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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petricola | Petricola is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species database, species within the genus Petricola include:
Petricola aequistriata G. B. Sowerby II, 1874
Petricola angolensis Cosel, 1995
Petricola bicolor G. B. Sowerby II, 1854
Petricola botula Olsson, 1961
Petricola californiensis Pilsbry and Lowe, 1932
Petricola carditoides (Conrad, 1837)
Petricola concinna G. B. Sowerby I, 1834
Petricola dactylus (G.B. Sowerby I, 1823)
Petricola denticulata G. B. Sowerby I, 1834
Petricola divergens (Gmelin, 1791)
Petricola exarata (Carpenter, 1857)
Petricola fabagella Lamarck, 1818
Petricola habei M. Huber, 2010
Petricola hertzana Coan, 1997
Petricola insignis (Deshayes, 1854)
Petricola inversa Macsotay & Villarroel, 2001
Petricola japonica Dunker, 1882
Petricola lapicida (Gmelin, 1791)
Petricola linguafelis (Carpenter, 1857)
Petricola lithophaga (Philippson, 1788)
Petricola monstrosa (Gmelin, 1791)
Petricola olssoni F. R. Bernard, 1983
Petricola quadrasi (Hidalgo, 1886)
Petricola rugosa G. B. Sowerby I, 1834
Petricola scotti Coan, 1997
Synonyms
Petricola brugieri Hanley : synonym of Venerupis bruguieri (Hanley, 1845)
Petricola donnae Petuch, 1998 : synonym of Petricolaria donnae (Petuch, 1998)
Petricola lajonkairii (Payraudeau, 1826): synonym of Lajonkairia lajonkairii (Payraudeau, 1826)
Petricola lucasana Herlein and Strong, 1948: synonym of Petricola insignis (Deshayes, 1854)
Petricola pholadiformis Lamarck, 1818: synonym of Petricolaria pholadiformis (Lamarck, 1818) (original combination)
Petricola robusta G.B. Sowerby I, 1834: synonym of Choristodon robustus (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) (original combination)
References
Habe, T. 1951. Petricolidae, Cardiliidae and Anatinellidae in Japan. In: Kuroda, T. (ed.) Illustrated catalogue of Japanese shells.
Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
External links
Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux; Présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leur distribution, d'apres la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; Précédé du discours d'ouverture du Cours de Zoologie, donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle l'an 8 de la République. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris: viii + 432 pp
Gray, J. E. (1853). A revision of the genera of some of the families of Conchifera or bivalve shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (2) 11: 33-44, 398-402
Fleuriau [de Bellevue (L.B.) 1802. Mémoire sur quelques nouveaux genres de mollusques et vers lithophages, et sur les faculté |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20Sky%20Survey | The Ohio Sky Survey was an astronomical survey of extragalactic radio sources. Data were taken between 1965 and 1971 using the Big Ear radio telescope at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory (OSURO), also known as the "Big Ear Radio Observatory (BERO)".
The survey covered 94% of the sky area between the limiting declinations of 63°N and 36°S with a resolution at 1415 MHz of 40 arc minutes in declination. The survey was carried out primarily at a frequency of 1415 MHz but observations were also made at 2650 MHz and 612 MHz. Roughly 19,620 sources were identified over the course of the survey of which 60% were previously uncatalogued.
The survey was unique in that it covered a larger portion of the sky, to a greater depth, and at a higher frequency, than any previous survey. In addition, all previously catalogued sources were tabulated and maps of the areas surveyed were included with the positions of all catalogued sources.
Sources discovered in the course of the survey were assigned names according to a coordinate numbering system consisting of a two-letter prefix followed by three digits. The first letter, O, stood for Ohio, and the second letter, B–Z inclusive (omitting O) indicated the source right ascension in hours (0–23 inclusive). The first digit indicated the declination zone in increments of 10°, while the last two digits give the source number within the specified region of right ascension and declination.
Data reduction for the survey was done using a computer program developed by John D. Kraus and Robert S. Dixon.
The Ohio Sky Survey was published in seven installments and two supplements.
References
Astronomical surveys
Ohio State University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Dowling | Robert Timothy Dowling (; born June 1963) is an American journalist and author who writes a weekly column in The Guardian about his life with his family in London.
Career
Dowling worked in data entry for a films database before he became a freelance journalist, first working for GQ, then women's magazines and the Independent on Sunday. He is a columnist for The Guardian and has a weekly column in the paper's Saturday magazine, Weekend. His column replaced Jon Ronson's in 2007. He writes observational columns, often about his wife. Sam Leith of The Guardian noted that "Dowling's a very fresh and smart writer, as he needs to be. Stories about machete massacres or ebola pandemics pretty much write themselves: writing about nothing much, week in, week out, is the real test." Dowling also worked as a cartoonist for a short time.
Dowling's books include a 2001 book about the inventor of the disposable razor, King Camp Gillette, Suspicious Packages and Extendable Arms, a collection of his writing from The Guardian, and The Giles Wareing Haters' Club, his 2007 debut novel concerning a journalist Googling himself (narcissurfing) who finds an online club of people who hate him, inspired by Dowling searching for his name online. Giles Wareing was reviewed by TLS. Metro said it is "a fine comedy of domestic triviality".
Dowling said of his 2014 book How to Be a Husband: "It got quite a bit of publicity in the U.K. when it came out and [my wife] wasn't prepared for all that." Tom Hodgkinson writing in The Spectator called this book "a rare delight". Leith in The Guardian said there is "pleasure and treasure here." David Evans wrote in The Independent: "It's a rare thing to be able to write about life as a husband and father in such a way as to elicit nods of recognition among those who are neither of those things; Dowling does it with panache."
Published work
Inventor of the Disposable Culture: King Camp Gillette 1855–1932 (Faber & Faber, 2001, )
Not the Archer prison diary (Ebury Press, 2002,
Suspicious Packages & Extendable Arms (Guardian Newspapers Ltd, 2007, )
The Giles Wareing Haters' Club (Picador, 2008, )
How to Be a Husband (Fourth Estate, 2014, )
Dad You Suck (Fourth Estate, 2017, )
Personal life
Dowling was born in Connecticut. His mother was a schoolteacher, his father was a dentist, and he has a brother and two sisters. He moved to the UK from New York at the age of 27 and currently lives in London with his wife Sophie de Brandt and their three sons. He enjoys skiing with his sons, having learned to ski as a child in the US.
Dowling has played banjo (which his wife bought for his birthday) in the band Police Dog Hogan since 2009, and he writes self-deprecatingly about their festival gigs, including Glastonbury, in his column.
References
External links
Tim Dowling's Guardian column with full archives
1963 births
American newspaper journalists
Living people
The Guardian journalists
Writers from Connecticut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimaster | Multimaster or multi-master may refer to:
The Fein Multimaster, a variable speed oscillating cutting tool produced by Fein tools
Multi-master bus, a computer bus in which there are multiple bus master nodes present on the bus
Multi-master replication, a method of replication employed by databases to transfer data or changes to data across multiple computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Corts%20station | Les Corts is a station in the Barcelona Metro network, in the Les Corts district of Barcelona, from which it takes its name. It is served by line L3.
The station is located under Carrer de Joan Güell, between Travessera de les Corts and Carrer de can Bruixa, and is some from the Camp Nou, home of La Liga club FC Barcelona. The station has two long side platforms.
The station opened in 1975, along with the other stations of the section of L3 between Zona Universitària and Sants Estació stations. This section was originally operated separately from L3, and known as L3b, until the two sections were joined in 1982.
References
External links
Les Corts at Trenscat.com
Barcelona Metro line 3 stations
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1975
Transport in Les Corts (district) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic%20Animation%20Festival | Fantastic Animation Festival is a package film of animation segments, set mostly to music and released in theaters in 1977. It was one of the earliest of the sort of collections typified by Computer Animation Festival and Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation (the co-founders of the latter, formerly known as Festival of Animation, send out flyers of Fantastic Animation Festival).
Summary
Included in its original form of 16 segments were the first national appearance of Will Vinton's Claymation (Closed Mondays and Mountain Music), Bambi Meets Godzilla, Cat Stevens' animated promo for his song "Moonshadow" that was shown at his early concerts, and a previously seen Max Fleischer Superman cartoon from the 1940s (The Mechanical Monsters). The original running time was 107 minutes, which was later edited down to 90 minutes, and then edited for television to 80 minutes.
Segments
(The following are in running order.)
"Welcome to the world of animation" introduction; voice-over by Paul Frees, who also narrated the trailer
French Windows, the rotoscope animation to Pink Floyd's "One of These Days" by Ian Eames
Icarus, a Romanian clay animation by Mihail Badica
A Short History of the Wheel, by Loren Bowie
Cosmic Cartoon, animated and directed by Eric Ladd and Steven Lisberger
The Last Cartoon Man, by Derek Lamb & Jeffrey Hale
Au Bout Du Fil Cradle (Cat's Cradle), by Paul Driessen (National Film Board of Canada)
Moonshadow, Cat Stevens' story of Teaser and the Firecat, narrated by Spike Milligan, by Charles Jenkins
Oiseau de Nuit (Nightbird), by Bernard Palacios
Room and Board, by Randy Cartwright
Bambi Meets Godzilla, by Marv Newland
Mountain Music, Claymation by Will Vinton
Light, by Jordan Belson
The Mechanical Monsters, a public-domain 1941 Fleischer Studios cartoon
Stranger, a 1971 Levi Strauss Jeans commercial by Snazelle Films, narrated by Ken Nordine
Uncola, a 1975 7Up commercial by Robert Abel and Associates
Mirror People, by Kathy Rose
Kick Me, by Robert Swarthe, a 1975 Best Animated Short Film nominee
Closed Mondays, Claymation by Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner (1974 Academy Award Winner for Best Animated Short Film)
See also
International Tournee of Animation
Animation Show of Shows
The Animation Show
Notes
The 1941 Academy Award-nominated Superman (AKA The Mad Scientist) was featured on the TV version while the episode ended with Mirror People instead of Closed Mondays.
Soundtrack
The fanfare music was done by Richard Audd.
References
External links
Fantastic Animation Festival on The Internet Archive
Fantastic Animation Festival on AllMovie
1977 films
1977 animated films
American anthology films
Compilation films
American animated feature films
1970s in animation
1970s English-language films
Animated anthology films
1970s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOW%3A%20The%20CatholicTV%20Challenge | WOW: The CatholicTV Challenge is a game show presented on the CatholicTV cable network. The series was developed in 2004 to teach the basic facts of the Catholic Faith through the lives of young children.
History
Origin
The program first aired on September 6, 2005. It was created by the president of CatholicTV, Father Robert Reed. The show's title was conceived by Sean Ward, coordinator of new media at the network.
Interview format (2005–2007)
The original format, simply called WOW, was used for the first three seasons and styled after Kids Say the Darndest Things. Participants discussed the theme of the day, getting "Wowsers" (simple foam representations of the show's logo) for saying the "deepest" things. At the end, the child with the most Wowsers received a prize.
Quiz format (2007-present)
Beginning in 2007, the format changed to a question-answer game show. Three children, introduced by the animated canine "Nosey the Know-it-All Dog", attempt to answer questions around the day's common theme, called a "Wudabout"; Nosey also asks any tie-breaker and "Super Challenge" questions.
After five minutes, the high scorer moves on and another set of three contestants is introduced; after three rounds, each five minutes long, the three winners compete in the Final Challenge. The winner of this round receives a prize.
Since the purpose of the show is to convey an understanding of basic Catholic beliefs to viewers both young and old, the series actively gives prospective contestants any and all questions with the answers for study one month in advance of the taping.
Past winners
Past winners include Matt Mears a 2nd grader from Saint Joseph’s Elementary School and Matthew Derby a 2nd grader from Our Lady of Assumption School
Production team
As of 2016, Reed is the program's host and executive producer,. Peter Kaminski produces and directs the show, while CatholicTV senior producer Kevin Nelson is announcer.
References
External links
2000s American children's game shows
2004 American television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUMETNET | EUMETNET (acronym of European Meteorological Network) is a network of 31 European National Meteorological Services based in Brussels, Belgium. It exists to provide a framework to organise co-operative programmes between the members in fields of meteorology, data processing and forecasting products.
Members
Meteorological services of the following 31 countries are members of EUMETNET: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Montenegro, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, North Macedonia and the United Kingdom.
Cooperating non-member states
Cooperating non-member states are: Bulgaria, Israel, Lithuania, Moldova and Romania.
See also
EUMETSAT
ECMWF
Meteoalarm
External links
Official website
https://www.eumetnet.eu/members-partners/
Governmental meteorological agencies in Europe
Organisations based in Brussels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian%20Lesbian%20Network | The Asian Lesbian Network was formed in March 1986 at the International Lesbian Information Service (ILIS) conference in Geneva, Switzerland, where lesbians from Bangladesh, India, the United States, Japan, and Thailand organized workshops during the conference.
The network has since hosted four international conferences. The first, organized by Anjaree, a Bangkok, Thailand, lesbian group, took place in Bangkok in 1990; the second conference happened in Tokyo, Japan, in May 1992, and was organized by the Japanese branch of the network.
Conference three took place in Wulai, Taipei, in August 1995, and the fourth occurred in Quezon City, Philippines, in 1998.
The network, which publishes the Asian Lesbian Network Newsletter, is intended to provide networking opportunities for Asian lesbians worldwide, as well as to contribute to an increased awareness of Asian Lesbians and their lives and their issues.
References
International LGBT political advocacy groups
International organizations based in Asia
Lesbian organizations
Organizations established in 1986 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAGR%20P%20and%20Pr%20classes | The WAGR P and Pr classes were two classes of 4-6-2 steam locomotives designed for express passenger service on the Western Australian Government Railways mainline network. The initial designs were prepared by E.S. Race and together the two classes had a total build number of thirty-five locomotives, the P and Pr classes entering service in 1924 and 1938 respectively. Both classes were used on express passenger services, greatly improving the economy and speed of long-distance passenger travel in Western Australia, the results of which were most visible on the Western Australian stage of the Trans-Australian Railway and Westland Express.
The need for more powerful locomotives in the 1920s resulted in the introduction of twenty-five P class locomotives which provided a significant improvement in power, speed and economy over previous WAGR locomotives, quickly proving to be a highly successful design. The Great Depression of the 1930s, coupled with the effects of the Great War, thwarted the WAGR's later expansion and acquisition plans resulting in many obsolete locomotives remaining in operation into this period. As a result ten new P class locomotives featuring detail improvements to boilers, valves and bogies were introduced in 1938, a year before the outbreak of World War II. The new locomotives became the first WAGR engines to be given names, each bearing that of a prominent Western Australian river. These 'River class' locomotives were very successful and proved so invaluable to the operation of the wartime WAGR that eight P class locomotives were modified to their standard. All eighteen locomotives were officially classified as the Pr class in 1946.
The initial ten P class locomotives were built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow while the remainder, including the ten Pr class locomotives, were built locally by the Midland Railway Workshops.
Background
By the early 1920s, the WAGR had obtained only a handful of new locomotive designs since the beginning of the twentieth century and there was a particular lack of large passenger locomotives. The Annual Report of 1920 pointed out the large numbers of obsolete locomotives in service and steadily growing rail traffic, stressing the need for more powerful engines. The most substantial design then in service was the E class 4-6-2s of 1902, of which 65 locomotives had been built for operation in Western Australia and served on a variety of services. Likewise the 20 D class 4-6-4T tank locomotives had helped alleviate pressure on suburban services while the 57 F class 4-8-0s did the same for goods. However, all had been introduced (and subsequently superheated) prior to the First World War, meaning that by the 1920s, they were becoming inadequate. At this time, the most significant operation requiring new locomotives were the long distance passenger services, particularly on the Perth to Kalgoorlie and Perth to Albany expresses, both of which covered distances in excess of 350 kilo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptol | Cryptol is a domain-specific programming language for cryptography developed by the Portland, Oregon based software development firm, Galois, Inc.
The language was originally developed for use by the United States National Security Agency. The language is also used by private firms that provide information technology systems, such as the American company Rockwell Collins provides to aerospace and defense contractors in the United States.
The programming language is used for all aspects of developing and using cryptography, such as the design and implementation of new ciphers and the verification of existing cryptographic algorithms. Cryptol is designed to allow the cryptographer to watch how stream processing functions in the program manipulate the ciphers or encryption algorithms.
External links
Cryptol main page
References
Domain-specific programming languages
Cryptographic software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20surviving%20DuMont%20Television%20Network%20broadcasts | The DuMont Television Network was launched in 1946 and ceased broadcasting in 1956. Allen DuMont, who created the network, preserved most of what it produced in kinescope format. By 1958, however, much of the library had been destroyed to recover the silver content of the film prints, and eventually the remaining material was simply discarded. Since then, there has been extensive research on which DuMont programs have episodes extant.
For a list of program series aired on DuMont, see List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network.
Held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 – special shown on March 28, 1955
The Admiral Broadway Revue – one episode (March 4, 1949)
All About Baby – three episodes (June–July 1955)
The Bigelow Theatre – nine episodes, including October 4, 1951, and series finale from December 27)
Boxing From Eastern Parkway – 30 episodes, ranging from December 1, 1952, to October 26, 1953
Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena – five episodes (including August 6, 1956, finale, the last program aired on DuMont)
Boxing With Dennis James – three episodes from 1949 to 1950, possibly including episodes of Boxing From Jamaica Arena (1948–49), Amateur Boxing Fight Club (1949–50) or Boxing From Sunnyside Gardens (1949–55)
Captain Video and His Video Rangers – 24 episodes, ranging from at least 1949–1953
Cavalcade of Bands - 1 episode from September 4, 1951, with Charlie Spivak and Orch., The Haydens, Morey Amsterdam, The Mello-Larks, Bob Hammond's Birds, others.
Cavalcade of Stars – 15 episodes, ranging from September 1949 to October 26, 1951
Champagne and Orchids – two episodes (with guests Eric Thorsen and Yul Brynner)
Charlie Wild, Private Detective – two episodes (including May 6, 1952; UCLA has another 13 episodes from the CBS and ABC eras)
Colonel Humphrey Flack – 12 episodes, ranging from October 14, 1953, to February 9, 1954
Concert Tonight – one episode from 1954 and one from 1953. The latter aired on WGN on December 3, 1953, though it's unclear when it aired over the network.
Cosmopolitan Theatre - one episode from October 23, 1951, "Reward, One Million".
Dark of Night – one episode (January 30, 1953)
Doorway to Fame – two episodes (March 30 and April 1949)
Eloise Salutes the Stars - one episode from Jan. 4, 1952, featuring guest Elsa Maxwell.
Front Page Detective – 17 episodes
Front Row Center – one episode from 1949
Georgetown University Forum – one episode (December 13, 1951)
The Goldbergs – 71 restored episodes, including DuMont, available on DVD
The Growing Paynes – one episode from 1949
Gruen Playhouse – two episodes (May 22 and June 19, 1952)
Guide Right – 18 episodes
Happy's Party - a 10-minute segment from February 5, 1955, aired on KDKA-TV Pittsburgh. (WDTV changed to KDKA-TV only a few days prior, and the show was long off the network by this point, but it's the only surviving example of the program)
International Playhouse – 12 episodes (although not all |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Centric%20Airborne%20Defense%20Element | The Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (NCADE) is an anti-ballistic missile system being developed by Raytheon for the Missile Defense Agency. On Sept. 18, 2008 Raytheon announced it had been awarded a $10 million contract to continue NCADE research and development. The NCADE system is a boost phase interceptor based heavily on the AIM-120 AMRAAM, with the AMRAAM fragmentation warhead replaced by a hit-to-kill vehicle powered by a hydroxylammonium nitrate monopropellant rocket motor from Aerojet.
The launch vehicle will be a Boeing F-15C Golden Eagle with an AESA radar.
