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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundew%20%28disambiguation%29 | Sundew can refer to:
Sundew (album), a 1991 album by the Paris Angels
Sundew (dragline)
The plant genus Drosera
The sundew family Droseraceae
SunDew, the original name for the computer windowing system NeWS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir%3Aror | Mir:ror is a personal RFID reader that connects to a personal computer via a USB port. It was presented at the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in September 2008 and is produced by Violet, which also produces the Nabaztag. It is designed to work with Violet-produced RFID tags (Ztamps) which are industry standard ISO/IEC 14443 type A or B. When a tagged object is moved near the RFID reader, the reader will prompt the computer to do something, such as opening a related website.
Award
Mir:ror was awarded a Star at the Design Observeur 2009.
See also
Touchatag
References
Electronics companies of France
Radio-frequency identification
Consumer electronics
Computing input devices
Robots of France
French brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings%20of%20minor%20planet%20names%3A%20198001%E2%80%93199000 |
198001–198100
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198101–198200
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| 198110 Heathrhoades || || Heath Rhoades (born 1972), the computer network administrator at the Table Mountain Observatory in California ||
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198201–198300
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198301–198400
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198401–198500
|-id=450
| 198450 Scattolin || || Patrice Scattolin (born 1965) is one of the foremost amateur observers in Canada. ||
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198501–198600
|-id=592
| 198592 Antbernal || 2005 AK || Antonio Bernal (born 1947), Colombian ex-director of the planetarium in Medellín and a charter member of the Astronomical Colombian Network (, RAC) ||
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198601–198700
|-id=616
| 198616 Lucabracali || || Luca Bracali (born 1965), an Italian photographer and journalist. ||
|-id=634
| 198634 Burgaymarta || || Marta Burgay (born 1976), an Italian radio astronomer who discovered the first known binary pulsar, PSR J0737−3039 ||
|-id=673
| 198673 Herrero || || Enrique ("Kike") Herrero Casas (born 1986) is an astrophysicist at the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) and is also a science communicator. He specializes in exoplanets and stellar astrophysics. ||
|-id=700
| 198700 Nataliegrünewald || || Natalie Grünewald (born 1970), daughter of German amateur astronomer Rolf Apitzsch who discovered this minor planet ||
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198701–198800
|-id=717
| 198717 Szymczyk || || Bill Szymczyk (born 1943) is an American music producer and audio engineer. ||
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198801–198900
|-id=820
| 198820 Iwanowska || || Wilhelmina Iwanowska (1905–1999), Polish astronomer, vice-president of the IAU in the 1970s, and first astrophysics professor in Poland ||
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198901–199000
|-id=993
| 198993 Epoigny || || Epoigny, a site in Burgundy, France, near the Le Creusot Observatory. The location's name is derived from Epona, the goddess of horses in the Gallo-Roman religion. ||
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References
198001-199000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiaGrid%20%28distributed%20computing%20network%29 | DiaGrid is a large, multicampus distributed research computing network utilizing the HTCondor system and centered at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. In 2012, it included nearly 43,000 processors representing 301 teraflops of computing power. DiaGrid received a Campus Technology Innovators Award from Campus Technology magazine and an IDG InfoWorld 100 Award in 2009 and was employed at the SC09 supercomputing conference in Portland, Ore., to capture nearly 150 days of compute time for science jobs.
Partners
DiaGrid is a partnership with Purdue, Indiana University, Indiana State University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Louisville, the University of Nebraska, the University of Wisconsin, Purdue's Calumet and North Central campuses, and Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. It is designed to accommodate computers at other campuses as new members join. The Purdue portion of the pool, named BoilerGrid, is the largest academic system of its kind.
Management
DiaGrid is managed by Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), the central information technology organization at Purdue's West Lafayette campus, and ITaP's research computing unit the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, which also operates the Steele, Coates, Rossmann, Hansen and Carter cluster supercomputers.
HTCondor
Through HTCondor, developed at the University of Wisconsin, DiaGrid harvests and manages computing cycles from idle or underused high-performance computing cluster nodes, servers, machines in campus computer and other labs, and office computers. Whenever a local user or scheduled job needs a given machine, the HTCondor job is stopped and automatically sent to another HTCondor node as soon as possible. While this "opportunistic" model limits the ability to do parallel processing and communications, a HTCondor pool can provide smaller, serial jobs vast numbers of cycles in a very short amount of time. HTCondor—and by extension, DiaGrid—is designed for high-throughput computing and is excellent for parameter sweeps, Monte Carlo simulation, or nearly any serial application. Some classes of parallel jobs (master-worker) may be run effectively via HTCondor as well.
Networking
To pool computational resources spread around Indiana and the Midwest, DiaGrid takes advantage of I-Light, the high-speed fiber-optic state network connecting Indiana campuses to each other, the Internet and national research networks such as the Internet2 and National LambdaRail. DiaGrid provides computational resources to researchers on both the Open Science Grid and the U.S. National Science Foundation's Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment system (formerly TeraGrid).
Uses
DiaGrid and BoilerGrid have been used by researchers at Purdue and elsewhere for a variety of purposes, such as imaging the structure of viruses at near-atomic resolutions, simulating the early stages of the Solar System's formation, projecting the reliability of Indiana's electrica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Sports%20Carolinas | Fox Sports Carolinas (FSCAR) was an American regional sports network operated as an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks. The channel was headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The channel broadcast professional, collegiate and high school sports events, with a primary focus on North Carolina–based teams, namely the Charlotte Hornets and Carolina Hurricanes. It was available on most cable providers in North and South Carolina, with an estimated reach of four million cable television subscribers; Fox Sports Carolinas was also available nationwide on satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network.
The network closed down on March 31, 2021. Its content was merged into the schedules of the newly named Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast.
History
Fox Sports Carolinas launched on October 31, 2008, and was created through the separation of Fox Sports South into three regional feeds: the main Fox Sports South channel (originating from Atlanta), Fox Sports Carolinas and Fox Sports Tennessee.
In 2019, Diamond Sports Group purchased Fox Sports Carolinas along with the other 20 Fox Sports Networks and in 2020 a partnership with Bally's Corporation was formed to rebrand the networks as "Bally Sports". On January 27, 2021, Bally's and Sinclair issued a joint press release unveiling the new logos for the rebrand of the networks that will occur at a still undetermined date later in 2021. It also was announced that the Fox Sports Carolinas feed would be shut down at that time; its programming will be merged into the new Bally Sports South (previously Fox Sports South) and Bally Sports Southeast (previously Fox Sports Southeast).
Programming
The channel held the regional cable television rights to the Charlotte Hornets of the NBA and Carolina Hurricanes of the NHL; it also carried team-related programs from the Carolina Panthers NFL franchise, and broadcast games and team and collegiate programs from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Southeastern Conferences (SEC). Fox Sports Carolinas also broadcast Major League Baseball from two of its sister regional networks. It carried Fox Sports South telecasts of Atlanta Braves games in all of South Carolina, and portions of the Charlotte and Piedmont Triad markets; and Fox Sports Ohio telecasts of Cincinnati Reds games in and around Asheville, Charlotte and Winston-Salem.
Fox Sports Carolinas HD
Fox Sports Carolinas HD was a high definition simulcast feed of Fox Sports Carolinas, which airs most Charlotte Hornets and Carolina Hurricanes games (including tape-delayed late-night replays) and events telecast nationally throughout the Fox Sports Networks in the 720p format. Fox Sports Carolinas HD originally transmitted only during game telecasts (with a test pattern being shown at other times) until July 2009, when it was converted into a 24-hour channel.
Commentators
Carolina Hurricanes
Mike Maniscalco - play-by-play announcer
Tripp Tracy - analyst
Abby Labar - Hurricanes LIVE host / in-game reporte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Sports%20Tennessee | Fox Sports Tennessee (FSTN) was an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios, and operated as an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks. The channel broadcast regional coverage of professional and collegiate sports events in the state of Tennessee, namely the Memphis Grizzlies and Nashville Predators.
Fox Sports Tennessee was available on cable providers throughout Tennessee, eastern Arkansas and southern Kentucky, with an estimated reach of 1.8 million subscribers, and nationwide on satellite via DirecTV and Dish Network.
The network closed down on March 31, 2021. Its content was merged into the schedules of the newly named Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast.
History
Fox Sports Tennessee launched on October 31, 2008, and was created through the separation of Fox Sports South into three regional networks: alongside the main Fox Sports South channel (originating from Atlanta, Georgia) and Fox Sports Carolinas, the latter of which launch on the same date as Fox Sports Tennessee. In July 2013, News Corporation spun off the Fox Sports Networks and most of its other U.S. entertainment properties into 21st Century Fox.
On December 14, 2017, as part of a merger between both companies, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to acquire all 22 regional Fox Sports networks from 21st Century Fox, including Fox Sports Tennessee. However, on June 27, 2018, the Justice Department ordered their divestment under antitrust grounds, citing Disney's ownership of ESPN. On May 3, 2019, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios (through their joint venture, Diamond Holdings) bought Fox Sports Networks from The Walt Disney Company for $10.6 billion. The deal closed on August 22, 2019.
In 2020, Diamond Sports formed a partnership with Bally's Corporation was formed to rebrand the networks as "Bally Sports". On January 27, 2021, Bally's and Sinclair issued a joint press release unveiling the new logos for the rebrand of the networks that will occur at a still undetermined date later in 2021. It also was announced that Fox Sports Tennessee would be shut down at that time with programming being merged into the new Bally Sports South (previously Fox Sports South) and Bally Sports Southeast (previously Fox Sports Southeast). The final event broadcast by the network was a 3-2 Predators win in overtime against the Dallas Stars on March 30, 2021.
Programming
Fox Sports Tennessee held the regional cable television rights to the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA and the Nashville Predators of the NHL. It also carried simulcasts of Major League Baseball games, carrying Cincinnati Reds games televised by Fox Sports Ohio, St. Louis Cardinals games televised by Fox Sports Midwest and (within Tennessee) Atlanta Braves games televised by Fox Sports South, as well as coverage of collegiate sports events from the Southeastern Conference.
Other services
Fox Sports Tennessee H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20J.%20Dorsett | David John "Jack" Dorsett (born 8 October 1956) is a corporate vice president for cyber and C4 at Northrop Grumman, and a retired vice admiral of the U.S. Navy. He was the first Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance and 63rd Director of Naval Intelligence. He served as the Director of Intelligence, Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2005 to 2008 prior to assuming his position on the Chief of Naval Operations staff.
Early life and education
Dorsett was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, and raised in Virginia. He graduated from Jacksonville University (Florida) in 1978, receiving a bachelor's degree in political science. He was also the 2008 Distinguished Alumni for Jacksonville University.
Jack Dorsett is a naval intelligence officer, joint specialty officer, a specialist in Joint and Strategic Intelligence, and a qualified surface warfare officer. He possesses significant experience in National Security Affairs (Europe, Middle East, Asia) and in Strategic Planning. He graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval War College and Armed Forces Staff College, and was awarded a master's degree from the Defense Intelligence College. He has also attended executive business programs at Babson College and the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Military service
He was commissioned in the US Navy in 1978 and previously served as an exchange midshipman with the Royal Navy, serving on the HMS Gavinton. His early career included duty in the destroyers , , and as executive officer in the minesweeper .
From 1983 to 1987, he served as an intelligence analyst and operations officer at FOSIC U.S. Naval Forces Europe, providing intelligence support during Operations El Dorado Canyon, Attain Document, and Prairie Fire. In 1987, he reported to Sixth Fleet as political-military officer and deputy assistant chief of staff for intelligence.
He transferred to the U.S. Naval War College in 1989, serving as executive assistant for the Chief of Naval Operations's (CNO) Strategic Studies Group. He then served as the intelligence officer in the aircraft carrier , participating in Operations Southern Watch and Restore Hope. From 1993 to 1996, he directed the Operational Intelligence/Crisis Management Department at the Joint Intelligence Center Pacific.
In 1996, Dorsett transferred to Washington, D.C., where he directed the CNO's Intelligence Plot and then served as director of intelligence, Office of Naval Intelligence. From 1998 to 1999, he served as the assistant chief of staff for intelligence on the COMUSNAVCENT/COMFIFTHFLT staff, and participated in Operations Desert Fox, Southern Watch, Resolute Response, and other sensitive, nationally tasked combat and special operations.
Dorsett commanded the Joint Intelligence Center (JICCENT), U.S. Central Command between 1999 and 2001, where he managed intelligence support to theater forces during Operations Southern Watch and Determined Response. In June 2001, he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Tea%20Party%20%28TV%20series%29 | Boston Tea Party is a Swedish infotainment television program is broadcast on Kanal 5 hosted by Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson.
Kanal 5 (Swedish TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Hot%20100%20number%20ones%20of%202009 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, and airplay. There were a total of 12 number-one singles in 2009, although 13 claimed the top spot as Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" reached its peak position in 2008, and thus is excluded.
In 2009, six acts achieved their first U.S. number-one single either as a lead artist or a featured guest: Lady Gaga, Colby O'Donis The Black Eyed Peas, Jay Sean, Jason Derulo, and Owl City. Jay-Z earned his first number-one single as a lead artist (with Alicia Keys) with "Empire State of Mind", after being the featured guest on three number-one singles. Lady Gaga and Black Eyed Peas each earned two number-one singles.
Black Eyed Peas broke the record for having spent the most consecutive weeks at number one (26 weeks consecutive weeks at the top) with "I Gotta Feeling" the longest-running number-one single of 2009 and of the 2000s (decade) (fourteen weeks), along with the non-consecutive Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" in 2005, and their first number-one single "Boom Boom Pow", which topped the chart for twelve weeks.
Notable highlights of the 2009 Billboard Hot 100 issues include Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You", which broke the record for the biggest leap to number one by jumping from number 97 to the number-one position. Britney Spears's "3" became the only non-'American Idol' song to debut at number one in the 2000s (decade).
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2009 in music
List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2009
List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2009
Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2009
List of Billboard number-one singles
References
Additional sources
Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition ()
Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition ()
Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The 2000s ()
Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.
United States Hot 100
2009
Hot 100 number-one singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20Hot%20100%20number-one%20singles%20of%202009 | The Canadian Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of Canada. Published by Billboard magazine, its data are similar to Billboard U.S.-based Hot 100 in that it compiles Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay. Canada's airplay chart is compiled with information collected from monitoring more than 100 stations that represent rock, country, adult contemporary and contemporary hit radio genres. The online version of the chart features the Canadian flag next to tracks that qualify as Canadian content.
In 2009, eight acts achieved their first Canadian Hot 100 number-one single either as a lead artist or a featured guest:
Kelly Clarkson, Eminem, 50 Cent, Dr. Dre, The Black Eyed Peas, David Guetta, Akon and Kesha. The Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga were the only acts to earn two number-one singles in 2009, with the former topping the chart for 25 non-consecutive weeks with their singles "Boom Boom Pow" and "I Gotta Feeling".
In 2009, 9 singles topped the chart. Although 10 singles claimed the top spot in the 52 issues of the magazine, Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" began its peak position in late 2008, and is thus excluded. The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" topped the Canadian Hot 100 for sixteen consecutive weeks, becoming the longest-running chart-topping single of 2009. Flo Rida's "Right Round" and The Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow" tied for the second longest-running number-one single of the year, both with nine non-consecutive weeks. Britney Spears's "3" is noted for its jump from eighty six to first place on the Canadian Hot 100, the largest first place leap since the chart's establishment.
Chart history
See also
2009 in music
List of number-one singles (Canada)
List of Canadian number-one albums of 2009
References
Canada Hot 100
2009
2009 in Canadian music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMA%20Acceleration%20Architecture | In computing, UMA Acceleration Architecture (UXA) is the reimplementation of the EXA graphics acceleration architecture of the X.Org Server developed by Intel. Its major difference with EXA is the use of GEM, replacing Translation Table Maps. In February 2009 it became clear that UXA would not be merged back into EXA.
Intel is transitioning from UXA to SNA.
Implementations
In May 2009 it was announced that Ubuntu would migrate their graphics acceleration for the Ubuntu 9.10 release to UXA.
See also
Direct Rendering Infrastructure
Mesa 3D
EGL
References
X-based libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case%20Unclosed | Case Unclosed is a Philippine television documentary show broadcast by GMA Network. Originally hosted by Kara David, it premiered on October 2, 2008, replacing 100% Pinoy!. Arnold Clavio served as the final host. The show concluded on February 25, 2010, with a total of 70 episodes. It was replaced by Kandidato in its timeslot.
Episodes
Accolades
References
External links
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolt%20%28Linux%29 | Smolt was a computer program used to gather hardware information from computers running Linux, and submit them to a central server for statistical purposes, quality assurance and support. It was initiated by Fedora, with the release of Fedora 7, and soon after it was a combined effort of various Linux projects. Information collection was voluntary (opt-in) and anonymous. Smolt did not run automatically. It requested permission before uploading new data to the Smolt server. On October 10, 2012, it was announced that smolt would be discontinued on November 1, 2013. That is now in effect. The Smolt webpage is no longer available.
The project is superseded by Hardware probe.
General
Before Smolt there was no widely accepted system for assembling Linux statistics in one place. Smolt was not the first nor the only attempt, but it is the first accepted by major Linux distributions.
Collecting this kind of data across distributions can:
aid developers in detecting hardware that is poorly supported
focus efforts on popular hardware
provide workaround and fix tips
help users to choose the best distribution for their hardware
convince hardware vendors to support Linux
Use
Smolt was included in:
Fedora
openSUSE, releases from 11.1 to 12.2;
RHEL and CentOS see https://web.archive.org/web/20090109010205/http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/ (retired link)
Gentoo see https://web.archive.org/web/20090207100254/http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-admin/smolt
MythTV see http://smolt.mythtv.org/
Smolt server
The Smolt server stored all collected data.
See also
Linux Counter
References
External links
Smolt wiki
Smolt retirement
openSUSE about Smolt
Linux
Discontinued software
Internet properties disestablished in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmi | Cosmi may refer to:
Cosmi Corporation, a U.S. computer software company
Cosmi, Americo & Figlio, an Italian gun manufacturer
Sam Cosmi (born 1999), American football player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCdostbayernbahn | Südostbayernbahn (Southeast Bavaria Railway) is one of several regional railway networks in Germany owned by Germany's national railway, Deutsche Bahn AG (DB AG). Since 2001, the network has included the railway hub of Mühldorf which connects 7 major railway lines from Munich, Rosenheim, Freilassing, Burghausen, Simbach am Inn, Passau and Landshut, forming a star-shaped network of lines called Linienstern Mühldorf ("Mühldorf route star network"). SüdostBayernBahn is subordinated to DB RegioNetz Verkehr and DB RegioNetz Infrastruktur.
