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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible%20Analyzer | Bible Analyzer is a freeware, cross-platform Bible study computer software application for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh OS X, and Ubuntu Linux. It implements advanced search, comparison, and statistical features of Bible texts as well as more typical Bible software capabilities. It received a high rating for version 4.4 from download.com. The Macintosh edition has also received positive reviews.
Overview
Bible Analyzer is written in Python with a wxPython GUI. According to its author it was first conceived in 2003 to address areas in Bible study and analysis that are largely untouched among other Bible software programs. Primarily features such as Bible text comparison, proximity range searches, and textual statistical analysis. Versions 1.0 through 2.2 concentrated on these features. The version 3 series greatly expanded them and added other features such as a dedicated cross-reference panel, "Related Verse" Searches, Text-To-Speech and Audio features, etc. Version 4.0 includes a major updating of the interface and also a Harmony/Parallel Text Generator, Advanced Related Phrase Search, Multiple Bible Search capabilities, exporting of study data to the "MultiWindow," etc. Version 4.5 introduced the "Session Manager" which allows the user to configure different sessions of modules for various types of studies.
Version 4.7 introduced some original and unique capabilities. Along with the optional Authorized Version People Edition Bible, Bible Analyzer can search for specific individuals using an ID tagging system. Each person in the Bible (as well as all references to deity, including pronouns) is tagged with a unique ID to enable individual searching. For instance, any one (or more) of the six Marys in the Bible can be found at the exclusion of the others. Furthermore, references to deity, such as pronouns, alternate designations, etc., other than by name (God, Jesus, Christ, etc.) can be used as search criteria.
Versions 4.8 and 4.9 introduced among other enhancements a built in Download Manager with which all free and premium modules can be downloaded directly into the program.
Module format
Bible Analyzer utilizes Bible, Commentary, Dictionary, Book and Image modules in the open-source SQLite database format. Users can easily create custom modules with the built in "Module Creator." There are scores of free and premium modules available from the Bible Analyzer website.
Bible Analyzer has in its module format such works as E. W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes and Appendices in fully searchable, digital format, the 11 volume Understanding The Bible Commentary by David Sorenson, Books and Charts by Clarence Larkin such as Dispensational Truth, the 23 volume Pulpit Commentary, the 43 volume Expositor's Bible, the 56 volume Biblical Illustrator, and many more.
Bible Analyzer is updated regularly and a CD-Rom with over 1200MB of data is available.
History of Bible Analytics
The Pioneer of Bible Analytics was Thomas Hartwell Horne (1780–1862) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDTL | WDTL (105.7 FM, "Delta Country 105.7") is a radio station licensed to serve Indianola, Mississippi, United States. The station is owned by Delta Radio Network LLC.
WDTL broadcasts a country music format to the greater Greenville, Mississippi, area. Notable programming includes a syndicated morning show hosted by Moby in the Morning. The station also airs the syndicated "The Original Country Gold with Rowdy Yates" and "Rick Jackson's Country Classics."
History
In August 1984, Fritts Broadcasting, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to Shamrock Broadcasting, Inc. The deal was approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on October 9, 1984, and the transaction was consummated on October 15, 1984.
In April 2007, Shamrock Broadcasting, Inc., contracted to sell this station and AM sister station WNLA to Debut Broadcasting Corporation, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC in May 2007 and the transaction consummated in June 2007. Debut sold the station to Delta Radio Network in 2010.
On September 16, 2014, the then-WNOU changed its format from urban contemporary to country, branded as "Delta Country 105.5". The station changed its call sign to the current WDTL on March 9, 2016.
References
External links
Debut Broadcasting Corporation
DTL
Sunflower County, Mississippi
Radio stations established in 1969
1969 establishments in Mississippi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care%20Bears%3A%20Share%20Bear%20Shines | Care Bears: Share Bear Shines is a 2010 American computer-animated adventure film featuring the Care Bear Power Team. The film was produced by SD Entertainment and Shari Lewis Enterprises, who also made 2007's Care Bears: Oopsy Does It!.
Cast
Tracey Moore - Share Bear
Anna Cummer - Princess Starglow
Tabitha St. Germain - Cheer Bear
Ashleigh Ball - Oopsy Bear
Ian James Corlett - Funshine Bear
Scott McNeil - Grumpy Bear
Plot
The sunshine in Care-a-Lot is at stake when Princess Starglow, the princess of the stars, decides to shut down all of star related things forever.
Release
Share Bear Shines premiered on DVD in Australia on March 10, 2010, through Magna Pacific. In the United States, the film had a limited released to theaters on August 15, as part of Kidtoon Films' matinee program, and was released on DVD through Lionsgate on November 6, 2010.
References
External links
American direct-to-video films
2010s American animated films
2010 computer-animated films
2010 direct-to-video films
2010 films
American children's animated fantasy films
American computer-animated films
Animated films based on animated series
Share Bear Shines
Direct-to-video animated films
Direct-to-video sequel films
Films directed by Davis Doi
Lionsgate animated films
2010s children's animated films
2010s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20World%20PCS | New World PCS Limited (abb. NWPCS) was a mobile network operator (MNO) of Hong Kong.
History
New World PCS Limited was a subsidiary of New World Development that was incorporated on 16 February 1995. In 1997 the brand New World Mobility was launched.
In 2004 New World Development started to own the MNO via another listed intermediate holding company New World Mobile Holdings. Previously, New World PCS Holdings, the direct parent company of New World PCS, as well as New World Telecommunications, were sister companies that under the same direct parent company New World Telephone Holdings, which in turn it was owned by New World Development.
In 2006, NWPCS merged with Hong Kong CSL to form CSL New World Mobility, an intermediate holding company that was owned by Telstra (76.4%) and New World Development (23.6%). It is no longer the direct subsidiary of New World Mobile Holdings Limited and New World Development.
In 2008 New World PCS Limited was renamed to CSL Limited, with the old CSL (Hong Kong CSL Limited) became its subsidiary. However, the brand New World Mobility was still used by the group in the same year (used by New World Mobility Limited, a joint venture of CSL Limited), which eventually became Sun Mobile in 2014.
References
External links
Telecommunications companies established in 1995
Companies disestablished in 2008
Mobile phone companies of Hong Kong
Former New World Development subsidiaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNLA%20%28AM%29 | WNLA (1390 kHz), is a radio station licensed to serve Indianola, Mississippi, United States. The station is owned by Delta Radio Network, LLC.
WNLA broadcasts a Gospel music format to the greater Greenville, Mississippi, area.
On May 7, 2014, WNLA filed an application for a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) construction permit to change frequency to 1390 kHz, increase day power to 1,000 watts and decrease night power to 15 watts.
History
In August 1984, Fritts Broadcasting, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to Shamrock Broadcasting, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on October 9, 1984, and the transaction was consummated on October 15, 1984.
In April 2007, Shamrock Broadcasting, Inc., contracted to sell this station and FM sister station WNLA-FM to Debut Broadcasting Corporation, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on May 22, 2007, and the transaction was completed on June 7, 2007. The stations were sold to Delta Radio Network in 2011.
References
External links
Corporate Website
Official website
Gospel radio stations in the United States
Sunflower County, Mississippi
Radio stations established in 1953
1953 establishments in Mississippi
NLA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleida%20Health | Kaleida Health, founded in 1998, is a not-for-profit healthcare network that manages five hospitals in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area. Prior to the merger of member hospitals into the network, it was known as the Millard Fillmore Health System.
Facilities
Kaleida Health runs the Buffalo General Medical Center, a hospital on the premises of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. It was founded on its current site in the mid-19th century and has undergone expansions ever since, including one in 1986 that added a 16-story tower to the main complex. The hospital had 24,000 inpatient visits in 2016. The interior lobby was remodeled and the exterior of the building was repainted in 2018 to match the color scheme of newer facilities on the campus at a cost of $2 million. Kaleida also runs the John R. Oishei Children's Hospital, a children's hospital that opened in November 2017, replacing Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo and cost $270 million and nearly three years to build. There are 185 beds, including 64 neonatal units, 14 operating rooms, an indoor garden and skyway connections to both Buffalo General Medical Center and Conventus. The hospital broke ground in early 2015 and was designed by Shepley Bulfinch and built by Turner Construction.
Kaleida and the State University of New York at Buffalo jointly built the Gates Vascular Institute building, which was completed in 2012, replacing Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital, which was demolished in October 2015; the lower floors house a clinical facility run by Kaleida that includes an emergency room, outpatient, inpatient and medical imaging facilities. As of 2017, Kaleida Health oversees Upper Allegheny Health System, which comprises Brooks Memorial Hospital, Lakeshore Hospital, Olean General, Bradford Regional Medical Center and Cuba Memorial Hospital.
Patient safety concerns
A report produced by Consumer Reports in July 2015 on the prevalence of hospital-acquired infections gave Kaleida hospitals a below average ranking in all but one category. The ranking was based on hospital-reported data provided to federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between October 2013 and September 2014. Kaleida Health was also cited by Medicare for having high rates of infections and other patient-safety problems. The Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program, which was created as part of the Affordable Care Act, seeks to incentivize hospitals to improve patient safety by measuring rates of hospital-acquired infection and other patient safety metrics and then penalizing hospitals that perform poorly. As a result of this program Kaleida Health has been penalized more than $1 million in 2016 through reduced Medicare payments.
References
External links
Official website
1998 establishments in New York (state)
Companies based in Erie County, New York
Hospitals established in 1998
Healthcare in New York (state)
Hospital networks in the United States
Companies based in Buffalo, New |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShockHound | ShockHound was an online music download site, retail store and social networking platform launched by Hot Topic in 2008. ShockHound music files were available for download in the MP3 format, making them compatible with most digital music players, and free from digital rights management (DRM) software restrictions. Randy Bookasta (Ray Gun magazine) and Dan Epstein (Revolver magazine) were contributing content editors.
On March 28, 2011, ShockHound posted an announcement stating they would be shutting down for good on May 15, 2011.
Content
ShockHound had an online social networking platform which allowed users to create and share content. Additional website content included music reviews, rock concerts, interviews, music videos, streaming audio, and original programming called Shock Shows, including Taco Tuesday and Stella Can't Cook. ShockHound opened its first retail store in Torrance, California in the Del Amo Fashion Center.
Cross merchandising
In addition to music downloads, music-related merchandise was also available on the website, including band T-shirts, accessories, posters, concert tickets, and Vinyl records. This type of cross merchandising was unique in the digital audio market. ShockHound utilized a proprietary shopping cart functionality which combined music downloads and merchandise purchases into a single transaction.
Concert sponsorships
As part of their opening launch in 2008, ShockHound offered free concerts by No Age, Titus Andronicus and Snow Patrol, to users in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas and San Diego.
References
Online music stores of the United States
2000s fashion
Internet properties established in 2008
Internet properties disestablished in 2011
2008 establishments in the United States
2011 disestablishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Sterling | Adam Sterling (born 1983) was the executive director of the Sudan Divestment Task Force, a project of the Genocide Intervention Network, and a graduate of University of California, Los Angeles with degrees in Political Science and African American Studies.
Born in Los Angeles, he appeared in the film Darfur Now as himself, trying to reduce the effects of genocide on the Sudanese through a bill he proposes to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
He has received many humanitarian awards, and been nominated for awards such as the "Do Something" Teen choice award and his works regarding Sudan have been published in The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and more.
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20081216155609/http://www.sudandivestment.org/home.asp
https://web.archive.org/web/20090115031739/http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/analysis/bios.php?content=sterling_adam
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
American humanitarians
1983 births
Living people
Activists from California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallelibhagom | Kallelibhagom is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India.
Demographics- Census Data 2011
External links
Census in India
References
Villages in Kollam district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thazhava | Thazhava is a village in Karunagappally taluk, Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India.
Demographic-Census Data 2011
Here many seek a livelihood based on Thazha or screw pine. Screw pine weaving of mats is one of the oldest crafts popular in Thazhava. Even though now the weaving of screw pine mats have been comparatively reduced than the earlier times, there exists few traditional weavers who still continue this profession. Mats are now being exported within as well as outside India.
In the ancient times, screw pine mats were weaved and distributed in bulk to various provinces within Kerala including Travancore province.
See also
Pulimukham Devi Temple
Thazhava Sree krishna swamy Temple
Transport
Main transport is provided by State owned Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) and private transport bus operators.
Karunagappally railway station is the nearest railway station.
Trivandrum International Airport is the nearest airport.
References
Villages in Kollam district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thodiyoor | Thodiyoor is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India.
Demographics- Census 2011 Data
India census, Thodiyoor had a population of 23123 with 11244 males and 11879 females. The famous temple Malumel Sree Bhagavathi is located in this village.
References
http://www.census2011.co.in/data/town/628366-thodiyoor-kerala.html
Villages in Kollam district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadakkumthala | Vadakkumthala is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India. Vadakkumthala is coming under the Kollam UA.
Demographics - Census Data 2011
References
http://www.census2011.co.in/data/town/628370-vadakkumthala-kerala.html
Villages in Kollam district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composers%20Desktop%20Project | The Composers Desktop Project (CDP) is an international cooperative network based in the United Kingdom that has been developing software for working with sound materials since 1986. Working on a cooperative basis and motivated by user-specific compositional needs, the project has focused on the development of precise, detailed and multifaceted DSP-based sound transformation tools. Currently, CDP provides sound transformation software (named after the project itself) for Windows and Mac OS X that has been evolving for over 20 years.
In 2014 the main components of the CDP were released as an open-source package licensed under the LGPL. Makefiles are now available for Windows, OSX, and Linux.
Originally, after a study to determine if it was possible and/or feasible to port CMusic from UNIX mainframe systems, the project released the CDP software along with corresponding SoundSTreamer hardware for the Atari ST and later ported the software to DOS. The software tool-set is designed specifically to transform sound samples mostly via offline processing (non-real time); the software is considered complementary to real-time processing and audio sequencers.
References
Further reading
A. Endrich (1996), Composers' Desktop Project: a musical imperative, Organised Sound, Volume 2, Issue 01, Apr 1997, pp 29–33.
R.W Dobson (1993), The Operation of the Phase Vocoder – a non-mathematical introduction to the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), a CDP publication, Somerset.
Wishart T. (1994), Audible Design: A Plain and Easy Introduction to Sound Composition. Orpheus the Pantomime Ltd. ().
Electronic music software
Acoustics software
1986 establishments in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20Mad%20Men | Mad Men is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner, produced by Lionsgate Television and broadcast on the cable network AMC. It premiered on July 19, 2007, and ended on May 17, 2015, after seven seasons and ninety-two episodes. Set in New York City amid the social changes of the 1960s, the show follows the people working at an advertising agency on Madison Avenue. It stars Jon Hamm as Don Draper, an advertising executive at the fictional Sterling Cooper agency (later Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce) who, despite his professional successes, struggles to handle secrets from his past and to maintain his personal and family life. Other members of the show's original ensemble cast include Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson, Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell, January Jones as Betty Draper, Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway, and John Slattery as Roger Sterling; the cast saw numerous changes during its run.
Mad Men has been widely praised as one of the greatest television series of its era and of all time, and during its run, it earned numerous accolades for its acting, writing, directing, and technical achievements. Among these recognitions, it won sixteen Primetime Emmy Awards from 116 nominations. The series won the award for Outstanding Drama Series four times from eight nominations, tying the record for most wins in the category. Its win in 2008 for its first season made it the first basic cable series to win the award. Hamm was also nominated eight times for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, ultimately winning the award once in 2015. However, despite these successes, the show often came up notably empty-handed; its seventeen nominations without a win in 2012 set an Emmys record for largest shutout in a year, and Hamm's win in 2015 was the show's only acting win from thirty-seven nominations.
Other accolades for Mad Men include five Golden Globe Awards from thirteen nominations. Its three wins for Best Television Series – Drama are tied for the record for most wins in the category. The show won the Television Critics Association Award for Program of the Year in 2008, in addition to three wins for Outstanding Achievement in Drama and two wins for Individual Achievement in Drama for Hamm. In 2011, it won the inaugural Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Drama Series. The series also won seven Writers Guild of America Awards – including four wins for Dramatic Series and two wins for Episodic Drama – two Directors Guild of America Awards, and three Producers Guild of America Awards. It won two Screen Actors Guild Awards, both for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. In 2008, the series received a Peabody Award, recognizing it as one of the best productions in electronic media.
Awards and nominations
Notes
Nominees for awards
Other
References
External links
Awards and nominations
Mad Men |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five%20Star%20Jubilee | Five Star Jubilee is an American country music variety show carried by NBC-TV from March 17–September 22, 1961. The live program, a spin-off of ABC-TV's Jubilee USA, was the first network color television series to originate outside New York City or Hollywood.
From March 17 to May 5, the weekly show aired on Fridays from 8–8:30 p.m. Eastern Time, but moved to 8:30–9 p.m. from May 12 to September 22. The series featured five rotating hosts: Snooky Lanson (first show March 17), Tex Ritter (March 24), Rex Allen (March 31), Jimmy Wakely (April 7) and Carl Smith (April 14). All five appeared on the May 12 show, which was the first in color.
Produced from the Landers Theatre in Springfield, Missouri, the program was similar to Jubilee USA and featured some of the same cast, including Bobby Lord, Cecil Brower, Speedy Haworth and Slim Wilson's Jubilee Band. Barbara Mandrell (who had toured with Red Foley and a Jubilee USA personal appearance unit) made her network debut on the program at age 12. The final program was hosted by Foley, who also appeared on the July 7 show. In April he had been acquitted of tax evasion charges, which were believed to have originally kept him out of consideration as a host. The sponsor was Massey Ferguson.
Performers
Roy Acuff and the Smoky Mountain Boys
Jeanne and Janie Black
Margie Bowes
Uncle Cyp and Aunt Sap Brasfield
Cecil Brower
Martha Carson
June Carter
The Carter Family
Jimmy Dean
Jimmy Driftwood
Ralph Emery
Flatt and Scruggs
The Foggy River Boys
Red Foley
Sally Foley
The Four Fuller Brothers
Don Gibson
Johnny Gimble
Betty Ann Grove
Speedy Haworth
Betty Johnson
Grandpa Jones
Claude King
Pee Wee King
Linda Lee
Bobby Lord
Barbara Mandrell
Harold Morrison and Jimmy Gately
Hank Morton
Les Paul and Mary Ford
Minnie Pearl
Ray Price
The Queen City Jazz Band
Carmel Quinn
Margie Singleton
Redd Stewart
Cathie Taylor
June Valli
The Wagon Wheelers
Bun Wilson
Slim Wilson
Faron Young
Production
Five Star Jubilee debuted March 17, 1961 in black-and-white, but switched to color on May 12. The first two color programs (May 12 and 19) were videotaped beginning at 1:30 a.m. local time Friday (for playback that evening) after nearby KTTS-AM signed off at 1:00 a.m., because of unforeseen RF interference from its transmitter with the color TV picture. Despite the hour, both shows had audiences at the theater. NBC resolved the problem for the May 26 program, which was the first live color show. The series was aired by 150 NBC affiliates, although not by WNBC-TV in New York.
The program was produced from the Landers Theatre with KYTV-TV's assistance using two new NBC color mobile units (built for World Series coverage) and three RCA TK-41 cameras. Because it was the first color TV series outside New York City or Hollywood, scenic designer Andy Miller created the first color scenic stage sets for television outside those two cities after receiving brief training at NBC in New York. The director was Fred Rains (floor director for J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti%20Makkonen | Matti Makkonen (16 April 1952 – 26 June 2015) was a Finnish engineer in the field of mobile communications. He was employed (among others) by Nokia Networks and the then Telecom Finland (branded as Tele), as well as Oy. Makkonen played a leading role in creating the mobile communication unit of what is today TeliaSonera. In 2008, Makkonen was awarded The Economist Innovation Award in the computing and telecommunications category for his work on text messaging (SMS).