References
Anti-ballistic missiles of the United States
Air-to-air missiles of the United States
Raytheon Company products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CART%20World%20Series | CART World Series is a racing video game for the PlayStation console, developed by Sony Interactive Studios America and published by Sony Computer Entertainment and released in October 1997. CART World Series is based on the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) open-wheel racing series.
Gameplay
This game is licensed and features many notable drivers from the late 1990s, such as Greg Moore, Al Unser Jr. and Paul Tracy. The game also features realistic handling and damage. Players can compete in a full year's worth of races competing for points in each race or in simple single races. There are two game modes: arcade and simulation. Arcade mode allows re-spawning of damaged vehicle parts. In Simulation mode, all damage is permanent for the race. The game supports the analog controller.
The player can make many modifications to a car's performance. The player can adjust the tires to fit the road (hard for ovals or soft for road courses), as well as modify gear ratios and aerodynamics. Moving the front of the car down or slanting the wings may enable the player to find a perfect combination of speed and handling. During simulation mode races, the car's tires will wear down and fuel will deplete (both can be replaced by a pit stop).
In addition to the real drivers and cars (Honda and Ford included), ten official CART tracks have been included, each modeled after its real-life counterpart. Tracks span the United States and are located in Cleveland, Michigan, Long Beach and more. Each features realistic dynamics and road handling in an attempt to create a believable racing experience. In Season Mode, the player takes part in a series of races, for which the player must qualify and race, earning points toward a cup.
This game also features a two-player mode via either split screen or PlayStation Link Cable, or a combination of both for four players.
List of drivers and teams
Tracks
Homestead-Miami Speedway
Long Beach street circuit
Nazareth speedway
Milwaukee Mile
Cleveland
Michigan International Speedway
Mid-Ohio
Vancouver street circuit
Laguna Seca
California speedway
Reception
The game received primarily mixed reviews. Critics widely praised the graphics of both the car models and the detailed tracks, as well as the extensive CART licensed content. However, some criticized the music and reaction to the controls was divided. Sushi-X of Electronic Gaming Monthly found them not responsive enough, and Jaz Rignall commented in IGN that the way the car sticks firmly to the road, preventing the powerslides that racing game fans are accustomed to, is frustrating. Contrarily, GamePro stated that "the effective car setup options and responsive handling keep you on the track."
Sushi-X's co-reviewers Kraig Kujawa and John Ricciardi both recommended CART World Series, with Kujawa remarking that it "strikes a careful balance between realism and fun". However, most critics, including the other two members of Electronic Gaming Monthlys review team |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPDm | LAPDm in telecommunications is a data link layer protocol used in GSM cellular networks. LAPDm forms Layer 2 of the Um interface between the Base Transceiver Station and Mobile station, which is to say that it is used in the radio link between the cellular network and the subscriber handset.
LAPDm is derived from a much older link layer protocol called HDLC and specified in 3GPP specifications TS 04.05 and TS 04.06. LAPDm is similar to the ISDN Layer 2, LAPD, but with these simplifications:
LAPDm frames are always 184 bits, with segmentation for larger messages.
LAPDm allows no more than one outstanding unacknowledged I-frame (GSM 04.06 Sections 5.8.4 and 6).
LAPDm does not support extended header formats (GSM 04.06 Section 3).
LAPDm supports only the SABM, DISC, DM, UI and UA U-Frames (GSM 04.06 Sections 3.4, 3.8.1).
LAPDm supports the RR and REJ S-Frames (GSM 04.06 3.4, 3.8.1), but not RNR (GSM 04.06 Sections 3.8.7 and 6).
LAPDm has just one internal timer, T200 (GSM 04.06 5.8).
LAPDm supports only one terminal endpoint, whose TEI is implied.
The BTS is always able to enter asynchronous balanced mode when requested.
LAPDm can never be in a receiver-not-ready condition (GSM 04.06 Section 3.8.7).
LAPDm supports only two SAPs: SAP3 for SMS and SAP0 for everything else (GSM 04.06 Sections 3.3.3 and 6).
In SAP0, asynchronous balanced mode is always initiated by the MS (GSM 04.06 Sections 5.4.1.1 and 6).
Another important difference between LAPDm and LAPD is the establishment contention resolution procedure of GSM 04.06 Section 5.4.1.4, wherein the MS sends an L3 message in the information field of the SABM frame which is then echoed back by the BTS in the corresponding UA frame. This procedure is required in LAPDm because of the possibility of a handset accidentally attempting to use the wrong channel. LAPD does not require contention resolution, since hard-wired ISDN devices cannot accidentally use a wrong channel.
The Associated Control Procedure used in Layer 2 of the iDEN RF interface is very similar to LAPDm.
References
External links
http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/04_series/04.06/0406-840.zip
http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/04_series/04.05/0405-802.zip
Link access protocols
Integrated Services Digital Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCCB | DCCB may refer to:
Direcção Central de Combate ao Banditismo (Portugal)
Direct Current Circuit Breaker
District Cooperative Central Bank - Cooperative Bank network in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Park%2010%3A%20The%20Game | South Park 10: The Game is a mobile game based on the animated television series South Park. The game was developed by Mr.Goodliving, published by RealNetworks and was released on 28 March 2007. The game is a standard platform game with abilities to pick up objects and use them to reach heights. Most of the moves are exclusive to each playable character in the game. The game was released after the television conclusion of South Park season 10 in late 2006.
Gameplay
South Park 10: The Game features ten stages, each stage based upon one episode from each season (one up to ten), each stage is made up of three levels and one bonus level unlocked by collecting a certain amount of Cheesy Poofs.
References
2007 video games
Mobile games
Mr.Goodliving games
Platformers
Single-player video games
Video games based on South Park
Video games developed in Finland
Video games set in Colorado |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20past%20and%20projected%20future%20population |
Introduction
All the figures shown here have been sourced from the International Data Base (IDB) Division of the United States Census Bureau. Every individual value has been rounded to the nearest thousand, to assure data coherence, particularly when adding up (sub)totals. Although data from specific statistical offices may be more accurate, the information provided here has the advantage of being homogeneous.
Population estimates, as long as they are based on recent censuses, can be more easily projected into the near future than many macroeconomic indicators, such as GDP, which are much more sensitive to political and/or economic crises. This means that demographic estimates for the next five (or even ten) years can be more accurate than the projected evolution of GDP over the same time period (which may also be distorted by inflation).
However, no projected population figures can be considered exact. As the IDB states, "figures beyond the years 2020-2025 should be taken with caution", as the "census way towards those years has yet to be paved". Thus projections can be said to be looking through a kind of "cloudy glass" or a "misty window": realistically, the projections are "guesstimates".
To make things complicated, not all countries carry out censuses regularly, especially some of the poorer, faster-growing sub-Saharan African nations (whose evolution may be more interesting, from a demographer's point of view, than the "stagnated" populations of countries like Germany or Italy). As is well known from the statistics, the population of many sub-Saharan nations, as well as other nations like Egypt, Iraq, and Pakistan, with their low level of family planning, are growing much faster than in the aging European nations or Japan.
On the other hand, some other countries, like the small Asian state of Bhutan, have only recently had a thorough census for the first time: In Bhutan's case in particular, before its national 2005 population survey, the IDB estimated its population at over 2 million; this was drastically reduced when the new census results were finally included in its database.
Besides, the IDB usually takes some time before including new data, as happened in the case of Indonesia. That country was reported by the IDB to have an inflated population of some 242 million by mid-2005, because it had not still processed the final results of the 2000 Indonesian census. There was a similar discrepancy with the relatively recent Ethiopian 2007 census, which gave a preliminary result of "only" 73,918,505 inhabitants.
The largest absolute potential discrepancies are naturally related to the most populous nations. However, smaller states, such as Tuvalu, can have large relative discrepancies. For instance, the 2002 census in that Oceanian island, which gave a final population of 9,561 shows that IDB estimates can be significantly off.
Preliminary notes
The national 1 July, mid-year population estimates (usually based on past national censu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GADS | GADS may refer to:
GRAP2, GRB2-related adapter protein 2 involved in leukocyte-specific protein-tyrosine kinase signaling
Gateway Algorithms and Data Structures
Generating Availability Data System, US power plant information
Gilliam Asperger's disorder scale, a diagnostic tool for Asperger Syndrome
Goose Air Defense Sector, an inactive unit of the United States Air Force
Gate Assignment Display System, a decision support system for managing airport ground operations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InMage | InMage was a computer software company based in the US and India. It marketed a product line called Scout that used continuous data protection (CDP) for backup and replication. Scout consisted of two product lines: the host-offload line, which uses a software agent on the protected servers, and the fabric line, which uses an agent on the Fibre Channel switch fabric. The software protects at the volume or block level, tracking all write changes. It allows for local or remote protection policies. The first version of the product was released in 2002.
Product details
Scout features a capacity optimized CDP repository. The continuous approach allows for near zero backup windows, any point in time restores, second level RPOs, both within the datacenter and across datacenters. The target volume is kept updated either synchronously or asynchronously based on the product line. The retention logs allow for any point in time recovery to the user specified retention window. Scout also features application failover support in a disaster recovery.
The 6.2 release of the Scout supported on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP UX. It also supports VMware, XenServer, Hyper-V, Solaris Zones and a few other server virtualization platforms.
Both server and application failover is supported for the Microsoft Windows. Application Failover supports Microsoft Exchange, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Microsoft SQL Server, File Servers, Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle, MySQL among others.
The 6.2 release series supports both clustered and non clustered operation.
Scout integrates with traditional tape backup software to enable longer term retention on tape. Scout integrates with Microsoft's VSS APIs for SQL, Exchange, Hyper-V consistent snapshots. It also integrates with Oracle, DB2, MySQL, and Postgresql consistency APIs.
Company
InMage was founded in 2001 by Dr. Murali Rajagopal and Kumar Malvalli as SV Systems. Microsoft Corporation acquired InMage in 2014.
References
Microsoft acquisitions
Backup software
Storage software
Former Microsoft subsidiaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuchishin | is a Japanese idol vocal group formed as part of the variety show Quiz! Hexagon II produced by Fuji Television Network Incorporated. Originally meant to be a joke group, the trio has released singles that have hit the top 10 on both the Oricon and the Billboard Japan Hot 100 Singles. Shuchishin, whose name translates as "Shame", consists of the leader Takeshi Tsuruno with Naoki Nokubo and Yusuke Kamiji. The group's final performance was on the January 2, 2009, New Year's Special episode of Quiz! Hexagon II. The group's name comes from a mispronunciation of the word when it came up in a question on the show in mid-2007 (the word "shūchishin" was pronounced as by the members of the band).
The group was disbanded in January 2009. Since then, Takeshi Tsuruno and Yusuke Kamiji have pursued solo musical careers, while Naoki Nokubo has returned to drama acting. Tsuruno has released two cover albums and released a single with another Hexagon Family vocal group, and Kamiji recording under the name "Yusuke" (written with different kanji than his legal name) has released three singles through the Sony Music Records label. The group also reunited to record a song with all of the Hexagon Family artists.
Members
, represented by Ohta Production, is the leader of the group. He is known best in Japan for his lead role in the 1997-98 Ultra Series' Ultraman Dyna as Shin Asuka/Ultraman Dyna, a role he reprised in the 2008 film Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers. Quoting Oda Nobunaga, his catchphrase is . The color he is associated with is red.
, represented by Watanabe Entertainment, is best in Japan for his roles in the drama and the film . Quoting Tokugawa Ieyasu, his catchphrase is . The color he is associated with is blue.
, represented by Japan Music Entertainment, is known in Japan having trained with Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka while they were in Yokohama Senior High School's baseball club before Kamiji had to quit due to a shoulder injury. He also holds a Guinness World Record for having the World's Most Visited Blog, having 230,755 unique visitors and 13,171,039 page views in one day. Quoting Toyotomi Hideyoshi, his catchphrase is . The color he is associated with is yellow.
Discography
Singles
As "Shuchishin"
- April 9, 2008
The group's debut single only peaked at #2 on the Oricon's Weekly Charts from April 21 to May 12, 2008, but hit #1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, the Planet charts, the Sound Scan Japan charts, and the Music Station singles chart. It was the top selling single for the month of April 2008 on the Oricon's monthly charts, dropping to #3 in May, and was at #4 for the first half of the year, and #5 for 2008 on the Oricon's yearly charts. It reached #10 on the Billboard Japan Year-End Hot 100. The Recording Industry Association of Japan certified it as a Platinum record and a Triple Platinum truetone ringtone. The song subsequently became the most requested song in karaoke parlors in Japan, followed by Yazim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5000 | A5000 may refer to:
Yamaha A5000, a sampler
Power A5000, a planned computer from Power
Acorn A5000, a computer
A5000 road (Great Britain)
Sony α5000, an ILCE camera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passaic%3A%20Birthplace%20of%20Television%20and%20the%20DuMont%20Story | Passaic: Birthplace of Television and the DuMont Story is a television play which aired on the DuMont Television Network on November 14, 1951.
The short tele-play was broadcast live and was a drama about the rise of DuMont Laboratories and its founder Allen B. DuMont, who appears as himself at the end of the 15-minute broadcast. DuMont founded DuMont Laboratories in 1931, and the DuMont Television Network in 1946. Besides his work in television, DuMont is best known for his work in improving the cathode ray tube, and for his contributions to the development of radar.
Preservation status
At least two archives have copies of the telecast, including the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
Television and film in New Jersey
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
Passaic: Birthplace of Television and the DuMont Story at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
1950s American television specials
1951 television plays
1951 television specials
1951 in American television
Mass media in New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacVector | MacVector is a commercial sequence analysis application for Apple Macintosh computers running Mac OS X. It is intended to be used by molecular biologists to help analyze, design, research and document their experiments in the laboratory. MacVector 18.1 is a Universal Binary capable of running on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.
Features
MacVector is a collection of sequence analysis algorithms linked to various sequence editors, including a single sequence editor, a multiple sequence alignment editor and a contig editor. MacVector tries to use a minimum of windows and steps to access all the functionality. Functions include:
Sequence alignment (ClustalW, Muscle and T-Coffee) and editing.
Subsequence search and open reading frames (ORFs) analysis.
Phylogenetic tree construction UPGMA, Neighbour joining with bootstrapping and consensus trees
Online Database searching - Search public databases at the NCBI such as Genbank, PubMed, and UniProt.
Perform online BLAST searches.
Protein analysis.
Contig assembly and chromatogram editing
Aligning cDNA against genomic templates
Creating dot plots of DNA to DNA, Protein to Protein and DNA to protein.
Restriction analysis - find and view restriction cut sites. Uses digested fragments to clone genes into vectors. Stores a history of digested fragments allowing multi fragment ligations.
PCR Primer design - easy primer design and testing. Also uses primer3
Agarose Gel simulation.
CRISPR INDEL analysis.
MacVector has a contig assembly plugin called Assembler that uses phred, phrap, Bowtie, SPAdes, Velvet and cross match.
As of version 13.0.1 MacVector uses Sparkle for updating between releases.
History
MacVector was originally developed by IBI in 1994. It was acquired by Kodak, and subsequently Oxford Molecular in 1996. Oxford Molecular was merged into Accelrys in 2001. It was acquired by MacVector, Inc on 1 January 2007.
References
External links
MacVector homepage
Bioinformatics software
Computational science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Lindstrom | Martin Lindstrom (Lindstrøm) is a Danish author and Time magazine Influential 100 Honoree. He has written eight books including Small Data: The Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends, Buyology – Truth and Lies About Why We Buy, Brandwashed – Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy, his first title written for consumers, for which Lindstrom conducted a $3 million word-of-mouth marketing experiment, and 2021 released The Ministry of Common Sense. Brandwashed was inspired by the 2009 film, The Joneses – to study the effects of social influence on purchasing decisions.
In 2011, Lindstrom appeared in the Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) movie documentary The Greatest Movie Ever Sold and on America's Next Top Model. Thinkers50 included him as number 18 on their list of the 2015 top 50 management thinkers in the world and included him in their updated lists for 2017.
Lindstrom is a columnist for Fast Company, TIME magazine and Harvard Business Review and frequently contributes to NBC's Today show.
Buyology
In Buyology – Truth and Lies About Why We Buy, Lindstrom analyzes what makes people buy in a world which is cluttered with messages like advertisements, slogans, jingle, and celebrity endorsements. Through a study of the human psyche, he discusses the subconscious mind and how it plays a major role in deciding what the buyer will buy. The author claims to have studied the behavior of 2,000 humans for three years.
Small Data
Lindstrom spent time with 2,000 families in more than 77 countries to get clues to how they live. In Small Data: The Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends Lindstrom discusses those trips, the process he uses to gather information, and the business decisions that information has led to. In 2016, it was named a Best Business Book by strategy+business and one of Inc. magazine's Best Sales and Marketing books.
Ministry of Common Sense
In The Ministry of Common Sense, Lindstrom reflects how organizations and brands focus on internal politics and processes and do not pay much attention on the end-user. The book is published in 58 languages.
Bibliography
The Ministry of Common Sense: How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses and Corporate BS (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Small Data: The Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends (St.Martin's Press.
Brandwashed - Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy (Crown Publications).
Buyology - Truth and Lies About Why We Buy (Doubleday Business).
BRAND sense - Building Powerful Brands Through Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight & Sound (Free Press).
BRANDchild- Insights into the Minds of Today's Global Kids: Understanding Their Relationship with Brands (Kogan Page).
Clicks, Bricks & Brands (Kogan Page).
Brand Building On The Internet (Kogan Page).
References
Living people
20th-century Danish non-fiction writers
21st-century Danish non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20TouchSmart | HP TouchSmart is a series of tablet PC laptops and touchscreen all-in-one desktop computers designed by HP. It features various Intel or AMD processors and runs Windows Vista or Windows 7 as standard.
HP TouchSmart All-in-One
Consumer version
HP TouchSmart Crossfire
The HP TouchSmart was first introduced by Bill Gates on January 7, 2007, becoming the first mass market touchscreen desktop PC.
Also known as the "Crossfire", the HP TouchSmart IQ770 featured a 19-inch touchscreen, an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52 processor, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600. It had a wide array of ports, including Ethernet, two FireWire, six USB 2.0 ports, one with HP printer power Y-cable connector, 5.1 + digital audio out, IR out, mini-VGA, FM coax, TV coax, ATSC, and two S-Video; however, the IQ770 did not have HDMI ports. PC World gave the machine a "very good" rating of 81/100, but noted that the use of mobile components slowed the computer.
HP TouchSmart 2
On June 10, 2008, HP unveiled their new HP TouchSmart IQ500 series. The series featured a 22-inch widescreen touchscreen display, an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 500GB disk, 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 9300 M HS HD graphics, and 802.11n WiFi, along with an Energy Star qualification. The new TouchSmart featured a 2-inch profile in a piano-black finish.
The IQ500 series was followed by the IQ800 series, featuring a larger 25.5 inch touchscreen. Other features included a TV tuner with remote, integrated webcam, Bluetooth, HP Pocket Media drive bay and an ambient light to illuminate the keyboard. The more expensive IQ816 featured a 2.10 GHz T8100 Core 2 Duo on an 800 MHz bus with a 3MB cache, Blu-ray drive / dual-layer burner, and a GeForce 9600M GS chip. There is a choice of 640GB or 1TB hard drives.
TouchSmart 300
The TouchSmart 300 was released on October 13, 2009. The all-in-one features an AMD Athlon II X2 235e (Energy Efficient) Processor Dual core @2.7 GHz. The platform is Regor and can be updated up to a Propus Quad Core AMD Athlon II X4 605e. Several models were released in different countries, but have similar features:
4Gb RAM DDR3 PC-10600
500 GB HDD
20" Touchscreen (1440 x 900)
Windows 7 Home Premium
Wifi and Ethernet port
ATSC TV Tuner
Touchsmart 300 with AMD Processors uses an integrated ATI HD 3200 graphics card with shared memory that can allocate 256Mb to 1917Mb of RAM dynamically (up to 3GB with the latest AMD Catalyst drivers 13.9 released in October 2013), it also has an MXM 3.0 Type-A slot for an external graphics card (integrated graphics card is disabled when MXM slot is populated), an [MXM] nVidia GeForce G210 card (with 512MB of DDR3 dedicated memory) can be installed using the proper thermal module.