Railway network
In order to be able to operate railway networks more efficiently on a geographical basis, the Deutsche Bahn introduced the concept of regional networks or Regio-Netze. One of the five national Regio-Netze is called the Südostbayernbahn (SOB) and is responsible for the infrastructure, and/or passenger services, on the following routes:
Operations
Südostbayernbahn has rented the lines for an extended period of time and is therefore classed as the railway infrastructure company for its network. The renting of the routes from DB Netz is done through DB RegioNetz Infrastruktur.
As a railway infrastructure company, Südostbayernbahn now only operates trains which provide passenger services (the freight services to Frontenhausen-Marklkofen having been taken over by Railion). These passenger services are provided using Class 218 locomotives and Class 628 diesel multiple units. Amongst the coaches used are modernized Silberling carriages and double-decker coaches. The double-deckers include three air-conditioned double-decker driving cars. The delivery of the latest class of air-conditioned, double-decker coaches began in March 2007. On those routes for which Südostbayernbahn is only responsible for infrastructure, RegionalBahn trains are operated by DB Regio Bayern using Class 628 diesel multiple units and Class 426 electric multiple units. In addition RegionalBahn trains are also run by Südostbayernbahn themselves on the following lines:
Mühldorf–Dorfen–Munich Hauptbahnhof (KBS 940)
via Freilassing to Salzburg (KBS 945/951)
via Ebersberg to Grafing, individual trains to Munich Ost (KBS 948)
In total the network has 435 km of line and 88 stations, which are worked daily by 260 trains. Around 9.5 million passengers use Südostbayernbahn trains annually.
References
External links
Deutsche Bahn
Railway companies of Germany
Companies based in Mühldorf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20MultiPoint%20Server | Windows MultiPoint Server is an operating system based on Microsoft Windows Server using Remote Desktop Services technology to host multiple simultaneous independent computing stations or terminals connected to a single computer (multiseat computing). Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 was the final release as an independent SKU and has been superseded by the MultiPoint Services role in Windows Server 2016.
Versions
Windows MultiPoint Server 2010
This version was planned in January 2010 but was released in February 2010 and is based on Windows Server 2008 R2. Its mainstream support ended on July 14, 2015, and extended support ended on July 14, 2020. Multiple stations can be added to a WMS 2010 host computer by connecting a single monitor, USB 2.0 hub, keyboard and mouse for each station. Hardware requirements for MultiPoint stations are non-proprietary, and virtually any multi-monitor video card, mouse, keyboard and monitor that is supported on Windows Server 2008 R2 can be used to build a station.
Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 is available for purchase via either OEMs or academic volume licensing. The Academic version, acquired via Academic Volume Licensing, supports domain join and no licensing restrictions on station count (however, hardware limits still apply), but requires a Windows Server 2008 R2 client access license (CAL) and a Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 CAL per station, while the non-Academic version that is acquired via OEMs is limited to 10 stations maximum and does not support domain join, but only requires a Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 CAL per station and no Windows Server 2008 R2 CALs.
Windows MultiPoint Server 2011
Windows MultiPoint Server 2011, based on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, was released to manufacturing on March 10, 2011. Its mainstream support ended on July 12, 2016 and extended support ended on July 13, 2021. New features in Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 include:
The ability to add connect stations and thin clients over the LAN via traditional RDP clients
Support for RemoteFX capable thin clients
A shared management console extensibility with Windows Small Business Server 2011 and Windows Home Server 2011
The ability to be backed up by Windows Small Business Server Essentials 2011 (the only server SKU that allows and supports this)
Features that allow administrators to view and interact with thumbnails of station desktops, including
Projecting a single station's desktop to one or all stations
Locking the keyboard and mouse of station and displaying a message
Remotely opening and/or closing applications
Restricting internet browsing to a specific list of sites or blocking browsing to a specific list of sites
Management of multiple WMS servers and stations from within a single administration console
Support for running within a virtual machine
Distribution through a wider variety of distribution channels for both editions
In addition, unlike Windows MultiPoint Server 2010, Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 is avail |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Top%20Latin%20Albums%20of%202009 | The Billboard Top Latin albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information. This data are 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.
Albums
References
2009 Latin
United States Latin Albums
2009 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Yallof | Matt Yallof (born September 24, 1968) is an American sports commentator for MLB Network and NHL Network, where he debuted June 3, 2009. Yallof hosts the regular season studio show "The Rundown" and MLB Network Strike Zone. Yallof also appears on "MLB Tonight" and "Quick Pitch".
Previously, he was the lead host of the New York Mets pre- and post-game show as well as a fill-in host for 'The WheelHouse and Geico SportsNite'' on SportsNet New York. Before that, he worked at Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, where he won four regional Emmy awards. He also worked at WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York, CNN and CNN/SI.
Yallof is a graduate of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
On July 29, 2016, the 47-year-old Yallof suffered an Ischemic Stroke at his home in Armonk, New York. He spent a week in the ICU followed by a month in a rehab clinic, where he had to undergo physical, occupational and speech therapy. A couple of days after his stroke, 2 of his wife's friends set up a YouCaring page to help him with medical expenses, which was quickly passed around social media, and the page has raised $69,192 to help with the medical expenses. He made his first appearance back on MLB Network in April 2017, hosting MLB Network Strike Zone every Tuesday and Friday, which he will continue to do until further notice.
References
External links
SportsNet New York
1968 births
Living people
People from Long Island
Muhlenberg College alumni
American sports announcers
Major League Baseball broadcasters
MLB Network personalities
Sports Emmy Award winners
SportsNet New York people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiamen%20BRT | Xiamen's Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is a bus rapid transit system in Xiamen, Fujian, China. It was formally put into operation on August 31, 2008 and is considered China's first elevated BRT network. Eventually the system will be rebuilt into an elevated metro network and be integrated with the Xiamen Metro.
The system uses some dedicated elevated roadways as well as dedicated lanes on bridges which allow buses to reach speeds of 60 km/h. Due to its success, the city has won honors as the China's top transportation city for six years running with more than 30% of trips taken by public transport.
Line
The system currently has 7 operational lines.
BRT 1
From No.1 Port to Xiamen North Railway Station in Jimei
21 stops over 33.4 km and takes about 90mins
BRT 1 Interchange
From Diyi Matou (No.1 Port) and ends at Wenxing Dong Rd (Qianpu)
17 bus stops over 18.7 km and takes about 50mins
Station
第一码头站 (Diyi Matou Station)
开禾路口站 (Kaihe Lukou Station)
思北站 (Sibei Station)
斗西路站 (Douxi Lukou Station)
二市站 (Ershi Station)
文灶站 (Wenzao Station) Line 1
火车站 (Xiamen Railway Station)
莲坂站 (Lianban Station)
龙山桥站 (Longshanqiao Station)
卧龙晓城站 (Wolong Xiaocheng Station)
东芳山庄站 (Dongfang Shanzhuang Station)
蔡塘站 (Caitang Station) Line 2
金山站 (Jinshan Station)
穆厝站 (Mucuo Station)
双十中学站 (Double Ten Middle School Station)
县后站(机场)(Xianhou Station (Airport))
集美大桥南站 (Jimei Daqiao South Station)
嘉庚体育馆站 (Jiageng Sport Center Station)
诚毅学院站 (Chengyi Institute Station)
华侨大学站 (Huaqiao University Station)
田厝站 (Tiancuo Station)(planned)
厦门北站 (Xiamen North Railway Station) Line 1
BRT 2
From Diyi Matou (No.1 Port) and ends at Xike.
9 stops over 15.3 km and takes about 40 minutes
The fare is calculated by distance travelled.
The basic fare is 0.3rmb per km in non-air condition bus and 0.6rmb in air conditioned bus
Station
第一码头站 (Diyi Matou Station)
开禾路口站 (Kaihe Lukou Station)
思北站 (Sibei Station)
斗西路站 (Douxi Lukou Station)
二市站 (Ershi Station)
文灶站 (Wenzao Station) Line 1
火车站 (Xiamen Railway Station)
莲坂站 (Lianban Station)
龙山桥站 (Longshanqiao Station)
卧龙晓城站 (Wolong Xiaocheng Station)
东芳山庄站 (Dongfang Shanzhuang Station)
蔡塘站 (Caitang Station) Line 2
金山站 (Jinshan Station)
穆厝站 (Mucuo Station)
双十中学站
县后站(机场) (Xianhou Station (Airport))
集美大桥南站 (Jimei Daqiao South Station)
凤林站 (Fenglin Station)
东垵站 (Dong'an Station)(under construction)
后田站 (Houtian Station)(under construction)
东亭站 (Dongting Station)(under construction)
美峰站 (Meifeng Station)(under construction)
下店站 (Xiadian Station)(under construction)
潘涂站 (Pantu Station)
西柯站 (Xike Station)
BRT 3
From No.1 Port and ends at Qianpu.
Station
第一码头站 (Diyi Matou Station)
开禾路口站 (Kaihe Lukou Station)
思北站 (Sibei Station)
斗西路站 (Douxi Lukou Station)
二市站 (Ershi Station)
文灶站 (Wenzao Station) Line 1
火车站 (Xiamen Railway Station)
莲坂站 (Lianban Station)
龙山桥站 (Longshanqiao Station)
卧龙晓城站 (Wolong Xiaocheng Station)
东芳山庄站 (Dongfang Shanzhuang Station)
洪文站 (Hongwen Station)
前埔枢纽站 (Qianpu Station)
会展中心站 (canceled)
会展中心北站 (canceled)
会展中心南站 (canceled)
文兴东路站 (canceled)
前 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SADB | SADB may refer to:
StopXam (English:Stop A DoucheBag) a Russian non-profit organization
Sadhbh (name)
Sadhbh, the Sidhe mother of Oisin
Sadb ingen Chuinn, an Irish queen
A Security Association Database, used in IPsec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM%20%28TV%20series%29 | RPM is an Australian motorsports and automotive television program that airs on Network Ten. The show returned to Ten in 2015, after originally airing from 1997 to 2008 on the same network, as well as in 2011 on sister channel One. The show currently airs on Sunday afternoons, having held a variety of timeslots over the show's history.
The show's season runs from approximately March to November each year, in line with major events in the Australian calendar such as the Clipsal 500 and Bathurst 1000, as well as the Formula One and MotoGP seasons. The program covers all major forms of motorsport across Australia and the world, with a particular focus on Formula One, MotoGP, NASCAR, Supercars Championship as well as the Australian Rally Championship and World Rally Championship. In recent years, the show has branched out to also cover more general motoring content such as car reviews.
1997–2008 version
RPM was launched in 1997 to accompany Network Ten's newly acquired coverage of Supercars, in conjunction with Foxtel. The original version of the show featured journalist Bill Woods and former MotoGP champion Barry Sheene as hosts. The show would normally air on Sunday afternoons, at varying timeslots and for various lengths, often depending on the network's other motorsport coverage. At the end of 2002, Sheene left the program due to serious health issues, and died in early 2003.
Following this, Woods hosted alone with the help of various reporters and specialists including Greg Rust, Neil Crompton and Daryl Beattie. For around six months in 2006, model Grace McClure co-hosted alongside Woods. In 2007, Rust took over from Woods as host, after Woods moved to a position hosting Ten Weekend News bulletins.
Format
Generally, each show began with the 'Circuit' segment, which involved Woods presenting the motorsport news of the past week. This segment included race highlights from the previous week, as well as updates of the progress of various Australians abroad at the time. 'Circuit' also covered rumours, such as potential driver moves for the following season in various categories.
Following this, there were usually around four segments, depending on the length of the timeslot. In later years, two of these were always taken up by updates from the MotoGP and Formula One series, either previewing or reviewing recent events. This generally involved the host discussing these events with the respective specialist for each form of motorsport. The other segments were usually taken up by either an interview with a driver or motorsport personality, a 'behind the scenes' report, a technical report, or features on other motorsport series, including smaller and/or junior series. Despite Network Ten and Fox Sports losing the broadcast rights to Supercars in 2006, the series was still regularly covered by the show.
Cancellation
In March 2009 it was announced that the show would not be returning. This was despite the simultaneous launch of One, a 24-hour spor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Education%20Network%20Europe | The Global Education Network Europe (GENE) is the European network of ministries, agencies and other national bodies responsible for support, funding and policy-making in the field of global education. Started in 2001 with 6 national structures, GENE has grown to include structures from 25 countries leading the provision of global education in Europe, with combined annual budgets in excess of 150 million Euro.
Definition
Global education can be defined as:
... education that opens people’s eyes and minds to the realities of the world, and awakens them to bring about a world of greater justice, equity and human rights for all. GE is understood to encompass Development Education, Human Rights Education, Education for Sustainability, Education for Peace and Conflict Prevention and Intercultural Education; being the global dimensions of Education for Citizenship.
Goals
The purpose of GENE is to support national structures in their work of improving the quality and increasing the provision of global education in Europe. GENE does this through networking and regular round table discussions, through peer learning and policy research, and through the development of national strategies.
Aims of GENE:
To share experience and strategies among existing and emerging national structures, in order to inform best practice nationally and provide mutual support and learning.
To disseminate learning from the participating countries to other countries in Europe, so that structures for Global Education subsequently emerging will learn from this experience, and so that, eventually, all countries in Europe might have national co-ordinating structures for the increase and improvement of global education.
To develop and pursue a common European agenda on strengthening global education.
The overarching aim of GENEs work is to improve the quality and provision of global education in Europe. The ultimate benchmark towards which GENE works is towards the day when all people in Europe will have access to quality global education. GENE achieves this through networking of national strategies, through peer learning, and through common projects, bilateral exchange and capacity building.
Participating Ministries and Agencies
Austria
ADA, Austrian Development Agency
Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, Austria
KommEnt
Belgium
FPS Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation
Enabel – Belgian Development Agency
Bulgaria
Ministry of Education and Science
Czech Republic
Czech Development Agency
Estonia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry for Education and Research
Estonian National Commission for UNESCO
Finland
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
EDUFI
France
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation
AFD – French Development Agency
Germany
Engagement Global
Greece
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of National Education, Research and Religion
Hungary
Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade
Ireland
Iris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Within%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Within" is the eighth season premiere of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States on November 5, 2000, on the Fox Network. It was written by executive producer and series creator Chris Carter, and directed by Kim Manners. The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 9.5 and was watched by 15.87 million viewers, marking a slight increase from the previous season's finale "Requiem". "Within" was largely well-received by critics, although some fans felt alienated by the addition of Robert Patrick to the cast.
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. In this episode—continuing from the seventh season finale "Requiem" when Mulder was abducted by aliens who are planning to colonize Earth—an FBI taskforce is organized to hunt for Mulder but Scully suspects the taskforce leader, Special Agent John Doggett (Patrick), and instead chooses to search for her lost partner with Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi). Scully and Skinner travel to Arizona, only to be followed by Doggett's task force. There, they find Gibson Praise (Jeff Gulka) and someone who they believe may very well be Mulder.
"Within" was a story milestone for the series. It introduced several new character changes for the season, including the departure of Mulder and the inclusion of Doggett as a main character to the cast. The episode was written as a way to both explain Mulder's absence as well as appease fans who would otherwise lament the loss of Duchovny. "Within" also marked the first major change to the opening credits since the show first started, with new images and updated photos for David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, and the addition of Robert Patrick. "Within" has been analyzed due to its themes of death and resurrection. In addition, the experiments performed on Mulder after his abduction have been thematically compared to the Crucifixion of Jesus.
Plot
Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) has been deeply distraught since Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) was abducted by aliens. One morning, she arrives in her partner's office to find it being searched by FBI agents. Scully subsequently learns that the Bureau's newly promoted deputy director, Alvin Kersh (James Pickens, Jr.), has launched a manhunt in search for Mulder. The investigation is being led by an FBI special agent named John Doggett. Scully and Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) are taken to the task force's field office to be questioned, despite protests that they would be the most qualified to lead the manhunt themselves. As Skinner is being interrogated, Scully is accosted by an unnamed person who starts asking her about Mulder. When Scully finds out that he is actually Doggett (Robert Patrick), she angrily throws water in his face and leaves.
Back at her apartment, Scully runs a background check of Doggett on her computer, learning about his background as a former |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECSE%20%28Academic%20Degree%29 | ECSE is an abbreviation for Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Systems Engineering. It is a designation used at some universities for the major or department that blends these three fields together.
One reason behind linking the areas of study is to provide students with a broad overview of each of software, hardware and Systems theory. However there are also reasons for not blending departments: Students who major in theoretical computer science, studying such topics as algorithm analysis and software engineering, may not have any use for extensive electrical engineering or systems theory classes.
Not every university uses the ECSE designation. Several universities, for example, have separate EE/ECE and CS departments/majors. Other schools use the similar ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) designation. Additionally, some schools which offer an ECSE degree also offer degrees in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science separately.
Academic Citation
See also
Academic major
Computer science education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Charlton%20%28technologist%29 | Paul Charlton is a software and hardware consultant in Silicon Valley. He was a pioneer in developing freeware and open source computer programs. He was the founder of C2B Technologies.
Timeline of notable technological contributions
1985 FastTerm - One of the earliest known Freeware and open-source programs for browsing and participating in online communities such as CompuServe, The Source, Delphi and Bulletin Board System networks which pre-dated the existence of the World Wide Web,.
1987 Myarc Disk Operating System (MDOS) - operating system for consumer oriented personal computer.
1987 Myarc 9640 Geneve - single-board consumer oriented personal computer.
1994 QuickTime - market leading multimedia presentation engine for Windows, Mac OS and other platforms.
1996 Carbon API for Mac OS - legacy application compatibility on Apple Computer's Darwin Kernel (derived from QTML authored for QuickTime).
1996 Created a company named C Innovation which makes the student information system called Zangle.
1997 C2B Technologies, Inc - Founder and CTO of company which developed market leading Internet comparison shopping engine, company was acquired in 1998 by Inktomi, which was later acquired by Yahoo
1998 Java 2D - key contributor to graphics library distributed by Sun Microsystems as part of its Java developer kits since 1998,.
Education
Charlton received a BS in the disciplines of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) from RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
References
Citations
External links
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%202009 | A list of films produced in Italy in 2009 (see 2009 in film):
External links
Italian films of 2009 at the Internet Movie Database
2009
Films
Italian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C4%83ile%20Ferate%20Rom%C3%A2ne%20main%20lines | The nine main lines owned by the Romanian national rail transport company Căile Ferate Române represent the most circulated lines in Romania. CFR's entire rail networks has and with the of rail lines in railway stations has a total network of .
