally named Clementine by its creators, Integral Solutions Limited. This name continued for a while after SPSS's acquisition of the product. SPSS later changed the name to SPSS Clementine, and then later to PASW Modeler. Following IBM's 2009 acquisition of SPSS, the product was renamed IBM SPSS Modeler, its current name.
Applications
SPSS Modeler has been used in these and other industries:
Customer analytics and Customer relationship management (CRM)
Fraud detection and prevention
Optimizing insurance claims
Risk management
Manufacturing quality improvement
Healthcare quality improvement
Forecasting demand or sales
Law enforcement and border security
Education
Telecommunications
Entertainment: e.g., predicting movie box office receipts
Editions
IBM sells the current version of SPSS Modeler (version 18.2.1) in two separate bundles of features. These two bundles are called "editions" by IBM:
SPSS Modeler Professional: used for structured data, such as databases, mainframe data systems, flat files or BI systems
SPSS Modeler Premium: Includes all the features of Modeler Professional, with the addition of:
– Text analytics
Both editions are available in desktop and server configurations.
In addition to the traditional IBM SPSS Modeler desktop installations, IBM now offers the SPSS Modeler interface as an option in the Watson Studio product line which includes Watson Studio (cloud), Watson Studio Local, and Watson Studio Desktop.
Watson Studio Desktop documentation: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSBFT6_1.1.0/mstmap/kc_welcome.html
Release history
Clementine 1.0 – June 1994 by ISL
Clementine 5.1 – Jan 2000
Clementine 12.0 – Jan 2008
PASW Modeler 13 (formerly Clementine) – April 2009
IBM SPSS Modeler 14.0 – 2010
IBM SPSS Modeler 14.2 – 2011
IBM SPSS Modeler 15.0 – June 2012
IBM SPSS Modeler 16.0 – December 2013
IBM SPSS Modeler 17.0 – March 2015
IBM SPSS Modeler 18.0 -- March 2016
IBM SPSS Modeler 18.1 -- June 2017
IBM SPSS Modeler 18.2 -- March 2019
Product history
Early versions of the software were called Clementine and were Unix-based. The first version was released on Jun 9th 1994, after Beta testing at 6 customer sites. Clementine was originally developed by a UK company named Integral Solutions Limited (ISL), in Collaboration with Artificial Intelligence researchers at Sussex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Spielman | Daniel Alan Spielman (born March 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) has been a professor of applied mathematics and computer science at Yale University since 2006. As of 2018, he is the Sterling Professor of Computer Science at Yale. He is also the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science, since its founding, and chair of the newly established Department of Statistics and Data Science.
Education
Daniel Spielman attended The Philadelphia School, and Germantown Friends School. He received his bachelor of arts degree in mathematics and computer science from Yale University in 1992 and a PhD in applied mathematics from MIT in 1995 (his dissertation was called "Computationally Efficient Error-Correcting Codes and Holographic Proofs"). He taught in the Mathematics Department at MIT from 1996 to 2005.
Awards
Spielman and his collaborator Shang-Hua Teng have jointly won the Gödel Prize twice: in 2008 for their work on smoothed analysis of algorithms and in 2015 for their work on nearly-linear-time Laplacian solvers.
In 2010 he was awarded the Nevanlinna Prize "for smoothed analysis of Linear Programming, algorithms for graph-based codes and applications of graph theory to Numerical Computing" and the same year he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
In 2012 he was part of the inaugural class of Simons Investigators providing $660,000 for five years for curiosity driven research.
In October 2012, he was named a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.
In 2013, together with Adam Marcus and Nikhil Srivastava, he provided a positive solution to the Kadison–Singer problem, a result that was awarded the 2014 Pólya Prize.
He gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.
In 2017 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
In 2022 he won the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics "for breakthrough contributions to theoretical computer science and mathematics, including to spectral graph theory, the Kadison-Singer problem, numerical linear algebra, optimization, and coding theory.".
References
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Yale Sterling Professors
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Yale University alumni
Jewish American scientists
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Simons Investigator
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krackhardt%20E/I%20Ratio | The Krackhardt E/I Ratio (or variously the E-I Index) is a social network measure which the relative density of internal connections within a social group compared to the number of connections that group has to the external world. It was so described in a 1988 paper by David Krackhardt and Robert N. Stern noting the increased effectiveness in moments of crisis of organizations which had stronger informal networks that crossed formal internal group structures.
Comparisons with network theory
The E/I ratio is related to the concept of conductance, which measures the likelihood that a random walk on a subgraph will exit that subgraph.
References
Informal networks and organizational crises: An experimental simulation. David Krackhardt, Robert N. Stern - Social Psychology Quarterly, 1988, DOI:10.2307/2786835
See also
Conductance (graph)
Percolation
Social network analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Eddy%20Arnold%20Show | The Eddy Arnold Show is the name of three similar American network television summer variety programs during the 1950s hosted by Eddy Arnold and featuring popular music stars of the day. It was also the name of a radio program starring Arnold.
CBS
The Eddy Arnold Show debuted on CBS-TV on July 14, 1952 from New York City, as a live 15-minute summer replacement for The Perry Como Show on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights from 7:45–8 pm ET. Arnold's guitarists Hank Garland and Roy Wiggins (steel guitar) appeared. The program's final broadcast was August 22, 1952.
NBC
From July 7 to October 1, 1953, NBC-TV carried The Eddy Arnold Show as a live 15-minute summer replacement for The Dinah Shore Show. The program aired on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7:30–7:45 pm ET, and featured Russ Case and the NBC Orchestra, as well as Garland and Wiggins. Guests included the Davis Sisters and the Dickens Sisters. Ben Park was the producer, Dave Parker was the director, and Marvin David was the writer.
Critical response
A review in the trade publication Variety said, "Arnold is an easy-going host besides being one of the top country performers, and his music is simple and pleasant". It also commended the show's "sets, camera work and other production trappings."
ABC
The Eddy Arnold Show had its longest run on ABC-TV from April 26 to September 26, 1956, as a half-hour series. The live program aired from 8–8:30 pm ET on Thursdays as a summer replacement for Life is Worth Living, then on June 20 moved to 9:30–10 pm on Wednesdays.
This show featured a regular cast of Chet Atkins, Garland, Wiggins, and the instrumental Paul Mitchell (piano) Quartet. The Springfield News & Leader observed, "The show is plain and warm, utilizing virtually no sets but building its numbers around lighting effects."
The program originated from the Jewell Theatre (before an audience of about 500) in Springfield, Missouri, which was equipped for live television production as the home of ABC's Ozark Jubilee. Its original producer and writer was Charlie Brown, who left in August 1956 after he had won the Democratic primary election on his way to becoming a US representative. Jubilee producer-director Bryan Bisney took over, with the Jubilee's Don Richardson becoming writer. Guest stars included:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20identity%20testing | In mathematics, polynomial identity testing (PIT) is the problem of efficiently determining whether two multivariate polynomials are identical. More formally, a PIT algorithm is given an arithmetic circuit that computes a polynomial p in a field, and decides whether p is the zero polynomial. Determining the computational complexity required for polynomial identity testing, in particular finding deterministic algorithms for PIT, is one of the most important open problems in algebraic computing complexity.
Description
The question "Does equal " is a question about whether two polynomials are identical. As with any polynomial identity testing question, it can be trivially transformed into the question "Is a certain polynomial equal to 0?"; in this case we can ask "Does "? If we are given the polynomial as an algebraic expression (rather than as a black-box), we can confirm that the equality holds through brute-force multiplication and addition, but the time complexity of the brute-force approach grows as , where is the number of variables (here, : is the first and is the second), and is the degree of the polynomial (here, ). If and are both large, grows exponentially.
PIT concerns whether a polynomial is identical to the zero polynomial, rather than whether the function implemented by the polynomial always evaluates to zero in the given domain. For example, the field with two elements, GF(2), contains only the elements 0 and 1. In GF(2), always evaluates to zero; despite this, PIT does not consider to be equal to the zero polynomial.
Determining the computational complexity required for polynomial identity testing is one of the most important open problems in the mathematical subfield known as "algebraic computing complexity". The study of PIT is a building-block to many other areas of computational complexity, such as the proof that IP=PSPACE. In addition, PIT has applications to Tutte matrices and also to primality testing, where PIT techniques led to the AKS primality test, the first deterministic (though impractical) polynomial time algorithm for primality testing.
Formal problem statement
Given an arithmetic circuit that computes a polynomial in a field, determine whether the polynomial is equal to the zero polynomial (that is, the polynomial with no nonzero terms).
Solutions
In some cases, the specification of the arithmetic circuit is not given to the PIT solver, and the PIT solver can only input values into a "black box" that implements the circuit, and then analyze the output. Note that the solutions below assume that any operation (such as multiplication) in the given field takes constant time; further, all black-box algorithms below assume the size of the field is larger than the degree of the polynomial.
The Schwartz–Zippel algorithm provides a practical probabilistic solution, by simply randomly testing inputs and checking whether the output is zero. It was the first randomized polynomial time PIT algorithm to be prov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Kenue | Green Kenue (formerly EnSim Hydrologic) is an advanced data preparation, analysis, and visualization tool for hydrologic modellers. It is a Windows/OpenGL-based graphical user interface, integrating environmental databases and geo-spatial data with model input and results data. Green Kenue provides complete pre- and post-processing for the WATFLOOD and HBV-EC hydrologic models.
Also included is a 1D "reach scale" unsteady hydrodynamic flow solver, Gen1D.
Visualization and Animation
Visualization in Green Kenue is provided by dynamic 1D, Polar, 2D, 3D and Spherical views that can be recorded as digital movies or saved as images for inclusion in reports or presentations.
All views and data are fully geo-referenced and coordinate conversion between common projections is supported.
Data Formats/Types
Green Kenue provides support for a full-featured set of data types commonly used by hydrologic modellers.
ASCII and Binary native file formats (for static and temporally-varying data) are available.
Time-series (scalar and vector)
Tabular data, Distributions, Velocity roses
Multi-attribute point-sets
Multi-attribute line-sets
Multi-attribute networks
Rectangular gridded data (scalar and vector)
Triangular gridded data (scalar and vector)
Green Kenue supports import and export for common GIS data formats including:
ArcINFO/ArcView,
MapInfo,
GeoTIFF,
DTED/CDED,
BIL,
SRTM,
WMO-GRIB,
Surfer
Digital Elevation Map Processing
The watershed basin and stream delineation tool uses either the Jenson or At Search algorithm and allows for artificial diversions. A suite of sophisticated basin metrics and digital elevation map analysis tools is provided, including statistical and analysis functions such as temporal min, max, mean, standard deviation, slope and curvature analysis, hypsography, stream power, and relief potential. For more sophisticated analysis, a powerful algebraic calculator for gridded data is available.
Environmental Databases
Green Kenue provides an interface to Environment Canada's hydrometric station database (HYDAT) as well as the Canadian Daily Climate Database (CDCD). Stations are queried interactively and available time series data can be extracted, re-sampled, analyzed, and processed with various editors and calculators. Users can also load and analyze gridded weather forecast datasets in GRIB or FST format.
See also
Hydrology
HBV hydrology model
External links
"Green Kenue" Home Page
WATFLOOD Home Page
Hydrology models
Physical geography
GIS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco%20Dazzler | The Cromemco Dazzler was a graphics card for S-100 bus computers introduced in a Popular Electronics cover story in 1976. It was the first color graphics card available for microcomputers. The Dazzler was the first of a succession of increasingly capable graphics products from Cromemco which, by 1984, were in use at 80% of all television stations in the U.S. for the display of weather, news, and sports graphics.
History
The Dazzler came about in a roundabout fashion after Les Solomon, Technical Editor for Popular Electronics magazine, demonstrated the original Altair 8800 to Roger Melen of Stanford University. After seeing it, Melen purchased Altair #2 for his friend Harry Garland to work with. The two built a number of add-ons for the machine, collaborating with Terry Walker on the design of the first digital camera called the Cyclops and then moving on to the Dazzler. The Dazzler was first shown at the Homebrew Computer Club on November 12, 1975.
Like many early microcomputer projects of the era, the Dazzler was originally announced as a self-built kit in Popular Electronics. In order to "kick start" construction, they offered kits including a circuit board and the required parts, which the user would then assemble on their own. This led to sales of completely assembled Dazzler systems, which became the only way to purchase the product some time after. Sales were so fruitful that Melen and Garland formed Cromemco to sell the Dazzler and their other Altair add-ons, selecting a name based on Crothers Memorial Hall, their residence while attending Stanford.
When Federico Faggin's new company - Zilog - introduced the Z80, Cromemco branched out into their own line of Z80-based S-100 compatible computers almost immediately. Over time these became the company's primary products. Combinations of their rackmount machines and the Dazzler formed the basis of ColorGraphics Weather Systems (CWS) product line into the late 1980s, and when CWS was purchased by Dynatech in 1987, Dynatech also purchased Cromemco to supply them.
Dazzler software
The original advertisement for the Dazzler offered three different software programs for sale (provided on punched paper tape.) These were Conway's Game of Life, Dazzlewriter (an alphanumeric display) and a colorful pattern-generating program, Kaleidoscope.
The cover of the June 1976 issue of Byte magazine shows a Dazzler image from Conway's Game of Life, and credits Ed Hall as author of the Game of Life software for the Dazzler. Byte also credits Steve Dompier with authoring the animation tool "Dazzlemation" and the first animation made with Dazzlemation called "Magenta Martini". George Tate (who later co-founded Ashton-Tate) is credited with a Tic-Tac-Toe game for the Dazzler, and Li-Chen Wang is credited as the author of "Kaleidoscope". Ed Hall's color realization of Conway's Game of Life led to a revival of interest in the game.
Stan Veit, owner of the Computer Mart of New York, described the reaction when he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Intervention%20episodes | This is a list of episodes for Intervention, an American reality television program which aired on the A&E Network since 2005.
Each episode follows one or two participants, each of whom has an addiction or other mentally and/or physically damaging problem and believes that they are being filmed for a documentary on their problem. Their situations are actually being documented in anticipation of an intervention by family and/or friends. Episodes typically feature an epilogue or follow-up months later with an update to the addicted person's progress or state.