Initially only rev. C2 quad core processors were supported, latest BIOS allows user to upgrade with rev. C3 processors (Athlon II X3 405e and Athlon II X4 605e). HP states in its support website that Touchsmart 300 RAM is upgradeable to 8Gb RAM using 2 x 4gb modules but it's been proved it suppor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windhoek%20railway%20station | Windhoek railway station () is a railway station serving the city of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. It is an important station in the Namibian rail network, and it is run by TransNamib.
History
The first railway line to reach Windhoek was the one from Swakopmund, built between 1897-1902 during Imperial Germany's colonial rule of German South West Africa. In 1914 this line was extended to Walvis Bay. The southern line from Lüderitz (built 1906) was connected via Keetmanshoop to Windhoek in 1912. In 1930 the eastern line to Gobabis was built.
Building
The station was built in a Cape Dutch-style and is located on Bahnhof street. An additional northern wing was constructed by South African Railways in 1929 to match the existing style of the building.
The station also houses the small Trans-Namib Railroad Museum which outlines Namibian transport history, particularly that of the railway. Opened on July 1, 1993, the exhibition consists of a wide range of railway equipment, maps and related items which date back to German colonial times. Another part of the exhibition is dedicated to Namibian Airways history and Namibian Maritime history. You can also see the crockery and cutlery used in the dining cars of South African Railways in Namibia along with telecommunication and electrical equipment.
Across from the entrance stands the German locomotive Poor Ole Joe, one half of a South West African Zwillinge No 154A, the sole surviving specimen of this type of steam locomotive. It was originally shipped to Swakopmund in 1899 and reassembled for the run to Windhoek
Services
Windhoek is connected to a number of towns in the north of Namibia via the railway junction in Kranzberg, which lies on the Windhoek-Swakopmund-Walvis Bay route.
Gallery
See also
Rail transport in Namibia
References
External links
Windhoek railway station at structurae.net
First railway lines in Namibia
Buildings and structures in Windhoek
Railway stations in Namibia
TransNamib Railway
Railway stations opened in 1912
1912 establishments in German South West Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS%20%28file%20server%29 | TOPS (Transcendental OPerating System) is a peer-to-peer LAN-based file sharing system best known in its Macintosh implementation, but also available for DOS and able to interoperate with Unix's NFS. Originally written by Centram Systems West, the company was purchased by Sun Microsystems as part of Sun's development of the NFS ecosystem. The Centram company was renamed to TOPS after its acquisition by Sun. Sales of TOPS dried up after the introduction of System 7, which featured a similar file sharing system built-in, and Sun spun off their NFS developments to Sitka.
Early versions
TOPS was implemented in the 1980s, an era where each computer system featured its own networking protocol and were generally unable to talk to each other. At the time Apple was in the midst of the Macintosh Office effort, and was working with two external companies to develop the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP), built on top of AppleTalk. The Macintosh Office effort ultimately failed, and one of the two companies, Centram, decided to implement a similar system on their own. This became the first version of TOPS.
When TOPS was originally released in July 1985 there was no peer-to-peer file sharing solution on the Mac. According to PC Magazine, connecting a Mac to an Apple LaserWriter printer was the initial intended function of AppleTalk. Apple's own file sharing solution, AppleShare, was not released until later, and unlike TOPS it required a dedicated server machine to run on, at least a Mac Plus. For smaller offices TOPS was an attractive low-cost solution, and saw relatively widespread use. Even after the introduction of AppleShare, TOPS managed to hold on to an estimated 600,000 client installs.
TOPS was initially a protocol using a custom set of remote procedure calls and able to talk only between TOPS clients. PCs generally lacked networking of any sort, and Centram addressed this problem by introducing a line of LocalTalk cards for the PC, along with a TOPS client. Files could be exchanged between the two computers, with filename conversion as required.
FlashTalk
Centram later introduced the "FlashTalk" networking system that used external clocking to improve LocalTalk performance. The Zilog SCC powering the serial ports on the Mac used an internal 3.6864 MHz clock that could then be divided down to provide different standard bit rates. The fastest rate available internally was 230.4 kbit/s, used by LocalTalk. However, the system also allowed the clock to be read from a pin in the serial port, giving rise to the possibility of faster speeds with the right external equipment.
FlashTalk combined a conventional LocalTalk-like dongle with a clocking source and an external power supply. Using these connectors, and the associated software, TOPS could run at 770 kbit/s. This was not only a fairly dramatic improvement over LocalTalk, but also relatively speedy overall in an era when 1 Mbit/s networks were still common.
TCP/IP Support
After the Sun purchase in April 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swakopmund%20railway%20station | Swakopmund railway station () is a railway station serving the town of Swakopmund in Namibia. It is part of the TransNamib railway network.
Its IATA code is ZSZ.
Overview
Swakopmund was the starting point of the first state railway line in German South West Africa. The railway station was built in 1901, as a terminal on the Imperial Germany's colonial Kaiserliche Eisenbahn line connecting Swakopmund with the capital Windhoek. The station was designed by Willi Sander, who also later designed Swakopmund Lighthouse. In 1914 the extension to Walvis Bay was completed, with a railtrack very close to the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. In 1980 this extension was replaced by an alternative route behind the dunes that allowed for higher axle load.
The station building, declared a national monument in 1972, today serves as a hotel and casino; nowadays trains stop further inland to the east of the original building. There is another former station building in Swakopmund, the O.M.E.G. Bahnhof of the private mining company Otavi Minen und Eisenbahn Gesellschaft, today housing a museum.
See also
Rail transport in Namibia
References
Swakopmund
Railway stations in Namibia
TransNamib Railway
Buildings and structures in Erongo Region
Railway stations opened in 1901
1901 establishments in German South West Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walvis%20Bay%20railway%20station | Walvis Bay railway station is a railway station serving the port city of Walvis Bay in Namibia. It is part of the TransNamib railway network.
Overview
The first state railway line in German South West Africa was the connection between Swakopmund and Windhoek, built in 1902 during Imperial Germany's colonial rule. In 1914 this line was extended to Walvis Bay, with a railtrack very close to the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. In 1980 the extension was replaced by an alternative route behind the dunes that allowed for higher axle load.
See also
Rail transport in Namibia
References
Railway stations in Namibia
1914 establishments in German South West Africa
TransNamib Railway
Buildings and structures in Walvis Bay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaruru%20railway%20station | Omaruru railway station is a railway station serving the town of Omaruru in Namibia. It is part of the TransNamib railway network.
Omaruru is situated on the Kranzberg—Otavi line, completed in 1906 during Imperial Germany's colonial rule of German South West Africa.
Omaruru connects via Otavi to the north of Namibia via the so-called "Northern Extension", built between 2002 and 2012 to connect Tsumeb with Oshikango. All southern and central rail connections lead via the railway junction in Kranzberg.
See also
Rail transport in Namibia
References
Railway stations in Namibia
TransNamib Railway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Ingalls | Daniel Ingalls may refer to:
Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Sr. (1916–1999), American linguist & academic
Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr. (born 1944), American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Sotirov | Alexander Sotirov is a computer security researcher. He has been employed by Determina and VMware. In 2012, Sotirov co-founded New York based Trail of Bits with Dino Dai Zovi and Dan Guido, where he currently serves as co-CEO.
He is well known for his discovery of the ANI browser vulnerability as well as the so-called Heap Feng Shui technique for exploiting heap buffer overflows in browsers. In 2008, he presented research at Black Hat showing how to bypass memory protection safeguards in Windows Vista. Together with a team of industry security researchers and academic cryptographers, he published research on creating a rogue certificate authority by using collisions of the MD5 cryptographic hash function in December 2008.
Sotirov is a founder and organizer of the Pwnie awards, was on the program committee of the 2008 Workshop On Offensive Technologies (WOOT '08), and has served on the Black Hat Review Board since 2011.
He was ranked #6 on Violet Blue's list of The Top 10 Sexy Geeks of 2009.
References
External links
Alexander Sotirov's website
Trail of Bits
The Pwnie Awards
Living people
People associated with computer security
University of Alabama alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Jerrum | Mark Richard Jerrum (born 1955) is a British computer scientist and computational theorist.
Jerrum received his Ph.D. in computer science 'On the complexity of evaluating multivariate polynomials' in 1981 from University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Leslie Valiant. He is professor of pure mathematics at Queen Mary, University of London.
With his student Alistair Sinclair, Jerrum investigated the mixing behaviour of Markov chains to construct approximation algorithms for counting problems such as the computing the permanent, with applications in diverse fields such as matching algorithms, geometric algorithms, mathematical programming, statistics, physics-inspired applications, and dynamical systems. This work has been highly influential in theoretical computer science and was recognised with the Gödel Prize in 1996. A refinement of these methods led to a fully polynomial-time randomised approximation algorithm for computing the permanent, for which Jerrum and his co-authors received the Fulkerson Prize in 2006.
References
Select publications
Frieze, A., Jerrum, M., Molloy M., Robinson, R., & Wormald, N. (1996). Generating and counting Hamilton cycles in random regular graphs. Journal of Algorithms, 21, 176–198.
External links
Mark Jerrum home page at Queen Mary, University of London
1955 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
British computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Academics of Queen Mary University of London
Gödel Prize laureates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetShow | NetShow was Microsoft's original framework for Internet network broadcasting, intended to compete with RealNetworks RealMedia & Vivo (acquired in 1998 by RealNetworks). It was later renamed and marketed under the Windows Media umbrella.
NetShow 1.0 came out in 1996. A newer version, 2.0, was included in Windows NT 4.0 SP3 in 1997. Version 3.0 came out mid-1998. The whole product line was renamed Windows Media in October, 1999, four months before Windows 2000 appeared.
The NetShow name is still carried on in the user-agent string in current versions of Windows Media Player, which reports as "NSPlayer".
Components
NetShow Player (version 2.0 was included with Internet Explorer 4 March 10 1997, now incorporated into Windows Media Player)
NetShow Services (renamed Windows Media Services) It was eventually incorporated into the media server functionality of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). Netshow server and encoder functionality was also integrated into PowerPoint as part of the Online Broadcast functionality in Microsoft Office 2000.
NetShow Encoder (renamed Windows Media Encoder)
NetShow Real-Time Encoder
ASF Editor
NetShow Presenter
VIDTOASF
WAVTOASF
ASFCHOP
NetShow Channel (renamed Windows Media Station)
NetShow Server (also known as Theater Server): A high bitrate, full frame, on-demand streaming media solution for closed-circuit networks (such as airplanes or hotels).
Related technologies
Active Streaming Format (ASF) (later renamed Advanced Streaming Format, then to Advanced Systems Format)
Microsoft Media Server (MMS)
References
Internet Explorer
Microsoft Windows multimedia technology
Windows communication and services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202009%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2009, 14 singles claimed the top spot, including Lady Gaga's "Poker Face", which started its peak position in late 2008. Seven acts achieved their first number-one single in Australia, either as a lead or featured artist: Jessica Mauboy, The Fray, Taylor Swift, A. R. Rahman, Nicole Scherzinger, David Guetta, Vanessa Amorosi and Kesha.
The Black Eyed Peas earned three number-one singles during the year for "Boom Boom Pow", "I Gotta Feeling" and "Meet Me Halfway". Kesha's "Tik Tok" was longest-running number-one single in 2009, having topped the ARIA Singles Chart for eight consecutive weeks. Flo Rida's "Right Round", The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling", and Guetta's "Sexy Bitch" each spent seven weeks at the number-one spot.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2009 in music
List of number-one albums of 2009 (Australia)
List of Top 25 singles for 2009 in Australia
List of top 10 singles in 2009 (Australia)
References
Number-one singles
Australia Singles
2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair%20Sinclair | Alistair Sinclair (born 1960) is a British computer scientist and computational theorist.
Sinclair received his B.A. in mathematics from St. John’s College, Cambridge in 1979, and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Edinburgh in 1988 under the supervision of Mark Jerrum. He is professor at the Computer Science division at the University of California, Berkeley and has held faculty positions at University of Edinburgh and visiting positions at DIMACS and the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley.
Sinclair’s research interests include the design and analysis of randomized algorithms, computational applications of stochastic processes and nonlinear dynamical systems, Monte Carlo methods in statistical physics and combinatorial optimization. With his advisor Mark Jerrum, Sinclair investigated the mixing behaviour of Markov chains to construct approximation algorithms for counting problems such as the computing the permanent, with applications in diverse fields such as matching algorithms, geometric algorithms, mathematical programming, statistics, physics-inspired applications and dynamical systems. This work has been highly influential in theoretical computer science and was recognised with the Gödel Prize in 1996. A refinement of these methods led to a fully polynomial time randomised approximation algorithm for computing the permanent, for which Sinclair and his co-authors received the Fulkerson Prize in 2006.
Sinclair's initial forms part of the name of the GNRS conjecture on metric embeddings of minor-closed graph families.
References
British computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Gödel Prize laureates
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Living people
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
1960 births
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH3 | Asian Highway 3 (AH3) is a route of the Asian Highway Network which runs from Ulan-Ude, Russia (on AH6) to Tanggu, China; and Shanghai, China (on AH5) to Chiang Rai, Thailand and Kengtung, Myanmar (both on AH2).
Southeast Asian issues
By mid-2008 the North-South Corridor segment of the Asian Highway, AH-3, was nearly fully paved, with only a few kilometers incomplete.
The North-South Corridor Project has been part of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) agenda since 1993 and aimed to improve the connected economies of China, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia. The portion of the North-South Corridor known as Highway 3, which runs through northwestern Laos and connects China and Thailand, was expected to cost US$95.8 million and was being financed with a loan from the ADB, along with funds from the Chinese, Thai and Lao governments.
The completed sections of the road have gone from being little more than dirt roads a few years ago to two-lane routes with concrete shoulders, drainage and concrete bridges. The journey from the Lao border town of Huai Xai to the southwestern Chinese border village of Mohan situated in southwestern Yunnan province took as long as two days on the old mostly dirt road depending on weather conditions. The new roadway shortened that trip to five to six hours.
The route was expected to be completed in 2007, but damage to the road from floods during the 2006 rainy season pushed the completion date into 2008. While the road was now made passable all year, there are still sections, some of several kilometers in length, which remained unfinished as of 2008.
Missing link in Southeast Asia
Construction of the Thai-built portion of the road lagged behind that of the Chinese section, but some observers contend that was because the Thai section was "much better constructed". They indicated that the Chinese side was built faster because of engineering shortcuts which may make that section of the road less durable.
The most significant problem with the corridor was the lack of progress on the Fourth Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge to be built across the Mekong River connecting the Thai town of Chiang Khong, with its cross-border neighbour of Ban Houayxay in Laos. The Chinese and Thai governments earlier agreed to build the bridge and share the estimated US$33 million cost of the project. It was finally opened on December 11, 2013.
Thai border disputes with Laos, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, political indifference in Bangkok and a general reluctance on the part of Thais kept the project on the political 'back burner'. China meanwhile is anxious to develop its land-locked Yunnan province through the creation of trade links with Southeast Asia, including access to Thailand's sea ports. While Thailand may benefit broadly from a new road link with China, others feared a flood of inexpensive Chinese products will impoverish northern Thais.
Some of those fears came to pass with the early implementation of some provisio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser%20service | Browser service or Computer Browser Service is a feature of Microsoft Windows to let users easily browse and locate shared resources in neighboring computers. This is done by aggregating the information in a single computer "Browse Master" (or "Master Browser"). All other computers contact this computer for information and display in the Network Neighborhood window.
Browser service runs on MailSlot / Server Message Block and thus can be used with all supported transport protocol such as NBF ("NetBEUI"), NBX (IPX/SPX) and NBT (TCP/IP). Browser service relies heavily on broadcast, so it is not available across network segments separated by routers. Browsing across different IP subnets need the help of Domain Master Browser, which is always the Primary Domain Controller (PDC). Therefore, browsing across IP subnets is not possible in a pure workgroup network.
In Windows XP
In Windows XP, Computer Browser Service provides backwards compatibility for versions that don't use Active Directory. For My Network Places, Windows Explorer, and the net view command, Computer Browser is still needed in XP.
Windows NT
Windows NT uses the Computer Browser service to collect and display all computers and other resources on the network. For example, opening Network Neighborhood displays the list of computers, shared folders, and printers; the Computer Browser service manages this list. Every time Windows NT boots up, this service also starts.
Computer Browser is responsible for two closely related services: building a list of available network resources, and sharing this list with other computers. All Windows NT computers run the Computer Browser service, but not all of them are responsible for building the list.
Most computers will only retrieve the list from the computers that actually collect the data and build it. Windows NT computers can therefore have different roles:
Domain master browser: In NT domains, the primary domain controllers (PDCs) handle this role. The PDCs maintain a list of all available network servers located on all subnets in the domain. They get the list for each subnet from the master browser for that subnet. On networks that have only one subnet, the PDC handles both the domain master browser and the master browser roles.
Master browsers: Computers maintaining this role build the browse list for servers on their own subnet and forward the list to the domain master browser and the backup browsers on its own subnet. There is one master browser per subnet.
Backup browsers: These computers distribute the list of available servers from master browsers and send them to individual computers requesting the information. For example, when you open Network Neighborhood, your computer contacts the backup browser and requests the list of all available servers.
Potential browsers: Some computers don't currently maintain the browse list, but they're capable of doing so if necessary, which designates them as potential browsers. If one of the existing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20role%20labeling | In natural language processing, semantic role labeling (also called shallow semantic parsing or slot-filling) is the process that assigns labels to words or phrases in a sentence that indicates their semantic role in the sentence, such as that of an agent, goal, or result.
It serves to find the meaning of the sentence. To do this, it detects the arguments associated with the predicate or verb of a sentence and how they are classified into their specific roles. A common example is the sentence "Mary sold the book to John." The agent is "Mary," the predicate is "sold" (or rather, "to sell,") the theme is "the book," and the recipient is "John." Another example is how "the book belongs to me" would need two labels such as "possessed" and "possessor" and "the book was sold to John" would need two other labels such as theme and recipient, despite these two clauses being similar to "subject" and "object" functions.
History
In 1968, the first idea for semantic role labeling was proposed by Charles J. Fillmore. His proposal led to the FrameNet project which produced the first major computational lexicon that systematically described many predicates and their corresponding roles. Daniel Gildea (Currently at University of Rochester, previously University of California, Berkeley / International Computer Science Institute) and Daniel Jurafsky (currently teaching at Stanford University, but previously working at University of Colorado and UC Berkeley) developed the first automatic semantic role labeling system based on FrameNet. The PropBank corpus added manually created semantic role annotations to the Penn Treebank corpus of Wall Street Journal texts. Many automatic semantic role labeling systems have used PropBank as a training dataset to learn how to annotate new sentences automatically.
Uses
Semantic role labeling is mostly used for machines to understand the roles of words within sentences. This benefits applications similar to Natural Language Processing programs that need to understand not just the words of languages, but how they can be used in varying sentences. A better understanding of semantic role labeling could lead to advancements in question answering, information extraction, automatic text summarization, text data mining, and speech recognition.
See also
Named entity recognition
Lexical semantics
Semantic parsing
Syntax tree
Annotation
References
External links
CoNLL-2005 Shared Task: Semantic Role Labeling
Illinois Semantic Role Labeler state of the art semantic role labeling system Demo
Preposition SRL: Identifies semantic relations expressed by prepositions
Shalmaneser is another state of the art system for assigning semantic predicates and roles.
Grammar
Computational linguistics
Tasks of natural language processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%2060 | Alpha 60 (stylized as ALPHA 60) is an alternative rock band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2008. Their name is a reference to the 1965 noir classic Alphaville; Alpha 60 being the computer controlling Godard's dystopian city. On March 1, 2012 they released their first full-length album The Rock, the Vulture and the Chain.