History
The first railway line on Romania's present-day territory was opened on August 20, 1854, and ran between Oravița in Banat and Baziaș, a port on the Danube. The line, which had a length of , was used solely for the transportation of coal. From January 12, 1855, the line was operated by the Imperial Royal Privileged Austrian State Railway Company, the Banat province being at that time part of the Austrian Empire. After several improvements in the following months, the line was opened to passenger traffic on November 1, 1856.
References
Railway lines in Romania
Standard gauge railways in Romania
Căile Ferate Române |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20Cowboy%20%28disambiguation%29 | Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American film.
Midnight Cowboy may also refer to:
Midnight Cowboy (novel), a 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy; basis for the film
Midnight Cowboy Radio Network, now Red Eye Radio, an American syndicated talk radio program
Midnight Cowboy, a 2006 play by Tim Fountain, adapted from the film
"Midnight Cowboy", a 1969 instrumental song composed by John Barry
"Midnight Cowboy", an instrumental cover of the film theme by Faith No More, on their 1992 album Angel Dust
"Midnight Cowboy", a story in the comics series Hellboy: Weird Tales
"Midnight Cowboy", a chapter of the manga series Cowboy Bebop: Shooting Star
"Midnight cowboy", one of the personnel in a 3-day shift plan in the U.S. Navy
"Midnight Cowboys", an episode of the TV series Fudge
See also
Manhattan Cowboy, a 1928 American silent film
Cowboy in Manhattan, a 1943 American film
Urban Cowboy, a 1980 American film
Drugstore Cowboy, a 1989 American film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20albums%20of%202007 | The highest-selling albums and mini-albums in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Weekly Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each album's weekly physical sales. In 2007, 41 albums reached the peak of the charts.
R&B singer Kumi Koda's Black Cherry had the longest run of 2007. The album stayed atop of the charts for four consecutive weeks becoming the first female studio album since Ayumi Hamasaki's Duty in 2000. Korean pop singer BoA's Made in Twenty (20) made her the second artist after Ayumi Hamasaki to have five constructive number-one studio albums since her debut. Ayumi Hamasaki simultaneously released her greatest hits collection A Best 2; which consists of two albums A Best 2: White and A Best 2: Black. The former took the number-one spot while the latter took #2, making Hamasaki the first female artist in thirty-six years to take the Top two spots on the charts.
American pop group Backstreet Boys' Unbreakable became the first album of a foreign male group to top the Oricon for two consecutive weeks since O-Zone's DiscO-Zone in 2005. Other artists who had an extended run on the charts include Kaela Kimura, Mr. Children, Yui, Mariya Takeuchi, Namie Amuro, Sukima Switch, Hideaki Tokunaga, and Ketsumeishi. Folk rock singer Kazumasa Oda's Jiko Best 2 makes him the oldest artist, at 60 years old, to have a number-one album on the chart. Canadian pop punk singer Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Thing made her the first foreign artist to sell a million copies since her debut album.
The best-selling album overall of 2008 was Mr. Children's Home which sold over 1,181,000 copies. The second best-selling album was Koda's Black Cherry, which sold 1,022,000 copies, followed by Kobukuro's All Singles Best, which was released September 2006 selling over 850,000 copies. The fourth- and fifth-best-selling albums was Lavigne's The Best Damn Thing and Hamasaki's A Best 2: White respectively. The Best Damn Thing sold 840,000 while A Best 2: White sold 716,000 copies.
Chart history
References
Japan Albums
2007
2007 in Japanese music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didsbury%20Village%20tram%20stop | Didsbury Village is a tram stop on the South Manchester Line on the light-rail Metrolink network in Greater Manchester, England. It serves the South Manchester suburb of Didsbury.
History
The Manchester South District Line was opened by the Midland Railway in 1880. Originally, Didsbury was served by Didsbury railway station, which was located opposite Didsbury Library on Wilmslow Road, approximately further north along the line from the present tram stop. The railway station was closed in 1967 as part of the Beeching cuts and was demolished in 1982, and the old railway line lay derelict for several decades.
In 1984, Greater Manchester Council and GMPTE announced the Project Light Rail scheme to develop a new light rail/tram system by re-opening use of disused railway lines in the region, including the route through Didsbury. The first phase of the Manchester Metrolink system opened in 1992, but it was not until 2013 that the network was expanded to reach Didsbury, as part of Phase 3b of the Metrolink expansion project. Tram tracks were laid along the former trackbed, but as Didsbury station had been demolished over 30 years earlier, a new tram stop was constructed further down the line on School Lane.
There were plans to extend the line to Stockport, which were cancelled on grounds of cost.
Service pattern
12 minute service to with double trams in the peak
12 minute service to with double trams in the peak
6 minute service to with double trams in the peak
References
Sources
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20130226053951/http://www.lrta.org/Manchester/city_south.html
Metrolink stop information
Didsbury Village area map
Didsbury
Tram stops in Manchester
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2013
Manchester South District Line
Tram stops on the East Didsbury to Rochdale line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBJ%3A%20The%20Early%20Years | LBJ: The Early Years is a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the pre-presidential life of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. Actor Randy Quaid won a Golden Globe award for his portrayal of Johnson.
Plot
In 1934, then clerk for Texas Congressman Richard Kleberg, Lyndon Johnson (Randy Quaid) runs up the steps of the Capitol to meet with future Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (Pat Hingle), who is sure he will work beside Johnson in the future. Johnson then runs off with his boss's Cadillac, driving all night to pick up his fiancee Lady Bird Johnson (Patti LuPone) at the home of her father in Texas. They both drive back to Washington, D.C., and have a bad run-in with Kleberg's standoffish wife, who thinks he is sabotaging her husband for his own political gain.
After being fired by the Congressman (through his wife's intervention), Johnson wakes up one morning to find that another Congressman has died, leaving the seat vacant. He prods a local judge who is very politically connected, Judge Alvin Wirtz (Barry Corbin), into giving him a chance to run for Congress. Judge Wirtz tells Johnson that the former Congressman's widow might run for the seat, and that he'll need $10,000 just to make it a contest. Lady Bird Johnson's father provides the $10,000, and gets confirmation that the widow will not run. Johnson then tours the hill country of Texas, bringing along his father and his wife to campaign. He promises that he shall provide services such as power and running water to the people, and goes stumping, pushing harder and harder. It is after a gruelling schedule and many, many cigarettes and Milk of Magnesia bottles later that the pain is so great in his abdominal area that Johnson collapses. Lady Bird appears at the bedside of her husband, who had an operation to remove a ruptured appendix and is now recuperating. When he awakens, she tell him that he had won the election and calls him 'Congressman'. Johnson is then shown inside the Capitol, taking an elevator ride up with his friend Sam Rayburn, leaving his wife as the elevator doors close.
Johnson receives a phone call that his father had died, and he goes to Texas for his funeral, when he discovers that his father left his mother in thousands of dollars worth of debt. This revelation, combined with the high cost of running a campaign, forces LBJ to becoming a friend to lobbyists in order to find money. These new connections mean that not only he can begin to get financial help, but his stalled hydroelectric project gets the help it needs in order to happen. At a party held by his largest backer, Johnson meets a vivacious and attractive woman, Alice Glass (Morgan Brittany), who becomes a lightning rod for his ambition. Despite the threat of another woman, Lady Bird is determined to keep her husband and to help him become even more successful.
It is now 1948, and Johnson now is vying for a Senate seat soon to be vacated by a ret |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutie%20Honey%20FX | is a Cutie Honey video game developed by DataWest and released by NEC for the PC-FX in Japan in 1995.
Plot
Mysterious disappearances have been occurring throughout the South Pacific at the mysterious resort on Austral Island. Honey Kisaragi catches wind of and decides to investigate by sneaking onto the island with help from Danbei Hayami and the player character who's a private detective (an associate of Danbei's son Seiji) who comes on the request to find a family's daughter named Mizue.
The player arrives on Austral Island and befriends Miku Fujiwara. After spending some time on the island, the player finds a dark secret hidden in the shadows when Miku was being kidnapped by thugs. The player is later brought to Mizue who had been transformed into a kaijin by Panther Claw. Cutie Honey then appears after this revelation and fights the mutated Mizue off ending her life.
The player finds out from Honey that Austral Island is really a place that Panther Claw uses to create kaijin from guests of exceptional worth. With Miku among the kidnapped guests, the player teams up with Honey to rescue her and stop Panther Claw. They find out that the fortune teller Damia is actually the one who seeks out potential recruits by using her stand and a chip in her prop mask to find them and having the Panthers abduct them later. Honey fights against Damia in her kaijin form Needle Panther and defeats her.
With more investigations such as the player finding his pass card, the player and Honey eventually confront Panther Claw's leader Sister Jill. Miku is rescued before she can be converted into a kaijin while Honey fights Jill. Ultimately, Honey is victorious, ending Panther Claw's scheme. The player while unable to tell his clients any good news about Mizue, he is happy that Miku is safe.
Gameplay
Cutie Honey FX contains elements of a visual novel, dating simulation, and point and click adventure with the player's exploration and communication between other characters being automatic with the only actions the player really does is clicking on areas, keeping up with dialogue, and picking from various choices throughout the game. Some of the characters the player encounters include Miku Fujiwara, a guest who is one of the first people that the player encounters. During battle scenes, the player assists Honey by empowering her attacks and guiding her attacks to certain areas. Failure to react in time or selecting a wrong area results in a MISS and Honey takes damage instead. At a certain part, the player even chooses what form Honey can assume.
Overview
This is the first Cutie Honey game that was made with an original story. New forms called Fantasy Knight Honey armed with a broadsword, Wrestler Honey uses acrobatic wrestling techniques, and Commando Honey who uses a pistol are used for this game along with combat animations built for the game. The costume used for the game is based on the outfit Honey wore in the original Cutie Honey anime. The plot was la |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SingStar%20Queen | SingStar Queen is a competitive karaoke video game for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2, developed by London Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. The game features the music of rock band Queen.
Gameplay
SingStar games require players to sing along with music in order to score points. Players interface with their console via SingStar USB microphones while a music video plays in the background. The pitch players are required to sing is displayed as horizontal grey bars, which function similar to a musical stave, with corresponding lyrics displayed at the bottom of the screen. The game analyses a player's pitch and compares it to the original track, with players scoring points based on how accurate their singing is. Different modes of SingStar may vary this basic pattern, but the principle is similar throughout.
SingStar includes a variety of game modes. The standard singing mode allows one or two people to sing simultaneously, either competitively or in a duet.
The PlayStation 3 version of the game supports trophies, however, older versions of the game will need to go online to get the latest patch. Future SingStar games will include the trophy patched game on the SingStar disc.
Track list
Reception
The game received "average" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
Notes
External links
2009 video games
Band-centric video games
Cultural depictions of Freddie Mercury
EyeToy games
Karaoke video games
London Studio games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 3 games
Queen (band)
SingStar
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games based on musicians
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
fr:Singstar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnan%E2%80%93Burma%20railway | The Yunnan–Burma railway (alternatively: Burma–Yunnan railway) was a failed British project to connect far southwest China's Yunnan province with the recently established rail network in British-ruled Burma.
History and politics
The British project was working against the background of the successful French Kunming-Haiphong railway that had been established on the nearby Hanoi to Kunming route from 1904–1910, some 30 years earlier. To secure the rights to construction, Britain referred to Article IV of the Anglo-French Siam Convention for 'mutual privileges'.
Planning and surveying
Maria Bugrova's article The British expeditions to China in XIX century discusses the question of a railway to Yunnan from Burma.
In the 1880s, Great Britain drew special attention to the Upper Burma region and the roads to southwestern China. The former colonial officer of British Burma's administration, A.R. Colquhoun, and an engineer of the Civil Works Department in India, H. Hallett, traveled in 1882 from Canton to Rangoon. A.R Colquhoun returned to England and sent his proposal to the Chamber of Commerce of Great Britain to investigate the question of building a railway between Rangoon and southwestern China through the Shan states. His proposal was approved by the Chamber. According to a preliminary calculation, the cost of work was about seven thousand pound sterling. One half of this amount had to be presented by the Chambers of Commerce, and another part had to be contributed by the Government.
By the end of 1884, Hallett and Colquhoun received 3,500 pounds from the Chamber of Commerce for the investigation of building a railway. They found important information about climate, population and minerals. They drew special attention to liking. From their point of view, penetration of British goods into China depended on the amount of this tax. The difficulty of liking question substantially explained the British traders' interest in building a railway. In case of this building it would be possible to avoid the payment of liking transferring goods to the interior of China. Colquhoun telegraphed daily to The Times about the expedition.
There are references in the 1898 British Hansard regarding possible construction of the line.
Archibald John Little's 1905 book The Far East mentioned the proposed route on page 124:
A railway, starting from Mandalay, goes north-east to the bank of the Salwin which is to be crossed at Kunlong Ferry in latitude 23 degrees 20', whence, if ever built, it is to be taken north in Chinese territory and run parallel with the prevailing strike of the mountains, due north to Tali-fu; but this line will pass through a wild thinly-peopled country and it is doubtful if a private company will be found to build it.
In 1911, Leo Borgholz, the US Consul General in Canton, published a trade report entitled 'Yunnan Trade Districts and Routes', in which he mentions that the British appeared to have shelved the project for lack of financial via |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Zakharov | Vladimir Zakharov may refer to:
Vladimir Zakharov (mathematician) (born 1960), Russian mathematician, professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University
Vladimir E. Zakharov (1939–2023), Russian mathematician and theoretical physicist
Vladimir Grigoryevich Zakharov (1901–1956), Soviet composer
Vladimir Ivanovich Zakharov (born 1961), Belarusian guitarist
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov (1946–2013), Russian choreographer
See also
Vladimir Sakharov (born 1948), former Soviet footballer
Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov (1853–1920), general of the Russian Imperial Army |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend%20Marketplace | Weekend Marketplace is a two-hour block of paid programming airing on Fox that debuted on January 3, 2009, replacing the 4Kids TV cartoon block due to the termination of the network's time lease agreement with 4Kids Entertainment. The block, which airs on Saturday mornings, is programmed solely with infomercials, which usually air on networks and broadcast television stations during late night and early morning timeslots; such programming, however, has not previously been scheduled on a regular basis by a major broadcast television network.
Beginning on September 13, 2014 in some markets, Weekend Marketplace can be substituted with the internally syndicated Xploration Station block produced by Steve Rotfeld Productions, which provides two hours of educational and informational programming for stations to count toward federally mandated programming requirements; Fox's owned-and-operated stations and Nexstar Media Group, along with several other affiliate groups and individual stations are currently carrying this block instead. Fox continues to offer Weekend Marketplace to stations which chose to purchase E/I programming off the open syndication market. Notably the Fox stations (and one CW station) of Sinclair Broadcast Group were under the latter arrangement until fall 2016, when Sinclair also began to carry Xploration Station, and one station within the Gray Television's portfolio (Fox affiliate WFLX). At least one Sinclair station (WUTV in Buffalo, New York) carries both, carrying Weekend Marketplace on Saturday mornings while splitting the Xploration Station block up and airing it as a weekday strip instead of as a block.
Overview
Branding and title issues
Despite being carried by Fox, the block contains no network branding or in-house promotional advertising, as it consists of infomercials with no commercial breaks. The title "Weekend Marketplace" is not referenced within the block, and is used mainly as a placeholder title within television listings and industry media; most stations that carry the block list it as four separate segments of "paid programming" so that viewers are not misled about its content. In addition, Fox stated that it ultimately intended to have the block contain programs that resemble normal programming (albeit still prominently advertising a product), though this never occurred. Presently the block consists of four traditional 28½-minute infomercials, with short-form direct response commercials airing at the end of each half-hour; no local station breaks are shown beyond a five-second station identification slot (to fulfill Federal Communications Commission rules) at the top of the first hour.
Scheduling
The block normally airs from 10:00 a.m. to Noon Eastern and Pacific Time, the second half of the timeslot previously used for 4Kids TV, the remaining two-hour time period occupied by the first half of the predecessor block was returned to the network's affiliates, for use to air syndicated, locally produced lifestyl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Eddy | Andy Eddy is an American video game journalist and critic. He resides in Redwood City, California.
Biography
Eddy was the executive editor (and de facto editor-in-chief) of VideoGames & Computer Entertainment in the late 1980s and early 1990s, followed by tenure as a senior editor at GamePro magazine. He has freelanced for several publications in his 20-year career and wrote “Biz Buzz,” a column about the video game business for GameSpy, from 2002 to 2004, including a somewhat controversial analysis of questionable circulation data and audit methods for Game Informer magazine. He has served as from Senior Editorial Manager of Community Sites at IGN Entertainment in Brisbane, California and ended his run as Editor in Chief at TeamXbox in March 2010.
Sometime in the early 1990s, Eddy and his family made an appearance on The People’s Court. They were suing Dr. Dennis Hayes for $5,000 because they claimed that Dr. Hayes did not insert instructions in seasick patch prescriptions which warn against use by children under the age of 12. Because of this, his then 8-year-old daughter Meghan suffered hallucinations on their Christmas cruise. In the end, they received $3,025.
Eddy is also the author of several books, including Internet After Hours and several TurboGrafx-16 code books. Eddy also created new content for an updated edition of David Sheff's book Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children in 1999. The retitled Game Over: Press Start to Continue includes new interviews and updated company history, written by Eddy.
Eddy is also notable for setting up one of the first online archive dedicated to gaming. His personal FTP site at Netcom was among the first internet archives for gaming FAQs and information in 1994. A mirror of Eddy's site would later develop into the popular website GameFAQs.
Eddy is the Editor in Chief of @Gamer Magazine.
References
1958 births
Living people
American critics
American male journalists
Video game critics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B03 | C++03 is a version of the ISO/IEC 14882 standard for the C++ programming language. It is defined by two standards organizations, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), in standard ISO/IEC 14882:2003.
C++03 replaced the prior version of the C++ standard, called C++98, and was later replaced by C++11. C++03 was primarily a bug fix release for the implementers to ensure greater consistency and portability. This revision addressed 92 core language defect reports, 125 library defect reports, and included only one new language feature: value initialization.
Among the more noteworthy defect reports addressed by C++03 was the library defect report 69, whose resolution added the requirement that elements in a vector are stored contiguously. This codifies the common expectation that a C++ std::vector object uses a memory layout similar to an array. While most implementations satisfied this expectation, it was not required by C++98.