As of January 13, 2017, the series consisted of a total of 265 episodes and 10 specials. Most episodes are available individually on DVD from A&E's website.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2005)
Season 2 (2005–06)
Season 3 (2007)
Season 4 (2007–08)
Season 5 (2008)
Season 6 (2008–09)
Season 7 (2009)
Season 8 (2009–10)
Season 9 (2010)
Season 10 (2010–11)
Season 11 (2011)
Season 12 (2012)
Season 13 (2012–13)
Season 14 (2013–14)
Season 15 (2015)
Season 16 (2016–17)
Season 17 (2017)
Season 18 (2018)
Season 19 (2018–19)
Season 20 (2019)
Season 21 (2020)
Season 22 (2021)
Season 23 (2021)
Season 24 (2022)
References
External links
Lists of American non-fiction television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Eternal%20Light | The Eternal Light was an American radio and television program on the NBC Radio Network, produced in conjunction with the Jewish Theological Seminary, that was broadcast between 1944 and 1989. Featuring interviews, commentary, and award-winning dramas from the perspective of Judaism, it began on radio in 1944 and continued as a weekly radio program through 1989. A 1946 program, for example, dramatized humanitarian Lillian Wald's founding of New York City's Henry Street Settlement in 1895. The May 31, 1959, program featured a tour of the Holy Land narrated by Ralph Bellamy.
Beginning in 1952, The Eternal Light was also televised by NBC as part of its Sunday morning religious programming, along with Frontiers of Faith (produced in conjunction with the National Council of Churches) and The Catholic Hour. By the mid-1950s, the program had an audience of more than six million weekly on radio and television.
Milton E. Krents (1912–2000) was executive producer of The Eternal Light radio program for 44 years. NBC television's director for The Eternal Light, along with its other Sunday morning televised religious programs, was Martin Hoade (1916–2006). The program's editor was Moshe Davis of the Jewish Theological Seminary, who explained its purpose to a New York Times interviewer: "The common man is always the hero in our show. We try to put a contemporary subject in a concept of eternity." NBC donated the air time, and the Jewish Theological Seminary budgeted the show's production expenses. Spurning potential sponsorship offers, Davis told one persistent business executive, "My good man, God needs no sponsor".
Among the notables appearing on the series were Alan Arkin, Joseph Cotten, Joan Crawford, Mel Ferrer, Sam Levene, E. G. Marshall, Raymond Massey, Alexander Scourby, Maureen Stapleton, Elie Wiesel, and Gene Wilder.
The program won numerous awards, including two Emmy Awards, many Emmy nominations, and Peabody Awards in 1962, 1967, and 1973. Krents received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for his production of The Eternal Light. In 2007, a documentary about the series done by Diva Communications, The Eternal Light—A Historical Retrospective, won a New York Emmy Award.
References
External links
The Eternal Light—A Historical Retrospective
The Jewish Museum on The Eternal Light
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castelo%20R%C3%A1-Tim-Bum | Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum (, lit. "Ra-Tim-Bum Castle") was a Brazilian children's program produced and broadcast by TV Cultura and the Network Service of Television. Targeted toward children and youth, it follows an educational entertainment model, being composed of several segments targeting specific knowledge areas, such as science and history. The program premiered on May 9, 1994, and stopped production in 1997. Partially inspired by the educational program Rá-Tim-Bum, it gave rise to a television franchise, which is part of Island Rá-Tim-Bum. Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum is a creation of the playwright Flavio de Souza and director Cao Hamburger, with scripts Jacob Dionisio (Tacus), Cláudia Dalla Verde, Anna Muylaert, among others.
Because of its educational nature, the production was part of a partnership between Fiesp and TV Cultura, such as other educational programs for children that the station aired. Fiesp, Sesi and Senai were all educational institutions that appeared in its credits. Although the series was targeted towards children from 3 to 8 years old, it actually had an audience of 3 to 16 year olds.
Plot
Nino is a 300-year-old boy who lives with his uncle, Dr. Victor, who is a 3,000-year-old sorcerer and scientist, and his great-aunt Morgana, who is a 6,000-year-old witch. The three live in a castle in the middle of the city of São Paulo. Being a sorcerer's apprentice, Nino never got to go to school, in special due to his unusual age for a boy. His parents left him in the foster care of Victor and Morgana, as they needed to travel on an expedition to outer space, taking his two younger siblings with them. Although he has supernatural animal friends in the castle, Nino misses having friends that are like himself, so he decides to cast a spell he learned from his uncle Victor, which ends up bringing three children who had just left school to his castle's doorstep. Free of loneliness, Nino then receives daily visits from the trio, in addition to special visits from other friends, such as the pizza delivery man Bongo, the flamboyant TV reporter Penelope, the folk legend Caipora, and an alien called Etevaldo. Dr. Abobrinha (Dr. Zucchini, also referring to the Portuguese expression of speaking senseless) serves as the main villain of the series, who is a real estate speculator who wants to demolish the castle and erect a 100-story tall building in its place.
Main characters
Antonino "Nino" Victorius Stradivarius II: Born on December 11, 1692, in San Vicente, Province of Terra de Vera Cruz. Son of Antonino Quântico Stradivarius II and Ninotchka Astrobaldo Stradivarius (Nino uses the number in the name of his father (II) as a way of honoring him). The main character, present in all episodes. Nino's room contains several toys, and its wallpaper is filled with comic book pages. Nino's parents do not appear in the series due to their travels. Their ten-year journey through outer space began in 1990. He has a bowl cut with a single strand of hair standin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian%20%28disambiguation%29 | Symbian may refer to:
Symbian, mobile operating system and integrated software platform developed by the Symbian Foundation, originally a proprietary operating system developed by Symbian Ltd.
Symbian Ltd., software development and licensing company that produced Symbian OS between its foundation in 1998 and acquisition by Nokia in 2008
Symbian Foundation, non-profit foundation created by Nokia to develop the integrated Symbian platform
See also
Accredited Symbian Developer, accreditation program for software developers developing for the Symbian operating system
Sybian, autoerotic mechanical device
Symbion, genus of aquatic animals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Michelman | Eric Michelman, a graduate from MIT, is credited with inventing the now commonplace computer input device known as the scroll wheel. Scroll wheels are most often located between the left and right-click buttons on modern computer mice.
History
In 1993, Michelman began work on his project to ease navigation within Excel. His interest in eased navigability stemmed from real-time observation of users entering data in spreadsheets.
“…as I was watching many Excel users do their work, I noticed the difficulty they had moving around large spreadsheets. Finding and jumping to different sections was often difficult. I had the idea that perhaps a richer input device would help.”
Michelman initially looked to add a 'zoom-lever' for the left hand to control while navigating the Microsoft GUI. After experimenting with a joystick assigned to panning (scrolling) as well as zooming, Michelman approached Microsoft's engineers with his idea. In his position as Program Management Lead for the Excel project, he persuaded the hardware engineers to develop added functionality to the current hardware to allow richer input and then evangelized the new functionality to the other Office applications. A debate raged over whether all the Office applications should have the same scrolling or zooming default, with Michelman subsequently conceding to the idea that having them all, including Excel, scroll by default would possess the greatest overall utility. Michelman was charged with organizing the software support for this new function. Being the Program Management Lead for the Excel project, he was well positioned to achieve this, and did.
Advances in Technology
There have been many advances in computing mice since the dawn of the scroll wheel. 1999 brought the advent of a marketable LED technology optical mouse from Agilent. Close following in the same year, Microsoft released its version of an optical mouse, the Intellimouse Explorer.
Michelman's brainchild has since been elaborated on by the likes of Logitech, Apple, and other major computer peripheral manufacturers. In 2007 Logitech combined all of these technologies and more when the company released a 7-button, 2-wheel, fully customizable mousing device aptly named "MX Revolution." This technology is intended to address a user's need when
"The typical computer user has six applications open and switches windows every 50 seconds. In a work day, we rack up 26 feet on the mouse's scroll wheel."
Other Contributors
A jointly developed mouse by Japanese (NTT) and Swiss (ETH) companies may mark the first appearance of a wheel-function on a mouse back in 1985. They developed what was a thumb wheel for their companies, the (original) "Mighty Mouse." This mouse did not catch any traction in the world computing market.
Additional work by Michelman
Michelman has an SB degree from MIT, an MS in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and an MBA from MIT. Before working at Microsoft, he worked at Apple on th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent%20Varieties | Talent Varieties is a country music talent show on American network television and radio in 1955 that featured performers hoping to achieve fame in the entertainment business.
The weekly ABC-TV program was a live half-hour summer replacement series hosted by Slim Wilson. Wilson introduced the amateur and professional talent, including music and comedy acts (many from the Ozarks); and his Tall Timber Trio, composed of Speedy Haworth (guitar), Bob White (upright bass) and Bryan "Doc" Martin (steel guitar) provided accompaniment. Auditions were handled by Bill Ring. The Westport Kids appeared July 12, and Buck Griffin appeared August 2.
The show aired on Tuesday nights from June 28–November 1. Its original time slot was 7:30–8 p.m. Eastern Time, replacing Cavalcade of America, but moved to 10–10:30 p.m. in September to briefly replace Break the Bank.
ABC Radio simulcast the program under the name Talent Round-Up from 7:30 p.m., as well as carrying an additional half-hour until 8:30.
The program originated from the Jewell Theatre in Springfield, Missouri, home to ABC's Ozark Jubilee; and was produced and directed by the Jubilee's Bryan Bisney, who took over from Ring in September.
Notes
References
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Sachs, Bill "Folk Talent & Tunes" (May 28, 1955), The Billboard, p. 56
Sachs, Bill "Folk Talent & Tunes" (July 23, 1955), The Billboard, p. 93
Sachs, Bill "Folk Talent & Tunes" (October 1, 1955), The Billboard, p. 64
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveReports | ActiveReports is a .NET reporting tool used by developers of .NET (cross-platform, WinForms), and ASP.NET/JavaScript (WebForms, MVC 5, Core, Blazor) applications. It was originally developed by Data Dynamics, which was then acquired by GrapeCity. It is written in managed C# code and allows Visual Studio programmers to leverage their knowledge of C# or Visual Basic.NET when programming with ActiveReports.
ActiveReports allows developers to create win/web applications, which allow end-users to create and/or preview complicated reports. Among the components included with ActiveReports are exports to file formats such as PDF, Excel, RTF, and Word and other. ActiveReports also includes Visual Studio integrated report designer, and an API that developers use to create customized reports from a variety of data sources.
ActiveReports allows to create and work with next types of reports:
Section Reports with banded sections like the original ActiveReports (reminiscent of Microsoft Access reports). Really it is set of 2 similar formats (with some differences, like differences in scripts): XML-based (can be created by end-users) and CodeDOM-based (required Visual Studio).
Report Definition Language based report types:
RDL Reports with a continuous page layout like the original Data Dynamics Reports. Similar to reports from SQL Server Reporting Services.
RDL Multi-Section Reports - extension of RDL Reports with different page sizes.
RDL Dashboard Reports - web-first extension of RDL Reports to develop reports, which can be used as Dashboard.
Page Reports with a fixed layout for pages. Created to reproduce legacy paper forms logic.
ActiveReports has 2 editions: Standard and Professional (with some features unlocked).
ActiveReport 1/ActiveReports 2
Old Visual Basic COM components.
ActiveReport for .NET 1/ActiveReports for .NET 2
Same components, but for .NET.
ActiveReport for .NET 3
Design-time preview tab.
Component tray for design-time work with .NET data providers.
Report Explorer support for parameters and calculated fields.
Design-time support for custom parameters and unbound fields.
New chart types: Funnel, Pyramid, Gantt, Kagi, Point and figure, Renko, Three line break.
ReportInfo control for page N of M or report run dates.
ActiveReport 6
Microsoft Silverlight support.
Windows Azure reporting in partial trust and full trust modes.
ASP.NET medium trust support.
Support for .NET Framework 4.0 Client profile.
Support of conversion from Crystal Reports.
New report items (cross-section box, line, new Reduced Space Symbology (RSS) barcode styles).
External style sheets.
Designer snap lines.
Granular control over text boxes and labels.
64 bit support.
ActiveReport 7
Added Page/RDL Reports from discarded product Data Dynamics Reports.
Advanced printing support.
New license.
Added a WPF Report Viewer.
Added a PDF/A export option for report archiving.
ActiveReport 8
Added touch support for the Windows and WPF Viewer. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labroots | Labroots is a scientific social networking website, founded in 2008. The site offers news and virtual events as well as webinars in many areas of science and medicine.
Labroots events and webinars primarily focus on health, medicine, and other biotechnology-oriented fields.
History
Labroots was co-founded in 2008 by Greg and Don Cruikshank, and in 2009 acquired BioConference Live.
Virtual events
Labroots hosts virtual events in many scientific fields such as microbiology and neuroscience.
References
External links
Labroots - Main Page
American social networking websites
Scientific organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20lithography | Computational lithography (also known as computational scaling) is the set of mathematical and algorithmic approaches designed to improve the resolution attainable through photolithography. Computational lithography came to the forefront of photolithography technologies in 2008 when the semiconductor industry faced challenges associated with the transition to a 22 nanometer CMOS microfabrication process and has become instrumental in further shrinking the design nodes and topology of semiconductor transistor manufacturing.
History
Computational lithography means the use of computers to simulate printing of micro-lithography structures. Pioneering work was done by Chris Mack at NSA in developing PROLITH, Rick Dill at IBM and Andy Neureuther at University of California, Berkeley from the early 1980s. These tools were limited to lithography process optimization as the algorithms were limited to a few square micrometres of resist. Commercial full-chip optical proximity correction (OPC), using model forms, was first implemented by TMA (now a subsidiary of Synopsys) and Numerical Technologies (also part of Synopsys) around 1997.
Since then the market and complexity has grown significantly. With the move to sub-wavelength lithography at the 180 nm and 130 nm nodes, RET techniques such as Assist features, phase shift masks started to be used together with OPC. For the transition from 65 nm to 45 nm nodes customers were worrying that not only that design rules were insufficient to guarantee printing without yield limiting hotspots, but also that tape-out time may need thousands of CPUs or weeks of run time. This predicted exponential increase in computational complexity for mask synthesis on moving to the 45 nm process node spawned a significant venture capital investment in design for manufacturing start-up companies.