Career
Sources:Hermia.fi, puhujat
Makkonen was born in Suomussalmi. He graduated as an electrical engineer from Oulu University in 1976. Subsequently, he worked at the Telecoms and Postal agency (PTL, TeliaSonera) as a systems engineer, developing wireless communications services for the NMT mobile networks (1976–1983). He was also the vice president of PTL 1984–1988 and at the same time actively involved in the development of the GSM-technology until 1988. He became the president of the mobile communication unit in 1989, which had been renamed Telecom Finland. He also served as the vice president of the Mobile Communications Group during 1995–2000. In 2000, he was briefly the president and board member of the Mobile Internet operator unit of the company, which at that point had been renamed Sonera.
As of November 2000, Makkonen joined Nokia Networks Professional Services as the units director. He later became the CEO of Finnet Oy on 1 February 2003, a position which he held until 31 October 2005.
At the beginning of 2006, Makkonen served as a board member and consultant for Tieto-X and the PR agency Evia.
Makkonen was the president and CEO of ICT company Anvia from August 2010 to the spring of 2013 when he left because of serious illness, and later retired.
References
People from Suomussalmi
1952 births
2015 deaths
Text messaging
20th-century Finnish engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20International%20Vintners%20Exchange | Liv-ex (London International Vintners Exchange) is a global marketplace for wine trading. It has over 620 members from start-ups to established merchants. Liv-ex supplies them with data, trading and logistics services.
The platform publishes the actual prices at which wines are transacted and contains around £100m of firm buying and selling opportunities in over 16,000 wines. All are available to trade in real-time. Liv-ex additionally conceived the Standard-In-Bond (SIB) contract to assure stock condition, delivery and faster payments and provide transport and storage.
The company was founded in 2000 by two stockbrokers, James Miles and Justin Gibbs. It started with a group of 10 founding members in London
Trading
Liv-ex's global network enables members to trade with other merchants worldwide. Trading on Liv-ex is reserved for professional buyers and sellers of fine wine, and is standardized and anonymous. The total value of bids and offers on Liv-ex surpasses £100million.
Data
Liv-ex data is based on the activity of over 620 fine wine merchants based in 47 countries worldwide. Their activity accounts for an estimated 95% of fine wine turnover globally. Trades, price updates, bids and offers are standardized, verified and published as tens of millions of historic lines, with thousands of daily updates of reliable, independent and trusted data.
The data is based on real merchant transactions, rather than advertised prices which can be inaccurate and out of date. Liv-ex data is regularly quoted by media outlets including Reuters and Bloomberg.
Logistics
With operations across the UK, Europe and Asia, Liv-ex provides its members with settlement and transport services. All services are charged at a flat per unit rate (with no minimum quantity). All wine traded on the market passes through the Liv-ex warehouse in London. The warehouse is temperature controlled and highly secure. Wine stored in the warehouse can be traded on Liv-ex, without the need to be moved or checked again. Transfer of ownership can be instant.
Liv-ex Products
Liv-ex has a number of online products.
LWIN
LWIN (Liv-ex Wine Identification Number) is the universal wine identifier. Liv-ex created it in 2011 to provide a standardized numbering system that is designed to avoid error in communication, transfer and referencing. It removes the need to rely on written descriptions and provides the key to establishing which item in one database corresponds to which item in another database, which is helpful in transactions between organizations.
The unique seven-digit numerical code is designed to quickly and accurately identify an individual fine wine product. It enables messaging between systems and over the internet, allowing the trade to share information more easily.
Each LWIN refers to the wine itself i.e. the producer, brand or vineyard. The first six numbers of the code represent each wine's unique identifier, while the seventh number is a “check digit” that minimize |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanic%20%28Barcelona%20Metro%29 | Joanic is a station of the Barcelona Metro network located in the district of Gràcia. It's served by L4.
The station opened in . It's located under carrer de Pi i Margall between Plaça Joanic and carrer de l'Alegre de Dalt, and it can be accessed either from the former or from carrer de l'Escorial.
Services
Entries & Exits Per Year: 4,509,786 (2016)
See also
List of Barcelona Metro stations
External links
Joanic at Trenscat.com
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1973
Transport in Gràcia
Barcelona Metro line 4 stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Keaney | Helen Keaney (also sometimes credited as Helen Rosenthal) (b. 1962) is an American actress, comedian, and hostess on HSN (Home Shopping Network). She was a cast member of "3 Blonde Moms" Previously she did national television commercials for various products including Clorox, Tylenol, Gateway, Degree Deodorant, Dr. Scholl's, Starkist, Thermacare and Verizon.
She is notable for her role as Diane in the 1987 cult classic film Plutonium Baby credited under her given name, Helen Rosenthal, and has also voiced Nikki in the video game Pandemonium.
In 2000 and 2001, Keaney hosted Lover's Lounge, a two-hour game show block of dating and relationship game shows on Game Show Network with Teresa Strasser.
See also
List of actors
References
External links
Official Helen Keaney website
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women comedians
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity%20and%20the%20Mind | Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite is a popular mathematics book by American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer Rudy Rucker.
Synopsis
The book contains accessible popular expositions on the mathematical theory of infinity, and a number of related topics. These include Gödel's incompleteness theorems and their relationship to concepts of artificial intelligence and the human mind, as well as the conceivability of some unconventional cosmological models. The material is approached from a variety of viewpoints, some more conventionally mathematical and others being nearly mystical. There is a brief account of the author's personal contact with Kurt Gödel.
An appendix contains one of the few popular expositions on set theory research on what are known as "strong axioms of infinity."
Reception
Dave Langford reviewed Infinity and the Mind for White Dwarf #41, and stated that "a must for anyone who enjoyed Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach or the works of Martin Gardner."
Infinity and the Mind was reviewed by the New Yorker, which asserted that "Rudy Rucker's Infinity and the Mind is a terrific study with real mathematical depth." Martin Gardner described the book as "Informal, amusing, witty, profound... In an extraordinary burst of creative energy, Rudy Rucker has managed to bring together every aspect of mathematical infinity.... A dizzying glimpse into that boundless region of blinding light where the mysteries of transcendence shatter the clarity of logic, set theory, proof theory, and contemporary physics."
References
External links
Infinity and the Mind at Princeton University Press
1982 non-fiction books
Books by Rudy Rucker
Mathematics books
Birkhäuser books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardness%20of%20approximation | In computer science, hardness of approximation is a field that studies the algorithmic complexity of finding near-optimal solutions to optimization problems.
Scope
Hardness of approximation complements the study of approximation algorithms by proving, for certain problems, a limit on the factors with which their solution can be efficiently approximated. Typically such limits show a factor of approximation beyond which a problem becomes NP-hard, implying that finding a polynomial time approximation for the problem is impossible unless NP=P. Some hardness of approximation results, however, are based on other hypotheses, a notable one among which is the unique games conjecture.
History
Since the early 1970s it was known that many optimization problems could not be solved in polynomial time unless P = NP, but in many of these problems the optimal solution could be efficiently approximated to a certain degree. In the 1970s, Teofilo F. Gonzalez and Sartaj Sahni began the study of hardness of approximation, by showing that certain optimization problems were NP-hard even to approximate to within a given approximation ratio. That is, for these problems, there is a threshold such that any polynomial-time approximation with approximation ratio beyond this threshold could be used to solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time. In the early 1990s, with the development of PCP theory, it became clear that many more approximation problems were hard to approximate, and that (unless P = NP) many known approximation algorithms achieved the best possible approximation ratio.
Hardness of approximation theory deals with studying the approximation threshold of such problems.
Examples
For an example of an NP-hard optimization problem that is hard to approximate, see set cover.
See also
PCP theorem
References
Further reading
External links
CSE 533: The PCP Theorem and Hardness of Approximation, Autumn 2005, syllabus from the University of Washington, Venkatesan Guruswami and Ryan O'Donnell
Approximation algorithms
Computational complexity theory
Relaxation (approximation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAHRU%20%26%20AHRA | MAHRU & AHRA are humanoid robots design and developed by KIST. Unlike other robots such as ASIMO, they can obtain artificial intelligence from certain networks. They made public appearances around in South Korea.
Features and technology
Form
MAHRU & AHRA stand at 150 cm and weigh 67 kg. They are powered by a lithium polymer battery (model 48V-20A) and networks. The colors are blue (for MAHRU), orange (for AHRA).
Abilities
MAHRU & AHRA can recognize moving objects, postures, gestures, its surrounding environment, sounds and faces. They can walk anyway, such as right, left, backward, or forward.
Specifications
Models
MAHRU-1
MAHRU-2
MAHRU-M
MAHRU-R
MAHRU-Z, updated to rotate its head, arms, legs, having six fingers, and a 3D camera.
References
External links
Bipedal humanoid robots
Robots of South Korea
2005 robots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo%20%282008%20film%29 | Jumbo is a 2008 Indian 3D computer-animated adventure live-action film directed by Kompin Kemgumnird, produced by Percept Picture Company and features the voices of Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Dimple Kapadia, Rajpal Yadav, Asrani, and Gulshan Grover. Jayveer Singh aka Jumbo, a little elephant, which tries to find his Father and the journey of finding his father made him a war elephant. The film is a Hindi remake and Hindi dubbed version of the 2006 Thai film Khan Kluay, which is based on "Chao Praya Prab Hongsawadee" by Ariya Jintapanichkarn.
The film was dubbed and released in Hindi where the creative direction on the film was done by Mayur Puri.
Jumbo was released worldwide on Christmas Day 2008, but performed poorly at the box office, grossing . Kumar was reportedly paid for the dubbing and two promotional songs.
In 2011 A direct to DVD sequel titled Jumbo 2: The Return of the Big Elephant was released.
Plot
The film starts with actor Akshay Kumar singing the song "Everything's Gonna Be All Right" which is shown by him to a kid in a movie theater. The kid asks him why he is saying "everything's gonna be alright". Akshay then narrates the story of Jumbo from his childhood.
The story starts with Devi naming her son as Jayveer Singh aka Jumbo in a jungle in the Shakti Nagar kingdom on the border of India and China. The other members of the herd ask who thought of this name and in a parallel a battle between Shauryagarh and Shakti Nagar where Jumbo's father, Yudhveer Singh is currently fighting in.
His mother never reveals any details of his father, and neither do the rest of the elephants in the herd. He is a happy go lucky elephant, who loves to play with the other animals of the jungle. Occasionally he would be confronted by the other elephants of the herd, who would bully him on the history of his father. Tired of being teased about his father's cowardice in some war, he confronts his mom again, who somehow manages to rubbish the topic.
One night he learns that an army of Shauryagarh has entered the jungle, and they plan an overnight stay. In the hope of finding his father, Jumbo sets out to the camp, and manages to find a tent that houses the royal elephant of that army aka Bakhtavar Singh. He goes in and politely asks Bakhtavar if he has heard about Yudhveer. Suddenly, he becomes violent, and Jumbo starts running for cover. In the meanwhile, the soldiers standing outside see Jumbo running out of the tent and try to capture it.
Jumbo manages to go into the tent of prince Vikramaditya. Vikramaditya then saves Jumbo from the soldiers. It is then revealed that Vikramaditya is the captured prince of Shakti Nagar. Vikramaditya calms Jumbo down by simply placing a hand on his head and assuring him nothing is going to happen to him. The army chief aka Senapati comes to ask if Jumbo is in his tent to which he denies. When he returns to his tent, he sees that Jumbo has fled the scene.
After running away from the camp, Jumbo realises that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCL%20Molecular | The BCL Molecular 18 was a range of 18-bit computers designed and manufactured in the UK from 1970 until the late 1980s.The machines were originally manufactured by Systemation Limited and sold by Business Mechanisation Limited. The two companies merged in 1968 to form Business Computers Limited - later a public limited company. Business Computers Ltd subsequently went into receivership in 1974.
The company was purchased from the receiver by Computer World Trade, maintenance of existing machines was by a subsidiary of CWT called CFM, manufacturing was passed to ABS Computer in the old BCL building in Portslade and sales rights were sold to a team from the old Singer Computers by 1976 trading as Business Computers (Systems) Ltd selling the Molecular. BC(S) Ltd subsequently went public in 1981 to form Business Computers (Systems) Plc. Servicing and manufacturing was gradually taken over by Systemation Services/ Systemation Developments Ltd. BC(S)Plc was eventually taken over by Electronic Data Processing (EDP). Amongst its users and service engineers it was affectionately known as the Molly.
Note that neither SADIE nor SUSIE shared any technology with the Molecular series.
External links
BCL Molecular 18 Minicomputer
BCL Susie Computer @ The Centre for Computing History
Minicomputers
18-bit computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20ISDN%20Application%20Programming%20Interface | The Common ISDN Application Programming Interface (short CAPI) is an ISDN-conformant standardized software interface. With the help of CAPI, computer software intended for the use with ISDN can be provided, without knowledge of the deployed, proprietary ISDN card.
CAPI was designed from 1989 by German manufacturers (AVM, Systec, Stollmann). Since 1991, CAPI is being developed further by CAPI Association e.V. Implementations exist for different operating systems, including Linux and Microsoft Windows.
Through the ETSI, CAPI 2.0 was introduced as standard ETS 300 324 (Profile B).
Primarily, CAPI was designed for data transfer over ISDN. The specification has been extended multiple times, thereby it became important to the area of voice and fax communication. Because pure data transfer over IP-based networks is dominant in modern times, CAPI is being used primarily in the scope of voice applications (voice mail, IVR, call center, voice conference systems, etc.), for fax servers and combined systems (UMS).
The CAPI Interface in its current release (CAPI 2.0) supports a variety of signaling protocols (D channel protocols), e.g. DSS1 and FTZ 1 TR 6. The interface operates in the OSI model between layer 3 and 4, but only controls layers 1 to 3.
Besides popular signaling protocols for ISDN, implementations of CAPI for ATM, GSM and VoIP (H.323 and SIP) exist, thus CAPI applications can be used directly on communications infrastructure. Special extensions for protocol-specific features were defined several years ago for ATM.
External links
capi.org
CapiSuite A Python scriptable ISDN telephony suite with an answering machine.
Integrated Services Digital Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20libraries%20in%20Thailand | This is a list of libraries in Thailand:
National libraries
National Library of Thailand (หอสมุดแห่งชาติ)
Library networks and associations
Journal Link
Provincial University Library Network - Pulinet
Special Libraries Group - Thai Library Association
Thai Library Association
Thai Library Integrated System - ThaiLIS
Academic libraries
Public and autonomous university libraries
Burapha University Library
Chiang Mai University Library
Chulalongkorn University Library
Kasetsart University Library
Khon Kaen University Library
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang Library
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok Library
King Mongkut's University of Technology Library
Mae Fah Luang University Library
Maejo University Library
Mahasarakham University Library
Mahidol University Library
Naresuan University Library
National Institute of Development Administration Library
Prince of Songkla University Library
Rajamangala University of Technology, Thanyaburi
Ramkhamhaeng University Library
Silpakorn University Library
Srinakharinwirot University Library
Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University Library
Suranaree University of Technology Library
Thammasat University Library
Ubon Ratchathani University Library
Walailak University Library
Private university libraries
Asian Institute of Technology Library
Assumption University Library
Bangkok University Library
Dhurakij Pundit University Library
Huachiew Chalermprakiet University Library
Kasem Bundit University Library
Mahanakorn University of Technology Library
Payap University Library
Rangsit University Library
Saint John's University Library
Shinawatra University Library
Siam University Library
South East Asia University Library
Sripatum University Library
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce Library
Martin de Tours Assumption College Library
Medical libraries
Siriraj Medical Library
Public libraries
Rajamangalapisek Library
Bangkok City Library - The 4,789 m2 city library was opened in April 2017. Its facilities extend to four floors.
Research institute libraries
Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science (AFRIMS) Library
Chulabhorn Research Institute Library
Health Systems Research Institute Library
Research Library of National Research Council of Thailand
Science and Technology Knowledge Services - STKS
Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR) Knowledge Centre
Special libraries
Maruey Knowledge & Resource Center: Library at Thailand's stock exchange next to the Queen Sirikit Center. Business and investment books.
Neilson Hays Library
Royal Thai Air Force Library
Santi Pracha Dhamma Library
Stang Mongkolsuk Library
Suriyanuwat Library
Thailand Creative & Design Center
Thailand Knowledge Park - TKPark
See also
List of libraries
List of national libraries
List of schools in Thailand
List of universities in Thailand
References
External links
National Library of Thailand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der-Tsai%20Lee | Der-Tsai Lee (aka. D. T. Lee) is a Taiwanese computer scientist, known for his work in computational geometry. For many years he was a professor at Northwestern University. He has been a distinguished research fellow of the Institute for Information Science at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan since 1998. From 1998 to 2008, he was director of this institute. He was the 14th President of National Chung Hsing University from August 1, 2011.
Lee received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from
National Taiwan University in 1971, an M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976, and a Ph.D. from UIUC under the supervision of Franco Preparata in 1978. After holding a faculty position at Northwestern University for 20 years, he moved to the Academia Sinica in 1998. He also holds faculty positions at National Taiwan University, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and National Chiao Tung University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. He was elected as the Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan in 2004. He also won the Humboldt Research Award in 2007 and elected as the member of The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (also known as Third World Academy of Sciences) (TWAS) in 2008. In 2010, he became the Humboldt Ambassador Scientist. He has published near 200 research papers, and an ISI highly cited researcher. He is editor in chief of the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications.
He was awarded the German-Taiwanese Friendship Medal by Michael Zickerick, the Director General of the German Institute Taipei, in May 2014.
References
Researchers in geometric algorithms
National Taiwan University alumni
American people of Taiwanese descent
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Northwestern University faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
1949 births
Taiwanese computer scientists
Members of Academia Sinica
Place of birth missing (living people)
Presidents of universities and colleges in Taiwan
Academic staff of the National Chung Hsing University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SF%20Net | SF NET Coffee House Network was an electronic bulletin board system created by Wayne Gregori in San Francisco, California in July 1991.
The network consisted of coin-operated, public access computers installed in many Bay Area coffee houses. SF Net allowed individuals from all walks of life to communicate with each other via chat rooms and message boards. Additionally, it provided games and access to FidoNet.
The coffee shop terminals were the culmination of a series of clever solutions to the problems of long-term remote placement in areas marked by low supervision and a young crowd. According to the then-popular Boardwatch magazine, the inexpensive, hence replaceable PC XT sat inside a locked plywood cabinet with vandalism-resistant Zolatone paint and "keyboard condoms," or spill-resistant rubber coverings. Wayne Gregori engaged David Lahti as a friend and fellow visionary to help develop and operator of a popular San Francisco BBS, to develop and maintain the code base for the cafe table's communications software named, TableTalk, the BBS code base was maintained by Gregori. Lahti and Gregori developed and introduced a handshake between the coffee shop terminals and the BBS to distinguish them from other callers, ensuring paying customers could continue to use dedicated lines.
Participating Coffee Shops
SF Net discontinued service in August 1997.
See also
Community Memory, a public access system similar to SF Net
References
Internet service providers of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAdES%20%28computing%29 | CAdES (CMS Advanced Electronic Signatures) is a set of extensions to Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) signed data making it suitable for advanced electronic signatures.
Description
CMS is a general framework for electronic signatures for various kinds of transactions like purchase requisition, contracts or invoices. CAdES specifies precise profiles of CMS signed data making it compliant with the European eIDAS regulation (Regulation on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market). The eIDAS regulation enhances and repeals the Electronic Signatures Directive 1999/93/EC. EIDAS is legally binding in all EU member states since July 2014. An electronic signature that has been created in compliance with eIDAS has the same legal value as a handwritten signature.
An electronic signature, technically implemented based on CAdES has the status of an advanced electronic signature. This means that
it is uniquely linked to the signatory;
it is capable of identifying the signatory;
only the signatory has control of the data used for the signature creation;
it can be identified if data attached to the signature has been changed after signing.
A resulting property of CAdES is that electronically signed documents can remain valid for long periods, even if the signer or verifying party later attempts to deny the validity of the signature.