See also
C++ Technical Report 1 - Additions to the C++03 Standard Library
C++ standardization
C++ Standard Library
References
C++
Programming language standards
C++ programming language family
IEC standards
ISO standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Setup | Windows Setup is an installer that prepares a computer for a Microsoft Windows installation by allowing the user to pick installation settings (modifying partitions if necessary) and copying the files to the drive.
The early versions of Windows required an existing compatible version of DOS operating system in order to be installed. The Windows NT family, from 3.1 through 6.0 featured text-based installation that prompted users to a GUI wizard in the final steps. The 9x family installer was similar to NT despite it being MS-DOS-based. Additionally, it did not need preinstalled DOS as a requirement. With the release of Windows NT 6.0 (Commonly referred to as Windows Vista), Microsoft introduced a fully graphical setup environment and UEFI support (partial in Windows Vista and 7, full UEFI support on Windows 8 onwards). The new graphical setup environment is based on Windows Preinstallation Environment.
Windows 1.x and Windows 2.x
The installation of Windows 1.x, Windows 2.0, Windows 2.1x requires that a compatible version of MS-DOS is installed. The user must specify any hardware such as mice or printers during installation. After the installation, Windows was to be started either manually by typing "WIN.COM" at the command prompt, or configured for automatic startup by adding WIN.COM to the end of AUTOEXEC.BAT.
Windows 3.x
The installation of Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1x and Windows 3.2 requires that a compatible DOS operating system is already installed. The installer attempts to detect network cards, mice, and other hardware on its own but will rely on the user to specify hardware if it cannot find them. After the installation, Windows was to be started either manually by typing "WIN.COM" at the command prompt, or configured for automatic startup by adding WIN.COM to the end of AUTOEXEC.BAT.
Windows 9x
Windows 95-98 and Windows Me do not require MS-DOS. The first phase of setup prepares the hard disk partition for use by Windows by formatting it to a compatible file system, then runs scandisk, and, if the hard disk appears to be ready for installation in terms of free space and disk integrity, then it will copy files to the selected installation folder (typically C:\WINDOWS). The first phase of setup resembles the interface of Windows 3.x. Once this phase is finished, the computer reboots and setup resumes from the hard disk, but still requires the installation media to continue copying files and drivers. At this point the user will be asked to provide a product key.
Windows NT
Before Windows Vista
The setup process introduced with Windows NT 3.1 remained in effect until the release of Windows Vista. The general process is:
The user inserts the installation media, initializes the process, and Setup loads various hardware and file-system drivers.
If any third-party drivers are needed in order to detect an SCSI or RAID system, setup pauses and requests the supply of a driver on a floppy disk. See F6 disk.
The user is then presented with a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | Zorro is a 2009 Philippine television drama action series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on the Zorro character created by Johnston McCulley. Directed by Mark A. Reyes and Dominic Zapata, it stars Richard Gutierrez in the title role. It premiered on March 23, 2009 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on August 7, 2009 with a total of 98 episodes. It was replaced by Darna in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Richard Gutierrez as Antonio de la Cruz Pelaez / Zorro
Supporting cast
Rhian Ramos as Lolita Pulido
Jaclyn Jose as Chiquita Pelaez
Michelle Madrigal as Juana Manalo / Caballera
Bianca King as Cara
Eddie Gutierrez as Luis Aragon
TJ Trinidad as Ramon Pelaez
Joel Torre as Roberto Pelaez / Rosso
Leo Martinez as Carlos Pulido
Pinky Marquez as Catalina Pulido
Ricky Davao as Felipe Gomez
Bobby Andrews as Pedro Gonzales
Antonio Aquitania as Bernardo
Robert Villar as Pepe Alugbati
Epy Quizon as Shihong / Tahong
Sandy Andolong as Maria Manalo
Maureen Larrazabal as Bella de la Cruz
Recurring cast
Gloria Sevilla as Zita
Sheena Halili as Lena
Bubbles Paraiso as Magda
Paloma Esmeria as Paquita Pakwan
Shiela Marie Rodriguez as Lisa
Bodie Cruz as Agustin Manalo
Elvis Gutierrez as Silverio
Guest cast
Lani Mercado as Marcela de la Cruz
Mark Gil as Horacio Pelaez
Jomari Yllana as Diego de la Vega
Jacob Rica as young Antonio
Gail Lardizabal as young Lolita
Sugar Mercado as Anna
Dante Rivero as magistrate of Angeles
Chanda Romero as Aguida
Dick Israel as Jumal
Jen Rosendahl as Jumal's assistant
Isabel Granada as Minerva
Edwin Reyes as Tomas
Daria Ramirez as Aswang
Yul Servo as Samurai
Suzette Ranillo as Chiquita's assistant
Nonie Buencamino as De los Reyes
Richie Paul Gutierrez as Sebastian
Rocky Gutierrez as Baltazar
Alfred Vargas as Lima Wong
Felix Roco as Diego
Dominic Roco as Daniel
Bearwin Meily as a pirate
LJ Reyes as Sandy
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Zorro earned a 35.8% rating. While the final episode scored a 32% rating.
References
External links
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine action television series
Zorro television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Runway%20Canada%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of Project Runway Canada, Global's reality competition show for fashion designers, was the first season to air on the Global network, since the show stopped airing on Slice. The season premiered on January 27, 2009.
The winner of Project Runway Canada Season 2 was Sunny Fong.
Contestants
The 14 fashion designers competing in the second season were:
Adejoké Taiwo, Calgary
Baylor Orlando, Montreal
Brandon R. Dwyer, Barrie
Camille Prins, Toronto
Christie Clayton, Vancouver(deceased)
Danio Frangella, LaSalle (deceased)
Genevieve Graham, Vancouver
Jaclyn Murray, Winnipeg
Jason Meyers, Hamilton
Jeff MacKinnon, Toronto
Jessica Biffi, Toronto
Kim Cathers, Vancouver
Margarita Voultsos, Montreal
Sunny Fong, Toronto
Challenges
Blue background and WIN means the designer was marked as the strongest performer and won that challenge.
Turquoise background and HIGH means the designer was marked as the second strongest performer but did not win.
Light blue background and HIGH means the designer was marked as one of the strongest performers but did not win.
Pink background and LOW means the designer was marked as one of the weakest performers, but was not eliminated.
Orange background and LOW means the designer was marked as the second weakest performer and in the bottom two for that challenge, but was not eliminated.
Red background and OUT means the designer was marked as the weakest performer and was out of the competition.
Crimson background means the designer was eliminated, but was brought back.
Teal background and ADV means the designer advanced to Fashion Week.
Green background and WIN means the designer won the entire competition.
Yellow background and WD means the designer withdrew from the competition.
Note 1: Although being on the winning team, the judges did not like Adejoke's look. Inversely, despite being on the losing team, the judges liked Baylor's look.Note 2: Genevieve and Jason, after previously being eliminated, were brought back in Episode 9 with the requirement that their team had to win the challenge in order for them to remain in the competition.Note 3: Episode 11 featured the Final Three preparing their collection for Toronto Fashion Week. There was no judging or elimination in this episode.
Blue background and WIN means the model wore the winning design that challenge.
Red background and IN means the model wore the losing design that challenge.
Gray background and OUT means the model was out of the competition.
Green background and WIN means the model was paired with the winning designer, and won the competition.
Note: The models were not used in Episode 5. The models were not used in Episode 7.
Episode guides
Episode 1: Fashion is a Battlefield
Original Airdate: January 27, 2009
14 designers took part in the second season of Project Runway. They stayed in Ottawa, Ontario. For their first challenge, they were given the task of making a ground-breaking design with various camouflage prints, and th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniGUI | MiniGUI is a GUI system with support for real-time and embedded operating systems, and aims to be fast, stable, light-weight and cross-platform. It was first released under the GNU GPL in 1999, and has since offered a commercial version with more features, including support for operating systems other than Linux and eCos. MiniGUI has been widely used in handheld terminals, portable media players, and industry instruments.
History
MiniGUI was started by Wei Yongming as a simple interface for a control system based on Linux. The project was developed independently under the GNU GPL until September 2002, when the developers founded Feynman Software Technology and began commercial marketing of the software.
In October 2003, MiniGUI was ported to μClinux and eCos.
Features
Support for many embedded operating systems, including Linux and its derivative μClinux, eCos, VxWorks, pSOS, ThreadX and Nucleus
Support for embedded resources and as a result devices without file systems
Compatibility with Windows resource file formats including icons and cursors.
Skin support
Support for many character sets, including ISO8859 and BIG5
References
External links
MiniGUI official website
Graphical user interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXVM | DXVM (99.1 FM), broadcasting as 99.1 iFM, is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. It serves as the flagship station of iFM. The station's studio is located at the RMN Broadcast Center (Canoy Bldg.), Don Apolinario Velez St. cor. Echem St., Cagayan de Oro, and its transmitter is located at Brgy. Bulua, Cagayan de Oro.
History
Established on 1974, DXVM was the first RMN station and the pioneer FM station in the city. It began its broadcasting on November 1, 1976, as 99.1 VM-FM, carrying a Top 40 format together with other RMN FM stations across the country, excluding DWHB in Baguio (which carried a smooth jazz format) and DYXL in Cebu (which carried an easy listening format). On August 16, 1992, the station was relaunched as Smile Radio 99.1 with the slogan "The Voice of Music". It was one of few Smile Radio station with the same format, along with DYHT in Bacolod. On November 23, 1999, Smile Radio was rebranded as 991 VMFM (pronounced as "nine-nine-one") with its slogan "Live It Up!". On May 16, 2002, the station was relaunched as 99.1 iFM and switched to a mass-based format.
References
Radio stations in Cagayan de Oro
Radio stations established in 1974
IFM stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRT%20%C3%87ocuk | TRT Çocuk is a Turkish television station, part of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, which can also be received in Azerbaijan. It broadcasts a wide range of programming for children such as cartoons, drama and entertainment 24 hours a day. Previously, the channel broadcast until 21:00 TRT (Turkish Time), and broadcast TRT Okul until 06:30 from 2011 to 2017.
Shows
Original programming
Anka: Anadolu Kartalları
Barbaros
Benimle Oynar Mısın?
Bulmaca Kulesi
Cille
Çatlak Yumurtalar
Dede Korkut Hikayeleri
Doru
Emiray
İbi
İstanbul Muhafızları
Karınca Ailesi
Keloğlan Masalları
Köstebekgiller
Küçük Hezarfen
Maysa ve Bulut
Nane İle Limon
Nasreddin Hoca Zaman Yolcusu
Niloya
Oyunbaz Sorular
Ömer Seyfettin Hikayeleri
Pepee
Pırdino
Pırıl
Rafadan Tayfa
Tozkoparan
Yade Yade
Z Takımı
Other
A Miss Mallard Mystery
Arabian Nights: Sinbad's Adventures
Arthur
Bernard
Belle and Sebastian
Charlie and Lola
Chuggington
Dinosaur Train
Dinotrux
Doki Adventures
Doug
Element Hunters
Erky Perky
Fishtronaut
Flipper and Lopaka
Franny's Feet
Gerald Mc Boing Boing
Guess How Much I Love You
Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
Heidi
Hutos Mini Mini
In the Night Garden...
Jibber Jabber
Kitou Scrogneugneu
Laura's Star
Max & Maestro
Maya the Bee
Nelly & Caesar
Nils Holgersson
Noonbory and the Super Seven
Odd Squad
Sid the Science Kid
Super Wings
Tales of Tatonka
The Adventures of Little Brown Bear
The Adventures of Paddington Bear
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures
The Magic Roundabout
The Magic Tree
The Neverending Story
The New Adventures of Nanoboy
The Triplets
The Wombles
The Zack Files
The Zula Patrol
Uniminipet
Vic the Viking
Vicky the Viking
Vipo: Adventures of the Flying Dog
Will and Dewitt
YooHoo & Friends
Zigby
References
External links
TRT Çocuk's Official site
TRT's Official Website
Watch All TRT Channels live Online
TRT Çocuk at LyngSat Address
Television stations in Turkey
Turkish-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2008
2008 establishments in Turkey
Children's television channels in Turkey
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplanner | Microplanner may refer to:
Micro-Planner (programming language), an artificial intelligence programming language of the 1970s, a subset implementation of Planner
MicroPlanner X-Pert, a project management software package |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct2D | Direct2D is a 2D vector graphics application programming interface (API) designed by Microsoft and implemented in Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and also Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (with Platform Update installed).
Direct2D takes advantage of hardware acceleration via the graphics processing unit (GPU) found in compatible graphics cards within personal computer, tablet, smartphone and modern graphical device. It offers high visual quality and fast rendering performance while maintaining full interoperability with classic Win32 graphics APIs such as GDI/GDI+ and modern graphics APIs such as Direct3D.
Overview
Direct2D is a native code API based on C++ that can be called by managed code and uses a "lightweight COM" approach just like Direct3D, with minimal amount of abstraction. However, unlike WPF and similarly to GDI/GDI+, Direct2D is an "immediate mode" rendering API with simple BeginDraw/Draw/EndDraw calls; Direct2D has no concept of a "scene" and does not use retained tree structures, and the rendering state is preserved between drawing calls.
Direct2D can minimize CPU usage and utilize hardware rendering on a graphics card with minimum support of Direct3D Feature Level 9 with WDDM 1.1 drivers. Applications can choose to use it exclusively with CPU, the so-called software rendering by using it in conjunction with WARP10 in situations when hardware capability is not available, such as when running within a device with minimal GPU support, under terminal service, Windows session 0, or when graphics rendering is performed in a remote server with the graphical result sent back to the client device. Direct2D performance and memory usage scale linearly with primitive counts in both software and hardware.
Direct2D supports high-quality rendering with the following key features:
High-quality subpixel text rendering via DirectWrite for both grayscale and ClearType technique
Per-primitive antialiasing
Bézier geometry draw and fill
Rich geometry operations (e.g. Boolean operations, path widening, outlining, etc.)
Composite layers
Primitive blend modes (e.g. source-over, source-copy, min blends, etc.)
Image built-in and custom effects for photo adjustment, graphical and color transform
Gradient brush and mesh
Command list for command buffering and printing
Scalable ink stroke
Sprite batch for game development
Direct2D allows full interoperability with GDI, GDI+, and permits rendering to and from a Direct3D surface, as well as to and from a GDI/GDI+ device context (HDC). It can be used effectively together with Windows Imaging Component (WIC) for image encoding/decoding, and with DirectWrite for text formatting and font processing. Such interoperability allows developers to gradually replace critical code paths with Direct2D code without the need to overhaul their entire source code. In Windows 10 timeframe, an Open Source project called Win2D was developed by Microsoft to further simplify the usage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom%20generators%20for%20polynomials | In theoretical computer science, a pseudorandom generator for low-degree polynomials is an efficient procedure that maps a short truly random seed to a longer pseudorandom string in such a way that low-degree polynomials cannot distinguish the output distribution of the generator from the truly random distribution. That is, evaluating any low-degree polynomial at a point determined by the pseudorandom string is statistically close to evaluating the same polynomial at a point that is chosen uniformly at random.
Pseudorandom generators for low-degree polynomials are a particular instance of pseudorandom generators for statistical tests, where the statistical tests considered are evaluations of low-degree polynomials.
Definition
A pseudorandom generator for polynomials of degree over a finite field is an efficient procedure that maps a sequence of field elements to a sequence of field elements such that any -variate polynomial over of degree is fooled by the output distribution of .
In other words, for every such polynomial , the statistical distance between the distributions and is at most a small , where is the uniform distribution over .
Construction
The case corresponds to pseudorandom generators for linear functions and is solved by small-bias generators.
For example, the construction of achieves a seed length of , which is optimal up to constant factors.
conjectured that the sum of small-bias generators fools low-degree polynomials and were able to prove this under the Gowers inverse conjecture.
proved unconditionally that the sum of small-bias spaces fools polynomials of degree .
proves that, in fact, taking the sum of only small-bias generators is sufficient to fool polynomials of degree .
The analysis of gives a seed length of .
References
Pseudorandomness |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware%20Horizon | VMware Horizon (formerly called Horizon View) is a commercial desktop and app virtualization product developed by VMware, Inc for Microsoft Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems. It was first sold under the name VMware VDM, but with the release of version 3.0.0 in 2008 it was changed to "VMware View". The name was updated to "Horizon View" with the launch of version 6 in April 2014
and is now referred to as "VMware Horizon" to represent desktop and app virtualization.
Features
VMware Horizon provides virtual desktop and app capabilities to users utilizing VMware's virtualization technology. A desktop operating system - typically Microsoft Windows - runs within a virtual machine on a hypervisor. VMware Horizon product has a number of components which are required to provide the virtual desktops, including:
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi with a vSphere license)
VMware vCenter Server (management of virtualization environment)
View Composer (advanced View management, with automation and cloning)
View Manager (administration of the View Environment)
View Client (communication between View and the desktop OS)
VMware ThinApp (application virtualization)
View Persona Management (user profile management)
vShield Endpoint (offloaded desktop antivirus)
Although VMware licenses vSphere hypervisor per physical CPU-socket, it licenses VMware View per concurrent desktop. The bundled hypervisor, vSphere for Desktops, is functionally equivalent to vSphere Enterprise Plus.
VMware View has two licensing options, Enterprise and Premier. Enterprise comes with vSphere for Desktops, vCenter Server, and View Manager, and has an MSRP of $150 per concurrent desktop. View Composer, Persona Management, vShield Endpoint, and ThinApp are included in the Premier edition at an MSRP of $250 per concurrent desktop.
In order to transport the desktop resources to users, keyboard, video, mouse and other interactions travel over a network connection. VMware View supports the VMware Blast Extreme, Microsoft RDP, and the Teradici PCoIP protocols.
VMware Horizon Client
Users establish client connections to VMware View sessions by running the VMware View Client, through a web browser using HTML5, or using a thin client that supports the protocols in use. The VMware View client supports Windows, macOS, Android, and Linux, while ChromeOS is able to connect through the web browser.
Ubuntu 12.10 can login to VMware View desktops directly from the login screen.
The Client software is known as Client Agent Release Train (CART). CART it is on a separate release cycle than VMware View/Horizon but often coincides with it.