History
The band formed in early 2008 after some of the band's current members started getting tired of just playing garage venues. After a few months of rehearsing, a steady buzz spreading through their home town, and after the joining of keyboard player Martin Nordkvist, they released the Melting Tracks EP. Having received some radio air play, the summer had them doing some Swedish festivals.
"Armour", the first music video from the band, was released on YouTube on January 16, 2012. It was directed by John R. Hallström.
On March 1, 2012 they released the band's first full-length album The Rock, the Vulture and the Chain, as well as a book of art in which artists have made interpretations of the band's songs.
Sound
The band's experimental approach has led commentators to draw attention to different musical influences. Some cite the classic guitar riff styles and fascination for oriental scales and modes developed by bands like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and the vocal expressiveness and majestic piano arrangements of Queen as the main influences, while others focus on the energy and attitude of the modern britpop movement, the danceful rhythms and lust for experimentation of electronic music.
Lyrical themes
Leonidas Aretakis has himself cited a few lyrical references, amongst others some figures in the Romantic and Neo-romantic movements, such as Friedrich Hölderlin, William Blake, Lord Byron, Rainer Maria Rilke and Georg Trakl, and the sometimes dreamlike storytelling of H.P. Lovecraft and Jorge Luis Borges. The use of mythological and literary references are common traits in the lyrics, which sometimes can be construed as dark, almost melancholic. Even though the meaning can be seen as quite opaque at times, some recurring themes include homelessness, social discontent and the search for hope in a fragmented world in the demise of "real" politics.
Members
Leonidas Aretakis – Lead vocals, guitar, songwriting
Johan Törnblom – Backing vocals, bass
Jon Wessling – Backing vocals, lead guitar
Martin Nordkvist – Synthesizer, keyboard, tambourine
Anders Aro – Drums
Discography
Melting Tracks EP - 2008
The Rock, the Vulture and the Chain - 2012
References
Notes
External links
ALPHA 60 official blog
ALPHA 60 at MySpace
The Rock, the Vulture and the Chain at cdbaby.com
Swedish alternative rock groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigpoint | Bigpoint GmbH is a German video game developer. The company develops stand-alone browser-based games as well as social network games. Bigpoint has over 200 million registered users (announced in June 2011). Bigpoint.com states that 337,104,419 players are registered in the top right corner, as of 10/10/13. NBCU has featured some of Bigpoint's games on the websites of some of its cable channels.
In addition to its headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, Bigpoint maintains offices in Berlin, San Francisco, Malta and São Paulo. Some of the company's games include Battlestar Galactica Online, Farmerama, Drakensang Online, DarkOrbit and Seafight. The studio was acquired by Youzu Interactive in 2016 and continues to operate as an independent subsidiary.
History
In 2002, the company was founded by Heiko Hubertz as m.wire GmbH in Hamburg, Germany's second largest city. Heiko Hubertz started this company with a football management game in which every player transfer would cost a small amount for famous football players. Bigpoint's first game was Icefighter, an ice hockey management simulation. Till the end of 2004 there were further games launched, "F1Manager" and "Fussballmanager" (Football Manager in German). In 2005 the company was renamed to e-sport GmbH. In 2006 Samwer brothers with European Founders Fund and beginning of 2007 United Internet invested in the company.
The company quickly expanded, having one million registered users in 2006. By 2007, Bigpoint was running 22 browser games.
In June 2008, General Electric and NBC Universal, along with European private-equity group GMT Communications Partners, bought out a 70 percent share of Bigpoint, leaving the remaining 30 percent share under Heiko Hubertz's control.
By 2009, Bigpoint reached more than 100 million users and had a revenue of more than 50 million Euros.
On April 26, 2011, TA Associates and Summit Partners invested $350 million into Bigpoint to become the majority shareholders. On May 16, 2011, Bigpointdotcom posted a video on YouTube.com announcing their new office building. Previous shareholders Comcast Interactive Capital's Peacock Equity Fund sold their holdings in this transaction. GMT Communications Partners and GE sold a majority of their stakes. Hubertz retained his existing ownership stake in the company.
In May 2011, Bigpoint had more than 800 employees worldwide.
On October 23, 2012, Bigpoint laid off 120 staff members. At the same time Heiko Hubertz stepped down as CEO.
In March 2016, the developer was acquired by Youzu Interactive (GTArcade) in an €80 million ($89.68 million) stock buyout.
Used technology
Games are developed using PHP, Adobe Flash, Java and the Unity engine.
List of games developed by Bigpoint
Pirate Storm
Icefighter
Fussballmanager
Gangs of Crime (formerly known as Mafia 1930)
Gladiatoren
Managergames Hockey
Managergames Soccer
Seafight
Land of Destruction
DarkOrbit
Chaoscars
SpeedCars
SpeedSpace
The Pimps
ActionLeague
Damoria
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Armed%20Forces%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Armed Forces Bowl throughout the years.
Television
Radio
References
Armed Forces Bowl
Broadcasters
Armed Forces Bowl
Armed Forces Bowl broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%20jailbreaking | On Apple devices running iOS and iOS-based operating systems, jailbreaking is the use of a privilege escalation exploit to remove software restrictions imposed by the manufacturer. Typically it is done through a series of kernel patches. A jailbroken device permits root access within the operating system and provides the right to install software unavailable through the App Store. Different devices and versions are exploited with a variety of tools. Apple views jailbreaking as a violation of the end-user license agreement and strongly cautions device owners not to try to achieve root access through the exploitation of vulnerabilities.
While sometimes compared to rooting an Android device, jailbreaking bypasses several types of Apple prohibitions for the end-user. Since it includes modifying the operating system (enforced by a "locked bootloader"), installing non-officially approved (not available on the App Store) applications via sideloading, and granting the user elevated administration-level privileges (rooting), the concepts of iOS jailbreaking are therefore technically different from Android device rooting.
Motivation
Expanding the feature set that Apple and its App Store have restricted is one of the motivations for jailbreaking. Apple checks apps for compliance with its iOS Developer Program License Agreement before accepting them for distribution in the App Store. However, the reasons for Apple to ban apps are not limited to safety and security and may be regarded as arbitrary and capricious. In one case, Apple mistakenly banned an app by a Pulitzer-Winning cartoonist because it violated its developer license agreement, which specifically bans apps that "contain content that ridicules public figures." To access banned apps, users rely on jailbreaking to circumvent Apple's censorship of content and features. Jailbreaking permits the downloading of programs not approved by Apple, such as user interface customization and tweaks.
Device customization
Since software programs available through APT and or Installer.app (legacy) are not required to adhere to App Store guidelines, many of them are not typical self-contained apps but instead are extensions and customization options for iOS and its features and other apps (commonly called tweaks). Users install these programs for purposes including personalization and customization of the interface using tweaks developed by developers and designers, adding desired features such as access to the root file system and fixing annoyances, and making development work on the device easier by providing access to the file system and command-line tools. Many Chinese iOS device owners also jailbreak their phones to install third-party Chinese character input systems because they are easier to use than Apple's.
In some cases, jailbreak features are adopted by Apple and used as inspiration for features that are incorporated into iOS and iPadOS.
Carrier unlocking
Jailbreaking also opens the possibility f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Rees | Michael Rees is an American artist practicing sculpture making, installation, animation, and interactive computing. He has exhibited his works widely, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (1995 Whitney Biennial, 2001 Bitstreams Exhibition); Bitforms gallery, Universal Concepts Unlimited, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (Putto Large and Moving 2004, Pop Surrealism 1998, Best of Season 2001), The MARTa Museum, Herford, Germany (Putto 4 over 4 2005), and The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (Putto 2x2x4 permanent installation of sculpture and animation). He has experimented with a broad practice that includes performance, interactive computer programs (the sculptural user interface), digital modeling and fabrication, animation, and video. Rees' work with digital media has been written about and illustrated in books, articles, and catalogues for exhibitions. His talk at the Rothko Chapel, Houston, Texas is also published.
Education and teaching
Michael Rees was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He studied at Vassar College for 2 years with the social realist painter Alton Pickens. He transferred to the Kansas City Art Institute and worked with the installation artist Dale Eldred and the ceramics sculptor Jim Leedy. He graduated in 1982. He traveled to Germany in 1983-84 on a Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) award to study with Joseph Beuys and Gunther Uecker. In 1989 he graduated from Yale University in Sculpture where he studied with David Von Schlegal, Irwin Hauer, Vito Acconci, Alice Aycock, Frank Gehry and others. He met and worked with other artist's at Yale including Matthew Barney, Katie Schimert, and Michael Grey and wrote an article about it
Rees teaches about sculpture and digital media at William Paterson University. He has taught at Oberlin College, The Kansas City Art Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, New York Institute of Technology, and Rutgers University.
Fellowships, honors, awards and grants
2008 Rockefeller Grant, Media Arts Fellow of the Tribeca Film Institute.
2007 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship recipient
2002 Creative Capital Grant
1999 National Endowment for the Arts for the exhibition Artificial Sculpture.
1999 Charlotte Street Fund Award for emerging artists.
References
External links
William Paterson University bio
Michael Rees, artist Documentary produced by NJTV
Living people
20th-century American sculptors
William Paterson University faculty
American digital artists
Postmodern artists
New media artists
American installation artists
Robotic art
Postmodernists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American sculptors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Redbox%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Redbox Bowl throughout the years.
Television
Radio
References
Redbox Bowl
Broadcasters
Redbox Bowl
Redbox Bowl
Redbox Bowl
Fox Sports announcers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sun%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Sun Bowl throughout the years.
Television
Radio
References
External links
Radio & Television Broadcasts (Archived)
Broadcasters
Sun
Sun Bowl
Sun Bowl
Sun Bowl
Sun Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-byte%20file | A zero-byte file or zero-length file is a computer file containing no data; that is, it has a length or size of zero bytes.
Creation
There are many ways that could manually create a zero-byte file, for example, saving empty content in a text editor, using utilities provided by operating systems, or programming to create it. On Unix-like systems, the shell command $ touch filename results in a zero-byte file . Zero-byte files may arise in cases where a program creates a file but aborts or is interrupted prematurely while writing to it. Because writes are cached in memory and only flushed to disk at a later time (page cache), a program that does not flush its writes to disk or terminate normally may result in a zero-byte file. When the zero-byte file is made, file system does not record the file's content on storage, but only updates its index table.
Metadata
Even a file describing an empty word processor document, an image file with zero-by-zero dimensions, or an audio file of length zero seconds usually still contains metadata identifying the file format and describing some basic attributes of the file; it results in the file with some positive size. Some very simple formats do not use metadata, such as ASCII text files; these may validly be zero bytes (a common convention terminates text files with a one- or two-byte newline, however).
An empty file has a minimum disk size that depends on the disk block size, which can also be referred to as cluster size or IO block size, that depends in turn on the filesystem. This IO block size can be discovered through different utilities in the operating system, such as stat in Unix systems.
Uses
Zero-byte files cannot be loaded or used by most applications. In some cases, zero-byte files may be used to convey information like file metadata (for example, its filename may contain an instruction to a user viewing a directory listing such as , etc.); or to put in a directory to ensure that it is non-empty, since some tools such as backup and revision control software may ignore the empty directories.
IF Exist - Testing:
Use the zero-byte (zero length) file as an "exit" ramp or for a "goto" statement within a batch-file or script. It provides a directory listing, but requires no disk space.
IF EXIST C:\NOTHING.TXT EXIT
IF NOT EXIST C:\NOTHING.TXT GOTO START
:START
REM Create the zero-length file
C:\>type null>nothing.txt
:EXIT
References
Bibliography
Computer files |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%2012%20%28Shanghai%20Metro%29 | Line 12 is an east–west line of the Shanghai Metro network. It runs from in Pudong to in Minhang District. The first section from to Jinhai Road opened on 29 December 2013, and additional stations up to Qufu Road were in operation by 10 May 2014. The remaining stations opened on 19 December 2015. Since the opening of the extension in December 2015, Line 12 has the most interchanges with other metro lines in the Shanghai Metro. The line is colored forest green on system maps.
History
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Construction accident
On December 31, 2012, the ground maintenance warehouse of Jinqiao Parking Lot collapsed during the construction process, resulting in 5 deaths and 18 injuries.
Stations
Service routes
Important Stations
Hanzhong Road – a major interchange station with lines 1 and 13.
– a major interchange station with lines 1 and 10.
– located under the busy Nanjing Road, and an interchange station with lines 2 and 13.
Future expansion
West extension
In June 2021 Songjiang's Party secretary announced that a five station west extension to on line 9 will start construction within the year. Construction began on December 16, 2022 with six stations planned on the extension, all in Shanghai's Songjiang District.
Station name change
On June 6, 2012, Chuanchang Road was renamed (before line 12 began serving the station).
Headways
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Technology
Signalling
Rolling Stock
The trains of Line 12 are composed of 6-carriage of Type A cars, with a design speed of , VVVF AC drive, and a design life of 30 years.
References
Shanghai Metro lines
Railway lines opened in 2013
2013 establishments in China
1500 V DC railway electrification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%2013%20%28Shanghai%20Metro%29 | Line 13 is a north-west to south-east line of the Shanghai Metro network. It runs between in Jiading and in Pudong. It was once used as a dedicated line (Expo line) for the World Expo to serve the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. The line is colored pink on system maps.
History
Special Phase
The Special Phase of Line 13 operated between and , during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. Following the end of the Expo, this phase was closed. This part of the line reopened on December 19, 2015, along with the full opening of the line.
1st Phase
The 1st Phase of Line 13 ran between all the stations between and , with 7 stations. The section opened on December 2012.
2nd Phase and 3rd Phase
The two phases ran from to in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park region. The rest of the line was opened on December 19, 2015.
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Stations
Service routes
Important Stations
- located under the busy Nanjing Road. Interchange with lines 2 and 12.
- located near East China Normal University and Global Harbor. Interchange with lines 3 and 4.
- located by Xintiandi Style Mall and the renovated Xintiandi Shikumen neighborhood. Interchange with line 10.
Future Expansion
West extension: It will be extended for from Jinyun Road station to Zhuguang Road station on line 17 and add 5 stations. The stations are: Jizhai Road station; Fangle Road station; Jile Road station; Yunle Road station; and Zhuguang Road station. Construction started on June 28, 2021.
East extension: is part of Phase III adjustment and starts from the current Zhangjiang Road station and ends at Zhangjiang Jidian Port (area), mainly along Zhangdong Road, with a line length of about . Both are underground lines with 2 stations.
Station name change
On September 18, 2014, Lupu Bridge was renamed the .
On June 20, 2021, Xintiandi was renamed as the .
Headways
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Technology
Rolling Stock
The trains of Line 13 are composed of 6-carriages A-cars, with a design speed of , VVVF AC drive, and a design life of 30 years and are China's first domestically developed trains. Trains have a capacity of about 1,860 people. Carriages are in length, in width, and in height.
Former Rolling Stock
Cars 09A02 (numbers 942-945, 948) were used in the past, only used during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, which were reassigned from line 9 to line 13, all of which have now been transferred back to line 9.
References
External links
Shanghai Metro lines
Railway lines opened in 2010
2010 establishments in China
1500 V DC railway electrification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertable | Hypertable was an open-source software project to implement a database management system inspired by publications on the design of Google's Bigtable.
Hypertable runs on top of a distributed file system such as the Apache HDFS, GlusterFS or the CloudStore Kosmos File System (KFS). It is written almost entirely in C++ as the developers believed it had significant performance advantages over Java.
Hypertable software was originally developed at the company Zvents before 2008.
Doug Judd was a promoter of Hypertable.
In January 2009, Baidu, the Chinese language search engine, became a project sponsor.
A version 0.9.2.1 was described in a blog in February, 2009.
Development ended in March, 2016.
Further reading
References
External links
Google Code page for the project
Bigtable implementations
Free database management systems
Structured storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20Dynamics%20Simulator | Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The computer program solves numerically a large eddy simulation form of the Navier–Stokes equations appropriate for low-speed, thermally-driven flow, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires, to describe the evolution of fire.
FDS is free software developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the United States Department of Commerce, in cooperation with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Smokeview is the companion visualization program that can be used to display the output of FDS.
The first version of FDS was publicly released in February 2000. To date, about half of the applications of the model have been for design of smoke handling systems and sprinkler/detector activation studies. The other half consist of residential and industrial fire reconstructions. Throughout its development, FDS has been aimed at solving practical fire problems in fire protection engineering, while at the same time providing a tool to study fundamental fire dynamics and combustion.
The Wildland-Urban Fire Dynamics Simulator (WFDS) is an extension developed by the US Forest Service that is integrated into FDS and allows it to be used for wildfire modeling. It models vegetative fuel either by explicitly defining the volume of the vegetation or, for surface fuels such as grass, by assuming uniform fuel at the air-ground boundary.
FDS is a Fortran program that reads input parameters from a text file, computes a numerical solution to the governing equations, and writes user-specified output data to files. Smokeview (SMV) is a companion program that reads FDS output files and produces animations on the computer screen. Smokeview has a simple menu-driven interface, while FDS does not. However, there are various third-party programs that have been developed to generate the text file containing the input parameters needed by FDS.
See also
Wildfire modeling
References
External links
FDS Official website
Wikibooks tutorial
FDS+Evac Tools
FDS Project Road Map
AutoCAD plugin to convert 3D geometry to FDS format
PyroSim, a graphical interface (GUI) for creation of FDS input files. (commercial)
Firefighting
Fire prevention
Fire protection
Wildfire prevention |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halal%20Science%20Center%2C%20Chulalongkorn%20University | The Halal Science Center is an instructional center and network of laboratories in Thailand dedicated to maintaining the standards of halal, an Arabic term which designates acceptable objects or actions in Islam and is frequently used in reference to allowed foods. It is the primary network dedicated to halal science in Thailand and, according to the Malaysian Halal Journal, who gave it a Best Innovation in Halal Industry award in 2006, "the first dedicated Halal Science institution in the world."
Purpose
The Halal Science Center analyzes food for contaminants not compatible with the law of Islam and conducts research into new methods of food preparation and new reagents for detecting such contaminants. It also provides information and training to the public and to the food service industry related to the preparation of food in accordance with Islamic law, including offering a bachelor's degree in nutrition and dietetics.
History
The center began as the Central Laboratory and Scientific Information Center for Halal Food Development (Halal-CELSIC) at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok on 13 August 2003, under a grant from the Cabinet of Thailand. Subsequently, Halal-CELSIC established laboratories in over ten other universities and institutions before reorganizing as the Halal Science Center. Founding Director of Halal Science Center is Assoc. Prof. Dr. Winai Dahlan.
In 2006, the organization received an award for Best Innovation in the Halal Industry from Halal Journal. The award was presented by Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia, in Kuala Lumpur.
References
External links
Official site (Thai and English)
Halal food
Chulalongkorn University
University departments in Thailand
2003 establishments in Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202009 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2009, there were 18 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Hand of Blood" by Welsh metalcore band Bullet for My Valentine, the lead single from the EP of the same name. The final number one of the year was "Killing in the Name" by American rap metal band Rage Against the Machine, which was the UK Singles Chart Christmas number one.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2009 was "New Divide" by American alternative rock band Linkin Park, which spent 13 consecutive weeks at number one. Muse spent seven weeks at number one in 2009, with "Undisclosed Desires" (four weeks), "Feeling Good" (two weeks) and "Supermassive Black Hole" (one week) all topping the chart. Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" was number one for six weeks, Nickelback were number one for five weeks with "Gotta Be Somebody", "If Today Was Your Last Day" (two weeks each) and "I'd Come for You" (one week), and "Mercury Summer" by Fightstar and "Ignorance" by Paramore were number one for four weeks each. Biffy Clyro's "The Captain" was number one for three weeks, while songs by Kid Rock, Goo Goo Dolls and Lostprophets spent two weeks each atop the chart.
Chart history
See also
2009 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2009
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2009 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIY%20Week | DIY Week is a British fortnightly business-to-business magazine for those in the do it yourself (DIY), household hardware and homeware market. The magazine is published by Datateam in Maidstone, Kent, in England.