A CAdES-based electronic signature is accepted in a court proceeding as evidence; as advanced electronic signatures are legally binding. But it gets higher probative value when enhanced to a qualified electronic signature. To receive that legal standing, it needs to be doted with a digital certificate, encrypted by a security signature creation device ("qualified electronic signature"). The authorship of a statement with a qualified electronic signature cannot be challenged - the statement is non-repudiable.
The document ETSI TS 101 733 Electronic Signature and Infrastructure (ESI) – CMS Advanced Electronic Signature (CAdES) describes the framework.
Evolution of the framework
The main document describing the format is ETSI TS 101 733 Electronic Signature and Infrastructure (ESI) – CMS Advanced Electronic Signature (CAdES).
The ETSI TS 101 733 was first issued as V1.2.2 (2000–12). The current release version has the release number V2.2.1 (2013-04). ETSI is working on a new draft of CAdES. All drafts and released documents are publicly accessible at .
The ETSI TS V.1.7.4 (2008-07) is technically equivalent to . document builds on existing standards that are widely adopted.
These include:
: "Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)"
ISO/IEC 9594-8/ITU-T Recommendation X.509 "Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection - The Directory: Authentication framework"
"Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (PKIX) Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile"
"Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Time-Stamp Protocol (TSP)".
Profiles
ETSI "T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAS200 | The NAS200 is a network-attached storage appliance intended for the consumer market. It was originally marketed by the Linksys division of Cisco Systems in 2007.
The NAS200, the successor to the Linux-based NSLU2, has room for two internal SATA drives, a 10/100 Ethernet port, and supports FAT32-formatted external USB 2.0 drives. It comes with UPnP media-sharing software.
The NAS200 is built around a RDC semiconductor R3210-G — a RISC-based System-on-a-chip that executes the Intel 80486 instruction set. The NAS200's stock firmware supports only Microsoft Windows networking (SMB). This firmware includes a Linux 2.6.19 kernel and uses an eCos-based boot loader.
A PC Pro review said "transfer speeds were unimpressive" and found with average read speeds of 3.7 MB/s and average write speeds of 3.2 MB/s.
PC Magazine found it a little faster at 4.7 MB/s with 500Gb Seagate drives, but concluded it was too slow for movies.
References
External links
Linux-based devices
Server appliance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature%20tag | Signature tags or sig tags are small digital images that are used to accompany an HTML-formatted email or Internet forum post. They are also often used on social networking pages. They are used as a mark of recognition or individualism, or to convey emotion, sentiment, or sometimes support for the illustrated concept.
Sig tags are often personalised with the user's name by manipulation in a graphics software package. Sig tags are particularly popular with teenage computer users, and those who are socially active online. A sig tag is generally used below or at the end of a message, in contrast to an avatar, which is generally used next to the name of the poster on a forum.
Subjects and types
Popular subjects for sig tags are smileys, dollz, popular media figures from music, or TV shows, signs, cute animals, flowers and seasonal greetings.
A small image with a generalised, non-customised slogan, used in the same way, is generally just known as a graphics tag, or a snag (because they are 'snagged' or downloaded quickly from an originating website).
Sig tags are sometimes animated, using the .gif file format. Graphics software programs such as GNU Image Manipulation Program, Corel Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Photoshop are popular choices for the manipulation of digital images in creating sig tags.
Creation
A complex custom sig tag may consist of a number of amalgamated elements, which may be obtained online from popular sig tag community resources. These elements may include a mask (grid or background), a tube (image or figure on a transparent background), embellishments (additional decorative objects), and textures. These elements are normally used subject to copyright restrictions similar to those imposed on the use of dollz (dollz netiquette).
Community
The creation of sig tags is a widespread online hobby, regarded as a subsidiary of graphic art. It has been a long-lived phenomenon in internet terms, with little recorded history, and obscure, non-specified origins. This is largely due to its collaborative nature, and the disappearance of various websites important in the development of the hobby.
The sig tag community is notable by its emphasis on sharing, mutual support, advice and appreciation. In fact, a conventional classing system (Novice, Moderate, Intermediate, Semi-Professional, Professional) is sometimes used to rank people on their skills in making sig tags. Many sig tag websites feature a busy forum and tutorials and users are encouraged to download images. Increasingly, these sites tend to be membership-based.
More recently the tagging community has been dying. This may be due to the fact that tagging is often regarded as the lowest skilled form of computer graphics and the least profitable on many large forums.
Commercial sites
Some graphic artists have developed their skills or moved into the production of sig tags as a business. They generally offer user-licences, customisation of their sig tags, and purchaseable downloa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZSO | DZSO (720 AM) Bombo Radyo is a radio station owned and operated by Bombo Radyo Philippines through its licensee Newsounds Broadcasting Network. Its studio and transmitter are located at Bombo Radyo Broadcast Center, Pennsylvania Ave., Parian, San Fernando, La Union. DZSO operates daily from 4:00 AM to 9:30 PM.
References
Radio stations in La Union
Radio stations established in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miodrag%20Petkovi%C4%87 | Miodrag S. Petković (born 10 February 1948 in Niš, Serbia in the former Yugoslavia) is a mathematician and computer scientist. In 1991 he became a full professor of mathematics at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš in Serbia.
Biography
Petković specializes in the theory of iterative processes for solving nonlinear equations and Interval mathematics. He wrote 270 academic papers (153 in Clarivate Analytics' SCI journals) and 28 books,
including four monographs Iterative Methods for Simultaneous Inclusion of Polynomial Zeros (Springer-Verlag 1989), Complex Interval Arithmetic and Its Applications (Wiley-VCH 1998), Point Estimation of Root Finding Methods (Springer-Verlag 2008), and Multipoint Methods for Solving Nonlinear Equations (Elsevier 2013). Petković papers were cited 1193 times with Hirsch index h=20, while Elsevier's Reference Manager Mendeley displays 1565 citations and h=21.
He was visiting professor at the University of Oldenburg from 1989 to 2001, the Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg (France, 1992), the University of Tsukuba (Japan, 2001), and a scientific researcher/invited lecturer at Columbia University, Harvard University, and at the universities of Freiburg, Zurich (ETH), Oldenburg, Berlin (Humboldt University), London, Sofia, Kiel, Tokyo, Tsukuba, Nagoya and Vienna. He took part at 60 conferences and congresses, and he was the invited lecturer on two world's congresses in 1992 and 1996, and several international conferences. He was a co-organizer of the international conference at the University of Kiel (Germany) 1998.
Petković is an Associate Editor in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and Computation and a member of editorial board of Reliable Computing, Journal of Applied Mathematics, Journal of Mathematics and Computing Systems, Journal of Complex Analysis, Mathematical Aeterna, and Novi Sad J. Math.
Petković is a member of the Serbian Scientific Society, New York Academy of Science, American Mathematical Society, GAMM, and was a member of the Serbian National Council of Science from 2010 to 2015.
Publications
Publications include:
(a collection of 110 problems in algebra, geometry, and combinatorics based on the rules of the chess game – part of this book can be read on Google books)
(preview readable on Google books)
References
External links
Personal website, list of Web of Science citation
ResearchGate website, list of publications
ResearchGate website, list of Web of Science citation
Academic profile on Mendeley.com
University of Niš alumni
Academic staff of the University of Niš
Serbian mathematicians
Recreational mathematicians
Mathematics popularizers
1948 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand%20X%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Brand X" is the eighteenth episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on April 16, 2000. It was written by Steven Maeda and Greg Walker and directed by Kim Manners. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Brand X" earned a Nielsen household rating of 6.8, being watched by 10.81 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed reviews from critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) is horrified when the witness who was due to testify against the Morley cigarette company dies mysteriously. After being called in to assist, Mulder and Scully soon discover that a new brand of cigarette has a dangerous secret.
Inspired by the 1999 film The Insider, "Brand X" was written by Maeda and Walker to be an exploration of the corporate evil inside the cigarette industry. The scenes featuring shots of beetles crawling out of corpses were shot and filmed using real insects as well as real actors. In one particular scene, over 3,000 live insects were used. Those scenes took up to a full day to film.
Plot
In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) is charged with guarding the life of Dr. James Scobie, a former researcher who is testifying against his former employer, the Morley tobacco corporation. Prior to his trial, Scobie develops a cough, but shrugs it off. In the morning, Skinner and Scobie's wife find his body on the bathroom floor, with his face ripped away.
Morley has created a form of "super-tobacco", which is inhabited by a genetically engineered tobacco beetle whose eggs can survive the process of cigarette manufacturing and are released in the smoke of the cigarettes. The cigarettes were tested on a range of subjects by Scobie and his colleague, Dr. Peter Voss. Of the four human test subjects, chain smoker Darryl Weaver is the only surviving participant. Prior to his death, Scobie agreed to give Weaver an unlimited supply of cigarettes in exchange for his silence; he subsequently pressures Voss into honoring his "arrangement" with Scobie.
A chain of victims soon succumb to the eggs contained in the toxic smoke, all of whom are found with their bodies covered in the tobacco beetles. While interviewing Weaver, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) is exposed to the smoke, later coughing up blood and needing his lungs invasively cleared as the beetles begin to hatch.
Voss, who had until now been hiding behind his legal advisor, has a change of heart upon hearing of Mulder's condition and tells Skinner of the aforementioned testing. Skinner goes to Weaver's apartment after getting his name from Voss an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Chandler%20%28network%20executive%29 | Robert Chandler (September 25, 1928 – December 11, 2008) was an American television executive who helped create and oversee the television newsmagazine 60 Minutes during his 22-year tenure at CBS News.
He was born Robert Zuckerkandle in Brooklyn, New York on September 25, 1928, one of two sons of Louis and Minnie Gurin Zuckerkandle. Chandler was used by him as a pen name before he had his name legally changed. He attended the City College of New York, where he was the editor of the college newspaper and met his future wife, the former Eleanor Reiff. He graduated from CCNY in 1949 with a degree in economics.
Chandler was hired by Variety as a music reporter, where he worked for several years, interrupted by service in the United States Army in Germany from 1951 to 1953, after which he covered radio and television upon his return. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired him in 1961 to serve as publicity director for its television division.
In 1963, Chandler was hired by CBS News as its director of information services. He later served as vice president in charge of public affairs broadcasts, where he was an advocate of implementing Don Hewitt's proposed 60 Minutes format, in which several standalone segments would be broadcast rather than the standard documentary format in which the same subject was covered for the entire hour. The first broadcast of 60 Minutes was on September 24, 1968. During the 1970s, Chandler approved the program's stories and finances, and helped bring Andy Rooney to the program. Don Hewitt credited Chandler for his role in the program, stating that "In my more than half a century at CBS News, I don't recall anyone having a better fix on what 60 Minutes should be than Bob Chandler". Chandler was named vice president for administration and assistant to the president of CBS News in 1975.
While with CBS News, he was responsible for production of The People of South Vietnam: How They Feel About the War, a March 1967 documentary that he wrote and co-produced; 1966 National Driver’s Test in May 1966, for which he was executive producer; and the December 1971 Emmy Award-nominated CBS Reports: Under Surveillance on U.S. government surveillance of dissenters, which he produced.
As director of operations for the CBS News Election Unit, Chandler was one of the creators of the CBS News Poll, which became the New York Times-CBS News Poll after a partner ship was established with the newspaper in 1976. Chandler retired from the CBS network in 1985. in his role with the News Election Unit, Chandler served as the CBS News member of the Board of Managers of the News Election Service, a joint organization of network and wire services that jointly monitored election results in the 1968 United States Presidential Election. He was co-executive producer of CBS News election night coverage in 1970 and 1972, and supervised the CBS News 1974 election night coverage in 1974.
He later worked for NBC News and was executive producer of the 1990 PBS documentary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20ACC%20men%27s%20basketball%20tournament | The 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball tournament took place from March 12–15 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The tournament was broadcast on the ESPN family of networks, along with Raycom Sports in the ACC footprint.
The championship game matched Duke against Florida State, who made their first appearance in the ACC championship game since joining the league in 1992. Duke won 79–69 for their 8th conference title in 11 years.
Schedule
Seeding
Teams were seeded based on the final regular-season standings, with ties broken under an ACC policy.
Wake Forest and Duke split their regular-season games, each winning one. Wake Forest was awarded the second seed for its better record against top-seeded North Carolina: Wake won its only game, while Duke lost both games.
By finishing fourth in the conference, Florida State joined North Carolina, Duke and Wake Forest as teams that received a first-round bye in the tournament. It was the first time that the Seminoles had earned a bye since joining the conference in time for the 1991-92 season.
Clemson received the fifth seed because it beat Boston College in their only meeting.
The three-way tie among Maryland, Virginia Tech, and Miami was broken based on the record of games played among the three teams. Maryland received the seventh seed for having the best winning percentage (2–1), Virginia Tech received the eighth seed (1–1), and Miami received the ninth seed (1–2).
Bracket
Awards and honors
Tournament MVP
Jon Scheyer - Duke
All-Tournament Team
First Team
Jon Scheyer - Duke
Toney Douglas - Florida State
Kyle Singler - Duke
Tyler Hansbrough - North Carolina
Gerald Henderson - Duke
Second Team
Solomon Alabi - Florida State
Wayne Ellington - North Carolina
Eric Hayes - Maryland
Greivis Vasquez - Maryland
Lewis Clinch - Georgia Tech
References
Tournament
ACC men's basketball tournament
College basketball tournaments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Basketball competitions in Atlanta
ACC men's basketball tournament
ACC men's basketball tournament
2009 in Atlanta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20User | Computer User is a computer magazine that was founded in 1982, and which, after several owners and fundamental changes, is still in business today online as computeruser.com. It should not be confused with a magazine published in 1983-1984 by McPheeters, Wolfe & Jones that was also titled Computer User, but with the subtitle "For the Tandy/Radio Shack System".
History
In the beginning years of publicly popular computer use, Computer User was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota as a free monthly magazine published by Computer User, Inc. a Minnesota corporation. Steven Bianucci, Publisher. Dale Archibald, Editor. Diane Teeters, Advertising Sales. Revenues were derived from advertising. Computer User took advantage of a tradition in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of placing free publication newsstands in business districts and stores. The magazine, printed originally in black and white with one spot color on newsprint, proved immediately popular with distribution, eventually hitting many hundreds of sites and a circulation around 25,000 in the Twin Cities for a full color piece on newsprint paper. It was then still free to pick up but could be subscribed for mail distribution for $34.95 per year.
Computer User won numerous awards such as this from 2001 or as now listed on the current publishers website awards.
Computer User became franchised to 18 metropolitan U.S. markets wherein Computer User provided content and the local publisher provided advertising and some local content. At some point, based on a reference from the University of Minnesota Library the publisher was Computer User Publications, Inc. Computer User was sold to M. S. P. Publications - a very successful Minneapolis-based magazine publisher. MSP published Computer User until 2004, when paper publication ceased and the enterprise and web based name rights were sold to ComputerUser, Inc. a New York State registered company.
Content
Computer User's style was, from the beginning, focused on the user of the then new micro computers. Nearly all other publications national and local focused on more the more technical aspects of having a computer, many of which were homebrew, assembled in part or in whole by the user. Computer User articles might include personal experiences, advice on how to use software, and expert advice columns.
In the first decade before the Internet a very popular feature was a complete local list of computer bulletin boards. The monthly index of these, which frequently changed because they were usually based on someone's home computer, included the bbs name, a telephone number one could dialup with your computer modem, a list of the modem speed(s) offered (not all were as exists today. The most common speed available to home users then was 300 baud or "bits per second."), and a summary of the topics or interests of those using the bulletin board. It was, in the 1980s and 1990s a form of social networking and a very important reason many people read the maga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin%20M4000 | The BT Merlin M4000 was a Personal computer sold by British Telecom during the 1980s as part of the Merlin range of electronic machinery for businesses. It was not developed by BT but was a rebadged Logica VTS-2300 Kennet, and a completely different machine from the Merlin Tonto which was a rebadged ICL OPD.
Merlin M4000 was designed as a general purpose computer but was not IBM PC compatible, and so could not run the major business applications around at the time as these were tied to the IBM PC hardware.
Hardware
Merlin M4000 computers were packaged inside a substantial and heavy steel desktop case weighing approximately 12 kg. Inside the case was the main board, power supply, floppy and hard drives, and expansion cards. The design was reasonably modular as the case and main board were able to accommodate expansion cards and additional memory.
A separate keyboard with 114 keys connected to the main unit using a reversed British telephone plug with the clip on the left hand side. Most monitors were amber monochrome but later colour screens were sold.
An 8086 CPU was used. The maximum RAM was 768 KB, made up of 256 KB on the main board plus two additional 256 KB RAM cards.
A security socket was located on the rear of the main unit although it is unclear how it was used in practice.
Networking was accomplished using ARCNET or Cambridge Ring (computer network) LAN cards. An RS-232 optical fibre modem was also available.
The M4204T and M4213T computers were TEMPEST certified to BTR/01/202(4).
Storage media
The M4204T had two internal 720 kB 5¼-inch floppy drives and the M4213T had one internal 720 kB 5¼-inch floppy drive and one internal hard drive with a capacity of either 10 MB or 20 MB. An external 76 MB hard drive and/or a 150 MB Tandberg QIC tape drive could also be connected to the M4000.
Software
The CP/M-86 and Concurrent DOS (CDOS) operating systems were developed for Merlin M4000 computers. PC DOS and MS-DOS applications could not be run directly, but it was practical for vendors to cross-port their applications, if there was sufficient demand. Wordstar was available and Prospero Pascal was a popular development platform.
Most Merlin M4000 computers were used to run bespoke software rather than off the shelf applications software. A few applications software packages were commercially available including:
Lex9b word processor.
MerlinWord word processor.
A rather neat telephone directory / database program that was mainly used by switchboard operators.
Software development tools including an 8086 assembler and COBOL compiler.
An Asteroids game - initially as a demonstration of the bitmapped graphics.
Usage
Merlin M4000 computers were commonplace in the United Kingdom during the 1980s, although most were sold to the public sector as large contracts as opposed to the private sector. Major customers included the Royal Navy as part of the OASIS II project, with sales of subsequent models as part of the Oasis 4 project, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshichi%20Kobayashi | was a Japanese mathematician. He was the eldest brother of electrical engineer and computer scientist Hisashi Kobayashi. His research interests were in Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.
Biography
Kobayashi graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1953. In 1956, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Washington under Carl B. Allendoerfer. His dissertation was Theory of Connections. He then spent two years at the Institute for Advanced Study and two years at MIT. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1962 as an assistant professor, was awarded tenure the following year, and was promoted to full professor in 1966.
Kobayashi served as chairman of the Berkeley Mathematics Department for a three-year term from 1978 to 1981 and for the 1992 Fall semester. He chose early retirement under the VERIP plan in 1994.
The two-volume book Foundations of Differential Geometry, which he coauthored with Katsumi Nomizu, has been known for its wide influence. In 1970 he was an invited speaker for the section on geometry and topology at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice.
Technical contributions
Kobayashi's earliest work dealt with the geometry of connections on principal bundles. Many of these results, along with others, were later absorbed into Foundations of Differential Geometry.
As a consequence of the Gauss–Codazzi equations and the commutation formulas for covariant derivatives, James Simons discovered a formula for the Laplacian of the second fundamental form of a submanifold of a Riemannian manifold. As a consequence, one can find a formula for the Laplacian of the norm-squared of the second fundamental form. This "Simons formula" simplifies significantly when the mean curvature of the submanifold is zero and when the Riemannian manifold has constant curvature. In this setting, Shiing-Shen Chern, Manfredo do Carmo, and Kobayashi studied the algebraic structure of the zeroth-order terms, showing that they are nonnegative provided that the norm of the second fundamental form is sufficiently small.