A number of startup companies promoting their own disruptive solutions to this problem started to appear, techniques from custom hardware acceleration to radical new algorithms such as inverse lithography were touted to resolve the forthcoming bottlenecks. Despite this activity, incumbent OPC suppliers were able to adapt and keep their major customers, with RET and OPC being used together as for previous nodes, but now on more layers and with larger data files, and turn around time concerns were met by new algorithms and improvements in multi-core commodity processors. The term computational lithography was first used by Brion Technology (now a subsidiary of ASML) in 2005 to promote their hardware accelerated full chip lithography simulation platform. Since then the term has been used by the industry to describe full chip mask synthesis solutions. As 45 nm goes into full production and EUV lithography introduction is delayed, 32 nm and 22 nm are expected to run on existing 193 nm scanners technology.
Now, not only are throughput and capabilities concerns resurfacing, but also new computational lithography techniques such as Source |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API%20writer | An API writer is a technical writer who writes documents that describe an application programming interface (API). The primary audience includes programmers, developers, system architects, and system designers.
Overview
An API is a library consisting of interfaces, functions, classes, structures, enumerations, etc. for building a software application. It is used by developers to interact with and extend the software. An API for a given programming language or system may consist of system-defined and user-defined constructs. As the number and complexity of these constructs increases, it becomes very tedious for developers to remember all of the functions and the parameters defined. Hence, the API writers play a key role in building software applications.
Due to the technical subject matter, API writers must understand application source code enough to extract the information that API documents require. API writers often use tooling that extracts software documentation placed by programmers in the source code in a structured manner, preserving the relationships between the comments and the programming constructs they document.
API writers must also understand the software product and document the new features or changes as part of the new software release. The schedule of software releases varies from organization to organization. API writers need to understand the software life cycle well and integrate themselves into the systems development life cycle (SDLC).
API writers in the United States generally follow The Chicago Manual of Style for grammar and punctuation.
Qualifications
API writers typically possess a mix of programming and language skills; many API writers have backgrounds in programming or technical writing.
Computer programming background (Knowledge of C, C++, Java, PHP, or other programming languages)
Knowledge of formatting standards like Doxygen, Javadoc, OpenAPI, or DITA
Knowledge of editors and tools, like FrameMaker
Excellent communication and writing skills to interact with developers
Expert API/software development kit (SDK) writers can easily become programming writers.
API writing process
The API writing process is typically split between analyzing and understanding the source code, planning, writing, and reviewing. It is often the case that the analytical, planning, and writing stages do not occur in a strictly linear fashion.
The writing and evaluation criteria vary between organizations. Some of the most effective API documents are written by those who are adequately capable of understanding the workings of a particular application, so that they can relate the software to the users or the various component constructs to the overall purpose of the program. API writers may also be responsible for authoring end-user product documentation.
While reference documentation may be auto-generated to ensure completeness, documentation that helps developers get started should be written by a professional API writer and r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%205550 | IBM 5550 is a personal computer series that IBM marketed in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China in the 1980s and 1990s, for business use customers. In Japan, it was introduced in 1983 and promoted as "" because it had three roles in one machine: a PC, a word processing machine which was traditionally marketed as a machine different from a PC in Japan, and an IBM-host attached terminal.
General
The IBM PC that had been marketed by IBM since 1981, using Intel 8088, was not powerful enough to process the far eastern languages of Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Nor was the resolution of IBM PC's display high enough to show the complex characters of these languages.
The IBM 5550 was first introduced in Japan in March 1983, using Intel 8086 microprocessor and was called "Multistation 5550" because it had three roles in one machine: a PC, a word processing machine which was traditionally marketed in Japan as a machine different from a PC, and an online terminal.
After the Japanese 5550 models, Korean, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese models were also introduced. IBM 5550 initially used its own architecture, but, later since 1987, was changed to use IBM Personal System/2's Micro Channel Architecture, being renamed as Personal System/55.
In Japan, Kiyoshi Atsumi, a film actor, was used to promote the 5550. IBM later introduced IBM JX for home users in Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and DOS/V for both business and home users in Japan.
Features
The 5550 was originally planned as a terminal with a combination of word processing and personal computing targeted for Japanese computer market. To display 24 dots Mincho kanji typeface which was also used in many Japanese word processing machines, the 5550 had high display resolution such as a 1024×768 pixel graphic screen. The first model of 5550 was designed to read a display font from an external storage for multilingual support, including Chinese and Korean languages.
The 5550 fulfills three roles, via the following components:
Japanese Business Personal Computer: developed by Microsoft.
Japanese word processor: developed by IBM.
Japanese online terminal: and developed by IBM.
The original Bunsho Program and emulators booted from a floppy disk without Nihongo DOS. They used a proprietary disk format which couldn't be read from Nihongo DOS, so users had to replace floppy disks or set the boot partition to switch between two programs. Also, they had to use a conversion program to exchange data. Later, they were ported for Nihongo DOS, and functions were gradually implemented. 3270 Kanji Emulation, 5250 Kanji Emulation and Bunsho Program were superseded by Nihongo 3270 PC in October 1983, Nihongo 5250 PC in September 1984 and DOS Bunsho Program in May 1986.
The first generation of IBM 5550 has up to three 5¼ inch double-density (720 KB) floppy drives because the Bunsho Program uses three floppy disks; program disk, font disk, and user data disk. Later models contain a font ROM card as o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmy%20Burgers | Barmy Burgers is a platform game written for the ZX Spectrum by Gary Capewell and Gary Sewell and published in 1983 by Blaby Computer Games in the UK and Ventamatic in Spain. It is a clone of the 1982 Data East arcade video game BurgerTime.
Gameplay
The player is a chef attempting to create three larger-than-life-sized hamburgers on a level made of horizontal platforms and connecting ladders. Walking over an ingredient causes it to drop onto lower platforms until complete sandwiches are formed at the bottom of the screen. Sausages and fried eggs chase the player; if they touch the chef, a life is lost. Throwing pepper on a pursuer briefly stuns it.
Reception
Crash praised the game for its sound and graphics, while Computer and Video Games said that "Barmy Burgers is a good game for any Spectrum-owning Burgertime fan."
In 2010, 1Up.com included Barmy Burgers on a list of the "most egregious videogame ripoffs".
See also
Mr. Wimpy
References
External links
Dragon 32 games
ZX Spectrum games
1983 video games
Platformers
Video game clones
Video games about food and drink
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer%20Kong | Killer Kong is a clone of Donkey Kong written for the ZX Spectrum by Gary Capewell and published by Blaby Computer Games in 1983.
Reception
Crash magazine called Killer Kong "a very fine version with excellent graphics and plenty of screen variation."
In 2011, retrogaming magazine ZX Spectrum Gamer wrote, "Killer Kong might actually be pretty good if it didn't play like a magazine type-in. The movement is really jerky–character square movement instead of pixel precision, and the barrels tend to flicker enough to make things really tricky".
References
External links
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spectrum-only games
1983 video games
Video game clones
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Guy%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of Family Guy first aired on the Fox network in 22 episodes from July 11, 2001, to November 9, 2003, before being released as a DVD box set and in syndication. It premiered with the episode "The Thin White Line" and finished with "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1". An episode that was not part of the season's original broadcast run, "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", was included on the DVD release and later shown on both Adult Swim and Fox. The third season of Family Guy continues the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and Brian, the family dog, who reside in their hometown of Quahog.
The executive producers for the third production season were Dan Palladino and series creator Seth MacFarlane. The aired season also contained nine episodes which were holdovers from season two, which were produced by MacFarlane and David Zuckerman.
Although Family Guy was initially canceled in 2000 due to low ratings, following a last-minute reprieve, the series returned for a third season in 2001. The series was canceled again in 2002; however, high ratings on Adult Swim and high DVD sales renewed Fox's interest in the series. The series returned for a total of 30 new episodes in 2005.
The episode "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows" won an Emmy Award for Best Song. Creator MacFarlane, the recipient of the award, noted that the episode's director Dan Povenmire deserved to have received the award for the contribution the visuals made to the episode's win. Povenmire responded humorously, "That's a nice sentiment and all, but did he offer to give me his? No! And it's not like he doesn't already have two of his own just sitting in his house!"
Production
Family Guy was first canceled in 2000 following the series' second season, but following a last-minute reprieve, it returned for a third season in 2001. In 2002, the series was canceled again after three seasons due to low ratings.
Fox attempted to sell the rights for reruns of the show, but it was difficult to find networks that were interested; Cartoon Network eventually bought the rights, " basically for free", according to the president of 20th Century Fox Television Production.
When the reruns were shown on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim in 2003, Family Guy became Adult Swim's most-watched show with an average 1.9 million viewers an episode. Following Family Guys high ratings on Adult Swim, the first two seasons were released on DVD in April 2003. Sales of the DVD set reached 2.2 million copies, becoming the best-selling television DVD of 2003 and the second highest-selling television DVD ever, behind the first season of Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show. The third season DVD release also sold more than a million copies. The show's popularity in both DVD sales and reruns rekindled Fox's interest in it. They ordered 35 new episodes in 2004, marking the first revival of a television show based on DVD sales. Fox president Gail B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Guy%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of Family Guy first aired on the Fox network in eighteen episodes from September 10, 2006 to May 20, 2007 before being released as two DVD box sets and in syndication. It premiered with the episode "Stewie Loves Lois" and finished with "Meet the Quagmires". The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and Brian, the family pet, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The executive producers for the fifth season were David Goodman, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith and series creator Seth MacFarlane. Sheridan and Goodman served as showrunners for the fifth season.
The season received positive reviews from critics, who praised that the series saw "no sign of tiring", and had "as many funny moments as ever." Some criticism went to the cite of a lack of original writing.
Season five contains some of the series' most acclaimed episodes, including "Barely Legal", "Airport '07" and "No Chris Left Behind". The fifth season won an Annie Award at the 35th Annie Awards for storyboarding and was nominated for three more, including writing and voice acting. It also won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.
The Volume Five DVD box set was released in Region 1 on September 18, 2007, Region 2 on October 15, 2007 and Region 4 on November 25, 2009. Thirteen of the eighteen episodes are included in the volume. The remaining five episodes of the season were released on the Volume Six DVD box set, released in Region 1 on October 21, 2008, Region 2 on November 10, 2008 and Region 4 on November 25, 2009.
Production
Production for the fifth season began in 2005, during the airing of the fourth season. The season was executive produced by series regulars David A. Goodman, Seth MacFarlane, Chris Sheridan, and Danny Smith. In addition, Goodman served as showrunner throughout the season.
As production began, Tom Devanney, Kirker Butler, Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild,
Patrick Meighan, Danny Smith, and future showrunners Mark Hentemann and Steve Callaghan all stayed on from the previous season. No new writers were hired after the conclusion of the fourth season. Alex Borstein, who serves as the voice of Lois, wrote her last episode, "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One", and regular writers Ken Goin and Gary Janetti, who returned during season eight, left the series before the beginning of the fifth season.
Julius Wu and Brian Iles received their first directing credits this season. Mike Kim, James Purdum, Cyndi Tang, Greg Colton, Pete Michels, Zac Moncrief, John Holmquist and future Blue Harvest director Dominic Polcino all also stayed with the show from the previous season. This season, however, was director Dan Povenmire's last season before leaving the show to create his own series, entitled Phineas and Ferb, which would be nominated for three Emmy Awards.
The main cast consisted of Seth MacFarlane (Peter Griffin, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Classica | Radio Classica is an Italian radio station operated by Italian publishing company Class Editori, specialising in Classical music. Programming include news and financial reports in collaboration with Class News and Class CNBC.
Radio Classica is broadcast locally in the cities of Milan, Como, Lecco and other areas of Lombardy.
External links
Official site
Free-to-air
Radio stations in Italy
Mass media in Milan
Classical music radio stations
Radio stations established in 2001
Class Editori |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Merry%20Mirthworm%20Christmas | A Merry Mirthworm Christmas is an animated television special, produced by Perennial Pictures. It premiered on the Showtime Cable Network on December 14, 1984. The film features a cast of Mirthworms, which are described as anthropomorphic worms about long, who live in the tiny town of Wormingham. Mirthworms tend to use proper nouns that play on the word "worm". The characters live in the town of Wormingham, the main character is named Burt Worm, and the antagonist is named Wormaline Wiggler.
The show was followed by two additional Mirthworm specials, A Mirthworm Masquerade (1987) and Mirthworms on Stage (1989).
A Merry Mirthworm Christmas
Bert Worm has just moved into the town of Wormingham. Excited for the Christmas season he is invited by his neighbor, Crystal Crawler, to assist in decorating the Town Hall. Due to his clumsiness, chaos is caused in the Town Hall, and holiday decorations are knocked over and broken. Burt is then asked by chairworm Wormaline Wiggler to leave immediately, which he does.
Bert proceeds to sing a song about how he is so lonely, and just wanted to make some friends. He writes a note, but just before he leaves, Crystal appears at his door inviting him to come to the party. Bert refuses because of what he had done that morning and tells Crystal to head to the party without him. Crystal then leaves to the party to find out who asked Bert to not come, but after she leaves, Bert leaves the house. At the party, Crystal tells everyone about how hard he tried to fit in, and says that Christmas is for everyone and she says that Bert deserves another chance. The Mayor shows up shortly after, and is unhappy with Wormaline for asking Bert to leave, stating that Christmas is for everyone, the mayor threatens to remove Wormaline from her position as chairworm. The Mirthworms then rush to Bert's house only to realize that Burt has run away. Refusing to give up, Wilbur Diggs starts up search parties to find Bert.
The search proceeds, but the weather gets so bad that the Mirthworms have no choice but to return to Wormingham. Upon arrival at Town Hall many of the Mirthworms express how sad they are that Burt has left, stating that they really liked him. Crystal is incredibly sad, because she said that Bert is her friend and him being her friend was the best thing he could be. As the Mirthworms are moping about, Bert wakes up near the tree asking why they are so sad, they state that it is because they fear the worst for Bert (not realizing that it was he who asked them). When they realize that Bert is there, they are surprised and happy. Burt explains that it got so cold that he decided to come back to the Town Hall and fell asleep.