Horizon Clients
CART 5.0 (Mar 18, 2019)
CART 5.1 (Jul 02, 2019)
CART 5.2 (Sep 17, 2019)
CART 5.3 (Dec 12, 2019)
CART 5.4 (March 17, 2020)
CART 5.5 (Oct 15, 2020)
Horizon Clients - Naming convention changed to denote the year and month of build release
CART 2006 (Aug 11, 2020)
CART 2009 (Oct 15, 2020)
CART 2012 (Jan 07, 2021)
CART 2103 (Mar 23, 2021) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Amsinger | Greg Amsinger is an American sportscaster and currently a studio host for MLB Network.
Personal life
Amsinger was born on May 24, 1979, in St. Louis, Missouri. He has five brothers and one sister. Amsinger and his wife have two children and they currently reside in Montclair, New Jersey, just outside New York City.
Career
Before arriving at MLB Network in 2009, Amsinger had worked at CBS College Sports/CSTV and at WTHI-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana. A 2001 graduate of Lindenwood University, Amsinger worked at numerous part-time radio jobs while in school including two years as producer of the St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Radio Network at KMOX. Other side jobs included play-by-play broadcaster at KSLQ radio and the inaugural voice of the now defunct River City Renegades indoor professional football organization.
CBS College Sports (CSTV)
Before signing with MLB, Amsinger was the first and primary studio host for CBS College Sports Network (formerly CSTV). He hosted numerous shows including Crystal Ball, Inside College Football, The #1 College Sports Show, Generation Next and NCAA March Madness Highlights (the official highlight show of the NCAA men's basketball tournament). He has done play-by-play for women's college basketball and paintball.
In 2006, he hosted the SEC Preview Show with Gary Danielson and Brian Jones. In 2007, Amsinger co-hosted the World Series of Video Games with the former MTV host Susie Castillo. In 2008, Amsinger also hosted the Tour de France for CBS.
MLB Network
Amsinger is a studio host appearing across MLB Network's programming, including MLB Tonight, MLB Network's Emmy Award-winning flagship studio show. Amsinger also hosts MLB Network's exclusive telecast of the MLB Draft as well as its special event coverage of the All-Star Game and World Series.
Big Ten Network
During the MLB offseason, Amsinger does play-by-play for select men's college basketball games on the Big Ten Network.
References
1979 births
Living people
People from St. Louis
Lindenwood University alumni
MLB Network personalities
Major League Baseball broadcasters
American sports announcers
College football announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
Cycling announcers
Women's college basketball announcers in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Fry | Benjamin Fry is an American designer who has expertise in data visualization.
Early life and education
Fry was born in 1975 in Ann Arbor, Michigan (born 1975). Fry received his BFA in Communication Design, minor in Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon University. He received Master and Ph.D. degrees from the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab, under the direction of John Maeda. His doctoral dissertation, "Computational Information Design" introduces the seven stages of visualizing data: acquiring, parsing, filtering, mining, representing, refining and interacting.
Career
During his time at MIT Media Lab, Fry co-developed Processing, an open-source programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts and visual design communities with the purpose of teaching the basics of computer programming in a visual context. The Processing design environment developed together with Casey Reas won a Golden Nica from the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005. During 2006–2007, Fry was the Nierenberg Chair of Design for the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. He is a principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy in Boston, Massachusetts.
Fry's artwork has been featured in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial (2003, 2006) and the Whitney Biennial (2002), and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2001, 2008), Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria (2000, 2002, 2005) and in the films Minority Report and The Hulk. He is the winner of the 2011 National Design Award in category "Interaction Design."
Books
2007: (with Casey Reas) Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, MIT Press
2007: Visualizing Data, O'Reilly
2010: (with Casey Reas) Getting Started with Processing, O'Reilly
2015: (with Casey Reas and Lauren McCarthy) Getting Started with p5.js, O'Reilly
See also
Timeline of programming languages
Processing programming language
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
People from Massachusetts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
American computer scientists
American designers
American digital artists
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Information graphic designers
MIT Media Lab people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20By%20Numbers | Design By Numbers (DBN) was an influential experiment in teaching programming initiated at the MIT Media Lab during the 1990s. Led by John Maeda and his students they created software aimed at allowing designers, artists and other non-programmers to easily start computer programming. The software itself could be run in a browser and published alongside the software was a book and courseware.
Design By Numbers is no longer an active project but has gone on to influence many other projects aimed at making computer programming more accessible to non-technical people. Its most public result is Processing, created by Maeda's students Casey Reas and Ben Fry, who built on the work of DBN and has gone on to international success.
See also
Processing
Smile software
Further reading
External links
Educational programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooltoon | Cooltoon was an Italian television channel dedicated to broadcasting anime programming. Exclusively available on Sky Italia, it was launched in 2007 and closed down in 2011.
Programming
Captain Harlock
Daltanius
Desert Punk
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Filmation's Ghostbusters
Future Boy Conan
Great Teacher Onizuka
La Linea
He-Man
InuYasha
Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3
Ōgon Bat
Robotech
Ranma ½
Saiyuki
She-Ra
Six God Combination Godmars
Samurai 7
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
Transformers
Urusei Yatsura
References
Television channels in Italy
Defunct television channels in Italy
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
Italian-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrikkelutkastet%20av%201950 | The Land Register Draft of 1950 (Matrikkelutkastet av 1950) is a listing containing rural real estate within Norway. Matrikkelutkastet does not contain data for municipalities but rather contains listings of Norwegian main farms (matrikkelgårder). The farms are sorted by county and municipality or township. Because Matrikkelutkastet contains the names of owners, the archive also can be useful for the individual and family researchers.
The Norwegian Finance Department compiled approximately 85,000 lists of rural real estate in Norway, organized by consecutive, increasing official farm number (gårdsnummer) within each municipality. The database forms a part of the digital Norwegian National Archives. The entire catalogue has been converted by the National Documentation Project of Norway into an electronic text with SGML mark up. The transfer from the manual to the electronic system was completed in 1993. The database is in the Norwegian language.
The land register formed a part of the Norwegian State Name Consultancy Service effort to standardize place names throughout Norway. Responsible for this project section rested with the Department of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature University of Oslo. Matrikkelutkastet av 1950 was never completed, lacking information from the county of Finnmark, which is reason it is referred to as a draft.
References
External links
Matrikkelutkastet av 1950
National Archival Services of Norway
National Documentation Project of Norway
Economy of Norway
Government of Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau%20Kong | Lau Kong () is a Hong Kong actor who worked on the network TVB.
Biography
Little is known of Lau's private life, but he has been acting since 1976, when he first joined the now defunct network Commercial Television, he later joined RTV (now ATV, Lau would be an actor there from 1979-1982. From 1982 onwards, Lau has been serving as veteran actor there, portraying various types of roles, (mostly as a patriarch, and many TVB actors and actresses have been his "son" or "daughter“, and there are very few actors in TVB that have never worked with him.
Filmography
Films
Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979)
Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (1982)
Queen of Kowloon (2000)
Beast Stalker (2008)
The Stool Pigeon (2010)
Commercial Television
Rediffusion
TVB
References
External links
Hong Kong male television actors
Living people
TVB actors
1946 births
20th-century Hong Kong male actors
21st-century Hong Kong male actors
Hong Kong male film actors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang%20%28Italian%20TV%20channel%29 | For the original Boomerang channel, see Boomerang (TV network).
For Boomerang in other countries, see Boomerang around the world.
Boomerang is an Italian television channel launched in 2003, which airs mostly modern cartoons aimed at preschoolers. It is a sister service of Cartoon Network, and is owned Warner Bros. Discovery under its International division.
For the most part, the network's schedule matches that of the main Boomerang in the United Kingdom and Ireland, with local scheduling variations and the dubbing/subtitling of programs into Italian.
History
The channel launched exclusively on Sky Italia on 31 July 2003, airing the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons such as Courage the Cowardly Dog, Johnny Bravo, The Flintstones and many other classics, taken directly from the Cartoon Network schedule.
From 20 December 2008 on channel 610 of Sky, along with Cartoon Network, the channel Boomerang +1 launched, airing the same schedule as Boomerang just one hour behind. From 20 December 2013 due to frequency changes the channel began to air in the 14:9 ratio, and from 16 September 2015 along with the original feed it switched to 16:9.
On 2 February 2015 it rebranded to the new logo.
Programming
Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
Ben 10
Dino Ranch
Grizzy and the Lemmings
Kingdom Force
Justin Time
Looney Tunes Cartoons
Mighty Express
MeteoHeroes
Mighty Mike
Moley
Power Players
Simon
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Taffy
The Tom and Jerry Show
Tom and Jerry in New York
Thomas and Friends
''Zouk
Boomerang +1
Boomerang +1 is a timeshift channel launched on 20 December 2008 that airs the same schedule as Boomerang, just one hour behind. The channel also usually temporarily rebrands to special programs dedicated to classic shows.
Logos
References
External links
Italy
Italian-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2003
Television channels in Italy
Turner Broadcasting System Italy
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20FX%20%28Italian%20TV%20channel%29 | This is a list of television programs broadcast by FX in Italy.
Programming
80° Minuto
The A-Team
Barbershop: The Series
Barzecole
Battlestar Galactica
Baywatch
Beach Patrol
The Benny Hill Show
Blade: The Series
Burn Notice
Carpoolers
CHiPs
Ciak Si Giri
COPS
The Dead Zone
The Dresden Files
The Dukes of Hazzard
Eureka
Fans United
Fantasies
Fermata d'Autobus
Foursome (Season 2)
Hotel Erotica
International Fight League
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The Kill Point
Kojak
Line of Fire
Mad Men
Magnum, P.I.
Mandrake
Married... with Children
Matrioshki
Miami Vice
Mr. Bean
My Name Is Earl
Playmakers
Poker Babies
The Pretender
Quasi TG
S.O.S. Tata
Sexy Camera all'Italiana
Sexy Car Wash
Sexy Girls Next Door
Skill Factor
Son of the Beach
Sons of Anarchy
Le Star del Pallone
Stargate SG-1
T. J. Hooker
Testees
Threat Matrix
Totally Busted
Underbelly
Walker, Texas Ranger
Wanted
World's Wildest Police Videos
The X-Files
Programmes FX
FX (Italy) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemson%20Tigers%20Network | Clemson Tigers Network is a subsidiary of Clemson Tigers Sports Properties and is the official media rights holder for Clemson University athletics. It is operated by JMI Sports, with distribution operations handled at WCCP-FM in Clemson, South Carolina. Prior to 2017, when the network was known as Clemson Tigers Sports Network, CTSN was operated by Learfield Sports.
Television
Coach's Show
CTSN produces a weekly coach's show for football and basketball. Hosted by Pete Yanity, the show reviews the past week's activity in each sport. The coach plays an active role on the show discussing the team's performance.
Radio
CTSN is available on a wide range of radio stations across the southeast, namely South Carolina. All Football and Men's Basketball games are also broadcast nationwide on XM Satellite Radio as well as Sirius Satellite Radio for those with the "Best of XM" package.
See also
Clemson University
Clemson Tigers
References
Clemson Tigers
Sports radio networks in the United States
College football on the radio
College basketball on the radio in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketzel%20Levine | Ketzel Levine is an American radio journalist who began her broadcast career in 1974. She joined National Public Radio (NPR) in 1977 and worked, variously, as the network's arts producer, sports director, features reporter and garden expert. From 2000 through 2008, she was senior correspondent for the NPR program Morning Edition. At the end of that year, due to cutbacks at the network, Levine was laid off, while working on a documentary series about Americans coping with economic stress and job loss. Her final NPR broadcast was about how she, herself, had just lost her job.
Broadcast career
Levine's academic background was in music and communications. Her first job in broadcasting was at the full-time, non-commercial classical music station WMHT-FM in Schenectady, NY. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 1977 to work at NPR, where she produced the arts magazine, Voices in the Wind. In 1979, she became part of the original staff of Morning Edition, where she remained until moving to London to report for the BBC World Service. While abroad, she also freelanced for NPR, CNN and the BBC domestic service. She returned to NPR full-time as its arts reporter in 1986. In 1990, she took up studies in horticulture, began her own landscape and design business, and in 1992 became NPR's horticultural reporter, the "Doyenne of Dirt", broadcasting for the next ten years on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. During this time she was also a contributing writer for Horticulture Magazine, a features writer for Martha Stewart Living and a contributing writer for The Oregonian. In 2000, she published 'Plant This!' (Sasquatch Books, 2000).
In 2000, Levine became a senior correspondent for Morning Edition. In 2007, she expanded her horticultural reporting with the year-long special program, "Climate Connections". She also produced and reported for the series, "Take Two: People Reinventing Themselves Through Their Work", and at the time of her dismissal, was producing and writing a series documenting the effects of the economic crisis, "American Moxie: How We Get By".
Levine's career with NPR ended on an ironic note when she was one of 64 people laid off in December 2008, as she was producing the "American Moxie" series. In her last series installment, she reported about her own layoff.
Horticultural career
Levine studied at the George Washington U School of Landscape Design. She began her own business, Hortus Landscaping, in 1991, then later began a career writing about horticulture, botanizing, and lecturing for garden clubs, botanic gardens and arboretums. After moving to Portland, OR in 1996, she became the northwest regional correspondent for Horticulture Magazine and a contributing editor for The Oregonian. Her newspaper plant profiles were published in the book, Plant This! (Sasquatch Books, 2000). Levine's own garden has been featured in several magazines, including Portland Monthly. A profile of Levine and her garden was published in the February 2011 issu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallorca%20rail%20network | The Majorca rail network consists of three separate electrified lines, which radiate north and east from Palma de Mallorca, the major city on the Spanish island of Majorca.
Services on the main line and metro both originate/terminate at the Estació Intermodal/Plaça d'Espanya station (Palma Intermodal Station), which opened in 2007. This vast subterranean terminus is also served by the island's extensive inter-urban bus network.
Services on the tourist railway from Sóller terminate at the adjacent surface level station on Carrer Eusebi Estada.
History
All of the lines on the island were originally narrow gauge lines. All, except for the lines run by Ferrocarril de Sóller S.A., have since been converted to .
The lines
Services on both the metro and main line are operated by Transport de les Illes Balears. (Transport on the Balearic Islands).
Metro
Metro trains start from Platforms 1-4 at Palma Intermodal Station, where they interchange with services on the main line. A connection between the two networks allows access for engineering purposes.
The Metro was constructed between 2005 and 2007 at cost of €312 million. Line M1 terminates at UIB University of the Balearic Islands station, with services from Palma calling at seven intermediate stops in the city's northern suburbs. Line M2 runs east alongside the main line and serves seven intermediate stations before terminating at the suburban station of Marratxí.
On both routes trains operate daily from approximately 06:30 to 22:00, with a 15-minute service during the day; reducing to 30 minutes in the early morning, late evening and on Sundays.
Main line
Services to Manacor and Sa Pobla via Marratxí and Inca start from Platforms 5-10 at Palma Intermodal Station. This modern facility lies beneath the Parc de ses Estacions, which occupies land formerly used by the former surface level lines. The landscaped gardens contain several former railway buildings, and the original station buildings also survive alongside Plaça d'Espanya.
Today the main line runs below ground until just after Son Costa/Son Fortesa station. It is grade separated along its entire length, aside from some very minor level crossings in remote rural areas. The section from El Caülls (Festival Park) to Inca offers excellent views of the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range to the north.
The line is double-track from the capital to the remote halt at Enllaç, where the branches to Manacor and Sa Pobla diverge. The line to Manacor has passing places at Sineu and Petra, but the shorter Sa Pobla branch is single track throughout.
Between 05:45 and 23:20 there are two trains each hour in each direction alternatively providing connections to the two eastern termini, whilst a third service operates only as far as Inca. From Monday to Saturday in 2013, Manacor trains operated non-stop as far as Marratxí. On Sundays and public holidays, only two trains per hour operate in each direction, providing stops at all stations to Manacor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XVL | XVL is a lightweight 3D file format for 3D computer graphics data. XVL is developed by Lattice Technology Inc.
Like U3D and other open and standard 3D formats, XVL supports compression of 3D data. The company claims compression rates of between 1:50 - 1: 200 for typical mesh objects. After a registration, a closed source, Windows only, viewer for XVL files can be downloaded from the company site.
See also
U3D – an ECMA standard open format for 3D data that supports compression.
glTF - a Khronos Group file format for 3D Scenes and models.
References
External links
lattice3d – the company developing the XVL 3D format
3D graphics file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%20Nature%20Network | Mother Nature Network (mnn.com) was a news and information website focused on sustainability and ranked by Alexa Internet as the most visited for-profit website in the world in its environmental category. It was labeled "the green CNN" by Time magazine, "green machine" by the Associated Press, and "best of the breed" by Fast Company. Founded in 2009 by former marketing executive Joel Babbit and Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell, it was the flagship property of Narrative Content Group, whose equity partners included CNN and Discovery Inc.
MNN generated revenue via exclusive content category sponsorships versus the traditional advertising model utilized by most websites. Brand partners included Walmart, Mercedes-Benz, AT&T, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, UPS, Allstate, Dell, Subway, MillerCoors, Bayer, Dunkin' Brands, and many other leading corporations. In February of 2020, Narrative sold Mother Nature Network and Treehugger, another of its sustainability focused websites acquired from Discovery, to digital media company Dotdash, an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IAC). The two sites were then merged and operate under the Treehugger name.
Content
It covered a wide range of topics beyond traditional "green" issues – including family, pets, travel, health, home, and food.