As a consequence, the case in which the norm of the second fundamental form is constantly equal to the threshold value can be completely analyzed, the key being that all of the matrix inequalities used in controlling the zeroth-order terms become equalities. As such, in this setting, the second fundamental form is uniquely determined. As submanifolds of space forms are locally characterized by their first and second fundamental forms, this results in a complete characterization of minimal submanifolds of the round sphere whose second fundamental form is constant and equal to the threshold value. Chern, do Carmo, and Kobayashi's result was later improved by An-Min Li and Jimin Li, making use of the same methods.
On a Kähler manifold, it is natural to consider the restriction of the sectional curvature to the two-dimensional planes which are holomorp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenScientist | OpenScientist is an integration of open source products working together to do scientific visualization and data analysis, in particular for high energy physics (HEP).
Among other things, it contains a light C++ AIDA implementation that can be used to run the histogramming part of Geant4 examples.
External links
Data analysis software
Experimental particle physics
Free plotting software
Physics software
Plotting software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Big%2012%20Championship%20Game%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast the college football's Big 12 Championship Game throughout the years.
Television
2020s
2010s
2000s
1990s
Radio
2020s
2010s
2000s
Statistics
References
External links
Big 12 Championship Game down 19%.
ABC Sports
Lists of college football broadcasters
Broadcasters
College football on the radio
ESPN Radio
Fox Sports announcers
Sports USA Radio Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season%20of%20Love%20%28song%29 | "Season of love" is Mai Kuraki's twenty-sixth single, released on February 14, 2007. It is her first collaboration with Aika Ohno and Cybersound since "Time After Time (Hana Mau Machi de)", nearly 4 years ago. "Season of Lve" was Kuraki's last single under Giza Studio.
Usage in media
TV Asahi drama "Shin Kyoto Meikyuu Annai" theme song (#1)
Track listing
Charts
Oricon sales chart
External links
Kuraki Mai Official Website
Japanese television drama theme songs
2007 singles
Mai Kuraki songs
2007 songs
Songs written by Aika Ohno
Songs written by Mai Kuraki
Giza Studio singles
Song recordings produced by Daiko Nagato |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiser.org | Wiser.org, formerly WiserEarth.org, was a user-generated online community space for the social and environmental movement. As one of the social networks for environmental sustainability and social change, Wiser.org was the primary initiative of the non-profit organization WiserEarth, which tracks the work of non-profits around the world. The site mapped and connected non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses, governments, groups, and individuals addressing global issues such as climate change, poverty, the environment, peace, water, hunger, social justice, conservation, human rights, and more.
On 6 January 2014, Wiser.org's Executive Director, Peggy Duvette wrote an open letter to all members (which she updated on 24 January 2014) explaining the need for changes and the possibility of archiving the Wiser.org website to the Wayback Machine; and on 17 March 2014 she officially announced that the closure and archiving of the Wiser.org website would occur on 10 April 2014.
History
Wiser.org was launched as WiserEarth.org on Earth Day (April 22) 2007 as an online directory of the 100,000+ organizations touched upon in Paul Hawken's book, Blessed Unrest. Hawken had amassed a collection of business cards from thousands of organizations over the years, but had not found a comprehensive directory listing all non-profit organizations involved in the social justice and environmental sector. Estimating the total number of non-profit organizations around the world to be well over a million, Hawken launched Wiser.org, which stands for the World Index for Social and Environmental Responsibility, as an online directory to help map out the work done by these organizations. Wiser.org incorporated additional social networking features, such as status updates, likes, walls, groups, and email messaging to provide greater possibilities for collaboration. Wiser.org expanded its organization directory to include listings of for-profit businesses and government agencies.
On 17 March 2014, it was announced on the Wiser.org website that it would be archived and shutdown on 10 April 2014.
In 2017, the domain WISER.org became the website for the Workie Institute for Social and Educational Research, a non-profit focusing on social exclusion, including bullying and systematic barriers to society, based on the work of the late Dr. Abaineh Workie.
Facts and figures
As of September 15, 2012, Wiser.org provided a directory of more than 114,000 organizations worldwide, over 71,900 registered members, and more than 2,800 groups. It featured resources and information on various social issues ranging from women's rights to climate change. These resources and information are organized into 47 distinct issue areas and 381 sub-issue areas. Wiser.org was available in English, Chinese (simplified), French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Wiser.org Directory
The Wiser.org Directory was organized around a master list of issues which are "networked" in s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Cristina%20station | Maria Cristina is a station in the Barcelona Metro and Trambaix networks, in the Les Corts district of Barcelona. It is served by metro line L3 and tram lines T1, T2 and T3.
The metro station is located under Avinguda Diagonal, between Carrer del Doctor Ferran and Gran Via de Carles III. It has two long side platforms. The tram station is located in the Avinguda Diagonal, immediately above the metro station. Both stations lie in front of the La Caixa headquarters in La Maternitat i Sant Ramon.
The metro station is named after Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina and was opened in 1975, along with the other stations of the section of L3 between Zona Universitària and Sants Estació stations. This section was originally operated separately from L3, and known as L3b, until the two sections were joined in 1982. The tram station was inaugurated in 2004, the year regular Trambaix service started.
See also
List of Barcelona Metro stations
List of tram stations in Barcelona
References
External links
Trenscat.com
Barcelona Metro line 3 stations
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1975
Trambaix stops
Transport in Les Corts (district) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20C.%20P.%20Miller | Jeffrey Charles Percy Miller (31 August 1906 – 24 April 1981) was an English mathematician and computing pioneer. He worked in number theory and on geometry, particularly polyhedra, where Miller's monster refers to the great dirhombicosidodecahedron.
He was an early member of the Computing Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. He contributed in computation to the construction and documentation of mathematical tables, and by the proposal of certain algorithms. Miller's recurrence algorithm is mentioned in the Handbook of Mathematical Functions.
As the reference says, this technique was subsequently much developed and applied, and was enunciated rather casually by Miller in a 1952 book of tables of Bessel functions.
In volume 2 of The Art of Computer Programming, Donald Knuth attributes to Miller a basic technique on formal power series, for recursive evaluation of coefficients of powers or more general functions.
In the theory of stellation of polyhedra, he made some influential suggestions to H. S. M. Coxeter. These became known as Miller's rules. The 1938 book on the fifty-nine icosahedra resulted, written by Coxeter and Patrick du Val. In the 1930s, Coxeter and Miller found 12 new uniform polyhedra, a step in the process of their complete classification in the 1950s. Miller also made an early investigation into what is now known as the Rule 90 cellular automaton.
Dr Miller was married to Germaine Miller (née Gough) in 1934 and had three children (David, Alison and Jane). Germaine died in Cambridge in her 100th year in March 2010 and is buried at St Andrew's Church, Chesterton, Cambridge.
Notes
Further reading
Doron Zeilberger,The J. C. P. Miller recurrence for exponentiating a polynomial, and its q-analog, Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, Volume 1, Issue 1 1995, pages 57 – 60.
1906 births
1981 deaths
English computer scientists
Cellular automatists
20th-century English mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20Repertory%20Television%20Service | The Alpha Repertory Television Service (ARTS) was an American cable television network that was owned by Hearst/ABC Video Services (now A+E Networks), a joint venture between the Hearst Corporation and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The network, which operated nightly on the channel space of Nickelodeon, focused mainly on fine arts programming. It merged with the Entertainment Channel in 1984 to become the Arts & Entertainment Network (A&E).
History
Early history
By the early 1980s, cable television had reached millions of American households and was starting to draw significant audiences away from the "Big Three" broadcast television networks. All three networks saw opportunities to expand into cable television in order to protect and grow their audiences, and they all experimented with niche programming. In fact, all three traditional networks introduced arts-related channels within one year of each other. CBS launched CBS Cable in 1981, which focused on "art house" and critical acclaimed programs; NBC, meanwhile, launched the similarly formatted the Entertainment Channel.
ABC partnered with the Hearst Corporation to create its own arts-oriented service, the Alpha Repertory Television Service. ARTS launched on April 12, 1981, focusing on highbrow cultural fare such as opera, ballet, classical symphonic performances, dramatic theater productions and select foreign films (besides CBS Cable and the Entertainment Channel, ARTS also competed with Bravo and the Public Broadcasting Service). Many cable providers had limited channel bandwidth at that time over their headends; as a result, CBS Cable struggled to find channel carriage and an audience, eventually folding in late 1982. However, while ARTS fared no better in finding viewers, it shared channel space with Nickelodeon, signing on at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time after the children's television network ended its broadcast day. That shared channel arrangement was a perfect symbiotic scheduling match for the two networks given their respective audience demographics (the target viewership of ARTS either did not have young children or had sent them to bed by the time the channel began its programming).
ARTS had somewhat lower programming costs than CBS Cable, with fewer (and less costly) original programs. Prime time was normally the most valuable airtime, but not for Nickelodeon – ARTS paid a very low rate to that network for its three evening satellite transponder hours, plus a repeat broadcast at 9:00 p.m. Pacific Time (according to Hearst executive Raymond E. Joslin, ARTS did not pay Nickelodeon at all for the first year, and paid a $1 million fee for the second year and $2 million for the third). Most cable providers that carried Nickelodeon also carried ARTS simply because of the convenience of the single channel feed. These factors combined to help keep the channel on the air more than twice as long as CBS Cable. Nonetheless, despite having a small but affluent audience ostensibly att |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paano%20Ba%20ang%20Mangarap%3F | (International title: Without Your Love / ) is a 2009 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Based on a 1983 Philippine film of the same title, the series is the twelfth instalment of Sine Novela. Directed by Joel Lamangan, it stars Jennylyn Mercado and Mark Herras. It premiered on February 16, 2009 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up. The series concluded on June 5, 2009 with a total of 78 episodes. It was replaced by Ngayon at Kailanman in its timeslot.
Premise
Despite their different social backgrounds, Lissa and Benny have found their match in each other. Unfortunately, Benny dies before they could marry, and Lissa is left with no choice but to seek the help of Benny's parents. Their arrogance is as lofty as their fortune, and to them, Lissa is nothing but an opportunist. Their only concern is their late son's unborn child that Lissa is carrying. The only person who treats Lissa with kindness is Eric, Benny's brother, who has secretly fallen in love with her. Eric made a promise to Benny that he would find Lissa and take good care of her, a promise that Eric vowed he will never break.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jennylyn Mercado as Elizabeth "Lissa" Estrella-Valderama
Mark Herras as Eric Valderama
Supporting cast
Chynna Ortaleza as Maya Benitez
Tirso Cruz III as Don Mateo Valderama
Bing Loyzaga as Doña Francia Balmores-Valderama
Rainier Castillo as Vince Galton
Irma Adlawan as Ising Estrella
Emilio Garcia as Ramon Tolibas
Jan Marini Alano as Gemma Estrella
Jay Aquitania as Ardi
Jim Pebangco as Gardo
Ysa Villar as Glaiza
Menggie Cobarrubas
Guest cast
Hero Angeles as Benjamin "Benny" Valderama
Ratings
Based from AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 21.9% rating. While the final episode scored a 27.8% rating.
References
External links
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-ost | The Network for Reporting on Eastern Europe (n-ost) is an international non-governmental organization and a registered association based in Berlin. Also known by the acronym n-ost, the Network for Reporting on Eastern Europe is led by Executive Director Hanno Gundert and a seven-member board. The organisation has its main office with full-time staff in Berlin's Kreuzberg district.
Overview
n-ost aims to improve journalists’ reporting on Eastern Europe. It also aims to make a contribution to the development of democratic media in Eastern Europe and to the establishment of a pan-European public sphere. To this end it provides newspapers and radio stations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with daily background reports from Eastern Europe, organizes training programmes for journalists and hosts a large annual media conference at a different venue each year – in recent years the conference has taken place in Berlin, Prague, Sofia, Bucharest, Rostov on Don, Pécs and Minsk. A joint program of n-ost and Access Info Europe is Legal Leaks, which tries to empower journalists to use better their right of access to information Freedom of information legislation. In addition n-ost organizes various projects for journalists – for example a research grant programme for investigation of right-wing extremism and antisemitism in Eastern Europe, a reportage prize, a European online culture portal and a series of reports focusing on particular topics, such as poverty among old people in Eastern Europe or globalisation and the labour market. Almost 250 German-speaking journalists from twenty countries are members of n-ost. Since May 2008 n-ost has been producing eurotopics.net – a quadri-lingual European online debate portal – on behalf of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education) – for which it has a separate team of editorial staff.
n-ost’s work is supported by an advisory board comprising the following members: Werner D'Inka (publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Sabine Adler (head of Deutschlandradio-Hauptstadtstudio), Christian Böhme (chief editor of the Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung), Henrik Kaufholz (duty editor at Politiken, Copenhagen), Horst Pöttker (Professor of Journalism at the Technical University Dortmund), Sonja Margolina (journalist), Uwe Neumärker (director of the foundation "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe"), Tomasz Dąbrowski (director of the Polish Institute in Berlin), Ludmila Rakusanova (head of the VLP Institute for Regional Journalism, Prague), Markus Hipp (Executive Director BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt) and Uwe Leuschner (entrepreneur).
n-ost works closely with other journalists' organisations and networks pursuing similar aims, both in Germany and at an international level. These include the journalists’ organisation Netzwerk Recherche, the Polish foundation Medientandem and the Hungarian Bálint György Academy of Journalism. n-ost also stages joint projects with a number of founda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reo%20Coordination%20Language | Reo is a domain-specific language for programming and analyzing coordination protocols that compose individual processes into full systems, broadly construed.
Examples of classes of systems that can be composed with Reo include component-based systems, service-oriented systems, multithreading systems, biological systems, and cryptographic protocols.
Reo has a graphical syntax in which every Reo program, called a connector or circuit, is a labeled directed hypergraph.
Such a graph represents the data-flow among the processes in the system.
Reo has formal semantics, which stand at the basis of its various formal verification techniques and compilation tools.
Definitions
In Reo, a concurrent system consists of a set of components which are glued together by a circuit that enables flow of data between components.
Components can perform I/O operations on the boundary nodes of the circuit to which they are connected.
There are two kinds of I/O operations: put-requests dispatch data items to a node, and get-requests fetch data items from a node.
All I/O operations are blocking, which means that a component can proceed only after its pending I/O operation has been successfully processed.
The figure on the top-right shows an example of a producers-consumer system with three components: two producers on the left and one consumer on the right.
The circuit in the middle defines the protocol, which states that the producers should send data synchronously, while the consumer receives those data in alternating order.
Formally, the structure of a circuit is defined as follows:
Definition 1. A circuit is a triple where:
is a set of nodes;
is a set of boundary nodes;
is a set of channels;
assigns a types to every channel.
such that , for all .
If is a channel, then is called the set of input nodes of and is called the set of output nodes of .
The dynamics of a circuit resemble the flow of signals through an electronic circuit.
Nodes have fixed merger-replicator behavior: the data of one of the incoming channels is propagated to all outgoing channels, without storing or altering the data (i.e., replicator behavior). If multiple incoming channels can provide data, the node makes a nondeterministic choice among them (i.e., merger behavior).
Nodes with only incoming or outgoing channels are called sink nodes or source nodes, respectively; nodes with both incoming and outgoing channels are called mixed nodes.
In contrast to nodes, channels have user-defined behavior represented by their type.
This means that channels may store or alter data items that flow through them.
Although every channel connects exactly two nodes, these nodes need not to be input and output.
For instance, the vertical channel in the figure on the top-right has two inputs and no outputs.
The channel type defines the behavior of the channel with respect to data.
Below is a list of common types:
: Atomically gets data from its input node and propagates it to its output node. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Todd%20Coleman | Jeffrey Todd Coleman is an American computer game designer and businessman. He is known for Shadowbane, released in 2003, and Wizard101, released in 2008. He was a founder at Wolfpack Studios, which was purchased by Ubisoft. He also worked at the KingsIsle Entertainment in Austin, Texas. On February 1, 2013, Coleman resigned from KingsIsle Entertainment to pursue other interests. He is currently Creative Director of the Kickstarter-backed MMORPG Crowfall.
Biography
Coleman was raised in Westlake, Texas. He became involved in the virtual world industry in 1985, when he was selected to be a Game Master on a dial-up adventure game known as Scepter of Goth. In college, he and his friends (Josef Hall, James Nance, and Patrick Blanton) were pioneers in text mudding. Together, they created and ran ChaosMUD, a DikuMUD derivative. Coleman's first commercial endeavor was a database tools and technology company called Reliant Data Systems, which was sold in 1999 to Compuware Corporation.
Coleman, along with Josef Hall, James Nance, Patrick Blanton and Robert Marsa, created a virtual world company called Wolfpack Studios, and created the game Shadowbane. Wolfpack was sold in early 2003 to Ubisoft, which assumed control of the Shadowbane game service and ran it until July 1, 2009. Coleman currently serves as the Vice President and Creative Director, and is the co-creator (with Hall) of Wizard101, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for KingsIsle Entertainment. Coleman's in-depth knowledge of the online video game business, with additional expertise in sales, marketing and business development made him an outstanding and valued member of the KingsIsle Entertainment team. Coleman is not currently working with KingsIsle Entertainment, however. In addition, Coleman has a long history of entrepreneurial endeavors, with product innovation and strategic planning as his strengths.
In May 2009, he was named the 6th most influential person in online gaming by Beckett Massive Gamer Magazine, a Beckett Media publication.
In November 2009, he was named one of the Top 50 most influential game developers by Game Developer Magazine.
In May 2010, he was named the 15th most influential person in online gaming by Beckett Massive Gamer Magazine, a Beckett Media publication.
In March 2011, he was named the #1 Most Influential person In the Massively Multiplayer Online game industry by Beckett Massive Gamer Magazine, a Beckett Media publication.
On April 25, 2012, Coleman announced KingsIsle Entertainment's new release, Pirate101, a game made corresponding to Wizard101.
On January 25, 2013, Coleman announced that he would be leaving KingsIsle Entertainment. On February 1, 2013, Coleman resigned from KingsIsle Entertainment.
In January 2015, Coleman announced Crowfall, an MMORPG, with ArtCraft Entertainment Inc. Its Kickstarter campaign raised $1,766,204 from 16,936 backers. The game released on July 6, 2021.
References
External links
Shadowbane official |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Chart%20API | The Google Chart API is an interactive Web service (now deprecated) that creates graphical charts from user-supplied data. Google servers create a PNG image of a chart from data and formatting parameters specified by a user's HTTP request. The service supports a wide variety of chart information and formatting. Users may conveniently embed these charts in a Web page by using a simple image tag.
Originally the API was Google's internal tool to support rapid embedding of charts within Google's own applications (like Google Finance for example). Google figured it would be a useful tool to open up to web developers. It officially launched on December 6, 2007.
Currently, line, bar, pie, and radar charts, as well as Venn diagrams, scatter plots, sparklines, maps, google-o-meters, and QR codes are supported.
Google deprecated the API in 2012 with guaranteed availability until April 2015. On March 18, 2019 Google turned off the API. Google recommends the successor service Google Charts.
Example
The following URL creates the pie chart below:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=200x200&chdlp=b&chtt=Uberman&chdl=Asleep|Aw&chd=t:11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11&cht=p&chco=586F8E,red,586F8E,7D858F,586F8E,7D858F,586F8E,7D858F,586F8E,7D858F,586F8E,7D858F
External Libraries
Instead of creating the URL request manually, there are many open source libraries available for most programming languages.
See also
Comparison of JavaScript charting frameworks
List of information graphics software
References
External links
Google Chart API
Chart API
Visualization API |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20processing%20%28disambiguation%29 | Data processing is the collection and manipulation of data to produce meaningful information, especially by computers.
Data processing may also refer to:
Automatic Data Processing, a computer services company
Data analysis, the processing of data with the goal of highlighting, drawing conclusions, and supporting decision making
Data entry performed by a data entry clerk
Data processing system, a system which processes data which has been captured and encoded in a format style recognizable by the data processing system or has been created and stored by another unit of an information processing system
Electronic data processing, the use of automated methods to process data
Information and Software Technology, a scientific journal formerly published under the name Data Processing
Information processing, the change (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an observer
Unit record equipment, a class of machines that processed data before the advent of electronic computers
Data processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorelei%20Shannon | Lorelei Shannon (born 1965 in Mesa, Arizona) is an American writer of horror and computer games.