Founded in 1874, DIY Week is sold to retailers of hardware, housewares, garden and DIY products, and their suppliers, and contains news, comment, financial analysis and market trend information.
History
Originally launched by a Birmingham hardware wholesaler as Martineau & Smith's Monthly Circular, the magazine was very soon renamed Hardware Trade Journal, and changed from monthly to weekly publication in 1900. Over the following decades it became the major business magazine for its market, absorbing its main competitor, The Ironmonger, as well as many small titles. It was renamed DIY Week in 1988, reflecting the rise of the DIY market, and switched to fortnightly frequency in 1991.
Following a period of ownership by Faversham House Group's now defunct media division going back to at least 2005, and published most notably during this period by Colin Petty, DIY Week sat alongside various other titles in the Faversham portfolio. These included Hardware & Garden Review, Housewares Focus, Housewares Magazine and Builders Merchants Journal as well as other titles in the wider durables sector. During this period Hardware & Garden Review was incorporated on a quarterly basis within the magazine.
Datateam acquired the magazine in 2013, and periodically reduced the volume of content produced and whilst maintaining or increasing the magazines length. The earliest digital record on the website from January 2017 displays 13 pages of non advertising content out of 30 pages, in a bi weekly magazine.
During the Covid pandemic it switched to a monthly frequency, not reverting subsequently.
The January 2023 magazine, now a monthly document, contains 9 pages of news content excluding 2 pages of promotion for its own awards out of 36 pages of print run. It has also not produced Hardware & Garden Review as an internal supplement for multiple years.
Whilst its distribution figures are no longer published, it maintains a media pack available via its website claiming a distribution of 7000. However these numbers listed have remained exactly fixed for a minimum of five years and these are therefore subject to query.
References
External links
DIY Week’s official site
1874 establishments in the United Kingdom
Business magazines published in the United Kingdom
Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Biweekly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1874
Mass media in Kent
Mass media in Birmingham, West Midlands
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20Oberon | Active Oberon is a general purpose programming language developed during 1996-1998 by the group around Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH Zurich). It is an extension of the programming language Oberon. The extensions aim at implementing active objects as expressions for parallelism. Compared to its predecessors, Oberon and Oberon-2, Active Oberon adds objects (with object-centered access protection and local activity control), system-guarded assertions, preemptive priority scheduling and a changed syntax for methods (named type-bound procedures in Oberon vocabulary). Objects may be active, which means that they may be threads or processes. As it is tradition in the Oberon world, the Active Oberon language compiler is implemented in Active Oberon . The operating system named Active Object System (AOS) in 2002, then due to trademark issues, renamed Bluebottle in 2005, and then renamed A2 in 2008, especially the kernel, synchronizes and coordinates different active objects.
Unlike Java or C#, objects may be synchronized not only with signals but directly on conditions. This simplifies concurrent programs and their development.
An Active Oberon fork is the language Zonnon.
See also
A2 (operating system)
References
External links
ETH Oberon (2019) Language Report
A2 Operating System & Active Oberon community in Telegram
A2 user guide and applications description
Archive Language Report
Class-based programming languages
Modula programming language family
Object-oriented programming languages
Procedural programming languages
Oberon programming language family
Systems programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Berman | Laura Berman is an American relationship therapist and television host. She is the host of In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). She is also a regular guest on The Dr. Oz Show, and hosts her own nationally syndicated radio program, Uncovered with Dr. Laura Berman. She previously starred in Showtime's reality television series Sexual Healing.
Education
Berman received her undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont and was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. After obtaining a master's degree in clinical social work and a doctorate in health education specializing in human sexuality from New York University, she went on to complete a training fellowship in sexual therapy with the Department of Psychiatry, New York University Medical Center.
Career
Berman is an assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology and psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She is the author of the books It's Not Him: It's You and The Book of Love: Every Couple’s Guide to Emotional and Sexual Intimacy, and the New York Times best-selling books Real Sex for Real Women: Intimacy, Pleasure, & Sexual Wellbeing and For Women Only: A Revolutionary Guide to Overcoming Sexual Dysfunction and Reclaiming Your Sex Life as well as Secrets of the Sexually Satisfied Woman: 10 Keys to Unlocking Ultimate Pleasure and The Passion Prescription. She is a weekly columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and has appeared on Fox News and CNN and in The New York Times, USA Today, and major women's magazines. She also has her own line of adult toys.
Berman is also a member of the American Association of Sex Educators Counselors and Therapists, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, the National Association of Social Workers, the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health, and the American Urologic Society.
She, as well as her sister, urologist Jennifer Berman, have been critiqued for their role involving women's sexual health: "The shift of the Bermans' practices from academic centers to the explicitly for-profit commercial sector speaks volumes about the new 'Viagra culture'."
Laura and Jennifer Berman co-authored the book For Women Only: A Revolutionary Guide for Reclaiming your Sex Life. Both Berman sisters participated in The Women's Conference in 2004.
In 2016 she published Quantum Love: Use Your Body's Atomic Energy to Create the Relationship You Desire.
In 2021, she started her podcast 'The Language of Love'.
Personal life
Berman is married to Samuel Chapman. During the course of their marriage, Chapman and Berman became the parents of three sons. One son, Sam, died on February 7, 2021, aged 16, from what his parents believe to have been fentanyl-laced Percocet that he had bought from a drug dealer on Snapchat.
See also
List of sex therapists
References
American sex educators
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
New York University School of Socia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive%20model | In statistics, an additive model (AM) is a nonparametric regression method. It was suggested by Jerome H. Friedman and Werner Stuetzle (1981) and is an essential part of the ACE algorithm. The AM uses a one-dimensional smoother to build a restricted class of nonparametric regression models. Because of this, it is less affected by the curse of dimensionality than e.g. a p-dimensional smoother. Furthermore, the AM is more flexible than a standard linear model, while being more interpretable than a general regression surface at the cost of approximation errors. Problems with AM, like many other machine learning methods, include model selection, overfitting, and multicollinearity.
Description
Given a data set of n statistical units, where represent predictors and is the outcome, the additive model takes the form
or
Where , and . The functions are unknown smooth functions fit from the data. Fitting the AM (i.e. the functions ) can be done using the backfitting algorithm proposed by Andreas Buja, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani (1989).
See also
Generalized additive model
Backfitting algorithm
Projection pursuit regression
Generalized additive model for location, scale, and shape (GAMLSS)
Median polish
Projection Pursuit
References
Further reading
Breiman, L. and Friedman, J.H. (1985). "Estimating Optimal Transformations for Multiple Regression and Correlation", Journal of the American Statistical Association 80:580–598.
Nonparametric regression
Regression models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-HRM | E-HRM is the planning, implementation and application of information technology for both networking and supporting at least two individual or collective actors in their shared performing of HR activities.
E-HRM is not same as HRIS (Human resource information system) which refers to ICT systems used within HR departments. Nor is it the same as V-HRM or Virtual HRM - which is defined by Lepak and Snell as "...a network-based structure built on partnerships and typically mediated by information technologies to help the organization acquire, develop, and deploy intellectual capital."
E-HRM is in essence the devolution of HR functions to management and employees. They access these functions typically via intranet or other web-technology channels. The empowerment of managers and employees to perform certain chosen HR functions relieves the HR department of these tasks, allowing HR staff to focus less on the operational and more on the strategic elements of HR, and allowing organizations to lower HR department staffing levels as the administrative burden is lightened. It is anticipated that, as E-HRM develops and becomes more entrenched in business culture, these changes will become more apparent, but they have yet to be manifested to a significant degree. A 2007 CIPD survey states that "The initial research indicates that much-commented-on development such as shared services, outsourcing and e-HR have had relatively little impact on costs or staff numbers".
Roles
The role of E-HRM is significant in modern HR practices. Traditional HRM encompasses various functions such as recruitment, selection, development, compensation, retention, evaluation, and promotion of personnel within an organization. These functions can largely be adapted to the virtual. However, with the emergence of E-HRM and virtual operations in the business world, the HR profession faces a significant challenge.
E-HRM, often seen as the modern counterpart of HRM, bears resemblances to various HR management functions. These functions encompass the planning for an organization's requirements, the acquisition of human resources, the improvement of individual and organizational performance, the provision of employee rewards, and the maintenance of human resources.
Leveraging E-HRM technology functions as a tool for executing HR strategies, policies, and procedures. This technological solution aids HR functions in harmonizing with the HR needs of the organization within a networked setting. E-HRM technology offers a gateway through which managers, employees, and HR experts can retrieve, extract, or modify the pertinent information required for managing HR within the organization. Additionally, the integration of E-HRM may result in a decreased dependence on HR professionals, as it eliminates the intermediary role in HR processes.
HR leaders are increasingly turning to technology and the insights it offers to make decisions that contribute to the overall success of the organiz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance%20Analysis%20of%20Telecommunication%20Systems | The Performance Analysis of Telecommunication Systems (PATS) research group is part of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Antwerp. The group was founded in 1995. PATS performs basic, applied, and contract research related to the performance analysis of telecommunication systems and the impact of performance on the architecture and the design of these systems.
The PATS research group is one of the groups that are involved in the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT) which was founded by the Flemish government on 19 March 2004.
References
External links
PATS homepage
Scientific organisations based in Belgium
University of Antwerp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransMagic | TransMagic is a commercial computer program that converts computer-aided design (CAD) files from one native file format to another. During the translation process, TransMagic performs “geometry mapping”, mapping from one CAD kernel to another. During the conversion, TransMagic avoids what are known as “stitching errors” by repairing geometry via techniques such as correcting slightly overlapping or misaligned surfaces, removing duplicate control points, and duplicate vertices.
Overview
A large number of CAD programs are on the market, among them Autodesk Inventor, Cobalt, Form-Z, Pro/ENGINEER, and SolidWorks. With rare exceptions, each program saves data files (2D and 3D drawings and 3D solid models) in its own native file format. Since major CAD programs are expensive—several thousand dollars or more—and require great skill and time to master, it is common for individuals and companies to own just one type of program. The existence of many different file types presents no problems when engineers and designers share files within an organization that has standardized upon a common CAD program. However, file-transfer problems can arise when files must be shared with outside individuals who are using a different type of CAD program.
The typical work-around when sharing files with an outside organization is to export the file using two open-file-type standards: IGES, which was released in 1980 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (then known as the National Bureau of Standards), and STEP, released in 1984/85. The proprietary file format DXF is also a common file format for exchange.
When a file is exported by one CAD program into an intermediate file format and opened in another CAD program, it is not unusual for translation errors to occur. This inability to reliably transfer files between disparate programs is especially problematic with 3D solid modeling software, because of behind-the-scenes technical complexities that arise whenever complex surfaces abut or blend into each other; surfaces no longer align or some features do not translate due to the way CAD programs employ different approaches to handling certain object classes. To minimize translation errors, TransMagic typically—but not always—translates directly from one native CAD kernel to another. Still, “stitching errors” (gaps and overlaps) can occur while trying to import the file and reinterpret geometry. TransMagic's “Auto Repair Wizard” corrects these flaws while translating the file.
TransMagic is available as a stand-alone program. It is also available as a plug-in for many CAD programs so that the Open and Save dialog boxes are extended with TransMagic's functionality.
Supported file types
As of September 2010, TransMagic reads and writes to the following file types:
See also
List of file formats
List of file formats (alphabetical)
List of CAD programs
Comparison of CAD editors for CAE
Notes
External links
National Institute of Standards and Technolog |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20albums%20of%202009 | The highest-selling albums and mini-albums in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Weekly Chart, published by Oricon Style magazine. The data is compiled by Oricon based on each album's weekly physical sales. In 2009, 46 albums reached the peak of the charts.
Rock group Unicorn released their comeback album, Chambre, which debuted atop the charts making them the second group after Kaguyahime in 1978 to achieve this feat. Pop group Dreams Come True set the record for most number-one albums by a female vocal group; with their fifteenth studio album, Do You Dreams Come True? [sic], giving them their twelfth number-one album putting them ahead of the late Zard. With the release of her tenth studio album, Next Level, pop artist Ayumi Hamasaki became the first artist to have at least one number-one album for 11 consecutive years since her debut. Ultimate Diamond made pop-rock singer Nana Mizuki the first voice actress to have a number-one album.
The best-selling album overall of 2009 was pop boy band Arashi's greatest-hits album All the Best! 1999–2009, released on August 19, 2009, with the sales of over 1,432,000 copies. The second-best-selling album was pop rock band Mr. Children's studio album Supermarket Fantasy. Supermarket Fantasy was released on December 10, 2008 and sold over 1,251,000 copies. The third-best-selling album was pop vocal group Greeeen's studio album Shio, Koshō, released on June 10, 2009, with the sales of over 1,000,000 copies. The fourth- and fifth-best-selling albums were R&B group Exile's studio album Aisubeki Mirai e and their 2008 compilation album Exile Ballad Best. Aisubeki Mirai e sold over 897,000 copies and Exile Ballad Best sold over 847,000 copies on the yearly charts.
Chart history
Footnotes
References
See also
2009 in music
Japan Albums
2009
Number-one albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20memory | Universal memory refers to a computer data storage device combining the cost benefits of DRAM, the speed of SRAM, the non-volatility of flash memory along with infinite durability, and longevity. Such a device, if it ever becomes possible to develop, would have a far-reaching impact on the computer market. Some doubt that such a type of memory will ever be possible.
Computers, for most of their recent history, have depended on several different data storage technologies simultaneously as part of their operation. Each one operates at a level in the memory hierarchy where another would be unsuitable. A personal computer might include a few megabytes of fast but volatile and expensive SRAM as the CPU cache, several gigabytes of slower DRAM for program memory, and 128 GB-8 TB of the slow but non-volatile flash memory or 1-10 terabytes of "spinning platters" hard disk drive for long-term storage. For example, a university recommended students entering in 2015–2016 to have a PC with:
- a CPU with a 4×256 KB L2 cache, and a 6 MB L3 cache
- 16 GB DRAM
- 256 GB solid-state drive, and
- 1 TB hard disk drive
Researchers seek to replace these different memory types with one single type to reduce the cost and increase performance. For a memory technology to be considered a universal memory, it would need to have best characteristics of several memory technologies. It would need to:
- operate very quicklylike SRAM cache
- support a practically unlimited number of read/write cycleslike SRAM and DRAM
- retain data indefinitely without using powerlike flash memory and hard disk drives, and
- be sufficiently large for common operating systems and application programs, yet affordablelike hard disk drives.
The last criterion is likely to be satisfied last, as economies of scale in manufacturing reduce cost. Many types of memory technologies have been explored with the goal of creating a practical universal memory. These include:
low-voltage, non-volatile, compound-semiconductor memory (demonstrated)
magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) (in development and production)
bubble memory (1970-1980, obsolete)
racetrack memory (currently experimental)
ferroelectric random-access memory (FRAM) (in development and production)
phase-change memory (PCM)
programmable metallization cell (PMC)
resistive random-access memory (RRAM)
nano-RAM
memristor-based memory
Since each memory has its limitations, none of these have yet reached the goals of universal memory.
References
Solid-state computer storage media
Computer memory
Non-volatile memory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winn%20Schwartau | Winn Schwartau (born July 1, 1952) is a computer security analyst who focuses on internet security, internet privacy, infowar, cyber-terrorism and related topics.
Schwartau coined the term "Electronic Pearl Harbor" while testifying before Congress in 1991,. Schwartau has published several books.
In 2002, Schwartau was honored as a “Power Thinker” and one of the 50 most powerful people in networking by Network World. In 2008, he was voted one of the 25 Most Influential People in the Security Industry by Security Magazine.
Early life
Winn is the son of audio engineer and producer Bill Schwartau and Mary Caroline Bell, the first female audio engineer at NBC during World War II. At 16, he began his professional audio-video career and worked at studios including Mirasound Studios in New York, A&R Recording with Phil Ramone, The Hit Factory, Electric Lady Studios. He engineered 96 live concert broadcasts from The Lone Star Cafe 1978-1981.
Written work
His 1991 cyber-terrorism book, Terminal Compromise, outlines a cyber-terrorist attack on the U.S. using 1980s technology. It was updated in 2001 to Pearl Harbor Dot Com.
His first non-fiction book, Information Warfare: Chaos on the Electronic Superhighway (1994, 1996, 1997) discusses cyberterrorism and cyberwar with governments and the private sector. Cybershock (2000, 2001) is a non-technical look at hackers, information warriors, hacking technologies, and offensive cyber capabilities. In Time Based Security, Schwartau added math and outlines the principles of using time as a prime security metric.
As a parent of children growing up with technology, he wrote Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids (and Parents and Teachers Without a Clue) (2001/2002). Dr. Fred Cohen, from all.net, described this book as "the best security book ever written".
His latest work, Analogue Network Security, formalized the mathematics and principles of creating provably secure cyber and physical environments. In February 2021, it was named "the Best CyberSecurity Book of all Time" by Cyber Defense Magazine.
Entrepreneurial career
Schwartau has said that he wants the United States to put more emphasis on computer security. He recalled in 1996 that some of his ideas were not taken seriously despite what he believed to be demonstrable threats.
In 2001, Winn was labeled one of the Network World major "Power Thinkers". In 2007, SC Magazine labeled him one of the Top 5 Security Thinkers.
SC Magazine called him the "civilian architect of information warfare", and Security Magazine identified him as one of the 25 most influential people in the security industry.
Schwartau was the Chairman of the Board of Mobile Active Defense, specializing in security and compliance for smartphones and tablets, and was president and founder of The Security Awareness Company (formerly known as Interpact, Inc. sold to KnowBe4 in 2017), which develops security awareness programs for private and public organisations.
Currently, Schwartau is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu%20Space | Baidu Space () was an online social networking service provided by Baidu where users could record and share their lives easily. Users could also find people who have the same interests as their friends and communicate with them. It was launched on July 13, 2006. The slogan of Baidu Space is Let the world find you.
It was listed as Number 11 on the Top Social Media Sites of 2008 with 40 million unique worldwide visitors [source: November, 2008; comScore].
On April 4, 2015, Baidu announced that Baidu Space will be closed. All content on Baidu Space was transferred to Baidu Cloud on May 7, 2015.
See also
Pengyou
56.com
FaceKoo
Microdot
Internet in China
References
External links
Official website
Baidu
Chinese social networking websites
Defunct social networking services
Blog hosting services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20in%20Trinidad%20and%20Tobago | The radio programming in Trinidad and Tobago caters to a diverse ethnic demographic. The genesis of radio broadcasting in Trinidad and Tobago began in 1925 with British Rediffiusion via a wired relay network. During World War II, the US Armed Forces Radio Service network – WVDI 570 AM Radio began broadcasting in May 1943 from Fort Reid, Chaguaramas. At that time, WVDI mainly serviced the armed forces throughout the Caribbean.
British Rediffusion now Rediffusion (Trinidad) Limited created the Trinidad Broadcasting Company in 1946 which launched Radio Trinidad 730 AM in 1947. On October 13, 1957, Radio Guardian 610 AM was launched with the state acquiring the station and renaming it the National Broadcasting Service or NBS 610 Action Radio on November 1, 1969. NBS went on to launch Radio 100 FM on October 6, 1972, being the first station to broadcast on the FM signal. On March 14, 1976, the Trinidad Broadcasting Company launched 95.1 FM, the first privately owned FM station. On January 1, 1991, Radio 105.1 FM became the first station to broadcast local and Caribbean content. In 1992, Radio 97.1 FM became the first station to broadcast pure Adult Contemporary. On July 5, 1993, Radio 103.1 FM became the first station to broadcast the East-Indian format. On December 16, 1993, Radio 96.1FM became the first station to broadcast the Urban Caribbean, R&B and Hip-Hop format. In 1997, Radio 102.1 FM became the first station to broadcast the "Talk Radio" format.
The stations below cover both the AM and FM broadcast bands. Where possible, nicknames of stations have been given alongside the frequencies.