Under pressure from the mayor Wormaline apologizes to Bert for asking him to leave. Despite all of this, the Mayor still removes her from chairworm position, and instead gives her a different Christmas gift: giving Burt a second chance. Then Crystal tells Burt that he can contribute to the Chr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Army%E2%80%93Navy%20Game%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast the college football's Army–Navy Game throughout the years.
2020s
2010s
2000s
1990s
1980s
1970s
1960s
Notes
The first instant replay occurred December 7, 1963 during the Army–Navy Game played in Philadelphia and telecast by CBS-TV. The program was directed by CBS Sports' top director, Tony Verna. Verna's account of how he was able to combine the limited abilities of the videotape machines can be found in two of his early books, Live TV and Global Television (both Focal Press) and a 2008 book Instant Replay, The Day That Changed Sports Forever (from Creative Publishers International). A personal account of the telecast can be found in the autobiography of the game announcer Lindsey Nelson (Hello Everybody, I'm Lindsey Nelson).
1950s
1940s
References
External links
Army/Navy announcers and networks Army/Navy announcers and networks
Overnight ratings for Army/Navy since' 99
Broadcasters
CBS Sports
ABC Sports
Football on NBC
Lists of college football broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th%20Communication%20Battalion | The 7th Communication Battalion is a communications battalion in the United States Marine Corps.
Mission
7th Communication Battalion will establish, maintain, and defend communication networks and services simultaneously for Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) command elements (CE), Marine component headquarters, and/or a Combined/Joint Task Force headquarters (C/JTF HQ) in order to facilitate a commander's ability to command and control forces.
History
The 7th Communication Battalion was activated in 1957 at Camp Pendleton, California.
Its first deployment of was to Taiwan in 1960, where they spent February–April stationed at Kaohsiung. The 7th was later relocated to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms.
The 7th participated in the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1969. They operated first from Da Nang (Hill 34) with elements operating at the Phu Bai Combat Base while assigned to the 1st Marine Division. While in Vietnam, members of the unit were assigned or attached to other USMC units. Wiremen from 7th Communication Battalion incurred particularly high casualties (see declassified log available via web search). Subsequently, they operated out of Da Nang. They were briefly reassigned to Okinawa in late 1969, before returning several months later to Vietnam, and serving there until 1972, except for a short break in late 1971 to early 1972. The 7th Communications Battalion also participated in Operations Eagle Pull and Frequent Wind at the official conclusion of the Vietnam War in April 1975.
After Vietnam
The 7th were deployed to Thailand in May 1972, until 1973 as part of the 3rd Marine Amphibious Task Force. They participated in minesweeping off the North Vietnam coast in 1973, before aiding in evacuations, and search and rescue in Southeast Asia in 1974–75.
1990s to present
The battalion participated in support of Operation Desert Storm in Southwest Asia from December 1990 to April 1991. They also participated in Operation Desert Shield, at around the same time. They participated in Operation Sea Angel in Bangladesh in mid-1991, and also served in Somalia in 1992 and 1993.
Unit awards
A unit citation or commendation is an award bestowed upon an organization for the action cited. Members of the unit who participated in said actions are allowed to wear on their uniforms the awarded unit citation. The 7th Communication Battalion has been presented with the following awards:
See also
List of United States Marine Corps battalions
Organization of the United States Marine Corps
References
External links
7th Comm's official website
7th Comm in 1981–1982
Comm7
Military communications units and formations of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20queuing%20service | A message queueing service is a message-oriented middleware or MOM deployed in a compute cloud using software as a service model. Service subscribers access queues and or topics to exchange data using point-to-point or publish and subscribe patterns.
Goals
A message queueing service aims to eliminate the traditional overhead associated with operating in-house messaging infrastructures. These operating overheads include:
Unused capacity installed to meet peak demands
Human resources that are necessary to maintain messaging infrastructure
Projects idle time waiting for resource provisioning
Need to isolate messaging resources
Besides reducing cost, a message queueing service seeks to simplify access to messaging resources and therefore facilitate integration efforts within organizations and between them.
Benefits
A message queueing service also creates new value by providing reduced costs, enhanced performance and reliability. In order to provide those benefits, a message queueing service leverages cloud computing resources such as storage, network, memory and processing capacity. By using virtually unlimited cloud computing resources, a message queueing service provides an internet scale messaging platform.
Accessibility
A message queueing service is accessible through a variety of protocols such as Java Message Service, AMQP, REST-style APIs and web services.
Usage Examples
Patient gets admitted into a hospital out of his provider's network. Producer hospital can start sending real time events about the treatment of the patient to his physician's hospital using a message queueing service platform. The cost of integration between hospitals is marginal since they do not need to configure messaging protocols, VPNs and other details.
Information processing organization that processes events from thousands of different sources, can ask its information providers to simply place messages onto queue services and reduce integration costs.
A Call Centre can carry on servicing requests for bills to be present when the billing system is unavailable
Embedded telemetry devices in vehicles can securely communicate with an application that number crunches statistics in near-real time; Round-robin messaging lets the vehicle supplier add computing resources as his sales increase.
Security trading application can post updates to P&L application that might be unavailable at the moment.
Technician submits an x-ray while consuming application instances in London, Chicago and São Paulo compete who gets the message first by listening on the same queue.
Vendors
IBM MQ
IBM MQ offers a managed service that can be used on IBM Cloud and Amazon Web Services.
Microsoft Azure Service Bus Service Bus offers queues, topics & subscriptions, and rules/actions in order to support publish-subscribe, temporal decoupling, and load balancing scenarios. Azure Service Bus is built on AMQP allowing any existing AMQP 1.0 client stack to interact with Service Bus directly o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20architecture%20data%20model | Core architecture data model (CADM) in enterprise architecture is a logical data model of information used to describe and build architectures.
The CADM is essentially a common database schema, defined within the US Department of Defense Architecture Framework DoDAF. It was initially published in 1997 as a logical data model for architecture data.
Overview
Core architecture data model (CADM) is designed to capture DoDAF architecture information in a standardized structure. CADM was developed to support the data requirements of the DoDAF. The CADM defines the entities and relationships for DoDAF architecture data elements that enable integration within and across architecture descriptions. In this manner, the CADM supports the exchange of architecture information among mission areas, components, and federal and coalition partners, thus facilitating the data interoperability of architectures.
CADM is a critical aspect of being able to integrate architectures in conformance with DoDAF. This includes the use of common data element definitions, semantics, and data structure for all architecture description entities or objects. The use of the underlying CADM faithfully relates common objects across multiple views. Adherence with the framework, which includes conformance with the currently approved version of CADM, provides both a common approach for developing architectures and a basic foundation for relating architectures. Conformance with the CADM ensures the use of common architecture data elements (or types).
History
The CADM was initially published in 1997 as a logical data model for architecture data. It was revised in 1998 to meet all the requirements of the C4ISR Architecture Framework Version 2.0.1 As a logical data model, the initial CADM provided a conceptual view of how architecture information is organized. It identified and defined entities, attributes, and relations. The CADM has evolved since 1998, so that it now has a physical view providing the data types, abbreviated physical names, and domain values that are needed for a database implementation. Because the CADM is also a physical data model, it constitutes a database design and can be used to automatically generate databases.
The CADM v1.01 was released with the DoD Architecture Framework v1.0 in August 2003. This DoDAF version restructured the C4ISR Framework v2.0 to offer guidance, product descriptions, and supplementary information in two volumes and a desk book. It broadened the applicability of architecture tenets and practices to all mission areas rather than just the C4ISR community. This document addressed usage, integrated architectures, DoD and Federal policies, value of architecture, architecture measures, DoD decision support processes, development techniques, analytical techniques, and the CADM v1.01, and moved towards a repository-based approach by placing emphasis on architecture data elements that comprise architecture products.
The CADM v1.5 was pre-release |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20grid | A super grid or supergrid is a wide-area transmission network, generally trans-continental or multinational, that is intended to make possible the trade of high volumes of electricity across great distances. It is sometimes also referred to as a "mega grid". Super grids typically are proposed to use high-voltage direct current (HVDC) to transmit electricity long distances. The latest generation of HVDC power lines can transmit energy with losses of only 1.6% per 1,000 km.
Super grids could support a global energy transition by smoothing local fluctuations of wind energy and solar energy. In this context they are considered as a key technology to mitigate global warming.
History
The idea of creating long-distance transmission lines in order to take advantage of renewable sources distantly located is not new. In the US in the 1950s, a proposal was made to ship hydroelectric power from dams being constructed in the Pacific Northwest to consumers in Southern California, but it was opposed and scrapped. In 1961, U.S. president John F. Kennedy authorized a large public works project using new high-voltage, direct current technology from Sweden. The project was undertaken as a close collaboration between General Electric of the U.S. and ASEA of Sweden, and the system was commissioned in 1970. With several upgrades of the converter stations in the intervening decades, the system now has a capacity of 3,100 MW and is known as the Pacific DC Intertie.
The concept of a "super grid" dates back to the 1960s and was used to describe the emerging unification of the Great Britain grid.
In the code that governs the British Grid, the Grid Code, the Supergrid is currently defined – and has been since this code was first written, in 1990 – as referring to those parts of the British electricity transmission system that are connected at voltages in excess of 200 kV (200,000 volts). British power system planners and operational staff therefore invariably speak of the Supergrid in this context; in practice the definition used captures all of the equipment owned by the National Grid company in England and Wales, and no other equipment.
What has changed during the past 40 years is the scale of energy and distances that are imagined possible in a super grid. Europe began unifying its grids in the 1950s and its largest unified grid is the synchronous grid of Continental Europe serving 24 countries. Serious work is being conducted on unification of this synchronous European grid (previously known as the UCTE grid), with the neighboring synchronous transmission grid of some CIS countries, the IPS/UPS grid. If completed, the resulting massive grid would span 13 time zones stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
While such grids cover great distances, the capacity to transmit large volumes of electricity remains limited due to congestion and control issues. The SuperSmart Grid (Europe) and the Unified Smart Grid (US) specify major technological upgrades that proponent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20grid%20%28disambiguation%29 | Super grid usually refers to a wide area electricity network connecting large geographic areas into a single unified system.
Super grid may also refer to:
Supergrid, a single HVDC transmission line
SuperGrid, the transmission system unifying Great Britain's National Grid (UK)
Super grid road system built in Saskatchewan in the mid-twentieth century
SuperGrid (film), 2018 Canadian post-apocalyptic road movie directed by Lowell Dean |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TREE-META | The TREE-META (or Tree Meta, TREEMETA) Translator Writing System is a compiler-compiler system for context-free languages originally developed in the 1960s. Parsing statements of the metalanguage resemble augmented Backus–Naur form with embedded tree-building directives. Unparsing rules include extensive tree-scanning and code-generation constructs.
History
TREE-META was instrumental in the development of NLS (oN-Line System) and was ported to many systems including the UNIVAC 1108, GE 645, SDS 940, ICL 1906A, PERQ, and UCSD p-System.
Example
This is a complete example of a TREE-META program extracted (and untested) from the more complete (declarations, conditionals, and blocks) example in Appendix 6 of the ICL 1900 TREE-META manual. That document also has a definition of TREE-META in TREE-META in Appendix 3. This program is not just a recognizer, but also outputs the assembly language for the input. It demonstrates one of the key features of TREE-META, which is tree pattern matching. It is used on both the LHS (GET and VAL for example) and the RHS (ADD and SUB).
% This is an ALGOL-style comment delimited by %
% ====================== INPUT PARSE RULES ======================= %
.META PROG
% A program defining driving rule is required. %
% This PROG rule is the driver of the complete program. %
PROG = $STMT ;
% $ is the zero or more operator. %
% PROG (the program) is defined as zero or more STMT (statements). %
STMT = .ID ':=' AEXP :STORE[2]*;
% Parse an assignment statement from the source to the tree. %
% ':=' is a string constant, :STORE creates a STORE node, %
% [2] defines this as having two branches i.e. STORE[ID,AEXP]. %
% * triggers a unparse of the tree, Starting with the last created %
% tree i.e. the STORE[ID,AEXP] which is emitted as output and %
% removed from the tree. %
AEXP = FACTOR $('+' FACTOR :ADD[2] / '-' FACTOR :SUB[2]);
% Here we have the recognizer for arithmetic '+' :ADD and '-' :SUB %
% tree building. Again the [2] creates a 2-branch ADD or SUB tree. %
% Unparsing is deferred until an entire statement has been parsed. %
% ADD[FACTOR,FACTOR] or SUB[FACTOR,FACTOR] %
FACTOR = '-' PRIME :MINUSS[1] / PRIME ;
PRIME = .ID / .NUM / '(' AEXP ')' ?3? ;
% ?3? is a hint for error messages. %
% ===================== OUTPUT UNPARSE RULES ===================== %
STORE[-,-] => GET[*2] 'STORE ' *1 ;
% *1 is the left tree branch. *2 is the right %
% GET[*2] will generate code to load *2. %
% The 'STORE' string will be output %
% followed by left branch *1 a symbol %
% Whatever *2, it will be loaded by GET[*2]. %
GET[.ID] => 'LOAD ' *1 /
[.NUM] => ' LOADI ' *1 /
[MINUSS[.NUM]] => 'LOADN ' *1:*1 /
[-] |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawning | Dawning can refer to:
Dawning Information Industry Company Limited, a Chinese supercomputer manufacturer, also known as Sugon
Dawning (album)
Dawn, the time of day
See also
Dawn (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth%20sounding | Depth sounding, often simply called sounding, is measuring the depth of a body of water. Data taken from soundings are used in bathymetry to make maps of the floor of a body of water, such as the seabed topography.
Soundings were traditionally shown on nautical charts in fathoms and feet. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the agency responsible for bathymetric data in the United States, still uses fathoms and feet on nautical charts. In other countries, the International System of Units (metres) has become the standard for measuring depth.
Terminology
"Sounding" derives from the Old English sund, meaning "swimming, water, sea"; it is not related to the word sound in the sense of noise or tones, but to sound, a geographical term.