Shannon is the author of a number of books and short stories. Her work has been listed in The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies, by Mike Ashley and William G. Contento. She co-edited the anthology Hours of Darkness for Scorpius Digital Publishing, which contained stories by well-known horror authors such as Ramsey Campbell, Peter Crowther, Dennis Etchison, Joe R. Lansdale, and Richard Christian Matheson.
She is a designer and screenwriter for three games from Sierra On-Line. Shannon co-designed King's Quest VII, a 1994 installment in Sierra Entertainment's King's Quest computer game series, with Sierra founder Roberta Williams. Shannon's sequel to Roberta Williams's horror game Phantasmagoria, called Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh, caused a storm of controversy when it was banned in Singapore and Australia for violent and sexual content. Sears stores throughout the U.S. refused to carry the game. Throughout Shannon's time at Sierra On-Line, she wrote material for many classic Sierra games such as Laura Bow and Police Quest, and worked with many of Sierra's "stars", such as Scott Murphy, Al Lowe, Corey Cole, Josh Mandel, and Jane Jensen.
Shannon has also worked as a technical documentation, director, voice actress, casting director and voice director.
Shannon founded the Rain City Hearse Club in 2002.
Bibliography
Book-length works
Vermifuge and Other Toxic Cocktails. Short story collection. Wildside Press, 2001.
Rags and Old Iron. Wildside Press, 2002, and Juno Books, 2007.
The Blood of Father Time: The Mystic Clan’s Grand Plot. With Alan M. Clark and Stephen C. Merritt. Five Star Science Fiction and Fantasy Series, 2007
The Blood of Father Time: The New Cut. With Alan M. Clark and Stephen C. Merritt. Five Star Science Fiction and Fantasy Series, 2007.
Possum Kingdom. Virtual Bookworm Publishing, 2009.
Mad Madame Lalaurie: New Orleans' Most Famous Murderess Revealed (With Victoria Cosner Love) The History Press, 2011.
Game manuals
King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown Hintbook, 1990
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow Hintbook, 1992
King's Quest VII: Official Hint Guide, 1994
Phantasmagoria: The Official Sierra Insider's Guide, 1995
Computer games
Pepper's Adventures in Time. Sierra On-Line, 1993.
King's Quest VII. Sierra On-Line, 1994.
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh. Sierra On-Line, 1996.
Short fiction
“Whitechapel Rose.” Into the Shadows. Ed. Jordan K. Weisman. FASA Corporation, 1991.
“Poison.” Midnight Zoo, volume 3, issue 35. Ed. Jon L. Herron. 1993.
“Anything for You.” Young Blood. Ed. Mike Baker. Zebra Publishing, 1994.
“The Tail of the Sixth Emperor.” Rat Tails. Ed. Jon Gustafson. Pulphouse Publishing, 1994.
“Gabriel’s Gargoyle.” New Altars. Eds. Dawn Albright and Sandra J. Hutchinson. Angelus Press, 1997.
“For Great is Truth, and Shall Prevail.” |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Latin%20Albums%20Year-End%20Chart | The Billboard Top Latin albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information. This data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, Internet sales (both physical and digital) and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Top Latin Albums Year-End Chart of 2006
Top Latin Albums Year-End Chart of 2007
Top Latin Albums Year-End Chart of 2008
Unlike the List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2008, the year-end chart on Billboard Magazine is a compilation of feature recaps throughout the year. The rankings for this chart reflect airplay or sales during the weeks that titles appeared on the respective lists during the tracking period. This includes activity during unpublished weeks for those lists that print every other week. The 2008 chart year began on the issue dated on December 1, 2006, and ended with the November 29, 2008, issue.
The best selling Latin album of 2008 was Los Extraterrestres by Wisin & Yandel, which also won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Music Album. Mexican performer Vicente Fernández ranked two albums within the Top 10, Para Siempre at number 2, and Historia de Un Idolo, Vol. 1 at number 10. Marco Antonio Solís was the performer with most albums in the list: La Mejor... Colección, No Molestar and Una Noche en Madrid.
Top Latin Albums Year-End Chart of 2009
Top Latin Albums Year-End Chart of 2010
Unlike the List of number-one Billboard Latin Albums from the 2010s, the year-end chart on Billboard Magazine is a compilation of feature recaps throughout the year. The rankings for this chart reflect airplay or sales during the weeks that titles appeared on the respective lists during the tracking period. This includes activity during unpublished weeks for those lists that print every other week.
The best selling Latin album of 2010 was The Last by Aventura. Enrique Iglesias's Euphoria ranked at number-two within the Top 10.
References
General
Specific
Billboard charts
Latin music albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqramiut%20Nipingat | Taqramiut Nipingat is a Canadian radio network, which broadcasts community radio programming in Inuktitut to 14 communities in the Nunavik region of Quebec. The service, whose name means "Voice of the People", began as an individual community radio program serving the region in the early 1970s before being incorporated as a full standalone radio network in 1975.
The network operates from offices in Montreal and Salluit, with smaller production offices in Kuujjuaq and Puvirnituq.
The company has also produced selected Inuit-language television drama programs, for broadcast on CBC North and APTN.
Transmitters
References
External links
Canadian radio networks
Radio stations in Nord-du-Québec
Community radio stations in Canada
Inuit in Quebec
Inuit organizations
Community radio organizations
Radio organizations in Canada
Nunavik
1975 establishments in Quebec
Indigenous broadcasting in Canada
Inuktitut
Indigenous organizations in Quebec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ersa%20Siregar | Sory Ersa Siregar (December 4, 1951 – December 29, 2003) was an Indonesian journalist working for RCTI television network who was killed when covering the conflict in Aceh in 2003. He left a wife, Tuty Komala Bintang Hasibuan and three children, Ridhwan Siregar, Fitrah Siregar, dan Sarah Siregar.
Before working for RCTI in 1993, he had been working in PT. Fesda, PT. Satmarindo, Susana magazine, and Keluarga Magazine. Ersa started his career as a translator/producer, and then changed into the regional coordinator, then local coordinator (KorLip) covering tourism, lifestyle and entertainment. He also began to work as legal coordinator (KorBid), covering urban crime from 16 November 2001 until he was killed.
Death
On July 1, 2003, he and his cameraman, Ferry Santoro, were reported missing in Langsa, East Aceh.
On July 5, their car was found in Langsa, East Aceh, an area well known for being GAM base.
On December 29, Siregar's body was found shot in Kuala Maniham, East Aceh.
References
1951 births
2003 deaths
Television reporters and correspondents
Indonesian journalists
People of Batak descent
20th-century journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log%20shipping | Log shipping is the process of automating the backup of transaction log files on a primary (production) database server, and then restoring them onto a standby server. This technique is supported by Microsoft SQL Server, 4D Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Similar to replication, the primary purpose of log shipping is to increase database availability by maintaining a backup server that can replace a production server quickly. Other databases such as Adaptive Server Enterprise and Oracle Database support the technique but require the Database Administrator to write code or scripts to perform the work.
Although the actual failover mechanism in log shipping is manual, this implementation is often chosen due to its low cost in human and server resources, and ease of implementation. In comparison, SQL server clusters enable automatic failover, but at the expense of much higher storage costs. Compared to database replication, log shipping does not provide as much in terms of reporting capabilities, but backs up system tables along with data tables, and locks the standby server from users' modifications. A replicated server can be modified (e.g. views) and is therefore unsuitable for failover purposes.
References
External links
Log Shipping, MS SQL Server implementation
Hot Standby, PostgreSQL implementation
Databases
Data synchronization
Fault-tolerant computer systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASY%20cell%20counting%20technology | CASY technology is an electric field multi-channel cell counting system. It was first marketed by Schärfe System GmbH in 1987 under the name CASY1. The first systems were sold with an ATARI computer and a rectangular chassis. In the 1990s the ATARI computer got replaced by a common PC and the chassis changed into cylinders. In 2006, Schärfe System was acquired by Innovatis AG, a company focused on cell culture analysis. CASY utilizes the techniques of electric current exclusion and pulse area analysis, the cells can be analyzed and counted in an efficient and precise manner. This technology can be applied for cell counting, cell culture analysis at a certain time interval, or even a period of time.
Principle of CASY technology
Cell viability can be assessed based on the integrity of plasma membrane: the living cells have intact plasma membranes whereas membranes of dead cells are broken. When a cell is exposed to a low voltage field, the electric current cannot go through the intact membrane, which is an electric insulator, if it is viable. Otherwise, as the cellular membrane is broken, electric field can go through the injured cell as there are pores on their membrane. For a normal cell, its size cannot be smaller than its nuclear size, which is the criterion to distinguish between living cells and dead cells.
As a result, when cells in an electrolyte or a particular buffer, they are aligned one by one to a precision measuring pore and exposed to the electric field, each of their information can be captured and the culture condition, including its concentration, viability and volume, can be analyzed. For example, when the living cells get greater volume and pass through the current flow, a greater pulse, in amp-1, can be generated and then amplified. As the cell size is related to the cell volume, a cell size profile in cell population can be produced in terms of pulse height. Since the cells are scanned at such high frequency, a precise result and a high resolution can be produced.
These results from each cell are cumulated and assigned in a calibrated multi-channel analyser with over 500,000 channels. So, for the CASY technology, as the cell flow cytometry, it can present data of each cell as a cell size distribution graph, which has 2 variables, the change in cell volume and that in cell viability. The materials passing through the apparatus can be gated. For the newly invented equipments, they have an automatically lower threshold at 7 um, which can exclude small particles and cell debris in the cell culture. At the same time, there will be an upper threshold to prevent from cell aggregation for counting. However, some of users may set upper threshold to unlimited for cell size. Since the cell size of each cell type is varied, before doing gating, it should ensure the correct cell size is included during the cell size related experiment.
Advantages
Since the cell viability is determined by electric current exclusion, viability dyes such |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datang%20station%20%28Guangzhou%20Metro%29 | Datang Station () is a station of Line 3 of the Guangzhou Metro that started operations on 28December 2006. It is located underground Datang Village () along East Xinjiao Road () in Haizhu District. It is near the Taxation Bureau of Haizhu district () and the Tianxiong Cloth Market Center (), as well as to the north of Haizhu Lake ().
Station layout
Exits
References
Railway stations in China opened in 2006
Guangzhou Metro stations in Haizhu District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor%20People%27s%20Alliance | The Poor People's Alliance was network of radical grassroots movements in South Africa. It was formed in 2008 after the Action Alliance, formed in December 2006, was expanded to include two more organisations. It become defunct following the collapse of two of its affiliated movements, the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign and the Landless People's Movement.
The following organisations were members of the alliance:
Abahlali baseMjondolo in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
Abahlali baseMjondolo in the province of the Western Cape.
The Landless People's Movement in the province of Gauteng.
The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign in the province of the Western Cape.
The Rural Network of KwaZulu-Natal.
The Poor People's Alliance refused electoral politics and resolved to boycott the 2009 national elections under the slogan "No Land! No House! No Vote!".
The Poor People's Alliance supported the struggle of the eMacambini Community against mass eviction by Ruwaad Holdings and KwaZulu-Natal Premier S'bu Ndebele and the African National Congress Provincial Government of KwaZulu-Natal.
International links
The Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign stated that it has been influenced by the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign and the Poor People's Alliance.
Notes and references
Social movements in South Africa
Homelessness organizations
Housing in South Africa
Shack dwellers' movements
Housing rights organizations in South Africa
Political advocacy groups in South Africa
Squatters' movements
Defunct social movements in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sons%20of%20Anarchy%20episodes | Sons of Anarchy, a television drama series created by Kurt Sutter, premiered on September 3, 2008 on the cable network FX in the United States. The series concluded on December 9, 2014, after 92 episodes broadcast over seven seasons.
Sons of Anarchy tells the story of an outlaw motorcycle club based in the fictional small town of Charming, California. The show follows protagonist Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charlie Hunnam), son of the deceased founding president John Teller, who begins questioning the club and the direction in which they should be heading.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2008)
Season 2 (2009)
Season 3 (2010)
Season 4 (2011)
Season 5 (2012)
Season 6 (2013)
Season 7 (2014)
Ratings
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References
External links
Lists of American drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRS%20Log%C3%ADstica | MRS Logística S.A. (Malha Regional Sudeste, "Southeast Regional Network") is a freight rail company located in Brazil that operates of track. It is the concessionary company that operates the Southeastern Federal Railroad Network (formerly SR3 - Juiz de Fora and SR4 - São Paulo of Rede Ferrovária Federal S/A), in the populous states of Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.
History
The company started in 1996, following the privatization of the state-owned Brazilian railway operator RFFSA. After winning a 30 year concession in auction for R$ 888.9 million, MRS was allowed to operate and maintain the southeastern Brazilian rail network, effective September 1996.
At the time, MRS's major shareholders were large steelmaking and mining companies, including the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, Usiminas, and Vale.
Its network combines the lines from Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro-Belo Horizonte, São Paulo-Santos and Ferrovia do Aço ("Railroad of Steel").
These lines are in the richest and populous area of Brazil (54% of Brazil's GDP), and MRS has connections to three of the most important seaports of Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Itaguaí and Santos. The company also has a connection to the privately owned iron ore terminal of Minerações Brasileiras Reunidas (now part of Vale) in Ilha de Guaíba on Angra dos Reis bay.
The railway employs the world's most powerful cog locomotives on the line from Santos to São Paulo.
Shareholder structure
As of 2021, the control of the company is shared by:
Minerações Brasileiras Reunidas (a subsidiary of Vale): 32.9%
Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) - 18.6%
Congonhas Minérios (a subsidiary of CSN) - 18.6%
Usiminas Participações e Logística (UPL) - 11.1%
Vale - 10.9%
Gerdau - 1.3%
other shareholders - 6.5%
See also
Rail transport in Brazil
Transportation in Brazil
References
External links
MRS Logística
Logistics companies of Brazil
Transport companies of Brazil
Companies based in Rio de Janeiro (city)
Companies listed on B3 (stock exchange)
Railway companies of Brazil
Railway companies established in 1996
Brazilian brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex%20Sinclair%202050 | The Timex Sinclair 2050 (TS2050) was a computer modem built by Westridge Communications for Timex Sinclair, a joint venture between Sinclair Research and Timex Corporation.
Initially sold under the Timex Sinclair label and with a Timex designed case, it was then labeled Westridge 2050, as Timex exited the computer market when the modem started manufacture. A lot of people bought the modem board and made a custom casing.
The device supports all the Timex Sinclair machines, coming with a cassette containing modem control software for T/S 1000 and T/S 1500 on side A and for T/S 2068 on side B.
It was based on the Intel 8251 USART chip and very slow (300 bit/s). A magazine published a way to modify the modem to convert it to a serial port, allowing users to connect faster modems. At least two bulletin board systems based on the T/S 2068 computer and TS2050 modem existed as of 1988.
References
External links
Timex Computer World
Modems
Timex Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath%20%28disambiguation%29 | Multipath is the propagation phenomenon that results in radio signals reaching the receiving antenna by two or more paths.
Multipath may also refer to:
Multipath I/O, in operating system input/output subsystems
Multipath routing, in packet switching networks
Multipath TCP, in computer networks
See also
Equal-cost multi-path routing
Solaris IP network multipathing
de:Mehrwegempfang
fr:Multipath
ko:다중경로
it:Multipath fading
nl:Multipath fading
ja:マルチパス
sv:Flervägsfel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%20Takes%20a%20Worried%20Man | It Takes a Worried Man is a British TV sitcom. It was made by Thames Television and ran for three series, broadcast from to . The first two series were broadcast on the ITV network, and the third and final series on Channel 4. Most episodes were written by the star, Peter Tilbury, who played office worker Philip Roath. The title comes from a line in the folk song Worried Man Blues. The series was based on the writings about the male menopause by novelist Philip Roth, for which Tilbury also named the main character after. He also took inspiration from his own life towards the character of Roath.
Premise
Philip Roath is a middle-aged and divorced office worker who is highly intelligent, but suffering a midlife crisis, and completely bored
with his job. He is never seen doing any actual work, just conversing
with his colleagues about his boredom and frustrations with life.
His boss suspects that Philip does little work, but is powerless to prove it or to do anything about it.
Philip is also seen in psychoanalysis sessions with his analyst, Simon, who has worse emotional issues than Philip does.
Cast list
Peter Tilbury – Philip Roath
Sue Holderness – Liz (Series 2-3)
Diana Payan – Ruth
Andrew Tourell – Napley
Nicholas Le Prevost – Simon
Christopher Benjamin – The Old Man (Philip's Boss)
Angela Down – Lillian (Series 1)
Episodes
Series 1 (1981)
Series 2 (1983)
Series 3 (1983)
DVD Release
All three series of It Takes a Worried Man have been released individually on DVD by Network. As of 2023, a complete boxset has yet to be released.
External links
References
1980s British sitcoms
1981 British television series debuts
1983 British television series endings
Channel 4 sitcoms
English-language television shows
ITV sitcoms
Midlife crisis in television
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Television shows produced by Thames Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Marcus | Aaron Marcus (born 22 May 1943) is an American user-interface and information-visualization designer, as well as a computer graphics artist.
Biography
Marcus was always interested in both science and technology as well as visual communication. He grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, in the 1950s, he was interested in astronomy and paleontology, and drawing cartoons. He learned painting, and calligraphy. In secondary school, he studied science and art, and was editor of his high-school newspaper.
He graduated with an A.B. in physics from Princeton University in 1965 after completing a senior thesis, titled "Determination of the (1,0,0) electronic effective mass in a gallium phosphide semiconductor by means of Raman scattering", under the supervision of John Hopfield.
He obtained his BFA and MFA in 1968 at Yale University’s School of Art and Architecture.
He learned about painting, drawing, printmaking, and letterpress printing workshops informally, photography, and art history. He also learned about book design, calligraphy, color, graphic design, drawing, film making, printing, printmaking, painting, typography, and photography.
At Yale, while a design graduate student, he also began the study of computer graphics, taking a course in basic functioning of computers, and he learned FORTRAN programming at the Yale Computer Center in the summer of 1966.
Work
In 1967, Marcus spent a summer making ASCII art as a researcher at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
From 1968 to 1977, in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning and in the Visual Arts Program, he taught at Princeton University: color, computer art, computer graphics, concrete/visual poetry, environmental graphics, exhibit design, graphic design, history/philosophy of design/visual communication, information design, information visualization, layout, publication design, systematic design, semiotics/semiologie, typography, and visual design.
In 1969-1971, he programmed a prototype desktop publishing page-layout application for AT&T Bell Labs.
In 1971-1973, he claims to have programmed some of the first virtual reality art/design spaces ever created while a faculty member at Princeton University.
In the early 1980s, he was a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, as well as a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.
In 1982, he founded Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A), a user-interface design and consulting company, one of the first such independent, computer-based design firms in the world.
Articles and papers
Marcus has written over 250 articles, some of which have been published in trade journals. A selection of his published papers follows:
Marcus, Aaron. "Playing with Type: The Work of Chang Sik Kim." Forward, in Typogram: Visual Pun, Exhibition Book, "Doo Sung Design Gallery Publishers, Seoul, South Korea, 26 March-6 April 2011, (in English, Korean, and Chinese), pp. 31-35.
Mar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document%20review | Document review (also known as doc review), in the context of legal proceedings, is the process whereby each party to a case sorts through and analyzes the documents and data they possess (and later the documents and data supplied by their opponents through discovery) to determine which are sensitive or otherwise relevant to the case. Document Review is a valuable main staple of the type of work performed by attorneys for their clients, though it is increasingly common for the work to be performed by specialized document review attorneys.