Board of directors and advisors
Joel Babbit, CEO of Narrative Content Group and Mother Nature Network
Thomas Bell Jr., Chairman of Mesa Capital Partners (former Chairman and CEO of Young & Rubicam and Chairman of U.S. Chamber of Commerce)
Gerald Benjamin, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Atlanta Equity (former Vice Chairman of GreenSky)
A.D. "Pete" Correll, Co-founder and Chairman of Atlanta Equity (former Chairman and CEO of Georgia-Pacific Corporation)
Doug Hertz, CEO of United Distributors Inc. and Partner in the Atlanta Falcons
Chuck Leavell, Keyboardist for the Rolling Stones
James D. Robinson III, Co-founder and General Partner of RRE Ventures, LLC (former Chairman and CEO of American Express)
Fred Seegal, Vice Chairman of Peter J. Solomon Company (former President of Wasserstein Perella)
Nonprofit partners
MNN worked with a wide range of nonprofit organizations, including:
American Farmland Trust
Captain Planet Foundation
Nature Conservancy
National Wildlife Federation
Newman's Own Foundation
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
White House Correspondents' Association
References
External links
Internet properties established in 2009
American news websites
American environmental websites
Mass media companies established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20French%20films%20of%202009 | A list of French produced or co-produced films released in France in 2009:
References
External links
2009 in France
2009 in French television
French films of 2009 at the Internet Movie Database
French films of 2009 at Cinema-francais.fr
2009
Films
French |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%202009 |
Highest-grossing films
List of films
A list of films produced in Japan in 2009 (see 2009 in film):
References
External links
Japanese films of 2009 at the Internet Movie Database
2009 in Japan
2009 in Japanese television
List of 2009 box office number-one films in Japan
2009
Japanese
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Argentine%20films%20of%202009 | A list of films produced in Argentina in 2009:
See also
2009 in Argentina
External links
Argentine films of 2009 at the Internet Movie Database
Argentine films and box office of 2009 (Spanish)
Films
Lists of 2009 films by country or language
2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Argentine%20films%20of%202008 | A list of films produced in Argentina in 2008:
See also
2008 in Argentina
External links
Argentine films of 2008 at the Internet Movie Database
2008
Argentine
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSDT | SSDT may refer to:
Computing
System Service Descriptor Table, an internal data structure within Microsoft Windows
Secondary System Description Table, an ACPI table
SQL Server Data Tools, the IDE for working with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 databases and associated objects
Other uses
Scottish Six Days Trial, a motorcycle competition
Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock%20Meeks | Brock N. Meeks is an American investigative journalist. He founded the online publication CyberWire Dispatch in 1994 and helped pioneer the world of online journalism. At its peak, Meeks estimated that CyberWire Dispatch was distributed to more than 800,000 readers via mailing lists and newsgroups. At the height of his online career, Meeks was "the most widely read reporter in cyberspace" according to J. D. Lasica. CyberWire Dispatch officially ceased publication in early 2004.
Meeks's articles focused on the intersection of government and technology, and explored issues such as online rights – including free speech and the right to privacy – encryption, censorship, and the regulation of content.
Meeks was the first journalist sued for libel in cyberspace while writing his CyberWire Dispatch. Journalist and author Dan Gilmor wrote in his book We the Media: "[Meeks] was, by most accounts, the first Internet journalist to be sued for libel. For all practical purposes, Meeks won the case; he paid nothing to the Ohio company that sued him over his critical report about the company's business practices, though he did agree to notify the company before publishing anything else about it or the man who ran it. Meeks did pay his lawyers, including several noted First Amendment specialists who donated the vast majority of their time. He was lucky, in a sense, because his case drew the attention of people who wanted to protect our rights."
In the mid-1990s, Meeks was the Washington correspondent for Wired and its online counterpart, HotWired. He wrote features for the magazine and produced two columns for HotWired: Muckraker and Campaign Dispatch. The latter was dedicated to his coverage of the 1996 U.S. presidential campaign.
From 1997 to 2006, Meeks served as chief Washington correspondent for MSNBC.com, covering a variety of policy-related technology topics, including civil liberties and legislative attempts to control the Internet.
After the September 11th attacks in 2001, Meeks created and developed the homeland security beat for MSNBC.com. His work on national security won him the Carnegie Mellon Cybersecurity Journalism award in 2005.
During his ten-year stint with MSNBC.com, Meeks appeared regularly on TV for MSNBC cable and did occasional on-air spots for NBC Nightly News. He also won an award from the Online News Association as part of a special projects team that produced "Rising from Ruin", a multimedia project chronicling the recovery of two small Gulf Coast communities in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
He was a founding staff member of the Inter@ctive Week magazine (in 2001 the magazine merged with ZD publication eWeek) where he served as chief Washington correspondent. Before that he spent two years as senior editor for Communications Daily, where two of his stories—one on the possible medical risk of cellular telephones and another on how cell phones were causing deadly interference with critical medical devices—moved Congress to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20on%20the%20postage%20stamps%20of%20the%20Solomon%20Islands | This is a list of people on stamps of Solomon Islands.
Link
The year given is the year of issue of the first stamp depicting that person.
Data has been entered up to the end of 2005.
A
Buzz Aldrin (1999)
The Prince Andrew (1986)
The Princess Anne (1973)
Sam Aqarao (2002)
Joseph Atkin, missionary (1971)
John James Audubon (1985)
B
The Lord Baden-Powell (1982)
Alexander Graham Bell (1976)
Alvin Blum, Bahá'í missionary (2005)
Gertrude Blum, Bahá'í missionary (2005)
Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1972)
C
Prince William (now Duke of Cambridge) (2003)
Philip Carteret (1972)
Sir Winston Churchill (1966)
Jean-Claude Colin (1996)
Lord Cuthbert Collingwood (2005)
James Cook (1979)
D
Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1973)
E
The Duke of Edinburgh (1972)
The Queen (1953)
Queen Elizabeth (1937)
Bishop Epalle, missionary (1996)
F
Frank Jack Fletcher (1995)
Joe Foss (2002)
G
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1970)
George V (1913)
George VI (1937)
Robert L. Ghormley (1995)
Helena Goldie, Methodist missionary (2002)
J. F. Goldie, Methodist missionary (2002)
H
William Halsey, Jr. (1995)
Sir Thomas Hardy (2005)
Prince Harry (1985)
Rowland Hill (1979)
I
J
Pope John Paul II (2004)
K
John F. Kennedy (1976)
L
Louis XVI of France (1994)
M
Guglielmo Marconi (1996)
The Princess Margaret (1985)
Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira (1956)
Francisco Antonio Mourelle (1981)
Douglas Albert Munro (2002)
N
Chūichi Nagumo (1995)
Napoleon Bonaparte (2005)
Admiral The Viscount Nelson (2005)
O
P
Mitchell Paige (2002)
John Coleridge Patteson (1971)
Mark Phillips (1973)
Q
R
Ronald Reagan (2004)
S
Norman Scott (2002)
George Augustus Selwyn (1999)
John Shortland (1973)
Sir William Smith (1982)
Sulesi (1996)
Surimahe (1996)
T
Stephen Taroaniara, missionary (1971)
Abel Tasman (1971)
U
V
Alexander Vandegrift (1993)
Queen Victoria (1970)
Jacob C. Vouza (1992)
W
Alick Wickham, swimmer (1984)
The Prince of Wales (1981)
The Princess of Wales (1981)
Charles Morris Woodford (1970)
Orville Wright (2003)
Wilbur Wright (2003)
X
Y
The Duchess of York (1986)
Z
Notes
References
Solomon
Stamps
Philately of the Solomon Islands
Stamps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano%20roll%20blues | The Piano Roll Blues or Old Piano Roll Blues is a figure of speech designating a legal argument (or the response to that argument) made in US patent law relating to computer software. The argument is that a newly programmed general-purpose digital computer is a "new" machine and, accordingly, properly the subject of a US patent.
This legal argument was made in Gottschalk v. Benson in Benson's brief. The government then responded in its brief that this amounted to asserting that inserting a new piano roll into an existing player piano converted the old player piano into a new player piano. After Benson, the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals took the position that the reasoning of Benson did not apply to "machine" claims, such as a claim to a conventional digital computer programmed to carry out a new algorithm or computer program. In dissenting from that judgment on the grounds that the Supreme Court in Benson did not limit the principle to method claims, Judge Rich spoke of "the legal doctrine that a new program makes an old general purpose digital computer into a new and different machine." Id. at 773. He observed that the doctrine "partakes of the nature of a legal fiction when it comes to drafting claims." Id.
The argument appeared again two decades later in the majority opinion in In re Alappat, and in his dissenting opinion in that case Chief Judge Archer discussed the figure of speech extensively, concluding:
Yet a player piano playing Chopin's scales does not become a "new machine" when it spins a roll to play Brahms' lullaby. The distinction between the piano before and after different rolls are inserted resides not in the piano's changing quality as a "machine" but only in the changing melodies being played by the one machine. The only invention by the creator of a roll that is new because of its music is the new music.
Despite a strong indication in the Supreme Court's Gottschalk v. Benson opinion that computer implementation of an otherwise patent-ineligible abstract idea (in that case a mathematical algorithm) was insufficient to transform the idea into patent-eligible subject matter, the Federal Circuit continued sporadically to assert the piano roll blues argument. A very recent example was in a dissenting opinion of Chief Judge Rader in 2013.
The Supreme Court's opinion in the Alice case may have finally put a stop to the piano roll blues argument, since it states that simply saying "apply it with a computer" will not transform a patent-ineligible claim to an idea into a patent-eligible claim.
The expression apparently derives from a song popular in the 1950s—"The Old Piano Roll Blues" by Cy Coben — in the style of a Scott Joplin rag. As Judge Archer points out in his Alappat dissent, there is also an allusion to the decision of the Supreme Court in White-Smith v. Apollo, concerning copyright protection for piano rolls.
References
United States patent law |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20on%20the%20postage%20stamps%20of%20Samoa | This is a list of people on stamps of Samoa.
Link
The year given is the year of issue of the first stamp depicting that person.
Data has been entered up to the end of 2005.
A
Buzz Aldrin (1989)
B
The Lord Baden-Powell (1982)
Otto von Bismarck (1990)
Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1968)
C
Prince William (now Duke of Cambridge) (1997)
James Cook (1970)
D
William Henry Draper III (1990)
E
The Duke of Edinburgh (1992)
Edward VII (1914)
The Prince Edward (1997)
The Princess Elizabeth (now the Queen) (1946)
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1946)
F
Fa'alava'au Galu, minister of post office, radio and broadcasting (1967)
Peter Fatialofa (1991)
Rita Fatialofa (2003)
Beatrice Faumuina (2003)
Fatu Feu'u (2003)
Benjamin Franklin (1971)
G
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1987)
George V (1915)
George VI (1946)
Aggie Grey, hotelier (1971)
H
Edmond Halley (1986)
Paul P. Harris (1980)
Prince Harry (1985)
Rowland Hill (1979)
I
J
Michael Jones (2003)
K
Martin Luther King Jr. (1969)
L
Lily Laita (2003)
Pati Levasa, fire dancing champion (2001)
Charles Lindbergh (1977)
M
Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi (2005)
Malietoa Laupepa (1892)
Malietoa Tanumafili II (1963)
The Princess Margaret (1946)
Fritz Marquardt (1968)
Afioga Afoafouvale Misimoa, South Pacific Commission secretary-general (1972)
N
Frank C. F. Nelson, minister of works, marine and civil aviation (1967)
O
P
Pope Paul VI (1970)
Zara Phillips (1997)
Q
R
Eleanor Roosevelt (1981)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1981)
S
Jesse Sapolu (2003)
Wilhelm Solf (1968)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1939)
T
Abel Tasman (1987)
Vanya Taule'alo, artist (2003)
To'omata Tua L., minister of lands (1967)
Thomas Trood (1968)
David Tua (2003)
Tuatagaloa Leutele S., minister of justice (1967)
Michel Tuffery (2003)
Tupua Tamasese Mea'ole (1963)
U
V
Queen Victoria (1914)
Rev. Father Violette, Roman Catholic missionary (1970)
Momoe Malietoa Von Reich, artist (2003)
W
George Washington (1982)
The Countess of Wessex (1999)
The Prince of Wales (1981)
The Princess of Wales (1981)
John C. Williams (1968)
William Willis (1974)
X
Y
Princess Eugenie of York (1999)
Z
Zhu Rongji (2005)
Notes
See also
Postage stamps and postal history of Samoa
References
Samoa
Stamps
Philately of Samoa
Stamps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Meadows | Jason Meadows (born June 9, 1971) is a country music artist signed to Baccerstick Records. He was raised in Calera, Oklahoma. Meadows was a second-place finalist on the third season of the USA Networks talent show Nashville Star. Three singles were released from his debut album 100% Cowboy (the title track, "18 Video Tapes" and "Where Did My Dirt Road Go"), but all failed to chart. The album reached No. 59 on Top Country Albums. "18 Video Tapes" received a "thumbs up" rating from Engine 145, a country music review site. Reviewer Matt C. said, "Here’s a Nashville Star alumnus who didn’t score a major-label deal but nonetheless is producing interesting and compelling music."
Discography
Studio albums
Singles
Music videos
References
American country singer-songwriters
Living people
Nashville Star contestants
Singer-songwriters from Oklahoma
1971 births
21st-century American singer-songwriters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinig | (International title: Sonata of Heart / ) is a 2006 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the fourth installment of Now and Forever. It premiered on January 9, 2006, replacing Agos. The series concluded on April 12, 2006, with a total of 68 episodes. It was replaced by Duyan in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Sheryl Cruz as Selena
Yasmien Kurdi as Victoria / Ikay
Supporting cast
Gary Estrada as Angelo
Jay Aquitania as Joko
Neil Ferreira as Macky
Danica Sotto-Pingris as Tiffany
Tin Arnaldo as Maribel
Ailyn Luna as Corrine
Jennifer Sevilla as Yvone
Ian Veneracion as Juan Miguel
Allan Paule as Renato
Jan Marini as Remedios
Dino Guevarra as Benjie
Irma Adlawan as Noemi
Richard Quan as Edgar
Guest cast
Sandy Talag as young Ikay
Accolades
References
External links
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2006 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duyan | (International title: Cradle of Love / ) is a 2006 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the fifth installment of Now and Forever. Directed by Mac Alejandre, it stars Dawn Zulueta and Ariel Rivera. It premiered on April 17, 2006 replacing Tinig. The series concluded on July 21, 2006 with a total of 70 episodes. It was replaced by Linlang in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dawn Zulueta as Adea
Ariel Rivera as Mateo
Supporting cast
Glydel Mercado as Loren
Ella Guevara as Cindy
Ella Cruz as Ella
Emilio Garcia as Raul
Alicia Alonzo as Precy
Jana Roxas as Rowena
Chuck Allie as Francis
Gabby Eigenmann as Allan
Ramil Rodriguez as Ronaldo
References
External links
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2006 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Highway%2044%20%28New%20Zealand%29 | State Highway 44 (SH 44) is a New Zealand state highway. At 5.2 km it is one of the shortest highways on the network. Its entire length is within the New Plymouth city area.
History
SH 44 was created in response to an increase in truck traffic between SH 3 and Port Taranaki and the resulting damage being caused to the preferred route (Breakwater Rd/St Aubyn St/Molesworth St). Initially Transit New Zealand was opposed to taking on the road as part of the highway network (making it responsible for the maintenance rather than the New Plymouth District Council) as for much of the route is less than 200m away and runs in parallel. However, as SH 45 is a hillier route, uses the one-way network, and has a greater number of traffic lights insisting heavy vehicles use that route was not feasible and Transit eventually granted network status.
Route
The highway leaves at the corners where Leach (westbound one-way) and Courtenay (eastbound one-way) Streets intersect with Eliot Street (north-south) just north-east of the New Plymouth CBD. This is the same place where SH 45 also commences. It continues along Eliot St to Molesworth Street then west along this stretch of road, which in turn becomes St Aubyn Street then Breakwater Road. While it terminates at Port Taranaki both entrances to the port are part of SH 44. The first is via Bayly Road and Ocean View Parade while the other is at the end of Breakwater Road.
See also
List of New Zealand state highways
List of roads and highways, for notable or famous roads worldwide
References
External links
New Zealand Transport Agency
44
New Plymouth District
Transport in Taranaki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20inference | Algorithmic inference gathers new developments in the statistical inference methods made feasible by the powerful computing devices widely available to any data analyst. Cornerstones in this field are computational learning theory, granular computing, bioinformatics, and, long ago, structural probability .
The main focus is on the algorithms which compute statistics rooting the study of a random phenomenon, along with the amount of data they must feed on to produce reliable results. This shifts the interest of mathematicians from the study of the distribution laws to the functional properties of the statistics, and the interest of computer scientists from the algorithms for processing data to the information they process.
The Fisher parametric inference problem
Concerning the identification of the parameters of a distribution law, the mature reader may recall lengthy disputes in the mid 20th century about the interpretation of their variability in terms of fiducial distribution , structural probabilities , priors/posteriors , and so on. From an epistemology viewpoint, this entailed a companion dispute as to the nature of probability: is it a physical feature of phenomena to be described through random variables or a way of synthesizing data about a phenomenon? Opting for the latter, Fisher defines a fiducial distribution law of parameters of a given random variable that he deduces from a sample of its specifications. With this law he computes, for instance “the probability that μ (mean of a Gaussian variable – omeur note) is less than any assigned value, or the probability that it lies between any assigned values, or, in short, its probability distribution, in the light of the sample observed”.
The classic solution
Fisher fought hard to defend the difference and superiority of his notion of parameter distribution in comparison to
analogous notions, such as Bayes' posterior distribution, Fraser's constructive probability and Neyman's confidence intervals. For half a century, Neyman's confidence intervals won out for all practical purposes, crediting the phenomenological nature of probability. With this perspective, when you deal with a Gaussian variable, its mean μ is fixed by the physical features of the phenomenon you are observing, where the observations are random operators, hence the observed values are specifications of a random sample. Because of their randomness, you may compute from the sample specific intervals containing the fixed μ with a given probability that you denote confidence.
Example
Let X be a Gaussian variable with parameters and
and a sample drawn from it. Working with statistics
and
is the sample mean, we recognize that
follows a Student's t distribution with parameter (degrees of freedom) m − 1, so that
Gauging T between two quantiles and inverting its expression as a function of you obtain confidence intervals for .
With the sample specification:
having size m = 10, you compute the stati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity%20index | In modern computer science and statistics, the complexity index of a function denotes the level of informational content, which in turn affects the difficulty of learning the function from examples. This is different from computational complexity, which is the difficulty to compute a function. Complexity indices characterize the entire class of functions to which the one we are interested in belongs. Focusing on Boolean functions, the detail of a class of Boolean functions c essentially denotes how deeply the class is articulated.
Technical definition
To identify this index we must first define a sentry function of .
Let us focus for a moment on a single function c, call it a concept defined on a set of elements that we may figure as points in a Euclidean space. In this framework, the above function associates to c a set of points that, since are defined to be external to the concept, prevent it from expanding into another function of . We may dually define these points in terms of sentinelling a given concept c from being fully enclosed (invaded) by another concept within the class. Therefore, we call these points either sentinels or sentry points; they are assigned by the sentry function to each concept of in such a way that:
the sentry points are external to the concept c to be sentineled and internal to at least one other including it,
each concept including c has at least one of the sentry points of c either in the gap between c and , or outside and distinct from the sentry points of , and
they constitute a minimal set with these properties.
The technical definition coming from is rooted in the inclusion of an augmented concept made up of c plus its sentry points by another in the same class.