Traditional terms for soundings are a source for common expressions in the English language, notably "deep six" (a sounding of 6 fathoms). On the Mississippi River in the 1850s, the leadsmen also used old-fashioned words for some of the numbers; for example instead of "two" they would say "twain". Thus when the depth was two fathoms, they would call "by the mark twain!". The American writer Mark Twain, a former river pilot, likely took his pen name from this cry. The term lives on in today's world in echo sounding, the technique of using sonar to measure depth.
History
Lead and line
A sounding line or lead line is a length of thin rope with a plummet, generally of lead, at its end. Regardless of the actual composition of the plummet, it is still called a "lead". Leads were swung, or cast, by a leadsman, usually standing in the chains of a ship, up against the shrouds.
Measuring the depth of water by lead and line dates back to ancient civilization. It continues in widespread use today in recreational boating and as a backup to electronic echo sounding devices which are prone to failure and inaccuracy. Greek and Roman navigators are known to have used sounding leads, some of which have been uncovered by archaeologists. Sounding by lead and line continued throughout the medieval and early modern periods and is still commonly used today. The Bible describes lead and line sounding in Acts, whilst the Bayeux Tapestry documents the use of a sounding lead during William the Conqueror's 1066 landing in England. Lead and line sounding operates alongside sounding poles, and/or echo sounding devices particularly when navigating in shallower waters and on rivers.
At sea, in order to avoid repeatedly hauling in and measuring the wet line by stretching it out with one's arms, it is common practice to tie marks at intervals along the line. These marks are made of leather, calico, serge and other materials, and so shaped and attached that it is possible to "read" them by eye during the day or by feel at night. Traditionally the marks were at every second or third fathom: at 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 17, and 20 fathoms. The "leadsman" called out the depth as he read it off the line. If the depth was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footprints%20Network | The Footprints Network is a non-profit Australian organisation that operates an online charity payment aggregator. It raises money from micro-donations collected as part of other e-commerce transactions. Founded by Worldnomads.com in 2005, it derives its operational funding from corporate social responsibility programs.
History
Following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the original developers at Worldnomads created a program with a checkbox on a single web site, which invited customers to add two Australian dollars donation a charity during the purchase of a travel insurance policy. Within a few months this had raised $50,000. The program was later re-engineered so that people could donate to location-specific, project based initiatives, which improved collections. As of 2018 the group has raised over $4 million.
An application programming interface (API) was developed making, the technology freely available for e-businesses to integrate the program into their web sites.
The optional donations are made specifically to projects for which the customer chooses to donate, and the customers are sent optional updates about the progress of the projects following the transaction. The primary charities collected for include Oxfam Australia, The Fred Hollows Foundation, and Water Aid Australia.
Projects
As of January 2019, the group had completed over 200 projects, and had eleven open projects. Open projects, once completely funded are put into the category of funded projects, for which the funding process has been completed and are ready to become operational. As of January 2015, eleven projects had been completely funded by the organization and were on the verge of being operational.
References
External links
Sui Wallet IOS App
Solana Micropayments
Micropayment
Social responsibility
Non-profit organisations based in New South Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20private%20schools%20in%20Bacolod | This is a list of private schools in Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines.
A
ABE International Business College – Bacolod Campus
AMA Computer College – Bacolod Campus
B
Bacolod Christian College of Negros
Bacolod Tay Tung High School
Bacolod Trinity Christian School
C
Castleson High
Colegio San Agustin – Bacolod
College of Arts & Sciences of Asia & the Pacific – Bacolod Campus
J
Jack and Jill School
John B. Lacson Colleges Foundation – Bacolod
L
La Consolacion College Bacolod
M
Mapúa Malayan Digital College – Learning Hub Bacolod
Maranatha Christian College - High School
O
Our Lady of Mercy College – Bacolod
R
Riverside College (Philippines)
S
STI West Negros University
St. Joseph School – La Salle
St. Benilde School
St. Scholastica's Academy – Bacolod
St. John's Institute (Hua Ming)
Scola Guadalupana
U
University of Negros Occidental – Recoletos
University of Saint La Salle
V
VMA Global College
External links
Official website of the Bacolod City local government
Bacolod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form%20grabbing | Form grabbing is a form of malware that works by retrieving authorization and log-in credentials from a web data form before it is passed over the Internet to a secure server. This allows the malware to avoid HTTPS encryption. This method is more effective than keylogger software because it will acquire the user’s credentials even if they are input using virtual keyboard, auto-fill, or copy and paste. It can then sort the information based on its variable names, such as email, account name, and password. Additionally, the form grabber will log the URL and title of the website the data was gathered from.
History
The method was invented in 2003 by the developer of a variant of a trojan horse called Downloader.Barbew, which attempts to download Backdoor.Barbew from the Internet and bring it over to the local system for execution. However, it was not popularized as a well known type of malware attack until the emergence of the infamous banking trojan Zeus in 2007. Zeus was used to steal banking information by man-in-the-browser keystroke logging and form grabbing. Like Zeus, the Barbew trojan was initially spammed to large numbers of individuals through e-mails masquerading as big-name banking companies. Form grabbing as a method first advanced through iterations of Zeus that allowed the module to not only detect the grabbed form data but to also determine how useful the information taken was. In later versions, the form grabber was also privy to the website where the actual data was submitted, leaving sensitive information more vulnerable than before.
Known occurrences
A trojan known as Tinba (Tiny Banker Trojan) has been built with form grabbing and is able to steal online banking credentials and was first discovered in 2012. Another program called Weyland-Yutani BOT was the first software designed to attack the macOS platform and can work on Firefox. The web injects templates in Weyland-Yutani BOT were different from existing ones such as Zeus and SpyEye.
Another known version is British Airways breach in September 2018. In the British Airways’ case, the organizations’ servers appeared to have been compromised directly, with the attackers modifying one of the JavaScript files (Modernizr JavaScript library, version 2.6.2) to include a PII/credit card logging script that would grab the payment information and send the information to the server controlled by the attacker hosted on “[.]com” domain with an SSL certificate issued by “Comodo” Certificate Authority.
The British Airways mobile application also loads a webpage built with the same CSS and JavaScript components as the main website, including the malicious script installed by Magecart. Thus, the payments made using the British Airways mobile app were also affected.
Countermeasures
Due to the recent increase in keylogging and form grabbing, antivirus companies are adding additional protection to counter the efforts of key-loggers and prevent collecting passwords. These efforts have taken di |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20government%20in%20Kerala | {
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Kerala is a state on the southwestern coast of India. It is known for its high literacy rate, low infant mortality rate, and long life expectancy. Kerala has also been a pioneer in the field of decentralization and participatory local democracy.
In 1994, the Kerala government enacted the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act and the Kerala Municipality Act. These acts established a three-tier system of local government in Kerala, consisting of gram panchayats (village councils), block panchayats, and district panchayats. The acts also gave these local governments a wide range of powers and responsibilities, including providing basic civic amenities, promoting economic development, and providing social welfare services.
Since the enactment of these acts, Kerala has been experimenting with decentralization and participatory local democracy. This has led to a number of positive developments, including:
Increased participation of people in local governance
Improved delivery of basic services
Increased transparency and accountability of local governments
Reduced corruption
Kerala's experiment with decentralization and participatory local democracy has been widely praised by experts. It is seen as a model for other states in India and around the world.
Here are some of the specific benefits of decentralization and participatory local democracy in Kerala:
Increased participation of people in local governance: The Kerala Panchayat Raj Act and the Kerala Municipality Act have made it easier for people to participate in local governance. This has led to a more informed and engaged citizenry.
Improved delivery of basic services: Decentralized local governments have been more effective in delivering basic services such as water, sanitation, and roads. This has improved the quality of life for people in Kerala.
Increased transparency and accountability of local governments: Decentralized local governments are more transparent and accountable to the people they serve. This has reduced corruption and improved the efficiency of local governments.
Kerala's experiment with decentralization and participatory local democracy is still ongoing. However, it has already had a significant impact on the state. It has helped to improve the quality of life for people in Kerala and it has set a model for other states in India and around the world.
Types of Local Self-Government Institutions
Urban Local Bodies (ULBs)
Urban local bodies in Kerala, such as corporations and municipalities, are incorporated entities responsible for the governance and administration of towns and cities within the state. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Moufang | David Moufang (born 1966, in Heidelberg, West Germany) is a German ambient techno musician. He records with his partner, Jonas Grossmann as Deep Space Network project and his solo releases as Move D. His other projects include Earth to Infinity, Reagenz, Koolfang, and Conjoint.
Biography
Moufang's early influences were space, technology, and, of course, music. After becoming proficient in percussion and guitar, he ventured into the world of early electronic music. In 1989, he was introduced to techno; he spent time in clubs that played ambient techno, and before too long ventured out into production and mixing. Moufang has continued making music into the present day, releasing a number of albums, EPs, and singles, both under the Deep Space Network Moniker as well as his solo name, Move D.
Discography
Full-length albums
Deep Space Network - Big Rooms, Source Records, 1993
Deep Space Network - Earth to Infinity, Source Records, 1993
Earth to Infinity - Earth to Infinity, Silent Records, 1994
Deep Space Network - Big Rooms, Instinct Records, 1994
Reagenz (with Jonah Sharp) - Reagenz, Source Records, 1994
Reagenz (with Jonah Sharp) - Reagenz, Reflective Records, 1994
Dr. Atmo & Deep Space Network - i.f., FAX Records, 1994
Dr. Atmo & Deep Space Network - i.f. 2, FAX Records, 1994
Koolfang (with Pete Namlook)- Jambient, FAX Records, 1995
Koolfang (with Pete Namlook)- Gig In the Sky, FAX Records, 1995
David Moufang - Solitaire, FAX Records, 1995
Move D - Kunststoff, Source Records, 1995
Deep Space Network - Traffic, km 20, km2001, 1996
Move D & Pete Namlook - Exploring the Psychedelic Landscape, FAX Records, 1996
Move D - Cymbelin, Warp Records, 1996
Deep Space Network Meets Higher Intelligence Agency, Source Records, 1997
Move D & Pete Namlook - A Day In the Live!, FAX Records, 1997
Deep Space Network - Traffic / dsn live '95, mp3.com, 1999
Move D & Thomas Meinecke - Tomboy / Freud's Baby, Intermedium Recordings/Indigo, 1999
Move D & Pete Namlook - The Retro Rocket, FAX Records, 1999
Conjoint - Earprints, Source Records, 2000
Move D & Pete Namlook - Wired, FAX Records, 2001
Move D & Pete Namlook - Live In Heidelberg 2001, FAX Records, 2001
Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs from the Beehive, Smallville, 2008
Move D - Namlook XXIII: Stranger III, FAX Records, 2010
Move D - fabric 74: Move D, Fabric Records, 2014
Move D - The Silent Orbiter, ...txt, 2014
Move D - Building Bridges, Aus Music, 2019
EPs
Move D - Silk and Schmoove EP, Compost Records, 2006
Singles
Dan Jordan - Slamdunk / Michigan Flake 12", United States of Mars
d-man / move d - homeworks vol.1 12", Source Records, 1995
move d - homeworks vol.2 12", Source Records
robert gordon & david moufang - view to view 12", Source Records
deep space network - heavy days 12", Source Records
jonah sharp & david moufang - reagenz 12", Source Records
ro 70 meets move d 12", Source Records, ?
move d & ro 70 ii 12", Source Records, ?
Move D - Hurt Me 12", Compost, ?
Move D - "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" 12", |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadSec | RadSec is a protocol for transporting RADIUS datagrams over TCP and TLS.
The RADIUS protocol is a widely deployed authentication and authorization protocol. The supplementary RADIUS Accounting specification also provides accounting mechanisms, thus delivering a full AAA protocol solution. However, RADIUS is experiencing two major shortcomings as time passes since its initial design: its dependency on the unreliable transport protocol UDP and the lack of security for large parts of its packet payload. Specifically, for the latter, RADIUS security is based on the MD5 algorithm, which has been proven to be insecure.
The main focus of RadSec is to provide a means to secure the communication between RADIUS/TCP peers on the transport layer. The most important use of RadSec lies in roaming environments where RADIUS packets need to be transferred through different administrative domains and untrusted, potentially hostile networks. An example for a world-wide roaming environment that uses RadSec to secure communication is eduroam.
The "RADIUS Extensions" working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) specified RadSec in .
References
Internet protocols
Application layer protocols
Computer access control protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCCW%20Mobile | PCCW Mobile HK Limited previously known as Mandarin Communications Limited, was a subsidiary of PCCW (via HKT) involving mobile network operator of 2G and 3G in Hong Kong. It was previously owned by a Caymans-incorporated Hong Kong listed company Sunday Communications until 2006.
The company also owned the license of internet service provider and international direct dialing of Hong Kong.
History
PCCW Mobile HK, previously known as "Mandarin Communications" (registered Chinese name ; trading as SUNDAY), was a Hong Kong company that was incorporated in 1994. Mandarin Communications launched its 2G GSM 1800 network in 1997.
Mandarin Communications was a subsidiary of the listed company Sunday Communications since 2000. In 2004, the company signed a contract with Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications company, for the supply and installation of a 3G network to SUNDAY, as well as purchasing the shares of its parent company Sunday Communications. The group acquired the 3G license of Hong Kong via Sunday 3G (Hong Kong) Limited (stylized as SUNDAY 3G), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mandarin Communications.
However, the parent company, Sunday Communications, was acquired by PCCW in 2005, and the subsidiary, Mandarin Communications, was renamed to "PCCW Mobile HK Limited" in 2007, after Sunday Communications selling Mandarin Communications and other businesses to its parent company in 2006. PCCW made this acquisition to return to mobile business after it sold Hong Kong CSL Limited to Australia's Telstra in 2001–02.
Nevertheless, after PCCW, via its subsidiary HKT, re-acquired CSL (known as a different legal person, CSL Limited, at that time) and its parent company CSL New World Mobility from Telstra and New World Development in December 2013, PCCW ceased to use the brand PCCW in its mobile network operator services, which the legal person of PCCW Mobile HK was renamed to CSL Mobile Limited instead, in 2014.
References
External links
Companies established in 1994
Companies disestablished in 2014
Pacific Century Group
Mobile phone companies of Hong Kong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind%20%28type%20theory%29 | In the area of mathematical logic and computer science known as type theory, a kind is the type of a type constructor or, less commonly, the type of a higher-order type operator. A kind system is essentially a simply typed lambda calculus "one level up", endowed with a primitive type, denoted and called "type", which is the kind of any data type which does not need any type parameters.