Some types of cases that typically require large numbers of documents to be reviewed are litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and government and internal investigations (including internal audits). Regarding litigation, documents reviewed by attorneys are obtained through the discovery process, which is generally governed by rules of procedure for the presiding court. In cases in United States Federal Courts the rules related to discovery are Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (F.R.C.P.) 16, 26, 33, 34, 37, and 45 which were amended in 2006 to include electronically stored information.
Though attorneys do still review hard copy documents today, most documents are reviewed electronically either as native files that were originally created electronically or as electronic copies of documents that were originally created in a hard copy format. During the doc review process, each document may be tagged according to certain categories, including whether it is relevant to an issue in the case, whether it is responsive to a discovery request (and therefore may need to be produced as part of the discovery process), whether it is confidential, or whether it is attorney client or otherwise privileged. When large amounts of documents need to be reviewed electronically, often a system is set up that includes review software. This system is known as a platform. The terms electronic discovery and technology assisted review have arisen to reflect the dominance of electronically stored information and the increasing use of machine learning and other technologies to help curb the growing cost of document review.
At times, even with the use of electronic document review platforms the volume of documents that need to be reviewed by an attorney for a case can be expansive and many attorneys including even highly staffed international law firms will need to obtain assistance beyond their standard resources. In these instances other attorneys are often brought into the case to assist specifically with the review of the documents. Traditionally, the additional attorneys needed to assist were hired on directly by attorneys and firms, or they may have worked as independent contractors. In recent years, many legal staffing companies have begun to act as intermediary employers between the law firms and the attorneys hired to assist with the document review.
This trend has led to controversy in the legal profession as more and more of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Veryard | Richard Veryard FRSA (born 1955) is a British computer scientist, author and business consultant, known for his work on service-oriented architecture and the service-based business.
Biography
Veryard attended Sevenoaks School from 1966 to 1972, where he attended classes by Gerd Sommerhoff. He received his MA Mathematics and Philosophy from Merton College, Oxford, in 1976, and his MSc Computing Science at the Imperial College London in 1977. Later he also received his MBA from the Open University in 1992.
Veryard started his career in industry working for Data Logic Limited, Middlesex, UK, where he first developed and taught public data analysis courses. After years of practical experience in this field, he wrote his first book about this topic in 1984. In 1987 he became an IT consultant with James Martin Associates (JMA), specializing in the practical problems of planning and implementing information systems. After the European operation of JMA were acquired by the Texas Instruments, he became a Principal Consultant in the Software Business and a member of Group Technical Staff. At Texas Instruments he was one of the developers of IE\Q, a proprietary methodology for software quality management. Since 1997 he is freelance consultant under the flag of Veryard Projects Ltd. Since 2006 he is a principal consultant at CBDi, a research forum for service-oriented architecture and engineering.
Veryard has taught courses at City University, Brunel University and the Copenhagen Business School, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.
Work
Pragmatic data analysis, 1984
In "Pragmatic data analysis" (1984) Veryard presented data analysis as a branch of systems analysis, which shared the same principles. His position on data modelling would appear to be implicit in the term data analysis. He presented two philosophical attitudes towards data modeling, which he called "semantic relativism and semantic absolutism. According to the absolutist way of thinking, there is only one correct or ideal way of modeling anything: each object in the real world must be represented by a particular construct. Semantic relativism, on the other hand, believe that most things in the real world can be modeled in many different ways, using basic constructs".
Veryard further examined the problem of the discovery of classes and objects. This may proceed from a number of different models, that capture the requirements of the problem domain. Abbott (1983) proposed that each search starts from a textual description of the problem. Ward (1989) and Seidewitz and Stark (1986) suggested starting from the products of structured analysis, namely data flow diagrams. Veryard examined the same problem from the perspective of data modeling.
Veryard made the point, that the modeler has some choice in whether to use an entity, relationship or attribute to represent a given universe of discourse (UoD) concept. This justifies a common position, that "data models of the same UoD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic%20%28programmer%29 | Chromatic is a writer and free software programmer best known for his work in the Perl programming language. He lives in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. He wrote Extreme Programming Pocket Guide, co-wrote Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook, is the lead author of Perl Hacks, and is an uncredited contributor to The Art of Agile Development. He has a music degree. Also, he has contributed to CPAN, Perl 5, Perl 6, and Parrot.
In 2009, he founded Modern Perl Books, in part to revitalize the world of Perl and to publish materials that other publishers had neglected.
In 2010, he released the book Modern Perl in print and in electronic form, with the latter redistributable freely (though with a suggested donation). An updated edition was released in 2012, with the entire text online.
CPAN
While he may be most currently known for the module "Modern::Perl", chromatic originally wrote "Test::Builder", which is the foundation of the most testing in the Perl world.
Perl 6
Chromatic spent several years as the Perl 6 project secretary. He is one of the biggest proponents of "roles" in Perl 6 (what some other programming languages refer to as "traits").
Parrot
Chromatic has been a core developer of Parrot. He was also secretary of the Parrot Foundation from 2008 until 2010.
References
External links
chromatic's personal homepage
chromatic's Onyx Neon biography
chromatic's modules on CPAN
People from Hillsboro, Oregon
American computer programmers
Writers from Oregon
American technology writers
Perl people
Perl writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg | The Borg are an alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the Star Trek fictional universe. The Borg are cybernetic organisms (cyborgs) linked in a hive mind called "The Collective". The Borg co-opt the technology and knowledge of other alien species to the Collective through the process of "assimilation": forcibly transforming individual beings into "drones" by injecting nanoprobes into their bodies and surgically augmenting them with cybernetic components. The Borg's ultimate goal is "achieving perfection".
Aside from being recurring antagonists in the Next Generation television series, they are depicted as the main threat in the film Star Trek: First Contact. In addition, they played major roles in the Voyager and Picard series.
The Borg have become a symbol in popular culture for any juggernaut against which "resistance is futile", a common phrase uttered by the Borg.
Concept
The Borg represented a new antagonist and regular enemy which had been lacking during the first season of TNG; the Klingons were allies and the Romulans mostly absent. The Ferengi were originally intended as the new enemy for the United Federation of Planets, but their comical appearance failed to portray them as a convincing threat. The Borg, however, with their frightening appearance, their immense power, and their sinister motive, became the signature villains for the TNG and Voyager eras of Star Trek. In Voyager episode "Q2", even the near-omnipotent Q tells his son, "Don't provoke the Borg!"
Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) writers began to develop the idea of the Borg as early as the Season1 episode "Conspiracy", which introduced a coercive, symbiotic life form that took over key Federation personnel. Plans to feature the Borg as an increasingly menacing threat were subsequently scrapped in favor of a more subtle introduction, beginning with the mystery of missing Federation and Romulan colonies on both sides of the Neutral Zone in "The Neutral Zone" and culminating in the encounter between Borg and the Enterprise crew in "Q Who".
Depiction
The Borg are cyborgs, having outward appearances showing both mechanical and biological body parts. Individual Borg are referred to as drones and move in a robotic, purposeful style ignoring most of their environment, including beings they do not consider an immediate threat. Borg commonly have one eye replaced with a sophisticated ocular implant. Borg usually have one arm replaced with a prosthesis, bearing one of a variety of multipurpose tools in place of a humanoid hand. Since different drones have different roles, the arm may be specialized for myriad purposes such as medical devices, scanners, and weapons. Borg have flat, grayish skin, giving them an almost zombie-like appearance.
Borg are highly resistant to energy-based weapons, having personal shielding that quickly adapts to them. In various episodes, phasers and other directed energy weapons tend to quickly become ineffective as the Borg are able |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB%20%2799 | MLB '99 is a Major League Baseball video game for the PlayStation released on April 14, 1998, developed by Sony Interactive Studios America and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America. The color commentary for the game is from Dave Campbell and the play-by-play announcer is Vin Scully. Baltimore Orioles hitter Cal Ripken Jr. is featured on the cover.
It was preceded by MLB '98 and succeeded by MLB 2000.
Gameplay
This installment of the series introduces a Spring Training mode, in addition to the incumbent exhibition, season, playoff, and home run derby modes.
The game uses a cursor interface for pitching and batting. The player can adjust the batter's position and stance at the plate.
As with previous installments, players can create and trade ball players.
Reception
The game received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. Six months after the game was released, Next Generation said in its review, "For neophytes and casual gamers, such a complex control scheme may seem more like work than fun. Skilled players, however, will rise to the challenge and welcome the flexibility."
Notes
References
External links
1998 video games
Major League Baseball video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20Counter | The Linux Counter was a website that attempted to estimate the number of people and machines using the Linux operating system. It ran from 1993 until December 2018. The last available estimate of Linux users was 91.9 million, as of August 2017.
History
The Linux Counter was started "for fun" with the goal to estimate the number of Linux users there are worldwide. The project invited users to register themselves as being a Linux user and then used various statistical heuristics to estimate the number of Linux users who did not register and the total number of Linux users worldwide. The project initially tracked the number of Linux users, but later extended to statistics on Linux users, the machines they use, software they use and in what part of the world Linux users actually lived. A second purpose of the Linux Counter was to help Linux users to find each other. The Linux Counter was reporting Linux users in almost any place in the world. If Linux users set their information to be public, one could easily find those users; Linux users could, for example, find other Linux users who lived somewhere near them.
The counter was run by a nonprofit organization called the Linux Counter Project. The organization was created on 1 May 1999, taking over the running of the counter from Harald Tveit Alvestrand, who had been running the project since 1993. In 1999, the project received wide technical media coverage, which led to it being slashdotted. Linux Today reported how Microsoft Austria used the site for spamming Linux users; the counter kept a list of press references, occasionally updated.
In 2011, it was taken over by Christin Löhner (then Alexander Mieland), who did a complete rewrite of the code. The code was published on GitHub in March 2015.
On 10 December 2018, Christin made a post on her personal blog announcing that she would no longer maintain the project, due to lack of time, lack of help and lack of interest as indicated by few to no new registrations or machines.
At the end of 2020 Benjamin Marwell contacted Christin Löhner and asked to revive the project. They both decided to create a completely new application in VueJS. Since 1st of january 2021, they both work together on github for a new linuxcounter/unixcounter project.
See also
Smolt
References
External links
Linux websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICRANet | ICRANet, the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network, is an international organization which promotes research activities in relativistic astrophysics and related areas. Its members are four countries and three Universities and Research Centers: Armenia, the Federative Republic of Brazil, Italian Republic, the Vatican City State, the University of Arizona (USA), Stanford University (USA) and ICRA.
ICRANet headquarters are located in Pescara, Italy.
History of ICRANet foundation: ICRA and ICRANet
ICRA and ICRANet
In 1985, the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics ICRA was founded by Remo Ruffini (University of Rome "La Sapienza") together with Riccardo Giacconi (Nobel Prize for Physics 2002), Abdus Salam (Nobel Prize for Physics 1979), Paul Boynton (University of Washington), George Coyne (former director of the Vatican observatory), Francis Everitt (Stanford University) and Fang Li-Zhi (University of Science and Technology of China).
The Statute and the Agreement establishing ICRANet were signed on March 19, 2003, and they were recognized in the same year by the Republic of Armenia and the Vatican City State. ICRANet has been created in 2005 by a law of the Italian Government, ratified by the Italian Parliament and signed by the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on February 10, 2005. The Republic of Armenia, Italian Republic, the Vatican City State, ICRA, the University of Arizona and the Stanford University are the founding members.
On September 12, 2005, ICRANet Steering Committee was established and had its first meeting: Remo Ruffini and Fang Li-Zhi were appointed respectively Director and Chairman of the Steering Committee. On December 19, 2006 ICRANet Scientific Committee was established and had its first meeting in Washington DC. Riccardo Giacconi was appointed Chairman and John Mester Co-Chairman.
On September 21, 2005 the Director of ICRANet signed, together with the then Ambassador of Brazil in Rome Dante Coelho De Lima the adhesion of the Federative Republic of Brazil to ICRANet. The entrance of Brazil, requested by the then President of Brazil Luiz Ignácio Lula Da Silva has been unanimously ratified by the Brazilian Parliament. On August 12, 2011, the then President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff signed the entrance of Brazil in ICRANet.
Marcel Grossmann meetings
By the beginning of the twentieth century the new branch of mathematics, tensor calculus, was developed in the works of Gregorio Ricci Curbastro and Tullio Levi Civita of the University of Padua and the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Marcel Grossmann of the University of Zurich who had a deep knowledge of the Italian school of geometry and who was close to Einstein introduced to him these concepts. The collaboration between Einstein and Grossmann was essential for the development of General Relativity.
Remo Ruffini and Abdus Salam in 1975 established the Marcel Grossmann meetings (MG) on Recent Developments in Theo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady%20Simeonovich%20Osipov | Gennady Simeonovich Osipov (October 13, 1948 - 07 July 2020) was a Russian scientist, holding a Ph.D. and a Dr. Sci. in theoretical computer science, information technologies and artificial intelligence. He was the vice-president of the Institute for Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), and at Bauman Moscow State Technical University. Osipov has contributed to the Theory of Dynamic Intelligent Systems and heterogeneous semantic networks used in applied intelligent systems.
History
Seventh time President of Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence.
In 1997-1999, 1999–2001, 2001–2003 Gennady Osipov received Governmental Grants for Outstanding Scholars by the Decree of the President of Russian Federation.
Osipov is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and of the Academy of Astronautics of Tsiolkovsky, Fellow of European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI fellow) and the vice-editor in chief of the “Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making” journal.
Work
Osipov's work in Knowledge Acquisition fields has resulted in the Direct Knowledge Acquisition Method which integrates Knowledge Acquisition Methods by means of date, texts, and human experts. In 1998 Osipov designed the Theory of Dynamic Intelligent System, investigated the behaviour of Dynamic Intelligent Systems, and described classes of this type of Systems.
Osipov is the creator of the relational-situational model of text analysis, used in semantic search engines.
He is the author of 120 articles, 5 monographs, 2 manuals, and 2 patents. He is one of the patentees of the Semantic search engine EXACTUS.
In the 2008 Russian Search Engine competition EXACTUS took first place in precision and completeness.
References
The Method of direct Knowledge Acquisition from Human Experts. Proceedings of the 5th Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop, Banff, Canada, November, 1990.
Architecture and Controllability of Knowledge-Based Discrete Dynamical Systems. Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International, Vol.39, N 5, 2000.
Linguistic Knowledge for Search Relevance Improvement. Proceedings of Joint conference on knowledge-based software Engineering JCKBSE'06, IOS Press, 2006.
Main publications in English
Expert system tools for badly structured fields / Artificial Intelligence and Information-Control Systems of Robots-87. I.Plander (editor). Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland), 1987.
The Method of direct Knowledge Acquisition from Human Experts. Proceedings of the 5th Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop, Banff, Canada, November, 1990.
Formulation of Subject Domain Models: Part 1. Heterogeneous Semantic Nets. Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International. Scripta Technica Inc., New-York, 1992.
Construction of Subject Domain Models: Part II. Direct Knowledge Acquisition in the SIM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Evan%20Jones%20%28composer%29 | David Evan Jones (born 1946) is an American pianist and composer of chamber music, opera, and computer music.
Jones was a student of composers Roger Reynolds and Pauline Oliveros at University of California, San Diego. After serving as Composer-in-Residence at York University (England), he joined the faculty at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire in the 1980s before becoming professor of music at University of California, Santa Cruz. Jones has composed in residence at IRCAM in Paris, Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm, and at Bregman Electronic Music Studio at Dartmouth College where he co-founded, with Jon Appleton, the Dartmouth graduate program in Electro-Acoustic Music.
Works
Jones has written articles and created compositions that explore structural relationships between music and phonetics. These include compositions such as Pashanti—The Nine Billion Names of God, Scritto, Still Life in Wood and Metal, Still Life Dancing, and the five pieces featured on Centaur Records CRC3500 entitled News from Afar. He has also written libretti and music for two chamber operas. Bardos, the most prominent of these, had its professional premier in 2004 in Hoam Hall, Seoul, Korea.
Jones also composes for Korean instruments. Most notably, his Dreams of Falling, a composition for the Creative Orchestra of Korea’s National Gugak Center, received a half dozen performances in the United States and Seoul over the course of four years 2016-2019.
In recent years, Jones has further developed his use of algorithmic processes in a series of pieces composed for Disklavier (computer-controlled piano) combined with traditional instruments.
Most of Jones' scores are available through American Composers Alliance.
Discography
Fast & Odd: Neo-Balkan Jazz and Concert Music. Centaur CRC2655
From Sofia to Seoul. New Chamber Music Composed & Directed by David Evan Jones. Centaur CRC3006
News from Afar. For chamber ensembles with news broadcasts transformed. Centaur CRC3500
Individual compositions by David Evan Jones are available on compact disks from Wergo Records, Centaur Records, Contemporary Recording Studios, Musical Heritage Society, and Capstone Records.
Selected Journal Articles
Jones, David Evan. "Compositional Control of Phonetic/Nonphonetic Perception," Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 25:1 & 2, pp. 138-155 (winter, summer 1987)
Jones, David Evan. "Speech Extrapolated," Perspectives of New Music, Volume 28:1, pp. 112-142 (winter 1990)
Jones, David Evan. "A Computational Composer's Assistant for Atonal Counterpoint," Computer Music Journal, M.I.T Press, winter 2001, pp. 33-43
Honors and Awards
David Evan Jones' compositions have been honored by first prize awards in the Premio Ancona International Composition Competition (Italy), the national competition of the American New Music Consortium, and the MACRO International Composition Competition. His work has also received Honorable Mentions from the Prix Ars Electronica (Austria) and the Bourges Electro- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainuiomata%20railway%20proposals | Multiple proposals have been made for a branch line railway to Wainuiomata as part of the Wellington commuter railway network. Despite strong local pressure at times during the 20th century, none of the proposals have come to fruition. There are currently (2021) no plans under consideration to build a rail line to Wainuiomata, although in 2021 a Christchurch-based property development company advertised townhouses in Wainuiomata as in "close proximity" to a non-existent Wainuiomata Train Station.
Background
Wainuiomata is in an isolated valley separated from Petone and Lower Hutt by the Eastern Hutt hills. In the 19th and early 20th centuries this isolation made communication difficult and a railway was desired to provide more efficient access to the outside world. As roads improved and car ownership rates rose during the 20th century, this function of a proposed railway declined, but at the same time the population of Wainuiomata increased and commuters to Wellington desired a railway line. However, the terrain is not favourable for a railway. A line into Wainuiomata would require either a steep route over the hills, resulting in a slow journey, or a lengthy and costly tunnel. This geography has been the main contributing factor to the rejection of all proposals so far.
Proposals
1870 proposal
The first proposal for a railway to Wainuiomata came as part of a route for the Wairarapa Line across the Rimutaka Range. Four routes were surveyed, including one through Wainuiomata. It was suggested by a Mr Sinclair, who farmed in the area and claimed he knew a route over the Rimutakas. The line surveyed by John Rochfort and his party ran from Kaitoke, at the northern end of the Hutt Valley, across the Eastern Hutt Hills into the valley of the Wainuiomata River, which it followed before crossing into the valley of the Ōrongorongo River. To leave the Ōrongorongo River and reach the Wairarapa, the line had to follow a tributary stream to a height of approximately 344.5 m (1130 feet), from which it faced a sudden and insurmountable drop to the Wairarapa. Accordingly, the proposal was given no further consideration. The circuitous nature of the route via Kaitoke meant an abbreviated form of this proposal was never subsequently considered for a line to Wainuiomata.
1920s proposal
In order to enhance links between the Hutt Valley and the Wainuiomata Valley, then under development, and to cater for the needs of expected future residential development in the Wainuiomata Valley, a tunnel between the two valleys was proposed in 1928. On 2 July, an internal Railways Department memorandum noted of the proposal, made by the mayor of Lower Hutt in a recent meeting with the department:
Preliminary negotiations with affected land owners were commenced in September. An agreement was entered into between the department and the development company on 1 October, which set out the terms of the project and made the following points:
The development co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20Blank%20Music%20School | Point Blank is a global network of music production schools founded in London in 1994 by musician and producer Robert Cowan, offering a variety of courses in electronic music production, sound engineering, DJing, singing, songwriting, radio broadcasting, and music business. In addition to its original school in Hoxton, North London, Point Blank now has schools in Los Angeles, Ibiza, Mumbai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and online.