Definition of sentry function
For a concept class on a space , a sentry function is a total function satisfying the following conditions:
Sentinels are outside the sentineled concept ( for all ).
Sentinels are inside the invading concept (Having introduced the sets , an invading concept is such that and . Denoting the set of concepts invading c, we must have that if , then ).
is a minimal set with the above properties (No exists satisfying (1) and (2) and having the property that for every ).
Sentinels are honest guardians. It may be that but so that . This however must be a consequence of the fact that all points of are involved in really sentineling c against other concepts in and not just in avoiding inclusion of by . Thus if we remove remains unchanged (Whenever and are such that and , then the restriction of to is a sentry function on this set).
is the frontier of c upon .
With reference to the picture on the right, is a candidate frontier of against . All points are in the gap between a and . They avoid inclusion of in , provided that these points are not used by the latter for sentineling itself against other concepts. Vice versa we expect that uses and as its own sentinels, uses and and use |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20L.%20Hopkins |
Albert L. Hopkins Jr. (1931 - 2016) was an American computer designer. He worked at the US MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (now known as the Draper Lab) during the development of the Apollo Guidance, Navigation, and Control System, or the GN&C. The system was designed in two forms, one for the command module and one for the lunar module. The CM version included an optical system with an integrated scanning telescope and sextant for erecting and correcting the inertial platform. Albert Hopkins received a Ph.D. from Harvard University under Howard Aiken, he then joined the MIT Instrumentation Lab where he was Assistant Director; together with Ramon Alonso, and Hugh Blair-Smith he was a member of the group that designed the computer, designated AGC for Apollo Guidance Computer, identical in the CM and LM.
The AGC was a 15-bit plus parity machine with a 1 MHz clock. It was about one cubic foot in volume and weighed about 80 pounds. It used integrated circuit NOR gates, two to a package, but integrated RAM and ROM devices had not been developed yet. It had 2,000 words of magnetic ferrite core read-write memory and maybe 24 thousand words of read-only memory in the form of magnetic core ropes. These cores used metal tape magnetic cores. With such limited computing resources, the software had to be extremely tightly written in assembly code. These computers were designed with extremely long mean times to failure. Fifty were built by Raytheon, and none failed during several years of life. The human interface was a keyboard with ten digit keys and a few auxiliary keys for such things as "+" and "–" and "enter", and a display with three numbers of 5 decimal/octal digits, a two-digit program number, and a two-digit verb and a two-digit noun. The astronauts used it for all phases of command.
After leaving Draper Labs, Albert Hopkins, with his wife Lynne Zaccaria, opened a pottery and antiques shop in South Danbury, New Hampshire. Laterly they lived in Florida.
He died on May 17, 2016. http://www.chadwickfuneralservice.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=3724138&fh_id=12966
See also
Charles Stark Draper
Apollo program
References
Bibliography
The Apollo Guidance Computer (1963)
A Multiprocessing Structure (1967)
External links
Some Aspects of the Logical Design of a Control Computer: A Case Study (1971)
Ramon Alonso interview (2001)
Herb Thaler interview (2001)
Visual intro of Apollo Guidance Computer
We hack the Moon: Albert Hopkins, Apollo Guidance Computer Designer
American computer scientists
Harvard University alumni
People from Merrimack County, New Hampshire
1931 births
2016 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MontyLingua | MontyLingua is a popular natural language processing toolkit. It is a suite of libraries and programs for symbolic and statistical natural language processing (NLP) for both the Python and Java programming languages. It is enriched with common sense knowledge about the everyday world from Open Mind Common Sense. From English sentences, it extracts subject/verb/object tuples, extracts adjectives, noun phrases and verb phrases, and extracts people's names, places, events, dates and times, and other semantic information. It does not require training. It was written by Hugo Liu at MIT in 2003.
Because it is enriched with common sense knowledge it can avoid many mistakes. e.g.:
"(NX the/DT mosquito/NN bit/NN NX) (NX the/DT boy/NN NX)"
vs.
"(NX the/DT mosquito/NN NX) (VX bit/VBD VX) (NX the/DT boy/NN NX)"
Non-commercial use is free. If it is your intent to use this software for non-commercial,
non-proprietary purposes, such as for academic research purposes, this software is free and is covered under the GNU GPL License.
Abilities
MontyTokenizer: normalizes punctuation, spacing and contractions, with sensitivity to abbrevs.
MontyTagger: Part-of-speech tagging using the Penn Treebank tagset, enriched with "Common Sense" from the Open Mind Common Sense project. Exceeds accuracy of Brill94 tbl tagger using default training files
MontyREChunker: chunks tagged text into verb, noun, and adjective chunks (VX, NX, and AX respectively)
MontyExtractor: extracts verb-argument structures, phrases, and other semantically valuable information from sentences and returns sentences as "digests"
MontyLemmatiser: part-of-speech sensitive lemmatisation. Strips plurals (geese-->goose) and tense (were-->be, had-->have). Includes regexps from Humphreys and Carroll's morph.lex, and UPENN's XTAG corpus
MontyNLGenerator: generates summaries, generates surface form sentences, determines and numbers NPs and tenses verbs, accounts for sentence_type
References
External links
Natural language processing toolkits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20social%20address%20book | A mobile social address book is a phonebook on a mobile device that enables subscribers to build and grow their social networks. The mobile social address book transforms the phone book on any standard mobile phone into a social networking platform that makes it easier for subscribers to exchange contact information. The mobile social address book is the convergence of personal information management (PIM) and social networking on a mobile device. While standard mobile phonebooks force users to manually enter contacts, mobile social address books automate this process by enabling subscribers to exchange contact information following a call or SMS. The contact information exchange occurs instantaneously and the user's phonebook updates automatically. Mobile social address books also provide dynamic updates of contacts if their numbers change over time.
History
The first Mobile social address book appeared in 2007 by a company called IQzone Inc., which was founded by John Kuolt. It was the first company to integrate social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Linked in and integrate them with the address book (PIM) of a mobile device. Mobile social address books sought to bring the connectivity of social networking to the in-the-moment experience of the mobile phone. Users can easily exchange contact information regardless of their handset, mobile carrier, or social networking application they use.
Examples of emerging companies providing technology to support mobile social address books include: PicDial (which dynamically augments the existing address book with pictures and status from Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, integrates with the call screen so during every call you see the latest picture and status of whoever is calling. It is a network address book so everything can be managed from Windows or Mac as well and lastly you can also set your one callerID picture and status for your friends to see when you call them) FusionOne (whose backup and synchronization solutions lets users easily transfer and update mobile content, including contact information, among different devices); Loopt (whose Loopt service provides a social compass alerting users when friends are near); OnePIN (whose CallerXchange person-to-person contact exchange service lets users share contact info with one click on the mobile phone); and VoxMobili (whose Phone Backup and Synchronized Address Book solutions let users safeguard and synchronize their contact information among different devices).
In 2007, the Rich Communication Services communication protocol was formed. RCS combines different services defined by 3GPP and Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) with an enhanced phonebook with broad implications for the mobile social address book. In a February 2017 Wired Magazine article, RCS was quoted as "...infected with bureaucracy, complexity, and irrelevance," by industry analyst Dean Bubley in 2015, calling RCS a zombie: dead, but somehow still ambling around. The same active |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication%20engine | A communication engine is a tool that sends user requests to several other communication protocols and/or databases and aggregates the results into a single list or displays them according to their source. Communication engines enable users to enter communication account authorization once and access several communication avenues simultaneously. Communication engines operate on the premise that the World Wide Web is too large for any one engine to index it all and that more productive results can be obtained by combining the results from several engines dynamically. This may save the user from having to use multiple engines separately.
Information retrieval techniques
Computing terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSTNET | CSTNET or China Science and Technology Network () offers Internet services to the Chinese education, research, scientific and technical communities, relevant government departments and hi-tech enterprises, providing services such as network access, host trusteeship, virtual host and domain name registration etc. On April 20, 1994, CSTNET launched the first national formal Internet link and this became the earliest direct global connected Internet in the country.
See also
CERNET
National research and education network
China Next Generation Internet
ChinaNet
External links
Official website
Education in China
Internet in China
National research and education networks
Science and technology in China
Telecommunications in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%201745 | ISO 1745:1975 Information processing – Basic mode control procedures for data communication systems is an early ISO standard defining a Telex-oriented communications protocol that used the non-printable ASCII transmission control characters SOH (Start of Heading), STX (Start of Text), ETX (End of Text), EOT (End of Transmission), ENQ (Enquiry), ACK (Acknowledge), DLE (Data Link Escape), NAK (Negative Acknowledge), SYN (Synchronous Idle), and ETB (End of Transmission Block).
It also defines a serial data format, consisting of a start bit, 7 bit ASCII (least significant bit first), a parity bit (even for asynchronous networks, odd for synchronous networks), and a stop bit.
The text of ISO 1745:1975 is not currently freely available, but the corresponding ECMA version is. The protocol it defines seems to now be little used.
References
16
01745 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20Network | The Cambridge Network is a commercial business networking organisation for business people and academics working in technology fields in the Cambridge area of the UK. The businesses and organisations that make up its membership are typical of those found in the 'Cambridge Cluster' or Silicon Fen. The network is inclusive and encourages cross-sector and cross-business engagement so that new areas of innovation are started.
The network was founded in 1997 by Nigel Brown, David Cleevely, Fred Hallsworth, Hermann Hauser, Anthony Ross and Alec Broers.
Chair of Cambridge Network Ltd is Dr Andy Harter, Group CEO of RealVNC, and current board members include founder Hermann Hauser, Alex van Someren Amadeus Capital Partners, Professor Andy Neely, pro-vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, Lee Welham of Deloitte, Marcus Johnson of Kirly Ltd, Prof Roderick Watkins of Anglia Ruskin University, Peter Taylor of TTP Group, David Cleevely, Andrew Lynn of Fluidic Analytics, Colin Manktelow of NW Brown, Caroline Rowland of Arm Holdings, Vicki Sanderson, Andy Williams Astra Zeneca, Ken Woodberry of Microsoft Research and former Cambridge Network CEO Claire Ruskin.
Its president is the vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor Stephen Toope. John Gourd is chief executive, appointed in September 2019 and David Mardle of Goodwin Procter is company secretary.
Activities
The organisation's mission is "We raise the game for business in Cambridge, and through that we try to raise the game for economic growth in the UK. Cambridge Network brings people together - from business and academia - to meet each other and share ideas, encouraging collaboration and partnership for shared success. ".
It has over 1,000 corporate and 300 individual members.
The Cambridge Network facilitates a number of other services, including
The Cambridge Corporate Gateway – a service dedicated to matching external organisation's technological requirement to companies in the Cambridge area.
Open meetings and lectures intended to bring together business and academic interests.
The Learning Collaboration – encouraging local companies to pool training resources.
The Recruitment Gateway – a service designed to attract and retain the best and most talented people to work in Cambridge.
A number of special interest groups have arisen from Cambridge Network activities.
References
External links
Cambridge Network website
British companies established in 1998
Organisations based in Cambridge
Economy of Cambridgeshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linlang%20%282006%20TV%20series%29 | Linlang (International title: Deception) is a 2006 Philippine television drama suspense series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the sixth installment of Now and Forever. Directed by Mac Alejandre, it stars Lorna Tolentino and Rudy Fernandez. It premiered on July 24, 2006 replacing Duyan. The series concluded on September 22, 2006 with a total of 45 episodes. It was replaced by Dangal in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Lorna Tolentino as Lorena Castrillo
Rudy Fernandez as Arman Barrinuevo
Supporting cast
Chanda Romero as Gina Dimaano
Chynna Ortaleza as Jane Vergara
Dion Ignacio as Danny Villamonte
Polo Ravales as Paolo Ramos
Miguel Tanfelix as Pepe Javier
Antonio Aquitania as Samuel Reyes
Alessandra De Rossi as Brenda Villarreal
Efren Reyes, Jr. as Boyong Calderon
Terence Baylon as Ricky Sebastian-Valdez
Eva Darren as Sister Stella
Diana Zubiri as Divina Agustin
Kyle Danielle Ocampo as Maddie Reyes
References
External links
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2006 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangal%20%28TV%20series%29 | (International title: Honor) is a 2006 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the seventh and final instalment of Now and Forever. Directed by Mac Alejandre, it stars Jennylyn Mercado and Dennis Trillo. It premiered on September 25, 2006 replacing Linlang. The series concluded on November 24, 2006 with a total of 45 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jennylyn Mercado as Altamira "Alta" Roxas-Marquez
Dennis Trillo as Adrianno "Adrian" Marquez
Supporting cast
Desiree del Valle as Giovanna Guillermo-Roxas
Cherie Gil as Chandra Remedios
Melissa Mendez as Corrina Roxas-Marquez
Mat Ranillo III as Ricardo Marquez
Ciara Sotto as Celestina "Celestine" Soledad
Katya Santos as Lianna "Iyanna" Regalado
Ella Cruz as Florentina "Flor" Gonzavo
Polo Ravales as Miguelito "Miguel" Dominguez
Andrew Schimmer as Inigo Regalado
References
External links
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2006 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Kanji%20System | The IBM Kanji System was announced in 1971 to support Japanese language processing on the IBM System/360 computers. It was later enhanced by the support of IBM System/34, IBM 5550 and DOS/V.
General
The IBM Kanji System became available in a series of staged announcements. Its initial technical demonstration was done at Expo '70 in Osaka, and an official announcement was made in 1971, including:
IBM 2245 Kanji Printer
IBM 5924 Kanji Keypunch
IBM System/360-System/370 OS/VS1 & DOS/VSE Programming support
The Kanji Keypunch was able to punch up to 2950 kinds of Kanji characters, using the left hand to select one of the 15 shift keys and the right hand to select one of the 240 Kanji characters for each shift. Until that time, only English alphanumeric and Japanese half-width Katakana characters were processed on IBM mainframes. The IBM Kanji System thus established the basis for handling up to about 10,000 Japanese characters used in the daily life.
The IBM Kanji System was further enhanced in September 1979 to include:
Hardware
Offline input/output
IBM 5924 T01 Kanji Keypunch (IBM 029 Key Punch with 12-shift key Kanji keyboard) - RPQ
Online terminals
IBM 3270 Subsystem
IBM 3274 model 52C Control Unit with Kanji processing functions
IBM 3278 model 52 Display (IBM 3278 Display with 12-shift key Kanji keyboard)
IBM 3283 model 52 Inkjet Printer
Online printer
IBM 3800-2 Printing Subsystem
Kanji support software
Operating Systems
OS/VS1
DOS/VSE
IBM 8100 DPPX
Development Languages
COBOL
PL/I
DBCS support
IMS
CICS
Utility programs
The IBM Kanji System was planned, designed, and implemented mainly by Double-byte Technical Coordination Organization (DTCO) and development departments in IBM Fujisawa Laboratory, assisted by IBM Endicott Lab (IBM 029), Poughkeepsie Lab (OS/VS), Kingston Lab (IBM 3270), Santa Teresa Lab (IMS), Hursley Lab (CICS), Boeblingen Lab (DOS/VSE) and other locations as well as related vendors.
These announcements were followed by other announcements:
IBM System/34 Kanji System, using IBM 5250 display (October, 1979)
IBM 3283-053 Kanji Printer (1981)
IBM 3200 Kanji Printer (1982)
IBM 3270 emulation and IBM 5250 emulation by the Japanese PCs:
IBM 5550 (1984)
DOS/V (1991)
Competition and cooperation
At the time of its development, Japan's major mainframe companies were developing their own Japanese processing systems independently and at the same time cooperating to establish a Japanese character code industry standard (JIS X 0208). Some of these systems are:
JEF (Japanese processing Extended Facility) by Fujitsu
JIPS (Japanese Information Processing System) by NEC
KEIS (Kanji processing Extended Information System) by Hitachi
Effect to the support of other languages
Similar supports later became available for Korean, and Chinese (both in Traditional and Simplified forms).
References
See also
Japanese language
Kanji
DBCS
CJK characters
List of IBM products
IBM 2245
IBM 5924
Encodings of J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitel%20GSM | Digitel is a mobile phone company in Venezuela, and the country's first to deploy a GSM network and to establish a per second charging scheme. Early in 2007, Digitel surpassed 3 million subscribers and is currently placed third, behind CANTV's Movilnet and Telefonica's Movistar.
Digitel's growth has remained steady. Digitel currently provides wireless data transmission capabilities through its GSM–GPRS and high speed EDGE network. In 2007 Digitel deployed an UMTS network on its existing 900 MHz spectrum..
In 2000, after receiving government approval, Digitel sold 56.56% of its stocks to Telecom Italia Mobile, changing its name to Digitel TIM.
Digitel's network originally only covered Venezuela's central region, reaching around 44% of the entire population; however, in January 2006, a request to the government to approve merger with Venezuela's two other GSM networks (Digicel and Infonet) to achieve full national coverage, and in May 2006 the company was acquired entirely by the Televenco group together with the two other operators, after which the company's name changed to its current: Digitel GSM.
The company began a network expansion program in July 2006, and by the end of the year more than 1,070 radio bases had been installed, 7 switches in Caracas, Valencia, Puerto La Cruz and Maracaibo, stretching its GPRS/EDGE network in the West of the country and offering communication, data, information and entertainment to all its customers.
Early in 2010, Digitel got its 3G/WCDMA (HSDPA, HSUPA, GSM/WCDMA) network working all over the country, becoming the fastest provider despite its slow growth.
Lately in 2013, Digitel got its 4G/LTE (LTE network working in mayor cities such as Caracas, Maracay, Valencia among others, becoming this way the first operator in Venezuela offering LTE capabilities. The phones sold with 4G uSIM were BlackBerry Z10 and Huawei Ascend P1 LTE, both supporting 1800Mhz network.
References
External links
Digitel
Digitel GSM Coverage Map, Venezuela
Telecommunications companies of Venezuela
Telecommunications companies established in 1995
Venezuelan brands
Companies based in Caracas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRINet%20%28India%20coast%29 | TRINet (formerly Tsunami Rehab Information Network, India) has transitioned into "The Resource and Information Network: for the coast" from 1 April 2008.
History
The 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean devastated large stretches of the coastal areas of India. Relief and rehab attracted a large number of players. Coordination as well as resource centres were set up in Tamil Nadu, the South Indian state most affected by the tsunami.
TRINet, the Tsunami Rehabilitation Information NETwork was set up in March 2005 as a response to the broad information requirements in the state of Tamil Nadu for tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction phases to help in sharing information between different groups working on various aspects in the different districts of the state. It was initiated by three prominent organizations, viz., South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies SIFFS, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) and the Bhoomika Trust.