A kind is sometimes confusingly described as the "type of a (data) type", but it is actually more of an arity specifier. Syntactically, it is natural to consider polymorphic types to be type constructors, thus non-polymorphic types to be nullary type constructors. But all nullary constructors, thus all monomorphic types, have the same, simplest kind; namely .
Since higher-order type operators are uncommon in programming languages, in most programming practice, kinds are used to distinguish between data types and the types of constructors which are used to implement parametric polymorphism. Kinds appear, either explicitly or implicitly, in languages whose type systems account for parametric polymorphism in a programmatically accessible way, such as C++, Haskell and Scala.
Examples
, pronounced "type", is the kind of all data types seen as nullary type constructors, and also called proper types in this context. This normally includes function types in functional programming languages.
is the kind of a unary type constructor, e.g. of a list type constructor.
is the kind of a binary type constructor (via currying), e.g. of a pair type constructor, and also that of a function type constructor (not to be confused with the result of its application, which itself is a function type, thus of kind )
is the kind of a higher-order type operator from unary type constructors to proper types.
Kinds in Haskell
(Note: Haskell documentation uses the same arrow for both function types and kinds.)
The kind system of Haskell 98 includes exactly two kinds:
, pronounced "type" is the kind of all data types.
is the kind of a unary type constructor, which takes a type of kind and produces a type of kind .
An inhabited type (as proper types are called in Haskell) is a type which has values. For instance, ignoring type classes which complicate the picture, 4 is a value of type Int, while [1, 2, 3] is a value of type [Int] (list of Ints). Therefore, Int and [Int] have kind , but so does any function type, for instance Int -> Bool or even Int -> Int -> Bool.
A type constructor takes one or more type arguments, and produces a data type when enough arguments are supplied, i.e. it supports partial application thanks to currying. This is how Haskell achieves parametric types. For instance, the type [] (list) is a type constructor - it takes a single argument to specify the type of the elements of the list. Hence, [Int] (list of Ints), [Float] (list of Floats) and even [[Int]] (list of lists of Ints) are valid applications of the [] type constructor. Therefore, [] is a type of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCUKEN | JCUKEN (ЙЦУКЕН, also known as YCUKEN, YTsUKEN and JTSUKEN) is the main Cyrillic keyboard layout for the Russian language in computers and typewriters. Earlier in Russia JIUKEN (ЙІУКЕН) layout was the main layout, but it was replaced by JCUKEN when the Russian alphabet reform of 1917 removed the letters Ѣ, І, Ѵ, and Ѳ. The letter Ъ had decreased in usage significantly after the reform.
Alternative layouts include the Russian phonetic keyboard layouts, in which Cyrillic letters correspond to similar-sounding Latin letters in QWERTY and other layouts.
JCUKEN
PC
Typewriters
Used on typewriters before personal computers. It is available in Microsoft Windows as a legacy layout.
JIUKEN
The JIUKEN layout was used before the Russian spelling reform of 1918. It includes the Cyrillic dotted or "decimal" I as well as yat, which were eliminated after the reform, but it does not include the letters fita and izhitsa, which were rare even before the reform. The numbers 1, 3 and 0 do not appear on the layout and were replaced with the decimal I, Ze, and O respectively. The letters Ц and Э are located side-by-side, and between the Che and the Es is the yat. The letter yo is not included in this layout.
Other languages
JCUKEN is the basis for many other Cyrillic layouts. For the current moment Microsoft Windows supports the following layouts: Azerbaijani (Cyrillic), Bashkir, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Tajik, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Yakut (Sakha). The Belarusian, Ukrainian and Mongolian layouts have been available since Windows 95; Azeri, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Uzbek since Windows XP; Bashkir and Tajik since Windows Vista; Yakut since Windows 7.
Other operating systems such as Linux may have their own additional custom layouts for the same or other languages.
Belarusian
The short U (Ў ў) is located in place of the shcha (Щ щ). It is the only JCUKEN keyboard that lacks a key for И, as it is the only language in the Cyrillic script that does not contain the letter И itself; the decimal I (І і) replaces it. It also lacks a hard sign (Ъ ъ), usually seen just to the right of letter ha (Х х) as that position is taken by the Apostrophe.
Ukrainian
The decimal I replaces the yeru (Ы ы) and the yest (Є є) replaces the E (Э э). The letter Yi (Ї ї) substitutes for the hard sign (Ъ ъ), and Ghe with upturn (Ґ ґ) is also used.
Tatar
The Russian letters which are rarely used in Tatar are typed with (right ). This layout is also suitable for Kalmyk and Turkmen (Cyrillic) as their alphabets are practically identical to Tatar. It is called as YÖUKEN.
Bashkir
Kazakh
Kyrgyz
An "upgraded" version based on the basic Russian one, the additional Kyrgyz letters are typed with (right ). Thus, + У is Ү, + О is Ө, and + Н is Ң.
Yakut (Sakha)
Tajik
This is a modified version of JCUKEN called YQUKEN, in which the Ka with descender (Қ қ) substitutes the C (Ц ц). The yeru (Ы ы) is replaced by the letter Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ). Also, the soft sign (Ь |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20capture%20system | An alpha capture system is a computer system that enables investment banks and other organizations to submit "trading ideas" or "trade ideas" to clients in a written electronic format, for example TIM Group's TIM Ideas product or Bloomberg LP's Trade Ideas product.
Introduction
Financial Services Authority Markets Division: Newsletter on Market Conduct and Transaction Reporting Issues, Issue No. 17, September 2006,
First used in 2001 by Marshall Wace they are an alternative to the traditional stockbrokering approach of communicating ideas and strategies to clients face-to-face or over the telephone.
The term alpha capture refers to the aim of such systems to help investors find alpha or market-beating returns on investments.
Submitted trade ideas are accompanied by a rationale, timeframe and conviction level and enable investors to quantify and monitor the performance of different ideas.
References
Financial software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jing%20%28software%29 | Jing was a screencasting computer program released in November 2007 as Jing Project by the TechSmith Corporation. Users must create an account before they can use the software, which must be installed on their computer. Its simple format and the ability to upload captures instantly have made Jing useful in virtual library references.
The software took a picture or video of the user's computer screen and uploaded it to the Web, FTP, computer or clipboard. If uploaded to the web, the program automatically created a URL to the content so it could be shared with others.
Jing Pro
Releasement
On 6 January 2009, TechSmith released Jing Pro, which is a paid premium version of Jing. Unlike the free version, the professional version supports MPEG-4 saving, watermarks at the beginning and end of the video is not included, uploading to YouTube and working with cameras.
Retirement
In February 2012, Techsmith announced Jing Pro is to be retired. All users (regardless of subscription) could use this service until 28 February 2013.
End of support
On 14 July 2020, Techsmith shut down the support for uploading to Screencast.com in line with the previously-announced end of support for Jing. TechSmith also changed the Jing product page to point to a new product named TechSmith Capture that performs a similar function.
See also
Comparison of screencasting software
Screencasting software
References
2007 software
Screencasting software
Screenshot software
MacOS text-related software
Windows text-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOTS | LOTS may refer to:
LOTS (personality psychology), an acronym providing a broad classification of data source for personality psychology assessment
London Omnibus Traction Society, a bus society
Legend of the Seeker, a television series based on novels in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
Legends of the Superheroes, a 1979 television series based on DC Comics characters.
Lucifer on the Sofa, a 2022 album by American rock band Spoon
A linearly ordered topological space.
See also
Lot (disambiguation)
Lotts (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril%20Cleverdon | Cyril Cleverdon (9 September 1914 – 4 December 1997) was a British librarian and computer scientist who is best known for his work on the evaluation of information retrieval systems.
Cyril Cleverdon was born in Bristol, England. He worked at the Bristol Libraries from 1932 to 1938, and from 1938 to 1946 he was the librarian of the Engine Division of the Bristol Aeroplane Co. Ltd. In 1946 he was appointed librarian of the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield (later the Cranfield Institute of Technology and Cranfield University), where he served until his retirement in 1979, the last two years as professor of Information Transfer Studies.
With the help of National Science Foundation funding, Cleverdon started a series of projects in 1957 that lasted for about 10 years in which he and his colleagues set the stage for information retrieval research. In the Cranfield project, retrieval experiments were conducted on test databases in a controlled, laboratory-like setting. The aim of the research was to improve the retrieval effectiveness of information retrieval systems, by developing better indexing languages and methods. The components of the experiments were:
a collection of documents,
a set of user requests or queries, and
a set of relevance judgments—that is, a set of documents judged to be relevant to each query.
Together, these components form an information retrieval test collection. The test collection serves as a standard for testing retrieval approaches, and the success of each approach is measured in terms of two measures: precision and recall. Test collections and evaluation measures based on precision and recall are driving forces behind modern research on search systems. Cleverdon's approach formed a blueprint for the successful Text Retrieval Conference series that began in 1992.
Not only did Cleverdon's Cranfield studies introduce experimental research into computer science, the outcomes of the project also established the basis of the automatic indexing as done in today's search engines. Essentially, Cleverdon found that the use of single terms from the documents achieved the best retrieval performance, as opposed to manually assigned thesaurus terms, synonyms, etc. These results were very controversial at the time. In the Cranfield 2 Report, Cleverdon said:
This conclusion is so controversial and so unexpected that it is bound to throw considerable doubt on the methods which have been used (...) A complete recheck has failed to reveal any discrepancies (...) there is no other course except to attempt to explain the results which seem to offend against every canon on which we were trained as librarians.
Cyril Cleverdon also ran, for many years, the Cranfield conferences, which provided a major international forum for discussion of ideas and research in information retrieval. This function was taken over by the SIGIR conferences in the 1970s.
References
Stephen Robertson, In Memoriam Cyril W. Cleverdon, Journal of the Am |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi%20Roth | Yogi Zohar Roth (born September 20, 1981) is a Pac-12 Networks college football analyst, filmmaker, and author.
Roth is a graduate of Lackawanna Trail Jr./Sr. High School in Factoryville, PA.
Roth began his collegiate career as an athlete at the University of Pittsburgh where he walked onto the football team, earning a full athletic scholarship as a wide receiver. His college roommate was Larry Fitzgerald. He then began a coaching career on the staff of Pete Carroll at USC.
After graduating magna cum laude and earning his master's degree in communication management from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, he rose through the coaching ranks, eventually becoming USC's assistant quarterbacks coach. After four years on the USC coaching staff he transitioned to media, where he began a career as a college football analyst and host for ESPN, Fox, and the Pac-12 Networks.
After pitching and producing his first documentary for ESPN, 3 for the show, which chronicled Jake Locker, Cam Newton and Tyrod Taylor's final season on the college gridiron and subsequent transition into the NFL, Roth became interested in storytelling.
He co-wrote the book, Win Forever (2010) with Pete Carroll, which reached #7 on the New York Times best-seller list, as well as his own book, From PA to LA (2010). In 2011, he was a producer on Depth Chart, an ESPN series that followed the Miami Hurricanes and their quarterbacks during training camp.
Roth also hosted and produced the Elite 11 documentary series for ESPN from 2009-2014 (which was nominated for an Emmy in 2013), and in 2015, directed Dear football: the 2015 Elite 11 story, which followed several high school quarterbacks on and off the field.
He currently serves as a producer and narrator on the Pac-12 Network's series The Drive, which follows a football program from the conference throughout a season.
Most recently, Roth made his directorial debut with the documentary feature film, Life in a Walk, which received the Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival. Life in a Walk follows Roth and his father, Will, on their trek along the Camino de Santiago, a famous pilgrimage through Portugal and Spain.
He is also the co-founder of Win Forever, LLC with Pete Carroll, which is an applied mindset training program for corporate leaders to develop a culture of high performance for individuals and teams to become the very best in their fields, and has formed a new production company, Life Without Limits.
Roth has been an on-air correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, is a regular on the speaking circuit for corporate, collegiate, and high school events (in 2013, he presented his first TEDx Talk, titled ‘Love Wins.’). Roth has acted in film and on television, appearing on Comedy Central, multiple national commercials, and in various independent films.
Roth resides in Venice Beach, CA.
References
External links
USC Bio
1981 births
Living people
American sports anno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie%20Sozo | Moxie Sozo is a Boulder, Colorado-based design and advertising agency founded in 1999.
Awards and recognition
Computer Arts Magazine UK named Moxie Sozo "Studio of the Month" and has included the agency in other areas of its publication to provide advice and guidance for other firms. Moxie Sozo's packaging design awards were featured in Choi's Gallery, a bi-monthly publication dedicated to reviewing graphics. Moxie Sozo's creative design efforts for Jade Monk Beverage Co., Left Hand Brewing Co. and LEAP Organics were all recipients of the "Best Packaging Design" award in Choi's Gallery for 2011.
Environmental initiatives
Moxie Sozo's operations, including all business travel, are 100% carbon neutral. Their carbon offset supports the non-profit organization Clean Air-Cool Planet. Their zero-waste operations program is operated, monitored and audited by Eco-Cycle.
The Hurricane Poster Project and The Haiti Poster Project
In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Steiner organized a group of international designers and artists to create The Hurricane Poster Project. Designers from all over the world were asked to make and submit posters that could be then sold online to raise money for the victims and the Red Cross. More than 180 different limited-edition series of posters were produced, raising more than US$50,000. In 2007, Leif Steiner was awarded the Circle of Humanitarians Award, the American Red Cross's highest honor.
Three days after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Leif Steiner of Moxie Sozo and Josh Higgins organized The Haiti Poster Project, a collaboration of 350 designers from 17 countries. The project gained worldwide media attention within days of launching, and the effort has raised thousands of dollars for victims of the earthquake. As a result of this effort, Steiner – along with Lead Designer and Pentagram (design studio) Partner Harry Pearce and Photographer Richard Foster – won the D&AD Professional Award for his contributions to the Haiti disaster relief.
See also
Sustainable advertising
References
External links
Moxie Sozo website
Advertising agencies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAGO%20%28database%29 | YAGO (Yet Another Great Ontology) is an open source knowledge base developed at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken. It is automatically extracted from Wikipedia and other sources.