AM stations
The last AM Station, Radio Trinidad 730AM, ceased broadcasting on April 5, 2015 and rebranded as Sky 99.5 on the FM band.
FM Stations
HD Radio Stations
Slam 100.5
Star 947
Defunct
Radio Trinidad - Inspirational Radio 730 AM (Golden Network)
Voice of Rediffusion (Silver Network)
Radio 610AM (Radio Guardian)
Love 94.1FM Heart And Soul (Gospel Station)
Radio Shakti 97.5FM
98.9 YES FM (Formerly Radi-YO)
WMJX Radio 100.5FM Smooth Jazz
Ebony Radio 104.1FM
Radio Prime 106.1FM
WIN Radio 101.1FM
Power 102.1FM
Aakash Vani 106.5FM
Other Links
Communications in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago Amateur Radio Society
References
Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) - List of radio licenses issued by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago
- Trinidad and Tobago Guardian 2018-02-17
Trin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mud%20Connector | The Mud Connector, abbreviated TMC, is a computer gaming website that provides articles, discussions, reviews, resource links and game listings about MUDs. The site lets MUD owners, administrators and enthusiasts submit information and reviews about specific MUDs. The site contains over 1000 MUD listings and designates a subset of virtual communities suitable for children. Mud Companion magazine praised the site.
History
The Mud Connector website was founded on January 8, 1995, by Andrew Cowan and was hosted on the University of North Carolina at Greensboro mathematics department graduate assistants' Linux server.
Shortly after the website was created it was believed lost due to a fatal hard disk crash and poor backup preparations; however, within a few months the webpage was found in a Netscape cache file and restored. Initial MUD data was gathered via frequent requests made on Usenet newsgroups such as rec.games.mud.admin inviting MUD administrators to submit their muds to the TMC database. Over time the Usenet postings were phased out and TMC outgrew the capabilities of its host, eventually moving to a dedicated server.
References
External links
Internet properties established in 1995
MUD organizations
Video game genre websites
Video game news websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premio%20Lo%20Nuestro%202007 | Premio Lo Nuestro 2007 was held on Thursday, February 22, 2007, at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida. It was broadcast live by Univision Network. The nominees were announced on December 12, 2006, during a press conference televised live on the Univision Network morning show Despierta América!.
Host
Cristián de la Fuente
Ninel Conde
Performers
Menudo
Presenters
Alejandra Guzman
Alicia Machado
Alondra
Anais
Andres Cepeda
Armando Araiza
Babasonicos
Don Dinero
Galilea Montijo
Guy Ecker
Jaqueline Bracamontes
Jennifer Lopez
Julieta Venegas
Kika Edgar
Laisha Wilkins
Lili Estefan
la Quinta Estacion
Mana
Rafael Mercadante
Rakim & Ken-Y
Victor Noriega
Kika Edgar
Laisha Wilkins
Special awards
Premio Lo Nuestro a la Excelencia (Lifetime Achievement Award)
Juan Luis Guerra
Pop
Album of the Year
Adentro, Ricardo Arjona
Días Felices, Cristian Castro
El Sexto Sentido: Re+Loaded, Thalía
Mañana, Sin Bandera
Nuestro Amor, RBD
Male Artist
Chayanne
Cristian Castro
Luis Fonsi
Ricardo Arjona
Female Artist
Anaís
Julieta Venegas
Laura Pausini
Shakira
Group or Duo
La 5ª Estación
RBD
Reik
Sin Bandera
Song of the Year
Amor Eterno, Cristian Castro
No, no, no, Thalía & Anthony "Romeo" Santos of Aventura
Por Una Mujer, Luis Fonsi
Que Me Alcance la Vida, Sin Bandera
Te Echo de Menos, Chayanne
Breakout Artist or Group of the Year
Anaís
Camila
Chelo
Yuridia
Rock
Album of the Year
Amar es Combatir, Maná
Anoche, Babasónicos
Indeleble, Alejandra Guzmán
Pecado Original, Enanitos Verdes
Vida de Perros, Los Bunkers
Artist of the Year
Alejandra Guzmán
Babasónicos
Juanes
Maná
Song of the Year
Carismático, Babasónicos
Labios Compartidos, Maná
Lo Que Me Gusta a Mí, Juanes
Mariposas, Enanitos Verdes
Volverte a Amar, Alejandra Guzmán
Tropical
Album of the Year
Decisión Unánime, Víctor Manuelle
Éxitos y Más, Monchy y Alexandra
I Love Salsa! - Edición Especial, N'Klabe
Sigo Siendo Yo, Marc Anthony
Soy Diferente, India
Male Artist of the Year
Andy Andy
Fonseca
Marc Anthony
Tito Nieves
Female Artist of the Year
Gisselle
India
Milly Quezada
Olga Tañón
Group or Duo of the Year
Aventura
India & Cheka
Monchy y Alexandra
N'Klabe & Víctor Manuelle
N'Klabe & Voltio
Song of the Year
Tu Amor Me Hace Bien, Marc Anthony
Amor de Una Noche, N'Klabe with Voltio
No Es Una Novela, Monchy y Alexandra
Nuestro Amor Se Ha Vuelto Ayer, Víctor Manuelle
Te Mando Flores, Fonseca
Merengue Artist of the Year
Grupo Manía
Limi-T 21
Olga Tañón
Chichi Peralta
Tropical Salsa Artist of the Year
Marc Anthony
Michael Stuart
Tito Nieves
Víctor Manuelle
Tropical Traditional Artist of the Year
Andy Andy
Aventura
Fonseca
Monchy y Alexandra
New Soloist or Group of the Year
Fonseca
Marlon
Orlando Conga
Regional Mexican Music
Album of the Year
Algo de Mi, Conjunto Primavera
Aliado del Tiempo, Mariano Barba
Borrón y Cuenta Nueva, Grupo Montéz de Durango
Historias que Contar, Los Tigres del Norte
Los Super Éxitos, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VODnet | A VODnet is a Video On Demand-driven cable and satellite television network. It is a non-linear television network in that the content resides on a server and the consumer calls up the particular program they want to watch from a digital menu. This is in contrast to a linear network that shows scheduled programs throughout the day. Usually VODnets are genre portal based. For example, Sportskool and The Ski Channel would be found under "Sports" and MGM Channel would be under "Movies."
Currently, all major cable, satellite and telco distributors and most mid-size cable operators carry VODnets.
The majority of VODnets launched in 2007 and 2008.
VODnets include:
FEARnet
MGM Channel
ExerciseTV
The Ski Channel
Lifeskool formerly Mag Rack
Wheels TV
Karaoke Channel
Havoc TV
Music Choice
Studio 4 Fitness
Concert TV
EuroCinema
Film Festival
Anime Network
Players Network
Criteria
Traditional Cable Networks that have VOD Video On Demand are not considered a VODnet because VOD is not the main distribution method for the channel. For example, Speed Channel which has VOD programming available through most cable and satellite providers, would not be considered a VODnet because their main distribution method is linear.
Important Facts
In March 2008, ExerciseTV reached its 100 millionth view. In October, 2008, Mag Rack was split into two companies, Lifeskool and Sportskool, and sold by Rainbow Media, a subsidiary of Cablevision to new owners. Shortly thereafter Lifeskool additionally purchased Concert TV and began using the name Mag Rack again.
In early 2009 Ripe Digital Entertainment went bankrupt. They had supposedly raised over $50 million, but spent lavishly and were the victim of poor timing. ExerciseTV ceased distribution in November, 2011, and was replaced on Time Warner Cable by Sportskool Fit, a new channel created by Sportskool.
External links
, Music Choice official site
, The Ski Channel official site
, Lifeskool official site
RipeTV, Ripe TV official site
Story on MGM Channel
, Sportskool official site
Video on demand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Computer%20Week | FCW (launched as Federal Computer Week) is a news website that covers U.S. federal government technology and occasionally state, local, tribal and international governments. It is owned by GovExec.
FCW was established in 1987 by International Data Group as a weekly print magazine headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. By 2003, it was part of FCW Media Group.
Its ownership passed to California-based 1105 Government Information Group, a privately held company backed by two private equity firms: Nautic Partners and Alta Communications. Editor Christopher Dorobek resigned in August 2008 to accept a position at WFED. In December 2008, David Rapp, formerly an executive with Congressional Quarterly, became the publication's new editor (and editorial director overseeing all 1105 GovInfo publications).
In 2021, 1105 sold FCW and several sister publications to GovExec.
References
External links
1105 Government Info
1987 establishments in Virginia
Computer magazines published in the United States
Weekly magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1987
Magazines published in Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropological%20Literature | Anthropological Literature (AL) is an online database of citations to journal articles and articles in edited volumes and symposia held by the Tozzer Library (previously the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology), the anthropology library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The database offers access to articles and essays on social and cultural anthropology, Old and New World archaeology, physical anthropology and anthropological aspects of related subjects emphasizing Mesoamerican, Native American and Andean archaeology and ethnology.
History
The Peabody Museum began its book collection soon after its founding in 1866. Publication of anthropological literature, in both paper and microfiche formats began in 1979. Approximately 350,000 citations, formerly in a card catalog, were added in 1997 to the post-1979 records to create the foundation for the current online database. Pre-1984 article indexing was included in several G. K. Hall publications of the catalog of the Peabody Museum Library (renamed the Tozzer Library in 1974 in honor of noted archaeologist Alfred Marston Tozzer). These consist of 53 volumes from 1963, four supplements totaling 31 volumes in 1970, 1971, 1975, and 1979, and a second edition in 1988 of 1122 microfiche, following the closing of the card catalog. There were also two editions of the Tozzer Library Subject Headings, in 1971 and 1981; these remain of value as article records created before Tozzer Library’s adoption of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) in 1986 retain the older local forms of subject headings.
AL currently indexes more than 700 journals and series in more than fifty, mostly European and Slavic, languages. The database includes articles from journals and series that have ceased publication or are no longer indexed, as well as older articles of some journals not chosen for current indexing. There are some 4,370 sources represented in the database. Approximately 10,000 citations are added annually, in monthly updates. As of 2008, AL contained some 570,000 citations that cover articles published from the early 19th century to the present. The Tozzer library itself holds over 260,000 volumes, including the first book acquired by the Peabody Museum Library.
Access
The database is searchable by various criteria, including author, keyword, date, and title. One of the main access points is the Library of Congress subject heading. Because articles often present recent research in disciplines, it is not unusual for articles to be indexed for which Library of Congress Subject Headings do not yet exist. In such cases, LCSH-style headings are created and applied by the Tozzer library. A list of such headings may be found in the Anthropological Literature section of the library website. When the Library of Congress adopts one of these headings, it is removed from this list. The AL website contains a list of journal titles currently indexed, as well as titles of indexed edited works. In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehryar%20Mohri | Mehryar Mohri is a Professor and theoretical computer scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He is also a Research Director
at Google Research where he heads the Learning Theory team.
Career
Prior to joining the Courant Institute, Mohri was a Research Department Head and later Technology Leader at AT&T Bell Labs, where he was a Member of the Technical Staff for about ten years. Mohri has also taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of Paris 7 (1992-1993) and Ecole Polytechnique (1992-1994).
Research
Mohri's main area of research is machine learning, in particular learning theory. He is also an expert in automata theory and algorithms. He is the author of several core algorithms that have served as the foundation for the design of many deployed speech recognition and natural language processing systems.
Publications
Mohri is the author of the reference book Foundations of Machine Learning used as a textbook in many graduate-level machine learning courses.
Mohri is also a member of the Lothaire group of mathematicians with the pseudonym
M. Lothaire and contributed to the book on Applied Combinatorics on Words. He is
the author of more than 250 conference and journal publications.
Organizational affiliations
Mohri is currently the President of the Association for Algorithmic Learning Theory (AALT) and the Steering Committee Chair for the ALT conference.
He is also Editorial Board member of Machine Learning and TheoretiCS, Action Editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
and a member of the advisory board for the Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics.
References
American computer scientists
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
University of Paris alumni
Living people
Machine learning researchers
Natural language processing researchers
1964 births
Academic staff of École Polytechnique |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Neighborhood%20Network | Boston Neighborhood Network (BNN) is a public, educational, and government access (PEG) broadcasting service serving Boston, Massachusetts.
BNN's programming is broadcast on two channels:
News & Information, Comcast channel 9 and RCN Cable channel 15
Community Access, Comcast channel 23 and RCN channel 83
BNN members have access to two television studios, digital field production and editing equipment, a multimedia lab, and a mobile production truck, as well as hands-on media training classes. BNN also operates WBCA-LP radio.
See also
List of television stations in Massachusetts
List of wired multiple-system broadband providers in Massachusetts (by municipality)
External links
BNN on Instagram
1983 establishments in Massachusetts
Organizations established in 1983
Community-building organizations
English-language television stations in the United States
Organizations based in Boston
Television channels and stations established in 1983
American public access television
Non-profit organizations based in Boston
Television stations in Boston |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%27s%20Next%20Topmodel%20%28season%204%29 | Germany's Next Topmodel, Cycle 4 is the fourth season of the show that was aired on the German television network ProSieben. The show started airing on 12 February 2009. In difference to former seasons the show saw a significant change as the audition process was completely open this time whereas every model-wannabe got a chance to audition in front of the jury led by Heidi Klum.
The numbers of applications were 1,104 in Düsseldorf, 1,376 in Munich and 18,786 who applied before via mail.
Also the winner of the first cycle of Austria's Next Topmodel, Larissa Marolt was automatically secured a place among the top 20 finalists who will be chosen out of the semifinalists from the different audition cities and the written applications. The winner is 19-year-old Sara Nuru from Munich.
The international destinations for this cycle were set in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York City and Singapore.
Episode summaries
Episode 1: Die Schönen und das Biest
Original airdate: 12 February 2009
Out of ca. 1100 girls, the judge picked out 45 girls, and reduced them after and after down to the 15 semi-finalists of Düsseldorf. As a world's first, at this casting all the girls that auditioned got a chance to walk in front of the judges.
Episode 2: Münchener Schickeria
Original airdate: 19 February 2009
Again, out of ca. 1300 girls this time, the judge picked girls out and reduced their number down to the next 15 contestants. This casting was in Munich.
Episode 3: Eisprinzessinnen und ein Kartoffelsack
Original airdate: 26 February 2009
Featured Photographer: Philippe Kerlo
Episode 4: Konkurrenz aus Österreich
Original airdate: 5 March 2009
Challenge winner: Larissa Marolt, Mandy Bork & Tessa Bergmeier
Booked for job: Marie Nasemann
Eliminated: Olivia Berman, Johanna Popp & Daphne Braun
Featured Photographer: Matt McCabe
Special Guests: Lena Gercke, Jared Gold, Giddle Partridge, Clint Catalyst & Jessicka
Episode 5: Aufstand im Heidi-Land
Original airdate: 12 March 2009
Challenge winner: Maria Beckmann
Booked for job: Larissa Marolt, Maria Beckmann & Sara Nuru
Eliminated: Tessa Bergmeier
Featured Photographer: Patricia von Ah
Special Guest: Melanie Brown
Episode 6: Viva Las Vegas
Original airdate: 19 March 2009
Challenge winner: Mandy Bork
Booked for job: Ira Meindl, Marie Nasemann & Stefanie Thiessing
Eliminated: Dana Franke
Featured Photographer: Philippe Kerlo
Episode 7: Regen in Downtown L.A.
Original airdate: 26 March 2009
Challenge winner: Aline Bauer
Booked for job: Marie Nasemann
Bottom three: Aline Bauer, Tamara Busch & Stefanie Theissing
Eliminated: Tamara Busch & Aline Bauer
Featured Photographer: Rankin
Episode 8: Der Sprung ins kalte Wasser
Original airdate: 2 April 2009
Challenge winners: Ira Meindl & Sara Nuru
Booked for job: Maria Beckmann
Eliminated: None
Featured Photographer: Todd Essick
Guest Judge: Petra Gessulat
Episode 9: Pole Dancing
Original airdate: 9 April 2009
Challenge winner: Ira Meindl
Booked for job: Larissa Marolt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Bier%C5%82a | Roman Bierła (born 21 March 1957 in Katowice) is a Polish wrestler (Greco-Roman style).
References
Sports123.com
FILA Wrestling Database
1957 births
Living people
Olympic silver medalists for Poland
Olympic wrestlers for Poland
Wrestlers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Polish male sport wrestlers
Olympic medalists in wrestling
Sportspeople from Katowice
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
20th-century Polish sportsmen
21st-century Polish sportsmen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro%20Samurai%3A%20Resurrection | , (stylized as ΛFΓO SΛMUΓΛI RESUΓΓECTIOΠ) is a 2009 Japanese anime television film sequel to the miniseries Afro Samurai, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Lucy Liu. It aired on Paramount Network on January 25, 2009.
Plot
Lacking any sense of purpose after taking revenge on Justice, the Number 1 headband bearer, Afro Samurai, spends his days making wooden sculptures of historical figures and has not fought a duel in years. Jinno, his adoptive brother who is now an emotionless cyborg, and his sister, Lady Sio, ambush and beat him severely, while stealing the headband and his deceased father Rokutaro's mandible. Sio tells Afro that they will resurrect Rokutaro and use him for vengeance, challenging Afro to find the Number 2 headband if he has the will to fight.
After getting his sword reforged, Afro goes to a gambling house, where the last surviving member of the Empty Seven Clan, Brother 3, challenges him to a dice game for the identity of the Number 2. Afro discovers Brother 3 cheating and forces him to reveal that the Number 2 belonged to the ronin Shichigoro. Afro unknowingly saves Shichigoro's adopted son Kotaro and later kills the latter, leaving Kotaro to swear revenge. Afro claims the Number 2 headband and goes on to destroy three cyborg warriors, who turn out to be Sio's foster brothers and sister. Sio uses forbidden science to resurrect Rokutaro, turning him into a soulless warrior.
With Afro injured by his previous fight, Rokutaro mortally wounds his son, choking him until he falls unconscious. The sight of Afro dying causes Jinno to remember the bond they once shared as brothers, and he attacks Rokutaro, who mutilates his body. Sio tries to save her brother, but Rokutaro impales her through Jinno's body. After they die, a spark from Jinno's body travels through Sio's spilled blood and revives Afro. He accepts that Rokutaro is not his real father and kills him. Afro retrieves the Number 1 headband and gives the Number 2 to Kotaro, telling him that he will be ready for when he wants to avenge Shichigoro. While Afro travels to Mount Shumi and searches for a challenger as the Number 1, his imaginary companion Ninja Ninja reappears before him, stating about the endless cycle of revenge and bloodshed.
Difference between versions
The ending differs between the DVD and television broadcast editions of the film. In the series, Afro reclaims the headband and runs into a masked man as the image of Justice appears for a split second. In the Director's Cut DVD edition, Afro reclaims the Number 1 headband. After the credits, Justice reappears.
Voice cast
Samuel L. Jackson – Afro, Ninja Ninja
Phil LaMarr – Teen Afro
Lucy Liu – Lady Sio
Ariel Winter – Young Sio
Yuri Lowenthal – Jinnosuke/Kuma
Mark Hamill – Bin
Jeff Bennett – Brother 3
S. Scott Bullock – Professor Dharman
Grey DeLisle – Tomoe
Greg Eagles – Rokutaro
Zachary Gordon – Kotaro
Liam O'Brien – Shichigoro
RZA – DJ
Music
The RZA Presents: Afro Samurai Resurrection OST was release |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojak%20%282005%20TV%20series%29 | Kojak is an American crime drama television series starring Ving Rhames. It is a remake of Kojak starring Telly Savalas. The series lasted for one season, airing on USA Network from March 25 to May 22, 2005.
Premise
Rhames portrays Lieutenant Theo Kojak of the New York City Police Department, a skilled plain clothes detective with a shaved head and an affinity for jazz, fine clothing, and lollipops. As in the original Kojak, he is fond of the catchphrase "Who loves ya, baby?"