TRINet has been collecting-collating-disseminating information related to tsunami rehabilitation. Apart from a website, TRINet produces weekly news bulletins - a collection of clippings from the media, a monthly Newsletter in English as well as a monthly Newsletter in Tamil. These can be downloaded from the site. TRINet also maintains a document database of reports and other publications related to the rehab process.
Activities in tsunami rehab in India
In the three years of its existence as the Tsunami Rehab Information Network, TRINet organized a number of consultations and workshops on various topics related to tsunami rehab. Reports of these as well as presentations made at these meetings are available on the website. Topics of mention include on Coastal Protection Projects, Sanitation and Governance in fishing communities. Apart from the meetings organized by TRINet, a number of reports of tsunami-rehab-related meetings that did not find their way to the mainstream media can be found in the website.
Based on the experience of TRINet in the post tsunami period, a paper was presented at the Asia Pacific Conference of the Project Management Institute titled Project Management Needs in Disaster Situations: Lessons learned from the Boxing Day Tsunami.
Current Focus
Three years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, TRINet's focus has changed from rehabilitation to long-term development of the coastal zone. Specifically, TRINet's focus will be on providing information on coastal issues from the perspective of the coastal communities whose livelihoods depend extensively on access to coastal resources.
TRINet compiled a dossier for the Campaign against CZM Notification in India in 2007.
TRINet continues to produce a monthly newsletter which is available to subscribers and can also be directly accessed from the website http://www.trinet.in under the blog entries.
TRINet's office is located at Nagapattinam, India as part of BEDROC.
Dissemination Products
TRINet's Monthly Newsletter - each issue has a t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRINet | Trinet can mean:
TRINet (India coast), formerly "Tsunami Rehab Information Network", also "The Resource and Information Network: for the coast"
TriNet, a consultancy firm in San Leandro, California, USA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish%20%28Unix%20shell%29 | wish (Windowing Shell) is a Tcl interpreter extended with Tk commands, available for Unix-like operating systems supporting the X Window System, as well as macOS, Microsoft Windows, and Android. It provides developers the ability to create GUI widgets using the Tk toolkit and the Tcl programming language.
wish is open-source under the BSD License, and is currently part of the Tcl/Tk programming suite.
Usage
wish can be run without parameters. Then the % prompt is displayed and the interpreter awaits for commands entered interactively by the user. An empty window is opened in which the widgets created by user commands are displayed. This mode is suitable for experimenting.
More often wish is run with a name of a file containing a Tcl/Tk script as a parameter. It is also possible to run directly Tcl/Tk scripts; in Unix using the shebang construction; in Windows by associating the .tcl extension with the wish program.
See also
Tcl/Tk
References
External links
A man page for wish
Software that uses Tk (software)
Unix shells
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaRouche%20movement | The LaRouche movement is a political and cultural network promoting the late Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas. It has included many organizations and companies around the world, which campaign, gather information and publish books and periodicals. LaRouche-aligned organizations include the National Caucus of Labor Committees, the Schiller Institute, the Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement and, formerly, the U.S. Labor Party. The LaRouche movement has been called "cult-like" by The New York Times.
The movement originated within the radical leftist student politics of the 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of candidates ran in state Democratic primaries in the United States on the 'LaRouche platform', while Lyndon LaRouche repeatedly campaigned for presidential nomination. From the mid-1970s the LaRouche network would adopt viewpoints and stances of the far-right. During its peak in the 1970s and 1980s, the LaRouche movement developed a private intelligence agency and contacts with foreign governments. In 1988, LaRouche and 25 associates were convicted on fraud charges related to fundraising. The movement called the prosecutions politically motivated.
LaRouche's widow, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, heads political and cultural groups in Germany connected with her late husband's movement. There are also parties in France, Sweden and other European countries and branches or affiliates in Australia, Canada, the Philippines and several Latin American countries. Members engage in political organizing, fund-raising, cultural events, research and writing and internal meetings.
On February 24, 2021, Zepp-LaRouche denounced the LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC) and its treasurer, Barbara Boyd, for going "in a direction which I consider contrary to the central policies that my husband stood for. ... [S]ince he passed away in February 2019, Mrs. Boyd and her associates ... have embarked on a path that I believe misrepresents both my and Mr. LaRouche's positions." and has stated that LPAC and Boyd do not represent the LaRouche movement. She has taken legal action against LPAC to "immediately cease and desist, both now and in the future" from "using Mr. LaRouche's name, likeness, and potentially other confusingly similar terms."
Main goals of the Lyndon LaRouche movement
Restoration of Glass-Steagall. Since 2007, the movement has actively campaigned to restore the Glass-Steagall Act, to separate commercial banking from speculative investment banking, protecting the former and not bailing out the latter.
New Bretton Woods. Advocates the abandonment of floating exchange rates and the return to Bretton Woods-style fixed rates, with gold, or an equivalent, used as under the gold-reserve system. This is not to be confused with the gold standard, which LaRouche did not support.
American System. Espouses the "American System" of infrastructure projects, a "regulated banking system" and tariffs. Named for the historical American System of Henry Clay, but owing m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProgressNow | ProgressNow, previously the Rocky Mountain Progressive Network, is a progressive 501(c)(4) advocacy organization in the United States. Founded in 2003, ProgressNow bills itself as a network of state based communications hubs which act as a marketing department for progressive ideas.
History and mission
ProgressNow was created in 2003 as a response to the libertarian Independence Institute. It has since grown a subscriber base of more than 350,000 grassroots activists in Colorado. In 2006, ProgressNow began to expand its network outside of Colorado and has since created ProgressNow Partners Networks in twenty-one states: Alliance for a Better Minnesota, Alliance for a Better Utah, Battle Born Progress (formerly ProgressNow Nevada), Better Georgia, Better Idaho, Courage Campaign (California), Fuse Washington, Granite State Progress (New Hampshire), Keystone Progress (Pennsylvania), One Wisconsin Now, ProgressNow Arizona, ProgressNow Colorado, Progress Florida, ProgressIowa, Progress Michigan, Progress Missouri, ProgressNow New Mexico, Progress North Carolina, ProgressOhio, Progress Texas, and ProgressVirginia. As of 2015, the organization reported that it had an email list of over four million names.
The first chairman was Rollie Heath, a Boulder executive who gained office as the 18th district's state senator in 2008. Heath was followed by Dr. Albert Yates, the former president of Colorado State University. The founder of ProgressNow is Michael Huttner, a Brown University and University of California Hastings College of Law graduate and lawyer turned political strategist. The current executive director is Arshad Hasan, who previously led Democracy for America.
Its founding board members included Wes Boyd, founder of MoveOn.org, Rob McKay, chairman of the board of the Democracy Alliance and president of the McKay Family Foundation, Jared Polis, elected in 2008 as the U.S. Congressman for Colorado’s 2nd District, and Ted Trimpa (the current chair), an attorney and government relations expert.
The group co-sponsored a blogging workspace, 'The Big Tent', during the 2008 Democratic National Convention. In 2007, progressnow.org received multiple honors from the Golden Dot Awards (online political advocacy awards).
In 2010, the book The Blueprint: How Democrats Won Colorado, and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care by Adam Schrager and Rob Witwer described ProgressNow as the "crown jewel" of the progressive investors' effort to flip the state.
Affordable Care Act advocacy
In October 2013, ProgressNow Colorado released a controversial series of advertisements promoting Obamacare. According to the Denver Post, one advertisement "features a woman flashing a thumbs up with one hand and holding a packet of birth-control pills in the other. She is wrapped in a man's arm next to text that includes the sentence 'Let's hope he's as easy to get as this birth control.'" In response to inquiries about whether taxpayer funding was used for the advertis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%20McCorduck | Pamela Ann McCorduck (October 27, 1940 – October 18, 2021) was a British-born American author of books about the history and philosophical significance of artificial intelligence, the future of engineering, and the role of women and technology. She also wrote three novels. She contributed to Omni, The New York Times, Daedalus, and the Michigan Quarterly Review, and was a contributing editor of Wired. She was a former vice president of the PEN American Center. She was married to computer scientist and academic Joseph F. Traub.
Early life
McCorduck was born on October 27, 1940, in Liverpool, United Kingdom, to Hilda (née Bond) and William J. "Jack" McCorduck. The city was being bombed by the German Luftwaffe at the time of her birth. Her mother was a beautician and teacher, while her father owned beauty colleges, including the one where her mother taught. She was the eldest of three siblings, with the younger two being twins. She moved to Stamford, Connecticut, in the United States, with her family, when she was 6. The family moved in the RMS Queen Elizabeth, an ocean liner that took them to Ellis Island in 1946.
She lived in Rutherford, New Jersey, where she graduated from Rutherford High School before moving west and earning a bachelor's degree in English literature from University of California, Berkeley, in 1960. Many years later, she obtained her master's degree in English literature from Columbia University.
Career
McCorduck started out supporting professors Edward Feigenbaum, who would later go on to be known as the father of expert systems, and Julian Feldman, at UC Berkeley in their book on artificial intelligence, entitled Computers & Thought (1963). She stayed on as an executive assistant to Feigenbaum as he moved to Stanford University to set up the university's computer science department in 1965.
She moved to Seattle, with her husband Joseph F. Traub, whom she had met in Stanford, when he moved to the University of Washington; she later moved to Pittsburgh, where she taught at Carnegie Mellon University. During these years, she wrote two of her novels, Familiar Relations (1971; about a family in Liverpool) and Working to the End (1972).
While at Carnegie Mellon she taught in the English department, but was introduced to scientists working on artificial intelligence, including professor Herbert A. Simon, who championed the idea that computers could match human thinking by exhibiting artificial intelligence. She continued to interact with the scientists and researchers, including Raj Reddy and Allen Newell, many of whom she interviewed. During this time, she wrote Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry Into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence (1979), which was funded by the university. The book ended up chronicling the early years of research in artificial intelligence. She wrote about researchers who were studying expert systems, robotics, problem solving, general game playing, and speech recognition, becoming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy-12 | The Tandy-12 is a computerized arcade game produced by the Tandy Corporation for sale in its Radio Shack chain of stores. The Tandy Corporation acquired Radioshack in 1970. The arcade game featured "12 challenging games of skill". However, most of these were based on luck and freestyle ability. The game had its packaging updated several times since its original release. It was packaged with the game unit itself, a manual, a cardboard playing board, and a set of plastic tokens. The manual is available online. The 1981 Tandy-12 Model number is 60-2159. The 1982 Tandy-12 Model number is 60-2159.
Games
Games included in the Tandy-12 were:
Organ – Electronic Organ with 12 Notes.
Song Writer – Record a song of up to 44 notes.
Repeat – Follow a random sequence like in Simon.
Torpedo – Fire torpedoes to sink enemy submarines.
Tag-It – Try to catch 110 moles.
Roulette – Electronic Roulette (Uses playing board).
Baseball – Electronic Baseball (Uses playing board).
Repeat Plus – Repeat variant for 2 or more players.
Treasure Hunt – Variant of the board game Master Mind.
Complete – Battle of reaction time.
Fire Away – Destroy enemy invaders.
Hide 'N Seek – Guess the computers 3 numbers in order.
References
External links
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102626662
Handheld electronic games
RadioShack
1980s toys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%20Men | Mercury Men can refer to:
The Mercurymen, a British acoustical band
The Mercurymen (Canadian band), a Canadian band of the same name
The Mercury Men, a web series produced by the Syfy network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Optical%20Engineering%20Software | Fred Optical Engineering Software (FRED) is a commercial 3D CAD computer program for optical engineering used to simulate the propagation of light through optical systems. Fred can handle both incoherent and coherent light using Gaussian beam propagation. The program offers a high level of visualization using a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) parametric interface. According to the publisher, Photon Engineering, the name "Fred" is not an acronym, and does not mean anything.
Fred allows for non-sequential raytracing with support to raytrace on up to 63 cores. Fred also features a downhill simplex optimizer where the user can specify variables, merit function and multiple targets for optimization. The program can import and export IGES, STEP, and OBJ CAD formats. Fred is also compatible with other hardware measured light source measurement software such as ProSource. Fred can also interact with MATLAB and Mathematica using an OLE Automation Client/Server interface.
Fred was used in the design of the NOAO's Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
Fred is available in three editions.
See also
List of ray tracing software
References
External links
Photon Engineering Website
Optical software
Computer-aided design software for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment%20system | An entertainment system is a system of entertainment usually of electronic components that handle audio and video, video gaming, computers, etc.
More specifically, an entertainment system may refer to:
Home theater system
Home theater PC
In-car entertainment
In-flight entertainment
Video game console |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiki%20Towers | Tiki Towers (known as Tropical Towers in the United Kingdom) is a puzzle video game developed by Mock Science and published by RealNetworks division GameHouse. It was released for WiiWare, BlackBerry, iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad), Android, Windows Phone and Symbian S60. The game has been likened to the similar puzzle game World of Goo. A sequel titled Tiki Towers 2: Monkey Republic was released in January 2011.
Gameplay
Based around a tropical Tiki culture-theme, the game involves players directing a troupe of monkeys to retrieve bananas by building towers of bamboo scaffolding to reach the fruits, with the ultimate goal of collecting all bananas and having all monkeys reach the designated "exit". This adds conflict as the player usually is tasked with building towers on a limited bamboo budget and if a tower falls it may prevent the monkeys from completing the level.
On the Wii version of the game, while much remains the same (with regard to the mobile versions), one significant difference is that the player must also fend off "evil monkeys" trying to sabotage the player's towers while the "good monkeys" (player's 'troupe') are working toward their goal.
Development
Concept
Tiki Towers was conceived by designer Frank Boosman from the Republic of Fun before the Wii's release in 2006. Excited by the promise of the Wii, he felt that the Wii's controller, the Wii Remote, would work well with games that required a lot of physical interactions. While listening to a talk by video game designer and entrepreneur Will Wright, Wright said something to the effect of "Monkeys are funny", which gave Boosman the idea of representing building pieces as bamboo and coconuts in his new game and since a friend of his liked Tiki culture, it was used as the game's theme.
Design
Drawing the bamboo sticks to scale in order to fit on a small cellphone screen was a difficult task and there wasn't a clear perspective and the sticks had to be functional to implement realistic bending and breaking. In the prototyping stage, the developers did limitation testing to get the physics just right. As development progressed, the game engine became more advanced and multiple layers were added to the graphics to capture the Tiki atmosphere. To simplify the game's structure, all information on the gameplay was placed on menus rather than popup boxes and all islands in the game were placed in a single screen. To boost graphic quality, the developers opted to use symbols instead of text to indicate level progression. Early in the game's development there were going to be different kinds of monkeys - the first to build the bamboo structures and the second to climb on them. There were also going to be small, medium and big monkeys which would have light, medium and heavy weight that would correspond with easy, medium and hard difficulty levels. Both ideas got scrapped and the medium climber monkey made it into the game. The monkeys needed to be scaled just right so that they didn' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha%20Curry | Natasha Curry is the former anchor for HLN's Weekend Express with Natasha Curry. She also served as a replacement on the same network, when necessary, for Robin Meade on Morning Express with Robin Meade. She joined the network, then known as CNN's Headline News, in December 2008.
Personal
Curry received a bachelor's degree in biology from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She has studied at the Sichuan Union University in China and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University.
In 1998, Curry finished in the Top 10 in the Miss USA 1998 Pageant representing the state of Washington.
Curry served as a judge for the Miss USA 2018
Career
Prior to joining CNN in 2008, Curry was a morning anchor at KOMO-TV and co-host of Northwest Afternoon in Seattle.
She was also anchored newscasts for WLTX-TV in Columbia, South Carolina. While in the palmetto state, Curry also produced the popular Midlands segment Restaurant Report Card and covered the passing of Senator Strom Thurmond. And the Space Shuttle Columbia Tragedy (STS-107). She also reported on a number of controversial issues, including protests over the Confederate flag being flown on State House grounds.
Curry also worked as an anchor and reporter at KYMA-TV in Yuma, Arizona.
Filmography
References
External links
Brief bio from CNN website''
Living people
1976 births
American beauty pageant winners
American television reporters and correspondents
Miss Washington USA winners
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication alumni
CNN people
People from Puyallup, Washington
Pacific Lutheran University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20computing | Lateral computing is a lateral thinking approach to solving computing problems.
Lateral thinking has been made popular by Edward de Bono. This thinking technique is applied to generate creative ideas and solve problems. Similarly, by applying lateral-computing techniques to a problem, it can become much easier to arrive at a computationally inexpensive, easy to implement, efficient, innovative or unconventional solution.
The traditional or conventional approach to solving computing problems is to either build mathematical models or have an IF- THEN -ELSE structure. For example, a brute-force search is used in many chess engines, but this approach is computationally expensive and sometimes may arrive at poor solutions. It is for problems like this that lateral computing can be useful to form a better solution.
A simple problem of truck backup can be used for illustrating lateral-computing. This is one of the difficult tasks for traditional computing techniques, and has been efficiently solved by the use of fuzzy logic (which is a lateral computing technique). Lateral-computing sometimes arrives at a novel solution for particular computing problem by using the model of how living beings, such as how humans, ants, and honeybees, solve a problem; how pure crystals are formed by annealing, or evolution of living beings or quantum mechanics etc.
From lateral-thinking to lateral-computing
Lateral thinking is technique for creative thinking for solving problems. The brain as center of thinking has a self-organizing information system. It tends to create patterns and traditional thinking process uses them to solve problems. The lateral thinking technique proposes to escape from this patterning to arrive at better solutions through new ideas. Provocative use of information processing is the basic underlying principle of lateral thinking,
The provocative operator (PO) is something which characterizes lateral thinking. Its function is to generate new ideas by provocation and providing escape route from old ideas. It creates a provisional arrangement of information.
Water logic is contrast to traditional or rock logic. Water logic has boundaries which depends on circumstances and conditions while rock logic has hard boundaries. Water logic, in someways, resembles fuzzy logic.
Transition to lateral-computing
Lateral computing does a provocative use of information processing similar to lateral-thinking. This is explained with the use of evolutionary computing which is a very useful lateral-computing technique. The evolution proceeds by change and selection. While random mutation provides change, the selection is through survival of the fittest. The random mutation works as a provocative information processing and provides a new avenue for generating better solutions for the computing problem. The term "Lateral Computing" was first proposed by Prof CR SUTHIKSHN Kumar and First World Congress on Lateral Computing WCLC 2004 was organized with international p |
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