YAGO3 has knowledge of more than 10 million entities and contains more than 120 million facts about these entities. The information in YAGO is extracted from Wikipedia (e.g., categories, redirects, infoboxes), WordNet (e.g., synsets, hyponymy), and GeoNames.
The accuracy of YAGO was manually evaluated to be above 95% on a sample of facts. To integrate it to the linked data cloud, YAGO has been linked to the DBpedia ontology and to the SUMO ontology.
YAGO3 is provided in Turtle and tsv formats. Dumps of the whole database are available, as well as thematic and specialized dumps. It can also be queried through various online browsers and through a SPARQL endpoint hosted by OpenLink Software. The source code of YAGO3 is available on GitHub.
YAGO has been used in the Watson artificial intelligence system.
See also
Commonsense knowledge bases
Cyc
Evi (software)
Wikidata
DBpedia
References
External links
New Homepage
YAGO Homepage
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Knowledge bases
Online databases
Creative Commons-licensed databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W32tm | In computing, w32tm is a command-line tool of Microsoft Windows operating systems used to diagnose problems occurring with time setting or to troubleshoot any problems that might occur during or after the configuration of the Windows Time service. It was introduced as a standard feature of Windows XP.
The command can be used to convert an NTTE or NTP formatted date into a readable format.
Example
The current time zone settings can be displayed using the parameter:
>w32tm /tz
See also
DATE (command)
TIME (command)
References
Further reading
External links
Windows Time Service Tools and Settings | Microsoft Docs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Micro | IEEE Micro is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Computer Society covering small systems and semiconductor chips, including integrated circuit processes and practices, project management, development tools and infrastructure, as well as chip design and architecture, empirical evaluations of small system and IC technologies and techniques, and human and social aspects of system development.
Editors-in-chief
The following people have been editor-in-chief:
2019–present: Lizy Kurian John
2015–2018: Lieven Eeckhout
2011–2014: Erik R. Altman
2007–2010: David H. Albonesi
2003–2006: Pradip Bose
1999–2001: Ken Sakamura
1995–1998: Steve Diamond
1991–1994: Dante Del Corso
1987–1990: Joe Hootman
1985–1987: James J. Farrell III
1983–1984: Peter Rony and Tom Cain
1980–1982: Richard C. Jaeger
External links
Micro
Computer science journals
Bimonthly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1981 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse%20Sports%20Network | Syracuse IMG Sports Network is the radio and television name for Syracuse University sports. The radio affiliates broadcast football, as well as men's and women's basketball and men's lacrosse games. Time Warner Cable Sports broadcasts the coaches' show and a weekly program titled Syracuse Sidelines.
All the aforementioned games are broadcast via the IMG College radio network.
Current Radio Affiliates
References
External links
List of affiliates from suathletics.com
List of affiliates from the ISP Sports Network website
Syracuse University
Sports radio networks in the United States
College football on the radio
College basketball on the radio in the United States
ISP
ISP
ISP
ISP
Learfield IMG College sports radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot%20%28radar%29 | In naval terminology, a plot is a graphic display that shows all collated data from a ship's on-board sensors, i.e. radar, sonar and EW systems. They also displayed information from external sources - for example, other vessel or aircraft reports. There are four different types of plot, each with varying capabilities, i.e. range, depending on their role;
Air plot: Used for tracking air contacts, i.e. planes and EW information.
Surface plot: Used for tracking contacts on the surface of the water, i.e. other ships. It can also perform a variety of roles such as:
Providing a trace of a ship's own course and speed over time.
Plotting the position of a man overboard.
Can be used in naval gunfire support missions to plot unidentified contacts and keep track of friendly forces.
It also plays an important part in anti-submarine warfare operations and using torpedoes.
Sub-surface plot: Used for tracking contacts below the surface of the water, i.e. submarines.
General operations plot: Used for tracking shipping on a large-scale chart. Was also used to display exercise boundaries, airplanes and other significant features of maritime interest. In the Royal Australian Navy, the scale used was generally per .
Notes
Military terminology
Military terminology of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran%20Bus%20Rapid%20Transit | Tehran Bus Rapid Transit was officially inaugurated in 2008 in order to facilitate the motor traffic in Tehran. As at 2011 the bus rapid transit (BRT) system had a network of 100 kilometers which transports 1.8 million passengers on a daily basis.
Routes
Tehran has currently 10 BRT lines.
Line 1: Azadi Terminal to Tehranpars crossroad (Jan. 2008)
Line 2: Azadi Terminal to Khavaran Terminal
Line 3: Science & Tech Terminal to Khavaran Terminal (Feb. 2009)
Line 4: Tehran South Terminal to Chamran Highway-Parkway Intersection (Afshar Terminal)
Line 5: Science & Tech (Elm-o-san'at () Terminal to Argentina Sq. (Beihaghi Terminal)
Line 6: Chamran Highway-Parkway Intersection (Afshar Terminal) to Sohanak (Laleh Terminal)
Line 7: Railway station that is located in southern part of Tehran to Tajrish that is located in northern part of Tehran. (Valiasr Ave.)
Line 8: Tehran South Terminal to Khavaran Terminal
Line 9: Sohanak (Laleh Terminal) to Javanmard Ghassab Metro Station
Line 10: Azadi Sq. to Daneshgah Azad sq. in Hesarak
Tehran's mayor, Dr. Ghalibaf addressed the inaugural ceremony saying:
The total length of BRT in Tehran is about 150 km that will be increased to 300 km in future.
See also
Transport in Iran
Trolleybuses in Tehran
References
External links
Bus transport in Iran
Transport in Tehran
2008 establishments in Iran
Bus rapid transit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Mobile | Sun Mobile Limited (branded as SUN Mobile), formerly known as New World Mobility Limited, is a mobile network operator brand and company in Hong Kong. It is a joint venture of HKT and .
New World Mobility Limited and New World Mobility was a subsidiary and a brand of New World PCS respectively; New World PCS itself was a subsidiary of New World Development. However, New World Development sold the shares of its successor CSL New World Mobility in 2013. The brand New World Mobility was active until 2014, which was changed to SUN Mobile in the same year; but the legal person New World Mobility Limited was once dormant until re-active again in 2008 as a joint venture of CSL New World Mobility and Telecom Digital. During the period of dormant, the brand was operated by sister company of New World Mobility Limited.
History
New World Mobility
New World Mobility Limited was launched in 1998 and previously parented by New World PCS Limited, which the latter was incorporated in 1995. New World Mobility, as a brand, was launched in 1997. New World Mobility Limited later became dormant in 2003, which the brand was operated by New World PCS directly. New World PCS was also the licence holder of personal communication services since 1996.
New World PCS became a public company indirectly, via a backdoor listing. A listed company Asia Logistics Technologies acquired New World PCS Holdings (parent of New World PCS) from New World Development and renamed itself into New World Mobile Holdings in 2004.
In March 2006, New World PCS Limited merged with Hong Kong CSL Limited to form a new intermediate holding company called CSL New World Mobility, whose shareholders are Australian telecommunications company Telstra (76.4%) and New World Mobile Holdings (23.6%). New World Mobility became one of the brands of the holding company's mobile services. In October 2006, New World Mobile Holdings sold its 23.6% stakes of the intermediate holding company to New World Mobile Holdings' parent company New World Development.
New World PCS Limited was also renamed to CSL Limited, as a subsidiary of the new holding company in 2008. New World Mobility Limited was back from dormant also in 2008, which CSL Limited owned 60% stake since 2008–09 financial year. The rest of the stake of New World Mobility Limited, was acquired by also in 2008; the latter was a mobile virtual network operator of brands such as "Rabbit", which bought the network usage from other companies. New World Mobility Limited operated the brand New World Mobility since circa 2008.
New World Development and Telstra sold the stake of CSL New World Mobility to HKT in December 2013. After the transaction, HKT owned New World Mobility, CSL, PCCW Mobile and other brands.
SUN Mobile
On 25 September 2014, New World Mobility Limited ceased to exist as HKT revamped the subsidiary under the name SUN Mobile Limited, the company was jointly-owned by HKT (instead of CSL Limited) and Telecom Digital. However, the pronunciati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%20Weaver%20Baseball%20II | Earl Weaver Baseball II is a sports video game for MS-DOS compatible operating systems published by Electronic Arts in 1991. It is the sequel to the 1987 game Earl Weaver Baseball.
Gameplay
Earl Weaver Baseball II is the sequel to the 1987 original with many improvements, including the first full 3D camera that would render a television-style viewing experience. This was made possible by a design decision Dombrower made at Mattel to use a 3D model of the game from the get-go in anticipation of this eventuality. However, the game was released prematurely by Electronic Arts, and Version 1.1, which fixed many of the small bugs that ruined some of its reputation, was never released. In 1992, a version of EWB2 was developed in conjunction with STATS, Inc., that would play back real baseball games using the EWB II display engine and live scoring information from each ballpark, but it was never finished or released. It was only released for MS-DOS.
Reception
Peter Scisco for Compute! said "a brighter spring training for all PC baseball players."
Joseph McCullough for Computer Games Strategy Plus said "In all, Earl Weaver II does not live up to its pre-release hype. Instead of being a revolutionary rewrite with vastly improved graphics, statistics and manager options, Earl Weaver II is simply a mildly improved version of Weaver 1.5."
Computer Gaming World said "In short, Earl Weaver Baseball II is not simply an upgrade, it is a complete redesign. It offers something new and improved for both casual and dedicated gamers, both statistical buffs and action fanatics. Earl Weaver Baseball II is a definite contender."
Computer Gaming World in 1991 denounced Earl Weaver Baseball II as "herky-jerky, funhouse-mirror baseball ... a field-of-nightmares experience". The magazine stated that the sequel had ruined the original's attractive ballparks with "cancerous growths of looming grandstands", less information was available when planning strategy, the automated camera director was poorly implemented, and many features in the original game were now on the optional Commissioner's Disk. Bugs included assigning Connie Mack and John McGraw to the wrong leagues and a conversion utility for player disks that failed on an Electronic Arts-produced disk from 1990.
Reviews
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Jan, 1992
References
1991 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Electronic Arts games
Major League Baseball video games
Video games based on real people
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bengali%20films%20of%201997 | A list of films produced by the Tollywood (Bengali language film industry) based in Kolkata in the year 1997.
A-Z of films
References
External links
films of 1997 at the Internet Movie Database
1997
Bengali
Bengali
1997 in Indian cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag%20%28video%20games%29 | In computers, lag is delay (latency) between the action of the user (input) and the reaction of the server supporting the task, which has to be sent back to the client.
The player's ability to tolerate lag depends on the type of game being played. For instance, a strategy game or a turn-based game with a slow pace may have a high threshold or even be mostly unaffected by high lag. A game with twitch gameplay such as a first-person shooter or a fighting game with a considerably faster pace may require a significantly lower lag to provide satisfying gameplay.
Ping time
Ping time is the network delay for a round trip between a player's client and the game server as measured with the ping utility or equivalent. Ping time is an average time measured in milliseconds (ms). The lower one's ping is, the lower the latency is and the less lag the player will experience. High ping and low ping are commonly used terms in online gaming, where high ping refers to a ping that causes a severe amount of lag; while any level of ping may cause lag, severe lag is usually indicated by a ping of over 100 ms. This usage is a gaming cultural colloquialism and is not commonly found or used in professional computer networking circles. In games where timing is key, such as first-person shooter and real-time strategy games, a low ping is always desirable, as a low ping means smoother gameplay by allowing faster updates of game data between the players' clients and game server.
High latency can cause lag. Game servers may disconnect a client if the latency is too high and may pose a detriment to other players' gameplay. Similarly, client software will often mandate disconnection if the latency is too high. High ping may also cause servers to crash due to instability.
In some first-person shooter games, a high ping may cause the player to unintentionally gain unfair advantages, such as disappearing from one location and instantaneously reappearing in another, simulating the effect of teleportation, thus making it hard for other players to judge their character's position and subsequently making the player much more difficult to target. To counter this, many game servers automatically kick players with a ping higher than average. Conversely, a high ping can make it very difficult for the player to play the game due to negative effects occurring, making it difficult for the player to track other players and even move their character.
Rather than using the traditional ICMP echo request and reply network packets to determine ping times, video game programmers often build their own latency detection into existing game packets (usually based on the UDP protocol) instead.
Some factors that might affect ping include: communication protocol used, Internet throughput (connection speed), the quality of a user's Internet service provider and the configuration of firewalls. Ping is also affected by geographical location. For instance, if someone is in India, playing on a server locat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defunct | Defunct may refer to:
Defunct (video game), 2014
Zombie process or defunct process, in Unix-like operating systems
See also
:Category:Former entities
End-of-life product
Obsolescence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem | A modulator-demodulator or modem is a computer hardware device that converts data from a digital format into a format suitable for an analog transmission medium such as telephone or radio. A modem transmits data by modulating one or more carrier wave signals to encode digital information, while the receiver demodulates the signal to recreate the original digital information. The goal is to produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded reliably. Modems can be used with almost any means of transmitting analog signals, from light-emitting diodes to radio.
Early modems were devices that used audible sounds suitable for transmission over traditional telephone systems and leased lines. These generally operated at 110 or 300 bits per second (bit/s), and the connection between devices was normally manual, using an attached telephone handset. By the 1970s, higher speeds of 1,200 and 2,400 bit/s for asynchronous dial connections, 4,800 bit/s for synchronous leased line connections and 35 kbit/s for synchronous conditioned leased lines were available. By the 1980s, less expensive 1,200 and 2,400 bit/s dialup modems were being released, and modems working on radio and other systems were available. As device sophistication grew rapidly in the late 1990s, telephone-based modems quickly exhausted the available bandwidth, reaching 56 kbit/s.
The rise of public use of the internet during the late 1990s led to demands for much higher performance, leading to the move away from audio-based systems to entirely new encodings on cable television lines and short-range signals in subcarriers on telephone lines. The move to cellular telephones, especially in the late 1990s and the emergence of smartphones in the 2000s led to the development of ever-faster radio-based systems. Today, modems are ubiquitous and largely invisible, included in almost every mobile computing device in one form or another, and generally capable of speeds on the order of tens or hundreds of megabytes per second.