Cast
Ving Rhames as Lieutenant Theo Kojak
Chazz Palminteri as Captain Frank McNeil
Michael Kelly as Detective Bobby Crocker
Chuck Shamata as Detective Henry Messina
Roselyn Sánchez as ADA Carmen Simone
Sybil Temtchine as Detective Emily Patterson
Episodes
Broadcast
It aired on the USA Network in the United States. In the United Kingdom, the series aired on ITV4.
References
External links
2000s American drama television series
2005 American television series debuts
2005 American television series endings
Television series by Universal Television
USA Network original programming
Television shows set in New York City
Fictional portrayals of the New York City Police Department
Kojak
English-language television shows
Television series reboots
American detective television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20for%20Kids | All for Kids is a half-hour pre-school television series produced by Media Farm, commissioned by the Seven Network with Southern Star Group responsible for the international distribution on Series 1. The second series of All For Kids is being distributed by Talefinn Entertainment and Media Farm.
The first episode was broadcast on the Seven Network on 10 November 2008 at 11am, and ran for 40 episodes.
The premise of the program places kids firmly in charge: it is a show made for kids, by kids. It is the first significant Australian, wholly original half-hour series featuring presenters aged between six and eight years. Hosts Karl and Keira, chef Lindsay, gardener Madi, craft expert Christian, scientist Jameson. The show also has some guests like Sophie Hensler, Bronte Hodson, Liam Kingston, Bill Willamson and many more. They take the audience "on a journey into their lives by demonstrating how to cook, garden, do science and make stuff... their way". The show encourages children to do activities with their parents.
The series also features Mark Travers, a songwriter/musician, who teaches kids about the alphabet through music, song and animation.
The program is shot on Panasonic P2 HD cameras, which provide crisp, bright and colourful images. The first series filmed hand held and this offers a natural feel rather than being too staged. A steadicam was used in Series 2 The kids natural performances are much more important than perfect framing and the hand-held feel makes the viewers believe that this could take place in their homes.
The crew include Producer Jason Critelli, Producer/Director Phillip Tanner, Director Rami Fischler, Cinematographers John Brock & Nate Martin, Writers Phillip Tanner, George Dodd, Lyndon Barnett, Fiona Campbell and Leone Carey. Production Manager Lauren Bayliss, Production Assistants Sofia Madden, Dimitra Theodoulou, Marie Schleimer and Editors Christopher Mill, Hayley Lake, Michael O'Rourke and Baylon Davies.
The program is a logical extension from Cooking For Kids with Luis and Gardening for Kids with Madi, both produced previously by Phillip Tanner and Jason Critelli and broadcast on Nickelodeon (Australia). Indeed, All for Kids was broken down into interstitials for broadcast on Nick Jr, including Gardening for Kids with Madi (which included the original series), Make This for Kids with Christian, Science for Kids with Jameson and Cooking for Kids with Lindsay.
References
External links
All for Kids on the Gravity Media website
All for Kids Page on the Nick Jr Website
Australian children's television series
Seven Network original programming
2008 Australian television series debuts
2011 Australian television series endings
Television series by Endemol Australia
Television series about children
Australian preschool education television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marionnet | Marionnet is a virtual network laboratory: it allows users to define, configure and run complex computer networks without any need for physical setup. Only a single, possibly even non-networked Linux host machine is required to simulate a whole Ethernet network complete with computers, routers, hubs, switches, cables, and more
Support is also provided for integrating the virtual network with the physical host network.
History
Marionnet was born in April 2005 as a simple textual interface to Netkit, written in OCaml by Jean-Vincent Loddo at the Paris 13 University for his own networking course.
The code has since been completely rewritten and redesigned in September 2005, in order to remove the dependency from Netkit and to ease the construction of a graphical interface, partly built on DOT.
The architecture was further extended and the system made more general when Luca Saiu joined the project in 2007, contributing in particular to the dynamic reconfiguration aspects.
The system is now in active use in several universities in Metropolitan France and other countries.
Current development
Marionnet has reached a fairly stable state and is being successfully used for teaching networks in several universities around the world. The current development is centered around making the system easier to use for the average end user, with a particular emphasis on documentation.
Internationalization is on the way (mostly in the branch) through GNU Gettext.
So far Marionnet has been presented at two international Computer Science conferences, many French events and at FOSDEM.
Design
On top of a Linux host, the emulation of guest machines is achieved through User Mode Linux technology that allows to run many Linux kernels in user space as regular processes.
VDE - Virtual Distributed Ethernet project is responsible of linking together Uml machines in a virtual network,
its purpose is to emulate cable, hub and switch devices allowing also to introduce perturbations in the communication.
On top of this raw emulated network Marionnet acts as a coherent manager and as a GUI.
Marionnet is an example of a complex concurrent application written in a functional language, using relatively advanced programming techniques.
Features
Dynamic reconfiguration of the network.
Full binary compatibility with user-level Linux software which runs on virtual machines.
Ability to use host X server to run graphical application (wireshark...).
Copy-on-write file systems, allowing to economize on disk space usage.
"Gateway" device to connect virtual network to host network.
Intuitive GUI with the network diagram dynamically updated.
Performance
Marionnet has showed good performance with complex networks (~15 machines) even on relatively old machines, remaining very responsive.
The main concern is disk usage but that largely depends on the distribution of choice; pinocchio is the custom distro that was developed to meet average needs.
Uses
The main goal of Marionnet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Vernadat | François B. Vernadat (born 1954) is a French and Canadian computer scientist, who has contributed to Enterprise Modelling, Enterprise Integration and Networking over the last 40 years specialising in Enterprise Architectures, business process modelling, information systems design and analysis, systems integration and interoperability and systems analysis using Petri nets.
Biography
F. Vernadat studied from 1973 until 1981 at the University of Clermont, France, where he received a master's degree in Electronics and Automatic Control and a PhD in 1981. He has been a research officer first at the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC), Ottawa, from 1981 until 1988, and then at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), France, until Sept. 1995. From 1995 until 2001 he has been a professor at the University of Metz, France in automatic control and industrial engineering, the head of the Department on Automation and Industrial Engineering (AGIP), the head of the MACSI Project at INRIA, and the director of the Laboratory for Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Production (LGIPM). At the end of 2001, he joined the European Commission, DG Eurostat in Luxemburg, as an administrator in the IT Directorate and then moved to DG Informatics (DIGIT) until Jan 2008. Since then he has been head of the Information Systems unit of the European Court of Auditors, another European institution. He is currently an associate member of the LGIPM (Laboratory for Industrial Engineering, Production and Maintenance) of University of Lorraine, Metz, France.
He has served for many years as associate editor for several scientific journals including "Computers in Industry", "International Journal of Production Research", "Enterprise Information Systems", "International Journal of Industrial Information Integration", and "Computers & Industrial Engineering" as well as the advisory board of "International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing". He has been on the scientific committee of several other journals.
Work
F. Vernadat's research work has been dealing with enterprise architectures, enterprise engineering, enterprise modelling, enterprise integration, information systems design and analysis, CIM and various aspects of industrial engineering, such as facility layout, performance measurement and management, cost estimation, and competency modelling.
Publications
He is the author of over 300 scientific papers in journals, conferences, and edited books. A selection:
1993. CIMOSA: Open System Architecture for CIM. Edited by ESPRIT Consortium AMICE, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
1993. Practice of Petri Nets in Manufacturing. Authored with F. DiCesare, G. Harhalakis, J.M. Proth, M. Silva, Chapman & Hall, London.
1993. Advances in factories of the future, CIM, and robotics. Edited with Michel Costaftis, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
1995. Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering. Edited with Pierre Ladet, Chapman & Hall, London.
1996. Ent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Meet%20Group | The Meet Group, Inc. (formerly MeetMe) owns several dating app networking services including MeetMe, hi5, LOVOO, Growlr, Skout, and Tagged. The company has offices in New Hope, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dresden, and Berlin.
History
Two siblings, Dave and Catherine Cook, created myYearbook during their Spring break of 2005. They persuaded their older brother Geoff, who had founded EssayEdge and ResumeEdge from his Harvard dorm room, to invest in their project. At the launch of the site, Dave was a junior in high school and Catherine was a sophomore; the project was initially activated at Montgomery High School, in suburban New Jersey where they attended. The site was created entirely by workers in India.
In 2006, myYearbook raised $4.1 million from U.S. Venture Partners and First Round Capital. In 2008, it raised $13 million in a Series B round.
In July 2011, myYearbook announced it had agreed to be acquired by Latino social networking site Quepasa. In June 2012, the company formed from the combination of myYearbook and Quepasa was renamed MeetMe.
In October 2016, MeetMe acquired Skout for $55 million.
On April 3, 2017, the company acquired if(we) and rebranded to The Meet Group.
In September 2017, Meet Group acquired German dating app Lovoo for $70 million USD.
In 2020, The Meet Group was acquired by ProSiebenSat.1 Media with a parent company, ParshipMeet Group, being formed to manage both The Meet Group and Parship.
In 2022, Tumblr announced its livestreaming service Tumblr Live, based on The Meet Group's product Livebox.
See also
Facebook
MySpace
List of social networking websites
References
External links
CEO Geoff Cook Interview; Online Personals Watch, October 2013
CEO Geoff Cook Interview; Online Personals Watch, November 2014
Inc. magazine profile of Catherine and Geoff Cook
American social networking websites
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
Internet properties established in 2005
Yearbooks
2014 initial public offerings
Companies based in Bucks County, Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20medical%20and%20health%20informatics%20journals | This is a list of notable journals related to medical and health informatics.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
BMJ Health & Care Informatics
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Health Informatics Journal
International Journal of Medical Informatics
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Journal of Information Professionals in Health
Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
Methods of Information in Medicine
PLOS Digital Health
Statistics in Medicine
References
See also
List of medical journals
Lists of academic journals
Health
Health informatics
Medical and health informatics
Medical health j |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%20Verifier | Driver Verifier is a tool included in Microsoft Windows that replaces the default operating system subroutines with ones that are specifically developed to catch device driver bugs. Once enabled, it monitors and stresses drivers to detect illegal function calls or actions that may be causing system corruption. It acts within the kernel mode and can target specific device drivers for continual checking or make driver verifier functionality multithreaded, so that several device drivers can be stressed at the same time. It can simulate certain conditions such as low memory, I/O verification, pool tracking, IRQL checking, deadlock detection, DMA checks, IRP logging, etc. The verifier works by forcing drivers to work with minimal resources, making potential errors that might happen only rarely in a working system manifest immediately. Typically fatal system errors are generated by the stressed drivers in the test environment, producing core dumps that can be analysed and debugged immediately; without stressing, intermittent faults would occur in the field, without proper troubleshooting facilities or personnel.
Driver Verifier (Verifier.exe) was first introduced as a command-line utility in Windows 2000; in Windows XP, it gained an easy-to-use graphical user interface, called Driver Verifier Manager, that makes it possible to enable a standard or custom set of settings to select which drivers to test and verify. Each new Windows version has since introduced several new, more stringent checks for testing and verifying drivers and detecting new classes of driver defects.
Driver Verifier is not normally used on machines used in productive work. It can cause undetected and relatively harmless errors in drivers to manifest, especially ones not digitally signed by Windows Hardware Quality Labs, causing blue screen fatal system errors. It also causes resource-starved drivers to underperform and slow general operation if the constraints imposed by Verifier are not reversed after debugging. Microsoft recommends against verifying all drivers at the same time.
References
External links
Driver Verifier Homepage
Windows components
Device drivers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanne%20Albers | Susanne Albers is a German theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science at the Department of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich. She is a recipient of the Otto Hahn Medal and the Leibniz Prize.
Education and career
Albers studied mathematics, computer science, and business administration in Osnabrück and received her PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1993 at Saarland University under the supervision of Kurt Mehlhorn. Until 1999, she was associated with the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and held visiting and postdoctoral positions at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, Free University of Berlin, and University of Paderborn. In 1999, she received her habilitation and accepted a position at Dortmund University. From 2001 to 2009, she was professor of computer science at University of Freiburg. From 2009 to 2013, she has been at Humboldt University of Berlin.
Since 2013, Albers has held the Chair for Efficient Algorithms at the Department of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich.
Research
Albers' research is in the design and analysis of algorithms, especially online algorithms, approximation algorithms, algorithmic game theory and algorithm engineering.
Awards and honors
In 1993, she received the Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society, and in 2008 the Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation, considered the most important German research prize that includes a grant of €2.5 million. In 2011, she was elected as a fellow of the German Informatics Society. In 2014, she became one of ten inaugural fellows of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.
References
External links
German computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Freiburg
Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
1965 births
Living people
German women computer scientists
German women academics
Game theorists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday%20Night%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29 | Sunday Night was an Australian news and current affairs program produced and broadcast by the Seven Network. The program aired on Sunday nights and was hosted by Melissa Doyle. It premiered on Sunday 8 February 2009.
History
Sunday Night was a newsmagazine show, featuring a mix of feature stories, investigative reports, forums and interviews. Unlike other newsmagazine programs, the show initially featured a live studio audience. Additionally, early episodes of the show were immediately followed by a companion program, The All in Call, a live question and answer session broadcast on Seven HD and online. The separate program was later axed, and the discussion was integrated into the final segment of Sunday Night. The axing of The All In Call also saw the removal of the studio audience, while later seasons dropped the final segment discussion altogether.
Mike Munro initially co-hosted the show with Chris Bath but stood down as co-host to concentrate on reporting in April 2011. Alex Cullen and Mark Ferguson have been fill-in presenters. Melissa Doyle succeeded Chris Bath as the show's host from August 2015.
In September 2019, the Seven Network announced that the show would be axed due to poor ratings and a changing television landscape. The last new episode aired on 24 November 2019, though repeats continued to be aired into January 2020.
Correspondents
Host
Melissa Doyle (2015–2019)
(In addition to reporting)
Reporters
Alex Cullen (20102019)
Steve Pennells (20132019)
Denham Hitchcock (20142019)
Matt Doran (20172019)
Angela Cox (20172019)
Guest reporters
Samantha Armytage (20092019)
Molly Meldrum (20092019)
Mike Amor (20092019)
David Koch (20092019)
Mark Riley (20092019)
Tim Watson (20092019)
Edwina Bartholomew (20102019)
Steve Waugh (20102019)
Mark Skaife (20102019)
Kylie Gillies (20112019)
Kerri-Anne Kennerley (20122019)
Derryn Hinch (20122019)
Ben Roberts-Smith (20132019)
Dannii Minogue (20142019)
Andrew Rochford (20142019)
Sarah Murdoch (20142019)
Simon Reeve (2016)
Former reporters
Ross Coulthart (2009–2016)
Mike Munro (2011)
Monique Wright (2009–2012)
Grant Denyer (2009–2013)
Helen Kapalos (2014)
Rebecca Maddern (2009–2015)
Peta-Jane Madam (2012–2016)
Rahni Sadler (2010–2017)
Mike Willesee (2012–2018)
Former hosts
Chris Bath (2009–2015)
Mike Munro (2009–2011)
Executive producers
Adam Boland (2009)
Mark Llewellyn (20092014)
Steve Taylor (20142016)
Hamish Thomson (20142019)
See also
Seven News
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Sunday Night official website
Australian television news shows
2009 Australian television series debuts
Television shows set in Sydney
English-language television shows
Sunday mass media
2019 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20songs%20of%202009%20%28U.S.%29 | The highest-selling digital singles in the United States are ranked in the Hot Digital Songs chart, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each single's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a single for a summarized figure.
Chart history
See also
2009 in music
Hot Digital Songs
My
References
United States Digital Songs
2009
Number-one digital songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20inverse%20square%20root | Fast inverse square root, sometimes referred to as or by the hexadecimal constant , is an algorithm that estimates , the reciprocal (or multiplicative inverse) of the square root of a 32-bit floating-point number in IEEE 754 floating-point format. The algorithm is best known for its implementation in 1999 in Quake III Arena, a first-person shooter video game heavily based on 3D graphics. With subsequent hardware advancements, especially the x86 SSE instruction rsqrtss, this algorithm is not generally the best choice for modern computers, though it remains an interesting historical example.
The algorithm accepts a 32-bit floating-point number as the input and stores a halved value for later use. Then, treating the bits representing the floating-point number as a 32-bit integer, a logical shift right by one bit is performed and the result subtracted from the number , which is a floating-point representation of an approximation of . This results in the first approximation of the inverse square root of the input. Treating the bits again as a floating-point number, it runs one iteration of Newton's method, yielding a more precise approximation.
History
William Kahan and K.C. Ng at Berkeley wrote an unpublished paper in May 1986 describing how to calculate the square root using bit-fiddling techniques followed by Newton iterations. In the late 1980s, Cleve Moler at Ardent Computer learned about this technique and passed it along to his coworker Greg Walsh. Greg Walsh devised the now-famous constant and fast inverse square root algorithm. Gary Tarolli was consulting for Kubota, the company funding Ardent at the time, and likely brought the algorithm to 3dfx Interactive circa 1994.
Jim Blinn demonstrated a simple approximation of the inverse square root in a 1997 column for IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. Reverse engineering of other contemporary 3D video games uncovered a variation of the algorithm in Activision's 1997 Interstate '76.
Quake III Arena, a first-person shooter video game, was released in 1999 by id Software and used the algorithm. Brian Hook may have brought the algorithm from 3dfx to id Software. A discussion of the code appeared on the Chinese developer forum CSDN in 2000, and Usenet and the gamedev.net forum spread the code widely in 2002 and 2003. Speculation arose as to who wrote the algorithm and how the constant was derived; some guessed John Carmack. Quake IIIs full source code was released at QuakeCon 2005, but provided no answers. The authorship question was answered in 2006 when Greg Walsh contacted Beyond3D as their speculation gained popularity on Slashdot.
In 2007 the algorithm was implemented in some dedicated hardware vertex shaders using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA).
Motivation
The inverse square root of a floating point number is used in digital signal processing to normalize a vector, scaling it to length 1 to produce a unit vector. For example, computer graphics programs use inverse square ro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20blog | An art blog is a common type of blog that comments on art. More recently, as with other types of blogs, some art blogs have taken on 'web 2.0' social networking features. Art blogs that adopt this sort of change can develop to become a source of information on art events (listings and maps), a way to share information and images, or virtual meeting ground.
Art blog entries cover different topics, from art critiques and commentary to insider art world gossip, auction results, art news, personal essays, portfolios, interviews, artists' journals, art marketing advice, and artist biographies. Some artists use art blogs as a form of new media art project.
Art blogs may also serve as a forum to reach out to anybody interested in art – be it painting, sculpture, print making, creative photography, video art, conceptual art, or new media. In this way, they may be visited not only for the practitioners of different forms of art, but also collectors, connoisseurs, and critics.
Mainstream media
In 2011, art critic Brian Sherwin interviewed art critic Mat Gleason of Coagula Art Journal for Faso.com's FineArtViews blog. The interview between Sherwin and Gleason focused on contemporary art criticism and the role of art blogs in present-day art criticism among other issues. Gleason suggested to Sherwin that art blogs and the development of new media have become a "blow" to traditional print art magazines. Gleason and Sherwin also discussed how bloggers form a "pack mentality" based on region and perceived significance.
On 28 April 2009, Art Connect produced an in-depth interview by Peter Cowling for Art Connect and Jessica Palmer of Bioephemera. The interview, titled "It is not Really Bloggers vs. Journalists, You Know," pointed to five trends that were shaping the communication and discussion of art on the internet and that the real picture was much bigger than just the bloggers vs. journalists that had been discussed to date. These five points were:
Media convergence will continue to improve consumer choice, providing a better match between desire and availability.
Content producers are just that. Consumers care less about how and where they can get the content they want. What they do consistently care about is the quality of the content and whether the content is produced to their timescales.
The content producer-to-content consumer relationship is changing. Requests for feedback and further debate have been partially overtaken by things like conversations, and further fragmentation will certainly occur.
Information technology and systems, provided as commodity (pay-as-you-go) services. Such services range from processing and storage, through to credit card processing and super-fast content delivery.