History
Point Blank started as a recording studio in Greenwich, London in 1994. Founder and CEO Rob Cowan had previously been a bass player in Sony-signed band Honeychile and worked as a studio engineer for Matrix studios, working with artists such as D:Ream and Blur. Originally set up as a recording studio, Point Blank quickly evolved into a school after clients expressed an interest in learning about how the gear worked themselves. The school eventually relocated to its current buildings in Hoxton, London where it offers courses on music production, sound engineering, DJ performance, singing, songwriting, radio broadcasting, music business, and live sound.
In 2013, the school was banned by the Border Agency from sponsoring non-EU nationals for offering too many places to students who failed to meet the rules. It had previously had 'highly trusted' status for a decade, and the school's managing director blamed the issue on 'formalities and clerical errors on the side of the UKBA.' It was reinstated in the same year after a re-inspection.
In 2015, Point Blank opened a school in Los Angeles, originally housed in the historic Mack Sennett Studios. In 2022, Point Blank L.A. moved its operations to a standalone campus facility on La Brea Avenue, one mile south of Hollywood. Point Blank's L.A. school provides students with postsecondary programs in music production, audio engineering, DJ performance, vocal & instrumental performance, and music industry studies.
In 2016, Point Blank extended their facilities in London by opening a second studio complex. The second premises, also located in Hoxton, features 7 purpose-built teaching studios, including DJ and music production equipment such as a SSL Duality Delta mixing desk.
In 2017, Point Blank opened an additional school in San Jose, Ibiza. The school, which is found in Ibiza's Can Blau facility, offers students a DJing and Music Producing hybrid course. In September of the same year, Point Blank announced the launch of a two-week DJ/Entrepreneur course in Mumbai, in collaboration with The True School of Music.
In 2019, Point Blank opened a school in Hangzhou, China. The school, in partnership with NetEase FEVER, offers courses including music production, DJing, singing & songwriting, music industry, and weekend courses.
Notable alumni
Goldie - musician / DJ
Felix Jaehn - record producer / DJ
Nicole Moudaber - record producer / DJ
Claude VonStroke - musician / DJ
Leona Lewis - singer / songwriter
Mishlawi - hip-hop artist
Luke Black - singer / songwriter
Partnershi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich%20Hickey | Rich Hickey is a computer programmer and speaker, known as the creator of the Clojure programming language. Clojure is a Lisp dialect built on top of the Java Virtual Machine. He also created or designed ClojureScript and the Extensible Data Notation (EDN) data format.
Before Clojure, he developed dotLisp, a similar project based on the .NET Framework. Hickey has also worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and fingerprinting, database design, yield management, exit poll systems, and machine listening.
He spent about 2½ years working on Clojure, much of that time working exclusively on Clojure without external funding, before releasing it to the world in 2007. In 2012, Datomic, a proprietary distributed database was launched which coincided with the incorporation of Cognitect. From 2013 until 2020, he was the chief technology officer of Cognitect. Cognitect was acquired by Nubank in 2020, and he was a Distinguished Engineer at Nubank until August 2023 when he announced his retirement from commercial software development.
Papers
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References
External links
Transcripts of talks
Recorded talks
Programming language designers
Lisp (programming language) people
Free software programmers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Pictures | Sun Pictures is an Indian film distribution and production studio based in Chennai, India. It is a division of Sun TV Network a part of the Sun Group. In 2010, it started producing films, the first film was Enthiran
Productions
All films are in Tamil, unless mentioned otherwise.
References
External links
Film distributors of India
Film production companies of India
Film production companies based in Chennai
Indian film studios
Indian companies established in 2008
Sun Group
2000 establishments in Tamil Nadu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20RAM | In computing, especially computational geometry, a real RAM (random-access machine) is a mathematical model of a computer that can compute with exact real numbers instead of the binary fixed point or floating point numbers used by most actual computers. The real RAM was formulated by Michael Ian Shamos in his 1978 Ph.D. dissertation.
Model
The "RAM" part of the real RAM model name stands for "random-access machine". This is a model of computing that resembles a simplified version of a standard computer architecture. It consists of a stored program, a computer memory unit consisting of an array of cells, and a central processing unit with a bounded number of registers. Each memory cell or register can store a real number. Under the control of the program, the real RAM can transfer real numbers between memory and registers, and perform arithmetic operations on the values stored in the registers.
The allowed operations typically include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, as well as comparisons, but not modulus or rounding to integers. The reason for avoiding integer rounding and modulus operations is that allowing these operations could give the real RAM unreasonable amounts of computational power, enabling it to solve PSPACE-complete problems in polynomial time.
When analyzing algorithms for the real RAM, each allowed operation is typically assumed to take constant time.
Implementation
Software libraries such as LEDA have been developed which allow programmers to write computer programs that work as if they were running on a real RAM.
These libraries represent real values using data structures which allow them to perform arithmetic and comparisons with the same results as a real RAM would produce. For example, In LEDA, real numbers are represented using the leda_real datatype, which supports k-th roots for any natural number k, rational operators, and comparison operators. The time analysis of the underlying real RAM algorithm using these real datatypes
can be interpreted as counting the number of library calls needed by a given algorithm.
Related models
The real RAM closely resembles the later Blum–Shub–Smale machine. However, the real RAM is typically used for the analysis of concrete algorithms in computational geometry, while the Blum–Shub–Smale machine instead forms the basis for extensions of the theory of NP-completeness to real-number computation.
An alternative to the real RAM is the word RAM, in which both the inputs to a problem and the values stored in memory and registers are assumed to be integers with a fixed number of bits. The word RAM model can perform some operations more quickly than the real RAM; for instance, it allows fast integer sorting algorithms, while sorting on the real RAM must be done with slower comparison sorting algorithms. However, some computational geometry problems have inputs or outputs that cannot be represented exactly using integer coordinates; see for instance the Perles configurati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority%20and%20inferiority%20ranking%20method | The superiority and inferiority ranking method (or SIR method) is a multi-criteria decision making model (MCDA) which can handle real data and provides six different preference structures for the system user. MCDM is a sub-discipline of operations research that explicitly evaluates multiple conflicting criteria in decision making, both in daily life and in settings such as business, government and medicine.
Description
It also incorporates outranking rationale to deal with the 'poor' true-criteria preference structure which appears in selecting proper equipment. The superiority and inferiority scores are produced through the generalized criteria. The SIR method can also analyze different criteria without compiling them into a small scale as GAs.
See also
Architecture tradeoff analysis method
Decision-making
Decision-making software
Decision-making paradox
Decisional balance sheet
Multicriteria classification problems
Probability distribution
Rank reversals in decision-making
References
Sources
Tam CM,Tong TKL,Wong YW, (2004), Selection of Concrete Pump Using the Superiority and Inferiority Ranking Method, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Volume 130, Issue 6, pp. 827–834 (November/December)
Free Multi-criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) Tools for Research Students http://sites.google.com/site/mcdafreeware/
Mathematical optimization
Multiple-criteria decision analysis
Mathematical modeling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Bowl%20counterprogramming | Although it is consistently one of the most watched television programs in the United States annually, broadcasters have sometimes attempted to intentionally counterprogram against the Super Bowl by running new programming against the game as an alternative, such as special episodes of existing series, one-off special presentations, and previews of new series, typically during its halftime break.
The most prominent success of the concept came in 1992, when Fox broadcast a special, live edition of its sketch comedy program In Living Color during halftime at Super Bowl XXVI, taking advantage of the then-unpopular format of Super Bowl halftime shows. The special drew 22 million viewers, prompting the NFL to book more prominent pop music acts to perform at future Super Bowl halftime shows to compete.
Broadcasters who do not air original programming against the Super Bowl will typically air reruns of existing programming—sometimes as marathons, prior to and during the game; in recent years, as all four major networks broadcast NFL games to an extent—and three of them alternate airing the game yearly—the United States' four major television networks have rarely broadcast new programming against the Super Bowl in an effort to protect the game's viewership as a sign of respect, to the point that the broadcast rights to Super Bowl LV and LVI were swapped to prevent a CBS-broadcast Super Bowl LVI from competing with the 2022 Winter Olympics on NBC. Some cable channels and digital platforms have still attempted to air original programming intended as an alternative to halftime or the game itself (such as Animal Planet's annual Puppy Bowl special).
History
In the 1970s and 1980s, the majority of Super Bowl halftime shows were themed, musical spectacles that often featured marching bands and performance ensembles such as Up with People (who performed in four Super Bowl halftime shows between 1976 and 1986 and performed at the pre-game show of Super Bowl XXV in 1991). The group's halftime shows were described as being "wholesome" and "inoffensive" by critics, but were frequently derided for being dated and out of touch with modern popular culture.
Super Bowl counterprogramming was first popularized by Fox. As an alternative, the then-fledgling Fox network aired a special live episode of its popular sketch comedy show In Living Color during halftime at Super Bowl XXVI (which featured a halftime show entitled "Winter Magic", a Winter Olympics-themed show starring Gloria Estefan, Brian Boitano, and Dorothy Hamill to tie into CBS's upcoming broadcast of the Games). The live episode featured football-themed sketches (such as Men on Football), a performance by Color Me Badd, and a clock counting down to the start of the third quarter. The episode was sponsored by Frito-Lay, who paid $2 million to hold all national advertising time, and to help budget and promote the special; the effort included a $1 million giveaway, whose winner was announced during the broad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaceKoo | Facekoo was a social networking service created and designed by Facekoo, which targets the Chinese language market. It offers a unique facial recognition system to connect each member to create a social circle. According to Alexa's ranking, its page views surpassed MySpace China in November 2008 and December 2008.
Launch
Facekoo () was a social networking platform created by a private proprietorship, the FaceKoo, Inc., which was based in Beijing, China. The FaceKoo name is derived from "face" and "koo" (a homonym for cool in Chinese). In the Chinese-language based market, this social networking platform targeted teenagers.
FaceKoo was created by co-founders Calvin Pak, CEO, David Yan, Chief technical officer, and Sheryl Liu, CMO, who are all Chinese Americans with extensive business track records in the Silicon Valley. FaceKoo offered numerous features, such as Mojing, a magic mirror that liked users to another FaceKoo member by facial analysis. Facial features could be chosen by users, so they could find their ideal “koo-friend”. Online games and other interactive applications are also fascinating features available on FaceKoo.
FaceKoo rapidly grew since the initial launch in March 2008 in China. A Facebook sound alike website, FaceKoo, was considered as one of the major Chinese social networking site that can fit into the Eastern culture, said FaceKoo's founder. According to San Francisco Chronicle, FaceKoo had 350,000 users since its introduction in 2004.
See also
List of social networking websites
Internet in China
References
External links
FaceKoo Home Page
Chinese social networking websites
Student culture
Privately held companies of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing%20the%20permanent | In linear algebra, the computation of the permanent of a matrix is a problem that is thought to be more difficult than the computation of the determinant of a matrix despite the apparent similarity of the definitions.
The permanent is defined similarly to the determinant, as a sum of products of sets of matrix entries that lie in distinct rows and columns. However, where the determinant weights each of these products with a ±1 sign based on the parity of the set, the permanent weights them all with a +1 sign.
While the determinant can be computed in polynomial time by Gaussian elimination, it is generally believed that the permanent cannot be computed in polynomial time. In computational complexity theory, a theorem of Valiant states that computing permanents is #P-hard, and even #P-complete for matrices in which all entries are 0 or 1 . This puts the computation of the permanent in a class of problems believed to be even more difficult to compute than NP. It is known that computing the permanent is impossible for logspace-uniform ACC0 circuits.
The development of both exact and approximate algorithms for computing the permanent of a matrix is an active area of research.
Definition and naive algorithm
The permanent of an n-by-n matrix A = (ai,j) is defined as
The sum here extends over all elements σ of the symmetric group Sn, i.e. over all permutations of the numbers 1, 2, ..., n. This formula differs from the corresponding formula for the determinant only in that, in the determinant, each product is multiplied by the sign of the permutation σ while in this formula each product is unsigned. The formula may be directly translated into an algorithm that naively expands the formula, summing over all permutations and within the sum multiplying out each matrix entry. This requires n! n arithmetic operations.
Ryser formula
The best known general exact algorithm is due to .
Ryser’s method is based on an inclusion–exclusion formula that can be given as follows: Let be obtained from A by deleting k columns, let be the product of the row-sums of , and let be the sum of the values of over all possible . Then
It may be rewritten in terms of the matrix entries as follows
Ryser's formula can be evaluated using arithmetic operations, or by processing the sets in Gray code order.
Balasubramanian–Bax–Franklin–Glynn formula
Another formula that appears to be as fast as Ryser's (or perhaps even twice as fast) is to be found in the two Ph.D. theses; see , ; also
. The methods to find the formula are quite different, being related to the combinatorics of the Muir algebra, and to finite difference theory respectively. Another way, connected with invariant theory is via the polarization identity for a symmetric tensor . The formula generalizes to infinitely many others, as found by all these authors, although it is not clear if they are any faster than the basic one. See .
The simplest known formula of this type (when the characteristic of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia%20Ion | Nvidia Ion was a product line of Nvidia Corporation intended for motherboards of low-cost portable computers. It used graphics processing units and chipsets intended for small products.
Description
Nvidia Ion products included a GeForce 9M (9xxxM) series MCP79MX (with integrated GeForce 9400M G GPU) chipset, DDR3-1066 or DDR2-800 SDRAM, and the Intel Atom processor. The original reference platform was based on a Pico-ITXe motherboard designed for netbook and nettop devices.
In February 2009, Microsoft certified the Ion-based platform for Windows Vista. The small form factor Ion-based computers were released in mid-2009.
Ion GPUs are DirectX 10.0 and OpenGL 3.3 compliant. They also support CUDA and OpenCL. They can play 1080p H.264, MPEG-2 and VC-1 video using VDPAU or PureVideo HD. ION-LE–based systems shared the same basic hardware as ION but lack Vista and DirectX 10 support.
Nvidia announced that it would release the Ion platform for the VIA Nano processor some time in Q4 2009.
Specifications
Ion (first-generation Nvidia Ion)
Chipset: MCP79MX (with integrated GeForce 9400M GPU)
Intended Operating System: (Ion): Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Linux; (Ion-LE): Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, MacBook
Memory Interface: DDR3-1066 or DDR2-800
DirectX 10 Support: Yes, No (Ion-LE)
Graphics Cores: 16
Core/Shader Clocks: 450/1100 MHz
Texture Fill Rate: 3.6 Billion/second
Maximum Anti-Aliasing (AA) Sample Rate: 16x
RAMDACs: 300 MHz
Maximum High-Dynamic Range (HDR) Precision: 128-bit
Maximum Analog Resolution: 2048 x 1536
Maximum Digital Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Graphics APIs: DirectX 10.0, OpenGL 3.3
Full HD decode (1080i/p): Yes, 3rd Generation PureVideo
Display Options: HDMI, Dual-link DVI, DP, or VGA (any 2)
HDMI Version: 1.8 (according to the manual of the zotac ION itx-f board)
PCI-Express 2.0: 20 lanes (1×16 and 4×1)
SATA Drives: 6
SATA Speed: 3 Gbit/s
RAID: 0, 1
Networking: 10/100/1000 BASE-T
USB Ports: 12/2C
PCI Slots: 5
Audio: HDA (Azalia)
Ion 2 (next-generation Nvidia Ion)
CUDA cores: up to 16
Standard Memory configurations: 512 MB of DDR2, 256 MB of DDR3, 512 MB of DDR3
Memory Interface Width: Up to 64-bit
Hardware Video Decode Acceleration: Yes, 4th Generation PureVideo
nVidia CUDA Technology: Yes
Certified for Windows 7: Yes
Microsoft DirectX: 10.1
OpenGL: 3.3
Audio: HDA
Maximum digital resolution: 2560 × 1600
Maximum VGA resolution: 2048 × 1536
Netbook supported display connectors: HDMI
Desktop supported display connectors: Dual-link DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI, VGA
Multi-monitor: Yes
HDCP: Yes
Motherboards
ASRock A330ION motherboard (Intel Atom 330 CPU, DDR3, PCI Express x16 slot)
ASUS AT5IONT-I motherboard (Intel Atom D525 CPU, DDR3, USB3, PCI Express x4 slot @ x1 speed, with latch)
ASUS AT3N7A-I motherboard (Intel Atom 330 CPU)
ASUS AT3IONT-I motherboard (Intel Atom 330 CPU, DDR3, PCI Express x16 slot)
ASUS AT3IONT-I DELUXE motherboard (Intel Atom 330 CPU, DDR3, PCI Express x16 slot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yannakakis | Yannakakis is a family name of Greek origin. It may refer to one of the following persons.
Mihalis Yannakakis (born 1953), Greek computer scientist
Georgios N. Yannakakis, Greek computer scientist working in Denmark
Ilios Yannakakis (1931-2017), French-Greek historian and politologist
Greek-language surnames
Surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20invalidation | Cache invalidation is a process in a computer system whereby entries in a cache are replaced or removed.
It can be done explicitly, as part of a cache coherence protocol. In such a case, a processor changes a memory location and then invalidates the cached values of that memory location across the rest of the computer system.
Explicit invalidation
Cache invalidation can be used to push new content to a client. This method functions as an alternative to other methods of displaying new content to connected clients. Invalidation is carried out by changing the application data, which in turn marks the information received by the client as out-of-date. After the cache is invalidated, if the client requests the cache, they are delivered a new version.
Methods
There are three specific methods to invalidate a cache, but not all caching proxies support these methods.
Purge
Removes content from caching proxy immediately. When the client requests the data again, it is fetched from the application and stored in the caching proxy. This method removes all variants of the cached content.
Refresh
Fetches requested content from the application, even if cached content is available. The content previously stored in the cache is replaced with a new version from the application. This method affects only one variant of the cached content.
Ban
A reference to the cached content is added to a blacklist (or ban list). Client requests are then checked against this blacklist, and if a request matches, new content is fetched from the application, returned to the client, and added to the cache.
This method, unlike purge, does not immediately remove cached content from the caching proxy. Instead, the cached content is updated after a client requests that specific information.
Alternatives
There are a few alternatives to cache invalidation that still deliver updated content to the client. One alternative is to expire the cached content quickly by reducing the time-to-live (TTL) to a very low value. Another alternative is to validate the cached content at each request. A third option is to not cache volatile content requested by the client. These alternatives can cause issues, as they create high load on the application due to more frequent requests for information.
Disadvantages
Using invalidation to transfer new content can be difficult when invalidating multiple objects. Invalidating multiple representations adds a level of complexity to the application. Cache invalidation must be carried out through a caching proxy; these requests can impact performance of the caching proxy, causing information to be transferred at a slower rate to clients.
References
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Cache coherency |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20magnetic%20resonance%20spectra%20database | A nuclear magnetic resonance spectra database is an electronic repository of information concerning Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra. Such repositories can be downloaded as self-contained data sets or used online. The form in which the data is stored varies, ranging from line lists that can be graphically displayed to raw free induction decay (FID) data. Data is usually annotated in a way that correlates the spectral data with the related molecular structure.
Data format
Line list
The form in which most NMR is described in literature papers. It is common for databases to display line lists graphically in a manner that is similar to how processed spectra might appear. These line list however lack first and higher order splitting, satellites from low abundance isotopes like carbon or platinum, as well as the information concerning line width and other informative aspects of line shape. The advantage of a line list is that it requires a minimal amount of memory.