Speeds
Modems are frequently classified by the maximum amount of data they can send in a given unit of time, usually expressed in bits per second (symbol bit/s, sometimes abbreviated "bps") or rarely in bytes per second (symbol B/s). Modern broadband modem speeds are typically expressed in megabits per second (Mbit/s).
Historically, modems were often classified by their symbol rate, measured in baud. The baud unit denotes symbols per second, or the number of times per second the modem sends a new signal. For example, the ITU-T V.21 standard used audio frequency-shift keying with two possible frequencies, corresponding to two distinct symbols (or one bit per symbol), to carry 300 bits per second using 300 baud. By contrast, the original ITU-T V.22 standard, which could transmit and receive four distinct symbols (two bits per symbol), transmitted 1,200 bits by sending 600 symbols per second (600 baud) using phase-shift keying.
Many modems are variable-rate, permitting the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Language%20Interface | Data Language One (Data Language/I, DL/I, Data Language/One, Data Language/One) is the language system used to access IBM's IMS databases and its data communication system.
It is implemented from many languages by making calls to a software stub, DFSLI000. This stub has entry points to handle a variety of programming languages, e.g., calling CBLTDLI from a COBOL program. This stub is linked to the calling program, passes on the request to the IMS system, and returns the results and a status code.
In any full-function IMS database, the smallest element that can be retrieved is a segment. Each segment is made up of fields, one of which, typically, will be a key field. The segments are arranged hierarchically in the database, the highest-level segment type being a root segment. 255 different segment types, on up to 15 levels, are allowed in any database. A database record consists of a specific root segment and all its dependent child segments there is no limit to the number of segments in a record, or to the number of records in a database (apart from the physical limitations of storage space).
The structure of any database is presented to the application program as a PCB (Program Communication Block), and this is used as one of the parameters passed to the stub. Other types of PCB are used to send and receive transaction processing messages, access and write to the user’s VDU screen, and to print reports, etc.
When accessing a database segment, the application program also uses an SSA (Segment Search Argument) as a parameter, to specify the segment or segments that it needs. This would typically contain the segment type required and the contents of any key fields.
For all languages except PL/I, the first parameter in a call is the Function Code a four-character field, examples being: “GU ” (Get Unique), “GN ” (Get Next), “REPL” (Replace), and “ISRT” (Insert). With PL/I, due to the way this language does not mark the last parameter with a '1' in bit 0, the first parameter must instead be a fullword (Fixed Bin(31)) containing the number of following parameters.
A typical call from a COBOL program might be CALL “CBLTDLI” USING GU, Stores-Database-PCB, Stores-Segment-Area, Stores-Root-SSA. The program would then automatically wait till the requested data were retrieved and placed in the Segment-Area. The status code contained within the PCB would be updated with either blanks (if all went well) or some informational or error code.
A typical call from a PL/I program might be CALL PLITDLI(FOUR, GU, Stores-Database-PCB, Stores-Segment-Area, Stores-Root-SSA);.
References
External links
Information Management Software for z/OS Solutions Information Center
Basic DL/I database concepts
Data-structured programming languages
Data Language One |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Holmes%20%28journalist%29 | Michael Holmes is an English property expert and presenter of multiple property-based television shows on networks such as BBC1, Channel 4, Five, ITV, Channel 4, Discovery Real Time and UK Style. He is also the Editor-In-Chief of several British home magazines and author of Renovating For Profit.
Career
Television
Holmes began his television career in 1997 as a property expert on Five series Hot Property. Later, he was the property expert on BBC2's All the Right Moves. He has also been the property expert on Channel 4's Richard & Judy. He later presented the BBC1 property-based TV show; Trading Up.
Holmes was formerly the presenter of UK Style TV show Hard Sell where, along with a gardening expert, he helped to transform properties that were lagging on the property market. His most recent series is I Own Britain's Best Home.
Has presented property programmes on the Discovery Real Time such as How to Build a House and Build, Buy or Restore. The latter has spawned a spin-off also hosted by Holmes, Build, Buy or Restore: Abroad.
He has also presented the recent ITV property series Good Bid, Good Buy as well as the first series of Don't Move, Improve.
On Quest television the repeats are being shown of Build, Buy or Restore Abroad as of 7 June 2014
Magazines and publications
Holmes is the Editor-in-Chief of British homes-market newsstand publications such as Real Homes, Homebuilding & Renovating magazine and Period Living, all monthly.
He has also written for leading British newspapers, including The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, Daily Express, Daily Mirror and The Independent, and appeared on news programmes such as BBC Breakfast.
Michael also is a leading seminar speaker at the Homebuilding & Renovating Show, held around the country, and the annual National Home Improvement Show at London's Earls Court Exhibition Centre.
Books
Renovating for Profit (2008) ()
References
External links
video
Living people
English male journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
English television presenters
Writers from Leeds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Newton | The Newton is a series of personal digital assistants (PDAs) developed and marketed by Apple Computer, Inc. An early device in the PDA category (the Newton originated the term), it was the first to feature handwriting recognition. Apple started developing the platform in 1987 and shipped the first devices in August 1993. Production officially ended on February 27, 1998. Newton devices ran on a proprietary operating system, Newton OS; examples include Apple's MessagePad series and the eMate 300, and other companies also released devices running on Newton OS. Most Newton devices were based on the ARM 610 RISC processor and all featured handwriting-based input.
The Newton was considered technologically innovative at its debut, but a combination of factors, including its high price and early problems with its handwriting recognition feature, limited its sales. This led to Apple ultimately discontinuing the platform at the direction of Steve Jobs in 1998, a year after his return to the company.
Development
The Newton project was a personal digital assistant platform. The PDA category did not exist for most of Newton's genesis, and the phrase "personal digital assistant" was coined relatively late in the development cycle by Apple's CEO John Sculley, the driving force behind the project. Larry Tesler determined that an advanced, low-power processor was needed for sophisticated graphics manipulation. He found Hermann Hauser, co-founder of Acorn Computers which had developed the Acorn RISC Machine as first ARM architecture device, and put together Advanced RISC Machines, now Arm Ltd.
A smaller design was then designed by Jonathan Ive.
Although PDAs had been developing since the original Psion Organiser in 1984, the Newton has left one particular lasting impression: the term personal digital assistant was first coined to refer to the Newton.
According to former Apple CEO John Sculley, the company invested approximately $100 million to develop Newton.
Later history and cancellation
The Newton was considered innovative at its debut, but it suffered from its high price and problems with the handwriting recognition element, its most anticipated feature. The handwriting software was barely ready by 1993 and its tendency to misread characters was widely derided in the media. This was parodied in The Simpsons episode "Lisa on Ice", where a scene makes fun of the Newton's handwriting recognition turning "Beat up Martin" into "Eat up Martha". Garry Trudeau also mocked the Newton in a weeklong arc of his comic strip Doonesbury, portraying it as a costly toy that served the same function as a cheap notepad, and using its accuracy problems to humorous effect. In one panel, Michael Doonesbury's Newton misreads the words "Catching on?" as "Egg Freckles", a phrase that became widely repeated as symbolic of the Newton's problems. This phrase was subsequently included as a trigger for an Easter egg in later editions of the MessagePad, producing a panel from the st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Yam | Mike Yam is a studio host for the NFL Network and author of the children's book Fried Rice and Marinara. Previously, he was hired to be the lead studio host for the Pac-12 Network where he worked from 2012 to 2020. Prior to his arrival at Pac-12, he was an ESPN anchor from October 2008 through August 2012.
During Yam's time at ESPN, he could be seen anchoring SportsCenter, as well as hosting college football live and college basketball final. Since July 2011, he can be heard filling in on various shows on 1050 ESPN, New York City. Yam was also the cohost of ESPN's Fantasy Focus Basketball podcast with Keith Lipscomb.
From 2006-2008, Yam was the co-host of The Mike and Murray Show, heard daily on Sirius Satellite Radio, and also hosted NBA Radio's Full Court Press. Previously, he was a host of the Phil Jackson Show. Additionally, Mike was heard on ESPN Radio as the host of Fantasy Focus. Outside of his radio work, Mike served as an anchor for NBA TV's Game Night and host of Fantasy Hoops.
Before ascending to his current posts, Yam was the host of The Desk on Sirius and an anchor at College Sports Television (CSTV) where he provided daily sports updates for the network.
Yam started his broadcasting career at WFUV hosting One on One, (New York's longest- running sports call-in show) and covering the New York Knicks and Mets, where he followed in the footsteps of many great broadcasters who got started at WFUV. Following his run at WFUV, Yam worked as a correspondent for FOX Sports before coming to Sirius Satellite Radio.
Yam is a graduate of Fordham University, and the recipient of the Marty Glickman Award for Excellence in Play-by-Play Broadcasting.
Outside of his work Yam is also a member of the Alzheimer's Association of New York. Joe Girardi's Catch 25 Foundation awarded him the Joan Pasheluk Tribute Award for raising awareness of Alzheimer's in the media. He also has written about social causes.
References
External links
Fordham University alumni
American sports journalists
Living people
College football announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
WFUV people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Raysman | Richard Raysman (born October 9, 1946), is a lawyer and a founding practitioner of American computer law, later expanded to become Intellectual Property Law.
Education
Raysman was born in New York City, the son of Victor Raysman, a businessman, and Irene Davies Raysman, a professor. He grew up in Valley Stream, New York, a suburb of New York City, attending Valley Stream North High School. Raysman received a B.S. in 1968 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he majored in Industrial Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and minored in computer science.
Career
After graduation from MIT, Raysman worked for the IBM Corporation as a systems engineer for six years, based in New York City. In that capacity he guided the information technology departments of major corporations in implementing new computer systems and upgrading to more advanced hardware. He programmed in computer languages such as Assembler, Cobol, IBM RPG and Fortran.
While working for IBM Raysman attended Brooklyn Law School at night. During that time he joined the U.S.Army Reserve, where he served in the Military Police for six years, doing his basic training at Fort Gordon, in Augusta, Georgia.
Being a systems engineer as well as a lawyer, Raysman realized that the law relating to the purchase and use of computer hardware and software was as yet undeveloped. Although academic articles relating to computer law were starting to appear in law reviews, there were no law firms professing to practice in it. Since the use of computers in a business context was increasing exponentially, Raysman decided, in 1978, to start his own firm in New York City specifically to counsel companies in those transactions. As part of his effort to distinguish the acquisition of software and hardware as an area of the law requiring specific knowledge and expertise, in the following years Raysman wrote articles for the New York Times, the Harvard Business Review, and the New York Law Journal, where in 1981 he became "co-author" of the first monthly column on Computer Law, written by associates under his byline. The New York Times twice cited Raysman as a legal expert on patents and software .
During the last two decades of the 20th century computer law expanded to include issues relating to software licensing, protection of intellectual property on the internet, eCommerce law and information technology employment issues such as outsourcing. These areas of the law are now encompassed in the term Intellectual Property Law.
Raysman's firm, known as Brown, Raysman & Millstein, ultimately grew to 250 lawyers with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Hartford and Toronto. In 2006 Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, as it was then known, merged with the San Francisco law firm of Thelen and became known as Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, having 650 attorneys and offices worldwide. In 2008 Raysman left Thelen, when the firm disbanded. He now practi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooping | "Snooping" can refer to:
Computer science
Bus sniffing, also known as bus snooping
IGMP snooping
DHCP snooping
and in general listening in to any kind of communication protocol (such as ARP, TCP and so on)
Statistics
Data-snooping bias, a concept in statistics
See also
Snoop (disambiguation)
Snoopy (disambiguation)
Sniffing (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASC-15 | The ASC-15 (Advance System Controller Model 15) was a digital computer developed by International Business Machines (IBM) for use on the Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It was subsequently modified and used on the Titan III and Saturn I Block II launch vehicles.
Its principal function on these rockets was to make navigation calculations using data from inertial sensor systems. It also performed readiness checks before launch. It was a digital serial processor using fixed-point data with 27-bit words. The storage was a drum memory. Electronic circuits were soldered encapsulated modules, consisting of discrete resistors, transistors, capacitors, and other components soldered together and encapsulated in a foam material. It was manufactured in the IBM plant at Owego, NY.
ASC-15 for Titan II
The first inertial guidance system for the Titan II was built by AC Spark Plug, and included an inertial measurement unit based on designs from Draper Labs at MIT, and the ASC-15 computer designed and built by IBM in Owego, NY. The first Titan II missile carrying this system was launched 16 March 1962. Acquiring spares for this system became difficult, and the Air Force decided to replace it with a new system. The AC Spark Plug system, including the ASC-15, was replaced by the Delco Electronics Universal Space Guidance System (USGS) on operational Titan II missiles starting in January 1978. The guidance computer in the USGS was the Magic 352, made by Delco.
The ASC-15 was built on an aluminum frame about 1.5x1.5x1 feet. The sides, top and bottom were covered by pieces of laminated plastic, covered with gold-plated aluminum foil. These covers were slightly convex and ribbed for stiffness. Inside the covers were fifty-two logic sticks, each containing four welded encapsulated modules. These surrounded a bell frame housing a drum memory. See Figure 2.
The drum was a thin-walled stainless steel cylinder 3 inches long and 4.5 inches in diameter covered with a magnetic nickel-cobalt alloy. It was driven by a synchronous motor at 6,000 rpm. The drum had 70 tracks, of which 58 were used and 12 were spare. These tracks were used as follows:
The capacity of a track was 1,728 bits. Instruction words were 9-bits long, and data was stored in 27-bit words.
Coincident with 58 tracks were 67 read heads and 13 write heads. While the drum was spinning at 6,000 rpm, the heads floated above the surface of the drum on a thin layer of air. When the drum was spinning up or slowing down, the heads were raised off the drum by camshafts rotated by a chain that was driven by a motor on top of the drum housing, to avoid scoring the magnetic surface. See Figure 3.
ASC-15 for Titan III
The Titan III was a space launch vehicle based on the Titan II ICBM. The ASC-15 was kept as the vehicle guidance computer, but the drum was lengthened slightly to provide 78 usable tracks, an increase of 20 over the drum used in the Titan II. The memory held 9,792 instructions (5 |
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