The economic downrun.
On 8 January 2009, Regina Hackett, art critic of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, noted in her article "Art blogs hit Wikipedia" that commercially run, mainstream media-supported art blogs face issues of acceptance among the in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers%20and%20Mathematics%20with%20Applications | Computers and Mathematics with Applications () is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier, covering scholarly research and communications in the area relating to both mathematics and computer science. It includes the more specific subjects of mathematics for computer systems, computing science in mathematics research, and advanced mathematical and computing applications in contemporary scientific fields, such as ecological sciences, large-scale systems sciences and operations research. The current Editor-in-Chief is Ervin Y. Rodin, who founded the journal in the 1980s.
The impact factor for 2020 was 3.476, ranking it 16th out of the 265 journals in the field of applied Mathematics in the Journal Citation Reports.
References
External links
Journal home page
Elsevier academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Symposium%20on%20Algorithms | The European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) is an international conference covering the field of algorithms. It has been held annually since 1993, typically in early Autumn in a different European location each year. Like most theoretical computer science conferences its contributions are strongly peer-reviewed; the articles appear in proceedings published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Acceptance rate of ESA is 24% in 2012 in both Design and Analysis and Engineering and Applications tracks.
History
The first ESA was held in 1993 and contained 35 papers. The intended scope was all research in algorithms, theoretical as well as applied, carried out in the fields of computer science and discrete mathematics. An explicit aim was to intensify the exchange between these two research communities.
Workshop on Algorithms Engineering
In 2002, ESA incorporated the conference Workshop on Algorithms Engineering (WAE). In its current format, ESA contains two distinct tracks with their own programme committees: a track on the design an analysis of algorithms, and a track on engineering and applications, together accepting around 70 contributions.
ESA Awards
ESA Test-of-Time Award
The ESA Test-of-Time Award (ESA ToTA) recognizes outstanding papers in algorithms research that were published in the ESA proceedings 19–21 years ago and which are still influential and stimulating for the field today. Because the Workshop on Algorithms Engineering (WAE) merged in with ESA, the Steering Committee decided that the papers from WAE 1999 to WAE 2001 were also to be considered.
ESA Best Paper Awards
Since 2022, ESA also awards the best paper for the Simplicity Track:
2022. Alejandro Flores-Velazco: Improved Search of Relevant Points for Nearest-Neighbor Classification.
ALGO conferences
Since 2001, ESA is co-located with other algorithms conferences and workshops in a combined meeting called ALGO. This is the largest European event devoted to algorithms, attracting hundreds of researchers.
Other events in the ALGO conferences include the following.
WABI, the Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, is part of ALGO in most years.
WAOA, the Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, has been part of ALGO since 2003.
ATMOS, the Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization and Systems, formerly the Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways, has been part of ALGO in 2003–2006 and 2008–2009.
IPEC, the International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation, founded in 2004 and formerly the International Workshop on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IWPEC), is part of ALGO since 2011
ATMOS was co-located with the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP) in 2001–2002.
References
External links
Index of ESA proceedings at DBLP
List of ESA proceedings at SpringerLink
ALGO History
Theoretical computer science conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Wrecking%20Balls | Human Wrecking Balls is an American television reality show that premiered on November 12, 2008 on G4 television network.
Details
Martial Artists and breaking champions Craig and Paul Pumphrey demolish everything from boats and cars to houses using only their bare hands. For each challenge, they join forces with a team of experts in material science and engineering to review the object of their destruction from every possible angle before taking it apart, using physics and know-how to determine the most effective approach. The duo also enjoys a little friendly competition throughout the challenges. Each Human Wrecking Balls episode revealed the final outcome of the Pumphrey’s ripping and smashing, as well as the various experiments they put to the test.
Each episode contained a "Challenge" in which the Pumphrey brothers compete to either do or not do the episode's "Big Break". The big break was what Chad considers being the most difficult thing for a human to break. The only time the winner of the challenge got to do something other than the big break was in "Trashing Hotel California" when the winner got to throw the television out the window. The first Episode of Season 2 saw a different format, where the loser had to do the "Big Break". (Even though Paul lost the challenge, but due to an injury while breaking the big propeller Craig did it instead.)
The show was renewed for a second season, featuring 10 episodes, which premiered November
The show's future was uncertain after the second season. It was ultimately not picked up for a third season by G4.
Filming
Each episode of Human Wrecking Balls takes roughly two full days to shoot, as Dawn Swain said in a 2008 interview with Ken Tuccio that:
The actual filming of each episode takes 2 full days. There is quite a bit of editing that goes on to condense it to 30 minutes. The episodes that were filmed inside a building, like the office, the hotel, and the movie theater, take much longer due to the confined space. For each new area the guys "break," the cameras have to be re-arranged, the lighting re-configured, and the crew moved to get just the right shot. The office, for example, took just about 30 hours to tape.
Cast
Paul Pumphrey - A martial arts professional and a world champion breaker. Paul began breaking at a young age and spent hours in his friends warehouse breaking concrete with Craig. Paul developed a signature shoulder ram technique to perform impressive breaks. He has set world records for breaking 23 slabs of concrete, which he did on the Steve Harvey Show. Paul has cited his greatest achievement as winning back-to-back titles in the World Breaking Championships. Paul went to high school with former WWE wrestler Rob Conway.
Craig Pumphrey - A world-renowned award-winning martial arts expert and Guinness world record holding professional breaker. Craig's breaking and martial arts interest began at a young age. His first "big break" was diving off a shed and body slamming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erase%E2%80%93remove%20idiom | The erase–remove idiom is a common C++ technique to eliminate elements that fulfill a certain criterion from a C++ Standard Library container.
Motivation
A common programming task is to remove all elements that have a certain value or fulfill a certain criterion from a collection. In C++, this can be achieved using a hand-written loop. It is, however, preferable to use an algorithm from the C++ Standard Library for such tasks.
The member function erase can be used to delete an element from a collection, but for containers which are based on an array, such as vector, all elements after the deleted element have to be moved forward to avoid "gaps" in the collection. Calling erase multiple times on the same container generates much overhead from moving the elements.
The algorithm library provides the remove and remove_if algorithms for this. Because these algorithms operate on a range of elements denoted by two forward iterators, they have no knowledge of the underlying container or collection.
These algorithms do not remove elements from the container, but move all elements that do not fit the removal criteria to the front of the range, keeping the relative order of the elements. This is done in a single pass through the data range.
As no elements are actually removed and the container retains the same size, the tail of the array has a length equal to the number of "removed" items; these items remain in memory but in an unspecified state. remove returns an iterator pointing to the first of these tail elements so that they can be deleted using a single call to erase.
Doing the same using only erase results in as many passes as there are elements to remove. For each of these passes, all elements after the erased element have to be moved, which is more time-consuming than shifting elements in a single pass.
C++20
As of C++20, the free functions std::erase and std::erase_if are provided for STL containers. These convenience functions can be used to perform correct erasure of elements without requiring the programmer to explicitly use the erase-remove idiom.
Limitation
The erase–remove idiom cannot be used for containers that return const_iterator (e.g.: set)
std::remove and/or std::remove_if do not maintain elements that are removed (unlike std::partition, std::stable_partition). Thus, erase–remove can only be used with containers holding elements with full value semantics without incurring resource leaks.
Example
Compiler Explorer
// Use g++ -std=c++11 or clang++ -std=c++11 to compile.
#include <algorithm> // remove and remove_if
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
void Print(const std::vector<int>& vec) {
for (auto val : vec) {
std::cout << val << ' ';
}
std::cout << '\n';
}
int main() {
std::vector<int> v = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9};
Print(v);
// Removes all elements with the value 5.
v.erase(std::remove(v.begin(), v.end(), 5), v.end());
Print(v);
// Removes all odd numbers.
v.erase(std::remove_ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%20Mynampati | Ram Mynampati is an Indian business executive. He was a board member of Satyam Computer Services until January 2009, when news of an accounting fraud at Satyam broke. He was briefly the interim CEO after the then-Chairman and CEO Ramalinga Raju admitted to the accounting fraud and stepped down. He was replaced by A. S. Murthy as the CEO on February 5, 2009.
Career at Satyam
Mynampati joined Satyam as Executive Vice President in 1999 and became Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in November 2000. He was President, Satyam’s commercial and healthcare businesses since October 2002. Mynampati had executive responsibility for Satyam's operations across the verticals of Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Transportation and Government (about 60% of its business). In addition, he oversaw Satyam's GE and Microsoft accounts. His career at Satyam ended on 23 June 2009, while he was still under a cloud of suspicion for being involved in the multi-crore accounting fraud.
Accounting fraud
After news of an accounting fraud at Satyam broke on 7 January 2009, Mynampati was appointed to the post due to the resignation and arrest of the then-current chairman and CEO Ramalinga Raju. Mynampati was a board member of Satyam prior to the scandal, but his membership ended when the Indian government dismissed the earlier board and appointed new members to oversee Satyam's activities. After the accounting fraud came to light, Mynampati avoided police enquiry and flew to the US immediately after the new board was installed.
Other information
Mynampati holds M.S in Computer Science from California State University. Mynampati is also director on the Board of Satyam Venture Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd., a joint venture between the Company and Venture Global Engineering LLC, USA.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Businesspeople in information technology
Indian chief operating officers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%20Accommodation%20Network | The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is a service provided by the United States Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). JAN is one of several ODEP technical assistance centers. JAN facilitates the employment and retention of workers with disabilities by providing employers, employment providers, people with disabilities, their family members, and other interested parties with information on job accommodations, entrepreneurship, and related subjects. JAN's efforts are in support of the employment, including self-employment and small business ownership, of people with disabilities.
History
The network has been located on the campus of West Virginia University since its inception in 1983. It began with two consultants providing accommodation information over two telephone lines with no computers. At that time, JAN served only employers seeking accommodation information. Because of additional demand for its confidential, direct, and no-cost service, JAN quickly expanded beyond providing information to employers to include rehabilitation and educational professionals, individuals with disabilities, and anyone else interested in workplace accommodations.
Initially, JAN consulted primarily on sensory disabilities, those involving hearing, vision, touch, or speech impairments. Until the early 1990s, about 30 percent of JAN's requests addressed these disability areas. As computers, office machines, cell phones, wireless communication, and similar technology became common in workplaces, employees with all types of impairments needed to be able to use the technology. As caller questions became more technical, JAN consultants changed to a team approach, dividing into motor / mobility, sensory, and cognitive / neurological teams. A team approach allowed consultants to handle increasing case loads, yet stay current and knowledgeable about rapidly changing technology and products.
With the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) in 1992, more individuals began calling JAN and more cases focused on accommodating individuals with motor / mobility impairments. Prior to 1992, JAN averaged 630 accommodation inquiries per month. In 1992, cases soared to over 1,600 per month and continued to steadily rise throughout the 1990s, ending with an average of almost 3,000 per month. JAN now averages 53,000+ inquiries and 5,000,000 Website customers annually.
In 2000, the JAN staff was evaluated by WESTAT, an employee-owned research corporation serving agencies of the U.S. Government, as well as businesses, foundations, and state and local governments. JAN achieved recognition for achieving the highest score ever awarded by an outside evaluator.
Services Provided
JAN's consultants, each with at least a master's degree in a specialized field, provide information on accommodations for all types of impairments, including sensory, motor, cognitive, and psychiatric conditions. Information is also available about rights a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy%20peasy | Easy peasy may refer to:
EasyPeasy, a discontinued a Linux-based operating system for netbooks
Abe Mosseri (born 1974), an American professional poker player also known by his online alias EazyPeazy
Zenith Eazy PC, an all-in-one computer marketed by Zenith Data Systems in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysload%20Software | Sysload Software, was a computer software company specializing in systems measurement, performance and capacity management solutions for servers and data centers, based in Créteil, France. It has been acquired in September 2009 by ORSYP, a computer software company specialist in workload scheduling and IT Operations Management, based in La Défense, France.
History
Sysload was created in 1999 as a result of the split of Groupe Loan System into two distinct entities: Loan Solutions, a developer of financial software and Sysload Software, a developer of performance management and monitoring software.
As of March 31, 2022, all Sysload products are in end of life.
Products
The following products are developed by Sysload:
SP Analyst
Is a performance and diagnostic solution for physical and virtual servers. It is a productivity tool destined to IT teams to diagnose performance problems and manage server resource capacity.
SP Monitor
A monitoring solution for incident management and IT service availability. It aims at providing real-time management of IT infrastructure events while correlating them to business processes. SP Monitor receives and stores event data, makes correlations and groups them within customizable views which can be accessed via an ordinary web browser.
SP Portal
A capacity and performance reporting solution for servers and data centers to allow IT managers analyze server resource allocation within information systems.
Sysload products are based on a 3-tiered (user interfaces, management modules and collection and analysis modules) architecture metric collection technology that provides detailed information on large and complex environments. Sysload software products are available for various virtualized and physical platforms including: VMware, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, IBM i, PowerVM, etc.
References
System administration
Computer systems
Software companies established in 1999
French companies established in 1999
Software companies of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20European%20Transmission%20System | The New European Transmission System (NETS) is a project to unite Central and South Eastern Europe's natural gas transmission networks by creating a common gas transmission system operator (TSO). The project is foreseen to create a sizable and efficient regional gas market that significantly enhances gas supply security in the participating countries.
History
The NETS project was proposed by the Hungarian energy company MOL in December 2007. Original invitation to join this project was sent to gas TSOs in Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia with possible extension to other gas TSOs in Central and South Eastern Europe. The proposal was welcomed by the European Commission.
On 13–14 March 2008, seven of the region's gas TSOs (Transgaz of Romania, FGSZ of Hungary (subsidiary of MOL), BH-Gas of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Geoplin of Slovenia, OMV of Austria, Plinacro of Croatia and Srbijagas of Serbia)) met in Bucharest, Romania, in order to discuss various strategic and business aspects of the initiative. Bulgartransgaz (Bulgaria) decided not to participate at the meeting. The participating companies agreed to start a feasibility study of creating NETS and established four joint working groups to explore the realization of the project.
Second meeting was held in Novi Sad, Serbia, on 21–22 May 2008. Compared with the first meeting, Geoplin and OMV were not represented at the meeting. OMV officially declared that it is not interested in participating in the NETS project for the time being but welcomes to be informed about the progress.
On 26 September 2008, the third meeting of the Transmission System Operators took place in Budapest. During the meeting FGSZ, Transgaz and Plinacro signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create a study company of the NETS.
BH-Gas co-signed the document as an observer. The Bulgarian, Slovenian and Serbian TSOs also attended the meeting and stated they would consider working together with the other participants in subject to relevant governmental decisions. Support and co-operation for the NETS project has been offered by the Energy Regulators Regional Association on 21 October 2008. Assistance will be provided through the establishment of a working group by ERRA aimed to addressing the regulatory issues of potential regional gas markets, primarily focusing on the NETS project.
Signatories of the MoU (FGSZ, Plinacro, Transgaz and BH-Gas) met on 21 November 2008 to commence preparations to establish the NETS study company. Representative from the Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA) also attended.
Rationale
Central and South-East Europe is characterized by inadequate gas infrastructure, including lack of interconnections between the networks and insufficient storage. For historical reasons, most gas pipelines in Central and South-East Europe run east–west only, without the level of inter-connectivity found in the West of the European Union. These characteristic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20Universal | Host Universal is an ethical brand strategy and communications network founded in 1997 by Robin Smith. Host works with clients on projects that seek to achieve social or environmental impact. Host has a core team in London, UK, and creates specialist teams for digital content such as printing, video creation, film shooting, brand identity and worldwide live events.
History
Host was set up in 1997 to work with Anita Roddick at The Body Shop International. The partnership created a global Self-Esteem strategy and creative campaign featuring Ruby, a size 16 doll, who was presented to be a role model for women. The campaign aimed to bring attention to the issue of the media waif and skeletal supermodels, particularly for eating disorders and extreme diets that develop due to negative self-image. The global Self Esteem strategy was later picked up and utilized by Dove.
Projects
Host has been involved with Cafédirect from the company’s conception through to 2006. Host Universal worked with Cafédirect in developing brand strategy and implementing design and communication work that included the creation of instant coffee product 5065 and the 5065 Lift Theatre group. Host developed the communications strategy behind the Cafédirect Share Issue in 2004. Penny Newman, CEO of Cafédirect, said "we would not be where we are today without Host".
Host works with British Entrepreneur Dale Vince, the founder and CEO of Ecotricity.
One of the projects for Host in 2008 was starting a company called the United Bank of Carbon (UBoC), in partnership with Jonathan Wild, the Chairman of Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate. UBoC aims to develop sustainable investment opportunities for businesses and brands within the world’s remaining rainforest.
In 2009, Host worked on a rebranding project with the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO). Also in 2009, Host created the World Fair Trade Day website that was the hub for 1,000 events in 70 countries.
In 2010, Host was developing strategy and communications for social finance.
See also
Business ethics
References
External links
The background of Cafedirect
British companies established in 1997
1997 establishments in England
Social enterprises |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang%20%28programming%20language%29 | Boomerang is a programming language for writing lenses—well-behaved bidirectional transformations —that operate on ad-hoc, textual data formats.
Boomerang grew out of the Harmony generic data synchronizer, which grew out of the Unison file synchronization project.
References
Aaron Bohannon, J. Nathan Foster, Benjamin C. Pierce, Alexandre Pilkiewicz, and Alan Schmitt. Boomerang: Resourceful Lenses for String Data. In ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), San Francisco, California, January 2008. full text
J. Nathan Foster, Alexandre Pilkiewicz, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Quotient Lenses. To appear in ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), Victoria, British Columbia, September, 2008. full text alternately host
External links
Mailing list
Text-oriented programming languages
Programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Devil%20Wears%20Nada | "The Devil Wears Nada" is the fifth episode of the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 15, 2009. In the episode, Marge and a group called the "Charity Chicks" pose for a history-oriented calendar in hopes of raising money for charity, but Marge becomes the talk of the town due to the erotic poses she made after a few drinks of red wine. Meanwhile, Carl is chosen as the newest supervisor at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, and hires Homer to be his personal assistant.
The episode was written by Tim Long and directed by Nancy Kruse. It was broadcast soon after the character Marge had appeared on the cover of Playboy, though there was no connection between the episode and the cover; the idea for the episode was conceived first, and Marge's appearance was due to an unrelated offer from Playboy.
Since airing, "The Devil Wears Nada" has received mixed reviews from television critics.
It was watched by approximately 9.04 million viewers during its original broadcast. Clips showing the satirical appearances of French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni in the episode became Internet hits in France, with hundreds of thousands of views on Dailymotion and YouTube.
Plot
The episode opens at a retirement party for the current Sector 7G supervisor at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Just as Homer, Lenny, and Carl are celebrating their freedom from supervision, plant owner Mr. Burns arrives and chooses Carl as the new supervisor, after quickly deducing that he is the only semi-competent employee of the three. Meanwhile, in an effort to raise money, Marge and her "Charity Chicks" philanthropic group decide to follow the Springfield Police Department's lead and pose for a history-themed "sexy" calendar. At the photo studio, however, Marge, as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, does not want to show any skin. The photographer, Julio, loosens her up with red wine, and she ends up revealing more than she planned. Marge and her erotic poses are soon the hottest talk in town, as all the calendar photos are of her.
Back at the plant, Carl makes Homer his new executive assistant. That evening, Marge's libido pumped up by the male population's positive feedback on her calendar is running high, but Homer is too overworked and exhausted by Carl's demands to satisfy her. This becomes an unhappy trend, and Marge feels ignored. Homer tries to make up for it by taking Marge out to a romantic hotel, but during their stay, he receives a phone call from Carl who tells him they are going to Paris on a business trip. When Homer leaves the Simpsons' house the next morning, a frustrated Marge throws a mallet after his retreating taxicab, but she accidentally knocks out neighbor Ned Flanders instead and invites him and his children over for a family dinner by way of apology.
In Paris, Carl is having a great time flirting with a beautiful woman, and he reveals |
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