Processed image
Once an FID is processed into a spectrum it can be converted into an image that usually takes up less memory than the FID. This method requires more memory than a line list but supplies the user with considerably more information. The processed image has less information that a raw FID but it also take less memory and is easily displayed in browsers and requires no specialty data handling software.
Raw FID file
The raw free induction decay data obtained when performing the experiment are stored according to the formatting preferences of the instrument manufacturer. This data format contains the most information and requires the most storage space. A variety of commercial and free of software programs allow users to process FID data into useful spectra once FID data is downloaded.
Common search methods
Some database search methods are commonly available:
Compound name — May include official IUPAC names and common names.
Molecular formula — Either an exact formula or a range.
Molecular structure — This method requires a molecular editor interface.
Registration number — Commonly the CAS Registry Number but most databases also have their own numbering scheme.
Peak range or other spectral characteristics — The user numerically enters data related to a spectra of an unknown compound. This data is used to for compounds which share the shifts within specified constraints. This allows users to locate the exact compound or molecules with similar functional groups.
Spectra search — Software is used to search a database for spectra that resemble the a submitted spectra.
List of databases
The following is a partial list of nuclear magnetic resonance spectra databases:
ACD/Labs
Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD/labs) is a chemoinformatics company which produces software for use in handling NMR data and predicting NMR spectra. ACD/Labs offers the Aldrich library as an add-on to their general spectrum processing software and specialized NMR software products. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Anscombe | Mike Anscombe is a Canadian broadcaster who appeared on the Global Television Network between 1974 and 1997 as a news anchor; most notably as one of the "Three Nice Guys" when he co-anchored Global's noon newscast with John Dawe and Bob McAdorey. He is a former host of CBC Sports Hockey Night in Canada games involving the Montreal Canadiens and most recently was the host of Leafs TV's Once a Leaf.
References
External links
Living people
Canadian television news anchors
Canadian television sportscasters
Year of birth missing (living people)
National Hockey League broadcasters
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) commentators
Place of birth missing (living people)
Toronto Maple Leafs announcers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PsyScope | PsyScope is a graphical user interface (GUI) software program that allows researchers to design and run psychological experiments. It runs on Apple Macintosh computers and was originally designed for use with the Mac OS 9 platform. PsyScope was originally developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, including Jonathan Cohen, Matthew Flatt, Brian MacWhinney, and Jefferson Provost. It has been ported to Mac OS X by a group of researchers and programmers coordinated by researchers at SISSA, Italy and the Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. It is still under active development. The program and its code are freely available under the GNU GPL license. It runs under Mac OS X, from version 10.7 onward. With respect to its Mac OS 9 incarnation, PsyScope X has a much more complete control of movies and sounds, can interact with the underlying Unix environment, and allows researchers to design programs that use several external devices, such as response devices to record participants' responses, or Evoked potential and eye tracking recording devices.
It is difficult to estimate exactly how many researchers use the program. However, many researchers in several well respected universities around the world use PsyScope X to generate and run psychology and neuropsychology experiments. Users of PsyScope X can share experiments, tips, and ideas via message boards dedicated to the software.
References
External links
Psychology experiments
Health care software
Behavioral experimentation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20Touch%20Viva | The HTC Touch Viva is a Windows Mobile smartphone developed by the High Tech Computer Corporation of Taiwan. Part of the HTC Touch Family, it incorporates quad band GSM, as well as the proprietary TouchFLO 3D user interface developed by HTC.
Specifications
The following specifications are those found on the HTC website.
Screen size:
Screen resolution: 320 x 240
Input devices: Resistive Touchscreen with Stylus, Hardware Keys
Battery: 1100 mAh
Talk time: 480 minutes
Standby time: 270 hours
2-megapixel rear-facing camera with fixed-focus
Texas Instruments OMAP 850 201 MHz processor
RAM: 128 MB
ROM: 256 MB
microSDHC
Operating system: Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, Android (unofficial)
Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900)
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR & A2DP
Mini USB (HTC ExtUSB)
Size: (h) (w) (d)
Weight: with battery
References
HTC smartphones
Windows Mobile Professional devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bak%20file | In computing, ".bak" is a filename extension commonly used to signify a backup copy of a file.
When a program is about to overwrite an existing file (for example, when the user saves the document they are working on), the program may first make a copy of the existing file, with .bak appended to the filename. This common .bak naming scheme makes it possible to retrieve the original contents of the file in case of a failed write that corrupts the file, which could be caused by an operating system crash, power outage, or disk space exhaustion.
Without the backup file, an unsuccessful write event may truncate a file, meaning it cuts off the file at a position, or leaves a blank file. In practice, this could cause a written document to become incomplete or get lost, a multimedia project file (e.g. from a video editor) to become unparseable, and user preferences being reset to default.
In a similar manner, a user may also manually make a copy of the file before the change and append .bak to the filename, or alternatively save revisions into separate files, to facilitate reverting to an earlier revision in case of an error.
Other naming schemes are also in widespread use: file~, file.orig, file.old, and appended time stamps.
Database Applications like FoxPro and SQL Server use .bak files to back up their databases and other applications, like XML shell, create .bak files in their autosave process. They do not get automatically deleted, so they need to be manually deleted after the process using it is stopped.
Example applications using .bak files
This is a partial list of applications that generate .bak files (in some cases as an optional configuration setting):
Apophysis7X
Alteryx
Aspell
Audacity
AutoCAD
fluidsim
BlueGriffon
Captivate
Cubase
DraftSight
DrRacket
Exiled Kingdoms rpg
Family Tree Maker
Finale Notepad
FoxPro
FormZ
Google Chrome
Grand Theft Auto V
HxD
HyperCam
JavaFX Scene Builder
Lazarus
LMMS
MATLAB
Minitab
Mozilla Firefox
Mupen64
Notepad++
NUPS
Opera
Outlook Express
Password Safe (.ibak)
Photoshop
PScad
Free Pascal
Rhinoceros 3D
Sony Vegas
SQL Server
SCIA Engineer
Steinberg Cubase
Starbound
TeamViewer Manager
Terraria
Texmaker
TextCrawler
Turing
Turbo C++
UltraEdit
VEE
WhatsApp
Windows (BOOTSECT.BAK)
WinMerge
Word
Zmodeler
OpenMPT
External links
BAK file
References
Filename extensions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20Touch%203G | The HTC Touch 3G is a Windows Mobile smartphone developed by the High Tech Computer Corporation of Taiwan. It was announced in September 2008 and released the following November. Part of the HTC Touch Family, it features quad band GSM and dual band UMTS connectivity, as well as a version of the proprietary TouchFLO 3D user interface developed by HTC.
Specifications
The following specifications are those found on the HTC website.
Screen size:
Screen resolution: 320 x 240
Qualcomm MSM7225 528 MHz processor
RAM: 192 MB
ROM: 256 MB
Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900)
Dual band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (UMTS 900, UMTS 2100)
GPS and A-GPS
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR & A2DP
3.2-megapixel rear-facing camera with fixed-focus
Mini USB (HTC ExtUSB)
microSD slot (SD 2.0 compatible)
Operating system: Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Input devices: touchscreen, touch-sensitive front panel buttons
Battery: 1100 mAh
Talk time: 360 minutes for WCDMA, 400 minutes for GSM
Standby time: 450 hours for WCDMA, 365 hours for GSM
Size: (h) (w) (d)
Weight: with battery
References
See also
HTC Touch
HTC smartphones
Windows Mobile Professional devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg | <nsmlat3<nsimulat3½unsmlat3=unsimulat4<acked>
A cyborg ()—a portmanteau of cybernetic and organism—is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts. The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline. In contrast to biorobots and androids, the term cyborg applies to a living organism that has restored function or enhanced abilities due to the integration of some artificial component or technology that relies on feedback.
Description and definition
"Cyborg" is not the same thing as bionics, biorobotics, or androids; it applies to an organism that has restored function or, especially, enhanced abilities due to the integration of some artificial component or technology that relies on some sort of feedback, for example: prostheses, artificial organs, implants or, in some cases, wearable technology. Cyborg technologies may enable or support collective intelligence. A related, possibly broader, term is the "augmented human". While cyborgs are commonly thought of as mammals, including humans, they might also conceivably be any kind of organism.
Placement and distinctions
D. S. Halacy's Cyborg: Evolution of the Superman (1965) featured an introduction which spoke of a "new frontier" that was "not merely space, but more profoundly the relationship between 'inner space' to 'outer space' – a bridge...between mind and matter."
In "A Cyborg Manifesto", Donna Haraway rejects the notion of rigid boundaries between humanity and technology, arguing that, as humans depend on more technology over time, humanity and technology have become too interwoven to draw lines between them. She believes that since we have allowed and created machines and technology to be so advanced, there should be no reason to fear what we have created, and cyborgs should be embraced because they are now part of human identities. However, Haraway has also expressed concern over the contradictions of scientific objectivity and the ethics of technological evolution, and has argued that "There are political consequences to scientific accounts of the world."
Biosocial definition
According to some definitions of the term, the physical attachments that humans have with even the most basic technologies have already made them cyborgs. In a typical example, a human with an artificial cardiac pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator would be considered a cyborg, since these devices measure voltage potentials in the body, perform signal processing, and can deliver electrical stimuli, using this synthetic feedback mechanism to keep that person alive. Implants, especially cochlear implants, that combine mechanical modification with any kind of feedback response are also cyborg enhancements. Some theorists cite such modifications as contact lenses, hearing aids, smartphones, or intraocular lenses as examples of fitting humans with technology to enhance their biological capabilities.
Also the emerging mood of implanting microchips inside the body (mainly the hands) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell%20BrainShare | Novell BrainShare was a technical computer conference sponsored by Novell during the years 1985 through 2014. It was held annually in Salt Lake City, Utah, most often in March of each year, and typically lasted for much of a week. During its early years it was held in a hotel; then for much of the 1990s the conference was held on the campus of the University of Utah; finally beginning in 1997 it was held in the Salt Palace Convention Center. During the keynote addresses for the conference, Novell would present its vision of the direction of the computer industry and how its products fit into that direction. There were then many highly technical breakout sessions where Novell technologies were explained in detail and customers and partners could engage Novell engineers regarding them. Typically some 5,000 to 7,000 attendees came to each BrainShare.
Aims
The goal of BrainShare was to spread the company's message and inform its users and partners as to the capabilities and technical characteristics of its products and of networking in general. As one publication said,
"Novell holds its annual BrainShare conference to help refocus attention on the company, its goals and objectives for the upcoming year, and its networking technologies."
Novell would use BrainShare to help introduce new technologies or acquisitions, such as UnixWare or AppWare, to its base audience. One of the more memorable instances of this was the introduction of the NetWare 386 product at the 1989 event where, as Byte magazine later described it, two demonstrations of the new version's capabilities "brought the crowd to its feet cheering."
Once Novell's fortunes began a downhill slide in the mid-1990s, especially under pressure from Microsoft Windows NT, BrainShare was used to showcase new approaches that were intended to turn things around.
History
The conference first took place in 1985. The 1986 event was held over three days in February and was billed as the second annual NetWare Affiliates conference. The venue was a Sheraton Hotel in Downtown Salt Lake City and there were some 150 attendees.
The new few instances of the conference continued to be held over three days in Salt Lake City in February, and were used to introduce or preview new Novell technologies. The 1987 instance was called the Netware Affiliates Third Annual Developers Conference, while for 1988 the name was given as the Fourth Annual Novell Developers Conference. The first conference to be known by the name BrainShare appears to be that held in 1992.
By 1991, the conference has grown in size considerably, with some 1,200 attendees expected. Accordingly, during much of the 1990s the conference was held on the campus of the University of Utah, in the hills overlooking the rest of Salt Lake City, around the third week of March of each year, during the school's spring break. This shift appears to have taken place by the 1991 event.
On the campus, talks for large numbers of attendees were hel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Cassel | Don Cassel (born April 4, 1942) is the author/coauthor of 60 US/Canadian college textbooks and was a Humber College professor for 30 years, responsible for developing the college's first Computer Programming curriculum.
Career
Cassel was a Professor of Information Technology at Humber College in Toronto, Ontario from 1968 to 1998. In 1968, after arriving at Humber from IBM, he developed the college's first Computer Programming program, which is still part of the curriculum. During this time he specialized in computer programming and application software courses. He was a founding member of the Information Systems department in 1968 where he was department head for 10 years.
During his tenure at Humber Cassel developed numerous courses and was active in curriculum development for the School of Business and later for the School of Information Technology. He developed one of the first online interactive courses at Humber for Microsoft Access using WebCT. WebCT became a significant tool for developing and delivering distance learning for the college.
Cassel was a computer programmer and system analyst with IBM Canada from 1961 to 1968. He received an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from York University in 1975 and was accepted into the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto for a Master of Education program, completing the first year of the two-year program. At this point writing college textbooks began to require his full attention.
In 1972 his first book, Programming Language One, was published by Reston Publishing Company of Reston, Virginia, a subsidiary of Prentice Hall Inc. Thus began a long period of textbook writing for college programs across North America.
Publications
Canadian Internet Handbook - Educational Edition, Prentice Hall Canada, 1999, coauthored with Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead.
Surfing for Success in Business and Economics. Prentice Hall Canada, 1999 coauthored with Andrew T. Stull
Canadian Internet Handbook - Educational Edition, Prentice Hall Canada, 1998, coauthored with Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead.
Internet Handbook - U.S. Edition, Prentice Hall Canada, 1997, coauthored with Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead.
Canadian Internet Handbook - Educational Edition, Prentice Hall Canada, 1997, coauthored with Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead.
Computing Essentials - Introducing Visual Basic 4 for Windows 95, Prentice Hall, Inc. 1996
Computing Essentials - Introducing Microsoft Access for Windows 95, Prentice Hall, Inc. 1996
Computing Essentials - Introducing Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, Prentice Hall, Inc. 1996
Computing Essentials - Introducing Microsoft Word for Windows 95, Prentice Hall, Inc. 1996
Computing Essentials - Introducing Windows 95, Prentice Hall, Inc. 1996
Canadian Internet Handbook - Educational Edition, Prentice Hall Canada, 1995, coauthored with Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead.
Source 1 - Computing Essentials, Microsoft Excel 5, Prentice Hall, Inc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTV%20Plus%20Sport | NTV Plus Sport was Russia's first dedicated sports channel. It is a part of the NTV Plus network. In 2016, the channel was replaced by Match TV Planeta.
External links
Official Site
Defunct television channels in Russia
Russian-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2016
Sports television networks in Russia
1996 establishments in Russia
2016 disestablishments in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpanDrive | ExpanDrive is a network filesystem client for MacOS, Microsoft Windows and Linux that facilitates mapping of local volume to many different types of cloud storage. When a server is mounted with ExpanDrive any program can read, write, and manage remote files (that is, files that only exist on the server) as if they were stored locally. This is different from most File Transfer Clients because it is integrated into all applications on the operating system. It also does not require a file to be downloaded to access portions of the content. ExpanDrive is commercial software, at a cost of $49.95 per license. A 7-day, unrestricted demo is available for evaluation.
ExpanDrive uses a custom FUSE implementation as its file system implementation layer on the Mac and Windows and system-packaged FUSE on Linux.
History
SftpDrive was the original version of ExpanDrive for Microsoft Windows. It was commercial software with a 6-week trial.
ExpanDrive 2 was released on June 21, 2011 adding support for plain FTP, Amazon S3 and a new ExpanDrive service named Strongspace Online Storage. ExpanDrive2 included a rewritten SFTP engine which laid the groundwork for a unified Mac and Windows code base.
Version 2.4, released in January 2013 was the first version to be released simultaneously for Windows and Mac.
ExpanDrive 3 was released on May 14, 2013 with a new user-interface and support for more drive types such as Dropbox, OpenStack, Rackspace and WebDAV.
ExpanDrive 4 was released on June 12, 2014 with dramatically faster access. ExpanDrive 4 also added support for Microsoft OneDrive, Copy.com, HP Helion Cloud, Owncloud and hubiC.
ExpanDrive 5 was released on June 15, 2015 with a near-total rewrite of its core functionality.
ExpanDrive 6 was released on July 5, 2017, followed by a redesign to version 6.1 on September 25, 2017. The most recent version v6.3 was released on November 2nd, 2018.
ExpanDrive 7 was released on May 8, 2019, which added support for Linux, A cloud storage browser and transfer application, multi-user file locking, search and version management.
New features include improved performance and file versioning. An increased list of supported storage and cloud storage providers have been introduced since version 5, including Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Team Drives, Amazon Drive, Box, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Sharepoint, Openstack Swift, BackBlaze B2, Amazon S3 as well as the original SFTP, FTP or WebDAV server and SMB/Windows File Sharing.
See also
Comparison of FTP client software
SSH file transfer protocol (SFTP)
Secure Shell (SSH)
SSHFS
References
External links
Review of ExpanDrive at Macworld (July 2019)
SSH File Transfer Protocol clients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep%20Torrellas | Josep Torrellas (born 1963, Montblanc, Spain) is Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar in the Department of Computer Science and a research faculty for the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. Torrellas's research area is computer architecture, focusing on speculative multithreading, multiprocessor organization, integration of processors and memory, and architectural support for software debuggability and machine reliability. He has been involved in the Stanford DASH and the Illinois Cedar multiprocessor projects, and led the Illinois Aggressive COMA and FlexRAM Intelligent Memory projects.
Torrellas has contributed to many NSF, DARPA and DOE funding initiatives. The Aggressive COMA research project was selected as one of the "Eight Point-Design Studies" that DARPA, NSF, NSA and NASA supported in the mid-nineties in a nationwide effort to accelerate the arrival of a petascale machine. He has received as lead PI several multimillion-dollar NSF grants, and is the lead PI of two medium ITR grants. He has directed projects in several DARPA initiatives, including the recent "Polymorphous Computer Architectures" (PCA), and "High Productivity Computing Systems" (HPCS). In the HPCS program, he is playing a leading role in helping define the architecture of IBM's PERCS multiprocessor (POWER7). He is also involved in DOE's Extreme Scale Computation initiative.
Torrellas has been at the University of Illinois since receiving his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1992. He also spent a sabbatical year as Research Staff Member at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. Torrellas is an IEEE and ACM Fellow and member of the National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA) and the DOE Illinois Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR). He is currently the Chairman of IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA), an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), and a Member of the Advisory Board of the ECE Department, University of Rochester. He previously served as Vice-Chairman and Member of the Advisory Board of IEEE TCCA from 1998 to 2005. Torrellas has received an NSF Young Investigator Award, an NSF RIA, and an IBM Partnership Award.
Links
Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) at Illinois
i-acoma Architecture Group at the University of Illinois
Illinois OpenSPARC Center
Josep Torrellas's Homepage
Parallel Computing Research at Illinois: The UPCRC Agenda
Illinois Department of Computer Science
References
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
IBM employees
Living people
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
1963 births
Date of birth missing (living people)
Spanish emigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20moths%20of%20Great%20Britain%20%28Cossidae%29 | The family Cossidae comprises the "leopard and goat moths", of which three occur in Great Britain:
Subfamily Zeuzerinae
Phragmataecia castaneae, reed leopard — east & south (Red Data Book)
Zeuzera pyrina, leopard moth — east, south & central
Subfamily Cossinae
Cossus cossus, goat moth — throughout (nationally scarce B) ‡
Species listed in the 2007 UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) are indicated by a double-dagger symbol (‡).
See also
List of moths of Great Britain (overview)
Family lists: Hepialidae, Cossidae, Zygaenidae, Limacodidae, Sesiidae, Lasiocampidae, Saturniidae, Endromidae, Drepanidae, Thyatiridae, Geometridae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Thaumetopoeidae, Lymantriidae, Arctiidae, Ctenuchidae, Nolidae, Noctuidae and Micromoths
References
Waring, Paul, Martin Townsend and Richard Lewington (2003) Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. British Wildlife Publishing, Hook, UK. .
Moths of Great Britain (Cossidae)
Great Britain (Cossidae)
Cossidae
Great Britain (Cossidae) |
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